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+Gulf Coast Social Services May 2008 – May 2010
+Brooke Marsal
+San Francisco Bay Area
+Assistant Studio Manager at Source Yoga Studio
+200hr RYT Certified Vinyasa/Hatha Yoga Teacher
+Skills:
+Internet
+Education:
+Public Speaking Presenter
+Team Leadership
+Foothill College 2014 – 2016
+Nutrition
+Connecticut College 2009 – 2013
+Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology
+CENTER FOR CROSS CULTURAL STUDY 2012 – 2012
+Spanish Language and Literature, GPA: 3.71
+MIDDLEBURY SPANISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL 2011 – 2011
+Spanish Language and Literature
+SACRED HEART PREP 2009
+Diploma
+Susan Strickler
+Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
+LIFE Leadership
+Education Management
+Skills:
+Leadership Development, Motivational Speaking, Coaching, Teaching, Special Events..., Executive..., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Customer Service, Editing, PowerPoint, Public Speaking, Refereeing
+Education:
+Keystone College 1987 – 1989
+Associate's degree, Early Childhood Education and Teaching
+Selinsgrove Area High School 1984 – 1987
+Diploma, College Prep
+Experience:
+LIFE Leadership September 2011 – Present
+PIAA August 1993 – Present
+Selinsgrove Area School District August 1991 – Present
+Debbie Royal
+Kansas City, Missouri Area
+Marketing and Advertising Professional
+Marketing and Advertising
+Sandy Warford
+Kansas City, Missouri Area
+Account Supervisor at Grey Healthcare Group
+Marketing and Advertising
+Skills:
+Public Relations, Creative Direction, Account Management, Direct Mail, Strategic Planning, Website Development, Direct Marketing, Marketing Communications, Marketing, Digital Marketing, Advertising, Integrated Marketing, Brand Development, Email Marketing, Newsletters
+Education:
+The University of Kansas 1987 – 1992
+BS, Journalism
+Experience:
+Grey Healthcare Group September 2013 – Present
+Sandweiss Koster May 2012 – September 2013
+Blasdel Cleaver Schwalbe (BCS) Communications April 2010 – June 2012
+St. James Academy April 2005 – April 2010
+Pearcy Tice Krizman Communications June 1999 – December 2002
+Kuhn & Wittenborn Advertising July 1997 – September 1998
+Berry Brown Advertising June 1995 – July 1997
+Bernstein-Rein Advertising June 1992 – May 1995
+Jim DiCello
+Scottsdale, Arizona
+Owner, James DiCello, CPA, PLLC
+Accounting
+Skills:
+Individual Income Tax..., Tax Preparation, Tax Returns, Business Process, Auditing, Finance, Budgets, Program Management, Accounting, Corporate Tax, Financial Reporting, Internal Controls, Bookkeeping, Sales Tax, CPA, Tax Accounting, Managerial Finance, QuickBooks, Small Business, Partnership Taxation, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Tax Advisory, Payroll Taxes, Internal Audit
+Education:
+Arizona State University 1972 – 1976
+BS, Accounting
+Experience:
+James DiCello, CPA, PLLC January 2002 – Present
+Paradise Valley Schools August 1987 – June 2005
+AZ Department of Education July 1984 – August 1987
+AZ Department of Education July 1979 – June 1984
+George D. Marateo, CFP®*
+Greater Philadelphia Area
+Wealth Advisor / First Vice President at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
+Financial Services
+Education:
+Ursinus College 1975 – 1979
+Bachalor of Arts, Economics and Business Administration
+Cherry Hill West High School 1971 – 1975
+Experience:
+Morgan Stanley Wealth Management May 2008 – Present
+Merrill Lynch May 1982 – May 2008
+Sam Patterson
+Waco, Texas Area
+Assistant Basketball Coach at Baylor University
+Sports
+Education:
+Baylor University 2008 – 2010
+Masters of Science in Education, Sport Management
+Baylor University 2004 – 2008
+Bachelor of Arts, Sociology
+Experience:
+Baylor University June 2010 – Present
+Baylor University June 2008 – May 2010
+Baylor University August 2004 – May 2008
+Lorene Hannon
+Greater Boston Area
+Seminar Coordinator at ESTC
+Experience:
+ESTC January 2004 – Present
+Environmental Safety Training Consulting January 2004 – June 2011
+Phil Gatton
+Louisville, Kentucky Area
+VP Process Engineering at Bank of America
+Financial Services
+Skills:
+Process Improvement, Software Development, Risk Management, Six Sigma, Project Management, Strategy, Process Engineering, Banking, Software Engineering, Training, Software Documentation, Project Portfolio..., Change Management, Management, Certified Project..., Strategic Planning, Integration, Analysis, Software Development..., Business Process..., Leadership, Vendor Management, Analytics, Business Analysis, Databases, SDLC, Cross-functional Team..., Visio, Program Management, IT Strategy, Call Centers, Access, Creative Writing, Engineering, Percussion Performance
+Education:
+Bellarmine University 2003 – 2005
+Master, Business Administration
+University of Southern Queensland 2001 – 2002
+MBA, Accounting, MIS
+University of Louisville Speed Scientific School 1995
+Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
+DePaul University 1989 – 1990
+LA&S
+Experience:
+Bank of America February 2008 – Present
+Humana, Inc October 2006 – February 2008
+Honeywell Life Safety December 1997 – October 2006
+VideoLAN Technologies November 1995 – December 1997
+General Electric ESO August 1995 – November 1995
+IBM January 1992 – December 1993
+gloria murray
+Prospect, Kentucky
+Professor and former Dean School of Education at Indiana University Southeast
+Higher Education
+Skills:
+Public Speaking, Leadership Development, Fundraising, Teaching, Higher Education, Community Outreach, Research, Curriculum Development
+Education:
+Ball State University
+BS Degree in History, History and Journalism
+Experience:
+I am still at Indiana University Southeast as Professor in the Education Leadership program August 2015 – Present
+Indiana University Southeast August 2001 – August 2015
+Rosalidia Prieto
+United States
+Education:
+Escuela superior de ARTES VISUALES Martin Santiago 2007 – 2011
+Tecnocatura Superior, Escultura .Dibujo, Pintura, Proyectos Culturales .
+Courtney Larsen
+Madison, Wisconsin Area
+Surety & Fidelity EBusiness Manager at CapSpecialty
+Insurance
+Skills:
+Underwriting, Requirements Analysis, Excel, PowerPoint, Business Analysis, Microsoft Office, Word, Financial Analysis, Insurance, Reinsurance, Microsoft Excel, Commercial Insurance, Strategic Planning, Risk Management, Casualty, Property & Casualty..., Process Improvement, Microsoft Word, Marketing, Surety Bonds, Liability, General Insurance, Brokers, Workers Compensation, Claims Management, Claim, Commercial Lines
+Education:
+University of Wisconsin-Madison 1993 – 1998
+Bachelor of Science, Education and Communication Arts
+Experience:
+CapSpecialty October 2014 – Present
+Capitol Insurance Companies January 2012 – October 2014
+Capitol Insurance Companies April 2008 – January 2012
+Capitol Insurance Companies September 2005 – April 2008
+Mindi Craig
+Greater Atlanta Area
+Director Health & Wellness at Shaw Industries
+Textiles
+Skills:
+Employee Benefits, Employee Wellness, Leadership, Process Improvement, Strategic Planning, Management, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Kaizen, Process Engineering, 5S, Continuous Improvement, Team Building, Value Stream Mapping, Manufacturing, Cross-functional Team..., Team Leadership, Microsoft Excel, Minitab
+Education:
+Georgia Institute of Technology 1998 – 2003
+BS, Polymer & Fiber Engineering
+Experience:
+Shaw Industries February 2012 – Present
+Shaw Industries August 2007 – January 2012
+Shaw Industries January 2004 – August 2007
+Lena Eng
+Greater Milwaukee Area
+Managing Member at Lionheart LLC
+Information Technology and Services
+Skills:
+Microsoft Office, Accounting, Strategic Planning, Marketing Strategy, Management, Process Improvement, Investments, Corporate Tax, Finance, Tax, Budgets, Mergers, CPA, Customer Service, Project Management
+Education:
+University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of Business 1985 – 1989
+B.S., Accounting
+Experience:
+Lionheart LLC December 2011 – Present
+Winlind Skincare January 2011 – Present
+Aslan Associates LLC January 2002 – Present
+Rodney Petty
+Wellington, Alabama
+Retired Ranch Owner/Operator at Getting There is Half the Fun!
+Architecture & Planning
+Oleg A. Barsky, P.E.
+Houston, Texas Area
+Oil & Energy
+Skills:
+Project Engineering, Petroleum, Pressure Vessels, FEED, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering, EPC, Refinery, Petrochemical, Upstream, Gas, Oil/Gas, Process Engineering, Pipelines, P&ID, Energy, Piping, Factory, ASME, Offshore Drilling, Engineering Design, Engineering Management, Commissioning, LNG, Onshore, Oil & Gas, Heat Exchangers
+JoDee Baird
+Greater Salt Lake City Area
+Professional Training & Coaching
+Skills:
+Public Speaking, Team Building, Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Performance Management, Coaching, Management Consulting, Training, Marketing Strategy, Strategic Planning, Business Strategy, Recruiting, Team Leadership, Process Improvement, Leadership, Strategy, Personnel Management
+Dave Dailer
+Portland, Oregon Area
+Principal Geotechnical Engineer at CH2M. (Retired)
+Civil Engineering
+Skills:
+Civil Engineering, Foundation Design, Deep Foundations, Slope Stability, Retaining Walls, Geotechnical Engineering
+Education:
+mse
+Master’s Degree, Civil Engineering
+Experience:
+ch2mhill December 1981 – Present
+Jane Ann Benton
+Austin, Texas Area
+President at 3BJ Holdings
+Real Estate
+Skills:
+Sellers, Management, Real Property, Auditing, Investments, Small Business, Investors, Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate Transactions, Real Estate Development, Entitlements, Real Estate, Single Family Homes, Residential Homes, Strategic Planning, Condos, Investment Properties, Foreclosures, Refinance, REO, Escrow, Selling, Relocation, Due Diligence, Loans, Title Insurance, New Home Sales, Customer Service, Leadership, Marketing, Buyer Representation, Sales, Leases, Negotiation, Mortgage Banking, Short Sales, New Business Development, Family Business, Contract Negotiation, First Time Home Buyers, Retail, Referrals, FHA, Mortgage Lending, Closings, Real Estate Financing, 1031 Exchanges, Brokerage, Disposition, Land Acquisition
+Education:
+Texas Tech University 1968 – 1972
+BBA, Accounting
+Olton High School 1964 – 1968
+Experience:
+3BJ Holdings January 2013 – Present
+Rancho Venado Grande 2011 – 2014
+Alamo Title Company 1989 – December 2012
+JAB Management, Inc. 1982 – 1989
+Jane Ann Benton, CPA 1979 – 1982
+First National Bank at Lubbock 1974 – 1975
+Touche Ross & Co., Certified Public Accountants 1972 – 1974
+Angela Ernst
+Elk Grove, California
+Sales Consultant
+Marketing and Advertising
+Skills:
+Management, Retail, Visual Merchandising, Loss Prevention, Skin Care, Luxury Goods, Retail Sales Analysis, New Store Openings, Budgets, Coaching, Training, Hiring, Brand Development, Fragrance, Merchandising, Fashion, Styling, Store Management, Trend Analysis, Retail Sales, Wholesale, Apparel, Inventory Management, Sales, Trend, Brand Management, Marketing, Sales Operations, Sales Management, Profit
+Education:
+Sacramento City College 2008 – 2015
+Associate's Degree, Social Sciences
+Experience:
+Comcast Cable June 2015 – Present
+Strategic Experiential Group 2013 – Present
+BCBGMAXAZRIAGROUP June 2013 – April 2014
+L'Occitane en Provence 2010 – 2013
+Destination Maternity Corporation 2009 – 2010
+Nordstrom 2008 – 2009
+Garrett Brunell
+Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
+Solution oriented engineer, networker and startup real estate investor.
+Civil Engineering
+Skills:
+Coaching, Team Leadership, Building Connections, Social Media, Marketing, Structural Engineering, Civil Engineering, Steel Design, Engineering, Microstation, AutoCAD, Land Development, Construction Management, Microsoft Office, RISA, Foundation Design, Steel Structures, Client Relationships..., Endorsements, Microsoft Word
+Experience:
+Ulteig May 2015 – Present
+Brunell Ultd 2013 – Present
+Ulteig March 2014 – May 2015
+Ulteig January 2012 – March 2014
+Eve Petrucelli
+Dallas/Fort Worth Area
+Consultant at Rodan+Fields Dermatologists
+Consumer Services
+Skills:
+Business Development, Event Planning, Coaching, Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, Social Media, Time Management, Advertising, Training, Sales Operations, Team Leadership, Account Management, Entrepreneurship, Social Networking, Recruiting, Direct Sales, Social Media Marketing, Email Marketing
+Education:
+Old Dominion University 1984 – 1988
+BS, Environmental Health
+Experience:
+Rodan+Fields Dermatologists October 2012 – Present
+Champion Family Chiropractic February 2011 – May 2013
+Sandoz (Dorsey division) January 1993 – November 1994
+St. Joseph County Health Dept and Norfolk Health Department January 1990 – December 1992
+Ahmet Inci
+Lyndhurst, New Jersey
+Retail Professional
+Retail
+Experience:
+Unique Design Menswear 2008 – 2013
+SARAR 2007 – 2008
+Pam Schreckendgust
+Tooele, Utah
+President at Valley Dumpster & Disposal Service operating as Bin There Dump That
+Environmental Services
+Experience:
+Valley Dumpster Rental & Disposal Service DBA Bin There Dump That October 2012 – Present
+Vivian Marie Black
+Greater St. Louis Area
+Independent Agent Life/Health/Medicare
+Financial Services
+Skills:
+Direct Sales, Clerical Skills, Collections
+Education:
+University of Kansas 1996 – 2001
+BA, Political Science
+Normandy High School 1992 – 1996
+Experience:
+Lincoln Heritage Life Insurance Co July 2013 – Present
+Hazelwood School District November 2012 – Present
+Western & Southern Life February 2011 – March 2012
+Verizon Wireless October 2007 – October 2009
+Theresa VerHoef
+Allendale, Michigan
+Homemaker and Culinary Explorer of the VerHoef Family
+Individual & Family Services
+Skills:
+Therapeutic Recreation, Mental Health, Program Development, Progress Notes, Group Therapy, Case Managment, Adolescents, Treatment, Community Outreach, Volunteer Management, Developmental..., Non-profits, Gerontology, Fundraising, Recreation Planning, Alzheimer's disease, Psychotherapy
+Education:
+Grand Valley State University 1996 – 2001
+Bachelor of Science (BS), Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy
+Experience:
+Covenant Village of the Great Lakes January 2013 – Present
+VerHoef Family March 2006 – Present
+Saint Mary's Living Center 2001 – March 2006
+Thomas Thrift
+Boston, Massachusetts
+Regional Director at National Collegiate Club Golf Association
+Sports
+Skills:
+Exceptional People..., Logic, Advertising, Research, Sponsorship, Facebook, Recruiting, Event Planning, Ticket Sales, Social Media, Sports Marketing, SPSS, Social Media Marketing, Sports Management, Fundraising, Billing Solutions, Collections, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable
+Education:
+Providence College 2009 – 2013
+B.A, Psychology
+Bishop Hendricken High School 2006 – 2009
+Diploma, 2009
+Experience:
+National Collegiate Club Golf Association May 2014 – Present
+Nextgengolf, Inc April 2014 – Present
+Major League Baseball May 2013 – December 2013
+Boston Celtics January 2013 – May 2013
+Pam Bates
+Greater San Diego Area
+Operations and Project Manager
+Online Media
+Skills:
+Operations Management, Project Management, Process Improvement, Cross-functional Team..., Business Analysis, Change Management, Spreadsheets, Training, Staff Development, Leadership, Office Administration, Data Analysis, Business Process..., Consulting, Business Process..., Team Management, Quality Assurance, Telephone Skills, Customer Relations, Scheduling, Process Engineering, Presentation Skills, Supervisory Skills, Analytical Skills, Marketing, Operational Planning, Requirements Analysis, Advertising, Budgets, Email Marketing, Strategic Planning, Management, Social Media Marketing, Integrated Marketing, Sales, Strategy, Mergers, Nonprofits, Online Advertising, Team Leadership, Mergers & Acquisitions, Program Management
+Education:
+University at Albany, SUNY 1982 – 1986
+BA, English
+Experience:
+Independent Management Consultant 2014 – Present
+ZipLocal 2013 – 2014
+Stockton Financial & Insurance 2010 – 2013
+Biotone (2010) January 2010 – July 2010
+California Center for Sustainable Energy 2008 – December 2009
+Yellow Book USA July 2005 – April 2007
+TransWestern Publishing June 1998 – July 2005
+TransWestern Publishing January 1994 – January 1998
+Ernest Park
+Greater Boston Area
+Student at Amherst College
+Biotechnology
+Education:
+Amherst College 1990 – 2011
+Charlotte Bates, PMP, ITIL
+Toronto, Canada Area
+Computer Software
+Skills:
+Active Directory, Visual Basic, DHCP, T-SQL, SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, Access, POS, Project Management, MS Project, Team Leadership, Disaster Recovery, Website Development, IT Management, Blackberry Enterprise..., Small Business Server, Digital Marketing, Retail, Business Development, Marketing, Management, Analysis, ITIL, Project Planning, Business Analysis, Data Analysis, SQL, Requirements Analysis, Leadership, Databases, Software Project..., PMP, Microsoft Project, MS Excel Pivot Tables, Microsoft Excel
+Education:
+University of Toronto
+BA, Economics, High Academic Distinction
+Project Management Institute 2013 – 2013
+PMP
+Experience:
+MarkIV Promotions March 2009 – June 2013
+Claybrooke May 2005 – February 2009
+Claybrooke January 2003 – May 2005
+matthew lockaby
+Traphill, North Carolina
+licensed insurance agent at Insphere Insurance Solutions
+Insurance
+Skills:
+Term Life Insurance, Insurance, Health Insurance, Long-term Care, Disability Insurance, Medicare, Life Insurance, Employee Benefits, Fixed Annuities, Property & Casualty..., Customer Service, Vision Insurance, Individual Health..., Risk Management, Team Building, Retirement
+Education:
+ITT Technical Institute-North Carolina 2008 – 2010
+Associate's degree, Information Technology
+Experience:
+Insphere Insurance Solutions September 2012 – Present
+Weston Henley
+Greensboro, North Carolina
+Junior Paramedic with Guilford County Emergency Services
+Medical Practice
+Skills:
+Public Speaking, Program Management, Time Management, Leadership, Interpersonal..., Community Outreach, BLS/ALS Interventions, Ambulance Operation, Microsoft Office, Research, Teamwork, Event Planning, Program Development, Customer Service, Social Media, Emergency Medicine, Conflict Resolution, Training, Teaching, Healthcare, Leadership Development, Data Analysis, Bloodborne Pathogens..., Cpr Certified, CPR/AED/Basic First Aid, EMT-Basic
+Education:
+North Carolina State University 2009 – 2013
+Bachelor of Science, Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management - Concentration: Program Management, Cum Laude
+Greensboro Technical Community College 2013 – 2015
+Associate's Degree, Emergency Medical Technology/Technician (EMT Paramedic), Graduate
+Grimsley High School 2006 – 2009
+Experience:
+Guilford County Emergency Services July 2014 – Present
+Henley Kydex Productions January 2015 – Present
+REI October 2013 – August 2014
+YMCA Camp Weaver May 2012 – August 2013
+North Carolina State University - Housing August 2010 – May 2013
+Sheryl Weaver
+Monroe, Louisiana Area
+Photographer
+Photography
+Skills:
+Banking, Financial Analysis, Credit, Loans, Finance, Retail Banking, Commercial Banking, Credit Analysis, Mortgage Lending, Customer Service
+Experience:
+Community Trust Bank Office ManagerPelican State RoofingJune 2015 – Present
+Dwayne Shubert
+Willow Spring, North Carolina
+Paramedic
+Public Safety
+Skills:
+CPR Certified, Emergency Medicine, Emergency Management, EMS
+Experience:
+Johnston County EMS March 2013 – Present
+Deepak J. Nath
+San Jose, California
+Engineer, Sr Staff Product Application at Broadcom
+Semiconductors
+Skills:
+Embedded Software, Software Development, Scripting, Python, C, C++, TCL, Perl, Emulation, VHDL, Verilog, Hardware Design, Circuit Design, Artificial Intelligence, FPGA, SoC, ASIC, Ethernet, Digital Design, RTL design, SystemVerilog, Embedded Systems, ARM, Functional Verification, Testing, Debugging, PCIe, VLSI, PCB Design
+Education:
+Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani 2005 – 2007
+Masters, Software Systems
+College of Engineering, Trivandrum 1999 – 2003
+Bachelor's Degree, Electronics and Communication
+Christ Nagar EHS
+Experience:
+Broadcom December 2014 – Present
+Broadcom December 2007 – Present
+Conexant Systems May 2004 – December 2007
+Paxonet Communications 2003 – 2004
+ISRO August 2002 – March 2003
+Pamela Gutierrez
+Greater San Diego Area
+Program Coordinator at Price Charities
+Nonprofit Organization Management
+Skills:
+Inspirational Leadership, Strategic Planning, Event Planning, Community Relations, Interpersonal..., Analytical, Proficient Microsoft..., •Record of improving..., PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Leadership, Social Media Marketing, Non-profits, Public Relations, Event Management, Community Development, Research, Budgets, Microsoft Excel, Community Outreach, Leadership Development, Project Planning, Interpersonal..., Volunteer Management, Teaching, Customer Service, Microsoft Office, Social Networking, Program Development, Facebook, Public Speaking, Outlook, Analysis, Team Building, Program Management, Team Leadership, Coaching, Management, Analytical Skills, Finance, Fundraising, Staff Development, Nonprofits, Philanthropy, Recruiting, Accounting, Government, Project Management, Entrepreneurship, Training
+Education:
+University of San Diego 2011 – 2013
+Masters, Non-Profit Management & Leadership
+San Diego State University-California State University 2004 – 2009
+Business Administration, Management
+Experience:
+Price Charities August 2007 – Present
+Price Charities 2009 – 2009
+USE Credit Union February 2006 – August 2007
+Washington Mutual December 2002 – February 2006
+Charles Flowers III
+Washington, District Of Columbia
+Military Intelligence
+Military
+Skills:
+Chemical Engineering, Event Planning, Microsoft Office, MathCAD, Chemistry, GC-MS, Team Leadership, Teaching, Alternative Energy, Budgets, Concert Production, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Customer Service, PowerPoint, English, Research, Windows, Outlook, Photoshop, HTML, Public Speaking, Strategic Planning, Negotiation, Editing, Gas Chromatography, Chromatography, Matlab, SPSS, Aspen Plus, Autoclave, Biofuels, Laboratory, Meeting Planning, Event Management, Concerts, Leading Meetings, Meeting Scheduling, Cisco Technologies, Technical Writing, Leadership Development, Venue Management, Venue Relations, Polymer Science, Alternative Fuels, Physical Chemistry, Thermodynamics, iOS
+Education:
+University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2008 – 2012
+Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering
+Experience:
+US Army March 2013 – Present
+Lighthouse Academies January 2013 – March 2013
+Univeristy of Massachusetts Amherst Center for Student Development September 2010 – May 2012
+University of Massachusetts Amherst Center for Student Development September 2010 – May 2012
+AAFES Home Traditions May 2008 – September 2008
+Patrick Nowak
+Appleton, Wisconsin
+Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence professional
+Information Technology and Services
+Skills:
+Data Warehousing /..., ERP/CRM/DW/BI..., Project Management:..., System Development Life..., Strong Process..., Conducted Multiple..., Database Architecture..., Reporting Data Mart..., Experience with..., Experience with..., Strong knowledge of..., Offshore Developer..., Production Testing and..., Data Extraction..., Mentoring and Training..., Production Support and..., Strong Understanding of..., Business Intelligence, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, Databases, ETL, Microsoft Office, SDLC, SEO, ERP, SQL, Business Analysis, Oracle, Process Improvement, Project Management, Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint, Crystal Reports
+Education:
+University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh 1991 – 1992
+Bachelor of Business Administration, Management of Information Systems
+University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
+Bachelor of Business Administration, Marketing
+1984 – 1989
+Anthony Fransen
+Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
+Student at UWStout
+Education:
+University of Wisconsin-Stout 2005 – 2010
+BS, Packaging Engineer
+Experience:
+TEN-E Packaging Services, Inc. June 2009 – December 2009
+Karen Zanghi
+Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area
+owner and stylist at Karen's Beauty Boutique
+Consumer Services
+Kyle LoPrimo
+Greater New York City Area
+Business Video Solutions Leader
+Telecommunications
+Skills:
+Unified Communications, Video Conferencing, Telepresence, Tandberg, SaaS, VoIP, SIP, Data Center, Cisco Technologies, WAN, Channel Partners, Managed Services, H.323, IP, Telephony, Telecommunications, Strategic Partnerships, Wireless, Cloud Computing, Ethernet, Cisco Call Manager, MPLS, Professional Services, LAN-WAN, Co-location, Hosted Services, Solution Selling
+Experience:
+Presidio January 2011 – Present
+GlowPoint January 2005 – January 2011
+Cogent Communications October 2002 – January 2005
+Telseon IP Services March 2001 – January 2002
+Coreon March 2000 – February 2001
+_52<<
+sammi hall
+Moriarty, New Mexico
+night auditor/front desk at Mortel 6
+Hospitality
+Skills:
+CNA, night auditor, hospice, alzhimers disease, dementia, client care coordinator, scheduler
+Education:
+moriarty high 1985 – 1989
+basic, Basic Skills and Developmental/Remedial Education
+Experience:
+Mortel 6 April 2012 – Present
+motel 6 April 2012 – Present
+fuzzys pheasant farm November 2009 – Present
+Fuzzy's November 2009 – April 2012
+Norene Sakazaki
+San Francisco Bay Area
+Office Manager at Building Trades Council
+Construction
+Skills:
+Office Management, Event Planning, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Budgets, Team Building, Customer Service, Public Speaking
+Experience:
+Building Trades Council August 2006 – Present
+Taunya Nelson
+Kihei, Hawaii
+Personal Fitness Trainer
+Health, Wellness and Fitness
+Skills:
+Personal Training, Fitness Training, Strength Training, Nutrition, Weight Training, Functional Training, Injury Prevention, Cpr Certified, Cardio, Stretching, Circuit Training, Athletics, Strength, Toning, Fitness, Wellness
+Experience:
+Unlimited Embodyment November 1994 – Present
+Larry Curran
+Ocala, Florida
+Manufacturing consultant
+Aviation & Aerospace
+Skills:
+Laser Cutting, Laser Drilling, Laser Setup, NC Machine programming, PLC programming, Solidworks, PLC Programming, CNC Programming, CAM, Cnc, Lean Manufacturing, Unigraphics, Machining, Manufacturing..., Automation, Manufacturing..., Composites, Design for Manufacturing, Value Stream Mapping, Machine Tools, Project Management, Awesomeness, Catia, Aerospace, Engineering, Root Cause Analysis, Continuous Improvement, Process Improvement, Manufacturing
+Education:
+CCSU 1979 – 1983
+BS, Electrical Systems
+Experience:
+Pratt & Whitney 1963 – 2005
+Francis Conneely
+Boston, Massachusetts
+Project Administrator with FUSS & O’NEILL, ENVIROSCIENCE, LLC
+Environmental Services
+Skills:
+Facilities Management, Management, Calendars, Office Management, Administrative..., Outlook, Process Scheduler, PeopleSoft, Event Planning, Database Administration, Lotus Notes, Human Resources, Microsoft Office, Customer Service, PowerPoint
+Experience:
+FUSS & O’NEILL, ENVIROSCIENCE, LLC February 2012 – Present
+FTC Yarn Productions September 2009 – Present
+BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON October 2011 – November 2011
+KENDALL PRESS August 2011 – October 2011
+L. C. ANDERSON July 2011 – August 2011
+MIT Federal Credit Union March 2011 – May 2011
+Elkus * Manfredi Architects May 2007 – January 2009
+MIT January 2007 – May 2007
+InterSystems Corporation December 2001 – April 2006
+Medical Scientists Incorporated September 1997 – April 2000
+Kyle Billig
+Greater Chicago Area
+Credit Portfolio Manager at Northern Trust Corporation
+Financial Services
+Skills:
+Credit Analysis, Underwriting, Data Analysis, Microsoft Excel, Research, Public Speaking, Leadership, PowerPoint, Social Media, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Event Planning, Marketing, Teamwork, Financial Analysis, Finance, Financial Modeling, Analysis, Due Diligence, Banking, Financial Services, Corporate Finance, Credit, Valuation, Bloomberg, Commercial Banking
+Education:
+WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, OLIN BUSINESS SCHOOL
+Bachelor of Science, Business Administration
+2010 – 2014
+Washington University in St. Louis 2010 – 2014
+BSBA, Finance, General
+Lockport Township High School 2006 – 2010
+Paul Stiles, Ph.D.
+Greater New York City Area
+Quantitative market analysis and system design
+Financial Services
+Skills:
+Capital Equipment, Marketing Strategy, Direct Sales, Product Management, Sales Presentations, Technical Presentations, Customer Presentations, Physical Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Laser Physics, Investment Strategies, Trading Systems, Trading Psychology, Quantitative Investing, System Design, Thin Films, Nanotechnology, R&D, Chemistry, Product Development, Nanofabrication, Sales Operations, Business Development, Characterization, Optics
+Education:
+Northwestern University 2005 – 2007
+Postdoc, SERS, Plasmonics, Scanning Probe Microscopy
+University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2000 – 2005
+Ph.D., Chemical Physics
+San Francisco State University 1996 – 1999
+B.S., Chemistry
+Experience:
+ZEV Capital Research November 2011 – Present
+Nanoink, Inc. November 2009 – October 2011
+Nanoink, Inc November 2007 – November 2009
+Northwestern University June 2005 – June 2007
+University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2000 – 2005
+Gabriela Garza-Ramos
+Addison, Texas
+Information Technology and Services
+Skills:
+Agile Methodologies, Java, Quality Assurance, Android, Technical Recruiting, Internet Recruiting, Applicant Tracking..., Talent Acquisition, Benefits Negotiation, Recruiting, Contract Recruitment, Staff Augmentation, Staffing Services, SharePoint, Vendor Management, VB.NET, .NET, Performance Management, MVC, Visual Studio, TDD, Signal
+Juan Carlos Tejedor
+Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
+Director of Sales Latin America at Lumidigm
+International Trade and Development
+Skills:
+Biometrics, New Business Development, Business Strategy, Identity Management, Channel Partners, E-commerce, Strategy, Product Development, International Sales, Latin America, Product Marketing, Product Management, Market Analysis, Business Development, Integration, Cross-functional Team..., International Business, Team Leadership, Sales Management, Security, Account Management, Entrepreneurship, Sales, Solution Selling, Smart Cards, Pre-sales, Direct Sales, Strategic Partnerships, SaaS, Channel, Program Management, P&L Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Electronics, Start-ups, Contract Negotiation, Enterprise Software, Strategic Planning, Mobile Devices, Professional Services, Executive Management, Go-to-market Strategy, RFID+, Telecommunications, Competitive Analysis, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Business Planning
+Experience:
+HID Global Biometrics Lumidigm Brand September 2011 – Present
+Fingerprint Cards AB February 2011 – September 2011
+EGF January 2009 – March 2011
+L-1 Identity Solutions June 2000 – August 2008
+_62<<
+Tina Shoop
+United States
+Skills:
+Microsoft Office
+Education:
+Bryan College 2011 – 2013
+Bachelor's Degree, Business Administration and Management, General, 3.86 GPA
+Joshua Wroten
+Spring, Texas
+Deputy at Montgomery County
+Law Enforcement
+Education:
+Basic Peace officer Academy MCSO A07 2007 – 2007
+Peace Officer
+Experience:
+Montgomery County December 2007 – Present
+Anh K. Nguyen
+San Francisco Bay Area
+Product Safety at UL LLC
+Public Safety
+Skills:
+Experienced Compliance..., UL, Product Safety, IEC, NFPA, Testing, Engineering Management, Test Equipment, Iso 9000, PCB design, ISO 17025, CE marking, Bluetooth, Electromagnetic..., ANSI, EMC compliance, Power Electronics, Life Safety, Electrical Engineering, FMEA, ISO 14971, Standards Compliance, Product Certification, Standards Development, RF, Fire Protection, ISO, Electricians, Safety Engineering, ISO 13485, Root Cause Analysis, RoHS, Electronics, Power Supplies, Electrical Safety, Failure Analysis, Engineering, FCC, Code Enforcement, Test Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Spectrum Analyzer, Hardware Architecture, Calibration, Fire Suppression Systems, Analog, Quality System, WiFi, Functional Safety, PCB Design
+Education:
+UC Berkeley 1979 – 1983
+B.S Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
+Experience:
+UL LLC December 2005 – Present
+Cisco January 2005 – December 2005
+Underwriter Laboratories Inc. January 1997 – January 2005
+Underwriter Laboratories Inc. June 1983 – January 1997
+Paulcy Cangé
+Greater Philadelphia Area
+Independent Health, Wellness and Fitness Professional
+Health, Wellness and Fitness
+Rebecca Shottland
+Greater New York City Area
+Events Manager at Broadcasting & Cable/ Multichannel News
+Events Services
+Skills:
+Corporate Events, Event Marketing, Event Management, Customer Relations, Microsoft Office, Social Media Marketing, Creative Strategy, Event Planning, Budgets, Customer Service, Television, PowerPoint, Account Management, Press Releases, Social Media, Microsoft Word, Media Relations, Marketing, Social Networking, Editing, Marketing Communications, Public Relations, Advertising
+Education:
+Kent State University 2006 – 2010
+Bachelor of Science, Fashion Merchandising
+Experience:
+Broadcasting & Cable/ Multichannel News April 2014 – Present
+Broadcasting & Cable / Multichannel News February 2010 – April 2014
+Fran Jackowitz Events September 2009 – February 2010
+Francesca Events January 2009 – May 2009
+Dolce & Gabbana June 2007 – July 2007
+Emily Hobbs
+Fort Worth, Texas
+Recent MLIS Graduate
+Information Services
+Skills:
+Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Research, Microsoft Excel, Customer Service, Microsoft Word, Social Media, Editing, Library Science, Social Networking
+Education:
+Drexel University
+M.S
+2010 – 2011
+The University of Texas at Arlington
+B.A
+2006 – 2010
+Harvest Christian School 2003 – 2006
+High School diploma, General Studies
+Travis Brady
+Tuscaloosa, Alabama
+Aerospace Engineer
+Aviation & Aerospace
+Skills:
+Matlab, Microsoft Word, Solidworks, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Research, Microsoft Office, Leadership, Labview, MathCAD, Fortran, C++, Teamwork, Time Management, AutoCAD, CAD, Technical Writing, Public Speaking, Parliamentary Procedure, Abaqus, Finite Element Analysis, Computational Modeling, 3D Printing, Autodesk Software, Team Building, Cubesat, Tornado, Political Campaigns, Campaign Management
+Education:
+University of Alabama 2012 – 2015
+Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
+Heartland Community College 2009 – 2012
+Associate of Engineering Science, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
+Experience:
+The University of Alabama June 2014 – May 2015
+The University of Alabama April 2013 – October 2014
+Creative Campus August 2013 – April 2014
+Menards April 2011 – September 2012
+WEHRENBERG THEATRES November 2007 – October 2011
+Afni June 2009 – September 2010
+Keahi Kaawa
+Honolulu, Hawaii
+Program Director at YMCA of Honolulu
+Health, Wellness and Fitness
+Skills:
+Team Building, Teen Programming, Radio Promotions, Special Education, Service Learning, Camp, Childcare
+Education:
+Iolani School 1987 – 1991
+Experience:
+YMCA of Honolulu January 2014 – Present
+YMCA of Honolulu September 2012 – Present
+Jan Manning
+Greater Salt Lake City Area
+E-Learning
+Skills:
+E-Learning, Enrollment Management, Recruiting, Management, Training, Student Affairs, Employee Training, Admissions, Adult Education, Program Management, Higher Education, Problem Solving, Performance Improvement, Microsoft Excel, Student Financial Aid, Distance Learning, Staff Development, Marketing, Microsoft Office
+Andrew Bonanno
+Greater Los Angeles Area
+Skills:
+Marketing, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Customer Service, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Time Management, Microsoft Excel, Marketing Research, Critical Thinking, Sports Management, Personal Development, Sales, Management, Social Networking, Budgets, Social Media, Microsoft Office
+Education:
+University of Arizona, Eller College of Management 2009 – 2015
+Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General
+Loyola High School 2005 – 2009
+Experience:
+Property Preservation Services April 2014 – September 2014
+Bella Gardens Nursery, LLC December 2013 – April 2014
+The University of Arizona, C.A.T.S. Academics February 2013 – October 2013
+Media Temple June 2013 – August 2013
+Office of Research and Contract Analysis, at the University of Arizona February 2012 – October 2012
+EnergyFirst May 2010 – August 2010
+EnergyFirst May 2009 – August 2009
+Nona DeSoysa
+Ashburn, Virginia
+Bakery Manager Certified Trainer/Team Leader at The Fresh Market
+Food & Beverages
+Skills:
+Management, Customer Service, Sales, Microsoft Office, Retail, Leadership, Time Management, Training, Team Building, Customer Satisfaction, Organizational..., Inventory Management, Merchandising, Teamwork, Forecasting, Team Leader, Food, Food Service
+Education:
+Sinhala Maha Vidyalaya 1974 – 1979
+Advance Diploma, Business/Commerce, General
+Experience:
+The Fresh Market September 2013 – Present
+Bethany Cribari
+Warwick, Rhode Island
+Health & Wellness Coach
+Health, Wellness and Fitness
+Skills:
+Event Planning, Social Media, Wellness, Event Management, Customer Service, Management
+Education:
+Community College of Rhode Island 2012 – 2014
+Experience:
+Herbalife September 2012 – Present
+Herbalife September 2012 – Present
+National Amusements December 2007 – Present
+Robert Hom
+Greater New York City Area
+Experienced IT Support Specialist
+Information Technology and Services
+Skills:
+Active Directory, Windows Server, VPN, XP, Group Policy, Switches, Servers, Troubleshooting, Windows, WSUS, Microsoft Technologies, System Administration, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, MS Office 2007, Help Desk Support, Laptops, iPad, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell Switches, Dell Computers, VMware, VMware Esxi, Hyper-V, Domain Controller, Riverbed Steelhead, Riverbed Mobile..., Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Sonicwall, DFS, DFSR, Backup Exec, SCOM, Solarwinds, vSphere, Firewalls, Technical Support, WAN, Network Administration, Computer Hardware, Computer Maintenance, Virus Removal, Helping Clients, Passion for Helping..., iPhone, Workstations, 2008 R2, Citrix
+Education:
+Polytechnic University 1993
+Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
+Polytechnic University 1982 – 1987
+Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
+Brooklyn Technical High School
+Experience:
+hazen and sawyer pc January 2002 – August 2012
+Dresdner Bank AG 1999 – 2002
+Viacom - Infoworks Division 1998 – 1999
+System Solutions 1993 – 1998
+Digital Transport Inc. 1987 – 1993
+Valeria Caceres
+Washington D.C. Metro Area
+Children's teacher at Church of the Harvest Olathe, KS
+Insurance
+Skills:
+Insurance, Property & Casualty..., Term Life Insurance, Commercial Insurance, General Insurance, Casualty, Liability, Discipleship Coordinator, Microsoft Office, Student Government, Theology, Biblical Studies, Leadership, Life Insurance, Childcare, Children's Ministry
+Education:
+IHOPU 2010 – 2014
+Bachelor's degree, Theology/Theological Studies
+Experience:
+Church of the Harvest - Olathe, KS September 2014 – Present
+International House of Prayer September 2013 – Present
+Family Insurance Agency July 2012 – July 2013
+Premiere Realty June 2010 – 2011
+Beth Currie
+Greater Philadelphia Area
+Product Support Manager, Compliance Department at Philadelphia Insurance Companies
+Insurance
+Skills:
+Property & Casualty..., Underwriting, Insurance, Commercial Insurance, Commercial Lines, General Insurance, Management, Casualty, Leadership, Legal Liability, Umbrella Insurance, Liability, Workers Compensation, Claims Management
+Experience:
+Philadelphia Insurance Companies August 2012 – Present
+Philadelphia Insurance Companies March 2011 – August 2012
+Community Association Underwriters of America, Inc. December 2006 – August 2010
+Philadelphia Insurance Companies December 2004 – December 2006
+The PMA Insurance Group March 2004 – December 2004
+The PMA Insurance Group March 2001 – March 2004
+The PMA Insurance Group May 2000 – March 2001
+Sterling C. Couch, III, CPA
+Greater Seattle Area
+President of Seattle Direct Marketing Agency
+Marketing and Advertising
+Experience:
+Seattle Direct Marketing Agency January 2010 – Present
+Sterling Clay Couch, III, CPAs, PC January 1982 – Present
+Jason Titlow
+Greater San Diego Area
+Telecommunications Manager at USMC
+Defense & Space
+Education:
+Oakland University
+Experience:
+Marine Corps June 2001 – July 2008
+Tina Gehl
+Brillion, Wisconsin
+Lab Support Service Tech
+Hospital & Health Care
+Experience:
+calumet medical center October 2011 – Present
+Kenneth Byrne
+Hartford, Connecticut Area
+Director at MassMutual Financial Group
+Financial Services
+Skills:
+401k, Fixed Annuities, Insurance, Retirement, Pensions, Retirement Planning, Data Mining, Relationship Management, Investments, Vendor Management, Business Analysis, SDLC, Financial Services
+Education:
+Central Connecticut State University
+Bachelors, Business
+Experience:
+MassMutual Financial Group August 2000 – Present
+ING 1999 – 2000
+Pam MacKay
+United States
+Skills:
+Budgets, Customer Service, Outlook, Research, English, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Windows, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Strategic Planning, Real Estate, Team Building, Sales Management, Marketing Strategy, Automotive, Coaching, Management, Sales, New Business Development, Negotiation, Social Networking, Social Media, Public Speaking
+Prathima Aravapalli
+San Francisco Bay Area
+ITSM Consultant
+Computer Software
+Experience:
+eBay December 2010 – Present
+Janet Traweek
+Houston, Texas Area
+Professional Independent Insurance Agent in Health, Life and Disability Insurance
+Insurance
+Micki Weed
+Dallas/Fort Worth Area
+Groomer at Fur de Lis Pet Parlor
+Retail
+Education:
+Eastern Michigan University 1994 – 1999
+ba, German, Enlish
+University of Michigan 1988 – 1990
+general studies
+Experience:
+PetSmart September 2009 – October 2010
+PetSmart September 2008 – October 2009
+Middlesboro Nursing & Rehabilitation Facility October 2004 – November 2006
+University of Michigan Health System March 1993 – April 2000
+Andrew Temple
+Marion, Indiana
+Resident's Assistant at Indiana Wesleyan University
+Public Relations and Communications
+Skills:
+Event Planning, Customer Service, Sales, Public Speaking, Social Media, Art, Community Outreach, Photography, Public Relations, Editing, Strategic Communications
+Education:
+Indiana Wesleyan University
+Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Strategic Communication
+2012 – 2016
+Spooner High School, Spooner WI 2008 – 2012
+General Studies, 3.48
+Hemant Bhavsar
+West Palm Beach, Florida Area
+President : Asian people in energy Xchange, Diversity Group at NextEra Energy Resources
+Utilities
+Skills:
+Clone, SRDF, Oracle HR, Visual Basic, VB.NET, Programming, Data Warehousing, Database Administration, Disaster Recovery, Business Intelligence, Performance Tuning, SOA, Informatica, Oracle Applications, SDLC, SSRS, Databases, SQL Tuning, Unix Shell Scripting, Visio, Database Design, Oracle, T-SQL, Integration, Microsoft SQL Server, PL/SQL, SSIS, SQL, Shell Scripting
+Education:
+Nirmal institure of management studies 1996 – 1998
+MBA
+Gujarat University 1991 – 1994
+MCA
+Experience:
+Florida power & Light June 2007 – Present
+Baptist Health 2006 – 2007
+Bayview Financial 2006 – 2007
+Ocwen Technology Xchange 1998 – 2006
+Ocwen Financial Corporation 1997 – 2006
+Anagram Finance 1994 – 1998
+anjali (anne) harris
+Eugene, Oregon Area
+Receptionist and Volunteer Coordinator at Tamarack Wellness Center
+Higher Education
+Education:
+University of Oregon 2006 – 2010
+Masters, Art History
+University of California, Davis 1998 – 2002
+Experience:
+Tamarack Wellness Center January 2009 – Present
+Thomas Baughan
+Washington D.C. Metro Area
+Senior Major Account Manager at Juniper Networks
+Information Technology and Services
+Education:
+University of Maryland College Park 1974 – 1977
+BS, Industrial Education
+Experience:
+Juniper Networks March 2006 – Present
+Northrop Grumman January 2003 – March 2006
+Northrop Grumman January 2001 – January 2003
+Xerox/Tektronix June 1998 – September 2000
+Xerox/Tektronix May 1993 – June 1998
+Annette Cramer-Thompson
+Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
+Associate Creative Director at Stern Advertising
+Marketing and Advertising
+Skills:
+Direct Mail, Creative Direction, Interactive Marketing, Art Direction, Creative Strategy, Integrated Marketing, Advertising, Brochures, Logo Design, Concept Development, Image Manipulation, Corporate Identity, Corporate Branding, Graphic Design, Photography, Brand Development, Art, Interactive Advertising, Adobe Creative Suite, Outdoor Advertising, Social Media Marketing
+Education:
+The University of Akron 1982 – 1986
+Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, English
+Experience:
+Stern Advertising March 1996 – Present
+Meldrum & Fewsmith 1992 – 1996
+Hesselbart & Mitten 1988 – 1992
+Robert Backlund
+Santa Barbara, California
+Regional Sales Manager at Strategic Healthcare Programs
+Information Technology and Services
+Skills:
+Sales Management, New Business Development, Sales, Business Strategy, Strategic Planning, Account Management, Negotiation, Team Building, Business Planning, Product Development, Management, Start-ups, Customer Service, Highly motivated..., Goal-oriented..., Day Trading, Team Leadership, Goal motivated, Outside sales, Successful Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, SEO, Trade Shows, Social Media Marketing, Web Marketing, Strategic Partnerships, SaaS, CRM, Sales Operations, Enterprise Software, Solution Selling, Social Networking, Business Development, Lead Generation, Social Media, Training, Online Advertising, Microsoft Office, Advertising, Brand Development, Sales Process, Customer Retention, Web Development, Outside Sales
+Education:
+Antioch University-Santa Barbara 2008 – 2010
+Liberal Arts, Counseling Psychology
+Experience:
+Strategic Healthcare Programs December 2014 – Present
+AutoVitals December 2012 – December 2014
+BuzzBomb Coffee October 2011 – November 2012
+Inogen June 2010 – July 2011
+glenn durham
+Elizabeth City, North Carolina
+Information Assurance Manager at CNATTU NRFK
+Military
+Education:
+Tidewater Community College 1996 – 1999
+AAS
+Experience:
+CNATTU NRFK March 2012 – Present
+Dept of Homeland security March 2009 – March 2011
+VA Beach VA May 1999 – March 2009
+Val Lavsky
+Brooklyn, New York
+Surgical technologist at NYU Langone Medical Center
+Hospital & Health Care
+Skills:
+Surgery, Patient Safety, Hospitals, Healthcare, Vascular, BLS, Medical Terminology, CPR Certified, HIPAA
+Education:
+Kingsborough Community College 2014 – 2015
+Liberal Arts/Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
+NYU Surgical Technology Program 2005 – 2006
+Certified Surgical Technologist, Surical Technology
+Experience:
+NYU Langone Medical Center March 2006 – Present
+Grand Palace International April 2003 – May 2006
+Leonard Oppenheimer
+Greater New York City Area
+Senior Director Cardiovascular/Urology
+Pharmaceuticals
+Education:
+University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1966 – 1971
+PhD, Biostatistics
+City University of New York City College 1962 – 1966
+BS, Mathematics
+City University of New York-Brooklyn College 1962 – 1966
+Experience:
+J&J February 2009 – Present
+Johnson & Johnson 2006 – Present
+Johnson & Johnson 2006 – 2009
+Eisai Medical Research October 2004 – January 2006
+merck research laboratories July 1977 – September 2004
+Merck 1977 – 2004
+Chris Lawn
+Baltimore, Maryland Area
+Executive Recruiter at Kforce Inc
+Staffing and Recruiting
+Skills:
+Customer Service, Leadership, Management, Microsoft Excel, Time Management, Microsoft Office, Team Building
+Education:
+University of Baltimore 2010 – 2013
+Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Marketing, 3.361
+Experience:
+Kforce Inc May 2015 – Present
+Capital One June 2009 – September 2011
+Capital One March 2008 – June 2009
+Brittany Russo
+Greater New York City Area
+Monmouth University
+Design
+Skills:
+Customer Service, Photoshop, Social Media, Illustrator, Facebook, Photography, InDesign, Graphic Design, Advertising, Art, Illustration, Sketching, Acting, Graphics, Film, Apparel, Drawing, Brochures, Teamwork, Modeling, Singing
+Education:
+Monmouth University 2012 – 2016
+Bachelor's Degree, Graphic Design
+Experience:
+Trump National Golf Club July 2014 – Present
+Michael Kors October 2013 – Present
+RoomService Amenities March 2015 – August 2015
+Stop n Shop May 2011 – October 2013
+Esther Vidal-Perkins
+Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
+Finance Manager at Amigos For Kids
+Nonprofit Organization Management
+Skills:
+Financial Audits, Financial Reporting, Managerial Finance, Board Development, Nonprofits, Leadership, Variance Analysis, Grant Writing, Strategic Planning, Investments, Strategic Financial..., Fundraising, Retirement Planning, Event Management, Social Networking, Public Speaking
+Education:
+Florida International University 1972 – 1974
+Business Administration and Management, General
+Experience:
+Amigos For Kids January 2012 – Present
+Kimberly Marek, MS, PHR
+Washington D.C. Metro Area
+Vice President at Community Concepts, Inc
+Human Resources
+Skills:
+Organizational..., Performance Management, Policy, Orientation, Employee Engagement, Employer Branding, Public Speaking, Community Relations, Human Capital Management, Process Improvement, Developmental..., Autism, Intellectual..., Learning Disabilities, Social Services, Medicaid, Personnel Management, Recruiting, Workforce Planning, New Hire Orientations, Program Management, Human Resources, Management
+Education:
+Villanova University 2010 – 2012
+Master of Science, Human Resource Development
+University of Mary Washington
+Bachelor of Science, Psychology
+Experience:
+Community Concepts, Inc November 2013 – Present
+Community Concepts, Inc October 2011 – October 2013
+Community Concepts, Inc October 2008 – October 2011
+Volunteers of America Chesapeake July 2007 – October 2008
+Water's Edge Foundation May 2005 – July 2007
+Phillips Lori
+Huffman, Texas
+Payroll Specialist at Waller Independent School Dist
+Accounting
+Skills:
+Gas, Petroleum, Oil/Gas, Administrative..., Drilling, Onshore, Leadership, Administrative..., Upstream, Supervisory Skills, Oilfield, Completion, Project Management, Energy, Microsoft Excel, Customer Service, Negotiation
+Education:
+Magnolia High School
+Magnolia High School
+Experience:
+Waller Independent School Dist February 2015 – Present
+Weatherford November 2010 – February 2014
+Tomball ISD July 2004 – July 2010
+Domenique Butler
+Roswell, Georgia
+Pinapple Bartending owner
+Hospitality
+Skills:
+Bartending, Event Planning, Business Management..., Nursing, Hospitality, Fitness Training
+Education:
+Tacoma Community College 1999 – 2004
+Associate's degree, Nursing Science, 3.78
+Experience:
+Self-employed December 2012 – Present
+Chris Armijo
+Greater San Diego Area
+Senior Director of Engineering at Illumina
+Biotechnology
+Skills:
+Program Management, Strategic Leadership, Cross-functional Team..., Product Development, DNA sequencing, Biotechnology, Commercialization, Strategy, Design for Manufacturing, Embedded Systems, Testing, Manufacturing, Leadership, Engineering Management, Management, Hardware Architecture, R&D, Integration, Product Lifecycle..., Firmware, Design of Experiments, Engineering, Electrical Engineering, PCB design
+Experience:
+Illumina April 2015 – Present
+Illumina April 2011 – Present
+Eastman Kodak April 2009 – April 2011
+Eastman Kodak August 2006 – April 2009
+Eastman Kodak September 2003 – August 2006
+Phogenix Imaging September 2001 – May 2003
+Widcomm June 2000 – July 2001
+Hewlett-Packard August 1987 – June 2000
+Alyssa Althoff
+Charleston, South Carolina
+Medical Student
+Medical Practice
+Skills:
+Leadership, Research, Time Management, Data Analysis, Social Networking, Cell Culture, Biochemistry, Soccer, Sports Coaching, Teamwork, Wellness
+Education:
+Medical University of South Carolina 2015 – 2019
+Doctor of Medicine (MD)
+Furman University 2011 – 2015
+Bachelor of Science (BS), Neuroscience
+Christ Church Episcopal School 2005 – 2011
+Experience:
+University of Tennessee Health Science Center June 2015 – August 2015
+Furman Intramural Athletic Department January 2015 – May 2015
+Furman University August 2014 – May 2015
+Furman University August 2011 – May 2015
+Formal Neuroscience Research Presentations April 2014 – March 2015
+Doug Allison Soccer Academy June 2014 – July 2014
+Wake Forest Institute For Regenerative Medicine 2013 – 2013
+Shriners Hospitals for Children June 2011 – August 2011
+Donald Wilson
+Dallas/Fort Worth Area
+Career Minded Individual Looking for a position with a Stable Firm.
+Financial Services
+Skills:
+Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Customer Service, PowerPoint, English, Windows, Research, Outlook, Teaching, Public Speaking, Underwriting, Analysis, Loans, Credit, Mortgage Lending, Retail, Banking, Risk Management, Financial Analysis, Leadership, Loss Mitigation, Mortgage Underwriting, Sales, Residential Mortgages, Finance, Mortgage Banking, Call Centers, Credit Analysis, Mortgage Servicing, Refinance, Recruiting, Loan Servicing
+Education:
+Utica College 2012 – 2015
+Master of Business Administration (MBA) (Candidate 2014), Financial Forensics and Fraud Investigation
+Washington State University 2009 – 2011
+Bachelor of Arts (BA), Social Sciences
+Tacoma Community College 2007 – 2009
+Associate of Arts (AA), Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
+governor john r rogers 1991 – 1993
+Diploma
+Experience:
+The Lakehouse Bar and Grill April 2015 – Present
+Chili's November 2014 – April 2015
+BevPro August 2014 – October 2014
+Dallas ISD June 2014 – August 2014
+Pacific Union Financial, LLC March 2014 – May 2014
+Wells Fargo Home Mortgage February 2013 – February 2014
+GMAC ResCap February 2012 – February 2013
+Nationstar Mortgage Wholesale Lending March 2007 – September 2007
+New Century Mortgage March 2001 – March 2007
+Meritage Mortgage 1999 – 2001
+Najia Kemmou
+Vienna, Virginia
+Import and Export
+Skills:
+International Trade, Import Export, Import/Export Operations, Negotiation, Business Strategy, Contract Negotiation, Sales, Arabic, French, Handicraft, Essential Oils
+Experience:
+House of Morocco LLC March 2014 – Present
+Weichert Realtors May 2012 – August 2014
+Jennifer Cho
+Orange County, California Area
+Senior Marketing Manager at Strategic Capital Co.
+Financial Services
+Skills:
+Investments, Portfolio Management, Asset Management, Marketing Management, Marketing, Real Estate, Marketing Communications, Leadership, Investor Relations, Leases, Finance, CRM, Sales, Strategy, Risk Management, Budgets
+Education:
+University of California, Irvine 2001 – 2004
+B.A., Economics, Management, Cum Laude
+Experience:
+Strategic Capital Co. May 2014 – Present
+ValueRock Realty Partners January 2014 – April 2014
+Daymark Realty Advisors, Inc. (F/K/A Grubb & Ellis Company/Triple Net Properties) August 2006 – 2013
+Northwestern Mutual March 2004 – August 2006
+Lori Brown-James
+Anniston, Alabama Area
+PARTNER at WILSON DILLON PUMORY & JAMES
+Legal Services
+Skills:
+Civil Litigation, Litigation
+Experience:
+WILSON DILLON PUMORY & JAMES
+Tunde Kelemen
+Austin, Texas Area
+HR Manager at Texas Health and Human Services Commission
+Government Administration
+Skills:
+Business Analysis, Retail, SQL, SDLC, Business Intelligence, Requirements Analysis, Analytics, E-commerce, Databases, Oracle, Data Warehousing, Merchandising, Microsoft Excel, Team Leadership, Access, Process Improvement, SharePoint, Inventory Management, Visio, Microsoft SQL Server, PeopleSoft, SQR, Toad, Dreamweaver, cognos
+Education:
+Eotvos Lorand University of science Budapest Hungary 1987 – 1992
+Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Computer Science, 4
+Experience:
+Texas Health and Human Services Commission April 2015 – Present
+Texas Health and Human Services Commission October 2012 – Present
+Golfsmith October 2009 – October 2012
+Randy Timmerman
+Kansas City, Missouri Area
+Independent Packaging and Containers Professional
+Packaging and Containers
+Skills:
+Sales, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Customer Service, Volunteering, Budgets, Analytics, Financial Analysis, Team Building, Negotiation, Creative Writing, Business Analysis, Financial Reporting, Financial Modeling, SQL DB2, Public Speaking, Account Management, Marketing Strategy, New Business Development, Sales Management, Visio, Strategic Planning
+Education:
+THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 1989 – 1990
+Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, General
+Iowa State University - College of Business 1979 – 1983
+Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Management Information Systems, General
+Experience:
+Independent Contractor – Talon Industries 2002 – Present
+Daimler Chrysler Services 2001 – 2002
+Adrian Nedelcu
+Greater Atlanta Area
+Graphic Designer
+Graphic Design
+Skills:
+Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Photo Editing, Pre-press, Desktop Publishing, Drawing, Illustration, Digital Illustration, HTML + CSS, Dreamweaver, Wordpress, Graphic Design, Adobe Flash, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Aftereffects, Streaming Media, Digital Painting, Oil Painting, Hand Drawing, Social Networking, Video Editing, Streaming Video, Motion Graphics, Cartooning, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop
+Education:
+Athens State University. May 2010 2007 – 2010
+BA, Studio Art
+John C Calhoun State Community College 2005 – 2007
+AS, Accounting
+University of Alabama in Huntsville 2004 – 2005
+Experience:
+KDA Communications August 2011 – August 2015
+LG Electronics April 2006 – August 2011
+Brian DiMeo
+Sewell, New Jersey
+Digital Designer
+Internet
+Skills:
+User Interface Design, Graphics, Adobe Creative Suite, Corporate Branding, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Google Analytics, User Experience, Microsoft Office, Content Management, WordPress, Dreamweaver, Web Design, HTML emails, Graphic Design, Photoshop
+Education:
+Pennco Tech 2001 – 2002
+Certification, Computer Programming
+Art Institute of Philadelphia 1996 – 1998
+Associates, Animation
+Temple University 1991 – 1996
+Liberal Arts, Criminal Justice
+St. Joe's Prep
+Experience:
+AVI-SPL July 2008 – Present
+Rohm and Haas June 2002 – July 2008
+PricewaterhouseCoopers 1998 – 2002
+Courtney Bowman
+Greater St. Louis Area
+Intern at State Farm
+Public Relations and Communications
+Skills:
+Time Management, Organized Multi-tasker, Computers, Goal Oriented, People Skills, Social Skills, Filing, Critical Thinking, Team-oriented, Integrity, Data Entry, Telephone Skills, Analytical Skills, Friendly Personality, Business, Sports, Office Administration
+Education:
+Lindenwood University Belleville 2012 – 2016
+Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mass Communications with an emphasis in Sports Management
+Greenfield High School 2008 – 2012
+High School Diploma, 3.94 GPA on a 4.0 scale
+Experience:
+State Farm May 2015 – Present
+Hollywood Tan Company July 2014 – Present
+Cardinals Clubhouse April 2013 – July 2015
+Dupo High School June 2013 – March 2015
+Lindenwood University Belleville July 2012 – November 2013
+Danny Preston
+Greater Detroit Area
+Technical Writer at General Motors
+Information Technology and Services
+Skills:
+Customer Service, Team Building, Leadership, Strategic Planning, Microsoft Office, Management, Process Improvement, Public Speaking, Marketing, Leadership Development, Event Planning, Customer Satisfaction, Training, Sales, Coaching, Team Leadership, Budgets, Fundraising, Operations Management, Program Management, Recruiting, Time Management, Project Planning, Social Media Marketing, Social Networking
+Education:
+Wayne State University
+Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration and Management, Information Systems Management
+Grand Rapids Community College
+Associate of Arts (A.A.)
+Experience:
+General Motors November 2013 – Present
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+Tuesday, June 12, 2007
+Overrated? OVERRATED?! Boras upset by Andruw critique
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+Shortly after landing in Minneapolis today, I got a call from Scott Boras (Andruw Jones’ uber-agent, for those who’ve been away for a decade), which was a bit unusual because I hadn’t called him in several weeks, and last time I did call him he didn’t return the call.
+So when I answered today and hear that distinct voice on the other end of the phone (he’s got one of those inimitable voices you know right away), I thought, “Oh, God, what did I write that he’s incensed about?” I was braced for a shouting match, since I’ve had a couple with Scott in the past over things I wrote that he didn’t like and/or believe to be accurate.
+But it quickly became apparent this would be a pleasant call, at least as far as Scott aiming his fire elsewhere. He wanted to talk about Jayson Stark’s new book, “The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History,” in which the baseball writer calls Andruw Jones the “most overrated center fielder of all time.”
+Before we get to that, let me tell you guys that Boras told me there’s been no negotiations, not contract talks whatsoever between him and the Braves regarding Jones. And they don’t plan to have any until after the season.
+“We’ve all agreed we’re not going to discuss anything about contracts until the season’s over,” Boras said. “Andruw is an Atlanta Brave and he’s going to work through the season to help his team win, then we’re going to discuss all the contract stuff and what Andruw wants to do. Andruw’s preference was to not negotiate until after the season.”
+(I have to admit, I was wrong in this respect when I told a blogger here a couple days ago that Andruw had not said he wouldn’t negotiate during the season. He said this spring, specifically when I asked him, that he would negotiate any time).
+(Oh, and I’m going to give you my educated guess again and say, ain’t going to be any hometown discount. But that’s just me talking.)
+As another aside, I’ve gotta tell you, this assertion by Jayson has drawn a lot of incredulous reactions from writers I’ve talked to. Everyone respects Jayson, who is very informative and entertaining, but I haven’t run into another writer who really believes Andruw Jones to be highly overrated. Or overrated at all.
+Not in the past, and not since the book starting getting a lot of attention.
+I don’t need zone ratings and putout totals to tell me when I’m seeing a great defensive player. I know what I see, and in Jones I see one of the best two or three center fielders of the past 25 years (I’m 43, so I’ll confine it to a period I’m very familiar with), and perhaps the best.
+But anyway, Boras obviously has a dog in this fight (or maybe that’s a poor choice of words in an Atlanta-based blog these days, huh?). Uh, he has a vested interest, obviously, since he represents Andruw and his client can be a free agent after the season.
+And Scott is hardly one to talk about bending stats to fit his needs. The man is an absolute negotiating beast. Takes no prisoners. None better.
+But I gotta agree with him on this. I’m watching Andruw make plays this season and thinking, this is not the most overrated center fielder of all time. This is not an overrated center fielder. An overrated hitter? That’s open for debate, certainly. But that’s not what Jayson was talking about.
+No, he specifically cited Andruw’s decline in defensive “putout” totals in recent years, the fact that he had about 100 fewer outouts in each of the past few years - 390 in 2003, 389 in 2004, 365 in 2005, 377 in 2006 - compared to his peak, jaw-dropping totals of 493 in 1999 and 461 in 2001.
+Well, Boras has a law degree, a very large and well-paid staff, and a statistical database that, I kid you not, is managed by a former NASA dude that Boras hired to come over to his firm.
+So Boras, peeved over the portrayal of his client as some sort of broken-down fielder who doesn’t get to half the balls he once got to, went to work to try and disprove Stark.
+Boras said he was up late last night crunching numbers and doing statistical analysis between Andruw and Willie Mays — have I mentioned that Boras thinks very highly of Andruw? — and after finding just what he was looking for, he called me and, I’m sure, a couple other writers today and spewed forth the stats.
+He went on an ESPN show this morning and did the same.
+A few of Boras’ main points of emphasis: Mays was the only other outfielder to have five consecutive seasons of 400 or more putouts, which he did from 1954-1958 in 154-game seasons. Boras added a generous 25 putouts for the eight-game difference and said Mays still never would’ve matched Andruw’s 493.
+But what was strikingly - or starkly? — similar to Andruw’s stats was how Mays then had three consecutive seasons with fewer than 400 putouts from 1959 (he had 353 that season) through 1961.
+“Then when Willie was 30, he went back over 400 [putouts] just like Andruw is doing,” said Boras.
+Indeed, Willie jacked his total back up to 429 in 1962, the first 162-game season. This year, Andruw leads the majors with 190 putouts, on pace for 475, which would be his second-highest total.
+OK, I know, your heads are spinning. But just bear with me a second longer.
+Boras went on to talk about how Stark didn’t compare Jones with other top fielders of today’s game, or to note how “indexes” affect the nunbers from year to year, which is reflected by all the top fielders having lower totals in recent seasons.
+“His failed research, the only way he could manipulate the numbers to stir up some kind of controversy was by comparing Andruw to Andruw,” said Boras, who pointed out that Jones had 45 more putouts last season than Toronto’s Vernon Wells and 34 more than Minnesota’s Torii Hunter, who both won Gold Gloves (Andruw won his ninth consecutive Gold Glove).
+“He fails to point out that none of the center fielders are getting to 400 [in recent seasons],” Boras said. “You have to look at indexes of baseball.”
+Hey, folks, don’t ask me to define the indexes. Google it and see if that works.
+Boras pointed out that Hunter’s total last season was far below his best, “and no one is saying Torii Hunter is in decline.”
+He pointed out that the great Mickey Mantle’s peak was 372 putouts (again, in a 154-season, not 162).
+Boras said Jones and Carlos Beltran (another horse in the Boras stable) were the only outfielders with 1,500 putouts in the past four seasons.
+He pointed out that Andruw has played with 37 different left fielders as a Brave, and that it hasn’t affected his defense.
+He got into a rant on “zone ratings” (Stark also cited that defensive stat), with Boras explaining, “The fallacy of zone rating is if you have greater range you’ll have more attempts used against you, and not be credited for the greater range.”
+(His longer explanation made sense, but I can’t find it in my notes. I think I spilled part of my chicken sandwich on it or something. He explained how good fielders are actually penalized for getting to balls out of their zone, like Andruw does. Boras said he had reduced a negative zone rating to shreds in someone’s arbitration hearing.)
+He went on and on. The man doesn’t tire — Boras, I’m talking about — and I’m fairly certain he does not require sleep.
+“I have no problem with people taking opinions,” Boras said. “But when you say things about Andruw Jones, you’re talking about hallowed ground. You’re talking about a Hall of Famer.”
+(Thank goodness he doesn’t read the Braves/MIB blog, huh?)
+Boras was particularly upset by the reference to an unnamed “old scout friend” whom Stark wrote was the one who initially told him he thought Jones wasn’t the player he’d been made out to be and why, and told him how he wasn’t getting to balls he used to get to, etc.
+“There is no scout in the world who would watch this man play and say what [Stark] said he did,” Boras said. “He would be a fool, and the statistics bear that out.”
+OK, I’m not even going to get into the discussion of offense, which Boras said clearly made Jones a better all-around player than Wells or Hunter or other center fielders in today’s game.
+“His standard of greatness is so high, and when you add the offense Andruw is clearly better,” Boras said. “Andruw’s offese in 2004, ‘05 and ‘06 is dramatically improved over his offense of 1998 or 1999. He’s in fact a better all-around player because of that.”
+(Perhaps, but if he hit better with RISP he’d have an MVP award.)
+When I asked Boras if he thought the book could possibly hurt Jones’ reputation and maybe hurt him at the bargaining table next winter, Boras scoffed.
+“I don’t in any way think it hurts him,” he said. “I think it’s going to draw attention to the fact that this book is based on analysis of greatness vs. greatness. To suggest that Andruw Jones is not the greatest center fielder in the game .
+“[Stark] takes a narrow, myopic view for the purpose of profiteering off this book. He uses the ‘old scout crap,’ and just comes in with these numbers without comparing them to anything else.”
+And he added this little nugget: “Willie Mays told me, and I quote, ‘The only player I’ve ever seen play center field that I consider comparable to me is Andruw Jones.’
+“And I’ve got Jayson Stark telling me Andruw is overrated based on putouts over four seasons.”
+Uh, I think I’ll hold off on that article criticizing Boras’ handling of first-year drafted players .
+OK, news of the day, Edgar scratched: I gotta keep it brief so I can get to writing my notebook. That Boras tome just took too much time.
+Edgar’s hand still was sore and he’s out of the lineup. The Braves had two lineups on the board when I got to the clubhouse this afternoon, one with Edgar and one without. When he told Bobby it was still too sore, he was scratched. They think he’ll be ready tomorrow.
+Chipper doing better. Much better. If you could’ve seen him launching balls over the fences at the Metrodome in batting practice, you’d never know he’s been on the DL the past three weeks.
+Bobby said before BP he didn’t think Chipper would be ready today or tomorrow, but maybe Thursday. But Chipper sounded more optimistic, and said if he generated bat speed and hit balls hard in BP, he’d probably ask to play Thursday.
+I’m betting he’s activated and in the lineup DHing on Thursday.
+By the way, that’s going to be the position-player move Bobby had promised for the Minnnesota series. Since Chipper’s getting back a few days earlier than previously thought, they’re just going to wait and send a pitcher down when Chipper’s activated.
+Smoltz not definite: But Cox sounded like he’s counting fully on Smoltz pitching Friday’s series opener at Cleveland. I can tell you more after the game, because Smoltz tested his sore shoulder with a bullpen session before the game tonight, but the clubhouse was closed by the time he finished.
+It was the first bullpen session in more than a week for Smoltz, who skipped his last turn in the rotation because of his shoulder.
+Turnaround in left field: We all knew that the left-field platoon has been dramatically improved since the arrival of Willie Harris to replace the traded Ryan Langerhans. But here’s just how dramatic the change has been.
+In the pre-Willie era before April 29, Braves left fielders hit .163 with a .229 on-base percentage.
+Since Harris joined Matt Diaz in the platoon, Braves left fielders led the majors with a .376 average and rank second with a .416 OBP. That deserves a “wow.”
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+Revelation 13:9-18
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+Revelation 13:9-10
+9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear.
+10 He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
+After John's vision of the beast from the sea comes to a close, there is an intermission before John sees another vision of a different beast. In the break between the visions of the two beasts the reader is given a call to hear. Recall from Revelation 2, a call to hear is a call for understanding with spiritually attuned ears. Each of the seven churches that received a letter from the Lord included the call to hear: 3:5:12-13 -:21-22 - To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."'"
+Note that each call to hear is a message from the Holy Spirit to the churches. There is also a promise given along with each call to hear for the overcomers who are the saints. But the call to hear in our verse of discussion is different. It is not a call to the Church saints who are in Heaven - it is a call specifically to the Tribulation saints alive on Earth. As we will see in the next section, this last call to hear comes with a promise to those who hear and head what the Spirit says.
+As discussed in the last section, the call to hear comes with a promise to the Tribulation saints. The promise to the saints is the Lord's vengeance on their enemies. The following passage is a parallel promise to Israel for vengeance in the Tribulation, or "time of Jacob's trouble":
+Jeremiah 30:7-9 -:12-15 - "For thus says the LORD: 'Your, because your sins have increased. Why do you cry about your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable. Because of the multitude of your iniquities, because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.
+Jeremiah 30:16-17 - 'Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; those who plunder you shall become plunder, and all who prey upon you I will make a prey. For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds,' says the LORD, 'Because they called you an outcast saying: "This is Zion; no one seeks her."'
+Zechariah 13:8-9 shows that two-thirds of the Jews will perish in the Tribulation, and only a third survive as a remnant because God protects them in the wilderness, as discussed in Revelation 12:6. The Lord will avenge those who take the Jews captive. Likewise, the Lord will also avenge the Tribulation saints: 18:20 - "Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on her!"
+Revelation 19:2 - For true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her."
+Those who take the Jews and the Tribulation saints captive and kill them with the sword will have allegiance to the beast, and in retribution, all who worship the beast will suffer the full extent of God's wrath in eternal torment:
+Revelation 14:9.
+In the next chapter, we will see that patience of the Tribulation saints will come through martyrdom:, as discussed in Revelation 13:7. Therefore, armed resistance against the antichrist is futile. Similarly, God commanded Judah to surrender to the king of Babylon instead of fleeing to Egypt because Babylon was also going to attack Egypt, so their flight to Egypt was futile. Since they disobeyed the Lord, Judah was overtaken by the Babylonians in Egypt:
+Jeremiah 42:11-14 -, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor be hungry for bread, and there we will dwell'
+Jeremiah 42:15-17 - 43:7-11 -. When he comes, he shall strike the land of Egypt and deliver to death those appointed for death, and to captivity those appointed for captivity, and to the sword those appointed for the sword.
+While there is no option to escape death for the Tribulation saints taken captive, God promises a blessing of rest and reward for their works and their patience (Revelation 14:12-13)..
+The beast will overcome the Tribulation saints by taking their physical lives, but they will still have eternal life. As discussed in Revelation 12:11, the saints will overcome the beast through the blood of the Lamb and His love, and by the word of their testimony in the midst of persecution, even to the death like a sheep to the slaughter, just as Christ went to His death:
+Revelation 12:11 - And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
+Romans 8:35-37 -.
+In the end, when the Lord returns as a lion to rule instead of a sacrificial lamb like He did the first time (Revelation 5:5-6, 10:3), He will make good on His promise to avenge His saints. The Lord will capture the beast who sought to capture the saints and kill those who worshiped the beast and fought for the beast with the sword of His mouth: 13:11., 19:20, 20:10). - 'Those: interesting since all other humans who get thrown into the lake of fire are part of a "second resurrection" to second death. Note that the "first resurrection" is to eternal life, so the "second resurrection" is to eternal death::10, 13.
+As discussed in the last section, the horns on the second beast show authority. Having two horns may signify the union between the two beasts, and the witness or testimony the second beast bears of the first beast. This fits with John's description of the second beast working in the presence or under the influence of power and authority of the first beast. In other words, the second beast is dependent upon the first beast for his power, and the first beast controls the authority and power of the second beast who directs all worship through the second beast back to himself. Since John notes the deadly wound of the first beast, it is likely that the second beast's testimony of the first beast's resurrection serves to compel the world to worship the first beast.
+Again, the second beast does not work in his own authority, but under authority of the first beast, and as we saw in the last section, the second beast does not speak under his own authority, but under the dragon's authority. This is a counterfeit of the Godhead, where the Holy Spirit does not work under His own authority, but He speaks under and operates under authority of the Father and the Son:.
+Therefore, the false prophet is a counterfeit of the Holy Spirit, the first beast is a counterfeit of Christ, and the dragon is a counterfeit of the Father - all of which many scholars call the evil or infernal trinity.
+In the last section, we saw that the false prophet operates in the power and authority of the first beast, who gets his power from Satan. The false prophet uses this power to do great signs, including calling down fire from Heaven. God sent fire down from Heaven on several occasions:
+But Satan also has the power to send fire down from Heaven, and when he used this power on Job's household, it was mistaken as fire from God:
+Job 1:9-12 -:13-16 -!"
+As we will see in the next section, Satan gives his power to the false prophet to do great signs such as calling fire down from Heaven to deceive others. People tend to associate signs and wonders with the power of God, but God calls the signs and wonders of Satan a lie: discussed in Revelation 11:3-6, the two witnesses perform miracles and call down plagues on the earth like Moses and Aaron called down plagues on Egypt. Perhaps, the false prophet performs signs and wonders to counterfeit the miracles and plagues of the two witnesses to discredit them the way Pharaoh's magicians tried to discredit Moses. And as Pharaoh continued to have a hardened heart through the counterfeit plagues, most of the world will become hardened against God and follow the beast instead.
+The battle of the signs and wonders between God's two witnesses and the two beasts will test the hearts of the Jews too. Jews generally seek a sign before they will believe:
+Mark 8:11-12 -."
+John 4:48 - Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe."
+God uses signs to test the Jews to see if they will follow the Lord or follow the signs:."
+However, many Jews will choose to reject the signs and wonders from the Lord because they don't really have a heart for God and instead follow after the lying signs and their own hearts like the children of Israel in Moses' day:
+Acts 7:36-42 -...."
+While Jews look for signs and God gives them signs to test them, Christians do not need signs:
+1 Corinthians 1:22 - For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom....
+2 Corinthians 5:7 - For we walk by faith, not by sight.
+In fact, signs and wonders are often a stumbling block for Christians. Consider the vision of Fatima. Nearly 70,000 people witnessed a strange phenomenon that made the sun look like a strange fireball coming down to Earth. This sign served to authenticate in the minds of many the visions of three children who claimed to see Jesus' mother Mary:
+."
+Source: Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church
+After this "miracle in the sun," more people turned to idolatrous practices of praying the rosary and veneration of Mary instead of turning toward Christ. Clearly this sign and wonder was Satan's deception. If a sign seen by 70,000 can have such a large impact, we can only imagine how much more people will follow the beast when everyone in the world witnesses similar signs and wonders attributed to the beast.
+The second beast is appropriately called the false prophet (Revelation 16:13, 19:20, 20:10) because he will deceive people with signs and wonders in the sight or presence of the first beast, which means he will work under the influencing power and authority of the first beast. The signs and wonders performed by the false prophet include calling fire down from Heaven, which is a sign typically attributed to God, as discussed in the last section.
+While false religion is often filled with superstition and perpetuated through demonic signs and wonders like voodoo or witchcraft, the signs and wonders in the Tribulation, including those performed by the false prophet, will be so great that even believers will have a hard time discounting them:
+People open themselves up to deception when they rely on their experiences in life instead of the truth in God's Word. Since God's Word shows us that the enemy can use signs and wonders as a tool for deception, we must "walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Corinthians 5:7). Those who reject God's Word will become subject to deception and worship false gods and practice lawlessness in willful ignorance:!'"
+Signs and wonders can become a stumbling block, even for believers, as shown in the passage below:
+Acts 8:9-12 -.
+Acts 8:13-17 -:18."
+God is always interested in the intent of the heart. Allowing signs and wonders that might even deceive believers serves as a test of the heart, as discussed in the last section. Saints of all dispensations must rely on God's Word and the leading of the Holy Spirit instead of following their experiences and their own hearts to pass the test, even if the signs and wonders are difficult to discount with the physical senses.
+While Satan has power to generate signs and wonders through his earthly agents, he still has his limits. In the plagues on Egypt, Pharaoh's magicians turned rods into snakes, turned the water to blood, and caused a plague of frogs like God, but they were unable to copy the plagues after the frogs, and even conceded that God was more powerful than they were:
+Exodus 8:18-19 -.
+Incidentally, the last counterfeit plague performed by the Egyptian magicians and the last lying sign and wonder of Satan through the two beasts both involve frogs and are the only two places frogs are found in Scripture:.
+Some believe that each plague against Egypt served to defeat and judge their gods and show that the God of Israel was the one true God (source). The Egyptian goddess Heqet had the head of a frog and was the fertility goddess of birth and resurrection (source):
+."
+Source: Bible.org
+As we will see in Revelation 13:15, the false prophet is able to give "breath" to animate the image of the beast similar to how the goddess Heqet supposedly animated bodies with her breath. But in the end, the last of the magician's counterfeit plague of frogs in Egypt show that Satan's power is limited and these deceptive signs are no match for the power of God Almighty!
+As discussed in the last section, the false prophet will deceive those who dwell on the earth by great signs and wonders, and cause them to worship the beast after his resurrection from the dead. In apparent homage to the resurrected beast, the false prophet directs the world to make an image to the beast. The image made to the beast is probably the "abomination" that causes desolation which will stand in the temple:
+Matthew 24:15 - 'Therefore when you see the 'abomination of desolation,' spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place" (whoever reads, let him understand)..."
+The word "abomination" refers to a detestable or accursed thing, usually ascribed to idols in Scripture. As discussed in Revelation 13:4, the "abomination of desolation" was that the ruler of the Seleucid Empire, Antiochus Epiphanes, defiled the temple by sacrificing a pig on the altar. He also set up a statue of a Greek god in the place of the Most Holy.
+The "abomination of desolation" of the temple has not happened again since Christ reiterated Daniel's prophecy in His "Olivet Discourse." Many believe the beast will set up the idol made in his image in the temple just as Antiochus Epiphanes set up an idol when he desecrated the temple in the second century B.C.
+John noted the beast's resurrection in the last section, and in this section the false prophet appears to give life to the image of the beast who died and rose again. The common thread of resurrection and deceptive signs and wonders associated with frogs may relate to the plagues in the Exodus and the Egyptian frog goddess of birth and resurrection, Heget, as discussed in Revelation 13:14. The false prophet directs those who worship the resurrected beast to make an image to the beast, and like the Egyptian frog goddess the false prophet is able to give "breath" to the image to make it become lifelike. Images or idols themselves do not have the power to speak:
+Psalms 135:15-18 -.
+Habakkuk 2:18 - .
+Nevertheless, the false prophet is able to make the image of the beast speak. Several scholars suggest the lifelike qualities of the image of the beast are merely impressive technology that cause people to believe the image is alive. While it is reasonable to assume technology will help the false prophet spread his deception around the world, the problem with the image appearing alive through technology is that the huge advances of technology are becoming so mainstream that it would take something extraordinary to deceive the masses into believing the image is alive. But it is the false prophet who makes the image speak, so he is either a prodigy in technology, or he recruits exceptional gurus to build the image, or he uses demonic power to make the image become lifelike.
+On that note, consider that the Greek word "pneuma" translated "breath" can mean breath, wind, or spirit. Since "breath" has the power to make an inanimate object lifelike, it is either the breath of life that makes the image come alive, or it is a demonic spirit that animates the image making it appear lifelike. Either option would rule out the advanced technology theory.
+The only place in Scripture we see an inanimate object come to life is when the rods of Moses and the Egyptian magicians became serpents:
+Exodus 7:9-12 - .
+It appears that the rods became living breathing serpents, but only God has the power to give life (Job 12:9-10, Acts 17:24-25). While God has resurrected dead people through men, as discussed in Revelation 13:3, there are no other examples of anyone but God creating new life. This suggests the Egyptian magicians did not create new life out of rods when they became serpents, rather, it is likely they directed demons to animate the rods. Moreover, the life likeness of the image of the beast is probably animation by a demonic spirit and not the "breath of life" making it a living being, since only God has the power to create life.
+The following passages show that people worshipped demonic spirits through inanimate idols:.
+People will worship demons through idols in the Tribulation too, as shown in the passage below. Like other idols in Scripture, these idols cannot see, hear, or walk, but muteness is curiously absent from the list, which may allude to the image of the beast which can speak:
+Revelation 9:20 - But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.
+The image of the beast also has power to kill those who don't worship it. Similarly, Nebuchadnezzar threw Daniel's friends into the fiery furnace for not worshipping the image the king erected:
+Daniel 3:12-15 - .
+It was the king who tried to kill the three Jewish men for not bowing down to the statue, but the image of the beast will have power to kill those who refuse to worship it - a real life terminator! We don't know how the image will kill people, but since it is able to speak, it is reasonable to conclude that the image will probably command others to execute those who refuse to bow down and worship.
+The world makes the image to the beast and for the beast and the world worships both the beast, as we saw in Revelation 13:4, and the image of the beast, as shown here in verse 15. The following passage shows how the beast is connected to idolatry:."
+As discussed in Revelation 13:3, the beast is the "worthless shepherd." The word translated "worthless" is usually translated "idols," but it can also describe something with no value. While the beast is certainly worthless as a leader, describing him as the "idol shepherd" also shows how the world will worship him through idolatry. This passage also shows that the head wound of the beast is through the eye and he also suffers a wound to his arm, which would include his hand. As we will see in the next section, the false prophet will command everyone to receive a mark on either their right hand or the forehead. It is interesting that placement of the mark is on the same parts of the body as the beast's wounds, the head and the hand, which shows allegiance to the beast and Satan..
+As discussed in the last section, the false prophet causes the image of the beast to speak to persuade the world to worship the beast and execute those who refuse to worship the image. In this section, we see that the false prophet requires the masses to take a mark, in addition to worshipping the beast's image. This mark clearly pays homage to the beast, because it bears his name, as we will see in the next section. Also, the false prophet requires everyone to place the mark on either the right hand or forehead, which are the same areas on the body of the beast that are struck when he dies from a mortal wound, as discussed in Revelation 13:3.
+The Greek word translated "mark" can mean an engraving or a stamp used to identify something, or a brand-mark to show ownership, which shows that the mark is a sign of allegiance to the beast, so those who take the mark belong to him like slaves. Similarly, as discussed in Revelation 7:3, a mark on the forehead of God's people shows that they are His servants. God also marks people to separate them from His enemies or protect them. Satan counterfeits God by offering physical provisions with the mark of the beast (Revelation 13:17) and kills those who refuse the mark, effectively separating the beast followers from his enemies.
+Incidentally, God commanded His people to bind His word on their forehead and on their hand, which are the same places on the body that the beast gets wounded and where the false prophet commands the masses to place the mark of the beast:
+Deuteronomy 6:4."
+The mark of the beast is not placed on both the forehead and the hand, but on one or the other. The hand is typically associated with "works" in Scripture, so placing God's commands on the hand show a person's commitment to do those commands. Recall from Revelation 13:3, that a mark on the forehead may point to the "third eye" or pineal gland which some believe is the "seat of the soul." So putting God's Word between the eyes may speak to God's command to "love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and strength" in the passage above.
+Accordingly, in Satan's counterfeit scheme, those who choose to put the mark of the beast on their forehead would commit themselves wholly to the beast in every way, but taking the mark on the hand may show allegiance to the beast only through works. In other words, getting the mark on the forehead may speak of a person's genuine devotion to the beast, and while these patrons may go beyond what the false prophet requires and take the mark on their forehead to show their total support and commitment, the rest of the masses would merely go through the motions to appease the beast by their works and take the less harrowing mark on the hand.
+In the end, however, whether someone is a die-hard adherent of the beast or they take the mark merely to save their life, both parties irrevocably reject Christ when they take the mark and worship the beast, therefore, their eternal destiny is the same: following passages show that the "small and great, rich and poor, free and slave" encompasses all people groups, which means the false prophet will impose the mark of the beast on everyone in the world, no matter what their status:
+Psalms 49:1-2 - ...Hear this, all peoples; Give ear, all inhabitants of the world, both low and high, rich and poor together.."
+In short, the false prophet will direct the masses to take a mark on the right hand or forehead to show allegiance to the beast, which is a counterfeit toward God who also marks His servants. In addition, the false prophet will command all to take the mark no matter what their status, which shows that Satan's counterfeit even tries to match God's impartiality between people groups:
+Job 34:19 - Yet He is not partial to princes, nor does He regard the rich more than the poor; for they are all the work of His hands.
+In the last half of the Tribulation, Satan will wield his power to control his global kingdom through the beast and the false prophet. First, the beast will move to subdue the nations through political and military might. Then the false prophet will bolster the beast's domination through religion with worship directed toward the beast and a global economic system that pays tribute to the beast and requires everyone in the world to submit to the beast by taking a mark or face certain death.
+The mark of the beast will replace all the world's monetary systems. Those who refuse to take the mark and manage to escape execution for not worshiping the beast will have to trade illegally in a black market or hunt and gather off the land to survive, which will be difficult in the wake of Tribulation judgments that will cause massive devastation to the earth. With lack of resources to survive, it is no wonder that the human population will plummet during the Tribulation! is interesting to note that under the Law God forbid His people to make marks or cuts in their flesh because tattooing was a pagan practice:
+Leviticus 19:28 - You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the LORD.
+But this command might serve a purpose in the Tribulation. Law abiding Jews will not take the mark, which will force them to flee from the beast. Recall from Revelation 12:14, some believe that Gentiles will help the Jewish remnant escape to the wilderness and give them provisions for 3 ½ years. So it is interesting that God judges the Gentiles who survive the Tribulation on whether they gave provisions to the Lord's brethren - the Jews:."
+Therefore, it is possible that Christians in the Tribulation will run a sizable black market to help each other and the Jewish remnant survive in the Tribulation when the false prophet implements the mark of the beast.
+It is reasonable to assume that the global economic system ordered by the false prophet will use computer technology to scan the mark of the beast like a bar code or credit card. As we saw in the last section, the mark is placed on the forehead or right hand. The Greek word translated "on" can also mean "in" or "upon." Bible scholars disagree on whether the text describes a mark on the skin like a tattoo scanned like a bar code, or if it is a computer chip embedded under the skin and scanned like an RFID chip. The following commentator suggests that it might be both a visible mark and an internal chip:
+"For this mark to have any degree of permanence it must, in some sense, be "in" the tissue. The use of ."
+Source: SpiritandTruth.org
+It is now common practice to insert computer chips in animals to tag or ID them, and now there is a move in the business world to implant people with computer chips for convenience and security reasons (source: 1, 2, 3, 4). It seems that society is becoming conditioned to accept implantable chips which might be a prototype technology that the mark of the beast will use.
+Whatever the mark is, no one will accidentally take it because it will identify those who voluntarily worship and give allegiance to the beast. While the information scanned from the mark will likely be unique to each person who takes it to buy and sell, the mark will visibly show the name or number of the name of the beast.
+The number or the name of the beast suggests the use of Gematria, which is a Jewish numbering system where each letter in the alphabet is assigned a number and the sum of a word is a numerical value tied to the meaning of the word or name (source). We will discuss Gematria more in the next section, where John shows that the number of the beast is "666."
+In the last section, John showed that the false prophet will command everyone in the world to take a mark to buy and sell. This mark will visibly show the name or number of the name of the beast, which shows that those who take the mark will voluntarily show allegiance to the beast.
+It is interesting that John tells us that the number of the beast is the number of a man and is "666," and says this information is wisdom, but only those who have understanding can use this wisdom to calculate the number of the beast. Those who have both wisdom and understanding are believers who fear the Lord:
+Psalms 111:10 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all those who do His commandments. His praise endures forever.
+Proverbs 2:1.
+Even though Revelation is not a sealed book like Daniel, most agree that prophecy is progressive, so God may not reveal the full understanding of the number of the beast to believers until closer to the time that the false prophet implements the mark of the beast:."
+Nevertheless, as mentioned in the last section, calculating the number of the name of the beast through Gematria might be in view, where each letter in the alphabet is assigned a number and the sum of a word is a numerical value tied to the meaning of the word (source). However, we must use caution when looking at Gematria because of its association with the pagan practice of numerology, though it would be fitting for the false prophet to include pagan practices like numerology to worship the beast and incorporate it in his mark.
+That said, God said that believers who have wisdom and understanding from the Lord would understand the number, which suggests it doesn't have anything to do with pagan numerology but is a supernatural understanding given by God. In any event, while Gematria is widely used in the mystic form of Judaism called Kabala, the form used in mainstream Rabbinic Judaism may have some merit since it looks at the Biblical meaning of numbers and not personal numerology.
+Consider the Greek Gematria for Jesus, which is "888." As discussed in the study: "Prophetic Patterns in Numbers," the number eight speaks of new beginnings and three of something points to the triune nature of the Godhead. Jesus is part of the triune Godhead and He made a new covenant at the cross, so the meaning of the Gematria fits. Similarly, the number six is the number of man because God created man on the sixth day, and man is also a triune being made in the image of God, so it fits that John said that "666" is the number of a man. But the three sixes may also point to the counterfeit trinity of Satan, the beast, and the false prophet.
+If Gematria is in view to calculate the number of the name of the beast, then the letters in his name will add up to "666." That said, it is futile to use Gematria to try to figure out who the beast is now, because we don't know which language to use to calculate his name. Besides, there are countless names that can add up to the number of the beast in any given language, and he won't be revealed until the Tribulation anyway (2 Thessalonians 2:3).
+Incidentally, since Israel was under Roman rule when John penned Revelation, it would be ironic, yet plausible, to find the number of the beast's name coded in the first seven Roman numerals, as depicted below. What this table suggests is that the number of the name of the beast may point to when the beast will arrive on the scene, which is about 6,000 years into human history, as discussed in the study "Prophetic Patterns in Numbers." If true, this shows we are near the time of the Tribulation because the genealogies in Scripture show that we are near the end of the sixth millennium since creation:
+While mystery around the mark will continue until it is fully understood by believers in the Tribulation, the example above might be one of many things revealed in the number of the name of the beast. It is also interesting to note there are three other times that three sixes or multiples of six are found together in Scripture which show how "666" relates to the beast. The following examples show types of the antichrist that point to the antichrist's military might, his image, and his economic system marked by his name and number which take wisdom to calculate:
+In closing, it is clear that the dragon will dominate the world through every facet possible. First the dragon will set out to conquer the world with politics and military might through the beast, then he will compel the world to worship the beast and his image through the signs and wonders of the false prophet. Then the dragon will take full dominion when the false prophet calls for a global economic system and demand allegiance to the beast and enforce it by executing those who refuse to take the mark bearing the name or number of the name of the beast. These events which describe the global dominion of the beast bring us to the end of the Tribulation, where God will pour out His final judgment and return to set up His Kingdom on Earth after He defeats the dragon's global kingdom.
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+PURDUE WOMENS BASKETBALL:
+Purdue 76, IPFW 52
+The Purdue Boilermakers knew that they were going to win when they took on the Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne Mastodons on Thursday, and they knew they’d win even if they only played with half their usual effort. So, for 30 minutes, that’s what they brought. The Boilers played rope-a-dope with the Mastodons during most of that time. While the Mastodons were playing their hearts out and making all sorts of shots, the Old Gold and Black played just hard enough to maintain a lead. As is so often the case when a team is dogging it, it was the defensive intensity that lagged far behind. With 7:07 remaining in the first half, the Boilers were up by 2 points, 23-21. Up to that point, IPFW had connected on 60% of their attempts from the floor. That’s a ridiculous percentage for any team to put up on the Old Gold and Black, particularly one whose RPI sits in the three figure range. After the 7 minute mark the Boilers gained some defensive intensity and finished the half on an 11- 4 run to make the half time score 34-25.
+Kristy Curry must have had a great deal to say to the team at the intermission, as they emerged from the locker room with only 16 seconds left on the half time score board. Whatever it was she said, it’s fairly clear the Boilers failed to take it to heart. Purdue did score the first 6 points of the stanza, pulling out to a 40-27 lead. They then went back to sleep and IPFW used a 13-0 run to tie it up at 40 all with 14:34 remaining in the game. No doubt a picture of the Mackey scoreboard showing the 40-40 tie will have a prominent place in next year’s Mastodon media guide. As has been the Boiler’s pattern against other weak teams this year, the close score late in the game finally got their attention. The Old Gold and Black ramped themselves up to their customary energy level and flattened the visitors. Keyed by back to back Sharika Webb triples as well as Natasha Bogdanova’s first two makes from downtown, the Boilers finished the game on a 36-12 run. The final score was 76-52.
+Offense: The Boilers shot quite well from the floor and from behind the arc at 46% and 64% respectively. As has been the case in other instances where the team has played down to their opponent, the issues have been on the defensive end of the court.
+Defense:For much of the game the Boilers were in a “tall trees” defense. In this formation, they stand motionless with their hands in the air and allow the other team to dribble around them on the way to the basket. When the Boilers finally got down to business, their defensive efforts were quite good. IPFW had 20 turnovers, 10 of which were credited as Purdue steals.
+Rebounding:Rebounding may not be all about effort, but it’s certainly mostly about effort. When Purdue went through the motions they did not rebound particularly well, when they picked up the pace they got to most of the misses. Overall they pulled down 32 boards to 25 for the Mastodons. Aya and Lindsay led the way for the Boilers with 6 each.
+Free Throw Shooting:The Boilers shot extremely well from the line. The first miss occurred at the 6:02 mark of the second half, and overall they went 21-24 from the charity stripe. Lindsay, Katie, Sharika, and Danielle were all perfect on the evening.
+Passing/Decision Making:For much of the game it was IPFW that dictated the tempo. They chose veeeeerrrry slooooowwww. Their deliberate pace was met by irritation by the Boilers and resulted in the team rushing in an effort to “make things happen.” The result of this was hurried offensive sets and turnovers when the team tried too hard to get out in transition. Despite this, Purdue only had 12 turnovers on the night to 17 assists. No matter how ugly a game looks as its being played out, 17 assists on 23 made baskets and a positive assist to turnover ratio for the team indicates that the squad was doing many things right.
+Starters:
+Katie Gearlds gave everyone else ample time to step up and start hitting shots. When none of her teammates took advantage, she took over the game. In the second half Katie looked to score first, pass second. As the Mastodons don’t have the ability to defend her sufficiently, this meant Katie made lots of buckets. The only negative in Katie’s stellar line (20 points, [7-11, 4-5 3 pt.er, 2-2 FT], 3 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 block and 1 steal and 0 turnovers) was the 33 minutes played. IPFW was supposed to be the game that allowed the junior to get some rest. Unfortunately, the Boilers needed all 33 of those minutes from Katie on Thursday.
+Aya Traore played another good game. Her speed continues to be deceptive as few players her height get up and down the court like she can. Aya did a good job preventing dribble penetration from IPFW’s speedy backcourt when she was switched onto those players. In all, Aya finished with 17 points (6-12, 0-2 3 pt.er, 5-6 FT) 6 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 steals to 2 turnovers.
+After getting into foul trouble in the last several games, it is possible the Erin Lawless’ main point of emphasis against the Mastodons was to avoid whistles. Mission accomplished. Now she needs to balance playing with defensive intensity without piling on the infractions. On the night Erin totaled 8 points (2-5, 0-1 3 pt.er, 4-6 FT), 4 rebounds, a steal and an assist to 1 turnover.
+Lindsay Widsom-Hylton had a tough first half. Her shots wouldn’t fall and she appeared to sustain a hip pointer. She redeemed herself a bit in the second stanza as she went aggressively to the hole and made more of a positive impact. Lindsay recorded 6 points (2-9, 2-2), 6 rebounds, 2 assists, a block and 2 steals to 1 turnover.
+Sharika Webb had an odd game. On the one hand, she played hard and looked to score and was able to finish. Webb’s free throw shooting has improved to the point where she can be counted on to make most of her attempts, and she’s becoming increasingly proficient at taking it to the hole on fast breaks. On the other hand, she appeared poorly equipped to dictate the tempo of the game and failed to dish out a single assist. Webby finished with 12 points (2-4, 2-3 3 pt.er, 6-6 FT), 2 rebounds, and a steal to 2 turnovers.
+Bench Players:
+Cherelle George got a taste of her future. The Mastodons did their homework and saw that George is vulnerable to being trapped and pressured when she’s bringing the ball up the court. If IPFW can do it, you better believe that every other team Purdue plays from now on will do it as well. Cherelle can expect to be hounded in the backcourt until she demonstrates the handle and decision making that will make other teams pay. Once she got the Boilers into the half court, Cherelle did a good job of running the point. Curry is putting George at the point and Webb at the shooting guard for an increasing number of minutes, and the two work well together in the backcourt. In all, Cherelle had 3 points (1-2, 1-1 3 pt.er), 4 rebounds, 5 assists, and a steal to 3 turnovers.
+Natasha Bogdanova must wish that Purdue would play IPFW every time out. For the second year she’s had excellent games against the Ft. Wayne team. On Thursday, Natasha brought out her three point shooting ability – something she has been doing well in practice for some time. Bogs nailed both of her attempts. The success there perhaps gave her some much-needed confidence, as she played defense very well and was able to score on a baseline drive as well. Natasha finished with 8 points (3-5, 2-2 3 pt.er), 2 rebounds, and a turnover.
+Danielle Campbell played 14 minutes off the bench. She picked up 4 fouls in that time, as she’s still learning the finer points of post defense. Defending without fouling is one of the most difficult skills for any college player to master, so it’s not surprising that Danielle is still on the steep portion of her learning curve. Other than the infractions she played quite well and ended up with 2 points (0-0, 2-2 FT), 2 rebounds, and a turnover.
+Carol Duncan, Kiki Freeman, and Lauren Mioton played for 5, 9, and 7 minutes respectively. It was thought before the game began that this contest would be an opportunity for the bench to step up and grab some minutes through the strength of their time on the court. Unfortunately, none of them did so. Lauren did hand out an assist to go along with a turnover while Kiki failed to score on 2 attempts but did deliver an assist as well.
+Coaching:Kristy Curry has tried it all when it comes to getting her team to play up to their potential against lesser opponents. On Thursday her attitude seemed to be; “Y’all got yourselves into this pickle, y’all can get yourselves out.” She didn’t call any momentum stopper time outs, or visibly get in anyone’s grill. She placed the responsibility for good play right were it belonged- on the players shoulders. The approach appears to have worked, as the Boilers were able to regroup, right the ship, and win going away.
+Officiating:Note to officials: When a player wearing blue touches the ball right before it goes out of bounds, the ball should be inbounded by a player wearing white.With the exception of some bizarre out-of-bounds determinations the officials did a fine job.
+Crowd:As was the case with the recent Northwestern game, the crowd of 6906 wasn’t very happy with what they saw on the court despite the win. They became particularly distressed when the Mastodons tied things up in the second half.
+In Summary:The bottom line is this: A win’s a win. Purdue finishes its out-of-conference schedule with an overall mark of 19-3. Last year at this time folks were beginning to weight the Boiler’s chances of making the NCAA tournament. This year the biggest question is whether they’ll enter as a 2 or a 3 seed.
+Things are heating up as the teams enter the home stretch of the conference race. Purdue and Ohio State are tied at the top of the standings with 1 loss each. Both the Boilers and the Buckeyes face some stern tests, however, and the championship is still very much up for grabs. The Boilers will next face a Minnesota team that is facing a must-win situation after falling at MSU.
+Game Ball: The player who gave everything she had every second she was on the court:Johnna Lewis-Carlisle
+© OldGoldFreePress.com 1995-2014
+992 F.2d 409
+UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,
+v.
+Robert GARCIA, Jane Lee Garcia, Ralph Vallone, Jr.,
+Defendants-Appellants.
+Nos. 576, 577, 578, Dockets 92-1370(L), 92-1371, 92-1401.
+United States Court of Appeals,
+Second Circuit.
+Argued Jan. 8, 1993.
+Decided April 22, 1993.
+Barry A. Bohrer, New York City (Joel M. Cohen, of counsel), for defendants-appellants Robert Garcia and Jane Lee Garcia.
+Alexander E. Eisemann, New York City (Lawrence S. Goldman, of counsel), for defendant-appellant Ralph Vallone, Jr.
+Michele Hirshman, Asst. U.S. Atty., S.D.N.Y., New York City (Roger S. Hayes, Acting U.S. Atty., Paul G. Gardephe, Asst. U.S. Atty., of counsel), for appellee United States of America.
+Before: PRATT, FRIEDMAN,* and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges.
+FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judge:
+Former New York Congressman Robert Garcia, his wife, Jane Lee Garcia, and Ralph Vallone, Jr., appeal their jury convictions for, respectively, (1) extortion under color of official right, (2) aiding and abetting extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion, and (3) aiding and abetting extortion. We hold that the district court improperly charged the jury on extortion, 774 F.Supp. 848, and, therefore, reverse the convictions and remand for a new trial.
+* A. Mr. Garcia was elected to Congress in 1978 to represent the Bronx district where the Wedtech Corporation, a defense contractor, was located. Beginning early in his first term, Garcia maintained a close relationship with Wedtech, aiding it in obtaining financing from the Economic Development Administration and a loan from Citibank in 1979. In 1981, Garcia helped Wedtech obtain a loan from the Small Business Administration and funding from Urban Development Action grants. That same year, John Mariotta, a top Wedtech officer, and his wife Jennie, contributed $4000 to Garcia's campaign. Wedtech's other officers, their spouses, and company employees also made numerous contributions to Garcia's campaign fund.
+1. The $86,000 "Retainer" Payments. In May 1984, Garcia invited Mario Moreno, a Wedtech officer who was the government's primary witness at trial, to dinner at Lelo's Restaurant in Manhattan, where Mrs. Garcia also was present. After Moreno described the work Wedtech was doing, the problems it had with its contract to build pontoons for the Navy and its interest in obtaining a contract to produce mail containers for the Postal Service, Garcia told Moreno
+that he had already served for a few years in Congress and that he belong [sic] to the Banking Committee, the Postal Service Committee, and that he was getting very interested in international relations, and that he was also a member of the Hispanic caucus in Congress ... and that the more times you are elected to the Congress you become a more powerful person.
+Garcia suggested that Wedtech hire his wife as a public relations consultant. Moreno told the Garcias:
+"that's crazy because you are the congressman for this district, and I don't think that that is ... correct. And--and I don't think that we can do that. And, besides, what is she going to do at the company? We don't need any public relations person there because the company is involved in defense work, and there is no need for such a thing."
+Mrs. Garcia responded:
+"We could do a lot of things for you. We can set up those appointments to go and see [Secretary of the Navy] Lehman about the Navy contracts. We can also--we are very close friends of [Postmaster General] Bolger. We know him, and we can set up an appointment with him to see about those contracts."
+Furthermore, she explained that she had " 'a friend in Puerto Rico [Vallone] that is like a brother to me. He is very close. We grew up together. And I think he could serve as intermediary for these payments.' "
+Several days later, Moreno and the other Wedtech officers decided to make the payments to Mrs. Garcia through Vallone, a lawyer in Puerto Rico
+because of the potential of the Postal Services contracts, that we knew that if those payments were not made, and even if the Congressman wanted to help us like he had done in the past, we realized and I personally told [the other officers] that his wife would not let him do any additional favor for Wedtech, and in a sense, we could kiss the Postal Services contracts, potential contracts, good-bye.
+About six weeks later, Moreno told Mrs. Garcia that Wedtech had agreed to make the payments to her through Vallone. Soon after, Vallone called Moreno and
+[h]e told me that Jane had spoken to him about the transaction, and that he had agreed to do that for her only because she was like a sister to him, that he didn't do that for anybody else.
+Vallone and Moreno arranged for Vallone's law firm to bill Wedtech.
+From August 1984 through May 1986, Wedtech paid $86,000 in monthly "retainers" of $4100 to Vallone, who performed no services for Wedtech. Vallone, in turn, for his law firm, paid $76,000 in alleged consulting fees to Mrs. Garcia's business, Leesonia Enterprises.
+After the payments began, Garcia spoke with the Postmaster General about contracting with Wedtech to provide postal containers. Frank Hansen, the general manager of the Postal Service's Office of Procurement, testified that Postmaster General Bolger called him in August 1984 and asked that Hansen "check out" Wedtech as a source of metal-fabricated products. In April 1985, the Postal Service contracted with Wedtech to build mail containers. During this time, Moreno learned that the House Small Business Committee was investigating Wedtech and Moreno requested that Garcia intercede on their behalf.
+In 1985, Wedtech experienced a "severe cash problem," and stopped making payments to the Garcias between February and August. Both Mrs. Garcia and Vallone called Moreno to inquire why the payments were not being made, and Moreno explained the financial difficulties the corporation was undergoing. Nonetheless, at Garcia's request, Wedtech officer John Mariotta, in March 1985, donated $65,000 from Wedtech's "slush fund" to the church run by Garcia's sister.
+Wedtech's economic situation remained precarious and in late August or early September, Moreno asked Garcia, who was a member of the House Banking Committee, to intercede on Wedtech's behalf with three banks so the company could get needed financing. In September, at Garcia's request, Moreno met with the Congressman for lunch, and gave him a check for Vallone for $12,300 for past due "retainer" fees, and told him "that very soon we would bring the account up to date." Moreno and another Wedtech official
+felt that it was very important to bring them up to date so that--so that all the activities where we could use him could continue in the best way, that means the contracts with the Post Office, the [contract to build] ferries in Puerto Rico, and primarily the problems with the banks at that time.
+At lunch, Garcia told Moreno that he had contacted the head of one of the banks and was working on getting in touch with the other two. They also discussed the other projects with which the Congressman was assisting Wedtech.
+Moreno, Mariotta, and their spouses traveled in mid-September to Puerto Rico to meet with officials there about contracts to build ferries. The Garcias also were in Puerto Rico at the time, and Mrs. Garcia arranged for Moreno, Mariotta, and the Congressman to meet with Puerto Rico's governor. The Governor agreed to help Wedtech get the contracts. The next day Mariotta gave Mrs. Garcia a diamond and emerald necklace on behalf of Wedtech. On the trip back to New York, Mariotta told Moreno that Wedtech had " 'better bring [the] account [with Vallone] up to date as soon as we get to New York.' "
+Wedtech paid Vallone $20,500 in October, and $8,200 in November. In December, Mrs. Garcia called Moreno and told him "that she had a financial need, very urgent financial need at that point, and she told me that she wanted to get paid for the month [sic] of November and December." Moreno authorized the payment of $8,200 to Vallone. In March, at a dinner in honor of the Congressman, Moreno gave Garcia checks for Vallone for the past three monthly payments. This was the final payment Wedtech made to Vallone.
+2. The $20,000 Loan. In August 1985, at a meeting that Garcia urgently requested, Garcia told Moreno that he needed to borrow $20,000 from Moreno. Moreno informed the Congressman that "my financial situation was not that good at that time, but that I was going to see what I could do." Garcia assured him that it would be "a straightforward loan, and that it would include interest."
+Moreno went to Wedtech and had a check drawn on the "slush fund" for the fifteen percent of the fund that was due him after "illegal expenses had been paid out of the ... account," and for an additional $20,000 to cover the check he was about to write to Garcia. At Garcia's direction, Moreno made the check out to the Congressman's sister, Reverend Aimee Cortese, with the understanding that Garcia "didn't want his name to appear along with [mine]" on the check. That same day, Mrs. Cortese made out a check for $20,000 to Mrs. Garcia. Moreno made the loan "[b]ecause I thought that if I didn't give that loan, he was not going to--to continue doing things for the company, especially since we had not paid him the regular retainer for the previous few months."
+In February 1986, Garcia invited Moreno to his home and told Moreno that he was going to repay the $20,000 loan, although without interest. He asked Moreno, however, not to take the money back but instead to donate it to the church run by Garcia's sister. Moreno declined to do so and received a check for the amount of the loan drawn on Mrs. Cortese's bank account.
+B. Following the return of a seven-count indictment in November 1988 against the Garcias and Vallone, a jury convicted the Garcias on three counts charging violations of the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (1988). This court, however, reversed the convictions and remanded, on the ground that the evidence did not support one of the two alternative theories upon which the case was submitted to the jury, and that the jury convictions therefore could have been based upon that unsupported theory. United States v. Garcia, 907 F.2d 380 (2d Cir.1990).
+On the retrial, the jury convicted Garcia of extortion of the $20,000 loan, in violation of 18 U.S.C. �� 1951, Mrs. Garcia and Vallone of aiding and abetting extortion of $76,000, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2, and Mrs. Garcia of conspiracy to commit extortion of the $76,000, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371. At the defendants' request and over the government's objection, the district court then discharged the jury and thereby precluded it from continuing its deliberations on the remaining counts against each defendant.
+II
+The provision of the Hobbs Act, under which Garcia was convicted, makes criminal, among other things, conduct affecting interstate commerce "by extortion," and defines "extortion" to mean
+the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced ... under color of official right.
+18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)(2) (1988).
+A. When the case was retried, the governing law in this circuit on the requirements for proving extortion under color of official right was that enunciated in this court's en banc decision in United States v. O'Grady, 742 F.2d 682 (2d Cir.1984). There, we held (1) that "the government must show that the public official induced the benefits received," id. at 688 (footnote omitted), but (2) that "the government is not required to prove that the public official demanded or directly solicited the benefits received, or that he offered a specific quid pro quo in exchange for the benefits." Id. at 688-89.
+The district court charged the jury in accordance with these standards. It instructed that the government was required to prove
+That the defendants attempted to obtain or did obtain property from another with the other's consent.
+That the defendants induced that consent under color of official right.
+That interstate commerce was actually or potentially in any way or degree obstructed, delayed or affected.
+The court explained the inducement element as follows:
+To find that the defendants obtained monies or loans under color of official right you must find that the defendants in some way caused the payment of monies or loans to Robert Garcia or another in connection with Robert Garcia's public office. The government may prove that the defendants used any one of the three forms of inducement.
+First, if a defendant sought or solicited, no matter how subtly, the payment of monies or benefits from representatives of Wedtech, in connection with Robert Garcia's official duties or otherwise communicated that he expected to receive money or benefits, he induced the payments for purpose of the statute; or
+Second, if a defendant conferred or offered to confer some benefit, or refrained or offered to refrain from some official act, in exchange for the payment of monies or benefits from representatives of Wedtech, then he induced the payment of monies; or
+Third, if the defendant repeatedly accepted monies or benefits from representatives of Wedtech, and if the amount of money or the benefits accepted could reasonably have affected the defendant's exercise of his duties, then you may find that the defendant induced the payment of monies. However, the mere acceptance by the defendants of monies from representatives of Wedtech that could not reasonably be expected to affect the exercise of Robert Garcia's duties, without more, does not amount to inducement under the statute.
+The court declined to give the Garcias' proposed instructions that to convict the jury must find "that the defendant obtained [the property of another] with the consent of the giver, but that this property was obtained in exchange for his or her promise of action or inaction under color of official right," and that
+In order to find extortion under color of official right, you must find that the public official in some way induced or caused the payment of monies or property in exchange for his promise of official action or inaction.
+. . . . .
+... Extortion under color of official right is committed when a public official promises wrongful use of his office in exchange for money not due him or his office. Thus mere acceptance of monies is not sufficient. Nor is it sufficient that a public official receives money knowing that it was given with the expectation of a benefit on account of his office. The government must prove the public official induced the payment of the benefit through the misuse of his office, by promising to do something under color of his public office in exchange for that benefit.
+B. Seven months after the retrial in this case, the Supreme Court in Evans v. United States, --- U.S. ----, 112 S.Ct. 1881, 119 L.Ed.2d 57 (1992), rejecting our decision in O'Grady, held that "an affirmative act of inducement by a public official, such as a demand, is [not] an element of the offense of extortion 'under color of official right' prohibited by the Hobbs Act." Id. at ----, 112 S.Ct. at 1883. "We hold today that the Government need only show that a public official has obtained a payment to which he was not entitled, knowing that the payment was made in return for official acts." Id. at ----, 112 S.Ct. at 1889 (footnote omitted).
+The Court referred to the "quid pro quo requirement" of McCormick v. United States, --- U.S. ----, 111 S.Ct. 1807, 114 L.Ed.2d 307 (1991), which it held the district court's instructions in Evans "satisfie[d]." Evans, --- U.S. ----, 112 S.Ct. at 1889. In McCormick, the Court held that, because the making of campaign contributions was a traditional practice in American politics, campaign contributions could constitute extortion under color of official right in violation of the Hobbs Act "only, --- U.S. ----, 111 S.Ct. at 1816. The Court did "not decide whether a quid pro quo requirement exists in other contexts, such as when an elected official receives gifts, meals, travel expenses, or other items of value." Id. at ----, n. 10, 111 S.Ct. at 1817, n. 10.
+Our determination of the correctness of the jury instructions is based upon the law as it exists on the date of our decision, not as it was on the date of the instructions. See George Basch Co., Inc. v. Blue Coral, Inc., 968 F.2d 1532, 1536 (2d Cir.) ("[O]n appeal, we must apply the law as it exists as of the date of our decision."), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 113 S.Ct. 510, 121 L.Ed.2d 445 (1992); Mrs. W., Mrs. B., & Conn. Legal Servs. v. Tirozzi, 832 F.2d 748, 755 (2d Cir.1987) (It is "the duty of courts to decide the issues in a case consistent with the directives of a statute enacted subsequent to the judgment appealed from."); Crane Co. v. American Standard, Inc., 603 F.2d 244, 248 (2d Cir.1979) (Where .").
+The district court's failure to give an instruction on quid pro quo was error. The court declined to do so because it viewed that requirement as enunciated in McCormick as limited to cases where the alleged extortion under color of official right involved campaign contributions. United States v. Garcia, 774 F.Supp. 848, 849 (S.D.N.Y.1991). Although the McCormick Court had ruled that extortion under color of official right in circumstances involving campaign contributions occurs "only if the payments are made in return for an explicit promise or undertaking by the official to perform or not to perform an official act," --- U.S. at ----, 111 S.Ct. at 1816, Evans modified this standard in non-campaign contribution cases by requiring that the government show only "that a public official has obtained a payment to which he was not entitled, knowing that the payment was made in return for official acts." --- U.S. at ----, 112 S.Ct. at 1889 (footnote omitted).
+The district court did not rest its refusal to give the Garcias' proposed instruction, as it properly could have done, on the fact that the proposed instruction required the government to prove that Garcia received the money in return for an express promise. As Justice Kennedy pointed out in his concurring opinion in Evans:  be so and the payor so interprets it." Id. at ----, 112 S.Ct. at 1892.
+Although the district court's instruction that the government was required to prove inducement turned out to have been unnecessary, it did not prejudice, but instead aided, the defendants, since it imposed upon the government an additional burden of proof. The district court, however, failed to give the separate instruction on the quid pro quo requirement that Evans mandates. The only remaining question, therefore, is whether the court's instructions on inducement sufficiently incorporated the substance of the quid pro quo requirement that the jury was informed that to convict it had to find "that a public official has obtained a payment to which he was not entitled, knowing that the payment was made in return for official acts." Id. at ----, 112 S.Ct. at 1889 (footnote omitted).
+As noted, the court instructed the jury that the "government may prove that the defendants used any one of the three forms of inducement." Only the second of these forms required the government to show that Garcia accepted money "in exchange for" an official act--a standard that satisfied the quid pro quo requirement of Evans. Neither the first nor the third possible forms satisfied the standard. The first form required the government to show only that Garcia solicited the payment of money "in connection with Robert Garcia's official duties." The third form permitted the jury to find inducement "if the defendant repeatedly accepted monies or benefits from representatives of Wedtech, and if the amount of money or the benefits accepted could reasonably have affected the defendant's exercise of his duties." This standard was sanctioned in O'Grady. See 742 F.2d at 694-95 (concurring opinions of Judge Pierce and Judge Newman).
+Although no explicit agreement between Wedtech and Garcia need have been shown, the government must have shown that Garcia received the payment "knowing that [it] was made in return for official acts." Evans, --- U.S. at ----, 112 S.Ct. at 1889 (footnote omitted). Thus, it was not enough for the jury to have concluded that Garcia's acceptance of money was "in connection with [his] official duties" or "reasonably" could have "affected" the performance of his official duties. The jury was required to find that Garcia understood that the payment was made in return for performance of those duties.
+We thus have a case in which the jury was given three disjunctive bases for conviction, one of which was legally sufficient and two of which were legally insufficient. We cannot tell the basis upon which the jury based its conviction of Garcia.
+C. In Griffin v. United States, --- U.S. ----, 112 S.Ct. 466, 116 L.Ed.2d 371 (1991), the Supreme Court held that where a jury convicted a defendant on a double object conspiracy charge, the court of appeals properly affirmed a general guilty verdict where the evidence was sufficient to establish one of those objectives, but insufficient to establish the other. The Court followed its earlier decision in Turner v. United States, 396 U.S. 398, 90 S.Ct. 642, 24 L.Ed.2d 610 (1970), which, according to Griffin,
+involved a claim that the evidence was insufficient to support a general guilty verdict under a one-count indictment charging the defendant with knowingly purchasing, possessing, dispensing, and distributing heroin not in or from the original stamped package, in violation of 26 U.S.C. § charged." Id., at 420, 90 S.Ct. at 654.
+--- U.S. at ----, 112 S.Ct. at 472-73.
+The Court distinguished Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298, 77 S.Ct. 1064, 1 L.Ed.2d 1356 (1957), in which, Griffin stated, the Court had held that where one of two objects of a conspiracy charge was "insufficient in law," --- U.S. at ----, 112 S.Ct. at 470, "the proper rule to be applied is that which requires a verdict to be set aside in cases where the verdict is supportable on one ground, but not on another, and it is impossible to tell which ground the jury selected." Id. (quoting Yates ). The Court in Griffin refused to extend Yates to "set aside a general verdict because one of the possible bases of conviction was neither unconstitutional as in Stromberg [v. California, 283 U.S. 359, 51 S.Ct. 532, 75 L.Ed. 1117 (1931) ], nor even illegal as in Yates, but merely unsupported by sufficient evidence," id. --- U.S. at ----, 112 S.Ct. at 472,--a result which, Griffin concluded, would be contrary to Turner. Id.
+Thus, the teaching of Griffin is that when.
+In the present case, we have held that although one of the three theories upon which the case was submitted to the jury was legally sufficient, the other two theories were legally insufficient. Since Garcia's conviction may have been based upon one of those two theories, which would have been legally insufficient because they did not require the jury to find the quid pro quo that under Evans is a necessary element of the crime of extortion under color of official right, it follows that Garcia's conviction for that crime cannot stand.
+III
+A. Mrs. Garcia and Vallone were both convicted of aiding and abetting extortion under color of official right in connection with Wedtech's payments through Vallone of the $76,000 retainer fees to Mrs. Garcia. Because the district court dismissed the jury after it returned its preliminary verdict, the jury did not determine Mr. Garcia's guilt or innocence under the substantive extortion count relating to those payments. The court charged the jury, however, that to convict as an aider and abetter, the jury could find
+a defendant guilty if you find beyond a reasonable doubt that the government has proved that Robert Garcia committed the crime of extortion under color of official right and that the defendant you are considering aided and abetted him in its commission.
+The jury verdict that Mrs. Garcia and Vallone aided and abetted the extortion of $76,000 thus necessarily must have rested on a finding that Garcia committed that substantive offense. That finding of Garcia's substantive violation, however, is subject to the same fatal flaw that led us to reverse Garcia's extortion conviction based upon the $20,000 loan: it may have rested upon the erroneous first or third grounds specified in the inducement instruction under which the jury could have convicted without finding the existence of a quid pro quo for the payments. For that reason, therefore, we hold that the aiding and abetting convictions of Mrs. Garcia and Vallone must be reversed.
+B. The same conclusion follows with respect to Mrs. Garcia's conviction for conspiring to commit extortion of the $76,000 payments. The court told the jury that it would "define the crime of extortion under the color of official right in more detail below," where it gave the instruction we have held to be defective. The court continued: "It is sufficient if you find that the conspirators agreed, tacitly or impliedly, to either one of the objectives stated in paragraphs 11 or 12 of the indictment." Those two paragraphs charge the extortion of the $76,000 payments and the $20,000 loan. Under those instructions, the jury may have convicted Mrs. Garcia of conspiracy to extort the $76,000 on the basis of conduct by Garcia that did not involve any quid pro quo.
+IV
+In sum, the defective jury instructions require the reversal of the convictions of Garcia, Mrs. Garcia and Vallone, and a remand of the case to the district court. As noted, during the retrial, after the jury returned verdicts of guilty on three of the seven counts in the indictment, the other counts were dismissed. If the government so elects, the defendants can be retried on those counts as well.
+The convictions of Garcia, Mrs. Garcia and Vallone are reversed, and the case is remanded to the district court for a new trial.
