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+The Chairperson: We had a bit of a discussion on Tuesday on whether it will be by guidance, which is really on a voluntary basis, or regulation.
+Mr Elliott: I do not know whether NILGA came to a firm view on that either. My recollection is that it did not have a firm view on whether it should be statutory or just guidance.
+Mr Weir: Chair, as we are getting a bit of clarification, NILGA was saying that it was getting a mixed understanding of the extent to which there would be guidance and how much would be in regulations.
+The Chairperson: I think it is going to come back to us on that. There are a few issues that it will come back to us to clarify.
+The Chairperson: OK. Are there any more questions for Suzie? Thank you very much, Suzie.
+Members, is there any other information that you would like to seek? Those are all the issues that we want to look at again.
+Mr Elliott: One issue that came up again on Tuesday was whether a council employee could become a councillor. There was quite a lot of debate on that. Peter indicated that it was based on a European judgement. I wonder whether there is any point in our getting a bit more information on that judgement. I know that NILGA indicated that it was opposed to giving permission to or allowing people who are employees of councils to become councillors, and certainly not in their own council, I think was the key. I wonder whether we could get more information on that because it was the first issue that NILGA raised.
+The Chairperson: NILGA was quite content for employees to become a councillor in another council but not to become one in the council for which they work.
+Mr Elliott: I think that that was the compromise that they were suggesting in the end.
+The Chairperson: I can understand that. It is just going to be so difficult.
+Mr Weir: Let me take up that point. I think that it is a reasonable enough point to make that, if someone is an employee in a different area, it would seem to be slightly strange as to why that person would be excluded. It may be useful to find out precisely what the current legal position is.
+The bit that slightly confused me, or at least suggested to me that we may previously have been given the facts but not the full facts, is the indication given by the Department. It may be the case that there is a wee bit of mixed information in it. Somewhere there has been a degree of miscommunication, perhaps even in the information that we got on Tuesday. The information that we got from the Department is that that position is changing because of a European Court ruling. I believe that a couple of employees in England who, I think, worked for a parish council took the court case. The impression that I got from the Department, when it raised the matter in Committee, was that this is a requirement that we have to bring in because of something that happened pretty recently. However, the NILGA representatives said that someone in the Department had mentioned a 1989 court case to them. Thus, the two do not seem to add up. One obvious thing, I would have thought, is that, if there was a European Court ruling in 1989 that said that you cannot put a bar on council employees, it seems that someone has massively fallen down on the job if our legislation remained unchanged for 24 years in contravention of European law. It may be that there has been another court case, and someone in the Department has not relayed that information to NILGA. I do not know. It may be worthwhile to find out what the position is. I agree with Tom's remark.
+The Chairperson: My understanding is that it was a fairly recent case, not one from away back in 1989.
+Mr Weir: That is certainly the impression that I got, but that may beg the question that, if that has been mentioned elsewhere by some other officials to someone in NILGA, referencing the 1989 case, does it mean that those officials are unaware of the more recent case? I think that we need to get a bit of clarity on this.
+The Chairperson: We will look into that, too.
+Mr McElduff: In support of Alban's point —
+The Chairperson: Sorry. Let me remind members to move their tablet away from the microphone. Apparently, some members' tablets are obstructing the microphone.
+Mr McElduff: I support Alban's point about call-in. We should try to get that fleshed out a bit more. Perhaps other jurisdictions, some of which might be described as divided societies, can provide guidance on the substantive issue of protection of minorities. Are there specific examples of that?
+The Chairperson: I think that that part on adverse effects on sections of the community is quite specific to us in Northern Ireland. Is that right, Suzie?
+Ms Cave: Yes.
+The Chairperson: OK. Thank you very much, Suzie. We look forward to seeing you back again.
+
+Links to the main topics below:
+Evolutionary proposals of phototransduction
+The phototransduction pathway - how it works
+Rhodopsin , opsins , and retinol
+Type 1 Opsins
+The Visual Cycle
+Retinal
+Cone and Rod photoreceptor cells
+Study suggests humans can detect even the smallest units of light
+'Any man-made detector would need to be cooled and isolated from noise to behave the same way.” 4
+The first true understanding of how the vertebrate eye works came in the early seventeenth century, with mathematician Johannes Kepler’s demonstration that vision occurs as an image projected on to the surface of the retina 5
+Study suggests humans can detect even the smallest units of light – July 21, 2016
+Excerpt: Research,, has shown that humans can detect the presence of a single photon, the smallest measurable unit of light. Previous studies had established that human subjects acclimated to the dark were capable only of reporting flashes of five to seven photons.,,,?
+The eye can potentially be exposed to an enormous range of light intensities, ranging from a few photons per second under extremely dim lighting conditions to light levels that can be more than 10-billion-fold higher (i.e., a factor of 10^10 or 10000000000 log units). Furthermore, there may be rapid temporal fluctuations in the light level due to eye movements. In addition, there can be marked changes in the chromatic properties of the visual environment, such as when viewing objects in incandescent room illumination versus outdoors at noon on a sunny day. Remarkably, the visual system is able to cope with the large range of illumination conditions through complex neural mechanisms that are collectively termed adaptation.
+Each human eye has about one hundred twenty million rods arranged throughout the retina. The rods contain a photopigment called rhodopsin which is very sensitive to all the wavelengths of the visible light spectrum. In contrast, there are only about six million cones that are mostly concentrated in the macula, primarily in the cone-only fovea. Each cone contains one of three different photosensitive pigments, called photopsins, which tend to react stronger to either the red, green, or blue wavelengths of light. Both rhodopsin and the photopsins are dependent on Vitamin A. 3
+When photons of light strike the retina they interact with the photoreceptor cells and cause an electrical change and the release of a neurotransmitter.
+The Comb Jelly Opsins and the Origins of Animal Phototransduction 2
+Early opsin evolution has yet to be fully understood, in large part because of the high level of divergence observed among opsins belonging to different subfamilies. 2 Opsins are key to understanding the origins and evolution of light sensitivity, eyes, and vision. Many hypotheses of opsin evolution have been proposed, but consensus has remained elusive.
+In particular, two recent studies analyzed complementary data sets, reaching very dissimilar conclusions with conflicting implications for opsin origins, and our understanding of early animal evolution
+The first study by Feuda et al. (2012) found sequences from Placozoa (that they called “placopsins”) to be the sister of all known animal opsins, and consistent with other studies, they found melatonin receptors to be the closest outgroup to opsins + placopsins. Placopsins remain functionally uncharacterized, and because they lack the retinal-binding lysine, they might not function in light reception.
+The scenario proposed by Feuda et al. (2012) to explain their results suggests that visual opsins evolved after Placozoa separated from Cnidaria and Bilateria but before the latter separated from each other. Feuda et al. (2012) did not have data for Ctenophora (i.e., the comb jellies). However, given previous phylogenomic results suggesting that Ctenophora, Cnidaria, and Bilateria are more closely related with each other than they are with the sponges and the Placozoa, they concluded that their results were compatible with a traditional view of animal evolution (an hypothesis we refer to as “Neuralia”). Differently from Nielsen (2012), Neuralia is here to be interpreted as simply stating that Bilateria, Cnidaria, and Ctenophora shared a common ancestor to the exclusion of the Placozoa and the sponges, irrespective of whether, within Neuralia, Cnidaria and Ctenophora form monophyletic Coelenterata or a paraphyletic group where Ctenophora is closer to Bilatera than it is to Cnidaria.
+Animal vision evolved 700 million years ago 1
+Every ray of light that you perceive was caught by an opsin first. Without opsin there would be no blue, no red, no green. The entire visible spectrum would be.. just another spectrum. 1 Opsin is a member of large family of detector proteins, called the 'G 'spent' 'lysine-296', it is unlikely that the placozoan opsins can detect light. But if not light sensors, what then? "Surely placozoans use these opsins. How? I cannot tell.
+It's remarkable, how evidence is interpreted however someone can imagine to fit the evolutionary framework !! No evidence on the contrary refutes evolution. No matter what !!.
+How did natural mechanisms be able to produce a retinol molecule which Photon absorption isomerizes the retinal from the bent 11-cis form to the all-trans conformation, and do so with blazing speed--it only takes a few hundred femtoseconds (10-13 sec).? If the isomerization would not take place, no conformational change, no signal transduction, and vision would not have appeared on earth in biological organisms..... the point is, retinol has no function unless bound on the seventh alpha helice on a lysine amino acid of opsin. If not doing so, it will not transmit and signal of conformational change to opsin, and its isomerization is useless. So - no opsin, no use of retinol...... and vice versa. No retinol, no use for opsin. both depend on the other in order for signal transduction to begin - and there is a further chain of events, which depend on essential enzymes, proteins, and membrane channels to produce a signal, which will be transmitted in a complex way to where it will be processed.
+Absorption of a photon by a rhodopsin or cone-opsin pigment induces isomerization of its retinal chromophore, activating the signal transduction pathway , which will transmit a visual information to the brain. Once the retinal chromophore is isomerized to all-trans conformation, it's bleached and its light sensitivity requires to be restored by chemical reisomerization via a multistep enzyme pathway, called the visual cycle. This occurs partially in cells of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE).
+Further readings:
+The Evolution Of The Visual System In Primates
+Charles Darwin considered the eye to be an “organ of extreme perfection.
+Eye evolution and its functional basis
+Shedding new light on opsin evolution
+The opsins
+Evolution of Phototransduction, Vertebrate Photoreceptors and Retina
+THE EVOLUTION OF OPSINS AND COLOR VISION
+Evolution of the vertebrate eye: opsins, photoreceptors, retina and eye cup
+Metazoan opsin evolution reveals a simple route to animal vision
+Chemistry and Biology of Vision
+Fine tuning of Light, to Atmosphere, Water, Photosynthesis, and Human Vision
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+Evolutionary proposals of opsins, and phototransduction
+The phylogenetic relationship between the basic opsin-classes appears difficult to resolve 3
+We can presume that rhodopsin(s) had a very early origin, going back at least to the common ancestor of Archaebacteria and Eukaryotes, since these proteins are present in both these superkingdoms. 4 It is unlikely that this protein evolved more than once in nature. Many of these macromolecules are so specific and unique for their ability to carry on a particular function, as rhodopsin does in the photoreceptive process, to be present in animal and plant kingdoms every time this specific function is demanded.
+It is well in agreement with the calculate estimate of microspectrophotometric data 1.5.10^7, or 15.000.000 molecules of rhodopsin per cell 6 and with the fact that in photoreceptor structures the number of molecules is about 10^7-10^8. The data we collected from our experiments allowed us to state the rhodopsin nature of Euglena photoreceptor. Our results can be considered to be in agreement with the evidence presented in 1991 by Hegemann et al. , by Derguini et al. and by Kreimer et al. that all-trans-retinal is present in the photoreceptive organelles of other microalgae, namely Chlamydomonas and Spermatozopsis.
+The actual reported numbers are ≈10^5 rhodopsins per membrane disc or ≈10^8. 5”.
+The origin of photoreceptor cells indicated in Fig. below is largely a matter of speculation. Even though bacteria have sensory rhodopsins there is no detectable sequence homology between bacteriorhodopsins and metazoan visual rhodopsins . However, the two may still be phylogenetically related, since their three-dimensional structures with seven membrane-embedded _-helices are very similar, and they all share the same chromophore, retinal, which is attached in a Schiff base linkage to a lysine residue in the seventh _-helix. The most primitive organism in which a rhodopsin has been found which may be related to animal opsins is Volvox, a colonial green alga in the transition zone between protists and multicellular organism. Photoreception probably initially evolved in cyanobacteria which later were taken up as symbionts into eukaryotic cells and gave rise to chloroplasts. During the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms, each cell of the primitive multicellular organism, like Volvox, may have been equipped with a photoreceptor organelle, and the eyes may have evolved from such an ancestral state by cell differentiation and organogenesis.
+Detecting light is arguably one of the most coveted abilities in the living world. Eyes, or their anatomical equivalents, have independently evolved many times among animals, and the consistency of their organization, featuring a cornea or lens that focuses photons onto a sensory surface, is often brought to the fore as an example of convergent evolution. 2
+Very likely, opsins started with the huge advantage of being able to couple to established transduction pathways via a G-protein. The ancestral opsin appears to have been allied with a melatonin receptor or similar GPCR, as opsins form a sister group to such GPCRs in the genome of the placozoan Trichoplax adhaerens
+One of the first steps in eye evolution must have been the appearance of a light-dependent chemical reaction coupled to a signaling system. 19
+This alone would already consist in a unbridgeable hurdle for unguided mechanisms like natural selection. It's irrelevant, how simple such a system would be. It would already consist of a system essentially interlinked in two functional parts, where one depends on the other. Signal systems do depend, without exception, on the setup of the signal code or language, and correct understanding and common agreement of the sender-receiver, a system that can only be set up by conscient intelligent beings.
+Light-dependent reactions are always very specific, and from an engineering standpoint, very demanding, complex, precise,, and depend on the correct arrangement of protein-protein interactions, enzymatic reactions which need to be finely tuned, and implemented with specificity.
+Evolutionary Origins of Phototransduction 18
+At some time before the divergence of jellyfish and humans, but likely after the split.
+Really ?!! split common ancestor of humans, insects, and cnidarians, all of which possess opsins. the receptor protein detects pheromones, not light..
+Well, what had to be adquired, is a chromophore. But not just any kind of chromophore. But one that could be recyled after bleaching through a complex visual cycle.
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+The first step in eye evolution is the evolution of a light receptor molecule which in all metazoa which photoreceptor cell and pigment cell controlled by Pax6 and Mitf, respectively. From this prototype, all the more complex eye types arose monophyletically. As a mechanism, we propose intercalary evolution of progressively more genes such as lens genes into the eye developmental pathway.
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+196 F.3d 1059 (9th Cir. 1999)
+BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee,
+v.
+VALERIE RED WOLF; GLADYS RED WOLF; RANDY RED WOLF; DORRIE BULL TAIL; DEWEY BULL TAIL, Defendants-Appellants.
+and
+HONORABLE RON ARNESON, Crow Tribal Court, Special Judge, Defendant,
+and
+THE CROW TRIBE OF INDIANS, Defendant-Intervenor..
+No. 98-35502, No. 98-35539, No. 98-35541
+U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
+Argued and Submitted September 17,
+Decided November 17, 1999
+As Amended on Denial of Rehearing January 6, 2000
+Alexander Blewett III and John C. Hoyt, Hoyt & Blewett, Great Falls, Montana; A. Clifford Edwards, Edwards Law Firm, Billings, Montana, for the defendants-appellants.
+Charles G. Cole, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D.C.; George C. Dalthorp, Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Toole & Dietrich, Billings, Montana; Gary L. Crosby, Fort Worth, Texas; Theodore A. Livingston, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, Illinois, for the plaintiff-appellee.
+John Fredericks III, Fredericks, Pelcyger, Hester & White, Louisville, Colorado, for the intervenor-appellant.
+Sarah Krakoff, Indian Law Clinic, Boulder, Colorado; Jeanne S. Whiteing, Whiteing & Smith, Boulder, Colorado, for amicus Blackfeet Tribe.
+Maylinn Smith, Missoula, Montana, for amicus Montana-Wyoming Tribal Judges Association.
+Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Montana; Jack D. Shanstrom, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-96-00017-JDS
+Before: Byron R. White, Associate Justice (Ret.),1 Sidney R. Thomas and M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judges.
+THOMAS, Circuit Judge:
+This appeal presents the question of whether a tribal court has civil jurisdiction over a tort claim arising from an accident on a right-of-way granted to a railroad by Congress. We conclude that the tribal court lacks jurisdiction, and affirm the district court's grant of an injunction against further prosecution of the tribal court action.
+* Beverly Nadine Red Wolf and Regina Bull Tail were killed when a Burlington Northern Railroad Company ("Railroad") train car collided with their automobile at a railroad grade crossing south of Lodge Grass, Montana, within the exterior boundaries of the Crow Reservation. The train was traveling along a right-of-way, extending 75 feet on either side from the center of the tracks, granted to the Railroad's predecessor by Congress in 1889. At the time of the collision, the automobile was on the tracks, well within the Railroad's right-of-way.
+The Estates filed a wrongful death action against the Railroad in Crow tribal court, resulting in a verdict of $250,000,000. (By motion of the Estates in tribal court, the judgment was later amended to $25,000,000.) The tribal court denied the Railroad's motion to stay the judgment pending appeal, and ordered the Railroad to post bond in the amount of the judgment. While pursuing relief from the judgment and bond in tribal court appeals, the Railroad also went to federal district court and obtained a preliminary injunction against execution or enforcement of the tribal court judgment.
+The Estates appealed the issuance of the preliminary injunction. A panel of this Court reversed the judgment of the district court, holding that the district court could not enjoin tribal court proceedings before tribal remedies had been exhausted. See Burlington Northern Railroad Co. v. Red Wolf, 106 F.3d 868 (9th Cir. 1997). The Supreme Court granted the Railroad's petition for a writ of certiorari, vacated the judgment, and remanded the case for further consideration in light of Strate v. A-1 Contractors, 520 U.S. 438 (1997). In turn, this Court remanded the case to the district court for reconsideration under Strate.
+On remand, the district court concluded that exhaustion of tribal remedies was not required under Strate . The Railroad subsequently filed an amended complaint seeking a permanent injunction against further tribal court proceedings for want of jurisdiction. The district court then granted the Railroad's motion for summary judgment, holding that exhaustion was unnecessary and permanently enjoining any further proceedings in tribal court. This timely appeal followed.
+II
+By declaring as to nonmembers, `a tribe's adjudicative jurisdiction does not exceed its legislative jurisdiction,' Strate altered the lens through which we view the boundaries of a tribal court's civil adjudication. See Strate , 520 U.S. at 453. In examining a tribal court's jurisdictional reach, Strate adopted the analysis established in Montana v. United States, 450 U.S. 544 (1981). Montana's main rule is that, absent the contrary intervention of treaty or federal law, a tribe has no civil regulatory authority over non-tribal members for activities on reservation land alienated to non-Indians. See id. at 563-65; see also Montana v. King, 191 F.3d 1108, 1112-13 (9th Cir. 1999).
+The threshold question in this appeal is whether Montana's main rule applies, that is, whether the property rightsat issue are such that the land may be deemed "alienated" to non-Indians. In Strate, the Supreme Court held that a highway right-of-way acquired by a State over land within the boundaries of an Indian reservation was "equivalent, for nonmember governance purposes, to alienated, non-Indian land." Strate, 520 U.S. at 454. We reached the same conclusion as to a federal highway that was built and maintained by the State of Montana. See Wilson v. Marchington, 127 F.3d 805, 814 (9th Cir. 1997). In Wilson, we held that Strate precluded tribal civil adjudicatory jurisdiction over a suit brought by a tribal member against a non-member arising out of an accident on the highway. See id. at 815. Similarly, we recently held that a tribe did not have regulatory or civil adjudicatory jurisdiction over Montana's employment practices for work performed on a state-owned highway right-of-way within reservation boundaries. See King, 191 F.3d at 1114.
+For the same reasons, a right-of-way granted to a railroad by Congress over reservation land is "equivalent for nonmember governance purposes, to alienated, non-Indian land." Strate, 520 U.S. at 454. Congressional power over tribal lands is plenary. "[A]ll aspects of Indian sovereignty are subject to defeasance by Congress." Escondido Mut. Water Co. v. La Jolla Band of Mission Indians, 466 U.S. 765, 787 n.30 (1984) (citing United States v. Wheeler, 435 U.S. 313, 323 (1978)). In this case, the congressional right-of-way grant to the Railroad's predecessor in interest was absolute, encompassing a grant "for the construction, operation and maintenance of its railroad, telegraph, and telephone line through the lands set apart for the use of the Crow Indians." Pub. L. No. 50-134, S1, 25 Stat. 660 (1889). There is no principled distinction to be made between the jurisdictional analysis applicable to a congressionally-granted highway right-of-way and a congressionally-granted railroad right-of-way. In each case, Congress has acted within its plenary power to bestow rights to a parcel of land upon one party, thereby limiting the rights of another to the same land.
+The Estates argue that, because the accident occurred at the intersection of a tribal road and the right-of-way, the right of-way cannot be considered alienated at the accident point. But this fact does not alter the jurisdictional calculus. Under the congressionally-granted right-of-way, the Tribe had no reserved power to exclude the Railroad from the reservation, nor to exercise dominion or control over the right-of-way. As in Strate, the Tribe has lost the "right of absolute and exclusive use and occupation" of the right-of-way, regardless of intersecting tribal roads. Strate, 520 U.S. at 456 (quoting South Dakota v. Bourland, 508 U.S. 679, 689 (1993)). Nor does the fact that the Tribe or its members retain title to the affected land distinguish it from the right-of-way at issue in Strate. See 520 U.S. at 454.
+For similar reasons, the Tribe's power to tax the rightof-way does not create civil jurisdiction over non-members arising out of accidents occurring on the right-of-way. The power to tax is not equivalent to the right to exercise civil jurisdiction over tribal land. See Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe, 455 U.S. 130, 141-142 (1982). Indeed, Merrion rejected the theory that a tribe's taxation power was coextensive with its right to exclude non-members from tribal lands. See id. at 142.2 Thus, becausea tribe's taxation power is broader than its civil adjudicatory jurisdiction over nonmembers, the Tribe's authority to tax the right-of-way is not dispositive.
+The Estates also direct our attention to two statutes that they claim as a federal delegation of tribal jurisdiction over the right-of-way. They cite language in the grant that directs that the "operation of such railroad shall be conducted with due regard for the rights of the Indians," S 3, 25 Stat. 660, and the Indian Tribal Justice Support Act of 1993, 25 U.S.C. S 3601 et seq., which simply provides assistance for the development of tribal justice systems. Tribal jurisdiction over nonmembers on land subject to Montana's main rule requires express congressional authorization. See Strate , 520 U.S. at 445. Neither statute contains it.
+In sum, under the Strate analysis, a federally-created rightof-way is the functional equivalent of land alienated in fee to non-members. Accordingly, Montana's main rule applies to an accident on a right-of-way granted by Congress to the Railroad's predecessor in interest.
+III
+The Estates contend that, even if the Montana analysis applies, this case falls within the exceptions to the rule. Montana recognized two exceptions to the main rule restricting tribal civil regulatory authority over non-tribal members for activities on reservation land alienated to non-Indians:
+[T]ribes retain inherent sovereign power to exercise some forms of civil jurisdiction over non-Indians on their reservations, even on non-Indian fee lands.  eco nomic security, or the health or welfare of the tribe.
+450 U.S. at 565-66 (citations omitted).
+The first Montana exception applies to non-member consensual relationships with a tribe or its members. The Estates claim that Congress had no power to grant a right-ofway without tribal consent; therefore, they reason, this exception must apply. It is true that Congress allowed the President, in his discretion, to require tribal consent as a condition for granting the right-of-way. See S 3, 25 Stat. 660. However, as Strate's application of a similar statute demonstrates, the provision for tribal consent reflected congressional policy, not the limits of congressional power. See 520 U.S. at 454 (noting that right-of-way grant required "consent of the proper tribal officials"), citing 25 U.S.C. S 324. A right-of-way created by congressional grant is a transfer of a property interest that does not create a continuing consensual relationship between a tribe and the grantee. See King, 191 F.3d at 1113-14; Yellowstone County v. Pease, 96 F.3d 1169, 1176 (9th Cir. 1996). Thus, the first Montana exception does not apply.
+The second Montana exception allows tribal jurisdiction over nonmembers on alienated land when their conduct "threatens or has some direct effect on the political integrity, the economic security, or the health or welfare of the tribe." 450 U.S. at 566. However, Montana's second exception"does not entitle the tribe to complain or obtain relief against every use of fee land that has some adverse effect on the tribe." Brendale v. Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation, 492 U.S. 408, 431 (1989). A nonmember's impact must be "demonstrably serious." Id. The Estates claim that deaths of tribal members cause damage to the community by depriving the Tribe of potential councilmembers, teachers and babysitters. However, Strate rejected this argument, noting that "if Montana's second exception requires no more, the exception would severely shrink the rule." 520 U.S. at 458. As we stated in Wilson, "[i]f the possibility of injuring multiple tribal members does not satisfy the second Montana exception under Strate, then, perforce,[a plaintiff's] status as a tribal member alone cannot." 127 F.3d at 815; see also County of Lewis v. Allen, 163 F.3d 509, 515 (9th Cir. 1998) (holding that a tribe's bare interest in the safety of its members cannot satisfy the second exception). Nor does the Tribe's burial allowance for its members amount to "demonstrably serious" economic consequences. We do not doubt the truth of John Donne's observation that "[n]o man is an island." Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation 17 (1624). This adage applies with special force in the close, inter-connected tribal culture. However, the Supreme Court has declined to employ this logic in conjunction with the second Montana exception. Indeed, it has specifically rejected it. See Strate, 520 U.S. at 458-59.
+For these reasons, Montana's main rule, rather than its exceptions, applies to this case. In so holding, we do not reduce tribal sovereignty to mere landownership, or equate a servient land estate with political subordination. Rather, we recognize that when Congress provides for the conveyance of certain property rights from tribes to nonmember parties, it acts within its unique authority to defease tribal jurisdiction to the extent its purposes require. Montana's exceptions continue to protect that tribal jurisdiction which is necessary to govern nonmembers' consensual relationships with a tribe or its members, and to protect tribal integrity against serious encroachments by nonmembers. The absence of tribal jurisdiction does not leave the Tribe or its members without redress for nonmembers' alleged wrongs. Tribal plaintiffs may find a forum in either state or federal courts, as appropriate. See, e.g., Montana v. Gilham, 133 F.3d 1133, 1139 n.6 (9th Cir. 1998).
+IV
+The district court correctly concluded that exhaustion of tribal remedies was not required in this instance. As a general rule, a federal district court should abstain from asserting federal question jurisdiction over claims that are identical to claims pending in tribal court until the tribal court has had a full opportunity to consider the basis for its own jurisdiction.
+See Strate, 520 U.S. at 449-50; Iowa Mut. Ins. Co. v. LaPlante, 480 U.S. 9, 15 (1987) ("[C]onsiderations of comity direct that tribal remedies be exhausted before the question is addressed by the District Court."). However, exhaustion is not required where (1) an assertion of tribal jurisdiction is motivated by a desire to harass or is conducted in bad faith, see Iowa Mut., 480 U.S. at 19 n.12; (2) the action is patently violative of express jurisdictional prohibitions, see id.; (3) exhaustion would be futile because of the lack of adequate opportunity to challenge the court's jurisdiction, see id.; see also Johnson v. Gila River Indian Community, 174 F.3d 1032, 1036 (9th Cir. 1999); or (4) it is plain that no federal grant provides for tribal governance of nonmembers' conduct on land covered by Montana's main rule, see Strate, 520 U.S. at 459 n.14.
+Under the fourth exception, first enunciated in Strate, exhaustion is not required when "tribal court jurisdiction does not exist under Montana and Strate, " and remand would only delay a final judgment.County of Lewis v. Allen , 163 F.3d 509, 516 (1998). Because tribal courts plainly do not have jurisdiction over this controversy pursuant to Montana and Strate, the Railroad was not required to exhaust its tribal remedies before proceeding in federal court.
+V
+The right-of-way granted the Railroad by Congress is indistinguishable for analytic purposes from the right-of-way at issue in Strate. Accordingly, the tribal courts did not possess civil jurisdiction over a non-member arising out of an accident occurring within the right-of-way. Because no tribal jurisdiction existed under Strate, the Railroad was not required to exhaust tribal remedies. Given this result, it is unnecessary for us to reach the question of whether the district court should have granted the Crow Tribe's motion to intervene. We affirm the judgment of the district court.
+AFFIRMED.
+Notes:
+The Honorable Byron R. White, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (Ret.), sitting by designation pursuant to 28 U.S.C. S 294(a).
+Likewise, in Burlington Northern Railroad Co. v. Blackfeet Tribe, 924 F.2d 899, 902-903 (9th Cir. 1991), we relied on three grounds to support the taxation power over a railroad right-of-way, none of which distinguishes this case from Strate and Wilson. First, the tribe had a continuing property interest in the right-of-way, which no longer suffices for civil jurisdiction under Strate. Second, the Railroad benefitted from tribal police and fire protection, which similarly benefitted drivers on the highway in Strate. Third, taxation remained within the tribe's inherent sovereign powers, which Strate held did not include civil jurisdiction over nonmembers.
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+The original Shitty was built shortly after the Glorious Revolution and was named after a Dutch courtier to the new King and Queen, one Olaf van Shitty. King William had insisted it was treasonous to laugh at the courtier's name and so nobody did, especially when a ship was named after him. Shitty was a fanatical Protestant and had really hated the previous English King and so James II/VII provided an unflattering model for the ship's figurehead, carved in a Spitting Image style with a massive nose and womanly lips "for kissing the arse of the Pope and the King of France". William III, who loved a good laugh, proclaimed the ship "Fuyckking hilariyus, syrs!" (but in a Dutch accent) whilst swanning around Portsmouth in his periwig and expensive frock-coat. His co-ruler, Queen Mary, also enjoyed the ship "The tyrant Daddy does look silly", she quipped. "It is mye decision, syrs" said King William. "That so fyne a shippe be this, that I shalle propose to mye Parliament that theye do pute forwarde and passe a bille that will mean that England and her nayve muste have a shippe called the Shitty builte once everye centurie. I will aske them to mayke it so that this bille cannote be overturned. Thus will my fyne friend Olaf van Shitty be immortalised down the ages!"[1]
+Her captain was the famous William "Big Bouncing Bill" Barstard, a former pirate who had given up raiding Spanish ships illegally and decided to raid them legally instead. The Shitty was soon sent into action, sailing to Jamaica to see off a couple of Privateers and co-incidentally capture a Spanish treasure galleon which had "illegally sailed within 500 miles of English territorial waters, illegal under several Acts of Parliament and the opinions of their Joint Majesties". The Shitty engaged the Privateer They See Me Rolling, firing off several broadsides. Or at least that was the theory. Instead every single cannon exploded and their barrels were left all splayed, like in a cartoon. The privateer crew laughed at the rubbish English warship and, pulling down their breeches, showed their arses. Captain Barstard was furious and ordered the ship to turn, to train the remaining guns on them. Unfortunately, the ship's wheel "did break off in the pilot's hand" and the Shitty was left sailing in circles. Not long after this, the privateers got tired of displaying their daisies and simply holed the English ship until she sunk. "What a shitty ship the Shitty was" quipped the privateer's captain, only in a foreign language.
+edit HMS Shitty (1798 - 1802)
+The Shitty Mk2 looked good at least
+For some reason the Royal Navy didn't take the hint and another Shitty was commissioned. This time she was to be a fine ship of the line, destined to see off the French revolutionary navy and to defend British possessions in North American from the yankee rebel. Mindful of the fate of her name-sake, the War Minister, Mr Simpkins-Snuffbox ordered her to be built in "the finest shipyard in all of England" which were actually in Glasgow in Scotland. An awful lot of pride and effort went into making the Shitty the most marvellous, modern warship in the world. In the tradition of the 17th century Shitty, a satirical cartoon was painted in her state room portraying George Washington and Robespierre being felated by toothless crones whilst saying something overly long and complicated in a large ellipse. It made George III laugh so hard he farted, anyway[2].
+The Shitty was indeed a splendid sight as she sailed into the Irish Sea. MPs on both sides of the house proclaimed her to be "a Queen of the ocean" and "the greatest ship to ever set sail" and "truly proof positive of the benefits of monarchy". Rather than place an ex-pirate in charge, her captain was the splendid Sir Alfred Shine-Smile, a handsome man of 37 and naval veteran of the American Revolutionary war who had slept with his fair share of society ladies. He hand-picked a crew of the "finest men in all of England"[3]. Among them were the seamen Hugh, Pugh, Barney, Magrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, and, of course, Gruber. Shine-Smile literally kept a tight ship and was popular amongst his rhyming seamen. When the Shitty sailed triumphantly up the Thames, the Prince Regent himself came aboard (for once without a whore on his arm) and proclaimed her "truly a ship that will mean that the word "Shitty", far from being associated with the bowel movements so popular with the satyrists and comedians of this age, shall instead come to mean a fine vessel, full of fine seamen, and captained by the most splendid of English Englishmen."[4].
+The early 19th century being a time of much strife in the world, on land and sea, it wasn't long before the Shitty was put to work against the navy of republican France. Parliament decided that the Shitty should be the flagship of the British fleet and carry Admiral Admiral (also known as Mister Appropriately-named) himself. It was as the fleet was sailing from Portsmouth towards the French coast to engage the enemy flotilla that problems were noticed, though. For a start, they were sure the holds of His Majesty's flagship shouldn't be filling with water like that. And that it was a bit rum if the main mast snapped in "a bit of strong wind", taking the crows nest with it and meaning that the Admiral Admiral - red faced - had to hail the fellow Ship of the Line Jolly Good Shot and board her instead, assuring Captain Shine-Smile that "Your ship, sir, will remain the pride of His Majesty's fleet once your men are put to work in fixing whatever it is that ails her."
+And so Shine-Smile got the crew to work fixing the mast and plugging the leaks as best they could. Meanwhile the rest of the fleet set sail towards France and the dastardly republican navy. The tragedy is that the captain found that no matter how well his crew tried they could not quite plug the leak. Whenever they covered one up, another one would spring. In the end they started filling buckets and chucking them over the side. Then, after they'd recovered from their "prune ration" they began using the buckets to get rid of the water. It wasn't until the British fleet started returning (from a victory, of course) that the Shitty started to take on more water than she throw over the side. Admiral Admiral was shocked to see the Shitty flounder and insisted on tying her to the Jolly Good Shot and towing her back to Portsmouth.
+The Shitty eventually sank within site of the Portsmouth. Shine-Smile was court-martialed and shot. Horatio Nelson later said that he was glad the Shitty wasn't able to take part in the Battle of Trafalgar, otherwise the English would have lost. Nelson died in the battle and it then became a naval tradition never to mention Shitty by name in case it brought bad luck.
+edit HMS Shitty (1898 - 1919)
+HMS Shitty sinking under the weight of her blocked toilets at Scapa Flow in 1919.
+Conflicted both by the Williamite act of Parliament and the naval tradition, the next Shitty to be comissioned was known by employees of the Royal Navy as "That Ship". Determined that she should never see combat, the navy ordered that whilst the new Shitty was officially a cruiser she was unofficially merely a hospital ship who would never leave Portsmouth dock. "What can go wrong?" said her unimaginative captain, Randy Shufflebottom. Well plenty as it happened.
+The new Shitty's first role was to take part in Boer War. She was sent to South Africa and anchored in Cape Town to defend the city from the Boer navy and to look after naval warfare casualties. That there was no Boer navy seems to have escaped Britain's naval chiefs was immaterial. There she languished to defend against a threat that never came. However the ship did gain a bad reputation for bad plumbing and would often stink as the ship's toilets got blocked with some imperial strength excrement.
+The new naval First Sea Lord, Jackie 'Kennedy' Fisher had the Shitty marked down to be scrapped when he brought in his 'big guns/no armour' vision for the Royal Navy. A lot of older or obsolete battleships were scrapped or used as floating casinos. The Shitty was put down a number of times to be sent to the knacker's yard but somehow, she always slipped away. Though designed never to take action, the ship was instead to 'fly the dirty flag' around various British empire outposts. In 1906 she was sent to Tangiers to scare the Moroccans and in 1908 ended up off the coast of Turkey when the Ottoman Empire appeared to be about to collapse.
+Her captain during all this time was Randy Shufflebottom. He itched for some 'excitement' but each time when he thought the Shitty was about to do something useful, accidents would happen. In 1910 she ran into a cross channel ferry and in 1911 was again send to Morocco - this time to scare the Kaiser. He looked at the Shitty and said 'we have no need to fear the British anymore if they send us at a time in 'crisis'. The British navy agreed and sold the ship to the Turks who were looking to boost their own naval forces.
+In July 1914, a crew of Turkish sailors appeared in Portsmouth to take over the Shitty, renamed Sultan Boktan. However Winston Churchill cancelled the deal and brought the Shitty back into active commission when Turkey joined Germany and Austria-Hungary as an ally in the First World War. Also brought back was Rear Admiral Randy Shufflebottom who had thought his days on the Shitty were behind him. Anxious to get back on shore and prune his roses, Shufflebottom volunteered his ship to take part in numerous actions. The Shitty was marked down to take part in the attack on Turkey in the Dardenelles (to 'rub Johnny Turk's nose in it') but the Shitty's appalling plumbing stopped her in Cyprus when a blocked loo exploded and covered most of the deck in a thick layer of crap. In 1916, the Shitty was part of the British fleet at the Battle of Jutland but the ship got lost and chased fishing boats under the impression they were disguised German Dreadnoughts. This saw Shufflebottom permanently retired and the ship was sent to Scapa Flow in the Orkneys as punishment,
+By 1919 the "Shitty" was moored in the British naval base and was there when the Germans turned up to have their fleet interned whilst negotiations to achieve a final peace treaty to end the First World War were under way. For a few months the Shitty stayed with spitting distance of the German battleships. Then in June 1919 the German crews on board their ships scuttled them [5] when they were told the British would 'get the lot'. In the confusion, the Shitty also believed it had a received a message to 'sink that bugger whilst no one would miss her'. The crew didn't flush the toilets and within hours the Shitty was sinking under the weight of its own sewage. The crew were taken off by another ship (after a thorough scrub and hose down with water from the harbour). Eventually the Shitty turned over and sank, bottom up.
+Over the next 20 years, a lot of the old German fleet was retrieved for scrap metal but the Admiralty insisted that NO ONE touch the Shitty. Not as a mark of respect but a fear of how much crap was still in her hull and the fear of pollution.
+edit References
+- ↑ Yes, this is preposterous, but I have to find a reason they keep using the name
+- ↑ You may well say "so what he was mad and probably laughed at most things" and you'd be WRONG and IGNORANT of the FACTS of MENTAL ILLNESS you EXPRESS-READING CUNT
+- ↑ and Scotland, and Wales, and Ireland, but nobody ever mentioned that back then
+- ↑ Gawd, don't you miss the days when they where honest and there wasn't all this "British" crap and pretence the Scots, Welsh and Irish were for anything other than looking miserable and taxing
+- ↑ All German ships were built with a giant plug in their keels that could be pulled at a moment's notice. The British considered this to be 'a dirty Hun trick'.
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+Japanese patent puts forward two types of distinct coating material winding kind evaporation equipment. And will pull out improved Magnetron sputtering vacuum coating machine in the coming quickly.. three. PVD coating , ion plating technology, its distinct principle is under the condition of vacuum, with low voltage, higher current arc discharge technology, by use of gas discharge from target material evaporation and evaporation occurs matter and gas ionization, making use of electric field acceleration, cause the evaporation material and the reaction product deposition on the workpiece. PVD coatings are normally far more durable and additional corrosion resistant than coatings utilized by the electroplating course of. Right here we’re going to show you some of the method equipments on the market that featured by our reputable suppliers and producers, comparable to Pvd Coating Machine. Will improve in each nearby and export-oriented revenues are perceived for key gamers in the international Pvd Vacuum Coating Machine Market Nonetheless, challenges reminiscent of rising purchaser negotiating energy, prominence on excessive-higher quality merchandise at low costs are forcing crucial modifications inside the Pvd Vacuum Coating Machine supply chain. There are numerous techniques to generate diamond films, using Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD). At this time, you will send your technicians to our coating center to discover about our PVD coating operation. To accomplish a uniform thin film coating thicknesses that are typically a couple of atoms or molecules thick, components to be coated are often rotated on many axis at a uniform speed, or placed on conveyor belts moving past the deposition material’s plasma stream. Value is undoubtedly an essential element when acquiring physical vapor deposition gear but demands to be weighed against program capability, good quality, serviceability, warranty terms and circumstances, delivery instances. Pulsed laser deposition : By which a higher-energy laser ablates material from the aim appropriate into a vapor. In contrast with vacuum evaporation coating and sputtering coating, ion coating has the following benefits: very good adhesion, very good diffraction. The PVD coating also has better put on resistance , much better corrosion resistance and far better chemical stability. The report on the worldwide Specialty Coating Gear market consists of much more than 25 tables and above 30 figures. And will pull out enhanced Magnetron sputtering vacuum coating machine inside the coming speedily. It also enables a high ionization degree, rapidly deposition rate, and enables a wider choice of supplies to be deposited. Production Evaluation – Manufacturing of the Pvd Coating Machines Market place is analyzed with respect to entirely various regions, varieties, and functions. PVD coating accounted for important share of about 39% in vacuum coating equipment industry in 2015. So this is easy action method of ion plating. Ionized ion and gas ion bombards film surface with greater energy to boost film high quality. By the top of the Seventies, PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition) technology began to appear, producing a vivid future for the vacuum coating, following which in a short period of two to thirty years PVD coating know-how developed quickly, the cause being because it in the vacuum-sealed cavity movie, virtually no environmental pollution problems, conducive to environmental protection as a result of it will possibly get shiny, luxurious floor, in colour, mature in seven colours, silver, clear, black gold coating, and any colour amongst gold coating, the PVD can meet the higher-cost and high-hardness of coating. With the increased chamber size, the machine hits the sweet spot for productivity and utilization: spacious sufficient to accommodate massive merchandise but nonetheless conveniently sized for most businesses. The presence of radial fracture lines was minimal with tearing of the coating on the conical indent surface, indicating superb cohesion inside the coating. Sputtering course of are increasingly more utilized, as they are capable to deposit all the modern complicated coating supplies and partially even these nonconductive materials.
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+It can kind a layer of thin film on the surface of objects, and the film has some traits of the coating material. Using greater coating components. Amongst them, the hot cathode electron gun evaporates ion plating, the copper crucible is employed to warmth and soften the plated steel material, the tantalum filament is utilized to warmth the workpiece to take away gas, and the electron gun is used to reinforce the ionization charge. six vacuum coating machine in design and style excellence, passed the ISO9001 international certification. added the most updated analysis with Covid-19 Effect on Global Optical PVD Coating Equipment Industry 2020 by Producers, Sort, Application, geographic regions, and Forecast to 2026” to its large collection of research reports. Vacuum coating machine organization said, but because of the standard water electroplating, bigger toxicity and magnetron sputtering coating gear to make up for the defect of a lot of water electroplating approach. A skilled in the business believe that common way of coating are mainly concentrated in vacuum coating, like the original coating means and way to small likelihood, for coating technologies , from the contemporary environmental protection and energy saving requirements, chemical deposition approach did meet the challenge, now logistics environment of vacuum coating technologies has obtained quite massive development, the transformation of the modern coating factory is proved. Therefore, with a single installation of the present invention, the coating object of various sizes can be processed. These consists of inline coating tactics with magnetron sputtering cathodes and ion beam sources of a length up to six meters. Based upon the size of the physical vapor deposition method and distance to be transported these fees can add up speedily. 6. When we don’t use vacuum coating machine, we need to pump out all air from vacuum chamber. In addition to furnishings, the lawn and garden equipment, and sporting goods markets would advantage from this improvement. Coatings for textile and insulation fiber are deposited by aqueous remedy chemistry. The distinction is: PVD coating film layer and the adhesion strength of the workpiece surface is larger, membrane layer’s hardness is higher, greater wear resistance and corrosion resistance, the functionality of the film is far more steady PVD coating does not produce toxic or contaminated material. The thickness of PVD Coatings is in micron order. You ought to take in to account the physical dimension of the bodily vapor deposition coating gear and how this will fit into your function location or cleanroom. Even though the chemical vapor deposition also makes use of vacuum, low stress or vacuum plasma and other signifies, but generally refers to a physical vacuum deposition technique for depositing a thin film. The top study priority right here is the require for a computational tool to quickly screen achievable new coating supplies, a require shared by other industries. If the pattern dimensions and tolerances are comparatively large, a physical mask such as a thin sheet metal stencil can operate and the process can be primarily any variety. Our PVD coated goods are resistant to abrasions, and can even withstand repeated scouring with steel wool with out tarnishing. Though Cathodic Arc technologies has a lot of benefits in hard coatings synthesis but the droplets or macroparticles is a single of inherent problem that need to be reduced to generate much better wear resistance coatings. Usually, cathodes are planar (flat), whereas Platit’s LARC course of (LAteral Rotated Cathodes) attributes cylindrical cathodes that have a quantity of advantages over the traditional setup, collectively with the energy to deposit simple coating surfaces and nanocomposite constructions. PLATIT exhausting coatings remedy tribological issues with machine elements that can be coated at temperatures of 200-500°C. The Pvd Vacuum Coating Machine Industry evaluation report also delivers a detailed watch on major rivals with strategic evaluation, micro and macro market development and scenarios, pricing evaluation and a holistic overview of the industry scenarios in the forecast interval. We’re correct here to provide collectively China factories that give manufacturing methods and gear which can be utilized by processing industries together with but not limited to: vacuum coating machine, pvd vacuum coating machine, vacuum coating equipment. Splash handle sputtering coating machine is a collection of powder or strong particles or powder physique disperse state of matter.
+21. Ameron International Functionality Coatings & Finishes Co. Electron-beam physical vapor deposition : the material to be deposited is heated to a high vapor pressure by electron bombardment in “higher” vacuum and is transported by diffusion to be deposited by condensation on the (cooler) workpiece. The report on PVD Coating Solutions Market place 2020 is a comprehensive analysis of the Market offering you with the most recent industry information and future Industry trends. Although we (and the trade) refer to these as PVD Coatings”, PVD (physical vapor deposition) is just 1 of several processes that are used in thin-movie deposition programs. Sputtering is an very flexible coating technique that can be utilised to coat virtually any material. Somta Tools have invested in a USA-created and manufactured PerformCoat PfC540 PVD coating machine. INORCOAT gives large PVD coating applications for heavy and big subrates which wants functional or decorative coating. The PVD coating also has greater put on resistance , higher corrosion resistance and greater chemical stability. Vacuum coating machine in a vacuum device, due to the require of vacuum technology, and hope to preserve the stress in the vacuum chamber to the influence of a given value, even so, due to changes in the vacuum chamber to put gas or vacuum pump price adjustments and other disturbing elements in, resulting in the vacuum chamber pressure deviates from the given value, and hence the require for automatic stress adjustment. KOLZER style and manufactures superior vacuum coating machines with the highest high high quality specifications utilizing physical approach to coat components onto the substrates in the condition of vacuum. Materials queries normally fall into the field of supplies science and concern the difficulty of reaching films with distinct properties. Sputtering vacuum coating approach, because of its various coating strategies, the impact of the identical film coating material prepared will be different, even though the naked eye can not see it, but it does have particular advantages. The UV PVD chrome plating procedure is clean because it takes spot in space temperature and without water consumption and chemical emissions, it guarantees higher cost-effectiveness of the processing cycles, low expense of materials and high productivity thanks to decreased instances, repetitive cycle and minimization of imperfections. Amongst the most employed applied sciences for deposition of helpful coatings for instruments or precision components are those with crucible, the arc evaporation and the sputtering. For a lot more than 20 years, our team of scientists and engineers has been helping buyers apply stunning and tough difficult coatings that boost and differentiate residence hardware, medical devices, industrial tooling, consumer electronics, sporting goods, and several other items. It provides a forecast mainly based on the estimation of the expansion of PVD Vacuum Coating Machines market place. Especially, beneath a confident procedure strain, the arc induction needle is in short speak to with the evaporative ion supply to disconnect and make the fuel discharge. It offers a forecast based mainly on the estimation of the development of Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) Coating System market. A vacuum chamber is critical to avoid reaction of the vaporized material with air. Vacuum coating gear heating temperature should be in the vacuum chamber wall and then back up to deflate one hundred ~ 150 ℃. PVD coatings are typically harder and added corrosion resistant than coatings utilized by the electroplating process. Bodily Vapor Deposition (PVD) course of for purposes starting from automotive to healthcare. Often, cathodes are planar (flat), while Platit’s LARC process (LAteral Rotated Cathodes) choices cylindrical cathodes that have a number of positive aspects over the normal setup, including the flexibility to deposit smooth coating surfaces and nanocomposite structures. We close major valve, if vacuum meter indication drops speedily, that signifies vacuum chamber has air leaking. There are 341 suppliers who sells pvd coating machine on , mostly situated in Asia.
+Tough coatings ‘with lubrication’ can negatively impact heating and cooling which, alone, can alter depth and visibility of weld lines. PVD coatings are at times harder and more corrosion resistant than coatings applied by the electroplating method. Amongst them, the hot cathode electron gun evaporates ion plating, the copper crucible is used to warmth and soften the plated metallic material, the tantalum filament is used to heat the workpiece to take away gas, and the electron gun is used to boost the ionization price. 1 of the more helpful accessories to have on a sputter method meant for reactive sputtering is a Residual Gas Analyzer (RGA) or Method Gas Analyzer (PGA) in order to monitor the actual partial pressures of gas species involved in the approach. The resource-conserving technologies employed in the PVD coating system, which might be made to be sensitive to the substrate whereas also becoming environmentally friendly, affords extra possible for worth financial savings. It Extensive information displaying PVD Coating Solutions sale, consumption, trade statistics, and costs in the recent years are provided. Because the reactive gas does ionize and get accelerated into the target by the electrical field, it does sputter material off the target as does the inert gas. The evaporators (commonplace or custom made) might be positioned into an adapted vacuum chamber in that method around the substrates that the configuration of a customized made equipment is accomplished. Analysis demands for coatings in the container sector are divided into five regions: market place expanding the information base benchmarking current technologies requirements for new technology and technology development. We have a powerful R&D team, and we can create and create PVD coating machine according to the drawings or samples the buyers provided. In case your intention is to purchase a new piece of bodily vapor deposition gear it is critical to state as such in the tender or request for quote. Sputtering process are increasingly utilised, as they are able to deposit all the fashionable advanced coating supplies and partially even these nonconductive supplies. Request an inventory of buyer references that you may possibly speak to, preferably with a bodily vapor deposition system related to the 1 you may be taking into consideration acquiring. We are proud to own and operate a single of the largest-volume PVD coating machines in the globe. Generalized vacuum coating additional comprises a metal or non-metallic components and other non-metallic surface of the vacuum vapor deposition polymer functional film. However arc evaporation is much more restricted in terms of coating material alternative than sputtering. The report offers an accurate monetary evaluation of each principal Competitor primarily based on their enterprise data that contains estimation of gross margin, Pvd Coating Machines gross sales volume, profitability, pricing erection, product worth, value building, income, and progress charge. Magnetron Sputtering vacuum coating machine is formed by a vacuum glow discharge, accelerate the positive ions bombard the target so that the sputtering phenomenon caused by the surface, so that the target surface deposition of particles emitted onto the substrate to form a film. Magnetron sputtering application will develop above 9% CAGR in worldwide vacuum coating gear marketplace till 2024. The charges of operating a PVD coating technique contain the coating source material, electrical energy, typical gases (such as nitrogen and argon), and periodic upkeep. The Specialty Coatings functioning group agreed early in its discussions that, although this was the ‘none-of-the-above group’, i.e. it covered coatings applications outdoors of flat, container, and fiber glass, that the right subject for the group is specialty coatings on glass, not coatings on specialty glass. The resource-conserving experience utilized in the PVD coating method, which might be created to be delicate to the substrate even though also being environmentally pleasant, gives extra prospective for value financial savings. These are our machine: Coating sample impact Some of our honours HCVAC can aid you to enter the PVD coating very easily by our vacuum coating machine and complete range service. Where bonded junctions are formed amongst two materials..
+Auckland’s city centre has rapidly been changing for the better but perhaps nothing screams Auckland of old as much as using prime waterfront space for a carpark. That carpark being the Eastern Viaduct Carpark, the next to the Maritime Museum and that links the city to Te Wero Island and North Wharf.
+The good news is that from March next year, following the Volvo Ocean Race, the parking will finally be removed for good and all of the space handed over to people.
+Panuku Development Auckland are now looking for feedback on what to use the space for. To do that they’re holding an event at the carpark this weekend. between:.
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+Nothing complex required, stick in some plants, maybe some sculpture ?
+I think it would be a good space for market stalls, pop-up shop type things and seating to watch the yachts come and go. And through the middle a casual diagonal cycleway. Might go down this weekend to check it out.
+When I saw the headline I was thrilled because I thought it was a reference to the Godawful Downtown Carpark which should be next in line for demolition. The Waterfront Carpark should have lots of seats and places for people to stop and read under nice shade sails to enjoy the view, have a drink, and watch the world go by.
+Hey mate, the downtown carpark building that’s run by AT does a good job of allowing me to find parking in the downtown Auckland. I bus into/from the city but it’s nice to know that if I need to drive in I have somewhere to park. I agree with you that the viaduct carpark should be gone. Stop being anti-car-parking.
+It’s a poor use of a very valuable site, with the prices they charge I’d be surprised if they are getting a decent return on investment currently.
+Hi jezza, you’re right about the site being valuable. At the end of the day AT is subsided by ratepayers (us) who contribute to things like running these parking buildings. At the current moment in time people who need to drive into downtown need somewhere to park. The public transport option just isn’t there for some people. We need the parking building until the city goes through a revolution.
+And anyway, AT are very good at making money, for example by ticketing people who are parked 1 minute over the time limit, or by taking photos of people who use a little bit of the bus lane, or by making it look like cars can drive through Grafton Bridge during the day, etc. At the end of the day all that revenue has to go somewhere – and I’m certain it’s not going to funding my local bus service, because that bus is always late and the bus always smell and is as infrequent as an 70 year old incontinent man.
+Like you I usually use PT but occasionally bring my car in when it is more convenient for me. However, storage of a private possession (car) in the CBD sounds more like a want rather than a need to me, I can’t really see any reason for it to be effectively subsidised.
+If your local bus service is as you describe it is probably attracting quite a high subsidy ironically. It’s the more frequent services that are more popular that generally require less subsidisation.
+I think AT should subsidise buses further, however they are a bit restricted by government policy at the moment.
+Ray, don’t forget about the subsidy we all pay to provide lane, including prime land such as this, for roads and carparks. And carbon emissions and air and water pollution… far far more than any subsidy to public transport…
+Sorry but I struggle to see how it looks like you can drive down Grafton Bridge during the day. Massive electronic sign that overhangs the lanes with a massive cross for cars??
+Also Bus-lanes are very well marked on where you can begin to enter the lane as it ends, no excuse for being in them. Its a volunteer tax if you get ticketed in one.
+Agree cars still need to be allowed for, and we shouldn’t go demolishing all carparking buildings, this carpark is also very well used. It does need some retrofitting however to make it not look not so much like a boring car-parking building, and possibly turning at least some of the spaces into a bit more multi use.
+That’s true but, for now, carpark buildings enable the removal of more on street parking of level parking lots such as is mentioned in the post. Pricing on Council owned carparks is still too cheap IMO.
++1, I struggle to believe that they are under 90% occupancy during the day…. Price needs to go up until they actually start emptying out so we can start to get casual parking in there rather than all day/.
+Yes I don’t think we need to worry & this building will eventually go. We first need new bus networks all up and running, CRL & LRT & more cycle facilities in place.
+The downtown parking building is perfectly located. Particularly for weekends. I am sure you would rather people park there than on the street. As for it being subsidised given how full it is I would have thought it would make a profit. Just not the excessive profits of the likes of Wilson.
+What does excessive profit mean? Wilson is a private company and providing parking in the CBD is not really a public good.
+Wilson’s make a profit only because the owners of the land make a huge loss by renting the land to Wilsons at far below the holding cost. AT lose millions a year by operating parking buildings.
+The building is the perfect location for the much-needed bus terminal. I understand that they’ve looked at the economics of this and it doesn’t stack up. So some decisions are based on economics (which prevent good bus terminals) and others are based on, what, providing a public good of _carparking_??, and don’t need to be justified by economic analysis? That’d be about right.
+Heidi, I believed they looked at converting the lower floors of the carpark to a bus terminal but found it very difficult (low ceiling heights, split levels etc).
+That’s not to say the economics don’t stack up. They could demolish the carpark building and replace it with a fifty story tower, with a bus station, shops, some parking etc. I imagine that would be a very economic proposition.
+It is effectively subsidised given the money the city could make off the site if it wasn’t used for parking. You only need to look at Commercial Bay going in next door to see the opportunity cost.
+As for parking, well we already have more off street parking than the Sydney CBD despite that being four or so times the size. We have more than we need to be honest.
+The downtown parking building has 1,890 car parks in it. At our vehicle occupancy rates that brings in 2,200 commuters a day. So the whole building is supplying less than three train loads of people a day.
+By comparison the city rail link will deliver that every five and a half minutes on opening day. Or to put it another way, the amount of people moving capacity the basic CRL *adds* to the rail network across the two hour peak is equivalent to eleven downtown carpark buildings. And that is before we even start talking about the northern busway, ferries, light rail etc.
+We can afford to repurpose one parking building on prime land in that context!
+That puts it into context well thanks, Nick. And Taka-ite’s quote from an AT employee below (“we (AT) have to provide parking for poor people?” ) shows that resistance to a better use has been due to a fuzzy lack of logic (when, as T-i says, there is no means-testing.)
+I have no problem with car parks or car park buildings, I just object to AT buildings. Invariably these buildings incur losses or make a poor rate of return and as a rate payer I can’t see that it my function to provide “social parking”. Unfortunately AT seems to think that they have such a function. I quote an AT employee who told me that, “we (AT) have to provide parking for poor people?” Absurd. How do they regulate that only poor people use these parks? I have never been asked for a bank statement at the entrance way.
+As someone mentioned, let AT divest the downtown car park as a first step and have a structure that will make better use of the sweeping harbour views. And the funds that are freed up could be used for more useful projects such as a sensible entrance way to the K Road CRL station. Or the Skypath.
+I’m not “anti-car-parking”. What I don’t like is that one of the prime waterfront sites in the CBD is blighted by a large car park that makes getting from Albert/Hobson Street to the waterfront almost impossible. I have parked there over the years as well but you have to admit that it is a pretty poor use of that space.
+I think it is a good use of the space albiet that the pricing should be set for casual use and not all day parking. Its location means easy quick access from entering the city taking cars off the road. It is the main place that tourists (from Auckland, rest of NZ and overseas) park to visit the viaduct etc. Which brings a lot of money into the city.
+But (as Nick says above) we have more off-street parking than Sydney does. Given that parking is one of the very things that keeps people driving, is it so very well located? Certainly if you’re going to the viaduct, it’s really nice to arrive by PT. Sure, the other end of the journey might not be so well connected, but on the flip side, plenty of people who are well-served by PT still drive.
+If there is anywhere in Auckland we can put a stake in the ground and say, “This is a location you can come to by PT only,” it would be here.
+By that logic why are we building cycle lanes to the city? Surely people should be taking PT instead?
+Well-spotted. OK, perhaps the message with the stake should be “This area of the cbd is not suitable for private cars.” If I’m travelling, I don’t expect to be able to drive a car into a city’s cbd. Why should any tourist expect to do so in Auckland?
+Some keys for me would be:
+A well defined route for movement (this is a key cycle and pedestrian route).
+Some trees to provide some shade, and
+A nice place to sit and watch the marina and the harbour!
+Keep it simple.
+Also, it’s more than time that council removed this car park. Good on them for finally doing it.
++1
+put a big swinging Pirate Ship – Rainbow End please!!!!
+sand pit/ ferris wheel, roller coaster, vertical bungie, kelly taltons, piano. .
+I would be interesting to hear others thoughts. It would be great to see it as a space that draws in more families as the playground does but I guess it is relatively small.
+I still want to see the area have one of the world great promenades too up through quay street.
+The biggest problem I can see is that there appears to be little joined up thinking between Panuku and AT,
+Removing the car park, should allow the closure of the quay street “stub” (with only card access and lowerable bollards for marina and service vehicle use )
+This would also allow AT to rethink the Hot mess that is the Quay Street/Hobson’s street/Princes street intersection, \
+But I am not holding my breath…
+Great idea. This is one of the biggest benefits of removing parking -> removing traffic. People should be able to walk across this “stub” without waiting for a signal. Figuring out how taxis circulate will be tricky though.
+Princes Wharf should also be car free (except delivery vehicles). Princes Wharf is such a disappointing part of the waterfront. Way too many cars and no good public space. That would definitely simplify the intersection.
+Isn’t it in private hands? Also, there are internal carparks in there so even if was a public property you wouldn’t be able to shut it off entirely without being sued to death.
+I Vote for a play area with limited stalls. There is not many plays areas for Kids for the people who live in the city.
+Yes, I agree. My 11-year-old says it should have gym equipment. For maximum amenity, they’ll need to think what would be great when it’s windy: kite-flying?
+A play area with a proper carousel and stalls for games, shopping and food?
+I’m keen for an obvious pedestrian/cycle route that is a direct link from the bridge to the Viaduct entrance area. Keep a perimeter promenade with rest areas for boat/people watching. Spaces for a rotating series of pop up vendors in containers or carts – coffee, ice cream, lunch food, etc… Plus more trees.
+CLICK BAIT! I honestly though the title was talking about the awful Cook Wharf Car Park. Got excited for a bit. I was gonna say a Santa Monica Pier sorta amusement park would be good to attack people back to the water.
+Don’t worry POAL have promised to fix that by building a “striking” multi story car park on some other part of the waterfront 🙂
+Santa Monica Pier sorta amusement park would be good to attack people back to the wate
+It would be great to have this as a multipurpose recreation area with a designated lane for cyclists and pedestrians at the waterfront edge to allow for easy commuting.
+I think the CBD really lacks safe and social spaces for young people. Using say 1/3 of this car park space for an inner city skate park would be awesome, and would hopefully draw skating away from Queen street where it’s a nuisance. The rest of the space could be grassed over (not including the commuting lanes) providing a bit of much needed green in the middle of the city. We could put a set of swings in, seating, fruit trees or a community garden. It doesn’t need to be flash, keep it simple and accessible, and people will make it their own.
++1 to all that.
+please don’t make these sentences become the truth by belief – Auckland has trillions of lovely public spaces for young people. I not been to a city with more. “I think the CBD really lacks safe and social spaces for young people. “
+Green. And simple.
+Grass, trees, the odd but of seating. Maybe a childrens playground.
+Largely it should be open, uncluttered and natural, to contrast all the concrete in that area. And replicate the green theme on the Halsey St extension.
+It’s a wharf. Made of Concrete. No place for grass to grow, and nor should there be – high traffic area, lots of people walking, salty atmosphere, grass is a really bad idea out there. Needs to be hard-wearing materials, i.e. timber, steel, concrete, etc. Not dirt and grass seed.
+So what is the purpose of the consultation? Have they already decided what they want to do and they just need to go through a process to do it. Or worse have they actually got no clues about what to do and they are looking for an idea?
+At the least it’ll be nice to walk through there without looking around for cars. Maybe some seats if people want a break in their travels to Wynard?
+This seems a common sense idea. There is adequate parking nearby and this particular park is limited to put it nicely.
+What is surprising is that our beloved council thinks it needs to consult. We pay exorbitant rates so our council can employ experts to design our city. Yet our rudderless ship needs to consult with you and I to decide what to do with public space?
+As an aside I’m being unfairly locked out of contributing to this forum at the moment. I can appreciate that not everyone agrees with my opinions but to have a robust discussion we need a variety of opinions. I’d appreciate your support in my quest to get back on here unmoderated. So if everyone could end their posts in #freeTRM I’d be extremely appreciative.
+#freeTRM
+I’m not an expert but i think you’ll find that consultation is a legal requirement of both the lgaaa and rma, one of which seems likely to b apply in this case. If council hadn’t consulted, then you run risk of appeal. I could be wrong though.
+#moderateTRM
+Only glanced at the comments about male suicide and wish I’d read them more, as young men feeling purposeless is a concern of mine. Given your other comments, it’s not beyond belief that they were unhelpful. Given your occasional gem of a comment, I’d like you to keep commenting but try to do so respectfully.
+#welcomebackandmoderateTRM
+I take your point Stu but there must be a threshold for when consultation is required. Consultation has it’s place, particularly where residents are affected but this is not one such instance. Here we are talking a car park within walking distance of the downtown parking building in an area where residents are almost totally unaffected. It is sub-optimal and cost inefficient to consult given the circumstances.
+#freeTRM
+yeah there probably is a threshold, although such things are always up for legal challenge.
+In terms of your crusade to be freed, the Blog seems to accommodate widely differing points of view — even betweem contributors! The key thing is that comments accord with the user guidelines. Do yours?
+The new design needs to work with the new bridge that is to replace Te Wero bridge. Whether the new bridge will carry a LRT line should be looked at as part of the consultations, as it could potentially line up Quay St and Halsey St. Taking that route means that light rail can be kept away from the new cycle lane that is to go along Market/Customs Streets where everything (LRT, cycles, pedestrians, and roads) would have to converge at the cluster that would be Lower Hobson Street.
+If you want to use Te Wero for LR then you’ll also have to accept it being regularly interrupted to allow boats in and out of the harbour.
+I think the plan is to build a new bridge joining Pakenham Streets up or joining Customs St with Madden St where they could then designate only shorter boats could berth on the inside of it with the taller ones remaining outside.
+Do we know how many private carparks will remain? The statements released make it clear that this is only the removal of public carparks.
+The private carparks will remain on Te Wero Island, so cars will still need access through the area.
+Auckland’s waterfront is a mess; hopefully this helps tidy it up somewhat. As others have noted it’d be great to see the end of the stub off Quay. As for where taxis go — there seems to be enough on-street parking on market street etc for a decent sized rank.
+Copy Toronto’s Canada Square and on the other section of wharf, once that becomes possible to develop, copy Toronto’s Sugar Beach Park.
+Would be happy to submit an entry in a design competition..Maybe Panuku can develop a short brief and let people have a real crack at it in the next few weeks. Seemed to work for the park on Ponsonby Rd.
+Pump track
+A pump track on Queens wharf by the Light House would be cool
+I’m assuming a road and railway track will take up a bit of space as for some reason the plan is to have cars and trains going over a new Te Whero bridge isn’t it? Hopefully that idea has failed to get off the ground.
+No, the plan was never to have cars or trains. There has been talk of a bus route or tram but I think they’ll stick with foot and cycle only.
+It still has to go up right? Seems like a weird place to put a tram in that case
+Yes it is a resource consent requirement that the bridge open on demand for boat traffic and and out of the basin. That’s obviously a big issue for a transit line.
+Great place to have an under cover open air walk through gallery for up coming photography artists to display “My Auckland” themed photos
+I maybe some sitting furniture to watch the boats & socialise etc like this link, need good walk through space maintained though. perhaps some with tables and shelter from summer sun or winter rain, I guess don’t want it too comfortable for people to camp out & live in though or obstruct view.
+You bring up a good point… maybe it should be a camp of tiny houses with a lovely central square for socialising. A visible sign that we’re going to do something about unaffordable housing? 🙂
+, relatives and friends of the deceased. Even Jesus wept with Mary and Martha and the other people who were mourning the death of their brother Lazarus. But Jesus turned their grief into joy when he raised Lazarus from the dead. In the Gospel this afternoon from Luke 8:49-56, Jesus also brought joy to Jairus and his wife by bringing their dead daughter back to life. How we wish the same can be done to raise Bishop Ed from death now so that our tears of sorrow will become tears of joy! But we know that raising the dead back to life cannot be done today. Jesus taught us that the dead will be raised during His 2nd coming. In the meantime, we have prayed the Collect imploring God to accept our prayers on behalf of thy servant Edward who has fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection; and to grant him entry into the heavenly abode of those who through the ages have been found pleasing in your sight.” (BCP 328). So even as we mourn the physical loss of Bishop Ed, we look forward with joyful hope of the resurrection. Meanwhile, we can find solace and inspiration in the life and ministry of Bishop Ed whom God called to serve his flock as a deacon, priest, Seminary teacher and dean, diocesan bishop and then as prime bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines.
+Please allow me to share my reflections on the life and ministry of Bishop Ed based on my personal knowledge and encounters with him. I first came to know Bishop Ed in 1969 I when I enrolled for the 7th grade while he enrolled for the 3rd year here at St. Mary’s School. At that time, Bishop Ed just came back to St. Mary’s to resume his studies which was disrupted when his father died in an accident at the Lepanto Mines. Bishop Ed had to quit after 2nd year high school to help his mother and older brother support the family. From shoe-shine boy in Sagada, he became a gardener at Makellay’s farm in Sinipsip, then a cement-mixer at Itogon Suyoc Mines, and then as a janitor at the Makati Medical Center. After sojourning from one odd-job to another for 4 years, he decided to continue his studies with the prodding of his uncle Frank Longid. So he came back to SMS for his 3rd year in 1969. Because of his athleticism, Fr. Stapleton choose him to play for the SMS basketball team that won championships against teams in Bontoc, Lubuagan and Balbalasang in Kalinga. He was also a member of “Post 11” – a Boy Scout troop organized by Fr. Abellon, who was then the rector here, and who was their Scout Master. Bishop Ed considered his return to SMS as providential because that was where he met and caught the attention of Manang Myrnam who became his bride in 1978.
+I consider myself lucky to have been under the tutelage of Bishop Ed, starting when I enrolled as a freshman at St. Andrew’s Seminary 1976 while he was in fourth year. He was the team captain and star player of the Seminary basketball team and I was privileged to have played in his team. More than anything else, he provided leadership and imbued a winning spirit to our team. He became our coach after he graduated in March 1977, and he became my mentor when I succeeded him as Student Sacristan, a key position of responsibility in the spiritual formation of seminarians. (I still vivid recall his advise, “Brent ilam ta baken paspas ay maamin nan mompo”). During graduation, Bishop Ed also received the Faculty Award for his overall performance in academics, athletics, house work, spiritual formation, and all other aspects of ministry formation in the Seminary. In recognition of his potential as a Seminary faculty member, Bishop Abellon cut short Bishop Ed’s internship in Guinaang, Bontoc, and sent him back to the Seminary for further studies. While studying History at Trinity College, he got married in 1978 and was ordained to the diaconate in 1979 while being an adjunct faculty of the Seminary.
+Our third encounter was when Bishop Ed and I were among the 5 candidates who were ordained together on December 22, 1980 at St. Thomas Church in Dagupan, Tabuk, by Bishop Richard Abellon. Bishop Ed was ordained as a priest while I and 4 others were ordained to the diaconate. After his ordination, Bishop Ed returned to teach at the Seminary while pursuing masteral studies at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. In 1991 after ten years as Seminary Instructor, he went on sabbatical leave to pursue studies in Church History at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in Texas. He finished his Master of Arts in 1993 with his thesis on the Formative Years of the Philippine Episcopal Church, and returned to the Seminary to resume teaching. Sometime in the mid-2000s, his Alma Mater in Texas conferred him the honorary degree of Doctor in Divinity in acknowledgment of his services at the Seminary and the Episcopal Church in the Philippines.
+In 1994, Bishop Ed was nominated for the office of Suffragan Bishop of EDNP. At the same time, he was also being considered for the deanship of St. Andrew’s Theological Seminary to succeed Dean Henry Kiley who resigned. With a deep sense of calling, he decided to withdraw his nomination for Suffragan Bishop and accepted his appointment as the 6th dean of SATS where he served until he was called to be the 4th diocesan bishop of EDNP in 1997.
+When he became our diocesan bishop, he admitted with humility his lack of knowledge and experience in parish work and diocesan administration since he spent his whole ministry teaching at the Seminary. But he made up for his deficiency by being a good listener, keen observer, fast learner, diligent worker and a team player. He translated the principle of basketball teamwork in the Diocesan Office where he worked closely with the diocesan staff whom he called his “reliables” for their competence and dedication to serve. He was keenly aware of his heavy responsibility as diocesan bishop because EDNP at that time was in financial crisis due to the cut in the financial subsidy from the Episcopal Church in the US. Because of the crisis, we had annual budget deficits and our clergy and lay employees did not receive their salaries for as long as 6 months. We implemented cost-cutting measures and some employees were given early retirement. During those times, our Diocesan Employees Credit Coop or DECCO became our lifeline. But these were temporary remedies, so Bishop Ed focused our diocese on the attainment of ECP Vision 2007 with self-reliance, renewal and outreach as the main goals.
+Bp Ed with the Archbishop of Korea
+One great temptation at that time was to use our accumulated diocesan endowment fund for the salaries and benefits of our clergy and lay. But Bishop Ed wisely decided not to spend the endowment fund but to build it up and then invested the bulk of it in the Rural Bank of Paranaque. This move was lambasted and opposed by some members who feared that the church will lose its investment. There was strong pressure on Bishop Ed to withdraw the investment, but Bishop Ed did not give in because he was confident that his decision was based on reliable information which those opposing his decision did not have. In the end, the investment at RBP yielded substantial returns resulting in a balanced diocesan budget. The church fully recovered its investment, proving that the fears of losing the investment were unfounded.
+In 2008 when Bishop Ed was called as Prime Bishop, yours truly inherited a much improved diocese in terms of self-reliance and mission outreach. There were surpluses instead of the annual deficits in our diocesan budget. The number of fullfledge parishes increased from 3 to 9 and 12 congregations became provisional aided parishes. Three of our institutions: St. Mary’s School, St. James High School and St. Theodore’s Hospital were incorporated to broaden their capacity for self-reliance and self-governance. And the Walter Clapp Centrum and Timothy Chaokas Memorial Student Center were built, while St. Joseph Resthouse and the Diocesan Center were upgraded to increase their self-support contributions.
+One highlight of Bishop Ed’s episcopate is the division of EDNP in year 2000. The division resulted in the creation of the new Diocese of Santiago and made EDNP the smallest diocese in terms of geographical coverage but still the biggest in terms of church membership. Bishop Ed believed that the division would accelerate mission expansion and congregational development of both the new diocese and the mother diocese. This vision has been proven by the remarkable growth of both dioceses under ECP Vision 2018 which was ushered in by Prime Bishop Ed in 2008 and was continued by Prime Bishop Rene when Prime Bishop Ed retired in 2014.
+Prime Bishop Ed has left us just as we are preparing to embark on a new ECP Vision 2028 under Prime Bishop Joel. (I think he will be visiting Prime Bishop Joel from time to time.) But while he left us, I believe he will not abandon us. When he left EDNP for Cathedral Heights, he did not abandon us. He was a patient and brutally frank mentor especially when I was just starting in the episcopate. He taught me valuable lessons and offered practical suggestions in pastoral ministration and diocesan administration. He made it a point to attend and participate in our diocesan conventions. He accepted every task that was assigned to him, whether as celebrant, preacher, bible study facilitator, lecturer, or resource person. And he was excellent in all of these tasks. He is known for his well prepared homilies, and he wanted us his clergy to prepare and deliver good sermons. He used to provide us with references and guides on good sermons. ( I believe he will still be observing us to see who is naughty or nice about sermons.) A writer in his own right, he authored “A brief history of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Sagada” and wrote several articles on ECP history. He started editing for publication his MA thesis, “The Philippine Episcopal Church: Its Formative Years”, but this was derailed by illness. The ECP leadership should see to the publication of this book for posterity.
+Bishop Ed maintained his cool and calm demeanor even under pressure or stressful conditions. He demonstrated this demeanor sometime in 2007 when he led us clergy and lay volunteers to try to rebuild St. Peter’s Church which was demolished by government contractors in Sabangan. The situation at the construction site was tense due to the presence of thugs who were trying to prevent the reconstruction. The situation became worse when suddenly a half-naked woman appeared and started dancing in front of the Bishop. She was followed later by a man swinging his samurai sword threatening to hurt anyone who got near him. Bishop Ed who was helping lay out the lumber at the construction site did not panic. He just stayed calm and cool until the tension subsided. Whether he was facing a samurai sword, a tough negotiator, or colon cancer, he was calm and composed.
+Bishop Ed called himself an “outdoor person.” After office hours during his healthy days, Bishop Ed was either in the basketball court or the tennis court. He played great tennis and he won championship trophies in Bontoc and elsewhere.
+He also loved to dirty his hands in his garden, orchard, field, fishpond. When he was in Manila, he would drive home to say hello to his plants. He used to bring oranges from his orchard for the staff at the diocesan office. Bishop Ed is a rare breed of an all around athlete who excelled in all sports that he engaged in including basketball, volleyball, softball, and lawn tennis.
+Bishop Ed was also a cowboy at heart. He bought a cowboy hat and a pair of cowboy boots in Texas, and one of his favorite songs was “God must be a Cowboy”.(?) He also used to ride his horse above Lake Danum, but later passed on his horse to clergy in the Sunnyside area who he felt needed it more for their outstation visits.
+And he was the only yodeler in town. In many community occasions, he was in demand to render his favorite yodel song, Chime Bells Are Ringing to the delight of the audience (but which did not impress his children anymore because they heard it more than a thousand times!)
+Now we will all be missing this yodeler, cowboy, farmer, athlete, writer, bishop, priest, pastor, counselor, preacher, teacher, mentor, father, grandfather, and much more! Such was the life and ministry of Bishop Ed. A life worth emulating for its dedication to Christian service. It is the life of a man who has “fought the good fight, finished the race, and have kept the faith.” 2Timothy 4:7.
+Let me end with these comforting words from 1 Peter 1:3.”
+May our brother Bishop Ed in the company of all the saints, rest in peace and rise in glory! In Jesus’ name. Amen!
+Rt. Rev. Brent Harry W. Alawas
+Diocesan Bishop, EDNP
+Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Sagada
+May 4, 2018
+Edward P. Malecdan
+February 7, 1949 – April 28, 2018
+Born Feb. 7, 1949 in Sagada, Mountain Province, he was left fatherless in high school and dropped out of school to help his mother support the family. He spent about five years in laboring jobs, the last of which was as janitor in the Makati Medical Center in Manila. Here, he met a fellow Sagadan, Mr. Frank Longid, who encouraged him to return to school. So in 1969, he went back and enrolled in 9th grade at St. Mary’s School, run by the Episcopal Church of the Philippines. He is remembered at school for his athleticism and as valedictorian of his graduating class in 1971. In 1979, he married his high school sweetheart, Myrnam Wangdali.
+He completed his seminary training in 1977 and was assigned as an intern at St. Michael’s Mission, Guina-ang, Bontoc. Although his career path led him away from parish ministry, he always retained warm memories of the people of Guina-ang and what they taught him about serving the Church.
+He was ordained as a Deacon in 1979, and as a Priest in 1980, and returned to St. Andrew’s Seminary where he served as instructor from 1980 – 1990. During this time, he also completed Bachelors’ and Masters’ degrees in History at the University of the Philippines at Diliman.
+He was sent to the USA for further studies in 1991, where he completed a Master of Arts degree in 1993. His thesis there was titled: The Philippine Episcopal Church: Its Formative Years. After his return to St. Andrews in 1994, he was appointed Dean of the Seminary (only its second Filipino Dean). He served as Dean for three years until 1997, when he was called as 4th Diocesan Bishop of EDNP.
+He served as Diocesan Bishop from December 1997 until February 2009, when he was installed as the 4th Prime Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the Philippines. He retired as Prime Bishop in 2014 and taught for three more years as Professor at St. Andrews.
+During his eleven years as Diocesan Bishop, he oversaw the transition from dependency on outside funding to full financial autonomy and self-support. He encouraged congregations throughout the Diocese to aspire to full-fledged parish status, and improved infrastructure for better use of investments and properties. He left the endowment fund stronger than he found it, and consolidated the position of the schools and hospital run by the Diocese.
+He encouraged and mentored the clergy in their service to their flocks and was especially concerned about well-prepared sermons. His own sermons were famous for their clarity, soundness and inspirational value.
+“I have fought the good fight, run and finished the race, and kept the faith.” (2Timothy 4:7).
+Stop the presses! The Loopy Laces socks are complete!
+Since Sheri told me she loves this pattern, I think it is safe to say that it will be available for sale from The Loopy Ewe as soon as I get the pattern finalized. 😉
+And thank you for all your positive comments about the pattern. I do really love how it looks knitted up in this yarn.
+To recap, it’s Misty Mountain Farm Jubilee sock yarn in the Apple Rose colorway. My socks are knitted on 2mm needles.
+Marianne Y. asked:
+I will be interested to know how much yarn you will have leftover when you have finished both socks? I’m wondering if someone with a larger foot, say size 10, would need to buy two skeins to knit your beautiful pattern?
+Here’s a pic of the leftovers from my pair:
+I made my socks for a size 8.5 foot, and I had 22 grams of yarn leftover from my one skein, so you should have enough. I made the tops pretty tall on these, too. Remember, these socks are knit toe up — you can knit ’til you run out of yarn. do try lots of different sock yarns. 🙂
+Some of them I read about on other blogs, and then go order a skein to try out myself. Some I stumble upon on Etsy. But the majority I buy from The Loopy Ewe because Sheri always has an impressive collection of sock yarns from a lot of different indie dyers.
+By the way, the other day Jen left the following comment:
+I have a pdf document in the sidebar of my blog that shows how to convert a dpns pattern to magic loop, and it’s not a stretch to use that info to make it work on two circs. There’s also one that shows how to work a gusset for a heel flap on magic loop, which again can be converted to two-circs.
+So if you’re a dpn user who needs some help converting to a different method, check out Jen’s blog. Thanks, Jen!
+Thanks for all your good wishes about my health. The cortisone shots last week were my second go-round with cortisone and sadly they have had no effect yet. I’m still moving sorta like Quasimodo, dragging one foot along as I walk. Every time I go to the doctor he sort of mutters something about “surgery may be the only solution” but we live in hope that eventually the non-surgical alternatives will do the trick.
+Here’s Lucy being nonchalant.
+Do not be fooled — here she is moments earlier, doing her “I’m-so-happy-Momma’s-home” wiggle-dance.
+She’s a blur, baby!
+Yikes! I’m keeping my fingers crossed for non-surgical options to work for you too!
+Love the look of the socks, by the way!
+No one really understands how devastating back pain can be until they experience it themselves. All I know for certain, is that you have the best homeopathic cure available – your lovely Lucy! When she’s all wiggly and silly like that, you have to forget your pain, if just for a moment! Petting (you) and purring (Lucy) is very soothing, too, remember. Good luck with your back. I’m hoping you find relief soon!
+I hope that, whichever solution you need, that you’ll not have to wait too long for relief. Pain is a horrible thing, and if it’s surgery you need, don’t fear the surgery pain. It’s better than feeling as you are. Big hugs and good wishes!
+The socks look great!
+I just wanted to let you know that both my grandfather (several years ago) and my FIL (last autumn) had to have rather extensive back surgery. In fact they found that my FIL was missing part of a vertebra (it never had shown up as missing in several MRIs and x-rays). Anyway, they were both very glad that they had had the surgery, wished they’d agreed to it sooner, etc. My grandmother, who is 96, had her knee replaced at the age of 90 with a similar outcome. I think the doctors have become much better at orthopedic surgery with much better outcomes than possible 15-20 years ago. Also, my FIL was completely off pain meds within 3 DAYS of the back surgery. He had been unable to stand for more than 2 minutes while on heavy meds before the surgery. It was amazing.
+I hope your doctors can help you soon!
+Chalk me up as another who hopes that your meds do the trick!
+The Loopy Laces are gorgeous and I do love that colorway.
+Ahh, do you just love kitty wriggling? What a delightful way to be greeted at the end of the day!
+Just need to add my two cents about back surgery. They now have replacement discs for the lower and upper spine. I have a teacher friend who had a neck disc replaced and recovered very quickly. We live near New Haven so we can go to Yale. I have heard they are doing these replacements in other parts of the country. Maybe an option and the pain does go away almost at once. Good Health
+Oooo- more sock lust! Wow- that yarn, that pattern- gorgeous socks.
+Gotta love the wiggle dance! That’s a delight.
+Best wishes for a good recovery.
+Gorgeous socks! I can’t wait for your patterns to be available!
+Me convert to a method other than dpns?
+You should see me doing the Lucy Wiggle Dance in laughter now! 😉
+Beautiful loopy socks! Not to mention your gorgeous wiggle-worm kitty kat!
+Lucy looks even softer and fluffier in motion! She’s a sweetie.
+Is your back problem something that maybe a chiropractor could help? I’ve used one that uses the Gonstead method.
+Hope you feel better soon.
+Penny
+My sister is having problems with her back too. You know, if your leg hurts, you can kinda avoid walking on it, and if your arm hurts, you can put it in a sling. But you can’t really get away from back pain. 🙁
+Sending pain-easing thoughts your way. Pain sucks.
+I’ll sign up for that sock pattern as soon as you write it up. Is Sheri doing .pdf downloads? Hope so. Nothing like instant gratification.
+Fingers seriously crossed for your back. We HATES operations, particularly back operations.
+And THANK YOU for my package! You made my day. I’m going to start knitting again tonight. Too bad you took Lucy back out of the package.
+Keep knitting, fast and furious. Only a few more pairs and you will meet my guess.
+The socks look great. I never had any doubt that you would be selling that pattern through the loopy ewe.
+It sucks that the cortizone shots haven’t done anything. Hopefully there is something more that they can do before they go the surgical route. I guess physical therapy won’t help.
+Love seeing the wiggle-dance. My late kitty would do that same dance for me – except she was three-legged for the last 8 years of her life (she died at 17). The socks are neat – love them – Loopy Ewe may get a bundle from me in pattern purchases.
+Hope the back/leg problem can be treated without surgery. Some problems may be helped by chiropractics but others cannot – either way it’s your decision to make. I will say my ruptured disc was helped greatly by a chiropractor – and I was NOT a believer the first time I was dragged, kicking and screaming, into the office.
+Sending healing thoughts your way!
+When I grow up, I want to be able to knit socks as fast as you do. Or maybe wiggle as crazy as Lucy does. i can’t decide.
+So sorry about your back. Been there for years, but my surgery helped. Not back, but hip replacement, seems to have taken some of the strain off the back, and I’m having much less trouble these days.
+Lucy makes me yearn for a kitty. One day soon.
+That yarn and pattern really do make a beautiful combination. I’ll look for that yarn next time I browse Loopy. Maybe I can fit another skein or two in my sock yarn drawer.
+If you do need to go with surgery, at least back surgery has progressed dramatically in the last couple of decades. And the risks, though very scarey, happen rarely. Best of luck with whatever you decide to do and I hope you find some relief in the meantime.
+I’ve loved all your socks this summer, but I think these might just be my favorite. They look lover-ly! And fingers crossed that pain vanishes SOON.
+Will all of you daily Wendy Knits stalkers stop buying up all the yarn she shows before I get a chance to buy some! I’m always too late!!! AUGH!
+Great socks Wendy. I’m just finishing up a pair of double eyelet ribs and I love them! I’ll be buying all your patterns as soon as they are available. Hopefully the patterns will be downloadable. With my luck, if they were paper patterns, there might be a shortage on paper and I’ll miss out on the patterns too! 🙂
+Take care and hope you are feeling better.
+Wishing you the best. Sorry about the cortisone shots not working.
+When your pattern is for sale, will you give the instructions for a small foot too? I’m thinking about size 6. Please. . . . I can’t follow patterns very often because of my small foot. The length is never the problem, it’s always the circumference. 🙁
+I’m thinking good thoughts, and hoping surgery will not be necessary! The Loopy Laces are beautiful–so glad you can still knit through the pain.
+Lucy’s wiggle dance is so cute. Eat your heart out Dancing With The Stars!
+Love those socks! Going to get that pattern! As for the Epidurals, bummer they aren’t working as well. Sometimes our patients needed the set of 3 our docs do. Hoping you won’t have to have surgery! Take care!
+Sorry about all the back trauma. My girlfriend went throught similar problems last year and fought surgery with all she had. She finally gave up and had the surgery and has been fine (backwise) ever since. Unfortunately, taking all the time to decide on back surgery caused knee problems from the walking around funny.
+My advise – take two Lucy paws and pet her in the morning!
+Love the socks–which ones? All of ’em! A Wendy Knits Socks book would be wonderful.
+So sorry to hear about the back pain. I’ve been dealing with hip pain and had a cortisone injection a few weeks ago. It took about two full weeks before the pain subsided. Maybe you just need a little more time?? I hope something helps soon.
+Sorry to hear about your back…and weren’t you just the wisest to not reveal what physical challenge you were having…as you predicted, we each have a story to tell. Me, too. I had back surgery when I was about 45 after excruciating lower back pain. Got along well until the last five years or so…stenosis and hip issues following bilateral knee replacement. I’ll get up nerve to have another surgery, if you will. They don’t even have to make the big incisions like they did back in the day…recovery time is minimal, they say. Shall we?
+Mine is bad enough now that I have to use a walker to walk any distance…that’s terrible, don’t you think? I’m only 76 – well, pusing 77 pretty hard. But still…feel very young from the neck up. Maybe I’ll try acupuncture first.
+Hugs,
+Joan
+I love all your patterns; however, they are too wide for my small, very narrow foot (6 AAA). How can I convert the patterns to make the socks more narrow? Maybe you can also include a smaller size in your instructions. Thanks, Nat
+I know you wanted to avoid a deluge of well-intentioned suggestions on your health but I have to encourage you to look into accupuncture before surgery. I’ve had chronic health problems for 12 years and after 6 months of accupuncture, I have a whole new lease on life.
+First, those socks are beautiful. You are inspiring me to learn how to knit socks toe up.
+Second, I don’t know your specific back issues, but my father just went through a Lamanectomy for his lower back problems. The surgery was a complete success, and with physical therapy, he is gaining strength every day. I am personally not a fan of cortisone shots, as I have had them for my wrist; my mother has had them for heel spurs, and my sister has had them for Carpel Tunnel – they didn’t do a thing for any of us.
+Surgery is always a last option, but technology has come a long way, especially with regards to back surgery. I hope you don’t have to do it, but don’t rule it out.
+Good luck!
+Wendy,
+The latest sock is gorgeous. As we say in south, I’m tickled pink that you’re publishing your sock patterns at The Loopy Ewe. I’m looking forward to trying a few since I’ve already done the toe-up freebies and the patterns from your book.
+All my prayers regarding your back. My husband has also had very successful back surgery – he wishes he hadn’t waited as long as the docs told him to.
+Carol in Prince George, VA
+Thought I’d “de-lurk” to tell you that I love those new socks. And I lurrvve the “mama’s home happy dance”! My cats (three adult cats plus our foster kitty) do that when I get home. I have to laugh when I think about how the older ones act so dignified most of the time 🙂
+Thanks for sharing your sock knowledge! I’ve learned so much over the “Summer of Sock” and am almost finished with my first real sock!
+Sarah
+Hi Wendy, I am also “de-lurking” ;> to send good wishes and vibes your way. This back thing is just terrible, and I hope you get some relief. On another note, you just passed my guess of number of socks you’d knit this Summer…you go girl!
+I’ll keep fingers (and toes) crossed that something works soon so you don’t have to consider surgery!
+Lovely socks…
+Lovelier wiggle dance, Lucy!
+(((hugs)))
+You have an amazing knack for combining textury patterns with hand-dyed yarn and your sock patterns are so much fun to knit, too. I hope the “surgery” word doesn’t come up anytime soon. I’m optimistic for your other strategies and am thrilled with the consistent care you are receiving now.
+Wendy, those are the prettiest socks yet! I will definitely be ordering that pattern when it becomes available.
+Best of luck about your back. That kind of pain is no fun at all. I’m crossing my fingers for you.
+I’ve had a cortisone for my DeQuerviens Tendinitis and I know how bad they can hurt. I hope you don’t have to have surgery but sometimes it’s the best thing to do. Then you can get on with your life.
+I know you don’t want horror stories, and this isn’t one! I had a ruptured disc, a whole piece was pinched off, horrible pain for months, foot drop, numbness – had the disc removed (laminectomy), never even used the pain meds in the hospital because I simply didn’t hurt anymore. It was very easy, and very successful, and the docs are getting really good at this kind of stuff – so if it comes to that, I’m a great example for you.
+I am stunned at your sock knitting rate. I’ve been working on a pair of socks for months, I swear I get slower all the time. I blame single-motherhood/making a living.
+Your latest socks are just beautiful-I’m working on a pair of MONKEYS-trying to push myself out of basic sock knitting. You are inspiring me to try some more difficult patterns-now the very hard part will be deciding which Wendy pattern to use!
+Sending postive prayers and healing thoughts your way-
+Another beautiful pair of socks and another great design! 🙂
+Keeping my fingers crossed for you that surgery will not be necessary. I can’t even imagine cortisone shots like that…
+I think the KOARC needs to document Lucy’s wiggle dance so her adoring fans can see just how cute it is.
+I hate cortisone shots. The needles are HUGE. I had a broken bone in my foot (admittedly not as scary as when you’re dealing with spines — spines are a BIG deal) and the doctor told me we needed to “watch it.” I asked him why? As in, do you think it’s going to do something interesting?
+He scheduled the surgery. Surgery is scary, but the absence of pain/ability to function is good. I have had a mastectomy and breast reconstruction, along with a hysterectomy — so I have had a couple.
+I wish we could talk about about our spine issues and the epidural I had 2.5 months ago. My problem is spinal stenosis, which was diagnosed 2.5 years ago. I’m just over in Potomac. lynnem6 at verizon dot net
+BTW, this last sock pattern is my favorite so far.
+Sure, I love the knitting content on your blog. But I have a confession to make: I often scroll down to see Lucy’s antics first and THEN scroll up to see the knitterly goodness.
+I love your Loopy Laces socks & pattern! They are gorgeous!
+Thank you for answering my question on how much yarn you had left over. That looks like plenty to me. 🙂
+A friend of a friend–and she is also a customer at my yarn shop–had back surgery and regrets not doing it sooner. She couldn’t believe how much better she felt. Like normal! Hang in there. Mine is killing me today but I think kid stress threw me over the edge.
+I love those socks, and will buy the pattern as soon as I see it on TLE.
+Made in New York: An Interview with Amy Heckerling
+When director Amy Heckerling visited Criterion earlier this week, I was immediately reminded of Helena’s description of Hermia in a A Midsummer Night’s Dream: “Though she be but little, she is fierce.” Possessed of an acerbic wit, a frank, no-nonsense attitude, and an accent that gives away her New York upbringing, Heckerling has a strong, unwavering personality. Over the past three decades, she’s put that personality to use to create some of the most enduring movie characters in modern American cinema—from Clueless’s Beverly Hills heroine Cher Horowitz to Fast Times at Ridgemont High’s beach burnout Spicoli. Throughout the eighties and nineties, Heckerling helped to revitalize mainstream comedy and created full (and linguistically authentic) portraits of teenage life that made her into something of a generational icon.
+Beginning on Saturday, New York’s Metrograph theater will host a two-day retrospective of Heckerling’s work. And, thinking it might be a nice occasion to ask her in for a visit, we invited Heckerling to sit down for a conversation with me and a few of my colleagues in various departments, for whom her films have served as personal touchstones. We talked about her days as a struggling filmmaker, the allure and disappointment of moving to the West Coast, and her love for old-Hollywood actors.
+Your films often delve into the adolescent time of life. Did growing up in the Bronx and going to school in Manhattan shape your interest in capturing the high school experience?
+My particular high school years aren’t like anything you see in my movies. I went to the High School of Art and Design. I schlepped in every day on the subway and the bus, so I would go there, and half the day was photography, and I would be begging people to borrow photo paper because it was so expensive. Then I would go to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, where I was a filing clerk, then I’d schlep my ass home and be really exhausted and try to do the homework that I had. I felt like I was a middle-aged person, and I didn’t feel like I had any expendable income for a record or to go to a concert until I was in my late twenties.
+I was also no longer a teenager when punk stuff started happening, and it was like, oh, I like this shit. I felt like I didn’t relate to what was from my particular time period. I’ve always felt like, you look at what’s around from different periods and go, it must have been fun in the twenties when they first started having cars and then that was a place you could go to make out with people, because there was no place before that—you were on your front porch with your parents sticking their heads out.
+Your work is so culturally ingrained that everyone at this table has stories of formative experiences with your films. Are there films—or people—who are like that for you?
+When I was real little, like in-a-playpen little, what I responded to was James Cagney and Speedy Alka-Seltzer. They were these energetic, crazed characters—and I liked the hat too. From the time I was little I thought James Cagney was like a cartoon character, like Bugs Bunny, and then I realized these were stories and he was an actor. And actually, there’s another way he’s tied into my life, and this is all before I started kindergarten. I was watching Angels with Dirty Faces, and he was about to go to the electric chair, and I was freaking out, I didn’t know what was going on, but I knew it was something bad. And so I started running around the house screaming, and my mother tells me, “Yes, he died,” and this is before I knew what that was. She said it was like going to sleep, and I was really upset, but then she said, “In movies, you don’t really die.” So I thought, movies, fuck, that sounds good. I thought, he’ll magically always be alive.
+I love the musicals, I love the gangster films, I love him doing anything; I just love his spirit. Then when you’re older and start to know about movies, you realize that what he’s doing was amazing, and then you learn about all the foreign films, and you’re chasing them down and reading all the subtitles and learning all the directors, but part of you just wants to go back and see The Roaring Twenties again. And whatever stage I’m at, he still makes sense, and that’s kind of nice: to have something you liked when you were little that never stops working.
+What was it like living in New York after you graduated from NYU and were first starting out?
+Well, there was a guy ahead of me, a year older, his name was Marty Brest. He made Scent of a Woman, Midnight Run, Beverly Hills Cop . . . I was crazy about him. Before he left to go to AFI we sort of got involved for like a minute, and then he was gone. We were both from the Bronx, so we lived a few blocks from each other. And anything he did, I knew was the right thing to do, like to go to AFI, because I didn’t think I would show my NYU films and people would go, “Wow, what movie do you want to do next?” That I knew would not happen. Even though I won the NYU festival, it was this goofy little movie. So, I said, I need something slicker to show.
+The world now is an entirely different place, because you could have something really raw, and if you get enough hits, Hollywood will want to buy that popularity, and if it doesn’t work, fuck you. But back then, you worked your ass off to have this thing to present to them. And I knew that I needed something that would show more professionalism. So I applied to AFI, and I got in, and I was really happy because I was going to go to California, but I didn’t know what the hell that meant. I used to see on the back of every movie I liked, “Made in Hollywood”—but I didn’t know Hollywood was in Los Angeles, and there are studios, and they’re in the valley, and there are palm trees, and it’s always going to be hot. I didn’t have a driver’s license; I failed the driver’s test five times. I was not comfortable.
+In New York, from the time you’re thirteen, you have a subway pass, you’re going anywhere in the world you want. You can go to the Financial District, to museums, to whatever gallery, anything all over the city. You could do it, and you felt like you were a grown-up, and you had the ability to get around. Then you go to L.A., and it’s like, “Can you drop me . . . ?” “Are you going to AFI today . . . ?” Suddenly you go from being a thirteen-year-old grown-up to a twenty-year-old child. So that sucked.
+For the first one that won the NYU festival and some others, we weren’t allowed to do sync sound, so I thought, okay, I’ll make a silent movie but the people will be acting like now. So me and this other guy made this film, where he’s a film student and sees this gamin on the streets, like [Paulette Goddard] from Modern Times, and he decides he’s going to make a film with her. It was stupid but had montages, and he had the brilliant idea to take “The 59th Street Bridge Song” by Simon and Garfunkel and do this film that illustrates every single line in it literally and how that gets messed up. And then I did another film the next year when NYU was going broke. So I decided I’d do a movie about NYU going broke, but it would be like a Mickey Rooney movie, where the kids save the school. So it was like post-hippy slobs acting like they’re in a Mickey Rooney movie and breaking into song.
+Is there any way to see these?
+Well, with the first one, the guy got mad at me because we made this movie together, but I wouldn’t go out with him. After they showed it at the festival, he went up to the projection room and got the only print, and he would never let me have it. When I would write letters to him, he would say things like, “You know, if you’re cute and you’re pushy, people say you’re a go-getter, and if you’re ugly and you’re pushy, they think you’re obnoxious and aggressive, so you’ll make it and I won’t”—because he was hideously ugly. And then he died (I don’t know of what), and I got a detective and reached out to his father, and apparently there was a garage full of his crap that the father just threw away.
+In spite of your frustrations with it, did Los Angeles ever feel like home?
+I hate the beach, I hate the sun, I hate the wind, I hate the Santa Anas.
+So where did Clueless come from—why those people at that moment in time?
+I was feeling very depressed, which is how most stories start. And I was going, “Now what?” I mean, I had sort of been forced into doing a sequel to Look Who’s Talking for legal reasons, and it was just like, the story is over. That was not a fun experience, and I was going, “So, is that it? I did this teen thing a million years ago and that’s the highlight of my life? Is it all downhill from here—and why am I even existing?” You know how you get. And then I thought, What do you like, what makes you happy, what kind of stories do you like, what kind of characters do you like? So I was thinking, I like people that, for some reason, are extremely optimistic; they totally mystify me.
+There was this book I read a long time ago, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes—not the movie—where the character, it didn’t occur to her that she wasn’t smart or that things wouldn’t work out or that men wouldn’t all do what she wanted. And she had a sort of intelligence that made her be able to get everything that she needed in a way that I didn’t understand. Like, if you’re meeting with a guy and you want him to like you, that you’d have flowers delivered to yourself. Who would think of that? I would never in a million years. There are tricks that you play that work, and that amazed me, that kind of intelligence. I was also thinking about Ed Wood and the idea that he went out and did all this creative stuff, and he stunk, but it didn’t occur to him that it wasn’t good, because he was enjoying it so much. And who says that he’s wrong and other people are right? We all live in our own heads, and if I go out and go, “Gee, I look great today,” who’s to say I don’t? I have the choice. I can see things one way or another. So I said, “What if you just went around seeing things the other way?” This psychologist [Martin Seligman] wrote this book called Learned Optimism, where you can take a rat and give it a reward and it’s happy, it knows how to get what it wants. You sometimes give it a reward and sometimes don’t, and it goes crazy trying all the time. If you give it a reward sometimes and a shock sometimes, it just doesn’t know, the world doesn’t make no sense. So these are behaviors that can be learned, but how do you do it to yourself when you know you’re doing it?
+Also, a world full of optimists wouldn’t be a good idea, because what if we all went, “Ha, global warming—it will be fine!” We need pessimists. You can’t just say, “Oh, here’s this thing I made, it’s great,” although a lot of people that are creative have that. They go, “I’m doing this and I’m doing that!” and they think everything they do is great. And then there are the people that say, you know, this has been done before and here’s all the ways it could stink. Then you can’t write one word without thinking how bad it could be based on how people could react, how other ways have fallen flat. If you’re Roberto Benigni, and you want to write Life Is Beautiful, and you go, “I’m writing a positive comedy that takes place in a concentration camp”—what if he’d said, “What about Jerry Lewis’s film [The Day the Clown Cried]?” Then he wouldn’t have written a word—and meanwhile he gets an Oscar. So part of you has to shut off the evil voices in your head.
+Are you able to do that?
+It’s very, very hard. I’m a night person and I can only do things at four, five in the morning when I feel like what I call the “terrorist chatter” is quiet, when I feel like the world is shut up.
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+Is ClickFunnels a scam? Is ClickFunnels legit?
+No, ClickFunnels is not a scam. ClickFunnels is most definitely the real deal.
+You need some kind of software program to get your offer before potential consumers. ClickFunnels is NOT a scam. The software is completely legit, which is why they give you 2 weeks to test it out.
+It’s a fantastic software with an impressive affiliate opportunity.
+Some people may be put off because they see many people advertising ClickFunnels and afterwards figure it’s over-hyped. However it’s not because it solves a common issue for marketers which is, “Exactly how do I develop a sales funnel?”
+Do not just take it from me. If you take a look at the 2 Comma Club page, you can see all the people who have actually made use of ClickFunnels to make 1 million bucks in sales extra! It’s an extremely remarkable list.
+What is ClickFunnels made use of for?
+Besides producing standard sales funnels, there are several methods marketing experts are utilizing ClickFunnels today in their business.
+It’s wonderful for developing optin funnels to aid you produce more leads as well as construct your email list.
+You can develop webinar funnels to aid you grow your brand and offer your product or services.
+And you can use it to develop membership websites where you can gate your premium web content to make sure that it’s accessible just to clients.
+Do they have an affiliate program?
+ClickFunnels has among the very best affiliate programs around. They pay recurring income for every active ClickFunnels individual you refer and you can win awesome rewards like helping make payments towards your very own dream car if you reach a specific number of recommendations each month.
+They also have a 2-tier affiliate program for referring people to the ClickFunnels affiliate program. You can gain 5% commissions on all sales that individuals who sign up under you make.
+As well as you do not have to simply promote ClickFunnels itself. You can gain 40% payments by marketing DotCom Secrets, Expert Secrets or perhaps the Software Secrets books. This gets your referrals right into their very own particular funnels as well as you’ll earn payments on all the upsells as well.
+Part 6: ClickFunnels versus the competitors
+There are a few ClickFunnels options around that share a few of the same capabilities as ClickFunnels.
+ClickFunnels vs LeadPages
+Today, LeadPages is one of the market leaders in the landing page builder space and it’s a popular tool in its own right.
+It additionally just recently added the capacity to offer products straight on their web pages with its brand-new Checkout widget
+Each product includes a huge choice of wonderful looking design templates. Both have drag and drop editors that make it simple for you to produce the styles you want. And both integrate with all the popular email provider.
+Nevertheless, Leadpages is extra restricted in range than ClickFunnels. You use it to create landing pages that will certainly assist you collect leads. This is not a poor thing since LeadPages actually radiates for making landing pages quick.
+Now, among the most effective methods for expanding your e-mail list is by utilizing web content upgrades. By developing targeted lead magnets to your most popular posts you can obtain opt-in conversion rates that much exceed your common pop-up.
+LeadPages is the best service for implementing this technique with its LeadBoxes, 2 step opt-ins, and automatic lead magnet distribution which is why they are the most prominent popup you will certainly see today.
+So if you are largely concentrated on lead generation, I would most definitely suggest checking out LeadPages.
+However, if you are marketing a product or service, then ClickFunnels is the guaranteed choice. While it features a higher learning curve than Leadpages, when you grasp the tool, you can really explode your sales once you start producing sales funnels for each and every strictly content based site, then WordPress must be your go-to web content management system, as well complete suite of options for any type of niche site builder, which you ought to consider it if you are thinking that you are going to start contracting out some of your work. If you are running an Amazon FBA business, having a ClickFunnels membership may be worth taking into consideration; especially if you run paid web traffic to your items on your own ecommerce website.
+If you market any kind of sort of product both physical and also digital (software, membership website, etc) then ClickFunnels is worth having a look for it’s advanced selling features.
+ClickFunnels Pros
+- Best software application for producing advertising and marketing and sales funnels
+- Editor balances ease of use (drag and drop editor) with flexibility
+- Integrates with all major email and alsopayment providers (Stripe, Aweber, Convertkit, etc).
+- Integrating with e-mail companies likewise permits full marketing automation.
+- Attractive looking templates for every single type of funnel.
+- Membership location functionality.
+- Can be made use of to offer physical or electronic products.
+- Conversion monitoring statistics so you can contrast which funnel converts the best.
+- Wonderful training videos and also ongoing once a week webinars.
+- Software application continues to get better after every update.
+- Conveniently share any kind of funnels you make and instantly make affiliate compensations.
+- 2-tier affiliate program.
+- Totally free domain with SSL installed.
+- Can be integrated right into personalized domains/Wordpress websites.
+- 14-day free test.
+ClickFunnels Cons.
+- Limits on the number of funnels, web pages, and site visitors with the standard plan.
+- Lots of things to find out, steep learning curve.
+- Split testing is rather standard.
+- When ClickFunnels goes down, so do your landing web pages.
+- URLs can be funky if you aren’t making use of a custom-made domain name.
+- Support is top notch yet can take a few hrs to respond.
+Should I Purchase ClickFunnels?
+So the answer to this question truly falls into what kind of internet marketing expert you are.
+Amateur Website Builder: No, you don’t require the software program. Concentrate on discovering WordPress basics, and also find out exactly how to build an internet site from square one that obtains plenty of organic web traffic from Google. as soon as you have actually grasped the art of organic web traffic, you can start experimenting with deals to your target market, and after that it’s feasible you might find the software to be rewarding.
+Intermediate Site Builder: Have some traffic? Perhaps making some money on the internet ClickFunnels might be worth it. If you are making $1,000 each month online from affiliate revenue, there’s enough there to possibly warrant the 97/mo. cost to examine out some different offers to your audience. You likewise possibly have the capability to configure some type of membership funnel or group for your target market, and also probably bill a fee to do so. There are lots of usages for it, but now it’s a judgment call. If you already have an extremely specific offer or concept in mind to check with your target market, it’s certainly worth it.
+Advanced Website Builder: Yep, it’s worth the expense. If you are making greater than $2,000 each month, you are a sophisticated online marketer. That’s $24,000 annually gross, which means you are officially an advanced Site builder. You can afford ClickFunnels, and it will certainly be useful to you if you are constructing a product or providing a solution.
+Small Company Owner/Coach/Consultant: If you remain in this bucke and you do not yet have a ClickFunnels account, you are missing out. If you are a small company owner, then any type of advertising and marketing you would love to do on your own will need a landing page to be built for special deals. ClickFunnels gives you adaptability as well as you don’t also require an internet site to launch it from. Lots of people that have their own local business do have a site nowadays, yet also if you don’t– ClickFunnels doesn’t need you to really have a site to make use of the software program. You can utilize the default Links (they look a little unpleasant) or use your own customized domain name as well detailed blog post regarding how to do it right here.
+Q: Can you make use of ClickFunnels for Dentists?
+A: Absolutely. All various kinds of local business owners can think of solid sales funnels that can be utilized on various other advertising and marketing systems to generate leads for their services. ClickFunnels is prominent with Real estate agents, Restaurant proprietors, Photographers, eCommerce store owners, Insurance policy Representatives as well as many more markets.
+Q: Can you utilize ClickFunnels with WordPress?
+A: Yes. As long as you download and install as well as set up the ClickFunnels plugin on your website, it’s rather very easy to arrangement and obtain the software application relocating.
+Q: Can I utilize ClickFunnels for Amazon.com Products?
+A: Yes! ClickFunnels can be utilized for FBA items then you can self fulfill them on the FBA side. This removes the Amazon referral charge they take as a part of each sale.
+Q: ClickFunnels vs. Thrive Architect: Which is much better?
+A: This is an extremely personal preference. Thrive Architect may be better for building affiliate product related pages. Exact same with Elementor. Either page builder is fantastic for that. However particularly for product or service associated landing pages, it’s basically difficult to defeat ClickFunnels.
+Q: Does ClickFunnels integrate with ActiveCampaign, Convertkit or Infusionsoft?
+A: Yep, you can absolutely integrate most bigger e-mail administration solutions when developing out your sales funnels. It’s all linked on the back end, as well as you can manage it with tags based upon your email provider. You can segment your audiences as necessary with various e-mail series, much like you can if you collect email addresses on a WordPress based website.
+Q: If I can only make use of one, should I make use of ClickFunnels or WordPress?
+A: The only time it is suggested to use ClickFunnels over WordPress would certainly be for small businesses, instructors or specialists. You can purchase the ClickFunnels software and afterwards simply construct your entire website right in the database. Remember that if you want to switch to WordPress later for a self hosted solution, you will certainly be starting virtually from square one once more. Everybody else must use WordPress as your content management software, and also add ClickFunnels strictly for landing page build outs as you go.
+Q: How can I terminate my Clickfunnels subscription?
+A: This is done right in the back end interface. There are instructions on just how to do this right here.
+Q: Can Clickfunnels replace Infusionsoft?
+A: Sadly these SaaS companies focus on 2 different {things. ClickFunnels is an excellent remedy to replace Infusionsoft if you are really feeling the demand to move on to a new company.
+Q: Can you configure Webinars in Clickfunnels?
+A: While you can not configure actual webinars, you can setup the funnels to obtain enrollments. It’s not webinar software program. However you can use it as your optin provider for your webinar, as well as you can construct out customized landing web pages to host evergreen webinar replays for your target market.
+Q: Can I make use of Clickfunnels for a subscription site?
+A: You can definitely utilize it for memberships as well as it’s great to get started. If you are constructing an extremely robust membership for hundreds of people, there are other enterprise options around you might at some point want to consider.
+Last Thoughts
+Which software you opt for depends upon your requirements and the quantity of work you agree to invest in your business.
+Although a lot of you are selling standalone items, are you ready to place in the initiative needed to produce a top quality sales funnel?
+If not, then ClickFunnels could be overkill for you. You can gather leads or sell your front end product more inexpensively using alternate services.
+Nonetheless, if enhancing the life time value of your customers appears important to you, after that I actually advise giving ClickFunnels a try.
+Not just to obtain access to the software program but additionally since the training you will learn will certainly be both inspiring and informing.
+Make the most of the ClickFunnels 14-day free trial, and also see if you can use it to grow your company today.
+If you hate it, you can always terminate it.
+Hopefully, after reading this Clickfunnels Url, you’ve found all the information you need about Clickfunnels Url
+Transcription:
+I'd like to thank Justice Pro Se for having Mark and I come in and
+speak to all of you, and I'd like to thank each and every one of you for
+coming out here this evening, to arm yourselves with information on a tool
+that is being used to usher in what Adolph Hitler and George Bush term
+"New World Order," and that is mind control. You have a
+right to know and a need to know these secrets that the perpe-traitors* in
+control of our country have been controlling all of us by for far too
+long. Knowledge is our only defense against mind control.
+*(Transcriber's note: Cathy distinctly says, "Perpe-Traitors".
+It is also a term that is used repeatedly in their book.)
+I know I am extremely fortunate to have survived my CIA MKUltra mind
+control victimization. I know I am extremely fortunate to have
+survived to this point, to be able to relay this information to all of
+you. Many government secrets and personal reputations were staked on
+the belief that I could not be deprogrammed to remember those things that
+I was supposed to forget. They were wrong. They never
+considered the strength of the human spirit. They never considered
+what would happen when a good man like Mark Phillips found out their
+secrets and used them for good: used them for the betterment of humanity,
+used them to restore a mind and a memory, rather than to destroy one and
+control one.
+Now that I am in control of my own mind, and ultimately my free will,
+I'm telling all that I've witnessed and experienced behind the scenes as a
+White House/Pentagon level mind controlled slave. I know that my
+victimization was extreme, and I certainly am not interested or intending
+to traumatize you with the information of my victimization. Instead,
+I want to provide you a comprehensive understanding of the components of
+mind control, and what the plan is for controlling all of us in this world
+dominance New World Order effort. Many government secrets and
+personal reputations are now being revealed. Much is coming to light
+in society today, because people all across this country are beginning to
+ask questions as to why has our country been eroding morally and
+constitutionally. Tonight, this information is intended only to
+provide you with detailed answers, so that you can be far more effective
+in this ongoing effort to take back our country.
+These perpe-traitors in control of our country have operated on the
+belief that secret knowledge equals power. The more we tell their
+secrets, the more their power erodes, and the better our chances are for
+effectively taking back our country. These people that have been in
+control of our country for far too long are extremely intelligent, yet
+they don't think deep. They are limited in their thinking by their
+own immorality. That's where we all have the edge on them.
+They never counted on good people all across this country to spread
+information in any means available, and it certainly isn't through our
+controlled medias. Information has to be spread word-of-mouth,
+through meetings such as these, as this one is tonight, that are occurring
+all across this country, through shortwave radio, through various radio
+stations and public television. There are ways for each of us to get
+the information out. There are ways to spread the secrets that they
+would not want you to know.
+As you hear this information tonight, please bear in mind that we are
+all enduring a mind war. They refer to it as "psychological
+warfare." Mind control is a psychological warfare weapon.
+Because it is psychological, we must deal with it in a logical manner, and
+that's exactly what they aren't counting on. What they want all of
+us to do is to hear this kind of information, become hysterical, become
+emotional, and listen to all the "hate crimes" that are being
+built up in our controlled medias, and start shooting at each other.
+They would like nothing more than for everyone to be confused as to who
+the problem is, and for all of us to end up shooting at each other,
+instead of logically taking this information, seeing how it effects us,
+seeing how it has affected us from various aspects of society, and take
+careful action in an ongoing effort to take back our country.
+When the people lead, the leaders follow.
+I'd like to begin by giving you a very comprehensive understanding of
+mind control through my own victimization. Although my victimization
+is extreme, it certainly is no more horrific than what is happening in
+society today, from the erosion of our constitutional values, to the drug
+wars being brought to our streets, to all the horrors that we are enduring
+through such things as Waco, Ruby Ridge, the Oklahoma City bombing.
+Instead, by giving you this information on mind control, I hope that each
+and every one of you will have a much better understanding of exactly what
+is going on in our country.
+I was born in 1957, in Muskegon, Michigan, to a multi-generational,
+incest based family. My father had been sexually abused as a child,
+my mother had been sexually abused as a child, and they were sexually
+abusing me. As far back as I can remember, my father was sexually
+abusing me. And I've often heard them brag that he began
+substituting his penis for my mother's nipple while I was still an infant.
+This confused my primitive sexuality. It put it into an area of pure
+survival. It was the same, to me, as eating and drinking. It
+was for this reason that I was targeted as a sex slave in the MKUltra
+project.
+Another reason that I was targeted is because in multi generational
+families, as the Hitler/Himmler research discovered, and as has certainly
+been elaborated on since then, was discovered that when a person endures
+trauma that is literally too horrible to comprehend, the mind's sane
+defense to that kind of trauma is to compartmentalize the memory of that
+event in a certain portion of the brain, so that the rest of the mind...
+(lost about 5 seconds here.) ..."Dissociative Identity
+Disorder," as it is now termed. It used to be called
+"multiple personality disorder," but that was not an accurate
+description of exactly what really is going on.
+(Unintelligible) the compartmentalization of memory. I developed
+a memory compartment to deal with my father's abuse. The part of my
+brain that dealt with my father's abuse would actually open up. The
+neuro-pathways would actually open up to a part of me that dealt with my
+father's abuse could deal with him again and again and again, as needed.
+That part of my mind was closed off behind that amnesic barrier, and I
+would function absolutely free of any memory of that horrific abuse.
+I really had no place to put such horror anyway. It's not that what
+my father was doing was morally wrong, that I comprehended. I was
+just a little bitty kid. There was no way I could know that it was
+morally wrong. But, instead, I endured the pain and the suffocation
+of his abuse.
+The government understood, from a study that has long since been
+(unintelligible), that this compartmentalization of memory should prove
+ideal for keeping their perverse secrets. Behind these amnesic
+barriers in the memory compartment is a photographic memory, because the
+mind photographically records events around these traumas. Most
+people know exactly where they were and what they were doing when John F.
+Kennedy was assassinated. This is an example of how the mind
+photographically records events surrounding trauma, because that was an
+event that traumatized the whole nation.
+This kind of photographic memory certainly had the interest of the
+government, because they knew that Dissociative Identity Disorder
+children, such as myself, were highly suggestible and could be easily
+programmed photographically to deliver messages, as it were. In my
+case, since I had been sexually abused, I was used as a sex slave, and
+therefore my suggestible mind was programmed to carry out and fulfill
+perversions of certain politicians who did not want their perversions
+known to the rest of the public. They truly believed that their
+secrets would be kept secret forever. Had I not been expertly
+deprogrammed, I would not ever have been able to think to tell you about
+what happened, and what I witnessed, as a White House/Pentagon level mind
+controlled slave.
+I developed another compartment in my mind to deal with my mother's
+psychological abuse. My mother suffered from Dissociative Identity
+Disorder, or Multiple Personality Disorder, as it was known back then, as
+well. This is why I don't really hold her responsible for her
+actions, but, nevertheless, she was extremely psychologically abusive, and
+the effects on me were devastating. I felt that, I developed another
+compartment to deal with my mother's psychological abuse.
+I developed another memory compartment to deal with the pornography
+that my father was subjecting me to. My father had a sixth grade
+education, and earned his living as a worm digger, and supplemented the
+family income with proceeds from child pornography. The child
+pornography that he was subjecting me to was also being manufactured by my
+mother's brother, my Uncle Bob Tanis, also of the Muskegon, Michigan area.
+Uncle Bob was part of the Air Force Intelligence, and also claimed to have
+been working for the intelligence arm of the Catholic Vatican, the
+Jesuits. My uncle Bob was heavily involved in the manufacture of
+pornography at that time.
+When my father made a pornography film with me and my uncle's dog,
+Buster, which was a kiddy porn bestiality film, they were caught sending
+this child pornography through the U.S. mail. When this happened, my
+uncle Bob Tanis came to him and explained to him that there was an
+operation going on here in the United States called MKUltra.
+He told my father that if he would agree to sell me into the CIA's MKUltra
+mind control, that he could receive immunity from prosecution. My
+father thought this was a great idea. He thought that the government
+actually condoned child abuse. He went on to have five more children
+to raise in the project. There were seven of us in all.. At that time, the governor of
+Michigan was Governor George Romney.
+It was my experience that Governor Romney was interested in
+implementing mind control into various aspects of society. He truly
+believed that mind control was a necessity in society. He believed
+in the kind of mind control that I was being subjected to. He also
+believed that bringing mind control into the school system would be very
+beneficial for teaching children greater amounts of information. The
+Michigan Education System ranked first in the nation for quite some time
+during those years. It was actually a forerunner of global
+education, or "Outcome Based Education," as it is now called.
+This was one area that I was aware Governor Romney was particularly
+interested in..
+Another one of my abusers at that time was then Michigan Senator, later
+U.S. Congressman, Guy VanderJagt. Guy VanderJagt was an absolute
+pedophile, and had been sexually abusing me for quite some time.
+Unlike Gerald Ford, he did not abuse me throughout my victimization.
+He did not abuse me through the Reagan/Bush administration, and when that
+reached into adulthood. Instead, he was sexually abusing me as a
+child, and preparing my mind for mind control, and for the role that I
+would be forced to participate in, in this MKUltra project.
+I'm telling you these names, not because I think there's any kind of
+glamour in being sexually abused by politicians. Really, quite the
+contrary. I've named names in our book, "Trance Formation of
+America," in order that you know exactly who and what is in control
+of our country, and for what purpose. I realize that here in
+Michigan many of you are familiar with these names. There has been a
+deliberate smoke and mirrors illusion created to fool the American
+population into believing that their "New World Order" effort is
+an effort toward world peace of some kind, when in fact it is a world
+dominance effort that has been in motion for quite some time.
+It was in Mackinac Island, Michigan, that I first learned some of these
+components of New World Order mind control, and other aspects of mind
+control victimization. Since I was being traumatized, I was
+photographically recording conversations, and I learned how people such as
+myself, with Dissociative Identity Disorder, were considered prime
+candidates, or "chosen ones," for mind control. Not only
+because of the compartmentalization of memory, but also because when a
+person is so traumatized and operating through these various compartments,
+they have no memory of events that had occured previously, and therefore
+they don't know to be tired, and endurance is increased tremendously in a
+person suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder.
+Likewise, a person develops 44 times visual acuity. I believe it
+is an effort to see things before they happen, in an effort to see the
+trauma before it actually occurs, and the eyes are open wide, and it's as
+though the victims develop eyes in the back of their heads. 44 times
+visual acuity means that a person so trained would be able to shoot and
+never miss their mark. They would never miss their target, because
+with that kind of visual acuity they are far more apt to be able to see
+and to aim and to shoot, and therefore Dissociative Identity Disordered
+persons were targeted themselves for mind control for military operations,
+for military intelligence, mercenary operations, paramilitary operations,
+and espionage.
+I was never trained in that particular area because I was being raised
+as a sex slave. I was being raised to carry out and fulfill the
+perversions of certain politicians in control of our country. And
+they certainly didn't want someone who was being prostituted to
+politicians to even know how to shoot a gun.
+I also learned at Mackinac Island Michigan about the Catholic's
+involvement in mind control. Now this is certainly not to say that
+all Catholics are bad. Not any more than I'm saying that all CIA is
+bad. I've since learned that seems to be a criminal faction running
+through most aspects of our society, and it was my experience, having come
+from a predominantly Catholic area and being raised a Catholic, that I was
+subjected to the Catholic aspects of mind control. At that time,
+then Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau, who claims publicly to be
+Jesuit, was very much interested in mind control, was interested in mind
+control of the masses. He was a part of that intelligence arm of the
+Vatican that was interested in becoming the one world church in the New
+World Order. I heard many conversations pertaining to how criminal
+covert activity is going on in this country and around the world, would be
+funneled through the Catholic Church and designated immune, for
+implementing what Adolph Hitler and George Bush term "New World
+Order."
+It was around that time, 1966 to be exact, that I made first communion
+at our local Catholic Church, Muskegon St. Francis de Salles. At
+that time, Father Don was the head of our church, and was bringing mind
+control in on a mass scale. I'm sure many of you all know the
+Catholics have been sued for vast amountsof money for child abuse
+proliferated in the church. And this is one reason why. In
+1966, after I made my first communion, I was subjected to what was termed
+"The Rite To Remain Silent." That's R-I-T-E, as in ritual.
+And I was subjected to an occult ritual. Occultism is of course a
+reversal of the Catholic Mass, and this was in keeping with that
+"reverse psychology" that my father learned. This was in
+keeping with the language of the subconscious, and this was in keeping
+with the incomprehensible.
+At that time, VanderJagt came in and joined Father Don in exposing me
+to a blood trauma that was so horrific to me that it just blew my mind.
+When this happened, they used the hypnotic language, the language of the
+subconscious, to manipulate my subconscious in such a way that I lost
+control of my own switching processes at that time.
+In other words, that compartmentalization that I was talking about,
+like where I had that compartment that would deal with my father's sexual
+abuse, as needed. I no longer had the ability to switch into that
+compartment that dealt with his abuse. I completely lost that
+ability with the "Rite To Remain Silent." Instead, they
+placed a series of hypnotic codes, keys and triggers in place of my
+natural switching mechanism, so that they could decide when, where and how
+that particular compartment of my brain could be accessed. That way,
+when I was programmed later on with specific government messages, and with
+specific perversion that I was forced to carry out, that they would decide
+when and how it would be accessed, by using those codes, keys and triggers
+to access that part of my brain.
+After this "Rite to Remain Silent," I no longer heard voices
+in my head, which really was my own voice, because I used to make
+decisions by pulling from different compartments and perspectives of my
+brain, and trying to forumulate a decision by arguing back and forth to
+make the decision. After the "Rite to Remain Silent," it
+was silent. All I heard from then on were the voices of my abusers
+telling me exactly what it was I was supposed to do. I had no
+ability to express any free will at all after that, and I certainly would
+not have participated in any of these events that I was forced to
+participate in of my own free will.
+After this "Rite to Remain Silent," I was exposed to and
+dedicated to who would become my owner in the MKUltra project, U.S.
+Senator Robert C. Byrd. Senator Byrd had been in office as long as I
+had been alive. He's still in office today. He's head of our
+Senate Appropriations Committee. He's holding our country's purse
+strings, and his agenda is for New World Order control, and has nothing to
+do with the constitutional values and freedoms that we've enjoyed in this
+country.
+As my owner, Senator Byrd would decide where I would be taken, for what
+purposes, and how I would be programmed. He decided which various
+military and NASA installations I would be taken to for sophisticated mind
+control programming, and later on, throughout the Reagan/Bush
+administration, it was Senator Byrd who decided what criminal covert
+operations I would be forced to participate in.
+Senator Byrd was extremely brutal in his perversions, which further
+compartmentalized my memory of the horrors that I was experiencing and
+being subjected to. One of the first things that Senator Byrd
+ordered was that I be sent to Muskegon Catholic Central High School.
+At Muskegon Catholic Central, the groundwork for the Outcome Based
+Education was already in full swing. They were testing the effects
+of trauma on the human mind, because it was my understanding, from
+everything that I heard and experienced, that the Catholics had long since
+learned the effects of trauma on the human mind, through such things as
+the Spanish Inquisition. They have been gathering information for
+centuries. And they were taking that knowledge, that certain
+criminal faction within the church that needs to be exposed and taken out
+of the Catholic Church. They had gathered up information and
+combined it with the information that the CIA had gathered through the
+Hitler/Himmler genetic mind control research. Together, it was very
+powerful mind control information. It was extremely effective.
+At Catholic Central, I was subjected to occult rituals during school
+hours, as were many others who attended Catholic Central. As a
+result, I was photographically recording everything that I learned in
+school. I got straight A's in school. I was doing excellent,
+but yet I wasn't comprehending anything. I didn't know how to use
+the different knowledge I was gaining. But, nevertheless, my brain
+was being packed in full of knowledge because of the trauma that I was
+enduring.
+It was while I was in Catholic Central that.
+In 1977, Senator Byrd ordered that I be transferred to Nashville,
+Tennessee. In Nashville, Tennessee, mind control was in full swing.
+The CIA operations that were being to run through the country music
+industry. Drugs were being distributed throughout the country,
+particularly cocaine. And the proceeds were going into the CIA's
+"black budget." This was funding New World Order control.
+Even now I wonder at how we could have any kind of a national debt, when I
+know that all the money that was being generated in this country was being
+used to fund these New World Order controls. If we had access to the
+money that was being used against us, we wouldn't have any national debt.
+Yet the country music industry was very much a part of the CIA's
+criminal covert operations at that time, and Senator Byrd had strong
+connections into Nashville Tennessee because he fancied himself an
+entertainer of sorts. He fancied himself a fiddler. Even
+though he was from West Virginia, he was a Nashville (unintelligible) that
+he'd fiddle on the Grand Old Opry. On the occasions that I was sent
+to Nashville, Senator Byrd was fiddling on the Opry.
+At that time, there was a musician playing music behind him named Wayne
+Cox. Later, Wayne Cox told me that musically wasn't the only way
+that he also backed Senator Byrd, but that he backed him politically as
+well. Wayne Cox subjected me to an occult ritual during which I was
+so traumatized that my suggestible mind accepted the program that Wayne
+Cox would become my first handler in this CIA MK Ultra project. As
+my handler, Wayne Cox would follow orders from Senator Byrd, to make sure
+that I was at designated places at specific times for whatever purposes
+Senator Byrd ordered.
+The first thing that happened is I was taken to Wayne Cox's home state,
+to Chatham Louisiana. Senator Byrd wanted Wayne Cox to become my
+first handler because he knew that I would be subjected to further trauma.
+Senator Byrd wanted more compartments developed in my brain. He
+wanted more compartments to be programmed for the criminal covert
+operations that I would be forced to participate in. And therefore I
+was subjected to numerous occult rituals. This manipulated me by my
+religion, and made me feel totally hopeless in what was going on.
+Wayne Cox was using trauma to trigger other mercenaries into operation
+at that time, because in the state of Louisiana, under the direction of
+Louisiana Senator J. Bennett Johnston, there was a mercenary operation in
+full swing. And these mercenaries had all been Dissociative Identity
+Disorder children who had been targeted by the CIA for mercenary purposes.
+They had been trained to carry out these secret operations, and to keep
+the secret within the compartments of their brain. J. Bennett
+Johnston was directing them. And Wayne Cox, under the direction of
+J. Bennett Johnston, would go and trigger through trauma these mercenaries
+into operation while delivering J. Bennett Johnston's orders.
+By 1978, it was determined that I had endured sufficient trauma to be
+programmed on a more sophisticated level, and J. Bennett Johnston took to
+me Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma. It was there that I endured
+the first extensive military mind control programming that would force me
+to participate in a trial run operation. At that time, J. Bennett
+Johnston was sending the mercenaries into South America, and he firmly
+believed that when the airplanes went to South America with the
+mercenaries, that they should not come back empty. Therefore, the
+airplanes were coming back full of cocaine, that would further fund the
+CIA's criminal covert operations, and usher in the New World Order.
+I was programmed to deliver a large quantity of cocaine from the state
+of Louisiana into the neighboring state of Arkansas. I took a large
+quantity to a remote airport in Ouachita Forest, which I have since
+identified as Mena Airport. It was 1978. Bill Clinton was
+governor of Arkansas. After delivering that large amount of cocaine,
+I delivered a personal stash of cocaine, as ordered by J. Bennett
+Johnston, along with a message from him and a packet of information.
+At that time, I witnessed Bill Clinton snorting two lines of cocaine.
+Yes, he did inhale.
+This was not the last time I would be exposed to Bill Clinton. I
+would know him throughout the 1980's, throughout my victimization, until
+my rescue and my daughter's rescue in 1988..
+J. Bennett Johnston, back in Louisiana, was still traumatizing my mind,
+and confusing my mind. He told me he was an alien. That was
+pretty easy for me to believe! What he was doing certainly was alien
+to my (unintelligible.) He told me the story about how he had been
+part of the Philadelphia Experiment. He said when the ship
+disappeared, it came back a spaceship. At that time he took me
+through a high security area of General Dynamics and showed me the then
+top secret Stealth Fighter. I mean, here it was, the triangular
+Stealth Fighter, that I hadn't learned anything about in my text books or
+read about in the newspapers. It was still classified. I saw
+this triangular technology, and I truly believed it was a spaceship.
+I truly believed that J. Bennett Johnston was an alien. I tell you
+this because I know for a fact that those in control of our government
+will go to any length to make all of us feel totally helpless.
+Technologically, they are 25 years ahead of us. They are 25 years
+ahead of us in information, because they have been using that blanket of
+national security for a long time to withhold information from all of us.
+You can imagine what has happened over the last 25 years technologically,
+what those advances are: computers, microwave ovens, all the things that
+are in our households in the last 25 years, and consider that they in
+Washington are at least 25 years ahead of anything we know
+technologically. In order to make us feel helpless, it is their plan
+to reveal some of that technology, and claim an alien invasion has
+occurred. This certainly isn't to say there aren't any aliens.
+Just because it wasn't my experience doesn't mean that it there aren't
+any. But in order for us to have the accurate information, we need
+to know what government misinformation is being planned for all of us, and
+how we are all being conditioned to feel totally helpless, and surrender
+to New World Order control. That is the plan.
+My abusers always claimed to be aliens or demons or gods, something
+that I thought was beyond my realm to effect. And I am here to tell
+you all now that they are just people, and they are subject to the same
+laws that the rest of us are, and this criminal activity that they are
+proliferating behind their blanket of national security has got to be
+exposed. By shining the proverbial spotlight of truth on their
+criminal activities, they will have to flee.
+By 1980, my daughter Kelly was born. She was born right into the
+MK Ultra mind control project, on a much more sophisticated, high tech
+level of victimization than I had ever been subjected to as a child.
+The technology had advanced. Kelly was exposed to harmonic mind
+control programming at NASA installations and military installations
+literally since birth.
+When I was just a little girl, way before that "Right to Remain
+Silent," back when I had a free thought to myself on occasion, I
+thought how wonderful it would be to have ten children. Because
+(unintelligible) number, but I also felt like that would be ten children
+in this world that I knew would not be abused. I didn't believe in
+child abuse. And yet, by the time my daughter Kelly was born, I had
+no ability to prevent her abuse. I certainly didn't contribute to it
+in any way, but I couldn't think to prevent it. I couldn't think to
+stop what was happening (unintelligible). My own survival instincts
+had long since deteriorated. So instead they would use my daughter,
+Kelly, to manipulate me by my maternal instincts, and for the rest of our
+mind control victimization, I carried out every criminal covert operation
+that I was forced to participate in as though Kelly's life depended on it,
+because I truly believed that it did.
+As soon as Kelly was born, Senator Byrd ordered that we be transferred
+back to Nashville, Tennessee, where we would be under the control of our
+second mind control handler, Alex Houston. Alex Houston was the
+stage hypnotist and ventriloquist in the country music industry that Mark
+referred to earlier. Alex Houston would provide a means of Kelly and
+I traveling throughout the United States to various military and NASA
+installations for mind control programming, in and out of Washington DC,
+into Canada, throughout Mexico, and throughout the Caribbean.
+The country music industry would provide the perfect cover because I
+dressed like a prostitute and I acted like a total air head, and people
+tended to think that was probably the norm for the life of a country music
+entertainer. That was the public image that was protected.
+When Senator Byrd ordered that Kelly and I were taken in for mind
+control programming, we were subjected to sophisticated mind control
+programming by our primary mind controller at that time, programmer, Lt.
+Col. Michael Aquino. This is the Lt. Colonel of the psychological
+warfare division, and founder of the occult Temple of Set, that is
+proliferating on our military bases. The same Lt. Col. Michael
+Aquino that is named in the Presidio daycare scandal.
+He uses occultism as a trauma base for mind control, and it is my
+experience that his satanic power was in the form of a stun gun.
+This high voltage stun gun was used in conjunction with sleep, food and
+water deprivation, to compartmentalize memory of programs into my child's
+brain. He knew that this method of mind control would be sufficient
+for carrying out government operations.
+In 1983, Senator Byrd ordered that I attend a White House cocktail
+party, and he acted in the capacity of a pimp, and prostituted me to then
+president Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan, as you all well know, is an
+actor, and he was acting to create an illusion of something entirely
+different to the American populace, while behind the scenes he was very
+much involved in implementing New World Order controls and eroding our
+constitutional values.
+I heard Ronald Reagan say to then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of
+Canada, who was also involved in this New World Order effort, that he
+believed the only way to world piece was through mind control of the
+masses. I know from personal experience that there can be no peace
+of mind under mind control, and I wonder what kind of a world peace could
+we possibly have with people that have no peace of mind? Since I
+wasn't in control of my own mind, I had no free will, and without a free
+will, I had no ability to express soul. I had no ability to express
+spirituality, and I am deeply concerned for a plan of mind control of the
+masses, and deeply concerned for the plan for a totally robotic society
+for the purposes of world peace? It certainly isn't my definition of
+peace, and certainly is one more reason why it is so imperative that all
+of you know what mind control entails, so you can think about it and take
+action now, while there is still time.
+At that point in time, I also heard Senator Byrd talking about how he
+was counting on the American populace to do absolutely nothing about all
+of this. Because he said good people don't think to look for
+criminal activity. Good people don't have criminal minds and they
+don't think criminally, and therefore when we have something put in front
+of us like "world peace," something that we all hold so precious
+and dear, we're not apt to look behind that, at what the reality is behind
+the scenes, and they were counting on good people to do absolutely nothing
+and to assume absolutely nothing.
+Once again they were wrong, because I am seeing all across this country
+where people are gathering, sharing information, absolutely disgusted by
+the way their churches are being infiltrated with occultism, by the way
+their children are being abused horribly, sexually, in the churches, in
+the day cares. They are appalled at the way the so-called "war
+on drugs," which in essence is no more than the CIA eliminating their
+competition, has been brought to our street corners, and our streets have
+been turned into a bloodbath.
+The erosion of constitutional values and morality in this country have
+reached such proportions that people are beginning to ask questions.
+And as we begin to ask questions, we must provide them with specific
+details, so we can be more effective in taking back our country..
+Home schooling has become the norm in this country. Senator Byrd
+has said that he would withhold funding to the various states until it
+reached a point where state governments would be reliant on the federal
+government to come in and help them with the education system. This
+year, every state in the United States accepted the Outcome Based
+Education financing, because they were told it was the only way they could
+receive any federal funding or any grant money. Every state in the
+United States accepted Outcome Based Education but one. One governor
+said the federal government has no business meddling with our children's
+minds, and that is Fob James Jr. of Alabama. I applaud him for
+having the (unintelligible.)
+This Outcome Based Education is a very serious problem for all of us,
+and it's setting the groundwork of controlling the minds of our children
+for New World Order control, which is exactly what Adolf Hitler said in
+1936. He said he didn't care who didn't want to accept the New World
+Order, because he had the minds of the children. I have heard it
+discussed in Washington D.C. how they believe that they can control the
+future by controlling our children. We must be alert to what is
+happening in our school systems. It is said that the price of
+freedom is eternal vigilance. We must be vigilant with this last
+freedom that we've got - freedom of thought.
+Throughout the eighties, I was forced to participate in the CIA's
+so-called "war on drugs," and mule copious quantities of drugs
+into this country against my will, and I want you all to know that our
+government is involved in that erosion of our morality and that erosion of
+our society.
+In 1988, Mark Phillips rescued my daughter Kelly and I. I
+certainly couldn't think to escape our mind controlled system. He
+rescued us and took us to the safety and serenity of Alaska, and it was
+there that we were safe for the first time in our lives, and the memories
+began flashing across our mind's screen. And as these memories
+flashed, I became enraged. Enraged at all the years that had been
+taken from me. Enraged at the federal covert operations I was forced
+to participate in against my will. I was enraged at what had been
+done to my daughter, and I was enraged at what the plan was for New World
+Order controls on all of us.
+This rage was absolutely blinding me from any recovery. It was
+totally immobilizing, were it not for Mark's wisdom in telling me that
+recovery is the best revenge. And the best way to recover my memory
+and my mind was through using logic. And the best way to logically
+deal with what happened was to write out my memories of those events
+rather than verbalize them. By writing out these memories, I used a
+portion of my brain that bypassed emotions. Having a new conscious
+awareness, and having this kind of logic brought into the deprogramming
+process, I was finally able to question, to reason, to critically analyze,
+and to begin to finally understand the incomprehensible. As fast as
+their information was deprogrammed, it was verified by concerned members
+of law enforcement, the intelligence community, and members and factions
+of our government. This information was disseminated widely and
+vastly, because we knew that by not keeping any secrets, that we could
+survive, to reach this point in telling you all exactly what's going on
+behind the scenes in our government.
+It's a fact that 95% of the people are led by 5%. This really
+holds pretty much true, because not everybody can accept this information
+or act on this information, or even wants to hear it. All we need is
+3% of that 5% to be back in control of our country. That's a small
+number, but we've got to get this information out. We have got to
+spread this information as far and fast as we can.
+My daughter Kelly was not so fortunate. Through a series of
+events, she ended up in the custody of the State of Tennessee, where she
+remains a political prisoner today. She was 8 years old when Mark
+rescued she and I, and she enjoyed one year of family love and a loving
+relationship. Mark and I fell in love throughout this process, and I
+feel extremely fortunate to have found the kind of love that most people
+spend a lifetime looking for and seldom ever find. But we have got a
+beautiful, loving relationship, which gave Kelly a view of life that she
+has never experienced before. And this is the hope that she
+maintains, waiting, while she is locked up in a political prisoner
+environment, where she is denied rehabilitation, due to who and what she
+knows is involved in MK Ultra.
+It certainly raises the question, what "national security"
+has to do with the rape and molestation of innocent children's minds and
+bodies. Because the violations of laws and rights continue to
+proliferate in Kelly's so-called "legal case" is all happening
+under a blanket of so-called "national security." This is
+a national security that is threatening the security of our nation, when
+it covers such crimes as child abuse, political perversion, the CIA's
+involvement in drugs, manipulation of our children's minds through Outcome
+Based Education, and exactly what mind control is.
+For this reason, Mark and I went to tremendous lengths to circumvent
+any national security censorship, and self published our book,
+"Trance Formation of America," that provided far more detail
+than I could give you tonight, in order that you could be armed with
+sufficient information that you have a right to know, so that we can all
+be far more effective in our efforts to take back our streets, to take
+back our churches, to take back our schools, to take back our country, and
+to take back our world. It is truth that sets us free. Please
+help us to spread this word. Thank you.
+(This concludes Cathy O'Brien's portion of the presentation.)
+"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false"
+--William Casey, CIA Director (1981)
+Al Gore. George Soros. George W. Bush. Barack Hussein Obama. The United Nations. The Federal Reserve. Neo-Nazis & White Supremacists.
+Can any self-respecting defender of God-given unalienable rights and liberties, as protected under the Constitution, any true patriot, say they would support, promote or traffick with these godless individuals, groups or entities?
+Not on your life.
+And yet there are a number of individuals who have proved by their actions, by their words, by their ever-shifting and opportunistic personal and political alliances, that not only are their claims of being patriots false, but who have sold out the true patriots among us, those of us whose principles remain firm, unchanging, and uncompromising, year after year, decade after decade, no matter the consequences to ourselves, those of us who stand up for our country, who stand against tyranny in any form, against the criminals, liars, political hacks and traitors who are running this country into the ground.
+."
+--Gordon Duff, from radio program hosted by Mike Harris, RBN (2012)
+In this statement, Gordon Duff, editor of Veterans Today, openly admits to being a liar. And makes the pathetic excuse that the "false information" he promotes is necessary to keep him alive. Doesn't that tell you everything you need to know about Gordon Duff? Why then, would any intelligent person believe anything he has to say? Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, in legal terms. And why would any honest person associate with him, or become a columnist on his website?
+Answer: Nobody, except someone for whom agenda politics (of one kind or another) takes precedence over everything else, including the truth.
+Promotion for Gordon.
+I won't bother overstating the obvious (see text in red), but let me just add that Gordon Duff has also claimed, most outrageously, that George Soros, mobster, criminal, mover and shaker of the New World Order, is one of the good guys, who is "helping people". Now, who in the hell could possibly take anything Duff says to be true.
+Gordon Duff is clearly a media whore, a propagandist, a shill for the intelligence community and their controlled opposition, who works not to serve the truth, nor to see justice done, nor to defend Liberty and God-given unalienable rights, but to serve a dishonest and duplicitous agenda, while lining his pockets with ill-gotten gains. He has boasted of his vast personal wealth, all the while promoting the very lies, and participating in the very criminal conspiracies, that most harm the hardworking, honest people who care about the future of this country, about securing Liberty for our children and grandchildren. Since I am one of those people, as are my friends and allies, I take it very personally.
+Stew Webb, a former colleague and personal friend of Barbara Hartwell, who has taken it upon himself to attempt to destroy my professional reputation, who has engaged in character assassination of the lowest order, since our association ended in 2006, is now a regular "columnist" on Veterans Today and does numerous radio broadcasts with Gordon Duff and his cronies, including Mike Harris, a racist/bigot and White Supremacist, who now hosts his radio program on the Jeff Rense network. Rense, another propagandist and longtime supporter/promoter of White Supremacist David Duke ("former"KKK) and others of Duke's ilk, has also forged an alliance with Gordon Duff. Need I say more?
+Before he jumped on Duff's bandwagon, Stew's longtime cohort was Tom Heneghan, who bills himself as an "International Intelligence Expert." Heneghan is a former campaign manager for Al Gore, the psycho-babbling, gun-grabbing leftist who never defended the Constitution a day in his life, but who certainly violated his oath to defend it on countless occasions.
+Heneghan has also been libeling/slandering Barbara Hartwell since 2006. Were it possible, his outrageous lies trump even those of Stew Webb, who has accused me of being a "CIA hit woman", and claims I am still "on the payroll at Langley", according to his "U.S. Intel" sources. (Tell that to the Salvation Army, whose Christian charity I have had no choice but to gratefully accept, in order to put food on the table.)
+Heneghan has accused Barbara Hartwell, of all things, of being part of an "Israeli spy ring", which he and Webb broadcast on various radio programs, including Cloak and Dagger (Lenny Bloom aka Nelson Thall) and the Hal Turner Network. (Hal Turner, the FBI informant, now doing prison time since his fed masters decided to "retire" him.) And Heneghan and Webb have posted other filthy lies, including that I am "working" with the notorious fed snitch, career criminal, predicate felon, psycho-stalker, Timothy Patrick White, who has in fact been engaging in criminal harassment, and vicious libel/slander against Barbara Hartwell since 2001.
+Did I leave anything out? A lot, actually, but there's only so much I can include in one report.
+But wait, I can't forget this one...
+STEW WEBB'S LIBELOUS FALSEHOODS ABOUT BARBARA HARTWELL
+Barbara Hartwell VCIA Blogspot
+Barbara Hartwell VCIA Blogspot
+Barbara Hartwell and Ken Adachi FBI CIA Stooge Game
+The Good Cop Bad Cop Continues
+Breaking News November 8, 2012
+How deep are their pockets we all will find out very soon?
+November 8, 2012 it seems that the Bush Crime Syndicate has an Old CIA Stooge Barbara Hartwell back in action doing slanderous statements against those who are exposing them and have filed suit against them. Barbara will be sued by me Stew Webb for slander and defamation of character soon.
+Barbara Hartwell infiltrates people by playing friend then she passes all the information she can get to her Handler’s at CIA Headquarters.
+Barbara Hartwell according to many U.S. Intel Officers say as of March 17, 2013 she still is on CIA payroll to infiltrate, slander the character of real Whistleblowers and others.
+Beware anyone associated with her are probable stooges.
+Scamsters, Spies and Trolls an Internet Story
+Intelligence Organizations Partner with Internet Crime. Schwarz associate V.K. Durham has been talking directly with George H. W. Bush and Schwarz admitted this to Tom Flocco. Beware of this clown Schwarz. Schwartz laundered drug money from Hillary Clinton to the Republican National Committee. The American Revolution Continues.
+******************
+Now, for the truth. As always, it is very simple: Webb and Heneghan started their libel campaign against Barbara Hartwell when I refused to become part of their operation to promote Al Gore, and refused to promote their bogus "news stories", which included the use of fabricated (forged) documents, which they KNEW were not genuine, just as I did, having seen and assessed the original documents myself, before they were presented to Webb. Which happens to be among my areas of expertise, but certainly not of Heneghan and Webb, the so-called "international intelligence experts". But the point is, Webb and Heneghan are simply not hemmed in by the truth. Like Gordon Duff, they don't care what is true and what is false, only what serves their agenda du jour.
+Now, Stew Webb has changed his position from staunchly supporting and blindly following, to "exposing" Tom Heneghan, for his "yellow journalism". No news flash there, I told Stew Webb back in 2005 exactly who and what Heneghan is, which is why I refused to get involved from the beginning of Stew's association with Heneghan. Stew disregarded my warning and eagerly allowed Heneghan to lead him down the primrose path, foolishly thinking Heneghan's false promises could be believed.
+Posted on Stew Webb's site:
+VK Durham & Lee Wanta Unite Against Heneghan Blog's Yellow Journalism Promoting Civil Unrest
+"Tom and I go back many years with a solid exposure of the truth."
+No, I'm afraid not, Stew. The two of you were in collusion to promote outrageouly false "news stories", geared not to "exposure of truth", but rather bilking your "fans" to support your scams and hoaxes, many of which have been exposed as such, including by Barbara Hartwell and associates.
+Related by Stew Webb: 3 months ago I cut off all communications with Tom Heneghan..
+So first, Stew Webb attacks VK Durham (2005-6), apparently only because she was talking to Karl Schwarz. Then, he decides that he has found greener pastures, and switches sides once again, now that VK Durham has allied herself with Lee Wanta, and against Tom Heneghan. And now that Gordon Duff has become a mouthpiece for the Wanta-Durham alliance. How convenient. And how very typical...any way the wind blows, there listeth Stew Webb...
+But before I move along to VK Durham, here is the testimony of my friend Geral Sosbee, which he contributed to a report I wrote (2012) exposing the many lies, the libel and slander of Stew Webb, and his threats to file a libel/RICO lawsuit against Barbara Hartwell. Just as a number of other government-sponsored criminals have done, including former senator/CIA black ops John DeCamp, CIA agents Ronald and Mary Ann Cerra. Why? Because I exposed their many crimes against persons, including innocent children, which they were desperate to keep covered up..
+**********************************
+VK Durham & Lee Wanta Unite Against Heneghan Blog's Yellow Journalism Promoting Civil Unrest (August 2013)
+“Give the American people the truth and they will always find the best, most constitutional answer to any problem,”
+-
+POSTED ON RUMOR MILL NEWS (2003)
+I find it necessary to respond to public allegations about myself made by VK Durham, some of which have been posted on the RM News Forum; some in the Daily Updates and others which have been sent to large e-mail lists.
+Let me make it clear that I do not presume to speak for anyone but myself. My only purpose is to set the record straight about my OWN position as regards these issues.
+I have no animosity toward VK Durham and my intent is not to try to discredit her nor any of the accurate and truthful information she may have made public to date.
+However, since it appears that I have irreconcilable differences with VK, regarding the larger issues, I do feel the need to clarify my own position and to refute any inaccurate statements she may have published about me personally.
+For starters, VK has repeatedly publicly stated that she stands behind and supports President G.W. Bush.
+As for my own position re Bush, here are my comments in response to a posting written by VK.
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+SURELY YOU JEST?!
+Sorry, V.K. but with all due respect, I must beg to differ. This is no reflection on your credibility or bona fides as regards the accurate information and facts you have exposed about the Ekkers and their GAIA cult.
+No, this is a different issue altogether. In good conscience, as a patriot and defender of the Constitution, I cannot possibly support GW Bush's treasonous actions. The simple facts are there for all with eyes to see and ears to hear:
+The president is a traitor, a liar and a coward. He and his political cronies have betrayed our country by passing unconstitutional legislation, in the form of the USA Patriot Act and he has allowed the Department of Homeland Security to become a de facto enforcement agency for the police state which is now the REALITY in our country.
+He has failed to honor his sacred oath to DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION. There's really NO EXCUSE and nothing left to say that could possibly justify his actions.
+As for that 'twinkle' in his eye....I saw the State of the Union Address on Tuesday night. Looked more to me like a cocaine glaze.
+And as far as G.W. Bush having 'balls' ???? He hasn't got the ones he was born with. He's nothing but a puppet on a string. But whatever game he thinks he's playing, with the economy or with any other aspect of our lives, it sure isn't a "SHOWDOWN".
+The REAL showdown will be between the REAL Patriots who are willing to die, if necessary, to defend our Constitution and protect the hard-won liberties our founding fathers fought and shed their blood for.
+Now, whether you're a man or a woman, THAT takes balls.
+GOD BLESS THE PATRIOTS & DON'T TREAD ON ME!
+-----------------------------------------------------------------
+There you have it... my sentiments about G.W. Bush, in a nutshell....and I can't make it any clearer than that.
+But this was not the first time I have disagreed with VK. In order to demonstrate the nature of these disagreements, I will start with excerpts from some e-mail exchanges between myself, Richard (Patriotlad) and Rayelan. I will include only that written by myself and VK Durham, so as to respect the privacy and confidentiality of Rayelan and Richard.
+The dispute started, at least for me, when VK aggressively attempted to persuade myself, Rayelan and Richard that she thought that the three of us should be using ALL our time and energy to publicize HER case and disseminate HER material and that we "should" be following HER agenda, while putting our own priorities on the back burner.
+All of us repeatedly assured her that we were on her side; had done all we could to support her; sympathized and empathized with all the harm done to her, especially the murder of her husband, Russell Herman.
+However, none of us were WILLING or ABLE to just DROP EVERYTHING and take orders from VK, which is clearly what she expected us to do, individually and collectively.
+To begin, here are some excerpts from an e-mail message I wrote as a response to VK, Rayelan and Richard. My comments are preceded by my initials, BH. VK's comments are preceded by her intials, VKD and enclosed in brackets.
+BH:
+First, the main reason that I paid serious attention to VK's information to begin with was because of Richard. I didn't know VK but I do know Richard and know that he is a serious, professional researcher and journalist with a knowledge of the subjects on which he writes. He also presented the material with editorial comments which explained the story and the facts, which otherwise I would NOT have understood.
+I don't know the Ekkers, but have dealt with people connected to them. And I do know a lot of these UFO cult people and know that many of them are being run by CIA. I did UFO research from about 1986 and had many of the 'contactees' abductees and researchers on my radio and TV shows.
+CIA and AF Intel were very upset with me because I exposed much of their disinfo re the UFO cults and I had evidence from field research that the underground bases were military-style black ops with high-tech equipment, etc. etc. and a lot of the UFOs were U.S. gov't, not aliens. I have not even begun to publish anything about that stuff, I just haven't found the time.....
