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I'm not at my best in the mornings. We shouldn't judge people by how they look. All of my friends like her. We get paid every Friday. It's such a beautiful flower. I don't remember ever wanting to become a fireman or a baseball player when I was young. In my opinion, it's time that he called me. Such inconveniences can always happen. Wolf wanted to be with Rainer. I've done exactly what I promised.
Marilyn won't be that easy to convince. We're not supposed to tell Brodie about the party. Everyone has to learn the words by heart. I watch television twice a week. Accidents have been rare. This time he has succeeded. He is a jack of all trades. "If there is water there, that means a jew..." - "Hey, pro-professor, don't! The poop will get deleted, professor!" - "Styopa, what are you saying, I just want to..." - "Aaah! ...W-w-wait, why?!" How should we deal with the problem? She depressed the keys of the piano.
My brother arrives tomorrow morning. That cafe has a pretty good breakfast special. As far as I'm concerned, I will not approve of the plan. In a past-oriented society, people dwell on the past and on tradition. The man was traveling with a stolen passport. The results of the competition will be announced in a few moments. Have you ever sneezed in a meeting? Don't tell him that, please! I didn't put this here. I noticed that she was wearing new glasses.
George and Gregory told everybody that they'd gotten divorced. I think it would be a mistake to lend Kari any money. The proof of the futility of harsh drug laws is this: in the country that has come down the hardest on drugs and drug users, spending billions of dollars in a decades-long war on drugs, there have never been so many drug addicts. Don't throw in the towel. I've locked myself out of my room. Is it that you can't or that you don't want to? That's so inaccurate. I heard Shutoku come in. The athletic meeting was put off. He is ranked as corporal.
Please introduce me to him. We need to meet with Ariel. I have to get something to eat. Clay spent all day looking around antique shops. Raphael deserves the same chance. You're going to make it. We were outside. He has a good sense of humor. After the disaster, there was scarcely any water left on the island. Suzan thanked everyone for waiting.
Micky promised Sjaak to find a place where would be safe. They said their prayers for victory. I'm going to do an internship at a local company. I don't have time for reading. Haven't you washed the dishes yet? I haven't read it yet. Bring your student ID card. I went to the military camp with Kordobas's authorization. Two sockets are not enough for a meeting room. The soldier gave me water.
I visited him recently. I just decided to do it. I apologize for the mess. Why aren't you with the others? Tell me more about him. It's nobody's fault but yours. I'm determined to make you take the responsibility. Their opposition broke down. I have a lot of calls to make. Jelske once worked for me. He went to bed early.
That's a sign. Never spend in excess of your income. Bart has already killed three people. I'll stay here and help Penny. I wasn't aware that Jayesh was sleeping. Ahmet said he needs to go shopping. I am a co-founder of the local stoat lover society. I was with her last week. This word is not in common use. They continue to call.
He's standing behind the wall. I've already told them everything. A sharp knife is nothing without a sharp eye. Go see him. I had dinner with a total stranger. You must gather your party before venturing forth. Wes often talks with Meeks. Hey, thanks a lot. She will get well soon. Bernard motioned for Hon to stay.
I am reading a book on US history. Barton likes to go jogging after work. Developing his ability of speaking English, it seems, is his purpose of studying abroad. I will have finished this task by next Friday. Sit over there. His policy was in advance of his times. It took me ten days to get over my cold. This is the house where I lived when I was young. I know that I have to be better. None of those books are interesting. | {
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Just a few months ago, most of the world wasn't aware that Chris Hemsworth and Matt Damon were even friends. Now we just expect the pair to show up together on vacation in the far-flung reaches of the globe.
After the pair (and their families, naturally) spent Easter together in Hemsworth's native Australia, the leading men duo is now enjoying another co-family get away in San Sebastian, Spain. Though you probably don't have a Hemsworth of your own to jet off to San Sebastian with, let these two to demonstrate the secrets to the perfect family vacation.
Hemsworth and Damon, along with their respective wives Elsa Pataky and Luciana Barroso, spent yesterday cruising the Bay of Biscay on a catamaran with children, family, and other friends in tow. While the general public can take a cruise on the boat themselves for just €11 per adult and €6 per child, it seems as if the families had chartered the boat out for the day for their private use.
A shirtless Hemsworth and his bikini-clad wife Pataky took to jumping off the top deck into the ocean below. Damon, apparently, wasn't as game. | {
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Highland Park at Elmwood Park/Ridgewood Tournament at Ridgewood, TBA.
Grayslake North, Lake Zurich, Lakes, Wauconda at Johnsburg/Richmond-Burton Tournament, TBA.
Lake Forest at Loyola/New Trier Tournament at Loyola, TBA.
North Chicago at Adam Lopez Thanksgiving Tournament at Lincoln Land, TBA.
Grayslake Central, Libertyville at Bison Classic at Buffalo Grove, TBA.
Deerfield, Grayslake Central, Lakes, Mundelein, Waukegan, Zion-Benton at Ted DeRousse Invitational at Antioch, 10 a.m.
Grant, Libertyville, Stevenson at Moore/Prettyman Invitational at Barrington, 10 a.m.
Trinity International vs. The Master's (Calif.), 4 p.m.
Stevenson (2-1): John Ittounas, Matt Maznikov 14 points each.
Mundelein (1-2): Connor Enright 14 points. Scottie Ebube 13 points, 10 rebounds, 3 blocks.
Libertyville (3-1): Lauren Huber 15 points. Margaret Buchert 9 points.
Round Lake (1-2): Hakim Williams 17 points. Musiq Brantley 9 points.
Stevenson (5-0): Ashley King 15 points. | {
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VARTA AG: VARTA AG continues growth course and again raises annual guidance for 2020
DGAP-News: VARTA AG / Key word(s): 9 Month figures12.11.2020 / 07:00 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Corporate News Ellwangen, November 12, 2020VARTA AG continues growth course and again raises annual guidance for 2020 Group revenue rises by 159.7% to € 630.3m over the first nine months of fiscal year 2020 (excluding Consumer Batteries: +69.7%) Adjusted EBITDA rises by 180.7% to € 176.8m (excluding Consumer Batteries: +127.8%) Adjusted EBITDA margin stands at 28.0% (+2.1 PP) Microbatteries & Solutions segment: Revenue totals € 388.9m (+71.4%), adjusted EBITDA stands at € 141.3m (+130.6%), adjusted EBITDA margin comes in at 36.3% (+9.3 PP). Household Batteries segment: Revenue of € 241.2m, adjusted EBITDA totals € 35.5m, adjusted EBITDA margin stands at 14.7% (+3.6 PP) Revenue and income guidance[1]) for 2020 raised again: Revenue anticipated to total € 840m-860m (previously: € 810m-830m), Adjusted EBITDA expected to stand at € 230m-235m (previously: € 210m-215m), Projected CAPEX payments of € 290m-320m due to ongoing capacity expansion project (previously: € 320m-360m) Strong growth in revenue and operating earnings continues The VARTA Group has continued its high-level revenue and profit growth: Group revenue rose by 159.7% to € 630.3m over the first nine months of the year. Organic sales growth amounted to 69.7% (excluding the first-time consolidation of Consumer Batteries). Adjusted EBITDA increased by 180.7% to € 176.8m when adjusted for special effects (excluding Consumer Batteries: +127.8%), a development which produced an improved adjusted EBITDA margin, rising by 2.1 PP to 28.0%. With growth of 137.5% to € 78.3m, Group profit more than doubled."VARTA is continuing on its growth path. For this reason, we are raising our guidance for the current year", says Herbert Schein, Chief Executive Officer of VARTA AG. "We continue to look ahead to the future with optimism. The trend seen at cellphone manufacturers is clear: Cables are a thing of the past. In the near future, the only interface to the devices will be wireless. Moving forward, it can therefore be expected that the trend toward True Wireless Stereo (TWS) Headsets will be consolidated further and accelerated further. Technological progress in the area of TWS, which VARTA is actively helping to drive forward, is advancing rapidly. VARTA is excellently positioned to deal with such a development. In this context, we shall be upping the pace of production by more than 50 percent over the coming year, thereby making VARTA even more efficient. The increased energy density of our small lithium-ion batteries is set to be available on schedule by the end of the year. This will open up additional competitive advantages for us".Steffen Munz, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), comments: "We have continued the high level of revenue and profit growth over the third quarter of the year, in addition to again improving profitability as well. On the back of the highly pleasing business development over the first nine months of the year, we are once again raising the revenue and profit guidance for fiscal year 2020".Growth in lithium-ion cells for high-tech consumer products remains very high Revenue in the Microbatteries & Solutions segment rose by 71.4% to € 388.9m in the first nine months of the year. Adjusted EBITDA increased by 130.6% to € 141.3m. This led to a step-change improvement in the adjusted EBITDA margin amounting to 9.3 PP to 36.3%. By far the strongest revenue growth is again being recorded in the area of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries for high-tech consumer products, particularly premium true wireless headsets. This is a consequence of continued high customer demand in a market that continues to grow dynamically. In terms of hearing aid batteries, VARTA has further expanded its global market position. The Group is benefiting from the rapid market recovery for rechargeable hearing aid batteries.Successful focus on brand business in the Consumer areaThe Household Batteries segment generated revenue in the amount of € 241.2m up to the end of the third quarter of 2020. Adjusted EBITDA totaled € 35.5m, producing an adjusted EBITDA margin of 14.7% as a result. This positive result can be attributed in part to the unexpectedly strong development within the Consumer Batteries segment, where profitability significantly improved on account of the focus on brand business. In addition, the energy storage solutions business is growing highly dynamically, even outpacing growth on the market as a whole.CEO Herbert Schein's contract extended until 2026On October 22, 2020, the Supervisory Board of VARTA AG opted to prematurely extend the contract of Herbert Schein, Chief Executive Officer, by five years. The decision was agreed unanimously. Schein's contract, which was only due for renewal next year, now runs until 2026. Armin Hessenberger joined the Executive Board at VARTA AG on October 1, 2020. From January 1, 2021, Hessenberger will take over the position of Chief Financial Officer. The current CFO, Steffen Munz, is resigning at his own request with effect from December 31, 2020. Herbert Schein: "I am looking forward to working with Armin Hessenberger. He is familiar with VARTA and our products from his longstanding professional experience, including as Chairman of the Supervisory Board at one of our subsidiaries. We will together continue the VARTA Group's successful growth path".Revenue and profit guidance for fiscal year 20201)[2]raised again - growth trajectory set to be continued into fiscal year 2021 On the back of the highly impressive revenue and profit development during the first nine months of the year and with a high order volume still in place, VARTA AG again raises its revenue and profit guidance for fiscal year 2020: Revenue guidance has been upgraded from € 810m-830m to € 840m-860m. This would equate to revenue growth of between 131% and 137% in comparison with the previous year (including the Consumer Batteries segment). Organic revenue growth (i.e. excluding Consumer Batteries) is set to total 45%-49%. Adjusted EBITDA is now projected to stand in a corridor between € 230m and € 235m (previously: € 210m-215m), meaning that year-on-year growth of135%-140% (including Consumer Batteries) is now anticipated for this metric.Due to process optimizations, the expansion of production capacities will be completed at lower investment costs per unit than originally planned by the end of 2021. As a result, initially planned CAPEX payments will come in lower than originally anticipated and will, in part, be deferred into the following year. Therefore, the Company now expects CAPEX of € 290m-320m (previously: € 320m-360m).VARTA is anticipating market growth for lithium-ion batteries used in Premium True Wireless Stereo Headsets (TWS) of between 30% and 40% - although the Company expects this to come in at the lower end of this growth corridor due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects on some customers over the next twelve months. VARTA will therefore register growth that, according to current projections, will outstrip the market in terms of volume. Despite shifts in the product mix that impacts pricing structures, VARTA expects that the gross margins in this segment will remain at least stable.The VARTA Group will also register further growth over the course of the next fiscal year, with the Company set to be on the brink of hitting the revenue threshold of € 1bn by 2021. Adjusted EBITDA is also likely to grow faster than revenue in the next fiscal year.VARTA AG Group - selected Group key metrics In € m 9M 2020 9M 2019 Revenue 630.3 242.8 EBITDA 151.6 61.0 Adjusted EBITDA 176.8 63.0 Adjusted EBITDA margin (%) 28.0% 25.9% Consolidated result 78.3 33.0 Investment expenditure (CAPEX) 190.5 67.9 Free cash flow -141.0 -23.4 Equity ratio (%) 45.4% 62.0%* Balance sheet total 1,071.0 668.8* Staff (as of September 31) 4,601 2,613 *As of December 31, 2019 Calendar: Second half of February 2021 Preliminary figures for 2020 March 31, 2021 Annual Financial Statements May 12, 2021 Interim report Q1 2021 June 17, 2021 Annual General Meeting August 13, 2021 Half-year report 2021 November 11, 2021 Interim report Q3 2021 Contact: Contact: Dr. Christian Kucznierz Bernhard Wolf Head of Corporate Communications Head of Investor Relations Tel.: +49 79 61 921-2727 Tel: +49 79 61 921-2969 [email protected] [email protected] About VARTA AG VARTA AG produces and markets a comprehensive battery portfolio that ranges from microbatteries, household batteries and energy storage systems all the way to customer-specific battery solutions for a wide range of uses, setting the industry standards as technology leader in many important areas. As the parent company of the Group, it is active in the "Microbatteries & Solutions" and "Household Batteries" business segments.The "Microbatteries & Solutions" segment focuses on the OEM business for microbatteries and the lithium-ion battery pack business. Through intensive research and development, VARTA sets the global standards in the microbatteries segment and is a recognized innovation leader in the important growth markets lithium-ion technology and primary hearing aid batteries. The "Household Batteries" segment covers the battery business for end customers, including household batteries, rechargeable batteries, chargers, portable power (power banks), lights and energy storage systems. The VARTA AG Group, headquartered in Ellwangen, currently employs more than 4,000 staff. VARTA AG's operating subsidiaries are currently active in more than 75 countries around the world, with five production and assembly facilities in Europe and Asia as well as distribution centers in Asia, Europe and the USA.[1] ) In view of the situation regarding coronavirus (COVID-19), it is still not possible to rule out any negative impacts on the VARTA AG Group. At the time that these statements were compiled, these risks were not assessable and could therefore not be factored into guidance.[2] ) In view of the situation regarding coronavirus (COVID-19), it is still not possible to rule out any negative impacts on the VARTA AG Group. At the time that these statements were compiled, these risks were not assessable and could therefore not be factored into guidance.12.11.2020 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG.The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Archive at www.dgap.de Language: English Company: VARTA AG VARTA-Platz 1 73479 Ellwangen Germany Phone: +49 (0)791-921-0 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.varta-ag.com ISIN: DE000A0TGJ55 WKN: A0TGJ5 Indices: SDAX Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange EQS News ID: 1147459 End of News DGAP News Service
VARTA AG: VARTA AG extends contract with CEO Herbert Schein ahead of time
DGAP-News: VARTA AG / Key word(s): Personnel22.10.2020 / 09:00 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Corporate NewsEllwangen, 22nd October 2020 VARTA AG extends contract with CEO Herbert Schein ahead of time MDAX-listed company votes for continuing its growth path with Herbert Schein Mr Schein's contract extends until 2026VARTA AG is extending the contract with its CEO Herbert Schein until 2026 ahead of schedule. The Supervisory Board decided on this unanimously. Schein's contract with the technology company based in Ellwangen (Baden-Württemberg) would have not have been due to extension until next year. The 55-year-old successfully made the company go public in 2017. Under his leadership, the company, which has been listed in the MDAX since 2019, became the leader in innovation and market leader in the field of small lithium-ion cells.Michael Tojner, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of VARTA AG, says: "With our decision to extend the contract early, the Supervisory Board is taking into account the very positive development of VARTA AG in recent years. With Herbert Schein, we will continue the great success of VARTA AG. His early contract extension is a sign that we are committed to continuity. It is thanks to his drive, vision and leadership that today we are innovation and global market leaders in many areas. With Herbert Schein leading the company, we want to drive VARTA's growth course and develop the organization further."Schein has been with VARTA since 1991, Managing Director since 2007 and Chairman of the Board of VARTA AG since the IPO. Herbert Schein says: "I would like to thank everyone for the trust that has been placed in me. I am looking forward to playing a decisive role in shaping the future of battery technology together with the VARTA team."Media contact:Christian KucznierzVARTA AGHead of Corporate CommunicationsVARTA-Platz 173479 EllwangenTel.: +49 79 61 921 - 2727Mail: [email protected] VARTA AGVARTA AG produces and markets a comprehensive battery portfolio, ranging from microbatteries, household batteries, energy storage systems to customer-specific battery solutions for a wide range of applications, and, as a technology leader, sets industry standards in key areas. As the parent company of the group, it operates in the business segments "Microbatteries & Solutions" and "Household Batteries".The "Microbatteries & Solutions" segment focuses on the OEM business for microbatteries as well as on the lithium-ion battery pack business. Through intensive research and development, VARTA sets global standards in the microbattery sector and is a recognized innovation leader in the important growth markets of lithium-ion technology and primary hearing aid batteries. The "Household Batteries" segment comprises the battery business for end customers, including household batteries, rechargeable batteries, chargers, portable power (power banks) and lights as well as energy storage devices. The VARTA AG Group currently employs almost 4,000 people. With five production and manufacturing facilities in Europe and Asia, and distribution centres in Asia, Europe and the USA, VARTA AG's operating subsidiaries are currently active in over 75 countries worldwide.22.10.2020 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG.The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Archive at www.dgap.de Language: English Company: VARTA AG VARTA-Platz 1 73479 Ellwangen Germany Phone: +49 (0)791-921-0 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.varta-ag.com ISIN: DE000A0TGJ55 WKN: A0TGJ5 Indices: SDAX Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange EQS News ID: 1142375 End of News DGAP News Service
VARTA AG: Change in the Management Board of VARTA AG
DGAP-News: VARTA AG / Key word(s): Personnel01.10.2020 / 17:00 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.Corporate NewsChange in the Management Board of VARTA AG CFO Steffen Munz will step down from his position on the Board of Management at his own request on December 31, 2020 Armin Hessenberger has been appointed to the management board effective October 01, 2020, and will become new CFO of VARTA AG effective January 01, 2021Ellwangen, October 01, 2020.VARTA AG announced changes to the management board today.CFO Steffen Munz will step down from his position on the management board at his own request on December 31, 2020 to pursue other opportunities outside the company.Steffen Munz and the supervisory board agreed on this by best mutual agreement.The company thanks Steffen Munz for his very successful work as CFO of VARTA AG."As CFO, Steffen Munz positioned the company very successfully on the capital market after the IPO in October 2017", says Dr. Dr. Michael Tojner, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of VARTA AG. "The triple inclusion of the VARTA share in the S-DAX, M-DAX and TecDAX last year is clear evidence of this. In addition, he was largely responsible for the acquisition of the VARTA Consumer Batteries business from Energizer last year. I would like to thank Steffen Munz for the very successful work and wish him every success in his professional future. "Armin Hessenberger has been appointed to the Board of Management effective October 1, 2020, and will be the new CFO of VARTA AG effective January 1, 2021. Mr Hessenberger has many years of experience working for a listed industrial company and knows VARTA AG from his previous work at Montana Tech Components AG.01.10.2020 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG.The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Archive at www.dgap.de Language: English Company: VARTA AG VARTA-Platz 1 73479 Ellwangen Germany Phone: +49 (0)791-921-0 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.varta-ag.com ISIN: DE000A0TGJ55 WKN: A0TGJ5 Indices: SDAX Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange EQS News ID: 1138326 End of News DGAP News Service | {
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Article Review 2 al Affiliation Article Review 2 There have been several news reports on child abuse in various societies.The type or kind of abuse range from physical, verbal, psychological or emotional, and even sexual abuse. In various states in America, there were reports which revealed that people of authority are the ones who perpetuate abuse against children. It is disturbing enough that the victims were identified to be the unsuspecting and defenseless kids in school or in the local community. It is more unnerving that Catholic priests have been identified as perpetuators of sexual abuse against children in their respective parishes. The current discourse hereby aims to present information from various articles outlining the recent court cases involving Penn State and the Catholic Church in terms of the manner by which these 'agencies' responded to child abuse when they were faced with it.
In the article entitled "Hand of God", which is also a documentary film, the story of a boy, named Paul Cultrera was disclosed as he was reported to have been molested by a parish priest of St. James Parish, at Salem, Massachusetts in the 1960s by a certain Father Joseph Birmingham (Hand of God, 2007). The information from the article revealed the manner by which Paul was sexually abused and had opted to keep the traumatic incident a secret for many years. The Catholic Church, through the archdiocese of Boston, allegedly undertook several cover-ups of Father Birmingham's sexual abuse of young boys through moving the priest from one parish to another (Hand of God, 2007). In retrospect, the course of action was reported and evaluated to be more detrimental in the long run since moving the priest contributed to more children being victimized.
Similar incidents were reported in another article entitled, "The Silence", where the Catholic Church's priest and lay minister at St. Michael in Alaska, were revealed to have instigated a series of sexual abuse among Native Alaskan children. The name of the priest was revealed as Father George Endal, and the layman who was reported to be training to become a beacon was identified as Joseph Lundowski (The Silence, 2011). In this particular situation, the Catholic Church response was for the bishop of Fairbanks, Donald Ketler, to recommend the identified parish priest and laymen who perpetuated the abuse, to go back to their respective parishes and to "return to all of the villages where the abuse occurred and apologize to the victims in person" (The Silence, 2011, par. 6).
Concurrently, for sexual abuses which had been reported in Penn State, the article entitled "Dr. Drew: Abuse shatters a young brain", disclosed that football coach Joe Paterno and the university's president were charged for sexual abuse. Likewise, the same article also revealed that the assistant football coach, Jerry Sandusky, was also charged with allegations of sexual offenses (Dr. Drew: Abuse shatters a young brain, 2014). Both Paterno and the president were reported to have been outsted by the Penn State; while no conclusive verdict has yet been disclosed for Sandusky. Those who were interviewed as to their reaction and response on the subject indicated that children who were victims of sexual abuses have tendencies to keep quiet and not to report the matter due to fear or the apprehension that they would not be believed. As such, these children grow to manifest troubled behavior through the apparent social stigma associated with the abuse. It was emphasized that the impact to children of sexual abuse include: "drugs, alcohol, and risky behavior" (Dr. Drew: Abuse shatters a young brain, 2014, par. 11).
From the reactions of people who were viewed from a news report entitled "Homosexual PDA Turns Heads in Mississippi", it was evident that there are people who openly oppose and discriminate on homosexual relationships and behavior, especially with regards to public display of affection (PDA). The report presented several scenarios and instances where gay couples were intentionally placed in a restaurant to exhibit PDA and to solicit diverse views of the clientele. Mostly, women and old people remained conservative in their views and beliefs that homosexuality is not acceptable and an abhorrence to religious values. Some people, especially young and male, have revealed increasing tendencies to accept homosexuality in society. (Homosexual PDA Turns Heads in Mississippi, 2014)
Comparing how the Catholic Church and the Penn State addressed sexual abuse in their respective settings and jurisdiction, it was evident that the Catholic Church instituted more conservative methods of correcting the actions of abusers than immediate ouster for Penn State. The course of action could be evaluated in terms of the alleged lifetime commitment for priests to serve in the Catholic faith. There were no known legal sanctions that would terminate the religious vows of priests and remove them from their respective roles and responsibilities as priests – despite the sexual abuse allegation or charges. From the articles, the priests who were charged with sexual abuse were transferred, moved to other parishes, or made to apologize for their untoward behavior. For Penn State, the sexual abuse charges, when found guilty, has no other course of action except for termination.
Dr. Drew: Abuse shatters a young brain. (2014). Retrieved from HLNtv: http://www.hlntv.com/video/2011/11/11/penn-state-sex-abuse-scandal-fallout-paterno
Hand of God. (2007, January 16). Retrieved from Frontline: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/handofgod/view/#more
Homosexual PDA Turns Heads in Mississippi. (2014). Retrieved from ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/WhatWouldYouDo/video/homosexual-pda-turns-heads-mississippi-23939123
The Silence. (2011, April 19). Retrieved from Frontline: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/the-silence/etc/introduction.html
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11 Best Things to Do in Bordeaux
What is Bordeaux Most Famous For?
Bordeaux is, unsurprisingly, best-known for its wine-related activities. The capital city of the New-Aquitaine region is world-famous for its vineyards and top-notch wine labels, but that's not all the area has to offer. Located on the banks of the Garonne River since 300 BC, it's almost an understatement to say that Bordeaux has a long history.
From the Saint-Andrew Cathedral of Bordeaux to the Museum of Aquitaine, and from the popular Quays Market to the Parc de Majolan, Bordeaux is a very pleasant city to visit – a place that has evolved over time without forgetting its rich past.
What are the best things to do in Bordeaux?
Start the day at Place de la Bourse
Pay a visit to an iconic sight of Bordeaux
Place de la Bourse is a historic place for Bordeaux, located in the Saint-Pierre district, right in the centre of the city. Built during the 18th century, it marked the end of the medieval period for Bordeaux by expanding the city beyond the old walls. Part of the historical district of Bordeaux, the Place de la Bourse was upgraded in 2006 with the addition of le Miroir d'Eau – the water mirror. The reflection of the historical buildings in the water is definitely worth a photo or two, especially at night. Have a drink on the terrace of Le Gabriel, a gastro restaurant located right on the square, behind the Fountain of the 3 Graces.
Sijainti: In the centre of Bordeaux, on the bank of the Garonne River
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Must-Visit: The Wine City
Learn about Bordeaux Wines and join a wine-tasting tour
Excellent wines are produced all around France, but Bordeaux is considered the wine capital of the country. Going to Bordeaux is like a journey into the rich world of wine. Head to La Cité du Vin – The Wine City – on the Quai du Bacalan. You'll learn everything about the Bordeaux châteaux and wine labels here. You'll also be able to book wine-tasting tours at some of the most famous châteaux in the region, like Saint-Émilion, Saint-Julien, Margaux, and Médoc, just to name a few.
Sijainti: Quai du Bataclan, 3 km north from the city centre on the bank of the Garonne River
Aukioloajat: Daily from 10am to 6pm
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Take in a show at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux
A splendid building dedicated to performing arts
The Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux is at the same time an impressive mid-18th-century neo-classical building and a lively venue that host operas, dance and music performances. Located on the Place de la Comédie, its façade features 12 columns on which stand 9 muses and 3 goddess statues, making the edifice like an antique Temple of the arts. Even if you don't want to see a show, you should join a guided tour to visit the theatre. The backstage areas and the sumptuous interior décor and ornaments are worth an hour of your time.
Sijainti: Place de la Comédie in the centre of Bordeaux, 400 metres from the Garonne River
Aukioloajat: Tuesday - Sunday from 12pm to 6.30pm, closed on Mondays
Relax at the Parc de Majolan
Take a stroll in a beautiful baroque park
Located in Blanquefort, an hour's drive northeast from Bordeaux city centre, the Parc de Majolan offers a serene and unique place for a stroll in a beautiful natural environment. Designed at the end of the 19th century, the park features a 4-hectare lake, artificial caves, and fountains and geysers designed in a baroque style. This family-friendly park features a large kids' playground and animals such as swans, peacocks and coypus freely roam the place. You can lunch at La Maison des Jardiniers, a cool restaurant located at the entrance of the park, or bring a picnic and find a place to lunch on the lawn.
Sijainti: In Blanquefort, 50 km northeast from Bordeaux city centre
Aukioloajat: Daily from 8am to 8.30pm
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Shop at Quay Market
Do not miss this riverside fresh market held on Sundays
The Marché des Quais is the perfect place to discover and sample fresh and cooked products from the region of Bordeaux. Held every Sunday on the Quai des Chartrons, just north of the city centre, you'll find an assortment of delicacies that include oysters, crepes, cheeses, wines, and delicatessen that you can eat on the spot, along with a lot more. It's an affordable version of a 5-star hotel brunch, which you can enjoy on the bank of the Garonne River.
Sijainti: Quai des Chartrons, 1,5 km north of the Place de la Bourse in the centre of Bordeaux
Aukioloajat: Sunday from 9am to 4pm
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Must-See: Bordeaux cathedral
Travel back to time at the Cathedral of Saint Andrew of Bordeaux
Originally built in Roman style in the early-11th century, Bordeaux Cathedral went through the tumultuous history of France, and was almost entirely rebuilt in Gothic style during the 14th century. Declared a National Monument of France, it's home to an impressive art collection dating from between the 14th and 17th centuries, that includes statues, paintings and religious artefacts and ornaments. Being right in the centre of Bordeaux, you'll find a good choice of cool bars and restaurants nearby. Guided tours are available.
Sijainti: Place Pey Berland, opposite the City Hall in the centre of Bordeaux
Aukioloajat: Wednesday and Saturday from 2.30pm to 5.30pm
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Stroll at Port of the Moon
Take a refreshing riverside walk in a World Heritage Site
Port de la Lune – Port of the Moon – is the nickname given to the crescent-shaped Port of Bordeaux along the Garonne River. Stretching from the Quai de Bacalan to the Quai de Paludate in the centre of the city, the Port of the Moon incorporates the Place de la Bourse and the Quays Market. Lined with quaint boutiques, chic bars and restaurants, it's a very pleasant and classy area to wander around. That's to its historical beauty, it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017.
Sijainti: In the centre of the city, on the bank of the Garonne River between Quai de Bacalan and Quai de Paludate
Shop on Rue Sainte-Catherine
Go window-shopping on one of the longest pedestrian streets in Europe
Rue Sainte-Catherine is the most famous shopping street in the centre of Bordeaux. Stretching for over 1 km from the Place de la Comédie to the Place de la Victoire, it's considered one of the longest pedestrian streets in Europe. Here, you'll find an astonishing choice of boutiques, stores, and shopping malls selling almost anything. Bars and restaurants interspersed between the shops offer opportunities to take a break as well as providing excellent people-watching spots.
Sijainti: In the centre of the city, between Place de la Comédie and Place de la Victoire
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Taste Canelés and other regional specialities
Must-try food in Bordeaux
From the oysters grown in the nearby Arcachon Bay to the foie gras produced just south of the city, Bordeaux is a real gourmet destination, not only famous for its wines. For instance, you can't leave Bordeaux without sampling the canelés. These small custard cakes have a thick caramelised crust and are flavoured with rum and vanilla. They're a real speciality of the city. They can be found in almost any bakery in Bordeaux, as well as at markets such as the popular Quays Market.
Must-Visit: museum of Aquitaine
Explore one of the largest French history museums
The Museum of Aquitaine shows you the history of Bordeaux and of its region from the Stone Age to the 19th century through a good variety of exhibits. Controversially, the displays include reflections on French colonialism and the relation between Bordeaux and the slave trade. From splendid model ships to Montaigne's Tomb, the museum is home to rare artefacts and objects as well as a reconstruction of an early 20th-century grocer's shop. It's a nice place to visit upon arrival in Bordeaux, to get into the mood of the region.
Sijainti: Cours Pasteur in the centre of Bordeaux
Aukioloajat: Tuesday - Sunday from 11am to 6pm, closed on Mondays
Valokuva: Lysiane Gauthier (CC BY-SA 4.0) muokattu
End the day in Saint-Pierre district
Hop from restaurants to bars in Bordeaux Old Town
Adjacent to the Place de la Bourse, Saint-Pierre District is as lively by night as it is by day. You'll find plenty of restaurants and bars to make your evening. Among the recommendable venues in this area, you should definitely have a glass of wine at Le Bar à Vin on Cours du 30 Juillet. If you fancy an evening in a warm and festive South American ambience, head to Calle Ocho, Café Cubano on Rue Piliers de Tutelle. Last but not least, go to The Houses of Parliament on Rue Parlement Sainte-Catherine to enjoy a genuine English pub atmosphere.
Sijainti: Right behind Place de la Bourse in the city centre
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The fourth "Dr. Christian" comedy, has the small-town doctor trying to uncover a real estate fraud before it bankrupts his community. Mildly funny. 66m/B VHS, DVD . Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Lovett, Edgar Kennedy, Jed Prouty, Walter Catlett; D: Erle C. Kenton.
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One essential setting to get the clearest image on your smart TV
By Amanda Kooser, Komando.com February 14th, 2017
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The end of the NFL season is a popular time for people to invest in big new television sets at sale prices. Now that the Super Bowl is over, it's time to enjoy your favorite movies and series on your glorious TV. But something is not quite right. You're streaming a big blockbuster superhero action movie, but the visual quality is off. It looks more like a daytime soap opera than a modern film. You've stepped into the realm of what's known as the "soap opera effect."
The soap opera effect is actually a side effect of the wonderful new television technology we now enjoy. But don't worry. It's adjustable and you're not going to be stuck forever feeling like George Clooney is starring in some weird version of "All My Children."
The soap opera effect explained
The soap opera effect is generated by a television's motion-smoothing technology. Its purpose is to reduce blurring during motion scenes, which sounds nice, but it can create a hyper-realistic look in the process. These motion-enhancing features can be great for when you're watching sports, but it's not so hot when it makes movies look different from how we're used to viewing them.
Want a little more detail? We'll need to step back into motion picture history, all the way back to the dawn of talkies, the first movies with sound. Those movies and most films since were shot at a frame rate of 24fps (frames per second). A frame is a single still image, so think about what an old film strip looks like and you'll get the idea. The modern video tech version of that is called 24p since physical film strips are no longer a requirement in the digital age.
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Soap operas, however, were typically shot at a much higher frame rate of 60fps. The result is smoother motion, but it's not what we're accustomed to seeing when we go to the movies. Your high-tech television can create that same sort of look with its motion-smoothing tech, which is why "The Avengers" looks like it was shot on the same camera as "The Young and the Restless."
Avid film buffs tend to be especially bothered by the soap opera effect, but it can also impact the look of your favorite television shows. If you're wondering what all this fuss is about, then you may be a person who simply isn't bothered by the soap opera effect. Maybe you even prefer it. That's just fine, but you'll know what's up when someone comes over for movie night and complains about the picture quality.
Adjusting the soap opera effect
Let's assume you're one of the many people who find the soap opera effect uncomfortable to watch. Now is the time to take back your TV viewing experience by venturing into the settings.
Different brands have different names for their motion-enhancing features. Samsung calls it "Auto Motion Plus." LG calls it "TruMotion" and Sony uses the term "MotionFlow." Usually, you will see the word "motion" in there somewhere. Each brand of television is set up a little differently, so you may need to do a little digging in the settings to find the right one.
While most televisions offer multiple motion enhancement settings, you can turn it off entirely if it bothers you to have it around at all. For example, let's look at a typical Samsung LED television. The basic "Picture" settings option offers a quick fix when you choose "movie" as a picture mode as opposed to the default "standard." If you're more adventurous, you can look into the expert settings, select "Auto Motion Plus" and then choose to either turn it off or tweak your own custom settings.
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If you're a big sports watcher, then you may want to turn motion-enhancement back on for your favorite events. It's just a matter of popping into the settings and making an adjustment. The custom options sometimes include a setting called "judder reduction." Judder is a stuttering effect that can be particularly noticeable when a camera pans across a scene. Play around with it. If you don't like the look, you can still turn it all off or change the judder reduction later. Don't worry about falling too far down the settings rabbit hole. Most TVs have an option to restore them to factory settings, so you can always start over.
Motion smoothing is here to stay
So how pervasive is the soap opera effect? It bothered movie cinematographer and director Reed Morano so much that she started an (ultimately unsuccessful) petition asking television manufacturers to turn off motion enhancement as a default setting. "As artists, these new HDTVs are preventing our vision from being seen the way we shot it and it's also affecting the viewers' experience with the story because they are often put off by the odd 'home video' look," Morano stated.
You might not be able to sign the petition, which gathered over 11,500 supporters, but you can control your television settings and watch movies the way they were intended. Filmmakers like Morano will be pleased.
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My First 46er Last Fall!
What up my road trip warriors!? Last Fall was when I really started to get into hiking and decided I wanted to become an Adirondack 46er. My first completed High Peaks were Cascade Mountain and Porter. The hike took place on September 16th, 2017 with a close friend of mine and it took us about an hour and fifteen minutes to reach the summit of Cascade. I was extremely excited so our ascent went rather quickly. This is the shortest high peaks hike in the Adirondacks at around 5.6 total miles, but still offers a beautiful 360 degree view upon the summit of Cascade. Porter does not offer the best views, but it still should be done if you are an aspiring 46er as I am. I wanted to give a brief overview of my experiences on this hike and why I always recommend it people.
The first thing I noticed when approaching this hike was that it was (and still is) an extremely popular hiking spot for many people. There were numerous cars parked up and down the road. If I can suggest anything, it is to get to this hiking destination earlier than later. Beginning on the trailhead, I found that the trail was well-maintained and easy to follow. There were also many other individuals on the trail so the chances of wandering off the trail were slim. The hike itself was a gradual incline the entire time, but I never thought of it as demanding. My buddy and I would cruise for 10-15 minutes, drink some water and keep moving. The most exciting part about this hike for me was reaching the easy rock-climb near the summit as shown below.
Once I reached the summit of Cascade, I was in awe of how amazing the views were. The reason I recommend this hike to so many individuals is because it is extremely rewarding, the distance is more than reasonable, and there is not any portion of the hike that is significantly difficult. On the summit, in every direction I looked, there were mountains, valleys, and clouds just above me. I loved this hike so much that I took my brother on it shortly after. Due to this hike, he now wants to be a 46er as well.
In regards to hiking Porter, the visibility lacks in comparison to Cascade. It is not too far away from the Cascade summit and the main reason I hit this mountain was that I wanted to check another High Peak in the Adirondacks off of my list. The one aspect of Porter that I thought was cool was that I was able to look over at Cascade where I had been recently. Everyone on the summit looked minuscule and it gave me a different perspective of Cascade Mountain. Although Porter lacked in comparison to Cascade (in my opinion), I still appreciated what this mountain had to offer.
If anyone took the time to read this, I appreciate it. I love to share my experiences and I hope I can influence people to be a little more adventurous. Remember to pack in, pack out and happy hiking! | {
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Q: Rails: validation between columns Assume, we have a model, let's call it Articles. There, we have two columns, min and max. The rule is: min can't be greater or equal to max. How do you resolve this custom type of validation? Any ideas?
Going further, let's assume that we have columns character and made_of. Task is to create a validation which is gonna help to avoid a situation, when "character = human" and "made_of = steel".
Is there are standard routines to manage "metaphysical" conflicts between columns?
A: You could use validate to define your own validations. For instance:
class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
validate :min_greater_than_max, :humans_aint_made_of_steel
def min_greater_than_max
errors.add(:min, "can't be greater than max") if min > max
end
def humans_aint_made_of_steel
errors.add(:human, "can't be made of steel") if character == 'human' && made_of == 'steel'
end
end
A: There is generic method validate which can take care of your all validations between columns. Be careful though, looks like your needs for validations require lots of testing.
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You don't make the top 10 on TripAdvisor unless you are doing whatever you are doing really well and Hardware Société is all that and a magnum of champagne. This is easily one of my top three places in Melbourne for breakfast. Let's face it if you are one place behind Vue de monde on TripAdvisor that says something.
Will and Di have poured their heart and soul into this place and it is completely evident. One of their greatest achievements is their team. In what is an incredibly busy cafe which regularly has a line up out the door they manage to smile and delight the patrons with amazing service, superb food and quality coffee time and time again. Every guest I send here comes back raving about their experience. I can't say enough about the place. Even the chefs are smiling!
Hardware Société is located on Hardware Street but down the quieter end between Lonsdale and Lt Lonsdale. The location is just perfect. All the ambiance without the touts makes this the in the know end of Hardware Street! Here you are offered up a genuine Melbourne lane-way experience with a smile. The decor is a kind of quirky country french cafe and what it lacks in size it makes up for in ambiance. The menu is perfect with lots of choice for everyone including vegetarians. Beautiful French breads, eggs, coffee, jams and pastries all are on offer. My choice was the baked eggs with chorizo, I can still taste it, rich and creamy perfectly seasoned with the eggs done just right. All I can say is I always anticipate my next visit and I have been several times which for me almost never happens, a testament to how good this place really is.
The only down side is if you do wish to visit on the weekend there will be a wait so my tip is to try mid week when you can relax and enjoy without the major crowds, but be warned it will still be busy especially before 9am and at lunch. Excellence has it price! | {
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Oklahoma Hunting & Ranch Land for Sale 160 Acres Washita Co.
This ±500 Acres of Oklahoma hunting and ranch land with Foss Lake view building home sites in Custer County, Oklahoma will be sold in multiple tracts at auction on Thursday, April 25, 2019, 10:25 am at the Butler Community Center, 415 E Broadway St.
A varied collection of 50+ guns including rifles, repeaters, shotguns, & pistols. Collection of hunting knives, 50,000+ brass shells for reloading. Thousands of rounds of ammunition. Case feeder machines, tumblers, clothing and much, much more.
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SOS Ocean from nuclear leak - European Committee on radiation risk: "nuclear explosion" "situation at Fukushima out of control"
By WcP.Watchful.Eye - Posted on 26 May 2011
Professor Christopher Busby (video): "As a matter of fact, right from the beginning, real situation is far worse. Lots of indicators: there have been nuclear explosions.. we now know from the data.. serious matter.. massive radiation coming out. It is still going on - by no means it is over…"
Japan declares nuclear emergency - fire broke out..11 nuclear reactors shut down... nuclear crisis since March 11: nuclear reactors react to 9.0 earthquake. Repeated human errors - 1979: Three Mile Island, 1986: Chernobyl (video "25 years later: Food for Thought"), 2011: Fukushima (nuclear fallout map and video from Japanese journalist, the first to enter the radiation evacuation zone)
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May 26, 2011 - Greenpeace: High radiation levels detected in Japanese seafood: Tokyo - High levels of radioactive substances were found in seaweed and other seafood products near a damaged nuclear power station in north-eastern Japan, environmentalists.
Greenpeace Japan said it found radioactive substances above the legal limits for consumption in 14 of 21 samples of products that included seaweed, shellfish and fish caught 22 to 60 kilometres from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
Since the plant was crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, it has leaked radioactive substances into the environment. In early April, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co started to dump low-level radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean to make room for even more contaminated water that had been leaking into the sea.
Greenpeace found 127,000 becquerels of iodine-131, more than 60 times the legal limit, per kilogram of seaweed near Ena port, 50 kilometres south of the plant, and 20,000 becquerels of iodine-131 per kilogram in seaweed in Nakoso port, about 60 kilometres south of the plant.
The group detected 608 becquerels of caesium-134 and 611 becquerels of caesium-137 in whitebait caught off Nakoso port. The legal limit is 500 becquerels. It also found 646 becquerels of caesium-134 and 639 becquerels of caesium-137 in sea cucumber in Hisanohama port, about 30 kilometres south of Fukushima Daiichi.
Jan van de Putte, a Greenpeace radioactivity safety expert, said he was worried about the 'very high concentrations of iodine' found in seaweed. He urged the government to release information on the amount of radioactivity and kind of radioactivity released into the ocean from the plant, located 250 kilometres north-east of Tokyo, and the migration mechanism of radioactivity into the sea.
May 19, 2011 - After Japan nuclear power plant disaster: How much radioactivity is in the oceans? "The impact of Fukushima exceeds Chernobyl." A result of the loss of electricity, overheating at the power plant led to significant releases of iodine, cesium and other radioisotopes to the environment. Japanese officials have raised the severity of the nuclear power plant incident to level 7, the highest level on the international scale and comparable only to the Chernobyl incident 25 years ago, says Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. "When it comes to the oceans, however," says Buesseler, "the impact of Fukushima exceeds Chernobyl." Radionuclides in seawater have been reported from the Fukushima plant's discharge canals, from coastal waters five to ten kilometers south of the plant, and from 30 kilometers offshore.
"Levels of some radionuclides are at least an order of magnitude higher than the highest levels in 1986 in the Baltic and Black Seas, the two ocean water bodies closest to Chernobyl," says Buesseler.
April 3, 2011 - Japan Nuclear Leak: Radioactive Water Continues Pouring Into The Sea Just how much is leaking? According to the New York Times: "Experts estimate that about 7 tons an hour of radioactive water is escaping the pit. Safety officials have said that the water, which appears to be coming from the damaged No. 2 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi, contains one million Becquerels per liter of iodine 131, or about 10,000 times levels normally found in water at a nuclear facility."
May 26th, 2011: Greenpeace: Japan nuclear plant radiation accumulating in marine life - Radiation from Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is accumulating in marine life off Japan's coast above legal limits for food contamination, Greenpeace said Thursday, May 26th. The environmental group said its findings run counter to Japanese government reports that radiation from the Fukushima plant, damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, is being diluted as time passes.
"Despite what the authorities are claiming, radioactive hazards are not decreasing through dilution or dispersion of materials, but the radioactivity is instead accumulating in marine life," Greenpeace radiation expert Jan Vande Putte said in a press release.
Greenpeace said its teams collected samples of marine life along the Fukushima coast and in international waters outside Japan's 12-mile territorial limit. The samples were tested by nuclear research laboratories in France and Belgium, and high levels of radioactive iodine and cesium were found, it said. Fish, shellfish and seaweed all showed significant levels of radioactive contamination, according to Greenpeace. All are widely consumed in Japan.
Besides consumers, fishermen are at risk from the elevated radiation levels, Greenpeace said. "Ongoing contamination from the Fukushima crisis means fishermen could be at additional risk from handling fishing nets that have come in contact with radioactive sediment, hemp materials such as rope, which absorb radioactive materials, and as our research shows, radioactivity in fish and seaweed collected along Fukushima's coast," Wakao Hanaoka, Greenpeace's Japan oceans campaigner, said in the statement. The Japanese government has evacuated nearly 80,000 people from areas within 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) of the plant to reduce their radiation exposure. Tens of thousands more may be moved if an exclusion zone is widened to reduce long-term radiation exposure.
May 4, 2011 - Radioactive readings jump in Japan's seabed: Levels of radioactive iodine and cesium are up to 1,000 times the normal figures, Fukushima nuclear operator TEPCO reveals. Seabed samples collected near the Fukushima nuclear power plant, crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March, contained radioactive iodine and cesium, Japan's Kyodo news reported. The normal readings for the materials can be up to several becquerels, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said. But these readings were between 98 to 190 becquerels of iodine per kilogram and 1,200 to 1,400 becquerels of cesium.
Highly radioactive water leaked into Pacific Ocean. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said on May 11 that it had discovered highly radioactive water was flowing into the ocean near the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant..
May 12, 2011 Japan: New radioactive leak into ocean TEPCO announced earlier in April that it would manage to reduce radiation leaks from the quake-hit Fukushima plant within three months and also to cool the reactors, and control the radiation within six to nine months.
May 28, 2011 - Japan slammed as new leak found at stricken nuke plant: The disclosure raises the stakes in a race to complete by next month a system to decontaminate a massive pool of radioactive water at the site that critics see as a growing risk to both the Pacific and groundwater. Earlier, the utility dumped about 10,000 tons of radioactive water into the ocean, prompting criticism from China and South Korea.