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Melissa Springer, Credit: This ain't your mama's chicken casserole. Joyce – you had me worried for a second. Enchiladas de Pollo (Chicken Enchiladas) Recipe. Daughter didn't even finish her bread… and that's saying lots! This chicken parmesan is an Italian classic that's easy to make and easy on your budget. Mexican Chicken Casserole with Charred Tomato Salsa Recipe. Pour chicken and cheese mixture over and spread it across the dish. Her Creamy Cucumber and Onion Salad is one of the most viewed recipes on this blog. WARNING: Do not make this dish.. You will not be able to stay out of it. This easy cheesy chicken casserole is guaranteed to be a hit at pot luck dinners and family meals. Jump to Recipe. Greg DuPreeFood Styling: Rishon HannersProp Styling: Thom Driver, Credit: In a medium bowl, combine the cream cheese, water, soy sauce, garlic and the remaining sea salt and freshly ground pepper and whisk to combine. Sprinkle crushed tortilla chips over the top to give this creamy casserole a bit of crunch. I love the sour cream and poppy seeds in there!! The thin pasta soaks up the sauce to become a hearty casserole. Brian Woodcock; Styling: Claire Spollen, Credit: Privacy Policy. MyRecipes may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Mix together chicken, noodles, sour cream, soup and cheeses in a large bowl. Comfort food at its best!…, Mexican Chicken Casserole – taco night never tasted so good! Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Top the creamy pasta mixture with both shredded Cheddar and Parmesan cheeses in this super cheesy chicken tetrazzini. Top with the shredded cheese and breadcrumbs. This keto chicken casserole has checked all the boxes and will impress anyone you … Sounds delicious! Not eating your bread is a big deal here too!! I know my kids will love it, just like they did your taco casserole. Savory Chicken Casserole JosephEdwards61430. Sprinkle the cracker mixture over the chicken mixture in the baking dish. Monte Cristo Breakfast Casserole – Overnight Ham & Cheese French Toast Casserole – super easy to make and tastes amazing! Those are the three criteria I think we can all agree on matter when it comes to dinner. In a pinch and in need of a quick meal that will please everyone? MyRecipes is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. Sprinkle with the cheese, cover and cook for 5 minutes or until the Chicken Casserole without Cheese Recipes 163,612 Recipes. Next time try to use crumbled Doritos instead of the Club crackers. Although the yellow and green squash give this chicken and rice casserole a colorful appearance, you can use one or the other, if you prefer. Transfer broccoli to a 9x13 baking dish and sprinkle … Home / Posts / Recipes / Casserole / Main Dish Casserole. This classic flavor combination is sure to take you right back to mom's kitchen table. Stir to combine. You will not be able to stop at one serving. This lightened recipe for one of our most popular dishes is almost identical to the original version, but made with reduced-fat cheeses and low-fat canned soups. The addition of yellow squash, bell pepper and frozen chopped spinach sets this Tex-Mex chicken casserole apart from the rest and is a great way to include more veggies at your dinner table. Layer the casserole ingredients in the casserole dish: rice, followed by the cream of chicken soup and chicken, then the broccoli. Cheesy Chicken Fajita Casserole. Mix crushed ritz crackers with additional butter. No forks or spoons required, just easy-to-pick-up party foods, so you can clean up in no time. Tortilla Chip Casserole retains all the full-flavor of this popular chicken comfort dish but with lighter ingredients. Hope you enjoy it! Her Creamy Italian Pasta Salad is, by far, my favorite pasta salad in the world! Bake at 350° for 25 minutes until bubbly. Sherri – yes, Ritz crackers would work fine. This sounds delicious! Whether you're cooking for yourself or for a family, these easy dinners are sure to leave everyone satisfied and stress-free. Cheesy Chicken Casserole Recipe – Chicken, noodles, chicken soup, sour cream, cheddar, mozzarella topped with butter crackers and poppy seeds – makes a ton. Parmesan Chicken and Rice Casserole Recipe. Trade the traditional enchilada sauce for a creamy, cheesy topping on this Mexican-inspired casserole. Great for a potluck. Take a traditional tomato-based pasta bake and turn it on its head with bold Southwestern flavors in lieu of Italian. The creamy chicken mixture is topped with a buttery crushed crackers and poppy seeds, making this casserole totally impossible to resist. Using a long-grain and wild rice mix and toasted almonds in chicken casserole makes it a little bit dressier and fit for company during the holidays. Randy Mayor; Styling: Leigh Ann Ross. Your family will never know they're enjoying a lightened meal. Mix together cracker crumbs and margarine; sprinkle over top. sea salt, garlic powder, thyme, onion powder, chicken, butternut squash and 4 more . This Cheesy Chicken Bacon Broccoli Casserole is like a hug from your [insert your most favorite person ever]. Dice and season the chicken with the spices. Yes No No Preference. Randy Mayor; Lydia DeGaris-Pursell, Credit: The recipe is extra cheesy with both Monterey Jack and Cheddar, but it will also be fine if you choose to use only one type of cheese. Sprinkle poppy seed over cracker crumbs. It's a modern interpretation that still has loads of old-school comfort-food appeal. Stir in cheeses (reserving 1/2 cup for putting on top), shredded chicken and chopped onion. The recipe makes two casseroles, so enjoy one for dinner and freeze the other for later. Cover and cook for 15 minutes or until the rice is tender. This lightened version of a classic dish is a great way to use leftover cooked chicken. Chicken Fajita Casserole makes the perfect weeknight dinner when you’re short on time! Mom's Creamy Chicken and Broccoli Casserole Recipe. Skip. Stir chopped chicken into the cheese mixture. This Cheesy Chicken and Biscuit Casserole is no different. Everybody understands the stuggle of getting dinner on the table after a long day. Iain Bagwell; Styling: Kay Clark, Credit: Repeat. Light King Ranch Chicken Casserole Recipe. Beyond being warm, cheesy, and generally delightful, this flavor-packed casserole is loaded with protein and is sure to become a new family favorite. Brian Woodcock; Styling: Mary Clayton Carl, Credit: Loaded out cheesy, chicken, and potato casserole is as easy as 1-2-3. Of course, this chicken … It is easy and it tastes great. A one-pan, assemble-and-bake Tex-Mex casserole just might be the answer. Offers may be subject to change without notice. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. To make it easier to toss the pasta and sauce, break the vermicelli in half before cooking. Instead of the usual jarred salsa often called for in Mexican casserole, this recipe features a homemade salsa made with charred tomatoes that are mixed with cilantro and fresh lime juice. Caitlin Bensel; Food Styling: Blakeslee Giles; Prop Styling: Audrey Davis, Credit: Credit: Use budget-friendly chicken thighs in this creamy enchilada casserole featuring salsa verde, corn, and pickled jalapeño. Hope you like it! Cook for about 2 minutes before slowly adding in milk. Copyright © 2007-2020 Stephanie Parker | Plain Chicken, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This search takes into account your taste preferences. Stir in 3 cups of cheddar cheese until incorporated. Awesome photo too . Add rice and black beans for a full on fiesta! 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+Handbook of Genetic Counseling/Cleft Lip and Palate
+From Wikibooks, open books for an open world
+Cleft Lip and Palate
+Contents
+- 1 Introduction and Contracting
+- 2 Review Medical History
+- 3 Family History
+- 4 Inheritance and Recurrence Risk
+- 5 Multifactorial Risks of Cleft Lip/Palate
+- 6 Prevalence of Clefts
+- 7 Cleft Repair
+- 8 Other Possible Complications
+- 9 Psychosocial Assessment
+- 10 Financial Assistance
+- 11 Psychosocial Concerns
+- 12 References
+- 13 Patient Resources
+- 14 Differential Diagnosis
+- 15 Cleft Related Genetic Syndromes/Diseases
+- 16 Notes
+Introduction and Contracting[edit]
+Review Medical History[edit]
+(fill out remainder of intake and verify info)
+Family History[edit]
+(verify pedigree if we have one in his mother's chart or make a new one)
+- Be sure to include:
+- cleft lip and palate
+- heart defects
+- birth defects
+- learning difficulties
+- mental retardation
+- miscarriages
+- early deaths
+- consanguinity
+Inheritance and Recurrence Risk[edit]
+- If neither parent has a cleft than the inheritance is probably either multifactorial or recessive and these are not distinguishable usually
+- multifactorial -- combination of genes and environment
+- approximately 3-5% chance of having another similarly affected child this is 20-35 fold increase over baseline
+- (this risk increases more if the couple have more than one affected child)
+Multifactorial Risks of Cleft Lip/Palate[edit]
+- recurrence also influenced by how severe the cleft is 5.6% for bilateral lip/palate, 4.1% for unilateral lip/palate and 2.6% for cleft lip without cleft palate
+- if it can be established that there are no other affected relatives, the risk to siblings (2.2%) is less than the overall risk (4%).
+- The higher figure should be used if the history is unreliable or unavailable.
+- If there is a third first degree relative than autosomal dominant or recessive inheritance should be considered.
+- recessive inheritance
+- both parents contribute the same recessive gene to affected child
+- recurrence risk 25% or 1:4
+- gene not mapped
+- Autosomal dominant -THIS IS WHAT WAS COUNSELED FOR THIS FAMILY
+- usually one parent will also have cleft
+- risk of recurrence is 50% or 1:2
+- gene mapped to short arm chromosome 6
+- X-linked recessive
+- pattern seen sometimes with clefting of the secondary palate or bifid uvula
+- x-linked recurrence risks
+- in one of these families from Iceland the single gene has been mapped to the long arm of chromosome X
+- Association with a syndrome or collection of physical findings which run together in the same person, and for the most part are seen in all individuals who have that syndrome
+- Syndromes are more common in cleft palate alone than in cleft lip with or without cleft palate, but can occur in any of these
+- Syndromic clefts are commonly inherited as single gene defects, but they can be due to changes in the baby's chromosomes, something used during pregnancy or a sporadic change
+Prevalence of Clefts[edit]
+- 1:700 live births over 5,000 in US each year
+- between 1/5000 and 1/1000 for cleft lip and/or cleft palate, and about 1/2500 for cleft palate alone
+- more common among Asians 1: 500 and certain groups of American Indians 1:300 than among Caucasians 1:800
+- occur less frequently among African-Americans 1: 2000
+- Cleft lip and cleft palate together are more common in boys 3:2 ratio
+Cleft Repair[edit]
+- cleft lip-- usually be repaired in the first few months of life-- for most infants with cleft lip alone, the abnormality can be repaired within the first several months of life (usually when the baby is 10 to 12 pounds)
+- cleft palate repairs are usually done between the ages of 9 to 18 months, but before the age of 2
+- exact timing of these repairs depends on the baby's health and considerations of his or her future development and will be decided by surgeon
+Other Possible Complications[edit]
+Feeding Problems[edit]
+- Feeding difficulties occur more with cleft palate abnormalities
+- some babies with clefts have very few or no problems feeding
+- others have more difficulty --the infant may be unable to suck properly because the roof of the mouth is not formed completelely
+- breastfeeding is possible, but the use of special bottles and careful positioning of the baby are sometimes helpful modifications-- there are many types of bottles and nipples on the market that can assist with feeding an infant with cleft palate
+- Dr. Doktour recommended Haberman Feeder®
+- This is a specially designed bottle system with a valve to help control the air the baby drinks and to prevent milk from going back into the bottle
+Hearing[edit]
+- important for ears and hearing to be examined on a regular basis because children with cleft palate are more susceptible to ear infections (otitis media) than children without clefts
+- Ear infections are often due to a dysfunction of the tube that connects the middle ear and the throat
+- Children with many ear infections are at risk for hearing loss, language delays, and speech problems because they are not able to hear language normally when fluid collects in the middle ear.
+Teeth Considerations[edit]
+- only cleft lip-- teeth will probably not be affected
+- if affects the gums where the teeth grow - teeth may not erupt normally and probably need dental/ orthodontic treatments
+Speech Difficulties[edit]
+- only lip --speech problems are unlikely
+- cleft palate over half need speech therapy at some point in childhood
+- many children who are born with a cleft palate develop normal speech by the age of 5
+- delay in both the onset of speech and the development of speech sounds during the first 9-24 months of age is not unusual
+- important to remember that some children, with or without a cleft palate, may simply develop speech more slowly than others.
+- important to talk to your child and to encourage your child to talk to you
+- before palate repair
+- there is no separation between the nasal cavity and the mouth and it can be difficult to learn how to make some sounds because the child cannot build up air pressure in the mouth because air escapes out of the nose and/or there is less tissue on the roof of the mouth for the tongue to touch
+- After palate repair
+- your child may be able to learn more consonant sounds and say more words
+- speech may still be delayed during the early years
+- articulation problems (difficulties in making certain sounds) may persist in some children throughout early childhood for a variety of reasons.
+- if teeth do not "line up" correctly, speech may be understandable, but some sounds (like "s" or "sh") may sound distorted or "mushy."
+- VPI (velopharyngeal insufficiency or inadequacy)
+- when speech is produced correctly, the soft palate lifts and moves toward the back of the throat, separating the nasal cavity from the mouth so that air and sound can be directed out of the mouth.
+- inability to close off the nasal cavity from the mouth is called velopharyngeal inadequacy.
+- characterized by hyponasal speech "talking through their noses."
+- occurs because when the soft palate cannot close off the nose from the mouth, air and sound can escape through the nose during speech
+- Approximately 25% of children with repaired cleft palates still show signs of velopharyngeal inadequacy.
+- grunt or growl sounds may be behavior that some children learn in an attempt to compensate for velopharyngeal inadequacy-- although it can be corrected by speech therapy it should be discouraged
+- Children with velopharyngeal inadequacy may also have a voice disorder.
+- voice may sound hoarse or "breathy" and may fatigue easily and is usually caused by the strain that he or she puts on the vocal cords while trying to build the pressure necessary for normal speech.
+- Speech therapy alone may be able to correct your child's speech disorder. Therapy can be extremely effective for children with mild hypernasality, an articulation disorder, or speech delay.
+- Speech therapy alone will generally NOT correct hypernasality that is caused by moderate to severe velopharyngeal inadequacy.
+- may require another palate surgery to help with speech
+- surgery is the most frequently-chosen approach for improving velopharyngeal function, but a prosthetic device may be an option for some patients.
+Learning Difficulties[edit]
+- none expected it isolated cleft lip and palate
+- if part of a cluster of a syndrome learning ability is sometimes affected
+[edit]
+- Having a baby can be pretty stressful especially when there are complications. How are you handling it?
+- Do you have help from your family?
+- Have you explained any of this to your friends or family?
+- Is the father of the baby involved in any way?
+- How is that?
+- Are you attending school?
+- Working?
+- The surgeries and treatment can get pretty expensive do you have health insurance coverage?
+- Other financial assistance?
+Financial Assistance[edit]
+- Health insurance will pay for all or part of the necessary care
+- may qualify for BCMH
+- would probably qualify for WIC
+[edit]
+- Initial shock and adjustment for the family
+- Often a period of mourning the anticipated child and the situation
+- Possibility of mother interacting differently and interacting less with infants with anomalies
+- Guilt - nothing you could have done to prevent or cause this
+- Feelings of concern, anxiety, and grief are not unusual
+- mothers of babies with clefts report more stress and more concerns about their competence as parents than mothers of healthy babies
+- reproductive plans generally unaltered by birth of child with cleft
+- later challenges as the child grows
+References[edit]
+- Kummer, A.W. Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies Effects of Speech and Resonance. 2001. Thomson Learning Inc.
+- [1]
+- [2]
+- [3]
+- [4]
+Patient Resources[edit]
+see attached
+Differential Diagnosis[edit]
+- Van der Woude Syndrome
+- among most common syndromic causes of CL/P may be responsible
+for up to 3%
+- AD disorder gene mapped to long arm chromosome 1
+- presence of pits of the lower lip and cleft lip, cleft palate,
+or both
+- may also have neonatal teeth and missing teeth
+- development usually normal speech difficulties related to
+cleft palate
+Cleft Related Genetic Syndromes/Diseases[edit]
+The following table was extracted from a table on Embryogenesis by Dr. Harold C. Slavkin; Director, National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
+Notes[edit]
+- CS; cytoskeletal protein, ECM; extracellular matrix protein; ENZ; enzyme, IS, intracellular signalling protein, NP; nuclear protein, SEC; secretory protein, TM; transmembrane protein, TF; transcription factor, UNK; unknown
+- AD; autosomal dominant, AR; autosomal recessive, X; X-linked, XD; X-linked dominant, XR; X-linked recessive
+- The following description is only a summary of the craniofacial features of the diseases and disorders. For detail information regarding defects in other affected tissues and organs, refer to the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) at [5]
+Network Implementation of Protocols and Services
+- Given a Scenario, Implement Common Protocols and Services
+- Given a Scenario, Troubleshoot Security Issues Related to Wireless Networking
+- What Next?
+The network infrastructure is subject to myriad internal and external attacks through services, protocols, and open ports. It is imperative that you understand how to properly implement services and protocols, especially if the network has been in existence for some period of time and some services are no longer needed or have been forgotten. To stop many would-be attackers, you must understand how protocols are used on the network, what common ports are used by network protocols, and how to securely implement a wireless network.
+This chapter discusses these concepts to help you understand how to use the proper network implementation of protocols and services as a tool to protect and mitigate threats against network infrastructure based on organizational needs. It also has a section specifically dedicated to wireless security implementation based on organization requirements.
+Given a Scenario, Implement Common Protocols and Services
+- Protocols
+- Ports
+- OSI relevance
+Protocols
+Internet Protocol Security
+The Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) authentication and encapsulation standard is widely used to establish secure VPN communications. The use of.
+The asymmetric key standard defining IPsec provides two primary security services:
+- Authentication Header (AH): This. The values of such fields cannot be protected by AH. So, the protection provided to the IP header by AH is somewhat piecemeal.
+- Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP): This may will be 50 for ESP or 51 for AH. If IPsec is configured to do authentication rather than encryption, you must configure an IP filter to let protocol 51 traffic pass. If IPsec uses nested AH and ESP, you can configure an IP filter to let only protocol 51 (AH) traffic pass.
+IPsec supports the IKE protocol, which is a key management standard used to allow specification of separate key protocols to be used during data encryption. IKE functions within the Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP), which defines the payloads used to exchange key and authentication data appended to each packet.
+The common key exchange protocols and standard encryption algorithms—including asymmetric key solutions such as the Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement and Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) standards; symmetric key solutions such as the International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA) and Digital Encryption Standard (DES); Triple DES (3DES) and hashing algorithms, such as the message digest 5 (MD5) and Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA)—are covered in detail in Chapter 12, “Cryptography Tools and Techniques.”
+Although IPsec by itself does not control access to the wireless local-area network (WAN), it can be used in conjunction with 802.1X to provide security for data being sent to client computers that are roaming between access points (AP) on the same network. For better security, segment the wireless network by placing a firewall between the WLAN and the remainder of the network. Because IPsec is a solution to securely authenticate and encrypt network IP packets, you can use IPsec to provide strong security between a Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server and a domain controller, or to secure traffic to a partner organization’s RADIUS servers. RADIUS provides authentication and access control within an enterprise network and is explained in greater detail in Chapter 10, “Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control.” Many of the VPN solutions use IPsec, and, like a virtual private network (VPN), IPsec is an excellent solution in many circumstances. However, it should not be a direct alternative for WLAN protection implemented at the network hardware layer.
+Simple Network Management Protocol
+Older protocols that are still in use might (UPS). Many of the vulnerabilities associated with SNMP stem from using SNMPv1. Although these vulnerabilities were discovered in 2002, vulnerabilities are still being reported with current SNMP components. A recent Ubuntu Linux Security Advisory noted that vulnerabilities in Net-SNMP allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service. than brute-force attacks. SNMP is often overlooked when checking for vulnerabilities because it uses User Datagram Protocol (UDP) ports 161 and 162. Make sure that network management stations are secure physically and secure on the network. You might even consider using a separate management subnet and protecting it using a router with an access list. Unless this service is required, you should turn it off.
+Secure Shell
+As a more secure replacement for the common command-line terminal utility Telnet, the Secure Shell (SSH) utility establishes a session between the client and host computers using an authenticated and encrypted connection. SSH requires encryption of all data, including the login portion. SSH uses the asymmetric (public key) RSA cryptography method to provide both connection and authentication.
+Data encryption is accomplished using one of the following algorithms:
+- Encryption Algorithm (IDEA): The default encryption algorithm used by SSH, which uses a 128-bit symmetric key block cipher.
+- Blowfish: A symmetric (private key) encryption algorithm using a variable 32- to 448-bit secret key.
+- Data Encryption Standard (DES): A symmetric key encryption algorithm using a random key selected from a large number of shared keys. Most forms of this algorithm cannot be used in products meant for export from the United States.
+- Triple Data Encryption Standard (#DES): A symmetric key encryption algorithm that dramatically improves upon the DES by using the DES algorithm three times with three distinct keys.
+Using SSH helps guard against attacks such as eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle attacks, and spoofing. Attempts to spoof the identity of either side of a communication can be thwarted because each packet is encrypted using a key known only by the local and remote systems.
+Domain Name Service
+Domain Name Service (DNS) was originally designed as an open protocol. DNS servers are organized in a hierarchy. At the top level of the hierarchy, root servers store the complete database of Internet domain names and their corresponding IP addresses. There are different types of DNS servers. The most common types are the following:
+- Authoritative servers: Definitive for particular domains providing information about only those domains. An authoritative-only name server only returns answers to queries about domain names that have been specifically configured.
+- Caching servers: Uses recursion to resolve a given name starting with the DNS root through to the authoritative name servers of the queried domain.
+Internal DNS servers can be less susceptible to attacks than external DNS servers, but they still need to be secured. To stop outside intruders from accessing the internal network of your company, use separate DNS servers for internal and Internet name resolution. To provide Internet name resolution for internal hosts, you can have your internal DNS servers use a forwarder.
+The following are some considerations for internal DNS servers:
+- Eliminate any single point of failure by making sure that the structure is planned properly. Analyze where the clients of each DNS zone are located and how they will resolve names if the DNS server is unavailable.
+- Prevent unauthorized access to your servers by implementing integrated zones with secure dynamic updates. Keep the list of DNS servers that are allowed to obtain a zone transfer small.
+- Monitor the server events and DNS logs. Proper monitoring of logs and server events can help prevent unauthorized access as well as diagnose problems.
+Transport Layer Security
+Another asymmetric key encapsulation currently considered the successor to SSL is the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, based on Netscape’s Secure Sockets Layer 3.0 (SSL3) transport protocol, which provides encryption using stronger encryption methods, such as DES, or without encryption altogether if desired for authentication only. SSL and TLS transport are similar but not entirely interoperable. TLS also provides confidentiality and data integrity.
+TLS has two layers of operation:
+- TLS Record Protocol: This protocol allows the client and server to communicate using some form of encryption algorithm (or without encryption if desired).
+- TLS Handshake Protocol: This protocol allows the client and server to authenticate one another and exchange encryption keys to be used during the session.
+Secure Sockets Layer
+Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol communications occur between the HTTP (application) and TCP (transport) layers of Internet communications. SSL is used by millions of websites in the protection of their online transactions with their customers. SSL is a public key-based security protocol that is used by Internet services and clients for authentication, message integrity, and confidentiality. The SSL process uses certificates for authentication and encryption for message integrity and confidentiality. SSL establishes what is called a stateful connection. In a stateful connection, both ends set up and maintain information about the session itself during its life. This is different from a stateless connection, where there is no prior connection setup. The SSL stateful connection is negotiated by a handshaking procedure between client and server. During this handshake, the client and server exchange the specifications for the cipher that will be used for that session. SSL communicates using an asymmetric key with cipher strength of 40 or 128 bits.
+SSL works by establishing a secure channel using public key infrastructure (PKI). This can eliminate a vast majority of attacks, such as session hijackings and information theft.
+You can secure communications when performing administration on wireless access points (WAP) by leveraging protocols such as SSH or HTTP with SSL or TLS. A WAP can implement access control functions to allow or deny access to the network and provides the capability of encrypting wireless traffic. It also has the means to query an authentication and authorization service for authorization decisions and securely exchange encryption keys with the client to secure the network traffic.
+As a general rule, SSL is not as flexible as IPsec from an application perspective but is more flexible for access from any location. One must determine the usage requirements for each class of user and determine the best approach.
+Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
+The core of TCP/IP consists of four main protocols: the Internet Protocol (IP), the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP). IP is responsible for providing essential routing functions for all traffic on a TCP/IP network. TCP provides connection-oriented communication. UDP provides connectionless communications. TCP connections are initiated and terminated with a three-way handshake process. ICMP provides administrative services to TCP/IP networks.
+TCP/IP’s implementation of the OSI model makes functionality simpler by mapping the same seven layers of the OSI model to a four-layer model instead. Unlike the OSI reference model, the TCP/IP model focuses more on delivering interconnectivity than on functional layers. It does this by acknowledging the importance of a structured hierarchical sequence of functions, yet leaves protocol designers flexibility for implementation. Table 2.1 compares the OSI and TCP/IP models.
+TABLE 2.1 OSI and TCP/IP Model Comparison
+File Transfer Protocol Secure
+FTP passes the username and password in a plain-text form, allowing packet sniffing of the network traffic to read these values, which may then be used for unauthorized access to the server. FTPS, also known as FTP Secure and FTP-SSL, is an FTP extension that adds support for TLS and SSL. FTPS supports channel encryption as defined in RFC 2228.
+With FTPS, data transfers take place in a way designed to allow both parties to authenticate each other and to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and forgery on the messages exchanged. FTPS includes full support for the TLS and SSL cryptographic protocols, including the use of server-side public key authentication certificates and client-side authorization certificates. It also supports compatible ciphers, including AES, RC4, RC2, Triple DES and DES, as well as hash functions SHA1, MD5, MD4, and MD2.
+You should use FTPS when you need to transfer sensitive or confidential data between a client and a server that is configured to use SSL for secure transactions.
+Secure variations of FTP ensure that data cannot be intercepted during transfer and allow the use of more secure transfer of user access credentials during FTP login. However, the same certificate vulnerabilities discussed earlier in this chapter apply here, too.
+Hypertext Transport Protocol over Secure Sockets Layer
+Basic web connectivity using Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) occurs over TCP port 80, providing no security against interception of transacted data sent in clear text. An alternative to this involves the use of SSL transport protocols operating on port 443, which creates an encrypted pipe through which HTTP traffic can be conducted securely. To differentiate a call to port 80 (), HTTP over SSL calls on port 443 using HTTPS as the URL port designator ().
+HTTP Secure (HTTPS) was originally created by the Netscape Corporation and used a 40-bit RC4 stream encryption algorithm to establish a secured connection encapsulating data transferred between the client and web server, although it can also support the use of X.509 digital certificates to allow the user to authenticate the sender. Now, 256-bit encryption keys have become the accepted level of secure connectivity for online banking and electronic commerce transactions.
+Although HTTPS encrypts communication between the client and server, it does not guarantee that the merchant is trustworthy or that the merchant’s server is secure. SSL/TLS is designed to positively identify the merchant’s server and encrypt communication between the client and server.
+Secure Copy Protocol
+The Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) is a network protocol that supports file transfers. SCP is a combination of RCP and SSH. It uses the BSD RCP protocol tunneled through the SSH protocol to provide encryption and authentication. The RCP performs the file transfer, and the SSH protocol performs authentication and encryption. SCP runs on port 22 and protects the authenticity and confidentiality of the data in transit. It thwarts the ability for packet sniffers to extract information from data packets.
+An SCP download request is server driven, which imposes a security risk when connected to a malicious server. SCP has been mostly superseded by the more comprehensive SFTP, and some implementations of the SCP utility actually use SFTP instead.
+Internet Control Message Protocol
+Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is a protocol meant to be used as an aid for other protocols and system administrators to test for connectivity and search for configuration errors in a network. Ping uses the ICMP echo function and is the lowest-level test of whether a remote host is alive. A small packet containing an ICMP echo message is sent through the network to a particular IP address. The computer that sent the packet then waits for a return packet. If the connections are good and the target computer is up, the echo message return packet will be received. It is one of the most useful network tools available because it tests the most basic function of an IP network. It also shows the Time To Live (TTL) value and the amount of time it takes for a packet to make the complete trip, also known as round-trip time (RTT), in milliseconds (ms). One caveat with using ICMP: It can be manipulated by malicious users, so some administrators block ICMP traffic. If that is the case, you will receive a request timeout even though the host is available.
+Traceroute is a computer network diagnostic tool for displaying the route (path) and measuring transit delays of packets across an IP network. Traceroute outputs the list of traversed routers in simple text format, together with timing information. Traceroute is available on most operating systems. On Microsoft Windows operating systems, it is named tracert. Traceroute uses an ICMP echo request packet to find the path. It sends an echo reply with the TTL value set to 1. When the first router sees the packet with TTL 1, it decreases it by 1 to 0 and discards the packet. As a result, it sends an ICMP Time Exceeded message back to the source address. The source address of the ICMP error message is the first router address. Now the source knows the address of the first router. Generally, three packets are sent at each TTL, and the RTT is measured for each one. Most implementations of traceroute keep working until they have gone 30 hops, but this can be extended up to 254 routers.
+Pathping is a Windows route-tracing tool that combines features of the ping and tracert commands with additional information. The command uses traceroute to identify which routers are on the path. When the traceroute is complete, pathping sends pings periodically to all the routers over a given time period and computes statistics based on the number of packets returned from each hop. By default, pathping pings each router 100 times, with a single ping every 0.25 seconds. Consequently, a default query requires 25 seconds per router hop. This is especially helpful in identifying routers that cause delays or other latency problems on a connection between two IP hosts.
+IPv4
+IPv4 is a connectionless protocol for use on packet-switched networks. It operates on a best effort delivery model, in that it does not guarantee delivery, nor does it ensure proper sequencing or avoidance of duplicate delivery. These aspects, including data integrity, are addressed by an upper-layer transport protocol, such as TCP. IPv4 currently routes the majority of Internet traffic. IPv4 is widely used in both internal and external networks throughout the world.
+IPv4 is susceptible to ping sweeps, port scans, and application and vulnerability scans. To mitigate sweeps and scans, filtering messages or traffic types is an acceptable solution because it is impossible to eliminate reconnaissance activity.
+IPv6
+Because of the increased demand of devices requiring IP addresses, IPv4 could not keep up with such an expansive demand. As a result, a new method was needed to address all the new devices requiring IP addresses. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) published a new standard for IP addresses in RFC 2460. The new standard, IPv6, makes several changes to the older IPv4 standard. IPv6 increases the address size from IPv4 32 bits to 128 bits.
+The differences between IPv6 and IPv4 are in five major areas: addressing and routing, security, network address translation, administrative workload, and support for mobile devices. Table 2.2 provides a comparison of some of the differences between IPv4 and IPv6.
+Table 2.2 IPv4 and IPv6 Comparison
+In addition to the difference in the address structure in IPv6, there are IPv6 versions of protocols and commands. The following are some of the more prevalent ones:
+- DHCPv6: Provides stateful address configuration or stateless configuration settings to IPv6 hosts.
+- EIGRPv6: Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) is a routing protocol that was developed by Cisco. EIGRPv6 runs on IPv6 networks. It operates in the same manner as the IPv4 version, except that is routes IPv6 addresses.
+- ICMPv6: Used by IPv6 nodes to report packet processing errors and diagnostics.
+- Pingv6: Used in the same capacity as Ping except for IPv6 addresses. On Windows-based machines, is used, and on Linux/UNIX-based machines is used.
+Internet Small Computer System Interface
+Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) is an IP-based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities. iSCSI is used for faster data transfers over intranets and handling remote storage access mainly in local-area networks (LAN) and WANs. It can be used in cloud environments as well, allowing remote resources to appear as local.
+Businesses choose iSCSI because of ease of installation, cost, and utilization of current Ethernet networks. iSCSI clients or initiators send SCSI commands to SCSI targets on remote servers to communicate. iSCSI typically uses TCP port 860, with the target service using port 3260. iSCSI uses IPsec for protection. IPsec provides greater levels of security and integrity, as mentioned earlier in this section.
+Fibre Channel
+Fibre Channel (FC) is a gigabit network technology predominantly used to link data storage facilities or a storage-area network (SAN). FC is similar to iSCSI, but requires a Fibre Channel infrastructure. An FC infrastructure generally is more costly and complex to manage due to the separate network switching infrastructure. FC uses the Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) to transport SCSI commands over the network consisting of ports and fabric. FC allows devices to attach through an interconnected switching system called a fabric. An FC port is not the same thing as computer port or network port. It is the node path performing data communications over the channel. The fiber may attach to a node port (N_Port) and to a port of the fabric (F_Port).The FC port manages a point-to-point connection between itself and the fabric.
+FC network protection is primarily security through obscurity because direct access to the FC network is not available to most users, but this does not eliminate the need for security. Approved in 2004, the Fibre Channel Security Protocols standard (FC-SP) specifies how to protect against security breaches. This standard defines protocols for authentication, session keys, integrity and confidentiality, and policy implementation across an FC fabric. Basic FC security occurs through authentication and access control. To secure FC, authentication between FC devices and other devices with whom they communicate can be established using mutual authentication. Proper access control can be achieved through port locking, hard zoning, logical unit number (LUN) masking, and using secure management interfaces and protocols.
+Fiber Channel over Ethernet
+Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is similar in concept to FC except that it allows Ethernet as a method of linking devices to storage. FC traffic runs over an Ethernet infrastructure by encapsulating FC over the Ethernet portions of the connectivity, allowing FC to run alongside IP traffic. FC traffic is used for the server applications, FC SAN, and FC storage. Because FCoE allows FC to be carried over Ethernet, the amount of equipment required in the data center can be reduced. FCoE uses a converged network adapter (CNA), lossless Ethernet links, and an FCoE switch.
+Organizations often choose FCoE to maintain or evolve their existing FC network. SAN basic security flaws include weaknesses with authentication and authorization. FCoE can be secured in the manners suggested for FC but also includes control-plane protection and data-plane protection. Control-plane protection is access protection for the switches. Data-plane protection is security for traffic passing through the switches.
+File Transfer Protocol
+File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers provide user access to upload or download files between client systems and a networked FTP server. FTP servers include many potential security issues, including anonymous file access and unencrypted authentication. Many FTP servers include the ability for anonymous access in their default installation configuration. Anonymous access is a popular method to provide general access to publicly available information. The problem with this form of access is that any user may download (and potentially upload) any file desired. This might result in a server’s available file storage and network access bandwidth being rapidly consumed for purposes other than those intended by the server’s administrator. If unauthorized file upload is allowed along with download, illegal file content could be placed on the server for download, without the knowledge of the system’s administrator.
+Even when user authentication is required, FTP passes the username and password in an unencrypted (plain-text) form, allowing packet sniffing of the network traffic to read these values, which may then be used for unauthorized access. To mitigate FTP vulnerabilities, actions such as disabling anonymous access, hardening access control lists (ACL), enabling logging and disk quotas, setting access restrictions by IP, and enabling “blind” puts can be implemented. Using more secure variations of FTP ensures that data cannot be intercepted during transfer and allows the use of more secure transfer of user access credentials during FTP login.
+Secure File Transfer Protocol
+Secure File Transfer. TFTP uses UDP port 69, has no login feature, and because it is implemented using UDP generally works only on LANs. TFTP works with either Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) or DHCP.
+Because of the lack of security in TFTP, it is a good idea to place the TFTP server behind a firewall on an isolated LAN that only the essential equipment can reach.
+Telnet
+Telnet is a terminal emulation program used to access remote routers and UNIX systems. Telnet can be used as a tool to determine whether the port on a host computer is working properly. Telnet passes the username, password, and even transacted data in an unencrypted form (clear text), allowing packet sniffing of the network traffic to read these values, which may then be used for unauthorized access to the server. Telnet-type clear-text connections create the ideal situation for TCP hijacking and man-in-the-middle attacks. Methods for mitigating Telnet vulnerabilities include using enhanced encryption or authentication security such as Kerberos, IPsec, SSH, SSL, or Cisco Secure Telnet.
+Hypertext Transport Protocol
+Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) allows users to connect to sources of information, services, products, and other functionality through the Internet. Business transactions, membership information, vendor/client communications, and even distributed business logic transactions can all occur though HTTP using basic Internet connectivity on TCP port 80.
+An HTTP message contains a header and a body. The message header of an HTTP request has a request line and a collection of header fields. All HTTP messages must include the protocol version. Some HTTP messages can contain a content body, which is optional. The original HTTP specification has little support for the security mechanisms appropriate for today’s Internet transactions. Methods for mitigating HTTP vulnerabilities include using enhanced encryption or authentication security HTTPS or SSL.
+NetBIOS
+Network Basic Input/Output System (NetBIOS) is an application programming interface (API) providing various networking services. NetBIOS provides name, datagram, and session services, allowing applications on different computers to communicate within a LAN. The session mode establishes a connection and provides error detection. The datagram mode is connectionless and supports LAN broadcast. NetBIOS is most commonly found in use with Microsoft Windows operating systems. Because it does not support routing, NetBIOS must be used with another transport mechanism such as TCP when it is implemented in an organization that has a WAN.
+Ports 2.3 lists some of the most commonly used ports and the services and protocols that use them. Many of these ports and services have vulnerabilities associated with them. It is important that you know what common ports are used by network protocols and how to securely implement services on these ports.
+TABLE 2.3 Commonly Used Ports
+Table 2.3 includes a list of protocols that may be currently in use on a network. These protocols, along with some older or antiquated protocols, may be configured open by default by the machine manufacturer or when an operating system is installed. Every operating system requires different services for it to operate properly. If ports are open for manufacturer-installed tools, the manufacturer should have the services listed in the documentation. Ports for older protocols such as Chargen (port 19) and Telnet (port 23) may still be.
+OSI Relevance
+You should be very familiar with the OSI model as well as the common protocols and network hardware that function within each level. For example, you should know that hubs operate at the physical layer of the OSI model. Intelligent hubs, bridges, and network switches operate at the data link layer, and Layer 3 switches and routers operate at the network layer. The Network+ Exam Cram and Exam Prep books cover the OSI model in much more detail. If you will be working extensively with network protocols and hardware, you should also look at these texts.
+The layers of the OSI model are as follows:
+- Application layer
+- Presentation layer
+- Session layer
+- Transport layer
+- Network layer
+- Data link layer (subdivided into the Logical-Link Control [LLC] and Media Access Control [MAC] sublayers)
+- Physical layer
+Most applications, like web browsers or email clients, incorporate functionality of the OSI layers 5, 6, and 7.
+Cram Quiz
+Answer these questions. The answers follow the last question. If you cannot answer these questions correctly, consider reading this section again until you can.
+Which of the following is the correct address size for IPv6 addresses?
+A. 32 bit
+B. 64 bit
+C. 128 bit
+D. 256 bit
+Which of the following protocols runs on port 22 and protects the authenticity and confidentiality of file transfer data in transit?
+A. DHCP
+B. SSL
+C. FTP
+D. SCP
+You are troubleshooting connectivity issues on the network. Which of the following would be most helpful in determining where the connectivity issues lie?
+A. SNMP
+B. ICMP
+C. SSL
+D. IPsec
+You want to be sure that the NetBIOS ports that are required for certain Windows network functions have been secured. Which of the following ports would you check?
+A. 25/110/143
+B. 161/162
+C. 137/138/139
+D. 20/21
+Your company is in the process of setting up a management system on your network, and you want to use SNMP. You have to allow this traffic through the router. Which UDP ports do you have to open? (Choose two correct answers.)
+A. 161
+B. 139
+C. 138
+D. 162
+Which standard port is used to establish a web connection using the 40-bit RC4 encryption protocol?
+A. 21
+B. 80
+C. 443
+D. 8,250
+Cram Quiz Answers
+- C. IPv6 increases the address size from IPv4 32 bits to 128 bits. Answers A, B, and D are incorrect because IPv6 addresses sizes are 128 bit.
+- D. SCP runs on port 22 and protects the authenticity and confidentiality of the data in transit. Answer A is incorrect because DHCP is used to automatically assign IP addresses. Answer B is incorrect because SSL is a public key-based security protocol that is used by Internet services and clients for authentication, message integrity, and confidentiality. The standard port for SSL is port 443. Answer C is incorrect because in FTP the data is not protected.
+- B. Traceroute uses an ICMP echo request packet to find the path between two addresses. Answer A is incorrect because SNMP is an application layer protocol whose purpose is to collect statistics from TCP/IP devices. SNMP is used for monitoring the health of network equipment, computer equipment, and devices such as uninterruptible power supplies (UPS). Answer C is incorrect because SSL is a public key-based security protocol that is used by Internet services and clients for authentication, message integrity, and confidentiality. Answer D is incorrect because IPsec authentication and encapsulation standard is widely used to establish secure VPN communications.
+- C. There are NetBIOS ports that are required for certain Windows network functions, such as file sharing, which are 137, 138, and 139. Answer A is incorrect because these ports are used for email. Answer B is incorrect because these ports are used for SNMP. Answer D is incorrect because these ports are used for FTP.
+- A and D. UDP ports 161 and 162 are used by SNMP. Answer B is incorrect because UDP port 139 is used by the NetBIOS session service. Answer C is incorrect because port 138 is used to allow NetBIOS traffic for name resolution.
+- C. A connection using HTTPS is made using the RC4 cipher and port 443. Answer A is incorrect because port 21 is used for FTP connections. Answer B is incorrect because port 80 is used for unsecure plain-text HTTP communications. Answer D is incorrect because port 8,250 is not designated to a particular TCP/IP protocol.
+by Sophie Ayers
+Following the shock end to Edward Timpson’s time in parliament, the new children’s minister has yet to be confirmed, but there are reports it will be Robert Goodwill, who was previously an immigration minister. While most of the social work world waits in great anticipation for this announcement, it has made me consider what we could hope for with new personnel.
+The implementation of the Children and Social Work Act 2017 faced a great deal of criticism. One particular area that gained much opposition was the ‘power to innovate’ clause. Through successful campaigning and well-publicised condemnation of the clause by many industry leaders and academics, it was withdrawn.
+The u-turn by the government on this particular aspect of the act indicates that somewhere in Whitehall, policy makers are listening to experts and high-standing professionals.
+However, the Children and Social Work Act followed a one-dimensional path in terms of how policy for child protection social work is made. Examples include the government’s decision to develop the accreditation scheme and its proposal for a new regulatory body: Social Work England.
+My dream is to extend the listening skills of policy makers towards those who work on the frontline and the families who receive our services.
+With this aspiration in mind, I have set out points I feel the next children’s minister should address.
+1. Recruitment and retention.
+At present, the government’s focus appears to be upon finding bright new graduates to bolster a dwindling workforce.
+I believe that the government is missing a trick by not finding new initiatives to celebrate and support over-stretched social workers.
+I think that employment law could be used to shift the ‘blame culture’ from the individual frontline workers to the employers.
+The Local Government Association’s Standards for Employers and Supervision Framework sets out clear expectations for social work employers in terms of providing a safe environment with manageable caseloads and an ability for social workers to escalate their concerns if they are being provided with too much work.
+Leaving
+However, there does not appear to be any consequences set out within legislation to protect workers if they are not treated in an appropriate or safe manner. At present, social workers can feel disempowered when they feel that their practice environment is not safe and compromises their ability to provide a consistently high standard of work.
+There is options for social workers to explore the grievance process within their local authority. However, this process is often adjudicated by senior managers who have a vested interested in believing that their working systems are effective. Therefore, there are times when valid concerns about working pressures and unit systems are diminished and not heard.
+I believe that as a consequence of many large organisations’ inability to respect and listen to frontline workers ,many social workers leave their positions and contribute to the recruitment and retention crisis. Social workers often do not want to leave their jobs but feel exhausted and powerless to change their working environment.
+If the framework could become mandatory and realistic consequences were put in place for employers, I believe that working conditions would improve and thereby social workers would be more likely to remain in their jobs.
+2. Adoption is not a panacea for all children who cannot remain with their birth parents.
+The past two governments have spoken favourably about adoption as a permanence plan for children. Adoption can be a positive option for children. However, it does not come without risks.
+The previous government’s rhetoric appeared to diminish some of the very live issues children who have been adopted face. Even when placed for adoption from a young age, there is a strong likelihood that a child will question why they cannot not live with their birth family in addition to the intrinsic connection that they feel.
+With the increasing availability of social media, the dilemma of contact with birth families has become a situation that requires much greater review.
+The short-term care plans that are often completed by local authorities frequently fail to take into account the changing world of instant information.
+Research
+I believe that urgent research is required in this area and how care plans can reflect the inevitability of children finding a means to answer questions and seek contact with their birth family.
+It is natural for adopted children to want to know who their birth families are. If we ignore the impact of social media, we are setting up a generation of adopted children to fail. It is not good enough to view that ‘no direct contact’ is in the child’s best interest or even enforceable.
+In addition, the current arrangements for the assessment of alternative family members is not in line with assessments for adopters. On average, adopters are provided with a much longer period of assessment and significantly more training than kinship carers or special guardians.
+The fact that a family connection exists does not reduce the significant task that these carers are taking on, either immediately after orders are made or during the lifelong commitment to caring for children that are not their birth children.
+The landscape through legislation and case law regarding adoption has become increasingly confused and inconsistent. I believe that the whole issue of adoption and kinship care requires a detailed review to assess how the support and assessment times of kinship careers can be aligned with that of adopters.
+3. The family court system is imploding.
+Over the past 10 years there has been a noticeable rise in applications to the court to consider the long-term permanence arrangements for children.
+I believe that the government needs to consider why this escalation in care cases has taken place. It appears that the increased level correlates with difficult and notable cases where children have died due to the negligence of a number of professionals. Many would say that child protection social workers have become risk adverse.
+If this is the case, I believe it is crucial that a review takes place to look at implementing a system that works with risk, with increased funding and better resources
+Reduced budgets
+The second point is intrinsically linked with the first: is there something to be said about reduced budgets that children services receive and their ability to intervene with the right level of support at a time when change can be affected?
+Anecdotally, I have witnessed the impact of reduced funding on frontline services and the general welfare state. In a country where it can be difficult to feed your family or heat your house, caring for your children in an adequate environment can been extremely difficult.
+In addition, some of the more nurturing initiatives such as Sure Start and intensive family support have been reduced on a widespread basis to cope with funding cuts.
+I know that there is not a ‘magic money tree’. However, without the interventions at the very start of the process being present, how can we expect the cycle to be broken?
+Sometimes people make mistakes, sometimes people want to be loved by the wrong person, sometimes people are alone, sometimes people have had poor parenting models with no knowledge of how to care for a child and sometimes people are emotionally low. Without the cement in the paving crack, how do we stop the chasm becoming a sinkhole?
+Funding cuts matter because without early intervention, families will not have the support or guidance to make the situation better. In these circumstances adoption – the most draconian option – becomes much more likely.
+Timescales
+The third point relates to timing. The 26-week timescale was introduced to reduce drift and delay for children. However, there are times when it has become increasingly difficult for cases to be completed within this timeframe due to complicated factors that arise.
+There are occasions when more time should be afforded to a case but due to the strict timeline it is not permitted.
+I do not want to go back to a time where court proceedings drift for years. This served nobody, least of all children.
+However, there should be more freedom for judges and less emphasis on statistics by the government to ensure that a case can be considered on an individual basis rather than a generic rule of thumb.
+4. The courts
+The fourth factor relates to the availability of the courts: there needs to be enough resources in place to manage a child’s needs. Sometimes cases can be delayed because there is simply not enough court time to list a final hearing within an appropriate timeframe. The court’s availability should never be a reason to delay the planning for a child’s future.
+5. Resources
+The fifth factor to consider is the impact of legal funding in relation to private law matters that can sometimes escalate into the public law arena. Sometimes, if appropriate legal support was in place, the situation could be resolved prior to the situation escalating.
+The sixth factor to consider is the actual capacity of child protection social workers. The courts need and require social workers to work in a timely and forensic manner. However, with increased caseloads and growing demands, many local authority social workers find it impossible to work in a manner that is fit for the court environment and complete the influx of work that accompanies the 26 weeks timescales.
+I am sure that there are many other issues that social workers would like to discuss with you. I feel there should be a working party of frontline practitioners and service users, to finally help the government understand the realities of child protection social work.
+Sophie Ayers is an independent social worker who works in children’s services. She tweets @sophieayers1982 and vlogs at weneedtotalkaboutsocialwork.
+Thank you Sophie for this thoughtful analysis of what the new minister will need to take on board- and for doing it so quickly. Especially for emphasising the need for true collaboration between politicians, civil servants, parents and children needing services, social workers across the areas of practice and their managers and their professional bodies (BASW and ADCS especially) and social work educators and researchers, and the judiciary. (As happened with the 1989 Children Act and the Social Work Reform Board but has been lamentably absent for the Children and Social Work Act. I hope you are sending it directly to him as well as in Comm Care
+Hi Sophie,
+This is such a helpful analysis and addresses so many areas where legislation and policy have increasingly conflicted with practice on the ground. It’s good to have articulated those issues we regularly face and argue about.
+I do hope this is taken on by ministers and is considered. My cynical self and long experience in social work says that it will only be the parts that chime with other economic agendas and/or influences which will be considered.
+Thanks
+I wasn’t at all surprised by Timpson going.
+The context of a new government – perhaps more open to listening to the sector – and a new minister – means there is a fresh opportunity to ensure that new local safeguarding arrangements remain fully multi-agency; champion the interests of children and young people rather than merely oversee agency compliance; and are adequate resourced to hold partnerships to account. The revised Working Together now anticipated for the autumn carries a great deal of expectation to ensure that it sets high standards and a clear benchmark for the requirements that police, health and local authorities will need to deliver on. Our recent report on Ofsted reviews of LSCBs, and the growing number of good and outstanding Boards, shows that there is a great deal of current good practice that may well be at risk of a lowest common denominator approach that sees the removal of LSCBs as a no more than an opportunity to save money.
+Too many councils are happy to let Services slip happy in the knowledge that they can blame the nasty Tories. This is not good enough. We know of children who haven’t had a social worker for 10 weeks. LAC visits aren’t happening. These are management issues. It’s not a case of working harder it’s a case of working smarter.
+Well said Sophie !
+Thank you Sophie for highlighting these key issues. Let’s hope that whoever gets the job listens to practitioners and not politicians.
+I am a team manager and work with committed and talented social workers who are on their knees. We want to provide the best service to children and their families, but due to high caseloads and a lack of community resources we end up fire fighting. It is no coincidence that the numbers of Looked after children has risen, or the numbers on care orders at home. The 26 week timescale does not always serve children well.
+I am so proud that despite being tired and stressed social workers continue to do their very best to safeguard children, to listen to them, to scratch around to garner support for their parents, and to keep going.
+Sophie thank you for this piece, it is clear: has clarity and captures the both the opportunities and challenges
+Brilliant response, very much represents my thoughts. Thank you Sophie for articulating this so clearly
+Thanks for this piece Sophie. Really thoughtful comments which are useful when considering the way forward. I particularly like the idea of an independent process for SWs to escalate when they are allocated an excessive workload. It seems crucial that the challenge of responding to the disconnect between workload and workforce should be a conundrum for leaders, not the front line.
+Thank you so much for you clarity. So much of it makes sense.
+As a psychotherapist now specialising for over 10 years (and with over 30 years of experience) in working with adopted children and their families as part of the Adoption Support Team, I have watched 7 team leaders come and go. In the past we have been able to demonstrate that it is the team around the child which is crucial to providing effective support and that innovative methods of working can be very effective.
+A year ago in consultation with two previous team leaders and the consultant psychiatrist of CAMHS, I put together a triage proposal and formed a think tank composed of therapists, paediatricians and social workers in the hope of gathering what frontline professionals have found to be the issues to be addressed as well as what actually helps. This has been endorsed by both Norman Lamb, our local M.P. – ex-Health Minister and Lorne Greene – Norfolk’s police commissioner with the commitment to exploring whether the triage proposal could be piloted and whether the think tank’s recommendations could be, at the very least, considered by the policy makers. Two directors of Childrens Service Norfolk have received letters from Norman Lamb encouraging them to consider this innovative and creative endeavour. And yet, there has been no real progress in real terms and with the recent ASF caps, there is less scope for gathering solutions that may actually help from the people who may have solutions. Quite simply, it is finance which dominates what can or cannot be done – it seems without any discussion. Interestingly, there seems to be little genuine costing of what failing to support these children involves in terms of NHS support – physical and mental, Youth Offending Teams, police, education and many other agencies with whom these children come into contact over their life times. There are resources out there but my question is the similar to Sophy’s. How do we get the attention of the policy makers and help them develop their listening skill/receptivity to begin gathering information about how to deal with the challenge that could well be hugely cost effective in the long run from those of us at the coal face?
+It’s been three weeks since Spain chose “Voy a Quedarme” as the song they would like Blas Cantó to sing at Eurovision 2021. Now that he’s in full swing with preparing things for Rotterdam, Blas has revealed that he’ll revamp the song slightly for the contest. The Spanish star has also spoken about his experiences so far of working with national broadcaster RTVE.
+The comments were made during an interview for a special podcast produced by Spanish radio station COPE – Pasaporte a Eurovisión.
+“Voy a Quedarme” to be revamped for Eurovision 2021
+Blas Cantó has good news for y’all who enjoyed the acapella start of “Voy a Quedarme” that he included during his performance at the Destino Eurovisión national selection show. The Eurovision 2021 version of the song will also start in this way.
+But, Blas also shares that there will be some other modifications to the song as well. The new revamp of “Voy a Quedarme” is set to include changes to one of Blas’ favourite parts of the track – the second verse – and will, overall, boost the intimacy of the song’s narrative. As Blas tells COPE:
+“I am very happy and emotional. We are working on these changes since this year’s rhythms have been rushed. But we have had enough time to make cool things [already]. This version won’t be commercialised and is planned to be only for Eurovision in May. However, we are pending of approval.”
+The Spanish star confirms that this new “Voy a Quedarme” revamp won’t be hitting the shops, nor digital platforms. The approved changes will only see the light on the main Eurovision stage.
+Although changes may be being made to “Voy a Quedarme”, they’ll only be revealed if Eurovision 2021 continues with the Scenario B plan and Blas is able to perform live from Rotterdam. The Spanish team filmed the compulsory pre-recorded performance – that will be used if Blas is unable to travel to the host city due to Covid-19 restrictions – just two days after Destino Eurovisión in late February. Thus, if this pre-record is used then there likely won’t be many changes (if any).
+For the staging of the live performance in Rotterdam, Blas and his team – including creative director Marvin Dietmann – are still working on it. Marvin will also be working with Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus and the Czech Republic at Eurovision 2021.
+Blas has given away no clues as to whether it will resemble the stage performance from Destino Eurovisión or not. However, the Spanish singer has confirmed they are now focused on ensuring the best dimensionality of the stage and creating intimacy with the audience – details that were brought up in our reaction video.
+On a separate note, Blas told COPE that he talks frequently with Barbara Pravi, VICTORIA, Go_A, Senhit and Stefania, and has spoken briefly with The Mamas. Although the contestants may not get to meet each other at pre-parties this year, it seems that the bonds are still forming between them.
+RTVE ignored Blas’ proposed changes for Destino Eurovisión
+During the interview, COPE asked him about his feeling of working with Spain’s national broadcaster RTVE – specially after Destino Eurovisión, which faced strong criticism for its lack of quality.
+Honesty is the best policy, and Blas knows that. He said that he is happy and proud about the fight he made in order to try and make changes to the national selection. Blas encouraged RTVE to remove the overused starry background and the long videos featured in the gala. However, he did not succeed, as he elaborates:
+“I’m happy of what I have done and suggested. But at the end of the day, it is the broadcaster who decides. I’m also glad because we have opened the door to make Eurovision gain the importance it requires in Spain and not only for the grand final day. “
+Concerning RTVE, Blas does feel their support, but believes Eurovision could be handled differently:
+“RTVE is a big team that have been doing TV for a long time with their methods. Not many might understand what I might propose, for example. But they have to understand that Eurovision is very modern and up-to-date visually, technically, in direction, production… I think we can do it, but we shall reinvent ourselves, not only demand external but internal changes too.”
+“I feel there’s interest in Eurovision [on RTVE] but it’s the means to make it happen. You gotta listen to the fans, because sometimes criticism is not always for pleasure, there’s a pattern that keeps repeating.”
+Early in February, Spain’s head of delegation, Ana María Bordas, discussed the need for there to be a bigger team covering all areas of Eurovision – from marketing to communication – in Spain, rather than it being managed by a sole individual.
+Soraya speaks about RTVE’s approach to Eurovision
+Soraya Arnelas, Spain’s Eurovision 2009 star, is no new face in speaking up about the dissatisfaction she had with RTVE during her time at the contest. Back in 2009, RTVE totally changed Soraya’s stage show. The singer later complained about the broadcaster’s attitude and claimed they told her: “Eurovision is not your dream, it’s our dream and you represent us.”
+Her opinion has not changed since, as she explains to COPE:
+“I can’t watch my performance anymore because I don’t have the need to suffer. I could not choose anything but my dress. However, I fulfilled with what they wanted.”
+Soraya does not regret having participated in Eurovision, but feels you need to go into it knowing that you are a part of RTVE’s project that they control.
+Barei and Pastora Soler have also spoken about similar experiences of working with RTVE during their time at Eurovision in 2016 and 2012 respectively.
+What do you think about Blas Cantó’s upcoming “Voy a Quedarme” revamp for Eurovision? What changes do you think should be made to the song? Let us know in the comment section below!
+Follow all of our Spain Eurovision 2021 news
+Editorially, this is a challenging week for Wiwi. On the one hand, this article cites criticism of the Spanish broadcaster and allows us to comment on that. On the other hand, there are the recent news articles about decisions being taken by North Macedonia’s broadcaster where we cannot comment. It’s definitely a challenge. I think part of the problem generally is when a national broadcaster has no choice but to uphold certain “cultural standards,” which I know is the case with Spain. It can stifle creativity sometimes. Is the solution to use more private broadcasters, or perhaps to somehow phase… Read more »
+oh yeah, mid-march is always revamping time.
+it’ll still inevitably and embarrassingly tank like everything spain has sent since 2015 but good for him for trying
+What is this ‘It’ ?
+Edit: Understood from the comments below
+to be honest bilals idea was one of the best ones! it was my favorite that year so i was excited about it and that boosted my interest in it even more
+This has grown on me a little. Stop harassing him, please. He is better than most entries this year.
+Unfortunately there a still a few delegations at Eurovision, Spain and The UK for example, who seem to approach ESC as some sort of holiday on taxpayers expense rather than take it seriously. The results speak for themselves.
+I hope they don’t revamp it too much. Maybe just remove the annoying backing vocals?
+Those werent intended to be that loud to begin with, it was RTVE’s sound team’s fault.
+The most interesting thing is that they hired Marvin Dietmann who now is responsible for 6 (!) entries this year. Are there no creative people in 6 countries? I don’t think so.
+Well, Sacha Jean-Baptise is responsible of a lot of Melfest performances, and some other countries also hire her.
+I may be the only one who thinks this is one of the nicest ballads this edition. It is miles away from Bulgaria and Switzerland but it stands on its own vs. Austria, Slovenia, or Macedonia which seem a bit pretentious and lack any structure at all (in the case of AT and MK).
+What Soraya says is exactly why so many big names refuse to aspire to represent Spain in ESC. RTVE is very controlling, doesn’t tolerate improvisations and has never tried something that wasn’t cookie cutter pop. The boss of Eurovision representations is called Toñi Prieto and many Spaniards (both ESC fans and haters) want her head to roll.
+I whished they published it on spotify. I mean, what’s the point? probably it won’t help much if the song arrives in Rotterdam being dead last in the betting odds with no support, hype or whatsoever. My advice: don’t wait to release the revamp in the finals; it might be too late. On a side note: I really like this song, and I have it in my top. Not sure why all the hate. It’s just a classic ballad, well performanced and in Spanish, which is always a plus. I think there are (many) other songs more bland and uninteresting… Read more »
+The revamp won’t change the standings much. Odds don’t care about anything below 15th at this point. Albania did an amaizing revamp everyone loved but they are still last, Ukraine did a revamp and most people disliked it but they still protect their position.
+Problably because everything Spain does ends up destroyed by the ESC fandom (Barey, Miki were great! ) So Better surprise effect.
+The way RTVE always ends up doing whatever they want… I am tired. You choose an artist to go to Eurovision? Okay, then trust their vision, their concept, their ideas, stop ignoring what they want! They are the ones performing on stage and they have to be happy and comfortable. Is it THAT difficult to understand? No wonder previous artist always support the new act in a hardcore manner, seeing they have all suffered the same treatment from the broadcaster… This is a childhood dream for Blas, he must be tired too… ugh.
+Anyway… good luck to him, he has a beautiful song, and he is proud of it. At this point who cares about what the rest think, just trust in your message and make the performance unforgettable for yourself because, at the end of the day, you will be the one there, remembering it for the rest of your life!
+This is the fault of Blas, the songwriters, and the selection committee for not making good songs, or, had there been some decent songs, eliminating them from the final selection.
+Trying to patch up a disaster isn’t going to accomplish anything.
+Dietmann also joined Albina’s team for Croatia’s performance
+Slight changes won’t make an ounce of difference, I’m afraid. That song is dead in the water. And believe Sprays every word. Watching that performance really is suffering. What kind of an idiot do you have do be to come up with that staging? I would have cried on stage because so much stupidity and sabotage is just too much to bear. Not to mention Barei. They do so poorly even with good songs and ignore the artists valid criticism and they still think it’s not their fault? No way you’ll turn things around for Spain like that.
+Auto-correct must have done some damage here. It was meant to write ‘I believe Soraya every word.’
+Lipstick on a pig.
+I hate when countries do unnecessary revamps!
+Don’t fix something that’s not broken
+If Eurovision is rtve’s dream then they are not doing a very good job at achieving that dream lol
+I’m wary of late revamps in general, especially if I am a fan of the song. I really like the song as it is and I hope we are talking about an Alcohol You level of revamp and not a Shum level of revamp. I love the new version of Shum, but if that’s the case with Spain, then I have no idea what song I’m even rooting for. A subtle re-tweaks are fine, I guess, but it’s still a cat in a bag if he reveals it only at ESC. A risky move. I’ll rate the song as it… Read more »
+On second glance, Blas is likely pulling “a Roi” here, with only adding tweaks to parts of instrumental in the performance itself. At least I hope it’s that.
+I do not really think the revamp will be on the same level as Shum! For starters… the talk around Spain ever since the entry was released has been to maybe strip back a few instruments to let Blas shine a bit more… so I guess the few changes they make will be in order to make it more intimate and let his voice shine a bit more 🙂
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+And also.. Spain come on get with it.. You guys have such a rich musically history.. We all need and expect something amazing from you.. Spain has I think done the worst with Germany out of the Big 5, no need for that
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+Honeywell.com India: February 20115 Blowing Agent Attributes Phase out of ozone depleting substances: ODS Global warming potential: climate change impact reduction Ground level smog formation: limited contribution Low order of toxicity – safety in manufacturing use and finished products Non-flammable – safety in manufacturing use Insulation performance / energy efficiency: low lambda or k-factor Processing and equipment implications –Liquids: appliance (refrigerators); commercial refrigeration; spray foam; insulating panels –Gases: extruded polystyrene (thermoplastics); special applications Compatible with formulations and processing equipment materials –Low conversion cost: equipment investment and reformulation Economic valuation in use – translates into finished product economics Commercially available on a global basis Attributes support governments and industrys preferences
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+Honeywell.com India: February 20116 What is HFC 245fa?
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+Honeywell.com India: February 20117 HBA-2: Liquid Low GWP Blowing Agent Fluorochemical Liquid blowing agent Molecular weight: less than HFC-245fa Environmental Properties Low global warming potential: GWP 100 = 7 Non-flammable: ASTM E-681 Volatile Organic Compound: very low MIR Toxicity Screening Preliminary stages: Results are very promising Assessments completed: –Cardiac Sensitization –Genetic Testing: Ames Assay & Mouse Micronucleus –Acute Inhalation (Rat) –Inhalation: 2 & 4 week –Unscheduled DNA Synthesis Honeywell HBA-2 Blowing Agent promising low GWP molecule
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+Honeywell.com India: February 20118 HFC-245fa & HBA-2 Insulation Applications Household refrigerators (appliances) Commercial refrigeration –food preservation Building construction (residential and commercial) –Sprayed foams –Roofing and sheathing (board stock) –Panels (faced panels, sandwich panels)
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+Honeywell.com India: February 20119 HFO-1234ze(E) Blowing Agent Hydrofluoroolefin (HFO) trans – 1,3,3,3 – tetrafluoropropene CHF = CHCF 3 Molecular Weight: 114 Gas: T BP = -19 °C (- 3 °F) Environmental Properties Zero ozone depletion potential (ODP) Low global warming potential: GWP 100 = 6 Non-flammable: U.S. Department of Transportation –Non-flammable Compressed Gas –No flame limits by ASTM E681 –Non-flammable: EU Test Method A11 Volatile Organic Compound Measure –Maximum Incremental Reactivity MIR HFO-1234zeE < MIR Ethane Non-ODS / Low GWP / Non-Flammable / Low POCP = Environmentally Sustainable Molecule =
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+Honeywell.com India: February 201110 HFO-1234ze(E) Insulation Applications Extruded thermoplastics foams –Extruded polystyrene One component foams –Sealing around doors and windows –Repairing damage –Adhesives Two component pressurized foams
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+Honeywell.com India: February 201111 Transition Strategy: Timeframe Dependent HFC-245fa: Commercially available today – a transition solution – Widely utilised in NA. Specific applications: EU / Japan / China – HFC/HCFC-141b blend technology: reduced cost transition option HBA-2: World-scale capacity target is mid-decade – Conversion to HFC-245fa directly applicable to HBA-2 HFC-245fa: Low capital, medium term safe route to ODS management
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+Honeywell.com India: February 201112 Blowing Agent Energy Efficiency (Lambda) Lambda is the measure of heat transfer through a material in a given time and temperature Lower lambda is better: significant energy efficiency driven by insulation characteristics
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+Honeywell.com India: February 201113 Sprayed Foam Comparison: HFC-245fa & HBA-2 Low water formulation High water formulation
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+Honeywell.com India: February 201114 Capital Investment: HFC versus non-HFC Why are HFC-245fa and HBA-2 blowing agents low capital investment? They are non-flammable none to limited capital requirement –Low risk – technology, workplace safety, environmental HCFC-141b PUR equipment little to no equipment modifications required Both are liquid blowing agents with moderate vapour pressure –May require storage vessel up-grade low capital investment HFC-245fa conversion from HCFC-141b in US: Cost Minor Why are Non-HFC (hydrocarbon & methyl formate) blowing agents challenging? Generally flammable significant investment in flammability mitigation – Blending operations; foaming equipment; storage vessels – Consequences of miss-operations inherent risk of fire / explosions Factory emissions probable ground level smog formation Non-HFC PUR foams typically exhibit deficiency in insulation performance Non-HFC conversion in US: Cost $500 K USD to $ 5 M+ USD HBA-2 is a LOW capital investment, near drop-in transition from HFC-245fa (small asset) (refrigerator factory)
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+Honeywell.com India: February 201115 Operational Cost: Implications HFC = lowest total cost path to high performance for regulatory compliance Non-HFC solutions have inherent energy efficiency penalty – Cost to restore energy efficiency: panels – low cost; refrigerators – high cost Non-HFC solutions exhibit deficiencies in density, dimensional stability, LTTR* * LTTR: Long Term Thermal Resistance Non-HFC PUR requires additional costs to achieve equal performance
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+Honeywell.com India: February 201116 HFC Solutions Summary ODS and GWP reduction is imperative on a global basis HFC solutions: thru HFC-245fa bridge route... –Provides a balanced, technology neutral / low capital investment pathway –Positions the industry for future HBA-2 adoption –HFC-245fa and HBA-2 do not contribute to ground level smog formation –Non-flammable: inherently safer utilisation in applications HFCs allow for orderly industrial transition: – Frees up ODS rights under an ODS Cap – Accommodates industrial and economy growth HCFC-141b / HFC blends possible attractive solution –ODS reduction on an interim basis –Energy efficiency neutral with respect to operational costs –Economic valuation: low capital investment & raw materials cost reduction
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+Honeywell.com India: February 201117 Blowing Agent Commercialization Status HFC-245fa –Registered for use globally –Commercially available globally –Commercial manufacturing site: 2002 in U.S. 1234ze(E) –U.S.: SNAP listed / PMN pending EPA approval –EU: Registered under REACH (article 24): 1000+ tonnes/year –Japan: Registration complete –Commercial capacity: 2008 in U.S. –Commercialized in EU and Japan HBA-2 –Toxicity assessment underway: completion 1Q 2011 –Global notifications/registrations U.S.: SNAP / PMN applications are in progress EU: REACH inquiry stage Japan: Filed for compliance with Japan Chemical Substances Control Law Environmental solutions have/will meet regulatory needs timing
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+Honeywell.com India: February 201118 DISCLAIMER Although all statements and information contained herein are believed to be accurate and reliable, they are presented without guarantee or warranty of any kind, expressed on any patents. The user should not assume that all toxicity data and safety measures are indicated herein or that other measures may not be required.
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+Honeywell.com India: February 2011 Specific Innovation Requiring Regulatory Approval –Excellent Environmental / Physical / Economic Properties GWP of 7 ODP < 0.0005 Non-flammable Atmospheric Life < 50 days –Tremendous Potential as HFC / HCFC Replacement Low GWP Material Designed for Traditional Applications Foam Blowing Agent: Insulation Performance 3-5% Better vs.HFC-245fa Solvent: Exhibits Very Attractive Solvent Performance Properties Refrigerant for Chillers: Applications Testing by Major OEMs –Hurdle to Overcome: Lack of Environmental / Legal Certainty ODP Lower Than Many Non-regulated Chlorinated Solvents –Methylene Chloride: ODP: 0.0047Atmospheric Life: ~ 180 days –Perchloroethylene: ODP: 0.006Atmospheric Life: ~ 110 days Very Low POCP Compatibility (Plastics and Most Elastomers) Similar Economics to Current HFC No Certainty in Status Quo – Threshold Value Needed
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+The Skyway story
+With “Operation Budworm’s” fleet of 75 planes this year, Skyway Air Services Ltd has contributed five Stearmans, leaving eight craft at the firm’s home base on the airfield at Langley, B.C., 30 miles from Vancouver, up the Fraser valley.
+President and General Manager A. E. (Art) Seller has parlayed his original (1948) Skyway “fleet” of one Tiger Moth trainer and one Moth duster into the present 13 craft at various types best adapted to the needs of the specialized flying service he has developed. Art himself, would not phrase it just that way. He gives at least equal credit for the firm’s rise to his permanent staff.
+Except for stenographer Ruth Miller, each staff member has special training for two jobs. Thus Les Kerr in summer is a spray pilot; in winter apprentice mechanic; Ralph Houghton, a licensed pilot, is a U. of B.C. graduate in plant pathology; has the scientific knowledge to advise spraying-prospects when to spray, what it will cost them; can prescribe and mix the chemicals; Percy Lotzer, a qualified bookkeeper in charge of the office work, is also a commercial pilot. Pilots Tommy Marsden, B. Engineer, and Ed. Batchelor, M. Engineer, both have instructors’ ratings. Chief spray-pilot Johnny Anderson is also an engineer and instructor.
+This combination training, and the shifting it permits from one job to another, ensures for Skyway an economic manhour productivity the year round. It removes the bugbear of seasonal employment and labor turnover, in spite of the highly seasonal nature of many or the firm’s services. About 80% of the revenue is from dusting and spraying; about 15% from flying training; the rest from specialized work such as cattle cruising for the Cariboo ranchers; sight-seeing flights over the scenic lower mainland. Skyway holds two ATB licenses: a Class 7 specialty; a Class 7 training. All flights with students or passengers originate and terminate at Langley. Specialty flights are taking Skyway pilots farther and farther afield, not only in British Columbia and Western Canada, but now to distant New Brunswick.
+In this air and chemistry age the aviator and the chemist are teaming up, not only to control many of man’s insect pests but to modify other conditions that are not to his liking or advantage. The immense and varied possibilities in this teamwork are being rapidly realized. Scope and variety of control operations from the air is constantly widening. For example, the mesquite shrub was aggressively taking over millions of acres of Texas pasture land. On a smaller scale the willow was growing unchecked, to change conditions in the B. C. cattle country to the great disadvantage of the cattlemen. Now on both ranges the spraying plane is coming to the rescue. Willow killing has become an important branch of Skyway’s work. So much so that landing on the Cariboo country’s lakes, to line up such work from the ranchers has become one of the chief missions of Skyway’s Aeronca Sedan on floats, based on the Fraser River, near Langley.
+Perhaps the most recent innovation in spraying utilization also concerns cattle feed. This is a spray to defoliate clover and alfalfa crops. It saves the grower from swathing, and thus gambling his whole crop on a spell of dry weather; increases his yield; gives him a better grade of seed. Another development, new in Canada, though practiced for several years in the U. S. A., is Skyway’s aerial spraying of the great Okanagan apple orchards with a hormone solution that fixes the fruit on the tree – prevents its dropping off. This spraying is done at from 10 to 20 feet off the treetops, and is one of the reasons why the smaller aircraft has lost its usefulness in British Columbia for crop spraying. Many such applications require 10 to 15 gallons per acre to get results; therefore need a plane of the Stearman or Beaver class with range and carrying capacity to put the operation on an economic basis.
+Three years’ experience must be gained by a Skyway spray pilot before he graduates to spraying fields without a fieldman as marker. He starts on mosquito-control work. This gives him the feel of the load, settles him into the work. Field-crop spraying is done about two feet off the deck; elevation for forestry work varies between 100 and 300 feet. Willow-killing contracts are flown about 25 feet above the trees. Cross winds are never a factor, because the maximum allowable breeze for dusting is three to four m.p.h. Spraying can be carried on with a wind of about double that strength – up to about eight m.p.h. This requirement means that the pilot need never come close to any obstructions such as poles and barns at the ends of fields, as he can always finish the ends crossways.
+In addition to wind requirements being less rigid for spraying than for dusting, other conditions too, are less exacting. Moisture conditions must be just right for effective dusting; air must not be rising with any speed: i.e., dusting cannot be done near the noon heat of a summer’s day. None of these restrictions apply to spraying, and it all adds up to the fact that the utilization factor of a spray plane will be about four times that of a duster. The only limitation through heated air on spraying is that the air must not be too bumpy.
+Laboratory work on sprays, in the past couple of years, has therefore been an important factor in the growth of aerial control work. With these new formulas, spraying is said to be now as effective as dusting, except for certain fungus infestations. For these limited but important applications, Skyways still maintains one Moth as a duster. All the spray planes are convertible to dusters with one day’s shop work so that they can, if necessary, swing onto the vital work of blight control, for which the fungicide is still available only as a dust.
+Sprays effect not only a great basic economy in keeping the planes at work for an average of four hours for each hour in which they could be dusting, but also in the cost of materials. With these liquids, water is used as the carrier, instead of the talc which must be used with the dusts. In 1953 Skyway is spraying in the Fraser Valley at an average cost of $3 to $5 per acre plus the cost of the material used, which varies greatly. Density of the application needed is not only the governing factor in material cost, but also in the spread in flying costs. Some crops, moreover, require a lot more preliminary and after-spraying field work, which, of course, brings up the total cost.
+Costs on other work vary as greatly as do the operations themselves, and range between $1.50 and $5 an acre. The growing diversity of the operations is in itself one of the most important factors in cost control. When Art Seller started to learn this game the hard way, in 1948, aerial control work in B. C. had a two-month season. Working closely with the forestry and agricultural scientists at the University of British Columbia, Skyway has, within five years, expanded that annual working season from two months to eight months. Now it compares favorably with that enjoyed by American operators, and puts in line with theirs the big items of capital and depreciation costs per hour of plane utilization, as well as other items of overhead expense that must be incurred, whether the season be long or short.
+The engine cowl showing the No. 1 is retained by the Museum.
+In fact, Art Seller thinks Skyway may be a little ahead of the Americans in its work (developed with the U. of B. C. Forestry faculty) on underbrush killing in newly seeded forest areas. Grasshopper control is another crop-saving operation Skyway is undertaking on a big scale this year, further expanding the field of insect control on field crops with which aerial dusting started, before branching into such other activities as the killing of objectionable plant and tree growth, the hormone-fixing of fruit crops, and the immense work of insect control over millions of acres of forest.
+Like the spraying industry itself, Art Seller got his start through an emergency. This was caused by an aphis infestation of the Delta pea crop, near Vancouver, in 1947. Only one week stood between the growers and complete disaster, but that was long enough for two planes from the U. S. A. to save the crop by aerial dusting – the only way in which it could have been done. Art was then based on nearby Sea Island as an instructor; spent the week watching the planes at work; learning all he could from the pilots. He resolved then to enter this new business; bought two Tiger Moths, a duster and a trainer with his RCAF gratuities saved during his internment of several years in a German prison camp, after he was shot down over enemy territory.
+At Langley the Department of Transport had built an emergency landing field for TCA, with three 2,700-ft. runways, taking care nicely for lightplane operation, of the variable winds encountered in the locality. The field is licensed, and Art manages it for the hay crop, cut by a farmer, who in return keeps the runways smoothed up. Skyway does not require snow removal. If a fall occurs, it will be during their winter overhaul period, and if any flights are required the shop puts on skis. The fully equipped shop is heated, has room to work on three planes at once. Art has applied to D.O.T. to be licensed as an approved shop for custom work. Other buildings are a 10-plane hangar just completed, in which space is for rent, and the office building.
+determine the spray rate for budworm control.
+In addition to this base, Skyway has in B. C, no less than 40 small, unlicensed strips about 1,000 to 1,200 ft. long, which they have bulldozed off, or have contributed toward having the work done. But a 10-mile round trip from temporary base to the work is about the economic limit. Therefore, even with so many strips now available, most of Skyway’s spraying let-downs and takeoffs, use such “airports” as a Fraser Valley field or a Cariboo pasture. This requires top-flight pilots and maintenance engineers. That Skyway’s Art Seller and his co-workers qualify is evident in that they have never yet had any kind of accident in this work. And to date their work has protected about 150,000 acres.
+To service these peregrinating temporary bases, Skyway has four ground units, each with water tank and fuel tank, and a light delivery truck for service and for hauling supplies. Shop keeps on hand a spare motor adaptable to the Stearmans. If any develop trouble Skyway can fly this motor in, use a wrecking truck to make the change, and have the plane airborne again in two days.
+In five years Skyway Air Services has evidently came a long way from its one-plane dusting experiments with Art Seller at the controls.
+“In that year of 1948,” Art recently said: “I made no money, but I got in about 60 flying hours of invaluable experience, working on mosquito control after the great Fraser River flood, and on dusting peas and potatoes. One of the first things I taught myself, or experience taught me, was never to look through the windshield, always to look over it, because it gets dusted up, won’t give full visibility. Another thing I learned was to give barns and poles a good wide berth; to finish the ends crossways unless the field (usually about 40 acres) was out in the clear.”
+In 1949 Art added a Moth sprayer to team up with the duster and embarked on the program of training, analysis of his market in co-operation with the scientists, and general hard work that soon gathered around him his integrated team of pilots and engineers, all now in possession of the special training and techniques needed to put across this specialized operation. Art’s hobbies relate to aviation. He enjoys flying in to the sportsman’s paradise of interior B. C. for a spot of big-game hunting. His other hobby is gliding, and the Soaring Club have a glider on the Langley station.
+The Skyway story (continued)
+Pilots who can repair an aircraft engine, balance the books or run the office, form the nucleus of a B.C. flying outfit that has sprouted from two aircraft in 1946 to its present total of 28. Indeed, it was the versatility of the staff that sustained Skyway Air Services Ltd. during the lean post-war years, says A. E. Seller, founder and present owner-manager.
+Seller set up shop in Langley, B.C., after World War Two with two Tiger Moths and a trailer for an office. Undaunted by a first-year revenue of less than $3,000, he steadily built up the business to the present annual income of over half-a-million dollars. And from its early string-bag beginning as a one-man flying school cum crop-spraying enterprise, the company has developed until it now boasts a permanent staff of 20, with a seasonal high of about 80. Key men in the organization are P. C. Lotzer, assistant manager, E. W. Batchelor, chief flying instructor, L. G. Kerr, chief pilot; and P. P. Deck, operations manager, aerial tankers.
+In the early years of the company, operations were confined to mosquito control, spraying of potatoes and some row crops. Since that time aerial spray services have been extended to include weeding, insect and plant disease control, forest spraying and aerial fire bombing. During this period, Skyway also branched out into other aviation fields. First of these was establishment of a government-approved flying school, followed by a charter service, new and used aircraft sales and service, light aircraft overhaul and maintenance, and other facilities. Latterly, full facilities for light aircraft were established at both Langley Airport and Fort Langley seaplane base.
+The flying school was recently enlarged by the addition of four Cessna 150s, making a total of ten aircraft. This resulted from the acquisition of West Coast Air Services’ ab initio school section. With the impending removal by the Department of Transport of most light aircraft and all ab initio flying schools from Vancouver Airport by Aug 31 of this year, West Coast decided to sell the school to Skyway and retain their other services and facilities rather than move off Vancouver International Airport. With the takeover of West Coast’s school, Skyway is in the process of generally improving all aspects of its operation and the planned expansion will probably place it among the largest flying schools in Canada.
+The original Tiger Moths have been replaced by larger, more powerful 450 hp Boeing Stearman and Grumman TBM Avenger aircraft for the spray and fire control operations. The company now utilizes 15 Avengers, five Stearman, four Cessna 182s and two Harvard AT-6s.
+In 1962, 960,000 acres of forest were sprayed with the Avengers, plus 25,000 acres of row crop. Other forestry operations – fire bombing and patrols, timber cruising and transportation of forestry personnel – accounted for a large amount of flying time even though the fire season was unusually light, because of an abnormally wet year. As a repeat from 1962, Skyway has been awarded a $200,000 aerial fire bombing standby contract by the B.C. Forest Service. This calls for a total of l6 aircraft; twelve Avengers and four birddog (spotters) plus crews and radio control trucks. Three Avengers, one birddog aircraft and one radio truck form a base unit, one of each being based at Smithers, Prince George, Kamloops and Cranbrook this year. Skyway also has an Avenger spray contract in New Brunswick from Forest Protection Limited, having participated in this project since it began in 1952.
+All the aircraft are maintained by the Company at its hangars at Abbotsford and Langley Airports. Engine overhauls are farmed out to firms located at Vancouver Airport; the larger ones to Bristol Aero Engines (Western) Ltd., and the ones under 450 hp to Pacific Aero Engines Ltd. Propeller overhauls are carried out by B.C. Propeller & Engines Ltd.
+The company is in a happy position as far as spares is concerned since it secured almost all Grumman Avenger parts declared surplus by Crown Assets. “We have possibly the largest stock of such parts anywhere,” said Seller.
+Key Points
+Children with PCNSL and no immunodeficiency have a good outcome when treated by a histological subtype–driven and radiation-free protocol.
+New treatment guidelines are needed for PCNSL in children and adolescents with an underlying immunodeficiency.
+Introduction
+Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is a rare subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in childhood and adolescence, with an increased risk among patients with immunodeficiency.1-5 Given the rarity and lack of any prospective trials, reliable data on PCNSL are lacking, with most data coming from case reports or small series. Thus, 2 of the largest childhood NHL consortia, the European Intergroup for Childhood Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (EICNHL) and the international Berlin-Frankfurt-Münster (i-BFM) Group, as well as selected North American centers, designed a retrospective multinational study on pediatric PCNSL. Here, we present data from the largest series of pediatric patients with PCNSL reported to date.
+Methods
+We conducted a retrospective survey of children and adolescents up to 19 years of age who were diagnosed with PCNSL between 1991 and 2019. Patient data were retrieved from 21 EICNHL and/or i-BFM Group members or selected North American institutions. The survey included questions about demographics, disease, treatment, outcome, and late effects. PCNSL was defined by intracerebral/intraspinal mass(es) and/or cranial nerve palsies not caused by an extradural tumor and/or tumor cells in the cerebrospinal fluid and/or involvement of the eye(s). Although the 2016 World Health Organization Classification now recognizes diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) of the central nervous system (CNS) as a distinct lymphoma, PCNSL is an accepted clinical term that is independent from the histopathology.1,2,5-7 For this reason, we included all histologic subtypes. For patients enrolled in national trials/registries, data collection was approved by the respective ethics committees.8-23 In nontrial/nonregistry patients, the retrospective data collection was performed with local Institutional Review Board approval.
+Seventy-five patients with PCNSL were identified. Diagnosis of the NHL subtype was based on contemporaneous pathological criteria.6,24-27 Event-free survival (EFS) was calculated from date of diagnosis to date of first event. Events considered were relapse, progression, and death. Overall survival (OS) was defined as the time from diagnosis to death from any cause or date of last follow-up. EFS and OS curves were estimated according to the Kaplan-Meier method. The Cox proportional-hazard model was used for multivariate analyses of EFS and OS.
+Results and discussion
+The study cohort is shown in Tables 1,2-3 and supplemental Tables 1-3. The male/female ratio was 1.7:1, and median age was 12.5 years. Three histopathological subgroups were identified: (1) mature B-cell NHL (B-NHL; n = 51; 68%, including DLBCL [n = 37], Burkitt lymphoma [n = 9], and B-NHL, not otherwise specified [n = 5]), (2) anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL; n = 17; 23%), and (3) other NHL (n = 7; 9%, including B-cell precursor lymphoblastic lymphoma [LBL; n = 4], peripheral T-cell lymphoma [PTCL; n = 2], and extranodal marginal zone lymphoma [n = 1]). Fourteen patients (19%) had preexisting disorders, including immunodeficiency (n = 11), hematologic malignancy (n = 2), and factor VII deficiency (n = 1). Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) status was documented in 47 patients, among whom 9 (19%) were EBV+.
+Initial characteristics and therapy of the 75 PCNSL study patients
+Unless otherwise noted, data are shown as n (%).
+BCP, B-cell precursor; Chemo, chemotherapy; CR1, first complete remission; EN MZL, extranodal marginal zone lymphoma; LDH, lactate dehydrogenase; NOS, not otherwise specified; RT, radiotherapy.
+NHL Berlin-Frankfurt-Münster therapy, n = 30; Lymphomes Malins B therapy, n = 14; Inter–B-NHL therapy, n = 5; Associazione Italiana Ematologia Oncologia Pediatrica linfoma non-Hodgkin (AIEOP LNH) therapy, n = 2; EICNHL therapy, n = 2; Sociedade de Hematologia e Oncologia Pediatrica LNH therapy, n = 1; Japanese Pediatric Leukemia/Lymphoma Study Group B-NHL therapy, n = 2;, Children's Oncology Group AALL1131 trial, n = 1, including 17 of the 26 (65%) patients with RT.
+Disease outcome and long-term side effects of the 75 PCNSL study patients
+Unless otherwise noted, data are shown as n (%).
+CMV, cytomegalovirus; CR, complete remission; CR1, first complete remission; CR2, second complete remission; GVHD, graft-versus-host disease; LFU, last follow-up; n.f.s., not further specified.
+Characteristics of the 14 PCNSL patients with preexisting disorders
+CLIPPERS, chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids; CVID, common variable immunodeficiency; JMML, juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia; NA, not available; PID n.f.s., primary immunodeficiency not further specified; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus; St. p., status post; TRM, treatment-related mortality.
+Median time to diagnosis was 6.4 weeks, with 31 patients (41%) receiving a diagnosis within 4 weeks of symptom onset. Thirty-three patients (44%) presented with cranial nerve palsies. Seventy patients (93%) had solid intracranial masses, 2 patients (3%) had intraspinal mass(es) only, and 3 patients (4%) had leptomeningeal disease with involvement of the cerebrospinal fluid only. The Lansky score was available in 60 patients: 19 had a score ≥ 80%, and 14 had a score < 40%.28
+Fifty-eight patients (77%) were treated according to NHL-subtype–directed protocols (pediatric type, n = 57; adult type, n = 1; B-NHL–block therapy: B-NHLs, n = 38, ALCL, n = 14; leukemia-type therapy: LBL, n = 4, PTCL, n = 2), and 17 patients (23%) received miscellaneous therapies.8-23 Thirty-one patients (41%) were treated with chemotherapy only, 15 (20%) were treated with chemotherapy + rituximab, 24 (32%) were treated with chemotherapy + radiotherapy, and 2 (3%) were treated with chemotherapy + rituximab + radiotherapy. One patient underwent observation alone after total resection, 1 received no therapy for 3 months for logistic reasons, and 1 patients remained without therapy.
+The chemotherapeutic cycles included high-dose methotrexate in 68 patients (91%), high-dose cytarabine in 55 patients (73%), and anthracyclines in 59 patients (79%). Alkylating agents were used in 64 patients (85%), with cyclophosphamide used in 61 patients. Intrathecal therapies were used in 69 patients (92%) including triple therapies in 56 patients. Twenty-six patients underwent irradiation (35%; whole brain, n = 22) with a dose range of 18 to 45 Gy (ALCL, n = 13; DLBCL, n = 9; other NHL, n = 4). Four patients (5%) completed therapy with a stem cell transplantation (autologous, n = 3; allogeneic, n = 1). After a median time of 5.22 years, 5-year EFS and OS were 74% ± 5% and 85% ± 4%, respectively (Figure 1A-B). Of the 75 patients, 14 (19%) had primary treatment failure (relapse; n = 12; progression, n = 2) after a median time of 0.77 years, including only 1 patient with a preexisting disorder. Twelve patients (16%) died, including 6 after relapse, 1 from PCNSL without any therapy, 4 from treatment-related toxicity as a first event, and 1 from unknown causes. Of the latter 6 patients, all had preexisting disorders..
+Univariate analysis showed that preexisting disorders (EFS, 77% ± 6% vs 53% ± 14%, P = .027; OS, 89% ± 5% vs 62% ± 14%, P = .001) and number of lesions (1 vs ≥2 lesions: EFS, 89% ± 5% vs 66% ± 9%, P = .085; OS, 97% ± 3% vs 76% ± 8%, P = .043) were associated with inferior outcome (Figure 1C-D). In contrast, high-dose methotrexate (P = .0002), high-dose cytarabine (P = .012), and alkylating agents (P = .033) were associated with improved EFS (Figure 1E-F). Other factors, including age, sex, Lansky score, B symptoms, histopathology, type of therapy, rituximab in B-NHLs, or radiotherapy, had no significant impact on EFS or OS (supplemental Table 4). In multivariate analysis, high-dose methotrexate remained significant for EFS, and preexisting disorders remained significant for OS. Analysis of 60 patients without preexisting disorders showed an EFS of 83% ± 5% for pediatric NHL therapy vs 57% ± 19% for miscellaneous therapy (P = .044; supplemental Figure 1), whereas, among 14 patients with a preexisting disorder, 5 of 6 patients with NHL therapy had an event but only 2 of 8 patients with miscellaneous therapy had an event.
+Long-term sequelae were primarily neurological (n = 22, 29%; including 8/26 with radiotherapy) and rarely affected endocrine organs (n = 3, 4%), heart (n = 0), or other organs/systems (n = 7, 9%).
+This report on 75 patients with PCNSL represents the largest series of PCNSL in childhood and adolescence reported to date.1-3,29-31 Our results show that PCNSL is associated with male sex, age ≥ 10 years, solid intracerebral disease, and immunodeficiency. Among adults with PCNSL, the majority of cases are DLBCL (90%).7 In our cohort, DLBCL was the most common histology, but it was observed in only 49% of cases, suggesting that histopathology of PCNSL in pediatrics might be distinct.
+EFS of 74% ± 5% for the entire cohort is comparable to that of children with CNS+ systemic NHL and similar to the 2-year progression-free survival of 61% that was reported by the International PCNSL Collaborative Group in 29 2- to 21-year-old PCNSL patients.11-13,15,16,23,29 Our favorable outcome has been achieved by histological subtype–directed polychemotherapy in most patients, suggesting that pediatric PCNSL can be successfully managed by protocols designed for children with CNS+ systemic NHL, usually including high-dose methotrexate and high-dose cytarabine, steroids, and no irradiation (except for ALCL).11-13,15,16,23,29 Our evaluation of prognostic factors found preexisting disorders to be associated with inferior EFS and OS. In contrast, usage of high-dose methotrexate, high-dose cytarabine, and alkylators, which are fundamental drugs of all pediatric NHL-subtype protocols/trials, were associated with improved prognosis.11-13,15,16,21,23,29
+Our study has limitations, including its retrospective nature, with potential for reporting bias. For subanalyses, patient numbers were small and included different histologic entities. Nevertheless, given the rarity of this entity, these data are likely to be the best available to determine important factors in the treatment and outcome of pediatric PCNSL. This international collaboration allowed us to conclude that treatment recommendations are especially needed for PCNSL patients with immunodeficiencies, who are at risk for treatment-related toxicity/mortality, whereas immunocompetent PCNSL patients receiving pediatric histological subtype–directed polychemotherapy and no irradiation do well.
+Acknowledgments
+The authors thank all participating institutions and physicians for their support of the study. This EICNHL and i-BFM article was written on behalf of the Berlin-Frankfurt-Münster (BFM) Study Group (Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic), Associazione Italiana Ematologia Oncologia Pediatrica, Société Française de Lutte contre les Cancers et Leucémies de l’Enfant, United Kingdom Children’s Cancer and Leukemia Study Group, Belgian Society of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Dutch Childhood Oncology Group, Slovenian Society of Hematology and Oncology, Serbian Society of Hematology and Oncology, Polish Society of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Japanese Pediatric Leukemia/Lymphoma Study Group, Hong Kong Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Study Group, Spanish Society of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Hellenic Society of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, and 5 single institutions from Armenia (Yerevan), Australia (Perth), Canada (Toronto), Belarus (Minsk), and Russia (Moscow) and 2 centers from the United States (Phoenix, Washington, DC).
+This work was supported by Cancer Research United Kingdom, the Deutsche Kinderkrebsstiftung (DKS 2014.11A/B, DKS 2016.24A/B, BFM Germany) (B.B. and W.W.), the St. Anna Kinderkrebsforschung (BFM Austria) (A.A.), Project No. LQ1605 of the National Program of Sustainability II and Project Nos. 00064203 and 65269705 of the Czech Ministry of Health (Czech Republic) (E.K.), and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan (Japanese Pediatric Leukemia/Lymphoma Study Group) (T.O.). L.G.-R. is supported by National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute grant K08 CA219473.
+Authorship
+Contribution: A.A., O.A., and L.G.-R. designed and planned the study and wrote the manuscript; A.A., S. Bansil, S.T., and L.R. pooled data, checked data, and performed statistical analyses; S. Bomken, B.B., F.C., A.K.S.C., H.D., A.F., M.H., J.J., E.K., R.S.K., J. Lazic, J. Loeffen, N.M., T.O., M.P., A.P., C.R., G.T., A.U., J.V.-A., W.W., G.W., A.A., O.A., and L.G.-R. were principal investigators or coinvestigators in their study groups and institutions, coordinated the national trials in their countries, provided study materials, and recruited patients; and all authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
+Conflict-of-interest disclosure: L.G.-R. has acted as a consultant for Janssen, ADC Therapeutics, and Celgene. The remaining authors declare no competing financial interests.
+Correspondence: Andishe Attarbaschi, St. Anna Children’s Hospital, Kinderspitalgasse 6, 1090 Vienna, Austria; e-mail: andishe.attarbaschi@stanna.at.
+References
+Data sharing requests should be sent to Andishe Attarbaschi (andishe.attarbaschi@stanna.at).
+The full-text version of this article contains a data supplement.
+By Dr. John T. Dickman - Columbus, Ohio
+[originally published in the April 1995 issue of “The Towpath”]
+Genealogies are always interesting, sometimes enlightening, and occasionally even shocking as we probe deeply into our dim ancestral past. This article is not intended to be one of those “who begat whom” genealogies with the kind of detail that is of interest only to an immediate family. Rather, it is an exploration of an intriguing connection between our little village of New Bremen and a family of significant Flemish artists who flourished in Europe throughout the 15th through 17th centuries.The suggestion of such a connection was first proposed and researched in the 1950s by the late Professor Elmer Ende, a New Bremen native son and Professor of Music and master of the organ at the University of Akron. Later, in the 1970s, Eugene Purpus of Tiberon, California, researched and wrote an extensive Purpus genealogy, beginning with an investigation of the family of Flemish painters, upon which this narrative is largely based.
+The story begins in Gouda in the Netherlands, a thriving trade center still famous today for the round red balls of Gouda cheese. In this city in the mid-1500s lived an artist by the name of Pieter (Janz) Pourbus, born probably in 1523 or 1524. The spelling of the last name has varied over the years (Pourbus, Porbus, Porbis, Purbus, and several other variations), but Pourbus was the spelling adopted by the Gouda family until, as we shall see, around the beginning of the 17th century. Pieter, known as Pieter the Younger because his father’s name was also Pieter, was a painter of religious subjects, allegorical scenes and portraits. Examples of each now reside in numerous museums and churches throughout Europe.
+As a portrait artist, he is judged today as having been somewhat “old fashioned” – the expression in the face of his subjects seemed less important to him than the elaborate detail and texture of the sitter’s decorative clothing and velvet drapery backgrounds. This trait seems to have been carried through the generations of Pourbus painters. But he was more than an artist. He was also a city planner and map maker for the cities of Bruges and Antwerp (in Flanders then, but known as Belgium today) where he mapped the depths of the coastal waters.
+Pieter Pourbus the Younger died in Bruges in 1584, leaving a son, Frans Pourbus, who was born in Bruges in 1545 and whose artistic skills overshadowed those of his father. Frans was a student of his father and painted a wide range of subjects, including religious themes, wooded landscapes with animals and portraits. He was a Master in the Antwerp Guild and a free master of the Guild of St. Luke, which were important appointments for the successful artist of the day. His portraiture was much more alive than that of his father’s. His works are also displayed in Europe and in many museums throughout the world. Frans’ life was cut short when he died of typhoid fever in 1581 in Antwerp. But he left a son that was to become the most famous of the Pourbus family of painters – Frans the Younger.
+Frans Pourbus the Younger was born in Antwerp in 1569. He was only twelve years old and living in Bruges when his father died. When Frans was nineteen, he inherited a sum of money from his grandmother (the wife of Pieter the Younger) and moved to Antwerp where he became a Guild Master in 1591. He rose to the rather lofty and prestigious position of court painter for the royal court of Archduke Albert of Brussels. It was there that he got his big break. In 1599 he was invited by Vincenzo Gonzaga, the Duke of Mantua, to become his court painter in Italy. So in 1600 Frans Pourbus the Younger went to Mantua where he was employed as court painter and contributor to the Duke’s gallery of beautiful women. But another event happened at Mantua that was to influence Frans’ life further. At about the same time the Duke employed another Flemish painter to his court, the soon-to-be world renowned Peter Paul Rubens. Pourbus and Rubens worked as colleagues from 1600 to 1608.
+In 1609 Frans Pourbus was sent to Paris by the Duke of Mantua to do some painting for Henry IV of France and Queen Maria de Medici. The Queen specifically asked the Duke for the permanent services of Pourbus and the Duke agreed. One of his portraits of Marie de Medici hangs in the Chicago Art Institute and hundreds of examples of his works grace private collections and museums around the world. He did not rise to the eminence of his contemporary, Peter Paul Rubens, but his work is looked upon favorably by the art world. Van Puyvelde and Van Puyvelde, in their book Flemish Painting – The Age of Rubens and Van Dyke, published by McGraw Hill in 1970, offer the following assessment:
+“To judge the true value of Frans Pourbus the Younger’s talent – and he had his moment of glory – one ought to compare his work with that of Rubens, who often painted the same people at the same time. Pourbus saw them in a static position, sometimes against a neutral background. He handled them attentively and to advantage, lingering more often on the decoration than on the expression of the character. Rubens, on the contrary, transposed them, surrounded them with atmosphere, and made them more alive and gave them more presence.”
+One can see from this assessment that the characteristic of focus on decorative detail alluded to earlier did indeed carry over from grandfather Pieter, through father Frans I, to Frans II. There is evidence that he may have learned from Rubens to pay a little more attention to a subject’s face in his later works.
+The religious persuasion of the Pourbus family was Protestant. It was during this time in history that great strife arose between the French Roman Catholics and a group of Protestant followers of John Calvin and the Reformed Church (Huguenots). It is believed that Pourbus himself did not outwardly proclaim his religious beliefs, but moved his family around 1615 away from this strife into the Rheinlandpfalz of western Germany, where the family name became, and remains to this day, the German version, Purpus. Frans himself returned to Paris and remained there as court painter until his death in Paris in 1622. And here begins the New Bremen connection.
+The Purpus name was once quite prominent in New Bremen history. The family came to America, specifically to New Bremen, circa 1868 from the village of Lauterecken in the Rheinlandpfalz, the very location to which Frans Pourbus moved his family in 1615. The Purpus family history in Germany begins with a Johann Purpus, born in 1700 in Weinheim, a village in the Lauterecken area. Family genealogist Eugene R. Purpus wrote in 1977: “I have not yet been able to get firsthand documentation for the short period from 1615 to 1700, but I now have complete documentation for the direct line of German Purpuses who were descendants of the Flemish painters.”
+Mr. Purpus is saying that although the period between 1615 and 1700 may require a slight leap of faith because genealogical documentation during that turbulent period is sparse or lacking, the existing evidence is more than adequate to complete the connection of which he speaks.
+Johann’s grandson, Johann Ludwig Karl Purpus (b. 1808), immigrated to New Bremen from Lauterecken with at least three of his sons. The 1870 United States census records him as living next door to one of them. The sons included Eduard, who operated the “Ed Purpus Toy and Fancy Store” at the corner of Main and Monroe Streets and served as the town’s mayor in the later 1800s; Theodore, who was a school teacher and was the editor of New Bremen’s early newspaper Der Stern des Westlichen Ohio; and Ludwig (known in America as Louis), a schoolmaster who suffered a similar fate in America to that of his ancestor, Frans Pourbus the Elder, both dying of typhoid fever. Louis was the father of my grandfather, Fridolin T. Purpus, who was manager of the erstwhile New Bremen Broom Company and proprietor of the Purpus Insurance Agency, forerunner of the present-day New Bremen Insurance Agency, Inc.
+Today no one bearing the Purpus name lives in New Bremen. However, the grandson of Theodore, the late Ted Purpus, lived in Minster and, like his great uncle Eduard, served several terms as mayor of his village. Ted’s two sons Don and Jay live in Minster to carry on the Purpus name. It seems that one of the characteristics of the Purpus family has been its proclivity to produce female offspring, which is disadvantageous in carrying on the family name.
+So, from a family of Flemish painters to the New Bremen Purpuses, the connection is complete. Whether the present-day Purpuses carry any of the artistic talents of their forebears is unknown. However, it might be a good idea to scour the auctions and garage sales of New Bremen. Perhaps you might come up with a painting like that reported several years ago in Minneapolis. A religious painting had been donated to the Sunday School of the Hennepin United Methodist Church in Minneapolis in 1928. It served to decorate a wall, perhaps even hiding a crack, until in 1992 it was learned that the painting was the work of the 16th-century Flemish painter, Pieter Pourbus the Younger, and was valued at somewhere between $200,000 and $300,000!
+Over the years I have assembled a collection of photographs, post cards, and reproductions of the works of the three generations of Pourbus painters from art museums and galleries around the world as well as from the Internet. To illustrate the artistic talent of the most famous of the Pourbus painters, here are photos of three reproductions of the paintings of Frans Pourbus The Younger.
+This painting is of King Henry IV of France dressed in full armor. It hangs in the Louvre in Paris.
+This is one of many portraits of Queen Maria de Medici that Frans Pourbus painted. It is from the Louvre and is probably Frans Pourbus' most famous portrait.
+Finally, a very interesting painting, not by Pourbus, but by Peter Paul Rubens in which Rubens paints a self-portrait - he's on the right looking at the observer. The fellow in the center with the beard facing Rubens is believed by most scholars to be Frans Pourbus II. I saw the painting hanging in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne and bought a slide from which this picture was taken.
+Brussels Sprouts.
+a favorite?
+really?
+yes!
+Teeny green adorable members of the cabbage family. They tend to be one of the more snubbed veggies out there in veggieland, but only because you've been eating them wrong.....these are a big time favorite around here--even with my kids! We eat them often in the winter months--they are very versatile and and contain a healthy dose of fiber, and more than your days worth of vitamin C and K in one serving (about 6 sprouts).
+While I was doing a little research, I learned that boiling them was a popular way of preparing them. May I offer up a suggestion? please?
+STOP BOILNG YOUR BRUSSELS.
+I would like to take out a public service announcement that says this.
+Boiling does nothing for their flavor, it decreases nutritional benefits, and it turns them into a bowl of mush......no wonder people don't like them. If you leave this post with anything, please remember,
+no boiling.
+So how should you be preparing them? Let's talk about it.
+First. You need to admire them.....they really are different. Layer upon layer of green--and have you seen them grow? They grow on a tall stalk.....appearing to be a bit alien-ish....I love it.
+Has anyone grown these? How did it go?
+It's something I would like to try out in the first cool months of spring.
+Ok so you've admired them.
+Now wash them.
+Cut off what's left of the stem--this is bitter and you don't want to eat it. It also allows you to easily peel off any of the outer leaves that may be discolored.
+A tasty way to eat them, is roasted!
+You can roast them whole, or cut them in half.
+I like to half them so they are a bit easier to eat, and they roast faster.
+Roasted Brussels Sprouts:
+Toss halved sprouts with olive oil, salt and pepper, and roast at 400° for about 30 minutes until outsides are crispy......the outside crispy leaves are the BEST.
+I usually add another sprinkle of salt when they come out of the oven and they are delicious!
+But from here you can add anything.
+A squeeze of lemon.
+A splash of balsamic vinegar.
+A sprinkle of parmesan cheese.
+Anything goes.
+Or add them to something......
+Wild Rice Pilaf with Brussels Sprouts and Pecans
+ok ok maybe the bold title made you think this was a "recipe" but it's just an idea of flavors together--use whatever amounts you like.
+you'll need:
+-wild rice mix (cooked in chicken or veggie stock)
+-saute' some leeks in a few TBS of butter, after they are soft add a handful of chopped pecans. cook until pecans are fragrant.
+-roasted brussels sprouts (see above)
+mix rice, leek and pecan mixture, and brussels for a tasty and filling side dish.
+***
+The quickest way I have found to cook them is right on the stove top--and again the possibilities of what gets mixed in is endless.
+After you have washed them and removed the stems (above), slice them thinly.
+They will fall apart and begin to shred on their own.
+Now we are going to make my favorite.....
+Brussels Sprouts with Bacon, Avocado, and Lime
+1lb brussels sprouts
+2 slices bacon (If you are a bacon LOVER, you may want to add a slice or two more....I think this is just enough.)
+1 garlic clove, minced
+juice of 1 lime
+1 avocado, sliced
+a pinch of crushed red pepper (optional)
+olive oil
+salt and pepper
+While you are slicing your brussels, cook the bacon until crispy in a large skillet.
+Remove from pan.
+Add a little olive oil to the pan (depending on how much bacon drippings were left over), and add your shredded brussels, garlic, and crushed red pepper.
+Cook for just a few minutes on medium heat, until brussels start to get tender.
+Mix in lime juice and crumble bacon into the sprouts. s&p to taste.
+Scoot your sprouts over to the side of the pan, and add avocado slices--just to quickly warm each side. You don't really want to stir them around into the sprouts or they will mash right in.
+When they are heated through, mix everything together and enjoy!
+How do YOU eat brussels sprouts?
+and there is more!
+I've had quite few requests for beets.....I'm on it!
+56 comments:
+We roast our brussel sprouts, and I used to not care for them, but they are growing on me. Slowly.
+I've never ever eaten brussels sprouts in my life. How crazy is that, right? My mom has always said she doesn't like them, so she doesn't make them. I'm tempted to try one of these out and see how we all feel about it afterward. :-)
+Mmm that dish with the bacon, avocado and lime looks good. I love roasted brussels sprouts. I eat those things like candy.
+I am salivating....
+We get brussel sprouts in our CSA box and they are so fresh and tasty. Often, all we do is steam them and they are delicious! You just have to be sure not to oversteam or they will taste bitter.
+Looks like a good one for brussels. Anything with bacon is better:)
+I ate steamed brussel sprouts growing up. Nastiness. I've never had them any other way, but that bacon,avocado and lime bidnezz? I'll eat that. Yum!
+We shred them like that, pre-roast them a little, and put them on pizza.
+i've been getting them in my bountiful basket and roasting them with garlic, evoo, s&p. seriously, so tasty!!!
+We are big fans of Brussels Sprouts and I can't wait to try this avocado recipe! Mmm mm!
+I thought I was the only one who loved brussel sprouts!! My favorite way to cook them is in a sautee pan with a little olive oil and a lot of minced garlic! But not I can't wait to try the roasted recipe you posted! Yummy!!
+I love brussel sprouts and eat them almost every day. I cook them in a similar way, in cast iron pan on meduim-high heat with olive oil (so they cook really fast). Then add minced garlic, squeeze lemon juice and add salt/pepper. Sometimes sprinkle with parmesan when they are already in the bowl. Toasted pine nuts go well with them. And I often eat them with sunny side up eggs :)
+I love mine sauteed with thick cut bacon, brown sugar and freshly ground pepper.
+I eat Brussels sprouts any wayt they can be made -- they're my favorite veggie.
+So much my fave,in fact, that I've tried three times to grow them in my garden. All three times, FAIL. They have to be started very early where I live (MN) to have even a chance of maturing. Then there's staking and bugs and pinching off and ... all three years, not a single edible sprout. I've made my peace; it's okay to go to the farmer's market, where I can buy them still on the stalk.
+If you try growing them, please report back!
+ooh I'm so glad you highlighted these, because this winter I just discovered the amazing secret of roasted brussels!
+such a difference. now we love them at our house!
+Mmmmm brussel sprouts are my favourite (cooked)veggie I think, although I don't thiink there are really any I don't like. I'm definitely going to have to give these recipes a try. I also have wanted to give growing them a try...maybe if I can get on the ball this spring...
+OH my! Yum. Yum. Yum!
+I found these recipes on Pinterest, and I am looking forward to trying each of them. I rediscovered Brussels Sprouts this fall and am in love with them. I usually just roast with olive oil and S&P, but the avocado recipe has me drooling.
+Your blog is lovely. Thanks for sharing your ideas!
+i've only ever made brussel sprouts one way and i love 'em! i essentially pan fry them till caramelized and serve dusted with parmesan - i posted the recipe a while back on my blog:
+Brussels sprouts with avocado sounds amazing! yum!
+Brussels sprouts with bacon, avocado and lime?! Yes, please! I usually roast my brussels sprouts with a sprinkle of sugar, salt and pepper...
+love brussels sprouts!
+we grew them last year (in Utah) and they worked really well. We started them too late so they didn't get very big by the time the frost hit. (okay, so they do well with frost because we let them go quite a bit longer and they were still good!) They were really fun to grow. I read a lot about growing them. There was a lot of information and technique. In the end? We just let them grow and did not fuss about them at all. They still grew and tasted good!
+But... start them early! I would start them inside 4-6 (or even 8) weeks before the last frost in the spring.
+I recently changed from braised brussel sprouts ( with balsamic vinegar) to roasted sprouts with a drizzle of dijon mustard and cream sauce. Yum.
+YUM! I've been looking for more brussels sprout recipes since I have a mondo bag. I normally roast mine with bacon, so I'm all for trying new recipes!
+My husband was nervous about the lime and avocado but we made these last night after seeing the post, luckily we had everything. We couldn't get enough of it. Thanks!
+I wok the sprouts quickly, with some oil and garlic. Or I put them into an oven dish, which is one of the childrens favourites: Brussel sprouts, paprika, crunchy bacon or smoked sausage (both is also an option), topped with some sliced potatoes, sprinkled with cheese. Oh yum. I think I know what to eat tomorrow.
+Oh my goodness!!! Thank you for the recipe. I pinned it this morning, made it tonight and I am completely in love. The avocado and bacon........pure delish! We usually roast the little nubs and drizzle a sweetened balsamic reduction on top, but we now have a new favorite. THANK YOU!!
+i recently learned just to eat them raw from my boyfriend, crack a bit of salt and pepper on them and they are great as a snack or appetiser!
+Sheena --- I was literally going to email you or summer about what to do with brussel sprouts since I don't really eat them and I read in Martha Stewart Living that they are SO good for you. My next trip to the store will include brussel sprouts!
+Thank YOU!
+I actually GREW brussel sprouts this summer in my teeny backyard garden. I started them a little late in the season so they weren't all that big when harvest time came, but they were delicious! Watch out for caterpillars though, they LOVED the big leaves.
+Hello Sheena, so very happy to have found your blog, your work is amazing! I love to eat brussels sprouts roasted with chestnuts, or over some farro with nuts, or straight from the skillet with good olive oil, walnuts and pomegranates or dried cranberries. But this recipes look scrumptuous, and I will surely make your favorite with avocado and baconn!
+I wasn't a brussel sprouts fan until I tried this recipe! Roasted brussel sprouts are delicious!! I had some in my bountiful basket and was wondering what to do with them...and then I found this post. Thank you so much!! My husband hasn't ever had brussel sprouts, but now he is a fan. Thanks!!
+BTW, can't wait to try the avocado recipe - yum!!
+Brussels with bacon and avocado, oh my! Sounds amazing. My favorite is roasted Brussels and fresh cranberries with barley, Gorgonzola and toasted pecans (the recipe is on my blog, cookieandkate.com).
+I made a brussel sprout pizza. Pretty much the same toppings you included only on a crust with parmesan cheese.
+It's 10 o'clock at night and I'm really tempted to get up and make these right now! I LOVE brussel sprouts that much!
+i just want to let you know that i have "hated" brussel sprouts all my life and now - thanks to your post - i'm in love. tried the bacon, lime and avocado recipe and it was SCRUMPTIOUS!!!
+This recipe is the absolute best recipe on the planet!! Thanks a ton. It is delish, and I can eat a whole pan by myself. So wonderfully scrum-didily- umptious!
+I live in the Midwest and grow Brussel Sprouts in the summer. They are super hardy plants, resistant to most bugs and funguses from what I've seen. We plan them early summer, but you can't harvest them until the fall. They're delicious from the garden!
+I do something similar-ish to this. Cook bacon, remove, add brussel sprouts (sliced in half lengthwise) to pan, cook with garlic, salt and pepper, add a good splash of balsamic vinegar and some sliced up dried figs. It's sweet and savoury and little bitter. Wonderful.
+Looks tasty. I can't wait for fall to try it. Would it be ok to pin this to Pinterest?
+@sarala:
+absolutely!
+You had me a bacon! :) I can't want to try these! Yummmm!
+I used to *hate* brussel sprouts, but people always boil them, which makes them incredibly bitter. YUCK! Roasting them caramelizes them and makes them faaaantastic! I'm so excited to try the pan roasting version. I'm just about to start your recipe!! Will report back!
+AH-MAZING.
+That last shot is gorgeous! And such an incredible recipe.
+Parental demands are unachievable. Plain and simple. Someone, somewhere has made a horrible mistake. That's all there is to it. Buy watches
+Brussels became my new favorite veggie this week after I roasted them for the first time. We like to roast with olive oil, salt, pepper and either savory or italian seasoning. after 30 minutes in the oven, toss them on to the grill to sear for a few minutes (perhaps with onions and peppers). So tasty!
+Hi, I’m Sonia, italian food blogger (and your 'fan')
+What an awesome post!! THANK YOU!
+I know I'm VERY late to the party, but I'm in love with brussels sprouts. We roast them with salt pepper and olive oil quite often, but if we ever have the deep fryer out, I halve them and toss 'em in. No salt, no pepper. Just sprouts fried in peanut oil, and even my famously picky sister who won't go near a brussels sprout will eat them.
+wow, awesome
+thank you
+I read this to find the brussels sprouts, bacon, avocado and lime recipe. I love the combination but would not serve it warm with avocado. I would cook the sprouts and bacon with garlic and cool it before adding the avocado. The lime I would add to a little mayo for a dressing and eat it as a salad. Yum!
+Search 'Tin Roof Brussels Sprout Recipe'
+You'll die. Seriously, soo good.
+I made the Bacon, Avocado, Lime recipe. No need to twist my arm, I love brussels sprouts, grow them in my garden (when they take) and roast them often.
+This recipe is delicious. I think the next time I make it I may add a little vinegar, somehow my brain kept trying to put it there on its own. Really, though. YUM!
+Yum, always looking for a new way to do brussel sprouts.!
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+Michael was great to work with. He is very organized and helped us through the day.
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Kelly Wagner
+I came across DJ Mike through a wedding I attended a few year ago.
+He is professional and played a great mix of music. My husband and I really appreciated that he kept to his word and took requested songs only if they were approved by the groom!
+The best part is that we weren't ready to end the night just yet and he agreed to stay a little longer to keep the night going!
+My only regret is that I didnt dance more ! More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Grace Browne
+Michael kelly did an amazing job for our wedding! The music was perfect and I honestly cant even name one song he played that i didn't love. I would highly highly recommend booking him. I couldn't have asked for someone better. He was kind, funny and even announced the kids in their goofy nicknames to make them happy. I'm so thankful we found him, he made our wedding amazing! More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Jennifer Murphy
+He was easy to work with and let you list any song you wanted to hear. He was pleasant, professional and would respond quickly to any questions I had. I would totally recommend him. Thanks again Michael! More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Isaiah Williams
+Michael was a pleasure to work with. From our initial meeting we knew that this was the guy that we wanted to be our DJ. He was extremely professional throughout the entire process. He showed up to the wedding early so we could discuss last minute details to ensure that everything went perfect. Our wedding was so much fun and it was really nice not having to worry that the music wasn't going to be right. So, if you want to save some time searching for a DJ I highly recommend Affordable Disc Jockeys. More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Leah Horslee
+Michael and his assistant were flawless. Leading up to the wedding Michael met our every need and beyond. He was professional, knowledgeable and put us at ease. Our guests raved about the DJ service and were dancing all night long until the very end. We couldn’t possibly recommend or endorse Michael and his DJ service more More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Diane Paduch
+Michael Michael to anyone looking to have a great time. More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Charlotte Smith
+Very good and fun and makes everything about you.
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Stephanie
+Michael is a true professional! We had a bit of an unorthodox wedding and he made sure the day went smoothly!
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Amie
+Michael did an amazing job. Was there early to set up, very professional, accommodating, and very communicative. Thanks for your help in making this day special for our parents!
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Carol Hudgins
+Michael was great, he was always on time to meetings and made my fiance and I feel very comfortable. We had some unique song choices and he found everything for us and was excited to play whatever we wanted. The website was very helpful. Michael answered every one of our questions as well. He was very professional and fun on our wedding day and he never stole the spotlight. Everyone danced and had a good time. I would highly recommend him to anyone. More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Joseph Rooroo
+We are SO happy we used Affordable Disc Jockeys for our wedding!
+Mike was an absolutely amazing DJ who had the dance floor packed all night long. Many of our friends and family commented on what a great, personable, and friendly DJ we had and we couldn't agree more. He went through all our introductions and announcements with enthusiasm and we really appreciated how he created a wonderful atmosphere with amazing music choices!
+Joyce was a joy to work with as well! She got back to us so quickly when we had questions about her photo booth and was super friendly in all of our interactions.
+The photobooth was a blast!!!!! Everyone was raving about how much fun it was and the props were hilarious. We got to keep one strip of photos from each session and the photos were great.
+Thank you both for making our wedding so amazing & memorable! More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Mary Little
+We were extremely happy with Mike from Affordable Disc Jockeys! Many of our guests told us they hadn't danced that much in years. We even had some guests that had their coats on and were headed to the door and dropped their coats on the floor and came back on the dance floor because a song they liked was playing. Great night and a whole lot of fun. More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Jasmine Murphy
+After our meeting with Affordable Disc Jockeys we knew that everything would go smoothly at our reception and that we didn't have to worry about a thing. We also went with the photo booth and uplighting. Those services were as affordable and really made the party! They did an excellent job with the music as well--everything was perfect and went off without a hitch. So easy to work with, and genuinely nice people! More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Lee Fenda
+We had the hardest time finding a DJ. We wanted someone who wasn't going to be cheesy, and honestly, it was more difficult than suspected.
+We ended up meeting with Michael and instantly felt a good connection - he was cool and funny and seemed to understand what we wanted for our wedding, rather than pigeon-holing us into a "traditional" wedding couple.
+He DJ'd our wedding and he was awesome! He was very nice and helpful, and he was clearly having a blast while working, which I think definitely adds to the fun. Whenever I asked him to play a song, he made sure it happened when I asked, which was really nice.
+I'd highly recommend this DJ service because they are organized, kind, and will tailor their service to your needs. More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Carol L Hudgins
+Michael did an absolutely amazing job keeping the evening fun and energized. Myself, my husband as well as all the guests danced all night! tI was so much fun! Michael was the key that made our night so memorable. I would recommend him and his services to any friend or family member. But make sure you get a hold of him ASAP because he books fast. He is extremely efficient in responding to email, text and phone calls. He made the entire process very easy. More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Vicki Nomi
+Michael did a wonderful on our 12/15/`8 wedding. Victoria Burnett recommended him. We met and knew we wanted him for our ceremony and reception. He listened to what we wanted and more importantly, what we did not want! He was easy to deal with and was patient with all of our questions. Everyone of our guests loved the ceremony, reception and had a wonderful time dancing! I will recommend Michael and Affordable Disc Jockeys to anyone who needs their services! More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Marilyn Propp
+To all the brides and grooms out there... you won't regret hiring Affordable Disc Jockeys AKA NWI DJS. I know wedding djs can be expensive, but this is one thing that you won't have to worry about. I had the pleasure of having Nick at my wedding at Cloister in the Woods. His professionalism, enthusiasm, and passion for what he does was infectious. Every guest loved him and interacting with the crowd made it all the more amazing. It is a day I will never forget and I owe a big piece of that to this wonderful company. Thank you for being a part of our special day and for giving us top quality service. I will forever speak highly of you! More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Julia Anto
+We only had 3 months to plan a wedding from start to finish. As I called around to find a DJ service who was available, affordable and willing to work with our dates, times and budget, I became overwhelmed. Tight budget and 3 months to plan made it difficult and frankly, I couldn't afford to spend 12-15% of our budget on a DJ. Enter Michael! Not only was he aware of our time sensitivity but was aware of our budget and we found a perfect match! We played exactly the songs we wanted and kept the dance floor moving all night!! Professional and fun and could read the mood of the guests to play what was needed each moment! Thank you Michael! More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Samantha
+Michael was my DJ for my wedding in November. He was very communicative and easy to get in contact with before hand, flexible with my requests, and everything went off completely without a hitch despite my not being able to personally direct him that day. Great experience!
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Deana Painter
+Michael,
+We sincerely have to say THANK YOU a thousand times for making our night go off without a hitch. You did an AMAZING job! I appreciate you keeping me in the loop & making suggestions as we went. I heard SO many people say the music selection was perfect and I have honestly never seen so many people remain on the dance floor at a wedding.
+And the entrance....YOU NAILED IT! it was absolutely PERFECT and the music selection you picked for it was genius!!
+We seriously cannot thank you enough. You kept everything together and there was not one thing you could have done better. More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Megan
+Absolutely incredible! I danced all night long and he did such a great job of keeping the dance floor full! I would recommend them to everyone! Thank you so much!
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Kami Stroud
+The DJ we had was excellent. All of his announcements were loud and clear. He played a wide range of music and everybody had a good time.
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Sam
+Everyone at Affordable Disc Jockeys was amazing to work with!! They were honest, helpful and super organized! They made sure we were all set well in advance for the big day. On our actual wedding day, DJ Chris did a phenomenal job!!!! He made the reception flow so smoothly and really got the dance party started and kept it going all night! We could not have asked for anything better. We also went with The Mirror photo booth, which ended up being a HUGE hit with our guests. I highly recommend Michael Kelly and his company to anyone getting married, they will not disappoint!! More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Evelyn
+Absolutely the best experience I could have hoped for. I cannot recommend Affordable Disc Jockeys strongly enough!! They were professional, courteous, flexible, personable and attentive. They took the time to interview and get to know us, and used this information to make our wedding reception fun and personal. They acted as "MC" for the reception and made sure that everything from bridal party introduction, to buffet service, to the special dances went off without a hitch. We had a GREAT time, and a lot of the credit goes to Sffordavle Disc Jockeys. More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+lindsey
+We love our DJ, he was wonderful. He went over the schedule with us and made sure everything was correct. He stuck with the list of songs that we wanted, he even did a mellow version from our list for dinner. He was wonderful and we would love to have him again if we need a DJ! More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Elizabeth
+Mike was great!! He showed up early to make sure he was set up and ready to go. He played until the last minute which was wonderful!!
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Mary
+Micheal was a great DJ! All of the older guests were very happy with the music level. They said they could still have a conversation and enjoy the music. Micheal was the only DJ I talked to who said he would work with all my vendors on his own and not worry.... unlike my makeup artist who had 100 questions for me. More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Judy
+Michael was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING as the DJ for our wedding! He truly kept the dance floor packed and each and every one of our guests had THE best time! We still are getting so many compliments on the wonderful job he did. He is so flexible and played all of our favorites. He truly has such an amazing talent and absolutely loves what he does, which makes working with him a real pleasure. I would recommend him in a heartbeat! Thank you, Michael. you truly are THE BEST! More...
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Colleen Watson
+So professional & friendly! Made our special day even better :)
+Reviewed on Facebook
+Matt O'Leary
+Michael from Affordable DJ did an awesome job at our wedding this past weekend! The music was great and he was very personable. I would recommend him to anyone!
+Reviewed on Facebook
+Carol Dillman Edwards
+Michael was very professional and did an excellent job at my son's wedding. I would recommend him highly. He helped to make the day extra special.
+Reviewed on Facebook
+Brittany Hanley
+We had an amazing DJ NAMED JOHN, he did a womderful job and the owner is very generous! This company is great to work with and their communication is great! Our guests loved the props the DJ brought! The hula hoops were so fun and made for great pictures! Thank you! More...
+Reviewed on Facebook
+Carol Lee
+Michael was excellent- very professional and met with us twice in advance to get our ideas and requests. He listened to everything we asked and didn't miss a thing. Our guests danced the entire night and his music selection was outstanding. More...
+Reviewed on Facebook
+Karen Marie
+We had an outdoor reception and the weather was beautiful and these guys just made it better. Great selection of music, friendly and very easy to work with!.
+Reviewed on Facebook
+Brittani O'Leary
+Michael is a great person who is amazing at what he does. He kept the dance floor busy all night and made sure my husband and I were comfortable and satisfied through the whole process. Affordable Disc Jockey is the best of the best! Thanks again Michael! More...
+Reviewed on Facebook
+Alexis Pontius-Buell
+Michael is an amazing DJ! He is professional, flexible and so easy to work with! He went out of his way to make sure he could accommodate our outdoor wedding ceremony, and reacted well to schedule changes during our reception. We gave him a list of songs we liked, and he kept the dance floor full! He really knows how to read a crowd and play the right songs. It made for an amazing party, and we got people on the dance floor that never dance! Thanks so much, Michael, I will definitely recommend you to everyone I know! More...
+Reviewed on Facebook
+Valerie Allmon
+Michael did an amazing job DJing our wedding! He played about 98% songs that I specifically chose and the other 2% were guest selections. From the time he opened up the dance floor until the very last song, the dance floor was packed! Everyone had an amazing time! Would definitely recommend! More...
+Reviewed on Facebook
+Gayle Reinsma
+Our family had such a great time at our daughter's wedding! Great choices for all ages and we loved that the music was not SO loud that non-dancers would not talk. Just a great night!
+Reviewed on Facebook
+Michael Bryant
+Thank you for djing our wedding reception last week. Awesome job. You were professional and everyone had a great time! Highly recommend.
+Reviewed on Facebook
+Gania
+He played all the songs we wanted, smoothly emceed when necessary, and kept the dance energy high. And we barely had to think about him, we just had to party!
+Reviewed on WeddingWire
+Rebecca
+Adopt-A-Waterway - Litter is a common source of pollution and threatens the health and beauty of far too many of our treasured lakes, streams and rivers. The Adopt-A-Waterway program, coordinated by Keep The Midlands Beautiful, offers volunteer groups the opportunity to address water-based litter issues in Richland and Lexington Counties. Please join us in protecting and cleaning up our creeks, rivers, lakes, boat landings and islands.
+keepthemidlandsbeautiful.org
+Congaree Riverkeeper
+"We are a citizen based non-profit organization committed to protecting the Congaree, Saluda, and Broad Rivers for the enjoyment of the growing community of river enthusiasts in the Midlands. We plan to improve water quality, habitat, recreation, and ultimately public health throughout the Congaree Basin through the use of education, environmental monitoring, and advocacy."
+congareeriverkeeper.org
+The mission of Sustainable Midlands is to preserve and enhance quality of life in the Midlands of South Carolina by providing education and facilitating communication among citizens and community leaders about creating communities that have clean air and water and support principles of sustainability.
+sustainablemidlands.org
+River Network - Watershed protection starts with people. In communities all across the U.S., River Network engages, trains and empowers people and their local organizations to effectively protect, preserve and restore clean, healthy waters.
+rivernetwork.org
+The Center for Watershed Protection works to protect, restore, and enhance our streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands, and bays. We create viable solutions and partnerships for responsible land and water management so that every community has clean water and healthy natural resources to sustain diverse life.
+cwp.org
+Founded in 1989, Palmetto Conservation Foundation is a statewide, non-profit organization with offices in Columbia and Glendale (Spartanburg County). We assist South Carolina's communities to grow and prosper while maintaining local character and quality of life. This involves protecting natural areas through land trust assistance or through local government programs, preserving Revolutionary War battlefields, and developing greenways and the Palmetto Trail.
+nps.gov/cosw/
+The Congaree Swamp National Park - Welcome to the largest remnant of old-growth floodplain forest remaining on the continent! Experience national and state champion trees, towering to record size amidst astonishing biodiversity. Walk, paddle or just relax within this dynamic floodplain ecosystem. Beauty and tranquility reign supreme in the midst of this natural treasure.