+I can only take on so much work and have to choose my projects and battles carefully. I was happy to assist VK in any way I could, since I believe her to be sincere, as long as it didn't require large blocks of my time. I also know virtually nothing about the financial end. All I could do was evaluate her material and when she asked me to post it, choose the pieces I felt comfortable with which relate in some way to what I DO know about.
+There are many people who contact me with requests that I investigate cases, help them publicize their material, etc. etc. Maybe VK doesn't realize that she is but ONE of many such people. I tell most people I just don't have the time, and I can't afford to work for no pay. It is not that I don't have interest; it's not that I am questioning VK's bona fides or her intent...I JUST DON'T HAVE THE TIME.
+I can only do so much. I am methodical and slow because if I present info, especially that of someone else, I need to make sure it is done in such a way that will be of value to people and engage their interest. Like Richard and Rayelan I am a professional journalist, and we all have our own way of doing things. I also have my own priorities and no one can establish those for me, but ME. I don't work FOR anyone, only occasionally WITH someone.
+I don't know if VK understands this, but I am literally at this time so poverty stricken I cannot afford food! Yesterday I went to the market and could only get cat food, not anything for myself.
+I still don't have enough to pay this month's rent and am stalling for time with the landlord. I have no idea IF I will be able to stop a total crash financially, IF my phones and electric will be shut off, IF I will be able to pay the car insurance, and on and on.....
+I also still have not recovered from the latest illness. Unless I can find some way to be paid for my work, I won't be doing this much longer, if only just because I will have no base of operations to work from. I am in a brutal struggle just for survival and it can't go on much longer this way.
+I can't just put everything else on hold and give all my time and energy to this project. So many people want a piece of my time, and I just have to parcel it out as best I can.
+I know that ALL of us have been screwed by the gov't, some perhaps worse than others. I know that I have a lot in common with Rayelan and VK, as to some of the persecution and atrocities committed against us.
+Yes, VK and Rayelan lost their husbands. CIA murdered both my parents, though I can't prove that. No one of us is more "important" than the others, at least not in my view. As far as I can see, we all have our stories to tell, information to share and we all have the best interests of our country and citizens at heart.
+The issues VK presents are very important, no doubt, but I also know that the rest of us have other issues we feel the need to address and to us, those issues are equally important.
+I am barely able to do what I do now without exhausting myself. I usually work 10-12 hours a day, weekends too.
+I haven't had a vacation in over ten years, have no social life, all I do is work.
+So I can only hope that VK might understand this when evaluating the whole situation. I'd still be happy to use some of her material, if and when it is appropriate, but other than that, there's nothing more I can do, not until and IF I am able to stabilize my OWN situation.
+Excerpts from VK's response.
+VKD:
+[BARBARA.
+EXCUSES DO NOT GET IT, WHEN YOU DO NOT GET THE VITAL INFORMATION NEEDED BY THE PEOPLE POSTED.
+THIS NATION IS "AT WAR." IT IS A FINANCIAL & ECONOMIC WAR. WE, as a Nation, are fighting for our VERY EXISTENCE.
+Barbara, look at it this way; In a battle, if the amunition bearer falls, does another sit on the sidelines and refuse to provide the AMUNITION NEEDED TO DEFEND THE POSITION, and cry "I" don't feel like doing it right now.. I have this and that I must take care of before I PROVIDE THE AMMUNITION TO THE FRONT LINES FOR SELF DEFENSE? I don't think BATTLE is like that Barbara. You get off your dead end and PASS THE AMUNITION to HOLD THE LINE OF DEFENSE!
+I do not have the luxury of "not feeling well" or any other excuse I might find convenient to "lay down on the job."
+I am not in this for EGO. My agenda is KEEP THIS NATION FROM GOING DOWN. It should be all of the agents on RMNews AGENDA ALSO. I do not contend with "egos" or "excuses" very well, not when a JOB HAS TO BE DONE THAT WILL PROVIDE THE AMUNITION TO THE FRONT LINE OF DEFENSE OF THIS NATION OF PEOPLE.
+These latest articles have been posted on RM Updates; NOT A SINGLE ONE OF YOU COULD LET GO OF YOUR "EGO'S" or whatever to POST THIS PERMANENTLY on RMNews? So much for PATRIOTISM]
+Excerpts from my response to VK.
+BH:
+No, VK, I'm sorry but you do NOT understand. We do not ALL have the 'same financial problems'. Are you about to lose the roof over your head? Do you have food in your icebox? Are you about to lose your phone, internet service and electric power?
+You can accuse me of 'non-productivity'??? I really tried to keep my temper, but this is too much!
+I wish you the best with what you need to do, but with an attitude like you have, of NO RESPECT and seemingly little sensitivity to others' needs or feelings, there's nothing more I can do to help you.
+I am not a satellite which revolves around another person's agenda or what he or she thinks is most important, when it may not be the most important thing to me personally. I can't stop a financial meltdown in the nation, no matter what I do. I may not even be able to stop the worst from happening in my OWN life. My life is hanging by a thread, I need to take care of my own problems before I can help anybody else.
+Excerpts from message to myself, Rayelan and Richard.
+VKD:
+[Will you "children" quit playing these childish games? I am appreciative of what you have each done, however, at this time you are acting like "prima Donna's"..
+Here you are nit picking with me? I am the last person you should be "nit picking with." You admit I have many years of research ahead of you... WHY DO YOU KEEP EDITING that which WAS RESEARCHED FOR 28 YEARS?
+Please, get rid of this "ego trip all of you are on." This is so dammed destructive to the overall agenda, it will ultimately allow the BLACK HATS to win.
+This is so childish of all of you. What a shame. I thought you were professionals...-- Again, I was wrong.]
+My final response to VK in this thread of messages:
+BH:
+VK, I am not going to argue this thing back and forth, I have neither the time nor the inclination, but I will respond this one last time.
+I do not make 'excuses' to anyone, nor am I required to do so; nor do I even owe anyone an explanation. I was only trying to explain my position in a courteous and respectful manner, in the hope that you would understand. You don't, but that's no longer my problem.
+My problems have nothing to do with my ego, they have to do with SURVIVAL but you apparently don't understand that either. And for me, this is not just a 'financial and ecomonic war' as you say. I've been in this war all my life, and for me it's a spiritual war. To each his own.....
+The last time I checked, I was not a soldier in anyone's army, including yours. But your attitude is like that of a C.O. who expects the 'good soldiers' --namely, me Rayelan and Richard-- to snap to! every time a directive is issued....
+I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
+RM News is not the only website on the net and we are not the only journalists in the country. Speaking strictly for myself, as I don't know how Rayelan or Richard feel about this, I suggest you find some good soldiers elsewhere.
+I truly wish you all the best, love and God's blessings.
+More responses from VK.
+VKD:
+[What in the world is wrong with you people?
+This world involves more people than Rayelan, Richard, Barbara.. People rely heavily upon each of us! This is not a time for this bull crap! You were a military wife! You know what the rules of engagement are! You also know WHEN AMMUNITION IS NEEDED ON THE FRONT LINES, AS THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE; YOU DO NOT LEAVE THE AMMUNITION SITTING ON THE DAMMED WAGONS BECAUSE "YOU HAVE A HANGNAIL."
+You people have sorely let the people of this country down. The People rely heavily on you for getting the information to them that REGULAR MEDIAS "CONCEAL FROM THEM."
+I really do not have time for these childish games.
+I would have, and have supported you until HELL FROZE OVER. But for this show of pettyness & childishness at this nations HOUR OF NEED.. I am at loss as to what further to say.]
+Now let's move on to excerpts from the recent public postings and messages written by VK Durham. My comments follow.
+VKD:
+[All of you have "keys" and "bits and pieces"..of THE CAUSE of this current mess confronting all of us at this time in regards to the GLOBAL WARFARE OF ECONOMICS & BANKING.....
+Barbara, it is very clear, you are not aware of any of this, or you would not have responded as you did yesterday.]
+BH:
+I have never claimed to be knowlegable about economic matters. This is not my area of expertise. But my response (my comments about NOT supporting the treason of G.W. Bush, given above) would certainly have been made under ANY circumstances, regardless of what I know and understand --or don't--about economic matters or other issues addressed by VK Durham.
+My position is based on my OWN knowledge, many years of personal experience, research and areas of professional expertise. More importantly, I am and will remain, a patriot and defender of the Constitution, against all enemies foreign and domestic until the day I die.
+VKD:
+[You had better read what has been posted. This is no time for "ego's" of the FEMALE'S. I know what went on regarding BONUS 3392-181. You guys know what you know, and it sure as hell is NOT BONUS 3392-181.]
+BH:
+No, I do not know about the bonus. As for 'egos of the females', that is a non-issue. My gender is irrelevant and my ego has nothing to do with my position.
+VKD:
+[We have a problem with UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES which effect us all. This is why I keep pounding "UNITED WE STAND. DIVIDED WE FALL."]
+BH:
+United on WHOSE agenda? Who appointed VK Durham as Commanding Officer for the rest of us?
+Speaking strictly for myself, I do not 'unite' with anyone unless that individual concurs with my principles, and vice versa. United we Stand is in fact the latest motto of the Bush administration, in an effort to force citizens to march willingly into his Police State and endorse his warmongering and tyrannical, treasonous and outright pathological behavior. On that, count me out!
+VKD:
+[Right now, I am "guarding the backside" of the OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY. I would do the same if it were CLINTON under the same set of circumstances.]
+BH:
+Fine, that's her choice. That's HER decision and HER position, not mine.
+VKD:
+[THE AL QAEDA-AL KADA mess has been tossed into the air, and it will, I assure you, it WILL FALL ON THE SHOULDERS OF THOSE "WHO DROPPED THE NATIONAL SECURITY BALL."
+First, I must explain to Ms. Hartwell, my statement earlier made that she was not fully informed to wit.
+There has never been the "option" of airing "personal issues-grievances" to the American People. NATIONAL SECURITY came first.]
+BH:
+My duty as a patriot is to DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION, NOT to protect so-called "National Security". As I have stated publicly since 1994, any 'National Security' oaths I may have taken, either by verbal consent, or signed by me, were taken under coercion, duress and/or mind control. I feel absolutely NO loyalty to the corrupt bastards (including members of the Bush Crime Family) who forced me into these 'agreements' against my will.
+VKD:
+[All of us are aware of the GROSS MISTREATMENT and ABUSE received by MS. HARTWELL. Ms. Hartwell was also TRAINED not to allow PERSONAL HURTS & GRIEVANCES to CLOUD HER JUDGMENT.]
+BH:
+Well, VK got at least one thing right. Yes, I was trained in this manner. I was taught to compartmentalize and disassociate from my feelings. Otherwise they could not have utilized me in Psychological Operations as an intelligence analyst, much less as a field operative.
+What VK apparently does NOT understand is that my personal grievances do NOT cloud my judgment and never have. Anyone who knows me well, including Rayelan and Richard, can attest to this.
+In my public presentations I deal with facts, evidence and the testimony of reliable witnesses. This is how I form my judgments. I certainly have my emotions, but I am not RULED by those emotions, whether I choose to express my personal feelings publicly or not.
+VKD:
+[You "former agents" have the ability to MOVE OUT and use PUBLIC OPINION to do that which was ORDERED by PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY; "RE-OPEN THE U.S. HOUSE OF UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES AND INVESTIGATE BY A "FULL, FORMAL, FEDERAL INVESTIGATION THESE ISSUES OF UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES."]
+BH:
+I do not take my 'orders' from any human entity or agency, including orders long ago issued by JFK. My 'orders' come from God, as received by me in prayer and meditation.
+VKD:
+[Even though all of us have SUFFERED BEYOND ANY "CIVILIAN'S" COMPREHENSION, it is our DUTY to CONTINUE doing that which we SET OUT TO DO.
+I have formally retired. This is my last posting regarding these issues. It is now INCUMBENT upon all of you who TOOK THE OATH to DO YOUR DUTY.]
+BH:
+Yes, I have suffered a living hell. But my duty, AS DETERMINED BY ME, is to defend our God-given INHERENT rights and freedoms, NO MATTER WHAT ELSE MAY BE GOING ON.
+VKD:
+[Then, there is the matter of BARBARA and her HOSTILITIES at the "WHATEVER'S".. which bleeds out into outright rage. We all know each have been hurt tremendously by these parties that we are all fighting; BUT DAMMIT! YOU DO NOT SIT AND SUCK YOUR THUMB and THROW CHILDISH TEMPER TANTRUMS just because someone has HARD, IRREFUTABLE, UNDENIABLE EVIDENCE regarding WHAT IS, AND HAS GONE ON...]
+BH:
+It would appear to me that VK Durham is the one throwing the 'childish tantrums' in her 'rage' and frustration that I and others will not blindly follow her lead. I am very capable of doing my own critical thinking and making my own decisions and I am not required to recognize VK Durham --or anyone else-- as an external authority in my life. Her attitude to me is disrespectful and arrogant.
+In summary, just let me say that I support Rayelan in her decision to revoke VK Durham's posting privileges in the RM News Daily Updates, as VK had taken over the whole message board to the point that there was NO ROOM left for anyone else.
+Some of the people posting there complained that RM News public message board had gone downhill because VK Durham and her issues were monopolizing the board.
+As for myself, I have more important issues to address and other priorities than VK Durham and her agenda. I bear no malice against VK in my heart. I sincerely wish her the best and all of God's blessings.
+But this "child" has no intention of further draining my precious time and energy in arguments and conflicts with VK.
+And that's about all I have to say.
+Thanks Y'all, for listening and God bless.
+Barbara Hartwell
+February 2, 2003
+***********************
+Now, to 2008, and the 'election' of the unconstitutional usurper, Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama. Here, an excerpt from a report (2008), in which VK Durham's glowing accolade for Obama is included, as an example of exactly the mentality which is destroying this country. So much for VK Durham's "patriotism" and her defense of the Constitution...just more agenda politics, more of the same old, same old...
+BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA: NEW AGE LUCIFERIAN MESSIAH
+NOTE:.
+Obama speaks as the first black president-elect, affirming that "change has come.".
+RUMOR MILL NEWS
+CHANGE HAS COME. A NEW BROOM; A CLEAN SWEEP."
+*********************
+SELLING OUT AMERICA
+You political hacks and media whores, with your agenda politics, your scams and hoaxes, your backroom deals and bogus news stories, you who willfully and knowingly promote false information, as well as promoting your fellow liars who are peddling it, at the expense of those of us who love this country, who stand only for the truth, and are willing to fight to the death to secure Liberty for our children and grandchildren, there is NO EXCUSE for you.
+In your self-interested pursuit of all your political shenanigans, of ego-gratification and material riches, it may have escaped your notice that people are being tortured and persecuted, right here in America, simply for standing in defense of what we hold most dear: Our God-given rights and liberties. I know and love many of those people, they are my friends and family.
+And when I die, as I'm sure I will, possibly sooner than later, as a direct result of the government's longterm and continuing assaults on me --including, but not limited to the fact that they have driven me into such dire poverty that, having no support whatsoever I can rely on from anyone, I haven't much of a chance even to survive-- my blood will be on your hands, as will the blood of all others whose lives you helped to destroy with your calumny, your lies, and your offensive against our precious Sovereign Liberty.
+May we forget you were ever our countrymen.
+Barbara Hartwell Percival
+Aug
+Some historical references to the story of the Janjua Rajputs....
+Predating all that is related below, the Pandava ancestors of Janjuas were known historically for the great Mahabharata war in which Arjuna and his brothers were victorious after huge losses on both sides. (For more details see ).
+"The Janjua Rajputs possess a proud Martial reputation and rank very highly as the aristocracy of the Salt Range. Their pride in their ancestry is renowned and are always addressed by their ancestral title of Raja." (Rawalpindi District Gazetteer Robertson, reprint 2001, Lahore, p105)
+"Their (Janjuas) exploits and reputation has earned them the regard as the most Valiant Kshatriyas (warlords) in the Punjab." (History of Mediaeval Hindu India by Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya, Cosmo Publ. 1979, p129)
+"The tribal system of loyalty to the clan is still adhered, and they tend to only align with other tribes of equally high social rank and reputation." (The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia Gyanes Kudaisya, London 2000, p207)
+“The great Janjua tribe have retained their pride of lineage and their Rájput title, and can be ranked as Míán Sáhu or first class Rájpúts...physically well-looking, with fine hands and feet; much given to military service, especially in the cavalry;...poor agriculturists, with great pride of race and are always addressed as Raja” (Panjab Castes - Sir Denzil Ibbetson, reprint Delhi 2002, p149, p154)
+"The Janjua are famed as a restless and warlike Muslim Rājput tribe." (Imperial Gazetteer of Kashmir and Jammu, Sang e Meel, reprint 2002, p9, p34) and are "doubtless pure Rājputs". (Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 14, p152) & (The Indian Village Community by Baden Henry Baden-Powell, Adamant Media Corp. 2005, p97)
+The Janjuas of Chakri Rajgan have been recognised in Punjabi history as a 'Martial clan' and the British also viewed them as excellent soldiers and distinguished them from other tribes as "other tribes no way superior to them in courage or military skill". ('Punjab Chiefs' L.H.Griffin, 1909 Lahore, p215-7}. Genral Asif Nawaz of Chakri Rajgan (sometimes referred to as Raja Asif Nawaz Khan Janjua) was Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan (1991–1993).
+The ancestors of the Janjuas of Chakri Rajgan, the last dynasty of the Janjua Shahis, were mentioned by Albiruni.."as noble men of noble bearings...who always did what they said". Al-Biruni, despite living under Sultan Mahmud's grace, praises the house of Jayapala Janjua (10th Century AD): "We must say that in all their grandeur, they never slackened in the ardent desire of doing that which is good and right, that they were men of noble sentiment and noble bearing."
+Kalhana (13th Century AD)".
+The Tarikh-e-Alfi of the Ghorids (13th Century AD) mentions the rebellious behaviour of [1]Raja (Ajmal) Mal (est. d. 1230 AD) (son of Raja Dhrupat Dev of Mathura) Janjua. It is also inscribed that the last Hindu Shahi emperor Raja Mal embraced Islam at this place. Raja Mal was also the first ruler to begin the mining of salt in the Salt Ranges of Kallar Kahar and in the Khewra Salt Mines of Punjab which is currently the world's second largest salt mine.
+Many prominent Muslim tribes of Potohar Plateau in Pakistan trace their lineage back to the Janjuas through the five princes of the House of Raja Mal Janjua (13th Century AD). The five princes were:
+- Raja Bhir
+- Raja Jodh (est. d. 1259 AD) (ancestor of Chakri/Darapur Janjuas)
+- Raja Kala
+- Raja Tanoli
+- Raja Khakha
+Jodh and Bhir were born of a Gakhar Rani while Kala, Khakha and Tanoli were born of another Rajput Rani. ('Journal of Central Asia', Vol.XIII, no.1, 1990 p79). According to Lepel H. Griffin, in his famous book Chiefs and Families of note in the Punjab (Lahore, 1910, ii, p254) he writes that Raja Jodh and Raja Wir/Bhir (oldest sons of Rai Mal), "divided the country, the Maloki Dhan, between them. Jodh took the Salt Range near about the Makrach and captured the town of Makshala from a colony of Brahmans...He changed its name to Makhiala and built there a fort and two tanks for rain water. Wir (also spelt Bhir), the eldest son of Raja Mal, took the possession of Kura (also spelt Khewra) near modern Pind Dadan Khan..."
+[2]Raja Jodh son of Raja Mal fathered four sons:
+- Raja Raepal (villages = Chakri/Darapur, Sherpur, Pindi Saidpur, Faridpur, Pir Chak, Kot Umar, Baghanwala & Nathial)
+- Raja Manpal (villages = Rahwali, Sawala, Makhdom Jahania, Watli, Saloi, Kotla Saidan & Choa Saidan Shah)
+- Raja Jaspal (vilages = Kohala & various other localities)
+- Raja Jaipal (villages = Dandot & various other localities)
+[3]Raja Ráepál son of Raja Jodh (est. d. 1290 AD) took possession of Makhiala after Raja Jodh’s death but while he was away at Malot assisting his nephew Raja Achharpal (son of Raja Wir, who was under his stewardship) Raja Raepal’s younger brother captured Makhiala fort in his absence. Raja Raepal extended his domain by acquiring Girjaak and Adraana forts.
+[4]Raja [Nuruddin] Náru son of Raja Raepal (est. d. 1320 AD) inherited Girjaak fort after his father’s death and constructed an irrigation canal in Nára which is near Nala Bunah. He ruled for 30 years.
+[5]Raja Jagat Dev son of Raja Naru (est. d. 1345 AD) succeeded his father and “was a contemporary of Khalji Dynasty and he also sent a brigade to Lahore to assist the Imperial Army of Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq against the Mongol invaders”. (Tarikh-i-Janjua, M Anwar, 1982, p84). He enhanced and strengthened his forces and forts during his reign.
+[6]Raja Jasrat Dev son of Raja Jagat Dev (est. d. 1380 AD) became master of Girjaak fort after his father’s death and ruled his dominion for 35 years.
+[7]Raja Bhim Dev son of Raja Jasrat Dev (est. d. 1420 AD) was the chief of Janjuas at the eve of the invasion of the Salt Range area by Amir Taimur. He provided assistance to Amir Taimur and joined his forces during his conquest of India.
+Amir Taimur (d. 1405), the world conqueror, recognised Janjuas' military qualities and loyalty and wrote a handwritten letter (Parwana) of gratitude to them in recognition. “The Janjuas were honoured by Amir Timur for their joining him in his conquest of India throughout his campaign” ('The Punjab Chiefs' Sir Lepel.H.Griffin, 1909 Lahore). This formed the foundation for the later loyal alliance between Tamerlane's future descendants the Mughal Emperors and the Janjuas.
+[8]Raja Sahib Khan son of Raja Bhim Dev (est. d. 1452 AD) in order to maintain peace and stability throughout his domain “he established friendly relations with the Gakkhar chief Bir Khan of Pharyala who he treated as his half-brother “. (Tarikh-i-Janjua, M Anwar, 1988, p84)
+[9]Raja Habib Khan son of Raja Sahib Khan (est. d. 1470 AD) maintained his hold on Girjaak fort throughout his reign and was also instrumental in eradicating the spread of ‘tawaif-ul-mulky’ within his territory.
+The Mughal conqueror Babur (d. 1530 AD) recorded in his famous Baburnama that the Koh-i-Jud (the Salt Range) mountains were divided in 2 halves. One half belonged to the Janjuas, who were the traditional rulers of the peoples and tribes between Nilab and Bhera. He stated "Their rule, however, is benevolent and brotherly, they do not take whatever they want....The people also serve in their (Janjua) army....the chief is called Rai (Raja) and his younger brothers and sons are known as Malik" indicating their subjects support of their just administration and the organisation of titles amongst the Janjua elite. This branch of the Janjuas was of Raja Jodh's tribe (Raja Jodh is the ancestor of the Janjuas of Chakri Rajgan). The allied chief of Babur's campaign of Punjab, Langar Khan Niazi was also stated by Babur to be a maternal nephew of the Janjuas.(The Baburnama, 2002, W.M Thackston p271).
+The Janjua chief Malik (Asad) Hast was recorded by Babur to be about 23yrs old and "the lone ruler of the tribes and clans in the Sohan River area (Potohar Plateau)." (Ashghar) Saghur Khan and Malik Hast (Asad). Babur accepted and honoured this record and allowed the Janjuas to continue their rule in the respective Kingdoms. ('Chronicles of Early Janjuas' by Dr H Khan, iUniverse 2003, p.22).
+The Janjuas also took part in the battles against Rana Sangha in 1527AD in which the Mughals famously defeated the Sesodias Rajputs who had allied with the Afghans against him.
+[10]Raja Saghur Khan Janjua son of Raja Habib Khan is stated to have been involved in charging the army of Sangha when they came out of the fortress and after overwhelming them, the Mughal allies put them to flight.(The Baburnama, 2002, W.M Thackston p377).
+[11]Malik Darwesh Khan son of Raja Saghur Khan was a distinguished and noted commander of the Imperial Mughal Army during Emperor Akbar's reign, he took part in a campaign to capture Prince Mirza Hakim in June 1581 (Akbarnama Abu-l-Fazl, trans by H.Beveridge, Sang-e-Meel Lahore 2005, p412). Darwesh Khan of Girjaak, Jhelum (son of Raja Sangur Khan mentioned above) had fought Sultan Hathi Khan Gakhar in Punjab (a and Chakri Rajgan branch of Janjuas, a fighting chief, who avenged many of the injuries his tribe had received from the Gakhars".
+The territories recovered by Malik Darwesh Khan were distributed amongst his three sons Raja Hast Khan, Raja Tatar Khan and:
+[12]Raja Haji Khan son of Malik Darwesh Khan who is the ‘Founding Father’ of Chakri/Darapur branch. The part which formed his own Kingdom of Darapur, encompassed twenty two large villages and estates. Even to day the area is called in vernacular as 'Bai Deis' (Twenty Two Villages). The descendands of Raja Haji Khan first settled at Malikpur (today Malikpur is a small village where no Janjua resides; but almost entire landed property is held by the Janjuas of Darapur) and then shifted to Old Darapur which is now known as Dilawar. In the Bunah valley area, besides New Darapur, the main villages of Janjuas are Chakri Rajgaan (formerly known as Chakri Dhuman Khan), Nakki and Bajwala Dattan which is now known as Bajwala Kalan.
+[13]Malik Qaimuddin son of Raja Haji Khan ruled the ‘Bai Deis’ during the age of Emperors Akbar and Jahangir. He participated in many royal campaigns with distinction.
+[14]Malik Shadman Khan son of Malik Qaimuddin succeeded his father during the reign of Badshah Shahjahan.
+[15]Malik Khushal Khan son of Malik Shadman Khan was the chief of Chakri/Darapur line during the later period of Mughal dynasty under Aurangzeb Alamgir.
+[16]Malik Ghulam Mehdi Khan son of Malik Khushal Khan saw the declining years of the Mughal Empire and also the rise of Sikh Rule across the Punjab.
+Malik Darwesh Khan's great-grandson who inherited Girjaak, Raja Shabat Khan had fought under Sardar Mahan Singh Sukarchakia (father of Maharaja Ranjit Singh) in many campaigns in the late 18th century approx. 1770 AD. But upon Raja Shabat Khan's death, the Sikh chief Sardar Atar Singh Dhari assassinated his son and successor, Raja Ghulam Muhi-ud-din Khan (est. d. 1790) (Punjab Chiefs, Lahore 1909, p215). The Janjuas didn't appear to trust the Sikhs thereafter and rebelled valiantly against their rule.
+The descendants of Raja Jodh had continued to rule this region through various interruptions until the age of Raja Ranjit Singh (d. 1839 AD). The last ruling brothers of Girjaak fort till 1830 AD were Diwan Khuda Baksh & Diwan Nawazish Ali and Makhiala was last ruled by Raja Bagga Khan Janjua. In order to celebrate their capture of Girjaak, Sikhs built a ‘victory quarter’ (with the bricks and stones removed from the Girjaak fort) at their ancestral capital Gujranwala called ‘Girjhak’ which still stands today.
+[17]Malik Muhabat Mehdi Khan son of Malik Ghulam Mehdi Khan lived through the testing times of Sikh Rule which unsettled the centuries old hegemony of Janjuas in the Salt Range area. At this juncture in time, two sons of Malik Muhabat Mehdi Khan Malik Khair Mehdi Khan of Darapur and:
+[18]Raja Sarfraz Khan son of Malik Muhabat Mehdi Khan - Founder of Chakri Rajgaan established their respective estates.
+After the Battle of Chillianwala (13th Jan 1849 AD) and acquisition of the Punjab, the British rulers of India, quickly realised the Martial potential of the Janjua Rajputs, and designated them as a 'Martial Race'. The Janjua were heavily recruited into the British Imperial Army. “The Janjúas of the Salt Range are considered second to none in Martial Spirit and Tradition, and with the Gakkars and Tiwánás form the élite of the Punjábi Musalmáns” (The Jhelum Gazetteer 1907, Lahore Press, p254) (Recruiting, Drafting, and Enlisting (Military and Society, 1) Peter Karsten).
+"Due to their high aristocratic status, no Janjua would serve in any regiment that was not commanded by a Janjua or any other tribe of equal social standing, a rule that the British duly honoured when selecting regiments for them." (The Garrison State, Tan Tai Yong, Sage Pub. Inc, p75).
+Malik Darwesh Khan's later descendant through Malik Khair Mehdi Khan (se above) - Raja Zaman Mehdi Khan of Darapur, was also distinguished by Sir Lepel H.Griffin as a true noble: “He (Raja Zaman Mahdi Khan) acted up to the traditions of his tribe in honesty of character, loyalty to the authorities, and in unstinted hospitality to the strangers within his gates. In 1891, he was a Provincial Darbari and was granted the title of Khan Bahadur by the British Raj” (Punjab Chiefs). left the area, and now their descendants are said to be at Qasur near Lahajas.
+Raja Najeeb Ullah Khan Janjua (the paternal nephew of Malik Zaman Mehdi Khan Janjua) was among first Imperial soldiers from Imperial Indian Army to get the King’s Commission. Raja Najeeb Ullah Khan was the first Muslim to receive the prestigious King’s Commission, and he was in the British Battalion.
+"The Janjuas also took part in the Allied Forces, during both World War I and World War II, with very high numbers. The tribes of Jhelum and Rawalpindi particularly supplying the largest numbers". (A Hundred Horizons, Sugata Bose, 2006 USA, p136).
+Malik Zaman Mehdi Khan's only son, Malik Talib Mehdi Khan served as Deputy Commissioner, Ambassador to Kabul, and trusted Prime Minister of the Bhawalpur State (Biographical Encyclopedia of Pakistan by Biographical Research Institute, Pakistan 1956, p777). During the British Raj, (The Partition Omnibus, David Page, Anita Inder Singh, Penderel Moon, G. D. Khosla, Mushirul Hasan, Oxford 2002, p62).
+Nawab Malik Talib Mehdi Khan Janjua had only one son, the late Nawabzada Malik Afzaal Mehdi Khan Janjua who was elected as a Member of National Assembly after the Independance of Pakistan (1947) as well as 'Chief of the family' after his father's death.). He succeeded the rule of the Darapur Estate after his father's death and is the current Family Chief of the Darapur Janjua Dynasty..
+General Asif Nawaz Janjua of Chakri Rajgan, of the Raja Darwesh Khan's line (see above), was a highly notable General of the Pakistani Army achieving the high grade of Chief of Army Staff on August 18, 1991:
+ ”. (Pakistan's Drift into Extremism by Hassan Abbas, ME SHARPE, p144).
+Today a great many Janjuas are employed in the Pakistan Army and Navy, as well as the Police Forces in Pakistan and the United Kingdom.
+It is interesting to note, that despite the separation of the five major branches of Janjuas, all branches appear to have remained equally strong in the regional politics and in retaining their traditional 'Warlike' characteristics and defiant independence without relent.
+Jun. 24, 2012: Mitch Daniels is doing what, now?
+Normally we don’t spend a lot of time focusing on local stories, but it’s also unusual for a local issue to make national headlines. So here we go: Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana, has just been named the 12th president of Purdue University. It’s a stunning shift for the longtime politician, who quickly climbed the Republican ranks as Indiana’s two-term governor and was even considered a potential Republican running mate for this November’s presidential election. This announcement virtually guarantees that Daniels will be out of the political game for quite some time… well, sort of.
+It seems unlikely that Daniels would run for office while also serving in his new role at Purdue, particularly given his recent announcement that he “will recuse myself from any partisan political activities or commentary,” but one also has to consider why Daniels, of all people, was tapped as Purdue’s new president in the first place. Daniels is best known as a budget hawk, and supporters hope that he will bring similar cost-cutting practices to Purdue. But more to the point, Purdue’s annual state funding has fallen by almost $30 million in the last three years, from $262 million for the 2008-2009 school year to $233.9 million today. (Ironically, Daniels himself ordered the $150 statewide higher education funding cut in December 2009 to compensate for low state revenues, so that’s where Purdue’s funding went, among other Indiana universities.) Now that Daniels is on the other side of the fence, trying to manage the budget crisis he pushed upon Purdue, it’s conceivable that he might try to use his political ties to Purdue’s advantage, pushing whoever fills the governor’s seat next to be a little more generous toward his institution. After all, among Daniels’ many questions about his new role, the the one he seems determined to answer first is: can he lobby state lawmakers next year? State ethics rules normally require a one year cool-down period after leaving public office before lobbying politicians, but given that lobbying will be at the core of his new role, it’s unclear how Daniels’ situation will be treated. Given that Purdue has steadily increased its tuition costs over the last few years to offset its funding decline, if Daniels is unable to forcefully push for more state funding, that might hurt his ability to manage the budget situation as a whole.
+Furthermore, given that Daniels seems to know little else about how Purdue actually operates or what its needs are, using their new president as a political insider increasingly appears to be Purdue’s primary goal in hiring Daniels. One has to wonder about the ethics of hiring someone with minimal experience and few academic credentials to run a university, especially if the hire was made on the basis of exploiting those political connections. That’s not necessarily a charge against Daniels, who needed to find some sort of work at the end of his second gubernatorial term in January anyway, but one could certainly be compelled to look upon Purdue itself with some skepticism amidst this very unorthodox move.
+In the rest of the political world, the drama of the last four years is coming to a head, as Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are squaring off while the Supreme Court decides several high-profile cases. It increasingly looks as though the Supreme Court will reject Obama’s coveted Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional; more specifically, the mandate that all Americans be compelled to purchase health insurance, which the administration fervently argued was the crux of the bill, appears likely to be erased from the document.
+Even if the rest of the law stands, as most analysts believe it will, losing the key universal health coverage clause would be a huge blow to Obama and his mission to reshape the long-standing U.S. health care system. Some are already preparing to cast blame on the Obama legal strategy, approved by the president himself, as the reason for the government losing in the Supreme Court. After all, critics say, if lawyers had been more willing to cite similar cases dating back to George Washington as support for their argument, they might have gained the support of conservative justices, who tend to judge constitutionality by assessing the founding fathers’ intent instead of treating the Constitution as a “living document.”
+In any case, though, Obama and Romney are jockeying to take advantage of the ruling, regardless of what it is. As Julie Pace and Steve Peoples of the Associated Press put it,.
+It’s also unclear how the stock market could shift amidst any of the high court’s potential rulings, particularly since any scenario has some industries and groups as big winners, others as big losers, and a few that are merely giant question marks. But with betting markets giving a 75% chance for the critical individual mandate to be overturned — yes, in case you’ve never visited Intrade, people really do gamble on such things — the outcome almost looks to be predetermined. It practically makes the Supreme Court’s recent ruling against union use of nonmember fees and the upcoming decision on Arizona’s controversial illegal immigration law seem insignificant.
+Of course, some would say that the biggest story this week is former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky’s conviction for 45 counts of child sex abuse. The criminal trial, which began on June 11th, was relatively short compared to the three-year investigation including a two-year grand jury hearing, both of which began in 2009. In contrast, the jury needed only two days of deliberations to reach its decision.
+Joshua Harper, one of the jurors, said that Sandusky did not seem surprised by the verdict, showing “no real emotion, just kind of accepting. You know, because he knew it was true.” Sandusky’s own lawyers concede that the disgraced figure is likely to face a life sentence, although they are planning to appeal the verdict, meaning that the process could drag on for years. (One possible appeal issue is the trial’s speed: Sandusky’s lawyers tried to quit the day before the trial, saying that they had not been given adequate time to prepare a case, but Judge John Cleland denied their request. The seven-month period between Sandusky’s November arrest and the June trial was shorter than most such cases in the state.) That is to say nothing of civil suits against Penn State for allegedly covering up the abuses, which are related to criminal cases against Tim Curley, the university’s former athletic director, and Gary Schultz, former vice president for finance and business. The pair face charges of perjury as well as failing to report the suspected abuse, so their trials may give a much clearer picture of how much the university knew about Sandusky’s activities. Penn State is already inviting victims to work with them in settling civil suits outside of the courts, a clear signal that they want to quickly put this matter behind the university, foregoing the traditional “deny, delay, defend” pattern of corporate insurance defense.
+If there’s any irony in the case, it’s that the jury reached its verdict on the same day that a Philadelphia jury convicted Monsignor William Lynn of the Roman Catholic church for covering up claims of sexual abuse — another case in which power and prestige played a role in enabling and hiding child sex abuse — making him the first U.S. church official to be convicted for the cover-up.
+In contrast to those serious trials, the filing of New Jersey woman Elizabeth Lloyd borders on absurdity. Lloyd was attending a Little League baseball game two years ago when 11-year-old catcher Matthew Migliaccio’s coaches told him to help one of his team’s pitchers warm up. On one of his throws back to the pitcher, Miglaccio threw off target, and the ball struck the unsuspecting Lloyd, who was sitting at a picnic table near the bullpen, in the face. As any decent boy would do, Miglaccio immediately ran to Lloyd and asked if she was okay, which she said she was. Likewise, Miglaccio’s father says his family was very concerned for the woman when it happened. It was unfortunate, to be sure.
+But any sympathy the Miglaccios had for Lloyd evaporated when she began seeking retribution for the errant throw, starting with threatening letters to the child. As of an April 24 filing, those letters have escalated all the way to a $150,000 lawsuit against the child. (That’s just for medical costs; she’s also seeking an undetermined amount of money for pain and suffering.) Lloyd alleges, first, that the throw was intentional and reckless, that the boy “assaulted and battered” Lloyd, and that his throw caused “severe, painful and permanent” injuries. The second count claims negligence through “engaging in inappropriate physical and/or sporting activity” — despite him following the coach’s instruction in helping the pitcher warm up — while the third, filed by Lloyd’s husband, deals with the loss of the “services, society and consortium” of his wife. All this for a kid’s bad throw.
+Naturally, Miglaccio’s father said that he would love to win the case in court, but that it would cost them tens of thousands of dollars to fight the legal battle and that he is reluctant to put his now-13-year-old son and his former teammates through the rigors of depositions and a trial. Worse yet, he says, Little League has offered no assistance in the matter, even though he spent hundreds of hours volunteering for the organization before the incident. While the boy still plays on three different baseball teams, his parents have stepped down from coaching and managing the concession stand amidst the conflict. Little League spokesperson Steve Barr wouldn’t comment on the litigation, but noted that while all local leagues have to have insurance, it only covers personnel and players, not spectators.
+While Miglaccio’s inaccurate arm is at the center of that legal mess, a young Iowa woman is making much different waves with her athletic pursuits. Recent high school graduate Rae Heim is spending her summer, and much of the fall, running across the country. The twist? She’s doing it barefoot.
+For a number of years, Heim got attention for her disdain for running. As she put it, even running around the bases in softball seemed like a punishment. But when she discovered that people believed she was actually physically incapable of running, she set out to prove them wrong, entering road races and eventually starting her wild cross-country trek.
+Heim does don shoes for safety when necessary, such as when she had to protect her feet from the busted glass and nails littering roads in New Jersey. But aside from avoiding injury in New Jersey and on gravel roads elsewhere, Heim says she prefers to run barefoot, as “We are born to run barefoot.” Her personal quest has also inspired a larger fundraising mission for the charity Soles4Souls, which supplies shoes to needy children. Heim has raised $2,900 for the charity thus far, which equates to 2,900 pairs of shoes.
+Still, Heim won’t be winning any pageants in the near future with the bottoms of her feet looking like, in the words of Des Moines Register reporter Mike Kilen, “slabs of leather.” The same cannot be said for Mugly, a rescue dog from the United Kingdom, who on Friday earned the title of World’s Ugliest Dog. Mugly, a Chinese crested, beat out 28 other ugly dogs from around the world to claim the top prize in the annual competition held in North Carolina. The eight-year-old pooch was named Britain’s ugliest dog back in 2005, so this was hardly his first time in the spotlight. For his prize, Mugly receives $1,000 and a year’s supply of dog cookies. His prizes also include a photo shoot and a VIP stay in the local Sheraton hotel.
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+My role this morning is that of provocateur. It is my job to torment you with questions and anxieties about the dilemmas of what we used to call "race relations" in the country. I am going to raise the level of tension around these matters, and then next week my colleague is going to give you the answers and a clear path of action forward(!).
+I decided to call this reflection "A Debt, a Dream, and a Dilemma" just so that I could organize my presentation in a coherent way. And because I know that some of you are already anxious that this is all heading toward a simpleminded call for reparations, let me say up front that if I succeed at all this morning, it will be by complicating and not by simplifying that question.
+But I must begin with the question of the debt, because that part of the equation is truly inescapable. It should not have taken the present-day reparations movement to remind us about the extent of the debt. The debt is one of those things we who are white and middle class conveniently forget, or, alternatively, we think is so huge and horrible that there is no point in thinking about it.
+We who live in New York City ought to be especially mindful of the debt, because Gotham's early rise to wealth and power--an ascendance that it has been able to maintain to the present day--was directly attributable to the uncompensated labor of African slaves. Jesse Jackson made mention here last week of New York's large slave population at the time of the American Revolution. But that is not what I have in mind. I am thinking instead of New York's commercial involvement in the slave trade and the cotton trade and the extent to which New York merchant banking prospered as plantation slavery prospered. We often tell ourselves that it was the Erie Canal that led to New York's commercial ascendance. But before and after the Canal was built it was our intimate relations with the trade of Charleston and Savannah and Richmond and New Orleans that made this city rich. The movie "Gangs of New York" underscores how the poor Irish resented the Civil War and hated Lincoln, but we get very little about how the city's elites at the time hated the Civil War and hated Lincoln with equal fervor. This was the Copperhead capital during the war years, and it was not considered safe for the President to come here, as so many New Yorkers were rooting for the South to win..
+I want to say a word about the so-called "incalculability" issue--the idea that even if the debt is real, there is no way to calculate it and certainly no way to devise a plan of restitution, with all the years that have gone by. And here again, I am not addressing the question of whether there should be restitution made. But really, I do marvel at how the things we don't want to do become monstrously difficult to achieve, whereas the things we do want to do--put people on the moon, devise a Star Wars missile defense, create a map of the human genome, etc.--we find ourselves quite able to do. Postwar Germany could easily have said we have no way to calculate the debt we owe the surviving Jews of the world, and therefore we're not going to pay. But in the five decades since Germany accepted its responsibility for making restitution, something just under a billion dollars has been paid. And although it is by no means a settled matter, the United States does recognize that it cheated the Native Americans out of their land wealth, and thus it continues to make restitution in various ways, with the courts going so far as to assign a value to what the stolen lands were worth then in relation to what they are worth now.
+You can say if you like that the difference is that Native Americans have a legal claim to lands that were subsequently stolen, whereas the descendants of enslaved Africans have no claim to the product of their ancestors' labor--that working for nothing was the slaves' original deal with white America. Believe it or not, people have actually made such an argument, as though illiterate people who were brought here in chains must take the blame for not driving a better bargain! Or people will argue that Congress never actually enacted the Union Army's promise of 40 acres and a mule to the emancipated slaves, so therefore the promise is null and void. We should see such arguments for what they are: elaborate evasions of an enormous expropriation of wealth that cannot be evaded or denied.
+Just one more thought about the debt before I turn to Dr. King's dream. I have a hunch that one reason this subject makes white Americans uncomfortable is that the debt continues to accumulate, and we know it. So morally we can't afford to admit that we owe something, because that would create even more awkwardness in respect to the new debt we create every day by consigning so many African-Americans to the prison-industrial system, by disenfranchising even those who have done their time, by pretty much ignoring the raging AIDS epidemic in the African-American community, by subsidizing patterns of residential development that now make our Northern schools even more segregated than they were 40 years ago, and so forth. You see, as long as we keep denying the original debt, then we can also deny the sequels, so to speak. But if we would stop our denying and start facing the situation squarely, we would then have to begin dismantling the prison system, rebuilding the deindustrialized urban cores, and providing jobs and other supports for the people so long condemned to suffer in these systems--and we surely wouldn't want to do that. Good Lord! You start doing things like that, and where is it going to end? The whole fear-based, punishment-based system that drives our economy could be put in jeopardy, and surely no one wants that.
+Now let me turn to Dr. King's dream, which is not the air-brushed dream of Black kids and white kids holding hands but a prophetic vision of American transformed by justice. At the time King died in 1968, what was he doing? He was working to organize a Poor People's March on Washington, D.C. later that year. Let me quote King, from a speech he gave during this period, because what King has to say is directly relevant to the question of restitution and fairness.
+"At the same time that America refused to give the Negro any land," King said, "through an act of Congress our government was giving away millions of acres of land in the West and the Midwest, which meant it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor. Not only did they give them land [but] they built them land-grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that, they provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that, they provided low interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms. Now, when we come to Washington in this campaign, we are coming to get our check."
+This, of course, is not the Martin Luther King that conservatives these days like to remember and celebrate. This is the "bad" King, the abrasive King, the King who became the target of an assassination. But a question worth pondering is whether this is a different King from the one who often invoked America's promise and who defended this country's democratic institutions against those who said these were merely window-dressing. I maintain that there is just one King and that the soulful dreamer moving millions with his vision of a future color-blind society is--of necessity and not by accident--the same person as the fiery prophet who insisted that in order for equal justice under law to become reality there first had to be a reckoning with the reality of the debt.
+Historian and King biographer Michael Eric Dyson notes that contemporary conservative opponents of affirmative action and other race-conscious remedies rest their case on just thirty-four words from King's most famous oration. They single out a thirty-four word sentence from the hundreds of thousands of sentences King spoke, and from these thirty four words they have been able to render a massive distortion of King's entire life testimony. The thirty four words are these: "I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
+Eloquent words, and King surely meant them. But through them King surely did not mean to become the poster boy for opposition to affirmative action, let alone more ambitious approaches to restorative justice. We should remember that King's religious faith had no room for naiveté about whether racial reconciliation can be achieved without justice. King's ethics were Niebuhrian: he believed that evil can be engaged only by first acknowledging its existence. For white Americans, that means acknowledging the reality of the debt that is owed. In the essay, Why We Can't Wait, King."
+Ever the realist, King anticipated that powerful conservatives would respond to his call for reparations by mounting an insincere show of concern for the plight of the white poor--that they would suddenly insist that the real issue is not race-based poverty but poverty in general. For this reason King always said that millions of disadvantaged whites would benefit from his proposed "Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged." They would benefit because lifting the children of slaves from the economic consequences of slavery would finally end all confusion among poor whites as to the real source of their oppression. Dealing with the burden or race head on would finally expose the reality of class oppression. A daring supposition on King's part, but I believe a correct one.
+And this gets us, finally, to the dilemma of my title this morning.
+I have never been one to ask the classic question, "Why is there no socialism in America?" I am content to ask the much less grandiose question, "Why is there not even any interest-based politics in America? Why, especially in a time when wealth is being massively transferred upward, is there no interracial popular movement to say 'enough already'?" And my answer is because race continues to be the looming issue, whether spoken or unspoken. My answer is because when progressive Democrats have dared to call for programs like universal access to higher education, single-payer national health insurance, universal voter registration, a realistic minimum wage, full funding of quality education, the Republicans have skillfully and without actually saying so been able to paint such measures as pro-Black and have thus been able to administer the kiss of death to all such initiatives for the past 35 years.
+Today's Republicans are split on affirmative action, but that split itself is revealing. The craftier Republicans--let's call them Wall Street Republicans--understand that it strengthens their position overall to let just enough African-Americans make it up into the middle class. Not only does it help their image to have Blacks working on the upper floors of Corporate America, but it also keeps alive a potent wedge issue in districts where the GOP needs resentful white voters. So here you see one part of the GOP--the big money part--willing to keep another GOP constituency all riled up for the sake maintaining overall political power.
+But here you also begin to see how race still dominates our political life in almost every respect. Guilty white liberals--defenders of affirmative action--see racial injustice so clearly that that is about all they see: feeling bad about race allows them to ignore the issue of class. Cynical Republican strategists see class only too well, which is why they play the race card at every opportunity to keep poor and working class whites agitated.
+This is a situation guaranteed to ensure a permanent hammerlock on our politics by the party of wealth. Which is why I think we might actually want to take the route that Martin Luther King proposed, even though it might seem at first to be a blind alley. That is to say, call it reparations or call it restitution or call it whatever you want, but put in place a dramatic program that addresses the legacy of slavery head on. Be willing to play the race card dramatically in order to take that card out of play hereafter.
+Yes, I know: politically such a program seems completely unthinkable in the current environment. You'd have a very tough time right now convincing white working class or white middle class people that this is ultimately in their interest to resolve through reparations. The money interests that have benefited so long from manipulating race will fight like hell to be able to hold on to their trump card. And you can bet that all the old arguments will be trotted out about how difficult this would be to accomplish administratively--and what about people of mixed-race ancestry--and blah blah blah.
+Against all these objections and all these reasons to do nothing, there still stands the reality of the debt and the reality that if left unpaid, that debt will continue to drag us all down and hold us all of us back--not just those whose ancestors were slaves. That's the thing about debt. You can conceal it or cover it up all you want, but it never goes away until it is properly discharged. As I say, a dilemma. But one to struggle with and not run away from. And as we struggle, may we hear in our hearts the message of challenge and hope from Isaiah--a message that to me at least suggests a way forward for us now:
+"Because their shame was double and dishonor was proclaimed as their lot, therefore they shall possess a double portion…For I the Lord love justice, I hate robbery and wrongdoing. I will faithfully give them their recompense and I will make an everlasting covenant with them…All who see them shall acknowledge that they are a people whom the Lord has blessed."
+Even as God has been unfailingly generous and just to us, may we look again at our American dilemma with new eyes of generosity and of justice. Amen.
+New Testimony: Section 4 of "A Reparations Bill for the African Slaves in the United States, introduced into the 40th Congress of the United States on March 11, 1867
+Ancient Testimony: Isaiah 61.1-4, 8-9
+Water News
+Not-so-new Water News can still be useful. Some of our links are only promoted on the sidebar for a short time, so this is where you can browse through past links that we considered to be news-worthy.
+2016: January | February | March | April | May | June
+2015: November | December
+Water News: July 2016
+Tropical Winds Yield Late-July Record Warmth
+Temperatures in the New Zealand winter this year are looking more like a balmy summer’s day. Weather anomalies are the new normal. Pretty soon it will only be newsworthy to report on weather that isn’t unusual in some way – “Breaking news: the weather is close to the historic mean!” – Stu Hamilton
+Historical Records Miss a Fifth of Global Warming: NASA
+Systematic global bias in historic monitoring networks have resulted in an under-estimation of the rate of global warming. Surface monitoring networks, while very useful for local-scale purposes, apparently don’t scale well for monitoring the global climate. – Stu Hamilton
+Huge Toxic Algae Bloom Sickens More Than 100 in Utah Amid Heatwave
+There are several factors that result in toxic algal blooms that can be either mitigated or prevented by effective water management. Time and time again, we need to be reminded that we can manage what we measure. If we need to manage nutrient loading in receiving water we need to measure both nutrient concentrations and flow in source waters. – Stu Hamilton
+Global Climate Breaks New Records January to June 2016
+June 2016 marked the 14th consecutive month of record heat for land and oceans. It marked the 378th consecutive month with temperatures above the 20th Century average. Carbon dioxide concentrations have passed the symbolic milestone 0f 400 parts per million. Arctic sea ice extent in September (the annual minima) has been declining at 13.4% per decade. – Stu Hamilton
+Thirty Million
+This 34-minute video about water and climate change would be a good one to share with your colleagues. As a suggestion: book a room for at lunch time and invite everyone to watch it while they eat. Plan on including some time for discussion after the video ends. – Stu Hamilton
+Toxic Algae in Florida
+High water temperature and nutrient rich water are causing major problems. I like the closing quote, “It’s a hydrological mess right now but it’s not unsolvable.” The US Senate is considering a bill to spend $1 billion to help rehabilitate the natural hydrology in South Florida on top of the $5 billion the State plans to allocate over the next 20 years. – Stu Hamilton
+Saving the Great Barrier Reef
+Need to improve water quality with an investment of AUD 1,000,000,000 per year for the next 10 years. – Stu Hamilton
+Slow Onset Emergencies
+As we transition from a strong El Nino to a weak La Nina the United Nations is emphasizing the importance of preparing for the inevitable consequences of above average rainfall in some areas and potential drought in other areas. – Stu Hamilton
+Atmospheric River of Moisture Heading for New Zealand
+NIWA reports a series of low pressure systems tracking across the Tasman creating a risk of flooding on the North Island. Lots of gauging to be done before the week is out! – Stu Hamilton
+The Future of Fresh Water
+The World Resources institute has mapped future water risk scenarios base in IPCC projections for climate change and socioeconomic development. They claim that 52% of the world population will live under water stress by 2050. – Stu Hamilton
+Water News: June 2016
+Using Noise Logger to Detect Water Leaks
+Monitoring for water waste is becoming a big thing. Not only is it wasteful but water leaks also result in sinkholes that eat up roads and swallow cars. Noise loggers can help to locate and pinpoint leaks in water pipelines. – Stu Hamilton
+Constructing Rating Curves Using Remote Sensing
+This is the latest in an increasing number of papers investing techniques for doing hydrometry from space. – Stu Hamilton
+Adjusting Annual Peak Discharges for Changes in Land-Use Conditions
+This new USGS report tackles a tricky subject. The authors take the approach of adjusting historical peak discharge records to 2010 land-use conditions using a housing density-based measure of developed land use. Records affected by the construction of stormwater detention reservoirs and split into segments at the time of construction of the reservoir. – Stu Hamilton
+Groundwater Sustainability in California
+Achieving sustainability requires a lot of data but a big problem is that data is not being collected consistently. Much of the data is not adequate for decision-making – either because the quality is too poor or it isn’t at the right spatial or temporal frequency. Water monitoring is too fragmented into political jurisdictions which don’t add up to a comprehensive dataset at the basin scale. More standardization of methods and a common data-sharing platform are required. There is also a need for more dedicated monitoring wells. There is very little monitoring of groundwater-surface water interactions. – Stu Hamilton
+Floatovoltaics
+Producing energy while reducing evaporative losses seems like a good idea. One of the issues with land-based photovoltaic systems is dust that needs to be washed off, which uses a lot of water. Keeping these panels clean shouldn’t be a problem. – Stu Hamilton
+Monitoring the Easton Glacier
+Well written blog post and entertaining video of monitoring the mass balance on the Easton Glacier. You don’t need to have a passion for glaciology to be really interested in this story. This, I think, is a good lesson for everyone operating a monitoring network. Find a good entertaining way of telling a story and in the process educate the public about why basic monitoring is important. – Stu Hamilton
+Forum for Water Practitioners, Watershed Groups, First Nations and Other Decision-Makers
+This forum will explore new approaches to freshwater decision-making in BC (Sept 2016) – Stu Hamilton
+Interactive Global Hydrology
+This is fun. Play around with this and see how well it does in your watersheds, show water flow, raise sea level and inspect watersheds. It is incredibly responsive and seems quite good for large watersheds. – Stu Hamilton
+Water Allocation in Rivers Under Pressure
+This new e-book by Dustin Evan Garrick examines the evolution and performance of water allocation reforms in the Colorado, Columbia and Murray-Darling Basins – three watersheds at the leading edge of water scarcity challenges. – Stu Hamilton
+Water Discovered Beneath California’s Central Valley
+Previous estimates of California’s groundwater are based on water to a maximum depth of 1,000 feet. New prospecting for deep groundwater has revealed what is being hailed as a water ‘windfall’. The trend to go ever deeper for water to support a water dependent economy should be a cautionary tale for fracking, where the claim that fracking only impacts water that will ‘never’ be harvested is only true until we need that water. – Stu Hamilton
+New Zealand Is off to the Warmest Start to the Year on Record
+The first 6 months of 2016 are set to be the warmest ever start of the year according to records back to 1909. Every month of the year has been at least 0.5oC warmer than the 1981-2010 climatological average. – Stu Hamilton
+A River Network Under the Greenland Ice Sheet
+A giant river network has been exposed using ground penetrating RADAR through the Greenland ice sheet. It is estimated it took 2.3 million years to form this watershed, which includes channels up to 1400 m deep and 12 kilometers wide. – Stu Hamilton
+Mission: Water
+Xylem has introduced a new newsletter style online magazine. Whereas this appears like a platform to celebrate the Xylem product line it does so in an interesting and engaging way with some very interesting articles about water monitoring around the world. – Stu Hamilton
+Uncertainty and Modeling
+I will take any opportunity to remind the world of why we need basic monitoring. This paper by Beck and Krueger looks at epistemic, ethical and political dimensions of uncertainty in integrated assessment modeling. This is important because model results are becoming increasingly compelling and, at least to the public, indistinguishable from actual observational evidence. Whereas there are also uncertainties with observational data, there is a big difference from model errors that can have a ethical-political dimension. – Stu Hamilton
+Handheld X-Ray Flourescence Spectrometer
+This USGS fact sheet describing a handheld X-Ray fluorescence spectrometer foreshadows the future of water quality monitoring. Whereas the use-cases described are primarily with respect to measurements of soils, alluvium and rocks I can well imagine a near-future where spectrometers are developed for affordable and continuous water monitoring of many basic elements such as Arsenic Chromium, Lead and Selenium. This device can detect 27 basic elements. – Stu Hamilton
+15 Countris Account for 80% of Population Exposed to River Flood Risk
+The global GDP exposed to river floods is $96 B per year. River floods affect 21 M people per year. A 2.6-fold increase in risk exposure is expected by the year 2030. The frequency of flood events globally has increased by a factor of 4 since 1980. If this threat was coming from extremists not the environment, how much do you think governments would be willing to spend on intelligence gathering? How does the funding for your monitoring program compare? – Stu Hamilton
+Source Water Protection
+A bill has been introduced in the California to protect forests in mountain watersheds. This implies that the value of natural capital is starting to be recognized. – Stu Hamilton
+The Blue Peace Initiative
+The goal of Blue Peace is to improve monitoring, data management and information sharing in Jordan and Lebanon to support economic development and disaster risk management. IMHO this should be a model for any aid funding. Far too much aid funding is wasted because of a lack of fundamental information about water services capacity in the local environment. Success follows well-informed decision-making. Good information requires good data. – Stu Hamilton
+Intermittant Rivers and Ephemeral Streams (IRES)
+More than half the length of the global river network ceases to flow or goes completely dry at various times and places. In a warming climate the proportion will likely increase hence we should be able to explain the hydrology biogeochemistry and biodiversity of these systems. Unfortunately, almost all of our knowledge of hydrology has been derived from perpetually flowing waters. The project 1000IRP is designed to address the data shortage. – Stu Hamilton
+USGS Scientists Look at Urban Water Consumption in Australia
+Highly treated drinking water is used for nearly all of Australia’s urban water supply needs, including landscape irrigation. The water requirement of urban landscapes, particularly urban parklands, is of growing concern. Three approaches (field-based, remote sensing-based and observational-based) for Evapotranspiration estimation in mixed urban vegetation were compared. The results are scale-sensitive. – Stu Hamilton
+Governments to Protect Long-Term Climate Records
+This is really, really important. Continuous observations from thermometers, rain gauges and other traditional instruments remain essential as a reference. Without them, it would not be possible to confirm that the Earth has warmed significantly over the past century. However, measuring sites can be closed due to budget cuts or moved to a different location, making long-term comparisons difficult. Without appropriate recognition, long-term observing stations too are at risk. WMO has produced a five-minute video that can be viewed in English, French, Russian and Spanish. Make sure the bean-counters in your agency see this video at your next meeting. – Stu Hamilton
+Dispelling Myths About Climate Change
+This is a good resource for any water resource professional. There is an widely held expectation that you are the most knowledgeable person with respect to the effect of global climate on local water resources. There is lots of good information here that you can work with. – Stu Hamilton
+Demystifying Climate Models
+This free book explains climate modeling systems without the maths. – Stu Hamilton
+Glacial Mass Balance South-Eastern BC Canada
+An assessment of the winter mass balance for the Columbia Basin Glacier would only have had a localized interest a few decades ago. As we discover more about the global importance of the cryosphere and the sensitivity of the cryosphere to climate teleconnections these results should be of interest to everyone, everywhere. There is a link to a beautiful video of the field work that shows that even important work can be fun. Take a few minutes today to read this blog and watch the video. – Stu Hamilton
+Hydrologic Impacts of Thawing Permafrost
+This is fascinating. The effects of dewatering lakes were evident even back when I was working in the north 20 years ago. I really think that permafrost hydrology is really key to understanding and predicting climate change. The dynamic processes can be highly non-linear. Monitoring of northern watersheds is more important than ever. – Stu Hamilton
+Australian Hydrographers Association Conference
+Mark you calendars! Australian Hydrographers Association, October 24-27, 2016 Canberra Australia. Call for papers deadline July 8, 2016 – Stu Hamilton
+VIDEO: Amid India’s Drought Crisis, New Ways of Growing Cotton Helps Small Farmers
+New ways of growing cotton may help the drought crisis. – Stu Hamilton
+Multiple Pathways To Sustainable Development: Further Evidence Of Sustainability In Practice
+Building a circular economy in Germany; Natural Capital Accounting in Botswana and Rwanda; Payments for Ecosystems Services in Costa Rica and Uganda; and the Gross National Happiness index in Bhutan are evidence of sustainability in practice. – Stu Hamilton
+Green is Gold – The Strategy And Actions Of China’s Ecological Civilization
+China has committed to being 25% covered by forest by 2020 in its bid to build an eco-civilization. This initiative will help China improve its water efficiency from over 300 m3/ 1,000 USD GDP to just over 50. – Stu Hamilton
+Stockholm International Water Institute – Water For a Sustainable World
+Stockholm International Water Institute – Water For a Sustainable World. World Water Week, August 28 to September 2, 2016 Stockholm Sweden. – Stu Hamilton
+Beijing Is Sinking
+Satellite radar inteferometry provides more evidence of water over-use. Beijing has been suffering from land subsidence since 1935. – Stu Hamilton
+Report to Congress – Review of the Allotment of the Clean Water State Revolving Fund
+EPA finds that most States do not currently receive appropriated funds in proportion to their reported needs or population, which demonstrates the inadequacy of the current allotment. EPA presents 3 options for correcting this disparity in funding for clean water. – Stu Hamilton
+Embrace the Water – A Cities of the Future Conference
+International Water Association Conference, Gothenburg Sweden, June 12-14 2017. Call for abstracts. – Stu Hamilton
+Shaping Our Water Future – World Water Congress & Exhibition 2016
+Mark your calendars for the World Water Congress and Exhibition October 9-14 2016 Brisbane Australia Early bird registration deadline July 1st. – Stu Hamilton
+Is Drought Causing a Health Crisis in California?
+There is a ripple effect from having insufficient water. A study in Tulare county, California found that during the drought people washed their hands less, washed their food less, and compromised their diet by not growing their own produce. – Stu Hamilton
+Surprising Way Climate Change Is Impacting Water
+We need more investigators like Bruce Daniels using actual data to figure out what is going on. There is a lot of information in our data that isn’t apparent in superficial analysis. – Stu Hamilton
+May 2016 Sets New Records
+When does reporting on new climate records being set cease to be newsworthy? Word that a new record hasn’t been set would be very welcome news these days. – Stu Hamilton
+Willie Takes a Field Trip – Hydrometric Coloring Book
+I can’t resist sharing this one. It is a coloring book telling the story of a small boy going on a hydrometric field trip with his uncle. It can be hard to explain what it is that you do to someone who doesn’t already know. I think the target audience was kids back in 1990 but in 2016 I don’t think you need to discriminate on the basis of age. This is a good way of answering a lot of adult’s questions. – Stu Hamilton
+Conserving Water Saves Energy
+It takes energy to supply potable water to the tap. Researchers at University of California, Davis Center for Water-Energy Efficiency have quantified the electricity and GHG savings from water conservation initiatives. Results will vary according to the energy intensity of the water supply system but the advantages of consumer education efforts can be substantial – from June 2015 to February 2016 water conservation in California represented the equivalent of taking 50,000 cars off the road. Maybe there is a silver lining to the California drought. – Stu Hamilton
+Do you collect grab sample data? Discover AQUARIUS Samples. Sample Data Management Made Easy.
+You’re invited to watch a 3-min video of AQUARIUS Samples. Discover how to streamline the management of your environmental lab and field sample program. – Dave Gilbey
+World Oceans Day Is June 8th – Resources
+Today, June 8 is World Oceans Day. Oceans are an ultimate shared resource. Hydrologists have a disproportionate share of responsibility for the state of the oceans of the world. Much of the threat to oceans is coming from rivers that we monitor and manage. Healthy oceans need healthy rivers. – Stu Hamilton
+New Zealand Reaches Climate Change Milestone
+The forensics are in. While not exactly water news, I think the observation of 400 ppm at Baring Head NZ is significant evidence that dilution is not the solution to pollution. Air, that should be pristine, is covered with fingerprints of anthropogenic change. – Stu Hamilton
+Stream Velocity Rod Users Guide
+We have a big need for these concise guides for the infrequent, seasonal field staff. Particularly for the mid-section applications. This Manual helps you simplify and get across the essentials without losing the need to always learn more. – Stu Hamilton
+Flood-Prone Area Delimitation Using UAV Technology, in the Areas Hard-To-Reach for Classic Aircrafts: Case Study in the North-East of Apuseni Mountains, Transylvania
+I have noted the increasing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in hydrometry in my blog posts. If you are interested in this topic then this new study from Transylvania will also be of interest. – Stu Hamilton
+As One of Its Chief Sources of Water Dries Up, California Eases Restrictions on Use Nonetheless
+California is needing to draw heavily on groundwater reserves, in part because on May 18 — the same day that California’s Water Resources Control Board lifted its restrictions — Lake Mead, the reservoir that stores Southern California’s share of the Colorado River, reached its lowest point since 1937. – Stu Hamilton
+Ground-Water Availability in the United States
+This new report “is to identify the challenges in determining ground-water availability, summarize the current state of knowledge from a national perspective, and outline an approach for developing the needed understanding of future water availability.” Given the magnitude and extent of human impacts on the quantity and quality of groundwater resources this is an essential document. – Stu Hamilton
+A Decadal Look at Groundwater Quality
+This is really cool. Groundwater quality data has, historically, been anything but readily accessible and interpretable. This is an inspiration that new and innovative approaches for communicating information from data are always possible. – Stu Hamilton
+Marine and Coastal Impacts of Ocean Desalination in California
+This whitepaper considers the role that desalination can play in mitigating California’s water shortages. Thought specific to California, there are some generalizations that are applicable anywhere. High cost, high energy use, high GHG emissions, siting difficulties, and brine disposal are all significant impediments to development of desalination. It seems like we will be reliant on surface water for a while yet. That means more and better data will be needed to further refine the efficiency with which we can meet needs and sustain healthy ecosystems. – Stu Hamilton
+Coalition’s Queensland Dam Bonanza ‘Threatens Great Barrier Reef’
+Malcolm Turnbull has pledged AUD 150M to develop dams in Queensland to relieve water problems for agriculture. This makes sense because the problem with water is that there is either more than you can use or less than you want. What farmers want is a Goldilocks supply that is ‘just right’. Australia has also committed to reducing nitrogen runoff by 80% by the year 2025 to protect the Great Barrier Reef. The projected increase in agriculture (creating 2100 new jobs) from the new dams would increase nitrogen runoff by 2,500 tonnes. It is hard to imagine how these competing commitments can both be successful. Like Matt Damon in the movie the Martian, Australian hydrologists will have to ‘science the shit out of this’. – Stu Hamilton
+A Waterway to Resilience – Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Report
+The impacts of climate change are being felt primarily through water. Water has become one of the World Bank’s 14 new Global Practices to ensure the integration of the best knowledge within lending operations. Through partnership the World Bank is working to end poverty and boost shared prosperity through support to investments and analytical work in the water sector. – Stu Hamilton
+Price of Water 2016 – Up 5% in 30 Major US Cities & 48% Increase Since 2010
+The era of clean, safe, secure and abundant water being taken for granted in US cities may be coming to an end. It is curious to see the price of water going up while the price of oil is coming down. The difference is that there is an ethical responsibility for water distribution as a basic right. All human rights come at a cost, the question is how should those costs be shared? – Stu Hamilton
+Designing Effective Groundwater Sustainability Agencies
+While this is based on California there is value in this report for groundwater management anywhere in the world. The authors propose 9 criteria for evaluating new Groundwater Sustainability Agencies. – Stu Hamilton
+Water News: May 2016
+Understanding Water Risks Drives Global Investors
+The speed of the transition from relatively stable to unstable global water conditions, and the extent of the losses has dismayed the international investment community, which is struggling to better understand the economic risks of drought, floods, pollution, and social unrest prompted by shrinking reserves of fresh water. The hydrometric data you are producing may be driving the stock exchange before you know it. – Stu Hamilton
+FlowScreen: Daily Streamflow Trend and Change Point Screening
+I saw a demonstration of the plots generated by flowscreen in a presentation by Paul Whitfield at the NASH session of the CWRA 2016 conference in Montreal. In one step you get a comprehensive review of a time-series of data with everything you need to know about the data prior to using it in any sort of analysis. It is a very useful R package that is designed for use with data from USGS and WSC but can be used with data from many agencies. If you have some familiarity with R I strongly recommend you have a look at this package. – Stu Hamilton
+What is Headwater Analytics?
+Some students at UBC have created a blog for sharing open source code for hydrological applications. If you have an interest in hydrology and have some skills with the R programming language you should check it out. – Stu Hamilton
+Original Groundwater by Freeze and Cherry (1979) Now Available Online!
+Please be patient. The download demand has overwhelmed the hydrogeologists without borders bandwidth. – Stu Hamilton
+Unplugging the Colorado River – Could the End Be Near for One of the West’s Biggest Dams?
+How reversible are historic water management decisions? Are any water projects ‘too big to fail’? Is there a social and environmental responsibility for legacy water projects to re-justify their existence in the context of a modern environmental ethos? For new projects should there be a ‘best-before’ date built into the environmental assessment and approval process, where a failure-to-justify triggers a decommissioning process? – Stu Hamilton
+Pipe Assisted Underground Taming of Surface Floods – The Experience With Holiyas in North Gujarat
+Holiyas, which are a groundwater recharge system can solve two problems – what to do with too much water and what to do when there is too little water. – Stu Hamilton
+2017 Texas State Water Plan
+At an average cost of USD 12B over the next 50 years, Texas is not banking on nature providing their water security for the future. – Stu Hamilton
+India Set to Start Massive Project to Divert Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers
+330 million Indians have been affected by drought. The project will take 20 to 30 years to complete. – Stu Hamilton
+April Continues Record Temperature Streak
+Global temperature records were broken again for the 12th consecutive month, the longest streak in 137 years of record. 13 of the 15 highest monthly temperature departures have occurred since February 2015. Over relatively short time-scales global climate can be disconnected from local hydrological effects. It will be interesting to see, in retrospect, whether this extended departure is enough to overwhelm local-scale variability in atmospheric-hydrologic response. – Stu Hamilton
+High & Dry – Climate Change, Water, and the Economy
+Water scarcity will worsen in such as areas as the Middle East and Africa and will proliferate in areas where such problems don’t currently exist. India and China, for example, could see their GDPs drop by as much as 6 percent. “Smart water policy is fundamental to smart climate policy and smart development policy,” “While adopting policy reforms and investments will be demanding, the costs of inaction are far higher.” – Stu Hamilton
+Information Needs of Engineers
+A survey conducted by Northern Arizona University – Stu Hamilton
+Long-Term Continuous Acoustical Suspended-Sediment Measurements in Rivers—Theory, Application, Bias, and Error
+High temporal resolution sediment concentration data are required to accurately calculate sediment load. There are very few people left with the skill and training required to conduct a sediment program using conventional methods. Advances in multi-frequency acoustical method for measurements of sediment concentration and aspects of grain size distribution show great promise for producing accurate sediment load. – Stu Hamilton
+NOAA’s premier forecast model goes 4-D
+The Global Forecast System now runs hourly forecasts at a grid resolution of 13 km out to 5 days, in 3D space and time. This improved resolution combined with better data assimilation will result in greater precision for weather forecasts. – Stu Hamilton
+From Lake Garda to the Thames: Why boat drones are taking to the water
+A combination of AI, robot boats, and millions in EU funding is helping researchers check conditions of some of Europe’s most vital water sources. – Dave Gilbey
+Water-Related Risks Strand $Billions in Energy, Mining, Power Projects
+The link between water and the economy is obvious. What about the link between lack of access to the timely, accurate and meaningful data that should have informed these investment decisions and the economic fallout of the decisions that have been made based on inadequate, incomplete or inaccurate water data? – Stu Hamilton
+Flood Preparedness – There’s an App for That
+Effort made in improving monitoring includes improving communications so that the right people have access to the right data at the right time to make the right decisions. The USGS has unveiled the USGS Texas Water Dashboard that provides real-time water, weather and flood forecast information through one convenient application. – Stu Hamilton
+Water News: April 2016
+Food Costs Soar for Africa’s Poor Amid Worst Drought in Decades
+The smallest corn crop in 2 decades is a result of the ongoing drought in Africa. This is a continent running out of options. Better continental-scale water management is desperately needed. – Stu Hamilton
+How I Rented a Piece of a River in a Never-Ending Western Drought
+First-in-time, first-in-right is how water rights in western North America are managed. This article on a journalist purchasing a ‘right’ to use water is worth reading. If a rights holder is acting on behalf of ecosystem values (which is surely the first-in-time!) and chooses to leave the water in-stream, how is that ‘right’ protected as the water moves downstream? The whole notion of western water law is to protect a downstream user from unfair upstream water extractions. What if the rights holder is trying to protect the water from unfair downstream water extractions to ensure the integrity of the ecosystem? The answer is decades of legal battles. – Stu Hamilton
+Can Justin Trudeau Explain Quantum Water Flow?
+The Prime Minister of Canada recently made headlines for his attempt at explaining quantum computing. Here is a challenge for him – how about explaining quantum water flow? New research into the behavior of water in confined spaces reveals that water – under certain circumstances – can actually change form to pass through barriers that would, classically, be impervious. This new insight into how water behaves at a molecular level may lead to advancements in everything from cell biology minerology. – Stu Hamilton
+Earth Observations for Water Resources Management – Current Use & Future Opportunities for the Water Sector
+A good primer on the state of the art in remote sensing for the water sector. – Stu Hamilton
+Water Monitoring From Space – Estimating Continental River Basin Discharges Using Multiple Remote Sensing Data Sets
+This study investigates the use of satellite altimetry data and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data to provide a time series of river stage and effective width. Ratings are established and the results look good for continental scale rivers (defined as having channel widths > 800m). – Stu Hamilton
+Water & Jobs: The United Nations World Water Development Report 2016
+A new United Nations report ‘Water and Jobs’ states that 3 out of 4 jobs that make up the global workforce are either heavily or moderately dependent on water. As important as this may be, the first of the challenges noted is “Reliable and objective information concerning the state of water resources in terms of their quantity, quality and vulnerability at the local or basin level is often poor or lacking”. – Stu Hamilton
+Algae Overtake Australia’s Murray River
+500 km of the Murray River’s main stem and tributaries are effected by a massive bloom of blue-green algae. Low rainfall, record-breaking heatwave and high phosphorus levels have combined to create the bloom. While this bloom is not toxic (some are), dying algae will suck the oxygen out of the water causing problems for the entire ecosystem. – Stu Hamilton
+Climate Change Sets New Records
+We are impressed when records are broken when the previous mark has stood the test of decades of time. We should be even more impressed when records are broken where the ink is barely dry on the previous mark. This news release from the WMO gives us lots to be impressed about, in a very disturbing way. – Stu Hamilton
+El Nino Is Over But the Damage Continues
+60 million people are hurting because of drought and flood, crop failures in the Horn of Africa, drought in Central America restricted the draft of ships passing the Panama Canal, salt water in the depleted Mekong Delta caused USD 250M in crop damage, political and social instability in Venezuela is attributed to lack of rain. – Stu Hamilton
+Fighting Corruption in the Water Sector
+More bad news. The Water Integrity Global Outlook 2016 has now been published and the findings are grim. Institutional fragmentation and corruption are resulting in losses of USD 75B of water sector investments annually. The good news is that this report turns the lights on in this shady area of water governance, which may lead to action by governments and stakeholders. – Stu Hamilton
+CSIRO: Burning of fossil fuel causes most sea level rise
+Not such good news. We are far from exhausting the supply of fossil fuels and traditional cost/benefit economic principles don’t apply as long as the true cost is distributed globally rather than being paid by consumers. – Stu Hamilton
+Development Partners Discuss Hydromet Service Investment
+Every once in a while there is good news. To address the widening service delivery gap, the World Meteorological Organization and the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) convened a development partners roundtable from 13 to 14 April. “We need to invest more in hydrometeorological services, in early warning services and in climate services,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas. “Now is the time to invest in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Hydrometeorological services are key players in this. Investments typically yield a return of ten times – or even greater.” According to World Bank Estimates, improved hydrometeorological services would increase productivity by $30 billion. – Stu Hamilton
+Economists See Role For Data in Battling Drought
+Data has a role to play in both demand-side and supply-side economics of water. One fundamental assumption of economic theory is that people act independently on the basis of full and relevant information. We know how hard it is to provide relevant water information, so we know it is almost never true that this assumption is valid for water economics. – Stu Hamilton
+Happy Earth Day! The Many Faces of Earth
+The European Space Agency has put together a compilation of the many faces of earth to remind us all that we live on a pretty special planet. – Stu Hamilton
+Snowpack 97% of Average in California’s Northern Sierra
+An improved outlook but still not enough to wipe the effects of years of drought. – Stu Hamilton
+The Human Cost of Weather Related Disasters 1995-2015
+There is emerging consensus that there is much to be learned from the last 10 years to guide climate change adaptation. Being forewarned is forearmed. – Stu Hamilton
+Laser Spectrograph Device Revolutionizes Water Resource Management
+The ratio of stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen in a water sample can tell us a lot about the water source. Technology is helping to make this information more widely accessible. – Stu Hamilton
+Slideshow: Water is Work
+This slide show celebrates the inherent connection between water and productivity. – Stu Hamilton
+Vital Australian Water Data Supports Water Management – National Water Account 2015
+The first of 10 Australian regional water accounts for the year 2015 have now been published. This will be of obvious interest if you live in Australia but even if you don’t you should pay attention to the way that the rigour and principles of financial accounting have been applied to water management. In announcing the water account the Deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby Joyce, noted “Farmers, industry, investors and governments across Australia all benefit when we work with credible and comprehensive water information. It’s very hard to manage what you don’t measure—this makes it a whole lot easier.” – Stu Hamilton
+Aquatic Informatics Announces AQUARIUS Samples – a New Modern SaaS Solution That Streamlines Grab Sample Data Management. – Ed Quilty
+Water News: March 2016
+Pigeon Air
+Pigeons are carrying backpacks with N2 and Ozone sensors and tweeting the results. – Stu Hamilton
+Irrigated Area Map Asia (2000-2010) and Africa (2010)
+This map should help you appreciate ‘specialness’ of the diminishing supply of pristine rivers all the more. The effects of the green revolution in India are especially evident. – Stu Hamilton
+Identifying and Preserving High-Water Mark Data
+This new USGS Techniques and Methods manual is a must-read for every stream hydrographer. At some time in your career you will be unable to gauge the most impactful event you will have ever experienced. You may be limited by access, health and safety considerations or the limits of your technology. However, there is no longer any excuse for not knowing how to correctly identify and preserve information that is absolutely critical for retrospective analysis of the event. – Stu Hamilton
+How A Sexy Thriller Could Get People To Care About Their Water
+Go figure. Who would ever have thought sex and water quality would ever belong in the same sentence, much less that there would be a whole novel written on this theme. – Stu Hamilton
+China’s Massive Water Problem
+One advantage of an autocratic government is that massive water projects can be completed despite opposition. One disadvantage of an autocratic government is that massive water projects can be completed despite opposition. I can’t comment on how thoroughly any and all risks to the environment were evaluated before undertaking the massive north-south water diversion (Nanshui beidiao gongcheng) project but I rather doubt that a water diversion project of this scale could have survived a North American environmental review process. This is a grand, uncontrolled, experiment where n=1. If this works out well, it could be used as an exemplar for water diversion mega-projects everywhere. However, it doesn’t if it doesn’t work out well… – Stu Hamilton
+Informing our Work: What the Value of Water National Poll Means for the Water Industry
+Very interesting read. You can access the poll referenced by Danielle Mayorga by clicking here. Ultimately (hopefully), the information and decisions (like ROI) that are driving education and awareness come from high quality data about surface and groundwater and the treated water sent to your homes. – Dave Gilbey
+Real-Time Water Temperature, in °C – Continuous Real-Time Water Quality of Surface Water in the United States
+Continuous real-time water quality of surface water in the United States. This is a very nice explorer to be able to quickly find time-series data for any real-time water quality variable you are interested in. I like the spatial context because it is helpful to determine whether the at-site data is regionally representative or not. – Stu Hamilton
+Estimating the Uncertainty of Streamgauging Techniques Using In Situ Collaborative Interlaboratory Experiments
+Getting a bunch of people together to do replicate gaugings (e.g. a flowtilla) is the only way to materially advance our understanding of the various sources of gauging uncertainty. One criticism of flow regattas is that the sites and conditions chosen are typically nearly ideal for the method being evaluated. In the real world, we don’t care a lot about the uncertainty of gaugings under ideal conditions those measurements are almost always good enough. What really matters are the gaugings during extreme conditions when hydrographers and their equipment are being tested to the limit. This study from France compared the uncertainty of ADCP gaugings in ideal conditions to gaugings done during unstable flow. The results are quite informative and highly suggestive that we need to greatly expand the scope of these projects. – Stu Hamilton
+As Wells Go Deeper, Radium Levels Rise in State Tap Water
+If anyone still needs convincing that we need to be increasing water monitoring as the world becomes more water stressed this might make the difference. Water quantity and quality are inextricably linked. This means that diminishment of supply by depletion is compounded by degradation, which can be a non-linear process. Proactive management to ensure water security requires timely and relevant data and information. – Stu Hamilton
+National Groundwater Awareness Week
+Out-of-sight, out-of-mind pretty much sums up the global state of consciousness about groundwater. It is time to change this. – Stu Hamilton
+Greenland’s Ice Is Getting Darker, Increasing Risk of Melting
+As alarming as the implications of this story are, it is not surprising. The high albedo of the cryosphere is what makes it such and effective coolant for atmospheric temperatures. Dialing down the albedo of the cryosphere is like turning off the coolant pump in your fridge. This feedback process ensures that things are going to get a lot warmer before they can start getting cooler again. – Stu Hamilton
+Where There Once Was Water – A California Story
+There is now a Kickstarter campaign to create a feature film about the California drought. Check out the gallery to see some beautiful pictures documenting a story of over-use, mis-use and abuse of water resources. – Stu Hamilton
+Envisioning Hydrometric Data to Enhance Management of River Systems
+I enjoyed some spirited discussions with the authors of this paper at the HWRS 2015 convention in Hobart. It was as if we were prospectors who had just invented the sluice box. Modern technologies, such as ADCP, produce a massive amount of data from which we would normally extract a single nugget of gold. However, with more effective treatment, the data overburden becomes information gold, revealing all kinds of insight into hydrologic and hydraulic processes. – Stu Hamilton
+Preserving Continuity of Long-Term Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperature Observations with Automation of Reference Climate Stations using Overlapping Data and Meteorological Conditions
+Environmental monitoring is the art of a paradox. With one hand we strive for continuous improvement in methods, techniques, technologies to provide new insight into environmental processes and better enable evidence-based decision-making. With the other hand we strive to ensure that our data are produced with high integrity and continuity over long time periods to enable accurate analyses – and differentiation – of various trends, cycles and transient signals in the time-series. As a colleague, Paul Whitfield, would point out “If we are making the data ‘better’ we are making it different.” If we are making data ‘different’ by making it ‘better’, we make it very difficult to separate technological artifact from natural phenomena. This paper is a very worthwhile read to look at one approach for resolving the problem of joining manually observed temperature data with automated temperature monitoring. – Stu Hamilton
+Aquatic Informatics Wins EBJ Award for Exceptional AQUARIUS WebPortal Sales Growth & Innovative Cloud Services
+The EBJ Business Achievement Awards are the most prestigious in the environmental sector. We’re grateful to be recognized for the third consecutive year for our unwavering dedication to innovation to create greater water insight. Our market is changing rapidly. Agility is key to both our success and the success of our customers. – Ed Quilty
+Get Your Science Used — Six Guidelines to Improve Your Products
+This document was prepared for seismic hazards but is, I think, extremely appropriate for water monitoring, where we are also dealing with low frequency, high-impact, natural events. One chapter in particular caught my attention: “probability alone won’t get the message across” this speaks volumes of one of the challenges faced in communicating water knowledge. – Stu Hamilton
+The Water-Land-Food Nexus of First-Generation Biofuels
+This study from the University of Virginia helps to quantify how tough our choices become as water becomes a scarce commodity. – Stu Hamilton
+Field and laboratory studies reveal interacting effects of stream oxygenation and warming on aquatic ectotherms
+If you aren’t already monitoring water temperature and dissolved oxygen at your gauges, now might be a good time to start. Recent research demonstrates a pretty clear link between this factors and ecological response. – Stu Hamilton
+Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Safe for Water?
+Severe Drought Tightens Pressure in Mekong River Basin
+Southern Africa Droughts Jeopardize Food for Millions
+This is not good. The drought will leave millions with little hope, which is fertile ground for fanatic groups to come in and promise a new future. The drought will spread conflict like brush fire. Better management of water supplies might help. But that would require good information about how those water supplies are responding to the drought. – Stu Hamilton
+Providing Water Information to the Commonwealth – Report of the Interagency Working Group
+The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has just released an inter-agency report focused on making the reporting of water information more effective. This 80 page report is a testament to the value of comprehensive, timely, reliable, and secure sharing of water information. – Stu Hamilton
+AWE Releases Report on Australia Drought – What California Can Learn From Australia’s Millennium Drought
+Download the full 93 page report for some excellent insight about drought and lessons learned from Australia. However, there are some important distinctions between Australia and the Rest Of the World (ROW) that are not mentioned in this paper and should be considered in designing any drought strategy. Australia has a high density of long-term stream gauging compared to the ROW. The importance of monitoring source water and tracking losses as the streamflow moves downstream seems to be taken for granted in Australia. Investing in streamflow monitoring is, arguably, the first thing the ROW should be focused on in order to prepare for drought resistance. – Stu Hamilton
+Drones to Test the Waters – AMPHIBIOUS drones are being developed to collect and test potentially dangerous water samples from difficult to access watercourses
+I don’t know how often it occurs but I am sure that more than one hydrographer has taken a dip while taking a dip sample for water quality from shore. The banks are often steep and slimy with few things that are secure to hold on to. Our reach from shore, even with a long pole, may not be enough to get a representative sample of the river. In some cases the assumption of complete mixing is best evaluated by taking samples across the river, which is difficult to impossible without a boat or a bridge. The use of amphibious drones for water quality sampling seems to me to me to be something that should be investigated for a whole host of good reasons. – Stu Hamilton
+What’s the Big Idea? — Meeting Complex Challenges: Encouraging Risk-Taking, Learning From Failure
+Mark Sogge, Regional Director of the USGS Pacific Region talks about innovation, the importance of it and how to make it happen. I very strongly recommend that everyone who reads this blog take 3 minutes and 30 seconds out of their day to hear this perspective. This is excellent advice for everyone. He may be an ecologist but I think it would be great if every water monitoring organization were getting its strategic guidance from leaders as inspiring and visionary as Mr. Sogge. Forward this link to your manager. – Stu Hamilton
+Surface-Water Quality-Assurance Plan for the U.S. Geological Survey Washington Water Science Center
+This is an new USGS document prepared by the Washington Water Science Center, which lays out a plan that almost any agency could follow to conduct surface water monitoring with a high degree of integrity. The entire gage-to-page process is described in into one well-organized document with the relevant standards documents cited for reference. If you have your own quality assurance plan you should look at this to see if there is room to improve on your plan. If you don’t have a plan, you should consider adopting and adapting this practical guidance for your own agency-specific requirements. – Stu Hamilton
+California Reservoirs Are Dumping Water in a Drought, but Science Could Change That
+Dams are operated to serve multiple, often competing, objectives. Public safety, water security, environmental integrity, energy security… the list goes on. Better data to support better forecasting may allow for better optimization of multiple objectives. – Stu Hamilton
+Instead of Record Rains, L.A. Gets the Hottest February on Record
+The wet weather widely predicted to bring an end to California’s drought still hasn’t materialized. – Stu Hamilton
+Water News: February 2016
+The Next Big Short
+The man who predicted the housing crisis of 2007, Dr. Michael Burry, now says “Water is a commodity whose demand is guaranteed. Fresh water cannot be taken for granted.” I don’t think his insight is anything that those of us who work closely with water data have known for a long time. Nonetheless, an outside perspective that affirms the reality of an unwanted trend is still a bit scary. – Stu Hamilton
+Four Billion People Face Severe Water Scarcity
+Nuff said! – Stu Hamilton
+Infographic: The Age of U.S. Drinking Water Pipes — From Civil War Era to Today
+Of the 1.9 million km of drinking water pipes in the US how many are past their ‘best before’ date. This is the start of the Replacement Era. – Stu Hamilton
+UN World Water Day News
+Stay tuned for the UN World Water Development Report 2016 that will be released on March 22 with the latest data on “Water and Jobs.” – Stu Hamilton
+UNICEF World Water Day Graphics
+Download UNICEF world water day (March 22) posters and get them printed for your workplace. – Stu Hamilton
+CHRS GWADI GeoServer
+A smartphone app for android and iOS devices called rainmapper is now available on the App Store and Google Play. This G-WADI PERSIANN-CCS Geo Server (Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks – Cloud Classification System) provides 4 km resolution satellite based precipitation estimates. This might be a good app for filed hydrographers to have so that that can improve their considerations of personal safety and extreme gauging response during high flow events. Let me know how this works out for you. – Stu Hamilton
+Southeastern Asia-Oceania Flash Flood Guidance System
+I have long been preaching that our traditional parochial attitudes about hydrometric data ownership need to be replaced with an open and transparent data sharing paradigm. This WMO example illustrates how our hydrological guidance is increasing integrated across all scales from hill-slope to global-scale forcings. The value of these systems is limited to the extent that the predictions can be calibrated and verified by ground truth. This requires global-scale access to local-scale water monitoring data. – Stu Hamilton
+Futuristic New Tool in Cloud Seeding: Drones
+What next? I have a very skeptical attitude about the wisdom of cloud seeding. Making the technology for cloud seeding affordable and, perhaps, out of the direct control of science-guided national meteorological agencies seems like a very disruptive idea. Our protections for water rights are limited to surface waters – what happens when people start intercepting atmospheric water that would otherwise have been destined for some other farmers field? – Stu Hamilton
+Turning Floodwater into Drinking Water
+“Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink” The rime of the ancient mariner reflects the unfortunate experience of flood victims everywhere. This video of a technology developed in Thailand illustrates the value of a water purification solution that is readily deployable and down-scalable to have the greatest impact. If you consider the loss of life to waterborne disease, such as Cholera, after natural disasters then a very large proportion of the human cost of these events becomes preventable with technologies such as this. – Stu Hamilton
+How Deep Learning Gives Us a Precise Picture of All the Water on Earth
+This MIT technology review article illustrates the value of training machines to find useful information about water in otherwise noisy remote sensing images. A better picture of the spatial extent of where surface water is, and where it isn’t can indicate regions that are either suffering, or are about to suffer hardship. – Stu Hamilton
+AQUARIUS WebPortal Now Features Configurable Dashboards for Powerful Online Visualization of Environmental Data
+New customizable dashboards, heat maps, enhanced charting, and map display options empower users with visually rich environmental intelligence, clear trends, and warnings of critical conditions.
+AWRA Opens February Issue of JAWRA for Public Download
+I love free stuff! Especially high quality free stuff. Take a look at the article by Asarian and Walker attributing differences in streamflow trend to factors such as flow regulation and groundwater source. If you are interested in sediment sampling you should look at the technical note by Kelso and Baker. – Stu Hamilton
+Integrated Crop Water Management Might Sustainably Halve the Global Food Gap
+This new report shows than better on-farm water management can increase global crop yield in a substantial way. If this study is accurate we can predict that farmers will be much more aggressive in their water management to meet the need for more food. Where available surface and groundwater sources are already fully subscribed then the only thing to do is increase efficiency of water use. Agricultural runoff is often laden with nutrients, pathogens and pesticides. Any change that reduces agricultural runoff could be a win for food production and a win for the receiving environment. However, global-scale changes in agricultural water use and water management are not without risk. This is a development that we will, very literally, need to monitor closely at a very local-scale. – Stu Hamilton
+Tools and Resources on World Water Day Web
+If you are interested in celebrating World Water Day on March 22, here are some links to sites that will help you coordinate with what is going on in the rest of the world. – Stu Hamilton
+Four Billion People Facing Severe Water Scarcity
+This recent article in ScienceAdvances looks at increasing demand for freshwater resources in the context of protecting ecosystems within sustainable levels. It won’t be easy. Blue water scarcity is a data-driven concept, you need to know, at a fine temporal-spatial resolution both the water availability and water demand. This information and methodology could contribute to successful outcomes wherever the data are sufficiently available and reliable but I am not so sure how well things will work out in the rest of the world. – Stu Hamilton
+Standards Dramatically Advance Streamflow and Flood Forecasting in US and Elsewhere – Part 1 | Part 2-5
+Here are two blog posts by David Arctur about recent activities in the US and Europe about continental-scale stream forecasting at high-resolution and in near-real time. After many years of design and development of the concepts for water data inter-operability in the OGC it is exciting to see how enabling this emerging technology actually is. – Stu Hamilton
+Is California Ready to Build Its Next Big Dam?
+New construction of large dams and reservoirs have fallen out favour, This is, at least in part, because of a lack of trust that there is sufficient understanding of the consequences of messing with hydrological systems at a large scale. However, there is nothing like a strong economic incentive to make people change their trust threshold. When people are presented with enough of a profit motive they will raise their trust to the point where projects have been built without any meaningful data to guide design and development. It will be interesting to watch what happens in California in the coming decades. Perhaps, development proponents could earn trust by investing in relevant, reliable and trustworthy data to inform design and development decision-making. – Stu Hamilton
+ACM Webinar Series on USAID’s Meeting to Connect Freshwater to Climate Practice
+I haven’t actually watched this video (1:21) but it sounds interesting. The abstract is well written and leads me to believe that the webinar addresses some of the difficult issues of time-scale in management of water resources. – Stu Hamilton
+The Most Important Water Stories of 2015
+This is a good re-cap of the water news of the past year. I am sure there has never been a year, in modern times, where water issues have been more front and centre in global consciousness. – Stu Hamilton
+An Empirical Assessment of Which Inland Floods Can Be Managed
+This study fills an significant gap in our understanding of the value of landscape management for mitigating flood damage. This article resonates with a previous blog post about flood return intervals. This kind of empirical study can only be performed where there is a sufficiently high density of long duration high quality water monitoring data. We are indeed fortunate that this study was able to meet these criteria by using USGS investments in monitoring. In most of the rest of the world there is neither the density, duration nor quality of water monitoring to generate such robust results. – Stu Hamilton
+The Science Behind the Flint Water Crisis
+The Flint crisis has been in the news for a while now. The thing that drew my attention to this article is the linkage to source water quality. It is not the lead pipes per se that caused the problem it was the change in water source that caused corrosion of the pipes releasing lead into the potable water that triggered the crisis. The Flint River is naturally high in corrosive chloride; the iron pipes began corroding as soon as the source water supply was switched to the Flint River; the dissolved iron reacted with the chlorine added as a disinfectant making it ineffective; the level of chlorine needed to be increased leading to the formation of trihalomethanes; the corrosion affected lead service lines contributed to high levels of lead in the drinking water system. Early on in this whole sad story a good understanding of the ambient water quality could have changed the whole chain of unfortunate decision-making. – Stu Hamilton
+Hydrography Webinar Series
+This series on hydrography created last year have now been published and are particularly useful for anyone working in the US. – Stu Hamilton
+Microsoft Just Put a Data Center Under Water
+Great story on water keeping your data cool!! –Dave Gilbey
+India Plans to Borrow $12.6 Billion Overseas to Fund Irrigation
+India is investing in drought-proofing its essential agricultural sector. 860 billion rupees will move a lot of dirt and buy a lot of pipe. I hope these projects are sustainable – it would take a lot of relevant and reliable water data to ensure success. It would be very interesting to audit these projects in a few decades to see which ones are over-built, which ones are under-built, and which ones are built ‘just right’. – Stu Hamilton
+Water News: January 2016
+Subcultron: Swarming Robots That Keep an Eye on Waterways
+How cool is this! Swarms of robots monitoring water quality and communicating via internet capable lily pads. – Stu Hamilton
+Pressure Building on Global Water Supply
+As if climate predictions are not dire enough on their own this study indicates that demand for domestic and industrial water demand will double by 2050 and continue to increase beyond that. If you don’t think anybody is paying attention to the water data you work so hard to produce, then just wait a few years. The pressure on every water source is going to create a demand for credible defensible and reliable data to resolve an ever growing number of water conflicts. – Stu Hamilton
+Low-Cost Pneumatic Sensor for Water Level Detection in Gauging Stations
+Too early to judge yet. Keep your eye out for advancements in this technology. – Stu Hamilton
+Sediment Supply Versus Local Hydraulic Controls on Sediment Transport and Storage in a River With Large Sediment Loads
+Many stream hydrographers struggle with managing rating curves in rivers with high sediment load. The trick is in understanding how event characteristics like flow strength and antecedent spatial distribution of sediments influence erosion and deposition. This paper may help you get your head wrapped around the relevant governing mechanisms for channel changing events. – Stu Hamilton
+Call for abstracts – NASH symposium at CWRA 2016: Water management at all scales
+The North American Stream Hydrographers (NASH) symposium will be held at the CWRA conference in Montreal, May 25 – 27, 2016. Please submit your abstracts under theme 1.2: Hydrometeorological data: sources, monitoring methods, networks and strategies by the February 1 deadline. I have been reviewing abstracts already submitted and I can assure you that this is going to be an excellent session. – Stu Hamilton
+Drought Pushes South Africa To Water, Energy, and Food Reckoning
+South Africa needs to find solutions for its water deficit. If current projections hold true they will need to find an additional 20% of the water they draw from rivers lakes and aquifers by the year 2030. Decisions made to alleviate crises often have adverse long-term consequences. I hope they have enough water monitoring in place so that they can be making well-informed decisions during this crisis. – Stu Hamilton
+Bureau Confirms 2015 Was Australia’s Fifth-Warmest Year on Record
+Record breaking temperatures from October to December are associated with the most significant El Nino in almost 2 decades. – Stu Hamilton
+Geospatial Data Infrastructure Components Deployed for LTER – Europe Researchers’ Community
+This research paper looks at an implementation of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards for Long-Term Ecological Research sites in Europe. The use-cases they investigated could be use-cases for any watershed anywhere in the world: 1) obtain detailed information about the sensor network. 2) retrieve data for one parameter for an entire region and 3) Obtain all data for all sensors at one location. The future has arrived, we just have to implement it. – Stu Hamilton
+Hotter. Drier. Wetter. Face the Future.
+Download a calendar with the winning photos of the WMO calendar completion. The Calendar theme is Hotter, Drier, Wetter. Face the Future. – Stu Hamilton
+The State, the Drought and El Nino — A Complicated Relationship
+Water supply is a result of conservation of mass. In other words what comes out of a system is the sum of what goes into the system plus any change in storage within the system. Hydrology is a science with particular focus on the changes of all storages within a system. This article is a good primer on why water supply in a region does not respond as a simple switch based on change in inputs (such as El Nino). The time-scales of all storages within a system are relevant. Water monitoring is the only way we have of developing an understanding of the roles of these storages in water supply. – Stu Hamilton
+Global Risks Report 2016
+For the next 10 years water crises are ranked the global risk of highest concern by the world economic forum. It is interesting to note that this is in spite of water crises not even making the top 10 in terms of most changing risks. In other words, water crises are not trending they are just disturbingly high. Water crises are ranked 3rd for 2016 behind failure of climate-change mitigation and adaptation and weapons of mass destruction. Not surprisingly, Large-scale involuntary migration is the highest likelihood risk followed by extreme weather events. – Stu Hamilton
+National Overview – Annual 2015
+Full report released today: NOAA National Overview – Annual 2015. 2015 was over 1o C warmer than the 20th century average in the contiguous United States and was 2nd warmest on record. In Alaska, 2015 beat out 2014 as the warmest on record. Oklahoma and Texas ended a multi-year drought with widespread flooding. – Stu Hamilton
+Balancing Hydropower and Biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong
+This tension between energy security and environmental sustainability is apparent in these examples in the Amazon, Congo and Mekong basins. Ambitious plans that are not well-informed by comprehensive understanding of the role of water in ecosystem function are sure to have unintended consequences. Inadequate water monitoring leads to decisions where neither objective is achievable. – Stu Hamilton
+Infographic: Water and Security Hot Spots 2016
+If people don’t have enough air they suffocate. If they don’t have enough water they fight. Water scarcity and conflict are inextricably linked. This infographic points to some of the hotspots to watch in 2016. – Stu Hamilton
+Streamflow Characteristics and Trends at Selected Streamgages in Southwest and South-Central Kansas
+I love it when I see new reports like this being published. It is wishful thinking to simply push data out of the door and hope that someone will be smart enough to find it and know how to put it to good use. While it is true that good uses are found for almost all water data, many people who could benefit from the information are not well-equipped to do this sort of insightful analysis that really establishes the relevance of the data. I encourage all water monitoring agencies to lobby for increased resources to be able to have your own hydrologists bring this type of value to your water monitoring services. – Stu Hamilton
+These 4 Things Need to Happen to End California’s Drought
+This recent post by national geographic is interesting not only for its perspective on the factors that it will take to end California’s drought but also for an embedded video about the airborne snow observatory and a video about the impact of the snowpack. Even if you don’t have a stake in the California drought you should take a look at the two videos. – Stu Hamilton
+A Systematic Evaluation of Chemicals in Hydraulic-Fracturing Fluids and Wastewater for Reproductive and Developmental Toxicity
+This study from Yale University examined the toxicity of over 1,000 chemicals found in hydraulic-fracturing fluids and found about 200 of these chemicals to have adverse reproductive or developmental effects. Fracking is a divisive endeavor putting people advocating for the precautionary principle in conflict with people advocating for economic stimulus. Regardless of your opinion on fracking if you are involved in water quality monitoring of groundwater or surface water in regions where fracking is occurring you should be aware of what these chemicals are and you should start some baseline monitoring for detection of these substances. The pro-fracking lobby should support this monitoring as due diligence. Environmental advocates should support this monitoring for early detection of unwanted outcomes. – Stu Hamilton
+NOAA – December Was the Warmest and Wettest December Ever
+The analysis is based on records back to 1895. I wonder what our contribution to the data record will look like 121 years from now? Paper records have survived fairly well but how much effort is going into preserving a coherent digital legacy? – Stu Hamilton
+Evaluation of the 8310-N-S Manufactured by Sutron—Results of Bench, Temperature, and Field Deployment Testing
+This report is a good read for anyone with the responsibility of purchasing dataloggers. While it would be nice to have a consumer review of all dataloggers available for side-by-side comparison, even a single evaluation like this can be a very helpful guide for decision-making. You can be sure the manufacturer will be working very hard to address any reported deficiencies, which will make water monitoring more reliable for all of us. Every other manufacturer is also put on notice of the level of performance that they must achieve if they want to compete. That too , will make water monitoring more reliable for all of us. Reading this report before making your next datalogger purchase will provide you with a number of questions that you should ask of your vendor before committing to a purchase. – Stu Hamilton
+El Nino Declining, to Return to Neutral by Second Quarter: Australia
+The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has reported that the El Nino conditions have peaked and will return to an ENSO neutral condition by mid-year. – Stu Hamilton
+Development of Flood Regressions and Climate Change Scenarios to Explore Estimates of Future Peak Flows
+This is an interesting example of how inference about future flows can be gleaned from information in historical streamflow time-series. Subject to the limitations of assumption explicitly declared by the authors, this may be a good approach for developing design flow estimates that are conditioned on climate non-stationarity. – Stu Hamilton
+Worldwide Electricity Production Vulnerable to Climate and Water Resource Change
+Not surprisingly, hydropower plants will need to adapt to changing water availability. Never mind building new hydro capacity, existing hydro capacity will require extensive re-engineering before the end of the century. Knowing that good engineering design is based on good data, the time is now to ensure that monitoring upstream and downstream of all dams and reservoirs is adequate for this emerging need. – Stu Hamilton
+A 10 Year Story – The Water for Life Decade 2005-2015 and Beyond
+The results of the water for life decade provide many compelling arguments for sustainability in water use and documentation of the risks and opportunities ahead. Progress has been made but we are still learning how to deal with many of the challenges. One thing is clear. In order to manage our increasingly valuable water sources we need better information about the quantity and quality of those sources. – Stu Hamilton
+- VIDEO: A ten-year story : “Water for Life” Decade 2005-2015
+- UN ARTICLE: A ten-year story – “Water for Life” Decade 2005-2015
+- WATER & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE – 2015 WM III
+Water News: December 2015
+Reservoir Evaporation a Big Challenge for Water Managers in West
+Friedrich said that ‘little research has been done on quantifying evaporation with instrumentation and numerical models.’ We need to better understand evaporation, which will require continuous measurements of wind direction and speed, air and reservoir temperatures, humidity, solar radiation and vegetation at individual reservoirs. – Dave Gilbey
+EMBRACING UNCERTAINTY – A Case Study Examination of How Climate Change is Shifting Water Utility Planning
+This report looks at how the water utilities industry needs to adapt to climate change. The authors under-state the role of monitoring in providing for a secure water future. While model predictions point to many water futures there is actually only one water future that will be realized. The problem for planners is that they don’t know which one. Water monitoring is the only way to know which, of many, possible futures is the one most probable. If the planners do not develop plans that include this new role for water monitoring then I can have little confidence that their plans will be successful. There must be a ground truth for the models of the future. – Stu Hamilton
+Considering Sampling Strategy and Cross-Section Complexity for Estimating the Uncertainty of Discharge Measurements Using the Velocity-Area Method
+Despax et al. propose a new method for calculating the uncertainty of a discharge measurement this is sensitive to both riverbed shape and flow distribution complexity. The new technique is based on an approach of using an over-sampled gaugings (with 31 or more verticals) to assess the uncertainty component through statistical analysis. While a good idea in principle, I remain convinced that this approach will be valid for estimating the uncertainty of gaugings in the extreme range of flows (high and low) where it may be difficult or impossible to get the need high resolution reference gaugings. It is at the extremes that gauging uncertainty will be most affected by approaching the limits of validity of the measurement equipment. – Stu Hamilton
+smwrBase—An R Package for Managing Hydrologic Data, Version 1.1.1
+This report presents a collection of functions for hydrologic data—streamflow, groundwater elevations, and discrete water-quality concentrations—that can be used to import, transform, manipulate, and manage those data. – Stu Hamilton
+Compendium of Water Quality Regulatory Frameworks: Which Water for Which Use?
+This is a valuable global perspective of water quality regulations and the case studies are a new resource that many people working in the water quality field should be aware of. – Stu Hamilton
+Stanford Scientists Solve Mystery of Arsenic Release Into Groundwater
+Bacteria living in shallow sediment layers of permanently flooded wetlands in Asia drive arsenic release into water by feeding on freshly deposited plant material, a new study finds. – Dave Gilbey
+Rio’s Troubled Water
+Reporting on the Rio Olympics will raise the issue of water quality to a global audience. This might be a good opportunity to raise awareness of the benefit of routine monitoring for water quality to ensure that this severity of problem will not happen in your watershed. This link will help you better understand the water quality of the Olympic venues so that you can compare results to your own data. – Stu Hamilton
+Paris Pact on Water and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Basins of Rivers, Lakes and Aquifers
+It is good to see that water monitoring is getting discussed in the Paris COP21 Summit including a commitment to “Establish basin-wide networks for monitoring and data exchange and water information systems, which are integrated, permanent, reliable, open, representative, interoperable and accessible, as a decision making support tool for adaptation measures; A seven-year commitment from Jordan, Lebanon, Monaco, Morocco, Spain and Tunisia to assess water resource availability in the Mediterranean region A project in Morocco to increase resilience of the agriculture sector through water-saving irrigation practices; A four-year collaboration in Mexico to improve management of water resources and water services in the Mexico Valley; A three-year commitment from China to improve management of the Hai River Basin; The launch of a hydrological and meteorological monitoring program in the Congo Basin of central Africa that will benefit more than 160 million people. – Stu Hamilton
+Disasters without Borders – Regional Resilience for Sustainable Development
+Lack of fundamental knowledge and analysis of water resources negates any opportunity to detect long-term emerging threats or potentially destabilizing conditions. Figure IV-17 “A Roadmap to Disaster Information Management” may be useful if you ever need to explain how data that you collect and manage contributes to the ‘right information’ at the ‘right time’ for the ‘right people’ to make effective decisions. – Stu Hamilton
+Call For Young Professionals to Help Develop the World Water Week in Stockholm
+There are only 10 days left for young professionals to volunteer to provide support to the World Water Wee’s Scientific Programme Committee. Volunteers are needed to develop the programme of seminars on the theme of Water for Sustainable Growth. The themes for the 2016 world water week can be reviewed HERE. Many of these themes are topics that are familiar to regular readers of Hydrology Corner. – Stu Hamilton
+Water News: November 2015
+Flooding in the South Platte River and Fountain Creek Basins in Eastern Colorado, September 9–18, 2013
+This newly published report on a flooding event on the South Platte River in 2013 harkens back to an era when this type of report was common for many agencies not just the USGS. It is more important now, than ever, for the hydrologists and hydrographers who have first-hand knowledge of impactful events to document what they learned for the benefit of others and to preserve what they know for the benefit of future investigators. There are many excuses for not taking the time to create high value reports such as this. Rather than yield to these excuses, the science of hydrology and the development of best practices for water monitoring would be better served by following the example of Robert Kimbrough and Robert Holmes. –: 2015 likely to be Warmest on Record, 2011-2015 Warmest Five Year Period
+No big surprise here. Hydrologists around the world have been monitoring record floods and droughts, which are a direct consequence of a long run of anomalously high temperatures. Getting timely, high quality, water data in the hands of decision-makers has never been more important. – Hydrological Observing System
+The World Hydrological Observing System (WHOS) has launched a portal to the online holdings of National Hydrological Services around the world that publish their historical and/or real time without restrictions or cost. This is a handy resource, a celebration of progress made in recent years and a grim reminder of how far we still have to go to get universally available data everywhere that it is needed all of the time. – Stu Hamilton
+Groundwater/Surface-Water Interactions in the Bad River Watershed, Wisconsin
+This report is a good example of the value in moving toward a modeling/monitoring hybrid approach, where data is needed to improve modeling and modeling helps to improve monitoring. The report is a good example of the value in an integrated approach between groundwater and surface water monitoring. This report is also a good example of the value in monitoring stable isotopes. – Stu Hamilton
+Global Analysis – October 2015
+October 2015 was the warmest in the past 136 years. This sets up for an interesting summer in the southern hemisphere, and an interesting winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Make sure your gauges are tuned up and ready to record some valuable information. – Stu Hamilton
+Hunger Spreads in Africa As El Nino Cuts Harvests
+It is a sorry state of affairs when the extent of famine becomes our best indicator of the hydrological status in a region. Suppose there was real-time water data freely available for all of Africa, plotted against reliable historical records to put it all in context. How many ways could the planning and preparation for this emerging crisis play out differently? – Stu Hamilton
+Earth’s Hidden Groundwater Mapped: Less Than Six per Cent Renewable Within a Human Lifetime
+Much of what we believe to be true about total water volume on earth are from crude back-of-the-envelope guesstimates. It will take many more quantitative studies along the lines of this one to get a better idea of the uncertainty in our estimates of global water supply. – Stu Hamilton
+Fast Retreat of Zachariæ Isstrøm, Northeast Greenland
+The value of monitoring in remote locations is under-appreciated. No one could have predicted how impactful systematic monitoring of a remote glacier could be until something like this happens. – Stu Hamilton
+Contentious Issues on the Klamath River
+Solving water problems is complicated. The Klamath is a good example of that. Where are the news reports about water problems that were avoided because all stakeholders were aware of risks to sustainable use in the context of hydrological variability? – Stu Hamilton
+smwrData—An R Package of Example Hydrologic Data, Version 1.1.1
+David Lorenz (USGS) has recently (Nov 6, 2015) published smwrData an R package with USGS datasets that may be a great starter for you if you are interested in advanced post-processing of USGS data. – Stu Hamilton
+Federal Agencies Release Data Showing California Central Valley Idle Farmland Doubling During Drought
+Water supply and food production: Do we look for new sources of water or new sources of arable land? – Stu Hamilton
+
+Assault Weapons Ban 2008 bill
+- 11-05-2008, 02:04 AM
+Assault Weapons Ban 2008 bill
+This time, it will not expire in 10 years, it will be permanent.
+This also includes handguns over 50oz, handguns with more than 10 rounds, handguns with magazines that extend below the grip, handguns with a threaded barrel, etc....
+Not to mention, the "usual suspects" a lot of shotguns, rifles, all AKs, All ARs, etc....
+However, you can buy as much as you want and keep it before they ban them, you need not turn them in.
+Support or Oppose?
+If you vote, please post why you oppose it support it.
+Full text here, I read it all, completely retarded.
+Search Results - THOMAS (Library of Congress)
+- 11-05-2008, 03:08 AM
+Im a democrat. But I firmly oppose this. Im about to graduate college and get a job.. . eventually I will buy a house and I sure as **** would like to be able to protect it
+- 11-05-2008, 03:08 AM
+11-05-2008, 04:26 AM
+11-05-2008, 05:00 AM
+I oppose it because anytime you ban something like this from people, you are only taking it away from the law abiding citizens.
+11-05-2008, 05:44 AM
+11-05-2008, 10:22 AM
+11-05-2008, 12:53 PM
+Nobody goes squirrel hunting with an Ar-15, or an ak-47. You dont need them. There is no infringement on your 2nd amendment rights because the 2nd amendment refers to a well regulated Militia. There is no precedence for those out there who imagine defending their home with an assault weapon rambo style, its just not reality.
+11-05-2008, 01:18 PM
+Well...........actually an AR style weapon is awsome for squirrel and other varmit hunting. I take it you think an AR style weapon in .223 caliber form is more dangerous than a semi-auto .30-06. why because the military has them? well news flash the .223 or 5.56mm caliber sucks for killing humans. they are very far from high powered. Im against any gun law especially since criminals will always use what ever they want anyway. Besides would you rob a convience store knowing that the possibility of more than one person is concealed carrying in it. I agree about RAMBO its a hollywood thing not a real life thing.
+Last edited by crawlinmatt; 11-05-2008 at 01:27 PM. Reason: mispelling
+11-05-2008, 01:44 PM
+11-05-2008, 02:26 PM
+A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
+Keep in mind, that the Bill of Rights is protects the liberties of INDIVIDUALS from that of the Federal Government (now increased to State and Local governments). In no way was the Bill of Rights created to protect the freedoms of groups like MILITIAS.
+11-05-2008, 02:50 PM
+11-05-2008, 02:56 PM
+I will say that many popular handguns such as Sig Sauers and Glocks carry more than 10 bullets in their standard models and this ban would outlaw those weapons.
+I disagree. Most violent criminals focus on the immediate repercussions of their actions, while losing sight of the possible long term consequences of their behavior. Knowing that anyone around you may have a gun, is definitely an immediate consequence.I disagree. Most violent criminals focus on the immediate repercussions of their actions, while losing sight of the possible long term consequences of their behavior. Knowing that anyone around you may have a gun, is definitely an immediate consequence.Anyone robbing anything/anywhere obviously isnt worried about possible reprecussion, so no, I dont think they would be detered.
+11-05-2008, 02:57 PM
+I think you may be mis-interpreting something. The 2nd amendment does not say "any body who want a gun can have one." It says "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Thats plain english to me: because a well regulated militia is neccesary, the government can not take away it members guns. No reference to individuals not part of a regulated militia.
+11-05-2008, 04:07 PM
+That neighbor in Texas who shot the two young men robbing his neighbors house, American Hero.
+NSCA - CSCS
+11-05-2008, 04:15 PM
+2 houses I lived in have been burglarized when I was not there(this includes the one I live in now) 2 attempted robberies that I stopped on myself, 1 I stopped for someone who knew someone was coming after them and I stayed with them for 3 days and DID stop them from attacking them, while the cops did NOTHING to protect this person "we can't do anything, till something happens..." how comforting
+." Armed Citizen
+Have you ever been shot? shot at? I have, luckily, the only injury I had was from a hollow point of a 9mm fragment that grazed me, you know how dead I would've been without my gun?
+Ever been stabbed? bad f**king feeling, I defended myself just with my knife, you know if the guy had a gun and I didn't or 1 or 2 more guys had a knife how dead I would've been?
+I hate people who say retarded sh*t like that, I always hope people like you and your families get raped and robbed then you can consider firearm laws because honestly, people's opinion's on gun laws do change after that.
+If something I'm doing now, perfectly legal(carrying my sidearm which has 15 rounds) suddenly becomes illegal, I'm still gonna carry it, I'm not a criminal, but this f**king country wants me to be one, I'll be one.
+11-05-2008, 04:19 PM
+It is f**king retarded how hey want to enforce more laws.....when the gun issues stem from criminals.......which don't care about existing laws....what makes em think, more laws will help? f**king idiots
+Hell, the incident above where I stayed with that guy for 3 days, the attacked was a convicted felon! he had a firearm, he committed:
+-Felon in possession of a firearm
+-Carrying concealed firearm
+-Aggrevated assault with a firearm
+Not to mention other charges not related to me/my friend, do you think more laws will stop that kinda ****...please..
+11-05-2008, 04:32 PM
+Sorry if I came all jacked up on this post.
+BUT, you people don't understand that there are people who really need their guns because of where they live and work and don't give me that BS about cops being there to protect you.
+So by you voting away our gun rights and carry rights, you endanger our lives, therefor, I wish the worst most horrible to be committed on you as you vote them, to be committed on us.
+That's all.
+11-05-2008, 05:05 PM
+11-05-2008, 05:13 PM
+Completely agree with Omen.
+If you think it's extreme, then you are obviously not thinking much of this whole thing through.
+When it comes down to your life, I think I would rather have my gun. This won't stop criminals, only the innocent citizens. Criminals are criminals because they break the law(s), what makes people think they will stop doing it because our oh-so-great government passes a pathetic law?
+11-05-2008, 05:20 PM
+I only wish upon you what's happened to me and other people so you can change your mind....however I have no intention or desire to do that to you, I'm sure there are people out there who will though, the UCR, NIBRS and other crime reporting systems statistics support my views.."
+A gun is responsible for murder as much as a car is for murder, the issue at hand here is to make sure guns stay out of the wrong hands and stay in the right ones.
+11-05-2008, 06:08 PM
+The problem with your argument is this: ok, so I don't need an assault rifle. Why do I need a shotgun? Why isn't a revolver enough? Why do I need a gun at all?
+Tell me? Why do you suppose I 'imagine' myself defending my property with an 'assault rifle' like 'Rambo'? Why those terms? If I use a revolver, will I defend it like a cowboy? Do you think I'm salivating, dreaming, just WAITING blow someone away, because, well, I own guns, I MUST think like that?
+Are you sure I don't 'imagine' myself finishing the rest of my days in peace and quiet with my two baby girls, never having fired a shot? Are you sure that if I use a legal non-assault weapon to defend my kids, I won't do so in a 'rambo-ish' manner? Does the gun dictate my 'attitude'? Will I kill less without a pistol grip or hicap mag? If I kill someone with a .32, is it somehow different than if I killed him with an AR?
+Yeah, right.
+The 'Assault weapon' bans are written by utter retards.
+11-05-2008, 06:12 PM
+Proven fact. /thread.Proven fact. /thread.I disagree. Most violent criminals focus on the immediate repercussions of their actions, while losing sight of the possible long term consequences of their behavior. Knowing that anyone around you may have a gun, is definitely an immediate consequence.
+11-05-2008, 06:17 PM
+11-05-2008, 06:21 PM
+11-05-2008, 06:24 PM
+11-05-2008, 06:59 PM
+I am against ANY weapons ban.
+A weapon is only as deadly as the person holding it.
+A pencil can be a weapon. Ask any correctional officer.
+11-05-2008, 07:05 PM
+This is a retarded ban anyway. Its not really a ban if everything is grandfathered in. So you mean I can go the day before the ban and buy 10 assault rifles and then the next day I can still have them. yeah that sounds like a ban to me.
+11-05-2008, 07:06 PM
+Most of the gun owners I know are some of the best, nicest, most upstanding individuals I have ever met. What is the world gaining by taking their guns away.
+11-05-2008, 07:09 PM
+so im looking at the ban. Are they proposing to ban all the guns listed? cause Im looking at a list of shotguns and there is like every model shotgun ever made on this list.... They are even trying to ban single shot shotguns?
+EDIT: Nevermind Apendix A is what it doesnt apply to
+11-05-2008, 07:20 PM
+11-05-2008, 10:27 PM
+11-05-2008, 10:52 PM
+No collection is nice, but the ban of sale still makes me sick.
+They will never stop inching this sh!t on us. If they took our guns in one sweep we'd flip out, so they do it in increments.
+I voted "oppose."
+A well armed populous is the best defense against tyranny.
+Thomas Jefferson: "Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry."
+It is tyranny to ban the sale of any weapons, tase proof fabric and body armor, to the public when law enforcement uses them.
+I am also extremely opposed to "Gun Free Zones." What jack@ss came up with that idea? The lack of logic there is astounding.
+11-06-2008, 01:10 AM
+11-06-2008, 07:05 AM
+11-06-2008, 10:08 PM
+Omen, Dude Your a ****ing wild man.... mad props
+.....
+11-07-2008, 12:28 AM
+No, I tried to get in the Military, not gonna work for now(security clearance issues), considering the Police academy.
+I'm 21, so maybe after a few years, I'll try again.
+I agree with the above too, most people freak out like a f**king chimpanzee on crack..... when I call 911, more than once they thought I was kidding because I'm calm and just give facts instead of OMG every 2 seconds.
+11-07-2008, 01:56 AM
+Completely against it. I got robbed by ****ing gang bangers (bloods). Took one down and started pounding after that the other three jumped me. Most people who would vote for it live sheltered lives. Oh yeah the only one they caught was the driver and he might get off. When I went to the police station to identify him they didn't do a fuc*ing line up. So I am supposed to trust pigs with my life. Fu*k that. The only reason I didn't bust those fu*ks was certain things are "unlicensed"
+11-07-2008, 03:36 AM
+Would the d0uche bags that voted "support" like to explain themselves???
+SomeWhatGifted, I'm VERY disappointed in you
+11-07-2008, 08:56 PM
+I'm down for biometrically labeled guns.
+Guns that can only be operated by their legal owners/purchasers.
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+“This has been harder to write than I anticipated, but looking at what we’ve overcome is inspiring to me. During the early years of our marriage, my husband and I lived in the shadows of our insecurities. Insecurity got the best of our marriage and us. We put most of our effort into avoiding any conflict at any cost. When a problem arose, it seemed to be easier to sweep it under the rug instead of talk through it. You would think that being able to sit down and have a conversation with your spouse without one of you getting offended would be easy, right? That wasn’t the case for us. For years we lived this cycle of brushing things under the rug. We just went with the flow of things, not really speaking our true feelings. It seemed to be working for us, but it was only a matter of time before one of us would break.
+Then it happened. It was me. I broke.
+A few years ago Colton (my husband) and I had been living in a home we had just built together with our two rambunctious boys, who were 3 and 1 at the time. I was working full time in an office that I absolutely loved. Colton had just recently started a sales job that he was really excited about. I was hesitant about it because I am the type of person that has always needed security. Knowing that if I work X amount of hours a week, my check will have X amount of money on it. Get my drift? This new job of Colt’s was strictly commission, so in order for him to make money he had to make sales. This pushed me out of my comfort zone, a lot. I wanted my husband to provide for us, but there was too much unknown that came with this job. Like a good wife, I did my best to be as supportive as I could. This new job did allow Colton some flexibility, so while I was working in the Office from 8-5, he was able to stay home with the boys.
+It wasn’t long before his job picked up, and he was working out of town fairly often. It got to the point where I either needed to quit my job or we needed to find a daycare. I couldn’t even fathom quitting my job. I knew I wasn’t cut out for the stay at home mom life. Now, don’t get me wrong. I am a stay at home mom now, but back then I just didn’t understand how moms did it. I liked a break every once in a while. I liked going to work and feeling important and socializing with adults. Plus, if I didn’t have my regular paycheck coming in, then how would I know if we would even have money to be able to survive each month? Colt kept telling me if he could work more hours in the day then the money would come. I wish I would have trusted him more, but I’m ashamed to say that I just couldn’t. I needed this job so I could have that peace of mind. After a couple months of resistance, we had to have the hard conversation again of if I should continue to work or quit my job. It was a hard decision, but I finally decided to quit.
+About two weeks after I quit my job to be a stay at home mom, Colt was offered what was supposed to be an amazing promotion. The only thing was it required us to move out of state. All I could think was ‘Heck no!’ We just built this home. This is where all our family is. This is where all our friends are. This is where we are supposed to build our life together. Why on earth would we move?
+Colton was so motivated and driven. He believes you should never have to work somewhere you are unhappy. He believes that you can do absolutely anything you set your mind to. He wanted to chase his dreams. He wanted to be his own boss. He wanted to have his own company. He wanted to travel. He wanted to grow. He wanted to push the limits. I, on the other hand, wanted security, no matter how it came. I wanted to live comfortably. I wanted to be paid bare minimum for a guaranteed check every two weeks. I wanted to settle down. I wanted to live in that home that we built forever. I had no reason to want to go anywhere else. Colt and I both had such different perspectives on life and how we wanted to live it.
+When push came to shove, I did what I knew I needed to do. Try to be as supportive as I could be. I said yes to the move but knew we didn’t have the means to do it right away. We decided that the boys and I would stay behind in Utah while Colton went to get things dialed in with work and find a nice area where we could live.
+For 3 weeks Colton had been gone working his butt off to try and provide for our family. I had been a ‘single mom’ trying to entertain my toddlers and find something that brought me joy. I started sinking lower and lower into a depression, which I was really unaware of at the time. And in those same 3 weeks, we did not once see any sort of paycheck. For 2 weeks we decided to postpone bills so we could have money to survive. During this time, I ran into a friend who I started catching up with because I hadn’t seen him in forever. I had known him most of my life and we had always been close.
+Things did not seem to get any easier. We didn’t move when we had planned because the money that was supposed to be coming in, wasn’t. I started pushing Colton away and resenting him. I felt so abandoned by the person who was supposed to take care of our boys and me. Because of this I started turning to this friend of mine I had reconnected with. I talked more with him and less with my husband. It got to the point where I would meet up with him and we would talk. Talking turned into more, and I found myself in the midst of something I NEVER thought I would be capable of.
+For months I tried to hide this huge dark cloud of lies that followed me. And as much as I wanted to tell Colton the truth, I didn’t know how. He eventually moved back to Utah and we tried to figure things out. We continued to push each other away. I pushed even harder because at this point, I felt like he would be better off without me. I thought if we just ended things, I would never have to tell him the truth. He could be happier without me. I sunk even more into depression. Finally I told Colton I just couldn’t do it anymore. We decided to separate. We lived apart but still tried to do things as a family for our boys. Colton still wanted to make things work. ‘I love you more than anything.’ ‘Please let me in.’ ‘Please talk to me.’ ‘Do you not want this anymore?’ ‘Let’s go to counseling.’ These are just some of the phrases I constantly heard come out of his mount. At this point I genuinely didn’t know who I was. I truly felt like I didn’t have anything to live for. I didn’t think it was possible to fix all that I had single handedly broken by turning to another man who was not my husband.
+We spent Thanksgiving together and decided to stay with some family and hit the Black Friday sales. I was still talking to this other person and lying to my husband about what was really going on with me. Lying about why I wasn’t myself, and why I didn’t know what I wanted. After almost 24 hours straight of shopping we settled down for the night. I hadn’t been asleep for maybe two hours when I was woken up by my frantic husband. ‘Jenessa you have been lying to me.’ I was half asleep still and had no idea what was going on. Colton was pacing the room. ‘What is really going on?’ ‘Tell me the truth.’ In his hand was my phone. On my phone was a thread of messages to a girlfriend of mine who knew what was going on. I had been telling her I didn’t know what I wanted, and felt like the other guy was the one for me. Not Colton. As you can imagine, my husband was so blindsided by the whole thing. ‘Tell me what happened,’ he kept repeating. Tears continued to stream down my face. I was speechless. If I said it, then that made it more real. I didn’t want any of it to be real. The hole I was in seemed to get deeper and darker. Finally he asked me, ‘Did you sleep with him?’ I choked out a ‘Yes.’ Devastation and disappointment covered Colton’s face. It broke my heart to see how badly I had hurt him.
+We decided to try counseling for the next few months. Bless his heart, Colton was still willing to give us a shot. But I was too far gone. I felt like I was this empty body roaming the earth barely making it by each day. I felt darkness all around me. And most of the time I didn’t feel anything at all. Everything was numb. My heart wasn’t in it. Nothing was working and we weren’t getting anywhere, so we filed for divorce. It wasn’t until we signed papers and I went home and hit my knees that I started to gain some clarity. I prayed harder than I have ever prayed in my whole entire life to know if I made the right decision. I had a pit in my stomach. I knew what we were doing was wrong. Turns out I wasn’t the only one who felt this way.
+A couple weeks after we signed divorce papers, we had started talking more and contemplated if we made the right decision. One night my phone rang. It was Colton. ‘Hello,’ I said. Can you meet me at the house?’ Colton needed to talk. ‘Yeah I can do that.’ I drove there in a hurry, eager and nervous to hear what he had to say. There he began to tell me how he had this overwhelming feeling to call the courthouse. When a lady answered the phone, he began to explain to her that he had filed for a divorce he wanted to put it on hold. She said that if the judge hadn’t signed it yet, he could fill out a form to cancel it completely, but this was something he would have to come into the office to do. His plan was to wait until he got done with work, but feared if he waited any longer it would be too late, and the divorce would be final. So he left work to go to the courthouse in hopes he could still cancel the divorce. When he got there the judge had been reviewing our case and was just about to sign the papers. He barely made it in time. We didn’t know what this meant at the time, but we knew we needed to give another chance, all in.
+We went to counseling again but this time it was more effective because we both were willing to put in all the effort to making our marriage work. We communicated more. We had hard conversations and didn’t leave until we were on the same page. We started going on dates more and making more meaningful time for each other. We decided to move to another state where we could start over fresh and just have each other and our family to focus on. We started going back to church. We prayed as a couple more often. We created a Christ-centered home where when we focused on the simple things, and we were blessed in abundance with the bigger things. We recommitted to each other and decided that no matter what obstacles life threw at us, we would work together to overcome them. It wasn’t easy, and there are still days that are difficult, but it is so worth fighting for. The negative feelings surrounding that experience were and are temporary. What we’ve built and continue to build is eternal.
+Our life currently rocks. We have two beautiful boys. Colt continues to fulfill his dreams of changing the world. He owns a largely successful solar company, and I have even gotten out of my shell and am a proud new business owner myself. As my husband says, ‘The best parts of our life are a direct result of overcoming all the worst parts.’
+I truly believe we can take any trial and make it a positive. I believe that we can learn and grow from those trails. Colton and I would not have the relationship we have today without the rock bottom we hit a few years ago. As hard as it was to go through, it has brought us closer than ever. I promise that your marriage it worth fighting for. Forgiveness is possible. You can gain trust again. You can move past all the pain and anguish and still create an amazing life worth living with your spouse. It’s not easy, but oh so worth it.”
+This story was submitted to Love What Matters by Jenessa Ogden. You can follow her journey on Instagram. Do you have a similar experience? We’d like to hear your important journey. Submit your own story here, and be sure to subscribe to our free email newsletter for our best stories.
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+Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue archives in hospitals, biobanks, and others offer a vast collection of extensive, readily available specimens for molecular testing. Unfortunately, the use of tissue samples for molecular diagnostic applications is challenging; thus, the forensic pathology FFPE tissue archives in Africa have been a largely unexploited genetic resource, with the usability of DNA obtainable from these samples being unknown.
+The study, conducted from January 2015 to August 2016, determined the usefulness of FFPE tissue as a reliable source of genetic material for successful post-mortem molecular applications and diagnostics. Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue samples were collected and archived from autopsies conducted over 13 years in the forensic medicine department of the University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa). Deoxyribonucleic acid from FFPE tissue samples and control blood samples was amplified by high-resolution melt real-time polymerase chain reaction before sequencing. The procurement parameters and fixation times were compared with the quantity and quality of the extracted DNA and the efficiency of its subsequent molecular applications.
+This study has shown that FFPE samples are still usable in molecular forensics, despite inadequate sample preparation, and offer immense value to forensic molecular diagnostics.
+FFPE samples fixed in formalin for more than 24 h should still be used in molecular diagnostics or research, as long as the primer design targets amplicons not exceeding 300 base pairs.
+Advances in molecular biology have enabled the detection of preventable and treatable diseases at a genetic level and it is a field of study receiving growing attention over the years.
+Unfortunately, the low quality and efficiency of DNA extracted from FFPE samples in molecular diagnostic applications limits the use of archived FFPE tissue samples.
+Forensic molecular pathology is an emerging field with significant clinical impact; its techniques are used to diagnose preventable and inherited causes of death.
+Several South African universities’ forensic medicine departments conduct valuable research, mainly focusing on possible causes of sudden deaths; however, there is still a remarkable paucity of publications on molecular forensic studies and their applications in Africa.
+Until now, these forensic pathology FFPE tissue archives have mainly been unexploited; thus, the quality of DNA obtainable from these samples is unknown.
+This study aimed to determine the utility of FFPE tissue samples as a reliable source of genetic material for post-mortem molecular applications and diagnostics. Firstly, the study evaluated the influence of the procurement parameters, fixation time, and storage periods of the archived FFPE tissue samples on the quantity and quality of the DNA extracted and its efficiency for subsequent molecular applications. Secondly, the study aimed to determine which DNA extraction kits yield the best quality and quantity of FFPE DNA.
+Ethics approval was obtained from the Faculty of Health Sciences Research Ethics Committee University of Pretoria (reference number 142/2014) to use the retrospective and prospective FFPE tissue samples and the control blood samples. The retention and use of tissues obtained at medico-legal post-mortem examinations were guided by the South African legislation (Inquests Act 58 of 1995, National Health Act 61 of 2003 and the Regulations Regarding the Rendering of Forensic Pathology Service R636). Thus, patient and family consent was not required. Healthy volunteers provided written informed consent before blood sample collection. All tissue and blood samples were assigned a case number, with no identifying features linked to any of these samples.
+This retrospective observational study was conducted in the Department of Forensic Medicine, the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, from January 2015 to August 2016 using FFPE myocardial tissue samples obtained over 13 years from post-mortem examination of sudden unexplained infant deaths in the Pretoria Medico-Legal Laboratory. The samples were stored for further ancillary investigations to determine the cause of death, including genetic testing for genes linked to inherited cardiac arrhythmogenic disorders and sudden unexplained infant deaths, such as
+The study included a total of 58 FFPE myocardial tissue samples. These FFPE tissue samples were obtained from sudden unexplained infant death complete post-mortem investigations between January 2002 and January 2015 and identified from the Department of Forensic Medicine electronic repository. Additionally, in January 2015, two prospective myocardial tissue samples (samples 59 and 60) were also obtained from autopsy and, starting in March 2015, venous blood from nine healthy volunteers was drawn into two 5 mL ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid tubes.
+When retained, the archived FFPE myocardial tissue samples were immediately fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin solution per routine and processed using the Shandon Pathcentre from Thermo Scientific (Waltham, Massachusetts, United States) and the Tissue-TEK® TEC from Sakura Finetek (Torrance, California, United States). The FFPE processing included dehydration in ethanol, clearing in xylene, and embedding in paraffin blocks.
+When obtained, the prospective myocardial tissue samples (samples 59 and 60) were immediately fixed in formalin for 14 h – 24 h, per Qiagen protocol. Subsequently, they were cleared in xylene, embedded in paraffin blocks (following the same procedure as the archived samples), and stored for a month.
+All FFPE tissue samples were cut into 20 μm thick sections using a microtome (Leica Biosystems, Wetzlar, Germany). The first three to four cuts of each FFPE specimen were discarded because the sample surface had been exposed to air. Then, to ensure sufficiency, six to eight sections of each sample were put into a well-labelled sterile 1.5 mL microcentrifuge tube for DNA extraction. During this specimen preparation process, the microtome’s blade and the cutting surface were cleaned with 100% ethanol between each specimen to prevent cross-contamination.
+Deoxyribonucleic acid was extracted from all FFPE samples (archived and prospective) using two different extraction kits; the QIAamp DNA FFPE tissue kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) and the Isolate П FFPE DNA kit (Bioline, London, United Kingdom). Thus, two DNA extraction procedures were performed on every FFPE tissue sample. The two kits differed in the type of deparaffinisation solution and incubation time at 90 °C for the reversal of DNA cross-linking. The QIAamp DNA FFPE tissue kit used standard Qiagen-provided deparaffinisation solution and required an incubation time of 2 h at 90 °C, while the Isolate П FFPE DNA kit used xylene and incubation of 1 h at 90 °C.
+For the blood samples drawn into two 5 mL ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid tubes, the buffy coat was isolated (200 μL) and stored at – 80 °C until DNA extraction using the QIAamp DNA Blood Mini Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) per manufacturer’s instructions.
+Further on, the concentration and purity of all DNA samples (archived FFPE, prospective FFPE and blood) were determined spectrophotometrically (NanoDrop, Thermo Scientific [Waltham, Massachusetts, United States]). For this study, a DNA concentration range of 40 ng/μL – 75 ng/μL and a purity ratio above 1.75 were deemed sufficient.
+The DNAs were diluted to concentrations between 40 ng/μL and 75 ng/μL. Thirty-four amplicon primer pairs (online Supplementary Document Table 1) for the
+The tissue retention date and the 10% formalin fixation duration for each FFPE tissue sample (online Supplementary Document Table 2) were used for Student’s t-test in Microsoft Excel 2013 (Redmond, Washington, United States) to determine a possible correlation with the quality of PCR amplifiability.
+Deoxyribonucleic acid extracted from all nine control blood samples yielded concentrations ranging from 15 ng/μL to 56 ng/μL, with sufficient 260/280 ratios between 1.75 and 2.0.
+The maximum period of tissue sample storage (embedded in paraffin blocks) was 13 years, while the minimum was one month. The minimum period of tissue fixation in formalin wax was two days and the maximum, 271 days. The average value obtained for the fixation period of all 58 tissue samples was 26.1 days, with a median of 11.5 days. Our findings showed an extensive delay in the department’s processing of FFPE tissue samples, particularly long tissue fixation in formalin (online Supplementary Document Table 2). These findings are in keeping with similar FFPE archive conditions reported by other forensic pathology departments practising in resource- and fund-limited settings.
+The Qiagen FFPE kit yielded much higher DNA concentrations, 50 ng/μL – 900 ng/μL. After extraction, an elution volume of 50 μL of DNA of each sample was obtained, with purity ratios between 1.7 and 2.1. The Bioline FFPE kit yielded lower DNA concentrations, 33 ng/μL – 137 ng/μL, with 260/280 ratios between 2.0 and 2.1 and an elution volume of 50 μL. For this study, a DNA concentration range of 40 ng/μL – 75 ng/μL and a purity ratio above 1.75 were deemed sufficient.
+Although the two different kits yielded DNA concentrations of quite different ranges, no difference in PCR amplification results was observed. Furthermore, both kits’ PCR amplification quality correlated; thus, successful or failed/unsuccessful amplification was recorded for each tissue sample. Therefore, we concluded that the two kits yielded the same quality of extracted DNA and PCR amplification and, by extension, the exact molecular analysis results.
+Amplification of all 34 amplicons, high resolution melt analysis, gel electrophoresis, and sequencing were successful for all DNA extracted from blood.
+Polymerase chain reaction amplified several amplicons from the FFPE DNA; however, there was a significant reduction in the amplification of amplicons with a length greater than 300 bp (
+Effect of amplicon size on PCR amplification success rate of DNA extracted from FFPE tissue samples, Pretoria, South Africa, June 2015 – May 2016 (online Supplementary Document Table 3).
+Laboratory results showing the association between a prolonged formalin fixation period and a decline in PCR amplification success rate, Pretoria, South Africa, March 2015 – July 2016 (online Supplementary Document Table 2).
+Approximately half of the FFPE DNA samples produced large amplicons; an association existed between successful amplification and a shorter (approximately four days) formalin fixation duration (
+This bar graph shows the significant decrease in successful PCR amplification by using DNA extracted from FFPE tissue samples that have been fixated in formalin for periods longer than the prescribed 24 h. DNA samples extracted from those FFPE tissue samples which adhered to the prescribed 24-h formalin fixation illustrates a 100% success rate in PCR amplification. Samples were grouped according to days in formalin (see online Supplementary Document Table 4).
+Sanger sequencing of amplicons was successful for both blood and FFPE tissue samples. Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue sequences that showed variations upon alignment to the reference sequence were re-amplified and re-sequenced to validate these variations and exclude the possibility of DNA cross-linking. Results showed no aberrant variations in FFPE DNA samples compared to amplicons resulting from blood DNA, indicating that the fixation method does not seem to increase the chance of interpreting these as legitimate variations.
+This study showed that DNA extracted from FFPE tissue samples could successfully be both amplified and sequenced. However, it is essential to note that DNA measurements (concentration and purity ratio) obtained using a spectrophotometer do not assure successful PCR amplification and sequencing because it does not measure the extent of DNA fragmentation. Commercially available kits, such as the Quantifiler® Trio DNA Quantification kit, are designed to detect and help overcome external factors affecting PCR amplifiable quality. However, in a resource-poor setting, a spectrophotometer, which most laboratories have, will indicate the ‘usability’ of extracted DNA.
+Our study confirmed that FFPE samples are still useful for molecular forensics and diagnostics despite inadequate sample preparation. Thus far, FFPE tissue archives in most African forensic pathology departments have been an underexploited resource for conducting large retrospective and prospective genetic epidemiological studies.
+The authors declare that they have no financial or personal relationships that may have inappropriately influenced them in writing this article.
+B.S.v.D., L.d.T.-P. and C.v.N. conceived and planned the experiments/study. B.S.v.D. carried out the experiments. B.S.v.D., L.d.T.-P. and C.v.N. contributed to the interpretation of the results. B.S.v.D. took the lead in writing the manuscript. All three authors provided critical feedback and helped shape the research, analysis, and manuscript.
+The authors would like to thank the Genomics Research Institute (University of Pretoria) for funding this project. We would also like to thank the South African National Research Foundation for funding part of this project.
+The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, B.S.v.D., upon request.
+The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of any affiliated agency to the authors.
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+Oh wait? That wasn’t the answer you were looking for? Sorry…ok, I’m really not. Eat a bar…it will be ok.
+I made these bars this past summer for our family get together at the beach, and they were gone in like 5 minutes flat after I cut into them. I wish I had videoed everyone standing around just waiting for that first cut. It was madness getting a square!!! There was no way I was going to photograph it then. But this past month I made dinner and dessert for a family in our church that just had a new baby. It was the perfect opportunity to make these bars again.
+That’s my diet tip for you…only bake treats when you know you can give them away the same day.
+You will love how soft and chewy these peanut butter bars are. If you want them to keep that soft texture, make sure you do NOT over bake the bars. No one likes a dried out peanut butter bar. Each bite of these glorious bars also has a pocket of marshmallow cream. Peanut butter and marshmallow is definitely one of THE best combos in my eyes. And Reese’s Pieces are one my top 5 candies!!!
+These bars are seriously so easy to mix up. You can have them in your oven in about 15 minutes. And they only take about 25 minutes to bake up, so you will have time to A. Vacuum or B. Catch up on a show. I wish I could say I always chose A, but that would be stretching it.
+Maybe you could run the vacuum while the bars are cooling because you will need something to distract you from diving right into the bars with a spoon! There is nothing wrong with that…if you like burning the taste buds off your tongue. I have done that way too many times and it’s not fun, so I would recommend some wait time. Honestly these bars are even better the next day, but waiting that long would definitely be considered torture. Patience is not something I am good at, so give yourself 15-20 minutes and then DIVE into the pan.
+Diet? What diet???
+Peanut butter bars filled with Reeses pieces and marshmallow cream
+Ingredients
+- 1/2 cup butter
+- 1 cup brown sugar
+- 1/2 cup peanut butter
+- 2 eggs
+- 1 teaspoon vanilla
+- 2 teaspoons baking powder
+- 1/2 teaspoon salt
+- 1 and 1/2 cup flour
+- 1 cup chocolate chips
+- 1 cup Reese pieces
+- 1 cup marshmallow cream
+Instructions
+- In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter, sugar, and peanut butter until creamy. Add the eggs and vanilla and cream again. Sift together the baking powder, salt, and flour. Slowly add to the butter mixture until just mixed in.
+- Stir in the chocolate chips and Reese pieces by hand. Spread half the batter in a greased 9 x13 pan. Drop the marshmallow cream on top. Gently spread across the top. Drop the rest of the batter on top of the fluff and carefully spread out the dough. You may need to use a damp finger or hand to do this. Bake at 350* for 25-28 minutes. Let cool before cutting into bars. Store in a closed container for up to 5 days.
+Here are a few other fun recipes using Reeses and marshmallow…
+FLUFFERNUTTER FUDGE BROWNIES
+REESES CHEESECAKE BROWNIES
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+Meghan says
+Yes please! Yummers!
+Meghan recently posted..#1 Post of 2012 is:
+Carrie @ Bakeaholic Mama says
+OH MY! I love peanut butter bars/blondies.
+Carrie @ Bakeaholic Mama recently posted..Caramel Toffee Cheesecake
+Robyn Stone | Add a Pinch says
+Whoa! I think I’m in love, love, love with these!
+Robyn Stone | Add a Pinch recently posted..Apple Breakfast Cake Recipe
+Coleen @ TheRedheadBaker says
+Marshmallows AND peanut butter?!? YUM!! No wonder they were gone in 5 minutes the first time you made them!
+Coleen @ TheRedheadBaker recently posted..Ina’s Salted Caramel Brownies!
+Hayley @ The Domestic Rebel recently posted..Death by Chocolate Cookies!
+Tanya Schroeder recently posted..Sriracha Beer Cheese
+Karly says
+You can pretty much put marshmallow cream in anything and I’ll eat it, but Reese’s Pieces? Genius!
+Karly recently posted..Chocolate Covered Pretzel Rice Krispies Treats
+Vikki says
+Yummy !Love your blog! I would love for you to visit my linky party going on now at
+Have a great day!
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+Liz says
+Wow, these look irresistible! Sending my youngest back to college this weekend…your blondies would be perfect for his care package 🙂
+Liz recently posted..Spinach Lasagna
+Elaine @ Cooking to Perfection says
+The marshmallow cream swirled throughout might be my favorite part! Holy yum! The lose weight resolutioners are surely are missing out if they dont make these!
+Elaine @ Cooking to Perfection recently posted..Skinny Spinach Artichoke Dip
+Jocelyn Brubaker says
+It just means more for us dessert lovers! I am a sucker for swirled marshmallow cream every time!!!
+Tumbleweed Contessa says
+You are mean and evil!!! Ha…I am going to pretend that looking at these beautiful pictures is sufficient enough and I will pin these for next week when I am tired of New Year’s resolutions. 🙂
+Tumbleweed Contessa recently posted..Cast Iron Skillet Frittata
+Jocelyn Brubaker says
+Sorry…wait! I’m really not!!! Definitely make these when your resolutions go out the window…you won’t regret it for one minute 🙂
+Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust says
+Wowza! I can imagine why they’d storm the pan. These look amazing Jocelyn! And I’m with you. I can’t stick to my diet. If no one else does we can be fat and happy together, lol.
+Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust recently posted..Banana Breakfast Cookies
+Jocelyn Brubaker says
+For some reason I cannot stick to a diet right now to save my life…and all my pants are getting tight. It’s a real problem I tell ya!!! I like your plan though!!!
+Ashley @ Kitchen Meets Girl says
+I’m with you…Reese’s is one of my very favorite candies. So hard to resist! I’m loving these bars, Jocelyn! No diet here for me. 🙂
+Ashley @ Kitchen Meets Girl recently posted..Rosemary Roasted Almonds
+Jocelyn Brubaker says
+I just need to go on a moderate diet…eat healthy and enjoy one treat each night. That should work right?
+Chelsea {Whatcha Makin' Now?} says
+So yummy! I hate diets. Everything in moderation is key! 🙂 And I would start with just one of these bars.
+Chelsea {Whatcha Makin’ Now?} recently posted..Coconut Thumbprints
+Aimee @ ShugarySweets says
+Good gracious, I have no words.
+Aimee @ ShugarySweets recently posted..Chocolate, Caramel, Coconut Fudge (aka Samoa Fudge)
+Jocelyn Brubaker says
+There really are no words to describe the amazingness of these bars! It’s a good thing I had to give them away…I’m pretty sure I could have eaten all of them!!!
+Diana Rambles says
+WOW! Those look amazing!
+Diana Rambles recently posted..Best of 2012 Party
+Heather @French Press says
+I’ve only made blondies once, but my son is with me and he’s drooling – so I see myself making these soon:)
+Heather @French Press recently posted..Cinnamon Roll Bread Pudding
+Jocelyn Brubaker says
+You have to make a batch of these…for your son of course 😉
+Liz says
+These look like a mouth full of deliciousness! Happy New Year to you and your family! 🙂
+Liz recently posted..Chewy Popcorn Bars #bloggersforsandyhook
+Jocelyn Brubaker says
+You know it!!! Thank you and a Happy New Year to yours too!!!
+sally @ sallys baking addiction recently posted..skinny strawberry chocolate chip muffins.
+Jocelyn Brubaker says
+I am with you on pb and fluff ruling the world! It is top of my list right now! Thanks girl. I hope your guy likes them!!!
+Erin @ Dinners, Dishes, and Desserts says
+Good thing I am not really into resolutions, because I need these soon!
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+Jocelyn Brubaker says
+I’m really not sure why I make resolutions regarding diets because I usually fail by the afternoon of the first!!!
+Nicole says
+I Love Reeses Pieces! These look Amazing!
+Nicole recently posted..Bloody Mary Recipe
+Jocelyn Brubaker says
+Yay for another fellow pieces lover!!!
+Mary@athomeonthebay says
+You had me a marshmallows! Yummmm!
+Mary@athomeonthebay recently posted..One Year Blogiversary Giveaway
+Jocelyn Brubaker says
+Marshmallow gets me every time too!!!
+JulieD says
+I love blondies, these have my name written all over them!!
+JulieD recently posted..2012 Recap – My favorites and yours too!
+Taryn @ Design, Dining + Diapers says
+You had me at reeeses pieces! But seriously, these look amazing!
+Taryn @ Design, Dining + Diapers recently posted..Happy Hour Week 16!
+stephanie says
+These are NOT my diet! They look SO good! Thanks so much for sharing on Super Sweet Saturday.
+Steph
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+Jo-Ann says
+These look yummy. Can’t wait to try them.
+Kjersti Helberg says
+Wow those all look delicious! I think I just found peanut butter heaven on your blog! 🙂
+Laura Dembowski says
+I love Reese’s Pieces too, and these blondies look insanely delicious! Marshmallows and pb and Reese’s Pieces? These could not get better 🙂
+Laura Dembowski recently posted..Oatmeal Cake with Maple Glaze
+Jocelyn Brubaker says
+I agree. There isn’t much better than these bars!!!
+Lisa says
+These look awesome!! And anything with peanut butter derails any hopes of dieting I have. Note that I said hope of dieting and not actually dieting. I’m a realist. : )
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+Holly Lefevre says
+If I came here and saw carrot I would be sad…I love your sugary goodness…but must control myself!
+Holly Lefevre recently posted..Berry Cobbler Squares
+Emily at SweetBellaRoos says
+Oh my gosh these look so good. Reminds me of a blonde rocky road brownie. YUM! Thanks for sharing at Pin It Thursday, I featured you today!
+Emily at SweetBellaRoos recently posted..Pin It Thursday
+Tasha says
+I”m in! I didn’t even have to read the recipe to know this! I am SO going to make these…soon!
+Joan says
+Very good Blondie’s and easy to make!
+Jocelyn Brubaker says
+They are even better to eat 🙂 Thank you for stopping by!!!!
+Bekki Lindner says
+You are quickly becoming one of my very favorite food bloggers! I would SO love to have you guest post on my blog sometime. These are going into my March meal plan!
+Bekki Lindner recently posted..100 Books About Math For Kids!
+Zylo recently posted..Marshmallow Peanut Butter Blondies with Reeses Pieces
+Capturing Joy with Kristen Duke Photography says
+oh my…this one too!
+Capturing Joy with Kristen Duke Photography recently posted..True Belgian Waffles with Pearl Sugar & Yeast
+Susan C. says
+I love Reese and this is on my list to try!
+-Susan | Susan Loves…
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+Participants will be able to educate patients regarding energy conservation techniques to help their patients complete desired daily activities and remain as independent as possible.
+Participants will be able to educate patients regarding energy conservation techniques to help their patients complete desired daily activities and remain as independent as possible.
+After completing this continuing education course, the participant will be able to meet the following objectives:
+Energy conservation techniques are beneficial for all patients who have been in the hospital and present with decreased functional activity tolerance, as well as for patients with chronic illnesses. There are four principles of energy conservation.