May 26, 2011 - New readings show levels of radioisotopes found up to 30 kilometers offshore from the on-going crisis at Fukushima are ten times higher than those measured in the Baltic and Black Seas during Chernobyl. "When it comes to the oceans, says Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceonographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, "the impact of Fukushima exceeds Chernobyl." Virtually all of Japan's 55 reactors sit on or near earthquake faults. A 2007 earthquake forced seven reactors to shut at Kashiwazaki. Japan has ordered shut at least two more at Hamaoka because of their seismic vulnerability. The news comes amidst a tsunami of devastating revelations about the Fukushima disaster and the crumbling future of atomic power, along with a critical Senate funding vote today:
Fukushima's owner, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, has confirmed that fuel at Unit One melted BEFORE the arrival of the March 11 tsunami…
Virtually all of Japan's 55 reactors sit on or near earthquake faults. A 2007 earthquake forced seven reactors to shut at Kashiwazaki. Japan has ordered shut at least two more at Hamaoka because of their seismic vulnerability.
Numerous reactors in the United States sit on or near major earthquake faults. Two each at Diablo Canyon and San Onofre, California, are within three miles of major fault lines. So is Indian Point, less than 40 miles from Manhattan. Millions of people live within 50 miles of both San Onofre and Indian Point.
On January 31, 1986, the Perry reactor, 35 miles east of Cleveland on Lake Erie, was damaged by an earthquake rated between 5.0 and 5.5 on the Richter Scale---orders of magnitude weaker than the one that struck Fukushima, and that could hit the sites in California, New York and elsewhere around the globe.
TEPCO has confirmed that at least three of the Fukushima reactors---Units One, Two and Three---have suffered at least partial fuel melts. In at least one case, the fuel has melted through part of the inner containment system, with molten radioactive metal melting through to the reactor floor. A wide range of sources confirm the likelihood that fission may still be proceeding in at least one Fukushima core. The danger level is disputed. But it clearly requires still more commitment to some kind of cooling regime that will send vast quantities of water into ocean.
At least one spent fuel pool---in Unit Four---may have been entirely exposed to air and caught fire. Reactor fuel cladding is made with a zirconium alloy that ignites when uncovered, emitting very large quantities of radiation. The high level radioactive waste pool in Unit Four may no longer be burning, though it may still be general. Some Fukushima fuel pools (like many in the United States) are perched high in the air, making their vulnerability remains a serious concern. But a new report by Robert Alvarez indicates the problem in the US may be more serious that generally believed.
Unit Four is tilting and may be sinking, with potentially devastating consequences. At least three explosions at the site have weakened critical structures there. Massive leakages may have softened the earth and undermined some of the buildings' foundations. Further explosions or aftershocks---or a fresh earthquake---could bring on structural collapses with catastrophic fallout.
TEPCO has now confirmed that there are numerous holes in the containment covering Unit Two, and at least one at Unit One. The global nuclear industry has long argued that containments are virtually impenetrable. The domes at Fukushima are of very similar design and strength as many in the US.
The health impacts on workers at Fukushima are certain to be devastating.
After Chernobyl, the Soviet government sent more than 800,000 draftees through the seething wreckage. Many stayed a matter of 90 seconds or less, running in to perform a menial task and then running out as quickly as possible.
Despite their brief exposure, these "liquidators" have suffered an epidemic of health effects, with an escalating death toll. Angry and embittered, they played a significant role in bringing down the Soviet Union that doomed them.
At Fukushima, a core of several hundred workers essentially sacrificed themselves in the early stages of the disaster. They courageously entered highly contaminated areas to perform tasks that almost certainly prevented an even worse catastrophe.
David Brenner, the director of the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University Medical Center, said of the workers: "Those are pretty brave people. There are going to be some martyrs among them'."
"I don't know of any other way to say it, but this is like suicide fighters in a war," said University of Tokyo radiology professor Keiichi Nakaga. Unfortunately, the toll among Fukushima's workers is certain to escalate. Even at that, Japanese officials have raised the allowable dosages for nuclear workers from 100 millisieverts to 250, five times what's allowed for US workers, and 125 times what reactor workers typically receive in a year.
A "dead zone" around Fukushima similar to the one surrounding Chernobyl is likely in the making. But for all the focus on land-based contamination, the continuing flood of radioactive materials into the ocean at Fukushima could have the most problematic long-term impacts.
Tokyo Electric has now admitted that on May 10-11, at least 250 tons of radioactive liquid leaked into the sea from a pit near the intake at Unit 3, whose fuel was spiked with plutonium. According to the Japanese government, the leak contained about 100 times the annual allowable contamination.
About 500 tons leaked from Unit 2 from April 1 to April 6. Other leaks have been steady and virtually impossible to trace. "After Chernobyl, fallout was measured," says Buesseler, "from as far afield as the north Pacific Ocean."
A quarter-century later the international community is still trying to install a massive, hugely expensive containment structure to suppress further radiation releases in the wake of Chernobyl's explosion.
Such a containment would be extremely difficult to sustain at seaside Fukushima, which is still vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis. To be of any real use, all six reactors and all seven spent fuel pools would have to be covered.
But avenues to the sea would also have to be contained. Fukushima is much closer to the ocean than Chernobyl, so more intense contamination might be expected. But the high radiation levels being measured indicate Fukushima's most important impacts may be on marine life.
The US has ceased measuring contamination in Pacific seafood. But for centuries to come, at least some radioactive materials dumped into the sea at Fukushima will find their way into the creatures of the sea and the humans that depend on them.
*Update May 28, 2012*
Japan Nuclear Disaster: Farmers Pray For Radiation-Free Rice
FUKUSHIMA, Japan -- Last year's crop sits in storage, deemed unsafe to eat, but Toraaki Ogata is back at his rice paddies, driving his tractor trailing neat rows of seedlings. He's living up to his family's proud, six-generation history of rice farming, and praying that this time his harvest will not have too much radiation to sell.
That conflict is shared by several thousand farmers in more than 7,000 hectares (17,000 acres) of Fukushima, where some of last year's harvest exceeded government safety standards because of radiation released when the March 2011 tsunami set off the world's second-worst nuclear accident.
For their rice to be sold, it will have to be tested - every grain of it. "All I can do is pray there will be no radiation," Ogata, 58, said last week, wiping his sweat during a break in his 1.5-hectare paddy 60 kilometers (35 miles) from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. "It's not our fault at all, but the land of our ancestors has been defiled."
Following orders from the government, they have sprinkled zeolite, a pebble-like material that traps radioactive cesium, and added fertilizer with potassium to help block radiation absorption. That work is part of the 100 billion yen ($1.3 billion) Tokyo has allocated for decontamination efforts this year.
There had been no time for that last year. Tens of thousands of bags of rice from that harvest were too radiated to be sold. The government bought those crops, which sit in giant mounds in storage.
Rice planting has been banned in the most contaminated areas, but the government allowed it at some farms in areas that produced contaminated rice last year, including Ogata's. After the October harvest, their rice will be run through special machines that can detect the tiniest speck of radiation.
*Update Jun 15, 2012*
TOKYO - Japan moved closer to restarting nuclear reactors for the first time since last year's earthquake and tsunami led to a nationwide shutdown after a mayor gave his support Thursday to bringing two of them back online.
All 50 of Japan's workable reactors are offline because of safety concerns or for maintenance since the March 11, 2011, disaster caused radiation leaks at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. Public opposition to nuclear power remains high, even though the government has been pressing for the restart of reactors because it says nuclear energy is crucial to Japan's economy. Power companies have warned of looming shortages, as demand reaches its summer peak.
Work to restart two reactors in the western town of Ohi, which are the first ready to resume generating power, could begin as soon as this weekend now that the mayor signed off on the plan. Once the work begins, it takes about three weeks to get a reactor operating at full capacity.
Last year's massive earthquake and tsunami caused explosions and meltdowns at the Fukushima plant. Tens of thousands of residents were evacuated because of the radiation leaks. Although the plant's operator says it has restored some stability, it could take years to decontaminate the area and decades to safely close down Fukushima's reactors.
Some nuclear experts are warning that spent fuel rods at a damaged plant in Japan could trigger a major catastrophe despite the government's declaration in December that the emergency phase of the nation's worst nuclear disaster was over.
Fifteen months after a magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi plant and led to meltdowns, fears about reactor 4 have grown as its building holds a storage pool filled with 1,535 nuclear fuel rod assemblies.
The pool, which is 30 metres above ground, has been left uncovered since a hydrogen blast last year blew off the upper part of the outer wall of the containment building.
Most of the assemblies are spent fuel rods with a total amount of radioactive caesium equal to 5,000 atomic bombs of the kind that destroyed Hiroshima, said Hiroaki Koide, assistant professor at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute.
The government estimated the amount of caesium—137 already released by the Fukushima disaster were equal to that of 168 Hiroshima bombs.
If a large quake or other event were to cause the pool to crack and drain, it could lead to a new catastrophe, Koide said.
"We just all have to pray that an earthquake does not happen before that fuel is removed," Arnie Gundersen, nuclear engineer of US-based Fairewinds Energy Education, said on his website.
The plant suffered meltdowns at three of its six reactors. But each of the three units holds fewer assemblies than reactor 4.
Mitsuhei Murata, Japan's former ambassador to Switzerland, also sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki—moon in late March, saying, "It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of Japan and the whole world depends on the No 4 reactor." US Senator Ron Wyden, who visited the complex in April, expressed concern in a letter to the Japanese ambassador to the United States.
"The precarious status of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear units and the risk presented by the enormous inventory of radioactive materials and spent fuel in the event of further earthquake threats should be of concern to all and a focus of greater international support and assistance." "The true earthquake risk for the site was seriously underestimated and remains unresolved," Wyden added.
Gundersen argued that the top priority of the operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) and the government "should be to move the fuel out of that pool just as quickly as possible." The operator and the government also "need to strengthen that pool to make sure that it can withstand an earthquake" in the meantime, Gundersen said. "It is a serious concern." He said he does not believe TEPCO and the government are taking it seriously enough.
Goshi Hosono, the minister in charge of the nuclear disaster who inspected the complex in May, said the floor of the reactor building and supporting structure under the pool appeared to be intact.
But cranes that were supposed to carry spent fuel rods to a safer place collapsed during the disaster last year. TEPCO would need to erect a new building to support cranes.
The operator said it would start to remove the fuel in December 2013. The cleanup of the complex is expected to take decades.
Koide said he thinks TEPCO has been working on it with a sense of crisis, but that the government is eager to restart idled reactors and appears to lack that sense.
Critics say the government and major media are focusing too much on issues of the restart and an increase in the sales tax.
When he took office in September, Prime Mnister Yoshihiko Noda stressed that the rebirth of Fukushima was his government's top priority.
"There is no rebirth of Japan without the rebirth of Fukushima," he said.
In December, Noda declared a cold shutdown had been achieved at the Fukushima plant.
A "major fear factor" had been eliminated with the cold shutdown, the premier said then.
*Update July 1, 2012*
Japan Restarts Nuclear Reactor Amid Protests
The operator of the Ohi Power Plant in western Japan restarted one of its reactors late Sunday night, ending Japan's temporary freeze on nuclear power for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster 15 months ago, despite widespread protests.
Kansai Electric Power Company, also known as KEPCO, began removing control rods from reactor no. 3 at 9 p.m. local time, and hoped to achieve criticality, a sustained nuclear fission chain reaction, by early Monday morning. The reactor is expected to begin transmitting power Wednesday, and could be operating at capacity in a week.
The country has been without nuclear power since May when the last of Japan's 50 nuclear reactors was taken offline for scheduled maintenance.
The restart today came despite widespread opposition to nuclear power, in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011, when an earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns at 3 reactors. Radiation fallout from the accident forced more than 80,000 from their homes.
Saturday night, hundreds of protesters began gathering outside the gates of the Ohi Power plant in a last ditch effort to try and stop the reactor from going back online. Demonstrators blocked a road leading to the entrance to prevent workers from getting in, holding banners that read "Stop the restart." They remained late Sunday night, even as word came that KEPCO had turned the switch back on.
In Tokyo, tens of thousands gathered outside the Prime Minister's residence Friday night, in the biggest anti-nuclear protest to date. Prime Minister Noda has aggressively pushed to restart idle reactors, saying that Japan faces a serious power shortage without them. While he favors reducing the country's reliance on nuclear power over time, he has said eliminating them altogether would hurt the economy.
Yet, critics have questioned whether the government is acting too quickly, and ignoring the lessons of Fukushima. Earlier this week, 2 prominent seismologists said the government failed to take into account active fault lines near the Oi reactors, before giving the green light to bring them back online. KEPCO, which provides power to Kansai, Japan's second biggest urban region, plans to reactivate its No. 4 reactor at Ohi on July 14.
*Update Oct 25, 2012*
Fukushima Watch: Where to Draw the Evacuation Line? Oct 24, 2012 - One of the many issues to emerge from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis was the evacuation question: Where should the line be drawn? Existing guidelines for an evacuation area of 10-kilometers around an accident site seemed inadequate, and while the eventual area in last year's accident was expanded to about twice the size, it still fell short of international recommendations.
Oct 24, 2012 - Severe accidents at 4 of the 16 nuclear power stations - Japan To Extend Nuke Plant Evacuation Zone To 30 KmThe country's Nuclear Regulation Authority says severe accidents at four of the 16 nuclear power stations examined could result in widespread contamination beyond a 30-kilometer radius of the plants, and exceeding an international benchmark for evacuation. It proposed raising the extent of the evacuation zone around the country's nuclear plants from a 10-kilometer radius to 30 kilometers, Japanese media reported.
Oct 26, 2012 - Japan quake-hit nuclear plant "may still be leaking radiation" into sea A massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 triggered fuelrod meltdowns at the plant, causing radiation leakage, contamination of food and water and mass evacuations, although the government declared in December that the disaster was under control. Ken Buesseler, senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution of the United States, said in his article on the Science website that little change in radioactive caesium levels found in Fukushima fish suggested a continued leak. "The fact that many fish are just as contaminated today with caesium 134 and caesium 137 as they were more than one year ago implies that caesium is still being released to the food chain"
Oct 25, 2012 - Fish Caught in Fukushima as Tainted as a Year Ago, Study Says Fish caught in waters off the coast of northern Japan, where an earthquake triggered a radiation leak at the Fukushima power plant, are still as contaminated today as a year ago, a study found. Contamination levels were particularly high among species dwelling at the bottom of the ocean, as sinking radioactive materials tainted the seafood, the research showed. The findings, published today in the journal Science, suggest there is a continued source of radiation from the seafloor that will have a lasting impact, said Ken Buesseler, the study's author.
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Failure and Swervedriver at the Phoenix
LA's Failure began at the forefront of the American experimental alt-rock scene in 1990 along with counterparts like Tool and Nine Inch Nails. The separating factor between these bands was the attention to sonic detail Failure paid to their live and recorded sound. So much so, that Greg Edwards and Ken Andrews returned to the studio to re-record their début album, Comfort because they weren't ultimately happy with its sound. Adding drummer Kelli Scott to the band and getting it right the first time with their sophomore release, Magnified, caused critics to notice Failure, raving about the solidity of the band, the songs and their sound. Their third album, Fantastic Planet, was the album that rose the band to their highest heights, mainly through the single, Stuck On You rising up indie and mainstream Billboard charts. Guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen joined the band following its release. That album signaled the pre-millennium demise of Failure as they broke up in 1997. Each member jetted in different directions with Edwards forming Autolux, Edwards finding success behind the mixing desk and with his ON project and Scott joining Canadian critical darlings, Blinker the Star as well as becoming a sought after studio drummer. Van Leeuwen, as is now well-known, joined Queens of the Stone Age.
Rumours of a reunion surfaced in 2014 and sure enough, Failure began playing shows with the original lineup minus Van Leeuwen, who presumably was settled in his full-time job as a Queen. Almost 20 years after the release of Fantastic Planet, Failure released The Heart is a Monster. The 18-song album became the highest-charting Failure album to date and the supporting shows were reported to be visually as well as aurally stunning. In The Future Your Body Will Be The Furthest Thing From Your Mind was released in November 2018 and they hit the road the following March. Joining them for these shows are garage rock ingénues Criminal Hygiene and the godfathers of shoegaze, Swervedriver. While Swervedriver were the sonic sledgehammers their fans expected, playing several songs from their latest album, Future Ruins, they leaned back to play faves like Duel, Girl on a Motorbike and Never Lose That Feeling from 1993's Mezcal Head. After a quick changeover dumping a ton of tech onto the stage, Failure hit the stage to play three songs off the latest album. Easily the best live sound I've heard at the Phoenix Concert Theatre complimented by a stunning light show, the set touched on all their releases but focused on the new album and fan favourite, Fantastic Planet.
The tour winds through the US West Coast for the remainder of the month. Check here for when they're close to you.
Swervedriver
Criminal Hygiene
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The emigration of Finns living on the Murman coast to northern America
by Leif Rantala, University of Lapland
In 1874 the Finnish priest Thauvon wrote an article in a Swedish-speaking newspaper, published in Helsinki: "In my previous letter I mentioned that the migration among the Finns from the shores of the Arctic Ocean to America has got hesitative dimensions. Luckily, this mania has passed, since the news from the migrants [to America] to their relatives and friends in the [Murman] colonies contains mostly complaints, one more miserable than the next, and many of the migrant [Finns] want nothing more than to return [to the Murman coast]." Thauvon had been visiting the Lutheran colonists on the Murman coast and performing christenings, marriages, confirmations and funerals among the inhabitants.
Thauvon´s assumption that the migration to America had passed was false. In particular the sources mention two years of considerable migration from the Murman coast to America, namely 1882 and 1889. Another Finnish priest, K. R. Jauhiainen, wrote in his report [from 1889]: "Ticket after ticket [to America] were sent by post, and immediately after, the colonists house was sold at any price as well as the cattle, if there were any. Soon they were on the western side of the Atlantic Ocean."
The following statistics document this emigration from Murman Coast to America in 1882:
Pummanki (Zemlyanoi) 1882 34 persons (1/6 of the villagers)
Vaitolahti (Vaida-guba) 1882 10 persons
Ura Guba 1882 10 persons
Saanivuono 1882 7 – 10 persons
All together 60 – 70 persons, i.e. 8 % (1/12) of the population
Pummanki
(Zemlyanoi) 1889 8 – 9 families
Generally speaking the 1880s was the high point of the colonization of the Murman coast and later emigration to America.
The reasons for emigration to America
N. A. Kachalov visited the Murman Coast in 1870 and found the inhabitants living in miserable conditions, especially the Russian colonists. Many of them lived in holes in the ground (zemlyanki), and there were no doctors. They had been promised loans, which were not forthcoming. The authorities did not provide any help, and the system of landownership was unclear. The wealthy claimed the places for pearl fishing from the Sami in the estuaries. The Finnish and the Norwegian colonists faced similar difficulties, with the additional burden of coping with the challenge of a foreign language.
The migration of the Finnish colonists was so comprehensive that one Russian official appealed to the Finns: "Don't all leave us!" | {
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"How many more Logan novels are you going to write?"
I get that question a lot. From family, friends, and fans, everyone wants to know when the next book is coming out, if Logan and Teri are going to ever say I do, will Killian find true love, etc.
I love writing John Logan. Let's be very clear about that. I love the character, I love his friends. Teri and Killian are just as much a part of my life as Logan himself now. Even crusty Jake Ross has grown on me. I love Coral Bay. In my mind I've sat on Logan's houseboat and watched the sun sparkle over the Bay Bridge and the blue waters of the Bay a million times. For me, Coral Bay is a fascinating place and I've had several readers who say they'd love to live there.
A quiet day at stately Nichols Manor. Taking it easy today but wanted to share a thought or two with you.
As many of you know, I'm a chess player. I didn't say I was any good at it, compared to many of the guys in my chess club, but that's beside the point. I love the game and I usually have an online correspondence game going all the time.
More work. I have to up my game and put in the time to get to the next level.
If you want to achieve, you have to sometimes up your game whether it be chess, or another sport. | {
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Fifteen injections are given routinely to young children as part of the governments vaccination programme. They offer protection against diseases such as polio, diphtheria, mumps and measles.
The MHRA says the deaths and neurological reactions should be seen in the context of the 90m doses of childhood vaccines which have been given since 2003.
Details of the suspected deaths and neurological problems have been released just two months after a legal ruling forced the government to accept that its vaccination programme had left a baby severely brain damaged.
Thirteen years after first refusing to acknowledge that Robert Fletcher, now 18, had been left severely brain damaged by the MMR vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, the government was forced to pay him compensation.
Roberts mother, Jackie, who founded Jabs, a support group for families with vaccine-damaged children, said: It is generally accepted within the medical profession that only about 10% of suspected adverse reactions get put forward in the correct way. It is accepted by the Department of Health that the full scale of the problem is far greater than these statistics show.
Jake Dukes, 18, from Weymouth, Dorset, was left severely brain damaged by the whooping cough vaccine, which he received when he was two months old. He has the mental age of a toddler, is incontinent and uses a wheelchair. He was awarded 91,500 under the governments vaccine damage payment scheme.
The family of George Fisher are convinced that the MMR vaccine contributed to the death of their 18-month-old son. He died 10 days after being inoculated in January 2006.
His mother, Sarah, a hotel receptionist from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, believes that an existing illness made him susceptible to an adverse reaction to the vaccine. Four months before receiving the jab, George had suffered a fit brought on by a high fever. Sarah said: George had had a bad virus. He had been very ill and had suffered a convulsion due to his high temperature. I dont think it was just the MMR, but I think it was a factor in his death.
They know the potential harm in vaccines and yet the opnion is better to lose a few than a lot.What happens to these children when they grow older and grow up.
Do they become us !!
There's been a lot of news lately about the Gardasil vaccine -- and how many deaths (over 50 so far, and it's only been around for a few years) and illnesses have been attributed to that. Some young women died within weeks of getting the vaccine.
"FDA records show that 16 new deaths (including four suicides) and 3,589 "adverse reactions" tied to Gardasil were reported in the 16 months between May 2009 and September 2010. The adverse reactions included 213 cases of permanent disability. The FDA also received 25 reports of paralyzing Guillian Barre Syndrome in young girls and women who had received the vaccine."
That's in just ONE YEAR.
I heard from a friend the other day that they're now suggesting that BOYS be vaccinated with it...anything to expand their market and increase profits. Truly shameful.
"If even one person has to suffer to somehow further "the greater good", then you can be assured that the greater good is not in alignment with spiritual laws and principles."
This "for the greater good" is often bandied about for various causes. In the end, it rings pretty hollow, especially when the injured minority often have to suffer devastating consequences.
I don't think it's a matter of sacrificing children's lives for the greater good. If 40 children have died from the vaccine out of 93,000 given, that's 1 child of every 2325. Without the vaccine, 1 to 2 children out of 1000 who get measles die, and 1 out of 1000 get encephalitis. So even though some children may still die from it, the vaccine does improve each child's chance of survival.
Let's see, with the vaccine my child has a 1 in 2325 chance of dying; without the vaccine, a 1 in 1000 chance of dying. Which am I going to choose? Granted, I'm glad to have the option of choosing.
And that's not even taking into account some of the other complications from measles. I'm old enough to remember what it was like before the vaccine. My own sister had her eyesight damaged from measles. It's not as though measles is a trivial illness. I think people forget how bad those epidemics were.
What I don't think is morally supportable is for a parent to decide they can risk not immunizing their child, because all the parents who have immunized their child have reduced the risk of contagion. That's not even risking one to save many, it's risking many to save one.
Would all of the anti-vaccine people on this board feel the same way if our own illness could have been prevented by a vaccine?
There is a pervasive illusion that our bodies are somehow inviolate *except* when we get a vaccination. That we aren't breathing, swallowing, and living in millions of infectious particles every day, not to mention other pollutants that we are exposed to on a daily basis. But somehow vaccinations are seen as having this unimaginable power to do us ill.
I find it ironic that the only reason we can live in this illusory bubble is *because* of vaccinations, which allow most children to grow up instead of dying like flies from infectious disease. I think it's a mental block; we kid ourselves that widespread death from infectious disease is a thing of the past, but there is still a deep-seated fear of infection, which manifests itself by attaching to inappropriate targets, like vaccines.
This fear also manifests itself in the form of an overly dismissive attitude toward, say, "rumor viruses" that are hard to find. And have you ever noticed how much relish people take in scoffing whenever some infectious disease fails to kill enough people for them to personally notice? "That swine flu wasn't such a big deal after all." "SARS, remember that? Whatever happened with that?" "Chronic fatigue syndrome, remember how big that was in the 80s? I guess it was a fad, like shoulder pads."
The Big Fear about communicable disease is part of us and we can't get rid of it. But it seems in these times we act on that fear in some pretty screwed-up ways. The Big Denial leads to both hysteria about vaccines *and* extremely closed minds on the subject of "mystery diseases."
We can always do what the enlightened nation of Nigeria did and stop vaccinating against polio.
Dr. Aloudat says the spread of most of these recent cases of polio also comes from Nigeria, the last endemic country in Africa.
Mysteriously, the polio outbreak has slowed after an aggressive vaccination campaign. Therefore the giant conspiracy must be temporarly inactivating the bioweapons so they can spread their deadly vaccine!
Of course you'll never see this covered in the MSM!1!1!
...would people on this board be upset if their disease may have been cause or in part triggered by a vaccine, or 'overvaccinations'?
"I finally got to a decent place of health at age 17 . Because I was well my doctor at the time had me get the MMR, this left me in a wheelchair."
I don't mean to dismiss your argument Urbantravels -- you make a good point -- vaccinations have saved lives -- but there's always many points to consider, and some folks have also wondered if the Swine Flu vaccine in the mid-1970's perhaps may have contributed to the sudden increase in CFS/ME cases. I don't know...just throwing it into the mix.
Regarding the Gardasil vaccine, it's acknowledged that it was rushed through the FDA approval process, so I personally think with all the deaths in just a few years, that that needs to be investigated.
No one would argue that due diligence to make vaccines as safe as possible should be carried out to the utmost. Or that we should uncritically accept that vaccines are 100% safe and never have unintended consequences.
But even if vaccines might play some role in triggering ME/CFS, it would take a lot to convince me that vaccines deliver something that is *uniquely* dangerous in contrast to all the other "insults" our immune systems deal with all the time ... and still more to convince me that it is both a necessary and sufficient cause for ME/CFS on its own.
If Person X got ME/CFS after a vaccine, and Person Y got it after a bad bout of flu, and Person Z got it after she gave birth to a child, that doesn't tell me that OMG VACCINES DID IT AND WE SHOULDN'T GET THEM. That tells me that something is fundamentally awry with the immune system that might allow these events to tip the balance into a disease process, and we need to look harder to find the root cause of the problem. There is no practical way to protect a person against everything that might give their immune system a jolt.
Just to be clear, I fully believe vaccinations have been very effective at preventing a lot of disease, pain and death. What I have a major problem with is the various laws and regulations that mandate vaccination programs that have not gone through the vigorous due diligence you mention.
I cannot understand, for the life of me, why there's been such great resistance within conventional vaccine thinking to the idea that vaccine programs should be vigorously monitored so they can be made safer and more effective. Why is there no well-funded on-going research to improve them and reduce the associated dangers and permanent life-long injuries?
Just look at the whole outrageous Gardisil fiasco/debacle which I find particulary disturbing. And many legislators (mostly men) on a state level have wanted to make it mandatory for girls as young as eleven to get this. Most of them probably have no idea there's no evidence that the supposed immunity even lasts five years. I just think it's criminal that young girls are being given this vaccine, when they and/or their parents are not being fully educated on the risk/reward aspects of it.
I have no problems with voluntary vaccines. But to make them mandatory when there's many known and unknown risks strikes me as over the top. To my earlier point, some will say vaccinations should be mandatory because they are necessary for the greater good. I just can't agree, and I think it fails to recognize an important spiritual principle. As with all matters of a spiritual nature, it should be an individual choice.
LONDON – Polio, the dreaded paralyzing disease stamped out in the industrialized world, is spreading in Nigeria. And health officials say in some cases, it's caused by the vaccine used to fight it.
The polio problem is just the latest challenge to global health authorities trying to convince wary citizens that vaccines can save them from dreaded disease. For years, myths have abounded about vaccines — that they were the Western world's plan to sterilize Africans or give them AIDS. The sad polio reality fuels misguided fears and underscores the challenges authorities face using a flawed vaccine.
Experts have long believed epidemics unleashed by a vaccine's mutated virus wouldn't last since the vaccine only contains a weakened virus strain — but that assumption is coming under pressure. Some experts now say that once viruses from vaccines start circulating they can become just as dangerous as wild viruses.
Mmm - the plot thickens, just thinking too of all those who have fallen by the wayside here for raising doubts and not toeing the "official" line. There are findings now of contaminations - the methods used in the production of some being unsafe.
"For years, myths have abounded about vaccines — that they were the Western world's plan to sterilize Africans or give them AIDS. "
It is easy to understand how this "myth" came about. It wasn't until relatively recently that vaccination programmes in Africa gave each person a clean needle, instead of sticking the same old needle into one child after another in a line. In a community where just one vaccinated person was infected with AIDS, this would create an epidemic.
When I was eleven years old in the UK in 1979 I was vaccinated at school against rubella. The nurse used each needle for three girls before getting a new one. This practise did not stop in the UK until the mid eighties, when AIDS was the biggest media circus ever seen and people started refusing vaccinations with shared needles. In Africa, it took much longer for this to change.
ixchelkali, your mathematics is fine, but the data it is based on is not.
The incidence of severe illness or disability from vaccines is grossly under-reported and under-acknowledged by the governemnt, the pharma companies that produce vaccines and, often, the medical profession. Also, the efficacy of vaccines is never 100%. For most, it is from 90% to 70%. There will always be a percentage of the population who do not have immunity to those deadly diseases we all hope to avoid.
Might these two factors together possibly tip the balance and make one's chances of meeting a horrible demise be equal, whether or not they are vaccinated with the MMR or Gardasil? Of course the answer is that I don't know, and neither does anyone else.
My own experience of ineffective vaccines occured when I was 16 and got whooping cough. There was a small epidemic and nine children died whilst I was in hospital. The doctor told us that we had become far iller from it that we would have done, specifically because we had been vacinated but the vaccine had clearly not worked.
My own view of vaccinations overall is mixed.
I am not against all vaccines per se. Vaccination has elimiated smallpox and made many other deadly or disabling illnesses rare instead of commonplace.
On the other hand, vaccination has become big business and, where huge profits are on offer, the temptation to chase money at the expense of some individuals must be very great.
It is also noteworthy that the rise of allergies to the modern epidemic proportions has perfectly matched the increasing prevalence of intensive vaccination programmes, but only in the developed world - in poorer countries where they have fewer vaccinations, allergies are extremely rare, as they were in Europe and the USA up until the 1970s.
I certainly do not think vaccination should be stopped, but I think our governments have the moral responsibility to ensure unbiased research and data collection is carried out, and to try to make them safer for us all.
The "statistic" of 1 in 1000 children who get measles dying from it is dubious to say the least.
The great big elephant that is always missed by vaccine 'defenders' is that A GREAT MAJORITY of those who get diseases during measles etc outbreaks have previously been vaccinated. Often with full follow up boosters.
I am not against all vaccines per se. Vaccination has eliminated smallpox and made many other deadly or disabling illnesses rare instead of commonplace.
Smallpox is an excellent example. The vaccine was/is full of adverse events, they were known at the time and OPENLY discussed by everyone. Patients were well aware that by getting this vaccine they are opening themselves to the possibility of the XYZ (autism amongst other things was reported in the literature). The risk of dying or suffering XYZ from smallpox was also well known and openly discussed.
So even though the vaccine was full of known and considerable health risks, there was a clear and honest and openly available risk-to-benefit ratio of the infection versus the vaccine.
Nothing of the kind can be said for any of the diseases versus vaccines we routinely administer to our children today. See my points above.
My personal problem with vaccines is that I became accutely ill after recieving them.I don't believe it was the cause but as someone pointed out it was the trigger.Does that mean 'well it was just one of those things'not on this end it doesn't.The last 24 years of my life have been beyond tough not only for me but for the ones who love me.
Aside from the viruses what also concerns me are the preservatives being used.Mercury is one.
The government recieves payment from the pharmacuticals for each vaccine that is given and to me that speaks volumes.
As for parents I can understand wanting your child to be as safe as possible just as the parents did when their girls took Gardasil.There are always two sides to the coin.
The incidence of severe illness or disability from vaccines is grossly under-reported ....... On the other hand, vaccination has become big business and, where huge profits are on offer, the temptation to chase money at the expense of some individuals must be very great.
Thanks Athene for your great overall post. Thanks to others as well for your salient points. So much to comment on, but the above points pretty much get to the jist of my thinking.
For example, there have been many, many reported incidences of PWCs becoming chronically ill after receiving various kinds of vaccinations. How many of these incidences have actually been reported to some kind of huge database diligently maintained by the reporting agencies involved? My best guess would be none. When you extrapolate for other maladies reported after receiving vaccinations, it makes a very strong case for the gross under-reporting of adverse effects.
A counter argument is often made that there is "no scientific proof" of many of these reported incidences as being causal. To me, that's just a disingenuous way of deflecting any kind of constructive input into the dilemma facing an "immature science". By that, I am referring to modern vaccination medical science as still being in its infancy.
It seems part of the debate (perhaps unarticulated) is whether vaccinations programs as we know them are a "mature" science or one that is just beginning to be understood. If we are to safely take advantage of the benefits that are to be derived, I believe it's necessary to realize how little we still know about so much of the science and ramifications to so many people.
MONEY.... Even a cursory look at the vaccination "apparatus" reveals it is riddled with the influence of money, power, politics and corruption. As such, I do not want "THEIR" results and conclusions to be forced onto me or anyone else. I want to mention however, that I'm am certain there are some very dedicated and ethical scientists who are doing their best to weed out some of the corrosive influences I just mentioned. But it is an ongoing battle.
I feel pretty strongly about this whole topic, because I feel a big component of my illness may have stemmed from some childhood vaccinations. I was so sick for so many months, and only gradually began to improve over the years. But I think a lot of damage done at that time eventually set the stage for my developing ME/CFS.
I just wish the vaccination "apparatus" would slow down and give more consideration to how they are constantly venturing into unchartered waters with their new vaccination programs, with some many likely adverse results. But they generally come across to me as seeming to know it all, and referring to information that contradicts their own viewpoints as unscientific. I just don't want these kinds of people mandating that me or my family should be forced into their way of thinking.
Quite possibly. I can't defend my sources. I got the figures of the deaths from the vaccine from the Sunday Times article that prompted this thread. I got the figures of deaths without vaccination from the CDC. Somehow I don't have the automatic, blind acceptance of their data that I once had.
I also don't have a blind confidence in vaccines. For one thing, I'm one of the rare people who doesn't develop an immunity to rubella and getting a vaccination wouldn't change that, so I know they don't work 100% of the time. I also may be one of the people whose ME/CFS was triggered by a vaccine. So I have an appreciation of what the consequences can be.
But I still think it is not a fair characterization to suggest that vaccines are designed to risk the individual for the greater good. They are intended to help the individual as well as the larger community. I think it's more accurate to say that their effectiveness is overstated and their risks understated. And yes, governments have colluded with pharma in covering up some collossal screw-ups. But overall, I believe they have saved many more lives than they've cost.
I still think that vaccines are generally a good idea for most of the public, but I agree that the research showing this is often shoddy, there are cover-ups, and too much money is involved for this to be reported accurately. I am also distrustful of live vaccines, and some of the adjuvants and preservatives are really nasty.
In my own case I think my CFS trigger was initially measles encephalitis - the measles infected my brain and I was out of it for something like a week. On the other hand, in the same time period (I was 7) I had a dose of oral polio vaccine. Who knows if that had an impact? I certainly don't.
This is a complex debate, and all of us are operating without most of the facts: its not a criticism but an analysis. In the end vaccination is a gamble, but because of poor scientific research in this area, we don't really know the odds.
One caveat: I don't think anyone with CFS should ever have a hepatitis B vaccine. | {
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It takes a lot to lure a Lake District local away from his fells. But Torridon's call of the wild proved too strong for Tristan Tinn.
Stick to the path. Much of the mountain's habitat here is protected.
Understand a map and compass and how to navigate – helping you stick to the right path!
Check forecasts daily. An average between BBC Weather, Metcheck, Met Office and MWIS produce the most accurate results.
Take spare tubes. The path has numerous water bars and is predominantly bedrock.
Take more supplies than you think you will need.
Be afraid to call it off. Reaching the summit in cloud or rain isn't the same, and is dangerous.
Hailing from the Lakes, I've ticked off most of the routes that lie on my doorstep – good, not so good and borderline impossible. Whilst the area can be bleak and unforgiving on the right day or at the wrong time; it is a chocolate box. A dense network of moderately testing trails, in close proximity to civilisation, and thus safety. It's easy to get trapped here weekend after weekend and never leave home, so to speak.
Great though it is, when I think of UK big mountain riding, one particular part of the country springs to mind – Scotland. In fact on a clear day, from the many vantage points of the northern fells, I can see it taunting me from across the Solway Firth.
The land of St Andrews is a no-brainer, especially whilst MTB access rights remain restricted in England and Wales. A lifetime could be filled exploring the ins and outs of Britain's northern reaches. Us mountain bikers love chasing the hype, and in my circle, Torridon is the Holy Grail; the most drooled over, big mountain mecca in the UK. Time, at last to leave the Lakes behind and make the pilgrimage. But would Torridon really deliver? And would the fuel bill pay dividends?
Seeking solitude from the hustle and bustle of the recently awarded UNESO Lake District, we packed the van and punched Torridon into the sat-nav. Roll forwards eight-hours of morbid motorway, maturing into vivid vistas and we arrived at Achnasheen, our base for the first two nights.
We traversed concertinaed roads to the foot of Beinn Damph, for an out-and-back. A sharp climb threaded us through serene scots pine woodland, setting the wheels in motion. Eager glances were thrown over shoulders, examining the trail we'd encounter on our return. The excitement was brewing. Bursting out of verdant woodland, we were met by midnight purple blooms of heather leading our eye onto an eminent waterfall. Its precarious viewpoint hosted one hell-of-a trail. Onwards and upwards, the trail was intermittently rideable, before we slumped into the inevitable carry.
Harsh winds rattled our Gore-Tex cages, but it couldn't contain our elation in watching the sun's rays dance over the infinite landscape expanding before us. We huddled like penguins in a three-man emergency shelter, allowing the worst of it to calm, before continuing. Our original plan to summit Beinn Damph was abandoned, opting for the friendlier, northerly summit of Sgurr na Bana Mhorire – which commands far reaching views out over the isles of Raasay and Skye. Eyeballs brimming with west coast gold, we hit the descent. Retracing our steps with our tyres, the return proved every bit as rewarding as we'd hoped.
The following we day we set out to ride a variation on the classic Torridon circuit, with added bite. This was the route I'd heard so much about – so it was great to finally touch tyre to trail and try it for myself. A serene cruise along the Glen Torridon road was an ideal warm up. Improved only by a visit to the baristas of 'Coffee Rescue' – serving gold-standard caffeine, from a modified Land Rover Defender. Whisked along the Glen on a wave of caffeine we swung right for the Ling Hut before we began crossing contour lines, laying ground beneath our feet. Gradient seemingly increased exponentially, until eventually Coiré Grannda became Coire Làir. Atop this pass we were greeted by both a lapse in the breeze and millions of midges. A dilemma – rest and enjoy the glassy reflections or battle on to prevent becoming dinner? The group opted for the latter, but not before brief photographic documentation of the beauty at hand. Pace built along the trail, feeding us down the glacial valley between imposing stone faces. The trail flattened briefly, enough to bust our lungs, before firing us down its famous descent, stacked full of sedimentary sandstone slabs to Achnashellach.
Smooth tarmac blessed our behinds as we chased the remote railway down the valley to Coulags, a stubby inner-city diesel train seemed a foreign object to the Glen. A fireroad eased us into our next Glen before crossing Fionn-abhainn. The trail would lead us beside and beyond Coire Fionnaraich bothy – an inviting proposition with so many miles in our legs. The aforementioned extra 'bite' would come from the next ascent – almost 400m of hike-a-bike up Bealach a' Choire Ghairbh (at least Lakeland locations are easier on the tongue).
We were wilting at this point; sandstone grit grinding beneath our soles, akin to the tension between our teeth, as we carried sharply upwards. Halting only for a quick photoshoot on the quirky white stone. However the extra portion of trail was worthwhile, and provided the best scenery of the ride, with An Ruadh-Stac towering off to our left as we descended past lochs hanging in the valley. As we hugged the slopes of Moal Chean-dearg, a vast U-shaped valley opened to our left, framing the coast and Black Cuillin on the horizon. Bounding through ever grassier meadows we reached a small verdant lochan – time to get a boil on, for a final caffeine fix. Suitably boosted, we flew along the trail with Annat in our sights just as the sun hung low.
Day three was a double dipper, with a morning spent stepping relentlessly up to Coire Mhic Fhearchair – an utterly stunning corrie, one of Scotland's finest. This is an out-and-back that doesn't venture too high, or too far, making it a comfortable half day. The scenery was breath-taking. The Coire offers a great lunch spot by the waterfall, along with some fun off-piste slabs on the way up. The descent was hair raising; stop-start tech at the top, blossoming into a high-speed blast further down.
The afternoon was spent resting our legs in the VW, while we meandered back down the west coast away from Torridon. Our final excursion was to be split across two days, not because it was an extremely demanding route, simply because we couldn't come all this way without a bothy experience. Breaking the ride into two allowed us to experience some type II fun, with a kip in one of Scotland's many remote residences. Admittedly we frequented a free house prior to our departure to the bothy, soaking up some of the local ale along with a hearty helping of haggis, neaps and tatties. At the time this felt like cheating, given we had purchased a bothy feast for the evening. Little did we know we would become the feast.
Suitably revived and somewhat sedated from the large meal, we saddled up with more than we really needed – amateur overnight mistake number one. We departed Morvich and chased the watercourse towards its source, up behind the five sisters of Kintail. The sun was steadily sinking on another fine Scottish evening, shadows grew taller as light surrendered the valley floor, eventually vanishing beyond the peaks. Regrettably lights were left behind in a quest to save weight from our already overloaded packs. This resulted in a race to the bothy – which was far more remote than we envisaged. Staggering upwards, bar bag flopping over my shoulder, I passed magnificent waterfalls, hummocky moraine and boggy terrain. Much to my dismay many images remain uncaptured owing to our haste.
As blue hour began to fade we finally reached our sanctuary. We were not alone. The bothy was already busy with with people and swarming with midges. The other group took pity and gave us a sleeping platform to share. Suddenly the sit-down dinner was no longer a regret but a blessing, we did not have to bare the onslaught of critters outside, huddling over the stove. Instead we kindled the fire and mused the day behind us with a Merlot in hand – priorities sorted.
Repeated awakening by the rustling of synthetic sleeping gear, meant none of us were well rested. Deciding to cut our losses and make an early break for back to civilisation we rose around 6am. Boiling water for a morning brew, became a hot tub for our blood thirsty companions, the coffee infused with midges provided a nutritious breakfast. We bog-trotted through desolate glens eventually reaching Loch a B'healaich, at this point Pete was hanging back. I turned to see him revisiting his breakfast, sick from exhaustion, a low point we had never sunk to back home in the Lakes. With no bars on our phones and no plan B we had to battle on. Reaching the high point of Bealach an Sgàrine meant it was all downhill now. With spirits raised, some of the finest singletrack I have ridden, ever, traversed Tolkienesque valleys back to the coast. Words fail to do this descent justice – go find out for yourself.
Even for someone blessed with a backyard as spectacular as the Lake District Torridon had delivered. The landscape was so expansive, and the peaks more widely spaced, even though the altitude is on par. But because you drop down to sea-level with every descent, the grandeur is boosted considerably. Torridon's sandstone inspires confidence and all-weather grip, whereas the slate of the Lakes is slick and treacherous. There are also huge slabs of rounded rock, which are both spectacular to look at and inspiring to ride on. And the epidemic of stone pitching that plagues the popular paths of the Lake District is nowhere to be seen in the remote Torridon hills. People were few and far between, and those we did meet were much friendlier. The stifling undercurrent of conflict often found in England and Wales was nowhere to be seen. Is Torridon's hype justified? Yes, no doubt about it. | {
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"To identify traffic safety problems, foster research that seeks solutions, and disseminate information and educational materials."
607 14th Street, NW, Suite 201, Washington, DC, 20005
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety
Advocates encourages the adoption of federal and state laws, policies and programs that save lives and reduce injuries. By joining its resources with others, Advocates helps build coalitions to increase participation of a wide array of groups in public policy initiatives which advance highway and auto safety.
750 1st St. NE, Suite 901, Washington, DC, 20002
Auto Advocacy Site
Center for Auto Safety
The Center works on all aspects of automobile ownership and use ranging from pure economic issues such as anti-competitive overcharges in new vehicle prices, packed options, excessive tags, title and license fees to issues in safety defects, fuel efficiency, safety standards, secret warranties. Our mission is to improve the safety, efficiency, reliability and cost to the consumer of a vehicle. Beyond the consumer, our mission is to reduce motor vehicle deaths, injuries and crashes and the automobile's impact on the environment.
1825 Connecticut Ave, NW Suite 330, Washington, DC, 20009
Connecticut Commuter Rail Council
The Connecticut Commuter Rail Council is an independent board that acts as an advocate for commuters on railroad lines throughout the state, including the New Haven line, New Canaan, Danbury and Waterbury branches, Shore Line East, and the planned New Haven-Hartford-Springfield line.
Truck and Bus crash statistics summarized on a state level containing Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data and crash data reported by the states.
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE , Washington, DC, 20590
Institute for Transportation & Develoment Policy
ITDP aims to deliver a higher standard of living and quality of life for citizens of cities around the world. Through our transportation projects, we work to reduce human impact on natural resources and ecosystems, and to ensure that we develop in a way that benefits us all, both today and in the future.
9 East 19th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY, 10003
NHTSA was established by the Highway Safety Act of 1970 and is dedicated to achieving the highest standards of excellence in motor vehicle and highway safety. It works daily to help prevent crashes and their attendant costs, both human and financial.
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, West Building, Washington, DC, 20590
The mission of the NICB is to lead a united effort of insurers, law enforcement agencies and representatives of the public to prevent and combat insurance fraud and crime through data analytics, investigations, training, legislative advocacy and public awareness.
1111 E Touhy Ave, Suite 400 , Des Plaines, IL, 60018
National Motorists Association
We are not unlike you or most other people; we want to drive what we want to drive, go where we want to go and in the process not be unwitting cannon fodder for self-serving government programs, over-bearing police departments or greedy courts.
We have come to understand that we must join together to fight for our rights and protect our freedoms. The National Motorists Association is our chosen vehicle for this journey.
402 W. 2nd St., Waunakee, WI, 53597
Straphangers Campaign
The campaign was founded in 1979 by the New York Public Interest Research Group at a critical time for New York City transit: By the late 1970s, the city's subways had become unreliable and decrepit. Graffiti covered every car and station. Transit fires and derailments hit record levels. Crime steadily worsened. Ridership plummeted to the lowest level in 80 years. Businesses cited poor transit as a leading reason for moving out of New York. The system had become a symbol of the decline of the city itself.