+nps.gov/cong
+Sesquicentennial State Park
+Sesquicentennial State Park, affectionately known to locals as "Sesqui", is a spacious, green getaway in the heart of the Sandhills region. Once you're immersed in the 1,400 acres of pines, camping sites, and nature trails you forget just how close you are to bustling, downtown Columbia, South Carolina.
+southcarolinaparks.com/sesqui
+The Richland Countywide Stormwater Consortium
+"The Richland Countywide Stormwater Consortium is comprised of Richland County, the Town of Arcadia Lakes, and the City of Forest Acres. The goal of the consortium is to support the restoration and protection of healthy waterways in Richland County through outreach, stormwater education, public involvement, and partnerships with local governments, citizens, businesses, schools, and organizations."
+clemson.edu/public/carolinaclear/consortiums/richland_home
+"The RCSC is part of Carolina Clear, a comprehensive approach developed by Clemson University to inform and educate communities about water quality, water quantity, and the cumulative effects of stormwater. Carolina Clear has developed regional consortiums whose members work together to identify stormwater education and outreach needs within the community, then develop and implement a strategy to successfully meet those needs as they relate to stormwater education and watershed awareness."
+clemson.edu/public/carolinaclear
+DHEC Bureau of Water - The site includes information on the Water Quality Management Plan, water conservation, permits, swimming and fishing advisories, reported wastewater overflows, and many other water management topics. The toll-free 24-hour number for reporting chemical spills, oil spills or fish kills is 1-888-481-0125 (in Columbia, call 253-6488).
+scdhec.gov/environment/water/
+The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Wetlands, Oceans, and.
+epa.gov/owow/
+Little Sugar Creek Greenway Project
+The Little Sugar Creek project in Charlotte has been a major inspiration to many of us involved in the Gills Creek Watershed Association. Visit their web resources to for just a hint of what might be possible for the future of Gills Creek in Columbia. Stream restoration, greenways, and sensible re-development around an invaluable urban resource.
+Read more...
+The activitie
+columbiasc.net/cpac
+Clemson University Extension Service Stormwater Pond-Management Website
+"Have a stormwater pond question? In response to an increasing number of requests from citizens looking for solutions, Clemson University Extension has launched a stormwater pond-management website to help communities manage their stormwater ponds. The website is very thorough and covers all of the more common pond questions, including nuisance wildlife, fish health, aquatic plants, shoreline erosion, water quality, and more. This page is designed as a diagnostic tool that you can refer homeowners and HOA's to for answers to their questions and detailed information about caring for their ponds."
+clemson.edu/extension/natural_resources/water/stormwater_ponds
+The University of South Carolina Environment & Sustainability Program
+The Environment & Sustainability Program promotes a university-wide focus on the environment by:
+The program represents a wide range of synergistic disciplines, with over 140 faculty cutting across the Columbia and regional USC campuses. Through the Masters in Earth and Environmental Resource Management (MEERM), graduate students are trained for management positions in earth and environmental resources, such as minerals, water, sustainable development within ecosystems, or safe and effective use of man-made materials in the environment. The joint MEERM/JD degree provides a streamlined program for students wanting both the Masters and Law degrees. Undergraduates have the opportunity to enrich their university experience through the minor in Environmental Studies, which provides an interdisciplinary curriculum and environmental perspective to their main courses of study. An undergraduate major in Environmental Science is currently in development. New faculty hires are expanding program interdisciplinary research in a range of critical environmental topics, including climate and weather, water resources, and environmental law, policy, and economics.
+environ.sc.edu/
+USGS South Carolina Water Science Center
+"The South Carolina Water Science Center (WSC) is one of 48 Water Science Centers in the Water Resources Discipline of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The Water Science Center's mission is to collect, analyze and disseminate the impartial hydrologic data and information needed to wisely manage water resources for the people of the United States and the State of South Carolina."
+sc.water.usgs.gov
+View real time level and flow (discharge rate) for the monitoring station at Garners Ferry Road: waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/uv?02169570
+Sustainable Carolina
+"Welcome to The University of South Carolina's Sustainable Carolina. Sustainability is often described as a process rather than a product... and that is a good way to think about this web site. Check back often for upcoming events or new opportunities, or you can read on to find out how to get more involved with the University's effort to create a Socially, Environmentally and Economically Sustainable University Campus."
+sc.edu/green."
+americanrivers.org."
+riveralliance.org
+Palmetto Conservation Foundation
+"The mission of the Palmetto Conservation Foundation is to conserve South Carolina's natural and cultural resources, preserve historic landmarks, and promote outdoor recreation through trails and greenways."
+The Palmetto Trail may be the group's best known project.
+palmettoconservation.org
+My River Starts Here
+"Protect our stormdrains to protect our rivers."
+Information on stormdrain marking and education to prevent dumping of pollutants in our stormwater system.
+myriverstartshere.org/
+Environmental Groups in South Carolina at SCIWAY, South Carolina's Information Highway
+McCormick Taylor
+"As a full-service consulting firm, McCormick Taylor specializes in providing communications, energy/utility services, environmental, highway engineering, municipal engineering, planning, structural engineering, traffic engineering, transit and water resources."
+mccormicktaylor.com/
+Tetra Tech EC, Inc
+"With more than 30 offices nationwide, Tetra Tech EMI offers environmental consulting and engineering services including site investigation and clean-up, emergency preparedness and response, disaster management, green services, energy management, hazardous waste/materials management, air and water quality, regulatory compliance, information management, and training to government agencies and private clients in the United States and internationally."
+tetratech.com
+Tidewater Environmental
+"Tidewater Environmental Services Inc. (Tidewater) is a natural resources and environmental engineering consulting firm based in Charleston, SC that provides innovative solutions to complex environmental problems for our clients. With a regional office in Columbia, SC and employees currently working out of Greenville, SC and Atlanta, GA, our goal is to become the leading environmental consulting and engineering firm in the southeast for environmental regulation compliance and natural resources restoration."
+tidewaterenvironmental.com
+Kleinschmidt Group
+"Kleinschmidt has focused on providing engineering, regulatory and environmental consulting services to the hydroelectric industry for almost half a century. Those are our roots. The knowledge and experience we have gained in the hydro industry have provided gateways into similar industries including Marine Renewables and Ecological Consulting."
+kleinschmidtgroup.com/
+Get Your Gear On - Outdoor Gear Outfitter and Guided River Trip provider.
+"Our mission is 'Keeping The Outdoors Affordable'. Along with our consignment inventory, we also carry exclusive new gear and equipment."
+Get Your Gear On
+River Runner Outdoor Center - "Full service outfitter and guide center that provides guided canoe and kayak eco tours of the Saluda River, Congaree Swamp, and Broad River. Both personal and group tours are available."
+River Runner Outdoor Center
+High school graduation is a big deal for any teen. Many feel that it’s when their lives truly begin. Lots of people arrange trips right after graduation to make these first surreal days of freedom as memorable as possible. For many, these trips are opportunities to have fun and explore newfound independence.
+But not for everyone.
+Bad things happen everywhere, even when you’re supposed to be making memories.
+This was years before the Elisa Lam incident but the difference is that the body is still missing. On May 30, 2005, Natalee Holloway was supposed to return from her graduation trip to Aruba. But she never came home. Her disappearance sparked one of the biggest media frenzies in American history and remains unsolved to this day.
+Disappearance of Natalee Holloway
+Natalee was 18 when she graduated from Mountain Brook High School in Mountain Brook, Alabama. She was an honor student and was on the dance squad, along with several other extracurriculars.
+She was scheduled to attend the University of Alabama on a full scholarship in the fall. But that May, she was going to live it up a little. She left for a five-day graduation trip with 124 other students on May 26.
+According to several reports, the students were prone to “wild partying, a lot of drinking, and switching rooms every night.” According to a statement given by Aruban police commissioner Gerold Dompig, Natalee “drank all day every day. We have statements saying she started every morning with cocktails – so much drinking that Natalee didn’t show up for breakfast on two mornings.”
+On the evening of May 29, Natalee was last seen by classmates leaving a club in Oranjestad called Carlos ‘n’ Charlie’s. She got into a car with local residents, 17-year-old Joran van der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, who were 21 and 18, respectively.
+No one saw Natalee after that. She was scheduled to fly home on May 30, but she failed to show up for that flight. Upon checking her hotel room, authorities found her passport and packed luggage, but there was no sign of her.
+The Search for Natalee
+Search and rescue efforts to find Natalee Holloway began immediately after her disappearance. Hundreds of volunteers from both Aruba and the US searched high and low for her. While there were searches on land, there were also divers searching the ocean floor. Despite this massive effort, there was no trace of Natalee found anywhere.
+The moment they heard that Natalee had missed her flight, her mother Beth and stepfather George flew to Aruba by private jet.
+Within hours of landing, they brought Joran van der Sloot’s full name to police – they said that they’d gotten it from the night manager at the Holiday Inn, who’d supposedly recognized him from a video.
+When they brought him in for questioning, he initially denied knowing her name before telling his first story – this account was corroborated by Deepak Kalpoe. Van der Sloot said that they drove Natalee to Arashi Beach to show her the sharks before dropping her off at the hotel at approximately 2am.
+He also said that she fell while exiting the car but refused his help. While he and the Kalpoe brothers drove away, he said he saw her being approached by a dark man dressed similarly to that of a security guard.
+According to reports, Natalee did not appear on any surveillance footage in the hotel lobby – however, her mother has made varying statements about whether or not the cameras were even active. She made a statement on April 19, 2006 that the cameras were not working, but other statements, and the account she gives in her book, stated that they were.
+Arrests
+On June 5 of that year, Aruban officials detained two men named Nick John and Abraham Jones. They were former security guards from the Allegro Hotel, which was near the Holiday Inn where Natalee was staying.
+The reasons that they were arrested were never disclosed by police, but some news accounts posit that statements made by Van der Sloot and the Kalpoes could have been a factor.
+The men were known for cruising hotels to pick up women, and at least one had previously run in to law enforcement. Both were released on June 13 without being charged.
+On June 9, Van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and murdering Natalee Holloway, Aruban law allows for investigators to do this if their suspicions are serious enough. But in order to continue holding a suspect, an increase in supporting evidence must be met at periodic case reviews.
+Commissioner Dompig said that the men had been under surveillance three days after Natalee disappeared, including wiretapping their phones and monitoring their emails. He also indicated that pressure from the Holloway family caused them to prematurely detain the suspects.
+On June 17, another suspect was arrested, disc jockey Steve Gregory Croes. A press release stated that he was “detained on information from one of the other three detainees.” On June 22, Joran van der Sloot’s father, Paulus, was also detained for questioning and arrested. Both he and Croes were released on June 26.
+Conflicting Stories
+While they were in custody, all three suspects changed their stories. They all told police that Van der Sloot and Natalee had been dropped off at the Marriott Hotel beach. Van der Sloot stated that he did not harm her while they were there, but he did leave her there. According to Satish Kalpoe’s attorney, Van der Sloot called Deepak to tell him that he was walking home, and sent him a text forty minutes later.
+During his interrogation, Van der Sloot gave police yet another account – that he had been dropped off at his home, while Natalee drove off with the Kalpoe brothers. Commissioner Dompig discounted this story completely, thinking that the story arose when Van der Sloot saw that the Kalpoe brothers were pointing fingers at him.
+Following a series of hearings before a judge, both Deepak and Satish Kalpoe were released on July 4. Van der Sloot was detained for sixty days after this.
+More Investigation and Witnesses
+More searches were conducted while these arrests were going on, including the use of aircraft equipped with infrared sensors and comparison of satellite photos to find ground shifts that could be a grave.
+An individual known only as “the gardener” came forward and told police that he had seen Joran van der Sloot driving into the Aruba Racquet Club near the Marriott Hotel between 2:30 and 3am on May 30. A small pond on the property was partially drained between July 27 and 30, but nothing was found.
+Another witness, identified as “the jogger” said that they saw men burying a blonde woman in a landfill on the afternoon of May 30. Police had already searched it, but they searched three more times, including with cadaver dogs.
+Joran Van Der Sloot
+Following his release, Van der Sloot gave several interviews, explaining his version of the events on the night that Natalee Holloway disappeared.
+The most quoted is the one that he gave to Fox News – it was later broadcast over three nights in March 2006.
+He said that Holloway had wanted to have sex with him, but he didn’t, because he didn’t have a condom. He also said that Holloway wanted them to stay on the beach, but he had to go to school in the morning.
+He called Satish Kalpoe to pick him up and left Holloway on the beach – he said he was ashamed to have left her there, and said that he hadn’t been initially forthcoming with police because he was convinced that Natalee would turn up. He later wrote a book with reporter Zvezdana Vukojevic and maintained his innocence throughout.
+In March 2010, Van der Sloot contacted John Q. Kelly, the attorney who was representing Natalee’s mother.
+He offered to give them the location of Holloway’s body and the circumstances around her death if he were paid $250,000, with $25,000 in advance.
+Kelly, rightfully, contacted the FBI, and they arranged to proceed. On May 10, he was wired $15,000 to an account in the Netherlands, and he received another $10,000 in cash. This exchange was recorded by undercover investigators in Aruba.
+The information he provided to authorities was proven to be false. The house that he said he’d hidden Natalee’s body in had not even been constructed at the time of her disappearance. On June 3, the US District Court of Northern Alabama charged him with extortion and wire fraud.
+Stephany Flores
+Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramírez was a 21-year-old business student who was reported missing in Lima, Peru on May 30, 2010.
+Three days later, she was found dead in a hotel room registered to Joran van der Sloot.
+On June 3, he was arrested in Chile on the murder charge and extradited to Peru. On June 7, authorities said that he’d confessed to killing Flores – he said he lost his temper after she used his laptop without permission and found information that linked him to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
+Police chief César Guardia told the media that Van der Sloot had told police that he knew where Natalee’s body was and he again offered to help the Aruban authorities find her.
+However, the interrogation was properly limited to the case in Peru, and questions about Natalee’s disappearance were avoided. He was charged in Lima Superior Court with first-degree murder and robbery on June 11.
+On June 15, authorities from both Aruba and Peru announced a cooperative agreement to allow Aruban investigators to interview Van der Sloot while he was imprisoned in Peru.
+However, when they got there, all he admitted to was the extortion of Natalee’s family, saying “I wanted to get back at Natalee’s family – her parents have been making my life tough for five years.”
+On January 11, 2012, he pleaded guilty to murdering Stephany Flores and was sentenced to 28 years in prison.
+Where Are We Now?
+Six years after Natalee disappeared, her father Dave filed a petition seeking to have her declared legally dead.
+Her mother Beth opposed this, but Probate Judge Alan King ruled that Dave Holloway had met requirements for a legal presumption of death.
+On January 12, 2012, a second hearing was held, after which King signed the order that declared Natalee Holloway dead.
+There have been numerous books and documentaries made about this case, but the conclusions remain the same – no one knows what happened to Natalee Holloway on May 30, 2005.
+And perhaps, we never will.
+Good coverage of a true nightmare.
+I believe Lima Superior Court stopped a serial killer in-the-making.
+Maybe some day Van der Sloot might grow a conscience.
+Great coverage.
+Imagine … Just hypothetical… boy meets girl, alcohol an drugs. Girl ends up (maybe unintentionally) in critical condition (maybe still alive). Boy panics and calls his respected and well connected dad. Dad wanting to protect his family makes a bad decision and pulls some strings. Nobody talks, boy goes free…
+Remorse ??? Boy locked up far away accused of murder. And dad ends up dead on a tennis court (age 57).
+Maybe a serial killer is still on the loose…
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+For farms until the creation of an international frontier between the Republic of Ireland and the “United Kingdom” and it brought in a new world of “approved cross-border roads”, customs posts, concession roads and the issuing of permits for residents of the Republic to live or be employed in the North of Ireland. It was of course a form of discrimination, a way for Norn Iron unionists to ensure there was no mass migration of economic Catholic migrants …and future nationalist voters…..coming over from the Republic.
+There was no such legislation in England, Wales and Scotland. It was easier to travel or migrate from Galway to London than to travel or migrate from Lifford to Strabane (one mile away).
+The “customs posts” and the restricted movement of people into the north did not end until both Ireland and Britain became members of the Common Market in 1973. Yet …ironically the British presence at the border was much increased in the 1970s and 1980s because of the Troubles.
+Only since 1998 has there been total free movement.
+One such “border family” was my mothers. Family and farm land on either side of a county line which in 1922, radically changed their way of life, which had remained much the same since James (my great grandfather) married Rose in 1858.
+His son John married Catherine and they would have eleven children, the youngest my mother who was born in 1912 but as she always insisted AFTER the Titanic had sank.
+John, a part-time tenant farmer would die in a work-related accident thirty years before I was born.
+As I have said elsewhere, those post-Famine years and early 20th century were all about Respectability. ….Religion, hard work, total abstinence from alcohol…china cups and saucers at Sunday tea. And politics…mainstream nationalism all the way, avoid controversy as the menfolk were steered clear of militant republicanism and anything remotely “British”.
+My granny Catherine died (aged 84) when I was just 4 years old…and thank GOD, I remember her.
+She could be proud of the Respectability. Grandchildren who became priests, nuns, teachers and nurses.
+And …land.
+Land was important to the farmers.
+When my mother married my Belfast father, her family bought a house for them in West Belfast. A Dowry. It may not have been much of a house …in fact it was a slum in West Belfast but the point is that my parents owned it.
+Respectability.
+My parents, my uncles and aunts are all dead now.
+It would have been nice to ask them about Magdalene Laundries, orphanages, and the rest but while my generation can be forgiven for saying that we knew nothing, surely the older generation must have known something.
+It is History…why suppress it?
+So two weeks ago. …a phone call. Would I like to go to a funeral…or rather the dedication of a plaque on a grave, over one hundred years after the death…in the maternal home village.
+Turns out my mother had a paternal cousin who died as a result of wounds sustained during the First World War.
+Instantly, I said yes…but almost immediately found myself wondering.
+I am after all Irish…the whole “Royal” British Legion and the English imperialism is not my cup of tea. I despise all that militarism, poppies and old soldiers parading their British heroism and wrapping it up in all that “at the going down of the sun….we will remember them”.
+That might seem hard on the concept of veterans, who stormed the Normandy beaches or parachuted a bridge too far. But increasingly there are few of those veterans and in Norn Iron, a local “Royal” British Legion member is more likely to have served in Norn Iron during the Troubles. I cant seriously respect them.
+Whatever…no person who ever served in the British Army can have done so in the interests of the Irish nation.
+Their “service” and their “sacrifice” in WW2 or later in Kenya, Cyprus, Malaya, Aden….Norn Iron….Afghanistan, Iraq….is not part of my nations ethos.
+The best they can expect from me is …Indifference.
+The worst they can expect is …Contempt.
+I did not know what to expect on Sunday. The short Catholic Church service, attended by a representative of the Queen of England and a handful of those blazered and bereted British Legion men and women. And my maternal cousins and their children.
+And then out to the graveside…and the dedication of a marker on the grave. The British Legion piper, the British Legion bugler and standard bearer. And the Silence and all that “going down of the sun…..” stuff.
+“They” stood in a neat line on the path…and “We” stood clustered together.
+And afterwards a few polite words were exchanged.
+and a cup of tea and sandwiches in the village hall.
+I am glad I was there. My cousins were glad also.
+To be there was not any comment on what my mothers cousin had done.
+Family is Family.
+Even after a century.
+Of course what did he actually do? Left his widowed father and joined the British Army and they educated him and seven years later, he was in France fighting in World War One. And only six weeks into the war (September 1914) , he was hit in the head by a shell and he lost his right eye, most of his teeth and tongue. And he came “home” to this small village to recover.
+At my grandparents house, where my mother was still a baby.
+And in January 1915, he collapsed in my grandparents house and died in a local hospital. Cause of death…his wounds, menangitis and a coma. The motorised hearse making the seven mile journey from hospital to Catholic graveside must have been very high profile.
+And his widow in England was doubly bereaved, losing their only child two months after his death.
+But the Corporal quickly disappeared from history….BIG History and SMALL History. The grave was a family grave but there was no indication that he was in it. His name is not on the headstone.
+And none of the family who attended last weeks dedication had ever heard of the Corporal. While my mother was just two years old, she must have known in later life. My older uncles and aunts who were children and young adults at the time,must have been aware.
+Maybe the Corporal was a victim of the fast moving historical time in which he lived and died. Joining a “peace time” British Army in 1907 was no big deal. Dying in 1915 when unionist and nationalist volunteers were in France for very different reasons, was more problematic.
+And of course after 1916, the problem became greater and bigger still after 1922 when it was apparent that the nationalists in British uniforms had lost and the unionists in British uniforms had won.
+So the Corporal was airbrushed out of family history.
+But also airbrushed out of his Regiment’s history. Researchers “discovered” his records a couple of years ago and entered into discussions with surviving family and the local church.
+Getting an official “British” marker was in itself a problem as there was some obstacle that the cause of death was directly related to the War.
+The “Corporal” is now an official casualty of the First World War.
+Certainly two weeks ago, I knew nothing about this.
+How do I feel? Do I feel “different”.
+No.
+I will not be wearing a poppy and lamenting a soldiers death or by extension any soldier who died in British uniform.
+Nothing to do with MY ethos….or the ethos of MY nation.
+“Oh had they died by Pearse’s side
+Or fought with Cathal Brugha
+Their names we would keep
+Where the Fenians sleep
+Neath the shroud of the Foggy Dew”
+(Canon Charles O’Neill “The Foggy Dew”)
+It is all about Family. And during the course of my lifetime….and I lived my first 17 years in peace….Family and Friends and Neighbours made decisions that I did not make. And it never stopped me attending a funeral.
+I am conscious that people honour veterans…either in great public displays (including lip service) at Remembrance Sunday in Britain or Veterans Day in USA…or in private ways thru helping the survivors of war deal with the trauma…poverty, addictions, homelessness, stress, physical pain or mental illness that is often a consequence of service. My mothers cousin was a veteran for just a few months and his widow may have survived him for decades.
+But Norn Iron is a divided society and I suspect the Corporals memory would have been better served if he had died as a member of the Dublin Fusiliers or Connught (sic) Rangers where Time has healed. But Norn Iron is a divided community and the chomparison is best made with United States and in border States like Kentucky or (West) Virginia in the century beteeen 1861 and 1961. Possibly loyal American citizens were told about graves of ancestors who died in Confederate regiments at Shiloh and Gettysburg.
+The comparison is maybe with country churchyards near Louisvillle Kentucky and Wheeler, West Virginia in 1861 and the Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy alongside surprised relatives.
+I dont suppose the Corporal joined up for any cause beyond three square meals a day and maybe he found a degree of companionship that he did not find with his birth family. I am glad that he died “at home” with his uncle (my grandfather).
+Terry Pratchett, the author who died earlier this year stated Death does not really begin until a persons life ceases to have an impact.I hope he is wrong. I am not comfortable with the thought that Oliver Cromwell can “outlive” harmless, childless people or that my parents life will not really resonate beyond my life and that their birthdays and anniversaries will mean little. In fifty years time, my birthday will mean nothing to my great grandchildren.
+Death should be more…egalitarian.
+There was nothing fair about the Corporals life, death or memory.
+The next world war will happen when there’s nobody left that remembers the last one.
+Yes….and apart from militia like B Specials and UDR, few in Norn Iron have any real military experience….in colonial wars like Aden or Cyprus…or Afghanistan and Iraq.
+It would be interesting to know if Norn Iron supplies its fair share of people to the British Army.
+Hasn’t it already started? my kid asked me who was fighting in Syria, when I started to list them of his face made me rethink.
+There are regional conflicts that have the potential to escalate. Somehow Israel-Palestine never quite goes over the (global) brink as it is an unequal struggle andPalestines alleged supporters will only go so far and leave Palestine in the lurch on every single occasion.
+Syria? It has escalated mightily in the last two weeks but I think the Americans and British have long realised that Assad is their best hope.
+They talk nonsense about tolerating him until there is a transition to adempcratic Syria but thats not going to happen and the Russians have moved in ….supporting Assad but killing off the “good rebels” before killing off the “bad rebels”….the West wont intervene. They backed the wrong horse and need the Russians to do their dirty work for them.
+Is Putin mad? Maybe but so far he has calculated right….the West has not backed Ukraine and Id expect to see the Russians rattle sabres in the Baltic.
+Effectively the USSR and the Soviet Empire was an extension of the Czarist Empire.
+Putin IS the Czar of Russia.
+Should this blog be keeping an eye on him?
+Well…only to the xtent that Putin wont stumble into a full scale war with NATO.
+Aside from India-Pakistan who have nukes, the conflict that worries me most is anything that the Saudis are involved in.
+The ordinary folks in the West dont like how they operate and I think that whole Saudi-Yemen war has the potential to escalate. There is a power struggle within Saudi Arabia and that regime will not go quietly.
+Certainly much that happens in 2015 reminds me of the Cold War….Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, Cuban mIssiles etc
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+Have your skis made custom to order! Any of our ski models can be customized to fit you personally. When you custom order you have the option to select any graphic from our library of art and modify the ski flex to suit you best for no extra charge. Other options are also available with more details below. Please contact us with any questions. We are happy to help you dial in your custom ski.
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+We make it how you want it. The short order ski builders at Praxis are ready to cook up your next ski.
+HOW TO CUSTOM ORDER
+Step One: Ski Choice
+First, select a ski model from our lineup. We have 20 different ski models for you to select from. From backcountry touring to resort all mountain carvers to powder specific fatties, we have a ski for you. Once you have decided on the best ski shape and length you can start customizing your new ski to fit you personally.
+Ski Options
+Step Two: Ski Flex
+Next decide the best flex option for you.
+We have five options to select from for your custom skis flex. #1 flex is our softest flex and compares with the softer skis that you will find in the industry, the #5 flex is our stiffest flex and compares with the stiffest race flex skis in the industry. For reference the product description on each custom ski model states what flex we make for the standard edition of that ski.
+Why customize the ski flex? Not all skiers are the same weight nor do they create the same demands from their skis. By customizing the flex of our skis we are able to better fit each of our ski models for the skier and what the skier plans to do with the skis. Customization of the flex can be done for a variety of reasons, creating a better fit to the skier’s weight, ability level, and personal preferences.
+Here are some general guidelines on determining the best flex option and information on how adjusting the flex is going to affect the skis performance.
+A softer ski will initiate turns easier at a lower speed. So this can translate into a more playful less aggressive ski. A stiffer ski will need more energy or speed to initiate turns so this can be more demanding and more aggressive of a ski.
+Softer skis will bend more and therefore float to the surface of powder quicker especially notable at lower speeds. The softer ski however will tend to over bend and be less stable when trying to push snow around or ski aggressively. Therefore a stiffer ski will bash through powder crud better and a softer ski will milk deep powder turns with ease.
+Skier’s weight is also a big factor in determining the ideal ski flex. Here is a general guideline for skier weight and flex options.
+#1 Flex – Under 125lbs #2 Flex – 75-175lbs #3 Flex – 125lbs – 225lbs
+#4 Flex – 150 lbs – 250 lbs #5 Flex – 150 lbs and up
+These weights are only a general guideline to get started. Personal preference and your specific goals and plans for the ski would also be a factor. If you are considering a ski flex and outside these weight guidelines we should discus and confirm that it is the best option.
+Ability level is another big factor in determining the best flex. Generally a level two or three skier is going to want and be better served with a stiffer ski. A beginner or intermediate skier is going to have a better learning experience and progression on a softer ski.
+Personal preference will also be a factor, for example some skiers will want strong edge hold, powerful ski, and ability to really drive and push a ski through a turn, and therefore want a stiffer flex. Whereas another skier might be a level three skier but prefer to be able to bend and butter the ski to better fit their personal skiing style.
+Note that changing the flex on your custom ski will change the weight of the ski. Softer skis are lighter. As you select your flex options the weight estimator at the top of the product page will update.
+Feel free to contact us to discuss any questions and determine the best flex option for your custom ski
+Step Three:
+How fat or skinny should your skis be? You decide!
+Introducing our latest custom option! Have you ever considered one of our ski models but wished it was 10 mm fatter or skinnier? This has been one of our most requested customization, and we decided it would be a great addition to our custom ski menu. Think of the possibilities! How about a fat GPO! Or a narrow RX! We look forward to exploring the Praxis Lineup with this new ability to customize our tried and true shapes.
+The size offset will make for a 10 mm fatter or skinnier version of the original model. All dimensions (tip, mid, tail) will be changed and the length of the ski will be 1 cm shorter or longer. For example a 182 GPO sized down skinnier will become a 181 cm and the dimensions will be 130-106-118. And if you were to size the 182 GPO up fatter it would be 183 cm and the dimensions will be 150-126-138
+Step Four: Graphic Art
+Select your topsheet graphic from our library of options for no extra charge. Or go with a full custom graphic and put your own artwork or pictures on your skis. Contact us for more information on formatting custom graphics.
+Topsheet Graphic Library
+Step Five: Base Graphic
+Select your base graphic. We have a few different methods for creating graphics on bases. The "die cut" base option has the PRAXIS letters cut into the base. Or we have the option to use two different color base materials and again cut the PRAXIS into the base. We also use a process called dye sublimation to transfer more detailed graphics into the base material. The available options are shown below.
+*note more base graphic options coming soon!
+Base Graphic Options
+Step Six: Topsheet Material
+Standard Nylon Top Or Digitally Stained Wood Veneer?
+The industry and our standard option for applying the graphic to the top of your skis is to print the graphics to a plastic (nylon) material and use that for the top layer of the skis. This method offers an outstanding image quality with very vibrant detail and allows for all of our graphics in the library to be easily applied to your custom skis.
+However, we have another option for your custom skis and it has become a favorite at the factory: digitally stained wood veneer tops. Any of the graphics from our library can be digitally stained onto a real wood veneer sheet. Create a one of a kind custom look pairing the unique wood grain and artwork. The wood veneer tops have proven to be a durable asset to the skis construction and performance. By utilizing a wood veneer top in the skis construction we are able to build a lighter ski, saving 4-8 oz on a pair of skis compared to using a traditional nylon top. Additionally the wood veneer tops create a damp and lively ride enhancing the skis performance and feel.
+Each sheet of wood veneer that we offer has its own unique grain and a look. These are real wood veneer tops and no two sheets are the same. You have the option to select from several different species of wood, each species has its own character, grain, and look. The photos below give a general idea of how each type of wood will look, but do not show the actual veneers being offered. Additionally we have links below to photo albums of finished skis and the veneers used.
+Combining the correct wood veneer and graphic is an important part of this customization. Please contact us with any question or advice. Note that the graphics will be blended with the color and wood grain of the veneer. Areas of the graphic art that are white will not print and therefore only show the wood grain. Some combos of art and veneer work better, we have found the art that is not full graphic saturation showcase both the wood veneer and graphic best. Feel free to contact us with any questions, we are happy to help guide you to the best looking veneer and art combo.
+Click here for a look at some of the different wood veneer graphic combos that we made this past year.
+Take a look at our digitally stained veneers photo album on Facebook.
+Step Seven: Core
+Select a core design for your skis.
+At Praxis Skis we use hard maple, ash and paulownia in our cores. We use each wood for a specific purpose. The hard maple is used in the binding mount area because it offers superior screw retention and provides a strong durable mounting zone. We use ash for its stiffness, strength, pop, and vibration damping. Paulownia is used in our cores for its superior weight as well as an alternative density dampening agent to the harder ash and maple. Across the Praxis lineup you will see these core materials being offered in a few different options/blends.
+Enduro Core: This is our most widely used core option. The ideal blend of maple, ash, and paulownia for many of our skis models. In our Enduro core the center and perimeter of the core is made from ash, the binding area is constructed of maple and the remainder of the core is made up of paulownia. We have engineered the enduro core to be the best blend of hardwoods for strength, weight, dampening and performance.
+*The Enduro Core can also be made with a fiberglass and carbon fiber layup (Enduro.
+Heavy Core: Blending our two favorite hardwoods into our burly maple and ash core provides for a powerful, damp, hard charging ski. Using only the denser hardwoods creates a heavy but stable ski ready to take big air or straight line through a field of bumps and crud. In the Praxis lineup we use the maple and ash core on our smaller underfoot piste orientated skis. For your custom ski this is a great option to consider for a hard charging ski, but beware of the extra weight when using only maple and ash on the fatter powder specific skis. We call this core option HEAVY for a reason!
+*The Heavy Core can also be made with carbon fiber in the layup (Heavy.
+Ultra Light Core: Using a blend of mostly lightweight paulownia we are able to build some of the lightest skis offered in the industry. The UL core uses a limited amount of maple and ash only in the center of the ski (binding area) and the remainder of the core is lightweight paulownia. The UL core comes with a fiberglass/carbon fiber composite to keep the ride stiff and light. The UL core is ideal for touring skis and those looking to keep what’s on their feet as light as possible.
+Step Eight: Final Details
+Tell us a little about your skiing
+Basic info like height/weight and ability should be included. Let us know about the resorts and areas that you ski. As well as the aspects of the mountain you seek out, any preferences and your general skiing style. Please let us know what you are expecting for from this ski; for example touring, resort charger, deep powder, or competition ski. All this info helps us to confirm that you are selecting the best ski and that we are building you the best fitting custom ski possible. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. We are happy to help you dial in the details on your next custom ski.
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+The Voice – First Live Shows – The Coaches Did Not Take Through The Best Performers
+It was Team Seal and Team Joel singing in the first live show and both teams showed there was not a lot of depth in either of them. What was interesting was both coaches decided to take through singers that were not their best performers of the night but ones they wanted to work with again. This was particularly tough in Team Joel as Kyomi Vellas who had the best performance of the night may not get through on the popular vote as she is up against Michael Paynter who has a fan base from his previous career and Michael Stangel who not only sang well but has the back story of having a heart and brain tumour.
+Michael Paynter was first up singing for Team Joel with Bruno Mar’s hit Locked Out Of Heaven. This time he played the guitar but the song seemed to high for him he came across as a bit screechy. He does have a confident on stage persona and the hair cut was an improvement. Delta who is clearly a fan said he has the potential to win and that he was a good singer and then she added he was a bit pitchy here and there. He probably had the weakest vocal performance on his team on the night.
+Next was Michael Stangel singing Four Walls. He has an interesting voice and he sang it really well but he is not a superstar. His compelling back story will bring him in votes and he got through with the most votes last week so clearly has a fan base.
+The intense Danny Ross singing The Joker was up next. They appeared to be determined to give him the stoner ’60’s styling which will polarise people. Not that he had worry about getting the votes as Joel took him through to the next round saying he still had not finished working with him. It was an interesting rendition and he bounced around the stage but I don’t think he will win this season’s series for Joel as he is far too polarising. You are either going to like him or hate him.
+Kyomi Vella was last up for team Joel and it was no surprise she busted out a Bjork song It’s Oh So Quiet. She showed just how amazing her voice is. She was the stand out of his team which Joel also said, and she is giving something reality TV fans like and that is growth in each of her performances. Each time she sings it is better then her last performance. Tonight she marked herself as a contender, however she now has to rely on the public vote and if she doesn’t get through it will be an injustice. However expect her to get signed by a record company.
+It was Team Seal’s turn next and all of the song choice for all his singers were not good. There was not one compelling performance.
+First up was Mitchell Anderson who sang the Doug Parkinson arrangement of The Beatles song Dear Prudence. He did not hit a bum note but the song went nowhere. Ricky said he was so powerful on stage and Seal thought it was the best he had performed it. By the way ladies Mitchell is married and his first baby is on the way.
+Busker Alex Gibson sang Johnny Cash’s Prison Blues and he was a bit overshadowed by the band but he has a nice voice and a lot of likeability.
+Jac Stone sang Alanis Morrisett Uninvited she had the smoke machine and the guitarists. Sure it has the vocal gymnastics in it but it was boring. She has a good voice but not sure she has the star quality. It is unlikely she will get any further.
+Harrison Craig was given the lucky last spot and he sang I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You. It was good and the judges loved it and gave it a standing ovation but again it was not incredible. Harrison appears to have transformed by this show as now his stutter is barely there. It has gone from a completely debilitating speech impediment to something that is barely noticeable. I suspect it has more to do with his speech therapy he has had for many years. Obviously it is still an issue for him as it looks like he would best sit in the musical theatre world rather than being just a singer.
+Surprisingly Seal took forward Alex Gibson into the next round which leaves Mitchell and Jac Stone hung out to dry as Harrison will get the popular vote to go forward in the competition.
+Did you think the judges took through the right contestants?
+Hey RR did you know that Delta & Ricky’s teams also performed last night? They took through Steve Clisby & Luke Kennedy.
+I am currently watching it online. Delta’s 4 plus Ricky’s 4 also performed.
+Delta’s lot, Celia Pavey, Tim Morrison, Jacki Sannia and Steve Clisby
+OK, Delta has now chosen Steve Clisby. I think they were all a little underwhelming.
+I am about to watch Team Ricky
+Oh my God clearly I had a brain explosion. Will have to watch the rest for some reason I thought it was only two coaches up.
+Who were the best performances of the night from those teams.
+Ricky has the best group and they were ALL good. I think Luke Kennedy was possibly the best (stepping out from his comfort zone) singing a John Farnham song Please Don’t Ask Me . He did a great job.
+Celia was probably the best on Delta’s team – she sang Jolene and despite not having quite enough passion was a good performance. Jackie sang a Alanis Morissette song and was fairly good as well. My guess if they’ll go through to the text round.
+Ricky has the best team by a long way. Catarina Torres sang a J-Lo song and killed it, Miss Murphey sang a Beyonce song and according to Seal was better than Beyonce herself. Simon Meli compared to the girls was a bit forgettable and sang a Rolling Stones Song. Luke Kennedy sang John Farnham’s ‘Please Don’t Ask Me’ and killed it. My husband said he felt as though Farney himself was signing it.
+You missed the better half RR! Ricky has the strongest team by a long, long way. Besides Harrison, there’s no real star in Team Seal I don’t think.
+Yes I agree that Ricky has by far the strongest team. It is a scheme that each coach will loose one person as clearly Ricky while team would still be here next week if we were voting for 4 weakest from the top 16. Mrs Murphy is still my favorite although I’m not sure that I like her song last night. But she is mesmerizing whatever she sings! Dont care about anyone much in team Seal, have someone soft spot for Danny Ross, I’m finding him interesting and I like that he is not a puppet like most of the others and is just who he is! I definitely want to see more of him! In team Delta I was somewhat disappointed with Jacky, she really has to get hold of herself and gain some confidence as the nerves will impact her performance. The ‘cool cat’ was fabulous as always, I’m glad that we will see him again!
+The Joker, the Paddle Pop Lion’s tilt at Dear Prudence and finally Chaz Bono doing Folsom Prison Blues were three of the worst performances I’ve ever seen. C’mon.
+I’ll savour the rest when it’s encored on the weekend.
+Decided to take out leading reality TV blogger after this cock up
+Hey BDD as RR said Danny is polarizing, one either like him or hates him! But which ones you liked?
+RR, don’t be silly. I was confused too as I turned over to watch Major Crime, thinking that The Voice would be finished at 8.30 or close after. They hadn’t promoted that all four teams would be singing, and I think most people would have thought it would have been two teams last night. Ye gods, it went on forever!
+I think Ricky was the only coach who actually picked the best performer – Luke Kennedy – but Miss Murphy was very close. I felt for Caterina Torres because she has an excellent voice but was given a hard song to sing, as well as a dance routine, so she was patchy in places. That said, Ricky picks the best songs by far. All the other coaches’ choices were pretty rubbish last night.
+Delta’s choices are kind of annoying me. I don’t think she roots for the underdog – she relates to winners (if we were still in high school, the “popular” people). Like Michael Paynter & Steve Clisby, her two favourites. I think both Celia and Jackie performed much better than Steve and she should have taken one of them through. Tim was clearly the weakest in his team, mostly due to the shoddy song choice, so hopefully they will get through anyway.
+I think this is pretty much a Harrison, Luke, Celia race if iTunes is anything to go by. All three far outsell any of the others, with each of their prior songs re-entering the top 100 each voting round. I’m hoping for Celia to win, personally.
+My take on the ‘save’ was to leave the ones who’d garner the most votes/downloads (ie$), although for Team Ricky that’d be Luke.
+Danny’s stylist needs to follow the Chanel rule (awful blue jacket, or red headband. Preferably both).
+Honesty, Seal has gotta be smoking something funny this season, because what comes out of his mouth is such mind-numbingly, self-important drivel and his song choices are SO uninspired his singers never really get a chance to ‘soar’. Oh hang on, he was a bit like that last year too. Silly me!
+Celia is mesmerising and my hope to win this year. She is breathtaking. And I am really loving Simon Meli, his performance qualities are awesome and unparalleled this year. However, I am absolutely baffled how Rosalind (above) could call him forgettable. How bizarre. Why doesn’t anybody like Rock anymore? The currency given to Soft Pop, R&B and some drippy ballads is making for dull TV viewing.
+I don’t really get the whole Steve Clisby thing. Yeah, he’s OK, but as someone else pointed out elsewhere, he’s the kind of guy you’d see on the RSL club circuit.
+This was the night The Voice and the judges lost all credibility. Most of the performances were lame, which may have been partly due to some appalling song choices by the coaches.
+Team Joel was boring until Kyomi took to the stage and livened things up a bit, but then she didn’t have much competition so far. Joel rightly acknowledged her as the standout so far and then promptly took Danny thru to the final. WTF? I mean I do like Danny’s swag but his comatose reggae version of “The Joker” was, well, a joke.
+My suspicions were raised.
+Next up was Team Seal, Mitchel Anderson delivered as usual but he ain’t no Doug Parkinson. He was good but not great. Alex Gibson was the worst of the bunch and unbelievably Seal took him thru. The fix is in people.
+By this stage I was getting thoroughly peed off with all the judges saying how much they loved all the contestants and how great they all were when clearly they weren’t. Where’s Simon Cowel or Dicko when you need them?
+This show is in serious need of a reality injection.
+Next up was Team Delta and she seriously sabotaged two great performers Jackie and Celia by giving them songs everybody was uncomfortable with. I mean Joelene? The butt of a thousand parodies and C&W jokes. C’mon!
+To top it off she gave Steve Clisby a song straight out of the soul survivors’ songbook. I mean I like Steve and I’m glad he went thru, but he could have sang that song in his sleep.
+I smell a setup, that’s three out of three so far and the judges seem be playing strategy instead of playing fair.
+And could someone please tell Delta to stop talking, it’s embarrassing. She seems to have taken a Goldie pill or is on the same gear as Seal.
+Next was Team Ricky, and it’s a pity he can’t take all four of his team straight to final, ‘cos they were all in a class above everyone else, with the possible exception of Steve C.
+Caterina is simply a star, a power pop princess, Miss Murphy is the soul Queen and Simon is the retro rock god, leaving Luke as some hybrid popera thing.
+True to the night’s weird form, Ricky picked Luke, another perplexing choice, so that’s four out of four weird decisions.
+Which means some of the better singers won’t get thru while a few ordinary ones have been given a free pass.
+All in all a very disappointing show. If it comes back next year I want a honest bastard as one of the judges.
+Not sure why Mark thinks it was a weird/perplexing decision for Ricky to choose Luke? He would have got through by popular vote, regardless. By choosing Luke, Ricky can’t be accused of playing “favorites” – the public votes are in fact determining who goes through to the next round for all four of his performers.
+Besides, if it’s down to viewers’ votes, Luke could easily win this thing.
+Perhaps what he meant was that Ricky’s strategy didn’t align with the other coaches’ strategy, in that the others picked a singer who they thought was worthy of the next round but who might not get the popular vote. Ricky didn’t seem to care about that tactic, just wanted to make sure Luke was through since, realistically, he might be the only one to match Harrison on Seal’s team who is the odds-on favourite to win. If you think about it like that, it was an aggressive tactic by Ricky to ultimately win the show.
+Saying all that, Ricky’s team was so solid on all four fronts compared to the other teams that he would have been damned whoever he chose to save.
+Excellent recap Mark!
+@Mel, Elise,
+yeh maybe I was too hard on Ricky, but after all the cr@p pulled by the other coaches over the previous two hours I was very antsy.
+At least most of us agree that Ricky has the best team.
+Not sure anyone is actually odds on favourite to win at this stage though.
+My money is on either Miss Murphy or Caterina but hey they might not even get through to next week.
+Luke is too Vanilla and milquetoast for me, but he sure can sing.
+Harrison is mesmerising when he sings, but I don’t think he’ll win.
+Those are the favourites. Of the rest:
+Jackie or Celia could win if Delta gets her head together and gives them a decent song they can work with, but as we’ve seen over the past two seasons that’s very unlikely.
+Steve Clisby is all class, but he lacks the firepower and star power that most of the favourites have.
+And maybe Kyomi as the dark horse, if she gets through.
+As for the rest, hopefully they will be gone after next week. Then again who knows what crazy stuff the coaches will pull next week.
+Mark said “Next up was Team Delta and she seriously sabotaged two great performers Jackie and Celia by giving them songs everybody was uncomfortable with. I mean Joelene? The butt of a thousand parodies and C&W jokes. C’mon!”
+I have to say that I haven’t really been a fan of Celia as I think Miss Murphy just overshadows her so much. I’m also far from being a C&W fan. I’ve ever really listened to the lyrics of Joelene either as I have never been interested when I’ve heard it. But last night I did and I have to say I loved it!!! Celia really did the song justice with her version. The emotion in her voice was great and IT PAINS ME TO SAY THIS but I think Delta did a good job in coaching her to get this emotive performance. Now I’m going to wash my hands after typing a compliment about Delta… haha.
+Looks to be fare thee well for Caterina … she’s waaaay down the itunes chart – gone from 50-ish a couple of days ago to 70-ish now. Miss M and Simon still holding relatively strong – around the 20s/30s, respectively.
+Can’t say I’ll be sad to see her go, good voice, etc, but too generic for me, wouldn’t recognize her voice if I heard it on the radio.
+Harrison, Luke and Celia still in the itunes top 5. I like Miss M but can’t see her toppling Luke on the public vote … but you never know.
+Personally, I can’t wait for the final 4 duets – coaches and contestants.
+Will Seal go down on one knee to sing with Harrison ???
+Thanks for the itunes update – does it tend to always represent the outcome?
+I don’t have any sense of how most people vote these days, Facebook, phone, sms, itunes. Not sure if having so many methods dilutes the idea of how people are voting or not.
+Will be interesting to see if Caterina goes. Ricky will be devo if that’s the case. I can’t say she makes me feel anything really, very polished and all but like Elise said, she’s also kinda generic.
+I find it amazing that people download this music from iTunes – unless it’s free maybe. No would actually pay for it would they?
+Mel & George, I’m not really sure how all the voting stuff works, either – but one itunes purchase ($1.69, i think ?) counts for two votes, and to vote on facebook you have to buy credits – which i guess you then use to purchase a download from the itunes store ???
+Unlike last year, there is no method of casting a free vote.
+So, because of the two votes for one purchase, the itunes chart can be a good indication of who is going through – at least at this stage. Probably the finals get a lot more sms votes?
+sorry, Georgie – really must put my specs on !
+Georgie, normally I’d scoff away at purchasing music from The Voice, but I’ve got to admit that I’ve been getting Celia’s songs this year. I’ll hand in my cynical snark licence!
+Some words of sense from Brian May CBE PhD and no.26 on ‘The Rolling Stone’ list of the greatest 100 guitarists of all time…
+Anon, I’ve yet to hear anything I’d be willing to pay for so I’ll keep my licence for now. Besides, there’s untold great music I do want and haven’t downloaded yet – so that’ll keep my busy for a long while.
+Oh, how painful it was to hear Simon Meli destroy Sympathy For The Devil. Out of tune try hard.
+I’m just glad I saw The Rolling Stones slay an audience with this song in 1995. They mucked up the beginning but by the time the song was finished , it had been transformed into a masterpiece of high drama and lifted their show to an even higher level. I’ll never forget it….
+Simon Meli got the tune and removed any semblance it ever had to rock and roll. Embarrassing.
+As Georgie has said, only three or four of these contestants are even listenable. Steve Clisby and a couple of the female singers. These are good , but nothing special or heaven forbid…worth downloading.
+I did love delta’s green lurex hot pants suit. She has worn a couple of nice outfits and I prefer funky delta to Delta the Diva.
+Love Miss Murphy, Steve Clisby, Kyomi but I already have Bjork singing sh, and also wouldn’t buy this except maybe Steve and Miss Murhy, if she doesn’t do Beyonce songs.
+Pre this knowing that unlike most of my “insider-baseball” posts, this one takes a step back from my usual, all-cards-on-the-table approach in order to be respectful of people who’ve left Moz and those who are still there.
+On August 10th, I attended a board meeting during which it was decided that the company I co-founded and used to run, would change the strategy we’d been pursuing over the prior 2.5 years, refocus on our core SEO software business, prioritize making the business profitable, and lay off just over a quarter of our employees. Many, many companies and founders share openly about how they pursued a risky strategy and it brought great success. Almost no one writes about the reverse — when a path you’ve chosen to double-down on goes sideways with painful costs. To the best of my ability, I’m going to try to do that in this post.
+I was in Edinburgh, Scotland (speaking at the Turing Festival) the Wednesday following that board meeting, when our CEO, Sarah Bird, announced the decisions to the team and published her post about the changes. It was heartbreaking. I got choked up. But Sarah did a good job on a day she later described to me as “the single lowest point of my professional life.”
+Before we begin in earnest, I must provide this critical caveat — you’re reading my opinions, my experiences, and my perspective only. This post will certainly include some degree of inaccuracy and bias. I’m not speaking for everyone at Moz, or everyone on the board, or for our leadership team. Just for me.
+Some Background on How We Got Here
+If you’re not familiar with Moz, we used to be called SEOmoz. The project started as my personal blog about SEO in 2004. It evolved first into a consultancy and then, in 2007, a software company. We’ve raised three rounds of funding: $1.1mm in 2007, $18mm in 2012, and another $10mm in January of 2016. During that stretch, we’ve grown to ~$40mm revenue run rate, mid-market size for a SaaS business.
+From 2007-2012, Moz had just one product — Pro — our self-service subscription for SEO professionals that helped sites track rankings, find crawl issues, improve on-page optimization, discover link opportunities, compare themselves to competitors, etc. Every tool we built and every piece of functionality created went into that subscription product. It was responsible for ~92%+ of our revenue (the rest coming from our API and our customer conference, Mozcon).
+In 2011, I believed that in the years ahead, SEO would stop being a silo’d practice run by a single specialist in organizations and at agencies and would, instead, become one skill among several for the people and teams responsible for a multitude of inbound marketing channels (search, social, content, email, community, brand, etc). I worked with our Chief Product Officer, Adam Feldstein, to develop a software product that would serve this new “inbound marketer.” We called it Moz Analytics. That product took multiple years to build, and when launched in 2013, was largely a failure. It took most of 2014 to simply get the software into functional and usable shape, and much of 2015 to pay off technical debt. Growth slowed from the 100% year-over-year of the 2007-2013 era, to under 20%.
+From 2007-2014, I served as Moz’s CEO. I left that role due to a pernicious bout with depression (depressed CEOs do not generally make for inspiring leaders). The board, at my recommendation and with my full support, promoted Sarah Bird (the company’s COO since 2008) to CEO. Sarah and I had a long partnership leading the company and making the hard decisions together. But, it was tough for me to give up control of the company I’d founded and run for so long, and my depression only contributed to those frustrations. I wasn’t my best self in that year after stepping down and, by the start of 2015, settled into a routine of disengagement and heads-down focus on my individual-contributor work (presentations for conferences, Whiteboard Friday, the Keyword Explorer project, the book I’m writing, blog posts, etc).
+Moz, thanks to an ambitious and hard-working executive team and board, powered on. The new approach was to unwind the Moz Analytics concept of all inbound marketing channels sitting in one application and instead create different tools for different audiences and their unique needs. For social media marketers, we had Followerwonk (with the idea to evolve it into a “Moz Social” product). For content marketers, Moz Content. For SEOs, Pro. For local businesses, Moz Local. And for data-focused buyers, the Moz API. Separating these products, launching them, and supporting them with engineering, marketing, and organizational structure proved challenging and time consuming, but the team got it done.
+_
+Above: Moz’s “Multi-Product” World
+In January of 2016, the new, multi-product world of Moz was finally ready to roll out with the launch of Followerwonk and Moz Content as standalone subscriptions. We raised an inside round of funding with Foundry (our $10mm Series C) to help step on the gas. That same month, the board of directors approved a budget that had a significant amount of spend on people and paid marketing to support the expansion. It was a moderately risky bet that relied on growth from our existing products (Pro and Local) as well as relatively fast adoption of Content and Wonk. Q1 tracked very close to plan, at least on cash, Q2 was a bit off-target, but not dangerously so.
+Then, in late July, just a few days after Sarah had completed a re-organization of many of the company’s departments in order to give each individual product more control over their marketing and sales funnels, our CFO sent out a revised forecast for the rest of the year based on his conversations with the various product leaders and updated estimates from the prior few months of financial data. That forecast showed Moz burning much more cash than we’d planned due to lower expectations for every product (Pro a little under plan, API a little, Local a little more, Wonk and Content significantly). Every product was growing in revenue and customers, but none of them were growing as fast as we’d forecast. Local, in particular, had an outsized impact on cashflow that we hadn’t previously understood well because of its upfront collection model. Suffice to say, those new estimates were the catalyst for events that followed.
+A Reckoning for the Multi-Product & Inbound Marketing Strategies
+At an executive team off-site that followed the revelation of those new financial projections, Moz’s leadership discussed potential options. Should we try to give the new products more time to get traction? It felt like Moz Content and standalone FollowerWonk never got the chance to prove themselves — 6 months is hardly enough to say we truly gave them a shot at success. Should we try to raise more money? Would we be able to do so? Should we turn Moz Pro into a cash cow by eliminating much of the team and marketing expenses, and use the margin to fund the new products + Moz Local? Or, should we end the journey into broader inbound marketing software and focus back on search with Moz Pro and Moz Local?
+I missed the latter parts of these discussions (due to recovery from hernia surgery), but ultimately, the primary proposal brought to the August 10th board meeting was to double down on SEO software, become profitable as soon as possible, and wind down Content + Wonk.
+Here’s what I believe:
+- Given more time, and a significant amount more financial resources, Moz could have made both Content and Social into successful standalone products (just as Moz Local did in the 2 years prior).
+- A smaller, more focused company doing nothing else but (either) Wonk or Content could probably have achieved those goals faster and with a much lower dollar expenditure (big companies have roadblocks, costs, and organizational friction that a small startup team just doesn’t face).
+- We drastically underestimated the complexity of selling many products: how it dilutes brand association, impedes funnel optimization, and puts stress on product, marketing, sales, operations, customer service, and engineering teams (I found this to be exponential — two products felt like 2X the work/challenge, but four products was way more than 4X).
+- Inbound marketing never really became a *thing,* at least, not in the way I thought it would. It’s a useful phrase to describe organic, earned marketing channels that work together, but it never turned into a job description or a role across the web marketing world. Social media marketers focus on social. Content marketers focus on content. Email marketers do email. And SEO professionals do SEO.
+- Individuals and companies that need multiple functions across these channels don’t value “All-in-One” software, nor do they care if all their tools come from the same vendor. Instead, we (yeah, I’m the same way) would rather pay more, have a steeper learning curve, but get the best-in-class product for each task or function. The theory that Moz could better serve customers by having a wide breadth of good-enough features vs. being the absolute best at just one thing (or a handful) proved false.
+What I regret most is not having the experience, the examples, and the proof to convince our team earlier to stay away from multiple products or all-in-one products while losing focus on our core customers and market. It took a long time, a lot of money, and now, this heartbreaking event to change direction. I really hope it’s a lesson we’ve learned for good.
+The Painful Reality of Layoffs.
+I say that even though the process sucked beyond belief. I’m pretty sure that because of this decision, I’ve lost close friends, perhaps permanently. I know there’s anger and disappointment from both those who lost their jobs and those who stayed. Geraldine (my wife) was brokenhearted and infuriated by the event. She and I have reflected for years about the shitshow that was her own layoff experience at board-game maker Cranium back in 2008. Cranium’s journey and lessons were ones I promised her we’d never repeat, yet here we were, overextending finances to try and grow into new product lines outside our core competency (just like they did), and winding up making too little progress at too high a cost (just like they did).
+For a long time, this has been a point of tension with me inside the company. In November, 2013, I started growing what has become a ridiculous mustache as part of a commitment to return Moz to profitability.
+Above: A very kind, whiteboard welcome from Skyscanner for a presentation I gave there while in Scotland
+I stood on stage during an AllHands meeting and told our staff that I’d grow my mustache until Moz became profitable again. I hoped that would be only a few months away, but after I stepped down as CEO, the strategy changed from a more conservative approach to one seeking out growth and spending capital to find it. My advocacy for profitability may seem reasonable for a privately owned company, but it’s pretty much diametrically opposed to the traditional model for venture-backed SaaS businesses. Examples abound – Hubspot, Eloqua, Marketo, Salesforce, LogMeIn, ConstantContact, and 100s more all spent massive amounts of capital prior to IPO. In fact, that’s the traditional model (as evidenced by the average operating margins you can see here). Coupa Software, who just filed for an IPO this week, lost $46.2mm on $83.8mm in revenue last year. SaaS is a world where companies burn a lot of cash to get growth, and both investors and executives expect that model.
+So why am I opposed to it? Because I hate the risk. I know entrepreneurs are supposed to be risk-takers, comfortable with the ups and downs of a startup’s journey, even if that means hiring fast one year and laying off a large portion of your workforce the next. But I just don’t have the stomach for it (which may be another reason I’m not a great choice for the CEO of a venture-backed company).
+It’s toughest in the software world, because while software has high margins, it also has very few places to cut expense except people. Below is a model presented by Moz’s CFO showing where we were spending and where potential savings could come. As you can see, without dramatic cuts to staff, there was simply no way to get to profitability fast.
+A reasonable observer of Moz’s finances might ask: why does the company need to be so aggressive in pursuit of profitability right now? It’s a fair question. Conceivably, we could have trimmed fewer expenses (in people and/or elsewhere) and relied on our slow but continuing growth to keep us on track. After all, if we went from 12 months of cash runway to 18 months, and that runway kept increasing as revenue grew, we’d likely be OK.
+The counterpoint is risk. If Moz’s growth slowed, or if it turned negative, or if the world economy took a massive hit (The Economist’s Global Forecasting Services lists a few scary things that came up during the board meeting) and we weren’t aggressive in cutting costs now, we’d have to do a second round of cuts. That felt absolutely untenable to everyone on the board and on the leadership team. Our philosophy was to do this once, do it deep, be profitable almost immediately, and never have to go through it again. This approach hurt more in the short term, but gives us an infinite runway and risk mitigation to spare for the future.
+As Sarah noted in her blog post, this cut-deep model also gives us cash to be opportunistic should a great offer present itself. We’re still believers that the right data, people, or even acquisition might be worthwhile bets for Moz to make, and we wanted to leave the company room to do that. Even after the expenses of severance and restructuring, Moz has ~$10mm in the bank we can use to help pursue a great opportunity should one arise.
+We did some financial modeling to imagine what it would look like if revenues over the next few quarters ended up lower than our goal. This is NOT a board approved budget or actual projected financials, but rather an exercise to see how things would look in a terrible case, with the goal of being in OK shape even if the numbers looked like this:
+In order to keep the visual above in this post, I had to include the following. Apologies, and get ready for some legalese:
+We cannot predict the future and do not know if, or when, we will be profitable or cash-flow positive. This blog post is not intended, and you should not use it, for any investment decisions with respect to Moz stock. Our actual future results are uncertain and could be significantly different from the situations we considered. We do not know how things will turn out. Our customers could spend more or less with Moz, making our revenues higher or lower than we modeled, or we could see increased expenses. The exercise above is purely hypothetical, but was useful as we made very difficult decisions.
+As you can see, even in a future where revenue declined (when, in fact, Moz’s revenue has been growing consistently the last 2 years and is still on pace for ~$40mm this year), assuming we kept expenses down, the budget cuts we’ve made could get us to cash-flow positive by Q1 2017. This type of “let’s imagine what a scary future looks like” modeling can help all of us feel more confident that additional, future cuts are unlikely.
+In the board meeting, one of our directors noted that, in their experience, few companies and few leadership teams have the chutzpah to make deep cuts upfront and prevent more risk down the line. Often, it’s a high-conflict discussion at board meetings about how deep to go, and how optimistic to make the future-looking forecast. As you can see from that slide above, we chose to be very pessimistic, imagining a forecast where growth turns negative despite every indication that’s not going to happen. We wanted to be as critical as possible, so that we’d be prepared for even the worst case.
+Thankfully, our August performance did, indeed, maintain growth. September’s look like they will, too.
+Via our financial dashboard for August, 2016
+I’m hopeful that as early as December, I’ll get to shave off this painful, fuzzy reminder of my past failures. And I’m glad that we’ve built in room for missteps and the unexpected. I feel that Moz’s leadership can honestly stand in front of our team and say “we have pursued every reasonable avenue to prevent the need for any future layoff.”
+Why We’re Returning our Focus to SEO
+A lot of arguments have been made over the last few years, both inside Moz and outside, that SEO software is a risky market, a low-growth potential market, or a tapped-out market. Here’s why I don’t believe any of those, and why I’m glad that our board and leadership team made the decision to keep focusing on SEO:
+Market Reasons:
+- Interest in SEO dwarfs interest in other inbound marketing fields like social and content
+- Many competitors in the SEO software have built incredible businesses over the last 5 years, including a handful who are larger than Moz is today
+- Organic search still sends a huge portion of the web’s traffic: Over 25% according to SimilarWeb (with faster growth than any channel apart from direct)
+- Our internal data (using clickstream analysis) suggests that organic search gets over 90% of all the clicks that take place on Google’s US search results
+- Google earns more than $60 Billion in paid search revenues each year, while the combined revenues of every SEO software company combined are less than than $1 Billion — a mismatch I don’t believe is sustainable if a great software vendor ever serves this market effectively. Organic search is greater in volume, in opportunity, and provides a true competitive advantage.
+- 10 years ago, very few companies in the world had a dedicated SEO team or marketing professional. Today, hundreds of thousands do, with more adding them every day. It’s why SEO was #4 on LinkedIn’s list of the top skills that got people hired in 2015, the highest ranking it’s ever held.
+- The search engines’ continual removal of data critical to the marketing process (e.g. keyword volume in AdWords) presents ever more opportunity for a company that can focus on replacing what’s been lost
+- The competitive landscape in SEO software remains more accommodating and open than in social media, content, or many other web marketing fields (especially adtech)
+Organizational Reasons:
+- SEO is what Moz is known for, and how we’ve built our brand. Focusing on it means playing to existing branding strengths.
+- The team we have across the company knows SEO – how to build products for it, how to market it to customers, how to create content for it, and how to support it.
+- Our community and audience are vastly more passionate about and more dedicated to SEO than any other web marketing practice.
+- It’s our area of greatest achievement and greatest competitive advantage.
+- Selfishly, it’s the area where I think I can personally help the team and business the most.
+- Doing one thing (even with two products – Local and Pro) will, I believe, make us a better company, with better data, better products, and a better story. And I feel strongly about stories:
+(via Andy Raskin on Medium)
+Moz has a ways to go to become industry leaders in SEO software on all the vectors we need to hit. But we’re contenders in a lot of those today, and given time, focus, and resources, I think this is where we can be best in the world.
+A F@#$d Up Cocktail of Emotion
+Someone asked me how I felt about the changes just after they happened. I replied:
+I love SEO. I love getting to focus. I’m so glad we’re aiming for profitability again.
+I’m also really thankful that I wasn’t in a managerial position and didn’t have to make what were, I’m sure, insanely tough calls about who stayed at Moz and who didn’t. I feel guilty and awful for all who were in that position, and all those who are seeking jobs now. I remember what it was like when Geraldine and many of her coworkers were laid off and the feelings of doubt and fear, resentment and confusion that washed over us. My empathy and my heart are with everyone on both sides of this heart-wrenching process.
+I was proud to see ex-Mozzers banding together to build the HireMoz site, which features a ton of amazing people you should hire right now if they match your needs. I’m also really proud to see the 130+ companies who reached out seeking to hire Moz folks for literally hundreds of open roles. That, to me, suggests that we built a reputation for employing high quality, in-demand people.
+Finally, for anyone reading this who was part of those layoffs — if we haven’t already connected, and I can be helpful to you, my network is yours, my LinkedIn recommendation is yours, and if there’s anything else I can do for you or someone else you know, don’t hesitate to ask.
+My New Role
+As part of this shift in strategy, Moz has asked a few things from me:
+- Manage the sale/divestiture of Followerwonk. I’ve talked to a number of folks and shared a bit about this on Twitter, but if you or someone you know is interested, please drop me a line (rand at moz.com)
+- Lead the strategy for growing our self-service marketing funnel (for both Moz Pro and Moz Local) over the next few months. This is a project I’m excited to take on, but it’s also a massive beast of a work effort that requires a lot of coordination across teams. I hope to share more about what we learn here — successes and failures — in the months ahead.
+- Assist our product leadership for Moz Pro to help make that software the best in class across 8 dimensions of SEO: Keyword research, rankings, crawl, on-page optimization, links, competitive intel, reporting, and workflow. After the success of Keyword Explorer, I’ve got some confidence we can eventually pull this off.
+- Help to manage and run Mozcon in 2017. We are, tragically, losing two incredibly talented folks who’ve played pivotal roles turning Mozcon into the success its become – Charlene and Erica. I have no doubts they’ll go on to do amazing things, but I’m going to have a hell of a time trying to compensate for their departures. Thankfully, I’ve got the help of Danielle Launders, and many other Mozzers who’ve volunteered to assist. We’ll do our best to bring a great Mozcon back to Seattle next year.
+- Work hard to re-engage and be less disconnected from leadership, even when I disagree. This one will be hardest for me, because disengagement is such an ingrained part of how I handle conflict. I’m going to have to be my best self here; I’ve promised to try.
+All this is in addition to my already very full workload, so you may find me saying no to more requests, and backing out of a few obligations over the year ahead. Whiteboard Friday, the conferences and events I’ve committed to, and my book are the three I don’t want to let go, but other stuff will likely have to take a backseat.
+Ask Questions; I’ll Answer Them
+It’s a hard time to be transparent, but to me, that is the most important time to be so. If we shy away from transparency when things are rough, then it’s not really a core value, it’s just a marketing tactic. I don’t think I could look myself in the mirror if that were true, so I invite you to ask hard questions, easy questions, whatever’s on your mind and whatever this post left you wanting.
+The post Moz Returns to SEO appeared first on Rand's Blog.
+Source: rands blog
+WooCommerce Prices and Currencies by Country
+Description
+Give your customers a better and more seamless purchase experience by showing them your products in their own currency. When enabled, WooCommerce Prices and Currencies by Country module will automatically detect your customers’ countries by their IP address and they’ll see products in their country’s currency. If you wish to carry the customer’s currency all the way through to checkout, simply check the “Override Country on Checkout with Billing Country” checkbox and save the changes to enable this feature.
+This module is incredibly flexible, and allows you to set prices and currencies by country on a per-product or global basis. When using this setting on a global basis (i.e. for all products), prices are recalculated on an exchange rate value (multiplier). Exchange rates can be updated manually, or automatically (e.g. hourly).
+How to set it up
+- Create at least one country group in “Booster Settings > Prices & Currencies > Prices and Currencies by Country”.
+- Either set the exchange rate in “Booster Settings > Prices & Currencies > Prices and Currencies by Country”, or enter the price directly into the product edit screen.
+For either method of set up, country groups must be created first. Country groups are defined by a comma separated list of countries, and a currency which is selected from the drop-down menu. Remember to click the Save Changes button after you have selected a number of groups, so additional country groups fields will appear for you to populate.
+Global Prices – Exchange Rates
+Prices per Product
+Prices set per product will override global prices with custom exchange rates. Therefore, if both are enabled, and prices are set on per-product basis, global prices will be ignored.
+Country Codes
+Booster for WooCommerce uses two-letter country codes. Country codes, as well as predefined country/continent sets are here. You can simply copy/paste these into the Prices and Currencies by Country group fields.
+- WooCommerce > Settings > Booster > Prices & Currencies > Prices and Currencies by Country
+Hello, there is a MAJOR oversight here. How do I see what the actual price of a product is in a currency that is not linked to my IP address?
+For example, my shop is based in dollars, and I’ve added GB pounds and euros as secondary currencies–but I have no idea what the actual euro or pound price is that my website is showing.
+This is not an idle interest, as I have to give the GBP price to a UK magazine asap, and I have no idea what my own website is showing for the product!
+Obviously, I feel pretty silly, and have to find someone in the UK to check out my site and tell me what the price is of my own goods.
+Hi,
+Thanks for pointing this out.
+I will add some price preview in next plugin update.
+Meanwhile there are 2 things you could do:
+1. Use some VPN (e.g. CyberGhost) to change your IP address, or
+2. Temporary add your country to group and check the price at frontend.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Hi Tom and thank you for answering so swiftly, and thanks too for the clever workaround, it saved the day. (Wish I’d have thought of that!)
+And while I’ve got your attention, is there a way to make Jetpack work with the checkout options addon to make it responsive to currencies?
+I’ve got a tracking option that costs $5 but that would obviously change with each currency, but does not.
+Best, A
+Hi Andrew,
+Sorry for the delayed reply.
+Regarding “checkout addons” – could you please contact us at support@booster.io, I need to ask a couple of questions.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+I agree with the upward post. A tool like Debugger IP would be great.
+Best Regards,
+Alexy
+Hi Alexy,
+Sorry for the delayed reply.
+Already working on it.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+HI ive installed the woojetpack and i’ve enabled the currencies by country option and added the desired countries in the Group. After using a VPN and checking my site from the UK ( hoping my prices would be converted to GBP). I found That my prices remained in Euros.
+is there a step i’m missing?
+Hi Michael,
+If possible, please create temporary admin account for us on your site (send to support@booster.io). If creating an account is not possible, please let me know – I’ll try to figure this out remotely.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+I sent an email but haven’t received a reply yet. When and How can i get remote assistance for this?
+Hi Michael,
+Sorry for the delay, I’ve just replied to you by email.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Hi,
+I have read the instructions and tried everything but can’t seem to get it to work. I’m based in the UK, but my currency is set to USD. However, I want people in the UK to see prices in GBP (£) (and people in other countries to see the prices in their own currencies, too if possible) Could you explain how I do this?
+I looked for a tutorial video on YouTube but there doesn’t seem to be one.
+Thanks
+Mark
+Hi Mark,
+Yes, tutorials are not ready yet, sorry for that.
+If possible – please create/share your site’s admin account with me (email to support@booster.io), I will check what could be the problem.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+I’ve logged to your site and it seems to work fine.
+So basic steps are:
+1. Go to “Jetpack Settings > CURRENCIES > Prices and Currencies by Country”.
+2. Create group with only one country code
+GB, set currency for that group to GBP, and click “Save changes”.
+3. After creating group and setting currency for it, you have two possibilities to set prices:
+3.a. globally – for that you need to set exchange rates. Rates can be set on the same settings page. Exchange rates can be entered manually or set to be updated automatically (e.g. on hourly basis).
+3.b. per product – you can set the prices for each country group when editing individual products. For those products exchange rates are not used.
+Hope I made it a little more clear.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+P.S. To see what is the price for some product in some specific country (e.g. Great Britain), you need to add
+?country=GBto product’s URL. This only works if you are logged as administrator.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Hi,
+I’m using WooCommerce Jetpack Plus and i am very happy with it.
+I wonder if using Rates and Currencies by Country and the standard gateway for PayPal from WooCommerce, can I receive payments in dollars from american clients and payments in Euros from european clients?
+(by the way, it doesn’t works with Redsys gateway, due it accepts payments only in one currency by POS)
+Hi,
+So sorry for such a delayed reply.
+Yes, as you described it – you need to check what currencies does your payment gateway accept. Other than that there are no restrictions on what currency you can charge your customers. So if you will select e.g. Euro for European countries and dollar for American customers, WooJetpack will “send” that currency to PayPal (or any other payment gateway you enable).
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Hi,
+I don’t know if you could look into this for me. I have set the currency for Great Britain to the British pound but various people browsing from within the UK are seeing the prices coming up as USD. Do you have any idea what may be causing this? I look forward to hearing from you.
+Regards
+Dolapo
+Hi,
+Do you have any caching plugin installed on your site? If that is the case – please try deactivating it to see if problem disappears.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Hi,
+I’d used this funtion and set the convert rate and it work fine.
+But the shipping fee seen not working with this funtion, it’s currency changed but the amount still maintained.
+For example, default currency (currencyA) Product A cost 30 and shipping fee will be 8.
+when i use VPN change to contry B (currency B, rate 0.3) Product A cost become 9 (multiply by 0.3), but shipping fee still remain unchange, however the shipping fee is now in currency B.
+Hi,
+So sorry for such a delayed reply. Shipping costs are also calculated by country since WooJetpack v.2.2.0. Please check it out.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+hi,
+can I add second country group or exchange rates updates on the standard version of woocommerce Jetpack (not plus)?
+if i can, please help me.. i cant see a button ;/
+Hi,
+So sorry for such a delayed reply.
+Unfortunately both settings you mentioned can be changed only Plus version, buttons will appear as soon as Plus version is installed.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Hello
+I am using Woocomerce for fashion store and I am using a plugin to receive measurement for stitching and for that, plugin I installed is asking charges. However I am already using a currency plugin that converts those options as well, but I am not sure if Jetpack is capable to change those too.
+One more thing, Currently my currency is INR, and all google results are displaying INR1243, – In stock as schema.org
+What will be result if I use USD, EUR, GBP – Can I display price on Google Results in respective currency too?
+Thank you for making everything under one roof, and that’s the reason I am willing to go for it.
+please visit a sample product at
++ One more question
+Currently woocommerce is displaying product under category with product name sorted in alphabetic way, How can I make my category to display product based on newness? Without displaying any extra url to it
+example, from
+Url.com/cat/productname/?orderby=date
+to
+url.com/cat/productname/
+Regards
+Hi,
+I have a problem with the plug- in
+my default currency is SGD $. however when I enable the Prices and Currencies by Country it changes to $ sign. I already make a country groups for specific country.
+I think the problem is the currency sign in the dropdown on Country Groups- is there any possible that I can change it to SGD $ instead of $ only?
+Regards
+Hi Tom,
+I actually do no use any caching plugin on my site. With the problem mentioned above, I have also noticed that when I get an order in GBP the invoice generated in Woocommerce is in USD and vice versa. The numbers are correct eg a sale of £50 will appear on the invoice as $50. This really confuses the customer (and myself). The problem seems to occur with GBP and USD in particular. What can be done?
+Regards
+Dolapo
+Hi Tom,
+Might I suggest a feature that might improve this aspect of WooJetPack and address some of the issues people are having with IP country detection sometimes getting it wrong for visitions…
+What about: as well as IP detection for currency, adding the ability for a visitor to select their currency of choice – much like the WPML plugin offers? This would offer the best of both worlds as the current method of IP detection stands a good chance of getting the currency correct, but for folks close to a border, going through a VPN, or for whatever reason want to use a different currency, have a currency switcher/dropdown from which to choose one of the currencies the shop admin has set up.
+The enabling of this feature could be an option checkbox for shop admins out there that don’t want their visitors changing to an alternate currency.
+Let me know if I can clarify any, but essentially something like what WPML has would be an awesome addition in my opinion.
+Cheers!
+Greg
+Hi Greg,
+Sorry for such a delayed reply and thank you for your idea.
+I’ve added requested functionality to our development version. Please check it out.
+In “Prices and Currencies by Country” module settings, I’ve added “Customer Country Detection Method” option:
+1. “by IP” – “old” method.
+2. “by user selection” – country select box is added after the price on single product page. I will add select box customizing options later, however main functionality should work. Any comments highly appreciated.
+3. “by WPML” – this is temporary, not sure if it should go to production version. In this case you will need WPML plugin installed, so you can use the same “country” select box. However in WPML customer is selecting language not country, so you will need to use WPML language codes and not country codes, when creating country groups. But again this should already work. It would be great if you could give your opinion if this option is needed.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Hey Tom,
+Wow, thank you for putting this together so fast. I’ve installed the dev version and will have a play. I’ll definitely have some pointers for you. I’m away on business for the next few days, so I’ll write the long version after that. If you need the bullet points I have already sooner than that, shoot me an email and I’ll give you what I have on initial play around.
+P.S. I had to reply to my own comment as there was no reply to yours available.
+Thanks again!
+Greg
+Hi!
+May i know the php code of [wcj_country_select_drop_down_list]?
+I wanna insert into the header!thanks
+Hi,
+You could try using do_shortcode function:
+echo do_shortcode( '[wcj_country_select_drop_down_list]' );.
+Please let me know if that worked.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+yepppp it works pretty good! thanks!
+Hi!
+I don’t know if you have received my email sent last last week, but I’m having problem with the conversion.
+If the product is on sale, only the sale price is being converted. The regular price is being displayed on the original currency amount but with different currency symbol.
+Hope you can help me with this.
+Thanks!
+zelle
+Hi,
+I did found a bug when displaying sale price for variable products, thanks for letting us know. I think I managed to fix it in our development version. Please let me know if the problem still exists.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Hi
+I’m having exactly the same issue and raised a ticket not sure you have seen it. Ithis is a major bug for international websites but I think indeed it only occurs when there are variations (not only price variations tjough, also when say for e.g there are simply color variations). You mention that this has been fixed in the development version – sorry not to be familiar with this but how can I use the development version? I have the plus version which is currently installed and I’m unable to override it with the development version (I get an error message saying that this already installed)
+Thanks!
+Hi,
+please check a currency rate ir setup correctly, also please check if you are using caching plugins, they must be disabled.
+BR,
+Val
+Hi,
+please check a currency rate is setup correctly, also please check if you are using caching plugins, they must be disabled.
+BR,
+Val
+Hi
+Honestly, I think you guys are doing a good job but I don’t know if there is really a solution to fix the conversion bug when there are variations. It just does not work. The proposed price & currencies functionalities are great in theory but the way they work in practice is just completely random and confusing. Apart from this variation/sale bug raised many times, the conversion rates do not update automatically as expected (some rates get back to 1 randomly and you need to click manually each time it does not work to update). In some cases, it just does not work as if no specific currency was assigned (home currency used)…I don’t think this is related to caching plugin as I don’t have any. I have been monitoring the way my prices were displayed in different countries using ?country=XX and am just horrified about the prices people in different countries would see…Please let me know if there is no solution as I would just stop trying and focus on something else…
+Thanks
+Hi,
+did you try changing this setting: WooCommerce > Settings > General > Default Customer Address set to Geolocate
+BR,
+Val
+Hello, There is a problem in currency symbol of processing order mail. Our shop is based in euro. When customer making an order (from Ireland) everything is showing correctly in €. But in processing order mail has $ sign instead of € sign (values are correct) Again in completed order mail has € sign correctly. Please help us on this manner.
+We using
+WooCommerce Jetpack v2.2.3
+WooCommerce Jetpack Plus v1.0.4
+Best Regards,
+Vajira
+Yes, there are still problems with this. When the currency is changed by the customer, the amounts change but the only symbol shown is $.
+Hi,
+Please check if you have any caching plugins installed on your site. If yes – please try disabling them. If that is not the case, please contact me at support@booster.io and if possible please create/share an admin account to your server so I could login and check what’s going on.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+BACK END ISSUES: My bank requires my site to send the required currency codes at checkout to its payment portal so to complete transactions. These may change according to the country of the payer. The default currency code that goes out at checkout as USD $. This presents a problem for those making payment from other countries. I have tested different plugins to correct this problem but have not met any success yet. Does your plugin support dynamic change of codes at checkout.
+When customer’s country is detected automatically by IP, Is there any to maintain this feature but have an over-ride using either a select list or PREFERABLY taking the country code directly from logged in users delivery or billing address.
+I’m concerned that a large number of my clients will be billed in US dollars even though they are in other physical locations but are connecting via their corporate VPN. I’m also using this plugin ( ) and once again will need to bill based on the clients physical address.
+Hi Trevor,
+over-ride feature is already in plugin.
+BR,
+Val
+I want to know if i buy $19 Pro Version how many country/currency groups can i create ? I can only see two in the above photo ? Please answer urgently !
+Hi,
+With Plus version you can create unlimited number of country/currency groups. The screenshot above is shown only as an example.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Hi Boostwoo,
+When are you going to release the stable fix patch for the Currency by Country on adding a Variable Products? The bug is really a problem I hope you have a fix for that. If you ever need a help for the community I’m willing to contribute.
+Thanks!
+Dear Arwin,
+please contact us support@booster.io with screenshots of problem.
+BR,
+Val
+Are there any updates on this bug?
+The price entered for the product variable doesn’t apply. Instead, it gets converted according to the exchange rate when the entered price should override that.
+Thank you
+Hi,
+please update to the latest version of Booster for WooCommerce.
+BR,
+Val
+Hi,
+I updated to the latest version today, but it seems it’s still displaying the converted value in the other currency instead of the one set for the variation. Might I be missing something?
+Thank you
+Hi,
+we contact you privately.
+BR,
+Val
+Hello! Thanks for the awesome plugin – it’s been super helpful so far!
+I’m using Woo Jetpack for an online learning platform, which displays prices in two different currencies ($USD and €). Switching between currencies works great.
+I also use the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin to allow installment payments, though there are no options to have the installment payment in my second currency. Does the Jetpack Plus plugin support WooCommerce Subscriptions? If not, would it be a lot of work to add it in?
+Thanks a lot! 🙂
+HI,
+Couple of questions…on is probably answered in docs somewhere but thought I’d also ask here….
+Second, How exactly do you install this drop down menu? [wcj_country_select_drop_down_list] Where exactly would this short code go. I don’t have to add it to every product page do I?
+Thanks for the help.
+Cheers
+Doug
+Dear Doug,
+Sorry for delay.
+.
+We tested your described situation and no problem found, please contact us via support@booster.io and attach print screen of module configuration.
+>Second, How exactly do you install this drop down menu? [wcj_country_select_drop_down_list] Where exactly would this short code go. I don’t have to add it to every product page do I?
+This shortcode recommended to be used near price or in text widget. You can use.
+BR,
+Val
+Hello,
+Great plugin I have 2 questions:
+1. Can you use another dropdown to select the currency instead of the country? My clients sells worldwide and the country dropdown is just too long.
+2. Where do you extract the exchange rate from?
+Thank you
+Dear Ana,
+1. This feature added to our to-do list, and will be available asap.
+2. yahoo.com is the source.
+BR,
+Val
+Dear Ana,
+please download and install new development version
+there is shortcode [wcj_country_select_drop_down_list countries="US,GB,DE"]
+where countries=”US,GB,DE” is limited country list on your own.
+Let us know about the results.
+BR,
+Val
+Hello,? and if so please let me know how to achieve this. Also, I am not able to modify the [wcj_country_select_drop_down_list] shortcode in order to manage which countries are in the dropdown list and which are not. Now all ountries of the world are in the list which is obviously not very convenient. How is this possible to modify?
+I am looking forward to your time to help. I would really appreciate an answer.
+Thank youvery much in advance.
+Best regards,
+Aaron
+Dear Aaron,
+?
+not supported. You can choice only one way, also there an option Override Country on Checkout with Billing Country. To understand you better please provide more info why you need 2 options?
+>[wcj_country_select_drop_down_list]
+Do you want to setup country list that will be shown in select list, right ?
+BR,
+Val
+Thank you Valentin for your fast reply! My the reason I am asking about this feature is that I would have liked the customer to be able to receive the suggested currency via the IP address, but also be able to change the currency manually in case another currency might be more convenient for the customer.
+About the [wcj_country_select_drop_down_list] short code: I want to be able to select the countries that are shown in the dropdown menu manually, so that only countries, that I accept the currency of, are available and not every country in the world is selectable. How am I able to edit the list of countries in the shortcode to only show countries that I support?
+Thank you very much in advance.
+Best regards,
+Aaron
+I also need just my selected countries to show in the dropdown please!
+Hi there,
+When comes the time the customer finalize the purchase, in what currency is proceeded the payment. Is it in the current currency or USD?
+Txs,
+Fabrice
+Hi,
+it depends on your Prices and Currencies by Country module settings, it could be in default site currency or by customer billing country or by customer IP.
+BR,
+Val
+Hi Valentin,
+Thank you for your reply.
+Do you mean that we can decide on the country for example and the payment will be made in the country currency.
+What about compatibility with Woo-commerce booking?
+Thank you,
+Fabrice
+First of all i would like to say thanks for such a good plugin. It really makes things easier.
+But I am having the same problem as Doug: on prouct page the currency symbol changes but the price remains the same. For example: 50 EUR is 50 HRK.
+Hi,
+please check the new development version of Booster for WooCommerce
+BR,
+Val
+I tried to manually set “Regular price” under “Country Group Nr. 1” for each variation of a variable product. I did “Save changes” and “Update”. However the value disappeared and won’t show up anywhere.
+Please advise. I’m trying out Booster and considering to sign up for Booster Plus.
+Hi WooJet team, is it possible for you to make the countries available via multiselect boxes with the “sell to” countries of the shop? That would make the currency-by-customers’ country sync with the site’s setting and just plain easier to accomplish.
+And a question: How can I access the country groups programmatically for other related uses?
+Thanks.
+Currency convertor changed from Yahoo and now not converting correctly. Please help.
+Installed both Booster and Booster Plus.
+2 issues I’m seeing relating to “Prices and Currencies”:
+a) I’m using “Woocommerce Composite Product” plug-in. A composite product price originally in US dollar is showing in foreign currency with a value equal to original amount x the square of exchange rate. Eg. if the composite product is of value US$10, and exchange rate say RMB (Yuan) is 6:1 USD, the foreign value shows up in the shopping cart would become RMB360 (eg. 10x 6×6) instead of RMB60 as expected.
+b) I have another “Variable product” and I tried to manually set its foreign currency price for each product variation. The system won’t save any input value and remain blank after I hit “Save changes” Not able to achieve my requirement.
+Please kind review above and let me know your comment.
+I bought Booster Plus on 22 Oct 2015
+Regards,
+Henry
+Hi,
+I want to use Price and Currencies by Country to manage taxes for each countries.
+I want to sell the product at the same price even if in some countries there is VAT in others there are not.
+For example I want to sell a product at 122 € in all the Europe.
+In EU countries the price is 100 plus 22 Vat outside EU is 122 € no vat.
+Is it possible to do it? Also with Variable products?
+Thanks,
+Guido
+Hi, this plugin is excellent. One of the comments below asked for a restricted list of countries and you provided the new shortcode: [wcj_country_select_drop_down_list countries="IE,GB"] with the dev version.
+Just to let you know it worked perfectly for me. I only ship within the UK and Ireland so this was a perfect solution.
+I am now installing this plugin on a number of sites.
+Thanks again.
+Great plugin! One slight problem however…I added rupee and it works fine but when I want to display products using the shortcode [sale_products] it doesn’t display any of the products filled with the rupee currency rather only displays those that use the default dollar value.
+Hi,
+we do not see any problems with [sale_products] shortcode. Please provide more detail where do you use it.
+BR,
+Val
+Hello,
+it’s possible to exclude some countries from the list of “Price by Country Options”? Because I want to change product’s price by customer’s country selected by customer manually just for the country where I sell. I don’t want to see al the country in the world in the front-end of the website.
+Best regards,
+Anna
+Hi Tom,
+What’s the “Make empty price” option actually do? I couldn’t find any reference to it on your site, and it’s not clear to me.
+Thanks…
+Jonathan
+Hi, the following question was recently submitted, but I just want to make sure you understand what I want:.
+How do I test a product display for a certain currency group?
+Hi,
+.
+>there no such functionality to exclude some products from
+It will not shows those products as free, they will be calculated by currency rate from base price.
+>How do I test a product display for a certain currency group?
+when you logged as admin you can put attribute like this :
+or you can use on of free proxy, for example:
+BR,
+Val
+Hello and congratulations for a wonderful plugin.
+I have installed it successfully and I would like to use the currency exchange rates globally but for some reason if I do not press the currency exchange buttons for each currency the rate does not get updated all though I have set a daily update for the currency.
+What should I check to make this work like it should ?
+Thank you in advance for the assistance.
+just to add as possible solutions:
+would it be possible to add a button on the admin side in the currency group section, that lets you decide if a product is available (unchecked) to that group, if checked – not available. Then this would either display the product in that country with a value determined manually or via exchange rate, or it will not display the product at all / or it will display the product, but it will have an editable comment like: This is not available in your country.
+I’m just looking for a solution fast as this is holding up the launch of my site and possible revenue. Please can you see what can be done, thanks.
+Hi Valentin
+It has been over a month since I posted my request with zero response from either you or Tom?
+I purchased this plugin feeling it was the best plugin to use, however since the purchase, I haven’t been able to launch my site which has had a negative effect on my business.
+Please respond.
+Andrew
+Hi Tom / Valentin
+I’m just wondering if you have had any progress yet on a solution for me?
+Just an added note, I’ve just stumbled upon Woocommerce Memberships. This is exactly what I’m looking for, but considering I’ve already purchased your plugin, I’m hoping you can support this request as I would like to continue this support.
+Andrew
+Three features are really needed to make this plugin actually work for end users:
+1. Ability to choose region from the configured groups
+2. Ability to give a name to a group
+For example:
+Group 1 – Name: Australasia, Countries: AU,NZ,CN,JP etc….
+Group 2 – Name: Europe, Countries: UK,DE etc….
+A user should be able to set the region that they browse the store in but as per the option already in the settings, this should be overridden by the delivery address (if that option is set).
+Feature 1 above is best delivered as a widget we can add to the header or elsewhere that suits.
+Hi Guys! Great plugin.
+However, this problem just cropped up in the currency price label module – variable products no longer display the correct converted price (currency symbol is correct though). Simple products are not affected. At checkout, the correct converted price does come up, though. So it is really only a display issue, but it will confuse a lot of our international shoppers.
+For example, a product that is 150 USD is still displaying as 150 EURO in European countries or 150 HKD in Hong Kong or 150 etc etc.
+I noticed this happened when we updated some back end files for our theme and other plugins. It was fine last week.
+Please let me know if there’s a fix to this as soon as possible, as I’d like the website to display the proper prices.
+Thank you.
+Hi,
+it seems to be an issue with new version of WooCommerce, we are working on solution.
+Temporary solution downgrade to WooCommerce 2.4.13
+Check link here:
+We will get back with problem solution ASAP.
+Best regards,
+Valentin Solovjov
+Algoritmika Ltd.
+Thank you gents. I hope the fix can come soon 🙂
+Hi Valentin,
+The recent fix did work for most IPs/currencies – however, the UK was affected, and did not show up properly for variable products under the British Pound, as well as several other specific countries/currencies.
+However, I’m not sure what has happened, but the issue has come back in which all products for all IPs/currencies, now both variable and simple, does not show the correct currency symbol. At checkout, it does revert to/show the correct currency/converted price, as before.
+I am operating under WC 2.5.2 and WordPress 4.4.2. I ran through the plugins we have, and none of them are affecting the Booster plugins.
+Thanks again!
+Hi,
+please try to change this settings:
+WooCommerce > Settings > General > Default Customer Address set to Geolocate
+Let us know, that the problem are gone.
+BR,
+Val
+Hi,
+Issue is known and fixed in dev version, that you can download at (need reinstall only Booster for WooCommerce plugin)
+BR,
+Val
+Hi,
+Issue is known and fixed in dev version, that you can download at (need reinstall only Booster for WooCommerce plugin)
+BR,
+Val
+Hey there
+i have Booster 2.3.11 and bought Booster plus 1.0.5
+just updated WordPress 4.3.3 and WooCommerce 2.5.2. I use Pinnacle Premium 1.5.7
+There is a problem with variable product’s prices now. All numbers for prices for variable products in the catalog and on the goods page are shown as if it were shown in the base shop currency. But the currency sign is shown as if it was selected by user or by ip. At the same time if we go to the different product catalog there we have only simple products – prices are shown correctly. Currency selected by user and numbers are converted. Any chances to fix this for variable products?
+variable –
+simple –
+base currency – usd
+Valentin Solovjov answered to install manually update to dev version, but will not all data be lost in this case? Is this mean i have to upload new content to the directory? or if i need to delete it in wordpress panel and then instal again?
+I am new here but something is really working incorrectly.
+Help please. Thank you!
+Hi,
+Issue is known and fixed in dev version, that you can download at (need reinstall only Booster for WooCommerce plugin)
+No data will be lost. Because data saved in database.
+BR,
+Val
+Hi, is there any way to find if has a known IP (dont know anything about this) and,
+do option | 1. “by IP” – “old” method.
+if not | 2. “by user selection”
+“Prices and Currencies by Country” module settings, I’ve added “Customer Country Detection Method” option:
+1. “by IP” – “old” method.
+2. “by user selection”
+Thanks,
+Filipe
+Hi Filipe,
+what do you mean by “known IP”?
+BR,
+Val
+new order emails showing wrong currency.
+customer paid in NT$XXX for an order and there is nothing wrong in the actual deduction from his paypal account. customer received email with US$XXX instead of NT$XXX for instance in the woocommerce new order receipt email.
+using Version 2.4.0 for woocommerce Version 1.0.5
+I’m seeing the same issue that Currency label is showing up incorrectly from time to time in email invoice. Luckily the Paypal part is ok.
+Quite embarrassing that I have to explain to customer or re-send email with manually edited currency label to get things clarified.
+Any perm fix to this issue soon would be great.
+Booster: version 2.3.11 WooCommerce: version 2.4.13
+Hi,
+please update to the latest version of Booster for Woocommerce. See if problem are solved.
+BR,
+Val
+also it doesn’t reflect the correct currency amount in “sales of the month” at Woocommerce Status Dashboard. It would be nice if the amount is converted back to the store default currency and reflect it in the Woocommerce Status.
+Hi,
+sorry, not possible at the moment. We will add this feature to our to-do list. Sorry but we could not setup deadline for new features. You will get information when this ticket will be updated.
+BR,
+Val
+Any news when the issue with the plugin not calculating prices anymore will be fixed ? This bug is starting to affect business and orders …
+Now all currencies are blocked in IDR and orders are failing to complete.
+Hi,
+please tell us more about the issue, please contact us at support@booster.io if you didn`t yet.
+BR,
+Val
+Hi,
+1. Please update to the latest version
+2. try to change value of Default Customer Address to “Geolocate” in WooCommerce > Settings > General
+Let us know if that not helping.
+BR,
+Val
+I am totally lost and confused.
+I have done everything to get this plugin to show different currencies in different countries and all I get is my own currency showing up in other countries. I have even made 155 groups and that doesn’t work. Some people say “Free” shows up on their end while others state “CAN”
+Can someone please provide a clearer instructional example on what options need to be enabled, which options need to disabled, and how to set up the configuration so that my product in Canada will show specific and localized prices in other countries around the world converted into that currency?
+I am so frustrated now.
+Thank you
+Hi,
+Try this options:
+1. Do you use any caching plugin? If yes try disable them.
+2. Try to change value of Default Customer Address to “Geolocate” in WooCommerce > Settings > General
+BR,
+Val
+I have no caching plugin and the Default Customer Address is already set to “Geolocate”
+I have submitted my login details to the email support ticket received earlier and waiting for further trouble shooting from your end.
+I don’t know what else I can do and I cannot find clear instructions to set up the plugin.
+Please assist.
+Is it possible to get some support for this issue? I have currently disabled my product page because I cannot display it correctly. Yesterday right after you emailed me, I sent my website login details hoping that you would respond. I have since researched for fixes and cannot find anything. Could you kindly respond?
+Thank you
+Is support really that poor for this plugin? Now, honestly, waiting 3 days for a follow up is getting a bit much especially after paying for it. My site product page has been down and cannot open it up to the public until I resolve this issue. If I were to have known that support would have been this unproductive, I would have hesitated in purchasing it. Please can we provide support a little faster?
+Hi Ray
+Good luck, I’ve been waiting 3 months. My sight still hasn’t been launched, I’ve lost potential income to the value of approximately US$48 000.00 in offshore sales and approximately US$10 000.00 in local sales.
+I got my first response, since my issue propogated, from Valentin about a week ago…
+Hi Ray,
+Sorry for the delay. Please give us 24 hours to solve this. We had holidays and weekend here, so again sorry for the delay.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Hi, can i enter the price of a product in a selected currency different than USD? I must add products in different currencies to the catalog, and would like the plugin to handle conversion.
+Hi,
+yes, its possible to enter price in different currencies.
+BR,
+Val
+Hi Andres,
+I’ve re-read your comment and I’m not sure I gave the right answer.
+If you want to enter single price for products in different (not shop’s base) currency, e.g. Product 1 – single price in USD, all other are calculated; Product 2 – in EUR (all other ar calculated) – unfortunately it’s not possible at the moment.
+Did I get you right?
+BR,
+Val
+i am trying to use this plugin, i have completed the set up for Prices and Currencies by Country and created the group.
+my base location and currency in India and INR, and i have created group for US and UK but when i am testing the price in Proxy it showing the same Price as INR,
+please let me know the solution for the same.
+Hi,
+we will contact you in private.
+BR,
+Val
+Hi Amit,
+do you use caching plugins? If yes try to deactivate them
+BR,
+Val
+no there is no such plugin in the website.
+Hi,
+Thank you for great plugin. I am into buy this plugin. but even in free version of this not works as expect. I have setup price by country and it still shows base country currency and price. Why this is happens. Can you please assist me. I’m in hurry to purchase this plugin as it have all option that I wanted.
+Hi,
+First thing that comes to mind – do you have caching plugin installed on your server? If so – please try turning it off and check if the prices and currencies changes according to the groups you set. If that is not the case – please contact me on support@booster.io, and if possible please create/share an admin account to your server so I could login and check what’s going on.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Hi, is there a way to allow the customer to choose the currency that they want to see and that they want to check out with?
+I like the currency will be automatically detected by IP, but would like that info to be displayed to the viewer and would like them to be able to override.
+For example, if a Canadian customer is shopping while traveling or living in Thailand, it would be nice if they could still shop in Canadian dollars if they want.
+Is that possible?
+Minimally, is it possible to have a display in the corner of the site somewhere that informs people what currency they are looking at.
+Right now, I’d have to go and ad US, CAN, AU, etc to the $, but that’s messy.
+Thanks.
+Ok, I found the “Customer Country Detection Method” under “Prices and Currencies”, but I don’t know where to add the shortcode: [wcj_country_select_drop_down_list]
+Hi Magda,
+One option to add the
+[wcj_country_select_drop_down_list]shortcode is in Text widget. You will also need to enable “General” module (in “WooCommerce > Settings > Booster > Emails & Misc. > General”) and check “Enable All Shortcodes in WordPress Text Widgets” there, as by default this is disabled in WordPress. We will add ready to use widget in one of next updates, but for now this should work. You can also add it in your PHP code (templates for example), by adding
+do_shortcode( '[wcj_country_select_drop_down_list]' );.
+Also, please note, that you can add
+countriesparameter to the shortcode, so it won’t display all the countries, but only those that you need, that is:
+[wcj_country_select_drop_down_list countries="CA,US,AU"].
+Hope I made it a little more clear, please let me know if you still have any questions.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Ok, figured out a bunch of stuff and found some limitations, but maybe you can help me further.
+I am using the Retailer theme and that had a Booster – Multicurrency widget ready to go into a Sidebar, Product, or the Light or Dark Footer. I put it into the Dark Footer on every page of my site.
+happysleepy.com/shop
+This widget shows currencies, rather than country names, of the Country Groups set up under Booster Settings > Prices and Currencies
+The currency of my shop is set to US$.
+I have set up 5 country groups for US, Canadian, Pounds Sterling, Euro, and Japanese Yen currencies, and the drop down menu of the above widget that is in the footer of my site shows 5 currencies. So far so good.
+When I have the Customer Country Detection Method set to “by user selection”, things work as they should – the US$ currency is set by default and using the drop down menu returns the other values and changes the $ symbol correctly to pounds, euro, and yen.
+But when I select “by IP”, incorrect prices are shown and the $ symbol remains as a $ even if pounds, euro, or yen are chosen.
+Example:
+The Crystal King Ape tote bag is US$29.99 in my American dollar currency store.
+This is CAN$37.88, an exchange rate of USD/CAD of 1.26.
+When the method is “by IP”, the American currency is by default but the price seems to be Canadian dollars, at $37.88. Then when the widget is used to change it to Canadian currency, THIS amount – 37.88 – is multiplied by the exchange rate of 1.26, for a price of CAN$47.18, which is wrong. Then the same thing happens with the pound, euro, and yen – they use the higher, “pre-exchanged USD to CAD” amount as the origin price.
+Ideally, I would like to have the “by IP” method set up as default and allow the customer to override the currency.
+More info:
+On this page
+I also included the shortcode
+[wcj_country_select_drop_down_list countries="US,CA,GB,FR,JP"]
+Right now the method is set to “by IP” and you can see that this shortcode has even more problems than the widget in the footer.
+Hi there, any answer about this issue? The shortcode you provide doesn’t really work.
+Hi Magda,
+Sorry for a delayed reply.
+You need to use not “Booster – Multicurrency Switcher” widget, but “Booster – Country Switcher” widget. And please update to the latest version 2.4.8.
+“Booster – Multicurrency Switcher” is intended to use with “Multicurrency (Currency Switcher)” module, while “Booster – Country Switcher” widget is for “Prices and Currencies by Country” module.
+And at the moment if you want to use the widget, you will need to set “Customer Country Detection Method” to “by user selection” (and not “by IP”).
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Hi guys,
+I set a USD – EUR exchange rate and I set product based price in USD, but that one does not over ride the exchange rate, not only that, but it displays some random price.
+For example if the price in EUR is 8.5 and i do NOT have per product price it shows 17 as should. Then I set $9.95 in the product settings and it displays now $8.29.
+how can I fix that.
+thanks
+Hi Peter,
+If possible please create/share an admin account to your server so I could login and check what’s going on. Our email is support@booster.io.
+If sharing an account is not an option – please let me know and I will try to solve this remotely.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Hi there,
+I am having trouble setting up the widget for the customer to change currency, any advice appreciated!
+also, whereabouts would I place the shortcode to allow the dropdown menu?
+Thankyou!
+Hi Naomi,
+Please recheck that you are using “Booster – Country Switcher” and not “Booster: Multicurrency Switcher” widget, as second one is for another module – WooCommerce Multicurrency (Currency Switcher). If the problem persists – please let me know, and in that case if possible please create/share an admin account to your server so I could login and check what’s going on. My email is tom@booster.io. If sharing an account is not an option – please let me know and I will try to solve this remotely.
+Regarding
+[wcj_country_select_drop_down_list]shortcode – you can use it on any WordPress page – the same as any other WordPress shortcode. You can also use it in most of Booster’s modules, for example in “Product Info” (in “WooCommerce > Settings > Booster > Products > Product Info V2”).
+Best regards,
+Tom
+P.S. Regarding widget – please also recheck that “Customer Country Detection Method” in module’s settings is set to “by user selection” and not to “by IP”.
+Tom
+Hey There,
+I just purchased the Booster Plus version.
+My shop base currency is USD.
+I have no issues with product prices conversions.
+Shipping cost get properly converted into such currencies as EURO and BRITISH POUND (which are higher than USD)
+Unfortunately, shipping cost gets wrong (and extremely high) when using Japanese YEN (or Taiwan Dollar) which are lower than USD.
+Might be a multiply/divide bug related.
+Could you please tell me how to fix this ?
+Hi,
+I’ve just retested on our server with Japanese YEN, and unfortunately couldn’t reproduce the problem – shipping seems to be ok.
+I successfully installed WooCommerce on my blog and start E-Commerce site. Now just trying to rank my website, Can any body help me out.
+This feature is just great and works perfectly.
+Would be great if you could add a shortcode/widget which would allow to switch currencies, not countries, from the front end.
+Indeed, your other feature, currency switcher does not operate properly with this current feature (and does not include IP location).
+i
+Is there a way to achieve this ? I mean using WooCommerce Prices and Currencies by Country with IP selection and allowing the end user to select a different currency ?
+Thanks.
+Hello Tom,
+I’d like support on two issues I’ve come across with the mutli-currency functionality of Booster. I’ve tried email support and support on the WP forum, to no avail. So hopefully here in the comments is a better place to post this.
+1) ISSUE ONE — Multi-Currency on Coupons
+The store in question has US$ as its base currency.
+Today I needed to issue a coupon to someone viewing and paying in NZ$.
+I see that the coupon is not converted from a US$ to NZ$ amount.
+For instance, I often give out a coupon code that gives people US$50 off of a particular product. I’ve just now discovered that if I give that code to someone outside the US, it will convert to 50 of whatever their currency is. So, if I give it to someone in England, they will end up getting a GBP50 discount, which comes to US$71.
+Am I correct in thinking that Booster multi-currency system does not handle value based coupons?
+Can that feature be added?
+2) ISSUE TWO — Poor currency support on manually (back-end) generated orders
+Today I needed to manually enter an order, for a customer in a country other than the site’s base country.
+To get the correct currency to show up, I entered their billing details, and saved a draft order. The order then updated the currency, which was great.
+But, when adding products, it uses the base price, rather than the converted price.
+Is this something you can resolve in a future release? Ideally, once a site has multi-currency support it should work throughout the site (coupons, manual orders, customer orders, etc.). What are your thoughts on that?
+Thanks for this great plug-in. I recommend it to most of my web development clients.
+Jonathan
+Dear Support,
+I have enabled “Prices and Currencies by country” (Customer Country Detection Method = “by IP”) and I have set different country groups and I have also set different prices for the different groups on each product.
+Prices change as they should when “Billing country” is changed. However, it doesn’t seem that the Customer Country Detection Method works. It is set “by IP” but neither of my two friends in GB could see their currency. Instead, they saw SEK.
+I haven’t checked any other countries (Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium; Ireland, GB). I don’t know how to do that.
+Can you help out?
+Hi Jens,
+1. Please note, that when you set to override country with billing country, price is overridden on all your shop’s pages (that is not only on checkout). So when new customer enters your shop, his country is set to “Default Customer Location” (as set in “WooCommerce > Settings > General > Default Customer Location”). So please check that you have set “Geolocate” there.
+2. Please check if you have any caching plugins enabled on your site. If so – please try disabling them to see if issue disappears.
+3. If both of the above didn’t help – please share/create WP admin account on your server, so I could login and check what’s going on. My email is tom@booster.io.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Who do I easy bulk price update to 5 different country?
+I put different pricing for each country… going into each one of them is taking too long…
+I won’t have a problem of mass price update if it’s based on currency exchange but I’m using “Prices per Product”
+I’ve noticed that it’s using the custom field
+_wjc_price_by_country_regular_price_local_1
+_wjc_price_by_country_sale_price_local_1
+up to whatever number of custom group we created, very cool however, I’m still looking to update them easily by bulk. Any solutions? thanks
+Hi,
+I am using the country switcher widget placed in header, I disabled WP Rocket since it messed up the widget behaviour. My question is: can I configure WP Rocket so the switcher works normally or I need to use another WP cache plugin? What’s the workaround for this problem?
+Thanks
+Hi there! Just testing the ‘prices and currencies by country’ module of your plugin out for possible use on a new website and I have a few questions and suggestions if I may please.
+Firstly, when manually switching countries (and hence currencies), the prices / currency shown in the standard ‘WooCommerce Basket’ widget does not seem to be updating. All other prices update on page reload, button those in the widget stay as they were until the shopping cart is viewed or another product is added to the basket in the new currency. Any thoughts please?
+It’s great to be able to override the product prices in other currencies, but it would be useful to show what the default converted price would be using the auto fx rates. So in the edit product page it would show the standard calculated prices in the other currencies which you could then override. Having the actual calculated price shown would save having to manually calculate the converted rate before selecting the override price. See this plugin for example:
+The reason I ask is that I don’t want to have ‘ugly’ converted prices on my store, but instead round them up to ‘nice looking’ prices. So for example, if the converted price was $48.72 (which looks odd), I might want to manually override this to $49. Or similarly round down $50.12 to $49.99 to make the product seem cheaper (i.e. psychological pricing).
+But what would be really awesome would be in the plugin could automatically do some intelligent price rounding. You could select some preferred end digits for the products (e.g $xx.49 or $xx.99) and the plugin would then round the automatically converted price up / down to the nearest preferred pricing. I can’t find a plugin that currently does this sort of intelligent rounding (or any sort of even semi-intelligent rounding to be honest, other than to the nearest whole pound / dollar), so I think this could be a real selling point for your code!
+What do you think? Regards, James 🙂
+Any thoughts on this guys?
+Hello? Anyone there? I was about to buy the Booster Plus version of your plugin, but there sadly seems to be a lack of any sort of response from you on support queries!
+Hi James,
+Sorry for the delayed reply.
+Regarding prices not updating in mini cart – this should be solved by enabling “Recalculate Cart Totals on Every Page Load” option in “General” module’s “Advanced Options” (in “WooCommerce > Settings > Booster > Emails & Misc. > General”). Please let me know if that helped.
+Regarding intelligent price rounding – already adding this to the plugin, will be in next version.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Hi again,
+I’ve just made some changes to the plugin. As usual the development version is here –.
+Now in module’s settings (in “WooCommerce > Settings > Booster > Prices & Currencies > Prices and Currencies by Country”) there is “Make Pretty Price” option. If enabled, it will be applied if exchange rates are used – final converted price will be rounded, then decreased by smallest possible value. For example: $9,75 -> $10,00 -> $9,99. Please let me know if that is what you needed, if it works as expected or if you have any ideas how to make it better.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Thanks Tom. Enabling the “Recalculate Cart Totals on Every Page Load” option seems to have fixed the problem with the shopping cart widget not updating – great! Now to give the development version with the intelligent price rounding you mentioned a whirl! 🙂
+Hi again Tom. Just upgraded to the dev version to try out the “pretty prices” function when rounding up converted prices in other currencies. Wow, that works a treat, thanks! A really nice and simple way to give pretty looking prices throughout the store – good job guys!
+For testing purposes, I have a product with a converted price of $37.27. Choosing “round up” makes this show as $38 and with pretty prices it goes to $37.99. Choosing “round down” changes the same product price to $37 which becomes $36.99 with pretty prices enabled. But just to confirm how the “round” option works – will that round down less than 50 cents and round up for more than 50 cents? So it would make $37.49 go to $36.99, but $37.51 would go to $37.99?
+So I’m pleased – the new “pretty prices” option works great. My only suggestion would be that it would be nice to have some control over how the pretty price rounds the price down. Rather than a tick box to enable the pretty price function, could you have a drop-drown box where we could choose between “Off” and “round down to £X.99” and “round down to $X.95” for example? (Or “Round down by 1 cent” and “Round down by 5 cents” to put it another way). I personally like prices to end in 95 rather than 99, so this option would be the icing on the cake for me! Maybe other people might want $X.90 or $X.97? Or perhaps just add a text box alongside the existing tickbox where we could enter the round down amount (i.e. 1 to give $X.99, 5 to give $X.95, 15 to give $X.85, etc). But it is a very small point I know.
+With this working so well, my next query is how to set the FX rate. Could you add a feature to the “Currency Exchange Rates” module to apply an offset to the automatically updated FX rates? So for example if the Yahoo FX rate was 1.950 you could set an offset of 0.250 so that the plugin would convert prices using a FX rate of 1.700 (i.e. the Yahoo 1.950 minus the 0.250 offset)? The idea being that it will be good to take payments in other currencies, but I would prefer to be able to err on the side of caution with regards to FX rates so that I do not receive less for a product than the price in the base currency. So my stores currency FX rates would track the actual FX rates, but always a little bit in my favour?
+Also, is there any way to query the PayPal FX rates and use this for auto updates alongside the current Yahoo and TCMB options?
+Many thanks, and I’m so glad you were able to answer my posts in the end!
+James 🙂
+Hi James,
+1. Happy to hear that “Recalculate Cart Totals on Every Page Load” helped.
+2. “Pretty prices” – please give me some time to make modifications you mentioned, shouldn’t be hard. Will get back to you shortly regarding this. Regarding your question about rounding – pretty prices can work with no rounding enabled. If pretty prices are enabled it will round the price itself. “Ordinary” rounding will be applied in this case, that is, e.g.:
+$37,49 -> $37.00 -> $36.99
+$37,50 -> $38.00 -> $37.99
+$37,51 -> $38.00 -> $37.99
+As you correctly pointed out, you can enable rounding (for example round down) – in this case additional rounding will be applied before pretty price modifications. Regarding rounding options:
+Round down – always rounds down e.g. $37.80 -> $37.00
+Round up – always rounds up e.g. $37.20 -> $38.00
+Round – “ordinary” rounding as described above.
+Sorry for a little messy reply, but hopefully you understood what I meant.
+3. Offset in exchange rates – again, need some time to implement, and again doesn’t seem hard to do. I’m thinking about adding “offset in percent” option (positive or negative) which would be applied to all exchange rates. What do you think about this? Or do you need an exact/fixed value (in this case it probably should be set for each currency pair separately)?
+4. Regarding PayPal rates – this one I don’t think I could do. I’m not completely sure, but I think that PayPal doesn’t offer an API for that. I’m planning to add European Central Bank as an option though.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Morning Tom,
+Thanks, that all makes sense. With regards to the exchange rate offset, I think either a percentage or fixed rate would work for me, but maybe you could provide both options for complete flexibility? Maybe a text box to type a number (positive or negative) for the offset and a drop-down to select between “percentage” and “fixed value”? But a different offset for each currency pair would definitely be useful as some currencies are more unstable / less desirable to accept payment in, so we would be able to err more on the side of caution with those particular exchange rates. No big worries with regards to PayPal rates though. I will maybe start to compare PayPal’s rates with the others and see if there is any correlation that I could set using the offset from the Yahoo/TCMB/ECB rates.
+Thanks, James
+Hi James,
+I’ve just uploaded new development version to.
+1. Added “Exchange Rates Offset” options to “Currency Exchange Rates” module. For now I’ve only added global offsets (i.e. for all currency pairs). There are two options – percent and/or fixed offsets.
+2. Added “European Central Bank (ECB)” as “Exchange Rates Server” option in “Currency Exchange Rates” module.
+3. Added “Min Amount Multiplier” to “Make Pretty Price” section in “Prices and Currencies by Country” module.
+Please let me know if it works as expected.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+P.S. If you like Booster, please leave us a rating.
+Hi Tom. Just off on holiday for a few days so will give this a go when I get back early next week. Thanks, James
+Hi James,
+Sure, no problem. Take as much time as you need. I’m going to release this stable version to wp.org around this weekend, so you can just update plugin as usual then.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Morning Tom. Just uploaded the latest dev version of the plugin to checkout the new features. All look good!
+I need to buy the pro version to test all the features properly, so I will try and do that later today. But just a couple of initial thoughts for you. For the currency rate offset, having both percent and absolute boxes gives max flexibility. I’m not sure what would happen if I entered both a percentage and absolute offset though. Would it apply the percentage then the absolute offset, or the absolute then the percentage, as these will give different values. Percentage then absolute would make most sense to me, assuming it does both, but worth adding a note next to the input boxes to make this clear.
+Being as the offset is now being applied to the Yahoo (etc) rates, it would be good to show both the automatically downloaded rate, and then also the rate that is being used after the percentage / absolute offsets have been applied. This would then make it clear exactly what total offset was being applied (solving my question above) and exactly what FX rate was currently being used.
+For the pretty price, great that you have added an option to allow us to choose the discount amount to make the price pretty – that’s perfect! But worth changing the text box label though as “Min Amount Multiplier” doesn’t make sense. Perhaps “Discount amount to make prices pretty” might be clearer?
+Many thanks for your efforts with this. I will get the pro version purchased and installed so I can properly test all the above features with multiple currencies and countries set up.
+Hi Tom. Just been playing with the paid-for Plus version of the plugin and I’m pleased it all seems to eb working quite nicely! Here are a few suggestions / comments for you, and also a couple of slight ‘bugs’ I have come across:
+1) On the list of country codes, maybe you could add the list of codes for the countries that use the Euro, which are Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Vatican City. Here’s the country code list:
+AD,AT,BE,CY,EE,FI,FR,DE,GR,IE,IT,LV,LT,LU,MT,MC,NL,PT,SM,SI,SK,ES,VA
+There are also two non-EU countries that use the Euro, which are Kosovo and Montenegro. Montenegro’s code is (ME) but Kosovo is missing from the currency code list.
+2) Perhaps in the “Prices and Currencies by Country Module Options” settings page you could add a text box that could be used to name the different currency / country groups? This would make reference easier and this name could be used rather than displaying the list of codes, for example in the edit product page where you can set the price in each of the different currencies.
+3) It seems that rounding and pretty prices are currently being applied to the home/base currency prices. So if I have pretty prices set to round to 99 cents, then if I have a product priced at £9.95, this is being rounded up to £9.99. I don’t think that the rounding and pretty prices should be applied to the base currency prices, only to the converted ones in other currencies, otherwise we lose control over setting the base price in the stores home currency.
+4) In the “Exchange Rates” section of “Prices and Currencies by Country Module Options”, the rate for Group #1 (GBP/GBP in my case) was blank by default. This meant that the product price in my home/base currency was showing up as ‘Free!’ by default!!! The ‘update exchange rate’ for Group #1 is greyed out and locked, so I think the exchange rate also needs to be locked to “1” for the base currency.
+Hope this helps and is useful. I’m using Booster 2.6.0-dev and Booster Plus 1.1.0 in case that is relevant.
+Regards, James
+Are you familiar with the BulletProof Security (BPS) plugin for WP? This has an option to block POST requests made to the sites homepage, since it seems that this is a common approach used by hackers to compromise a website. The problem is that the Boost currency / country switcher widget also seems to work by making a POST request to the page that it is located on. That works fine, except when the widget is on my stores homepage which is the root of the domain (i.e. at mysite.com rather than mysite.com/shop). In this case there is no way to tell the POST request made by the country switcher widget from a POST request made by a hacker.
+Other plugins have a unique query string added to the POST request which means that we can then add a whitelist rule to allow the requests through. But the country switcher seems to be an unidentifiable and non-unique POST request to the domains root, so there is no way to whitelist it without white-listing everything!
+I asked the BPS plugin tech guys about this here:
+and they said that the Boost plugin would need to have some sort of unique query request added in order that it can be whitelisted and hence not be blocked by the BPS firewall.
+Does that make sense? Is it possible to make the POST request unique and identifiable do you think? I’m sure the BPS guys can better explain what would be required if that would help. This is only an issue where the country switched widget is used on the website homepage (so no problem if the store is in a sub-directory), but the store homepage is exactly where many people would want to switch the pre-selected country / currency!
+Hi James,
+I’m still struggling with version 2.6.0 stable release, which I intended to finish this weekend. I will examine and include your suggestions in next version. Meanwhile I’ve only added some descriptions as you suggested. Regarding offset – as you thought, percent is applied first, then fixed (description also added). Regarding original price without added offset – there is buttons near each currency pair, that are “grabbing” exchange rates from servers – those buttons will grab and display prices without offset. Regarding eurozone countries – we keep a list in and I’ve just added eurozone set there. I’ve also updated the link in module’s settings. That’s it so far, as mentioned – I will get back to you regarding your other thoughts a little later.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Hi Tom. How’s it going? I’m still working on developing my new website store and finding lots of the features of the paid for version of the plugin incredibly useful! The “Prices and Currencies by Country” module is the really important bit for me. I have the “make pretty” prices option setup and it is working excellently, except for two small (but very important) things:
+1) The pretty prices are being applied to the home currency, so I set a base price of £9.50 GBP and it is rounded up top £10.00 and then made pretty down to £9.95 (I have the discount amount set to 5). This means I loose control over the home currency prices. So I think the plugin really needs to be tweaked so that the pretty pricing is NOT applied to the home currency, only to the converted currencies. Or at least an option to turn off pretty prices for the home currency please.
+2) Pretty prices do not currency work very well when applied to products that have discounts applied. Say I have a product which normally costs £4.95 but has a special offer discount of 10% applied so the price becomes £4.41. But when pretty price rounding is applied, this gets increased to £4.95 which is back to the original price (or rounded down to £3.95 which is too much discount)! Product discounts and pretty prices do not work well together, particularly for lower priced items. So I think we really need a way to stop pretty prices being applied to discounted products, or alternatively maybe a way to turn off pretty prices on a product-by-product basis might be a work around. I am using the “WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts” plugin (author is Rightpress on Codecanyon.com) if that helps. I can send you a copy of the code if you need to see how a product gets discounted.
+Any chance of including these tweaks in the next update please? I really need to get these ‘bugs’ worked out before I can launch the new site.
+Many thanks, James 🙂
+Desperately need a way to turn off rounding and pretty prices for discounted products please Tom!
+And also a way to be able to put “Europe” in the country switcher widget, rather than having to have a long list of all the European countries just to allow customers to select the Euro as currency. Could you add a catch-all “Europe” country do you think please?
+Many thanks, James 🙂
+Hi James,
+Sorry for the delay – was very busy with WooCommerce 3.x.x update. All your requests seem possible to do – please give me a couple of days.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Hi Tom. Thanks. I have been hacking your rounding and pretty pricing function over the last few days to give me the neat prices I am looking for in the converted currencies. I have a two stage rounding setup which rounds small prices (<$5) to the nearest 5 or 10 cents, and larger prices so that they always end in 25, 50, 75 or 99 cents. The results look good, all nice looking prices in all currencies, with not too much rounding up or down. Just need to tidy my code and I'll ping it across to you. Hopefully you can adopt it into Booster! Cheers, James 🙂
+Hi,
+I’ve seen some mixed messages. Can someone please confirm if this feature works for admin orders? I’ve purchased the plugin for this purpose but it doesn’t seem to work. I’m not sure if it’s just a missing feature, or if it’s due to the recent woo update,
+Many thanks,
+Abi
+It seems to work nicely for me Abigail, but admittedly the site hasn’t actually gone live yet! What do you mean by “for admin orders” though? The plugin detects the customer’s country by their IP address and sets prices in that currency accordingly. You can then add the widget to give a manual override so teh customer can select another currency if they so desire. This currency can go right through to payment, or can revert back to the websites home currency at teh last minute if you prefer. Does that help at all?
+Hi.
+I am using the Prices and Currencies by Country Module from “Booster Plus for WooCommerce”.
+I am using 2 country groups: one for Europe (€) and one for US ($).
+The main price in € is showed correctly, while the price in $ is rounded (34.9 $ in the back-end become 35 $ in the front-end), even if I haven’t enabled any price rounding.
+How can I fix this?
+Thank you.
+Hi. I’ve solved.
+I just needed to remember to use the comma for EUR decimals and the dot for USD decimals.
+Best regards.
+Hello,
+I am trouble with this module. My home country in Woocommerce is the UK and the prices are showing ok there but then when I look at the Australian prices they are only showing correctly in the browser window if I am logged into wordpress. If I open another browser window where I am not logged in the price is different. For example this product should be showing $12.95AUD but it shows as $13.44. I have asked someone else to check and the price shows as $13.44. I have flushed the cache on the server and still no difference. The other 3 products are showing the wrong price too. The US prices are also showing incorrectly.
+Hope you can shed some light on this matter soon. I sent an email yesterday but not sure if you received it so am posting here.
+Kind Regards,
+Jacquie
+…sorry I can see that you have received my email but just waiting on a reply. Thankyou
+Hello, still waiting for a reply to my issue? Would appreciate it if you could reply soon. Thankyou.
+Hi Jacquie,
+Sorry for the delay. If you are using any caching plugins (e.g. “W3 Total Cache” or similar) – please try disabling it to see if the issue is gone. If that’s not the case – maybe it’s possible to create/share an admin account to your server (WP and preferably FTP) so I could login and check what’s going on? My email is tom@booster.io.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+I thought I would comment on this for you also. I’m in Poland and it showing the dollar symbol. I too would like to know how to make this work correctly but don’t fancy the time to seems to take to set this up. All the comments about how this particular MODULE, it appears it doesn’t work so well.
+Thankyou very much Doug for looking at this 🙂 I looked into it further and I realise I didn’t have the Poland country code in the settings. When you get a chance can you look at it again?
+Cheers,
+Jacquie
+HI Jacquie,
+Took a look and it’s now showing the GBP symbol. You probably don’t want to set up ALL the currencies so if GBP is where you have Poland set you are good.
+That was quick, thankyou! Yes I did set it to GBP – from my website I really can only ship from the UK but still want to have something showing if people visit from other European countries as I also sell on Amazon in Europe. So it looks like it is working then 🙂
+i want to make Pretty my price that is exchange from Euro to Japanese (yen)
+but when enable that, donest make pretty…. ( beause is Japanese yen? )
+i want something like…
+4,243 yen → 4,250 yen
+Hi, Byron,
+I’ve just replied in private email, but just in case, I’ll post same here:
+I’ve made some changes to the plugin. Please download the development version here –. You will need to uninstall the old plugin version first (don’t worry your saved settings won’t disappear). Now in “WooCommerce > Settings > Booster > Prices & Currencies > Currency Exchange Rates” I’ve added “Exchange Rates Rounding” options. You need to enable the checkbox and set precision (in your case it’s 3). After rates will be updated in period you’ve set – you should see rounded values.
+Best regards,
+Tom
+Dark Scrum: Hills and Affordances
+These articles about hills to die (or have a nice nap) on are in response to a continuing trope on Twitter and elsewhere, to the effect that X is bad, or Y is better than X, and therefore don’t do X do Y. These are amusing, provocative, and rather frequently … mistaken.
+Sometimes I think of the world–the system we live in–as a network of forces pushing and pulling in different directions. Not so much a mind-map as one of those web messes you get when a zillion spiders have been making webs in the woods and you can’t remember which spell makes fire shoot out of your wand.1
+As we coach a team or as a team tries to improve their world, everything they do is tugging on these strands. They’re trying to arrange things more to their liking. But the stuff is all interconnected! Just as you get the code working better by bearing down on tests, they start asking why you’re doing fewer features, so you speed up on features and the code starts pushing back, so you begin to refactor and you discover you don’t have enough tests and the ones you do have are fragile and then the database server changes version and all your scripts stop working and the real DBA is on vacation and so you have to send your best gal over and now all the stuff she was working on lands on your desk and you have no idea what she was even trying to do and the phone is ringing off the hook and and and …
+When we make a change to our process, we have in mind certain improvements. “If we had a few more tests the code would work better.” If we’re any good at all, the change will at least help with that. But there are other, interconnected effects.
+This is particularly fraught when we think we have a better idea and recommend eliminating another idea in favor of the new one. We’ll explore one that’s going on right now. I spoke briefly about this before, and apologize for hitting it again, but I feel the nail needs another whack.
+At Industrial Logic2 they have “discovered” that creating a “walking skeleton” has often worked well, “better”, they think, than “Sprints” work.
+I quote all those words for a reason: we don’t all agree on what they mean:
+- Discovered - They’ve done some kind of work with teams and have used “walking skeletons” to good effect.
+- Walking skeletons - Well, we probably all think that means some kind of minimal program that does the thing. But what was the thing, what was the skeleton, how well does that apply to our lives?
+- Better - To really know if X is better than Y, we would probably have to do a lot of comparisons, controlling a lot of variable, etc etc blather blather. How was it better? What were they paying attention to?