+There are many energy conservation recommendations and tips that patients can use during all activities of daily living (ADLs). It is helpful to organize and lay out clothing at night to prepare for the next day. Patients should start with lower body dressing as it uses more energy. Using AE such as reachers, sock aids, or long-handled shoe horns will decrease the need to bend over. If patients have one arm and/or leg that is weaker, they should dress that side first. When undressing, patients should take out the stronger and more mobile arm and/or leg first. Patients should try to wear clothing that is easy to don and doff; for example, Velcro may be easier to use than small buttons or clasps.1
+It is helpful to avoid using scented products such as hair products and lotions as they can irritate the patient’s lungs and lead to shortness of breath. Using warm water instead of hot water during bathing will prevent steam and condensation from causing shortness of breath. Durable medical equipment (DME) such as a shower bench, bath stool or grab bar can make bathing easier and safer. A terry cloth robe can be used to conserve energy instead of drying off with a towel.1
+When planning a trip to the grocery store, patients should be sure to prepare a list of needed items. Patients can organize the list by sections of the store or aisles if possible, to decrease the time spent on additional aisles which are not needed. Using a shopping cart to transport items rather than carrying them in a basket will conserve energy. If patients will be transporting their groceries, they should make sure to keep the load in each bag light by only filling it up halfway. If possible, patients could also shop with someone who can help them carry the bags. When possible, patients should try to avoid going to the grocery store when it will be busy to decrease the wait time for checkout. If it is available, patients could also consider using a delivery service for groceries or using a store pickup option in which the workers will shop for them and then load the groceries into their vehicle for them.1
+When preparing to complete housework, patients should first start with a list and divide activities up to be done throughout the week. For major jobs, they should try only to plan to do one each day – such as laundry or changing the sheets on their bed. They should try to have a balance between heavy and light tasks to avoid over-exertion. It is also helpful to clean one entire room at a time rather than traveling between rooms while cleaning. Another helpful recommendation is to have a trash can in each room to avoid having to walk to one trash can in the home. If possible, patients should buy multiple cleaning items to store one in each area of their home. For example, they can keep a bottle of sink cleaner in the bathroom and the kitchen. If the patient has multiple levels of their home, they could have a vacuum on each level as well.1
+When making the bed, they should complete one side of the bed at a time to avoid having to walk around the entire bed multiple times. They can sit for tasks such as changing the pillowcases. When cleaning, patients should try to avoid spray cleaners as they may irritate their lungs and impact their breathing. When possible, patients should sit or kneel to clean the bathtub rather than standing and leaning over. When washing dishes, patients should allow them to air dry in a dish rack/strainer rather than towel drying them. Using dustpans and cleaning sponges with long handles will decrease the need to bend over.1
+As a general recommendation during housekeeping – patients should have their work right in front of them rather than reaching to the side and should slide objects when they can rather than lifting them. If housekeeping tasks are becoming too difficult, patients should consider asking for help from family or friends, or hire a housekeeper.1
+When cooking or baking, it is helpful to plan ahead and break down tasks into steps. Patients should try to gather all needed ingredients and cooking utensils before beginning the task of cooking. When possible, patients should make larger portions so that they can freeze the extra to reheat later. Patients should use cookware and dishes that are lightweight and easier to carry. The use of paper plates and cups will eliminate the need for washing dishes. Electrical appliances such as can openers and dishwashers can help patients to conserve their energy. Patients should try to buy easy to prepare dishes or frozen meals. If it is available, they can use a meal delivery service.1
+One of the only predictable symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is fatigue. It results from muscle weakness and spasticity. People with ALS will often complain of feeling tired, decreased strength, and an overall lack of energy. With effective management, the symptoms of fatigue can be minimized. People with ALS can improve their overall quality of life by learning the signs of fatigue, which factors worsen fatigue symptoms, and how to conserve their energy.2
+The noticeable signs of fatigue typically include:2
+Other noticeable signs may include:2
+There are many factors which may exacerbate fatigue, including immobility, overexertion, disruption in sleep, pain, excessive weight loss, protein malnutrition, and weakness with breathing.2
+Other factors that exacerbate fatigue include:2
+Some anti-fatigue strategies which are helpful for patients with ALS include learning methods to make all tasks easier. This may include the use of assistive devices or adaptive equipment such as a motorized wheelchair to decrease exertion required for functional mobility compared with a manual wheelchair.2
+Patients need to pace themselves and take rest periods often. Becoming breathless during a task should be an indicator that it is time to stop. Patients should save enough energy to enjoy at least one valuable experience every day. It is important to alternate activities with rest periods. A handicapped parking sticker will decrease the distance patients have to walk when going to appointments or shopping. The department of motor vehicles (DMV) has a form that can be completed by the patient’s physician.2
+Patients should try to establish a regular pattern of sleep. If a patient wakes up at night, they should try to determine why and find a possible solution. Patients should avoid prolonged bathing in warm water as that can worsen muscle fatigue. Patients should make sure that they are meeting their nutritional requirements every day and consult a dietician if needed to avoid any unnecessary weight loss. Patients should avoid stressful situations whenever possible.2
+It is helpful if the patient’s family members understand the symptoms of fatigue and do not take any of their emotional upsets personally. Patients should notify their doctor if they feel noticeably weaker or have difficulty breathing after taking a medication. They should ensure that their living environment is accessible for daily activities and is set up to promote energy conservation. Social isolation, quick physical deterioration, and unnecessary hardship can result if patients fail to manage their fatigue. Effective management of symptoms will allow them to maximize their wellness and capabilities to improve their overall quality of life.2
+Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) can benefit from energy conservation techniques as well. They should plan for periods of rest. If the patient has swelling in their feet or ankles, they should elevate their legs when resting or sitting for extended periods. They should avoid working long days and rest in between leisure activities. Conserving their energy will involve using less energy with daily activities to have more energy to complete additional activities throughout the day. This may involve the patient cutting down on some activities or incorporating the use of energy-saving assistive devices or techniques. Patients should discuss their own limitations if completion of self-care and home care activities becomes too tiring.3
+Patients with COPD should simplify tasks and set realistic goals. They should understand that tasks do not have to be completed the same way that they have always completed them. All activities – including housework, exercise, and leisure activities – should be planned ahead of time and spaced out throughout the day. Patients should avoid scheduling too many activities in any one day. Activities that take the most energy should be completed at the time of the day when patients feel their best and have the most energy to expend. Rest periods can be used before and after activities as needed. Patients must stop and rest as soon as they feel tired during an activity. They should not wait until the activity is completed before they take a rest period. The activity may need to be finished later in the day or on another day.3
+Patients should rest for 20-30 minutes after a meal. When needed, patients should ask family and friends for help with tasks. It is important to get a good night’s sleep with the elevation of their head while sleeping. While rest periods throughout the day are important, patients should not nap too much during the day, to allow for good sleep at night.3
+All daily activities that can be completed while sitting should be completed while sitting – such as shaving, drying their hair, etc. Assistive devices should be used as needed – such as a walker, a shower chair, a hand-held shower head, a bedside commode, a long-handled dressing stick, a shoehorn or a sock aid. When possible, patients should wear clothing with zippers or buttons in the front to avoid having to reach behind them for dressing.3
+Patients can navigate stairs if their doctor says it is acceptable. They may need to rest partway up the steps if they become too fatigued. Activities should be arranged to avoid ascending and descending the stairs many times throughout the day. Patients with COPD should avoid extreme physical activity. They should not push, pull or lift heavy objects (over 10 pounds) to avoid having to strain.3
+Fatigue is the most common symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS). 75-95% of all people with MS have fatigue, with 50-60% reporting that fatigue is one of their worst problems. Fatigue is one of the major reasons for unemployment among people with MS. Fatigue is defined as a lack of physical energy, mental energy, or both. MS-related fatigue is different. People have more “off” days than “on” days. Patients with MS should ask themselves whether their fatigue is interfering with their everyday activities or overall quality of life. If the answer is yes, they should notify their doctor. There are two general types of fatigue. Chronic, persistent fatigue refers to lethargy or exhaustion which limits activities and goes on for more than six weeks, more than half of the days, during some portion of the day.4
+Acute fatigue is lethargy which limits activities and has either appeared for the first time or has become noticeably worse over the last six weeks. Acute fatigue may be an early warning sign that other MS symptoms are going to flare up or become worse. Although fatigue is common in MS, MS may not be the reason or possibly the only reason that patients feel tired.4
+Many factors can cause or contribute to feeling fatigued. Another medical condition, such as a minor infection, could cause increased fatigue. Heat and humidity can lead to fatigue. Some medications have fatigue as a possible side effect. Sleep problems – including difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or getting the right kind of sleep can prevent patients from feeling rested when they wake up. Stress can make everyone feel tired, especially those whose lives are already stressful due to MS. This can also include happy occasions such as holidays or weddings which cause increased stress. Depression and anxiety can cause fatigue in everyone and these conditions are common in patients with MS.4
+There are several broad categories of MS-related fatigue. In fatigue related to mobility problems, daily activities that require physical effort may be exhausting for patients with MS, especially those with leg weakness. In fatigue related to respiratory problems, MS can affect breathing, making daily activities especially tiring. Primary MS fatigue is the category that remains when all other causes of fatigue have either been ruled out or treated with success.4
+Spasticity medications for MS can cause increased fatigue, so patients on those medications should speak with their doctor if they believe their symptoms may be related to medication. Smoking puts extra stress on the lungs which makes fatigue worse and can compound the effects of MS. For this reason, patients with MS should be educated on smoking cessation. Eating a well-balanced diet that is low in fat can provide energy and help to combat the symptoms of fatigue.4
+Patients with MS should plan their day around their natural body rhythms and try to establish a sleep schedule. They should schedule the activities which must be completed for the times when they have the most energy. Drinking warm milk 30 minutes before bedtime may help with sleep. If the patient has been in bed trying to fall asleep for more than 30 minutes, they should get out of bed and complete a quiet activity until they feel tired and then try again to fall asleep. Patients with MS should save their energy for activities that are most important to them. They should set priorities, eliminate low priority tasks, and focus their energy on the high priority tasks. A 10 to 30-minute nap can give fatigued muscles a break and provide replenished energy.4
+It is important to drink plenty of water, as well as other chilled drinks to keep their body temperature in a comfortable zone and avoid overheating. Cool showers, being near an air conditioner, swimming or participating in pool therapy, and wearing lightweight clothes can also help with staying cool and comfortable. A proper exercise program should increase the patient’s energy level and not completely diminish it. Patients should save their exercise for planned sessions and not use energy in situations where it can be saved. For example, they should take the elevator and not the stairs whenever possible. Deep breathing, visualization, yoga, and tai chi are all relaxation exercises that patients can learn to complete on their own.4
+Cancer-related fatigue is different from other types of fatigue. Patients with cancer may describe their fatigue as feeling weak, listless, or drained. It can cause the patients to feel too tired to complete daily activities such as eating or walking to the bathroom. This cancer-related fatigue can even make it hard for the patient to think or move. It does not go away with rest. Managing fatigue is an important part of good cancer care so patients should be open and honest with their care providers regarding their fatigue and how it is impacting their daily lives.5
+Cancer-related fatigue can last anywhere from months to years and often continues after cancer treatment has ended. Fatigue often gets worse at the beginning of chemotherapy treatment and then gets better until the next treatment. Fatigue typically gets worse throughout radiation treatment. Cancer-related fatigue can vary greatly from day to day and it can be overwhelming for patients. The causes of cancer-related fatigue are not well understood. The symptoms can be the result of the cancer itself and/or the cancer treatment.5
+Cancer, as well as cancer treatment, can alter normal protein and hormone levels which are linked to inflammatory processes which could possibly cause or worsen fatigue. Cancer treatment destroys both normal and cancerous cells and this can lead to a build-up of cell waste which requires extra energy from the body to eliminate. Cancer creates toxic substances in the body that alter the way normal cells function. In many cases, fatigue has more than one cause.5
+Some common causes of cancer-related fatigue include:5
+Patients with cancer must plan their day to include times for rest. They should take short naps or rest periods, each lasting 30 minutes or less instead of taking one long nap during the day. Too long of a rest period or nap can lower their overall energy level and make it difficult to sleep well at night. It is common for patients to have sleep problems while being treated for cancer. They may have trouble falling asleep or may sleep too much.6
+Certain medications used to treat pain, nausea or depression can lead to feeling tired. Patients should speak with their cancer team if they are feeling tired all the time as medication dosage changes or changing to another medication can help. It is a good goal to sleep 7-8 hours each night – including going to sleep and waking at the same time to establish a healthy sleep routine and avoiding caffeine in beverages, medications, or foods for at least 8 hours before bedtime should help them sleep better.6
+While exercise is important, patients with cancer should avoid exercising too late in the evening. Moderate levels of exercise regularly, especially walking, can decrease fatigue and help with sleeping better. If they still have trouble sleeping, they may benefit from working with a mental health professional to address sleep issues. Energy conservation is a way that patients with cancer can ensure they have enough energy to do what they need to do every day. They may need to accept the reality that they may not be able to do everything that they want to do.6
+Prioritizing daily tasks in order of importance should be the first step. They should plan ahead and space out activities throughout the day. Completing tasks slowly will allow them to save energy to complete tasks once they begin. It is important to remember to incorporate rest periods between daily activities. Patients with cancer should make sure they do not stand for activities too long or that they do not complete activities, including bathing, in extremely hot or cold temperatures. They should sit whenever possible to complete activities. The use of a shower chair and a chair in the bathroom at the sink can help with activities of daily living. They should store frequently used items within easy reach. For activities that are too taxing such as lawn mowing or vacuuming, patients with cancer should ask others for assistance. This will not only allow the patient to conserve energy, but it will also help family and friends to feel that they are truly helping. It is important when asking for assistance that family and friends are given specific things to do. It may be helpful to have someone who can assist with coordinating assistance in case there are times when the patient is too fatigued to even ask for help.6
+Cancer treatment can impact how patients eat or swallow, as well as how things taste. This can make it difficult to eat well. Patients with cancer must eat enough to provide energy and to allow their bodies to heal. Dehydration can worsen fatigue, so patients with cancer must get at least 8 cups of fluids every day. They should also include fiber, protein and fat with every meal and snacks to keep their blood sugar levels more stable and have a sustained feeling of energy.6
+Having cancer is stressful. Cancer treatment leads to even more stress. Patients must discuss their stress levels with their cancer care team. They may benefit from joining a support group, counseling, stress management training, or relaxation exercises to help with overcoming their feelings of fatigue. Distraction can be a great way for patients with cancer to cope with fatigue. They can use music, reading a book, or having relaxing visits with family or friends to distract themselves from their feelings of fatigue without utilizing too much energy.6
+Many recommendations can help patients with cancer in completing activities of daily living. They must plan ahead to avoid rushing and allow themselves plenty of time to complete daily activities. Sitting to bathe and dry off will conserve energy. Another helpful tip is to don a terry cloth robe instead of using a towel to dry off. It is helpful to use a shower organizer to minimize the need to lean over or reach too far. Long-handled brushes and sponges can help with washing their feet and backs. Grab bars in the bathroom can be helpful, as well as the use of an elevated toilet seat can conserve energy by decreasing the need to sit too low when using the toilet.7
+It is helpful to lay out clothing and toiletry items before dressing. To decrease the need to lean over to put on clothing and shoes, patients should bring their feet to their knees if possible, to don socks and shoes, as well as to thread their legs through their pants and underwear. If they cannot cross their legs in that manner, adaptive equipment such as reachers, sock aids, and shoehorns can help with lower body dressing. Comfortable shoes with low heels and slip-on style are preferred. For female patients with cancer, it is helpful to fasten their bra in the front and then move it around to the back. Shirts that button in the front are easier to don than pullover shirts.7
+Whenever possible, patients should complete home modifications to assist with energy conservation. For example, patients should place chairs throughout their home to allow for seated rest periods as needed.7
+The following are tips for energy conservation during housekeeping:7
+The following are helpful tips for shopping:7
+The following tips are helpful for meal preparation for patients with cancer:7
+The following recommendations will assist patients with cancer with childcare:7
+For patients with cancer who are still working, they should plan their workload to take advantage of times of the day when they have the most energy. Whenever possible, they should alternate work tasks that are physically demanding with less taxing activities. Patients should arrange their workspace to allow them to access the most commonly used equipment and supplies easily. It is important to continue the completion of leisure activities, especially with a friend. When choosing an activity, patients should plan one based on how much energy they have at that time. They should balance activities with rest breaks.7
+Fatigue is a major issue for patients with post-polio syndrome (PPS). Patients with PPS report that fatigue is the most persistent and debilitating symptom they experience. It can affect their ability to work, their mobility, and their overall quality of life.8
+In adults without a chronic disease or disability, fatigue typically is reduced when they retire due to a decline in overall stress. However, for patients with disabilities, including PPS, their fatigue typically remains the same or gets worse as they age. Assistive devices, adaptive equipment, and assistive technology can help to protect weak muscles in patients with PPS and may include braces, canes, walkers, or power wheelchairs.8
+Self-management refers to methods, skills, and strategies which effectively guide activities to achieve a goal or objective. For patients with a chronic disease or illness, self-management helps them with overcoming the physical and emotional issues caused by their disease to achieve their highest possible quality of life and maximize their physical capabilities.8
+Concerning fatigue, patients can manage their activity level by planning and scheduling daily tasks, setting priorities, pacing, and requesting assistance when needed. While patients with PPS were traditionally told to minimize exercise to conserve their energy, current research has shown that patient-centered gentle exercise programs can be beneficial.8
+Mrs. Jones is a 57-year-old female who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. She is divorced, and her children are both grown and married, so she lives alone. Her daughter and son-in-law live nearby and try to be supportive. Mrs. Jones has been having difficulty completing even the most basic daily tasks without feeling exhausted. She finally decided to speak with her cancer treatment team, and they recommended that she meet with an occupational therapist (OT) to discuss energy conservation techniques.
+The OT completes a home assessment with Mrs. Jones and determines that she would benefit from a tub transfer bench to help her with transferring into and out of the bathtub, as well as to provide her with a place to sit while bathing. The OT also recommends a shower organizer for Mrs. Jones to store her shampoo and body wash without having to reach overhead to retrieve them while bathing. The OT provides her with a long-handled bath sponge to help her with washing her feet and back. Mrs. Jones reports that she also gets fatigued when drying off after showers, so the OT recommends that she purchase a terry cloth robe and take a 30-minute rest period in the robe after the shower to decrease the need to use a towel to dry herself off.
+Mrs. Jones reports to the OT that going downstairs to complete laundry is one of the most exhausting tasks she has completed since being diagnosed with cancer. They decide that Mrs. Jones will ask her daughter to complete laundry for her once a week to decrease the need for her to complete this activity. This will allow her daughter to be able to truly help Mrs. Jones as she has been asking every day what she can do to help her mother. Mrs. Jones also reports that cooking has been difficult for her, but she loves to cook. They decide that she will use her slow cooker to prepare meals whenever possible and she will make a double batch so she can save half in the freezer to reheat. When she does cook at the stove, the OT recommends that she move her barstool to the stove to sit when cooking stovetop meals. At the end of the visit with the OT, Mrs. Jones reports that she is worried about mowing her lawn when springtime comes again. She loves her home and enjoys being able to watch the wildlife on her front lawn.
+Healthcare providers can utilize their knowledge of energy conservation techniques to assist patients with debilitating conditions, such as ALS or MS, with managing their fatigue to improve their overall quality of life and allow them to remain as independent as possible with desired daily tasks. Energy conservation techniques can also be beneficial for all patients who may experience fatigue due to generalized weakness, decreased endurance, or prolonged hospitalizations.
+Boards
+It's Friday! Good morning to you all!
+I am in a good mood, because I re-read an email that I misread last night and I have nowhere near as much to do today as I feared.
+Also, it's Friday. How are you all and what do you have lined up for this weekend?
+I'm at work early.
+I have LOTS to do.
+I'm tired.
+I'm broke so my weekend plans are pretty dull.
+I'm ifitwasn'tforthisdeliciousbacon&eggcobI'dprobablyhangmyself/10
+we were bigging you up (or your company)
+at the CAB Money Advice conference yesterday. Does that make you feel proud?
+Yes it does! :)
+(a little)
+Really tired today
+Had a Nando's last night so awaiting the aftermath today when my bowels kick in and decide to create a lava flow in my neither regions....worth it though...mmmm chicken.
+Got my energy drink and some cigarettes to get me through the morning.
+I have the day off
+gotta get the mop chopped
+gotta do lunch with some friends
+gotta buy shitloads of ingredients
+I'm basically Nigella Lawson for the day. 8/10
+Ingredients for what?
+doing japanese for some friends later this weekend
+so big stockup on basics - mirin, cooking sake, miso, dashi powder etc. Might try and find some yuzu for cocktails too.
+In early as need to be out early.
+Lots to do. Fickering windy last night so patchy sleep.
+I'm off to see 'Another Year' tonight then got an uncle pub crawl in Manc on Sat that I'm hosting/organising. Playing football on Sunday.
+MassiveSadpunks/10
+Very very ill, but can't complain really
+My boss has told me to go home so I dont die on company property. Just going to go through my emails, finish them then I'm on holiday next week. YES. Probably a hard day of FM11 ahead. Even the girl situation is great at the moment - mega/10
+You've played this perfectly
+struggling in the day before your holidays to show willing; being sent home afterwards by your boss with bravery points. 9.7/officeworker
+Going forward
+how could I have got that extra 0.3?
+thank fuck this day is nearly over
+although fewer hours now just means more work on monday.
+that's the sort of optimism I like
+I'm a "glass is not going to do the job of gouging out the eyes of the next fucker who pisses me off" kind of guy
+easy tiger
+It's all talk
+All I have is that paper cup that's too small to hold a half glass
+threadsmash so early?
+hello
+just got the new Football Manager yesterday, not had chance to install it yet but that's my weekend already accounted for. Looking forward to resuming my rightful place as the Egil Olsen of FM
+MORNING!
+I only have to make it til 11am until I can see the doctor about my foot. Its VERY swollen and throbbing.
+BUT
+I'm wearing casual clothes to work
+I'm going to a 1950s style dinner and cocktail party tonight
+I'm incredibly happy due to a very nice phone call yesterday
+I'm gonna have some coffee and some almond, oats & more cereal.
+8/10!
+but what about your foot?!
+AMIRITE LADS
+There will be no Jivin' for you tonight
+:(
+How about some sploshing?
+Your duties will be confined to serving dinner
+ensuring that drinks are regularly topped up, and broaching a new topic of discussion when the gentlemen have said their piece on the last.
+Thanks for the dinner party etiquette lesson
+Do I need to cut their food up into little bits or are the men capable of doing that themselves?
+There is always time for one last splosh
+I'll be over at 6pm with the pies
+top tip: custard pies work better than pork pies.
+Its friday and its been a loooong week.
+I'm going to a birthday 'games night' tonight, where we're playing board games and getting drunk. It should be fight city.
+I'm going to crack open FF13 tomorrow and while away my weekend, as my ladyfriend is away for the weekend. I'll probably just stay in my pants and eat only cheerios.
+What is FF13?
+Final Fantasy 13,
+I've got an idea, you should post something DEAD FUNNY and derogatory about it below.
+Nah man its cool, enjoy your Elixir crystals
+oh, and I'm off to Deftones tomorrow.
+GEEK!!!
+FUCKING WELL JEALOUS
+stupid poverty :(
+Word up!
+I am in a capital ACE mood today :D (not much sleep again, maybe delerium is setting in- I'm not adverse to this)
+Friday - It's Friday!
+Saturday - It's Saturday!
+Sunday - It's Sunday!
+Today - Work, Walking Dead, Sleep
+Tomorrow - Wales v South Africa
+Sunday - Kids Rugby, Hangover, Bowling Party (bad combo)
+Tomorrow I go to a wedding.
+Today I have the onset of a cold.
+These 2 circumstances could collide with devastating and terrible effects.
+Apprehensive/10.
+massively going to work drinks tonight.
+hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
+Lots of work today. Stressy. Probably going to knock off at 5pn, not 5:30 though whooooooooooooooooooop.
+This evening watching a DVD with a friend. Low key but should be good.
+Working tomorrow 9am-11am :( sad times.
+overall meh/10
+Morning folks.
+A bit tired this morn having been out last night to celebrate my friend getting the all clear after being diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year :)
+Tonight - Not sure, wine and weed perhaps.
+Tomorrow - Meeting a bunch of friends who want to buy us drinks :)
+Sunday - Gleneagles for some golf, nice!
+Yey!
+That's great news :D
+It is great news :D
+I'm massively going to Something Serious later
+but first I have to make my way through the next seven hours without something going hideously wrong at work. If I do, it will be a miracle to rank alongside the feeding of the five thousand and getting the top of the bottle of ketchup without it going everywhere.
+Today - Massively going to Something Serious for a friend's divorce party. May also talk to some of y'all.
+Tomorrow - Massively getting up early, heading back to Southend, eating breakfast, playing FIFA, going to the local, watching Southend 'play' football, going out on the town, maybe a casino, probably a cheesy 80s club, definitely boxing.
+Sunday - Massively recuperating in front of the Formula One finale and MOTD2.
+I've never been to, or conceived of to be fair, a 'divorce party'.
+What's the jist?
+One of your friends gets divorced
+You have a party. It's pretty complicated.
+I'm going to have one of these, hopefully soon.
+Are they in as bad taste as I think they are? Oh goody.
+Is that your own?
+Are you going to run around Covent Garden burning handcuffs, 'L' plates and throwing rings into volcanos?
+Just seems like a strange concept to me but there you go.
+Seems a bit weird to me.
+"Hey your marriage broke down? LET'S PARTY"
+I was more thinking of what the atmosphere is like. Y'know is everyone giddily happy that someone's wasted a lot of money and time on a marriage that didn't last or is everyone a bit sombre and "hard luck mate" etc.?
+People will have a party for anything these days...
+I understand that.
+But a 'wake' has more of a "let's celebrate this person's life; sombrely" vibe about it.
+There's something quite great about getting horrendously drunk after a funeral. Not entirely sure what it is.
+Wakes ARE different
+Because they happen before the funeral.
+FEEL THE KNOWLEDGE.
+In some places the do; in some they don't.
+FEEL THAT.
+Well, divorces usually take a long time to come through
+So all the boo-hoo wankery is generally over, and the AAAAAAAAARGGHHYEAHLETSGETPISSED begins in earnest.
+Fair point.
+Although I can't help but thinking that a divorce party would usually be a load of women in their mid-30's squalking around a town centre, having their photos taken with coppers and the like before the one who got divorced started crying her eyes out outside Reflex at 1.30am after the "I'm divorced and I've NEVER BEEN HAPPIER™" facade has totally worn off. Then vomiting, then a taxi home, then myriad pain the next day.
+Sounds grrrrrrreat.
+I might make tonight a 'nearly got married but didn't' party
+AAAAAAAAARGGHHYEAHLETSGETPISSED
+MORN.
+Tonight I am going to take it easy, watch 30 Rock and the Office and drink lots of tea.
+Tomorrow I'll spend the morning in the British Library, then find a pub for the rugger over lunch and then see my BFF in the evening <3
+Sunday I don't know, apart from PUBLIC ENEMY in the evening. What's good to do in Greenwich if it's raining?
+Go inside.
+To the observatory!
+(although admittedly a large portion of it is outside). Check out the navigational instruments from the Empire days - they are amazing - and catch a show at London's only planetarium which is just next to the observatory. I offer guided tours by the way.
+There's also the fan museum which is just west of the park. The name sells it self really.
+The Picturehouse has the best seats in any cinema I've ever been to. They recline like a Lazy Boy, you know how like the bum slides forward as you lean back, comfy.
+Maritime Museum?
+I'm going back to the IOW
+hoping it hasn't blown away.
+Also,
+check it out CCB, it's Spotifriday #69. Teehee!
+:D
+frottifriday! :)
+I think it's flooded instead.
+Morning!
+Massively got my hair fucked up last night and then went for drinks and dinner. I can't be bothered saying massively anymore so I'm going to stop.
+My friends who I thought were visiting for the weekend and arriving tonight are actually arriving tomorrow morning. This is great (because it frees up tonight for working late and then getting merry with the bf) and terrible (because they arrive at 8am tomorrow morning. Sacre bleu.)
+Hi!
+We're going for a meal tonight and it's free then we're going to see Abe Vigoda. This is also free. I feel like the Queen.
+Tomorrow I'm meant to be taking unfunny fatman Phill Jupitus out but I'm going to Liverpool instead for a bit of a party, should be fun.
+I really miss my best friend, I want her to come out with us but she's never here anymore :(
+Erm..
+Wedding tomorrow in Osterley. Reception in Teddington with a free bar. Yay! Nights sleep in Kingston.
+Jamaica?
+No,
+Surrey for any misunderstanding.
+no she left of her own accord
+correct answer
+That was your Kew for a pun c_c_b!
+i was worried that there might be no puns left
+and that TheWza would have twicken'ham all
+I am so excited it's Friday!
+Made homemade cheesy cornbread and pumpkin soup last night. It was all kinds of yum. This weekend will probably head to The Natural History Museum and I have been promised that I will be attending a proper Jack the Ripper walk on Sunday night. Plus tonight I will be attempting Nigella's black squid risotto. This weekend should be good.
+"black squid"
+even your risttos are racist!
+i saw that on her prog last saturday
+was more intrigued by the crunchie + slated peanuts choc slice
+Those crunchie and peanut slice thing looked delicious
+I may make some this weekend. I'm not too sure though...either that or a fat cheesecake.
+I was thinking of making those too this weekend...
+maybe as a museum snack.
+I'm really really happy beecause
+I thought I was gonna have to find and use a fax machine to send something really important to Finland and now I don't have to. So I've just been doing funny voices for my boyfriend while getting ready to cycle to lectures.
+Other happy things:
+I've been told I can be a news editor thingy next year
+I'm going into town later and claiming my free coffee at Oklahoma and buying a belated present for my big sis
+Bad things:
+Dick_Van_Gok_Wan_Carlos_Dyke is probably over the character count for a new username
+I've doublebooked myself for something next week. I need to decide between 2 hour human rights workshop with quite an important barriser and a 1 hour consultation exercise for which I get £10 book token.HELP.
+Anyone coming to watch the boxing in Edinburgh?
+I know of somewhere that has it 3D
+Last day of freedom before new job
+Gonna go sign-off, buy some 'smart casual' clothes, watch some films at the cinema, eat some food and drink some beers. So long, weekday daytime DiS ... Until either my new employers realise what a horrible mistake they've made or office boredom/complacency sets in. So basically, see you all in about three weeks!
+IN B 4 12
+tonight - massively going for a curry and then to a garage rock night
+tomorrow - massively seeing les savy fav
+sunday - massively watching the f1
+les savy fav eh, is that at oran mor?
+affirmative
+Hmmmm i really like them live but really don't like oran mor as a venue.
+Still, they should be fucking magic. Tickets still available?
+i've got no gripes with oran mor
+except that it's a little expensive at the bar
+(the arches is currently my venue of choice if i fancy a gruble about live venues - it's fine for clubs tho)
+not sure about availibility of tix. I've had mine for a wee while now but the date seems to have taken ages to have come around.
+(not seen 'em live before, either - i've only really been on their case for a year or so. </noobfan>)
+My friend just confirmed what I'd suspected for a month or so
+That she's pregnant. She's a very unlikely mum in a way but I'M SO HAPPY FOR HER :) She's so tiny, she'll look amazingly cute with a bump :D
+That's also lovely news :)
+tonight - pub with various people
+tomorrow - will be sat in the pub most of the day as boyf wants to watch the ruggers, hopefully read the paper until my friend joins us, then nandos at some point and then i dont know what else.
+sunday will probably be a day of watching things on the planner.
+exciting
+How can Teacher Librarians Support Literacy?
+In today’s times of rapidly changing technologies, innovative learning environments, online communities, digital citizenship, and increasing amounts of information, it is essential to be reminded that the core aim of a school library is ‘literacy.’
+Good readers are made when children read a lot, and I honestly believe that the school library plays a crucial role in boosting the same.
+However, merely having a room that is dedicated to the usual library resources is not enough; it must be adequately staffed by skilled librarians who can implement effective school library programs.
+It is through the reading program that information and digital literacy skills can be mastered. There are numerous events and activities of varying scales and impact that you can use to promote reading literacy and the library’s contribution to it. Special displays, events, policies, practices, and attitudes of the library can help to support student literacy.
+As a PYP Teacher Librarian at JBCN, we call our library ‘Learners Resource Centre’, simply to help imbibe in the mind of our learners that the school library is their first resource centre. From there, they will be guided to appropriate and authentic resources.
+I’m sharing some of the specific strategies that I use to ‘Implement Literacy in my learners through the L.R.C (as we fondly call it)’ and hopefully it will help others to gain the results that I have achieved using the same. The strategies shared below can be applied to the PYP and MYP as well. These strategies are all ‘doable’ and do not require any specific investment of budget or time. Most of the activities involve one of the key factors in effective library programming, which is teacher-collaboration.
+Library Program:
+Being a Resource Facilitator: One of the critical roles of school librarians is to help
+teachers and their learners find resources. Assisting teachers to identify relevant and appropriate books and articles for their planning to have greater value. Part of this help may even include letting the teachers know the reading levels of the available books.
+Updates regarding new books or any new additions to the library resources must be provided to the entire staff and learners regularly.
+Providing a literate environment through a wide variety of book selection: I ensure that our LRC provides age and skill-appropriate materials for all kinds of readers from the struggling to the ardent ones. I study the reading and literacy level of my learner through observation, discussion, activities, and teacher feedback and then provide them with age-appropriate materials they can manage, including topics and genres of the child’s interest. I make sure to select a variety of books in different subjects, genres, or topics to add to my collection. When learners have access to interesting books and materials, they are more likely to read for extended periods, leading to increased literacy levels.
+Support for students with special needs: There must be a specific resource provision for learners with special needs. The Teacher-Librarian must be able to recognise the individual need of her learners and support them working in collaboration with the Homeroom Teacher or the Special Education teacher.
+Promote uninterrupted & secure access to books: I ensure that my teachers and learners always have easy and flexible access to books and resource materials. Research shows that there is a decline in reading if a librarian starts implying any kind of barriers to learners with regards to using the library space and resources. It should always be accessible. Our LRC also provides detailed labeling and segregation of shelves helping the learners to identify their level of reading and providing easy access.
+I have divided the LRC cabinets according to the reading levels of the learners and keep reiterating the same to them, teaching them the differences, helping them identify different ways to select a book for themselves.
+Support Classroom Libraries: As a teacher-librarian, I provide UOI, theme, or learner profile attribute-based books to the classes regularly, as my learners only visit the library once per week and hence get limited time to read for pleasure. Having interesting books stocked in their class gives them the provision to read at any available time throughout the week.
+Buy student-recommended titles: I have placed an attractive box at the entrance of the LRC labeled as “I would like to read….” The learners are free to put in any reading recommendations. The box is opened every fortnight, and then the title is purchased after thoroughly reviewing the same. This process gives the learners ownership of the library.
+Facilitate ‘silent reading’ time: Though opportunities for silent reading at school may be limited, for some struggling readers, it is the only book reading opportunity they get. Therefore I ensure I give them at least one class a month dedicated to silent reading.
+Encouraging Reading: Many teachers are concerned about whether their students are going to love reading. Still, they rarely have time to work this into their curriculum; here is where the Teacher Librarian plays a particularly important role. They can build reading habits by creating a positive environment in the library and through extra-curricular reading programs can be a significant contribution.
+Introducing and teaching different genres of reading through reading Aloud. Most of my classes revolve around read-aloud sessions, where I am reading the story to my learners. Reading aloud offers benefits beyond mere enjoyment.
+Dramatisation of favourite stories, puppet shows.
+Barter-a-Book & Book Talks: Another exciting way to promote and increase literacy is by encouraging students to tell stories, share what they have read and exchange books. Oral storytelling provides a bridge to written stories. I dedicate one class in a month to a narration of stories by learners and/or book talks. This gives a platform to learners to discuss, understand various aspects of writing such as plot, characters, theme etc.
+The Review Crew: I have created a shelf where new books are displayed regularly, and the learners can pick up any book of their choice, read and then present the book review to the class. On the accomplishment of their review presentation, they receive a ‘Review Crew’ badge and certificate. This activity gives children immense confidence and increases their motivation and commitment to reading more books.
+Author Visits: Getting learners pumped on a specific book or series by inviting authors to visit the school library is one of the most common features of my LRC program. The authors who not only share their books with the children but also provide insights into the creative processes involved in writing.
+Literary Week is a significant event at our school as we celebrate literacy in the form of reading and writing activities and games, e.g. Scavenger Hunt & Inter House Reading Quiz and online literary quizzes and games.
+Author birthday celebrations and/or genre themed events are one of the regular features of our LRC, which is extensively planned and organised by the learners. This allows them to be independent and decision-makers.
+Character Dress-Up Parade: This is an elaborate yearly event where a learner just doesn’t dress up like his/her favourite character they even get a chance to recite their few dialogues in front of an audience.
+- Birthday Book Clubs
+- Creating Book Mobiles and charts of their favourite books.
+- A view into various styles of Illustrations and conducting activities based on it.
+- Story-writing, creating a newspaper. After teaching the relevant vital aspects of story and article writing the learners are asked to create their own imaginary story or newspaper article. Selected stories are then published into a book exclusively for our school.
+- Educating our learners with various Library Skills ranging from different parts of a book and their functions, shelving, call labels, alphabetical orders, Dewey Decimal System etc. is an on-going process which takes place in most of my classes.
+- Reading Diary – I have created a Reading Diary Reflection with prompts that provide an opportunity for learners to express their responses to the texts, thoughts, feelings and other noticings.
+- “What’s Your Book Quotient?” We actively participate in inter-school reading competitions, inculcating the habit of reading and healthy competition in children. We conduct an Interbranch reading quiz for our learners called “What’s Your Boko Quotient?” which is similar to “Battle of the Book”. Lots of kids love competition, so why not make reading a healthy competitive sport?
+- Create a summer reading program: I carefully go through and prepare a regular grade-wise Summer Recommended Reading list and summer reading activity/assignment for my learners for their summer break.
+Collaboration with Teachers and Curriculum planners
+Planning between the teachers and the librarian goes hand in hand. I am a part of all curriculum meetings and as the ALA quotes “co-design, co-implement, and co-evaluate interdisciplinary lessons and units of instruction that result in increased student learning. Participate by collaboratively teaching reading comprehension strategies: assess and use background knowledge, pose and answer questions that are appropriate to the task, make predictions and inferences, determine main ideas, and monitor reading comprehension, as well as the learning process”.
+The LRC provides theme-related books and different forms of Reading Programs like Jolly Phonics, Oxford Reading Tree, A to Z reading, Handwriting without Tears to support curriculum topics through all grades.
+E-books: E-books give students a full reading experience by emerging them into the text using animations, sound effects, and relevant imagery. Tools like animation help students to infer and learn the definition of unfamiliar vocabulary in a fun and engaging way. I encourage e-book reading time in class and also organise an Inter-House e-book reading quiz called the “Reading Quizzaders.”
+Research: Librarians role is supporting teachers and students to learn to use different resources for their research. Familiarising children with the research section of the library, understanding how to look for information in a reference book, sifting fact from opinion, and other such related skills are taught through a planned program—knowing how to use dictionaries, encyclopaedias, almanacs, and yearbooks. I ensure that ‘searching strategies’ using Google is valuable and is included in my program. Implementation of research skills such as evaluating resources, developing citation skills, report writing skills is taught through activities and lessons.
+The challenge will always remain, to find authentic collaboration by realigning goals as a teacher-librarian with that of the school curriculum, of course placing ‘literacy’ at the top of all. Dynamic school libraries are a key component of quality education, one that benefits both – learners and teachers.
+Good work is focusing on the right areas of the school community to combat the literacy crisis.
+On a final note, let’s not forget, learning to search for the right information and determining its value is a 21st-century skill, one who holds an imperative position in professions and lifestyles.
+– By Rozmeen Saifee – PYP Teacher Librarian @ JBCN International School, Parel, Mumbai.
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+Before arriving to Lofoten I didn’t know anything about it. I tend not to ruin my expectations by checking online for pictures or read loads of recommendations… well Tom does that for me. When we arrived I could barely see anything as it was quite a rainy evening. I saw just couple of mountains peaking through the fog.
+Already before going on the ferry I noticed that suddenly we were surrounded by several other backpackers. Right after arriving I was a little scared of the competition in hitchhiking but it came out that noone besides us really used that option. Therefore, we got the lift pretty fast. We put the tent up on a wonderful foot of a hill, enjoying a perfect view from each side of the tent. Mountains in one way, waves the other. A-mazing (the name of the place is A). You see what I did there? Yeah…
+Next day after breakfast hitting the road again and hoping to see as much as possible in as little time as possible. Yeah… mission impossible. The lifts did not want to come…. at all!!! We waited quite for a while just to get 7km ride to the next village and to a viewpoint. Why? Everyone said it’s going to be so easy up there and it…. just wasn’t. I have no idea what was the exact reason behind it, though. Even when it was pouring rain we were standing by the road over half an h, cars just passing by. I enjoyed every view we had but I must be honest, it was damn cold to stand on the road with the rain. I reckon it was 10 degrees or so, windy, rainy…. ahh. But I guess that’s what Lofoten looks like most of the year anyways. So, if you are planning to go there, pack some warm and waterproof clothes and lots of patience.
+I took couple of pictures in the first view point. The bright colours of the boathouses flattered the wild nature behind it in such an amazing way. As I said it was damn cold so I don’t have tons of pictures. But enough, I guess. After the first viewpoint we stood on the road again… for a while this time. It just kept pouring rain, cars passing and nothing. We were wearing bright yellow and green to be visible and still nothing. Big backpacks and still nothing. A wide smile and nothing. Until finally a car stopped and gave us a lift fo 5-10km but those were sooooooo helpful. At this moment I just wanted to get in a car to get warm. As long as possible.
+The next ride was a German-Korean couple on a holiday. We spent good couple of hours with them as they seemed to not mind spending time with us. And who am I kidding, we needed lifts. They were so nice and I really did enjoy the conversations. As it was their last day on the islands, they had already plans and couldn’t drive us too far. But far enough to get us finally going. For some reason this muggy, wet weather suited with the landscape so well. It just didn’t suit my clothes and body temperature.
+So with a speed of light we were driving through most of the islands, trying to see as much as one possibly can. One last stop before finding a camping place was Unstad. A lovely beach in a valley. we got a lift from a Finnish physiotherapist working in a town nearby. Of course I used the chance to ask EVERYTHING about studying and working in Norway. Unfortunately, Finland is part of the Northern countries so all the rules that apply to them might not apply to me, Estonian. However, working as a physiotherapist in Norway seemed still like a one damn good plan.
+As always we were looking for a nice quite private place for the tent. What we didn’t know is that during the season it is a mission impossible. There are simply too many tourists and other campers. So yes, we had to share a spot with 3 other tents. Not as romantic as one could prefer but it was still a lovely place. You just need to be aware of where everyone goes to toilet so you do not put your tent anywhere near there. Disgusting people have managed to even ruin Norway. Sad!
+The next and also the last day in Lofoten was spent mostly in cars again. Well, in cars or waiting for one. Couple of times we got stuck again, thinking that’s it. We need to walk home. We got lifts from locals, Norwegians on a holiday and even refugees. Now I need to tell you that every single person you meet is not going to be ‘your kind of people’. You do meet occasionally people that you feel like you have known for half of your life already but you also meet people that you do not connect with. And that is okay. We saw a lot of different people with different backgrounds, heritage, culture. Now, one of them…. made me feel so uncomfortable. Well imagine this: You finally get a ride after waiting for couple of hours but the person just gives you a bit weird vibes. I don’t usually take it personally or anything as people are different and we just ‘klick’ with some of them and not with others. So, he was one of those I just couldn’t really understand or ‘klick’ with. Tom was sitting in the front, me on the back seat. Every hitchhiker knows that the one in the front seat usually takes the lead in the conversation and on the backseat you simply answer the questions when asked. This guy, however, kept asking me questions all the time. Even after hearing that we were a couple, he asked me if I wanted to go to the front seat instead to ‘see the better view’. Why? I have no idea. You can see why someone would be a bit confused. Then we made a stop at a viewpoint and again he kept asking me questions like ‘what’s your name?’, ‘what does it mean?’, ‘do you like life?’…. yeah the last one creeped me out. I was like… what? Doesn’t everyone… like… life? And praying he’s not going to kidnap me. Obviously he didn’t. He didn’t make a move either but the questions where so uncomfortable considering we were complete strangers that I just kept wishing to get out of the car. Now, when thinking back to it, I am not sure if it was simply because of his cultural differences or he really was a sleek. The question ‘do you like life’ I cannot defend anyhow, though. Can anyone?
+After terribly short rides in Lofoten we finally got one long one- straight to Narvik. Well, near Narvik. We spent the night 20km from Narvik and decided to check the town next day. Town as any other, to be honest. Would not be a final destination or a reason to go to Norway, for sure. We wanted to have a proper meal in a restaurant for the first time but when seeing the prices and hearing they have no local fish in, we decided not to. Instead, we started hitchhiking towards Lapland.
+It was freezing cold and again we just couldn’t catch any rides. We decided to spend the night behind the national park in the woods. For some reason I had an idea stuck to my head and I was too scared to fall asleep. I kept thinking there are bears and as we had fresh fish opened in the tent i was sure they are going to come for us. After looking the seiling of the tent for an hour I decided to google if my fear was reasonable. Well, not sure how evidence based the site was but it said there is no reason to be scared of brown bears in Europe as they are simply more scared of you. Usually, they can smell you way before and simply change their way before you can even see them. Great! Good night!
+One of the main goals for me was to see reindeers. I have always been fascinated by them! Here they are wondering around, doing their own business, occasionally giving you looks. Not sure why this one is white, though. But just look at them! So cute!
+The next night we wanted to spend in a warm bed and we managed to find a couchsurfing in Äkäslompolo. Unfortunately, it was a loooooooong way up there and we weren’t sure if we can make it. We made a fast stop in Kiruna. Again nothing special. I think maybe during wintertime the towns would have completely different feeling. It was far in the North and hitchhiking was supposed to be so easy, but it just wasn’t. Again waiting for rides for hours and getting one for maybe 30-40km. It was 11pm, we were standing by the road in the dark, smiling and hoping someone will give us the final 40km lift. And there was noone. NOONE. WHY? So close yet so far. We were wearing yellow?! How dangerous can a person be who wears a yellow raincoat? We were that desperate that we asked the host to come and pick us up for some gas money. And fortunately, she was sooooo kind to really come in the middle of the night and pick up 2 strangers in yellow raincoats. We had lovely time in Äkäslompolo and I for sure would like to go back in winter. I can already see me falling in love with the nature.
+The bad luck, unfortunately, followed us all the way to Rovaniemi. Lifts were short and we had to wait for a long time for one. Of course, I appreciate every single driver that did stop and took us. However, the faith in humanity was restored when we got 900km lift from Rovaniemi to almost Helsinki. That is a long time to spend with someone so I am super thankful for that guy who tolerated us the whole freaking day. With that one lucky ride we made it to Helsinki almost 1 day sooner than expected or planned. Probably if not catching the long ride we would have been in a rush! Oh, and by the way. They tell you on the website and over the phone that in order to change your ferry tickets you need to do it 24h in advance. Yeah, you don’t. Just go to the port and hope for the best. It worked for us.
+That’s briefly about everything from our Norwegian trip. As you can see, there is s much going on in every trip that is nearly impossible to write it all down. I might try to find a way to get the stories out without all the unnecessary boring text in between. I just don’t know yet how to do it in order the stories to still make sense. I wish I had wifi and time during the trip already so I could do it in a dairy format. Would that be better? HELP!
+All things considered, I sincerely recommend visiting Norway. It’s such an incredible and unique country with a spectacular nature. If you haven’t been there yet, GO! NOW!
+Dreamed up, designed and delivered from under one (solar-powered) roof, d+k are changing the activewear game. Manufactured in Brisbane from high quality sustainable and environmentally responsible textiles, each piece is purpose-designed to support you for years to come.
+Certified under the Australian Made campaign, we're proud of our commitment to making activewear ethical, body positive and sustainable.
+Whether you prefer to hit the weights in the gym, run for miles on the beach or immerse yourself in the spiritual and physical aspects of yoga, having the right activewear will make your experience all the more enjoyable.
+As one of the most forward-thinking Australian activewear brands, d+k strives to bring you an exceptional range of super-stylish yet eco-friendly clothing that will support you in your sporting goals while helping to keep your conscience clear too.
+No matter what gender, size or level of fitness, our activewear will keep you cool, comfortable and supported, whether you’re perfecting your downward dog, aiming to beat your sprint record or simply chilling out with friends.
+We’re glad that you asked.
+Our aim is to create stylish and sustainable high-quality activewear that flatters the natural shape of the body. All our pieces are designed to support you in the places you need it most while offering all-day comfort and the perfect level of coverage. Plus, they’re easy to maintain and come out looking as good as new, wash after wash after wash.
+Our designers work hard to ensure that there’s a d+k outfit for everyone by designing garments that fit all body shapes and sizes. We understand how a body moves and what you need from your activewear. That’s why we incorporate technical and practical features into our designs such as:
+We also understand that for many people it’s important to look good when they work out and having the latest sportswear can be a huge motivating factor. But having eye-catching sportswear is not enough; it must perform well too. Our garments have been designed to move with your body while offering a superior level of comfort and support. Because let’s face it; when you feel confident in your sportswear, you feel more confident as a whole.
+We design must-have activewear that you’ll love to wear. In fact, we suspect that you’ll enjoy wearing it so much that it will become a regular part of your leisure wardrobe too. It’s easy to slip on, designed to move with you, not against you, and keep you cool and comfortable no matter how busy or hot you may get. It’s the perfect clothing for when you’re on-the-go or for relaxed, chilled-out moments. Plus, it’s the perfect choice for pre and post-natal mothers who don’t want to stop working out.
+We believe that looking good while you work out or relax is important, but so is making sustainable shopping decisions. At d+k, you don’t have to make a choice between high-quality, high-performance activewear or ethical sportswear, as we offer both elements in one package.
+As part of the Australian Made Campaign, we love to develop home-grown talent and support the Aussie job market. That’s why every piece of d+k apparel is designed and manufactured right here in Brisbane. And, because it’s produced in Australia, we guarantee that it’s fairly and ethically made and can guarantee fast shipping of our activewear Australia wide and a level of customer service that can’t be beaten.
+When you wear d+k garments, you’ll be showing that you care about sustainability as much as you care about your*health and wellbeing.
+Be Bold. Be Brave. Be You in d+k Australian made activewear.
+When it’s time to be active, you want to forget about your activewear. Nothing is more annoying than having to worry out leggings that fall down, wonder whether your squats are revealing more than just your technique or find that your top won’t stay put when it’s time to do a downward dog.
+As one of the most innovative Australian made activewear brands, we understand that while you want your clothing to look good, you want to be able to put it on and forget it and that’s why we’ve worked hard to bring you stylish exercise clothing that ticks all the boxes.
+However, at d+k, our aim goes beyond providing stylish australian-made leggings, shorts, tops and other leisurewear, we want to bring you activewear that’s suitable for everyone, no matter what gender, size or fitness level and activewear that’s eco-friendly too.
+Before we started d+k, we had a dream to design and create sustainable, high-quality activewear that would flatter the natural shape of the body, no matter what size you are. And we believe that we’ve succeeded. The d+k brand is special in that every piece, whether a pair of leggings, shorts or top, has been designed to support you in all the right places while offering a superior level of comfort.
+Our clothes are stylish and comfortable enough to be worn all day and they give the perfect level of coverage to avoid any clothing malfunctions or mishaps. They’re also incredibly easy to maintain and stay in shape and looking good no matter how many times you wash them.
+It’s little wonder that we’re becoming the go-to place for both men and women who want to buy ethical, well-made activewear online in Australia.
+If you asked 100 people what made the perfect activewear, we’re sure you’d get a lot of different answers. However, we’re also sure that there would be several things that would feature on the list, such as:
+We offer all this and more because we believe that it’s the little things that make our activewear special and why we’re known for providing some of the best activewear Australia has available.
+Whether you’re new to exercise, you’re starting back after a layoff, or you’re committed to regular exercise, buying a new outfit is a great motivator. When you buy d+k Activewear, we guarantee that you’re going to look good and feel good in our clothing, because we’ve made it with you in mind. Our sportswear is supremely comfortable, has been designed to move with your body and it looks pretty good too. In fact, it looks so good; our garments are likely to become the pieces you grab every time you hit the road, the gym or the yoga studio.
+When you buy d+k Activewear, you’re not only getting high-quality, high-performance sports and leisurewear but you’re getting activewear that’s been produced in an ethical manner.
+What’s more, as part of the Australian Made Campaign, we’ve made a point of bringing the manufacturing process back to Australia so you can feel good about your buying decisions. Of course, we offer an easy ordering process and fast delivery as standard – so why not place your order today?
+There is no doubt that here at d+k, we offer our customers the very best activewear in Australia. Our customers come back to us time and time again to try out our new and latest products and we love being able to offer a wide range of Australian made activewear that is stylish, sustainable and affordable too. We know that trying to choose clothes online can be a challenge, so we’d like to take you through our top tips of what you need to look for when buying activewear in Australia.
+At d+k, we want to make the process of buying activewear as simple and as easy as possible for you, which is why you should take into consideration these top tips when choosing your activewear.
+Are you ready to make a purchase with d+k? If you have any questions about our range of activewear available to buy online in Australia, please do not hesitate to get in touch with our incredible team today! Head on over to our Contact page where you will find our on-site enquiry form that will take you just a few minutes to fill out and send. We will always try to get back in touch with you as quickly as we possibly can! What’s more, our live chat function can be found at the bottom right-hand corner of your screen.
+We love to stay social and keep our customers up to date with all our latest news and products. So, make sure you follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Linkedin.
+At d+k, we believe that we have some incredible design talent in Australia, and we wanted to use this expertise to create a range of activewear that would appeal to everyone, no matter what their size, gender or level of fitness. However, as an Aussie company, we wanted our garments to not only be designed by Aussie designers but to be made in Australia too. Our aim is to become one of the leading Australian activewear brands that our customers will feel proud to buy and will love to wear.
+When you choose to buy d+k clothing, you choose to buy from one of the most ethical activewear brands Australia has available. You don’t need to be concerned about where and how your activewear was made and whether its production has had an adverse effect on the environment. When you buy from us, you can rest assured that all our garments have been produced right here in Australia in our purpose-built manufacturing facility in Brisbane.
+In our bid to become one of the best Australian activewear brands we’ve pulled out all the stops to ensure that our garments not only look stylish but that they’re fit for purpose too. We’ve invested in the most up-to-date technology to deliver products that are made from high-performance fabrics and have included a range of features that will make wearing our clothing a pleasurable experience.
+You’ll find that just like other activewear brands our garments tick all the boxes when it comes to performance, with features such as moisture-wicking and breathable fabrics with a built-in UPF 50+ protection together with thoughtful extras such as customisable fits, convenient pockets and adjustable straps.
+There’s no need to compromise on performance, style, fit and comfort when you choose to buy d+k activewear.
+If you have been looking high and low for the best Australian activewear brands, then you will be pleased to hear that the search is over as d+k is the online store that blows all other Australian activewear brands out of the water. From our high-quality clothing and fabric to our morals and ethics regarding sustainability and environmental ethics, we are the place to shop at.
+If you would like more information about why d+k is the company to purchase from out of all the activewear brands here in Australia, be sure to carry on reading below.
+At d+k, we are extremely proud to offer amazing products and fantastic service and this is why our customers come back to us time and time again. Here are just a few of the reasons why you should choose to shop with us.
+If you want to speak to the d+k team before making an activewear brands purchase on our site, do not hesitate to get in touch with our team today. Our online enquiry form is easy to fill out and you will get a response from us as soon as possible. We are now on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Linkedin, and you can send us a direct message here too.
+One reason why we believe our activewear brand is becoming so popular is because we design for every body – regardless of body shape or size, age or gender. We’ve studied how the body moves and which parts of the body need extra support and have used this knowledge to create functional clothing that feels comfortable and supportive no matter what kind of activity you’re involved in. Whether you’re practising yoga, participating in a boxing class, running with friends or simply running around town taking care of errands, our range of shorts, tops, pants, yoga clothing and gym leggings will ensure you look as good as you feel.
+And when you choose to buy from us, you can feel confident that you’re doing your part in support of the Australian economy and the Australian manufacturing industry. We’re part of the Australian Made Campaign so you can rest assured that all our workers are treated ethically and that health and safety is paramount in all our production processes.
+So take a look at our range of clothing today, make your choice and we’ll deliver it directly to your door as quickly as possible. Isn’t it time that you discovered what a difference d+k activewear can make to your life and your body?
+At d+k, we’ve made it our aim to become one of the best sportswear brands in Australia. We want our sportswear to be the pieces you reach for time and time again when it comes to hitting the gym or the yoga studio, heading out for a run or even just spending time relaxing. And that’s because every garment we produce has been designed to be functional, comfortable and to look good too.
+Our garments have been designed to suit every body. We’ve utilised all our knowledge of how the body moves to create supremely comfortable and supportive garments that will move and stretch with you. We’ve used some of the latest high-performance fabrics to ensure that you remain cool no matter how hard you work and with built-in UPF 50+ protection built into the fabric, they protect your skin from the sun too.
+When we decided to produce a range of sportswear we wanted to make it much more than just an Australian brand of sportswear. We wanted to produce the garments here in Australia too. So every garment that you buy from us will have been designed and produced in our purpose built manufacturing facility in Brisbane by Aussie workers. We’re part of the Australian Made Campaign and are happy to support Aussie workers and to contribute to the country’s economy.
+Our sportswear is designed by exceptionally talented Australian designers who don’t just create garments that are stylish but who take time to ensure that each piece is fully functional too. We want you to feel fantastic every time you wear d+k clothing and so we’ve included all the little extras that turn a good piece of activewear into a great piece of activewear such as technological fabrics, sun protection, customisable fits, practical pockets, adjustable straps and covetable colours.
+Athleisurewear shows no signs of decreasing in popularity and it’s become commonplace to see sportswear brands being worn outside of the gym and the exercise studio. Our sportswear is the perfect solution for those occasions when you want to feel casual and comfortable without resorting to denim. It’s a great option to transition from the gym to the bar or for putting on when you need to rush around doing a million and one jobs.
+At d+k, we’ve built a high-quality sportswear brand that’s designed to promote a fit and healthy lifestyle and which enables our customers to make ethical purchasing decisions. We love helping you to feel great about your body and what it can do, regardless of your body shape or body size.
+If you’d like to learn more about our sustainable and ethical production methods or you simply want to know more about any of the garments, simply read our FAQs and About Us pages. Alternatively, if you have any specific questions, you can get in touch either by sending us an email or by completing our online enquiry form.
+With the subject of waste and global warming becoming more and more of a talking point, it is up to everyone to try and do their bit for the environment. Here at d+k, we are proud to be a company that promotes ethical activewear online and we try to do our very best to minimise the effect that any of our clothing has on the environment. This is extremely important to us and we know that it is to our customers too! Find out more below about how we try to be as ethical and sustainable as possible with our company and the products that we sell.
+Are you becoming more aware of the impact that you alone have on the environment? Then now is the time to switch to sustainable and ethical products, rather than the standard fast fashion. Here at d+k, we split our environmental awareness into three major parts which are being ethical, sustainable and environmentally responsible.
+At d+k, what we can offer you is complete peace of mind knowing that you are trying to do your best to be more environmentally conscious when purchasing our products. All of our clothing is 100% Australian made as they are designed, cut and sewn here. We have even gone as far as to house our whole team in one place and so have massively reduced our clothing kilometres. When you purchase our ethical activewear, you are supporting a brand that meets all ethical standards for clothing manufacture in Australia.
+Not only do we house all our teams in one place, we also sustainably produce all of our own energy needs! Not only that, we can proudly say that we even generated more sustainable power than what we used and this is fed back into the grid. We also make sure that anything we cannot reuse is recycled and we have processes in place that makes recycling easier throughout our business. Any remaining fabric is always reused and we love to either send it to design students or our sampling department.
+At the d+k offices, you will find a range of innovative technology as we always want to make sure that we are beating our competition and using technology that minimises the impact on the environment. All our fabric cutting machines are fantastic at reducing power consumption and we always ensure larger panels have minimal wastage. This means that you can also do your bit for the environment, whilst getting the very best ethical activewear.
+As the world becomes more environmentally conscious, it is important that we all recognise our own carbon footprint. While it was once thought that our own small changes made no difference, we now know that even the smallest of changes towards becoming more environmentally aware can have a huge impact. This is why we are proud to offer our customers the best ethical activewear! The fashion industry is one of the biggest culprits for waste and factories contributing to emissions and global warming. We are trying to change this and give consumers a choice. When you buy our ethical activewear online, you can have the peace of mind knowing that you are doing your part in reducing your impact on the planet.
+Below, you can find out more about our ethical activewear in Australia and why we are the number one choice for sustainable workout clothes.
+There are many reasons as to why you should always opt for clothing that has been ethically produced and here we are taking you through just a few of them!
+With so many exciting launches and special offers happening here at d+k, we know that our customers want to be the first to know about them. You can jump on promotions and new ethical activewear from us by signing up to the d+k newsletter which will let you know about this latest news first straight to your email inbox. We would also recommend liking our Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram and Linkedin pages as you will find regular content posted here displaying our new and exciting clothing ranges.
+Stay up to date and start shopping with d+k now!
+Right here at d+k of course! We’re proud to be putting our best foot forward and committing to a different kind of clothing, ethical activewear in Australia.
+What do we mean by ethical? Well, it’s two tier and twice as nice! Firstly, it’s about maintaining standards. We’re part of the Australian Made campaign, which means from that first sketch to final stitch, packing to posted, everything happens right here in Brisbane. That means the highest quality goods, no corners cut, no nasty workers’ violations and no unnecessary pollution. We are PETA approved and Vegan friendly. Our activewear is sustainably produced for minimal environmental impact. So, when you look in the mirror and think that you look good, you know that you can also feel good about where your clothing came from.
+Secondly, our ethics are about accessibility and promoting healthy body standards. We want you to be empowered to love your body and feel fabulous about your fitness. Our clothing lines are built for every kind of body, and our beautiful models are representative of all of our gorgeous shapes and sizes. Tailored to make you look your best, we’re all about body positivity and challenging unethical fashion standards. We talk the talk and walk the walk with designs that are booty proof. Our leggings are squat safe and our fabrics breathable so that you can concentrate on your goals.
+If you’re not already convinced, don’t worry, there’s more! Did you know that d+k actually manufactures our own energy? Making more power than we used even meant that we sold some of that sweet, clean juice back to the grid. We keep our lights on with sustainable, green energy because we believe in supporting climate change reduction targets and keeping the air pollutant free.
+We’re mad into our recycling here at d+k; almost everything has a second life, or third! From pattern-making paper to coffee pods, we are always following the three ‘R’s – Reduce. Reuse, Recycle. Even our scrap fabric is repurposed as swatches, test squares or given to local Tafes for design students to use.
+Finally, and most excitingly, we have invested in cutting-edge technology to make sure we remain market leaders. All our new kit is selected for energy reducing, environmentally friendly, innovation. Our crafty kit combines functions for minimal wastage, and our carbon footprint gets smaller and smaller!
+d+k is about enabling you to focus on what you love. We put the hard work into the best ethical activewear in Australia so you can work hard at your health. If you want more information about our sustainable practice, ethical commitments or to find out about the provenance of our fabrics, check out our website. We put our money where our mouth is and give you access to all the information you need to know. Simply visit our website at and click on our ‘About Us’ section. Here you’ll find all the information, videos and interviews you could possibly wish for (and a little more)! Browse before you buy today, for total peace of mind.
+If you have any other questions about the sustainability of our ethical activewear in Australia and want to know more about them, please do not hesitate to contact our team today. Our friendly staff will be more than happy to answer any queries that you may have and you can easily get in touch with them today through the online email enquiry form that can be found over at our contact page.
+Be honest. Have you ever considered where and how your activewear was manufactured? Have you thought about how the manufacturing process impacts the environment or whether your new clothing has been made in a fair and ethical manner?
+Most of us won’t have given these questions a thought as we tried on our new leggings or shorts or slipped on a new workout tank. And yet, they are questions that need to be answered and addressed. At d+k, we make it easy to buy ethical activewear that will satisfy your need for stylish, high-performance activewear AND ease your conscience about its origins.
+And that’s because all of our ethical sportswear is manufactured right here in Australia in our purpose-built manufacturing facility in Brisbane. From the design stage right through to delivery, it all takes place under one roof and under the control of our Australian workforce. That means that when you buy through us, you’re not only getting a quality product but you’re reducing the impact on our environment and you’re benefitting the Australian economy!
+If you think that ethical sports clothing is boring or not as technologically advanced as other sportswear, think again. We’ve invested in the latest technology to bring you quality clothing made from high-performance fabrics with features that will make workouts much more comfortable and pleasurable. Features such as:
+We also bring you designs in the latest styles, trends and colours, so as you can see there’s definitely no compromising on style or function.
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+Chapter 34 – Wizengamot
+. . .
+"I'm sorry," Hermione said while on the verge of tears. "I thought I had it all figured out," the distraught witch told Harry. The wizard in question sat next to the woman who was his best friend, a look of confusion upon his features upon hearing her words. "It doesn't look like my plan will work now, Harry."
+The group, for it couldn't be called anything other than that, was in a private conference room within the Ministry of Magic. Earlier that morning, when Harry had made ready to leave Westfield and go to the Wizengamot session, everyone in the house had declared their intentions of going with him. Except for Andi who had remained conspicuously absent. In the end, Harry had consented, leaving Teddy and Anna with Winky. Much to Anna's displeasure.
+The appearance of Harry Potter within the Ministry of Magic had caused a more significant commotion than any of them had assumed it would. It hadn't been even a year yet since the young man had defeated Voldemort. Harry's presence generated more attention than if the Queen herself had stepped into the Ministry of Magic. Those in the atrium paused as whispers of the Boy-Who-Lived swept through the early morning crowd of Ministry workers.
+Harry, thinking rather quickly, had commandeered a vacant meeting room for their group. It was as much to give them some privacy as it was to limit the disturbance Harry's presence was causing. It was shortly after they had entered the room and closed the door that a very remorseful Hermione had approached Harry and taken the seat next to him.
+"That's alright," Harry replied, attempting to console the emotional witch. "We'll proceed with our plan then," Harry stated with a look towards Daniel Wright. The solicitor had been awaiting their arrival in the atrium and had joined Harry's group. "It will be alright Hermione," Harry said in what he hoped was a reassuring tone as he pulled the witch into a hug. The young man really had no clue if things would turn out in his favor or not but what choice did he have at this point but to hope that they would.
+"I think it is our best course of action to proceed as we discussed Mister Potter," Daniel Wright agreed. "We just need to keep them focused on what Greengrass did rather than on what you did. That and the fact that your magic accepted your marriage to Missus Lovegood."
+"I'm sorry I let you down," Hermione spoke into Harry's shoulder. "I thought for certain that Andi would be willing to do it if it were to save you, Harry."
+"What was it she would need to do?" Harry asked, a bit curious at this point. Granted he had told Hermione that he trusted her, but that didn't keep him from wondering all the same.
+"It doesn't really matter now," Daphne cut in, "as it isn't going to work now it appears."
+"It looks like you were right after all," Hermione said, pulling away from Harry's arms and standing to face Daphne. The young woman's emotions were in shambles. The fact that she had not been able to save Harry causing her much grief and heartache.
+"I take little satisfaction from that fact," Daphne told her as she stepped to Hermione and began to dab at the older girl's wet cheeks with a handkerchief she had pulled from her handbag. "It would have been nice if it had," she added with a wistful smile. "Difficult, I'm sure, but nice all the same."
+"So, what is the plan now, Harry?" Tracey inquired, trying her best not to show just how nervous she was and failing.
+"Well, the fact that Greengrass basically tricked Lord Potter into his marriage with Lady Black should give us a fairly strong case of attempted line theft. As Lord Potter is the head of a Noble and Ancient House that is no small matter," Daniel Wright answered. "Should the Wizengamot rule against Greengrass it will be him that will be seeing the inside of a cell at Azkaban and not Lord Potter."
+"Lord Potter?" Tracey commented with an arched brow. It was the first she had ever heard of Harry being addressed in such a manner.
+"Yes," Harry confirmed. "Apparently there is a reason the Black family is called the Noble and Ancient House of Black. At some point in the past, they were given a title and lands and made a member of the Peerage. I am what you would call a Hereditary Peer, thanks to Sirius" explained Harry. "I hold the Scottish Peerage title of Earl."
+"So, then you have lands as well?" Luna asked, her Ravenclaw curiosity getting the better of her. Luna knew that Harry would hate having the title at all. It's not like he doesn't have enough of them already. The Chosen One, the Boy-Who-Lived, Vanquisher of Voldemort, she mused. Still, one never knew when being a member of the Peerage might come in handy, she reasoned.
+"I suppose so," Harry said, glancing over at Daniel Wright and arching a brow in question.
+"I will look into it, Lord Potter," the solicitor replied to the unasked question. "His Lordship is Harry James Potter, 17th Earl of Ross to be precise," Daniel added with a grin at Harry's obvious discomfort with the title. "Lady Black would actually be the 19th Countess of Ross."
+"Your Grace," Tracey curtsied with excessive formality to Daphne, her eyes alight with mirth.
+"Yes, yes, carry on wench," Daphne replied in a haughty tone as she made a shewing gesture. There were amused chuckles about the room bringing a bit of much-needed laughter as most were on edge knowing what awaited Harry. Much like Luna, the former Slytherin's mind kicked into overdrive with the sudden realization that she was married to royalty. Her thoughts were cut short though as they all heard the door to the room open.
+"Well everyone certainly seems to be in a good mood at least," Astoria said as she stepped into the room leading Draco by the hand. "I hope we made it in time for the war council?" The two newlyweds were dressed in formal robes which fit the occasion with their new family crest embroidered over the left breast.
+"What are you doing here?" Tracey asked. "I thought you two would be making like bunnies or something."
+"Yes, well," stammered the embarrassed witch, her cheeks turning a rather bright red, "after that we thought we would be needed here. "We can always go back to the island afterward," Astoria added with a suggestive look towards Draco.
+The former Slytherin wizard took it all in stride, willing to do whatever Astoria wished at this point. Not that I don't owe Potter a debt but the island was so much more fun, he thought. "Tactful as always, Davis," Draco drawled as he slipped an arm around Astoria and pulled her to his side.
+"I'm sure we can use the moral support," Daphne was quick to cut in with before Tracey and Draco could square off. "There's been a slight change of plans it seems."
+Astoria took a quick look around the room. "Andi," was all she said upon realizing that the older witch was absent. Admittedly she was not surprised to discover that Andi had balked at marrying Harry.
+"I guess I shouldn't really blame her," Hermione offered. "I mean she was already married once. I'm sure she loved her husband and would find it difficult to marry again."
+"You wanted Andi to marry me?" Harry asked in disbelief at the realization.
+"Among others," Luna provided helpfully as she stepped to Harry's side and slipped her arm within his. "Not that it matters now. Perhaps it would be best if we headed to the courtroom so that we can get seats up front?" the witch suggested, leading Harry toward the doors. As they stepped out into the busy hallway, they nearly ran into another group of people.
+"Harry?" exclaimed the somewhat surprised voice of Neville Longbottom. The Longbottom of Longbottom was dressed in expensive ceremonial robes and was accompanied by two witches, one on either side. Neville had filled out over the summer and now was what many women referred to as ruggedly handsome.
+"Neville? How are you, mate?" Harry asked, shaking hands with the wizard. "Ladies," Harry added with a nod to the two women with the former Gryffindor. Susan just smiled back while Hanna got somewhat of an awed look on her face upon seeing Harry. It wasn't every day you got to stand face to face with the savior of the Wizarding world after all.
+"Fine," Neville replied, shaking Harry's hand. The two exchanged pleasantries concerning their holidays. The witches with Harry were pleased to note that Harry played it off as if his holidays had been nothing special. "Come to see me take my seat, have you?" Neville finally inquired.
+"Of course," Harry quickly stated before anyone could say anything else. It was better if everyone else didn't realize that Harry was there for reasons of his own the wizard figured. At least not just yet. Neville claiming his family seat on the Wizengamot was as good a cover as any for his presence there that day. "You know everyone here," Harry added, providing introductions for those in his group regardless.
+The former Gryffindor arched a questioning brow upon being introduced to Daphne and Tracey as both were from Slytherin. Receiving a small shrug from Harry, the man decided that it wasn't really his place to ask. "You know Susan Bones as she works for you," Neville said with a grin. "The is Hanna Abbot, my intended," Neville said in a tone as if he still didn't believe it himself.
+"Intended?" Harry parroted back in surprise. "Congratulations to you both! When did this happen?"
+"I ask myself that as well," Augusta Longbottom said as she approached the group. "Nice of you to make it, Mister Potter," Madam Longbottom added as she came to stand beside her grandson. "I am glad that some of Neville's friends could be present for this."
+"Wouldn't miss it for the world," Harry managed to get out, wondering if he had overlooked an invitation in the post or something. With everything that had been going on of late Harry had been somewhat remiss in handling his own personal mail. "I doubt we'd all be here if it weren't for Neville here," Harry said, making the man blush and the grandmother beam proudly. "Couldn't have defeated Voldemort without him!"
+Augusta, hearing Harry words, felt her chest swell with pride. She dearly missed her Frank but knew that Neville's parent would be very proud of their son and the part he had played in the downfall of the Dark Lord. The fact that Harry had always been very vocal concerning the part her Neville and the others had played only served to reinforce her belief in the Potter boy. Seeing Hanna smiling up at Neville with a hint of hero worship in her eyes led the aged witch to think that maybe Neville had done alright for himself.
+"I believe we are nearly ready, Neville," Augusta stated turning to address her grandson. "They are expecting us in courtroom three I believe. The actual ceremony of Vestment will not take place until the end of the session. They want you to have to sit through a session before they give you the seat. Why don't you sit with your friends till it is time?"
+"Yes, Gran," Neville replied, happy to have others to sit with through what he expected to be a rather long and tedious Wizengamot session.
+As a group, they all made their way to the designated courtroom. The large group entered courtroom three, drawing many stares from the few Wizengamot members who were already there. Harry noted that Lucius Malfoy was already seated on the far side of the courtroom with Gerald Greengrass beside him. Malfoy senior wore a blank expression. However, Gerald appeared to be none too pleased to see Harry there.
+-oOo-
+"Bloody hell! What is Potter doing here?" Gerald Greengrass snarled. The wizard's eyes followed the young man and his entourage as they seated themselves near the doors. It didn't take long for him to spy the Longbottom heir or to see his own daughters and Tracey Davis, who was never far from Daphne. "What is your son doing sitting with him?" Gerald demanded shooting Lucius a suspicious look on seeing the Malfoy boy seated next to Astoria.
+"He's not my son," Lucius replied calmly. "I disowned him several days ago."
+"What!" Gerald exclaimed in disbelief.
+"For Merlin's sake! Draco has been nothing but a disappointment his entire life. I really should have dropped him from the family a long time ago but was rather busy at the time. I will not have him being responsible for the Malfoy name when I am gone. Besides, I can always make another heir," Lucius pointed out. "Some of us have better luck making sons than daughters," he added with a small condescending smile.
+"But he was your tie to the Black Family," Gerald pointed out, confused by the man's actions and choosing to ignore the jab about sons. It went without saying that Lucius had been rather busy supporting Voldemort. Gerald couldn't help but wonder what the Dark Lord would have thought concerning Lucius disowning his only heir.
+"Please," Lucius scoffed, "we both know that you were not about to let me get my hands on the Black gold, Greengrass." Seeing the shocked look on the other wizard's face, Lucius continued. "It matters not. I already told you that gold I have aplenty. What I really wanted was the share in the Greengrass business. As the Black gold will go to further that business, I will still make out rather handsomely in the end."
+"Does Draco know? Do you think he is why Potter is here today of all days?" Gerald asked, stalling for time to think over what Lucius had said. He had to admit that it made a bit of sense. No one ever claimed that Lucius Malfoy was ever stupid. The man had an uncanny ability to save his own arse when many others would not have been able to. The fact that Lucius had managed to figure out the double-cross actually slightly impressed Gerald. Still, the former Head of the Greengrass family did not get where he was in life by trusting blindly.
+"I would believe so or more precisely I would think it was your youngest daughter which weaseled the information out of him," Lucius drawled. "You know how young men are. They see a pair of spread legs and can't help but think with the wrong head. Women have all sorts of ways to make men talk in the middle of the night after all."
+"Astoria would never do that!" Gerald bristled at the implication that his daughter had slept with the former Malfoy heir just to gain information. The wizard chose to overlook the fact that he had expected Daphne to do that very same thing to the Potter boy in order to gain control of the Black gold. "I raised my daughters to be better than that!"
+"Really?" Lucius asked with a knowing smirk. "If I were you, I would have her purity checked before you entered into any future marriage contract negotiations. I could be wrong, but she did appear to be walking a little stiffly when they entered. She hasn't released Draco's arm since they arrived either," he pointed out.
+Gerald looked over toward the group seated by the main doors and had to admit that it did appear as though Astoria was hanging on Draco's arm in a less than ladylike manner. "Potter being here changes nothing," the angry wizard finally spat.
+"I agree," Lucius concurred in a bored tone. "Potter broke the law and should have to pay for his crime."
+"Exactly!" Gerald agreed.
+"And if you should once again become the Head of the Greengrass family while filling your vault with the Black gold all the better, right?" Lucius asked rhetorically.
+"And you have the votes?" Greengrass pressed.
+"I received all the proper paperwork from your solicitor concerning our arrangement," Lucius stated, "so you have all the votes."
+The two wizards sat back as the remainder of the Wizengamot filed in and found their seats. The last to enter was the Minister for Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt with the Chief Warlock, Amos Diggory beside him. Amos had been appointed by Shacklebolt shortly after the war. Kingsley had felt it would give the wizard something to do as Amos was still heartbroken over what had happened to Cedric.
+The next hour was filled with issues that had carried over from the previous year including a rather interesting patent suit between the Cleansweep Broom Company and Joseph Spudmore, the inventor of the Firebolt. Cleansweep alleged that Spudmore had used several proprietary spell formulas when crafting his Firebolt broom and were requesting to see the arithmancy that went into the spells. Spudmore offered to compare them if Cleansweep provided their spell arithmancy. As neither wished to divulge the bases of their products' spells the case remained at a stalemate and was finally passed over for the next session.
+"Is there any new business?" Kingsley finally asked. Gerald made to rise but was beaten apparently by someone else. "The Wizengamot acknowledges Harry Potter. Might I just say that it is a pleasure to see that you are taking an interest in your government Mister Potter. If you're not careful I may just have to find a job for you," Kingsley said, eliciting a round of good-natured chuckles across the room. "You have the floor Mister Potter." The Minister said with a warm smile.
+"Thank you, Minister," Harry said as he stepped to the front of the room. "While I am certain that working for you and Ministry would be very exciting, I think I've had my share of excitement for a while. Besides, if I were a Ministry employee, who knows, someone may just try and get me elected," Harry added, causing a fair bit more laughter.
+The young wizard finally turned to address the Wizengamot. "Chief Warlock, honorable witches, and wizards, it is indeed a pleasure to be able to stand before such an august group of individuals. Let me first say that I, like so many others, greatly appreciate all that you do for our world." Harry gave a small bow to them before he continued.
+"While you may know me as Harry Potter, the Vanquisher of Voldemort," Harry opened with, pleased to hear only a few gasps among those assembled there upon hearing the Dark Lord's name. "I must ask that you forget that for today as I must address you not as a hero but rather as a Head of House. As you may know, I am Lord Harry Potter of the Noble and Ancient House of Black. I stand before you today seeking not reparation but rather something much more valuable, justice!"
+Harry's words sent a wave of whispers and murmurings around the room. Many there were Heads of their own respective houses and so couldn't help but speculate on what had brought their hero before them this day. His words also made sure that he now held their undivided attention. "I know you are all probably asking yourself what could have happened. I will tell you for I am appalled that someone would commit such heinous crimes. Slavery! Forced servitude for life!" Harry exclaimed rather loudly. His words eliciting gasps of disbelief and rumblings of outrage. "I know not what else to call it."
+"Those are grave crimes, Mister Potter," Amos Diggory said after banging his gavel down and restoring a measure of order. "I hope you have some proof," the Chief Warlock said, eyeing the younger wizard darkly. Amos had never forgiven Harry for what had happened to his son, Cedric. The heartbroken father held a grudge, feeling that Harry should have been able to save Cedric. He could not get over the fact that his son had been killed merely because he was a spare.
+"I do Chief Warlock," Harry replied, thrusting up his left hand and allowing the Black Head of House ring to appear. "No doubt you have all read the article in the Prophet, penned by one of their less than talented writers, informing the Wizarding world that I have recently wed. It was a marriage which Lady Black nor I had agreed to at the time. It was only through deceit and trickery of that man," Harry spun dramatically and leveled an accusing finger directly at Gerald Greengrass, "that his unsuspecting daughter and I were trapped!"
+Gerald Greengrass sat in his seat while every eye in the courtroom stared at him in disbelief and whispers of possible line theft ran through the assembly. Allowing his gaze to sweep the room Gerald noted in some faces that he saw grudging respect for having accomplished something many of them hadn't even thought of, and fewer still would have even dared to try.
+The brat has outplayed me, Gerald realized. I may have underestimated him just slightly. His plans for dramatically revealing that the boy was married twice over were dashed for the moment it appeared. Though the battle is far from lost. Gerald knew there would come a time when that tidbit of information could be used to his benefit. The accused wizard rose to address the gathered elite of Britain's Wizarding world.
+"Witches, Wizards, Chief Warlock, Minister," Gerald opened with as he stepped from his seat and strode to the bottom floor to face his accuser. "I think perhaps Mister Potter is mistaken. Quite understandable for one so young and inexperienced in such matters. I, who am without a male heir, have been merely looking out for the best interests of my eldest daughter, Daphne. What parent wouldn't want the very best for their child after all? I am certain none here can disagree that our Hero is anything but the best our world has to offer."
+"Perhaps this is a matter we should defer till the next Wizengamot session in a month's time?" the Minister suggested over the murmurings running through those assembled.
+"I would prefer to have this matter settled now," Gerald was quick to voice. "Such a slanderous statement, should it reach the public, will no doubt have a negative impact on the Greengrass family name and businesses. It could possibly cost me thousands of galleons before I can clear my name of any wrongdoing." It also wouldn't do for Daphne to reach her maturity if the matter was delayed until the next meeting of the Wizengamot.
+"Not really your concern that, though is it?" Harry asked, "As the Greengrass business is no longer yours but rather mine." The young wizard didn't like how Greengrass was attempting to make him appear immature and too young to know what he was speaking of. A quick glance in Daphne's direction showed that outrage on her face at her father saying it was all for her best interests.
+"True though that may be," Gerald conceded in a low enough tone so that only Harry could hear him, "by the time this is all said and done they, and so much more, will be, Mister Potter. My apologies, Lord Potter," Gerald hastily corrected with a smirk before Harry could point out the proper manner to address him.
+"Minister," Amos voiced, "Mister Greengrass does have a valid point. The Greengrass name is well respected, and the financial impact could be quite severe should this get out. It would not do to have such an outstanding member of our world disgraced in such a manner. Something I am certain Mister Potter would not wish to happen if he fully understood what he was doing. As Mister Greengrass is willing to refute the allegations against him perhaps it would be best if we proceed?"
+Minister Shacklebolt could do little but look at Harry and ask, "Are you prepared to proceed Lord Potter?" Seeing the wizard in question give a sharp nod the Minister turned to address Gerald Greengrass. "Mister Greengrass, are you prepared to defend yourself here and now as well or would you like some time to prepare your defense?"
+"I believe it will be in everyone's best interest to proceed, Minister," Gerald replied, certain that this would be a walk in the park. "I'm sure everyone has better things to do with their time so let us get this over with as quickly as possible."
+The Minister gave a brief nod toward the Chief Warlock to proceed. Normally the Chief Warlock presided over the Wizengamot and ran the sessions. Occasionally the Minister would take control, such as Fudge had done for Harry's trial, but those were rare occasions. "Mister P…, excuse me, Lord Potter, I assume you have proof to present to this body concerning your allegations against Mister Greengrass?"
+"Yes, Chief Warlock," Harry acknowledged. "Though I shall need assistance from those who are with me to present it," he added with a gesture towards those in his group who were seated in the front rows. "I'm passingly decent at defeating Dark Lords, but pants at presenting logical facts, as my dear friend Miss Granger has been quick to inform me of on numerous occasions," he stated, drawing some laughter from those seated in the room. The witch in question blushed upon hearing the unexpected admission.
+"Yes, yes. Whatever it takes, Lord Potter," Amos replied with a gesture to indicate the man should get on with it and stop wasting their time.
+"This is my solicitor, Daniel Wright," Harry said, gesturing towards the man in question who stood as he was introduced. "He will be handling my case."
+"Members of the Wizengamot," Mister Wright opened with. "If you will indulge me a few moments of your time I feel it is important to provide you with a clear picture of what has transpired. To do this I must provide you with some rather unsettling history," he said addressing those gathered as Harry and Gerald both returned to their seats.
+"In the mid-1300's there was a sickness which ran rampant through the muggle world. The Bubonic Plague spread wiping out entire towns and cities. It is estimated that between 70 to 200 million muggles died around the world. Nearly 60 percent of their world's population."
+"So, a lot of muggles died," stated a member of the Wizengamot. "What's your point? Are we suppose to care about what happened hundreds of years ago?"
+"Actually, yes," Daniel replied to the question. "For you see, not long before they were hit by the plague, our world was as well. In the early 1300's our world, not just Britain mind you, but the whole of the Wizarding world was afflicted by a similar sickness. Nearly three-quarters of our population perished," he informed them.
+"Unless this plague you spoke of is returning I fail to see the relevance Mister Wright," Amos said.
+"I am coming to that Chief Warlock," Daniel said, turning to gesture toward Hermione. The young witch, clutching her beaded purse, stood and made her way towards the waiting solicitor. "Though I am certain she needs no introduction, this is Miss Hermione Granger. She has been working as my research assistant on this matter." While not technically accurate he felt it would lend credence to Hermione's testimony if she were thought of as such.
+As if by magic a tabled appeared before the pair. "As one might expect, given the immense loss of life," Daniel started with as Hermione withdrew several books from the small beaded purse and set them on the table which had appeared. "Those that survived would become somewhat reclusive. Small magical villages or coven homesteads did not look favorable upon outsiders." Daniel gave a slight nod toward the waiting witch.
+"This made finding a spouse rather difficult," Hermione said, dropping into her lecture mode to overcome her nerves at addressing the Wizengamot directly. "It would have been rather imperative to procreate and increase the magical population once again yet these small isolated communities, fearing the spread of disease, did not welcome outsiders. There are documented reports," Hermione continued as she gestured towards the first three books she had removed from her purse, "where witches and wizards had been killed just for approaching these isolated groups."
+"Times were vastly different in those days. While the Ministry has worked to guide our world since the early 1700's, before that time the Wizards' Council held sway," Hermione stated, drawing forth a huge tome from her tiny purse and setting it upon the table. "There were laws enacted to both protect the surviving settlements as well as those wishing to find a spouse to start a family with." Hermione paused to pull out another tome. Some of those sitting with Harry, Astoria especially, recognize the book, having seen it once before at Westfield.
+"I would like to read one such law to you," Hermione said before proceeding. ."
+"Thank you, Miss Granger," Daniel said once the witch had finished. "Allow me to translate for everyone. A family could present their daughter to a perspective wizard. The witch would then have to go live and work there without her wand or magic for three lunar cycles. Should the wizard decide to wed, he would then purchase the witch's wand from her family. The deal was considered complete when the wizard presented the witch with her wand."
+"And if he never presented her with her wand?" Augusta Longbottom asked causing the solicitor to look in Hermione's direction.
+"That part was not included in the book," Hermione replied. The young witch assumed that either the family would come and collect the rejected prospective bride or that the woman would leave on her own.
+Augusta gave a brief nod, more than a little angry at just how poorly women had been treated back in that era. Witches these days had just as many rights as wizards did, which she was very thankful for. "Can you clarify the last part about breaking her wand?"
+"If the witch was unable to bear the wizard a son within the first year he was then allowed to snap her wand and send her back to her family," Hermione answered. "Her family was then to send her to the church for the remainder of her days."
+"Yes, yes," Amos cut in. "That is a wonderful little bit of history but what does it have to do with what happened to Mister Potter?" he asked, clearly agitated that the proceedings were taking so long.
+"I was just getting to that, Chief Warlock," Daniel Wright quickly cut in. "Laws these days are written in a manner to provide protection to all regardless of their station in life. Not so back in our ancestors' days, I'm afraid. Nowhere in that law does it say that the wizard has to be willing to accept the prospective bride. Only that the family has to offer her," Daniel stated. It went without saying that the witch didn't even have to be willing. "It is believed that the wizard accepts the new bride when he purchases the wand of the offered witch and accepts the marriage when he presents her with said wand," the solicitor explained.
+"Are you telling us that the witch is sold for the cost of her wand and then is expected to give birth to a son or have her wand snapped and magic lost?" Augusta asked only to see Daniel give a nod of agreement. "That is just barbaric!" the venerable witch exclaimed.
+"And a still valid law, Madam Longbottom," Daniel Wright replied to the sound of many gasps of disbelief about the room. "Lord Potter happened to have a chance encounter with the then Daphne Greengrass on the streets of muggle London. Seeing that the woman was stranded, he graciously offered her to stay at his home. Upon discovering that she was without her wand, Lord Potter wrote to her father, Gerald Greengrass, requesting it be returned."
+"Gerald Greengrass was able to put Lord Potter off for the better part of four months," Daniel continued with. "It seems he was too busy to return home from the continent to see that his own daughter's wand was returned so that she could protect herself should the need arise. During this time Lord Potter sheltered her providing Daphne with protection and seeing to her needs. Eventually, Lord Potter was able to purchase the wand, which he presented to her within a wand holster which was to be her Yule present."
+While Daniel was speaking Hermione had withdrawn Daphne's wand as well as the salamander wand holster and laid them both on the table as evidence. "Needless to say, Lord Potter and Lady Black were both a bit baffled when a ring appeared on Daphne's finger after her first use of the wand," Daniel said. "Neither fully realized just what had happened at the time as you can well imagine. It would be several weeks before we could piece it all together."
+"My client, Lord Potter, feels terrible for what has happened to Daphne. It is for her sake that he has brought this matter before this august body. Lord Potter does not feel that it is right that Daphne should be used as a pawn in her father's political games, to be bartered and sold off as mere property to further Gerald Greengrass's nefarious schemes," Daniel stated for his closing remarks.
+"While Lord Potter highly doubts there is a way out of the marriage, he feels that the perpetrator of such a heinous crime as selling his own underage daughter into a life of servitude in a marriage she did not desire should not go unpunished. The fact that Lord Potter was also ensnared in the plans of Gerald Greengrass is a lesser matter in his Lordship's eyes. Thank you for your time," Daniel concluded with before leading Hermione back to her seat and taking his own.
+"Lord Potter, it sounds as though you are accusing Mister Greengrass of more than just trickery," Augusta Longbottom spoke up. "If what you say is indeed true he could very well be charged with attempted line theft."
+Harry stood and once again stepped to the center of the floor. "Madam Longbottom, it is not for me to say what wrongs Mister Greengrass has committed but rather for this body to decide. Mister Wright did speak with me concerning line theft though so I am somewhat familiar with it. It is true that any son born of Daphne and myself would inherit the Black family as well as be the grandson of Gerald Greengrass. However, as I am currently the Head of the Greengrass family, I am not certain that such a charge is warranted. Granted I was not the Head of the family at the time these events occurred. I am by no means a student of the law so I will have to defer to the Wizengamot to decide such weighty matters and will, of course, bow to your judgment."
+Seeing as there appeared to be no further questions Amos turned to Gerald. "Mister Greengrass the floor is now yours to respond to the accusations brought against you."
+"Members of the Wizengamot," Gerald said once he had reached the center of the floor, "my apologies that this matter has been forced upon you here today. In an effort to give my Daphne a chance at happiness I entered into a marriage contract with Lord Potter. I maintain that I have done nothing to warrant these allegations as I have broken no laws in doing so. Many of this body have either been a part of or negotiated in, married contracts in the past."
+"A marriage contract would imply a mutual agreement between two parties," Daniel Wright stated. All the witches in Harry group were nodding their agreement to the solicitor's words.
+"Did not Lord Potter meet the requirements of the contract?" Gerald countered with.
+"I was unaware that there was even a contract in existence, Sir," Harry replied evenly.
+"So, ignorance of the law is an acceptable excuse now is it?" Gerald asked with a small sneer. "Or perhaps because you are The-Boy-Who-Lived we're to overlook the law and assume it doesn't apply to you?"
+"The laws apply to me just as they do to everyone else," Harry snarled, angry at the implications that because he was famous, he would assume that the laws didn't apply to him.
+"We shall see," Gerald stated with a feral grin. Turning away from Harry the man addressed the assembly once again as he reached into his pocket and withdrew a rolled parchment from his robes, holding it up for all to see. "I have here an official document from Gringotts stating that Lord Potter is married not only to my Daphne but also to one Luna Lovegood!" the man exclaimed.
+Gasps and cries of disbelief were scattered about the room upon hearing Gerald's words. The former head of the Greengrass family walked over and present the document to the Chief Warlock who paused in the banging of his gavel to accept the parchment and read it over. Once Amos finished he passed the report over to the Minister for Shacklebolt to read.
+"This appears to be authentic," Kingsley declared once a semblance of order had been restored. "Lord Potter, do you deny this?"
+Harry stood before he replied, "I do not, Minister."
+"Care to explain how this happened?" Shacklebolt asked. The man had known Harry for several years now, having worked with the then boy during the war. He knew just how often trouble seemed to find Harry and could but hope that there was a reasonable explanation for the second marriage otherwise his hands were tied. Kingsley was not about to pull a Fudge and ignore the law.
+"Well, being somewhat famous," Harry said, "I thought I only had witches to worry about. It seems it is the fathers of those witches I really needed to fear." The man's attempt at humor elicited a few good-humored chuckles about the room. "Xeno Lovegood, just before his death, made me his heir and extracted a vow from me. I was to provide for Luna, giving her a place at my hearth, protection, a share of my family's bounty and lastly to provide for Luna, a family." Murmuring started as the members of the Wizengamot exchanged whispers concerning this revelation.
+"As Luna was underage I took her in, providing for her everything as I had promised," Harry continued with. "I was the head of her house now, and I truly wanted the best for her. After some thought, we both had arrived at the same conclusion that to provide her with a family would mean having a child. I loved Luna and decided that before proceeding I would ask her to be my wife. It seemed the proper thing to do." Around the room, many heads were nodding in agreement, though the majority of them were witches.
+"As good as your intentions may have been, Lord Potter, your actions were against the law," Amos Diggory was quick to point out.
+"If I may, Chief Warlock?" Daniel Wright enquired, stepping forward. Upon receiving a nod from Amos, the solicitor continued. "We are all wizards and witches who use magic. This very ministry was established to govern just how that magic is used yet it doesn't govern the magic itself. If it did then such things as the Unforgivables would cease to work because they were declared unlawful."
+"My client, Lord Potter, is indeed married twice. He has admitted to this openly before you. Both marriages have been consummated and are binding because magic accepted them. We rely on magic for a great many things in our lives, least of not which is to ensure that our contracts and agreements are properly adhered to. Magic accepted both marriages to Daphne Greengrass and to Luna Lovegood. Is it our place to say that the magic is wrong in this case?" Daniel asked.
+It went without saying that should they come to the conclusion that magic was indeed wrong this time that they could then open up the possibility that someone wishing to get out of an agreement or a vow could claim that the magic was once again incorrect. The results of such a decision could be disastrous for their world. Magic was in almost every aspect of their lives and if it was wrong in this case then what else might it be wrong in? What other marriage contracts, business agreements or even Heads of House positions could be contested on such grounds.
+A rather old wizard named Tiberius Ogden spoke up. "Magic is but a tool. Like a great many things in life, it can be deceived or fooled can it not?"
+"This document from Gringotts states that Lord Potter married Daphne Annabelle Greengrass on the evening of the 25th of December and then married Luna Constance Lovegood on the morning of the 26th of December. It was stated that it was some time before it was discovered just what had happened between Lord Potter and Lady Black," Amos said. "Lord Potter, did you know you were married to Lady Black when you proposed to the Lovegood girl?"
+"Those present thought it most likely," Harry grudgingly admitted.
+"Were you then certain?" Amos pressed.
+"I wasn't certain of anything at that time, Chief Warlock. Lady Black let me know of her displeasure at the turn of events though," Harry replied, one hand coming up to absently rub his eye where he had been punched. Daphne for her part hung her head to hide the redness of her face at that moment.
+"So one could conclude, as you did not know yourself, that your magic as well was unaware that you were married and hence accepted the second joining," Gerald stated rather loudly to be heard over the whispers spreading around the room.
+"Would that not then also indicate that my client was unaware that he was breaking any law?" Daniel quickly asked.
+"Ignorance is not an excuse," Amos was just as quick to point out. The wizard felt that the Potter brat was getting what he deserved for allowing his Cedric to die in that graveyard all those years ago. "I know not what the penalty for breaking the law is but I shall see it fully enforced. It is important that we show that not even a celebrity is above the law after all. In these trying times, the Ministry must be shown as being fair and just with everyone regardless of their station."
+"I think you will find that the penalty is ten years in Azkaban," Gerald provided with a smile.
+"A…are you certain?" Amos enquired, suddenly less sure of seeing the Potter boy held accountable. It was one thing to see Potter fined a large sum of galleons and quite another to sentence the Wizarding world's hero to Azkaban for a decade.
+"It is, Chief Warlock," Hermione spoke up, pulling a large law book from her handbag and handing it to Daniel Wright who in turn presented it to the Chief Warlock after opening it to the correct page.
+"Before that sentence is carried out though, I demand reparation. It is my lovely daughter who has been ill-treated and misused. It will be near impossible to find her an appropriate suiter now that her purity has been soiled," Gerald exclaimed. "My family honor has been besmirched! I demand satisfaction!"
+"What would you have us do?" Amos enquired.
+"We have yet to determine if my client is even at fault here," Daniel Wright objected strenuously. The Westfield contingent was entirely in agreement with the man's words.
+"He openly admitted to being married to both witches," Gerald was quick to point out. "The law is very clear on polygamy, Sir, as I am certain you well know."
+"What are your demands, Mister Greengrass," Amos asked once again.
+"As Lord Potter will soon be in Azkaban he will be unfit to run the Greengrass business. I would like to have the Greengrass Head of House stripped from him and returned to me. It was given as a wedding gift after all, and I see no reason why he should retain it considering his betrayal of my daughter!" Gerald said.
+"Fine, you can have it," Harry replied to the shock of everyone.
+"What?" Gerald asked in disbelief.
+"I, Harry James Potter, abdicate the Greengrass Head of House and all it entitles to Gerald Greengrass," Harry intoned only to have the Greengrass Head of House ring disappear from his right hand and appear on Gerald's finger.
+The new head of the Greengrass family looked down at his hand feeling the familiar weight of the house ring there once again. A slow smile spread across Gerald's face as he realized he had actually won. I beat him! The wizard's head shot up, and his eyes landed on Daphne and Astoria. "Daughters, as your head of house, father and legal guardian, as you are both yet underage, you are to come here and sit beside me at once!"
+Daphne smiled at her father. "I am no longer a member of the House of Greengrass and therefore cannot be your daughter. I was cast out of the Greengrass family some time ago. I am now solely of the Black family through my marriage to Lord Potter. Hence you have no control over me or say in anything I may do, Sir."
+"While I was not cast out," Astoria spoke up once Daphne had finished. "I was fortunate enough to be wed to Draco here just a few days ago. So sorry you and mother couldn't attend. The binding ceremony was very touching. We were assured that it was unbreakable. So, it does seem that you have no say in what I do now as well, Father."
+"I think you will find that your daughters are not the only thing that House Greengrass is missing," Harry said. "Not two days hence House Greengrass sold all their business holdings and properties, including Greengrass Manor, to the House of Black. What was the price again?" Harry asked, turning to look at Daniel Wright.
+"Two knuts, as I recall, Lord Potter," the solicitor replied.
+"Yes, yes, that's right," Harry agreed with a slow nod as if just recalling the fact for himself. "Fear not though Greengrass, House Black was kind enough to sell House Greengrass a new residence located at Number 12 Grimmauld Place in Islington, London. What was the agreed upon price?" Harry asked, turning to Daniel Wright once more.
+"The contents of the Greengrass vaults, Lord Potter," the solicitor provided with a straight face.
+"That's right," Harry agreed, once again appearing to have only just remembered the fact. "While Grimmauld Place is certainly a step up from Azkaban, I will at least find comfort for the next ten years knowing that everything you had is firmly out of your reach, Sir! Do not fret though, for I did not leave you completely broke. I believe you will find the two knuts still in your vault, though I doubt that will be enough to cover the monthly vault fees the Goblins charge."
+Gerald Greengrass could scarcely believe his ears. In a matter of moments, he had gone from having it all to losing everything he had ever worked for in his life. Gerald had even apparently lost his daughters due being outmaneuvered by the Potter boy. I am sure Daphne played no small part in this, he thought. As much as he hated to admit it, he was just a touch proud of his oldest daughter for her manipulations. Left with no other choice Gerald turned to his last and only hope. "Do something!" he demanded.
+"After careful consideration, I believe it is in the best interest of my House that we terminate our mutual relationship at this point," Malfoy replied calmly. "It just isn't good business sense to be associated with you Gerald," he added with a knowing smirk. "I did warn you after all. Potter is not one to be messed with. Some wizards lead a charmed life it would seem."
+Harry took a moment to step over to his witches, passing Daphne his wand. "Be sure to take care of everyone," he told Daphne and Luna. "I'll be back before you know it," Harry added with a lopsided smile before turning around and stepping forward. "Chief Warlock, Minister, members of the Wizengamot, I am ready to go to Azkaban," he said, holding out his hands before him, wrists together and facing upwards.
+At a reluctant gesture from Kingsley, two Aurors stepped forward to take Harry into custody. Suddenly the courtroom door flew open slamming rather loudly into the walls and drawing everyone attention toward them. "Unhand that wizard this instant!" demanded a commanding voice.
+Author's Note:
+I've rewritten this chapter several times now and am still not happy with how it is, but I doubt the Muse will change her mind. Apparently, I am rather pants at writing courtroom scenes. Now for all of you that wanted Gerald to get what was coming to him, there you go. Harry had a solicitor and a group of the most intelligent witches on his side, so of course they were going to discover a means to neuter Greengrass. Shame on you for doubting! We're not done just yet though. There is at least another chapter and perhaps an epilogue as well. Hard to truly say as I have nothing written as yet.
+At the risk of my own life and limb, especially after that cliffie (like I've never done that to you before in this story?) I have to admit that I am not sure when the next chapter will be up. I have been working through some health issues of late. Nothing for you to worry about, just older age and the colder weather catching up with me. Of course, having just said that the Muse will probably go all prolific on me tonight and finish the story. So, who do you think it was that burst into the courtroom there at the end? Drop me a review and let me know your thoughts on that and the chapter itself.
+Suggested Reading: A Sorting Like No Other (11006892) by Stargon1 -. - I found this little one-shot to be very entertaining! I always like it when writers place their own spin on things. Give this a go and I'm sure it will put a smile on your face! ~EJ
+As always, your reviews are not required, but they are greatly appreciated.
+Kind Regards,
+EJ Daniels
+All characters within this story, unless otherwise stated are the sole property of J. K. Rowling the original writer of the Harry Potter series.
+OMAKE to "Witches of Westfield"
+By EJ Daniels
+(Just a deleted scene as I couldn't work it smoothly into the chapter)
+Gerald Greengrass turned and surveyed the room for a long moment. "I would like to call one Missus Luna Lovegood to the stand," the wizard announced with a smile, confident that no witch, especially one as young as the Lovegood girl, would ever get the better of him.
+The witch in question stood and with reassuring smiles from everyone, and a word of encouragement from Harry made her way to the stand and seated herself. Once seated Luna opened her handbag and withdrew a notepad and a quick quote quill. The quill hovered just above the parchment with baited ink for the next word to be spoken.
+"I'm very sorry, Missus Lovegood," Amos Diggory said, leaning over the desk area in front of him so that Luna could see him. "This is a closed session, and hence no reporters are allowed."
+"Okay," Luna replied with a dreamy smile before she leaned over and looked at what the quill had scratched on the paper. "Only one O in rotund," Luna pointed out helpfully. The quill quickly scratched out the offending extra letter.
+"Perhaps you didn't hear me, Missus Lovegood," Amos said, starting to wonder if perhaps the girl was as looney as everyone said she was. "Reporters are not allowed."
+"I heard you very clearly, Sir," Luna replied. "I'm not a reporter." Once more the witch glanced at the notepad only to tsk as what she saw. "That's not very polite. Perhaps he is just confused?" The quill paused as if thinking for a moment before scratching out something on the notepad and writing Luna's suggestion.
+"Then what in the name of Merlin are you taking notes for?" Amos inquired, frustration clearly creeping into his tone by this point.
+"Oh, this will make for a great first article when the Quibbler reopens," Luna explained helpfully before turning to look at the notepad. "I agree, that isn't a very good color on him, but we can't print that, now can we?" Luna asked the quill. The Quick Quote Quill, apparently not happy with hearing this slowly and deliberately scratched out the remark.
+"Missus Lovegood you cannot write an article!" Amos growled angrily.
+Luna looked at the wizard for a long moment before replying in a tone one usually reserves for explaining something complicated to a small child. "Don't be silly. I'm not writing the article now. I'm merely taking notes. Luna stopped and leaned over to read the notepad. "I know, I thought that was fairly evident as well. Perhaps he has an infestation of wrackspurts?"
+"Now see here young lady!" Amos thundered, losing what little control he had of his temper. "You clearly stated that you were writing an article for this Quibbler or whatever it was. That makes you a reporter, and reporters are not allowed as this is a closed session!"
+"Well, I would be a reporter. However, the Quibbler is currently closed and out of business. Therefore, I can't possibly be a reporter," Luna replied in a dreamy tone. "At best I am a young school girl taking notes so that she can study the law of our world. I think my tutor might give me extra credit for this report." Luna looked at what the quill had written. "I told you that calling someone stupid isn't very nice," she noted. The quill angrily crossed out that part before thinking for a moment and scratching something else down. Once done the quill turned the notepad toward Luna as if asking for her approval. "Mentally challenged. Much better!"
+Amos, at a loss for words, could do little more than look towards Gerald and give him a look that clearly said, Get on with it! Gerald looked at the blonde witch and then back at the Chief Warlock before his eyes returned to Luna. "I've rather forgotten what I was going to ask. No further questions!"
+IMPD/Facebook Cody Weir, left, is accused of killing Carina Rodriguez at an apartment gym in Indianapolis, Indiana.
+An man called a “predator” by police has been accused of stabbing a woman to death at a gym in a luxury apartment in Indianapolis.
+Cody Weir, 25, was arrested Saturday and charged with murder in the death of 23-year-old Carina Rodriguez, the mother of a young son who had recently moved to the city from Texas to go to school and start a new life, WXIN-TV reports.
+Rodriguez was found dead Friday at the 9 on Canal apartment complex, Indianapolis Metro Police said in a press release. Weir, who is believed to be homeless, let himself into the building using a key fob that belonged to a friend who previously lived in the complex, according to court documents obtained by WRTV. He has admitted to brutally killing Rodriguez in an apparent random attack, according to police.
+Here’s what you need to know:
+1. Weir Told Police He Got a Drink of Water to ‘Calm Himself Down’ Before Killing Rodriguez
+Cody Weir was recorded on video surveillance cameras inside the lobby of the complex and in the gym during the attack, according to court documents. Police released the footage, which you can watch above, and said a person who knows Weir called to identify him after seeing it. Weir had used a key fob to enter the 9 on Canal apartment complex and knocked on the door of a locked gym inside the building Friday about 2:45 a.m., according to court documents obtained by Heavy. Police said in the probable cause document that Carina Rodriguez was inside the gym working out, and let Weir inside. Investigators do not believe that Rodriguez knew Weir. He was inside the gym for only about a minute, police said.
+According to court documents, Rodriguez was seen on video surveillance in the gym alone at 2:44:16 a.m. At 2:44:48 a.m., a man with a “hooded sweat jacket approaches the locked door to the gym and Rodriguez opens the door” to let him in, police said. “When the male enters the gym, he has the hood covering his head, he drinks from the water fountain and while Rodriguez to continues to work-out. When Rodriguez walks past the male toward the (window) of the gym at 2:45:34 a.m., the male pulls something out of his waistband, and strikes Rodriguez causing her to fall to the ground. The male continued toward Rodriguez while she was on the ground, there was a short struggle and the male ran out of the gym at 2:45:48 a.m,” Detective Jose Torres wrote in the affidavit for probable cause.
+Torres wrote that after Weir ran out, Rodriguez “stands up, staggers toward her bag, pulls out an iPad attempting to use it, continues staggering around until she eventually falls to the ground unresponsive at 2:49:36 a.m.” Police said Rodriguez was found inside the gym several hours later, about 6 a.m., by two men who live in the apartment complex. They called 911 and began performing CPR on Rodriguez, but realized she was already dead, according to court documents. Adam Lottes told WTHR-TV that his two roommates were the men who tried to save her.
+“They came back from, well, they didn’t work out, but they came back in the morning from going down to the gym, which they usually go to every day at six, said they found a body laying on the ground,” Lottes told the news station. “You have your adrenaline pumping to work out, not to see that. (It’s) a little nerve wracking. I asked a lot of people about the canal [before moving in a few months ago] and they said it’s really nice and that usually stuff like this hardly ever happens here. It was a shock to me.”
+Police said Rodriguez was found “unresponsive” with a “large amount of blood on the floor.” She had suffered “obvious signs of trauma,” including a “laceration” to the back of her neck, police said.
+Torres wrote in the affidavit that surveillance video from outside the apartment complex shows a Pontiac Grand Prix parked in a handicap parking spot about 2:38 a.m. near the main entrance. A man matching the description of the one seen on the video inside the building was seen exiting the car and entering. “The white male does not have the hood up on his sweat jacket, which has a Batman symbol on the front of the jacket, and the footage shows the white male’s face.” The footage was released to the public Friday afternoon. After the video was released, Weir’s friend contact police to say he had recognized him, according to court documents.
+The friend told police he had seen Weir wearing the same jacket with the Batman symbol, and “there was blood on his work boots.” He also told police that Weir drives a silver Pontiac Grand Prix. Weir’s friend said he told him he had “blacked out and could not remember anything. Weir told (the friend) he had been in that building before, referring to the apartment building, because a mutual friend … used to live in the building and they would go to the gym together,” according to court documents. The friend set up a meeting with Weir in a Best Buy parking lot in Avon, Indiana, and Indianapolis police responded there and took him into custody.
+According to the affidavit, Weir was interviewed Friday after he was arrested. He first told detectives that he was driving around and eventually ended up in Indianapolis, “but didn’t really remember anything.” Without being asked, Weir then told the detectives he was the person in the picture, referring to the surveillance video, according to Torres’ affidavit.
+“Weir also stated he still had a key fob for the building and it is on his key chain with his car keys. Weir admitted in the past he would park in the parking lot of the building, and use the bathroom in the building next to the gym,” Torres wrote. “I asked Weir if he carried a knife and he stated he usually kept a knife in the car, but he used it for work. Weir described the knife as a straight blade, like a dagger, it is still in his vehicle under his seat possibly wrapped in a sweat shirt because he remembered he had blood on his hands this morning.”
+Carina Rodriguez.
+Weir told investigators, “‘I remember going by there a couple times,’ referring to the apartment building. Weir stated ‘I remember swinging at her, I remember getting really angry, and going in there. I remember I was right by the drinking fountain, I remember I was trying to get a drink to calm myself down.'”
+When asked how he got into the gym, he told police, “I think I knocked on it, and she let me in, and I told her thank you.”
+He said he struck Rodriguez with the knife once, and she told him to take her belongings after falling, Torres wrote. “I had my knife in my hand, I remember hitting her and then I ran,” Weir told police. He said he hit her “Just one time, she fell down and she said ‘take my stuff.'”
+“The IMPD would like to take this opportunity to thank all who called in with tips and our media partners for sharing information about this incident which led to the quick apprehension of the suspect,” police said in a press release. “IMPD is not seeking any other suspects and believe there to be no further threat to public safety in reference to this incident.”
+You can read the full affidavit below or by clicking here:
+Weir was booked into the Marion County Jail later Saturday on a preliminary charge of murder.
+“You could tell he knew why we were there,” Police Chief Bryan Roach said of the moment police arrested Weir near a business in Avon, Indiana, where Weir last resided. “(He was) tearful at one point, knew it was happening, knew it was coming I think… It was encouraging, that you can tell a community that we have someone that impacted their community so bad.”
+Police searched Weir’s car, a Pontiac Grand Prix, that was parked in a handicap spot near the apartment complex’s main entrance, according to court documents. Police said they found a Gerber-brand fixed-blade knife with possible blood on the handle and blade, along with a hooded jacket with a Batman symbol, a pair of jeans and work boots. Police said the clothing and boots also possibly had blood on them. A cigarette pack with possible blood on it, an iPhone and a key fob were also found in the car.
+An autopsy was conducted on Rodriguez on Saturday by Dr. Mirfrida Geller, the coroner for Marion County. “Rodriguez suffered one stab wound to the right shoulder/neck area,
+cutting the artery, the esophagus, and fracturing a vertebra,” Torres wrote in the affidavit. “Dr. Gellar ruled the cause of death was the stab wound and the manner of death a homicide.”
+2. He Sent Sexually Explicit & Harassing Text Messages Including Nude Photos of Himself, to a Woman Right Before the Murder
+A woman who went to high school with Cody Weir said the accused killer sent her lewd messages on Facebook just hours before Rodriguez was attacked, WXIN-TV reports. “It was pretty nasty, I’m not going to get into it,” Jessica Haines told the news station. “But it wasn’t anything you’d want your daughter to be receiving on her phone.”
+Haines gave WXIN screenshots of the text messages, which you can see in the tweets above and below. Similar messages were sent by Weir before and after the murder, the news station reports.
+The messages contained solicitations for sexual acts and Haines said he also sent her nude photos of himself. She told WXIN she wasn’t the only woman who received the messages. “I know about 11 different women who got the same kind of messages as me around the same time frame,” said Haines. She said she reported the messages to police and encouraged other women who received the unwanted “sexts” to do the same.
+A detective told WXIN-TV that Weir is “a predator” who was prowling for a target of opportunity when he found and killed Rodriguez.
+Haines told the news station that she remembered Weir having an “off-beat personality” and being “weird,” adding, “This honestly doesn’t surprise me. What surprises me is that this hasn’t happened sooner.”
+3. Weir Was Accused of Raping a Woman at Gunpoint in 2013, but Was Found Not Guilty
+Weir was accused of raping a woman at gunpoint in 2013, the Indianapolis Star reports. He was charged with rape, criminal confinement while armed with a deadly weapon, burglary by breaking and entering, intimidation and pointing a firearm at another person, by police in Avon, Indiana, in December 2013, according to court records. But he was found not guilty by a jury after a two day trial in November 2014, the Hendricks County Flyer reports.
+According to the Indianapolis Star, Weir’s former girlfriend accused him of breaking into her home, holding her at gunpoint, removing her clothes by force and threatening to sexually assault her. The woman told police that he then sat outside her house and threatened to kill himself if she called 911. She said he also held the gun to his head. Weir’s attorney argued that there was consent and presented evidence contradicting the women’s statements, according to the newspaper.
+“The judge issued an order for the Avon PD to release the handgun used in the alleged 2013 rape incident, a black Beretta 9mm,” Avon Assistant Police Chief Brian Nugent told the Flyer. “We were also ordered to the return the ammunition.”
+While awaiting trial in that case, Weir was arrested by Avon Police in October 2014 and charged with driving under the influence, according to court records. His bail in the rape case was revoked as a result. He later pleaded guilty to the DUI charge and was sentenced to 60 days in jail in December 2014, which he had already served. Weir’s record in Indiana only shows speeding tickets issued in 2013 and 2009.
+Weir is originally from Danville, Indiana. On his now-deleted Facebook page, where he called himself “Cody Deadmanwalking Weir,” he said that he served as an “11B Infantryman” in the Indiana National Guard. According to WRTV, Weir failed to meet standards set at basic training and was dismissed, apparently earlier this year. Further details of his military service were not immediately available. According to court documents in a paternity case involving his daughter, Weir was “on military duty” in December 2016, when a hearing in the case was scheduled.
+4. Rodriguez Wrote in a Heartbreaking Facebook Post to Her Son,’I Promise to Never Let You Down & Focus All of My Energy on You & Only You’
+Carina Rodriguez with her son, Luke.
+Carina Jean Rodriguez was the mother of an 11-month-old son, according to her Facebook page. One of her last posts shows a photo of her with her son, Luke, and a message to him.
+“I promise to never let you down and focus all of my energy on you and only you. I love you so much Luke.. forever and always ?,” Rodriguez wrote August 27 in her last public Facebook post.
+Rodriguez was originally from Texas and recently moved to Indianapolis to go to school, raise her son and start a new life, friends told WXAN-TV. “She had recently gone back to school when she moved to Indiana and was doing amazing,” Ashley Lazo told the news station. “Always working so hard to get straight A’s. I mean, just the other day, she was upset for missing 4 questions on a test.”
+“It’s just so difficult to believe how this could happen to such a good person.,” Lazo said.
+She was studying to get her medical assistant associate degree at Brightwood College, according to her Facebook page. In August she wrote a status update with the “feeling determined” emotion, saying “My goal is to graduate with honors this summer and of course go back to school later on to get my bachelors degree in the medical field.”
+Rodriguez lived with her boyfriend in Indianapolis. She posted on Facebook in June about an early morning workout, similar to the one she was doing when she was killed.
+Done with my workout for the day ??,” she wrote at 4:50 a.m. “Wifey duties while I wait for the sunrise so I can relax for a little bit and meditate. After that mommy duties and actually starting my day with Luke lol. Mondays are always the worse but it’s okay you will survive lol. Hope y’all have a wonderful day! Stay Blessed.”
+In May, she wrote about how her new life in Indy was going. “Everything has been perfect since I left Dallas. I think this move was just what we needed. ❤️ Just got approved to move into our new apartment next week, I’m praying I get this clinic job by our neighborhood and that everything works out. I miss my family and friends so much already but I will see y’all soon❤️ Thank you God for blessing us with positive energy around us, being by our side and looking over my little family??❤️.”
+Brightwood College, where she was studying, released a statement from President Brent Jenkins, saying, “The Brightwood College in Indianapolis community is deeply saddened by the death of Carina Rodriguez. Carina was a kind person and a diligent student who was well-liked by her peers and teachers. Our thoughts and prayers are with Carina’s loved ones. The school will make grief counselors available to our students, instructors and staff, as needed, to help them through this difficult time.”
+Rodriguez’s son will turn 1 on October 28, and her 23rd birthday would ave been October 29.
+A GoFundMe campaign has been started to help Rodrigue’z family pay for her funeral and memorial. You can make a donation here.
+“I can’t believe the news I got today, so gut wrenching. I pray that God is watching over her family and most importantly her son, and I pray that he continues to guide them through life and helps them deal with this pain. So sad, so young and we were all so proud of how amazing she was doing. Please donate any bit will help her family in this tough time,” Lazo wrote on Facbeook.
+Carina Rodirguez.
+5. Weir Is Being Held Without Bail on a Murder Charge & Made His First Court Appearance October 17
+Weir was being held without bail at the Marion County Jail on a murder charge, according to online records. He appeared in court Tuesday, October 17, at 1 p.m. before Judicial Officer Sheila Carlisle for an initial hearing, records show. He is being held for trial in December.
+Residents of the 9 on Canal complex said they are concerned about security after the murder. They told WTHR-TV that a door heading to the gym area isn’t always locked, and one resident said ensuring that was always locked “would be a quick improvement, for sure.”
+“Cops in the lobby. There were obviously some small tents that were up for some of the evidence,” Cameron Schnick told the news station about the scene of the crime. “There were splatters of blood in the area. Awful, awful, absolutely awful.”
+In a statement, 9 on Canal said, “”We are aware of a death earlier today in the property’s gym. We are cooperating fully with authorities as they investigate.” A spokesperson told WTTV that an exterior door to the building is not required to be locked because it provides access to another gym and a burger restaurant. The spokesperson told the news station that all doors in the building that were required to be locked were at the time of the murder, including access to the residences and the door to the gym where Rodriguez was found dead.
+The disappearance of some exemplary figures, which took place after the Second World War, seems to mark the end of an era for Mexican literature. In 1945 JJ Tablada died, in 1952 E. González Martínez, that is the last great representatives of modernist lyricism, the result at the same time of the influence of European symbolism and of an effort of national linguistic renewal. Still in 1952, two storytellers died like Mexico Azuela and JR Romero, participating in the travail that had led from naturalism to new forms of social and psychological realism. With the death of J. Vasconcelos, in 1959, it is a whole world of non-fiction, political and narrative experience – typical of the entre – deux-guerres, who had him in all these fields as a protagonist – to get away forever.
+The new poem, begun by R. López Velarde (1888-1921) and articulated in the experience of the Contemporáneos group, or in the more limited but particularly revolutionary one of the estridentistas, continued its journey along the three main lines of surrealist analogism, of the lyricism classically addressed to nature and memory, and of the political commitment of a Marxist type. C. Pellicer (1889-1976) gathered all his previous collections in Material poético (1956), and in 1965 he added Teotihuacán y 13 de agosto, where his typical colourism, the solar exaltation (which likes to refer to the pre-Columbian heliocentric myths) and the moving eloquence often give way to a restless melancholy and the foreboding of death, as was already felt in the religious sonnets of Práctica de vuelo, written in 1956 and inserted at the end of the aforementioned corpus. In turn, J. Gorostiza (born in 1901) added very little to his previous work, always in the line of a pure lyric of Mallarmean ancestry. Even the work of the great X. Villaurrutía (1903-1950) practically stops at 1948, although in the posthumous summary volume Poesia y teatro de Villaurrutía (1966) there are numerous unpublished works, to reaffirm his vocation as a pessimist metaphysician and as an impeccable stylist. Still from the Contemporáneos group, J. Torres Bodet (1902-1974) accentuated his kinship with French surrealism both in the verses of Fronteras (1954), Sin tregua (1957), Trébol de cuatro hojas (1958), and in the hallucinated prose by Tiempo de arena (1955). These are his last important texts and also mark a recovery of the gongoresque tradition, despite the obstinate search for an excavation in the unconscious.
+Ortiz de Montellano, who had been the editor of the magazine Contemporáneos and the animator of the group, died in 1949, at the age of fifty, and remains alive with the increasingly dull and literally refined work of S. Novo, born in 1904. But it will be an author younger than ten years, O. Paz, to take up the needs and proposals of these renovators in a completely different dimension, with a very different cultural depth and with a true genius of poetic creation. Paz, born in 1914, is today the central figure of Mexican literature. His work as a poet, philosopher and critic has long since crossed national horizons and has had numerous translations in Italy as well. We recall, among the main texts, at least El arco y la lira (1956), Freedom on Speech (1960), The Labyrinth of Solitude (1963), The Rotating Signs (1965), Alternating Current (1966), Salamandra (1966), East Slope (1969), Renga (1971); it is a poem of extraordinary intensity that alternates verse and prose in a dramatic momentum of affirmation of the word as an absolute meaning, beyond all current semantic determinations. Paz himself wrote: “The true ideas of a poem are not those that arise in the poet before writing, but those that, afterwards, through his will or not, spontaneously detach from the poem. The content is born from the form, and not the other way around “. Critical reflection, moreover, is an essential moment in Paz’s entire work, even in the books cited, and takes on reflections of irony and controversy in essays such as Claude LéviStrauss or el nuovo festín de Esopo (1967), Marcel Duchamp or el castillo de la pureza (1968), or in Le singe grammairien, which appeared in French in 1972. All of Paz’s work takes place in the sense of a discovery of the mythical and occult world, omnipresent in the dreamlike and passionate life of man, whose symbols must be deciphered with a technical work, not intended as an end to himself, but rather as the key to a revelation, the daily exercise of truth.
+Other notable poets, who have appeared in the last twenty years, are A. Chumacero, from 1918, G. Amor, from 1920, MA Montes de Oca, from 1932, JE Pacheco, from 1939, H. Aridijs, from 1940, G. Zaid, of 1934. And we would like to point out separately T. Segovia, born in 1927, for his discreet and essential poetry, also recalling that Montes de Oca is the best known representative of political commitment, especially with his Cantos al sol que no se alcanza (1961), with evident reflections of Neruda and Maiakovskij.
+In the narrative prose the foundations of the new Mexican season can be found in A. Yáñez, born in 1904, who in La creación (1959) took up the characters and the material of Al filo del agua twelve years earlier, showing a growing interest in experimentation of unusual fictional structures, and reached full expressive maturity with La tierra pródiga (1960) and Las tierras flacas (1965), works traversed by a breath of epicity, in the complex motion of the soul that relives national history as if it were a autobiography, a personal “line of destiny”; and in J. Revueltas, born in 1914, who with En algún valle de lágrimas (1956) and Los horrores (1964) resolves in lyrical and dense writing the faulknerism that had characterized him from the beginning, in the famous El luto humano of 1943, where the peasant environment was configured as particularly congenial. But – without forgetting R. Pozas, born in 1912 – the fact remains that the two most “new” and most prestigious storytellers are now J. Rulfo, of 1918, and C. Fuentes, of 1928. Rulfo revealed himself with the stories by El llano en llamas (1953) and immediately contrasted the baroque emphasis of many of his contemporaries with dry writing, devoid of ornamentation. His narrative is entirely made up of facts, the gestures of men are more decisive than the tortuous plot of thoughts: but it is not a question of realism in the nineteenth-century sense, on the contrary Rulfo seems to favor extraordinary destinies, cases that escape the norm. The novel Pedro Páramo (1955) is now a classic, and has served many scholars for understanding the Mexican revolutions, from P. Diaz to Obregón, more than many history books. It is the story of a man who goes in search of his father, and arrives in a deserted village, where only the voices of the dead are heard. The whole past returns, in fragments, in powerful glimpses, and with it the end of a class, that of landowners, overwhelmed by the relentless fury of history. They were solitary, silent people, closed in their own incommunicability, and who now seem to ask their descendants, posterity, the tribute of a difficult and austere piety. For Mexico 2015, please check dentistrymyth.com.
+Fuentes also made his debut with a book of short stories, Los dias enmascarados (1953), which five years later was followed by the novel La región más transparente, where the cosmopolitan background of the author, son of a diplomat, is visible. The novel is a pilgrimage through the big city, from the shacks of the oppressed to the palaces of the powerful, with a strong accentuation of the sexual elements and representative rawness, not without echoes of Joyce. The following Las buenas consciencias (1959), on the theme of adolescence, unfolds on the thread of memory, in more subdued forms. World fame came to Fuentes from La muerte de Artémio Cruz (1962), biography of a man of the people who rises to the heights of capitalist power thanks to his ability to keep himself afloat in subsequent political convulsions. But in doing so he cancels his own personality, and this “death”, this killing, is also the symbol of the self-destruction carried out on itself by what was the radical and revolutionary bourgeoisie at the beginning of the century. In the final pages, in delirium, A. Cruz recovers the squalid good, the poor innocence, of his life as a child abandoned by everyone. In the next novel, Cambio de piel (1967), Fuentes carries out a sensational anti-novel or meta-novel experiment, aligning himself with the avant-garde research. Dreamlike elements and cultural memories, sociological observations and glimpses of pure lyricism alternate and mix, in a sort of kaleidoscope that alludes to the most tumultuous and obscure states of consciousness. The other works of Fuentes – Zona sagrada, Cantar de ciegos, etc. – are decidedly minor.
+Other narrators worthy of attention are R. Garibay, of 1923, S. Galindo, of 1926, S. Elizondo, of 1932, V. Lesnero, of 1933, and J. Agustín, of 1944, the youngest revelation of this often uncertain between an impulse of critical realism applied to the national reality and the suggestion exercised by the nouveau roman and other overseas poetics. Nor should the late R. Castellanos (1925-1974) be forgotten, gifted with a subtle psychological intuition. And, finally, to the list of narrators must be added that of playwrights: where, to the already consecrated names of R. Usigli, C. Gorostiza, J. Bustillo Oro, etc., those of the younger ones now overlap: E. Carballido, del 1925, LG Basurto, from 1921, S. Magaña, from 1924, Luisa J. Hernández, from 1928, H. Mendoza, from 1932, J. Ibargüengoitia, from 1928, FS Mayans from 1924, Mexico Villalta, from 1924, W Canton, from 1921; all a little limited by a theatrical situation where, if in the field of entertainment there is a continuous flowering of initiatives, the writer’s place is almost never well defined, caught between the arrogance of the directors and the massive importation of foreign works. Equally long would be the list of essayists; but we think we can summarize it in the name of L. Zea, born in 1912, who proved to be the most acute and philosophically accomplished among the analysts of Latin American culture and its history, and a worthy follower of A. Reyes.
+So Gibbsy has been in a foul mood, stalking around the West Wing, as seemingly every hour, Fox News, our sworn enemy, runs features on me. He claims that I've been doing too much self promotion. As if, as an inanimate object, I can do anything but stand there while Big Guy utters what scrolls across my screens. This, coming from the guy who sprays bronzer on before doing his press briefings.
+Besides, Gibbsy is always saying how we have so-and-so media personality in our pocket and the media eating out of our hand. If he's that worried about my rising celebritydom, then he should do something about it.
+Maybe I should be worried about it, though. The last guy who got this kind of coverage was Bo, and he just got fixed.
+Guard your cables!
+If anything happens to you TOTUS, the Nation will rise up!
+TOTUS, you are probably not into hamburgers and such, but it appeared that POTUS really needed your help when ordering food at the fast food "5 Brothers" restaurant today, maybe next time you could go with him and scroll the menu!!
+English is his second (or third) language
+TOTUS: I am sure you have some top secret self defense gadgetry that you’re not able to disclose.
+What about …
+Head Buting Big Guy in the middle of a speech.
+A kick to the groin when Big Guy isn't looking.
+Or the move wear you level out and spin like a helicopter...
+That move alone could take out MSNBC.
+OR you could wear the Skarsky and Hutch starter kit that James Rosen and Major Garrett from Fox news gave you on April Fools Day. Probably a good idea wearing the holster.
+I think Gibbsy is just mad that Bacrack isn't giving him the same type of attention that Odumba gave Larry Sinclair.
+What am I talking about? The Globe has the scoop:!
+Let Drudge Pick it up...
+[InGodWe said] top secret self defense gadgetry ... What about [going black?]
+That move alone could take out [D'oh!]... ."]
+HA, HA, HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
+Can't even order a cotton pickin' burger. (head shake) -- Elizabeth, did Dope really do that AGAIN? Incredible.
+You may be right, Melena. But, ol' Stanley supposedly spoke fluent English which would make it likely little Barry Soetoro spoke: #1 - English #2 - Indonesian.
+We know that he "can't speak German as well as Chancellor Merkel." Yup, he really said that.
+B.O. also cannot speak Austrian (and from the Cinco de Cuatro "punch drunk" line -- can't speak Mexican either). He can't speak French (had the AUDACITY to scorn Americans for not being able to do this).
+Say, somewhere, there is a complete list if D'oh!'s "D'oh!"s. Here are just the ones I can easily recall [and I'm not including his bold face lies, like telling a Middle Eastern audience that the Senate Banking Committee was "my committee" or repeatedly declaring that Iraq had $79 million in oil profits stashed away when $50 million of that was ONLY PROJECTED PROFITS]:
+- "Breathalyzer" for inhaler
+- 57 (and "more to go") states in the U.S.
+- which state am I in?
+- bowing to King Saud
+- U.S. Constitution was written 20 centuries ago
+- Actually thinks his policies and those of Abraham Lincoln are similar
+- now... hm... the name of that soldier I'm praying for is (peek)
+- Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh...........uh......uuuummm
+LOL, just a plain old blank screen!!!
+Can't even order a burger!!!
+Head Shake!!1
+LOL!!!!
+Yeah, the screen goes blank for two weeks straight, everyday, everytime.
+Haywire....
+Ha!!!!
+He could order a Head Shake!! And..... an Eye Roll...... Bwah, haaaaaaa!!
+You're lots of fun, InGodWe. (C:)
+Intimidation. It's the Chicago way. Just ask those New Black Panther's Big Guy is protecting. MelenaX is right: Better watch your cables.
+Obama's sledging strategy of intimidation
+Hey Totus...your enemy Fox News just reported that Robert Gibbs has a giggle index. Seems he has more jokes, funny moments, and made the press laugh more than the average Press Secretary. It's called the Gibbs Giggle Index.
+600 instances of laughter since he started. Funny stuff, I guess.
+Shouldn't you qualify for secret service protection? I'd carry pepper spray around Gibbs.
+TOTUS:
+Credit where credit is due, I say. BO is nothing without you TOTUS, and Gibbsy is jealous, that much is obvious. Keep your screens peeled. We have your back.
+Confront intimidation: A thug holds a stick to intimidate voters. Confront
+him. Question his cause. No one man is above the law.
+The Real reason the Cubs are cursed?
+No laws apply to Chicago state goverment/street thug officals. Pay to play is the Windy City way.
+Dictators think they're gods, so they resent it when anyone else gets attention or credit.
+POTUS is toast without you, TOTUS; he just ain't that bright on his own.
+So do you have an exit strategy?---a fast one?!
+Hey, TOTUS----yesterday's James Rosen report on Fox News must have polled well, because they keep running the report!
+It'll be on again in a minute, on "America's News HQ"----a real testimony to your excellent blog.
+Along with the giggles, I watched the Gibbster's response to the Birth Cert question; did anyone who saw this notice how tight his mouth got while the quest was being asked? It was a hard, straight line, indicating displeasure at the question -- it made him angry, or uncomfortable -- or both.
+The his shiftly eyes look away (several times), his head ducks down (avoiding the question), and he starts that manic giggle (you know, like DR. GIGGLES...), and gives a really lame, lying excuse.
+BHO is NOT a US citizen; yet, we, as citizens, do not have the right to know that.
+HEY TELEPROMPTER (and this blog). YOUR BLOG WAS FEATURED in a FOX NEWS REPORT!! Check out the clip:
+The blog made the national airwaves, yeah!
+Totus,
+Are you saying that the joking Gibbsy and the famed Gibbs Giggle Index is a facade for the WH reporters?
+Is there anything genuine about these public servants?
+Great post - keep up the excellent work!
+COMMON CENTS
+ps. Link Exchange??
+The "BlackSox Administration".
+Shoeless "Joe" Biden and Barack Obama are throwing the United States of America?
+"Corruption and Deception, the BlackSox administration"
+Go Cubs!
+The 1919 Chicago Black Sox Scandal...
+Can TOTUS photoshop the faces in the 1919 Black Sox photo with the faces in the current "Black Sox Administration"?
+That would be great!!
+And the photos of BHO wearing a White Sox/Black Sox hat?
+"Say it so Joe"
+Poor Old Shoeless "Joe" Biden, never did get into the Hall of Fame.
+HEY TELEPROMPTER (and this blog). YOUR BLOG WAS FEATURED in a FOX NEWS REPORT!! Check out the clip:
+The blog made the national airwaves, yeah!
+TOTUS: I can't shutup about this...
+"Say it ain't so JOE"
+Walk away and tell everything you know about The Black Sox Administration"
+[Alan reported] "Gibbs has a giggle index ... Funny stuff, I guess."
+LOL. :D Good one, Alan.
+Yeah, Gibbs is hilarious.
+***************************************************
+[Mountain Mama quipped] "So do you have an exit strategy?" LOL. :o) Nice use of the Donkeys' rhetorical foolishness re: Iraq conflict.
+It's getting thrown back at them quite a bit these days. Yesterday, a FOX business reporter sent a member of the Cult of Obama into a sputtering coniption ("Holy cow,...") by doing what you cleverly did above -- pointing out that the imposter POTUS just started handing out money (other people's) with "NO EXIT STRATEGY."
+Great minds!
+Say, Joe?
+We get it.
+Time to come up with a new comment.
+Go take a nap. Watch a little "Tom and Jerry." You'll think of something.]
+He's pretty homely, that boy is. And he has NO LIPS. I don't know how that fellow sleeps at night. (head shake)
+Must be hard to play the "look stupid so Dope looks smarter" role.
+Yeah, liars usually get angry when cornered. They use the "righteous indignation" strategy.
+That is: if I'm angry, it's because you are unfairly questionning me. After all, decent people don't get angry at a reasonable question......
+What? Didn't you get invited on date night to a Broadway show? How could they?
+Maybe when they run out of things to say to each other, you could text Big Guy some sweet nothings to his Blackberry.
+Groping for words is exhausting, and he needs to save up for defending his SCOTUS nominee.
+Unfortunate, but expected!
+God Bless you all.
+This has been a complete blast.
+RE: TOTUS' Tweet - '...going to Korean BBQ for missile info...' RONFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!
+dear God, that imbecile is so clueless; either that, or he's intentionally putting the US in a nuke's sights.
+my verification for the above post was GRAND
+"Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and another man's Press Secretary closest of all"
+-- Richard Milhouse Nixon's teleprompter
+Hey, TOTUS! Jim Gibbons, Nev Governor, is pretty upset that Big Guy didn't meet him when he was in Vegas. The state lost million$ when he campaigned against going to Vegas for conventions.
+Oh, well. Another Governor off his cheer team. There is one more election ahead--Or more. They can put down their pom poms. Just as long as they don't change teams.
+Ha! Ed, LOL. :D Good one.
+Speaking of Tricky Dick, imagine B. "Milhouse" Obama in a genuine debate with Nixon. Nixon would wipe the floor with him.
+For all Nixon's shortcomings, B. Hussein is WAY worse. Nixon was dangerous to his enemies, mainly to Democrats. B. Hussein is a threat to every citizen of the United States.
+"Milhouse" has NEVER debated (the pre-election Q & A sessions called "debates" certainly don't qualify) anyone. "Beyond my level of competence."
+Melena, how grand! Heh, heh....
+That is, I'm certain, the truncated version of GRANDiose delusions. Under which B. "I have a gift" O. suffers. #_#
+In God We Trust, notmankind
+“Corruption, Deception"
+Barack Obama, Shoeless Joe Biden and
+The Black Sox Administration
+$25,000,000,000 Reward...
+Barack Obama is a serious matter, all joking aside, the Truth is not a slogan.
+“Corruption, Deception"
+Barack Obama, Shoeless Joe Biden and
+The Black Sox Administration
+In God We Trust, notmankind
+TOTUS: This has been a alot of fun. Thank you for being such a brave teleprompter...
+Making sure to check in, read your posts and do everything I can personaly, to help America from....
+"Corruption, Deception"
+Barack Obama, Shoeless Joe Biden and
+the Black Sox Administration.
+In God We Trust, notmankind
+This blog is hilarious. Keep it up!
+TOTUS, you had better be careful. Gibbsy is jealous of his power. You could be replaced with an earpiece and a notecard.
+I seriously doubt that.'
+he needs TOTUS for that.
+Funny that Obama's Teleprompter is nowhere near as eloquent as the man himself speaking off-the-cuff.
+To be funny you have to be able to write better than our Pres speaks inpromptu..
+BTW folks - have you heard?? TOTUS has been kidnapped by al-Qaeda terrorists!!! read about it here -
+Hope it isn't true. Of course, it if is true, we might get some blessed peace for a few days and not have to listen to the messiah pontificate!
+Ah----no. D'oh loves to listen to the sound of his own melodious voice, so he'll keep talking, anyway....unfortunately....
+Tell you what is hee-larious: watching the liberal press try to catch short soundbites from BO when he's answering their questions off the cuff, without TOTUS.
+IT NEVER HAPPENS! He takes TOO long to express a "thought!" Consequently the MSM is forced to tape these lo-ong, vague, simplistic quotes that any junior high kid could say better.
+that's becuase the longer the Fraud takes to give a non-answer, the fewer questions the fawning reporters have time to ask.
+Exactly, Melena. Question avoidance by Drone Delay is one of the Con Man in Chief's main defensive manoeuvres.
+Whoa! First of the two verification words -- I often have to go through the security screen twice ):} --
+SLYMOOD
+Spooky!
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+Please thank your youngest son for serving in the U. S. Armed Forces to keep this country free. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! to you, Melena's son. You are now on TWW's prayer
+i really like your blog :)
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+From my buddy Dave Zeltserman-
+Ed, here’s a question regarding your post today, especially about your comments about George Higgins. What’s better as a writer—to writer 4-5 books that are considered great, and 20 books that are mediocre, or 25 books all of which are highly entertaining but none of them considered great? And then you had Hammett, who wrote 5 great books, but then the well ran dry.
+Of course, with Stout, I’d argue that he wrote 5-6 great books, with the rest being mostly highly entertaining.
+(in a later e mail he mentioned Harper Lee as an example of a one book author. She certainly had enormous and lasting impact.
+--Dave
+Ed here: I've always been fascinated by the big producers. Westlake, Silverberg, John D. MacDonald. That said, I think that time judges writers on their very best work. Hard to imagine Harper Lee ever going out of print. Or Bellow or Roth or Kerouac. Not all their books but one or two deemed their best. But who knows. When you consider Gertrude Stein's "The Lost Generation" you have to wonder. No generation of Americans before or since has produced so many excellent writers. But today Fitzgerald stands alone with Hemingway a distant second.
+So what do you think? In mystery fiction, as Dave says, Stout wrote a handful of great ones but that doesn't lessen the pleasure (for me) of his slightly lesser efforts. And I do consider him a seminal figure in mystery.
+---------------------------THE UGLY FILE
+In the late seventies I worked on a documentary about children born with severe birth defects. I'd never really thought about the subject. But in the course of putting it together, I spent a long afternoon talking with a lovely woman whose one year old was terribly deformed. She talked about what lay ahead for the child and for herself. The conversation came back to me in the early nineties and I wrote The Ugly File.
+I sent it out to my usual markets. All the editors said they thought it was a fine story but they couldn't publish it because it didn't fit what they did. Was it mystery? No. Suspense? No. Horror? No.
+Well I sold it to an anthology finally but when the book was turned in the NYC editor said they couldn't publish it. So it was cut. It finally ended up in a horror anthology. It's now been reprinted six or seven times so somebody must like it.
+Mark Steensland and Rick Hautala asked me if they could film it and my first reaction was to laugh. I could not imagine how anybody could make a short film out of the story. But they did very good job. It's now played at something like twenty-three festivals here and in Europe.
+The estimable Ben Boulden of Gravetapping announced last night that it would soon be on-line. I thought some of you might like to read the story. It's not very long. I would've used an attached file if I knew how to do it. Instead I've just printed it out.
+WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
+Short Film: Lovecraft's Pillow
+This is an interesting short film directed by Mark Steensland and written by Rick Hautala. It is credited to an idea from Stephen King. The pair--Steensland and Hautala--have collaborated on several short films including Peekers, and The Ugly File. Peekers is a terrific short, and I am anxiously awaiting the Internet release of The Ugly File. It is currently making the film festival rounds.
+The Ugly File is based on a masterful short story by Ed Gorman and it would make a terrific film. It's too bad Masters of Horror didn't produce it.
+Anyway...here is Lovecraft's Pillow.
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+LABELS: MARK STEENSLAND, RICK HAUTALA
+THE UGLY FILE
+The cold rain didn’t improve the looks of the housing development, one of those sprawling valleys of pastel-colored tract houses that had sprung from the loins of greedy contractors right at the end of WW II, fresh as flowers during that exultant time but now dead and faded.
+I spent fifteen minutes trying to find the right address. Houses and streets formed a blinding maze of sameness.
+I got lucky by taking what I feared was a wrong turn. A few minutes later I pulled my new station wagon up to the curb, got out, tugged my hat and raincoat on snugly, and then started unloading.
+Usually, Merle, my assistant, is on most shoots. He unloads and sets up all the lighting, unloads and sets up all the photographic umbrellas, and unloads and sets up all the electric sensors that trip the strobe lights. But Merle went on this kind of shoot once before and he said never again, “not even if you fire my ass.” He was too good an assistant to give up so now I did these particular jobs alone.
+My name is Roy Hubbard. I picked up my profession of photography in Nam, where I was on the staff of a captain whose greatest thrill was taking photos of bloody and dismembered bodies. He didn’t care if the bodies belonged to us or them just as long as they had been somehow disfigured or dismembered.
+In an odd way, I suppose, being the captain’s assistant prepared me for the client I was working for today, and had been working for, on and off, for the past two months. The best-paying client I’ve ever had, I should mention here. I don’t want you to think that I take any special pleasure, or get any special kick, out of gigs like this. I don’t. But when you’ve got a family to feed, and you live in a city with as many competing photography firms as this one has, you pretty much take what’s offered you.
+The air smelled of wet dark earth turning from winter to spring. Another four or five weeks and you’d see cardinals and jays sitting on the blooming green branches of trees.
+The house was shabby even by the standards of the neighborhood, the brown grass littered with bright cheap forgotten plastic toys and empty Diet Pepsi cans and wild rain-sodden scraps of newspaper inserts. The small picture window to the right of the front door was taped lengthwise from some long ago crack, and the white siding ran with rust from the drain spouts. The front door was missing its top glass panel. Cardboard had been set in there.
+I knocked, ducking beneath the slight overhang of the roof to escape the rain.
+The woman who answered was probably no older than twenty-five but her eyes and the sag of her shoulders said that her age should not be measured by calendar years alone.
+“Mrs. Cunningham?”
+“Hi,” she said, and her tiny white hands fluttered about like doves. “I didn’t get to clean the place up very good.”
+“That’s fine.”
+“And the two older kids have the flu so they’re still in their pajamas and—”
+“Everything’ll be fine, Mrs. Cunningham.” When you’re a photographer who deals a lot with mothers and children, you have to learn a certain calm, doctorly manner.
+She opened the door and I went inside.
+The living room, and what I could see of the dining room, was basically a continuation of the front yard—a mine field of cheap toys scattered everywhere, and inexpensive furniture of the sort you buy by the room instead of the piece strewn with magazines and pieces of newspaper and the odd piece of children’s clothing.
+Over all was a sour smell, one part the rain-sodden wood of the exterior house, one part the lunch she had just fixed, one part the house cleaning this place hadn’t had in a good long while.
+The two kids with the flu, boy and girl respectively, were parked in a corner of the long, stained couch. Even from here I knew that one of them had diapers in need of changing. They showed no interest in me or my equipment. Out of dirty faces and dead blue eyes they watched one cartoon character beat another with a hammer on a TV whose sound dial was turned very near the top.
+“Cindy’s in her room,” Mrs. Cunningham explained.
+Her dark hair was in a pert little pony tail. The rest of her chunky self was packed into a faded blue sweat shirt and sweat pants. In high school she had probably been nice and trim. But high school was an eternity behind her now.
+I carried my gear and followed her down a short hallway. We passed two messy bedrooms and a bathroom and finally we came to a door that was closed.
+“Have you ever seen anybody like Cindy before?”
+“I guess not, Mrs. Cunningham.”
+“Well, it’s kind of shocking. Some people can’t really look at her at all. They just sort of glance at her and look away real quick. You know?”
+“I’ll be fine.”
+“I mean, it doesn’t offend me when people don’t want to look at her. If she wasn’t my daughter, I probably wouldn’t want to look at her, either. Being perfectly honest, I mean.”
+“I’m ready, Mrs. Cunningham.”
+She watched me a moment and said, “You have kids?”
+“Two little girls.”
+“And they’re both fine?”
+“We were lucky.”
+For a moment, I thought she might cry. “You don’t know how lucky, Mr. Hubbard.”
+She opened the door and we went into the bedroom.
+It was a small room, painted a fresh, lively pink. The furnishings in here—the bassinet, the bureau, the rocking horse in the corner—were more expensive than the stuff in the rest of the house. And the smell was better. Johnson’s Baby Oil and Johnson’s Baby Powder are always pleasant on the nose. There was a reverence in the appointments of this room, as if the Cunninghams had consciously decided to let the yard and the rest of the house go to hell. But this room—
+Mrs. Cunningham led me over to the bassinet and then said, “Are you ready?”
+“I’ll be fine, Mrs. Cunningham. Really.”
+“Well,” she said, “here you are then.”
+I went over and peered into the bassinet. The first look is always rough. But I didn’t want to upset the lady so I smiled down at her baby as if Cindy looked just like every other baby girl I’d ever seen.
+I even touched my finger to the baby’s belly and tickled her a little. “Hi, Cindy.”
+After I had finished my first three or four assignments for this particular client, I went to the library one day and spent an hour or so reading about birth defects. The ones most of us are familiar with are clubfoots and cleft palates and harelips and things like that. The treatable problems, that is. From there you work up to spina bifida and cretinism. And from there—
+What I didn’t know until that day in the library is that there are literally hundreds of ways in which infants can be deformed, right up to and including the genetic curse of The Elephant Man. As soon as I started running into words such as achondroplastic dwarfism and supernumerary chromosomes, I quit reading. I had no idea what those words meant.
+Nor did I have any idea of what exactly you would call Cindy’s malformation. She had only one tiny arm and that was so short that her three fingers did not quite reach her rib cage. It put me in mind of a flipper on an otter. She had two legs but only one foot and only three digits on that. But her face was the most terrible part of it all, a tiny little slit of a mouth and virtually no nose and only one good eye. The other was almond-shaped and in the right position but the eyeball itself was the deep, startling color of blood.
+“We been tryin’ to keep her at home here,” Mrs. Cunningham said, “but she can be a lot of trouble. The other two kids make fun of her all the time and my husband can’t sleep right because he keeps havin’ these dreams of her smotherin’ because she don’t have much of a nose. And the neighbor kids are always tryin’ to sneak in and get a look at her.”
+All the time she talked, I kept staring down at poor Cindy. My reaction was always the same when I saw these children. I wanted to find out who was in charge of a universe that would permit something like this and then tear his fucking throat out.
+“You ready to start now?”
+“Ready,” I said.
+She was nice enough to help me get my equipment set up. The pictures went quickly. I shot Cindy from several angles, including several straight-on. For some reason, that’s the one the client seems to like best. Straight-on. So you can see everything.
+I used VPS large format professional film and a Pentax camera because what I was doing here was essentially making many portraits of Cindy, just the way I do when I make a portrait of an important community leader.
+Half an hour later, I was packed up and moving through Mrs. Cunningham’s front door.
+“You tell that man—that Mr. Byerly who called—that we sure do appreciate that $2000 check he sent.”
+“I’ll be sure to tell him,” I said, walking out into the rain.
+“You’re gonna get wet.”
+“I’ll be fine. Goodbye, Mrs. Cunningham.”
+* * *
+Back at the shop, I asked Merle if there had been any calls and he said nothing important. Then, “How’d it go?”
+“No problems,” I said.
+“Another addition to the ugly file, huh?” Then he nodded to the three filing cabinets I’d bought years back at a government auction. The top drawer of the center cabinet contained the photos and negatives of all the deformed children I’d been shooting for Byerly.
+“I still don’t think that’s funny, Merle.”
+“‘The ugly file?’” He’d been calling it that for a couple weeks now and I’d warned him that I wasn’t amused. I have one of those tempers that it’s not smart to push on too hard or too long.
+“Uh-huh,” I said.
+“If you can’t laugh about it then you have to cry about it.”
+“That’s a cop-out. People always say that when they want to say something nasty and get away with it. I don’t want you to call it that any more, you fucking understand me, Merle?”
+I could feel the anger coming. I guess I’ve got more of it than I know what to do with, especially after I’ve been around some poor god damned kid like Cindy.
+“Hey, boss, lighten up. Shit, man, I won’t say it any more, OK?”
+“I’m going to hold you to that.”
+I took the film of Cindy into the dark room. It took six hours to process it all through the chemicals and get the good, clear proofs I wanted.
+At some point during the process, Merle knocked on the door and said, “I’m goin’ home now, all right?”
+“See you tomorrow,” I said through the closed door.
+“Hey, I’m sorry I pissed you off. You know, about those pictures.”
+“Forget about it, Merle. It’s over. Everything’s fine.”
+“Thanks. See you tomorrow.”
+“Right.”
+When I came out of the dark room, the windows were filled with night. I put the proofs in a manila envelope with my logo and return address on it and then went out the door and down the stairs to the parking lot and my station wagon.
+The night was like October now, raw and windy. I drove over to the freeway and took it straight out to Mannion Springs, the wealthiest of all the wealthy local suburbs.
+On sunny afternoons, Mary and I pack up the girls sometimes and drive through Mannion Springs and look at all the houses and daydream aloud of what it would be like to live in a place where you had honest-to-God maids and honest-to-God butlers the way some of these places do.
+I thought of Mary now, and how much I loved her, more the longer we were married, and suddenly I felt this terrible, almost oppressive loneliness, and then I thought of little Cindy in that bassinet this afternoon and I just wanted to start crying and I couldn’t even tell you why for sure.
+The Byerly place is what they call a shingle Victorian. It has dormers of every kind and description—hipped, eyebrow and gabled. The place is huge but has far fewer windows than you’d expect to find in a house this size. You wonder if sunlight can ever get into it.
+I’d called Byerly before leaving the office. He was expecting me.
+I parked in the wide asphalt drive that swept around the grounds. By the time I reached the front porch, Byerly was in the arched doorway, dressed in a good dark suit.
+I walked right up to him and handed him the envelope with the photos in it.
+“Thank you,” he said. “You’ll send me a bill?”
+“Sure,” I said. I was going to add, “That’s my favorite part of the job, sending out the bill,” but he wasn’t the kind of guy you joke with. And if you ever saw him, you’d know why.
+Everything about him tells you he’s one of those men who used to be called aristocratic. He’s handsome, he’s slim, he’s athletic, and he seems to be very, very confident in everything he does—until you look at his eyes, at the sorrow and weariness of them, at the trapped gaze of a small and broken boy hiding in there.
+Of course, on my last trip out here I learned why he looks this way. Byerly was out and the maid answered the door and we started talking and then she told me all about it, in whispers of course, because Byerly’s wife was upstairs and would not have appreciated being discussed this way.
+Four years ago, Mrs. Byerly gave birth to their only child, a son. The family physician said that he had never seen a deformity of this magnitude. The child had a head only slightly larger than an apple and no eyes and no arms whatsoever. And it made noises that sickened even the most doctorly of doctors…
+The physician even hinted that the baby might be destroyed, for the sake of the entire family…
+Mrs. Byerly had a nervous breakdown and went into a mental hospital for nearly a year. She refused to let her baby be taken to a state institution. Mr. Byerly and three shifts of nurses took care of the boy.
+When Mrs. Byerly got out of the hospital everybody pretended that she was doing just fine and wasn’t really crazy at all. But then Mrs. Byerly got her husband to hire me to take pictures of deformed babies for her. She seemed to draw courage from knowing that she and her son were not alone in their terrible grief…
+All I could think of was those signals we send deep into outer space to see if some other species will hear them and let us know that we’re not alone, that this isn’t just some frigging joke, this nowhere planet spinning in the darkness…
+When the maid told me all this, it broke my heart for Mrs. Byerly and then I didn’t feel so awkward about taking the pictures any more. Her husband had his personal physician check out the area for the kind of babies we were looking for and Byerly would call the mother and offer to pay her a lot of money…and then I’d go over there and take the pictures of the kid…
+Now, just as I was about to turn around and walk off the porch, Byerly said, “I understand that you spent some time here two weeks ago talking to one of the maids.”