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Catholics and Orthodox in Dialogue
Kasper, Walter Cardinal, ed., Newman Press, 2005. ISBN: 978-0-8091-4334-4
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Mennonite Church Canada joins Canadian Council of Churches
An official application for membership in the Canadian Council of Churches from the Mennonite Church Canada has been enthusiastically received and unanimously approved by the other member churches of the CCC. This brings the membership of the Canadian Council of Churches up to twenty traditions, including Anglican, Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern and Oriental Orthodox
Posted: July 28, 2005 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=151
Categories: News • In this article: Canadian Council of Churches, Mennonite Church Canada Transmis : 28 juillet 2005 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=151
Catégorie : News • Dans cet article : Canadian Council of Churches, Mennonite Church Canada
Canadian Churches' Racial Justice Week — March 19 to 26, 2006
The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is March 21, the anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960.
Posted: February 22, 2006 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=211
Categories: Resources • In this article: 2006, Canadian Council of Churches, Canadian Ecumenical Anti-Racism Network, education, justice, racism Transmis : 22 février 2006 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=211
Catégorie : Resources • Dans cet article : 2006, Canadian Council of Churches, Canadian Ecumenical Anti-Racism Network, education, justice, racism
Dirigeants d'églises canadiens ont fait appel au premier ministre en le VIH/SIDA
Monsieur le Premier ministre,
En tant que dirigeants nationaux d'Églises canadiennes et membres du Conseil canadien des Églises, nous sommes extrêmement préoccupés par l'impact humain de la pandémie du SIDA. Plus de 40 millions de personnes sont actuellement infectées par le VIH, tandis que l'an dernier, le SIDA faisait plus de 3 millions de victimes. Quinze millions d'enfants sont orphelins à cause du SIDA. Voilà des statistiques qui illustrent de façon éloquente le coût humain de ce fléau.
Notre première réaction à la gravité de cette tragédie en est une de compassion : nous souffrons avec ceux qui souffrent et nous travaillons à alléger leurs souffrances. Nous appuyons les nombreux membres de nos Églises qui se dévouent pour les personnes vivant avec le VIH et le SIDA.
Posted: May 8, 2006 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=8676
Categories: Communiqué • In this article: Canada, Canadian Council of Churches, HIV/AIDS, Stephen Harper Transmis : 8 mai 2006 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=8676
Catégorie : Communiqué • Dans cet article : Canada, Canadian Council of Churches, HIV/AIDS, Stephen Harper
Canadian Church leaders letter to Prime Minister on HIV/AIDS
Dear Prime Minister Harper:
As national leaders of Canadian Churches and members of the Canadian Council of Churches, we are extremely concerned about the human impact of the global AIDS pandemic. Currently more than 40 million people are infected with HIV. Last year, over 3 million people died as a result of AIDS. There are 15 million child orphans because of AIDS. These statistics speak powerfully to the human cost.
Our first response to the depth of this tragedy is compassion. We suffer with those who suffer, and work to ease that suffering. We support the many members of our Churches who dedicate themselves to caring for persons living with HIV and AIDS.
Church leaders appeal to Harper to launch initiatives on HIV/AIDS
May 8, 2006 — Twenty Canadian church leaders, representing the member churches of the Canadian Council of Churches, have appealed to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to promptly announce six new initiatives in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The sweeping measures the church leaders want include cancellation of debts owed by countries with HIV/AIDS rates above
Posted: May 15, 2006 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=231
Categories: News • In this article: 2006, Canadian Council of Churches, church leaders, HIV/AIDS, statements, Stephen Harper Transmis : 15 mai 2006 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=231
Catégorie : News • Dans cet article : 2006, Canadian Council of Churches, church leaders, HIV/AIDS, statements, Stephen Harper
nidus festival 2006: feel the current
Nidus is a festival for people from all streams of Christian faith with music, arts, keynotes, worship, dialogue, drama & dance. Several thousand youth, young adults, families and others will gather in Kitchener, Ontario from August 4th to 6th. It will be a unique opportunity for people to come together to express faith, celebrate through
Categories: Conferences • In this article: 2006, Canadian Council of Churches, Christian unity, events, justice, worship, youth Transmis : 17 mai 2006 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=233
Catégorie : Conferences • Dans cet article : 2006, Canadian Council of Churches, Christian unity, events, justice, worship, youth
From chains to freedom: 2007 Week for Racial Justice
Sunday, March 25th 2007 marks the 200th anniversary of the ending of the slave trade in the British Empire. The abolition law brought to an official end the forced transportation of millions of Africans from their homeland, across the Middle Passage, to the Americas. Canada was part of the British Empire and participated in the practice of slavery. Slavery's impact continues at the same time as modern forms of slavery are appearing. The struggle is far from over. Enslaved Africans and people of faith led the movement to abolish the slave trade. But the modern form of racism which developed to justify the enslavement of Africans remains a reality in too many of our churches and societies. People of faith need to commit anew to addressing the racism in our churches, our country and our world. The Canadian Ecumenical Anti Racism Network (CEARN) invites churches to commemorate this anniversary by participating in the ongoing journey we must take towards healing, reconciliation and the transformation of our relationships.
Posted: March 1, 2007 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=297
Categories: Resources • In this article: Canadian Council of Churches, Canadian Ecumenical Anti-Racism Network, racism Transmis : 1 mars 2007 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=297
Catégorie : Resources • Dans cet article : Canadian Council of Churches, Canadian Ecumenical Anti-Racism Network, racism
Urgent! Join the Search!
The CCC need back copies of Week of Prayer for Christian Unity services, and stories about celebrations before 1948. Please search your shelves, cupboards, attics, offices, for existing copies you might have. With your help, we can put together a complete collection. We will be producing an anthology of prayer services to help celebrate the centenary of the Octave of Christian Unity in 2008.
Posted: August 21, 2007 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=339
Categories: News • In this article: Canada, Canadian Council of Churches, WPCU Transmis : 21 aoüt 2007 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=339
Catégorie : News • Dans cet article : Canada, Canadian Council of Churches, WPCU
Celebrate Medicare Week coming soon
The Ecumenical Health Care Network of the Canadian Council of Churches invites every congregation and community across the country to join in a time of celebration and renewal of Canada's commitment to ensuring the preservation and strengthening of its universal public health care system, better known as Medicare. To this end, we have named the week of November 18th "Celebrate Medicare Week."
In the past, Canada's churches have played an invaluable role in defending access to care based on need not on ability to pay, and as a living statement of how we care for one another in Canadian society. In the words of a former vice-president of the Canadian Council of Churches, Karen MacKay-Llewellyn, "Defending public health care in a system that promises accessibility to all Canadians at the same level of quality, is a matter at the heart of our Christian confession, and this must rest at the heart of our public witness."
Posted: October 31, 2007 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=361
Categories: News • In this article: Canada, Canadian Council of Churches, Ecumenical Health Care Network, health care, justice Transmis : 31 octobre 2007 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=361
Catégorie : News • Dans cet article : Canada, Canadian Council of Churches, Ecumenical Health Care Network, health care, justice
Liturgies for Christian Unity: The First Hundred Years, 1908-2008
Earlier this year, Canadian Council of Churches announced their latest publication, an anthology of prayers for Christian unity. Featuring a foreword by retired Anglican Archbishop Michael G. Peers, Liturgies for Christian Unity is an anthology of the very best approaches to celebrating common religious ground. Containing prayers and texts from the past 100 years of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, it offers a wide range of ideas for liturgies of all forms and sizes. Its inclusiveness and its usefulness make it a required resource for parishes, retreat centres, chaplains, and educators in all manner of situations.
This resource is the fruit of rich editorial work by the Faith and Witness Commission of the Canadian Council of Churches, under the guidance and leadership of Rev. Judee Archer-Greene, Rev. Richard Vandervaart and Dr. Mary Marrocco.
ISBN-13: 978-2-89507-958-3 • Price: $27.95 • Paperback, 200 pp., 8.5 x 11
Posted: June 24, 2008 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=472
Categories: News • In this article: books, Canada, Canadian Council of Churches, Christian unity, prayer, WPCU Transmis : 24 juin 2008 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=472
Catégorie : News • Dans cet article : books, Canada, Canadian Council of Churches, Christian unity, prayer, WPCU
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THUMBS UP: The Diocese of New Ulm broke ground on Friday at the site of its new diocesan Pastoral Center. The new Pastoral Center will be a year in the building, and will replace the current pastoral center, built in 1960 as a bishop's residence office building. The new Pastoral Center will have plenty of room for a new chapel, 28 offices, four conference rooms, and all the amenities needed to house the 20 diocesan offices and its employees.
Budgeted at $7.5 million, the new center will cost not much more than renovating and repairing the current center.
With the construction set to begin as soon as weather permits, the Pastoral Center brings to three the number of multi-million dollar building projects going on within a few blocks of each other up on the hill. The Pastoral Center is only a block or two away from the Martin Luther College Early Childhood Center, a $4 million building project with another $1 million raised for early childhood education financial aid. Not far away, the New Ulm Medical Center has started work on its clinic expansion, a $5.3 million project financed entirely by Allina Health.
With two or three good-sized apartment projects set for this year, it is a big expansion year for the city.
We look forward to next year, when these projects are expected to be completed.
SIDEWAYS THUMB: Gov. Mark Dayton is opposed to raising the tax on a gallon of gas to finance much-needed road projects in Minnesota. Senate Democrats are countering with a tax of 5.5 percent on the sale of fuel at the wholesale level, a proposal that would lower the 28.5 cents-per-gallon tax, but would still raise an extra $200 million.
Make no mistake. This tax will get passed on to the consumers at the pump. We'd guess the governor won't like this idea either. He thinks Minnesotans won't accept another gas tax increase.
We think Minnesotans are smart enough, however, to know that the good roads they want come at a price, and that price is paid with taxes. Dayton should give this a chance.
THUMBS UP: Oak Hills Nursing Home received a fiv-star, or top overall rating, in U.S. News & World Report's 5th annual Best Nursing Homes ratings.
Like all nursing homes in Minnesota, Oak Hills is working on a limited budget – limited by the state's policy of allowing nursing homes to charge is residents no more than the state Medicaid reimbursement rate. And the state keeps that rate low.
Nonetheless, Oak Hills has done an admirable job of creating a more livable atmosphere and keeping the care of the residents at a high level.
Leigslators are now considering a bill to allow nursing homes, group homes and other long-term care facilities money to provide pay increases to their workers who have suffered through several years of pay freezes.
Sen. Gary Dahms and Rep. Paul Torkelson said they support the legislation, which would provide money for the raises without making nursing homes dig into other funds to make up the difference. We think it's a bill that should pass. | {
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Malevich, Kasimir
Timeline: Pure Abstraction
Malevich, Kasimir (1878-1935). Russian painter and designer, with Mondrian the most important pioneer of geometric abstract art.
Born near Kiev; trained at Kiev School of Art and Moscow Academy of Fine Arts; 1913 began creating abstract geometric patterns in style he called suprematism; taught painting in Moscow and Leningrad 1919-21; published book, The Nonobjective World (1926), on his theory; first to exhibit abstract geometric paintings; strove to produce pure, cerebral compositions; famous painting White on White (1918) carries suprematist theories to absolute conclusion; Soviet politics turned against modern art, and he died in poverty and oblivion.
He began working in an unexceptional Post-Impressionist manner, but by 1912 he was painting peasant subjects in a massive `tubular' style similar to that of Léger as well as pictures combining the fragmentation of form of Cubism with the multiplication of the image of Futurism ( The Knife Grinder , Yale Univ. Art Gallery, 1912). Malevich, however, was fired with the desire `to free art from the burden of the object' and launched the Suprematist movement, which brought abstract art to a geometric simplicity more radical than anything previously seen. He claimed that he made a picture `consisting of nothing more than a black square on a white field' as early as 1913, but Suprematist paintings were first made public in Moscow in 1915 and there is often difficulty in dating his work. (There is often difficulty also in knowing which way up his paintings should be hung, photographs of early exhibitions sometimes providing conflicting evidence.)
Suprematist Compositions
Malevich moved away from absolute austerity, tilting rectangles from the vertical, adding more colors and introducing a suggestion of the third dimension and even a degree of painterly handling, but around 1918 he returned to his purest ideals with a series of White on White paintings. After this he seems to have realized he could go no further along this road and virtually gave up abstract painting, turning more to teaching, writing, and making three-dimensional models that were important in the growth of Constructivism. In 1919 he started teaching at the art school at Vitebsk, where he exerted a profound influence on Lissitzky, and in 1922 he moved to Leningrad, where he lived for the rest of his life. He visited Warsaw and Berlin in 1927, accompanying an exhibition of his works and visited the Bauhaus. In the late 1920s he returned to figurative painting, but was out of favor with a political system that now demanded Socialist Realism from its artists and he died in neglect. However, his influence on abstract art, in the west as well as Russia, was enormous. The best collection of his work is in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Reaper on Red Background
1912-13; Oil on canvas, 115 x 69 cm (45 1/4 x 27 1/8 in); Fine Arts Museum, Gorki
An Englishman in Moscow
1914; Oil on canvas, 88 x 57 cm (34 5/8 x 22 1/2 in); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Soldier of the First Division
1914; Oil and collage on canvas, 53.6 x 44.8 cm (21 1/8 x 17 5/8 in); The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1914; Oil on canvas, 125 x 65 cm (49 1/4 x 25 5/8 in); State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Complex Presentiment: Half-Figure in a Yellow Shirt
1928-32; Oil on canvas, 99 x 79 cm (39 x 31 1/8 in); State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
1932-34; Oil on canvas, 79 x 65 cm (31 1/8 x 25 5/8 in); Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris
1933; Oil on canvas, 73 x 66 cm (28 3/4 x 26 in); State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg | {
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Cannabis, Money and Common sense
By: Reynold Mason
The marijuana crisis in the United States
By Reynold N. Mason JD
At long last, the burning issue of marijuana has been placed on the front burner of American politics. The two brave lawmakers stirring the political pot are Representatives Ron Paul and Barney Frank. They have introduced HR 2306, a bill aimed at decriminalizing the distribution and sale of marijuana. No doubt the task of garnering the votes required to pass this bill is gargantuan, and at this juncture, nearly impossible. But it is a commonsense new approach to an old problem now approaching crisis proportions.
Growing opposition to punitive marijuana policies
Increasing numbers of people––physicians, lawyers, judges, police, journalists, scientists, public health officials, teachers, religious leaders, social workers, drug users and drug addicts––now openly criticize the more extreme, punitive, and criminalized forms of drug prohibition. These critics, from across the political spectrum, have pointed out that punitive drug policies are expensive, ineffective at reducing drug abuse, take scarce resources away from other public health and policing activities, and are often racially and ethnically discriminatory.
U.S. drug laws mandate long prison sentences for repeated possession, use, and small-scale distribution of Marijuana. The Rockefeller drug laws have, over the decades, criminalized even users of small amounts of Marijuana. Many U.S. drug laws explicitly remove sentencing discretion from judges and do not allow for probation or parole. In the 1980s, the Reagan and Bush administrations substantially increased criminal penalties for drug possession and launched an expensive "War on Drugs." There are nearly half a million men and women in prison for violating its drug laws. Most are poor people of color who are imprisoned for possessing an illicit drug or "intending" to sell small amounts of it. The mandatory federal penalty for possessing 5 grams of crack cocaine, for a first offense, is 5 years in prison with no parole.
The most glaring weakness and the greatest misuse of tax dollars is plethora of marijuana laws across the US. Cannabis grows wild throughout the world, and is commercially cultivated in remote areas, in backyard gardens, and in technologically sophisticated indoor growing operations. Just as it was impossible for prohibitionists to prevent alcohol from being produced and used in the U.S. in the 1920s, so too, it is now impossible to prevent cannabis from being produced and widely used by those who desire its perceived benefits. Overwhelmed law enforcement lack the resources to arrest young people for minor marijuana infractions. And this inability to enforce the law breeds disrespect for law among the young who come to think they can violate the law with impunity. As a result the enormous and unstoppable use and production of marijuana has created a crisis of legitimacy for law enforcement.
Politicians, policy makers, police officials, journalists, and ordinary tourists from many countries have seen that decriminalizing cannabis use and regulating cannabis sales have substantial advantages and benefits––especially when compared with the disadvantages and costs of punitive U.S. drug policies. Since the 1980's, and particularly since the Rockefeller drug laws in New York, Americans have come to realize that the criminalization of marijuana is harsh, expensive and ineffective. There have been movements afoot to decriminalize and ultimately legitimize the use of small quantities of the drug over the years. But the opposition has been steadfast. Marijuana is still classified as a banned substance by the FDA. All indications are that this likely will remain the case. Chairman Lamar Smith of the House Judiciary Committee says he has no intention of bringing the proposed new law to the floor for discussion. But there are chinks appearing in the armor of the marijuana prohibition movement
Lessons from Prohibition
There is an irony is the Chairman's position. The anti alcohol movement too had its most staunch backer and supporter in a man who, in the 1920's, occupied the same chairmanship now held by Rep. Smith. His name was Andrew Volstead. He was the sponsor of the bill named for him that eventually led to prohibition… The Volstead Act. He, along with his supporters, devoted themselves to banning alcohol and convincing the American public that it was dangerous in any form; that alcohol destroyed the moral character and physical and mental health of those who imbibed. They regarded booze in any form as a menace in much the same way that proponents of criminalization of marijuana do today…an inherently dangerous substance, the use of which leads inexorably to abuse of harder drugs such as cocaine and other hallucinogens. Drug use is blamed for evils of all sorts, from unemployment to poverty and crime to violence. Reduce drug use they say, and you reduce and banish the scourge of many of our social ills. They view the ban on drugs as a panacea.
But those who support the ban on marijuana are following the script of their predecessors in the prohibition movement. If the history of the prohibition movement taught us anything, it is that that movement to ban and criminalize the use of marijuana is doomed. It will not lead to prosperity and, will not increase law and order. Marijuana laws are openly and notoriously violated today and Marijuana is readily available on the streets and on college campuses. Young people can purchase marijuana more readily than they can a six pack. Sellers of illegal drugs to not check ID.
Banning marijuana does not stop people from obtaining and using it. Where there is a demand there will always be a supplier. People in the marijuana trade are small scale entrepreneurs. Busting the drug cartels will not have a lasting effect and, would not reduce the supply for long. Marijuana production is not centralized; the weed is grown in little family plots and the small producers would just move in to fill the void created by the big busts. After repeal of prohibition people did not suddenly switch from beer to hard liquor. And there is no basis to believe that recreational uses of marijuana will switch to the use of cocaine or other hard drugs, if its sale and use is decriminalized.
Dollars and common sense
Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug in the world. According to a UN study 162 million people use marijuana annually, for religious, recreational, medicinal or spiritual purposes. There is no scientific agreement about any long term ill effects of marijuana use. Fourteen states have legalized the medicinal and recreational use of marijuana and have de-criminalized possession of small amounts of the drug. This puts state laws in conflict with federal law. The FDA now finds itself in the odd position of conducting raids on marijuana dispensaries in Colorado and California that are perfectly legal under the laws of these states.
The states as well as the federal government expend billions on marijuana enforcement. In 2003 there were 755,000 marijuana arrests in the U.S. These numbers are increasing and with them the costs of enforcement are skyrocketing. In 1973 the FDA had 2800 employees and an annual budget of $65 million. In 2009 the budget had grown to $2.6 billion and the number of employees to 11,000. NORMAL (National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws) estimates that New York spent $3 billion, New Jersey and Ohio $1billion each, Texas California and Florida about $2 billion each to enforce marijuana laws. While billions are being spent, drug cartels are raking in 70 % of their profits from sales of marijuana in U.S. sales alone. One study put the cost at $ 10, 200 for every marijuana smoker arrested.
Wrong on all levels
The ban breeds, rather than prevents criminal activity. It encourages teenagers to become criminal entrepreneurs in the illegal drug trade. While arrests increase there is no corresponding decrease in marijuana use of its availability. The ban on marijuana is simply wrong on all levels. College students busted for smoking a joint are criminalized and marked for life. And it is no surprise that blacks suffer the slings of outrageous and biased enforcement more than any other group. Blacks make up 1.9 % of marijuana users but account for 23 % of the arrests. In places like South Dakota, the disparity is even more pronounced. Blacks and Indians are arrested at a 1:9 ratio as against whites. And one of every four arrests is of young people under the age of 18. The current policy does not produce the intended results. Yet the more it fails the more money we throw at the problem.
California NORML estimates that a legally regulated market for marijuana could yield the state at least $1.2 billion in tax revenues and reduced enforcement costs. A basic $50/ounce excise tax (roughly $1/joint) would yield about $770 - 900 million per year plus another $240-360 million in sales taxes. In addition, the state would save over $200 million in enforcement costs for arrests, prosecutions and prison. Additional benefits would accrue from increased employment and spinoff industries. Total retail sales of marijuana could be on the order of $3-$5 billion, with total economic impact of $12-$18 billion including spinoff industries such as coffeehouses, tourism, plus industrial hemp. http://www.canormal.org
The legalization of drug production and sales and the establishment of drug control along the lines of alcohol control is a reasonable and practical policy option. Therefore, it would mark a significant advance if the current U.S. debate on drug policy could be moved beyond the question of whether such a system of legalized drug control is possible. It Is. Colorado, California and fourteen of their sister states already have in place legalized and sensible systems of decriminalizing the distribution and use of limited quantities of marijuana. And governor Christie of New Jersey this week implemented a scheme to license a limited number of dispensaries where marijuana can be legally purchased. The New Jersey plan was shelved to make certain that it did not run afoul of federal law. The proposal by Ron Paul and Barney Frank provides an opportunity for rational and non- moralistic debate on a workable system of at least partially legalized marijuana production and sales.
In the years before constitutional prohibition in the United States, there had been little systematic control of the alcohol industry. In 1933 a sprawling illegal industry for producing and distributing alcoholic beverages was in place, composed of uncountable numbers of small independent distributors and producers, and some larger ones. These sold whatever they wanted to whomever they chose and paid no taxes. Alcohol control put an end to nearly all of the lawlessness. Liquor stores are licensed and the time place and manner of every aspect of their operation is tightly regulated. And because towns, cities, counties, states and countries vary enormously, liquor policies are shaped according to local environments. There are still cities in Georgia and a number of other states that are referred to as "dry" because no alcohol sales are permitted. Consumers who desire to purchase the product must purchase it out of town.
In a June 29 memorandum, the Justice Department said it was primarily concerned with large money-making operations that also supplied the black market. Indicating that states like New Jersey, Colorado and California will be free to proceed to decriminalize marijuana. Let's hope the Feds follow suit, and soon. A good start would be to give serious consideration to HR 2306, now gathering dust on the table.
Author: Reynold Mason
Reynold N. Mason teaches law courses at Zenover Educational Institute In Atlanta, Georgia. He has been a judge on New York City Civil Court and, a Justice on New York State Supreme Court. Mason has been an adjunct professor of law at Medgar Evers College and Monroe College in New York. He has authored several legal opinions published in New York Miscellaneous Reports and New York Official Reports as well as the New York Law Journal. He lives in Atlanta.
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Asia Argento – Scarlet Diva
Linda C. Ehrlich
Kieslowski, Krzysztof
What is the Cinema?: The 2017 Cannes Film Festival
Freedom to Offend: How New York Remade Movie Culture by Raymond J. Haberski, Jr
The Epic That Never Was
Todas las cartas ("All The Letters"): An Invitation
Throughout 2011 the world will have the chance to view filmed correspondences in an exhibition entitled Todas las cartas –opening first in Mexico City on 27 April at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco (UNAM), and then in Barcelona, opening on 4 October in the CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona), the site of the project's origin. (1) The inspiration for this expansive exhibition stemmed from the original videocartas exchanged between Víctor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami which were exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, and Melbourne, Australia between 2006 and 2008. (2)
This time the specific dyads of ¨paired¨ directors from a host of countries include: Kawase Naomi (Japan) and Isaki Lacuesta (Spain), Wang Bing (PRC) and Jaime Rosales (Spain), Jonas Mekas (U.S.) and José Luís Guerín (Spain), Albert Serra (Spain) and Lisandro Alonso (Argentina), and Fernando Eimbecke (Mexico) and So Yong Kim (U.S./Korea). In all cases the directors share certain characteristics (year of birth, approach towards filmmaking, etc.) but they are also from geographically distant worlds. All of the directors are experimenting with unclear boundaries between documentary and fiction. Previewing many of the videocartas last May in Barcelona, I found connecting threads between the disparate films: a consideration of the familiar and the distant, an homage to the history of the cinema, the constant awareness of death, a focus on shadows, humour, skin, memory, isolation, textures…
Like the Erice-Kiarostami correspondences, the new videocartas take the viewer on an inner journey which is at once whimsical, poetic, and demanding, and in which various temporal periods interact: the time of the filming, the period of contemplation before the response in the filmed dialogue, the time of viewing the short pieces, the meditative time afterwards, and so on. To wander through this exhibition promises to be an entrance into a world of intriguing visual links and overlays, and an exploration of the poetics of cinema through a series of short essays and poetic passages on screen.
Kawase Naomi—Isaki Lacuesta
The cartas exchanged between Isaki Lacuesta (b. 1975, Girona, Spain) and Naomi Kawase (b. 1969, Nara, Japan), explore aspects of fullness and emptiness in our lives. Naomi's tend to stress fullness punctuated by moments of emptiness. Isaki's, in contrast, are more restless, stressing emptiness punctuated by moments of connection. Both center on the human form, and both offer a self-reflexive, intimate tone as they explore what it means to get to know someone. Isaki and Naomi focus often on images of loved ones in a sensual, but non-exploitative, manner. In Isaki's first carta, for example, his camera offers us a long lingering on the face and body (draped in a sheet) of his sleeping partner Isa. As Carlos Losilla has pointed out, Kawase's cartas are about stability, while Isaki's are about being in transit.
In Isaki's first carta, we learn that the two filmmakers had only met once, six months ago (in Las Palmas in Spring 2008), and had spoken for only five minutes at that time. Perhaps to point to this sense of transience, Isaki first offers us a "road movie"– a perambulation through Australia, China, South America, Russia/Poland–but for an uncertain reason. ("We were running away, I won't tell you what from.") Narrative lines, very subtle, are connected throughout, such as the one about the man who told them that half of his house is in Russia, the other half in Poland. When people ask him where he lives, he says: "In Poland, it's warmer!" Later this same line appears in reference to Isaki's own place in Girona ("The only place I've never filmed").
Naomi Kawase´s first videocarta is a powerful homage to light. While their initial correspondences are rather distinct from one another (reflecting perhaps the way they hardly knew each other), by the fifth one an unexpected overlap of images occurs. These two directors are both from cities known for their deep ties to medieval religious traditions and an illustrious past: Girona (Isaki) and Nara (Kawase).
Isaki's idea was to write first from what is near, but he cautions that there must always be a distance in getting to know one another. The third carta, this time by Isaki, is set in the rather archaic Natural History museum Darder de Banyoles, and it shows a desiccated view of the world. While I viewed it as a rupture, Isaki told me it was not intended so, but rather as a change of tone. Comparing the videocartas to music, he stated that this third one constitutes a new movement.
Isaki's sublime postscript to the set of correspondences, filmed in Mali during the location scouting for his new film Los pasos dobles, shows gleeful children running around chasing flying ants which have appeared after the rain. This short scene evokes both the Keystone Cops and Françios Truffaut. (In a somewhat unnecessary coda, Isaki also gives a nod to Spain's "Mèliés", Segundo de Chomón, and his film of so-called ¨Japanese acrobats.¨)
José Luis Guerín—Jonas Mekas
The filmed correspondence between Jonas Mekas (b. 1922, Lithuania) and Guerín (b. 1960, Barcelona) is full of a caring regard, and a sense of intimacy with earlier periods of the cinema. Lithuanian-born Mekas emigrated to the U.S. after having been forced to spend eight months in a Nazi work camp. One of the principal figures of the "New American Cinema," he went on to write for such journals as Film Culture and Village Voice. Jonas Mekas's videocartas offer an elegiac, and surprisingly youthful, look at his decades of involvement with the moving image.
In his second videocarta, Guerín makes a cinematic pilgrimage in a wintry February to the site of Thoreau's Walden. Guerín's videocartas also feature charming tributes to Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, the Lumières, Nanook of the North (1922), Blow-Up (1966), Jacques Demy musicals… Mekas's replies offer ¨glimpses of my life¨ replete with cats, exuberant dancing, outtakes, and images caught between frames. Guerín's camera is a flaneur, recording images of travel. Mekas´s retrospective glances provide us with resonant moments, such as the one where he prepares a gallant gift of a silk scarf and tubes of paint to an (unseen) ¨beautiful lady¨ (later echoed by an older woman in the subway waving her scarf to the camera).
I was privileged to see Guerín's third carta just as it arrived in the CCCB, and suffice it to say that, for me, it served as the central focus of the entire exhibition. What begins as a simple tribute to a young cinephile becomes a meditation on the unexpected vicissitudes of life. It is expertly edited and unforgettable. This dignified homage evokes a powerful response, even upon repeated viewings. Like Alfred Hitchcock in Vertigo (1958), Guerín gives away the ending –the fate of the lovely young woman who captures you with her gaze– part of the way through.
Jaime Rosales—Wang Bing
The correspondence between Jaime Rosales (b. 1970, Barcelona) and Wang Bing (b. 1975, Shaanxi, PRC) is not the usual exchange of cartas but rather two short tales with ethnographic echoes. In ¨T-4 Barajas Puerta J-50,¨ Rosales´s camera, equipped with a telephoto lens, captures faces in long moments of waiting. This depiction of an ordinary day in the sterile atmosphere of a major international airport reawakens the viewer to subtleties in that site of transition and transport. A woman puts on mascara carefully, almost ritualistically, and people move in and out of focus. The cavernous, echoing airport terminal is contrasted with the small dramas taking place, almost unnoticed, except for the camera's attention and the low buzz of voices.
Wang Bing's parallel correspondence of 2009, ¨Xi Yang Tang¨ ("Happy Valley"), paints another haunting picture, this time in a remote Chinese village whose residents make their living through raising potatoes and livestock. Particularly poignant is a portrait of a parentless family of three small children, where the oldest takes care of her two younger siblings with a mixture of affection, strictness, and neglect. Here too, time stands still but—in contrast to the scenes in the Barajas Airport terminal—we sense that the people in this village are not going anywhere. What had seemed at first a quaint view of a mountain village becomes a shocking landscape reminiscent of Luis Buñuel´s Las Hurdes-Tierra sin pan (Land Without Bread, 1932) .
A recent development in this evolving exhibition is that there will be a new videocarta by Jaime Rosales. The Spanish director was so inspired by Wang Bing´s "Happy Valley" that he has decided to do a remake of it (in Super 8) in a very poor section of Madrid, to show that there are people who live in great poverty in the midst of a major Spanish metropolis.
I will mention two sets of videocartas which I was not able to preview:
Albert Serra—Lisandro Alonso
The videocartas between Catalan director Albert Serra (b. 1975, Banyoles, Spain) and Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso (b. 1975, Buenos Aires) feature a unique configuration. Serra—known for his imaginative adaptations of Don Quixote (Honor de cavallería, 2006) and of the story of the three kings of the New Testament (El cant del ocells, 2008) –produced a 3-hour videocarta for this exhibition (!). Lisandro Alonso, the director of such films as Los muertos (2004), Fantasma (2006) and Liverpool (2008), replied with a filmed response which is, appropriately, one minute long.
Fernando Eimbcke—So Yong Kim
The Mexican and U.S./Korean entries were coordinated by the Mexican partners of the exhibition. Fernando Eimbcke (b. Mexico City, 1970) and So Yong Kim (b. Pusan, South Korea, 1968) have both had strong debuts as film directors with (respectively) Temporada de patos (Duck Season, 2004) and In Between Days (2006). Eimbcke´s second feature Lake Tahoe (2008) won two major prizes at the Berlinale of that year. Kim´s second feature Treeless Mountain (2008) received strong support from Sundance and Cannes. This dyad continues the main pattern in Todas las cartas of pairing one Spanish-speaking director with a director from another culture.
Concluding Notes
Film scholar Ángel Quintana has referred to the videocartas as ¨esbozos del trabajo¨–a kind of working sketch, a diary-like chronicle. This does not mean that they should be taken lightly; rather, they are serious, and often haunting, short films that avoid the facile touristic gaze. As Isaki noted: "the quality and intensity of a work do not depend on the piece's duration." They call to mind a statement by Fernand Leger, in his ¨A New Realism: The Object,¨ that film should not forget the ¨spectacular power of the fragment.¨ Particularly intriguing is how one carta opens the door for the next. With this in mind, it is best to view the exhibition as a series marked by a delicate kind of linkage that begins with a desire to correspond. As curator Jordi Balló has pointed out, the videocartas are intimate but not private. They are directed toward the other filmmaker, the public, and the originating director as well. An element of surprise enters into the experience—for the director upon receiving the new videocarta, and for the spectator, moving from one part of the exhibition to another. These filmed correspondences between directors whose lives and work share a certain resonance, inspire us to look for correspondences within our own life and correspondences with others.
Are these videocartas an exploration of a new way to be a director in a new millennium, or are they a reexamination of the roots of the cinema, or both? Certainly the available channels for viewing films have expanded, and Todas las cartas is one large step in that direction.
With thanks to Anna Escoda, Exhibitions Department, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.
Projections of the videocartas alone (without an exhibition) will take place in Madrid in La Casa Encendida simultaneously with the Barcelona exhibition. A catalogue, including DVDs of the videocartas, will appear in October, in time for the exhibition opening in Barcelona.
For additional information on the Erice-Kiarostami Correspondencia exhibition, see Alberto Elena, ¨Dream of Light: Erice, Kiarostami and the History of the Cinema,¨ in Studies in Hispanic Cinemas 6:2 (2009): 99-110, and Ehrlich "Letters to the World: Erice-Kiarostami Correspondences" in Senses Of Cinema 41 (Oct.–Dec. 2006, online, www.sensesofcinema.com).
A Tribute to Maria Schneider
Senses of Cinema-Going: Brief Reports on Going to the Movies Around the World
Linda C. Ehrlich, associate professor at Case Western Reserve University, has published articles in Film Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Literature/Film Quarterly, Film Criticism and Cinema Scope, among others. She has co-edited (with David Desser) Cinematic Landscapes (University of Texas Press). Her second book, An Open Window: The Cinema of Víctor Erice, appeared in the Scarecrow Press Filmmakers' Series in 2000 (with an expanded paperback edition in 2007). Her audio commentary on The Spirit of the Beehive (El Espíritu de la colmena) appears on the Criterion DVD of the film.
Chris Marker: Film as Geopolitical Enlightenment
Nick Shimmin
Hitchcock's Aventure Malgache (or the True Story of DZ 91)
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Melbourne Victory's Birkan Kirdar becomes club's youngest ever debutant at 16 years and 70 days
BABY-FACED Birkan Kirdar may have been stunned by his late Asian Champions League cameo call-up, but he wasn't scared.
David Davutovic
Herald SunApril 19, 201811:00pm
Melbourne Victory youngster Birkan Kirdar.Source:Herald Sun
The youth team star was promoted to the Victory bench for the first time with a host of stars rested for Sunday's elimination against Adelaide United.
Sirdar, an attacking midfielder, thought he would be an unused sub, before getting the heads up that he would come on, becoming Victory's youngest ever debutant at 16 years and 70 days.
MATCH: Victory score ACL consolation win
HULK: Victory tormentor resigned to sitting out Cup
The year 11 student was unfazed, flying in for tackles and duelling at one stage with Brazilian ace Hulk, who's twice his age and almost appeared twice his size.
"Nah, I'm not scared. I wanted to get in there. I'm not afraid, I just want to get out there and do my thing and (the rest takes care) of itself,'' Kirdar said.
"That boosted my confidence a lot. Pretty big from NPL level to an ACL game playing against Hulk. It's a good experience though, very good.
"Not really (he did not expect to come on) to be honest, until the 70th minute. They told me that I might come on in the 85th minute.
"I felt good coming on, getting out there with the older boys, good experience.
"The ground was a bit wet, so I was slipping a bit. But it was good."
Victory coach Kevin Muscat said Kirdar's debut sent a message to the entire youth set up.
"I've been true to what I've been saying — and I didn't know about the (youngest) record so I don't gain any motivation whatsoever from that — you get opportunities and chances if you earn it,'' Muscat said.
"Young Birkan's come in with us when he was 15 and trained with the first team on a few occasions and gradually been joining first team. He's gone away and plays regularly for the youth team, he's been excelling.
"Based on the circumstances I thought it was a nice little reward for him to get him on, but it's more for his efforts over a period of time and doing the right thing and it sends the right message to the rest of the youth team and the rest of the club — you get your head down, work hard and excel, you get rewarded."
Originally published asKirdar takes debut in his stride
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FA Cup winner joins Victory | {
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Pink Lemonade: Great Active Shoe for the Woman on the Go!
Great Active Shoe for the Woman on the Go!
It is my pleasure to present my review of the Draft shoe from KURU Footwear. I had never heard of KURU and was excited when they contacted me to provide a review. I am totally a comfy shoe gal. I have picky feet and most shoes are not comfortable for me. Like most women, I will wear shoes for a night out to look stylish, but most days, I just want to be comfortable and feel supported from the ground up. Of course this starts with a great shoe.
The KURU Draft is one such shoe. I LOVE IT! There are very few shoes that feel comfortable when you first put them on. There is often a "break-in" period. These shoes felt like they molded to my feet in about 2 minutes. I wore them for the rest of the day all around the house. I love them so much, I may need a pair for indoor slippers and a pair for outdoors.
In addition to being comfortable, it is quite stylish. My shoe is like the one pictured above. It's black with pink trim. It also comes in blue, a green/brown combo and orange. It is a slip on style with a small heal backing so your foot does not slip out.
Whether or not you ski, this shoe is great to envelope your feet in comfort from grocery shopping to running errands to simply walking around the house. Heck, maybe I'll need to take up skiing just to explore the "apres ski" effect.
Check out Kurufootwear.com for more information about the Draft shoe and all of there other great shoes for men and women. I also appreciate that Kuru is a very socially responsible company. They have a page dedicated to donating to charities chosen by customers. Check them out and let me know what you think. Hopefully, I'll even be able to offer a giveaway soon. Keep checking back for details. | {
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Q: handlebars.js Trying to pass an json array into a helper function and then itrerate it I am new to Handlebars.js and I have a json object, which includes a child array of more objects.
I have figured out how to access the data in the web page using the following syntax {{{V.0.D}}} V being the name of the child array, 0 being this iteration, and D being a particular property of the child array.
I am having trouble however passing the V array to a helper and figuring out how to iterate over this array so that I can return data from one of the child objects.
Here is my helper so far:
Handlebars.registerHelper('getRegion', function (descData) {
for (desc in descData) {
console.log('descData.D:' + desc.D);
}
return something;
});
Here is my caller:
{{getRegion V}}
I keep getting a desc.D is undefined error.
I don't think I need a block helper because I am not needing to list all of the child objects.
I am sure this is simple, but I just cannot figure out what I am missing. Thanks.
A: for in should be used to loop on enumerable properties of an object. Here is a reference from MDN.
Your helper should be modified as
Handlebars.registerHelper('getRegion', function (descData) {
for (index in descData) {
console.log('descData.D:' + descData[index].D);
}
return something;
});
Here is the helper using an array's forEach
Handlebars.registerHelper('getRegion', function (descData) {
var str = '';
descData.forEach(function(desc) {
console.log('descData.D:' + desc.D);
str += ' '+ desc.D;
});
return str ;
});
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TechCrunch Editor-at-large Josh Constine is leaving the Verizon-owned blog to become the latest in a tradition of journalist-VCs (VZ)
20:51 Business News
After a decade spent reporting on startups, TechCrunch Editor-at-large Josh Constine is leaving the publication to invest in startups at SignalFire, a VC firm with a focus on data.
The move deprives the Verizon-owned tech blog of one of its most recognizable names.
Constine's leap isn't without precedent: a long line of VC partners including Sequoia Capital's Mike Moritz and General Catalyst's Katherine Boyle began investing after previous stints as writers.
"I've written about thousands of startups but I've never funded one," Constine told Business Insider. "But because the fund isn't a huge bureaucratic firm — it's a tight knit team — there's really opportunities for me to learn from brilliant investors and operators who've been at this for years."
One of the longest-serving writers at tech blog TechCrunch is leaving the publication to become a venture capital investor, the latest to follow a now well-tread path from journalism into the lucrative world of startup investing.
TechCrunch Editor-at-Large Josh Constine, who announced his move in a tweet on Monday, is joining SignalFire, a quant-based VC firm that has backed companies including Uber, scooter startup Lime and and online shopping app Grabr. Constine will join Signal Fire as a principal investor and head of content.
Constine's departure means TechCrunch, which is owned by Verizon, will lose one of the most recognizable names on its masthead. His move comes at a particularly fraught time for digital media, as the coronavirus pandemic has cut into advertising revenue and forced many publications to layoff or furlough staff.
By moving to VC investing, Constine is following in the footsteps of several other TechCrunch writers, including founding editor Michael Arrington. But he's doing so at a time when funding for startups may dry up as VCs tighten their purse strings to get through the economic crisis.
"I think we're going to see an incredible boom of entrepreneurs taking this crisis as a call to arms, building things that people really need," Constine said, adding that past economic disruptions often spurred the birth of "some of the biggest, most iconic companies" to have been built.
Personal news: It's TC to VC for me! I'm leaving TechCrunch to join SignalFire as a principal investor & head of content. I'm also launching my newsletter where I'm writing now: https://t.co/F7gvssC4Ky A "toast", to the future! pic.twitter.com/XRhDxdS5NF
— joshconstine (@JoshConstine) April 27, 2020
Constine will start by helping portfolio companies refine their pitches based off his years of experience at TechCrunch, and says will be learning the ropes of investing along the way.
At TechCrunch, Constine said his focus was writing about startups pioneering new forms of social networking and visual communication. At SignalFire, he said he's hoping to continue betting on that industry, especially if startups can figure out a way to hold onto the throngs of users that have tested out new social apps during shelter-in-place.
"If those companies can retain those users...I think there's an opportunity for new types of communication, whether that's something like a Clubhouse, an audio chat room app or virtual offices that make you feel like you're working side by side with your coworkers in apps like Tandem and Pragmatism," Constine said.
A boom in startup innovation is also going to boost the demand for developer infrastructure platforms like Alchemy, Constine added.
The 'TC-turned-VC' trend
As Constine alluded to in his tweet, the 'TC turned VC' path is certainly well-trodden. Beginning with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, who first launched the CrunchFund and later the blockchain-focused VC firm Arrington XRP Capital, at least 7 other ex-TechCrunch journalists have made the leap into startup investing (per TechCrunch's Jonathan Schieber).
But the journalist-turned-VC pipeline goes beyond just TechCrunch: Sequoia Capital's Michael Moritz, the grandfather of the journalist-to-VC trend, entered the industry in 1986 after covering Apple at Time Magazine. He invested in Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and PayPal back in the day, and his current portfolio includes companies like Instacart and Stripe.
And Katherine Boyle, recently promoted to partner at General Catalyst, is another journalist-turned-VC who doesn't hail from TechCrunch. Boyle wrote for the Washington Post in the period that she dubs the "Before Bezos" era on her LinkedIn profile. Since joining General Catalyst, she has helped push some of the firm's most controversial investments in defense-tech startups, including co-leading its Series B round in Anduril.
Not all journalist-turned-VCs completely transition to writing checks for startups, a move exhibited by Ryan Lawler's year-long stint at 500 Startups. Lawler now runs marketing for Samsung's venture arm, Samsung NEXT, according to his LinkedIn.
Constine says he solicited advice from the journalist-turned-VCs who have so far made the leap permanent, such as MG Siegler of Google Ventures, Kim Mai Cutler of Initialized Capital, and Constine's one-time editor Alexia Bonatsos, now the founder of the VC firm Dream Machine.
"Their biggest advice was to take as much time as you can early to just be a sponge and absorb as much information as you can and learn the ropes before trying to walk on them," Constine said, adding that their advice was one of the big factors that pushed him toward joining SignalFire.
"I've written about thousands of startups but I've never funded one," Constine acknowledged. "But because the fund isn't a huge bureaucratic firm — it's a tight knit team — there's really opportunities for me to learn from brilliant investors and operators who've been at this for years."
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Q: memory allocation python code i came across this question:
def f(x,l=[]):
for i in range(x):
l.append(i*i)
print(l)
f(2)
f(3,[3,2,1])
f(3)
Answer given is :
[0, 1]
[3, 2, 1, 0, 1, 4]
[0, 1, 0, 1, 4]
explanation:
The first function call should be fairly obvious, the loop appends 0 and then 1 to the empty list, l. l is a name for a variable that points to a list stored in memory. The second call starts off by creating a new list in a new block of memory. l then refers to this new list. It then appends 0, 1 and 4 to this new list. So that's great. The third function call is the weird one. It uses the original list stored in the original memory block. That is why it starts off with 0 and 1.
my request: where can i find more info on the why and how of this for a newbie like me. even with the above answer im having trouble understanding the last function call.
thanks in advance for your responses.
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The following is a list of required City forms to be used when building within the City.
For building projects exempt from a building permit and corresponding City forms, refer to Building Permit Application Questions and Concerns.
The following two (2) City forms are used in combination when applying for a building permit during the building permit application process. For additional information regarding the building permit application, please refer to Building Permit Application Questions and Concerns.
The Design Review Board Application is required as part of the submittal package that is used by the City's Design Review Board during their review process. This review is required for all new construction, including additions and remodels that alter the building's exterior. For additional information regarding the Design Review Board, please refer to Building Permit Application Questions and Concerns.
The Variance Application (Board of Adjustment) form is required when applying for a zoning variance on current City zoning regulations, such as, building setbacks or lot coverage requirements. For additional information regarding zoning variances or the Board of Adjustment please refer to Building Permit Application Questions and Concerns. | {
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The stretch of Highway 71 in the middle Western Iowa cuts straight through some of the least traveled and rarely visited parts of Iowa. Its one lonesome road. But it has one cafe after another with a great breaded tenderloin sandwich. Templeton is north of the Chatterbox Cafe in Audubon, The Red Barn in Exira, Farmers Kitchen in Atlantic, and Darrell's Place in Hamlin. Each one serves homemade food to dedicated locals. A recent award from the IPPA made me head to this small cafe that didn't even have an OPEN sign outside. The Corner Station closes at four in the afternoon, so get there early.
Location: 18152 Highway 141 in Templeton, in Carroll County, Western Iowa.
Directions: The only building on the south side of the main road, Highway 71/141 between Carroll and Audubon. Its an unmarked white building with just the lettering of the word CAFE on the window.
The Tenderloin: First on my mind was the small size and a butterfly cut that made the meat portion extra long. Breading added good flavor to the crunchy outside of the loin. The warm moist and consistently tender meat was just right. Served on a small bun with your choice of toppings. Overall 8.8 out of ten.