+- Sprints - What does IL understand a Sprint to be? Did they replace the planning, the stakeholder review, the retrospective with something? Did they just not get together a week from Friday? We don’t know.
+This is in no sense a criticism of what IL has done. They’re brilliant and they’ve done something that was almost certainly very sensible and they’ve had results that were almost certainly good. They’re suggesting, it seems, that if we’d just do this walking skeleton thing, we could, and should?, get rid of Sprints.
+I’m not even certain they are saying to do walking skeletons instead of Sprints, but that’s what I heard and what I think other people will hear. And I’m not at all sure whether, or at best when, that advice would apply.
+But here’s my real concern: it’s that darn web. Sprints offer a number of affordances. They do a number of useful things. They tug on certain threads in the web and they relax others. Let’s see what Sprints might be good for.3
+Again, we touched on these in that other article, but we were making a different point. So let’s look again:
+Sprints cause us to do some important things on a regular cycle. Both “important” and “regular cycle” matter here.
+Important
+Planning
+Planning is important, even though plans are not. In Sprint Planning, we have a brief meeting with our empowered “Product Owner”, where we talk about what’s needed, what’s most important in the mind of the PO and our stakeholders, and then we decide what to work on for the next week or so. After the first time out, we’ve got our “walking skeleton” and we’re adding flesh and bones to it. Sprint Planning, part of the Sprint concept brings us together on what we’re trying to do.
+Review
+Many people in the organization want and need to know what’s going on. At the end of the Sprint, there’s Sprint Review. At this meeting, our stakeholders–customers, our PO’s bosses, the Marketing VP, all kinds of people who are interested–look at our real result and see what we’ve accomplished. They provide feedback on what they see, and what they’d like to see next. This meeting informs our stakeholders. It keeps them aware that we’re actually accomplishing things, which gains us needed support. It gives us valuable feedback about their thinking, and it gives them a real hand on the steering wheel. When people feel their concerns are heard, and being addressed, their support rises. In my view, the Sprint Review is often the most important meeting in Scrum.
+Improvement
+There’s always room for improvement. At the end of the Sprint, we have the Sprint Retrospective. Here, we think about all the things we did in the past week or two, and about what we could do to make things go better. Now, in a really good team, some of our needed improvements have already been identified and put in place. Those will usually be fairly direct and immediate discoveries. The Sprint Retrospective gives us a bit of a larger perspective to assess. And, truth is, many teams don’t even do one retrospective per Sprint, much less one every day or so. The Sprint Retrospective is the main driver, in Scrum at least, of continuous improvement.
+Understanding
+It takes time to adjust plans, and to get ready to build new features. During the Sprint, teams do Backlog Refinement. They discuss what they’ve been hearing from the stakeholders and elsewhere, and they talk about the backlog items that might be undertaken, and they work out details. Wise teams often pre-write acceptance tests in Sprint N, to be used in Sprint N+1, because having those tests ready helps developers know what to do and when they’re done.
+The core point, so far, is that these elements of the Sprint provide valuable affordances for guiding and improving the product and the effort. We probably don’t want to drop those things, so if we do decide to “drop Sprints”, we need to provide for those needs.
+Regular Cycle
+Now, some will argue that these things, planning, reviewing, preparing, and improving, can be done any time. And that’s true. However, you’re going to get a different set of attendees if the Review is every two weeks than you’ll get if it’s called at random but interesting intervals. You’re going to get a different planning perspective if you plan ever week or two than you get if you plan on demand.
+Habits are important. Reaching people on a regular basis gives them more comfort than if they hear from us randomly. We want to seem reliable, not random.
+The Kanban people, of course, call this notion “cadences”, and I’m happy to adopt that term. The cadence itself has value in terms of giving people opportunities to contribute, and giving them confidence. So if we do provide some Sprint affordances another way, we’ll do well to consider doing so on a regular cadence. Soon, we have something that looks a lot like a Sprint.
+Summing Up
+Here, I’m not trying to settle the issue of Sprints. They’re just a convenient example that’s on my mind because we’ve been talking about it on Twitter.
+What we’re looking at here is the larger issue of adjusting our process, especially if we look to eliminate some practice because we see a possibly better way to do part of it. We need to look at the whole nasty web of interactions and see which ones are improved by our new idea, and what may be diminished.
+In the context of hills to die on, this suggests to me that we need to think hard, and deeply, about existing well-known practices, and about the things we’ve tried that seem to have worked well, and how they all connect together.
+And we need to think about who is going to use our advice and how they’ll use it.
+A successful team is a very complex system. If they have expert coaching, they can try things pretty safely, because the expert coach will detect problems and help them compensate. A team on its own may hear some new idea, especially if it sounds like it would simplify things, or eliminate something they don’t like, like that darn meeting, and jump too far too soon. In their enthusiasm, they may try something that needs to be done delicately, and in a context of careful combined changes, and in their well-intended inexperience, make thing worse.
+We don’t want that. None of us wants that. To me, that means we need to be careful in our thinking, and in our advising, especially when do to it in the hearing of people who don’t have the advantage of lots of contact with experts.
+Of course I could be wrong about all this. Maybe this is all easy, and I’m just doing it wrong. You can die on that hill, if you want to. I’m going to take a nap over here on mine.
+Don’t think about that too much. Let’s just move on, OK? Anyway, it’s Incendio and strictly speaking it’s a charm. ↩
+Not to be confused with ILM, Industrial Light and Magic. IL are cool. ILM are bloody cool. ↩
+Sprints, huh, good god! What are they good for?! Must be somethin’! – The Temptations, private communication. ↩
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This intercomparison hosted: − 18 different types of screens/shields both ventilated (7) and non-ventilated (11), most of them installed in pairs (the total number being 29); − 2 wind sensors from the manufacturer Thies (Germany) for evaluating ultrasonic temperature measurement (proposed by DWD); − 8 different types of humidity sensors, most of them installed in pairs (the total number being 17) Météo-France supplied calibrated Pt100 probes for most of the screens. All humidity sensors were delivered to Trappes for calibration in agreement with the manufacturers. An on-site calibration was also performed for a subset of the hygrometers. The ONM prepared the experimental field and installed 36 platforms for the selected screens/shields and the ancillary sensors (radiation sensors, 2-meter wind, ground temperature…). All data were filtered with quality control procedures. Over the 12 months period of the intercomparison, more than 500 000 minutes of data are available for the majority of the screens and hygrometers, allowing a deep data analysis. Generally the intercomparison was successful. It experienced problems in its schedule, due to customs constraints and electrical grounding problems at the beginning. top of this page WMO Field Intercomparison of Rainfall Intensity Gauges Vigna di Valle (October 2007 - April 2009) Final Report (2009) The WMO Field Intercomparison of Rainfall Intensity (RI) Gauges was conducted from 1 October 2007 to 30 April 2009, in the Centre of Meteorological Experimentations (ReSMA) of the Italian Meteorological Service, in Vigna di Valle, Italy. It was organized following the request of users and the recommendation of CIMO-XIV. Heavy rainfall is generally the origin of flash floods. In view of the very high variability of the rainfall intensity, measurements at a 1-minute time scale are crucial to enable proper measures be taken to mitigate the impact of such events and save lives, property and infrastructures. As the return period of heavy rainfall events is large, long-term records of rainfall intensity data are needed to estimate the probability of occurrence of heavy rainfall at a given location and time. Such measurements would also be used for better design of structures (building, construction works) and infrastructure (drainage) to mitigate severe weather impact. This intercomparison hosted 25 different rainfall intensity gauges. The majority of these instruments were catching type gauges comprising tipping-bucket gauges, weighing gauges and one water level gauge. Non-catching rain gauges were represented by optical and impact disdrometers, one optical/capacitive gauge and one microwave radar gauge. This intercomparison was unique as to the number of instruments and variability of techniques used. The main objective of this intercomparison was to intercompare the performance of in-situ rainfall intensity instruments of different measuring principles, with special consideration given to high rainfall intensities. Further objectives were to offer advice on improvements of instruments and precipitation measurements. Prior to installation in the field all reference gauges and the catching type instruments were calibrated in the WMO recognized laboratory at the University of Genoa. Calibration procedures were based on recommendations of the previous WMO Laboratory Intercomparison of RI Gauges (2004-2005) which were further developed to allow an assessment of the 1-minute measurement uncertainty under constant flow conditions. Additionally all catching gauges were subject to a step response test to assess their dynamic response. In the field, all gauges were compared with a RI composite working reference consisting of a set of three reference rain gauges in a standard pit. The results of the intercomparison confirmed the feasibility to measure and compare rainfall intensities on a one minute time scale and provided information on the achievable measurement uncertainties. Due to the very high variability of rainfall intensity, the time synchronization of the instruments is crucial to compare their measurements and to design the measurement systems, as two successive 1-minute rainfall intensity measurements can differ much more than the measurements of two well synchronized instruments. The uncertainty of the RI composite working reference in the pit was evaluated to be 4.3 mm/h, leading to a relative uncertainty below 5% above 90 mm/h and higher than the 5% measurement uncertainty required by WMO below 90 mm/h. It is recommended that rainfall intensity measurements be further standardized at an international level and based on knowledge obtained from this intercomparison to allow the users to obtain homogeneous and compatible data sets. The procedure adopted for performing calibration tests in the laboratory should become a standard method to be used for assessing the instruments’ performance. Acceptance tests could be based on the adopted laboratory procedures and standards. A classification of instrument performance should also be developed to help users in selecting the proper instrument for their applications. The intercomparison results confirmed that uncorrected tipping bucket rain gauges should be corrected. Very good results can be achieved by software correction methods. Catching gauges that do not use a funnel are sensitive to environmental factors, affecting the measurements of some instruments. It was found that proper techniques can be used to reduce the noise in the measurements. It was found that manufacturers need to improve their documentation, and users should contact manufacturers for additional guidance, as how to best operate their instruments for various applications. The Intercomparison high quality data set (1-min rainfall intensity data) constitutes an important scientific resource that should be further exploited beyond the objectives of the present data analysis. It is also recommended that the developed expertise and the infrastructure of the sites, both the field and the laboratory facilities, be further exploited within WMO. top of this page WMO Laboratory Intercomparison of Rainfall Intensity Gauges De Bilt, Genoa, Trappes (September 2004 - September 2005) Final Report (January 2006) The WMO Laboratory Intercomparison of Rainfall Intensity (RI) Gauges was held from September 2004 to September 2005 in the laboratories of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (The Netherlands), Météo-France (France) and the Department of Environmental Engineering of University of Genoa (Italy) in collaboration with the Italian Meteorological Service. No intercomparisons of instruments for the measurement of RI had been organized so far. Following the recommendations of the Expert Meeting on Rainfall Intensity Measurements, Bratislava, Slovakia, April 2001, it was proposed, as the first and necessary step, to organize an intercomparison of RI instruments in the laboratory conditions. Some laboratory tests of rain gauges were done and reported in the literature, however no intercomparison of RI instruments, in one or several laboratories, had been conducted. The main objective of the Intercomparison was to test the performance of catchment type rainfall intensity gauges of different measuring principles under documented conditions. Other objectives RI gauges was required as well as to identify and recommend the most suitable method and equipment for reference purposes within the field intercomparison of catching and non-catching types of gauges. The CIMO Project Team consisted of the Chair of the Expert Team (ET) and the International Organizing Committee (IOC) on Surface-Based Instrument Intercomparisons, the Project Leader and three. Second group of instruments were weighing gauges; the third group consisted of two participating instruments only using a non-common measuring principle, namely, a water level based on conductivity measure. A general methodology was adopted for the tests, based on the generation of a constant water flow from a suitable hydraulic device within the range of operational use declared by the instrument’s manufacturer. The water was conveyed to the funnel of the instrument under test in order to simulate constant rainwater intensity. The flow was measured by weighing the water over a given period of time. The relative difference between the measured and generated rainfall intensity was assumed as the relative error of the instrument for the given reference flow rate. In addition to measurements based on constant flow rates, the step response of each instrument was checked based on the suitable devices developed by each laboratory. Each laboratory developed its own testing device, with some differences in the principle and technology used to generate a constant water flow, as well as in the way the water is weighed in the device. These provided a basis for the development of a standardized procedure for generating consistent and repeatable precipitation flow rates for possible adoption as a laboratory standard for calibration of catchment type RI gauges. The results of the Intercomparison showed that the tipping-bucket rain gauges that were equipped with proper correction software provided good quality rainfall intensity measurements. The gauges where no correction was applied had larger errors. In some cases problems of water storage in the funnel occurred that could limit the usable range for rain intensity measurement. The uncertainty of the rainfall intensity is generally less for weighing gauges than for the tipping-bucket rain gauges under constant flow rate condition, provided the instrument is properly stabilized. The measurement of rainfall intensity is affected by the response time of the acquisition system. Significant delays were observed in “sensing” time variation of the RI by weighing gauges. The delay is the result of the internal software which is intended to filter the noise. Only one instrument had a delay that met the WMO 1-minute rainfall intensity requirement. The two gauges using a conductivity measurement for determining water level showed good performances in terms of uncertainty under controlled laboratory conditions. Siphoning problems for one gauge limits its ability to measure a wide range of rainfall intensity. For the other one, a limitation is related to the emptying mechanism, in which case 2-minute delay was observed. These gauges are potentially sensitive to the water conductivity, with no demonstrated problems during the laboratory tests. The laboratory tests were performed under controlled conditions and constant flow rates (rainfall intensities) so as to determine the intrinsic counting errors. It must be considered that RI is highly variable in time, thus catching errors may have a strong influence on the overall uncertainty of the measurement. The need to combine the assessment of both counting and catching errors for the instrument analyzed in the laboratory is paramount. Provided the instrument is properly installed in the field, according to the WMO specifications, the question to be answered is what kind of instrument (measuring principle, manufacturer, model) is the most suited to the specific requirements of the user. This question cannot be answered based on the laboratory Intercomparison alone, although the results obtained can provide preliminary information to manufacturers and the first-step selection criterion for the user. Therefore, it is necessary to proceed with the quality assessment procedure initiated in the laboratory by organizing a follow-up Intercomparison in the field where the instruments tested in the laboratory should have a priority. This would allow continuity in the performance assessment procedure and result in the estimation of the overall operational error to be expected in the measurement of RI in the field. Also other instruments would be included in the field intercomparison, even if not tested in the laboratory phase, with a priority given to the non-catching type of instruments. For the Field Intercomparison a working reference rain gauge(s) should be inserted in a pit according to the EN-13798 standard Reference Raingauge Pit, adopted by ISO, in order to minimize the effect of weather related errors on the measured rainfall intensities. According to the results of the laboratory intercomparison, it is recommended to select the best performing dynamically corrected tipping bucket rain gauge(s) and the weighing gauge(s) showing the shortest step response and the lowest uncertainty as reference gauges. The combined analysis of the reference gauges allows the best possible estimation of the rainfall intensity in the field, given their demonstrated performance in the laboratory. The use of one reference instrument alone is not recommended. Finally, the improvement of the uncertainty of RI gauges introduces the risk of affecting the homogeneity of rainfall time series. The improvement of the measurement of RI may produce a discontinuity of the historical rainfall intensities records, which could influence especially the studies of extreme events. The bias introduced by non-corrected records propagates through any rainfall-runoff model down to the statistics of flow rates in water courses, with non negligible effects on the study of floods and flash floods. An example of the correction of the historical rainfall series was demonstrated using the result of the laboratory intercomparison. top of this page Sub-Regional Pyranometer Intercomparison of the RA VI members from South-Eastern Europe Split , Croatia (July - August 2007) Final Report (2009) With the great support of WMO Secretariat and World Radiation Centre, MHSC has conducted the first international pyranometer intercomparison in the south-eastern part of Europe. Favourable, sunny weather enabled acquiring a large amount of data for a reasonable evaluation of the pyranometers participated in the Intercomparison. Reference value obtained by three recently calibrated pyranometers represented a reliable basis for further calculations. Large number of data used for statistics assured reasonable confidence in the calculated calibration factors. Available auxiliary data could be linked to the calibration factors and considered during future comparisons of the calibration factors for similar conditions. Generally, slight underestimation of the global solar radiation by the participating instruments could be addressed also to the degradation of their sensitivity (some of them haven’t been calibrated for more than 15 years) or to different type of sensors. Further detailed analyses with the use of available auxiliary data and comparison with previous calibrations and corresponding condition could enable better understanding of calibration factors behaviour. A larger standard deviation of few pyranometers was a consequence of the larger dispersion of the measurements. Although there were some unexpected organisational and infrastructural irregularities, generally it is believed that the Intercomparison could provide some useful experiences and results for the participants, as well as the community involved in this issue from the sub-region, especially in the field of improving accuracy and assuring traceability of the global solar radiation measurement. top of this page WMO Intercomparison of Pyrheliometer Davos, Switzerland (September-October 2005) Final Report (January 2006) Under the auspices of the Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation (CIMO), the Tenth International Pyrheliometer Comparison (IPC-X) was held together with the Regional Pyrheliometer Comparisons of all WMO Regions from 26 September through 14 October 2005. The favorable weather conditions allowed to acquire a record number of calibration points for most participating instruments. Cloudy and overcast days were used for technical preparations and training of participates as well as for a the IPC-X symposium. top of this page WMO Intercomparison of High Quality Radiosonde Systems Vacoas, Mauritius (February 2005) Final Report (January 2006) The WMO Intercomparison of High Quality Radiosonde Systems, held in Vacoas, Mauritius, 2-25 February 2005, was organized because a new generation of radiosondes is being introduced into most of the global upper air network. Six operational radiosonde systems (Vaisala, Sippican, Modem, MEISEI Electric Co., Graw Radiosondes and Meteolabor) participated in the intercomparison, which consisted of 62 successful comparison flights. In addition Sippican MKII, 3 thermistor radiosondes were flown to provide a daytime “working reference” for temperature and the Snow-white chilled mirror hygrometer as a “working reference” for dewpoint/relative humidity. The working references were flown within the intercomparison to provide additional evidence on the accuracy of the operational radiosondes. The intercomparison was intended to identify any significant flaws in the new radiosonde designs, so that these could be rectified before use became widespread in the operational radiosonde networks. The following is the summary of results. Measurements of wind by the GPS radiosonde systems were of good availability and quality. Preparing the GPS radiosondes for flight is now much easier than in the intercomparison in Brazil in 2001. The GPS heights measured by the GPS radiosondes were so accurate that in most situations there is no longer any need to use a pressure sensor on a GPS radiosonde. The Intercomparison in Mauritius demonstrated that errors identified in the WMO Intercomparison of GPS Radiosondes in Brazil have mostly been rectified. Temperature, pressure and relative humidity measurements by the radiosondes agreed more closely than in any of the earlier WMO Radiosonde Intercomparisons. Thus, all radiosondes in this Intercomparison were judged to merit the designation of high quality radiosonde and were of better quality than in the previous WMO Radiosonde Intercomparison in Brazil. Whilst much progress has followed from major investments by the main manufacturer, the smaller manufacturers have also contributed with significant innovations generating a more competitive environment. Some problems remain in most systems tested. When rectified these will further improve radiosonde measurement quality (including long term stability of measurement quality). This should produce a stability in radiosonde measurements that has not been present in earlier generations of radiosondes. Manufacturers need to consider from the evidence in the report whether their radiosonde measurements need: · Hydrophobic coatings on temperature sensors; · Improved sensor exposure for daytime temperature measurements in the stratosphere; · Prevention of chemical contamination of relative humidity sensors during storage; · Procedures to minimize the effects of water contamination on humidity sensors after emerging from cloud; · Procedures to minimize the effects of ice contamination on humidity sensors after emerging from cloud at all temperatures in the middle and upper troposphere; · Improved procedures to eliminate low bias in daytime relative humidity caused by the humidity sensor observing at a higher temperature than the reported temperature (software correction or direct measurement of humidity sensor temperature?). The working reference systems proved very useful in interpreting results from the Intercomparison, but were not developed to the stage that they could be used as stand alone references in the type of conditions experienced in Mauritius. Recommendations on suitable radiosondes for future climate observing networks are presented. Most of the radiosondes tested in Mauritius could be brought up to a standard suitable for this work. Thus, it is suggested that the best traceable upper air measurement record might be obtained by successive measurements by two of the best operational radiosonde types at one observing site. The use of two different types launched with relatively small time separations would allow possible changes in the measurement quality of either radiosonde type to be identified. For temperature measurements there is a large range of suitable sensors. For water vapour/ relative humidity the range of sensor type is much more limited and further development of new sensors could be beneficial. The two radiosonde systems currently closest to the standards required for climate measurements to the highest levels in the tropics (pressures as low as 5 hPa) were Vaisala RS92-SGP and Sippican LMS-5. However, it is expected that several of the other systems will be close to this standard shortly, and could possibly offer cheaper consumable costs in the long term. The use of GPS radiosondes without a pressure sensor, tested in 2001 for MODEM and Sippican in the WMO GPS Radiosonde Comparison in Brazil, and also used by Meisei in Mauritius, was found to offer a reliable method of reducing consumable costs. The system developed by Graw demonstrates how GPS radiosonde systems can be developed to make setting up and operations extremely easy for unskilled staff. The SRS digital radiosonde system proved a very reliable method of flying the Snow White chilled mirror hygrometer, with much less operational trouble than was experienced with the Sippican/Snow White combination in Brazil intercomparison. An extended list of recommendations and conclusions can be found within the relevant sections of the report. This Intercomparison was performed in Mauritius under the management of a small WMO Project Team. The team was responsible for the conduct of the test and for training of local staff from Mauritius Meteorological Services. The Intercomparison demonstrated that the local staff was experienced enough and could be trained quickly in more advanced test procedures. This resulted in an improved morale and knowledge within the Mauritius Meteorological Services. The deployment of a WMO Project Team to supervise the test was successful, however, for future tests it should be recognized that the supervisory work involves a lot of real time consultation with the participants and is much more than purely managing the test procedures. This consultation period extended for several months after the completion of the test and was not just limited to the time during the intercomparison. top of this page WMO Intercomparison of GPS Radiosondes Alcantara, Brazil (May-June 2001) Executive Summary Report (April 2003) At the invitation of INMET/Brazil, between 20 May and 10 June 2001, under tropical weather conditions, took place the WMO Intercomparison of GPS Radiosondes, at the Alcantara Air Force Satellite/Rocket Launch Centre. The trials were carried out in accordance with the recommendations developed by the International Organizing Committee (IOC) (Final Report). During the project, led by Dr. Reinaldo da Silveira (INMET), the performance of the main types of GPS-radiosonde currently used for operational measurements was tested in over 40 comparison flights. The GPS-radiosonde involved were: Vaisala RS80-15G and Vaisala RS90-AG (Finland); Sippican MKII (USA); Geolink GPSonde GL98 (France); and Dr Graw Messgeräte DFM-97(Germany). All the GPS wind measurement systems produced high quality wind data (with errors much less than 1 ms-1) when working correctly. Some systems had more malfunctions during flight than others. Another objective was to obtain more detailed information on the performance of humidity sensors, so it was highly appreciated that "Snow-White" chilled mirror hygrometers (Meteolabor/Switzerland) were coupled to the Sippican radiosondes on 20 flights. Preliminary results of humidity comparisons revealed that significant differences between the two commonly used radiosonde relative humidity sensors have still not been resolved. On most flights relative humidity varied a great deal with height, with many ascents passing through upper cloud. The difference in sensitivity and absolute calibration in upper cloud between the older humidity sensors and some of the newer designs can readily be quantified. Results for both wind and relative humidity will be significant in improving the operational reliability of radiosonde designs. Following the completion of the data analysis, the Executive Summary Report has been published under IOM No. 76, TD-1153. The facilities and support provided by the Brazilian Air Force at Alcantara to participants from Brazil, France, Finland, Germany, UK and USA were excellent and underpinned the success of the experiment. top of this page WMO Ninth International Pyrheliometer Comparison (IPC-IX)Davos, Switzerland (September-October 2000) The Ninth International Pyrheliometer Comparison (IPC-IX), conjointly held with Regional Pyrheliometer Comparisons (RPCs), was carried out at the World Radiation Center (WRC/PMOD) Davos, Switzerland, from 25 September to 13 October 2000, led by Dr Isabelle Ruedi. In total 65 radiation experts from 39 WMO Member countries participated and 85 pyrheliometers were calibrated successfully despite unfavourable weather conditions. It can be noted with appreciation that representatives from 18 out of the 21 available Regional Radiation Centres could arrange for their participation. Participants particularly appreciated the opportunity to attend the several symposia and workshops carried out during the IPC-IX. The lectures provided and the discussions held significantly contributed to the transfer of knowledge to participants, especially to those from developing countries. The Final Report of the IPC-IX has already been published and distributed to the participants and to al NMHSs. It can be accessed through the Web-Site of the WRC Davos. The technical facilities available, the excellent arrangements made and the support provided by Dr W. Schmutz, Director of the WRC, and his staff were essential to the success of the IPC-IX and were highly appreciated by all participants. top of this page
+tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64893842009-07-14T12:46:09.523-04:00The Macedonian Tendency (old)See New Blog() An English language guide for JOURNALISTS AND POLITICIANS to Macedonia, its politics, culture, history and its relation to other Balkan countries including: Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia and the former Yugoslavia. Your guide is David EdendenDavid Edendennoreply@blogger.comBlogger536125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-14405753611126748862007-06-12T11:38:00.000-04:002007-12-31T09:38:00.874-05:00"The Macedonian Tendency is MovingThis is the last post on this site (<a style="font-style: italic;" href=""></a><span style="font-style: italic;"> )</span>.<br /><br />The Macedonian Tendency has moved to this new URL (<a style="font-style: italic;" href=""></a><span style="font-style: italic;">"). The post below is the the first post on the new URL.</span> <div class="post uncustomized-post-template"> <a name="7117024843051591433"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> <a href="">A Guide to Contributors to "The Macedonian Tendency"</a> </h3> <div class="post-body"> <p><span style="font-style: italic;">by David Edenden</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I am turning "The Macedonian Tendency" into a group blog. The first thing you will notice is the new URL "</span><a style="font-style: italic;" href=""></a><span style="font-style: italic;">". This new URL should make it easier for journalists and politicians to find the blog, although there will be a period of adjustment as the search engines indexes it. The old site, </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href=""></a><span style="font-style: italic;"> will continue for the time being, until all the articles have been migrated to this site. If, like myself, it is necessary for you </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">to use a pseudonym</a><span style="font-style: italic;">, please fell free to do so.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">If you receive an invitation to join, you must apply a Gmail account which is free and easy to use. Feel free to introduce yourself and write on any topic relating to Macedonia, its history and culture without my prior approval. I do not expect that everyone will </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">agree with my eccentric views</a><span style="font-style: italic;">, so debate within the blog is not a bad thing. In your Blogger profile, write what your interests are relating to writing for the blog. In this way, we will develop a division of labor so that we are not all writing about the same thing.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Identify yourself and format your writing in italics, while keeping the other material in regular fonts. Hopefully you will write at least one article per week ... not a great commitment. If you have written something in the past, please feel free to publish it here.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The purpose of this blog is to inform foreign journalists and politicians about "the Macedonian question" today. My main focus is to help in the process of recognition of Macedonia's constitutional name, the fight for the rights of <a href="">Macedonians in Greece</a> and <a href="">Bulgaria</a> and to a lesser extent in <a href="">Albania</a>.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">We really need <a href="">book</a> an <a href="">movie reviews</a> along with the <a href="">other arts</a>. Sports reviews are also welcome.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />I am not really interested in using this blog to display the divisions that are reflected in Macedonian politics. I generally support all Macedonian governments, although I disagree with many of their individual positions. <a href="">Macedonians need a big tent</a>. One of my favorite expressions is " some people look for converts, while others look for heretics." Lets all look for converts and not needlessly look for battles within our community.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Lets use Jews and Israel as a model. Jewish support for Israel is unwavering, however many Jews fell free to offer suggestions for Israeli policy. I have in the past published warnings against Nato membership, the EU and other issues without damning the Macedonian politicians who promote them. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Since it is a blog and not a online news magazine like "<a href="">Reality Macedonia</a>", articles should be short with links to the original source. I usually like to comment, no matter how small on all posts, but there have been exceptions. <a href="">(1)</a><br /><br />This long post about <a href="">Robert Kaplan</a> is a good example of the use of links. This post about <a href="">Barack Obama</a> needs to have links added. I decided it was worth posting first and then adding links later. After publishing your post, editing the title is not advisable since the search engines will lose the post. Editing of the actual posts is OK for spelling and formating issues.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">For the sake of readability, I usually do not copy the entire original article, but do copy relevant material that could be lost behind a "subscription wall" <a href="">(1)</a> <a href="">(2)</a> <a href="">(3).</a> there are exceptions.<br /><br />Make sure to include the link, the name of the author, relevant people and the core issue that are discussed.<br /><br />"The Macedonian Tendency" is one of the few blogs where a comments on a specific news item are published from a Macedonian perspective. Lets try to improve it.</span></p></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-70190030666426818582007-06-11T18:05:00.000-04:002007-12-31T09:37:24.782-05:00Will the Macedonian-Greek Dust-Up Sink Barack Obama<span style="font-style: italic;">By David Edenden</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Sooner or later the <a href="">Greek lobby</a> will be come knocking on the door of Senator Barack Obama for support for their position that <a href="">ethnic Macedonians </a>change the name of their country, the <a href="">Republic of Macedonia,</a> their <a href="">Macedonian Orthodox Church</a>, their <a href="ttp://faq.macedonia.org/language/index.frame.html">Macedonian language</a>, their history and finally to cease and desist in advocating for <a href="">human rights for ethnic Macedonians living in Greece.</a><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=""><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="" alt="" border="0" /></a>Loula Loi Alafoyiannis & Obama<br /><a href="">EWAC</a><br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">How he deals with this issue may determine how the media treats his persona as a politician who is different; a politician who is offering hope and integrity for Americans. </span><script><!-- D(["mb","\u003cbr\>\u003cbr\>You don't have that luxury since, as a member of a racial minority that continues to face discrimination, you can't be seen as supporting discrimination of others. That's news - "man bites dog" news, "democrat crosses picket line" news, "republican ignores troops" news, "Obama supports the cultural genocide of ethnic Macedonians in Greece!" big news.\n\u003cbr\>\u003cbr\>The "right wind smear machine" will be able to go into overdrive and "swift-boat you" on this issue because President Bush has taken a position on principle . He has recognized "The Republic of Macedonia" rather than the name "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) that the was forced upon Macedonia as a deal to get into the UN. The "smear machine" will slice and dice your position to destroy your reputation and subvert your credentials as one who is interested in decency and human rights. It will be on Fox, Rush Limbaugh, bloggers and along with radio and TV ads. The liberal media will be hard pressed to come to your defense when this issue becomes headline news.\n\u003cbr\>\u003cbr\>The pundits will say "what was Obama thinking" ... "he blew it on that one" ... "how will he get himself out of this jam". You won't be able to get out of this controversy by saying, like the Aposle Paul, "I will come to Macedonia". \n\u003cbr\>\u003cbr\>I am not a fan of the politics of personal destruction ... but there you go.\u003cbr\>\u003cbr\>The State Department, starting from Laurence Eagleburger, through to Strobe Talbot and finally to Condoleeza Rice have basically supported Macedonia in its struggle with Greece, but they have been overruled by politicians, from both political parties, seeking the support of the Greek lobby. \n\u003cbr\>\u003cbr\>In my opinion, the reason President Bush changed US policy towards Macedonia, was his close personal relationship with the late Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski, an ordained Methodist Minister. Trajkovski was the only foreign leader to join President Bush in prayer, jointly kneeling down in the White House \n",1] ); //--></script><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Obama does' 't have that luxury to pander to the Greek lobby since, as a member of a racial minority that continues to face discrimination, you can't be seen as supporting discrimination of others. That's news - "thats man bites dog news", "thats democrat crosses picket line news", "thats republican ignores troops news".</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I can see the right-wing smear machine proclaiming "</span><span style="font-style: italic;" id="st" name="st" class="st">Obama</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> supports the cultural genocide of ethnic Macedonians in Greece!" Big news!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The "right wind smear machine" will be able to go into overdrive and "swift-boat" Obama on this issue because <a href="">President Bush</a> has taken a position on principle (maybe accidentally or maybe not.). <a href="">He has recognized "The Republic of Macedonia</a>" rather than the name "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) that the was forced upon Macedonia as a deal to get into the UN. The "smear machine" will slice and dice Obama's position to destroy his reputation and subvert his credentials as one who is interested in decency and human rights. It will be on Fox, Rush Limbaugh, bloggers and along with radio and TV ads. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The liberal media will be hard pressed to come to his defense when this issue becomes headline news. That's the beauty of this type of smear ... its true! The pundits will say "what was </span><span style="font-style: italic;" id="st" name="st" class="st">Obama</span> thinking" ... "he blew it on that one" ... "how will he get himself out of this jam".<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I am not a fan of the politics of personal destruction ... but there you go.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>David Edendennoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-85577181931464234822007-06-11T17:49:00.000-04:002007-10-29T23:09:05.051-04:00Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week<a href="">Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week</a>:<br />"How Future Pope Helped Save Jews<br /><br />New book details efforts of Monsignor Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) during the Holocaust.<br />Jay Bushinsky - Special To The Jewish Week<br /><br />Details of the combined efforts to rescue thousands of Jews during World War II by a representative of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and a Catholic cleric, who later became pope, have come to light through a recently published book.<br /><br />Professor Dina Porat of Tel Aviv University, a historian who has written extensively on the Holocaust, gained access to the private papers of Chaim Barlas, who together with Monsignor Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (Pope John XXIII), used a variety of tactics to rescue thousands of endangered Jews from Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Greece and especially Hungary by enabling them to flee the ongoing Holocaust.<br /><br />Barlas’ official papers, documents and letters were forwarded to the Zionist Archives in Jerusalem. But his personal records, stored in cardboard boxes and stashed in his family’s Tel Aviv residence, include dramatic accounts of Monsignor Roncalli’s emotional reaction on learning of the horrors described to him of the Auschwitz death camp.<br /><br />“He cried when Barlas showed him the evidence,” said Porat.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-70745593625125693112007-06-11T17:44:00.000-04:002007-10-29T23:09:05.052-04:00Macedonian Link to Nicolas Sarkozy<a href="">Telegraph newspaper online</a>: "Nicolas Sarkozy was born in 1955, the second of three sons born to a Hungarian immigrant, Pal Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa, and his French wife, Andrée Mallah.<br /><br />The couple met in 1949 but separated 10 years later, with Pal eventually marrying several more times. Nicolas's maternal family also originates outside France. Andrée Mallah was the daughter of Benedict Mallah, a doctor who at the time of his daughter's wedding had gained a formidable reputation as a urologist and lived in the affluent 17th arrondissement of Paris.<br /><br />A Sephardic Jew, he was born in Thessalonica, Greece, in 1890. However, the Mallah family can trace their roots back to Provence in Southern France, having originally been forced to leave during the persecution of Jews in the Middle Ages.<br /><br />At the age of 14, Benedict left Greece to further his education, taking up a place at the Lycée Lakanal boarding school in the southern suburbs of Paris, where he studied medicine. He stayed in France and became a citizen, repaying his debt to his new home by acting as a doctor in the French army during the First World War."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-14394856684296935652007-06-11T16:16:00.001-04:002007-10-29T23:09:05.052-04:00Typical Searches of "the Macedonian Tendency<span style="font-style: italic;">By: David Edenden<br /><br />Below are a few searches that have been recorded by my </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">Sitemeter.</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> The searches show that The Macedonian Tendency blog usually is listed in the first page. It was my goal that this blog makes it easer for journalists to find information on Macedonian issues. so that our history is not distorted. Its not perfect but it is improving.</span><br /><br /><blockquote><br /><a href="">john le carre, interview, yugoslavia - Google претрага</a><br /><a href="">declarations about macedonian airport - Αναζήτηση Google</a><br /><a href="">ekathimerini - Google Search</a><br /><a href="">ndi macedonia - Google Search</a><br /><a href="">criticism of radio free asia as arm of CIA - Google Search</a><br /><a href="">Alexander the great Greece effect alive - Google Search</a><br /><a href="">jews florina film - Buscar con Google</a><br /><a href="">"online macedonian dictionary - Google търсене</a><br /><a href="">putin kosovo slavic - Google Search</a><br /><a href="">Eleftherotypia Rann Greece - Google Search</a><br /><a href="">ETHNIC GREEKS IN MONASTIR - Αναζήτηση Google</a><br /><a href="">macedonia folk songs - Αναζήτηση Google</a><br /><a href="">Matthew Nimetz UN Special Envoy - Google Search</a><br /><a href="">John Shea - Macedonia - Google Search</a><br /><a href="">kosovo song - Google Search</a><br /><a href="">greec parodies - Αναζήτηση Google</a><br /><a href="">KOCANI ORKESTAR free download - Căutare Google</a><br /><a href="">toshe proeski galery - Google търсене</a><br /><a href="">"amanda rivkin" - Google Search</a><br /><a href="">FireFox macedonian - Google Search</a><br /><a href="">drace-francis iran - Google Search</a><br /><a href="">vance stojcev - Αναζήτηση Google</a><br /><a href="">Bexheti Turkish - Google Search</a><br /><a href="">mitsotakis masonic - Google Search</a><br /><a href="">alexander the great modern day descendants - Google Search</a><br /><a href="">"eric jansson" birn - Google Search</a><br /><a href="">300 MESSAGE FOR THE QUEEN - Google zoeken</a><br /><a href="">seymour hersh kosovo - Google Search</a></blockquote><a href=""></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-89760823703897940802007-06-07T12:39:00.002-04:002007-10-29T23:26:28.465-04:00Osama Bin Laden focues on the Balkans<span style="font-style: italic;">By David Edenden- A good article on Bin Laden in the Balkans.</span><br /><br /><a href="" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Osama Bin Laden focues on the Balkans- A 2003 analysis, still very relevant-">Osama Bin Laden focues on the Balkans- A 2003 analysis, still very relevant-</a> <p>By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor (Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, September 19, 2003)</p> <p> </p> <p><br />Starting in the mid-August 2003, radical Islamist leaders elevated the role of the terrorism infrastructure in the Balkans as a key facilitator of a proposed escalation of conflict into the heart of Europe, Israel and the United States. The terrorism campaign aims to define the US occupation of Baghdad as the turning point in the fateful jihad for the future of Islam. The importance of the concurrent expansion of Islamist operations in the Balkans should be examined in this overall context.</p> <p>The most telling development was the nomination of Shahid Emir Mussa Ayzi to coordinate and run special recruitment operations. Ayzi is a veteran of Afghanistan who is close not only to the al-Qaida elite but also the Taliban leadership. Recently, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden’s senior commanders decided to expand the recruitment and activation of Slav cadres, because they look European and non-Arab, in order to enhance their ability to operate at the heart of the West.</p> <p>In August 2003, Ayzi took over this sensitive recruitment drive. The main recruitment pool consists of Bosnian Muslims with a smaller effort relying on Russian converts recruited in Chechnya and the Caucasus as a whole. Although the Islamists had run a recruitment and training drive of Bosnian Muslim expert terrorists and would-be martyr-bombers since the early 1990s, these cadres had not until now been used.</p> <p>Now, circumstances seem to be changing. In late August 2003, Ayzi sent a report to Mullah Qudratullah, a senior Taliban official, about his success in enlisting “persons of Slav ethnicity” to the Islamist jihad. He added that some of these “white devils” had already been indoctrinated and trained to the point of sending them to carry out “Allah’s Work” - that is, terrorist martyrdom-strikes - “in a number of European cities and on Israeli territory.” The preparation of additional Slav cadres for US operations is in progress, Ayzi reported. The training and preparation of Ayzi’s recruits is taking place in the Balkans and the Caucasus, mainly Georgia.</p> <p>The Balkans undertaking is part of an overall increase in the Islamist buildup under the overall supervision of Muhammad al-Zawahiri, the brother of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the number two leader in al-Qaida. The senior Islamist commanders now consider what they call “the Albanian land” - Albania, Serbia’s Kosovo province and parts of Macedonia - to be safe for use as a springboard for the insertion of a new wave of expert terrorists, including the Slavs, into Western Europe and onward throughout the West.</p> <p>Indeed, starting in mid-August 2003, there was a discernible increase in the number of foreigners in the Islamist mosques throughout Albania. “They [originally] come from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Iran. They come from many countries,” noted an eyewitness in Tirana. They arrive [in Tirana] from Afghanistan,” he added. These expert terrorists are being prepared in Albania for their specific missions in the West.</p> <p>This training program is conducted under the cover of the Albanian National Army (ANA or AKSh in Albanian) with most senior trainers and commanders being “mujahedin who retreated from Bosnia” and are affiliated with al-Qaida.</p> <p.</p> <p>These operations are also run under the banner of the ANA/AKSh.</p> <p>Significantly, the growing importance of the Balkans cause was also reflected in the Islamist communiques claiming and explaining the bombing of the UN building in Baghdad. This was the most important and authoritative doctrinal statement of the Islamist leadership in August 2003.</p> <p>The statements stressed the situation in Bosnia as a major grievance of the Islamists against the UN and the West. The first statement was issued on August 19, 2003, by the Abu-Hafs al-Masri Brigades, itself a front group of al-Qaida. The Islamists claimed that UN officials “oversaw the massacre of Bosnian women and children in 1992 and 1995,” and that “the United Nations was responsible for the massacre of 7,000 Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995 because it sponsored the idea of ‘not establishing an Islamic state in Europe.’”</p> <p>On August 24,2003, the London-based Al-Muhajiroun, bin Laden’s primary mouthpiece in Europe, elaborated on this theme in order to explain why the UN building in Baghdad was a legitimate target: “Verily it was the UN soldiers in Bosnia who were recorded to have stood by when the barbaric Serbs massacred Muslims. The UN first decided to take away the weapons of the Muslims (fearing that they might actually defend themselves and establish Islamic rule) and thereby facilitated their massacre, and were then even photographed helping in the mass murder and gang rape of Muslim women and children. The wounds are still fresh.”</p> <p>The statements were clearly intended to compound the disinformation that 7,000 Muslims were killed in Srebrenica, when all independent forensic evidence points to Muslim casualties in the hundreds, possibly the low hundreds. Continued emphasis on such allegedly high numbers of Muslim deaths at Srebrenica also obfuscates the Muslim murders in that city, earlier, of Serb civilians.</p> <p>Indeed, the August 2003 statements and intelligence, leading up to the proposed September 2003 opening of the new Islamist shrine - built at Srebrenica with US funds - all support analysis that a significant new wave of terrorism, this time by many European Islamists, is to begin soon.</p> <p><br />Yossef Bodansky is the Director of the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the U. S. Congress, as well as the World Terrorism Analyst with the Freeman Center for Strategic Studies (Houston, Texas). He is a contributing editor of Defense and Foreign Affairs; Strategic Policy. He is a contributing expert at the Israel-based Ariel Center for Policy Research. He is the author of several books (Target America, Terror, Crisis in Korea, Offensive in the Balkans, Some Call it Peace, and Islamic Anti-Semitism as a Political Pursuit), as well as several book chapters, entries for the International Military and Defense Encyclopedia, and numerous articles in several periodicals, including Global Affairs, Jane’s Defense Weekly, Defense and Foreign Affairs: Strategic Policy, Nativ and Business Week. In the 1980s, he acted as a senior consultant for the Department of Defense and the Department of State.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><br />One has to note that since 2003, attacks have happened in London and numerous attempts elsewhere. Unfortunately the warnings in the past by experts, have yet to alert the mainstream media of the dangerous presence of terrorists in the Balkans.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-42561771075955397912007-06-07T12:38:00.001-04:002007-06-11T18:08:13.185-04:00Albanians Make Sicilians Look Good<a href="">Thousands fear as blood feuds sweep Albania | International News | News | Telegraph</a>: "Thousands fear as blood feuds sweep Albania<br /><br />By Bojan Pancevski and Nita Hoxha in Tirana, Sunday Telegraph<br />Last Updated: 12:39am BST 03/06/2007<br /><br />Stuck in their cottage outside the northern Albanian village of Mnela, 14-year-old Flori Bardoku and his younger sisters watch suspiciously whenever anybody makes the hour-long journey up the path to their home.<br /><br />The reason for their caution is understandable: while most of their trickle of visitors are villagers bearing food and gifts, they know that one day someone may come to kill them.<br /><br /.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-49873819601738472732007-06-07T12:37:00.000-04:002007-06-11T17:54:56.606-04:00TheStar.com - News - U.S-born Macedonian sells free-trade mission to the Western world<a href="">TheStar.com - News - U.S-born Macedonian sells free-trade mission to the Western world</a>: "Macedonia, one of the world's least-populated countries, is an unlikely candidate to take on the world's largest, China.<br /><br />But Gligor Tashkovich, its feisty Cornell-educated minister for foreign investment, wants the former Yugoslav republic of 2.2 million people to become the dragon slayer of the globalized economy, taking its place alongside Singapore as a booming industrial mini-state.<br /><br />'We have wage rates as low as China, and lower transport costs,' says Tashkovich, a 42-year-old communications expert who was born in New York state. 'We have the lowest cumulative taxes in Europe, and we have more than 40 free-trade agreements from Iceland to Turkey, a market of 650 million people.'<br /><br />In Canada this week on a whirlwind trade tour, he is hoping to attract investors who will launch businesses from computer hardware to food-processing plants. And, he says, rejecting Macedonia's sales pitch is not an option.<br /><br />'I don't accept no as an answer. If people ask why they should consider Macedonia, I tell them it's because we're offering a better deal.'<br /><br />Tashkovich is a true blue believer in Macedonia, with a family history to prove it. His grandfather, for whom he is named, was a prominent politician whose civil engineering firm built the parliament and presidential buildings in the Macedonian capit"<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-28568502440380058582007-06-06T11:30:00.000-04:002007-10-22T19:18:13.316-04:00Matthew Nimetz, What's in a Name?<span style="font-style: italic;">From: David Edenden</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">To: Mathew (?) Matthew (?) Niemitz (?) Nimetz (?) Nimitz (?)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">How do you spell your name? Inquiring minds want to know.</span><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href=""><br />BIRN</a><span style="font-style: italic;">, </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">The International Herald Tribune</a><span style="font-style: italic;">, </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">The BBC</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> and </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">Wikipedia</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> spell it Nimitz.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">The New York Tmes</a><span style="font-style: italic;">, and </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">The Council on Foreign Relations</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> spell it Nimetz.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The UN </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">(1)</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">(2)</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> and The US State Department </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">(1)</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">(2)</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> spell it both ways.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">As an </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">ethnic Macedonian</a><span style="font-style: italic;">, I am not one to besmirch anyone's identity so I really would like to spell you name correctly.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">You recently issued a </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">press release </a><span style="font-style: italic;">saying that you would continue as negotiator, after a number of years, in the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">Macedonian-Greek dispute</a><span style="font-style: italic;">. I would like to make the case that you should quit the role of negotiator, and issue a press release denouncing the US, EU and the UN for ignoring the plight of ethnic Macedonians in Greece in this negotiating process between Macedonian and Greece. Also, please write your memoirs on how this issue inflamed the Balkan wars in the 1990's since no one in the Balkans can trust the US, </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">EU</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> or the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">UN</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> to come to defend their human rights.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">On a personal level you should accept responsibility for for participating in a process, which after all is akin to cultural genocide, because you, Matthew Nimetz, have studiously avoided any discussion of the plight of </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">ethnic Macedonians in Greece</a><span style="font-style: italic;">, even though the US State Department report on Human Rights documented abuses.</span><a style="font-style: italic;" href=""> 1995</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">2006</a><span style="font-style: italic;">. It may be because of how your mandate was structured, but you could have responded to the Macedonian media by saying that Greece was wrong to suppress its </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">Macedonian minority.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">It is important to record your role, the role of the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">Greek Issues Caucus</a><span style="font-style: italic;">, the role of the US State Department, and the role of the UN in siding with the Greek government in it's demand that Macedonians change the name of their country, The Republic of Macedonia, their religion, the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">Macedonian Orthodox Church</a><span style="font-style: italic;">, and their language, </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="ttp://faq.macedonia.org/language/index.frame.html">Macedonian</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> and finally their national anthem </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">Denes Nad Makedonija -Today Above Macedonia</a><span style="font-style: italic;">. Your memoir can help the US reform their foreign policy process to really support democracy and human rights around the world.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Thank you and God bless.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-9077712068716508822007-05-09T17:47:00.000-04:002007-10-29T23:13:02.577-04:00VOA Makes it Offical: Terror Plotters Are Ethnic Albanians<span style="font-style: italic;">I think that the Voice of America is just rehashing the AP story below, that should have been run in the first place. I am really interested in what the CIA has to say about the relatives of these guys in Debar, Macedonia. The Macedonian Ambassador to the US should make it his job to find out now!<br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">It is only a matter of time when some leading politician in the US proclaims that if only the Albanians in Macedonia and Kosovo are allowed to join Albania, then terrorism in the Balkans would be solved. Expect something soon from Congressman Lantos.<br /><br />Watch for Macedonia to be blamed for the "Fort Dix Terror Plot".</span><br /><br /><a href="">Three Men Charged in US Terror Plot Are Ethnic Albanians</a><br /><a href="">VOA News </a><br /><br />Three of the six men who were arrested and charged with plotting to attack U.S. soldiers at the Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey are ethnic Albanian brothers born in Macedonia.<br /><br />Relatives of the three brothers interviewed in their hometown of Debar, a remote town on Macedonia's border with Kosovo, expressed anger and disbelief that the three would want to attack the United States. The relatives said they are all thankful to America for its support during the wars in Kosovo and Macedonia. The brothers are Dritan Duka, Shain Duka and Eljvir Duka. All three were illegal immigrants."<br /><br /><a href="">3 brothers implicated in Fort Dix plot had roots in fiercely pro-American region of Balkans, </a><br />International Herald Tribune, AP May 9th.<br /><br />Relatives in the ethnic Albanian-populated town of 15,000 said they had not seen the brothers in more than two decades, but expressed disbelief Wednesday that the three would attack the United States. <p>"We all have been supporters of America. We were always thankful to America for its support during the wars in Kosovo and Macedonia," a cousin, Elez Duka, 29, told The Associated Press.</p> <p>"These are simple, ordinary people and they've got nothing to do with terrorism. I expect their release and I expect an apology," he said, waving his hands. "I see injustice. These are ridiculous charges." <!-- today in links --> <br /></p><p>His indignation captured the mood among.</p> <!-- sidebar --> <div class="ISI_IGNORE" id="sidebar"><div class="sidebar_content_box"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span> </div> <!-- /today in links --> <!-- 170 x 60 ad --> <div align="center"> <!-- No ad for news_170x60_article --> </div> <!-- /170 x 60 ad --></div> <!-- /sidebar --><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-63634299485636188212007-05-09T15:03:00.000-04:002007-10-29T23:30:17.224-04:00Greek Caucus Up To ITs Old Tricks!<span style="font-style: italic;">While the is trying to assure the Serbs of Kosovo that their rights will be protected, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) and Congressman Tom Lantos are busy putting the boots to </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">ethnic Macedonians in Greece</a><span style="font-style: italic;">. If they really wanted peace in the Balkans, they can support the "</span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">Joint History Project for the Balkans</a><span style="font-style: italic;">". But they don't ... there's the rub!</span><br /><br /><a href="">UMD Sends Letter to Greek Caucus about H. Res. 356</a><br /><br />The United Macedonian Diaspora reacted swiftly to the unjust, insulting, and inaccurate house resolution that was introduced by the co-chairs of the Helenic Caucus Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) and Congressman Gus Bilirakis (R-FL). <a href="">Please read our action alert </a> to see how you can provide additional support to our efforts.<p></p> <p.</p> <p><br /.” </p> <p> </p> <p>You can read the full letter to the members of the Congress that participate in this Caucus by clicking <a href="" target="_blank" title="HERE">HERE</a>.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-4098257060979154902007-05-09T14:07:00.000-04:002007-05-09T14:29:17.779-04:00Lantos Offers Serbs and Macedonians in Sacrifce for Islamic Love<span style="font-style: italic;">This is a great site and it hits the nail on the head. Notwithstanding all that countries of "The West" have done to the Muslim world for the last two hundred years, offering to promote Albanian and Chechen Muslims in Europe is supposed to win kudos from from "jihadists of all color and hue" (yikes!). This is not as stupid as it seems. It is a very widespread concept, not just from the Democrat Lantos, but also by Stephen Schwartz from the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">Weekly Standard</a><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Looks like Lantos' Albanian pets are biting back!</span><br /><br /><a href="" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Ah, but the Jihadists HAVE Taken Note, Mr. Lantos!">Ah, but the Jihadists HAVE Taken Note, Mr. Lantos!</a><br />Posted by Julia under <a href="" title="View all posts in Republican Riot" rel="category tag">Republican Riot</a><br /><div class="post-content"> <p>Below is an exclusive report from Tuesday’s open hearing of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs:</p> <p>At the hearing, titled “The Outlook for the Independence of Kosova” (the Islamic and dhimmi spelling of the province), Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) — Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee — said the following:</p> <p></p><blockquote>.</blockquote>Clinton holdover Nicholas Burns, State Dept. Under Secretary for Political Affairs, was the special Witness. He reiterated the U.S. position that immediate independence without standards or compromise is the only acceptable solution, because the growing violence is what guides our Kosovo policy:<p></p> <blockquote><p.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Indeed, an Asia Times <a href="" target="_blank">commentary</a> futile path of befriending evil. Burns’ appalling response to Watson’s concerns:</p> <blockquote><p>…Kosovo is different… and we believe that achieving the independence of Kosovo will not lead others to justify similar treatment from the United Nations or from the United States itself. </p></blockquote> <p <a href="" target="_blank">Macedonia</a>, and <a href=";dd=08&nav_category=123&nav_id=38468" target="_blank">Montenegro</a> and parts of <a href="" target="_blank">Southern Serbia</a>.</p><p></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-50702893909925904392007-05-09T12:57:00.000-04:002007-05-09T13:19:12.124-04:00Three of Albanians arrested in US were born in Macedonia<span style="font-style: italic;">By David Edenden - This is the picture of one of the plotters according to Makfax. I don't know which one. Why are the Macedonian authorities "speaking under condition of anonymity". Shouldn't they get moving and investigate these guys?</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=""><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="" alt="" border="0" /></a>Three of Albanians arrested in US were born in Macedonia<br /><a href=";amp;amp;IdPublication=2&NrArticle=66800&NrIssue=341&NrSection=10">The independent news agency Makfax</a>: Skopje, 16:53<br /><br />Three of the Albanians arrested in USA under suspicions of plotting a terrorist attack were born in Macedonia.<br /><br />Speaking under condition of anonymity, a source of the Macedonian Interior Ministry confirmed this information to Makfax Agency.<br /><br />Duka brothers were born in Ohrid, i.e. Debar, and lived in the Debar's nearby village of Spas."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-30055165416044806382007-05-09T12:53:00.000-04:002007-05-09T17:59:41.438-04:00Albanian Organization Knew Terrorists Were Ethnic Albanians From Macedonia<span style="font-style: italic;">By David Edenden - While the media were scrambling to understand where the plotters came from, this press release from the National Albanian American Council (NAAC) dated Tuesday May 8th (yesterday) showed that they knew that the plotters were born in Macedonia. I wonder if the FBI contacted the Macedonian police to determine whether the plot extended there. Did the NAAC contact the Macedonian authorities. We don't know because the media don't seem to be interested.</span><br /><br /><a href="">National Albanian American Council Strongly Condemns the Planned Attack on Fort Dix Army Base in New Jersey</a>, (Press Release)<br /><br />WASHINGTON, May 8 /CNW/ -- Arm<a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="return false;" tabindex="0"><span></span></a> Base, included persons with 'radical jihadist views' with national origins from Turkey, Jordan, and Macedonia."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-10428033904874442522007-05-09T12:44:00.000-04:002007-05-09T14:54:19.485-04:00Islamic Exremists are Organizing in the Balkans<span style="font-style: italic;">By David Edenden - This is a great article about al Qaeda in the Balkans. In the past Macedonians and Serbs have been running around "with their hair on fire" but no one in Washington seemed to listen. Now they are listening.</span><br /><br /><a href="">Plot illustrates Balkans' role as Islamist foothold -- </a><br /><a href="">The Washington Times</a>: "<br /><br /.<br /><br /> .<br /><br /> The official pointed out that the Albanian government has been supportive of U.S. efforts to counter Islamic terrorist activities, including curbing logistics and financial aid, and working to prevent terrorists from receiving training and weapons.<br /><br /> But a Congressional Research Service report produced in 2005 said instability in Albania during the 1990s gave al Qaeda a "foothold" there.<br /><br /> ."<br /> Balkan Muslims also have been targets of al Qaeda recruitment efforts because they have an easier time blending in or evading U.S. and European security measures and border controls, which often are geared to identifying Middle Eastern extremists.<br /><br /> The State Department's latest annual report on international terrorism said the Albanian government has taken steps to stop terrorism financing but noted that "government and police forces faced substantial challenges to fully enforce border security and combat organized crime and corruption."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-13116200642538675302007-05-09T12:41:00.000-04:002007-05-09T14:59:39.172-04:00'Albanian' or 'Yugoslav' - You be the Judge!<span style="font-style: italic;">The mix up in the story regarding the ethnicity of the plotters originated with the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">FBI press</a> release and the subsequent AP story which just mirrored the release without bothering to ask the relevant questions. My Balkan heart tells me ... its a plot! Hoever, if the FBI was this confused about who the plotters were after over a year then ... pray!<br /><br /><a href="">Albanian' vs. 'Yugoslav' - Editorials/Op-Ed - </a><br /><a href="">The Washington Times, America's Newspaper</a>: "<br /><br /><br /.<br />: " .' "<br />.<br /> The American people are smart enough to figure it out. They need this information when it is available. As long as our news organizations fail to report the facts they know to be true, they are failing to do their job. They should not engage in "perception management."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-42455006049614050872007-05-08T20:13:00.000-04:002007-05-08T20:27:01.604-04:00Ethnic Albanians Plot to Attack U.S. Army Base!<span style="font-style: italic;">By David Edenden<br /><br /> With a headline like this, it can't get any better for the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">Serbs</a><span style="font-style: italic;">. It just may convince the US to heed Russia's advice and move slowly with regard to the independence of Kosovo. It has been a confused situation since the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">FBI press release</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> did not reveal the ethnicity of the plotters. They have been under investigation for the last number of months. One would expect that their home town in "the former Yugoslavia" would have been identified and be investigated. I smell a plot. They could be from Montenegro, Kosovo, Southern Serbia or even Macedonia with Debar being the prime suspect. Did the FBI contact Macedonia to see if the conspiracy extends there. If not, why not?</span><br /><br /><a href="">Six Men Held Over Plot to Attack U.S. Army Base </a><br /><a href="">New York Time May 8, 2007</a><br /><br /><br />"Media in Serbia's U.N.-run Kosovo province reported four of the six men were ethnic Albanians, either from Macedonia, Montenegro or Kosovo itself.<br /><br />The Islamic Community in Kosovo issued a statement saying it was ``shocked'' at news of the plot.<br /><br />``This case is particularly hard for us, knowing that people of our nation and our religion are involved,'' it said.<br /><br />The arrests were made on Monday night in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, a Philadelphia suburb where the Duka brothers live.<br /><br />U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Schneider ordered the men detained to face charges of plotting to kill military personnel and weapons possession. Each wore a prison jumpsuit and was shackled at the ankles.<br /><br />Sixteen family members including women wearing headscarves sat in the public benches. Some wept quietly."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-90308131344102239182007-05-07T14:02:00.000-04:002007-06-21T11:01:49.393-04:00Mike Rann To Greeks: Ever Heard of Vaseline?<span style="font-style: italic;">By: David Edenden<br /><br /><a href="">Human Rights Watch</a> should produce a list of politicians that enable human rights violations around the world. It does not have to be an exhaustive list of all politicians and all human rights violation ... start with the plight of Macedonians in Greece and Kurds in Turkey. Mike Rann would be top on the list. Next time some pandering politician flies all the way to Greece garner Greek votes at home by spitting on ethnic Macedonian identity, there should be a welcoming committee of <a href="">Macedonians waiting for him</a>.</span><br /><br /><blockquote>Premier of South Australia says Macedonia belongs to Greece<br /><a href="">Makfax vesnik</a><br /><br />Athens /07/05/ 17:13<br /><br />Macedonia belongs to Greece, like the Acropolis does, Mike Rann, the Premier of South Australia, said today in Athens.<br /><br />In the course of his visit to Greece, he met with the Minister of Macedonia & Thrace, Georgios Kalantzis, and the regional prefect Panayiotis Psomiadis.<br /><br />According to Greek newspaper Eleftherotypia, Rann said that no nation should steel the history and insignia belonging to another nation."</blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-20141092047997720352007-05-03T21:18:00.000-04:002007-05-03T21:37:33.126-04:00No UN Backing for Kosovo Independence!<span style="font-style: italic;">By David Edenden</span>: <a style="font-style: italic;" href="">I told you so!</a><br /><br />Ahtisaari's plan is facing failure by Frankfurter Rundschau':<br /><a href="">Makfax vesnik</a><br /><br />Frankfurt /03/05/ 18:09<br /><br />Martti Ahtisaari's plan on the future status of Kosovo is likely to fall through, writes the German daily Frankfurter Rundschau.<br /> <br />The paper says that such an outcome is lurking after completion of the UN Mission's visit to Belgrade and Pristina.<br /> <br />'UN delegation came back to New York filled with skepticism', the paper says, adding that unofficial assessments suggest that the plan is unlikely to win the necessary 9 out of 15 votes at the Security Council in order to pass.<br /> <br />According to the newspaper, only USA, Great Britain, France, Belgium and Italy have voiced unambiguous readiness to back the plan. Peru, Panama and Qatar are floating, while South Africa, Congo, Ghana, Indonesia and China are against in principle, whereas Slovakia and Russia are strongly opposing the adoption of the document.<br /> <br />Frankfurter Rundschau underlines that after the visit to Belgrade and Pristina, the South African Ambassador in UN said that the situation on the ground was drastically different to the one described in the UNMIK's reports."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-20104551249281100092007-05-03T21:17:00.000-04:002007-05-03T21:38:46.050-04:00FM Milososki at the meeting on International Compact for Iraq"FM Milososki at the meeting on International Compact for Iraq<br /><a href="">Macedonian_News_Service : Message: Daily Bulletin</a>:<br /><br />Sharm el-Sheikh, May 3 (MIA) - Macedonian FM Antonio Milososki on Thursday will lead Macedonian delegation in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt where he is to participate at the meeting on the International Compact for Iraq which represents initiative of the Iraqi government for new partnership with the international community.<br /><br />FM Milososki will deliver a short address before the participants of the meeting. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will also deliver an address and several countries among which the US, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Poland, Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Armenia, South Korea, Bahrain and Egypt confirmed the participation at ministerial level.<br />The basic goal of the International Compact for Iraq is realisation of the aspirations of the Iraqi people in establishing the united, federal democratic state, active member of regional and international organisations with prosperous economy in which private sector will dominate, Macedonian Foreign Ministry press release reads.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-40430667700622464402007-05-02T15:39:00.000-04:002007-05-03T21:40:16.860-04:00Let's Move to Macedonia - Lowest Taxes!<a href=""> No stopping flat-tax juggernaut</a><br /><div id="author"> <p class="article-date"> NEIL REYNOLDS, Globe and Mail, May 2, 2007 </p> </div><br />"OTTAWA — In one of its first acts last year, the newly elected government of,.<br />.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-42556343247508544162007-05-01T07:43:00.000-04:002007-05-03T21:43:13.263-04:00The Price of Kosovo<a href="">Global Politician</a>: "The Price of Kosovo<br />Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. - 4/30/2007<br /><br />Macedonia was most heavily damaged during <a href="">Operation Allied Force</a>..<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-43312490102957803172007-04-30T17:35:00.000-04:002007-12-20T17:50:16.957-05:00Ted Kotcheff: Listen Up!<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=""><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" >Robert Lantos, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><a href="">Ted Kotcheff</a>, Laifun Chung (</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" >Kotcheff's wife) 1980</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">By David Edenden:<br /><br />I think that you should make a movie of the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">Miss Stone Affair.</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> It would be interesting in today's paranoid anti-Muslim culture since we have "terrorist Christians" battling a lawful Muslim government. Could put the "war on terror" on its head.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Jane Fonda (</span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="">Dick and Jane</a><span style="font-style: italic;">!</span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></blockquote><a href="">Christian History Corner: The Day the Ransoming Began </a><br />A gripping new book details the first American missionary hostage crisis,<br />over 100 years ago. By Chris Armstrong | posted 05/23/2003<br /><b><br />O</b.<p class="text".</p><p class="text">We see this, and much else, with greater clarity in the account of the "Miss Stone Affair" recently published by Pulitzer prize-winning author Teresa Carpenter.</p><p class="text">Carpenter's book, <a href="" target="_blank" class="text">The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Modern Hostage Crisis</a> .</p><p class="text".</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-34765514635775351342007-04-30T17:33:00.000-04:002007-04-30T17:34:28.558-04:00Joana Popovska Your Going To Kiev!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=""><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Actress Joana Popovska wins prestigious award at Kiev festival<br /><a href=";IdPublication=2&NrArticle=65541&NrIssue=333&NrSection=10">Makfax vesnik</a>: "<br /><br />Bitola /30/04/ 16:56<br /><br />The actress of the Bitola Theatre, Joana Popovska, won the award for best female actress at the Kiev Theatre Festival 'Storm' for her role in the monodrama 'Chairs'.<br /><br />Popovska won the prestigious award in competition of 13 top actresses from Moldova, Poland, Armenia, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Russia.<br /><br />Eugene Ionescu's 'Chairs' was staged in June 2006 in the Bitola Theatre by the Serbian director Ljuba Miloshevic.<br /><br />This is the second international prize Popovska won for the role in Chairs, after winning the best actress award at the festival in Korca, Albania.<br /><br />'I have provided the funds for the trip to Ukraine by myself with assistance of sponsors, because the Bitola Theatre failed to give me any support, despite the official invitation from Kiev Theatre', said Joana Popovska."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489384.post-77451399997183498102007-04-30T17:31:00.000-04:002007-04-30T17:31:07.329-04:00This Will Not Protect Greece From Macedonia!US anti-missile shield might be deployed in Greece too<br /><a href="">Makfax vesnik</a>: "<br /><br />Athens /30/04/ 17:26<br /><br />The possibility of deployment of parts of the anti-missile defence shield proposed by Washington in Greece is not ruled out, the Greek daily Eleftherotypia cited Foreign Ministry's announcement as saying.<br /> <br />The press release says that 'the general threats and challenges impose the need of covering parts of Greece with the US's anti-missile defence shield'."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>davidedenden@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com0
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+Today, Aaron, 37, continues to serve a 30-year prison sentence in the Federal Medical Center, a federal prison, in Lexington. Unless he is granted a pardon, he won’t be released until June 21, 2025. He will be 48 years old, and he will be starting his life over. A life that he always dreamed would include marriage, a family and a successful career as a pediatrician.
+But, a trip to Florida changed all of that. It’s a trip he wishes he had never taken.
+Spring Break trip from hell
+The morning of his arrest, Aaron, 23 years old at the time, was asleep in a hotel room off I-75 in Gainesville, Fla. He was a senior at Bellarmine University and majoring in pre-med. Like many college students, Aaron wanted to enjoy a few days of Spring Break, and his father, Terry Glasscock, provided an all-expenses paid trip to Florida with just one task. He was to drive his father’s friend to Florida and once his business was complete, drive him back home. Aaron’s father and his father’s friend were allegedly buying older homes in Florida, repairing them, and then selling them.
+“I was taken by and shown one of these project houses where I helped my father with some electrical wiring,” Aaron wrote. “However, this was apparently a ruse to quell any suspicions I may develop. It worked, for I never doubted my father for a moment, nor did I question him about anything. I just wanted him in my life, unlike the many years after my parents divorce when he did not exercise his visitation rights.”
+In hindsight, Aaron said his trustfulness kept him from seeing anything suggesting the presence of illegal activity.
+The morning after his arrival in Florida, D.E.A. agents came through the door of his hotel room. Aaron said he didn’t understand what was happening, but later learned that a pickup truck, registered in his name, had been stopped two hours away from his hotel room and had been searched. A large sum of cash - $900,000 - was found in a secret compartment in the bottom of an auxiliary diesel fuel tank located in the bed of the truck. The agents believed the money was intended for the purchase of powder cocaine from undercover D.E.A agents.
+“I was stunned by what the D.E.A. agents were telling me,” Aaron wrote.
+Arrested with Aaron was Walter Penick of Lebanon.
+Aaron’s father, Terry, was arrested the next day in Lebanon.
+In December of 1999, after four trials, including a mistrial and two hung juries, Aaron was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
+His father, Terry Glasscock, was convicted on the same charge. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison. A federal jury also ordered Terry Glasscock to pay $400,000, and forced him to forfeit his Mayes Chapel Road home and some farmland to the U.S. government.
+The Glasscocks were accused of being part of a multi-million dollar cocaine ring that operated between Florida and Lebanon. Greg Boswell, a Bradfordsville nightclub owner, was convicted of leading the ring. He and Terry Glasscock were co-defendants in the same trial. Sentenced to life in prison, Boswell was ordered by the federal jury to pay $16 million to the U.S. government.
+The federal government also seized property, bank accounts, businesses and vehicles that belonged to him, his family members and business associates.
+Maintaining his innocence
+During all four of his trials, Aaron said he could not bring himself to plead guilty.
+“I was a pawn in a game I didn’t know was being played,” Aaron wrote.
+While pleading guilty might have led to a shorter sentence, he just couldn’t do it. The Enterprise asked Aaron if he ever wished he had pled guilty so that he would have received a shorter sentence.
+“I would be lying if I said that I hadn’t thought about it,” Aaron wrote. “In the end, though, I had my reasons. Any conviction spelled the end of practically a life long dream to be a doctor. The chance to continue that dream outweighed the chance of conviction. Though having four trials weighed heavily upon me, mainly because of the effects on my family, I stuck with that stubborn desire. Whether it was the right decision or not… hopefully God will let me know on Judgement Day.”
+And while Aaron said his involvement in the crime was unintentional, the guilt he has felt has been punishment enough.
+“Having time to reflect, my naïveté is not an excuse, and because of my action, illicit drugs could have been introduced into my community,” Aaron wrote. “Even though my role was unintentional, I am responsible for it. As a person who has sought since I was 7 years old to help children who are sick, like I was as a child, by becoming a pediatrician, I may have unwittingly caused them harm. This realization has haunted me from the moment when the covers were removed from my eyes on March 11, 1999. No matter how much I regret my role, I cannot change it. This truth is a driving force that will ensure I will never be quite so trusting again. It also provides me with a renewed vigor to find ways to inform children of the dangers of illicit drugs and the dangers of any association with those involved in drugs.”
+Seeking a second chance
+Aaron’s family, friends and fellow Marion Countians are trying, for a second time, to get a pardon issued for Aaron. Their first request was denied a year ago. However, they haven’t given up hope that it could happen, especially his mother, Pigeon Deep.
+“I don’t think I would survive without that hope,” Deep said. “If you don’t have hope, you don’t have anything.”
+The past 15 years for Deep have been difficult, to say the least. It’s her faith, and Aaron’s unwavering faith, that have helped her cope.
+“I guess I would have already gone crazy if it wasn’t for our faith and Aaron being so strong with his faith,” she said. “I think we kind of hold each other up. His faith is the only thing that has helped him in there. He could harbor bad feelings, but he walks around with a smile and tries to help people there.”
+As a mother, Deep said one of the most difficult aspects of all this is that she can’t fix it. It’s out of her control.
+“As a mother, you’re used to fixing everything and you can’t fix it. It’s awful,” she said.
+Deep talks to her son every other day on the telephone and they email each other almost every day. She visits him as much as possible, and tries to arrange for him to have at least one visitor every week.
+Deep desperately hopes her son is granted a pardon so he can begin his life outside of prison walls. The world has missed out on 15 years of Aaron as a contributing member of society, according to Deep.
+“I think of the things he could have already accomplished, with not only his brains, but his heart… and his faith,” she said. “I think about what he could do on all different levels… with his personality... his love… all of what God has given him… the person that God made him to be.”
+However, Deep also realizes she’s not the one in control.
+“It’s going to be whatever God wants,” she said. “We just have to pray to God and ask him. God is the one in control.”
+Deep has asked family, friends, local community members and local and state leaders to write letters on Aaron’s behalf so that she can include them with her request for a pardon. State Rep. Terry Mills said, while a state legislator has very little control in a situation like this because it’s a federal conviction, he said he’s willing to take the risk.
+“I sense that the community is sympathetic to Aaron’s cause,” Mills said. “And I feel obligated to try and help in some way.”
+Mills said he’s contacted Gov. Steve Beshear’s office to see if he would be willing to help. He also intends to write to Congressman John Yarmuth and ask what he could do to help Aaron.
+“It sounds like such a sad situation,” Mills said. “It seems like a waste of a young man who is capable of giving so much.”
+While he can’t make a pardon happen he said he wants to do anything within his power to help.
+“I want to do everything I can to right this wrong,” Mills said.
+State Sen. Jimmy Higdon said he is also more than willing to help with Aaron’s cause. He disagrees with the mandatory minimum sentencing laws that require binding prison terms of a particular length for people convicted of certain federal and state crimes. These sentencing laws undermine justice by preventing judges from fitting the punishment to the individual and the circumstances of their offenses, Higdon said.
+“This federal minimum sentencing is really one of the most unfair things I’ve ever experienced,” he said. “I understand the crackdown on drugs and being tough on crime, but each case needs to be looked at individually. In this case, the minimum sentencing doesn’t allow that and that’s a real injustice. Each prisoner should be judged on their own merit whether they should be eligible for parole.”
+Making a difference, even behind prison walls
+During the almost 15 years he’s been in prison, Aaron continues to better himself and help other inmates. He’s worked as a clerk for the prison’s law library and has also worked in the facilities department as a draftsman. After completing his apprenticeship in architectural drafting, he accepted a position in the UNICOR as a quality assurance clerk. He was responsible for writing quality inspection procedures for the extended cold weather clothing system used by various military branches. He currently works in the UNICOR Customer Service Center at FMC Lexington.
+“I am not perfect, but I have, and continue to, strive towards something better in life… God’s purpose,” Aaron wrote.
+While working in these various jobs, he’s taken every opportunity available to learn new things. He received his certification from the National Federation of Professional Trainers as a personal trainer along with a certification in sports nutrition. He also completed two college courses, physics and sociology, from Ohio University with a 4.0 GPA. He’s taken classes in spiritual development, Residents Encounter Christ (R.E.C.), yoga, real estate, ceramics, black history and circuit training.
+Aside from trying to better himself, Aaron tries to help other inmates in various ways. He’s been a tutor and helped fellow inmates prepare for the G.E.D. He’s also taught classes in nutrition, a personal trainer course, Bible studies, and exercise classes in spinning and circuit training. He’s assisted in health fairs and helped fellow inmates understand how to improve their physical health.
+When he’s released from prison, he plans to speak to local youth about the dangers of drugs and associating with people who are involved with drugs.
+“My journey in life has been infantile, with many blessings yet to be experienced and shared,” Aaron wrote. “To extinguish a young life, full of potential, with an excessive prison term is unproductive to an overcrowded prison system and unjust to those whom I would have the opportunity to reach otherwise.”
+While Aaron hasn’t given up on the promise of a life outside of prison walls, in the meantime, he continues to try and keep a positive outlook on his future.
+“I am at peace with God and I hold onto my faith and trust in His plan for me,” he wrote.
+TO WRITE TO AARON
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+Q & A WITH AARON GLASSCOCK
+When you wake up each morning, is it still hard to believe that this is your life?
+After all this time I’ve become accustomed to this being my life, at least for now. So, when I wake up in the mornings I’m just thankful to God for another day. I try to get the most out of that day as possible. That is probably a hard concept for many to grasp but I’ve found that life is about perspective, it is as good or bad as you perceive it to be.
+What do you miss the most about being outside of those prison walls?
+Wow, narrowing it down to one, this is difficult. There is the freedom of doing what you want. Then there is the peace and quiet that is a rare commodity in here. Oh, and the food… I miss a good steak. But, I guess what I miss the most, and what hurts me the most, is not being there when my family and friends could use me the most. The other things I’ve adjusted to, but that I haven’t.
+If things had been different… what do you think your life would be like now?
+That would be hard to really say. I was on a path to become a pediatrician, but I can’t predict what may have happened. I had made the decision at about 7 years old to become a doctor. Of course, at that time I had never heard of a pediatrician, so that direction came later. My reasoning for this choice boils down to one person, Dr. Salem George. As a kid I was sick quite often, and when I got sick… boy did I get sick. Dr. Salem and all the nurses in his office always went out of their way to get me well. Dr. Salem would even call at night to check on me. I just wanted to give back some of that love and compassion in healing to other kids, like he did for myself and many others.
+Would you have a family, do you think? What have you envisioned?
+I always envisioned that I would have been married with three or four little ones. I guess that a lot of my generation had that as part of their projected future.
+Where do you think you would be living?
+By now I would hopefully had made it back to Lebanon, but who knows. There was a program when I was in college that would pay for medical school if you agreed to work in a county in Kentucky that was underrepresented by doctors. My plan was to participate in this program, therefore I would have possibly stayed in the county I was guided to. Knowing myself I wouldn’t have been able to leave my patients.
+How do you think you would be making a difference in your community?
+I would like to believe that I would be working through my church helping spread the message of God’s love through my actions. Whether it be making house calls to those that are sick or helping after natural disasters. Just lending a hand wherever it was needed.
+Without rehashing everything that occurred in 1999, if you could do one thing differently involving that entire situation, what would it be?
+Not drive to Florida.
+If you had an opportunity to talk to your father today, what would you say?
+(Aaron declined to answer this question.)
+Give me an idea of what your day-to-day life is like right now…
+Do you remember the movie “Groundhog Day?” Life is sort of like that here, every day is pretty much the same. It really makes it hard to quantify the passing of time because of that. A typical day for me begins at 6 a.m. when I awake. Before I get out of bed I give a quick thanks to God for just having another day. I then get ready for the day. After dressing and such I gather up my laundry to be dropped off at the central laundry area and head off to eat breakfast. They have 10 minute moves, sort of like in school, so I wait until they have the call to work at 7:45 a.m. Except for a 35-minute lunch, and any appointment in the day, I’m there until 3:30 p.m. I work at a customer service center that supports the Federal Prison Industries (tradename UNICOR). My job has me doing an array of tasks, but my main job is as a research analyst, creating and running reports (charts and graphs) for the corporate office in Washington D.C.
+After work it is back to the housing unit for a stand-up security count at 4 p.m. Once this count is cleared, between 4:40 p.m. and 5:15 p.m., there is a move to recreation. After I exercise I head back to my housing unit, on another move around 7 p.m. At this point I check my email, pick up my mail and call my mom. Afterwards, I fix myself something to eat, take a shower and catch up on the news in my newspapers. By 10:30 p.m., after reading some, I say my prayers and go to sleep… and the cycle continues.
+How have you stayed so positive?
+I am at peace with God and I hold onto my faith and trust in His plan for me. No, I’m not perfect because I do have down days like everyone else. But, by starting the day giving thanks to God for the blessings He has given me (a loving family, friends and church family, among a few) I’m able to start on the right foot. From there, I try to make the best of my circumstances. Whether that be helping others, being a witness through my actions, or bettering myself by learning something new. There are just too many people who have it much worse than me to walk around negative all the time. Perspective!
+If you were released from prison today, what is the first thing you would do?
+Hug my mom. Yeah, I get to do that on visits, but it would be different. She has been my biggest champion. Always there, no matter what. She’s the greatest person I’ve ever met, though I might be biased.
+You will be almost 50 years old when you are released. While other 50-year-olds will be contemplating retirement, you will basically be starting over. What do you envision that being like?
+Very, very difficult. I am fortunate to have a tremendous support system in place, but I’ve never been comfortable not doing things myself. Even with this support system, there will be numerous obstacles in place, mainly this conviction. A lot of employers see that you have a criminal past and will look over you completely, whether you are a viable candidate or not. Then, of course, there are so many things to do: driver’s license, insurance, etc. Another major hurdle will be the adjustment back to regular society. Prison is a society in itself with different mores and mindsets, so it is a leap on that first day to begin re-adjusting to normal.
+What would you want to say to your friends? Your classmates? Your fellow Marion Countians? What would you want them to know?
+A man was going through a very tough time. Daily he was crying out to God to take his cross from him because it was more than he could bear. One night, God came to the man in a dream. God told him that he had heard his prayers and come to remove his cross for him. But God told the man that everyone has a cross to bear, so God was going to allow the man to choose from a closet full of crosses, one he thought he could bear. The man went to the door and opened it. Inside he saw crosses so large he couldn’t see their tops all the way to the smallest cross leaning against the wall in the back. Seeing the smallest cross in the room the man thought, “I can handle that cross.” So the man tells God, “That is the cross I want.” God looked at the man and said, “That is the cross I took from you.”
+The problems and tribulations we face aren’t so bad when we put them in perspective. The next time you are faced with a problem so tough you don’t believe you can handle… pray not for it to be removed, but for the strength to endure.
+If you had one wish right now, what would it be?
+That my loved ones are healthy and have everything they need and desire. I would gladly give my freedom for that!
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+Major League Baseball already has the harshest performance-enhancing drug policy in professional American sports, but it could get even tougher.
+Such is the consensus of the day. MLB Players Association executive director Michael Weiner recently told the New York Daily News that he's not ruling out a harsher system of penalties in the wake of the Biogenesis scandal, and he indicated that players are on board with the idea.
+“I’m not surprised the players are disgusted with [the] Miami [situation],” Weiner said. “The players are sick of this issue.”
+MLB commissioner Bud Selig is also in favor of tightening up the penalties, telling USA Today:.
+Selig declined to go into specifics about what he's looking for, saying simply that he believes in "stronger penalties" and that the league and the union "need to do everything possible to deter the use of performance-enhancing drugs."
+To this end, a truly perfect system of deterrents would consist of the following.
+One-Year Ban for First-Time Offenders
+If MLB and the union want to deter would-be cheaters, their first move should be to forge a bigger banhammer. The league's 50-game ban for a first-time offense should become a full-season ban.
+The penalties for first-time offenders to this point haven't been threatening enough. The 10-day bans for first-time offenders included in the first system of penalties were a joke. There were a dozen of those handed out in 2005 (see Baseball-Almanac.com). One went to veteran slugger Rafael Palmeiro, who had vehemently denied ever using steroids to Congress just several months earlier.
+The current punishments—50 games for one offense, 100-games for a second and a lifetime ban for a third—were put in place in winter of 2005. The results have been better...but only to a degree.
+Between 2006 and 2011, the league issued 13 50-game suspensions and would have issued a 100-game suspension to Manny Ramirez had he not escaped his second PED ban in 2011 by retiring.
+But last year was the real wake-up call. After catching only four players in 2010 and 2011, MLB handed out five 50-game suspensions and one 100-game suspension to Guillermo Mota.
+Melky Cabrera, Bartolo Colon and Yasmani Grandal were nabbed for using testosterone, and it's disconcerting that the three of them benefited from using. Cabrera was on his way to winning a batting title at the time he was suspended in August. Colon had a 3.43 ERA through 24 starts. Grandal compiled an .863 OPS and hit eight homers in only 60 games as a rookie.
+MLB has since tightened up its testing procedure for testosterone and human growth hormone, but the writing is on the wall that making the testing tougher is only half the battle. There are always going to be more drugs for players to take and different ways for them to avoid testing.
+The threat of a 50-game suspension clearly isn't enough to stop players from seeking out ways to cheat, so it follows that MLB needs a more menacing threat. And once you go from 10 games to 50 games for a first-time offense, the next logical step is a full-season ban.
+That would mean an awful lot of money left on the table, seeing as how these suspensions are without pay, which is enough of a deterrent in and of itself.
+But why stop there?
+Voidable Contracts
+It's extremely difficult for an MLB team to void a contract, particularly if a team means to use a PED violation as an excuse to do so.
+Case in point, see the Alex Rodriguez situation. Wallace Matthews and Andrew Marchand of ESPNNewYork.com reported in January that the New York Yankees were looking into voiding A-Rod's contract after his name surfaced in the Miami New Times report on the Biogenesis clinic, but there are a few things standing in the Yankees' way.
+One, obviously, is that A-Rod hasn't been punished yet. The Yankees need him to actually be deemed guilty before they can even hope to act.
+Even then, the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program states (see page 28) that only the league is allowed to discipline players for PED violations. Voiding a player's contract would indeed be a form of discipline.
+"Baseball's drug policy was specifically written so that teams can't do things like this," a source told Matthews and Marchand. "You can't use this to try to get out of the last years of a contract."
+The agreement does allow teams to take "adverse action" against a player if he is rendered unable to play by physical or mental issues resulting from his PED violation, and clubs are also allowed to withhold money from a player if "he is unavailable because of legal proceedings or incarceration arising from his violation of the Program."
+However, clubs are always going to have a hard time pursuing either of those avenues. Players using PEDs is much more of a baseball issue than a legal issue, and proving a player is broken down because of PED use is a huge headache in and of itself.
+MLB and the union can greatly simplify matters by allowing and even encouraging teams to pursue specific contract language that gives them the option of voiding a contract if a player commits a PED violation. It would be the team's decision to keep honoring the player's contract or to just cut him loose as a free agent.
+And that's another area where MLB should look to add a deterrent for would-be cheaters.
+Free-Agent Cheaters Should Only Be Guaranteed the Minimum
+Players are always going to be tempted to use PEDs, in large part because of the paycheck they could potentially get after posting juiced-up numbers.
+Take Cabrera and Colon, for example. They were both caught and suspended in August last year, but both still managed to do well in free agency.
+Cabrera got a two-year, $16 million contract from the Toronto Blue Jays. That's a far cry from the contract he would have gotten as a free agent had he not been suspended, but that's still not a bad raise for a guy who made only $6 million in 2012.
+Colon didn't do as well as Cabrera, but he still did all right. After making $2 million in 2012, Colon re-signed with the Oakland A's for $3 million guaranteed. Per Cot's Baseball Contracts, his deal also includes over $2 million in performance bonuses.
+These two proved that it's still possible for known cheaters to get raises in free agency, and that's something that can't be sitting well with Selig.
+One thing Selig can do is move to implement a rule that allows free-agent players who are fresh off PED suspensions to only receive the major league minimum for one year in their next contracts. Per MLB's CBA, that's around $500,000.
+Restricting teams to offering only the major league minimum for one year would obviously create a bidding problem, so MLB would have to grant teams the option of adding performance bonuses to their offers. That would allow a player to pick from several different contracts rather than a collection of identical offers.
+Known cheaters could still benefit financially in a system such as this, but they'd have to perform on a level playing field in order to do so.
+And before you ask, MLB could make sure these players would be performing on a level playing field by keeping a much closer eye on them.
+Extra Random Testing for Known Offenders
+MLB's PED program calls for players to submit urine tests upon reporting to spring training. Beyond that, both urine and the new HGH blood tests are random and unannounced.
+Known users have it tougher, as the Program calls (page 13) for them to be subjected to three unannounced tests in a 12-month period following their initial violation.
+That's an area where MLB can up the ante by subjecting known users to even more random tests, thus making it even harder for those who would cheat again to avoid getting caught red-handed.
+In particular, that's a real concern with testosterone. BALCO founder Victor Conte told the New York Daily News in August that testosterone creams can clear one's system in a matter of hours, meaning there's a very small window in which testosterone users can be caught red-handed.
+Additional random testing would be a strong deterrent because a player who has it in mind to cheat again would be doing so with a great amount of risk. A test one day could just as easily be followed up by another test the next day as another test a couple weeks or a month down the line. It would be impossible for would-be cheaters to come up with a safe plan.
+In the event that a player is busted a second time, that's when he should really be in trouble.
+Permanent Lifetime Ban for Second-Time Offenders
+Right now, MLB is using a three-strikes-and-you're-out rule, as it takes three PED violations to earn a lifetime ban.
+If MLB makes the penalty for a first-time offense a one-year ban, the next logical step would be to make the penalty for a second offense a lifetime ban. Instead of three strikes and out, it would be two strikes and out.
+This possibility already has some support among players, including Colorado Rockies outfielder Michael Cuddyer. Here's what he told The Denver Post in February:
+I think 100 percent guys would be for it..
+St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday feels the same way. Here's what he said on MLB Network Radio in January, via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
+I’d go first time (you get caught) you miss a full season, 162 games you’re out. And then the second time I think you are suspended for a lifetime with the eligibility after two years maybe to apply for reinstatement. That’s what I would do. I feel like that’s pretty harsh but I think that’s what we need...
+Holliday brought up a good point about the possibility of a player being able to apply for reinstatement following a lifetime ban. MLB's program (page 22) allows players to apply for reinstatement one year after their lifetime suspension is imposed, and they can be cleared to return two years after the fact.
+Do you think MLB needs to adopt a two-strikes-and-out rule to curb PED use?
+That's the one complication of the whole lifetime ban thing. If a player gets himself suspended for life under the current rules, it's not a given that he'll actually be suspended for life.
+But Cuddyer was on to something with his comment. If MLB is going to suspend players for life, it should suspend them for life, period. No applications for reinstatement. No possibility of ever playing again.
+That would indeed be an effective deterrent, especially if it was mixed with the other deterrents outlined above. Getting one strike would make a player's life extremely difficult, and the second strike would be final.
+Note: Stats courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com.
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+Fan-Fic Fridays: "On the Edge of Mystery" Chapter 8: An Eye and a Symbol
+This chapter should be fun as you'll see the references to "Eye of the Beholder, Parts 1 and 2"
+This probably could have been posted a little sooner than now, but I studied up and refreshed my memory on Race to the Edge so I would get the references down good. So I hope you enjoy them. There are plenty more in stock for the upcoming chapters.
+Mystery wise, things will really start to pick up, as you'll see at the end of this chapter.
+When I answer a question, I ask an even bigger on in the mystery. The bigger one in question is on the last paragraph.
+Tell me what you think is the impact of the connection.!
+Du,du,dduuuuuu!
+XD
+anyway,I wonder if that they are conected.
+Also,i need a recap on who Sirena is,sadly,to see if she is conected to one of my other dragons.
+Hello my friends! Welcome to my (contructing) signature!
+*ahem* Excuse my behavior if I start to act crazy...
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+On the Edge of Mystery
+Chapter 8
+An Eye and a Symbol
+“I didn’t want to go all the way to Gothi’s,” Adam spoke as my whole family ran out the door; Dagmar had been awakened by Adam’s knock, and so she came too. “I feared it would take too long going there and coming back. So as I had found my sister and checked her over as best I could, I saw that you guys must have gotten back because I saw your fireplace was lit. So I came over as soon as I saw the light.”
+Adam was about ready to take the normal path around to their house. But since time is of the essence, I led them a different way. We had run down the rest of the way past the row of houses my family’s house is and came to the part where Adam wanted to take. My family’s house is on one of the middle, shall we say, “house floors” of Berk. The Thorvald’s house is on the lowest “floor”, not including the docks.
+We came to edge and I explained while showing them at the same time, “Jump onto of the house….. Slide off the roof….. and round the bend.”
+Everybody else followed suit. Once on this lower level, we went to the right, under the one walkway bridge, ran across the waterfall bridge, rounded the corner, and entered the Thorvald’s house.
+“She’s in her room,” Adam pointed upstairs. “Vemund is with her.”
+Father and mother told me and my sisters to wait down here. Father and mother have said they have studied medicine off and on throughout their lives and especially on their travels abroad; because out on the sea one might have to do several different jobs such as Healer, Sheriff, and Protector. Mother has studied it more under Gothi, so she knows a little bit more than father, but they are both pretty good.
+My sisters, Dagmar, and I are tired because we were getting ready to sleep, even more so after running, but we were in no mood to sleep now.
+After sitting on some chairs and staring at random things while waiting; staring at things mainly to keep awake, even though I did not feel like going to sleep. The others finally came downstairs with the news.
+Asvord was the first to say, “How is she?”
+“She will be fine,” mother responded. “All she needs is rest.”
+“I can rest after I tell you guys what happened,” came Annett from behind; Vemund is helping her down the stairs and to chair to sit down. Annett needed a minute before starting.
+Asvord questioned, “By what you saw, what happened to Annett?”
+Father answered, “She does have bumps and bruises and cuts, but I can say this: She was not attacked. How was she when she first came to the house, besides the obvious?”
+Adam came from behind as he was the last to come downstairs, “Vemund was already at the house, I was just about ready to come in the door when I saw Annett coming in from the side. She slumped against the side of the house as I rushed to help her into the house. I told Vemund to take care of her while I went and got you. Seeing your family return from your quest, I knew I could come to you right away and request your help. Like I said before, it would have taken too long to get Gothi as Annett needed immediate assistance. I ran to get you and we came back.”
+Knowing that Annett was alright, I started to get up and walk over to what I had been staring at the whole time: Annett’s blue amulet. Pebbles must have been laying nearby, as he also got up when I got up and walked over with me. I studied what she had on her desk. Jewels jumped on the desk and sat, wanting me to pet her.
+Pebbles is Adam’s cat Annett gave him before he left their home island, because of what happened with Vemund. Pebbles is what I believe to be a Calico color, by what my mom says on the color markings for cats. Pebbles has orange eyes and the markings of black of the other two Calico colors, browns and tans and of course white, look like “pebbles” laying on him, hence why Adam called him that. Jewels is Annett’s cat, which is much older than Pebbles. Jewels is all gray with rich, deep, blue eyes; also why Annett named her Jewels. Pebbles came from Jewels’ litter. Even though young in age, Pebbles is bigger than Jewels. Pebbles must have had big paws as a kitten; mother says this is a sign for animals like these that they are going to be big when full grown adults.
+Since it was so late at night, my mind could not process much at the same time. So between thinking and studying Annett’s desk, I only got bits and parts of what Annett said when she explained what had happened to her.
+While Annett talked and I petted Jewels, noticed something peculiar. Jewels rubbed on some of Annett’s books, on her desk, which were leaned up against the corner of the wall. No, that is not what I thought was peculiar, it is the symbol on one of the book’s binding. It was a blue book and the symbol on the binding reminded me of something. Something I had recently seen, but my tired brain just could not remember. So I logged it away while I looked in the book. Reading a few excerpts out of the book, I realized the book is a diary. A diary of the Thorvald’s time on their home island before that whole thing happened with Vemund turning to the dark side and Adam being banished from the Thorvalds’ main island. The rest of that story is already known.
+I was going to ask her about the diary later, but first I wanted to ask her about the blue amulet. Stepping back from the desk, I still studied the amulet. The natural beauty of the gem is mesmerizing to look at. Each time you tilt it, the light sparkles and shines off of it.
+Annett finished her story. So piecing together what I heard, this is what happened in-a-nutshell: Annett goes fishing. Annett is done fishing. Annett hears what sounds like a cry for help. Investigating the noise, it leads her inside a cave. Searching for a few minutes, suddenly thunder can be heard. Cave-in imminent, Annett tries to escape, but trips, falls, hits her head, and she is out cold. She awoke to find it night outside as she could tell she was close to the cave’s entrance. Thankfully, some of the support beams of the cave had stopped the cave-in from coming down completely on her legs. Annett was able to pry herself from under the beam, which had landed on her, and escaped. Once out from under the beam, the rest of the cave-in caved in. Annett worked her way back to Berk before Adam found her at their house.
+There was a short pause, after Annett was done, someone was probably about to say, “Goodnight,” or something, but I asked, “What’s this?”
+Annett stood up, though with help from her brother Adam, walked over to the stairs, I met her over there, and she said, “Oh that. The blue amulet holds quite an adventure under, the sparkles that it shines. But it is getting quite late for any of us to be up, so I’ll tell you tomorrow.”
+I chuckled, “Now you got me thinking about what the adventure might be.”
+“That’s why I said it,” Annett smiled.
+Though I chuckled at her remark, it went away rather quickly at how Annett was walking. She must have really injured herself or she is very sore.
+My family and I all said, “Goodnight,” to the Thorvalds and wished Annett to be feeling better and heal soon.
+As we started back to our house, I declared, “I’m so tired right now, I could probably run home, get in bed, and still fall asleep.”
+Asvord, Elsa, and I were in front of father, mother, and Dagmar. I glanced over at Asvord and Elsa on my left, they glanced back at me. We stared… and then bolted off towards the house. We told our parents and Dagmar, “Goodnight,” before we took off.
+If this was earlier in the night or in the day, I would have gotten a little more creative in how I got back to our house. I am too tired and sleepy to boot. Asvord won the footrace back to the house, Elsa got second, and me third. I probably would have said some witty remark, but the only thing on my mind is: SLEEP.
+Going up stairs, taking off my tunic, I fell into bed. I probably went right to sleep the moment my head hit the pillow… which is probably because the hit knocked me unconscious; though being as sleepy as I was, probably helped matters.
+The last thing I remember is Asvord saying, “I would do tha-.”
+She was probably thinking of the previous times I did the same thing.
+The next morning started like most any other morning. Got up, got my normal attire for the day: Yellow-gold sleeveless shirt with belt, brown-gold pants, my normal brown bracers though still with a Tidal Class symbol on them, and my brown boots. I ate breakfast with the rest of the family. Father went to go check on the farm and feed the animals, mother and Dagmar cleaned up the house some before starting on some sewing, Asvord and Elsa came with me when I went off to work at Gobber’s shop. We took our dragons with us, though Spiker and Meatballs would roam around some and play with each other or Meatballs would find a rock or stone good for munching. Fredrick… well he just napped the entire time. I wanted to do the same, but he does this even when he is well rested!
+Though the one thing that is on all our minds: Are the Academy riders okay?
+The only thing I could do, so time would pass, was work. Work on the catapults, repair the one I had broke, and also a few others that were more mechanical problems.
+My work was off to the eastside next to the shop in which Gobber is working. Asvord and Elsa just sat on some crates outside the shop and watched me work. Being the sisters that they are, tried to give me some advice on how to fix some of the catapults, “Who is the one that has the job and was put in charge of fixing these catapults?” Though one case, Asvord told me not to do something, I did not heed her warning as “I knew what I was doing”, yet the hammer brushed the edge of the nail and hit left thumb.
+“I told you not to hold the nail like that,” Asvord stated. “You weren’t doing that before?”
+“I’ve asked around Berk why men have the most accidents, and I couldn’t find an answer,” I said. “Now I know why.”
+I smirked at my sister… she just stuck her tongue out at me.
+I then stated as I stood up to take a breath, though still trying to shake the pain out of my thumb, “It is now nearly lunch and the Aca-.”
+Elsa then hopped down and pointed up in the sky, “Look! Here they come now.”
+Asvord remarked to me and knocked on the back of my head, “Lunch is several hours off. The clock in your noggin’ is just off because you haven’t had a lot of sleep.”
+I turned and saw them coming, yet Hiccup was not with them.
+They landed in front of Gobber’s shop and dismounted.
+“I’m glad you kids are all right,” Gobber said coming out of his shop; my sisters and I came from this side of the shop to meet them.
+“Me too,” I replied. “I gathered up a posse the moment I spoke to Trader Johann that there were Giant Eels at The Ship Graveyard. Obviously we did not make it there in time to warn you about the eels because the Trader forgot another important detail again.”
+“Tell me about,” Snotlout interjected.
+I continued, “We made it to a ship graveyard, but I really don’t think it was ‘The’ Ship Graveyard.”
+Elsa asked the burning question to Astrid, “So what happened?”
+Before she started, Snotlout chimed in, “Why does everybody ask Astrid about everything when Hiccup isn’t around? Why don’t they come to me? Shouldn’t they know of the brave warrior that I am?”
+Snotlout struck a pose, but Astrid brought his head “out of the clouds” by replying, “Because if they asked you, they would get the exaggerated truth.”
+“Yeah,” added Ruffnut. “If everybody asked you what we were up to, then nobody would ever get the truth.”
+Snotlout just crossed his arms and mutter some things under his breath.
+“And if everybody asked you two,” Astrid pointed at the Twins. “They wouldn’t even get the exaggerated truth. You guys don’t even remember what you did five minutes ago let alone what happened last night. At least Fishlegs would at least give you the facts, though sometimes too many.”
+“What?!” Tuffnut said as if in shock. “Huh, I know when I’ve been insulted! I know when I’ve-,” Ruffnut gave him a shove. “When ‘we’ have been insulted… wait. What were we talking about?”
+Astrid rolled her eyes and recalled the events that happened. Astrid said they were searching the ships when they reached The Graveyard for the thing Trader Johann had hidden and the thing Dagur is after. Hiccup and Toothless searched on The Reaper. Astrid mentioned that the graveyard my family and friends went to last night is probably a few hours closer to Berk as the actual trip to The Ship Graveyard took them a few hours short of daybreak. Astrid said they searched the ships for anything, but only had jewels and gold and treasure… which Dagur ended up with.
+“The Giant Eels scared off our dragons,” Astrid continued. “So we were left stranded on the one ship while Hiccup went on Toothless to search The Reaper. Unfortunately while Hiccup had been gone for nearly an hour, Dagur had snuck in unnoticed, and got the drop on the rest of us. Without our dragons, we were defenseless and were overwhelmed and captured. Then Dagur took us over to The Reaper to wait for Hiccup. No one told him where to look, Dagur just figured it out. When Hiccup came up out of The Reaper, Dagur greeted him and took the treasure Trader Johann must have been talking about. Dagur had all of us locked inside a green-metal cage, that by all dragon standards with Toothless being the best, the cage is dragon-shot-proof.”
+My sister gasped, and Astrid finished the story, “Dagur retreated with the treasure in hand. Hiccup stopped to try and get us out of the cage, but we told him to go get that thing. Again, Dagur, one step ahead of us, fired a catapult rock at Hiccup; but, Dagur was aiming for The Reaper. The impact of the rock cause the ship to start sinking and tilting up. The Giant Eels didn’t help matters either; they started pulling the ship down. Dagur made Hiccup choose, and of course Hiccup came back for us. This is when we found out that no matter how many times Toothless fired at the cage, the blasts from Toothless didn’t even leave a scratch. We called out to our dragons, and they finally came back. The eels started to attack, but our dragons rescued us. Once we were safe, Hiccup went after Dagur, while we came back here. Hiccup, for all intensive purposes, should be right behind us.”
+While Astrid talked to Gobber about what the cages looked like and Fishlegs what they could be made out of, I could not help think about the similarities between their situation and what happened to my party last night.
+I thought to myself, “If the graveyard we visited last night was not ‘The’ Ship Graveyard, which encountering no eels is also an indicator to support that, then why in the whole archepelogo would the Berserkers send a small portion of the fleet to converge and find this treasure? What so important in this ship graveyard? Why send a fleet there to find a treasure Dagur knew to be somewhere else?”
+As I was finishing my thoughts, Hiccup did arrive back on Berk… with the treasure in hand. It looks like a cylindrical device; something I for sure have never seen.
+Not more than a minute after Hiccup got back, did Annabeth fly over to meet us. Hiccup had already gone into the shop to show Gobber the device.
+Annebeth dismounted, but looked worried, “What’s wrong?” I inquired.
+“It’s Sirena,” Annabeth said. “She has disappeared.”
+“What?!” Elsa remarked.
+I questioned, “When did this happen?”
+“Well,” Annabeth answered. “She actually disappeared a few weeks ago. But she often did so because she is so free spirited, plus I took your advice because she is a free dragon, although I have been raising her and feeding her. Sirena often went away for a few days or a few weeks, but she would always come back to the certain places I kept for her, off Berk, that I fed her.”
+“Why tell us now?” asked Asvord. “Maybe she is just on an extended trip.”
+Annabeth nodded, “That is what I thought first for these last few weeks. But when I checked back today at one of her certain spots, I knew right then something is wrong. I had checked yesterday too, so when I checked today as well, I saw new tracks, dragon footprints that were not there before and have never been there before. So I worry that another dragon is involved and Sirena is possibly in danger.”
+I then stated, “Well then we will go and see. Hiccup will probably want Gobber to help with opening the new mysterious device and I’m about done with my work here anyway, so I’ll tell him I’m stopping for the day and we can go.”
+When I walked back into the shop, Gobber was trying to “open” the device. I told Hiccup, I was glad to see, but needed to talk to him when I got back. He said thanks and would do so. While walking back to the other side of the shop, I over head Hiccup call the device the “Dragon Eye.”
+“Hmm, catchy name,” I thought. “The name that you would remember, even if you forgot it.”
+That did not make any sense, but made me remember something I did forget.
+“Wait,” I thought again, while my sisters and I followed Annabeth to the southwest. “That symbol on the side of Annett’s diary… it is the exact same symbol one those ships in that ship graveyard we went to! Are the Thorvalds connected to those people… or… or even the Dragon Eye?”
+Neuwirth – The Outcast & Die Stadt ohne Juden Posted by Ricordi 03 December 2018 On the occasion of her 50th birthday, two large projects by Olga Neuwirth were premiered in November at the Vienna Konzerthaus in the framework of Wien Modern: Die Stadt ohne Juden (The City without Jews), a new film score for the recently restored silent movie by H. K. Breslauer, as well as a revised version of Neuwirth’s musicstallation-theatre piece The Outcast. This new production of her homage to Herman Melville pushes the concert-format boundaries with an elaborate multi-screen video installation by the British director Netia Jones. For the premiere at the Vienna Konzerthaus under the baton Ilan Volkov, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra was joined by top-flight soloists including Andrew Watts, Susanne Elmark, Otto Katzameier and the actor Johan Leysen. In March 2019, Melville’s bicentenary year, the work will receive its German premiere at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie. Olga Neuwirth’s music for Die Stadt ohne Juden was premiered by the PHACE ensemble under the direction of Nacho de Paz in a live performance accompanying a screening of the classic film in the main auditorium of the Vienna Konzerthaus. The same forces presented the new work a week later at London’s Barbican Centre, with the German premiere taking place at the end of November as part of the Greatest Hits Festival at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. In the new year, Die Stadt ohne Juden will be given further premieres in Tel Aviv by the Israel Contemporary Players and at the Philharmonie de Paris, presented by Ensemble intercontemporain conducted by Matthias Pintscher. The Outcast, WP at Wien Modern The Outcast (2008-2010/2012) Homage to Herman Melville. A musicstallation-theater Revised version With monologues for Old Melville by Anna Mitgutsch Libretto by Barry Gifford and Olga Neuwirth A co-production between ORF RSO Wien, Wien Modern, Wiener Konzerthaus and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. With the kind support of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung. S.Boys S.Ct.T.2Bar.3Act.Chansonnier - Boys Chr.Men Chr - 2.2.2.2 - 2.2.2.1 - 2perc - synth.e-git.acc - 8.8.6.6.4 - el Duration: 90' WP: 14.11.2018, Vienna Performances 14.11.2018 (WP) ORF RSO Wien, Ilan Volkov (cond.); Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna 4.3.2019 (NP) ORF RSO Wien, Ilan Volkov (cond.); Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg Olga Neuwirth at the world premiere of The Outcast (Wien Modern, 2018) Press quotes Neuwirth has written great roles, and singers such as Danish soprano Susanne Elmark as Ishmaela, Otto Katzameier as Captain Ahab, the countertenor Andrew Watts as Queequeg and the boy soprano Joel Beer as Pip took full advantage of them. Neuwirth fully grasps the possibilities offered by solo voices, two choruses, speaking roles and orchestra, piling up powerful and effective music in rising, cresting waves while also interspersing smaller effects – for example, working the strains of an electric guitar through the swelling material or evoking the voice of Klaus Nomi. This is intelligent music, confident in its effects and whetting the appetite for the composer’s Orlando, commissioned by the Vienna State Opera and announced for December 2019. Salzburger Nachrichten, 15.11.2018 The music suggests a collage: there are gleaming surfaces of sound underlaying vocal writing of siren-like beauty as well as naturalistic birdsong; the church musical sound of boys’ choirs brings an element of innocence. Organ, accordion and electric guitar add dashes of colour and trigger associations. There are comic touches, both discreet (muted trumpets) and knee-slapping (Stayin’ Alive). At times the sea is brightly sunny and silvery, at others dark and threatening, even sharply metallic. Der Standard, 19.11.2018 Has the political feminist Olga Neuwirth produced a Gesamtkunstwerk? The critic and film composer Hanns Eisler once polemically asserted that this Wagnerian concept required the audience to leave their brains in the cloakroom. Olga Neuwirth, on the other hand, requires them to think. One should have read the libretto beforehand in order to understand her and gain a real impression from her music-installation in the darkened space – and from the white whale that plunges the ship into the ocean’s depths at the end. Falter, November 2018 The Outcast, WP at Wien Modern Score of The Outcast Die Stadt ohne Juden (2017) Musik zum Stummfilm von Hans Karl Breslauer (1924) für verstärktes Ensemble und Zuspielung A production by Wiener Konzerthaus, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Barbican Centre, Sinfonieorchester Basel and ZDF/ARTE in cooperation with Wien Modern and Filmarchiv Austria. cl.ssax.tpt.trb.perc.synth.samp.e-git.vla.vc.el Duration: 88' Performances 7.11.2018 (WP) PHACE, Nacho de Paz (cond.); Wien Modern – Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna 15.11.2018 (NP) PHACE, Nacho de Paz (cond.); Barbican Center London 28.11.2018 (NP) PHACE, Nacho de Paz (cond.); Kampnagel K6, Hamburg 5.1.2019 (NP) Israel Contemporary Players, Ilan Volkov (cond.); Cinemateque, Tel Aviv 15.3.2019 (NP) Ensemble intercontemporain, Matthias Pintscher (cond.); Philharmonie de Paris 29.03.2019 PHACE, Nacho de Paz (cond.); Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin 24.09.19 PHACE, Nacho de Paz (cond.); Alte Oper Frankfurt Die Stadt ohne Juden, UK premiere in London Press quotes Neuwirth, herself of Jewish background, dealt with the overall ambiguous and haunting nature of the material through frequently dichotomous music that strove to be “both touching and harsh, warm-hearted and open, amusing and furious, involved and distanced, humorous and sad all at once.” In complex combinations of tape and instrumental layers that often meticulously and extensively commented on the film, the Ensemble PHACE brought to life an impressive hybrid of the most diverse musical realities: liturgical hymns met citations from the popular music of the “homeland,” the deceptive coziness of which turning into pure horror at any moment. neue musikzeitung, 05.2019 What one experiences on this evening in the concert hall is not a silent film, nor even a silent film with music. From the very first moment, sound and image are amalgamated into a breathing organism. The noises are enough to draw the observer without further ado into this nearly 100-year-old world full of frock coats, hats and dramatic eye make-up. At first, electronics set the whole space vibrating with a deep grumble; in the synagogue service, circling ethereal sounds create the impression of distant, lamenting voices, like a premonition of the horrors to come. Neuwirth virtuosically quotes from various styles: the saxophone alludes to Debussy, the clarinet to shtetl melancholy, and of course Alpine folk music isn’t far away. Neuwirth’s individual style and her refined timbral sensibility remain unmistakable, shining through the film’s sometimes ribald humour, where the laughter is likely to stick in the craw of today’s viewer. The effect of some of this on us coming from subsequent generations is like slapstick being delivered on a razor’s edge, as when the staunchly anti-Semitic Councillor Bernart, played by the unforgettable Hans Moser, attempts to open the garden gate with a cigar while completely inebriated. “The Viennese drinks in order to forget,” said Neuwirth the day after the premiere. “And when he forgets, he will also repress a lot. Especially the Nazi past.” Hamburger Abendblatt, 2.11.2018 In her artful but never obtrusive new soundtrack for the silent film, Neuwirth establishes a variety of political and cultural connections. She creates a balance between the knowledge of later real-life tragedy that underlies her score’s constantly menacing tone, the bitter irony that drives the plot, the unintentional humour that is inherent in the silent-film aesthetic’s emotionalism for today’s viewers, and the awareness that the ghosts of the past are at this moment more alive than they have been for a long time. The fragility of idyllic middle-class domesticity and the latent aggression of emphatic folk culture, which can turn violent at any time, are unmistakably worked into the composition and were finely realized by the PHACE ensemble under conductor Nacho de Paz. The live sound material was supplemented by audio feeds recalling the Jewish culture nearly wiped out by the Nazis, depicted in the film, for example, in synagogue scenes or as literally resurrected by [the popular Viennese actor] Hans Moser. Tiroler Tageszeitung, 08.11.2018 The Austrian composer uses the PHACE ensemble winds, conducted by Nacho de Paz, in a humorous commentary to the tavern guests’ quarrelling. She underscores the drunkards’ anti-Semitic outbursts with yodellers. Into the menacingly seething synthesizer carpet, she strategically weaves in sounds that comment on points in the plot – such as when chairs topple down in the tavern and gongs are sounded. Olga Neuwirth imbues the black-and-white film with colour by accompanying scenes of Jewish communal life with oriental sounds and Klezmer music or by her unusual treatment of the instruments. In one instance she has the trumpets literally screaming, then has trumpeters blowing their instruments to suggest the puffing of a steam locomotive. Salzburger Nachrichten, 09.11.2018 Die Stadt ohne Juden, German premiere in Hamburg About the work.” The Guardian, 13.11.2018 Read the complete interview Die Stadt ohne Juden, UK premiere in London Score of Die Stadt ohne Juden Photos: Markus Sepperer (The Outcast); Mark Allan (Die Stadt ohne Juden, London), Daniel Dittus (Die Stadt ohne Juden, Hamburg)
+Earlier this month Jerry Seinfeld made some troubling comments about diversity in comedy. Sitting down with Peter Lauria of Buzzfeed on CBS in the Morning, Seinfeld asserted that viewers who have highlighted the lack of diversity in his web series, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” are practicing “anti-comedy.” Responding to these viewers’ demands for more diversity, Seinfeld said, “People think [comedy] is the census or something, it’s gotta represent the actual pie chart of America. Who cares? It’s just funny. Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny? I’m interested. You’re not funny? I’m not interested. I have no interest in gender of race or anything like that, but everyone else is calculating: ‘Is this the exact right mix?”
+As a rich, straight, white male, Seinfeld truly opened a can of worms. Comedian Nicole Byer angrily threw these worms back in his face. Ruben Navarette Jr. went back to the factory where these canned worms originated – Seinfeld – and highlighted the few Latino characters he recalled. Maya Roy called Seinfeld racist and heralded his imminent irrelevance in comedy. Dave Schilling argued that Seinfeld and Seinfeld should be left to their own devices, with diversity being supported elsewhere instead of being injected into shows that aren’t concerned with it. I want to do some other things with these worms. By thinking about what it means for something to be “just funny,” I will explore what this troubling idea means for comedians who aren’t straight white males as well as comedians at large.
+The Politics of Comedy
+First off, I want to talk politics. To start, it must be clear that the politics of comedy is not the politics of comedians. Following Jacques Ranciere, I conceive of politics as a partition of the sensible, an active intervention in what can be perceived. In other words, a particular politics is the set of actions that makes certain things in the world intelligible in a certain way. Comedy essentially works by taking a description of a real or imagined world and making it intelligible as funny. This is the politics of comedy. Comedy makes things funny. Other modes of perception like sarcasm and parody and mimicry and even horror can perform the same politics, so funniness is not unique to comedy, but funniness is the primary goal of comedy, whether it is successful (causing laughter) or not (causing non-laughter).
+In practice, this politics gets mixed in with other politics, other ways of rendering certain things intelligible. For instance, at a typical stand-up comedy show, the space and technical layout of the venue are to make the performer visible and audible: chairs face a centralized location, microphones and speakers are directed toward the audience and lighting is concentrated on the performer’s location. These are political acts. Through this concert of spatial and technical arrangements, comedians are able to rise above their lowly statuses as anonymous members of the crowd and temporarily be an individuated person saying hopefully funny things.
+The entanglement of political acts extends further into where a venue is located, whether or not it serves alcohol, who is on the bill, who got to choose who appears on the bill and so forth. Most importantly, it gets mixed in with the political beliefs of the performer. I’m not trying to schematize the entire political landscape of a comedy show, so I will stop here, but my basic point is that comedy itself, as well as the social scene in which it unfolds, is not some neutral space that people walk into, then leave. At every level, politics occurs. Both the act of making something funny and the act of choosing who can attempt to say something funny are political choices.
+This is not necessarily a bad thing. It takes a certain knowledge to make things funny and to know who is funny, and I think that people attending or watching a comedy show reasonably expect these things to have been organized by someone who knows these things. That is a given. I just think that it’s utterly naive to think that the political acts of declaring who is funny and what is funny are somehow immune or detached from the political acts that exclude certain genders, races, creeds, ages, colors, sexualities and so forth. In short, how can anything be “just funny” when funniness itself is the result of numerous political acts laboring to make things funny? Even if Seinfeld himself has not made these acts, the world he lives in, “funny,” is founded upon them. Each act has privileged certain kinds of people, collectively creating a world that doesn’t accurately reflect the incredible range of people making jokes.
+Nothing Is Funny?
+Seinfeld the show is often described as the show about nothing. Even the show itself once slyly asserted this in the episode, “The Pitch,” cited above. Though I don’t think this description is true, I think we should momentarily take it at face value. What does it mean to be a show about nothing? Stated differently, what does it mean for a comedy show to aspire toward nothingness? For Seinfeld, I think that this meant that no subject was particularly significant. From that perspective, each joke and the corresponding observation that led to that joke could be viewed as just another joke, just funny. The goal of each joke, each bit, is just laughter. Enlightenment, critique, anger, displeasure, empathy and other possible outcomes of jokes, are undesirable at best and unwarranted at worst. Seinfeld is about laughs, plain and simple.
+I don’t buy that. In 1998 Greg Braxton wrote an interesting article about how Seinfeld’s season finale was largely a “nonevent” for black audiences. Focusing on the lack of diversity within the cast and within the show’s stories, Braxton writes, “Observers said that the lack of ‘Seinfeld’ fever among blacks is mainly attributable to the almost total absence of minority characters on the New York-based sitcom. Some supporting characters–including an attorney modeled after defense lawyer Johnnie L. Cochran Jr.–have been featured in the last few seasons, but many said the show is still seen as a program that excludes minorities.” The claim here appears to be that audiences want to identify with the characters they see. Braxton later qualifies this claim by quoting a tv executive who cites the popularity of Walker, Texas Ranger among black viewers. As the executive emphasizes, black people, and presumably any demographic, don’t need to see themselves in order to like a show. Yet that does seem to play a crucial role in how the show is received. To put it slyly, I think there’s a reason that Ruben Navarette Jr. can remember every single Latino character he ever saw on Seinfeld.
+Keeping that executive’s comment in mind and relating it back to Seinfeld’s comments, I don’t think that people are making a purely demographic request when they highlight the lack of diversity in his show. Even if they frame this request in “census” terms, for me, the black response to Seinfeld hints at the privileges embedded in aspiring to nothingness. In other words, though Seinfeld is posited as neutral, just another vehicle for laughs, just funny, black viewers saw it as a vehicle for a particular group’s experiences of the world. For them, Seinfeld was not just funny; it was funny in a certain way, a way that came from a particular way of experiencing the world. Thus, they laughed, but they saw more than just the joke. They saw the world that the jokes come from, a world in which tensions about gender, race, class, occupation etc., could be sidelined instead of being one’s main focus. Stated bluntly, they saw a world of privilege, a world in which wealthy white folks got into hilarious and crazy antics because they had the luxury to not constantly think about paying their rent or eating or their cars breaking down or their grandmother dying. These wealthy white folks could make jokes and live those particularly strange lives because they had “nothing” else to worry about, even though the show clearly had something happening in it.
+How Comedy is Made: Seriously, Nothing is “Just Funny”
+I’ve touched on how comedy politically works and how Seinfeld’s/Seinfeld’s comedy has a certain infrastructure of privilege, but to underscore the latter point, I’d like to talk about my own experience of making and performing jokes, particularly observational jokes (my favorite kind). From my understanding, moreso than other forms of comedy, observational comedy is especially tied to the person observing. Even if this observer is effaced in the delivery of the joke – as in the joke itself doesn’t include “I” – observational jokes always have an implied source. For instance, when watching Mitch Hedberg perform, even when he’s telling jokes about stuff he’s seen, it’s clear that he was the person who saw these things and turned them into jokes. More than “just observations,” these are his observations and through his skill he has made them into funny, quirky jokes. The act of turning the observation into a joke is an abstraction and performing the joke live actually takes the abstraction further, but these abstractions always have a source. There is always an originary point of reference being abstracted from one thing and toward something else.
+In my own experience, I was once told by a friend that some of my jokes are too focused on race. For him, the “from” was always too apparent, subsequently limiting how far the joke could travel, how funny it could be. In his mind, jokes seemed to be like kites: the best ones fly away (“Hahaha”) and the bad ones either stayed confusingly wrapped in my hands (“I don’t get it?”) or lamely sank back down to the earth, settling on my black face (“That was not funny”). Looking back, I think that some of these jokes were actually pretty bad, but not because they talked about race. I think that they were bad because I attempted to talk about race without making them intelligible as jokes. They just sounded like declarative statements from a black guy rather than jokes. I think that that admitting this and changing it was an important development for me as a comedian, but not on my friend’s terms. For him, the problem was that my jokes were too personal; for me, the problem was that my jokes weren’t jokes.
+I think that the difference between these two positions is what’s at stake in Seinfeld’s comments. In the world that my friend and Seinfeld allegedly occupy, jokes are jokes. Their origins don’t matter. All that matters is whether or not the joke is funny. In the world that I live in – which is actually the same world they live in – jokes don’t exist just to make people laugh, to be just funny. Jokes and the people who tell them make me laugh as well as cry, frown, pout, yell, grimace and gasp. In this world, performers don’t deceive themselves into thinking that they aren’t part of the act, that their jokes and how they deliver them are unrelated to how they experience the world or are forced to experience the world via gender, class, race, religion or sexuality.
+If this world is the world of anti-comedy, I think that the definition of comedy needs to change. Because if it doesn’t change and Seinfeld and my friend continue to define comedy by dismissing the origins of jokes, it’s doing a disservice to all comedians as well as Seinfeld’s own legacy. After all, Seinfeld’s jokes aren’t “just jokes.” They’re the product of a mind that observes the world with a keen eye and turns these observations into hilarious, insightful statements that often change how we view little dimensions of life. These jokes can be called “just funny” or “nothing,” but they’re so much more than that. To not give other people the opportunities to make their observations from their experiences of the world – be it through actively granting these opportunities à la SNL or just plain listening when they say that these opportunities are rare – is to make comedy into something that it is not and never should be.
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+HA! That show was our first Training, and my lord the stadium was UGLY. But the XC was a blast!!
+I think my favorite from this season was going to Coconino. It was my first "away" event, and despite an ugly schooling stadium round, we got our sh!t together and the lightbulb came on. Dressage was good, and had I not gotten us lost three times on XC we would have been top 3 or 4. But that XC round was the best EVER because it felt like we finally found our rhythm.
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+I didn't do any shows or events this year so my favorite moments were a couple light bulb moments where I finally "learned" to ride my horse (that I've had for 9 years).
+One moment was my first time jumping 3'6". We tried it three times at the end of my typical 2'6-2'9" jump session and only did it with the encouragement of a barn friend. The first time was terrible. The second time was a bit better. The third time I finally got my head out of my ass, rode my horse, developed a good canter, and it felt amazing being in sync.
+Another moment was during a XC schooling session. Towards the end we schooled some training level questions and bigger jumps that my horse doesn't care about but intimidate me (corner, large table). I rode terrible and we chipped into every jump. I was about to quit but my friend encouraged me to go more forward (duh!), and once I rode my horse more forward the jumps just flowed. It felt amazing flying over the giant table and really helped my confidence.
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+After a really bad year in 2012, where Toby and I could not get our asses in gear at prelim, jumping around our first attempt this year was awesome. Made even more awesome that it rode amazingly well. Made all the bad goes melt away.
+Jumping the ditch and wall at Surefire, which legitimately TERRIFIED me. There are fences that make me nervous and some that make me question my technical skill on course walks, but this thing just plain old SCARED me. But we jumped it, and well!
+Millbrook. ALL of it. The whole thing was so much fun. DC and I dubbed it our "campecation" (a vacation while we camp out and compete). The riding was awesome (best xc round of my LIFE! AND my first clear prelim show jumping round at a recognized event....after riding three different horses at that level!). Lots of funny things in stabling like the list we started of "Things Toby Destroyed." The two worst/funniest being the sacred container of gummy bears (we were able to preserve the gummy bears!) and my "indestructible" iPhone case. It may be life proof, but it isn't Toby proof). It was a practically perfect weekend.
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+I also did not show this year. I made the decision(after extensive vet work, and seven months off) to retire my mare to pasture ornament status. I wasn't planning on a third horse for a long while, but you know how it goes. When you stop looking good horses appear out of the woodwork. That's when I found Fox.
+Our best moment to date was last weekend when DH and I trailered over to the local park that has an equestrian area and trails. We conquered ditches, scary wooden bridges, a slew of log jumps and we cantered together for the first time since I've had him. It was just all in all a perfect day.
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+Flying over the last fence at MCTA from an absurd long spot and realizing that my 21 year old had just finished her first event. It was only her second time on an XC course in her life (hard to school when you are a) at a HJ barn b) don't have a trailer). We might have finished on a 73...but I know many people who don't manage a numerical score at their first event.
+Schooling the trakhaner at Loch Moy that caused me to fall off at our first Novice. Trakahner of doom= conquered! Next step is learning to correctly spell this variety of jump.
+And last, completing (without flying off) a Novice at CDCTA. That course is pretty simple, but maxed out height wise, and I honestly thought both brush jumps, and the produce stand, and the green ramp, and the wagon (so most of the course) were going to be the death of me. They weren't, and we finished on our dressage score. Can't wait to see what Izzy achieves when she's 22!
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+No true XC shows (we're starting in the spring!)
+But my two top memories were taking him out for the first time ever at a Poker Pace and he locked onto the tiniest coop I've ever seen and cleared it with ease and came right back to me after. I was so proud of him!
+The other was his fun show at my trainer's (we trailer in) and despite being terrified of the little ones at the gate (the one kept saying "hi" whenver we passed), he managed through it to jump 2'9 (Our highest yet!). Was very proud of him that whole day between the kids, the train going by and all the new games.
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+Mine has to be my horse's first official mini-trial a few weeks ago. I got him a year ago and he had never evented a day in his life. He's my first horse and 2 weeks after I got him he was playing a bit too hard in his field and suffered a pretty good tendon injury in his hock. So we've been sidelined a year- to say it was rough is an understatement. We just started with dressage in earnest like 3 months ago and he went and scored well at a dressage schooling test, but he could not handle the overall environment and was very tense. Took him off the farm to another schooling show and the same thing- tense with questionable steering and intermittently operational brakes.
+Then he goes to the mini-trial and it's like he grew up and realized what his job is and he LOVES it! He stepped off the trailer game ready, not tense or anything....And he won his division finishing on a great dressage score 10 points between him and and second. There were definitely ninjas cutting onions all over the place that day. Not too shabby for a fat little draft cross whose career as an eventer was almost over before it started.