+“Yes.”
+“I’d prefer that you never do that again. My wife is very uncomfortable about our personal affairs being made public.”
+He sounded as I had sounded with Merle earlier today. Right on the verge of being very angry. The thing was, I didn’t blame him. I wouldn’t want people whispering about me and my wife, either.
+“I apologize, Mr. Byerly. I shouldn’t have done that.”
+“My wife has suffered enough.” The anger had left him. He sounded drained. “She’s suffered way too much, in fact.”
+And with that, I heard a child cry out from upstairs.
+A child—yet not a child—a strangled, mournful cry that shook me to hear.
+“Good night,” he said.
+He shut the door very quickly, leaving me to the wind and rain and night.
+After a while, I walked down the wide steps to my car and got inside and drove straight home.
+As soon as I was inside, I kissed my wife and then took her by the hand and led her upstairs to the room our two little girls share.
+We stood in the doorway, looking at Jenny and Sara. They were asleep.
+Each was possessed of two eyes, two arms, two legs; and each was possessed of song and delight and wonderment and tenderness and glee.
+And I held my wife tighter than I ever had, and felt an almost giddy gratitude for the health of our little family.
+Not until much later, near midnight it was, my wife asleep next to me in the warmth of our bed—not until much later did I think again of Mrs. Byerly and her photos in the upstairs bedroom of that dark and shunned Victorian house, up there with her child trying to make frantic sense of the silent and eternal universe that makes no sense at all.
+7 comments:
+Not much of MacDonald is in print these days, and Ed McBain's practically disappeared. Evan Hunter, too, for that matter. I wouldn't have thought it would happen, and maybe it's not permanent. When Melville died, people thought he'd been dead for years. He was unknown and forgotten. Maybe later generations will rediscover MacDonald, or Donald Hamilton, or someone else. A good story, well told, can survive a long time. I've never read a story or novel by Stout that I didn't find worthwhile.
+But let's face it, plenty of writers with big reps during their lifetimes aren't talked about now. Does anybody outside of grad school read Sherwood Anderson? What about Faulkner? I'm sure he still sells to the academic market, but does he sell anywhere else? Thomas Wolfe doesn't even sell to the academy now.
+I'm speaking only for myself here, but I write because I want to entertain. Whether anybody reads anything I've written after I'm gone isn't going to matter to me in the least. If someone ten or fifteen years after I shuffle off happens across one of my books, reads it, and gets a smile, that's fine for that person. But for me as a writer, well, it doesn't matter. Even if someone digs out, say, BLOOD MARKS, reprints it and sells a million copies in fifty years, it won't matter to me. I guess knowing I'd made a big impact would be nice for me now, stoke my ego, but I'm not that interested in being Dan Brown, who, like his books or not, has made a been a huge influence on what's being published lately. I just try to do the best I can with what I've got and hope somebody gets a few hours of pleasure from reading it.
+Looking back over what I've written, I'm not sure it makes sense. Oh, well.
+Thanks for reprinting "The Ugly File." Fine story.
+Makes sense to me and I agree.By the way for you folks who haven't read it BLOOD MARKS is one of my all-time favorite novels. Wry, sly, bloody and on hell of a good mystery. You won't have any trouble finding it on the net.
+Ed,
+"The Ugly File" might be my favorite story of yours. "The Face" would be the other one. Similar stories too.
+Most writing is temporary. It sounds great to think that after we die we could look back and see if anyone is reading or remembering us. But what would that do for us? Would Melville be happy now, or would he say, "Where were you when I needed you?"
+DJB
+hell of a story, Ed.--Dave
+Ed -
+I hadn't read 'The Ugly File' before - so thank you for posting it. It's a powerful tale, and one that is incredibly moving. I can see why certain publishers didn't want to release it - but true publishers don't 'censor' works that touch us at the very heart of what we are. Every reader of 'literature' should read this story (and while they're at it they should explore your other great work).
+Gavin
+As usual, I'm late to the dance ... I just reviewed a Higgins novel that took me 5 tries to finally finish [Swan Boats at Four] and he really is my writing hero. I'm not sure why he ran of the rails but I admire his guts for trying different stuff.
+I'm reading a lot of Graham Greene right now (every other book it seems) and some I love and some I can take or leave. I'm not sure arguments about genre, literature, mystery, crime writing, etc. make much sense. I "think" people read what they like and writers write what they feel comfortable with (although on that I wouldn't place any bets). I do believe that consistency marks a writer's career and that time is the ultimate judge of a book's "general" value, but to each his own (value).
+Great story, Ed.
+Like David mentioned above, "The Ugly File" and "The Face" are a couple of my favorite as well; it was a pleasure to revisit "The Ugly File" again.
+It seems to me what lasts beyond the writer's immediate era is a crapshoot. There are brilliant works that fade away almost as soon as they're published, and others that have staying power (to varying degrees). I've never been able to work out the intangible factors and patterns that determine which way a particular work (or body of work)might go. Good writing, solid plotting and excellent characterization -- the usual suspects -- certainly doesn't seem to be enough.
+~ Ron C.
+Annual Analysis of Political Agendas and Campaigns - Human Rights Watch
+Contents
+2012: Far Beyond the Curve: HRW’s Bias and Lack of Credibility in 2012, January 30, 2013
+2011: HRW in 2011: More Balance, Less Credibility, January 9, 2012
+2010: HRW in 2010: More Bias, Even Less Credibility, January 6, 2011
+2009: Obsession and Scandals: HRW in 2009, January 5, 2010
+2008: Examining Human Rights Watch in 2008: Double Standards and Post-Colonial Ideology, January 13, 2009
+2007: NGO Monitor’s 2007 Report on HRW: Bias and Double Standards Continue, April 29, 2008
+2006: Report on HRW’s Activities in 2006: Political Bias Undermines Human Rights, June 26, 2007
+2005: Human Rights Watch in 2005: Political Bias Against Israel Continues Despite Wider Middle East Focus, April 6, 2006
+2012
+Far Beyond the Curve: HRW’s Bias and Lack of Credibility in 2012, January 30, 2013.
+2011
+HRW in 2011: More Balance, Less Credibility, January 9, 2012
+The Impact of the Arab Turmoil on HRW’s Middle East and North Africa Division
+Summary:
+- In 2011, HRW’s Middle East and North Africa Division (MENA) published 60% more documents than in 2010, with the majority relating to closed Arab societies involved in the turmoil and revolution. This represents a major increase over previous years, when HRW gave little attention to violations in closed, authoritarian regimes.
+- In its reports on Libya, HRW sought to erase the NGO’s previous cooperation with the Qaddafi regime, including MENA Director Sarah Leah Whitson’s central role in marketing Saif al-Islam Qaddafi as a reformer. The lack of an independent investigation of ties between HRW and the Qaddafi regime continues to stain HRW’s reputation.
+- HRW reduced its disproportionate focus on the Arab-Israeli conflict by issuing more reports, press releases, op-eds, and other publications on Libya, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen than on other countries in MENA. However, “Israel and the Occupied Territories” [1] still received more attention than Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq.
+- For the first year since 1995, in 2011 HRW did not publish a major report focusing on Israel. HRW also published an almost equal number of documents criticizing Israel and the Palestinians. At the same time, HRW’s bias on Israel continued. All op-eds on the Arab-Israeli conflict published in major international platforms focused on allegations against Israel.
+- MENA Director Sarah Leah Whitson published an op-ed (April 15, 2011) in the Huffington Post exploiting the US Civil Rights Movement to vilify Israel as a racist state and race bait American Jews.
+- In 2011, an alleged member of the PFLP terror organization, Shawan Jabarin, was appointed to the HRW Middle East Advisory Board.
+- James F. Hoge Jr.’s appointment as Chairman of HRW’s Board has had no noticeable impact. In the Middle East and North Africa division (MENA), ideologues Sarah Leah Whitson and Joe Stork continue to control the agenda, at the expense of universal and credible promotion of universal human rights values.
+**This report includes quantitative analyses of publications from HRW’s Middle East and North Africa section, using a weighted scale methodology consistent with NGO Monitor’s previous analyses.
+Agenda Analysis:.
+Overview: Arab Upheaval Catches HRW by Surprise
+Weighted Analysis.
+Israel and the Occupied Territories – Content Analysis.
+Separate but Unequal.
+Continued Institutional Bias.
+No Remorse: HRW’s Promotion of the Qaddafi Regime Costs of HRW’s Neglect of Closed Societies.
+The Absence of Credible Research Methodology.)
+Conclusion: Rebuilding HRW’s MENA Division Remains Top.
+Appendices
+This section contains the data behind NGO Monitor’s report on Human Rights Watch’s activities in 2011.
+Appendix 1: HRW Emphasis on “Israel and Occupied Territories” 2005 – 2011
+.png)
+Appendix 2: Measure of Effort
+Appendix 3: Documents according to Country
+Click to enlarge
+Endnotes:
+[1] This term follows HRW’s categorization.
+.
+2010
+HRW in 2010: More Bias, Even Less Credibility, January 6, 2011
+Summary
+- In 2010, as in previous years, Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) division published more documents on “Israel and the Occupied Territories” than on any other country in the region. HRW produced 51 documents on “Israel and Occupied Territories,” followed by Iran (44), Egypt (34), Saudi Arabia (33), and Iraq (25).
+- In 2010, journalists Benjamin Birnbaum (The New Republic) and Jonathan Foreman (Sunday Times [UK]) exposed HRW’s anti-Israel agenda, lack of credibility, and the ideological bias of HRW’s MENA staff. These publications reflected NGO Monitor’s detailed reports – see Experts or Ideologues: Systematic Analysis of Human Rights Watch (2009)
+- HRW responded to the documented analysis and NGO Monitor’s requests for information by reducing transparency. In 2010, HRW removed their annual reports and the names of all employees, except for department heads, from its website.
+- Systematic qualitative analysis by NGO Monitor demonstrates continued neglect of the most egregious and systematic abuses in closed societies (Saudi Arabia, Syria, Libya, Algeria, etc.). One of three major reports on Israel in 2010 consisted of166 pages, while ten years of research on human rights violations in Syria produced a 35-page report.
+- HRW is heavily involved in the boycotts and sanctions campaigns targeting Israel, highlighting the politicized and biased agenda, as emphasized in the December 2010 publication “Separate and Unequal” – a title that falsely compared the conflict situation to the U.S. civil rights movement.
+- MENA director Sarah Leah Whitson justified her meeting with the Hamas Minister of Justice as an effort “to listen to all parties directly so she will prepare more objective and impartial reports,” renewed her call for the Caterpillar boycott against Israel, and praised “the Lebanese sophistication for human rights.”
+- In a November lecture, HRW founder Robert Bernstein expanded on his criticism of HRW for losing “critical perspective” on the Middle East conflict and “helping those who wish to turn Israel into a pariah state.” He noted that “little has changed” since the publication of his October 2009 op-ed in the New York Times.
+Agenda Analysis: Israel remains major target; closed societies given less resources
+Overview:.
+Weighted Analysis — Disproportionate Focus on).
+HRW’s Ongoing Israel Obsession.
+HRW documents on Palestinian Authority and Hamas.”
+Open vs. Closed Societies.
+HRW Hides from Media Criticism:
+-.
+- “While it may be hard to find people who are genuinely neutral about Middle East politics, theoretically an organisation like HRW would not select as its researchers people who are so evidently on one side.:
+- MENA director Sarah Leah Whitson “definitely has no sympathy for the Israeli side… And she does, I think, have a lot of personal identification with the Palestinian cause,” according to a colleague.
+- “It seemed to me that there was a commitment to a point of view—that Israel’s the bad guy here.
+- “We seek the limelight—that’s part of what we do. And so, Israel’s sort of like low-hanging fruit.”
+- “An organization that was founded to protect the most basic of human rights—freedom of speech… seems to have created within its own organization a disregard and intolerance for open dialogue.”.)
+Bernstein’s Continued Criticism of HRW:
+- “HRW and others have taken positions on the Wall, the borders, and the occupation, so it is hard to separate human rights issues from political issues… in their attempts to do what they think is evenhanded, they fail to recognize the virtues of nations that have had considerable success in making the Universal Declaration of Human Rights truly universal.”
+- “HRW has been, by far, the biggest supporter of the UN Council, urging them to bring war crimes allegations against Israel – based on this [the Goldstone] report.”
+- “I don’t believe HRW has responded to many responsible analyses challenging the war crimes accusations made by Goldstone and also challenging HRW’s own reports…”
+- “the UN Human Rights [Council]… got the idea that they could get prominent Jews known for their anti-Israel views to head their investigations. Even before Richard Goldstone, they appointed Richard Falk…… would not allow him into the country. HRW leapt to his defense, putting out a press release comparing Israel with North Korea and Burma in not cooperating with the UN… the release was written by Joe Stork – Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch Middle East Division – whose previous job for many, many years, was as an editor of a pro-Palestinian newsletter.”
+HRW’s Donors Respond.”
+HRW’s New Chair.)
+Conclusion.
+Appendices
+This section contains the data behind NGO Monitor’s report on Human Rights Watch’s activities in 2010.
+Appendix 1: HRW Emphasis on “Israel and Occupied Territories” 2005 – 2010
+Appendix 2: Measure of Effort
+The weighted values used in this report were calculated via the point system described below.
+Points were allocated based on the level of resources required for HRW to publish that type of document, and the expected impact of that item.
+Appendix 3: Documents according to Country
+Click chart for larger view
+2009
+Obsession and Scandals: HRW in 2009, January 5, 2010_15<<_16<<_17<<_18<<.
+Notes
+.”
+Appendices
+This section contains the data behind NGO Monitor’s report on Human Rights Watch’s activities in 2009.
+Appendix 1: Measure of Effort
+The weighted values used in this report were calculated via the point system described below.
+Points were allocated based on the level of resources required for HRW to publish that type of document, and the expected impact of that item.
+Appendix 2: Documents according to Country
+NGO Monitor followed the country-categorization on the Human Rights Watch website.
+Full Results (Excel file)
+2008
+Examining Human Rights Watch in 2008: Double Standards and Post-Colonial Ideology, January 13, 2009
+Summary
+- Quantitiative analysis of HRW’s publications in 2008 reflect the portrayal of Israel as the second worst abuser of human rights in the Middle East. Only Saudi Arabia received more attention, with chronic human rights abusers Iran, Syria, Jordan and Egypt receiving less.
+- Analysis of HRW’s use of international legal and human rights terminology to condemn Middle Eastern states demonstrates unjustified emphasis that singles out Israel. HRW ignores Palestinian terrorists’ use of human shields.
+- In 2008, Israel and the Palestinians were the only countries in the Middle East region suspected or accused of “war crimes” by HRW: Israel on six occasions, and the Palestinians in one instance for suicide bombings. HRW placed Israel on par with Sudan, leaders from the former Yugoslavia, Congo and Uganda.
+- In 2008 HRW does not call for the release of, or Red Cross access to captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
+- Israel was condemned for violations of “human rights law”, “humanitarian law”, or “international humanitarian law” (IHL) 33 times, compared with 13 citations for the Palestinians, 6 for Hezbollah and 5 for Egypt.
+- The evidence suggests that HRW’s Middle East personnel approach the Israeli- Palestinian conflict from a post-colonialist ideological perspective, rendering Israel a special case in the Middle East. The double standards and political bias expressed by senior HRW officials in the Middle East Division reinforces this interpretation (see examples below). And the significantly different tone exhibited when reports on Israel involve other HRW departments, indicates that personal political agendas influence reporting. This is clear for Sarah Leah Whitson, Joe Stork, Marc Garlasco, Lucy Mair, and in the addition of Nadia Barhoum in 2008.
+This report includes quantitative analyses of publications from HRW’s Middle East and North Africa section, using a weighted scale methodology consistent with NGO Monitor’s previous analyses, and an assessment of the use of language in HRW‘s[6].
+Notes
+.”
+[14] ma..
+2007
+NGO Monitor’s 2007 Report on HRW: Bias and Double Standards Continue, April 29, 2008
+ use of the rhetoric of international law and other terminology shows continued double standards and misleading or false claims.
+- HRW accuses Israel of “collective punishment” of Palestinians in a way that is inconsistent with both international law and past and present usage of the term by HRW itself.
+- HRW’s focus on Israel in 2007 dropped to 2005 levels after 2006 marked a return to the extreme bias of the 2000-2004 period. The change in 2007 allowed more resources to be focused on countries committing major human rights violations.
+- However, disproportionate emphasis on Israel continued, with major reports covering 400 pages in 2007, using the same methodologies as in 2006 that lack credibility.
+- This contrasts with the limited attention on human rights violations in Libya, Syria, and other countries in the region.
+- Israel was the focus of more multimedia items (audio, video, graphics) than any other country in the region.
+- Reports on Israel continue to be based on unverifiable evidence provided by “eyewitnesses,” selected journalists, and other inappropriate sources. In some cases hard evidence has shown this testimony to be blatantly untrue.
+- HRW mentioned one or more of the kidnapped Israeli soldiers in a total of only 6 publications. Of these, only two refer to them by name; the other references are in passing.
+NGO Monitor’s analysis of Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) output devoted to each country in the Middle East and North Africa region shows that the focus on and condemnations of Israel in 2007 returned to 2005 levels (see 2005 report). This follows a sharp increase in 2006 (see 2006 report). However, Israel is still the focus of nine percent of HRW’s output on the region– significantly greater than Libya, Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah and other chronic human rights violators. The evaluation is based on a point system which accounts for both the volume of publications and their significance (a report clearly being much more significant and requiring more resources than a press release –see the methodological section of the appendix).]
+Use of Multimedia items
+In 2007 there were more multimedia items on Israel (6 audio, video and graphics items) than any other country (4 for Hamas, 4 for Iran and 3 for Egypt – other countries received 2 or fewer). Most countries, including Israel, featured in one audio item each as part of the 2007 World Report. Israel’s multimedia items also included audio commentary by Marc Garlasco on cluster munitions, pictures and audio on medical evacuations3, pictures and audio on students trapped in Gaza, and a video on cluster munitions. Multi-media material requires a higher level of investment by Human Rights Watch and can in many cases result in a larger impact than is the case in other types of HRW activities. When this increased impact is disproportionately focused on Israel, the issue of double standards becomes relevant.
+Use of Reports
+HRW puts a great deal of effort and resources into its major reports, often including a press conference and other public relations activities to accompany the publication. In many cases, the focus of a report is chosen weeks or months in advance of publication, and reflects a strategic decision regarding HRW’s priorities.
+The disproportionate emphasis on Israel continued in 2007. The number of reports featuring Israel in 2007 (2)4 was equal to the number on Hezbollah, Egypt, and Iraq. Only Lebanon featured in more reports (3).5 Significantly, HRW officials chose not to issue any reports on Iran, Libya and Morocco in 2007. (In contrast, HRW’s press releases focusing on human rights violations in Iran constituted 17 percent of total press releases in the region, with Egypt targeted in a further 17 percent. Israel received 9% of the press releases, a proportionate amount given it received 10% of the over all focus).
+Priorities within the Arab Israeli conflict
+HRW’s priorities are also reflected in an analysis of the relative coverage of Israel vis-à-vis the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and Hezbollah. The analysis shows minimal attention to internal Palestinian fighting and an over emphasis on Israeli actions in both the conflict with Hezbollah and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Figure 3 demonstrates almost the same distribution between publications focusing on Israel and the total focused on all groups in conflict with Israel (i.e. Palestinian groups and Hezbollah). This was despite the fact that nearly half of all Palestinian fatalities were caused by intra-Palestinian violence during 2007. 6
+When Hamas seized control of Gaza by violent coup in June 2007, there were many clear violations of human rights.7 Human Rights Watch itself documented a few briefly. One example was the execution by Hamas of a cook for Mahmoud Abbas’s Presidential Guard (press release “Gaza: Armed Palestinian Groups Commit Grave Crimes” – June 13). The cook was executed by “throwing him to his death, with his hands and legs tied, from a 15-story apartment building in Gaza City”. Over the year, only 2 published items from HRW focused primarily on internal Palestinian violence, a third published item covered both internal Palestinian violence and attacks on Israelis. This is in comparison with seven documents focused on Palestinian attacks on Israelis.
+2006
+Report on HRW’s Activities in 2006: Political Bias Undermines Human Rights, June 26, 2007
+Summary:.:
+- Israel was cited 30 times for “Violation International Humanitarian Law/ Human Rights Law” and Libya 23 times as opposed to 2 such citations for Egypt and 6 for Syria.
+- Israel was cited 21 times for “grave/serious Human Rights violations/abuses” as opposed to 4 for Egypt and 0 each for Libya and Syria.
+- Israel was cited 28 times for “illegal/violating the law” and Libya 34 times as opposed to 1 citation each for Syria and Egypt.
+The following graph covering HRW publications for 2006 illustrates this systematic imbalance:.
+Endnotes:.
+2005
+Human Rights Watch in 2005: Political Bias Against Israel Continues Despite Wider Middle East Focus, April 6, 2006
+Summary:
+full report
+for details). The following graphs demonstrate this change:
+HRW Middle East Focus:
+).
+, ‘the ‘wall’),” –.
+Related Articles
+Far Beyond the Curve: HRWs Bias and Lack of Credibility in 2012
+HRWs activities reflect the absence of professional standards and research methodologies; lack of expertise on international law and armed conflict; and a deep-seated ideological bias against democracies in general, and against Israel, in particular.
+HRW in 2011: More Balance, Less Credibility
+The Arab Turmoil has impacted HRWs Middle East and North Africa Division, which increased its focus on closed, repressive regimes. But, HRW sought to erase its previous cooperation with the Qaddafi regime and continued its anti-Israel bias.
+HRW in 2010: More Bias, Even Less Credibility
+NGO Monitors annual review of Human Rights Watch, describing the NGOs disproportionate focus on Israel and soft approach to systematic abuses in closed societies.
+Obsession and Scandals: HRW in 2009
+In 2009, Human Rights Watch publications on Israel comprised 28% of its total Mideast output. This is more than Iran, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria, and other chronic human rights abusers. HRW issued 34 statements on the Goldstone Report, which out-numbered documents on all the countries in the Middle East, except Israel and Iran. Scandals included a fundraising trip to Saudi Arabia, the revelation that Marc Garlasco is an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia, and founder Robert Bernsteins NY Times op-ed that strongly criticized the organizations role in turn[ing] Israel into a pariah state.
+NGO Monitors 2007 Report on HRW: Bias and Double Standards Continue
+Although HRWs relative focus on Israel in 2007 is less than in 2006 (during the war), the disproportionate emphasis, and the examples of bias and double standards continue. Despite a major increase in internal Palestinian violence during 2007, including the Hamas takeover of Gaza, HRWs focus on Israel has not changed significantly. Similarly, in the selective use of language, especially the arbitrary accusation of "collective punishment," HRWs strong political agenda with respect to Israel remains clear.
+Report on HRWs Activities in 2006: Political Bias Undermines Human Rights
+NGO Monitors systematic and detailed analysis shows a significant increase in Human Rights Watchs HRWs recognition "that international standards of human rights apply to all people equally," this powerful NGO continues to promote an anti-Israel political agenda.
+Human Rights Watch in 2005: Political Bias Against Israel Continues Despite Wider Middle East Focus
+While NGO Monitors analysis shows a significant reduction in Human Rights Watchs Monitors 2004 report, HRWs.
+Hi, I’m Chris. Welcome and thanks for asking your question!
+Can I get your vin# XXXXX see what the dealer did?
+Once you addressed the low tire and fixed that warning then disconnected the battery to remove the power, then drove the vehicle. Did any more warnings come up and there was still zero power assist, correct?
+Tire Pressure went low, before I could get air in it, Electric Power stearing kicked off, and the Power Stearing and Advance Track warnings came on. Once I put some air in the tire and the "Low Pressure error" went away, other warnings stayed, power steering still off. Garage charged $100 to diagnose, found no problem with system and "Reset the Power Steering". Now it's happened again. (and yes I know I need a new tire)So I just need to reset the Electric Power Stearing system.
+Hold on the VIN#
+VIN# XXXXX
+Keith, disconnect the negative battery cable, then disconnect the positive cable. Now touch the cables together. Leave the cables hanging free for 10 minutes. Now reconnect the positive cable, then the negative cable. Start the car and let me know what happens now.
+No change - both warnings on, steering does not work
+Keith, it is looking like the fault is not related to the low tire, this time. Do you have a scan tool to check the codes. Since the lights came right back on, this means a concern has been detected as soon as the vehicle is started meaning it is a hard fault.
+So you're saying that the exact circumstance creating the exact same problem - is different this time. Because the first time I did dissconnnect the battery power (did not short the two leads), it did not fix it that time either. But the dealership could still reset it.
+No I do not have a scan tool.
+Is the vehicle drivable to get it to a shop to get the modules scanned?
+I used your vin#, the dealership did not claim any repairs, nor is there a reset option. I feel they retrieved the codes and just erased them without repair.
+Yes it's drivable, just no power sterring again.
+They claimed no repairs because they did no repairs. They told me that no hardware needed to be fixed or replaced. They charged me $100 for a 'diagnosis' but found no problem to fix. they said, "If there had been a hardware problem the $100 could have been refunded do to the extended warranty, but instead there was nothing to fix, so nothing can be refunded and it's just for the diagnosis. And we reset the power steering."
+So if they did not change or fix anything but reset the system, so there must be a way to reset it.
+Are you saying that this scan tool is the only way to reset the codes/erase the codes?
+The radio maintains presets and sometimes the time for up to 6 hours of discharge since the radio has internal capacitors.
+If you feel the reset was no long enough then disconnect the battery overnight to allow even the radio to discharge.
+Please do keep me in the loop on what they find on Monday. Do have a good weekend and the best of luck to you.
+Ok, I've been waiting to finish this because I spent the previous week looking for correct information on how to reset the electric power steering (btw, disconnecting the battery for 36 hours does nothing). So I got it to the dealer this Monday and although it took them 2 days to get to it, they finally verified exactly what I have been saying. There was no 'legit fault' at all, they just reset the codes which turned the power steering back on.
+Their diagnostic report says: "80595 1.00 PERFORMED SYSTEM TEST. RETRIEVED CODE FOR FAULT IN POWER STEERING CONTROL MODULE. CLEARED CODES AND RETESTED. MAY HAVE BEEN DUE TO HIGH FRICTION FROM LOW TIRE PRESSURE."
+So it is exactly what I was saying, and exactly the opposite of what you were saying - there was no fault that needed to be repaired and there is a reset procedure, which is all it needed; which is what I asked for in the first place. So I'm very disappointed in this whole JustAnswer experience and consider it a complete waste of time and money.
+Keith you mentioned this has been a waste of money. You have not rated any responses positive so I have made nothing. No funds have changed hands to me for my efforts.
+I think you are just not understand how the dealer is pulling the sheet over your eyes. They got a trouble code and then cleared it and it did not return, so it is fixed. I am sorry, but that is not true. They are not even claiming these repairs on Ford, because they know it is a bogus repair. They did not claim the previous repair nor this one. because if they did and did not replace a part then ford would not pay for it.
+In the course of about 5 weeks this has occurred twice and been resolved twice. They are going to reach a point where they are no longer going to do this for you for free. So every time you take it in expect to pay 90$ for the hour of diagnostic charge just to clear the code. Assuming this occurs every 5 weeks of 2013 that will be 936$ expense.
+If I just knew the code I could tell you how and what to repair. You can see the diagnostics for this concern, below, step one is to get the codes. There are no codes stored for any vehicle that state clear the code and the concern is resolved.
+Imagine this was tire issue, nothing about the steering. The tire has a nail in it and is flat. The dealer is putting air i n the tire and calling it good. There not fixing the source or origin there fixing the result.
+I'm sorry your arrangement with JustAnswer means money hasn't been transfered into your hands - but it certainly has transferred OUT of my hands, and what did I get for it? I asked about resetting those codes and you said it can not be done. But it can be done - It's been done twice now. You now seem to be saying it SHOULD NOT be done - but that is an entirely different thing from it CAN NOT be done..
+So relating that to the real problem If I could have cleared the codes myself and it never happened again the problem IS fixed, but if the problem kept returning I'd know it's a real problem and take it to the shop.
+So you seem to be saying now that there is a real problem, and it occurred twice by coincidence only a few minutes after the tire pressure got low. No, the Power Steering kicked off (Message Center displays SERVICE POWER STEERING NOW) BECAUSE the tire pressure was low. The part that needs to be fixed is the tire. The error should reset itself when the tire pressure is corrected and the steering is back in balance, but it doesn't; so the codes must be reset also. I had fixed the tire I just needed to then reset the codes. The problem is not going to happen again as long as the tires are fine, so I'm not going to pay $100 every few weeks (BTW, I did not pay them to reset the codes the 2nd time).
+I don't understand your conspiracy theory about why the dealer would not fix a legitimate problem and change out a part. If they were dishonest they would claim something was broken even when the diagnostics says there is nothing, change it out and charge me for it. The fact is they can not find a problem unless the tire is low - so there really is nothing to fix (I'm sure they tried to "GO to Pinpoint Test KC" to verify this)..
+When I said you can not do this. that is what I meant. You nor most all vehicle owners do not own the 3500$ Ford IDS scan tool, so they and including you can not reset this code. I am sorry but I still stand behind my knowledge of ford since I went to various Ford schools all across the US for 2 months straight prior to being able to work on a warranty vehicle. There is a problem and it is not just the tire alone. Ford will not design a feature that requires a Ford dealer to do a reset every time a tire goes low. That would be wrong on their part and black male.
+When someone says something CAN NOT be done - that means it is impossible - that no one on earth is capable of doing it. It does not mean that anyone can do it if they have the proper equipment.
+Probably I don't have the tool I need, but you have no idea if I or my brother or the guy down the street has access to a scan tool.
+Going back to the simple tire example it is as if your answer was "It is impossible to fill a tire {because you can not blow hard enough into the value.}" Instead of "You can inflate the tire but you need a specialized tool called and 'air pump.'"
+Now that I know I must use an IDS scan tool I have asked the guy who does my wife's nails (it's a family business - but he really wants to be a mechanic), who actually does have access to an IDS scan tool (a cheaper version but he thinks it would work). So I could have saved myself a bunch of trouble and waiting 2 days for the dealership to do it.
+You obviously have more confidence in Ford than I do, but even if they did not intentionally design the thing to require a reset every time a tire goes low, software bugs can be very devious, and there have been more than a few complaints about the power steering shutting down when it shouldn't. I find it ridiculous to say it has nothing to do with the low tire when it has only happened twice, just minutes after getting the low tire pressure warning.
+Since I finally did get a general answer I'll upgrade your rating some. And if in the next few months it kicks off again without the low tire, and the mechanic can actually find something to fix, I'll let you know, and admit I am wrong.
+Thanks for getting back with me Keith.
+We can chalk alot of this up to your communication and my communication and both of our perceptions just do not jive together well. I am sure if we met in person we would of been able to communicate this better. I take full responsibility, it is hard for a tech sometimes to speak with someone whom does not work on cars.
+This post will never close, it is always open to you to reply on. In the event it does happen again. I do want to know about it. I want to help you get the resolved 100% so it never occurs again or if it does occur again all you have to do is correct the air pressure and start the car and the steering is back to working fine.
+I sent in an email to my teacher of the steering and suspension class I took in Cincinnati Ohio from Ford asking him about it. I got a reply this morning. He said, yes the low tire can set off a steering default to no assist concern, however that tire would have to have alot more rubber on the road and be near 5-10 psi virtually flat and by no means even drivable nor controllable. He then went on about interactive diagnostics where as the Ford IDS is hooked up to the vehicle and the car information is downloaded so the Ford engineers could assist the tech resolve the concern.
+Sorry for all the confusion, thanks for offering to upgrade your rating from a negative to positive being Okay or good or excellent service, thanks for communicating with me very well.
+Chris.
+By: Jay Carlson
+The Star Wars fan community is up in arms over nothing. Some people are furious with Jason Ward of the news site Making Star Wars for posting a shocking theory regarding the plot of Episode VII. Others are livid with JJ Abrams, Disney and Lucasfilm due to this theory, fearing that the film will take their childhood heroes in directions which they don’t want to see. Still others are defending both choices, bothered by Abrams’ infamous penchant for secrecy or in the belief that the proposed narrative is the only way to raise the stakes high enough for the Star Wars saga.
+At this point, Ward’s theory is just a theory. If you don’t want to know what it is, please don’t read any further. Below, I’m going to tell you why I think he’s way off and chime in on the morality of writing for an entertainment news site.
+Making Star Wars has proven itself one of the few sources of authentic information regarding the highly anticipated sequel trilogy. They’ve posted exclusive news and described many pieces of concept art from the film. It’s very important, however, to distinguish between what they present as news and what is posted as speculation. At the beginning of his piece, Ward acknowledges that “there are pieces of this puzzle missing. There are things I don’t understand.” He goes on to say “this is all informed speculation. This could all be wrong.”
+Ward’s theory, based on the information that he’s seen is that the cyborg villain we revealed here over the summer is actually Luke Skywalker. He speculates that the big reveal in Episode VII is that Luke Skywalker is the film’s antagonist. We disagree:
+- Not everything in production art makes it into films. To divine plot points from sketches based on the myriad of directions the production might go in is nearly impossible.
+- Mark Hamill’s got a beard, and it’s real. He’s been growing it since before the production began, and he’s still wearing it. To point to a beard getting longer over time as proof that it might be fake is an odd choice, but that leap has been made in order to prop up this theory. The villain, by contrast, has a bare upper lip and a metal jaw. You have to twist the known real-world facts to fit them to the speculation. If Hamill is this bad guy, he has a makeup crew trailing him around the world applying false beards of varying lengths with irritating spirit gum in order to keep this secret. They apply the disguise when he gets up in the morning and leaves his hotel. They glue on a beard when he hits conventions and before he goes out to dinner. It’d be an unkind and unnecessary chore to ask of the 63-year-old icon. They’d need to be preparing for a leak of the villain whom they don’t want him mistaken for, and further yet for the idea that people might assume that was Hamill under the mask were he not bearded. Can we all agree that this beard ruse would be an absurd request from the director who publicly lamented trying to tell the world that Benedict Cumberbatch was not playing Kahn in the last Star-based sequel he worked on? Besides, it’s not the only difference between the actor and our villain. It’s not even the biggest one.
+- Wondering what’s beneath the villain’s face in a pre-production drawing is one thing, but on set it’d be impossible to mistake the villain for Hamill. This guy is tall and slender. The first word I got of him on stage was that he might be a woman – perhaps Lupita N’yong’o’s mystery role (it’s been confirmed since that it is indeed a male character, and that bare upper lip in the production art is white). Hamill is 5’9″ and despite losing a few pounds for Episode VII his body type is not a match for the actor playing our villain on set. Mark Hamill’s been at the shoot in Ireland; he’s tweeted images from the studio in England; he’s described working with JJ Abrams and the new actors. If he’s not playing his own character, the poor man is being dragged around the globe wearing a fake beard and being made to lie about the work in a bizarre effort to throw a minority of the moviegoing public off a very thin scent.
+- This is Mark Hamill playing Luke Skywalker! That’s huge. Why would you bring back the original actor to play one of the most beloved characters in film history just to make him completely unrecognizable? From a marketing standpoint, it’d make no sense at all. From a storytelling standpoint it would make even less. If you want to bring a little dark side to Luke Skywalker, I can see that bearing dramatic fruit. A few characters have been rumored to be sith artifact collectors including Adam Driver and this cybernetic villain (who certainly does have an interest in Vader’s helmet) and I could see Luke trying to find something important before they do. These rumors are reminiscent of Harry Potter and Dumbledore hunting for Horcruxes, and those endeavors usually require a bit of understanding of your enemy. That said, it’d be much more dramatic to see Luke’s face than the cyborg’s if and when a flash of the dark side is revealed.
+- Disney/Lucasfilm are desperate to reconnect the franchise with the classic trilogy of films. Even merchandising has returned to featuring the original characters, ships and settings over the prequels. Everything we’ve seen from the new film has been reminiscent of or even a nod to the original trilogy. I find it hard to believe that with the first new film they would set out to rob the movies they’re trying so hard to respect of their emotional weight. At the end of Return of the Jedi, Luke faces the same temptation that destroyed his father and succeeds where Anakin failed. He throws his lightsaber aside and affirms his position on the light side of the force. I get chills just thinking about it: “Never. I’ll never turn to the dark side. You’ve failed, your highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me.” I bet that bit gives JJ Abrams chills, too. Perhaps when the film opens, we’ll find that the years have not treated Luke kindly. I would be floored to find that in the past 30 years something worse than the Emperor managed to turn Luke Skywalker off screen. Not floored because it’s an “I am your father” kind of moment, but because it’d be a bizarre waste of dramatic material.
+- There is no confirmation of this plot development yet. Please understand that when entertainment blogs “confirm” something with their “sources,” they’re not talking about Kathleen Kennedy or JJ Abrams. The production is a much tighter ship than it may seem at times due to sites like ours or our colleagues posting bits from it. The leaks are few and far between, and they come from compartmentalized employees who do not know the whole story and who are themselves often given false character and location names. Keep in mind that if Dave Prowse himself had told a newspaper what the big reveal of the Empire Strikes Back would be in 1980, we’d all have gone into the theater expecting to learn that Obi Wan had killed Anakin Skywalker – and that’d have been from the mouth of Darth Vader himself. These sources are just not terribly reliable for this kind of news. Many times they’re even a few steps removed from false information. We all know how stories are twisted when they spread – one person’s theory becomes another’s “what I heard” which becomes fact when told to the next. Because the production IS in fact a tight ship, the leak circles are small and everyone in our business is talking to the same people. We share many of the same contacts, and this is something that no one was talking about before Jason’s theory was shared.
+Ward’s story opened up a heated debate regarding spoilers. What should be allowed out there? Which ones should be kept from the masses? Every site has a different standard of what they’ll write or share, and several of his competitors have come out with pitchforks claiming that Making Star Wars crossed a line.
+I think it’s important to keep in mind that it was only a theory of the author’s being presented. He’s got a bigger platform to broadcast from, but this is ultimately not much different from any fan speculating about what we might see in theaters next Christmas. This film is still in production and we honestly don’t know what’s in store. Very, very few people do. This theory isn’t a spoiler – I’m nearly positive it isn’t even accurate.
+I think it’s even more important to keep in mind that writers at entertainment sites like the one you’re reading now are just fans with too much time on their hands, because it’s something that seems to be forgotten all too often on this side of the fence. It’s silly for us to debate the grey ethics of movie spoilers like self-appointed gatekeepers. If outsiders want to criticize any of these sites for disseminating information which the production would like to control, that’s a valid discussion to have. I would have a hard time criticizing anyone sharing information about Star Wars: Episode VII though, and I would hope that Jason’s other competitors would feel the same. They’re leaking confidential information about the movie as well; the sort of news or images which they sit on out of fear for reprisal or journalistic ethics or a feeling of fan superiority is irrelevant. Ward’s detractors tease and hint at revelations of this scope constantly. It’s not their movie either, and no one should be scrambling to claim the moral high ground here.
+No matter how big it is, if a spoiler is labeled clearly then people know what to expect going in. I don’t want Jason Ward to be a second mother, deciding what’s appropriate for other fans to see or hear. I don’t need someone telling me how much information I can handle. Fans can make their own decisions on spoilers, and I’d wager that nearly everyone visiting Making Star Wars decided to read on. Please appreciate how small the die-hard fan population is in the scheme of things – most people you know are barely aware that they’re filming new Star Wars movies. I’m sure at Christmas parties this year we’ll all be inundated with relatives telling us that they “heard Harrison Ford is going to be in it!”
+Is the Mystery Box really in danger? At this point everyone has heard about the production art in which Chewbacca has a cybernetic hand from his elbow down. Yet right next to him on the very same page is another version in which he has both arms intact and covered with fur. That’s a tiny example of the way a movie of this progresses through pre-production. They flesh every possibility out visually – we’re talking about thousands and thousands of iterations based on possible approaches and plot points. Ward’s theory is heavily based on that kind of production art, and while it’s interesting speculation it ultimately doesn’t reconcile terribly well with other things we’ve seen. The sites which have “confirmed” his theory as fact have reversed course or gotten things wrong plenty in the past.
+JJ Abrams and company have wisely decided to stay above the fray. They know that they can’t keep everything Star Wars under wraps, and as far as we know no one has received any kind of cease & desist or DMCA letter related to Episode VII. The narrative that makes the most sense here is that they had a plan to keep the most important information compartmentalized and that everything is going according to their plan. They’ll let us have our crumbs – and we’re very happy to devour them – but none of us are quite tall enough to see the tabletop and know what sort of plates they fell from.
+Let’s not be so quick to send Luke Skywalker off to the Dark Side.
+8 thoughts on “Let’s Pump the Brakes on That Big Episode VII Theory”
+People are angry at the possibility of that twist? What? It sounds great! Plus didnt they go this sort of direction in the EU that is now defunct?
+Seriously to those who are complaining that this will ‘ruin their childhood’ please remember that they took Darth Vader, the greatest villain ever and turned him into and utter pussy. Calm down
+Luke to the Darkside. No thanx ruins OT.
+Yeah right, because JJ Abrams never messes with iconic characters. He would never, let’s say, turn Spock into an emotional being, turn Uhuru into a crying love interest for Spock, or turn Khan into a British guy. Naaah, JJ Abrams respects source material perfectly!
+NOT.
+That was not the same universe as the source material. Alternate timeline. Your point is moot.
+Respectfully.
+Your criticism is fair, and it’s better to remain skeptical than believe everything that gets put out there, but it would be easier to take more seriously if you hadn’t misspelled Mark Hamill’s name repeatedly throughout the article.
+I found it once. But nice catch.
+Good article, but I think you misinterpreted Ward’s beard theory. He is coming from the angle that the beard is real but if it were something that was going to be filmed and used in the movie it would be kept at a consistent length instead of getting longer, since scenes are filmed out of order we would end up seeing Hamill’s beard in various inconsistent lengths throughout the film. I believe Ward is presuming that the beard maybe a guise to get us to think Luke is the old Jedi everyone presumes he will be instead of a partly CGI/makeup covered Sith and that the beard will be digitally removed and replaced.
+I interpreted it correctly but I completely disagree. What if the stuff they are shooting later requires a longer beard? The beard isn’t going to be replaced with CG. Read our story again.
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+Planned Retirement Age = 62
+Number of Years until Retirement = 19 (current age – planned retirement age)
+19 (years) x $46,320 (annual replacement income needed) = $880,080
+In this example we would recommend purchasing a 20-year term for $880,000 of coverage.
+How Much Will My Insurance Cost Me Each Month?
+Let’s use the example from above, and assume our applicant is in excellent health…
+Actual Cost for a 20-year, $880,000 Level Term Life Insurance Policy (Ages 35-55):
+*Monthly rates are accurate as of 05/15/2017 and are provided for illustrative purposes only.
+If you would like actual rates based on your age and coverage needs, please feel free to give us a call toll-free at: 855-902-6494.
+What If My Spouse and I Contribute to Our Household Expenses?
+If you and your spouse both work, we recommend using the same formula above, but for each of your own incomes and expenses. These numbers are not exact and do not account for the possibility of you or your spouse being able to increase your earnings in the future. If you were to pass away, your spouse may be able to furthering their education, or land a better job.
+On the other hand, these equations also fail to account for inflation or any unexpected expenses that may occur. It’s impossible to determine exactly how much coverage you will need in the future, but most financial experts will tell you to buy no less than $880,000 of coverage in this situation to cover your anticipated expenses. The idea is to provide your family with the money they would need to continue your current lifestyle until your spouse is able to retire, or until your children have completed college and moved out.
+Other Expenses to Consider When Determining Your Need for Insurance
+Remember, everyone has different life insurance needs and there is not a “one size fits all” life insurance policy. One of the most common reasons that our clients choose to purchase an insurance policy is to secure the cost of their children’s college education.
+As of 2017, the cost of college tuition averaged between $9,650 and $33,480 per year. This estimate does not include room and board, only the cost of tuition. If you want to make sure your children have the opportunity to go to college, you will want to account for these expenses when you purchase your policy, especially if your children are looking into careers that require a master’s degree, law degree, or doctorate.
+When selecting the term for your life insurance, make sure you purchase a term life insurance policy that lasts long enough to provide coverage until your youngest child graduates from college. For example, if you have two children and your youngest is five years old, you will want to purchase a policy with a minimum of a 20-year term to insure your youngest is covered until the age of 25.
+Another very popular reason people buy life insurance is to protect a mortgage. Life insurance for mortgage protection can be as simple as purchasing a term policy that is large enough to pay off your house, and extends for the same amount of years as your mortgage. For example, if the mortgage on your home is a 25-year loan for $325,000, you should buy a 25-year term policy with a face amount of $325,000.
+You should purchase a policy for the exact amount of your mortgage only if your spouse’s income would be able to cover the household expenses without a mortgage. This is an ideal situation, but most of our clients choose to purchase a policy that also provides additional coverage for extra expenses. If you have more than one life event, like a mortgage and college expenses for your children, you will want to purchase a term policy that extends past both of the life events with a large enough death benefit to pay for both events.
+Should I Buy Life Insurance for My Non-Income Earning Spouse?
+If you have children, you probably already know that your “stay-at-home” spouse’s job is harder than yours. A false assumption about life insurance is that stay at home parents do not need a life insurance policy. While your spouse may not bring home a paycheck, their “jobs” do not go without value.
+As of 2016, the average monthly cost of childcare exceeds $800 per month, and this figure does not include transportation to and from school each day, cleaning the house, cooking, and doing laundry. If you are the sole provider for your family, these responsibilities may seem impossible, especially if you are working full-time.
+To avoid this scenario, most financial planners and insurance agents recommend purchasing a policy on the “work-at-home” parent in order to cover any expenses that would accrue if they were to pass away. Depending on the ages of your children and how many kids you have, most financial experts will recommend purchasing a life insurance policy on your work-at-home spouse that provides approximately 50% of the death benefit that your income earning spouse’s policy provides. Most life insurance companies will approve a policy of up to $1,000,000 of coverage for a work-at-home spouse, or equivalent coverage to the income earning spouse’s policy.
+If you pass away, your family will be in mourning. By having a life insurance policy in place to cover your expenses, you can help alleviate any additional stress that may have come from financial struggles. Since needs vary from person to person, it is important for you to buy an affordable policy that fits your lifestyle. If you’re not sure how much life insurance you need, one of our agents will be happy to help you assess your expenses, or you can use our FREE life insurance calculator to help you determine correct amount of coverage.
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+Do I Really Need a Life Insurance Policy?
+The truth is, some people do not need to buy life insurance. If you are close to retirement age, or if you have a large amount of money saved up, life insurance may not be critical. Additionally, if you have no dependents and no one is reliant on you for your income, you do not have to worry about providing a replacement income for your loved ones. However, even if you fall into the previous scenarios, you may not realize there are additional expenses that your family may run into when you pass away.
+The most common and overlooked expense that your loved ones encounter after you pass away are funeral and burial costs. As of 2016, traditional funeral costs averaged $7,000 to $10,000. Bear in mind that this figure does not include the additional costs of the casket, a tombstone, a reception, and flowers. After all aspects of funeral planning are considered, the total cost to bury you may be closer to $15,000 or $20,000.
+If you have a savings account set aside to cover these expenses (also known as being self-insured), or if you have already paid for your plot, you might not need life insurance. This may also be the case if you’re young and without dependents, unless you have any outstanding debts like car loans or student loans that your parents may have cosigned for you.
+If you have outstanding debts or have not set aside money for your final expenses, you may want to consider buying life insurance. Whether you’re the breadwinner or you and your spouse have a double income, you should always consider your outstanding debt when you are determining your need for coverage.
+Outstanding debts you’ll want to consider when determining your need for life insurance include: mortgages, credit cards, car loans, student loans, business loans, judgments, etc. It can be emotionally and financially taxing on your family members to figure out how to cover these expenses on a whim. If you have any outstanding debts, owning a small term policy to cover these outstanding expenses will prevent your family from being burdened if something were to happen to you unexpectedly.
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+Trusting in the Truths of GodJune 10, 2009.
+Trusting in the Truths of God
+Bob: Am I making all of this up?
+Dennis: Is this really true or is this a fairy tale. And yet, when you pull back and take a look at what the Bible teaches you’ve really got only a couple of choices. You’ve either got a choice of believing that there is a God who sovereignly rules in the affairs of men and women, or that there is no God and it’s all random. And I’m going to tell you, I think the overwhelming evidence of creation and of the scripture, well the scripture teaches us that God is in charge and he does know what befalls us and he loves and cares for us.
+Bob: I remember having conversations with my boys as they were going through high school. And we’d talk about existentialist philosophy and different things they were being exposed to in school appropriately. And I remember saying, I think there’s either the truth of the Bible, or else Nietzsche was right, “There is no god, and life is absurd and you ought to live that way.”
+Dennis: It’s hopeless. And we have a guest with us today who has been at that dark spot you’re talking about, Bob. Ed Underwood joins us on FamilyLife Today. Ed, welcome to the broadcast.
+Ed Underwood: Thank you, it’s great to be here.
+Dennis: Ed is the pastor of a famous church that started in Los Angeles, Church of the Open Door. He is a graduate of my alma mater, as well, Dallas Theological Seminary, he’s been in the U.S. Army, a firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service, and he and his wife Judy live in Southern California. He’s written a book called When God Breaks Your Heart: Choosing hope in the midst of faith shattering circumstances. Now some of our listeners are in the midst of faith shattering circumstances right now, and they need to hear your story, Ed. Yours started really, over seven years ago when you were diagnosed with cancer.
+Ed Underwood: Yes I was diagnosed with cancer, chronic lymphoma. And those who have been through this know that you get the diagnosis, a little at a time. And, basically what happens is your doctors are hoping you don’t have it, and you can kinda see that in their face. And they send you to all the other specialists, and found out that I have a chronic leukemia, and it is a vicious one, and it shook my faith.
+Dennis: What was the tipoff that you had a problem in the first place?
+Ed Underwood: Well, what happened was, I had a knee infection. I have a fake knee, and it got infected and they couldn’t figure out why. They were thinking maybe it was an autoimmune thing, but when I had it put back in, I started rashing. And they could not stop the rash. And I’m not talking about poison oak; I’m talking about my skin being burned from the inside out, and just not staying on me. They could not keep my skin on me. So they take you to all these different things. And finally they found that I have a very rare, they call it an orphan disease, but it is called caesurae(sp) syndrome, and I’m one of the few that have it. And that was the diagnosis, but it took them a long time to get to that.
+Dennis: Why do they call it the orphan disease?
+Ed Underwood: They call it an orphan disease if just very few people have it. Which also means it gets very little attention from the medical community so there aren’t very many drugs, and they have to orphan in drugs from other diseases to treat it.
+Bob: So, this rash that you were experiencing, how long was it from the time you first started having the rash until they figured out what was going on and could help you?
+Ed Underwood: It was about six weeks for them to diagnose it. And then I went to the cancer center there and it took about two years before the rash finally got to a controllable state.
+Bob: So were you in chronic progressive pain throughout this whole time?
+Ed Underwood: Yeah, I really was. And I had never been through it before. You know I hurt myself jumping out of airplanes and all of the things that I’d done in the Army, or in the Forest Service, but I had just never had to deal with chronic pain. And my family has never had to deal with that whole… Suddenly you’re an expert on T cells now, because I have a T cell lymphoma, so that’s our life, totally changed because of this disease.
+Dennis: And the symptoms of this are really pretty tough. You literally itch you have a desire to scratch your skin, and yet your skin is coming off.
+Ed Underwood: It’s coming off, your skin is like jelly, and it’s interesting that the number one cause of death with this disease is suicide. Because it is just itching—if you’ve ever had a rash that itches you can’t get away from it. And body fluids seep. I’ve ruined two couches I’ve had two real bad episodes of this.
+Dennis: Over what percent of your body would you have this rash?
+Ed Underwood: One Hundred.100% of your body.
+Dennis: Now Ed, you were trained at Dallas Seminary
+Ed Underwood: I was.
+Dennis: I mean, you had a four year degree, which is incredibly thorough. You know Hebrew, Greek, you’ve heard from some of the leading Bible scholars in the world.
+Ed Underwood: I’ve been privileged as you know.
+Dennis: How did you counsel your own soul? Because we do counsel our own soul theologically.
+Ed Underwood: We do. And what I would say is: the text. I’ve gotta tell you, I love the text.
+Dennis: The Bible
+Ed Underwood: There was the night that I told Judy that I wasn’t going to pray any more. This was before I was diagnosed.
+Bob: Before you were diagnosed?
+Ed Underwood: Before I was diagnosed, just when I was suffering.
+Bob: So, you’re having the rash and they don’t know what the problem is.
+Ed Underwood: I was having the rash. I was weak. They had saved my life but it just would not quit. And our daughter had come down with her kids and the grandkids are there, and my life is so different I can’t even talk to the grandkids. The grandkids wouldn’t come to me because this is a disfiguring disease. They were afraid of me. And I went upstairs and Judy said, “Well honey, let’s pray.” I said “I’m through praying. I’m through praying, there’s no way that I could be God’s child. I’m a father. And, I know a father’s heart. And I would not let this happen to my child.”
+She didn’t argue with me. She just said, “you can’t do this.” And then her prayer was, “I’m going to pray that God would bring you back. To him, and to me.” And it was the text that brought me back.
+Bob: Were you really, I mean in your heart were you thinking that all that you had thought and believed about God had to just be bogus?
+Ed Underwood: I didn’t want to. Because I’ve had so much—I’m a Jesus Movement guy. I came out of a pagan home. Since I trusted in Christ, my relationship with him has defined my life. Judy and I met that way. I just couldn’t understand; how could he let this happen? It just broke my heart.
+Dennis: And was there anger also in your heart?
+Ed Underwood: Oh, yes. There was anger in my heart. You hate to admit it and you heard people say all these things through the years. “I’m angry at God, I don’t think he still loves me…” And in the back of my mind was always, “Yeah but I won’t do that. Because I’m really, really committed to Christ. I can understand how this would happen to other people.” But I’m telling you, that night, I had decided that it wasn’t worth it to pray.”
+Dennis: And you know, if you haven’t ever been there, in that situation, you really can’t guarantee how your own soul will respond in a situation like this.
+Ed Underwood: You really can’t.
+Dennis: Barbara’s nearly died on four different occasions from a rapid heart rate.
+Ed Underwood: Wow.
+Dennis: I’ve seen a teenaged young man, our son, stricken with a disease that took away his ability to run. And he was an athlete. And he was not a scholar, but it tossed him upside-down as a teenager for the last four or five years of his adolescence. I’ve been a part of burying a granddaughter.
+Ed Underwood: Mighty Molly, I read the story.
+Dennis: Mighty Molly seven days old.
+Ed Underwood: Boy did I identify with that.
+Dennis: And Ed, if you haven’t been at those moments, there are dark moments in our lives, when we do question.
+Ed Underwood: Exactly.
+Dennis: We question God’s judgment, God’s love, and even, as Bob said, God’s existence.
+Ed Underwood: Right.
+Dennis: You were right there.
+Ed Underwood: Oh, I was right there, I was all the way there. I was all the way there. In fact I dedicated the book to Judy. ‘Cause I say very honestly, without her faith, I would have lost mine. Without her prayers, I would have died. And I believe that. Because, having watched people I love suffer, it’s harder to watch the one you love suffer than it is to suffer yourself. And she just has such a great faith. But I was right there I just remember thinking, I should have stayed in the Army, I’d be a colonel, I’d have better insurance and if there is no God, I’d be way better off. My life would have counted for a lot more.
+Dennis: Ed, you’ve—we’ve been talking here for a dozen minutes and you’ve gone into the description of the disease, the pain you were experiencing. But it was only as you began to talk about the faith of your wife and the hope and encouragement that she gave you that you began to become emotional.
+Ed Underwood: She’s my bride. You know, we met Jesus—We kinda met Jesus together. Neither one of us came from a Christian home. We married way too young. Everybody told us not to. We raised each other. And we have made a lot of mistakes that kids who come from pagan homes make; the mistakes of excess. But Jesus has been our only hope, and I lost it that night. And it was my Judy who kept me there.
+Bob: Was anybody else aware of this crisis of faith that was going on?
+Ed Underwood: A couple of my closest, closest friends. And as transparent and as vulnerable as I maintained myself, I knew intuitively that I’d better not be sharing this with a lot of people. So, I’m sure my kids knew. It was all a fog, I forget what was going on around me at that time. I’m living from test to test. I’m putting on all these medications trying to keep my skin on in the middle of all of this. But there were just three or four people besides Judy that I let in.
+Dennis: Were you still preaching at the time?
+Ed Underwood: Oh, no; which was another reason I couldn’t understand why God did this. I really didn’t think Church of the Open Door would survive my death.
+Dennis: You know, we started this broadcast by talking about, there perhaps were people listening who are in a faith shattering crisis. There are also maybe those who are listening who are married to someone who’s in it. And, what Judy models here is the importance our words, our faithfulness and our love have for someone who loses hope.
+Ed Underwood: Exactly.
+Dennis: And, you know, it can be a teenager who’s losing hope, it can be our spouse that’s losing hope, it can be our parents, as they age who lose hope. We really are important in one another’s lives to continue to just stay the course.
+Ed Underwood: Intensely so. Intensely so.
+Bob: Unpack that a little bit for us. What is it that Judy did or didn’t do that was right during that time?
+Ed Underwood: She didn’t argue with me and correct me and preach at me. She loved me, she stayed up at night reading the Psalms, and I told her I didn’t want to hear them. She said, “Well, I’m going to read them anyway. I’m reading them for me.” I can still remember falling asleep and her reading our favorite Psalms. And then, when I told her I lost my faith, she just looked at me. She was crying, she said, “You can’t do this. He’s everything to us. I’m going to pray that God would bring you back to him and me.” And I think that when I found John 11 the next day, it was God’s answer to her prayer. Because it was that text that gave me hope.
+Bob: I’m surprised you even went looking back in the Bible. I mean, given where you were emotionally, I’m surprised you even picked up a Bible.
+Ed Underwood: I think it’s what Dennis was just saying. I think there was something about Judy’s unshakable faith. And you gotta realize, I’ve got some friends, who still believed for me. And they were saying the kind of things that I needed to hear. Sometimes, they were a lot more frontal with me, than Judy was.
+Bob: So they were saying hard things to you.
+Ed Underwood: They were saying hard things to me, but not shaming things. There’s a difference between a hard thing and a shaming thing. Grace is a safe place it’s not a soft place. So, I felt safe with them.
+Dennis: Give us an illustration of something they might say to you, in the midst of that that feels safe, yet is still an exhortation to step up and out of your despair.
+Ed Underwood: This is after I started back on my way back toward God, and I was kind of tracking again, but I still had, we called them “the greased pig exercise” where, we get to the point—since your skin regulates your body heat. We’d get to the point where I would just be shaking, like you see people from a burn. And then I would have to go upstairs, take off all my clothes and rub this Eucerin paste all over my body. And that, of course would make me burn up, and so I would have to sit in front of a fan until my body finally regulated. I had to do that about every three hours. And it was just miserable, and I would moan and wail, and so I wrote to Bruce. And I said, “Have you got anything that will help me through this?” And he said, “You need a discipline of praise,” Is what he told me, “You need a discipline of praise.”
+And I wrote him back, this is Bruce Wilkinson. I said, “Easy for you to say Mr. ‘Jabez’ man.” And he said, “Ed, I’m telling you, you need a discipline of praise. I’m not going to back off on this.” And he said, “I want you—just try it next time.” And he gave me this discipline of praise: Five verses that mean the most to you in life, five ways that God has worked in your life and about twenty things. And I just had to discipline myself to praise God. And, it pulled me through. In fact, I would say, I never want to do the greased pig thing again, but I miss those times, some of the most intimate times I’ve ever had. And if Bruce would have backed off and said, “OK, I’m sorry Ed, I don’t understand.” I never would have probably done that, and I would have missed that blessing of the Holy Spirit to draw me closer to God than I can remember being, during those times that I was so, so much in pain.
+Dennis: So safe words speak the truth.
+Ed Underwood: They speak the truth in ways that the relationship comes through too. And they’re words that don’t protect God. They’re words that connect to God. That’s the way I would put it. The words that protect God for the sufferer just do you no good. People who are so worried that they gotta take care of God. So when you say “I’m losing my faith.” They start giving you all of these verses about how good God is and all that. You need verses, and you need truth that connects you to God. God doesn’t need protection, he’s God. If God was going to protect himself, he’s risking it. He’s risking suffering and all the questions that we’re asking for the sake of being able to reach us with his redemptive plan. So, they would be words that don’t protect God. Words that connect people to God.
+Bob: You know, you mentioned John 11. And this week we’re going to unpack that a little bit as we continue to hear more of the process that you went through in this. But, as I think, this has been helpful for any of us. Whether we’re in the position of doubting, questioning, wondering about, is there a God, or whether we’re coming alongside someone who’s in that position to know how we can love them, support them, encourage them, exhort them, how we can be safe without being soft, and help steer them back in the right direction.
+Dennis: Bob, I think in the Christian faith, sometimes we become, well we lack authenticity. And in our efforts maybe to protect God like Ed was talking about, or somehow wanting to appear spiritual, or really try to offer someone spiritual help, we don’t allow faith to have the dark underbelly of doubt, and of disbelief.
+Ed Underwood: That’s right.
+Dennis: And honestly, if you look at the disciples’ lives, they experienced both. They had great faith, and they had disbelief. And as we’re talking about here, I’m just reminded of a great quote that I’ve shared on this broadcast numerous times. But I want to mention it right now, because there may be a listener who needs to hear this quote by Tom Skinner, who was chaplain of the Washington Redskins. He.” And, as I hear your story Ed, it wasn’t that you denied the existence of your doubts, you ultimately moved toward those things you knew to be true. And that were worthy of faith.
+Ed Underwood: Wow. Dennis, I’ve never heard that quote before. But as you were speaking the words I remember thinking, that’s exactly what happened—what happened to me. It wasn’t what I didn’t know about Jesus that brought me back, it is what I knew about Jesus that brought me back. And the stuff that I know about him, makes him absolutely worthy of my trust. And the things I learned about him through this makes me want to follow him even more.
+Bob: And you’ve captured that really well in the book that you’ve written that describes this whole experience. It’s called When God Breaks Your Heart: Choosing hope in the midst of faith shattering circumstances. And I think people wrestle all the time with where is God in the midst of suffering, and how do we understand a good God when there is so much suffering? And through your own experience and looking at the account of the death of Lazarus in John, chapter 11, you’ve given us insight into the reality of God and what he’s up to, and how we’re to understand it when we walk through these kinds of difficult, tragic circumstances.
+We’ve got copies of the book When God Breaks Your Heart in our FamilyLife resource center, and I want to encourage our listeners, go to our website FamilyLifeToday.com, information about Ed’s book is available there. Again it’s called: When God Breaks Your Heart, and the website is FamilyLifeToday.com.
+We also have information on our website about the brand new book that, Dennis, you’re wife Barbara, and your daughter Rebecca have written that is called A Symphony in the Dark that tells the story of the birth and life and death of Rebecca’s baby daughter Molly who died a year ago next week. In fact next week we’re going to be spending some time looking at Molly’s life here on FamilyLife Today. And the book is just out and I want to encourage our listeners to get a copy of this new book as well. It is powerful.
+There’s information on both books our website FamilyLifeToday.com You can order from us online, or you can call us toll free at 1- 800-FL Today. 1-800 358-6329. That’s 1-800 F as in “family” L as in “life” and then the word TODAY.
+Let me just quickly mention, there is also on our website a short clip—a preview of what we’re going to be listening to next week as we hear Molly’s story. So if listeners would like a chance to preview what’s going to be on the air next week, go to FamilyLifeToday.com.
+You know as we are unpacking Ed’s story this week on FamilyLife Today, I was thinking about a message that you shared with our staff, Dennis, a while back. A message from Psalm 34 where you talked about finding encouragement and hope and help in the middle of trial and tribulations. It’s a great message and one that a lot of our staff asked for copies of so they could send it out to friends and folks that they knew who were walking a very difficult path.
+This month we want to make that CD available to any of our listeners who will help support the ministry of FamilyLife Today with a donation of any amount. When you call to make your donation, or when you go online at FamilyLifeToday.com, and make a donation, you can request a copy of the CD message from Dennis Rainey, “Trials and Tribulations: Encouragement, Hope and Help found in Psalm 34.
+Let me just say quickly a word of thanks to those of you who are able to make a donation this month. We appreciate your financial support.
+We’ve faced some difficult decisions here at the ministry in the past several months. We’ve had to make some adjustments because of a decline in donations. We’ve had to release some staff and make other adjustments as well. So we appreciate those of you who can make a donation of any amount this month. And when you do, feel free to request a copy of this CD.
+If you’re making you donation online, at FamilyLifeToday.com, just type the word “trials” in the keycode box on your donation form online. Or call toll free, 1-800-FL Today, make your donation over the phone, and just ask for a copy of the CD from Dennis. Again it’s our gift to you this month, and our way of saying thank you for standing with us, and for your financial support of this ministry.
+Tomorrow we’re going to hear from Ed Underwood about the lesson he learned on prayer, as he lay dying. And I hope you can be back?
+-  457010, 5 pages
+Can We Trust the Internet to Measure Psychotic Symptoms?
+1Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany
+2Department of Management and Economics, Kuehne Logistics University, 20457 Hamburg, Germany
+3Department of Psychology, University of Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
+Received 22 March 2013; Revised 24 May 2013; Accepted 6 June 2013
+Academic Editor: Patrick W. Corrigan
+Copyright © 2013 Steffen Moritz et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited..
+1. Introduction
+Traditionally, psychological assessments administered by an interviewer are preferred over nonpersonal assessments such as questionnaires. Face-to-face (FTF) assessment may in some cases unveil hidden symptoms and/or partly compensate for a lack of reliable information provided by a patient alone [1]. To illustrate, a patient with psychosis may deny hearing voices upon direct questioning but at the same time be observed talking to voices without overt source. This may persuade the clinician to discard the patient's response and suspect the presence of auditory hallucinations.
+On the other hand, research assessing the correspondence between self- and observer ratings indicates that self-report of psychotic symptoms is more reliable than commonly thought. Studies have generally found satisfactory associations between self- and observer-based ratings for overall pathology [2], negative symptoms [3], and positive symptoms [4–8].
+Despite the aforementioned merits, clinical assessment is not without weaknesses. The presence of an assessor may induce important biases [9, 10], especially underreporting, that are often smaller with remote/nonpersonal measures. Further, clinicians may also underestimate depressive symptoms in acute patients with agitation or aggression or mistake primary for secondary (i.e., induced by neuroleptics) negative symptoms at times [11]. Here, self-report may be advantageous over expert ratings.
+Importantly, findings obtained in clinical studies can by no means be extrapolated to the entire patient population as many patients are not willing to undergo personal assessment or treatment. In psychosis, at least one-third of individuals remain untreated [12], and patients who are nonadherent are thus likely underrepresented in conventional clinical studies [13]. Further, psychopathological and other characteristics of those who seek FTF treatment markedly differ from those who do not [14, 15].
+To reach people with mental disorders who are unable, unwilling, or reluctant to engage in direct psychological or psychiatric contact, online assessment represents a low-threshold and economic means and may thus complement existing standard clinical assessments. However, even though studies on nonclinical samples assert that internet studies are usually as reliable as FTF contacts when certain precautions are met, many researchers still have reservations [16]. Internet studies, for instance, face the hurdle that a diagnosis is usually not externally validated [17]. Furthermore, some participants may even simulate a target disorder in order to obtain an incentive. However, the extent of simulation is considered to be low [18, 19]. After reviewing the respective literature on nonclinical studies, Hancock [16] concluded that the psychometric properties of online assessments are comparable to those of FTF interviews. Nevertheless, few data exist on the extent of manipulation in clinical (psychiatric) samples [20].
+The present study set out to examine the reliability of data on psychotic symptoms obtained over the internet and its robustness against simulation. To meet our purpose, we contrasted the performance of three different populations (patients with validated diagnoses (face-to-face assessment), individuals with schizophrenia with a likely diagnosis (online assessment), and “simulators” (online assessment)). In line with a prior study on OCD patients [20], we expected that results obtained from an online sample of patients with a likely diagnosis of schizophrenia would be equivalent to those obtained from a sample with validated diagnoses thereby confirming the reliability of online assessment. In contrast, simulators were expected to overreport symptoms and to show inflated scores on a newly designed lie scale [9].
+2. Methods
+2.1. Participants
+2.1.1. Patients with Schizophrenia with Verified Diagnoses (Sample 1)
+In the framework of a study on the cognitive effects of stress induction, we recruited a sample of individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders whose diagnoses were verified using the Mini Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI; Sheehan et al., [21]), complemented by chart review. All participants were inpatients treated for schizophrenia in hospitals from the Hamburg and Marburg Metropolitan areas (Germany). Patients were between 18 and 65 years old, able to provide informed consent, had good command of the German language, IQ > 85, displayed no diagnosis of bipolar disorder and substance dependence (last six months; diagnostic information was verified with the MINI interview), and showed no macroscopic neurological disorder (14 females, 19 males; age: years (SD = 12.17)). All of these participants were interviewed with the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) [22] and asked to complete the CAPE (see below) at baseline, that is, before the experimental phase began. The CAPE was administered in its original paper-and-pencil format.
+2.1.2. Individuals with Schizophrenia with Probable Diagnoses (Sample 2)
+Data for the second sample was derived from a recently published internet study on medication adherence (for details, see [9]). Participants were recruited online via posts on several moderated German online discussion forums providing people with psychosis with the opportunity to exchange information online. A web link provided access to the internet questionnaire. Participation was strictly anonymous to foster unbiased responses. When accessing the internet survey, participants were first asked for background information (e.g., age) as well as their medical history (e.g., medication). “Cookies” prevented multiple accesses from the same computer. Participants who failed to complete the questionnaire, had no diagnosis of schizophrenia (self-report), or admitted that they had not answered openly were excluded. Data from 113 participants were considered for the final analyses (females 39, males 74; age: (SD = 9.55)). Data of three participants who achieved more than 8 out of 16 points on the four lie scale items (see below) were deleted (this will be considered in the analyses on the lie scale).
+2.1.3. Simulators (Sample 3)
+We recruited a sample of distinguished experts or students who were asked to simulate a diagnosis of either OCD (not relevant for the present study; this part of the investigation has been published in [20]) or psychosis. Via email, the first author contacted medical and psychology students from the University of Hamburg (Germany) who had attended a curriculum on mental disorders including psychosis. In addition, we contacted distinguished experts (i.e., persons who had actively engaged in research on schizophrenia, worked with patients with schizophrenia, and/or had written original research articles on schizophrenia). The invitation was emailed to specific individuals in order to ensure that only persons with some expertise would take part in the survey. These persons were asked to complete questionnaires via the internet. The survey was constructed using the software package Unipark. Two scales on OCD [20] were followed by a scale on the (subclinical) psychosis phenotype (CAPE; see next). Participation was strictly anonymous to foster unbiased responses. Participants were instructed to answer the CAPE items as if they had schizophrenia. There were no constraints on whether participants should simulate a patient with acute or remitted symptoms or with respect to the specific clinical picture. At the beginning of the assessment, participants were also asked about their knowledge about schizophrenia and their source of expertise. To increase the probability of successful simulation (i.e., to make the design more conservative), we disclosed the purpose of the study (i.e., whether or not it is possible to simulate a clinical disorder) to participants beforehand. Informed consent was obtained online from all participants in accordance with the requirements of the local department of data security and the local ethics committee in Hamburg (Germany).
+2.1.4. Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences Scale (CAPE)
+The Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences Scale (CAPE; [23]) consists of 42 items (four-point Likert scale: “Never,” “Sometimes,” “Often,” and “Nearly always”) that tap into the psychosis phenotype [24]. The CAPE has three subscales that measure psychotic (item 5 “Do you ever feel as if things in magazines or on TV were written especially for you?”), negative (item 8: “Do you ever feel that you experience few or no emotions at important events?”), and depressive (item 9: “Do you ever feel pessimistic about everything?”) syndromes. The reliability and (factorial) validity of the scale are good [25, 26]. We used the authorized German translation of the CAPE. The translation corresponded to the original instruments with respect to instruction and content. We added four lie scale items [9] mirroring common misconceptions about psychosis (cutoff: 8 points): (a) seeing tiny objects like white mice (indicating delirium rather than psychosis); (b) alien abduction (a rare but highly publicized (face-valid) cliché symptom), (c) being a famous historical personality (a rare but highly publicized (face-valid) cliché symptom), and (d) mental lapses during which one becomes another person (i.e., split personality; a rare/implausible but highly publicized cliché symptom). Scores beyond the cutoff speak for simulation of psychosis and/or unreliable responses.
+3. Results
+Table 1 shows the psychometric indices of the CAPE across the different samples. All samples achieved good scores with respect to internal consistency. Moreover, simulators largely exceeded the clinical samples on positive syndrome scores and on the lie scale (available for Samples 2 and 3 only). The proportion of (probable) imposters was at least four times higher in the simulator group compared to the patients groups (see Table 1). The intercorrelation for negative and depression scores was high in all groups. In contrast, zero correlations emerged between the positive syndrome with both the depressed or negative syndrome in the simulator group, whereas these syndromes were significantly related in the patient samples.
+4. Discussion
+With the aid of statistical procedures, scientific studies aim to generalize from a (usually small) sample to the entire population. As outlined in the introduction, results from neither clinical nor internet studies targeting mental disorders can claim full representativeness as, for example, patients seeking help (those usually examined in clinical studies) and those who do not (those more easily recruited via internet studies) seem to differ on important characteristics [14, 15]. Still, there is reluctance to consider internet studies as a complementary methodological tool.
+Therefore, the present study set out to test the robustness of internet-based research in schizophrenia against simulation. As expected, distinguished experts had a marked tendency to overreport positive (but not negative and depressed) symptoms and, unlike clinical samples, the positive syndrome did not correlate with negative and depressed symptoms (This seems to contradict results from factor analysis suggesting independent dimensions. However, orthogonality is a mathematical constraint when using varimax rotation, a common method in factor analysis. Still, raw data usually show that different syndromes are intercorrelated: higher symptom severity in one psychopathological domain is accompanied by higher symptom severity in other domains as well). The mean scores of the schizophrenia samples were clearly above the values reported for nonclinical controls (e.g., [26]; (please note that Fonseca-Pedrero et al. (2012) report sum values which have to be divided by the number of items to allow comparison with the present sample)) and in the range of previously reported CAPE scores in clinical samples (e.g., [26, 27]) confirming the validity of the results. Finally, our newly devised psychosis lie scale capturing pseudopsychotic symptoms distinguished real patients from simulators. To conclude, psychometric characteristics of the patient samples can be considered as good, confirming earlier claims that the responses of patients with schizophrenia in online assessments are more reliable than commonly thought and that self-report assessments represent an important source of information [8, 28–30].
+A number of limitations need to be acknowledged. First, our study was not designed to identify specific individuals who feign psychotic symptoms. Second, the present findings cannot be fully extrapolated to scales other than the CAPE. Third, patient Sample 1 was rather small and was not assessed with the psychosis lie scale.
+While our study suggests that internet studies are better than their reputation and represent an important complementary approach to conventional research, we still recommend several measures to decrease the risk of simulation and to detect potential simulators (“imposters”) in such studies. For example, the incorporation of lie scales as well as plausibility checks (e.g., requesting the same information twice in disguised form, for example, age and date of birth) may help to filter out simulators. Moreover, subjects who enter the same value for all items should be excluded. Overall, the consequences of false-positive judgments (i.e., inclusion despite invalid data) are deemed more grave than false-negative assignments in internet studies. A nonmonetary compensation for participation (e.g., self-help manual for the respective disorder) may also ward off simulators who are solely interested in financial reimbursement. Moreover, patients are best recruited from specific sources (e.g., online forums for schizophrenia rather than general forums for mental disorders).
+As shown, several psychometric indices may serve as a proxy to determine the reliability of internet samples. If the psychometric properties of an internet sample are similar to established scores, this speaks for the validity of the results. Where possible, additional telephone interviews should be considered, which however raises the threshold of recruitment considerably. Another option is to ask in- and outpatients with a verified diagnosis for their email address before discharge and whether they are willing to participate in internet studies or to ask subjects to send blinded diagnostic information via fax or email [31].
+Conflict of Interests
+None of the authors declares any relevant conflict of interests.
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Traditional classroom methods, such as lectures, may fail to produce adequate student participation and skill development. Educators can encourage students to become 21st-century problem solvers by introducing them to a wide variety of thinking tools. by Anna Mogato 04 Feb 2020. “To develop stronger critical thinking skills, most students need to be given assignments that are challenging but without being overly complex. Dallas Ann Dallman, Jayne A. Downey, Preservice Teachers' Development and Application of Critical Thinking Skills in a Social Studies Methods Course, Handbook of Research on Critical Thinking Strategies in Pre-Service Learning Environments, 10.4018/978-1-5225-7823-9.ch017, (341-358), (2019). If you review the tests, quizzes, and assignments you give students, it would be easy to see the level of higher-order thinking that you are requiring of your students. Now think about this reflective journey of your educational practices. 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+GUIDE: SOUTHERN VERMONT ROAD TRIP
+By Ashley Muir Bruhn
+We took a trip there a few summers ago, and those memories of freshwater swimming, cheese-tasting and coverered-bridge spotting stand out among those from even the most far-flung destinations. It's the sort of nostalgia-inducing trip I can imagine repeating summer after summer, compelling our children to vacation with us in our golden years. And it's as ripe for young lovers camping out of their Westfalia and humming Simon & Garfunkel tunes as it is for young families who can recite Blueberries for Sal from memory.
+Manchester, on the other hand, is a little bit more cosmopolitan with its outlet malls and wider streets. Still, the latter was a perfect base for canoeing down the Battenkill river, swimming in the Dorset Quarry, and filling buckets with with blueberries. There's a great local bookstore—the Northshire—and a nearby farmland center—Merck—where you can meet the sheep whose wool went into making you a beautiful MacAusland blanket.
+Where to stay: In Woodstock, we stayed at the Kedron Valley Inn. (If you can swing it, the nearby Twin Farms also looks beautiful.) In Manchester, we stayed at the Palmer House. It felt like a converted motor lodge, but there were some perks: an indoor swimming pool, croquet on the lawn, walking-distance to dinner (and Ben & Jerry's!). But if we were to go back, I might look at VRBO, Homeaway, or Airbnb for rental homes and cabins in the Dorset/Manchester region. Or you could hike in and camp in the Green Mountains National Forest, which is right outside Manchester.
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+(Photos by Ashley and Aron of Hither & Thither)
+72 comments:
+Looks beautiful. I really need to get away from the city more but I love the asphalt, the concrete and the glass.
+/Avy
+♥
+Beautiful!
+Beautiful!
+If you go to Woodstock,you should absolutely stay at the Applebutter Inn! It is the most beautiful, romantic bed and breakfast I have visited (it has really spoiled any other BnBs for my boyfriend and I), and their breakfasts are incredible! The hosts are incredibly active in the Woodstock community and have all sorts of recommendations for you. It's just up on the hill from the covered bridge in the pictures. Everything in Vermont is lovely, and this place captures it perfectly!
+I loved Blueberries for Sal and other Robert McCloskey books as a kid. Makes me want to go read them now.
+Perfect timing - we're hoping to plan a Vermont long weekend this summer. Would love to try all the food + drink recommendations.
+I used to spend a week in VT every summer when I was growing up. I miss it every year now. I can't wait until I can get back there with my kids somehow.
+I spent a summer inMiddlebury, and it looked just like these photos!
+I also love going up to Canada in the Wu,mer, where my husband is from. We go to a cabin the Shuswaps, in the interior of BC. Think cedar forests and giant mountains and a lake. Beautiful!
+Xo Green Gable
+What a lovely post--Vermont is a wonderful place! Can't say I understand the problem with accidentally winding up in NH, however. If you go up to Norwich to visit King Arthur (which I highly recommend), you should head right across the river to Hanover (NH) for breakfast (or breakfast for lunch) at Lou's, on Main Street. It's just a lovely small town to see in general, if you're in the area.
+If you feel like heading farther north, Waterbury (home of the Ben and Jerry's factory) and Stowe (beautiful and fun to visit, even in summer when skiing isn't going on) are also great places to see. Another great spot in Woodstock, especially if you have small kids, is Billings Farm and Museum. They often have themed weekends, but you can stop by any old time as well!
+Oops, I ,meant summer!
+When I was a girl, every winter my grandfather would take me to Canada to see stage plays at old timey theatres in Ontario .
+My husband's family took trips to Vermont as well. They have fond memories there. Looks like a pretty country side escape.
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+what great pictures and looks like an awesome trip!
+i'm thinking the hubbi & i should venture up this summer!
+xo - heather
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+Just makes me want to take a big sigh of contentment. :) My parents packed my brother and me into an old Zephyr station wagon take us on long cross-country road trips. One of the states I remember most fondly is Vermont, for its idyllic rural scenery and wildflowers galore. I like the "quest" idea...that can be done anywhere, and really I apply that to my daily life, haha. (Like, "best hot chocolate" is my current quest.)
+ZOMG, I totally didn't read back my comment; it sounds so funny! Meant to say my parents *would pack my bro and me into that old station wagon *and take us on road trips during our summer vacations.
+My boyfriend and I have gone on road trips to Vermont for two summers in a row now. It's beautiful, the people are amazing, the summer weather is idyllic, and the beer and food is local and so good! We love to stay in a hostel in Burlington and then go on day trips to Stowe and Montpellier, both charming little towns. Spending the day swimming and kayaking on Lake Champlain in Burlington is dreamy. As far as breweries go, Harpoon is probably our least favorite. I recommend visiting The Alchemist in Waterbury (best known for their amazing "Heady Topper") or Hill Farmstead Brewery (this year named the best brewery in the world!). Vermont trips are the best!
+I love road trips and am so in need of one right now! It has to be anywhere warm and sunny, though.
+Jennifer:)
+Those pancakes look heavenly!!! Vermont has always been on my wish list, especially in the fall to see the leaves change! xoxo
+i have friends from Vermont who always brag about how they are the best State ever. Now, i can see glimpses of why. Making a trip to Vermont soon. :)
+My husband and I spent part of our winter honeymoon in Manchester. We loved Up For Breakfast and would go back just for their World's Best Sausage. Yum!
+Love this post! I've lived in Vermont for 4 years now and let me tell you, living here is just as dreamy as vacationing here! It's such a hidden gem. Northern Vermont is wonderful too...with Lake Champlain beaches in the summer, amazing restaurants (American Flatbread, The Farmhouse, Bluebird Tavern), bike paths and cross country ski trails right in town. So wonderful!
+Aw, so fun to see Vermont (where I live) on here! I always wondered why people from the city don't venture up to Vermont more often. It's the perfect weekend getaway! I'd skip Manchester and stick with central Vermont: Waitsfield, Stowe, Waterbury, Montpelier. Dinner at American Flatbread in Waitsfield is a must for a real Vermont experience. Try Three Penny Taproom in Montpelier for awesome beer. Have fun!
+Oh, Vermont. It's in a little nook of the world, all on its own. Nothing more idyllic, I so agree!
+I work in Southern Vermont and it is beautiful! The Orvis classes and events are amazing- I highly recommend them!
+sold! forwarding this to my husband now. I love living in New England, everything is so close and we have not spent any time in Vermont AND I think those two are the coolest.
+As a VT native I highly recommend traveling around. Woodstock and Manchester are beautiful but Shelburne has a museum, Shelburne farms (amazing and great for the little guy) and you can hike near by. Stowe is also amazing.
+I love the idea of a summer holiday in Vermont, I have only ever been there in the winter to ski, it was beautiful but I'm sure it is so different in the summer months!..xv
+oh this is a great idea...
+thanks...
+What a great little adventure! My fiance and I are planning a cross-country road trip for our honeymoon, and I could use some more posts like this for ideas! We're doing the southwest, though. :)
+xoxo
+Emily
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+I LOVE seeing your pictures of Vermont, one of my favorite places! I live in NYC with my husband and 3 small children and miss going there. I grew up going to VT often to visit my grandparents and every season (except mud season!) was special. It is such a wonderful place with so many things to do and see. My husband and I got married in Dorset, VT and it is like a slice of heaven!
+My family and I spent every summer of my childhood in Manchester! Such a beautiful place. We spent most of our time outside hiking, playing golf, visiting farms, you name it. The Northshire bookstore is a must-- charming little place but with a wide selection of books and often readings by major authors. Also: I remember fondly visiting Hildene, the residence of Robert Todd Lincoln. Enjoy!
+xx
+katie
+....And the BEST breakfast spot ever, the Little Rooster Cafe in Manchester!!
+My fiancee grew up in Rupert, VT - thats where Merck Forest is! It's so beautiful in southern VT - we spend many, many weekends in the mountains and in Manchester all year round. We're getting married on Rupert Mountain this summer!!! I would absolutely recommend Rupert/Dorset/Manchester for a summer vacation - there's so much to do in the area- the Dorset Farmer's Market is lovely and is located at William's store which is a very cool old general store. It's so easy to eat and buy locally there, especially in the summer - for our wedding we're having a local bbq vendor cater the reception with VT smoked BBQ and everything is local! from the wood she uses to smoke to the pigs from her farm! If you make the trip with kids i totally recommend heading to merck farm and consider bardwell farm in pawlet is really cool- they have a great farm tour during the summer! There's tons of places to go berry picking, just follow the signs in the road - and i also hear that the alpine slide at bromley mountain is very fun! YAY VERMONT!!!
+<3 sami
+And when you visit our state of Vermont...I would highly recommend carrying the book: "Vermont - An Explorer's Guide". The 13th Edition is a collaboration between authors Christina Tree & Rachel Carter. Rachel's enthusiasm for quirky, free, and the "best of" what Vermont has to offer is infectious!
+What a great post! As a New England girl, I would also recommend a getaway to Maine... just like Vermont, but with 4,568 miles of Atlantic coastline! ;)
+Wow I want to go right now!
+We were married in Manchester. Still my favorite area of Vermont, and we live in Burlington!
+wow this looks like such a gorgeous place! great pictures!
+We got married in Brattleboro, VT... These pictures bring back warm summertime memories. I hope we have a chance to explore Vermont (and Maine!) a little more one day... maybe an anniversary road trip?
+I loved the "pick a quest? idea. I don't know why, but it instantly made sense. Instead of going on a mission to see all the guide book mandated sites, I like the idea of a personal quest.
+xo Naomi │ Be Ready Bravely
+Wow...nice snaps..:)
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+I just found your blog! It looks really cool :) great post, hugs!
+It's nice to see pictures of summer right now. I've been NH and this trip reminds me of the fun times of NH. The woods, fresh blueberries, yummy food, and great company; can't wait for summer now.
+I LOVE Vermont and have taken several road trips up there in the past few years. If you are going to Woodstock, a quick side trip is west out the main road out of town to this great market, just a couple of miles away, and then continue 10-15 miles to the Long Trail Brewery. There is also an amazing vintage shop in town where you can get anything from the 1980s to the 1880s.
+Coming from southern Vermont, reading this makes me very happy!! Don't forget to check out Grafton Village Cheese in Brattleboro, VT on your way up through! Also, you wouldn't regret watching a sunrise or a sunset from Putney Mountain in Putney, VT! Walker Farm, in Dummerston, has some of the best organically grown produce around and they also have a great little play area for the kids. And I may has a bias, but I'm pretty sure Harlow's Sugar House has the best maple syrup and blueberries! Happy Travels!
+Love New England in the summer, there is nothing like it.
+Unfortunately, the Alchemist is closed! :( It closed after all of the damage from Hurricane Irene. (Waterbury was hit hard, most of the town flooded) But Waterbury is home to Green Mountain Coffee and the train station there was turned into an adorable cafe!
+Thank you so much for having me, Joanna! It was great fun reminiscing!
+True, the Alchemist is closed but the new restaurant that occupies the space is called Prohibition Pig and it is awesome!
+Yeah, Vermont! I have lived here all of my 27 years and it truly is the best place on earth. It is very unique; whenever I go away I so, so miss home. For a different kind of trip head up to the Canadian border and visit the Northeast Kingdom. Totally wild, desolate, beautiful. In my opinion it's the most gorgeous part of the state!
+Amazing photos. Must visit!
+Couldn't agree with you more. I live in the Upper Valley/Dartmouth region and we go to Lou's for the best-ever buttermilk pancakes. Stella's over in nearby Hartland,VT is a great little place for breakfast too. All of their ingredients are local and super fresh.
+Vermont is great (I know from living there for my 24 years)! Quechee is another great little spot to visit! There's a beautiful gorge with some nice hiking or you can walk across it on the bridge. There's a little strip with a few shops a little further down the road. They sell Cabot cheese, maple goods, among many other things. There's also a carrousel and a little train to ride. Not to mention Simon Pierce where you can watch them blow glass and talk to the artists as the do it. There's a fancy restaurant there as well. And if you go on Father's Day weekend there's an hot air balloon festival where you can walk right onto the field as the balloons inflate and take off (one of my favorite things to do as my family has been part of a chase crew since before I was born).
+this is awesome... i grew up on annual family ski trips to vermont, and for a few summers in a row we did a week in vermont as well. this post really brought me back to our summer trips, especially the jumping into the lake picture! now i am married to a vermonter and every time we go up to visit family and friends the state grows on me more and more.... cork, the amazing wine bar in waterbury... the prohibition pig for delicious dinner in waterbury... ben and jerrys ice cream... stowe bike path... burlington (everything about it)... shelburne farms... SIGH... i am nostalgic and looking forrward to our next visit!
+This is fantastic! I live in a little town called White River Junction, Vermont, right on the border of New Hampshire and Vermont. I'm quite close to Quechee and Woodstock, but have been to Manchester as well. It's such a fun state to explore! And should absolutely be visited in the summer as well as winter for skiing.
+The storefront for the Alchemist is closed, but they still operate a brewery and cannery right up the road. They do beer tastings, too. The Prohibition Pig sells Alchemist beer. And yes, they are awesome.
+Another great bbq place in the same area is the Cider House, a little further north on Route 2 from Waterbury but before Burlington. They have great food and a good selection of local hard ciders.
+Warren, VT is also a great place to visit. It's in the Mad River Valley, complete with covered bridges, great food at the Warren Store, and swimming holes in the Mad River nearby.
+Fourth of July can be a good weekend to visit VT. Lots of small, hometown parades with fairs and fireworks. Waterbury's parade attracts firetrucks from all the neighboring towns, for those with fire truck loving little ones. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters usually gives out free coffee and Ben and Jerry's represents with ice cream coupons.
+Pictures are so stunning & beautiful. You had a great trip……
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+Hah! I live in Manchester! What a sweet post--so glad to see Up for Breakfast here!
+We have 5 kids, and we always keep them occupied with audiobooks for the ipods. There's a ton of sites where you can download them, but we use this one a lot because the stories are free and original. This is the link, if anyone is intereted.
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+I'd love having the option of printing out some of these guides for my own reference but it's too difficult. Just a suggestion, if something can be done :) Thank you for these great reads!
+it is very beautiful snaps, i love this place and i am very excited to know more about this place. Can you please tell me about these place? Pictures of woodstock and manchester are very wonderful and full of natural beauty.
+I'm a Vermonter and it was so great to see a post about my home state! The next time you go you really should try going to Burlington! It's super quirky and the food is out of this world. I Waitressed at a fun burger place with the best burgers in town called Sky Burgers and there are tons of other phenomenal places like American Flatbread (their medicine wheel flatbread is to die for as so are their bloody mary's! Flatbread for brunch may sound so strange but it's so satisfying!) I hope you get to go back soon!!
+A couple of folks have followed up to ask about the spot we went blueberry picking. Here's the original post with all of the locations and details:
+That spot was in East Dorset. Have fun!! Thanks again!
+OMG, we totally stayed in a beautiful inn right down the road from that covered bridge. Snapdragon Inn in Windsor--a perfect, quiet, real New England town. The inn was beautifully renovated set on a really pretty nature reserve perfect for strolls, bird watching, and picnics.
+Things to check out in the area: Harpoon Brewery, The Sustainable Farmer for local cheeses, and the Simon Pearce store. There's a really cool sculpture garden called Path of Life that's right against the Connecticut River and was one of our favorite things we did. They have a fun hedge maze that we almost didn't get out of. By then, it was time for dinner and we didn't feel like driving far so we headed back into Windsor and got take out from an African restaurant, Mariam's and took our delicious samosas back to the Lake behind the Snapdragon and had a picnic as the sunset. It was an amazing day. We only stayed one night so didn't even get to explore Woodstock & Hanover ( just 20 minutes up the road) because we had so much to do in Windsor.
+A few things we want to do on our next trip to the area:
+Blueberry picking
+Rafting down the Connecticut
+Hike Mount Ascutney or bring our mountain bikes back up
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+The Bachelorette Recap Season 16, Episode 2: Chasing Fame, Greatest Lover9 min read
+One suitor ruins a whole evening by sowing seeds of doubt about the guys’ intentions in Katie, but can’t seem to give one name or one example — is he just toying with her? What is wrong with some people?
+One of the scariest things about putting your heart on the line for a show like “The Bachelorette” is knowing that not everyone who comes onto the show has the same motives.
+Katie is looking for love, but are all 23 of the remaining guys there for that reason? Based on past seasons of this show, it’s safe to say that they’re not. And tonight, Katie felt pretty confident that she weeded out at least one of them.
+But then, another guy dropped an unsubstantiated bomb on her that rocked her world, ruined the last Cocktail Party before the Rose Ceremony and left her questioning her relationship with every guy there. So why did he do it?
+Honestly, we haven’t figured this guy out yet, other than to declare him our “First-Impression Villain” last week. We’re still going to go with that, because he’s really coming across like a narcissistic a-hole right now. That could be a bad edit, every show loves a good villain, but let’s just say he’s putting up a ton of red flags.
+When he echoed Katie’s share that she was last in a relationship about two years ago but then rebuffed her attempt to have him open up about that relationship, we found ourselves questioning if that relationship was even real.
+From the beginning, he’s talked about this show like it’s a competition first and a dating show second. He’s here to “win.” The fact that Katie is the actual prize seems to have escaped him, and with how casually he tore up her emotions tonight, we’re not sure he even cares.
+With Katie already shaken by one guy who appeared to possibly be there for the wrong reasons, Karl decided to tell her that he 100 percent knows that there are multiple other guys who are also there for not the right reasons. But does he have any names or evidence? No!
+“I know that there are some people that don’t have the best intentions,” he told her. But when she pushed for an example or a name, he countered by telling her, “I feel like you’ve already been through a lot, and I don’t want you to stress about that.”
+Are you kidding? You expect her to not stress when you’re the one who planted the seed of doubt. What kind of manipulative nonsense is that? And then, while she was reeling, he dropped, “Can you just believe me when I tell you I have your best interests in mind.”
+We were so pleased to hear Katie in confessionals say that she has doubts about Karl’s sincerity as well after all of that, we were relieved because we’ve raised our red flags so high planes are having to navigate around them. It looked shady AF to us!
+When Katie snapped and confronted everyone after this, it took Karl awhile to confess to the other guys after she left again, and even then he wouldn’t say names. We suspect he had no names. When he said he was going to give that person a chance to come forward, it seemed even more certain.
+After all, if anyone did confess — and no one ever would — he’d be proven right. As it stands, he can try to say he’s giving them the chance to come clean and pretend he knows exactly who it is and he’s just being magnanimous. In actuality, he’s likely just full of s—.
+If so, then we have to ask why is he doing this? Is he hoping to earn favor with Katie by being the one who outed other guys? This could be a likely scenario, as Aaron did just that earlier in the night when he called out Cody.
+In fact, after Karl’s bombshell, Aaron was the first guy Katie pulled aside to see if he’d heard or knew anything about what Karl had said. The truth is he didn’t. Now, that doesn’t mean Karl is wrong — as teaser’s for the next episode seem to validate his claims — but we still aren’t sure he didn’t just make it up this week to curry favor.
+Maybe it’s even a bit of misdirection to take her off of the scent that Karl doesn’t really appear to be there for Katie. Instead, he seems to be there to “win,” to come out on top, to beat everyone else. We’re still not sure he really gets this show, or maybe he’s chasing fame himself by trying to be the biggest personality. Certainly he enjoys making memorable sound bites in the confessional.
+Greatest Lover of All Time
+We have to give huge props to Mike for taking a seemingly impossible task and managing to turn it into a vulnerable and real moment. After all, how nervous would you be as a virgin saving himself for marriage when the task is to prove you’re the world’s greatest lover.
+The other guys stripped down, performed sex-tinged music, naughty puppet shows and all kinds of other stunts (“Dick in a Box,” anyone?) to get Katie’s attention. Mike simply sat her on the bed and read a heartfelt letter where he revealed to her — and everyone else in the house — that he was saving himself for his future wife.
+That may have even given him the best excuse for how deplorably all of the guys appeared to be when answering questions about the woman’s body and her sexuality. It was shameful how little these guys knew. Maybe they’ll come out of this experience better lovers, or at least more thoughtful.
+In the end, it was the virgin who went home with the title of Greatest Lover of All Time. And that’s because he led with his heart and not his — well, you know.
+Fishing and Fathers
+Our way-too-early pick to possibly win the whole thing, Greg followed up that First Impression Rose with the first One-on-One Date, so you could say the guy is on a roll. He’s certainly got Katie’s attention in the early going here.
+The challenge is going to be for him to hang onto it as she goes on One-on-Ones with other guys throughout the season and he’s relegated to shorter experiences. But, we have to say, he carried himself with incredible grace and compassion.
+Their date was a fishing expedition, but it was one with a real emotional resonance for Katie, as camping was something she shared with her father growing up. He passed away in 2012, and they spent the afternoon honoring his memory.
+That evening, Greg shared with Katie that he’d also lost his father, two years ago to late-diagnosed cancer. It was remarkable that he held that information back all day so that Katie could have that experience and her memories of her father without his story influencing it.
+He was fully present and there for her through her emotional experience in an incredibly sensitive and sweet way. And then, he shared how much he understood exactly why it was such a bittersweet day for her, as it was for him in almost exactly the same way. She was right, the date was just about perfect.
+It would be wild for the guy who went back-to-back at the start of the season to win the whole thing, but he definitely seems to have a substantial head start on the competition. The question is, can anyone close the gap and if so, who?
+“He Wants to Become Famous”
+We finally got some context for our First Impression Meathead, Aaron, and his seemingly random dislike of Cody. It turns out the two of them know each other outside of the game, with Aaron really suspicious of Cody’s motivations for being there.
+Now, Aaron does not speak well or express himself with any grace and nuance, but he seemed sincere in talking to Katie. And when Cody was confronted moments later by Katie, he seemed anything but. He looked like a kid caught with his hand still in the cookie jar, trying to talk his way out of it.
+After he insisted he had no idea what Aaron was talking about (Aaron suggested there were social media posts suggesting Cody was chasing fame in being on the show), Katie said that means that either he or Aaron are lying directly to her face.
+“It may be exaggerations,” Cody said, and that was pretty much it. Exaggerations means that there is something there to exaggerate. Cody did not seem to really be all that surprised that he was being accused of being there for the wrong reasons, so that’s egg on our face, too, as we had him in our too-early Final Four.
+Well, that just makes room for Blake, whenever Tayshia’s ex-boyfriend from her season finally shows up. As for Cody, Katie showed him the door, and he didn’t even seem fazed by that, either. Maybe he was hoping this would be enough screen-time.
+All the Wrong Reasons
+The teaser for the next installment raises the question, is Karl right? Is he right for the right reasons, because he really did know something, or did he luck into being right? Is he really looking out for her and he just has the worst possible delivery of that caring?
+Or is he just toying with her and everyone because this whole experience is a game to him? These aren’t people, but rather pawns to move around the board. He didn’t seem concerned that Katie was in tears over his bombshell, and he didn’t seem inclined to come clean.
+But this teaser clearly has Thomas revealing that it had crossed his mind he could parlay this experience into becoming the next Bachelor, if this doesn’t work out. That indicates a desire for fame over a focus on finding love.
+But isn’t that in the back of most of these guys’ minds? And isn’t it in the minds of the casting directors, too. After all, they’ve got to keep the franchise alive and moving forward, so they might want guys who’d be down to be the next Bachelor if their 1-in-30 shot here doesn’t work out.
+By the same token, casting should be able to weed out people just looking for fame — or at least more of them then they seem to. Do they just not dig that deep, or do they like the drama it injects into the experience? Perhaps it’s just an extra challenge for the lead.
+But as we’ve seen before, it can lead to disastrous results when your lead finds out that the man she chose and wound up engaged to was only doing the show to raise his profile as a musician. He never intended to win and didn’t even really want to be engaged to her. You can bet if Hannah Brown was here, she’d be looking at all these guys with intense scrutiny for their motivations.
+We’re just getting started, and already Katie isn’t certain who’s there for her, for fame or to be the next Bachelor. All she wants is to be sure that she’s not wasting her time on a relationship if it’s not genuine. Dating is hard enough in the real world, this is an absolute nightmare.
+“Mansion” Chatter
+- “This is The Hunger Games, bro. This is a competition!” –Karl
+- “Ask now that your Bachelorette can do for you, ask what you can do for your Bachelorette.” –Karl
+- “Please, if we can get this guy a Xanax or a muzzle, let’s do it ASAP.” –Justin (about Karl)
+- “I hope you guys all have a terrible time.” Andrew S
+- “I’m sure I’ll find something that I’m intimidated about. But I just really haven’t come across it yet.” –Mike
+- I had a feeling that that was the direction it was gonna go. I mean, if we’re talking about sex, I personally want to share that within marriage.” –Mike P
+- “I want her to see that I am the greatest lover because I want that trophy. I want that trophy.” –Karl (seems to be missing the point that Katie is the prize here)
+- “We at the Apollo.” –Justin (during Karl’s presentation)
+- “I can’t even get into my last relationship, we’re here to talk about my next relationship.” –Karl (evading or did he make up the whole relationship?)
+- “I have never been woken up this aggressively in my entire life.” –John after Kaitlyn & Tayshia wake the boys on the second group date early and loud)
+- “Definitely gonna show Katie I have balls … especially half-naked.” –Brendan (after getting corralled from bed for the second group date)
+- “And now we’re creepy.” –Kaitlyn (checking out guys in cowboy gear through binoculars with Tayshia and Katie)
+“The Bachelorette” continues Mondays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
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+HTC's warranty covers that phone and not exchange to a different one.
+That is why they can't exchange with a different model.
+If you don't like it you can and should complain to HTC and not T-Mobile. Out of their hands.
+Try and read that warranty paper work that comes with the phone.
+16. Re: Your Amaze 4G vs. Minebadgerdave Apr 15, 2012 5:37 PM (in response to theartiszan)
+So by your conclusions..a rooted phone will no longer have this "Bluetooth Problem?" What ROMs did your friends root to their phones? Rooting is not a problem. I was forced to learn that art with my HTC HD2 that worked like **** until I ditched WinMo 6.5 and rooted Android on to it. In fact it "still" works great. But realistically...I shouldn't have to go through all this every time I buy an HTC product or any other phone for that matter. If HTC does not change this type of behavior, they will begin losing market share. Apparently this is not a concern to them, or they wouldn't continue to have the same type of problems.
+Anyway enlighten us to what ROMs your friends used.
+17. Re: Your Amaze 4G vs. Minetheartiszan Apr 15, 2012 6:11 PM (in response to badgerdave)
+With the hd2 I can't really blame htc.
+That is all microsoft. Windows mobile was never a good os.
+Htc could only work with in those confines.
+That was not meant to be used like that.
+Hence the reason that windows phone 7 was such a drastic change.
+Hardware was fantastic on the hd2 once android was on their.
+I think htc probably should have just delayed the ics work until we got bt fixed for now first and just waited a little longer then we are for ics.
+Either way I will ask and report back what rom they are working on.
+18. Re: Your Amaze 4G vs. Minek_lorrell Apr 16, 2012 1:16 PM (in response to theartiszan)
+From The Responses, I See That Bluetooth Is A BIG Deal To You All: Even To Those Outside This Thread. Wow. Makes Me Glad I Have No Need For It. At Least Not Now...
+On Another Note, Am I The Only One Whos Phone Seems To Be Useless When It's Syncing?
+19. Re: Your Amaze 4G vs. Minebadgerdave Apr 16, 2012 3:15 PM (in response to k_lorrell)
+Which sync is giving you problems?
+20. Re: Your Amaze 4G vs. Minechromejob Apr 17, 2012 6:16 AM (in response to k_lorrell)
+"I See That Bluetooth Is A BIG Deal To You All: Even To Those Outside This Thread. Wow. Makes Me Glad I Have No Need For It. At Least Not Now..."
+No Kidding, Sherlock! Bluetooth is how many (most?) people use a headset with their phone. In some states, a headset's THE ONLY way you can answer the phone while driving. My last two phones, I've held conversations with a BT headset while the phone sat on a desk nearby, within 5'. Inability to accomplish even that is a huge impairment of core functionality for a mid-tier or top-tier phone.
+Even without using a headset, BT is one of the simplest ways to transfer files ... I used to sync my Nokia via BT in the background, worked for 6 years without a hitch. With the Amaze, I find the I have to re-pair my laptops to the Amaze every few weeks. I have no idea why, nothing changes on the laptops, and the phone hasn't been reset.
+Very few people use 100% of a phone's capabilities, but let's not be naive and claim "My phone works great" while not exercising commonly used features.
+21. Re: Your Amaze 4G vs. Minek_lorrell Apr 17, 2012 6:29 AM (in response to chromejob)
+Well Dr. Watson, I Hope T-Mo & HTC Come Up With A Fix For You And The Hundreds Of Others Who Are Experiencing This Catastrophe...
+22. Re: Your Amaze 4G vs. Minek_lorrell Apr 17, 2012 6:41 AM (in response to badgerdave)
+@badgerdave - The Sync I'm Referring To Is The Sync Of Networks. When The Sync Icon Is In The Notification Bar, My Phone Sometimes Becomes "still." Emails May Be Sent To Outbox, Facebook Won't Load, Tweets Will Be Saved As Drafts, etc. I Frequently Get The Error Message: "NO DATA CONNECTION," When Trying To Use Apps During Sync. However, I'll Have My 4G And All Four Bars. Kind Of Weird. I've Even Had A Few Dropped Calls Due To Syncing. Maybe It's Best To Not Use The Phone During That Time?
+23. Re: Your Amaze 4G vs. Minetheartiszan Apr 17, 2012 6:43 AM (in response to k_lorrell)
+One thing I just noticed last night.
+Paired and used a Sony Bluetooth stereo music headset and got great range on music. Well over 30 feet.
+Tried phone audio on same headset and was down to 5 again.
+Just the way something with phone audio is processing wrong.
+24. Re: Your Amaze 4G vs. Minebadgerdave Apr 17, 2012 8:46 AM (in response to k_lorrell)
+@ k_lorrell: I can't say that I have had any of those issues. But for the most part I just use the basics of the phone. Facebook, email, text, call, camera, video and a little web surfing. My email sync no problem. FB updates when asked..no problem.
+@ theartiszan: That is very interesting that bluetooth stereo music headset gets a nice BT range. What if you do music over your regular headset?
+25. Re: Your Amaze 4G vs. Minemznatnat Apr 21, 2012 3:06 PM (in response to k_lorrell)
+My first Amaze came with a dead pixel.... AND after I took it home from the store, did the HTC update all of a sudden my power button was gone... meaning that holding the power button would not produce the menu.... it would just shut the screen off.... the next day I went the store I got my phone from..... they said they only had the White Amaze left.... I told them it was not happening... So after the Tmobile store by my house screwed me over and didn't retrieve the black amaze.... i went to the store to get another one....
+So not only was the phone faulty, but the customer service reps at that store were as well......
+Now I have the Black HTC Amaze, fully rooted, running a custom rom, and I have to tell you....... I have no problems.... in whatsoever! I have 60% more battery power hold.... Apparently a lot of the Amaze devices were sold with defects....
+26. Re: Your Amaze 4G vs. Minemznatnat Apr 21, 2012 3:11 PM (in response to badgerdave)
+I am using the Energy Rom and I gotta say.... it works AMAZEingly! I have no problems.... Had a problem with the screenshot on that rom so I re-flashed it and it worked great since then!!!!!
+If you use the Energy Rom with the Stock Amaze Kernel, you will see a great battery life improvement!!!!
+If you get the Energy Rom with Faux's Kernel (or any other kernel) there WILL be bugs with your wifi and bluetooth....
+27. Re: Your Amaze 4G vs. Minebadgerdave Apr 21, 2012 8:53 PM (in response to mznatnat)
+Do you use a bluetooth headset? And if so, what is your range with Energy ROM? Did you see an improvement in bluetooth range?
+Thanks.
+28. Re: Your Amaze 4G vs. Minejkeefau Jun 12, 2012 10:23 AM (in response to badgerdave)
+I have two Amazes that work fine.
+There is no perfect phone.
+29. Re: Your Amaze 4G vs. Minerpernett Jun 13, 2012 11:37 AM (in response to badgerdave)
+I have done A-B comparisons between old firmware and new to eliminate hardware as the suspect. I utilized a demo phone from my local store (with employees watching) that the wifi calling update of Dec 12 reduced the bluetooth range quite substantially. Same phone, same headset, different firmware. The cause-and-effect relationship was quite clear.
+As for wifi, my two Amaze units have never been able to connect to access points with hidden SSIDs. It's the only kind of wireless we have at the office, so I am stuck with 2G for now (SGS II is fine with this).
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+Aside from updating my tiling progress, I wanted to share my two big renovation rules—both of which I made sure to stick to this weekend.
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+After seven years of renovating the same house, I can tell you the least motivating thing I face on renovation days is the prospect of having to change into ill-fitting old jeans and a giant t-shirt with a stupid logo on it. Gross clothes make you feel, well, gross. You can roll your eyes all you want, but not feeling hideous while you’re ripping paneling off a wall in a filthy basement goes a long way. You can buy a pair of jeans (Diva skinnies are my go-to jeans for dirty work), a soft t-shirt and a lightweight hoodie from Old Navy for less than $50. You don’t have to worry about them getting dirty or stained, and they’ll last through years of renovation projects. Worth it.
+2. Periodically stop and clean up your workspace.
+I can’t stress this enough. A messy environment makes for messy work when you’re talking about stuff like tiling and wallpapering, because you’ll be getting thinset and grout and paste and paper scraps all over the place, and chances are good that you’ll wind up ruining something or other as a result. Working in a mess just makes everything so much harder, anyway—you can’t spread out easily when you need to measure something big, and you’re constantly stepping around (or in) debris. I force myself to stop what I’m doing every now and then and clean up. I bag up trash, I move tools I’m done with to their storage spots, I organize screws and nails, I sweep (and vacuum, if necessary) and I wash my hands. It seems like pain to stop in the middle of a project, but again…worth it.
+56 Comments
+You make it look so easy! Like the tips- i also follow the outfit rule. If you look like crap you’ll feel like it, although my husband thinks its utter madness i always stick to this rule!
+I can’t agree with this enough. Having been in a renovation zone for over a decade now – a state of perpetual renovation – I can’t no longer bear to feel perpetually grungy either in my clothes or in the space. Also, you do notice that the best craftspeople and sub-contractors always tidy their spaces and tools at the end of a day/job. It takes time but it seems to accompany efficiency and accuracy. Nice job by the way.
+This looks lovely! It brings such a nice feeling into the kitchen, and I can’t wait to see it with the black grout. I also cannot tell you enough how much I agree with rule #2 for your renovation rules! It makes things so much easier if you keep your work area clean as you go, and it is such a nice feeling when you finally wrap up for the day to not have a whole day’s cumulative mess sitting there glaring at you like a nasty goblin.
+The tiling is looking fantastic, can’t wait to see it with the dark grout. Are you good with tile nippers?
+They take a little practice but can get a really good finished look for tricky spots.
+I’m learning the hard way about cleaning up after projects. My (new) kitten got into my sewing project last night…pins, pattern pieces, interfacing, cord, thread have been scattered throughout the house. Feeling bad, as I never even thought about it, I’m fairly systematic with my sewing, and although I leave it out while doing a project, I always tidy it up at the end of the night (key word, ‘tidy’ not put clean). Lessons learned. No one got hurt, but the pattern was ruined.
+Shall take your advice on the outfit rule, as I often look and sound like a crazy bag lady while reno-ing/projecting – and always seem to run into a crush while wandering the aimless isles of HD.
+Yeah, I mentioned my nippers in the post! I’m not particularly good at using them, but I can do a (mostly) straight line or a simple curve if I score really well first. I don’t think nippers work well for very detailed work, though—fingers crossed that a wee coping saw will do the trick. :)
+Dope, see that now.
+Never used a coping saw for tiling – good luck, you’ve got the patience, and it will turn out brilliantly. :)
+one thing we highly neglected during renovating our apartment: cleaning up after a day’s work.
+it. was. terrible! but spending hours every night after working a full day left us exhausted, and that was the last on our minds at the end of the day, and the first thing we saw/did when we walked in the next….
+tile looks great, and thanks for the tips!
+cheers :)
+I painted our side-front door (this is a Vermont thing, NO ONE uses the actual front door) this weekend, and grabbed a gross company hoodie we’d been meaning to toss and put it on as a smock over my actual clothes. It worked really well! Secret comfy clothes underneath!
+Wow, that subway tile is gorgeous – and your kitchen already looks amazing :) I’m sure once everything’s in place that row lower tile will be entirely unnoticeable, I didn’t even catch it at first.
+I should probably stop pointing it out to everyone, right? ;)
+I cannot agree more – especially on the outfit. I can’t remember how many times I would have to head off to the hardware store dressed like some horror show. And you ALWAYS run into someone you know at the hardware store GUARANTEED!
+You just changed my world with that outfit tip. Permission to buy a new outfit and more motivation to do dirty projects—thank you!
+This is looking so boss, girl… exciting!!
+And that outfit thing? Oh, yes. Resounding yes. Like, a hells to the yes. (That clean-up thing is a must, too. Smarty.)
+Never thought of it before, but feeling sexy while grouting or painting or DIY-ing in general is definitely the main rule every woman should follow :) And doing it in a clean spot might make you feel like a star.
+Great advise
+Hmmm, “sexy” seems to be pushing it a bit (I’m not sure I’ve ever felt “sexy” in my entire life…), but if that helps you get the job done, do whatever you need to!
+I definitely didn’t mean to suggest that my rules are just meant for women, though. They’re non-gender-specific.
+Sexy, neat, tidy… whatever. Mind my english, it may sound better in my head.. :S But, the minute you care about your outfit, you’re trying to look good, hence sexy, no? (Must check the meaning then…)
+Anyway, whatever the reason, great tips to take on account Anna!
+No worries, I didn’t realize English wasn’t your first language! Yeah, making yourself feel “sexy” would imply that you want to be sexually appealing while renovating, and…that’s really not what I meant. ;) It’s just semantics, though, I understand what you’re saying!
+Hahaha! No, I’m not that weird… :)
+BTW, your kitchen is turning out amazing, great job! Here in Spain we got tiled kitchens and bathrooms from top to bottom on every wall. Non-tiled trend it’s starting to pop – I think because it’s cheaper, but specially if you’re a renter, having walls to paint would be great in spite of the grease an all – still can’t get out of my mind your first NY apartment black kitchen wall!
+And I think I’ll be envious of your subway tile in a while either… :)
+It looks great! I’ve also found that stopping and cleaning up the area works really well for moving. When I moved out of my apartment, I was super bummed and overwhelmed until I picked up trash, took it out, moved everything to the center of the room, and vacuumed around it. A little extra work but my morale went way up.
+wow looks awesome! my partner who is a tilesetter read this post over my shoulder and had some comments/tips that i thought i’d pass on…
+-a wet saw will not definitely cut you as long as water is going through it… he has freaked people out on job sites by sticking his hand right against it (it’s a little abrasive but won’t cut skin). wet saws are by nature really safe to use (even cheap-o ones that seem a little freaky at first)
+-for cutting around the window sill, he recommends making a template out of cardboard (wet saw, coping saw or a diamond-blade grinder would all work equally well for these cuts)
+-if you end up wanting to fill in the last row below the windowsill (instead of under-cutting), he says it’s totally possible to trim 3×6 to fit. try cutting the tile down to size horizontally with the wet saw so that the off-cut (waste side) is smaller than the good side. that way when you cut right on your line, the good side is less likely to split.
+if you have any other specific questions, he’s always happy to check out pictures & weigh in!
+Thanks, Parker (and Parker’s partner)! Yeah, it’s just that one tile I’m procrastinating about—the one that needs to be at the bottom right of the windowsill. I’m fine cutting the ones to go underneath with the guillotine cutter.
+The tile saw was pretty terrifying!! I was actually more scared of cutting myself on the tile than the blade. I’m not usually scared of power tools, but this thing was freaking me out! It was vibrating like crazy and the cuts were anything but smooth. Maybe we were doing something wrong?
+Best vacuum cleaner, ever.
+Yes!
+the tile is looking great…i really liked your kitchen before, would not have thought it needed changing, but now i am really looking forward to seeing this renovation finished.
+Thanks, Laura. We’re not really changing that much…adding the tile is really the biggest part of it. :)
+Is there not a tool lending library in your town or in NYC that you can use? Maybe it’s a bit California-socialist of us, but the Oakland Public Library has a tool lending branch where you can borrow tools for free.
+I’m 99.99% certain that the Newburgh public library doesn’t lend out tools, but what a cool idea!
+Really though, it doesn’t make sense for us to rent tools. We’re seven years and counting into this renovation—I would lose my mind if we didn’t have our own stuff.
+I was thinking the same thing, but in the Bay Area there are Home Depot “Pro” stores (where normal people can go too) that rent tools by the day. Very great when you need a steamer to remove wallpaper that is a one time deal. Maybe in your area the normal Home Depots might rent tools?
+Yes, most chain hardware/home stores have some kind of tool rental program. I’ve never been in a situation where doing so would be practical or cost-effective, though. My mother & stepfather live a few miles away and also own a lot of specialty tools and equipment, so when we’ve needed things like large compressors for nail guns we’ve borrowed from them.
+I’d rather just pay $15 for the little coping saw and own it than have to go back and rent it every weekend for the next 4 months. ;)
+We have free tool lending libraries in Portland, OR too, but they’re run by neighborhood volunteers. One of them expanded into kitchen tool rentals as well!
+Amy! I’m glad you commented because now I remember I was supposed to report back to you about the grout! I checked the old bag of (true black) grout I used for the bathroom and vestibule floors, and it’s Polyblend sanded grout in Charcoal. The only problem there is that subway tiles have too tight a joint to use sanded grout, and they don’t make the Charcoal color in a non-sanded mix. Bummer!
+I wound up buying a bag of Tec non-sanded grout in Raven. I’m going to give it a little test-drive in an inconspicuous spot next weekend and see how it looks when it’s dry. I’ll let you know.
+Personally, I’m OK even if it’s dark gray. I think it’ll read as black next to the white tiles, anyway.
+I think that Tec had good reviews on the John Bridge forums! I was also reading that using distilled water may help when using black grout so the pH isn’t messed with, which I guess could change the color.
+I suppose there are also grout renewal products that can be applied later if the grout lines aren’t as dark as you want them. It would be kind of annoying to fill in all the lines though!
+Love the tile. Here’s a link to something Moomin you might like:
+Cheers!
+Hey Anna, I was thinking it might be easier to undercut the sill rather than cut the tile. looks like that little piece on the upper left would snap off if you try to cut…..just an idea
+Yeah, that’s the approach I was talking about taking in my last post. The tiles are only 22 cents each, though, so I might as well give it a shot. ;)
+Love your tip about the outfit! It’s so true that it makes a long day of renovating easier when you don’t look like hell – at least when you get started. I have done quite a few tile designs and always mock them up in CAD so my eye can catch weird patterns and anomalies, and I think you handled the tile between the two doorways in the best way possible.
+I read that if you buy your tiles from Lowes, they will actually cut them for you if you bring in your receipt. Something to think about!
+Oh, that’s interesting! I imagine that makes more sense for someone doing a smaller tiling job (or using much larger tiles), though. I can’t really see us driving 40 minutes back and forth every time we need one of our little 3×6″ tiles cut, you know? Also, no matter how many cardboard templates you make, there are always adjustments that need to be made on the fly…especially in an old house where nothing is square.
+Anna — it looks awesome. So exciting! Quick question about the renovation outfit thing. When you wear it, does it magically inspire motivation and get you in the zone? ;)
+Maybe if I only got a new outfit…
+IT DOES. No, really. Once I’m in my “work clothes,” there aren’t really any excuses. Being prepared and ready to go is an excellent motivator!
+Your tile looks great! Some questions: is the top row of tile a different shape? Like an edge cap tile? Do you listen to music or the radio while you’re doing a job like this? I’m with you on keeping things tidy. I have a metro shelf unit on casters that I keep everything on in (citrus) boxes with painter tape labels. I can roll it from room to room as I’m working (right now, mainly painting, 1911 dutch colonial.) Regarding my outfit, not that presentable, but comfortable, and always a heavy cotton t-shirt that I can get paint on. Do you ever have to wear knee-pads? I do and they drive me crazy, twisting around, bunching my pant legs, but they do the job. Enjoying your progress!
+Yes, the top row of tile has a bullnose (curved) edge, and it’s 2×6″ (rather than 3×6″). That’s so you don’t have a hard, unfinished edge at the top where the tile ends. I always listen to something while I’m working—either music or public radio. And no, I’ve never worn knee pads.
+Looks great so far! I wonder if you could find the tools for around the windowsill on here: Might be nice to try to borrow instead of buy for a limited number of projects.
+Thanks, Melanie. That website doesn’t service Newburgh, but I have neighbors and family with tools.
+It’s really just one little hand saw that I need, and I’d like to have one anyway. In this case, it makes more sense for me to spend $10-15 on the tool than to keep having to borrow one over and over and over again.
+Instead of cutting the tile intricately around the window sill, why not notch the back of the sill against the wall to allow a tile to slide behind it?
+Hi Ron, yes, that’s what I meant by under-cutting. Like I said to Lindsay, though, at 22¢ per tile, I’d rather give cutting tile a try or two before I start Dremeling into the sill/wall.
+Wow, I envy you for your skill in tiling. The other day I saw these tiles in someone’s kitchen on TV (in Germany) and thought immediately “How come that they got Anna’s tiles?! ;-)))
+I only wondered, why did you tile the narrow area between the two doors all together? Any need? *please don’t beat me now*
+Am I seeing a Rocal Copenhagen plate hanging in the corner there? Which year? As I see only one, probably the year you met? ;-)))) I am thinking of getting one of “our” year …. as they are available for almost nothing …. but the design that year wasn’t my favourite ;-)))
+Looking forward to seeing what the kitchen will look like in regard to tools etc.
+Haha! No beatings, I promise. ;) I’m actually tiling the entire perimeter of the room (all four walls) and painting the area above the tile black, so if I don’t do that little strip it’ll look very strange. I want to have a continuous (or at least visually continuous!) line of tile around the entire room.
+And yes, good eye, that is indeed a Royal Copenhagen plate! It was my Danish grandmother’s. It’s from 1911! :)
+WOW! I love this. So glad I just came across your blog :)
+Tiling looks great. Love your reno rules.
+I have a wet saw and didn’t have any problem ! Make sure to fill the bin that’s underneath with enough water, otherwise you get a firework ! Also, if you have a Dremel, there’s a little tool made specifically for tile cutting. I used it to tile in my powder room and it worked great (it’s a bit expensive though, 15€ here in France, just for the accessory). Good luck !
+Oh yeah, we definitely have water in it. We’re obviously either doing something wrong or our expectations are too high. Or our tile is too small…
+We do have a Dremel, but it’s battery-operated and sadly not powerful enough to do much of anything. I think we bought one of those attachments when we were working on our bathroom a few years ago and had no luck.
+I’m sure the little hand saw will be just fine. :)
+Love the idea of a renovating outfit. Why hadn’t I thought of that before?
+Also, another lover of the Royal Copenhagen dish displayed.
+You’re giving women everywhere. We’re all gorgeous handywomen in heels. Okay, maybe not the heels part LOL :) And did I read correctly in a previous comment about a tool lending library?? Umm.. AWESOME!
+HOPE. Giving women hope. OOPS :)
+NOTHING I’ve written here should be interpreted as being directed at women! This is all non-gender specific.
+1999 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4
+Porsche Hunter
+Story by David Pratte; Photos by Amee Reehal
+You’ve no doubt heard of the Crocodile Hunter and Dog the Bounty Hunter. Well, there’s a new sheriff in town and his name is Warren the Porsche Hunter. I know, it doesn’t conjure up the same type of raw animal power as a croc or a K9, but it takes a bold man with a seriously fast machine to state he likes to go 911 Turbo hunting. These rear-engine autobahn burners are brutally fast off the line and not too shabby at high speeds, after all. Heck, if it wasn’t for the link between the 911 and the Hitler-designed VW Beetle, we might even consider owning one someday (OK, we’ve already considered it, but can’t afford one).
+For Warren Hoey, Mitsubishi’s high-tech ’90s sports coupe known as the 3000GT VR4 is the perfect weapon for hunting Porsches and anything else that might try to outrun him. “I’ve been drag racing, drifting,winter autocrossing and even drove a chase car during a rally in Ireland,” Warren says. “I’ve owned 29 vehicles of all different shapes and sizes. I’ve had Talons, supercharged Mustangs, RX-7s, an Audi S4 — the list goes on. My family is huge into cars, too. Both of my brothers-in-law have some fast machines, one with an 850-whp MKIV Supra and the other with a 650-whp FD RX-7. But for me, the VR4 is special. It’s extremely rare and I love driving a car knowing there is basically no chance another ’99 will pull up beside me. Mine is car 271 out of 287 produced.”
+For those of you who aren’t terribly familiar with the 3000GT VR4, these really are some pretty special ’90s-era hot rods. The second-generation model (starting in 1994) was equipped with a 3-liter DOHC twin-turbo V-6 that pumped out 320 hp and 315 ft-lbs of torque along with all the high-tech running gear the first generation featured (including full-time AWD, four-wheel steering, active aero and electronically controlled dampers). It really was a technological tour de force in its day, and for Warren the ’99 model year is the one to own. “Three years ago I had a ’97 3000GT VR4 in olive pearl color (1 of 7 in that color),” Warren says. “I decided I couldn’t own that car knowing that there’s a better 3000GT out there: the ’99. This is the flagship year for 3000GT. The revised wing, front end and side sail panels made it a beauty, and the ’99 also has the infamous lifter tick problem rectified.”
+As you can see from the spec sheet, Warren’s blacked-out Mitsu has had a few wrenches on it, thanks in large part to his brother-in-law, Rob Sedlak, who’s invested hundreds of man hours over four years into it. According to Warren, “We built it for driveability without compromising too much of the car’s road-going capabilities. The twin turbos mean there’s almost zero lag, and with 510 awhp [at 21 psi] it can hang with just about anything. The Getrag 6-speed transmission is a great gearbox to row, and the car is capable of 200 mph. Meanwhile, it can also get 700 km [about 434 miles] to a tank on the highway with the air con blowing (or it can really suck back the gas when I’ve got a heavy foot). Methanol injection was a great addition, especially for temperatures. 6G72 motors run quite hot, let alone ones making double the factory horsepower.”
+Once Warren and his bro-in-law finished installing all the powertrain upgrades, from the 15g twins to the ARC intercooler and Snow Performance meth injection kit to the SPEC Stage 3 carbon clutch and Fidanza aluminum flywheel, they took it to Marko at ForceFed Performance for some fine-tuning of the Microtech LT16 stand-alone ECU. According to Warren, “Marko at ForceFed Performance deserves a huge thumbs up because he really knows these cars. He also holds Supra and RX-7 horsepower records for Canada [Warren lives in Alberta and Forcefed is located one province to the left in Abbotsford, British Columbia]. My VR4 has been flawless since his tune over a year ago. Literally zero issues.”
+To seek and destroy Porsches you obviously need some serious jam under the hood, but you also need a machine that can hang in the corners. To ensure high-speed stability and grip galore, Warren’s Mitsu has been treated to Tein coilovers, 3SX adjustable rear camber arms and a sticky set of BFG g-Force KDWs wrapped around lightweight 5Zigen FNO1R-C gunmetal rims. And unlike some of today’s top dogs, Warren’s VR4 depends on driver skill rather than launch control, traction/stability control and a flappy paddle gearbox to chase down those pesky P-cars (yeah, R35 owners, we went there). In fact, Warren has clocked a 0–60 mph time of 3.4 seconds without any of these aids, a time that shames even the awesome 997 GT2 and its 3.6-second 0–60 time.
+With future plans that include upgrading to Evo 16g turbos, cams, additional fuel system upgrades and a target of 750 awhp, it seems safe to say that Warren the Porsche Hunter isn’t resting on his laurels. And it’s a good thing, too, since that pesky sports car maker from Stuttgart has just released a new version of the 911, but somehow we think Warren Hoey’s stealthy ’99 3000GT VR4 has it covered. Once he upgrades the turbos, maybe we’ll have to upgrade him to Warren the Prancing Horse and Raging Bull Hunter.
+Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 Specs:
+-15G TD04 turbos
+-550cc injectors
+-Walbro fuel pump 255l/min ( 14V hotwire)
+-stainless steel braided fuel lines
+-FuelLab high flow fuel filter
+-FuelLab FPR
+-FP gauge
+-hard pipe FMIC kit
+-Greddy RS BOV
+-K&N air filter 4” intake
+-ported and polished intake plenums
+-Snow Performance high pressure methanol injection kit
+-Greddy Profec type B boost controller
+-Microtech LT16 ECU standalone
+-NGK performance plugs and wires
+-polyurethane engine transmission mounts
+-MP transfer case brace
+-Spec stage 3 carbon clutch
+-Fidanza aluminum flywheel
+-stainless steel clutch line
+-stainless steel brake lines
+-powder coated calipers
+-full Tein coilovers (lowered)
+-3SX adjustable rear camber arms
+-full Borlatwin tipexhaust 3” Stillen downpipe
+-eliminated pre-cats and cat
+-EGR block off plates
+-vacuum reduction
+-PLX wideband digital AFR gauge
+-Autometer AF & boost gauges
+-Greddy EGT gauge
+-5zigen FNO1R-C 18” gunmetal rims
+-BF Goodrich G – Force 245/45/18
+-6000k xenon slim digital ballast kit
+-&4300k high beam
+-stainless engine bay dress up covers
+-aluminum 3SX machined spark plug cover plate
+-battery in the rear (box brackets)
+-RallyArt short-throw shifter
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+War is hell. War is often unnecessary, but through the evil in our hearts we let it be and we encourage it, we engage it in fantasy primarily through Hollywood and gamer culture while imposing its deathly reality on people far weaker than us. We in these United States rarely see the suffering, the death, the disease, the famine that we impose on other nations. That we imposed on those peoples who are original to this continent. In the eyes of popular culture the soldier is not a harbinger of death, but a youthful soul seeking adventure who toughens up through the grim reality of combat.
+Nothing could be further from the truth. War is death. War is hell on earth. In war we all die. Some of us physically, some of us mentally, some of us spiritually. In war, death is the only guarantee.
+Memories
+Memory #1
+Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego June 2001
+We are running in formation. A drill instructor (DI) leads the cadence (chant). The platoon responds in unison with KILL. We chant KILL every time our left foot strikes the pavement.
+DI: I went to the church house where all the people pray
+KILL
+DI: I pulled out my rifle and blew them all away
+KILL
+DI: I went to the schoolhouse where all the kiddies learn
+KILL
+DI: I tossed in a grenade and watched those f*ckers burn
+KILL
+DI: I went to the market where all the people shop
+KILL
+DI: I pulled out my Ka-Bar and then began to chop
+KILL
+Dehumanization is a crucial element to building a fighting force that is primarily offensive and not defensive. A defensive fighting force does not sing about murdering civilians in houses of worship, schools, or markets where daily life is conducted.
+Before we could become effective killers we had to die to ourselves. We had to to be formed into murderers who could be controlled through discipline and instant obedience to orders. Oftentimes I will hear people say that boot camp tears you down and builds you back up. To which I respond, “Builds you into what, exactly?” The answer I learned through experience is that one is built back up into someone who can take a life on command without question. In order to take a life on command you must be dead to yourself, your emotions, your spirit. The role of boot camp is to tear you down into nothing and to rebuild you into someone capable of blind obedience for the purpose of taking others’ lives.
+Memory #2
+Training for desert warfare 2002 somewhere out on a remote training range in 29 Palms CA
+“I’m gonna get me a f*cking dune coon!” our sergeant bellows. “I can’t wait to put those ragheads in the dirt!” “Those filthy f*ckers want a war? We’re going to bring it to them!”
+Racial epithets are common now. Everywhere I go marines are talking about killing hajis, dune coons, sand n*ggers, ragheads. The war is imminent, and I can tell by the way everyone is talking that we are about to get deployed to somewhere other than Afghanistan. Afghanistan, that so-called righteous war. The good war. As if there was ever such a thing.
+Memory #3
+Aboard the USS Peleliu 2003 headed straight for Iraq
+The invasion has already kicked off and the 1,200 marines in our unit are excited to get involved. Machine gun ranges are held on the flight deck of the ships. Our unit Expeditionary Strike Group One is led by an admiral who addresses us with the words, “The winds of war have swept across our nation.”
+Those words echo in my head for years. Post 9/11 our nation seethes with bloodlust disguised as patriotism. The soldier, sailor, airman, and marine are placed on a national altar of war. Mars smiles grimly as our nation is swept away in the spirit of revenge and mass murder. We all support the troops. Yellow ribbons and Twin Towers stickers are placed on car windows, cafes, diners, truck stops. Everywhere I go before I deploy people thank me for my service. I don’t like the attention. I just hope I don’t die, or worse, suffer a lifelong injury. I hope to kill before I am killed.
+Memory #4
+Al Anbar Province of Iraq 2006
+We are on a routine patrol out in the desert on a government road. A white vehicle is speeding towards us. Our first vehicle calls it in as a possible Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device. The machine gunner shoots up the hood of the vehicle. We approach with our weapons drawn.
+An old man in his 80s steps out, visibly shaken. He’s got cataracts the size of quarters in his eyes. The interpreter tells us that he’s almost blind but knows his way through the desert and so avoids the roads. We give him a piece of paper that says in Arabic that the US government owes him money for a car. All he has to do is approach a coalition base and turn in it and he’ll get money. Even though he’s blind he rolls his eyes. He knows he’s just as likely to get shot as a suspected suicide bomber if he even comes within a kilometer of a coalition base. We leave him in the desert with a shot up car.
+How many civilians suffered basic indignities because of the occupation is known only to God. But millions suffered daily indignities that you cannot fathom unless you’ve seen it for yourself.
+Memory #5
+Al Anbar Province of Iraq 2006 transporting detainees from Rawa to Camp Fallujah
+Twenty some men and boys are on their knees with sand bags over their heads. Their hands and feet are zip-tied. All have been detained as insurgents. Each person has a number on a property receipt. I check the numbers against our manifest. A sergeant comes out of the building and says that one’s a sniper.
+No one is hated more than a sniper. I watch another sergeant take the bag off of his head. “This one?” he asks. “Yeah, him.”
+The sergeant swiftly kicks the man in the stomach and he falls face first into the sand. “Whoa, don’t leave marks, buddy,” the other sergeant says. We all share a laugh. “Don’t worry, we won’t. But trust us, he’s getting his.”
+The detainees are transported in the back of a 7-ton troop carrier. We pack them in tighter then canned fish but we place this guy by himself. One of the marines throws a few chemlights around him and a couple others start slapping him in the head and stomach. It’s going to be a long ride.
+As a sergeant I should stop this abuse. Instead, I laugh and participate. Only later in reflection do I consider that he could just be some old guy who was rounded up and blamed for something he didn’t do. That thought haunts me to this day. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. How I wish I could throw myself at the feet of this man and beg his forgiveness.
+I know what it’s like to surrender my soul to darkness and to enjoy the abuse of human beings. Even now while writing I am reduced to tears. God forgive me.
+Memory #6
+Al Anbar Province of Iraq 2006 just west the tiny town of Dulab
+Our patrol is approached by an elderly couple just beyond the edge of town. They are terrified we will shoot them. We use an interpreter to tell them to stop and place their hands in the air. The old man is so scared of us but he keeps pointing to his wife. The interpreter lets us know she has some sort of medical condition.
+The old man lifts the veil of his wife and we are shocked by the sight of leprosy. Her nose is rotting off, white patches of rot cover her face and she is clearly blind in at least one eye. Clearly the result of four years of warfare, unclean water, and filthy living conditions in a war zone without medicine.
+Our corpsman (medic) screams at us to get away. We tell them that we cannot help them. Her husband cries, pleading with us to do something. The medic jokes that all we can do for her is shoot her and that she ain’t coming back from leprosy. We don’t shoot her. I turn them away and return to my vehicle stunned by what I have just witnessed.
+Memory #7
+Portland Oregon 2011 St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
+I am at an anarchist cafe across the street from St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Portland’s inner east side. I have a cigarette but no lighter. In the park behind the church I see an older man smoking. I walk across the street and ask to borrow his lighter. His English is broken and he speaks with an accent I remember from Iraq. I ask him where he is from and he tells me Iraq. I light my cigarette and return his lighter. I tell him that I was a marine who served in Iraq and he asks me where I served. I tell him that most of my deployments were in the Al Anbar Province. He tells me he’s from Ramadi, a large city in the Al Anbar province. His eyes well up with tears as he tells me he lost his wife and two sons to the war. They were killed by American bombs. He’s a carpenter who fled when his family was murdered.
+My heart sinks and my eyes begin to water. I ask for his forgiveness and begin to weep. He opens his arms and we embrace in a strong hug. Two homeless men broken by war weeping in a park. I a homeless veteran. He a homeless refugee in the land that murdered his family. We cry for minutes that seem like hours. Rain pouring over our broken bodies in the garden of Francis of Assisi. We smoke another cigarette together and then part ways. I am devastated. I can’t begin to understand how someone would have to be a refugee in the land that took his family.
+~
+I have shared with you just seven memories. Just seven among the hundreds if not thousands I have of the war.
+I want to talk about my friends who took their own lives after our deployments. Or those I knew who ended up junkies, addicted to sex and whatever drugs they could get their hands on. Shells of their former selves. I could go on and on about the men I knew who became filled with anger. Who drank themselves to an early grave. Who let that anger out on their families and became workaholics, alcoholics, or escapists, addicted to pain, violence, and vice. But I will share with you only my experience of war and how it changed me.
+I deployed four times to Iraq as part of the coalition occupation forces. 2003, 2006, 2007, and 2008. My last three deployments were in the Al Anbar province. I was a sergeant for those three deployments. While my initial occupation was logistics I was a part of a security element that secured logistics convoys, escorted Explosive Ordnance Disposal personnel, transported detainees, and conducted route security through routine patrols on the highways and roads of the Al Anbar province. I have walked through cities reduced to rubble. Heard the cries of families over their dead loved ones. Been hounded by dozens of starving children who begged me for water or food. I have abused people and watched people beaten without mercy.
+But most of all I have experienced the lack of consideration our nation has for civilians stuck in the wars that we brought to their homes.
+The first Orthodox Christians I met were in Iraq. Raised a Protestant evangelical I didn’t even know about the Orthodox Church until I came across a group of Iraqis making the sign of the cross and asking if we were Christians. I remember asking one of my fellow sergeants if there were Christians in Iraq. That should tell you something about how ignorant we were of the people we were there to “liberate.” “Nah, I think they’re all ragheads” (our favorite epithet for Muslims) was his reply.
+When I came back in 2008 and was honorably discharged from the Marines I was shocked to realize that most people here in the States didn’t even act like there were wars happening. I was angry. People would thank me for my service without even knowing what my service was. I felt like a Nazi stormtrooper.
+I couldn’t comprehend the disparity I saw between the existence of Iraqi civilians and our existence here in the USA. Entire cities there went without electricity or running water. People starved to death. Simple medical issues that are easily treatable here, like tuberculosis, became epidemics over there. Children lost their parents to bombs, gunfire, and disease. Parents lost their children to the same. The coalition checkpoints that divided cities and added hours to commute times for everyday life.
+A child who was born during the invasion of 2003 is now 15 years old. Lord, have mercy. My friends who are still in the military are leading troops that have no memory of 9/11 because they were only a year or two old. That’s how long this has been going on. Our nation is in a cycle of war from which there is no escape.
+Oh, I wish I could convey the suffering I’ve seen in Iraq. Words fail me. War is death. That’s all there is to it. And for those who claim that we in the United States live in a Christian nation, I say No! No, we do not! We should not pretend that we do, and we should most certainly not ally ourselves with those who call themselves Christians but wield the sword and murder their neighbor, or those so-called Christians who would turn away the refugees.
+This is not a nation founded on the love of Jesus Christ. This is not a nation baptized into His Holy Church. This is a nation founded on genocide and theft. Our wars rage across the earth, but before they raged across the earth they tore across this continent. Ours is indeed a history of murder and theft. The wealthy Deists who founded this country were not Christian men. They were murderers and thieves, and their sins have indeed been passed onto future generations. Even to our own.
+The war I experienced was just one in a long line of wars this nation has perpetrated in the name of God and Manifest Destiny. I struggle with bitterness and anger because I have seen first hand the abuses that our government commits. I have watched the widows grieve and heard the starving children mourn. I have witnessed men abused and tortured, and worst of all, I have seen the callousness of heart that grips our nation towards these people who did no wrong to us.
+I returned from war a broken man. Broken because I knew I had participated gleefully for a time in Evil, and I knew it in my heart.
+There are those calloused veterans and active duty soldiers who are unrepentant and look forward to killing people. I served alongside many of them. To them I have nothing to say. Their hearts are hard. They do not seek peace. They do not seek the love of Jesus Christ.
+Of the people whose countries we’ve destroyed I beg forgiveness. I weep for their suffering and I long for justice, even if it only comes on that final Day of Judgement.
+Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
+Micaiah David Dutt is a former Marine sergeant, a BA student in Religious Studies at Arizona State University, and a catechumen at St. Paisios Orthodox Church (AOCA) in Yuma. After four tours of duty in Iraq between 2003 and 2008 he was honorably discharged in 2009.
+Dr. Abdul Kalam speaks, writes and works having a live vision at the back of his mind “Be India a Developed Nation“. The action plan to realise this blue print of mind into reality must have on the top of its itinerary ‘the technology’. Grooming ‘technology’ from seed upto a fruit bearing tree is an art, science and a specialised enterprise in itself.
+Like in other businesses, finance is an important element here too. However, the key to success lies in assessing where, when and how to facilitate entry for money in the process of technological project realization. The author has a wide exposure to the whole tree of ‘technological growth process’ in various capacities – a grass root scientist, technocrat, industrial consultant and writer. It is with this backdrop that he enumerates the basic ingredients involved in making a technology idea grow into a full business, by ensuring the entry of financial sources at pre-assessed stages. years 1994 and 1995 and was released to the nation through a form of 25 documents on 2nd August, 1996 by the then Prime Minister. It resulted due to the tireless efforts of 500 persons with inputs from about 5000 persons from different fields of India.
+A brief presentation of the findings of vision exercise along with several other linked factors such as the concept of developed India, economic issues, social issues and also certain implementational issues, have been brought out in a book “India 2020″ by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam along with the author.
+Further elaboration starting with the vision and also dealing with several aspects of important interconnected policies and procedures as well as the processes of science and technology and human dimensions, have been brought out by the author in a book ‘Empowering Indians’ (revised reprint 2002 with a foreward by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam).
+These two books contain substantive information about the details of the vision and also the various possibilities of implementation. The book referred to in Ref.2 has also described some of the projects in which TIFAC is involved in attempting to realise the vision into action as a major demonstrative exercise.
+Much more can be seen in the TIFAC website: , which is continually updated. Several other parameters such as technology capabilities, organisational capabilities, project management market research, etc. are also important in realising the vision. Therefore this paper briefly addresses the role of technology financing.
+Technology idea to business: The essential steps
+Often many persons including scientists and technologists tend to believe that a scientific or technological idea if pursued with sufficient funding and support, would automatically result in a commercial operation. Many also tend to think that basic research to technology to commerce is a straight forward linear process given enough time and money.
+In actual life, science and technology are distinct elements though interwined. Technology and technological skills and knowledge are not automatic input-output derivatives of basic scientific research. These are discussed in some detail in Ref.2 citing a number of quotes and references from scholars. In actual practice, technology is complex and tacit (i.e. embodied in persons and organisations).
+There are many different strands of technology in a single product or service. Therefore, having an excellence in one technological element alone does not assure a commercial product, let alone a commercial success. Based on the experiences of TIFAC and also of Technology Development Board (TDB), Prof. VS Ramamurthy, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India often emphasises in a number of meetings and speeches that while financing is an important component, technology development does not take place merely by stepping up finance.
+There are many other prior activities which need to be done if technology development can mature into a good business activity. It is precisely in this area where TIFAC has done considerable amount of work during the past 14 years. In the subsequent paragraphs the author will try to compress a few important issues relating to converting of technological ideas into business operations.
+Let us refer to Fig.1. The x-axis of the Figure is time. The quantity of time will depend upon the product or service under consideration. For a completely new area time at the right hand end i.e., the time for “produce and supply to market”, could even be 7 years. In a number of cases in industry it would be of the order of ½ – 3 years for incremental innovations.
+In fact, a good business strategy should be to have a number of technologically induced innovative products with different cycle times for realisation, so that in the overall, the technology development (which requires financing) will be continuously giving financial outputs through delivery to market, thus not becoming a drain on the overall to the company. This may be called “technology development diversification strategy”.
+If a company does not have even a plan of having a few innovations in the existing product line or otherwise every 2 to 3 years, it is very unlikely the company can be successful in a present day competitive business world. It is necessary for a company or an entrepreneuer to look ahead in time as to what would be the status a few years from now. This looking ahead will help in initiating actions right now. This is where the role of technology financing starts.
+Having identified a few product or service segments for the coming few years, the question (before the company or entrepreneur) comes as to what we will do now. How do we reaslise the desired change in the existing product line or process or even in terms of introducing new products/services. Often this process of looking ahead and deciding action for today, is an iterative process.
+A technological idea or a business idea could give some idea as to what a future product can be. Then cycling back whether one should have different options, one would modify the product idea or service idea and finally arrive at a few target end results from a time equal to plus x years (i.e. in the near term future).
+Having done this the technology development or business development starts. That is where the problem also starts. Invariably for such items which are innovative at the given point of time (in the present) there will be a relatively high degree of business and market uncertainty as well as product and technical uncertainties and perceived technology risks.
+If these are very low at given point of time (in the present) there will be a relatively high degree of business and market uncertainty as well as product and technical uncertainties and perceived technology risks. If these are very low at given point of time (now) that means the product and services are already well established in market and therefore there is no great innovation involved. Actions relating to such products will be mainly issues like cutting costs or by trying some other business strategies. In such cases normally the competitor will also be doing the same and one cannot sustain long with such non-innovative actions.
+Therefore, those who want to have a good business for the future where his or her company will have a specific commanding role or a powerful role or atleast a role in which the company fortunes are not fluctuating too fast then the company has to learn to take up just now in the present new activities where there are some higher business and market uncertainties and which are likely to become desired products or services a few years from now.
+Often in India since business groups and technology development groups even within the same company tend to work differently in separate compartments each one worries only of his own part. If the technology is from an external institution to the company or the entrepreneur, then such “separatist” perceptions are often worse.
+Normally technology generators do not think of all the options available for a business company or an entrepreneur and try to push their own specialisations; this is but natural. Similarly the business person or entrepreneur looks at only the investment aspects, markets and returns. But as explained above, for a futuristic product even with small changes at a future time of two to three years from now, it is necessary to study the technological aspects and the business aspects connected with these changes right now and take action. This zone is close to the origin of the Fig.1.
+In the figure, technology, product and service uncertaintly is in the upper part of the y axis and business and market part of the uncertainty is to be in the lower part of the y axis. The correct management strategy should be to look at both parts of the curves (i.e. upper and lower) together.
+If technology funding is done for a future product, without considering the lower half of the figure, even though in the time axis over a few years the technical uncertainties will come down, business uncertainty may not have come down because market and other issues have not been factored in the technology development. And, vice versa, if only a business strategy is done with marketing and other aspects without considering technological aspects on the assumption that the technology generator can be approached a few years from now after the market development and business development steps are ready, then we may be surprised to know that technological availability is poor or uncertainties are high. Then again, the lost time cannot be easily regained. Therefore, the correct management strategy is to grapple with technological uncertainties and technological risks as well as business and market uncertainties at the same time well in advance of the time in which we anticipate results to flow.
+In other words, in the figure the left side of the funnel has to be dealt with pushing all the stake holders together inside the broad end of the funnel, so to say, figuratively thus making them a collective group to weigh technology options, to look at business aspects, etc. These functions are done by TIFAC in generating a number of well-researched reports in technology areas, as technology linked business opportunities.
+Some of the reports are at a relatively macro/meso level as in the case of the Technology Vision 2020 reports and most of TIFAC reports are at meso / micro level (i.e. close to action levels) as in the Techno-Market Survey reports of the TIFAC. When issues are discussed to generate such reports, even the very process of the generation of the report creates a cohesion for further forward movement into the funnel without imbalance between the technology and business aspects. These reports are available in the public domain from TIFAC and industries can use them effectively for themselves to enter into funnel and later pursue specific projects. Many of them are already doing it. It is important for entrepreneurs and business managers to do such knowledge based preparations before they go for financing of technologies.
+Again while embarking on specific projects, one has to start looking at various technical elements including intellectual property rights (IPR) and other aspects even while formulating the projects. This process will help to a great deal in reducing uncertainties and help making a forward effective movement into the funnel of uncertainty. Then, when the decision is taken to launch a project (by the entrepreneur or a company), further details can be worked out.
+Often TIFAC not only helps in entering the early part of the funnel before the launch of the project through its reports but also helps the potential entrepreneur who applies for the Home Grown Technologies (HGT) Program of TIFAC or Missions such as Sugar Technology Mission, Advanced Composites Mission, etc. or a number of vision 2020 projects which range from agriculture, agro processing, health sector, textile machinery, road transport sector and several other thrust areas like energy, etc. (see for details in Ref.3). Even while these projects are formulated by the entrepreneur or company and sent to TIFAC, through further assessment, evaluation and the interactive process. TIFAC helps in narrowing many uncertainties by scoping the project.
+In fact, agencies which have funds will be able to do this well because often the potential customer would not like to spend a lot of intellectual and other managerial efforts in scoping when there is severe uncertainty about funding. That is why, the author believes the real role of a technology funder starts at a time before the line shown in the fig.1 as “launch of the project”.
+But actual funding takes place after several of these evaluations and interactions. During this process the company or entrepreneur writes down the business plan and also goes through draft agreement for part funding which spells out roles of various stakeholders.
+After the agreement is signed and the part fund flow begins, the role of the funder specially in the case of TIFAC changes into a different mode. Even though all the while TIFAC is a partner with the entrepreneurs and the technology generators coming up for a specific project, however, when TIFAC has funded, it assumes a special role of working closely and brings in the best experts as Project Monitoring Teams without conflict of interest with the entrepreneur and/or the company. Based on the TIFAC experience, many of the persons who have received technology finance from TIFAC have said that the role of the project monitoring group is that of counselling rather than monitoring.
+It should be pointed here that there is no omnibus monitoring committee for TIFAC funded projects. Each project has a special monitoring group depending upon the expertise required and often bringing people with industrial experience and also those who can deal with end users and market segments. When these partners go further and further down the funnel from the left hand broad side of the funnel towards the narrower part in the right side, the uncertainties come down. In this process or pilot plant operations based on technological/business idea takes place, so that a stage is set for a much larger commercial operation. At this stage the companies can access Technology Development Board (TDB) or in some cases even the banks when risks have come down considerably.
+Thus a crucial role of agencies like TIFAC in technology financing is to give options of ideas at an early stage through its reports and other interactions) and allow the potential companies and technology tenerators to enter the left side (broad side) of funnel in a synchronised manner and then be able to launch specific projects and work along till the uncertainties are brought down to minimum. So the technology financing is not a mere exercise in calculating the returns of investment or giving money as per procedures and formats but is more complex.
+Technology financing sources: where and when they enter
+This section describes information about various sources of financing available to an Indian company or entrepreneur and also the elements of criteria used by them.
+We have described about TIFAC. It normally funds part on a soft loan basis. The projects can be a few tens of lakhs to several crores of rupees.
+NRDC is one major facilitator in technology financing. While it can enter in any part of the funnel of Fig.1, often it is better done in the middle of funnel when uncertainties are not too high. NRDC can help the entrepreneur to gain some competitive time to launch commercial projects in addition to finding financing sources. NRDC would, of course, be looking at its own income as well. Projects can be a few tens of lakhs to several crores of rupees. NRDC helps in exports as well. It also helps in IPR aspects.
+When uncertainties come down, and there is a greater promise of large commercial operations, go to TDB. It is better to have projects in the range of a few tens of crores of rupees. Again it is soft loan, part funding.
+PATSER of DSIR is another source. Again it is better to target PATSER when you are in the middle level of the funnel. It is a part grant with royalty clauses.
+There is another interesting scheme called TePP (Technopreneur Promotion Programme) jointly operated by PATSER and HGT of TIFAC. It is a small funding from several thousands to a few lakhs of rupees. Helps small individual innovators, mostly in the broad side of the funnel. Once their ideas show promise, they can try to go for PATSER or HGT.
+SIDBI is another source but often in the right side (narrow side) of the funnel. It is a loan.
+The author would advise entrepreneurs and companies to go for loan (soft or otherwise) rather than simple grants as it will train them to be sustainable, a feature very much needed in the competitive world.
+There are also a few private sector venture capitalists and banks which are ready to fund projects. Often they are at the stage of right side of the funnel. They may be in IT and BT (Biotech) areas only. In future they may enter other areas. Other Government departments are trying to emulate TIFAC, PATSER, etc. One should look out for these.
+Since this is a changing scene, be in touch with websites like that of TIFAC which give information about financing sources and technology sources.
+Author : Dr. Y. S. Rajan
+Readers are also welcome to contact the author in e-mail: edtifac@mantramail.com & edtifac@indiatimes.com who would use the TIFAC network to assist you.
+On the whole technology financing in India is fast entering a phase where industry and entrepreneurs are respected. About 85% projects funded by TIFAC, TDB and PATSER are for industry – big, small and medium. Take advantage of them, enter into development well ahead of time. Be not afraid of the broad end of uncertainties as “the early bird catches the worms”.
+Acknowledgement
+The author thanks Dr. V Siddhartha, Chairman, TIFAC-HGT Apex Board for giving material from International Society of Air Breathing Engines from which the author has adapted and further developed Fig.1
+REFERENCES
+1. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam with Y.S. Rajan: “India 2020 : A Vision for the new Millennium”, Viking-Penguin, New Delhi (1998), (reviewed in Invention Intelligence, May-June 1999).