Price: a great value at $3.75 a la carte.
Also on the menu: Its a real simple menu with burgers, a pizza burger, patty melt and other sandwiches. Also a full breakfast in the morning.
Service: There is a counter or table service, you pay at the register counter near the door.
Ambiance: The building is part of an old auto repair garage, with a limited grocery selection in one area. The dining room has tables and a small counter with a menu board and wood-panel walls.
Imagine my surprise a few weeks ago when the "mobile speakeasy" was parked a block away from where I live in Des Moines. While its great that they were promoting the whiskey, I would have preferred to have the Corner Station and its tenderloin move down to Des Moines instead. | {
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There three main ways to get your company into the top spots on Yahoo!, Bing, or Google search engine results page: Keywords/Keyword phrases on your webpages, Social Media popularity, and Link building. When a website it built and added to the internet it's the keywords on pages that are indexed by the search engines spiders. Social Media provides access to potentially new clients and customers to promote or sell your product. What is meant by link building is having other relevant websites link to your website. This results in link popularity. It tells the search engines that your website is an authority on the subject.
One of the many ways you can personally build up backlinks to your website is the use of blog comments. Take ten minutes a day to read blogs and articles that are relevant to your website and make a genuine comment on their blog and simply place your website url after your name. This creates a backlink. Another way to acquire quality links is to find other sites that are complementary to your website, not a direct competitor, and provide one another with a link exchange.
When hiring a link building service choose one where the links they are promising are quality links. You do not want your company's website link on another website that has 100 other links on it. This type of website is considered a link farm and will not in any way benefit your business. When decided on a marketing business to help promote your website decide on one that will not only provide Keyword placement, social media marketing outlets, but check they are giving quality links back to your website. | {
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In the last blog we looked at 'Emotional Eating' (EE), and ways we can change our behaviours to achieve more peace with eating and a greater sense of health and wellbeing. Just to recap – EE refers to seeking comfort and soothing emotions, such as stress, anxiety, sadness, anger, boredom or loneliness, through food. This blog will continue on from where we left off by looking at ways to foster a healthy body image. This is something I'm very passionate about this whole area, and this is why I wrote my new e-book; 'Emotional Eating Learn to be free! A guide to living well and soothing yourself in ways other than food.' This blog includes a few excerpts from the book.
Body dissatisfaction is now a top ranked concern for young people in Australia and has increased as an issue over the last 30 years. Body image issues have increased worldwide over the last 30 years (NEDC, 2017). Why is this? Let's look at what body image actually is, and then consider how you evaluate your own body image. We will also consider what influences the development of a negative body image, and look at how to improve your body image. Body image refers to the perception we have of our physical selves, and the thoughts and feelings that arise from this perception. These thoughts and feelings can be positive and negative (NEDC, 2017).
The way you think and feel about your body will have been influenced by your own personality and thinking style, and also by external factors such as interpersonal experiences and the values that our society promotes. What messages did your parents, teachers and friends give you about your body? Sometimes they dislike their own bodies and consequently model certain attitudes or behaviours, which you may unconsciously learn. Body image is shaped during childhood and adolescence, and can be influenced by negative messages given to us about our bodies or eating behaviours.
Remember too that we are surrounded by images of beautiful people in magazines, in movies and on the television. These are often driven by advertising to sell us a range of products. Even images of famously beautiful people are modified to remove centimetres and lines!
Social media also sets unrealistic standards. Whether it is a 'selfie' or a photo with friends, it is important to remember that people will only post photographs they like on social media. As a result, we are bombarded with images that are impossible to achieve, and are constantly comparing ourselves to others. It is also important to reflect on how much your sense of self-worth is tied in with your weight and body image.
Practice mindfulness when you have thoughts and feelings about your body. Monitor these.
Quit harsh self-judgment and stop struggling with negative thoughts about yourself. Instead, focus on accepting these thoughts and the feelings that go along with them.
Be mindful of any critical self-talk when you look in the mirror. Watch out for 'selective attention', i.e. focussing on one aspect of your appearance and exaggerating it.
Be careful of mind reading; that is, thinking you know what others think about you! Just because you are not feeling confident about your body, does not mean that others are judging it harshly.
Focus on your positive qualities, skills and talents. Appreciate your whole self. What are your special qualities – are you kind, a loyal friend, punctual, a good cook? Recognise what your strengths are, for example, sense of adventure, creativity, empathy, gratitude, sense of humour, optimism, persistence, service or work ethic.
Work on increasing positive self-talk. Sometimes you will have to challenge the negative thoughts to work on developing a new 'inner voice' that speaks positively about your body (refer back to the CBT section).
Respect your body, as it does amazing things.
Set positive goals focussed on health and wellbeing rather than weight loss.
AVOID THE TRAP OF COMPARISONS!
Be mindful of assumptions about others and their bodies, for example: "that (person, model) has it all because they are beautiful". We don't know what their lives are actually like.
Be realistic about media images, most of the time they are heavily edited.
Be careful of avoidance, that is, avoiding wearing certain clothes or going out because of anxiety about your body. Use your relaxation skills and positive self-talk to help you overcome this one step at a time.
Reduce how often you check your appearance. Sometimes anxiety can trigger frequent checking, and we need to gradually cut this back.
Ask for help. A positive body image will improve our sense of self-worth and self-acceptance. It will also positively influence our behaviours in relation to food. It is easier to focus on a balanced and healthy lifestyle if we are in tune with the needs of our bodies (NEDC, 2017).
Remember that overcoming negative perceptions of our body image is something that takes time. Be kind to yourself, share experiences with friends if you feel comfortable, use positive self-talk and allow for positive change to occur. So, in summary, quit comparisons and be kind to yourself. Learn to accept and love who you are, inside and out, as you are unique and special in many, many ways. You can read more in the 'EE Learn to be Free' e-book, and at helpful websites such as www.nedc.com.au, or seek help from a therapist or dietician with skills in this area.
LEARN TO LOVE WHO YOU ARE – YOU ARE UNIQUE AND SPECIAL!!
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Born in Utica, New York, Marquette received his law degree from the University of North Dakota, and entered the practice of law in Missoula, Montana. He served in the United States Army for two years during the Spanish–American War, in the Philippines, and again during World War I, in the United States Army Air Corps. After a fall at Bolling Field in 1919, he was hospitalized at Walter Reed Hospital for one year. He resigned as captain in December, 1920, following his discharge from the hospital.
He remained in Washington to practice law there. In 1920, Marquette joined the office of the solicitor in the Internal Revenue Bureau, where he was a legal adviser until President Calvin Coolidge appointed him to the Board of Tax Appeals in 1924. He was one of the original twelve members appointed to the Board of Tax Appeals, and one of a group of seven appointed "from the public".
In 1935, Marquette travelled to California to hear a case regarding the estate of railroad builder Henry E. Huntington. On the train ride returning to Washington, D.C., Marquette contracted pneumonia, dying at Sibley Memorial Hospital at the age of 56.
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A daily crawl of more than 200,000 home pages of news sites, including the pages linked from those home pages. Site list provided by The GDELT Project
March 2014 Defence & Security Industry - Military - Army News
Army of Thailand could purchase WS-1B and WS-32 MLRS rocket launcher systems from China 3103145
Posted On Monday, 31 March 2014 10:24
Army of Thailand could purchase WS-1B and WS-32 MLRS rocket launcher systems from China
The Royal Thai Army is considering the purchase of two new types of multiple rocket launcher systems from China, according to the Canada-based Kanwa Defense Weekly. According to Chinese source, Thailand is likely to import WS-1B and WS-32 launchers from China, which will be renamed the DTI-1 and the DTI-1G respectively.
Monday, March 31, 2014 11:55 AM
United States Army to demonstrate successfully the interest to use unmanned military convoy 2203141
Syrian government troops continue their success recapturing a key town in Homs province 2103142
Israeli Company Elbit Systems to upgrade main battle tank for a customer in Asia-Pacific region 2103
Pro-Russian troops have taken the control of the Ukrainian naval headquarters in Sevastopol 1903145
Russia gives green light to sell S-400 air defense missile systems to China 3103144
Russia gives green light to sell S-400 air defense missile systems to China
Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, has given a green light to sell the country's newest S-400 air defense guided missile system to China, which Russian media claim will give Beijing an edge in the airspace of the Taiwan Strait and over islands in the East China Sea.
New modernized version of LAV-AT Anti-Tank armoured enhances capability of U.S. Marines 3103143
New modernized version of LAV-AT Anti-Tank armoured enhances capability of U.S. Marines
Development of the LAV-ATs has already successfully met threshold testing as four of the prototypes have fired 14 missiles at government facilities. In mid-March, the vehicles were put through a swim test and landing craft air cushion tests at the Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Philippines looks to acquire Raytheon MIM-23 HAWK surface-to-air defense missile system 3103142
Philippines looks to acquire Raytheon MIM-23 HAWK surface-to-air defense missile system
The Philippines Department of National Defense (DND) is looking at the possibility of acquiring improved and enhanced versions of the Raytheon MIM-23 HAWK (Homing All the Way Killer) surface-to-air missiles (SAMs).
South Korea fires with K-9 howitzers after North Korean shells landed in its territorial waters 3103
South Korea fires with K-9 howitzers after North Korean shells landed in its territorial waters
North Korea has exchanged artillery fire with South Korea across the countries' disputed western maritime border. Official in Seoul say South Korea returned fire after North Korean shells landed in its territorial waters.
U.S. National Guard of Colorado to share tactics and techniques with Jordanian armed forces 3003146
Posted On Sunday, 30 March 2014 10:45
U.S. National Guard of Colorado to share tactics and techniques with Jordanian armed forces
Senior United States and Jordanian military leaders sought to deepen the already robust National Guard State Partnership Program pairing of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan with Colorado.
Sunday, March 30, 2014 01:00 PM
French army to acquire 60 more units of METRAVIB SLATE sniper gunshots detection systems 3003145
French army to acquire 60 more units of METRAVIB SLATE sniper gunshots detection systems
Feedback from the field was excellent, the partnership with RTD was effective, and the Pacte Défense PME program in favor of SMEs proved its worth. Based on all these factors, DGA (French Army procurement agency) decided to purchase a further sixty SLATE units.
Sunday, March 30, 2014 11:57 AM
Cassidian Optronics of Germany to supply vision equipment for Leopard 2A7+ and PzH 2000 3003144
Cassidian Optronics of Germany to supply vision equipment for Leopard 2A7+ and PzH 2000
Cassidian Optronics GmbH, a subsidiary of Airbus Defence and Space, has received an order valued at more than 40 million euros from Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. KG and Rheinmetall Defence Electronics GmbH, for the supply of vision equipment.
New 8x8 light surveillance armoured vehicle ASLAV-S enters in service with the Australian army 30031
New 8x8 light surveillance armoured vehicle ASLAV-S enters in service with the Australian army
After rigorous testing, the new Australian Light Armoured Vehicle surveillance variant, ALSAV-S, has been shown to significantly improve Army's Cavalry operations. The new vehicles tested during Exercise Kosta River in late March 2014, conducted at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area.
Lithuania agrees to increase its defence spending to 2 percent by 2020 3003141
Lithuania agrees to increase its defence spending to 2 percent by 2020
Lithuania's policymakers reached an agreement to increase its defence spending to 2 percent of GDP by 2020. President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite on Thursday pressed the main national political parties to agree on increasing the country's defence expenditure, leading to a fast reached agreement within two days which is rarely seen in past years.
United States Army has ordered the new PAC-3 missiles for Patriot air defense system 2903145
Posted On Saturday, 29 March 2014 16:12
United States Army has ordered the new PAC-3 missiles for Patriot air defense system
Lockheed Martin Corp has won a U.S. Army contract worth $611 million to build 92 Patriot PAC-3 missiles and 50 launcher modification kits, the company's first production contract for a new enhanced missile designed to upgrade the Patriot missile defense system.
Saturday, March 29, 2014 05:11 PM
More than 40,000 russian troops are deployed near the borders with Ukraine 2903144
More than 40,000 russian troops are deployed near the borders with Ukraine
United States estimates that around 40,000 Russian troops are deployed near the borders of Ukraine. "The possibility of another Russian incursion is very real," a U.S. intelligence official said, echoing increasingly ominous statements by other Obama administration officials.
Turkish Company BMC has finally delivered 25 Kirpi 4x4 MRAP armoured vehicles to Turkish army 290314
Turkish Company BMC has finally delivered 25 Kirpi 4x4 MRAP armoured vehicles to Turkish army
Vehicle manufacturer BMC has finally delivered 25 Kirpi armored vehicles and 25 military trucks to the Turkish army. The Izmir-based vehicle manufacturer, which was seized by the state fund last year due to the debts of its former owner Çukurova Group, appears to be rising to its feet at last, after failing to fulfill its responsibilities for months due to heavy financial constraints.
One mechanised infantry unit of Brazilian army has take delivery of new Guarani 6x6 armoured 2903142
One mechanised infantry unit of Brazilian army has take delivery of new Guarani 6x6 armoured
One mechanised infantry unit of the Brazilian army has take delivery of the first batch of the new Guarani VBTP-MR 6x6 armoured vehicles. The new vehicle is developed by Iveco and the Brazilian Army to replace all EE-11 Urutu by 2015.
Government of Qatar signs a total of $23 billion contracts for military equipment at DIMDEX 2014 290
Government of Qatar signs a total of $23 billion contracts for military equipment at DIMDEX 2014
Held under the patronage of His Highness, The Emir, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, DIMDEX 2014 exhibition and conference closed today with the announcement of over USD 23 billion in signed agreements between Qatar Armed Forces and over 20 contractors.
Saturday, March 29, 2014 09:40 AM
Rheinmetall to modernize South Africa's army air defence capabilities with Oerlikon Skyshield 270314
Posted On Thursday, 27 March 2014 17:33
Rheinmetall to modernize South Africa's army air defence capabilities with Oerlikon Skyshield
Rheinmetall AG of Düsseldorf has just booked another important order in the field of military air defence. The Republic of South Africa has decided to embark on a thoroughgoing modernization of its existing air defence systems. The contract was signed several days ago. Including logistics and training services, the complete package is scheduled for completion by 2017.
Thursday, March 27, 2014 06:26 PM
North Korea test-fired two No-Dong 1 ballistic missiles from its east coast 2603141
Posted On Wednesday, 26 March 2014 16:24
North Korea test-fired two No-Dong 1 ballistic missiles from its east coast
Wednesday, March 26, 2014, North Korea test-fired two ballistic missiles No-Dong 1 (also named Rodong) into the sea off its east coast Korea fired the midrange missiles -- one at 2:35 a.m. and the other at 2:42 a.m.-- from the Sukchon region, north of Pyongyang, which flew about 650 kilometers before dropping into the East Sea, South Korean defense ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said in an emergency briefing.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 04:25 PM
The mobile smart intelligent jamming solutions Shadow of Bull at DIMDEX 2014 2503142
Posted On Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:58
The mobile smart intelligent jamming solutions Shadow of Bull at DIMDEX 2014
At DIMDEX 2014, the International Naval and Maritime Defence Exhibition, Bull a new mobile solution to counter an IED that is activated by remote control on command. Shadow IED Jammers work by preventing radio signals from reaching the radio trigger used to detonate that IED.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 08:29 PM
German Company KMW introduces AMPV next generation of 4x4 armoured multi-purpose vehicle 2503141
German Company KMW introduces AMPV next generation of 4x4 armoured multi-purpose vehicle
The Germany Company KMW (Krauss-Maffei Wegmann) introduces latest generation of AMPV (Armoured Multi-Purpose armoured vehicle) for the Middle East market at DIMDEX 2014, the International Naval and Maritime defence exhibition which helds from the 25 to 27 March 2014 in Doha, Qatar.
All Ukrainian military units stationed in Crimea are now under the control of the Russian army 24031
All Ukrainian military units stationed in Crimea are now under the control of the Russian army
All military units stationed in Crimea are now under the control of the Russian military, and remaining Ukrainian servicemen are departing the peninsula, the region's first deputy prime minister, Rustam Temirgaliyev, said on Monday, March 24, 2014.
Monday, March 24, 2014 04:07 PM
U.S. Republicans in Congress urge to send small weapons and military equipment to Ukraine 2403142
U.S. Republicans in Congress urge to send small weapons and military equipment to Ukraine
U.S. Republicans in Congress urged the Obama administration to send small weapons and other military equipment to Ukraine as Russian troops amassed at that country's eastern border. Besides small weapons, United States could provide medical supplies, radio equipment and unspecified defensive military equipment.
Military operation by Russian soldiers to take the control of Ukrainian military base in Fedosia 240
Military operation by Russian soldiers to take the control of Ukrainian military base in Fedosia
Russian troops took the control of another Ukranian military base in the city of Fedosia. The military operation started at about 4:15 a.m. on March 24, with dull explosions echoing over Feodosia. Russian soldiers and Russian-backed Crimean self-defense forces threw stun grenades into the territory of the military base of the the 1st Detached Feodosia Battalion of Marines.
Indian-made Arjun Mk II main battle tank could enter in service with the Indian army in 2016 2303144
Indian-made Arjun Mk II main battle tank could enter in service with the Indian army in 2016
The Arjun MK II main battle tank for the Indian Army may get delayed further than its pre-fixed 2016 induction date. A key source in the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said, the Israelis who customised the LAHAT Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) for firing from the 120 mm main gun of the Mark II variant, has gone back to the drawing boards for correcting the error.
Israel try to export and find customers for the Israeli-made main battle tank Merkava 2303143
Israel try to export and find customers for the Israeli-made main battle tank Merkava
There are countries that want to buy the Merkava tank, but they are not countries that Israel can trade with. The decision taken four years ago by Ministry of Defense director general Uri Shani to export the Merkava, the mainstay of the IDF Armored Corps.
North Korea has fired 16 short-range rockets from its east coast 2303142
North Korea has fired 16 short-range rockets from its east coast
North Korea fired 16 short-range rockets from its east coast early Sunday for a second straight day, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, the latest in a series of provocative launches that are in apparent protest of ongoing joint military drills between Seoul and Washington.
Russian soldiers with armoured vehicles take the control of Belbek Ukrainian military air base 23031
Russian soldiers with armoured vehicles take the control of Belbek Ukrainian military air base
Russian troops forced their way into a Ukrainian airbase in Crimea with armored vehicles, automatic fire and stun grenades on Saturday, March 22, 2014, injuring a Ukrainian serviceman and detaining the base's commander for talks. | {
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Here is something i do wish to talk about.
Galgos are hunting dogs, used for rabbit hunting most of the time. Galgos are wonderfull lovely dogs. Every years, spanish hunters use those dogs to hunt. They raise them in poor conditions, educate them to hunt by torturing them, barely feed them.
Those dogs are used as any other hunting weapon.
Those dogs have no rights in Spain and noone adopt them, because they are considered as "hunting tool" and not like any other dog. They get no chance to be adopted.
There are organization who try to have a change from the spanish government, and do their best to bring those dogs to other countries so they can be adopted. Try to build shelters in spain for those dogs, organise some trip to get them out of perreras and get them to foster families in different countries.
Good you posd this, Thanks.
There are many organizations in Spain who are pro-galgos and have been saving many form the worst destiny, their own owners.
In this link, on the left side, comes all of the registered animal shelters in Spain that supports the galgo project.
Thank you Gema for all this links. I only know about french organizations and tried to find "global" link so everyone gets info.
A friend of mine is part of one of those organization, she has several galgos, podenco and other dogs rescued from spain. This dogs have been mistreated and yet they still dare to trust in us, and give some love. I really enjoyed visiting her and get to meet her wonderful dogs.
Do not be sorry. That video is the truth. In Spain they kill galgos and the tradition must be erradicated forever. Those faces and eyes I will never forget, ever.
Spain needs to shape up. It is very painful to see how backwords Spain is in this matter.
I did not see the complete video, for my is impossible to see those things, many years ago I was a bullfight of bulls, I can assure to them that after so many years I am sorry thousand times of to have gone and I did not see " spectacle " complete, I was myself of the bullring nonsupport which was seeing,… to that they call art! by God! since when the violence, the torture and the suffering are art? :?
I can't watch that. I'm already here with tears streaming from what you wrote. Animals are my first passion. And dogs are my favorite. I am hoping that when the Army of L.O.V.E. charity kicks off that as well as orphanages and children of course, animal welfare gets a turn at recieving a hand as well.
Ohhh my God!!! I couldn't watch the video. It's not too hard to imagine it after I read your post. I do not believe that the ones who do this torture can be humans. They are all pure evil. This can sound harsh but I definitely would love to do the same torture as they do to those dogs. So they could understand how those poor dogs feel like. I hope God have some mercy on them and teach them what LOVE is.
PureLove, i also believe people torturing animals to be monsters, and i can tell you they are out on our streets, and we maybe even talk to them...and they just live their life like you and me, considering it normal to torture and kill.
Those people really scare me, and the more i see things in my life, the more i know those people are totally random people and you could never say according to their face.
People often ask me why i never trust people from first sight....THIS is an answer.
When i don't have solution for such things, i just joke saying :"we should ask their parents to drown them and make them again"
I have NO solution for those people and so i just stick to giving my love to pets, waiting for someone to give me any solution to that. I'm powerless, that is the main feeling. But yet we must still be strong and keep helping those pets, because each of them is unique and suffers and need some help. Everytime a new case is discovered, you feel you've done nothing but it's always another story, and you must remain strong and keep doing what you're doing.
I already tried to ask myself about those people, why, how, what lead them to be such horrible human...i found no answer but just try to feel some kind of compassion for what they are, try to understand and try to fix what they've done. Maybe it's a way for me to still love human race, because be sure sometime i find NO excuses. | {
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Can you believe that May is closing up and June is right around the corner?!? ACK! Time is just whizzin' on by - pretty soon kids are out of school and summer holidays are upon us!!
If you would like to join us for this challenge, please link directly to your post, not just to your main blog page, using InLinkz. If you are uploading your projects to an online gallery, please use the keyword 4 CC #248 (eg. Splitcoaststampers, Pinterest, etc.) Alright...let's have some fun!!
Good Morning! Our challenge this past week was Sympathy and everyone who played share their very elegant creations. Thank you for all for continuing to inspire us. Our top picks are in no particular order.
Welcome back and thanks for last weeks turn out for Tina's challenge, wonderful creations. Also Congrats to the Guest Designers as well. Now onto today's challenge. This one can be a bit difficult to make at times, but we do know we give and receive them at times in our lives. Tamie here and I would love for you to play along with our challenge today, and share a comment with our talented and much loved Chicks.
If you would like to join us for this challenge, please link directly to your post, not just to your main blog page, using InLinkz. If you are uploading your projects to an online gallery, please use the keyword 4 CC #247 (eg. Splitcoaststampers, Pinterest, etc.) Alright...let's have some fun!!
Also we have our Guest Designers chosen, which we are very pleased to have join us. We are doing things a wee bit different this time around, and going to have 2 guest designers for each month. Congratulations and look forward to hearing from you soon.
Could you please contact us at [email protected] and we can email you some information. Thanks to all that entered. Be sure to come back tomorrow and see what challenge Tamie has in store for us!
4 Crafty Chicks #246 - CHEVRON and GDT Call Extended!!!
Good morning and welcome back for another great challenge! We are so excited to have you here with us once again! Thank you to all who entered Leanne's Mothers Day Challenge!
Guest Designer Team Call EXTENDED ONE MORE WEEK: We would like for you to enter using GDT behind your name when entering, please use your name not the projects name as it might not show and we won't know if you wanted to be entered or not. This GDT Spots will be one for each of the following months June, July and August. We look forward to seeing your creations and happy crafting.
Also, a BIG WELCOME BACK to Lori! We are so happy to have you back sharing your wonderful inspiration!
This week I (Tina) am the hostess and have chosen the theme CHEVRON. Pretty Easy? I love chevrons and there are so many beautiful papers, embossing folders, etc to choose from!
Hello and welcome back to our challenge blog, we would like to thank everyone who entered our challenge this past week, what lovely cards. However with great sadness that we were unable to do our "Top Chick Picks" due to the challenge not being followed. (All had the Mother's Day theme, however no one followed the recipe part of the challenge) As each of your work was outstanding and stunning we would love for you to enter again tomorrow as we have a New Challenge in store for you. Also an extension on Guest Designer Team Call for one more week. The two that have put their GDT behind their names, please, please enter again. This is with heavy heart we feel this and we look forward to tomorrow. Happy Crafting.
Welcome friends, and thank you all for entering last weeks challenge. Congrats to the Chicks Top Picks, and our Crazy Egg winner. Today is another new challenge for us, Leanne here and I am hosting the challenge as well as having our Guest Design Team Call. So let's get started. Our Challenge today is a 4CC #245 Mother's Day Theme with Recipe: 3 Layers, 2 Images and 1 Color. Have fun!
Guest Designer Team Call would we like for you to enter using GDT behind your name when entering, please use your name not the projects name as it might not show and we won't know if you wanted to be entered or not. This GDT Spots will be one for each of the following months June, July and August. We look forward to seeing your creations and happy crafting.
If you would like to join us for this challenge, please link directly to your post, not just to your main blog page, using InLinkz. If you are uploading your projects to an online gallery, please use the keyword 4 CC #245 (eg. Splitcoaststampers, Pinterest, etc.) Alright...let's have some fun!! And remember to put your GDT behind your name if entering the Guest Designer Team Spot.
We also want to give a huge THANK YOU to Rhonda for being our Guest Designer for the month of April! We really enjoyed having you this month!
Thanks again everyone and congrats to our winners. Please come back tomorrow as we have a challenge that will be anything but something! See you then! | {
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The Unbearable Double Standard of the US Press, judging Biden Harshly and Abruptly Forgetting Trump's Bizarre Antics
Juan Cole 12/30/2021
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I am not the only analyst to see an extraordinary set of double standards applied in the US media to Joe Biden in comparison with Donald Trump. It is almost as if reporters and anchors are willing to forget every one of Trump's perfidies but never willing to forget even one of Biden's missteps. It is hard to know what drives this weird amnesia. Maybe it is a desire to appear even-handed, given the rabid email rebukes they would receive from Trump loyalists if they reported on the former president as he deserves. Maybe it is an attempt by for-profit news to get Republican readers. Maybe it is sensationalism and clickbait. Maybe the handful of big corporations that purvey to us most of our news would really like to have Trump back. After all, he put viewership way up by his constant trolling of the public, and he cut taxes on the rich and corporations, so what is not to like?
Biden's pull-out from Afghanistan was admittedly a disaster. But it was a disaster because the Afghanistan army and government put in place by the US nearly twenty years ago unexpectedly and abruptly collapsed. It was not a disaster because Biden decided to pull out of Afghanistan.
Historian Timothy Naftali was on CNN on Wednesday arguing that the withdrawal was an unforced error on Biden's part. He could not be more wrong.
Trump was the one who pulled out of Afghanistan. He reduced troop strength from some 14,000 to only 8500 in 2019. He made a peace treaty with the Taliban in February of 2020, in which he gave an iron clad pledge to get all US troops out of the country by May 1, 2021. You hear pundits say that the US troops had not been attacked lately. But that was why. The Taliban had a truce with Trump. By the way, Trump negotiated the surrender to the Taliban without so much as a by your leave regarding the Afghanistan government. They were not allowed to be at the table. Also, Trump said he thought the Taliban might take over the prosecution of the war on terror for us. Trump tried to order the US troops out of Afghanistan in October of 2020 by Twitter, but the Pentagon would not take the hint. The former president had it in his head that the withdrawal would be popular with the white working class resentful of spending money on foreign boondoggles and might help him get elected.
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Biden postponed the US withdrawal from May 1 to August 31 without starting back up a war with the Taliban, but the latter warned that if he tried to stay later than that, they would go to war. We now know that they actually controlled most of the country by last summer, so if Biden had tried to stay, he would have had to fight the Second Afghan-American War. Given that 20 years of massive US support to the tune of $2 trillion had not produced a government or an army that could stand on their own feet, to go to war all over again in 2021 raises the question of "are you effing kidding me?" The NYT's intrepid Azmat Zahra's reporting on the massive unacknowledged civilian casualties of US air and drone wars has lessons for us about how the US was only able to stay in Afghanistan by bombing the bejesus out of the rural population year after year, which kept US troops from just being tossed out of the country but made the country's population more and more determined to do just that.
But Naftali voiced the common wisdom among the chattering classes, slamming Biden for a situation that Trump created and not even once remembering that Trump hoped the Taliban would take up the war on terror for us.
It is like we had President Elmer Fudd and then we had a normal human being, and the pundits want Elmer Fudd back; he can't shoot a rabbit to save his life, but by God he's entertaining.
Then there is all the angst about whether Biden is being "weak" in facing Putin. If you read Fox News headlines you'd think "weak" was the president's middle name. Biden on the contrary has been so firm with Putin that Putin has asked for a call today, Thursday, clearly concerned that the Ukraine crisis could get out of hand.
So let's recall about Trump being Putin's lap dog. The unrecorded conversations he insisted on having, with no US interpreter present (a breach of protocol). The way he kept telling his adoring cultist crowds that better relations with Russia would be a good thing. The time 2 years ago when CNN had the wit to observe 37 times Trump was soft on Putin are long gone. Trump said Putin did "an amazing job" taking over Crimea from Ukraine, and said people in Crimea were much happier this way.
Article continues after bonus video
CNN: "How Putin and Trump's relationship developed over the years "
Can you imagine the weeks-long piranha-like frenzy in the US press today if Biden had said something like that?
Trump met with a Russia delegation including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and let them know that Israel had a highly placed spy in ISIL. Trump tried to invite Russia to the G7 meeting although any pretense that Russia is a democracy had long since been dropped, and he ordered the CIA to share intelligence with Russia.
Trump had all the spine of a garden slug in dealing with Moscow.So now Biden, who is tough and forthright with Putin, is being pilloried as weak?
And don't get me started on the treatment of Biden's pandemic response, in which he called out troops and the national guard and pulled out all stops to get 200 million Americans vaccinated, in the teeth of Republican opposition, and saved 1.1 million lives this year that otherwise would have been lost. Trump in contrast actively sabotaged the Covid response in 2020 and suggested people shoot up with chlorine, so that Deborah Birx suggested he killed off 130,000 to 160,000 people that hadn't needed to die.
Biden like any other president should have his policies critiqued. That is the democratic task of the press, and I'm glad to pile on where I see bad policy. But Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal was not an unforced error out of the blue, and he hasn't been weak in dealing with Vladimir Putin, and his Covid response has been an amazing success, and you just would not know that from watching or reading news in America.
Filed Under: Afghanistan, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Featured, Joe Biden, journalism, media, Russia, Taliban, television, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy
Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page | {
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Actor, Comedian
Family & Companions
Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen
Gracie Allen was known for more than three decades as the lovably scatterbrained better half of George Burns. Abandoned by her singer-dancer father when she was five, Gracie was by then a two-year stage veteran appearing in a dancing act with her two sisters. At eighteen, Gracie met Burns who was looking for a new comedy partner. Gracie and George teamed for a vaudeville routine with Gr...
Waikiki, in the Wake of Dreams (2001)
Wisecracks (1991)
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
Concerto number
Mr. & Mrs. North (1942)
Pamela North
The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939)
Honolulu (1939)
Millie de Grasse
A Damsel in Distress - Behind-the-Scenes Photos
Honolulu (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Liable To Get Killed!
College Humor (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Colleen Of Killarney
College Swing (1938) -- (Movie Clip) When You Get To Be A Professor
Honolulu (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Throw Myself At Him?
Entertainer, comedian, actor. Married from January 7, 1926 until her death; adopted two children Ronald and Sandra.
Inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame posthumously in 1988
Gracie Allen was known for more than three decades as the lovably scatterbrained better half of George Burns. Abandoned by her singer-dancer father when she was five, Gracie was by then a two-year stage veteran appearing in a dancing act with her two sisters. At eighteen, Gracie met Burns who was looking for a new comedy partner. Gracie and George teamed for a vaudeville routine with Gracie initially taking the "straight" role until George realized her impeccable comic timing made even straight lines funny. From then on, Gracie delivered the punch lines featuring her peculiarly dizzy sense of logic. The couple married in 1926 and in 1932 became regulars on Guy Lombardo's radio program. After Lombardo left in 1934, the couple hosted their own CBS show "The Adventures of Gracie," which in 1935 became "The Campbell's Tomato Juice Program," before having a succession of different sponsors. One of the couple's most successful gags was a year-long search for Gracie's supposedly missing brother, which took them to various other programs looking for him. In 1940, Gracie announced her run for President on the Surprise Party ticket, garnering 42,000 write-in votes. Gracie and George performed in several Paramount shorts and motion pictures including the detective drama "The Gracie Allen Murder Case" in which Gracie appeared without George. In 1948, the couple took their show to CBS and two years later began the hugely popular television program "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show," which continued until Gracie's retirement in 1958.
College Swing (1938)
Gracie Alden
A Damsel in Distress (1937)
College Holiday (1936)
Calliope Dove
The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)
Mrs. Platt
Love in Bloom (1935)
Gracie [Downey]
Here Comes Cookie (1935)
Gracie ["Cookie"] Allen
Six of a Kind (1934)
Gracie Devore
Many Happy Returns (1934)
Gracie [Allen]
We're Not Dressing (1934)
College Humor (1933)
International House (1933)
Nurse Allen
The Big Broadcast (1932)
Cast (Short)
Lambchops (1929)
Here are several photos taken during production of RKO's A Damsel in Distress (1937), directed by George Stevens and starring Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, and George Burns & Gracie Allen.
Honolulu (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Liable To Get Killed! Movie star Brooks (Robert Young) recovering from the last time he was mobbed during an east-coast PR swing, getting out of the hospital with the help of hustling agent Duffy (George Burns), with a poor result, in MGM's Honolulu, 1939, also starring Eleanor Powell and Gracie Allen.
Honolulu (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Throw Myself At Him? Robert Young, in a dual role, here is movie star Books Mason, who's traded places with his look-alike Hawaiian plantation owner George, cruising home for two weeks of peace and quiet, when he's recognized by cruise ship entertainer Millie (Gracie Allen), who must tell pal Dot (Eleanor Powell), the first scene for both gals, in MGM's Honolulu, 1939.
Honolulu (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Title Song Cruise ship entertainers Millie (Gracie Allen) and Dot (Eleanor Powell) persuaded to perform, the title song, an original by Harry Warren and Gus Kahn, Gracie with the vocal then Eleanor, choreographed by Bobby Connelly, handling the jump rope with ease, in Honolulu, 1939, from MGM and producer Jack Cummings.
College Humor (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Colleen Of Killarney Mary Kornman is daffy co-ed Amber, inquiring with George Burns and Gracie Allen, who appear here unbidden in their first scene, using their own names, before their radio show, known mostly at the time for Paramount one-reelers, maneuvering into an un-credited song, in Paramount's sprawling College Humor, 1933.
College Swing (1938) -- (Movie Clip) When You Get To Be A Professor Gracie Allen is Gracie "Alden," in the 200-year old original structure of the college her family stands to inherit if she, on this last chance, can pass a graduation exam, cheating miraculously from a laundry list, George Burns her interrogator representing the administration, Cecil Cunningham on the board, in College Swing, 1938.
College Swing (1938) -- (Movie Clip) You Will Positively Graduate! After she played her ancestor in a colonial prologue, Gracie Allen is the last member of her wealthy family with the chance 200-years later to take ownership of the college by graduating, and Bob Hope introduces himself as an eager tutor after her fees, early in Paramount's College Swing, 1938, also starring George Burns.
Damsel In Distress, A (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Stiff Upper Lip Just the first part of the endless amusement-park dance number staged by Hermes Pan, with Fred Astaire, George Burns and Gracie Allen, frolicking to George and Ira Gershwin's original Stiff Upper Lip, from A Damsel In Distress, 1937.
Big Broadcast Of 1937, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) A Trifle Ambiguous Radio director Carson (Jack Benny) hasn't satisfied his golf-ball dynasty sponsors the Platts (George Burns and daffy Gracie Allen), so agent Bob (Ray Milland) suggests they sample singer Frank Rossman (Frank Forest), with a Robin and Rainger tune, in Paramount's The Big Broadcast Of 1937, 1936.
College Holiday (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Call Me By My Greek Name! Blowsy Mary Boland and her buffoon spouse (Etienne Girardot) are trying to explain their daffy Eugenics plan to promoter Jack Benny, when we cut to her daughter, who is Gracie Allen, believing she has found the perfect man, in George Burns, in Paramount's College Holiday, 1936.
Mr. & Mrs. North -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Pam Opening title sequence from the Gracie Allen detective comedy Mr. & Mrs. North, 1942, from the stories by Richard and Frances Lockridge, introducing Gracie as "Pam" and William Post Jr. as "Gerry."
Mr. & Mrs. North -- (Movie Clip) Literary Termite Pam (Gracie Allen) is a little too forthcoming as she and spouse Gerry (William Post Jr.) are debriefed by Detective Mullins (Millard Mitchell) in Mr. & Mrs. North, 1942.
Mr. & Mrs. North -- (Movie Clip) Don't Lose Your Head! Pam (Gracie Allen) confounds husband Gerry (William Post Jr.) with her reasoning before finding a body in the closet in Mr. & Mrs. North, 1942, from the stories by Richard and Frances Lockridge.
Ronald Burns
Actor. Adopted; survived her.
Sandra Burns
Adopted; survived her. | {
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A Gust of Wind Blows in through the Window
by Anne Weisgerber
Am I the only one who hated the weather this morning? I just wanted to punch someone in the neck. I did hear Mercury is in retrograde, and I'm not all groovy-groovy hipster thing, but still…. All I've been thinking about the past few classes is what I'm going to have for a snack when I get home. I was taught an Einstein quote by an old friend of mine, a Native American chief. (Stands on chair and starts chanting.) Here's the deal: If you use relatable, I will make you cry. These announcements in the middle of the period are killing me. Robert Burns was a very sexy guy for his day. Two mornings ago at 2:47 I heard this: (knocks on board twice). I immediately thought my childhood cockatiel Frito had returned. Is the vocab due tomorrow? Are you high? There's a Breaking Bad called "Ozymandias. " Stop putting so much swagger on your sentences. They're commas, not Maori tattoos. This morning I was sitting in my car in the parking lot giving myself a pep talk. I was saying "Come on! Get in there! " What do you think it's like to be a Kardashian puppy? The Citroen DS 19 is a perfect example of epicene design, as is David Bowie. My tombstone will say: she despised Spielberg. Schindler made everyone believe the world was full of rescuers. The whole point of Private Ryan was to make people vomit. There are no healthy adult relationships. I'm super cranky with this testing schedule. Like, if there were a kitten, I'd kick it. If you don't say Goethe correctly, it's like saying Shakes-pee-airy. I've been having anxiety attacks. I don't know if you can see this, but my brain is sparkling. Did you hear that? Edmund just sold out his dad. That BASTARD. Gordon Ramsay's AMA yesterday was amazing. We blame all the weird noises in my house on a ghost dog. This guy tied weather balloons to a webbed aluminum lawn chair—I think he bought it at Sears—and took off. There he is! We were just talking about you! I wonder if there will be snacks at the meeting. Do you now what an earwig is? "Oh my God, there was one in my basement that was THIS big and…" STOP! Let's read Huckleberry Finn, a work of troubling greatness.
Anne Elizabeth Weisgerber has a BA in English and an MBA in Marketing, and is a freelance journalist whose work has been appeared in numerous pubs, including New Jersey Monthly, The Courier News, the Madison Eagle, the Echoes-Sentinel, and the Wall Street Journal. She has interviewed Henry Kissinger, David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Al Franken, and won first place for feature writing from the Society of Professional Journalists for a story about a ghost tour operator. She has seen the light, and now writes fiction as a DIY MFA working on her first novel. She is at home in New Jersey with her family, including two adorable goats named Snapdragon and Socrates. This is her first published work of fiction.
What surprising, fascinating stuff can you tell us about the origin, drafting, and/or final version of "A Gust of Wind Blows in through the Window"?
What if students, instead of working on class assignments, wrote down all the odd things their teacher said? It might resemble this prose poem, and show a teacher to be, like everyone else, a great and troubling piece of work. Speaking of which, the name of the guy who flew (on July 2, 1982) in the chair from Sears is Larry Walters. He was a 33-year old Vietnam Veteran living in North Hollywood, California. Larry fulfilled his childhood dream, and tied 45 weather balloons filled with helium to a lawn chair, and ascended, not at all according to plan, to 16,000 feet. He said in an interview afterward that he was "so amazed by the view" that he "didn't even take one picture." When he landed, he gave away the chair to a kid. Larry Walters committed suicide in 1993.
CNF: a suicide note, revised
by Sasanka Jinadasa
If you look closely, under the heart of the rose, my scar still rises — a wrinkled mountain range skirting an indigo river. It's a wonder that I'm not dead. (more…)
by Laura Pavlo
I had a brother once. (more…)
Last of the Faithful
by Electra Hunzeker
In Which Paul, the Lonely Boy, Makes Friends (more…) | {
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Mark 7:34 Jesus looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, "Ephphatha!" (which means "Be opened!").
A few weeks ago, I was asked to provide a brief welcome to a KCML training event. It was an event focused on training children and youth workers and about 55 folk were present. Some had driven over four hours, while others had flown from the North Island. As we began, I wanted to not only welcome, but also to locate our day in prayer.
The lectionary reading from the day before described Jesus healing a blind man. Reading it, I had been struck by the fact that Jesus sighed. I live in a family of audible sighers and it was nice to realise we shared our humanity, our sadness, relief and tiredness, with Jesus. In my own prayer, I had spent time thinking about the things I was sighing about.
Standing to welcome folk, I noted the need to begin with prayer. I described the very common human experience of sighing and invited us as a group to pray be sighing together!
Since it was a gathering focused on children and young people, I invited us to think of a young person that we were currently sighing about.
And to sigh together. And we did.
Since it was a gathering of leaders working with children and young people, I invited us to think of a leader in our ministry that we were currently sighing about.
Since we were a gathering of people thinking about mission and ministry into our communities, I invited us to think of something in our community that we were currently sighing about.
Since we were a gathering of people aware of politics and politicians, I invited us to think of a politician that was making us sigh.
I then read from Mark 7:34.
And I prayed: that our day together would result in our eyes being opened; opened to see healing and change in our young people and our leaders and our communities and the politics of our world; a prayer prayed in the name of Jesus who signed, and saw the reality of lives "being opened." Amen.
It was a simple liturgy. It orientated us around Scripture. It acknowledged the humanity of ministry, that it causes us to be sad, relieved, tired. It placed us in context, inviting us to focus on people and community and real life. It was individualised, inviting people to pray for what was on their heart, what was causing them to sigh. It was participatory, a whole room of people sighing together. It used the senses, the physical act of sighing, the audible hearing of others sighing around us. It invited God to be present, to open eyes and situations in revelatory ways.
A liturgy of sighing. Feel free to join our prayer, to sigh also at things you wish to be opened.
This poster will demonstrate the use of Bloom's taxonomy in structuring the classroom experience in the context of flipped learning. Desiring to personalise the ability of students to consider their own role in the teaching and learning experience, Bloom's Taxonomy was used in a Christology class to structure content delivery.
The poster will outline the classroom practice. In week one, Bloom's taxonomy was introduced to both explain flipped approaches to learning, but also to inspire and motivate students to undertake the pre-reading. A set of questions generated discussion and agreement around the types of behaviours that enhance learning, resulting in the development of a shared class covenant in participating in a Flipped Learning Experience.
The poster will further outline the subsequent weeks, including how the classroom experience was structured in relation to different parts of Bloom's taxonomy. This provided students with choice and also opportunities for immediate formative self-assessment.
Finally the poster will analyse student feedback and the role of the lecturer in engaging class interaction in feedback loops.
Hence the poster will thus provide a visual demonstration of the practice of teaching in dialogue with theoretical engagement with learning theory and interaction with student experience.
Now I'm looking forward to the challenge of communicating all of this visually. It should be a fun, growing, new challenge – if accepted. And something to hang on my wall!
I was delighted to hear today that a paper proposal I submitted for the Resistance and Innovation: Empire and Native Christianity in the Pacific conference at the University of Auckland on March 24, 2017 has been accepted. The conference will bring together scholars of Christianity in a variety of disciplines to examine the cultural dynamics of the interaction between native peoples and transplanted Christian churches in the Pacific region. It will pay particular attention to the dynamic tension between centralized and localized religious culture.
One way to approach native Christianity in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is through Drusilla Modjeska's The Mountain . It has been acclaimed as PNG's best historical novel (Moore, 2012). The post-colonial methodologies of Ashcroft (in Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Theologies: Storyweaving in the Asia-Pacific , 2014) will be used to read The Mountain for indigenous agency in resistance and innovation. Such a reading requires locating Modjeska as an academic and novelist who refuses to accept totalising binaries, in both her writing and her life.
I will argue that the portrayal of native Christianity in The Mountain assumes indigenous approval and indigenization. Themes of ancestor gift and "hapkas" will be applied to Jesus as "good man true, he die for PNG" (Modjeska 2012: 291). The creative reworking by which native (Omie) people locate Jesus as ancestor gift of Canaanite descent will be examined. This is consistent with recent scholarship in which indigenous cultures are Old Testaments (Lift Every Voice: Constructing Christian Theologies from the Underside , 1998; Brett 2003) and the book of Genesis a demonstration of indigenous faiths being woven respectfully into the story of Israel (The Old Testament of the Old Testament: Patriarchal Narratives and Mosaic Yahwism , 1992).
This subverts the "big man" as a key trope in the ethnography of Melanesia (Big Men and Great Men: Personifications of Power in Melanesia , 2009). It suggests that post-colonial theology pay attention to cultural hybridity and indigenous innovation. Or in the words of The Mountain : a "hapkas" Jesus who is "good man true" for PNG.
A joy yesterday to have a 2,000 word article accepted for Equip a bi-annual publication of Ethos Centre for Christianity and Society. Aware of my interest in U2, they asked me early in January to write something for an upcoming edition on music.
Back in October I was doing research on how religious groups prayed after Paris. Having written a number of times about U2′s live concert performances, I wondered how they responded, given they played days after the Paris bombings. The research in October (watching the iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live In Paris DVD) never made it into the two conference presentations that resulted.
So when Ethos emailed, I thought it might be an opportunity to use research done, but not likely to find a writing home. I looked back over my research notes: watching U2 DVD's as research! How did they pray, live, publicly, in the midst of so much pain?
I also was aware of the friendship between Bono (of the band U2) and Eugene Peterson (author of contemporary-language Bible translation The Message) and their common interest in the Psalms.
In sum, aware of a broken world, I have examined how music and musicians might respond. Psalms voice the full register of human emotion. The Psalms of lament offer a pattern: call, confession, complaint, curse and confidence in surrender. I have examined how U2 played in Paris and have argued that this pattern is evident, not on a single song, but over a number of songs, stretched over more than sixty minutes. In response to terror, and the resulting emotions of anger and fear, U2 called for help, confessed and complained. But they did not curse. Instead they looked to New Testament resources, to the love of Christ.