+I'm so proud of him for everything he went through and how far he's come.
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+I'm going to tell one on my daughter. It happened last yr at her first HT at the KHP, Jump Start. Her sj division was early Sunday morning. She had her horse out hand grazing before tacking up. She was looking at her phone (folks!) and he stepped on his leadline, threw his head up, broke the halter crown and TOOK OFF.
+So there he is out there on the xc fields, free as a bird, having his very own Rolex moment!! and she's running after him broken halter in hand. He's flying across the steeplechase field and then turns and runs and disappears down one of the roads on the north end of the park going full tilt.
+I get a panicked phone call, she's out of breath. All I can discern is Junior's loose and gone and she's in tears b/c her ride is in about 45 min. I have no clue where. I go back to the stall and get a bridle and a helmet - then I go to the office and no one will come help me with a golf cart to go find her or the horse. Nada zippo help. Lady says everyone is busy and will not call anyone for help. So I start walking.
+Meanwhile DD is headed back down that lane. A lady leaving a property back there sees her and offers to help. So she drives her back on the road looking for our horse. They end up finding him at the Donovan Stud back there. A guy was out doing am feeds on a gator and had a bucket of food to catch him. So she gets the broken halter back on him using the very last hole that was left on the crown, gets on him bareback and gallops back to the park.
+We were just so grateful that he didn't run back to the barn b/c it was the show where the day before a xc rider had a RF and her horse ran back to the barns and he slid and fell and did a monstrous slide on the asphalt, taking out the saddle and some hide.
+DD gets back just in time to tack up and make her sj ride. Needless to say he didn't need any warm-up, he went in and jumped a double clear and came out looking for more, so we're thinking we've got a good 3 day horse!
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+Today!!! I started my home bred, home trained 6 year old mare in her first 3'6" HT (not sure what that is for you guys). She had a very light season last year - drought and very hard ground so I opted not to jump her much. Through winter I've done a bit of SJ training. For some reason SJ winds me up and I really struggle - so I tend to limit what I do depending on the SJ height. I'm quite happy doing 1* and 2* XC, but the thought of SJ 3'6" has me stressing for days. It became clear however that this mare jumps much better over bigger courses: she's calmer, jumps in better style and is easier to control.
+So, I bit the bullet and bumped her up to the higher division today. She rocks! Dressage was okay - 63%, XC was very nappy - because the jump judges were scary, but once she saw the jumps she was away. Time faults only. And I had a rail in the SJ - because I was picking at her. But she felt great SJ. Forward, powerful, controllable and sensible.
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+I had a great first year of eventing, and my saint of a horse carted me around to a number of ribbons, and we moved up to entry from pre-entry and did well there too. We even got some bling at the year end banquet
+But my favourite part of the whole season was our first (unrecognized) event, where we trotted the entire XC for 70+ time penalties. I was so proud that despite being scared out of my mind, we went and did it, and he handled the whole thing like an old pro (his first year eventing and showing, though he's 11). He just plodded the whole course, even after being passed. We also got 7 time on stadium
+We finished with 162.7 as the last finishers to finish on the number instead of letter.
+Second to this, was at each event inching closer and closer to making time, and cantering more of each course, until we finally made time and cantered the whole thing. I was so excited to finish on our dressage score.
+This little horse has been so much fun for me and our debut into eventer:47 AM.
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+Anyone who still reminisce about Longhorn-era codenames will probably agree they are much better than their official counterparts. Not only did “Avalon” sound cool, it has a certain utopian ring to it. Now in it’s fourth revision, Windows Presentation Foundation 4.0 is pitched as the state-of-the-art framework for building graphically-rich desktop clients on Windows.
+When I decided to build a modern Windows application kindled with animations, the choice to use either a nearly ten-years-old low-level graphics subsystem based on technologies dated even earlier, or an abstracted graphics framework that considers the expectation of user experiences in the current decade, was a no-brainer.
+First and foremost, over just a couple of months, what we’ve achieved with MetroTwit was simple not possible without WPF considering the few precious midnight hours we put into it on most days. According to the rest of the team (the real developers), apparently I owe much to data-binding which I’ve been told is nothing short of a miracle.
+Having said that, working with WPF has been somewhat of a rollercoaster ride. There is up – very high ups, but there is also down – pretty lows too.
+I won’t bore you with all my gripes but I must say WPF can only be tamed with experience. Granted the MSDN documentation is required reading material and an exhaustive resource, I found only when I complimented it with others’ experiences on StackOverflow and the MSDN forums like study guides on SparkNotes I could then make sense of it all.
+I constantly have the feeling there is a million different way to achieve the same effect in WPF and everything you do is wrong until it is proven otherwise. Flexibility is great but when a few thing work better one way over another, not because they are documented as such but because you find through experience, you begin to doubt everything else you do.
+It must be said though WPF has come a long way in a relatively short period of time. What should be noted is that the significant drive behind its evolution appears to be when Microsoft decides to dogfood WPF. First it was the Expression suite of design applications (it still blows my mind they built the product using itself) and more recently with Visual Studio 2010. Hopefully this is a trend that will continue to deliver benefits to all WPF developers.
+In the end, when rich and beautiful application have become the norm, I’m glad Windows Presentation Foundation is what it is today. Although it’s no stroll in the park, but at least it makes it not impossible.
+52 insightful thoughts
+As a developer building a custom application for a touchscreen kiosk, I completely agree with the sentiment of this article. I especially thought “…everything you do is wrong until it is proven otherwise” is so true! This was last year, but I remember spending an entire weekend creating a “master page” template/pattern for our kiosk that needed to also have design-time support, i.e. designers could see what they were doing on the template itself. Rewarding, but exhausting.
+I love the Black theme on MetroTwit, can we expect to see that in the near future?
+Download the latest. SETTINGS –> THEME –> (Under Colour Theme) Dark theme.
+It would be great, when you find time, to do a detailed drill down into the problems you came across with WPF code, and how you sorted it. Perhaps even highlight the way you would have done something in GDI and WinForms etc.
+I know about 0.00001% of C#, and have barely scratched the surface of Expression Blend, so what you have achieved with MetroTwit is astounding to me. Most certainly not possible on WinForms, and the performance despite it being dot NET and WPF is amazing! Your UI observations of the Metro guidelines and the Zune app, really show.
+I definitely agree! Please spend some time, either here or elsewhere on the internet, giving us the benefit of you and your team’s experience.
+Agree!
+I DEMAND a Facebook Like Social Plugin!
+100 ways to do anything and they start you off with a blank slate.
+MetroTwit is very well done, the problem I have is as a developer – what “look” do you target? Is it traditional menu/toolbar, or Ribbon (if you pick ribbon, is the the first office 2007 one, or the WPF one, or Office 2010 one?), or do you go Aero and use a bunch of glass like the new Firefox/Chrome, or do you go Metro, or do you go Windows Live and do some very bizzare mix of all of them?
+I love design, its what I live for. However, if you are building an App for windows at this point no matter what you do if a user has another application open at the same time chances are they will look out of place together. How about mobile? Do MS’s mobile offerings look like they came from the same company? If I put my WinMo phone next to windows will it jive? How about WP7? No, not at all.
+Starting most developers out with a blank screen is just a bad idea. I have dabbled with Apple’s interface designer and without even trying, I had an that looked like it belonged, while enforcing a programming mindset (MVC) at the same time. You almost have to stand back in awe. Anything they make, desktop, phone, tablet feels like it was made by one team. The apps made for them by others feel like they were made in house.
+I love the power of WPF, but it’s power without any sense direction. You are perfectly able to build an app similar how you would with WinForms, or you can use the MVVM approach, or you can use one of the many other approaches. You make a new app and its just a blank box. Its just a mess.
+I guess you’re unfamiliar with Microsoft’s “Metro” design language.
+In response to your primary point: you wouldn’t give Leonardo Da Vinci someone’s half-used canvas, would you.
+I am very familiar with it, my point is it is one of at least 5. Windows as it sits today has no single design language that people can grab onto and go. Under the hood they have no single blueprint on how you should develop your app.
+Apple has both. I can tell you how 99% of OSX and iOS are made. Apple is doing very well, literally back from the dead. They have developer mindshare right now as well. They have direction and vision. Granted – they have other issues, they always have, I am just saying in this part of “what it means to be a platform” they have it nailed.
+Respectfully, the Da Vinci reference is off-base. A desktop application should not be a standalone work of art. It needs to mesh with the chrome and base opperating system. People need to be able to use the knowledge they have using other programs to new ones. I love Metro, but it really clashes with Aero as a look. I would be fine if they said “OK, we are porting Office, Explorer, and IE, and VS to Metro”. But the are not. Its just one more idea that gets put on a shelf.
+Right now, I have IE, FireFox, Explorer, Office 2010, Visual Studio, SQL 2008 Studio, Zune, Photoshop, and Windows Messenger open. NONE OF THEM LOOK GOOD TOGETHER. On their own, fine, but we dont use one app at a time. This situation is really now just a windows problem. Take the those applications or their counterparts on OSX, they look like they all fit, the least of which happens to be the Office for mac! this is an issue, the third highest item is the one I wrote.
+WIndows Live and Zune are coming together as is Windows Phone 7 – you can see that from the use of typohgraphy alone.
+You missed the point of the “Da Vinci” reference btw – the artist never really mattered.
+Windows and the applications that run on it share many common elements. I think for this discussion, style needs to be seperated from the essensce of the interface, what it is at it’s heart.
+I was chatting with one of the developers over at the Live blog about this issue. I asked him point blank why Live Wave 4 has some Metro elements, but didnt go all they way. His response was basically they are targeting Aero and Metro really hasn’t found its place yet in the desktop outside of heavy media apps. He was skeptical of actually using Metro in something like Office.
+Why should style be separated? Personally I think that is all that is left. The major platforms today have the bases covered. They all have a browser, a word processor, a concept of buttons, textboxes, dropdowns, pointers, taskmanagers, development tools/frameworks. At this point what is really left is style & taste.
+@Tommo: I guess you’re unfamiliar with Microsoft’s development tools, aren’t you. What RyanLM said was perfectly valid.
+Apple’s design tools for UIs, especially for iPhone, are idiot-proof. No matter how your drag the controls around, it will look right. All the buttons and title bars have regular sizes that ensure usability, and it’s hard to drag a button that deviates from norm. Unless the developer intentionally try to make a irregular control, there is no way you can make an ugly UI.
+Microsoft’s development tools, on the other hand, is the complete opposite. You can drag and position things virtually anywhere you want. The result? If the developer has no sense of design (i.e. if the developer is not Long Zheng), it will make something extremely incoherent.
+Adding to the problem RyanLM mentioned about Microsoft’s lack of direction in UI design, Windows is quite a mess to develop for in terms of UI. As the designer of one famous Windows product (Google my name), I’ve definitely been ‘tricked’ by this quite many times and tried to predict what would fit Windows in the coming years. It’s not until the recent 2 years Aero Glass finally rises up from the ashes of Fisherprice Windows XP, with the growing popularity of Windows 7 and Vista.
+Of course, combined with Adobe AIR apps such as Tweetdeck, the whole Windows desktop is a clusterfsck. And Windows Live and Zune aren’t looking like anything consistent either. Zune has not Aero frame while all WL apps has. Zune is beige and WL is white and blue while Media Center is all blue. There isn’t even consistency within Metro for Christ’s sake!
+@Pak I’m surprised you needed that many words. It’s a matter of perspective: Microsoft gives developers the opportunity to be really creative or innovative or both! While Apple seem to constrain them and baby them as they do with anyone using their products.
+Pixel perfectionists like myself would appreciate a selection of templates to retain consistency across things like dialog boxes but considering how easy it is to get up and coding, I’ll make do with what I have for the time being.
+@Tommo: The problem is that they give the wrong tool to the wrong people. Yes, if the whole Microsoft developer community are greater UI designers, hell yes, go for it. Freedom and creativity all the way. However, it’s not. There just aren’t enough pixel perfectionists like you in the platform to make sure things look great.
+Microsoft development tools is like giving you pieces of steel and expecting you to make a car out of it, while Apple tools is like giving you all the door, engine, and other assemble cars and expecting you to make a car out of it. Of course, creatives will complain about how they cant make a weird door using Apple tools, but at least these tools guarantees users usable cars in the end. Apple shows you what the finished cars will look like, and yes, they are boring, but it’s not as disorienting as Microsoft, which shows you a rocket, a bus and an upside down car. Meanwhile, in Microsoft’s camp, perhaps only those guys from American Chopper can bang something awesome out, while most of the rest looks like two wheels strutted to a piece of I-beam.
+Wow, I love making metaphors.
+Yes.
+I’d love for you to “bore” me with the WPF gripes!
+Any idea what this is all about?
+I share your nostalgia for the Longhorn era.
+As a designer, I can appreciate that there is something to be said for consistency and the “one size fits all” UI where everything fits together. However, it does depend on where you place Windows in your mindset. Apple’s OS is like a tall skyscraper, where everything inside it conforms making the building seem cohesive. However, Windows is like a country, with many different buildings, and it is those buildings which stand out uniquely, from each other, but all share similar identifyers like street signs and numbers on the front of the building.
+Office is one district, and everything in office belongs together.
+Media Centre, Zune, Windows, Windows Live, these are all districts or towns in the country.
+This analogy works when you compare Apple and Microsoft’s market share. Apple’s almost 4% PC share, to Microsoft’s 90%+
+The Windows Desktop is too vast to use the one size fits all mentality, but it provides the ability to make your app belong, and gives you the controls and UI constructs to try to fit in.
+A full screen kiosk app, does not need to conform to anything but the location the kiosk is in. Same with Medical and Hospital applications. I like things “belonging” together. If I am at a London Underground station, and I notice a sign not using the proper colours, style and New Johnston typeface, I will get annoyed. But I wouldnt go to birmingham or manchester and complain it does not conform to London’s style. (even though London Transport’s design styles are superior, and places like NY would benefit from adopting it!)
+Why is the Windows desktop too vast to have at the very least a “theme”, a sense that “there was actually thought” put into how things work, look and act together? I ask this because I want to know how many thousands of apps you need to have before this becomes impossible. Other vendors have done this well. I would argue that you shouldnt set your baseline on what the incompetent do.
+I kiosk app does not have to play by any rules, the idea is that is the only thing the user has to interact with, most often there is not a mouse. All of my commentary has been about normal desktop/mobile situations where you are using apps from many different vendors.
+More to the point, Metro vs Aero – not small differences, its completely different. It’s like how iTunes looks on Windows, it feels out of place.
+Keep in mind, I am not saying all apps have to look identical. I am saying that they should “fit” in. On OSX this is usually acheived by a grey toolbar, realistic icon sets, and minimalistic look. Yet there are thousands of apps that you can recognize at a glance.
+Maybe I am just anti chaos.
+I can’t ID most Mac apps from a glance… And what happened to Itunes for Windows? It’s sluggish and it does indeed look very out of place.
+Interesting point, Ryan, but conversly, the sameness of Apple apps and Winform apps can be a little offputting from an aestic point of view. Also, I find that when apps have a distinctive look, it often enhances, rather than detracts from the experience. Take a couple of your examples: the Zune client and Office. While vastly different in look and feel, each serves its intended function beautifully. The fluid, chrome-less Zune interface makes playing media files very enjoyable while the more structured, ribbon interface of Ofiice is focused on getting work done. While adopting a single design sounds logical from a design sense on the surface, actually focusing on the needs/goal of the user makes even more. If Office took on Zunes look or Zune adopted the ribbon, I think usability would suffer. an is it just me or is anyone else sick of seeing that NiQuil blue scroller bob in Apple apps?
+I don’t think consistency means you need to rigidly lay out every app the same way. It wouldn’t make sense. Notepad doesn’t need a ribbon. Zune doesn’t need one either.
+But consistency can be achieved by, yes, typography. One major factor that makes Windows Phone 7, Mac OS X or iPhone looks consistent is the consistent choice of fonts, i.e. one font, and font sizes.
+Cliff, it can be. Many iApps look cookie cutter. But at the same time, some people manage to blow you away with their creativity. My problem is most developers are not designers, at all. Often times you end up with “bob’s” interface because out of the box, you don’t get any direction.
+I used to think something like Metro was the answer, but I am not sure anymore. It failed the “Mom” test. She was a bit lost when she sat down to use Zune (windows app). (Yet what she can do in Excel amazes me). She did get used to it after a week, but things were not obvious. As a design language, it really, and I mean really, relies on motion. I have been developing some apps for Windows Phone 7 (they really need a better name) and it feels really flat, bordering on boring at times. It may just be too little, really its basically a font.
+The Zune software, has to work with the Zune Website and the Zune devices. It is more important that they maintain a consistent UI, than to worry about fitting into Windows 7.
+Metro is designed for Touch displays and small form portable devices, until Windows ditches the mouse and keyboard, and goes touch only, it would not make sense to use this in place of Aero. Just like how Aero would not work on a portable small screen.
+There is also a Metro UI style for Large screens to be controlled by remote or controller. This is used on Media Centre, and will also be replacing the Xbox dashboard to some degree.
+Microsoft has a 3 Screens and the Cloud, philosophy now, this is Metro Touch, Metro Large, and Aero. It is possible that one day Aero will be replaced with a form of Metro like the Zune software, but not yet.
+As for mentioning Office. Office uses Aero, but has a Ribbon UI aswell. It is not seperate to Aero, it is part of it. Just like how the Ribbon can be used in Windows 7 third party apps.
+The Zune software stood out without Aero Glass because it was designed at the time Windows Vista was falling out of grace. This gives the Zune team an excuse not to conform with Vista (a weak brand) and try to make its own independent innovations with no strings attached.
+But now that Windows 7 is strong again, you see that more and more third party apps begin to conform and support the Aero scheme better, and within Microsoft as well. Microsoft Office 2010, Windows Live Essentials all use the same Ribbon and Aero scheme, while third party apps such as Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Trillian 5 all uses Aero Glass as the defining UI.
+Back to Zune, I can actually foresee how the next update of Zune desktop app may resemble apps like Windows Live Sync, with a white background and blue decals, and typography that is more fit with Aero instead of Metro, as Zune hardware player fades in prominence (and as J Allard had left) and official Windows Phones are supported. The latest version of Zune desktop app had already rid of its original patterned backgrounds by default.
+Yes, I agree with the reasoning.
+However – these were all corners MS backed themselves into. On the other end of the spectrum you have Apple who managed to hit those same screens without having UI whiplash switching between them.
+You can hold an iPhone up to OSX and see the same people made them.
+The truth is MS’s UI vision has never been great. They tried to do a tablet for years before Apple, it failed. They tried to cram touch into the Windows UI and it failed.
+The iPad has apps that feel like their OSX counterparts, i mean, really feel like them, and it works. It works very well. They are not identical, they are obviously made for touch, the point is, they didnt have to start over like MS is doing with Metro. Worse, Metro isnt doing anything yet that isnt already done in iOS.
+Well, to be fair, OSX apps are sometimes just as bad. While OSX does look way more consistent than Windows in terms of all having the same window frame, that is really the only consistent frame. OSX is also filled with inconsistency – Not until Leopard, some apps have brushed aluminum while some have stripes, some have the blue left categories while some don’t. And iPad takes inconsistency to a new level with the realistic looks, e.g. iBooks look like a book, Calendar app look like a calendar, etc.
+The only reason OSX looks more tied together is because most apps are developed by not only programmers but also designers. Meanwhile, in Windows, it’s not usually the case, except a few, like, well, Trillian 5. :p (Sorry, I can’t really think of anything else.)
+With designers to make sure things look great, consistency almost doesn’t matter. That is the case with outlandish products like Zune.
+I think the problem of Metro also is that it looks /way/ too different from Aero. In OSX Aqua’s case, the evolution is gradual. Each version of OSX is like snake shedding its skin: this version loses the stripes, this version gains a darker gradient, and so on. A jump from Aero to Metro will be way too abrupt, and I don’t see Microsoft fully adopting Metro for Windows 8. It’s not like WP7 which its predecessor had hit such rock bottom they can reboot the platform altogether. However, I think we will see Metro slowly in more and more places – with an Aero window frame.
+Apple doesn’t have over 10 years worth of backwards compatibility to maintain. Windows Phone 7 is a fresh start, so they came up with the new UI to suit that screen. Media Centre and the Xbox are also fairly new, and so they dont have to worry about backwards compatibility.
+Windows is the loose thread in this, and until they take the “VERY” brave step of ditching the old in Windows, some things just will not be changed enough.
+At some point MS is going to have to make the same choice Apple did with OSX. They did actually do a complete reset almost 10 years ago. New UI, New under the hood. With that they also have jumped platforms from Risc to Intel, and 32 bit to 64 bit. Unlike dealing with it in Windows, it wasn’t painful.
+Maybe it is time to clean house? Win32 is old, its showing it’s age, people giggle at it now. UI as we have been discussing has more than normal issues. At some point the backwards compatibility card cannot be used as an excuse. How far do you go back? At what cost? Again, Apple did the smart move, emulated the old (yes I know of WoW), Win7 saw XP Mode. Time to bite the bullet. No more excuses, just a modern api & ui ready for the next 20 years.
+I think Microsoft’s issue is that they pivot too slowly. Like a tanker the size of two football fields, its a dangerous maneuver and takes a lot of time to complete (subtle BP reference). I just put my mom in front of a laptop with Windows 7 (after spending 2 hours getting rid of the extra crap that’s always on a new Windows machine) and it took her awhile to get used to the way things work.
+I recently moved from Windows –> Ubuntu, and I have to say, the UI conformity is refreshing in Gnome applications. All the volume sliders are the same — the only difference is whether they go up-down or left-right. Direction aside they conform and are nice to look at. I suppose its Canoncial’s meddling, but the new breed of Gnome applications aren’t too shabby. Probably would’ve gotten a Mac if I weren’t on such a tight budget, though.
+For anyone trying to learn WPF, I have a list of beginners resource that may help you out. I tried to lay it out in a semi-logical way that will direct you to what you should learn. There is nothing worse than not knowing what you don’t know
+From just looking at MetroTwit in Snoop, it’s still much too heavy visually. You need to optimize your visual tree, and your framerate will go up as a result. For example, there’s no need to have a RichTextBox for *every* item in the List.
+Use a DataTemplateSelector and only show the RichTextBox when the mouse is hovered over it. For everything else, use a TextBlock which still maintains the formatting.
+There’s also a gratuitous use of Grids where StackPanels would use. Grids are heavier visually than StackPanels, and their Layout passes are much more complex.
+Freeze resources, use BitmapCaching where applicable, etc.
+WPF has many ways to do things, but generally only a few work really well. It’s inherent in the flexibility of the platform.
+Great advice.
+Learning WPF is painful and infuriating. I’ve spent so many angry hours fighting WPF, and failed an uncountable amount of times. That said, when I had an array of simple Note objects (with only a pitch, duration, and accidental property), bound it to a ListBox, and managed to get WPF to display it as a vector-based musical staff with all the notes in their correct shape on the correct ledger lines without writing a single line of C# code, my mind was blown.
+I still have a love-hate relationship with WPF, but I wouldn’t dream of using anything else now.
+Hey Fred, can you describe how you did this? I’m trying to do something similar myself.
+Thanks!
+is it possible that if the design esthetic that microsoft used across all its platforms was totally coherently unified, consumers and developers would then complain that it is too monolithic, they want something original?
+msft is involved in so many areas, why not leave some diversity.
+why not just put metro on the desktop in order to give you the basic interface for interacting with your programs. when you drill down into the hub for say “software development”, you see the diverse esthetic worlds fo the different programs you are working with at that time.
+i don’t think it should be assumed that esthetics of all platforms and programs should be the same, any more than all the people in your people hub should have similar personalities or looks.
+Wearing a tuxedo is easy to match everything. It’s highly unlikely you can match a tie, a t-shirt, a unitard, a dress and go-go shoes, unless you are a fashion designer or a freak, which in many cases can be the same person. :p
+LOL
+“is it possible that if the design esthetic that microsoft used across all its platforms was totally coherently unified, consumers and developers would then complain that it is too monolithic, they want something original?”
+No. Again, this was #3 on the Aero bitch list over at Aero Task Force.
+It’s been my observation that much of the UI inconsistency across Windows applications over the years has been largely due to Microsoft half-assing its UI frameworks. Microsoft’s UI frameworks are very API-focused: you get a few standard controls and styles, plus all the APIs you need to create the more powerful or stylish controls that you actually want. Yay!
+Suppose I want to build an application that fits in well with the Vista/7 Explorer. What do I have to work with? Well, I have a rudimentary toolbar control with bland, gray styling that looks nothing like the toolbar in any recent Microsoft application. It’s certainly a far cry from the glossy blue toolbar in Explorer. If I want to reproduce that, then I need to do heavy restyling, which includes lots of color matching with an eye dropper tool. Since I’m on my own to recreate that look and feel, it will almost certainly look slightly different. Even if I match it perfectly, the styling will almost certainly change with the next Windows release, so my app will look out of place on half my users’ machines. What about that Explorer breadcrumb control? They give me nothing even remotely similar. How about the extended glass chrome found in Explorer and various Aero wizards? If I want to mimic that, then I need to dig into the Win32 APIs. WPF didn’t even ship with a date picker or calendar control. And would it kill them to throw in a half-decent collection of stock icons and graphics? The library that ships with Visual Studio is always one or two generations out of date.
+Compare all this to Apple, where the UI designer’s control library includes almost every variation of every control seen throughout the Mac platform. The button control alone has about a dozen different variations for use in different contexts. The button in WPF has a default style and a style for use in toolbars. That’s about it. No split button, “UAC elevation required” button, etc.
+Microsoft writes the core UI framework, throws in a minimal set of core controls, and calls it a day. It’s no wonder Windows applications all look different. They don’t even give us what we need to blend in with Microsoft’s own applications, including the OS itself! They’re doing the same thing with Windows Phone 7, too: there’s no panorama control, no pivot control, etc. We may get some of those missing controls by RTM, but by that point, many developers will have created their own, all of which will look and work differently. Here’s a tip: if your platform’s most heavily demoed features aren’t in the SDK yet, then you shouldn’t be releasing it.
+/rant
+Here here!
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+What about for making *native* looking apps that fit in well with the rest of the operating system and not tellie tubbie apps with their own ugly skins?
+All the WPF apps I have seen so far (including visual studio’s code editor) opt for UGLY custom colours and skins rather than giving the application a native look.
+I know Microsoft and other Windows developers are notorous for not following standards and HIG guidelines but the WPF developers seem to be the worst offenders. I guess they all get their panties in a bunch getting excited about the custom skinability of WPF that lets them make tellie tubbie style interfaces easily.
+It is ok to create a skinned “Gadget” but for a desktop application, I believe should look native by default.
+Amen. It doesn’t help that most developers make terrible designers. Truth be told, half the designers out there aren’t very good at the “differentiated UX” thing either. We can only blame the framework insofar as it makes UX differentiation relatively trivial to accomplish. Of course, the fact that half of Microsoft’s own sample apps have a heinously ugly UX doesn’t do much to discourage this sort of thing.
+Well Office is never going to see itself or even its parts written in .NET as long as Microsoft cares about backward compatibility. And Windows, most certainly not, but I wouldn’t say never for some components.
+Just noticed that the new Zune software for WP7 has no more beige, but more like Windows Live Essentials with blue and white:
+Good work! Just wondering, is there any reason why you didn’t (or are not going to) make this app a Silverlight 4 app? It just seems that there isn’t much that couldnt be done in that platform and you get to run it on Mac as well (Mac people love things that look good!).
+It is very interesting reading these comments after 1 year has passed.
+The Metro “look” has now become the Metro “platform” in Windows 8, which is still over half a year away but still lacks good UI design and is just a reaction to iOS. Nothing wrong with reacting but coming from a company that used to lead, it is just “too little too late”.
+One can argue the pros and cons of Windows vs OSX or iOS in design and development, but Apple have shown that it is possible to deliver simple, functional, beautiful, robust, consistent, and technologically advanced products that appeal to the masses. It is absolutely clear who the leader is right now.
+Jefferson Dagnal’s Saloon, Deep Ellum — 1906
+by Paula Bosse
+“Fritts & Dagnal,” Deep Ellum saloon… (photo: Brent Burton)
+by Paula Bosse
+Reader Brent Burton commented on one of my tweets on Twitter to say that he had an old photo showing his great-great-grandfather standing in a saloon he had owned in Dallas around the turn-of-the-century and wanted to know how he might access old Dallas directories in order to try to determine where the bar had been. I told him that online scans of city directories are available for free from the Dallas Public Library and the Portal to Texas History (more on this is in my post “How to Access Historical Dallas City Directories Online”). I also offered to see what I could find out.
+The photo is the one above (click it to see a larger image). All he knew was that it was taken in a bar owned by his great-great-grandfather Jefferson Davis Dagnall (whose last name is most often spelled “Dagnal” in various documents such as census records, directories, and his death certificate, so I will refer to him with this spelling) and that the photo was taken in the late 1800s or early 1900s. I figured it would be pretty easy to find the info because his name was so uncommon, but that was complicated by the fact that his name was spelled and misspelled many different ways — I think I came across five or six permutations. It took a long time to figure out where that photo was most likely taken — mainly by going through census records and looking at all the city directories — year by year — to pin down where he was working each year. And he got around — he lived at a new address almost every year, and changed jobs almost as frequently.
+Jefferson Davis Dagnal was born in 1861, probably in Fort Bend, Texas. His father, a South Carolina native, appears to have died fighting in the Civil War; Jeff (…I call him Jeff…) was 3 years old when his father died. By 1880 he was a teenager, working on a Dallas-area farm. In 1883, Jeff was working as a blacksmith. According to city directories, he held the following jobs: store clerk, laborer, streetcar driver, house-mover, electrician, and bartender.
+1905 was the year he seems to have settled into bartending, a job he held in various establishments in Deep Ellum for a decade, until his death in 1915. He appears to have owned (or co-owned) only one of these bars: Fritts & Dagnal. It seems the venture with partner E. G. Fritts was short-lived: its only listing is in the 1906 directory — by 1907 Jeff had moved on, tending bar elsewhere.
+The saloon was listed in the 1906 city directory as being at 673 Elm — that address was changed in 1911 and became 2603 ½ Elm. This was in Deep Ellum, at the northeast corner of Elm and Good (possibly on the second floor). Below is a 1905 Sanborn map showing the location (the full map is here).
+The lot that building stood on at Elm and what is now Good-Latimer is empty, but a current-ish look at the location, from Google Street View, can be seen here (I am attempting to post a view from 2015, before all the construction work was going on near the Elm and Good-Latimer intersection — but just move up or down Elm a bit on Google and you’ll see construction images take over).
+Below, a couple of ads from around the time Jeff Dagnal and E. G. Fritts decided to start up their short-lived saloon at 673 Elm: the first ad shows that it was not unusual in 1905 for large livestock to be kept in Deep Ellum (where they might even have been “rustled”), and the second ad shows that both the upstairs and downstairs spaces of the building at 673 Elm were available to rent:
+Dallas Morning News, May 13, 1905
+(According to the Inflation Calculator, those 1906 rents of $20 and $40 would be about $550 and $1,100 in today’s money.)
+Jefferson Davis Dagnal died in Dallas on Feb. 25, 1915. His death certificate — with information provided by his daughter, Cora — listed his occupation as “blacksmith,” even though he had been a bartender (and, briefly, a saloon owner) for at least the last ten years of his life.
+*
+One interesting thing about Mr. Dagnal, was his relationship with his wife Alice, the mother of his second child, Clarence, who was born in 1893. Alice and Jeff appear to have hit a rough patch in their marriage pretty early on. In the 1900 census, they were living in different cities, and each claimed to be widowed. I don’t know if they ever officially divorced (or even if they officially married), but I suppose it was easier in that era to claim a spouse had died rather than admit the shame of divorce or abandonment. By 1903 both were living in Dallas — at the same address. But by 1904 they were living apart, and Alice was, again, claiming to be a widow — even though an alive-and-kicking Jeff was listed in the directory right under her name!
+I have come across this phenomenon so frequently that I now question every “widow” or “widowed” claim I come across. Information from the U. S. Census (where people give false ages and incorrect marital status ALL THE TIME) should be taken with a grain of salt!
+***
+Sources & Notes
+Photo of Jefferson Dagnal’s saloon was shared with me by Dagnal’s great-great-grandson, Brent Burton and is used here with his permission. Jeff is probably in the photo — in 1906 he would have been 45 years old. Thank you for the great photo, Brent!
+All images are larger when clicked.
+*
+Paula is helping me realize my goal of 200 years in Dallas & nothing to show for it. So far she helped me pin down 1855 arrival. 37 years & counting!
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+Get busy!
+Paula
+thanks for the story your wrote about the episode of frame of mind
+with the tv news footage from WFAA
+it will be showing again at the dallas international film fest
+SPECIAL PRESENTATION
+[]
+Frame of Mind: Remixing the News
+USA, 2017, 57 min., Color + B/W
+Since 1949, WFAA Chanel 8, in Dallas has documented the news of the day. For years, the station shot that news on 16mm film. WFAA donated all of this raw footage from 1960 to 1977 to the Bill Jones Collection at SMU. Archivists there transferred it and we give it – all 1.3 terabits of it – to 10 Dallas filmmakers. Their challenge was to explore the images that spoke to them, and use them to create original works. Think of these pieces like video remixes, or mashups of a cities reflections. They are constructs of imagination, social and political commentary, not factual documentary. Giving these historic images new contexts and new meanings may give us fresh ways to look at the past. And reveal something about who we are today.
+“2,000 Hours in Dallas” by Jeremy Spracklen
+“The Story of Jane X” by Christian Vasquez
+“Dallas Circle” by Justin Wilson
+“Lawmen & Cowpokes” by Gordon K. Smith
+“History Lessons” by Steve Baker
+“Beyond 10” by Carmen Menza
+“Glass” by Madison McMakin
+“Poofs are New” by Blaine Dunlap
+“Divided” by Michael Thomas & Dakota Ford
+“The Night in the Last Branches” by Michael Alexander Morris
+“Echoes of the Past” by Jeremy Spracklen
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+Bart Weiss
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+Jeremy Spracklen, Christian Vasquez, Justin Wilson, Gordon K. Smith, Steve Baker, Carmen Menza, Madison McMakin, Blaine Dunlap, Michael Thomas & Dakota Ford, Michael Alexander Morris
+BART WEISS
+Bart Weiss is an award-winning filmmaker, educator and director/founder of the Dallas VideoFest, which prodeuces, DocuFest, Alternative Fictions, the Ernie Kovacas award, the 24 hour video race and the North Texas Universities Film Festival. He produces the TV show “Frame of Mind” on KERA TV. He is an associate professor at the Univeristy of Texas at Arlington where he teachers film and video. He was President and Chair of AIVF and was a video columnist for The Dallas Morning News, and United Features Syndicate. He currently writes for Student Filmmaker and TheaterJones.com Bart received an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University.
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+For those undertaking family history research it is well to keep in mind that ancestors weren’t necessarily hypocrites and liars when questionable responses are found in the federal census. In many cases census takers recorded the answers of whoever showed up at the door and was willing to give the task an honest, if wayward, try.
+On the other hand, I did once turn up a situation where the youngish grandmother identified herself as the mother of a child to spare her daughter, the actual mother, the problem of coming up with a husband.
+Was just wondering why there were not seats and tables and remembered even today some don’t have that either to make room for dancing or to make sure people don’t stay long enough to get too drunk and fight. Was it the same then?
+Interesting question. I don’t know!
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+I think that the bar proper and its ornate mirror behind were often points of pride for the barkeep so likely to be featured in a promotional image like this. I’d bet the tables and chairs were just whisked out of camera range so this photo could be taken.
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+Weird and Unusual Parking Choices
+Parking should be a relatively simple process; the driver gauges the size of the parking space, backs neatly into it, and leaves. If you park in the wrong location at the wrong time, you might be risking a ticket, but most people would never dream of parking on the subway stairs, halfway off a dock, or turning their vehicles sideways so they'll fit a too-small space. All these things have really happened, however, plus a huge range of other hilarious and dangerous parking mishaps. Here are just a few of the weirdest ways people have been caught parking their cars.
+Subway Parking
+French pedestrians were probably surprised and appalled in February 2012, when a confused man driving a Dacia Duster SUV thought the sign for a subway entrance was really advertising a parking garage. Before the mistake could be corrected, he drove right down the subway stairs Autel Maxisys MS908CV, putting his front wheels seven steps into the metro station entrance. Unable to back out, the driver chose to park. Police and a tow truck were required to remove the vehicle.
+Outside the Box
+The lines painted on the parking lot asphalt help indicate where it is and isn't safe to put your car. Some drivers take these lines more as guidelines than as rules, however. Especially in non-Western countries where parking enforcement is lax and spaces are hard to come by, drivers have been known to turn their cars sideways to fit into a space that's currently occupied by another car.
+Between a Dock and a Hard Place
+if you're not paying attention, it can be easily to run off the road. One unfortunate woman found that this is even more of a hazard when you're driving on the docks. She overshot her intended parking space and ended up with her car parked half on the pavement and half hovering over the water. Only a convenient boat stopped it from falling in entirely.
+All Iced Up
+This parking spot may have seemed like a good one before the weather changed, but one unfortunate cold-climate driver found his car turned into an icicle after a big melt-and-thaw cycle. Meltwater pouring down from the top of the parking structure flowed right onto his car, freezing solid and keeping the vehicle from going anywhere. Sources don't say how long it took the driver to chip the car back out, but it had to be an arduous process.
+Where There's a Will
+Most drivers stop when they see their way blocked by a tree, a concrete piling, or a big pipe. This isn't true of everyone, however. More than one traveler has decided that an obstruction is just a challenge in disguise. Even more surprisingly, at least one SUV driver made it over a set of huge steel pipes to park neatly in front of a garage door at a construction site. Most of these situations don't end up going as well, with cars stranded half-on, half-off of the barrier.
+All You Need is a Parking Brake
+The parking brake is meant to keep your car safe on a steep hill, but that hasn't stopped some drivers from using it a bit more creatively. At least one person decided that the best location for a car was at the top of a narrow stairway at the end of an alley, wedged between a shop and a sturdy stone wall. In this instance, the parking brake was just about the only thing keeping the car in place.
+Not Quite Blocking the Disability Spots
+Everyone knows that blocking a parking spot meant for people with disabilities is a bad move. One driver decided that it's okay if you're not actually blocking the parking spot. He pulled his compact hatchback in on the slanted yellow lines between the handicap parking space, keeping disabled drivers from getting out of their cars, but not preventing them from parking.
+Indecisively
+This one is pretty common, especially at malls and in large parking lots. Drivers who aren't paying attention or who are very worried about having their cars scratched by other drivers don't pull quite all the way into the space. The result is enough room to dock a Smart car and an increased risk of being rear-ended by other inattentive parking lot natives.
+According to the Law of Superior Tonnage
+A bigger truck seems to be directly correlated with a driver who thinks he or she is entitled to ignore the rules. That's why parking lot and garage attendants so regularly see big cargo trucks parked across three spaces, wedged into spots reserved for compact cars, or trapped between concrete barriers that are just too small for them Autel MaxiDiag MD808. For the owner of a big truck, there's always a way to make it fit.
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+Most of us panic when we hear weird sounds in our cars. How terrible and frustrating this might be, it occurs! Regrettably, many vehicle owners only seek an auto repair shop when they are in this kind of emergency. Hiring an auto repair service in the time your auto is being towed is just not a superb concept. In the event you would want to save on auto repair service, you must have already established a fantastic relationship with a excellent and qualified auto repair shop prior to your car even begins to breakdown autel maxisys ms906. Beneath are simple things you need to know in terms of in search of high quality and trusted auto repair service:
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+This article is about water hybrid cars and alternative fuel resources. First, I discuss renewable resources. Second, I explain Hybrid Hydrogen Oxygen (HHO) systems. Third, I talk about heat issues. And lastly, I discuss converting a traditional vehicle to a water hybrid car.
+Introduction
+Having a car that ran using water used to be an imaginative idea, which wasn't real enough for many. However nowadays, with the innovative technology really happening in real life, a water hybrid car is actually a clear-cut reality.
+Making The Best Out Of Renewable Resources
+This kind of vehicle would only call for a means to hold and break water to hydrogen and oxygen. In consequence, it would inject such gases to your car's regular engine. Thus, your vehicle would literally run on water.
+The good thing is, at present, this is pretty much possible. All you'll need would be some technical effort and anyone could convert their normal car into a water powered vehicle. In effect, this would definitely bring some ease from the horrifying gas prices that keep on rising each week as you could see them on the news.
+The System
+Hybrid Hydrogen Oxygen (HHO) fuel cells supply hydroxy gas that is produced from water, to help in your car's combustion. This utilizes HHO to lend a hand with the burning of gasoline through a full combustion cycle that has the capability to reduce gas emissions. Additionally, this process wouldn't be that hard for your engine as it won't eat up a big amount of your gas. In the end, you get more miles for travelling.
+How Does It Work?
+So, how exactly does the HHO reduce your car's gas emissions and help save up with your gasoline expenses? The main reason is actually via a system which breaks down carbon, and removes its deposits from the engine of your car. This is a very efficient method that greatly increases your car's fuel efficiency. It also heightens the longevity of your car's engine.
+Your alternator could generate just enough HHO using 12v at 1 amp to make use of a finely built HHO cell. As you can see, all these rewards make purchasing this kind of system and running it on your car makes everything worth it. In fact, some experts even say that these cells actually need less power supply compared to car wipers.
+Issues On Heat
+Some say that these kind of cells could get pretty hot in the combustion process. Nevertheless, there are still ways to take control of the heat; for instance, using sufficient amount of catalyst, such as baking soda; and/or a Pulse Width Modulator (PWM). Given that you're using a water system in replacement for fuel, freezing weather might present some problems also while utilizing your catalyst. Nevertheless, you shouldn't worry, since you could also control freezing by simply mixing 20% denatured alcohol with your fuel cell Autel MaxiSys MS906BT. Doing so would avoid freezing problems. Additionally, either of the said catalysts could help with the creation of HHO.
+Thoughts On Conversion
+Having your car converted to a water burning hybrid, is not really that hard to do. In fact, it doesn't even entail too much proficiency on engines or a degree in mechanical engineering. The best thing here is that you get access to the benefits of not needing the use of gasoline as fuel.
+Benefits Of It All
+By the use of water for fuel, you could now say goodbye to the incessantly rising gas costs. You also increase your vehicle's mileage dramatically. However, the second benefit would still depend on the type of car you're driving. Additionally, you also get to reduce poisonous emissions from your car and help prevent global warming. Last but not the least, you would be definitely happy if your car qualifies for hybrid tax credit from the IRS.
+Reminders
+If ever you have a water powered car, there are still things that you should keep in mind. For instance, just remember to look at your water level in every 2-3 hours. This is due to the reason that you have a big risk of depleting your water fuel, since combustion eats up your water supply. What happens is something like when water evaporates if you burn it. As soon as water transforms to HHO, it's burned by your vehicle. Hence, the car's water level would go down Autel MaxiCOM MK808. If that happens, your water hybrid car may experience problems and could even implode in the end.
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+...so is there a good non-VHS source for the original audio mix :(?
+"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)
+...so is there a good non-VHS source for the original audio mix :(?
+"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)
+It depends what you consider the original audio mix.
+The ORIGINAL release in 1989 only had a stereo mix.
+Michaeldvd.com.au:
+The Little Mermaid was originally released in 1989, before discrete digital soundtracks were commonplace, so the original soundtrack is in Dolby Stereo. The soundtrack was remastered for the 1997 theatrical re-release, but obviously the same sound elements were used, and occasionally the mono effects stand out like a sore thumb. In particular, a segment from a scene where a ship explodes into flame is accompanied by sound effects that emanate entirely from the centre channel.
+The original Dolby mix AFAIK has only been released on the laserdisc.
+The 1997 5.1 DD remix was very well done, and critics had a lot of good things to say about it (and so do I).
+The 1997 mix was release unaltered on the old unrestored DVD in 2000. In fact there was a limited release of the same disc that contained the 1997 DTS mix as well (now THAT would have been wonderful to use).
+And as we all know the new Platinum disc only contains the crappy 2006 DEHT mix.
+My restored edition uses the 1997 mix, which is infinitely more satisfying.
+HomeTheaterForum's did a listening test comparing the 2.0 16/44.1 LPCM (laserdisc), 5.1 DD/AC-3 original mix (laserdisc), 5.1 DD original mix (old DVD) and 5.1 DD DEHT mix (new DVD).
+Dr. M
+Problems:
+The first cause for alarm is that the only English audio mix provided on this disc is the Disney Enhanced for Home Theater (D.E.H.T.) mix. The original, great-sounding mix heard both on the previous laserdisc and DVD is nowhere in sight. I can’t believe that given the dearth of bonus material on Disc 1 that Disney couldn’t have found the bandwidth to include it. And perhaps the omission of the original mix wouldn’t have been such a bad thing had the new DEHT mix not been so troublesome.
+The problems with the new mix are two-fold to my ears. One problem is directional… the placement choices of the sound. While most non-musical sequences seem fine in terms of what comes out of what speaker, the musical sequences, which are the heart and soul of the film, have been less tastefully served. Firstly, the lead vocal tracks to each song are duplicated in the front three channels… spreading Ariel’s (or Sabastien’s) voice across the front sound state in a strange, phase-shifting sort of way that I can only imagine was supposed to “enhance” the experience.
+During the first song, Ariel’s voice sounds oddly detached and lacks the solid soundstaging and presence of the original mix. The decision to spread her voice over all three front channels dissolves any sense that you’re hearing a point-source of sound… ie: a person singing. Adding to that some overly aggressive placement of instrumentation in the rear channels and the sensation is more like putting a boom-box on your shoulder in a 1980’s MTV video than listening to a soulful aria as the song was intended to portray.
+Now, I guess I should be thankful that The Little Mermaid’s DEHT mix didn’t suffer the same fate as that of Aladdin where the clueless mixing engineer decided to place the lead vocalist tracks in the rear surround channels as well. But that’s small consolation given that, unlike Aladdin, the original mix is not presented here as an option.
+But now we get to the real problem I have with this new mix. It sounds artificial. And the musical vocal tracks have a dry, flat, electronic signature that’s entirely destroys the lush, vivid, liquid sound quality of the vocal tracks in the original mixes on the laserdisc and DVD. Just how obvious is this problem? Well, it was so obvious to my ears that when first sitting down and skipping to my favorite “Part of Your World” sequence expecting to be showered with musical bliss (picture that old Maxell advertisement) as I have been accustomed to experiencing with the previous DVD and laserdisc, instead I found myself grimacing with disgust and running from the room to dig out my old laserdisc to do some serious A/B comparisons. I had to see if my memory was so in error or if the Disney tech team really are complete and total morons.
+Discovered fact: They are morons folks. Allow me to state boldly the plain and simple truth. The techs who cooked up this DEHT mix are nothing but tone-deaf, MP3-listening junkies who wouldn’t know a holographic soundstage if it bit them in the ass. I’ll continue.
+So after blowing the dust off of my laserdisc player, I strategically ran cables both directly from the LPCM output and from the RF-output via my AC3 RF modulator so I could easily toggle back and forth between the 2.0 16/44.1 stereo (ProLogic) track on the LD, the 5.1 AC-3 (Dolby Digital) track on the LD, and the new 5.1 Dolby Digital DEHT mix on the new DVD. To make things even more fun, I hooked up my old DVD player so that I could also seamlessly toggle to the 5.1 Dolby Digital mix on the old DVD. Wow. What a deal:
+- 2.0 16/44.1 LPCM (laserdisc)
+- 5.1 DD/AC-3 original mix (laserdisc)
+- 5.1 DD original mix (old DVD)
+- 5.1 DD DEHT mix (new DVD)
+After a while I became quite skilled at quickly syncing the various discs up to within a few seconds of each other to enable quick and effective toggling during play. It helped that the laserdisc and original DVD shared the same chapter stops.
+So what did I learn in my 2+ hours of source switching?
+Firstly, the recording level of both the LPCM and AC3 on the laser is noticeably lower than either of the Dolby tracks on the two DVDs. I found this interesting as one might have assumed that the laser and early DVD shared the same core Dolby Digital compressed soundtrack. They clearly do not. Yes, I adjusted levels to compensate accordingly during my listening session.
+The second thing I noticed was that while the “mix” of the 5.1 AC3 on the LD and older DVD sound like they are derived from the same LPCM master, the sound quality of the Dolby Digital on the (original) DVD was much better than the LD's AC3… much more open, natural, and with a richer sense of musical textures and micro-detail like musical decays and ambient “hall”. In fact, the Dolby Digital on the older DVD sounded very close to the fidelity of the 2.0 LPCM laserdisc track in terms of musical naturalness. I was quite impressed (though voices still sounded most natural of all on the laserdisc’s LPCM). The LPCM did present a more believable sense of space and nuance versus the older DVD’s DD track, but the improvement was subtle. Given this only slight improvement in fidelity on the LPCM, I felt that the gains in soundstaging with the discrete 5.1 encoding on the older DVD were a reasonable trade off and out of all the audio mixes the 5.1 DD on the previous DVD emerged as my preferred choice.
+The important conclusion was that all three “original” audio presentations did a superb job of faithfully reproducing believable vocals that were lush, natural, and liquidly smooth. The sharp contrast with the dry, flat, almost brassy nature of the vocals on the new DEHT mix in comparison was undeniable. The vocals on the new DVD’s DEHT mix sounded “electronic” in a way that pulled me out of the film during what should have been the most encompassing moments of the story.
+My memory had not betrayed me. This new mix really was the problem after all.
+Because firstly Disney insists on putting a bastardized mix on this disc that disregards the integrity of the original recording's natural tonal quality and fidelity, and secondly because in doing so they also elected not to provide the original mix as an alternative, I cannot view this DVD presentation of The Little Mermaid as quality effort.
+Sound Quality: 2.5 / 5
+Dr. M
+*sigh*
+So I guess I need to find a laserdisc of it. How many editions are there? Hopefully only one, or maybe one each CAV/CLV from the same release?
+"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)
+TLM was shown in 70mm back in '89, so there would have been a six-track mix that probably was used as the basis for the 5.1 track.
+You can see the different Laserdisc editions here.
+Where were you in '77?
+I remembered there being a CLV and CAV release on LD. I suppose there had to be an AC3 one as well.
+I didn't realize there were THAT many.
+Really though, give the older DD5.1 mix a listen before going off on a crazy crusade, it's very well done.
+The theatrical re-release IIRC was based on the original ProLogic-like stereo mix (or the 70mm six track as SilverWook was saying). It's not like they pulled more channels out of their butt, they largely just used newer technology to provide discrete channels for existing ones when theaters became capable of handling that (thanks to the switch to DD, DTS and SDSS).
+I'm sure there were some changes (70mm six track does not correspond to the same speaker placements as modern DD5.1), but really, when HTF thinks a 5.1 mix sounds better than a PCM original, they probably have a good reason. Less channels isn't always better, just less. :-)
+Dr. M
+I only comment because way back when, I set up my first two channel system. I was recording TLM off the Disney channel to preserve my original VHS. The downmixed stereo for the 97 sounded vastly different compared to the 89 stereo. Thanks for the info. It's good to know these 5.1 remixes have some creditability to them. DVD or no, I'll never let those tapes go.
+While we're on it, my big concern recently is Sleeping Beauty. They're releasing a 7.1 mix. I know the source is six channels, but the original is stereo. A fifty year old movie in 7.1 just worries the heck out of a purist like me that wants the Bkuray (you've got to love the misleading add the touts the new 2:55:1 transfer by having a cropped widescreen image morph into a fullscreen one).
+Made for IE Forum's Episode III theme month - May 2005.
+If you want to preserve Little Mermaid, get yourself a laserdisc player and any of the older laserdiscs and do a rip of the PCM track.
+Heck, get me a copy of the audio track and I'll sync it for a second edition if you'd like. Preserving a TV recording on VHS sounds pointless, but maybe that's just me.
+It's important to understand that when stereo audio is mixed for theaters, there is a 3d holophonic soundstage. It should be unnecessary to explain that sounds can seem to come at you from various directions including behind you in these situations.
+Dolby ProLogic and similar are capable of interpreting this from 2 channels of input and localizing them to specific speakers to improve the quality and make it so everyone doesn't have to sit in a tiny little sweet-spot to get the effect.
+Upmixing from this is quite possible and the masters may even already be multiple channels to start with. The can simply use the same audio, and with some small tweaks pass it discretely instead of all squished together into 2 channels.
+Now that goes out the window with Disney's DEHT mixes which are designed for "home theaters" (which means idiots that can't set up their system, don't know how to use the audio menu on a DVD, or are watching on a 9" single speaker television).
+But... most studios make a deliberate effort and tend to do a pretty good job with an upmix.
+As far as full frame, this has been discuss before as well.
+A lot of times animators will work with the full cells when creating animated movies and down the road TPTB decided they want to make it widescreen for greater impact or marketablility or whatever.
+To do this they just crop the film when transferring it.
+Sure you are most familiar with the widescreen presentation, but the animators never did all that work with the intention of a portion never being seen.
+It's not the same as cropping live action films for widescreen, because in those cases there is a cinemetographer who knows what will and won't end up in the final shot composing the action based on that.
+Dr. M
+is on RAPIDSHARE now on tehparadox.
+Anyone know if the "goran nasai, suteki deshou" Japanese dub (first line of "Part of Your World") made it to video? I know there was an OST that used it. The other newer dub I call the "yoku mite, suteki ne" dub. The meaning is the same; the newer dub is more casual Japanese but screws up the meter. (Scan English: "Look-at-this-stuff is-n't-it-neat", the old Japanese dub fills it in, "go-ran-na-sai, sute-ki-de-shou", the new one, "yo-ku-mi-te, sute-ki-ne" with a missing syllable at the end of the line!)
+"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)
+Doctor M said:
+This is available again. PM me if you are interested.
+Can I have it please?
+Thanks so mcuh
+Dumbo and Toy Story 2 are also being altered. Dumbo is deleting the Crows from Dumbo, and the Bloopers in TS2 are gone.
+To me, Star Wars is a brand that means quality, just because it’s a bad SW film, doesn’t mean it’s a bad movie.
+This is a ten-year-old thread… 😮
+Ol’ George has the GOUT, I see.
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Entertainment (NYSE:LYV)DateQuarterConsensus EstimateActual EPSRevenue EstimateActual RevenueRelease LinkConference CallDetails2/23/2017 7/28/2016Q216$0.08$0.13$1.88 billion$2.20 billionViewListen5/3/2016Q116($0.29)($0.29)$1.18 billion$73.40 billionViewN/A2/25/2016Q415($0.34)($0.39)$1.66 billion$1.81 billionViewListen10/29/2015Q315$0.43$0.44$2.44 billion$2.60 billionViewListen8/10/2015Q215$0.06$0.06$1.70 billionViewListen4/30/2015Q1($0.35)($0.31)$1.14 billion$1.12 billionViewN/A2/26/2015Q414($0.41)($0.41)$1.60 billion$1.60 billionViewN/A10/30/2014Q314$0.38$0.49$2.45 billion$2.50 billionViewN/A7/31/2014Q214$0.16$0.11$1.61 billion$1.67 billionViewN/A5/6/2014Q114($0.35)($0.16)$963.77 million$1.13 billionViewN/A2/24/2014Q413($0.37)($0.25)$1.46 billion$1.61 billionViewListen8/6/2013Q2 2013$0.10$0.30$1.62 billion$1.68 billionViewListen5/7/2013Q1 2013($0.36)($0.33)$914.37 million$923.70 millionViewListen2/26/2013Q4 2012($0.36)($0.87)$1.29 billion$1.44 billionViewListen11/5/2012Q312$0.27$0.31$1.87 billion$1.96 billionViewN/A8/7/2012$0.05$0.04ViewN/A5/9/2012($0.40)($0.37)ViewN/A2/23/2012($0.32)($0.46)ViewN/A11/3/2011$0.35$0.27ViewN/A8/8/2011$0.01$0.07ViewN/A5/5/2011($0.42)($0.27)ViewN/A(Data available from 1/1/2011 forward) Estimates Earnings Estimates for Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE:LYV)Current Year EPS Consensus Estimate: $-0.25 EPSNext Year EPS Consensus Estimate: $0.20 EPSQuarterNumber of EstimatesLow EstimateHigh EstimateAverage EstimateQ1 20162($0.27)($0.25)($0.26)Q2 20162$0.05$0.10$0.08Q3 20162$0.45$0.50$0.48Q4 20162($0.59)($0.54)($0.57)Q1 20172($0.39)($0.26)($0.33)Q2 20173$0.11$0.20$0.16Q3 20173$0.36$0.64$0.52Q4 20172($0.57)($0.40)($0.49)Q1 20181($0.21)($0.21)($0.21)Q2 20181$0.25$0.25$0.25Q3 20181$0.65$0.65$0.65(Data provided by Zacks Investment Research) Dividends Dividend History for Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE:LYV)No dividend announcements for this company have been tracked by MarketBeat.com Insider Trades Insider Trading History for Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE:LYV)Insider Ownership Percentage: 4.16%Institutional Ownership Percentage: 63.33%Transaction DateInsider NameTitleBuy/SellNumber of SharesAverage Share PriceTotal TransactionDetails2/10/2017Michael RapinoCEOSell210,000$28.73$6,033,300.00 2/3/2017Michael RapinoCEOSell210,000$28.52$5,989,200.00 1/27/2017Michael RapinoCEOSell140,000$28.06$3,928,400.00 1/20/2017Michael RapinoCEOSell140,000$27.38$3,833,200.00 1/13/2017Michael RapinoCEOSell140,000$27.43$3,840,200.00 1/6/2017Michael RapinoCEOSell140,000$27.55$3,857,000.00 11/23/2016Robert Ted Enloe IIIDirectorSell10,000$27.78$277,800.00 11/21/2016Mark S ShapiroDirectorSell22,642$28.08$635,787.36 6/13/2016Robert Ted Enloe IIIDirectorSell5,363$23.54$126,245.02 11/2/2015Randall Thomas MaysDirectorSell50,000$27.00$1,350,000.00 6/11/2015Robert Ted Enloe IIIDirectorSell6,446$28.98$186,805.08 6/10/2015Brian CapoCAOSell7,500$28.95$217,125.00 6/9/2014Robert Ted Enloe IIIDirectorSell10,823$24.13$261,158.99 5/19/2014Media Corp LibertyDirectorBuy1,693,090$22.74$38,500,866.60 3/14/2014Brian CapoCAOSell7,043$23.04$162,270.72 1/3/2014Robert Ted Enloe IIIDirectorSell10,000$20.04$200,400.00 8/29/2013Elizabeth Kathleen WillardCFOSell50,000$17.26$863,000.00 8/12/2013Michael RapinoCEOSell640,000$18.30$11,712,000.00 8/9/2013James KahanDirectorSell35,000$18.63$652,050.00 8/8/2013Mark ShapiroDirectorSell27,000$18.56$501,120.00 6/13/2013James S KahanDirectorSell36,500$15.28$557,720.00 3/12/2013Media Corp LibertyDirectorBuy1,700,000$11.40$19,380,000.00 12/31/2012Media Corp LibertyDirectorBuy1,670,379$8.98$15,000,003.42 12/4/2012Irving AzoffChairmanSell78,200$8.74$683,468.00 (Data available from 1/1/2013 forward) Headlines Latest Headlines for Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE:LYV)DateHeadlineTicketMaster Is Being Sued For Allegedly Hacking Their Competitors - Benzinga (NYSE:LYV) - February 17 at 1:53 PMLevels in View on Shares of Live Nation Entertainment Inc. (LYV) - Baldwin Journal (NYSE:LYV)baldwinjournal.com - February 17 at 1:53 PM6:44 pm Live Nation's Ticketmaster acquired ticket agent Ticketpro; no financial terms disclosed (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - February 17 at 1:53 PM[$$] Ticketing Startup Alleges Ticketmaster Used Hacking to Steal Trade Secrets (NYSE:LYV) - February 16 at 5:58 PMOneRepublic To Headline 2017 Honda Civic Tour (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - February 16 at 5:58 PMSongkick says a Ticketmaster exec stole secrets to 'clone' CrowdSurge (NYSE:LYV) - February 16 at 5:58 PMStyx, REO Speedwagon And Don Felder Set To Launch "United We Rock" U.S. Summer Tour June 20 In Ridgefield, WA (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - February 16 at 5:58 PMTicketMaster Is Being Sued For Allegedly Hacking Their Competitors (NYSE:LYV)feeds.benzinga.com - February 16 at 3:09 PMStock Momentum Update on Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:LYV) - Baldwin Journal (NYSE:LYV)baldwinjournal.com - February 14 at 7:55 PMAnalytical Guide for Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (LYV), Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. (DKS) Stakeholders - The USA Commerce (NYSE:LYV) - February 14 at 7:55 PMPostmodern Jukebox And Straight No Chaser Announce 25-city Summer Us Tour Launching July 13 In Chicago (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - February 14 at 7:55 PMGlobal YouTube Sensation Dan TDM Set For North American Tour (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - February 14 at 7:55 PMLive Nation Sees Monster Demand for Lady Gaga's Joanne World Tour with Sold Out Shows and Newly Added Dates (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - February 13 at 7:29 PMMetallica Announce The Worldwired 2017 North American Tour In Support Of Hardwired...to Self-Destruct (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - February 13 at 10:33 AMLive Nation Entertainment Launches Concerts and Ticketing ... - WebWire (press release) (NYSE:LYV) - February 10 at 5:26 AMLive Nation Entertainment programa divulgación y teleconferencia sobre ganancias en el cuarto trimestre y en el ... - PR Newswire (Comunicado de prensa) (NYSE:LYV) - February 10 at 12:25 AMLive Nation Entertainment Schedules Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2016 Earnings Release And Teleconference - PR Newswire (press release) (NYSE:LYV) - February 10 at 12:25 AMLive Nation Acquires Majority Stake In Bluestone Entertainment (NYSE:LYV)seekingalpha.com - February 9 at 7:24 PMAmazon Web Services becomes public cloud infrastructure provider for Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:LYV)eprretailnews.com - February 9 at 7:24 PMLive Nation Entertainment Schedules Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2016 Earnings Release And Teleconference (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - February 9 at 7:24 PMInside the Numbers for Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:LYV) - Baldwin Journal (NYSE:LYV)baldwinjournal.com - February 9 at 5:13 AMLive Nation Selects Amazon Web Services as Cloud Infrastructure Provider - Business Wire (press release) (NYSE:LYV) - February 9 at 12:11 AMTrading Scope: Checking the Numbers for Live Nation Entertainment Inc. (LYV) - Benton Bulletin (NYSE:LYV)bentonbulletin.com - February 9 at 12:11 AMLive Nation Entertainment Launches Concerts and Ticketing Businesses in Israel (NYSE:LYV) - February 8 at 7:10 PMAmerica’s Music Festivals Could Use a Boost, With or Without U2 (NYSE:LYV) - February 8 at 7:10 PMLive Nation Selects Amazon Web Services as Cloud Infrastructure Provider (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - February 8 at 7:10 PMSting Launches 57th & 9th World Tour To Rave Reviews, Heralded As The "Show Of A Lifetime" (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - February 6 at 6:30 PMFollowing Explosive Super Bowl Performance Live Nation Announces Lady Gaga Joanne World Tour - PR Newswire (press release) (NYSE:LYV) - February 6 at 10:04 AMFollowing Explosive Super Bowl Performance Live Nation Announces Lady Gaga Joanne World Tour (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - February 6 at 10:04 AMMuse Announce Summer Tour With Special Guest Thirty Seconds To Mars (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - February 6 at 10:04 AMEarnings Forecast Research on Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (LYV ... - Morning Outlook (NYSE:LYV) - February 2 at 7:09 PMNickelback 'Feed The Machine' With 44-City North American Tour, New Single And Ninth Studio Album (NYSE:LYV)us.rd.yahoo.com - February 1 at 7:16 PMDeep Purple, Alice Cooper, And The Edgar Winter Band Prove To Be Summer's Incomparable Rock Show! (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - January 30 at 7:06 PMThe Fans Have Spoken: GRAMMY®-Nominated Artists The Chainsmokers To Release Debut Album (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - January 30 at 7:06 PMJohn Mayer's "The Search For Everything" World Tour To Launch March 31, 2017 (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - January 30 at 7:06 PMCiti : to Launch New Live Music Platform, Citi : Sound Vault, to Provide Epic Cardmember Experiences (NYSE:LYV) - January 30 at 10:00 AMCiti to Launch New Live Music Platform, Citi Sound Vault, to Provide Epic Cardmember Experiences (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - January 30 at 10:00 AMEnsure Super Bowl LI Tickets Are Authentic, Purchase 100% Verified Tickets From Ticketmaster And The NFL Ticket Exchange (NYSE:LYV)us.rd.yahoo.com - January 27 at 1:15 AMFocusing on the Numbers for Live Nation Entertainment Inc. (LYV) - Market Point (NYSE:LYV)mtptnews.com - January 26 at 8:13 PMQueen + Adam Lambert Return To Rock North America This Summer (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - January 26 at 8:13 PM(LYV) CEO Michael Rapino Sells 140000 Shares (NYSE:LYV)larampadinapoli.com - January 26 at 5:54 AMWhy Hamilton's West End Wizardry Won't Work on Broadway (NYSE:LYV) - January 25 at 7:51 PMRod Stewart And Very Special Guest Cyndi Lauper To Join Forces For One Of Summer's Most Anticipated Tours - PR Newswire (press release) (NYSE:LYV) - January 25 at 3:54 AMLive Nation Entertainment INC (LYV) Valuation Rose While Shapiro Capital Management LLC Decreased Its Stake (NYSE:LYV)randolphguide.com - January 24 at 7:06 PMMarch 17th Options Now Available For Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) (NYSE:LYV) - January 23 at 6:42 PMThird Eye Blind Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Summer Gods Tour (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - January 23 at 6:42 PMRod Stewart And Very Special Guest Cyndi Lauper To Join Forces For One Of Summer's Most Anticipated Tours (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - January 23 at 10:24 AMThe 1975 Announce North American Spring Tour (NYSE:LYV)finance.yahoo.com - January 23 at 10:24 AMStock Focus: Watching RSI Levels on Shares of Live Nation Entertainment Inc. (LYV) - Rives Journal (NYSE:LYV)rivesjournal.com - January 20 at 1:21 AMGearing Up For a Bull Run? Analysts Weigh in on Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:LYV) - Wall Street Beacon (NYSE:LYV)wsbeacon.com - January 19 at 4:59 AM Social What is Live Nation Entertainment's stock symbol? Live Nation Entertainment trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "LYV."Where is Live Nation Entertainment's stock going? Where will Live Nation Entertainment's stock price be in 2017? 8 analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Live Nation Entertainment's shares. Their predictions range from $27.00 to $34.00. On average, they expect Live Nation Entertainment's stock price to reach $32.00 in the next twelve months.When will Live Nation Entertainment announce their earnings? Live Nation Entertainment is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February, 23rd 2017.Who owns Live Nation Entertainment stock? Live Nation Entertainment's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (1.96%), State Street Corp (1.63%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (1.52%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.85%), Horizon Kinetics LLC (0.79%) and Gabelli Funds LLC (0.71%). Company insiders that own Live Nation Entertainment stock include Brian Capo, Mark S Shapiro, Michael Rapino, Randall Thomas Mays and Robert Ted Enloe III.Who sold Live Nation Entertainment stock? Who is selling Live Nation Entertainment stock? Live Nation Entertainment's stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Marshall Wace LLP, Two Sigma Investments LP, Artisan Partners Limited Partnership, AQR Capital Management LLC, State Street Corp, Friess Associates LLC and Horizon Kinetics LLC. Company insiders that have sold Live Nation Entertainment stock in the last year include Mark S Shapiro, Michael Rapino and Robert Ted Enloe III.Who bought Live Nation Entertainment stock? Who is buying Live Nation Entertainment stock? Live Nation Entertainment's stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Foundation Asset Management LP, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Loomis Sayles & Co. L P, Opera Trading Capital, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Nicholas Investment Partners LP, Foresters Investment Management Company Inc. and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. How do I buy Live Nation Entertainment stock? Shares of Live Nation Entertainment can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab. How much does a share of Live Nation Entertainment stock cost? One share of Live Nation Entertainment stock can currently be purchased for approximately $29.69. Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE:LYV) Chart for Sunday, February, 19, 2017Institutional Ownership ChartEarnings History ChartDividend History Chart Last Updated on 2/19/2017 by MarketBeat.com Staff
+Sunday, May 31, 2015
+Hymns of Pentecost by the Female Choir, Ormilia
+Posted by demetrifs at 12:27 AM 0 comments
+Saturday, May 30, 2015
+The Eternal Priest
+The eternal priest story has become a tradition in the Orthodox and Greek world. According to this tradition (myth), when the Ottoman Turks beat the Byzantine army and eventually entered the holiest city of the Byzantine era, Hagia Sophia, there was a Divine Liturgy taking place. The moment the conquerors entered, the priest saw them running in; he went into the holy of holies and miraculously ran through a door, which appeared in the wall. Another tradition, claims that he ran through a door, which still exists today, on one of the sides of the Church. According to this legend, when Constantinople will again become a Christian city, the priest will reappear from the wall and continue the Divine Liturgy. Despite this being merely a story, it is a belief many Greek Orthodox still have today.
+Posted by demetrifs at 12:00 AM 0 comments
+Labels: Orthodox Churches
+Friday, May 29, 2015
+The Last Divine Liturgy in St. Sophia, Constantinople
+Many, even Orthodox, even Greeks, believe that the last Divine Liturgy in St. Sophia, in Constantinople, was celebrated on the 29 May 1453. However, the last Liturgy took place in 1919. The priest who celebrated the Divine Liturgy was Fr. Lefteris Noufarakis, who was from Alones Rethymnou, Crete. He was an army priest in the Second Greek Army Division, one of the two army divisions which was part of the allied expeditionary body in Ukraine. This Army Division went to Ukraine via Constantinople, which then was under ‘allied sovereignty’, after the end of WW I.
+A group of Greek Officers, led by the priest, General Frantzis, Major Liaromati, Captain Stamatiou and Lieutenant Nikolaou were observing the City and Hagia Sophia, keeping to themselves their secret, i.e. to celebrate the Divine Liturgy in St. Sophia – a decision taken primarily by the priest. The difficulty of this endeavour was the fact that during that period St. Sophia was a mosque, creating therefore some major issues. This could have created a diplomatic incident between Greece and Turkey. However, Fr. Lefteris had decided that he was going to celebrate the Divine Liturgy in St. Sophia, whatever difficulty came his way.
+- If you do not come, I will go alone! I just need a chanter. You, Konstantine (Liaromati), will you be my chanter?
+- Ok Father, he replied. He had agreed to go with him.
+The other officers followed too. They all boarded a small boat, with a Greek rower from Constantinople. Kosmas, the local boater, took them through a shortcut to Hagia Sophia. The doors were open. The Turkish guard was about to stop them, but General Fratzis gave him an angry look, which left the guard speechless. They all entered the Holy Church with reverence, making the sign of the cross. Father Lefteris said, quietly, with great emotion: “I enter into your house; I worship towards your Holy Church in fear…”
+He quickly moved towards the Holy Sanctuary, where the Holy Table would have been. He found a small table and placed it within the Sanctuary. He had everything in a small bag; he took everything out, he put on his vestments and began:
+“Blessed is the Kingdom of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, now and for ever, and to the ages of ages”.
+“Amen”, replied the Major Liaromatis. The Divine Liturgy had begun in Hagia Sophia, for the first time since the 29 May 1453. All of them wished one thing that they could finish the Divine Liturgy, without being interrupted. Everything had happened so quickly, they could not believe what was happening.
+In the meantime the church was filling up with Turks; however, they remained silent, probably not understanding or not being able to believe what was actually happening. It was, in many respects, an unimaginable reality. During this time more and more people. Among them were also Greeks who lived in Constantinople, who happened to come to Hagia Sophia by chance. They were surprised and extremely moved by what was happening. During the Anaphora, all the Greeks bowed, listening to the chanter chant: “We praise you, we bless you, we give thanks to you, O Lord, and we pray to you, our God”. The time then came, where all of the Greeks went and received Holy Communion, after 466 years. After the Holy Communion they quickly finished the Liturgy. Fr. Lefteris told Lieutenant Nikolaou “quickly gather everything and place them in the bag”.
+The Divine Liturgy is finished. However, by the end of the Liturgy the church was packed with Turks, who began to get aggressive, understanding what just happened. Their lives were in danger. However, they do not hesitate. They joined together and walked out. The mob is ready to hit them. At that point a Turkish Officer told them to let them come through. He was also angry, but he understood that he had to let them go, for political reasons. It would have not looked good for Turkey to have killed five Greek officers in Hagia Sophia. Let us not forget that there were two Greek Divisions near the City, and Constantinople was under foreign occupation, under the winners of WWI. The Greek officers made it to the boat. However, a ‘giant’ Turk followed them, he grabbed a large wooden branch and tried to hit the priest, understanding that it was him who initiated this event.
+The priest crouched down, but the wood hit his shoulder. Major Liaromatis and Captain Stamatiou achieved to take the wood from the Turk, who was ready to hit the priest again. They eventually achieved to reach the Greek War Ship. However, this event did create a diplomatic incident, with the allies complaining to the Greek Prime Minister, Eleftherios Venizelos, who eventually had to reprimand Fr. Lefteri. Nevertheless, he contacted him privately and congratulated him, for realising in Hagia Sophia the dream all Greeks have.
+The unfortunate fact about this real story is the fact that not many people know about it. Even in his home town they are ignorant about it. However, he is the only one, who after 1453, gave life to Hagia Sophia, reminded it of its past glory, and showed its true colours. We, now, can only hope that in the near future, the Turkish Government will see the significance this Church has for the Christian world, and might allow for it to become a Church again. Maybe this is an ideal thought and wish. However, it cannot and should not return to its previous status, i.e. to become a mosque, as many Turks now wish to see it[1].
+Posted by demetrifs at 12:30 AM 2 comments
+Labels: Orthodox Churches
+Thursday, May 28, 2015
+The Immortal Emperor, last Emperor of Byzantium
+The Immortal Emperor, who was the last Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, Constantine XI Paleologus, isbelievef to have died in battle, 29th May 1453, when the Imperial City fell to the Ottomans. However, his body was never found, creating a number of myths around his life and his death.
+The last confirmed sighting of the Emperor was near the Gate of St Romanus. Constantine was fighting next to common soldiers. It is believed that he died there and then; however, what happened to his body, no one knows. After his death, it is believed that he was beheaded. Was it brought to the Sultan? Apparently he had cast off his emblems of rank before the battle, therefore his body would not be distinguishable from that of any other soldier. Even the statue, depicted here – which stands in central Athens -, has an imagined face, since no authentic picture of Constantine survives.
+There are, of course, legends that Constantine did not die at all. Some mystical accounts whispered among the Greeks in the decades and centuries after the fall hold that Constantine is “sleeping,” in some sort of suspended animation in a secret chamber near the Golden Gate of the Theodosian Walls, a gate that was bricked up long before the fall. The legends go that if Byzantium rises again, Constantine XI will “wake up” and come out of his prison to rule again. Many songs and traditions in Modern Greece refer to the immortal Emperor, awaiting his awakening, to create, a new, the Byzantine Empire.
+Posted by demetrifs at 12:20 AM 0 comments
+Labels: Greece, Historical Figures
+Wednesday, May 27, 2015
+Saint John the Russian, Euboea – Greece
+One of the most famous modern saints in Greece today, who is venerated by hundreds on a daily basis, is St John the Russian, located in New Prokopi on the island of Euboea (the second largest island of Greece).
+Saint John was born in the Ukraine in South Russia (end of the 17th century). During the Russian-Turkish war (1711-1718) he was in the imperial army of Peter the Great. As a soldier, St John fought to protect his country; however, due to his Orthodox upbringing, he was appalled by the reality and cruelty of war. Unfortunately, during the battles for the recapture of Azof (Black Sea), he and thousands of Russians fell prisoners to the Turks. He was moved to Constantinople and then to Prokopi, near Caesaria of Cappadocia in Asia Minor. He was given to an Aga who had a camp of Janissaries.
+Because he was a Christian, John was tortured; he was beaten with sticks, kicked and spat on. A tremendous torturous act was when they placed a red-hot metal bowl on his head, burning his hair and scalp. He was then thrown into a stable, to live with the animals. He accepted the tortures; this acceptance impressed his tormentors, making them cease their brutality, giving him the name ‘veli’, which means saint.
+On the 27th May 1730 Saint John passed away. After his death and his burial, in 1733, the old priest who every Saturday had listened to his sufferings and tortures and who had given him Holy Communion, saw a dream. In the dream the Saint explained that God had preserved his body entire and uncorrupted. He asked that they retrieve it and keep it as a blessing for the Christians to have.
+In one of the conflicts between Ibrahim of Egypt and the Sultan of Turkey, Osman Pasha set fire to the holy relic of St John, as revenge against the Christians. Amid the flames, the Turks saw the body moving. Terrified, the abandoned this act. The next day, the Christians dug and amid the ashes they found the body blackened, but nonetheless intact and whole.
+The Saint was venerated in all of Asia Minor. After the Asia Minor Catastrophe (1922) and the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, the local population from Prokopi took with them the holy relics of Saint John the Russian to their new home, New Prokopi in Euboea. A new church was built in his honour, where his relics are to be found to this day, being one of the greatest Christian attractions of Euboea.
+Posted by demetrifs at 12:37 AM 0 comments
+Labels: Greece, Orthodox Churches
+Tuesday, May 26, 2015
+St John Chrysostom on Marriage
+What is the right relationship the couple, the man and the woman, should have upon entering the new stage of their life? Married life has been understood by many in a number of ways, according to their beliefs, their philosophical, ideological, social, economic, traditional and religious beliefs. However, the Orthodox Church shows the richness of this relationship through its Marriage Service, found in the Euchologion of the Orthodox Church. Nevertheless, St John Chrysostom below gives a revolutionary understanding of marriage, which applies not only in his time, but also today:
+‘Through fear you may bind a servant, though he will not be long in escaping: but it is not by fear or threats that you can bind the companion of your life, the mother of your children, the well-spring of your happiness, but only by love and affection. What is a household where the wife trembles before her husband? What joy is there for a husband when he lives with his wife as with a slave and not with a free woman?’[1]
+Posted by demetrifs at 12:30 AM 0 comments
+Monday, May 25, 2015
+The 175th Anniversary of the Penny Black – Royal Mail First Day Cover
+The new Royal Mail First Day Cover is dedicated to the 175th Anniversary of the Penny Black. Before 1840, postage rates in the UK were very high and postage was normally paid by the recipient. Charges were based on the distance a letter travelled and the number of sheets in contained, and there were also numerous extra fees. As a result, few people could afford to send letters. At the same time, a lot of mail was carried free. Members of both houses of parliament had franking privileges, and newspapers were also carried without a charge. With a mixture of paid, unpaid and free letters, the system was complicated and expensive.
+In 1837, teacher and innovator Rowland Hill proposed sweeping changes: he recommended that postage should be reduced to a uniform one penny, based on weight rather than distance, and that it should be prepaid. Merchants supported Hill’s ideas and set up a committee to campaign for cheap postage. They were successful, with an Act passed in 1839 to introduce Hill’s reform.
+One of Hill’s ideas for implementation of the reforms which was agreed after a public competition organised by the Treasury was that of adhesive labels to indicate prepayment. These eventually came to be known as postage stamps. For the design, Henry Corbould was commissioned to draw the Queen’s head based on the ‘City’ medal by William Wyon, which commemorated Queen Victoria’s first visit to the City of London in November 1837. The Penny Black, as it came to be known, became valid for postage on 6 May 1840.
+Posted by demetrifs at 12:30 AM 0 comments
+Sunday, May 24, 2015
+God Created Us
+In the book of Genesis we read about the creation of the world, the creation of every living being. This creation established a relationship the Creator and the Created. God is the eternal Creator and source of Creation. St Maximus, talking about creation, claims:
+‘God has created us in order that we may become partakers of the divine nature, in order that we may enter into eternity, and that we may appear like unto Him, being deified by that grace out of which all things that exist have come, and which brings into existence everything that before had no existence.’[1]
+Posted by demetrifs at 12:30 AM 0 comments
+Saturday, May 23, 2015
+Spanish Synagogue, Prague
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+Posted by demetrifs at 12:30 AM 0 comments
+Labels: Czech Republic
+Friday, May 22, 2015
+Lost professions
+Every epoch brings new professions. However, due to the technological advancement of human civilisation we also observe the extinction of a number of professions. The pictures below show professions which have been lost for more than a century. They might seem funny now, but then they were part of daily life. The professions depicted below are:
+a. Pinsetter. Young children used to place the pins back in their place after each game.
+b. The human alarm clock. A man used a wooden stick or small stones and tapped the bedroom window or their doors in order to wake them up.
+c. Ice cutters. Before our modern cooling systems there were people who cut ice and place them in the house.
+d. The radar-man. The military used acoustic systems in order to determine, through sound, what aircrafts approached the area.
+e. Rat-hunter. This was a profession which was widely spread in many European metropolises, due to the great dangers of spreading infections to the human population.
+f. The person who lit the streetlights. This was a profession for the cities, before we all started using electricity.
+Posted by demetrifs at 12:30 AM 0 comments
+Labels: Interesting Facts
+Thursday, May 21, 2015
+Enoseos Monument, Corfu
+This monument is dedicated to commemoration of the unification of the Ionian Island with Greece in 21 May 1864. Etched on the monument are the emblems of all seven Ionian Islands (which are Corfu, Paxi, Lefkada, Ithaki, Kefalonia, Zakynthos, Kythira). Corfu Town being the capital of Corfu and the largest city in the Ionian islands, is the best location for such a monument.
+Posted by demetrifs at 12:30 AM 0 comments
+Wednesday, May 20, 2015
+The human spirit and the divine Spirit
+The word spirit (πνεύμα) can be explained in various ways, according to the philosophical and theological beliefs one has. Can we apply this word to both the humans and the divine? Can the word Spirit be used for the soul, the spirit of man and the Holy Spirit (Άγιο Πνεύμα)? We tend not to use the same words for the created world and the uncreated one, in order to show a distinction between the two; however, language – which is a created entity – can only go so far. Therefore terms such as Father, Son and Holy Spirit can also be applied to our created life and form. Below, John Meyendorff examines the issue of using the word spirit for both the human and the divine:
+‘. . . Interestingly enough, there was never a debate in the East concerning the Pauline use of pneuma and its application to both the human “spirit” and the divine “Spirit”, coming from God. This usage, which embarrasses so many modern theologians because it goes against their presuppositions on “nature” and “grace” as distinct realities, was not a problem at all for Irenaeus, who simply affirms that man is by nature made up of “Spirit, soul, and body,” meaning by that that a divine presence is indeed what makes man truly himself (Adversus haereses V, 6, 1). Whether later theologians adopted a more Neoplatonic language to define the same reality (Gregory of Nyssa, for example, spoke of the “divine spark” in man), or whether they started to distinguish between the human pneuma and the Holy Spirit in order to maintain the original “parenthood” between God and man, they developed the theology of the imago Dei as living communion and always took for granted that man’s nature and ultimate destiny is life “in God,” or deification (theosis).’[1]
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+Tuesday, May 19, 2015
+Pontos in Nafplio
+Following a previous blog-post, this is a second dedication to the Gaudi of Greece[1], i.e. my uncle Paraskevas Konstantinidis. He is himself from Pontos (the northern part of modern Turkey, which was Greek for thousands of years).
+Current living in the Peloponnesian city of Nafplio (in Southern Greece) he has maintained his heritage, by dedicating one of his latest works to Pontos, by creating the eagle that is the symbol of the Pontian Greeks, as seen on the flag of Pontos. Therefore, in his own artistic way he brings a Pontian Greek presence to the first capital of Modern Greece, to Nafplio.
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+Monday, May 18, 2015
+A Song Dedicated to the Pontian Greek Genocide
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+Sunday, May 17, 2015
+Glasgow Cathedral. Currently it is under the Church of Scotland.
+At the crypt of the church one can find the chapel and tomb of St Kentigern, also known as St Mungo, the ‘dear beloved;’ he was a much revered bishop of Glasgow who died in about 612. Tradition says that he was buried at the spot where the Glasgow Cathedral was built. St Mungo was a missionary in Strathclyde and may have built his church on this site. His sanctity was promoted by later bishops and he became a cult figure in the Scottish church. The tomb, located in the crypt, attracted many pilgrims, who followed a stage-managed route to get there. of believers. Mungo’s legendary deeds were exploited during the early days of Alba, the unified Scottish kingdom in the late 9th century. This was repeated, 500 years later, to reinforce the identity of the Scottish church after the Wars of Independence.
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+Today.
+I got to visit Marc this morning, which was wonderful as always. Visiting days are only Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday; processing starts at 2pm on Friday and Monday, and 7:30am on Saturday and Sunday. Prisoners’ numbers determine whether the visits are on even or odd-numbered days, so because Marc’s prisoner number is #40252-086, I got to see him on Friday July 2nd and today, Sunday July 4th. However, everyone can visit today regardless of the odd-even rule, since it’s a holiday, so it was very busy!
+The process goes like this: I get to the prison an hour early just to be first (or one of the first) in line, because it can get crowded very fast. I bring a book along to read – with all the time to spend waiting, I already finished “The Armageddon Factor” and have started “The Fountainhead”, which was extremely influential in Marc’s life just like “Atlas Shrugged” was, too. Today was my fifth visit so far, though one was by video/phone because Marc was in solitary confinement then. With each visit I get more comfortable in the prison lobby, and as we visitors recognize each other, we begin talking more often. There’s one woman who has been there every time, she’s light-hearted and very friendly, and had heard about Marc before meeting me. A girl my age and I were talking about Marc and the DEA press release that said he was the publisher of a “propagandist magazine”, and she asked which one; when I said Cannabis Culture, she exclaimed, “Oh my, everyone knows about Cannabis Culture! My husband got his lawyer from an ad in CC!” Sure enough, he was one of our regular advertisers. We do have a presence in America!
+When you show up for visits, you have to fill out a form with your name and address, and the inmate name and prisoner number. There’s a list of prohibited items that you have to check off “no” to each one; interestingly, “marijuana” is separate from “narcotics”. At least that’s true, as marijuana is certainly not a narcotic! After filling out the form you wait on the benches against the wall in the order you came in, though some new visitors don’t realize they’re butting in line and have to be told how it works.
+As soon as 7:30am or 2:00pm (Sat/Sun, and Fri/Mon, respectively) rolls around, you get in line formation in front of the “Check-In” booth. It’s a panel of reflective glass with a little hole to speak and hand things through. As you’re called up to the hole one by one, you hand them your form and ID, and receive a key for a locker to put everything away. All you can bring into the visiting room is the key and your person. Some guards take a very long time doing whatever else they can busy themselves with while dozens of people wait anxiously in line, but others are more human and do it fairly quickly and efficiently.
+After the first five people are processed, the guard calls out the names of the inmates, “Emery! Martinez! Simon! Jones! Agassiz!” or whomever is being visited (none of those names but Marc’s are specific people; just an example). Those five visitors go up to the big metal door next to the window and wait for the loud “click-clunk” sound of it being unlocked, then line up inside the processing/guard room, then the other visitors outside wait to be processed.
+In the guard room, you get a fluorescent yellow stamp on your left hand, then sign into the visitor book, and then start removing everything metal – jewelry, belts, shoes – and put them in a tray to go through the x-ray machine, just like in airports. Next, you walk through the metal detector, then put everything back on and go line up at the next door (if you beep, they do the wand scan). Once all five visitors are ready – and often-times there are many children; they don’t count in the five-person rule – another guard, the escort, waits for the heavy “click-clunk” sound of the door being unlocked. Then we all file into the next section. It’s a small hallway with another big steel door, and yet another “click-clunk” unlocking, and you’re led into yet another hallway-room. There you can see through a window into the visitor’s area; sometimes the inmates are already there waiting, sometimes they are brought in after our arrival. That final door is opened (yet again, that loud metal unlocking noise – it’s definitely part of the prison soundtrack) and you go into the visiting room. (For a more thorough description of the big room, read my blog about my first visit with Marc.)
+Today Marc was already waiting for me. I went up to him excitedly for our big “hello” hug and kiss – you can only hug and kiss hello and goodbye – and we enjoyed every second of it, not caring that we were kissing passionately in front of everyone; the people who are madly in love all do it; how could you not? I hugged him tightly and ran my hands through his hair and kissed his neck and inhaled deeply… boy, that sure is satisfying and quite a rush. It’s hard to explain how intensely comforting it is to breathe in your loved one when you’ve been torn apart…
+He looked at my new blue dress that I got just for the photos we were going to take. He bought five photo “tickets” for $1 each so we can have pictures together, as all inmates can do. He held me and said I looked beautiful. Even though he has to wear a solid drab grey-green-beige prisoner outfit, he still looked incredibly handsome to me, and I said so. He was a little tired, having not had a shower because showers open at 8am, and he wanted a shower before seeing me, but I explained that I wouldn’t get in if I had waited until later, and as the room quickly filled with visitors, he realized I was right.
+A day or two earlier he had written to me saying that his Disciplinary Hearing Officer (DHO) had given him his hearing paperwork from when he got out of solitary confinement, and he wanted me to ask him in person what it was about. So sitting there together, I brought it up and found out why he couldn’t tell me through the CorrLinks “email” message: apparently, the DHO told him that he cannot use the word “demonstration” in his emails, letters, or phone calls, and he cannot communicate with members of the BC Marijuana Party, even though he’s the Leader of the BCMP! Wow – if there was any doubt that he is being punished for political reasons, those doubts should be laid to rest!
+So not only was he originally arrested for political reasons as admitted by the DEA, and then sent to solitary confinement for having me record a “prison podcast” for his supporters (which was not and can’t be broadcast), but he can no longer mention “demonstrations” on his behalf and can’t act as the Leader of the BC Marijuana Party.
+Let me just say this loud and clear: MARC EMERY IS A POLITICAL PRISONER!
+Marc was perplexed by the DHO’s comments, but of course he agreed to comply as he does not want to break ANY rules; he’s always gracious, polite, and very well-behaved. Then he told me about something else; one of the inmates he had written to me about, whom I had mentioned in a blog post, received his legal “discovery” paperwork (in American law, discovery is the pre-trial phase in which each party can request documents and other information), and part of it was the blog post I had done under Marc’s blog account mentioning him. So not only are “they” – the US Federal Justice Department and the Bureau of Prisons – reading everything I post online, but they’re using information in other inmates’ cases… that’s bizarre! Nothing bad was said in the blog, but it makes me wonder what they found of interest.
+I’m beginning to question what Marc is allowed to share with me, and how it could be used against him or others. Nothing is illegal, or improper, or condemning, but as Tommy Chong wrote to me and said: the BOP doesn’t “mess around” and doesn’t like any bad attention, so it’s best to stay silent. However, I know it is my duty to let people know what Marc is going through, and Marc wants people to know that he’s okay and doing his best to deal with the extraordinarily difficult conditions of imprisonment in a maximum-security prison (which all “pre-trial” prisons are) and that he is pleased to know people are getting involved in political activism – and there’s nothing wrong with that, Mr. DEA/Justice Department/BOP guys, whomever is reading this!
+During our visit, as we leaned forward over the little table, only allowed to hold hands as we talked, my black scarf/shawl fell from my shoulders down around my elbows, which exposed the skin on my upper arms, but nothing else (it’s a very high-neckline dress). One of the two guards who monitor the visiting room shouted “Emery!” and came over to us. He stood next to me but looked only at Marc – because, after all, he has no authority over me, just the inmates – and said “This is your second warning. Your visitor has to cover up.”
+(On our Friday visit I had worn a dress – my dresses go down to my knees and have high necklines, because there are rules about attire and I don’t want to be refused – and a black sweater-like shawl on top, but when I took it off that day during our visit, this guard called Marc up to the guard booth and told him to tell me to put it back on because “your visitors have to wear exactly what they came in wearing”, so that was the “first warning”.)
+However, during this visit, the woman next to me was wearing a tank-top and shorts, so I timidly asked the guard after he gave his stern “second warning”, “Excuse me, but that woman is showing her shoulders” (thinking that was the issue; I was still technically wearing the scarf) but he said “You have to wear exactly what you came in here wearing. She came in like that.” So case closed. I’m not going to argue! And Marc had to say “Yes, sir,” which made me resent the “I control you” power-tripping that takes place in prison. It sure makes you nervous to be told that you’re getting a “second warning” though, because everyone knows the saying “three strikes and you’re out”… and we do not want to lose visitation privileges, so we were very careful after that!
+That particular guard always has a mean scowl on his face and walks around monitoring visitors, while the other guard is a younger and friendlier African-American guy who was nice to me on my very first visit when I was totally wide-eyed and scared. I guess you need to have the harsh guards to remind you who the kind, human guards are… but that can also cause trouble, as Marc explained to me that sometimes the more decent guards let you relax a bit, but then the hard-line ones terrify you with threats of punishment and lost privileges for things the other guards didn’t mind. It’s like walking on eggshells. You never know what they might do.
+For example, somewhat recently, one of the guards came to Marc’s cell and said in an angry tone, “Emery, do I look like your mailman? Do I? Tell all your people they can only send you letters on Saturdays,” (because he had to make four trips with all the envelopes and magazines). Marc said, “Yes, sir”. There was a long pause, then the guard said, “Emery, I’m messin’ with ya’!” Not very comforting, but Marc definitely breathed a sigh of relief. He does NOT want to end up in solitary confinement again for any reason and getting a guard pissed off – even unintentionally – can lead to that kind of retaliation. The SHU (solitary confinement) was hellish, total isolation and deprivation, conditions that are just under the threshold of the official definition of torture… though there are some lawsuits and civil liberties cases and concerns that solitary confinement IS actually torture.
+Partway through our visit, the guards called Marc’s name for photos. The photographer was an older female inmate (there are a few in a separate part of the building, not many though). I had seen other inmates and visitors get their photos done and they were taken against the backdrop of three colourful painted walls: a night scene of the Seattle Space Needle (the iconic tower tourist sight), a very vibrant depiction of the Seattle Public Market Centre (also an iconic tourist location), or a purple-hued mountain scene. I wanted a plain background, like the off-white concrete walls, and asked “Can we have our photos over there, against that white wall?” and the mean guard said, “There are no white walls.” I hesitated, pointed and said “But right there –” and he said “No, you do your photos there, there, or there” so we decided to do the space needle. (I’ll just edit the photo by cropping it later!)
+We went to the wall, and I was still wearing my scarf but it covered my entire upper body, so after the first photo of Marc holding me in a hug from behind, I took it off and threw it aside; the guards didn’t say anything, thankfully. We took one more of him hugging me from behind, then one or two of us standing side-by-side holding arms/hands, and then one of us kissing, like I had seen others do. Again, the guards said nothing – I guess photos are an exception to the visiting room rules. Other women visiting have jokingly said, “it’s my man’s only chance to cop a feel”, but Marc was a gentleman, of course, and we didn’t want to get in trouble! It sure was nice to be in each others’ arms, though, and getting to see each photo after it was taken. Marc will get copies in 3 weeks, then mail them to me, so in about a month I’ll be able to share them online. (Everything takes longer than you think it ought to in prison!)
+We sat down again and enjoyed the rest of our visit, bathing in the powerful love we have for one another. That sounds cheesy, but it’s so true. Marc and I are extraordinarily close, and this ordeal is just making us even closer and more determined to undo the evil of the drug war and prison industry. I’m so grateful we’re an unbreakable team. I will never stop fighting for him to come home, and for all prisoners of the drug war to be sent home too… this experience has certainly taught me a lot about the US Drug War and Imprisonment Industry so far, and the lesson has only just begun (sadly). I hope to help dismantle this horrific human rights atrocity with the help of everyone else who wants cannabis to be legal and peaceful prisoners to be freed! Let Marc’s incarceration motivate you to action – if you’ve always been concerned but haven’t taken a stand, now is the time to do it.
+Here is a message I’m sharing online as my Facebook status (posted in two parts), and hope you will share too:
+Are you upset about Marc Emery being a political prisoner in the USA, imprisoned for 5 years for selling seeds and funding the movement? Make a sign and spend an hour standing in an intersection to really prove that you’re willing to TAKE A STAND! Or make a banner to hang on an overpass (a cheap sheet or tablecloth with dark paint works great, and reaches a huge audience of traffic driving by). You must get out into the real world to raise awareness, to prove that you are not just sympathetic to Marc, but you’re actually willing to take the time to be active. When people look up Marc Emery, they will discover the injustice of the US drug war and demand that ALL peaceful prisoners of the drug war be set free. Spread the word: “FREE MARC EMERY” – “AMERICA MUST FREE MARC EMERY” – “GOOGLE MARC EMERY” – “MARC EMERY IS A POLITICAL PRISONER”
+Go to and to help FREE MARC EMERY!
+My wife and I just came back from a trip to Vancouver, which we have gone almost every year for the past six years. It was very sad to here the associates of CCHQ and the Cannabis Culture Offices say things like, “When Marc was here”. This affects a staff that enjoys their job and seem to truly miss their employer. We need to stand up against this more in the states. Because Vancouver is way to nice of a place to be away from, and West Hastings is not the same with out Marc on it!
+This applies to all Federal first-time,non-violent offenders. Check out: If anyone knows Tommy Chong, please let him know.
+Americans are far from free. We are only free on paper and paper burns
+Oscar Grant was in the news to day. The all white jury didn`t believe the transit policeman when he said that he thought he had pulled his stun gun. Several camera angles were shown of the shooter.
+Suggested sentence 3 years. Mark did not kill anyone. He only helped suffering medical user`s by the thousands if not millions. Oscar`s spokesman said he researched such crimes by police in their area and this is the first time a policeman had been given even this much after shooting a black man so it is some improvement. At least Oscar though dead is getting news coverage from the corperat media. Very little on Mark. From the police state of Amerikkk,some where in Babaloyn up against the tower of greed. respect =stoner=
+Hello jodie, I recieved mail from him the other day and I just mailed him another one back today.
+I was glad it boosted his morale while in the “hole” when he saw pics I sent of my big 8by 12 AMERICA MUST FREE MARC EMERY sign I show motorists every saturday for two hours to.
+I wanted other to know that you can bet it would boost his spirits when people send in pictures to him of thier signs they made up and post near trafic.
+So go ahead people make up some signs evn just one and stand near a highway or busy road with the sign for just one hour.
+While you are there take pics of them with you in or not in the pictures but just at least take a picture and send it to him in prison.
+Like he told me folks he has lots of mail and does his best to reply back to all but will give priority to those who are out there trying to get him back into Canada.
+So when you mail him a letter and have pics of your signs hung up or posted near highways he will certainly reply back as soon as he can and mostly it makes him happy to see his supporters out there trying to make a difference without violence and that’s important.
+You wrote:
+I am saddened to think that one out of every 100 Americans are imprisoned and my Canadian husband Marc Emery is among them.
+MARC EMERY IS NOT AMONG THEM HE’S NOT PART OF THEM HE’S NOT AMERICAN so he cannot be part of that 1 in 100!!!!!!!!
+G(old) O(il) D(rugs)
+On this world humans are ruled by God made in their own image fueled by gold, oil and drugs.
+We are the ones we pray for…
+themindmakesitsownspaces
+NEXUS
+11:11
+Jodie bless you bless Mark, he is lucky as are you in that you have each other. By being you the truth has finally come out about hemp. Thing`s like old government record`s that 28 barrels of hemp seed oil can be produced from one acre of land. That is without breeding like in china where they developed a seed as big as a bean. The people that took hemp away from the farmer are the people that should be behind bar`s. The pharma, chemical,military industrial new`s organization doesn`t want us regular people to know how evil they are. The truth will set us free but evil won`t even if it`s name is Jesus. It is said that Oboma and Hillary attended the last bilderburger meeting in Canada. Should we be supprised Canada cracked down on her own citizen`s after that. Mark is David going up against a giant. The giant is afraid of him and that is why he is unjustly imprisoned. At the same time the B.P. felons, the torture felons, the medical insurance felons, Bush a war felon, Iran Contra and bank felons war mongers and murders of millions
+walk. At the same time putting a man who is honestly trying to heal the world in jail. Respect -stoner-
+The anonymous “voice” attacking me is for drama,and just makes the site look as if DEA types are trolling.This creates emotion,and a need to “voice” the truth about cannabis.It’s the “nom de guerre” voices that I find disturbing.Cannabis people hating other pot folks with different political views,and using guerre/insult.Mr Abe Peck and the SEED underground press I grew-up reading in Chicago(SF Oracle etc…),used counterculture writing techniques.Why is this site so uptight about perfect mainstream writing style?
+Candace – I think you made a slight error in your comments. “Anonymous” was not responding to Jodie’s blog directly, but to the comments from Ray Christl, which were rather incoherent. I agree that Anonymous didn’t really need to make a comment, but if you’re going to berate him for it, at least berate him for the right reason!
+the price of Freedom is Vigilance…..and most of my fellow Americans or American’ts that I know are too busy watching Fantasies on T.V. to maintain any vigilant state of thinking…..well, unless it( vigilance ), involves texting on their iphone. I’ve seen more American’s work-ethic/ habits negatively affected by cell-phone texting than cannabis use.
+Thank you Jodie for sharing this with us.
+Its important that the truth in all of this be known
+I post on Twitter but I don’t recall making any anti-American sentiments.
+I posted on Obama’s Twitter that he should stop being a warmonger and take care of people at home instead of killing people abroad; I said that Americans use a lot of fireworks to celebrate “freedom” on Independence Day even though it’s not a very free country; but what did I say that was anti-American?
+I’m always reminding people that Americans suffer worse than we do under a worse government than ours, and that we need to work with and protect our American brothers and sisters…
+So what exactly did I say that “left a foul taste” in your mouth? I’m sincere, I want to know.
+Im from the USA and I can understand your anger towards her statements but honestly look what has been done to her… How else is she supposed to feel? Sometimes we take things to heart that we should nt and I find it much more productive to put myself in someone else”s shoes and really understand where they’re coming from
+If you have nothing nice to say than dont say anything at all!!!!! The last thing Marc’s wife needs is you picking at her blog! Not only does Marc need support but so does she! If you were in her position and full of so many emotions than you might be singing a different tune than arrogance! Maybe until you have respect for others YOU should stop posting!
+I hate the BOP & know how to fight them…Make them work and do their job. Answer administrative remedy’s BP-9, 10, 11 etc… However you have already seen how the Gestapo I mean BOP handles things. I recommend getting help handling the BOP.Only Post casual references to how the visit procedure or any procedure works.Please do not hesitate to contact me. Love Peace Pot & FREEDOM!
+I agree Jodie, it is easy to make up signs and give an hour or your time to show support to Marc.
+For 8 saturdays in a row I have sat out next to highway #4 in Port Alberni with my “AMERICA MUST FREE MARC EMERY” signs.
+I have two GOOGLE MARC EMERY signs one america must free Marc Emery sign and two the read free marc and one 8ft by 12 foot banner that read AMERICA MUST FREE MARC EMERY.
+I bought a painters drop cloth at canadian tire (8by12,27$) and bought some black paint(5$) and wrote in the letters and then attached to a 16ft pole and lean it out next to the highway.
+The drop cloth is made of canvas and can withstand the rain and will last along time ,I figure at least 5yrs lol.
+Having a “BIG” banner really gets drivers attention,sometimes people actualy pull over and ask me who Marc Emery is? so Google Marc Emery are good signs to have aswell.
+Bring a camera or cam corder if you can to take pics,I took some of my signs and sent them to marc.
+I have done it 8times and will do it every saturday untill Marc is home with you Jodie and his country.
+I (sometimes a few others) sit there for two hours and count vehicles traveling in both direction,in my area it averages about 400 vehicles headed east 400 west.
+I figure close to 6400 vehicles have past by my signs in the last two months just in my area alone so could you imagine if just a few people in every community across the country did what I have been doing with my signs????.
+It would send a message to these tyrannts that we will fight for our freedom.
+I wonder is there no other brave souls who are willing to show Marc and our government we will stand up to them or am I the only one brave enough and have enough desire to be persistant enough to post signs on highways.
+I think you are right Jodie a sign saying “MARC EMERY IS A POLITICAL PRISONER” is a good sign and I am thinking of making one up.
+Hang in there Jodie and stay strong.
+opps I meant:
+“Thats great that you think you are a patriot. But a true patriot wouldn’t be as obtuse and ignorant about the tyranny inflicted on more than 800,000 citizens every year”
+“Ugh”
+Are you seriously considering that our country deserves praise at this point?
+Look at it this way, we have only 5% of the world’s total population, and we have 25% of the world’s prison population.
+This country is turning into something besides the USA, and you’re apathy and lack of knowledge is not helping anything.
+A true American, like the founding fathers not only question the answers, but also criticize the system if it is deserving.
+You sound like a red coat from the American revolution who believes in the tyranny the England was pushing on our country.
+Thats great that you think you are a patriot. But a true patriot would be as obtuse and ignorant about the tyranny inflicted on more than 800,000 citizens every year.
+Your insults to miss Emery are appalling. Marc and Jodie are freedom fighters, and deserve respect.
+The USA in whole, is complacent and undeserving of their freedom. We will only deserve our freedom when we fight for it! Freedom isn’t free!
+You Canadians are Naive on this U.S. Nazi prison complex. Freedom, Justice, Liberty are a lie. You tell Marc to get into Kirya Yoga and do his time like the Freedom Fighter he is…like a true man. Yoga will liberate him, and this time will be nothing. We all make choices in life…Yoga will set you free Marc!
+WTF are you on? What anti american sentiments on twitter?!
+I just read through a hell of alot of her posts and I don’t see a single one there that is anti american.
+YOUR BROAD NEGATIVE GENERALIZATIONS are not helping your case mr/ms/it Anonymous.
+lol
+Actually, we understand; it’s you we don’t. Start by coming out of your box; it’s limiting your ability to participate! Be forewarned, your mind might expand and you’ll start to question everything. Can you handle it? Go ahead start with your name!
+Just wanted to say, you writing about your experience visiting Marc And Marc’s reports etc, really let average people who don’t know anything about prison, just how disgusting and dehumanizing it really is. Thank you and keep it up !!!!
+Peace and Love
+You might resent the ”power-tripping” that goes on in prisons, but you better get used to it because that’s the way it is. Nothing you say or do will ever change that. Once you are in prison you have ”NO RIGHTS”. The rights you are supposed to still posses are paid lip-service to at best. Marc having to say ”Yes Sir” is the least of your worries.
+Stay strong and go the distance.
+I love it when people leave awful comments, then are too big of a pussy to leave their names.
+Keep doing what you’re doing Jodie! We love you!
+I really, really tried to find any section of your rant that made any sense. It’s impossible. Please get a friend or colleague to translate from what seems to be your own special private language into english. If not please stop posting.
+You know, I support Marc Emery and think that what is being done to him is a gross injustice, but YOU are being seriously unappetizing, for lack of a better word.
+Your anti-American sentiments on Twitter left a foul taste in my mouth and have cost you at least one follower/supporter…
+I understand you are angry with the American government/justice system, but making broad, negative generalizations about our country is NOT going to help your case.
+Namaste; Jodie an Marc.
+I t is fabuolous that your spirit’s are being strengthened by the weight of the syatems abuse. Our Democracy, a fallacy, an old Tradition not practiced anymore. The G thing-eees have radicalized many new Warriors due to the bullies methods. I am honored to know and support you both-and well yes i am active, tho that’s for another day. I really just wanted to write from my heart upon reading your words, your song, your call. Stay Well
+michael hampson
+care about the exploited ecosystem since they are promised eternity.The rest of us are suffering under Seth/darkness as GOD.Big Oil/chem/pharma all death worship(christian crony capitalism).The real god is Hortus/ra the Sun/photosynthesis life/bio giver(jesus bible life is a copy of Hortus myth, now ironically reversed).Plants are smarter than people.Christians worship Seth the lord of all darkness and deception(fossil fuel/medicine is from death/Seth).A false paradigm of global Pentagon strife for American profit-Seth.The Pentagon/seth must be dismantled,and the exotic Arlington hempfields/ra research center reestablished.Botanist Dewey showed that the healthy cellulose is hemp Sent two more letters to Marc,and with critical thinking class questions/comments.Every college in the world should ask students to make sense of the crimes of MarcEmery. In closing I’ve also sent a student packet to Eddy Lepp with all our love.
+The Tao Of Pow
+Duncan McCallum
+It is a picture totally synonymous with Japan in winter: the snow monkey sheltering in a thermal hot pool from the snow that settles tens of metres deep in the Hakuba Alps near Nagano. There the all-seeing Zen monkey sits with a little cap of snow on his wise old head. On this day, however, the reality was somewhat different. It was raining lightly, and the hot pool – far from being the secret pristine gem imagined by those who seek it – was in a shit-covered grubby gorge, full of squabbling monkeys surrounded by what looked like a meeting of National Geographic’s amateur photographers’ bus tour.
+Thirty Canon lenses the size of bazookas were poised just a few centimetres away from their furry targets, who looked like they just hung out at the pools every day for a free lunch. With careful shot selection and editing, there is no doubt that every one of the 64mb files in each camera would echo that famous image. They would ignore the jostling, the monkey crap, the shrieks from the young monkeys being bullied by their elders.
+The image of the snow monkey, although clichéd, is one of those internationally recognisable pictures that sits in our unconscious, drawing us to the exotic, the new and unknown. For me, the snow monkey was just as important as the tales of waist-deep powder, empty forest ski runs and steaming volcanic peaks when I decided leave the fresh snow of Chamonix for the +4C drizzle in Japan.
+This was a lesson in travelling without expectations, preconceptions or prejudice. At that moment I stepped away from being a ski tourist to being really there – aware but without judgement, an observer of all; aside, above or apart from the image makers and it was good.
+The next morning we arrive at the ski lift at the same time as the horde of Japanese snowboarders, descending upon the resort for their lessons. At bib 505 I give up caring how many there are, astounded by the numbers of people all crammed into a 50m-wide piste. I know what lies beyond the carefully manufactured and prescribed world of the ski resort.
+At the lift top, instead of turning downhill into the battalion of crashing masked boarders, we drop our packs onto the parallel lines of corduroy piste and pull out the skins that had been carefully dried out the night before. Tearing apart the cold skins heralds the transition between the normal and the abnormal. They have a slow glue-ripping sound, like sizzling burgers but staccato. The first sinking steps off the piste break that surface tension, the barrier between the controlled atmosphere of the resort and the deep dark unknown forest.
+For the first ten metres, until we turn into the woods, I can feel a thousand burning eyes questioning our steps. We are not following ‘the rules’ and in fact we may be breaking one or two – it’s a difficult cultural tension. It’s remarkable how little effort it takes to cross from managed resort into the wild backcountry. If this were Chamonix there would have been a huge line of adventurers seeking the wilderness experience, but here, just 100m from the lift station, we are alone. It’s a frozen landscape with trees that look like they have been dipped in sugar frosting, frozen ridged and hard, filling the forest. It is Narnia in the harsh grip of the White Queen: inert, dormant and waiting for the lion hero to release them with his roar of spring.
+Here, just 100m from the lift station, we are alone. It’s a frozen landscape with trees that look like they have been dipped in sugar frosting, frozen ridged and hard, filling the forest.
+Backlit by the low morning sun, the trees glow as if powered by millions of fibre optic filaments. It’s indescribably beautiful – one of those fleeting moments in nature which will have been repeated countless times through the millennia, rarely seen and seldom appreciated. We skin up though the enchanted forest, ducking under the twigs which reach down to stroke our heads. The ice-encrusted branches are surprisingly robust; if brushed, they sway heavily under their beautiful yet transient burden. Occasionally they release a tinkling shower down my neck, making me shrug sharply, alive to the icy trickle against the heat of my skin.
+The air is filled with airborne ice crystals. They appear and disappear as they twist and turn in the morning light. So fragile, they would not exist without the combination of light breeze and moist sea air snap-frozen at the perfect temperature. These vampire crystals drift from the shadows into the light only to be instantly evaporated, their vapour returned to the snow cycle to reform in another place at another time.
+With each step I feel the effects of the wind, the night, the days, the weeks and months that have come before, sculpting the snow pack.
+The snow-laden mountains stretch ahead of us until they plunge into the sea. At the higher elevations where we are headed, ghostly pine tree hoodoos sit on the lee of the ridges wearing their shrouds of ice. As we thread our way softly onwards into the deeper, higher backcountry, the beauty amazes me – but the appreciation of a scene often drifts away under physical effort, as the mind prioritises the monitoring of pace, temperature and energy levels. Today is different. The visual and sensual stimulation is so great that I seem hyper aware.
+With each step I feel the effects of the wind, the night, the days, the weeks and months that have come before, sculpting the snow pack. The layers in the snow give at different rates and with different sounds. Some squeak, some flump softly; others scrape, challenging the sharpened metal edges of my splitboard to bite. 15,384 sliding steps later and once again the skins are off and I’m rummaging in my backpack for layers of down and wind protection.
+The ritual of transition, with its familiar actions and sounds, is like an old friend. The shovel handle knocking against the blade, the careful ordering of layers, the tear of the Velcro as the ABS handle is armed. It triggers a magical change of state. The anticipation of the descent brings a flush of adrenaline, signalling to the muscles to prepare for compression instead of slow extension. It’s a change of pace marked by the extreme: from 400m of ascent in an hour to 400m of descent in five minutes, from 4kph to 40kph, from the heat of climbing to the wind chill and cold of face-shot descents. It’s a wonderful contrast.
+To be comfortable and engaged in this movement is the subtle difference between being here on the hill and being of the hill. It’s the difference between buying into an image of touring and it being part of you. Maybe it’s the culmination of seasons of touring and being in the mountains, or perhaps some of the forest spirit has been absorbed. Either way, flow has come.
+A wide and deep channel leads out below us, a natural halfpipe snaking down through the forest. In summer it’s the start of a watercourse which turns into a series of rubble-lined gorges oozing sulphurous slime farther down the mountain, but for now it’s our playground.
+Through the forest we float, riding just under the surface of crystals. Curling plumes of powder rise and fall, displaced from nature’s freshly laid blanket, temporarily disturbed until the night’s breeze flattens the sheet of white once more. We stop on a small rise below our next skinning target, a small col 400m above us. We skirt the contours in an effort not to lose any more elevation and make our transition.
+Recent earthquakes have ripped apart the earth, releasing sulphur and heat. I am sharply reminded of the devil. The deep and fiery depths ooze yellow poison to the surface. Superheated water, normally buried deep within the earth’s crust, now runs between the ground and the snow. We pass the rotten stench of sink holes, boiling with foul liquid. These volcanic spectacles remind us of the unique dangers that lie throughout the snow pack.
+A steady rising traverse away from the streambed hooks us quickly to the col. A gentle pink tinges the sky; night is coming and time is pressing. Opting to skin a further 100m out from the col lands us on a rounded summit with a multitude of wind lips to slash. On a board or fat skis this ribbed landscape offers more of an oceanic descent than the old-school fall-line ski experience. It’s startling, expansive and complex.
+Fixed white breaker waves provide tubes, lips and drops, deep and forgiving, fun and light, spreading out below us. In this ocean of snow we float downstream, crossing a multitude of watercourses, wind scours and tree-topped ridges. A Japanese black bear nest hangs above us as we stop to check our bearings; GPS blipping guidance safely sees us to a small bridge hidden in the vast forest. A forest road, buried deep by the winter freeze, is a shallow groove in the snow: a strangely geometric line within an otherwise totally natural picture. Pink turns to grey as the night begins to encroach over the expansive vista. Under its protective shield, the night creatures, start go about their claustrophobic foraging. We the creatures of the day have some way to go, however.
+The last transition of the day, this time less careful, sees us skinning along the road line, which is threatened by steep avalanche chutes here and there. We skin 50m apart – this separation preserves the safety of our progress but also reinforces the feeling of this being an individual journey, uniquely framed by our own influences. It’s vital to stay open, embrace each blind turn, each false summit as part of a process to be absorbed and not fought against. This is especially necessary when tiredness begins to settle in.
+As with many long tours, combat skiing finished the day. The buried hairpin turns force an artificial rhythm to the descent. Instead of flow, the mantra is fluid. As the light leaves us, the visual feedback from the snow surface disappears and we have to feel our way with soft compliant legs. Soon the sodium glow of streets and houses paints the dark grey sky with pools of orange focus. Hot sulphurous water used to keep the streets free from snow and ice steams beneath our boots as we remove our skis. Sliding gives way to steps. Those who care less about their skis, or are just better at verge skiing, engage in the often one-legged snow-strip hopping so common at the end of a tour.
+As the day unfolded, the layers of beauty were punctuated by the essential skills required to make progress in the mountains. The confidence to enjoy such a day is anchored on many things: the ability to travel without stress, to remain open to an ever-changing landscape and set of challenges, to have the fitness and skills so you can move without having to micro-manage each step.
+But ultimately the goal is to create the space to embrace a shift of image if required. To fight against that change in perspective, and narrow your focus to a point where you fail to see the whole picture in pursuit of that one narrow preconceived frame, will ultimately lead to a struggle. This is Zen and the Art of Ski Travel Management.
+Duncan McCallum started climbing by 13 and in a few years had established himself as one of the best climbers of his generation in Scotland. Choosing to mix a career between life on the mountains and cliffs and a Film TV and Photography career has seen Duncan working both behind the camera on BBC series such as Wilderness Walks, The Edge and the Face and for the last 10 years as a presenter on BBC Scotland’s Adventure Show.
+Duncan writes for many publications on adventure sports and travel with a very personal perspective, “the journey its self is not so important, what is though, is the life the journey brings to you the individual”. Currently Duncan is leading the development of a National Climbing Hub in the Highlands of Scotland.
+Duncan travelled with Mountain Adventure Company
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+Dining Style:
+Casual Elegant
+Website:
+Phone:
+(604) 639-3756
+Hours of Operation:
+DINING ROOM HOURS:
+Breakfast: Sunday - Saturday: 6:00am - 10:00am;
+Lunch: Monday - Saturday: 11:00am - 5:00pm;
+Dinner: Sunday - Saturday: 5:00pm - 11:00pm;
+Sunday Brunch: 10:30am - 2:00pm
+LOUNGE HOURS:
+Our Lounge is open 7 days a week, from 11:00am until late.
+Payment Options:
+AMEX, Diners Club, JCB, MasterCard, Visa
+Cuisine:
+Northwest, International
+Executive Chef:
+Mario Fernandez
+Dress Code:
+Smart Casual
+Accepts Walk-Ins:
+Yes
+Additional Details:
+Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Chef's Table, Fireplace, Full Bar, Late Night, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Private Room, Smoking Area, Smoking Area (bar only), Smoking Area (patio only), Takeout, View, Weekend Brunch, Wheelchair Access, Wine, Wine Bar
+Catering:
+We have a number of Group Menu options for your party. Let us take care of your needs. Please call for details.
+Join us for our Award Winning Sunday Brunch.
+Entertainment:
+We have smoking Patio available off of our Lounge.
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+Enjoy one of our "DAILY REFLECTIONS" (drink features) every day of the week in the Restaurant and Lounge!
+Getting there
+Cross Street:
+Willingdon Ave and Kingsway
+Public Transit:
+Reflect social dining + lounge is moments away from the Metrotown skytrain station. A quick walk through station square and you are here!
+Parking:
+Hotel Parking
+Parking Details:
+Hotel Parking. The first three Hours are free.
+Valet parking is also available.
+Self Parking: 10.00 CAD (daily longer than 3 hours)
+Valet Parking: 12.00 CAD
+Covered: Available
+Pricing subject to change.
+A word from Reflect social dining + lounge
+Food, Wine and Friends. The Perfect way to Reflect…at the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown..
+The new menu also celebrates and reflects our city’s diversity in following the European and Asian traditions of sharing plates (and with price points that are a bit easier to digest).
+Browse through our award winning wine list, or enjoy a craft beer.
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+Dined on 4/20/2014
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+Went here for a 2nd time on
+Valentine's Day. It just reinforced the disappointing experience from the 1st time. Our waiter was polite but had little personality. The food looked good on paper: 4 coarse meal. The soup and salad were good. The short rib was more like a piece of stewed meat. The lobster had little flavor, a little dry, and no butter to dip it in. The mashed potatoes were excellent! Our waiter never gave us a wine list never asked if we wanted anything other than water, so we didn't bother ordering drinks. This was a big miss IMO. We ordered a dessert trio, our waiter couldn't tell us what they were other than "three desserts"... which I had already gathered. 1 of 3 was very good: Cheese cake. Other 2, not so much."
+Dined on 2/14/2014
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+Booked our Valentine's Day dinner
+at Reflect weeks in advance. $8 to park, parking not on same street as address, 15 minutes driving around looking for parking entrance. Called and woman gave us incorrect address. Long trek from parking to restaurant. No coat check. Tables are super squished and small. Restaurant looks like it used to be a wide hallway in the hotel. Ignored by waiters for 20 minutes - not even a beverage request. Finally just left. Same woman who seated us asked how dinner was! A disaster of a Valentine's Dinner. Extremely disappointed. Set menu was $55 per person - no idea whether it was worth it or not."
+Dined on 2/14/2014
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+Dined on 2/7/2014
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+We found the food excellent in a
+quite setting making it easy to talk. We reviewed their main menu and found it lacking in any exciting options however our meal that was laid out for this promotion was excellent. We spoke to the waiter and he informed us that the chef would take orders not on main menu with a days warning. The meal was well worth the charge and we will return."
+Dined on 1/25/2014
+"
+My friend and I came here for
+DineOut Vancouver and we got seated at a window table. However, looking out the window failed to provide a view of the city as there was a concrete balcony wall obstructing the view. The restaurant was pretty empty too, unknown if because it was a Monday night, or if the restaurant itself wasn't that popular. I ordered the House Cured Salmon for my appetizer. That wasn't too bad except the salmon itself was a little too overpowering in taste and covered the taste of the coriander and yuzu aioli in the dish. Next came the Slow Braised Boneless Shortrib; this was an okay dish but the meat was a little dry in the middle. the dessert was delicious but I could not taste the sea salt that it so claimed to have."
+Dined on 1/20/2014
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+I decided to try Reflect Social
+Dining + Lounge with my BF through Dine Out Vancouver. We made a reservation for late in the evening. The place was a lot smaller than I had envisioned and only one person on staff (serving). The guy serving us was nice and friendly. Lighting was nice, not too low, I could actually see my food. The ambient music wasn't loud or distracting but my BF found it made him a little drowsy. I was fine with it. As for the food, it was alright. The appetizers and entrees were fine but nothing outstanding to us. My entree was supposed to only have seafood but had sausage and our waiter apologized and offered me something else. I declined but appreciated the offer. Dessert I liked a lot. Overall, I had a good time."
+Dined on 1/19/2014
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+This restaurant is somewhat hard
+to find, on the 3rd floor of the Hilton Burnaby. Helpfully, they have valet parking. It was not busy for a Friday night, probably reflecting that the hotel was not very full on a January weekend. Despite that, everything about our meal was perfect. There is a good selection on the menu, and the service was attentive but not overbearing. We were also very impressed with the wine list. This restaurant is perfect if you are looking for a quiet, delicious meal in elegant surroundings."
+Dined on 1/17/2014
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+I like the restaurant, it's not so
+intimidating, I considered the place classy and casual at the same time. We had a Christmas brunch and the food and service was great. We had our Christmas brunch on Dec 25th; the next day I got an email advising me that I missed my reservation. The guy forgot to check out my name. Next time, please make sure that you don't blame your customers for your employees' error. Overall, I will recommend this place because the price is reasonable,the food and service were impressive!"
+Dined on 12/25/2013
+"
+Good formal restaurant in the
+neighbourhood for special occasions. Also good for brunch and large groups. Excellent service and ambiance."
+Dined on 12/22/2013
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+What a great atmospher food and
+service, it is worth it to recemmend for other collegue and friends!"
+Dined on 12/11/2013
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+This place was alright, our very
+small (one table) Christmas party were pretty much the only people there, so it was nice and quiet. The service wasn't great. The caramel vanilla espresso martini was definitely worth the trip."
+Dined on 12/7/2013
+"
+It started with no hostess,
+reservation system down, only one other table the whole time we were there.The waiter was good, the steak was not. I won't be back."
+Dined on 11/23/2013
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+I reserved here for lunch because
+I was looking for somewhere that was known to be quiet. What a delightful treat! The food was fresh, local and well prepared. The presentation, outstanding. Looking forward to going there again, soon." have been dining at Reflect for
+a few years and have never been disappointed with the food. It really is an oasis in the Metrotown area with no blaring music or TV. One can actually converse with your dining companion(s). Cecelia, the hostess, is an absolute delight and makes everyone feel comfortable and welcome. We hosted an anniversary dinner at Reflect in 2012 and all our guests were very pleased with the food and the service." regular customers of the
+Crystal (before they change the name to Reflect) . We have not been eating there for quite a while until yesterday. The re-visit is no good. Service is still good. The waitress still recognized us. However, I do not like the new menu. We prefer the old Crystal menu."
+Dined on 10/14/2013
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+We were a large party of diners
+with ages ranging from 7 to 73. The staff did a wonderful job accomodating wveryone's needs and wishes."
+Dined on 10/5/2013
+"
+First off, I must say that this
+restaurant is very attractive, a far step up from the usual hotel dining room But, it was completely empty at 7:00 PM on a Saturday night! We were the only customers for the whole time we were there! The outdoor dining patio was pleasant with a view of the buildings around Metrotown Mall. Interesting but not scenic. The staff were friendly and attentive, but were not well versed on the menu items. The Amuse-Bouche was outstanding, the Monkfish excellent and the sides very good. On the other hand, the Lamb Shank was tough and fatty. It has an excellent Chef, a great staff, a very good menu, a superb ambiance and a convenient location. It SHOULD all combine to make a wonderful restaurant, but it doesn't."
+Dined on 8/10/2013
+"
+The food here is tasty and
+satisfying. My mother and I enjoyed a delicious Thanksgiving Dinner here last year. I’ve dined here twice now and wouldn’t hesitate to return in the future if an occasion arises. I’d recommend this restaurant for times when you don’t feel like cooking a big meal at home and for special occasions with family and groups."
+Dined on 8/5/2013
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+Dined on 4/29/2013
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+Only problem for this visit was we
+were having drinks before dinner. The bar tender was new and made my drink wrong, and claimed they don't even have ingredient for some basic cocktail on the menu. Otherwise food and service on the restaurant was good."
+Dined on 4/2/2013
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+Dined on 3/29/2013
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+Service was exxcellent and the
+small, intimate atmosphere was great for a romantic date night."
+Dined on 3/9/2013
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+As far as Burnaby goes, this place
+is a go. We had a big group and brought our 8 month old baby with us. Drinks were fabulous, service was great. Food was served all at the same time hot and delicious."
+Dined on 3/2/2013
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+Our Dinner was excellent our
+server "Nathan" was nice and food was awesome recomended to all"
+Dined on 2/24/2013
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+This place has a 2-for-1
+appetizers during Canucks game which was a pleasant surprise. Parking is free at Crystal Mall but finding the restaurant on the upper floors is a bit unconventional but it nice if you want a place to talk over dinner and not have to shout. The service was very good and they always come around to check if you want refills or order something else."