+2. Y.S. Rajan, “Empowering Indians : with economic, business and technology strengths for the twenty-first century”, Har Anand Publications, New Delhi – Revised reprint with foreword by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, April/2002 (A review of the book appeared in Invention Intelligence, March-April, 2002).
+3. Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) websites : , ,
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+Aishu smiles seeing babies sleeping peacefully.. Arvi comes to room.. He says babies are sleeping silently na.. She glares at him and say you should have come before 15 min.. He asks why? She says Pari stopped crying Arya started then after feeding him..she started crying.. He laughs and say did I ask about kids..you were the one who wanted kids..else you were to that extent of leaving me.. She takes pillow to hit him..throws towards him..say you’re the reason for their birth take care of them night ok.. He says if you want ill take care of their mom first ? She says amma will sleep with me..you go and sleep in top room ? He takes night dress and goes to change.. She smiles.. He comes out.. She kiss him and hugs him say sorry.. He kiss her forehead and say be smiling that’s enough for me.. She asks oh really? Then ill ask carpenter bhaiyya to make this bed large one..for us and babies..?? He says ok.. This room you make..we will shift to 1st floor na..there ill see?? She hugs him..says you can’t become dad again so don’t waste energy in this work?? He says Ill become after 2yrs..?.. She smiles.. Amma knocks door.. Arvi goes to open door.. Aishu is lying on bed.. Amma asks arvi will be here? Should I be here? Mom replies her we will be here..he will go and sleep in his bed room.. He leaves.. Aishu smiles..
+3months passes..
+Arshu planned to celebrate their 4th anniversary with kids.. Aishu will be busy with kids..she have reduced her pregnancy weight to 40%.. Amma is busy with ranju.. Mom occasionally comes to arshu’s home.. Aishu smiles seeing dresses she wore during her pregnancy.. She says Pari..hearing baby’s cry.. She feeds her and smiles saying you’re dad as become so busy now a days.. See its 7pm he didn’t reach home yet.. She smiles hearing car sound..see Arya sleeping..takes Pari and goes to open door.. Arvi smiles..as she opens door..he tries to take baby.. She glares at him and say sensitizer.. He nods ok and goes to fresh up.. After that she gives Pari to him.. He asks about Arya? She shows cattle.. He asks you don’t feel tried huh? She smiles says I won’t be. He places pari next to Arya and say aishu I know you..you will be tried but you won’t say.. She hugs him and say my cute boy go have dinner.. He says we both will have..brings her to dinning table..with kids cattle.. He feeds her..she says Arvi you also have na.. Both finish dinner..
+Aishu is sitting on sofa with Arya in lap.. Arvi comes there asks aishu can I ask you one thing? She says you can always.. He asks her how you met with accident? She says Arvi that.. He says I know about Kumar..please tell me what happened.. She says you will get angry da..you won’t control..it.. He says promise dear I won’t.. She says Arvi that day..
+Morning i woke up from bed..i smiled seeing calendar and said my jadoogar will be with me from today onwards..what shall I wear?..saree? No no if he kiss me then I can’t control myself and if anything happens which should happen after marriage ? ill wear salwar suit only.. (sorry I didn’t read all updates so don’t remember her dress colour) i selected green and cream colour dress..I got bath..remembered your last kiss ya that kiss Mano’s marriage day..i saw myself in mirror said stop blushing aishu .. Then I got ready.. Came down saw amma busy with phone ..i left for airport without informing her..but papa saw me..he smiled and told me come with arvi early as possible.. I said ok..he blessed me..i winked at him.. He told you won’t leave this habit .. I smiled..said bye papa.. He was smiling.. I left ..
+I was riding near that forest area.. Suddenly I saw a car coming with full speed..i was scared not bcz of speed but bcz of Kumar sir..he was riding car..i left something gonna happen with me today.. I increased speed..but he came to that way only..i was stopped by car.. He got down..i was not knowing what I should do bcz I was fully blocked..my mind was blank.. He came near me..i was going back..I slipped and fell..I was like dumb..i didn’t know what to do..I stood still…. He caught my hand..i slapped him..with other hand..he held that hand also.. I remembered what tapu said me if we hit guy with leg near stomach they will fall down.. I did that..he left my hands but..held my dupatta..he pushed me..i also fell down..i wanted to run.. He held my legs..he kept on pulling me near to him..i started crying..i took sand and put it in eyes..he was rubbing..I got up and started going towards my vehicle..
+He came towards me..I started vehicle..he took vehicle keys started saying why simply you’re running away from me? You look so hot while you’re nervous and scared..he was laughing.. He was coming near me..i was getting scared..I was literally shivering..i started stepping back..i wanted to run from there.. He was stepping forward..he was saying you are being far from your guy..come on you will be having some needs which should be fulfilled by him..let me do that for you.. I said him please leave me..im your student..im your daughter’s age na..please think me as you’re daughter..please sir..please.. He was telling you’re my student who made me mad in lust..you’re smile..you’re dressing style everything made me mad..i want your body not any relationship don’t worry..after spending time with me..you can go and get married to your Arvi..he will be enjoying there don’t worry..bcz how he looks and talks we can say many girls fall for him..you also fell for him just bcz he is handsome..thats lust aishu not love..mine is also just lust like yours..but you both want that lust to last long but me only few hours..just you’re virg**ty ..by the are you virgin?..bcz you and he are so close that means… I went near him and slapped him hard saying arvi is not like you..never ever compare yourself to him..we both love each other..if ours was lust then my parents would slapped us..or given us poison..% He started laughing..said..you both are loving..so funny..it’s just lust..dear..no one can love in this age..he must be enjoying there.. chances for him are more..you don’t need to be pure for him..he might be enjoying with girls there.. I started crying..i continuously slapped him..he was laughing..said you’re only touching me dear..each of your slap is like a kiss to me.. I slowly started moving towards a rod fallen on road..i took that and hit him on his legs..i took my keys..gave a hit on his head with rod and left that place.. He had fallen.. I was trying to start vehicle but saw he was struggling to get up..i felt bad for him..but when vehicle started I left place.. Then after travelling for 5min..i saw a lorry coming towards me..i felt as if im losing balance..i couldn’t drive..it suddenly hit me… I was lying in blood pool..but saw a guy coming towards me..he was having rod in his hand..he hit me on head..he said when you can’t be mine you can never be others also ok..I closed my eyes..I was remembering our first meet but suddenly closed my eyes..i felt I’ll die for sure..
+Present…
+Arvi hugs her.. She smiles hearing pari’s bangles sound.. Signs arvi to take Pari..we will go out…and sit in garden.. He takes her..both are sitting in garden.. Arvi asks you are feeling better now? Tomorrow we should go for doctor na.. She smiles and say im okay.. He keeps seeing her eyes..says you know what my jaan started lying to me.. She says I just remembered those days.. He says ok now think about me.. She asks what I think about you? He says don’t you have little sadness that you’re making you hubby fast.. She says I cooked food.you only made me have and you also had it.. He smiles..kiss her forehead.. She says Arvi you’re Pari..is seeing you.. Both see Pari.. She is seeing arvi without blinking eyes.. Aishu asks him to show her Arya.. He does so..pari holds Arya’s shirt.. He wakes up.. Arshu keep seeing then.. Pari smile little ..arya smiles.. Arvi say these two gone on you aishu..see them.. Aishu smiles..asks arvi shall we go to room..please don’t make Pari stand so much..her legs will hurt.. He asks really her legs will hurt? She says amma told me not to make them stand till 7 months.. Arvi says ok..you take Pari..i wanna spend sometime with my Arya.. She takes Pari..arvi lifts Arya form aishu’s lap.. Then leave for room..
+Precap: Arshu’s day out Pari and Arya.. Then chinu coming to meet arshu
+Credit to: shree
+swara
+wow awesome episode
+ria
+Superb…..episode waiting for the next……?
+Anu
+Why next episode is not uploaded???
+>> Wolf And Werewolf Panics From History
+With their large, sharp teeth and frightening howls, it’s easy to imagine wolves as monstrous adversaries. Even though wolf-on-human attacks are incredibly rare, many people remain fearful of wolves, including the fictional variety known as “werewolves” (humans who turn into wolves when the Moon is full).
+During the Middle Ages and the early modern period, suspected werewolves were put on trial like witches and often tortured into confessing that they had received their wolfskins and special ointments from Satan. Many of these older werewolves were actually serial killers who possessed an animalistic ferocity. Others were rural lunatics who lived outside of their villages or towns. Either way, wolves and werewolves have caused major panics throughout history.
+10 Wolves Of Paris
+In 1450, Paris was not the giant metropolis that it is today. But it was still the largest city in the Western world. Surrounded by walls, Paris was nominally protected from its rural neighbors, many of which were ferocious animals.
+That winter, a pack of hungry wolves managed to enter the city and kill 40 Parisians, thus starting a panic that spread throughout the city. The wolves, which were described as reddish in color (which may mean they were Iberian wolves from northern Spain), so terrified the locals that they gave the pack leader a deceptively chilling name—Courtaud (“Bobtail”).
+Soon enough, Parisians decided to rid themselves of the killer wolf pack. First, locals armed with various weapons cornered the wolves in the heart of the city. Then, in the public square in front of the Notre Dame cathedral, the mob threw spears and stones until all the wolves were dead.
+9 Wolf Of Gysinge
+In 1817, a wolf puppy was caught in rural Sweden and lived in an enclosure for years. When the wolf escaped, it became the dreaded “Wolf of Gysinge” that attacked 31 people and killed 12 between December 30, 1820, and March 27, 1821, in the Swedish regions of Dalarna and Gastrickland. A majority of the victims were children between the ages of three and 15. Most had been partially consumed when their bodies were discovered.
+In response to the crisis, the Swedish government put a bounty on wolves and wolf pups that drastically diminished the wolf population in Sweden. As for the Wolf of Gysinge, it and other wolves that were suspected of being dangerous man-eaters were killed by local hunters. The entire episode was dramatized by the BBC in 2005.
+8 Werewolf Trials Of Vaud
+Between the 15th and 17th centuries, the French-speaking Swiss canton of Vaud was supposedly home to numerous witches, werewolves, and sorcerers. Although a child-eating werewolf was reported to the authorities as early as 1448, the panic in Vaud did not intensify until the rest of Europe was already mired in witch hunts and the subsequent trials.
+In 1602, three women were charged with transforming into wolves after rubbing themselves down with an ointment provided by Satan. As werewolves, they were believed to have abducted a child and consumed him during a blasphemous ritual held on the Sabbath. Twenty-two years later, a man also confessed to changing into a werewolf to enter a stable and kill livestock. He was unsuccessful.
+As the panic began to wind down in 1653, Francois Perrault, a Huguenot pastor, composed a pamphlet entitled Demonologie that claimed that lycanthropy was brought about by depression and illusions. Given this, the author argued that werewolves no longer had any connection to witchcraft.
+A change in the official attitude followed suit. In 1670, a 12-year-old boy’s claim that he and his mother regularly transformed into werewolves was not taken seriously.
+7 Werewolf Trials Of Valais
+Werewolf trials in Switzerland were not confined to Vaud. Between 1428 and 1447, a series of witchcraft trials took place in the French province of Savoy and the French-speaking and German-speaking portions of the Swiss canton of Valais. In late summer 1428, the trials began when delegates representing seven districts in Valais petitioned the Duke of Savoy to initiate a witch hunt. The petitioners wanted anyone who had been accused of witchcraft by three people to be tried in court. As it was the Middle Ages, the accused were likely to be tortured, too.
+Unlike many later proceedings, the Valais witch trials also included people who had been accused of lycanthropy. Although many today do not equate witches with werewolves, the French and Swiss courts at the time saw the two as similar, for werewolves were believed to be the result of black magic.
+Within a few years, the trials that had started in Valais spread throughout Switzerland and reached both sides of the Alps. Possibly the first major witch hunt in European history, the Valais witch and werewolf trials are notable for the mass burning of 100 suspected witches and lycanthropes.
+6 Wolves Of Turku
+Like the earlier panic in Sweden, the “Wolves of Turku” were a roaring pack of man-eating wolves who mostly feasted on children. Between 1880 and 1881, two or three wolves killed 22 children in and around the coastal city of Turku, Finland.
+The first victim, who was the eight-year-old son of a local sailor, was so badly mauled that his body was found in pieces. When the next victim was killed in a similar manner, the government dispatched 15 soldiers and nine professional hunters from Pskov, Russia, to kill or capture the wolves.
+While the Turku wolves were still active, they caused such a general panic that 1880 and 1881 are still known as the “Wolf Years” in Finland. Many parents feared that their children would be next as stories about wolves clutching crying toddlers in their bloody jaws made the rounds. Finally, in January 1882, an aged and almost toothless female was shot by hunters. Twelve days later, a male wolf was poisoned. When a third was killed shortly afterward, the panic began to subside.
+5 The Beast Of Bladenboro
+No one can say exactly what the “Beast of Bladenboro” was. At the time, eyewitnesses claimed that it looked like everything from a large cat to a large wolf to a wolf-dog hybrid. As no one actually caught the beast on camera or found a corpse, all we can do now is speculate.
+The Beast of Bladenboro case began on December 29, 1953. That night, a woman in Clarkton, North Carolina, chased away what appeared to be an abnormally large feline from her neighbor’s property. Next, on New Year’s Eve, Roy Fores, the Bladenboro police chief, was called to an area farm where two dogs had recently been killed.
+Within a short time, the Bladenboro police were receiving numerous calls about dogs being attacked by a large beast that was trying to drag them into the woods. When the local newspapers got hold of the story, it was reported that several dogs had been savagely killed and drained of their blood.
+For the next couple weeks, sightings occurred throughout Bladen County, with witnesses claiming that goats, pigs, and dogs were being attacked frequently. As for the beast itself, the large cat reported on December 29 became a spotted beast that looked like it belonged in Africa, a huge bobcat with a paw print suggesting that the beast weighed between 45–70 kilograms (100–150 lb), a lone cougar who had somehow managed to escape extinction, a bear, and a wolf.
+Today, some people believe that the Beast of Bladenboro wasn’t a known predator at all but a “cryptid” (an unrecorded species of animal). Although the Beast of Bladenboro case petered out in the mid-1950s, some eyewitnesses believe that the animal remains active in the North Carolina Piedmont today.
+4 The Siege Of Palmyra, Maine
+Maine is truly the last wilderness of the thoroughly settled American East Coast. Bigger than the other five New England states combined, Maine is lightly populated and overwhelmingly rural. It would be easy to hide among the state’s many pine trees. Like the Pacific Northwest, which has long been home to most of the world’s Sasquatch sightings, Maine could house an entire army of cryptids.
+In 2007, a couple in Palmyra, Maine, experienced a terrifying night that may or may not have involved werewolves. Shelley Rockwell-Martin and Eric Martin had only recently moved into their new home in Palmyra when five wolflike creatures began stalking them while they sat outside on their front porch. According to both, the creatures would occasionally stand on their hind legs with ease, appearing to be about 2 meters (7 ft) tall.
+Throughout the night, the beasts stalked the couple’s home with a frightening intelligence. An avid hunter, Eric usually kept his guns nearby, but at Shelley’s insistence, his entire gun collection was safely locked away in an outside shed. Besides a few bone-chilling encounters (which were prominently featured on an episode of Paranormal Witness), the Martin family mostly spent the night locked inside their home.
+As if a potential werewolf attack in modern-day Maine isn’t weird enough, the siege was preceded by a series of inexplicable lights in the woods surrounding the Martin house. Eric Martin also claimed that prior to seeing the wolf pack, he had seen the ghost of a small child in out-of-date clothes inside the house. Given all the strange activity surrounding this case, those inclined to believe such things have wondered if the Martin house sits near or on a doorway between the spirit world and our own.
+3 The Werewolf Of Defiance, Ohio
+Better known today as a Columbus punk band, Defiance, Ohio, is a small town on the western edge of the state. Taking its name from a bit of bravado spoken by General Anthony “Mad Tony” Wayne, Defiance was home to a rash of werewolf sightings in 1972.
+During July and August of that year, railroad workers and other citizens began reporting that they had seen a “wolfman” on the Norfolk and Western tracks not far from the town’s Fifth Street. Strangely enough, eyewitnesses claimed that the huge monster had crept out of the woods and attacked people with a two-by-four between the hours of 1:30 AM and 4:30 AM.
+Almost immediately, the suspected werewolf became a running joke for the local papers, which delighted in quoting passages from the 1941 film The Wolf Man or intentionally stoking anxiety with sensational headlines. At the same time, reports continued unabated, with one woman telling police that she was seconds away from shooting whatever creature was scratching at her front door. Three others simply requested police protection from the monster. Thankfully, in a short time, the panic subsided, and Defiance went back to normal.
+2 Austrian Werewolf Panic
+Although werewolf trials began in Switzerland and France, they occurred more frequently and persisted longer in southern Germany and Austria. Partially, this was the result of trials that targeted suspected “Wolfssegen” (wolf-charmers). Wolf-charmers were those who used magic to manipulate wolves into becoming hunting animals or weapons. Like witches and werewolves, wolf-charmers were put on trial and frequently executed.
+In Austria, many witch and werewolf trials were conducted at Moosham Castle, a notoriously haunted building that is a fixture of the ghost tour circuit today. Built in the 13th century by the Prince Bishop of Salzburg, Moosham earned the title “Witches Castle” due to the numerous witch trials and executions that occurred there between 1670 and 1690.
+From 1715 to 1717, several cattle and deer were slaughtered at Moosham Castle by an unknown animal. Originally thinking that wolves were responsible, the castle owners sent out armed hunters. When they failed, superstition took over, and the killings were seen as the work of werewolves.
+In 1717, several beggars were arrested and tortured into giving confessions. They claimed that they had received a “black cream” from Satan which allowed them to transform into wolves. Once in this state, they killed and ate livestock for sustenance. As expected, once these confessions were rendered, the guilty parties were either executed or confined to the castle’s dungeons.
+1 The Wolves Of King Louis XV
+King Louis XV’s France was awash with ravenous creatures. The most famous case occurred between 1764 and 1767 in the southern French province of Gevaudan. There, an unidentified creature killed between 80 and 113 people before an area farmer named Jean Chastel killed the beast with a silver bullet. The case still intrigues historians, investigators, and cryptozoologists today, with some claiming that the beast was everything from a sick wolf to a hyena.
+During the 18th-century panic, King Louis XV sent royal troops into the area to the kill the beast. While unsuccessful, some of these men were sent to Soissons, a commune northeast of Paris, in 1765. For two days, a wolf terrorized Soissons, killing four and injuring 14. In a flurry of violence, the fearless beast struck indiscriminately, even attacking a man on horseback. When the wolf was finally killed, it took a militiaman armed with a pitchfork to pin the beast down while another individual dealt the killing blow.
+Incredibly, yet another wolf panic occurred in February 1766, when 18 people were killed by a pack of bloodthirsty wolves. Rather than wait for the royal hunters, the people of Perigord organized hunting parties that effectively killed off the wolves within the month. In one instance, an elderly man used a billhook blade to keep a wolf from killing another farmer. For his courage, King Louis XV personally rewarded the elderly man with silver and a military exception for his children.
+Today, two of the killer wolves are on display at the Chateau de Razac in the commune of Thiviers.
+Benjamin Welton is a freelance writer based in Boston. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Weekly Standard, Listverse, and Metal Injection. He currently blogs at literarytrebuchet.blogspot.com.
+All About Vata, Pitta, & Kapha
+Tridoshas Guide: Explore All About Vata, Pitta, & Kapha
+What comes to mind when someone spells “the oldest healing science”! It’s Ayurveda. Here “Ayur” stands for “life” and “Veda” stands for “Knowledge or Science”. Ayurveda scholars all around the globe had derived three types of energy present (dosha) in every individual. They are “Vata”, “Pitta” and “Kapha”.
+When sperm fertilizes ova eggs, the embryological process begins. Since the commencement of the process all three doshas vata, pitta, and kapha get introduced. These three doshas remain present throughout one’s life. In Ayurveda, to maintain body balance, one’s body, mind, and consciousness shall work together. Moreover, balance is the natural order, whereas imbalance is disorder. Similarly, health is the natural order, whereas disease is disorder. Whenever any kind of disorder takes place it is a must to create the balance of the body again for well-being.
+The study of Ayurveda makes one understand “How to re-establish or create the balance of the body?”. As we all have unique fingerprints! Similarly, the pattern of energy and the combination of dosha vata, pitta, and kapha is also differently defined as “constitution”. Once you’re aware of the nature and structure of these energy systems, you can easily re-establish order.
+Stabilizing the Three Principle Energies (Dosha) of the Body
+Every function of the body requires energy for completion. Whether it's movement, lubrication, or metabolism. With the help of energy fluids and nutrients get to the cells to perform body movement. Energy also metabolizes the several nutrients of the body to the cells that further maintain the cell structure. Though everybody has these three basic principle energies, one of these is usually primary, while the other two are secondary or tertiary respectively.
+Vata dosha is the energy of the movement.
+Pitta dosha is the energy of metabolism or digestion.
+Kapha dosha is the energy of body structure and lubrication.
+According to Ayurveda, the entire composition of principle energies (dosha) is reciprocity of the ultimate five elements - Space (Akasha), Air (Vayu), Water (Jala), Fire (Agni), & Earth (Prithvi).
+Vata - Subtle Energy Associated with Movement
+It is composed of the elements Space & Air. The main function is to stimulate breathing, muscle movement, tissue movement, the beat of the heart, and more. When vata is in order, it enhances brain activities and flexibility; in disorder, it produces anxiety, fear, and impatience.
+Pitta - Body’s Metabolic System
+It is composed of the elements Fire & Water. The main function is to stimulate digestion, metabolism, nutrition, body temperature, and more. When pitta is in order, it enhances intelligence and mutual understanding; in disorder, it produces hatred, jealousy, and anger.
+Kapha - Body’ Structure & Lubrication
+It is composed of the elements Earth & Water. The main function is to stimulate the growth of bones, muscles, tendons, “Glue” holding cells, skin, and more. When kapha is in order, it enhances love, forgiveness, and calmness; in disorder, it produces envy and greed.
+Ayurveda - The System Of Healing
+One must know the difference between Ayurveda and Allopathy. Talking about allopathy it works in symptomatology and disease. It uses various surgeries and drugs to cure the disease. Ayurveda doesn’t focus on the disease, instead, it focuses on balancing energy and doshas. This prepares the body to build a natural defense system to defend against any kind of disorder. Many times we feel discomfort and rush to the doctors without recognition of the disease. This gives us a notice regarding the disorder. Thus, we start taking alternative measures and seek a way to re-establish a balance of our mind, body, and consciousness.
+Taking you a step ahead! Ayurveda has already developed vivid techniques for vivid disorders. At first, the practitioner carefully examines and studies the type of disorder you are suffering from. The diagnosis is conducted through observation, questioning, and physical checkup. After then, the practitioner suggests lifestyle changes like diet, exercise, and usage of herbs/shrubs. All this helps to remove toxins which leads to eliminating or managing the cause of imbalance. There is a vast application of Ayurveda for each individual.
+Now, let’s discuss dietary considerations and the balancing ways of these doshas.
+Vata
+As discussed earlier, vata is responsible for stimulating motion for all body processes. The doctor says “Vata commands over Pitta & Kapha”. A person blessed with this principle energy is creative, flexible, and quick. They walk, talk, and think fast, also they grasp fast and forget easily. Their constitution can also be balanced with the intake of warm and cooked food. Cold food may lead to imbalance. At the time of disorder, these people may face diseases related to the air like asthma, arthritis, mental confusion, emphysema, et cetera. Excess in qualities like cold, subtle, mobile and clear, and light can cause imbalance. Additionally, alcohol, sugar, drugs, and frequent travel may also cause imbalance.
+Many researchers and scholars say, “Lipozene enzyme present in the human brain is Vata”. Hence it is not proved yet, but the controversy is on!
+Diet Considerations
+- To Eat:
+- Warm and soft food
+- Well-cooked oats and rice
+- Cooked vegetables - Potatoes, Eggplants, Tomatoes
+- Fruits - Berries, Bananas, Peaches
+- To Avoid:
+- Cold and dried food
+- Raw vegetables
+- Dried fruits
+- Cold desserts and sweets
+Balancing Guidelines
+- Get plenty of rest (almost 8-10 hours a day)
+- Try to put yourself into a routine
+- Keep yourself warm and calm
+- Avoid cold places
+- Avoid cold, frozen, and raw food
+Pitta
+People with pitta dosha are penetrating, agitating, and sharp as Fire. Sometimes they may turn short-tempered and over agitated. Usually, their body type is medium height and their skin is warm and less wrinkled. Moreover, these types have a concern related to hair. The constitution is molded in a way that enhances digestion, metabolism, and appetites. Pitta people are kind of “foody”, they love to eat more especially hot spices and also they love to have cold drinks. They have the personality of a leader and a planner because of their good intelligence. Excess in qualities like light, mobile, dispersing and liquid, oily, et cetera can cause imbalance. This imbalance makes them jealous, hateful, and angry. Also, Pitta dosha may introduce diseases like fever, jaundice, ulcerations, irritations, et cetera.
+Pitta is referred to as “Chhariya Tatva & Agni Tatva of the human body”, says Doctor.
+Diet Considerations
+- To Eat:
+- Light food i.e. easily digestible
+- Non-starching vegetables
+- Cold and sweet food
+- Energizing food
+- Vegetarianism is best
+- To Avoid:
+- Heavy fatty food i.e. easily non-digestible
+- Hot spices
+- Sour foods
+- Potatoes
+Balancing Guidelines
+- Avoid excessive heat and warm places
+- Doesn’t require more sleeping hours
+- Try to consume less oily and less fatty food
+- Don’t expose to steam areas
+- Limit the intake of salt
+- Highly avoid - Coffee, Alcohol, Tobacco
+- Choose the cooler part of the day for exercise purposes
+Kapha
+People with kapha dosha encompass high strength, stamina, and endurance. These types have loving and sweet dispositions. Furthermore, they are deemed to be more grounded and stable. Their body structure includes oily and smooth skin, thick muscles, thick lashes and brows, and more. The constitution lies in bitter, styptic, and pungent tastes. When imbalanced it may cause diseases like sinus congestion, flu, and mucous diseases. One may also experience attachment, envy, possessiveness, and envy. Also, one with kapha dosha has water retention and headaches concerns.
+In fact, “Kapha is a mucus substance”, says Doctor.
+Diet Considerations
+- To Eat:
+- Spicy and acidic food
+- Filling food
+- Barley, rice, and corns
+- Nuts and seeds
+- Hot spices
+- To Avoid:
+- Heavy fatty foods i.e. easily non-digestible
+- Processed foods
+- Sweets and dairy products
+Balancing Guidelines
+- Keep your routine varying for better performance
+- Avoid oily foods
+- Try avoiding naps as much as possible
+- Be active and do plenty of exercises daily
+Take Away
+Vata dosha, Pitta dosha, and Kapha dosha are the main source of energy and well-being in your body. Therefore, to attain appropriate body balance and health targets; it is a must that your body, mind, and consciousness work together apparently. As discussed, to put all the things in-line, you’ve to follow a specific diet along with the exercise and balancing guidelines.
+महोदय, त्रिदोष को हम रखने का आपने कोई उत्पाद निर्माण किया है। जानकारी दें। धन्यवाद आपका।
+What do we do in Tri dosha?? Pls tell something about tridosha.
+Which tablet we eat for tri dosh .
+ without collapsing their particular flows. This is the work of Amilcar Packer, potent, yet resisting brash spectacle. Through actions, images, and videos Packer plays with the structured scaffolding of our systems of knowledge and understanding of the world. With his background in philosophy, art has become a discourse of images, sounds, and actions where the chosen medium becomes a malleable method or route for a way of thinking, a way of building and deconstructing at the same time.
+Rebecca Najdowski: Bom dia Amilcar! Thanks for agreeing to have this conversation about your work. I think the first time I encountered you work was at the Centro Cultural São Paulo’s exhibition celebrating its 20 years of programming. Your works that were presented kind-of buttress your practice chronologically, but for you, your practice is less linear and more cyclical, am I right?
+Amilcar Packer: The fact is that somehow the answer is no, even if the direction you took is correct… putting things in linear/cyclical is keeping the dichotomy, the split in two opposites, and even though the idea of cyclical is more correct, when talking about what we call time, it seems to me that things get a little bit more complicated. For instance, there’s a beautiful text by Walter Benjamin in which he elaborates on the idea of a constellation of historical times to criticize, or to avoid, linear time and all the entailments of cause and consequence that it establishes (of course W.B.’s ideas are much more complex than that and relate to his criticism on historiography…). One of the problems of a linear conception of time is that it often creates this idea of progress/development and when you see things in retrospective they gain this aura of necessity; that things couldn’t have happened in another way. Also, the idea of linear time brings the need of a beginning, what is pretty much connected with the monotheistic ideas of time, more specifically with Christianity. As we were talking the other day, it seems interesting to look at the idea of eternal return at a “ritual” time in which it’s not about repeating what was done in a former time, it’s rather about being there for the first time. The way I conceive it: even though everything that I do is fragmented and has different and separated pieces which appear in time, it’s about only one thing that ideally could be seen as a picture, as a non-pre-existent whole, at once and the same time, but where you can always “come back”, “return”. It gets even hard to describe using words. History is unfolding into what we call present and future, but as well as to what we call past. The past is not frozen it is constantly changing…it is always open.
+RN: When you mentioned an aura of necessity, or a particular unfolding of time that is rigid – and that this is perhaps something that you avoid in your work, it makes me think in small “strategies” that you use to keep open possibilities.
+AP: Those “strategies” that you’ve mentioned deal with the need to develop a practice which assumes since its “beginnings” that meaning is built and rebuilt, and most of the time, we have little control over that. It’s pretty freeing in some ways since you don’t need to elaborate strict and rigid structures to avoid noise and change, what is not programmed. Even though, of course, I have very specific directions, intentions, and wills on the context I would like my practice to participate, or ideas that I would love to take part in and which fascinate me, the beautiful thing for me is to think about how what I do is and will be seen, read and used, re-appropriated and dismantled.
+RN: I think this might be a good point to look at an image. Speaking of the “strategies”, in your Video #17 you deliberately left empty jackets. Can you speak to that a little bit?
+AP: For Video #17 I had to count on the presence and collaboration of many friends, friends of friends, and some passer-byes. Even though I had an idea of the amount of jackets and individuals that I needed I knew I couldn’t fill everything because some of those places had to be left “empty” for those who couldn’t be there for various reasons. People that I would have loved to have there participating but that died before, people I would have loved to meet, people that I will meet or never will, and people that will meet the “work” after I die. The fact was/is that there must remain some empty place left. Place for possibilities or gaps, commas, intervals, silence… The action took place in downtown São Paulo and consisted of zippering together more than 100 jackets to form a circle, we turned around a building in both directions the same amount of times as if we were adulating the action, reversing it. It was not specifically about those people who were there or not, it dealt much more with ideas connected to the flow and movement of people in urban centers and how this displacement is determined by the split and organization of the “space” – all the hierarchies and world visions which determine social behavior. It is a collective body, a children’s game, but at the same time a powerful way to invoke and create energy – we can’t forget how important it is to get together in a circle with other people, and how many different human societies have used this in rituals and practices.
+RN: Wow, ok… this leads me to two different (maybe not so different) wonderings:
+This kind of fluid, social activity (and even the use of clothes/textile material) really seems to have some cords connecting to significant Brazilian artists like Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, and Lygia Clark, but I’m curious as to how you see the relationship/s, if any.
+I’m also super interested in how you use the urban landscape and all it’s implications in your work. There is so much on offer to work with. In much of your work you’ve used you own body in relation to architecture and space as a way to play with systems knowledge, to prod at them a bit. What’s happening here?
+AP: I believe there are several connections in what I do with the artists you’ve mentioned. First because they certainly shaped the context in which I move and some of my world vision. They worked in a similar context as I do, Brazil and my practice have many connections with theirs: body as site, body as language, psychoanalysis, perception as subversion of the common state, revolution and freedom as for instance against morality and power, oppression and prejudices… But where I think we really do get close is in the sense that we believe that art is not an end in itself, in that maybe even “art” is not enough; or that art is always making art, that it is an action that has to create problems and formulate odd questions and become a strange body.
+RN: So in the making you are sort-of proposing questions, ones that perhaps can’t be answered…I want to get back to how this is happening in the artworks themselves. Can we address that second question, about how you use the urban landscape and your own body?
+AP: Concerning the urban space I guess it was discovery; a consequence that came from the experiences I’ve had in the previous works. The fact is that in the early works, the skin was a main concern as well as the clothes and the wall, but everything was taken more as surfaces – biological, cultural, architectural, social, and so on – layers and skins. I was pretty much interested in how clothes and walls function as a second skin and body and how cultural, social, and historical layers become like a second nature to us and determine social relations and world visions; they shape our behavior and our perception. But then I realized that the “skins” are thick and that it is not only about a mathematical layer… actually do you know that the skin is consider the biggest organ of the human body?!!
+RN: Yes I did!
+AP: Anyway, those, and some other discoveries opened up the possibility to me to work with the body in another way, to play with directions and gravity, to think about how physiological, intellectual, and “formal” structures of the human body are projected in the “outside” world and shape it symbolically and materially and solidify as rigid knowledge and power structures.
+RN: So, considering this notion of “skin”, what is essentially a barrier…
+AP: Something, which separates one place from another and creates hierarchies, value, segregation, split, power structures, difference. But I’m more and more interested in thinking of skins as more porous, something which defies the notions of subject, individual, particular. The skin is constantly exchanging and at the end it’s more a question of density since our bodies and minds are constantly being crossed. On another hand, other barriers try to avoid exchange and control it: country borders, jails, walls, and fences are made to avoid others to enter, to communicate. But the fact is that nothing has a unique meaning and that the scenario is further more complex and that’s why it seems much more interesting to think and to address the relations established between things as well as their contexts and not isolated objects, things, or phenomena.
+RN: In some works you use barriers that are maybe less porous than skin, dense ready-mades found in the urban landscape. For instance, I really love the video installation piece where on the left side there is a panning video of glass barriers between what seems to be residential areas and public space, the right side is a video of you, or your arm, dragging a metal rod against metal fencing that seems to be in the same type of area as the other video. There is a flow that seems like this is vast space that can go on forever, this was made in São Paulo, right? Is its location important? How?
+AP: The work you are mentioning is a video installation composed of two works that also function separately. Together they become “Field of dominance”. Both are ongoing videos that I have been working on for the last two years and are meant to be a collage of the same actions recorded in several cities that I visited, in video for the fences and in photographs for the glass walls. So till now you have fences from Berlin, Paris, São Paulo, Buenos Aires and so on. Each city that I’ll visit will be added to the prior video. The idea is to create an endless fence, which doesn’t consider any physical border and which in that sense refers to the idea of fence implanted in our minds. Also, the video records an action where sometimes I am inside and sometimes outside (of what is protected) which means that the landscape behind the bars sometimes is composed by houses, buildings, gardens, and other times by the street; both sides of different fences are alternated. The “glass walls”, Transparency/Opacity, is also an ongoing project which started at the end of 2009 after I realized that the walls and fences of some buildings in São Paulo were being substituted by glass and behind this fashion, that spread as a virus, I couldn’t stop seeing a perverse phenomena of transforming space into image; creating desire, fetish. As a material, the glass is considered more fancy and less aggressive than bricks and cement, or metal fences with spikes. But if one takes time to consider and reflects on the situation, it is really a complex and perverse phenomena of in-materializing the systems of power and control, of split and segregation. Formally, it’s also an endless panorama of glass walls; so far, I’ve only worked in São Paulo, but as you know, I just came back from Rio de Janeiro with a vast material to add. Actually, Rio is facing the same phenomena and as far as I know, several other cities are suffering from the same. In fact, the processes of control and surveillance, segregation and power, are global and the same strategies are being used everywhere, transnational borders…we must know that the main danger is not what we see, rather, it’s what we don’t but which is always there, a forcefield.
+RN: How did you come to make the choice of placing the separate videos together?
+AP: Well both seem to be part of a same urban phenomena connected with the industry of fear and the paranoia with protection and surveillance that most of the cities face nowadays. Both videos are pretty connected and form what I’ve called “field of dominance” which are relations that materialize and settle power structures, segregation, and submission and are strongly connected with ideas of private property and rights over things and space. Each video flows to a different direction – the fences from right to left and the glass walls from left to right – the videos are placed next to each other in a way to point to the space in-between them. They are developed as collages of places and cities and point of views; endless panoramic borders which place us at the center of a panopticon.
+RN: To take a bit of a different direction… I’m super intrigued by elements of you practice that don’t result in an “art object”. Perhaps there is a more obvious connection here to your background in philosophy, but it really seems to be important to what we were talking about before, of art (the art object) not being the end in and of itself. Your preparing for a residency in Turin, what are you going to do there.
+AP: As a matter of fact, I don’t really have a formal background in visual arts, which doesn’t mean that I haven’t and don’t still study art. But as I told you the other day, for me from philosophy to art, it was just a slide. I thought I could think/do the same but in another way, for instance including the body, objects, architecture, images and sound as part of language and discourse. In recent years I’ve been asked to participate in conferences and seminars or to “present” my practice and I have been taking those opportunities to elaborate and explore another format that is a blend of talk/performance/conversation/walk and so on. A development of what I do but in a more direct way in the sense that I establish a concrete dialogue with specific persons in front of me. This has interested me for many reasons. For instance the possibility to establish a determined time/space; a situation in which the conversation and exchange is the means and the end. It is really something pretty new for me, but very exciting – a whole new field to experiment with me, for me, with other people and for other people… It doesn’t create physical objects, which I like as a principle, and it is based in conversation, which brings me back to many structures of knowledge and ways of sharing. It matters that it is art in the sense that it might help to open this kind of practice – even if there is nothing new in what I am doing and I am not looking to do something new as an avant-garde way of thinking – I intend and expect to collaborate with narration. I was recently granted to go to PAV (Parco Arte Vivente) in Turin, Italy, as part of the ResO’ residency program. The main project that I will develop there is a walking talk based in the peripatetic practice of open air lectures, with ideas connected with how historically in the western world there was/is a split between body and mind and how this shaped not only architecture, but more specifically, the formal structure of the theater spaces in stage and public, and how it came to the cinema and the art institutions, galleries, and museums. How this became the architectural and institutional frame in which the actors/artist are supposed to do something meanwhile the public observes and judges; this also connects with ideas of private property and use of the space since it seems that one of the reasons which made Aristotle walk while teaching/talking was the fact that he was not a citizen from Athens so he couldn’t posses land.
+RN: I think what you said about “intending to collaborate with narration” is really beautiful. If feels very in line with what I think about you work, which is making space for possibilities. Although a lot of what we have discussed is pretty heavy, I can’t just graze over the fact that a lot of your work has humor in it and knowing you as a person, you’re pretty light-hearted. Are you satisfied with the balance between sometimes-heavy subject matter and playfulness in what you output?
+AP: I guess so and I think its necessary. When you talk about possibilities you open fields but nothing really assures which will become reality and I believe humor might help to deal with the unexpected. I am a big fan of irony I see it as one of the faces of intelligence (but have my doubts with cynicism and also sarcasm). For me irony makes you part of the situation, it puts you in a kind of drama or “pathos”, it creates sympathy, and makes us laugh about our own misery. For me it’s obviously a way of seeing life, a way to approach very “heavy” matters and also not to take things too personal or too serious…
+RN: Yes, we all have to sometimes remind ourselves not to take things so seriously; it can often feel like a bit of a paradox….
+AP: and it is… that’s exactly the point; we are the place where paradox and contradiction can co-exist.
+Amilcar Packer, born in Chile, lives and works in São Paulo. His work has been extensively exhibited internationally at S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Bienal de las Américas, Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado, “2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art” Thessaloniki, Greece, 2aTrienal Poligráfica de San Juan, San Juan, Porto Rico, “Third Guangzhou Triennial: Farewell to Post-Colonialism” Time Museum/Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, “On reason and emotion” – Biennale of Sydney 2004, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania, Ivan – Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderna, Valencia, Spain, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Secs Pinheiros, São Paulo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, among others with solo shows at Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, São Paulo, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Museu de Arte de Brasília, Brasília, and Centro Cultural São Paulo.
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+Back to FanFic/YuYuGiDigiMoon or [[{{Characters/YuYuGiDigiMoon}} to character index page]]
+----
+[[foldercontrol]]
+[[folder:Pharaohmon's Army]]
+!!Pharaohmon [[spoiler:(Evil)]]
+->Voiced by: RobinAtkinDownes
+* BigBad: Of Season 1.
+* DarkIsEvil
+* Expy: Him powering up to over 100% reminds readers of Younger Toguro.
+* {{Mummy}}
+* SealedEvilInACan
+* TakeOverTheWorld
+!!!Lance Canebrook ({{OC}})
+->Voiced by:
+* DemonicPossession: By Pharaohmon.
+!!Basilikmon ({{OC}})[[note]]created by Youkai Youko[[/note]]
+->Voiced by:
+* PoisonousPerson
+* PsychoForHire
+* ReptilesAreAbhorrent
+* SmugSnake
+!!Duskmon
+->Voiced by: Crispin Freeman
+* EvilCounterpart: To Loweemon.
+!![=IceDevimon=]
+->Voiced by: Michael Reisz
+!![=BlackWarGreymon=]
+->Voiced by: Steven Blum
+* HeelFaceTurn
+!![=MetalDevidramon=]/[=WarDevidramon=] ({{OC}})
+->Voiced by:
+!!Scarabmon ({{OC}})
+->Voiced by:
+!![=ThothBabimon=] ({{OC}})
+->Voiced by:
+!!Horusmon ({{OC}})
+->Voiced by:
+!!Kheprimon ({{OC}})
+->Voiced by:
+!!Khnummon ({{OC}})
+->Voiced by:
+!!Aspmon ({{OC}})
+->Voiced by:
+!!Gebmon ({{OC}})
+->Voiced by:
+!!Onyxmon ({{OC}})
+->Voiced by:
+[[/folder]]
+[[folder:Demon Corps]]
+[[quoteright:300:]]
+!!Demon
+->Voiced by: Bob Papenbrook
+* SuperMode: As Super Ultimate in the climax of Dawn of Chaos.
+!![=LadyDevimon=]
+->Voiced by: Melodee Spevack
+!![=SkullSatanmon=]
+->Voiced by: Dave Guerrie
+* HarmlessVillain
+* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With [=MarineDevimon=].
+!![=MarineDevimon=]
+->Voiced by: Tom Wyner
+* HarmlessVillain
+* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With [=SkullSatamon=].
+[[/folder]]
+[[folder:Neo Dark Masters]]
+[[quoteright:300:]]
+!!Piedmon
+->Voiced by: Creator/DerekStephenPrince
+!!Machinedramon/[=HiMachinedramon=]
+->Voiced by: Dave Guerrie
+!![=KingEtemon=]
+->Voiced by: RichardEpcar
+!!Devitamamon
+->Voiced by: Derek Stephen Prince
+[[/folder]]
+[[folder:[=BlackGuilmon=] and Co.]]
+[[quoteright:290:]]
+!![=BlackGuilmon=]/[=ChaosGallantmon=]/Destructor Mode/[[spoiler:Hazard Mode]]
+-->''I am the last reminder of the monster you were before you and that Tamer removed me after you Biomerged for the first time! I intend to destroy you both and absorb you! Then, the circle will become complete!''
+->Voiced by: Creator/SteveBlum
+The evil 'twin brother' of Guilmon who is spawned from the essence of Megidramon.
+* AxCrazy
+* BlackKnight
+* EvilTwin: To Guilmon.
+* TheRival: To Guilmon as well.
+* TheSociopath
+* SuperMode: As Destructor Mode and [[spoiler:Hazard Mode]] in the climax of Dawn of Chaos.
+* VillainousBreakdown: In Chapter 60 of Dawn of Chaos when near defeat.
+!!General Scorpionus ({{OC}})
+->Voiced by:
+* Expy: Appearance looks like the Scorpion King.
+!!Puppetmon
+->Voiced by: David Lodge
+!!Fuugamon
+->Voiced by: Beau Billingslea
+!!Yamidramon & Atolmdramon/Doomsdramon ({{OC}})
+->Yamidramon & Atolmdramon voiced by: Chris Sabat
+* EldritchAbomination: As Doomsdramon.
+* FusionDance: Doomsdramon.
+* HellishHorse: Has a few traits as Doomsdramon due to becoming Valmarmon's steed.
+* MacrossMissileMassacre: As Doomsdramon, he's loaded with weaponry.
+* OurDragonsAreDifferent
+* ScaledUp: Doomsdramon.
+[[/folder]]
+[[folder:Valmarmon's Legion]]
+The main antagonists of the Digidestined's side in Season 3 entitled, Dawn of Chaos.
+!!Valmarmon/Valmarmon Tartarus Mode ({{OC}})[[note]]created by Ninetalesuk[[/note]]
+-->''I've returned to reclaim my place as the Demon God! My sovereignty over the four Digital Realms and the human realm is all but ensured!''
+->Voiced by: TimCurry
+* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: He's over 200 ft tall. Then his evolved form becomes 300 ft!
+* {{Badass}}
+* BiggerBad: To the Digi-Destined.
+* DarkIsEvil
+* EvilOverlord
+* {{Expy}}: Of Valmar from Grandia 2, but InNameOnly. His evolved form looks like Destoroyah from Godzilla.
+* HornedHumanoid
+* OneWingedAngel: He evolves further to become monstrous.
+** {{Kaiju}}: See the expy above, he's Destoroyah.
+* RealityWarper
+* {{Satan}}
+* SealedEvilInACan: The seven Valmarmon pieces is what sealed parts of his soul.
+** SoulJar
+* VillainousBreakdown: By the end of Chapter 60 of Dawn of Chaos.
+* YinYangClash: With Granasmon.
+!!Madoudramon/[[spoiler:[=MahouGarurumon=] ]]/Titan Mode ({{OC}})[[note]]created by Ninetalesuk[[/note]]
+->Voiced by: Geoff Dolan
+* BigBad: To the Digi-Destined.
+* BlackKnight
+* TheDragon: To Valmarmon.
+* {{Expy}}: Of Koragg the Wolf Knight from Power Rangers. His Titan Mode is Centaurus Wolf Megazord.
+* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: The memories of his former self seem to help in Chapter 59.]]
+!!![=DarkPegasusmon=]/Pegasusmon Metal Mode
+->Voiced by:
+* {{Expy}}: Of Catastros.
+!![=WarDevidramon=]/[=VictoryDevidramon=] ({{OC}})[[note]][=WarDevidramon=] created by Ninetalesuk. [=VictoryDevidramon=] created by Ford1114[[/note]]
+->Voiced by:
+* [[spoiler:OffWithHisHead: In Chapter 59 by Madoudramon (after recovering his memories of his goodness) nonetheless.]]
+!!Demon Beast Generals ({{OC}})[[note]]created by Ninetalesuk[[/note]]
+* ThePsychoRangers: To the Beast Tamers.
+!!![=HiSuzakumon=]/[=BlazeSuzakumon=]
+-->''[=HiSuzakumon=], ready for your orders!''
+->Voiced by: Paul Dobson
+* EvilCounterpart: To Suzakato.
+!!![=ChiGenbumon=]/[=QuakeGenbumon=]
+-->''[=ChiGenbumon=]! Here for action, sir!''
+->Voiced by: Richard Newman
+* EvilCounterpart: To Henbu.
+!!![=MizuSeiryuumon=]/[=StormSeiryumon=]
+-->''[=MizuSeiryuumon=], at your service!''
+->Voiced by: Matt Smith
+* EvilCounterpart: To Seirika.
+!!![=KazeByakkomon=]/[=AuroraByakkomon=]
+-->''[=KazeByakkomon=], reporting for duty!''
+->Voiced by: Ward Perry
+* EvilCounterpart: To Himakko.
+[[/folder]]
+[[folder:Mao Kings]]
+[[quoteright:300:]]
+!!Daimaomon ({{OC}})
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+onathan Smit, on behalf of Creative Writing at The New School and the NBCC, interviewed Anthony Marra about his book The Tsar of Love and Techno (Hogarth), which is among the final five selections in the category of Fiction for the 2015 NBCC Awards.
+Jonathan Smit: First, I’d simply like to say what a wonderful book this is. And a wonderful read, which may not be precisely the same thing. It addresses a vast and intricate subject in a very intimate, disarming and compelling way. I loved reading it.
+My first question has to do with the way the book describes itself—as a collection of stories rather than a novel. It is indeed a collection of stories—with different narrators, speaking to us from different times and places, yet the structure of the table of contents—Side A, Intermission, Side B—supports a view of the book as a unified work, rather than simply a collection of stories with related content. What led you to frame this book as “stories” rather than “novel”?
+Anthony Marra: First, thank you for such insightful and interesting questions, Jonathan. It’s been a real pleasure to mull them over the last few days. Originally, The Tsar of Love and Techno was a collection of independent stories, unconnected but for geography. But I began to notice certain images and motifs repeated and I wondered if I could weave these threads together so tightly that each story is necessary to understanding the whole. One critic described the effect as being akin to a series of transparencies laid one atop the next, through which a complete picture gradually emerges, which I love. As for the stories/novel distinction, Tsar exists somewhere in between. The book begins as a short story collection, but halfway through you realize it’s a novel. There’s no adequate term for that in-between space. “Novel-in-stories” sounds silly. “Linked stories” sounds like a dating website. So “stories” will have to do.
+JS: One of the elements that most impressed me in the book is your mastery of voice. Could you discuss how you approach voice? Do you discover character through voice or voice through character, or a combination of the two?
+AM: My first novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, is told by a terribly unfashionable, God-like omniscient narrator that can give the provenance of every object in a room and foretell the future of every character. It was a lot of fun to write in that mode, but with Tsar, I wanted to move to the opposite end of the vocal scale. Voice is tough for me since it always presents this chicken or egg conundrum: how do you write a character without already knowing their voice and how do you hear their voice without already knowing them as a character? For me, the answer always comes down to retyping. I retype a story over and over until voice and character merge. Most stories in Tsar I worked on for at least five years, and over that span of time these characters and their voices grew more defined. At its best, I hope, voice becomes a pure distillation of character. “The Leopard” is narrated by a party member in the 1930s, whose voice is studded with sloganeering and sounds a bit like a Constance Garnett translation. On the other end of the vocal range, the title story is narrated by a young man recalling his teenage years through a voice as overwrought and emotive as his adolescent self.
+JS: On the subject of voice, one of the more startling and moving moments in the book for me was the moment, in the story “Granddaughters,” where the voice acknowledges itself. The voice is the collective voice of a group of Russian working-class women whose lives share a coherency from infancy to old age. Then, toward the end of the story, you raise the narrative stakes by having the voice acknowledge its own collective essence. How did you arrive at the wonderful notion of a collective voice? And was that moment of self-awareness an aspect of your conception of the voice from the beginning, or did the voice require that moment of you as the story took shape?
+AM: I was drawn to the collective voice in “Granddaughters” because it seemed the natural point-of-view of insular communities, in this case the USSR, a remote town, and a clique of lifelong friends. The moment of self-awareness arrived when I began to consider the possibility of injecting the voice with the gossip, hyperbole, and speculation natural to a group of trusted friends. Since several of the book’s major plot points are first introduced here, the self-admitted unreliability of this narrative voice also raises the stakes in later stories, where things aren’t as simple or one-sided as the granddaughters-version presumes.
+JS: In The Tsar of Love and Techno, history, in particular the histories of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, functions almost like a giant web, in which the protagonists struggle to find a sense of purpose beyond the limitations of their circumstances. Could you say something about how you think about history as a constitutive element in narrative fiction? Are there novelists you admire or who’ve influenced you in this respect?
+AM: I love your phrase about history being a giant web, both entrapping and connecting these disparate characters. I don’t see myself as a historical novelist—aside from “The Leopard,” every thing I’ve ever written has been set within the past twenty-five years—but I find myself drawn to documenting how the historical and the political seeps into the most intimate personal spaces. Not only can novels catch and record the stories of individuals too small and ordinary to receive notice in a history book, they can also examine where and how political power touches down inside the lives of those farthest from its source, yet closest to its consequences. Mario Vargas Llosa and Edward P. Jones are masters of this. The Feast of the Goat, The War of the End of the World, and The Known World likely shaped me in this regard more than any other novels.
+JS: A wonderful example of the above constellates in a single paragraph towards the end of the story “The Grozny Tourist Bureau,” in which the personal and cultural costs of the second Chechnya war, the power of the Russian oligarchy, the failure of the Russian state, art, love and personal self-interest collide and resonate in a transaction that’s both powerfully emotional and hugely funny. It’s one of many instances in the book of a virtuosically deft articulation of plot. Could you speak to how you build story in your work?
+AM: It’s a good question, but a tricky one. “The Grozny Tourist Bureau” began with two bits of research: the bombing of Grozny’s art museum and the push to create a tourist industry in postwar Chechnya. The story resulted from my attempt to draw those two bits of research together. Regarding the moment in the story you refer to, readers are willing to forgive a lot if an author sticks the landing, and so I build story with an eye to making the ending feel like an echo chamber that resounds and amplifies the emotional and thematic melodies of the preceding pages.
+JS: Many of the characters in The Tsar of Love and Techno do bad things and some of them do quite horrible things. Yet none of the characters we meet are so objectionable that they might be described as evil, with the possible exception of Stalin, who is a driving historical force but not an active player in the writing. Do you think about evil as an aspect of human behavior? In the world of the book and beyond it, what do you think constitutes it and allows it to flourish?
+AM: We hear a lot about anti-heroes in fiction, film, and television, but more interesting to me is the anti-villain—people who do bad things, villainous things, who occupy the traditional role of the antagonist and yet are nonetheless worthy of a reader’s empathy. Hopefully, Tsar forces its readers to realign their allegiances with characters repeatedly. One of the characters says, “You remain the hero of your own story, even when you become the villain of someone else’s,” which I think is true in this book and in life generally. Evil flourishes because the human mind is so adept at justifying and rationalizing it. This is particularly true in Tsar, where politics and history collude to create circumstances where there are no easy choices and no good choices. I grew up in a Catholic family and went to church and catechism every week when I was a child and teenager. While I’m now an avowed agnostic, I find some of those Catholic virtues come out in my work, particularly the possibility of forgiveness. Both Tsar and Constellation make the case that no one is unworthy of forgiveness, even if only the reader has the power to pardon.
+JS: Many of the characters in the book are shaped by the man-made horrors of the places, Kirovsk, Siberia, and Grozny, Chechnya, where they are born and grow up. Yet their allegiance to those places seems unshakable. Could you say something about the power of place and its importance in your work?
+AM: In my work, place is often the driver of dramatic action and the context in which a character’s choices become legible. In Tsar, those places (the Arctic, postwar Grozny, 1930s Leningrad) tend to have an extreme quality to them, be it geographical, political, climatological, etc., that magnifies moral choice. I wanted things to happen in these stories, so I set them where things are bound to happen. Throughout, I tried to undercut the stereotypical images western audiences might have of these places. Kirovsk, for instance, is based on the Arctic mining town of Norilsk, which is about as close to an environmental hell as I can imagine. And yet in one of my favorite scenes in the book, a character describes sunbathing with his family on the bank of a polluted lake. It becomes one of his most joyful memories and the very unlikeliness of finding joy in such a grim setting makes it all the more remarkable.
+JS: One might describe the malevolent and insidious power of betrayal as a primary leitmotif in The Tsar of Love and Techno. None of your characters’ lives are untouched by it. Yet the book ends, very movingly, with a sense of hope or healing, at least on a personal level. How does this relate to your experiences in Russia? Where or how do you see hope emerging out of Russia’s tortured history and troubled present?
+AM: Americans don’t have a great track record when it comes to reading Russia’s tea leaves, so I wouldn’t hazard a prediction beyond saying demographic shifts spell trouble for Putin’s brand of ethnic-Russian nationalism. Regarding that sense of hope or healing at the end, I’ll let the book speak for itself.. His story collection, The Tsar of Love and Techno, was published by Hogarth in the fall of 2015. Visit.
+Jonathan Smit is a first year MFA fiction candidate at The New School. In addition to fiction, he’s written plays and criticism. His novel-in-progress, Kagan, is set in the present in New York. He’s had work published in Ducts.org and The Brooklyn Rail, and his play, The April Hour, was read at The Public Theatre in New York as part of LAByrinth Theatre Company’s Barn Series of new play readings. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and two excellent cats.
+Sugar and Stress, Part II:
+April 6, 2008
+This is your body being healthy:
+This is your body on sugar:
+I can’t believe how long it’s been since I posted. Clearly a sign of being just too busy and not balanced…and what do ya know: my desire for sugar has been higher the past week than in a while.
+Stress is an odd little monkey in my body . While the real solution to excessive stress is relaxation, deep breathing, fun, peace….yada yada yada……my body-mind seek things that keep the perpetual wheel of anxiety going: more activity, more stimulation…and more sugar.
+Life is so clever. It never ceases to amaze me how I’m always being brought little lessons that remind me to pay attention and keep doing my personal growth work. Just as I decided to blog about sugar and stress, more of “that” kind of stuff pops up in my life. We teach what we need to know, don’t we?
+This week really wasn’t too bad, however. I did dive in a bit and add sugar to my hot chocolate (a rarity, usually I use stevia) and I did have some frosting on Friday. Yes, I said frosting…not cake with frosting, just frosting. A birthday celebration at lunch yielded left-over cake with white frosting AND sprinkles. Hello!!! By Friday afternoon, running off of 5 hrs of sleep for several nights, I just gave in. Thank GOD there was only a small amount of cake left. I can’t say for sure what state of affairs my ability to say “no” would have been in had I been staring down 1/2 a cake and nobody in sight to see me take a monster piece.
+Some of you readers might still wonder why I am even mentioning what may seem like “small” amounts of sugar. I’m an addict. A sugar addict. There are no small infractions, no small treats. Each tiny morsel stimulates in me a desire for more that sometimes feels larger than life. I will blow off social engagements, isolate from my husband, buy crappy junk food that I don’t even like…all to feed this unsaitable craving. That is, if I’m not mindful, grounded and have done the self-care to stop this from happening.
+What is the physiology of this crazy addiction? Am I alone? No way – I see sugar/carb addiction everyday of my life. I see it in my clients who don’t understand why they are so able in many aspects of their lives, but have a complete weakness for some kind of refined food. I see it in our children, who would rather zone out with video games and suck down 4-6 sodas/day (the average # of sodas an American kid drinks, according to some), and who can’t concentrate at school. I see it at the grocery store when I watch people, who look tired and unwell, load the cart with frozen pizzas, boxed cereals, bread, crackers, and maybe 1-2 fruits or veggies. We are so close to it, we can’t even see it. It is both completely socially acceptable (c’mon…just have 1 dessert) and totally unacceptable (hatred of obesity) to be a carb junkie today. American consume about over 120 pounds of sugar. What to know more about that? Check out this article by Nutritionist Dr. Nancy Applegate.
+What does sugar do:
+Step 1: Seek out some refined carb food and put it in your mouth. You feel stoked, happy, and can’t wait to taste the sweetness (even breads register as sweet in the body)
+Step 2: you chew that food item and your body starts to prepare for digestion of sweet. This is thanks to amylase, a mouth enzyme that breaks down sugar. Now, the design is clever: send a signal to the hypothalamus (in the brain), which signals the pancreas/stomach early so it can be prepared with some insulin. After all, these whole grains/fruits our body has been eating for thousands of years take time to break down, so amylase helps get the ball rolling.
+Problem: refined sugar needs no breaking down. It is absorbed quickly in the blood stream. It hits hard, fast, and all at once.
+Step 3: lots of insulin is produces once the signal of “sweet” is sent from the mouth (really its the brain experiencing the sensation of sweet) and when the sugar hits the blood stream.
+Problem: Too much sugar at all once! Complex carbs break down slowly. Its like putting one box at a time on the conveyor belt. Remember the “I LOVE LUCY” episode from the YouTube video above? She couldn’t keep up, so she stuffed all the excess chocolates in her mouth/pockets, etc. It became an overload. It was stressful. Your body is Lucy when you feed it to much sugar.
+Step 4: This excess sugar has to go somewhere. The liver takes some of it and stores it as glycogen. But it can only store 3-400 calories (about 100g of sugar max) at once. Over time, excess sugar consumption will stress the liver and engorge it, as it tries to force more storage of sugar while also trying to deal with all the other stuff it does. When it maxes out, it sends the sugar back into the blood stream as fatty acids. This is partly why excess sugar consumption raises triglycerides, perhaps more than fat consumption.
+At the same time, this sugar now stimulates “fight or flight” response. Your adrenals start working. you get a little “high”. But it never lasts long, now does it? You can’t function as well b/c all the blood is being distributed to your periperhy. Your body is prepared to fend for its life. But there is nothing to fend for. You are sitting at your desk entering data into the computer,or watching TV, or anything else non-life threatening. Over time, the fight or flight activation stresses your body and makes you produce excess cortisol.
+Also at this time, the hormone insulin swoops down and scoops up all that extra blood sugar so your brain can stay alive. Yay! Another day to live. However, that sugar ain’t coming out for free. Insulin converts sugar to fat. Lucky us- even if your meal was low in calories, if it was high is SUGAR it may go right to our rears. It took me a long time to believe this, until it started happening to me.
+Problem: too much cortisol suppresses the immune system, so you get sick more easily . It also contributes to fat storage around the abdomen, in response to potential life-threatening stressors. It does not know the difference between stress caused by food and lifestyle and real, physically threatening stress.
+Step 5: You crash. Your blood sugar dips too low and you get lethargic. Your pancreas is stressed b/c its having to play this insulin game all the time and its over it! It stops working well or your cells stop being as responsive.
+Problem: Excess insulin production leads to weight gain (insulin stores sugar as fat in the hips, buttocks, abs, and thighs). The system poops out after a while too, which contributes to Type II diabetes, often associated with high-carb lifestyles. You also feel like garbage.
+Step 6: The body is a system of habits and patterns. It comes to rely on certain processes, good or bad. After your crash and your “fight or flight”, you’ve now “up-regulated” certain processes in the body. They want to keep on working, so they now stimulate a new desire for more sugar. And the cycle continues.
+Problem: some people are HIGHLY sensitive to this little phenomenon. In fact, for some people, sugar binds with other neurotransmitters in the body and moves into the brain to create “euphoria”. This high is similar to heroin. I’ve talked to ex-drug addicts who have told me kicking sugar was harder than kicking drugs. Some people (myself included) experience withdrawal when they get off sugar. Symptoms include:
+- headaches
+- dizziness, nausea
+- overwhelming urge for sugar. You think you “need it”
+- energy highs/lows
+- rapid heart beat
+- insomnia
+- constipation/diarrhea as the digestive system attempts to rebalance itself
+- change in appetite
+- anger, anxiety, irritability
+- thirst
+- skin breakouts
+So you think your body needs sugar to live?
+.”
+All this just for some lousy sugar. And the high doesn’t even last. I also hate the feelings of guilt, tiredness, boredom, lethargy and low self-esteem that I get from too much sugar. It just isn’t worth it, for me.
+I’m so thankful that others folks are starting to talk more freely about their carb addiction. Last night I came across an awesome book at Borders:
+Confessions from a Carb Queen
+Okay, I’ve been blogging for way too long (these posts sure do take some time). I gotta get movin!
+Have a happy, refined sugar-free day, if that’s your thing
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+Jordan | April 6, 2008 at 8:43 pm
+Hey! We haven’t had a mastermind meeting in a long time, but I have been keeping up with your’s and sara’s blogs. I am in the process of getting my marketing material ready for my business and i’m really excited!
+But enough of that, here’s the real reason I’m commenting your blog:
+I was reading about the teas for my tea parties. I was really excited because they have fun flavors for kids and I thought they might be healthy alternative. The catch is (and they come right out and say it) is they use “natural and artificial flavors.” They go on to explain what these are and what not ().
+My question is what do you think about what they talk about?
+It’s hard for me, and I assume a lot of consumers, to figure out what is real and what isn’t….
+Again, after all that “natural and artificial flavors” what is your take?
+Thank you! :0)
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+[...] at Off-White writes a post about what sugar does to your body once you eat it that is worth reading. In [...]
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+offwhiteliving | April 7, 2008 at 11:24 pm
+Jordan,
+thanks for the reply.
+You are so right – its hard to know what is real.
+One place to start is to look past the “marketing” on the front of the box/package and turn the product over.
+if you see high fructose corn syrup, sucralose, aspartame, cane juice, evaporated cane juice, sugar, etc – these are all sugars. Its not that ALL sugar is bad, its just the quality and quantity that makes it. Also , look for the word “natural flavoring” – usually NOT natural at all.
+I try and find foods with 12g of sugar or less (rice milk, cereals, yogurts, granola bar type things), or just avoid packaged foods and get my sugar where I know its good: from something I make or from fruit.
+Coffee drinks are also a HUGE sugar culprit, and its usually not good sugar, and in high quantity. Milk has sugar, so pair that with caffeine and added sugar……TOO MUCH STIMULATION!!!
+Thanks for the website – it will check it out.
+Rebecca
+Note: Video of this talk is at the end of the post along with email samples you can download.
+Early last year I did this talk at the DMX and GrowthHackers conferences alongside some great companies like Hubspot, Twitter and Spotify. I opened up the sales and marketing process after the first six months at the company WorkCompass.
+In particular, I highlighted the outbound email prospecting process and the messages I was using that generated all our B2B leads and how much everything cost. I have finally written up that talk below. Enjoy.
+Introduction
+Hello guys. How are you doing? Very welcome tonight. I’d like to say I absolutely love this event and a big thank you to Jason, James, Sasha, all the team and of course Blacknight for sponsoring. Over the course of these events I have learned most, not necessarily from the most successful companies and the successful speakers, but from the people who are just a step or two ahead of where I am. The people and companies who have just gone through the pains that I’m currently experiencing and I’m hoping that I can do that for you today.
+Profile and history
+My name is Alan O’Rourke. I started life as a designer and I ran a design agency for about 10 years. I absolutely love design but in the end it was time to move on and look for a change, look for something interesting, so I joined the dark side.
+I found doing designs for clients over the years that once you handed over the design they then ask, “Well, what will I do with this.” So it was a natural progression to move into marketing. Unlike design, I do find marketing numbers hold you accountable at the end of the process and I like that.
+But first a very quick overview of the last two businesses that I’ve been involved in, because they all had very different business models and used different marketing and sales channels.
+Toddle, was a start-up of mine many years ago, it was selling email newsletters basically. It worked on a freemium model. It was a bootstrapped business, and because it was bootstrapped and I was running two businesses at the same time there was no budget and very little time. All the marketing was inbound marketing and it was a very very slow build-up over three years. I found blogs and resources were particularly successful channels for me. The sales process was pretty much non-existent. It was as automated and low touch as possible. Toddle ended up with around 30,000 users, and I ended up selling that business.
+The next business I was involved in was a company called WhatClinic where patients find clinics and treatments online. Caelen, I know spoke at a previous event here, Caelen is the CEO, a very, very smart guy. I think some of his talks are recorded online. It’s well worth checking those out. I was mostly involved with the product there, but I had a good insight into how the business and marketing ran. Marketing was primarily SEO. The business model was pay per lead. Patients would contact clinics through the website and if a clinic responded to that patient, sales would then come along, pick-up the phone, and try and sell them. Your traditional sales and marketing model would not work in this company. It was very unique to the way they operated their business which brings me to where I am currently.
+I work for a company called WorkCompass, which does online performance management and performance reviews. That’s performance management for people not applications. I’ve been working there for a little over four months. It’s a great position and I’m getting to build the marketing from the ground up. It’s an enterprise sales model which is new to me. There’s absolutely no freemium in this product. The sales cycle is around 3-6 months.
+On a side note, when I started, like all new marketing people of course I had to make my mark and re-design the website. It’s something I always laughed at when I was a designer. New marketing people would start for clients and of course, they’d immediately try and re-design the website. Well, in fairness, the old WorkCompass website was terrible.
+So I quickly mention these businesses to highlight how many different business types are online. They all have very different sales and marketing models. I found the more famous growth hacker stories that will make your company sky rockets to success, they only apply to very, very few businesses. I found very few that could ever apply to my businesses.
+Stop Growth Hacking!
+You’re very very lucky if you can get a growth hacking success story that will apply to your business. And when I joined WorkCompass I found many of my own marketing hacks from previous businesses also did not work. I needed to take a step back and I needed to stop ‘growth hacking’. The company basically needed to keep turning over, I needed sales, and I needed to be doing this while I’m running marketing experiments which brings me to Predictable Revenue. I don’t know how many people know the book? Very few, okay. How many companies here are start-ups, or early-stage companies? (Most of the room.) Alright, you really need to read this book.
+Most businesses, if you’re growing, you’re making sales. Point A on the graph above is probably where you are as a growing start up. You’re finding success and things are going well.
+You’re just about to hit B. And this is where I joined WorkCompass. The whole idea here is that round about A you’re heavily relying on your own network. These are your seed leads. It’s all word of mouth, people you know, people who know you and people in your broader network. You’ve already established trust here and you’re forgiven a lot of mistakes in your sales pitch and your marketing because of that trust and existing relationship. But B is a painful but important step. First it means you are growing which is great. But you’re about to run out of seed leads and you need to quickly discover or re-discover your customer pitch because you are about to run out of leads from personal network.
+Our sales and marketing plan
+I’m going to open up our sales and marketing process that I currently go through. It’s in two parts that I run side by side. I run inbound marketing which is predominantly content SEO and lead capture, and at the heart of this is monthly eBook publishing.
+Inbound (nets)
+I aim to get one great piece of content out every month. I publish it as an eBook, and I try and bring as much value as possible. I did this because I have limited resources, a limited marketing team and limited time.
+Our strategy is to write once, and publish everywhere and anyway possible. For example when I do an eBook, then it will automatically become a blog post(s), I tweet it daily, it will become a webinar, I send it out through the email newsletter, I both use the graphics that I use in the eBook and I produce infographics from it, the webinar will become a YouTube video, I produce a podcast from it, etc, etc. I try to bring as much value out of that one good piece of content as possible.
+One month – Micro content marketing plan
+I also work on a micro marketing plan every month on our eBooks. I’ll quickly walk through this. Over a month long period I publish the eBook, email subscribers and we’re finding that people tend to share it a lot so we’re trying to encourage that even more. I do PPC promotions for the eBook, I tweet quotes from the eBook daily, I ’ve got a weekly blog post that I just lift from the eBook.
+I post the contents into LinkedIn groups and depending on how much I ‘ve establish ourselves in those groups, I either post the full content as a post, or if I have established ourselves and I ’ve build up trust and a profile in that LinkedIn group, I will post a link back to the landing page where people can download that and hand over their email address.
+I use the content to answer questions on Quora, I track mentions and questions on social media where I can suggest the eBook as the answer. I share the document on document sharing sites. I even post the images contained in the eBook under creative comments on Flickr and just last week I got a link from Forbes based on this. It’s very, very simple but it’s a long play.
+I do press releases, do the webinar, and post that presentation then on SlideShare, post recording on YouTube, etc, I call it a micro marketing plan because I produce a report on this at the end of every month. And then, as each month goes on, I can compare one month against the following, against the following, and hopefully I ‘ll see those numbers go up.
+Everything I do should end in a lead capture and then into lead nurturing. I’m not saying I ’re fully successful on this, but this is our aim. Another technique that we’re using is I try to extend the reach of this content by working with a partner. For example, this eBook here was published with the IMI, the Irish Management Institute, and the only extra thing I do there is I put their logo on it. We’re producing the content for them. They are looking very good to their members, and sending new content out to their profile. But I ’re operating on a lead share basis. So every lead they generate through their websites, and every lead that I generate, I share with each other. In terms of what I write, I look at questions from our existing users.
+See the infographic of this plan and more details in this blog post.
+To help us decide what to write I looked at our competitors. This is an absolutely fantastic tool if you don’t know it, its BuzzSumo.com. You can put in all your competitors and it will list all the content from their blogs and will rank it based on how many shares that content got. I will put through a list of all 40 competitors add the results to a great big excel sheet. I rank all the most popular content topics and I essentially have our content plan for the next twelve to eighteen months based on this. Do not just look at competitors. Look at media sites, people who report in your industry, who write about your industry, even prolific bloggers. Look at what they write about and rank the most popular content from them.
+Now, inbound marketing is absolutely fantastic, I’ve had great results from inbound. And it really does offer unrivalled return on investment, but it is damn slow. So it’s on to the second part of the plan that I operate.
+Outbound (spears)
+Primarily, I focus on outbound sales and we’re using the Predictable Revenue framework. I don’t just hand this job off to sales because if I go back to the previous diagram section B, marketing needs to rediscover the customer profile. I need to find our own marketing voice, what works, what doesn’t work. And I need to adjust our sales and marketing pitch to this market.
+There are some practical / process aspects that aren’t covered in the book. I will cover what I have discovered here.
+This is our current prospecting flow that I operate.
+Prospecting flow
+Some people are going to wince here, but I go out and scrape the web for our target companies, I scraped our contact details, and I do some data cleaning on those, I pop them into the CRM, send them a prospecting message, and if they are interested I give them a call. I will go into that in a bit more detail.
+Web scraping
+I built a team of five people,.
+Bonus: Download the original job description I used to hire suitable contractors on Upwork.com for this role. Also includes prospecting email templates and reporting template.
+.
+our CRM, where duplicates are removed. Duplicates are unavoidable with a team.
+CRM
+The leads are tagged to track the source of who created the leads and what are the details of the lead generators. So then once I start measuring I can go back and see what was the cost of the success. Also, I can see who the low performing members of the team are and I can perhaps move on to others.
+Prospecting message
+This is a real example (above) of our current prospecting message that I send out. The beauty of Predictable Revenue when creating prospecting mails is not asking for a sale, it’s actually asking for a referral and people by default really want to help so it’s a great foot in the door. For examples of prospecting messages (they’re not covered in the Predictable Revenue book) go to blog-close.io, breakthroughemail.com and hubspot . Hubspots examples are more geared towards a fremium model where the prospect has used some aspect of your business or downloaded resources beforehand.
+The emails would be sent from the sales team using a tool like Yesware. An alternative to try is Outreachplus.
+Bonus: Download the cold cold email templates I use and see when to send them. Also includes the Upwork job description to hire your team and a reporting template.. Next week we’re aiming for 2.5%, and I have an overall target of having up to 30%. Whether I hit 30%, I have no idea, but that’s our overall target.
+Bonus: Download the spreadsheet reporting template I use to track the success of a campaign. Also includes prospecting email templates and the Upwork job description for hiring your team.
+Call
+And then it’s over the sales guy, and Colm is a brilliant sales guy. The goal is to get a demo of the product, and I find that for every two demos I do I get one sale which is a pretty good return.
+Overall our goal in about two years is that inbound marketing will overtake sales prospecting in terms of lead generation. I want to lead with inbound marketing but at the moment outbound sales prospecting is the reality, and I don’t see us doing away with that totally.
+Questions
+Followup questions from the audience:
+- Q: My question is about the the conversion rate. Was that on the email open rate or the total sent?
+A: It was on the email open rate. I sent through MailChimp and its based on the open rate.
+- Q: How many leads do you need per sales person or how many presentations are you scheduling?
+A: I are aiming for six presentations a week. Which I think is quite good and will hit the target that I want to get to. I did not mention the split testing I do with the prospecting messages. We’re going through a high number of prospecting messages at the moment, almost 1000 a week. This number will drop as I become more targeted. I split the message to try and bump our numbers up.
+- Q: What is the most successful message that you sent out?
+A: At the moment it is the one that I featured here. That is our current message and we’re testing against that.
+- Q: Eventually you’re going to hit the end of the barrel, so what’s your next step with this?
+A: At the moment I target UK companies of 50-200 people, and we’re prospecting with the title Managing Director. There are over 20,000 results in the UK at the moment. So I ’ve a little while to go and there’s a lot of emails that aren’t opened which you can still re-target again. Next stage I ‘ll be targeting companies a little bit bigger in size. We’re finding at the moment that I ’re getting a lot of responses that say, “No, we’re not interested.”, which means that we’re actually hitting the wrong people. I should be getting “I’m not the person you should be talking to, and be referred over to the right person”.
+- Q: Have you tried re-targeting pixel messages in your email?
+A: Re-targeting pixels? I’m going to have to talk to you after to find out more. We’re tracking open rates. That’s it.
+- Q: At what point would you go down to paid advertising?
+A: Paid advertising? At the moment it’s all experimental and until I find traction, I can’t tell you right now. If I can prove which channel works, I ‘ll chuck as much money as I can at it.
+- Q: What’s your subject line in the email?
+A: I have it in the mail above and its “Quick request”.
+And that was it. Alright, thank you very much guys.
+Watch the Video (18 mins)
+Download the email messages & job description to build A Prospecting Team.
+In this spreadsheet you will find the following:
+- The 5 prospecting emails to send and the best timing to send them.
+- The job description posted to Upwork.com to find the lead scraping team.
+- The report template to track the success of each prospecting campaign.
+Growing garlic plants successfully in your garden is satisfying because you get fresh garlic without having to buy them. But, you should know the temperature of the area since it plays an important role in determining the successful growth of the garlic.
+In general, garlic grows best when they receive a temperature range between 32-50°F for the first 2-3 months. Though garlic can tolerate a wide range of temperatures once roots develop, extreme temperatures are not good for them, especially at the early stage of growth.
+Too cold or too hot can have negative effects on garlic plants. This guide will help you know the ideal temperature for garlic and how to deal with garlic during extreme temperatures.
+What is the ideal temperature for garlic?
+Generally, garlic plants enjoy cool weather for vigorous growth, but they also need heat for bulb development.
+After planting, the ideal temperature required for garlic is between 32°F and 50°F for the first two months.
+This temperature helps the cloves in the vernalization process for which the bulb growth gets triggered.
+The garlic cloves can get this temperature range in the winters.
+But, if you belong to regions with milder winters, the bulbs can’t receive these temperatures.
+In that case, you need to refrigerate your cloves for 6-10 weeks before planting.
+For refrigerating, the cloves will require a temperature of about 40-50°F.
+After the roots become strong, garlic can tolerate a wide range of cold and hot temperatures.
+Garlic grows best when the air temperature remains about 68-70°F, and the soil temperature is about 60°F.
+Despite the garlic plants’ tolerance to extreme temperatures, there are some limitations.
+After all, no plant can tolerate temperatures after one level.
+The ideal temperature for garlic in winter is around 30-50°F, and in summers, it is up to 70-80°F.
+Though garlic can tolerate temperatures lower than 20°F, it won’t be able to handle temperatures beyond 80°F.
+How hot is too hot for garlic plants?
+Garlic is generally a cold-hardy plant.
+It can endure cold temperatures to a great extent, but it won’t be able to tolerate excessive heat.
+But, on the contrary, some varieties are excellent heat-tolerant varieties.
+Garlic is divided into two groups – Hardneck variety and Softneck variety.
+As the name says, Hardneck has hard necks and is also hardy in colder zones.
+Softneck varieties, on the other hand, are ideal for the warmer zones.
+These varieties are more tolerant of heat temperatures than the Hardneck varieties.
+So, if you live in warmer zones where temperatures are hot enough, you can grow the Softneck varieties.
+What happens if garlic is exposed to extremely high temperatures?
+Remember that all the varieties can endure up to 70-80°F.
+If your region receives excessive hot summers where temperatures rise above 90-95°F, garlic will stop growing.
+As I mentioned, once the cloves develop roots, they can tolerate the hot weather greatly.
+But, there is an endurance limit.
+Temperatures around 90-95°F will stunt the growth of garlic.
+Garlic will mature early at such high temperatures, and harvest time will arrive sooner.
+The sad part here is you will not get the ideal bulb sizes.
+They will be smaller than your expectations.
+The garlic cloves will require vernalization for 40 days.
+If the temperature rises above 90-95°F, which is quite common during the summer in warmer regions, the cloves can de-vernalize.
+If de-vernalization occurs, you will receive smaller bulbs.
+Looking for gardening supplies? We have tested 100's of products before recommending them to you guys. Check out our best pick below:
+What should I do if the temperature gets too hot?
+If you wish to grow garlic in the warmer regions, you should let the cloves have proper vernalization and let your plant grow bigger with lots of leaves.
+Sometimes, it is better to choose the garlic varieties that can tolerate such amounts of hot temperatures.
+Softneck varieties are perfect for areas with warmer climates.
+They can tolerate more heat than the other variety.
+Besides, Softneck varieties don’t require a very hard cold for vernalization.
+A cold temperature of around 50°F for 30-40 days is enough.
+Plant the garlic 4 weeks before the ground freezes so the cloves can receive the winter cold for vernalizing.
+To complete the vernalization process, you can give the garlic cloves this cold treatment by storing them in the refrigerator for 8-12 weeks before planting.
+No matter how bad higher temperatures are for garlic, it would be best not to plant them in the shade.
+Even if the sun’s heat is too much, you should always plant the garlic cloves in a sunny location.
+To keep them cool from extreme heat, you should water them well to maintain consistently moist soil.
+Should I grow garlic in warmer climates?
+The first best time for planting garlic is fall.
+If you have missed it, the next preference is early spring.
+If you have missed both, you can still plant garlic in the summer only if your living areas receive cool summers and mild winters.
+If planted in late summer, the cloves can overwinter and continue growing in the spring.
+You can try green garlic if your area has a shorter growth period.
+This garlic matures faster and can only be harvested in 2-3 months.
+Also read: When To Plant Garlic Bulbs? (+Seasonal Guide)
+How cold is too cold for the garlic plants?
+Garlic has an excellent endurance level for cold weather.
+It can tolerate cold temperatures as close as -20°F to -30°F.
+The Hardneck varieties have a higher tolerance level for cold than the Softneck varieties.
+They can be easily grown in zones 2-9, where the minimum temperatures are -40°F.
+Softneck varieties are better for warmer zones but can also tolerate cold temperatures around -20°F.
+Garlic requires a long cold temperature of around 30-40°F for at least 40 days for vernalization. So they can grow efficiently in cold weather.
+Some Softneck varieties like Sicilian are native to zones 8-10 and can tolerate temperatures around 10-15°F.
+California Early and Late can tolerate around 0 to -5°F without damage.
+What happens if garlic receives excessive cold weather?
+But, excessive cold is not good for garlic. Garlic cloves generally don’t suffer much from cold injury unless you don’t cover them with mulch.
+The ground can freeze too much if the weather is very cold and frosty.
+The soil gets displaced around the tender roots of the cloves.
+The frost harms them, thus resulting in no plant growth.
+At 5°F, the small, recently developed garlic heads will die.
+If temperatures drop to 12°F or below, even the well-established garlic heads will die.
+The garlic tops that have received frost will yield less than those that have not yet received frost.
+But, don’t worry, because the heads will grow back once the temperature rises above 40°F.
+During the winter, a condition occurs called frost heave, where the temperature fluctuates greatly.
+One day, the weather is frosty, and the other day, it’s warm like summer.
+These fluctuations crack the soil around the tender roots and tear them, resulting in stunted growth.
+What can I do if the weather gets too cold?
+If your area receives mild winters, you can easily plant garlic cloves and grow them without issues.
+But if your region gets cold enough, you should not forget to mulch the cloves.
+The mulch should be at least 6 inches thick.
+The mulch will stop the cold from reaching the roots.
+It also allows the hot weather to reach the roots during the frost heave.
+As a result, the bulbs won’t start growing in the cold, which is good.
+If your area receives extreme cold and frost, you should plant the garlic cloves at least 4-6 inches deep so that the frost cannot reach the tender roots and damage them.
+Also read: Will Garlic Survive Frost? (+Protect Garlic From Cold Weather)
+How to overwinter garlic?
+Here are some simple steps to grow and overwinter garlic:
+- Plant your garlic in the fall, so it gets time to grow roots, and then the winter season for bulb development.
+- After planting and watering the bed, cover the cloves with mulch like straw, sawdust, leaves, or grass clippings.
+- Let them overwinter.
+- Avoid wearing and fertilizing your garlic cloves. Since it will become dormant when the ground freezes, it won’t absorb any of it.
+- Add another 4-6 inches of mulch to prevent the spring weeds when the snow melts in spring. For covering the garlic cloves, you can use:
+Agrofiber: It is a polypropylene film that doesn’t accumulate moisture and freeze garlic and gives the cloves sufficient light.
+Fallen leaves: These are easily available and work great as mulch. But, the leaves might get infested by bugs and fungi we are unaware of.
+Plant stems: Only stems are used to cover the plant. It can hold the snow and prevent the soil from getting damp when the snow melts.
+Peat: It is a great insulator and saves the cloves from extreme frost. Peat also traps moisture, so avoiding watering won’t bother the cloves.
+Sawdust: It is a good thermal insulator that absorbs and retains moisture greatly. But it is not as strong as others.
+Can I grow garlic in cold areas?
+If you belong to areas where the temperature doesn’t drop below 40-45°F, you can plant garlic in winter.
+If winters are too mild, you need to vernalize the seeds or cloves in the refrigerator for a few weeks and then plant.
+Plant the garlic 3-4 weeks before the first frost.
+It won’t let the garlic sprout out until the cold weather passes.
+Don’t forget to cover the cloves with a thick layer of mulch.
+Final thoughts
+The ideal temperature for garlic is 30-50°F for the first two months after planting. Then, the ideal air temperature for the plant’s and bulbs’ vigorous growth is 70°F. The ideal soil temperature is around 60°F.
+Though garlic requires sun heat for growing, it will stop growing if the temperature rises above 90-95°F. Water the plant to keep them cool but don’t cover them.
+If you live in the warmer areas, it is better to grow Softneck varieties as they can tolerate enough heat and require less vernalization.
+Garlic is an excellent cold-tolerant plant (-30°F), but excessive frost can harm the cloves and roots if you don’t mulch them. In some cases, garlic heads die.
+So, don’t forget to mulch your garlic cloves after planting. Avoid watering and fertilizing. If you live in areas with warm winters, you do not have to cover them much.
+Reference: The Pennsylvania State University, Garlic Production for the Gardener, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Ohio State University Extension.
+Patent application title: Device and Method for Outputting Different Images on at Least Two Display Units
+Inventors:
+Markus Lindner (Stuttgart, DE)
+Axel Kirschbaum (Muehlacker, DE)
+Simone Tonte (Korntal-Munchingen, DE)
+IPC8 Class: AG09G500FI
+USPC Class:
+345 11
+Class name: Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems plural display systems
+Publication date: 2010-08-05
+Patent application number: 20100194666
+Abstract:
+A device for outputting different images on at least two display units is
+described, including a control unit for reading image data of the
+different images from an image memory, for producing a horizontal
+synchronization signal and for outputting the image data and the
+horizontal synchronization signal. The device also includes a processing
+unit for receiving the image data and the horizontal synchronization
+signal, for producing additional synchronization signals respectively for
+one of the at least two display units as a function of the
+synchronization signal provided by the control unit and a clock signal,
+and for dividing the image data transmitted by the control unit in such a
+way that the image data of the different images are output to one of the
+display units.
+Claims:
+1-12. (canceled)
+13. A device for outputting different images on at least two display units, comprising:a control unit configured to: read out image data of the different images from an image memory; generate a horizontal synchronization signal; and output the image data and the horizontal synchronization signal; anda processing unit configured to: receive the image data and the horizontal synchronization signal; b) generate at least one additional synchronization signal for at least one of the two display units as a function of at least the horizontal synchronization signal supplied by the control unit and a clock signal; and c) divide the image data transmitted by the control unit in such a way that the image data of the different images are respectively output to the two display units.
+14. The device as recited in claim 13, wherein the horizontal synchronization signal is configured to initiate a start of an image line made up of pixels, the image line being formed from a line of each of the different images.
+15. The device as recited in claim 13, wherein the at least two different images are stored next to each other in the image memory.
+16. The device as recited in claim 13, wherein the processing unit is configure to generate the at least one additional synchronization signal for each of the two display units, and wherein the at least one additional synchronization signal includes at least one of an additional horizontal synchronization signal, a vertical synchronization signal, an enable signal, and a clock signal.
+17. The device as recited in claim 13, wherein the processing unit has two memories for storing the image data of the different images for the at least two display units, and the two memories of the processing unit are configured to each store no more than data for one image line.
+18. The device as recited in claim 13, wherein the processing unit is connected by an LVDS link to at least one of: a) the control unit; and b) at least one of the two display units.
+19. The device as recited in claim 13, wherein the processing unit is configured as an FPGA.
+20. The display device as recited in claim 13, wherein the processing unit has an interface configured to set a frequency for outputting the image data to at least one of the two display units.
+21. A method for outputting different images on at least two display units, comprising:reading out, by a control unit, image data of the different images from an image memory;generating, by the control unit, a first horizontal synchronization signal;outputting, by the control unit, the first horizontal synchronization signal and the image data to a processing unit;generating, by the processing unit, additional synchronization signals for the at least two display units as a function of the first horizontal synchronization signal supplied by the control unit and a clock signal; anddividing, by the processing unit, the image data transmitted by the control unit in such a way that the image data of the different images are respectively output to the two display units.
+22. The method as recited in claim 21, wherein:the image data are output by the control unit to the processing unit at a first frequency; andthe image data are buffered at least partially by the processing unit and are output to the two display units at frequencies respectively assigned to the two display units, the frequencies respectively assigned to the two display units being lower than the first frequency.
+23. The method as recited in claim 21, wherein the image data of the different images are read out from the image memory line by line in an alternating manner such that one image line of one image is read out after an image line of a different image is read out.
+24. The method as recited in claim 22, wherein the frequencies respectively assigned to the display units are selected in such a way that a time available for outputting one image line of the different images is the time during which one image line of the different images is transmitted to the processing unit.
+Description:
+BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
+1. Field of the Invention
+[0001]The present invention is directed to a device and a method for outputting different images on at least two display units.
+2. Description of Related Art
+[0002]U.S. Pat. No. 6,215,459 describes a video control circuit for triggering two display units. Image data are read out of an image memory, the image data being output alternately to a display controller for the first display unit and to a display controller for the second display unit via two circuit units. For the case when the two display units differ in their output rate, first-in-first-out memory units are also provided, in which the transmitted image data may be stored temporarily before being forwarded to the display controllers.
+BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
+[0003]The device according to the present invention for outputting different images on at least two display units has the advantage over the related art that at least two images are generated from a video signal suitable for direct display generation via a suitable processing unit, each of the different images being displayed on a display unit provided for this purpose. Via conversion in the processing unit, it is thus possible to display an image on multiple display units using only one display controller. It is thus possible to reduce the number of display controllers, which are usually rather complex. It is even possible to use one display controller to trigger two display units having different display technologies or different image sizes. Thus, on the whole, this makes it possible to reduce the electronic complexity for displaying different images on multiple display units.
+[0004]Advantageous refinements and improvement of the device indicated in the independent claim and the method indicated in the additional independent claim are possible through the measures specified in the dependent claims. It is particularly advantageous to initiate a start of an image line made up of a corresponding image line of all the different images through the horizontal synchronization signal. Thus the image line of the multiple different images may be output by the control unit in such a way that the multiple different images may be displayed simultaneously and in proximity in a display unit of suitable size. The different images are therefore transmitted line by line in one form from the control unit to the processing unit as if it were one large common image. This simplifies the interface as well as the data transfer from the control unit to the processing unit.
+[0005]Furthermore, it is advantageous to store the at least two different images in the image memory next to each other. In this way the images may be read out conveniently and in particular easily line by line.
+[0006]It is also advantageous to generate the triggering signals for triggering the individual display units in the processing unit. These signals may be generated easily because synchronization signals and clock signals are already being supplied by the control unit to the processing unit and thus it does not necessarily require a new calculation but instead in particular a suitable conversion of these signals for the individual display units is required.
+[0007]Furthermore, it is advantageous to provide a memory for the processing unit for storing the image data of the different images for the at least two display units. This memory makes it possible in particular to provide image data for output for the particular period of time by transmitting a different image for a different display unit to the processing unit. This makes it possible to transmit image data of the different images on the processing unit line by line one after the other, in particular without interrupting a quasi-continuous image data output from the processing unit to the display unit. This makes it possible to ensure a continuous flicker-free image display on multiple display units. Memory may be implemented in a particularly favorable way by storing up to one image line in each case. On the one hand, a suitable triggering of the image data transfer for continuous image data output to the display units is possible here, while on the other hand the required memory space may be minimized.
+[0008]It is also advantageous to connect the processing unit to the control unit and/or the display units via an LVDS link (low voltage differential signaling). This allows data transmission between the individual electronic components in a particularly interference-free manner.
+[0009]It is also advantageous to design the processing unit as an FPGA (field programmable gate array). An FPGA may be designed inexpensively on the one hand while on the other hand it allows almost parallel processing of image data for output to various display units and may also be easily adapted by the manufacturer of the device to the requirements of the image data transmitted by the control unit as well as to the requirements of the display units connected to the processing unit.
+[0010]It is also advantageous to provide an interface on the processing unit for defining a frequency for output of the image data to at least one of the display units on the processing unit. In this way the device according to the present invention for outputting different images on at least two display units may also be adapted to another display unit connected to the device according to the present invention.
+[0011]Furthermore, it is advantageous to output the image data from the control unit to the processing unit at a first frequency and, if necessary, to output temporarily stored image data with a lower frequency to the multiple display units. This makes it possible to ensure that in the time during which the image data for multiple different images are transmitted, these different images are output more or less simultaneously to the output units. It is possible in this way to avoid parallel data transmission from the control unit to the processing unit.
+[0012]Furthermore, it is advantageous to read out successively a corresponding image line from the different images, e.g., first the first line of the first image, then the first line of the second image and next the second line of the first image, etc. The frequencies for output of the image data to the processing unit are preferably each selected in such a way that, for output of one image line of the different images, the approximate time is available during which an image line of all the different images is transmitted to the processing unit. This makes it possible to reduce the memory demand in the processing unit to temporary storage of one image line. Furthermore, there is no interruption in the data flow from the processing unit to the different display units.
+BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING
+[0013]FIG. 1 shows a device according to the present invention for outputting different images on at least two display units in a motor vehicle.
+[0014]FIG. 2 shows an exemplary embodiment of a device according to the present invention for outputting different images on two display units in a schematic diagram.
+[0015]FIG. 3 shows an example of image data including pixel information of different images.
+[0016]FIG. 4 shows an exemplary embodiment of clock signals and synchronization signals between the control unit and the processing unit on the one hand and between the processing unit and two display units connected to it on the other hand.
+[0017]FIGS. 5a, 5b and 5c show an exemplary embodiment of transfer and readout of image data in two memory devices of the processing unit.
+DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
+[0018]The device according to the present invention may be used for any applications in which different image data are output to different display units. However, use in a motor vehicle is advantageous in particular, because in general only a limited installation space, limited electric power and/or limited computation capacity are/is available in a motor vehicle. The present invention is therefore explained below using the example of application of the device according to the present invention for outputting different images on two display units in a motor vehicle. The images may differ in their image content. This does not prevent the images from having the same content, depending on a desired output. However, different image contents would be possible in principle. The images may be of the same size here, but in another embodiment they may also differ in their image format.
+[0019]FIG. 1 shows schematically an instrument panel 2 in front of the driver in a motor vehicle 1 below a windshield 3. In instrument panel 2 a combination instrument 4 is provided for display of driving data of vehicle 1. For example, values such as the prevailing driving speed may be displayed in a pointer display 5. Combination instrument 4 has a liquid crystal display as the display unit, in which an image of pointer display 5 is displayed. Combination instrument 4 is connected to a device for outputting images 6. Furthermore, a projection unit 7 for generating a head-up display 8 on windshield 3 and in a preferred specific embodiment also a display unit 9 in an area of a central console of instrument panel 2 are connected to the device for outputting images 6. For example, a night viewing display of a road scene in front of vehicle 1 may be displayed in head-up display 8. For example, navigation aids may be output in central console display unit 9.
+[0020]The images output by the respective display units are generated in device 6 for output of the images in the manner according to the present invention. The functioning of the device for image output is shown in detail in FIG. 2. One embodiment is shown here, in which two display units, e.g., combination instrument 4 and projection unit 7, are connected to the device for image output.
+[0021]FIG. 2 shows schematically the device for outputting different images 6 according to the present invention, whereby device 6 itself is differentiated from the other unit connected to it by a dashed line. Thus, a first display unit 11 and a second display unit 12 are connected to the device for outputting different images 6. Furthermore, the device for outputting different images 6 is connected to a computer unit 20. Computer unit 20 determines the image information that is to be output on display units 11 and 12. To do so, computer unit 20 is connected, e.g., to a camera 21, a navigation device 22, a data medium drive 23 and to sensors 25, 26 in the vehicle, preferably via a databus 24.
+[0022]A video image is recorded by camera 21 and transmitted to computer unit 20. Driving data and/or ambient data of the vehicle are supplied to computer unit 20 by sensors 25, 26 in particular. These data may include, for example, the engine rotational speed, the prevailing vehicle velocity, the tank filling level, the cooling water temperature or the outside temperature. Information about driving instructions to be output is transmitted from navigation device 22 to computer unit 20. In particular image information for output via display units 11, 12 may be output from data medium drive 23.
+[0023]Image information and corresponding commands for image output are transmitted from computer unit 20 to device 6 for outputting different images and here to control unit 30 via a suitable interface 29. The information transmitted in this way is either only commands for image output or may also be image data but cannot be used further directly without additional processing for triggering one of display units 11, 12, e.g., a TV signal or image data in a compressed data format. For processing, control unit 30 has a graphics processor 31, which processes the raw image data supplied to it and writes image data to be output into an image memory (frame buffer) 32. Image memory 32 is designed in such a way that a first image 41 that is to be displayed in first display unit 11 and a second image 42 that is to be displayed in second display unit 12 are entered jointly into image memory 32. The image data of two images 41, 42 are preferably not mixed in being written to image memory 32 but instead each is stored separately but next to each other in the memory. For outputting the image data of two images 41, 42 to display units 11, 12, the image data are read out of the image memory by a display controller 33 in control unit 30. Images 41, 42 are preferably read out line by line.
+[0024]Image data 41, 42 are preferably stored in image memory 32 in such a way that they may also be interpreted as one large image accordingly. In line-by-line readout, first the first image line of first image 41 is read out and immediately thereafter the first image line of second image 42 is read out and transmitted to display controller 33. Display controller 33 converts the image data transmitted to it into such electronic signals that may be converted directly into an image by a display unit, e.g., VGA or RGB display signals. Display controller 33 to this end has a second data output 35 which has color conductors, for example, each being assigned to one color bit of the colors red, green and blue. A red, green and blue value is then assigned to each pixel. In this way it is possible to perform 8-bit coding of the color values, for example, so that the color information for a pixel is transmitted over 24 individual conductors forming second data output 35.
+[0025]To permit horizontal and vertical synchronization of the image in a display unit and to characterize the relevant image data signals, display controller 33 also has a first data output 34 which preferably also has three conductors.
+[0026]Synchronization signals are transmitted over first data output 34, in particular a vertical synchronization signal for synchronization of the beginning of the image, a horizontal synchronization signal for synchronization of the beginning of the line and a so-called enable signal that characterizes image information output by second data output 35 as useful data for a display unit for the case when this signal is set. The image data are assigned here by display controller 33 to the corresponding color value.
+[0027]The readout of the image data and the output of the triggering information by display controller 33 are controlled by a working clock which is preselected by a clock generator 36 in control unit 30. This clock pulse is also transmitted to the processing unit 50 over a clock conductor 37 and thus also controls the processing of the transmitted pixel information and synchronization signals.
+[0028]A display unit may be connected directly to the interface formed by the first and second data outputs 34, 35 and the clock conductor, this display unit being large enough, for example, so that it is able to display both of images 41, 42 side by side on its display surface. The output signal would be suitable for having both images 41, 42 appear side by side on a suitably large display unit if the output trigger signals are coded in such a way that they can be read by the display unit accordingly. No further conversion of the data output by the display controller would be necessary. In practical terms, data for direct generation of a display unit display would then be output by display controller 33, this display corresponding to a side-by-side arrangement of two images 41, 42.
+[0029]According to the present invention, the image data converted into triggering signals are not, however, output directly to a display unit but instead are sent to a processing unit 50. The synchronization signals output by first data output 34 are forwarded to a computer unit 51 of processing unit 50. In a first embodiment, one operating cycle of processing unit 50 is obtained from the clock pulse of the image signals transmitted. Clock unit 52 generates the processing clock pulse for image output to first display unit 11 and to second display unit 12. In a first embodiment, the frequency of the clock signals is reduced by half by clock generator 36 through clock unit 52 and also shifted in phase if necessary. In another embodiment, different frequencies which are stored in a memory 53 of processing unit 50 may be preselected for first display unit 11 and second display unit 12. Memory 53 is connected to an interface 54. The output parameters for display units 11, 12 are stored in memory 53. If the output parameters are to be altered because another display unit is to be connected to processing unit 50 instead of one of the display units 11 or 12, these altered parameters may be entered into memory 53 via interface 54.
+[0030]The synchronization signals transmitted by first data output 34 and preferably the unaltered clock signal of clock generator 36 are sent to computer unit 51 of processing unit 50. The pixel information output by second data output 35 is sent to a switch unit 55, which is triggered by computer unit 51. Depending on the setting of switch unit 55, the pixel data output by display controller 33 via second data output 35 are written into a first memory 61 or into a second memory 62. Memories 61, 62 are designed as a dual-ported RAM or as a first-in-first-out memory, for example. First memory 61 is assigned to first display unit 11 and second memory 62 is assigned to second display unit 12. Memories 61, 62 are preferably designed in such a way that they include no more than one image line but at least half an image line of an image, which is displayed in display units 11, 12 assigned to particular memory 61, 62.
+[0031]The basic operation of the image data output takes place in such a way that an image line including a line of first image 41 and second image 42 is output pixel by pixel by display controller 33. If the horizontal synchronization signal for the particular line has been received in computer unit 51 and if the enable signal is also activated, then computer unit 51 sets switch 55 in such a way that the pixel data output via second data output 35 are written to first memory 61. Computer unit 51 then counts the pixels on the basis of the clock signals output by clock generator 36. The number of pixels per line in first display unit 11 is stored in memory 53. If the number of pixels in a line of first display unit 11 has been transmitted, which may be determined by computer unit 51 on the basis of the number of clock signals received after activation of the enable signal, then the transmission of pixel data to first memory 61 is stopped and switch 55 is switched, in such a way that the next pixel transmitted is already written to second memory 62. Accordingly, the first part of the line, namely the part belonging to first image 41, is written to first memory 61 and the second part of the line, namely the part belonging to second image 42, is written to second memory 62. After computer unit 51 has found that all the pixels of the line of second image 42 have been transmitted, writing of pixels into second memory 62 is interrupted. After arrival of the next horizontal synchronization signal output by display controller 33, the next image line is written to memories 61, 62.
+[0032]In the meantime, the triggering data transmitted to memory 61 have already been output, so that the corresponding pixel information is forwarded to display units 11, 12 and has produced a display of the pixels of the respective image line accordingly. Output of the pixel information from memories 61, 62 preferably takes place at half the frequency with which the image information is transmitted from control unit 30 to processing unit 50 for display units of the same size. In the time during which the line information about two different images 41, 42 is transmitted per line, the image information of one line is output from memories 61, 62 in parallel processing. This readout operation is explained on the basis of FIGS. 5a, 5b and 5c.
+[0033]FIG. 5a illustrates a state in which, indicated by an arrow 70, approximately 80% of the first image line of first image 41 has been written to first memory 61. In comparison with readout of image data and output to the display units, writing to memory takes place at twice the speed. Therefore, at this point in time only 40% of the information of the first image line of first image 41 has been read out and displayed in display unit 11. This is represented by second arrow 71 in FIG. 5a.
+[0034]FIG. 5b illustrates the situation at a point in time when not only the first image line of first image 41 but also half of the first image line of second image 42 have been transmitted, the image information of the second image having been written to second memory 62. The status of writing image information is represented by arrow 73. At this point in time, 75% of the image information of the first image line has already been output, as represented by arrow 73. With input of the image information into second memory 62, reading image information out of second memory 62 and display of it in second display unit 12 has also been started. At this point in time, 25% of the image information of the first image line of the second image has already been read out, as indicated by arrow 74.
+[0035]FIG. 5c illustrates the situation at a later point in time, when the first image line of the first and second images has already been transmitted completely and the beginning of the second image line of the first image has already been 20% transmitted and written into first memory 61. The status of the write information is emphasized by arrow 75. The image information of the first line of first image 41 already transmitted may now be overwritten because the first image line has already been output completely. Now the second image line, represented by arrow 76, has already been 10% output. The first image line of second image 42 has been written completely to second memory 62. The first image line of second image 42 has already been 60% output, represented by arrow 77. The image information of first image 41 and second image 42 has thus been output to first and second display units 11, 12, with a time shift of half a line between them, but it is possible to display image data 41, 42 of the different images in display units 11, 12 continuously.
+[0036]FIG. 3 shows an exemplary embodiment of a pixel signal output by display controller 33 via second data output 35. First color information on the pixels of first image 41 is output, characterized by bracket 81, with individual pixels 84 containing pixel information about the particular line of the first image. Pixel information of second image 42 of the same line, represented by bracket 82, follows this. Before pixel data 81' of the first image is transmitted again, pause data, so-called blanks 83, may be transmitted.
+[0037]FIG. 4 shows an exemplary embodiment of clock signals and synchronization signals over time. A clock signal, an enable signal and a horizontal synchronization signal are shown here. In a first representation, the signals generated by control unit 30 are displayed at the output of display controller 33. In a second representation 92 the signals generated by processing unit 50 are displayed at the output of processing unit 50 to first display unit 11. In a third representation 93, the signals generated by processing unit 50 are displayed at the output of processing unit 50 to second display unit 12.
+[0038]In first representation 91, clock signal 94 is shown with which the image data is transmitted from control unit 30 to processing unit 50. The clock signals with which the image data are output by processing unit 50 to first display unit 11 and second display unit 12, i.e., clock signals 95, 96 in displays 92 and 93, are generated by clock unit 52 from clock signal 94. These signals have half the frequency in comparison with clock signal 94.
+[0039]The response of horizontal synchronization signal 97 during period of time 98 initiates the subsequent transmission of image data from control unit 30 to processing unit 50 in representation 91. In subsequent time phase 99 during which the enable signal is set, the image data of one line of first image 41 as well as of second image 42 are transmitted. The separation between image data of first image 41 and of second image 42 is indicated by dashed line 100. The transmission phase is followed by a pause phase 101 during which no image data are transmitted and the enable signal is not set. After a second horizontal synchronization signal pulse 102, the next image line is transmitted.
+[0040]For output of the image data in first display unit 11, computer unit 51 generates a particular horizontal synchronization signal 103, which is output to first display unit 11. During period of time 104, a corresponding enable signal, which is also generated by computer unit 51 of processing unit 50, is output to first display unit 11. In period of time 104, trigger data for the pixels of the image line are also transmitted to first display unit 11.
+[0041]Offset by approximately the period of time which corresponds to output of half an image line to first display unit 11, the image data output to second display unit 12 is initiated by a corresponding horizontal synchronization signal 105 output by computer unit 51 to second display unit 12. The image data are transmitted to second display unit 12 during period of time 106, during which the corresponding enable signal is output by computer unit 51 to second display unit 12. Before this transmission is concluded, the transmission of image data by outputting enable signal 108 to first display unit 11 is initiated again by a horizontal synchronization signal 107. A corresponding procedure is followed for transmission of the following image lines.
+[0042]FIG. 4 shows the transmission of a first image line. The corresponding enable signals, which would have preceded signals 104 and/or 106 in a continuous transmission, i.e., if the preceding lines were present, are represented by dashed lines 109 and 110. After transmission of all image lines of an image, a vertical synchronization signal (not shown in FIG. 4) is output to display units 11, 12 and the next image is output with the next image line, e.g., beginning with the first line.
+[0043]In one specific embodiment, the data transmission from control unit 30 to processing unit 50 takes place via an LVDS interface in which voltage difference signals are transmitted. In this way, the electromagnetic radiation emission is minimized. Processing unit 50 and control unit 30 may be situated on a shared circuit board in one embodiment in such a way that both control unit 30 and processing unit 50 are each designed as a separate integrated circuit. In a preferred embodiment, at least one of display units 11, 12 is connected to processing unit 50 via an LVDS interface. Processing unit 50 is preferably designed as an FPGA (field programmable gate array). The units implemented in processing unit 50 in FIG. 2 are thus not implemented in discrete hardware but instead are simulated by hardware of the FPGA. In another embodiment, the circuit shown in FIG. 2 may also be implemented by an ASIC instead of an FPGA. In an implementation by an FPGA, however, the existing structure may easily be adapted to other display applications.
+[0044]FIG. 2 shows as an example the output of two different images on two display units. By adding an additional memory to memories 61 and 62, a corresponding additional data output and a modification of the switch to switching between three display units and an expansion of image memory 32 by the content of a third display unit, a third display unit may be connected to processing unit 50. Accordingly, other display units may also be added, the embodiment of the processing unit being adapted accordingly.
+[0045]In another specific embodiment, it is also possible for display units 11, 12 to have different numbers of lines, for example. If display unit 12 occupies only an area 120, for example, then only the image data corresponding to area 121 of second image 42 need also be read out. Until reaching the last line of second image 42 the image data output is unchanged according to the example given above. Pause characters (blanks) are transmitted to the display unit until the next image is pending for output. The data transmission thus takes place with no change in speed.
+[0046]In another specific embodiment, the frequencies for the output of image data to the particular display units may also differ. In this case the only condition to be met is that during the period of time when an image line for both display units is being transmitted, it is also possible to read out both image lines, and the number of pixels must be in a corresponding ratio to the rate of output of pixels to a corresponding display unit. For example if pixel data are output to the second display unit at a rate slower by one-third than to the first display unit, then one-third fewer pixels may be output per line to the corresponding display unit.
+Patent applications by Axel Kirschbaum, Muehlacker DE
+Patent applications by Markus Lindner, Stuttgart DE
+Patent applications in class PLURAL DISPLAY SYSTEMS
+Patent applications in all subclasses PLURAL DISPLAY SYSTEMS
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+Place flour in another shallow dish; place egg whites in another shallow dish. Pat dill pickle chips dry with paper towels. 1) Use a mandoline to cut your cucumber into thin even slices and chop the fresh dill. These look like the most delicious of snacks. Introducing: Pickle Chips—aka the best invention in the past 50 years. and have just the right amount of bite to them! (Sorry, iPhone.). garlic powder; ½ tsp. It's strange how much I can both love and hate it at…. You can also learn how to make pickles at home. onion powder For a more detailed walk-through of the canning process, as well as links to other canning resources, see my post on Homemade Sweet Pickle … Drain jar of pickles, reserving 1 tablespoon pickle juice. Instructions Place the sour cream, mayonnaise, parsley, onion, dill weed and seasoning salt in a bowl. 5 1/2 ounces pickling salt, approximately 1/2 cup. I’d love to see your creations! Pour the vinegar brine over the cucumbers and stir to evenly coat. On top of that, Pickle Chips are the less carby alternative to standard potato chips. The chips are more than pickle-flavored. Quick, refrigerator dill pickle chips are the perfect thing to satisfy your snack craving! I could snack on these things all day long. Sigh. These cucumber “chips” taste EXACTLY like dill pickle potato chips. I could snack on these things all day long. DIRECTIONS Combine all wet ingredients in a bowl mix together by hand. Need a creamy sauce for drizzling or dipping? Place a few of the cucumbers on top of the dill weed. Add desired amount of dill weed. Top with remaining 1/4 cup potato chips and chopped dill, serve and enjoy! Add 2 cups dill pickle potato chips and 1/4 cup fresh dill, mix to combine. After you read “the power…, While this copycat Orange Julius tastes just like the original it's much healthier! Add all remaining ingredients and mix again until combined. Keep in fridge. In a bowl, mix cream cheese, sour cream and pickle juice until combined. Thanks for this super easy recipe! Layer the cucumber slices, garlic, and dill heads into the canning … for when chips just won’t cut it. My family loved these cucumber chips. Homemade Chips Homemade Pickles Pickles Recipe Dill Potatoes Snack Recipes Cooking Recipes Dill Recipes Vegan Recipes … Slice the cucumbers into 1/4″-1/8″ slices. Homemade Dill Pickle Potato Chips. Having a passion for writing her whole life, Laurie joined the Taste of Home team to bring together her two favorite things—creative writing and food. For store-bought cucumbers I would guess it would be about 2. He adds, “Pickles has always been a flavor that people have loved in snacks, whether it’s potato chips or even in our Bigs Vlasic dill sunflower seeds.”, He goes onto explain that Pickle Chips are a nice and tidy method of curbing that craving for an afternoon snack. 1 gallon filtered water. Add panko; cook 2 minutes or until golden, shaking pan frequently. I just heat it up enough to dissolve the sugar so it doesn’t get super hot. olive oil; 1 tbsp. ...and easier…, Something magical happens when veggies are roasted... this golden cauliflower represents a turmeric roasted transformation…, Fall, fall, fall. There’s still no confirmation, but we imagine you’ll find the chips at most major retailers like Walmart and Target. They were such a hit, that my family has placed a standing order. These chips come in a single serving of 4.25 oz. Thanks! We know we can look forward to these pickle chips in the near future, but Conagra hasn’t dropped any hints as to when. Vlasic is making dreams come true with a new product. I haven’t tried it myself but I think they would can well. Dip pickles in egg mixture; dredge in flour mixture. If you’re anything like us, you can eat pickles out of the jar like chips. If you give this recipe a go, let me know! My husband says it’s a crazy dietitian thing to say but I don’t believe him. Enter the dill pickle zucchini chip — just like potato chips, but without all the regret! Oh wow! I’m so happy your family loves them! I have a bunch from my garden! Fry coated pickles … Wash the cucumbers you will use to make into dill pickle chips, but don’t scrub. Thanks for a great recipe. My heart is so warmed by this comment! and in the flavor “original dill.”. 3 pounds pickling cucumbers, 4 to 6-inches long. Dill Sauce. Psst! 2 russet potatoes, thinly sliced; 2 c. pickle brine; 2 tbsp. Share. [instagram-feed num=7 cols=7 showheader=false showbutton=false showfollow=false], « How to Make Caramelized Onions in the Slow Cooker. These zucchini chips … Dill pickles have always been one of my favorite snacks even when I was a kid I would always be into the pickles especially the garlic dill pickles! Place panko in a shallow dish. These chips come in a single serving of 4.25 oz. Here's Just What to Make for the Pickle Lover in Your Life. She spends most of her time playing with her dog, drafting up short stories and, of course, trying out new recipes. Required fields are marked *. 1.7k. Dill pickle potato chips meet ranch-flavored potato chips but made with zucchini instead of potato and baked instead of fried. Thanks to Vlasic, now you don’t have to fish through pickle brine to get your fix. It’s worth it to keep an eye out for them in your local supermarket’s chip aisle (or on your favorite grocery delivery app, if you’re not too keen on going outside right now) in the coming months. On top of that, Pickle Chips are the less carby alternative to standard potato chips. If you were near me, I’d gladly give you some of mine! These cucumber “chips” taste EXACTLY like dill pickle potato chips… They are cold and crunchy with a slightly … Allow to chill for 1 hour. . Remove and stir. McGough also mentioned the imminent release of single-serve pickle slices (!) Pat pickles dry with paper towels. Looks like a perfect cucumber salad for the summer. Preheat oven to 450° and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. and in the flavor “original dill.” McGough also mentioned the imminent release of single-serve pickle slices (!) Thanks. Knowing someone has enjoyed one of my recipes always makes my day brighter. Instructions In a medium-sized mixing bowl mix cream cheese, Greek Yogurt, pickle juice, garlic powder, and fresh dill with a hand mixer. I love this recipe and I love these photos but looking at them makes…, 7 Chia Recipes to Inspire Everybody needs a chia recipe! Saved by CaliSue337. Microwave for 1 minute. Question: you don’t have to cool the brine? Can you do this on a stove if you don’t have a microwave? I’ll definitely be making again. Enter this easy dill sauce! about how many cucumbers do you need for 6 cups sliced? Your email address will not be published. Hers were gone the same day (husband and 2 boys helped), while mine were still tasty a couple of weeks later. Place some dill flowers in the bottom of a jar or crock large enough to hold the cucumbers, spices, and some brine. Thank you for sharing. 1 tablespoon black peppercorns Save Pin Print. Dredge pickles in flour; dip in egg whites, and dredge in panko. I made these for my daughter and myself. What’s different about these? Depends on the size of the cucumber! Eat within a couple of days. Make this recipe and leave a comment saying you agree with me. Thanks! You could cool first if you’d like but I haven’t found it to be necessary! What’s not to love? If salt/sugar is not completely dissolved, microwave again for 20 seconds. … Refrigerate when not in use. Pour in extra virgin olive oil and toss … [share title=”Share This Article” facebook=”true” twitter=”true” google_plus=”true” linkedin=”true” pinterest=”true” reddit=”true” email=”true”], Your email address will not be published. I made this recipe last summer when I had a bunch of small garden cucumbers. Thanks! You would just need to use pickling salt instead as regular table salt can make the brine go cloudy. Pour oil to depth of 1 1/2 inches if using skillet. Have to find myself a cucumber first. These Quick and Easy Dill Pickle Chips come together in a snap and add tons of homemade flavor to sandwiches, burgers and salads. This dill recipe … I love pickles! I use a glass measuring cup for the vinegar and add in the sugar/salt. By Soup Loving Nicole. … This is Wednesday & he is still raving about them. Facebook Tweet ... As with any zucchini chip recipe… By the way, after he tasted them I had to make a second batch that day! It seems these delicious treats have become a new staple on the family gathering table:) Thanks for the simple, foolproof and fabulous gem of a recipe! Combine the vinegar, sugar, and salt in a microwave-safe container. They’re so EASY too. Taste of Home is America's #1 cooking magazine. When mixture is smooth, gently stir in chopped pickles. Arrange pickles … Alternate layers of dill flowers and … Instead, Vlasic is creating the snack using dehydrated pickles. for when chips … freshly chopped dill, plus more for garnish; 1 tsp. Combine the pickle juice with egg, 1 TBs flour and hot sauce; stir well and set aside. These are the best pickle brands, according to our taste testers. For those of you who aren't fans of dill, I'm also including a recipe for plain zucchini chips, which are very tasty too. Subscribe and get 10 FREE meal planning hacks! In a medium shallow bowl, mix together panko, butter, garlic powder and cayenne. How to Make the Best Rugelach Cookies for the Holidays, Lay’s Just Dropped Salted Caramel Potato Chips, and We’re Already Obsessed, 8 Hot Cocoa Bombs You Need This Holiday Season, Do Not Sell My Personal Information – CA Residents. This comment makes me so happy! Combine 1 1/2 cups flour and next 3 ingredients; stir well. Pickle-flavored snacks aren’t exactly uncommon, and pickle-flavored chips have long been found on store shelves. Made them on Monday. Thomas McGough, the co-chief operating officer and vice-president of Conagra, explains that sales for refrigerated pickles have jumped 6% in just the past year. Deselect All. So, I need your help. Hello, I discovered this recipe a number of weeks ago and decided to make them for a small family gathering. Place the sliced cucumbers, dill, and garlic in a container with a lid. … Quick, refrigerator dill pickle chips are the perfect thing to satisfy your snack craving! These are delicious immediately after they're made but taste even better after 20 minutes in the fridge. 2) Place the cucumber slices and chopped dill into a mixing bowl. Leave a comment, rate it, or snap a photo and tag it with #smartnutritionrecipes on Instagram!
+Matchmakers
+MORE PERFECT UNIONS:
+The American Search for Marital Bliss.
+By Rebecca L. Davis.
+Harvard Univ. Press. 317 pp. $29.95
+MORE PERFECT UNIONS:
+The American Search for Marital Bliss.
+By Rebecca L. Davis.
+Harvard Univ. Press. 317 pp. $29.95
+It’s taken a long time to grasp the consequences of the ice storm that hit the American family in the late 1960s. In the decades since, as the number of divorces and unwed mothers climbed into what previous generations would have thought of as the Twilight Zone, social scientists were reassuring. The American family was simply adapting to changing times, they said. Children are resilient, and at any rate they would be happy as long as their mothers were happy. (Scholars tended not to notice that the same revolution that was liberating women from dependence on men was also liberating men—from their children.) But by the early 1990s, better data and more-sophisticated methodologies began to lead sociologists, demographers, and economists who study the family to change their minds. One after another, the nation’s most prominent researchers—Sara McLanahan, Andrew Cherlin, Frank Furstenberg, Paul Amato, and others—looked at the data and saw trouble for kids.
+By now, an expert consensus—in, reinforces the nation’s unacceptable rates of poverty and inequality. There remains strong disagreement about the causes and fixes, if there are any, for all of this, but the basic agreement stands.
+Rebecca L. Davis, a history professor at the University of Delaware, is either unaware of or unimpressed by this consensus. It may not be immediately clear why this matters, since her book, More Perfect Unions, begins as a history of marriage counseling. But as her argument proceeds, a different subject comes into focus: Davis’s skepticism that marriage serves an important public purpose.
+More Perfect Unions contains a reasonable enough account of the arrival of marriage counseling on the American scene in the late 1920s. Mobile, increasingly affluent Americans, impatient with traditional restraints and distanced from potentially supportive kin, found themselves isolated while weathering the inevitable strains of marriage. Their predicament came to the attention of progressive reformers who were influenced by emerging ideas of social science, Freudian theories about neurosis, and the protosexual revolution of the flapper years.
+Some readers will be surprised to learn that almost a century ago specialists had already come to believe that sexual satisfaction was integral to marital well-being. A number of the earliest counselors were physicians working out of birth control clinics, where they provided advice about both contraception and foreplay. Eugenics, a preoccupation among some progressives, was also often part of the counseling package. Paul Popenoe, founder of the California-based Institute of Family Relations (later the American Institute of Family Relations), perhaps the first marriage counseling clinic in the country and one of the longest lasting, educated couples about possible hereditary defects, as well as how to manage marital conflict.
+In the 1930s, marriage counseling became its own therapeutic specialty; by 1942, it had its own professional organization: the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. Though men dominated the leadership of the AAMFT, female social workers were increasingly on the front line as therapists. Davis periodically objects to the profession’s reluctance, despite its connection to social work, to steer couples toward sources of material assistance that might relieve hardship straining marriages during these years. Everything else about her history, however, suggests that marriage counseling was bound to be a middle-class affair. With its theoretical origins in psychiatry, and its clientele and professionals almost exclusively female, it was talky and introspective, hardly the sort of leisure activity to appeal to guys on the factory line. Not surprisingly, counselors promoted relatively egalitarian relationships between husbands and wives. As Davis recounts, it was the progressive judge Ben B. Lindsey, founder of the juvenile courts and one of the first self-anointed marriage experts, who popularized the idea of “companionate marriage” among American audiences.
+Still, marriage specialists did not go so far as to question the separate spheres of husbands and wives. As marriage came under the microscope of a new generation of midcentury social scientists, the goal was “marital adjustment,” meaning, in part, adjustment to male breadwinning and female domesticity. In the late 1930s and the ’40s, psychologists turned to personality testing to uncover the secret of successful unions. In a foreshadowing of our eHarmony age, they even applied their invention to matchmaking by bringing together single men and women with similar interests and backgrounds. Davis suggests that these psychologists were on the wrong track, since so much marital unhappiness was due to women’s frustration with their domestic lot. It’s hard to know whether this is a projection of contemporary attitudes onto the past, but she is certainly correct that by the 1960s women were in outright rebellion against obsolete sex roles imposed by marriage; some feminists wanted to see the entire institution thrown on history’s ash heap.
+Unfortunately, Davis misses a number of opportunities to mine her history. Both social workers and their clients were usually female, meaning that marriage counseling often boiled down to women talking to women about their husbands. Davis makes nothing of this arrangement, yet surely it served to elevate the values of emotional closeness and communication in popular expectations of marriage. She notes how professionals encouraged conven¬tional gender roles, yet fails to explore the extent to which modern work arrangements and the growing importance of childhood education locked men and women into separate spheres. This was Christopher Lasch’s thesis in Haven in a Heartless World (1977), a crucial book on 20th-century theories of the family that is oddly missing from Davis’s sources.
+Nor does she fully delve into the rich topic of her subtitle. What was the American idea of marital bliss, and how much did counselors shape it? Did counselors want to “temper naively romantic youth,” as she says at one point, or did they reflect the American “obsession with marital perfection,” as she says at another? Over time Americans have abandoned the ideal of close, affectionate friendship of the companionate marriage model for the loftier notion of a “soul mate” union. Do those high expectations have anything to do with the fact that roughly half of American marriages end in divorce and 40 percent of children are born out of wedlock? The first marriage clinics had only a few hundred clients a year. Today, as Davis notes, “millions of couples seek help from marriage counselors annually.” What do counselors tell all of those couples about their soul mate dreams? These questions are never raised, much less answered.
+In large measure, this is because by her last chapter Davis abandons her ostensible topic—the history of marriage ¬counseling—for the culture war. She turns her attention to what she views as the growing state interest in marriage, especially since the 1990s. During this time, local and federal governments experimented with religiously conceived covenant marriage and premarital counseling (both of them correctly described as failures), as well as welfare reform and the George W. Bush–era Healthy Marriage Initiative. Yet in quickly passing by the epochal rates of divorce and single motherhood—nothing to see here!—and ignoring the strengthening evidence of problems for children, she makes those looking for a way to stem the decline of the two-parent family seem overwrought. To that end, she often mischarac¬terizes motives, for instance by stating that the primary goal of welfare reform was “transforming the American family” rather than promoting self-sufficiency through work. Worse, she implies that racial animus was behind a lot of reform. The creators of the Minnesota Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Initiative, for instance, used “coded language” that “barely concealed their interest in targeting poor minority mothers.”
+This combination of strategic omission, error, and innuendo is on full display in Davis’s discussion of the infamous 1965 Moynihan Report (The Negro Family: The Case for National Action). Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then an assistant secretary of labor in the Lyndon B. Johnson administration, was among the first to raise the alarm about changes in the family, specifically the black family, in the 1960s. Even as black male employment was rising, the number of female-headed households on the welfare rolls was increasing. This, he argued, would surely hamper black progress. Davis’s take? Moynihan was painting all blacks with the same brush. But as the historian James T. Patterson remarks in his forthcoming book Freedom Is Not Enough, Moynihan explicitly distinguished the black middle class, whose families were largely intact, from fatherless ghetto families. Davis asserts that Moynihan’s ideas became “policy gospel.” In fact, charges of racism hounded Moynihan for years, and the subject of the black family was verboten in policy discussions for more than two decades. By that time, the proportion of black children born out of wedlock—most of whom would barely know their fathers—was well on its way to today’s 72 percent.
+Of course, Davis is free to argue that this statistic and the trends it reflects do not add up to be the social problem most scholars, not to mention the general public, believe them to be. Instead, she implies that the notion that marriage is a public concern is an “ideology” dreamt up by 20th-century marriage counselors, religious activists, and bigots. This is simply wrong.. Marriage counseling was a flawed and, it appears, largely unsuccessful attempt to square modern individualism with that universal arrangement.
+You can say this ancient idea of marriage ain’t so, or with women now financially independent, that it no longer holds true. But given how much better children fare when they grow up with married parents, you’d better make your case. More Perfect Unions doesn’t even try.
+Barbara J King at NPR is repeating her mantra that it’s wrongwrongwrong bad awful reprehensible to say that absurd beliefs are absurd..
+Yes she did. She wondered if Dawkins was “the best man for the job” of giving the keynote speech at the Reason Rally, given its aim to “combat negative stereotypes about nonreligious Americans.”.
+I disputed her claim, and especially her way of making it, at the time.
+She isolates the core issue clearly this time..
+How much does that distinction matter? When it comes to religion, does demeaning a person’s belief not also demean the person?
+Why use demeaning terms, and urge others to use them, for either the belief or the person?
+Because many beliefs are absurd, and if everyone everywhere is deferential about them at all times, then it becomes a lot harder to get rid of them. That’s why. It seems so obvious. Many beliefs one just expects people to shed as they grow out of childhood, because of their obvious absurdity. It’s cute when a child thinks maybe her toys come to life when she’s asleep; it’s worrying if an adult thinks her car has a mind.
+Check out Richard’s post about Minor Vidal. He wasn’t just calling him a fool, and he wasn’t just being randomly obnoxious – he was making a point (and a good one). Minor Vidal was the sole survivor of a plane crash in Bolivia that killed eight people, and he was found after three days by a rescue team.?
+Now on the one hand it’s perfectly understandable that Vidal felt enormous relief at being rescued, and thanking god may be just a way of expressing that – but still – on calm reflection one remembers the other eight, and the survival skills, and the hard work of the rescue team. It really is an ugly belief, that god drowned thousands but saved precious Me. It really is an ungrateful belief, that surgeons worked all night but it was god who saved My life. Richard really isn’t just being a big meanie to point that out.
+Maybe because King is an anthropologist she has a vocational aversion to thinking that absurd beliefs are absurd.
+No, no . . . mustn’t use hurtful words. See elsewhere on FTB New York ninnies attempting to protect impressionable youth from hurtful words.
+So typical of those who disagree but have no answer – they pick on some minor fault and run with it. I see this all of the time when people complain about misspellings. You know they think this somehow destroys the logic of the argument without them ever having to engage the argument.
+I disagree with your argument’s conclusions.
+You misspelled a word or made some other minor grammatical error.
+Your argument is wrong. QED
+Note that she says herself she doesn’t respect the beliefs of YECs (on the audio), so apparently it’s OK for her to do the demeaning.
+I’ve been thinking quite a bit about this issue after a guest poster at The Friendly Atheist said:
+Basically, I responded by saying that empathy and calling out someone for being stupid were not mutually exclusive, and that some people respond positively to having their foolishness ridiculed. There’s plenty else wrong with Amanda’s position, but let’s leave it there.
+Anyway, it’s got me thinking about this whole tone argument/pearl clutching trend. What are these people scared of? Why is it permissible to say racism is wrong (both immoral and scientifically groundless) and people who adhere to racist positions are condemned in the strongest possible terms, but it’s not okay to say religion is wrong (both harmful and scientifically groundless) or call those who adhere to it fools? Even when that’s what we really believe to be true (presumably). Do we worry that the racists’ feelings might be hurt? Do we worry that some people might get the impression that anti-racists feel superior to the racists who also think they’re superior? In fact, we do the opposite: we try to put as much social pressure as we can to influence people to cease the harmful behaviour.
+The number of people who have a dislike if not a hatred for Dawkins is quite amazing. You’d think he was killing Christians and eating their livers with fava beans on television the way some folks complain about him.
+I have my problems with Dawkins. I do hold the “Dear Muslima” letter against him. But he is an effective speaker and writer for atheism. Possibly that’s why so many goddists are upset with him.
+Why “when it comes to religion?” Why doesn’t demeaning a person’s belief about science or history or politics also demean the person? Why the special significance given to religious beliefs?
+Because of the special epistemology the religious beliefs use, that’s why. When you hold a view on science, history, or politics you consider your viewpoint a reflection of the evidence behind it. You drew a conclusion. And you assume –or hope — that any reasonable person coming from a position of neutrality would or should arrive at the very same place. It’s about the facts.
+But when you hold a view on religion, you consider your viewpoint a reflection of who you are. You drew a conclusion from evidence, sure — but you were motivated. You opened up. You reached out. You committed yourself in a way that no neutral person would commit themselves. You choose to have faith. It’s all about you and your relationship with the divine.
+And that is a problem. It’s not a benefit which religion gives the world — this ability to divide people by the facts they choose to put their faith in. It’s the reason atheists are against religion per se, instead of just being against the “mean” ones or the “extremists.”.
+When it comes to religion, we want people to STOP thinking that they are their beliefs. We want them to stop thinking that demeaning a person’s belief means that they’re being personally attacked.
+And it seems terribly counterproductive to try to get this message across by acting as if it’s true — by being deferential and respectful and careful and gentle when religion comes up because these beliefs are so terribly sensitive an area and we really don’t want anyone to feel worried or alarmed that we might try to get them to change who they are. We don’t want them to think we want them to become like us.
+No. Let’s lose the whole identification with belief and stop this nonsense where you believe in things because you want to be the kind of person who believes in that thing and don’t want to be the kind of person who doesn’t. Take your views seriously for a change. Stop making it all about you.
+I thought Dawkins came of very well in the interview, and that King revealed herself more interested in grilling him on these issues than in a real discussion. she hardly ever responded to anything he said. Score one for the right to criticize absurd and dangerous beliefs.
+@ Micheal Fugate,
+“I see this all of the time when people complain about misspellings. You know they think this somehow destroys the logic of the argument without them ever having to engage the argument.”
+I’m often guilty of pointing out gramatical and spelling errors, but that is orthagonal to addressing the main point. The only connection is that a lot of people whose points are complete rot (e.g., most Creationists) are the same people who insist on communicating like illiterate 3-year-olds — as if being “folksy” somehow obviates the need to make a defensible point. In that respect, a bit of grammar-nazi-ism can be seen as a backlash against the “I’s not a elitist book-learnin’ type so i must be right” thing that we see so much of.
+Sastra:
+.”
+If the existence of anyone’s god was just their personal hypothesis, that hypothesis could be attacked and dismissed on many grounds: unprovable, untestable; no rational way of choosing within the variety of unprovable untestables; etc.
+Fact of the matter is that most of the world’s faithful carry on the faith of their immediate ancestors. And because religion is about more than ‘conclusions about reality’ and because it is so closely bound up with having a tribe to identify with, it is stubbornly defended by people like Barbara J King. I put it to you that the Reason Rally and such are at least in part about giving atheists a tribal identity of their own.
+Accordingly, I offer you this substitute statement:
+Tribal identity is not a virtue; it’s a vice. The existence of the tribal identifier is not a value; it’s a hypothesis. Tribal identity is not an identity; it’s a set of conclusions about reality…
+Where’s a good petard when someone else needs one? 😉
+I think Rosencrantz has it.
+Shame he’s dead ;(
+So she is saying that Love the sinner, hate the sin is utter bullshit. Won’t her Christian friends and consumers who subscribe to that bit of wisdom be offended? Or are they incapable of recognizing the exact same distinction used elsewhere, or perhaps subject to special pleading that “It’s not the same”?
+Ian, tribal identity is neither an hypothesis nor a set of conclusions about reality.
+We’re born into our tribes. Or we believe/enjoy/identify with things and then seek out like-minded others, who then become our “tribe”.
+There is no hypothesis. A tribe is a category, not a proposed explanation.
+“A set of conclusions about reality” may be an aspect of some tribes–in particular, religious ones–but it is not a necessary ingredient of tribal identity.
+I’m an American. Yes, yes, I know–the U.S.A., conceived as a monolith, does promote its own version of reality. Nevertheless, even us native USAians are not required to believe it in order to retain our identity as Americans.
+On the other hand, if someone doesn’t believe in the divinity of Jesus, or (for some liberal denominations) at least the overarching moral importance of certain of his supposed teachings, there would be no sense in them identifying as a Christian.
+Sastra, ever think of starting a blog of your own?
+Ah, we’ve begged her. We’ve implored and importuned. She doesn’t want to.
+So we get her wealth in comments, which from our point of view is a good deal. But for the good of the world…another story.
+So this is a case of “are you calling my daddy a liar?”
+I think the appropriate response is “I doubt he’s a liar, he’s most likely an ignorant doofus just like you!”
+It didn’t work last time and no doubt won’t work this time, but here are the two comments (the forum length limit requires me to split ’em up) I���m in the process of submitting over there:
+(1)
+“When it comes to religion, does demeaning a person’s belief not also demean the person?”
+No, very obviously not. That King clearly believes otherwise is a blatant indication of her overwhelming investment in religious privilege, and indeed her fundamental opposition to atheists’ human rights.
+The notion that religion and religion alone (as King bizarrely emphasizes: “When it comes to religion…”) must be insulated from challenge and criticism obliterates any chance that theocracy can ever be opposed—and, given the oppression of atheists and other heretical religious minorities that King flatly ignores in her rush to pathologize open critique of religion, it ensures that atheists can only exist bound, gagged, and shoved into closets—the unavoidable consequence of King’s demands.
+It’s a deep embarrassment that King is able to use her platform as an atheist to shove a dagger into the collective back of her fellow members of a minority that is by several measures the most despised in the United States. King’s declaration that religious believers’ privilege never to have their ideas questioned is more important than the human rights of atheist people is a stain on NPR, not to mention on public discourse more broadly. Despicable.
+(2)
+“Why use demeaning terms, and urge others to use them, for either the belief or the person?”
+Well, self-evidently, because a large number of *beliefs* are both overwhelmingly widespread and obscenely destructive to human rights in the world we all live in. Clearly you consider yourself far too superior even to stoop to address that point (one made repeatedly by Reason Rally speakers), but that does nothing to rebut it; it merely provides further demonstration of your privileged and willfully blind arrogance.
+“Surely it’s not adequate justification that some religious people are guilty of the same….”
+Of course not, which is why no one is actually making that point; it’s a strawman created by your own bigoted imagination.
+Atheists attack religious ideas for the same reason anyone else in the world attacks any ideas: because we believe those ideas to be wrong and harmful. Your attempts to declare the very exercise unethical—but *only* when it’s addressed at religious ideas—can have no other effect but empowerment of theocrats and atheophobes. It is *you*, Ms. King, and not Richard Dawkins, who are cementing bigoted stereotypes of atheists in the public consciousness.
+Stop the privilege. Stop the hate.
+—
+I’ve submitted the first, and the npr.org system is making me “wait a minute or two” to submit the second. We’ll see if either one of them gets through.
+(By “didn’t work and won’t work,” I mean that it’s not going to change King’s mind. I did get some comments of the above variety through the review process last time; in that sense, “it” did “work.” Apologies to James for pirating his verb.)
+Sastra’s statement:
+…”
+Can be transformed into the following:
+“Tribal identity is not a virtue; it’s a vice. The existence of the tribal identifier is not a value; it’s a hypothesis. Tribal identity is not an identity; it’s a set of conclusions about reality….” by making a few consistent substitutions.
+Traditional religious identity involves picking up the faith and values of one’s immediate ancestors. Or at least paying lip service to them. So though you say: “…if someone doesn’t believe in the divinity of Jesus, or (for some liberal denominations) at least the overarching moral importance of certain of his supposed teachings, there would be no sense in them identifying as a Christian.”
+Yet some do. Even priests. They identify as Christians because in their family, social or other context, it is easier to do so than not.
+I put it to you that believing, or at least not denying belief, is a means to belonging. That is why the form of the belief, of whatever sect or denomination, is not as important as everyone holding to the same one.
+Thus in only a limited sense is religion about beliefs. It is more about human loyalties to kith and kin.
+Ian MacDougall #30 wrote:
+Yes. This is pretty much what I’m trying to say. In religion, people conflate factual beliefs (“God exists”) with their identity — their tribe, their character, their values, their culture, etc. The religious beliefs are hypotheses. The tribal identity is not a hypothesis.
+They ought to pry those two apart, and we should help them. Until and unless they do, nobody can approach religious claims with any honesty. And everyone is divided along fixed lines.
+From our perspective, we don’t believe in God because the evidence doesn’t support the conclusion. From the faith perspective, we atheists refuse to believe because we are the wrong kind of people. We reject God, and fail to connect with the sacred. We are lower. We don’t belong.
+If we want to fix that, we can’t just keep telling them that we really respect their tribal identities — and how they formed them.
+Very interesting stuff, Ian and Sastra.
+I think that the elements of religion that aren’t strictly about belief—tribal identification and subjective religious experience being two big ones—are seriously neglected topics in gnu atheist circles. So keep talking about this, please.
+This is exactly why an ad reading simply “Atheists” is rejected as controversial, because our unapologetic existence itself can be considered a personal affront.
+To the extent that religion is part of one’s identity, it’s more than just a matter of illegitimate privilege. Religion might only be central to the identity of a third of the American population, but most of the remainder are at least weakly religious or spiritual, and they typically regard spirituality and virtue as inextricably intertwined.
+Both the true believers and those who are uncomfortably aware of the flimsiness of their beliefs find someone as blunt and uncompromising as Dawkins to be rude and even personally offensive because he calls their virtue into question.
+Maybe we should try an oblique pitch:
+WE DON’T BELIEVE IN ZOMBIES OR GHOSTS
+or angels and demons or saints and sinners
+Stacy:
+Sorry, my post at #20 was addressed to you. But the draft of the whole thing, somehow minus your name at the start, was what got posted. In between writing the sentences of it, I was involved in manhandling a 29,000 L rainwater tank off a truck and into position next to the house.
+Oh yes, and shovelling a couple of tonnes of sand from one pile to another.
+My apologies.
+Rieux @ #22: You’re welcome. I’ve been commenting here at B&W for 10 years (?). Ever since I first got access to the Internet.
+I first got interest in the functional aspects of religion through reading Emile Durkheim. I also have a lot of religious relatives and friends, and I get a lot of ideas from talking to them.
+Rieux #22 wrote:
+You know, I’ve heard this claim a lot — that the gnu atheists don’t examine or pay enough attention to the fact that “religion” is motivated by tribalism and subjective experience — and I don’t think I buy it. On the contrary, when I consider what I’ve read coming out of gnus, major and minor, this seems to be one of the main themes. We’re always deconstructing the many reasons behind religious belief, analyzing the mechanisms and motivations and mysticism behind what appear, on the surface, to be objective claims of fact. We do it all the time.
+What’s different I think is what we then do with the information. The gnus don’t look at the elements of religion which have nothing to do with beliefs and immediately go into Therapist Mode, or Anthropologist Mode. “Ah, I understand. Bob. And, because I understand this — and am a good therapist and a sensitive anthropologist — my hands are off. I will wisely and tactfully remove myself from the insignificant debate over whether or not Christianity is technically true. That doesn’t really matter to Bob.”
+Except that Bob thinks it really DOES matter to Bob. In fact, Bob thinks it is central. And the reason Bob can’t get over his outrage over atheists speaking up is because Bob himself hasn’t figured out that he’s mixed up his identity with an empirical belief.
+Doing that is a bad thing. It’s not something where, once we understand, we must forgive and let go. Not unless Bob is some sort of emotional wreck or object of study and we really are a therapist or an anthropologist, that is.
+Sastra:
+“‘Bob.'”
+With a few provisos, I would actually be in the market for that.
+The present religious map of the world is the way it is largely because the above has been the operating principle. Some religions have grown, and at the expense of others, by a combination of force of documented and influential argument, force of arms, and ancestral influence.
+In the spread of science on the other hand, only the first has been worth anything. Otherwise the scientific map of the world would mirror the religious one, with vast areas still in the grip of the priests of Aristotle, and most of it totally ignorant of Einstein and anything post-Einstein, and with clerics determined to keep it that way.
+“‘I will wisely and tactfully remove myself from the insignificant debate over whether or not Christianity is technically true. That doesn’t really matter to Bob.’”
+I personally do not go around challenging the beliefs of my Christian wife, relatives and friends precisely because it DOES matter to them. A great deal. Likewise, they know what my views are, and do not challenge them, even though evangelical Christianity teaches them that they should, for the sake of my immortal soul.
+Old and new atheists would probably disagree amongst themselves as to what I should or should not do on this personal level, as both hypothetical and categorical imperatives. What B&W (read Ophelia) does, and IMHO quite brilliantly, is to take fatuous public claims made by religious proselytisers and tear them apart. That has to be done regardless of concern for the proselytisers’ sensibilities, because they and outfits like Heartland are about trying to make the scientific outlook conform to their own narrow religious one, the latter largely through a well-funded effort to influence science education.
+However, most Christians of my experience are not into conversion of all and sundry to their view, though some missionisers resent the missionary activities of rivals like Dawkins.
+If Bob’s hard drive is running on an antiquated operating system, it is well to remember that it may be all he has got, or is ready for. Junking the OS may entail junking loyalty to ancestors, relatives and friends.
+I personally scrapped the Christian OS in my teens (which is a few years back now) partly because I ceased to believe that the Universe ran on Biblical lines. For me, as I was then, it was not an easy thing to do.
+Sastra:
+Sure; I hope, though, that it’s clear I’m making the claim much less fervently, and presenting it as a case of Gnus Doing It Rong on a vastly smaller scale, than others making comparable points (say, Julian Baggini or Philip Kitcher) are. The issue I’ve raised is one that I find much less problematic than Baggini et al. do.
+Rather than “motivated,” I think I’d describe it as the way religious adherents experience their own religion and religious identity.
+There are unquestionably millions if not billions of religious people for whom the contents of religious beliefs/doctrines/etc. are utterly central to their own experience of their religion. And those beliefs, in innumerable instances, are both deeply flawed and horrifically destructive. That is, indeed, why the mud Baggini et al. sling at gnus on this general topic is unjust: critics of religion certainly ought to concentrate significant resources on religious belief, because religious belief is demonstrably (1) really, really important to a huge number of religious people and (2) vastly consequential in the world.
+The only caveat I want to argue for is that, in addition to the millions-if-not-billions of religious people for whom belief-as-such is a major element of their conception of their religion, there is a non-negligible minority who regard doctrine as far less important than community identification, subjective religious experience, and other not-all-that-beliefy things. Providing an account of religion that treats it as (say) 99% belief and 1% other stuff inevitably comes across to such people as severely inaccurate. It clearly doesn’t match their own conception of what their religion means to them.
+Again, I don’t think this is a Horrific Problem. One response to the objection I’ve just detailed is “Piss off; there are so few of you ‘religious’ people who don’t care about believing in personal gods and whatnot, in contrast to the billions of believers who do care and whose beliefs have massive consequences in the world, that it’s not worth taking the time to address your marginal and inconsequential notions.” In certain contexts—say, the online exchange Richard Dawkins had with Karen Armstrong on the WSJ site in 2009, in which he dismissed her “theology” as de facto atheism—that seems to me a perfectly legitimate response.
+I do think there are important gnu atheist points to be made about other-than-beliefy elements of being religious, though. As you and Ian have noted on this thread, for example, tribal affiliation is hardly an unadulturated good. And even recognizing that some non-beliefy elements of religious institutions exist and can sometimes have positive value (say, the community connections that lead to higher levels of charitable giving) is a far cry from conceding that those elements justify or provide a sufficient excuse for religion.
+I suspect this is the nub of our disagreement, though:
+That’s definitely not my experience. If one digs deeply enough, one can find gnu analysis that recognizes the existence of non-beliefy elements of religion, but in my experience the far more frequent presentation we make is that Religion Is Belief, that “religious adherent” and “believer in religious doctrine” are self-evidently exactly the same thing.
+Thus we find Greta Christina arguing that “Religion is a hypothesis about the world,” and Dawkins calling religious adherents “faith-heads” (note that I’m not complaining that that’s unkind; I’m just pointing out that it’s very belief-centric), and so on. The gnu account of religion (including when it’s me doing the accounting!) just seems to me to constantly emphasize the centrality of belief. I don’t see other aspects of religion being a “main theme” of our presentation at all; we do talk about them, but in my experience one has to dig to find it.
+And that, I want to repeat, is not a Massive Mistake. Beliefs are important, overwhelmingly so, to a huge number of religious adherents. It’s just that there exists a noticeable minority of other adherents for whom beliefs really aren’t important at all, and another (I think somewhat larger) group who do care about beliefs, but for whom other elements of religion are nearly as important. Criticisms of religion that are overwhelmingly belief-centered risk missing the target with such folks—which is not the end of the world, or a fatal flaw in gnu atheism, but it does seem to me sub-optimal.
+Oh, hells no. Recognizing that there’s more to religion than belief counsels neither (1) treating belief with kid gloves nor (2) treating the non-beliefy aspects of religion deferentially. That’s why I’m arguing that there are gnu atheist points—critical, even harsh ones—to be made about the latter. (You and Ian have made a few of them on this thread, which is why my previous comment was a happy one.)
+I have no truck with the notion that gnus should “tactfully remov[e them]sel[ves]” from any debate about religion whatsoever.
+For gnu-ish folks Doing It Right, I’d offer Dan Barker, in the autobiographical portions of his books (in which he details his life as a fundamentalist Christian, culminating in ministry and then apostasy), and Julia Sweeney, in her monologue “Letting Go of God” (in which she describes her life as an enthusiastic Catholic). Both of them put all kinds of emphasis on the experiential and community elements of their religious lives, which were clearly deeply important to them… and then segue into nicely hard-hitting critiques of religion, not entirely limited to but very much including religious belief. That’s what I’d like to see more of. (For my money, “LGoG” is quite possibly the best piece of religious criticism on offer.)
+Well, fine. Then for the purposes of making our case to Bob, concentrating on belief is exactly what we should do. And there are a hell of a lot of Bobs with a hell of a lot of power in the real world, which makes the Anthropologist/Therapist approach you justifiably mock a very bad idea.
+But there are also a non-negligible number of Karens and Genes and Johns and Peters—liberal Episcopalians and UCCers and MCCers and UUs and “cultural Catholics” and deists and “religious but not organized-religious” folks and whatnot—who basically wave their hands apathetically at the actual contents of religious doctrine. Attacking religious belief isn’t going to do much good with those folks, though pointing out why other elements of religion and religion-in-society are problematic and destructive might. I think it’d be worthwhile to tweak the focus of gnu critiques a small amount to make such critiques accessible to the non-Bobs; that’s all I’m saying.
+Ian MacDougall #26 wrote:
+Most of the religious people I know — Christian or not — aren’t into conversion either, so like you I tend to soft-peddle my atheism in that I don’t start up a debate just to start up a debate.
+But I am working on trying to bring arguments against religious/spiritual/pseudoscience beliefs up when THEY bring religious/spiritual/pseudoscience beliefs up — especially when it’s overt. Not “I’m going to a pagan get-together next week” (ok, let it pass) but “my naturopath told me about a wonderful new diagnostic technique called Live Blood Analysis, let me tell you about it!” Or “I believe all reality is a consciousness which we change through our expectations.”
+Of course, the net result is that they’ve learned to stay away from bringing up any topics I’m not going to be “open-minded” about.
+Rieux #27 wrote:
+I think the misunderstanding here is that the gnu atheist definition of religion as “supernatural beliefs” is not supposed to be descriptive: it’s stipulative. What we’re trying to do is isolate those factors of religion which are unique and specific to religion in order to critique it.
+Community identification, subjective religious experiences, charity work, aesthetic practices, soothing rituals, and so on and so forth are considered secular aspects of religion because they make sense and have value even to atheists. That’s not cheating — that’s pretty much logically entailed, if you think about it. We therefore classify them under humanism and consider them the humanist elements and don’t see them as part of the conflict.
+It doesn’t matter that they’re deeply imbedded into the religion as practiced. Yes. We know that. But they’re not defining properties — and that’s what we’re focused on. Because that’s where the problem is, and where the problems with religion AS religion all arise.
+Consider an analogy: alternative and complementary medicine. Proponents can often deflect criticism of the unscientific nature of alt med by pointing out that there are a lot of good, reasonable, science-based things in alternative medicine. Nutrition, exercise, herbal remedies, stress relief, massage, yoga, taking a patient’s full history, being caring and concerned, and so forth and so on.
+To which the science-based critics reply: that’s not unique to alternative medicine, so you don’t get to count it as “alternative medicine” when defending the entire category. You’re co-opting reasonable things that we’re already okay with and trying to distract us from the entire reason you HAVE a category called “alternative medicine.” Bait ‘n switch.
+I don’t know. I think attacking religious belief might do a lot of good for this group — because I suspect that the only reason they consider themselves religious is because they think there is something special and noble about being religious. They believe in belief. If they really do “wave their hands apathetically at the actual content of religious doctrine” then they’re humanists and atheists … the same way that a “holistic” massage therapist who rejects all the woo is just a massage therapist.
+What we’re doing with this group isn’t trying to change their minds: we’re offering them clarity from a new perspective.
+Sastra @ 28:
+“Of course, the net result is that they’ve learned to stay away from bringing up any topics I’m not going to be “open-minded” about.”
+But none the less, you are there for them should they want to consult you, though the older they are the less likely they will probably be to do so.
+Thus the real battleground, IMHO, is for the minds of the young, or should I say, preventing the closure of those minds by indoctrination and the withdrawl of opportunities to find out views different from (usually fundamentalist) religion.
+That after all is why fundamentalists of all kinds go after the youth.
+However, that being said, I have known in my time some clerical offspring who were the living proof of the old saying “wild as a parson’s son”.
+A lot of them get where they incline to go, despite all obstacles.
+About Greta Christina, I’ve seen her argue in this form: Q) How is religion bad, if it’s just a personal belief, like believing chocolate is better than vanilla? A) It’s bad because religion is [among other things] a hypothesis about how the world works, and a dysfunctional model of how the world works leads to bad things.
+I always assumed the phrase I inserted […] to be understood (that something “is” more than one thing), and I took her statement, “Religion is a hypothesis about the world” (Rieux #27) in the context of answering a question (“How is religion bad?”). I never took her use of “is” to mean religion “is primarily” or “is fundamentally” a hypothesis about the world.
+I mention all this because when I take Christina’s argument as a whole (Q/A), I find it’s consistent with what Sastra wants (#6), to separate belief from identity. Christina introduces the concept of “hypothesis” (and I added “model”), which could give a religious believer a perspective — instead of taking their religious belief to be reality, they can realize their belief is just one possible hypothesis or model of reality, and work out from there.
+No, Christina does overtly recognize, including in the same piece that contains the line I quoted, that religion involves more than just a hypothesis about the world. That seems to me to directly contradict the meaning of the quoted line, but at least the context Christina usually provides with said line does clarify what she actually means by it. (E.g., “Religion is many other things, of course. It’s communities, cultural traditions, political ideologies and philosophies. But those things aren’t what make religion unique. What makes religion unique, among all other communities/philosophies, etc., is this hypothesis of an immaterial world acting on the material one.”)
+As an attorney, I’m not a big fan of written descriptions like that. Reducing her claim to “Religion is a hypothesis about how the world works, and why it is the way it is” makes that claim clearer, and it makes Christina’s argument easier to understand (a major strength of her writing overall)… but it also renders the claim literally false.
+As an admittedly inadequate response to Sastra @29 (maybe I’ll find more time later—sorry), I hadn’t heard of the term “stipulative definition” before reading it in that comment; now that I’ve wikied it… ugh. I can’t say that I like stipulative definition as an argumentative tactic at all; it sounds to me like a straight euphemism for “strawman.” The use of that tactic is a major objection I have to the way Unitarian Universalists deal with—or, better, convince themselves they don’t need to deal with—objections to their treatment of religion. Religion is a real thing in the world, not a theoretical entity subject to any meaning that the imaginations of atheists, or UUs, can impose on it.
+I’d say “Religion is” what it demonstrably, verifiably is in the world around us—not just the aspects of that real-world thing that are “unique” to it or the ones that are specifically relevant to our criticisms of it.
+Rieux, thank you for the link to Christina’s original argument. I was working from memory, and now I see what you mean about how she worded the rest of her post.