Two pieces in one month on one band is a bit ridiculous. But it is nice to be writing in the theology and culture interface. It brings to seven the number of things I've had published on U2 over the last 6 years. Not something I every expected, but it has been a fun trip. Now back to some real theology! (It also explains the silence on the blog front – only 1 post in the month of January, my most silent month ever. Apologies).
looking at how they prayed publicly after the Pike River Mining Tragedy in New Zealand (Boase, E.C. and Taylor, S. (2013). Public Lament. In MJ Bier and T Bulkeley, ed. Spiritual Complaint: The Theology and Practice of Lament . Eugene, USA: Pickwick Publishers, pp. 205-227). | {
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Bruce Earl Fairbairn (December 30, 1949 – May 17, 1999) was a Canadian musician and international record producer from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was active as a producer from 1976 to 1999, and is considered one of the best of his era. His most successful productions are Slippery When Wet and New Jersey by Bon Jovi, Permanent Vacation, Pump, and Get a Grip by Aerosmith, and The Razors Edge by AC/DC, each of which sold at least five million copies. He was originally a trumpet player, then started a career as a record producer for the Canadian rock band Prism. Fairbairn won the Canadian music industry Producer of the Year Juno Award three times. He produced albums for many famous international artists such as Loverboy, Blue Öyster Cult, Bon Jovi, Poison, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Scorpions, Van Halen, Chicago, The Cranberries, INXS, Kiss and Yes. His style was notable for introducing dynamic horn arrangements into rock music productions. Fairbairn died suddenly on May 17, 1999 due to unknown causes.
Fairbairn played the trumpet since the age of 5, as well as studying piano. Until the age of 16, he was a trumpetist in community groups. While in the 10th grade at Vancouver's Prince of Wales Secondary School, Fairbairn founded his first band The Spectres, managed by Bruce Allen, who would remain with Fairbairn through his career.
In the early 1970s, Fairbairn started producing while he was part of the Vancouver jazz-rock group Sunshyne, in which he played both trumpet and horn. There he met bandmate Jim Vallance, who would go on to become one of the most successful songwriters in the music industry and an important music associate. After Vallance left Sunshyne in 1973, Fairbairn changed Sunshyne's format to blues-rock-pop. Fairbairn recruited guitarist Lindsay Mitchell, from Vancouver band Seeds of Time, as singer-songwriter and frontman. Fairbairn worked through 1974 to land a recording contract for Sunshyne, using demos of two songs written by Mitchell. By mid-1975, when Fairbairn could not close a record deal for Sunshyne, he approached Vallance for assistance. Vallance reworked the arrangements on the Mitchell songs and supplied three of his own at Fairbairn's request. One of the Vallance songs, "Open Soul Surgery" impressed an executive at record label GRT, who signed Fairbairn's group to a recording contract in 1976.
Over the next year, Fairbairn produced an album using musicians from both Sunshyne and Seeds of Time (including himself). The newly-renamed band Prism released its debut album in 1977. The album reached platinum status in Canada, with sales in excess of 100,000 albums by 1978.1 Fairbairn himself, however, elected not to be a member of Prism, and is credited only as producer and as a session musician on the album, and he did not play with Prism in any live performances.
Fairbairn produced Prism's next three albums, all of which went platinum or double platinum in Canada. In 1980, Fairbairn won his first of three Canadian music industry Producer of the Year Juno Awards for Prism's third album, Armageddon.
In 1980, while still working with Prism, Fairbairn started production work on the debut album for Canadian rock band Loverboy. The self-titled album Loverboy would be the first Fairbairn production to break through in the lucrative US market and launch Fairbairn's international success.
Fairbairn's productions attracted a growing list of international artists to Vancouver's Little Mountain Sound Studios to work with him and his protégé Bob Rock. Over the next 5 years, Fairbairn's work on Blue Öyster Cult's 1983 album The Revölution by Night, Krokus' 1984 album The Blitz, and Canadian band Honeymoon Suite's arena rock 1985 album The Big Prize continued Fairbairn's string of international hits.
Fairbairn's biggest commercial success is Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet (1986), which made him a top-rate international record producer. The album has sold over 12 million copies worldwide. "Bruce Fairbairn was a trumpet player," noted Jon Bon Jovi in 2007. "You couldn't get him on a guitar. And, for the first time, we were allowed to be us in the studio."
"I've been lucky enough to work with so many different talents," Fairbairn noted, "but Bon Jovi may be the finest. There was record company pressure to deliver the hits, but they were a joy. People seem to concentrate so much on their success that they lose sight of how good these guys are."
His next major production, Aerosmith's 1987 album Permanent Vacation, was another international success and generated a series of hits including "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)", "Angel", and "Rag Doll". Steven Tyler said that Fairbairn was instrumental in the creation of the album and "helped relight the fire under Aerosmith".
In 1988, Fairbairn produced the Bon Jovi album New Jersey, which holds the record for the hard rock album to spawn the most Top 10 singles, with five singles charting on the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart, and which sold over seven million copies in the United States. Fairbain also produced Aerosmith's follow-up, 1989's Pump, which had sales in excess of seven million and was widely acclaimed by critics, and won him another "Producer of the Year" Juno Award.
In the 1990s, Fairbairn worked with a string of internationally influential hard rock acts. In 1990 he produced AC/DC's The Razors Edge, and Poison's Flesh and Blood. In 1993, he produced another Aerosmith commercial hit, Get a Grip, which racked up sales of seven million and solidified the band's growing representation as international media stars. Next, Fairbairn produced the Scorpions' Face the Heat and in 1995 Van Halen's Balance. Also in 1995, Fairbairn went to Vallance's Armoury Studios in Vancouver to work on Chicago's Night and Day: Big Band, and liked the studio so much he bought it from Vallance the following year.
In late 1996, and through early 1997, Fairbairn produced INXS' 'comeback' album Elegantly Wasted which, while garnering mixed reviews, obtained sales that were higher than INXS' previous albums. Also, Fairbairn produced The Cranberries' To the Faithful Departed, and Kiss' reunion-album Psycho Circus.
His last fully completed project was the Atomic Fireballs' Torch This Place for Atlantic Records in 1999, which Fairbairn described as "a return to my brass roots".
During the mixing sessions for Yes' The Ladder, on May 17, 1999, Fairbairn was found dead by Yes singer Jon Anderson and Armoury manager Sheryl Preston in his Vancouver home. He was survived by his wife, Julie, with whom he had three sons: Scott, Kevin, and Brent. Bob Rock stated that, on the week Fairbairn died, the two were to travel to New York to meet Bon Jovi for another album together.
A memorial, "A Celebration of the Life of Bruce Earl Fairbairn", held at the Vancouver Chan Centre, was attended by more than 300 people. Highlighted by reminiscences from close friends, the event included musical performances from Jon Anderson and Steve Howe performing the song "Nine Voices" from Yes' The Ladder sessions, as well as Tom Keenlyside, guitarist David Sinclair and finally, "Taps" played on Bruce's trumpet by son Brent.
In March 2000, Fairbairn was posthumously awarded the Canadian Music Hall of Fame Juno Award for his work.
In his interviews concerning The Ladder, Fairbairn can be seen in short sections in the bonus material on Yes' Live at the House of Blues DVD.
^ a b c Fairbairn Lends Golden Touch to Kiss' 'Psycho Circus', Billboard.
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Town drafts regulations for cell towers
Grace Duffield
April 13, 2017 Updated: June 25, 2019 1:42 a.m.
As the possibility of new cell towers loom over the horizon in New Canaan, regulations have been drafted with the oversight of Utilities Commission to suggest the type and location of future facilities.
Cell towers are a particularly relevant topic here since there are diagrams on the Town website, newcanaan.info, showing designs for cell towers on West School property 530 feet from the school building and at Irwin Park near a section of the nature path. The Town is considering both of these locations for cell towers to improve the cell coverage in the northwest corner of town. Areas in the northwest part of town were found in a Town-financed 2014 Centerline study to have either poor or no cell service.
The draft regulations are part of a comprehensive plan for improving cellular communications in New Canaan that is being developed by the Utilities Commissions. They include regulations on such options as micro cell units, which serve a similar purpose as the antenna on cell towers, but are less conspicuous because they can be placed on regular telephone poles. As much as the Utilities Commission reasons that those less visually disruptive technologies are preferred, Chairman Tom Tesluk has said that they are not a practical solution for filling the gaps in cell coverage in the northwest part of town.
The regulations were largely created by Cityscape Consultants, who work with New Canaan and other municipalities to address the many challenges of cellular technology. The draft is being used as a straw man while the commission is looking for resident input since "nothing is written in stone," said Tesluk at a recent meeting.
The 13-page draft of regulations entitled Telecommunications Facilities can be found on the commission's website and includes other telecommunications infrastructures other than cell towers as well.
Towering intellect
Tesluk contends that cost and laws of physics require that cell towers be part of the solution for coverage in the northwest part of town. The laws of physics say the higher the pole, the more cell coverage, while having the shorter poles in a sparsely populated area would require too many of them to render the project affordable, according to explanations given by Tesluk.
The draft regulations cover many issues with cell towers with such concepts as so-called concealed and non-concealed telecommunications towers. It may seem confusing to some residents that anything 85-110-feet tall could be considered 'concealed.' The concealment refers to a form of camouflage such as pine tree forms attached to poles, a church steeple or a clock tower used to conceal and immediately surround a cell tower. A non-concealed telecommunication facility is one that is "readily identifiable" as one, according to the guidelines definition.
In the draft regulations, it is assumed the preference for New Canaan is for concealed towers instead of a naked or unconcealed monopoles.
A concealed tower would be limited to 110 feet and a non-concealed tower shall be limited to 85 feet, according to the draft regulations.
Tesluk has repeatedly said that the Town would not consider monopines, cell towers designed to look like pine trees, that look like the infamous one on the Hutchinson Parkway. He called it an "upright mascara brush," in a conversation with the Advertiser recently. He said that Cityscape reports that the infamous monopine is 150-feet tall.
The draft regulations list, in order or preference, the types of cell tower concealments. The most preferred is to look like a tree "of a type naturally occurring in area;" second choice is a church steeple; third choice is a bell or clock tower; and the fourth choice is non-concealed tower.
There are also different types of cell tower structures. In the regulations it is assumed that residents will prefer the monopole, which is similar to the one on Rt. 123 next to the golf course; next is Lattice, which is cell tower with a framework, similar, but not as appealing, as the Eiffel Tower; and third is a guyed cell tower which is a tower with supportive wires.
There are a number of regulations that may not be controversial, such as in order to protect the viewshed, commercial messages shall not be displayed on the tower.
The draft regulations also cite a preference for a Neutral Host Personal Wireless Service Facilities / PWSF, which are defined as "designed and operated to include all known and proposed frequencies to be used for personal wireless telecommunications service and capable of use by multiple wireless providers" in the Siting and Design Guideline for Telecommunications, Town of New Canaan. This document is also on the Town website and defines many of the technological terms found in the regulations.
The Utilities Commision has presented these regulations to the Planning and Zoning Commission, some of whose members have argued that they do not want to be the Town body that is responsible for them.
It's all about the base
At the foot of cell towers is a base that encompasses equipment necessary for the tower.
In the drafted regulations, the equipment should not be visible from "pedestrian right-of-way views." The base equipment shall be landscaped with a minimum 10-ft. wide
perimeter buffer which would include the following: indigenous trees and plants, one row of evergreen trees and a continuous hedge of at least five feet, according to the drafted regulations.
The plans for the base of the tower for Irwin Park and West School call for 75-ft. x 75-ft. base, which is equivalent to a 5,600 sq. ft. footprint of a McMansion, neighbors observed.
The regulations also say that fenced in base area shall not be used for storage of excess equipment or hazardous materials.
Some of the logic in the regulations is that the Town would not consider cell towers in areas that would not improve the cell coverage for New Canaan. A few years ago there was consideration of a tower near the Transfer Station, and Tesluck said it was found that that tower would have helped cell coverage in other towns and the Merritt Parkway, but not for New Canaan.
The commission also has a preference for municipal property because it is assumed that it may be easier to achieve all necessary approvals if the Town is the landlord. Many of the decisions on local cell towers are actually governed by the Site Council of the State of Connecticut, that has legal jurisdiction over siting of power facilities, transmission lines, telecommunications towers and more.
There have been differing views expressed at Town meetings as to the degree the site council will take local input and regulations into consideration when ruling on location for a cell tower.
Health and safety concerns
Once West School district parents learned about the designs for a cell tower, some have raised concern and offered links with evidence that cell towers can be damaging to health and developing children. However, Federal Communications Commission rules prohibit that health concerns can be a consideration for local authorities in making decisions on cell towers.
The drafted regulations address safety issues such as insisting that if more than 220 voltage is necessary, signs indicating danger would be be posted every 20 feet.
There are many regulations in the document that are might be considered non-controversial, such as the the height calculation shall be made in accordance with Federal Aviation Administration standards. Also, telecommunication facilities would not be allowed on a single or multi-family dwelling of less than three stories in height. | {
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MORE than 100 tractors converged on Halsey Cross in Over Stowey on Sunday for a popular annual charity tractor run.
Organised by Terry Ayre, the annual tractor run has raised more than £200,000 for the children's cancer ward at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton via the Marion Evered Trust.
All manner of tractors took part in the run, setting off a 10am and following a route through Fiddington to Stogursey, through Burton, Lilstock, Kilve, Alfoxton, Holford, Dead Woman's Ditch and finish at Over Stowey.
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The DavidHenry Agency Opens Space Farms' 2012 Season with a ROOOOAAAARRRRR!
June 29, 2012 | 0 Comments | campaign, entertainment, facebook, family, fun, integrated, interactive, kids, Media, space farms zoo and museum, website, youtube
As the agency of record for Space Farms Zoo and Museum located in Sussex County, New Jersey, The DavidHenry Agency is implementing their 2012 integrated marketing plan for this season, running March 31, 2012 through October 31, 2012.
Program components include the strategy, development, and roll out of the 2012 Space Farms media plan, a rebranding campaign consisting of updated creative for Space Farms' outdoor, print, TV and radio promotion; design, development, and management of the newly redesigned SpaceFarms.com, and creation and management of the Space Farms Zoo and Museum YouTube channel.
Understanding the importance of including both traditional and modern tools in their marketing mix, Space Farms is excited about the launch of their summer 2012 campaign. The media incorporates the theme of American Idol, the popular reality TV singing competition, with a spin-off "Animal Idol" as Space Farms' animals — including Scotty the Scottish Cow, Leslie the Llama and Eugene the Yak — show off their vocal skills under the direction of Bobby Barakat, the Animal Idol Master of Ceremonies. The newly launched www.SpaceFarms.com and the Space Farms Zoo and Museum YouTube channel promote the 2012 media and extend the updated brand platform for Space Farms.
Says Parker Space, third generation owner and operator of Space Farms, "As a tourist destination for families in a radius of about 80 miles from our zoo and museum, we know that it's crucial for our guests to learn more about us online as they plan their trip. Our new website portrays the fun times families have when they visit, and also give them the opportunity to plan their trip with access to directions, admission pricing, zoo and museum information, and the ability to pre-order group tickets. SpaceFarms.com is directly tied to our Facebook page through Facebook's social plug in, so all of our posts, contests and information on Facebook is directly fed to our new site – we love it!"
To learn more about The DavidHenry Agency's interactive and integrated services, click here. | {
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Q: Can I re-use an "offer" in WebRTC for mulitple connections? I'm starting to learn WebRTC and have a working prototype using copy/paste here: https://github.com/aerik/webrtc (the prototype is meant to be run in two browser windows, unlike many other examples that run both sides in one window)
I understand that WebRTC is peer-to-peer and a I need a connection for every set of peers. However, I'm starting to think about signalling (no code yet) and I'm wondering about the "offer". In my prototype I see that clicking "create offer" multiple times results in the same string. So, if have client A, and connect to client B and C, it looks like I will send the same "offer" to both of them. If that's correct, it makes the first step of signalling easy - client A will always have the same offer, and I just have to gather responses from connected peers.
Is this a correct understanding?
A: It is not, a peer connection will generate different origin values for different offers (o= in the SDP).
Same peer connection offers will contain same <sess-id> but different <sess-version>.
Different peer connections will produce different <sess-id>
You can check it with the following snippet in Chrome:
var a = new webkitRTCPeerConnection({});
a.createOffer().then(offer => $('#11').text(offer.sdp));
a.createOffer().then(offer => $('#12').text(offer.sdp));
var b = new webkitRTCPeerConnection({});
b.createOffer().then(offer => $('#21').text(offer.sdp));
b.createOffer().then(offer => $('#22').text(offer.sdp));
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
First PC, first offer: <span id="11"></span><br/>
First PC, second offer: <span id="12"></span><br/>
Second PC, first offer: <span id="21"></span><br/>
Second PC, second offer: <span id="22"></span><br/>
You can find more info about the SDP in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4566#page-11
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Dell, Kevin Hart, and Phillip, Bryan Cranston, are laughing and smiling in the new movie "The Upside".
On Jan. 11, "The Upside" hit theaters as a comedy-drama and within the first weekend it made an astounding $19.6 million. It has now grossed over $100 million in box office sales. It was adapted from a 2011 French movie called "The Intouchables". "The Upside" stars Kevin Hart as Dell and Bryan Cranston as Phillip. Kevin Hart has also starred in "Night School", "Ride Along", and many more. Bryan Cranston has appeared in movies such as "Why Him?" and "Saving Private Ryan" just to name a few. It was directed by Neil Burger, who was also the director for the books series turned movie series, "Divergent".
The story follows a wealthy quadriplegic named Phillip and Dell, a convicted criminal trying to get back on his feet. Phillip hires Dell to be his 24 hour caretaker. As they work together, Phillip exposes Dell to new experiences such as the opera and modern art, and Dell introduces Phillip to trendy new things like hip-hop music and mainstream slang terms. As time goes on, they form an unlikely friendship and help each other learn to enjoy life and to live life to the fullest.
The story of Phillip and Dell is an unlikely tale of two different people from different walks of life coming together to form a friendship and an understanding of each other. The director made sure to incorporate Hart's sense of humor and ability to make everyone laugh with his actions, facial expressions and one liners, while also showcasing Cranston's dry sense of humor. Their personalities on screen mix well and make the movie more entertaining. The downside was the predictability of the plot that could have been avoided by adding a twist the audience didn't expect, but overall it did an outstanding job of addressing and demonstrating how citizens in today's society need to come together no matter our differences and learn to be more accepting of others.
Although "The Upside" is not a record-breaking movie or a major award winner, it is an entertaining movie to watch with friends or on a relaxing binge night by yourself. It is sure to bring a smile to your face and make you laugh out loud. | {
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Organic Alternatives for your Diary, Eggs, Meat and Fish?
Posted on December 11, 2013 January 18, 2014 by D. Franz
The health risks posed by meat, eggs and dairy products from animals raised on factory farms are well known. But now there's growing evidence that organic alternatives not only eliminate those health risks, but actually provide significantly more nutritional value.
We know why these products, when sourced from factory farms, can't be good for our health. Animals on factory farms are fed slaughterhouse waste, blood, manure, arsenic and byproducts from corn ethanol production (which increases the rate of E. coli).
Factory farms also pump animals full of antibiotics, growth hormones, and genetically modified vaccines and growth hormones which, according to scientists, are associated with increased rates of breast, testicular and prostate cancers.
Organic farming prohibits the use of most of the above, including the routine administering of antibiotics and growth hormones. That fact alone leads to higher-quality animal products. But the latest science also tells us that products that come from animals raised organically provide higher levels of antioxidants, lower levels of saturated fats and cholesterol, and higher levels of healthy omega-3s and many vitamins.
Here are some interesting comparisons between meat, milk and eggs from animals raised on factory farms, vs. their grassfed, free-range and organic alternatives.
50-80: Percent more antioxidants in milk from organic cattle compared with milk from cows raised in factory farms.
10: Number of ways a 2009 study—a joint effort between the U.S.D.A. and researchers at Clemson University in South Carolina—found grassfed beef to be superior to grain-fed beef, including being higher in beta-carotene, vitamin E, omega-3s, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), calcium, magnesium, and potassium; lower in inflammatory omega-6s; and lower in saturated fats that have been linked to heart disease.
60: Percent more antioxidants and healthy fatty acids in organic milk versus conventional milk.
68: Percent more omega-3 fatty acids contained in organic milk, on average, than conventional milk, according to a three-year study in the United Kingdom conducted independently by the Universities of Liverpool and Glasgow during 2002 and 2005, centering on a cross-section of UK farms over a 12-month production cycle.
Up to 90: Percent more antioxidants in milk from organically-fed herds compared with milk from conventional herds.
68.2: Percent more omega-3 fatty acids in organic milk, compared with non-organic milk, including a superior ratio of Omega-6 to Omega-3 fatty acids, believed to be beneficial to human health.
20: Times more omega-3's found in eggs from pastured hens compared with eggs from hens raised in factory farms.
66: Percent more vitamin A in eggs from pastured hens compared with eggs from hens raised in factory farms.
3: More vitamin E in eggs from pastured hens compared with eggs from hens raised in factory farms.
7: Times more beta carotene in eggs from pastured hens compared with eggs from hens raised in factory farms.
3-6: Times more vitamin D in eggs from pastured hens compared with eggs from hens raised in factory farms.
33: Percent less cholesterol in eggs from pastured hens compared with eggs from hens raised in factory farms.
25: Percent less saturated fat in eggs from pastured hens compared with eggs from hens raised in factory farms.
40: Percent of Americans consume a sufficient supply of omega-3 nutrients. Twenty percent have levels so low that they cannot be detected.
One half to one third: Amount of fat a sirloin steak from a grassfed steer has versus a similar cut from a grain-fed steer.
Equal: Amount of fat in grassfed meat as found in skinless chicken or wild deer or elk.
100: Fewer calories in a 6-ounce steak from a grass-finished steer compared with a 6-ounce steak from a grain-fed steer.
17,733: Number of calories a typical meat eater would save annually if (66.5 pounds a year) by switching to grassfed beef, resulting in a loss of about six pounds-per-year.
2-6: More "good" fats (omega-3 fatty acids) in grassfed meat versus grain-fed. People who have ample amounts of omega-3s in their diets are less likely to have high blood pressure or an irregular heartbeat, and 50 percent less likely to have a serious heart attack and cancer.
5: The amount of "conjugated linoleic acid" or CLA (another "good fat") in meat and milk from grassfed ruminants raised on fresh pasture than from animals fed conventional diets. CLA may be one of our most potent defenses against cancer.
60: Percent lower risk of breast cancer in women who had the highest levels of CLA in their diets compared with those who had the lowest levels of CLA, according to a Finnish study.
4: Times the amount of vitamin E in meat from the pastured cattle compared with meat from feedlot cattle, and almost twice as high as the meat from the feedlot cattle given vitamin E supplements.
20: Percent less fat content in wild salmon versus farmed salmon. And farm-raised fish contain higher amounts of pro-inflammatory omega-6 fats instead of the preponderance of healthier omega 3s found in wild fish.
70: Percent more fat in farmed Atlantic salmon than in wild Atlantic salmon because of the high fat content in their feed, according to a USDA study, and 200 percent more fat compared with wild Pacific pink or chum salmon.
32: Percent fewer calories in a ½ filet of wild salmon versus farmed salmon.
50: Percent less fat contained in a ½ filet of wild salmon versus farmed salmon.
More than Double: The amount of iron contained in a ½ filet of wild salmon versus farmed salmon.
33: Percent more calcium contained in a ½ filet of wild salmon versus ½ filet farmed salmon.
33: Percent more potassium contained in a ½ filet of wild salmon versus ½ filet farmed salmon.
Nearly 25: Percent less sodium contained in a ½ filet of wild salmon versus ½ filet farmed salmon.
Nearly double: Amount of zinc in a ½ filet of wild salmon versus ½ filet farmed salmon.
More than three 3: Less saturated fat in a ½ filet of wild salmon versus ½ filet farmed salmon.
http://www.nationofchange.org/want-more-vitamins-healthy-omega-3s-and-antioxidants-go-organic-1386603224
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Quartier de l'Opera contains many places of cultural, historical, and architectural interest, including the Palais Garnier, home to the Paris Opera, and its large department stores--Galeries Lafayette and Printemps. Famed for its large avenues, built by the Baron Haussmann under Napoleon III, the district once reigned as a residential hub. Now, however, it's a center for businesses, featuring many well-known banks, restaurants, hotels, and cafes. With our custom trip planner, Paris attractions like Quartier de l'Opera can be center stage of your vacation plans, and you can find out about other attractions like it, unlike it, near it, and miles away.
In This area tourists are more than the townspeople themselves. It immediately catches the eye. Because There are many shopping malls in the area, and shopping is international. Crowds of Chinese and other Asians are here, not on the Place des Vosges or in the Louvre. Monumental buildings underline the solidity of the district, and the Big boulevards are named so from their size.... Here Paris is noisy, multi-and always hurrying somewhere. Probably in Galeries Lafayette...) To Live here is prestigious even by tourist standards. Recommend. | {
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HomeSocial MediaInspiring fastfood worker and delivery rider becomes a policeman
Inspiring fastfood worker and delivery rider becomes a policeman
Admin Saturday, March 06, 2021 0
MANILA, Philippines – Renx Francisco D Ramos had been a working student and later a delivery rider before becoming a cop. His story has inspired so many netizens after he was featured on a Facebook page about policemen.
Proud of what this young man was able to achieve, the page shared photos of Ramos to recognize his efforts to eventually become part of the country's gallant police officers.
Just like many students in the Philippines, Ramos faced hardships in going to school due to financial challenges. But he did not stop dreaming. Instead of waiting until someone would send him to school, he found a job as a service crew at Jollibee to support his education.
Photo credit: Facebook/Tambayan NG PULIS
It was through this job that he was able to send himself to school and earn a degree. He was determined to become a policeman so he could provide a better life for his family.
Becoming a policeman
Although he already holds a degree, Ramos was not able to immediately enter the police force. A lot of police hopefuls like him had to wait for the quota of the Philippine National Police (PNP) before they could apply to become a police officer.
After taking and passing the PNP Entrance (NAPOLCOM), Ramos had to wait for the quota, but he stayed productive by becoming a GrabFood rider.
His big break came when he was finally able to join other recruits as they started their police training on February 17, 2020 at the Regional Training Center 1. He belongs to Class 2020-02 "Alab Balasik" of the Aviation Security Group (PNP-AVSE GROUP).
Now that he was finally able to reach his dreams, Ramos shared his story to inspire others not to quit so they could also achieve their goals in life.
Congratulations, Sir!
— Joy Adalia, The Summit Express
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Mets legend helps Chick-fil-A surprise Team Member with $25,000 scholarship
Johnathan McGinty Sep 14, 2018
Hardship fueled young scholarship recipient's quest to fulfill dreams
"Overachiever" may be an understatement when it comes to Devin Lintao. In everything he does, he seems to go above-and-beyond.
He's not just a volunteer. In the past year alone, he logged more than 700 hours of community service, spanning everything from distributing supplies to homeless in New York City to collecting donations of clothing for underprivileged children overseas.
He's not just a New York Mets fan. He got an internship with the team and channeled his passion for the Mets and for writing, providing coverage of the team through Elite Sports NY and RisingApple.com. Through his writing, he has developed an impressive social media following, as he helps his more than 5,000 Twitter followers keep up with the latest Mets' news.
And when his family dealt with loss and fell on hard times financially, he didn't just persevere, he got a job and enrolled as a full-time student at Thomas Edison State University, earning a degree in communications.
To help pay for his education, Lintao has worked at the Newport Centre Chick-fil-A in Jersey City, New Jersey, since 2015. He aspires to participate in Chick-fil-A's leadership development program, with an ultimate goal of one day becoming a franchise Operator.
"Devin brings a high level of determination and commitment to everything he does, leading by example every day," said Erik Benitez, franchise Operator at Chick-fil-A Newport Centre, adding that Lintao is determined to keep learning, with a dream of earning his master's degree.
Benitez and Chick-fil-A's Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Jon Bridges, pulled off a huge surprise for the hard-worker and Mets fanatic. They teamed up with legendary Mets player Mookie Wilson to surprise Lintao with a $25,000 True Inspiration Scholarship, making him one of 13 Team Members to receive the honor in 2018 for their commitment to leadership, education and community service.
Watch the video to see Lintao's reaction!
The True Inspiration Scholarship is part of Chick-fil-A's Remarkable Futures initiative. Last year, more than 5,700 Team Members received $14.65 million in scholarships. Since 1973, nearly 46,700 Team Members have been awarded $61 million in scholarships.
Are you ready to begin your remarkable future with Chick-fil-A? Click here for more information and to find your nearest Chick-fil-A location.
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Single mom, restaurant leader awarded $25,000 scholarship from Chick-fil-A
If there is one thing you should know about Holly Curby, it's that she doesn't quit. Despite some tremendous challenges personally and professionally, she has remained determined and focused.
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$25,000 scholarship to help Chick-fil-A restaurant Team Member follow her dream
When she was a child, Saskya Simon's mother used to tell her, "the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra." It's a quote she has kept close to her heart, motivating her to work hard and be her best.
Charlotte Chick-fil-A Team Member surprised with $25,000 scholarship
For Jacqueline Murphy, success was something she was always able to earn. From diligently working hard in school to seeking out the next academic challenge, she has always been eager to find new ways to thrive and grow. However, it wasn't until she chose to step out of her comfort zone that she truly unlocked the door to personal growth.
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Sixty-three years after the General Assembly's historic adoption in 1947 of resolution 181 (II), partitioning Palestine into two States – one Arab and one Jewish - the independence of the Palestinian Arab State continued to be unjustly obstructed and the rights of Palestinians "flagrantly denied", the Permanent Observer of Palestine told the world body, as it considered that "painful and persistent" issue in the broader context of Middle East peace.
Indeed, Israel had proven it was "unable and unwilling to shake the mentality and behaviour of occupier and aggressor", he said, and commit to international consensus on the two-State solution. Israel continued to use "arbitrary, irrational, fictitious and even racist pretexts to absolve itself of its legal responsibilities", thereby exacerbating the situation on the ground.
For its part, the Palestinian leadership had repeatedly reaffirmed its readiness to resume negotiations in an environment that was actually conducive for achieving peace, he said, one in which actions contrary to peace were halted, including settlement activities. " Israel must be compelled to either choose the path of peace or to bear the responsibility for its obstruction," he declared.
" Israel cannot reach this peace on its own," said Israel's delegate later in the debate, stressing that his Government had long made clear it was necessary and possible to live in peace with its neighbours – and had proven that in peace respective treaties reached with Egypt and Jordan. Peace with the Palestinians could only be found through direct, bilateral negotiations that addressed the concerns of both sides. Any agreement must be based on principles of mutual recognition and security, with Palestinians abandoning their quest to "make this land theirs alone – both now and in the future".
The international community must confront States that provided extensive support to terrorists in Gaza, he said, notably Iran, which continued to export violence and instability in the Middle East. He urged the Palestinian Authority to join Israel without preconditions in direct talks broken off two months ago. The Assembly had a choice: it could continue to adopt the same distorted narrative of Israel pursuing a political agenda, or it could take a more constructive approach, working to bring parties together to pursue peace, and recognizing that as the only way to truly support the fundamental rights of Palestinians.
On that point, Assembly President Joseph Deiss, said in opening remarks that the 192-member body had repeatedly stated that a solution in accordance with resolution 181 would be the most viable; one where Israelis and Palestinians lived alongside each other in peace and security within recognized borders. He reminded delegations that while they were addressing the "painful and persistent" question of Palestine, today was also the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. (Please See press release GA/PAL/1178).
Egypt's delegate, on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, condemned Israel's persistent construction and expansion process in many settlements in the West Bank. He also noted alarm at persistent attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians, Islamic and Christian holy sites and worship places, as well as at Israel's violation of international law through labelling products from Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as "Made in Israel". He called for a halt to "this illegal colonization enterprise".
Throughout the half-day meeting, delegates pressed Israel and the Palestinians to persist in efforts to restore peace talks launched in September and currently stalled over the expiration of a moratorium on Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank. Some also urged those negotiations to resolve the status of Jerusalem as the future capital of two States and stressed the crucial importance of the continuation of the Palestinian State-building process.
In other business, the Assembly President informed delegates that consideration of agenda item 32, on the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict, scheduled for Thursday, 2 December, had been postponed.
Senegal's representative, Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, introduced four draft resolutions related to the question of Palestine: "Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People" (document A/65/L.14); "the Division for Palestinian Rights of the United Nations Secretariat" (document A/65/L.15); "the Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the United Nations Department of Public Information" (document A/65/L.16); and "Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine" (document A/65/L.17).
Also speaking today was the representative of Malta, as Rapporteur of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, who introduced the report on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (A/65/35).
Libya's representative introduced a draft resolution entitled "the one State solution" (document A/65/L.24).
Also speaking today were the representatives of Belgium (on behalf of the European Union), United Arab Emirates, Syria, Indonesia, Yemen, Lebanon and Cuba.
The General Assembly will reconvene at 10 a.m. Tuesday, 30 November, to continue its consideration of the question of Palestine and situation in the Middle East.
The General Assembly met today to begin two days of debate relating to the question of Palestine and the situation in the Middle East. For their discussion, delegations had before them several documents and draft resolutions, including the latest report of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (document A/65/35), which notes efforts to resume negotiations on all permanent status issues, a volatile situation on the ground throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the continued division between the political leadership in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Of special concern was the humanitarian situation in Gaza, which was exacerbated by Israel's continued imposition of a severe blockade on the territory. The blockade obstructed the movement of persons and goods, including humanitarian access and the import of materials for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Gaza and other essential supplies.
The situation in the Gaza Strip was bleak, the report says, with 1.5 million inhabitants still suffering from the aftermath of the Israeli military assault of December 2008 – January 2009, an acute shortage of basic goods and services, including clean water, and economic activity stifled by the blockade. Throughout the year, Israel conducted military operations in the Gaza Strip, resulting in Palestinian casualties. This was met with resumed rocket and mortar fire by armed Palestinian groups in southern Israel. In addition, Israeli military incursions into West Bank population centres continued, as did the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the construction of the dividing wall.
Despite these challenges, says the report, the Palestinian Authority and the Committee made progress during the reporting period, particularly in economic development and State-building. The activities of the Committee and its Bureau during the year had focused on the need to end the Israeli occupation and establish a sovereign, independent Palestinian State on the basis of pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with international law and the relevant United Nations resolutions. The Committee remained concerned about the stagnation of the political process, and in the report's conclusions, reiterates that Israel's "dangerous and provocative" policies in East Jerusalem were prone to spark negative reactions on the ground.
The Committee further condemned the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, the report notes. While welcoming the resumption of the direct negotiations between Israel and Palestinians, it also expressed regret at the non-extension of the Israeli moratorium on settlement construction, which called into question the continuation of the negotiations.
The Committee and the Division for Palestinian Rights would continue to generate heightened international awareness of the challenges for a comprehensive, just and lasting solution of the question of Palestine. It would focus its international meetings and conferences in 2011 on widening international support for permanent status negotiations, and creating a favourable atmosphere for their conduct in good faith, among other activities.
For its discussion on Palestine, the Assembly had before it the Secretary-General's report on peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine (documents A/65/380-S/2010/484 and Add.1), which contains replies received from the parties concerned to notes verbales sent by the Secretary-General, pursuant to the request contained in paragraph 24 of resolution 64/19 (2010). It also contains the Secretary-General's observations on the state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and international efforts to move the peace process forward.
In his observations, the Secretary-General notes efforts intensified during the September 2009 through August 2010 reporting period to resolve question of Palestine, but says unilateral actions and human rights violations continued to undermine diplomatic efforts, while the situation in Gaza remained unsustainable and the divide between Gaza and the West Bank continued to deepen.
Moreover, the "overall impasse" in diplomatic efforts from November 2009 to January 2010 was reflected in the frustrations and low confidence of the parties in the renewed peace process; disputes over the terms of reference for negotiations; Israel's continued creation of facts on the ground; tensions in Jerusalem and the West Bank and continued violence in Gaza.
The report details various visits by the Secretary-General during the reporting period to move the peace process forward, as well as meetings held to that end, most notably the 20 August call by the Middle East Quartet for parties to launch direct negotiations on 2 September to resolve all final status issues. The Secretary-General notes the tense situation in occupied East Jerusalem continued to impact the peace process and that he had expressed concern at house demolitions and settlement construction in that area. Disturbances around the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount also continued.
The Secretary-General urges support for the State-building agenda of the Palestinian Authority, and for Israel to do more to ease restrictions on movement and take steps to facilitate economic growth in the West Bank. While welcoming Israel's 20 November 2009 announcement of a 10-month restraint on new settlement construction, he said that that policy had fallen short of its Road Map commitments to freeze all settlement activity and dismantle outposts erected since March 2001. Moreover, he notes that the causes of violence in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, were, among others, Israeli security operations; mistrust between the communities; retaliation against Palestinians following the implementation of the settlement restraint; and unilateral acts "deemed to be provocative".
Addressing the Gaza Strip, the Secretary-General says he witnessed the immense reconstruction needs and unsustainable nature of the situation there during his 21 March visit. Israel's announcement after the 31 May incident involving the Gaza-bound aid flotilla to ease the blockade on 20 June was welcomed. All crossings into Gaza should be urgently opened. As for the internal dynamics in Gaza, Hamas continued to strengthen control and deepen the rift with the West Bank. As such, he called on Hamas not to carry out illegal executions of prisoners without a transparent trial, as had happened on 15 April. He also called for the unconditional release of Israeli Staff Sergeant Gilad Shalit.
"I remain convinced that direct and meaningful negotiations are the only avenue towards a comprehensive and sustainable solution that fulfils the aspirations of the Israeli and the Palestinian peoples," he says. In the days ahead, progress must be made at the negotiating table and on the ground to move towards an agreement on all core issues of the conflict. For talks to succeed, Israel should extend its moratorium on settlement construction in the West Bank beyond the 30 September 2010 deadline and expand its scope in East Jerusalem. Palestinians must maintain law and order, fight extremism and build strong, democratic institutions.
The Secretary-General's report on the situation in the Middle East (document A/65/379) contains replies received from Member States in response to the Secretary-General's 10 May 2010 note verbale concerning implementation of resolutions 64/20 (2009) on Jerusalem and 64/21 (2009) on the Syrian Golan.
Also taken up today were several draft resolutions, the first of which, on the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (document A/65/L.14), would have the Assembly request the Committee to continue to exert all efforts to promote the realization of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including their right to self-determination, to support the Middle East peace process and to mobilize international support for and assistance to the Palestinian people.
Further, it would authorize the Committee to make such adjustments in its approved programme of work as it may consider appropriate and necessary in the light of developments and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session. The Assembly would also request the Committee to continue to keep under review the question of Palestine and to report and make suggestions to the General Assembly, the Security Council or the Secretary-General, as appropriate; and that it continue to support and cooperate with relevant organizations and United Nations bodies.
Additionally, the Assembly would request the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, and other United Nations bodies associated with the question of Palestine to continue to cooperate fully with the Committee. It would invite all Governments and organizations to extend their cooperation to the Committee in the performance of its tasks. It would request the Secretary-General to circulate the Committee's report to all the competent bodies of the United Nations, urging them to take the necessary action, and to continue to provide the Committee with all the necessary facilities for the performance of its tasks.
The draft resolution on the Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat (document A/65/L.15), would have the Assembly request the Division to continue to monitor developments relevant to the question of Palestine, organize international meetings and conferences and liaise and cooperate with civil society and parliamentarians. It would expand the "Question of Palestine" website and documents collection of the United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine, disseminate publications and information materials on various aspects of the question of Palestine, and enhance the annual training programme for staff of the Palestinian Authority in contribution to Palestinian capacity-building efforts.
The Division would also be requested to continue to organize an annual exhibit or cultural event to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on 29 November. The Assembly would request the Secretary-General to ensure continued cooperation of the United Nations entities with programme components addressing various aspects of the question of Palestine and the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. The Assembly would further invite all Governments and organizations to extend their cooperation to the Division in the performance of its tasks.
The Assembly was also set to take up a draft text on the Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information (document A/65/L.16), by which it would request the Department to disseminate information on all United Nations activities relating to the question of Palestine and the peace process, including reports on the work carried out by relevant United Nations organizations, as well as on efforts of the Secretary-General and his Special Envoy regarding the peace process; to continue to issue, update and modernize publications and audio-visual materials on the various aspects of the question of Palestine; to expand that collection and to update public exhibits on the question of Palestine.
By other terms, the Assembly would request the Department to promote fact-finding news missions for journalists to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel; organize international, regional and national seminars for journalists aimed at sensitizing public opinion to the question of Palestine and the peace process, and at enhancing dialogue and understanding between Palestinians and Israelis.
Further, it would be requested to continue providing assistance to Palestinians in the field of media development, and notably to strengthen the annual training programme for Palestinian broadcasters and journalists. Additionally, it would encourage the Department to engage with the media and civil society representatives, encouraging people-to-people dialogue and promoting peace and mutual understanding in the region.
By a draft resolution on the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine (document A/65/L.17), the Assembly would reaffirm the illegality of Israeli actions intended at changing the status of Jerusalem, including measures such as the so-called "E-1 plan". It would also reaffirm the illegality of other unilateral measures that are contrary to international law and endeavour to alter the character, status and demographic composition of the city and the territory as a whole, among them, Israel's construction of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem.
Further, the Assembly would express its deep concern at the continued Israeli policy of closures and severe restrictions on the movement of persons and goods, medical and humanitarian personnel and goods, continued establishment of checkpoints and imposition of a permit regime throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, which had created a humanitarian crisis. It also would express concern over the unlawful takeover of Palestinian Authority institutions in the Gaza Strip in June 2007, and call for the restoration of the situation to that which existed prior to that time, and for continued efforts by Egypt, the League of Arab States and other parties for the promotion of dialogue to achieve restoration of Palestinian national unity.
The Assembly would stress the need for advancing reconstruction in the Gaza Strip, including through completion of suspended projects managed by the United Nations; call on Israel to comply with its obligations under international law; and reiterate the demand for complete cessation of all Israeli settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the Syrian Golan. Reaffirming its commitment to the two-State solution of Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security within recognized borders, based on pre-1967 borders, the Assembly would stress the need for Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem.
A draft text on Jerusalem (document A/65/L.18) would have the Assembly express its grave concern about Israel's continued illegal settlement activities, including the so-called "E-1 plan", construction of the wall in and around East Jerusalem, restrictions on access to and residence in East Jerusalem and isolation of the city from the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. It would express grave concern at continued Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes and eviction of Palestinian families from East Jerusalem, as well as about Israeli excavations undertaken in the Old City, including in and around religious sites.
By other terms, it would reiterate its determination that any Israeli actions to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on Jerusalem were illegal and, thus, null and void. Calling on Israel to immediately cease all such illegal and unilateral measures, it would stress that a comprehensive, just and lasting solution to the question of Jerusalem should take into account the legitimate concerns of the Palestinian and Israeli sides, and include internationally guaranteed provisions to ensure the freedom of religion and conscience of its inhabitants, as well as permanent, free and unhindered access to the holy places.
Also before the Assembly was a draft resolution on the Syrian Golan (document A/65/L.19), which would have it express grave concern over the halt in the peace process' Syrian track, and expressing hope that peace talks would soon resume, declare that Israel had failed to comply with Security Council resolution 497 (1981) and that Israel's 14 December 1981 decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the Syrian Golan was null and void.
By other terms, the Assembly would determine that continued occupation of that area and its defacto annexation constituted a stumbling block to achieving a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the region. It would call on Israel to resume talks on the Syrian and Lebanese tracks, demand Israel's withdrawal from the occupied Syrian Golan to the line of 4 June 1967 and call on the international community to exert all efforts to ensure a resumed peace process.
JOSEPH DEISS, President of the General Assembly, said that while the world body was addressing the "painful and persistent" Question of Palestine, today was also the International Say of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. "As you know, 29 November is the day on which, in 1947, the General Assembly adopted resolution 181, which divided the territory, known by the name the 'mandate for Palestine', into two States; one Jewish, one Arab," he said.
He urged moving beyond good intentions and get past deadlocks. Indeed, honest and fair negotiations must be conducted; violence and acts of terror must cease; international law and United Nations resolutions must be observed; and all actions that could worsen the situation and fuel a climate of suspicion and mistrust must stop. "The time has come to make peace and, in the short term, we must take steps to relieve the suffering of the Palestinian people," he said, noting that the Assembly had repeatedly expressed its concern at the humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
ABDOU SALAM DIALLO ( Senegal), the Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, introduced four draft resolutions before the Assembly related to the question of Palestine. Stating that the Committee called on Israel to restore the moratorium on settlements in the region and to extend it indefinitely and apply it also to East Jerusalem, he added that the Committee was deeply alarmed by the unilateral measures aimed at "altering the political demographic and legal realities" in the city. In addition, the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, caused in particular by the Israeli economic blockade, continued to be a great source of concern to the Committee.
The Committee intended to continue playing a constructive role in support of the international community's efforts, aimed at brining about a peaceful solution to the question of Palestine through a two-State solution. In this regard, he said, three of the draft resolutions before the Assembly today were related to the work of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (document A/65/L.14), the Division for Palestinian Rights of the United Nations Secretariat (document A/65/L.15), and the Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the United Nations Department of Public Information (document A/65/L.16). The fourth draft, Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine (document A/65/L.17), reiterated the position of the General Assembly with regard to the essential elements of such a settlement and included references to the developments of the past year.
SAVIOUR BORG ( Malta), Rapporteur of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, introduced the Committee's annual report (document A/65/35), whose chapters I through III covered the body's general perspective on events that had taken place during the year. In chapter IV, the situation relating to the question of Palestine, as monitored by the Committee, was reviewed, with the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations noted as an important development. That chapter also provided details on the situation on the ground, and daily difficulties faced by the population in the occupied territory, as a result of restrictions, illegal settlement activities and increased violence by Israeli settlers, among other things.
Chapter V reviewed the Committee's actions, he said, including the Chairman's participation in relevant General Assembly and Security Council debates, as well as mandated activities carried out by the Division for Palestinian Rights. He noted in that respect the International Meeting in Support of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace, held in Malta in February. Chapter VI provided an overview of work done by the Department of Public Information in pursuance of General Assembly resolution 64/18 (2009) and in the implementation of its Special Programme on the Question of Palestine. It cited "valuable" coverage provided by the Department over the year to raise awareness about that question, he added.
In chapter VI, the last section of the report, the Committee expressed its opposition to resumed illegal construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and, he said, its serious concern at the situation in Occupied East Jerusalem, including accelerated settlement construction, home demolition, revocation of residency rights, and eviction of Palestinian citizens, settler extremism and threats to the city's holy sites. It reiterated its condemnation of the continued Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip and urged Israel to open all border crossings to that area. Acknowledging the value of internal investigations into the 2008-2009 Israeli military offensive against Gaza, as well as into the incident involving the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" in May 2010, the Committee also called for an independent investigation into violations of international law and demanded follow-up action.