+Dined on 2/17/2013
+"
+I have been twice in the last
+month and it was ok both times (6/10). The sambel squid alone would make me go back. It is incredible. Prawns and Duck wrap were also good. For entree, I had the lamb and was happy with it (8/10). The steak on the other hand was AWFUL. There was more fat on that piece of meat than actual clean meat(to be fair, the potatoes, sauce and eatible parts of the steak were good). Our server was ok. I didn't really notice a problem but my girlfriend used to be a server at an upscale place and she was not impressed....and the steak was her meal so her experience wasnt very good overall. Like my title says. It is better than average, but I would not go out of my way to go back again (unless I am really craving squid)"
+Dined on 2/14/2013
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+Middle-aged mothers who are fuelling a rise in abortions: At 43, mother of four Gaynor was sure she was too old to get pregnant - then she faced an agonising choice that still haunts her 14 years on
+- Gaynor Evans believe her fertile days were behind her; it proved to be one of the biggest mistakes of her life
+- Falling pregnant at 43, she had an abortion, which led to depression and the eventual breakdown of her marriage
+- So scared of facing another termination that she had herself sterilised
+- Middle-aged women are wrongly assuming they can't conceive
+- Last year, twice as many abortions were performed on women over 35 than on teenagers
+Photographs from every stage of her four children’s lives adorn the walls of Gaynor Evans’s comfortable North London home: her two daughters and two sons smiling while licking ice creams on the beach in Cornwall, blowing out candles on birthday cakes, and tearing wrapping paper off presents on Christmas morning.
+But whenever Gaynor studies these pictures, her eyes well up as she thinks about the fifth child who never was, the baby whose life she terminated after unexpectedly conceiving again aged 43.
+‘I believed that my fertile days were behind me,’ says Gaynor, a recruitment consultant who has always been vehemently anti-abortion. ‘But that was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and one I’ll forever feel guilty for having made.
+Tough choice: Gaynor Evans, 57, is still haunted by her decision to have an abortion when she unexpectedly fell pregnant aged 43
+‘Becoming unexpectedly pregnant and then having a termination left me tearful and suffering bouts of depression for years. I’m sure it also contributed to the eventual breakdown of my marriage.’
+It would be easy to assume that it is young, irresponsible girls who are most likely to opt for terminations in the UK.
+But it is, in fact, middle-aged women — wrongly assuming they are unlikely to get pregnant any more, so playing fast and loose with contraception — who are bumping up the abortion rates.
+Last year, twice as many abortions were performed on women over 35 than on teenagers.
+Since 2001, there has been a 6 per cent rise in the number of over-35s in Britain booking terminations. In 2013 alone, 686 were carried out on women over the age of 45.
+Late life abortion misery: Her termination left Gaynor suffering from depression
+The British Pregnancy Advisory Service, Britain’s largest abortion provider, blames repeated warnings by fertility experts that women are ‘leaving it too late’ for convincing older women that their chances of falling pregnant are slim, when they could still be relatively high.
+As a consequence, older women often fail to take basic precautions when making love.
+Recent research found that more than 42 per cent of women in their 40s who were having abortions hadn’t used contraception, compared to 36 per cent in their early 30s and 34 per cent in their late 20s.
+But the fact is that it’s still very possible to conceive over the age of 40. A recent survey, for example, found women over 40 had the same chance of conceiving within six months as younger women.
+The poll revealed that a quarter of fortysomethings became pregnant in the first month, a further fifth conceived after three months and by six months more than half were carrying a child.
+Gaynor’s devastating experience highlights the heartache that can ensue if you underestimate your fertility as you get older. In a moment of madness she had unprotected sex with her husband of ten years and conceived — something she still bitterly regrets.
+‘One afternoon when I arrived home before the children were back from school, Max, who was working from home, and I took advantage of having an empty house and went to bed.’
+Gaynor could perhaps be forgiven for believing that she was not taking too much of a risk in having unprotected sex, considering she had great difficulty conceiving her fourth child in her 30s.
+After she and Max, her second husband who was ten years her junior, had spent two years trying to conceive naturally, Gaynor had been prescribed Clomid to stimulate egg production and eventually gave birth to a son, Jack, now 21.
+Mother of four: Gaynor aged 22 with her daughter Kate at three-months-old
+‘I had my older three children with my first husband in my 20s and conceived without any difficulties,’ says Gaynor, now 57. ‘When I failed to conceive in my 30s, my doctor said it was because I wasn’t ovulating regularly, a fact she put down to my advancing age.
+‘We persevered because Max didn’t have any children, but after Jack was born we both felt our family was complete.’
+Gaynor pursued her career as a recruitment consultant while Max worked hard in his carpentry construction business.
+Perseverance: Gaynor, pictured aged 37, believed she couldn't fall pregnant again because of the struggle to conceive Jack, aged 18 months
+With four children to feed and clothe, money was tight, and they both worked long hours to cover their substantial outgoings.
+‘As any mother with a career knows, it was tough juggling work and home life, but I really enjoyed my job and, after turning 40, rose up through the ranks,’ says Gaynor. ‘Having more children was the very last thing on my mind. Women are for ever being told how dramatically our fertility declines in our late 30s, and then pretty much falls off a cliff after 40. So I thought the chances of me conceiving again were infinitesimal.’
+Nevertheless, with four children and a demanding job, Gaynor hadn’t dared take any risks until one summer afternoon in 2001.
+Previously she had always used contraception, though struggled to find something that worked for her.
+Her GP told her she was too old for the Pill, and she found the coil caused infections. Meanwhile, using the cervical cap was not only a passion-killer but caused a painful erosion in her womb, and her husband didn’t like using condoms. ‘Max and I were really pleased to see each other after a few days apart,’ she recalls. ‘I just couldn’t bring myself to ruin the moment by insisting he rifle through a drawer for a condom.
+‘Of course, I never imagined how much I would live to regret that.’
+Gaynor says it did not occur to her she might need the morning-after pill. Then, just under three weeks later, she realised her period was late. Trying to convince herself there was no need to panic after having unprotected sex just once at 43, Gaynor bought a pregnancy test.
+‘I remember my hand shaking so badly I almost dropped the stick as the blue line appeared confirming my worst fears: I was pregnant. My previous pregnancies had all been very much wanted, so this terrible sense of dread was new to me.’
+Jack was seven at this point and Gaynor’s older children, Laura, Kate and Rory, were in their teens with a father who lived 300 miles away.
+Happy family: Gaynor, pictured aged 26, with (l-r) Kate, aged five and a half, Rory, four, and Laura, seven
+‘I’ve always been one of life’s copers, but I felt if I was pulled in one more direction by the demands of a new baby I’d crack up,’ recalls Gaynor.
+‘Max’s reaction didn’t help. Instead of saying: “Do what you think is best and I’ll support you,” he went into a blind panic and seemed quite angry that it had happened, even though we were both to blame.’
+Financially, the couple were already under a lot of strain, with a substantial mortgage of around £150,000. Gaynor knew they wouldn’t be able to manage if she gave up work, nor could they afford full-time nursery care if she had the baby and kept her job.
+"I knew deep down that I couldn’t cope, but at the same time I had always been really anti-abortion, so the prospect of ending a pregnancy was extremely painful"
+‘We broke the news to the older children, who had sensed something was wrong, and they were all utterly horrified,’ says Gaynor. ‘They thought I was way too old to have another child and already felt I didn’t have enough time for each of them.
+‘I knew deep down that I couldn’t cope, but at the same time I had always been really anti-abortion, believing all life is precious, so the prospect of ending a pregnancy was extremely painful. My daughters were in their mid‑teens at the time and I’d had long chats with them about the dangers of unprotected sex and the trauma an unwanted pregnancy could cause.’
+Two days after discovering her late‑life pregnancy, Gaynor had come to the conclusion that a termination was her only option.
+Terrified: Gaynor was so worried about conceiving again that after her abortion she insisted on being sterilised
+Following a consultation with a doctor at a private North London clinic, six weeks into her pregnancy, Gaynor booked in for a suction termination.
+She was given a mild general anaesthetic before a small, plastic tube connected to a pump was inserted into her womb and used to remove the foetus and other tissues.
+‘I was very tearful after the operation and found it hard to come to terms with,’ she recalls. ‘I felt angry towards my body: when I’d wanted to conceive it wouldn’t let me, and when having another child was the last thing I needed, I’d got pregnant.
+‘For a few months I felt really flat, performing my roles of employee and mother in a numb daze. Eventually, around the time of my due date, when all I could think about was what might have been, I went to see my GP who prescribed antidepressants.
+‘I also arranged to see a counsellor privately. But she didn’t seem to understand why any part of me would have wanted another baby. She said: “There are so many other things you could do with your life.” But, right then, I couldn’t imagine what.’
+So terrified was Gaynor of going through the trauma of another termination that she insisted on being sterilised a few months after her abortion, despite doctors telling her that her chances of conceiving again, aged 44 by then, were very small.
+Gaynor admits her depression took a toll on her marriage, which finally ended six years ago.
+‘Abortion is such a terrible thing to go through, it sours everything,’ she says. ‘As much as I tried to lock away the memories in a box inside me and close the lid, I would always associate March with the month our child should have been celebrating her birthday.
+‘Other things, like catching a whiff of a particular perfume I’d worn back then, would remind me of that time, and I’d be right back there emotionally, feeling very down.’
+But Gaynor would like some good to come of her experience and wants to warn other middle-aged women — many of whom are beginning new relationships after divorce and believe they are past their fertile prime — not to underestimate the importance of using contraception into their 40s.
+All life is precious: Gaynor, pictured aged 20, with her oldest child Laura, aged six months
+Some doctors believe women may even have a burst of fertility as they approach the menopause due to the body naturally stimulating the ovaries more aggressively to keep them working as the number of eggs decline.
+The evidence is, however, anecdotal and the theory not scientifically proven. Dr Geeta Nargund, medical director at the Create Fertility Clinic in London, says that while, in general, women’s chances of conceiving fall sharply in their 40s, they should continue to take precautions if they want to prevent pregnancy.
+"No one should underestimate how devastating it is to find yourself pregnant in mid-life, feeling abortion is your only option. The guilt and heartache can haunt you for the rest of your days"
+‘Women with a healthy lifestyle, good fertility history in the family, optimal body weight and good general health can have better fertility for their age compared to those with a poor lifestyle and a family history of early menopause,’ she says.
+‘I have known women aged 47 conceive using their own eggs, so if you want to avoid getting pregnant, it’s important to use effective contraception until after the menopause.’
+As Gaynor says: ‘Before contraception was invented, many women went on having babies well into their 40s, and even sometimes their 50s, and we have to remember that, despite all the scaremongering from doctors, we’re still capable of it.
+‘And no one should underestimate how devastating it is to find yourself pregnant in mid-life, feeling abortion is your only option.
+‘The guilt and heartache, as I know to my cost, can haunt you for the rest of your<<
+Just because you’re not going to date doesn’t mean you don’t get your heart broken.
+My article yesterday on how Elisabeth Elliot’s courtship with Jim sounds quite toxic and unfair to Elisabeth blew up on Facebook and social media. Most were in agreement that we really need to revisit the book Passion and Purity because what it’s showing to be a healthy relationship is anything but.
+As the discussions started happening everywhere, though, there was one theme that emerged that I’d like to comment on a little more. I don’t have time to write a big article this morning because I’m running really late for some interviews, but let me throw this out as food for thought.
+So much advice to young people during purity culture told them that they would protect their hearts if they only “courted”–or dated once they were ready to be married.
+Until then, you could have friend groups, but nothing romantic.
+But this puts young girls who are really interested in someone at a distinct disadvantage. Let’s say you like someone, and you think they like you back. They text you at all hours. They sit next to you on buses. They grab a meal with you occasionally.
+But you have absolutely no idea where you stand. Does he like you back? Does he think you’re just a friend? You don’t know. And because you’re not supposed to date, he never has to tell you what he’s thinking, and you’re not allowed to ask him to define the relationship. So you go on like this, never knowing, and being strung along, sometimes for years.
+Here’s how Rebecca’s describing it in the mother-daughter book we’re writing (this is from the chapter on dating):
+For many of us, the flawed logic of the “don’t date until you can marry the guy or else you’ll get your heart broken” mantra of the mid 2000s fell apart pretty quickly. The house of cards toppled for me (Rebecca) when I realized that not dating wasn’t sparing me heartache–it was just stopping guys who were flirting with me from making any real commitment. I still got my heart broken, but the guy got off scot free because “Well, we weren’t dating.”
+On Twitter, that’s what many young women commented on with regards to Passion & Purity. One woman called these “friendationships.” You feel like you’re in a relationship, because you spend a lot of time together, he shares intimacies, you know him really well, but he’s never actually declared his feelings, and you have nothing to hold him to.
+And often these “friendationships” end with no warning, and your heart is just as broken as if you had been dating.
+Part of the problem with the model that Elisabeth Elliot was promoting is that women are never allowed to ask men to define the relationship.
+A guy can have the benefits of a relationship without ever having to commit to exclusivity, or without ever having to clarify his future plans. She can continue to hope against hope that this relationship will someday go somewhere, but he doesn’t have to actually say anything to assure her of this.
+And this is largely a gender based thing! Because women are never allowed to take the lead in relationships or speak up about their affections, but must always make the man go first (Elliot makes a big deal about this in Passion & Purity), there is absolutely nothing she can do when she is being strung along. The guy, on the other hand, is free to start a relationship conversation with the woman. So he’s never as helpless.
+What this means is that for women, far more than for men, relationships become about a spiritual wrestling.
+She can’t speak up and ask him to define the relationship. She is at the whim of when he texts her; when he wants to see her; what he wants to tell her.
+The only thing she can do is pray.
+That’s why Passion & Purity is far more a book about a woman wrestling with God about whether or not she trusts him enough than it is about a courtship. It was that lesson that I think Elisabeth Elliot was trying to teach girls–that if you want to be married, you need to make sure you’re completely satisfied with Jesus first.
+Dating, then, becomes a test of how much you love Jesus. If you want a successful relationship, you have to “put it on the altar” and sacrifice it. You have to turn it over to God (how many girls have written men’s names on scraps of paper and put them in a basket during an altar call at a retreat, when we’re told to give it all to Him?) You have to relinquish it.
+For girls, dating is a praying, begging, relinquishing, spiritual experience far more than it ever is for boys, because girls can’t make anything happen on the relationship front. All we can do is pray. And so that’s what we do, and our journals are full of it all.
+And this whole dichotomy allows men to string women along because they never promised anything.
+Catherine and Peter Marshall’s relationship had much of the same “stringing along” as Jim and Elisabeth Elliot’s. In fact, so many of our revered and idolized couples look the same. He’s a powerful, charismatic man, and she’s enamoured with him, and he loves having a woman hang on his every word, but he’s not going to commit until he absolutely has to. And so he can use her and break her heart again and again and again and it’s still somehow considered Christian.
+I’m not sure there’s a way to end this unhealthy dynamic except for women to start speaking up earlier and saying, “you’re either in this or you’re not, and if you’re not, I’m leaving.”
+I think that’s what it’s going to take–women exercising boundaries and knowing our worth. But because we’ve overspiritualized relationships so much for women, it’s far more likely that she’ll internalize all of this as a test of her faith rather than as a litmus test for the possible health of any future relationships.
+Being strung along, where he has all the benefits of a relationship but none of the responsibilities, is not healthy and is not of Christ.
+We need to start calling out “friendationships” for what they are. They aren’t fair to the partner with less power–the partner who isn’t supposed to speak up and ask to define the relationship. They aren’t godly.
+The worst I’ve ever felt in a dating relationship was when I was a “friendationship.” My girls will tell you the same thing. It’s awful.
+I don’t know how to change it, but I do think we should stop overspiritualizing these types of relationships and calling them out for what they.
+What do you think? Have you ever been in a “friendationship”? How did it make you feel? Let’s talk about it...
+Wow. I didn’t know women weren’t “allowed” to ask. I always asked eventually, I guess, and assured him that it was completely fine to not be interested in me, but that maybe he could be a little more careful to work on social skills, becoming culturally aware, and not be leading anyone on. Or otherwise, I guarded my heart and kept getting to know other fellas. What about Isaiah saying something about a new thing where a woman will surround a man? Or the woman who asked Jesus to heal her daughter and made the point about the dogs being allowed the children’s crumbs, and Jesus saying specifically it was because of her reply, that he would grant her request? All Christians are supposed to be quick to hear and slow to speak… but apparently sometimes Jesus explicitly wanted women to speak up.
+Exactly! We need to stop teaching women that it’s a sin to try to ask where the relationship is going (Elisabeth Elliot repeats this a lot; so do other books addressed to young women).
+She needs to get her father or brother to sit the guy down and ask him what his intentions are.
+If she is going to adopt Victorian mores of feminine behavior, then at least go all in on it, and get someone to confront him for you, instead of allowing him to string you along.
+Otherwise, be modern and stand up for yourself. Can we please just label being a doormat and psuedo-matyr a sin and not a virtue? Because it really is. I say this as someone who totally allowed myself to be strung along for 2 years in the ’80’s before Josh Harris was born. By someone “sold out for Jesus!” He insisted we weren’t really dating, but whenever he wanted adoring female companionship, he got it. After I married someone else, he found another girl to string along for years and not marry. Then he was engaged to a gal and strung her along for years of engagement without marriage. Their eventual marriage didn’t last long, big surprise! The Lord actually had me confront him about it after I was married, but he obviously didn’t listen.
+I have no idea how that woman knew that Jesus would help her because if someone called me a dog, I wouldn’t think he had loving motives.
+I hadn’t thought about “waiting on the Lord” as a way of hiding immaturity, but it’s good to be aware of that possibility and watch for it. Of course, church culture applies the same idea to solving problems after marriage…
+Anon, Jesus did not compare the woman to a dog. If I recall the story correctly, she was asking him to heal her child. He responded that he was sent to the Jews. She, a non Jew, clapped back, “Even dogs get the crumbs that fall off the table.” Essentially saying, cmon, don’t pretend there isn’t enough miracle juice to go around. Jesus responded by agreeing to heal her kid, saying that her answer showed her faith.
+Elsewhere, Jesus that the Father in heaven provides for the birds. And just like he provides for the birds, he’ll provide for us.
+Was Jesus calling people birds? It sounded to me like he was comparing Situation A to Situation B. God provides for birds. God provides for humans. The focus should be on the fact that God provides, not that one situation has birds in it and the other has humans in it.
+No one bats an eye lash over the bird analogy, because we don’t commonly use the word “bird” as an insult. But what if we did, like how in our culture we use the word “dog” as an insult? Wouldn’t people readily assume that Jesus was really thinking that people are all bird-brained? Even though he didn’t actually say that?
+He never called her a dog. In a culture where dog is not an insult, I don’t think people would have assumed that he was thinking of her as one just because of an analogy like that.
+I’m really glad you’re calling out the issues with what Jim Elliot did. I’ve been wondering why people thought his behavior toward Elizabeth was a good example, for a long time. And I remember she made a big deal about how young men shouldn’t say “I love you” without being able to follow it up immediately with a proposal. And I think thats a good warning in some ways. But that ignores the many, many other ways available for being selfish, sucking up lots of adoring attention, and leading people on. One thing that would have helped me in navigating this is more of a spotlight on awesome Christian women filled with joy and energy, who spent lots or all of their lives not married, especially missionary women. There are lots of them, but I didn’t get to interact with many, when I was wrestling with all this… staying single seemed like a weird thing that was mostly for the nuns in The Sound of Music. I’m wondering if you or Rebecca would start interviewing some, and signal boosting their testimonies of how God doesn’t need to bring each woman a man, in order to bring joy? I feel like knowing more of these women and their testimonies has made my marriage a lot healthier, bc it makes my marriage less about accommodating my husband’s whims, and more about seeking God together without fear or idolizing the marriage.
+My husband was interested in marrying me for at least 5 years before I really got serious about marrying him. I felt a huge responsibility to explicitly and verbally encourage him to keep getting to know other women during that time, because I knew there would be people confronting me for not being a “good Christian sister” and being unloving, if I didn’t. I don’t sense the same level of expectation and speaking truth in love in churches, toward single men. I feel like there’s so much need for men to take responsibility for shepherding younger men in developing emotional maturity and learning caring behaviors.
+This is the dating culture I grew up in and a large part of the reason why I’m still single at 42. It’s been man after man who was unwilling to commit to anything.
+I’m so sorry.
+That’s an excellent idea Heather!
+We need to hear more testimonies from single women who are serving the Lord. Several years ago, I wrote Living Single Today which is a testimony of having been single a long time and trying to honor God while waiting for Him to bring me the right man. However, I have changed my perspective on that a bit. I no longer care about waiting for the right man because I have other things I want to do with my time as a single person. Those are the testimonies we need to hear because marriage is often idolized.
+YES! I’m glad you’re doing other things with your life, too.
+Oh my goodness- this describes my early relationship with my husband! In high school neither of us wanted to date, but we liked each other since junior year. He asked me to proms and homecomings and we would hang out in groups all the time. It was confusing! We had decided to go to the same college, so in the summer after high school graduation I asked if we could have a “define the friendship” talk since it seemed like he liked me too- but because of the books I had read in high school I didn’t know if that was okay! I felt like I needed to talk to my mom and a female youth worker at church and my mentor to get “permission” to have a DTR… lol
+While I agree that this issue is most likely to affect women, this totally happened to my husband with the first relationship he tried to pursue! He talked to this girl and her dad about being interested in starting a relationship with her, and she then proceeded to string him along for more than a YEAR before giving him a straight answer. He put his life on hold for her for months, coming over most weekends to hang out or help her dad out with stuff, and all the time he couldn’t really check in on the state of the relationship because she was still “thinking and praying about it.” Finally one day he got in his car after spending a day with her and found a “dear John” letter on the dashboard! This happened several years before he and I even got to know each other, and he still was seriously messed up emotionally from it. So yes, mostly a problem for women, but “friendationships” can most certainly affect and hurt guys, too.
+“Being strung along, where he has all the benefits of a relationship but none of the responsibilities, is not healthy and is not of Christ.”
+Ironically, if the subject were premarital sex (a woman sleeping with him and hoping he will someday put a ring on it, or moving in together hoping engagement will follow), the exact same words apply. Literally the exact same words.
+Yep. Pretty much.
+I had the same thought! This is so frustrating. This is the EXACT kind of thing we warn teenage girls about happening in “the world” as to why they shouldn’t have premarital sex. This is the same thing, but with the sex removed. Doesn’t suddenly make it ok.
+I think someone on here has been reading my old diaries from my slightly younger days. When I got divorced 19 years ago and rededicated my life to the Lord, I wanted to do dating/relationships God’s way. I found “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” on my teenage cousin’s shelf and she let me borrow it. Since it was a “Christian” book, I thought I should take all this advice to heart but I really couldn’t because I was 26 and living on my own. I wasn’t going to insist that my parents get involved in my dating life. While I believe Joshua Harris had good intentions when he wrote this book, it over-spiritualized the concept of dating which turned into years of waiting on my part. I believed I should never accept a date with a man unless I was attracted to him or thought of him as a potential husband.
+Part of the reason I did not date for 15 years after my divorce was due to purity culture and thinking this was God’s way. Since the Bible never talked about dating and marriages were arranged in those days, I believed that these Christian authors who wrote about dating must have heard special revelation from God about how to do this whole dating thing. As Christians and humans, we all want to find a guaranteed formula to do things right. We don’t want to experience heartbreak after heartbreak. After my divorce, I did not want to make the same mistakes again, but I believe I made the mistake of hardly trying because I was so afraid of getting hurt again and I also did not want to disappoint God in my dating life.
+So here I am at 45, and finally realizing that accepting a date does not mean it has to lead to marriage. I did enter a relationship four years ago and it almost led to marriage, but we decided to remain friends. Another issue I found in purity culture was the belief that men and women cannot be friends. Not true at all. I have male friends, which I was afraid to have for years because what if one of us had feelings for the other and it was not mutual?
+Bottom line: There is no one-size-fits-all formula on how to date.
+There really isn’t such a formula, Laura! I’m so moved by what you’ve been through. I’m sorry for the heartache.
+Haha. My husband played this game for a while, as did the fellow before him. I was fresh out of the world, though, and had no other friends! The first one ended because of the second (my husband). His game playing made it a bit easier because I asked him if we were just friends or more? When he responded that we were just friends I told him that was “good because I’m seeing another guy” his face fell and he expressed sorrow.
+I called my husband on his vacillating between staying “single for the Lord” and marriage and (long story short) said we were parting ways and he proposed that night. We were married 6 days later.
+That was 40 + years ago.
+Also, what a forward woman Naomi was, Ya?
+Or, Ruth, rather.
+A bit of an aggressive team by E.E. standards, they were!
+Oh. My. Goodness.
+Thank you, Sheila, for putting words to what happened to me years ago!
+This type of dating model, where the girl isn’t allowed to question the guy in terms of defining the relationship, is EXACTLY how I got my heart shattered. For years I ignored my intuition and my friends (which were both telling me that my ex was not into me), because I had been taught that if I just had enough faith and patience, my ex would change, grow up, and want to commit to me. Spoiler alert: he never did.
+And while I’m so glad that it never worked out for us, I do regret the years of my youth that I wasted on a guy who had no intention of ever committing to me. This is why I despise purity culture and it’s bizarre teachings. I have no problem with people choosing who wait until marriage for sex, but all of purity culture’s extra trappings stole so much from me.
+*choosing to
+I was in a few friendashionships in high school. I definitely got my heart broken in every single one and I felt like all the responsibility for the relationship was on me. I actually refer to one of those guys as my ex because, even though we didn’t officially date, he has been super weird around me after I broke things off 7 years ago. Everyone in authority around us ignored the fact that he was 17 and I was 14 because the relationship was never official. I wish someone had talked to me about ending the relationship so much sooner because it would have saved me so much shame and heartache.
+Hi, Jenna,
+I say the exact same thing about my “ex”: we never were official because I was never allowed to ask him to define the relationship, but when you’re with someone in a quasi-romantic context like that for several years, I think the term is justified. Plus, it just makes it easier to refer to him as my ex whenever I decide to share about my past with new people.
+I’m so sorry for what you went through, too.
+I’m sorry, Kristen. I watch this happen to people I loved, too. It really was sad.
+Ahhhhhh yes I experienced this all throughout college and my young 20s! I had a lot of wonderful male friends, and I’d get crushes on them because they’re awesome, but I’d never tell them because I believed that wasn’t my role. I’d just stew and stew until I inevitably realized that the dude I was crushing on at the time was an excellent friend but wouldn’t make a good boyfriend for me due to personality or whatever. This went on for years.
+The last straw was when a guy I knew and enjoyed talking to, but wasn’t like my BFF or anything, asked me out to dinner. Alone. And then was completely weirded out that I thought we were on a date!
+I signed up for eHarmony that very same night. I was 25 and completely fed up with the nebulous “oh are we friends or are we maybe gonna date” dance and wanted a space where the entire point was find someone to date. Met my husband there. We’ve been married 5 years.
+I was married the time the book came out and the huge courtship, no physical contact (and even father-led betrothal) fads came about. However, I was still affected by them because I felt like I did something wrong in how I dated my husband, and that any marriage problems I had were a form of consequential punishment for not doing it “God’s way.” Lots of guilt and shame.
+I would watch the idealized videos and read the testimonial articles put out by fundamentalist groups and cry. If only I did it God’s way…..
+But, now, I see so many of these girls, now coming towards middle aged, unmarried. Or they are divorced and revovering from abuse trauma. Or they are sickly. Or they are like Anna Duggar. Or, in a better scenario, they married a more mainstream christian man, and are happily married career women wearing pants and keeping their former life (parents) at arm’s length. I don’t know of very many who are still adhereing to that way if life and are happy. A few, but not many.
+I found the book IKDG as an adult. I became a Christian in college and my family was not Christian, so I was looking for guidance on dating “the right way.” I ended up not going on a date for 10 years and would still be single at 52 if it weren’t for a Christian counselor I was seeing (in a professional capacity) in my 30’s. During one session, I mentioned that I hadn’t dated for several years. He looked shocked and asked me why. I mentioned the book, at which point he shook his head vehemently and said, “Look, it’s okay to date!”
+Shortly after that, I began dating the man who would become my husband. We have been married almost 15 years.
+Oh, I’m so glad you saw that counselor! That’s awesome.
+Curly Sue,
+I read IKDG when I was divorced at 26 and I rarely dated for almost 15 years because I thought I should only date someone I was attracted to and considered marriage material. Now, in my 40’s I have done more dating than I ever did in my late 20’s and 30’s. God has a great sense of humor! I used to think that if I didn’t find anyone by the time I was 40, I would not find anyone at all. Well, since I was 40 and now I’m 45, I had been engaged (which didn’t lead to marriage, but we’re still friends), had an almost relationship with a male friend (he turned out to be toxic) and recently started casually dating a younger man I know from work.
+This totally happened to me. And Here is the thing that frustrated me the most about it was how it ended and the mixed messages women get in Christian culture. So I said on more than one occasion we were dating without dating. But he would make sure to say on occasion that we were just friends and even would tell me about a girl he was interested in. I even gave him the swift kick he needed to ask one girl out. That one fizzled out pretty quickly. But I also kept hearing about how guys and girls can’t be friends because no guy would spend so much time with a girl he is not interested in. And here we were going to a Broadway show together, going out after church every week, often staying until well past close just talking. So was he interested or not. And then one day out of the blue, he just we can’t go out after church anymore. No explanation, no reason given, just we can’t do this anymore. Nothing, until he announced on FB that he was dating another girl in church that had graduated from college about the time he told me we couldn’t go out after church anymore. That is what hurt the most. Like if he had just told me, hey I’m interested in so and so I want to see if anything is there, I would have been like, yeah sure, and went on my merry way, but to drop me and then not tell me makes me wonder if we were even friends or if something else was going on. Especially considering I told him when I got engaged while he was gone, which may have been a good time for him to finally tell me he was dating so and so since it came out on FB like 2 weeks later anyways.
+It’s not just a Christian problem – I know so many non Christian women who are ‘oh, he texted this…does that mean he likes me?’ or ‘he told me six months ago that he would propose soon – I’m going crazy waiting. How much longer do you think I’ll have to wait?’ and I’m like ‘just ASK him!!!’ It’s so weird.
+I have mixed feelings about the ‘don’t date until you’re ready for marriage’ thing – I have a lot of friends who started serious dating at 14 or 15 and went through a lot of heartbreak when they split up. Whereas my friends who started dating later were more cautious about getting too involved before they felt there was a potential long-term future in the relationship, so they didn’t seem to suffer from so many traumatic breakups. I don’t think it’s a good idea to be prescriptive about it, but if a young person wants to wait until late teens before dating, I think they might be saving themselves a lot of misery.
+I also think it can be quite helpful to socialize mostly in groups – it certainly saved me from a number of poor relationships, since it gave me the chance to get to know guys in a social setting before going on a date. Quite often, the way they behaved in a group situation was enough to wipe them off the potential date list!
+My biggest dating bugbear is the way that marrying the first person you date is held up as the ideal in some Christian circles though. I remember feeling I must be a terrible Christian when I split up with my first boyfriend (even though he was a constant liar and had some serious mental health issues, threatening to kill himself if I didn’t promise to stay with him!). I do wonder how many girls ended up marrying bad husbands because they felt that pressure to ‘make your first date your only date’.
+I guess that like everything, it’s a bad idea to make something that works for a few people into a rule that everyone must follow!
+Anon, one of the really interesting data points we’re finding in our survey of what women experienced as teens is that THERE IS NO FORMULA THAT WORKS FOR ALL MEASURES. It’s actually really interesting. If you look at the four possiblities in the dating vs. allowed to date (not allowed to date but did; not allowed to date and didn’t; allowed to date and did; allowed to date but didn’t), some positive outcomes come from pretty much all of them, and some negative from pretty much all of them. There’s one that looks the healthiest, kind of, depending on how you measure it, but it’s not clear cut, because there simply isn’t a formula.
+We need to be teaching wisdom instead.
+As for it not being a Christian problem, I find it interesting how extreme purity culture ends up mirroring the issues of hookup culture, because both discourage commitment and relationship and both put women at a disadvantage, in general. Just an interesting observation. Kind of like how the pornographic view of women overlaps with the extreme evangelical view of women–that we’re temptresses and primarily sexual objects who exist to be used as men please.
+“We need to be teaching wisdom instead.”
+Yes to this!
+I had friends who were banned from dating until a certain age and others who were pushed into it. My parents encouraged me very strongly that I shouldn’t date anyone who didn’t share my faith and shouldn’t mess around with a guy’s feelings, but they gave me reasons for that which made sense to me and they left it up to me as to when I wanted to start dating. safe to be around.
+One of my friends had a dad who was very controlling, expected any potential boyfriend to go through an intensive grilling and imposed strict rules on any date, specifying where they went, how long for, what she could wear etc, etc, etc. Sadly, she ended up rebelling, started dating a local ‘tough guy’ (lying to her parents about extra classes at school to cover up she was meeting him) and ended up getting pregnant by him at 16. I so wished her parents had taught her HOW to date instead of just imposing a load of external controls.
+I prayed for that, but it was because of the 1st ever interested guy, and our interestingly awkward 1st date, that I found my husband!
+I decided that I needed to push a little bit more, intentionally looking online, rather than only waiting for God to work a Miracle. I explored multiple dating sites, and was bluntly husband shopping. And with an expectation of not being successful for a long time. We were a 99% match on okcupid, and because of their questionnaires, I already knew everything important before we talked.(love that so much!)
+I recommend all dating couples to make a single profile just for the questionnaire part! Literally every aspect of life and 500+ questions. And if you are hunting on the site, they recommend people based on how much percentage of the questions were answered the same/similar. (Literally the 1st question to look at is saving sex for marriage. that weeds it way down! But don’t completely dismiss them if they don’t either)
+I just naively assumed that heart break must be something else than being sad about someone not being the one. Because I realized fairly quickly, literally nothing can stop that! That’s one thing I did notice, but I assumed That they must be meaning something more deep than a simple “boy-sadness”. Because I had already had that from afar, many times. And I hadn’t learned to even talk to boys (conversationally) until 15.
+I have experienced what the blog describes growing up in the late 90’s and having been a part of IKDG movement.
+I did find friend-lationships bewildering and have had a rash of them over 20 years or prolonged, unmarried singleness.
+I don’t think the woman was told she could not ask about a DTR. I think it is that we were never taught how —or when —to initiate one.
+Now that I am in my 40’s, (unfortunately, still never married) I have gotten very comfortable with forcing a DTR. But, I had to ask for and even pay for coaching to learn how to do it.
+I think the bigger issue and question is why so many men—especially middle age Christian men, continue to remain ambiguous and ambivalent towards female friends. This is very off-putting.
+I am not bashing men. However, brothers need to give clarity in a reasonable time frame or get out of her life before she has to push him out of it.
+It is incredibly difficult to feel safe with a man who vacillates continuously, much less respect one who uses her because the opportunity presented itself.
+Yes, I agree that’s a huge issue, too. Why do so many men like relationships that are ambiguous? I think they get benefits without having to commit, really.
+This is an issue yet needs clarifying. How does this differ from men who expect women owe them a relationship or sex for their friendship, AKA bemoaning the friend zone?
+I think this advice apply sometimes for both genders; I know someone who harassed her crush into admitting his affections, which felt like an invasion of his privacy. If I had done that while my husband and I were just crushing, I think it would have been controlling and scared him off. But when he suddenly made his interest obvious (hanging out with me every spare minute like we were a couple and showering compliments), I had no problem sitting him down and telling him I’m not going to date someone without dating them! I thought I was supposed to be passive but I didn’t have a problem with doing this because the difference was it was the elephant in the room. I felt if I waited I would be stuck in limbo as to what we were, which is not the normal wondering if your crush likes you back mind games. I think he was relieved I broke the ice so we could speak honestly, and we began officially dating a couple months later.
+Hi Jessica,
+The difference in the dynamics is that in evangelical Christianity, girls have been taught it’s a sin to try to define the relationship, because that would be taking the lead. This is explicitly taught in books aimed at young women (like Passion & Purity, And the bride Wore White, Lies Young Women Believe, etc.). So while it’s awkward for everyone, and guys can feel strung along too, the difference is that guys are allowed to initiate the conversation. Girls are told they’d be making Jesus sad if they did. So it becomes a distinctly spiritual wrestling with girls that it doesn’t for boys.
+Now, if you dont’ grow up in that kind of religious community, then this wouldn’t affect you. But for many, many girls it really did.
+Sheila, I thought of this in rereading the Facebook thread, I’m bringing it here bc I’m interested if you have thoughts about it. It’s a little embarrassing to admit, but I actually got a lot of my dating confidence from the book The Rules in the 90’s. I hated some of that book, but the thing I think they got right was for people to make up their minds to become the best they can be, and have confidence that the right relationship doesn’t need chasing or fishing for. And I think that’s reflected in 1 Cor 7 where it talks about chasing God, not chasing romance or a spouse. That book suggests never accepting Saturday night plans later than Wednesday. I didn’t accept that as an ironclad rule, but I used it as a principle. If I sensed chemistry between myself and a guy, I tried to allow him to get to know me, but I was pretty careful that he see that I had a full life already without him in it, and that I wasnt hanging around to be anybody’s “safety date” or consolation prize. Sometimes I was careful to say, “I think we have a lot in common and a lot of fun, but I need to know I’m not just an afterthought if you want to get to know me as potentially more than a friend.” Sheila, what do you think about preparing Christian girls to feel comfortable saying something like that?
+I actually think that’s not a bad idea. I remember “The Rules” too!
+When I think of my own life, often these “friendationships” grew out of true friendships, though. I think “The Rules” work well if you’re just talking about acquaintances. When you’re talking about a best friend that you’re easy with and you see all the time that then translates into something more by surprise it’s a little trickier. But I think that, overall, we need to teach our young people how to navigate this better, which includes girls learning not to appear desperate and taking whatever scraps come their way.
+The difference between my girls’ relationships with their now husbands, and my relationship with my husband, and prior “friendationships” was quite astounding, and it was because the men took it seriously from the beginning.
+Yes I grew up in very evangelical- Debi Pearl was one of my favourite authors! Embarrassing. So my community completely believed he had to lead- heck I insisted he send me the relationship change request on Facebook rather then the other way around because ’leading.’ 😂 That’s my point, even in as hierarchical a culture I was in no one saw it as leading for me to question his intentions. However if I was trying to start a relationship, THAT would have been leading.
+This friendationship business makes me think of Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austin. How Mr Willoughby deals with Marianne. I wonder if you have read the novel or seen any of the movie adaptations.
+Really worth reading, a fantastic book!
+Yes! It’s exactly Willoughby and Marianne. Exactly. She felt he had promised, but he actually never had.
+I’m coming to this conversation bit late but what jumped out to me while reading this post and the one about the Eliot’s is how obvious it is that Jim was not interested in Elisabeth! When someone is interested in you it’s obvious! You don’t have to chase them down or feel like you’re being strung along.
+You know.
+If you’re left feeling confused or especially in Elisabeth Eliot’s case where Jim wouldn’t spend time with her, wrote her infrequently, wouldn’t touch her, moved to another country and then she kept following him, I’m sorry but he’s just not into you and it’s time to move on with your life. You’ll have a much better one without him!
+This is interesting, and I did hear a lot of the letting the man take the lead type of evangelical Christian talk. However, a true balance certainly needs to be in place.
+Interestingly enough, my husband did define the relationship. After one serious getting to know you talk, I was told I could either continue getting to know him in a relationship or not at all. I let him know that I just wanted to be friends. He didn’t want any more friends.
+So we dated. When I did decide I didn’t want to date him anymore (after about 5mos), I was told I was unable to love, I was using him, I was just in love with someone else and wasn’t being honest with him. He told me that he loved me, and, in subtle ways, expressed to me like it was almost like no one else would love me like he did.
+So, I believed I was worthless without him. I believed I just needed to be a more loving person. Love was a decision, right? That’s what he told me. I wanted to do what was right. So I decided. (Nevermind that absolutely none of the accusations laid out were true.)
+This type of male headship defining relationship led to premarital oral sex for him of which I did enter into willingly, but asked to put the brakes on–willingly admitting that I struggled with desires, too, but knew I didn’t want to dishonor God or our relationship by continuing with physically jumping beyond the limits before marital commitment was agreed upon. However, no fear, he defined the relationship and led the way. He didn’t feel it did dishonor our relationship since it was what he wanted, and he didn’t feel it dishonored God since he decided he was marrying me. The only way it would have dishonored God is if he didn’t marry me. So the sneaky oral sex that made him feel great, but made me feel worse continued. But I was made to please him, right?! The kicker is that I did long for a great sexual relationship someday with my spouse.
+The problem is that his complete disregard for respecting me, his lack of leadership in self-control after heartfelt requests to him, and his subtle selfishness that made him look like he was the best thing that would ever happen to me have been detrimental to our marriage.
+Pornography that existed since before he met me, but never told me about until after the third time that I found it has only further pushed our marriage to its limits.
+So, I’m not so sure I would have minded more friends groups and more of a friendship time to safely know what kind of person he was without the heavy commitment of a relationship over me.
+But hey, at least he completely defined the relationship for me!
+Just some perspective.
+I’m so sorry, Hope. That sounds like such a toxic relationship.
+Do you have a licensed counselor to talk to about all of this? And to help you figure out what to do?
+I’d also say that the problem doesn’t seem to be that he defined the relationship, but instead that he became very controlling. That is always wrong, and I’m so sorry you went through that.
+So I am 100% in a friendationship right now and it is this exact situation; almost. He has said a big reason why he doesn’t want to date (me) is because he doesn’t want to be obligated or feel tied down to anything right now. He also doesn’t want anything to happen that could ruin the friendship. He also has this thing where he doesn’t think very highly of himself and therefore that no one should ever be with him, while still wanting a family someday but only wanting to date one person. He knows I like him, we’ve talked about it and this is still where we are at. We get along so well, but all these things (and probably more) are holding him back from stepping into relationship. idk what to do anymore.
+Rowena, at some point you just need to decide if you’re comfortable with it going on like this forever, or if you want more. And at some point, it may be worth it to walk away. Tell him either step up to the plate, or he loses you. I don’t know when that is, and I don’t know if that’s the right thing to do right now. But I do think at some point, you just need to decide what you’re worth. If you’re comfortable just being friends and losing out on the chance of a relationship with anyone else, then things can stay as they are. But if it won’t work with him, then it may be that you want to let yourself heal and then try with someone else. But you can’t make him change. You can only decide what you will and won’t put up with.
+This is such an important conversation! When I was 20 there was a guy who was 24ish and who I had only known a few weeks. I knew he had a crush on me, but I didn’t want to be in a relationship right then. My heart had been broken by a guy who had lied about who he was. Dumb lies, but still, I was following the courtship “I kissed dating goodbye” model so being friends until the courtship which would then lead right into marriage was the plan. Honestly, the point was to protect ones heart, but it was so much more painful to not know and be told not to “lead” and all that.
+So the guy that had only known me a few weeks calls my dad to ask to “court” me but tells my dad also NOT TO TELL ME! My dad never told me! So this guy who had previously been a friend and been kind was suddenly very attentive for 3 days. I thought that was weird, but he was nice and we had fun hanging out. After the three days he just cancels a plan and then avoids me. I had no idea what was going on. At one point he took me aside and told me this story about one time when he called a girls father to ask to court her and then changed his mind.
+Meanwhile, my Dad (at a distance because I was in a different city at that point for a few months) was calling and interviewing this guys friends and family and so on (because my dad thought he should be like an interviewer) — when I got back home after the 3 or so months my mom says something about how happy she is for me, but how she wasn’t supposed to tell, but she was going to say something anyway. WHAT THE HECK! It took me a bit to put the puzzle pieces and time line together. The person that guy was talking about and regretting was ME! He was weirdly attentive for 3 days because he “courted” me for 3 days and then decided against me. I was never given a choice by any of them and my heart was hurt even without me knowing what was going on because a person who I thought was a friend suddenly dumped me. Then it was painful to realize how many other people knew what was going on (as my dad had been calling around) and when I tried to set my parents straight that that guy wasn’t interested in me any more my dad said, “a young man wouldn’t call a father without being really serious. Just wait, some day he will contact you again.” I pictured what that would be like and I did NOT want that! You mean a guy who ignores me for years and can’t even be a mediocre friend will some day call up to marry me? NO thanks!!!
+The whole thing was hurtful and embarassing and hurtful again. I wish at the time that I could have felt free to follow my instincts and just ask the guy, “What is going on? Who are you walking about? Why were you nice and now being all weird?” Or even just be given the oportunity to say for myself if I wanted to court him! I would have wanted to just be friends right then. That is all. I didn’t know what I thought about him besides that he was nice and somewhat handsome and had an annoying laugh but a nice singing voice. But, gee, how painful is it to be rejected when you didn’t even know you were being considered? Like, I wasn’t even worth getting to know for more than a few days? Or whatever he saw so quickly was so off? Yet it wasn’t ever about what I might want. I was the object and the one to receive rather than someone to be considered and respected.
+Oh, wow, Lynne, what a story! You’re right. You were completely misused by everyone there. You never were given a choice. That’s really wrong. Women are people, and we should be consulted over things that affect our feelings and our future. I hope that your parents understand that now.
+Best advice is DTR from the get go, but dont take yourselves too seriously. My first relationship was done more IKDG style. The next one a LDR friendationship (she was on the greyace spectrum, which she only discovered while we were together) So yeah, we finally after several years agreed to mutually end things and are trying to stay ONLY friends, but after finding that very hard because of differing political views…
+Augustinian Theodicy
+based on two major assumptions:
+- evil didnt come from God since God's creation was faultless and perfect
+- evil having come from elsewhere, God is justified in allowing it to stay
+- Created by: Joanne Hardway
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+Augustinian theodicy
+Predestination
+- God decided that before he created the world who is to be saved and to go to Heaven, and who is not and will go to hell
+- this decision was not based on a foreknowledge of the person's future acts, but on the unfailing wisdom of God (omniscient)
+- Augustine bases this conclusion on verses in the New Testament such as 'those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his son'
+- he also thought that the number of the elect was fixed and couldnt be changed
+- CHALLENGE: suggests if God predestines some to Heaven and some to Hell, then God predestines some to sin
+- RESPONSE: humans arent predestined to sin, but have free will to choose to sin and therefore can be held morally accountable for our sins
+Augustinian theodicy
+Augustine's argument
+- God is perfect therefore he made a world free from flaws
+- God cant be blamed for creating evil since evil isnt a substance but a privitation, and it makes no sense to say that God created a privitation
+- evil comes from fallen angels and humans who chose deliberately to turn away from God
+- the possibility of evil in a created world is necessary. Only the uncreated God himself can be perfect; created things are susceptible to change
+- everybody is guilty because everyone was seminally present in the 'loins of adam'
+- therefore everyone deserved to be punished
+- natural evil is a fitting punishment and came about because the human action destroyed the natural order
+- therefore God is right not to intervene and put a stop to suffering
+- that God saves some through Christ shows he is merciful as well as just
+- Augustine's aesthetic argument proposes that despite evil, the world is wholly good when viewd in its entirety
+the problem of evil
+- the problem of evil is a challenge specifically for believers in the God of classical theism. Other religious outlooks, which accept the existence of a variety of gods of assorted character and authority, do not have the same problem since the existence of evil can be attributed to the tensions between different gods.
+The problem of evil challenges this belief and comes in two forms:
+- the logical problem of evil argues that evil makes the existence of God impossible
+- the evidential problem of evil argues that evil makes the existence of god improbable
+the logical problem of evil
+argues that the existence of evil's incompatible with the existence of God. As a result, it's logically inconsistent to accept that both exist together. this can be summarised as the following dilemma:
+- since God alone created the universe out of nothing, he has total responsibility for everything in it. If he's omnipotent, then he can do anything logically possible. This means that he could have created a world free of evil and suffering, and free from the possibility of ever going wrong. It also means that, should he have allowed them to come about, he could end all evil and suffering
+- Since god is omniscient, he has complete knowledge of everything in the universe, including E&S. he also knows how to stop it.
+- however, if god is omnibenevolent, he has complete knowledge of everything in the universe, inlcluding E&S.J.L Mackie said - 'A wholly good being eliminates evil as far as it can'. any loving being would wish to would wish to stop multiple horrors upon millions of innocent people. No all-loving God would allow his creation to suffer physical and mental torments for no reason and to no avail.
+- upon examining the qualities of omnipotence, omnibenevolence and evil, David Hume argued that only two of the three can exist, or God isnt omnibenevolent, or evil doesnt exist. existing that evil exists, he concluded that God must either be impotent or malicious. Either way, this entails the death of the God of classical theism. Hume therefore concluded that God cannot exist.
+the problem of evil is often given in the form of an inconsitent triad. Epicurus gave the following three propositions: evil and suffering exist in the world, god is all-powerful, god is all-loving. Epicurus argued that these propositions were inconsistent and thus that there could be no all-powerful, all-loving God
+can god and evil both exist?
+- Hume's position is supported by an argument found in Aquinas' summa theological, which suggests that God's existence in the face of evil is logically impossible.
+- For Aquinas the concept of infinite goodness is an essential part of God's nature any proof against God's goodness being infinite will constitue proof that God doesnt exist. The existence of even the tiniest quantity of evil precludes the possibility of infinite goodness. We are thus witnesses to the evil in our world to proof against the existence of God
+- However, Aquinas differed from Hume in that whereas Hume, as an atheist, accepted this conclusion, Aquinas went on to reject it. Despite drawing attention to the apparently insurmountable contradiction between God and evil.
+- this is possible becuase Aquinas' logical argument only works if we accept its two premises: The concept of infitnite goodness is part of the definition of god AND in talking about God's goodness, we are referring to the same thing as human goodness, and assuming that what we call evil is incompatible with the goodness of God.
+the evidential problem of evil
+- the logical problem of evil argues that the existence of the God as defined by classical theism is logically imcompatible with what is known about evil and the suffering it causes. the evidential problem of evil argues that what is known about evil and suffering is evidence (rather than proof) against the existence of God, which is therefore improbable.
+william rowe's evidential problem of evil
+Rowe bases his argument around the form of evil that he describes as the 'intense human and animal suffering' that 'occurs on a daily basis' and 'is in great plenitude in our world'. Rowe accepts that if this evil and suffering resulted in 'some greater good' that could only be achieved by its presence, then such suffering might be justified even though it would still be considered evil even if the final outcome was good. However, Rowe argues that this type of suffering is not all required for a greater good, and that it's therefore evidence against God's existence:
+- there exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse
+- an omniscient, wholly goodo being would prevent the occurance of any intense suffering it could, unless it could not do so without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse
+- therefore there does not exist an omnipotent, omniscient, wholly good being.
+Rowe considers it a valid argument that a God who is able to do anything and who is wholly good would not permit evil that's avoidable, pointless and in no way fulfils his purpose for the world. the evidence that such evil exists is therefore taken as evidence that God cannot exist.
+religious responses to problem of evil
+- typical defence against the problem of evil is that God's goodness is a very different concept from our own, and that's a temporary part of his plan his goodness might allow him to tolerate the existence of what we might consider to be evil
+- if this is the case, there is no contradiction in supposing that God is all-loving, all-powerful and has a reason for allowing what we call evil to exist.
+- a number of religious thinkers have constructed theodicies to explain what this reason might be
+- theodicies = a theodicy is a defence of the justice of God in the light of evil. Theodicies generally argue that God is fair to allow the existence of evil and suffering because they're in some way necessary
+what is a theodicy?
+- the term literally means the 'justice of God', but when applied to the problem of evil it's better to think of it as 'the justification of God'. A theodicy is seeking to explain the apparent existence of evil in the world and at the same time to retain the 3 attributes of the God of classical theism of omnipotence, omnibenevolence and omniscience
+- several theodicies have been developed to seek to resolve the problem of evil while retaining the goodness of God. these have been included considering evil and suffering as an illusion.
+the familiar theodicies are:
+- the theodicies in the augustinian tradition
+- the free will defence
+- John Hick's 'vale of soul-making' theodicy (from the Irenaean tradition)
+St Augustine of Hippo
+- converted to christianity from Manichaeism, and Gnosticism of this religion was to influence the way in which he developed his theodicy.
+- Manichaeism theology teaches that 2 opposing natures existed from the beginning: light (good) and darkness (evil)
+- augustine rejected the dualism of Manichaeism in favour of the God of classical theism, who has sovereignty over all things. however, although Augustine rejected Manichaeism, the influence on his theology can be seen in regard to the theodicy he developed to reconcile the existence of apparent evil with the god of classical theism.
+Privatio boni
+- Aug believed that God's love is imcomphrehensible and unchangeable, but it was out of this love that God created us. For Aug, God's supreme perfection and goodness. God's the source of everything which was created by God out of nothing (ex nihilo). Therefore as everything in the world was created by God then it was good and free of defects. As God created everything then evil can't be a thing. As God's creation was perfect then, at the time of creation, suffering and evil didn't exist. In fact it would be impossible for evil to exist as the world and everything in it was God's creation and as God is perfect then God only creates perfect things. Supported by reference to Genesis - 'And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good'
+- According to Aug, good is a substance whereas evil isn't. God's creation was good and according to Aug is still good: it's simply less good. There has been a privation of good (privatio boni), that is, evil is an absence of good. Aug compared this to blindness as an absence of sight.A privation is therefore a falling short of a thing's true nature. Meaning that everything considered evil must have some good in it.
+- everything in God's creation is good, but when people make the wrong choices then there is less good in the world
+Explanation for the origin of evil
+- Aug traced the origin of evil to those areas within the world that have free will; namely, angels and human beings. These beings made wrong choices. However, as evil isnt a substance they couldnt have chosen to do an evil thing. How, according to Aug, did this privation of goodness occur? What was to turn their attention away from God, the supreme Good, to things of lesser goodness.
+- The fallen angels led by Lucifer chose to rebel against God and were cast out of heaven. Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil and were cast out of the Garden of Eden. This misuse of free will unbalances the harmony of God's creation and led to the privation of the goodness in the world that we call evil
+Explanation for the existence of suffering
+- Aug went on to show that all suffering is a fully deserved consequence of the human sin. The first sin caused the world to become distanced from God. In this new and damaged environment, remote from God, moral evil flourished and spread. Moral evil occurs because of the wrong choices that humans make when they disobey God's commands. For example, people ignore God's command, 'you shall not kill' or 'you shall not commit adultery' and as a result suffering occurs when murder or adultery occur.
+- Natural evil is the consequence of moral evil as the rebellion of the fallen angels and the first humans disrupted the perfect and natural order of God's creation. The disruption has prevented God's creation from achieving its true nature. Since original sin occured, there's been enmity between humans and other creatures. Humans would have to battle constantly to grow enough food.
+- Both types of evil are interpreted as a punishment: 'All evil is either sin or the punishment for sin.' Aug made the essential point that all humans, including innocent babies, deserve to suffer because all humans were present in the 'loins of Adam'. This reflects the ancient belief that every generation was seminally present in Adam, and therefore that every generation is guilty because they inherit his guilt for disobeying God.
+The principle of plenitude
+- there appears to be much inequality and unfairness in the world. Some creatures appear to have short harsh lives whereas others live long and happy ones. However, all occurances in nature that we may regard as causing suffering to other creatures isnt natural evil according to the principle of plenitude (this asserts that everything that can happen will happen).
+- under this principle, within creation there must be the possibility of existence of every creation consistent with the nature of the world in which they're created. Aug's view's that this diversity contributes to bringing about the perfection of the whole. Only God is capable of seeing the whole perspective of all things and therefore the goodness of the whole. Only God is capable of seeing the whole perspective of all things and therefore the goodness of the whole
+Augustine's aesthetics argument
+- Aug concluded his theodicy with a reminder of God's grace: if God were simply just, everyone would go to his or her rightful punishment in Hell. Through God's grace Jesus was sent to die on the cross so that some might be saved and go to Heaven. This shows that God is merciful as well as just.
+- This strand of thought links to what is called Aug's aesthetic argument. This states that the world only appears evil when sections of it are considered in isolation from the whole. But in the context of the final judgement, when evil will be punished, wrongs will be righted and God's astonishing grace will prevail, and the totality of creation is good. Aug writes 'the universe even with its sinister aspects is perfect'
+- the problem of evil can therefore be seen as a problem of perspective. Humans by their nature have a limited perspective, judging things by their practical usefulness to themselves and other self-centred criteria. From this point of view, evil is a reality. From the perspective of God's omniscience, however, evil has no reality, for what we consider evil in fact magnifies the goodness of the whole.
+- Augustine gives the example of a scorpion's poison which is evil from its victim's point of view but not from the scorpion's point of view.
+St Aquinas' development
+- like augustine he emphasises the nature of sin as a 'privation' or 'absence of good'. He traces traces all evil back to sin and the punishment of sin, which is an essential requirement of God's justice. He is keen to point out that, although in his omniscience God knew when he created the world that sin would be committed, He didn't in any sense determine this to happen
+John Calvin's development
+human free will
+- Calvin places the blame for moral and natural evil entirely upon the shoulders of Adam who willfully chose to abuse God's gift of free will and ignore the inclination towards good with which God created him - 'Adam's choice of good and evil was free'
+predestination
+- despite his emphasis upon human free will and blame, Calvin also argues that God predestined all of this to happen . Calvin also emphasises that the original sin of Adam wasnt just foreknown but forordained or predetermined by God - 'God not only foresaw the fall of the first man...'
+done freely yet predestined?
+- Calvin is able to maintain that our actions are both determined and freely willed by adopting a particular understanding of free will, whereby a choice is freely willed as long as the agent desires it to happen, as opposed to being forced against his/her will. On this basis, Adam's sin was free because he wanted to commit it, even if it was determined that he would want to.
+- although Calvin's doctrine of predestination raises serious questions about God's justice, in that it shows that God actively willed the damnation of many people, it can be seen as a necessary consequence of the Augustinian theme that God, in His grace, chose to save some of the sinners, for this entails that he didn't choose to save the others.
+- Moreover, Augustine accepted that when God created the world, He already knew that Adam would sin and which people he would choose to save. Some argue that the fact God still went ahead with the creation shows that he determined what followed. If this is true, Calvin is only making explicit a theme that was already implicit within Augustine's original argument
+- To calvin himself, there wasnt the faintest suggestion that predestination might threaten God's goodness, for this merely demonstrated God's total power and freedom. Calvin believed that because of their faults all punishment was fully deserved by humans. As with Augustine, the fact that despite this God still elected some to grace through no merit of their own was the clearest illustration of God's surpassing goodness
+Lebniz's development
+- developed Augustine's aesthetic argument into the main focus of his theodicy
+- He argued that our world is the best possible world, in that it permits the greatest quantity and variety of beings, resulting in the 'most reality, most perfection, most significance' possible. Faced with all of the possible universes he could have created, God, being God, couldn't as Lebniz argued 'fail to act in the most perfect way, and consequently to choose the best'
+Influence on the free-will defence
+- Of all of Augustine's themes, that which has formed the basis of more theodicies than any other is his emphasis upon human free will as the cause of moral evil.
+- A number of difference developments of this theme are explained by the free-will defence - the view that human free will, and the context in which it can be meaningfully used, explain and justify the existence of evil in a world created by God. The free-will theme, for example, figured prominently in theodicies in the tradition of Irenaeus. The free-will defences can be seen therefore as a development of a theme used by Augustine
+strengths of Augustinian theodicies
+- Brian Davies supports the claim that evil cannot properly be called a sunstance and agrees that it's 'the gap between what there is and what there ought to be'. As such, we can agree with Augustine that evil isn't a created entity but a privation of good
+- Any criticism of God would need to be based along the lines that God should somehow have created more than He has - which lacks precision
+- The view of Augustine and Aquinas that evil is less goodness as the result of human free will rather than an entity created by God can also be supported by the argument that if God gives human beings genuine free will, this necessarily entails the possibility of moral evil.
+- Alvin Plantinga argues that although humans sometimes freely choose good, if God had designed them so that they would always choose good, they wouldnt be truly free. Their 'choices' would be predetermined, like the 'decisions' made by robots
+the possibility of natural evil
+- Augustine's theodicy successfully accounts for the existence of natural evil as a result of the introduction of moral evil into the world.
+- It can also be argued that if we are to have the genuine free will that Augustine assumes we have, there always needed to be the possibility of some natural evil. Without this possibility, people would have less freedom to demonstrate courage and self-sacrafice in the face of real danger
+- many would support Augustine's assumption that free will is so valuable that it justifies the risk of evil. For without free will, humans would be as puppets or robots, and their humanity would be destroyed. Most religious believers would argue that people must turn to God out of their own free choice because otherwise the whole concept of religious faith would be meaningless
+- because of its compatibility with and reliance upon the Genesis account of creation, Augustine's theodicy appeals to Christians who accept the authority of the Bible as the word of God
+strengths: heaven and hell
+- In the city of God, Augustine called the Fall 'Oh happy fault' because Adam and Eve's original sin made it necessary for God to send Jesus. Aug's theodicy is supported by the Christian belief that there will be a Judgement Day, when the good will go to Heaven and sinners will go to Hell.
+- Because evil is punished, Aug argued that God's world can still be seen as perfect in the end. Although all humans deserve the ultimate punishment of Hell, God offers forgiveness and salvation through the belief in Jesus Christ enabling all who believe in him to be saved
+- although the theme of predestination that was developed by Aug and fully articulated by Calvin causes problems, it also has its strengths. It's supported by several biblical passages including 'All the days ordained for me were written in your [God's] book before one of them came to be'.
+- Its supported by God's omniscience and avoids the suggestion that evil either took God by suprise or frustrated His plans. It leaves intact the belief that God is completely in control of everything
+- Finally, for those who consider it to be compatible with free will, it doesnt prevent God's punishment of humans from being fully deserved
+weaknesses of Augustinian theodicies
+logical errors
+- expressed by F.E.D Schleiermacher - argued there was a logical contradiction in holding that a perfectly created world has gone wrong, since this would mean that evil has created itself out of nothing, which is logically impossible. Whether or not evil is a privation of good, it's still a real feature of the world, as is the suffering that it produces. As such, evil must somehow be attributed to God. Either the world wasnt perfect to begin with or God enabled it to go wrong
+- A further logical difficulty can best be seen in Calvin's development of Aug's theodicy. This is the problem that if, as Calvin argued, humans are predestined by God, there are good grounds for saying that they cannot truly be free in the sense of being morally responsible for the Fall. In which case, it would be incoherent to appeal to the free-will defence to justify evil. This argument focuses on the relationship between free will and determinism and is considered more fully in the section on moral errors below
+weaknesses of Augustinian theodicies
+scientific errors
+these scientific difficulties stem from the Aug reliance upon the Genesis creation and Fall stories. As a result, much of the argument rests upon ancient and scientifically controversial Judaeo-Christian theology. This dependence leads to two major criticisms:
+- one prob is Aug's idea that the world was made perfect by God and then damaged by humans. This contradicts evolutionary theory, which asserts that the universe has continually been developing from an earlier stage of chaos. Essential to evolution, moreover, is the innate and selfish desire for survival. This renders the Genesis concept of blissful happiness in the Garden of Eden still less easy to accept. Yet if God's world contained flaws at the outset, God must bare responsibility for evil
+- concerns Aug's assumption that each human being was seminally present in Adam. This theory must be rejected on biological grounds, which means that we arent in fact guilty for Adam's sin. This means, of course, that God is not just in allowing us to suffer for someone else's sin
+weaknesses of Augustinian theodicies
+moral errors
+- the problem is that since everyone deserved punishment, God is arbitrarily (randomly) favouring some over others and showing irrational inconsistency. If he is able to save some, He could have saved others (being omnipotent), and the fact that he does not suggests thathe cannot be omnibenevolent
+- a further prob concerns Aug's view that God chose to create the world despite knowing that the Fall would happen. John Hick argues that this must make God ultimately responsible for evil. Given that we would hold a manufacturer responsible for knowingly making a faulty product, God must be held to account for the sinfulness of humans. It can be argued that God is far more responsible, for his omnipotence suggests that He could have found a way to avoid the fault. Aug's theodicy therefore fails in its claim that evil is the punishment we deserve, for the punishment is unwarranted.
+the free-will defence
+- one of the key themes in Aug's theodicy is the idea that evil is the result of human free will rather than God's will. This theme has been developed into a theodicy in its own right called the free-will defence (FWD).
+- the FWD argues as a starting point that free will is an essential part of humanity, without which we would be mere robots. This explains why free will is sufficiently important to be worth the risk of evil.
+- secondly it argues that genuine free will requires the genuine possibility of evil, so that if God has removed this possibility he would have to have taken away our free will. Then it argues that even the terrible extent of evil throughout history is in some way necessary to our free will, explaining why God does not simply step in and rescue us from the worst effects of our choices
+- the FWD centres on the idea that for humans to respond freely to God, without which no genuine relationship with Him would be possible, they must be able to make their own decisions and choose to love God of their own free will. This means that ultimately, humans must have the choice to do good or to commit evil. When moral evil occurs, it's because humans misused their God-given freedom. The FWD attempts to combat the prob of evil by rationalising that evil is the result of human action and therefore God isnt to be held accountable for it
+Soren Kierkegaard's support for the FWD
+- used the parable of the king and the peasant girl
+- in the outline of the parable that follows the king represents God, and the peasant girl, humanity
+- a rich king fell in love with a peasant girl. He decided to draw up a royal decree that would force her to marry him. But the king realised that if he forced her to marry him, he would never be really sure of her love.
+- then he considered that if he appeared to her in his finest clothes and showed his great wealth and power she would agree to become his wife
+- But he realised that he would never know if she had married him for his riches and power. Finally the King decided that he would go and live and work with the villagers as a peasant and seek to win the girl as his wife
+- only then, if she had fallen in love with him as himself, could he be sure that she really loved him
+Swinburne's support for free will
+- this leaves the question why God, if He is omnipotent and omniscient, could not intervene to prevent at least the most serious effects of moral evil.
+- Richard Swinburne agures that the reason why God cannot intervene to stop suffering is that this would jeoparadise human freedom and take away the need for responsibility and development.
+- Swinburne argues that God cannot intervene even when such moral evil occurs as the death of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust, as such intervention would compromise human freedom
+- If God is to give humanity freedom then God can never intervene otherwise there isnt total freedom of choice.
+- It can be argued that even though God is omnipotent, He can only do that which is logically possibe; and it wouldnt be logically possible for God to take away evil and suffering while granting us true free will
+strengths of the FWD
+- modern philosophers generally support the view that if God gives human beings genuine free will, this necessarily entails the possibility of moral evil.
+- There is support also for the view that the benefits of free will are sufficient to justify the inherent risk of evil. In addition, free will brings for christians the greatest reward of all: unity with God in Heaven.
+- The christian tradition has argued that by following the teaching and example of Jesus, it's possible to achieve God's forgiveness for sin and to form an eternal relationship with him. This can only be achieved through the individual's free choice
+weaknesses of the FWD
+- Peter Vardy notes that a major criticism of the FWD is that it fails to explain the existence of natural evil in the world. Natural evil such as floods and disease is often independent of any actions of humans and cannot be controlled by them. It is true that Swinburne has argued that natural evils like death can have a part to play in making our free will more meaningful, but William Rowe has shown that there are many examples of natural evil that dont produce any such greater good for anyone. So God isnt freed from the responsibilty of natural evil.
+- The FWD comes under fire from determinists who argue that every human choice and action is nothing more than the effect of a prior cause. This is a major threat because, if our lives are determined by events outside our control, it can be argued that our 'freedom' is an illusion anyway, and so cannot justify suffering
+Sixty-third Session (2011)
+In accordance with General Assembly resolution 65/26 of 6 December 2010, the International Law Commission held its sixty-third session at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 26 April to 3 June and 4 July to 12 August 2011 (12 weeks).
+Topics considered in 2011 (chap. II of the Report)
+Reservations to treaties (Summary | Analytical Guide)
+The Commission had before it the seventeenth report (A/CN.4/647) of the Special Rapporteur, addressing the question of the reservations dialogue, as well as addendum 1 to the seventeenth report (A/CN.4/647/Add.1), which considered the issue of assistance in the resolution of disputes concerning reservations, and also contained a draft introduction to the Guide to Practice. Furthermore, the Commission had before it the comments and observations received from Governments on the provisional version of the Guide to Practice on Reservations to Treaties, adopted by the Commission at its sixty-second session (2010) (A/CN.4/639 and Add.1). (see chap. IV)
+The Commission established a Working Group in order to proceed with the finalization of the text of the guidelines constituting the Guide to Practice, as had been envisaged at the sixty-second session (2010). The Commission also referred to the Working Group a draft recommendation or conclusions on the reservations dialogue, contained in the seventeenth report of the Special Rapporteur, and a draft recommendation on technical assistance and assistance in the settlement of disputes concerning reservations, contained in addendum 1 to the seventeenth report.
+On the basis of the recommendations of the Working Group, the Commission adopted the Guide to Practice on Reservations to Treaties which comprises an introduction, the text of the guidelines with commentaries thereto (contained in document A/66/10/Add.1), as well as an annex on the reservations dialogue. In accordance with article 23 of its Statute, the Commission recommended to the General Assembly to take note of the Guide to Practice on Reservations to Treaties and to ensure its widest possible dissemination.
+The Commission also adopted a recommendation to the General Assembly on mechanisms of assistance in relation to reservations.
+See also: Statement of the Chairman of the Working Group on Reservations to Treaties (20 May 2011, and 28 July 2011)
+Responsibility of international organizations (Summary | Analytical Guide)
+The Commission adopted, on second reading, a set of 67 draft articles, together with commentaries thereto, on the responsibility of international organizations,. V)
+In the consideration of the topic at the present session, the Commission had before it the eighth report of the Special Rapporteur (A/CN.4/640) surveying the comments made by States and international organizations on the draft articles on responsibility of international organizations adopted on first reading at the sixty-first session (2009) and making recommendations for consideration by the Commission during the second reading. The Commission also had before it the comments and observations received from Governments (A/CN.4/636 and Add.1) and international organizations (A/CN.4/637 and Add.1) on the draft articles adopted on first reading (chap. V).
+See also: Statement of the Chairman of the Drafting Committee (3 June 2011)
+Effects of armed conflicts on treaties (Summary | Analytical Guide)
+The Commission adopted, on second reading, a set of 18 draft articles and an annex (containing an indicative list of treaties the subject matter of which involves an implication that they continue in operation, in whole or in part, during armed conflict), together with commentaries thereto, on the effects of armed conflicts on treaties,.VI)
+At the present session, the Drafting Committee continued and concluded its consideration (commenced at its sixty-second session (2010)) of the second reading of the draft articles on the effects of armed conflicts on treaties.
+See also: Statement of the Chairman of the Drafting Committee (17 May 2011).
+Immunity of State officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction (Summary | Analytical Guide)
+The Commission considered the second (A/CN.4/631) and third (A/CN.4/646) reports of the Special Rapporteur. The second report reviewed and presented the substantive issues concerning and implicated by the scope of immunity of a State official from foreign criminal jurisdiction, while the third report addressed the procedural aspects, focusing, in particular on questions concerning the timing of consideration of immunity, its invocation and waiver. The debate revolved around, inter alia, issues relating to methodology, possible exceptions to immunity and questions of procedure. (see chap.VII)
+Specific issues on which comments would be of particular interest to the Commission (chap. III of the Report)
+What approach would States wish the Commission to take on this topic? Should the Commission seek to set out existing rules of international law (lex lata), or should the Commission embark on an exercise of progressive development (lex ferenda)?
+Which holders of high office in the States (Heads of State, Heads of Government, Ministers for Foreign Affairs, others) enjoy de lege lata, or should enjoy de lege ferenda, immunity ratione personae?
+What crimes are, or should be, excluded from immunity ratione personae or immunity ratione materiae?
+It would greatly assist the Commission if States could provide information on their law and practice in the field covered by the Special Rapporteur's three reports (A/CN.4/601, A/CN.4/631 and A/CN.4/646). Such information could include recent developments in the case law and legislation. Information on the procedural issues covered by the Special Rapporteur's third report (A/CN.4/646) would be particularly helpful.
+Expulsion of aliens (Summary | Analytical Guide)
+The Commission had before it addendum 2 to the sixth report (A/CN.4/625/Add.2) as well as the seventh report (A/CN.4/642) of the Special Rapporteur. The Commission also had before it comments and information received thus far from Governments (A/CN.4/604, A/CN.4/628 and Add.1). (see chap.VIII)
+Addendum 2 to the sixth report completed the consideration of the expulsion proceedings (including the implementation of the expulsion decision, appeals against the expulsion decision, the determination of the State of destination and the protection of human rights in the transit State) and also considered, including the question of diplomatic protection). Following a debate in plenary, the Commission referred seven draft articles on these issues to the Drafting Committee, as well as a draft article on "Expulsion in connection with extradition" as revised by the Special Rapporteur during the sixty-second session (2010).
+The seventh report provided an account of recent developments in relation to the topic and also proposed a restructured summary of the draft articles. The Commission referred the restructured summary of the draft articles to the Drafting Committee.
+See also: Progress report of the Chairman of the Drafting Committee (11 August 2011)
+Specific issues on which comments would be of particular interest to the Commission (chap. III of the Report)
+The Commission would like to know from States whether, in their national practice, suspensive effect is given to appeals against an expulsion decision:
+- relating to an alien lawfully in the territory;
+- relating to an alien unlawfully in the territory;
+- relating to either, irrespective of category.
+Does a State that has such a practice consider it to be required by international law?
+The Commission would also welcome the views of States on whether, as a matter of international law or otherwise, an appeal against an expulsion decision should have suspensive effect on the implementation of the decision.
+Protection of persons in the event of disasters (Summary | Analytical Guide)
+The Commission had before it the fourth report of the Special Rapporteur (A/CN.4/643 and Corr.1), dealing with the responsibility of the affected State to seek assistance where its national response capacity is exceeded, the duty of the affected State not to arbitrarily withhold its consent to external assistance, and the right to offer assistance in the international community. Following a debate in plenary, the Commission decided to refer draft articles 10 to 12, as proposed by the Special Rapporteur, to the Drafting Committee. (see chap.IX)
+The Commission provisionally adopted six draft articles, together with commentaries, including draft articles 6 to 9, which it had taken note of at its sixty-second session (2010) (A/CN.4/L.776), dealing with humanitarian principles in disaster response, human dignity, human rights and the role of the affected State, respectively, as well as draft articles 10 and 11 (A/CN.4/L.794), dealing with the duty of the affected State to seek assistance and the question of the consent of the affected State to external assistance.
+See also: Statement of the Chairman of the Drafting Committee (2 August 2011)
+Specific issues on which comments would be of particular interest to the Commission (chap. III of the Report)
+The Commission reiterates that it would welcome any information concerning the practice of States under this topic, including examples of domestic legislation. It would welcome, in particular, information and comments on specific legal and institutional problems encountered in dealing with or responding to disasters.
+The Commission has taken the view that States have a duty to cooperate with the affected State in disaster relief matters. Does this duty to cooperate include a duty on States to provide assistance when requested by the affected State?
+See also: Comments by Governments
+Obligation to extradite or prosecute (aut dedere aut judicare) (Summary | Analytical Guide)
+The Commission considered the fourth (A/CN.4/648) report of the Special Rapporteur addressing the question of sources of the obligation to extradite or prosecute, focusing on treaties and custom, and concerning which three draft articles were proposed. (see chap.X)
+Specific issues on which comments would be of particular interest to the Commission (chap. III of the Report)
+Are there, in the legislation of States or in the case law of domestic tribunals, certain crimes or categories of crimes in respect of which the obligation to extradite or prosecute has been implemented?
+If so, has a court or tribunal ever relied, in this respect, on customary international law?
+Treaties over time (Summary | Analytical Guide)
+The Commission reconstituted the Study Group on Treaties over time, which continued its work on the aspects of the topic relating to subsequent agreements and practice. The Study Group first completed its consideration of the introductory report by its Chairman on the relevant jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice and of arbitral tribunals of ad hoc jurisdiction, by examining the section of the report which addressed the question of possible modifications of a treaty by subsequent agreements and practice as well as the relation of subsequent agreements and practice to formal amendment procedures. (see chap.XI)
+The Study Group then began its consideration of the second report by its Chairman on the jurisprudence under special regimes relating to subsequent agreements and practice, by focusing on certain conclusions contained therein. In the light of the discussions, the Chairman of the Study Group reformulated the text of nine preliminary conclusions relating to a number of issues such as reliance by adjudicatory bodies on the general rule of treaty interpretation, different approaches to treaty interpretation, and various aspects concerning subsequent agreements and practice as a means of treaty interpretation.
+See also: the oral report presented by the Chairman of the Study Group on Treaties over time, Mr. Georg Nolte (8 August 2011)
+Specific issues on which comments would be of particular interest to the Commission (chap. III of the Report)
+The Commission, in its consideration of the topic "Treaties over time", attempts to clarify the practical and legal significance of “subsequent agreements” and the “subsequent practice” of the parties as a means of interpretation and application of treaties (article 31 (3) (a) and (b) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties). In this context, the Commission reminds States of its request, contained in its 2010 report, to provide it with one or more examples of “subsequent agreements” or “subsequent practice” which are or have been relevant to the interpretation and application of one or more of their treaties. The Commission would be interested, in particular, in instances of interpretation by way of subsequent agreements or subsequent practice which have not been subject to judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings.
+The Most-favoured-nation clause (Summary | Analytical Guide)
+The Commission reconstituted the Study Group on the Most-Favoured-Nation clause. The Study Group held a wide-ranging discussion, on the basis of the working paper on the Interpretation and Application of MFN Clauses in Investment Agreements and a framework of questions prepared to provide an overview of issues that may need to be considered in the context of the overall work of the Study Group, while also taking into account other developments, including recent arbitral decisions, and the Group set out a programme of work for the future. (see chap.XII)
+See also: the oral report presented by the Co-Chairman of the Study Group on the Most-Favoured-Nation clause, Mr. A. Rohan Perera (8 August 2011)
+Specific issues on which comments would be of particular interest to the Commission (chap. III of the Report)
+In order to complete its work on the Most-Favoured-Nation clause in relation to the field of investment law, the Study Group on The Most-Favoured-Nation clause plans to consider whether any use of Most-Favoured-Nation clauses in areas outside those of trade and investment law could provide it with guidance for its work. Accordingly, the Commission would appreciate being provided with examples of any recent practice or case law in relation to Most-Favoured-Nation clauses in fields other than trade and investment law.
+Cooperation with other bodies
+- The President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Hisashi Owada, addressed the Commission at its 3100th meeting on 7 July 2011, followed by an exchange of views
+- The Chair of the Committee of Legal Advisers on Public international Law (CAHDI), Ms. Edwige Belliard, and the Director of Legal Advice and Public International Law of the Council of Europe, Mr. Manuel Lezertua, addressed the Commission at its 3101st meeting, held on 8 July 2011. An exchange of views followed.
+- The representative of the Inter-American Juridical Committee, Ms. Hyacinth Lindsay, addressed the Commission at its 3108th meeting, held on 20 July 2011. An exchange of views followed.
+- The Secretary-General of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization, Mr. Rahmat Mohamad, addressed the Commission at its 3112th meeting, held on 26 July 2011. An exchange of views followed.
+Other business
+Other decisions and conclusions of the Commission
+The Commission established a Planning Group to consider its programme, procedures and working methods (chap. XIII, sect. A). As a result of the work undertaken throughout the quinquennium by the Working Group on the Long-Term Programme of Work, the Commission decided to include in its long-term programme of work the following topics: "Formation and evidence of customary international law", "Protection of the atmosphere", "Provisional application of treaties", "The fair and equitable treatment standard in international investment law", and "Protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts" (chap. XIII, sect. A.1). The Commission reconsidered its methods of work and adopted recommendations on, inter alia, Special Rapporteurs, Study Groups, the Drafting Committee, preparation of commentaries to draft articles, how to make the Commission's report more informative and the relations between the Commission and the Sixth Committee. (see chap.XIII, sect. A.2)
+The Commission continued traditional exchanges of information with the International Court of Justice, the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization, the European Committee on Legal Cooperation and the Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law of the Council of Europe, and the Inter-American Juridical Committee. Members of the Commission also held informal meetings with other bodies and associations on matters of mutual interest (chap. XIII, sect. D).
+A training seminar was held with 26 participants of different nationalities (chap. XIII, sect. H).
+Specific issues on which comments would be of particular interest to the Commission (chap. III of the Report)
+The Commission decided to include in its long-term programme of work five new topics referred to in paragraphs 365 to 367 of the current report. In the selection of these topics, the Commission was guided by the following criteria that it had agreed upon in 1998, namely that the topic (a) should reflect the needs of States in respect of the progressive development and codification of international law, (b) should be sufficiently advanced in stage in terms of State practice to permit progressive development and codification and (c) is concrete and feasible for progressive development and codification, and (d) that account should also be taken of those topics that reflect new developments in international law and pressing concerns of the international community as a whole. The Commission would welcome the views of States on these new topics.
+Other
+- The Commission held a special commemorative segment, in the memory of Paula Escarameia, during its 3081st plenary meeting on 27 April 2011.
+- The Legal Counsel of the United Nations, Ms. Patricia O'Brien, made a statement at the 3092nd meeting, held on 25 May 2011, informing the Commission of the activities of the Office of Legal Affairs and recent developments of international law in the context of the United Nations. An exchange of views followed.
+- The Gilberto Amado memorial lecture was held on 19 July 2011.
+- published: 31 May 2012
+- views: 3153
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+Now that Kasha, Ayis and I pool our income, we've bumped our family to middle-upper. I may splurge like I don't plan to live beyond 40 (that's the plan, actually), but I don't kid myself. I don't belong in the upper class stratum.
+One of the things Mama made sure my siblings and I learned is culture. How to carry ourselves in public. How to eat in sequence during buffet: salad & soup, then cold dishes, then main dishes, and finally dessert. How to appreciate and properly use the dry and wet toilet sections. How to say "excuse me". How to open doors for others and give up our seats to someone else without hesitation. The proper manners and bearings she taught us, they're not considered Malaysian culture. Our people, though undoubtedly congenial and somewhat demure, are less refined.
+One thing we never dreamed of was art-culture. My siblings and I are naturally talented in the arts, and I guess my parents are too, in their own way. However, we were never prepared to be at home among artsy people and how to behave in an artsy manner.
+Imagine my fear when I first did my public reading at Seksan. Luckily I had my whole family with me to be my strength, my safety net. But all those lovely artsy people I had interacted with online, they honestly intimidated me. I didn't feel like I belonged.
+Then again, I've never belonged anywhere, have I?
+Fast forward to this year. When I found out about the call for submission for "Readings from Readings 2", I threatened my muse to inspire me with an amazing story. I've been running dry, especially since the accident. Now, I'll be honest and admit that I'm a snob when it comes to story submissions. I know that my stories are good and publishable, so I no longer submit to non-paying markets. Getting books instead of monetary payment is not considered payment. Not to Duotrope, at any rate. My submission process is this: professional-paying markets (>USD 0.05 per word) first, then to semi-professional-paying markets (USD 0.01-0.49 per word), and lastly to token-paying markets (<USD 0.01 per word). I sometimes donate the payment back, but I like knowing my stories are good enough for paying markets.
+"Readings from Readings 2", however, did not give monetary payment, but 3 copies of the book instead. I ended up buying one at Kinokuniya as I was too excited to read all the pieces to wait for my free copies, but hey. To me, the submission was truly a "for-the-love" process. The two people in the Malaysian-English scene who have been passionately encouraging my efforts are Sharon Bakar and Amir Muhammad. So of course I will always submit my best stories to them regardless the payment.
+"Picking Up the Pieces", the second story in the book, started off as one of my Tender Moments. One thing I've learned from this is that expanding a story that has already existed is not a good idea. In the second draft, Sharon and Breanna helped me remove the whole Tender Moments piece and come up with something much stronger.
+Why am I confident it's a good story? The piece is meant to be the title story of my (intended) anthology.
+Anyway. Culture.
+On December 4 we had a KL launch event for the book at Dopple Kafe, Central Market. It was a brilliant experience, but all the artsy people still scared me witless. Last Friday, however, was the one experience I will not trade for anything else: I read an excerpt at Kinokuniya KLCC.
+I've haunted Kinokuniya since KLCC opened. It's the best bookshop in Malaysia, bar none. The collection is ginormous, and you're welcomed to sit and read the books and magazines they have to offer. I've always been a reader, but I secretly harbored a dream of joining the ranks of authors on the shelves.
+Yeah, now I have two stories at the Malaysian Literature section ("Black and Whites and Other New Short Stories from Malaysia" and "Readings from Readings 2"), but my actual dream is having a book of my own. Baby steps.
+When last Friday evening Sharon introduced me as one of the contributing writers, and I saw the recognition in some of the staff members, the euphoria was almost transcendent.
+We set up shop in front of the elevator between the "Chick Lit" and the "Fantasy" aisles. At first the audience comprised of other writers and friends, but our presence attracted book-browsers and fellow bibliophiles. Needless to say, I was a nervous wreck. All those strangers stopping by to listen. I cannot begin to describe the deluge of feelings I had at that time.
+Well, I can. It was awesomesauce. It was airwolf.
+And I felt cultured.
+The one thing I had not seen coming was the guy who came up to me after my reading stint, shook my hand, introduced himself, and said, "I love your story. It's amazing. The images it brings in my head...it's amazing."
+I was humbled. I am humbled. No monetary payment in the world can ever top that.
+Well, maybe it can, especially if said payment can help me buy an apartment in cash. But since at the moment it can't, let's not talk about it.
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+Saras Manickam (author of "Will You Let Him Drink the Wind?"--and turns out to be one of my colleague's aunt) reads Thato Ntshabele's "Asphyxia". Her own story is a beautiful little piece about a man who can never be more than a toddler and how it affects everyone around him. A definite must-read.
+Megat Ishak reads "I Can Only See You at Night". He specializes in Horror, but the piece, despite having a ghost, is really a hauntingly beautiful love story (forgive the pun).
+Ted Mahsun reads "Pak Sudin's Bicycle". We were kinda excited to have finally met each other during the book launch after years of online interaction. He's more of a geek than I am (I say it in the best of ways, Ted), but you can tell he's at home among artsy people. He's one cool guy I want to chill with & trade gaming stories.
+Eileen Lian reads "Staying Alive". The ending is not my cup of tea, but I love how she reads with confidence and character immersion.
+Chee Siew Hoong reads "Red Dates". She's one soft-spoken, humble lady, and I love how she gets into character, using "Aunty" voices for the dialogs. This story makes you think, in a good way. I don't fancy stories that end with a question, but if you want to know how to do it right, this piece is a good example.
+And this is me, reading "Picking Up the Pieces". You can definitely tell how nervous I was. Hah!
+So. I got to hang out with some of the writers, and finally met another published author, Rumaizah Abu Bakar. Her anthology, "The Female Cell", is sold at Kinokuniya. All of them (myself included) are working on a novel or two. And I do hope that our Malaysian-English scene will flourish, will prosper, and that our books are not only contained within the "Malaysian Literature" segment, but among other books of the same genre.
+My life as a doctor is vastly different from the one I live as a writer. Alhamdulillah, Allah has blessed me with both lives, and that my family and I can experience culture, be part of the wonderful artsy community.
+If you want to meet up with some of the authors, there will be another reading session at Borders The Curve on January 5. Not sure about the time, though. They are all wonderful people. I'm a snob. Then again, I'm a well-adjusted introvert, but an introvert nonetheless. So forgive my apparent inapproachability.
+Please support Malaysian-English. "Readings from Readings (1 and 2)" are sold at Kinokuniya, MPH, and Popular has ordered several hundred copies.
+This or a long-time fan, you’re sure to find something of interest here. Enjoy your stay!
+Click on the image to visit Isabella’s blog.
+Thank for for converting these wonderful books into kindle format and also free pdf’s. I just recently discovered them on Amazon and subsequently found your site. I really appreciate the lovely covers! I love Isabella Alden’s stories and have many of them either as ‘real’ books or kindle, but was delighted to find some in your collection that I couldn’t find before, it’s like finding a golden nugget! I also love Susan Warner, Agnes Giberne and Amy le Feuvre’s books.
+Isn’t our digital age great? We have instant access to so many wonderful old books! I’m glad you’re enjoying Isabella Alden’s books on Kindle. We’ll keep hunting for more of her books to post on this site and on Kindle.
+I agree! Thank you so much!
+I am so enjoying your sit; thank you for the emails with the great articles, am enjoying those on Chautauqua lately, and I was grateful you sent me a notice when a book of Isabella’s had just come out in Kindle, “A Pocket Measure.” I got it right away and I love it! A wonderful site, thank you again!!
+Mary Anne, I’m so glad you enjoy the site! Thanks for the kind words.
+i am so grateful to discovered this author Isabella alden’s books. it is the grace of God.
+Amy, thank you for taking time to comment. I agree—Isabella’s books are a blessing!
+Susan
+Thank you for providing me the blessing of reading more of my favorite inspiring much loved author.
+Karen, you are so welcome!
+Wonderful site! I appreciate your feature on Chautauqua and would like your permission to use several of your old photos/postcards for a publication on the ties between Americans and the Holy Land in the 19th century.
+Lenny, I’m glad you enjoyed the Chautauqua posts. I sent an email to you about your request to use images, using the email address you provided when you posted your comment. —Jenny
+Dear Jenny, Is there a sequel to The Hall in the Grove? I simply adored that book and would give worlds to know what became of both Paul and Caroline! I literally wept when the dainty, slightly dim-witted Aimee came into her own at kindergarten class; and loved the scenes set in the “Temple.” Cannot get enough of these Chautauqua books! Please, is there a sequel? Or are those characters featured in any other of Pansy’s wonderful books? Thanks so much and thanks a hundredfold for taking the time to maintain this site. I appreciate the work you put into it and am getting so much out of it! Blessings! Karen N, Rochester, NY (right down the road from Chautauqua!).
+Karen, I love that book, too! So far I haven’t found a sequel to The Hall in the Grove, and I don’t know of any of Isabella’s other books that mention the characters. I’ve even combed through stories in The Pansy magazine hoping that one of her short stories might have mentioned Paul or Caroline or Mrs. Fenton (she’s one of my favorite characters), but no luck. Of course, that doesn’t mean there isn’t a sequel; I just haven’t found it yet. I’m always watching out for more of Isabella’s books to share. I’ll keep you posted on any new finds. All the best to you! Jenny
+Thanks, Jenny! I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one! And yes, I did love Mrs. Fenton too! Where do you do you’re looking when you are trying to hunt down new to you Isabella books? And, I am actively doing research on the Chautauqua season for next year, looking for a place to stay so that I can make a little pilgrimage to the many sites in Pansy’s books. I’ve discovered that some of the cottages there have some very pretty accommodations, and are not outrageously expensive! Naturally, they go fast. So I’m doing everything I can to get the research together so that I can make a recommendation to Pansy’s many friends.
+I’m jealous, Karen. I’d love to go to Chautauqua and see all the places I’ve read about in Pansy’s books. —Jenny
+Jenny, what’s stopping you? I’m hoping to “cook up” a mini-Chautauqua gathering featuring YOU as a main speaker in the Hall in the Grove! Pray about it, sister! XO
+Chautauqua is definitely on my short list of places I HAVE to visit soon. Please keep us all posted on your plans, Karen. I’d love to hear about your experiences at Chautauqua and I know readers of this blog would, too. —Jenny
+Jenny, I’d love to know if you have any thoughts on why Miss Webster (crippled lady in Twenty Minutes Late) and Mr. Holden (wonderful pastor and obvious suitor to the aforementioned deeply spiritual lady in same) decided NOT to wed. I was in tears over that and wondered if Miss Webster refused him, thinking that he “deserved” a wife who could give him children (!?) or what. I’m hoping you’ll say “Well, all that is resolved in the secret sequel!”, but my guess is that it’s a Victorian thing. Any thoughts? Thanks and thanks for all you do to keep Isabella in our midst. Warmly, Karen
+The courtship of Miss Webster and Mr. Holden is one of Isabella’s untold stories we may never know the details of … but the romantic streak in me says their story would make a wonderful novel! —Jenny
+I totally agree. I sniffed romance when the characters were in the room together but wasn’t sure until Mr. Holden confessed all. Then the tears came! I just love Isabella’s heart for these sorts of interrupted love stories. Write it for us, won’t you?
+Hi! I’ve been a fan of Grace Livingston Hill since the late 60s when my mother gave me a book to read that I soon found would be a longtime favorite. I was around 10 or 12. Im now in my 60s, so don’t really remember if it was Phoebe Dean, The Best Man, or The Enchanted Barn.
+But, this last week, the story has taken an unexpected, and exciting turn.
+I was busy cleaning out some old family junk. It appeared to be box after box of paperwork and moldy junk. We did find some boxes of old pictures, and papers that looked like old contracts, deeds, and canceled checks. They seemed to be dating back to as early as the mid 1800’s. We didn’t really look through it other than to confirm that it didn’t look like any family that we recognized, but, just to be sure, we kept it to look at later.
+A few days later, we went to my brother’s home and started to look through the photos and papers. As I was going through it, I came across a handmade book, one like a student would make in school. The title said “Poems by James Whitcomb Riley”. In the lower left corner it said “by Grace Livingston at 15”. I thought little of it other than…”hmm! Another person named Grace Livingston. But MY Grace is Grace Livingston HILL!”
+As we continued through the papers, we came across a bunch of deed type papers with the name G R Alden on them. Then a LOT of papers that were signed by Isabella M Alden. The pictures had handwritten notes on them, like “Frank Hill”, and “To my Auntie Bella”.
+I decided to google who Isabella Alden was, and to my surprise (but not YOURS, I’m sure!) I had stumbled onto a collection of personal papers from Grace Livingston Hill’s family! There were even handwritten letters from Raymond MacDonald Alden concerning their property in Chatuagua.
+I thought you might be interested in news of my discovery, so decided to write. I’ll also be sending this story to the Isabella Alden Website. How exciting!!!
+Sincerely,
+Dara Rowe.
+Sent from my iPhone
+Wow, Dara, you’ve discovered a treasure box! I’m so excited for you (and a wee bit jealous)! Those photos and notes, deeds and contracts really can help tell the stories of the lives of Isabella and her family; and they’re all the more precious when they’re in their handwriting. They’re the kind of documents I’d LOVE to get my hands on!
+If you ever decide you want to share what you found with devoted fans of Isabella Alden and Grace Livingston Hill, I hope you’ll let me know. I’d be happy to get the word out if you decide to share them on social media. Also, you have an open invitation to share as many of the items as you like here on this blog. I know my blog readers would love to see them.
+Congratulations, Dara! And thank you for letting me know about your very exciting discovery!
+All the best to you,
+Jenny Berlin
+Oh, Dara! How exciting and wonderful!! I echo Jenny’s urgings for you to share them if you feel you can. Jenny is one of a few “gatekeepers” of Isabella’s legacy and I’m sure she’s delicately drooling over this find. God bless you and enjoy your discovery! Love in Christ, Karen
+“Drooling” is the right word, Karen . . . in a lady-like way, of course! I’m very excited for Dara. —Jenny
+I notice that your Free Reads are books not available on Amazon.ca’s Kindle library for purchase. Is there an e-reader I can buy in Canada for accessing these free reads, rather than just reading them on a computer screen or tablet?
+Mary, your question couldn’t be more timely! One of our goals for 2018 is to make Free Reads available in other formats besides PDF. The process is going to take a little time, but we’re working on it. In the meantime, you can read the existing Free Reads on your Kindle by loading them into your Kindle library. The easiest way to do that is to connect your Kindle to your PC or Mac via USB; just drag the file or copy/paste it to your Kindle folder. Option 2 is to e-mail the PDF to your Kindle’s e-mail address. You can find your Kindle’s e-mail address on your Kindle’s Settings page; or you can log on to Amazon and select Manage My Kindle, where you’ll find the e-mail address listed. I hope this helps in the short-term. I’ll keep you posted on our progress in publishing Free Reads in additional formats. Thanks, Mary!
+Thank you so much for your response to my question. Option 2 worked for me. I never knew I could add other files [i.e., pdf] to my basic Kindle before; I thought I might have to buy a more advanced version or a tablet, or some other wireless device for it to work when not attached to my desktop computer. Also, I haven’t checked if the very small print can be enlarged, but if not, I will have some use for my 3.25 glasses other than just sewing!
+As far as my interest in Isabella Alden’s books goes, I want to add to my library and read every book she has ever written [I have the 20 numbered paperback and some other printed editions, and all those available from Amazon.ca and your site in e-book or pdf format — just as I have in my have in my library [in printed copy] and have read [twice — and “Marcia Schuyler” several times] all 100 numbered paperback editions of Grace Livingston Hill’s books (and The Grace Livingston Hill Story) and any new ones offered in Kindle, as well as all six of Ruth Livingston Hill’s printed books. I have been a frequent visitor to the Grace Livingston Hill and Isabella Alden sites to read everything I can about these two wonderful authors and their lives. At one time I even looked up on Google the street address and house where Grace Livingston Hill lived and wished I could go and see it in person.
+I am so glad there are other people who are still interested in these books. I have no interest in modern romance novels [any written later than the books I read in my church library during my years in high school], and I very much avoid any books that have been “revised and updated for modern readers” (i.e., tampered with).
+I am thankful to God and to you and others who are not allowing these books to fade into history. I find them inspiring and just as relevant to Christian witness and experience as when they were written.
+You and I are kindred spirits, Mary! These books so special and, like you, I think they deserve to be discovered by today’s readers. I’m glad you were able to add the Free Reads to your Kindle. There are more on the way! —Jenny
+I have been so intrigued by the concept of boarding houses so common in Pansy’s books that I have gotten into starting one myself. Just like in the 1800’s, there are many people who cannot afford a house or apartment or are working in a place short term. So I have gotten into renting rooms. Much of the interesting material in her books comes from the mix of characters thrown together who would have never met otherwise, except for being in the same boarding house. I hope you will cover boarding houses and the role they played in an upcoming blog entry.
+I enjoy Isabella’s stories set in boarding houses, too, Barbara. Workers Together is one of my favorites because, as you mentioned, the characters who live at the boarding house are so diverse and really help drive the story. Thanks for your blog post suggestion; I’ll definitely put that topic on my calendar for this year! Best of luck to you with your new “boarding house” endeavor! —Jenny
+I’ve been searching for the complete Chautauqua series in paperback – and can find only a few titles here and there. Is there no money to be made printing paperbacks anymore? Is the audience just too small? How will we read books when an EMP wipes out the power grid (and even electronics)?
+You make a good point, Stuart! In general, paperbacks are expensive to publish, especially in small quantities; but since my goal is to make Isabella’s books available to as many of today’s readers as possible, I’ll definitely investigate the possibility of producing the Chautauqua series in paperback. I’ll keep you posted on my progress; and thanks for the suggestion! —Jenny
+Most of the used copies I’ve located were published by the GLH LIbrary (Grace Livingston Hill). Print On Demand B&W paperbacks sell for about $10 – twice the typical $5 cost of a traditional print run. But, they are printed one at a time! The last I checked, the setup cost for one POD title was $400. Maybe GLH Library could be persuaded to offer their Isabella Alden titles again via POD? I have no idea if the typesetting and cover designs for GLH library are convertible to what POD machines require. The typical setup has you submit a PDF.
+Thanks, Stuart! This is helpful info. —Jenny
+Divide and conquer: if someone provided PDF files ready to submit to POD providers, then other people could pay for small POD runs. Still others could provide a way to get people together for a print run. Any or none of these steps could be paid. If I am floating $1000 for a POD run, it would be reasonable to pay $50 for a ready to go PDF.
+Thanks for the suggestion, Stuart. We’ll have an update for you soon!
+After scrounging the used market for print copies of Isabella Alden, I find there are 3 categories of copies:
+1) original editions selling for $1000s
+2) GLH library editions selling for $4-$6 (list price in 1996,1997 $5.99)
+3) older editions of titles not published by GLH library selling for $20-$30
+Those titles not picked up by GLH library seem to be where Print on Demand can do the most good – maybe even make a profit, Pansy style! PoD copies will have to sell for $10-$12 for a 50% gross margin. That cannot compete with the GLH titles – BUT, that is half the cost of the $20-$30 older editions. An example is Mag and Margaret, which is a stand alone title. This is the market to aim for.
+I discovered isabella books after giving up on frivolous reading. God gave me better books to read. Barbara hammishdog1@gmail.com
+I’m so glad you found Isabella’s books . . . and this blog! Welcome, Barbara! —Jenny Berlin
+Great info, Stuart! Your research tracks with ours. We’ve been publishing paperback editions of Isabella’s books, and more are on their way! You can find paperback copies of Only Ten Cents, Reuben’s Hindrances, What They Couldn’t, and other Pansy novels on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. We’re working on getting even more books published in print format this year, so stay tuned for new announcements. Thanks, Stuart!
+I have a copy of a pansy book with a handwritten message. I would like to know if it was written by Isabella or someone else. The copy of the book was published in May 1904. The simple inscription is dated Dec. 1906, Rochester, NY. I am just very curious about it. Appreciate any help or thoughts.
+Katrina
+What an intriguing find, Katrina! Isabella was so involved in Chautauqua Institution, and Chautauqua was so close to Rochester, it does make me wonder if the inscription could be hers. In 1901 Isabella and her family moved to Palo Alto, California; after that she seldom traveled outside the state, but it is possible she could have made a trip to New York in 1906. I have an example of Isabella’s handwriting from 1880; she was 39 years old at the time, and living with her husband, son and step-daughter in Cincinnati. Here’s a link to the image of her handwriting. Hopefully, it’s clear enough for you to compare it to the inscription in the book. Please let us know if you think it’s a match! —Jenny
+Wonderful article! I love your blog. I love Isabella books.
+Thank you, Pamela! —Jenny
+What are the differences between the book and TV Series for Drummer's Storyline. "Secondary" is prefered to "High" school.. In small-town southern Ontario I always equated grade school with K-8 and called it that, sometimes elementary school. In British English "Primary" is preferred to "Elementary". I also consider Junior High to be grades 7-8 and Middle School to be grades 6-8. Der Schultyp und die damit zusammenhängende Selektionsprüfung im Alter von elf Jahren war seit einer Reform vor fünfzig Jahren durch Gesamtschulen ersetzt worden. There weren't strict grades -- the school was small enough that all the kids in a given "house" intermingled in the same classes. We have two systems, 1-6 and 7-11. It can refer to both the physical structure (buildings) and the organisation. I'm from Alabama. Grammar schools. Grammar schools are state secondary schools that select their pupils by means of an examination taken by children at age 11, known as the "11-plus". what is the difference between run and lead a campaign? I grew up in Houston, TX if that helps. Grades K-5 were elementary school, 6-8 middle school (or in some older schools in town, junior high school), grades 9-12 were high school. The Gala approaches! The question is about different school names for the same grades and which one is preferred in American or British English. I grew up on the South Side of Chicago and went to Catholic school. My educational experience in North Carolina: The first school I went to down in Florida divvied the students into "primary house" (elementary school), "intermediate house" (middle school), and "upper house" (high school). 1 decade ago. Coming from California, I say Elementary School. So everywhere I've lived in Canada it's always been elementary. I grew up in northern Virginia, went to elementary school grades 1-6, intermediate school (la-di-da) grades 7 & 8, and high school grades 9-12. I can't delete it as others have invested time and effort. Massachusetts, went to elementary school in the 1970s, always called it "elementary school", which meant grade 1 through grade 6. Do you call it Grade School, Grammar School, or Elementary School? Only heard of the grade/grammar school thing in books or on TV. Since then, I know the Michigan school system I went to restructured and now has Middle Schools (grades 6-8) and High Schools (grades 9-12). (My school was preschool-12th grade.). ‘Students are selected based on their academic potential, to identify those who are most suitable for this type of education.’ Children who either don’t apply for a grammar school place or fail to meet the necessary academic st… Private and Independent schools are schools that are not run by the state. (conversation at 2:00 PM) “Where’s John?” “He’s at school.His classes finish at 3:30.” It depends on what you are trying to say. Some other elementary schools in the same city have grades 1-8. Want to improve this question? When sixth grade was moved out of the elementary schools, and ninth grade moved into the high schools, all the former Junior High schools became Middle schools. Chicago suburbs, 1970's-- public school was "grade school", 1-8, and the private Catholic 1-8 was "grammar school". Does anyone else, after reading this thread, no longer see "school" as a word with any meaning? I've heard Grammar and Elementary schools being (Pre)K-5, but when I hear Grade school, I always think of the numbered grades (Pre)K-8. Grammar schools are also state-funded but they select their pupils using an entrance exam called the 11-plus.. Since then, 9th grade has been transferred to the high school, but I don't know what became of the terminology for 6-8. Grammar. I think the public schools in San Francisco here are K-5 and called Elementary. British Columbia. But that's how it was around where I grew up. Southwestern Ontario, I went to catholic grammer school (K-8) and catholic secondary school (9-13/OAC). But it's all district specific. They are available in some, not all, parts of England. I went to Grade School 1-6, Junior High 7-8, and High School 9-12. We didn't have middle schools where I grew up, just K-8 and 9-12 (13 once upon a time). There's no difference in the way I've ever heard them used, I regularly say both, but I probably say 'elementary school' more often than 'grade school'. grammar school Bedeutung, Definition grammar school: 1. in the UK, a school for children aged between eleven and 18 who have passed an examination 2…. I know one school district whose elementary school was K-3, middle school was Grades 4-6, with a Junior High School for grades 7 and 8. Halfway through 6th grade, I moved across town and changed districts to where elementary school was K-6, with junior high being 7th-8th grades. Oh, also in Wisconsin - Catholic "grade school" is grades 1-8. Either you had a private education at home with a parent or tutor, or a public education at a school. 1980s Wisconsin, for reference. New Jersey in the '80s and '90s (and 2000/2001): Rochester, NY area in the 1990's and still today: In the 1980s and 1990s I went to an Elementary school in Massachusetts that comprised grades K-6, and a junior high school for grades 7-9. Why the answer is elementary!!!! They take the top attaining 25% of students. In Canada, many places (except Ontario, Quebec, and probably -- but I don't know for sure -- Newfoundland-Labrador and Nunavut) use the following: I've lived in a country that uses the British system and I now live in the U.S. Tony Blair banned new grammars in … Grew up in Saskatchewan. Grammar school, in Great Britain, secondary school that offers an academic course in preparation for university entrance and for the professions. Middle Schools have been phased out in most places, but would have covered ages 9-14. From North Dakota, although I don't speak for the entirety of my state: Grade School was K - 6, Junior High was 7 - 9, High School was 10 - 12, in the 1980s. The only difference between states, and actually even in the same city, is how many grades an elementary school has. school? I grew up in Virginia and we called it elementary school. Officially, our schools had "Elementary School" (K-5) and "Intermediate School" (6-8) in their names. What is the difference between 'duality' and 'dichotomy'? In Australia, a person will generally begin secondary school when they are at the age of 12 and finish (or graduate) when they are either 16 or 18 years of age. Today in Los Angeles, my son goes to a public elementary school (sometimes even parents refer to it as 'k through 5'), he'll go to middle school for grades 6-8 and high school for 9-12. Grammar school is no better for pupils than a comprehensive. That said, in Maine in the 1980s: Coastal Central California, 1970's-1980's: My district in SE Michigan had 'junior high' schools until the late 80s. Ask MetaFilter is a question and answer site that covers nearly any question on earth, where members help each other solve problems. Why is length matching performed with the clock trace length as the target length? Public Schools (in Deutschland … Middle Schools have been phased out in most places, but would have covered ages 9-14. High school is 9-12 or 10-12. Although my parents used the terms grade/grammar/elementary school interchangeably, none of us kids ever called it anything but elementary school. Huh.I grew up in the midwest (Chicago suburbs) and went to public schools my whole life. A main school is an elementary school which is usually meant for kids in between the ages of 5 and eleven. Mit Flexionstabellen der verschiedenen Fälle und Zeiten Aussprache und … How to see encrypted field in System mode? x86-64 Assembly - Sum of multiples of 3 or 5. An elementary refers to a kind of educational institution exactly where a child studies before commencing correct school. grammar school - elementary school (Amer.) Schools is plural, like: There are many schools in the district. What is the difference between a class teacher and a form teacher? Grades 6-8 were middle school. Looks like they don'[t use the junior high label either. A primary school (in Ireland, the UK), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in US & Canada) is a school for children from about four to eleven years old, in which they receive primary or elementary education. From southeastern Virginia. Vocabulary. This was in the 80s to mid 90s for me, and what teenagers I currently interact with call it. I called it Elementary school until the Simpson's came out, I don't like the way it sounds when Skinner says Elementary school so now I call it grade school. I guess I would refer to a kindergarten that was held in the same school building as grades 1-6 as part of the "elementary school.". I think we tended to call 6th-8th grade middle school, though. posted by Sidhedevil at 4:11 PM on April 8, 2009 . Conjugation. I believe they've restructured and changed to the K-5/6-8 now though. Grammar Schools are secondary schools that are selective. Why signal stop with your left hand in the US? Hear an audio pronunciation. What is the exact difference between “stimulate” and“challenge”? Education in United States consists of three stages: Middle schools usually offer classes for students in sixth, seventh and eighth grades (some of them offer classes for ninth grade too) and prepares students for high school. Man kann sich jedoch auch zwischen Grammar School und den Independent Schools, bzw. Still have questions? Across town, Junior High was 6 - 8 and High School was 9 - 12, but they were always a little weird. Elementary school (K to 7), then high school (8 to 12). Ask MetaFilter is where thousands of life's little questions are answered. What does grammar school mean? Secondary school is the next step up from primary school.Secondary schools are often called high schools in the United States.In Britain, secondary schools may be public schools, grammar schools or comprehensive schools.. Richard H. Lv 7. By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Cookie Policy, Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Service. Grades K-5 were Elementary School. In southern Ontario in the seventies, I attended what was interchangeably grade school or elementary school, or slightly less commonly, primary school. It is no longer true that all grammar schools are State schools in England: when, for reasons too complicated to go into here, the State decided that grammar schools were a bad idea, some of those schools, such as Manchester Grammar School, for example, became independent of the State. they're different words used to describe the same institution. I know the other terms, but when I hear them they sound funny to me. I would usually consider that kindergarten is part of elementary school. English Language Learners Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for speakers of other languages learning English. I think the map mostly but not perfectly to "elementary" and "high". In British English "Primary" is preferred to "Elementary". Ages 4-11 are Primary school Certain counties, such as Kent, Essex, Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire, are well known for supporting the grammar-school system. Grammar school is a type of private school (usually Anglican and covering both primary and high school-age) in Australia and an academic-focussed high school in the UK. AFAIK, it's the same way in my area now. East Tn: K-6 elementary school, 7-8 Jr High (primarily) or middle school (occasionally), and 9-12 was high school. Lv 4. Then I moved to British Columbia and here (depending on where you are) 1-7 is elementary school, 8-10 is junior secondary, and 11-12 are senior secondary. Grades 1-8 were elementary school, 9-12 were high school. Ages 11-18 is Secondary School (with education compulsory to age 16). Why is this gcd implementation from the 80s so complicated? In year 6, (aged 10–11), children participate in an exam known as the 11+. (Late 70s-early 80s, mid-Atlantic.). Grammar schools remain extremely popular, largely thanks to their indisputable academic success. Grammar school was a term I would not have connected to my days in Mrs Abbott's class, and for what it's worth, I barely ever heard the term junior high, and never in connection with my own schooling. Typically it comes after preschool, and before secondary school. Central Ohio (switched from public to non-religious private in 7th grade), My education is semi-rural Northern California. How do I straighten my bent metal cupboard frame? Favorite Answer. These are known, in English, as elementary (sometimes primary or primaire from the French influence) and then either secondary or high school. Grammar Schools are secondary schools that are selective. They take the top attaining 25% of students. I grew up in Florida in the 80s and early 90s. rev 2020.12.18.38240, between a grammar school and an elementary school? Reams Road Elementary School. What examples are there of former Cabinet secretaries being appointed back to the same position in a future administration? Growing up in California in the 1970s, we went to preschool, elementary school, junior high school, then high school. There are around 160 grammar schools in England, none of which charges fees, plus a further 69 schools in … Data point from the Pacific Northwest: Same as kbanas. For some reason now I feel like Junior High was 6-8 and Middle School was 7-8. Relevance. Update the question so it's on-topic for English Language Learners Stack Exchange. Here are three different permutations from my hometown. Primary school is K-3 and grade school is 4-6; elementary or grammar is K-5 or K-6. The same goes for secondary, grammar and middle school. My Washington school district had, at the time, K-5 Elementary, 6-7 Middle, 8-9 Junior High, 10-12 High School. Is it counterproductive to read very long text books during an MSc program? My brother and sister went to a secondary school grades 7-12. which I think is that mandated by the state as required, and "secondary school" (9-12?) We called it "lower school". I think that "grammar" school is specifically popular with the South Side Catholic Irish Immigrant crowd, as I haven't heard anyone outside of that crowd call it Grammar school, as evident by no one else in this thread. LOL. vs. elementary school. Middle school and junior high are different: the former is 6-8 and the latter 7-8 or 7-9. Traditionally grammar school were designed for pupils who would go on to higher education (and therefore better jobs) while secondary schools … The term "public school" comes from a time when the Government didn't have schools. Montreal. Thanks for adding useful information to this post. Answer Save. What is the difference between secondary/grammar/primary/grade/etc. The only difference is that elementary school is the preferred term in American and Canadian English. However, it’s fair to say that Private Schools … Bob. Both in El Paso, Texas and in western Washington I attended Elementary School. Actually, in my district, all the sixth graders went to school in a separate building downtown because of over-crowding between elementary and middle school, but we just called that "central six.". We called it Elementary School, but Grade School was widely understood. School's is possessive, like: The school's auditorium has surprisingly good acoustics. grammar school - WordReference English dictionary, questions, discussion and forums. "Secondary" is prefered to "High" school. 6-8 were Middle School (or Junior High was also common). Stack Exchange network consists of 176 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. Definition of grammar school in the Definitions.net dictionary. In Michigan, intermediate school was grades 7-9 and high school school was grades 10-12. @J.R. Ms. Quizicalcoatl (also from the South) followed the same formula. 9-12 were High School. In the Cayman Islands, primary school is grades 1-6, and high school is grades 7-12. I grew up in the southeast calling 1-6 grades elementary school, grades 7 and 8 junior high or middle school, depending on my mood, and grades 9-12 high school. [closed]. Join 6,466 readers in helping fund MetaFilter. Do studs in wooden buildings eventually get replaced as they lose their structural capacity? I'm deleting the question as I don't know what else I can do to improve it. Same thing. The test typically consists of numerical reasoning (maths), verbal reasoning, English comprehension, punctuation and grammar, non-verbal reasoning and creative writing. We also called it middle school for the same reason, although I've heard people use junior high on occasion. I'm not sure if grammar school term exists at all, but that's what I got from a translator. Grew up in the '80s in the Bay Area 'burbs. high school. Compare and contrast the definitions and Spanish translations of high school and elementary school on SpanishDict, the world's most accurate Spanish-English reference website. Ironically, many Grammar Schools try to model themselves on old fashioned Private Schools with a focus on uniform, discipline and structure whereas some Private Schools have become more relaxed and inclusive of late. I went to publc grade school in the early 1990s in Texas. Gymnasium, lycee, lyceum, middle school, secondary school - a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12 2. grammar school - a school for young children; usually the first 6 or 8 grades I went to elementary school in the late 80s and early 90s. In most areas, state grammar schools have been phased out. Grammar School would be understood, but a little old-fashioned. 0 0. I grew up in central Indiana and called it grade school (K-5), Junior High (6-8) and High School (9-12). About 160 grammar schools escaped the axe and survive to this day, and some counties, such as Kent, still maintain a grammar school system. In the US, what kind of lawyer represents the government in court? Probably because it was in the name of the school, ex. But I've upvoted your summary, which covers the general case pretty well. The elementary school I went to has grades 1-6. Worth noting that some school districts might vary from this a little bit. Information and translations of grammar school in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web. Meaning of grammar school. Learn more details and find out ways to participate. Mit Hilfe von mehr als 1430 Grammatik und Vokabeln Übungen und Englischarbeiten bereite ich Ihr Kind sorgfältig auf aktuelle und zukünftige Unterrichtsinhalte vor, von denen ein Großteil (ca. Right, forgot Primary School. Right, there is also "primary school" (1-8?) 1 decade ago. How to stop procratinating on the internet. Translation. Everyone I know called K-8 Grammar School. I went to Catholic school in Chicago for grades 1-8 and everyone I know who went to any Catholic school calls it grammar school. California if you are counting regions. My husband attended public elementary school (k-5), middle school (6-8) and public high school (9-13/OAC). All posts copyright their original authors. Sarah Cassidy. Midwest, specifically Central Illinois in the 1990s/2000s--elementary school was K-5 & junior high was 6-8 in one school district. "Grammar school" wasn't something I encountered outside of its UK/Commonwealth meaning. Premium. It only takes a minute to sign up. 0 0. miketorse2. ... Gymnasium oder Realschule - grammar school or secondary school: Last post 29 Jul 09, 10:39: ich suche die korrekte Übersetzung dieser beiden Wörter in american English! 0 0. In New Jersey, we went from elementary school, to Middle School, to High School. As a kid, I understood "grade school" to be synonymous with "elementary school." Log in Sign up. Primary school and elementary school are the same. My kids were born and are being raised in Southwestern Ohio and it's Preschool (usually starting around age 3 but there are preschools that start at age 2), Elementary School (k-6), Middle School (7-8) and High School (9-12). Oh, yes, I went to a private kindergarten, because I am old and there was no public kindergarten in my town then. Englisch Lernen hat noch nie so viel Spaß gemacht ;-)- "school-english.de" - Englisch lernen mit Spaß und Erfolg! Advanced English Grammar Course We actually use both in school and at school, for slightly different situations.. At school means the person is literally, physically, inside the school. Primary school in Australia and the UK. Grammar school definition is - a secondary school emphasizing Latin and Greek in preparation for college. Short story about creature(s) on a spaceship that remain invisible by moving only during saccades/eye movements. I think it's possible that this is as much about when you went to school as where. What is the difference in meaning between output and result? What is the origin of the terms used for 5e plate-based armors? 1 decade ago. 3 Answers. site design / logo © 2020 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under cc by-sa. I've heard Grammar and Elementary schools being (Pre)K-5, but when I hear Grade school, I always think of the numbered grades (Pre)K-8. All Free. But K was definitely part of grade/elementary/grammar/primary school, which was usually K-5. Englisch-Deutsch-Übersetzungen für grammar school im Online-Wörterbuch dict.cc (Deutschwörterbuch). Hear an audio pronunciation. Im Vereinigten Königreich von Großbritannien und Nordirland besuchen die meisten Schüler, welche die Elementary School (vergleichbar der deutschen Grundschule) abgeschlossen haben, die sogenannte Comprehensive School (vergleichbar der deutschen Gesamtschule). Lernen Sie die Übersetzung für 'grammar school' in LEOs Englisch ⇔ Deutsch Wörterbuch. All three of yours, plus Primary School, are synonyms as far as I'm concerned. 14 Replies: Rats- und Lateinschule - council and grammar school: Last post 12 Dec 12, 17:38 : Ist diese Übersetzung korrekt? If you're interested in regional information, this is from Michigan. Comprehensive schools are secondary schools that do not select on ability. It usually covers kids in between two and 5 many years of age. Education in United Kingdom consists of two phases: Secondary schools refer to high schools and prep schools. Public schools are a type of traditional Independent school, this differs from American use where "Public School" means the same as "State School". Elementary school was grades 1-6 (6 yrs - 12 yrs) and middle school was grades 7-8. There are some minor differences between primary, grade and elementary school, but let's forget them. Certainly, when it comes to results at GCSE and A-Level the gap between Grammar and Private Schools has narrowed. Never heard that called "elementary" or "grammar" school. ‘Grammar schools are defined by their pursuit of academic excellence, traditional teaching methods and ethos of strict discipline,’ explains Bob McCartney, chair of the National Grammar Schools Association. So the next town over might have some differing configuration, usually in the Junior High/Middle School area. Nothing. Students usually begin attendance at age 12. Yeah, to me some of the terms are interchangeable and some aren't. 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+Overview of the year
+PSAA is an appointing person for principal local government and police bodies for audits from 2018/19, specified by the Secretary of State in July 2016 under the provisions of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 and the Local Audit (Appointing Person Regulations 2015. PSAA is responsible for appointing auditors and setting scales of fees for relevant principal authorities that have chosen to opt into its national scheme, overseeing issues of auditor independence and monitoring compliance by the auditor with the contracts we enter into with the audit firms.
+2020/21 was the second year of the current appointing period during which PSAA was responsible for audits carried out in 478 opted-in bodies (98% of eligible bodies). During this financial year, the audits in respect of 2019/20 were performed in a challenging context which included the COVID-19 pandemic.
+Local audit market landscape
+A number of high-profile corporate failures in the private sector have led to significant government and public concern about the role of the auditor and have created instability in the wider audit market. As a result, the government commissioned reviews into different aspects of audit, led by Sir John Kingman, the Competition & Markets Authority and Sir Donald Brydon. This has led to consequences for local audit, with a change in emphasis of audit work and a significant increase in audit quality requirements set by regulators. As a result, audits are taking longer, auditors are applying greater scepticism and audits are requiring more resource and a different mix of skills. These factors were not envisaged when audit firms submitted tenders during the 2017 procurement, and this is leading to a significant level of additional audit fees being proposed as managed through our fee variations process.
+The global pandemic has had wide reaching implications for the delivery of the 2019/20 audits, impacting both finance and audit teams. Remote working brings practical challenges in terms of the efficiency and effectiveness of interaction between auditors and opted-in body staff, training/coaching members of the audit team and audit completion tasks. In terms of the financial statements, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has highlighted that the timing of the pandemic results in auditors needing to consider the potential impact on matters such as asset valuation, debt recoverability and going concern (financial resilience being particularly relevant to local audit). Auditors have also needed to assess the requirement for additional Post Balance Sheet Event disclosures and amendments to the audit opinion. A further factor is the personal toll on both finance and audit teams – through sickness as well as shielding and personal responses to lockdown – which reduce the resilience and capacity of the financial reporting supply chain.
+We will continue to monitor the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic including its impact on fees and signing of audit opinions.
+Review of Local Authority Financial Reporting and Audit
+In September 2020 Sir Tony Redmond’s review of local authority financial reporting and external audit was published. The report highlighted the significant challenges and turbulence within the new system of local audit, emphasising that at present local government audit is under-resourced, undervalued and is not having impact in the right areas. The report made a number of recommendations in relation to external audit regulation, smaller authorities audit regulation, financial resilience of local authorities and transparency of financial reporting.
+In December 2020, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government – MHCLG delivered its response to the Redmond Review setting out proposed actions to implement the majority of the recommendations made in the report. This was followed by a further announcement in May 2021 which responded to the options for systems leadership with the proposal to strengthen the Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority (ARGA) -– the new regulator being established to replace the FRC – with new powers in relation to local government audit, protecting public funds and ensuring councils are best serving taxpayers. Furthermore, it is proposed that the new regulator will contain a dedicated local audit unit which will bring all regulatory functions into one place, to better coordinate a new, simplified local audit framework.
+MHCLG confirmed that PSAA would remain responsible and accountable for the appointment of auditors and setting scales of fees for relevant principal authorities that have chosen to opt into its national scheme, as specified by the Secretary of State for Housing Communities and Local Government under the provisions of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 and the Local Audit (Appointing Person) Regulations 2015. This is based on MHCLG’s view that PSAA is the organisation best placed to act as the appointing body, including overseeing the next procurement, due to its strong technical expertise and the proactive work that has been performed to help identify improvements that can be made to the process. This will also help to provide continuity, given the proximity of the next procurement exercise.
+As MHCLG takes forward and refines its proposals in response to the Redmond Review, the next few years are likely to continue to be significantly challenging for the world of local audit and for stakeholders, PSAA included, in the system.
+Completion of 2018/19 and 2019/20 audits
+Last year, we reported that for 2018/19, audit opinions had not been given at 40% (208 of our opted-in bodies) at the target publishing. Subsequent sign-off has been gradual rather than rapid and as at 31 March 2021 there were still 19 opinions outstanding from 2018/19.
+Disappointingly, the position has deteriorated in relation to 2019/20 audits as audit teams have struggled with the lack of capacity to address the previous year’s backlog as well as dealing with the impact of COVID-19 on the audit work required. In respect of the 2019/20 audits, 55% (264 out of 478) of the audit opinions were not issued by the revised target date of 30 November 2020. By 31 March 2021, this total had reduced to 116 outstanding audit opinions (24%).
+This increase in delayed opinions is a significant concern and we recognise the inconvenience and disruption it causes. The COVID-19 pandemic has added a further layer of difficulty to these challenges and has impacted the speed with which some delayed 2018/19 audits can be completed. It has also had implications for the conduct of 2019/20 audits as local authority resources are reduced through enforced absence or prioritised to support delivery of frontline services.
+Audit market sustainability
+It is critically important that the market remains competitive and sustainable for the long term. Throughout the year we have maintained a strong focus on planning for the future including striving to strengthen the resilience and sustainability of local audit arrangements. We welcome the fact that the Redmond Review has served to raise awareness of these challenges.
+Much of our work, including commissioning independent research and working collaboratively with other stakeholders including the Redmond Review, has been directed to support market sustainability. At the beginning of 2020, we commissioned a particularly important project exploring the sustainability of the local audit market to gain a more in-depth understanding of potential challenges. This included capturing the views of actual and potential audit providers concerning the attractiveness of the market relative to auditing in other sectors of the economy and the possible features of a future procurement which would influence decision making about future participation in the market.
+The report PSAA Future Procurement and Market Supply Options Review highlighted that sustainability of audit supply is likely to be a major challenge and identified a number of distinctive challenges in the local audit market. In particular it highlighted the unprecedented scrutiny and significant regulatory pressure on the auditing profession; the challenges of a demanding timetable which (prior to recent adjustments) expected publication of audited accounts by 31 July each year; and the impact of austerity on local public bodies and its effect on both the complexity of the issues auditors face and the capacity of local finance teams. The report was shared widely as this is an area where we need to work with key stakeholders to address issues which are not within our singular control.
+The findings have helped to inform our work around developing our procurement strategy and our consideration of a further procurement exercise designed to access additional auditor resources. In the event we decided not to proceed because of the continuing uncertainties facing audit firms following Redmond and the other government commissioned reports from the CMA, Kingman and Brydon.
+The report is also mentioned in the Public Accounts Committee Report entitled “Local auditor reporting on local government in England” published on 14 July where a full section is devoted to stabilising the local authority audit market.
+Linked to our work on market sustainability, we commissioned a review of scale fees focusing on gathering and analysing data on audit risks and costs to gain a more in-depth understanding about the current level of scale fees and to explore the changes in audit requirements over the past two years. The results will inform our approach to the next procurement and have provided the Board with invaluable insights into the current position.