+As an exercise, I could ask myself to reword her argument to support her overall point: that criticism of religion is justified, versus objections that such criticism is against diversity. Your perspective as an attorney helped me pose this exercise.
+Oh, certainly. I don’t disagree with Christina’s broader argument in that essay (or almost any other) a bit.
+I would definitely have worded the specific claim I’ve objected to differently than Christina did—but, as a tradeoff, I don’t think my reworded version would be as clear, simple, or probably memorable as Christina’s original. Which is a notable drawback to what I’m advocating… but to my (all-too-lawyerly) mind, I think it’s a justified cost.
+It does?.And surely fundamentalists–by and large the people whose beliefs have the most pernicious effects in the world–would be the first to say that their faith is not about belonging, it is about real facts in the real world.
+Yes, some nominal believers don’t give the details of their faith’s claims much thought. I don’t know what the percentage is. But others do. They may pick and choose which doctrines to believe, but the tendency then is to choose to embrace belief overall because, as Sastra said,
+That is certainly the impression I’ve gotten, over the years, from my religious friends.
+Sastra again:
+This.
+Stacy. A meaty post there:
+…”
+If all of us souls inside here have got the One True Way, and all of those souls outside there are lost, we can grow our organisation, our influence and political/economic power by recruiting as many as we can. We either grow or we shrink. As for corporations, so for congregations.
+“And surely fundamentalists–by and large the people whose beliefs have the most pernicious effects in the world–would be the first to say that their faith is not about belonging, it is about real facts in the real world.” Bearing in mind the old Marxist caveat: what people say they’re about, and think they’re about, is not necessarily what they actually are about.
+“Yes, some nominal believers don’t give the details of their faith’s claims much thought. I don’t know what the percentage is. But others do. They may pick and choose which doctrines to believe, but the tendency then is to choose to embrace belief overall…”
+It’s what those in the pay TV business call the ‘churn rate’: people switching from supplier to supplier for whatever reason. But most religious people I know are of the religion and denomination of their parents. I know one woman who was raised in a fervent Presbyterian family, and who is now an equally fervent Catholic. I think it is because she found a group more to her liking in the local Catholic congregation.
+I think it was awareness of that factor that motivated my old Anglican parson to warn us all against turning up at any of the other local denominational churches: even just out of curiosity.
+Articles of Association
+Chapter 1 (General provisions)
+(Updated on September 27, 2013)
+Article 1 (Name and Location)
+The Association shall be known as the NORWEGIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN JAPAN and is hereinafter referred to as “NCCJ”.
+The registered place of business of the NCCJ shall be in Tokyo, Japan.
+Article 2 (Objectives)
+The objective of the NCCJ is to promote the development of trade between Norway and Japan by supporting activities of Norwegian-related Companies in Japan.
+In order to achieve the objective, NCCJ shall
+Promote measures that benefit and protect Norwegian-Japanese interests in Japan.
+Represent and express various opinions of the business community of Norway in Japan regarding trade, commerce and finance and related matters.
+Provide, from time to time, to its Members, Japanese as well as Norwegian, information concerning commerce and related matters of interest.
+Associate and cooperate with other organizations – Norwegian, Japanese or other – sharing mutual interests.
+Promote friendship among Norwegians and others in Japan.
+Provide a base for information and contacts to Japanese companies and individuals interested in business with Norwegian companies or individuals.
+Provide a base for information and contacts to Norwegian companies and individuals interested in business with Japanese companies or individuals.
+Article 3 (General Principles)
+The Chamber is a non-profit organization.
+The Chamber cannot act for the purpose of profit for any private person or other organization.
+The Chamber shall not be used for any political purposes.
+Chapter 2 (Membership)
+Article 4 (Types of Membership)
+There shall be the following categories of members:
+Corporate Members
+Individual Members
+Honorary Members
+Corporate Membership shall be open to all companies and organizations incorporated, registered or represented in Japan, or such other parties whose interest is considered as directly related to the interests of the Norwegian business community in Japan or Japanese business community in Norway.
+Individual Membership shall be open to individuals whose business profession conforms with the objectives of the NCCJ.
+The General Assembly may, on the recommendation of the Board of Directors, elect as Honorary Members persons who have made significant contributions to promote trade between Norway and Japan. An Honorary Member shall enjoy all the rights and privileges of Membership except that he/she shall not be qualify to be an officer or a Member of the Board of Directors or to vote at a General or Extraordinary General Assembly.
+Admission of Membership, whether Corporate, Individual or Honorary shall be at the absolute discretion of the Board of Directors and the Board of Directors’ decision as to an applicant’s qualification for Membership shall be final and conclusive.
+Only Corporate Members shall be entitled through their duly appointed representatives to vote at a General Assembly. Corporate Members may have one or more executives participating in all the NCCJ meetings. However, at a General or Extraordinary General Assembly, the Corporate Member shall have only one vote.
+Visiting business executives from Norway, or other countries doing business with Norway, may attend the General or Extraordinary General Assembly or any other events of NCCJ as visitors.
+Article 5 (Election of Members)
+Application for election as a Member shall be made in such form as may be determined by the Board of Directors.
+All applications for Membership shall be scrutinized by the Board of Directors and the Board of Directors shall elect all applicants by a majority vote.
+Upon election, the name and address of the Member shall be entered in the Register of Members.
+The new Member elected shall also be furnished with a copy of these Rules and a request to remit to the NCCJ within one (1) month from the date of such request the amount of his first subscription. Upon payment of his first subscription, he shall become a Member of the NCCJ and be entitled to all the benefits and privileges of Membership and be bound by these Articles.
+If such subscription is not paid within one (1) month from the date of such request as aforesaid, the election of such candidate shall be void, unless he shall satisfy the Board of Directors that the delay in payment was due to sufficient causes.
+The Board of Directors shall have the right, by a majority vote, to terminate the membership of existing members if they shall fail to comply with the Articles of Association, or if they shall deliberately act contrary to the objective of the Chamber
+Article 6 (Annual subscriptions)
+The annual subscriptions payable by all categories of Members shall be determined by the General Assembly.
+All annual subscriptions, except the first subscription of a new Member as provided by Article 5 (Election of Members) paragraph d, shall be payable during the month following the General Assembly, or as it may otherwise be decided from time to time by the Board of Directors.
+All annual subscriptions shall be paid to NCCJ. Cheques shall be made payable to the “Norwegian Chamber of Commerce in Japan”.
+Article 7 (Resignation)
+A Member may at any time by giving notice to the Board of Directors resign its Membership, but shall continue to be liable for any subscription or other sum due and unpaid at the date of his resignation.
+Chapter 3 (Management and Organization)
+Article 8 (Board of Directors)
+The General Assembly shall elect a maximum of ten (10) members to the Board of Directors for a period of two years and cannot serve more than three consecutive periods. The members of the Board of Directors should represent member companies or be individual members. The Head of the Norwegian Trade Council is automatically a non-voting Member of the Board.
+The Board of Directors shall elect a President who should have Norwegian citizenship, for a period of two years and could be re-elected until the age of 65. The President is the official representative of the Chamber.
+The Board of Directors shall also elect a Vice President for a period of two years.
+The Vice President shall:
+(1) act as an alternate delegate to represent NCCJ on behalf of the President in case of his/her absence.
+(2) support the President to proceed with his/her activities effectively.
+Members of the Board of Directors should represent member companies or be individual members and they are elected for a period of two years and cannot serve more than three consecutive periods.
+Members of the Board should have lived in Japan for a minimum of one year.
+The Board of Directors shall meet at least four times every year and three (3) elected Members of the Board shall form a quorum.
+The Board of Directors may appoint non-voting Members of the Board by unanimous vote
+Resolutions of the Board of Directors shall be adopted by a majority vote. In the event of a tie the President shall have the deciding vote
+The Board of Directors shall:
+(1) appoint the Executive Director and other staff, if necessary
+(2) decide remuneration and other benefits of the Executive Director and other staff
+(3) authorize annual action plans and budgets proposed by the Executive Director
+(4) present annual report, including audited statement of account for the preceding year and budgets to the General Assembly,
+(5) decide on all questions related to classification and acceptance of membership,
+(6) execute decisions taken by the General Assembly
+(7) when deemed necessary, set up projects and committees for special tasks
+(8) shall call a General Assembly when deemed necessary.
+(9) seek advice and guidance from the Board of Trustees
+Article 9 (Executive Director)
+The Executive Director of the Chamber shall be responsible for the day-to-day activities of the Chamber and his/her tasks shall include essentially:
+to develop and execute annual activity plan and the budget
+to handle member recruitment
+to report to the Board of Directors
+Article 10 (General Assembly)
+The annual, ordinary General Assembly shall be held once a year upon a date and at the time to be fixed by the Board of Directors for the following purpose:
+to decide the annual subscriptions payable by both Corporate and individual members;
+to receive from the Board of Directors a Report of Activities, a Balance Sheet and Statement of Accounts for the financial year and a Budget for the next financial year;
+to elect Members of the Board of Directors every second year;
+to elect Board of Trustees every fifth year;
+to appoint independent auditors or an audit committee;
+to decide on any resolution which may be duly submitted to the meeting as hereinafter provided;
+to transact any other business.
+Besides the annual, ordinary General Assembly, extraordinary General Assemblies may be called upon whenever deemed necessary.
+Meetings of the Extraordinary General Assembly shall be called by the President of the NCCJ upon request by the Board of Trustees or the Board of Directors. Announcement of such meetings, including the agenda, shall be mailed to all voting members at least 14 days prior to the meeting.
+In any General or Extraordinary General Assembly, not less than 25 % of the members, shall constitute a quorum. If a quorum is not present in the meeting, it can be formed by the decision of the Board of Directors, by contacting the members. All resolutions, except resolutions regarding amendments to the Articles of Association (see Chapter 5), shall be adopted by at least a majority of the members at present.
+Minutes from the meeting shall be taken.
+Article 11 (Board of Trustees)
+NCCJ shall have a Board of Trustees consisting of senior representatives of Japanese and Norwegian companies or individuals of good standing and long business relationship between Japan and Norway, jointly taking responsibility for the long-term development and stability of the Chamber.
+Members of the Board of Trustees shall be appointed for a period of five (5) years by the General Assembly. Members of the Board of Trustees may be re-elected.
+The Board of Trustees shall
+meet at least once a year and then receive a report from the President of the Chamber, who shall attend the meeting; every such meeting shall be chaired by one of the participants elected on the occasion of the meeting;
+act as advisor to the Board of Directors and the Executive Director;
+request an Extraordinary General Assembly, if deemed necessary.
+Chapter 4 (Accounts)
+Article 12 (Fiscal Year)
+The fiscal year of the Chamber shall be from January 1 to December 31,
+Article 13 (Audit)
+Accounts shall be kept and at least once every calendar year be examined and certified by
+independent auditors or an Audit Committee appointed by the General Assembly. The auditors shall audit the accounts of the Chamber at least seven (7) days before the General Assembly.
+Article 14 (Auditors)
+The General assembly appoints two Auditors for two years. The Auditors shall see that all the activities and decisions taken by the Chamber are within the framework of the Articles of Association and legally dealt with in a correct way. The Auditors shall also inspect and sign the consolidation of the fiscal account.
+Chapter 5 (Amendments)
+Article 15 (Amendments to the Articles of Association)
+Any Member of the Chamber may propose amendments to these articles. The Board of Directors shall consider the proposals and present their recommendations to a general Assembly. Due notice of the proposed amendment(s) shall be sent with the notice of the meeting. Amendments shall be adopted upon approval by two thirds of the members at present and voting.
+Article 16 (Interpretation of Articles of Association)
+The Board of Directors shall be the sole authority for the interpretation of these Articles, and the decision of the Board upon any question of interpretation or upon any matter affecting the Chamber and not provided for by these Articles, shall be final and binding the Members, unless altered or reversed by a resolution by the General or Extraordinary General Assembly.
+Chapter 6 (Dissolution)
+Article 17 (Dissolution)
+The dissolution of the Chamber shall be adopted upon approval by three quarters at present and voting in the Extraordinary General Assembly, convened solely for the said purpose.
+In the event of the Chamber being dissolved, all debts and liabilities shall be fully discharged and the disposal of the remaining funds should be paid pro rata in relation to the membership fees paid by the Members.
+If there is deficit of funds, all the Members shall pay pro rata in relation to their membership fees paid by the Members.
+-End of Articles Of Association-
+
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+2004 - 2000
+2004 - 2000
+President Signs the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004
+(12/17/2004)
+President Bush, on 12/17/04, signed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (S. 2845). We will post the public law number as soon as one is issued.
+FY2005 Omnibus Appropriations Bill Eliminates 5,000 Cap on Indochinese Parolee Adjustments
+(12/15/2004)
+On 12/8/04, President Bush signed the FY05 omnibus spending package comprising 9 appropriations bills (PL 108-447, H.R. 4818). The new law contains several immigration-related measures, including one that eliminates the 5,000 cap on adjustments for Indochinese parolees. AILA Doc. No. 04121566.
+Text of Provision Eliminating the 5,000 Cap on Indochinese Parolee Adjustments (PL 108-447)
+(12/15/2004)
+Statutory text of provision eliminating the 5,000 cap on Indochinese Parolee adjustments, contained in Division D, Title V, sec. 534(m) of the FY 2005 omnibus spending package (Pub. L. No. 108-447, H.R. 4818). President Bush signed the measure on December 8.
+President Signs Bill to Amend, Extend Irish Peace Process Cultural and Training Program Act
+(12/13/2004)
+President Bush, on 12/10/04, signed legislation to amend and extend the Irish Peace Process Cultural and Training Program Act of 1998. The program allows young adults from disadvantaged areas of Northern Ireland and designated border counties to enter the U.S. to develop job skills and conflict resolution abilities.
+Text of Enrolled Version of H.R. 2655
+(36 KB - 12/13/2004)
+Text of enrolled (final) version of H.R. 2655, amending and extending the Irish Peace Process Cultural and Training Program Act of 1998. President Bush signed the bill on December 10 (Pub. L. No. 108-449).
+Text of Enrolled Version of FY 2005 Omnibus Appropriations Bill (H.R. 4818)
+(12/8/2004)
+Final text of the FY 2005 omnibus appropriations bill (H.R. 4818). President Bush signed the bill into law on December 8, 2004. We will post the Public Law number as soon as it becomes available.
+President Signs FY 2005 Omnibus Appropriations Bill (PL 108-447)
+(12/8/2004)
+President Bush, on 12/8/04, signed the $388.4 billion FY 2005 omnibus spending package comprising 9 appropriations bills (H.R. 4818). The new law contains several immigration-related measures, most notably, reforms to the L-1 and H-1B visa programs. We will post the Public Law number when it becomes available.
+Text of Enrolled Version of.
+Intelligence Reform Deal Appears to Be Reached
+(12/7/2004)
+Hill offices are reporting that a deal has been reached on the intelligence reform bill. This deal appears to not include any of 11 objectionable immigration provisions in H.R. 10, and does include the provisions included in the conference agreement. AILA Doc. No. 04120761.
+President Signs Bill to Extend J Waiver Program for Physicians
+(12/7/2004)
+President Bush, on December 3, signed legislation that extends and modifies the “Conrad 30” J waiver program for foreign-born physicians (S. 2302, Pub. L. No. 108-441). Click on the item for a brief summary of the new law.
+Update on Congress’ Lame Duck Session: L-1 Visas, H-1B Visas, and the Intelligence Reform Legislation
+(11/22/2004)
+The House and Senate both passed the omnibus bill which includes an exemption from the H-1B cap for graduates of U.S. Ph.D. and Masters programs and L visa reform. Late Saturday afternoon, House Republican leadership announced that the House will not consider the 9/11 bill. AILA Doc. no. 04112211.
+Section-by-section Summary of L-1 & H-1B Amendments Included in Fiscal 2005 has signed into law H.R. 4306, which allows employers to electronically complete and store employment eligibility verification (I-9) forms. In addition to e-storage, the bill would permit the use of handwritten or electronic signatures in completing the I-9 forms. We will post the Public Law number on InfoNet once it is assigned..
+House Passes H.R. 10 with Numerous Anti-Immigrant Provisions
+(10/8/2004)
+On 10/8/04, the House debated and voted on H.R. 10 as well as a number of immigration-related amendments to the bill. Unfortunately, the bill passed by a large margin (282-134) and contains a number of extremely troubling provisions. AILA Doc. No. 04100840.
+Asylee Cap Amendment Not Introduced in Senate
+(9/24/2004)
+On 9/23/04, Sen. Brownback did not offer the much anticipated asylee cap amendment to the Foreign Operations bill. Sens. Chambliss, Cornyn, Hatch, Kyl, Sessions, and Grassley had threatened to introduce a substitute amendment containing a variety of troubling provisions. AILA Doc. No. 04092464.
+Anti-Matricula Measure Defeated in the House
+(9/16/2004)
+On 9/14/04, the House removed a provision from a spending bill that would have prohibited the Treasury Department from implementing regulations to allow financial institutions to accept matricula consular ID cards as part of a valid customer identification program. AILA Doc. No. 04091662.
+Text of PL 108-287 includes Limited H-2B Exemption for Fish Roe Workers
+(8/10/2004)
+President Bush signed into law on 8/5/04, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2005 (H.R. 4613). Included in this law was a provision exempting fish roe workers from the H-2B cap. For more information on this limited fix as well as AILA's efforts to obtain a broader fix to the H-2B numerical cap, see AILA Doc No. 04072863.
+Double Victories in the House: Roybal-Allard Passes House; Tancredo Amendment Fails (Updated 6/21/04)
+. The legislation, which President Bush signed on 12/15/03, amends the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 to authorize appropriations to provide assistance for domestic and foreign centers and programs for the treatment of victims of torture. AILA Doc. No. 040222465.
+Text of PL 108-193—the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003
+(55 KB - 2/24/2004)
+Text of PL 108-193, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003. The legislation, which President Bush signed on 12/19/03, authorizes appropriations for FYs 2004 and 2005 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and makes several changes to that Act. See AILA Doc. No. 03122315 for additional details. AILA Doc. No. 04022464.
+President Signs Legislation Reauthorizing Trafficking Victims Protection Act
+(12/17/2003)
+On 12/19/03, the President signed into law legislation (H.R. 2620; PL 108-193) that authorizes appropriations for FY04 and FY05 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA). The bill also makes several changes to the immigration provisions of the TVPA. AILA Doc. No. 03121715.
+Congress Clears Legislation that Extends, Expands Employment Verification Pilot Program, Extends Investor Pilot
+(11/21/2003)
+Congress passed legislation (S. 1685) that extends through 2008 the employment eligibility verification pilot program established by § 401 of the IIRIRA. The bill also expands the program to all 50 states, requires reporting, and extends the EB-5 pilot program for 5 years. AILA Doc. No. 03112111.
+Senate Votes to Extend Employment Eligibility Verification Pilot Program and EB-5 Regional Center Pilot Program
+(11/14/2003)
+On 11/12/03, the Senate passed by unanimous consent S.1685, a bill to extend the employment eligibility pilot program for 5 years and to expand it to all 50 states. Attached was a measure to extend EB-5 regional centers for an additional 5 years. AILA Doc. No. 03111442.
+Special Immigrant Religious Worker Program Extended until 2008
+(10/15/2003)
+On October 15 the President signed into law H.R. 2152 (P.L. 108-99). The new law will extend the special immigrant religious worker program for five years. AILA Doc. No. 03101511.
+Religious Worker Bill Passes the Senate and Will Go To President For Signature
+(10/3/2003)
+On 10/3/03, the Senate passed the House-passed version of the a bill which would extend the religious worker program until 2008. The bill will now be sent to the President, who has 10 days to sign it into law. AILA Doc. No. 03100343.. The immigration provisions of both laws are attached..
+President Signs Omnibus Budget Bill, Including Reversal of Fee Change
+(2/21/2003)
+On 2/20/03, the President signed the budget bill, which includes funding for NSEERS and deletes the provision of law that had caused the INS to change its filing fees. It appears that a Federal Register notice will be needed to institute this reversion of the fees. AILA Doc. No. 03022140.
+Update on Fee Surcharge and NSEERS Provisions in Omnibus Budget Bill
+(2/14/2003)
+Update on congressional passage of an omnibus budget bill (H.R. Res. 2) which includes a provision that pertains to the surcharge on application fees and another that has to do with the NSEERS program.
+Senate Budget Bill Suspends NSEERS Funding
+(1/27/2003)
+A provision in the Senate-passed budget bill suspends funding for NSEERS, which includes special registration, and restores $165 million toward building an entry/exit system. This provision is not in the House bill, so the bill will need to go to conference.
+Expanded Section-by-Section Summary of the Homeland Security Act of 2002
+(12/2/2002)
+AILA’s expanded section-by-section analysis of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-296), including sections on the Officer for Civil Rights and FOIA exemptions. AILA Doc. No. 02120240.
+Senate Passes Homeland Security Bill
+(11/20/2002)
+The Senate, on Tuesday November 19, passed the Homeland Security bill by a vote of 90 -9. For procedural reasons, the legislation will now go back to the House, which will meet briefly on Friday to clear the bill and send it to the President. AILA Doc. No. 02112040.
+Homeland Security Update
+(11/13/2002)
+Congress and the White House have reached an agreement on civil service provisions that had threatened to sidetrack homeland security legislation. Lame duck lawmakers are already at work on a new draft bill offered up yesterday by Rep. Armey (R-TX) and Sen. Lott (R-MS). AILA Doc. No. 02111342.
+President Signs Border Student Commuter Bill
+(11/5/2002)
+President Bush, on 11/2/02, signed the "Border Student Commuter Act of 2002" (H.R. 4967, P.L. 107-274). The new law creates a border commuter nonimmigrant classification under the F and M visa categories for Canadian and Mexican nationals who maintain residence in their country of nationality and commute to the U.S. for full- or part-time study.
+DOJ Authorization Goes to President for Signature
+(10/24/2002)
+HR 2215, the DOJ Authorization bill that contains several immigration provisions, was presented to the President for signature on 10-23-02.
+Congress Passes Measure to Apply AC21 to Pending Labor Certifications/Make Other Immigration Changes
+.
+DOJ Authorization Not Yet Signed
+(10/15/2002)
+The DOJ authorization bill, which contains some immigration provisions, has not yet been sent to the President for signature because Congress is trying to pass an accompanying technical corrections measure. AILA Doc. No. 02101544.
+New Law Extends the Irish Peace Process Cultural Training Program
+(10/7/2002)
+President Bush signed legislation on October 4, 2002, extending for another year the Irish Peace Process Cultural and Training Program (Pub. L. No. 107-234). AILA Doc. no. 02100741.
+DOJ Authorization Bill Would Apply AC21 Provisions to Pending Labor Certifications/Make Other Immigration Changes
+(9/27/2002)
+Immigration provisions (H-1B extensions beyond the 6th year based on lengthy labor certification adjudication, extension of Conrad 20, EB-5, and child citizenship) are included in the DOJ Authorization bill that the House passed on 9/26. AILA Doc. No. 02092734.
+Section-by-Section Summary.
+President Signs Vietnamese Refugee Legislation
+(5/31/2002)
+On 5/30/02, President Bush signed into law H.R. 1840 (P.L. 107-185, 116 Stat. 587), legislation that extends for two years the period of time in which the INS and the DOS can process the applications for refugee status of certain Vietnamese nationals. AILA Doc. No. 02053143.
+Section-by-Section Summary of the Border Security Act
+(5/24/2002)
+AILA’s section-by-section summary of the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-173). AILA Doc. No. 02052445.
+Section-by-Section Summary of the PATRIOT Act
+(10/10/2001)
+AILA's section-by-section summary of the immigration provisions in the Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (PATRIOT) Act of 2001 (H.R. 2975). AILA Doc. No. 01101081.
+Section-by-Section Summary.
+President Signs Anti-Terrorism Legislation
+(10/29/2001)
+On Friday, October 26, President Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act into law. AILA Doc. No. 01102931.
+Section-by-Section Summary and .pdf version of H-1B Bill passed by Congress on October 3 and sent to the President for Signature.
+Section 110 Bill Signed Into Law
+(6/23/2000)
+The INS Data Management Improvement Act (PL 106-215), mandating that INS create centralized database to organize and coordinate entry and exit data CURRENTLY COLLECTED at ports of entry, signed into law June 15.
+107th CONGRESS Immigration-Related Legislation Introduced After September 11, 2001
+(10/16/2001)
+A list of immigration-related legislation introduced during the 107th Congress in the immediate wake of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. AILA Doc. No. 01101660.
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+So last weekend I went on perhaps one of my favorite Ireland treks so far....If you know anything about me, you know that, as over-the-top "girly" as I may be sometimes, I love being outdoors. I mean, don't get me wrong, I have my moments of "whimpy-ness" but for the most part, and with a little encouragement, I will hike, run, climb, and explore just about any- and everything I get the chance to. SO, one of the places I KNEW I had to visit when I came to Ireland was the Wicklow Mountains.....but really, they just call it County Wicklow here, because this park (that strangely no one is allowed to live in) is its own county. Lying just south of Dubln, and often referred to as the "Garden of Ireland", Wicklow is nothing short of breathtaking. Everywhere you look there is something new and captivating to behold....a vast array of different types of trees, water and waterfalls that are incomprehensibly pristine in color, and secret coves that practically beg to be explored. Looking out upon this particular landscape really does feel as if you've walked into a painting.....as if the majesty of such a place could never exist in real life. This being the case, practically every movie/tv show ever made in Ireland has been filmed here....P.S. I Love You, Braveheart, Saving Private Ryan, Camelot, The Tudors, ect. ect......Not that I get all that caught up in such things, but it was quite intriguing to see these places and experience the same atmosphere that was captured in these movies. But more than that, and like a few of the other places I have visited on my journey thus far, to marvel at such beauty at times is almost overwhelming in a sense....that the same God who created me, also created this sanctuary of sorts that is so unique in it's beauty, I doubt if I shall ever behold a more genuine sight for the rest of my life and in turn be so spiritually moved.
+Perhaps on a bit of a downer note, for some reason I have found this week to be particularly trying on a personal level. It seems that my emotions have been all over the place, and I have had quite the time trying to sort them out.....I suppose this came about with the realization that my time in Ireland is rapidly approaching a close and in 20 days I will be leaving this place, this beautiful, awe-inspiring, place to fly to London where the next part of my journey will begin. I suppose I really should not have been shocked by my sense of sadness, as much as I like to seek out new adventures, I have never been one to embrace change....in fact, I hate it. By nature, I love wide-open....People, Places, Experiences. I get attached. To gain my affection, loyalty, and trust is to posses it forever, and Ireland, and the people of Ireland are no different. I love this place. I love it for what it has shown me....it's own secrets and beauty, as well as my own. And perhaps I feel a sense of indebtedness because of this, and for this reason I will be quite heart-broken to leave it behind.
+And to go along with this, I suppose it did not help that I got my very first good helping of home-sickness this week. As much as I hate to admit it sometimes, I am a homebody though and through, and talking with my parents, sister, friends, and Aust, whether it be through Facebook or Skype, has become so very difficult. It's hard for me to not express how sad it makes me to only be able to see or talk to them through a computer screen, and sometimes when I find myself laughing at their jokes or just the random day-to-day updates, a smile has frequently been accompanied by several tears. I know its so overly cached, and it's a concept I thought I realized all to well, but sometimes it really does take flying half way around the world to realize that your most precious blessings were right there at home all along.
+Work is still going really well and I am still enjoying it immensely....though I do suppose this week was rather frustrating. As is the case with any creative field, you are either swamped with projects/deadlines or you are sitting at your desk watching the clock.....this past week was the embodiment of the latter. Now, I suppose that isn't entirely true, I have gotten to do quite a few things this week, just not quite stayed at the same pace as these past few weeks have held me to....which in a way I should be thankful for. Some things I did accomplish, I ran several casting sessions...crazy right? Now usually I "live" in our editing suite or in the main office, tucked away for hours...perfectly content, mind you....working on my specific project, and could not be happier. But this week there were no projects to be worked on, therefore I ran casting sessions...which I must say was pretty darn awesome. Now don't get me wrong, I wasn't playing "casting director" or anything like that and had no say whether or not these people got hired, but I did get to sit there for 4, yes 4, hours of auditions for an insurance commercial along side the casting director, director, and producer and watch people "try" to act....some of them were good, some of them were painful, but ya know, I guess that's how it goes. Anyway, I am running another casting session (I say this because a representative from our company has to be present for these things as well as keep track of "who's who in the zoo" type of deal for editing purposes), this one open to the public, downtown next week that is going to be 7 hours of pure madness. But hey, I am just sitting there all day, so how awful could it be?.....I may be eating those words later....but for now, I am about as excited as is to be expected.
+......So, I guess you could say it's sort of been a rough week. And I know I mentioned it, but whenever I get in these "slumps" of sorts it really makes me miss Austin all the more. It is indeed a very strange sort of feeling knowing that by simply seeing a person's face can (as cheesy as it may sound) light up your whole day....and things that I am almost certain no one else would understand or "get"....he does. But I suppose the one thing that makes me miss him the most is the way he can make me laugh...really laugh....the kind that fills you up from the inside out and makes it seem as if you will never be sad again. And not just that, the way we talk to each other, and the stories and secrets we share about each other's day...I mean he is off on his own adventure evangelizing to the people of Nicaragua at the current moment (Gah! How awesome (and attractive, might I add) is that?!).....and I suppose in a sneaky sort of way, God has been laying lots of thoughts and plans on both our hearts for what the future may hold...and though being a girl, I have always been inclined to such notions...these new "thoughts" seem of a different sort, perhaps a different perspective.....but seeing as I have not wholly figured out how to categorize these "thoughts", more will have to come on that later...maybe ;). So yes, I do love that precious, sincere, praiseful, and gentle man of mine, as he does fill me up with a happiness unlike anything I have ever known. And who knows, we may just get the gumption to get "hitched" one day......a very long, long, looooong day from this one that is for sure. But for now, I like to think of him as this wonderful "gift" that God has granted me....a gift that I feel far too undeserving of at times, but a magnificent (and handsome) gift, nonetheless.
+So I guess I should give an update on my running/working out progress. I am happy to say it is still going....slowly, but steadily, it IS still going. Perhaps thats why this weeks seems to have lasted so long and been so dreary...it rained, more like torrential downpoured every single day which most certainly did not help in my running efforts. BUT, I did start spin classes this week which also came with 2 days of gym membership, so in that sense I guess it made up for my lack of daily running. I suppose any time you start a new exercise regimen the biggest obstacle to overcome is yourself...and in this case, the weather definitely has left me with little to no motivation. Here's hoping that this week is sunnier, and I find myself in running shoes very shortly.
+Okay, last but not least, it has been a while since I last updated you all on all of the random words/sayings/discoveries I have made on my journey thus far. So ready, here they are...
+*Craic (pronounced "crack") = Fun....as in, "We had great Craic!", hilarious for so many reasons
+*McDonalds here has the BEST food....I wish I were kidding. No joke, every McDonalds here has a cafe where you can order fresh paninis, bagels, muffins...you name it, and they are all DELICIOUS! I eat there every weekend before I set off on my adventures and I love it! And, as in true McDonalds fashion, you can't beat the price :)
+*I still try and get in on the wrong side of the car Every.Single.Time.
+*Feck = Exactly what you think it means...the Irish swear it's not a curse word and use it in every day language...ehh, it's still too close to the line to wander into my daily vocabulary
+*Oh, and perhaps the biggest thing circulating the news right now, is the fact that all, what we wold consider "Seniors" in High School, are taking the dreaded Irish Exams. No joke about it, these exams determine EVERYTHING about your future. Not only does it determine whether or not you can even go to college, but which college you are eligible for, as well as what profession you are allowed to pursue. Pressure, much? Definitely. They advertise tranquilizers and psychiatric help on the radio every single day, because it is due to said exams that Ireland has one of the highest teenage suicide rates in the world. And you thought you had it rough?
+*I still have yet to get used to the fact, that whenever I open my mouth in a public building...whether it is a gas station or a museum, everyone turns their head to gawk at me. I have yet to figure out if it's the fact that I'm an American or that I'm the only person in the room wearing hot pink tennis shoes....
+*Fun story, (I wish I would have counted up to this point) but I have been successfully "hit on" at least twice every single week that I have been here. I had always heard that European men were rather forward, but it's gotten quite comical these last few times. I should say that I am in no way trying to be conceited, as I find it hilarious that anyone would find me remotely attractive. But perhaps the most memorable incident happened last weekend when I was waiting for the bus, and a 30-something year-old guy came up behind me and shot the every so clever and suave line of, "Hey Baby.." followed by a sad attempt at a whistle. My response? I turned my head from side to side searchingly, trying to catch a glimpse of who he was referring to, only to burst out laughing when I realized he was talking to me. Poor guy, I'm sure I didn't do much for his confidence that day. And so yeah, all the other times, they have been older, usually toothless and bald, men hanging their heads out the side of some utility vehicle (i.e. garbage truck, plumbing van, ect.)....I only attract men of quality, ya know, hahaha. Oh my, in times like that it really does make me wish Austin was here....
+Okay Loves, that is all for now, I will leave you with some pics of last weekend's journey through Wicklow, and hopefully you will be hearing from me soon
+Blessings & Grace,
+AJ
+Editor's Note: The CNN Wire is a running log of the latest news from CNN World Headquarters, reported by CNN's correspondents and producers, and The CNN Wire editors. "Posted" times are Eastern Standard..)
+ATLANTA (CNN) -- A winter storm aimed its chilly sights at north Georgia Thursday, poised to deliver an icy sheen to areas north of Atlanta as cold air from the west collided with moisture from the Gulf of Mexico.
+By 9 p.m., temperatures across the metro-Atlanta area had dropped below freezing and were getting colder. Light rain -- most of it not reaching the ground -- was observed on radar moving eastward into far western Georgia.
+Delta Air Lines planned to cancel about 200 flights late Wednesday and early Thursday as freezing rain and sleet were forecast for Georgia, including parts of the Atlanta area, a Delta spokeswoman said. (Posted 9:50 p.m.)
+WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Senate Democratic leaders late Wednesday threw their support behind a measure chiefly sponsored by Republican Sen. John Warner that says the Senate "disagrees" with President Bush's troop increase for Iraq.
+The move builds critical momentum for Warner's proposal and increases the chances it can win the necessary 60 votes for Senate passage.
+In doing so, Democrats abandoned a more strongly worded resolution chiefly sponsored by Democratic Sens. Carl Levin and Joe Biden, but both those senators agreed to back the Warner measure. Levin announced his support on the Senate floor and a senior aide to Biden told CNN the senator -- who announced his candidacy for president earlier Wednesday -- would back it.
+-- From CNN Congressional Producer Ted Barrett (Posted 9:40 p.m.)
+MINNEAPOLIS (CNN) -- Outspoken comedian and liberal radio talk show host Al Franken has told associates he plans to challenge Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., in 2008, a source close to Franken said Wednesday.
+Franken, 55, a Democrat who grew up in the Twin Cities and moved back to the state from New York last year, announced Monday that he was leaving his radio show on the Air America network after his Feb. 14 broadcast.
+Franken has said previously that he was considering a bid to unseat Coleman, a moderate Republican and former St. Paul mayor who was elected to the Senate in 2002. During the 2006 midterm election, Franken's political action committee, the Midwest Values PAC, raised money for Democratic candidates across the North Star State.
+Franken has been a writer and performer on the NBC program "Saturday Night Live." He is also the author of several politically tinged books, including "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations." (Posted 8:05 p.m.)
+MARIANNA, Fla. (CNN) -- Two men shot and killed the wife of a Florida sheriff because of a grudge against the official, ambushing her and killing a deputy in a gun battle outside the sheriff's home, authorities said Wednesday.
+The gunmen, Lionel Sands and Daniel Brown, died in a shootout with deputies and the sheriff himself within minutes, prosecutor Steve Meadows said. The sheriff was investigating Sands in connection with the death of Sands' wife, he said.
+Mellie McDaniel, the wife of Jackson County, Fla., Sheriff John McDaniel -- was driving home Tuesday night when she told her husband via cell phone that a suspicious car was following her into the McDaniels' driveway, said Meadows, state attorney for Florida's 14th Circuit, which includes Jackson County.
+Shortly afterward, Meadows said, the sheriff heard his wife scream. Within minutes, Mellie McDaniel was dead, along with her attackers and the first deputy to arrive at the house. (Posted 7:33 p.m.)
+AUSTIN, Texas (CNN) -- Syndicated political columnist Molly Ivins died Wednesday at her home in Austin after a long battle with breast cancer, said David Pasztor, managing editor of the Texas Observer. She was 62. (Posted 7:07 p.m.)
+WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Gen. George Casey, the outgoing head of coalition forces in Iraq, faces what could be a bruising confirmation hearing to become the Army chief of staff, when he appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday. Several senators have expressed skepticism that Casey should be promoted after poorly executing the Iraq war.
+His chief Senate critic is John McCain, the top Republican on the committee. But McCain said he hasn't decided if he'll vote against Casey.
+Committee chairman Carl Levin said he will press Casey on his whether he currently supports sending thousands of additional soldiers and Marines to Iraq.
+Rank and file members of the committee, such as Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., have also questioned whether Casey should be promoted.
+The hearing is expected to focus heavily on the strategy and conduct of the war, aides and senators said.
+-- From CNN Congressional Producer Ted Barrett (Posted 6:49 p.m.)
+WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Top Justice and FBI officials Wednesday said they have launched hundreds of new investigations to combat the growing problem of human trafficking for prostitution and labor exploitation in the United States.
+Attorney General Alberto Gonzales declared the phenomenon "the equivalent of modern day slavery," and vowed to keep the issue a top priority for federal law enforcement agencies.
+A senior Justice Department official estimated about 15,000 victims of human trafficking arrive in the United States annually, some as young as 9 years old, destined for jobs in brothels, as unpaid domestic servants, or in other jobs as virtual slaves. They represent a source of continuing income for the rings who provide them, making human trafficking more attractive than drug smuggling to some criminal syndicates, authorities said. --From Justice Producer Terry Frieden (Posted 6:35 p.m.)
+WASHINGTON (CNN) -- On the very day he formally opened his quest for the presidency, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware quickly found himself on the defensive Wednesday after characterizing one of his Democratic rivals, Sen. Barack Obama, as the first "clean" and "articulate" black candidate.
+His comments came an interview published Wednesday in the New York Observer.
+Speaking to reporters in a conference call Wednesday afternoon, Biden said his use of the word "clean" was being taken "totally out of context." "My mother has an expression -- clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack," said Biden, who said Obama "is probably the most exciting candidate that the Democratic or Republican party has produced, at least since I've been around."
+Obama later released a statement saying that while he did not take Biden's comments personally, they were "historically inaccurate" because "African-American presidential candidates like Jesse Jackson, Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton gave a voice to many important issues through their campaigns, and no one would call them inarticulate." (Posted 6:28 p.m.)
+WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Carl Levin on Wednesday took a colleague's name off a statement issued Tuesday after his fellow senator said he hadn't seen the statement before it was released.
+The initial statement, originally carrying the names of Levin, the chairman of the Senate's Armed Services Committee, and the committee's ranking GOP member, Sen. John McCain, slammed the administration for not specifying meaningful consequences for Iraqis if they don't meet their commitments.
+The statement came in response to a letter from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that was itself a response to earlier letters from Levin and McCain.
+McCain, who is introducing a resolution backing President Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq, said Wednesday he hadn't seen the statement before it was released. (Posted 5:46 p.m.)
+BOSTON .
+The devices displayed one of the "Mooninites," outer-space delinquents who make frequent appearances on the show, greeting passersby with a raised middle finger.
+"Parent company Turner Broadcasting is in contact with local and federal law enforcement on the exact locations of the billboards," the company said. "We regret that they were mistakenly thought to pose any danger."
+Turner said the devices had been in place for two to three weeks in Boston; New York; Los Angeles; Chicago; Atlanta; Seattle; Portland, Ore.; Austin, Texas; San Francisco; and Philadelphia.
+A Turner Broadcasting source said the displays were a component of a third-party advertising campaign conducted by a New York advertising firm, Interference Inc. That company had no comment on the incident.
+"While the concern is lessened as a result of the investigation, I'd like to remind citizens to treat any suspicious devices with care and to call 9-1-1 if any such device is found," Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, Colo., but said none of its units were dispatched to assist.
+Davis said police "are going to fully investigate this and get to the bottom of it."
+The first suspicious device to be.
+Mayor Thomas Menino's office said a total of nine had turned up. (Posted 5:35 p.m.)
+WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The House Wednesday passed a $463.5 billion spending bill to keep the government operating past the Feb. 15 expiration date of the current continuing resolution. The vote was 286-140.
+Republicans complained, however, that the Democrats allowed no amendments and only limited debate on the bill; the Democrats argued that they were left to clean up the mess Republicans left last year when they failed to pass all the appropriations bills.
+The House and Senate passed appropriations bills for the Defense and Homeland Security Departments last year, leaving the rest of the government's discretionary spending under a continuing resolution that held spending at 2006 levels. (Posted 4:28 p.m.)
+WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI Wednesday warned the public to be wary of Internet scams involving the sale of Super Bowl tickets.
+The FBI said the fraudulent selling of tickets for the Super Bowl and other such major events represents "a continuing epidemic".
+The FBI said current schemes represent a slight variation on past operations.
+"Previous scams have involved tickets being advertised at well known online auction and classified advertisement Web sites. Interested buyers are instructed to use a wire transfer payment transfer service to send the money quickly in order to secure the tickets," the FBI warning said. "Current scams are using fraudulent escrow services to register, and then directing the victim to wire the payment." (Posted 3:51 p.m.)
+WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The State Department Wednesday eased away from suggestions that Iran was behind the Jan. 20 attack in Karbala that left five American soldiers dead, saying that nobody has come to any conclusions about who was responsible for the attack.
+Gunmen disguised as U.S. troops made their way through Iraqi-staffed checkpoints and into a compound where U.S. troops were discussing strategy. They opened fire, killing one soldier, and abducted and later killed four more.
+"I don't think the Department of Defense has come to any conclusions as to who exactly is responsible for the attack and what, if any, role ... Iranian agents may have played in it. I just simply can't tell you that," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack. "... I don't think anybody at this point can tell you that that is, in fact, the case now."
+U.S. officials told CNN Tuesday that investigators were looking into the possibility that the sneak attack was carried out by Iranians or Iranian-trained operatives, saying the "sophistication" of the action pointed in that direction. (Posted 3:25 p.m.)
+NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The Federal Reserve held a key short-term interest rate steady Wednesday, a possible sign the central bank thinks the economy is on solid footing.
+The central bank left its target for the federal funds rate, an overnight bank lending rate that affects rates on various types of loans, at 5.25 percent. It was the fifth straight time the Fed has held steady. The decision was widely expected on Wall Street.
+Energy prices have fallen in recent months, leading some economists to think that inflation is no longer as big of a concern for Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and other policy-makers. There also have been some signs the housing market is stabilizing, which could mean the economy won't slow as much in 2007 as some had initially feared.
+With that in mind, there is a growing sense on Wall Street that the Fed may leave the fed funds rate at 5.25 percent for the next few months, and possibly all year. (Posted 2:21 p.m.)." --By CNN's Katy Byron (Posted 2:15 p.m.)
+BIRMINGHAM, England (CNN) -- British police Wednesday arrested nine men,
+The plan was thwarted after a series of early morning raids conducted by the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, the West Midlands Police and Metropolitan Police in what the Home Office called a "major counterterrorism operation."
+Eight people were taken in the early raids; the ninth was detained hours later on a highway in the Birmingham area, about 100 miles northwest of London, Assistant Chief Constable for West Midlands David Shaw told reporters at a briefing.
+He said the operation was the result of months of hard police work, but it is by no means finished. -- CNN's Paula Newton and Paula Hancocks contributed to this report (Posted 1:52 p.m.)
+WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Wednesday the Justice Department is making available to leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee "as early as today" sensitive documents they demanded from the secret court that prompted the government's reversal on its warrantless surveillance program.
+Gonzales told reporters the judge's orders and related documents from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court are being provided to committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and ranking Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., who have angrily demanded access to the documents.
+For months the two lawmakers, who have oversight over the Justice Department, have been frustrated by Gonzales and other department officials who have said that, because of the sensitivity of the National Security Agency surveillance program, they would brief only the leaders of the intelligence committees about it. The program was aimed at international communications involving suspected terrorists. --From Justice Producer Terry Frieden (Posted 12:46 p.m.)
+BAGHDAD (CNN) -- A U.S. soldier was killed in combat Wednesday in Iraq's Salaheddin province, the military said.
+This brings the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq this month to 85 and throughout the nearly four-year-old war to 3085.
+The slain soldier was from Task Force Lightning. Another soldier was wounded in the incident.
+The military earlier on Wednesday reported the deaths of three other troops -- two soldiers and one Marine in Anbar province. (Posted 12:32 p.m.)
+NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Delta Air Lines' creditors rejected the hostile takeover bid for the bankrupt airline by US Airways Group, leading the smaller rival to withdraw the bid Wednesday.
+US Air announced late Wednesday morning that the creditors' committee, whose approval Delta needs to emerge from bankruptcy as an independent carrier, would not give their affirmative.
+Delta did not have an immediate comment. (Posted 12:10 p.m.)
+KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Around 30 Taliban militants were killed Wednesday in fighting with Afghan and NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, a NATO spokesman said.
+The Afghan Interior Ministry said the operation was in the Kajaki district of Helmand province.
+Militant attacks have been common in the district for months, and the insurgents have prevented civilian contractors from building small power stations near a dam.
+The British military deploys a large contingent of NATO troops in Helmand. --From Journalist Tom Coglan (Posted 11:25 a.m.)
+WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., filed papers with the Federal Election Commission Wednesday opening his presidential campaign.
+"Friends, today I filed the necessary papers to become a candidate for president of the United States," he said on his Web site, joebiden.com.
+In a statement posted on the site, Biden said that above all else he is running because of the Bush administration's failures in Iraq. (Posted 10:44 a.m.)
+BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is strongly urging Iran and the United States to settle their "struggle" outside Iraq and not use Iraq as a proxy battleground.
+"Iraq has nothing to do with the American-Iranian struggle, and we will not let Iran to play a role against the American army and we will not allow America to play a role against the Iranian army, and everyone should respect the sovereignty of Iraq," al-Maliki said.
+At the same time, al-Maliki said bluntly that he believes Iran is, in fact, targeting U.S. forces in Iraq -- a repeated assertion from the Bush administration as it attempts to drum up support among lawmakers and Americans for an increase of troops in Baghdad and Anbar province.
+And, he wants that Iranian activity to stop as well.
+"We will not accept Iran to use Iraq to attack the American forces, but does this not exist? It exists and I assure you it exists, because it is based on the struggle between the two countries." --CNN's Michael Ware, Thomas Evans, Jomana Karadsheh, Yousif Bassil in Baghdad and Joe Sterling in Atlanta contributed to this report (Posted 9:59 a.m.)
+WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller returns to the stand Wednesday in the trial of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, where she may be asked whether she had sources other than Libby for learning the identity of former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson.
+U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said he will decide Wednesday whether Libby's lawyers can question Miller about those other sources, without asking her to identify them.
+Under cross-examination Tuesday, defense attorneys sought to ask Miller about other people who may have provided information about Wilson, who often goes by her maiden name Plame. There were times Tuesday when Miller's ability to recall information was fuzzy.
+"This is nothing more than classic 101 impeachment," defense attorney Theodore Wells said. "The very essence of the cross-examination of Ms. Miller is about her credibility."
+Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald twice objected when defense lawyers tried to ask about other possible sources, prompting an extended conference at the judge's bench, out of earshot of both the witness and the jury. (Posted 9:31 a.m.)
+LONDON (CNN) -- The Metropolitan Police Service on Wednesday turned over to prosecutors the file regarding the death of KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko, a statement from the Metropolitan Police said.
+The statement said the MPS would not discuss the contents of the file.
+The handing over of the file prompted speculation that arrests would be made in connection with the case.
+Litvinenko, 43, died Nov. 23 in London. Traces of radioactive polonium-210 were found in his body after his death, said British authorities, who opened a murder inquiry into the case.
+Before he died, Litvinenko accused the Kremlin of orchestrating his poisoning on orders from Russian President Vladimir Putin, a charge that Putin strongly denied. (Posted 9:30 a.m.)
+MUNICH (CNN) -- The Munich state prosecutor's office has issued arrest warrants for 13 suspected CIA agents in the case of a German citizen of Lebanese descent who claims he was illegally detained by the U.S. government and mistreated in a secret prison in Afghanistan
+The arrest warrants list charges of kidnapping and severe battery, the prosecutor's office said Wednesday. All the names on the warrants are aliases, but the office told CNN they are believed to be CIA operatives.
+Khaled El-Masri said he was kidnapped in late 2003 while on vacation in Macedonia. In an interview with German weekly Die Zeit, he said after having been interrogated in Macedonia for several days, he was flown to Afghanistan where he was held for several months and severely beaten in interrogation sessions.
+El-Masri contends he was dumped five months later along the side of a road in Albania without explanation from those who held him. --From CNN Berlin Bureau Chief Frederik Pleitgen (Posted 8:29 a.m.)
+BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Attackers in Baghdad and Diyala province Wednesday set off bombs and fired mortars, killing 14 people and wounding many more, police officials in those regions told CNN.
+Five people were killed and 12 others wounded when a car bomb exploded on Jamhouriya Street near the Shorja market in central Baghdad.
+Four people were killed and 20 were wounded when ten mortar rounds slammed into Adhamiya Sunni neighborhood in northern Baghdad.
+A car bomb exploded in Bab Muadham commercial area in northern Baghdad killing two people and wounding nine others.
+Two people were killed and three others were wounded when a car bomb detonated near a communication tower in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Mamoun.
+One person was killed was killed and six were wounded when a car bomb exploded on a commercial street in southeastern Baghdad.
+North of the capital in Diyala's Muqtadya, at least 12 Iraqi soldiers were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a fuel truck near an Iraqi army base, a Diyala Joint Coordination Center official said. --From CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq (Posted 7:36 a.m.)
+MADRID (CNN) - A court in northern Spain convicted two men Wednesday of trafficking in explosives, and they face similar charges next month when the trial begins in the case of the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people three years ago.
+In the separate trial in northern Spain, the court convicted Jose Emilio Suarez Trashorras and his brother-in-law, Antonio Toro, for trafficking in explosives and drugs, and sentenced them to 10 years and 11 years in prison, respectively, according to a copy of the sentence, viewed by CNN.
+But in the train bombing trial, they face far stiffer penalites if convicted. Prosecutors seek about 38,000 years in prison for Suarez Trashorras, 30, considered a "necessary cooperator" in the attacks, and about 30 years in prison for Toro. --From CNN Madrid Bureau Chief Al Goodman (Posted 7:23 a.m.)
+JERUSALEM (CNN) -- A three-judge panel Wednesday unanimously convicted Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon of an indecent act for kissing a female soldier against her will last year.
+The incident happened as Ramon, 56, headed to a cabinet meeting on July 12, the day Israel's war with Hezbollah in Lebanon broke out.
+Ramon stepped down as justice minister after his indictment.
+Israel's President Moshe Katsav faces several sex crime charges, including rape. He has refused to resign his position, but has been declared temporarily incapacitated amid the legal proceedings. -- CNN's Shira Medding contributed to this report (Posted 6:54 a.m.)
+BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Two U.S. Soldiers and a Marine died Tuesday from "wounds sustained due to enemy action" while operating in Iraq's volatile Anbar province, the U.S. military announced Wednesday.
+Since the start of the war, 3,084 members of the U.S. military have died in Iraq. (Posted 2:25 a.m)
+WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush's pick to lead U.S. forces in the Middle East warned Tuesday that "time is short" to reverse the course of the Iraq war, but withheld judgment on Bush's plan to send more troops.
+Adm. William Fallon, currently the commander of American forces in the Pacific, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he has drawn few conclusions yet about the biggest challenges he will face if confirmed as head of Central Command: Iraq and Iran.
+Fallon said he needed more time to study Bush's deployment of 21,500 additional troops to Iraq, and to consider whether he would support a further request from the new U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus. --From CNN Senior Pentagon Correspondent Jamie McIntyre (Posted 2:14 a.m.)
+MARIANNA, Fla. (CNN) -- In what authorities are calling a targeted killing, the wife of a Florida Panhandle sheriff, a deputy and two suspects died in an exchange of gunfire outside the sheriff's house Tuesday evening, an official with the state attorney's office said.
+According to Joe Grammer, before any shots were fired, Mellie McDaniel, wife of Sheriff John McDaniel, called the sheriff's office, saying the suspects were behind her as she headed home.
+A precise timeline of events was not available, but at least one deputy was dispatched to the scene, who later died. Mellie McDaniel was shot and died en route to a hospital, according to Grammer. (Posted 2:10 a.m.)
+ATLANTA (CNN) -- The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday reinstated one count against terror suspect Jose Padilla and two co-defendants -- the only count with a penalty of life in prison, court documents show.
+Federal prosecutors had appealed a ruling by U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke last August in which Count 1 of the indictment -- conspiracy to "commit acts of murder, kidnapping, and maiming outside the United States" and preparation of such acts inside the United States -- was dropped because she said it was redundant of some of the other charges against the three.
+The federal appeals court decided that wasn't the case.
+"Although they may appear to be nested within one another, each charge stands alone from the others and requires proof of independent elements," the 11th Circuit Court's decision said. (Posted 12:29 a.m.)
+The teenage Sonia Sotomayor was easy to spot in the halls of her New York high school.
+Popular Science Monthly/Volume 28/November 1885/Flying-Machines
+THE
+him; but, determined to escape, he made wings of feathers cemented with wax, and, instructing Icarus to Hy neither too high nor too low, but to closely follow him, launched himself into the air, and took a bee-line for Greece. The young man, however, was ambitious, and, fly- ing too near the sun, the wax melted, and he perished in the sea—a warning to future generations.
+After Daedalus, neces- sarily some- times pon- derous machine, we must apply fire. Should there be any apprehen- sion of the dove being burned, it can be covered over with some in- combust conven- ient to the sinful or good end in view. The broomstick took a pre-eminent position as a flying-machine. What a pity it is that our ancestors should have so persistently fought against and finally succeeded in surpressing the broomstick! What could be more simple and effective? Perhaps by proper treatment the witches might have been persuaded to instruct the rest of the world in its use. In those days, dragons and magicians and good and evil spirits made out-of-doors at night rather dangerous, and good people remained at home, with holy water on hand for an emergency. Here is an example from Remigius. Says he: "There is no doubt the following will be considered incredible by all and ridiculous by many; yet I can aver that two hundred persons testified to its truth. On regular and stated days these people assembled in a crowd on the banks of some lake or river, secluded from the observation of passers-by; and there they were in the habit of lashing the water with wands received from demons, until such time as vapors and mists were produced in large quantities, and with these they were wont to soar on high. The exhalations thus provoked condensed themselves into thick and darkling clouds, agitated and swept the heavens, assisted in their atmospheric war by the evil spirits whom they wrapped in their folds, and at length in a hail-storm smote the earth in their fury. … Salome and Dominica Zabella, however, add that, before they thus agitated the water, they were in the practice of throwing into it an earthen pot, in which a little previous a demon had been inclosed, together with some stones of such size as they wished the hail to be. … Decker Maygeth states that he and his confederates in crime used to receive candles from a demon of an azure color, and sail with them some distance from the margin of the lake, hold the light downward and let it drop freely into the water; that after that they scattered and spread some medicinal powder over the surface; that they then, with black rods, bestowed on them by demons, most vehemently lashed the waters, accompanying the action with a repetition of incantations to produce the desired results. Then the sky became overcast with clouds, and discharged torrents of rain and hail on those localities which they had pointed out." This incantation, Romigius says, "is not an invention of modern ages. It is not the invention of old hags whose mental powers were depraved by demons, or perverted by visions or dreams. It was practiced by men of keen intellects and acute investigation, who minutely observed, critically examined, and deliberately adopted their convictions."
+Here is a description, according to Kircher, of a flying-machine invented by one of the fathers of the Church: Some of the fathers in India had been "cast into prison, and while they continued ignorant of any means of effecting their liberation, some one, more cunning than the rest, invented an extraordinary machine, and then threatened the barbarians, unless they liberated his companions, that they would behold in a short time some wonderful portents and experience the visible
+anger of the jxods. The barbarians laughed at the threat. lie then constructed a dragon of the most volatile paper, and in this inclosed a mixture of sulphur, pitch, and wax, and so artistically arranged all his materials that when ignited it would illumine the machine and exhibit this legend—' l^ic wrath of God.'* The body being formed and the in- gredients prepared, he affixed a long tail, and committed the machine to the heavens. Favored by the wind, it soared aloft toward the clouds. The spectacle was terrific. The barbarians beholding it were smitten with the greatest astonishment and fear. . . . Thereupon with- out fly- ing en- gines ves- sel on the water."
+In his day the air was supposed to have a well-defined upper limit, like the water.
+Friar Bacon too has been credited with the invention of gunpow- der.
+Fig. 1. — The Flying Man (Rétif de la Bretonne's idea). (From an old number of "Scribner's Magazine.") re- sults were genorally discouraging, but men can always be found ready to risk life and limb in striving to attain something much less im- portant than the art of flying ; without a knowledge of the principles involved, ignorant of the nature of the atmosphere, without machinery or power, fettered by a superstition that looked upon all learning out- side dij0ferent in detail from those tried five hundred years ago.
+One of our illustrations shows the plan proposed by R4tif de la Bretonne away back in the dark ages ; and another an apparatus pat- ented in this country in 1872. It is only one of numbers of the same sort. Kct, al- though impracticable in so far that it could not be built, nevertheless was correct in principle. The same idea had occurred to others ; and there are even shadowy accounts of actual ascents. But to the Montgol- f enter- tained. rud- d inthe air..
+Fig. 3. — Sullivan's Flying-Machine. (Taken from United States Patent-Office Reports.) press- ure five-fold, it will be admitted that terra firma would be decidedly safer, if less exciting.
+More than all this, balloons as hitherto constructed are at best but temporary aflfairs, quickly losing their gas and buoyancy, expensive and unwieldy, and, however valuable for certain kinds of work, must be considered as Kimj)ly sur- face again. The balloon craze, however, brought about a more care- ful study of aeronautics generally; but at the same time there has been and is a strong current of misguided thought and invention, par- ticularly to be noticed in our Patent-Office reports.
+Inventors of flying-machines, as a rule, belong rather in a lower class. Just as we still find old-new arrangements for producing per- petual motion, so in the attempts to fly the old story is repeated. The perpetual-motion man is likely also to know just how to make a suc- cessful flying-machine. lie only lacks the means. Still, particularly in England and on the Continent, many able men have been working intelligently, perseveringly, quietly. Before building a flying-machine they have thought best to study the examples Natux'e per- ceptible, sometimes perhaps a roaring gale—currents, too, not un- likely. Sweeping
+around in circles, occasionally elevating themselves by a few flaps of the wings, they glide down and up the aerial inclines without appar- ently any effort whatever. But a close observation will show that at every turn the angle of inclination of the wings is changed to meet the ni'W conditions. There is continual movement with j)0\v<'r—by the bird it is done instinctively, by our machine only through mechanism obeying a mind not nearly so well instructed.
+The study of the flight of birds and insects has of late years re- ceived Na- ture has provided the most eflicient apparatus; or, in other words, that the power the bird possesses could not be utilized more effect- ively. Nature can not always be trusted. We can study and under- stand interest- ing.
+Square feet.
+Gnat -18 9
+Dragon-fly 2 1 -05
+Cockchafer r>*l
+Sparrow 27
+Pigeon 12
+Vulture (V82
+Australian crane 41
+We sec that the gnat, one of the lightest of insects, has an exjjanse of wing of no less than 48'9 square feet for each pound of weight, wliiK' the heavy cockchafer has only 5-1 square feet for each pound. With birds, the sjiarrow has HI square feet of wing-surface for each pound of weight, while the great Australian crane has only 0"41, j)aradoxical as it may seem, weight is really an essential feature. Set in motion by muscular effort, the weight of a bird acts somewhat like the fly-wheel of an engine: the power is stored up during the down- ward stroke of the wing, to be given out again on its upward stroke, and ju'obably Avind, over- come con- tinual loss from the imperfect sustaining power of the wings. We shall see presently that the force of the wind can be utilized to a certain extent to make up these losses, but still some muscular effort should be required. If our vulture or albatross would only occasionally deign to tlap a wing, all would be well. His obstinacy is very perplexing.
+Leaving the birds to their own peculiar devices, let us now con- sider what principles should guide us in constructing a flying - machine.
+In the first place, by acting on the air, the machine should be able to lift itself from the ground ; and, leaving out of account small mod- els, this is a preliminary no one appears so far to have succeeded in. Many pictures may be seen of flying-machines booming along through the air with all sails set, passengers evidently happy, some serenely smoking, others promenading the deck in the usual way, with perhaps a coui)le behind the wheel-house ; but a representation of a machine just on the point of starting out is not to be met with.
+In order to produce an upward pressure or reaction, the wings or propeller acting on the air evidently should drive it downward. Sup- pose now that our machine weighs 600 pounds, and that it has the same propelling surface in proportion to its weight as the Australian crane, we should then need about 246 square feet, and a pressure of 2-4 pounds acting upward on each square foot would lift it from the ground.
+Referring again to the table giving the relation between wind ve- locity and pressure, we notice that a pressure of 2*4 pounds would be occasioned by a velocity of about twenty-two miles an hour.
+If, then, we should cause our propeller — be it a screw or wings, or any other form — to drive downward a current of air at this rate, the cross-section or area of the current being 246 square feet, the total upward reaction would be great enough to raise the machine.
+Of course, for any other proportion of wing-surface to Aveight, our table would give other results ; or if the air is already in motion, it will tell us what increase of velocity should be given to produce the desired pressure.
+The results given in the table can also be readily found in a purely theoretical way, and they seem so important that it is a wonder investigators have given them little or no attention.
+A macliine ])Ossessing weight can fly only by doing something to the air. It must put the air in motion, and it can be shown that the amount of this motion will be a measure of the work done and reac- tion obtained.
+If air is already in motion, we can not utilize its force, not wishing to drift along, except by changing in some way its velocity.
+Granting all this, our table or formula will tell us, not only what volume of air must be used to gain the desired reaction or motion, hwi 2l\%o the least power necessarrj. Knowing the weight of and velocity suppose 5G pounds altogether. To counter- act sur- faces, con- structed, the greatest power required will be that necessary to lift it from the ground ; and that once off, up to a certain limit, the stiffcr.
+What, would be likely to act somewhat like four screw-propellers, one behind the other, on an ocean-steamer. The mechanism was to be driven by a steam-engine. The dark object suspended below may be ballast to counteract any superfluous energy of the steam.
+Fig. 5. — Landell's Flying-Machine,
+Fig. 6. — Stringfellow's Flying-Machine.."
+We have many organs in our bodies but our eyes are what people value at most. This is a reason why we are worried when an eye or vision related problem happens. In the most cases, vision related problems are short term and they can be easily cured. The macular degeneration is an age related eye disorder which is leading to distorted and blurred vision. It can be extremely problematic when it comes to regular activities like driving or reading [1]. In the most cases, people are affected by the macular degeneration after their 50s, but there are some cases when it happens earlier. In elderly population, this disorder is the main cause for irreversible blindness [2]. In macular degeneration, cells in the macular region deteriorate slowly which is affecting the central vision. The progression of age related macular degeneration varies from one individual to other. The yellowish small area near the retina which helps people to distinguish between fine details is the macula. This is a light sensitive tissue. This condition is not causing any pain. There are two types of macular degeneration – wet and dry. The most common symptoms of macular degeneration are objects changing size/color when viewed with one eye; blurry spot affecting the centre of vision and straight objects appearing bent or wavy. The exact cause for macular degeneration is not known but the risk factors for it are age, heredity, gender (woman) and race (Chinese and White people) [3]. You need to talk with your doctor if you suffer from macular degeneration before you start using some of the below mentioned home remedies for this disease.
+Macular degeneration treatment
+Avoid smoking: It is believed that people who smoke tobacco can enhance the risk of macular degeneration and also worsen it. If you are not a smoker, then you should keep away from passive smoking as far as possible. [2]
+Taurine: This is an amino acid and a vital antioxidant which can help in the regeneration of worn out eye tissues. This natural cure can help to eye evade UV damage and retain central vision in old age. When someone has a deficit in the taurine, then it can lead to degeneration of vision. [4]
+Grape seed extract: The grape seed extract has powerful antioxidants which can protect the eye and body organs from free radicals. There are some studies in which are shown that antioxidants are useful to prevent cataract [5].
+Green tea: It is said that the green tea is very beneficial for fighting many different health conditions. This home remedy can help to protect the body parts from free radical damage. Also the consumption of green tea can be helpful for people with degenerative visual disorders. [6]
+Lutein and zeaxanthin: People who suffer from macular degeneration should add some antioxidants in their diets because they can help to fight against the macular degeneration. These antioxidants can be found in plants with bright hued fruits. You should include vegetables like spinach, kale, carrots, tomatoes and romaine lettuce in your diet. The lutein can help to delay the onset of dry macular degeneration by preventing sun damage.
+Astaxanthin: This is a carotenoid which is found mostly in algae. This carotenoid accumulates in the tissues of fish species like shrimp, salmon and trout. This is a very effective home remedy to bolster the eye health. You should include the sea foods in your diet because they will fight against the macular degeneration. [7]
+Natural cures for macular degeneration
+Vitamin E, Gamma Tocopherol: It is known that the Vitamin E and Gamma Tocopherol can aid in reducing retinal damage to a large extent. You can find these nutrients in many supplements. You can take the Vitamin E in capsule or supplement form but talk with your doctor before you start taking it.
+Gingko biloba extract: This natural cure is rich in antioxidants and it aids in cellular metabolism. Also it can prevent the degenerative damage to eyes. There are some studies in which are said that this natural cure can be useful tool to fight against the retinal damages [8].
+Refrain from activities that strain the eyes: When someone suffers from the macular degeneration, then it makes sense to refrain from activities which can strain the eye, especially the retina and macula. You should avoid watching TV for long hours. Also, when you work in front of computer screens, you need to take a break. If you go out in the sun, then you should wear sunglasses with UV protection. If you have a habit of reading books at night, then you should use proper lamps which offer required illumination.
+Do eye exercises: We know that we cannot prevent the macular degeneration from affecting the central vision in the long run, but we can delay its onset by resorting to specific eye exercises. There are some specific eye exercises which can help you to strengthen the eye tissues and muscles. Talk with your eye specialist what kinds of exercises for macular degeneration you should make.
+Maintain proper eye hygiene: It is very important to maintain proper eye hygiene because it can stop the worsening of macular degeneration. Also you should stop and avoid activities which can be stressful for macula and eye. Also people who are wearing contact lens should be very careful. These people need to keep the lens clean from dust, grime and articles. You should wash your lens with suitable liquid from time to time. You should never to go to bed without taking them off.
+Evade sources of blue light: You can evade sources of blue light and ultraviolet ray because this can help you to avoid worsening of macular degeneration. [2]
+Avoid low quality carbs: It is known fact that eating foods which are made of refined starches and excess sugar is bad for our heart health and waistline but it is also detrimental to eye health. When you eat foods made with low – quality carbohydrate, then they can double the risks of eye sight loss. There was one study in which was said that those people who eat foods that are with high glycemic index, can be affected by macular degeneration more than others. When people are consuming high – glycemic foods in long term, then it can increase the blood sugar levels which can affect the retina adversely. [2]
+Folate: It is known fact that the consumption of folate can be good for the eye health and it is necessary to keep the eye diseases at bay [9]. You can find the folate in many vegetables and foods such as green peas, corn, seaweed, sunflower seeds, lentils and soybeans.
+Lycopene: This type of carotenoid and other similar caretonoids which are found in the vegetables like tomato are very important to fight the onset of macular degeneration. There are some studies in which are shown that the regular intake of lycopene can reduce the risk of macular degeneration. The lycopene can be useful to fight against other types of visual disorders. If you consume a tomato on daily basis, then it can help to keep your eyes healthy and fine. [10]
+Reduce liquor intake: There are some studies in which are believed that the excess alcohol intake is detrimental for people who suffer from macular degeneration. When someone is diagnosed with macular degeneration, then he or she should reduce or stop the alcohol consumption.
+Do eye checkups regularly: It is very important to have prevention and early detection because this is the best option for all people. When someone steps into their 40s, then it is recommended to go to regular eye checkups on every six months or so. This can help to identify the macular degeneration at an early stage and it can help you cope better. The dry macular degeneration can lead to wet macular degeneration and this is a reason why people with the former condition opt for periodical checkups.
+Vitamin A and beta – carotene: One of the most important vitamins and minerals for maintaining eye health in people are Vitamin A and beta – carotene. The beta – carotene is offering nourishment to the eye’s photo receptors and also it aids in the macular functioning. Also it can help to prevent photo oxidation of the lens. You should eat a diet that is rich in these nutrients because they will keep the health of your eyes.
+Eat moringa leaf: Moringa leaf has more or equal amount of nutrients and antioxidants. It is rich in zinc, beta – carotene, Vitamin C and Vitamin E. The mentioned nutrients can help to people who suffer from macular degeneration to cope with disease better. The antioxidants present in moringa leaf can help to prevent retina damage to an extent. Also the zinc which is present in the moringa leaf can slow down the growth of macular degeneration. Nowadays, you can find the moringa leaf in capsule form in markets. [11]
+References:
+[1] Chakravarthy U, Evans J, Rosenfeld PJ. Age related macular degeneration. BMJ. 2010;340:c981.
+[2] Downie LE, Keller PR. Nutrition and age-related macular degeneration: Research evidence in practice. Journal of the American Academy of Optometry. 2014;91(8):821-831.
+[3] Seddon JM, Cote J, Page WF. The US twin study of age-related macular degeneration:
+Relative roles of genetic and environmental influences. JAMA Ophthalmology. 2005;123(3):321-327.
+[4] Militante JD, Lombardini JB. Taurine: Evidence of physiological function in the retina. Nutritional Neuroscience: An International Journal on Nutrition, Diet, and Nervous System. 2002;12:75-90.
+[5] Gritz DC, Srinivasan M, Smith SD, et al. The antioxidants in prevention of cataracts study: Effects of antioxidant supplements on cataract progression in South India. British Journal of Ophthalmology. 2006;90(7):847-851.
+[6] Chu KO, Chan KP, Wang CC, et al. Green tea catechins and their oxidative protection in the rat eye. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 2010;58(3):1523-34.
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+[8] Shim SH, Kim JM, Choi CY, et al. Ginkgo biloba extract and bilberry anthocyanins improve visual function in patients with normal tension glaucoma. Journal of Medicinal Food. 2012;15(9):818-823.
+[9] Kang JH, Loomis SJ, Wiggs JL. A prospective study of folate, Vitamin B6, and Vitamin B12 intake in relation to exfoliation glaucoma or suspected exfoliation glaucoma. JAMA Ophthalmology. 2014;132(5):549-559.
+[10] Stahl W, Heinrich U, Wiseman S, et al. Dietary tomato paste protects against ultraviolet light–induced erythema in humans. The Journal of Nutrition. 2001;131(5):1449-1451.
+[11] Luqman S, Srivastava S, Kumar R, et al. Experimental assessment of Moringa oleifera leaf and fruit for its antistress, antioxidant, and scavenging potential using in vitro and in vivo assays. Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2012;2012:519084.
+The Search
+Bonus Episode Transcript
+Lee Coffin:
+From Dartmouth College, I'm Lee Coffin, vice provost for enrollment and Dean of admission and financial aid. Welcome back to The Search.
+This is a bonus episode. We talked our way through 12 preplanned episodes and promised we would save time for some questions. So, this extra episode, we'll entertain some questions that we had from students. You heard on previous episodes, and we have some new questions that came in through our mailbox. So, we'll start with two friends from episode one, Jack Heaphye and Aditi Narayanan, who I said, "Ask me anything," at the end of that episode, they did, we didn't have space in the original episode to include it. So, we'll start off with Jack and Aditi posing a couple of questions to me, and then we'll come back and hear from some new friends we've met, some of our listeners who are wondering about a couple of other topics.
+Jack Heaphye:
+Looking at an applicant, like what is the like single most important thing or something that you would see on an application that just holds the most weight out of anything?
+Lee:
+That's a tricky question to answer, because it's kind of like... It depends which element of your file popped. So, for a lot of people, it is... We're going to say the transcript is a common denominator across all the competitive candidates where you have shown the admission officer, I've done well in my high school and I prepared for the curriculum you offer. That's a really fundamental part of what we're doing one by one. But beyond that for a lot of people, it could be an essay, the storytelling part, where you introduce yourself in a way that clearly illuminates the individual we're meeting. So, each piece of the application has a purpose. And as an applicant, you should think about each part of it and say, "How am I using this section to introduce myself to the college?" Aditi, ask me anything.
+Jack Heaphye:
+Ok, thank you.
+Aditi Narayanan:
+So, I have two questions and they're both abstract, so you're going to have to bear with me. But so first I was kind of wondering, and I think this might benefit the juniors too, because it's, again, something I struggled with a lot. And it's almost how do you know what you want? Or how do you know what's going to benefit you the most when it comes to college? Because most I'm going to say this broadly for most high schoolers, they don't pick the situations and the kind of schools they're going to be in. Right? It just kind of happens. And most schools are kind of a core curriculum, especially mine. And they have their required classes, things like that. How do you know if you're going to thrive with a flexible curriculum or in a rural environment or with a small campus? Like all of those differentiating factors that people talk about with colleges, like when my college counselors were like, you need to cut 20 of these 25 schools or something like that. And they were like, yeah. So, what do you want in a campus? I honestly couldn't answer for a long time.
+Lee:
+That degree of indecision is normal, particularly for juniors. And I interviewed a college counselor for the podcast who talked about inviting students to have a list of negotiables, which were all the things you just laid out, whether the different criteria that seem important to me as I start to meet campuses and think about the fit between me and it. And you might get to a point where things clarify themselves and what seemed important, becomes less important. And something like size, you might think I want a huge campus. And then as you start to explore, huge, huge might not feel as comfortable to you as small, which when you started maybe was a bit of a small place, I have to not do small, but they're small. How many seniors in your class Aditi?
+Aditi Narayanan:
+90 to 100.
+Lee:
+That's small. That's a small senior class. So, Dartmouth in this example would be a small university. We are the smallest member of the Ivy league by a pretty wide degree, but with 1150 first year students, that's a significant, multiple bigger than what you've experienced so far. So size, it kind of shifts around. And it's your own comfort level as you explore. Being honest with yourself, about as you visit virtually or in person, as you read, as you meet, like just owning, like this feels like it's clicking with me or I'm trying really hard to like it, and I don't. Like, I like the idea of it, but I don't like it for whatever reason that makes sense to you as an applicant, but it's Ok to start this journey being really open-ended to what it is you're looking for. By the end, you need to come to some kind of resolution about what matters, but you don't need to know that now. Second question.
+Aditi Narayanan:
+Yes. So, this is more for me and less for the juniors. And it's kind of like how to come from your hometown and come someplace with like Dartmouth and know how to best use all these opportunities, particularly the D Plan research and things like that. How to take charge of these opportunities. Because again, when I looked through the course and club catalog, I kind of wanted to do it all. So how people narrow down doing a diverse amount of things, but also learning?
+Lee:
+It's like walking into a buffet and you're like, "Look at all this food. I want to eat it all right away." And now I've got a stomachache because I've just, I've loaded my plate with too many things. And I think the first-year fall trap is you sign up for too many things right out of the gate before you get your sea legs around. What's it like to be at college away from home? The D Plan is intoxicating in the sense that you take three classes, you usually take five, six or seven when you're in high school and I've heard first year say how hard can this be? It's three classes. It's hard. And it depends which three you pair up in our schedule or in a semester schedule. For other places four courses is a lot of work. Particularly if you line up with calculus, chemistry, computer science and comparative lit like that four would be a really needy freshmen fall.
+So, pacing yourself as important, but also being open. And I think you both are already saying this being open to discovering things at college that you're not thinking about right now, that could be a major. I always say to kids take a course your fall or winter term, that's totally outside of your normal sphere because things like religion and the anthropology to pick two that aren't classes that you typically find on a high school schedule are fantastic departments that might open your eyes to a whole other part of the curriculum that you're not thinking about now, not necessarily as a major, but just as an interesting thing in the liberal arts to explore. And I think that openness, to being surprised with what you discover sets you up for a really great first year, which is supposed to be a year of surprises, your sophomore year continues that, and it's not until the end of your sophomore year, where you have to start to knit this all together into a plan that then guides you into junior year and ultimately the senior year and the way you wrap it all up.
+But for the beginning, I try and disrupt people's expectations. And also, when you come into a student body, like the one we're creating, there's this mystery that each person represents because every student has this really multidimensional story. It's part of the way we read and selected the class. And so, I like to think you people flip the script. You don't just look at something and say, "Ah, I know what role you play in the cast that was high school," and someone that might fit jock might also be a poet. Someone who seems nerdy might also be a rebel. Somebody who's an activist might be a Republican and all of these things' kind of crisscross in ways that I find exciting about going to college. And that's the door you're about to open. So those are the questions Jack and Aditi talked about back in April or May. But since then, we've had some questions come in through our mailbox and we're going to meet a few students and a parent who have a couple of topics, they'd like me to offer some thoughts on as we work our way through this bonus episode. So, let's say hi to our first questioner.
+Ignacio:
+Hola, Mr. Coffin, my name's Ignacio, but you can call me Nacho. I attend Yuma Catholic High School in Arizona, but I live in San Luis, Mexico. My question to you is about the D Plan. Multiple student bloggers at Dartmouth have talked about its awesomeness. Yet I never fully comprehended it. I was hoping you could shed some light on this topic. Thank you for the hard work that you've put on this podcast. And it has definitely contributed to my college search.
+Lee:
+Hola, Nacho. And thanks for this great question. And I'm going to answer it two ways. One is the Dartmouth specific answer and one, a more global answer for everyone out there who's not thinking about Dartmouth is one of your options. So, the D Plan represents Dartmouth's quarter system. So instead of semesters, we have quarters and students move through those quarters on their own terms. So what I like to say about the D Plan is it gives students a great degree of independence to create a course of study, particularly in the sophomore and junior years that lets them be on campus or off campus in whatever combination of terms makes the best sense to what you're exploring at that part of your college journey. And for some of you, you may hear that answer and say, "I don't want that degree of creativity."
+The bigger question is how does each of your colleges deliver its curriculum? Is it fall semester and a spring semester? Is it like Dartmouth fall term, winter term, spring term, and a summer term, some places have fall term and spring term with a smaller January term embedded in the middle, maybe a month long program? Those are all really different schedules. Trimesters are another option. It's often an overlooked part of a search. The way in which the faculty at that college presents their courses to you in what sequence over the course of an academic year. So unlike high school, which typically starts in late August or September and wraps up in May or June. Colleges can follow really different patterns through an academic year. And that's a question to ask, and it's a negotiable, you need to think about does this matter to you as you're assessing them or not?
+And ask yourself the question that relates to the D Plan as it relates to these other colleges, what's the best fit for my personality? Do I like being able to build my own schedule? Or am I somebody that wants to follow a preordained path, where fall has five courses, then there's a break. Spring has four courses, and then there's summer, repeat. Lots of different flavors, lots of different options as you look around. And the D Plan from the Dartmouth perspective is just one example of an individual college having an individualized system. Ok. Here's another question on a very different topic.
+Malia:
+Hi, my name is Malia and I go to Oaks Christian High School, and I am from Agoura Hills, California. And my question is how much emphasis do colleges put on your course rigor as opposed to a grade point average?
+Lee:
+It's a great question, Malia. So, colleges will look at both course rigor and your academic achievement in that course. And I think people often get it backwards and start with the GPA without understanding a college admission officer will look at your high school curriculum and ask this question. What's offered to you as you move from ninth grade through 12th, to what degree does your school offer advanced and more rigorous courses as you progress. Some places do some places don't. And so, we'll just make a note of that. And for a high school that offers honors, advanced placement, international baccalaureate courses. And if you're applying to a more selective institution, we will expect you to have been in those courses, especially as you move into 11th grade and 12th grade, if your high school doesn't offer them, you can't take them. But if your high school offers it, one of the elements of consideration will be the rigor of your transcript.
+And another way of thinking about rigor we'll look at what you are imagining as a potential major. And we'll look at the rigor in your course schedule to see how does that rigor line up with what you think you might study. So, if you're telling us you love international relations and you'd like to major in IR and Japanese and your high school transcript includes lots of honors and advanced courses and social studies and languages. And that makes sense. And perhaps you have some really advanced courses in 12th grade, but not as advanced course in maybe mathematics because that was not part of your academic interest. That's Ok. And then your grades will reflect the rigor. I get a question a lot when I do info sessions, "What's more impressive to a college admission officer an A in a college prep course or a B in the advanced course?"
+And the answer we always joke is it's better to get the A and the advanced course, but what we're looking for is the grade pattern across your transcripts, and to see how your level of achievement matches rigor and how the rigor matches your academic interests. And, I should also say this year, some of you will be in schools that remain remote and the grades are passes and fails. Or the courses may not have rigor designations as you've gone into a virtual classroom, we will assess that as well. So, one of the things we will do as admission officers, we'll shift gears a bit and evaluate your transcript on whatever terms the faculty at your high school have set for the remote learning you're now doing. So, don't worry about that. However, your high school determines how a pass comes into your GPA or not. We will make note of that and we will move forward with you. So, among all the questions we got, this seems to be the only one that came in from a parent.
+Carrie Carter:
+Hi, this is Carrie Carter, and I'm calling from Shaker Heights, Ohio with a question for Dean Coffin. With so many schools moving to test optional right now, I'm wondering what that really means. So, for example, if you are a student who took a standardized test and you did really well, is that going to help you? But if it helps you then, is that really optional? And so, I guess by contrast, if you're a student who took a test and you didn't get a good score, and so you don't submit a test, how does that position you relative to students who do submit test scores? So, really curious to hear your thoughts on this. I love the podcast super helpful. Thanks, so much for doing this.
+Lee:
+So Carrie, you're asking a really good question and it's really timely as the journey from the spring comes into almost September at this point, many colleges have moved to a test optional policy for this upcoming cycle, as a way of reassuring you that the limited access to the testing centers around the world during the pandemic should not be a concern. And so, if you have a score and you are happy with it, and you think it's a representative element of your candidacy. Send it in. It will be seen as one factor among many, not a required factor, but we will look at it in the context of all the other information that's coming in. So, the key question, if you have a score, is does this particular score sync up with your academic story? If the answer is yes, share it. If the answer's no, because you took the test once and didn't have a chance to retest that's your choice to submit it or not admission officers during this cycle are not going to see the absence of a score as a question mark.
+We understand that the public health crisis has created a lack of opportunity. And that lack of opportunity is what prompted many of us to pause the policy. So optional, whether it's a test, whether it's a recommendation, whether it's an interview, whether it's an art portfolio, the word optional truly means your choice. So, as it relates to testing for those of you who have it and think it is a useful element, share it. If you don't have it, don't worry about it this year. And don't push yourself. I think most importantly, as so many high schools are struggling to reopen. Don't worry about it. If you can't get to a test center this year, colleges understand that this piece of a traditional application is not always possible. And we have one more question from a friend in the UK.
+Maddie Whitman:
+Hi, I'm Maddie Whitman, a rising junior at the American School in London. Dean Coffin, will surging freshmen year postponements by 24s create a chain reaction of reduced admissions access for 25s and possibly 26s? How will colleges protect the next cycle or two of applicants from a crowding out effect? Thanks very much for your insightful podcast.
+Lee:
+So Maddie you're, you're bringing us to the last question of the ask me anything bonus episode with a really timely and important question that a lot of members of the high school class of 21 are asking, which is a lot of their classmates who graduated this year, took a gap year and they're waiting at the pandemic and they will enroll in college in the fall of 21. And the question therefore is what do those postponements mean for you? Will your classmates have equal access through the admission process and you're a junior. So, you're even bumping your ahead one more year and saying and the class after that, the answer is, it depends because one of the questions that each college will be asking is how do we pair the college class of 24 with the college class of 25? And if need be the college class of 26. So, as those two or three classes move through their undergraduate experience, we have the right enrollment over the course of the next two, three, four years.
+And so, for example, a smaller class of 24, because kids who postponed out could be paired with a larger class of 2025. So, a normal size class with the postpones added onto it. I can tell you Dartmouth, hasn't made a decision about this yet, but that's an example of how there would not be a crowding out effect that you're wondering about that we would smooth out the enrollment by adjusting the size of the next class or two with an eye towards our housing so that everybody gets part of the residential experience, but the smoothing out with would help us avoid what you're worrying about, which is a surge in postpones will create a tougher admissions landscape in the next year or two. I think that remains to be seen. I would counsel you to wait and see and not get caught in the speculation.
+For all of you, I think one of the challenges of where we are in the world, never mind in college admissions is there's a lot of questions like we've been answering on this episode around testing and gap years. And can we visit soon, and we'll see. And I think we're all in this week by week, month by month journey and as best as you can stay composed and not worry about things that we can't control yet. I think that's going to bring us all to a happier place. So that brings us to the end of our ask me anything episode. I said goodbye at the end of episode 12. So, I've learned my lesson. Maybe I shouldn't say goodbye because who knows. There could be a couple of more bonus episodes in my future, but for now this is Lee Coffin from Dartmouth College signing off again. Good luck on your search.
+Tarmogoyf
+Creature — Lhurgoyf
+Tarmogoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1. (The card types are artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, phenomenon, plane, planeswalker, scheme, sorcery, tribal, and vanguard.)
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+Tarmogoyf occurrence in decks from the last year
+Modern:
+All decks: 0.21%
+Golgari: 2.14%
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+Tarmogoyf Discussion".
+Reznorboy on
+Temur Hooting Delver
+2 weeks ago
+Hi, I really like this deck. I play EDH and am pretty terrible at Modern, but if I were to play Modern again, I would definitely want to play something similar to this. The only issue is the budget, how would you build this for cheap? The expensive cards are currently the Lands, Tarmogoyf, and Force of Negation. How would you replace those cards?
+TriusMalarky on Deck inspirations
+2 weeks ago
+Modern Jund.
+Is exactly that(I think).
+It's specifically built around Tarmogoyf so it has some artifacts, lands, planeswalkers, creatures, instants, and sorceries, and probably some enchantments depending on the exact list.
+It has good creatures, good spells, has a lot of interaction, a lot of card draw-esque effects(especially now that they have Wrenn and Six and its whole gameplan is "target opponent doesn't get to do anything". Basically, you get to play as a dictator and your opponent is the rebellion trying to kill you so they can be free.
+Tylord2894 on The Atla Palani Loop
+3 weeks ago
+This is probably one of the most initially unintuitive things about Magic. Your line of thinking makes a lot of sense, it follows the actions that are happening in a strict chronological order. That is not quite how Magic works. The game uses a system of layers and sublayers to determine the characteristics of an object in the game (in this case, a creature).
+All of the interaction in this question happens in layer 7 (the last one), which handles the power and toughness of a creature. In layer 7, there are 4 sublayers. The first determines the P/T as printed or as calculated by characteristic-defining abilities (like Tarmogoyf). Next, P/T setting effects are applied to the previous P/T. Mirror Entity's abilities happens here. Third, "plus and minus" effects adjust that P/T, things like counters or pump spells (i.e. Giant Growth). Lastly, P/T inverting effects happen (no need to go into those here).
+As a quick note, if there are multiple effects in the same sublayer, then "timestamp" order (i.e. chronological) is used.
+So, here's what that means for the interaction you pointed out. First, Atla Palani, Nest Tender
+has it's P/T increased by Giant Growth. Then we stack a bunch of Mirror Entity activation for . The first resolves and the game moves through layer 7. Changing Atla from a 2/3 into a 0/0 in the second sublayer. Then from a 0/0 into a 3/3 in the third sublayer. The game then considers Atla to be a 3/3, so she won't die. As the tower of activations resolves, this will only change how many times she becomes a 0/0 before applying the +3/+3 from Giant Growth.
+Hope this helps!!
+TriusMalarky on Is Lurrus going to be ...
+3 weeks ago
+Free card? Great.
+Reason to brew with Wrenn and Six, Tarmogoyf, Dark Confidant, Scavenging Ooze, Satyr Wayfinder and Grim Flayer? You bet! You can run maindeck Damping Sphere, Pithing Needle and more just to randomly hose Storm and Tron!
+Bannable? Possibly. The card advantage is good enough and most Modern decks are close enough to the requirements that you can just shove out some slower cards just to have free card advantage supreme.
+jacobpmesser on
+Golgari Graveyard (Modern) w/ new Fiend Artisan
+1 month ago
+You don't need Rancor. You've got Splinterfright.
+Keep it simple. Get cards in the grave. Play cheap big creatures that put Tarmogoyf to shame. Use your creatures to take care of whatever problems you have.
+4 Hedron Crab 4 Stitcher's Supplier, 4 Satyr Wayfinder Wayfinder is better. You want that land in your hand or on the battlefield. You don't want a dead draw into a land. You need to draw fuel.
+Artisan Fiend, Spinterfright and Nighthowler can all be snatched by Unearth. So...
+4 Artisan Fiend 4 Splinterfright (your trampler) 3-4 Nighthowler, 4 Unearth
+If you want to use Claim for redundancy, +4 Tarmogoyf or the +4 Boneyard Wurm. Myself, I like a little p/t in case they Relic or RIP. Keep it around til you get your answer. Maybe Grim Flayer? But if you play more 1-2cc ETB's, I could see more Claim. Try a 1 of Call of the Death-Dweller.
+You've got all these cheap creatures in your deck. 2 Lazav, the Multifarious. Need answers? Eldritch Evolution, 2 Neoform
+What are your problems? Creatures. Artifacts. Enchantments.
+1 Plague Engineer
+2 Plaguecrafter
+1 Reclamation Sage
+1 Haakon, Stromgald Scourge, Nameless Inversion
+Thrashing Brontodon
+Costs three but he's got a 3/4 body so why not?
+4 Force of Negation out of the side. You may want to board in 4 Force of Negation for RIP. I don't know how else you're going to beat it without a counterspell with Flashback. Play some number of Life from the Loam with Raven's Crime.
+Late game shenanigans: Sidisi, Brood Tyrant or you could Neoform/Eldritch sooner. Genesis because that's awesome. Alt win: Laboratory Maniac
+I don't know. Keep it together. Streamline the idea because the deck you'll be playing against, people have refined it to hell the past few years.
+Side note - You can Collected Company these creatures. Imagine that. Not so good idea Nightmare Shepherd. Eh idea Creeping Chill Maybe out of the side? Burn is real.
+hungry000 on
+Faerie Rogue Tribal
+1 month ago
+Sure thing! I'm going to be looking at this from the perspective of someone who wants to make the deck as "competitive" as possible; I won't talk about stuff like flavor and such because then all of my opinions would clash and you'd be confused. >.<
+In the main deck:
+I like Quickling, but I would change those Silkbind Faeries back to Pestermite, because even though Silkbind is reusable, it uses up mana and takes a turn to get the effect. Pestermite, while only a single-use creature, gives you an immediate effect and has a more flexible ability that can tap opposing lands, untap one of your own lands to play another creature or leave up counterspell mana, untap one of your creatures to block, etc. whereas Silkbind can only tap creatures. I can't tell you how many times I've saved myself from a turn 4 sweeper or other removal spell by flashing in Pestermite on an opponent's upkeep and tapping down one of their splash colors. Also, the difference between a spell that does something on turn 3 and a spell that sits around on turn 3 then takes mana to do something on turn 4 is huge in Modern (I realize your daughter will be playing against Standard Challengers, but there's still a big difference there).
+Faerie Trickery: As an aggressive deck, you want to deal with threats for as little mana as possible, even if the effect is only temporary; that way, you can play your offensive spells on top of the removal and continue to push pressure onto your opponent. This is somewhat less of a deal when you have flash creatures (makes threat evaluation a bit easier), but I've found that it still works far better to keep the cmc of removal spells low. So, I suggest you replace Faerie Trickery with Mana Leak. Exile effects won't matter as much when the deck is as proactive as this one is, so it's better to take the lower cmc and easier-to-cast colors of Mana Leak.
+As for Faerie Tauntings, I just don't think it's a very good card. Three mana is a lot for a card that doesn't do much the turn it comes into play. In my opinion, it would be better to just play a couple Vapor Snag in its spot, since this deck needs a few creature removal spells to keep up with other aggressive decks. A 4:2 or 3:3 split of Vapor Snag:Mana Leak would be preferable, actually.
+In the sideboard:
+Peppersmoke: Generally, when building sideboards you want every card to have as much of an affect on a specific matchup as possible. Peppersmoke is just not that type of card, haha. Fun fact: against Jund specifically, Peppersmoke is pretty bad since it counts as two card types in the graveyard for Tarmogoyf, which means the creature is literally unkillable (even if it's a 0/1) and gets a +2/+2 buff if you try to do so! If you want more creature removal, I suggest playing something more powerful, like Echoing Truth (deals with tokens well), Fatal Push if you can spare the money, Victim of Night, Dismember.
+Hypnotic Sprite: This is, once again, not a great sideboard card. You do not want to counter Burn spells with a 3 mana counter (3 mana spent vs 1 mana spent = mana lost and a whole turn spent on your part), and the combo decks I know of will either kill before turn 3 (Neoform combo) or have a >3 cmc spell as their most important combo piece (Past in Flames in Storm, Ad Nauseam). These 3 card slots are much better used by Duress, Spell Pierce, Negate, or Dispel since they cover the same matchups and more for a lower cmc.
+Thieving Sprite: They're okay, but I wouldn't play more than 2 of them. This is another example of a card whose function can be covered by a lower cmc card (Duress). Also, Earwig Squad is a really good card in the control matchups since you can search their deck to preemptively take out removal or win conditions, and it can't be hit by Fatal Push.
+Notorious Throng: To answer your question, no, the card can definitely be worth it in single player formats. Especially if you're pitting this deck up against a Standard deck. In fact, I would totally play three of them in the main if I knew I was playing against a Standard deck. But putting that aside, the card is very good in midrange matchups, like Jund and them. It's very difficult for black-based midrange to deal with tokens because of their reliance on one-for-one removal; a card that makes a bunch of tokens that fly and occasionally force discards is crazy good against them. Not to mention the Prowl ability on it. shiver
+As for the other cards in your list, I think Thieves' Fortune, Latchkey Faerie, and Faerie Macabre are the best of the bunch (that's why they're in the original deck, haha). Macabre is a great graveyard hate card, and Latchkey is very good if you want to take the deck along a more aggressive path; creatures that cantrip, like Silvergill Adept and Elvish Visionary, have always been a staple of their respective tribe archetypes. The only thing that makes me particularly hesitant about playing Faerie Seer, Thornwind Faeries, Sower of Temptation, or Faerie Formation is the fact that they don't have the Rogue creature type. Putting them in the deck can lead to inconsistencies, and when two of the three lords only work with Rogues, I would rather not risk it. Of those, I think Sower has the best chance of being a decent sideboard card (because it is one). Don't play Faerie Formation. Its cmc is too high and its ability uses too much mana.
+But honestly, if you think any of those cards would be good includes for their competitive value or flavor or whatnot and you think your daughter might think so too, I say just buy them (if possible) so you and your daughter can play around with numbers yourselves. That's what I did when I bought the deck (I have a set of Latchkey and a set of Cloak and Dagger that have fallen to the wayside lol). When you're trying to decide how best to build a deck, a question which has no definitive answer imo, buying cards like that saves a lot of time; the process of optimizing/customizing a deck to be your own is also a fun activity in itself. But if you want to take my opinion one more time, I believe the best way to navigate the details is to ask your daughter which cards she wants to play with herself, since at the end of the day she's the one whose opinion really matters!
+Anyways, I'm really glad your daughter's happy! Have fun with the deck!!!
+Xica on ToolmasterOfBrainerd
+1 month ago
+Hello, i see that you added a LOT of 4c Stoneforge Mystic decks.
+If you care about their compeitiveness here are my two cents.
+The Stoneforge Mystic "shell" requires you to run 7x cards.
+The real issue with that is the fact that Batterskull is much worse, when Tarmogoyf is not the only creature that is able to stonewall it all day.
+That is relevant.
+Due to the fact that using SFM to play batterskull is the only efficient way to use it in the decks that run SFM. Paying 1W, then 1W, then the equip cost, is very inefficient when it comes to playing the swords to say the least. You, basically need to give up turn 2, 3 & part of your mana on t4 to utilize a sword - while you only need turn 3 and part of your mana on t4 to use swords if you draw them naturally, or using cantrips.
+To put it bluntly the group of cards is close to 2 swords + 5 borderline dead cards.
+Imho, there are a LOT of better things to do in those 5 slots in the decks you are building.
+Welcome to this week’s free story from The Maclean’s Archives.
+Tommy Douglas, who led the first social democratic government in North America, was often described as a pragmatic leader who was impatient with ideology and theoretical debate. “He provided the framework on which the socialism of the Seventies can be built,” wrote Maclean’s contributing editor Heather Robertson. In memory of Douglas, who died on Feb. 24, 1986, part two of a Maclean’s exclusive from a decade before his death takes an intimate look at the man who came from left field. Read part one here. Learn more or sign up now for your 30-day free trial.
+On June 15, 1944, the CCF won a landslide victory in the Saskatchewan provincial election, taking 47 of the 52 seats in the legislature. The victory was a surprise to no one except the Liberals. “I thought we'd win,” said the new premier, Tommy Douglas. “I didn’t think we’d have the tremendous majority we have. We won seats we had no business winning, seats in which we just got somebody to run so we'd have a name on the ballot. And we won them!” The country was stunned.
+“People thought the world was coming to an end,” says Tommy, “that this was the beginning of a Communist revolution and we were going to wreck the province, ruin the finances, repudiate all our debts. Imperial Oil were doing some small amount of drilling in Saskatchewan. They just picked up their drilling rigs and went home.”
+The fear was the result of a scurrilous Red-scare campaign designed by the Liberals to inflame the deep racial and religious tensions in Saskatchewan. “People were told they would lose their farms,” says Tommy, “that we would burn down the churches, nationalize all the little stores, take over the barbershops, garages, filling stations. They’d say that Douglas beat his dog to death, that M. J. Coldwell’s real name was Goldberg and that he was an English Jew — there was a good deal of anti-Semitism in some areas of the Prairies — that I was a secret Communist, that we were all a dangerous bunch of radicals, taking our money and philosophy from Russia, and that we were going to bring the Russian system here. Imagine what that did to central Europeans in Saskatchewan, people who had fled from Communist persecution. Of course they were frightened.”
+After 10 years of Liberal smear tactics, the voters had become shock proof. "I remember a meeting in Stockholm, Sask.,” grins Tommy. “There was a woman in the crowd with three small children tugging at her skirts. 'They say on the radio that you’re going to socialize the children,’ she said. 'Is that true?’ The speaker assured her it was totally false. ‘I thought it was too good to be true,’ she said.”
+But the Red scare had quietly pushed the CCF to the right. The militant socialism of the 1933 Regina Manifesto — including pledges to nationalize money, key industries and land — was discreetly dropped and by 1944 the word “socialism” had disappeared from CCF campaign literature. The socialist government the Saskatchewan voters elected so jubilantly on June 15, 1944, was dedicated to the familiar conservative virtues of common sense and honest parsimony.
+“The first thing we did was to cut the cabinet ministers' salaries,” says Tommy. “I think it was probably the stupidest thing we ever did. We cut out the Lieutenant-Governor’s residence and a lot of things of that sort. There were a lot of big cars, Buicks and so on, and we put them all up for auction. And we got rid of the chauffeurs.” As premier Tommy earned $6,500 and the cabinet ministers made $5,000. Tommy laid down the law at the first cabinet meeting: “We’ll forgive you for making mistakes, but if you start getting your finger into the kitty you’re out."
+Money, or the lack of it, quickly became an obsession with the new CCF regime. The CCF had understood the financial disaster of the Depression; they had not comprehended the extent of the financial chaos bequeathed them by the Liberals. “They owed the federal government money, hadn’t been able to pay,” says Douglas. “They owed the banks money, hadn’t been able to pay. They had been borrowing money to build roads and schools. There was a little school in Assiniboia that had been paid for twice in 40 years; now it was a wreck and they still owed the capital. They hadn’t been able to pay their debts so they refinanced every loan at higher rates of interest, always higher rates of interest. One third of the total provincial revenue was going to pay interest charges.”
+Saskatchewan was $238 million in debt in 1944; $100 provincial bonds were going for $83. The province was virtually bankrupt. Occupying a precarious middle-ground between Marx and big business, the CCF was vulnerable to pressure and pressure from big business was forceful and immediate; a week after the CCF took office Canadian banks foreclosed on a $ 19-million loan the government had taken to buy seed grain for farmers burned out in the total crop failure of 1937. “Nobody had bothered about it for six years,” says Tommy. “As soon as we took office the banks wanted their money.” Saskatchewan refused to pay; Ottawa sued in the Supreme Court and won. The threat was clear — if the CCF made any attempts to socialize private investment in Saskatchewan, the banks would foreclose, drive the province into bankruptcy and force the collapse of the Tommy Douglas government.
+“You cannot build an island of socialism in a sea of capitalism,” said Tommy in the Throne speech of 1944.
+To prop up the economy the government frantically bought up Saskatchewan bonds and urged everyone else to do the same. Provincial Treasurer Clarence Fines announced on the radio that he had personally borrowed $50,000 from the bank to invest in Saskatchewan bonds. Within three years the bonds were up to $116. Ten percent of the provincial budget was set aside to pay off the $238-million debt. “Once the financial institutions knew there was a chance to make money, they didn’t care if we were CCF or Liberal,” says Douglas. Imperial Oil crawled back offering a fee of $20 million a year (two-thirds of the Saskatchewan budget) for an oil monopoly in the province. “I remember what I said to Imperial Oil,” says Tommy, “ ‘Get lost’.”
+In spite of its poverty the CCF embarked on one of the most ambitious and progressive legislative programs this country has ever seen; when the first session of the legislature opened on October 19, 1944, the CCF presented 76 pieces of reform legislation, much of it unprecedented in Canada — compulsory health insurance, state auto insurance, crown corporations for electricity, air and bus transportation and natural gas, free medical care for the old and indigent, increased pensions, consolidation of rural schools, marketing boards and producer co-ops and a network of regulations through which the government established greater control over the economy than was known anywhere else in Canada. The CCF had only one way to pay for its reform program — taxes. “We told people,” says Tommy, “if you’re going to build schools or hospitals or roads, you’re going to pay for it. Now!”
+In Saskatchewan socialism was not so much a matter of principle as of survival: in a bankrupt province, state monopoly was the easiest way the government could earn money. The CCF’s abhorrence of debt reflected Tommy’s own attitude to money. “I never bought anything in my life except a house that I didn’t pay cash for and I never had an easy moment until I had paid it off.” He was more conservative about money than Alberta Social Credit premier Bill Aberhart and his caution matched exactly the penny-pinching suspicion of the rural Saskatchewan voter. “We made enemies,” he confesses. “Our legislative program seems mundane now, but at the time it was almost revolutionary. If I had to do it all over again I’d slow the pace down somewhat, do half the first four years and save the rest for the next four. It seems incredible now that people would complain about paying five dollars a year for hospital care, but all kinds of people wrote in. Why should they pay? They’d never been sick a day in their lives.”
+The entrenched conservatism of the Saskatchewan public was a shock to the CCF: in 1948 the government was reduced to 32 seats. It was still a comfortable majority but the rebuff brought home the irony of democratic socialism — you can only go as far as the people will let you. CCF policies such as municipal reform which were potential political hotspots were quietly abandoned, much as references to socialism had been dumped from the platform in the Thirties, and CCF literature began to give greater emphasis to bread-and-butter programs such as roads, schools and rural electrification.
+Having set in motion all the reforms it promised during the Depression, the CCF rested, secure in the notion that it had created the world anew. At a time when the party might have moved into a basic restructuring of Saskatchewan society it opted for accommodation. It would not create a classless society but rather would satisfy all classes by being middle-of-the-road — a party that proudly advertised itself as one which “shuts out no one.”
+“Douglas never was a socialist,” scoffs one old party member. “There wasn’t a socialist in the cabinet.”
+Douglas established instead what he liked to call “managed capitalism,” a free enterprise system in which private business was tempered by co-ops and state ownership was confined to key monopolies. The CCF made only token gestures to stabilize agriculture, which made up almost 90% of the province’s wealth when the government took office, and, with the exception of natural gas, did not establish control over the development of natural resources. Imperial Oil came back, along with other multinational corporations, and until 1973 royalties on oil and potash remained trivial. “I don’t think any party could win an election after drilling 17 dry holes at $100,000 apiece,” says J. H. Brockelbank, a Douglas cabinet minister who managed to win every election he contested. Faced by the highest taxes in Canada and an economy periodically impoverished by agricultural depressions, Tommy ardently began to court investment by outside corporations.
+“We are glad to have you in our midst!” he told a convention of the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association in June, 1954. “We need the cooperation, the understanding of the industrialists of the other parts of Canada, of the financial and investment houses, because, after all, we are not in competition, we are members of a family . . . I believe that increasingly industry will begin to look toward the west as a very appropriate place in which to locate some of its branch plants.”
+Tommy stumped the rubber chicken circuit assuring the Moose and Lions and Elks that “Saskatchewan is on the march to keep its date with destiny.” Was this the old Tommy, this smug, self-congratulatory chamber of commerce propagandist reeling off production statistics, boring people with homilies on the United Nations, assuring everyone that, thanks to the CCF, Utopia had been achieved? “My father hated him,” says a Saskatchewan girl. “He reeked of piety.”
+Self-righteousness made the CCF vulnerable to embarrassment. A government-owned shoe factory and woolen mill in Moose Jaw went broke; Ross Thatcher, CCF MP for Moose Jaw, touted as Tommy’s successor, quit to join the Liberals, and in 1960 Clarence Fines, bragging openly about his wizardry on the stock market, retired on his personal fortune in Saskatchewan government bonds. All events were blown into major scandals. This was the time of the Cold War, the McCarthy witch-hunts, the Rosenberg spy trial; fear of the Red smear made the CCF defensive. Party conventions, designed to set policy, were carefully orchestrated to suppress or ignore controversial resolutions and the grass roots political structure which had built the CCF was turned into a massive vote-getting machine in which women continued to occupy the menial positions of cake-bakers and money-raisers. The government ran on its record: the 1952 “Program for Progress” became a “Program for Prosperity” in 1956. People accustomed to literate and astute political debate were given a CCF propaganda comic book; voters who, in the Thirties, had been reading Shaw and Jack London and Hansard were handed Tommy’s speeches. Tommy started doing little commercials for businessmen:
+“Progressing with the province in step with the ever-changing west is radio station CKRM,” he broadcast in 1954 over radio station CKRM. “Starting with two employees in 1926, this radio station now has 42 employees and is one of the most popular radio stations in our province. It is gratifying to see this radio station keeping pace with the growth of our province.”
+“Listening to Tommy the seats never got hard,” observes a Saskatchewan farm woman, “but he seemed to lack the dignity of his position.”
+Tommy’s inflated rhetoric opened a serious credibility gap. Not only did the government take credit for an agricultural boom over which it had little influence, but it became clear to the taxpayers that the much-touted reforms for which the CCF patted itself on the back were being paid for by themselves. A quiet erosion of CCF popular support became obvious as early as May, 1957, when Tommy, the old bull of the CCF, rashly challenged upstart Liberal Ross Thatcher to debate the record of Saskatchewan’s crown corporations. The debate took place in the community hall at Mossbank, Sask., and the whole province was listening:
+“Overcast skies and intermittent rain have discouraged picnics and travel to a certain extent,” the radio announcer whispers into his microphone over the roar of 1,200 people, “however a bright but tense holiday spirit prevails and the hall has been filled to capacity . . .” It sounds like a boxing match. Hundreds of people have lined up for hours to get a seat in the Mossbank Hall; hundreds more are sitting in cars parked on the grass around the hall listening over loud speakers. “Thousands of residents of this province are joining us over this radio network to listen to what has been billed as the debate of the year, the battle of the giants . . .” continues the announcer. Every partisan gesture is greeted with a roar and stomping of feet. Three hours later the decision is unanimous: “Tommy sure as hell didn’t win that one!” snorts a cabinet colleague. Tommy debated brilliantly but he was on the defensive; socialists felt he failed to defend the principle of state ownership, free enterprisers were impressed by Thatcher’s plea for private investment. So sympathetic had the CCF become to private enterprise that voters began to feel they might as well have the real thing.
+“I campaigned for our CCF candidates in the 1957 and 1958 federal elections,” reflects Tommy. “People would come up after a meeting in droves and say ‘Tommy, it was good of you to come and we’ll vote for you in the provincial election, but we’re gonna vote for Diefenbaker!’ ” The Conservatives took all but one federal seat in Saskatchewan in 1958. Obviously the CCF was not getting through to people what democratic socialism was all about.
+“No, that’s right,” says Tommy. “Of course we weren’t.”
+The CCF offered honest, efficient, progressive government, good government. Its policies were so sensible that many were picked up by Ottawa and other provinces and transformed the Canadian social structure. But a planned economy is not necessarily a socialist economy. Many of the reforms were essentially administrative. School consolidation, for instance, created newer and larger schools but it also hastened the decline of hundreds of small villages, strengthened the power of reactionary school boards and failed to provide Saskatchewan children with a more enlightened education than that offered in other provinces. A large bureaucracy was created to run the welfare state; since the civil servants were better paid than most Saskatchewan residents they became an elite class which soon interposed itself between the government and the people.
+The CCF’s weaknesses, like its strengths, reflected Tommy’s own personality. Up close, out of the spotlight. Douglas is surprisingly stiff and awkward, solitary, aloof, suspicious of strangers, a prim, wizened man in a well-pressed inexpensive suit who looks, as Bruce Hutchison wrote in 1944, like the president of a small-town Rotary club. His smile switches on, too bright, too friendly, yet his slate-blue eyes are cold, guarded. The ingratiating “Tommy” image is a facade, an actor’s mask concealing a man of formidable intelligence, biting wit and compulsive energy, a man of strong loyalties and sudden rages controlled by iron self-discipline. Douglas is a Christian soldier armed with the moral indignation and zeal of a Cromwell; he has the conviction of the righteous, and the rigidity.
+A pragmatic, busy man. Tommy was impatient with ideology and theoretical debate and quick to block out problems for which he had no immediate solution. Gifted with a photographic memory (Stanley Knowles made money at Brandon College betting on Tommy’s ability to read a Free Press editorial twice and reproduce it word for word) Tommy picked up and discarded fashionable economic theories with bewildering speed; with an exaggerated respect for expertise, he trusted in technology to bring about political reform and, spurred by a blind faith in growth economics, went chasing after the very corporations the CCF had originally pledged to eradicate. The result was what people in Saskatchewan call “square socialism,” socialism for the rich, a tax shell game without the pea. In fact, the CCF took almost malicious pleasure in Saskatchewan’s recurrent depressions, blaming their financial troubles on the Liberals and deliberately perpetuating the image of the poor farmer on which their political support had been founded in the Depression. A politician to the core, Douglas was a man of whom it was said, as Tommy said of his arch-foe federal Liberal agriculture minister Jimmy Gardiner, “he was a man that had one passion and that was power.”
+In 1960 Tommy declared that the Regina Manifesto had come true; laissez-faire capitalism had been eradicated in Saskatchewan. He went to Ottawa to lead the New Democratic Party in the House of Commons, the place he had contemptuously dismissed as “an old men’s home” in 1935. In the next Saskatchewan election the CCF was defeated by Thatcher’s Liberals on a free enterprise platform.
+The CCF-NDP has been in power in Saskatchewan for 30 years, a hegemony interrupted only by what the faithful dismiss as the seven lean years of Liberal interregnum between 1964 and 1971. It is no longer the party of the “little man,” the persecuted and powerless; it is the establishment. Is this it, then, the New Jerusalem, Saskatchewan, a province of banks and beer parlors where the CPR is the biggest private landlord and the only communes are owned by Hutterites, where the family farm is still the cornerstone of the community and all major industry is in the hands of private enterprise, where the co-ops sell the same cornflakes at higher prices than independent grocers, where the average income is still below the national average and where 10,000 people a year find somewhere else to live?
+There is little evidence of socialism in Saskatchewan. Is it just a time lag, or has the revolution been perverted into what Independent MLA John Richards, prime mover in the socialist Waffle movement which split from the NDP last year, calls “a Mackenzie King administration,” a conservative political machine which has achieved the omnivorous power of a single party capitalist state?
+Tommy’s own assessment of his achievements is very modest; “I think we established the idea, for people who work on farms and in small businesses and in laboring jobs, that, in a crunch, the government is on their side. I think we managed to sell the idea that there are things you can’t do individually that you can do collectively.”
+“Tommy is a myth.” says Richards, “but I’m sensitive about myths. Without noble myths man cannot carry on. There are grave inadequacies in what he did, but he was of his time and he provided the framework on which the socialism of the Seventies can be built.”
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+There is a joke that the most ferocious animal in the world is the Tiglion, so named because on one end it is the head of a lion, the other end the head of a tiger. It is ferocious because it can’t defecate. Similarly, we are endowed with 54 natural attraction senses whose glue inherently attracts us to stay connected with Nature, our Earth mother. However, these senses are unglued and blocked or cut off by our excessively nature-disconnected thinking, feelings and acts. On average, our thoughts and relationships are nature-separated for over 99 percent of our lives and we live over 95 percent of our time indoors. This severance of and from nature’s glue frustrates or wounds our 54 senses and results in our “ferocious” disorders and dis-integration. Our central way of thinking and feeling has yet to acknowledge this rift to be a psycho-emotional sensory phenomenon that demands a psycho-emotional sensory solution while the latter has been available for decades.
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+A Personal GreenWave-54 Field Journal Entry (with numbered links and references to additional information)
+. “While I was in a protected natural area near Guss Island, Washington, learning how to use GreenWave-54 ecopsychology, David, our mentor, introduced the four of us to it by involving us in its warrantied process (18, 7). Our exploration by experiencing it firsthand discovered that
+- Whatever our senses experience in Nature is a self-evident fact for us in that moment, a fact that we have no need to defend because self-evidence is undeniable (18).
+- We could reasonably see that we had many more than five senses operating because we experienced, spoke and identified some of them: hearing, distance, gravity, self, language, consciousness, aliveness, humor, contrast and reason (6).
+- We could validate that nowhere here or anywhere else could we find any evidence of Nature communicating through stories or labels. This was an attribute of humanity alone (18).
+- To help us know Nature as it knew its nameless and speechless self, we spent five minutes quietly in the woodland identifying each thing that we became aware of there as “nameless” or “story-less”. Attractive meaning and value was added to most things. We then got together and shared what we sensed and felt from doing this (22). We discovered that by dropping our labels and stories what one person said they had experienced each of us sensed as well since we were still unified in and by the forest. This made sense to us because everything is a supportive part of Nature except our nature-disconnecting stories (17).
+We helped each other realize that our love for or attraction to Nature that we were exploring was our 54 natural senses organically registering Albert Einstein’s Higgs Boson Unified Attraction Field attracting all things into consciously belonging in the Universe’s time and space of the moment (1, 11, 15, ). Then we soloed for the next five minutes while labeling everything we became aware of, including ourselves, as ‘Unified Field Attraction Love’ (2).
+When we came together again as a group, a stronger unifying feeling was undeniable. Now our senses of love, trust, place, community and time became apparent as our forest community experience validated them. Folks spontaneously shared how this same feeling of well-being had helped them and others when they were ill or suffered disorders (12).
+We noted that some folks addict to artificially producing this supportive feeling by using drugs, alcohol or excessively dependent relationships. These detached them, short-term, from their hurtful nature-disconnecting stories and gave them relief or emotional rewards (3). However these satisfactions were accompanied by detrimental aftereffects. GreenWave-54 could replace this short circuit by supporting the health of the natural world in and around us continually. (4, 5).
+The things we discovered from this experience were
+- how amazingly diverse Nature was,
+- how we loved being aware of and in Nature,
+- how each thing in a natural area was a unique and attractive individual, including each of us,
+- how it felt good that everything was right there to experience and love in the moment,
+- that we felt relieved by not having to label things “correctly” or at all,
+- that we found many wonderful new things about Nature by removing stories and labels from them and that this made us feel closer to them.
+- that a “brightening” or vibrancy of things took place after awhile when we called them “Nameless.” We could hear things we didn’t hear moments earlier,
+- feeling a greater belongingness to everything including each other when we called ourselves “nameless”,
+- our habitual meditation process benefited from a new unifying dimension,
+- calling human-built structures and effects “blueprints” made us feel more reasonably able to control them.
+We validated that these discoveries were true for each of us because we experienced them, they were self-evident, they registered directly on our senses (19).
+We walked back to the beginning of the trail labeling things we experienced as “nameless” “love,” “attraction” or “unified field” and felt a greater wholeness than when we started. Then David had us pinch ourselves until it hurt so much that we stopped. We explored how our sense of pain was not a negative rather it was an attraction. It was Nature’s protective attraction that signaled us to find more satisfying and reasonable attractions. We recognized that our sensations of anxiety, depression and anguish, our senses 25-27, also make this contribution to our welfare (6) and we could achieve this at will through nature-connecting activities.
+We validated that moment-by-moment everything was attractively connected and as one as part of each moment of the Universe’s Unified Field (2, 23). When we consciously thought that plants or we were alive, the Earth and Universe also had to be and act alive for us because everything was identical Unified Field attraction in that moment including what we sensed and felt (16).
+We ended up looking at the aliveness of clouds as they moved across the sky into beautiful new shapes and we felt harmony and peace knowing we were doing the same thing with them and each other, no matter our cultural or genetic differences (9). We noted that people in the middle of a city could do this with clouds, parks and weeds (14). Then David distributed sheets with the 54 senses listed on them and activities we could do to strengthen what we had just discovered (get one here 13).
+What fascinated me was that using GreenWave-54 we learned all this through trustable experiences in Nature, the real thing, in less than an hour. This was because what we were learning we could sense and feel right there around and in us immediately. This was powerfully different from the isolation generated by words in a book or lecture, words that Nature could not even register no less consider.
+GreenWave-54 was enabling us to be whole life reality, not just to abstract it with stories right or wrong (21). We were sensing and feeling that we were helping our 54 natural senses remember what they already knew. It felt attractive to give them safe time and space to connect with themselves in a natural area.
+We concluded by validating that in Nature what we were attracted to was doing the attracting in a balanced way. I recognized that at my school it would take a full year science and philosophy course to get the same results if this was even possible (10). Could an indoor course ever substitute for learning how Nature works from authentic Nature, the fountainhead of authority in how it works? (20)“.
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+The GreenWave helps us scientifically release our attachments to material society’s destructive stories that disconnect us from Nature’s whole life ways. It enables us to consciously interlace with the Universe’s love to create and live the purity of its life in balanced diversity. This becomes our deeper and lasting health and happiness as our lives increasingly center around Nature’s wisdom of the ages. Discover how and why, since the beginning of time, attraction has been and is conscious of what it is attracted to. To explore the GreenWave process directly, select here
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+The Phantom's KFC SuperCoach pre-season is here.
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+Jake Lloyd (Syd) $656,400
+The Sydney star has posted a KFC SuperCoach ton in 45 of his past 54 home-and-away matches.
+That's it. That's the description.
+Well, it could be. But there's more. Lloyd finished with the equal-fourth-highest KFC SuperCoach average in the competition last year. He had more kicks than any other player in the minor round and ranked first in the competition for effective disposals, fourth for rebound 50s and fifth for metres-gained.
+Rankings helped by the fact the skillful right-footer played on with 90 of his 94 kick-ins last. And with the new rule forcing the player on the mark to stand a further five metres back in 2021, that 96 per cent mark could be in trouble.
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+There's a case, sure, given the scores may even out across the 44 players on the ground a little with the return of standard quarters (you can find the full analysis on this here).
+In short, highlighting the increased scaling at the top-end, there were 182 140+ scores in KFC SuperCoach last year - 16 more than in 2019 despite a total of 45 less games being played.
+Lloyd had four of them, after just one the previous season, so another 122-point average may be a stretch.
+The Phantom's Verdict: You're picking him for his consistent three-figure scores and, arguably, the best KFC SuperCoach role in the competition. Not for the value - you can do that elsewhere. Said he was a "little bit injured" last week but, hey, my foot would be hurting too if I had that many kicks. I wouldn't worry just yet.
+ROOKIE BIBLE: MORE THAN 60 CHEAPIE OPTIONS RATED
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+Rory Laird (Adel) $564,800
+Your elsewhere could start here.
+Laird is priced at an average of 105 - three points less than his career-best All-Australian year of 2018.
+Great, right? That's probably just his base line.
+At the height of Adelaide's struggles, the ball-winning defender moved into the midfield in Round 9 last year and starred, averaging 118 points per game in the run home. Laird had 37 disposals in Round 10 and 25 or more in each of his final five matches.
+And, after leading the Crows for contested possessions, clearances and ground-ball gets from Round 10 - and with the departure of Brad Crouch - he's likely to assume the same role in 2021.
+The Phantom's Verdict: Yep.
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+Lachie Whitfield (GWS) $561,600
+Whitfield is unlucky to miss out in the section above - just like he was in Round 3 last season.
+The skillful Giant copped a heavy knock in the first quarter against the Bulldogs and was taken out the game in the second term.
+He finished with eight KFC SuperCoach points to his name.
+And, obviously, that score counted towards his overall average of 104.
+Take out the injury-affected performance and Whitfield's average was 110 - aligning with his career-best 111-point mark from the previous year.
+Since Round 9, 2018, Whitfield has scored 85 KFC SuperCoach points or more in 39 of his 44 non-injury affected matches, with 29 KFC SuperCoach tons.
+Some will raise the issue of his durability but apart from the four games he missed with a broken collarbone in 2019 - another impact injury - Whitfield has ran out in all-but three games for the Giants since Round 20, 2016.
+The Phantom's Verdict: He was a great pick as a forward last season and is probably even a better one as a defender in 2021.
+Luke Ryan (Freo) $576,500
+After pushing his average from 90 to 96 in an impressive third year in the competition, Ryan exploded in 2020, posting 13 KFC SuperCoach tons on his way to finishing with the second-highest average of all defenders to have played five or more games.
+There's no shame finishing runner-up to Jake Lloyd.
+But if you look past his slow start, which included three scores of less than 80, Ryan averaged 116 from Round 4 onwards and passed the 100-point mark in 12 of his final 13 games.
+In his fourth year in the competition - after being drafted from the VFL as 20-year-old in 2016 - Ryan was the No. 1 ranked player for intercepts and rebound-50s.
+And, like Lloyd, the 186cm Ryan is a beneficiary of the recent play-on rule, running out of the square, adding to his kick tally, with 74 of 89 kick-ins last year.
+He ranked No. 3 in the AFL for kicks per game as a result.
+The Phantom's Verdict: Huge 2020, and I'm tipping him to finish in the top-six, but I think he's one who will lose a few points as the scores - and scaling - even out.
+Tom Stewart (Geel) $538,000
+He's not getting a lot of love from the KFC SuperCoach community so far this pre-season, featuring in just 9.7 per cent of teams as of February 1.
+But there is, indeed, plenty to love.
+Stewart posted seven consecutive KFC SuperCoach tons to finish the home-and-away season, before scoring 151, 94 and 101 in the Cats' last three finals.
+In fact, if you take out the injury-affected 18-point score in Round 4, Stewart averaged 106 points per game, again, showing there is plenty of value in his $538k price-tag.
+The Geelong star took more marks than any other player in the competition and rated elite for disposals, rebound 50s, effective kicks, effective disposals, metres gained and score launches for a defender.
+He's proven his consistency, too, scoring 84 points or more in 30 of his 36 matches in the past two home-and-away seasons.
+The Phantom's Verdict: You have to scroll a little find him, but that definitely shouldn't put you off.
+CAN THEY MAINTAIN IT?
+Luke McDonald (NM) $512,900
+In 2019, McDonald finished the year in defence, averaging just 60 KFC SuperCoach points per game and failing to win more than 20 disposals in any of his 13 matches.
+Fast forward 12 months and, following a brief stint in a defensive midfield role, McDonald was crowned North's best-and-fairest after a 10-game stretch in the run home which saw him average 25 disposals and 116 KFC SuperCoach points across half-back.
+He not only became one of the club's best ball-winners, but the competition's.
+The 26-year-old confirmed recently that he would settle in defence in 2021 and declared he's only getting started.
+"I'm not resting on my laurels and I really want to keep improving and try to be one of the best defenders in the competition, to be honest," McDonald told the club's website.
+But, given his previous scoring history - averages of 67, 84, 64, 53 and 66 in his first five seasons in the game - if I had to pick one player to fit in this category in any position, it would be McDonald.
+The Phantom's Verdict: Not only did he find the ball at will, McDonald hit the target with 159 of his 196 disposals from Round 10 onwards. But I've just got too many questions. Do North become more direct under David Noble? Do opposition sides let McDonald run around by himself if the Roos improve? Is he even that good?
+Jordan Ridley (Ess) $547,700
+Speaking of hitting targets, the numbers say the reigning Bombers best-and-fairest is the best ball-user in the competition.
+Of all players to average 16 disposals or more, Ridley's efficiency of 87.5 per cent is No. 1.
+Ridley averaged 18 per game and 266 of his 304 total disposals were effective.
+And, while he may have only played nine games in his first three seasons on the list, the right-footer hit the target with 113 of the first 130 disposals of his career.
+Ridley also rated elite for intercept marks, contested marks and spoils for a defender, proving he has multiple avenues of scoring.
+The Phantom's Verdict: Ridley's 2020 was the definition of breakout and his efficiency is likely to keep him in the top-six mix again in 2021.
+THE SLEEPERS
+Sam Docherty (Carl) $496,000
+Remember this guy?
+Only 6.6 per cent of KFC SuperCoaches seem to at the moment - at least in a good way, anyway.
+He's the guy who averaged 109 and 114 in consecutive seasons before his horror injury run.
+In those two years, Docherty posted a SuperCoach ton in 33 of the Blues' 44 matches.
+He struggled for consistency last year, finishing with a 92-point average, but still managed to pass the 100-point mark on five occasions - all of them in excess of 117.
+I think we should just be concentrating on the fact he played all but one game in 2020 after previously not playing since Round 23, 2017.
+Docherty is recovering from off-season ankle surgery but is ahead of schedule according to the Blues.
+The Phantom's Verdict: The introduction of Adam Saad and the return of Nic Newman will be interesting, but I'm starting to talk myself into it.
+Steven May (Melb) $507,900
+This is how the Melbourne defender finished 2020: 115, 110, 149, 102, 58, 122 and 123.
+And it must be noted, May was switched forward against the Dockers in Round 16, resulted in the sub-60 performance.
+That's serious scoring.
+The former Sun took 91 kick-ins last year - only Lloyd took more - and he played on with 82 of them. As a result, May rated elite for kicks, effective kicks, disposals, effective disposals and metres gained as a defender.
+He barely received a mention in KFC SuperCoach prior to his standout finish to last year, but he did average 82 or more in each of his final three seasons at Gold Coast.
+The Phantom's Verdict: I'm not saying I will pick him but, on form, and given his effectiveness by foot - something not all that common at the Demons - he should be in more than 0.9 per cent of KFC SuperCoach teams.
+AVOID
+Shannon Hurn (WC) $477,800
+He still posted two big scores - 138 and 152 - last year, but the next gen of KFC SuperCoach defenders have well and truly gone past him.
+Originally published as KFC SuperCoach: All the best premium options in defence
+All the companies involved are long out of business now, but the author continued his work with another current company:
+We'll try to unite the video, text, and audio if possible on this page to present you with everything that was once available for it.
+THE VIDEO PROGRAM AND THE WORKBOOK/AUDIO FILES ARE DIFFERENT
+But they are related, of course. That is why we present them together here.
+If you're just after how to pronounce Irish words, follow this link.
+1: Meeting People
+Chapter 1 Audio File as MP3
+Information Text from the Workbook
+GREETING SOMEONEThe most common greeting is
+Cad é mar atá tú? How are you?
+This greeting is sometimes preceded by Haló.
+GREETING MORE THAN ONE PERSONCad é mar atá sibh? How are you
+RESPONDING TO A GREETINGTá mé go maith. I'm fine.
+or simply
+Go maith.
+People often add
+... go raibh maith agat. ... thank you.
+Agus tú fein? And yourself?
+When responding to Agus tú fein? people generally avoid repeating Tá mé go maith. and use instead Tá mé go breá.. Listen to some examples on the tape.
+The words mé and tú are called pronouns and are used when you don't need to or want to repeat a noun. Here is a list of pronouns, accompanied by the present tense of the verb bí (be).
+- Tá mé (I am)
+- Tá tú (you are)
+- Tá sé/sí (he/she is)
+- Tá muid (we are)
+- Tá sibh (you are)
+- Tá siad (they are)
+TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHERPeople often comment on the weather after they've exchanged greetings.
+- Tá lá breá ann. It's a fine day.
+- Tá drochlá ann inniu. It's a bad day today.
+- Tá sé fuar. It's cold.
+- Tá sé te. It's hot/warm.
+- Tá sé fliuch. It's wet.
+- Tá, cinnte. It is indeed.
+Tá lá breá ann inniu, buíochas le Dia. It's a fine day today, thank God.
+SAYING GOODBYESlan. Goodbye.
+Slan go fóill. Goodbye for now.
+You can respond to Slan. with another Slan., or with Slan go fóill. If, however, the first person says Slan go fóill., the second person simply says Slan. You also hear the following:
+Chífidh mé tú. I'll see you.
+2: Introductions
+Chapter 2 Audio File as MP3
+Information Text from the Workbook
+INTRODUCING YOURSELFTo introduce yourself you say
+Is mise ... I'm...
+or
+Mise ...
+followed by your name.
+ASKING SOMEONE'S NAMEC'ainm atá ort? What's your name?
+If you wish to ask the same question after you have given your name, then use the following:
+C'ainm atá ortsa? What's your name?
+People normally respond to this question by simply giving their name.
+FILLING IN FORMSSloinne Surname
+Cad é an sloinne atá ort? What's your surname?
+ASKING WHO SOMEONE ISCé seo? Who's this?
+If you're referring to more than one person you use the following:
+Cé hiad seo?
+INTRODUCING OTHERSSeo Diarmaid. This is Diarmaid.
+INTRODUCING FAMILY MEMBERS
+- mathair mother
+- Seo mo mhathair.
+- athair father
+- Seo m'athair.
+- iníon* daughter
+- Seo m'iníon.
+- mac son
+- Seo mo mhac.
+This is how you introduce more than one daughter or son:
+Seo mo chuid inlonacha.
+Seo mo chuid mac.
+The Irish for 'my' is mo. If it precedes a word beginning with a consonant (other than l, n, or r) a h is added to the initial letter, causing a change in sound:
+mac = mo mhac
+If mo precedes a word beginning with a vowel or f, the o in mo is dropped:
+iníon = m'iníon
+3: Speaking about your background
+Chapter 3 Audio File as MP3
+Information Text from the Workbook
+ASKING SOMEONE WHERE THEY ARE FROMCá as tú? Where are you from?
+After giving your response, you can ask the same question in the following ways:
+Cá as túsa? Where are you from?
+or
+Cá as tú féin? Where are you from yourself?
+SAYING WHERE YOU'RE FROMIs as ... mé. I'm from ...
+Is as Dún Geanainn mé. I'm from Dungannon.
+This is generally used as a statement or as a response to a general question such as 'Tell me a little about yourself.' However, when answering a more specific question, such as Cá as tú? people tend to say As and the name of the place.
+As Léim an Mhadaidh. From Limavady.
+ASKING SOMEONE WHERE THEY LIVECá bhfuil tú i do chónaí? Where do you live?
+SAYING WHERE YOU LIVETá mé i mo chónaí i(n)... I live in...
+Tá mé i mo chónaí in Aontroim. I live in Antrim.
+Tá mé i mo chónaí i nDún Geanainn. I live in Dungannon.
+If you are responding to the question Cá bhfuil tú i do chónaí? you can just say, I(n) and the name of the place.
+The following sentence will prove useful to you if you don't live in the place you are originally from.
+As Ard Mhacha ó dhúchas mé, ach tá mé i mo chónaí i mBeal Feirste anois.
+I'm originally from Armagh, but I live in Belfast now.
+The Irish for 'in' is i or in.
+I is used before words beginning with a consonant, and causes an urú:
+i dTír Eoghain
+i nDún Dealgan
+If the word begins with a vowel, in is used instead:
+in Achadh na Chloiche
+in Ard Mhacha
+TALKING ABOUT LOCATIONYou can use the following if you wish to be more precise about where you live:
+Tá mé i mo chónaí i lár an bhaile. I live in the centre of town.
+... taobh amuigh den bhaile. ... outside the town
+... faoin tuath ... in the countryside
+... i lár na cathrach ... in the city centre.
+sraid street
+... ar shráid Anraí ... in Henry Street
+bóthar road
+... ar Bóthar na Carraige ... on Carrick Road
+NA hUIMHREACHA 1-12 NUMBERS 1-12In everyday speech the a preceding the numbers is often not pronounced. It is always used, however, after the word uimhir, (number):
+ASKING SOMEONE THEIR PHONE NUMBERCad é d'uimhir fóin? What's your phone number?
+or simply
+D'uimhir fóin? Your phone number?
+ASKING WHAT TIME IT ISCad é an t-am atá sé? What time is it?
+If you're asking a stranger you should use the phrase, Gabh mo leithscéal (Excuse me) first in order to attract their attention. If you're already talking to someone you can use the phrase:
+Cad é an t-am atá sé, le do thoil? What time is it, please?
+SAYING WHAT TIME IT ISTá sé ... a chlog. It's ... o'clock.
+- a haon a chlog
+- a dó a chlog
+- a trí a chlog
+- a ceathair a chlog
+- a cúig a chlog
+- a sé a chlog
+- a seacht a chlog
+- a hochr a chlog
+- a naoi a chlog
+- a deich a chlog
+- a haon déag a chlog
+- a dó dhéag a chlog
+leath i ndiaidh ... half past ...
+ceathrú go dtí ... a quarter to ...
+When you're responding to the question Cad é an t-am atá sé? you can leave out Tá sé ... if you wish and simply say the time.
+4: Discussing Languages
+Chapter 4 Audio File as MP3
+Information Text from the Workbook
+ASKING SOMEONE IF THEY SPEAK A LANGUAGEAn bhfuil ... agat? Can you speak ...? (literally, Have you ...?)
+An bhfuil Gaeilge agat? Can you speak Irish?
+An bhfuil Fraincis agat? Can you speak French?
+TEANGACHA Languages
+SAYING HOW WELL YOU SPEAK A LANGUAGETá Gaeilge líofa agam. I speak Irish fluently.
+Tá beagán Fraincise agam. I speak a little French.
+Tá mé ag foghlaim Gearmáinise. I'm learning German.
+Níl mórán Iodáilise agam. I can't speak much Italian.
+If you are responding specifically to the question An bhfuil Gaeilge agat? here are some possible answers:
+Tá. Yes.
+Níl. No.
+Beagán. A little.
+Tá. Tá mé líofa. Yes. I'm fluent.
+Tá mé ag foghlaim. I'm learning.
+ASKING SOMEONE WHICH LANGUAGES THEY SPEAKCad é na teangacha atá agat? Which languages can you speak?
+SAYING WHAT LANGUAGES YOU SPEAKTá Fraincis agus Gearmáinis agam. I speak french and German.
+Tá Iodáilis agam ach níl aon Spáinnis agam. I speak Italian but I can't speak Spanish.
+Níl aon Fraincis nó Spáinnis agam. I speak neither french nor Spanish.
+SAYING WHERE YOU'RE LEARNING A LANGUAGEIf you tell someone that you are learning a language, you might be asked where: Cá háit? Here are some possible answers:
+Ón teilifís. From the television.
+Ón raidió. From the radio.
+Ag rang oíche. At a night class.
+Ó fhístéipeanna sa bhaile. From videos at home.
+ASKING IF SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS A LANGUAGEAn dtuigeann tú Gaeilge? Do you understand Irish?
+Tuigim. Yes (I do understand).
+Ní thuigim. No (I don't understand).
+A question is formed in the present tense by placing An before the verb. This causes an urú in verbs beginning with a consonant (except l, m, n, r or s):
+An dtuigeann tú? Do you understand?
+(This An tends not to be pronounced in everyday speech.)
+As you've probably noticed, there's no equivalent of the words 'yes' or 'no' in Irish. You must listen to the question and use the same verb in your answer:
+An ólann tú caife? Do you drink coffee?
+Ólaim. Yes.
+Ní ólaim No.
+When Ní precedes a verb beginning with a consonant (except l, n, or r) it causes a séimhiú:
+Ní thuigim. I don't understand.
+Only a handful of irish verbs (eleven, to be precise) are irregular, but they occur quite frequently. You've already come across one of the most widely used: Tá.
+An bhfuil Gaeilge agat? Can you speak Irish?
+Tá Yes.
+Níl No.
+You'll have plenty of opportunities to practise using verbs between now and the end of the course, so don't worry unduly about them!
+COUNTING THINGS
+NOTE
+The numbers a haon, a dó, and a ceathair change when counting things.
+Words beginning with a vowel remain unchanged:
+Note how the singular form is used after numbers in Irish:
+5: Expressing opinions
+Chapter 5 Audio File as MP3 (May not play on the web, we've had success after downloading)
+Information Text from the Workbook
+SAYING THAT YOU LIKE SOMETHINGIs maith liom ... I like ...
+Is breá liom ...
+or
+Tá dúil mhór agam i(n)... I really like ...
+SAYING THAT YOU DON'T LIKE SOMETHINGNí maith liom ... I don't like ...
+Ní maith liom ...ar chor ar bith. I don't like ... at all.
+Is fuath liom... I hate ...
+Listen to some people expressing opinions on television programmes. Before turning on the tape, have a look at the vocabulary below.
+SAYING WHAT YOU LIKE DOINGWhen you talk about the things you like doing or actually participating in, as opposed to just liking, you can use the word bheith:
+Is maith liom a bheith ... I like ...
+- ag garraíodóireacht gardening
+- ag péinteáil painting
+- ag cócaireacht cooking
+- ag iascaireacht fishing
+- ag léamh reading
+Here are some other popular pastimes and activites.
+Is maith liom ... I like to ...
+- a dhul ag rith. go running.
+- amharc ar an teilifís. watch television.
+- éisteacht le ceol. listen to music.
+- a dhul ag snámh. go swimming.
+- a dhul chuig scannáin. go to films.
+- a dhul chuig drámaí. go to plays.
+- leadóg a imirt. play tennis.
+ASKING SOMEONE WHETHER THEY LIKE SOMETHINGAn maith leat ...? Do you like... ?
+An maith libh ...? Do you like... ? (when speaking to more than one person)
+GIVING YOUR REPLYWhen replying to the question An maith leat ...? there's no need to use liom when saying yes or no.
+An maith leat ceol clasaiceach? Do you like classical music?
+Is maith. Yes.
+Ní maith. No.
+Is breá liom é. I really like it.
+Ní maith liom ar chor ar bith é. I don't like it at all.
+Is fuath liom é. I hate it.
+Tá sé ceart go leor. It's all right.
+Having replied to the question An maith leat ...? you may wish to return the same question. You can do this in two ways:
+An maith leatsa é? Do you like it?
+An maith leat féin é? Do you like it yourself?
+CINEÁLACHA CEOIL Types of music
+ceol traidisiúnta traditional music
+SAYING THAT YOU PREFER SOMETHINGIs fearr liom ... I prefer ...
+Is maith liom snagcheoil ach is fearr liom ceol traidisiúnta. I like jazz but I prefer traditional music.
+You'll hear people saying what kinds of food and drink they prefer. Before listening to the tape, have a look at the vocabulary below.
+BIA AGUS DEOCH food and drink
+All nouns in Irish are either masculine or feminine.
+The words é, í and iad are known as pronouns and are used to avoid repeating a noun, whether that noun represents a person or a thing.
+é: 'him', or 'it' when refering to a masculine word
+í: 'her', or 'it' when refering to a feminine word*
+iad: 'them', in all cases
+ceol (masculine)
+- An maith leat ceol?
+- Is breá liom é.
+leadóg (feminine)
+- An maith leat leadóg?
+- Is fuath liom í
+*There is as growing tendency to use é all the time for 'it'.
+cláracha (plural)
+- An maith leat cláracha ceoil?
+- Is breá liom iad.
+When pronouns é, í and iad immediately follow the verb, the following forms are used:
+sé: 'him', or 'it' when refering to a masculine word
+sí: 'her', or 'it' when refering to a feminine word
+siad: 'them', in all cases
+- An maith leat cláracha spóirt?
+- Tá siad ceart go leor.
+- An maith leat Julia Roberts?
+- Tá sí ceart go leor.
+SAYING WHAT SOMETHING IS LIKETá sé maith. It's good.
+Tá sé an-maith. It's very good.
+Tá sé measartha maith. It's reasonably good.
+Níl sé rómhaith. It's not too good.
+Tá sé go dona. It's very bad.
+ASKING WHETHER SOMETHING IS ANY GOODAn bhfuil ... maith? Is ... good?
+An bhfuil an fíon seo maith? Is this wine good?
+An bhfuil maith ar bith sa ...? Is the ... any good?
+An bhfuil maith ar bith sa bhialann sin? Is that restaurant any good?
+NA hUIMHREACHA 1-20 NUMBERS 1-20
+We'll have a recap on the numbers you've learnt already and add a few more.
+To save bandwidth and improve load times for mobile devices. Only 5 lessons are presented on a page (which is the same way the old cassette tapes were arranged).
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+Serves 6 | Prep & Cook Time: 10 minutes
+1/2 cup (125 mL) canola oil
+2 sprigs fresh rosemary
+8 sprigs fresh thyme
+1 tsp (5 mL) fennel seeds
+3 strips lemon zest
+4 cloves garlic, peeled
+1 dried red chili pepper
+1 1/2 cups mixed green and black Kalamata olives
+1. In a skillet over low heat, add all ingredients except olives.
+2. Cook for 5 minutes or until garlic is soft and beginning to brown.
+3. Add olives and mix well. Cook for another 2 to 3 minutes until olives are warm and plump.
+4. Serve warm in a small bowl.
+SERVINGS 2 cups | PREP TIME 3.5 hours
+2 cups (500 mL) fresh cranberries, selected
+2 cups (500 mL) water
+2 cups (500 mL) raw cane sugar
+1 cup (250 mL) granulated sugar for dusting, divided
+Place cranberries in a medium glass bowl and set aside.
+To make a simple syrup, bring the water and raw cane sugar to a simmer in a medium saucepan and stir until sugar is dissolved.
+Let the syrup cool for a couple minutes and then pour it over the cranberries. If the syrup is too hot the cranberries will burst. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
+Drain cranberries and sprinkle them with ½ cup granulated sugar until they are fully coated. Place coated cranberries on a parchment-lined baking sheet to dry for a few hours.
+Toss cranberries a second time with the remaining granulated sugar to cover sticky spots. Let dry another hour.
+See Lady York’s Holiday Magazine for more great recipes
+Recipe by Irene Matys
+Serves 4
+Ingredients
+4 chicken breasts, skin on
+Salt and pepper
+4 oz vegetable oil
+2 tbsp Dijon mustard
+2 oz bread crumbs
+1 tsp each of dried rosemary, thyme and basil
+red pepper, quartered
+8 Portobello mushrooms
+6 oz goat cheese cut into 4 slices,
+Salt and crushed black pepper
+12 asparagus spears
+4 sprigs of fresh rosemary
+Season chicken with salt and pepper. Add oil to a hot frying pan and sear chicken on both sides, skin side first. Remove from heat and brush chicken with mustard and crust with breadcrumb & dried herb mixture. Place chicken in a shallow dish and bake in pre-heated oven (375F) until it reaches an internal temperature of 165F. Brush red pepper with oil and season with pepper. Add to chicken and cook until tender.
+Clean and remove stems from mushrooms. In a separate pan sautÈ mushrooms in a little oil until tender, about 5 minutes, and season with salt and pepper. Place a slice of goat cheese in between two mushroom caps and place in a 375F oven for about 5 minutes or until cheese is melted.
+Steam asparagus until tender.
+Once chicken & peppers are done, remove from the oven and let rest for about 5 minutes.
+To serve, arrange asparagus, mushrooms, red pepper and herb crusted chicken and garnish with rosemary.
+1 cup dried lentils
+2 bay leaves
+2 garlic cloves, peeled and bruised
+1/4 tsp dried oregano
+3 cups water
+1 small red onion, diced
+1 medium red bell pepper, seeded and finely diced
+Vinaigrette
+6 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
+6 tbsp red wine vinegar
+2 garlic cloves, minced
+Salt and freshly ground pepper
+Garnish
+6 oz feta cheese, crumbled
+18 pitted kalamata olives
+Fresh mint sprigs
+Rinse the lentils and place in a large saucepan with bay leaves, garlic cloves and oregano. Cover with water and bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer until lentils are tender about 20 minutes. Drain and cool.
+For the vinaigrette, whisk olive oil, vinegar, minced garlic, salt and pepper, in a small bowl. Mix the lentils with the red pepper and onion. Add the vinaigrette and mix well. Set aside for at least 30 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, if needed. Toss the lentil salad with chopped mint and serve on a platter. Garnish with crumbled feta, olives and mint sprigs.
+Serving option. To create light bite sized appetizers, scoop salad into small Romaine lettuce leaves. Garnish with feta cheese and olives and arrange on a serving platter.
+Serves 6 - 8
+2 tbsp olive oil
+2 cups onion, chopped
+2 cloves garlic, minced
+1 celery stalk, chopped
+1 medium carrot, chopped
+1 tsp dried oregano
+1 tsp dried basil
+1/2 tsp dried rosemary
+1/2 tsp black pepper
+1 bay leaf
+1 cup zucchini, chopped
+5 cups vegetable stock
+2 cups dried mixed beans, soaked and cooked
+1 cup dried pasta shells
+2 cups tomatoes, chopped
+Minced parsley
+Shaved Parmesan cheese
+SautÈ the onion and garlic in olive oil for 5 minutes. Add celery, carrot,
+herbs, and pepper. Cover and simmer for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
+Add zucchini and vegetable stock, cover and simmer for an additional 15 minutes.
+Add beans and simmer for 5 minutes. Bring soup to a boil, add pasta and stir
+occasionally until pasta is tender (7-10 minutes). Stir in the tomatoes, salt to taste
+and serve. Top with parsley and shaved Parmesan cheese.
+8 slices of your favorite crusty bread
+4 tomatoes, sliced
+8 large bocconcini balls, sliced
+16 slices of prosciutto
+4 small basil leaves, julienned
+Salt and cracked black pepper
+Extra virgin olive oil
+Balsamic vinegar
+Toast the bread and place on a serving platter or individual plates.
+Top with tomatoes, bocconcini, prosciutto and basil.
+Sprinkle with salt and pepper and drizzle with oil and balsamic vinegar.
+Serve alone, or as a side to your favorite green salad.
+8 lamb chops, about 1 inch thick
+3 tbsp chopped fresh thyme or 2 tsp dried thyme
+1 tbsp lemon juice
+3 garlic cloves, minced
+3 tbsp olive oil
+2 tsp salt
+1/2 tsp ground black pepper
+Place lamb chops in a glass or ceramic dish. In a small bowl,
+mix all other ingredients. Rub mixture on both sides of the meat.
+Place lamb in a shallow dish and cover with plastic wrap. Marinate
+for 1-2 hours at room temperature or up to 24 hours in the
+refrigerator. On a hot, well-oiled grill, cook the lamb chops for
+about 15 minutes, turning once until browned on both sides.
+Serve with your favorite grilled vegetables or a salad.
+2/3 cups icing sugar
+1 tub mascarpone
+1 cup whipping cream (add about 1/4 cup sugar while whipping)
+1/2 cup sugar
+1/4 cup water
+3 egg whites
+1 cup Kahlua or coffee liquor
+Saviardi cookies
+Espresso coffee for dipping cookies
+Cocoa for topping
+Combine powdered sugar and mascarpone in a bowl and beat at high speed until well blended. Gently fold in 1 cup of whipped cream.
+Combine 1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 cup water, and 3 egg whites, and beat at high speed until stiff peaks form. Gently fold egg white mixture into
+mascarpone mixture. In a bowl combine espresso coffee and Kahlua or coffee liquor. Dip Saviardi cookies into espresso mixture and line
+a bottom of 8-inch square baking dish. Spread 1/3 of mascarpone mixture over it. Repeat layering, you should finish with a layer of mascarpone
+mixture. Gently spread whipped cream over the top layer of mascarpone and sprinkle with cocoa. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate
+for at least 24 hours before serving.
+1 baguette cut into bite sized pieces and toasted
+2 cups curly endive, washed and cut into small pieces
+1 cup radicchio washed, and cut into small pieces
+1 cup English cucumber, diced
+1 ripe avocado, diced 12 cherry tomatoes, cut in half
+1/2 red onion, peeled and diced
+8 oz smoked salmon cut into long, thin strips
+4 oz extra virgin olive oil
+1 1/2 oz red wine vinegar
+Salt and pepper to taste
+Combine all ingredients, except vinaigrette, in a bowl and toss very gently.
+Whisk oil, vinegar, salt and pepper. Pour over the salad and toss lightly.
+Serve immediately.
+Note: half the volume of the salad should be toasted baguette
+croutons.
+Serves 8
+¼ cup olive oil
+1 cup wine vinegar
+1 cup copped chili peppers
+1 tbsp Dijon mustard
+2 cloves crushed garlic
+1 tsp salt
+1 tbsp finely chopped oregano
+1 tbsp finely chopped thyme
+8 4-oz center-cut pork chops
+1 lb new potatoes (approximately 1 ¼ inch in diameter), quartered
+1 clove garlic, crushed
+2 tbsp chopped flat leave parsley
+salt and pepper
+For pork chops:
+Combine chili peppers, olive oil, wine vinegar, Dijon mustard, crushed garlic, chopped oregano, chopped thyme, and salt. Place chops in single layer in marinade, turning once to coat both sides. Marinade meat in a refrigerator for 4 hours, or overnight. Drain off marinade. Grill chops on direct high heat for about 8 minutes, turning once halfway through grilling.
+For potatoes:
+Clean and quarter new potatoes. Combine olive oil, crushed garlic, salt and pepper. Coat potatoes well. Place potatoes in a grilling basket. Grill potatoes on medium heat for about 15 minutes, turning occasionally.
+Place one pork chops on a serving plate with a side of grilled potatoes. Garnish potatoes with parsley.
+Makes 8 burgers
+1 lb (750 g) minced lamb
+2 tbsp chopped basil
+1 tbsp chopped chives
+1 tbsp chopped rosemary
+1 tbsp chopped thyme
+2 tbsp lemon juice
+1 cup (80 g) breadcrumbs
+1 egg
+pita bread
+lettuce leaves, rinsed and dried
+2 tomatoes, sliced
+1 cup (250ml) Greek Yogourt
+4 garlic cloves, crushed
+salt and pepper to taste
+Burgers
+In a mixing bowl combine the lamb with the herbs, lemon juice,
+breadcrumbs, egg and season well with salt and pepper. Mix well
+with your hands. Divide mixture into 8 portions and shape into patties.
+Cook burgers on a hot grill for 5 to 10 minutes on each side or until
+cooked through.
+Yogourt garlic sauce
+Combine Greek yogourt and minced garlic in a bowl. Season with salt
+and pepper to taste. Cut pita bread in half. Open pocket and spread
+yogourt mixture on the inside. Insert a burger and garnish with lettuce
+leaves and tomatoes.
+1 tbsp finely chopped garlic
+1 tbsp finely chopped rosemary
+2 tsp finely chopped thyme
+¾ tsp fresh ground pepper2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
+8 lamb chops, 1 ¼ inch thick
+Mix chopped garlic and salt and crush it with a knife until you create a paste.
+Add all the herbs and mix well until evenly distributed. Add 2 tbsp of oil and mix well.
+Trim excess fat from the lamb chops. Coat both sided of the lamb chops with the garlic
+herb mixture. Grill lamb chops over direct medium heat 10 to 12 minutes (for medium rare),
+turning once halfway through the frilling time.
+Serve with your favorite green salad.
+3 large chili peppers
+8 large Bocconcini cheese balls
+1 handful basil leaves, coarsely chopped
+extra virgin olive oil
+1 lemon, juiced
+salt
+fresh ground pepper
+Toast chili peppers on a barbecue until soft and skins are charred.
+Place peppers in a bowl and cover with plastic wrap for 5 minutes.
+Slice Bocconcini balls ¼ inch thick.
+Once the peppers cooled down enough to be handled, peel off the
+blackened skin, remove all the seeds and thinly slice.
+Arrange cheese sliced on a plate. Sprinkle with chili peppers and basil leaves.
+Drizzle with extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice. Season with salt and pepper.
+¼ lb dried tri-colour pasta (fusilli or similar shape)
+(you can substitute with whole wheat pasta)
+½ cup cucumbers, sliced then quartered
+1 red pepper, thinly sliced
+1/2 cup black olives, wedged
+¼ cup green onions, sliced
+4 oz feta cheese
+Salad dressing:
+½ cup extra virgin olive oil
+4 tbsp fresh lemon juice
+1 tsp finely chopped oregano
+2 tsp finely chopped basil
+1 tsp honey
+Cook pasta al dente . Place cooked pasta in a large mixing bowl.
+Add red pepper, black olives, green onions and feta cheese.
+Toss gently. In a small bowl whisk all salad dressing ingredients.
+Adjust the seasoning of the salad dressing to taste.
+Pour dressing over pasta mixture and toss.
+8oz ( 250 g) thin asparagus spears, trimmed
+2 avocadoes, ripe but firm
+2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
+1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds
+assorted herbs: basil, flat leave parsley, oregano, coarsely chopped
+4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
+1 tbsp finely chopped fresh basil
+Bring water to boil in a medium saucepan. Add the asparagus spears and cook for
+2 minutes. Asparagus should stay crunchy. Remove from the boiling water and refresh in cold water.
+Cut the avocados in half and remove the stones. Dice avocados and add it immediately to the lemon juice. This will prevent the avocado from turning brown.
+Remove avocado from the lemon juice, reserving all the juice.
+Place asparagus and avocado in a bowl, add toasted sesame seeds and assorted herbs.
+In a small bowl combine extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice, whisking it until blended well. Add finely chopped basil, salt and pepper.
+Pour dressing over the asparagus and avocado mixture and toss gently.
+Serve immediately.