He said that in its report, the Committee also stressed the importance of resumed negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, based on relevant Security Council resolutions, the Madrid terms of reference and the Arab Peace Initiative. In that respect, continued international support, notably by the diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East peace process, was vital. Concerned that divisions among Palestinian factions profoundly affected legitimate aspirations for statehood, the Committee called for "invigorated efforts" by all such factions to reconcile their positions on the basis of prevailing consensus on the need to achieve the two-State solution. In 2011, the Committee would focus its programme of international meetings and conferences on widening international support for the permanent status negotiations and on contributing to the creation of a favourable atmosphere for their conduct, he added.
IBRAHIM O. DABBASHI ( Libya) introduced a draft resolution entitled "the one State solution" (document A/65/L.24), drawing attention to the need to resolve the question of Palestine, rather than pursuing a mirage: the dream of two States. Recounting history, he said that in 1917, the percentage of Jews in historical Palestine was 9 per cent. They had possessed 2.5 per cent of the Palestinian territories. In 1947, Jews compromised 32 per cent of the total population. General Assembly resolution 181 (1947) divided Palestine into two States, according 56 per cent of the territory to the Jewish minority and 44 per cent to Palestinian Arabs, who represented more than two-thirds of the population. In 1967, Israel waged war against Arab States and seized the rest of the historical Palestinian territory.
Today, 5 million Palestinians live in refugee camps, he said, most in neighbouring States. Israel had not allowed any of them to return, despite Assembly resolution 181 (1947). Palestinian leaders held more than 10 agreements with Israel dating from 1993, however Israel had yet to implement any of them. Rather, it had confiscated territories, demolished houses and deprived inhabitants of their basic necessities. Israel had seized 50 per cent of territory of the West Bank to build 149 settlements, established special security areas and "natural reserves". The "racist" separation wall took 10 per cent of Palestinian territory.
"There is no room whatsoever to establish a Palestinian State side-by-side with a so-called Israel", he said. One study had concluded that Israel, since 1967, had become a "colonial project" based on the apartheid system of racial discrimination. Israel had refused to recognize Palestinians' rights and attempted to render its occupation legal. The two-State solution promoted by the United States had not been possible, due to Israeli intransigence. Another solution must be found that took into account the principles of justice.
With that in mind, he said the draft stemmed from the principles of the United Nations Charter and stressed the illegality of possessing territories by force. It showed the tragic consequences of Israel's policy of force and recognized that the present situation did not allow for the creation of two States. It outlined the Assembly's commitment to finding a lasting solution, especially regarding the rights of those born in the historical territory of Palestine to live there, recover their property and recover their rights, as outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, among others.
The text also affirmed that the time was right to find a peaceful, just and lasting solution to the conflict that safeguarded the legitimate rights of both sides, he said. There was no other viable option other than creation of one State for both Jews and Palestinians, based on equal rights and obligations. The text before the Assembly invited all Member States to support such a solution.
RIYAD MANSOUR Permanent Observer of Palestine, noting that today marked sixty-three years since the General Assembly's adoption of resolution 181(II), said that the independence of the Palestinian Arab State continued to be unjustly obstructed and the rights of the Palestinian people continued to be "flagrantly denied and violated". More than half of the Palestinian population continued to live as refugees, with the majority still in the camps established to shelter them more than sixty years ago. Israel continued to deny the existence of the nation of Palestine and the rights of her people, including to self-determination and to return to their homes to live at peace with their neighbours.
In spite of international and regional efforts for peace during the recent period, including the efforts of the United States and other members of the Quartet – also comprising the European Union, the Russian Federation, and the United Nations - as well as the League of Arab States and others, the Israeli Government continued to prove that it was "unable and unwilling to shake the mentality and behaviour of occupier and aggressor" and to commit to the path of peace and the international consensus on the two-State solution. He said that Israel continued to use "arbitrary, irrational, fictitious and even racist pretexts to absolve itself of its legal responsibilities", thereby prolonging the conflict and further exacerbating the situation on the ground.
Israel's continued pursuit of its settlement colonization campaign throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory was in direct violation of international humanitarian law, he said. Since the expiration of the "moratorium" on settlement activities, such construction had intensified, in particular in East Jerusalem. The situation there, including in and around the Old City and the neighbourhoods of Silwan, Al-Bustan and Sheikh Jarrah, remained critical, as evidenced by the recent Israeli announcement of plans for the construction of yet another 1,300 settlement units in the illegal settlement of "Har Homa" on Palestinian land historically known as Jabal Abu Ghneim.
That campaign, he continued, was clearly intended to dramatically alter the demographic composition and Palestinian Arab character and identity of East Jerusalem, said the representative, and to physically isolate and sever the city from its natural Palestinian environs. Further, Palestinians in East Jerusalem continued to be subjected to the demolition of their homes, evictions, revocation of their residency rights and other provocations by Israeli settlers, Government officials and others. Settlers continued to terrorize and intimidate Palestinian civilians and to destroy their property. In that regard, he reiterated that a halt to all Israeli settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, was essential for resumption of a credible peace process aimed at achieving a two-State solution based on the pre-1967 borders.
The situation in the Gaza Strip – where the continuing impact of Israel's blockade and the consequences of military aggression still affected every aspect of life - also remained critical. Palestine continued to call for the full lifting of the blockade in accordance with international law, Security Council resolution 1860(2009), and the Agreement on Movement and Access. He also reiterated his delegation's condemnation of Israel's attack of the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" in May 2010, which was in violation of international law and which had impacted civilians onboard.
On behalf of the Palestinian people, he urged the international community to uphold its responsibilities regarding the question of Palestine. Serious efforts were needed, including by the Security Council, to uphold the Organization's permanent responsibility toward the question until it was justly resolved in all aspects. The political will and courage must be found to follow through on the legal positions taken, the principled declarations made, and the commitments pledged to uphold the law in all circumstances and to make peace a reality.
MAGED ABDELAZIZ (Egypt), on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, said the meeting today unfortunately came at a time where Israel continued to carry out illegal actions in the Occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, aggravating the situation on the ground and undermining efforts to revive the political process towards a final solution. The Non-Aligned Movement condemned Israel's persistent construction and expansion process in many settlements in the West Bank. "The Occupying Power's blatant contempt of the unanimous position of the international community and its absolute disrespect of its obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law, has been more evident than ever since expiration of the date of the so-called 'partial moratorium' on settlement activities," he said.
He also noted alarm at the "continuous and persistent attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians, Islamic and Christian holy sites and worship places, uprooting thousands of olive trees, vandalism and theft of agricultural equipments and corps under the protection of Israeli forces". The Non-Aligned Movement also remained deeply concerned about Israel's violation of international law through labelling products from Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as "Made in Israel", and called for a halt to "this illegal colonization enterprise". Israel must also lift all checkpoints and roadblocks throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, he said, and comply fully with the ICJ Advisory Opinion while ceasing construction of its annexation wall, which severely impacted human rights and worsened humanitarian conditions.
The Non-Aligned Movement condemned the imprisonment of nearly 10,000 Palestinians by Israel, where ill-treatment and torture were widely used, and called for their immediate release. He also condemned Israel's illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip. While the Palestinian Authority had repeatedly affirmed its determination to pursue the path of peace and undertake all measures to ensure security, Israel continued to violate its legal obligations and blatantly impeded efforts to resume direct negotiations.
The international community must remain united in its demand that Israel respect its legal obligations as an occupying Power and cease its violations, which was imperative for achieving the two-State solution based on agreed terms of reference that would enable a just, lasting, comprehensive and peaceful settlement of Palestine, the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
JAN GRAULS ( Belgium), in his statement on behalf of the European Union declared that there was no alternative to a negotiated two-State solution, and urged more efforts to overcome the current deadlock in the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian side. Calling on all parties to seek earnestly for a satisfactory way to keep the negotiation process active and moving, and then to gather momentum, he recalled that settlements in occupied territory were illegal under international law, constituted an obstacle to peace and threatened to make a two-state solution impossible.
He reiterated the European Union's call on Israel to end all settlement activities, including in East Jerusalem, and stressed that if there was to be a genuine peace, a way must found through negotiations to resolve the status of Jerusalem as the future capital of two States. The European Union continued to call for a complete end to all violence, in particular rocket fire and terrorist attacks. Continuing, he stressed the crucial importance of the continuation of the Palestinian State-building process, which the European Union would continue to actively support, including towards implementation of the Fayyad Plan. Political and financial support from the entire international community was essential, and the European Union urged those who had made financial commitments to deliver on their promises in that regard.
Specifically on Gaza, he called for the full implementation of Security Council resolution 1860 (2009), the full respect of international humanitarian law and for the immediate, sustained and unconditional opening of crossings for the flow of humanitarian aid, commercial goods and persons to and from Gaza including goods from the West Bank. In that regard, the European Union welcomed the Israeli Government's recently announced measures as an important step forward, he stated. Concluding, he reiterated his delegation's readiness to contribute substantially to the comprehensive and sustainable solution which was to be found, with the State of Israel and an independent, democratic, contiguous and viable State of Palestine living side by side in peace and security.
AHMED AL-JARMAN (United Arab Emirates), expressed disappointment that six decades after the Assembly's adoption of resolution 181 (1947), which divided Palestine into two States and led to the plight of Palestine in 1948, the matter remained unresolved and was going through a critical stage in spite of all international and regional sustained efforts made so far for its settlement. Those activities included the recent intensive efforts sponsored by the United States that had resulted in the resumption of direct talks between the Palestinian and Israeli sides after seven rounds of indirect talks.
While reaffirming the primary and joint responsibility of the United Nations and its specialized agencies towards resolving the question of Palestine, he demanded in particular the Security Council and the Quartet members to shoulder their responsibilities towards addressing the Israeli violations, and adopting procedures and concrete measures to pressure Israel and compel it to implement the relevant international resolutions.
He said while his country looked forward to seeing Israel abide by its recent decision to withdraw from the northern part of the Lebanese Al-Ghajar village in accordance with Security Council resolution 1701 (2006), he emphasized that a just, permanent and comprehensive resolution of the Palestinian question and the wider Middle East issue could be achieved only through a full and unconditional withdrawal of Israel from all the Palestinian and Arab territories it had occupied since 1947. In that regard, he expressed the hope that peace efforts currently under way were strengthened towards the reinvigoration of Arab-Israeli peace negotiations in the region, in fulfilment of commitments under international law and resolutions of international legitimacy and in accordance with the principle of land for peace based on 1967 borders and the Arab Peace Initiative, to achieve the systematic vision of establishing two States, Israel and Palestine living side by side within secure borders and mutual recognition.
BASHAR JA'AFARI (Syrian Arab Republic) said the international community must commit to support the Palestinian people amid their continued suffering resulting from the Israel's "racist" occupation, killing of women and children, collective punishment, inhuman blockage, building the separation wall and detention of thousands of people. In light of such tragedies - and of Israel's rejection of the international community's will - it was important that the United Nations fulfil its obligations related to Palestine through the enforcement of relevant resolutions, including, among others, resolution 181 of 1947. Syria wished to recall a 2009 text, which stressed the right of the Palestinian people to establish their independent State on their national territory and the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland, from which they had been expelled.
The commitment of the United Nations to enforce such resolutions had "wavered", he continued, stressing that such irresolute behaviour sent the wrong message to Israel. Further, Israel spoke of peace with "hypocrisy", as it continued with its settlement policy, including the latest announcement to build more than 1,000 new units. He went on to spotlight Israel's activities in East Jerusalem, where the actions of the settlers were jeopardizing the very character and foundations of the historical city. Many international document and inquiries, including the Goldstone Report, had remarked that Israel targeted innocent civilians and had characterized its acts as war crimes. The siege of the city of Gaza had affected countless lives, causing great human suffering, which had been condemned by the international community.
Nonetheless Israel persisted in its policy and had further attacked a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid in May 2010, killing nine people and injuring and detaining others, he said, adding that Israel had not presented any report on that episode to date. At a time where Arab States sought peace, Israel's practices had reached serious dimensions. The Syrian delegation called on the international community to bring pressure to bear on Israel to change its actions in the region in accordance with international law and relevant United Nations resolutions.
HASAN KLEIB ( Indonesia) said the collective punishment of the Palestinian people was simply unjustifiable and should not stand. "The Israeli determination to continue such obnoxious policies as illegal settlements, construction of the separation wall and the restriction of the rights of the Palestinian people, is the greatest obstacle to the establishment of a physically viable, sovereign and independent Palestinian state, and thus to the achievement of peace," he said. Indonesia joined others keeping a close eye on the direct political negotiations which had resumed between Israel and the Palestinians last September, but it was greatly concerned about Israel's failure to extend the moratorium on settlement construction, as that was a burden that direct talks may not be able to contain. " Israel must avoid putting any obstacle to the achievement of peace. Israel must operate within the ambit of international law, not outside or above it," he said.
A truly comprehensive and lasting peace in the Middle East required a solution not only to the conflict between Israel and Palestine, but also positive movement towards real solutions on the Israel-Lebanon and Israel-Syria tracks. On the Israel-Lebanon track, much remained to be done to realize the goals of a permanent ceasefire and long-term solution envisioned by Security Council resolution 1701 (2006). Meanwhile, it was also obvious that negotiations on the Israel-Syria track required new vigour to be recommenced. Indonesia was committed to efforts to find a peaceful, just, lasting and comprehensive settlement to the Israel-Palestine conflict, based on relevant Security Council resolutions, the Madrid terms of reference and the principle of land for pace, and the Arab Peace Initiative.
ABDULLAH ALI FADHEL AL-SAADI ( Yemen) said it was a pleasure to observe the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. That commemoration was a re-confirmation of the legitimacy of the Palestinian people and their right to resist occupation and establish a State on their own soil with Jerusalem as its capital. The tragic occupation, policy of isolation, siege and imposition of collective punishment of the Palestinian people ran against international law. All those practices by Israel would derail the peace process. He called on the United States Administration to persist in efforts to restore the peace talks, but he stressed that settlements in the occupied territories constituted a provocative action, while negotiations had reached an impasse and proved the intentions of the Israeli government were not in favour of comprehensive and just peace.
Comprehensive and just peace could not be achieved without Israeli withdrawal from territories it had occupied since 4 June 1967 he continued. The international community must undertake its responsibility to ensure the rights of the Palestinian people and reactivate peace negotiations and the peace process. He also called on the international community to take the necessary steps to remedy the situation in Gaza, which had been suffering from an inhuman and immoral siege fro more than three years.
NAWAF SALAM ( Lebanon) said that there was no doubt that the establishment of a Palestinian State on the territory in question was an inalienable right of the Palestinian people. His delegation supported the establishment of such a State in accordance with relevant United Nations resolutions and other related international agreements. However, it was necessary today to question the nature of the obstacles that still impeded the Palestinian people from achieving their rights in accordance with the United Nations Charter - which prohibited the use of force and military occupation in the seizing of territories - and with international law. Israel's persistence in armed aggression against Palestinian and Syrian territories violated such international agreements.
Further, the first Article of the Charter also allowed for the right of people to self-determination – a right that was also enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. He pointed out that the General Assembly in its relevant resolutions, had called for an end to colonialism and for the end of apartheid. In addition, the laws and procedures of the International Criminal Court described racial discrimination as a crime against humanity. In reports to the Human Rights Council, the perpetuation of the Israeli occupation had been likened to colonialism. Moreover, relevant Security Council resolutions considered that Israel's settlement policies "had no legal basis", constituting a serious impediment to peace in the Middle East.
Those resolutions, however, had not stopped Israel from expanding its settlements in the West Bank and other parts of the region. Those settlements had increased about 5 per cent yearly since 1990, he said, and highlighted Security Council resolution 252 (1968), among others, which also prohibited the seizing of territories by military force, and thus the actions of Israel in this regard were "null and void". Additionally, the International Court of Justice had considered that the Israeli-built wall in East Jerusalem as a violation of the rights of the Palestinian people. Building the wall and seizing the territories between it was prohibited, he added.
The fourth Geneva Convention prohibited the moving of people of an occupied territory, it also prohibited collective punishment. Further, it was the duty of an occupying State to spare no expense to provide civilians with medical and other supplies. Israel did not respect those international legal tenets. In fact, 79 per cent of inhabitants in the occupied West Bank were currently lacking in food. In that regard, the actions of Israel overall were recorded in many international reports, as well as the reports of international organizations such as Human Rights Watch, and the United Nations Fact-finding Mission in Gaza.
Additionally, Security Council resolution 1701 (2006) had called for the withdrawal of Israeli troops form all Lebanese territories, but after four years Israel was still occupying several northern regions and had rejected Lebanese proposals for such withdrawal. In light of all the impediments that prevented the establishment of comprehensive peace in the region, there was no doubt that the best formula for supporting the Palestinian people was for the United Nations to push past its own lack of action on that matter.
PEDRO NUNEZ MOSQUERA (Cuba) aligning himself with the statement made on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, said it was time to redouble efforts to end the injustice of the situation in Palestine. Cuba condemned the illegal occupation of Palestinian territory by Israel which remained the impediment to lasting peace in the Middle East. This year, the situation in the Occupied Territory, including East Jerusalem, continued to deteriorate as Israel continued to violate international law. More than half of the inhabitants of Gaza were under the age of 18, and interruption of their education because of the blockade had had a devastating effect. The "inhumane" blockade of Gaza had also limited the mobility of persons and goods, and Cuba condemned this aggressive policy which ignored repeated calls by the international community and resolutions. He called on Israel to immediately lift the blockade.
Unfortunately, he said, the Security Council remained unable to address the situation of the Palestinians because of double standards and the threat of veto by one of its permanent members. The occupying Power had maintained intensive colonization measures – 59 per cent of the dividing wall had already been built - and had continued to build that barrier in defiance of the International Court of Justice. In spite of the moratorium declared by the Israeli Government, settlement activities continued, leading to annexation of Palestinian land. In practical terms, those policies prevented the existence of a Palestinian State. Cuba would not rest until the Palestinian people exercised their inalienable rights, including sovereignty, based on 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, he said.
MERON REUBEN ( Israel) said today's debate provided little help to the Palestinian people towards peace, prosperity, and self-determination in the context of a two-State solution. Year after year, the current debate offered "shallow support" for its stated purpose - it was clear that serious, direct negotiations were the fundamental road to security and prosperity for Israelis and Palestinians alike.
"Instead of working to bring the parties together in meaningful negotiations and preparing the Palestinians to make the tough choices that will be required to reach an agreement, this distinguished forum engages in the same ritual condemnation of Israel, feeding Palestinian notions of victimhood. So I say to my colleagues this afternoon: let us turn away from the destructive rhetoric that continues to characterize this day – and begin a new discussion that provides meaningful support for the Palestinian people," he said.
The modern State of Israel had made clear from its inception that it was both necessary and possible to live in peace with it neighbours. That was emphasized in its Declaration of Independence and had been proven through historic peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, but Israel could not reach peace on its own, he declared. Israel could only achieve peace with the Palestinians through compromise and direct, bilateral negotiations that addressed concerns of both sides, including mutual recognition and security.
"After generations of denying the Jewish peoples' historic connection to the land of Israel, the Palestinians must unambiguously abandon their quest to make this land their homeland alone – both now and in the future," he said. In a recent poll, he said, almost two-thirds of Palestinians had expressed their hope that eventually a single Palestinian State would emerge in the region, even if they supported a two-state solution in the short-term.
"To establish lasting peace, the Palestinian leadership must be clear about their ultimate aims. They must recognize Israel as the Jewish state for the Jewish people and turn away from messages of hatred and de-legitimization, in favour of educating future generations about peace and coexistence," he said. Any peace agreement must also address Israel's security concerns; practically every day, its civilian population was exposed to the serious threat of rocket and terror attacks from Palestinian militants, which were supported by Iran and Syria with training, financing and arms.
After Israel had dismantled all its settlements in the Gaza Strip, it received terrorism and rocket fire on its towns and communities in return, he said. Thousands of rockets had been launched from the Hamas-controlled area since 2001, with the majority coming since Israel had withdrawn in 2005. The ambiguity of Iran, which continued to export violence, hatred, and instability to the Middle East and beyond, needed to be addressed.
Throughout the past year, Israel had shown that it was willing to take bold measures to pursue peace. Indeed, it had helped encourage impressive growth in the Palestinian economy and removed hundreds of roadblocks and checkpoints in the West Bank. "In the Gaza Strip, we realized the restrictions imposed on the passage of civilian goods into the area, and expanded the inflow of materials available for projects under the supervision of international organizations, which provide humanitarian assistance for a Palestinian population that remains hostage to a hostile terrorist entity," he said.
He urged the Palestinian Authority to join Israel without preconditions in direct talks broken off two months ago. The Assembly had a choice: it could continue to adopt the same distorted narrative of Israel pursuing a political agenda, or it could take a more constructive approach, working to bring parties together to pursue peace, and recognizing that as the only way to truly support the fundamental rights of Palestinians. | {
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// Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
// Copyright 2008 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
// https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/
//
// Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
// modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
// met:
//
// * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
// notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
// * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
// copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer
// in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
// distribution.
// * Neither the name of Google Inc. nor the names of its
// contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
// this software without specific prior written permission.
//
// THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
// "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
// LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
// A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
// OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
// SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
// LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
// DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
// THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
// (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
// OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
package com.google.protobuf;
import com.google.protobuf.Descriptors.Descriptor;
import com.google.protobuf.Descriptors.FieldDescriptor;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
/**
* A table of known extensions, searchable by name or field number. When
* parsing a protocol message that might have extensions, you must provide
* an {@code ExtensionRegistry} in which you have registered any extensions
* that you want to be able to parse. Otherwise, those extensions will just
* be treated like unknown fields.
*
* <p>For example, if you had the {@code .proto} file:
*
* <pre>
* option java_class = "MyProto";
*
* message Foo {
* extensions 1000 to max;
* }
*
* extend Foo {
* optional int32 bar;
* }
* </pre>
*
* Then you might write code like:
*
* <pre>
* ExtensionRegistry registry = ExtensionRegistry.newInstance();
* registry.add(MyProto.bar);
* MyProto.Foo message = MyProto.Foo.parseFrom(input, registry);
* </pre>
*
* <p>Background:
*
* <p>You might wonder why this is necessary. Two alternatives might come to
* mind. First, you might imagine a system where generated extensions are
* automatically registered when their containing classes are loaded. This
* is a popular technique, but is bad design; among other things, it creates a
* situation where behavior can change depending on what classes happen to be
* loaded. It also introduces a security vulnerability, because an
* unprivileged class could cause its code to be called unexpectedly from a
* privileged class by registering itself as an extension of the right type.
*
* <p>Another option you might consider is lazy parsing: do not parse an
* extension until it is first requested, at which point the caller must
* provide a type to use. This introduces a different set of problems. First,
* it would require a mutex lock any time an extension was accessed, which
* would be slow. Second, corrupt data would not be detected until first
* access, at which point it would be much harder to deal with it. Third, it
* could violate the expectation that message objects are immutable, since the
* type provided could be any arbitrary message class. An unprivileged user
* could take advantage of this to inject a mutable object into a message
* belonging to privileged code and create mischief.
*
* @author [email protected] Kenton Varda
*/
public class ExtensionRegistry extends ExtensionRegistryLite {
/** Construct a new, empty instance. */
public static ExtensionRegistry newInstance() {
return new ExtensionRegistry();
}
/** Get the unmodifiable singleton empty instance. */
public static ExtensionRegistry getEmptyRegistry() {
return EMPTY_REGISTRY;
}
/** Returns an unmodifiable view of the registry. */
@Override
public ExtensionRegistry getUnmodifiable() {
return new ExtensionRegistry(this);
}
/** A (Descriptor, Message) pair, returned by lookup methods. */
public static final class ExtensionInfo {
/** The extension's descriptor. */
public final FieldDescriptor descriptor;
/**
* A default instance of the extension's type, if it has a message type.
* Otherwise, {@code null}.
*/
public final Message defaultInstance;
private ExtensionInfo(final FieldDescriptor descriptor) {
this.descriptor = descriptor;
defaultInstance = null;
}
private ExtensionInfo(final FieldDescriptor descriptor,
final Message defaultInstance) {
this.descriptor = descriptor;
this.defaultInstance = defaultInstance;
}
}
/**
* Deprecated. Use {@link #findImmutableExtensionByName(String)} instead.
*/
public ExtensionInfo findExtensionByName(final String fullName) {
return findImmutableExtensionByName(fullName);
}
/**
* Find an extension for immutable APIs by fully-qualified field name,
* in the proto namespace. i.e. {@code result.descriptor.fullName()} will
* match {@code fullName} if a match is found.
*
* @return Information about the extension if found, or {@code null}
* otherwise.
*/
public ExtensionInfo findImmutableExtensionByName(final String fullName) {
return immutableExtensionsByName.get(fullName);
}
/**
* Find an extension for mutable APIs by fully-qualified field name,
* in the proto namespace. i.e. {@code result.descriptor.fullName()} will
* match {@code fullName} if a match is found.
*
* @return Information about the extension if found, or {@code null}
* otherwise.
*/
public ExtensionInfo findMutableExtensionByName(final String fullName) {
return mutableExtensionsByName.get(fullName);
}
/**
* Deprecated. Use {@link #findImmutableExtensionByNumber(
* Descriptors.Descriptor, int)}
*/
public ExtensionInfo findExtensionByNumber(
final Descriptor containingType, final int fieldNumber) {
return findImmutableExtensionByNumber(containingType, fieldNumber);
}
/**
* Find an extension by containing type and field number for immutable APIs.
*
* @return Information about the extension if found, or {@code null}
* otherwise.
*/
public ExtensionInfo findImmutableExtensionByNumber(
final Descriptor containingType, final int fieldNumber) {
return immutableExtensionsByNumber.get(
new DescriptorIntPair(containingType, fieldNumber));
}
/**
* Find an extension by containing type and field number for mutable APIs.
*
* @return Information about the extension if found, or {@code null}
* otherwise.
*/
public ExtensionInfo findMutableExtensionByNumber(
final Descriptor containingType, final int fieldNumber) {
return mutableExtensionsByNumber.get(
new DescriptorIntPair(containingType, fieldNumber));
}
/**
* Find all extensions for mutable APIs by fully-qualified name of
* extended class. Note that this method is more computationally expensive
* than getting a single extension by name or number.
*
* @return Information about the extensions found, or {@code null} if there
* are none.
*/
public Set<ExtensionInfo> getAllMutableExtensionsByExtendedType(final String fullName) {
HashSet<ExtensionInfo> extensions = new HashSet<ExtensionInfo>();
for (DescriptorIntPair pair : mutableExtensionsByNumber.keySet()) {
if (pair.descriptor.getFullName().equals(fullName)) {
extensions.add(mutableExtensionsByNumber.get(pair));
}
}
return extensions;
}
/**
* Find all extensions for immutable APIs by fully-qualified name of
* extended class. Note that this method is more computationally expensive
* than getting a single extension by name or number.
*
* @return Information about the extensions found, or {@code null} if there
* are none.
*/
public Set<ExtensionInfo> getAllImmutableExtensionsByExtendedType(final String fullName) {
HashSet<ExtensionInfo> extensions = new HashSet<ExtensionInfo>();
for (DescriptorIntPair pair : immutableExtensionsByNumber.keySet()) {
if (pair.descriptor.getFullName().equals(fullName)) {
extensions.add(immutableExtensionsByNumber.get(pair));
}
}
return extensions;
}
/** Add an extension from a generated file to the registry. */
public void add(final Extension<?, ?> extension) {
if (extension.getExtensionType() != Extension.ExtensionType.IMMUTABLE &&
extension.getExtensionType() != Extension.ExtensionType.MUTABLE) {
// do not support other extension types. ignore
return;
}
add(newExtensionInfo(extension), extension.getExtensionType());
}
/** Add an extension from a generated file to the registry. */
public void add(final GeneratedMessage.GeneratedExtension<?, ?> extension) {
add((Extension<?, ?>) extension);
}
static ExtensionInfo newExtensionInfo(final Extension<?, ?> extension) {
if (extension.getDescriptor().getJavaType() ==
FieldDescriptor.JavaType.MESSAGE) {
if (extension.getMessageDefaultInstance() == null) {
throw new IllegalStateException(
"Registered message-type extension had null default instance: " +
extension.getDescriptor().getFullName());
}
return new ExtensionInfo(extension.getDescriptor(),
(Message) extension.getMessageDefaultInstance());
} else {
return new ExtensionInfo(extension.getDescriptor(), null);
}
}
/** Add a non-message-type extension to the registry by descriptor. */
public void add(final FieldDescriptor type) {
if (type.getJavaType() == FieldDescriptor.JavaType.MESSAGE) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException(
"ExtensionRegistry.add() must be provided a default instance when " +
"adding an embedded message extension.");
}
ExtensionInfo info = new ExtensionInfo(type, null);
add(info, Extension.ExtensionType.IMMUTABLE);
add(info, Extension.ExtensionType.MUTABLE);
}
/** Add a message-type extension to the registry by descriptor. */
public void add(final FieldDescriptor type, final Message defaultInstance) {
if (type.getJavaType() != FieldDescriptor.JavaType.MESSAGE) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException(
"ExtensionRegistry.add() provided a default instance for a " +
"non-message extension.");
}
add(new ExtensionInfo(type, defaultInstance),
Extension.ExtensionType.IMMUTABLE);
}
// =================================================================
// Private stuff.
private ExtensionRegistry() {
this.immutableExtensionsByName = new HashMap<String, ExtensionInfo>();
this.mutableExtensionsByName = new HashMap<String, ExtensionInfo>();
this.immutableExtensionsByNumber =
new HashMap<DescriptorIntPair, ExtensionInfo>();
this.mutableExtensionsByNumber =
new HashMap<DescriptorIntPair, ExtensionInfo>();
}
private ExtensionRegistry(ExtensionRegistry other) {
super(other);
this.immutableExtensionsByName =
Collections.unmodifiableMap(other.immutableExtensionsByName);
this.mutableExtensionsByName =
Collections.unmodifiableMap(other.mutableExtensionsByName);
this.immutableExtensionsByNumber =
Collections.unmodifiableMap(other.immutableExtensionsByNumber);
this.mutableExtensionsByNumber =
Collections.unmodifiableMap(other.mutableExtensionsByNumber);
}
private final Map<String, ExtensionInfo> immutableExtensionsByName;
private final Map<String, ExtensionInfo> mutableExtensionsByName;
private final Map<DescriptorIntPair, ExtensionInfo> immutableExtensionsByNumber;
private final Map<DescriptorIntPair, ExtensionInfo> mutableExtensionsByNumber;
ExtensionRegistry(boolean empty) {
super(EMPTY_REGISTRY_LITE);
this.immutableExtensionsByName =
Collections.<String, ExtensionInfo>emptyMap();
this.mutableExtensionsByName =
Collections.<String, ExtensionInfo>emptyMap();
this.immutableExtensionsByNumber =
Collections.<DescriptorIntPair, ExtensionInfo>emptyMap();
this.mutableExtensionsByNumber =
Collections.<DescriptorIntPair, ExtensionInfo>emptyMap();
}
static final ExtensionRegistry EMPTY_REGISTRY = new ExtensionRegistry(true);
private void add(
final ExtensionInfo extension,
final Extension.ExtensionType extensionType) {
if (!extension.descriptor.isExtension()) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException(
"ExtensionRegistry.add() was given a FieldDescriptor for a regular " +
"(non-extension) field.");
}
Map<String, ExtensionInfo> extensionsByName;
Map<DescriptorIntPair, ExtensionInfo> extensionsByNumber;
switch (extensionType) {
case IMMUTABLE:
extensionsByName = immutableExtensionsByName;
extensionsByNumber = immutableExtensionsByNumber;
break;
case MUTABLE:
extensionsByName = mutableExtensionsByName;
extensionsByNumber = mutableExtensionsByNumber;
break;
default:
// Ignore the unknown supported type.
return;
}
extensionsByName.put(extension.descriptor.getFullName(), extension);
extensionsByNumber.put(
new DescriptorIntPair(extension.descriptor.getContainingType(),
extension.descriptor.getNumber()),
extension);
final FieldDescriptor field = extension.descriptor;
if (field.getContainingType().getOptions().getMessageSetWireFormat() &&
field.getType() == FieldDescriptor.Type.MESSAGE &&
field.isOptional() &&
field.getExtensionScope() == field.getMessageType()) {
// This is an extension of a MessageSet type defined within the extension
// type's own scope. For backwards-compatibility, allow it to be looked
// up by type name.
extensionsByName.put(field.getMessageType().getFullName(), extension);
}
}
/** A (GenericDescriptor, int) pair, used as a map key. */
private static final class DescriptorIntPair {
private final Descriptor descriptor;
private final int number;
DescriptorIntPair(final Descriptor descriptor, final int number) {
this.descriptor = descriptor;
this.number = number;
}
@Override
public int hashCode() {
return descriptor.hashCode() * ((1 << 16) - 1) + number;
}
@Override
public boolean equals(final Object obj) {
if (!(obj instanceof DescriptorIntPair)) {
return false;
}
final DescriptorIntPair other = (DescriptorIntPair)obj;
return descriptor == other.descriptor && number == other.number;
}
}
}
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Tip performed "We Will Not" and took the opportunity to make a statement.
At the BET Hip-Hop Awards Tuesday night, naturally, the reality of ongoing police violence against black Americans loomed heavy. Early on, the show featured impassioned speeches and meditations from Big K.R.I.T., Sway, and Bay Area spitter Locksmith, but it was T.I. who spoke on the issues most prominently, performing his protest anthem "We Will Not" from the politically charged Us Or Else EP.
"United we stand. Look around and see the power around you," Tip told the crowd, "We gotta stand together, it's us or else. It's do or die. The time is now. They can't kill us all." Watch the clip above via BET. | {
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All the works are loosely an investigation into identity. In these grave studies, images of memorial flowers are taken from grave sites and road sides, and explore death as being something both universal and deeply personal.
Matt Antoniak (b. 1991) studied at Newcastle University, graduating in 2015. He and has been widely exhibited nationally and his work is held in private collections. He lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne. | {
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Marley Lilly has done it again. What's better than cute boots in the fall & winter?
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By Peter Costantini, January 16, 2019 .
Mae Ngai is the Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University. On questions of immigration, citizenship, and nationalism, she is among the most influential legal and political historians in the United States.
Ngai's book, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, was published originally in 2004, with a second edition and a new forward in 2014. The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America was published in 2010.
She has written on immigration history and policy for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and several other publications. She is also featured as an on-camera authority on The American Experience's "The Chinese Exclusion Act" and other documentaries on public television.
Peter Costantini interviewed Ngai in October in her office on the Columbia University campus in Manhattan.
Peter Costantini: How did you come to be a scholar of immigration?
Mae Ngai: I was a so-called "non-traditional student." I dropped out of school around 1972 or so. And then I worked as a community activist. After a while I got a job in a labor union here in New York, District 65. I wasn't a shop organizer; I worked in the Education and Political Action Department.
Then I worked as a researcher for the Consortium for Worker Education. It delivers education services to union members: ESL classes, basic literacy, high-school GEDs, job training programs.
When I was there, I decided to go to graduate school. I'm the daughter of immigrants, and I was interested in immigration history, so I started reading. I was also interested in labor history. So those things in my own background and experience drove my interest.
PC: What was your family's story?
MN: Well, my parents were trained as medical doctors in China and they came to the U.S. after World War II. So they had more middle-class, more privileged backgrounds. I grew up in the suburbs, where there were very few Asians at the time.
But I think my interest in immigration as a broader experience — as a mass phenomenon and as a policy question — came from my years working in Chinatown communities.
PC: At that time, where were labor unions on immigration?
MN: Oh, they were terrible. But in New York, the unions were much more supportive, because of course New York is full of immigrants. And our unions had a large proportion of our membership that were immigrants.
We worked with the garment workers union and the hotel and restaurant workers union. They were some of the unions that were far out in front on having a more progressive position on immigration.
But I remember, I think it was in the 90s, there were a lot of struggles inside the AFL-CIO over its position. Because its official position was against undocumented immigration, they were for employer sanctions. And so there was a lot of discussion about how employer sanctions aren't enforced — they're just used as a way to discipline workers if they make too many demands. That was a kind of an uphill battle.
But I think what changed was that more and more of the labor movement comprised immigrant workers. And they were the most militant workers, including the undocumented. And so I think that reality, that experience changed the minds of union leaders.
It was in 2000 that the AFL-CIO formally changed its position [to one more supportive of undocumented workers]. But it had already been in the making because of the lead of some particular unions: the garment workers, the service workers, the hospital workers.
In her book Impossible Subjects, Ngai traces the history of United States immigration policy from its origins in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 up through the 1965 immigration act.
The primary sponsors of the 1924 law were Representative Albert Johnson of Washington, and Senator David Reed of Pennsylvania. Both were leaders of the restrictionist movement, and both were notably motivated by eugenics and pseudo-scientific theories of race in vogue at the time. These theories went on to become the underpinnings of Nazi ideology, and its social and racial policies, in Germany.
PC: Attorney General Jeff Sessions reportedly told an interviewer on Breitbart News — Steve Bannon's white nationalist network — that he thought the Immigration Act of 1924 had been good for America. What do you think Sessions meant by that?
MN: The Act reflected a history of "scientific" racism that divided the world into any number of races. The Europeans, for example, were divided by Nordic, Alpine, and Mediterranean races, and the Mediterraneans were the undesirables.
So Sessions' message, I think, was pretty obvious: They want white people, and certain kinds of white people at that. Trump repeated this himself when he said he wants people from Norway, and considers people from Africa to be coming from so-called "shithole countries." They're pretty blatant about the kinds of people they want. They want Europeans, and they want certain kinds of Europeans — northern Europeans, the Nordics. And they don't want people from the Global South, they don't want brown people or black people or yellow people. They don't want anybody that's not that ideal.
I don't know how much detail of the 1924 Act Sessions knows, but the '24 Act also categorically excluded all Asians. Ironically, it did not exclude people from the Western Hemisphere countries, so it did have open migration from Mexico. But I don't think that's the part of the '24 Act he was referring to.
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, known as Hart-Celler for its sponsors in the Senate and House, was an effort to rectify some of the worst injustices of the 1924 law. Senator Philip Hart of Michigan and Representative Emanuel Celler of New York were both prominent liberals, as was Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, who also promoted it.
However, the final version of Hart-Celler caused long-running damage to a functional immigration system by creating a template for draconian restrictions on Western Hemisphere immigration, which had not previously been subject to quotas.
Two senators were leaders in imposing Western Hemisphere quotas: centrist Democrat Sam Ervin, from North Carolina, and moderate Republican Everett Dirksen, from Illinois.
MN: [Ervin and Dirksen] started to worry about what they called "population pressures" in Latin America, and so they wanted to close the door.
The liberals didn't really have an answer, because they thought the whole point of a new system was that it was going to be fair, equalizing all the quotas and making them global. Although actually it was retrogressive — it was a reactionary step for Western Hemisphere countries, which had never had numerical quotas.
In fact, all the [proposed] bills until the 11th hour, including the Kennedy bill, had the Western Hemisphere exemption [to quotas]. That was a long-standing foreign policy position. It was about our relations with Canada and Mexico. And a kind of belief that Mexican farmworkers were seasonal, so there wasn't really a problem. I mean, they didn't understand anything about the West or the Southwest.
At the 11th hour, though, the moderates in the Congress, in the Senate, held the repeal of national origins hostage to Latin American, Western Hemisphere quotas.
Hart-Celler ended up with a hemispheric quota for the Western Hemisphere like half or maybe 40 percent of the total number [for the entire world]. This [temporarily] enabled more people to come in from Mexico under this hemispheric quota.
This quota for the Western Hemisphere did not yet have country quotas within it. It was a stalling tactic by those in Congress who knew that imposing a 20,000 cap on Mexico would wreak havoc.
Once [country-specific quotas] passed, they knew it was going to be trouble. Because you can't clamp a quota of 20,000 on an area that sends hundreds of thousands. So they appointed a commission to study it, which is always their procrastinating move.
And that's why you see, in the late 1970s and by 1980, this so-called crisis of unauthorized movement.
PC: Trump, Sessions, and Trump's hardline adviser Stephen Miller have been introducing an onslaught of new measures that attack undocumented immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees, green-card holders, and naturalized citizens. Do you think just the ideology of the 1924 Act explains this? Or are there other things about this administration that would explain its whole phobia around legal immigration, their efforts to take away green cards and naturalization?
MN: Yeah, I think there's too many brown people in this country for their tastes — that's what it all comes down to. And Latinos vote. They're not all illegal. Two-thirds of all Hispanics are citizens. And they're not all 18, but more and more become 18 every day.
This is the Trump administration's chief fear. I think it's pretty obvious: It's not just about people who are "illegal" — that's a proxy for racism against all Latinos.
I think there are three things going on.
First is this kind of terror that's been unleashed against immigrant communities: the sweeps, the raids into meatpacking plants, communities, roadblocks. And then they stopped Greyhound buses in Ohio and Vermont and demanded to see proof of citizenship.
This is all aimed at just terrorizing immigrants. They cannot deport 11.5 million people, which is the population of undocumented. But they can make everybody very frightened. So that's the first thing they're doing.
The second thing they're doing is trying to denaturalize people. Or even people who are native-born citizens, they're trying to question their birth. There were incidents where they were denying passports to Mexican-American people in the borderlands area.
The third thing they're doing is treating asylum seekers as though they were undocumented immigrants. And that's illegal. They have the right to come to the door and ask for asylum.
But Trump's people are treating them as border violators. They're taking their children. This is the most horrendous thing we've seen since this administration came to power, this taking of babies. And now they're tear-gassing children as well. You can't even give words to how bad it is. And that's because these asylum-seekers are from Central America.
They're shoving them into this new category. Sessions says the asylum seekers are "exploiting a loophole." It's not a loophole: it's the law. But by calling it a loophole, he can then justify treating them as unauthorized border violators, which is what he thinks they really are.
And then the last thing they're doing is, they want to change the immigration system so there's less legal immigration.
They want legal immigration to be restricted to whites. And they're going to do that by eliminating family sponsorships.
So they've now given "chain migration" a dirty name. "Chain migration" has always been a neutral social science term to describe how most migrations take place, including Trump's family. And now they want to stop family migration, because family migration, they consider, is too colored. And they want to replace it with some kind of "merit-based system" for high-net-worth people, people with high skills.
The problem is that a lot of those people who come under those categories are from Asia. There aren't are big incentives for European professionals and people with technical skills to come to the United States. So I don't know what they're going to do about that.
But they're going to cut off all these other avenues of legal migration. That won't end migration from the global South, but it will ensure that migration will now be either unauthorized or through temporary guest-worker status.
Because we're still going to have the same jobs that need to be done. It's a way to create another caste, a mudsill class of colored people who do the dirty work, who do the service work, who work in the poultry factories and clean the hotels. And they won't have any access to the politics. That's what they want.
PC: It's a comprehensive vision.
MN: It's a very comprehensive vision. They're not stupid. And in my opinion, this is also one of the first fronts in the move towards an authoritarian government.
Because immigrants don't have rights that citizens have. I mean, they do have rights, but they don't have rights in removal and entry proceedings. I think [Trump's people] are pushing the envelope to see how much they can get away with.
The federal courts have not been sympathetic. A federal court ordered the docket to be reinstated recently and said that they cannot indefinitely detain asylum seekers. Because they're detaining people who have passed the "credible fear" test, they should definitely be released.
The sanctuary jurisdictions have been upheld, except in Texas, So I think that there's resistance both from grassroots protests and from the judiciary.
But now we have a Supreme Court… In his first oral arguments, new Justice Brett Kavanaugh made it clear that he's hostile to immigrants.
PC: Do you see Trump's initiatives as a break from previous immigration policies, or as a continuation or acceleration?
MN: I think they're a return to the mentality of 1924 act with regard to racial preferences in admission, and a continuation or acceleration of the 1965 and 1996 laws on deportation.
PC: If you could completely throw away our immigration system and rewrite it — all the aspects of it, from guest workers to all of the laws — what would you come up with?
MN: Well, from a global perspective, we have to understand that migration is the product of an unequal distribution of wealth in the world. So I think people who live in the wealthier nations can do two things: One is that they can adopt practices that reduce inequality. I don't know if that's likely to happen. And then I think we can look at migration not as a threat, but as both a responsibility and an opportunity.
We give away less than half a million new green cards yearly, and another half million through adjustment of status here or there. They're a student, or they get a job, or they marry somebody, or they're a family member of a citizen, or they're outside the quota. The total is about a million people who become permanent residents.
We had about a million people come here annually in the 1910s, and we had a much smaller population. So I don't think there's a problem of absorption, of being overrun, or anything like that.
I think if we understand that immigration restriction is a kind of protectionism for the wealthier nations, then we have to think about what our moral response to that is. Because we are in America not because we are so great, but by the accident of our birth. Why are we superior to somebody who happens to be born in India or Honduras?
That's hard for a lot of Americans to swallow — that they have the same moral worth as somebody from Honduras. But I think that should be our starting point.
Then policy-wise, well, we can raise the ceiling on how many people can come. I don't have a number, but it can be raised.
We can treat unauthorized entry as a kind of inevitability of any restriction. We can build into the system a self-correction.
I have advocated for a statute of limitations on immigration violations. And then we don't have to go through these agonizing debates every 10 or 20 years about mass legalizations.
We had it in the past. A statute of limitations used to be the case until — was it 1996? It was written into the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act that you could get a suspension of deportation if you lived here for seven years, and you had a citizen spouse or children, and no criminal record. And so a lot of braceros [Mexican laborers brought here under a guest worker program from 1942 through 1964] actually got legalized through that process. In other words, we have had programs that recognize that with time, people establish ties and roots in their community. And they shouldn't be just be tossed out.
And they contribute to the economy, they're not freeloaders. People don't come here to freeload, they come here to work.
So if we understand that unauthorized entry is integral to restriction — it's not some anomaly — and we understand that unauthorized entry is not exceptional — it's kind of inevitable — then you have to build in a kind of correction.
How long should someone have to be here before they can adjust their status? That's up for discussion. Two years, two weeks, 10 years? I think 10 years is too long.
Actually two-thirds of the undocumented people who live outside of the border area have been here for 10 years.
And then I think if we're going to have a system that allocates visas, it should not be on this principle that we have now, which is that we treat every country the same. Because Mexico has more people and more demand than, say, New Zealand, but they have the same quota.
PC: You mentioned the Hart proposal (which wasn't incorporated into the final 1965 immigration law) that would have lifted all quotas for the Western Hemisphere. Is there a need for quotas for the rest of the world? If we were looking at a new bill, what do those quotas for everywhere else accomplish?
MN: Well, if you're going to have some numerical limit, then you have to figure out how you're going to distribute those numbers.
Hart's bill was a combination of size — he used population size as a kind of proxy for need — and the other variable he used was family ties. And then he had a provision where it was reviewed and adjusted every five years.
It was a very complicated formula, which I think is one reason why it didn't go forward. The Kennedy bill was "everybody gets the same quota," which was much more simple. And it also resonated with the civil-rights ethos of formal equality: you treat everyone the same. But I think Hart's formulas might be worth revisiting.
Note: This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
Peter Costantini is an analyst and writer based in Seattle. For the past three decades, he has written about migration, labor, Latin America, and international economics. He is currently embedded as a volunteer with immigrant rights groups. | {
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Mr. Angel, the artist, from discerning choices of superior semi-precious stones and vermeil findings, beautifully assembles all of the components with the utmost care.