+Setting audit fees
+All of the pressures and challenges outlined have added significant complexity and practical difficulty for PSAA in setting audit fee scales. The regulations currently require that the fee scale must be set before the start of the financial year. A significant proportion of audit work is undertaken after the end of the relevant financial year, making it impossible for PSAA to set a realistic fee scale with the benefit of up-to-date information on the outcome of the audits for the preceding year. Increased regulatory scrutiny and new audit requirements have meant that additional audit work, the extent of which is not known at the time the fee scale must be set, has ultimately been necessary at most audits. The regulations require that such additional audit fees are approved retrospectively once the work has been undertaken. Helpfully, MHCLG is consulting on a number of proposed changes to the regulations, to allow for updating of audit fee scales in a more timely way.
+We consulted in November 2020 on changes to our fee variations arrangements, with the aim of reducing, if possible, the volume of local discussions about fee variations. We proposed a new approach to apply in the case of national fee variations, where changes in audit requirements relate to the conduct of all or most audits and where a standard additional fee could reasonably be estimated across groupings of bodies. The consultation also set out a proposed increase in the fee rates for additional work.
+The response to the consultation was positive, with significant support for the proposal to introduce national fee variations where appropriate for some new audit requirements and a significant majority in support of the fee variation rate card increase. We have resolved to implement the proposed changes and will consider possible national fee variations when the consultation on relevant regulations, referred to above, is concluded.
+A programme of research is under way to consider the likely impact on audit work and fees of some expected changes in audit requirements, such as the new NAO Code of Audit Practice and some new or revised auditing and financial reporting requirements. We will consult opted-in bodies and other stakeholders on proposals where we identify changes for which a national approach would be appropriate.
+We consulted in January and February 2021 on the proposed fee scale for 2021/22 and set the fee scale in March as required under current regulations. We received a good response to the 2021/22 fee scale consultation, with support for the proposal to build into the fee scale the ongoing elements of the additional fees determined for 2018/19 audits. While there was a wide range of views reflected in consultation responses, most stakeholders accept that audit fees must rise in response to the evolving local audit environment/market.
+Monitoring our contracts and the quality of audit services
+We published our first Annual Quality Monitoring Report under the appointing person arrangements, covering the work of local auditors appointed by us for the 2018/19 financial year and providing a rounded, well-informed view of performance and quality for each supplier. The report included the results of our first client survey on the quality of audit services and the outcome of the regulators’ reports (FRC and ICAEW) on the quality of local audit work.
+The FRC reported that only 62% of the financial statement audit reviews they completed met their expectations and were assessed as requiring no more than limited improvements. The FRC’s sample is of higher risk major local audits and included NHS and other bodies not in the PSAA contract. Nevertheless, we were disappointed by this result. In contrast, the ICAEW reported that 91% of the financial statement reviews they completed of non-major local audits met the required standard. All VFM arrangements work inspected by both regulators was assessed as meeting the required standards. We have discussed with the firms their plans to address the matters raised by the professional regulators.
+Helpfully, in recognition of the unprecedented challenges on local audit, MHCLG adjusted the target date for publication of 2019/20 audited accounts to 30 November 2020. For the subsequent two audit years, 2020/21 and 2021/22, the Accounts and Audit (Amendment) Regulations 2021 have revised the target date for publication to 30 September.
+The second appointing period
+Following the government’s confirmation that PSAA will continue as the appointing body for local audit, we have continued preparations for the next appointing period which is due to commence on 1 April 2023. We are working on developing our procurement strategy and approach in key areas such as procurement route, lot structure, evaluation ratios, basis for bid pricing and social value. The next procurement exercise will include strong focus on audit quality and market development, to support the long-term competitiveness and sustainability of the market.
+Given the current local audit landscape, the early indications are that devising a successful procurement strategy will be more complex and challenging than for the 2017 procurement.
+Looking ahead
+With the government’s expected response to the various audit-related reviews and the consultation on its proposals in response to the Redmond Review, we are likely to continue to face an uncertain operating environment over the medium term. We will continue to closely monitor the local audit landscape and work hard to understand the potential implications of any change for opted-in bodies, audit suppliers, key stakeholders and ourselves. We have worked closely with MHCLG, prior to and since publication of its response to Redmond and we will fully engage with activities that support the design and development of the new arrangements. It is critically important that the market remains competitive and sustainable for the long term.
+A significant focus over the next two years will be to prepare for the next appointing period. We will work closely with MHCLG and other stakeholders to determine the timing of and to develop proposals for the next main procurement, including our approach to fees and auditor appointments.
+PSAA Board
+We were delighted to congratulate Caroline Gardner, a founding member of our Board, who was awarded a CBE for her services to the Scottish public sector in the 2021 New Year’s Honours List.
+As a result of our process for Board succession planning and rotation, we said farewell to Clive Grace, a founding member of our Board. We thank Clive for his invaluable contribution to help establish PSAA and develop our role and arrangements as the appointing person.
+In April 2021 Marta Phillips OBE was appointed as a Board member and director of PSAA to succeed Clive. We welcome Marta to the Board. We are also pleased to welcome Alan Edwards to Marta’s former role as the independent member of the PSAA audit committee.
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+It turned out that there is no connection, of course, apart from the fact that, like “kapo” – a term used to refer to a concentration camp prisoner who was assigned by the SS to supervise forced labor and carry out other tasks – “Judenrat” is a pejorative that alludes to negative, faulty, immoral behavior. In Dr. Brot’s view, the graffiti vividly reflects public discourse in Israel concerning the complex phenomenon of Jewish collaboration with the Nazis.
+“There is no doubt in my mind that if he were asked, the person who wrote the graffiti would not even be able to explain what a ‘Judenrat’ was, but he does know that it’s a derogatory word,” she says.
+Examples are not lacking outside the realm of sports, too. Libel suits are still being filed in Israeli courts over the use of terms such as “Judenrat” or “kapo” as insults. Often, in confrontations between civilians and police or soldiers, these and similar epithets are hurled at the agents of law enforcement. Politicians and public figures are also sometimes the targets of taunts drawing on that lexicon.
+Brot, who has studied the highly charged, delicate and fraught encounter between the Holocaust and the law, has devoted the past several years to a pioneering study of the way the Jewish judicial system in DP camps in Germany and later in Israel (after it was established) has addressed the issue of Jewish cooperation/collaboration with the Germans in World War II.
+“Despite the passage of time, these terms continue to be used as derogatory terms, especially by people who don’t know the slightest thing about their origin,” notes Brot, who herself is the daughter of a mother who was the sole survivor in her Dutch-Jewish family following the Holocaust. (“The subject has always been with me,” she says, “even if its presence was generally silent, as my mother was one of those who didn’t talk about it.”) “Some people make dangerous use of simplistic analogies, based on historical ignorance, for political reasons. What remains of this sensitive, conflicted and complex issue is superficial images and stereotypes.”
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+“In the Gray Zone” opens with an account of a lynching perpetrated by Jews against other Jews immediately after the war, continues with a survey of the trials conducted by Jews against Jews in the displaced persons camps of occupied Germany, and concludes with the “kapo trials” held in Israel from the 1950s through the 1970s.
+This chapter in the history of the Jewish people – both the collaboration with the Nazis and the trials that followed – has been almost completely forgotten. And not by chance, you argue.
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+Brot: “The collective memory and its expression in the public dialogue are wrought by people. Israeli society, which emerged from a difficult struggle that claimed many lives – the War of Independence – strengthened itself with the aid of heroic tales of wars of the few against the many. Accordingly, one can understand the choice at that time either to castigate or ignore the Jewish kapos, who represented a moral breakdown, a loss of values, physical assaults on other Jews, betrayal or informing on others. They were perceived by the public – survivors and sabras alike – as representing the destructive and immoral aspect of the German occupation. These were not the materials from which stories of nation-building could be forged. But what was the case back then, is no longer the case today. The problem is that it’s very difficult to alter such images and representations; an ongoing effort is required, especially in education.”
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+In the course of her comprehensive study, she acquainted herself with the singular approach to the issue taken by Jewish tribunals in both the DP camps and later in Israel, and which employed extraordinary terminology such as “complex victims” and “gray zone.” The latter was coined by Primo Levi, the Italian writer and Holocaust survivor.
+Brot: “He was characterizing the space between the victims and the criminals, a space in which the boundaries between good and evil and the distinctions between victim and victimizer are blurred, a space fraught with moral dilemmas that do not admit of absolute answers – as the ‘gray zone.’”
+It’s in this “gray zone” that the “complex victims” live and act: individuals who are at one and the same time victims and victimizers. “The reality of the mass atrocities and the prolonged rule of terror blurred the boundary between victim and perpetrator,” she observes, “and thereby created a distinctive type of victim. These were ‘complex victims,’ which means individuals who were victims of a system of oppression and violence but at the same time harmed other victims.”
+Criminal law has trouble dealing with people like this, because they don’t fit the guilty/innocent dichotomy.
+“From the legal perspective, the difficulty involved is dramatic. The law is hard put to cope with the intricacy of a situation in which victim faces victim, and which departs from the simple binary structure of innocent victims and criminal perpetrators. It is difficult for the judicial system to address the figure of the complex victim, who is not absolute evil but also not absolute good. In other words, these are imperfect victims: It is no easy task to exercise regular judgment in regard to such an irregular situation. The law, with its binary thrust – either guilty or innocent – must reach a decision, but is hard-pressed to pass judgment in cases that are not amenable to an unequivocal decision. And that is precisely the character of the collaboration phenomenon: It arouses moral dilemmas that are far from being resolved.”
+When considering Jewish collaborators with the Germans, it’s necessary to draw a distinction between different echelons, institutions, periods and places. The Judenrat – aka Jewish Council/Council of Elders – was the institution that managed and was responsible for life in the ghetto and for executing the Germans’ orders. In most of the ghettos there was also a “Jewish Order Service” (usually referred to as the “Jewish Police”), which was the council’s executive arm. This body was authorized to use force to carry out the directives of the Judenrat, which were in effect the orders of the Nazis. Lowest in the collaboration pecking order were the functionaries in the camps, among them “camp elder,” “kapo” and “barracks elder.”
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+Although the writer of the anti-Maccabi Tel Aviv graffiti used the term “Judenrat” in a negative sense, as an insult, research on this subject has actually undergone a substantive shift of approach in recent decades. Such leading Israeli historians as Yechiam Weitz, Hanna Yablonka, Gideon Greif and Tom Segev, have dealt with this subject from various platforms. In 2015, journalist Itamar Levin put the issue back on the agenda by publishing a remarkable book, “Kapo on Allenby,” about Jews who were tried in Israel for abetting the Nazis.
+The current approach is not to generalize about “Judenrats” but to focus on the Judenrat in a specific ghetto. As Brot describes, “There are as many different Judenrats as there are forms of human behavior in times of occupation, terror and annihilation. The vast majority of the actors in this story were people like you and me. They were not ministering angels but neither were they the devil incarnate. They were ordinary people who were caught up in extraordinary circumstances and in the most inhuman conditions one can imagine.”
+Under such conditions, she adds, “a person wants to survive, a person wants to live, and the question is how a society that is trying to cope with its past – in this case, Israeli society with the Holocaust – apprehends and perceives collaboration in extreme conditions. Is that society capable of grasping collaboration as a means of survival? In the first decades of Israel’s existence, that was incomprehensible. Survival without any signs of taking up arms or physical rebellion was not considered worthy survival. I’m not certain this approach has changed – maybe it has been modified.”
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+The court reserved a separate charge for the cruelest of those on trial: They were declared 'traitors to the Jewish people,' the gravest opprobrium for a Jew.
+“A minority of them – and I emphasize, a minority of them – were cruel. They were the exceptions. The people who were inordinately cruel were a minority of a minority.”
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+“The phenomenon existed in every ghetto and in every camp in different periods and on different scales. Neither the occupier nor the occupied can exist without a connecting element between them, and those are the collaborators. Collaborators operate in the space between the occupier and the occupied, and constitute the link between the two sides.”
+You write that Jewish collaboration with the Germans was an “unprecedented phenomenon” and that no other issue stirred such emotional turmoil among Jews during – and following – the Holocaust. Why is this – after all, every human society displays a broad range of individual behavior?
+“Over the centuries, cooperation between Jews and those who ruled them, or the countries they lived in, was one of the foundations of the community’s existence, enabling them to maintain an autonomous way of life. But collaboration during the Holocaust is a completely different story, because it occurred in the context of a murderous regime whose goal was to eradicate the Jews.”
+Legal proceedings conducted by Jews against Jewish collaborators were instituted immediately after the war’s conclusion. They were held in DP camps in the American zone of occupied Germany. While researching them, Brot also found a family connection. In the summer of 1945, before Zerach Warthaftig – who would later become a lawyer, a member of Knesset and minister in several Israeli governments – set out as an emissary for world Jewry to the DP camps, he sought the blessing of her grandfather, Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Brot, a Torah authority and moral beacon for the young generation in the Mizrachi (national-religious) movement. “Our first duty and action, now that the war is over, must be the seizure of the 200 Jewish collaborators with the Nazis or their henchmen in the forced-labor camps, and to try them with the full rigor of the law,” Rabbi Brot told Warhaftig.
+In the absence of a state or of criminal-justice institutions, Jews in some DP camps established special “rehabilitation commissions,” courts of a sort, to deal with the collaborators among them. These courts tried defendants on just one charge: having perpetrated “harmful actions against the Jewish people.”
+Says Brot, “The collaborators’ behavior was viewed as an offense against the Jewish people, not against any individual person. These were trials of social-national purification, intended to demarcate anew the social and moral boundaries of the Jewish nation.”
+On the basis of the testimonies they heard, the judges tried to formulate a kind of scale of behavior, to distinguish between actions by a ghetto policeman, block leader in a concentration camp or a kapo that constituted “harmful action against the Jewish people” – and behavior constituting an action that was not unacceptable. Among other cases, they dealt with the behavior of senior figures in the Jewish police who took part in rounding up the Jews in ghettos, so the Germans could carry out their “selections”; with the behavior of a block leader in a camp while waking up prisoners or during food distribution; and with the way a kapo treated the Jewish prisoners who worked in his group.
+Brot: “The testimonies raised troubling questions about the behavior of Jews toward other Jews – all of them victims.”
+One of the accused who faced trial by such a commission, Brot learned during her research, was Dawid Najman, from the Polish town of Ostrowiec, who was a member of the Jewish police in the local ghetto. The proceedings involving him revolved around a German Aktion in January 1943. The charge against Najman was that his actions enabled the Germans to discover the hiding place of a group of Jews, as a result of which 20 of them were shot by the S.S. The punishment: Najman was banned from taking part in local Jewish community life and from holding office in any Jewish institution.
+Chaim Aleksandrowicz, a policeman in the Kovno (today Kaunas) ghetto, was convicted of beating Jews and forcing the sick to work. As punishment, he was prohibited from taking part in public activity. Yaakov Lieberman, also from Lithuania, was accused of having reduced the bread ration allotted to prisoners when he was in charge of the kitchen at the Kaufering concentration camp in Germany. He too was banned from participating in public activity. “The surviving remnant and the Jewish people must spared the pleasure of being led by ‘Fuehrers’ of this sort,” the judges wrote.
+Dawid Honigman, a Jewish policeman in a labor camp near Dachau, was tried for beating prisoners who asked for soup, and convicted of committing “harmful actions to the Jewish people.” The judgment stated, in part, “The Rehabilitation Commission took into account the fact that the accused was an average sort of policeman and not a clear killer, and meted out a moderate punishment, in order to give him an opportunity to reintegrate himself in a better way into the Jewish society.”
+Brot says that such rulings are to the credit of this unusual judicial system: The Jews who served in it were, in some cases, survivors of ghettos and camps themselves. They were well acquainted, sometimes personally, with the issue on which they were passing judgment. As such, they were able to differentiate, distinguish and classify types of behavior in the war. In a “regular” legal system, this could well have disqualified them from serving, but like the Holocaust itself, adjudication in such cases was also not regular in any sense.
+Worst-case ‘traitors’
+The court reserved a separate charge for the cruelest of those on trial: They were declared “traitors to the Jewish people,” the gravest opprobrium for a Jew. One such accused, Ruchela Bursztajn, was a kapo in the Stutthof camp, near Danzig. According to Brot, She was accused of frequently beating female Jewish prisoners, handing them over to the German murderers for stealing potatoes and of turning a dog loose on female prisoners on the day the retreating Germans evacuated the camp, in order to spur the inmates to move faster. She was convicted in November 1948 by the Jewish court in a DP camp, and declared a “traitor to the Jewish people.” On appeal, her sentence was reduced and that mark of Cain was erased.
+'Jewish collaboration was a typical product of the German regime of murder, which turned its victims into an instrument of their own annihilation.'
+Norbert Yulis, who held a senior post in the Czestochowa concentration camp, was convicted of displaying cruel and extreme behavior toward the prisoners. In 1949, the judges declared him to be a traitor to the Jewish people and added, explicitly, that as such he was deemed no longer to belong to that people.
+Legal proceedings against Jewish collaborators in the war resumed several years after Israel’s establishment, and were based on a specific statute: the Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law, enacted by the Knesset in 1950. Despite its name, the law was actually worded for use in trials against Jews, not Nazi criminals. It constituted retroactive and extraterritorial legislation – assuming the authority to punish for deeds committed prior to its enactment and in foreign territory.
+“It was a departure from the basic principles of criminal law of ‘no punishment without prior warning,’” Brot explains, “in cases when the law of a state is applied to the territory within its boundaries.”
+Under the 1950 law, dozens of criminal trials were conducted against Israeli Jews over the course of the next 25 years, approximately. Some of the accused were sentenced to prison terms, one was condemned to death, though his punishment was later reduced. Interestingly, even though the purpose of this legislation was to pass judgment on “collaborators,” that word does not appear in the text of the law itself. The lawmakers were unable to reach a decision on this complex issue. The most important use made of the law was in the trial of Adolf Eichmann – the only person ever to be executed in Israel in the wake of a court ruling.
+For her part, Brot is extremely critical of the law: “It was the result of a political and sentimental approach, which came in response to pressures from Holocaust survivors. It tried to resolve this issue perfunctorily, in one stroke: ‘guilty or not guilty.’ In that sense, the rulings do an injustice to complex historical issues and aim to compress fraught, social-moral questions into a Procrustean bed of rigid legal categories – like ‘injury,’ ‘aggravated injury’ or ‘assault,’ deriving from the criminal code of an orderly sovereign state.”
+Elimelech Rosenwald, for example, was charged with assault and causing bodily injury during the period in which he served as a kapo in the Blizyn labor camp in Poland. He was convicted of one offense of “simple assault,” and sentenced to a suspended sentence of one month in prison. In light of this and other cases, Brot asks tough questions: How is it possible, for example, to use the formal legal term “assault” to describe whipping by a Jewish prisoner? How does one express disgust at the behavior of a policeman who reveals the hiding place of Jews in the ghetto during an Aktion? Is a clause in the criminal code capable of reflecting such a horrific situation? And what is theft, in this context? We’re used to thinking of it as the taking of an object from its owner illegally. But if we apply the familiar concept of theft to life in the ghetto, Brot points out, it takes on a completely different meaning. What attitude should we take toward bribery? In the normal world, bribery is a criminal offense, but in the camps and ghettos, it was a way of life.
+“The distortion lies not in the fact that the trials involved people who lived and acted during a terrible time, but in the choice to apply regular criminal charges to them. These criminal clauses are taken from the reality of a modern sovereign state, clauses that reflect the state’s values, but which are applied to a reality that was the complete opposite,” she explains.
+The ostensible adherence to the law sometimes went hand in hand with a court’s failure to understand the circumstances of the case.
+“Perhaps the accused was two-faced and also saved other women and also endangered herself, but also beat and killed. But even though that is possible, in terms of purely logical thought, it is still difficult to understand why a person who risks himself for the benefit of another and endangers himself – not in a situation of some trivial danger but in peril of death – in circumstances of a detention camp, why this person would behave at one and the same time as a sadistic murderer.” The author of those words was Judge Zeev Tzeltner, in the verdict he delivered in the case of Reya Hanes, a senior kapo at Birkenau. According to Brot, Tzeltner did not understand the situation he was dealing with. “A prisoner assigned to a certain role was entitled or duty-bound to use force on other prisoners, but could also could offer them help. That was one of the aspects of life in the gray zone,” she explains.
+There’s an additional problem here. Reading testimonies from trials of Jewish kapos, one might think that the suffering of Jews in the war was inflicted exclusively by other Jews, that the Germans had no role in this story.
+“That is of course logical in terms of the essence of criminal law,” says Brot. “Witnesses for the prosecution had to focus on the accused’s behavior, which they related in court. The Germans were not part of the story that was being told there. The result was a distorted picture of the division of responsibility between Jews and Germans.”
+In this connection, the historian cites the remarks of a defense lawyer who spotted the distortion: “Here we have Jews trying to present an account as though the Jews themselves were responsible for their woes in the camps… as though the Germans were complete saints… as though the kapo alone was guilty of starving the prisoners… a misguided approach that underlies all these trials.”
+The phenomenon of complex victims is not confined solely to the Holocaust but is still in evidence in the present. Brot offers two examples. “Today’s reality has spawned the shocking phenomenon of child soldiers – in other words, the ‘mobilization’ of children into various military frameworks. Child soldiers are a classic example of complex victims. They are a victim in every sense of the word: In many cases they are kidnapped from their parents, undergo brainwashing and other terrible ways of ‘being tamed’ – but at the same time they do harm to others when they take part in belligerent events.”
+Another example is a battered wife who lives in a violent reality and at one point kills her partner. “That woman is a complex victim,” Brot explains. “You have to read the judgments handed down by the judges who dealt with the case of Carmela Buchbut [who killed her abusive husband in 1994] to understand how difficult the representation of a complex victim makes the trial.”
+Good vs. evil
+Among the documents that Brot found, there is also evidence, however, that some Israeli judges showed understanding of the complex situation they were dealing with. For example, a 1960 verdict handed down in Tel Aviv District Court states, in part: “Once more, after many years, we encounter the tragic problematics of inflicting punishment on a Jewish defendant who underwent the hellish agonies of the Nazi concentration camps himself, and amid these conditions perpetrated offenses against his persecuted brethren under the Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law. If the endeavor to determine the degree of punishment is difficult in general, it is immeasurably more so in these cases.”
+In another case, Judge Benjamin Cohen, who would later become president of the Tel Aviv District Court, convicted a defendant of several offenses under the Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law, and then wrote: “I deem it right to note for the record that I have no reason to doubt that the accused, prior to the Nazi Holocaust, was a decent person with an average temperament and was a good Jew all year long.” Cohen went on to say he was convinced that the accused acted no differently from the way any other ordinary person would have behaved having been given power in a society where the basic human norms had ceased to be observed.
+Brot applauds this approach: “Those remarks reflect a humane and wise viewpoint, which seeks to judge a person based on the circumstances of his life as a policeman in the ghetto and the labor camp, and not from an arrogant, patronizing position of one who lives in an independent, sovereign state.” (There is no surviving record of the punishment meted out by Cohen to the defendant.)
+Particularly relevant and resonant are the words of Supreme Court Justice Shimon Agranat in the Rudolf Kasztner trial in the 1950s, which became one of the great symbols of the complexity of Jewish cooperation with the Nazis in the Holocaust.
+“Not every act of cooperation can be termed ‘collaboration,’ and not every person who had contact with the Nazis and lent them a modicum of assistance can be stigmatized as a ‘collaborator,’” Agranat wrote. “It all depends on the motives that induced him to behave as he did. If these motives do not appear, in the eyes of the many, to be unacceptable or morally invalid, it will not be justified to brand his behavior as collaboration. We must not cast aspersions on a person only because he knowingly committed an act that might advance the Nazis’ goals, when it turned out that he did so from motives that are valid and not morally flawed. We must not call such a person a collaborator.”
+Brot rejects a common argument presented in historical research to the effect that the first time Israel confronted the atrocities of the Holocaust in a legal setting was in the Eichmann trial, which began in 1961. That view is undermined by archival documentation from a series of trials against Jews that took place before Eichmann was abducted to Israel, she asserts.
+“It can be stated as a general rule that public law in Israel recognizes only the ‘big’ Holocaust trials: of Eichmann and of John Demjanjuk. Those trials, in which witnesses recounted their life of agony in the ghettos and the horrors of the camps, presented to the Israeli public the ‘big’ Holocaust – the annihilation in its full horror. In those trials, the Jews were presented as pure victims in the face of the criminal: the Nazi oppressor,” says Brot, explaining that in contrast, little documentation remains from the trials of Jews, which were held earlier and dealt with those same ghettos and camps.
+Her explanation for this is simple: The general public, which by its nature lacks the ability, the time and the patience to delve deeply into issues, looks for a story in which the dichotomy between “good” and “evil” is clear and unequivocal. The public found what it was looking for in the Eichmann trial, in which a Nazi criminal was in the dock and Jewish survivors faced him as a monolithic group – “absolute good against absolute evil, against the ‘real’ criminal,” as Brot puts it. In contrast to the survivors who were defendants in the Jewish trials, the survivors who appeared at the Eichmann trial were unblemished. All were portrayed as “perfect.”
+From the moment of “victory,” when Eichmann was executed, there was no longer a need for internal confrontation of Jews by other Jews – which entailed denunciation of Jewish behavior, self-cleansing and purification. “The good won decisively,” says Brot, “so it was no longer necessary to go on picking at the internal wound.”
+Moreover, the historian detects in the Eichmann trial an educational, didactic dimension, served up in an unabashedly Zionist ideological wrapping, at the center of which the State of Israel is perceived as the focal point of the Jewish people’s redemption and the exclusive solution to all the ailments of the Diaspora. However, no values of any worth could be derived from trials of Jews.
+In recent years, the subject of Jewish collaboration with the Germans has again surfaced in the context of the turbulent debate over the part played by the people of Poland in the persecution of Jews in the Holocaust. The Polish leadership claims that this was a marginal phenomenon, a matter of isolated individuals who did not represent the Polish people as a group, and that such a phenomenon exists in every society, including among Jewish people. The remarks of Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki last year, according to which “there were Polish collaborators, just as there were Jewish collaborators,” sparked a furor because of the parallel he drew between the two peoples. Brot, in reply to my question of whether the Polish leadership’s approach is understandable in the light of her research, is careful to make a clear distinction between the two cases.
+“The statements by the prime minister of Poland and my research study have two different, even conflicting, points of departure,” she says. “Poland is today trying to prettify, cover, shut away, diminish and generally assert absolute verities and create a national story that will make people forget the behavior of Poles during the Holocaust. This is consistent with the spread of nationalism in Poland and in the countries of Central Europe. My point of departure is the reverse: I want to discover, to uncover, to launch a public discussion free of moral judgment, prejudices and stereotypes. My point of departure is that Jews collaborated with the Germans. The phenomenon cannot be hidden or ignored. Collaboration between Jews and Germans took place throughout the Holocaust, in the ghettos and the camps, and it is part of the story of the Jews’ behavior, exactly like the stories of their heroism.”
+Brot emphasizes that she does not see the Jews as a “chosen people” but as “a people like all peoples, which found itself in one of the most overwhelming human nightmares, a man-made nightmare.” At the same time, she refuses to accept any comparison between Jewish collaboration with the Nazis and the collaboration of other nations with them. “Jewish collaboration was a typical product of the German regime of murder, which, perhaps for the first time in human history, turned its victims into an instrument of their own annihilation, both by creating a mechanism of collaboration and by erasing human life and reducing it to the level of sheer survival. From this perspective, Jewish collaboration does not resemble Polish or other collaboration.”
+Can we, who are living 80 years after the outbreak of World War II, comprehend a phenomenon like this and the attitude toward it?
+“The more documents that piled up on my desk, and the more I read and reread them, the more I understood that I understand nothing. I understood that no one has the right to come today and judge people for their behavior in the lower depths of hell. Accordingly, the speed with which people arrive at their opinions, without understanding anything, or from the comfort zone of a padded chair, an air conditioner and an independent country – all of that says more about the judges than about those being judged.”
+COURSE ABSTRACT:
+This course introduces students to the sociological ways of understanding reality and to basic concepts in anthropology. The focus is on the fields’ major concepts, the dialectic between self and society in space and time, and the various perspectives taken to interpret the social world as it evolved in the past and continues to evolve through the present. A greater attention will be devoted to theoretical frameworks of understanding the basic concepts of culture and society in the field but, nonetheless, the links between theory and reality shall be delineated and explored to illuminate the weakness and strengths of each framework. At all times, therefore, the instructor shall take extra care in the Philippine setting. Lectures, discussions, and class presentations will comprise the bulk of the classes.
+COURSE OBJECTIVES:
+At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
+1. Know what the sociological/ anthropological perspective is, its assumptions and scientific basis, and how it is used in approaching and understanding social phenomenon;
+2. Possess adequate knowledge on the evolution of humans and of culture, as well as current theories explaining these evolutionary patterns;
+3. Know and understand the dynamics of social organizations including culture, structure, and institutions in the context of cross-culture analysis;
+4. Grasp adequately the concepts of socialization and social control, the dialectics of the individual and society, and the social construction of reality;
+5. Substantiate the above concepts in current sociological and anthropological research particularly in the Philippine setting.
+COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
+1. Class participation and recitation
+2. Quizzes
+3. Reflection papers on assigned reading materials
+4. Periodical tests (i.e. Prelims, Midterms, and Finals)
+5. Group term papers
+6. Field trip/Excursion (subject to University policies and guidelines)
+PRELIMS COVERAGE
+WEEK 1
+I. THE SOCIOLOGICAL- ANTHROPOLOGICAL SPIRIT
+A. The Sociological Imagination
+1. What is Sociology? (The Sociological Perspective; Micro-sociology and Macrosociology; Pure and Applied Sociology)
+2. The Origins and Development of the Discipline (Science and Sociology; Social Change and Sociology; Philippine Sociology)
+B. Anthropological Holism
+1. What is Anthropology? (The holistic science; Physical Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology and the sub-fields thereof)
+2. Anthropology in the Philippines experience (Current trends in the Philippine anthropological research)
+C. Sociological and Anthropological Investigation
+1. The Elements of Science
+2. Methods of Socio-Anthropological Research
+WEEK 2
+D. Sociological and Anthropological Theory
+1. Structural Functionalism
+2. Social Conflict
+3. Symbolic Interactions
+4. Current Trends in Anthropological Theory
+WEEK 3
+II. SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
+A. Human Evolution
+1. The evolution of Evolutionary Theory
+2. The Fossil Record: From early primates to Homo Sapiens Sapiens
+WEEK 4
+B. Culture
+1. Approaching Culture: Cultural Relativity and Ethnocentrism
+2. The Components of Culture (Symbols; Language; Values and Beliefs; Norms; Ideal and Real Culture; Material Culture and Technology)
+3. Theoretical Analysis of Culture (Stuctural Functional Analysis; Social Conflict Analysis; Sociobiology)
+4. Culture and Individual Freedom (Culture as Constraint; Culture as Freedom)
+5. Globalization and Glocalization (A Global Culture: contributory factors and barriers)
+WEEK 5
+C. Social Structure
+1. Theories on Society (Durkheim’s Functions of Society; The Marxist Model; Weber’s Disenchantment of the World)
+2. Status and Role
+3. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Goffman and Dramaturgy)
+WEEK 6
+III. SOCIALIZATION
+1. The Socialization Process (Human Development: Nature and Nature; Theories on Socialization)
+2. Agents of Socialization (Family, School, Peer Group, Mass Media)
+3. Gender Socialization (Sex and Gender; Learning to Become Male and Female)
+MIDTERM COVERAGE
+WEEK 7
+IV. DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL
+1. Theories on Deviance (Durkheim; Merton; Lemert, Goffman; Sutherland; Hirshi; Marx)
+2. Forms of Social Control (Formal and Informal Controls; Resocialization and Total Institutions)
+WEEK 8-9
+V. SOCIAL INEQUALITY
+A. Social Stratification
+1. Dimensions of Social Inequality (Castes and Classes; The Devis-Moore Thesis; Marx and Weber on Class; Interpretative Approaches)
+2. Studies on Philippine Poverty
+3. The Social Significance of Race and Ethnicity
+4. Gender Stratification
+WEEK 10-12
+B. Global Stratification
+1. Global Economic Development
+2. Global Wealth and Poverty (Correlates: Technology. Population Growth, Cultural Patterns, Social Stratification, Gender Inequality, and Global Power Relationships)
+3. Global Inequality (Modernization Theory; Dependency Theory)
+FINALS COVERAGE
+WEEK 13
+VI. SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
+A. The Family
+1. Basic concepts (Marriage; Typologies; Residential Patterns; Kinship Patterns)
+2. Theoretical Considerations (Structural Functionalism; Social Conflict Analysis; Micro-level Analysis)
+3. Issues and Developments (Divorce; Family Violence; Single Parenthood; Same Sex Marriages; In-vitro Fertilization)
+WEEK 14
+B. Politics and Government
+1. Power and Authority (Traditional Authority; Rational-Legal Authority; Charismatic Authority)
+2. Theoretical Considerations (Pluralism; Power-Elitism)
+3. Civil Society
+WEEK 15
+C. Church and Religion
+1. Basic concepts (Religion; Churches; Sects; Cults; Ecclesias; Denominations)
+2. Theoretical Considerations (Durkheim; Marx; Weber; Symbolic Interactionism and the Construction of the Sacred)
+3. Religious Fundamentalism
+WEEK 16
+D. Education
+1. The Functions of Schooling (Socialization; Cultural Innovations; Social Placement; Latent Functions)
+2. Schooling and Social Inequality (Social Control; Tracking; Standardized Testing; Inequality Among Schools; Credentialism)
+3. Issues in Philippine Education
+WEEK 17
+VII. SOCIAL CHANGE
+A. Population and Urbanization
+1. Demography: Basic concepts (Fertility; Mortality; Migration; Population Growth and Composition)
+2. Urbanization: The Growth of Cities (The Chicago School; Urban Ecology; Models of Urban Development)
+B. Society and Environment
+1. Environment issues
+2. Sustainable development
+WEEK 18
+C. Collective Behavior and Social Movements
+1. Localized Collectivities (Crowds and Crowd Behavior)
+2. Dispersed Collectivities (Rumor and Gossip; Public Opinion; Panic and Mass Hysteria; Fashions and Fads)
+3. Social Movements (Types; Explanations)
+D. Social Change: Traditional, Modern, and Postmodern Societies
+1. Causes of Social Change
+2. Theoretical Analysis if Modernity
+3. Postmodernity
+MAIN REFERENCES
+Cordero, F. and Isabel Panopio, 1995, General Sociology: Focus On The Philippine Setting, Quezon City: Ken Inc.
+Ember Carol and Melvin Ember, 1999, Anthropology, 9th Edition, Singapore: Prentice-Hall.
+Ferrante, Joan, 1995, Sociology: A Global Perspective, Belmont CA: Wadsworth)
+Henslin, James, ed., 1995, Down To Earth Sociology, New York: The Free Press.
+Hunt, Chester, et al., 1998, Sociology in the Philippine Setting: a Modural Approach, Quezon City: SISB Publishing House.
+Kottak, Conrad, 2000, Anthropology.
+OTHER REFERENCES
+Berner, Erhard, 1997, Definding a Place in the City: Localities and the Struggle for Urban Land in Metro Manila, Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
+Borjie, Julie M. 1990, Towards a Person-Centered Community, Quezon City: Miriam College Graduate School.
+Cargan, Leonard and Jeanne H. Ballantyne, 1985, Sociologial Footprints: Introductory Readings in Sociology, 3rd Edition, Belmont, CA: Wadswoth)
+Carrol, John J., 1968, , 3rd Edition, Belmont, CA: Wadswoth)
+Carrol, John J., 1968, Changing Patterns of Social Structure in the Philippines: 1896-1963, Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
+Collins, Randall and Michael Makowsky, 1984, The Discovery of Society, New York: Random House.
+Collins, Randall, 1983, Sociological Insights: An Introduction to Non-Obvious Sociology, New York: Oxford University Press.
+David, Randy, 1998, New Rules of Sociological Method: A Positive Critique of Interpretative Sociologies, Southern Illinois: Polity Press.
+______________, 1991, Modernity and Self-Identity, Southern Illinois: Polity Press.
+______________, 1990, The Consequences of Modernity, Stanford: Stanford University Press)
+Henslin, James, 1993, Sociology: A Down To Earth Approach, Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
+Jocano, F. Landa, 1997, Filipino Value System: A Cultural Definition, Manila: Punlad Research House.
+Macionis, John, 1998, Sociology, Singapore: Prentice Hall.
+Macionis, John and Nijole Benokraitis, 1992, Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
+Maquiso, Teresita, 1997, Socio-Anthro: and Introduction to the Social Sciences, Quezon City: Grandwater Publications.
+McCoy, Alfred and Ed de Jesus (eds), 1998, Philippine Social History: Global Trade and Social Transformation, Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
+Mulder, Niels, 2000, Filipino Images: Culture of the Public World, Quezon City: New Day Publishers.
+______________, 1997, Inside Philippine Society: Interpretations of Everyday Life, Quezon City: New Day Publishers.
+Pertierra, Raul, 1997, Explorations In Social Theory and Philippine Ethnography, Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press.
+Pertierra, Raul, 1995, Philippine Localities and Global Perspectives: Essays on Societies and Culture, Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
+Tolibas-Nuñez, Peralita, 1997, Roots of Conflict: Muslims, Christians, and the Mindanao Struggle, Makati: Asian Institute of Management.
+Are there provided handouts or notes online for this course in relation to the course outline or syllabus above?
+I wish there is. It would be of great help for me especially that our teacher doesn't give us handouts.
+Table of Contents
+This post gets filed under the "budget and planning" part of systems administration. When planning out your ZFS storage pool, you will need to make decision about space efficiency, and the cost required to build out that architecture. We've heard over and over that ZFS block deduplication is expensive, and I've even mentioned it on this blog, but how expensive is it really? What are we looking at out of pocket? That's what this post is about. We'll look at it from two perspectives- enterprise hardware and commodity hardware. We should be able to make some decent conclusions after looking into it.
+We're only going to address storage, not total cost which would include interconnects, board, CPU, etc. Those costs can be so variable, it can make this post rather complicated. So, let's stick with the basics. We're going to define enterprise hardware as 15k SAS drives and SLC SSDs, and we'll define commodity hardware as 7200 SATA drives and MLC SSDs. In both cases, we'll stick with high quality ECC DDR3 RAM modules. We'll use a base ZFS pool of 10TB.
+So, without further ado, let's begin.
+Determining Disk Needs
+Before we go off purchasing hardware, we'll need to know what we're looking at for deduplication, and if it's a good fit for our data needs. This can be a hard puzzle to solve, without actually storing all the data in the pool, and seeing when you end up. However, here are a few ideas for coming to that solution (the "three S tests"):
+- Sample Test: Get a good representative sample of your data. You don't need a lot. Maybe 1/5 of the full data. Just something that represents what will actually be stored. This will be the most accurate test, provided you get a good sample- the more, the better. Store that sample on the deduplicated pool, and see where you end up with your dedupratio.
+- Simulation Test: This will be less accurate than the sample test above, but it can still give a good idea of what you'll be looking at. Run the "zfs -S" command, and see where the cards fall. This will take some time, and may stress your pool, so run this command off hours, if you must do it on a production pool. It won't actually deduplicate your data, just simulate it. Here is actual an actual simulation histogram from my personal ZFS production servers:
+# zdb -S Simulated DDT histogram: bucket allocated referenced ______ ______________________________ ______________________________ refcnt blocks LSIZE PSIZE DSIZE blocks LSIZE PSIZE DSIZE ------ ------ ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- 1 5.23M 629G 484G 486G 5.23M 629G 484G 486G 2 860K 97.4G 86.3G 86.6G 1.85M 215G 190G 190G 4 47.6K 4.18G 3.03G 3.05G 227K 19.7G 14.2G 14.3G 8 11.8K 931M 496M 504M 109K 8.49G 4.25G 4.33G 16 3.89K 306M 64.3M 68.3M 81.8K 6.64G 1.29G 1.37G 32 5.85K 499M 116M 122M 238K 17.9G 4.64G 4.86G 64 1.28K 43.7M 20.0M 21.0M 115K 3.74G 1.69G 1.79G 128 2.60K 50.2M 20.0M 22.0M 501K 9.22G 3.62G 3.99G 256 526 6.61M 3.18M 3.62M 163K 1.94G 946M 1.06G 512 265 3.25M 2.02M 2.19M 203K 2.67G 1.72G 1.86G 1K 134 1.41M 628K 720K 185K 2.13G 912M 1.02G 2K 75 1.16M 188K 244K 222K 3.37G 550M 716M 4K 51 127K 85.5K 125K 254K 657M 450M 650M 8K 2 1K 1K 2.46K 26.7K 13.3M 13.3M 32.8M 16K 1 512 512 1.94K 31.3K 15.6M 15.6M 60.7M Total 6.15M 732G 574G 576G 9.38M 920G 708G 712G dedup = 1.24, compress = 1.30, copies = 1.01, dedup * compress / copies = 1.60
+- Supposed Test: Basically, just guess. It's by far the least accurate of our testing, but you might understand your data better than you think. For example, is this 10TB server going to be a Debian or RPM package repository? If so, the data is likely highly duplicated, and you could probably get close to 3:1 savings, or better. Maybe this server will store a lot of virtual machine images, in which case the base operating system will be greatly duplicated. Again, your ratios could be very high as a result. But, you know what you are planning on storing, and what to expect.
+Now you'll have a deduplication ratio number. In my case, it's 1.24:1. This number will help us "oversubscribe" our storage. In order to determine how much disk to purchase, our equation should be:
+Savings = Need - (Need / Ratio)
+With my ratio of 1.24:1, which is running about a dozen virtual machines, rather than purchasing the full 10TB of disk, we really only need to purchase 8TB of disk. This is a realistic expectation. So, I can save purchasing 2TB worth of storage for this setup. The question then becomes whether or not those savings are worth it.
+Determining RAM Needs
+Ok, now that we know how much disk to purchase, we now need to determine how much RAM to purchase. Already, we know that the deduplication table (DDT) will occupy no more than 25% of installed RAM, by default. This is adjustable with the kernel module, but we'll stick with default for this post. So, we just need to determine how large that 25% is, so we can understand exactly how much RAM will be needed to safely store the ARC without spilling over to spinning platter disk. In order to get a handle on this metric, we have two options:
+- Counting Blocks: With the "zdb -b" command, you can count the number of currently used blocks in your pool. As with the "zdb -S" command, this will stress your pool, but it will give you the most accurate picture of what to expect with a deduplication table. Below is an actual counting of block on my production servers:
+# zdb -b pool Traversing all blocks to verify nothing leaked ... No leaks (block sum matches space maps exactly) bp count: 11975124 bp logical: 1023913523200 avg: 85503 bp physical: 765382441472 avg: 63914 compression: 1.34 bp allocated: 780946764288 avg: 65214 compression: 1.31 bp deduped: 0 ref>1: 0 deduplication: 1.00 SPA allocated: 780946764288 used: 39.19%
+In this case, I have 11975124 used blocks, and my 2 TB pool is 39.19% full, or 784GB. Thus, each block is about 70KB in size. You might see something different. According to Oracle, each deduplicated block will occupy about 320 bytes in RAM. Thus, 2TB divided by 70KB blocks gives a total storage space of about 30,700,000 total blocks. 30,700,000 blocks multiplied by 320 bytes, is 9,824,000,000 bytes, or 9.8GB of RAM for the DDT. Because the DDT is no more than 25% of ARC, and the ARC is typically 25% of RAM, I need at least 156.8GB, or basically 160GB of installed RAM to prevent the DDT from spilling to spinning platter disk.
+- Rule of Thumb: This is our "rule of thumb" rule that you've read in this series, and elsewhere on the Internet. The rule is to assign 5GB of RAM for every 1TB of disk. This ratio comes from the fact that a deduplicated block seems to occupy about 320 bytes of storage in RAM, and your blocks could occupy anwhere between 512 bytes to 128KB, usually averaging about 64KB in size. So, the ratio sits around 1:208, which is where we come up with the "5GB RAM per 1TB disk" metric. So with a 10TB pool, we can expect to need 50GB of RAM for the DDT, or 200GB of RAM for the ARC.
+In both cases, these RAM installations might just be physically or cost prohibitive. In my servers, the motherboards do not allow for more than 32GB of physically installed RAM modules. So 40GB isn't doable. As such, is deduplication out of the question? Not necessarily. If you have a fast SSD, something capable of 100k IOPS, or roughly the equivalent of your RAM install, then you can let the DDT spill out of RAM onto the L2ARC, and performance will not be impacted. A 256GB SSD is much more practical than 200GB of physical RAM modules, both in terms of physical limitations and cost prohibition.
+Enterprise Hardware
+Without SSD
+15k SAS drives don't come cheap. Currently, the Seagate Cheetah drives go for about $1 per 3GB, or about $330 per 1TB. So, for the 8TB we would be spending on disk, we would be spending about $2600 for disk. We already determined that we need about 200GB of space for the ARC. If we need to fit everything in RAM, and our motherboard will support the install size, then ECC registered RAM goes for about $320 per 16GB (how convenient). I'll need at least 14 sticks of 16GB RAM modules. This would put my RAM cost at about $4480. Thus my total bill for storage only would be $7080. I'm only saving $670 by not purchasing 2 disks to save on deduplication.
+With SSD
+Rather than purchasing 14 16GB memory modules, we could easily purchase an enterprise 256GB fast SLC SSD for about $500. A 256GB SSD is attractive, because as an L2ARC, it will be storing more than just the DDT, but other cached pages from disk. The SSD could also be partitioned to store the ZIL, acting as a SLOG. So, we'll only need maybe 16GB installed RAM (2x8GB modules for dual channel), which would put our RAM cost at $320, our SSD cost at $500 and our drive cost at $2600, or $3420 for the total setup. This is half of the initial price using only ECC RAM to fit the DDT. That's significant, IMO. Again, I only saved $670 by not purchasing 2 disks.
+Commodity Hardware
+Without SSD
+7200 SATA drives come cheap these days. ZFS was designed with commodity disk in mind, knowing it's full of failures and silent data corruption. I can purchase a single 2TB disk for $80 right now, brand new. Four of those put my total cost at $320. However, the ECC RAM doesn't change, and if I needed 14 of the 16GB sticks as with my enterprise setup, then I can count on my total cost for this commodity setup at $4800. But, a RAM install of that size does not make sense for a "commodity" setup, so let's reduce the RAM footprint, and add an SSD.
+With SSD
+A fast commodity SSD puts us at the MLC SSDs. The 256GB Samsung 840 Pro is going for $180 right now, and can sustain 100k IOPS, which could possibly rival your DDR3 RAM. So, again sticking with 4 2TB drives at $320, 16GB of RAM at $320 and our Samsung SSD at $180 our total cost for this setup is $820, only saving $80 by not purchasing an additional 2TB SATA drive. This is by far the most cost effective solution.
+Additional Hidden Costs & SSD Performance Considerations
+When we made these plans on purchasing RAM, we were only considering the cost of storing the ARC and the DDT. We were not considering that your operating system will still need room outside of the ARC to operate. Most ZFS administrators I know won't give more than 25% of RAM to the ARC, on memory intensive setups, and no more than 50% on less memory intensive setups. So, for our 200GB ARC requirement, it may be as much as 400GB of RAM, or even 800GB. I have yet to administer a server with that sort of RAM install. So, SSDs all of the sudden become MUCH more attractive.
+If you decide to go the route of an SSD for an L2ARC, you need to make sure that it performs on par with your installed RAM, otherwise you'll see a performance hit when doing lookups in your DDT. It's expected for DDR3 RAM to have a rate of 100k to 150k sustained sequential read/write IOPS. Getting an SSD to perform similarly means getting the high end SATA connected SSDs, or low end PCIe connected, such as the OCZ RevoDrive.
+However, suppose you don't purchase an SSD that performs equally with your DDR3 modules. Suppose your DDR3 sustains 100k IOPS, but your SSD only does 20k IOPS. That's 5x as slow as DDR3 (spinning 7200 RPM disk only sustains about 100 IOPS). With as frequently as ZFS will be doing DDT lookups, this is a SIGNIFICANT performance hit. So, it's critical that your L2ARC can match the same bandwidth as your RAM.
+Further, there's a hidden cost with SSDs, and that's reliability. Typical enterprise SLC SSDs can endure about 10k write cycles, with wear leveling, before the chips begin to wear down. However, for commodity, more "consumer grade" SSDs, they will only sustain about 3k-5k write cycles. Don't fool yourself though. For our 256GB SSD, this means you can write 256GB 10,000 times, or 2.56PB worth of data on a SLC SSD, or 256GB 3,000 times, or 768TB on an MLC SSD. That's a lot of writing, assuming again, that the SSDs have wear leveling algorithms on board. But, the SSD may fail early, which means the DDT spilling to disk, and completely killing performance of the pool. By putting a portion of the DDT on the SSD, the L2ARC becomes much more write intensive, as ZFS expands the DDT table for new deduplicated blocks. Without deduplication, the L2ARC is less write intensive, and should be very read intensive. So, by not using deduplication, you can lengthen the life of the SSD.
+Conclusion
+So, now when you approach the CFO with your hardware quote, with a dedup ratio of 1.24:1, it's going to be a hard sell. With commodity hardware using an SSD, you're getting close to your savings in disk (10.25:1), as compared to enterprise hardware where you're spending much, much more to get close to those space savings (5.10:1). But, with commodity hardware, you're spending 1/4 of the enterprise equivalent. In my opinion, it's still too costly.
+However, if you can get your ratio close to 2:1, or better, then it may be a good fit. You really need to know your data, and you really need to be able to demonstrate that you will get solid ratios. A storage server of virtual machines might be a good fit, or where you have redundant data that is nearly exactly the same. For general purpose storage, especially with a ratio of 1.24:1, it doesn't seem to be worth it. However, you're not out of luck, if you wish to save disk.
+For good space savings on your disk, that you get nearly for free, I strongly encourage compression. Compression doesn't tax the CPU, even for heavy workloads, provides similar space savings (in my example above, I am getting a 1.3:1 compression ratio versus 1.24:1 dedup ratio), doesn't require an expensive DDT, and actually provides enhanced performance. The extra performance comes from the fact that highly compressable data does not need to physically write as much data to slow spinning platter, and also does not need to read as much physical disk. Your spinning disk is the slowest bottleneck in your infrastructure, so anything you can do to optimize the reads and writes could provide large gains. Compression wins here.
+Hopefully, this post helps you analyze your deduplication plans, and identify the necessary costs.
+"zfs -S" in your simulation test should actually be "zdb -S". dedup simulation is a feature of the ZFS debugger rather than the standard ZFS command set.
+Yes. Typo. Fixed. Thanks. 🙂
+Thank you for the excellent series Aaron.
+Have you considered converting the series into a downloadable PDF? It would make reading offline much easier (on an iPad for instance).
+Thanks
+Typo: This can bee a hard puzzle to solve. Bee? 🙂
+Thanks for the excellent info.
+John
+Dedup is mostly efficient for making backup on disk like VTL appliance.
+Monthly or weekly full backups have lots of identical block. Daily incremental backups are also good candidate!
+Dedup can be a way to mimic thin provisioning if all unused data are all zeroed.
+What happens when the SSD used breaks? The L2ARC becomes unavailable, which should be fine. But what about the DDT? Does it get regenerated?
+Yes. The DDT is part of the cache, so on reads and writes, it gets regenerated as needed. All the DDT information resides in the metadata on disk. Keeping the DDT in RAM keeps the ZFS read/write operations snappy.
+I think there is a little mistake in "Determining RAM Needs".
+In the first paragraph you wrote that "that the deduplication table (DDT) will occupy no more than 25% of installed RAM". After the example you wrote "DDT is no more than 25% of ARC". So there is a little difference between 25% of the RAM or the ARC 🙂
+As far as I know, DDT uses not more than 25% of the ARC and the ARC itself can take up to 50% of the installed RAM (at least on my ubuntu-system with zfs-on-linux this value is the default Value).
+This means that on a system with 16 GB RAM the ARC can use up to 8 GB and the DDT up to 2 GB of it.
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+The M47 Patton was an interim solution developed during the Korean Conflict of 1950-1953 though it did not see action in the war.
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+The M47 was another addition to the long line of main battle tanks stemming from the World War 2-era M26 Pershing "heavy tank". The Pershing, later downgraded to a medium tank, was bettered in the upcoming interim M46 Patton which became the first such tank to take on the "Patton" name - this after fabled American World War 2 General George S. Patton. The all-new M47 fell in line next only to be superseded by the much-improved M48 Patton just a short time later. The line eventually culminated in the capable M60 Patton main battle tank series of the 1960s.
+M47 Legacy
+With that said, the M47 was a further development of the M46 Patton, which itself was a development of the wartime M26 Pershing (externally, the entire tank family line shared many similarities in their design). Classified as a medium tank, the M47 formed the backbone of US Army and NATO forces during those critical early years of the Cold War with its escalating arms race and limited conflicts. Intended to replace both the M4 Sherman and M46 Patton classes, the M47 graduated to become the long arm of NATO for decades to follow and was ultimately produced in 8,676 examples and fielded by some 21 nations across the globe - primarily throughout Europe, Asia and the Middle East. While charged to replace the M46, the M47 itself was quickly replaced in US service by the improved M48 beginning in the mid-1950s. However, it is of note that the M47 represented America's first true "all new" tank system developed since the days of World War 2.
+The T42 and the Korean War
+By the time of the Korean War in 1950, the mainstay force of the post-World War 2 US Army were the M26 Pershing and the M46 Patton tanks. The M46 itself was an interim solution meant to improve upon the drawbacks of the M26 - mainly in its underpowered engine (basically the same as found on the lighter M4 Sherman) and limited mobility. While the M46 fitted a better engine and improved reliability, it was still seen as nothing more than an interim solution for an all-new medium tank design was then in the works to known as the "T42". The T42 showcased a shapely, single-piece, molded turret and five double-wheeled medium-size road wheels to a track side fitted to a wide body hull. However, the ongoing war across the Korean Peninsula brought about the need for a quicker main battle tank solution without those inherent delays as found in a "ground-up" tank design program like the T42.
+The M47 is Born
+As a result, the turret developed for the T42 was mated to the existing (and proven) M46 chassis with the main armament of the M36 90mm being the gun of choice. The design went under the pilot (prototype) designation of "M46E1" of which only one example was constructed. The new tank then became known under the production designation of M47 (though it was theoretically the "Patton II", the M47 was never officially reported as such). The M47 underwent production at the Detroit Tank Arsenal and American Locomotive Company beginning in June of 1951 almost immediately. Despite this expediency, the 50-ton M47 would arrive too late to see combat actions in the Korean War - the very war that brought about the tank's construction - for the armistice between the North and South was drawn up in 1953. American service units were taking on delivery of the M47 beginning in the summer of 1952. However, delays in receiving the M12 optical rangefinders for the 90mm main guns played a role in the tank missing the war. In fact, M47s were not delivered to the region until August of 1958 - these replacing the M46s stationed there.
+M47 Walk-Around
+M47 armor was all-cast for both the turret and hull with a transverse bulkhead separating the crew from the engine. The crew was made up of five personnel that included the driver and assistant driver (bow gunner) in the forward hull and the tank commander, gunner and loader in the turret. The bow gunner and driver were allowed entry/exit via a pair of top-mounted hatches along the forward hull while the turret featured a further two hatches for the turret crew therein. The oblong turret, with its pointed front end and overhanging rear, was set in the forward portion of the hull and featured full 360-degree rotation with -5 to + 19 traverse for the 90mm main gun. Each track side was characterized by six double-wheeled road wheels and three track return rollers. Suspension was of the torsion bar variety.
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+Armament
+Armament centered around the 90mm M36 series main gun of which 71 x 90mm projectiles were allotted. Secondary armament included a .50 caliber heavy Browning M2 air-cooled machine gun for anti-aircraft defense on a pintle mount along the turret roof and manned by the tank commander. This was further complimented by a co-axially mounted .30 caliber M1919A4 machine gun (controlled by the gunner) and an additional .30 caliber M1919A4 machine gun in a bow-mount for anti-infantry defense (the latter was later removed to make space for additional 90mm projectiles, therefore making the M47 the last American tank to feature the bow-mounted machine gun and its extra crew position).
+Power and Performance
+Power was derived from a Continental AVDS-1790-5B V-12 air-cooled, twin-carbureted gasoline engine delivering up to 800 horsepower. The engine was mated to an Allison/General Motors CD-850-4 transmission allowing for two modes of forward travel and one mode of reverse travel. Performance specifications included a top speed of 30 miles per hour and an approximate range of 81 miles. Gradient traverse was limited to 60 percent and vertical obstacle crossing at 3 feet. Trench crossing was limited at 8 feet, 6 inches while onboard fuel capacity was a reported 232 gallons.
+The M47 Lives on Through Export
+The Military Assistance Program (MAP) of the Cold War ensured that the tank lived a hearty existence within the ranks of NATO allies throughout the 1950s. Once in foreign service, the type would survive well into the 21st Century thanks to special locally-introduced modernization programs - some introducing diesel engines and all-new transmission systems or proposed 105mm main gun armament. West Germany and Turkey were quantitative users of note, each receiving some reported 1,120 and 1,347 examples respectively. The Turkish examples were themselves made up of former American and West German M47 models no longer of value.
+Combat Ultimately Finds the M47
+Though missing out in American actions of the Korean War, the M47 was nonetheless fielded by other export nations in anger. The Pakistani Army unleashed the M47 on India in the Indo-Pak War of 1965 while Jordan used the type in the 1967 Six Day War with Israel. Iran used the M47 against Iraq in their cross-border war. In 1974, some 200 Turkish M47s were used in the invasion of the island of Cyprus. More recently, Croatian M47s were used against Serb forces in the Croatian War of Independence but did not fare well against the more-capable Soviet-produced T-55 main battle tanks. After all was said and done, the M47 became the only Patton-named tank in American service to never see direct combat actions for the United States.
+Limited Production Equals Limited Variants
+Despite the M47's "newness" at the time of inception, the system led a relatively short service life with the United States military for the excellent and all-new M48 tank design came online to quickly replace the type. Beyond the M46E1 pilot model, the Patton II was revealed in two major production forms. "M47" was used to note the base series designation and was essentially a re-turreted M46 with a revised hull and three track return rollers per track side (down from five). The tank was later improved in the "M47M" model of the 1960s which fitted the fire control system and engine of the M60A1 Patton main battle tank and deleted the bow-mounted machine gun position. None of these newer "M" models were utilized by the US Army, which had already moved on to other more capable main battle tank products by this time. The M6 became an M47 fitted with a bulldozer kit for battlefield excavation. The T66 was a proposed flamethrower tank but never placed into production.
+The USMC and the M47
+Beyond use of the tank in the US Army, the US Marine Corps operated the M47 for a time before these too were soon replaced by the M48A1 main battle tanks and M103 heavy tanks. USMC M47s were removed from service in 1959.
+Specifications
+BASICS [+]
+Year:
+1951
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+5
+Manufacturing
+Detroit Tank Arsenal / American Locomotive Company, USA
+Production
+8,676 Units
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+Austria; Belgium; Chile; Croatia; Cyprus; France; Greece; Iraq; Iran; Italy; Japan; Jordan; Netherlands; Pakistan; Portugal; Saudi Arabia; Somaliland; Spain; United States; West Germany; Turkey; Yugoslavia
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+27.89 ft (8.5 m)
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+11.52 ft (3.51 m)
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+Weight:
+51 tons (46,170 kg; 101,787 lb)
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+POWER [+]
+1 x Continental AV-1790-5B series V-12 air-cooled petrol developing 810 horsepower at 2,800rpm.
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+PERFORMANCE [+]
+Maximum Speed:
+30 mph (48 kph)
+Maximum Range:
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+ARMAMENT [+]
+1 x 90mm M36 main gun
+1 x .50 caliber HB M2 air defense machine gun
+1 x .30 caliber M1919A4 co-axial machine-gun
+1 x .30 caliber M1919A4 machine gun
+Ammunition:
+71 x 90mm projectiles
+440 x .50 caiber ammunition
+4,125 x .30 caliber ammunition
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+production model)
+VARIANTS [+]
+M47 - Base Production Model Series Designation; may also be known as the "Patton 1".
+M47M - Crew decreased to 4; More projectile storage. Locally-produced Iranian version as well.
+M47E1 - More powerful diesel engine
+M47E2 - 105mm main gun
+M102 - Engineer Platform mounting a short-barrel 105mm main gun and dozer blade at front.
+T66 - Flamethrower projector platform development; never.
+I come across quite a bit of injured athletes who have a few tweaks here and there. The most common being their knees. I know many athletes, ex-athletes who are friends, and especially my brother who feel like their knees have been hit with a bat a few times too many. I’ve heard things such as – I don’t need to train my legs anymore, I no longer play sports or Squats are what messed up my knees in the first place or I don’t know how to train around my knee pain.
+Just because you have an injury, it doesn’t mean it’s the end of the world for training. When you do suffer an injury or have had a history of injuries that still effect you today, it’ll take some time to get back to full force but it’s a journey well worth it.
+So let’s get working towards strengthening those legs and move you past your knee issues. Hopefully the following tips will help you on your path towards achieving fitness and strength goals you thought were not possible.
+1. Make SMR Part of Your Daily Routine
+If you’ve suffered a knee injury there is a good chance you have a lot of built up scar tissue and tightness in your leg muscles due to overcompensation. SMR stands for – self myofascial release. You know those foam rollers you see everyone laying and rolling on, that’s what they are doing or well I hope that’s what they are doing. Think of it as kneading the muscles as if they were dough.
+That’s basically what you are doing. Your muscles are so tight and knotted up, like stiff dough, and the more you knead it the softer and more elastic it gets. That’s what you are trying to accomplish with the foam roller – getting your muscles back to their resting space instead of all bunched up.
+2. No Pain, No Gain – Not So Much in This Case
+Now I know you want to rush into it, but you really have to take your time with the process. If there is pain during a certain movement or your range of motion (ROM) is limited, then stay out of the discomfort area and slowly work your way towards a full ROM. The best thing you can do is listen to your body. Don’t be a stubborn ass and think you have to push through the pain. No, pump the brakes a little and don’t rush it. You are looking at a more long-term goal. It’s not going to happen over night.
+There are many exercises out there for individuals with knee issues. Not every exercise is going to work for every individual. If there is an exercise that doesn’t agree with you, then do a different one. Be smart when you are making a comeback from a long lay off of leg training or an injury.
+3. Strengthen Your Posterior Chain
+What’s your posterior chain you may be asking? It’s your whole backside and in this case we want to pay extra attention to your glutes and hamstrings. Many gym goers are quad dominant because of their unbalanced training program or lack of proper technique during. And no, squatting doesn’t cause bad knees, incorrect squatting causes bad knees – that’s a whole different article by itself.
+When training your legs, especially for you – those who have suffered knee injuries or have knee pain while training legs – it would be wise to do more hip dominant movements such as; deadlifts, RDLs, and good mornings – just to name the basics.
+These following exercises, are something that I’ve been using in my training. For me, I’ve noticed although I have a big ass, I have a hard time recruiting them during movements such as squats and deadlifts. I came across these exercises by Bret Contreras, and he has people loading them up with over 300 lbs. Now thats some booty. But before you start loading it up, start of with only your body weight and make sure to squeeze your glutes together. Just think someone is going to slap you in the ass. Clench those butt cheeks together.
+4. Knee Friendly Exercises
+There are many ideas out there on exercises to help people who have knee issues. The main focus of these knee-friendly exercises are to allow your glutes, hamstrings, and hips to share the load more. While performing these exercises it is very important to watch your shin angle and keep it vertical. Ben Bruno, another strength coach, has a huge arsenal of exercises because he himself has gone through knee injuries and has fought the long journey of regaining his strength. Braddah is a Beast:
+This idea also comes from powerlifters who box squat. In powerlifting, especially geared, if you watch their shin angles during a squat their shins are really close to vertical. Sometimes while training on the box, they sit so far back that their shins are past perpendicular which forces them to incorporate more of the posterior chain to initiate the ascent.
+I’ve been incorporating a few of these exercises with the college athletes I train because many are very quad dominant, and some have suffered knee injuries during their high school years that still effect them today.
+The following exercises are a progression of what you can do. Make sure to listen to your body and work in the range of motion that you feel comfortable. As time goes on, the exercise gets easier, and the ROM is better then you can progress to the next one.
+Goblet Split Squat
+Walk right up to the bench so your legs are against it. This will give you a sturdy guide to make sure that you sit back in your hips. As you come up, focus on driving through the back of your foot on the front leg. You will feel your hamstrings and glutes contract from the bottom. If you don’t, then you are pushing at the front of your foot.
+Goblet Reverse Lunge
+When the ROM of this movement gets better and you can progress up in weight, give this exercise a go. This will add a slight instability because of the stepping behind and back up. During those moments, the working leg has to stabilize the knee.
+Towel Goblet Reverse Lunge
+Same movements as the Reverse Lunge above, but now the front leg will have to stabilize itself throughout the whole movement. The key to all of these exercises especially this one is to keep your knee in line with your toes.
+Banded Reverse Lunge
+If you have access to a strong resistance band, this would be a great exercise to do because now we are taking away the bench as a guide and adding a forward pull. With the band around your leg, make sure you have tension pulling your knee forward that you have to resist. When you step back, the band will begin to pull your leg forward which will force you to sit back on your heels to keep a vertical shin angle. This will also create a higher degree of stability. Try it with the towel slide once you start crushing this exercise.
+So How Many Reps? Not to sound like a broken record but listen to your body. Start with anywhere of up to 2-3 sets of 10-12 reps. Depending on how fragile those knees are, you may just want to start of with your body weight to get the movement and proper technique.
+SAMPLE LEG DAY
+1. Bench Hip Thrust; 3 x 12
+2. Deadlifts: 3 x 5
+3. Split Squats 3 x 10 ea. leg
+4. DB RDL 3 x 10
+5. Embrace Cardio
+Many who have knee issues have a hard time when it comes to performing cardio. Running stadiums, sprinting up hills, and going in circles on the track seem to bring too much impact on the knees. It all depends on the sort of issue you actually have. Some of the guys I know are ex-college football lineman. That’s a lot of weight to be going around.
+There are other conditioning tools such as sleds pulls and battle ropes, but many people don’t have access to these things. The upright bike and recumbent can be found in any gym you go to. When you use the bike, make sure you adjust it to your size. It is important to move the seat so that you can almost fully extend your leg.
+The elliptical is also a great tool because on some of the machines you can use your arms as well. And if you haven’t read my past blogs about fat loss, the more muscle you use the more calories you burn.
+Now if the use of a bike or elliptical makes your knees uncomfortable, then call up the nearest YMCA and join the Senior Citizen water aerobic class.
+So When Can You do Cardio? It all depends on how much time you have. If you find yourself making into the gym only a couple times during the week, make sure you do about 20-30 minutes after your weight training. Here’s a quick cardio plan;
+5 minutes: warm-up
+10 minutes: Intervals (15 seconds as fast as you can, 45 seconds at a slow pace)
+5-15 minutes: Low intensity cardio at a good pace where you can still hold a conversation but can’t pat your belly and rub your head at the same time.
+On your off-days, go out for a walk or to a park. Just make sure you are moving, there’s always the aquatic aerobic class you can participate in.
+In Conclusion
+Hopefully this gives you a blueprint of how to go about your leg training if you are dealing with knee issues. I’m lucky to say (knock on wood) that I haven’t suffered any knee injuries during my time playing sports and weight training but I do come across athletes who have a history of them on a daily basis. I’m always trying to learn how to improve their leg strength and to get them healthier so they can play the sport they love.
+If you have any questions or just want to leave a comment about how cool you think I am, or just want to say What’s up, please leave a comment. My goal is to build a community that I can help by offering my advice, knowledge, and experience. ALOHA
+- William Kava
+- Jill Rooks
+- Mona
+In this world there are Legends, ancient beings that take the mannerisms of those within stories, attaching themselves to those with strong wills in order to battle against each other. Some Legends fight for glory, some for peace, and others for control. The last Legend standing will obtain even more greatness, and the one who stands beside it will find their own reward.
+********************************************************
+A young man sat under a tree, looking up toward the leaves that for the most part blocked the sun from shining down on him, enjoying the view of the small beams of bright light that managed to break through the canopy of the leaves. “Perfect day for a nap,” he muttered to himself, shifting around on the grass a bit to try and get comfortable. “Just a short one.”
+Before the young man could get to far into his nap however three black cars pulled up on the road next to the hill he was laying on, cutting their engines and sitting on the road for a moment, drawing his attention back to the earth. From the three vehicles sixteen dark suited men stepped out, each one carrying a small briefcase with them. Each of their heads was covered by wide brimmed black hats, and they seemed to march in tune toward the young man, pausing only a few feet away. “Greetings Mr. Nuva, our master sends his regards.” the voice that came from the suited figure was nothing less than robotic sounding.
+The young man sat up and yawned, stretching his arm into the air before looking at them. “Don’t suppose I could just ask you guys to leave so I can get back to my nap, can I?” he sounded more annoyed than anything else.
+“Mr. Capone wishes to know the answer to the offer he made you.” was the only reply that the suited figure gave, watching from under its hat as the man stretched out.
+With a sigh he leaned against the tree and tapped his chin. “Oh you mean the whole ‘join my group and help defeat Frankenstein thing?” he gave a small shrug. “Yeah sorry I don’t really want to get involved in that mess, just because I made a contract doesn’t mean I have to fight.”
+For a moment the figure was silent, before it calmly opened its suitcase and pulled out a pistol from it, cocking it and aiming it toward the man. In perfect synchronization the other figures followed suit, pulling weapons from their suitcases and aiming toward the young man. “Mr. Capone has made it quite clear that anyone who is not with him stands against him in these matters.”
+Even at the sight of the guns the man didn’t lose his relaxed mannerisms, simply shaking his head with a small sigh of disappointment. “You know when the other guys came to me and I said no they offered a nice position and low risk missions, you guys point guns at me,” he laid his head against the tree. “Man you guys really need to take some lessons.”
+For a moment there was silence, and then the suited figured opened fire on the man, unloading their weapons toward him without hesitation. As the bullets started flying the man quickly stood up and placed a hand in front of him, causing each bullet to pause in front of him before falling to the ground. “Yeah that isn’t going to happen,” with that said the man reached in front of him and summoned a hunting rifle into his hands, an old fashioned wooden finish with the letters R.V.W engraved into the side of it. “Maybe you forgot but I am a Contractor as well, and if Capone really thought that a bunch of Familiars were going to stop me from napping well…” he took aim and smirked viciously. “Apparently he isn’t too bright.”
+The suited figured began to slowly break apart from each other so they wouldn’t be as bunched up, taking pot shots with their pistols as they moved.
+But by this point the man was already moving, weaving between their shots with almost supernatural speed, a light laugh coming from him as he appeared in front of one of the figures, rifle pointed directly at its head. “Remember the name End Nuva, Contractor of Rip Van Winkle and the guy who officially kicked your asses.” with that said he pulled the trigger and watched as the suited figures head exploded from the impact of the bullet, sending its headless torso falling down the hill. However when it came to rest the body caught fire and turned to ash, leaving no trace behind.
+With one of their number fallen the remaining suited figured fled back to their cars, all the while under fire from the End’s rifle.
+They slid behind the cars and reached inside, pulling out large tommy guns, relics of another era that might have looked silly to some, but still maintained a certain standard of killing power behind them.
+With a curse End dodged behind the tree he had been napping under, allowing it to take the blows from the olden weapons that were currently firing at him. “All I wanted to do was take a freaking nap!” he yelled out, aiming his rife toward the cars from behind the tree and taking pot shots when possible. If he pushed himself it was possible he could end it here, but there was little doubt in his mind that Capone had planned to escalate this conflict further. As things stood he couldn’t go all out without tiring himself to the point where he would die in the second round.
+Before the situation could worsen however one of the vehicles exploded in a brilliant fireball, removing four more of the suited figures and putting a pause in the attack. “Now you see this is the reason why I bloody asked you to join in the first place,” from out of the flames a young woman emerged, a scowl plain on her face and heavy bags of sleep deprivation plain on her eyes. A white labcoat fluttered around her, untouched by the flames as she looked toward the other seven suited figures. “Capone wasn’t going to leave you alone, and there is safety in numbers.”
+End peeked out from around the tree and scowled toward the woman. “Yes Mom.” he said, voice heavy with sarcasm.
+Without missing a beat the young woman walked toward him and pulled out a scalpel, pressing it against his neck. “Scarab, or
+Frankenstein if you want to use my Contractor name, but don’t you dare call me Mom.”
+With that said End quickly raised his hands into the air, still holding onto his rifle without daring to swallow or breathe too hard.
+“Right sorry my bad, but uh… we still kind of have problems here to deal with you know.” he looked back toward the suited
+figures, who were quickly falling back into position to restart their attack.
+Scarab simply rolled her eyes and gave a snap of her fingers. “Mimsy if you could.”
+A dark blur cut appeared behind one of the groups and sent them flying like ragdolls, before a rather dapperly dressed figure seemed to appear in the spot that the group had once been standing. “Hey give me a break, my powers only work at full strength during a full moon,” he flashed over toward the other four and grinned darkly, grabbing one of their guns and crushed it along with the suited figures hand as if it were clay. “Not that even a tenth of what I can do isn’t enough for these things.”
+Scarab gave a nod and turned back toward End, dusting off her labcoat and fixing her best smile on. “Now then I am sure you have had time to think over…” she paused as Mimsy loudly tore apart one of the Familiars and coughed into her hand. “…to think over our recent offer.”
+End shook his head a bit and sighed. “Come on all I want to do is nap a bit and relax, can’t I even have that much?”
+“If you want to die, sure you can have a long nap,” Mimsy walked over, cleaning a black sludge like substance off his hands with a handkerchief. “At least that’s what I hear death is like, but then again who knows right?”
+End gave a pause and shook his head at Mimsy’s rambling. “I suppose I don’t actually have much of a choice in the matter?”
+Scarab pretended to think for a moment. “No probably not honestly, if you don’t agree I will probably have Mimsy knock you out and then carry you away.”
+End sighed and shook his head. “At least you are honest about it, fine let’s go.”
+Scarab clapped her hands and slashed the air in front of her with the scalpel in her hands, opened a small portal in front of them.
+“Fantastic, let’s go!” she stepped through, followed closely by the other two men behind her.
+********************************************************
+“You know this being one of your plans I can’t tell if this is a failure or a success.” inside of a dark office two men sit across from each other, one holding a knife in hand and the other simply leaning back in a fine office chair, the only thing separating them is a desk with a chessboard on it.
+The man in the chair shakes his head a bit. “It’s honestly not that complicated Shane, just a little play on things until the real game begins, it’s no fun if the chessboard isn’t set up in just the right way you know?”
+Shane tossed his knife into the air and caught it by the blade between two fingers. “Whatever you say Si, or should I be calling you Capone now?”
+“Call me whatever you want,” he smiled a bit as he moved a piece on the board. “Next move is finding the others, then you can let your knife do what comes naturally.”
+“Rip into them?” Shane suggested, a smile on his face. “Yeah, doesn’t sound too bad.”
+********************************************************
+“Seems things are advancing to the next stage, hm?” A young woman sipped wine from atop a beautifully adorned throne, a smile on her pale lips.
+“Its only to be expected after all this time,” a young man replied while adorning a wooden figure with a small coat of paint.
+“After all isn’t this all part of the plan?”
+The young woman smiled and shook her head. “There are no plans in this game my dear Mage, just more chaos.”
+“Chaos could be called a plan in the right context, isn���t that the way you live your life oh Contractor of Dracula, Eli?”
+The young woman didn’t answer, simply taking another sip of her wine and enjoying the view of her beautiful castle.
+********************************************************
+"Come to think of it why are we here in the first place?" A young man asked as he sat behind a set of iron bars, keeping him enclosed within a cell made of cold stone.
+"Are you really asking me that question?" another voice answered from a cell. "I mean, because I know the answer but its probably pretty obvious, you know us being such big threats, you and your magic and me and my whole burning stuff thing. Right 'gora."
+"Its Agora, if you are going to use my name please say the full thing." he looked toward the bars with a deep sigh and laid back on his bed, feeling that things were happening but not able to interact with them. What an annoyance.
+***********************************************************
+Above it all a group of men and women watched the events play bellow them with smiles on their faces. "Let the games begin." they each raised their glasses high and clicked them together, invisible strings playing down across those whose lives would be forever cast into chaos.
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+[For the rest of the series, see Part 1 or Part 2]
+Myth #11: Aerobatics are dangerous.
+Aerobatic flight has played a prominent part in many fatal accident reports. Sadly, that has given acro a bad name. A more thoughtful analysis, however, clearly shows that many — perhaps most — of those crashes are due to intentional low-altitude maneuvering. When aerobatic flying is pursued in a prudent, intelligent manner with sufficient altitude, the risks are far outweighed by the benefits.
+Many fatalities come from the world of air shows. Air show flying can be extraordinarily dangerous because there’s virtually no structure or limit on what a pilot is permitted to do. As long as pilots don’t direct the energy of the aircraft toward spectators, a person holding a zero-altitude waiver can perform multiple outside snap rolls starting 1′ off the deck if they so choose. The flying is certainly dramatic, fun to watch, and a demonstration of complex skill. But pilots are free to fly without much, if any, altitude buffer. And many of them do.
+Competitive aerobatics, on the other hand, is highly structured, limited, and categorized to the specific skill level of individual pilots. The altitude cushion is far higher and the safety record is much, much better. I’ve been involved in competitive aerobatics for eight years and know of only one accident during a competition.
+The other category of accidents is people with inadequate training, experience, and/or equipment performing low-level aerobatics and buzzing terrain just to try and impress spectators or passengers. I’ve written extensively about why that’s a bad idea.
+Speaking of buzzing, here’s a YouTube gem of a Bonanza and L-39 flying into IMC while in formation at low altitude. You’ll see the terrain flash by before the Beech loses part of the right wingtip in a tree.
+Are you starting to see a pattern here? Low-altitude = high-risk. When you take out the low level stuff, aerobatics becomes a much different thing. There’s room the screw up a maneuver, laugh about it, fix it, and still be far above the ground. That’s safe. That’s sane.
+I’m a big proponent of aerobatics because in my experience, nothing does more to build up a pilot’s stick-and-rudder skills and confidence than the precision, proficiency, and control demanded by quality aerobatic flight. An inadvertent spin, wake turbulence encounter, or other upset is far more likely to be handled properly by a pilot with aerobatic training. Aerobats are comfortable with full control deflections, odd sight pictures, high pitch/bank/yaw rates, accelerations, and sounds which can cause the straight-and-level crowd to freeze up, panic, or even worse, aggravate the situation with improper control inputs.
+Myth #12: “Aerobatics” means exceeding 60 degrees of bank and/or 30 degrees of pitch.
+This misconception is rampant among pilots. I’d say 85% of my primary acro students give me that definition when I ask about it early on in training. The FAA defines aerobatics in 14 CFR 91.303 as “an intentional maneuver involving an abrupt change in an aircraft’s attitude, an abnormal attitude, or abnormal acceleration, not necessary for normal flight.”
+Notice how there are no specific bank or pitch angles attached to the definition? That’s why a 45 degree pitch angle after takeoff in a Cub would be considered aerobatic (it’s not necessary for normal flight), whereas flying solo in the Pitts S-2B, that same pitch angle would be just about right for holding a normal Vx climbout and therefore, NOT aerobatic in nature. The FAA’s definition is simple and elegant, yet also allows for the differing performance characteristics of each aircraft type.
+The 60/30 degree thing comes from 14 CFR 91.307(c) and concerns parachutes, not aerobatics:
+.
+Myth #13: A spin in the pattern is unrecoverable.
+This myth is demonstrably false. I’ve performed thousands of spins, and every plane I’ve spun eats up about 500′ of altitude from entry to recovery during a full 360 degree spin. Of course, that assumes the guy in the pilot seat can effect recovery properly and do so within 360 degrees of yaw. Might we have yet another argument for spin training? I think so.
+I’m not suggesting you try a spin from a typical 1,000′ AGL pattern altitude. That would fall into the “low altitude follies” category of myth #11. But to say that a spin in the pattern is unrecoverable is just false. With even a little practice, it’s not hard to recover from an inadvertent spin in less than a quarter of a turn. That would eat up but a couple hundred feet of altitude and be more of a wing-drop than anything else.
+I’d even go so far as to say that if you doubt your ability to stop a stall-spin entry from 1000′ AGL and recover to level flight before hitting the ground, you need to get some instruction before proceeding further. With sufficient training, the recovery technique will become virtually automatic. Idle power, full opposite rudder, lower the angle-of-attack.
+Myth #14: Exceeding 30 degrees of bank in the pattern can lead to a stall/spin.
+I was at an uncontrolled airport one day watching pilots do their thing, when a student pilot entered the pattern and announced her intention to land on runway 25. On her first attempt her Cherokee blew through the final approach course and she wisely went around. The next time she did the same thing. The third attempt was a larger pattern with an earlier turn to final which resulted in an undershoot. Trying to fix that, she allowed her glidepath to get too high. Another go-around.
+By this point the student was pretty rattled and, I’m sure, more that a little embarrassed by her inability to land. You could hear it in her voice as she made various radio calls. After four or five attempts someone had to talk her down via the radio.
+What the heck had happened, I wondered? Was there an abnormally high wind aloft just pushing her through the final? Was she turned loose by her instructor with insufficient training? Perhaps there was a mechanical problem with the airplane. Was the traffic on the CTAF too distracting? Maybe she was from a quiet country airport (as if we have any of those in Southern California…).
+Further investigation revealed that her CFI had taught her not to exceed some arbitrary bank angle in the pattern. I don’t remember if it was 20 degrees or 30. Maybe it was 15. The exact figure is not important. This poor lady’s instructor had told her that the way to avoid an inadvertent spin in the pattern was to limit her bank angle.
+For a long time I thought her CFI’s instruction was terrible, but thankfully not common. Unfortunately that’s starting to change. I even see this kind of advice provided by AOPA in their publications now! A quick Google search turned up an AOPA Safety Publication where the author suggests limiting base-to-final turns to as little as 15 degrees.
+I am in agreement with teaching 30-degree banked turns in the pattern, for all the reasons mentioned. But I make an exception for the turn from base to final. The pilot flying this traffic pattern has begun his turn early, using a much shallower bank–perhaps 15 to 20 degrees. The result is a somewhat sloppier-looking, but safer, pattern. It gives the pilot more time to assess the effect of any crosswind and adjust his turn to smoothly intercept the final approach course. Because he starts the turn to final with a shallow bank angle, he can safely increase his bank (within limits) to counter an overshoot. Likewise, there should be little reason to tempt the pilot to skid. Even if he does, at the shallower bank this is much less likely to result in disaster. Check out the stall speed versus bank chart in your aircraft’s flight manual. Although a pilot who increases his bank from 30 degrees to 45 degrees and one who increases it from 15 to 30 are both increasing by the same number of degrees; the effect on stall speed is much more dramatic in the first case.
+The stall speed only changes if one is maintaining level altitude flight during the turn. Who makes a base-to-final turn like that? The bottom line on this issue is that it’s wrong to attach a specific bank angle to safe flying or spin avoidance, regardless of whether it’s in the pattern or elsewhere. Maintain the same load factor on the airplane during the turn and the stall speed doesn’t change whatsoever!
+You can spin a plane from wings-level flight. That how most intentional spins are performed, actually. Likewise, you can continuously bank a plane a full 360 degrees, turning in the opposite direction while you do so, and neither spin or stall. It’s called a rolling turn — a competitive aerobatic maneuver.
+Let’s go over it one more time: spins are only possible if the airplane is allowed to exceed the critical angle-of-attack while in an uncoordinated state. It has absolutely nothing to do with airspeed, bank angle, altitude, or proximity to the traffic pattern or runway. If the poor girl flying that Cherokee had been properly taught, she would have avoided tremendous stress, embarrassment, and risk.
+Myth #15: Flying is difficult.
+This last one is for the non-pilots. I wish I could tell you that it takes super-human effort to fly, that only a steely-eyed genius with hand/eye coordination even the best video game gurus could never hope to possess can operate an aircraft. That’s what many passengers seem to think.
+Alas, the truth is that physically flying most airplanes is not hard. Landing can be a bit of a challenge, especially if your standards are high and you want to nail it every time. But the taxi, takeoff, climb, cruise, and descent are pretty easy. I’ve had total neophytes do all the flying on many occasions. I’d only take over for the last few seconds before landing. It’s just not that hard.
+Now, learning the regulations, aerodynamics, aircraft systems, meteorology, navigation, emergency procedures, signage, ATC communication, aeromedical factors, decision making, performance calculations, and the dozen other areas one must master in order to fly in today’s world? That’s a bit tougher. But the physical act of flying an airplane is not as hard as aviators would like to make you think.
+Last Updated: 10/28/2013
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+Carnival Glory Cruise Review by PG_NC: Carnival Glory - Western Caribbean
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+Carnival Glory - Western Caribbean
+This cruise review is based on the experiences of our entire group that consisted of my parents (ages 67 & 61), my wife and I (ages 43 & 41), my wife's mother (age 60), and our two children (a daughter age 15 & a son age 12). My parents have cruised over a dozen times on all of the major lines including Carnival before. My wife and I have 5 previous cruises on both Carnival and Royal Caribbean. My wife's mother and our children have had 2 previous cruises, both on carnival. At the conclusion of this cruise it was unanimous by all persons that this was the least enjoyable cruise we had taken. That doesn't mean that it was terrible but that it didn't stack up to previous trips. We all are avid cruisers but found this one lacking. We booked this cruise for its schedule, price and ports of call. None of us had ever been to Belize and most of us enjoy Cozumel, which made this a no brainer to book.
+We drove to Cocoa beach the day before and stayed at a local hotel that More offered a special that allowed us to park our cars at the hotel for the week and they arranged a shuttle to and from the port. We attempted to book with the Hampton Inn (which had a couple of favorable reviews) but found it booked. We settled on the La Quinta Inn, which is a mile or two farther down the strip. The room for the night cost $89 + taxes and included the week of parking, shuttle rides for everyone to and from the port and a mini breakfast served in the morning. Parking at the port costs $12 per day, which adds up to $84 total. If you are planning to stay the night before, I recommend one of these packages as they save a bunch of money. The La Quinta was nothing special from a facility standpoint but the staff was excellent and very helpful. The staff had us park right in front of the registration window with our cars in sight, this made us feel good about leaving our cars here for a week. The breakfast is primarily continental with a couple of hot items that you can warm or make yourself (warm up pre-cooked egg patties and sausage and cook yourself waffles). The shuttle was scheduled for an 11:30 am pickup and was provided thru Cocoa Beach Shuttles. The shuttle arrived at exactly 11:30 and the driver loaded our luggage. With one other stop to pick up another couple, we arrived at the port at noon. It was already busy. We unloaded our luggage with the porters (this is an additional cost of $1.00 per bag in cash only). You can only take small bags thru the port yourself, the same size that will fit as carry on luggage at the airport as they have to go thru the x-ray scan at the port also. I recommend that you take at least one bag as a carry on. You may not get your luggage until after dinner, so pack this bag with things you might need in the first 12 hours (toiletries, swim suits, sun screen, dinner clothes, etc.).
+Embarkation: This was by far the worse embarkation we have ever had. The port building was simply overwhelmed. We usually arrive about noon and never have had a problem but this time there was a line to enter the port that moved very slowly and each stop in the port had a slow moving line. The line to get in was to have carry on luggage x-rayed; this was as slow as an airport security station. They only had one scanner at the entrance nearest to the porters. Later we found out that there are 2 scanners at the other end and they moved a bit faster. Then we entered the main line to check in. This lasted almost 50 min. We finally arrived on ship at 1:35 after over an hour and a half in lines. This cruise had over 800 children as it was over Thanksgiving and this added to the overall number of people. This cruise had a total of over 3400 cruisers and the normal number is about 2800. I imagine that Christmas cruises are also like this, you may want to plan accordingly.
+Cabins: Our group had 2 inside cabins and one balcony cabin. The two inside cabins are listed as the same size as the balconies but seem much smaller. They seemed smaller than other inside cabins that we have had in the past. The design seemed poor and didn't maximize space. The balcony room had the same size bathroom but also had a sofa and more open space. My wife and I never pay the additional price for a balcony as we spend very little time in the room. The price is at least 50% higher per person for a balcony so don't pay for one unless you plan to use it. The bathroom is closet sized with a shower, stool and a counter with a sink. The shower had shampoo and body wash dispensers filled with Dove shampoo and Lever 2000 body wash. We have seen these before but the products were always generic and of poor quality. The bathroom was also stocked with a male and female blade shaver and other travel toiletries that are not restocked during the cruise. The room has plenty (maybe too much?) closet and cabinet space.
+Ship: This ship, like others in this class, has 2 dining rooms that are both 2 levels and they take up most of the 3rd and 4th deck. The rear dining room can only be accessed from the rear staircase/elevator area. If you are on the 3rd or 4th deck in the front and want to go to the rear dining room, you must go up to the 5th deck walk to the rear of the ship then descend to the 3rd or 4th deck (depending which deck your table is on). Of course we had the rear dining room and had to do this multiple time. Not a smart design in our minds. The ship is large and even with the large number of children, it didn't seem over run. There were available deck chairs on sea days and the buffet lines were long but not excessively so. There are adult only hot tubes but we found children in them frequently, especially after 9pm as the hot tubs open to children closed at 9pm. Carnival has a strict no saving policy for deck chairs and lounge seating but we found saving going on all the time and Carnival did nothing about it. Go to the Captain's party, there is plenty of free drinks and finger food. The wait staff drop full glasses on your table when your current glass is less than half full as long as you want to drink (alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks available - you have to take what they serve, no orders). Previous cruisers also get invited to a similar party on another evening, take advantage of this if your invited.
+Camp Carnival & Club O2: These are the kid and teenage group's setup by age. My son was in the 12-14 year old camp carnival which he didn't enjoy much. He said the activities were lame. He did try the PS2 games which he said were old and boring. They had a foosball table but they couldn't have access to it much as other ages were booked in the room that had the table but they didn't use it. He spent a lot of time with the ping-pong table when it wasn't too windy (tables are on an open deck with only partial covering and wind block). Club O2 is for teens age 15-17 and my daughter did many activities with them. They had contests with prizes and she won a number of these. She did say that some were boring but she could and did leave them if she didn't enjoy them. They have both been in Camp Carnival before and enjoyed it a bunch. This time they didn't but this may be because they are getting older or there were too many children for the staff.
+Entertainment: Here was a major disappointment. The shows and singers were at the best mediocre and at worst horrible. Our entire group usually enjoys most of the cruise entertainment but we found ourselves leaving early or sitting through a mildly entertaining show. The first Broadway show called Living in America was nothing special and the singing was mediocre if not poor. My kids and parents left early, my wife and I held out thinking it would improve. It didn't. Another night featured an illusionist called Justin Illusion. His illusions didn't fool many and my 12 year old son figured out how most tricks were done and in one we could all see a hidden door open behind a screen as a woman disappeared thru it. His show did feature loud music and some impressive dancing. If you came for the illusions, you will be disappointed but if you like music and dancing, you will enjoy. Again, my wife's mother left early but the kids, wife and I held out. My parents didn't even go. Another act featured a juggler/comic. My wife and I were the only ones who went as the previous experiences had discouraged the rest. This act was pretty good. The juggler was impressive as well as a decent comedian. His show should be rated PG-13 as he used some adult language but nothing too racy. Another show featured a comic named Greg Ray. His show was good and he came back the next night for a midnight adult's only show. We usually skip the adult comedy as it typically is a string of 4 letter words and not very funny except to the intoxicated. His adult show was better than the family show and we found ourselves laughing frequently. He never used an expletive but the subject matter was very adult. The second Broadway show was called Rock on Broadway and this one was good but not great. The songs favored the singer's talents better than the first. The dancers were good for both but that only carries one so far. The cruise director (Dana Hodgson) didn't impress us either. He was only present for the major shows and frequently left things to his assistant (who was more animated and dynamic). He has a professional voice and sounds great as a presenter but didn't have that infectious attitude that we were used to from previous cruise directors. He seemed to be just doing through the motions. Most cruises have frequent announcements that become annoying. This cruise went too far in the other direction. The most common announcement was calling people to contact the purser's deck. We found a number of confused cruisers who didn't know what was going on from a lack of information and this related to the lack of announcements. We came into ports late a number of times with no announcement that we were late or why. This was followed by the usual 30 minute delay before people could disembark with no announcement. As experienced cruisers we expected the delay but others didn't and became frustrated.
+Food: The food was mediocre. Cooking for large numbers has its limitations but this was the poorest food over all that we have experienced. The dining room food looked impressive on the menu but usually failed to impress. It was generally tasteless or bland. The desserts, which have been good on previous cruises, were also bland and lacked imagination. My wife lives for the dining room desserts and she left disappointed most nights. The buffets were average but didnt impress either. The most impressive food came from the pizzeria and the deli. We all would recommend either of these and we ended up eating at either or both of these for lunch and skipped the buffet lines. The deli serves a number of impressive sandwiches from hot turkey, pastrami on rye and rubens to cold tuna and smoked salmon on a bagel. The desserts served at lunch were generally better and with more choices then at dinner. The last day featured a chocolate buffet at lunch and was very good. The dining room service was exceptional. This is a highlight for our group and our servers didn't disappoint. Our headwaiter Vinod (from India) and waiter Carlito (from the Philippines) went above and beyond. As recommended in other reviews, we provided a tip on the first night ($20 to the head waiter and $10 to the waiter, from the entire table). We always received our service and food first (they had 3 other tables). The singing and dancing provided by the waiters always occurred in front of our table and my children got up and danced with them on a couple of nights. I don't know if this was because of the first night tip but I will continue to employ this. We also tipped on the last night as they did an exceptional job as well as the tips included for each cruiser on our sign and sail account.
+Cozumel: This port was beat up last fall by a hurricane. The original port built a few years ago with a large shopping area was completely destroyed and is being rebuilt. We landed at the international port which still shows heavy damage. It has a number of shops but not as many or as nice as the destroyed port. The shop people seemed more aggressive than if the past. It was very windy which caused the majority of the excursions to be cancelled. All of the water, scuba and boating excursions were cancelled and Carnival refunded them without any action needed on the part of the cruiser. 4 from our group had the dolphin encounter scheduled and this wasn't cancelled but they were given the option as the platform that the program used was moving a lot in the 4-6 foot swells and all 4 decided to cancel and Carnival refunded this without question. We applaud Carnival for this. My wife and I decided to walk from the pier to town (which was 2.5 miles). We like to walk and found this to be a wonderful walk. We saw up close the damage done by last year's hurricane. We shopped down the entire strip and found the shops here to also be more aggressive than in the past (which we hate). We ended up not shopping as much as we had planned and only went in the major shops. Dont miss Los Cinco Soles or Viva Mexico down at the end of the strip. Both have great quality and prices. We paid more than some of the little shops but found the quality of the merchandise to be far better. If shopping in a small shop, don't forget to bargain. Usually the price will drop 2 or 3 times on your more expensive stuff. Jewelry and items priced over $50 can most often be talked down 25-50% especially if you start to walk away after appearing interested. Know your prices also, we found many stores overcharging by 200-300% on silver and gold chains. The prices came down quick but an uninformed shopper could over pay easily. The best prices and selection we found at Cozumel.
+Belize: This port is very shallow and requires a long tender ride (loading people onto smaller boats and riding into port). The ride was 10-12 minutes in rough seas, don't port here if the seas are rough and you have a sensitive stomach to motion. We arrived late and again didn't have any information ahead of time and we were left waiting for the ship to start unloading which was delayed further by Carnival unloading all of its excursions first. My mother and mother-in-law scheduled a Belize city tour (Sights and Sounds of Belize) and had to meet early in the Palace Lounge. They waited almost 2 hours as the ship was late and Carnival forgot their group and they missed their tender. Carnival did get them a tender and a tour once they recognized their error as well as refunding the cost of the entire tour for the inconvenience. They enjoyed the tour, especially for free. They did say it would have been worth the cost. We booked the Cave Tubing tour outside of Carnival as many of the cruise tours we have booked in the past failed to live up to the hype and/or cost. We booked with due to the positive reviews. We were not disappointed. We all agreed that this was the single best port excursion that we have ever done. The tour does require an hour bus ride to the site and a 40 min. walk thru the rain forest. The walk isn't difficult but it is over uneven ground and has a waist deep water crossing near the beginning. If you can't walk 1.5-2 miles carrying your own tube without a rest, this may not be the tour for you. We had a couple of people that had difficulty keeping up. The guides arranged us in groups of 5-10, linked us together on tubes with a guide for each group and off we went with lights on our heads. I would recommend a larger waterproof light as well as a waterproof camera. The water is cool but not cold and only fast running in a couple of spots. The guide points out things of interest as well as pulls you down stream in the slow spots. You will also learn the meaning of the term "butts up" very quickly. You exit the river after about 30 min at the same location as the waist deep water crossing and walk a couple of hundred yards back to the main area. There is a nice bathhouse and changing area but no lockers. After a 45 min stop for lunch ($5 for chicken stew on rice and beans) on the way back you arrive back at the Belize port. The guides were all very personable and had excellent stories to tell. Our group had Lionel and he was awesome, Thanks Lionel (and Keith, the main guide and Tigre, the very skilled bus driver). We saw a Carnival group at the caves and they had a group of about 50 people and no guides, just dumped in the water and left you to go by yourself with a few people pointing the way in the caves. The port area and shopping isn't very developed and not impressive. Don't think your going to spend the day shopping, book a tour here or you will be disappointed. The area is economically depressed and not cruiser friendly.
+Costa Maya: What a disappointment. This port is a pier and shopping port built in the middle of nowhere. The shopping area took us only a couple of hours to get through and we didn't find many good deals. Prices higher than Cozumel and only the flea market tent in the middle did any price bargaining. There were a couple of very talented painters; one with spray cans and the other with his fingers, selling paintings that were reasonable. I recommend booking a tour here or plan on lying on the beach.
+Nassau: This is our third visit to this port but found it to be much improved over earlier visits. We haven't been here in about 4 years and the place looks better and more visually appealing. The shops and people didn't try to pull us of the street as in years past and the prices were still good (not great). We spent most of the day taking a walking tour around downtown and stopping in any store that interested us. The locals were very friendly. I did talk to some people who went to the Atlantis and were very disappointed. After the taxi ride, they had to pay to get in and couldn't do anything but look at the lobby unless they paid more.
+Disembarkation: Another mess. I had purchased 2 liters of vodka from the ship gift shop during the cruise and was told that it would be delivered Friday night (they don't want you drinking the cheap stuff on board). Come Saturday at 6:30am, no Vodka. I called the pursers desk but was told no one from the gift shop would be available until 7am. By 7:30, still nothing. Another call but no help, "please wait" I was told. We had been told the night before that disembarkation would begin about 7:30. No word until 8:20 when they told everyone that there was a hold up (I think we figured that out already) and to leave your staterooms and wait in a public area. I called the purser again and was told to wait, still no response from the gift shop. Wait where, I am being kicked out of my room. At the purser's desk (if you have been on a cruise before you know that the purser's desk is a poorly controlled mob during disembarkation). Near 9am, with luggage in tow, I get a purser who informs me that my Vodka is waiting for me at the gift shop and to go pick it up (not very customer service oriented). I went up to the gift shop, doors locked and not one around. Waited and finally found someone in the clothing gift shop behind a locked door, guess what??? He has my Vodka, not in the shop I bought it in, but all the way on the other side of the ship. We arrive in the Amber Palace to wait for our luggage tag color to be called. Disembarkation began during my Vodka adventure but I don't know exactly when. At 9:30 our tag color is called with 2 others. We wait thru customs and finally arrive at the luggage terminal. The luggage is going around on an airport type baggage carousel but all the luggage in our group has a different color tag. I inquired about our luggage color and was told that when people take off the current luggage then more will be put on the belt and ours should come out then (huh?, why call our color if its not ready?). We waited about 20 min watching the luggage until ours started showing up. This seemed like a very unorganized system. We did like the luggage carousel rather than the old system of placing all the luggage in rows on the floor and let people paw thru it to find their own. At 10:30 we were out of the building an off to the shuttle loading area. Our shuttle was waiting for us and took us directly to the La Quinta where our cars where in perfect order and waiting.
+Overall: We found the crew to be very friendly and helpful. Unfortunately the same can't be said of other cruisers. We found this cruise to contain a much larger number of rude and inconsiderate people than others in the past. People were rude to other cruisers, the staff and at port. At the elevators, people would walk up and get on an elevator if the door opened and not allow people who had been waiting longer to get on. My mother recently had both of her knees replaced and she can't do stairs and doesn't walk fast, a number of times she lost an elevator to an able body person/group that cut in front of her. Carnival has a motto to exceed your expectations and when adding everything up, they failed to do this. We have had much better cruises on Carnival and other lines than this one. It maybe that the cruise market is getting saturated and for them to compete on price they have to cut some corners. This was the cheapest costing cruise we have taken and we got what we paid for. Less
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+Broomhaugh and Riding Mill Parish Council
+Annual parish meeting held on 23rd April 2013 in the Millennium HalL, Church Lane at 6pm
+Present Cllrs Mills (chairperson) Reid, Dunhill, Carew (taking minutes) and County Cllr Dale and 4 members of the public
+1. Apologies
+Brian Singer, Peter Howe, and Jen Stephenson
+2. Minutes of the 2012 Annual Parish meeting were agreed to be a true record
+3. Chairman’s report
+1. The PC has had another busy year. Although the number of councillors rose to 7 through co-option during the past year we already know as the date for nominations has passed that we will only have 6 councillors for the next 3 years. Lucy Sehgal has decided not to stand for re election and John Eakins resigned due to his move to Cumbria.
+The PC will welcome any applications for co-option as there will be 3 places available to bring the strength up to 9, the full number of Councillor places on the council.
+2. After 2 years of co-operation between the PC and the Tyne Rivers Trust the works to the Weir were completed in 2012 by the contractors working under the guidance of Prof Malcolm Newson, Chairman of the Tyne Rivers Trust. The area looks very picturesque and conforms to the requirements of the Enviroment Agency in respect of fish, and eels. Shortly there will be an interpretation board set up specifying the wildlife that can be seen there. The temporary fencing has been removed and a new seat has been installed to facilitate enjoyment of a quiet corner of the village .
+3. The PC has had remedial work carried out by Dobson Brothers to the Millfield Rd Bridge, which should carry the bridge forward for some 10-15yrs. This requires the maintenance of the weight limit on the bridge of 3 tonnes.
+On the website the PC had invited comments from the village on the long term options for the bridge, but none were received.
+4. The PC together with the help from the County Council and in particular with help and financial support from the County Councillor has dealt with a problem of water running down the Nick.
+A contribution was also given by Sandy Bank Association.
+The PC had potential liability for any water freezing that could cause a hazard on the Nick, the Slaley Rd and the A695.Water running down the Nick now drains through the Nick and into Highways drains.
+5 (i) The Interactive Solar powered speed warnings to remind traffic of the speed limit through the village were very disappointing only working intermittently. Perseverence with complaints to the suppliers has revealed that incorrect parts were installed originally, and this has now been rectified.
+The solar warnings now appear to be functioning correctly
+(ii) The County Council has had double yellow lines painted on Church Lane near the Millennium Hall and onto Whiteside Bank as well as at the main road end of Millfield Rd “Slow” signs to be painted on the Main Rd at Broomhaugh have been promised but have not yet been done.
+(iii) Bicycle stands have been installed at the Village Hall and in the Old Playground.
+6. The Main event of the year was the Olympic Torch journey through the village in June. There was a good turnout for the day with co-ordination by the PC and the VHT. The village held a sports day, and scarecrow competition as well as providing refreshments throughout the day for all the visitors.
+The village was decorated with Bunting and a tricolour of flowers to coincide with the Queens Jubilee celebrations enjoyed by many at the Village Hall and organised by the Village Hall committee.
+7. The Tennis Club’s application for a grant to improve its double courts and to turn the single court into an all purpose games area has been successful. The Tennis Club committee have put forward the plans to the PC who as landlords have supported the club’s application and have also given financial support.
+8. The Residents of Longrigg have approached the PC re the possibility of taking over the road to enable them to manage its maintenance.
+9, The Northumberland County Council has drafted a Core Strategy document for the County and a working party prepared a thorough response which the PC approved. The village plan is to be reviewed both as a routine and in the light of the Core Strategy.
+10. The Handyman has continued to maintain the PC’s assets and carry out work on the trees, benches etc. All the PC’s many benches have now been renovated, and work has been carried out on trees, quite a few of which have had to be felled or trimmed.
+11. The Planning sub- committee has considered 9 applications referred by the CC Planning Dept.
+The PC itself has applied to the Planning Dept for permission for the village hall car park sign to be amended to delete the reference to flooding.
+12. Monitoring of the Play park continues each week; one ongoing problem is molehills which spoil the grass surface of the park. Unfortunately very wet weather earlier in the year has increased activity of the moles.
+13. Finally there is a list of people whom I would like to thank for their help and work for the village, in particular Linden Stephenson for her work with organising the Handyman.
+She has spent much time and researched the cost of various necessary works including felling trees and repairs to walls on the Old Playground and in Dene Close
+Once again I must mention a debt of gratitude owed to Anne Dale our County Councillor over the past year. She has always been quick to take up problems in the village where the County Council are involved, ready with funds to support the village plans and punctilious at attending our meetings. Apart from matters already mentioned Mrs Dale provided the funds to restore the Millfield Rd street lamps.
+And of course I would like to thank my fellow councillors for their hard work and support given this year. Without them the achievements of this year would not have been realised.
+4. Report from the Village Hall Trust 2013
+Linda Shepherd, Chairman of Riding Mill Village Hall Trust
+The Village Hall Trust continues to thrive thanks to the support and help we receive from lots of people, both in and out of the Village.
+Use of the Hall has grown yet again. The Millennium Hall has 2 extra regular clubs and the Parish Hall has 3! We have had 2 weddings, both in the same week, and the halls have been used for many other functions too.
+St James used the halls more frequently last summer in their Year of Eventfulness
+Pam Pryor keeps busy taking bookings and very few days go by when both halls are not occupied.
+The Cafe in the Foyer is as popular as ever and thanks must go to all of our volunteers
+Later in the year we will be having a Garden walk about, a Village Show and a Craft Fair.
+A jumble sale will be held on the 11th May
+The flat is still rented out successfully and this money pays Val Thompson’s ( The caretaker) wages.
+Finally I would like to thank Val and Alan Thompson, Elaine and Martin Raeburn, Rosie Cummings who is the treasurer, Pam Pryor who is the Trust secretary, the Trustees, a growing band of people who help to make our halls as good as they are and any organisation which helps financially towards the upkeep of the Halls
+5. Broomhaugh CE First School April 2013, Jen Stephenson
+I hope this report gives you an idea of school life at the moment and I must apologise for not being able to attend the Meeting in person—Parents evenings and Governors Meetings have unfortunately taken over my time.
+At present the number on the roll is 72 children. The capacity for school is 75 and I feel that to only have 3 spare places is quite an achievement. Obviously though things in a small school can change very quickly and just one family leaving school can have a huge impact. In September as far as predicted numbers go we are full.
+As a lot of the funding from Northumberland County Council is dependent on pupil numbers we are pleased that the numbers will be healthy. However it is a continual worry that funding is reduced costs are rising and schools are being asked to pay more and more for services.
+We continue to provide the children with a stimulating interesting curriculum that includes visits to other establishments e.g. Seven Stories in Newcastle, Discovery Museum, Roman Wall etc.etc. We feel that these visits can enhance the children’s learning however ,we are always aware that these trips do cost families a fair amount .
+The School also participates with other events that are held with other schools in the area, for instance next week we are taking part in a Music Festival that is being held at Hexham Abbey one evening. Children seen very happy at school- in fact we always seem to have a problem of children not wanting to go home in the evenings and wanting to come to school when they are poorly!
+School Staff do provide clubs for the children to join in after school activities such as Choir, Craft clubs , Sports club etc which are also well attended
+The PTA work hard for us and this year they have offered to pay for new markings on the playground and will need to raise more than £2000 to fund this.
+The Squirrels after school club continues to run, providing the services of after school care for working parents.
+We are continually grateful for all the support and interest that the parents of our children, Governors and villagers show in the School and would like to thank the Parish council for their continuing interest.
+6. County Councillor Report (TO FOLLOW)
+7. Financial Statement
+A Draft Financial Statement was presented
+Mr Brian Young asked as to where and how many Bank Accounts were held by the Parish council.
+As the PC is in the process of changing the bank Accounts clarification will be given by the Parish clerk.
+Mr Young also asked if the Parish Council had waved any fee re the Release of covenants in the past year. The reply was that no covenants had been released.
+The Meeting closed at 6.45pm
+Title: Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles - Phillis - Licia Author: Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625, Fletcher, Giles, 1549?-16an Sonnet Cycles - Phillis - Licia" *** This book is indexed by ISYS Web Indexing system to allow the reader find any word or number within the document. ELIZABETHAN SONNET-CYCLES EDITED BY MARTHA FOOTE CROW PHILLIS BY THOMAS LODGE LICIA BY GILES FLETCHER KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER AND CO. PATERNOSTER HOUSE LONDON W.C. 1896 INTRODUCTION The, Cælica, _Cælica_,, Cælica,IS HONORED WITH PASTORAL SONNETS, ELEGIES, AND AMOROUS DELIGHTS BY THOMAS LODGE THOMAS LODGE One-Mæc I. I Æt. VI hery[A] love, who now in heart lament it. [Footnote A: _hery_, praise.]. X,[B] whilst reason doth retire. The streams increase; love's waves my bark do fill; Thus are they wracked that guide their course by will. [Footnote B: steer empoop (_text_: steerem poop): _en pou. EGLOGA PRIMA DEMADES DAMON DEMADES Now Ah Give Peace, HowON Did Damon, farewell. How 'gainst advice doth headlong youth rebel! [Footnote C: Our?] AN ELEGY AhUNDA Muses.. AN ODE Now I find thy looks were feignèd, Quickly lost, and quickly gainèd; Soft thy skin, like wool of wethers, Heart unstable, light as feathers, Tongue untrusty, subtile!. LICIA OR POEMS OF LOVE IN HONOR OF THE ADMIRABLE AND SINGULAR VIRTUES OF HIS LADY, TO THE IMITATION OF THE BEST LATIN POETS AND OTHERS BY GILES FLETCHER, LL.D. GILES FLETCHER, LL.D. Giles Fletcher, author of _Licia_, was one of that distinguished family that included Richard Fletcher, the Bishop of London, and his son John Fletcher, the dramatist. The two sons of Dr. Giles Fletcher were also men of marked poetic ability: Phineas, the author of that extraordinary allegorical poem, _The Purple Island_; and Giles, of _Christ's Victory and Triumph_. There was a strong family feeling in this circle; Phineas and Giles pay compliments to each other in their verse and show great reverence and tenderness toward the memory of the poetic powers of their father. But Giles Fletcher the elder was not thought of in his own time as a poet. Educated at Eton and Trinity, Cambridge, where he was made LL.D. in 1581, a member of Parliament in '85, employed in many public services at home and abroad during a career that lasted until 1611, in which year Dr. Fletcher died at the age of seventy-two, he was known as a man of action, a man for public responsibility, rather than as the retired scholar or riming courtier. Most important among the foreign embassages undertaken by Fletcher was the one to Russia. The results were of great import to England, commercially and otherwise, but the book he wrote on his return was, for political reasons, suppressed. It happened that the years of enforced idleness that followed the suppression of this book came in the time when the young sonneteers at London were all busy. He returned from his embassage in '89; the book was suppressed in '91. _Licia_ was published in '93. The writing of _Licia_ was "rather an effect than a cause of idleness;" he did it "only to try his humor," he says apologetically in the dedicatory addresses. "Whereas my thoughts and some reasons drew me rather to have dealt in causes of greater weight, yet the present jar of this disagreeing age drives me into a fit so melancholy, as I had only leisure to grow passionate." In case wise heads should think him to be treating "an idle subject and so frivolous," or that it has been "vainly handled and so odious," he sets forth the nobility of his view. "Howsoever, Love in this age hath behaved himself in that loose manner as it is counted a disgrace to give him but a kind look, yet I take the passion in itself to be of that honor and credit, as it is a perfect resemblance of the greatest happiness, and rightly valued at his just price (in a mind that is sincerely and truly amorous), an affection of greatest virtue and able of himself to eternise the meanest vassal." "For Love," he declares, "is a goddess (pardon me though I speak like a poet) not respecting the contentment of him that loves, but the virtues of the beloved; satisfied with wondering, fed with admiration; respecting nothing but his lady's worthiness; made as happy by love as by all favors; chaste by honor; far from violence; respecting but one, and that one in such kindness, honesty, truth, constancy, and honor, as were all the world offered to make a change, yet the boot were too small and therefore bootless. This is love, and far more than this, which I know a vulgar head, a base mind, an ordinary conceit, a common person will not nor cannot have. Thus do I commend that love wherewith in these poems I have honoured the worthy Licia." The sonnet-cycle is inscribed "To the worthie kinde wise and virtuous ladie, the Ladie Mollineux; wife to the right worshipful Sir Richard Mollineux Knight." Nothing is known of this lady, except that her family may possibly have been very distantly connected with that of Fletcher. What the poet's feeling was towards his patroness he defines sufficiently. "Now in that I have written love sonnets, if any man measure my affection by my style, let him say I am in love.... Yet take this by the way; though I am so liberal to grant thus much, a man may write of love and not be in love, as well as of husbandry and not go to the plough, or of witches and be none, or of holiness and be flat profane." What "shadowings" the poet may intend he refuses to confide to us. "If thou muse what my Licia is, take her to be some Diana, at the least chaste; or some Minerva; no Venus, fairer far. It may be she is Learning's image, or some heavenly wonder, which the precisest may not dislike: perhaps under that name I have shadowed Discipline. It may be I mean that kind courtesy which I found at the patroness of these poems. It may be some college; it may be my conceit, and portend nothing." It is evident then that the patroness herself is not the real person behind the poetic title. He therefore dedicates _Licia_ to Lady Molineux, not because the sonnets themselves are addressed to her, but because he has received "favours undeserved" at her hands and those of "wise Sir Richard" for which he "wants means to make recompence," and therefore in the meantime he begs her to accept this. "If thou like it," he says to the reader, "take it, and thank the worthy Lady Mollineux, for whose sake thou hast it; worthy, indeed, and so not only reputed by me in private affection of thankfulness but so equally to be esteemed by all that know her. For if I had not received of her ... those unrequitable favours, I had not thus idly toyed." A warm admirer of Fletcher has expressed his opinion that _Licia_ "sparkles with brilliants of the first water." A more temperate judgment is that of another, who says that he "took part without discredit in the choir of singers who were men of action too." _Licia_ is what a typical sonnet-cycle ought to be, a delicate and almost intangible thread of story on which are strung the separate sonnet-pearls. In this case the jewels have a particular finish. Fletcher has adopted the idea of a series of quatrains, often extending the number to four, and a concluding couplet, which he seems fond of utilising to give an epigrammatic finish to the ingenious incident he so often makes the subject of the sonnet. He is fully in the spirit of the Italian mode, however, acknowledging in his title page his indebtedness to poets of other nationalities than his own. Weary those days, And none there was that might not well be won, But she, most hard, most cold, made of delays." Heavens were deceived, and wrong they do esteem, She hath no heat, although she living seem. IV Love and my love did range the forest wild, Mounted alike, upon swift coursers both. Love her encountered, though he was a child. "Let's strive," saith then her force she tried; Love was made ice, that fire was before. A kiss of hers, as I, poor soul, do prove, Can make the hottest freeze and coldest love. were both undone, My heart not loved, and armless Venus' son. by trial find; These all are hard, but you, my love, are kind. affrayed; lives." XI. XII I wish sometimes, although a worthless thing, Spurred by ambition, glad to aspire, Myself a monarch, or some mighty king, And then my thoughts do wish for to be higher. But when I view what winds the cedars toss, What storms men feels that covet for renown, I blame myself that I have wished my loss, And scorn a kingdom, though it give a crown. Ah Licia, though intrenched seely boy the greatest god defies.. XV I stood amazed, and saw my Licia shine, Fairer than Phoebus, flame,"-- Then burn me, sweet, with brightness of your eyes, That phoenix-like from thence I may arise. XVI Grant, As are the sands, fair Licia, on the shore, Or colored flowers, garlands of the spring, Or as the frosts not seen, not begun. Accept them, sweet, as incense due to thee; For you immortal made them so to be. XVIII I swear, fair Licia, still for to be thine, By heart, by eyes, by what I held most dear; Thou checked. XIX That time, fair Licia, when I stole a kiss, From off those lips, where Cupid lovely laid, I quaked for cold, and found the cause was this: My life which loved, for love behind me staid.. XX FirstII I might have died before my life begun, Whenas my father for his country's good The Persian's favor and the Sophy won favor both.,. XXIV When SevenVI I burned with love. Now by her means it purchased hath that bliss, Which all diseases quickly can remove. Then if by you these streams thus blessèd be, Sweet, grant me love, and be not worse to me. age. XXIX! XXX Whenas my Licia sailèd in the seas, Viewing with pride god Neptune's stately crown, A calm she made, and brought the merchant ease, The storm she stayed, and checked him with a frown. Love at the stern sate. XXXI loss may finished be! XXXIII. XXXIV. XXXV Whenas I wish, fair Licia, for a kiss From those sweet lips where rose and lilies strive, Straight do mine eyes repine at such a bliss, And seek my lips thereof for to deprive; When! XXXVI Hear how my sighs are echoed of the wind; See how my tears are pitied by the rain; Feel what a flame possessèd hath my mind; Taste but the grief which I possess in vain. Then if my sighs the blustering winds. XXXVII Lucia, sovereign of my heart, Read to yourself my anguish and my smart. XXXVIII. XXXIX My. XLI If, aged Charon, when my life shall end, I pass thy ferry and my waftage pay, Thy oars shall fall, my boat that comfort shall arise, The want whereof my life and hope did kill. Together placed so thou her scorn shalt cross, Where if we part thy boat must suffer loss. XLIII Are Cruel fair love, I justly do complain Of too much rig honored have your name. Then let your love so with my fault dispense, That all my parts feel not mine eyes' offense.. XLVII Like Memnon's rock, touched with the rising sun Which yields a sound and echoes forth a voice, But when it's drowned in western seas is done,. XLVIII thee. XLIX If that I die, fair Licia, with disdain, Or heartless live surprisèd with thy wrong, Then wears The truest heart unless it find some ruth. Then grace me, sweet, and with thy favor raise me, So shall I live and all the world shall praise thee. L Ah. his feet, there Pallas wisdom placed. With these she queen-like kept a world in awe. Yet all these honors deemèd are but pelf, For she is much more worthy of herself. LII O sugared talk, wherewith my thoughts do live! O brows, love's trophy and my senses' shine!. AN ODE Love, I repent me that I thought My sighs and languish dearly bought. For sighs and languish both did prove That he that languished sighed for love. Cruel rigor, foe to state, Looks disdainful, fraught with hate, I did blame, but had no cause; Love hath eyes, but hath no laws. She was sad and could not choose To see me sigh and sit and muse. We both did love and both did doubt Least any should our love find out. Our hearts did speak, by sighs most hidden; This means was left, all else forbidden. I did frown her love to try, She did sigh and straight did cry. Both of us did sighs believe, Yet either grievèd friend to grieve. I did look and then did smile; She left sighing all that while. Both were glad to see that change, Things in love that are not strange. Suspicion, foolish foe to reason, Causèd me seek to find some treason. I did court another dame, False in love, it is a shame!-- She was sorry this to view, Thinking faith was proved untrue. Then she swore she would not love One whom false she once did prove. I did vow I never meant From promise made for to relent. The more I said the worse she thought, My oaths and vows were deemed as naught. "False," she said "how can it be, To court another yet love me? Crowns and love no partners brook; If she be liked I am forsook. Farewell, false, and love her still, Your chance was good, but mine was ill. No harm to you, but this I crave, That your new love may you deceive, And jest with you as you have done, For light's the love that quickly won." "Kind, and fair-sweet, once believe me; Jest I did but not to grieve thee. Court I did, but did not love; All my speech was you to prove. Words and sighs and what I spent, In show to her, to you were meant. Fond I was your love to cross; Jesting love oft brings this loss. Forget this fault, and love your friend, Which vows his truth unto the end." "Content," she said, "if this you keep." Thus both did kiss, and both did weep. For women long they cannot chide, As I by proof in this have tried. A DIALOGUE BETWIXT TWO SEA-NYMPHS DORIS AND GALATEA CONCERNING POLPHEMUS; BRIEFLY TRANSLATED OUT OF LUCIAN The sea-nymphs late did play them on the shore, And smiled to see such sport was new begun, A strife in love, the like not heard before, Two nymphs contend which had the conquest won. Doris the fair with Galate did chide; She liked her choice, and to her taunts replied. DORIS Thy love, fair nymph, that courts thee on this plain, As shepherds say and all the world can tell, Is that foul rude Sicilian Cyclop-swain; A shame, sweet nymph, that he with thee should mell. GALATEA Smile not, fair Doris, though he foul do seem, Let pass thy words that savour of disgrace; He's worth my love, and so I him esteem, Renowned by birth, and come of Neptune's race, Neptune that doth the glassy ocean tame, Neptune, by birth from mighty Jove which came. DORIS I grant an honour to be Neptune's child, A grace to be so near with Jove allied. But yet, sweet nymph, with this be not beguiled; Where nature's graces are by looks decried, So foul, so rough, so ugly as a clown, And worse than this, a monster with one eye! Foul is not gracèd, though it wear a crown, But fair is beauty, none can that deny. GALATEA Nor is he foul or shapeless as you say, Or worse; for that he clownish seems to be, Rough, satyr-like, the better he will play, And manly looks the fitter are for me. His frowning smiles are gracèd by his beard, His eye-light, sun-like, shrouded is in one. This me contents, and others make afeard. He sees enough, and therefore wanteth none. DORIS Nay, then I see, sweet nymph, thou art in love, And loving, dotes; and doting, dost commend Foul to be fair; this oft do lovers prove; I wish him fairer, or thy love an end. GALATEA Doris, I love not, yet I hardly bear Disgraceful terms, which you have spoke in scorn. You are not loved; and that's the cause I fear; For why? My love of Jove himself was born. Feeding his sheep of late amidst this plain, Whenas we nymphs did sport us on the shore, He scorned you all, my love for to obtain; That grieved your hearts; I knew as much before. Nay, smile not, nymphs, the truth I only tell, For few can brook that others should excel. DORIS Should I envy that blind did you that spite? Or that your shape doth please so foul a groom? The shepherd thought of milk, you looked so white; The clown did err, and foolish was his doom. Your look was pale, and so his stomach fed; But far from fair, where white doth want his red. GALATEA Though pale my look, yet he my love did crave, And lovely you, unliked, unloved I view; It's better far one base than none to have; Your fair is foul, to whom there's none will sue. My love doth tune his love unto his harp. His shape is rude, but yet his wit is sharp. DORIS Leave off, sweet nymph, to grace a worthless clown. He itched with love, and then did sing or say; The noise was such as all the nymphs did frown, And well suspected that some ass did bray. The woods did chide to hear this ugly sound The prating echo scorned for to repeat; This grisly voice did fear the hollow ground, Whilst artless fingers did his harpstrings beat. Two bear-whelps in his arms this monster bore, With these new puppies did this wanton play; Their skins was rough but yet your loves was more; He fouler was and far more fierce than they. I cannot choose, sweet nymph, to think, but smile That some of us thou fear'st will thee beguile. GALATEA Scorn not my love, until it can be known That you have one that's better of your own. DORIS I have no love, nor if I had, would boast; Yet wooed have been by such as well might speed: But him to love, the shame of all the coast, So ugly foul, as yet I have no need. Now thus we learn what foolish love can do, To think him fair that's foul and ugly too. To hear this talk, I sat behind an oak, And marked their words and penned them as they spoke. AD LECTOREM, DISTICHON CUJUSDAM DE AUTORE Lascivi quaeres fuerit cur carminis autor: Carmine lascivus, mente pudicus erat. A LOVER'S MAZE True are my thoughts, my thoughts that are untrue, Blind are my eyes, my eyes that are not blind, New is my love, my love that is not new, Kind is that fair, that fair that is not kind. Thus eyes and thoughts, that fairest fair, my love, Blind and untrue, unkind, unconstant prove. True are my thoughts because they never flit, Untrue my thoughts because they me betrayed; Blind are my eyes because in clouds I sit, Not blind my eyes because I looks obeyed. Thus eyes and thoughts, my dearest fair may view In sight, in love, not blind, nor yet untrue. New is my love because it never dies, Old is my love because it ever lives; Kind is that fair because it hate denies, Unkind that fair because no hope it gives. Thus new my love, and still that fair unkind, Renews my love, and I no favour find. Sweet are my dreams, my dreams that are not sweet, Long are the nights, the nights that are not long, Meet are the pangs, these pangs that are unmeet, Wronged is my heart, my heart that hath no wrong. Thus dreams, and night, my heart, my pangs, and all In taste, in length, conspire to work my fall. Sweet are my dreams because my love they show, Unsweet my dreams because but dreams they are; Long are the nights because no help I know, Meet are the nights because they end my care. Thus dreams and nights wherein my love take sport, Are sweet, unsweet, are long, and yet too short. Meet are my pangs because I was too bold, Unmeet my pangs because I loved so well; Wronged was my heart because my grief it told, Not wronged. For why? My grief it could not tell. Thus you my love unkindly cause this smart, That will not love to ease my pangs and heart. Proud is her look, her look that is not proud, Done all my days, my days that are not done, Loud are my sighs, my sighs that are not loud, Begun my death, my death not yet begun. Thus looks and days and sighs and death might move So kind, so fair, to give consent to love. Proud is her look because she scorns to see, Not proud her look for none dare say so much; Done are my days because they hapless be, Not done my days because I wish them such. Thus looks and days increase this loving strife. Not proud, nor done, nor dead, nor giving life. Loud are my sighs because they pierce the sky, Not loud my sighs because they are not heard; My death begun because I artless cry, But not begun because I am debarred. Thus sighs and death my heart no comfort give; Both life deny, and both do make me live. Bold are her smiles, her smiles that are not bold, Wise are her words, those words that are not wise, Cold are her lips, those lips that are not cold, Ice are those hands, those hands that are not ice. Thus smiles and words, her lips, her hands, and she, Bold, wise, cold, ice, love's cruel torments be. Bold are her smiles, because they anger slay, Not bold her smiles because they blush so oft; Wise are her words because they wonders say, Not wise her words because they are not soft. Thus smiles and words, so cruel and so bold, So blushing wise, my thoughts in prison hold. Cold are her lips because they breathe no heat, Not cold her lips because my heart they burn; Ice are her hands because the snow's so great, Not ice her hands that all to ashes turn. Thus lips and hands cold ice my sorrow brew; Hands, warm white snow and lips cold cherry-red. Small was her waist, the waist that was not small, Gold was her hair, the hair that was not gold, Tall was her shape, the shape that was not tall; Folding the arms, the arms that did not fold. Thus hair and shape, those folding arms and waist, Did make me love, and loving made me waste. Small was her waist, because I could it span, Not small her waist because she wanted all; Gold was her hair because a crown it wan, Not gold her hair because it was more pale. Thus smallest waist, the greatest waste doth make, And finest hair most fast a lover take. Tall was her shape because she touched the sky, Not tall her shape because she comely was; Folding her arms because she hearts could tie, Not folded arms because all bands they pass. Thus shape and arms with love my heart did ply, That hers I am, and must be till I die. Sad was her joy, her joy that was not sad, Short was her stay, her stay that was not short, Glad was her speech, her speech that was not glad, Sporting those toys, those toys that were not sport. Thus was my heart with joy, speech, toys and stay, Possessed with love, and so stol'n quite away. Sad was her joy because she did respect, Not sad her joy because her joy she had, Short was her stay because to small effect, Long was her stay because I was so sad. Thus joy and stay, both crossed a lover's sport, The one was sad, the other too too short. Glad was her speech because she spake her mind, Not glad her speech because afraid to speak; Sporting her toys because my love was kind, Not toys in sport because my heart they break. Thus speech and toys my love began in jest; Sweet, yield to love, and make thy servant blest. Tread you the maze, sweet love, that I have run, Mark but the steps which I imprinted have; End but your love whereas my thoughts begun; So shall I joy and you a servant have. If not, sweet love, then this my suit deny; So shall you live, and so your servant die. AN ELEGY I Down in a bed and on a bed of down, Love, she, and I to sleep together lay; She like a wanton kissed me with a frown, Sleep, sleep, she said, but meant to steal away; I could not choose but kiss, but wake, but smile, To see how she thought us two to beguile. She feigned a sleep, I waked her with a kiss; A kiss to me she gave to make me sleep; If I did wrong, sweet love, my fault was this, In that I did not you thus waking keep. "Then kiss me, sweet, that so I sleep may take, Or let me kiss to keep you still awake." The night drew on and needs she must be gone; She wakèd Love, and bid him learn to wait; She sighed, she said, to leave me there alone, And bid Love stay but practise no deceit. Love wept for grief, and sighing made great moan, And could not sleep nor stay if she were gone. "Then stay, sweet love;" a kiss with that I gave; She could not stay, but gave my kiss again; A kiss was all that I could get or crave, And with a kiss she bound me to remain. "Ah Licia," still I in my dreams did cry, "Come, Licia, come, or else my heart will die." II Distance of place my love and me did part, Yet both did swear we never would remove; In sign thereof I bid her take my heart, Which did, and doth, and can not choose but love. Thus did we part in hope to meet again, Where both did vow most constant to remain. A she there was that passed betwixt us both, By whom each knew how other's cause did fare; For men to trust men in their love are loth; Thus had we both of love a lover's care. Haply he seeks his sorrows to renew, That for his love doth make another sue. By her a kiss, a kiss to me she sent. A kiss for price more worth than purest gold. She gave it her, to me the kiss was meant; A she to kiss, what harm if she were bold? Happy those lips that had so sweet a kiss, For heaven itself scarce yields so sweet a bliss! This modest she, blushing for shame of this, Or loth to part from that she liked so well, Did play false play, and gave me not the kiss; Yet my love's kindness could not choose to tell. Then blame me not, that kissing sighed and swore I kissed but her whom you had kissed before. Sweet, love me more, and blame me not, sweet love; I kissed those lips, yet harmless I do vow; Scarce would my lips from off those lips remove, For still methought, sweet fair, I kissèd you. And thus, kind love, the sum of all my bliss Was but begun and ended in a kiss. Then send me more, but send them by your friend; Kiss none but her, nor her, nor none at all. Beware by whom such treasures you do send, I must them lose except I for them call. And love me, dear, and still still kissing be; Both like and love, but none, sweet love, but me. III If sad complaint would show a lover's pain, Or tears express the torments of my heart, If melting sighs would ruth and pity gain, Or true laments but ease a lover's smart; Then should my plaints the thunder's noise surmount, And tears like seas should flow from out my eyes; Then sighs like air should far exceed all count, And true laments with sorrow dim the skies. But plaints and tears, laments and sighs I spend, Yet greater torments do my heart destroy; I could all these from out my heart still send, If after these I might my love enjoy. But heavens conspire, and heavens I must obey, That seeking love I still must want my ease; For greatest joys are tempered with delay, Things soon obtained do least of all us please. My thoughts repine and think the time too long, My love impatient wisheth to obtain; I blame the heavens that do me all this wrong To make me loved and will not ease my pain. No pain like this, to love and not enjoy; No grief like this, to mourn and not be heard; No time so long as that which breeds annoy; No hell like this, to love and be deferred! But heaven shall stand and earth inconstant fly, The sun shall freeze and ice inconstant burn, The mountains flow and all the earth be dry, Ere time shall force my loving thoughts to turn. Do you resolve, sweet love, to do the same, Say that you do, and seal it with a kiss. Then shall our truths the heavens' unkindness blame That can not hurt yet show their spite in this. The silly 'prentice bound for many years, Doth hope that time his service will release; The town beseiged that lives in midst of fears, Doth hope in time the cruel wars will cease. The toiling plough-man sings in hope to reap, The tosséd bark expecteth for a shore; The boy at school to be at play doth leap, And straight forgets the fear he had before. If those by hope do joy in their distress, And constant are in hope to conquer time, Then let not hope in us, sweet friend, be less, And cause our love to wither in the prime. Let me conspire and time will have an end, So both of us in time shall have a friend. FINIS. Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO., London & Edinburgh. *** End of this Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book "Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles - Phillis - Lic.