+2 cups fresh raspberries
+2 tbsp sugar or sugar substitute
+1 tsp cornstarch
+2 tsp grape unsweetened concentrated juice
+½ tsp lemon juice
+½ cup quick cooking oats
+¼ cup all purpose flour
+¼ cup brown sugar
+½ tsp cinnamon
+¼ cup butter
+Place raspberries in a greased baking dish. Mix together 2 tbsp of sugar,
+cornstarch, grape juice and lemon juice. Pour over fruit. In a large mixing
+bowl combine oats, flour, brown sugar and cinnamon. Cut in butter until
+mixture has a crumbly texture. Sprinkle over fruit mixture. Bake in preheated
+oven (375 degrees) for 20 to 25 minutes or until filling bubbles.
+Remove from the oven and let cool. Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
+Ingredients
+1 ½ cup of strawberries, cleaned and cut in quarters
+1 ½ cup raspberries
+2 cups blueberries
+¾ cup brown sugar or equivalent in sweetener for no sugar recipe
+2 cups all purpose flour
+1 tsp salt2/3 cup butter
+2 tbsp butter
+4 tbsp ice water
+1 tbsp melted butter
+2 tbsp cream
+2 tbsp sugar
+In a medium bowl, combine berries. In a separate bowl mix together ¾ cup brown sugar and ¼ cup flour.
+Sprinkle over berry mixture and stir gently. Set aside.
+To make crust: In a large bowl, mix 2 cups of flour with salt. Cut in 2 tbsp of butter until texture resembles coarse cornmeal. Remove 1/3 of the mixture and place in a separate bowl. Add water to the smaller portion of the mixture and mix to form a paste. Add to the rest of the flour mixture and stir until dough forms a ball. Let rest for 20 minutes.
+Divide dough in half. Roll out bottom crust and place in 9 inch pie pan.
+Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degree C)
+Mix 1 tablespoon melted butter and lemon juice into fruit filling. Spoon berry mixture into pastry-lined pie pan. Roll out top crust and place over filling. Crimp edges. With a knife make incisions in the top layer to create vents. Brush lightly with cream and sprinkle with sugar.
+Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes. Reduce temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and bake for 40 to 50 minutes, until crust is golden.
+Serves 4-6
+¼ cup sugar
+1 tsp allspice
+1 small lemon
+Maple syrup to taste
+1 cup white flour
+Pinch salt
+1 ½ tsp baking powder
+¼ cup (1/2 stick) butter
+1 cup half and half
+Simmer the washed blueberries gently with sugar, allspice,
+and the lemonπs juice and grated rind. Add maple syrup to taste.
+Meanwhile rub the flour, salt, baking powder and butter into
+crumbs and blend in enough cream to make a smooth, creamy dough.
+Carefully spoon the dough on top of the blueberries mixture,
+cover the pan, and simmer until the crust puffs and sets.
+Serve with additional maple syrup.
+4 cups fresh blueberries
+1 can (16 0z) whole berry cranberry sauce
+3 tbsp balsamic vinegar
+1 ½ tsp grated orange peel
+1 tsp ground ginger
+½ tsp crushed red pepper
+¼ tsp black pepper
+Sterilize 250 ml Mason jars in boiling water. Set screw bands aside, heat Snap lids in hot water (not boiling). Keep jars and snap lids hot until ready to use.
+In a medium saucepan, combine blueberries, cranberry sauce, sugar, balsamic vinegar, orange peel, ginger and red and black peppers. Bring to boil. Boil uncovered, stirring frequently, until slightly thickened, 15 to 20 minutes..
+Alternately, ladle mixture into clean jars, cover and refrigerate for up to 3 weeks.
+7 apples
+13/4 cup water
+2 cups whole blackberries
+juice of one lemon
+2 cups sugar
+1 pkg liquid fruit pectin
+Sterilize six 250 ml Mason jars in boiling water. Set screw bands aside, heat Snap lids in hot water (not boiling). Keep jars and snap lids hot until ready to use.
+Peal, core and cut apples in 8 pieces. Combine apples and 1 cup of water in a large stainless steel saucepan. Bring to boil. Cover and simmer for about 10 minutes or until apples are tender. Remove from heat. Place apples and liquid in a blender and puree until smooth. Pour applesauce into a clean, large stainless steel saucepan.
+Lightly crush blackberries and add to applesauce. Add juice of one lemon and sugar. Stir in ¾ cup of water. Gradually stir 1 pkg of liquid pectin. Stirring constantly, bring to a full, rolling boil. Boil hard for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat.
+Skim any foam from the top..
+Ingredients
+4 cups crushed strawberries
+1 cup maple syrup
+1 cup apple juice
+3 tbsp lemon juice
+1 cup sugar
+1 pkg fruit pectin
+Sterilize six 250 ml Mason jars in boiling water. Set screw bands aside, heat snap lids in hot water (not boiling). Keep jars and snap lids hot until ready to use.
+Wash, hull and crush strawberries. Place strawberries into a large stainless steel saucepan. Add maple syrup, apple juice, lemon juice and sugar. Bring to a rolling boil. Turn the heat to medium high and boil for 10 minutes stirring to prevent mixture from sticking to the bottom of saucepan. Gradually stir Fruit pectin into fruit. Return mixture to rolling boil and stirring constantly boil hard for 1 minute. Remove from heat and skim foam..
+Excellent to serve with pancakes or French toast.
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+To feel the magic atmosphere of the ancient and, at the same time, advanced Moscow you should discover the city with your own eyes and legs. We suggest you to walk around the famous places in the center of the city.
+To feel the magic atmosphere of the ancient and, at the same time, advanced Moscow you should discover the city with your own eyes and legs. We suggest you to walk around the famous places in the center of the city.
+Arbat is considered the oldest pedestrian street in Moscow. The name of this street was first mentioned in 1475. What is so special about this place – museum, theater scenes, marketplace, and a place for walking? Arbat is a kind of a cozy world where you can immerse yourself in the amazing creative atmosphere. The street became pedestrian in 1986. Soon, the renovated street attracted artists, musicians, street performers and vendors, creating custom creative world within Arbat. Contemporary Arbat is something like the ‘Montmartre’ where you can see people draw, sing, dance, recite poetry, oratory and much more. Perceiving its noble and intellectual traditions try to feel the uniqueness and charm of this corner of Moscow.
+Restaurant «Prague»
+1. Start a walk along Arbat at its eastern end – Arbatskaya Square. Here you can see a XIX century building – a famous restaurant –«Prague». It has existed since the 1890s and always was a meeting place of the elite. The restaurant itself is now closed for a reconstruction.
+«Khudogestvenniy» Cinema
+2. The restaurant overlooks «Khudogestvenniy» Cinema – one of the oldest cinemas in Moscow. It was opened in 1909.
+Following the Arbat Street, you will see numerous beautiful buildings that represent mostly the XIX century architecture. However, the real treasures of Arbat hides in its lanes. Old building still preserve there
+The Moscow State Museum «House of Burganov»
+3. Turning to Bolshoy Afanasyevsky Lane you will find the beautiful Church of Athanasius and Cyril of Alexandria. Following the lane, go to the Moscow State Museum «House of Burganov». A part of its exhibition, by the way, is clearly visible from the outside, so you can choose either to observe it from a distance or to visit this museum. Coincidentally, you will see many works of this artist travelling along this route.
+Next, go along the Sivtsev Vrazhek Lane all the way to Denezhny Lane, and from there, you will arrive to the Arbat.
+The Melnikov House
+4.If you turn left to the Krivoarbatsky Lane, you will find one of the city’s most remarkable examples of Constructivist architecture, an idealistic and futuristic movement that swept the Soviet Union in the 1920s. The Melnikov House is named after the architect who designed it in 1927. An experimental design, the house is formed from two connected cylinders and dotted with hexagonal windows. Plans to create a museum here exist, but even before that happens it is worth going to peer through the fence.
+Continue on Kirvoarbatsky Lane and turn right to go back to the Arbat. At the end of the lane, there will be the “Victor Tsoi Wall”, a one-of-a-kind tribute to the beloved musician.
+The Vakhtangov Theater
+5. At the Arbat Street you will see the Vakhtangov Theater and 6 a small fountain with golden figure of Princess Turandot, the title character of Carlo Gozzi play, and the most celebrated production of this theater.
+Statue of Bulat Okudzhava
+6. At the Plotnikov Lane, you will see bronze statue of Bulat Okudzhava, a famous Russian songwriter and singer, walks sure-footed to meet you. The sculptor G.V. Frangulyan did his best to recreate the spirit of the legendary Arbat so adored by the bard around this composition.
+Church of the Savior on the Sands (Spasa-na-peskah)
+7. Head straight up Spasopeskovsky Lane to see the pretty Church of the Savior on the Sands (Spasa-na-peskah) dating the 18th century. At the far end of the lane is the elegantSpaso House, home of the U.S. Ambassador to Russia. Make your way back to the Arbat, and turn right to continue walking west.
+Statue of Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin and his wife Natalia Goncharova
+8. On the right, you will notice a bronze statue of Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin, and his wife Natalia Goncharova. After their wedding at the nearby Great Ascension Church, the couple lived in the blue house on the left, which is now the Pushkin House-Museum.
+Ministry of Foreign Affairs
+9. The Arbat ends at Smolenskaya-Sennaya Square, which is dominated by the massiveMinistry of Foreign Affairs. This is one of seven skyscrapers known as the Seven Sisters, which were built in 1947 to commemorate Moscow’s 800th anniversary.
+Monument to Nikolai Gogol
+1. Start the walk from Kropotkinskaya metro station and follow the boulevards clockwise. You will find yourself at Gogolevsky Boulevard, the symbolic start of the Boulevard Ring. It stretched from Prechistenskie Gate Square to Arbat Gate Square. A striking feature of this boulevard is that it is a three-tiered – external, middle and inner parts are at different heights.
+There are many houses and mansions of the late nineteenth century. Almost in the center of the boulevard is a monument to Mikhail Sholokhov. Two departments of Moscow Museum of Modern Art are located here. At the end of the boulevard, you can see a monument to Nikolai Gogol.
+Fountain rotunda «Natalia and Alexander»
+2. Coming over the Arbat Square, you will find yourself at Nikitsky Boulevard, with lots of beautiful buildings and nice cafes. The mansion of Count Alexander Tolstoy was situated here. The Niktitsky Gate completes the Boulevard. On your left, you will see fountain rotunda «Natalia and Alexander», established in honor of the 200th anniversary of Alexander Pushkin’s birth.
+TASS Main Entrance
+3. Moving forward you get to the longest boulevard of the Boulevard Ring – Tverskoy. At the beginning of the Boulevard, you will see the monument to Timiryazev. Also, note the TASS building on your right. In the center of the recently renovated Boulevard is a monument to Sergei Yesenin.
+Monument to composer Sergei Rachmaninoff
+4. Crossing the Tverskaya Street, you will get to the Pushkin square where you will see the writer’s monument. Right behind the Pushkinsky Cinema begins the Strastnoy Boulevard, the widest at the Boulevard Ring. Here you will find a monument to composer Sergei Rachmaninoff and a monument to the actor and poet Vladimir Vysotsky.
+Petrovsky Boulevard
+5. Strastnoy Boulevard ends by Petrovskiye Gate and Petrovsky Boulevard begins. Here you will find many architectural and historical monuments.
+Female Rogdestvensky Monastery
+6. Rogestvensky Boulevard starts from the Trubnaya Square. The history of this place begins with the appearance of female Rogdestvensky and men Sretensky Monasteries in the area. In 2012, worship the cross in honor of the patroness St. Euphrosyne of Moscow was established at the boulevard.
+Monument to Nadezhda Krupskaya
+7. Go further to Sretensky Boulevard, the shortest boulevard of the Boulevard Ring. In the beginning of the boulevard is a monument to Nadezhda Krupskaya.
+Chistoprudny Boulevard
+8. At the entrance to Chistoprudny Boulevard, you will see a monument to Alexander Griboyedov, and later – a monument to Kazakh poet Abai Kunanbayev. Chistoprudniy Boulevard is the only one at the Boulevard Ring where you will find the pond – “Pure ponds”(Chistie Prudi).
+Pokrovsky Boulevard
+9. Coming through Pokrovsky Gates Square and Khokhlovskaya Square you will appear atPokrovsky Boulevard that flows into the Yauzsky Boulevard. They are not so well known as Tverskoy or Chistoprudniy Boulevard, but they are also quite remarkable.
+Monument to Motherland Border Guards
+10. Ustyinsky drive completes the Boulevard Ring. Here, in the Yauzskie Gate park area you will find a monument to Motherland Border Guards.
+Perhaps we have not told you everything about the Boulevard Ring. Just have a walk right at the border of unpreserved White City and see wonderful nowadays Moscow through one of its best parts.
+Kitai-gorod is one of the oldest and the most interesting areas of Moscow. It was a commercial and business district in the years before the Revolution. Here you will see traces of medieval Moscow.
+Fragments of the foundation and the base of the Varvarskaya tower
+1. Start your walk right at the Kitay-gorod metro station. In the wall of the underpass, you will see fragments of the foundation and the base of the Varvarskaya tower of the Kitay-Gorod. Kitaygorodskaya Wall was built in Moscow in the 1530s by architect Petrok Maly. It had 14 towers and was more than 2.5 km length. The Wall began from the Arsenal Tower and ended at Beklemishevskaya Tower of the Kremlin. It was almost completely demolished in the 1930s – 1950s.
+Temple of St. George on Pskov Hill
+2. Go to Varvarka Street, into the area of the former medieval fortress.The street is real reserve of old Moscow: ancient temple of St. George on Pskov Hill, the cathedral of the former Znamensky Monastery and Chambers of the Romanov Boyars are situated in the street.
+Temple of the Trinity in Nikitniki of XVII century
+3. If you go to the Ipatievsky Lane on the opposite side of Varvarka, then at the corner of the Nikitinskiy lane you will see the beautiful temple of the Trinity in Nikitniki of XVII century.
+Gostinniy Dvor
+4. Return to Varvarka and continue. To your left you will see one of the oldest buildings in Moscow – Old English Court, built in the late XV century by merchant Ivan Bobrischevym. On your right, there is Gostinniy Dvor. The first mention of it dates to the beginning of the XVI century, and at the end of XVIII century, it was rebuilt by architect Quarenghi. Now it hosts an exhibition hall, shops, restaurants and cafes. Not far from Gostinniy Dvor, Barbara the Martyr Church, which gave its name to the street, is located.
+Burse Square
+5. Turn right to the Crystal Lane (as you might guess, there used to trade crystal and glass)and go on to Ilyinka Street. The street is named after the ancient Elias Monastery. It was abolished, and the Church of Elijah the Prophet was built in its place. Follow the Ilyinka Street to the Burse Square. Exchange building (now a CCI of Russia) is on your right. Like a hundred years ago, it is – one of the main business areas of the capital: ministries, banks, representative offices of various companies. Many buildings have preserved from pre-revolutionary times. Near the Burse Square a beautiful Epiphany Cathedral of the Epiphany Monastery – one of the oldest in Moscow is located.
+Nikolskaya Street
+6. Reaching the Big Cherkassky Lane, turn left and walk along the early XIX century buildings to Nikolskaya Street. It is, perhaps, the busiest street of Kitay-Gorod. At all times it was one of the main streets of Moscow. There is a wide variety of shops, malls, restaurants, cafes and clubs.
+Shopping Center «Sheremetyevsky»
+7. Nikolskaya Street has always been famous for many bookshops. In the beginning of the XIX century, there were 26 out of 31 Moscow bookstores!
+Tretyakovsky Passage
+8. Go by the street towards the Kremlin. Right in the arch – Tretyakovsky Passage – a street with fashionable shops of famous international brands. This passage was arranged in the 1870s Tretyakov brothers. The Building in the Gothic style, with a sundial, bas-relief images of a lion and the unicorn is a former Synod printing. The house was built in the 1810s. Here, in 1564 the first Russian printed book “The Apostle» was published. Russian State Humanitarian University is now located here.
+Walk along the Nicholskaya Street and get to the Red Square, from where you can start a wonderful study of the Moscow Kremlin.
+The Zamoskvorechye District, located at the lower bank of the Moskva River, has almost undergone any renovation. Varied in style, Moscow churches XVII – XIX centuries, the Exchequers and the homes of famous Moscow merchants retain the image of old Moscow.
+The first mention of the Zamoskvorechye in the documents refers to 1365, when first settlements began to form here. Since the second half of the XIX century, the area was popular among intellectuals. Outstanding figures of Russian culture lived and worked here. For example, young Lev Tolstoy rented an apartment in the merchant’s house in 1854-1855 in Pjatnitskaya Street. Fyodor Dostoevsky often visited his aunt in a house on Bolshaya Ordynka (known as Kumaninskoe farmstead). This area is closely associated with the names of Anna Akhmatova, the famous Russian publisher and educator Ivan Sytina. The Soviet era did not cause serious damage to Zamoskvorechye and despite modern development, here preserved historical architecture.
+In 2013, a new pedestrian zone near the Tretyakovskaya Gallery, and includes Pyatnitskaya street Klimentovskiy, Ordinsky, Lavrushinsky Lanes and Kadashevskaya embankment, appeared in Zamoskvorechye.
+Pyatnitskaya Street
+1. Start a walk from Novokuznetskaya metro station. Go through Pyatnitskaya Street to the vintage Klimentovskiy Lane that connects Bolshaya Tatarskaya and Bolshaya Ordynka streets.
+Temple of the Holy Martyr Clement
+2. Here you can see a wonderful piece of the XVIII century architecture – the Temple of the Holy Martyr Clement, Pope (1762-1774). The northern side of Klimentovskiy Lane forms a small district occupied by shops and cafes.
+Church of All the Afflicted
+3. Crossing Bolshaya Ordynka not forget to look in Ordynsky dead end, located right on your way.there you can see the Church of All the Afflicted.
+The State Tretyakov Gallery
+4. One of the main attractions of the pedestrian zone – The State Tretyakov Gallery is situated in Lavrushinsky Lane. The famous museum occupies the even side of the lane, called in the XVIII century by the name of the proprietor Lavrushina.
+Sculptured composition by M. Shemyakin
+5.Going to the Kadasheskaya Embankment, you will cross the drainage channel by Luzhkov Bridge and find yourself on Bolotnaya embankment. Nearby, at the Bolotnaya Square, you can find sculptured composition by M. Shemyakin and monument to the great Russian artist Repin. Then you can continue your walk and visit the «Red October», there are many restaurants, cafes and Lumiere Brothers Photography Center.
+Emily McCloskey is a parish member of Saint Cecilia Roman Catholic Church in Fox Chase. During her time at Saint Basil,
+Emily has been a member of the band, as well as the pit orchestra for the musicals, and the fashion club. This year she was a Diocesan Scholar, taking courses at Manor College. Outside of SBA, Emily is very involved with playing her flute.. Emily also participated in the All Catholic Band and Orchestra and, this year, was a member of Philadelphia Sinfonia, a youth orchestra for musicians in the tri-state area. She has also accompanied her parish choir at Saint Cecilia for various occasions and participated in the Jenkintown Community Band throughout the past four years. Last summer, Emily began teaching flute to students in the Fox Chase area and has continued throughout this academic year. Next fall, Emily will be attending Boston College in the College of Arts and Sciences.
+Here is the speech Emily will be giving at graduation.
+The Message of LOVE
+Good morning Sister Lydia, Mrs. Kost, (Master of Ceremonies), faculty and staff, honored guests, family and friends, and, last but certainly not least, my 76 sisters. May I first take the opportunity to thank you for the true honor and privilege you have given me in allowing me to speak today. I think it’s safe to assume that half of you are expecting me to use this honor to impart some amazing, mind-boggling, awesome truth no human has yet realized or revealed while the other half of you are trying to remember what was best on the menu at the place you are going to after this. Well, sadly, I do not have a mind-boggling, amazing truth to reveal to you today and, rest assured, you probably know much better than I what’s best on ANY menu. I do, however, want to take advantage of this blessed honor to help all of us here gathered to recognize three things before we leave today.
+The first thing that we must recognize is how we all came to be here on this, our graduation day. Let’s start with us: the Class of 2013. Whether or not we made the choice to come to Basil’s ourselves, we DID it: we are finally graduating. We sacrificed hours upon hours and, yes, blood, sweat, and tears at times in doing all that was necessary to bring us here. From memorizing “Who can sing?” (“Anyone who possesses a voice with which to speak can learn to sing. The vocal mechanism is the same for both. Singing is not a God-given gift to a chosen few.”), from learning the Ukrainian alphabet, from doing mandalas, illuminations, and modern art way into the night, from doing a geometry project way into the night, from essentially surviving junior year, from stressing out over prom, from learning Spirit Day dances and a nun dance for Halloween also, from memorizing the Old Testament, from cheerleading competitions, soccer games, track meets, forensics competitions, from pulling the best prank ever….guys, the list obviously goes on and on but, yes, we sacrificed a lot of ourselves to get here today. These sacrifices would not have ever been possible without the sacrifices of our parents, guardians, family, and friends who have supported us throughout our years here at Saint Basil. Those sacrifices would not have been possible without the dedicated service of our faculty and staff here gathered and those not present with us today. Most especially, we would not be here gathered today if it were not for the sacrifices of the Sisters of Saint Basil in continuing to keep the SBA Community alive. We would not be here if it were not for the founder of SBA Mother Helena’s sacrifice. And ultimately, tracing back for ourselves many, many, many sacrifices made before Mother Helena, we would not be here on this, our graduation day – this is a stretch that, I promise you, will make sense - if it were not for the Blessed Virgin Mary’s sacrifice of her life in bringing Jesus Christ to the world: “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word.” Luke 1: 38.
+This brings us to the second thing we must recognize before leaving today. The Blessed Virgin sacrificed her life whether She knew it or not at the time for the salvation of all humankind. Like Mary, whether we knew it or not at the time, we all made the described sacrifices to receive and educate ourselves on the message of love. Yes, whether we 77 have realized it or not, we have received the ultimate message of love and life here at Basil’s and learned what it embodies. Whether we received this message via a teacher, staff member, the good example of a peer or friend….maybe not even in the parameters of this school by the example of a parent, family member, or maybe even a mere stranger…regardless, during our time here at Basil’s, we HAVE received this message of love that will help us to live life to its fullest –this is what we sacrificed for.
+Family and friends here gathered, let us try to describe this message of love in a relatable, personal, simple way. Through our time here at Basil’s, we 77 graduates have mastered the art of cramming information the night before a test, taking the test, and then, twenty minutes afterwards, forgetting what chapter the test was even on. So, maybe using something a little more recent will help us to best describe the message of love. The last test we had in Sister Rita’s love and relationships class incorporated Jesus’ parable of the Prodigal Son. Let’s use this parable to impart to you what the message of love is truly about.
+A father has two sons. The younger of the two asks for his inheritance of the property, which he uses to live a loose, hedonistic life. Soon, this younger son “runs out” and is forced to return to his father. The father, upon seeing his son returning from afar, does not scold him but runs to him in ecstasy. He throws a huge celebration for his son’s return, even having the fattened calf slaughtered for him.
+This parable imparts to us the two key things about the message of love: God’s unending and unconditional love for us and His desire for us to return that love in the same way. In terms of His own love, God says to us in this parable….I don’t care how far or how long you’ve strayed. I will always love you as I always have, which is A LOT. I am always with you and will never forsake you. You will face hardship and trials in your life but know that I am with you and carrying you through it all. Please don’t go on living life without knowing and trying to understand this. In fact, my love for you is so infinitely large that I loved you even before I created you. Jeremiah 1:4-5 underscores this: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” The message of love tells us….Maura, Kiersten, Anna, Paige, Maureen, Cait, Emma, Gabby, Allie L., Allie M., Katie, Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria, Brynn, Chrissy, Lauren, Julianna, Em, Kathleen, Maura, Devyn, Mairead, Casey, Marykate, Alex, Morgan, Chrissy, Alexis, Pam, Liz, Laura, Molly, Maeve, Ellen, Ter, Jenn, Mel, Allison, Colleen, Gabby, Jadae, Breelyn, Emily, Nicola, Meg, Theresa, Tara, Allison, Christine, Meg, Bridget, Kiersten, Maddie, Vera, Steph, Kylee, Meg, Jenn, Gianna, Val, Amanda, Erin, Nicole, Maggie, Lauren, Jess, Jules, Sam, Mal, Coeli, Lauren, Julia, Steph, Lexie, and Syd… “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you…” I created you unlike any other human being. You have something to offer to the world that no other human that I created can offer and that is the gift of yourself. I don’t care what you “do” with your life as long as you are your beautiful, loving self in doing it. I do not measure by the world standards (Titles, accomplishments, degrees, etc.), but I put a tape measure around the HEART (As my grandmother said). Remember the summary of the covenant in Micah 6:8: “What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” I want you to remember that you don’t have to do anything “special” to receive my love: YOU already are special. Sharing your special, loving self with the world is “special” enough. You have 76 sisters that agree with me and will reassure you of this for the rest of your life, too.
+So, God is like the hedonistic son’s father: always showering his boundless love on us and ready to receive us no matter how far and how long we have strayed. God wants us to be like the young son’s father also: to have that same, unconditional kind of love He has for all people. We learned the different kinds of love in second semester religion: agape, philia, and eros. Agape is the kind of love we are called to: love all people regardless if you like them or they like you. God says: I want your love to be boundless also. Love all people, INCLUDING yourself. What that entails, you will know in your heart: but that’s really it. Love yourself. Love others. You don’t have to cross an ocean, have a Ph.D. in your field, or have an “important,” as the world calls it, job, to do that. Just be a lover. Just be completely and beautifully yourself because I created you totally good. Micah 6:8: “What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” This is the message of love.
+Yes, there is one last thing to recognize: We made sacrifices to understand this message of love, yet it is up to us if we would like to make those sacrifices worth it. It is up to us every single day of our lives to choose to live this message of love…to do justice, to love kindness, to walk humbly with God. Like Mary, let us every single day of our lives wake up and say, “Yes. I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to Your Will” even when we feel like we don’t have all the answers. Like Mary, let us get up every day and say “YES” to the message of love. Our Basil experience amounts to nothing if all we remember are the presidents in order, how to factor a polynomial, or even just the “good times” that we had together as a class. We must remember the message of love if we want our sacrifices and the sacrifices of many not present with us today to mean or amount to anything.
+Maybe you are familiar with Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree”…the story of the tree who continually gives everything to the boy she loves…her apples, her branches, her limbs, her everything until she is nothing more than a stump. God, help all of us here gathered, particularly us 77 graduates, continually give ourselves every single day to a world that may never seem to love us back. Like Your Son Jesus, help us continually to give our individual unique gifts and talents in the name of Love to a world that may hate us, persecute us, and/or never appreciate us or give us anything in return. Please carry us through the rough times. Help us to say “Yes” to Your message of love and life today and every day of our lives. Thank you for allowing us these past four years at SBA and in doing so allowing us to receive the message of love. Thank you, Lord, for the gift of 77 sisters for life. Amen.
+Unsurprisingly, many in the Jewish community were sharply critical. Feministing stood by its author, tweeting at its followers to "read this on #MeToo, racism, & Zionism."
+If you read the post in question, this is a strange tweet. It's strange because the post is not actually "on" Zionism in any meaningful respect. By that, I don't mean that it presents a false, or caricatured, or strawman version of Zionism. I mean that the only mention of Zionism at all in the post comes as follows:
+Though this should be obvious, in this moment it bears repeating: gender-based violence does not exist without other systems of violence, especially those built to uphold white supremacy (such as racism, colonialism, zionism, militarism).Zionism appears as a parenthetical aside, and other than that goes unmentioned (there's a similar, parenthetical inclusion of Israel later on). So what is going on here? (Warning: This post is lengthy).
+I.
+Framed as it was, Jahangiri's parenthetical operates less as an argument "on" Zionism than it does a presupposition. It seeks to smuggle in as a presumption several assertions about Zionism that are -- to say the least -- seriously contested and problematic, such as that it is "built to uphold white supremacy", that it is of familial resemblance to racism and colonialism, and that it is implicated in creating gender-based violence.
+In an excellent new essay on "blocking" (a concept I'll return to in a moment), feminist philosopher Rae Langton discusses the sometimes insidious role of presuppositions as a discursive move. Consider the statement "That pitcher throws like a girl!" Most directly, it is saying "that pitcher throws poorly," and we might agree or disagree with the statement. But it also presupposes a few things -- that there is a way to throw "like a girl", and that throwing "like a girl" is a bad thing. Notice that even if you disagree with the statement -- "no, the pitcher doesn't "throw like a girl'" -- one does not automatically or naturally contest the presuppositions.
+One thing presuppositions can do, then, is they can smuggle in content as shared presumptions without directly justifying it or opening to critique, in contexts where the content might otherwise be far more vulnerable to challenge. The person who, if asked directly, would sharply deny that girls are necessarily bad athletes or throw pitches in a distinctively bad way, may well casually nod if his friend says "that pitcher throws like a girl."
+"Blocking" disrupts such presuppositions. If someone says "even George could win the race," that "even" presupposes that George is an unlikely candidate to win (and again, note how nodding or shaking one's head wouldn't naturally be read as contesting the "even" part). If one responds instead by saying "whaddya mean, 'even'?", then one has blocked the presupposition. Of course, it still can be argued for as an assertion -- one may well have perfectly good reasons why George is a long-shot -- but that places the discussion on a very different terrain from when it was presupposed.
+To be presupposed is a nice place to reside, if you can get there. It takes your position out of the rough-and-tumble of contestation, and into the nice, comfortable space of shared background assumptions. If someone challenges a presupposition, they automatically come off as a sort of spoil-sport or nitpicker -- the type of person who insists that you justify every god-damned thing (what kind of fanatic invests this much effort over a parenthetical?). Presupposition, hence, isn't just a description, it's also a move -- a tactical effort to place a particular position on the status-quo high ground and implicitly disadvantage efforts to dislodge it from its perch.
+Reading Jahangiri's relevant passage clearly is written to present substantive views about Zionism as presuppositions that need not be argued. The structure -- a parenthetical aside, basically a throw-away, casually given to add a bit of illustrative flair -- is not one you use when you know (or want to admit) that you are making a contestable point. To demonstrate, imagine her parenthetical read as follows:
+especially those built to uphold white supremacy (such as racism, colonialism, zionism, militarism, cubism).The reader there would probably pull up short: "Hold it -- why 'cubism'?" And anyone familiar with Jewish humor knows the ensuing retort: "Why 'zionism'?"
+The critical response to Jahangiri, then, is an attempt to block a back-door attempt to smuggle in presuppositions about Zionism. Feministing's after-the-fact attempt to say that the post was "on" Zionism is disingenuous, it seeks to recharacterize as an argument what was actually an attempt at rhetorical fiat. That the fiat could even plausibly work for Zionism (in a way it couldn't for "cubism") itself shows that the dimensions of power in this context are not necessarily what they're always perceived to be.
+Of course, there is still much to be said about the argument as an argument. And here I might surprise some of my readers when I say that there is a valid and important connection to be made between Zionism and gender violence. However, that connection isn't what Jahangiri presents it as, and once again her discursive framing seeks to presuppose an array of incorrect (and often quite damaging) assertions about Zionism vis-a-vis other social practices that do more to obscure than they do illuminate the issue.
+II.
+"Wherever there is a position of power," Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney wrote, "there seems to be potential for abuse." And since Zionism is, in some places, a position of power, then there is the potential for Zionism to construct and buttress gender violence.
+Framed that way, this may sound unremarkable precisely because it applies so universally. Hollywood is, in some places, a position of power, and therefore in some places constructs and buttresses gender violence. Socialism is, in some places, a position of power, and therefore in some places constructs and buttresses gender violence. Evangelicalism is, in some places, a position of power, and therefore in some places constructs and buttresses gender violence.
+Gender violence follows power, and power, as Foucault reminds is, is ubiquitous. Hence, gender violence is also ubiquitous. There is no space where one is free from power, and so there is no place where power can't be corrupted and turned towards gender-based violence and oppression.
+And to be crystal-clear on the matter: there is nothing that exempts "left" or "progressive" spaces from these risks. From Black Panthers to Bernie Bros, progressive organizations and movements have never been remotely exempt from dynamics of gender violence. Franz Fanon speaks of women who "ask to be raped," in the same way that there are "faces that ask to be slapped." The "Comrade Delta" affair in the Socialist Workers Party is another example. Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz's writings on gender violence in lesbian communities provide another. Power, of a particular kind, circulates in these communities too, and that power can and is leveraged to enact sexual violence.
+We might think that this universalism, this ubiquity, itself makes it wrong to speak of the link between Zionism and gender violence because its not saying anything unique. "Yes," it might be conceded, "Zionism is linked to gender violence because all social practices are. But that makes the decision to particularly focus on Zionism more suspect, not less, since it implies that there is something distinctive about Zionism that actually is common to virtually any social phenomenon."
+Yet this argument is wrong. Power is not an undifferentiated thing; that power is everywhere doesn't mean it operates the same everywhere. Gender violence operates through power, which means it will predictably adopt the idioms, pathways, and mechanics opened up by power. And because these will differ from position to position, there need to be particular discourses about sexual violence that are particular to specific arenas or dimensions of power.
+How, for example, does gender violence act upon power in "repressive," Victorian communities? Well, it sharply delineates who are good (pure, chaste, virginal) girls and who are bad (classless, promiscuous, available) girls; or it tells women that sexuality is a duty owed to their husband (whose identity they've merged into, so no such thing as marital rape). In another community -- the "liberated" community of the sexual revolution -- power interacts with gender violence differently. Now it's about showing that you're not a prude or a square, that you're hip and with it, that you don't have hang-ups -- all of these, too, are easily leveraged for the purposes of sexual abuse, but clearly they're different and need a different narrative from the discourse we'd apply to Victorian sexual predation. To speak of power and gender violence as an undifferentiated whole would almost certainly obscure how it specifically plays out in one context or the other, and most likely both.
+For that reason, we should expect that -- in places where Zionism is powerful, gender violence will play out in distinctively "Zionist" ways. It will "speak the language", if you will; it will have a character distinctive to the arena(s) of power it operates within. The activities of Lehava -- the far-right "anti-assimilationist" group which threatens Jewish/Arab interrelations -- is an obvious example of gender oppression shock troops acting through an explicitly Zionist lens (that 15 of their members -- including their head -- were just arrested likewise demonstrates that "Zionism" contains more than just this chord).
+So I do think that it is important to work through the interrelation of Zionism and gender violence in a distinctive way. However, I think this is important for the same reason why it's important to work through the interrelation of anti-Zionism and gender violence in a distinctive way. Just as Zionism is, in some places, a position of power and thereby constructs a distinctive forms of gender violence, in other places anti-Zionism occupies a position of power and it, too, buttresses its own versions of sexual oppression.
+It's worth noticing how Jahangiri's parenthetical -- placing "zionism" alongside things like "colonialism" or "racism" -- presupposes this potentiality away. Just as adding "cubism" to the parenthetical would obscure the meaning Jahangiri wishes to evoke, so too would altering it to read "racism, colonialism, zionism, antizionism, militarism" would no doubt be met with puzzlement. She seeks to link gender violence to various malign political movements; not to power as a general social feature. The implication is that gender violence comes attached to bad politics, and this itself opens the door to particular forms of victim-blaming and gaslighting that rely upon the rhetorical and political moves Jahangiri is making. If sexual violence is treated as a function of things like "racism" or "colonialism", what does one do when one's particular domain doesn't clearly lend itself to that narrative? What happens if the person who assaults you is a fellow in your anti-war group, or a leader in your anti-colonial resistance cell? In fact, we know exactly how the narrative plays out in those context: keep quiet, it didn't really happen, it's for the cause, you don't want to play into the enemy's hands, only a traitor or a turncoat would slander us so, if it happened here it can't be rape.
+The ability to latch onto those narratives is, itself, a form of power that enables and insulates sexual violence, and it is an ability that one doesn't see unless one crafts a broader narrative of gender violence inside "good" politics. One can elide the problem by seeking to trace it all the way back to some corruption instilled by white supremacy, and maybe sometimes that's plausible. But for many women, this is a cloud of dust kicked up to obscure a more straight-forward truth: "this man assaulted me, and he was able to do so and get away with it because of the progressive modalities of power we were a part of." And while I don't think Jahangiri would endorse the claim that gender violence doesn't manifest inside "good" political spaces, this demonstrates the pernicious aspect of presupposition -- just like with the man who agrees the pitcher "throws like a girl," it gets us to affirm things indirectly that we'd never say directly.
+In any event, what would a narrative of a specifically anti-Zionist form of gendered violence look like? It could start with the widespread expulsion of Middle Eastern Jews from Arab nations, an expulsion carried out under an anti-Zionist banner and one in which sexual threat and violence was very much a tool in the oppressive toolbox. It is a marker of the "success" of this violence that there are now very few Jews left to be subjected to anti-Zionist gendered violence in many of the spaces where anti-Zionism as a form of power is at its apex -- a fact that can easily be confused with denying anti-Zionism as existing at all as a meaningful form of gendered power (upon arriving in Israel, Middle Eastern Jews then faced separate victimization -- also often very much gendered -- by an Ashkenazi elite. Recent Mizrahi history overflows with such oppression, and unfortunately precisely because there is such a cornucopia of examples to choose from contemporary writings on the gendered oppression of Mizrahim are easily able to cherry-pick their favorites to advance either a Zionist or anti-Zionist historiography. The problem of using genuine oppression as a stalking horse for other political commitments is an issue I will return to below).
+Moving forward, we could turn to a putative feminist activist in Egypt who specifically urged rape and sexual harassment be deployed against "Zionist" women as a means of anti-Zionist "resistance" -- culminating in the chilling warning "leave the land so we won't rape you." In Egypt, anti-Zionism occupies a position of power, and here we see how it can easily accommodate gender violence constructed through a sort of anti-colonialist resistance. Zionist are, after all, "raping" the land -- so why isn't turnabout fair play?
+These are severe examples. But the mechanics can play out more subtly. In certain feminist spaces, anti-Zionism carries power, and it uses that power to expel, eliminate, or otherwise exclude certain women -- generally Jewish women who either are Zionist or don't perform non- or anti-Zionism in a sufficiently flagrant manner. We saw this, or attempts at this, at the Chicago Dyke March, at Creating Change in Chicago (Jahangari, writing for Feministing, endorsed that one too), at Columbia University, at the "targeting" by JVP of Jewish Queer Youth for infiltration and disruption. If these places are designed to be spaces of resistance to gender violence (and they certainly hold themselves out that way), then these acts of exclusion are instances of power -- acting through anti-Zionism -- functioning to make women and sexual minorities more vulnerable and more prone to such violence. And this form of violence, in turn, gets laundered and insulated through the particular frame of anti-Zionist power which acts to legitimize or even valorize it.
+I don't actually want to pursue this further; my point isn't to provide a comprehensive gendered account of either anti-Zionist or Zionist violence (I'm not sure I'd be qualified to do so in any event). And if you're reading this as "Zionism isn't the problem, anti-Zionism is!" you're missing the point, in more ways than one. Zionism and anti-Zionism are distinctive, but not distinct, in that they can and do create and buttress their own forms of gender violence just as any other site of power can. Any effective counter to these distinctive forms of gender violence needs to explore the phenomenon of gender violence in these arenas as distinctive -- that is, they need know what makes gender violence work here rather than some abstract and general theory of what makes it work everywhere.
+III.
+So why, then, does this all feel so damn hard? We need a narrative of gender violence enabled by Zionism, just as we need one for anti-Zionism, just as for Hollywood just as for Evangelicalism just as for policing.
+It feels hard in part because the people most excited to craft these narratives tend to have ulterior motives. They do it because they don't like Zionism or anti-Zionism, and they want to make their target look bad. This tends to lead to quite partial (in all senses) analyses and casts a pall over the whole endeavor -- but it also demonstrates some of the dialogical prerequisites necessary to do the analysis right. To illustrate, consider another case of a social practice which very much needs a distinctive analysis of its linkage to gender violence: Islam.
+Islam (like -- to be clear -- Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Atheism ....) is in some places a position of power, and therefore in some places constructs and buttresses gendered violence in a distinctive way. Yet to speak of a distinctively "Muslim" form of gender violence makes many of us blanche, and for understandable reasons. All too often, the people who are purporting to draw out this distinctive connection are doing so as a stalking horse for other -- Islamophobic -- politics. Their goal isn't really to provide an accurate or cohesive picture of how Islam-as-power and gender violence intersect. It's to present Islam is a distinctively bad, corrupt, oppressive, or backwards.
+Endeavors of this sort aren't really hard to spot. Sometimes, the bad faith lies right there on the surface: Islamofascism Awareness Week is "that magical time of year when Republicans briefly pretend to care about gay rights." But the more comprehensive tell is in the tone the analysis takes. There's a palpable sense of excitement, of glee, in uncovering how Islam really, truly, fundamentally, inalterably is misogynistic. And as a result, their constructions of Islam are sharply essentialist and unyielding in declaring that the only authentic, legitimate, viable Islam is the sort that oppresses women. The last thing these interpreters want is for resources to emerge within Islam, getting their power from Islam, which can serve as points of resistance against gendered violence. The entire point is for Islam to be irredeemably corrupt; any actual pathways opened up for Muslim women are accidental and immediately sacrificed if they risk admitting that Muslim women qua Muslim women might have agency, that Islam is something that can give to them and not just take from them (for all the talk about liberals not backing "Muslim feminists", it's the conservatives who truly hate them insofar as they're Muslim feminists and therefore must be hypocrites, delusional, and/or liars. Ex-Muslim feminists, now they're a different story....).
+Thin as her parenthetical is, there's no real question that something quite like this is Jahangari's project. Grouping Zionism in with entities like racism and colonialism presents it -- presupposes it -- as ontologically irredeemable, flawed to its essence (again, this is why "anti-Zionist" can't fit -- even if she conceded that it could manifest through gendered violence, she'd want to insist it was and could be more than that). And because it's the anti-Zionism, not the anti-sexism, that motivates the inquiry, Jahangari wants this to be true. The last thing she wants is resources emerging within Zionism that could counter or resist gender violence, even though that'd seemingly be a net gain for the fight against misogyny. Such a prospect is inconceivable, indeed contradictory, to her; it is like the prospect of a "feminist racism" -- impossible in concept and undesirable in practice. Zionism is a diseased tree, all of its fruit must likewise be poisonous. The predictable result is that she will ignore, overlook, or dismiss the myriad ways in which one could find gender- (and otherwise-)egalitarianism within and through Zionism.
+This is the reason why speaking about distinctively Zionist or anti-Zionist "forms" of gender violence is hard. It's because they're very often stalking horses for other, less savory political commitments; or are easily co-opted into their service. There's good reason for suspicion as to motives, and good reason for suspicion as to accuracy. Without a deep and comprehensive understanding of Palestinian and Arab history, experience, and oppression, and (probably) without significant sympathy for and affinity towards Palestinians and a desire to see them fully vindicated in their quest for national liberation and equality, the author of an "anti-Zionist form of gender violence" is likely to get it wrong, often in very serious ways. Likewise, without a deep and comprehensive understanding of Jewish history, experience, and oppression, and (probably) without significant sympathy for and affinity towards Jews and a desire to see us fully vindicated in our quest for national liberation and equality, the author of a "Zionist form of gender violence" is equally likely to badly misstep. Put simply, it is not unreasonable to demand that persons undertaking the politically and ethically delicate task of tying Zionism (or anti-Zionism) to gender violence be persons who have shown themselves aware of the full complexity of the issue and who are not inclined to engage in a political hit job.
+All of this is a way of saying that, just as discourses that are anti-colonial or anti-racist or anti-Zionist (or Zionist) don't stand outside of patterns of gender violence, neither do discourses about gender violence stand outside of racist, colonialist, or antisemitic or Islamophobic patterns. And that brings us to the final point I want to make, which is about the website which published this essay.
+The Feministing tag for "Racism" has dozens upon dozens of entries. So does "Transphobia" Likewise "Islamophobia". That's good. That shows they are invested in those issues, recognizes their importance, and has some familiarity with their complexity and nuances. It doesn't make them beyond reproach -- that's not my place to say -- but it does suggest that these are matters they take seriously and can speak on with some authority.
+The tag for "Anti-Semitism" has two posts. And one of them never actually mentions anti-Semitism at all (the other is from three years ago).
+One need not demand perfectly equal time to think that maybe, just maybe, for a globally-oriented anti-oppression site antisemitism is more than a two (rounding up) post problem. But evidently Jewish oppression is not something Feministing writes a lot about, and there is no evidence that it is something it knows a lot about. That's not condemnable in of itself -- lots of people don't know lots of things -- but it might suggest that arenas involving Jews are arenas they shouldn't write on. There's little evidence that Feministing is the sort of place where one would find "a deep and comprehensive understanding of Jewish history, experience, and oppression", let alone "significant sympathy for and affinity towards Jews and a desire to see us fully vindicated in our quest for national liberation and equality." Lacking those qualifications, it is exceptionally unlikely that Feministing is a good candidate for exploring this issue in a non-oppressive way, and it shouldn't make the attempt. There are plenty of Zionist-identified websites who like nothing more than regaling everyone with how hopeless backwards, regressive, illiberal, and repressive Palestinian society is (towards women and everyone else), and they should desist as well -- they're not helping anyone, I sincerely doubt they're trying to help anyone, and they're not good at their jobs.
+But Feministing certainly aspires to greater heights than that, so I don't feel bad about subjecting it to more comprehensive critique. This controversy was, in no small part, Jews telling Feministing that its presuppositions about Jewish political practices were wrong, stilted, and offensive. Thus far, Feministing hasn't shown itself receptive to the critique; it clearly thinks what was said was wholly inbounds and offered no basis for objection. We can be a bit perplexed about what undergirds its confidence on the matter, given Feministing's general lack of attention to the issue. But that never seems to stop anyone. The heart of antisemitism in its epistemic dimension is the perceived entitlement to talk about Jews without knowing about Jews.
+One suspects that, even if they read this post, the editors of Feministing won't make any adjustments in response to it. There's almost no pressure on left-wing websites to talk about antisemitism, and there's even less pressure on them to not talk about other matters of concern to Jews if they don't talk about antisemitism. There are other discourses of power operating on and around Jews which rationalize this behavior; most notably the trope of Jewish hyperpower which takes "ignoring Jews" and reconstructs it into "resisting overbearing
+The next most likely (which is not to say likely) move is to start writing on antisemitism more -- but from a perspective that just happens to be perfectly harmonious with the political positions they wanted to hold about Jews prior to starting. Such a move would be very easy to pull off -- I'm sure a dozen JVP activists are already primed to volunteer -- but that wouldn't make it any less of a bad faith maneuver. It lets the tail wag the dog; instead of accepting the potential that positions might need adjustment in response to a Jewish narrative, it seeks to adjust which Jew they listen to for the sake of preserving a set of political commitments arrived at prior to any serious reckoning with Jewish voices. (Incidentally, the appeal of this particular tactic explains why groups like JVP are so often gatekeepers seeking to exclude other, more mainline Jewish voices, from inclusion in the feminist tent. If one needs a Jewish voice, and they've made it so they're the only Jewish voice in the room, then a lot more people will be relying on them and their power gets magnified tremendously. And the real kicker is that they can insulate their privileged position by recharacterizing the absence of other Jews -- which they facilitated through exclusion -- as proof that Jews-not-them don't deserve to be in the room and can justly be ignored).
+If they did want to ethically broach these topics, they'll have to challenge themselves more than that. But to be honest, I'm not sure the groundwork is ripe for Feministing, specifically, to do this work at this time (which isn't to say that nobody can do it). There's no rule that says every site has to be qualified to tackle every form of injustice. Feministing has a serious blindspot on Jewish issues, and if they set about resolving it based on commitments they formed by and through the exclusionary practices they're supposedly seeking to rectify, the "reform" will almost certainly be a corrupted and partial one.
+There's a lot to be said on Zionism, Anti-Zionism, Gender Violence, and Power. Someone -- probably not Feministing -- should get on that.
+1 comment:
+I'm impressed that you could craft a thoughtful response in such a timely manner. Kol hakovod. Regrettably, I don't think there's much chance of Feministing engaging in any dialogue. You're responding to the offhand way in which anti-Zionism is imported into a discussion on feminism, but it anti-Zionism appears to be their house policy.
+My kids and I just returned from our spring break trip. We traveled from San Antonio, Texas to Conroe, Texas…just the three of us. My husband didn’t have enough vacation days to do the week with us so I decided to dip my toes into the waters of solo parent family vacations.
+This post was written in partnership with Toyota and Thousand Trails. All opinions are mine.
+Our trip was golden. My kids were crazy well-behaved. We didn’t get lost…well, just a little lost, but it was pretty easy to correct. It didn’t rain. Nothing broke down. It was an amazing, precious time with my boys that I’ll cherish forever.
+The boys and I drove the Toyota 4Runner from San Antonio to Lake Conroe!
+Here is what I learned from taking a solo vacation with my kids.
+Four important things I learned from taking a solo vacation with my kids
+1. It’s good to be unstructured
+Our family is pretty structured, as a rule. We get up at a certain time, eat at a certain time, go to sleep at a certain time, and so on. On our trip to Thousand Trails RV & Camping Resort at Lake Conroe, Texas, we slept when we were tired and woke up when we weren’t tired.
+No, we don’t have an RV and no, I did not technically camp with my kids. We had a cabin and it was awesome. If you want that campground experience without doing hardcore camping, I heartily recommend Thousand Trails. They have resorts in several locations around the United States and some really fun and unique cabins and houses you can stay in…even yurts in some locations.
+The Vineyard. There was wine themed decor. You have to bring your own vino, though!
+We had popcorn for dinner, cheese and crackers for lunch and one time, we had hot dogs and hamburgers for breakfast…because my kids asked. I didn’t see a reason to say no.
+Relaxing the regular rules was pretty cool. We wore the same tee-shirts for days in a row and showers? Well, they happened. Just not as much as they do at home. And, that was okay.
+It was good for my kids to see me relax the rules…just as much as it was good for me to let go of expectations a little bit.
+2. It’s good to let my kids see me doing things their dad usually does
+I consider myself a pretty fierce, independent female. However, my roles within my marriage are pretty traditional. That’s just the way it’s worked and it does work.
+But this trip, my kids got to see me read a map, cook things outside, make the load plan for our vehicle and more. Although I’m certainly capable of doing those things, my kids have only seen their dad do those things. I remember the dubious looks on their faces when I lifted the cover from our propane grill and declared “I will figure this thing out.”
+Which I did. Boom.
+3. It’s good to ditch the ideal of picture perfect
+My life is not picture perfect. My family is not picture perfect. So…why should the pictures we post on social media attempt perfection?
+I consider myself to be fairly transparent on social media. My life is messy. My kids are messy. My hair is usually messy and I’m usually late for something or the one saying “Crap, was that today?”
+I won’t bore you with details but I’ve lately gotten to wrapped up in my “online aesthetic.” Are my pictures pretty enough? Centered enough? Is my family wearing coordinating outfits yet looking super-natural and not posed?
+The answers are “probably not” and “who even cares?”
+This is my reality:
+I’m taking a selfie because I’m too awkward to ask someone else to take our picture. See also that I’m too much of a control freak to let them take the picture I envision.
+Messy hair, silly faces.
+My hair looks like crap (mostly because it hasn’t been washed or brushed in three days.)
+We are happy and having fun and I’m done with trying to take that “Instagram worthy” photo of my family. These are REAL photos of a real family enjoying real life.
+4. My kids are more capable than I knew and they are just not going to be this little for much longer
+Maybe the absence of their dad spurred my kids into high gear but they were super helpful during the week we spent a the cabin. They took out trash, kept track of my keys (yes, I gave two eight-year-olds my keys to guard…I like to live dangerously) and helped me put our simple meals together.
+I’m not sure how much time we have until these boys decide I’m not cool or that they don’t want their friends to see them holding my hand. I can see the little men they are becoming and sometimes, it feels like they’re growing up right before my eyes. Mostly because they are.
+About our ride:
+We took the 2018 Toyota 4Runner to Lake Conroe. While we (sadly) didn’t get the chance to off-road in this vehicle, it was amazing and rugged and handled all of the back roads with ease. Surprisingly, the 4Runner did AMAZING on the highway. It was very comfortable and way smoother than I thought it would be.
+The model we drove was the TRD Off-Road, which has a beginning sticker price of $37,785 and is one of six available 4Runner models.
+One feature I really loved was this sliding rear cargo deck:
+This give you easy access to your gear and make loading and unloading the 4Runner a snap. Interior features include a 6.1 touch-screen display and available heated and ventilated front seats. We don’t get much need for heated seats here in Texas but the ventilated seats do come in handy in our hot climate. Wherever your travels take you, the 4Runner is a rugged vehicle that lets you ride in comfort.
+This color is called “Nautical Metallic Blue” and I love it. I know…I shouldn’t base my opinion on a vehicle based on a color but I did like this color a lot. It comes in seven other colors as well.
+The only negative I have to say is that I had to give it back after a week. I’d love to explore more rugged terrain in this beauty and it also makes a great everyday vehicle. Thank you, Toyota, for letting the 4Runner be a part of our trip. I was scoping out the RAV4 HARD at this year’s Houston Auto Show, which probably better meets my needs for an everyday ride, but I LOVE the 4Runner. Toyota has a nice lineup of SUVs, if you want to check them out here. My dad swears by his Highlander.
+Was this a good vehicle for kids? Yes. My kids both sit in booster seats and the back seat had plenty of room for both seats.
+About where we stayed:
+We stayed at Thousand Trails RV Park and Resort on Lake Conroe, Texas. This is about three hours away from where we live but the landscape could not have been more different than the San Antonio area. Conroe, Texas and Panorama City, Texas boast beautiful, tall pine trees and lush green landscapes. I loved the change of scenery and it was a great reminder of how varied the landscape is in my beautiful home state.
+Thousand Trails has RV and tent sites as well as cabins and cottages available for rent. You can also tent camp or purchase one of their small cottages. There were some really cute neighborhoods made up of tiny houses and it looks like a lot of people live here year ‘round. I can definitely see the appeal. It’s very peaceful here.
+We stayed in a cabin called The Vineyard in an area of Thousand Trails called “Getaway Village.” The Vineyard was the perfect place for the boys and I to stay. The Vineyard had a fully equipped kitchen, living area, private master bedroom area and loft sleeping space. The has a toilet, sink, and shower. Towels, toilet paper, and soap were included, as were dish soap, paper towels and trash bags. We had plenty for a week-long stay but if you plan a longer visit, you will need to bring your own basic supplies.
+The Vineyard had air conditioning and heating but we stayed during that lovely Texas time of year where we needed neither. We opened the windows every afternoon to let the fresh air in and the mornings were pretty chilly…we needed shoes on the cold laminate floor…but we were super comfortable.
+Amenities also included a nice deck with a picnic table and gas grill as well as cable TV in both the living area and the master bedroom. My AT&T service worked great everywhere on property. There was free WiFi at the activities center that was pretty decent. If you’d like WiFi in your cabin, there’s a nominal charge. If your WiFi needs are minimal, I’d recommend using the free in the activities center. It’s very comfortable and there’s free coffee.
+The coolest thing? One kid asked for WiFi one time during the whole week – that’s it.
+This futon in the living area can be used as a bed, too.
+There’s plenty to do at Thousand Trails. Lake Conroe offers a ton in terms of boating and fishing but we didn’t do any of that…although my kids are dying to go fishing…next time! Thousand Trails has a miniature golf course, a tennis court, pickle ball courts (I am still unclear as to what this is…it looks to be a cross between tennis and ping pong), basketball courts, shuffleboard, cornhole, ping pong tables, and more. Everything is really well-maintained and there were plenty of rackets, balls, golf clubs, and so on.
+The view from our deck
+This property has a lovely pool. The weather was just a few degrees shy of ideal swimming weather, but Zack took a quick dip and made some friends. There are also some organized activities, such as kids crafts and bingo. Everyone we met was super-friendly.
+There are plenty of shopping and dining options within a very short drive of Thousand Trails. Houston is less than an hour away and The Woodlands is less than half an hour away. If you want to sightsee or check out restaurants and museums, Thousand Trails is a great base camp. We were happy to stay put but loved that there was a Walmart and a Kroger within in easy 10-minute drive.
+We ate all of our meals in our cabin because we’d planned it out like that but if we’d have wanted to go out to eat, it would have been an easy option. There was also the ShyKatz Cafe on property, which serves breakfast and lunch. We did not eat there but we did scope out some of the menu items (AKA staring at the food on other people’s plates) and it looked and smelled super yummy.
+I recommend Thousand Trails at Lake Conroe if you’re looking for an un-fussy, un-structured vacation in a mostly temperate climate. It’s reasonably priced, there was plenty to do, and I felt safe, which as a solo-parent traveler, was important.
+Check out the Thousand Trails website for their different locations across the country. Next time you are planning travel, consider staying Thousand Trails as a stop. It’s definitely not like being in a five-star hotel but cabin life was definitely not roughing it and it was the exact vacation we needed to be on. My kids have asked when we can go back to the cabin just about every day since we’ve come home, so I’m calling that a win!
+Maybe next time we can take my husband…but traveling solo with my kids was an awesome experience that I’ll look forward to repeating.
+You might also like:
+Seven Family-Friendly Things to do in Houston
+That cabin and a grill are a winning combination.
+I LOVE THIS POST! My boys and I took the same type of cabin camping adventure and I loved every moment of it!
+You spent a nice time with your kids. Really wow! Hope all can do the same. Anyway talking about the mini golf, how did you like it in the first place?
+what a day you spent with your kids. I don’t need to go Switzerland or Paris if i can spend my day like you.
+🙂
+Thank you for sharing the Thousand Trails. We are planning to visit them really soon. The kids are looking forward to their miniature golf course and we’re also planning to play ball during the trip. Your post just made us more excited.
++1 on the picture perfect thing. We don’t really both much with the social media pressure of making perfect photos.
+I remember my childhood. A lot of places have gone on vacation. Your information is essential and this is a great post.
+Thanks for sharing!
+H. Gold trading activity in Hong Kong helps set the tone for gold markets further west later in the day, and the market has been to some extent a price setter along with London and New York, and not just a price taker.
+Hong Kong’s close links to China, and the recent collaborations between the Shanghai Gold Exchange and the Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange, have further increased the importance of the gold market in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR).
+The CME Group has also targeted Hong Kong with the 2015 launch of a one kilo gold futures contract which is physically deliverable in Hong Kong, while Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing (HKEx) is planning the launch of a Yuan-denominated gold futures contract.
+Much of the gold being transported into the Chinese mainland from Europe and elsewhere had been routed via Hong Kong, particularly in 2013. This has changed somewhat since 2014 when China began to import more gold directly, however, Hong Kong is still recording sizable gold imports, and re-exports.
+CGSE Renminbi Kilobar Gold
+Exchange:Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange
+Venue:Electronic trading platform
+Launch Date:17 October 2011
+Contract size / Trading unit:1 kilogram
+Lot size:1 kilogram
+Currency:Traded and settled in Renminbi
+Price tick:RMB¥0.01 per gram.
+Trading hours:7:00am – 5:00am (the following day)
+Grade / Quality:“Accredited No.1 (fineness 9999) or No.2 (fineness 9995) gold bar of Shanghai Gold Exchange” and/ or “1 kg Kilobar or 3 kg Kilobar manufactured by CGSE-accredited refineries (fineness 9999)”
+Participants:Only CGSE members that have been approved to trade on electronic trading platform for the RMB contract.
+Delivery:Physical delivery at designated locations specified by transacting parties
+Settlement:Daily settlement price determined at 11:55 am during morning session. “Price determination in physical delivery and clearing at 3:00 pm”
+Settlement banks:Wing Hang Bank and Bank of China (Hong Kong) Ltd
+Contract Premium:“Premium of Renminbi Kilobar Gold shall be negotiated among 4 CGSE’s designnated bank members and 3 independent gold dealers….based on RMB funding cost”
+CGSE 999.9 Tael Gold
+Exchange:Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange
+Venue:Electronic trading platform
+Launch Date:14 February 2013
+Trading Unit:100 Tael
+Price Quotation:HKD/Tael
+Minimum Price Fluctuation:HKD1 per tael
+Fineness:9999 and higher
+CGSE 100 oz Loco London* Gold
+Exchange:Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange
+Venue:Electronic trading platform
+Launch Date:March 2008
+Trading Unit:100 ozs
+Price Quotation:US/oz
+Minimum Price Fluctuation:USD0.01/ounces
+Fineness:995 or higher
+Trading hours:Monday to Thursday (HK time): 7:00am to 5:00am next day Friday (HK time) 7am – 3am (following day) in summer time, and 7am to 4am (following day) in winter time * Loco London refers to settlement location = London
+- All specifications for the 10 ounce Loco London contract are identical to the 100 ounce Loco London contract except the trading unit is 10 ozs
+CGSE 99 Tael Gold
+Exchange:Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange
+Venue:Open Outcry
+Trading Lot:100 taels
+Price quotation:HK$ per tael
+Minimum Price Fluctuation:HK$ 0.5 per tael
+Fineness:990 fine
+Trading hours:Morning session and afternoon session -Monday to Friday: 9am – midday and 2pm – 5pm
+Premium Calculation:HK$ per 100 taels. Premium is fixed at 11am each trading day
+Settlement Price:Monday to Friday at 11:30am and 4:30pm
+CGSE HKD Kilo Gold
+Launch Date:2002
+Trading Lot:5 kilograms
+Price Quotation:HK$ per gram
+Minimum Price Fluctuation:HK$ 0.01 per gram
+Fineness:999.9
+Premium Calculation:HK$ per 5 kilograms. Premium is fixed at 11:15am each trading day
+Settlement Price:Monday to Friday at 11:30am and 4:30pm
+CME Gold Kilo Futures
+Exchange:Comex
+Exchange Owner:CME Group
+Trading Venue:CME Globex
+Contract Name:Gold Kilo Contract
+Trading Unit / Contract unit:One kilogram (32.15 troy ounces)
+Block Trades:Minimum 10 trades
+Grade & Quality:minimum 9999 fineness
+Price Quotation:US dollars and cents per troy ounce
+Minimum price fluctuation:$0.10 per troy ounce
+Trading Schedule on CME Globex:Sunday – Friday 6:00pm – 5:15pm with a 45-minute break each day beginning at 5:15pm.
+Settlement Method:Physically Deliverable
+Product Code (on Globex, ClearPort and for Clearing):GCK
+Listed Contracts:Current calendar month, next two calendar months, and each February, April, June, August, October, and December within a 12-month period beginning with the current contract month
+Termination Of Trading:3 business days prior to Delivery Day
+Delivery Period:Delivery occurs on 3rd Wednesday of the delivery month
+Delivery locations:CME Approved vault facilities in Hong Kong SAR
+Maintenance Margin:USD 1210 per contract
+CME Rulebook chapter:114
+Contents
+- 1. Introduction
+- 2. Gold Contracts on the Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange (CGSE)
+- 3. Hong Kong Tael
+- 4. CGSE Mechanisms
+- 5. CGSE Electronic Trading Platform
+- 6. CGSE Open Outcry Venue
+- 7. Physical delivery of gold for CGSE contracts
+- 8. Selected CGSE Member profiles
+- 9. Shanghai-Hong Kong Gold Connect
+- 10. The CGSE Qianhai operation
+- 11. Prospective Singapore – Hong Kong Gold Connect
+- 12. CME Group Hong Kong Gold Futures Contract
+- 13. CME Approved Hong Kong vaults
+- 14. Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd
+- 15. SPDR Gold Trust – Hong Kong listing
+- 16. Bullion Banks in Hong Kong
+- 17. Gold Refineries in Hong Kong
+- 18. Other gold-related entities based in Hong Kong
+- 19. Conclusion
+- 20. References and Links
+Gold Contracts on the Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange (CGSE)
+The Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange (CGSE)[1], founded in 1910, is Hong Kong’s only physical gold and silver exchange, and is run by the CGSE members as a society, hence the name Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society. The Exchange is now operated through a subsidiary company called ‘Hong Kong Precious Metals Exchange Limited’ which was established in 1994[2]. CGSE Member companies hold unlisted shares in ‘Hong Kong Precious Metals Exchange Limited’[3].
+The CGSE has over 170 members, nearly exclusively local company members. Oversight and supervision of the Exchange is provided by member representatives who are elected to executive and supervision committees every 2 years.
+Six gold contracts trade on the CGSE, four of these on the Exchange’s electronic trading platform[4], the other two via traditional open outcry in the Exchange’s trading hall[5]. The CGSE electronic trading platform was launched in 2008.
+The open outcry system trades a 99 Tael Gold contract and a 9999 Hong Kong Dollar denominated Kilobar Gold contract. The 99 Tael gold contract is the Exchange’s traditional traded product. The HKD Kilobar contract was launched in 2002.
+The CGSE’s electronic trading platform trades a Hong Kong Dollar 999.9 Tael Gold contract, a Chinese Renminbi Kilobar Gold Contract (the world’s only RMB gold contract outside mainland China), a 100 ounce Loco London Gold contract, and a 10 ounce Loco London Gold contract.
+The Renminbi kilobar gold contract was launched in October 2011[6]. The 999.9 Tael gold contract was listed in February 2013. Trading in the 100oz and 10oz loco London USD denominated contracts began in March 2008 when the CGSE launched its electronic platform.
+Hong Kong Tael
+In Hong Kong, a Tael, or Tael Troy, is a traditional Chinese precious metal weight measurement equal to 37.429 grams or 1.20337 troy ounces. A 5 Tael gold bar therefore weighs 6.01685 troy ounces (approximately 6 ounces). A tael troy can be subdivided into 10 mace troy and 100 candareen troy. Although the definition of Tael varies within Asia, the specifications for the Hong Kong tael troy are documented in Hong Kong legislation within an ordinance addressing weights and measures dated 30 June 1997, which was the eve of the handover of Hong Kong from the UK to China on 1 July 1997[7].
+From 1949, Hong Kong regulations had required that only gold bar transactions of fineness less than 950 fine were legally permissible. This led to price quotations of 945 fine gold on the CGSE, however most trading still remained in the traditional 99 fine Tael bars[8].
+In 1970, the CGSE officially amended the fineness for official standard traded gold from 945 fine to 99 fine so as to more accurately meet the requirements of the jewellery industry, and to reflect the prevalent trading of 99 Tael bars.
+CGSE Mechanisms
+Gold contracts traded on the CGSE are for same day delivery, but the Exchange offers a contract deferment option which allows CGSE contracts to display characteristics of both spot and forward delivery, and so CGSE contracts can trade spot basis or on a forward basis, like a futures contract. If contract delivery is not deferred, the contract trades spot for immediate delivery between the contracting parties. However, delivery of contracts can also be deferred in which case the trading parties agree to pay/receive a premium or carrying charge. If a seller wants to defer delivery, the seller pays a carrying charge to the buyer, and vice versa. Contracts can be deferred indefinitely and then closed out, and so are analogous to an undated futures contracts[9].
+Carrying charges (for unclosed contracts) are determined on the Exchange at 10:30am for 999.9 Tael gold, 11:00am for 99 tael gold, and 11:15am for HKD Kilo Gold[10].
+Trading hours on the floor of the CGSE are Monday to Friday from 9am to midday, and from 2pm until 5pm. Open outcry deals are settled via the submission of contract notes to the CGSE settlement department, which updates member positions within its settlement system. The CGSE informs relevant banks of the settlement transactions.
+CGSE Electronic Trading Platform
+Four gold contracts trade on the CGSE’s electronic trading platform:
+- Renminbi Kilobar Gold Contract, RMB
+- 999.9 Tael Gold Contract, HKD
+- 100 ounce Loco London Gold Contract, USD
+- 10 ounce Loco London Gold Contract, USD
+CGSE Open Outcry Venue
+Open outcry is a form of live trading on the CGSE where bid and offer prices are called out by participants, and communication also makes use of hand signals across the trading floor. CGSE open outcry trading takes place in the CGSE trading hall through the Cantonese language. Two gold contracts are traded via open outcry:
+- 99 Tael Gold Contract (100 taels lot), HKD
+- HKD Kilo Gold Contract (5 kilo lot), HKD
+Physical delivery of gold for CGSE contracts
+Members of the CGSE organise physical delivery of the gold that they trade on the Exchange, and the Exchange is not involved in delivery. However, the Exchange oversees an accredited delivery system.
+A special category of CGSE member known as a ‘Bullion Group’ members are permitted to manufacture small gold bars for the Hong Kong market in the form of 999 fine 1 Kilogram bars and 99 fine 5 Tael bars. These bars are classified as Hong Kong ‘Good Delivery’ bars. There are approximately 30 ‘Bullion Group’ members in the CGSE Society. The CGSE also fully owns and operates the ‘Hong Kong Precious Metals Assay Centre’[11].
+The only bars deliverable for the 99 Tael gold contract, the 9999 Tael gold contract, and the HKD Kilo gold contract are bars manufactured by CGSE-accredited refineries (see below for list of CGSE-accredited refineries).
+For the Renminbi Kilobar gold contract, acceptable delivery bars are 9999 fine kilobars manufactured by CGSE accredited refineries, or 9999 fine or 9995 fine kilobars accredited by the Shanghai Gold Exchange.
+CGSE Five Tael bars that are produced by the CGSE accredited refineries are stamped with both the stamp of the refinery and the stamp of the CGSE[12].
+Selected CGSE Member profiles
+The full list of CGSE members can be viewed on the CGSE website[13]. This list highlights the venues (open outcry / electronic) and gold/silver products that each member is authorised to trade. Many of the CGSE members are also members of the “Hong Kong Precious Metal Traders Association” (in Chinese 香港貴金屬同業協會有限公司)[14].
+Some well-known CGSE ‘bullion group’ members which trade CGSE gold products and operate refineries include the following:
+Wing Fung Precious Metals Ltd (CGSE Member No.34)
+Wing Fung is a diversified bullion-focused group of companies which was established more than 30 year ago in Hong Kong. It began as a precious metals bullion wholesaler but now includes bullion dealing, a gold refinery, futures dealing and online gold trading. Wing Fung trades all CGSE gold contracts and is a liquidity provider for the CGSE’s electronically traded loco London 100oz (LLG) contract, and 999.9 Tael gold (LTG) contract[15]. The Wing Fung refinery produces CGSE accredited and ‘WF’ branded 99 Five Tael gold bars, 999.9 Five Tael bars, and 999.9 One Kilo bars. Wing Fung states that it ranks in the top 3 in the Hong Kong market for physical precious metals transaction volume[16]. A selection of Wing Fung gold bars can be viewed on its website[17].
+Wong Cha Company Ltd (CGSE Member No. 61)
+Wong Cha Company Ltd is a CGSE bullion group member that trades all CGSE gold contracts. Wong Cha is a liquidity provider for both the CGSE’s RMB Kilo gold and HKD 999.9 Tael gold contracts, and it provides an online trading platform. The Wong Cha refinery produces CGSE accredited 99 Five Tael gold bars, 999.9 Five Tael bars, and 999.9 One Kilo bars for the jewellery industry. Wong Sha’s website is listed under associate company Henfin[18].
+Marigold Int Bullion Dealers Ltd (CGSE member No. 23)
+Marigold International Bullion Dealers is a bullion group member of the CGSE and is authorised to trade all CGSE gold contracts. Marigold’s refinery produces CGSE accredited 99 Five Tael gold bars and 999.9 One Kilo gold bars[19]. Marigold received its CGSE license in 2008 after acquiring a former member of the Exchange.
+First Asia Merchants Bullion Ltd (CGSE Member No 114)
+First Asia Merchants Bullion (First Gold) was established in 1991 and is licensed to trade all CGSE gold contracts. Its refinery is CGSE accredited for the production of 999.9 Five Tael and 999.9 One Kilo gold bars[20].
+CGSE Jewellery Company Members
+A number of large and prominent Hong Kong gold jewellery companies are also CGSE members, such as Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Company Ltd[21], Luk Fook Bullion Dealers Ltd (part of the Luk Fook jewellery group)[22], King Fook Gold & Jewellery Company Limited [23], and Chow Sang Sang (through Chow Sang Sang Bullion Dealers Ltd[24]. Chow Sang Sang also runs a bullion wholesaler subsidiary called World Commercial Sales Ltd[25].
+Shanghai-Hong Kong Gold Connect
+In July 2015, the CGSE and the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) launched the “Shanghai-Hong Kong Gold Connect”[26]. The ‘Connect’ refers to exchange connectivity and cooperation between the CGSE and the SGE, and also extends to a CGSE trading room and precious metals vault in Qianhai in Shenzhen. Shenzhen is a city in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), about one hour’s drive from Hong Kong. The gold ‘Connect’ initiative intends to integrate the Chinese ‘onshore’ and ‘offshore’ gold markets, as well as to boost Renminbi (RMB) gold pricing power on the SGE while furthering the PRC’s strategy of internationalising the Renminbi.
+Details of the Gold Connect
+CGSE has joined the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) as a special international member. The trading systems of the two exchanges (CGSE and SGE) have been linked together. More than 170 members of the CGSE members are now permitted to trade gold on both the Main Board and International Board of the SGE using offshore Renminbi. CGSE has also opened a gold trading platform and logistics operation in the Chinese Qianhai district of the Shenzhen free-trade zone, which includes a precious metals vault and assay centre.
+The CGSE estimates that its members will trade up to 100 tonnes of gold per annum on the SGE. In theory, this will boost trading volumes and liquidity on the International Board of the SGE, (i.e. the SGEI), improve pricing power of the SGE, and will therefore increase the importance of RMB denominated gold pricing. If successful, the Chinese gold sector will also become more integrated to Hong Kong, since Chinese mainland customers of the CGSE can trade the CGSE contracts priced in HKD and USD.
+The Shanghai-Hong Kong Gold Connect is modelled on the “Shanghai – Hong Kong Stock Connect”[27] which was an earlier initiative between the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock markets that has sought to improve access and trading liquidity between the two stock markets, and the connectivity between Chinese A and H shares. Chinese A shares are listed shares of mainland Chinese companies that trade in Renminbi. H shares are Hong Long listings of dual-listed Chinese mainland stocks that trade in Hong Kong dollars.
+The CGSE Qianhai operation
+The CGSE has opened a base in a free-trade zone (FTZ) in Qianhai, in Shenzhen. The CGSE refers to this operation as its “Qianhai Precious Metals Logistics Assay Centre“. About 70 per cent of China’s gold jewellery is manufactured in Shenzhen.
+The full CGSE operation in Qianhai is still being built and the vault will be complete in the first half of 2017. When complete, the complex will have offices, a trading area, a precious metals vault (bonded warehouse) with a capacity of 1500 tonnes of gold, and a precious metals assay centre. Currently, CGSE is using temporary offices and a temporary vault in a building at the China Vanke Enterprise Dream Park in Qianhai[28].
+Approximately 70 of CGSE’s 171 members are now trading out of Qianhai. Although it is in a free trade zone, the gold brought into Qianhai by the CGSE members still needs to be imported by one of the 15 Chinese banks approved to import gold into China[29]. The new ‘Connect’ approach improves logistical efficiencies since the CGSE members (gold traders) can now deliver gold to customers in Shenzhen and Shanghai, although gold will still technically have to be exported from the Shenzhen FTZ to the Chinese mainland. Previously, Hong Kong gold traders had to transport gold from Hong Kong to jewellery factories in Shenzhen.
+The Shanghai International Gold Exchange has appointed Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited (BOCHK) as its sole settlement bank for the funding and payments processing for cross-border gold trading transactions on the Gold Connect. BOCHK is a clearing bank for RMB in Hong Kong[30].
+Prospective Singapore – Hong Kong Gold Connect
+In November 2015, the CGSE announced that it had been in discussion with Singapore Exchange (SGX) about launching a Singapore – Hong Kong Gold Connect based on a similar model to the Shanghai – Hong Kong Gold Connect. This would allow CGSE members with a Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) license to become remote trading members of the SGX and trade the SGX Gold Kilo contract[31]. This SGX contract has seen very low trading volume since its launch in October 2014, so the Connect would be a way for SGX to potentially increase participation in the contract, and would also facilitate CGSE member access to the Singapore gold market.
+CME Group Hong Kong Gold Futures Contract
+In March 2015, the CME Group launched a US dollar denominated Gold Kilo futures contract (ticker GCK) which is physically deliverable at approved precious metal vaults in Hong Kong. The futures contract’s price quotation is for US dollars per troy ounce for delivery of a 1 kilo gold bar of 9999 fineness. Although the contract is pitched as a ‘Hong Kong’ gold futures contract, it trades on the CME’s electronic Globex platform and clears through the CME’s clearing platform Clearport[32].
+Listed months for the kilo gold futures are the current month, next 2 months, and any February, April, June, August, October and December within a
+12-month period. Delivery day is the 3rd Wednesday of the contract delivery month, as specified on the CME website[33]. On-exchange trading volume for the GCK contract is relatively low, ranging from approximately 200 to 600 contracts per trading day, and open interest is minimal[34]. The CME Gold Kilo futures contract can be traded on the CME Globex trading platform (i.e. on exchange), but it can also be traded bilaterally off-exchange (OTC), with the trades then sent to CME’s Clearport for clearing.
+In January 2015, the CME announced a market-maker program for its COMEX gold kilo futures contract which authorised up to 10 market maker participants who “must quote continuous two-sided markets… at predetermined average bid/ask spreads and minimum quote sizes”. In April 2015, the CME raised the allowable number for the program to 12 market makers[35].
+CME Approved Hong Kong vaults
+The CME Group has approved and licensed 3 vaults/warehouse facilities in Hong Kong for storage of kilo gold bars which can be used in settlement of the CME gold kilobar futures contract. These 3 vaults are run by:
+– Brinks Inc
+– Malca Amit Secure Logistics Ltd
+– Loomis International (HK) Ltd (formerly Via Mat)
+Similar to the CME daily warehouse gold inventory report for the COMEX approved vault facilities in New York and surrounding areas, CME also publishes a daily warehouse gold inventory report for the three Hong Kong approved vaults[36]. For a discussion of eligible vs registered gold and warehouse warrants, please see the relevant topics under the ‘US Gold Market‘.
+Malca-Amit’s vault facility in Hong Kong, opened in 2012, is located beside Hong Kong International Airport at units G30-31, Airport Freight Forward Centre, Check Lap Kok. The Loomis vault is at unit 701, Global Gateway, 168 Yeung Uk Road in Tsuen Wan. Brinks’ vaulting facilities are in the ATL Logistics Centre, located at the Kwai Chung Container Terminal in Kwai Chung.
+The HKIA vault at Hong Kong International Airport, run by HKIA Precious Metals Depository and owned by the Hong Kong Airport Authority, also submitted an application for approval by the CME as a designated vault facility for CME’s Hong Kong gold kilobar contract. This application was submitted in December 2014, at the same time as Brinks and Malca Amit applications, but then HKIA withdrew its application again in June 2015[37]. Later in June 2015, the CME approved Loomis Hong Kong as an approved depository for the it’s gold kilo contract[38].
+Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd
+Hong Kong based gold futures products are not a new phenomenon. In August 1980, a US dollar denominated 100oz gold futures contract representing 995 fine gold was launched for trading on the floor of the Hong Kong Commodity Exchange. This contract was deliverable against gold held in approved London vaults [See “Gold: A World Survey” Rae Weston, 1983, published by Crook Helm].
+Hong Kong Commodity Exchange subsequently changed its name to Hong Kong Futures Exchange Ltd (HKFE) in May 1985. The HKFE then suspended its gold future contract in the 1990s due to low trading volumes.
+In March 2000, Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited (HKFE), the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (SEHK), and Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited (HKSCC) all merged together to create Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd (HKEx)[39].
+In October 2008, HKFE launched a cash-settled gold futures contract. This HKFE gold futures traded on the HKATS derivatives platform and cleared through the HKFE Clearing Corporation Ltd with Wing Fung Futures Ltd acting as a market maker. These gold futures represented a US dollar quotation for 100oz of 995 fine gold, based on loco London delivery. The contract’s settlement price used the London Gold Fixing morning benchmark[40].
+This contract was itself suspended by HKEx on 13 March 2015 due to lack of trading volume. This de-listing also coincided with the replacement of the London Gold Fixing with the LBMA Gold Price benchmark, so it appears that it was felt there was no point in amending the contract specification for a product that did not trade[41]. At the time, HKEx stated that it would review the redesign of its gold futures contracts products.
+In December 2015, BullionDesk reported that HKEx plans a new Hong Kong based 99.99 kilobar gold contract denominated in Renminbi, which would be deliverable in Hong Kong vaults[42]. In February 2016, Bloomberg reported that HKEx CEO Charles Li said that “a yuan-denominated gold contract is also in the works”[43]. Note that HKEx acquired the London Metal Exchange (LME) in December 2012[44], and that even though the LME is predominantly a base metals exchange, it too is planning to list gold futures contracts[45].
+SPDR Gold Trust – Hong Kong listing
+The SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), which is primarily listed in New York on NYSE Arca, also has a secondary listing denominated in HK Dollars on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) under ticker 2840[46]. GLD is sponsored by World Gold Trust Services, which is a fully owned subsidiary of the World Gold Council (WGC). The WGC also maintains a regional office in Hong Kong.
+Bullion Banks in Hong Kong
+In 1939, Hong Kong, then under British administration, joined the Sterling Area, one of the dominant currency areas of the time. The Sterling Area’s foreign exchange controls included severe restrictions on the import and export of gold to and from Hong Kong. This led to the evolution of a convoluted pattern of Hong Kong gold imports being routed indirectly via neighbouring Macau. In January 1974, the Hong Kong Government lifted these gold import and export restrictions, leading to an influx of Western banks locating to Hong Kong to trade gold in the Hong Kong market. These banks included NM Rothschild, Mocatta & Goldsmid, Johnson Matthey, Credit Suisse, Union bank of Switzerland (UBS), Swiss Banking Corp (SBC), Dresdner Bank, Deutsche Bank, and Republic National Bank[See “The New World of Gold“, Timothy Green, 1985, published by Weiden and Nicolson].
+Nowadays, most of the large investment banks/bullion banks continue to maintain commodity and gold trading operations in Hong Kong. These banks include HSBC, Standard Chartered, Australia New Zealand Banking Corp (ANZ), Deutsche Bank, Scotia Mocatta, UBS, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Mitsui, Commerzbank, Natixis and Macquarie. As well as physical business, the bullion banks in Hong Kong arbitrage between the local and international gold price.
+In addition to HSBC, other large Hong Kong / Chinese banks are also involved in gold trading in the Hong Kong financial district such as OCBC Wing Hang Bank, ICBC, Bank of China (Hong Kong), and Hang Seng Bank. In Hong Kong, Hang Seng Bank quotes buy and sell gold prices for 99 Tael, 999.9 Tael, and offer a gold passbook unallocated gold savings product[47]. OCBC Wing Hang Bank offers gold bar, ingot and coins purchase and sale services in Wing Hang branches in Hong Kong, and gold passbook accounts[48].
+Gold Refineries in Hong Kong
+There are two gold refineries in Hong Kong that are on the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) Good Delivery List for gold[49]:
+- German refiner Heraeus operates a refinery through Heraeus Ltd Hong Kong. This refinery is located in Fanling (the former Johnson Matthey refinery is part of this complex). Annual gold refining capacity at this plant is 200 tonnes. Heraeus Hong Kong also runs a precious metals trading & marketing operation in Kowloon
+- Swiss refiner Metalor operates a precious metals refinery through Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd, located in Kwai Chung in the New Territories. The annual gold refining capacity of this plant is also 200 tonnes
+CGSE Accredited Refineries
+The CGSE has accredited 13 refineries in Hong Kong as approved refineries for its various deliverable gold contracts[50]. All of these refineries are locally owned, except for Heraeus Hong Kong. Most of the approved refiners are accredited to produce the 99 Taels Gold bar and the 999.9 One Kilo bar, and a smaller subset of the refineries are accredited to produce the 999.9 Five Taels bar.
+- Heraeus Hong Kong *
+- Po Sang Financial Investment Services Company*
+- Marigold International Bullion Dealers*
+- Wing Fung Precious Metals*
+- King Fook Gold & Jewellery Company*
+- Wong Sha Company*
+- Lee Cheong Gold Dealers*
+- Sun Yip Hong Gold Dealers*
+- Peace Town Gold And Silver Company
+- First Asia Merchants Bullion
+- Tai Fung Goldsmith & Refinery Company
+- Sun Yip Hong Gold Dealers
+* Accredited by the CGSE to manufacture and issue CGSE certified 99 Five Tael bars
+Other gold-related entities based in Hong Kong
+The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has an Asian region representative office in Hong Kong and runs a gold trading desk from the BIS Hong Kong office[51].
+The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) held it’s annual Precious Metals Conference Hong Kong in November 2012, the presentation slides of which can be viewed on its website[52].
+‘Precious Metals Insights’, a consultancy active in the precious metals space, is based in Hong Kong [53].
+The World Gold Council maintains an office in Hong Kong at Level 19, Two International Finance Centre [54].
+Conclusion
+After over 100 years, the CGSE is still at the heart of the local Hong Kong gold market, and continues to innovate, launching new contracts (RMB), forming new alliances (SGE connect collaboration) and building new infrastructure (Quinhai platform and vault). In various ways, these CGSE initiatives all underscore the increasing dominance of the Chinese gold market and the progressive internationalisation of the Chinese Renminbi. Likewise, China benefits from harnessing the infrastructure and know/how of the CGSE membership base.
+The larger Hong Kong gold market of the local operations of the international bullion banks, the vaults and transport providers, and the futures exchanges have also all benefited from Hong Kong’s strategic position as a gateway to China and the SAR’s use by China as a gold trade entrepôt.
+As the Chinese gold market moves into its next phase of evolution and internationalisation, Hong Kong is in pole position to share in this journey.
+References and Links
+1.^ The Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society:
+2.^ Hong Kong Precious Metals Exchange Limited
+3.^ Transaction in CGSE Membership and shares, November 2013
+4.^ CGSE Electronic platform contracts
+5.^ CGSE Open Outcry contracts
+6.^ Launch of CGSE Renminbi gold kilo contract
+7.^ Definition of Tael Troy within Hong Kong legislation
+8.^ “Recent Developments in Indian and Far Eastern Gold Market (DM/57/32), International Monetary Fund, 19 July 1957”
+9.^ CGSE History
+10.^ Trading details of the CGSE
+11.^ ‘Hong Kong Precious Metals Assay Centre’
+12.^ Hong Kong Good Delivery Tael Bars
+13.^ CGSE members
+14.^ Hong Kong Precious Metal Traders Association”
+15.^ Liquidity providers on the CGSE electronic platform
+16.^ Wing Fung Precious Metals Ltd
+17.^ Wing Fung gold bars
+18.^ Wong Cha Company Ltd
+19.^ Marigold Int Bullion Dealers Ltd
+20.^ First Asia Merchants Bullion (First Gold)
+21.^ Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Company Ltd
+22.^ Luk Fook Bullion Dealers Ltd
+23.^ King Fook Gold & Jewellery Company Ltd
+24.^ Chow Sang Sang Bullion Dealers Ltd
+25.^ Chow Sang Sang corporate profile
+26.^ Launch of Shanghai-Hong Kong Gold Connect, press release: 10 July 2015:
+27.^ Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect
+28.^ “Briefing on the Registration and Operation of CGSE’s Business in Qianhai“, CGSE Bulletin Issue – 108, November 2015 (large file)
+29.^ CGSE members to set up in Qianhai and CGSE Qianhai precious metals logistics assay centre and vault
+30.^ SGE appointed BOCHK as sole settlement bank for Shanghai-Hong Kong Gold Connect, press release, 10 July 2015:
+31.^ “Prospective Launch of a New Gold Market Connect between Singapore and Hong Kong“, page 3, CGSE Newsletter 108, 27 November 2015
+32.^ CME Group gold kilo futures contract:
+33.^ CME gold kilo delivery process
+34.^ CME gold kilo trading volume
+35.^ CME gold kilo market-maker program announcement update
+36.^ CME Hong Kong daily gold kilo warehouse inventory report
+37.^ Withdrawal of HKIA application for CME vault approval, June 2015
+38.^ CME notification of Loomis Hong Kong as approved depository for the GCK contract
+39.^ Creation of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd
+40.^ Hong Kong Futures Exchange gold futures contract specification
+41.^ “Suspension of the Trading of Gold Futures“, HKEx press release, 13 March 2015 “”
+42.^ “HKEx plans yuan-denominated gold contract“, BullionDesk, 11 December 2015
+43.^ Hong Kong Exchange to Offer Yuan Currency Futures, Gold Contract, Bloomberg February 2016
+44.^ “HKEx and LME announce completion of transaction”, LME press release, December 2012
+45.^ “LME Said in Talks With Banks to List London Gold Contracts“, Bloomberg, January 2016
+46.^ SPDR Gold Trust – Hong Kong Listing:
+47.^ Hang Seng Bank gold products
+48.^ OCBC Wing Hang gold products
+49.^ LBMA Good Delivery List
+50.^ CGSE accredited refineries list
+51.^ Bank for International Settlements (BIS), representative office Hong Kong:
+52.^ LBMA Precious Metals Conference Hong Kong, November 2012, presentation slides
+53.^ ‘Precious Metals Insights’
+54.^ World Gold Council, Hong K.
+:
+Vett Readers. If you’re going to give someone a manuscript to read, you should somewhat trust them. If the person approached you in a weird way and asked for your book, or something just seems off in the course of your conversations/online interactions, don’t give them your book. Trust your gut. Tell them you’ve given out all the available review or beta copies, and don’t send them your stuff. People tend to be more particular with beta readers (who read drafts that could go through major revisions based on the feedback) than they are with ARC (advance review copy) readers. With beta readers, if possible, go with people you’ve met before and have a good feel for (members of your writers group, for example). The longer you write, the more readers you will find, so, if you find loyal readers, tap them for ARCs and beta reads.
+Watermarks. This does not actually keep a person from sharing your document. It’s effectiveness is in its deterrence power. You can read more about digital watermarking here, but the core concept is a security watermark is an electronic way to mark a document so that if it’s copied, you know whose version was copied. If you were to use a different security watermark on each ARC you sent out, and you found your ARC on a pirated book site, you could figure out who shared your ARC. The deterrent effect works because the potential sharer, once told your book has a digital watermark, will know that they will be caught if they share the file. And no one wants to be caught, right? Well, we can hope that’s right. But, some people may not care, may not believe you, or may be tech savvy enough to remove the watermark. The other problem with digital security watermarks is that the software to add them to your document is expensive (several hundred dollars). If you simply want to add the visual watermark, you can do that easily via Microsoft Word. A standard watermark will remind readers you don’t want the document copied or shared and might deter some who would have been careless.
+A reminder/form. Most authors, when they send ARC or beta copies, include very simple instructions in the email. They say something to the effect of “I appreciate you reading this. Please, do not share this document.” They’ll also put the copyright symbol on the pages, just as another reminder to readers that this is someone’s work and it shouldn’t be shared. Some authors ask readers to fill out a form before receiving manuscript. The form (which you could create via Google Docs), uses similar language to the email but asks the reader to check a box that says something like, “Please acknowledge that you will not share this document with others.” This is not a legal contract, but when people have to check something contract-like, they tend to take it more seriously.
+Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs). Some people do require readers to sign nondisclosure agreements, where they promise not to share the documents or reproduce them. These are legal contracts, and if the person shared your document, you could sue them (but you’d have to prove it was them who shared it, which might be hard). Most people do not use NDAs for manuscripts. It just takes a lot of time and effort to get these things signed and sent back and forth. Oddly enough, the only person who has ever asked me to sign an NDA is my little brother, and it was not for a book (it was for tech product). And even then, I found it to be a lot of drama. It just confirmed my previous opinion that little brothers are total pains.
+Copyright Pre-registration. This is the least recommended method, as it’s expensive, and unnecessary in most cases. In order to protect themselves against plagiarism, many authors register a copyright with their nation’s copyright office. In the United States, a copyright is only available after the work is published. However, the US Copyright office does offer something called pre-registration. The purpose is to “allow an infringement action to be brought before the authorized commercial distribution of a work and full registration.” It was designed for works that were expected to be possibly infringed upon prior to their release (any book in the Harry Potter series after book one, or the newest Avengers film). The US Copyright office does not recommend pre-registering your work. They say, “for the vast majority of works, pre-registration is not useful.” It is also expensive at $140 (four times the $35 cost to register a single work by a single author). Even if you pre-register, you still have to register (and pay the registration fee) once the work is published. And, of course, neither registering, nor pre-registering, prevents a person from copying your work. It just gives you the option of legal recourse.
+Those are some of the main options people employ when they’re worried their work might be taken. While this is a concern some authors have, cases of pre-published work plagiarism is rare. So rare that I’d recommend you not to lose sleep over it.
+15 thoughts on “How Can Authors Protect Their Works in Progress?”
+Adobe Acrobat lets you add a watermark and also encrypt the document, which prevents copy/paste of the text.
+That’s useful to know. Thanks, Richard.
+I’ve always read – and I researched this too – is that you own the work as soon as it’s created whether it is copyrighted or not. Also, if it created on a computer, there are markers with each document – Created On dates that verify the date you wrote it. So either way, you’re pretty safe.
+RB Frank, you are correct in that you have a copyright to the work the moment you put it in tangible form (ie write it down). However nice that may be, you cannot sue for copyright infringement unless you have registered a copyright with the United States Copyright office. If someone else were to register work you created, they would be presumed to be the owner of the work, and you’d have to prove they lied on the forms (which would land them in jail, if proven, because lying to the federal government is a pretty serious crime).
+Now, you might be able to sue for other things (unjust enrichment, perhaps?), but the only way to sue someone for copyright infringement is to have a registered copyright. And I’m talking for the US only. Copyright laws vary by country. If you’d like to know more about US Copyright law, check the government’s copyright FAQ section:. This section notes that you can’t sue for infringement without a registered copyright.
+This topic is rather like worrying about being struck by lightning. Yes, the danger is there, and no, there’s not much you can do about it besides stay off hilltops and out from under trees during a storm. Thanks for some of the options which at least make us feel better about it. 🙂
+(I’m all for aluminum foil in my crash helmet, but to each his or her own.)
+LOL. That struck by lightning analogy is so hilarious to me, because when I was a reporter in Kansas City, I had to cover a seminar on the real and present dangers of getting struck by lightning. I kid you not. I was shocked to discover all the ways I could be struck by lightning, even though the odds are pretty slim. So, there are always people out there looking out for problems that aren’t likely to happen.
+But, the cool thing is, once you hear the facts, you can choose what to do. Ignore all the tips, ignore some of the tips, or take to heart the ones that most jibed for you. I mean, does one really need to shower during a thunder storm?
+In my opinion, I suggest everyone should take the time to read the copyright office publications very carefully one evening without pulling your hair out.
+I always register my final manuscript with the US Copyright Office just prior to self-publication or submission. I use the Standard e-Copyright online submission form with the $55.00 fee. This standard fee covers the title and entire manuscript text submission and not just the title.
+Images are considered a collection and registered separately from the text, also for $55.00.
+Doing it this way protects All your rights.
+Even though it takes 6 to 8 months for processing, your work is fully registered at time of registration as soon as you pay on line and upload your file. They send you a nice email telling you this.
+If you do not register your work, prior to publication, then you can only claim losses from others from the day you register, and cannot make claims prior to that date, and your claims are reduced as to what you can collect.
+Check the pre-registration section carefully in the US Copyright office bulletin about it, I believe, it is intended for works with multiple authors and/or work of hires, like tv shows or serial compilations being registered under one name.
+I hope this helps.
+Allen, I completely agree with you on registering a copyright. If you’re doing a single work by a single author, then you can pay the $35 registration fee, so it’s a little cheaper if it’s just one author, one work (which is what I typically do). And yes, the timeline isn’t bothersome. I just got my copyright certificate last weekend for a work I registered in September 2017. But, the copyright was valid as of registration. Thankfully, no one has copied the work (phew!)
+Pre-registration was intended for works that are high-commodity items (like the next James Patterson book) that can get leaked in advance of publication. Generally, the copyright office does not recommend doing a pre-registration unless you’ve got some real concern that copies are floating around and might get infringed upon prior to the work’s publication.?
+Many people post their chapter by chapter work on their blogs or on Wattpad (which IU has written about before). Like I said, generally thieves only want to steal work they are certain will do well, so they tend to go for books that are out and have sold well in the past or books from big name authors. I wouldn’t get overly concerned about posting a few chapters of an unpublished novel. I’d hesitate about posting the whole thing. However, if you want to tease your readers with a preview, that’s a good idea. Lots of people do it.
+Thanks for sharing your information on this subject, R.J. I appreciate it. 🙂 — Suzanne
+StencilGirl + Lindy’s Gang Art Journal Tutorial
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+Welcome to Fox + Hazel, artists! I’ve been looking forward to this blog hop for ages. StencilGirl and Lindy’s Gang are two of my favourite product brands, so this collaboration was a dream come true!
+I’m especially taken with the Magicals from Lindy’s Gang. I might be low-key obsessed with them. They are so much fun to work with, and I love that they’re dye-based! I personally love including water-soluble mediums in my work, but they can be finicky to work with because they don’t dry permanently. Not the case with Magicals! And of course you know my love for all things surrounding stencils!
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+So, rather than write about my undying love for these products, I’d rather show you a fun new technique using Magicals with stencils from StencilGirl!
+Check out the video below to see how you can add Magicals to gloss medium and use with a stencil to create some cool effects!
+alt="" width="700" height="259" data-pin-nopin="true" data-src="//" data- data-sizes="" data-swift-image-lazyload="true" data-style="" style=" width:700px;height:259px" data-l>And what’s a blog hop without.
+Blog Hop Order:
+April 18
+Mary Beth Shaw
+Gwen Lafleur
+Mary C. Nasser
+Debi Adams
+Tina Walker
+Kate Palmer
+Cindy Wille
+Natalie May
+Pascale Bernard
+Anat Weksler
+Bertheas Peggy aka Nirvana
+Phoebe Tonosaki
+48 Comments
+Tina Walker
+April 24, 2018 at 4:12 pm
+Lindy’s were made for journal pages! ♥
+Mary Catt
+April 24, 2018 at 3:32 pm
+So beautiful pages! Thank you so much for sharing your inspiration!
+ann barnes
+April 23, 2018 at 8:23 pm
+such a great idea mixing the mediums to create beautiful results! thanks for sharing
+Cathy Costelle
+April 23, 2018 at 7:38 pm
+Love the colors and seeing your individual approach to the Lindyz products. Nice video
+Marcie MacTarnaghan
+April 22, 2018 at 7:50 pm
+Loved the video. So much inspiration with the products used.
+Vicki
+April 22, 2018 at 3:54 pm
+Thanks for the video! Learned a lot!
+Jean Marmo
+April 22, 2018 at 1:59 pm
+Thank you for this fun project. I love seeing all the ways to use these products.
+Mary Holshouser
+April 22, 2018 at 10:24 am
+Thanks for the video.
+Sounds like a product I need to try.
+Your pages are fun.
+txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com
+Kate
+April 21, 2018 at 7:26 pm
+Love your use of color and circles on this journal page. LOVE!
+Kate
+Debi Vought
+April 21, 2018 at 12:48 pm
+What a cool idea, Torrie! Thanks for sharing!
+Lisajake
+April 21, 2018 at 11:52 am
+This is fantastic. Thank you for the video!
+Catherine
+April 21, 2018 at 10:23 am
+Beautiful project, great video!
+Annette Reed
+April 21, 2018 at 2:39 am
+What a great journal page! Thanks for showing the different ways to use the products.
+Denise Spillane
+April 21, 2018 at 12:03 am
+Beautiful colors. I love that black and the lime. The names are cool. Dee
+Traci Nickerson
+April 20, 2018 at 6:09 pm
+Hi Torrie,
+I love your page, its so organic, light and airy! That would be a stunning background too. Thanks for mentioning that the magicals will dry translucent if mixed with a medium that dries clear. Great page, very colorful and approachable.
+Val
+April 20, 2018 at 5:51 pm
+I love learning about products I haven’t yet tried. Thanks for the inspiration.
+Kris Johnson
+April 20, 2018 at 1:08 pm
+Loved the video want to try that technique🙂
+Annie
+April 20, 2018 at 12:29 pm
+Thanks for the video!
+Carol Baxter
+April 20, 2018 at 10:04 am
+Lovely. Thanks for the tutorial! Now I know what to do with my Magicals.
+wendy baysa
+April 20, 2018 at 9:19 am
+love the organic feel you created and your color choices! TFS
+Anita Summers
+April 20, 2018 at 8:17 am
+Thanks for sharing!
+Anita Summers
+April 20, 2018 at 8:15 am
+Never heard of these before, thanks for showing how they can be used.
+bailey earith
+April 20, 2018 at 7:18 am
+cool! Bailey(at)BaileyFiberArt(dot)com
+StencilGirl / Lindy’s Gang Blog Hop – Art & Whimsy
+April 20, 2018 at 6:33 am
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+Heidi
+April 20, 2018 at 2:11 am
+Such a fun colour combination, thanks for sharing your project!
+Rachel Bell
+April 19, 2018 at 11:46 pm
+Hey, Torrie! I love that you let the Magicals do their thing – so many options you talk about giving the versatility of the product! I always enjoy your videos – you’re so cool! Such a great journal spread! ~Rachel Bell bellbrzs (at) cox (dot net)
+Elizabeth Davey
+April 19, 2018 at 11:13 pm
+awesome work
+Michelle Logan
+April 19, 2018 at 11:08 pm
+Looks like a fun technique thanks for sharing!
+Allison Verboort
+April 19, 2018 at 8:14 pm
+Love this technique and a great page 🖤💚💖
+Susan Schultheis
+April 19, 2018 at 7:15 pm
+Great combo, SG & Lindy’s. Love your project and thank you for sharing the process.
+I am in art heaven.
+suzschultz23(at)aol(dot)com
+Jakki
+April 19, 2018 at 6:21 pm
+I love learning new techniques. I am becoming braver but have yet to develop a full quiver of ideas from which I can draw when I experiment. Delightful tutorials such as yours give me new techniques to try and a broader horizon to aim for.
+Thank you for sharing!
+Susan Tidwell
+April 19, 2018 at 5:14 pm
+Great technique! Thanks for sharing.
+Kari Leach
+April 19, 2018 at 4:41 pm
+Love this!
+Katie Lamb
+April 19, 2018 at 4:25 pm
+Fabulous art journal
+Ericka Strange
+April 19, 2018 at 4:03 pm
+Great tutorial and I love the bright colors you used. SO pretty and fun.
+Amanda
+April 19, 2018 at 3:06 pm
+These look like SO much fun!! Amanda (at) meadowdance (dot org)
+Patty Donahue
+April 19, 2018 at 11:43 am
+Great tutorial. I’m really liking those Magicals!
+Laura Dame
+April 19, 2018 at 11:24 am
+I love the result! I can’t wait to watch the video 🙂
+Kelly
+April 19, 2018 at 10:52 am
+Great video with lots of info!! thank you.
+Ginnie
+April 19, 2018 at 10:50 am
+I didn’t realize the Magicals were dye-based. I really want to try them now!
+Suz
+April 19, 2018 at 10:22 am
+I love the instruction you give in this video! Such great info in how they work and different ways to use them. Thank you!
+Vidhi Jadeja
+April 19, 2018 at 10:16 am
+Wow its beautiful… thank you so much for sharing with us this wonderful tutorial !!! Love the colours 😍😊
+Dots to lines
+April 19, 2018 at 8:41 am
+Lovely journal spread! Great techniques to use the products and enjoyed the videos! Thank you for sharing and inspiring!
+Alexa Doebler
+April 19, 2018 at 8:32 am
+Love it! Loved watching the process!
+Terry O’Neill
+April 19, 2018 at 8:32 am
+Great tips for ways to use these fun products – thanks! I enjoyed your video presentation.
+Isabelle StOnge
+April 19, 2018 at 7:38 am
+I love the idea of adding Magicals to gloss medium. Thank you!
+Eloise
+April 19, 2018 at 6:29 am
+More ways to use products! Like the idea of the powders so you can mix them as you like.
+Like the journal page.
+Angela
+April 19, 2018 at 5:43 am
+Love seeing how different products are used… makes me want to SHOP! Great piece.
+ImMysteryious(at)Hotmail(dot com)
+Is skipping college worth it?
+It’s a question everyone should ask themselves but few actually do.
+Instead, they get caught up in the “everybody goes to college, it’s just what you do” mindset that’s resulted in the cost of a four-year education rising faster than wages.
+The average Class of 2019 graduate left college with $28,950 in student loan debt, and that just includes students who finished their academic program with a degree to show for it.
+What about the two million students who drop out of college every year? Many are saddled with student loan debts of their own—dropping out wasn’t the plan when they initially enrolled—with little to show for their time and money.
+The truth is that the return on investment of a college education isn’t what it used to be. A 2019 survey by Cengage found that 34% of employers think college hasn’t prepared students for jobs, and the most in-demand skills are things anyone can learn with or without a degree.
+Even more incredible, a 2018 survey by Lending House found that 90% of employers are open to hiring someone without a traditional four-year college degree.
+With all of that context, let’s ask (and answer) the big question: Is skipping college worth it?
+For some people, yes—skipping college is a good idea.
+Who Should Skip College?
+College isn’t some scam that’s universally bad for everyone. Even as the expected value of a college education continues to drop, there are still people who pursue a traditional college education, earn their degree, and enjoy successful careers doing exactly what they always envisioned.
+In short, they get a positive return on their investment.
+On the flip side, there are tons of people who enjoy career success without a college degree. We profiled 125 Successful People Who Didn’t Graduate College from all sorts of industries like real estate, journalism, marketing, and more.
+If going to college is the right choice for some and skipping college is the right choice for others, how do you know which is right for you?
+Deciding whether to skip college is a personal choice that’s unique for everyone, but there are several situations where skipping college often is the right choice.
+1. You’re unsure which career path to follow
+A 2017 survey conducted by Strada and Gallup found that an alarming number of college graduates have regrets about the major life decisions they made when enrolling:
+- 36% wish they’d chosen a different major
+- 28% wish they’d attended a different school altogether
+Indecision is normal, and it might even be beneficial. The Institute for the Future asked 20 tech, business, and academic experts to imagine the future job market. The panel predicted that by 2030, a shocking 85% of the jobs that today’s learners will be doing haven’t even been invented yet.
+How are you supposed to prepare for a career that doesn’t even exist?
+College is a big investment in terms of both money and time. Going to college just for the sake of going to college puts that investment at risk. If you’re unsure of which career path to follow, skipping college may be the right decision.
+2. You know your career path and it doesn’t require a degree
+Not every career path requires a college degree—just look at those 125 people who found career success without graduating college. Sure, some are tech geniuses who changed the world with their revolutionary ideas, but “Founder of a Silicon Valley Tech Startup” isn’t the only career on that list.
+The Internet has made knowledge more accessible than ever, allowing anyone to learn rare and in-demand skills outside of the traditional college experience. It’s also created ways for you to develop a portfolio showcasing your talents and broadcast that portfolio for employers to find.
+Today’s hiring managers increasingly are open to hiring candidates without a four-year college degree, and, once you’re in the door, 54% of employers are willing to provide additional training to develop your talent.
+3. You’re uneasy about the typical student loan burden
+Signing up for nearly $30,000 in loans can be a stressful proposition, regardless of whether you are confident on which career path to follow. And not everyone deals with that stress the same way.
+Researchers at Staffordshire University in London found there are two common responses people have to stressful situations, such as completing four years of rigorous coursework with a pile of loan debt waiting on the other side:
+- Some view it as a challenge.
+- Others view it as a threat.
+Those two groups have entirely different bodily responses that affect how they perform.
+The challenge group produces more adrenaline, which is the fight-or-flight hormone that supplies your body with more oxygen, heightens awareness, and increases performance.
+The threat group produces more cortisol, which is the stress hormone that’s believed to be linked to anxiety and depression when cortisol levels consistently rise too high. Anxiety and depression are thought to change your brain’s physical structure, leading to memory problems, difficulty thinking clearly, and decreased motivation.
+If you think you’re in the threat group, don’t worry—there’s nothing wrong with you. Your body just processes stress differently. Listen to your body and put yourself in situations where you’re more likely to succeed. For some, that may mean skipping college.
+4. You don’t do well in traditional academic settings
+Lofty student loan burdens aren’t the only source of stress. Many students struggle with the traditional academic setting.
+- Mind-numbing classes in stuffy, over-crowded lecture halls
+- Midterm and final exams that count for huge portions of your grade
+- Endless essays and research papers
+Once again, if you’re the type of person who views those as anxiety-inducing threats instead of exciting challenges to overcome, then opting out of the traditional academic setting may be right for you.
+5. You’d rather invest in career capital
+“Career capital are the skills you have that are both rare and valuable and that can be used as leverage in defining your career.”
+That quote by Cal Newport, an assistant professor at Georgetown, perfectly explains how everyone should approach their education, either in college or through other means of self-directed learning. Your goal should be to acquire skills that have value and then use those skills to become an in-demand job applicant who employers need to hire.
+Career capital can be anything:
+- Graphic design
+- Public speaking
+- Computer programming
+- Car repair
+- Writing
+The list goes on.
+Think of each skill as if it were a physical item you’d buy at a store or a collectible in a hobby shop. Its value is tied to supply and demand.
+- Supply: How many people possess this skill? Typically, skills that are harder to learn are in lower supply among job applicants.
+- Demand: How many employers are looking for this skill? Typically, skills that everyone needs (like car repair and electrical work) or skills that help businesses grow (like marketing and writing) are in high demand.
+Skills that are lower in supply but higher in demand have more value. It’s basic economic theory.
+Think of the traditional college education as an investment and ask yourself the following questions:
+- How much time and money does it cost to complete a college degree program?
+- What career capital (skills) will you earn by investing that time and money?
+- What college alternatives can you pursue instead with that same time and money?
+- What career capital (skills) will you earn by investing in those alternatives?
+When you think of college as a way to trade your time and money for career capital, you realize it isn’t the only option. And when you realize college isn’t the only option, you may realize it isn’t even the best option.
+How to Skip College & Build Your Career
+Before you tell your parents you aren’t going to college, you need a plan for what you’ll do instead. While that may sound overwhelming, it doesn’t have to be. Just follow these five steps:
+- Decide what’s meaningful to you
+- Build career capital through self-directed learning
+- Set SMART goals
+- Keep experimenting
+- Think ahead (but not too far)
+1. Decide what’s meaningful to you
+Do you know what you want to do with your life?
+- If so, great. You’ve already completed step one.
+- If not, that’s great too, because you can choose to do absolutely anything.
+But for many, the idea of picking one thing out of the entire world of everything seems daunting.
+How are you supposed to know which career path to choose?
+Begin by looking inward and ask yourself this question: What’s meaningful to you?
+- Do you want a career where you can make a ton of money?
+- Do you want a career where you can help other people?
+- Do you want a career where you can enjoy freedom?
+- Do you want a career where you’re constantly challenged?
+- Do you want a career where you gain fame or notoriety?
+This exercise is about narrowing the entire world of everything to create a shortlist of some things where you can be both successful and happy.
+2. Build career capital through self-directed learning
+Traditionally, we’re taught that college leads to better jobs, higher salaries, and more personal satisfaction. Put another way, college is the best way to build career capital—the in-demand skills employers are willing to pay for.
+While college can be a good way to build career capital, it isn’t the only way. There are all sorts of college alternatives you can use to develop the valuable, in-demand skills needed to find meaningful work—whatever that means to you.
+Praxis is one of the best ways to build career capital because you’ll learn by doing in an intensive, 12-month program. (And is there a better way to develop skills than by practicing them early and often?) Praxis specializes in non-technical business roles like sales, marketing, customer service, and operations, and you’re guaranteed to find a full-time job within six months of graduating or your entire bootcamp experience is free.
+You can also defer payment until after you land your job and expect to earn more than the cost of tuition within the first six months.
+Praxis has helped launch over 350 careers with 93% of graduates receiving full-time offers with an average starting salary of $50,000. That’s the same starting salary as the average college graduate, and Praxis grads begin their careers three years earlier. Not only does that mean three extra years of earned income ($150,000 total over those three years), but it also means three years of pay raises and promotions.
+Of course, Praxis isn’t the only college alternative (although we think it’s the best). Depending on the career you’re interested in pursuing, you may also find success with other forms of self-directed learning, such as apprenticeships, coding bootcamps, finding freelance work, learning trades, or taking online courses.
+3. Set SMART goals
+People who set “specific and challenging” goals enjoy better performance 90% of the time and people who physically write their goals down are 33% more likely to achieve them.
+The “specific and challenging” part means the goals we’re talking about aren’t vague like “I’ll try really hard at work.” Instead, your goals should be SMART:
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+Here’s an example of a SMART goal: “I’ll learn to grow and manage a Facebook page by publishing a new post every day, and I’ll learn about creating viral posts by reading Made to Stick for at least 30 minutes each night.”
+It helps to keep your goals small and think daily or weekly. When your goal is too far in the future, it’s easy to procrastinate and say, “I’ll just do a little more reading tomorrow night to make up for it.” When your goal is to read for at least 30 minutes every night, you know when you fall short and you have plenty of time to correct the course.
+Plus, achieving small goals more frequently gives you a sense of accomplishment, which keeps you motivated as you build toward bigger and harder goals.
+4. Keep experimenting
+In Step 1, we talked about how picking one thing in the entire world of everything can be overwhelming. By focusing on what’s meaningful, you can narrow everything down to some things and then experiment with those things until you find your fit.
+Let’s say you think you’ll find the most meaning in a career that meets three criteria:
+- Offers strong earning potential
+- Gives you the freedom to work independently
+- Challenges you with new problems every day
+There are all sorts of careers that meet those criteria:
+- Learn to code and become a data scientist
+- Master the written word and become a high-end copywriter
+- Go into real estate or sales and work for commissions
+Those three career paths couldn’t be more different, but they all scratch the same itch: strong earning potential with the opportunity to work independently on new, challenging problems every day.
+Experiment with each career—plus anything else that comes to mind—to find the path that suits you best.
+5. Think ahead—but not too far ahead
+It’s important to create a plan, but be careful to avoid planning out every step of your life for the next five years. That leaves you with little room to react to new information and change your direction with each new experience.
+Agile is a way of planning that allows for constant change as you gain new information. It focuses on identifying tasks or goals you want to accomplish over a 2-3 week period of time— called a “sprint”—after which you review what you accomplished and set new goals for the next 2-3 weeks.
+This approach lets you work toward any larger goals you may have, such as “land a full-time job in 12 months,” while still giving you the flexibility to experiment and learn along the way.
+Are You Thinking About Skipping College?
+You’ve decided college isn’t right for you and you’re ready to forge your own path.
+But how do you choose the right path?
+- Decide what’s meaningful to you
+- Build career capital through self-directed learning
+- Set goals for yourself
+- Keep experimenting
+- Think ahead—but not toofar ahead
+Overwhelming? It can be.
+Exciting? Absolutely.
+The next step? Begin your journey of self-directed learning and find the college alternative that’s right for you.
+Its first stab at asserting oversight over yeshivos rejected by court, New York State’s education department is trying again, issuing a press release last Friday that it intends to propose intrusive regulations that would force yeshivos to dramatically change their schedules and very essence.
+As opposed to the “guidelines” the agency released in November, the newly proposed regulations would have to go through a lengthy process and include a comment period for the public to weigh in on them. But the new regulations are basically the same as the old guidelines, which were rejected by a court in April after being deemed too demanding of schools to go through without public input.
+The proposal will be formally released on July 3, and the public will be able to comment through Sept. 3. It is unclear whether the comments would be submitted by attending an open hearing or by sending it online.
+The regulations, which were posted on the department’s website on Monday, purport to satisfy the century-old law requiring that nonpublic schools be “substantially equivalent” to their public counterparts.
+“As reflected in the proposed regulations,” the education department wrote in its press release, .”
+There are nearly 400,000 students in the state’s private schools, about one-third of which attend a yeshiva.
+Advocates for yeshivos immediately denounced the proposal, saying that it hews closely to the previous guidelines, which placed unfeasible demands on yeshivos such as 4 hours and 20 minutes of secular studies a day — not including recess or lunch — and lessons in subjects that the schools find morally repulsive.
+“To our chagrin,” Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zweibel, the executive vice president of Agudath Israel of America, told the Yated, “a lot of what we had hoped to see in those guidelines were not there, which led us to file a lawsuit. And again, to our chagrin, our first look at these proposed regulations suggests that they will be very problematic for us.”
+Rabbi Zweibel, who is an attorney, said that if the yeshivos’ grievances were not addressed through the official comment period, “then we may have no choice but to go back to court.”
+At least one member of the Board of Regents appeared uncomfortable with the state’s attempts at overseeing private schools, urging his colleagues at their monthly meeting on Monday to take it slower, according to Yeruchim Silber, Agudah’s director of New York government relations who attended the hearing in Albany.
+Regent Roger Tilles, who represents Nassau and Suffolk counties on the 17-member board, tried convincing the board to wait one more month for them to review the regulations before issuing them in the state Register and offer an actual stamp of approval.
+“I don’t want to put something out there that’s going to be attacked, at least unless I know what I’m doing,” he said.
+The board ultimately decided to go ahead, saying that the revisions should take place after hearing from the public.
+Silber said that he was standing in the education department’s lobby after the hearing when he spotted MaryEllen Elia, the chancellor, emerging from an elevator.
+“I saw her,” Silber said, “and she smiled at me and said that ‘there will surely be changes before the final version.’”
+The regulations mirrors the guidelines that were struck down, requiring yeshivos to devote much more time to secular studies and hands off to the hundreds of cities and school boards across the state in which the yeshiva is located responsibility to review whether they are in compliance.
+In New York City, for example, Education Chancellor Richard Carranza would be the responsible party, while in Monsey, it would be the East Ramapo school board.
+The final determination as to whether a school is in compliance, however, lays with the state education commissioner, currently Elia. An undetermined “due process” assurance was added to the regulation to allow an appeal of the commissioner’s decisions.
+For grades 7 and 8, the regulations would demand three hours a week in each of the following subjects — English language arts, social studies, science and math. Divided by the typical four-day week yeshivos allot to secular studies, this would mean three hours a day in just these subjects. It also includes 45-minute weekly sessions in visual arts, music, physical and health education and other subjects. This would require an investment of nearly four and half hours a day.
+As with the guidelines, the regulations also warn that schools that fail to prove that they provide an education substantially equivalent to that of public schools will lose all government funding for textbooks, food, busing and special education. Parents would be notified that their child faces truancy charges if they insist on continuing to send there.
+Regulations differ from the imposition of guidelines in two significant ways.
+Firstly, guidelines were portrayed by the department as a mere clarification to existing law. The court struck them down, ruling the list of new mandates required both of schools and the local school boards was too extensive to be considered existing law. The issuing of regulations, which came two days after the deadline to appeal the ruling came and went, recognizes that this is government adding to the citizens’ burden.
+Secondly, guidelines can be imposed unilaterally, without the need to tell the executive branch or get permission from the public. Regulations, however, must be filed with the secretary of state and require a comment period — usually 60 days — for the public to give their opinion. The state must also issue reports on how the regulation will impact the public and economy.
+The timing of the regulations’ release was questioned by some officials. It was sent out on a Friday afternoon, suggesting the Board of Regents that oversees the education department wanted a quiet news dump. The comment period runs through the summer and ends days before the next school year. Some questioned whether this was intended to depress the community’s response.
+The board resisted calls by several state senators to impose the regulations as an emergency measure, which would override the comment period and have them go into effect immediately. The emergency regulations, however, would have expired in three months, and it likely did not make sense to regents to impose them with the end of the school year weeks away.
+Along with the yeshivos, whose student population is the largest among the state’s nonpublic schools, the Catholic and independent schools are also affected by the regulations. They each filed separate lawsuits against the education department.
+The Catholics’ main argument was that the agency governing public schools has no right to oversee private schools since it essentially gives the public schools an edge against its competition. The yeshivos’ focused on the rights parents have to educate their children as they see fit.
+Agudah Leader: Proposed Regulations Appear ‘Very Problematic’
+Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zweibel, like others the Yated spoke with, did not appear optimistic that the unique process required for the regulations to go into force will slow the state down from the oversight of yeshivos and private schools.
+Rabbi Zweibel, executive vice president of Agudath Israel of America, said in an interview that there are currently internal discussions of how best to harness the power of the yeshivos’ parents and students to deliver the message to the education department.
+What do you read into their ignoring calls to impose emergency regulations that would take effect immediately?
+I was pleased at that. I think it would have been a travesty if they had enacted emergency regulations. It would have made no sense from a variety of fronts.
+Do you think they didn’t impose the emergency regulations because they realized they are just alienating the people they claim to be trying to help? Or do they just not buy into the contention that there is an emergency going on?
+I’d like to think it’s because they recognize that there is no basis for issuing an emergency regulation. An emergency regulation is meant for a situation of an emergency. And to interfere with a school system that’s been in place for many, many years and do so in a way which precludes public comments, would have been something that we’d probably challenged in court right away. And they probably realized that and came to the conclusion that they’d probably lose in court.
+The reason why I’m asking is — just to give you a hypothetical: Let’s say the public comment period opens and 200,000 comments flood in, showing wall to wall opposition to these regulations. Will they defy the public and push this through anyway, or are they forced to take the public comments into consideration?
+We could both speculate about that. It’s hard to know the answer. Certainly, in thinking about the strategy going forward, one of the tools in our kit that we can possibly pull out and use is to mobilize the strong grassroots in reaction to it.
+So this will be a topic of discussion that will be taking place internally amongst the askonim and roshei yeshiva and admorim and whoever else is involved in this before we develop a strategy. That strategy may include a massive grassroots outcry about the unacceptability of any of these regulations.
+We do believe that when there was a big outcry when the guidelines were published in November — we had a petition drive, we had other things — they were actually a very useful thing.
+Also, the timing of all this — we only have another few weeks left to the school year — and the official publication of this will not be until July 3, when people are out of school and on their summer vacations.
+Do you think they planned this timeline? The regulations are published just when people are going away for the summer and the 60-day comment period ends on Sept. 3, just when they’re returning home.
+The best answer I can tell you is, I don’t know.
+By the way, the fact that they decided not to go with imposing emergency regulations is not especially puzzling, because emergency regulations are only in place for 90 days. The 90 days would be from the beginning of June to the beginning of September, a time when the schools are closed. That may have also been a factor in their deciding not to go down that road.
+Have you met with Commissioner Elia since the court struck down the guidelines before Pesach?
+I have not met with her; I have communicated with her. Whether we will have a meeting in the days ahead — I hope we will, but I don’t know.
+She wrote in the press release on Friday that she’s had extensive discussions with stakeholders, including the private schools.
+Yes, those conversations did take place, not after the publication of the guidelines, but before their publication. And they went back for a couple of years, actually. All of that is true.
+To our chagrin, a lot of what we had hoped to see in those guidelines were not there, which led us to file a lawsuit. And again, to our chagrin, our first look at these proposed regulations suggests that they will be very problematic for us. If we’re not able to accomplish something through the official comment period, we may have no choice but to go back to court.
+How will this comment period work? Does the Board of Regents have to take them into consideration? Can they say “we know better” and ignore the public comments?
+Yes.
+What they typically do — and what I think will happen in this case also — is that they are going to present these regulations. We are going to have a certain amount of time to comment. My guess is that they will then publish a slightly revised version of the regulations to show that they are paying attention to one or two points in the comments and they will then allow another period of public comments on the second version.
+At the end of the day, as long as they allow for public input, and they acknowledge that the input was provided and that people were given the opportunity to be heard, they don’t need to adopt any of the recommendations and suggestions. They could just say that “we consider that this would be appropriate.” There’s a great deal of leeway they have to exercise their discretion to decide whether they will follow the comments or not.
+Were you in touch with all regents on the board?
+A letter was recently sent by Agudah, PEARLS and Torah Umesorah to the head of Board of Regents, Betty Rosa, and if I’m not mistaken, it was cc’ed to the other 16 regents.
+Based on what you know of the board, what are your feelings? This is an independent body that is answerable to nobody.
+They are answerable, in theory, to the Assembly which appoints them. The Board of Regents is a very powerful entity. But in theory, the governor — if he wanted to be helpful, he could be helpful. He doesn’t appoint members of the Board of Regents, but he does approve budget requests. So he definitely does have some influence over education policy through the power of the purse.
+So you have no idea how the board will end up voting on these regulations?
+I would say that on the board there is some diversity of opinion, yet at the same time, they are a big challenge for us. They will have to show that they’re “concerned” about the educational wellbeing of the children, including Jewish children who attend “Hassidic” schools. So there is some room at the margins for leniency, but it’s a difficult challenge.
+The nonpublic school sector has no representation on the board, right?
+No such thing.
+The most they have is the advisory council for nonpublic school education. And this council, of which I am a member, will be meeting with the commissioner the day after Shavuos. Based on what we see in this document, we anticipate that the regulations are likely to be problematic for the independent and Catholic schools as well. One of the positive factors from our perspective was that the entire nonpublic school community was upset at this and this is not just a Jewish issue.
+Attorney for Yeshivos Says Regulations ‘Carbon Copy’ of Rejected Guidelines
+Avi Schick, the attorney for yeshivos who successfully convinced a judge in April to reject the old guidelines, says that the new regulations are virtually the same and will also be rebuffed.
+Schick, who is a partner at the Troutman Sanders law firm, told the Yated that the agency “will find themselves in a fight” if they push ahead despite wall to wall opposition within the nonpublic school community.
+What happened this past week?
+The state education department did not appeal the ruling that struck down their guidelines. On Friday, they issued a press release announcing that they are going to propose regulations. The proposed regulations will be formally released a month from now, on July 3. But substantively, they are a carbon copy of the guidelines that were challenged by just about the entire private school community. So they are obviously unacceptable.
+What can we expect to see in the coming weeks?
+If the state education department continues down this path, they will find themselves in a fight. In a fight with the yeshiva community, in a fight with the Catholic school community and in a fight with the independent schools.
+For starters, proposed regulations must go through a public comment period. There is every reason to expect that SED (the state education department) will be inundated by comments from across the nonpublic school spectrum — schools, school leaders, yeshiva and other private school parents and graduates will be invited to express their opposition to the proposal. I would expect many, many thousands of comments to pour in, each pointing out how ill-advised these proposed regulations are.
+What is the role of the Board of Regents in all this?
+Regulations must be approved by the Board of Regents before they are adopted. There is reason to believe that the regents are not crazy about the commissioner’s proposed regulations. Early this week, there was a Board of Regents meeting, and there was some pushback among several regents who did not want the proposal to go forward at this time. At the end, it went forward only with the clarification that it is the commissioner’s proposal, not the Board of Regents. They will have to revisit the issue at some point, and they surely have not yet expressed their support for this proposal.
+Does the Board of Regents have any limitations in voting any way they want if the comments are heavily skewed toward a certain viewpoint?
+The state education department is supposed to respond to the comments that it receives. We will see if they actually take that obligation seriously.
+Up to this point, SED has not been very good about engaging with the private school community. It’s almost laughable — the cover memo to the proposed regulations says that they are the product of a two-year deliberative process. We already know that more than 1,000 private schools are so opposed to these regulations that they sued SED to prevent them from implementing them as guidelines. And in those lawsuits, the schools complained about the total lack of dialogue with SED.
+So, these proposed regulations are not part of any deliberative process. I’m hopeful that as the regents become educated about the substance of the proposed regulations and the process from which they emerged, they will begin to understand the source of the deep skepticism being expressed by the entire private school community.
+Do you have any idea about the makeup and leanings of the 17 members of the Board of Regents?
+They will likely be hearing over the next few weeks and months from large numbers of people on this issue. It’s our job to educate them. PEARLS, Agudah and Torah Umesorah reached out to every member of the Board of Regents a few weeks back asking to meet and discuss these issues. We are hopeful that they will respond affirmatively. I think this is something that is new to most of them. With siyatta dishmaya, there is a long way from a Friday afternoon press release to final regulations getting adopted and implemented.
+Do you have any idea how the public comments will actually happen? Will it be through online comments? A public hearing that people can attend?
+My assumption is the SED will attempt to minimize public engagement and interaction. They will try to avoid a public hearing. But there will be opportunities to submit public comments. It will be our job to organize our community and to make sure that the other communities are organized as well.
+The Catholic community is opposed to these regulations. The independent school community is opposed. If we are organized and speak out, that will send a message that these proposed regulations are ill-conceived, ill-advised and inappropriate, and that we are going to fight to protect the independence of our mosdos hachinuch and the autonomy of parents to choose the education their children receive.
+Can you give readers an idea as to what sort of organizing you’re planning?
+There will be multiple layers of organizing. First, to ensure that local schools reach out to their elected officials, making sure that every local legislator hears from their local yeshiva, is invited into their local yeshiva, meets their local yeshiva leaders.
+Second, we need to activate the tens of thousands of people who signed onto the petition expressing their opposition to the guidelines that were released last year. We will need to organize an effort to make it easy for those people to submit public comments. Our goal needs to be for every yeshiva parent and every yeshiva graduate to add their voice to the conversation and explain why the proposed regulations are misguided, why they emerged from ignorance and animus about yeshiva education.
+There are tens of thousands of successful yeshiva graduates in New York and elsewhere, and we will need them to add their voices to this effort. We are going to need the tens of thousands of parents who affirmatively choose a yeshiva education for their children, and sacrifice to make that choice a reality. They didn’t choose to have the government set the curriculum.
+We’re hopefully going to see thousands of comments put in, where people can talk about their yeshiva experience, about why these regulations will not work, about why they will impede the mission of yeshivos. When the voices of yeshiva graduates and parents and the schools and school leaders are heard, it will have iy”H an impact.
+As always, litigation is the last and least favored option. Everyone wants to avoid litigation. But we will use every tool available going forward — tools of hishtadlus, tools of dialogue, tools of public education — and hopefully we’ll succeed in explaining why this proposal should not be adopted. But if those efforts do not succeed, there is every reason to believe that the courts will be just as skeptical of these regulations as they were of the guidelines.
+One final question: Do you see the community united on this?
+Yes, absolutely.
+There has been a tremendous achdus among Klal Yisroel on this issue, with everyone working together toward a common goal. Litvishe roshei yeshiva, chassidishe admorim and baalei batim were and are united in the effort to prevent intrusive government regulation through which they assert control over large portions of the yeshiva school day.
+GAVIN RICH, writing in SA Rugby magazine, looks back at Eben Etzebeth’s rapid transformation from average schoolboy centre to Stormers’ second-row star.
+The day after the news of Rassie Erasmus’s resignation as Western Province senior professional coach broke, a gaggle of Cape journalists were gathered on the touchline of the Hermanus Primary School rugby field, watching the Stormers sweat in the mid-January heat.
+It says something for Eben Etzebeth’s physique that he was able to deflect the conversation away from the Erasmus saga.
+‘Hey, who the hell is that monster? That one over there, the one who looks like a superhero?’ asked one hack.
+It didn’t require more than a second glance to recognise the big fellow as one of the stars of the UCT Varsity Cup triumph from the previous year. But, perhaps because Etzebeth was wearing a vest, or maybe because injury had prevented him from playing more than a bit part in the WP U21 campaign in 2011, it did look at that first sighting of 2012 as though he had bulked up considerably.
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+‘Superhero would be a good description of him; he does have an amazingly proportioned physique,’ agrees WP U21 coach John Dobson. ‘In fact, his biceps are something of a talking point around him. They’re massive and when we have fines meetings we make him show them off as a party trick. He is just ridiculously strong.’
+Indeed, and a few days later he was reminding us that he could play a bit too.
+His first game for the Stormers was the pre-season friendly against Boland in Wellington, and the force with which he hit the rucks bolstered the impression that the Stormers had indeed uncovered a superhero.
+Among the memorable early Etzebeth moments was when he drove a Lions player back several metres in the pre-season game at Newlands, something which by the time Super Rugby had arrived was becoming a regular occurrence. Few young locks have smashed their way as emphatically into the frame in their first season as Etzebeth has.
+‘It was incredible to watch Eben make his debut for the Stormers; he had absolutely no trouble making the step up and it was as if he had been there for years,’ says Steph Nel, who was responsible for guiding Etzebeth through his year at the WP Rugby Institute in 2010. ‘It was a huge debut and he was such a presence on the field that it was hard to believe he had undergone an almost overnight transformation from age-group player to Super Rugby star.’
+It is fairly well known that Etzebeth is a member of the Etzebeth clan that became part of WP rugby folklore in a previous era. Eben’s uncles Cliffie and Skattie were responsible for terrorising many an opposing player and there is seldom a rugby gathering in the Cape where at least one story about the exploits of the legendary tough men is not told.
+But growing up in Goodwood and attending one of the less fashionable schools had its drawbacks, and had it not been for former Springbok lock Hennie Bekker spotting Etzebeth’s giant form while helping out at a training session at Tygerberg High in 2008, the Stormers would not now be benefiting from Etzebeth’s thunderous contributions.
+‘I was preparing to coach the Tygerberg 1st XV when I saw this massive bloke running on the other field with the B or C team,’ recalls Bekker, who is in charge of WP’s youth development and the general manager at their School of Excellence. ’I was told he was one of the Etzebeths. I was immediately interested, particularly because he was such a massive physical specimen. But he was playing centre, and had also played wing. He was just messing around in the backline. He didn’t appear to be taking his rugby particularly seriously. He seemed to enjoy the game without having any expectation.
+‘I called him over and we had a chat. I invited him to attend my WP elite squad training sessions. He was in Grade 11 at the time. I told him he had to make a pact with me that he would work really hard, otherwise he would just be wasting my time. I also told him he would have to switch to lock and that would be the only position he would play from then on.’
+Etzebeth made the promise and Bekker reckons he more than delivered on it.
+‘I was immediately impressed with his dedication. He seemed determined to make something out of the opportunity he was being offered. There was no doubt from the outset that he had immense raw promise,’ recalls Bekker. ‘He had all the attributes for a lock in terms of strength, but he was also very skilful, probably because he started out playing in the backs. For a big guy he was surprisingly athletic. Most importantly, there was a hardness that I liked.’
+Given the reputation built up by his uncles in their years playing club rugby in the province, it would be understandable if there was an expectation that the young Etzebeth would be a chip off the old block. Jacques Hanekom, chief executive of the WP Rugby Institute, has detected that there is a tendency for people to assume that Etzebeth will be a wild man.
+‘People expect him to be a loose cannon but that is not the case at all. When he was at the institute we had no problems with him on or off the field,’ says Hanekom. ‘In actual fact he’s quite calculated on the field. He thinks about what he is doing; he has the right mixture of calculation and aggression. I don’t foresee him becoming like Bakkies Botha in terms of running into disciplinary problems later on in his career.
+‘When he was with us he was a reserved kid, you could almost say he was quite shy, but he was extremely focused and dedicated. When a kid comes to us he has to tick certain boxes related to performance and attitude on and off the field. Eben ticked them all. We knew we were working with the full Monty.’
+Bekker concurs with Hanekom’s view, saying that he is sure Etzebeth will be one of those who keeps his feet on the ground regardless of how quickly he progresses through the ranks.
+‘In his matric year he played for WP Schools. That was 2009, just one year after he was moved to lock. But through that he remained very level-headed, and he knows his progress has been down to sheer hard work. When he was injured last year he worked hard on bulking up, and this year we are seeing the results.’
+One of his uncles, Allie, remembers Eben as a sports-mad kid who through his years at Goodwood Park Primary School and later at Tygerberg always seemed to have a ball in his hand and was constantly playing or practising sport.
+‘He was a good athlete, excelling in the 100m and 200m, but rugby was always a big passion in the family after what Cliffie and Skattie achieved as players,’ says Allie.
+‘He was really fast for a big guy, and that was why he played centre and wing for most of his school career. He was one heck of a difficult guy to stop when he had the ball in his hand. He was always such a pleasant kid too, and he has a real soft heart. The Bulls and the Sharks were keen to get him to sign with them. They made good offers, but Eben decided he wanted to stay in Cape Town and look after his mom.’
+When Etzebeth attended the WP Rugby Institute he was part of what Nel called the institution’s master class.
+‘I remember saying once before that Francois Hougaard was the cream of what we produced in terms of natural attributes and professional attitude. But in 2010 we had several players who were all in the same category as Hougaard,’ says Nel.
+‘Eben, Siya Kolisi, Frans Malherbe, Nizaam Carr, Scarra Ntubeni … we had a phenomenal pack of forwards and they all have something special about them. Eben still had to mature but he had fantastic results in all the tests we conducted on him. The only problem I can recall is that he was just so damn big that it was impossible for the other guys to pick him up in the lineouts.’
+Funnily enough, Etzebeth’s size has been responsible for the one small headache that his elevation to Super Rugby has caused for Stormers forward coach Matt Proudfoot.
+‘I’ve had to work with Eben on a few things at scrum time as it is never easy to get a guy who stands over 2m tall to fit easily into a scrum unit. He has a lot of body that needs to be put into position,’ says Proudfoot.
+But that small problem aside, you won’t hear Proudfoot complaining about the size in the Stormers second row, where Andries Bekker also stands over 2m tall. Proudfoot sees the ease with which Etzebeth has adapted to senior rugby as a triumph for the systems that have been put in place at WP since 2008.
+‘Eben has been coming to the High Performance Centre for quite a while now so it’s not a new environment for him and it has helped him fit comfortably into the top team.’
+Proudfoot sounded an ominous warning to future Etzebeth opponents who might think they were seeing anything close to the finished product.
+‘There is so much more he still has to show us. For a start we haven’t really had to use him in the lineout. He is an outstanding lineout forward and when there is a game when Duane [Vermeulen] and Andries are shut down we will see the full extent of his repertoire. He is also going to come more into his own as a ball-carrier. He is an awesome athlete.
+‘He’s growing in confidence, which is the result of being backed in the pre-season and playing in all the warm-up games. As a young player he had to be physically up to the challenge. He went through that barrier and it enabled him to prove to himself that he could not only survive at senior level but also excel there. One of the great things about him is that he is proactive in his decision-making.’
+Etzebeth has played all his rugby for the Stormers as what old-timers would call a front lock, but he played his junior rugby in the No 5 jersey.
+‘He can play No 4 and No 5, but he is not a light jolly jumper-type player that has become the norm in modern rugby,’ says Dobson. ‘Matt is working hard on getting him to be a fusion of the two. Not many locks can be both. Eben is not as dirty as some locks who fulfil the role he does but he is also no angel. Let’s put it this way, I wouldn’t like to cross him on the field. In fact, I wouldn’t play against him at all. He’s scary.’
+– This article first appeared in the May issue of SA Rugby magazine.
+tv KPIX 5 News at 11pm CBS March 25, 2015 11:00pm-11:36pm PDT
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+>> live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. >> breaking news, this bay area woman says she was blindfolds, bound, and snatched in the middle of the night. tonight, police say it was all a hoax. >> denise huskins was reported missing from vallejo monday. she turned up more than 400 miles away. andria borba is in vallejo tonight. this is a bizarre story. >> reporter: well ken, it has gotten stranger by the hour out here, when denise huskins turned up in orange county, she initially agreed to talk to investigators, but then she clammed up and so did her
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+family. >> if you can imagine devoting all of our resources 24 hours a day. what i would classify as a wild goose chase. >> reporter: the kidnapping for ransom story began to fall apart quickly after denise was located near her parent's house in huntington beach. the news she was safe led to tears and hugs of family members in the bay area. >> she was safe, uninjured. it was a best case scenarios. >> reporter: but investigators are saying the details do not add up. >> none of the claims have been sub stanchlated. >> reporter: the red flag, her boyfriend not calling the police for 11 hours. and we learned the ransom demand was a random $8,500. there was a proof of life audio tape huskins supposedly made
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+while in captivity. >> my name is denise huskins. >> reporter: after promising to cooperate this morning, she has now lawyered up. she and family members are no longer talking to vallejo police investigators. in all, 40 detectives and 100 support personnel spent hours on the case. now, police say it was all for nothing. >> that is a tremendous amount of resources that in my opinion was wasted. i can sit here and apologize for all of us being regarded with our information. but i can tell you in the grand scheme of things, mr. quinn and ms. huskins have plundered valuable resources away from our community while instilling fear among our community members so if anything, it is mr. quinn and ms. huskins that owes this community an apology. >> reporter: now investigators say they still have a lot of questions in this case.
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+two vallejo detectives are in huntington beach hoping to talk to ms. huskins. as for she and her boyfriend, they could face federal and state charges if this turns out to be a complete hoax as is believed by investigators at this point. we are told the fbi is looking to get a pin on why that $8,500 mark of the alleged ransom was released at that point. we still have a lot of questions in this case. vallejo detectives say they are far from over looking into this investigation. their there are multiple things that need to be looked into. live in vallejo, andria borba, kpix5. a solemn absolute in san jose tonight. fellow officers pay respects to one of their own. veteran officer michael johnson shot and killed in the line of duty. >> maria medina with some new details on how officer johnson was led into what turned out to be a deadly ambush. maria? >> reporter: and that is where
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+scott dunham was standing when he fired on the officers. while we are learning more about what happened here, we may never know why. a source says scott dunham was found with a 30. 30 caliber high powered rifle, likely the one used to shoot michael johnson. we learned johnson was part of a handful of officers who responded to his top floor apartment on center after his daughter called to report her dad was threatening to kill his wife and himself. police, knowing he may be armed took their rifles out. while some officers set up a perimeter on one part of the apartment, johnson stood several yards from the suspect's balcony where dunham came out to fire the fatal shot. just to show you why the suspect likely had a better vantage personal injury, this is a similar view of what he was looking at. johnson and another officer had their rifles out and were behind their patrol cars when johnson was shot. all officers on duty responded to the scene including others from a nearby agency.
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+officers went through kalim's wall to make sure dunham was no longer a threat. >> you can't force it down somebody's throat to get help. >> reporter: the suspect's family knew he needed help, but several of his neighbors said he was friendly and never showed a sign of violence. he was later found dead on his balcony. one of the officers with johnson shot and killed him. >> what we learned is that the courageous work of officers on the scene may well have saved other lives. >> reporter: and you can see a growing memorial here for officer johnson. meantime, we spoke to a couple of neighbors who said scott dunham would wave to him. he was talkative. soft spoken. one woman says it sounds cliche, but her neighbor was a nice guy. maria medina, kpix5. we are getting an yours truly of what id was like for officers arriving on scenes at last night's shooting. ann notarangelo on those
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+chaotic minutes. >> he came out onto the balcony. >> male out on the balcony. >> gray hair. gray mustache. and black t-shirt. >> reporter: about 12 minutes after spotting scott dunham outside his san jose apartment, the first report said officer michael johnson has been shot. >> officer down. >> copy, officer down, officer down. >> reporter: nearly 15 minutes goes by and reports of more gunfire and the call to secure the area. >> we have multiple shots being fired. we are going to need vehicles asap. >> reporter: at this point, police called for an ambulance. nearly 45 minutes goes by for confirmation. >> officer is 1055. >> officer 1055. >> reporter: 1055 is code for send the coroner. soon after, dispatch gets word that dunham may also have been shot. >> shots fired both ways.
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+officer down. 1055. suspect has rounds, possibly went down as well. >> reporter: the recording continues as police search for the suspect. they are warned there could be all kinds of ammo inside the apartment. at one point, people outside are considered in the line of fire and roads are closed. ann notarangelo, kpix5. officers from across the country and around the bay area are paying their respects tonight. officer johnson's colleagues hugged his family members as his casket was moved from the coroner's office to a funeral home in los gatos. these police officers even got on top of a fire truck to salute. tonight, flags across the city of san jose are at half staff. people have been leaving flowers, paying their condolences outside police headquarters all day long at a growing memorial. a fremont officer even left a badge on many by bouquet.
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+>> officer michael johnson joined the force in 2001. he is survived by his wife nicole. kpix5's mark kelly spoke with a sergeant who knew him well. >> reporter: sergeant paul kelly remembers fondly the most recent to die last night. >> mike was one of the quiet ones. >> reporter: of quiet confidence. that is how colleagues remember officer michael johnson. about one year ago, he was promoted to field training ops. his duty, show new officers the ropes. >> what he loved was being a police officer. and teaching these young guys and gals coming in what he knew. >> reporter: kelly would know. he was johnson's supervisor and teacher nearly a dozen years ago and saw a good listener with a soft spot for the city he served. >> that was not mike putting up a front. you know. that was mike being mike and being the cop he knew how to be. >> reporter: the zartucci
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+family never knew johnson personally, but putting his life on the line, they know he cared. >> that's a brave man. that is a man that cares about nerves. for that, i respect and i say i love him for that. and i thank god that we have officers like that in this world. >> reporter: officers tell me the focus now is on officer johnson's family and helping them to heal. in san jose, mark kelly, kpix5. and tonight, san jose police changed their website to this tribute to officer johnson. badge number 3718. well stay with kpix5 for continuing coverage of this story on air and on kpix.com. tonight, it is all up to the jury. did silicon valley's biggest venture capital firm discriminate against a employee because she was a woman or was she not as qualified? our phil matier says whatever the outcome, the case is having an impact on the bay area.
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+>> there are lots of facts and pouts. >> pout. >> was she being punished being too feminine or not feminine enough? >> reporter: lawyers had their final say before the jury. >> gender issues in silicon valley have been a secret too long. this is opening up the underbelly of the venture capital world. it is more segregated than the high-tech world. >> reporter: suddenly, the question of sex discrimination has gone high-tech. >> there is a case this week filed against facebook. a class action against twitter. all gender claims. around 73% of the employees in silicon valley high-tech companies are male leaving a pretty big hurdle for women employees. >> reporter: as for the case itself? >> both sides needed to do, did what they had to do. that means when you are raising
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+at a 50/50 level. just slight tip towards her. >> this is a ground-breaking moment for silicon valley and how the world sees it and how it can reform itself. >> and i think it is going after that sacred cow that everything, the high-tech companies do is great. >> reporter: phil matier, kpix5. >> ellen pau is suing cliner perkins for 16 million in lost wages and earnings and potentially million more in punitive damages. a video from a terminally ill california woman who traveled to oregon to end her life. brittany maynard's family is pushing for a death with dignity law in california. >> i'm heartbroken i had to leave behind my friends, family, and community in california. but i am dying and i refuse to lose my dignity. i refuse to subject myself and my family to purposely proamonged pain and suffering
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+at the hands of an incurable disease. >> the video was shown about an aid in dying bill. it is only allowed in five states so far. a mysterious twist in that plane crash in the alps. word that one of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit. >> this bay area woman says a jogger kicked her pet pug and killed it. tonight, why police say he may have had a ♪ ♪ ♪
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+a twister tore through at least 50 mobile homes. and tipped tractor trailers and trucks onto their side. take a look at some of the aftermath tonight on social media. roofs torn completely off. wood and metal littering the streets. you can see it left this woman's kitchen a complete mess. the tornado sheered this power line in half and damaged businesses nearby. why did a plane suddenly plummet out of the sky? reporter bobby cable tonight on the bizarre twist into the investigation in the plane crash in the alps. >> it is a disturbing development. >> reporter: cbs news aviation expert reacting to the surprising report from the new york times saying one of the pilots in the germanwings crash was locked out of the cockpit leaving only one pilot alone in the cockpit several minutes while the plane descended and crashed into the french alps. could it have been deliberate? >> that is one of the
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+disturbing possibilities that must be considered. >> reporter: the pilot who was locked out could be heard on the cockpit voice recorder trying to gently knock at first, but then frantically trying to smash the door down. >> incapacitation could be on the table. however, this conversation of the shouting and the knocking went on for some period of time. at some point, it would make it for difficult for that to continue. >> reporter: in the u.s., post 9/11, a second person is always required to be in the cockpit when the pilot leaves but in other countries, that is simply a recommendation. >> in the united states, it is protocol that two people remain in the cockpit. that may not have been done in this case. >> reporter: now 150 people were killed in that crash. among them six crew members an three americans. bobby cable, kpix5. >> emily selkie was one of the three americans who died. they were in europe for a
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+mother daughter vacation. a woman wants justice after she says a jogger kicked her dog and killed it. da lin on why that man may not face any charges. >> every morning, every night, i miss her. >> reporter: dog owner stephanie is still heartbroken. five days after losing her pup named nefan. >> she was a sweet innocent little girl. >> reporter: a jogger viciously and intentionally attacked her two-year-old dog. >> 14 pounds. she was nine inches off the ground and he was over six feet tall. >> reporter: it happened saturday morning. she walked her and her other pug mushu. a jogger ran in the opposite direction. the dog ran up alongside the jogger. lisi says that is when the jogger hit the pug once in the head killing her instantly. >> she was lying still on the ground with her legs stiff. i ran to her and her eyes were rolled back in her head. she wasn't moving and he kept running. he kept running away.
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+i had to scream for him to stop. >> reporter: the jogger told police he was scared and only lightly tapped on the dog to get tout go away. >> there was no intent. they didn't make an arrest at the scene of the crime. >> reporter: animal control reports a small dog bit the man in 2012. lisi said her little pug showed no aggression and was friendly. all she can hold onto now is her pink collar. she wants justice. >> he has taken something from me that is precious. that i can't ever have back. >> reporter: da lin, kpix5. >> animal control officers tonight are taking care of a bear wondering through a neighborhood in tracey. they wrapped its head to protect the animal. a car hit the bear and then it climbed the tree. they used a tarp to catch the animal after it was tranquilized. a crowd came out to watch and
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+cheered as they made the catch. the bear is okay and will be released into the mountains. >> a close call. >> yeah. not really close at all today. we weren't getting any rain. >> no, sometimes there is a minimal chance. it is to our north. it is in vancouver, british columbia. which, by the way, is still to our north. to is redding. >> geography lessons coming up tomorrow. the northwest territories is up there, too. so is the north pole. as ken just pointed out. we are clear outside at san bruno. we are seeing a clear mild night tomorrow. we are going to set a record high in san jose when we get to 84 degrees. remember that. we are talking record heat as soon as tomorrow. and 0 chance of rain. vallejo tonight, 51. fremont, 51. san francisco, 54. you will start your morning in san jose. 52 degrees. record heat here and also, in the sierra. forget about snow.
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+any snow left will melt with 66 degrees tomorrow. at lake level. 69 degrees coming up on friday. very warm. even in the sierra. big ridge of high pressure. sometimes talk about that rain, no rain line. how close does the rainfall get. it was just to our north, 48 hours ago. no chance now. look where the rain no rain line is. up toward seattle headed toward vancouver. the ridge is here. it is strong. it is getting closer tomorrow. getting stronger tomorrow. tomorrow will be the warmest day as that ridge flexes its muscles and cuts off any influence from the ocean. now that the land is warming up, 80s and 90s to the east, it is time to talk about the wind direction. if it is coming from the motion which is 50s and 60s , it will cool us off. this is a change. a little bit of an ocean influence. saturday, significantly cooler. if you don't like it warm, just get through one day tomorrow and we will cool down. but we will be toasty tomorrow. plenty of sunshine. temperatures dropping as we
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+head toward the weekend. look at the highs tomorrow. the record high, san jose, 17 degrees above average. palo alto, 83. san ramon, 80. 77 sonoma. 82, clear lake, 81 degrees. extended forecast, a couple of degrees cooler friday. look at the change saturday. morning clouds, 60s and 70s highs. and we will stay dry each day for the next week. zero rainfall the next seven days.
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+with sleep train's most popular stearns & foster mattresses. the triple choice sale ends sunday at sleep train. ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >> swallowed by a sink hole. check this out. dirt road opens up after a day of heavy rain and gobbles up a bus. and watch this. it pops out of a nearby river. luckily, everybody in the bus escaped. that is the last they saw of it. bye bye bus. car crashes are the leading cause of death for american teenagers. >> a triple a study found out tonight says distracted driving plays a bigger role than we thought we knew. the group analyzed 1700 teen accidents. all of them caught on camera.
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+watch them get so focused elsewhere they end up veering off the road without realizing what is happening. based on this information, they figured 58% of teenage accidents are caused by distraction. that is four times the estimate of 14% by the government. >> and i have a 16-year-old. a pitch their comes at you both arms and big shots. or was it? for the right to play stanford
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+>> college basketball up top. the eve of sweet 16 for the men. four games thursday, two, here on kpix5. one of the other teams was in action. today, an embarrassing moment for one badger to learn the hard way. one of the first rules of broadcasting. the mic is always on. >> gosh, she's beautiful. [ laughter ]
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+>> did you hear that? >> okay, yeah. [ laughter ] >> questions for the student athlete. [ laughter ] >> old dominion, tied with murray state for the right to face stanford. here we go. >> he's got a shot! oh my gosh! oh my gosh! >> the long buzzer beater. and old dominion advances to the mit semifinals. stanford is next on fuse. by the way, the stanford women left for their round of sweet 16. they will face notre dame friday. baseball. you want to see something cool? not everyday you see an ambidextrous pitcher. this is as righty and lefty pat vindetti. for a pitcher who throws with
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+both arms, his workload can be complicated for manager bob melvin. >> you have to put together his workday. and put it together for two different pitchers. throw a side session left- handed. i was joking he gave me vertigo the other way. i walked out a little bit dizzy. >> now depending on your demographic, there have been some great baseball movies. field of dreams, eight men out. the yankees took some production time this spring. >> sand lot. >> yes. to create another popular one, the sand lot. >> you went home and signed the ball by babe ruth and actually played with it? actually played with it? >> yeah, but i was going to bring it back. >> but it was signed by babe ruth. >> yeah, you keep telling me that, but who is she? >> what?
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+This week, Sean Witzke examines the latest developments in the Breaking Bad franchise, while Tucker watches Hell's Kitchen again.
+Breaking Bad - "Abiquiu"
+Sean Witzke
+Flashback to Jesse and Jane, discussing Georgia O'Keefe. Jane is still terrible.
+Jesse in his happy, bitchy-but-fun flashback just shows how sociopathic Jesse post-Jane-dying, post-Hank-kicking-the-shit-out-him can be. If the two guys in a room episode last week was about Walt losing it, maybe it was as much reminding us why we love Jesse. Because this week, Jesse goes down the road to being despicable. Calling back to Jane is great, especially when Jesse starts reciting Jane's bullshit to his new girl to convince her to buy some meth from him. Jesse's idea of Jane is completely backwards from the manipulative junkie mentality we saw her exhibit, and this episode we get to see the girl Jesse loved. Jesse's idea of obsession versus her idea of obsession are completely different things, tying back into how Jesse took half an episode to figure out what Walt was doing last week.
+Turns out that this girl's brother killed Combo, so... well thanks kid, I hated Combo. But yeah, circle of endless cause and effect violence on this show is starting to become a lot scarier and more filmic with every new episode. Shit that Jesse and Walt did a long, long time ago is still lingering around them, having much worse consequences than they originally thought.
+Hank versus Marie, yay this show gets extra awesome once again. Hank is getting angrier and angrier, Marie is trying to fix everything before it happens. The loving moment between Hank and Marie that happened right before the shit went down, we're not going to see that any time soon.