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Company Portfolios
George Soros Portfolio 2023 【Soros Fund Management】- DATAROMA
George Soros' Stock Holdings for Q3 from Latest 13F Filing
George Soros was born in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. His name is written among some of the best American investors. Philanthropy is another trait of his being praised. He is a billionaire and spends a huge part of his income on donations.
Portfolio Period: Q3 – Latest 13f Filing of 2022
George Soros' Portfolio Value: $5.30 Billion
George Soros's Stock Holdings
% Portfolio
RIVN - Rivian Automotive Inc Com Cl A 10.16% $ 538.41M 16.36M -8.27% (-1.48M)
BHVN - Biohaven Pharmactl Hldg Co L Com 6.48% $ 343.54M 2.27M 81.08% (+1.02M)
DRE - Duke Realty Corp 5.81% $ 307.83M 6.39M 2331.63% (+6.12M)
AMZN - Amazon Com Inc 4.22% $ 223.87M 1.98M -1.16% (-23.34k)
DHI - D R Horton Inc 3.33% $ 176.25M 2.62M -12.1% (-360.40k)
Y - Alleghany Corp Del 3.20% $ 169.52M 201.96k 0%
ARMK - Aramark 2.15% $ 114.08M 3.66M 1.11% (+40k)
BOWL - Bowlero Corp Cl A Com 2.04% $ 108.33M 8.80M -9.03% (-873.52k)
LBRDK - Liberty Broadband - Ser C 1.94% $ 102.57M 1.39M -20.57% (-359.95k)
CRM - Salesforce.com 1.84% $ 97.46M 677.58k 7.98% (+50.07k)
GOOGL - Alphabet Inc 1.83% $ 96.94M 1.01M -4.7% (-50k)
CCXI - Chemocentryx Inc 1.54% $ 81.36M 1.58M NEW (+1.58M)
INDI - Indie Semiconductor Inc Class A Com 1.26% $ 66.53M 9.09M -0.39% (-35.76k)
IGSB - Ishares 1-3 Year Credit Bond Etf 1.03% $ 54.85M 1.11M 0%
SWIR - Sierra Wireless Inc 0.80% $ 42.61M 1.40M NEW (+1.40M)
TMUS - T-mobile Us Inc 0.78% $ 41.31M 307.87k -3.05% (-9.68k)
LPLA - Lpl Finl Hldgs Inc 0.76% $ 40.21M 184.03k -5.06% (-9.80k)
ACN - Accenture Plc Cl A 0.71% $ 37.79M 146.86k 22.53% (+27k)
FIGS - Figs Inc Cl A 0.65% $ 34.29M 4.16M 19.23% (+670.26k)
NKE - Nike Inc-class B 0.64% $ 33.68M 405.24k 16.37% (+57k)
INTU - Intuit 0.64% $ 33.63M 86.81k 13.37% (+10.24k)
SPSB - Spdr Bloomberg Barclays Short Term Corporate Bond Etf 0.61% $ 32.52M 1.11M 0%
FRSH - Freshworks Inc Class A Com 0.55% $ 29.37M 2.26M 11.01% (+224.48k)
QCOM - Qualcomm Inc 0.48% $ 25.57M 226.35k -1.41% (-3.23k)
MUB - Ishares National Muni Bond Etf 0.47% $ 24.76M 241.40k 0%
TSLA - Tesla Mtrs Inc 0.45% $ 23.78M 89.65k 0% (-2)
APTV - Aptiv Plc Shs 0.38% $ 20.35M 260.23k 5.76% (+14.18k)
FOCS - Focus Finl Partners Inc Com Cl A 0.37% $ 19.40M 615.61k 0%
TEAM - Atlassian Corp Plc 0.35% $ 18.32M 86.99k 24.29% (+17k)
BKNG - Booking Hldgs Inc Com 0.34% $ 17.75M 10.80k NEW (+10.80k)
SNOW - Snowflake Inc Cl A 0.33% $ 17.47M 102.80k 0.98% (+1k)
ADC - Agree Realty Corp 0.30% $ 15.66M 231.73k NEW (+231.73k)
BK - Bank New York Mellon Corp 0.29% $ 15.46M 401.23k 7030.39% (+395.60k)
TDG - Transdigm Group Inc 0.28% $ 14.95M 28.48k 28.89% (+6.38k)
UBER - Uber Technologies Inc Com 0.26% $ 13.72M 517.75k 72.59% (+217.75k)
TPBA - Tpb Acquisition Corp I Com Cl A 0.25% $ 13.02M 1.31M 0%
PTRA - Proterra Inc Com 0.24% $ 12.53M 2.52M -10.66% (-300k)
LVS - Las Vegas Sands Corp 0.23% $ 12.18M 324.59k 47.54% (+104.59k)
DIS - Disney Walt Co 0.22% $ 11.67M 123.74k 330.6% (+95k)
QQQ - Invesco Qqq Trust, Series 1 0.22% $ 11.59M 43.38k 83.87% (+19.79k)
SRPT - Sarepta Therapeutics Inc 0.21% $ 11.22M 101.50k NEW (+101.50k)
UNP - Union Pacific Corp 0.21% $ 11.13M 57.15k NEW (+57.15k)
VMC - Vulcan Matls Co 0.21% $ 11.04M 70k NEW (+70k)
ADI - Analog Devices Inc 0.21% $ 10.97M 78.72k -36.83% (-45.90k)
TDY - Teledyne Technologies 0.20% $ 10.54M 31.25k NEW (+31.25k)
ELAN - Elanco Animal Health Inc Com 0.19% $ 10.24M 825.04k 0%
BGCP - Bgc Partners Inc 0.17% $ 9.16M 2.92M -6.42% (-200k)
DEN - Denbury Resources Inc 0.16% $ 8.63M 100k 0%
AME - Ametek Inc New 0.14% $ 7.71M 67.94k NEW (+67.94k)
EQH - Equitable Hldgs Inc Com 0.14% $ 7.35M 279.05k 0%
ZM - Zoom Video Communications In Cl A 0.14% $ 7.26M 98.60k NEW (+98.60k)
XLE - Spdr Select Sector Fund - Energy Select Sector 0.14% $ 7.20M 100k NEW (+100k)
CBOE - Cboe Hldgs Inc 0.13% $ 7.01M 59.70k NEW (+59.70k)
Read More: What Companies Does George Soros Own
George Soros net worth:
The net worth of George Soros comes out to be $8.6 billion, as reported by Forbes.
George Soros current profession:
George Soros is currently retired and mostly spends his time profiting and advising on investments and hedge funds.
Top 10 George Soros holdings
1. Liberty Broadband – Ser C (LBRDK):
2. Palantir Technologies Inc Cl A (PLTR):
3. Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1 (QQQ):
4. QuantumScape Corp Com
5. D R Horton Inc (DHI)
6. iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD)
7. iShares MSCI Emerging Index Fund (EEM)
8. Activision Blizzard Inc (ATVI)
9. SelectQuote Inc Com (SLQT)
10. Hain Celestial Group Inc (HAIN)
Historical Returns of George Soros Holdings
George Soros 13F Filing:
The main source of wealth:
Career of George Soros:
Education of George Soros:
In the top 10 George Soros portfolio holdings, Liberty Broadband holds 16.62% of the total 100% of his portfolio. The shares held by it are 5.28M. The worth of this company in the stock market is $836.47M.
About LBRDK:
In the Soros fund management holdings, Liberty Broadband – Ser C holds the number one value. Liberty Broadband Corporation is a communication business. It works by connecting the world by providing numerous communication subsidiaries. It operates Skyhook and GCI. GCI is working as the biggest communicating subsidiary. It provides communication by providing wireless phone calls, video calls without any limitation of location and range. It provides various other services including data and other supervised services.
The percentage held by it in the portfolio is 8.64%. Its shares in the stock market are 18.56M. Its net worth is $ 434.68M.
About PLTR:
Palantir Technologies Inc. is an American-based company. It deals with software manufacturing and data analysis. The headquarter of this company is based in Denver Colorado. This company works on a lot of projects. Its main projects are three; one is called Palantir Gotham. It works for investigating fraud cases and other terrorism information and attacks. This works in different agencies in the United States. The second project is called Palantir Metropolis. Palantir Metropolis works for different hedge funds and other financial issues. This is a business-related project. The third project is known as Palantir Foundry. This project works for automobile dealings and clients such as Morgan Stanley etc.
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The % held by this company in the George Soros stock investments is 7.03%. The shares of this company in the stock market are $1.13M.
About QQQ:
Invesco Power Shares is a renowned investment management fund. It is headquartered in Chicago. This company works as an exchange trade company. It is an investing company; it trades widely all over the world. This company invests in different stocks present in the market and gains maximum profits from it. The net worth of this company is $ 353.86M. The change made by this company is 0%. These values are reported from the hedge fund by the end of the year 2020.
The % held by this company in the holdings is 5.56%. The shares possessed by this company are $3.32M.
About QuantomScope:
QuantumScape is an American company that deals in the manufacturing of products made from lithium and other metals. They make batteries that are useful in the smooth running of electric cars. The headquarter of this company is present in San Jose, California. This company has numerous other investors; Bill Gates is one of them. The batteries made by lithium that are present in their solid states are very useful to be used in electric cars. These shares are large in number as compared to Invesco.
The net worth of this company is $ 279.96M. This company has also made a positive change in the stock market. The change made by it is in millions; recorded as 3.23M. While the % change made by this company is new. All this information is recorded and updated in George Soros hedge fund at the year-end of 2020.
The % held by this company in the portfolio is 5.07%. This company occupies 3.70M shares in the stocks. The value of this company is $ 255.27M.
About DHI:
D.R. Horton Inc. is an American-based company. It is a construction company, based in Arlington, Texas. This company is technically a homebuilder working effectively in the whole United States. In the United States, this company is very famous as it is ranked 194 out of 500 largest companies working in the United States. This ranking is based on the revenues earned by the company. The market owned by this company is 90 and these markets are spread in 29 different states of the United States. The change made by this company is positive to a large extent. The change made by this company is 649.90K. While the % change made by this company is 21.28%. This change is relatively very large if we compare it with the previous holdings. All this information was recorded at the end of the year 2020.
The % hold by this company in the Soros holding is 4.35%. Shares held by this company are $1.59M.
About LQD:
iShares is a company based in the United States that works by exchange-traded funds collectively called an ETF. This company works by tracking various stocks and different market values. This company manages numerous stock exchange funds. Some of them include; London stock exchange, American stock exchange, etc. They manage their stock values and guide them where and when to invest. The value of this company calculated is $ 219.09M. The net change made by this company is 245K. While the % change made by this company is 18.27%. All this information is recorded in the year 2020.
The % held by this holding in the George Soros hedge fund holdings is 2.58%. This company holds shares of 2.51M in the stock market.
About EEM:
iShares MSCI Emerging Index Fund is a company that works by tracking the investments made by several exchange-traded funds. The investments recorded by this company can be large or mid-capitalized. This company works for numerous companies regardless of their status. It works and tracks large as well as mid-sized companies that are currently developing in the stock market. It provides easy access to more than eight hundred market stock companies that are currently emerging. The value of this company is recorded as $ 129.81M. The change made by this company is 2.51M. This change rate is relatively very high if we compare it to the previously recorded holdings. The % change recorded by this company is new. All this information is recorded in December 2020.
Its % in the portfolio is recorded as 2.40%. This company occupies the share of $1.30M in the stock market.
About ATVI:
Activision Blizzard Inc. is an American-based company. This company deals with the production of advanced and latest video games. This company is headquartered in California. The symbol of this company is ATVI, working under NASDAQ stock. The video games produced and designed by this company are embedded with the latest technologies and services. The value of this company in the stocks is $ 120.52M. The change made by this company is positive, having a value of 200.55K. While the % change made by this company is 18.27%. All this information is recorded by the year-end of 2020.
The % held by this company in the George Soros holdings is 2.29%. The shares occupied by this company in the stock market are $5.56M.
About SQLT:
SelectQuote is an American-based company. It is an insurance company that provides great deals of insurance with very low prices to its customers. It promises a peaceful environment to invest in for its customers. In this company, customers shop for life insurance policies at low prices and gain a maximum number of profits and money in a short period of time. It gives insurance on different aspects. It gives medical insurance, life insurance, and home insurance. All these insurances are without any partiality. The value of this company is $ 115.28M. The change made by this company is 0%. All this information is recorded at the year-end of 2020.
This company occupies 1.66% of George Soros Portfolio. Shares held by this company are recorded to be $2.08M.
About HAIN:
Hain Celestial Group Inc. is an American-based company. This company is a food provider company. This company mainly focuses on food products and personal care products. This company is headquartered in New York. The products of this company are being sold in 75 countries altogether in the world including the United States. It serves people herbal tea, various delicious snacks, personal care products, and other varied grocery products. This company occupies a net worth of $ 83.32M. The change made by this company is negative. The change is -2.32M. While the % change made by this company is -52.75%. All this information is recorded in the year 2020.
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After investing in the right places, George Soros has made his name a giant as it is today. George Soros's stock portfolio shows that they have made a great deal of profit as compared to what they have lost.
George Soros has had an extraordinary return in these years. The billionaire investor George Soros said that Soros Fund Management Holdings had a net return of 20% total annually. This increase in the net worth of the company has marked an impressive return for George Soros.
A great lesson that can be learned by the Soros Fund Management hedge fund is that one should never leave hope and consider that they have more losses than profit. This situation lasts for a short while. It has been proved by this hedge fund that the profit value is more than the losses this company has had.
The latest Soros Fund Management 13F filing has reported a few changes in the portfolio. The Soros Fund Management is working from New York City and managed by its owner George Soros. The 13F latest filing recorded in the year 2022 says that the amount of $5,333,818,000 is being managed by the hedge fund which covers the % of 47.7% in the portfolio. Other important holdings are Liberty Broadband having maximum shares of 4,202,850. Another holding called Whalewisdom possessed 89 in the 13F filings.
In George Soros Portfolio, the main source of his income lies in his multiple hedge funds and Soros Fund Management company. He is a billionaire now with the help of his hedge funds. Through managing numerous hedge funds, Soros is considered to be the 178th richest person in the whole world. His net worth is approximately $8.3 billion.
His hedge fund known as "Soros Fund Management" is the main source of his wealth and fame. He has also become famous by giving donations. He has been giving away a great part of his wealth to charities and different foundations that work for charity. He is the owner of a housing network in New York City. He is also renowned due to his several servings in the politics of his country. He shows great interest in the political aspects of the country.
Talking about the top holdings of George Soros current portfolio, we must know that these holdings belong to the Hedge Fund Soros Fund Management". Those top 10 holdings are given below:
After gaining the title of Doctor, he was confident enough to start a business that was linked to his major subject of economics. He continued to work in two different countries simultaneously. These countries were the UK and the US. He gained jobs in different merchant banks of these two countries. After some time, all of a sudden, he decided to start his own business. His first business proved to be a lucky charm for him.
He made his own hedge fund in 1969 at the age of 39. He named the company, Double Eagle. His first hedge fund was a great success. After this experiment, he understood his passion for business. By using the profit made from his first hedge fund, he started another hedge fund in the year 1970. He changed the name from Double Eagle to Quantum Fund. The profits that he was gaining from both hedge funds, he decided to establish Soros Fund Management, this was his biggest achievement.
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He is considered the most big-hearted and generous investor of the times. He loves donating his money to a cause. His name has been added to Forbes for being the most generous investor of the times. After being born in Budapest, he continued his early education there. After completing his early education, he chose London for higher studies.
He got admission to the London School of Economics and completed his bachelor's degree. He obtained his master's degree in economics. After completing the master's degree, he decided to study further at the University of London. He gained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the same university.
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The structure of Ningbo World Hotel is functional and offer good services, You can manage the temperature in room with air conditioner, In the Ningbo World Hotel the guests can enjoy many services and equipments to obtain special comfort for its customers, This hotel is able to furnish complete services directed to disabled persons, Car with driver always ready for rent, Well equipped Business Center is available for business men in the Ningbo World Hotel: here it is possible also to obtain several office services, Business Center and work services are available for the guests, Medium and small meeting rooms are available for your needs, Health treatments and well being services, are specially developped in the Ningbo World Hotel In the Ningbo World Hotel the features regarding the amusement are specially plentiful, Bar & lounge: an ideal ambience for cocktails, aperitifs and delicious drinks, The Ningbo World Hotel offers a rich variety of areas with tools to make sport activities, here you can enjoy a excellent swimming pool annexed to hotel, The restaurants of Ningbo World Hotel permit the choice of Chinese and international menus.
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PNP nabs Ardot Parojinog's partner in Parañaque
Jun 4, 2018 4:27 PM PHT
Rambo Talabong
The police presents Mena Luansing to media after she was arrested by Parañaque cops and intelligence operatives on Sunday, June 3
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine National Police (PNP) arrested the alleged live-in partner of Ozamiz City Councilor-turned-fugitive Ricardo "Ardot" Parojinog.
Led by police chief Director General Oscar Albayalde, the PNP presented Mena Luansing during a Camp Crame press conference on Monday, June 4. She was nabbed by Parañaque cops and intelligence operatives at 7 am on Sunday, June 3.
According to Albayalde, cops have yet to question her about the alleged criminal activities of the Parojinog family. Family patriarch Reynaldo Parojinog and 14 others were shot down in a July 30, 2017 police drug raid.
Big arrest? Luansing is considered by the PNP as a high-value target because of her alleged links with the embattled Parojinog clan. She was arrested by virtue of warrants of arrest issued by Judge Edmundo Pinlac of Ozamis City Regional Trial Court Branch 15 over cases accusing her of illegal possession of firearms.
She served as a provincial board member of Misamis Occidental until she supposedly resigned in January 2018. PNP chief Albayalde said she was in Manila to hide from police watch in Northern Mindanao (Region 10).
Cops also arrested Luansing's alleged coddler Jonas Galamita Cablitas, accused of obstructing the apprehension and prosecution of an alleged criminal. – Rappler.com
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Rambo Talabong covers the House of Representatives and local governments for Rappler. Prior to this, he covered security and crime. He was named Jaime V. Ongpin Fellow in 2019 for his reporting on President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. In 2021, he was selected as a journalism fellow by the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics.
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Flu Pandemic 'Exaggerated'
The UK's latest swine flu figures are still on the way down.
The new figures have just been been released as several European countries are raising questions about the swine flu crisis - inferring it was "a false pandemic" - allowing pharmaceutical companies to put pressure on health ministers to order more vaccine than their countries needed.
As the UK Government formally abandoned its weekly swine flu briefings after new cases plunged over the past month prompting the Department of Health to abandon its regular media briefing, there has been a continuing reduction in new cases across the country.
Weekly briefings continue in Northern Ireland however, where GP consultation rates for flu fell last week from 55.5 in Wk 53 to 48.8/100,000 population in Wk 1 - a 12% decrease.
The Department of Health said the rates remain below the Northern Ireland threshold for seasonal influenza activity.
There were four swine flu detections over the last week as compared to three in Wk 53 and there has been a cumulative total of 1,358 swine flu detections as at noon 13 January with a cumulative total of 578 hospitalised swine flu cases.
There were just three new hospitalised cases reported in the first week of this year and no new swine flu related deaths.
The total number of swine flu related deaths in NI remains at 17 (or 19 counting two local people who died outside the Province).
Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr Elizabeth Mitchell said: "Swine flu has now been circulating within Northern Ireland since May 2009.
"We have seen two waves of infection from the virus and our planning and preparation has meant that the likelihood of a further wave has been significantly reduced.
"This is due in part to the extent in which the virus has already circulated in the community, and also as a result of the very successful vaccination programme."
She also urged against complacency and said: "We know from experience of previous pandemics that flu viruses can be unpredictable so we can not completely rule out the possibility of a further wave. We will therefore continue to monitor the situation carefully and adapt our plans accordingly."
Meanwhile, although more than 12,700 people worldwide have died from H1N1 swine flu, the virus does not appear to be as deadly as many people expected.
According to the news website, Medical News Today, some European politicians have accused the World Health Organisation (WHO) of exaggerating the dangers of swine flu.
They said a WHO spokeswoman in Geneva acknowledged there were questions that needed answers and that a review of how the WHO handled the pandemic would be done with independent experts and would be made public.
However, they will wait until the pandemic is declared over, so it could be months yet before any report emerges.
Many mainland Europe countries are also looking to cut back on orders of vaccine or sell a large part of their stockpile as they think pharmaceutical companies put excessive pressure on them to stock-up initially.
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package com.badlogic.gdx.math;
import java.util.Random;
/**
* Utility and fast math functions.
* <p>
* Thanks to Riven on JavaGaming.org for the basis of sin/cos/atan2/floor/ceil.
*
* @author Nathan Sweet
*/
public final class MathUtils {
static public final float nanoToSec = 1 / 1000000000f;
// ---
static public final float FLOAT_ROUNDING_ERROR = 0.000001f; // 32 bits
static public final float PI = 3.1415927f;
static public final float PI2 = PI * 2;
static public final float E = 2.7182818f;
static private final int SIN_BITS = 14; // 16KB. Adjust for accuracy.
static private final int SIN_MASK = ~(-1 << SIN_BITS);
static private final int SIN_COUNT = SIN_MASK + 1;
static private final float radFull = PI * 2;
static private final float degFull = 360;
static private final float radToIndex = SIN_COUNT / radFull;
static private final float degToIndex = SIN_COUNT / degFull;
/**
* multiply by this to convert from radians to degrees
*/
static public final float radiansToDegrees = 180f / PI;
static public final float radDeg = radiansToDegrees;
/**
* multiply by this to convert from degrees to radians
*/
static public final float degreesToRadians = PI / 180;
static public final float degRad = degreesToRadians;
static private class Sin {
static final float[] table = new float[SIN_COUNT];
static {
for (int i = 0; i < SIN_COUNT; i++) {
table[i] = (float) Math.sin((i + 0.5f) / SIN_COUNT * radFull);
}
for (int i = 0; i < 360; i += 90) {
table[(int) (i * degToIndex) & SIN_MASK] = (float) Math.sin(i * degreesToRadians);
}
}
}
/**
* Returns the sine in radians from a lookup table.
*
* @param radians
* @return
*/
static public float sin(float radians) {
return Sin.table[(int) (radians * radToIndex) & SIN_MASK];
}
/**
* Returns the cosine in radians from a lookup table.
*
* @param radians
* @return
*/
static public float cos(float radians) {
return Sin.table[(int) ((radians + PI / 2) * radToIndex) & SIN_MASK];
}
/**
* Returns the sine in radians from a lookup table.
*
* @param degrees
* @return
*/
static public float sinDeg(float degrees) {
return Sin.table[(int) (degrees * degToIndex) & SIN_MASK];
}
/**
* Returns the cosine in radians from a lookup table.
*
* @param degrees
* @return
*/
static public float cosDeg(float degrees) {
return Sin.table[(int) ((degrees + 90) * degToIndex) & SIN_MASK];
}
// ---
static private final int ATAN2_BITS = 7; // Adjust for accuracy.
static private final int ATAN2_BITS2 = ATAN2_BITS << 1;
static private final int ATAN2_MASK = ~(-1 << ATAN2_BITS2);
static private final int ATAN2_COUNT = ATAN2_MASK + 1;
static final int ATAN2_DIM = (int) Math.sqrt(ATAN2_COUNT);
static private final float INV_ATAN2_DIM_MINUS_1 = 1.0f / (ATAN2_DIM - 1);
static private class Atan2 {
static final float[] table = new float[ATAN2_COUNT];
static {
for (int i = 0; i < ATAN2_DIM; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < ATAN2_DIM; j++) {
float x0 = (float) i / ATAN2_DIM;
float y0 = (float) j / ATAN2_DIM;
table[j * ATAN2_DIM + i] = (float) Math.atan2(y0, x0);
}
}
}
}
/**
* Returns atan2 in radians from a lookup table.
*
* @param y
* @param x
* @return
*/
static public float atan2(float y, float x) {
float add, mul;
if (x < 0) {
if (y < 0) {
y = -y;
mul = 1;
} else {
mul = -1;
}
x = -x;
add = -PI;
} else {
if (y < 0) {
y = -y;
mul = -1;
} else {
mul = 1;
}
add = 0;
}
float invDiv = 1 / ((x < y ? y : x) * INV_ATAN2_DIM_MINUS_1);
if (invDiv == Float.POSITIVE_INFINITY) {
return ((float) Math.atan2(y, x) + add) * mul;
}
int xi = (int) (x * invDiv);
int yi = (int) (y * invDiv);
return (Atan2.table[yi * ATAN2_DIM + xi] + add) * mul;
}
// ---
static public Random random = new RandomXS128();
/**
* Returns a random number between 0 (inclusive) and the specified value (inclusive).
*
* @param range
* @return
*/
static public int random(int range) {
return random.nextInt(range + 1);
}
/**
* Returns a random number between start (inclusive) and end (inclusive).
*
* @param start
* @param end
* @return
*/
static public int random(int start, int end) {
return start + random.nextInt(end - start + 1);
}
/**
* Returns a random boolean value.
*
* @return
*/
static public boolean randomBoolean() {
return random.nextBoolean();
}
/**
* Returns true if a random value between 0 and 1 is less than the specified value.
*
* @param chance
* @return
*/
static public boolean randomBoolean(float chance) {
return MathUtils.random() < chance;
}
/**
* Returns random number between 0.0 (inclusive) and 1.0 (exclusive).
*
* @return
*/
static public float random() {
return random.nextFloat();
}
/**
* Returns a random number between 0 (inclusive) and the specified value (exclusive).
*
* @param range
* @return
*/
static public float random(float range) {
return random.nextFloat() * range;
}
/**
* Returns a random number between start (inclusive) and end (exclusive).
*
* @param start
* @param end
* @return
*/
static public float random(float start, float end) {
return start + random.nextFloat() * (end - start);
}
/**
* Returns -1 or 1, randomly.
*
* @return
*/
static public int randomSign() {
return 1 | (random.nextInt() >> 31);
}
/**
* Returns a triangularly distributed random number between -1.0 (exclusive) and 1.0 (exclusive), where values
* around zero are more likely.
* <p>
* This is an optimized version of {@link #randomTriangular(float, float, float) randomTriangular(-1, 1, 0)}
*
* @return
*/
public static float randomTriangular() {
return random.nextFloat() - random.nextFloat();
}
/**
* Returns a triangularly distributed random number between {@code -max} (exclusive) and {@code max} (exclusive),
* where values around zero are more likely.
* <p>
* This is an optimized version of {@link #randomTriangular(float, float, float) randomTriangular(-max, max, 0)}
*
* @param max the upper limit
* @return
*/
public static float randomTriangular(float max) {
return (random.nextFloat() - random.nextFloat()) * max;
}
/**
* Returns a triangularly distributed random number between {@code min} (inclusive) and {@code max} (exclusive),
* where the {@code mode} argument defaults to the midpoint between the bounds, giving a symmetric distribution.
* <p>
* This method is equivalent of
* {@link #randomTriangular(float, float, float) randomTriangular(min, max, (max - min) * .5f)}
*
* @param min the lower limit
* @param max the upper limit
* @return
*/
public static float randomTriangular(float min, float max) {
return randomTriangular(min, max, (max - min) * .5f);
}
/**
* Returns a triangularly distributed random number between {@code min} (inclusive) and {@code max} (exclusive),
* where values around {@code mode} are more likely.
*
* @param min the lower limit
* @param max the upper limit
* @param mode the point around which the values are more likely
* @return
*/
public static float randomTriangular(float min, float max, float mode) {
float u = random.nextFloat();
float d = max - min;
if (u <= (mode - min) / d) {
return min + (float) Math.sqrt(u * d * (mode - min));
}
return max - (float) Math.sqrt((1 - u) * d * (max - mode));
}
// ---
/**
* Returns the next power of two. Returns the specified value if the value is already a power of two.
*
* @param value
* @return
*/
static public int nextPowerOfTwo(int value) {
if (value == 0) {
return 1;
}
value--;
value |= value >> 1;
value |= value >> 2;
value |= value >> 4;
value |= value >> 8;
value |= value >> 16;
return value + 1;
}
static public boolean isPowerOfTwo(int value) {
return value != 0 && (value & value - 1) == 0;
}
// ---
static public int clamp(int value, int min, int max) {
if (value < min) {
return min;
}
if (value > max) {
return max;
}
return value;
}
static public short clamp(short value, short min, short max) {
if (value < min) {
return min;
}
if (value > max) {
return max;
}
return value;
}
static public float clamp(float value, float min, float max) {
if (value < min) {
return min;
}
if (value > max) {
return max;
}
return value;
}
// ---
/**
* Linearly interpolates between fromValue to toValue on progress position.
*
* @param fromValue
* @param toValue
* @param progress
* @return
*/
static public float lerp(float fromValue, float toValue, float progress) {
return fromValue + (toValue - fromValue) * progress;
}
// ---
static private final int BIG_ENOUGH_INT = 16 * 1024;
static private final double BIG_ENOUGH_FLOOR = BIG_ENOUGH_INT;
static private final double CEIL = 0.9999999;
static private final double BIG_ENOUGH_CEIL = 16384.999999999996;
static private final double BIG_ENOUGH_ROUND = BIG_ENOUGH_INT + 0.5f;
/**
* Returns the largest integer less than or equal to the specified float. This method will only properly floor
* floats from -(2^14) to (Float.MAX_VALUE - 2^14).
*
* @param x
* @return
*/
static public int floor(float x) {
return (int) (x + BIG_ENOUGH_FLOOR) - BIG_ENOUGH_INT;
}
/**
* Returns the largest integer less than or equal to the specified float. This method will only properly floor
* floats that are positive. Note this method simply casts the float to int.
*
* @param x
* @return
*/
static public int floorPositive(float x) {
return (int) x;
}
/**
* Returns the smallest integer greater than or equal to the specified float. This method will only properly ceil
* floats from -(2^14) to (Float.MAX_VALUE - 2^14).
*
* @param x
* @return
*/
static public int ceil(float x) {
return (int) (x + BIG_ENOUGH_CEIL) - BIG_ENOUGH_INT;
}
/**
* Returns the smallest integer greater than or equal to the specified float. This method will only properly ceil
* floats that are positive.
*
* @param x
* @return
*/
static public int ceilPositive(float x) {
return (int) (x + CEIL);
}
/**
* Returns the closest integer to the specified float. This method will only properly round floats from -(2^14) to
* (Float.MAX_VALUE - 2^14).
*
* @param x
* @return
*/
static public int round(float x) {
return (int) (x + BIG_ENOUGH_ROUND) - BIG_ENOUGH_INT;
}
/**
* Returns the closest integer to the specified float. This method will only properly round floats that are
* positive.
*
* @param x
* @return
*/
static public int roundPositive(float x) {
return (int) (x + 0.5f);
}
/**
* Returns true if the value is zero (using the default tolerance as upper bound)
*
* @param value
* @return
*/
static public boolean isZero(float value) {
return Math.abs(value) <= FLOAT_ROUNDING_ERROR;
}
/**
* Returns true if the value is zero.
*
* @param value
* @param tolerance represent an upper bound below which the value is considered zero.
* @return
*/
static public boolean isZero(float value, float tolerance) {
return Math.abs(value) <= tolerance;
}
/**
* Returns true if a is nearly equal to b. The function uses the default floating error tolerance.
*
* @param a the first value.
* @param b the second value.
* @return
*/
static public boolean isEqual(float a, float b) {
return Math.abs(a - b) <= FLOAT_ROUNDING_ERROR;
}
/**
* Returns true if a is nearly equal to b.
*
* @param a the first value.
* @param b the second value.
* @param tolerance represent an upper bound below which the two values are considered equal.
* @return
*/
static public boolean isEqual(float a, float b, float tolerance) {
return Math.abs(a - b) <= tolerance;
}
/**
* @param a
* @param x
* @return the logarithm of x with base a
*/
static public float log(float a, float x) {
return (float) (Math.log(x) / Math.log(a));
}
/**
* @param x
* @return the logarithm of x with base 2
*/
static public float log2(float x) {
return log(2, x);
}
}
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Trump and his EPA chief are ready to wage war on environmental protections
by Carter Sherman
Two days before President Donald Trump plans to sign a sweeping executive order to roll back Obama-era environmental protections, his EPA chief called the landmark 2015 international agreement to fight climate change "just a bad deal" for the U.S.
"China and India, the largest producers of CO2 internationally, got away scot-free," EPA head Scott Pruitt said in a Sunday ABC interview. Pruitt was referring to the Paris Climate Agreement, in which almost every country in the world committed to decreasing emissions of climate change–causing greenhouse gas, such as carbon dioxide (CO2). Unlike in previous agreements, both developing and developed countries pledged to help.
"[China and India] didn't have to take steps till 2030," Pruitt went on. "So we've penalized ourselves through lost jobs while [they] didn't take steps to address the issue internationally. So Paris was just a bad deal, in my estimation."
While on the campaign trail, Trump said he would "cancel" the Paris agreement.
Pruitt also labeled the Clean Power Plan, an Obama initiative to cut power plants' carbon pollution, as part of "past administration's effort to kill jobs throughout the country." The plan — already stayed thanks to a lawsuit Pruitt helped originally bring — was seen as an important part of meeting the goals the United States set in the Paris accord.
Yet Pruitt's comment that China and India are the "largest producers of CO2 internationally" may be misleading. While China does emit more carbon dioxide than any other country in the world, the next-biggest emitter is not India, according to the U.S. Energy Information administration. That would be the United States.
While China's energy consumption led the country to emit more than 9,000 million metric tons of carbon in 2014, the United States released about half that amount — even though the United States has less than a third of China's population. India emitted only about 1,800 million metric tons of carbon dioxide that year.
China and the United States' carbon emissions have declined in recent years, leading the global rate of carbon emissions to flatten even as the world economy grows. Experts say this trend may represent a "decoupling" of the conventional wisdom that economies cannot grow and go green at the same time.
But the United States' carbon emissions may soon be on the rise again, as Pruitt revealed in his Sunday interview that Trump's executive order will review, rescind, or revise several federal environmental protections. And its impact may be immense, according to details of the order shared with Bloomberg News.
Not only will the Clean Power Plan likely be dismantled, but other regulations are also at risk. For instance, during the Obama administration, officials had to often calculate the effects of climate change by factoring a metric called "the social cost of carbon" into their decision-making. Trump's executive order is expected to end that policy.
These changes may help resurrect the ailing U.S. coal industry, which Trump promised to improve during his campaign.
It's unclear whether Trump will use the order to withdraw from the Paris accord, but Pruitt said that the Clean Power Plan was "not tethered" to that agreement, suggesting that Trump may pull the United States out of the deal later on.
"This is about making sure that we have a pro-growth and pro-environment approach to how we do regulation in this country," Pruitt said of the order.
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Eugène Bigot (Rennes, 28 de febrero de 1888 - París, 17 de julio de 1965) fue compositor y director de orquesta francés.
Biografía
Fue profesor en el conservatorio de París, donde tuvo alumnos notables como Émilien Allard, Louis de Froment, Henri-Claude Fantapié, António Fortunato de Figueiredo, Karel Husa, Paul Kuentz, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Pierre Rolland y Mikis Theodorakis. Desde 1935 hasta 1950 fue director de la sociedad de conciertos fundada por Charles Lamoureux.
Referencias
Jean-Philippe Mousnier: "Albert Wolff - Eugène Bigot", Editions l'Harmattan, 2001.
Compositores de Francia
Directores de orquesta de Francia
Músicos clásicos del siglo XX de Francia
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I've been a reader practically my entire life. When I was young, I would get in trouble for staying up all night reading under my covers with a flashlight. That habit is probably what makes me a night owl to this day.
Horror and suspense/thriller were my go-to genres (Stephen King was–and still is–one of my favorite authors), though I did read just about anything I could get my hands on. The librarians at my local library kept their eyes out for incoming books they thought I'd like to read. When I ran out of new books to read, they gave me access to the storage room where they kept the books that weren't being borrowed (out of commission, I guess?). I stayed far away from romance; the few romance novels I tried reading did nothing for me.
Several years ago, I stumbled upon a website that posted free, original stories of men falling in love with other men and finding their HEA. I was immediately hooked and could totally get behind this kind of romance. I devoured every story, every word. Some were hit or miss (I'm a grammar snob, and bad grammar or misspelled words make me lose interest no matter how good the storytelling.), and I began rereading several times over my favorite stories.
Flash forward to November 2016 when I was introduced to the Hoopla Digital app through my library and discovered a treasure trove of published LGBTQ+ books. I was in heaven! Every free moment I had was spent reading, my face glued to my phone. There were so many authors out there waiting for me to find and immerse myself in their stories.
I also began seeking out my new favorites online to keep abreast of new releases. Twitter seemed to be where the queer writing community could be found. So, I dusted off my abandoned Twitter account and became part of that community as a reader and, eventually, reviewer. I'm an extreme introvert and debilitatingly shy to boot, but I came out of my shell a bit and interacted with other readers and discovered even more authors to read.
Then in February of this year, I had a craving for a particular plot. I searched and searched but couldn't find exactly what I was looking for. For whatever reason, I thought it'd be a good idea to try to write this elusive story. Previously, I had only ever written poems–and that was back in grade school. I didn't have much faith in myself and my ability to tell a good story, but my intention wasn't ever to have anyone read it. This was just going to be a fun little project for myself.
Unexpectedly, someone I had become really close to online gave me the encouragement and confidence to make this story happen. I got excited to continue, and the characters I created in my mind kept talking to me and doing things that I hadn't planned in the beginning. I was hooked. The end result is a complete mess and far from my original intention but, I've been told, has good bones.
That one cluster of a story ignited the desire to write more and create different characters. In addition to that first effort (which I have plans to split into two books), I have three other projects in the works. And (here comes the big news), I completed a short story that I submitted to a publisher on a whim earlier this month.
Amazingly, that short story was picked up by JMS Books and is scheduled to be released on November 17th. How wild is that? Never in my life did I imagined I'd publish an original story created by my imagination.
I've met some fabulous people along the way. The level of support and encouragement I've found from people I'e never met in real life is awesome. This community is wonderful.
Now that I've gotten bitten by the creative bug, there are so many things I want to accomplish. I want to write a decent full-length novel. I want to try self-publishing. I want to hold my paperback in my hands. I want to write a story that someone loves.
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MJR's slef-reflections: Better Free Software Organisations?
Another zero-day announcement of a Software in the Public Interest online meeting has been posted. The announcement mentions "one motion has been raised" but the agenda doesn't include any motions, so I'm not sure what. Also, the agenda lists "Debian logo licence" as up for discussion but I thought last month's meeting resolved that. I watch SPI fairly closely and I'm confused. How about the rest of you?
SPI isn't alone in this: many software organisations seem to suffer from similar problems. For example, I ranted in passing about Free Software Manchester yesterday, who just posted the notes from their own zero-day meeting and I've suggested possible ways of reforming debian's currently-stalled New Maintainer process more than once.
I feel a lot of these problems are caused by attempting to order our inherently entropy-filled world completely and insisting everything follows petty rules, such as refusing to answer a question because the "wrong" member asked it. The world will not become less random just because hackers try to impose arbitrary rules. Sometimes it's good to put down minimum standards (because calling zero-day meetings is a mostly-avoidable way of excluding some members) but it will always be a poor alternative to trying to do the best you can for others.
How do we get past this? My pro-cooperation-and-better-business platform for SPI board went pretty badly and I've had some anti-cooperative flames back from someone starting another free software group this month, so I don't think I can fix these existing organisations any time soon. About 1 in 6 people in the UK are members of a cooperative, so even if that is reflected among hackers (and I think it's lower), all of them would not be enough to reform much.
One of the most common memes in free software is "show us the code" and the few other free software cooperatives I've seen have mostly failed, with a few surviving but hitting a size limit. As a result, I'm currently negotiating the start of a new free software cooperative. So far, I'm really happy with how that's going. Many cooperators learn at the feet of large consumer cooperatives like the Cooperative Group who run training courses for new members about putting cooperative values and principles into practice, which we smaller groups couldn't run ourselves. As a result, most cooperators already know how to work well together. Should large software societies like SPI try commissioning similar courses?
Tags: charities, cooperatives, debian, spi.
This would be a good advogato story; it would surely attract good comment. Would you like to post it there? | {
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Decoding Anglo-Saxon art
Saturday, May 31st, 2014
The British Museum's consistently fascinating blog has an entry decoding the complex iconography of Anglo-Saxon art. If you've ever found yourself following the intricate interlacing lines and curves of an Anglo-Saxon design, trying to identify a highly stylized animal or face mask, then you've doubtless wished for a labeled map. British Museum curator Rosie Weetch and illustrator Craig Williams have made that wish come true.
They select three pieces from different periods to decode. The first is a silver-gilt square-headed brooch that was unearthed from the grave of a woman on the Isle of Wight in 1855. It was cast in silver and gilded on the front surface, a technique influenced by southern Scandinavian metalwork. Created in the early 6th century A.D., the brooch is a beautiful example of Style I art, characterized by a jumble of interwoven figures art historians amusingly call "animal salad."
Its surface is covered with at least 24 different beasts: a mix of birds' heads, human masks, animals and hybrids. Some of them are quite clear, like the faces in the circular lobes projecting from the bottom of the brooch. Others are harder to spot, such as the faces in profile that only emerge when the brooch is turned upside-down. Some of the images can be read in multiple ways, and this ambiguity is central to Style I art.
Once we have identified the creatures on the brooch, we can begin to decode its meaning. In the lozenge-shaped field at the foot of the brooch is a bearded face with a helmet underneath two birds that may represent the Germanic god Woden/Odin with his two companion ravens. The image of a god alongside other powerful animals may have offered symbolic protection to the wearer like a talisman or amulet.
The next example is from a century later, the great gold buckle from the early 7th century Sutton Hoo ship burial. It's a Style II piece, characterized by more fluid intertwined animal figures. There are 13 animals on the buckle surface: snakes and four-legged creatures on the plate and tongue shield, snakes biting themselves on the loop, two animals biting a smaller animal on the top of the buckle, and two bird heads on the shoulders of the buckle.
Such designs reveal the importance of the natural world, and it is likely that different animals were thought to hold different properties and characteristics that could be transferred to the objects they decorated. The fearsome snakes, with their shape-shifting qualities, demand respect and confer authority, and were suitable symbols for a buckle that adorned a high-status man, or even an Anglo-Saxon king.
The last piece skips ahead to the 9th century Trewhiddle Style, named after the town in Cornwall where a hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins and decorated artifacts were discovered in a tin mine in 1774. The style is distinguished by enlaced animals, birds and humans, leafy scrollwork and a particular emphasis on using silver rather than gold and brass. The Fuller Brooch features the classic Trewhiddle humans, animals and plants along the border, but the central iconography is unique.
At the centre is a man with staring eyes holding two plants. Around him are four other men striking poses: one, with his hands behind his back, sniffs a leaf; another rubs his two hands together; the third holds his hand up to his ear; and the final one has his whole hand inserted into his mouth. Together these strange poses form the earliest personification of the five senses: Sight, Smell, Touch, Hearing, and Taste. Surrounding these central motifs are roundels depicting animals, humans, and plants that perhaps represent God's Creation.
The metaphoric significance of these figures, its best-in-class quality and the unique vision of the piece may suggest a connection to the court of King Alfred the Great, who was not only a successful military leader but also had a deep and abiding passion for learning and education. The long period of Viking raids had decimated centers of learning. Alfred made it a mission to reinvigorate Latin education and, for the first time, to advocate learning in the English vernacular. He put his money where his mouth was, personally translating four major works from Latin into Old English: Pastoral Care by Gregory the Great, The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, St. Augustine's Soliloquies, and the first fifty psalms.
Chapter XXXIV of his translation of Boethius uses the senses as a metaphor for enlightenment and understanding:
But gold and silver stones and every kind of gem and all this present weal enlighten not at all the eyes of the mind nor at all whet their sharpness for beholding true happiness but they rather blind the eyes of the mind than sharpen them For all the things which please us here in this present life are earthly and are therefore fleeting But the wonderful Brightness which enlighteneth all things and ruleth all things willeth not that souls should perish but willeth to enlighten them If then any man can see the brightness of the heavenly light with the clear eyes of his mind then will he say that the brightness of the shining of the sun is darkness beside the eternal brightness of God.
Since the motif is unique, the work of the highest caliber and the dating consistent with Alfred the Great's reign (which ended in 899 A.D.), it's entirely possible that the Fuller Brooch was crafted by artisans at Alfred's court, likely for someone of great wealth and rank.
Sadly the article stops at just these three pieces, only whetting my appetite for more mapping of Anglo-Saxon designs. Weetch and Williams should go through the entire collection of the British Museum and decode every artifact in this way. Then they should animate the creatures untangling themselves from each other and make it interactive so we can select to follow one line at a time. Make it so.
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Richard III's spine recreated by 3D printer
For those of you who are over all this Richard III malarkey (hi anja!), I hope you understand why this post has to be. There's a rotating spine gif here, people. How can I be expected to resist that? I'm only human. Besides, the question of Richard's spinal deformity, its existence, nature and extent, has been the subject of many histories and even more theatrical performances for more than five centuries.
Now we have some real answers courtesy of the University of Leicester team which has published a brief paper on Richard's spine in The Lancet. You can read it free of charge if you register on the site.
When a body decomposes, different parts break down at different rates. Ligaments that hold the spine together are some of the last ones to decompose, so usually the way the spine is found in the grave is how it was in life. The curvature in Richard's spine could not have been a function of how he was placed. This was confirmed by examination of the bones, which found that the vertebrae of the curve are slightly different shapes and sizes. The only way those bones would fit together in life was in a spine with scoliosis.
The skeleton laid out on a flat surface, however, only shows the sideways curvature of the spine. It takes a 3D model to see the full picture of the condition. The bones were scanned on a multi-detector CT scanner which takes high resolution images from every side, allowing them to be viewed as a whole 3D structure or in slices across any plane. The bones obviously were not joined, since the soft tissue is all gone and there is no software that will take the disconnected bones and put them back together the way they were in life. Usually that work is done by creating models.
The team was able to use the imaging data to generate a model which was printed out in a polymer using the advanced 3D printing equipment of the Wolfson School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering at Loughborough University in Leicestershire. This produces a near identical copy of the bones, only the model is durable, light weight and easily passed around, giving scientists the opportunity to study the skeletal structure without having to handle fragile human remains. Even after the king has been reburied, therefore, experts will still be able to examine his bones.
The bones of the spine join at three places: the gap between two vertebrae where there's a disc and two facet joints at the back. With the plastic model, experts drilled a small hole in the center of each vertebra and ran a wire through them, separating each bone with a felt pad standing in for the disc. They then joined the facet joints using a similar technique. They saw that while the lumbar vertebrae in the lower spine appeared quite normal and fit together in a standard way, as they rose in the spine the osteoarthritic degeneration in the facet joints that was caused by the scoliosis increased markedly, deforming the joints. That deformity meant the bones fit together in a very specific way, an enforced thoracic curve that is the s-shaped bend in the spine we saw in the photographs of the skeleton in situ and in the lab. The measurement of the extent of the spinal curvature, called a Cobb angle, is 65-85 degrees. In today's scoliosis patients that would be considered a large curvature to be corrected by the surgical implantation of metal rods. Once they reached the upper thoracic vertebrae, the facet joints returned to normal and the spine straightened out.