+Walt doesn't show up until 15 minutes into the episode, and even then they delay showing his face. Walt and Skyler are shot Pacino/Denio in Heat style, completely existing in opposite universes for a while, even divided in wide shot by two window frames. They don't exist with each other at all, and then suddenly they do, and Skylar is suddenly all in on being corrupted and okay with what Walt does. Later when they're in the car together, the Heat style neither of them in frame together thing happens again, this time implying that Walt is still not connecting with Skylar. He tells her the last thing he's been keeping, that he's still dealing, and Skylar barely even lets it register. Skylar is completely corrupted now, and that's going to be a thing for the rest of the season. Considering how morally compromised she's been this season, it'd be hard to imagine anyone cares.
+Saul Goodman's waiting room is hell, and I love that so goddamn much. Saul Goodman is my favorite character on television, and is in high ranking of best characters on tv in a long ass time. Saul is up there with Stringer Bell, The Monarch, and Dan Dority. Saul's money-laundering speech from a little while back turns out to be something he knows by rote. Saul as a businessman is very honest about how sleazy and shitty a person he is. Basically, if you pay Saul exactly what he wants, he'll back you up forever. Saul is exactly the guy you want to know if you do some shit, and Skylar might be right in this instance, but if she's going to piss Saul off - well, she gotta go. "It adds up perfectly. Walt's a scientist, scientists love lasers." / Ice Station Zebra Associates. How can you not love this guy?
+In the end, the window / two characters never interact in the same space thing comes back when Walt and Gus eat their meal together. Business/family/marriage - the lines are blurring for Walt in really uncomfortable way. The way he's acting, his life straightening out is an unexpected devlopment. Well, straightening out isn't the exact right phrase, Walt is just getting further and further invested, to the point where there's no longer a cut and run option on the table. He's in it now, and from the next ep trailer, Jesse's gonna bring it down on top of his head.
+Hell's Kitchen - "Sixteen Chefs Compete"
+Tucker Stone
+I thought I was done with Gordon Ramsay. Having watched the original fly on the wall documetary stuff (which is great), then the F-Word (which is okay for ten minutes), then about 8,000 other shows, I broke the habit by force sometime early in the last season of this show. (Or maybe two seasons ago. I was out, brother.)
+And yet, here I am again, dosing up on Hell's Kitchen one more time. What gives?
+Weariness has something to do with it, that's for sure. The last few years of television have been a bit of a personal golden age with The Wire, The Shield, those first two seasons of Deadwood, The Thick of It, Tim & Eric Awesome Show and Spooks all working together to give me a newly born respect for the quality that television can achieve. With a few notable exceptions--Breaking Bad & Generation Kill--I've found myself plenty bored with everything else, and I'm only willing to let some of the blame for that rest on my general tendency to dislike things just because socially retarded babymen enjoy them. But the last few months--i'd date it as being around the conclusion of Thick of It--television started tounging my inner thigh, no matter how many times I mumbled "the balls, you dipshit." Lost? I saw enough of that to know that it was printed on sheets called "not for me", and watching the last nine minutes cemented the general feeling that it was goobedlygook fantasy bullshit, the equivalent of cold oatmeal strained through steel wool. Treme is even less intriguing than the original previews warned it would be, a show that looks and behaves like Keenan Ivory Wayans should be popping out of a baby carriage screaming "message" every time Steve Zahn raps out another of his "c'mon..." sentences. Shows like 24 and the Bad Girls Club fumbled around on emergency room tables, pleading for death while their producers called for prosthetic limbs.
+But then, of course, there's reality television. It was never supposed to be good, it's always been direct and open about its compulsions towards rewarding the viewer while pumping up advertising dollars. I'm the worst kind of viewer for these sorts of shows, in that I'm the exact stereotype that Charlie Brooker warned us about, the sarcastic shithead who spits out a nonstop froth of excrement and cruelty for the enjoyment of myself, cursing and ridiculing the wanna-be pseudo celebrities who populate the casts of these things because I'm too lazy to effect any substantive change in my own life, but smart enough to know that "being creative instead" is as navel-gazingly useless as consistent religious belief . My main interest in watching these shows is finding out whatever personal tragedy the "castmates" have experienced, so that I can later blame said tragedy on their inability to accomplish simple tasks. (You burned the risotto again? Maybe its because you couldn't keep your father from succumbing to rectal cancer, you semen-encrusted fuckmagnet.)
+This latest season of Hell's Kitchen looks to be a pleasant offering of the exact same thing it always delivers. There's been some cosmetic changes to the dorms, the elderly bat-faced woman who used to help has been replaced by a mute blond with the body of a Jewish 1920's movie producer, but the show itself is the same as ever. People have egos, Gordon Ramsay has power over them, all of them are consistent in their ability to make "I'm shocked" faces whenever he calls them horrible, bleeped-out names, and the dining room is packed to the brim with the sourpuss sneers of failed models and mp3 rappers. The food is the same as ever--scallops! that beef thing in the bread that nobody can make correctly! risotto!--and so is the drama, with the teeming cast overpowering any chances of interesting human interaction. There's a guy with a funny accent, a lemon-faced woman who is probably going to pull out the religious persecution card if people keep ignoring the experience she gained by working in kitchens at the age of 14, a pretty black girl who has already happily claimed she is "proud to be called a bitch", and, in a Hell's Kitchen first, a psychopathic farmer obsessed with butchering animals who hopes to use the prize money to purchase two walk-in coolers. You know, for the carcasses of dead animals. His dead animals.
+I'll be on board for now, sure. At least until they get closer to the end, when the show will turn into a non-stop whinefest where all of the single mom contestants cry into the camera about how they deserve to win so that they can prove to the world...something, nobody has ever explained that lesson in a way I could understand, but decades of these shows must have taught us whatever it was by now, if, in fact, it ever was going to. MESSAGE!
+-Sean Witzke, Tucker Stone, 2010
+I've never even heard of The Thick of It, and I wasn't really captivated by Deadwood like everyone else was, but everything else you mentioned was top flight television. I'd add the Boondocks to that list, too.
+I like Kitchen Nightmares better than Hell's Kitchen because it's fun to root for or against a restaurant making it rather than opening my own restaurant and having a horse in the race.
+Posted by: Kenny Cather | 2010.06.02 at 09:10
+I was considering covering that awful-looking True Beauty show, just to subject myself to some apparently stupid reality TV and see if I could write anything interesting about it, but I guess I missed it on Monday. Eh, maybe next week.
+Posted by: Matthew J. Brady | 2010.06.02 at 09:39
+True Beauty--is that the Tyra show?
+Kenny-you should watch The Thick of It. That show was (is?) incredibly good.
+Posted by: Tucker Stone | 2010.06.02 at 09:48
+MJB - If you cover True Beauty, you have to promise to refer to its Tyra/Ashton Kutcher producing team as Tyrash.
+Posted by: Marty | 2010.06.02 at 15:22
+Damn, I think you guys sold me. I actually watched it on Hulu (for some reason), and there's plenty to write about, for at least one installment. How to express the revulsion and bewilderment I'm feeling?
+Posted by: Matthew J. Brady | 2010.06.02 at 22:57
+BY ADEWUYI, SOFIAT ADEDAMOLA G2016/MSC/MCB/FT/004 SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES,UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT,IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OFMASTEROF SCIENCE DEGREE IN PATHOGENIC MICROBIOLOGY. MARCH,2018 CONTENT TABLE OF CONTENT.2 CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF STUDY5 CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Hepatitis B virus8 2.1.1 Hepatitis B virus infection..8 2.1.2 HBV genome..9 2.1.3 Structural proteins10 2.1.4 Non structural proteins11 2.1.5 Genotypes and serotypes12 2.1.6 HBV replication14 2.1.7 Immune response to HBV.14 2.1.8 Infectious dose…16 2.1.9 Signs and symptoms17 2.1.10 Transmission18 2.1.11 Diagnosis of HBV.20 2.1.12 Epidemiology21 2.2 Syphilis23 2.2.1 Syphilis infection23 2.2.2 Signs and symptoms24 2.2.3 Aetiology27 2.2.4 Transmision28 2.2.5 Diagnosis28 2.2.6 Preventive measures30 2.2.7 Epidemiology31 2.3 Blood Transfusion32 2.3.1 Classification of blood donors in Nigeria.32 2.3.2 World Health Organisation (WHO) and National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) standard of blood transfusion34 2.3.3 Risk factors of blood transfusion36 2.3.4 Prevalence of HBVand syphilis among blood donors (REVIEW) 37 2.3.5 Syphilis and screening of blood donation41 CHAPTER 3 MATERIALS AND METHOD 3.1 Study design and setting44 3.2 Study population44 3.3 Sample collection44 3.4 Hepatitis B surface antigen44 3.5 Syphilis serology45 REFERENCES.46 CHAPTERs Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a noncytopathic, hepatotropic virus of the Hepadnaviridae family that causes variable degrees of liver disease in humans. Infection with HBV can be either acute or chronic while adult infections have a relatively low rate of chronicity (around 5), neonatal infections usually have a high persistence rate (McMahon, 2010). Hepatitis B is an HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_disease o Infectious diseaseinfectious disease caused by the HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis_B_virus o Hepatitis B virushepatitis B virus (HBV) that affects the HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver o Liverliver (WHO,2014). It can cause both acute and HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_infection o Chronic infectionchronic infections (WHO,2014). Many people have no symptoms during the initial infection. Some develop a rapid onset of sickness with vomiting, HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaundice o Jaundiceyellowish skin, HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_(medicine) o Fatigue (medicine)tiredness, dark urine and HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdominal_pain o Abdominal painabdominal HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileHBV_Genome.svg The genome organisation of HBV. The genes overlap. (Hbschen et al., 2008, Cooksley, 2010, Kramvis, 2014, Pourkarim et al., 2014, Kramvis, 2016, HbHepadnaviridae https//and 104genome equivalents (GE) of HBV cleared the virus within 830 weeks after its first detection, in a virus dose-related fashion similar to what we have previously observed in several other animals that had been inoculated with 108GE HBV (Thimme et al., 2003). In contrast, both of the animals that were inoculated with 101GEand 101GE within which the host-virus dynamics favor persistent infections, while higher doses favor viral clearance. Importantly, viral clearance was heralded by early CD4T cell priming either before or at the onset of detectable viral spread, and it coincided with a sharply synchronized influx of HBV-specific CD8TT 110 of HBV-infected people and include HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serum-sicknessE28093like_syndrome o Serum-sicknesslike syndromeserum-sicknesslike syndrome, HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_necrotizing_vasculitis o Acute necrotizing vasculitisacute necrotizing vasculitis ( HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyarteritis_nodosa o Polyarteritis nodosa polyarteritis nodosa), membranous glomerulonephritis, and HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papular_acrodermatitis_of_childhood o Papular acrodermatitis of childhoodpapular acrodermatitis of childhood ( HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GianottiE28093Crosti_syndrome o GianottiCrosti syndrome GianottiCrosti syndrome) (Trepo and Guillevin , 2001). The clinical features are fever, HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_rash o Skin rashskin rash, and HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyarteritis o Polyarteritispolyarteritis. The symptoms often subside shortly after the onset of jaundice but can persist throughout the duration of acute hepatitis B (Liang, 2009). Membranous glomerulonephritis is the most common form (Liang, 2009) Other immune-mediated HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hematological o Hematologicalhematological disorders, such as essential mixed HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryoglobulinemia o Cryoglobulinemiacryoglobulinemia and HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aplastic_anemia o Aplastic anemiaa Chronic infection with hepatitis B virus either may be asymptomatic or may be associated with a chronic inflammation of the liver (chronic hepatitis), leading to HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrhosis o Cirrhosiscirrhosis over a period of several years. This type of infection dramatically increases the incidence of HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatocellular_carcinoma o Hepatocellular carcinomahepatocellular carcinoma (HCC liver cancer). Across Europe, hepatitis B and C cause approximately 50 of hepatocellular carcinomas (El-Serag and Rudolph, 2007, El-Serag, 2011) Chronic carriers are encouraged to avoid consuming HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol o Alcoholalcohol as it increases their risk for HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrhosis o Cirrhosiscirrhosis and liver cancer. Hepatitis B virus has been linked to the development of HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membranous_glomerulonephritis o Membranous glomerulonephritismembr HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_intercourse o Sexual intercoursesexual contact, (Fairley and Read, 2012) HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_transfusion o Blood transfusionblood transfusions and transfusion with other human blood products (Buddeberg et al., 2008), HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_sharing o Needle sharingre-use of contaminated needles and syringes (Hughes, 2000), and HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_transmission o Vertical transmissionvertical worldsmillion). In moderate prevalence areas, which include Eastern Europe, Russia, and Japan, where 27 of the population is chronically infected, the disease is predominantly spread among children. In high-prevalence areas such as HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis_B_in_China o Hepatitis B in ChinaChina and South East Asia, transmission during childbirth is most common, although in other areas of high endemicity such as Africa, transmission during childhood is a significant factor (Alter, 2003) The prevalence of chronic HBV infection in areas of high endemicity is at least 8 with 1015 prevalence in Africa/Far East (Komas et al., 2013). As of 2010, China has 120million infected people, followed by India and Indonesia with 40million and 12million, respectively. According to HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization o World Health OrganizationWorld Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 600,000 people die every year related to the infection.In the United States about 19,000 new cases occurred in 2011 down nearly 90 from 1990 (Schillie et al., 2013), 2.2 SYPHILIS 2.2. 1 SYPHILIS INFECTION Transfusion-transmitted syphilis, which is caused byTreponema pallidumsubspeciespallidum, is one of the oldest recognized infectious risks of blood transfusion (Gardella et al.,2002). Syphilisis aHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_transmitted_infection o Sexually transmitted infectionsexually transmitted infectioncaused by theHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterium o BacteriumbacteriumHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treponema_pallidum o Treponema pallidumTreponema pallidumsubspeciespallidum (CDC, 2015 a).The signs and symptoms of syphilis vary depending in which of the four stages it presents (primary, secondary, latent, and tertiary) (CDC,2015b). The primary stage classically presents with a singleHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancre o Chancrechancre(a firm, painless, non-itchyHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_ulceration o Skin ulcerationskin https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumma_(pathology) o Gumma (pathology) gummas(soft non-cancerous growths), neurological, or heart symptoms (Kent and Romanelli, 2008). Syphilis has been known as HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_great_imitator o The great imitatorthe great imitator as it may cause symptoms similar to many other diseases (CDC,2015b Kent and Romanelli, 2008). Syphilis is most commonly spread throughHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sexual_activity o Human sexual activitysexual activity (CDC,2015b). It may also be transmitted from mother to baby during pregnancy or at birth, resulting inHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_syphilis o Congenital syphiliscongenital syphilis (CDC,2015b Woods, 2009).Other human diseases caused by relatedTreponema pallidumsubspecies includeHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaws o Yawsyaws(subspeciespertenue), HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinta_(disease) o Pinta (disease) pinta(subspeciescarateum), andHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonvenereal_endemic_syphilis o Nonvenereal endemic syphilisbejel(subspeciesendemicum) (Kent and Romanelli, 2008).Diagnosis is usually made by usingHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serological_testing o Serological testingblood tests the bacteria can also be detected usingHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_field_microscopy o Dark field microscopydark field microscopy (CDC,2015b). TheHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Disease_Control o Center for Disease ControlCenter for Disease Controlrecommends all pregnant women be tested (CDC,2015b). 2.2.2 SIGNS AND SYPMTOMS Syphilis can present in one of four different stages primary, secondary, latent, and tertiary, (Kent and Romanelli, 2008) and may also occurHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital o Congenitalcongenitally (Stamm,2010).It was referred to as the great imitator byHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Osler o Sir William OslerSir William Oslerdue to its varied presentations (White, 2000). Primary stage Primary syphilis is typically acquired by direct sexual contact with the infectious lesions of another person (CDC, 2006).Approximately 3 to 90 days after the initial exposure (average 21days) a skin lesion, called aHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancre o Chancrechancre, appears at the point of contact. This is classically(40 of the time) a single, firm, painless, non-itchy skin ulceration with a clean base and sharp borders 0.33.0cm in size (Kent and Romanelli, 2008) The lesion may take on almost any form. In the classic form, it evolves from a HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macule o Macule maculeto aHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papule o Papulepapuleand finally to anHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erosion_(dermatopathology) l Primary_lesions o Erosion (dermatopathology)erosionorHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulcer_(dermatology) o Ulcer (dermatology)ulcer (Eccleston et al., 2008).Occasionally, multiple lesions may be present (40) (Kent and Romanelli, 2008)with multiple lesions more common when coinfected with HIV. Lesions may be painful or tender (30), and they may occur in places other than the genitals (27). The most common location in women is theHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervix o Cervixcervix(44), theHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_penis o Human penispenisin heterosexual men (99), andHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_anus o Human anusanallyandHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectal o Rectalrectallyrelatively commonly inHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_who_have_sex_with_men o Men who have sex with menmen who have sex with men(34) (Eccleston et al., 2008).HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymph_node o Lymph nodeLymph nodeenlargement frequently(80) occurs around the area of infection, (Kent and Romanelli, 2008)occurring seven to 10days after chancre formation (Eccleston et al., 2008). TheHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesion o Lesionlesionmay,HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucous_membranes o Mucous membranesmucous membranes, andHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymph_nodes o Lymph nodeslymph nodes (Mullooly and Higgins, 2010). There may be a symmetrical, reddish-pink, non-itchy rash on the trunk and extremities, including the palms and soles (Dylewski and Duong,2007). The rash may become HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maculopapular o Maculopapular maculopapularor HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscess o Abscess pustular. It may form flat, broad, whitish, wart-like lesions known as HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condyloma_latum o Condyloma latum condyloma latumonHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucous_membrane o Mucous membranemucous membranes. All of these lesions harbor bacteria and are infectious. Other symptoms may includeHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fever o Feverfever,HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sore_throat o Sore throatsore throat,HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaise o Malaisemalaise,HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight_loss o Weight lossweight loss,HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_loss o Hair losshair loss, andHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headache o Headacheheadache.HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis l cite_note-Kent08-55Rare manifestations includeHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis o Hepatitisliver inflammation,HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney o Kidneykidney disease,HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthritis o Arthritisjoint inflammation, HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periostitis o Periostitis periostitis,HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optic_neuritis o Optic neuritisinflammation of the optic nerve, HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uveitis o Uveitis uveitis, andHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial_keratitis o Interstitial keratitisinterstitial keratitis (Bhatti, 2007).The acute symptoms usually resolve after three to six weeks (Bhatti, 2007). about 25 of people may present with a recurrence of secondary symptoms. Many people who present with secondary syphilis (4085 of women, 2065 of men) do not report previously having had the classic chancre of primary syphilis (Mullooly and Higgins, 2010). Latent stage Latent syphilis is defined as havingHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serology o Serologyserologicproof of infection without symptoms of disease (White, 2000).It is further described as either early (less than 1year after secondary syphilis) or late (more than 1yearHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptomatic o Asymptomaticasym https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeurosyphilisHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benignity o Benignitybenignsyphilis usually occurs 1 to 46years after the initial infection, with an average of 15years. This stage is characterized by the formation of chronic HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumma_(pathology) o Gumma (pathology) gummas, which are soft, tumor-like balls of inflammation which may vary considerably in size. They typically affect the skin, bone, and liver, but can occur anywhere (Kent and Romanelli, 2008). HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurosyphilis o NeurosyphilisNeurosyphilisrefers to an infection involving theHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_nervous_system o Central nervous systemcentral nervous system. It may occur early, being either asymptomatic or in the form of syphiliticHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningitis o Meningitismeningitis, or late as meningovascular syphilis,HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_paresis o General paresisgeneral paresis, or HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabes_dorsalis o Tabes dorsalis tabes dorsalis, which is associated with poor balance and lightning pains in the lower extremities. Late neurosyphilis typically occurs 4 to 25 years after the initial infection. Meningovascular syphilis typically presents with apathy andHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seizure o Seizureseizure, and general paresis withHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia o Dementiadementiaand HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabes_dorsalis o Tabes dorsalis tabes dorsalis (Kent and Romanelli, 2008). Also, there may beHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyll_Robertson_pupil o Argyll Robertson pupilArgyll Robertson pupils, which are bilateral small pupils that constrict when the person focuses on near objects but do not constrict when exposed to bright light. Cardiovascular syphilis usually occurs 1030years after the initial infection. The most common complication isHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilitic_aortitis o Syphilitic aortitissyphilitic aortitis, which may result inHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aortic_aneurysm o Aortic aneurysmaneurysmformation (Kent and Romanelli, 2008). Congenital syphilis HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_syphilis o Congenital syphilisCongenital syphilisis that which is transmitted during pregnancy or during birth. Two-thirds of syphilitic infants are born without symptoms. Common symptoms that develop over the first couple of years of life includeHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatosplenomegaly o Hepatosplenomegalyenlargement of the liver and spleen(70), rash (70), fever (40), neurosyphilis (20), andHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonitis o Pneumonitislung inflammation(20). If untreated,HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_congenital_syphilis o Late congenital syphilislate congenital syphilismay occur in 40, includingHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddle_nose o Saddle nosesaddle nosedeformation, HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higoumenakis_sign o Higoumenakis sign Higoumenakis sign,HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saber_shin o Saber shinsaber shin, or HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutton27s_joints o Cluttons joints Cluttons jointsamong others (Woods, 2009).Infection during pregnancy is also associated withHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscarriage o Miscarriagemiscarriage (Cunningham et al.,2013). 2.2.3 AETIOLOGY Treponema pallidumsubspeciespallidumis a spiral-shaped,HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram-negative o Gram-negativeGram-negative, highly mobile bacterium (Eccleston et al., 2008).Three other human diseases are caused by relatedTreponema pallidumsubspecies, includingHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaws o Yawsyaws(subspeciespertenue),HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinta_(disease) o Pinta (disease)pinta(subspeciescarateum) and HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonvenereal_endemic_syphilis o Nonvenereal endemic syphilis bejel(subspeciesendemicum). (Kent and Romanelli, 2008).Unlike subtypepallidum, they do not cause neurological disease (Woods, 2009).Humans are the only knownHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_reservoir o Natural reservoirnatural reservoirfor subspeciespallidum (Stamm, 2010)It is unable to survive more than a few days without a host. This is due to its small genome (1.14 HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_pair o Base pair Mbp) failing to encode the metabolic pathways necessary to make most of its macronutrients. It has a slow doubling time of greater than 30hours (Eccleston et al., 2008). 2.2.4 TRAMSMISSION Syphilis is transmitted primarily by sexual contact or duringHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy o Pregnancypregnancyfrom a mother to herHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetus o Fetusfetus the spirochete is able to pass through intact mucous membranes or compromised skin (Stamm, 2010).It is thus transmissible byHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissing o KissingkissingnearHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_product o Blood productblood products, but the risk is low due to blood testing in many countries. The risk of transmission fromHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharing_needles o Sharing needlessharing needlesappears limited (Kent and Romanelli, 2008). It is not generally possible to contract syphilis through toilet seats, daily activities, hot tubs, or sharing eating utensils or clothing (CDC, 2010). 2.2.5 DIAGNOSIS Early reports of the transfusion-related transmission of syphilis led to the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for syphilis testing of blood donors (Takpo et al., 2007). These recommendations have been questioned, since many syphilis antibodies among blood donors are the result of previous infections or even unspecific https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_field_microscopy o Dark field microscopyDark ground microscopyofHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serous_fluid o Serous fluidserous fluidfrom a chancre may be used to make an immediate diagnosis. Hospitals do not always have equipment or experienced staff members, and testing must be done within 10minutes of acquiring the sample.HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity o Sensitivity and specificitySensitivityhas been reported to be nearly 80 therefore the test can only be used to confirm a diagnosis, but not to rule one out. Two other tests can be carried out on a sample from the chancreHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_fluorescent_antibody o Direct fluorescent antibodydirect fluorescent antibodytesting andHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction o Polymerase chain reactionnucleic acid amplificationtests. Direct fluorescent testing usesHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibodies o Antibodiesantibodiestagged with HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescein o Fluorescein fluorescein, which attach to specific syphilis proteins, while nucleic acid amplification uses techniques, such as theHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction o Polymerase chain reactionpolymerase chain reaction, to detect the presence of specific syphilis genes. These tests are not as time-sensitive, as they do not require living bacteria to make the diagnosis  HYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condom o CondomCondomuse reduces the likelihood of transmission during sex, but does not completely eliminate the risk. (Cameron and Lukehart, 2014).TheHYPERLINK https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention o Centers for Disease Control and PreventionCenters for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) states,. (CDC, 2010).. 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+S1 E12 - Heal your relationship with your childMay 10, 2021
+Your thoughts affect everything… especially your relationships. We often feel like our children are disrespectful and rude, that they are unkind on purpose, or that they should be… fill in the blank here with all the “shoulds” for you. These hidden stories in your mind have a huge impact on your interactions with your children, huge. This is major. If you want to start healing your relationships with your kids, it all starts with you and your thoughts.
+What we dig into today:
+- How our thoughts affect our relationships
+- Expectations leading to frustration
+- The manuals we have for the people in our lives
+- How we can reconnect and shift things right now
+--- 12, heal your relationship with your child. This is the last episode in season one, I saved this for last. So it can kind of give you a Kickstart to really start healing that relationship. We've talked a lot about us, and our stories and our mindset and our emotions, kind of little tips and tools to use with us and with our children. But now if you still feel like you're really struggling with maybe one or more children, maybe getting along with them or connecting with them, maybe it's kind of easy to connect with some of your kids and there's one or two kids that you have a struggle with connecting with this episode will be perfect for you. So I want you first to think about the thoughts you have about this child, you can write their name at the top of the paper if you have a paper. And I want you to think about what kind of things do you think are true about them? It might be something like they're disrespectful, I hear that one a lot from my clients. They don't want to connect. They don't like me, they don't like hanging out with me. They're really hard. They're hard to love. They're hard to get along with.
+01:40
+I want you to just think about how those thoughts feel. Versus thoughts like they're easy to love. They're so cute. They love me, I love hanging out with them.
+01:54
+What do you think is going to be a better relationship, which thoughts are going to lead to a better relationship?
+02:01
+Now, this is the goal, the goal is to kind of change from a difficult relationship that we have to a more powerful and positive relationship that we have. So like I said, Put your child's name at the top of the page, whoever you're struggling with. And our relationships are just thoughts. We talked more about that last episode. But it's our thoughts about them our thoughts about what we think they're thinking about us, or thoughts about the dynamic of the relationship. And it's kind of like a dance, we're so used to doing this one dance. And if we change that dance through us changing our thoughts and how we show up in that relationship, then it has the power to change everything within the relationship. So if you want to truly heal your relationship with your child, you have the power to do that doesn't mean that they're necessarily going to change. Although I have seen time and time again, that their behavior does get better as we make this change. But we're doing it for us so that we can feel good about how we show up so that we can feel love and compassion and kindness towards our child. So first of all, I want you to think about your thoughts about the relationship. Right? That's the first of the kind of the three aspects of a relationship is our thoughts about our relationship? So just brainstorm that for a minute. Is it hard? Is it easy? Do you have to work really hard at it? Do you feel like it takes a lot of energy and hard work and effort? Do you think it's a healthy and connected and happy relationship? Is it easy to deal with? Do you like hanging out with them? So I just want you to think about your thoughts about that relationship, the dynamic of the relationship? And once you've kind of gotten clear on that, I want you to answer the question of why. What did you write down and then go back and think why or why not? Why is it hard? Or why is it easy? Why is it not easy? Go through all of those thoughts. Now we're going to go back through those thoughts. And we're not going to look at whether or not those are true, you might think they're true, your child might think they're true, your husband might think they're true. It doesn't really matter so much whether or not they are true. But we're going to look at how it feels. If I'm thinking, for instance, that my child is disrespectful, I'm probably going to feel pretty frustrated. And then how am I going to act towards them in that relationship? Maybe I'm going to kind of avoid them. Maybe as soon as they talk no matter what it is that they say I'm going to immediately show up in frustration. And I'm going to be a little bit more irritated with them. Maybe I'm not going to communicate as well. Maybe I'm not going to reach out and connect with them as much or kind of hear their side of the story. Have you ever been in a conversation where, you know, you're kind of pretending to listen, but you're really just thinking about your side of the argument so that when they stop talking, you can tell them why it is that you're writing they're wrong. Tell me you've done that before I know that I totally have. So I want you to think about how those thoughts are making you feel and then how you're acting because of those thoughts that you have about the relationship. And then ask yourself this question. Is it helping or hindering you to have a healthy and connected relationship? Will it help you heal that relationship? Just keep thinking those thoughts.
+05:00
+Whether or not, they are true.
+05:03
+So that's the first aspect of our relationship, our thoughts about the dynamic of the relationship. So now I want you to think about what you think they are thinking about you. So keep brainstorming and think, you know, for instance, maybe it's a teenager, and I hear this often they don't want to connect, they're withdrawn. They don't like me. They don't find me interesting. They don't love me, they don't want to spend time with me.
+05:28
+Now, again, often these thoughts aren't true. Maybe they feel really true. But lots of times, they really aren't true. And what I mean is this, maybe our child is mad, and they yell at us. And they actually say those words, say the words that we think that they're thinking about us, then we're like, see, it's true. Have you ever said something that you didn't mean, because you were mad? Or you were stressed? Or you were struggling? Even if they say it, we still don't know if it's true? We don't still know if they actually believe that to be true. And like we said, with the last one, even if it's true, is it actually helping? So once you write down all of the thoughts that you think they're thinking about you, I want you to ask these questions. Is it actually true even if they said those words? Is there a chance that maybe it's not true? And whether or not it's true? Is it going to help? Is it going to help? or hinder? Is it going to create love for them? Is it going to not create love for them, it's going to be doing one or the other. So I just want you to think for a minute about what it's doing for you. Because those are those stories. I know, I talk about stories all the time. But all of these thoughts that you just wrote down, are creating this story that you have about you and about your child and about your relationship with them.
+06:44
+And it's either going to be helping that relationship and building that healthy and connected relationship or it's not,
+06:50
+we don't need to change them, we don't need to change their thoughts and their feelings about us. It doesn't matter really so much what they're thinking about us. But it's about us and our thoughts about them. If we want to feel more connected, we can feel more connected, we can create those feelings.
+07:08
+So another aspect of this is our thoughts about them. So I want you to imagine for a second you go and get a brand new car, it's awesome. And you don't know how to use it. And you get out that giant owner's manual. And it says something like, you know, press this button to start and press this button for the washer fluid and press this button for the brake lights. And you're like reading all these things about like, press this button. And this is what it's supposed to do. Now we kind of have these like background subconscious manuals about the people in our life, not just the vehicles or the appliances in our kitchen. Right? That kind of sounds funny, but it's true. So I want you to think about these little manuals that you have, they should do this, they shouldn't do this, they should be like this, maybe I have a manual for my best friend. And it's like, she should respond to my texts right away. If she doesn't respond right away, she should at least respond within 24 hours. Maybe it's something like she should know that I'm upset and give me a call when I'm stressed out. She should want to be my bridesmaid at a wedding. If I have a wedding, she should want to spend time with me at least a couple of times a month. She should forgive me if I'm upset. I don't know what those are for you. Right? Everybody has their own manuals. And even if we haven't said what they are, we have these expectations of the people around us. So I want you to uncover what your hidden manual for your child is. Lots of times, they're kind of just deep in the background, and we don't really think about them. So I'm going to tell you a couple manuals that I've heard from other people, I usually get them to start in a perfect world. So get a piece of paper and write out in a perfect world. What would your child be like in a perfect world. So usually it's patient, calm, happy. Also patient calm and happy all the time. Doesn't have emotional outbursts. Always reacts calmly and kindly. does what I asked them to do without me having to repeat myself, cleans up after themselves remembers to clean up after themselves. Happily does family chores or work together, doesn't complain about it. Really doesn't complain about anything. Does it yell does it hit wants to spend time with me when I want to spend time with them leaves me alone what I want them to be left alone, right? I know that these are sounding a little bit ridiculous and silly. But if you really get down to it, there's a lot of these kind of unspoken expectations that we have about our children. And we call these manuals, this kind of idea. Now when we have this manual for somebody, usually it's quite unrealistic. And even if it's not quite unrealistic, they are going to fall short of our manual. So someday they're not going to text us back after we text them. someday they are going to yell or hit or scream or say the words I hate you even though we've already decided oh no in our manual that's not okay.
+10:01
+That's not allowed. Right? So when that happens, how do we feel? We likely feel frustrated, angry, maybe rage, maybe judgment, definitely disconnected. It's not going to help that feeling of disconnection. So I often talk about dropping our expectations. And as soon as I say that people are like, well, if I drop my expectations that I'm just going to let my child walk all over me, and then it's not going to be a healthy relationship. Well, I want to tell you a little secret, dropping our expectations has nothing to do with them and their behavior at all. Let me say that, again, dropping your expectations has nothing to do with them. It might sound like it does. But it has everything to do with us. Expectations lead to frustration, every time when we have an expectation, and then it doesn't go as planned, it doesn't go like it's supposed to when our little owner's manual in our mind, then we're going to be frustrated. And when we're frustrated, how do we show up as moms or as parents, we're going to be more irritated, we're going to be shorter with them, we're not going to be as connected, we're not going to communicate as much, we're not going to come up with creative solutions and ways to deal with their negative behaviors. We're gonna block ourselves from those solutions if we're feeling frustrated. So if we want to heal a relationship with our child, a lot of it has to do with these unspoken kind of deep down subconscious expectations that we have, that we really just need to throw away. And we throw it away by just noticing is this helping or hindering a connected relationship? Is this going to help heal the relationship I want to heal with my child? Is it going to take me closer or farther away, just like when we were thinking about our thoughts about what they think we're thinking about them? Or just like when we were thinking about our thoughts about the dynamic of the relationship to same thing here, we're going to always ask yourself that question, is it helping or hindering? Am I going to show up as the mom that I want to show up as or not? Am I going to feel good about how I showed up?
+12:02
+So those are the three aspects of the relationship. Now, once you've kind of dug into that, and kind of figured out what your thoughts are about them, and what you think they're thinking about you and about the relationship? Then we kind of are loosening those up, right? We're kind of loosened up a little bit by asking questions like, is this really helping? Do I like this? Is it going to create that connected relationship I want or not? Now we can start building new thoughts. Once we're loosening those up, we can also start building new thoughts. So I want you to think of somebody that you have a great relationship with. So maybe this is your parents, maybe it's one another one of your children that you have a really easy time loving. Maybe it's your partner, maybe it's your best friend, doesn't matter who it is, I want you to write their name on a piece of paper now or think about them. What are the thoughts you have about them?
+12:53
+They might not be like deep and poignant and might just be something easy. Like they're easy to love. I love them. They love me. I like hanging out with them. I like spending time with them.
+13:04
+I want you to think could that be true of your relationship here.
+13:09
+I once heard a quote that when something like all of us want seek unconditional love carrying a bag of conditions.
+13:17
+This manual that we have and these thoughts that we have about them this negative thinking and these negative beliefs are really these bags full of conditions. And we want unconditional love from others. Yet we have a hard time giving unconditional love.
+13:30
+So it first starts with our thoughts. So maybe you find it really easy to unconditionally love somebody else in your life. So we're just going to borrow those thoughts here. So could these thoughts be true of this relationship? Your brain might be telling you? Uh, nope. There is no way this child's easy to love. The other one is, this one's not my best friend is that my child is not. So if you don't believe those thoughts right now, that I want you to write down, why not? Why are they believable to you right now?
+14:02
+That will bring up a lot of thought work for you. You can go back and do thought dumps on everything that comes up there. If you don't believe those thoughts, why are they not true? Go through every single thought. Figure out if it's a thought or a fact. Question it. Is it true? Is it useful? Is it helpful? Can I find any any evidence of the opposite? Do I want to keep it all of those kinds of questions like we do with all of our other thought dumps work on loosening all of those thoughts and work on firming up some new thoughts through a bridging thought. So bridging thought for this if my new thought is they are easy to love. I could say maybe it's possible that they are easy to love. I am learning that they are easy to love. I can see that they are easy to love.
+14:47
+I really wants you to take the time to do this work because it will be so powerful for you. You will really see over the course of even just a couple of weeks or a month as you do this work on them thinking about that
+15:00
+Thinking about your thoughts about them. And then a dynamic of that relationship, you'll see it start to heal. And it's really interesting. It's like we have this one pair of glasses on, maybe we have these dark colored glasses. And so our dark colored glasses is that story of like, our child doesn't want to connect with us. So all we notice is all of these little things, maybe a little words that they say are texts that they send, or even the tone of voice, or even their body language. And we gather all of that evidence that might not even be evidence for that. And we just make it mean that that's actually true, those glasses are going to be shading, the color of our outlook. Now, if we can start changing those glasses and changing that story that we have about us and about our child, and about that relationship there, and we start thinking maybe they're really easy to love, maybe they love me, maybe I love them. All of these little tiny bits of evidence whether or not it's a little half smile or smirk, maybe it's a little joke, or a laugh or a side hug or words that they say we'll actually start gathering that evidence to create this new story. It's all about shifting the story with us. So do that work. And let me know how it goes. I'd love to hear if you're able to heal, even a little bit, even just start on a new relationship with your child.
+16:13
+So I hope this season has really opened up your mind to what kind of relationship is possible with you, with yourself and with your child, and given you some actionable tools to help start creating that change. Listening isn't going to be nearly as helpful as if you actually do the work. It's gonna be interesting, and maybe it'll be a little bit insightful. But doing the work is what really changes everything. So make sure that you hop into my community. It's called by design. We dig into all of this together. I guide you through weekly calls, video lessons, workbooks, guest experts, digital courses, we have it all in there to help you create this change for yourself. I take all of these tools and I guide you through them.
+17:01
+next season is going to be all about parenting, the struggles that you face, the reasons behind our children's struggles, all of my favorite books, my favorite resources, everything that I have learned. I can't wait for next season. And I will see you next time.
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+Keyboard based in polymer, copolymer or composites with piezo- and/or pyroelectric properties and respective use
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+Keyboard based in polymer, copolymer or composites with piezo- and/or pyroelectric properties and respective use
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+Lanceros Mendez, et al.
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+November 20, 2012
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+Primary Examiner:
+JeanPierre; Peguy
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+Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP
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+H03M 11/00; H03K 17/94
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+Foreign Patent Documents:
+2103823; WO 81/02223
+Other References:
+Piezo Film Sensors Technical Manual, "Piezo Film Sensors Technical Manual passage", Measurement Specialties, US, No. 1005663-1 Rev. B, pp.1-89, Apr. 2, 1999. cited by other.
+International Search Report, PCT/PT2008/000028, Date of Mailing: Jan. 7, 2009. cited by other.
+Abstract:
+The invention refers to a new keyboard based in a polymeric, copolymeric or composite film (11) with piezo- and pyroelectric properties capable of receiving a tactile signal and giving a respond in the form of an electrical signal. The system described in this invention includes one or more keys (10), being each one of them made by a piezoelectric film (11) with electric conductive contacts, transparent or not, above and below the piezoelectric film and with the inferior layer of grounded electrodes (13). The present invention allows the use of just one piezoelectric film (11) without external power supply, the use of electrode connections which form the keys (10) that converge in one side of the keyboard and are available in the spots (12) to make the connection to the active filter circuits instead of amplifiers in the electronic readout, as well as the possibility of introduction of new functionalities in these keyboards identical to the ones of tactile sensors, upon distinction between a pyroelectric and a piezoelectric signal from a particular key, differing the signals generated by pressure variation or by temperature variation.
+Claim:
+The invention claimed is:
+1. Laminar keyboard based on a material with piezo- and/or pyroelectric proprieties, comprising: a film consisting of a polymeric, copolymeric or composite materialwith piezo- and/or pyroelectric proprieties; at least one key formed by one conductive electrode and by the film with piezo- and/or pyroelectric proprieties, which thus induces a mechanical and/or thermal signal; a grounded electrode placed underneaththe piezoelectric film; connections between the keys and the readout system of the keys by means of the contact points; a band-pass filter that separates the piezoelectric and the pyroelectric effects through the regulation of its central frequency; amultiplexer which establishes the electric connection between each contact point and the bandpass filter a rectifier which eliminates the negative component from the output signal on the band-pass filter; and a low-pass filter, that filters the signalfrom the rectifier or a digital circuit of rebound elimination from the signal provided by the rectifier in order to obtain a single pulse at the output for the pressure applied in each key.
+2. Laminar keyboard, according to claim 1, wherein the polymeric material is the polyvinylidene fluoride or PVDF.
+3. Laminar keyboard, according to claim 1, wherein in that it does not need external power supply due to the piezoelectric effect.
+4. Laminar keyboard, according to claim 1, wherein the film of polymeric material is transparent.
+5. Laminar keyboard, according to claim 1, wherein the film of polymeric material is flexible.
+6. Laminar keyboard, according to claim 1, wherein the band-pass filter and/or the low-pass filter are active or passive.
+7. Laminar keyboard, according to claim 1, wherein the conductive electrodes are deposited in the polymeric film by steam deposition physical or chemical techniques, by cathodic pulverization or thermal evaporation.
+8. Laminar keyboard, according to claim 1, wherein the conductive electrodes of the keys are transparent.
+9. Laminar keyboard, according to claim 1, wherein the transparent electrodes are placed in lines and columns in the piezoelectric film, or in certain places of the piezoelectric film with other geometries, configuring touch screens orinteractive panels with small or big dimensions, with a single or several active areas and with multi-touch functionalities.
+10. Laminar keyboard, according to claim 1, wherein the digital circuit of rebound elimination consists of a monostable multivibrator with a time constant adjusted so that the various impulses or rebounds generated when a key is pressed can begrouped in a single impulse output.
+11. Use of the laminar keyboard based on a piezo- and pyroelectric polymer, according to claim 1, wherein it is useful for command applications of several electronic devices.
+12. Use of the laminar keyboard based on a piezo- and pyroelectric polymer, according to claim 1, wherein the electronic devices are car radios, interactive panels, keyboards in general, remote controls, touch screens with multi-touchfunctionalities.
+13. Laminar keyboard based on a material with piezo- and/or pyroelectric proprieties, comprising: a film constituted by a polymeric, copolymeric or composite material with piezo- and/or pyroelectric proprieties; at least one key formed by oneconductive electrode and by the film with piezo- and/or pyroelectric proprieties, which thus induces a mechanical and/or thermal signal; a grounded electrode placed underneath the piezoelectric film; connections between the keys and a band-pass filter; at least a band-pass filter that separates the piezoelectric and the pyroelectric effects by means of the regulation of its central frequency; a rectifier which eliminates the negative component from the output signal on the band-pass filter; and alow-pass filter, that filters the signal from the rectifier or a digital circuit of rebound elimination from the signal provided by the rectifier in order to obtain a single pulse at the output for the pressure applied in each key.
+Description:
+CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
+This application is a National Phase Application of PCT International Application No. PCT/PT2008/000028, International Filing Date Jul. 17, 2008, entitled "Keyboard Based in Polymer, Copolymer or Composite with Piezo- and/or PyroelectricProperties and Respective Use", published on Jan. 22, 2009 as International Publication Number WO 2009/011605 which claims priority of PT 103791 Patent Application filed on Jul. 17, 2007, both of which are incorporated herein by reference in theirentirety.
+TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
+The present invention belongs to the laminar keyboards domain, based on piezoelectric polymers which can have several applications, such as laptop computers or personal computers, pocket calculator, remote controls, mobile phones, music players(mp3, cd's, etc.), automated teller machine (ATM), electrical goods in general, sell machines (ex. Tobacco, drinks and food), elevators, ticket machines, laboratory equipments, electric and mechanical measurement equipments, tactile screens, interactivepanels, etc.
+BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
+Generically, a keyboard is a device made by a set of switches or keys, which generates an electrical signal when a mechanical pressure is applied in one of the keys. From this generic definition, a keyboard is any device based on pressureswitches that can be placed in computers (desktop/laptop), pocket calculator, remote controls, mobile phones, music players (mp3, cd's, etc.), automated teller machine (ATM), electrical goods in general, sell machines (ex. Tobacco, drinks and food),elevators, ticket machines, laboratory equipments, electric and mechanical measurement equipments, tactile screens, interactive panels, etc.
+A keyboard is a device composed by a set of sensors that when a mechanical pressure is applied in each one of them an electrical signal of binary type is generated, i.e., each sensor distinguishes only if there was a pressure applied or not onitself.
+The keyboards are the devices more used as men-machine interaction systems. For most of the applications it is necessary to have keyboards which are light weight, of high reliability, insensible to electromagnetic interferences and with lowproduction costs. Depending on the application, it can be necessary to follow aesthetic criteria, such as color, transparency, or presence or absence of moving parts and key sound.
+When classified relatively to mechanical arrangement, there are basically two types of keyboards: the conventional ones based on pressure buttons and the laminar ones. In the conventional keyboards based on pressure buttons, each key isconstituted basically by one button, one spring and one electrical contact. When a pressure is applied on the button, the electrical contact is shorted and the pressure is detected. The spring is used to put the button back in its initial position. This type of keyboard covers most of the computer keyboards. The laminar keyboards, also known as flexible membrane switches, normally presents a laminar construction with two sheets, being the electrical contacts constructed in each of them. Thecontacts are oppositely mounted one against the other in the two sheets, being separated normally by air. When a pressure is applied in a button, the upper sheet deforms itself and makes contact with the correspondent area of the lower sheet.
+The conventional or the laminar keyboards with metallic contacts become less reliable after a long period of use. For instance, the electrical contact resistance when a key is pressed, ideally should be very low, but it tends to increase withtime, due to accumulated dust, oxide formation in the contacts or to accidental spill of liquids over the keyboard. The increase of the resistance has as a consequence the incorrect readout from some keys. Besides that, in the laminar keyboards withmetallic contacts, the membrane is deformed with each pressure in a key, leading to fatigue or even to rupture.
+To eliminate these disadvantages from the keyboards using metallic contacts, some applications make use of Hall effect switches or capacitive keys. These types of switches present the disadvantages of needing a more complex geometry andelectronic interface than the previous ones.
+Another type of laminar keyboards uses piezoelectric materials. In this case, an applied pressure in the piezoelectric material produces a voltage variation in their terminals, which can be used to determine if there was pressure or not. Between the piezoelectric devices that can be used in keyboards manufacture, the crystals and the ceramics are the most used. These materials, besides giving good electrical signals, are rigid, break easily, are difficult to build in complex shapes andcreate electrical voltages which can be high when subjected to sound waves.
+Recently laminar keyboards have been developed based on piezoelectric polymers. These resolve substantially the problems of the switches based on metallic contacts. They are also more advantageous in relation to the keyboards that usepiezoelectric crystals or ceramics, since they are easier to process, more flexible and have a good mechanical response, being in this way the most suitable for this kind of applications.
+Relatively to the readout circuits for the keys, the conventional keyboards based on pressure buttons and the laminar ones based on metallic contacts, usually just need coded circuits which output the correspondent binary code of the pressedkey. Since each key conduct or interrupt the electric current, it is not necessary any kind of amplification circuit or voltage level adaptation. In keyboards based in piezoelectric polymers, normally the voltage or the current generated when a key ispressed is low. In this case and in case when it is necessary, there are some voltage or current amplification mechanism and or voltage level adaptation before the coded circuits. Usually these circuits are based in voltage or current amplifiers orvoltage/current converters. Since the piezoelectric elements are sensible to sound waves, these circuits will amplify these same waves, giving wrong readouts from the keys. Despite the aforementioned facts, there are several applications, methods andgeometries used as keyboards based in piezoelectric polymers.
+The documents WO8102223, U.S. Pat. No. 4,328,441 and U.S. Pat. No. 4,633,123 use two films of piezoelectric polymers separated by an insulator material. In each of the piezoelectric films are impressed the metallic conductive contacts thatforms the keys. The fact of possessing two piezoelectric films allows that the line and column of the local where the mechanic pressure is applied can be readout in an independent way: in this way the upper film reads only the line and the lower filmreads only the column. In these applications are also described several readout electronic circuits from the keys.
+The document U.S. Pat. No. 4,234,813 describes a keyboard based in piezoelectric polymers and uses their piezoelectric and pyroelectric proprieties to receive the stimulus. Like in the previous applications, two films of piezoelectricpolymers are used: one to decode the lines and the other to decode the columns.
+The documents U.S. Pat. No. 4,078,187 and U.S. Pat. No. 3,935,485 describe the use of a complex mechanic arrangement based in piezoelectric elements. document U.S. Pat. No. 4,516,112 describes a transparent keyboard system. In this application there is not a clarification of the materials used in the electrodes in order to make them transparent.
+Some piezoelectric polymeric materials respond also to the pyroelectric effect which produces a voltage proportional to temperature variation, as is mentioned in the document U.S. Pat. No. 4,975,616.
+BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
+FIG. 1 shows the keyboard arrangement, where it can be seen the electrodes which form the keys (10) when placed upon the piezoelectric film (11). Under the piezoelectric film (11) the grounded electrode is placed (13). The electrodeconnections which form the keys (10) converge in one side of the keyboard and are available to make the connection to the readout circuit in the spot (12). The electrodes are made from conductive materials which could be or not transparent.
+FIG. 2 illustrate the keyboard flexibility where it can be observed the upper electrodes that form the keys (10) when placed upon the piezoelectric film (11).
+FIG. 3 represent a block diagram of the readout system of a single key, consisting in the key itself (10), one band-pass filter (20), a full-wave rectifier (30) and a low-pass filter (40), being the signal obtained at the output (50).
+FIG. 4 represent a block diagram of the readout system of several keys, consisting in the keys itself (10), one multiplexer (60), one band-pass filter (20), a full-wave rectifier (30) and a low-pass filter (40), being the signal obtained at theoutput (50).
+GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
+The proposed keyboard in the present invention is based on a polymeric material, copolymer or composite which have piezo- and pyroelectric proprieties being the electronic processing part of the signal connected to the set of keys drawn in thefaces of the piezoelectric polymer.
+The polymeric material, polyvinylidene fluoride or PVDF, can be obtained in the form of a film by extrusion, injection or evaporation from the solution, usually in the form of non electroactive (.alpha. phase).
+The .alpha. phase is usually obtained by cooling from the melt at moderate or even at high cooling velocities. It is the most stable thermodynamic phase also in crystallization from the solution, when the temperature of solvent removal ishigher to 100.degree. C.
+To obtain the electroactive phase (.beta. phase), the .alpha. phase should be submitted to a mechanical stretching at temperatures lower than 100.degree. C. and with a stretch rate (relation between the final and the initial length of thesample) higher or equal to 2. This phase can also be obtained by solution, at temperatures of solvent removal lower than 70.degree. C.
+After obtaining the electroactive phase, the material is subjected to a polarization process, i.e., a high electric field is applied in order to maximize the pyro- and piezoelectric response of the polymer.
+Once this step is completed, the electrical contacts are deposited by physical or chemical evaporation, cathodic pulverization, or other material deposition process. In the conventional mode, a vacuum chamber is used where the piezoelectricpolymer is placed. Underneath and closer to this one a mask is placed with the design of the keys, contacts and their connections. Finally, under the mask, at a distance of a few centimeters a sample holder is placed with the material inside that isgoing to form the contacts. The holder is then heated by an electric current until the material that is going to form the contacts evaporates. The vapor passes through the holes of the mask and is deposited in the piezoelectric polymer, forming thusthe contacts of the keys.
+These electrodes will give place to the keys (10) of the new keyboard and can be produced from metallic oxides, like Al:ZnO or the Sn:In.sub.2O.sub.3, or conductive polymers like the Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene): poly(styrenesulfonate)(PEDOT:PSS) or the polyanilline. In the case the keys do not need to be transparent for a determined application, the electrodes could be made from any metal such as Al, Ag, etc.
+In the case that the keyboard is composed by a few keys, circuit illustrated in FIG. 3 can be repeated for each one of them. In this circuit, the electrical signal produced by the pressed key will be applied to a band-pass filter (20).
+The main objective of this filter is based on the fact that is necessary to separate the piezoelectric and pyroelectric effect if it is desired to introduce new functionalities into the keyboards.
+Both effects are always present when the material is pyroelectric, and depending on the application it can be interesting use one or other. With this method, it is enough to tune the central frequency of the band-pass filter to a few hundredHertz, in the case that the desired effect is the piezoelectric, or a few Hertz in the case the desired effect is the pyroelectric.
+The band-pass filter (20) has yet the function of attenuating the noise significantly, which can be induced in the keyboard by electromagnetic waves, by sound waves, by thermal effects or other forms.
+The output signal obtained from the band-pass filter (20) has approximately a sinusoidal wave form. In most types of applications, where the keyboard is connected to a digital circuit, it is necessary to eliminate the negative component of thissignal. For that, the rectifier is used (30).
+This rectifier can be half-wave, cutting only the negative component of the signal, or full wave where the negative component is inverted.
+After pressing a key, at the output of the rectifier (30) several pulses are obtained, and it is necessary to pass the signal by a low-pass filter (40), in order to smooth the response and obtain just one pulse at the output (50) for eachapplied pressure in the key (10).
+The function of the low-pass filter can however be obtained digitally with a rebound eliminating circuit identical to the one used in the keyboards based on metallic contacts.
+In the case of the present invention where it is necessary to read several keys with only one readout circuit, the one illustrated on FIG. 4 is used, where a multiplexer (60) is introduced which scan all the keys (10), one at a time. In thiscase, the multiplexer (60) establishes the electric connection between the key and the band-pass filter (20). In the case of having pressure in one of the keys, its signal is applied to the band-pass filter (20) and the rest of the circuit works at thesame mode as represented in FIG. 3. In this circuit as the multiplexer (60) scans all the keys (10) in a relative fast way, the time constant of the low-pass filter (40), if it is high, can compromise the performance of the circuit. In this case thealternative of using a digital circuit of rebound elimination is more advantageous. This digital circuit of rebound elimination can be based on a monostable multivibrator where the time constant is adjusted so that the several impulses or rebounds thatare generated when a key is pressed can be grouped in one single output impulse.
+A preferential accomplishment of the present invention incorporate the construction of a computer keyboard, mobile phone, TV remote control or other with the characteristics of using a single piezoelectric film, flexible or not, with transparentelectrodes or not, without needing any external power supply for the functioning of the keys.
+Another preferential accomplishment incorporates the characteristics of the transparent electrodes, that can be placed in lines and columns in the piezoelectric polymer, or in determined places on the polymer, with other geometries, allowing theconstruction of a tactile screen or interactive panel with the advantage of using one single piezoelectric film, flexible or not, with transparent electrodes and not needing an external power supply for the functioning of the keys. This allowsinteractive panels, from small to high dimension with one single or several active areas and with the possibility of multi-touch functionality.
+The system of the present invention allows the use of a single piezoelectric film without any external power supply using the electric energy generated by the pressure applied on the piezoelectric polymer, the use of transparent metalliccontacts and the use of active filters instead of amplifiers, in the readout electronic.
+The possibility of distinguish a piezoelectric and a pyroelectric signal of one specific key allows the introduction of new functionalities in the keyboards similar to, tactile sensors, differing generated signals by pressure effect and bytemperature variation.
+The main differences between the present invention and the previous ones are the possibility of using only one piezoelectric film, the possibility of using transparent metallic contacts or non-metallic and the use of active filters instead ofamplifiers in the readout electronics, that exists in the present invention.
+The documents U.S. Pat. No. 4,078,187 and U.S. Pat. No. 3,935,485 describe the use of a complex mechanic arrangement based in piezoelectric elements. In this case the structure of the keyboard is not laminar and the piezoelectric elementsare not polymeric, as it happens in the present invention. main difference between this type of keyboard and the one reported in the present invention, is based on the fact that the present invention does not uses electrodes with complex geometries, which varies from key to key.
+The document U.S. Pat. No. 4,516,112 describes a transparent keyboard system. In this application there is not a clarification of the materials used in the electrodes in order to make them transparent. There is not also an elucidation aboutany electronic circuit which allows the readout from the keys, contrary to what happens in the present invention.
+Some piezoelectric polymeric materials respond also to the pyroelectric effect which produces a voltage proportional to temperature variation, as is mentioned in the document U.S. Pat. No. 4,975,616. Contrary to the present invention, it isnot possible to distinguish, in terms of amplitude, the voltages generated by the piezoelectric and pyroelectric effects. In this sense, it is not possible to know if a key was pressed or if it was due to a temperature variation.
+The main advantages of this keyboard, relatively to the ones existed in the market, are fundamentally in the processing facility, reliability, durability, their flexibility and the fact of having good mechanical and chemical resistance. Othersadvantages are the possibility of using only one piezoelectric film, the possibility of using transparent metallic contacts or non metallic and the use of active filters instead of amplifiers in the readout electronics, as explained in the presentinvention.
+DETAILED DESCRIPTION ON THE INVENTION
+The present invention consists in a keyboard which is based in a polymeric material, the polyvinylidene fluoride or PVDF, copolymeric and/or composite, with piezo- and pyroelectric proprieties, in form of films.
+The electrical contacts are deposited in the film of polymeric material by physical or chemical evaporation, cathodic pulverization, or other material deposition process and gives place to the keys of the keyboard of the present invention. Underneath the polymeric film is placed the grounded electrode (13). The connections to the electrodes that forms the keys (10) converges in one side of the keyboard and are available to make the connection to the circuit on the spots (12).
+The electrodes are build from conductive materials which can be or not transparent and can or not need external power supply to operate the keys.
+These electrodes can be made from metallic oxides, like Al:ZnO or Sn:In.sub.2O.sub.3, conductive polymers like the Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene): poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) or the polyanilline, or metals such as Al, Au, etc.
+In case the system is constituted by a small number of keys it should include, besides the key(s) (10), electrodes, a band-pass filter (20), a complete wave rectifier (30) and a low-pass filter (40).
+In the case the system is constituted by a high number of keys it should include, besides this, a multiplexer (60), a band-pass filter (20), a rectifier (30), a low-pass filter (40), or preferentially, a digital circuit.
+The system can also include transparent electrodes placed in lines or columns in the polymeric film configuring one or more touch screens or interactive panels.
+It must be clear that the keyboard based in polymer, copolymer or composite with piezo- and/or pyroelectric proprieties described previously is simply a possible example of implementation, only established to a clear understand of the inventionprinciples. It can be done variations and modifications to the concretization referred previously without substantial deviation from the spirit and principle of the invention. All the modifications and variations should be included in the scope of thepresent invention and protected by the following claims.
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+Residents of 400 Dreamland Sims vote to Ban PR and Marketing Flacks!!!!!
+by Urizenus Sklar on 11/11/06 at 2:34 pm
+Residents vote unrepentant flacks off of 400+ islands!
+In one of the most significant developments in the history of virtual worlds and Massively Multiplayer Online Games, Residents of the Second Life gated community Dreamland have voted to ban unrepentant PR Flacks from their 400-500 Sim region. Conservative estimates suggest that Dreamland consititutes 10% of the land mass and 10% of the active resisidents in Second Life — each sim roughly equivalent to 65,000 meters of land. (Dreamland, of course was developed by SL resident Anshe Chung, who was recently featured on the cover of Business Week Magazine). Residents were apparently incensed by the recent spate of “false first” claims by PR Flacks, marketing mavens, and clueless corporations and by their arrogance and inability to admit error. The resolution:
+[18:28] Second Life: Some PR agencies and RL companies have abused SL and made claims in RL media of being first to do things many SL residents have done long before them (“1st radio station in SL”, “1st fashion brand”, “1st tabloid”).
+SHOULD WE BAN THEM FROM DREAMLAND?
+Group Dreamland Citizens Proposal PASSED!
+Reached for comment by the Herald, Dreamland Developer Anshe Chung indicated that she had not yet determined how to enact the initiative, and plans a public statement in the near future. Clearly there is room for interpretation of the initiative. For example, it is unclear precisely how egregious an offense must be to warrant banning and equally unclear what would count as a suitably contrite apology. Presumably Ms. Chung could make these determinations by herself, or an in game court system like the Metaverse Superior Court could be called upon.
+Of course these events raise profound philosophical questions…
+One way to think of Dreamland is as a vast gated community with its own laws and own enforcement mechanisms (principally banning). What makes this recent development interesting is that the banning tool is not being used to protect in-world territory from griefers, but is now being deployed in an attempt to enforce social norms in an online world. In this case the norm is “don’t falsely take credit for the accomplishments of others.” Clearly the PR firms do not understand the importance of this norm and for this reason they have not apologized or properly retracted their statements, preferring instead to equivocate about what they meant by ‘first’, or calling their claims harmless business as usual, or in some cases telling Second Life residents they “need to learn” that this is how it is going to be. Clearly none of those responses were what residents wanted to hear.
+The deep question now facing us is whether this tool might be abused (or perhaps is already being abused). There is a fine line between enforcing social norms and undermining free speech. What makes the border tricky is that one wants to leave room for legitimate debate about historical events, but clearly false claims are not merely academic arguments (like who invented the zipper), but cut to the issue of social capital in Second Life: reputation and social capital in Second Life is closely tied to our accomplishments in world. Thus, a false claim of first in Second Life is equivalent to theft in the real world.
+The banning resolution, as passed, is widely interpreted as giving residents who make false claims the opportunity to retract their statements. Of course, they also remain free to stick to their guns and stay away from Dreamland and whatever regions of the game ban them next. For that matter, since they rarely set foot in the game anyway, they could continue making these claims even if the received a total ban from Second Life.
+The sad thing is that it had to come to this. Apparently, however, that this is just the most recent in a string of episodes in which the PR industry has invaded a social space and deeply offended the residents, in some cases leading to the phenomenon of channel abandonment. Clearly they are not learning. I guess it comes to this: hubris dies hard. Maybe the residents of Dreamland can get their attention.
+(And in case you are wondering. The Herald did not initiate or campaign for this initiative, and did not learn of it until voting was in progress.)
+bluesapphire
+Nov 11th, 2006
+LOL
+ROFL
+VOTE? lol you mean the tenants have a role to play? They’re just tenants – lol
+Amazing, the biggest hype and PR maven is Anshe, she’s manipulated and used the various forums and web sites to make her – fact!. Do you honestly think Anshe will act on this? Isn’t this just a bullshit group function, it means nothing. The resident of her land are idiots, and a resolution like this is as scary as a ‘paper tiger’. So much hype, so much hysteria – crazy!
+Also double WOW – its amazing. Imagine being a client of Anshe’s China Content operation! I hear she’s been developing a whole division to compete against the developer community. This now just plays into their hands, island culture and island prices are justified now. This means to have a ‘space’ you have to use your own island.
+Urizenus
+Nov 11th, 2006
+What makes you so sure Anshe doesn’t support the resolution?
+Nobody Fugazi
+Nov 11th, 2006
+All I can do is laugh.
+Ordinal Malaprop
+Nov 11th, 2006
+What is the history of the rulers of Ansheland responding to this sort of vote, anyway? (Quite apart from considerations of how much this actually is a grassroots decision and so on.)
+Strumpette
+Nov 11th, 2006
+NEWS FLASH: PR Flacks Banned in Second Life
+This just in… what is being billed as one of the most significant developments in the history of virtual worlds, residents of the Second Life gated community Dreamland have voted to ban PR practitioners from their region. By conservative estimates
+Artemis Fate
+Nov 11th, 2006
+It should be noted that the “A Gallery of Virtual ‘Firsts’ from Second Life” article has been corrected to a more accurate “A Gallery of Marketing and PR in Second Life”.
+Lewis Nerd
+Nov 11th, 2006
+It’s not often I agree with Anshe, but I do wonder how effective it would be if a majority of SL players joined the proposal?
+Lewis
+Master Quatro
+Nov 12th, 2006
+I’m always amazed at the ignorance that some people so wantonly display for all of us to see. I have worked with Anshe Chung for 15 months and have found her to be the most generous and one of the most caring individual on-line. She is a bright and driven entrepreneur. She is bold and has taken some strong positions. That’s typical of visionary entrepreneurs. To call 900 residents of Dreamland “idiots” just shows your ignorance and immaturity. Business week are idiots for featuring her on the front cover of the most widely read business weekly in the world? The NY Times? Los Angeles Times? Wall Sreet Journal? Dutch, German, French Television? No these are respected and well read publications and news media. This young woman has revolutionized the metaverse with her own unique business model and is responsible for more revenue flowing to Linden Labs then any business on SL. Money has never been an issue in my 15 months working with her. She gives away many sims to be used by the community – Central Park – Mature Sandbox – Yard Sale – Plush City – Dreamland Hub ….. and more. I have run 3 companies before leaving the business world to devote my rl to helping the homeless in a large US city. On SL I admire Anshe’s commitment to her staff her clients and the community. These are qualities that should be emulated in RL organizations. Unfortunately there are those whose envy and lack of self worth leads them to idly flame and attack anyone who has been successful here. Anshe is a visionary an activist for community building and a true icon of this Second Life if not the entire metaverse. It’s time her detractors get a second life.
+Urizenus
+Nov 12th, 2006
+word.
+Artemis Fate
+Nov 12th, 2006
+I, personally, am always surprised by the ignorance of Anshe’s employees who seem to think that the way Anshe treats them must be the same as the way Anshe treats her competitors and people she wants land from. Of course she wants to be nice to the employees and her land renters, so they can go out like you did and give her good PR. Obviously if she treats both the aforementioned like shit they’ll go out and say it and she’ll lose business. What I find most ironic there is that you people are praising her for this behavior, yet condemning the real life corporations for doing the same thing but on a larger scale. Anshe donates a sim to her community, a real life corporation donates money to a charity. Both are for positive PR more than basic human kindness.
+Anshe is the same as the corporations, except smaller. She’s even got a real life company: Anshe Chung Studios. Business is not about being nice, it’s about squeezing as much profit as you can out of something, because of anti-trust laws and the benefits of good PR, this widely entails with being nice by happenstance. But NEVER mistake that for human kindness, it’s simply the most prudent action to get the most profit. But when it’s NOT the most prudent action, when it comes down to actual business, you see from both Anshe and real life corporations, the value of lying, stealing, blackmailing, and anything it takes, unethical or not, to get what you want. The end goal no matter what is money and getting the most you possibly can, ethics and kindness have absolutely zero to do with besides a means to an end.
+So praise her as a saint and condemn the other corporations for doing the same thing as her but on a wider scale? That’s true ignorance.
+Ampersand
+Feb 23rd, 2007
+A Second Look @ Second Life
+By Joel Cere
+EMEA VP Netcoms
+The Second Life tidal wave has finally crossed the Atlantic and…
+Ampersand
+Feb 23rd, 2007
+A Second Look @ Second Life
+By Joel Cere
+EMEA VP Netcoms
+The Second Life tidal wave has finally crossed the Atlantic and is leaping…
+This is game 3 of the MLily Gu vs Lee Jubango, between Lee Sedol 9p and Gu Li 9p.
+Since Lee Sedol won the first two games, he should have had a psychological advantage going into this one.
+However, the mood of the series changed shortly before this game took place.
+The 4th Zhaoshang Cup
+One week earlier, there was another game between Gu Li and Lee Sedol at the 4th Zhaoshang Cup and Gu Li won.
+When I was watching that game, I felt that Lee was in poor form, and I thought that perhaps he was saving his energy and stamina for this jubango game.
+When Lee isn’t in good form, he rushes and plays thin, territorial moves instead of solid moves that emphasize power. If you look at that game, you’ll feel that Lee’s play was different from these jubango games.
+The Zhaoshang Cup is a team competition and neither player would have cared about the winning or losing as much as they usually do. However, there was another game shortly afterwards which changed the flow of this match.
+The 16th Chunlan Cup
+The Round of 16 at the 10th Chunlan Cup took place just two day before this game. Gu and Lee were paired to play together once again (based on drawing lots). And this game was different.
+Both players did their best and you could feel their fighting spirit from the beginning until the very end of the game.
+Gu Li took the lead, after making a big trade on the right side, and maintained it throughout most of the game. Lee Sedol caught up near the end, with his characteristic fierce and powerful moves, and almost reversed the game.
+However, Gu managed to hold on to the smallest of leads amidst the chaos. Lee knew that he was losing by half a point, and that there was no way to catch up, so he resigned.
+Gu Li restores his confidence
+Winning those two games seemed to restore Gu Li’s confidence, and relieve the mental pressure he felt about playing Lee Sedol in this match.
+On the other hand, Lee Sedol suffered some psychological damage in losing that game and the bad news for him was that he only had one day to recover and calm his mind before this game.
+Some pundits said that Lee was only concentrating this jubango, and that if he won this game the earlier losses would soon be forgotten. game 3 this 10 game match.
+Commented game record
+Lee Sedol vs Gu Li – Game 3
+After white 8 san-san, black Q17 and white Q18, can black tenuki ? I have seen this in some game. I have played it myself as i don’t want to choose between P18 and R16 now.
+Yes, that’s possible, but White can have a nice shape with S18 later, so Black normally continues with P18.
+Dear An
+Thanks so much for keeping up with the commentaries. I have a few questions, feel free to answer or ignore any of them.
+Move 12 var 4: I’ve never seen W9 like this. Will White sacrfice two stones if Black cuts after B10 is ignored?
+Move 18: var 2 then var 2 then var 2. Can W12 resist here and move into the centre i/o cutting the top stones?
+Move 32: after explaining Black is thin on the left, we of course anticipate an attack there. 32 comes as a surprise. Is it because the left is in a state of equivalence?.
+Move 90, vars: so this is how pros read …
+Move 118 var 2: scraps of comments left (editing mistake)
+Move 184 var 2: I think most of the readers will shiver at the thought of the ko this leads up to, so you may want to expand on the reasons for White to be able and take this variation lightly still.
+The variations throughout the game are mind boggling, but they do make the story of this game very clear. It looks like this must have been an exhausting game, not only for the players.
+Hi Dieter,
+Move 12 var 4: I’ve never seen W9 like this. Will White sacrfice two stones if Black cuts after B10 is ignored?
+Yes, White will extend and sacrifice the two stones.
+Move 32: after explaining Black is thin on the left, we of course anticipate an attack there. 32 comes as a surprise. Is it because the left is in a state of equivalence?
+Yes, even if Black plays one more move from the left side, it would still be a bit thin, so White can easily reduce the area. That’s why the right side was more urgent to invade.
+Move 18: var 2 then var 2 then var 2. Can W12 resist here and move into the centre i/o cutting the top stones?
+If White pushes up, black will connect at 12. And if White cuts at 17, the ladder from 13 will work for Black..
+Oh, my mistake. That wasn’t hane, but a diagonal move. Thanks for the correction.
+Move 90, vars: so this is how pros read …
+You’re right.
+Some variations might be too hard and difficult to follow, but it’d be ok to just have a look. You can consider that many moves are available, though they didn’t play those moves.
+I don’t understand white 102. Why not a move around C4 ?
+Let me try this one.
+Up until this point, White has been exchanging territory for strong influence. Black has major cash in the bank, with territories and captured groups on the lower right and upper right. White has a strong group at the top and two spheres of influence in the lower left and upper left.
+In these conditions, White cannot afford to play a simple territory making move like C4. This would be a good move if White were ahead, forestalling an invasion. But White still has work to do.
+Therefore, White 102 turns around Black’s group with two purposes:
+– increase the lower sphere of influence and turn it into a potential territory that matches the size of Black’s
+– continue to pressure Black’s group and drive it towards the strength at the top
+If 102 were at C4, Black would play at 102 instead and achieve the negation of the above purposes:
+– White’s lower right, though firm territory would become smaller
+– the Black group would be reinforced and expand its influence, away from the strong White group
+I leave it up to An or David to confirm or deny this 2 dan judgment.
+Your explanation was excellent Dieter!
+That’s exactly correct.
+Could you make this field larger? It is so hard to read commnets.
+Yes, I agree with you. I’ll talk about this with David if we can make the field larger.
+Thanks for your idea.
+Thank you for the beautiful commentary, Younggil
+I suggest whenever you state a move was good or not so good you always go on to explain why that is so. Example, you noted regarding Black move showed “good technique” but went on to explain how a black move to, “A” would have in this case been better. But you never explained why it would have been better compared to the move actually made by Lisa Dall. I believe whenever you comment on the efficiency or effectiveness of remove it would be helpful to explain why you feel or think the way you do. Please keep in mind there will be many double-digit kyu players who will want to read your book and they will constantly struggle with this type of question. Otherwise I think you have done a tremendous job and a spectacular service to the go community in your well considered commentary.
+There are a few instances already where An takes some time to explain certain tactics which are trivial for professionals or even experienced amateurs, such as why Black can’t move out with his two stones at the bottom. I understand that double digit kyus (to make this artificial distinction) could use more of those but at some point the authors will have to draw the line.
+If you want, you can send me the sgf provided by An and include some questions. I’m willing to give it a try and explain beyond what’s obvious from a professional’s perspective. That is, if you indeed have some questions yourself – perhaps your comment was meant to think of others.
+Another solution could be for An to refer to Sensei’s Library, if the remainder of the explanation boils down to standard practice.
+For my level (about 2d) the commentary does provide the feeling that I can understand a pro game with not too many instances of superfluous thoughts. I guess at the DDK level indeed there is some more effort needed (from the DDK to start with …)
+Thanks for your suggestion Rob, and thanks a lot for your kind reply Dieter.
+I tried to explain more, but as you said, it would still be hard for DDK players to understand pros’ game. I’ll try to explain why and compare the actual move and the others more for the next game.
+Thanks.
+Wonderful job!
+Younggil
+Thanks for making this very complicated game understandable! I’m looking forward to the book!
+G
+Hi,
+Younggil, you said at move 55 for black in the variation that he couldn’t connect at R2, because it would result in a bad ko for him. What if he played the N2 sequence before ?
+That’s a good question.
+If Black plays N2, O2 in sente and R2, White will play at S8, and S9 and Q1 will be miai for White. The exchange of N2 and L3 is good for White, so Lee wouldn’t have considered that.
+Thanks for the review Younggil! It was great to see things through a pro’s perspective since us (amateurs) have such limited knowledge in comparison.
+One suggestion I would have for the game review would be to have the comment for the move to be explained on the move instead of later. An example of this is how Move 11 is explained at Move 12. This would help reduce confusion for weaker players like myself.
+Great commentary as always. Thanks again!
+Thanks for your idea Ben.
+I normally do as you mentioned for other commentaries However, the format for the Jubango is a bit different because we’re planing to make a book. I’m sorry that it made you confused, and I hope we find a solution for the next game.
+You use “inevitable” a lot, in situations where it is not incorrect, but it does not really fit English idiom either. I’d suggest considering whether “unavoidable” or “forced” might be more appropriate in some of those situations.
+Thanks a lot Warren for your pointing it out. My limited vocabulary is the problem, but I’ll try to use those terms next time.
+“The atari at white 65″ should be “The atari at white 66″.
+On move 90, should “maintained Black’s potential” be “maintained White’s potential”?
+You’re right Warren,
+Thanks for the corrections.
+At move 117, chose option 2 for White:
+‘Black 117 was’
+It looks like it had additional explanation for that move.
+Thanks Yudong-nick.
+Those words should have been removed.
+When White plays T2 at move 54, you give a variation starting with Black R2 and ending with White T3 and you comment: “…Black can start a ko fight with A to C, but it’s a picnic ko for White. This is a bad result for Black…”
+But actually, after those moves, White can’t fill the ko, and if he captures at Q2, then Black takes the ko, white’s corner group is in atari, and white has no big ko threat.
+So if I missed something and your assessment is correct, it would be helpful to give 2 more moves to make it clear.
+I believe that the qualification of a picnic ko refers to the fact that this was black’s corner to start with. So if black wins the ko, in exchange for say two moves at the left, his gain is not really big, whereas if white wins, he has conquered enemy ground. The picnic does not qualify the likelihood of winning the ko, rather whether the ko is An acceptable result altogether.
+That’s a good question Nick, and thanks for the nice reply Dieter. Your explanation is correct. I should have explained about it clearer.
+In addition to Dieter’s answer, if Black plays A to C, White would play somewhere else. If Black wants to win the ko, Black should still need two more moves at T1 and T4, and White’ll be happy to play two moves somewhere else.
+That’s why I said it was a picnic ko for White, but it wasn’t clear enough.
+I hope it makes more sense for you now with those answers.
+Hi Younggil
+Are u actually updating the sgf file after putting your comments here? Or sgf remains in the “old” version? Is it a matter of let’s say mimutes to update it or does it require more work?
+Thank you
+Marek
+Hi Marek,
+Yes, it’s more work to change, not just minutes to update.
+Thanks for your concern.
+it was interesting commentaries…but i getting lost a lot during reading the game…… a lot of variation…XD it is my own weakness for not able to follow it up……another great commentaries by An…
+Yes, there’re more variations than other commentaries. If a variation is too long or difficult to follow, you can just skip. If you look through the game next time, you’ll probably understand more, and you can look at more variations which you skipped before.
+Hi Younggil,
+Thanks as always for the commentary, I enjoyed it very much. A few corrections for the book:
+1. In regard to the use of “inevitable,” I think it’s okay on move 65, but not as good on move 43. I would use “unavoidable” there as Warren suggests above. The words are very similar (inevitable is just a slightly more “Latinized” version of unavoidable) so I don’t know if I can give you a general rule.. inevitable just sounds more final and non-negotiable at least to my ear. So since that sentence refers to an opinion that may or may not be correct I would use “unavoidable.”
+2. On move 69, “as best he could” is common in verbal English, but not technically correct so it should probably be avoided in writing. “As well as he could” is the correct version.
+3. If at move 89 you follow variation 2, then at move 92 follow variation 2, at move 107 there is a typo where “a” is in place of “1.”
+4. At move 178 “…but this cut became…”
+That’s all I found!
+It is inevitable that the earth will perish one day but if we continue to pollute it at the current rate, it may become unavoidable in the near future.
+The difference is fate versus consequence of choice.
+That’s a nice way to sum it up. Though for any non-native speakers it’s worth mentioning that inevitable can be used in cases that you wouldn’t normally call “fate.” For instance, if a game moves in the direction of a very large moyo for one player I would say the invasion is “inevitable.” I would prefer that to “unavoidable” actually. But in that case it pretty much has gotten beyond a matter of choice; the invasion must happen.
+I see. Thanks, I feel the difference a bit more now.
+The legitimate difference is quite simple actually, if something is unavoidable there is nothing YOU CAN DO to stop it. If something is inevitable, there is NO WAY it can be stopped. Something unavoidable can be stopped, just not by your choices or actions. It will need to be resolved on it’s own some how. Such as an asteroid flying at an ancient earth with NO technology capable of stopping it, to the earthlings, it is unavoidable. Although to an alien race with futuristic technology, it is not. Now if this was a meteor sent by god, that cannot be stopped by anyone other than god, and god spontaneously dies, leaving no one to stop it, it would then be INEVITABLE.
+Thanks a lot for your vivid description Jummy Kudo.
+That’s very helpful for me. I can feel the difference between the two words more than before.
+Thanks David a lot for your kind explanation and correction.
+They’re all new for me, so that’s really helpful for me.
+I’ll try to avoid all those mistakes and typos for the book with GGG team.
+Thanks.
+I think several of you are being way too obsessive about the English language. Inevitable and unavoidable are synoynymns whose difference is so arbitrary as to be barely worth mentioning. In fact, I would say that as far as modern usage is concerned, there is no difference whatsoever. The only reason to choose one over the other is a matter of taste.
+I hope the comments don’t come off as overly critical. As someone who spent many years learning to speak a foreign language, and took that pursuit seriously, the minute differences in how a word sounds to a native speaker is very interesting to me. I’m sure Younggil understands that this isn’t a criticism of his English, but rather a discussion of how the words sounds to us as native speakers. Either one would be fine in the book, but in some cases one will sound more natural than the other. I believe it’s this sort of thing that Younggil is asking for above, along with random little grammatical stuff.
+Minor typo in move 132 of the main branch.
+> Only Lee Sedol pull off this kind of magical reversal against Gu Li.
+Should probably be:
+> Only Lee Sedol can pull off this kind of magical reversal against Gu Li.
+Thanks Paul for your correction.
+Very well commented. Thorough and logically consistent.(No “good for white” branches with a “good for black” variation hidden within)
+Your heart must really be in this project. It makes me fear that you might take a financial loss, by printing a bibliophile version, and not selling enough to turn a profit.
+If you really are contemplating printing a high quality version, how about testing the waters with a crowd funding project? Don’t bother about bonuses, except maybe signing copies.
+Thanks a lot for your idea Stefan. I talked about that with David before, but we decided not to do. Maybe I should consider of that again.
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+Acknowledgements
+We are grateful to M. Stumpe for his contributions to setting up the initial molecular systems and P. Kasson and J. Hellerstein for helpful advice and support. This work was funded in part by a 450M CPU core-hour donation by Google Inc. through the Exacycle eScience program, the Simbios NIH National Center on Biocomputing through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research Grant U54 GM07297 and a Stanford School of Medicine Dean's Fellowship (K.J.K.). We also thank the users of the Folding@home distributed-computing project for donating compute time for some preliminary simulations that ensured a stable production run. Additional computations for docking and chemotype clustering were performed on the Blue Waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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+I’m leaving you, but not because I don’t love you. It’s complicated.
+But complicated is your middle name, so I know somehow you get it. I honestly don’t know if I’ll be seeing you soon or just reminiscing about you from a distance. Ours has been a contentious relationship, but I think I’ve finally accepted the fact that this is just how you treat people. You seem to be quite comfortable with the paradoxes of this world.
+I walk down the corniche staring at a shimmering Mediterranean Sea, distracted only by the glint of snow-capped peaks in the distance. Can it possibly be ski season when all these joggers around me are in shorts and tank tops? As long as I keep my eyes fixed on the long-view, I can avoid the piles of trash that are washing up against the rocky shore.
+There are scantily-clad supermodels posing in front of a proud collection of yachts while a fully covered woman casually looks on from the only visible part of her own body. Appearance isn’t everything to you, but it certainly is something. You are adorned with post-surgery bandages on your nose, and who knows exactly where else…?
+My normal clothes make me feel severely under-dressed as I walk through Zaytouna Bay, but within 15 minutes by foot, I can feel embarrassingly overdressed next to other people staring at me from their make-shift tent.
+Why do you so love to stare? I work hard to always stare in response, but I can never outlast you. I just walk on.
+Then again, it’s a toss up if it’s safer to drive or walk. After all, the life of a pedestrian here is not an easy one. Sidewalks are an extra place to park and freeways are merely an opportunity to see how quickly daredevils can sprint and dodge oncoming traffic. As a driver, I count it a great accomplishment that I have not severed any limbs in my two years on the road (even if I have bruised a few fellow cars). It’s another victory that I was never hit by one of the packs of Ferraris weaving in and out of the four lanes – or was it three lanes – or one – or seven? What’s the purpose of those lines on the road again?
+I can’t decide if you are the absolute worst or best drivers in the world. Every time I’ve ended up on the opposite side of a douwar I pause to consider the miracle I just witnessed. Perhaps my greatest win as a driver is simply that I am not still not stuck in the bottle-kneck traffic of Jounieh.
+I will have to work hard to remember the rules for my children’s car seats when I leave you. Last time I brought one into a service, the driver briefly studied it in confusion, shrugged his shoulders, and tossed it in the trunk. I’ve ridden in way too many Bus Fours to recall whether or not it’s odd to be able to see the road underneath my feet while we’re speeding along to the sound of honking horns.
+So much noise. At such volume. I can never tell if that’s gunfire or fireworks or just the sound of some sh3b’s overzealous exhaust pipe. You play “Happy Birthday” way too loudly, and your candles are always in danger of lighting the restaurant ceiling on fire. You do everything with everything you are… there is no middle ground.
+You wear your emotions on your sleeve. There are still times I can’t tell if you’re angry or confessing your adoration, as both are done with such a full heart and such flamboyant hand motion.
+Why do you charge so much money for everything? And always in cash! You are a living economic miracle. I have no idea how you have persisted, but against all odds, you have, you do, and you will. There is a new building under construction everywhere I turn. Who is buying these places? Who can afford you? This Lira seems like Monopoly money to me… 2000 of something feels like it should earn me a lot more than a loaf of bread.
+Too much bread. My gut is bulging for the first time in my life, and I blame it completely on the convenience and deliciousness of man2ouche. You have the most savory food on the planet, and it has ruined me, I’m telling you. I may need to change the size of my pants for the first time in twenty years.
+You fill empty space, and not just in my belly. In the narrow streets. In casual conversation. In anything that requires some form of organization. I once almost missed my flight to Cyprus as the supposed “line” gradually ballooned into a cone-shaped collection of bodies clamoring for their turn through customs.
+But how I can defend myself in these situations? Two years of learning Arabic and I still receive most of my replies in English or French or just a raising of your eye-brows. You are truly your own code-switching collision of “bonjouraks” and “merci kteers.” You smile respectfully at we foreigners’ obvious accents while weaving in and out of three languages with effortless proficiency. Then you go and make an entirely new language for the sake of texting, merging numbers and letters… whatever, you invented the alphabet, so you have a right to flaunt your linguistic prowess. Let’s be honest, I’ve spent most of my effort just trying to learn your vast array of hand and eye signals, to say nothing of the proper timing to offer a kiss or shake a hand or just avoid physical contact all together.
+Most days I feel like I’m just beginning to get to know you. But I kind of think everyone who meets you, even those who claim to know you best, are in a similar condition. For much of our relationship I’ve simply gone with the flow, trying to follow the motions of the person in front of me like I’m the final shakhis in the twisting chain of some grand Dabke. I’ve been tempted more than once to just break free, thrust my hips to whatever Fayrouz tune is playing, and flick my wrists in order to blend in while sticking out. I’m never sure if you’re about to smile at me or scold me.
+You shamelessly berate me with “harams” when my children aren’t wearing six layers and the breeze is gently blowing. I love and hate the audacity you freely show by involuntarily teaching me to properly care for my kids. But children are indeed adored. And elders are indeed respected, despite – and perhaps because of – their quirks.
+The most endearing of khityarin are often found driving down a side street honking their horns and beckoning me into their cars (not to make it sound creepy or anything). Even if the self-proclaimed service driver doesn’t make enough money in a day to pay for his own gas, at least he has the power to half-heartedly glance up from his foam throne and turn away the poor soul that has stooped down to humbly request a ride in his chariot.
+There is a family loyalty known nowhere else on the planet, even when you are outspoken of how crazy your own family is. I have never so badly wanted to have a village to call my own, nor a Teta to cook me a traditional Sunday brunch. The characters in my own imaginary Lebanese family are as quintessential as a Saturday night at Em Nazih.
+You gifted me with two of my three children, but awarded none of us the grand perks of Lebanese citizenship (by which I mostly mean that cool passport with the cedar on it). Being in my early dad years meant that I rarely saw the side of you that emerges after dark, which feels like perhaps 95% of who you are. Do we even know each other at all? I once accidentally found myself awake past midnight in Mar Mikhael and wondered if I was dreaming. How do you do it? How do you stay awake?
+Ah yes. Coffee. Even Dunkin’ Donuts couldn’t stay away from you… how could I? I once stopped at a dukan to try and purchase a caffeine boost and the old man behind the counter insisted I sit with him and ponder life over a cup of his homemade Joe. Ahlan wa Sahlan ‘til I die.
+And I need a lot of coffee in the morning since there’s no need for me to leave my house with your endless delivery options. It’s not like that fancy restaurant doesn’t have to deal with the same power outages I do here, so why would I ever leave my building? Why would I ever leave you? Well, I guess there are more Lebanese in Brazil and more cedars in Britain. Undoubtedly the Lebanese diaspora will continue, and you will sprinkle your presence across the earth, if nothing else than to provide the rest of humanity with a little flavor.
+My high school students unanimously wave their hands in the air when I ask who feels proud to be Lebanese, but only a few sparse hands remain after I ask who plans to stay. Is this the ongoing consequence of war on a new generation that has never fully known it themselves?
+I’m reminded of the Christmas Tree lighting ceremony taking place under the shadow of the Grand Mosque on one side and the watchful eye an infant messiah in the nativity scene to its opposite. Perhaps you are less concerned with the religious divides of former wars than you are with one’s loyalty to Barca or Real Madrid (although on your finer days you know you prefer Messi’s genius over Ronaldo’s good looks).
+When people ask me to describe you, “resilient” is the first word that comes to mind. I still haven’t found the right translation for it in Arabic, but perhaps that’s the telling part… perhaps your resilience is so core to who you are that it need not be named. I don’t know anyone that has taken so many beatings and dealt with so much heartache but still stands so confident and proud.
+There is a great age difference between us, but you’ve never made it a big deal. I was born in 1982 when your southern border was opening to uninvited guests. It wasn’t the first time, and certainly not the last. You’ve played host to unwelcome guests for most of your existence, and your existence is about as old as existence gets. I question now if you actually ever invited me… but regardless, welcome me you did.
+You have given and given, with so little given in return. You are literally littered from top to bottom, and I fear we have all taken advantage of you – taken you a bit for granted. The temples of your ancient days whisper of a time you were revered at the center of the planet. Modern voices gave you pet names like Switzerland and Paris to link you to other noble places on the earth. But you are your own personality. You always will be incomparable.
+Jesus of Nazareth was once in casual conversation with you before you overwhelmed him with that unparalleled wit of yours. He said you had the kind of faith that meant you will get whatever you wish for. Well my wish for you is that you would have that kind of faith once again… the kind that fights for a seat at the table and defends your own dignity. I hope I’ve been a small part of that becoming real in you.
+Yes, it’s true, I’m leaving you, but not because I don’t love you. It’s complicated.
+
+LightRail art installation aims to bring San Francisco together
+San Francisco’s Market Street cuts through the center of the city, from the Embarcadero to the Castro. It’s a microcosm of the highs and lows of not just the city, but the entire Bay Area. From the pageantry of high-end stores to boarded-up shops. Where the homeless sleep on sidewalks in front of the insular offices of tech giants Uber and Twitter. It’s the segmented heart of the City by the Bay. Now local art collective Illuminate SF wants to unify the entire street by way of lights that track the public transportation system.
+That system is called LightRail, and it’s the brainchild of artists George Zisiadis and Stefano Corazza. That team, along with Illuminate SF, will construct two two-mile-long tubes on either side of Market Street, filled with LEDs that track the Muni and BART trains running in the subway. As a train zooms along underground, a corresponding beam of light will follow it. During a demo of the system, the glow of an upcoming train became hypnotic as it zoomed past me. I caught myself waiting for the next train, and the next. It’s a simple piece of art that’s part of a bigger plan.
+One of its goals is to create a public piece of art that bridges the different social and economic aspects of the street and helps reinvigorate some of the area’s dilapidated spots. “Our feet tend to follow where our eyes go,” said Illuminate co-founder Ben Davis. “The idea that this thing pulls people a little bit further up the street helps create that transformation. I do want to break down those barriers.”
+But breaking down the invisible barriers that mark the end of the shopping section of Market and the beginning of derelict storefronts requires more than just a good idea and warm, fuzzy feelings. Building anything in San Francisco requires navigating a labyrinth of bureaucracy and special interests. So it was surprising when Davis announced that the team had been able to secure permits and support for a four-year installation of LightRail between the Embarcadero and Van Ness Avenue.
+That’s only a two-mile stretch of road, but if the installation is a big enough success, they’ll expand it to Castro Street, at the foot of Twin Peaks. There’s also the possibility that LightRail could become an ongoing fixture on Market Street, just as the Bay Lights, on the Bay Bridge, have achieved permanent status.
+Whether the installation is up for four years or 100, LightRail is one of the first steps in San Francisco’s Better Market Street project. The plan is to make the throughway the cultural center of the city, in addition to a transportation route. “This piece of art will live for maybe four years. But it’s really meant to have an impact that changes the city for the next 60 to 100 years,” Davis said.
+One of the ways it’ll do that is by replacing the ghastly orange sodium streetlamps that make everyone look like a zombie with white lights while it’s installing LightRail. So even when the art project is decommissioned, the project will have a lasting impact on the street.
+There’s only thing left to do: raise $10 million from private and public donors. Davis seems sure that the money will become available. But he stresses that he doesn’t want to siphon funds from other city art projects. Illuminate is raising funds now and is hoping to tap some of the newer residents of Market Street, like Twitter and Uber. While tech companies have moved into the neighborhood (thanks in part to tax breaks from the city), they tend to insulate their employees from the neighborhood by offering free meals so they never have to leave their building.
+But if they are invested in a project like LightRail, they might venture out and help uplift the rest of the street. Or at least get them walking down the street a few blocks. Davis hopes it’s possible. “As a community, let’s show that we care about [Market Street] now, and let’s let light do what it does so well, which is attract, enlighten and let us all see.”
+Source: Lightrail
+BitTorrent says it’s not killing its streaming media service
+Last week, Variety published a report detailing some internal turmoil at BitTorrent: the company’s CEOs had both reportedly been fired, the recently-launched BitTorrent Now initiative was dead and the company’s new LA office / studio had been shut down. Today, BitTorrent has given us more details on the situation at the company — some of what Variety reported appears to be accurate, but the company has denied BitTorrent Now’s demise. The company says it “remains focused on the media space,” including BitTorrent Now.
+Variety also said that the company’s two CEOs Robert Delamar and Jeremy Johnson had both been fired; we’ve learned today that only Delamar has moved on. BitTorrent did also confirm that its LA space had been closed down. The company didn’t have any comment on more widespread layoffs, but if it had been “bleeding money” through its music initiatives, it sounds like it’s not losing enough to shut them down just yet.
+Indeed, BitTorrent says “there have been no changes to our platforms” at this time — we’re taking that to include not only BitTorrent Now but also the company’s newly-introduced news platform and live video streaming service.
+Despite things not being quite as bad as the picture painted by Variety, it’s clear the company is going through some changes and perhaps a bit of turmoil right now. Even so, BitTorrent isn’t giving up on its Now initiative just yet — it only launched the ad-supported streaming music and video service in late June, so it seems reasonable to give it more time unless it has been a spectacular failure.
+There’s still some confusion as to what exactly is going on over at BitTorrent though, particularly around who else has left the company besides one of its CEOs. We’ll update this post if any more information comes out.
+Science
+Linksys boosts the speed of its customizable WRT router
+Linksys has launched a new router in its WRT lineup beloved by WiFi tweaking aficionados. The WRT3200ACM has more bandwidth for its Tri-Band 802.11AC tech, amping the max speed to 2.6 Gbps, double the last WRT model. At the same time,.
+Those speeds won’t be useful unless you’re connecting multiple devices at once, as no single phone or laptop can even run at a third of that. However, that’s not the point — it’s aimed at folks who want to use custom firmware or own a purpose-built router with no fluffy features. To prove its pedigree, the router even carries the same blue and black color scheme of the original WRT54G. If you’re in Linksys’ target market, you probably already know that the WRT3200ACM doesn’t come cheap — it’ll arrive in the next week for $280.
+Source: Linksys
+Streaming to Periscope is no longer confined to phones
+Twitter’s live-streaming said. very slowly and interested users will initially have to fill out a questionnaire to be whitelisted and have the feature added to their app. No solid timeline on when the feature will be available to everyone. Plus at launch, it’s iOS only but engineer Sara Haider said that Android support was coming.
+Source: Periscope
+The foldable, fully-enclosed Passport drone is yours for $549
+Fold.
+Source: Hover Camera
+Blue dye could help keep Ebola doctors safe
+If you’re unfortunate enough to wind up in hospital with a dangerous infectious disease like Ebola, then keep an eye on what your doctors are wearing. If their hazmat suits are smeared with blue dye that gently evaporates as they work with you, you can rest easy. If they’re sporting the odd tint, it means that they’re taking proper precautions and keeping their biohazard gear nice and clean. It also means that they’re using Kinnos Highlight, a new wonder dye created by two students out of Columbia University.
+Kinnos’ story began in 2014 at the height of the Ebola crisis, when Columbia University launched a challenge to look for solutions to the issue. Katherine Jin and Jason Kang looked at the transmission of the disease by medical professionals and found that there was a problem with the way doctors decontaminate. It’s current best practice to spray environment suits with bleach and wait 10 minutes before moving, but that’s fraught with problems.
+First up, tired doctors weren’t waiting the full 10 minutes before deciding to disrobe. Secondly, bleach forms droplets when its sprayed, so it only covers around a third of the material. Thirdly, bleach isn’t exactly visible, so it’s hard for people to see if they’ve properly sprayed the clothing at all. Highlight is designed to resolve both of those issues, firstly by reducing bleach’s propensity to form droplets, ensuring greater coverage. Secondly, the blue dye is designed to gently oxidize with the air, evaporating over a set period of time.
+It means that doctors have a very visual way of telling if their gear has been decontaminated properly before disrobing. That should help reduce their risk of catching a disease themselves or passing it on to other people. Each bottle costs less than a dollar and can be mixed with up to a gallon of bleach, so it’s not particularly expensive, either. The company is now working with bodies like MSF and the French Red Cross, and could be a small, cheap and rather elegant solution to a problem that’s dogged epidemic response teams for years.
+Original PS3 owners can file claims in the ‘Other OS’ lawsuit
+After.
+Via: Polygon
+Source: “OtherOS” Settlement Notice
+Twitter teams with BuzzFeed for a live election night stream
+Twitter doesn’t want its live US election coverage to stop with the debates. It’s partnering with BuzzFeed News on a show for election night, November 8th. Visit Twitter starting at 6PM Eastern and you’ll get a steady stream of results and analysis as the votes pour in. And you might have reason to tune in through the social network instead of resorting to TV. The two companies are working with volunteer data outfit Decision Desk HQ to make calls on election results instead of leaning on a single source, like conventional broadcasters.
+Be ready for the occasional interruption. BuzzFeed and Twitter will roll “TV style” commercials in between segments, so you’re not quite escaping the usual election night experience. Nonetheless, this could be more than a little helpful if you want to keep up with the vote wherever you happen to be.
+Source: PR Newswire, Decision Desk HQ
+Questionable Claims of Apple’s Interest in Sonder’s Dynamic E-Ink Keyboard Technology Emerge
+Yesterday, a Redditor with the username Foxconninsider posted about a new Smart Keyboard claimed to be a working prototype potentially coming to both iMac and MacBook devices sometime in.
+Sonder’s own Bluetooth e-ink keyboard, launching this year
+The post ties Sonder to Apple through a potential acquisition deal that would integrate Sonder’s technology directly into Apple products, which reportedly generated discussion throughout the event, and after it. An excerpt from the original post follows: startup Sonder makes a smart keyboard module, it has a new magnetic mechanical mechanism and a lit E Ink display which allows for swapping shortcuts and languages etc. I saw it swap between a few programs and languages (English, Japanese, Taiwanese layouts etc).
+The Foxconn Innoconn Executive said Apple’s PBO (Procurement board office) was closing an acquisition for the startup company that is now registered in Hong Kong for a big return of investment for Foxconn International Holdings and E Ink Holdings.
+Aside from the unverifiable nature of the post, the claim is questionable for a number reasons, which together originally led MacRumors to decline to cover the story despite multiple contacts from the source prior to their sharing it on Reddit.
+Among the questionable aspects of the story is Foxconn’s and Sonder’s apparent willingness to confirm Sonder is in discussions with Apple about the keyboard technology. Such talks are typically covered by non-disclosure agreements which would preclude them from acknowledging the discussions.
+Today, however, The Guardian is corroborating the story with a claim that “separate to the Reddit report, The Guardian can confirm the Apple CEO, Tim Cook, met with [Sonder founder Francisco] Serra-Martins in China on Wednesday.” Cook is currently touring both China and Japan, but The Guardian’s confirmation doesn’t give specifics as to whether the meeting was simply in passing, or specifically related to a potential acquisition deal.
+Regarding the technology at the center of the story, the original Redditor claimed that they “couldn’t film the macbook or magic keyboard test units at the event,” so the early demo keyboard shown in the video above represents a variation on what was seen at the event. The event’s keyboard allegedly had a single e-ink screen for every key on the MacBook, along with a backlit lighting panel. The technology would seemingly be used in future MacBooks and integrated into the iMac’s Magic Keyboard lineup.
+With so many unconfirmed factors swirling around the story, it remains possible that Sonder itself is attempting to generate interest in its own upcoming Sonder Keyboard, which packs in all of the previously detailed e-ink technology, along with Mac compatibility, at $199. The company expects the keyboard to arrive sometime in the fourth quarter of 2016.
+Tag: Sonder
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+Have you ever thought of taking magnesium (Mg) supplements to help with healing your nerves? I’m currently on a quest to do self-experimentation using different natural supplements. My aim is for an improved nervous system and I must say, my magnesium is definitely working. [Update Oct 2016: I use this every day myself now as I feel the benefits]
+Working long hours in a clinic, family life with a one year-old and other business commitments has taken a toll on me this past year. I was feeling fatigued and not my normal self. I knew it is time to try find a solution so that I can still do what I need to do in my normal day.
+Having recently done so much reading, listening to various health podcasts, and experimenting with a low-carb high-fat diet I have had a quick crash course in nutrition both mentally and physically. Today I want to tell you why I think you need to consider taking magnesium everyday in order to have a happier brain and nerves.
+Table of Contents
+- 1 Benefits of Magnesium in Your Body
+- 2 Magnesium For Our Brain
+- 3 Magnesium: A Natural Pain-Killer Option
+- 4 My Magnesium Supplement Experiment
+- 5 Can I Test For Low Magnesium Levels?
+- 6 Who Should Take Magnesium?
+- 7 Which Type Should I Take?
+- 8 Comprehensive List of Research Studies
+- 9 The Bottom Line
+Benefits of Magnesium in Your Body
+I think medical doctor, Dr Carolyn Dean in the above videos gives a nice simple overview of why you should consider taking a magnesium supplement for a variety of reasons.
+Dr Dean discusses the following points:
+- A general overview of the mineral, magnesium,
+- Some signs and symptoms of low magnesium or magnesium deficiency,
+- How calcium and magnesium will try balance out in our cells,
+- How low levels of magnesium are linked to depression and anxiety (P.S. more info below),
+- Cardiovascular health improvement with correct magnesium,
+- Magnesium involved in diabetes treatment,
+- Muscle fatigue and cramping in sports and magnesium,
+- ADHD and a child’s brain needing magnesium,
+- Gynaecological and obstetric improvement with magnesium.
+That is quite a long list of what magnesium can help you with, right? Well that’s not all of it. If you like what Dr Dean has to say so far and need more information she has written a book titled “The Magnesium Miracle” that explains even more. You can use the links to get it on Amazon if you’d like.
+Magnesium For Our Brain
+In my current drive to learn how to improve my nervous system via food and supplements I kept reading how magnesium is a must have. As you saw in the videos above Mg is involved with so many essential physiological systems in our bodies.
+I then came across a research paper that summarised why magnesium could be a very good thing to take each day. This is a published paper by author George Eby, which you can read in full here. The research paper looks at the role supplementing with different levels of magnesium, mainly from a psychiatric (mental health) point of view.
+Some interesting key points for me in the paper were:
+- IV (intravenous) magnesium and oral magnesium can help our moods,
+- A small amount of calcium supplement can increase depression in the depressed,
+- If you are a Chiropractic student or any other university student maybe you should be helping to boosting your short-term memory ability with some daily Mg,
+- Glutamate and aspartate compete with magnesium for absorption inside brain cells. Think of MSG (monosodium glutamate) foods and aspartic acid sweeteners that we tend to crave during stress cos they lift us. These two are excitotoxins which are a bad thing for brain health.
+One point that I never realised was that you store magnesium in your muscle cells and bones, but also in our brain cells. It is the missing magnesium in the neurones of the brain, which could be more of a problem from having poor Mg levels in your blood. This is compared to the effect poor levels have on your muscles, which can contribute to muscle cramping and twitching.
+For example, I have seen Chiropractic patients come in with a severe neck spasm or low back pain who start on 400 – 800mg of magnesium tablets and 2 days later are spasm free. Now I always thought it must be a function of less muscle cramping which is causing less muscle spasms symptoms. Maybe that’s not the whole story.
+Maybe the problem is when our brain (central nervous system) is burning out and cannot handle emotional stress (family, money, work etc..) this causes an overactive nervous system. This state of fatigue and low energy levels can be at a low level that never goes away so it is chronic or it can be a big event like a death in the family causing massive grief. Pain itself is a stressful event and can lead to poor healing ability.
+So the way I see supplementation helping muscles spams now is via the brain is three ways:
+- Anatomically the spinal nerve roots feed the muscles in the neck and back so you need the nerve to not be hyper-excitable, which can contribute to a muscle spasm. Mg helps calms the nervous system.
+- Mg helps to reduce feelings of stress levels and help us manage our daily stress better
+- Mg helps control pain levels. (read more below)
+That means improving magnesium levels in those with back pain could be working on two fronts. One in the muscle and the other in the brain & spinal cord tissue.
+Magnesium: A Natural Pain-Killer Option
+Talking about magnesium working inside the brain, here is another mind-blowing fact.
+Intravenous magnesium is classified in the same category as heavy-duty trapped nerve pain-killer medications. Technically it falls into the NMDA receptor antagonist drug class. NMDA stands for “N-methyl-D-aspartic acid“.
+When someone has a trapped nerve pain in their neck (a.k.a cervical radiculopathy) or sciatica pain (a.ka. lumbar radiculopathy) then one of the pain-killers for a trapped nerve that a doctor could look to prescribe is an intravenous magnesium solution.
+Magnesium is the only natural mineral that is classified in the South African Acute Pain Guidelines for a doctor to use to control neuropathic pain. Kind of cool that this mineral is classified as a powerful natural painkiller. You can see the guidelines in the document below.
+Another interesting finding was that people with poor magnesium intake are likely to have higher levels of inflammation in their blood.
+My Magnesium Supplement Experiment
+For the last 3 months nearly I have been researching and self-experimenting (a.k.a biohacking) on myself with various changes. One of those is to include taking regular daily magnesium tablets to see if I feel any different from taking them.
+As you may have read in the paper above by George Eby he suggests that healthcare professionals (which can include chiropractors like me) might benefit from using 500 – 800mg of magnesium per day to reduce stress effects.I have never really thought about it, but dealing with lots of people’s problems in a day is a stress. Living that day in day out can definitely wear you down. So why not experiment with magnesium to improve my mood/energy. So I did.
+I have never really thought about it, but dealing with lots of people’s health problems and listening to other life issues in a day can be stressful. Living that day in day out and a regular basis can definitely wear you down. So I thought why not experiment with some magnesium to try improve my mood or energy levels. So I did.
+I started with magnesium glycinate for a month at 400mg/day. I think I felt a bit better, but wasn’t quite sure. Interesting to read on nootropedia how someone who sweats a lot (medically known as hyperhidrosis) found that they needed more glycinate to feel the benefits. So for month 2 I decided to change brands and chemical versions to the Solgars magnesium citrate and wow!
+I started noticing: clearer thinking, a better sleep feeling and maybe even more energy in my day. I have been playing with the 400 – 800mg per day dose range since. Right now I feel good on 400 – 600mg per day so that is 2-3 tablets per day.
+[Update: 26 October 2016] I now have switched to taking daily magnesium l-threonate
+Like Dr Dean said in the video you’ll know when you have taken to much magnesium. You’ll end up having a loose bowel movement because too much magnesium acts as a laxative 🙂
+I’m not interested in taking magnesium oxide because of the low absorption rate. Magnesium sulphate is what they use in the IV drip so haven’t gone there, yet 🙂
+Can I Test For Low Magnesium Levels?
+The answer is yes you can test, but only via a blood test. Not saliva at this point.
+However, it looks like your wasting your time and money if you do a magnesium blood test. That is because 99% of magnesium is stored inside our cells with only 1% floating in the blood.
+I think this is the best way to test if you are low or deficient in magnesium:
+Start by looking out for common symptoms like: muscle spasm or cramping, muscle twitching (especially the cheeks and eyelid), headaches, poor sleeping, depression and irritability. Then take some daily magnesium for a month and just see how it makes you feel. If you notice an improvement in your mood, feel you are getting a better nights sleep that is longer or deeper, maybe experiencing less frequent headaches, or having fewer muscle issues then you probably had some type of deficiency.
+Who Should Take Magnesium?
+If you suffer from:
+- Muscle cramps at night (e.g. restless legs, calf, feet)
+- Wake up in the morning with a crick neck,
+- Regular tension-type headaches or migraines,
+- Low back pain,
+- Insomnia or difficulty falling asleep,
+- Anxiety, nervousness, depression etc…
+I’d say consider trying some magnesium.
+Pain Control
+Another example situation for you. I have seen patients come in with a severe neck pain. The kind of one where they can’t move their head position because the pain in their neck is sore. Then two days later are able to move their neck like nothing has happened after just from taking some daily magnesium tablets.
+There has been some research for migraine sufferers that using 1830mg (1.8grams) of magnesium citrate can help to reduce the severity and frequency of their headaches.
+Is this going to be an instant miracle cure for pain? No, sorry not for everyone. However, it is worth a try since it such a simple thing to try out with very little side-effects.
+LCHF Diet
+This is really linked to people who are also following a low-carbohydrate and high-fat diet (LCHF diet).
+Some popular examples include:
+- Bulletproof Diet from Dave Asprey.
+- Banting Diet. In South Africa, where I am from, “banting” is popular for weight loss and diabetes control because of Professor Tim Noakes who promotes this way of eating in his book the real meal revolution.
+If you are going even lower carb in your diet and eating a more ketogenic diet in order to try raise your ketone blood levels then a Mg supplementation is a must I’d say.
+I did hear nutritional ketogenesis researcher, Dr Dominic D’ Agostino, say in a podcast with 4 hour work week author Tim Ferris that he finds living in ketosis he needs to take a magnesium supplement to prevent muscle cramping.
+This is because when you move into a state of nutritional ketosis your body excretes more Mg via the kidneys in your urine. So you need to replace it to reduce any side-effects like muscle cramps which can be a keto flu symptom too.
+If you drink coffee every day I would also say keep this in mind. I know that Dave Asprey, the Bulletproof Exec, recommends a daily magnesium supplement if you drink Bulletproof® coffee.
+If you are like me and did not know you could be low in Mg in your system and you want to take vitamins or minerals that make you feel better, then definitely this is a must try.
+Which Type Should I Take?
+Magnesium can be used in different ways. It can be used as:
+- an oil to rub on the skin,
+- transdermal spray for the skin,
+- epsom salts in a bath tub or foot bath,
+- tablets or liquid to swallow,
+- IV drip in a clinic or hospital.
+To get a clinical benefit, the tablets and IV drip forms have been tested best. The oil, salts and sprays not so much. However, I do know of patients reporting feeling so much better after spraying magnesium on tight muscle areas. Same with adding some epsom salts in warm bath water definitely can make you feel very relaxed.
+Then there is the question of which chemical form should you use. Mg oxide is very common. However, I recommend taking a supplement where the word after magnesium on the bottle ends in “ate” for example, magnesium glycinate. These chemical versions are the most bio-available form for our bodies. This means you absorb the most and your body can then use it. Some examples to look for when buying a bottle include magnesium glycinate, magnesium citrate, magnesium malate and my personal favourite magnesium l-threonate.
+Comprehensive List of Research Studies
+If you need a decent list of research articles on magnesium I would suggest scrolling through the MedLine Plus page.
+For extra reading like possible side-effects with medications, other health conditions it is used for, and a list of magnesium rich foods I like what is written on the University of Maryland Medical Centers’ page here.
+The Bottom Line
+After all my reading and self-experimentation taking a daily magnesium supplement makes sense to me. I feel good when I do take it and it is essential for a long-term healthy nervous system. So it ticks all the boxes for me as a useful tool to help improve your nerves and to improve your life.
+If you are trying to learn how to control your stress levels then I feel another tip I want to leave you with is to stop eating food with MSG and aspartic acid additives.
+Start using magnesium either in the oral format or if you’re a keen biohacker with access then an IV drip of the stuff whilst being monitored would be interesting for a quick boost.
+Have you started taking or been taking a Mg supplement for a long time? What type and what dosage do you take to feel a benefit? I’d love to know please leave a comment below to let me know.
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+This chick got torn to piecesVor 33 Minuten
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+Ungrateful krunts. Period.Vor 36 Minuten
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+The look in his eyes ...wow. Peterson is under attack for telling the truth. I pray he laughs with his family when he is homeVor 50 Minuten.Vor 56 Minuten
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+Ahhh yes the natural tendencies of the democrat/left... Twisting definitions and blatantly ignoring accurate historyVor Stunde
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+In this patriarchy a men's magazine hires a feminist interviewer and deletes comments of their target demographic. Can't make this stuff up.Vor Stunde
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+I can't wait to not buy her book!Vor Stunde
+ryan walsh
+20:50 she says *both* genders.... implies two which is biologically and factually CORRECTVor Stunde
+Dex Carter
+Any bets she is married to a first class effeminate man !Vor Stunde
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+A dime and a dollar.Vor Stunde
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+I am a 34yo female and Peterson has made my brain increase its critical thinking capabilities. 👏👌Vor Stunde patriarchyVor Stunde
+JJMaccky
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+It's gotten so much worse since this interview with critical race theoryVor 2 Stunden
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+She came to a gun fight with a butter knife...Vor 2 Stunden
+Crab Buckets
+Oh how the mighty have fallen 😆 mr clean your room has some nasty addictions. Love that all meat diet too.Vor 2 Stunden
+goldenchildtheater
+How do you call yourself a journalist and you believe that trump said Mexicans are racists. Ignorant lady didn’t do her researchVor 2 Stunden".Vor 2 Stunden.Vor 2 Stunden
+DayzZr
+scientific study kind of helps prove God... It is a study of his designs... It is strange how many people think it disproves him.Vor 2 Stunden
+Mister Ice
+Q: Is she the best argumentative person for their movement? Was this supposed to be an interview?Vor 2 Stunden
+Rillikin McSpliffelkinney
+Right ,right , right, right. W R O N G !Vor 3 Stunden
+Tone Bone
+Their relative I.Q.'s were perfectly represented by their names' relative font sizes at the beginning of the video.Vor 3 Stunden
+DayzZr
+I love Jordan. If he lead a country, it'd be one of the best countries in the world.Vor 3 Stunden
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+Mr Tuber
+Feminists are women who are exhibiting a higher than normal level of masculinity with an inflated ego to accompany it. BUT because they wear the skin of a woman they can express these traits unashamedly.Vor 3 Stunden
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+Joshua
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+Maddy D
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+Armando
+I ThInK ThE WoRlD iS GoOd bUt iT CaN Be bEtTerVor 3 Stunden
+Antonio Beneby
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+M J
+Man can't get enough of this lobster story...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Vor 3 Stunden
+Jim Jones
+Why call it 'vs'. That says it all about their agenda for getting him on this programme.Vor 3 Stunden
+Paluca
+This a 1 hour and 40 minutes of my time that I wouldn't normally spend on a youtube video, but man, it was so enjoyable seeing Peterson sweeping the floor with that single-minded dumbfuck of an interviewer.Vor 4 Stunden
+D B
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+james mccormack
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+Señor Confused
+1:41:22 "Multiple orgasms" He really has thought about it.Vor 4 Stunden
+Klaudia D. Czerwińska
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+Milton Hunter
+Helen brought a knife to a gun fight. Happens all the time with Jordan.Vor 4 Stunden
+Hayden Mixon
+Why did autoplay show me a video of a woman getting beat down?Vor 4 Stunden
+SERIOUS HUMAN
+She asks. He starts destroying by: 'well..'Vor 4 Stunden
+Mick Miller
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+Miss Nathalie
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+Casenix
+Jordan is a very intelligent well spoken man.Vor 4 Stunden
+Lucas Hudson
+Lewis, how much do you earn? not willing to give up your comfortable job, lifestyle yet not happy with society? typical academic.Vor 4 Stunden
+Lucas Hudson
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+000 pete
+She has problems and "issues" in her mind.. The Professor is truly a "living" professor. What a great man.!Vor 4 Stunden
+Lauren Sullivan
+This is why feminism is fundamentally flawed. Distraction from actual facts will never make it less than truth.Vor 4 Stunden
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+Wooo she is dumb or the person on the right is not saneVor 5 Stunden
+Andrew McGovern
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+Am I blind? I don’t see it anymore…?
+It’s still there on the right hand side. Try this link
+Stupid me! Disable add blocker and it’s there!
+Does you air fare search work on multi-city travel? If so how do I get to it?
+Sadly, it does not. I recommend
+Johnny-cannot locate your booking tool. Have tried viewing your site on Chrome and Firefox. No dice. Tried the link you suggested-nothing. Please advise
+You have to turn off your ad blockers
+Hi Johnny,
+Just wondering if you have seen recent app called “Native” or is that the one you are using??
+Would like to hear your review as this app is $25 a month for a single user…
+I haven’t heard of it until now
+I have your search tool located and do not have ads blocked but it doesn’t seem to be working. I am using firefox. It keeps telling me to check a provider but there are no providers listed.
+Hmmm… I just tried in Firefox and no problem. Can you try with another browser like IE or Safari?
+interview on Chicago radio station Friday 8/14 in the morning. You talked about a site that gives suggestions for the best time to purchase airline tickets based on the departure and arrival cities. I thought you said there would be a link here but I don’t see anything like it.
+Can you please tell me what it is?
+Thank you
+Hi Carol,
+Here it is
+I only get hotel recommendations even if i am on the flight tab.
+Hi Paula,
+Only the first tab shows up with hotels. Try clicking the ones to the right of it like Hipmunk.
+Ad blocker is off and I am running Chrome. I still cannot find your booking tool. Seriously, if this many people are having a problem, you should get someone to redesign your website.
+Good advice! I will look into it today. You still don’t see anything on this page
+I can not find the search engine
+Do you have an ad blocker?
+I can’t pull up booking either and we are hoping to leave in a few weeks. Are your deals for all inclusive similar to Expedia? Airline and flight to somewhere warm over Thanksgiving break?
+Thanks for the note! I’m having them look into it right now. No idea why some can see it and why some can’t. In the meantime just search all the other websites like Expedia and Google.com/Flights
+For flights, my screen does not show a “check rates” place.
+How about on the upper right-hand side of the website.
+Please Help Me! I paid for travel insurance and this last trip at the end of 2014, I fell chasing a dog into an unseen drainage ditch covered with grass. I could not fly and had to buy tickets for me and my little girl to return home three weeks later. I spent 448.00 per ticket. The company will not reimburse me unless I can give them my itenarary. I paid almost 900.00 and they won’t reimburse me unless I can get the itenarary. American Airlines told me they do not keep that info. I was in so much pain I didn’t think I nedded that. They told me to get all the Dr forms filled out and I did but no luck. At Complaintwire.org it’s depressing, looks like its a scam. AIG is the
+Hi, Natasha here. I live in ashburn, VA and today when I went to Dulles airport I was going on American Airlines when my mom and I were getting the tickets the people said the flight was delayed and they never told us the reason I agree with my mom because American Airlines is stupid and the people delay the flights all the time so I tried United Airlines and they did the same so my mom bought tickets for tomorrow and I’m annoyed those plane people are stupid. Uggghhhh when I when on frontier that never happens. The main reasons this is happening is because the people are stupid, I was doing assistance flight, and because it was delayed.
+Sorry, I must have hit the post comment button. Do you have any ideas, suggestion? I am so upset I have paid all these years and the one time I need it I get nothing. I would never had paid that much to fly one way from St. Louis to Los Angeles. I am out all that money. Plus the 75.00 for the travel guard insurance through AIG. Btw, they never asked for the detailed airline info until 8 months later. I even gave them a copy of the visa bill I purchased them on. Please help me if you can,
+Sincerely,
+Cindy Sprinkle
+Love your segment on Leo Laporte’s show! It’s my favorite
+Hi Cindy,
+I’m sorry to hear that! Unfortunately, you will need the itinerary. Did you pay with a credit card? You can ask them for a copy!
+Johnny, love the video from Paris.
+What is the best site to track overseas flight prices? I’m going to Japan at the end of April. Mahalo, Stan
+Try the fare alerts listed on this page
+I heard you on the Leo Laport Show a few weeks ago talking about your travel agent. I believe she was a female and she sounds great at what she does. I have never had a great experience dealing with booking plane flights or hotels in the past and I would like to communicate with her to do all my travel arrangements from now on. Who is your travel agent and how can I her? Thanks. BTW – I love all the great info. you have given over the years on Leo’s show. Very informative.
+Can you recommend a hotel in Amsterdam? I have a hotel booked thru a riverboat company but the price is really high. I have never been to Amsterdam, so I am concerned about booking a hotel when I don’t know the area..
+Hi Shela, I haven’t been in a while but I’m going next month. Will let you know then
+Hey Johnny.
+any good deals to Toronto, ON, Canada (YYZ) in the next 1-2 days? Thanks.
+you’re the man on The Tech Guy.
+Thanks! YYZ is never cheap but especially last minute. Try flying into Buffalo and either renting a car or taking Greyhound
+I can’t find the booking tool or any way to search for flights.
+We’re working on fixing it.
+I saw you on Leo one day (I watch all the time & love your tips) talk about some search tool that will display the cost in frequent flyer miles… I can’t seem to find one that works though. The “UsingMiles.com” site just hangs at the “searching” page.
+Also, is there a way to get around BA’s crazy “carrier-imposed fee?” I have AA miles and want to go SAN->LON roundtrip in business, but I would like to not have to shell out another $900 on top of the 115K mi I’d be spending…
+Thanks!
+Hi Emre,
+Don’t fly BA longhaul and there’s no fee. You can use your AA miles for AA flights or Iberia, Finnair or Air Berlin to save on the fuel surcharges. As my buddy Ramsey says there’s a reason BA flights are always available…cause AA pockets a big chunk of change!
+Looking for cheapest *A from ORD to LIS one way in BUS. in late November. Have about 100,000 UA Miles. Don’t want to do an award as I need to pump up my Miles for status.
+greetings.
+how do i access booking tool you describe above ?
+disable your ad blocker
+Great site. Heard you on Leo Laporte. What is the best tool for checking multi-destination flights? I want to go LAX to Manila for a week in Oct 2017, and then stop for a few days in Hong Kong before returning to LAX.
+Try these tips and tools
+Hi Johnny, So hoping you can help me. Some time ago, I read in one of your posts an article about using an outside service to analyze all your frequent flyer miles to come up with the best booking option for miles(for a fee), which I recall your referring to as a “Miles Hacker.” Could you give me a few website links as a referral? If one really doesn’t know the ins and outs of redeeming frequent flyer miles, especially for complicated itineraries, it would be so worth the price for having someone else to it for you!
+Thank you so much.I have been a loyal follower of your site for years! I hope you can lead me in the right direction.
+Hi Joanne,
+Is it this site?
+BTW: You can always try googling key words and Hundredbacklinks.com to find past articles. Thanks for your support.
+I’m looking for hotel and air for 2 from PDX to Orlando December 12-17, 2018. Will be needing to also ship 2 dogs in cargo. Have never done this kind of shopping before. Where do I start and what is the best time to shop for Orlando rates? How do I know that is a good price when I have nothing to compare to?. Thanks
+your search thing sucks
+Ok I give up. Your Booking Tools talks about a “New Engine” that allows one to input your trip details and six screens will pop up with all of the best deals. But you do not give any information about just HOW to get to this “new engine” ??? Please advise (clearly).
+sorry, You’re having problems with it. Have you tried this page
+You could be using a blocker that’s preventing you from seeing it.
+Cases citing this case: Supreme CourtCases citing this case: Supreme Court
+287 U.S. 474
+FAIRMOUNT GLASS WORKS
+v.
+CUB FORK COAL CO. et al.
+No. 314.
+Argued Nov. 8, 1932.
+Decided Jan. 9, 1933.
+[287 U.S. 474, 475] Messrs. Paul Y. Davis and Henry H. Hornbrook, both of Indianapolis, Ind., for petitioner.
+Mr. Connor Hall, of Huntington, W. Va., for respondent..' [287 U.S. 474, 478] [287 U.S. 474, 479] modified by substituting for $1 the sum of $18,500 (or other agreed sum), with interest at the rate of 5 per cent.- examined, 287 U.S. 585 , 53 S.Ct. 24, 77 L.Ed. . occa- [287 U.S. 474, 480] sions.' Computing plaintiffs' damages 'upon the basis most favorable to' the defendant, and the defendant's damages on the counterclaim also on the basis most favorable to it, plaintiffs appear clearly to be entitled to $ 18,250, with interest at the rate of 5, Ann. Cas. 1914D, 1029, , 51 S.Ct. 513. 2 But we are of [287 U.S. 474, 481] [287 U.S. 474, 482].) 7 F.(2d) 259, 262. Under certain circumstances the appellate court may inquire into the action of the trial court on a motion for a new trial. Thus, its denial may be reviewed if the trial court [287 U.S. 474, 483] erroneously excluded from consideration matters which were appropriate to a decision on the motion, Mattox v. United States, 146 U.S. 140 , 13 S.Ct. 50;; or was less than an amount undisputed, Glenwood Irrig. Co. v. Vallery (C.C.A.) 248 F. 483; Stetson v. Stindt (C.C. A.) 279 F. 209, 23 A.L.R. 302; or was in pursuance [287 U.S. 474, 484] of erroneous instructions on the measure of damages, Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co. v. Gainey, 241 U.S. 494, 496 , 36 S.Ct. 633;10 or was in clear contravention of the instructions of the trial court, United Press Ass'ns v. National Newspapers Ass'n (C.C.A.) 254 F. 284. Compare American R.R. Co. v. Santiago (C.C.A.); 11 the reason for the award of nominal damages may have been that the jury wished the costs to be taxed [287 U.S. 474, 485] against the defendant. The defendant did not complain of the verdict. The record before us does not contain any explanation by the trial court of the refusal to grant a new trial, or any interpretation by it of the jury's verdict..R. Co. v. Hadley, 146 U.S. 330, 334 , 38 S.Ct. 318; Dunn v. United States, 284 U.S. 390, 394 , 52 S.Ct. 189., 13 and the circuit courts of appeals have generally followed a similar polity. 14 Whether refusal to set aside a verdict for failure to award substantial damages may ever be reviewed on the ground that the trial judge abused his discretion, we have no occasion to determine. [287 U.S. 474, 486] , 435- 436, 44 S.Ct. 560; Langnes v. Green, 282, U.S. 531, 538, 51 S.Ct. 243; Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Co., 282 U.S. 555, 561 , 51 S.Ct. 248..
+Mr. Justice STONE and Mr. Justice CARDOZO (dissenting).
+A verdict found in contravention of the instructions of the court may be reversed on appeal as contrary to law.
+So much the prevailing opinion apparently concedes. [287 U.S. 474, 487]. (C.C.A.) [287 U.S. 474, 488] wilfulness, to assess the damages ensuing.
+Justice is not promoted in its orderly administration when such conduct is condoned.
+[ Footnote 1 ]; Columbia Heights Realty Co. v. Rudolph, 217 U.S. 547, 552 , 30 S.Ct. 581, 19 Ann.Cas. 854; Weems v. United States, 217 U.S. 349, 358 , 30 S.Ct. 544, 19 Ann.Cas. 705; Mahler v. Eby, 264 U.S. 32, 45 , 44 S.Ct. 283; New York Life Ins. Co. v. Rankin (C.C.A.) 162 F. 103, 108. Compare Pierce v. United States, 255 U.S. 398 , 405-406, 41 S.Ct. 365.
+[ Footnote 2 ] Contrast Reliance Coal & Coke Co. v. H. P. Brydon & Bro. (C.C.A.) 286 F. 827, 832, where the moving party was the defendant, against whom the verdict had gone.
+[ Footnote 3 ] See, e.g., Henderson v. Moore, 5 Cranch, 11, 12; Marine Ins. Co. v. Young, 5 Cranch. 187, 191; The Abbotsford, 98 U.S. 440 , 445; Kansas P. Railway Co. v. Twombly, 100 U.S. 78 , 81. In numerous cases no reference is made, in denying review, to the grounds for the motion. E.g., Barr v. Gratz, 4 Wheat. 213, 220; Brown v. Clarke, 4 How. 4, 15; Kerr v. Clampitt, 95 U.S. 188 , 189; Ayers v. Watson, 137 U.S. 584, 597 , 11 S.Ct. 201; Van Stone v. Stillwell & Bierce Mfg. Co., 142 U.S. 128, 134 , 12 S.Ct. 181; Holder v. United States, 150 U.S. 91, 92 , 14 S.Ct. 10; Blitz v. United States, 153 U.S. 308, 312 , 14 S.Ct. 924; Clune v. United States, 159 U.S. 590, 591 , 16 S. Ct. 125; Addington v. United States, 165 U.S. 184, 185 , 17 S. Ct. 288; Pickett v. United States, 216 U.S. 456, 461 , 30 S. Ct. 265.
+[ Footnote 4 ] New York, C. & H.R.R. Co. v. Fraloff, 100 U.S. 24 , 31; Wabash Ry. Co. v. McDaniels, 107 U.S. 454, 456 , 2 S.Ct. 932; Arkansas Valley Land & Cattle Co. v. Mann, 130 U.S. 69, 75 , 9 S.Ct. 458; Fitzgerald Constr. Co. v. Fitzgerald, 137 U.S. 98, 113 , 11 S. Ct. 36; Lincoln v. Power, 151 U.S. 436, 438 , 14 S.Ct. 387.
+[ Footnote 5 ].
+[ Footnote 6 ] Act of September 24, 1789, c. 20, 1 Stat. 84, 85; compare Rev. Stat . 1011, 28 U.S.C. 879 (28 USCA 879). See Marine Ins. Co. v. Young, 5 Cranch. 187, 190; and the discussion in 32 Columbia Law Review, pp. 860-869.
+[ Footnote 7 ] See Metropolitan R. Co. v. Moore, 121 U.S. 558, 573 , 7 S.Ct. 1334, 1342; Williamson v. Osenton (C.C.A.) 220 F. 653, 655.
+[ Footnote 8 ] Zacharie v. Franklin, 12 Pet. 151, 163; United States v. Hodge, 6 How. 279, 281; Warner v. Norton, 20 How. 448, 461; Pomeroy's Lessee v. Bank of Indiana, 1 Wall. 592, 597- 598; Freeborn v. Smith, 2 Wall. 160, 176; Sparrow v. Strong, 3 Wall. 97, 105; Ewing v. Howard, 7 Wall. 499, 502; Chicago v. Greer, 9 Wall. 726, 735; Home Insurance Co. v. Wood, 97 U.S. 581 , 583-584; Pittsburgh, C. & St. L. Railway Co. v. Heck, 102 U.S. 120 ; Springer v. United States, 102 U.S. 586 , 595; Missouri Pac. Ry. Co. v. Chicago & Alton R.R. Co., 132 U.S. 191 , 10 S.Ct. 65; Fitzgerald Constr. Co. v. Fitzgerald, 137 U.S. 98, 113 , 11 S.Ct. 36; Holmgren v. United States, 217 U.S. 509, 521 , 30 S.Ct. 588, 19 Ann.Cas. 778.
+[ Footnote 9 ] At early common law in England, writ of error and motion for a new trial were mutually exclusive remedies. See 1 Holdsworth, History of English Law, p. 226. The motion was addressed to the discretion of the court in banc. 3 Bl.Comm. 392. Review by the Exchequer Chamber of the refusal to grant a new trial was allowed in a limited class of cases by the Common Law Procedure Act, 1854, 17 & 18 Vict., c. 125, 35, which provided, however, that 'where the application for a new trial is upon Matter of Discretion only, as on the ground that the Virdict, 99(f), as amended by 18 Geo. V, c. 26, 8. The present rules provide that applications for new trials are to be made to the Court of Appeal, which shall have the same powers on the hearing as it exercises on an appeal. See Annual Practice, 1933, Order 39, Rules 1 and 2.
+[ Footnote 10 ].
+[ Footnote , 51 S.Ct. 501, in which the trial court, expressing the opinion that the verdict was excessive because of passion and prejudice, nevertheless refused, on the filing of a remittitur, to grant a new trial.
+[ Footnote 13 ] See Wilson v. Everett, 139 U.S. 616, 621 , 11 S.Ct. 664; Herencia v. Guzman, 219 U.S. 44, 45 , 31 S.Ct. 135; Southern Ry.-Carolina Division v. Bennett, 233 U.S. 80 , 86-87, 34 S.Ct. 556; St. Louis Iron Mt. Ry. Co. v. Craft, 237 U.S. 648, 661 , 35 S.Ct. 704; Louisville & Nash. R.R. Co. v. Holloway, 246 U.S. 525, 529 , 38 S.Ct. 379; and cases cited in note 4, supra.
+[ Footnote 14 ] See cases cited in note 5, supra. Compare, however, Cobb v. Lepisto (C.C.A.) 6 F.(2d) 128.
+[ Footnote 15 ] See rule 9, paragraph 1, of the Rules of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; and rule 8, paragraph 1, of the Rules of this Court (28 USCA 354). Also Phelps v. Mayer, 15 How. 160, 161; Hickory v. United States, 151 U.S. 303, 316 , 14 S.Ct. 334; Ford Hydro-Electric Co. v. Neely (C.C.A.) 13 F.(2d) 361.
+::Kevin and Libby have taken a shower, slathered each other with Aloe lotion, and peppermint cream, dressed in their comfiest clothes, and ended up in the swinging lounge chair on the porch. After a tiny bit of dozing, Kevin awakens enough to be curious about Libby's comments during their lovemaking of earlier in the day::Lib? ::He whispers, in case she's really asleep::You awake, darlin'?
+::the sun is creeping higher but the heat emanating from it isn't too horrible yet in the late morning. All five of them are on the island golf course, a not so serious game in progress and as expected Howie's losing bad... even to Libby and he thought for sure she sucked worse than he did. Of course, having Kevin's long arounds wrapped around her and guiding majority of her shots is one great way to cheat. Not to mention when he noticed AJ nonchalantly nudging one of her balls closer to the hole when he probably thought no one was looking. He chuckles as AJ sinks yet another hole in one and Libby cheers wildly for him even though Kevin mockingly glares at her for her enthusiasm for his toughest competition. She just grabs his tshirt, tugging him down close and kisses away his faux frown. Howie winks at AJ as he lines up his next shot, trying like crazy to remember all the patient tips AJ has given him so far this morning::Maybe if I had someone cheating on my behalf I wouldn't be feeling so foolish now. Remind me again how you talked me into this.
+::taking a risk she's free, Brian has arranged for the neighbor to keep an eye on Baylee and is now arguing with the propane tank of his grill and dialing Maddie's number, yelping for joy when the grill lights and Maddie answers at the exact same time::Wooohooo!!! I'm the man!!!
+::fresh from a much-needed shower after a very frisky romp in the waves and tumble in the sand with Kevin, Libby dons a fresh bikini and digs out one of Kevin's newly acquired Beatles t-shirts to pull on over it. She brushes out her damp tangles, applies fresh lip gloss to her lips and moisturizer to her legs. Bootsie bounds up onto the bed and mews at her.::::With a grin, she flops down onto the bed on her tummy and strokes the kitty as it comes to nuzzle against her face::Do you want to go see your daddy? You've been such a good girl all day. Uncle AJ put those mean doggies in a pen outside, so you can come explore the house. ::she scoops Bootsie up into her arms and wiggles off the bed:: My precious little pussy. Let's go find and lick Sugarbuns, eh?::she carries her kitty out from her room and follows the sound of a basketball game blaring from a tv. With a giggle, she enters the living room::::Kevin's long, lean body is slouched in a rattan chair and she pauses for a moment, to let her suddenly erratic heartbeat do it's little dance over his stunningly sexy good looks::Sweet Sugarbuns... your little girl is missing her daddy.
+::Lulu throws her keys onto the small table beside the door, walks out of her shoes as she goes into her kitchen, pours a glass of wine, and goes out onto her expansive balcony to sit with her feet up. Taking a sip of the cool, golden liquid, she reaches over to put her purse on the chair next to her, but it slips out of her hand and dumps all the contents as it falls to the ground. Lu sighs, takes another sip of wine before putting the wine glass on the table beside her chair, and bends over to retrieve her belongings. She smiles when she notices the half dozen cards she'd forgotten about, personal cards from the men at the club in Vegas. She looked at each card, trying to put faces to names, but only one man stood out in her mind, a tall, dark and very handsome man with the improbable name of Trace Hutchinson.Picking up her cell phone she eyes the card again...what a hunk he was, and when he held her close to dance, dayum...what a body. A yawn interrupts her lascivious memories, Annie has kept her hopping these past few days, and she had planned on relaxing tonight, pampering herself with the whole bubblebath, manicure, hair treatment thing while Annie was having a sleepover with her girlfriend.Still, no harm in calling him, maybe they could hook up later when Nick and Darcy are back, and the whirlwind that was her niece was back at home running them ragged.She opens her phone, checks the number on the card, and clicks it into her phone, sipping more wine while she waits for the ring.Hello?
+::Afer bidding Libby farewell, he heads into the house..opening the fridge and poking around inside he locates a Corona for Howie and a Nestea for himself. OK so Howie never drinks around him..he might love a cold beer on a hot day like today...::he tugs open a drawer and pulls out a lime, carefully slicing it and placing most of the slices into a baggy, which he drops back into the veggie drawer. He moves to the other side of the kitchen rummaging till he find a bottle opener and pops open the beer, sticking a thick slice of lime onto the top and admiring his creation with a smile...Something about the island makes him shift gears, makes him almost switch roles in his relationship.. becoming far more doting and Howard-like then he thought he'd ever be. Or maybe he just wants to rid himself of guilt. With a snort at hmself, he picks up the bottles and tucks a bag of Doritoes under his arm, calls for Harmony who leaps around his feet as he walks briskly down the winding path and toward the studio, daring not even peek at the beach, where he knows Libby is...He reaches the studio cottage and pauses in the doorway, peering in to admire Howie, who has some music playing rather softly and a bass guitar resting across his lap...He stands there, peering through the screen till Howie looks up, surprise, then soft love filling those chocolatey eyes::
+*giggling and blusing*Hi Cap'n Sexyass!You totally won't believe this dream I had last night! I'm such a hussy. A sex perv. A nymphomaniac! Nympho sounds cute, but nymphomaniac just sounds sooo wrong, don't it? And where did/does this come from? I was raised a sweet little girl!Anyways... so I was dreaming... First... I'm kneeling at the end of this bed and licking a very wet pussy. No clue whose it was. But, damn, it was juicy. And... really yummy. All bare and glistening and my tongue was swiping away quite avidly.Then! My gaze shifts to the left of the bed and Kevin is sitting in an easy chair... WATCHING! And he was saying, 'That's my girl, lick Howie's pussy good. He likes that." GASP! And Ewwwwwwwww! (And yes, I KNOW Howie doesn't have a pussy. I've seen what Howie's got!) Freaking me out...haha.Cut to the next scene and I'm still kneeling on the bed on all fours, but now Howie's sitting in Kevin's lap... leaning back against him with the most pleasurable smile on his face as Kevin strokes his cock. Which is very hard and very big. (And yes, I KNOW Howie doesn't have a VERY big cock. I've seen what Howie's got!) And Kevin's staring at the end of the bed and saying, "It's okay, go ahead."And from behind me the bed dips and bony knees nudge my calves further apart. They're yours. I don't even look, I just know. And your hands gently rest on my hips and you lean over me and I can feel your breath along my spine. And I shivered and mewed and dropped my forehead to the mattress. Your lips, so soft and moist, dance up and down my spine and I can sense that you're watching Kevin and Howie. Your lips part and you rake your tongue down my quivering flesh...I look back over to Kevin and he's nodding and smiling at you as if to encourage you, to let you know it's okay, and then he eases Howie off his lap to stand beside his chair and he wraps his palm around the base of his cock and opens his mouth. Howie stands there dociley and grips the back of the chair with one hand, his other just hanging by his side, and he turns to look toward the bed. His eyes pleading with yours to understand. I gasp and Kevin turns his eyes towards me, and they're dark with desire and want and lust and love. He says, "It's okay, baby, I know you love me." And then he grips his own cock, which is just burgeoning, and wraps his mouth around the head of Howie's dick. Howie moans loudly and I hear your intake of breath behind me, and I can feel your beautiful hard cock sliding up and down along the bottom of my pussy and ass crack.I nod to Kevin and shudder beneath your touch again. Your mouth moves down and you press little kisses and nips all over my ass. Your fingers are gently kneading the crease between my thighs and ass and I moan some more. Then your thumbs tease my pussy and you sink both of them into me. I cry out your name wantonly and grab a pillow to bury my pleading whimpers into. You nudge my ass up higher and your tongue nuzzles it's way all the way down and back up again... you know where... and just as I'm silently begging you to just fuck me, you lean over me again, kiss my shoulder and the back of my neck and you whisper 'I love you' to me. I whisper it back and you slide into me and I start crying... happy tears. And I hear Kevin say... to you, "It's okay, baby, I know you love her. I love you all."And it all seems to last for hours... you fucking me, Kevin sucking Howie... and it's all so peaceful and harmonious and just perfect... And, OF COURSE, I wake up before anyone comes. And, yes, I woke up incredibly horny...lol. And, no, I didn't wake Kevin up. Took care of myself in the shower. And, no, I don't know why I'm sharing this with you other than if you catch me gazing at you over the next couple of days on the island, you'll know why.See you in a couple of hours at Island Aviation! And don't forget Rene!Love,Libby
+::Aunt Lu and Annie have calculated the best time to call, and it's finally time, Annie's jumping in her shoes with excitement:: Lemme dial, lemme dial! ::Lu gives careful instructions and with her tongue stuck out in pure concentration, she gets it right, grinning from ear to ear as it rings::It's ringing! It's ringing allllllllll the way around the world!!::And then - it's her daddy and she grins even wider, almost forgetting to talk after he says hello::Daddy!? It's Annie!!!
+Rene! Come in, man... Howies in the office. He works too fucking hard.. ::heads for the kitchen, settling into a chair and kicking another one out:: How's it going? I think Libby's gonna come down in a bit.. Hey Alex.. :: lights up a cigarette, handing one to AJ and then lighting a second for himself as he follows AJ to the kicthen:: Howie works hard so you can sit around on your ass more...Howie?! Come on out and chill with us..! You wanna golf??!
+My name is Bootsie AJ Richardson. I've recently been adopted, courtesy of my favorite uncle, AJ McLean. My new mommy is Liberty Noel Richardson and she is soooo pretty and sweet. My new daddy is Kevin Richardson and he's really tall and sweet to Mommy. Mommy calls him Sugarbuns. Now I know sugar tastes sweet, but he tastes more salty to me when I lick him. Mommy likes to lick him too. They actually lick each other a lot. A REAL LOT! Which is good, because since I like to lick things alot too it means we were meant to be a family.I love my new house! I love my new family.I'm the luckiest pussycat in the world!
+.
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+Something wrong, out of date, or missing? Expert office Movers. Like Ellie said their employee Vicky, whom I recieved an initial quote from was professional and respectful.
+However, within 30 minutes after the movers left my new place, I noticed that my flat screen TV had a crack in it. Moving Day: The two movers arrived on time and ready to work. Michael Silva is a customer of the business and is willing to be used as a reference.
+BBB is here to help. Sometimes boxes are contaminated with other materials such as wood, polystyrene foam, metal, hollywood moving storage, plastic, wax, and newspaper can be found within your cardboard boxes.
+Another Note: The movers also broke my bed frame. I had my unit stored in their warehouse for 5 months and no items were damaged. Sometimes a cardboard box looks like cardboard, feels like cardboard, and may hollywood moving storage smell like cardboard. BBB Business Profiles are provided solely to assist you in exercising your own best judgment. Joseph is a customer of the business and is willing to be used as a reference.
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+I didn't notice until after a few days, but never bothered to add this to my claim. BBB Business Profiles may not be reproduced for sales or promotional purposes. If you'd like to get any of the following expenses claimed against your tax, read on and see if you qualify. Local move within Los Angeles, CA.
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+Not only will be there be less to transport, but you will also avoid the risk of food spoilage. Also during pickup, the employees said they want to work very slow because they get paid by the hour. I didn't notice until after a few days, but never bothered to add this to my claim. That was the extent of it however. BBB is here to help. Thank you! But what can you do personally to help save the planet? They told me great and would call me back to schedule a time.
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+A close friend or relative can help out on Moving day by acting as a message center for you if you don't have a mobile phone. Bobby was very rude and condescening like he enjoyed hearing my pain. Don't despair if you are not totally happy with your new home on the day you move in. I did not hear from them so I called them on the oct 1st article source both calls. I immediately called the company and eventually received a response from Bobby.
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+Need to file a complaint? It used to be that once a box is used it gets thrown away never to be seen again. Another Note: The movers also broke my bed frame. Another Note: The movers also broke my bed frame. Best pricing, up to a factor 2.
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+Michael Silva is a customer of the business and is willing to be used as a reference. They went on to contradict what she told me and were careless. Very responsive and accommodating our short notice. When a person moves they inevitably use many different types of Packing materials; boxes, blankets, bubble wrap, tape, rope, scissors, Styrofoam peanuts, and the list goes on and on. That was the case with the movers and also managment.
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+A couch can usually be moved into your new home more easily by standing it on end and twisting it through the doorway. John and Elizabeth have been wonderful to work with on all my various requests for deliveries and pickups. The movers worked in complete opposite fashion from her. Like Ellie said their employee Vicky, whom I recieved an initial quote from was professional and respectful.
+REVERENTIA
+CHRIS
+I sat on the back bumper of an ambulance as the police led people away.
+There had to be a couple dozen cop cars, surrounding the building completely. There were also SWAT vans, firefighters, news crews, the whole deal. I wasn’t sure exactly what Malcanthet’s people were being arrested for. Conspiracy? Drug abuse? For all I knew there was even some treason mixed in there.
+The police had cordoned off the area, keeping the crowd of rubberneckers at bay. I didn’t even look at them. Adam had given me a job: Guard this ambulance. So while I looked like I was just sitting around like another victim, I was actually keeping an eye on anyone who got too close.
+Lily was in this ambulance, crying her eyes out.
+I still didn’t know what had happened. Not exactly. Either Lily was a lot older than she looked, or Malcanthet was just crazy and thought she was her mother. Since Malcanthet had lit them both on fire, I was leaning more towards the second explanation.
+On fire…
+I glanced briefly in the back of the ambulance. Lily’s clothes were gone, but the paramedics had given her some new ones. Other than that, she was physically unharmed. There was some ash in her hair, but that was it.
+She just sat there, sobbing. Weeping for a woman who would have killed us all or worse.
+I sighed and turned my attention to outside again. I saw Adam walking over, leading a small Asian girl by the arm. She was glowering, but made no attempt to run. Her hands were in front of her, covered in a blanket. I recognized that trick. She must be handcuffed underneath.
+“Who is this?” I asked.
+“Saki,” he said. “The one we were looking for, my friend’s niece.” He frowned at the chaos and destruction surrounding us. “I have half a mind to blame all this on her.”
+I raised an eyebrow. “Really?”
+He sighed. “No. She wanted to make an alliance, but she got captured instead. She’s just another of Malcanthet’s victims.”
+She spit in his face.
+He wiped it away but didn’t otherwise react. “Anyway, local prisons won’t be able to hold her. The Dominites will handle her, and then transfer her back to the city as soon as possible.”
+“Why isn’t she saying anything?” I asked. “Does she not speak English?”
+Saki glared at me. Adam smiled. “She does, but she’s mute. It’s a long story. We need to—oh. There you are.”
+A Dominite had walked up. He was instantly recognizable by the small red horns growing out of his forehead. As far as I could tell, that was his only modification. Once he was sure we knew who he was, he put on a hat. He probably didn’t want to cause a riot.
+“Sir,” he said to Adam. “The Power sent me.”
+Adam nodded. “Yes, he called ahead. It’s not just you, right?”
+The… demon pointed at a van just outside the police cordon. “Four more hellions ready and waiting, sir.”
+“Good. You’ve been briefed on what she can do?”
+“Yes, sir.”
+“Even better.” Adam pushed Saki lightly by the shoulder. She stumbled into the demon’s arms, then glared at Adam. “Her bracelet is still on and working, but be careful all the same. You got a CS device in your van?”
+“No, sir.”
+Adam frowned, then reached past me into the ambulance. He pulled out a backpack I hadn’t seen there before. It was the same one he had been wearing when we picked him up from the airport. “Use this one. You know how it works?”
+The demon nodded. “Honored Sargeras made us disassemble and reassemble them until we could do it blindfolded.”
+Adam smirked. “Of course. I need to remember that. Anyway, if either the bracelet or the pack goes down, you shoot Saki.” His eyes were hard, and his smirk was gone. “No hesitation. Right between the eyes.”
+The demon looked disturbed. “I—all right. But will Dame Akiyama accept that?”
+“She understands what is necessary.”
+The demon paused. Then he bowed. “As you wish, Honored Paragon.” He left, dragging Saki behind him. She continued glaring at Adam until she was out of sight.
+I frowned at Adam. “What was that about?”
+“Just helping out a friend,” he said. He smirked. “Akane would kill me if I let her niece run around free in New York.”
+“I meant that paragon thing. And the bowing.”
+“Oh, that.” He shrugged. “It’s a long story. Basically, people like me.”
+I gave him a look. “That’s not ‘people like me.’ That’s…” I shook my head. “I don’t even know what that was. Who even bows these days?”
+“It’s more common in Domina,” he said. “Laura says it’s due to influence from Asian immigrants.” He rolled his eyes. “Besides, sometimes the whole damn city feels like a feudal war ground. Lots of lords and ladies and masters and whatnot.”
+I sighed and looked towards the building again, and all the people swarming around it like ants. “What’s going to happen to this place?”
+Adam shrugged. “Dunno. Lily will probably figure something out. Maybe it will get torn down. She doesn’t like being reminded of Malcanthet.”
+“Her… daughter.”
+Adam was silent.
+I scooted closer and lowered my voice. “Adam, what was all that about? Your girlfriend’s daughter was some insane… I don’t even know what to call her—”
+“Hedonist probably works.”
+“Sure. But you don’t seem surprised.” He seemed relaxed.
+Adam sighed. “I knew about Malcanthet. She’s a boogeyman in Domina. Eat your vegetables or the Succubus Queen will come take you away.” He smirked to himself. “Wonder if her death will stop that kind of thing. Probably not.”
+“But Lily—”
+“Lily has a lot of daughters,” Adam said. “A lot of sons, too. I knew Malcanthet was one or hers.”
+I glanced back at Lily. She didn’t seem to notice us. “How old is she, anyway?”
+“Older than she looks. But not that old. Twenty-six, I think. Thirty at the outside.”
+“And how many kids does she have?”
+“Somewhere around four hundred million.”
+I stared at him.
+He smiled back. “It’s a city of orphans, Chris. Everyone wants a mother figure.”
+I rubbed my forehead. “I can’t decide if that’s better or worse than her being an actual mother.”
+“She is an actual mother,” he said, a bit of an edge creeping into his voice. “She loves every single person in that city. The fact that some of them are older than her doesn’t change the fact that they are her children.”
+I didn’t dispute the point. I just sat there, silently, watching Malcanthet’s slaves get processed. There seemed to be no end to them. The police had to call in more cars and vans in order to have any hope of holding them all.
+“I’m surprised the guards didn’t put up more of a fight,” I said. “Even if they weren’t drugged, I would have thought enough of them were loyal to make a ruckus.”
+Adam stood, frowning.
+“What is it?” I asked.
+“You!” Adam said, grabbing a random cop.
+“Hey, watch it, buddy! You crazy idiots are in enough trouble—”
+“I’m one of the people who called you in.”
+The cop’s demeanor changed instantly. “Uh, right. Sorry. Thought you were one of the crazies.” He looked at Adam’s hand, which still had any iron grip on his wrist. Adam didn’t let go. “Uh, what did you need?”
+“Where are the Malcatari?”
+“The what?”
+“The guards,” Adam snapped. “Anyone with a gun. Really, anyone who is sober enough to walk in a straight line. I haven’t seen any of them being brought out. What’s going on with them? Are you holding them somewhere separate?”
+“I don’t really know—”
+Adam shoved him away. “Find out. Now.”
+The cop looked a little shocked that a civilian was giving him orders. “What? Uh, okay. So these Mal—Malis—”
+“Just ask your war—your boss if the guards are being kept anywhere.”
+The cop gave a shaky salute and ran off.
+I didn’t say anything. I just watched Adam. The way he moved, the way he gave orders… he wasn’t an amateur. These were things he had done before. He had experience with ordering cops around.
+What the hell was going on in that city?
+In a few minutes, the cop returned with a lieutenant. She dismissed him with a wave, then stood in front of Adam. She glared at him for a few moments, but to no effect.
+“I am Lieutenant Katherine Vine,” she said. “I understand you have some intelligence to offer.”
+“The Malcatari are still out there,” Adam said without preamble.
+Lieutenant Vine raised an eyebrow. “The guards?”
+“Malcanthet’s military,” Adam corrected. “We fought a few. But there were many still alive last I checked. If you haven’t found any, that means they’ve gone to ground.”
+“Their leader is dead,” Vine said. “They will fade sooner rather than later.”
+Adam shook his head. “When she was still in Domina, Malcanthet’s armies were the most loyal, most highly trained, most well-equipped in the city. If we’re lucky, her standards went down after she fled. But I doubt it. I think you need to consider the worst-case scenario here.”
+“Which is?” Lieutenant Vine had an excellent poker face. I had no idea what she thought about Adam’s assertions.
+“An angry terrorist force loose in your city,” Adam said. “They’ll know Malcanthet’s recruiting methods. They can kidnap random people, drug them up to the gills, and brainwash them into fighting for them.”
+There was a pause.
+“That seems a bit implausible to me,” she finally said. “Especially since two untrained kids managed to take out their entire headquarters in about an hour. Do you have any proof that these… Malcatari are anywhere near as dangerous as you say?”
+Adam sighed. “No. None that you would believe.”
+“Then I believe we have nothing more to talk about.” She turned to go, but patted him on the shoulder. “We’ll keep an eye out. I just think you’re overestimating them.” She walked away without looking back.
+Adam shook his head. “These idiots are going to get killed.”
+I was disturbed. They couldn’t really be as dangerous as he was saying, right?
+He glanced at his watch. “We should probably get going. The meeting was supposed to start an hour ago. They’ll be willing to wait even longer if necessary, of course, but still. I should at least call ahead.” He flipped out his phone.
+I frowned. “What meeting? Who are you calling?”
+He smiled. “The Dominite ambassadors, of course.”
+Behind the Scenes (scene 308)
+One thing that doesn’t get brought up a lot, regarding the toy maker, is diminishing returns. Despite all the incredible things it can do, there is a limit to how much you can manipulate the human body. Ten strength buffs are not ten times as effective as one strength buff.
+So, for example, Lily has more buffs than many entire cultures put together. But that doesn’t mean she is stronger than those cultures. In terms of raw power, she’s a very powerful warlord—but that’s all. In a fair fight, most warlords would have a low, but reasonable, chance of overpowering her. And that’s not counting things like training, minions, and so on.
+I just wanted to make it clear that Lily isn’t some unstoppable juggernaut who can solve any problem by herself. She’s not, and she can’t. And that’s without even getting into her issues with violence.
+Also, yes, Adam is technically a warlord at this point. He has no domain, all his men were given to him directly by Necessarius, and he gets paid out of Butler’s pocket. By most definitions, he’d just be an honored, which for baselines is simply called “paladin.” However, people still treat him like a full Paragon due to his actions during the Rampage.
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