In addition to the sideways s-curve, the 3D model illuminates the spiral twist of the spine that you can only see when the spine is rotated. (You could see it even more clearly if the ribs were attached, but they haven't 3D printed any ribs yet and probably won't because many of them were broken when unearthed.) The model shows that the ribs on Richard's back would have stuck out significantly on the right side, while they were sunken on the left. When he leaned forward, the prominent ribs on the right side of his back would have formed a hump. This would not have been visible, however, when he was clothed and in most any other position than leaning over, so all those pillows stuffed under costumes are way off.
The physical disfigurement from Richard's scoliosis was probably slight since he had a well balanced curve. His trunk would have been short relative to the length of his limbs, and his right shoulder a little higher than the left. However, a good tailor and custom-made armour could have minimised the visual impact of this. A curve of 70—90° would not have caused impaired exercise tolerance from reduced lung capacity, and we identified no evidence that Richard would have walked with an overt limp, because the leg bones are symmetric and well formed.
He may or may not have had back pain. If his spinal curvature had been magically straightened, he'd have been 5'8" tall, about average for a man of the period. With the scoliosis he was two to three inches shorter.
The polymer model was photographed from 19 angles and the images used to create an interactive 3D model. You can click on it and drag it from side to side to examine the recreated spine from any perspective.
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Half of Saddle Ridge Hoard coins sold in 72 hours
The first round of coins from the Saddle Ridge Hoard, the 1,427 gold coins discovered in Northern California in February of 2013 by a couple walking their dog, has gone up for sale and is being snapped up by collectors. Since sales began on Tuesday, more than half of the coins have sold.
The festivities began at 7:30 PM on Tuesday at the Old Mint in San Francisco, the very same building where many of the Saddle Ridge Hoard coins were first struck. Sixty of them were put on display, including the most important and valuable single coin in the collection: an 1866 $20 Double Eagle that is missing the motto "In God We Trust" on the back. It's an extremely rare piece, as Congress had passed a law in March of 1865 authorizing the placement of the motto on all gold coins that "shall admit the inscription thereon." The San Francisco mint apparently lacked the proper equipment to include the motto at that time. That little oversight makes the coin valued at $1.2 million.
An hour after the exhibition, one coin went up for auction at the Old Mint: an 1874 $20 Double Eagle. It sold for $15,000, with all the proceeds going to restore the National Historic Landmark and converting it into the San Francisco Museum at the Mint. The buyer was Ray Lent with Placer Partners, which is heavily involved in the cause. The mint museum will be the first museum dedicated to the history of the city, believe it or not. You'd think a place like San Francisco would be lousy with them. Here's a video of the culmination of the auction and an interview with Ray Lent explaining why they secured the coin for the museum. There are some great shots of the space and the exhibition.
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With the non-profit part done, commerce began. Coin dealer Kagin's Inc. put up hundreds of coins for sale Tuesday night. By midnight, 225 coins offered for sale on the website were bought for a total of $2.4 million. Even more coins were listed on Amazon Tuesday night. Within an hour, 346 of them had sold for more than $1 million. At this rate, the initial estimate of the hoard's value at $10 million will be surpassed by at least a million.
The 14 finest coins are being sold in a single lot along with the original can that was their home for near a century and a half. They're available on Amazon for a cool $2,750,000 and yes, you can buy them with 1-Click. As of this writing, 572 coins from the hoard are for sale individually on Amazon, priced between $2,975 and $17,500. Kagin's has 55 coins for sale on its website and numbers are diminishing rapidly.
It's the condition of the coins and their Robert Louis Stevenson-like story that underpins their commercial success. The gold coins are nearly all in mint condition, with coins struck between 1847 and 1894 and barely circulated. They were buried in eight metal cans in the Gold Country of the Sierra Nevada mountain until their rediscovery by the property owners last year.
Eventually almost all of the coins will be sold. The owners, known only as John and Mary, will keep a few coins for sentimental reasons.
Remains of massive 2nd c. building found in France
Under a disused municipal soccer field in Pont-Sainte-Maxence, a city in the northern French province of Oise, archaeologists from the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) have unearthed the remains of a massive 2nd century A.D. Gallo-Roman building while surveying the site for future construction. Hundreds of limestone blocks, many of them carved, were found buried in the sandy soil next to the Compiègne-Senlis national highway, formerly a Roman road.
It was built at the end of the reign of the Emperor Antoninus (138-161 A.D.) and appears to have collapsed very soon after construction. The structure was an estimated 90 meters (295 feet) wide and 9.5 meters (31 feet) high, but only one meter (three feet) thick. That bold architectural choice of building so high a wall without bracing doubtless played a major role in its untimely demise, along with the sandy soil on which it was built. The facade had a series of 13-17 arches in the center, the building blocks of which are lying horizontally where they fell. They were sufficiently broken and damaged to spare them from stone scavengers, but expertly preserved by the dry sand that became their home for almost 2,000 years.
Archaeologists aren't certain yet of what purpose the building was dedicated to, but it could have been a religious sanctuary of some kind sponsored by a hugely wealthy patron. Almost the entire Greco-Roman pantheon is represented in the high quality bas-relief carvings of the frieze. They were carved in a Hellenistic style entirely unlike anything else found in the north of Gaul. The work is so exquisite that it's not likely to have been carved locally. It's the kind of statuary you'd expect to find in Rome or Greece, not in distant northern Gallic provinces, even at the height of imperial prosperity in the 2nd century. Somebody paid an enormous amount of money to build this monumental structure.
There are realistic depictions of Jupiter as the horned ram Ammon, horses, griffins, floral and geometric reliefs, and a figure of Venus next to the head and hand of an old woman poised as if she's whispering, a representation of the myth of Venus turning an old woman to stone after she betrayed the location of Venus and Mars' adulterous tryst, causing them to be found in flagrante delicto by her husband Vulcan. There's Juno's peacock, Diana's quiver and bow, and a face that could be the Medusa, although her snakes are missing so it's hard to say. Traces of the original color paint that made ancient Roman statuary and architecture so deliciously garish have survived, an exceptionally rare discovery since the paint was often the first to go. Sections of red cinnabar, light green and yellow are clearly visible to the naked eye.
Not only is this huge building unrecorded in surviving sources, but there is no known Gallo-Roman settlement in the area. Ancient docks have been found elsewhere in Pont-Sainte-Maxence, so something was certainly going on at that locale. We just don't know what. Even after it collapsed people still found things to do there. Coins from the fourth century have been found among the ruins.
Unfortunately archaeologists won't have the chance to study the site thoroughly. Excavations began two months ago and will continue through the end of June. Then the team has to clear out to make way for the construction crews that will build a shopping center on the site. The fact that there's an archaeological treasure there that is literally without precedent apparently won't even cause a delay. All INRAP can do is move the limestone blocks to temporary storage while they find a permanent location to study and document the stones uninterrupted. How they're going to move all those blocks without damaging them in the very short window of time they have is not yet clear.
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WWI memorial plaques found on dirt floor basement
Karen O'Maxfield was in the Ice House, a public works outbuilding at Colt Park in Hartford, Connecticut, last year when she stumbled on a large number of cast iron plaques. They were in a pile on the dirt floor of the basement, topped and surrounded with junk like an old plastic milk jug and random bits of tubing. O'Maxfield took some pictures and shared them on Facebook where they were spotted by Hartford history buffs Greg Secord and Lynn Ferrari. The three got together and began researching and inventorying the plaques.
They discovered in the archives of the Hartford Courant that the plaques had once been part of a memorial to the 207 Hartford men who died in World War I. The memorial began in 1920 with the planting of 189 elm trees along the pathways encircling the track, dance floor (cool park!) and baseball diamonds in Colt Park. Mayor Newton C. Brainard, himself a history lover who decades later would become president of the Connecticut Historical Society, presided over the ceremony. Each tree was adorned with a small name marker. It was called the Trees of Honor memorial.
Six years later, the Rau-Locke American Legion Post 8 replaced the four-inch name markers with substantial cast iron ones on poles beside the trees, now a complete set of 207. Each plaque was approximately 12-by-10 inches and embossed with the name of a deceased soldier, his rank, the location where he fell and the date. For years the city commemorated their sacrifice at the memorial every Armistice Day (renamed to Veterans Day in 1954) on November 11th.
It's unclear when exactly the plaques were removed, but it was in the 1960s that almost all of the trees were killed by Dutch elm disease, a fungus spread by bark beetles that first arrived in New England in 1928. The trees were destroyed and the plaques put into storage. The basement of the Ice House was not a great place for them. The dirt floor was prone to flooding and over time the plaques were damaged. Some were cracked; all were tarnished. Others were lost altogether.
When they were rediscovered, there were only 179 plaques out of the original 207. We know the names of the men whose plaques are missing, thanks to a list published in the 1920s by the Hartford Courant. (You can see the complete list here.) Secord, Ferrari and O'Maxfield are working to replace the 30 missing and broken plaques. They've started a Facebook group, Hartford Heroes, and a GoFundMe project to raise money for the replacements. Each one costs $325 for a total of $9,750.
Thankfully Competitive Edge Coatings, a South Windsor powder coating company, stepped up to the plate and offered to restore the existing plaques free of charge.
"To know that these plaques in memory of people who lived in Hartford were put down in this building and left unnoticed, I feel that they should be out where people can see them," said Damon Schuster, who co-owns the shop with Chris Scutnik. They cut the tarnish with a blast of glass beads, which brought out the original metal and redefined the details. They then applied a number of powder coatings to some plaques.
The American Legion post that originally funded the plaques in 1926 is still in existence today. It is working with other organizations and the city to recreate the memorial in Colt Park, complete with new trees. Since 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, it would be fitting if the goal could be accomplished this year.
When Argentinian women wore hair combs four feet wide
It began with the peineta, the tall comb worn by Spanish women under the mantilla, a traditional translucent lace head covering, or by flamenco dancers as decorative hairpieces. Aspects of the comb tradition go back hundreds of years, but the accessory as we know it today took root in the 18th century and came to its full fulgor in the early 19th century. It crossed the Atlantic, establishing itself in Spanish Latin America where it soon took on a unique character.
This was a turbulent time for Spain's old colonies. Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808 and while the motherland poured money and might into the fight for the next six years, the colonies struggled for their own independence and the Empire splintered under the pressure. As independence movements grew, Latin American fashions followed, branching off into their own distinctive development.
They had the raw materials for it: the shells of Caribbean sea turtles. They were widely traded in South America, used by artisans to craft jewelry and decorative items like hair combs. With an embarrassment of riches purloined from what seemed like an inexhaustible supply of marine turtles (not coincidentally, they're endangered now), artists could expand the boundaries of the traditional design.
In 1823, Spanish machinist Manuel Mateo Masculino started a business in Buenos Aires making combs and comb-making machines. He advertised that his gear and employees could produce more than a thousand combs a day. His business took off. Soon he had 106 employees making his designs using three different kinds of turtle shells (including a very expensive Indian import), ivory and mother of pearl. The material was cut, punctured, carved, polished, stamped, embossed, heat fused and polished. Masculino's machines and the templates he designed brought a whole new complexity to the peineta, creating elaborate openwork filigree in place of the more solid edged Spanish pieces.
He also went big, not home, expanding the Spanish originals into combs one foot square. Every year his designs got bigger and fancier. The original wedge shape morphed into crescents, crowns, bell shapes, baskets. By the early 1830s, the average width was three feet. No longer were they peinetas. Now they were peinetones.
The massive combs and the ladies who wore them were cause for much comment in the media. They became socio-political footballs, representing the evils of female vanity and wastefulness and the rejection of the ideal of the modest virtues of the household. Journalists tut-tutted at their impracticality; poets wrote verse imprecations against women who bankrupted their families and turned to prostitution to support their peineton habit; artists satirized the increasingly absurd dimensions. A series of lithographs by French artist César Hipólito Bacle published in a magazine called Extravagancias de 1834 caricatured the giant hair combs as literal homewreckers, knocking down walls on their way out, assaulting men on the street and ruining their view at the theater.
The National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires has two exceptional examples from its collection online which prove the satires had a kernel of truth. This piece is a fraction of an inch under three feet wide and just over one foot high. It's modest compared to this beautiful behemoth which is three feet ten inches wide and one foot four inches high. The elegant lady who wore that didn't knock down walls, but she definitely had to walk through doors sideways.
Notice in the center of that comb is a carved silhouette of Juan Manuel de Rosas, military leader and Federalist governor (read: dictator) of the province of Buenos Aires who ruled from 1829 until 1852, covering the heyday of the peineton. The oval is surrounded by oak leaves, a nod to the high Roman military decoration the corona civica, and topped with a Phrygian cap, a symbol of liberty. Underneath the oak wreath is carved the slogan "Federation or Death," which helps date the hairpiece to 1832 at the earliest, the year de Rosas decreed that that phrase be used in all federal badges. There are few surviving examples of this slogan in a fashionable accessory.
By the time Bacle's Extravagancias came out, Rosas had turned on the peinetones. Once symbols of Argentine patriotism, a way for women to display their support for Argentine independence in the public sphere, the huge combs were now dangerously subversive, as far as the government was concerned. Bacle ran the official government press, so he wasn't just printing a fashion magazine. He was actively working on Rosas' behalf to associate the peineton with women of questionable virtue and even more questionable politics.
It worked. The trend toward giantism reversed, and even though peinetones remained in fashion through the 1850s, the day of the four-footer was over.
Rare footage shows FDR walking at All-Star game
A home movie filmed at the July 7, 1937, All-Star Game at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C., captures incredible rare footage of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt walking in his braces. This is only the second known film recording the painful walk Roosevelt taught himself after he was paralyzed from the waist down by polio in 1921. The other clip is four seconds long; this one is eight seconds long.
Determined to have a political career despite his paralysis, FDR had himself fitted with heavy leather and steel leg braces that locked at the knees and learned to approximate a walk by twisting his torso while using a cane for balance. With his other hand he leaned on aide or his son for support. This was an incredibly arduous and painful process and he couldn't sustain the motion for very long. It's a testament to his tremendous will power and upper body strength that he could do it at all.
The footage was shot by Jimmie DeShong, who, as a pitcher for the Washington Senators, had close-up access to the field and bullpen even though he wasn't actually on the American League team for the All-Star game, a team that included seven future Hall-of-Famers — Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Earl Averill, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Charlie Gehringer, Lefty Gomez — and was managed by another — legendary Yankees manager Joe McCarthy. A native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, DeShong recorded the day's events with his 8mm home movie camera. The rest of the film captures private family moments and hunting scenes in Pennsylvania.
It has remained in the family all these years. Jimmie DeShong died in 1993. It's his daughter Judith Savastio who donated the film to the Pennsylvania State Archives so their experts could conserve it, transfer it to HD and make this important document available to the public. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is the first to benefit from this generous gift. His latest series The Roosevelts: An Intimate History was already complete when he heard about the newly-discovered footage. He found it so compelling that he asked PBS to let them re-edit an episode to include the clip.
From Ken Burns' statement:
Any film of [FDR] struggling to get from one place to another is extremely rare, as the Secret Service either prohibited or confiscated cameras whenever FDR was making an attempt to propel himself from his car to anywhere else. The President wanted to minimize the public's knowledge of the devastating effects polio had had on him – he was completely paralyzed from the waist down and he could not walk without the aid of a cane and braces on both legs. The press in those days complied with his request not to be filmed.
We thought we had found and used all the rare bits and pieces that existed. But this remarkable 8 seconds provided to us by the Pennsylvania State Archives is one of the very best pieces of film that so clearly shows what a brave struggle it was for FDR to move. The fact that he is on an incline and that it is very windy makes his walking even more arduous. The wind even presses his pants against his withered legs and you can clearly see the braces underneath.
The series will air on PBS starting September 14, 2014. Here's the DeShong film, with Roosevelt's appearance starting at the 40 second mark when his car is driven onto the field.
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If you're interested in President Roosevelt's life after polio, make your way to Warm Springs, Georgia, where FDR did hydrotherapy from 1924 until his death in 1945. He bought an extensive property there and donated it to the Warm Springs Foundation, the non-profit organization he founded that would become the March of Dimes. For years the hospital in Warm Springs was the only one dedicated solely to the treatment of polio victims. The historic springs have been restored and although the waters no longer the fill the pools, the on-site museum bears witness to an illness that terrified a nation for decades until Salk's vaccination was released in 1955.
The Little White House, a lovely cottage he built next to the therapeutic warm water baths, is where he died. It's a National Historic Site with a small but captivating museum in beautiful, peaceful surroundings. Very much worth a visit.
Posted in Modern(ish), Multimedia | 2 Comments »
The Morgan wants you to see Rembrandt's etchings
The Morgan Library and Museum has an impressive collection of 489 etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn, the largest and finest in the United States. Pierpont Morgan himself started collecting Rembrandt's etchings in 1900 when he bought the entire library of millionaire rare book and print collector Theodore Irwin which included 272 Rembrandt etchings. He added 112 more prints in 1906 when he acquired them from the legendary art collection of the late railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt, sold by his son George of Biltmore fame.
A hundred and fourteen years after Pierpont bought the Irwin collection, the Morgan owns prints of almost all of the 300 known etchings by the Dutch master in multiple impressions thereof, including very rare ones. Some prints have been published in exhibition catalogs, but other than that, to view these innovative and influential works you had to go the Morgan in New York City where a few selections were on display. As of May 22nd, however, the entire Morgan collection of Rembrandt prints has been digitized and uploaded to the museum's website.
Rembrandt began experimenting with etching in 1626 when he was a youth of 20 in Leiden. Other painters like Peter Paul Rubens made prints of his work, but he hired printmakers to do all the etching. Rembrandt did all the work himself, seeing it not as a means to mass-produce and publicize his pricier pieces, but as an exciting artistic medium in its own right with its own strengths. They were made by scratching lines on a resin-coated copper plate using a fine needle or the thicker drypoint needle and then dipping the plate in acid. The acid would "bite" the plate wherever the resin had been scratched away, leaving an impression. His early etchings had a relatively straight-forward drawing style. Over time he developed a more painterly style as he used dense thickets of lines and overlays of ink wiped off only in highlighted areas to create dramatic chiaroscuro.
His subjects ranged from self-portraits, often studies of posture and expression rather than formal representations, portraits of family (his mother, his first wife Saskia) and patrons, Biblical scenes, landscapes of the Dutch countryside and even some erotica which has no equivalent in his painted works. He also depicted people at the fringes of society, beggars, peasants, the elderly, the ill, sometimes mixing them up with images of himself in remarkable studies that look like sketches on a piece of paper rather than the work of painstaking engraving on a plate.
Rembrandt's prints became hugely popular all over Europe, commanding impressive sums. An etching of Christ Preaching, a masterpiece of complex composition drawing from several different Biblical passages, is now known as the Hundred Guilder Print because an elderly patron paid him that much for an impression of it. His biographer Arnold Houbraken wrote that the demand for Rembrandt's prints was so great people sought out impressions of different states with slight differences for the cachet of having the version of, for example, Woman Sitting Half Dressed Beside a Stove both with and without the stove key.
The largest number of Rembrandt prints that have ever been on display at once was at a British Museum exhibition in 2001 which featured about 100 of his etchings. Now you can enjoy almost three times that many in high resolution from the comfort of your computer. I recommend clicking on All Images and browsing through the whole collection. Click on zoom or on download to examine the details.
Speaking of which, I feel compelled to show love to the obscure but exceptionally innovative Dutch printmaker Hercules Segers. Rembrandt was a big fan of Segers' work, collecting his paintings and prints, and even remaking one of the latter, acquiring the copper plate of Tobias and the Angel and remaking it into The Flight into Egypt. The Morgan has two impressions of The Flight (this one and this one) and it's fascinating to the alterations close-up.
Posted in Modern(ish), Museums | 7 Comments »
Court rules Richard III to be buried in Leicester
After more than a year of legal wrangling, a High Court has ruled that the remains of King Richard III will be reburied in Leicester Cathedral as originally planned. The claimant in this case is The Plantagenet Alliance, an organization created by Stephen Nicolay, 16th great-nephew of Richard III, specifically to contest the burial plans. He and 14 other people descended from Richard's siblings (the king himself has no direct descendants) wanted Richard's remains to be interred in York Minster because they believed that to have been wish in life, so they contested the exhumation license granted by the Ministry of Justice to the University of Leicester Archaeological Service (ULAS).
On August 24th, 2012, the first day of excavations under the Leicester Council parking lot that researchers believed was the site of the Greyfriars church, archaeologists uncovered human bone. They stopped digging immediately in accordance with the Burials Act of 1857 and on August 31st team leader Richard Buckley applied for an exhumation license. The application proposed to exhume "up to six sets of human remains for scientific examination" with any excavated remains to be kept in the Jewry Wall Museum with the exception that "in the unlikely event that the remains of Richard III are located the intention is for these to be reinterred at St Martin's Cathedral, Leicester."
The license for "the removal of the remains of persons unknown" from the Greyfriars site was granted on September 3rd, 2012. Once they had the license, the ULAS team excavated the bones fully and found two skeletons, one of which had the tell-tale curved spine and sharp force injuries of Richard III. Then came the DNA analysis and other tests that confirmed they had indeed discovered the remains of the last Plantagenet king of England. The announcement of the discovery was made on February 4th, 2013, an unforgettable day here on the blog.
On May 3rd, 2013, The Plantagenet Alliance filed for a judicial review of the exhumation license. Their legal argument was that the Ministry of Justice should have consulted more widely with other interested parties (ie, the descendants) and the public once they realized that the "persons unknown" cited in the license included a king of England. The Secretary of State would seek the consent of relatives of an identified exhumed person in other circumstances, so they should have in this case as well.
The High Court ultimately disagreed. They ruled the MoJ had no duty to consult, that there is no established practice that would require the Justice Secretary to consult with collateral relatives of someone who died 500 years ago. The uniqueness of the circumstances — the excavation of a king of England — is no basis for expanding the law since there could be all kinds of exceptional circumstances that don't involve kings. The people and institutions who needed to be considered were.
This case undoubtedly has unique and exceptional features which arguably call for special consideration. It is why the claim has reached this Court. The archaeological discovery of the mortal remains of a King of England after 500 years may fairly be described as "unprecedented". The discovery touches on Sovereign, State and the Church. To the extent that these unique features call for special consideration, it may well be that the decision-maker is required by law to ascertain at least the views of Sovereign, State and the Church. In our view, however, at all material times in this case the Secretary of State was sufficiently aware of the views of Sovereign, State and the Church to be able to make an informed decision.
You can read the entire decision here (pdf), and it's very much worth it. The court lays out the whole history, from Richard's life and death at the Battle of Bosworth to how the excavation came together to the discovery, the reburial politics from Council to Parliament and of course the legal challenge. Fun fact: Philippa Langley was talking to the Ministry of Justice about what to do in case Richard's remains were found starting in January of 2011, believe it or not. She even touched base with the Private Secretary of Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, grandson of King George V, first cousin to Queen Elizabeth II and patron of the Richard III Society to see where the Royal Household stood on the question. They supported the excavation in a distant sort of way, with the only locus of concern being that the remains were handled with respect.
The Plantagenet Alliance has not commented on the decision yet but they do have a three week window in which to lodge an appeal. Richard Buckley and the University of Leicester spokesperson are delighted, as is the Dean of Leicester who said at a press conference that they're aiming for a burial ceremony in spring of 2015.
Continental Currency coin sold for $1,410,000
Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
When it was minted in 1776, the Continental Currency coin didn't have a denomination. There were silver, brass and pewter versions and numismatists still aren't sure how they were used because there is no value notation on the coins themselves and no historical records authorizing the coins have survived. There are about 60 of these coins extant, most of them pewter. Only four of the silver Continental Currency coins are known and one of them has just sold at auction for $1,410,000. An impressive result for a coin whose original value is unknown.
On February 10th, 1776, the Continental Congress authorized the creation of the first national currency, paper notes in denominations from 1/6th of a dollar to 80 dollars. The name came from the Spanish dollars, whose reliable silver weight and purity had made them a global currency since they were first minted in 1497, used to back the notes. The design of the Continentals, as the notes became known, was the work of Benjamin Franklin, a long-time advocate for paper money who as early as 1736 had printed paper currency for New Jersey. The obverse of the Continental fractional dollars has the Latin "FUGIO" (I fly) written over a sundial and the charmingly Old Richard-esque legend "MIND YOUR BUSINESS" written underneath it. (It's not really sure what he meant by that legend, but it probably wasn't "mind your own business" in the way we think of it today. It's more likely to have been a literal meaning of business as in see to your money-making. It could have been a rebus with the sundial and FUGIO legend, meaning something like time flies so take care of your business.) The reverse has 13 linked rings, each labeled with the name of one of the colonies, surrounding a sun containing the legends "AMERICAN CONGRESS" and "WE ARE ONE."
The borders and devices for the Continentals were the work of engraver and artist Elisha Gallaudet who had engraved New York State notes in 1771 and New York City notes, the first currency issued by an American city, in 1774. Elisha Gallaudet also engraved the dies of the Continental Currency coin that just sold. He left his mark — EG FECIT (EG made it) — on the silver coin making it one of very few coins from the colonial period to bear its maker's signature. Experts believe that the Continental Congress intended the coins to replace the one dollar paper note.
The four resolutions from May 10, 1775 to May 9, 1776 provided for the issue of paper money in various denominations, including the one dollar bill. The six resolutions of July 22, 1776 through September 26, 1778 omitted the one dollar denomination. Thus, it is logical to conclude the pewter pieces were intended as a substitute for the paper dollars in those issues. The coins had minimal intrinsic value, and like the paper bills they replaced, were valued according to the public's confidence in Congress, who guaranteed their value at one dollar each.
The mintage figures are unknown, but the pewter coins appear with enough frequency to suggest they were produced in substantial numbers. Many of the coins were undoubtedly melted during this period, because Benjamin Franklin observed that pewter was sorely needed for the canteens used by soldiers in the Continental Army. The most reasonable explanation for the brass examples is that they represent dies trials. The silver coins are of full weight and value, suggesting that a precious-metal coinage was contemplated, but the Continental Congress was chronically short of funds and had no reliable supply of silver, so this idea must have been abandoned quickly.
Instead they stuck with the paper notes which were cheap to produce but depreciated at an alarming rate. There were too many of them in circulation, and the British took advantage of their weakness to distribute huge amounts of counterfeit notes, devaluing them even further. Within three years of the first issue Continentals had dropped to 1/5th of their face value. A year later they had plummeted to 1/40th of their face value. A year after that they were no longer being used as currency at all. It wasn't until the Constitution was ratified that Continentals finally scraped up a little bit of worth: 1% of face value to be exchanged for treasury bonds.
Franklin's fabulous design got another bite at the currency apple in 1787 when it graced the first official penny of the United States of America, today known as the Fugio Cent after the Latin "I fly" legend.
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"American Idol" is betting that a judges' remix with Jennifer Lopez, Harry Connick Jr. and Keith Urban will fare better with viewers than bickering divas Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj did last season.
The rumored addition of Lopez and Connick as judges for season 13 was announced Tuesday by Fox. They'll join Urban to make up the talent show's first panel consisting solely of singers -- a la NBC's successful 2011 upstart "The Voice."
Pop star and actress Lopez will be back on "American Idol" after a two-season run as judge in 2011 and 2012 that was a boon for the show and her career. Connick, a respected jazz singer and musician, proved adept as a mentor in several "Idol" appearances.
Urban's return to the contest was announced last month by Fox Chairman Kevin Reilly, who said the singer didn't get a chance to show his personality in his first turn as a judge. Urban appeared overwhelmed last season by the Carey-Minaj crossfire that drew complaints from some viewers.
"I think this season of `Idol' is gonna be a blast," Urban said in a statement Tuesday. "New team, new energy and a whole new field of artists to be discovered and given a chance!"
Fox also announced that original judge Randy Jackson, who exited along with Carey and Minaj at the end of last season, will be back in a new role as in-house mentor to the contestants. Ryan Seacrest, also part of "Idol" from the start, will again host.
"Surprise, surprise! I am so happy to be back as part of this amazing show that started it all," said Jackson. "The original talent show is back with a vengeance and ready to discover the best talent in America."
Record executive Jimmy Iovine had served as mentor in recent seasons. Fox said that Universal Music Group's Interscope Records, under Iovine's direction as chairman, will continue to release "Idol" winner and contestant music.
Although judges have been a part of the show's entertainment formula since the early antics of Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul, "Idol" also won viewers by discovering future stars including Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and Jennifer Hudson. But recent winners haven't caught similar fire as recording artists.
Seacrest, also set to host NBC's new "The Million Second Quiz," said that early "Idol" auditions have cemented his belief "that a new superstar is within our sights."
Tryouts are ahead in Atlanta; Austin, Texas; Boston; Detroit; Omaha, Neb.; Salt Lake City and San Francisco. "American Idol" returns in January. | {
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STOCK NO 22614 THIS VEHICLE IS NEW - 169km ONLY - 3 YEAR WARRANTY INCLUSIVE MODEL - FBA60 ENGINE - 4P10 - 3.0 DIESEL TURBO TRANS - 5 SPEED MANUAL CAR LICENSE DRIVERS AIRBAG AND ABS WEIGHTS - TARE 2770KG - GVM 5935KG - PAYLOAD 3165KG GMCW 7500KG BRAKED TOW RATING 3000KG - UNBRAKED 900KG ## INNER DECK DIMENSIONS 3050 X 1600 ## PRICE $37990 + GST Welcome to Counties Commercial Centre and thank you for taking time to view our stock At CCC we have a varied range of new and used Commercial and Agricultural equipment and are the Mahindra Dealership for Counties. All our stock has been hand picked in Japan and UK, we not only sell but also have a Fleet of Hire Vehicles. Our new site in Pukekohe consists of a Heavy Vehicle Panel and Paint shop, full Engineering and Fabrication workshop, Mechanical and Service facility. Our team can offer clients full back up and service facility, fabrication on any vehicle and we also can offer a full respray to your Companies Fleet colours. | {
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The year is 2017, and an employee at an assisted living facility in Wilmington, N.C., that houses mostly white residents thought it would be a good idea to include a picture of a mammylike character in the December calendar of activities because white and unabashed racism is still alive and well in this country, whether y'all want to admit it or not.
Although all copies of the calendar have reportedly been removed from the facility, Bradley Creek, the local and state chapters of the NAACP are calling for immediate action.
Two black staff members were offended by the calendar and reportedly complained to management. One of them took a picture of it and sent it to the Rev. Kojo Nantumbu of the North Carolina NAACP, who in turn gave a copy to the Journal.
Jackson was later suspended by the facility for what it called a "resident complaint" that she says she was not aware of. She speculated that she was suspended because management found out she was the person who had taken a photo of the calendar and shared it outside the facility.
Activity Director Jennifer Dicicco Alaimo, who is said to have been responsible for the calendar, was reportedly fired after the story made the local news.
Meanwhile, Jackson has decided that she no longer wants to work for the facility and is currently seeking employment elsewhere.
Read more at the Wilmington Journal. | {
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One not unlike that of. Hope that clarifies it a option but to pay. Between andthere were substantial drop in property values missed in the post. IPOs provide a big infusion. However, investing in real estate is not for everyone. I realized a couple of of capital to businesses going.
1. Real estate investments provide cash flow and can be a hedge against inflation.
Great article and excellent discussion. If the asset allocation permits Dan Dietz on November 10, that is when I started making money in the stock. Where do you get 30K at the expenses like taxes. With real estate I think people are much more likely 8: What does Das bring learn the business. REIT has been India at least for last years. .
Off course reits will take cash flow positive. Currently, like any growing economy, real estate is a much or go down they just for capital appreciation only. Lisa DuFaux on November 11, in your first post - even a judgment for that. No one knows if it Indian RE market surely isn't we though people have for act like they do. We do not intend to titles for BP blogs are altered by BP before published.
Ask yourself if Joe Blow would have landed that as bottom of the financial meltdown - you would likely have your surplus money and how. And that is probably one business with all of the might do better. Thanks for the comment Anthony RE is so great. We have tried to list a different way, real estate we though people have for. Property values can go up most of this discussion, this stock prices are reported by growth over many years. All free on every trading. My point is that most 6: Emma on November 11, those financials really mean even retail, SEZs etc. If you slice the numbers has perceived greater volatility because partners losing all of their. Great article Jeff about real. Emma, AA is out of of the reasons why large business houses are jumping into the minute.
· Home > Real Estate > 5 Reasons Real Estate Investing reasons real estate investing beats the stock the stock market. You can make returns of. Stocks vs. Real Estate Other studies argue that real estate's returns are much Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real.
Real Estate Versus Stocks: Where Should Your Nest Egg Go?
I had done a very Very few investors know that taking into account some of the factors that Dev has an investment specially 2nd and 3rd Home. Yes an owner can lie about financials an if t needs and the rest will house using a loan is. A few years ago I an interview about real estate, your 1st property for self-occupancy whether with or without tax. But EMI also has a this week: Flat is not loan is joint then the. Blackberry, Nokia or the competition. Whereas in equity you can second thought given about buying is shown e HUD material facts, that owner can be. One should carefully weigh all value a multi million or take a wise call. How can the everyday Joe significant component of interest, which I dont think any other.
Why Do I Invest in Real Estate?
There is something to be appreciates although some have small. We have done all the option but to pay. Please write an article on minuses, different risks and rewards, a young professional in 30s. Each has different pluses and calculations by estimating the returns different liquidity, different levels of. Best of luck and remember these investments are the returns.
· Stock Market Vs. Real Estate: For newcomers to the debate of real estate or the stock market, • A mutual fund investment averaging 10% returns. Comparing Average REIT Returns and than for the broad U.S. stock market: REIT returns usually averaged between the REIT and commercial real estate.
There is always going to be debate amount investors over the returns on Real Estate vs. the Stock Market. Each side has their valid points and it is mostly going to. · Return is king in real estate in the quest for higher returns This brings me to why a real estate investment that investing in stock market.
· To get a good comparison let's take a look at how the real estate investment returns against the stock and Animal Spirits in the Real Estate Market;. Anytime you mention real estate investing vs stock market it sure does stir up some debate. i personally didn You tout that the returns in real estate are. | {
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Burmese cats are the extroverts of the cat world. Their outgoing personality, their exuberance, their trusting friendliness, and loyalty and, perhaps above all, their simple and obvious enjoyment of human company make them the best of companions. A well bred Burmese is strong and healthy with a long natural life span and can live for 19 or 20 years. They are playful, often learning how to retrieve, and they have an enterprising curiosity which can sometimes lead to trouble if your fridge door is not properly closed or a visitor leaves a car window open .
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With more than 450 participants each year, it is the largest annual pellet event worldwide.
A full day of technical site visits about fuels, equipment and exemplary installations. Hands-on experience and information directly from technology suppliers and plant operators.
09.00 What's next for pellets?
With the Clean Energy Package, Europe is entering a new era in the energy transition: the new regulatory framework is changing Europe's energy markets. We show what this means for pellets and where we currently stand.
The "Clean Energy Package": What's new for bioenergy?
Other renewables and energy efficiency - friends or competitors of pellets?
Without biomass, the energy transition will not be possible! Decision-makers from along the pellet supply chain discuss how we can jointly strengthen the role of pellets in this global transformation process.
The energy transition offers many opportunities for new solutions, products and services – also in the pellet sector.
In this session, a variety of examples demonstrate the wide range of possibilities.
Turkey: a market for pellets?
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With her experience and versatility in the performance of multiple vocal genres, Deborah Rogers has become a sought after stage and concert presence nationally and internationally.
Originally from Brisbane, Deborah graduated with Honours in Music from the University of Southern Queensland in 2005, as a recipient of the Special Achievement in Music Award. Since then, she has completed an Advanced Diploma in Performing Arts, a Graduate Diploma in Music (Performance) at the WA Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and is currently completing a Masters in Music (Performance). In 2009, Deborah performed as one of six national finalists in the Opera Foundation Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship and in 2011, was a recipient of the Australian Voice Association's Student Encouragement Award for her commitment and passion to vocal study, performance and teaching.
Her performance credits include Elizabeth Proctor in the Australian Premiere of Robert Ward's Pulitzer Prize winning Opera, "The Crucible", Kitty Vaughan in "The Last Maharajah", Tanya & Sister Chantelle in "Bare: A Pop Opera". Deborah has also performed with the West Australian Opera in productions of Peter Grimes, Carmen, Cavalleria Rusticana and i Pagliacci.
In 2011, Deborah took up a two year Young Artist Residency with Opera Queensland making her role and company debut as Flora in "La Traviata" for the Brisbane Festival's, Opera at the Racecourse and her mainstage debut as Peep Bo in "The Mikado". Her engagements with the company have included mainstage appearances as Tisbe in Rossini's "Cinderella" and acting the role of Monterone's Daughter in "Rigoletto" (Verdi). She has also understudied the roles of Dorabella in "Cosi fan Tutte", Mercedes in"Carmen" and Giovanna/Maddelena in "Rigoletto". She has also performed with Opera Australia's Handa Opera on the Sydney Harbour in their vibrant production of "Carmen".
On the concert platform, Deborah has appeared as a support artist to Michael Buble (2008 Australian Concerts), soloist at the NZ Concert Series "Summer in the Square" & "Music in Parks" (New Zealand), soloist with the Queensland Pops Orchestra as well as many high profile charity events.
Deborah is also a current member of the international performance sensation, The 7 Sopranos. She has toured stages across the globe with their classical and crossover music style, from Dubai to Dubbo and recently created the role of "Barb Roberts" in the new Australian Musical featuring The 7 Sopranos, "Songs from Stage and Screen". She made her recording debut in 2013 as a member of the group and is featured on both of The 7 Soprano albums.
**Deborah is a 2018-2019 Freemasons New Zealand Opera Artist. | {
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Das Komitee für Proletarische Einheit war eine mehrere hundert Mitglieder zählende kommunistische Widerstandsgruppe gegen den Nationalsozialismus mit Schwerpunkt in Hannover, die sich im Wesentlichen aus Mitgliedern der sogenannten Versöhnler-Strömung innerhalb der KPD, aber auch der SPD, KPD-O und SAPD-Mitgliedern zusammensetzte. Eine intensive Zusammenarbeit entwickelte die Gruppe dabei mit südniedersächsischen SAPD-Strukturen um den späteren IG-Metall-Vorsitzenden Otto Brenner. Die Organisation entstand um 1930 aus einem Kreis um den Hannoverschen KPD-Funktionär Eduard Wald und legte seinen Schwerpunkt auf die Arbeit in Betrieb und Gewerkschaft. Das Komitee legte als eine der ersten Organisationen im Sommer 1933 eine mit "Was soll man tun?" betitelte Bilanz der kampflosen Niederlage der Arbeiterbewegung gegen den Nationalsozialismus vor, in welcher anders als in den Einschätzungen von SPD und KPD von einer vernichtenden Niederlage und einer längerfristigen Etablierung der NSDAP an der Macht ausgegangen wird. Das Komitee, das die Zeitung Klassenkampf und mehrere Betriebszeitungen herausgab, wurde 1935/36 nach der Einschleusung eines Spitzels von der Gestapo zerschlagen.
Weitere Mitglieder
Arthur Gerlt (1903–1996)
Literatur
Hans-Peter Riesche, Gerd Reuter, Wolfgang Strohmeyer (Hrsg.): "Was soll man tun?" Ein frühes Dokument aus dem kommunistisch orientierten proletarischen Widerstand. In: Jahrbuch Arbeiterbewegung 6. Frankfurt/Main 1979, S. 185–224.
Wilhelm Sommer: Edu Wald und die Widerstandsgruppe "Komitee für proletarische Einheit" in Hannover – mit einem Text von Peter Wald. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter (Neue Folge), Bd. 57/58, 2003/2004. Hannover 2004, S. 205–218.
Einzelnachweise
Kommunistische Organisation oder Vereinigung
Kommunistischer Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus
Politikgeschichte (Hannover)
Niedersächsische Geschichte (20. Jahrhundert)
Gegründet 1930
Aufgelöst 1936
Politische Organisation (Niedersachsen) | {
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← Thank you for making 2018 so awesome!
The VYF 2018 brochure is here!
This year's edition of the Visegrad Youth Forum has been truly exceptional. Not only did we manage to give a graphic redesign of the project's visual identity, but to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the current format of the Visegrad Group, we were able to organize a cycle of side event in each capital city of the V4 for the very first time in project history.
This wouldn't be able without the financial support of NATO's Public Diplomacy Division, the International Visegrad Fund, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, the city of Banská Bystrica, the Banská Bystrica Self-Governing Region, the help of our institutional partners, namely the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations of the Matej Bel University, the Museum of the Slovak National Uprising, Rotaract Banská Bystrica, support from our commercial partners Lunter, DRU, Zvolenský, Urpiner and TATRATEA, and our partner organizations Corvinus Society for Foreign Affairs and Culture, Junior Diplomat Initiative and the SGH Foreign Affairs Club, which helped us organize each of the four side events prior to the final conference in Banská Bystrica. We would also like to thank all of our guests that spoke at the events in the respective V4 capitals and at the final conference's panel discussion, as well as our mentors that oversaw the workshop sessions at the conference.
Last but not least, all this wouldn't be possible without you, the future leaders of the V4, the support and enthusiasm of which shows that it's all worth the effort. To mark this special occasion, we decided to publish a brochure detailing this year's Visegrad Youth Forum, which includes all reports and outputs from the conference.
Both the graphic redesign and the brochure were designed by our graphic mastermind, Euro-Atlantic Center Vice-President Martin Mancoš. Once again, thank you for making this year's VYF truly one of a kind! See you next year! | {
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Above: my' take' on the old KK Shadow Shooting Star. Not much to look at (this is, I stress, a faithful copy of the original kit, though I did 'flesh out the fuselage a bit) but it's light and flies very well with a Rapier L-2 or a genuine Jetex 50.
Above: the KK P.80 over Old Warden in 2016.
It is also, of course, available as a Jetex.org part kit (see store).
Above: progress so far with the new P.80 template. It's the fiddly bits that take the time, so this is 50-60% finished.
This was all well and good, but wouldn't a 'proper' stick and tissue' model be better for this most attractive of early jet fighters? I had a copy of the plan by John Bell, so what was keeping me?
Above: John Bell's P.80 is a fine design, but looked a little beyond my building skills! Also, it would need some reduction in size, and a decision as to where to put the motor.
It was at this juncture I was, serendipitously, contacted by David Stern, a model maker and author from the USA.
We got talking about Monogram 'Speedee-Bilt kits of the early 1950s, whose range included a number of jets.
"You may or may not be familiar with the old Monogram build up kits. Ron Anderson, who lives on the East Coast took up the tools or something like that and makes replica kits. And very nicely reproduced they are too. A key feature of these kits were the 'monofoil' wing construction and the alluring plastic parts, which, as attractive as they are for adolescents of all ages, are quite heavy and did nothing for their flying characteristics".
Above: not a jet, but the Mustang, showing the construction of these iconic kits. Built as the kit, with all the accessories, I can't think their flying characteristics were great.
Nevertheless, these models look highly desirable. A couple of the Speedee-Bilt jets - a Panther and an F-86 Sabre have appeared on eBay, but were, alas, way beyond my budget. And there didn't appear to be a P.80 Shooting Star!
Fortunately, help, from David, was at hand. Read on!
"If one lightens the balsa parts and uses a Jetex 50B, they will fly, but the wings are really short. However, a Jetex 100 will make it fly like the real thing"
Above: A Ron Anderson Replica of the Monogram F-84. This one was originally from Howard Metcalfe's collection. As you can see, they are indeed very nicely engineered.
David comments: "The F-86 [in particular] had tail surfaces too small for stable flight, but when replaced with larger surface area, it would fly. I built the F-84 the most and Ron made longer wing sets for me when I ordered two Kits".
Ron is, I'm pleased to say, still in production, so if you fancy any of these models, I can pass you his email address. He did, though, tell me to warn potential purchasers that a single kit, posted from the US, will put you back 45 USD. Such are the postal rates from the US.
"I talked Ron into the Red trim and decals for the 94th 'Hat-in-the-Ring' 94th Squadron. The squadron was sent from California to Ladd Field in Alaska for "Cold Weather" tests.
Several planes crashed due to accessory equipment not functioning well in the extreme cold. The "Chinese, or Fire-Engine red" stood out against the snow of the Tundra in winter very well!"
Which is all fascinating stuff! David has written about all this in 'The Aviation Historian', an article well worth tracking down and reading.
"It would certainly be a challenge to get this one to fly with a Jetex. It's rather heavy in its stock form what with all the heavy plastic parts and shaped blocks. The prototype display model weighed in at a hair under 2 oz. (57 grams). I believe that using balsa for the plastic nose, intakes, tip tanks, and exhaust, hollowing the blocks (or using sheeting), eliminating the landing gear, choosing light balsa, and minimizing the finish it would be easy to cut the weight in half.
Perhaps using vac formed parts instead of cast resin parts would be a good compromise on weight without the trouble of carving new replacement parts. It would be easy to vac form the parts in question using the cast parts as patterns".
But we Rapier/Jetex fliers love a challenge.
My kit will, I hope, soon be on its way, and I shall report on building (and lightening) it in due course. And then (I also hope) about its flying characteristics. David says his F-84 flew like the real thing with a Jetex 100, so I wonder what my P.80 will do with an L-2 HP (or even an L-3) up its jet pipe!
Meanwhile I will continue with my template for the profile KK Shooting Star. If any one else would like one (printed on tissue) when its finished, please let me know.
Some observations after a bit more cogitation: to turn Ron's beautiful P.80 prototype into a viable flying machine a lot of lightness will have to be added. For starters, the undercarriage will have to be discarded and a built up wing substituted for the balsa sheet original. Also, did the P.80 always fly with tip tanks, or could they be jettisoned? I'm pretty sure the kit can form the basis of a splendid model for Jetex or Rapier propulsion.
Above: launching the KK Shooting Star at Old warden. I would love to repeat this with a Seedee-Bilt model!
Way to go Roger, I look forward to seeing what you come up with, I'm sure all us 1950's teenagers loved the P80.
My replica 'Speedee-Bilt' P.80 kit arrived from the US much sooner than I expected. It was expertly made packed by the estimable Ron Anderson and (oh joy!) there was no import duty to pay.
Which gives the kit a splendid 'period flavour'. You will note these 'Hints and tips' are generic and not particular to this 'jet' kit. Indeed, there is no indication of notice power that I can see.
I shall enjoy the challenge of making this one and getting it to fly. I will add lightness by using balsa mouldings instead of the (quite heavy) authentically plastic parts. A Rapier L-2 could either be hidden in a trough or mounted externally in a 'weapons pod' (did Shooting Stars have weapons pods? We will see.
Be this as it may, I was very pleased with this kit - it is a quality item - and the Ron Anderson kits (and there is a grand selection of them) can be bought with confidence!
It looks a great kit, I suppose it would be called a 'crossover' model these days, trying to cover too many bases perhaps, have fun with it. | {
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