+Revealed: Brown’s promise to Blair
+GORDON Brown’s determination to bring Tony Blair’s days as Prime Minister to a swift end over the "loans for lordships" furore has caused war to break out not just in Downing Street, but in the newsroom at Farringdon Road too.
+Relations between the chancellor and Blair plunged to a new low ahead of Brown’s Budget on Wednesday.’."
+The former minister said the Brown camp had briefed a group of senior executives and political editors on the nationals that the row meant Blair must quit Number 10.
+The PM has publicly vowed to serve a full term until the next general election — expected in 2008 or 2009.
+But The Guardian demanded on Monday that Blair should go by the end of the year in an extraordinary leader which has divided staff at the paper.
+The paper’s Blairite Westminster team, headed by political editor Patrick Wintour — who recently succeeded long-serving Michael White as the paper’s political supremo — was furiously opposed to the idea.
+But the leader-writing team supported the plan. This was to the dismay of Wintour, who is famed in the lobby for his closeness to Tony’s best chum Peter Mandelson and for his supportive coverage of the PM.
+"You should have seen the scenes in the office when it was discussed," said a source at Farringdon Road. "It was mayhem."
+Significantly, the chancellor refused to come to the PM’s aid by helping to switch the focus away from the loans row.
+Leaks of juicy parts of the Budget to take the heat off Number 10 and the row over peerages were clearly not forthcoming.
+A senior Blairite said: "We’ve had no help at all from Gordon over the loans stuff. It has been made very clear he wants to be a million miles from it."
+Friends of the PM also believe that Labour treasurer Jack Dromey, who made the explosive allegation that he knew nothing about the loans, was "put up to it" by the Brown camp — a suggestion fiercely denied by both Dromey and the chancellor’s team.
+Meanwhile, a Labour party insider believes Brown’s actions will have severe consequences for the would-be prime minster in waiting.
+"There are people who will never forgive Gordon for this treachery, as far as an orderly transition of power goes, for many, all bets are off," he said.
+Curious tale of thief in the night
+NEWS reaches me of a heinous crime at the Daily Mail which has left the paper’s showbiz writer Baz Bamigboye on a furious hunt for the thief.
+Tradition dictates that when one of the showbiz team returns from a trip abroad, they bring with them armfuls of sweeties for those left behind in the newsroom.
+Bamigboye dutifully flew back from the Oscars with a bumper box of Celebration chocolates for all to enjoy.
+The goodies are normally put under lock and key at night.
+But someone forgot to stash them safely and the chocs disappeared overnight.
+A furious Bamigboye called in security to investigate what is clearly the worst crime on Fleet Street since a Christmas pudding was pinched from outside Indy editor Simon Kelner’s office.
+The culprit must now be living in fear that Mail editor Paul Dacre orders his henchmen to scour CCTV footage at Associated HQ to solve the crime.
+LA hotel ban for Newton seems bizarre
+SHOWBUSINESS writer of the year Victoria Newton, I learn, has been banned for life from staying at Chateau Marmont after writing a revelatory piece about the depraved antics of the Los Angeles hotel’s famous guests.
+Newton, editor of the Sun’s Bizarre column, told readers how A-list movie stars snorted coke and had rampant sex while staying there during Oscars week.
+Newton, of course, was also a guest — but indulged in nothing stronger than Perrier.
+Outraged Marmont staff say she has breached guest confidentiality. Snapshots of Newton’s pretty face have been extracted from CCTV footage and pinned up by reception to help staff spot her should she attempt a re-visit.
+All very odd considering that the Marmont is best known as the place where actor John Belushi died in 1982 after overdosing on coke and heroin.
+Newton is indeed planning to return to LA in May to cover the first night of Madonna’s tour. The Four Seasons, be warned.
+Rubin has a big impact on Sky News
+It appears that James Rubin is having a huge impact on viewing figures at Sky News — to the despair of his newsroom colleagues.
+Bill Clinton’s former White House spokesman fronts a worthy "flagship"
+show each weekday evening on international affairs.
+But his performance has left journalists at the network’s Osterley HQ with their heads in their hands.
+Several are muttering that foreign editor Tim Marshall and presenter Chris Roberts, who occasionally stand in for Rubin, do a far better job.
+But their frustration hit a new high last week when Sky left major breaking stories on "cash for peerages" and a crunch education vote in the Commons to switch to Rubin’s tedious show.
+"The viewing figures fell off a cliff,"
+said a Sky insider. "We lost about half the audience thanks to Rubin."
+Staff at the network insist news supremo Nick Pollard is not to blame.
+They are directing their anger at managing director Dawn Airey — now dubbed "Dawn Airhead" by her unkind critics.
+Buckers helps Blunkers to earn his crust
+AS Axegrinder revealed earlier this month, David Blunkett is picking up a hefty £75,000 a year for his column in The Sun.
+But it appears that the former Cabinet minister needs more than a little help in penning his weekly musings for Sun editor Rebekah Wade.
+A whisper reaches me that Fleet Street veteran Chris Buckland has been chosen for the task of knocking Blunkett’s copy into shape.
+But the involvement of the cigarchomping hack — whose day job is the special correspondent at the News of the World — should come as no surprise.
+Buckland is great buddies with Press Association supremo Paul Potts — a regular holiday companion of Blunkett’s — and News International boss Les Hinton.
+Poor Blunkers must hope that Buckland will prove more trustworthy than his biographer Stephen Pollard.
+He helped crush Blunkett’s Cabinet career by revealing his brutally frank opinion of his colleagues.
+Will that be fries with your scoop?
+THE BRUTAL cutbacks on exes at the Daily Mail have left some senior hacks on the brink of revolt.
+To slash at least 20 per cent off the claims of staffers the newsdesk has come up with a cunning ruse.
+"They are just putting an entire line through some meals with contacts,"
+moans one senior correspondent.
+"It means we can be out of pocket to the tune of £100 or more. Where are we supposed to take contacts — McDonald’s?"
+Greenberg gets into a spin with Collins
+THE KNIVES are out for ex-Mail on Sunday sports writer Simon Greenberg over the way he manages the spinmachine of Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho.
+He has long infuriated tabloid hacks with the way he runs the press operation at Stamford Bridge for "the Special One".
+But now, even the widely respected Roy Collins has waded in to criticise Greenberg in his Sunday Telegraph column.
+He lambasts Greenberg for the "amount of spin and counter spin that continually muddle the messages from what passes for a Chelsea PR department".
+Perhaps Mourinho will find the hapless Greenberg a berth if he does head off this summer for Inter Milan or wherever?
+Sunday Times hacks go down to the wire
+I’M TOLD that hacks at the Sunday Times are sinking to desperate levels in their futile attempts to impress editor John Witherow.
+One way of pandering to the boss and his minions is to ensure that exclusives are followed up by broadcasters and rivals on the dailies.
+The theory goes that the story must be "true" if it gets followed up — unlike the paper’s infamous scoops such as the Hitler Diaries in 1983, which later turned out to be a hoax.
+At least one hack has now taken to hectoring wire agencies with the latenight demand: "Why isn’t my exclusive running on the wires?"
+So far, diplomacy has prevented his hapless victims from passing onto the pushy staffer what they mutter under their breath: "Because it’s bollocks."
+Stenson really does want to be laughed at
+MORE on the planned and possibly suicidal debut of News of the World’s Jules Stenson as a stand-up comic.
+The venue for the features executive’s first (and probably only night) as a wannabe Jack Dee or Ricky Gervais was being kept a closely guarded secret last week.
+But, if my sniggering informants at Wapping are correct, it will be at the Comedy Store in Leicester Square on Monday night (27 March).
+A host of disgruntled ex-NoW staff and execs from rival red-tops are gleefully planning to head along for a night of gentle heckling.
+"It won’t be so much Jimmy Carr as Jimmy Carr Crash," says one underling at The Screws.
+But then, they have probably never heard some of the news lists which Stenson has occasionally offered up.
+Victory for Edmondson in tussle at NoW
+A BITTER tussle for power at the News of the World appears to have ended in victory for ex-People news editor Ian Edmondson.
+He found himself up against veteran Screws-man James Weatherup on the newsdesk after being appointed under editor Andy Coulson’s "divide and rule"
+strategy.
+But Weatherup appears to have lost the battle and opted to go back on the road, according to my spies at Wapping.
+The NoW is also reeling after another defection from the paper.
+James Millbank is off to The People where he is being lined up for a senior job — possibly as chief reporter.
+Millbank was apparently marched off the premises when he revealed to Edmondson that he was quitting for Canary Wharf.
+He becomes the latest to leave after Sarah Arnold skipped off to join the Sunday Mirror.
+So, are there any strike busters in the House?
+STAFF AT The Independent were left in no doubt about the definition of a picket line ahead of proposed strike action at the paper.
+Feisty mother of chapel Kate Simon fired off the above email to lowly paid reporters battling to squeeze a few quid more out of the Indy’s billionaire owners — before the action was called off at the eleventh hour. She made it particularly clear to any lobby hacks daring to cover the Budget from the picket-free zone of the House of Commons that they would be seen as strike-busters.
+Axe Grinder at the Awards
+Parsons breaks the peace
+DESPITE THE outbreak of peace at the British Press Awards, there was one shocking moment. One shortlisted candidate was greeted with a loud, and very localised, pocket of booing. More shocking still, the object of this vocal abuse was Lynn Barber — doyenne of celebrity interviewing and a previous winner of British Press Awards interviewer of the year no fewer than five times.
+Axegrinder was swiftly able to identify the boo-boy and discovered that Tony Parsons, Mirror columnist and best-selling author, was responsible for the barracking. Why? Because Barber gave him one of her legendary skewerings when she interviewed him for The Observer back in 2002 after Man and Boy had been published.
+Four years has clearly not been enough to mellow the erstwhile hip young gunslinger’s pain at being on the receiving end.
+Freaky charm offensive
+THE MOST curious sort of behaviour came from a staffer at The Guardian.
+An excitable and emotional columnist from editor Alan Rusbridger’s team set his sights on sex writer Catherine Townsend from The Indy. When his chat-up technique failed dismally, he informed the columnist she had "freaky eyes" before being sent packing. Charming.
+Fran’s night loses its fizz
+HARDWORKING Press Gazette events director Fran Barlow was looking forward to unwinding on Monday night as the British Press Awards drew to a close. After the sparkling evening had passed successfully, she was delighted to be told there was a complimentary magnum of champagne awaiting her, courtesy of the Dorchester Hotel team.
+Alas, when she was finally able to tear herself away from some last-minute duties, the bottle was gone. The Guardian’s team, assuming it was some sort of added extra freebie to toast their success as newspaper of the year, had guzzled the lot.
+Editors Met their match
+BPA TROPHIES may open a lot of doors in winners’ careers, but there was one place they didn’t carry any weight. Outside the Met Bar at 2am was a queue of trophy-wielding winners, including Alan Rusbridger, whose pleas for entry had failed to move the doorman. And I’m told Press Gazette editor Ian Reeves’s "don’t you know who I am?" gambit didn’t work either. Surprise.
+If we were having a beer, Cheryl would hand you the Specials Menu. You’d turn it over to look at the food side.
+“This sausage thing looks pretty good, but I don’t usually eat here. This guy takes his food to go.”
+“Maybe she wanted you to give that menu to me.”
+“No, I wanted him to see the drink special. You, you always drink Yuengling, but sometimes he gets a little crazy.”
+“I do not get ‘a little crazy.’ Sheesh, you try a Jameson and Diet Coke one time and she hits you with the crazy stick. Although, I do like Margaritas, but the cookies make it seem a little feminine.”
+“Yeah, the cookies were my idea, I might be a little feminine. Is that a problem?”
+“Now you’ve done it. No round on the house today. Nice going.”
+“Sorry. It’s funny, you’re usually the one that upsets the ladies.”
+“Not today. Today, you’re the one stuck in Margaritaville.”
+“She’ll be OK. So, what have you been up to? Do anything fun this week?”
+“I did. On Monday, my wife and I and our daughter went to the Big-E(1).”
+“Ah, fair food. What’d you eat?”
+“We started with a little bit of lunch at one of the beer gardens. The girls split a salad and Three-Cheese Risotto Balls and I had Sausage Risotto Balls.”
+“That’s it?”
+“In that place, I wanted to save room for the usual suspects, you know, blueberry pie and ice cream and a lobster roll.”
+“Wait, where did you get the pie?”
+“In the New Hampshire Building.”
+“No way. I looked for that. I always get blueberry pie and ice cream in New Hampshire Building but I couldn’t find it.”
+“It was on the other side. I walked right by. I thought maybe it was in the Vermont Building. My daughter tried to point it out, but I was used to it being over by the entrance. She finally convinced me go back.”
+“Was it the same guy?”
+“Yeah, he just moved to the other side of the building. He said a lot of people were confused.”
+“Confused? I didn’t get any pie! Why do they do stuff like that?”
+“The booths by the entrance are more expensive…”
+“That was a rhetorical question Einstein.”
+“Oh, sorry, I answer those all the time.”
+“Don’t people find that annoying? ‘Cuz I do.”
+“My wife does, but I’m getting better.”
+“How so?”
+“Well sometimes, I ask before answering. Just this week, I was leaving for work and my to-go cup was making this high-pitched squealing sound. My wife and our dog were both looking at the cup. I told her that I could explain what was happening but I wasn’t going to. She thanked me.”
+“The dog?”
+“No, my wife. I’m pretty sure the dog likes my explanations.”
+“So, why was it making that sound?”
+“The coffee is hot. It heats up the air in the cup and the air leaks out past the rubber stopper.”
+“Cheryl, if you can forgive me, I’d like to try one of those Margaritas. I’ll share the cookies with young Mr. Boyle and you can bring him another beer.”
+“Actually, Boyle didn’t specifically mention temperature. It was Clapeyron that combined a bunch of studies on gasses into the ideal gas law.”
+“See, that’s annoying, too. I mean, who really cares. Oh wait, you learned this from following DeflateGate.”
+“No, I learned it in high school chemistry class and I relearned it in chemistry and physics classes in college. I tried hard not to follow DeflateGate.”
+“Why do they have to keep naming things something-Gate, anyway? – And, just in case you don’t get it, that’s a rhetorical question.”
+“I was going to answer.”
+“Of course you were.”
+“Only because, in this case the ‘gate’ thing is appropriate.”
+“How do you figure?”
+“Well, as you know, the practice of adding ‘gate’ stems from Watergate.”
+“I know that, that’s why I told you the question was rhetorical. You just can’t help yourself can you?”
+“My point is that if the allegation behind DeflateGate is true, then it was a Watergate-like incident and the ‘gate’ suffix would be correct.”
+“You know, I don’t follow you – at – all.”
+“Richard Nixon was going to win that election anyway. He didn’t need to cheat. The Patriots were going to win that football game anyway. They didn’t need to cheat. So, if they did cheat, calling it DeflateGate would be appropriate.”
+“What makes you think of stuff like that?”
+“Well…”
+“Stop, please, please don’t answer that.”
+“These cookies are delicious. Thanks for sharing.”
+Notes:
+(1) Big-E – Eastern States Exhibition – The Great New England Fair – The 5th largest agricultural fair in the United States.
+(2) If you would know more about our bartender and read about those fabulous cookies, click here to visit her post and get the recipe.
+You’re a master, Dan. Wonderful read!
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+Glad NH could provide you with a delicious dessert. :-)
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+Thanks Judy. It’s the best! I think NH has the best building.
+Applesauce, Dan! This post has my sweet tooth in overdrive. I’d have any of those things for breakfast. :D And after this virtual sugar rush, I’d even have the beer!
+Delightful beginning to the weekend morning. I hope the pre-hurricane storms aren’t drenching ya’ll as much as they are DC. Have a satisfying Saturday.
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+Thanks Teagan. We’re getting wet, enough rain to cancel Maddie’s walk. I sat with her, catching up on blogs on my phone. When I got to the final episode, I had to go power up the laptop – I want the proper reading experience for that. I’m glad you liked hanging at the bar with us.
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+Eerrr.. yes, best to get comfortable. The conclusion is a good bit longer than usual. But thank you so very much for reading. Totally jonesing for beer (or rather for me ale) this early in the morning… LOL.
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+It all sounds so civilized. At the Minnesota State Fair, everything is deep fried, including deep fried Snickers Bars.
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+The Big-E has a lot of the deep-fried stuff too, but I’m stuck in a fair-food rut. I have my fairs where I focus on hot sausage, but I really like the food at the State Buildings at the Big-E. By the time I’m done with pie, lobster and cheese soup, there isn’t much room for a fried Snickers. Thanks for dropping by. One of my goals is to visit my brother some year during the Iowa State Fair.
+Haha! Awesome Dan. I love laughing so hard first thing in the morning. That and a warm chocolate croissant. 😏 I have to say, though, that the ONE question I had I thought you weren’t going to answer, but there it was at the end. What the heck is the Big E, and how do I get there? It sounds like a lot of fun. My hubs would love all that good good. I think his favorite pie might be blueberry! But he likes em all. His Mom was a great pie lady. Thanks for the mention and the ping. As always, it was a pleasure pulling the evening shift for you clow…umm, fellows at the bar. The conversation is so riveting. Someday you and my husband have to meet. Rhetorical questions around here are always answered. I don’t think I have ever heard him say, “I don’t know.” Frankly it would scare me to death! Great post. So many good links, now, I must be off. I cookies to make. A little tequila for the dough…a little for the cook….
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+I’m so glad you liked it Cheryl (I was worried). I’m glad to find out that I’m not the only one answering rhetorical questions. I always feel that people really do want to know those answers. I hope the links bring a few people to you. If not, they don’t know what they’re missing. Pie is something that I would definitely overeat if we had it more often. Blueberry is my favorite, which is funny because I’m not a big fan of the berries. A close second is a restaurant chain in Pittsburgh that features warm apple pie and cinnamon ice cream. Thanks for the comment and save some tequila for the cookies.
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+Hahaha! Funny post! I’m glad you answered the question about the Big E. I had no clue what it was, and I’ll admit it I hadn’t heard of DeflateGate, but when you explained it the lights went on. I just hadn’t heard that term for it before. I’m not a big sports fan…but I guess you can tell. :)
+That pie a la mode looks tasty. Time for breakfast! :)
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+I figured that both of those might not be recognized outside of New England, but the Football story was covered so much that I took a chance. I am so tired of it that I didn’t want to spend much time with it. It’s hard to explain things in a running dialog but I figured a footnote would be OK. thanks for the comment.
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+Dan–this was so funny! This is a conversation girls would have! It is so good to know that guys talk this way, also. Our big state fair comes up the end of this month–guaranteed rain. Don’t eat the food–heavily fried everything.
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+Thanks Lois! This is the final weekend for the Big-E and they are getting soaked. We like to go on an off day, when the crowds are smaller. Going on a weekend is just awful. I tend to avoid the deep-fried-somethin-on-a-stick, but there’s plenty of that to eat there.
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+In our house, the “Please don’t explain it” sentence is very effective for all parties. We don’t wanna hear about Bubba’s putering, Sissy’s boyfriend, why Sassy’s book is sooooo gooood, or Moo’s latest scabs. No one wants to hear The Mister explain how the costume people got the military decorations wrong, or why we need more shims, or the impact on the Dow. No one wants to hear why it’s funnier in another language or know how I made the cake so dense.
+Unfortunately, when we leave the house, the “Please don’t explain it” sentence is ignored.
+Now and again, we indulge one another, but it’s rare. “No, and please don’t tell me,” makes this house peaceful.
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+Ha ha – sounds like you have a good system. If you notice, I refrained from telling my wife about the coffee cup, but, since she edits my writing, I got it in there anyway. I’ve had people at work give me the eye when I explain something, but ‘they eye’ isn’t all that effective. My best friend is so inquisitive that he actually calls to ask me stuff. He’s pretty smart, so if he doesn’t already know, I usually can’t help. He leans on me for science but he’s a history buff so he’ll also call with a “did you know” story. thanks for dropping by.
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+Fun post, Dan! But I’m drooling for that blueberry pie right now… O_o
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+I’m sorry Wendy. I could go for another slice too. Thanks!
+Great post Dan. How do you manage to find out time for all this? I mean you handle your work, your blog, and then traveling for business and visiting these fairs and exhibitions, clicking pictures with Faith. Phew! However, I love when you post such pictures, I love attending these small fairs, but here its just too much crowd and I hate being at crowded places.
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+I try to take advantage of down time and travel time. I wrote drafts of several posts while on 3 and 4 hour flights these past two weeks. Plus, I get up early no matter where I am. So, when I get up at 5:00 in a hotel, and all I have to do is walk downstairs by 8:30, I have a lot of time to write. This series, and the SoCS prompts flow pretty quickly, usually on a Friday night (which gives you an idea of my social life).
+We don’t like crowds either. My daughter and I both took half a vacation day to head up to the Big-E, mainly to avoid the crowd. Thanks for the comment, I’m glad you enjoy the posts and particularly the hiking ones. I have really been inspired by your travel blog to try my hand at those.
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+Risotto balls sound a little iffy but that pie looks good a la mode and I am not a big pie fan. :) Cute title that tied in with the story. It’s funny how we get used to things staying the same.
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+The Risotto balls were ping-pong ball sized, dipped in a light batter and deep fried. They had a nice little crunch but not overwhelming. Mine were about a 50/50 mix of risotto and sausage. With tomato sauce for dipping. The pie is nothing special, but the ice cream portion is generous enough that there is pie and ice cream in every bite.
+This was originally going to be a somewhat serious play on the “Who Moved My Cheese’ book about how we get used to what we like. The story took control of itself and morphed into a visit to the bar. Then Cheryl found a desert recipe and I was off in another new direction. Sometimes these things have a mind of their own. Thanks for your continued support Deborah.
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+Yes I recognized the play on Who Moved My Cheese, I thought that was good- Who moved my pie? You are right about things having a mind of their own. Appreciate your support as well Dan. :)
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+Great one Dan. it was as if I was right there with you.
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+Thanks John. That means so much coming from you. I do this series to work on dialog (where you are the master).
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+Doing well sir.
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+Blueberry pie…Mmmmmmmmmm. One of my faves. Nice post, Dan. Thanks for the craving.
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+As far as cravings go, that’s an easy one to satisfy. Just remember to use enough ice cream for a bite-for-bite ratio. Thanks Mary.
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+Wow! You really have some interested conversations in your head! Fascinating.
+Fondly,
+Elizabeth
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+Thanks Elizabeth. some days I just listen to those voices :)
+I like the idea of cookies with Margaritas and am excited to hear of the large Fair over there in New England! Of course, blueberry pie with vanilla ice cream would be perfect with a cup of tea or coffee. The coffee cup making noise made me smile and chuckle a bit. Also, “deflate gate, Dan!”
+Sorry someone else (Mr. Boyle) missed the building, Dan where dessert was served. I hope you had a lobster roll. Yummy! :)
+The cookies sound delicious. If you look at the recipe, they are a virus shortbread cookie (I love those) with a little Tequila. I did have a lobster roll and it was yummy. Thanks for the comment Robin.
+Stellar dialogue, Dan!! I kept wanting to ‘map’ this conversation through all its tangents. And I want to meet Cheryl 😊
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+Thanks Sammy. The tangents are very reminiscent of actual conversations I’ve had at the bar. The composite friend that I’m drinking with is an interesting character that I have to try and figure out from week to week. Check out Cheryl’s blog. I think you will like her writing and her photographs. Her photo was used to create the badge of the Cherished Blogfest.
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+Thanks! I will seek her out!
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+I’m ready for some blueberry pie, Dan — ice cream or no ice cream. In fact, I’d like just about any pie, which beats cake any day of the week. Apple, cherry — you name it. I usually like it with some milk or coffee, though. Not with beer. And if you could warm the pie up, that would be ideal.
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+Coffee, tea or milk Paul, and almost any kind of pie (no rhubarb for me). Even the cookies with beer are a stretch, I don’t like sweet stuff with beer. Thanks for the comment. Oh, wait, there has to be ice cream or at least whipped cream.
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+Can I please have some of that pie? Looks the best!
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+That is my favorite pie Peter. If I could keep it warm and the ice cream from melting, I’d send you some.
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+"Hi Mrs. Harris." I wondered who in the world could be calling me Mrs. Harris. I turned around and it was one of my students from my first class that I taught at the community college. I was
+surprised to see her. I went over and gave her a hug and asked how she was doing. She informed me that she was working in the field and passed the national exam. She has also gotten married and introduced me to her new husband. I congratulated her on her accomplishments.
+She informed me that she has stayed in touch with a couple of the students and they are working and also passed the national exam. I told her that I was glad that she was doing so well. She asked me if I was still teaching and I told her that I was invited back for the 2009 fall semester. This student was one of the brightest students in the class and I knew she would be successful. When you are teaching you never know if you are getting through to students. Sometimes you doubt if what you do can make a real difference in someone's life. Well, I can say for sure that in some small way I made a difference in the life of a young person. This encounter will remind me that teaching does have its rewards.
+My kids and husband take all the things I do around the house for granted. They automatically assume that I will take care of every aspect of keeping the house clean. My husband accuses me of being obsessed with cleaning and he sometimes calls me a clean freak. It has crossed my mind to go on strike and just let the house become a complete pigsty. Now, it appears that I didn't have to go on strike for my hubby to notice that if someone doesn't do the laundry there may not be clean underwear.
+I was brought up in a home where everyone was assigned jobs to do around the house. My mother believed in keeping a clean house and the thought of unwashed dishes in the sink overnight or unmade beds was not an option. As an adult, I kept the same cleaning rituals. My kids must make their beds every morning and clean up after themselves. I cannot stand a chair that is not pushed back under the table and placemats must be free of crumbs and placed in their proper position on the table. I am not sure why I didn't do laundry this week. It wasn't an act of defiance but I just did not care whether the laundry got done. I am not sure whether my husband thinks that I might be exhibiting early signs of Alzheimer's. One thing I know for sure is that the lack of clean underwear can really make your hubby appreciate you more than you know.
+As an online instructor, you must compete with so many distractions for a student's time. The need to jazz up the online experience to engage and keep the students interested is a necessity. The use of savvy technology in the course room is a way of keeping students focused during your lecture. Incorporating innovative technology can be beneficial to both the instructor and the student. The student benefits by keeping their focus on the information being presented to help them understand the material. This can translate into better participation on discussion boards and tests or quiz scores. The instructor benefits by challenging themselves to be more creative in the classroom. This helps to think outside of the box.
+There are so many new innovative technology ideas that can be incorporated into the classroom. I am making it a point to learn how to use a new technology in my classroom to make the course interesting to my students. I have learned about a new technology this past week called Animoto. Animoto allows you to take your pictures and music and create a cool movie trailer. You can use your own music or use the music library from Animoto. Once you have created your video you can download and email the video to friends, family, etc. Animoto is quick, fun and best of all, free for the 30-second videos. If you create a longer video there is a charge. I will encourage students to make their own videos and share with the class. I plan to use Amimoto to create a better online community with my students by adding their photos and sharing birthday information.
+I have been hesitant to join any of the social networking sites because I am concerned about the loss of privacy. I am uncomfortable with my personal information sitting somewhere in cyberspace. Because we are living in an age driven by technology, it is almost impossible to avoid being part of some kind of online network community. There are advantages to being connected to so many in social networking communities. With unemployment still sinking into the abyss, this can be a way of marketing yourself to potential employers. There is a trend in human resources to find out more about potential employees by seeking out their MySpace or Facebook pages. The information you post on your page can reveal the kind of employee you would be. Hiring managers found information on social networking sites to solidify their decision to hire an applicant. Here is some frequently cited positive information:
+Social networking sites can have a down side. It is amazing that people forget the information and pictures they post can be seen by a potential employer. A number of things can send up a red flag to potential employers. Nude pictures, vulgar language, crude jokes and displaying other unprofessional behavior can have negative results. For the younger generation they are not thinking about the long-term effects of the information they post. A careless decision can cost them admission to college or loss of a job. Recently, in my area a couple of young teachers were fired because of photos and comments they made on a social networking site.
+I have set up a profile on a social networking site but it is not very creative. I am still hesitant to share information about myself. My 12-year-old daughter has volunteered to help me set up a creative and professional profile. I have made it a priority this week to get started on my profile and use this to network with other professionals.
+In addition to obtaining CPC credits, I have to maintain my RHIA credential. To maintain the RHIA credential, I must have thirty continuing education credits in a two year cycle. My primary concern is the cost associated with maintaining dual CEs. The registration fees and travel costs associated with attending workshops can be expensive. Since I work under contract, I must pay for my own continuing education.
+There are options to attending workshops. The AAPC allows you to take quizzes from the Coding Edge magazine to earn continuing education credits. You can also earn CEs by attending local AAPC chapter meetings. The best part is that this is all free. This definitely helps me stretch my dollars. I think the hardest part will be juggling the two different continuing education credits associated with the two credential bodies.
+If anyone has any information on other types of free continuing education available, let me know.
+There were a couple of coders that work at home as independent coders. I think most of us dream about working from home. These coders pointed out that working from home is not for everyone. If you are a social person and like the interaction with coworkers, working from home may not be right for you. I could relate to this because I am not a social butterfly. When I teach online, I can go days without having to leave my house.
+The great thing about being a coder is that the job requires for more than just coding. The skills sets of a coder are woven into so many areas of the physician practice.
+Ms. Fawcett received treatment at UCLA Medical Center. Before the actress could inform her family that her cancer her returned the tabloids posted the information on their Web site. Ms. Fawcett was convinced that the breach occurred at their facility. It was later discovered that an employee not involved in Ms. Fawcett's care had viewed her records multiple times. Ms. Fawcett wanted the name of the employee involved in the breach but UCLA would not release the information because of employee privacy. UCLA denies that the employee involved sold or release the information to the tabloids.
+I wondered why Ms. Fawcett would make a documentary about her personal struggle with cancer. After watching her documentary and the news accounts of her battle with the tabloids to keep her health information private, I have a better understanding of her decision. It is important for her to tell her story and not let the tabloids distort the truth. It is unthinkable that you could be fighting a terminal illness and have to worry about your health information being made public.
+Because UCLA treats high profile individuals, the temptation by employees to snoop into their medical records is greater. It is clear that UCLA needs more rigorous controls in place to avoid this incident from occurring again. Celebrities like all patients deserve the right to privacy.
+I left home a half hour early so that I would not be late for the exam. As I was headed down the interstate, my mind was just racing with so many thoughts. I drove myself crazy with the worst case scenarios. What if I couldn't find the testing center? What if my paperwork wasn't in order to take the test? As I was contemplating the next "what if," three deer appeared from out of nowhere. Lucky for me they had made it across the interstate just at the right moment. Was this a bad sign of things to come?
+I found the testing center without any problems. I checked in with the proctors and everything was in order for me to take the test. I had 30 minutes before the test began so I used this time to set up my coding books, pencils and erasers. All of a sudden, I started to experience major gastrointestinal issues. I raced to the restroom and prayed that this would be over soon. I cannot believe that I have come this close and I am about to blow my test before I even get started. Finally, my GI issues subsided and I raced in to the testing center.
+It was now time for the big moment. As the proctor went over the instructions, I could not hear what she was saying. My physical body was there but I was mentally checked out. It was time to begin the test. I took a deep breath and tried to get my nerves under check. After the first hour, I had answered only 25 questions. I panicked and thought I am not going to make it through the exam.
+I needed to calm down my nerves and move through the questions quickly. So, I answered the questions that I knew and skipped others that I was unsure of. When I reached the fourth hour, I still had fifty questions left. I became increasingly anxious and felt that I could not finish the test. I pushed myself to complete the test. When the proctor announced the 15 minute warning, I was going back through the test to be sure that I had answered all questions. There were a few that I had not answered so I answered them as quickly as I could.
+I left the testing center mentally and physically exhausted. I was completed drained and felt like I had failed the exam. I don't recall being so unhinged during the RHIA exam I took many years ago.
+After months of studying for the exam, it is finally over. I have been very difficult to live with over these few months. I think my husband was more excited than I was that I had passed the exam. I am now a sane person again!
+I am definitely looking forward to summer. This is the time of the year when students are preparing for their final exams and submitting projects. The level of anxiety among students is extremely high. Not to mention that they are preparing to go on externships. I will spend my weekend fine tuning the final exams and grading projects. Sometimes, I think it would be better to be a student than the instructor grading all the exams and reading all the research projects.
+The light at the end of the tunnel is that the spring semester is just about over and I can look forward to summer. Since I will have a lighter course load during the summer, I plan on focusing my attention on having some summer fun. My kids are also preparing for their end of grade tests and they also have their share of anxiety about testing. My son wakes up every morning and announces how many days are left until the beginning of summer break. We have already planned our summer vacation. The excitement is really building to pack up and head to relaxing place in sun.
+The idea of earning money from your own home is attractive for many reasons. First of all, you don't have to leave your home. This eliminates the expense of commuting to work, paying for lunch, clothing and other expenses associated with the traditional office environment. Secondly, if you have children there are no child care expenses to worry about. Finally, there are no major equipment you have to purchase to get started. You just need a computer and you are in business.
+The problem with these online scams is that they are usually too good to be true. They lure you in with the promise of making a tremendous amount of money. Some of the television ads promise that you can make thousands of dollars in a month. They show interviews with people that earned more than in a month than they did in a year from their regular jobs. In fact they earned so much money, they quit their jobs to work full-time.
+There are some legitimate online services that allow you to earn income without the exaggerated claims. It is important to research these companies before spending time and money on a scam. If you are asked to send money, this is a red flag that something is not right. If you are asked to give our personal information, to get started with this business this is another red flag.
+The best thing to remember is if something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
+The only problem is that I must pack up my laptop and all my resources to go on this vacation. Since my sister lives in Atlanta, we can stay with her and see the sites. I can set aside time to work and still be with the family on vacation. I want have to worry about getting an Internet connection at a hotel because I use my sister's Internet connection. Well, so I thought. I have software that is unique to one of my schools and it can only be loaded on my computer. In order to access my sister's Internet connection on my laptop, I have to type in an encryption code, router number and password. Well, my sister could not remember any of this information, which meant that I could not work. My first thought was I would have to go someplace and hope that I could get an Internet connection. My second thought was, "If I don't get access to the Internet this will turn into a permanent vacation."
+Finally, we were able to get access for me and I was able to start work. The thing about online work is that you cannot just break away from it. It is like an addiction that you have to satisfy even though you know that you are current with everything. On the second day of the trip, the weather was horrible so I used this time to get completely caught up on everything. I promised the hubby that the next day, I would go out with him and the kids. The next day happens and I did not leave my sister's house. The hubby and kids went on an adventure without me. There always seems to be a crisis that needs my immediate attention.
+My husband later returned and said, "I have the perfect title for your next article." He said; call it "How to have a vacation when you are on vacation." I could tell by his tone that he was being sarcastic. The thing about sarcasm is that there is always some truth in it. I guess I will have to learn how to take a vacation when I am on vacation. I guess I could always write a book on this topic. I am sure that I have plenty of stories to tell.
+I am a huge fan of HGTV in which they make over a room and transform it into your wildest fantasy. For years, I have dreamed of one of the designers from HGTV showing up at my door to transform not only a room but the way I work. I have fantasized about having a home office that inspires me and creates an environment that doesn't make work feel like work.
+In my mind I have the office planned out with the furniture, office accessories, pictures and personal items. I want to be able to have all of my textbooks, notebooks and other resources accessible on bookshelves. I would like my files to be organized with the information that I need to refer to frequently. The problem is that I share my home office with my husband. He uses the office as an escape away from the kids. It is more like he uses this space for pleasure. His job does not require him to use the office. In fact he will be retiring in 2 years and he has more books and magazines on his numerous hobbies in the home office. There are so many books they must be stacked on the floor.
+Today, we visited the IKEA store, which sells home furnishings, office furniture and accessories. This was my first trip to IKEA and I was astonished by two huge floors that have everything you can image. I found the office of my dreams on the second floor of the store. It had the computer desk that has room for a laptop, printer and room to work with my textbooks and other resources. The book shelves have plenty of room for my books and there were baskets that fit into slots that will contain more of my stuff. The best thing was the chair and ottoman that was just nestled under a window. The lighting and soothing music was icing on the cake.
+The problem now is that my hubby and I will be jockeying for position with ideas for our fantasy home office. I am not sure how this is all going to turn out but I plan on taking over the office the same way I have with our closet. I don't see any point on changing the way things really should be.
+Over the years I have attended numerous workshops on time management and thought I had developed techniques to deal with time constraints. As I think back to those workshops, the information dealt with juggling the demands of the office, employees and the expectations of the boss.
+Today, I am a professional in an entirely different environment. I don't have employees to supervise and the issues surrounding this responsibility. I don't have an office that I must commute to daily. I don't have a boss that I must see daily.
+The employees have been replaced with students who require my guidance and support. I can save myself time by clearly stating the expectations for assignments and developing a grading rubric that is detailed and leaves no room for gray errors. Communication is the key to avoiding endless amount of time sending emails trying to clarifying what I meant. The more places I post information and provide resources the less likely it is that I will be flooded with email that I have to respond to. Getting it right the first time is the key to saving time.
+A major percentage of my time is spent grading. This ranges from grading individual projects, discussion boards, live chats and tests. To save time with live chat sessions, grading participation right after the session ends is a quick way to complete this task. This avoids going back though the archives later trying to determine who attended and how much they participated. Instead of grading the individual projects all at once, I can grade a couple of these each day so that I am not stressed trying to meet the grading deadline.
+When you must juggle so many responsibilities at once, working smarter is the best way to avoid stress and save a precious few minutes for yourself.
+The commute to the office for most Americans is the worst part of the day. They can spend an eternity commuting to and from work. Most people will either commute by car or some form of public transportation. The average American will spend almost a full work week in traffic, according to a new study by the Texas Transportation Institute. Regardless of the mode of transportation, commuting will take up valuable time that most of us don't have. The level of stress associated with commuting can take its toll on your emotional and physical well being. As estimated 54 percent of American morning commuters experience stress while traveling to work or school, according to WebMD Health News.
+My commute to the office has been replaced with my commute to my upstairs home office. I have everything I need to be productive. I have a laptop and two desktop computers, a printer that allows me to fax and scan documents. I rarely need to use the phone to communicate with my boss because all of our conversations take place via e-mail or instant messaging. The meetings that I attend take place on my computer in which I can talk to other faculty members across the country. We can exchange ideas and socialize in real time.
+The employees have been replaced with students. Of course I don't supervise students but the majority of my time is spent communicating with students. There are no office disputes that require my immediate attention. Instead of monitoring employee performance, I provide support to help students reach their educational goals. Eventually, this will help them to reach their career goals.
+The boss that I had to report to daily has been replaced with a chairperson. I have never met my online boss in person. I refer to my online boss as my cyber boss. In fact, I don't even think of this person in terms of a boss. The difference is that this is a person who helps you to improve your instructional techniques in the classroom. They function like a coach on the sidelines who provides direction and gives you that extra push to help you strive for excellence. The common goal you both share is the success of your students.
+I am still dragging more than usual in the morning. My son has to be up at 5:45 a.m. to catch the bus by 6:30 a.m. Even he is having a tough time adjusting to this change. He is usually the one who gets me up in the morning. Lately, he has not heard his alarm clock go off and I spring into action once I see a little daylight creep into my bedroom. We both scurry around to get his breakfast, lunch and book bag ready before the bus arrives. Lucky for us, the bus driver is having a little bit of trouble adjusting to the time. This buys us some valuable time to make sure that we have everything ready to start the day.
+I used to look forward to the time change because I knew that spring would soon follow. Now, that I am older I need my extra hour of sleep. This body is not as quick as it used to be. It takes time for all the parts to function in unison.
+Dr. [Taro] Nakayama [League Chairman], thank you for your very kind and generous comments about my contribution to our relationship over the years. You are well known, as a distinguished Foreign Minister during the Gulf War, and for your important leadership of the U.S.-Japan Parliamentarian’s League.
+I must say that I am especially delighted to be here and see so many Diet members attending this breakfast. After having served 24 years in our Congress, I can’t recall ever attending a breakfast with this many members. So it is obvious that my popularity with you is higher than it ever was with colleagues back home. I know how busy a legislator’s life can be, especially as this new Diet session begins. So the fact that so many of you are here, I believe, is a tribute to the strength of our relationship and it shows your support for our role in the alliance and how much it really plays in the security of the Asia Pacific region.
+I’d also like to take this occasion to pay tribute to Ambassador [Thomas] Foley. Ambassador Foley and I served together in the Congress, going back to when I arrived in 1972. By that time I was just a freshman congressman and he was already a distinguished leader in the House of Representatives, eventually going on to become Speaker of the House of Representatives. He was always regarded as being very wise, informed, and enlightened on issues affecting international affairs, as well as domestic matters. So I want to pay a particular tribute to Tom Foley for the outstanding job that he has done here on behalf of our country and working closely together with you.
+Members of the Parliamentarians’ League, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, as was just mentioned, this is my tenth visit to the Asia Pacific region while serving as Secretary of Defense. I recall a former Secretary of State at the turn of the century who said that "the Mediterranean is the sea of the past, the Atlantic is the ocean of the present and the Pacific is the ocean of the future."
+I think it is very clear how prophetic those words were, spoken more than one hundred years ago. But the conjecture of haze is no longer conjecture. The future is unmistakably here. The future is now and the Asia Pacific is the most vibrant, pivotal region in the world. I think it is fitting that the end of my journey should take place right here in Japan, the nation that has been, and will continue to be, the cornerstone of America’s Asia strategy. The success of this alliance and our policies has contributed to greater regional security.
+I’ve had occasion to travel throughout the entire region during the past eight days, and I’ve heard a clear and very consistent message. There is a strong desire for stability, economic growth, fair trade, social development, and regional cooperation. The tenor of that political debate and the willingness to work together, I find, are greatly improved during the past four years. But this is still a time of great dynamic change in the security environment. So I would like to take just a few moments of your time this morning to talk about how the United States intends to continue to play a stabilizing role in this new environment.
+Throughout the region our goal is the steady strengthening of the security component and of what I call the virtuous circle. The United States military presence creates an environment of security, which in turn leads to stability, which leads to investment, which leads to growth and prosperity, which leads to democracy, which in turn builds even more stability. That is the virtuous circle that we seek to complete by our security policy.
+The U.S. military presence, and the stability that it promotes, begins in Japan. We look to Japan not only because of our friendship and our strong economic ties, but because of Japan’s leadership role. That is why we are committed to ensuring that our alliance with Japan remains the most important component of our regional strategy.
+Four years ago we began stepping up efforts to make this relationship more responsive to Asia’s dynamic security environment. For example, we revised the Defense Guidelines for Security Cooperation. Those new guidelines help us to work together for humanitarian missions, on peacekeeping, and other contingencies that affect Japan’s security. We have increased cooperation in critical areas such as theater missile defense. Just last week we were in New York, and the United States and Japan signed the Special Measures Agreement, a five-year agreement that addresses the funding that supports the American military presence here in Japan. Of course, the Diet must approve that Special Measures Agreement, and I hope that there will be broad support across party lines because it is not just a bilateral concern; it is an important contribution to Japan’s regional stability.
+At that meeting in New York our two countries also issued a Statement of Environmental Principles. That statement affirms our commitment to operate bases in Japan in accordance with agreed environmental standards and lays out the procedures that we will use in cooperating with your government to address potential problems.
+More importantly, I want to assure this audience that the U.S. servicemen and women are proud to be serving here. They want to work with their colleagues in Japan and the Self Defense Forces in defending Japan and expanding regional stability. We understand this. We understand that our operations and our training schedules can be a burden on your citizens. We are doing our best to minimize the problems, but we also need your support and understanding.
+Now, whether it involves live-fire training or night-landing practice, the training of our forces is critical to the credibility of our alliance. Some of you have heard me discuss this in the past, but you may recall that [last year’s air campaign over] Kosovo was one of the most successful—not one of, [but] the most successful -- air campaign in the history of warfare. We flew 38,000 sorties in that campaign and we lost only two aircraft and we lost no pilots. That’s because of the level of training that we insist our pilots engage in.
+So that when the time comes—when there is a crisis, when security is at stake—those pilots and the personnel who support them have to be ready to carry out their mission. So yes, it can be burdensome. It can impose some restrictions upon our neighbors, but without that training, it would be irresponsible for any of us, Japanese forces, American forces, to put our sons and daughters in harm’s way unless they have the best possible training. So, I know that from time to time these issues arise and they create local problems for your constituents. Hopefully we can continue to resolve them in a way that still preserves our sensitivity to your needs and your understanding of the security requirements that we also have in maintaining this alliance.
+The strength of the U.S.-Japanese partnership builds a foundation for broader U.S. engagement in Asia. I am well aware of the [ancient Greek] admonition that "whom the gods would destroy they first make prophetic." But, I don’t think there’s much risk in me being a prophet. In this case, in terms of the assumptions and the fundamental rationale of the U.S. engagement in the region, there are basically three factors: political engagement, military engagement and economic engagement. These will remain steadfast for the foreseeable future.
+With respect to the political engagement, the simple fact is that the United States is a Pacific nation. Our national interest in the region is great, and it is growing. One practical implication of our interest is clear, peaceful and constructive engagement with China. It is necessary for China to become a responsible member of the international community. I think you all saw that the United States Senate recently passed permanent trading relations with China. That was a long time in coming. It passed by an overwhelming margin, and I believe this will serve us well in the coming years as far as reducing tensions with China and contributing to the long term stability and prosperity of the region.
+I should also tell you that our military to military relations with China are back on track. We had a long hard year as a result of the accidental bombing of their embassy in Belgrade a year ago. No doubt, each of you saw the kind of recrimination that was taking place for the past year. Well, just this past July I traveled to Beijing to meet with President Jiang Zemin, to meet with my counterpart, and to meet with all of the leadership in China. It's clear that they want our relationship to get back on track, and [they] made every effort to make my visit as warm and generous as possible. I visited Beijing and Shanghai. I invited Minister of Defense Chi [Haotian] to come to the United States early next year. [On my previous visit to China in 1998] we signed a Military Maritime Consultative Agreement to prevent incidents at sea. A month ago we had U.S. naval vessels travel to China. We now have Chinese vessels visiting the United States.
+While discussing China, I think it’s important to dispel two fundamental misperceptions. It has been suggested that the United States, by working with all of the other nations in the region, is somehow trying to contain China. You know, and I know, and I think every one should understand, that China can not be contained. That is not our policy. Our goal is to engage China as it grows, as it becomes more open, and to encourage it to play a constructive role in regional stability.
+I can’t emphasize enough that the basis for engagement with China is a sound relationship with Japan based on our shared values of democracy and common security interests. And I want to make this point as clear as I can. I have made it to a number of audiences in China, to the Chinese Academy of [Military] Sciences, to the [People’s Liberation Army] leadership. Our security relationship is anchored with Japan. And even as we seek better relationships with China, that in no way will result in the reduction or diminution of the strength of our relationship with Japan. This is not a zero sum game. This is not something where we strengthen our relationship with China but we reduce our relationship with you. It is just the opposite. We need to have a strong U.S.-Japan relationship that also gives us leverage in establishing a strong relationship with China. It is to everyone's benefit.
+Now there’s another current challenge in our political engagement in the region and that is Indonesia. Indonesia is a strategically important country. It has the fourth largest population in the world. It is the largest Muslim country. It sits astride the sea lanes that are vital to the northeast Asian economy. It’s a nation that has taken huge steps during the past two years to democratize but it still faces major political, economic, and security problems.
+You’ve been reading about my role in Indonesia because we’ve had two fine journalists from Japan who have been traveling with me. But I met with the leadership in Jakarta and expressed my support for President [Abdurrahman] Wahid’s determination to manage the transition to democratic rule in Indonesia. We support his effort to bring about change, reformation and economic prosperity to his country, and yet, there are still problems that he has to face.
+Of most concern to us was what is taking place in East Timor, where the militia coming out of West Timor—and we believe supported by elements [of] either the active or retired military—have been waging conflict against those in East Timor. This cannot be allowed to continue, particularly after Indonesia had given a security guarantee to the UN staff workers going in and giving humanitarian aid to the East Timorese that they would be safe. Then, of course, we had three workers who were murdered, hacked up, and then their bodies set on fire. That is the reason why the UN Security Council passed the resolution condemning the action, and calling for the Indonesian government to disarm [and] disband the militias and bring them to justice.
+I carried that message to the Indonesian government, that unless they were to take this kind of action, that if they were to allow the militia to continue to go uncontrolled and unrestrained, then there were very likely to be repercussions; not only in cessation of the military-to-military contact that the United States has with them, but as you saw from statements coming out of the World Bank, they very well might not be the recipients of international financial aid. So it’s important for Indonesia to maintain and build upon the international goodwill that followed its steps toward democracy. And that’s going to require strong leadership coming from the Indonesian government.
+Let me touch quickly upon our military posture. The core assumption and intention is that we will continue to be a stabilizing force in the region and that several nations with large militaries and a history of regional conflict and rivalry mandate that we have such a presence. And that’s why our continued presence is vital not only in Japan but also on the Korean Peninsula.
+I just came from a visit in Seoul, and I met with President Kim Dae Jung. I commended him for what he is seeking to do in bringing about reconciliation between North and South. He deserves a lot of credit for his courage and vision. He also wants to proceed with caution. He is fully aware that the United States must maintain a presence on the Korean Peninsula even if there is some reconciliation, even if there were a reunification. He said that Kim Jong Il in North Korea also agreed that would be the case because if we were to reduce our presence and to remove our presence, someone would want to fill the vacuum. Who would that be? Suddenly you could have various nations vying to become the new power source in the region, which would probably mean that there would be an arms race, more tension and, in fact, the prospect of conflict.
+So as much as Kim Dae Jung is seeking a peaceful reunification with the North, he also understands that we need to be militarily strong. That is the reason why he has spoken out on several occasions reminding the South Korean people that it is critically important that the United States stay even if and after there is unification on the Peninsula.
+Let me turn to other areas. I was in Australia a couple of months ago. I fortunately got there before the Olympics started, so it wasn’t quite as crowded as it is today. [Earlier this week, I traveled to] Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines, which happened to be an eventful trip for me because I was there talking with the Philippine government about the need to exercise caution in going after the [foreign] hostages [being held on Jolo Island]. Of course, that night they announced they were going after the hostages, so it became an interesting evening.
+But all of the countries that I have visited want the United States to maintain a presence. Singapore is building a huge pier in Changi Naval Base that is going to accommodate U.S. aircraft carriers. Lee Kuan Yew, the Senior Minister, would like those carriers to come as often as they can because our presence sends the signal to all of the other nations in the region that we are not withdrawing [and] that we are committed to a forward deployment posture to the extent that our host countries want.
+The United States is here at your sufferance. We don’t go anywhere we are not wanted. But fortunately the leadership of the countries throughout the region understand that we are not seeking territory and that we are not trying to conquer anyone. Rather, we are trying to create that environment of stability. I come back to the virtuous circle: where there is stability and security, investment flows. When you have investment flowing in, you have the chance to produce prosperity. Prosperity in turn promotes more security and more democracy. The moment there is an area of instability, investment flows out. Then you have all the social problems that are attendant to that, namely a depressed economy, competition for diminishing resources, and various political groups promising relief.
+Now there are a number of institutions that can help promote greater stability. I’ll just touch upon a couple. The ASEAN Regional Forum facilitates the kind of activities I’ve been talking about. And so I have also tried to stress during this trip that as we strengthen our bilateral relationships with Japan, with the Philippines, with Singapore, with Thailand, and with Korea, that we think it is important to try, whenever we can, to have multilateral exercises.
+We may be forced in the future to deal with situations like East Timor, where we had the Philippines taking an active role working with Australians and others, such as the Singaporeans, working together to carry out a UN mission. If there is a humanitarian disaster that affects someone’s country, you may be called upon to help. In those instances, I think it will be beneficial if we have some sort of planning and perhaps even training together on those kind of peaceful operations. It’s not going to happen tomorrow but it’s going to happen. At some point we’ll have to have greater cooperation because the world is getting smaller.
+In fact, you’re making it smaller. Technology being developed here in Japan is making the world smaller. Technology is miniaturizing the globe. We don’t think in terms of oceans anymore. They’re mere ponds. We don’t think of [distant] countries, they become almost like adjoining counties. Everything is being compressed by technology. So the world is getting smaller and faster and faster and faster. You’re part of this and so as this proceeds, and in this age of [what Alvin Toffler called] Future Shock, I think there are going to be more and more requirements and demands that we cooperate on a multilateral basis as well as a bilateral basis.
+Let me conclude. I think that I have exceeded my allotted time. I simply want express to you that I have come here in good times and bad. I have always wanted to come consistently, whether the times were bad economically or good, to remind you that we value this relationship. This is important to us. I hope that you still feel that it is very important to you. With continued leadership in the dawn of this new Pacific Century, we will remain a Pacific power with a Pacific partner ready to play a part in generating a new century of peace and prosperity. Thank you.
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+Jeep Wranglers are unique breeds of vehicles that are a matter of pride and sophistication to their owners. That’s why the best shocks for jeep JK are ideal to ensure that your wrangler has a longer service life. Remember that the shocks are meant to absorb the vibration and the pressure generated on the spring’s vehicle.
+People buy Wranglers intending to go camping frequently on those uneven roads with cracks and muds, and these jeeps are meant to make their ride an ultimate comfortable one.
+Therefore, to ensure their off-road driving is of utmost ease and full of enjoyment, having some of the best shock absorbers fitted in a wrangler is the need of the hour.
+Best Shocks For Jeep Wrangler JK
+The 10 Best Shocks For Jeep JK
+Go through the review of the following top-notch shocks to find out why they should be an integral part of a camper’s jeep to make the best of their camping days.
+Let’s dive-in then:
+01. FOX PERF All Necessary Washers IFP Shocks Compatible with Jeep Wrangler JK
+To enjoy one of the smoothest rides in your jeep on the bumpy, muddy roads, what you want in your jeep is these Fox series shocks. With them, your jeep will be capable of withstanding any jerks, vibration on the road, and you won’t face any discomfort in your steering wheel while driving through these roads whatsoever.
+Latest Technology
+A significant advantage that these Fox series shocks have over their average counterparts is that they are designed with the latest technology that ensures your SUV/Jeep/truck offers you an improved performance off-road.
+One of its significant features is the damping control system that enables you to control your vehicle smoothly on-road driving and on rough roads, which can otherwise prove extremely difficult to tackle. Besides, there is an internal mono-tube reservoir design (IFB) that differentiates the shock oil from the high-pressure nitrogen.
+Longevity
+Next, we come to the making of the shock absorbers. Every Fox series shocks are made of high-quality aluminum, which guarantees their durability.
+Its 2-inch metal-impacted body is a reason why it has a prolonged service life, and it’s strongly constructed body will ensure that no matter whatever kind of road your jeep passes through, these shocks can handle everything with ease and keep your jeep stable throughout the travel.
+Rust-resistant
+Not only its design gives a super durable finishing, but also its well-built structure ensures that it’s always free from rusting for numerous years ahead.
+Rechargeable
+One other important thing to note here is that these shocks can be refilled with nitrogen gas and are rebuildable.
+Accessories
+With the Fox series shocks, you get accessories like nuts, bushings, washers, etc., included as a package. Therefore, you won’t need to buy any additional components from outside. Also, these components are black-anodized-made, which is what the Wrangler owners love the most.
+Easy to Install
+Fox Series is easy to install as it comes with a 0-1 inches lift kit, which ensures a simple installation process.
+Pros
+- Damping control
+- Rust free
+- Longevity
+- Strongly built
+- Installation is easy
+- Set of 4 socks
+- Accessories available
+Cons
+- Can be expensive
+02. Southwest Speed Bilstein Front and Rear Shocks0 7-18 Jeep Wrangler JK
+No doubt of the Bilstein 5100 shocks are one of the premium quality shocks that makes your jeep riding relatively smooth on any road. Such shocks are super durable and ensure extended longevity for your vehicle.
+Design
+The 5100 series shocks are high gas pressure shock absorbers structured to cater to lifted pick-ups, Jeeps, and SUVs.
+Stability on the Road
+Stability is one of the essential qualities you want in quality shock absorbers, and you’d certainly get that in this Bilstein 5100 series. With these shocks fitted on your vehicle, you’ll certainly be guaranteed a stable ride.
+Damping Control
+Such shocks provide super damping control ability, enabling you to control your vehicle on terrible off road conditions such as the challenging turns and most formidable terrains. Therefore, not only you but also the passengers in your vehicle are ensured are safe drive.
+Another feature in these shocks is a digressive piston (46 mm) that contains deflective disc valving that can be self-adjusted.
+Effective Cooling
+Because of the high-gas pressure monotube design, these shocks can evenly distribute heat to the shocks’ external surface, thereby giving a more cool effect on the shock absorber itself.
+Rust Free
+One major reason why these shocks have a more extended service is that they are free from rusting. Therefore, there won’t be any compromise with its performance whatsoever, and you won’t have to worry about replacing them either.
+Accessories
+Along with these shocks, you’ll get a complete set of nuts, bushings, and washers, which will help you install them easily. Hence, you won’t require any additional components, hardware, etc., to buy from any other stores.
+Pros
+- Monotube high gas pressure
+- Valving system (digressive)
+- Damping control
+- Effective cooling
+- 46 mm piston
+- Accessories available
+- Easy installation
+Cons
+- Font shocks’ rubber can have issues
+03. TeraFlex 1545200 Premium Quality Rubber 3″-4″ Front/Rear All 4 Shock Kit
+For those who are searching for premium quality shocks, the TeraFlex shock absorbers are worth consideration. It offers a 3 to 4-inches lift, which is just ideal for your Jeep Wrangler, especially while driving through rough terrains.
+Design
+One of the highlights of these shocks is their unique design, which ensures you can drive smoothly off the road irrespective of the cracks or the potholes the road might have.
+Durability
+Because of its robust built, these shocks are durable, and therefore, they have a longer service life. This ensures your vehicle will have an improved service life irrespective of the number of miles you’ve traveled, and you don’t need to worry about replacing your shocks.
+Velocity Valving
+Within this shock is a velocity valving mechanism (in-built), which is designed to respond along with the TeraFlax suspension system. Not only this, but it also has a rod (triple-chromed), which the shock to perform smooth and simple, and an oil block.
+Stability on the Road
+With TeraFlex shock absorbers, you can get guaranteed stability of your Wrangler while driving on more challenging roads. No way are you going to lose control of your vehicle while you have these shocks put on.
+Accessories
+Such a shock comes with premium quality bushings, which are there to improve the quality of the ride. Moreover, all the necessary components are readily available, so there isn’t any need to buy any additional equipment for installation.
+Easy to Install
+Since all the necessary equipment is readily available with the package, you won’t find any problems installing them. All the hardware available with this shock ensures you a hassle-free installation.
+4-in-1 Package
+The TeraFlex shocks are available in a four-in-one package. All these shocks are twin-tube rear shocks, which always assure your Jeeps’ enhanced performance.
+Pros
+- Velocity valving
+- Premium quality bushings
+- Easy to install
+- Stability and smooth ride
+- Suitable to all JK Wranglers
+Cons
+- Expensive
+04. Fox 2.0 Shock Boots Performance Reservoir Shock Set Compatible with 2007-2016 Jeep Wrangler
+In terms of performance, there is hardly any better than this Fox performance series shocks. Such topnotch shocks are the must-have tools in your vehicle whenever you want your jeep to have a solid grip on the roughest of roads and can take any on-road challenge that it can possibly face.
+External Reservoir
+One massive advantage that such shocks carry is the inclusion of an external reservoir. Because of this reservoir’s presence, there will be more storage capacity of oil and nitrogen within the shock absorbers.
+Not only has this, but the reservoir also helps to reduce the heat and cavitations when the shock is used excessively. Thus, it also helps to eliminate the shock fade.
+Design
+One major advantage of the fox series of shocks is their design. Its well-built structure ensures it doesn’t compromise on performance even under extreme pressure and guarantees a superior driving experience. Not only that, but it also has a longer service life, which means it can continue to run well even after several thousand miles.
+Accessories
+Like all the premium quality shocks, the Foz series of shocks also comes with necessary components like nuts, washers, bushings, reservoirs, clamps, etc. Therefore, this will help you to install the shocks easily without needing to buy any additional mounting tools are any mechanics’ help.
+Set of Four Shocks
+What you’ll get in the package is a set of four shocks (2 front and two back) with four to six-inches lift at the front and four to six-inches lift at the back. These lifts are very useful, particularly when you are driving through mud-filled roads or potholes.
+Pros
+- External reservoir
+- Strong construction
+- All the necessary accessories provided
+- 4 to 6-inches lift at the front and rear
+- Supreme control
+- Offers Stability while driving
+Cons
+- Can be a little expensive
+05. Rancho RS5000XHigh Quality Gas Shocks Set Compatible with 07-15 Jeep Wrangler JK
+As we all know that Rancho is one of the top vehicle accessory producing brands in the world, and this RS5000X is one of the leading shocks that exists in the market. Once you have installed them on your Wrangler, you can forget about the worries of traveling through those rough roads, as all your riding headaches will be taken care of by these shocks.
+Stability
+A significant component to look for in a shock is whether it can provide the necessary stability you’d need while driving on uneven terrains without losing balance. Indeed, one most significant factor to consider while you buy a shock for your wrangler.
+Effective Valve System
+One key aspect of this shock is that it has a valve system that pressures it up to 150 PSI, thereby increasing the jeep’s spring rate, which then again allows safe at the same time a bump-free drive.
+Smooth Control
+Another critical component of these shocks is the shocks’ body, which is two 1/4th inches, enabling a smooth flow of fluid, thereby ensuring you have effective control of the vehicle.
+Eccentric Disc
+Inside this valve is an eccentric disc, which is also known as Progressive Engagement Valving, enabling you to control the vehicle smoothly and ensure stability.
+Durability
+Rancho products are reputed all over the world; therefore, there is no question regarding its durability. These shocks have an enhanced service life, ensuring you have improved performance from your vehicle for a long time.
+Accessories
+The entire RS5000X series consists of all the fitting components like nuts, washers, bushings, etc. Therefore, you can install the shock all your own without any assistance or any different types of equipment or hardware.
+Pros
+- Stability
+- Progressive Engagement Valving
+- Effective Valve system
+- Accessories
+- Easy to install
+Cons
+- Paint used in the shock isn’t good quality
+- Nuts and brushing needs installation
+06. Bilstein Includes Front and Rear 4600 Series Shock Absorbers
+Owners of Jeep Wrangler always prefer adventure in riding with comfort as well. Therefore, the Bilstein 4600 series is the one every vehicle owner should bank on. With such shocks, you’ll have a superior vehicle performance guaranteed, and there will be smooth driving ensured on any road irrespective of the conditions.
+Stability
+Whenever you want a safe drive on the road, having a Bilstein 4600 series is something worth it. Such shocks will ensure you have adequate stability off the road while driving through the bumpy streets. With these absorbers, you’ll have ultimate stability in your vehicle and thereby ensuring safety not only for you but the passengers in it as well.
+Design
+With the mono-tube gas pressure technology, these shocks can withstand any road conditions, thereby ensuring a smooth drive on any road conditions. Not only that, with this 4600 series, you’ll also have better handling of your vehicle, which helps in improved performance.
+Longevity
+Because of its robust construction, you are guaranteed a long service life, which means you don’t need to worry about replacing these shocks in the distant future; they will give you a strong performance even after your vehicle has run several miles. Therefore, as far as service life is concerned, you can undoubtedly trust their credibility.
+Anti-rust
+Another top feature of these shocks is the anti-rusting feature, which ensures these shocks run for longer durations and won’t wear out quickly.
+Easy to Install
+With the direct bolt-on feature, you won’t need any additional gear to mount the shocks; it’s like a “plug-in-and-play” kind of stuff where you can install the shock yourself easily on your Wrangler.
+Pros
+- Monotube gas-pressure technology
+- Ensures a smooth and stable ride
+- Easy handling
+- Easy installation with direct bolt-in feature
+- Longer service life
+Cons
+- Bushings within the package aren’t of good quality and won’t fit properly
+- Nuts are difficult to screw on the shocks’ top
+07. Rough Country N3 Maintains Smooth 2.5″ Lift Kit Compatible with Jeep Wrangler JK 4DR
+Whenever you think about durability, longevity, etc., the Rough Country premium shocks are the ideal ones to have for your Wrangler. With these shocks, you Wrangler are ready to take any challenges that it faces on the road, such as bumpy drives, potholes, muds, etc.
+Unmatched Performance
+With the premium quality N3 shocks, there is no doubt that you’ll get an unbeatable performance from your vehicle. No matter whichever type of road you are traveling, these shocks ensure that you will get a smooth and efficient ride throughout your journey.
+Factory-Like Ride
+Because of the tuned coiled springs’ efficiency in the shocks, it offers a Wrangler owner a silky-smooth factory-like ride without any worries of losing control over the vehicle. With the front-rear shocks, it’s ideal for maintaining the balance of your vehicle off the road.
+Longevity
+Longer service life is in demand for every shock today as no one wants to replace them as they can get exhausted after running a few miles. However, with these N3 shocks, there is no issue of longevity whatsoever. No matter how many miles your jeep has run, these shocks will continue to offer superior performance.
+Easy to Install
+With the necessary kits available with the package, there is no need to buy additional gear to mount it in your jeep. All the needed accessories are available inside the package, which makes it easy to install.
+Compatible to all Wranglers
+One of the essential features of these shocks is that they fit in all the Wrangler models. Therefore, its design ensures that you don’t need to worry about which specific make or model of Wrangler you are driving; they will easily fit in on almost every jeep.
+Pros
+- Unmatched performance
+- factory-like ride
+- Installation is easy
+- Supreme control off and on the road
+- Compatible to all Wranglers
+Cons
+- Doesn’t level the ride well sometimes
+08. Rancho RS5000X High Quality Gas Shocks Set for Jeep Wrangler 4WD JK
+Rancho has launched its premium quality RX 5000 S series as a reputed vehicle accessories producer, which offers you unbeatable control and grip on all roads. People looking for supreme control of their wrangler while driving off the road, these shocks are something they must have.
+Stability on and off the Road
+As already mentioned earlier, you’ll get the much-needed stability while driving off and on the road with these shocks. Forget about those steep turns and the toughest of terrains; just enjoy your ride with these best shocks for Jeep JK. Therefore, this is all the more reason for you to buy such a quality product.
+Smooth Control
+One other component of such shocks is its body, and because of its smooth body structure, it enables a smooth fluid flow, which ensures that a Wrangler owner has sufficient control over their Jeep on any road.
+Disc System
+With the Progressive Valving system inside an eccentric disc, you can have your vehicle’s smoother controlling capacity. Because of this, you’ll have much-needed stability on your vehicle while driving through uneven roads.
+Durability
+One thing you can be guaranteed with this RX5000 series is its durability. As Rancho is one of the most reputed vehicle accessories manufacturers globally, all their products are of top-notch quality. Therefore you get a product which can last for long and continue to offer you supreme performance.
+Accessories
+Similar to most other premium shocks, the RS5000X comes with all the necessary components necessary for easy installation. With this kit, you’ll get the needed bolts, washers, nuts, etc., as a package.
+Set of Four
+Such shocks are available with four (two front shocks and two rear shocks with 0-2” lift, which is necessary while traveling on muddy and dampened roads.
+Pros
+- Stability
+- Easy to install
+- Necessary components available
+Cons
+- Paints not good
+09. Fox Pear Series IFP Shocks Compatible with Jeep Wrangler JK
+Fox series offers you the premium quality shock that will make your Wrangler driving a fun-filled moment. You don’t need to worry about the road’s extreme conditions when you have these shocks in your jeep. Just install them, and they will take care of your safe and enjoyable diving both on and off the road.
+Control
+With the damping control system, you will be able to smoothly control your vehicle on any road, no matter if it’s a pothole, muds, or cracks, which won’t have been possible with any ordinary shocks.
+Modern Technology
+One of the most significant advantages of using these shock absorbers is that you get the assistance of modern upgraded technology in your jeep. Such shocks are designed to ensure that they can offer your jeep/SUVs/trucks a much-improved performance, especially off the road.
+Rust-resistant
+Rusting is often an issue that vehicle owners experience with their shocks, but not with these Fox series of shock absorbers. Because of their premium quality making, they won’t rust and will continue to offer you an enriched experience driving for longer miles.
+Longevity
+Due to its anti-rust body, these shocks would last long without compromising on the performance whatsoever. No matter how many miles your vehicle has run, you won’t need to worry about these shocks’ service life whatsoever.
+Rechargeable
+One other aspect of these shocks is that they can be refilled with nitrogen gas and can be rebuilt.
+Accessories
+Along with the shocks, you will get all the necessary components necessary to install them, like the nuts, brushings, washers, etc., which is why installation becomes much more comfortable. Therefore, you won’t require buying any additional hardware or other gears to mount it.
+Pros
+- Rust free
+- Longevity
+- Damping control
+- Easy installation
+- Four shocks in one pack
+- All installation accessories included
+Cons
+- Can be expensive
+10. Rancho RS5000X Premature Failure Gas Shocks Set Compatible with 07-15 Jeep Wrangler JK
+Quality is the first and perhaps an essential thing that you get with these gas shocks. No matter whichever type of road you are driving, you’ll have a smooth driving experience, particularly on uneven roads or the one full of muds, cracks, etc.
+Stability
+Whenever you drive for camping with your Wrangler through the uneven roads, you’d need stability. With these shocks, you’ll exactly get that. Having these shocks in your vehicle will ensure that you can have the balance necessary while traveling through uneven roads.
+Longevity
+Being a premium brand, the RS5000X shocks offer you the longevity you want from your absorbers, especially since your jeep will be traveling through the bumpy roads, which can present you many challenges while you drive through them.
+Guaranteeing enough stability will ensure you don’t need to worry about issues with your jeep’s balance whatsoever.
+No Rust
+One major reason why these shocks last longer are because they don’t rust easily. Therefore, you don’t need to worry about its service life as it will continue to offer you the support for longer miles of driving.
+Accessories
+You will get with the RS5000Xseries the necessary nuts, bolts, bushings, washers, etc., needed to install the shock. Do not worry about buying any additional components or other hardware to install these shock absorbers.
+Fits in all 4WD Vehicles
+One essential characteristic of this shock is that it fits all 4WD vehicles irrespective of the make and model.
+Easy to Install
+Because these shocks come with components included, you won’t need any help from any mechanics to install these. The RS5000X series comes with an in-bolt feature, so you can simply mount it in your vehicle using the components included. Installing these shocks is simple DIY stuff.
+Pros
+- Easy to install
+- Stability
+- Anti-rust
+- Available in a set of 4
+- Accessories included
+Cons
+- Not good quality paint
+Buying Considerations for the Best Shocks for Wranglers
+Now that you’ve had an idea about the types of shocks available in the market, here are a few things you need to consider while buying the ideal shocks for your jeep.
+Style as well as the Condition for Driving
+People who spend a lot of time driving on the highway must have the best shocks installed on their jeep. If not, you will require installing different types of shock, especially driving off the road. Under these circumstances, you will certainly be looking for those models intended more toward the trail.
+Types of Shocks
+While searching for different types of shock absorbers, numerous shocks will be available for you to choose from. One typical factory-replacement shock is the twin-tube shock, yet that is certainly not everything you’ll be looking at.
+One other significant shock is the mono-tube shock consisting of a single-pressure tube having a couple of pistons, namely the working and the dividing pistons. Because of how it’s made, it’s possible to be mounted upside down or on the right side without any problems as it will run fine irrespective of how you position it.
+Such shock absorbers are ideal when you drive off the road in your Wrangler because it helps to keep itself cool even under extreme road conditions due to better heat distribution. A few other shocks worth looking at include heavy-duty shocks, automatic level control shocks, overload shocks, air shocks, etc.
+The Style, Size, and Shape of Shocks
+Some other essential things to consider while buying the best shocks for jeep JK are the shape, size, and style. A few people want to match the current style and the size of the existing shock on the Wrangler. However, if you need something stronger, you might switch to something heavy-duty.
+Shock Measurement
+The bigger the shock measurement you look for, the more your suspension will be capable of dealing with. Numerous individuals who like to take their Jeep rough terrain decide to go with a bigger shock measurement than your Wrangler’s existing ones. The bigger the width you buy, the more the cost will likewise increment.
+Materials Utilized in Making Shocks
+Whether your chosen shock absorber for your Wrangler offers you the ideal control and the best comfort while driving, it might still not be up to the mark when it’s time to replace it after you have driven a few hundred thousand miles.
+Hence, you’ll ultimately invest heavily on buying shocks, which can put you under a lot of pressure budget-wise in the long run.
+Therefore, before everything else, check the material of the shock that you’ll buy for your wrangler, then you can see whether it fit enough for your jeep and other things. Numerous materials are used to manufacture shock absorbers, and most of them are steel-made.
+More often than not, you will find that these steel shocks are the cheapest available in the market. However, the issue is that though they might be the cheapest, you’ll face problems installing these. Apart from these, there are aluminum-made shocks that are lightweight and can be adjusted easily.
+But, though you may find these shocks convenient for handling, they will, in general, be significantly more costly.
+Installation Ease
+For those who want to install the shocks on their own and ease, the easiness of the installation needs to be considered.
+One must remember that a few shocks require further modifications so that they can be installed appropriately. If you aren’t aware of the techniques for installing these shocks, you might have to pay a substantial amount to an installation expert or an agency.
+However, if you actually want to do the installation without help from anyone else, ensure that the item incorporates a mounting pack and a guidance manual so you can continue with the whole process of installation all alone.
+If the shocks you’ve chosen don’t need any modification, you’ll find it very easy to install them by adhering to the specific guidelines that accompany the package.
+Compatible to your Jeep
+Compatibility to your Wrangler is one of the most (if not the most) important aspect while buying shocks. No one will ever buy any shocks that unsuitable (fitting-wise) for their jeeps.
+Cost
+Finally, pricing is what all it comes down to. Every wrangler owner sets up a budget that he/she is willing to spend on buying shock(s). Next, they go through different shocks and pick the ones that fall within that budget.
+At times, you might consider your vehicle and think whether spending on a costly shock is worth it or not. For instance, if you own a lifted Jeep Wrangler, you ought to hope to invest more in a shock absorber contrasted with an ordinary JK.
+Therefore, whenever you look to buy the ideal shocks for your jeep wrangler, make sure you consider these essential factors to make a perfect buy.
+FAQ’s on The Best Shocks for Jeep Wranglers
+Q: Is it better to buy mono-tube or twin-tube shocks?
+Ans: Monotubes and twin cylinders are two different sorts of shock absorbers having different designs and functionalities altogether.
+As clarified prior in the section of buying consideration, a monotube shock accompanies a solitary cylinder where all the segments are available.
+Inside a monotube system, there is a shell case that functions as the chamber. Inside the chamber, the other available segments are the oil, gas, and cylinder/piston.
+However, a twin-tube shock comprises two chambers: one fund within the case and the other containing the piston valve that continues moving upwards and downwards.
+While every one of them has its own features and capabilities, the ideal answer regarding which is the better is certainly the monotube shock.
+One valid reason that justifies this point is that people have found it relatively easy to install the monotube shock, and they have superior response and an adequate damping capacity. Subsequently, you can anticipate a smoother and less rough ride.
+They’re likewise tougher and can handle rough terrain driving conditions easily. Notwithstanding, they do cost significantly more than those twin-cylinder ones, yet the benefits they carry can undoubtedly make them worth the investment.
+Q: Is there struts or shocks available in a jeep?
+Ans: Jeeps, much the same as other vehicles, have their own set of struts and shocks. Aside from giving you a less rough ride, these struts and shocks handle the side-to-side movement to ensure that you stay safe during your drive on the streets in your Wrangler.
+You can know whether there is a strut or a shock in your jeep by knowing which specific territory to look at. A shock is easy to identify since they resemble similarly to what can be found on the bikes.
+However, it can be hard to find the struts, but you can still find them easily inside your jeep’s wheels with a horizontal design.
+Q: What are the functions of shock absorbers?
+Ans: As you might have got an idea by the name itself, shock absorbers “ingest” or diminish the bumpy and vibrating impacts that you experience when driving through uneven surfaces. With the shock absorbers installed, you will enjoy an enjoyable and smoother ride.
+Besides that, shocks likewise help control the movement of your Wrangler, permitting you to advance your vehicle’s brake performance while improving the steering responsiveness overall.
+Q: What the reasons for shocks getting exhausted? Does it affect driving?
+Ans: Shocks, for the most part, get worn out when you regularly utilize your Jeep. Other things incorporate the typical capacity you are loading into your jeep, the total distance you have traveled, and climate factors like cold and warmth.
+However, the shock absorbers of those jeeps that are frequently driven on roads wear faster than those driven on rough terrains. A major reason for this is due to the presence of speed-decreasing bands, the asphalt type, several crossings for pedestrians, and more.
+Likewise, exhausted shocks can definitely affect your driving. One of the most well-known proofs indicating that worn-out shocks can influence driving can be found in quick stoppage gaps while you drive. As your shocks get exhausted, you will feel more vibration in the steering wheel while driving.
+One reason for this is because your shock is not, at this point, fit to absorb the pressure generated from the ground. Keep in mind that this can heavily impact your comfort and be risky for you if you don’t take care of it soon.
+Q: When it’s the right time to change the shocks?
+Ans: Jeep owners need to replace the shocks under the two situations mentioned beneath:
+· Once the shocks are exhausted – this can be determined when you locate consistent ricocheting while your drive, even if the streets are good enough.
+· When you are looking to lift the jeep, for which you’ll need a lengthy shock.
+Q: Is it better to choose OEM shocks or settle for used or pre-owned products?
+Ans: A few Wrangler owners prefer OEM shocks as the best and just suitable substitution alternative for their vehicle. Besides, it is easy to install the OEM shocks. However, OEM shocks are very costly. Because of that, many Wrangler owners go for reseller’s exchange shock absorbers intending to save money.
+Contrasted with OEM shocks, secondary selling shocks are produced by different organizations rather than the very organization that made your Wrangler. Accordingly, if you don’t do your research properly, you might bring a low-grade shock for your vehicle which might need to be replaced soon.
+All in all, you don’t want to buy anything that’s of no use or low quality and doesn’t fit your vehicle at all. Therefore, whenever you choose to buy the best shocks for Jeep JK, always check the market, read the specs, and get the ideal shocks.
+Conclusion
+Ultimately, it all comes down to your choice, it might be your personal preference to buy and specific shock, or it can depend on many other factors as well. However, for those who want to not only secure themselves and their vehicle on bumpy roads and, at the same time, but also enjoy a smooth and comfortable ride, then there are none better shocks than the ones listed above.
+For your help, here is also the links to the products mentioned so that you visit them on Amazon (or any other site you prefer) and check the specifications of the products yourself to find the perfect match for your vehicle.
+As a suggestion, if you want a comfortable ride on the toughest of terrains, then always go for mono-tube shocks. Such socks are the best regarding longevity and ensure that the impact of vibration from the ground is as less as possible (almost as negligible that you won’t feel at all) on your steering wheel and the vehicle overall.
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+Latest Comments
+Stockwatch has two Java applets you can use for streaming realtime quotes.
+Both programs provide complete views of your live stock quotes, market depth, and full charting capabilities..
+It requires you to install Sun's latest Java.
+Stockwatch Desktop is our new standalone application program.
+All the functionality of the Ticker and Daytrader Workstation is available,
+and it is very similar to the Daytrader Workstation in operation.
+You can download and install this program on your PC - note that only Windows XP is supported at this time.
+This is NOT a Java program so you will notice that it does not have the resource limitations of a Java applet.
+Version 1.30-157 20090528 Changes:Fixed bugs:
+- Trades are not duplicated when you open a trade list.
+- On the historic chart, stock comparison works for 6 month and shorter time periods.
+Version 1.30-156 20090402 Changes:Fixed bug:
+- Duplicate trades are discarded when opening a Daily chart or Trade list..-103 20090129 Changes:Bug fixes:
+- Broker Activity view updates properly for Venture exchange stocks.
+Version 1.10-102 20090127 Changes:Bug fixes:
+- Detail page opens properly no matter what your Depth by Order settings are.
+- Portfolio view opens in the currency of the stocks in that portfolio.
+When you run the Stockwatch Desktop for the first time, please read the online help page first.
+NOTE: This product is currently under BETA TEST.
+You may try this program if you wish but you may experience problems as it is not yet thoroughly tested.
+We would appreciate any feedback you may have - please email webmaster@stockwatch.com.
+If you are prompted to run (or open) or save this, select "run (or open)".
+Otherwise save it to your desktop and then run it after it is downloaded.
+This program requires Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0.
+The setup program will prompt to you install this if you do not already have it,
+OR you can install the framework directly from Microsoft with this link: the ".NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package".
+There are three versions available depending on what processor your computer has.
+If you don't know which one you have, try the "x86" version.
+When a new version of the Desktop is available, it will automatically download. You do not need to reinstall or update.
+A dialog box will appear informing you that a new version is ready and ask you if you want to run it.
+Windows Vista Install - Additional Instructions
+Version 1.0.0.79 20090513 ChangesBug fixes:
+- Desktop won't disconnect from Stockwatch as often.
+- Broker Activity has been optimized.
+- Stock Picker page will pre-fetch trades for charts and display progress.
+Version 1.0.0.78 20090507 ChangesNew Features:
+- The Ticker application remembers and restores the views you had open the last time it ran.
+- Stock scanner has a button to hide scan details.
+- Grid lines can be hidden in the Ticker view.
+- Daily chart can be any length from 1 to 40 days.
+Bug fixes:
+- Parabolic SAR parameters are correctly saved.
+- Chart indicators are more stable.
+- Chart repaints when changing time scale when drawing lines.
+- Lines are drawn correctly when changing the time range.
+- Chart restructures are not applied before they take effect.
+- Indices don't display dollar volume.
+Version 1.0.0.77 20090407 ChangesNew Features:
+- Ticker application included, functions the same way the Java Live Ticker does.
+The new ticker application will not be installed if you already have the Desktop installed and do an upgrade.
+To use the new ticker you must first uninstall the Desktop, and then install this version.
+- Menu choice allows you to run the previous version if necessary
+- Price line color can be changed.
+Bug fixes:
+- Popup menu is faster on Options view.
+- Scanner columns are saved when changed.
+- Market book update time is correct.
+- News Headlines are properly highlighted for stocks when news is for different share class.
+- Log scale handles penny stocks properly.
+- Commodity Channel Index will work for lightly traded stocks.
+- Broker Activity works properly from saved layouts
+- Ticker Event Restrictions are read properly from saved layouts
+- Line values are stored with the appropriate level of precision.
+- Today's price is shown when you change Historic chart periods.
+- Dollar Volume is not shown for indices.
+Version 1.0.0.75 20090114 ChangesFixed bugs:
+- Restructures handled properly on Daily charts
+- Options are not counted towards your stock subscription limit.
+- Moving average values displayed properly in chart summary.
+- Ticker views remember their own column selections.
+- Charts have clearer display for open, high, low and close.
+- Line drawing works properly on all chart indicators.
+- Line tools can be accessed from chart toolbar
+- Percentage change in the Ticker view displays one decimal point.
+New features:
+- Forty dollar price range for selecting options.
+- Line tools can be accessed from chart toolbar
+Version 1.0.0.73 20081030 ChangesBug Fixes
+- Market Depth and bid/ask are correct for exchange the CNQ exchange.
+- Volume is updated properly when stocks trade.
+- Stock scanning works properly.
+Version 1.0.0.71 20081022 ChangesNew Features
+- Does not download today's trades until needed.
+- Uses trade ranges for multiple day Daily charts.
+- Save and Open layout buttons on the toolbar.
+- New Open, High, Low and Close bars price view.
+Bug Fixes
+- Lines are not copied when duplicating Daily or Historic charts.
+- The number of lines displayed in a ticker event list is limited.
+- Sort order is maintained in non-portfolio ticker views
+- Weekly Historic chart displays properly.
+Version 1.0.0.70 20080707 ChangesNew Features:
+- You can add options or scanned stocks to your Portfolio when adding them to an open Ticker window.
+- An option information column has been added to the Ticker view.
+Bug fixes:
+- Ticker view does not stop responding under Windows Vista.
+- Level II for NYSE stocks works
+- Moving averages for penny stocks display extra decimal points.
+Version 1.0.0.69 20080624 ChangesNew Features
+- New Portfolio Value chart. Displays historic chart of portfolio values.
+- Copying to clipboard is supported by all views.
+Fixed Bugs
+- Index quote events don't display in Events windows.
+- Alarm sound can be set back to default beep sound.
+- News for stocks in your ticker, can make a sound or beep as well.
+- Saved layouts will load when a news bulletin is missing.
+- All saved daily charts will open for today’s date.
+- Market depth will not remove orders with duplicate order numbers.
+- Delayed NYSE symbols will show bid and ask prices.
+- Saved layouts containing historical and daily charts will open properly.
+Version 1.0.0.67 20080416 ChangesNew Features
+- Block trade alarms can be set by exchange.
+- Alarm sound can be changed.
+- When the Desktop is minimized an alarm pop-up window will open for 8 seconds when an alarm is triggered.
+- A sound can be played for news for a stock in your Desktop ticker window.
+- Company website on Fundamentals view is now a direct link to the company’s website.
+- Technical indicators based on the 1 year chart, can be added to the Ticker view.
+Fixed bugs
+- Saved layouts containing Fundamental views can be loaded.
+- Bid and ask prices update for TSX indices in the Ticker.
+- Desktop program shuts down properly
+- Some minor realignment of widths in the Depth by Order window
+- Alarm events window position is maintained when changing pages.
+- Depth by Price summary volume is correct.
+- Daily charts for specific dates can be saved in layouts.
+- Daily chart price by broker configuration is saved.
+- Duplicate pages accurately re-use chart settings from the page that is duplicated.
+- More than 1 layout can be deleted at a time.
+- Charts for $TICKIXQ display properly
+- Linear Regression is not truncated.
+- News headlines use local time.
+- Daily charts display properly in Saskatchewan time zone.
+- Large layouts open properly.
+- Stock splits are represented properly in multiple day Daily charts.
+Version 1.0.0.62 20071205 ChangesNew features
+- Linear regression index is available on charts from the Moving Average settings.
+- Linear regression slope is available as a new lower indicator.
+- Duplicate page menu selection, creates a new detail page with exact view positioning, while selecting a new stock.
+- Volume block trade alarm, can be set for individual stocks.
+- Alarm events are colored by type.
+- Fundamental view button has been added to the toolbar.
+Fixed bugs
+- Depth by order times now include hours, minutes and seconds.
+- Volume on the Depth by Order window is correct.
+- Indexes continue to update if an alarm is set.
+Version 1.0.0.59 20071011 ChangesNew features
+Fixed bugs
+- Font sizes are saved and restored properly.
+- One minute stock scanner dialog resizes properly.
+New features
+- Add and remove stocks from your portfolio from the Ticker window.
+- Display order times in Market Book and Level 2 by selecting "Show Times" from the depth popup menu.
+Version 1.0.0.58 20070918 ChangesNew features
+- Three Line Break chart type has been added.
+- Volume by Price technical indicator has been added.
+- Font type, not just size, can be selected.
+- Stock fundamentals includes company name and web address.
+Fixed bugs
+- Alarm settings are read more robustly.
+- Better error checking when entering symbols.
+- Depth Histogram updates more efficiently.
+- Market book and Level 2 windows proportions were improved.
+- Stock selection is by region instead of exchange.
+Version 1.0.0.57 20070720 ChangesFixed bugs:
+- Chart indicator line colors can be changed, and the changes are saved.
+- MACD indicator has a legend identifying primary and secondary lines.
+- Broker activity displays properly when opened more than once.
+Version 1.0.0.56 20070629 ChangesNew features
+- A new Switch Window popup allows you to bring windows from behind other windows to the foreground. (Select this feature from the Windows menu, or right click on a page.)
+- Depth Histogram window has been added.
+- News headlines can be selected by portfolio number, so that a news window only displays your portfolio news.
+Fixed bugs
+- Preferences are saved when upgrading from one version to the next (after this upgrade).
+- Toolbar visibility is saved correctly for Daily and Historic charts.
+- Saved layout keeps windows correctly layered on top of each other.
+- Detail page is positioned so that space is not wasted underneath the Depth by Price window.
+Version 1.0.0.55 20070613 ChangesNew features
+- One minute stock scanner allows scanning for price and volume changes, news, and technical indicators.
+Fixed bugs
+- news is marked for symbols with periods, as it is received
+Version 1.0.0.54 20070529 ChangesBug fixes:
+- Trades are displayed in the correct order after loading a saved layout.
+- News is displayed for stocks that contain a period in their symbol.
+- Stocks that trade in US funds on Canadian exchanges are valued correctly in Portfolios.
+Version 1.0.0.53 20070515 ChangesBug fixes:
+- Stocks are un-subscribed to when closing the last view that displays them.
+- Rename information is used when opening past day’s Daily charts.
+Version 1.0.0.52 20070418 ChangesNew Features:
+- Portfolio value view shows the change in portfolio value from yesterday.
+Bug fixes:
+- Desktop will function if the directory it is trying to write log files to is write-protected.
+- Desktop will keep log files in the Stockwatch Program Files folder when using Windows XP.
+- Help file links work properly.
+Version 1.0.0.51 20070404 ChangesNew Features:
+- You can restrict the news window to only displaying some types of news releases.
+Bug fixes:
+- Desktop won't crash if web service query fails.
+- Saves the ticker comments properly.
+- Right click to rename a page, also selects that page.
+- Connection error dialogs only appear once.
+- Chart lines are saved in layouts.
+- You can install the Desktop over an older version.
+Version 1.0.0.50 20070219 ChangesNew Features:
+- Lines can be selected and deleted individually in the chart windows.
+Bug fixes:
+- Zero value alarms no longer appear when you start the Desktop.
+- In the Ticker you can remove news markers; in the News headlines view, news for active stocks is highlighted.
+- US options report correct values in the Portfolio Value view.
+- Closed stock positions report correct profit and loss and the Portfolio Value view.
+- Canadian and US currencies are handled correctly in the Portfolio Value view.
+- Foreign exchange quotes chart properly.
+- Charts display correctly in time zones around the world.
+Version 1.0.0.49 20070131 ChangesNew Features:
+- Broker names can be displayed in Trades, Market Book and Time and Sales windows for Canadian stocks.
+- Desktop can automatically open a saved layout when starting.
+- Pages can be re-ordered by dragging the page tabs and dropping them in new positions.
+- From the Help menu pressing Send Diagnostics to Stockwatch will send diagnostic information to Stockwatch support staff. You can include a short message.
+Bug fixes:
+- Progress bar works properly during long operations.
+- Daily charts display properly from different time zones.
+- Connection messages are displayed on the status bar.
+- Selection is not lost on Stock Review page when stock prices are updated.
+- Ticker pages display portfolio number, and store portfolio number with Ticker views in saved layouts.
+Version 1.0.0.48 20070116 ChangesFixed bugs
+- More stable if you change your login credentials with the Desktop console program.
+- Daily charts work for any for any timezone, including across the International Dateline.
+- Desktop shortcuts are created properly.
+- In the headline window the first headline is not highlighted.
+- Portfolio value displays closed positions properly.
+- Index view displays index names.
+- Stock scanning does not freeze.
+Version 1.0.0.47 20061215 ChangesFixed bugs
+- Stocks are un-subscribed from after scanning. Stock subscription limits are respected.
+- Trades are handled properly if you open a window with a stock, close it and open it again.
+- Stocks sorted by symbol, not exchange.
+- Alarm events window is not re-opened when changing pages.
+Version 1.0.0.46 20061202 ChangesNew features:
+- Improved way to set alarms from the Ticker view
+- Price Activity historical chart view shows the amount of volume at different price levels
+- Help file improvements
+Fixed bugs
+- Ticker column widths are saved
+- Saved charts include toolbar showing or hidden
+- Layouts containing Ticker views load properly.
+- Some formatting changes to Ticker views.
+Version 1.0.0.44 20061113 ChangesNew Features:
+- Ticker now supports a comments column
+- Two new alarm types: change and change from open price
+- Trix indicator on charts
+Fixed bugs:
+- Previous always shown if selected
+- Nicer ticker up or down arrow
+- Portfolio value and Transaction views resized properly
+Version 1.0.0.43 20061030 ChangesFixed bugs:
+- You can scroll all the way to the right when zooming in on charts.
+- You can choose which indices to display in the Index view.
+- Page layout works when you have a large number of open pages.
+- Highlighting works properly in Stock Scanner when you change scan parameters
+- You can set an alarm from the Ticker view menu.
+- Index, Scanner and Options menus have been improved.
+- Logarithmic values display properly for stocks that are less than 1 cent.
+Version 1.0.0.41 20061011 ChangesFixed bugs:
+- Pink sheet market depth updates properly.
+- Historical charts can save comparison stocks.
+- Chart printing has been improved.
+- Bid/Ask displays halted status.
+- Vertical chart grid works for chart ranges past 2 years.
+Version 1.0.0.40 20060929 ChangesFixed bugs:
+- Works properly on computers with French or European language settings.
+- Year high and low as well as Halt and Resume alarms work.
+- Alarm events are not lost.
+- Parallel lines draw properly.
+Version 1.0.0.39 20060913 ChangesNew features:
+- Supports exchange H indices.
+- Volume Moving Average lower indicator added.
+- Gann Angles for both up and down directions.
+Fixed bugs:
+- Prices by Broker on Daily chart works again.
+- Daily High and Low alarms work properly.
+- Charts are not zoomed in if you maximize and then restore them.
+- The tick arrow updates properly in the Ticker window.
+- Symbols will update properly on both Canadian and US exchanges in the same Ticker window.
+Version 1.0.0.38 20060906 ChangesNew features:
+- Gann Angles line drawing tool has been added.
+Fixed bugs:
+- If you have two ticker views with stocks that are in both of them, closing one will not stop the stocks from updating in the other ticker.
+- Trade cancel messages do not repeat.
+Version 1.0.0.37 20060905 ChangesFixed bugs:
+- Ticker window does not automatically select the first line when opened.
+- Picker page settings are saved for next time.
+- Prices display properly when using European regional settings.
+- Broker Activity is shown from ticker menu
+- Erase last line works properly.
+Version 1.0.0.36 20060804 ChangesNew Features:
+- Show the value of all portfolios and all transactions is added for Portfolio and Transaction view.
+- Daily chart has an option to remove or display prices that might be in error. (Turned off by default)
+Fixed bugs:
+- Picker and Review pages won't crash if you close the chart.
+- Tab button matches visible page when a saved layout is opened.
+- Stock scanner is live when the same stock repeats.
+- Desktop opens the same size it was last time.
+- Ticker and detail views tile properly when toolbar is visible.
+- Time scale draws properly without indicator views.
+Version 1.0.0.35 20060801 ChangesFixed bugs:
+- Layouts are saved correctly.
+Version 1.0.0.34 20060725 ChangesFixed bugs:
+- Portfolios containing equity options can be opened in a ticker window.
+Version 1.0.0.33 20060724 ChangesFixed bugs:
+- If you don't enter a login Id the first time you run it, it will not crash. It will keep asking until you either cancel or enter credentials.
+- Alarm Event windows can be removed from saved layouts.
+- Transaction and Portfolio views load properly from saved layouts.
+- News headlines update properly.
+Version 1.0.0.32 20060717 ChangesFixed bugs:
+- Market depth by order for TSX/V works.
+- Handle errors when entering password and customer ID the first time.
+- Can change stocks in Options window.
+- Chart arrow keys don't repaint as much.
+- Right clicking on the main view can be used to rename or remove pages.
+Version 1.0.0.31 20060714 ChangesNew features:
+- Toolbars for zooming and changing range and period of charts (can also be hidden)
+- Toolbar in main window for selecting views (can also be hidden)
+- Can change stocks on Trade, Depth and other views
+Fixed bugs:
+- Index inside quote is formatted properly.
+Version 1.0.0.30 20060711 ChangesNew features
+- You can read news articles from the ticker view.
+- News properties dialog box has been added to the Options menu.
+- Error messages are displayed if you can't log into the server
+- You can copy diagnostic messages from the Stockwatch Local Server console.
+- Desktop diagnostic messages are stored in a file called "desklog.txt"
+Fixed bugs
+- Historic charts combine days from different exchange
+- Time scale on/off setting is saved properly
+- 'N' alerts are shown on ticker view without opening the news window.
+- Ticker view selection has been fixed.
+- Volume is correct on Picker and Review views.
+Version 1.0.0.29 20060706 ChangesFeatures:
+- Stock scanner view has been added.
+Bug fixes:
+- The charts on the Stock picker or Stock review pages keep their period and range settings when you change stocks.
+- News and Alarm indicators have been added to Ticker.
+- Multi-day charts display properly for all timezones.
+Version 1.0.0.28 20060630 ChangesFixes
+- charts open properly before the market opens
+- broker activity is displayed correctly
+Version 1.0.0.27 20060629 ChangesFixes
+- shorter ticker row heights
+- deleting stocks from ticker view works
+- ticker events are restored to correct location with saved layouts
+- Eastern time zone support
+- Password and UserId are deleted properly, use either Clear Credentials or else *uncheck* Remember password box in Set Credentials
+- Won't crash if you enter an incorrect password
+- Uninstall cleans up registry entries, and removes all files.
+Version 1.0.0.26 20060621 ChangesFirst public release
+The present invention is related to and claims priority from U.S. patent application Ser. No. 60/248,261, filed Nov. 14, 2000. The above-identified patent application is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
+1. Technical Field of the Invention
+The present invention relates to communicating data in a network, such as a computer network or a telecommunications network, and particularly to a method and device for substantially optimizing data communication by dynamically combining communication-related decisions generated by a set of components in a device in the network.
+2. Description of the Related Art
+An ever-increasing number of users of electronic devices, such as computers, personal design assistants and cellular telephones, has dramatically increased the amount of data that is communicated in existing communications networks. The term “data” will be referred to hereinafter to mean any type of information that is capable of being transported over a network, including voice, video or control information, whether in encrypted form or otherwise. The increased network traffic has placed a premium on more efficiently communicating data. Several approaches presently exist in attempting to improve network communication.
+For example, in a multiaccess network, the multiaccess medium is a shared resource. Medium access control (MAC) protocols coordinate packet transmissions in a multiaccess network. There are a number of instances wherein MAC protocols are combined together to enhance adaptability and performance to changes in network conditions.
+One well known technique using protocol parameter adjustment is the class of backoff algorithms used by contention protocols. Two characteristic backoff solutions are the pseudo-Bayesian algorithm and the binary exponential backoff.
+The pseudo-Bayesian algorithm dynamically manipulates the transmission probability of each node by maintaining an estimate of the number of backlogged nodes, i.e., nodes with packets to send. An increase in the number of back-logged nodes reduces the transmission probability, and vice versa. However, each node must have an accurate estimate of the overall arrival rate of incoming traffic which is generally unknown and time varying. Each node must also know the outcome of every network transmission which may not be possible in every type of multiaccess network.
+In a network utilizing the binary exponential backoff algorithm, each node adjusts its transmission probability based upon the number of unsuccessful transmission attempts. However, the exponential backoff was proven unstable (infinitely growing delays) under quite general modeling assumptions.
+Another technique is the family of spatial reuse TDMA protocols used in mobile multi-hop networks. A level of adaptability can be achieved by dynamically recomputing transmission schedules based upon the local network topology. Some adaptability is accomplished by nodes alternating between a contention protocol (to determine the proper schedule length and slot assignments) and a TDMA allocation protocol. However, when node mobility results in a topology change, the contention protocol must be run again. The spatial reuse TDMA protocols can become unstable if the rate of mobility outpaces the rate at which the transmission schedules can be updated (using the contention protocol). In addition, scarce bandwidth resources are lost to the contention protocol.
+Based upon the foregoing, there is a need for more effectively utilizing communication techniques so as to reduce network traffic and generally make network communication more efficient.
+Embodiments of the present invention overcome shortcomings in prior systems and satisfy a significant need for a technique for better optimizing communication between devices in a computer-based and/or communications network. The embodiments of the present invention utilize existing communication techniques and make final decisions relating to the communication of data from a network device based in part upon the correctness of decisions by the existing techniques in previously communicating data.
+In particular, an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is directed to a device in a network in which data is communicated. The device includes a plurality of different communication-related components or approaches, such as different data communication protocols. Each is capable of being utilized by the device in communicating data with other devices in the network. Each component generates, when an opportunity for communicating data occurs, a decision relating to the communication thereof. A decision handler in the device is coupled to the components and generates a final decision relating to the communication of the data based upon each decision generated by the components and upon the correctness of prior decisions generated by the components.
+The decision handler may determine the final decision by applying weight factors to each decision, whereby the value of each weight factor is based upon the correctness of prior decisions by the corresponding component. The final decision, for example, may be computed by the decision handler as a weighted average of the decisions, whereby a distinct weight factor is applied to each decision generated by the components. The decision handler may update the weight factors following learning of the outcome (correctness) of each final decision computed. In this way, the exemplary embodiment of the present invention is able to substantially optimally utilize known data communication techniques without knowing in advance the particular data communication approach that best matches potentially changing and oftentimes unpredictable network conditions.
+According to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method of communicating data includes computing a plurality of different decisions relating to the communication of a first unit of data. A final decision may be then computed as a function of the decisions and the weight factors applied thereto. The final decision, for example, may be the weighted average of the decisions. Next, a communication operation is selectively performed based upon the final decision. The correctness of the final decision may then be determined and the weight factors updated based upon the correctness of the final decision. The updated weight factors are subsequently available for use in determining a final decision relating to communicating other data within the network.
+Instead of combining a set of different communication protocols in a substantially optimized manner, other embodiments of the present invention may combine, in a substantially optimized manner, the same communication protocol having different parameter values of critical protocol parameters.
+The present invention may be used to make decisions relating to a wide variety of functions relating to communicating data within a network. For instance, the present invention may be used to make network management decisions, decisions concerning whether or not to transmit data at certain times, decisions concerning queuing policies within a network, decisions for routing data within the network and decisions concerning transmission power levels for transmitting data within the network.
+A more complete understanding of the system and method of the present invention may be obtained by reference to the following Detailed Description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying Drawings wherein:
+FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a device in a network in which data is communicated, according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention; and
+FIG. 2 is a flow chart illustrating an operation of the device of FIG. 1.
+The present invention will now be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings in which exemplary embodiments of the present invention are shown. This invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as being limited to the exemplary embodiments set forth herein. Rather, the embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art.
+Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown a device 1 in a network 2 in which data is communicated according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Network 2 may be virtually any type of network having changing, unknown or partially known network conditions, such as a mobile network, a network carrying multimedia or quality-of-service sensitive data, a broadcast/multiaccess channel network, and a traditional wired network. Device 1 may be any of a number of different devices capable of communicating (i.e., sending and receiving) data, such as a computer or a mobile telephone. In general terms, device 1 is capable of combining a number of different approaches for communicating data within network 2 and utilizing local feedback to dynamically and automatically adapt to changing network conditions and thereby substantially optimize communication-related decisions generated according to the different communication approaches.
+In particular, device 1 includes a plurality of communication components 3. Each component 3 makes decisions related to communicating data between device 1 and other devices in network 2 according to a rule set that is different from the rule set utilized by other components 3. For example, in an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, each component 3 may be or utilize a distinct communication protocol for communicating data between device 1 and other devices in the network 2. In this context, one component 3 may be or utilize a TDMA protocol and another component 3 may be or utilize a slotted Aloha protocol. In another exemplary embodiment of the present invention, components 3 may utilize the same communication protocol, with each component 3 utilizing a set of one or more distinct protocol parameter values. In this context, components 3 may, for example, utilize a TDMA protocol, with the TDMA protocol for each component 3 having a distinct frame length. Components 3 may alternatively utilize a p-persistent Aloha protocol, with each component 3 having a different value for p. Each decision generated by components 3 may have any of a number of possible values. For instance, a decision generated by a component 3 may be a binary decision having one of two possible values, with each possible value indicating a different action or inaction to be taken.
+In addition, components 3 may make decisions directed to other aspects of communicating data between device 1 and other devices in network 2. According to other embodiments of the present invention, components 3 may make network management decisions or establish network queuing policies. In yet another embodiment of the present invention, device 1 may be a router and components 3 may make routing decisions to devices in network 2. In another alternative embodiment, device 1 may transmit data over the air interface and components 3 may decide the power level for transmitting data using a number of different transmission power approaches. As can be seen, components 3 may make decisions relating to virtually any aspect of data communication between device 1 and other devices in network 2.
+Device 1 may further include a decision handler 4 which receives decisions from components 3 and makes a final decision relating to data communication based upon the decisions provided by components 3. Decision handler 4 may compute final decisions based upon local network feedback. Because decision handler 4 only utilizes local network feedback information, centralized control or an exchange of messages across network 2 is not needed in order for decision handler 4 to compute the final decisions. Consequently, there is no increase in traffic over network 2.
+According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, decision handler 4 may generate a final decision from decisions generated by components 3 by scaling each of the decisions based upon the correctness of prior decisions by the corresponding component 3. Decision handler 4 may combine the scaled decisions in computing a final decision.
+For example, decision handler 4 may combine the decisions generated by components 3 by computing a weighted average of the decisions. A distinct weight factor may be applied to each decision. With device having M components 3, the equation for computing the weighted average Dt of the decisions by components 3 may be
+wherein, Dl represents a decision by a component 3, wl represents the weight factor applied to decision Dl, and F(x) is any of a plurality of functions. Function F(x) may be equal to x. Alternatively, F(x) is a step function which rounds Dt to zero or one depending upon whether the weighted average Dt is below or above 0.5. To most optimally compute final decisions, function F (x) may grow linearly from zero to one in an interval [(½)−c*(½)+c] and is truncated to zero and one before and after the interval, respectively. In this way, function F(x) may be described by the equation
+Alternatively, decision handler 4 may apply weight factors to the decisions other than by computing a weighted average thereof. It is understood that any of a wide variety of functions may be utilized. For instance, the decisions of certain components 3 may not be considered in rendering some final decisions.
+Decision handler 4 may be capable of rounding the weighted average Dt to arrive at the appropriate final decision. For instance, for a binary final decision, decision handler 4 may round the weighted average Dt to either of two possible values so that the final decision Df generated by decision handler 4 is a binary outcome. In this way, the final decision indicates one of two possible actions to be taken. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, decision handler 4 randomly rounds the weighted average Dt to obtain the final decision Df. The random rounding may be probabilistically represented by Pr(Df=1)=Dt and Pr(Df=0)=1−Dt, wherein Pr(x) represents the probability of event x occurring. Upon the final decision Df being computed by decision handler 4, device 1 selectively performs an activity (or refrains from performing an activity, depending upon the final decision) in response.
+As stated above, decision handler 4 computes the final decision Df from a plurality of decisions Di based in part upon local feedback information previously received by device 1. Specifically, following execution of an activity/inactivity by device 1, device 1 may utilize local feedback information and determine whether or not the final decision Df corresponding to the executed activity/inactivity was correct. The local feedback information utilized may be of the type to allow decision handler 4 to determine the value of a binary correctness feedback variable y. The value of correctness feedback variable y is a first binary value in the event the final decision Df was determined to be correct, and a second binary value in the event the final decision Df was incorrect. For instance, if the final decision made by decision handler 4 is to transmit data at a certain time, such as a predetermined TDMA time slot, a correct decision may be the successful transmission of the data and an incorrect decision is a signal collision with the transmission of other data. If the final decision is not to transmit data during a certain time slot over a certain channel and data existed in a transmission queue, a correct decision may be the certain channel being used by another device and an incorrect decision is the certain channel being idle during the certain time slot.
+Correspondingly, the correctness feedback variable y is equal to binary one if the decision was correct and binary zero if the decision was incorrect. Utilizing the correctness feedback variable y, the correct decision z can be computed as
+z=Df*y+(1−Df)(1−y).
+Once the correct decision z is known, decision handler 4 may update weight factors w according to the equation
+wi,updated=wi*e−η|D−z|,
+where wi,updated is the updated weight factor. The term |Di−z| represents the deviation of the ith component 3 from the correct decision. If the deviation is zero, the weight factor wi for ith the component 3 remains unchanged. Otherwise if the deviation is not zero, the updated weight factor wl is decreased such that increasing deviation (i.e., errors) decreases the weight factor wi. The above-described updating means, in connection with the use of normalization in computing the final decision Df, that the weight factors wl corresponding to components 3 that made a correct decision will increase and the weight factors wi corresponding to components 3 that made incorrect decisions will decrease. As can be seen, weight factors wi reflect a “credit history” of the components 3.
+Components 3 and decision handler 4 may be implemented, with relatively low complexity, in hardware, software or a combination thereof.
+It is noted that using the above-identified equation for updating weight factors wi, weight factors wl will not increase in value and may usually decrease in value. To prevent weight factors wi from becoming arbitrarily small, each weight factor wi may be occasionally increased by the same amount.
+It is understood that decision handler 4 may update weight factors wl in other ways. For instance, decision handler 4 may utilize priorities in updating weight factors wl. Decision handler 4 may utilize a different equation(s) to update the weight factor corresponding to an “expert” component 3, relative to the equation(s) utilized to update the weight factor corresponding to the other components 3.
+The operation of device 1 according to an exemplary embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. 2. Initially, it is determined that a decision relating to communication of data between device 1 and other devices in network 2 is to be made at 20. Each component 3 makes a decision at 21 based upon its own set of rules for communicating data. Next, decision handler 4 may combine the decisions using weight factors wi to arrive at a final decision. For example, decision handler 4 may compute the weighted average Dt of the decisions at 22, using weight factors wl. Next, the weighted average Dt may be randomly rounded at step 23 to obtain the final decision Df. Based upon the value of the final decision Df, device 1 performs or refrains from performing an activity at 24. The activity relates to the decisions made by components 3, such as whether or not to transmit data at a certain time, or which of a number of different power levels to use in transmitting data. Following the execution/absence of the activity, device 1 may determine at 25 whether the executed activity was a correct decision. Whether or not a correct decision was made may be determined by calculating the correct decision z. Next, the weight factors wl are updated at 26 based upon the correct decision z. The updated weight factors wi may be stored for future use. Thereafter, when another decision relating to the communication of data between device 1 and other devices in network 2 needs to be made, steps 21–26 are repeated using the updated weight factors wi,.
+We’ve made our coronavirus coverage free for all readers. To get all of HBR’s content delivered to your inbox, sign up for the Daily Alert newsletter.. Even if laying off employees is the only way to keep the organization running, how do you handle your feelings of guilt and sadness? How should you deliver the news when you can’t meet face-to-face? What should you say to your employees who remain? And what can you do to manage fear about your own future?
+What the Experts Say
+Laying off employees is difficult in normal times; but amidst the Covid-19 global health crisis, the task is “emotionally and cognitively overwhelming,” according to Joshua Margolis, a professor at Harvard Business School. “This experience for most of us is unfathomable,” he says. “There’s a great deal of uncertainty and people’s minds are whirring.” As a manager charged with dismissing a wide swath of employees, “you’re pulled in different directions: Your heart goes out to people, but you have a responsibility to the organization.” That tension is magnified when you’re also worried about your own fate, says Kenneth Freeman, Dean Emeritus at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. “You’re human and you’re going to have a lot of those 2 AM moments,” he says. But the key is to try as best you can to separate your personal worries from the task at hand. “In your role as a manager, you need to be there for your people.” Here are some recommendations.
+Leaders: Reflect on whether layoffs are needed
+If you’re the one making the decisions about layoffs, Margolis recommends asking yourself one question: is downsizing your workforce truly necessary? The impulse to cut costs is understandable, but “this is not a periodic recession.” Rather, this pandemic represents “an exceptional historic moment that will end up being pivotal for the economy and for people’s communities, careers, and lives,” and it might “warrant a different response.” As a leader, you need to spark “resourceful, creative thinking about how your organization can save as many jobs as possible.” Freeman suggests gathering your management team and asking, “Can we make sacrifices elsewhere? What are our other options to reduce costs?” Your goal is to think broadly about how you distribute the widespread negative consequences of Covid-19. “Laying off people should be the last resort,” he says. And if you must do layoffs, make every effort to “avoid multiple rounds” of cuts.
+Gather information
+If you decide layoffs are necessary or others have made that decision for you, then make sure you’re prepared before you reach out to the affected employees. Figure out “how and when you will deliver the news to your employees on an individual basis” and what the message will consist of, says Freeman.?”
+Understand your limitations. “We all have families under foot and lots of things going on,” says Margolis. He suggests asking your employee, “Is there a time when I can get 15 minutes of your full attention?” Be forewarned: you may get pushback. They may anticipate what’s coming and “some people aren’t going to have the psychological wherewithal to deal with it,” he says. In this case, he recommends saying something like, “Can you let me know when you’re ready to have this conversation so I can tell you the next steps?”
+Set the right tone
+Because you will deliver the message remotely, Freeman says that you must take extra care to break the news “with empathy and compassion.” Your aim is to “treat people with dignity, fairness, and respect.” Even though you may worry that you, too, might get laid-off, this particular termination is not about you. “This is not a time for you to take up space,” says Margolis. Don’t succumb to your insecurities by saying something like, “This is really hard for me.” At the same time, don’t “totally detach from your humanity” so that you “become a mechanical robot.” Instead, find a way “to engage your emotion” and cultivate a “calm and low-key” manner. Ideally, you will have the conversation via video link so that you can “make eye contact” with the other person. If the conversation takes place on the phone, free yourself of all distractions. “Be fully present and listen.”
+Be direct and human,” he says. Express gratitude for their hard work and dedication. Then offer a short and simple explanation about the economic conditions that led to the layoff. “Stress that this is not about a specific job performance,” says Freeman. “This is not the employee’s fault. This is about a global circumstance that none of us created.” Acknowledge, too, that one of the difficult things about being laid off during this crisis is that coworkers won’t get a chance to say goodbye in person. For a lot people, “colleagues are part of their extended family.” Try to convey the message, “We all care about you.”
+Offer assistance — but don’t overpromise
+Freeman recommends “being readily available” and willing to provide “support and counsel” to your employee even after the initial conversation. Recognize that this person may need time to process the news and may have questions for you later. “They might come back to reconnect or seek your advice.” Be helpful. Provide information on where your employee should go for government benefits. Offer ideas about job opportunities at other organizations. Offer to serve as a reference. But, cautions Margolis, “don’t overcommit to things you can’t deliver.” For instance, “you may feel tempted to say, ‘As things get clearer, and the economy improves, you’re on our list to come back,’” he says. But no one has that kind of foresight. “Don’t sugarcoat and don’t give false hope.”
+Be transparent
+In times like these, your remaining employees will look to you for comfort — and an explanation, says Freeman. “The survivors are going to be worried about their jobs,” he says. The fact is, “no one knows where this is going to end,” so the “onus is on you to be as transparent as possible.” He recommends you hold an “Ask Me Anything” session — an open forum of sorts — so that “rumors don’t take over.” You will need “a succinct explanation for why the layoffs were necessary,” says Margolis. He recommends something like, “The organization is facing a challenge unlike anything it has ever faced. Let me tell you what we did, why we did it, and how we can move on.” Then it’s up to you to “absorb their tension and agitation” and listen to their concerns. You need to “exude a commitment to continue to move forward,” he says.
+Vent (selectively)
+This is an excruciatingly stressful time for everyone, and managers often bear an extra burden, says Freeman. “You feel responsible for the livelihoods of your team and for the health and wellbeing of their families,” says Freeman. One of the many ways that people “cope with turbulence” is by going to routines and rituals, says Margolis. But because of widespread lockdowns and shelter-in-place orders, our routines “have been disrupted.” It’s critical, therefore, that you have “a place where you can vent, release tension, and where you deal with your worries.” Find someone else you can talk to — a peer perhaps, a mentor, or a colleague at a different organization. “It’s okay to articulate in certain circles that you don’t know about your own future and that unleashes worry.” But be selective and cautious about how much stress and emotion you show to your team. “All eyes are on you” to provide a path forward.
+Focus on your wellbeing
+Finally, take care of yourself, says Margolis. “Hopefully, this is the only time you face something of this magnitude. But it’s unlikely to be the only time you face a challenge during a period of great uncertainty.” The best coping mechanism for when you can’t anticipate what’s in store for you is self-care.” Eat healthy, wholesome food; get regular exercise; try meditating; get plenty of sleep at night; read a good book. A little perspective helps too. After all, “you are not alone,” says Freeman. Unfortunately, “there are a lot of supervisors going through this.”
+Principles to Remember
+Do:
+- Think carefully about whether layoffs are necessary and reflect on ways your organization can save as many jobs as possible.
+- Show compassion for your employee and stress that the layoff is not their fault.
+- Seek out a peer or a colleague outside your organization to whom you can vent and ask for help in coping with your own uncertainty.
+Don’t:
+- Overcommit. Provide support and counsel to the people you’ve laid off, but don’t promise things you can’t deliver.
+- Make this about you. Avoid saying things like, “This is really hard for me.”
+- Neglect your wellbeing. Make a concerted effort to eat well and get enough sleep, and take time for self-care, including exercise and meditation.
+The cases below are from people who have presided over layoffs in the past. While the circumstances today are unique, hopefully the previous experience of leaders provides some helpful lessons.
+Case Study #1: Part of your job is to absorb the emotion
+Leah Solivan, the founder and former CEO of TaskRabbit, the online marketplace that lets people hire freelancers for odd jobs, says the recent rash of layoffs due to the coronavirus crisis is giving her ugly flashbacks. “I feel like I have PTSD,” she says. “I know exactly how these founders and managers feel.”
+Leah founded TaskRabbit just a few months before the global financial crisis that began in 2008; and she oversaw several rounds of layoffs before her company was acquired by IKEA.
+The year 2014 sticks with her. The economy was improving, but TaskRabbit faced an uncertain future. Customers were shifting toward mobile technology and competition for the platform was intensifying.
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+Leah realized she couldn’t hold on to the company that she had worked so hard to build unless she made big changes. After many agonizing conversations with the company’s five-member executive team, Leah came to the conclusion that she needed to eliminate 20 employees, about 25% of the workforce.
+“I knew it was best for the company in the long run, but at the time I was living my worst nightmare,” she recalls. “I was letting people down.”
+But Leah understood that these layoffs were not about her. “However difficult it was for the team and I to make the decision, I knew it was going to be more difficult for the people I had to let go.”
+Her first order of business was to craft a message to the affected employees that was short and succinct. She said something like, “We are not on a sustainable path. In order for the company to be healthy and move forward, we need to reorganize the team and unfortunately not everyone can stay.”
+Leah met with each employee individually and offered compassionate support, including a generous severance package. She also worked her network to help departing employees find new job opportunities. “I wanted to take care of these people so they could make a smooth transition.”
+After, she talked with her remaining team members and offered to answer any questions. “At the end of that day, we had a companywide meeting where people got up and said what was on their minds. Some said, ‘I feel sad,’ or ‘I feel angry,’ or ‘I feel disappointed.’”
+It wasn’t easy to hear those things, Leah admits. “My job was to absorb it,” she says. “And I felt like a failure.”
+Preserving her own mental health and resilience was a challenge. She recalls venting to her executive team. The camaraderie helped. “We were all in the trenches together.”
+Today Leah invests in startups as a VC at Fuel Capital. Lately, she has been offering guidance to companies as they face similar challenges. “There’s no way around it: layoffs are hard,” she says. “It was the most difficult thing I had to do.”
+Case Study #2: Offer compassionate support and express gratitude
+As a longtime veteran of the HR industry, Carla Yudhishthu has overseen several corporate downsizings over the course of her career. It never gets easier. “You’re trying to be as honest as you can and treat people with dignity, but you have to manage your own emotions and your own fears, too,” says Carla.
+She remembers a round of layoffs early in her career that was particularly difficult. The year was 2003. She was working for a publicly held medical device business in the Bay Area that had already underwent a round of layoffs in 2001.
+“We hoped we would only have to do it once, but the company was facing a lot of problems and we needed to have multiple iterations,” she says.
+As an HR manager, Carla was tasked with laying off dozens of employees — including several people on her team. “I had to tell my colleague who was 20 years older than me and had a family that he no longer had a job,” she says. “I thought, ‘Who am I do to this? Will I be ok?’”
+Carla remembers practicing what she would say. “You need to get through the pragmatic details,” she says. “But it’s emotional and when someone reacts emotionally you can lose track of what you have to say.”
+Carla says she approached the layoffs with humility and honesty. She also wanted to offer as much help and support as she could. Before breaking the news, she and her colleagues gathered information on to how to access unemployment and the limitations on COBRA benefits. “We put a lot of thought into what the message should be,” she says. “And we tried to anticipate any questions that people might have.”
+She received reassurance from her unit’s leadership that her job was safe. But her cortisol levels remained high. To cope, she compartmentalized the task at hand. “From 7:30AM to 5:30PM, I needed to think about the organization; I could worry about myself after that,” she says.
+“I remember doing lots of deep breathing, and lots of running and yoga.”
+Communicating the news to the remaining employees was another challenge. She and her colleagues in HR were transparent. “We couldn’t make promises because we knew our company needed get out of the woods,” she says. “We wanted to give everyone confidence that everything was going to be ok. But we couldn’t. No one was secure.”
+That company eventually closed and today Carla is the VP of People Operations at Mammoth HR and ThinkHR. Her advice for managers overseeing layoffs today: “Try to create a personal connection.”
+“Write your employees a thank you note to express your gratitude and appreciation and say goodbye,” she says. “At a time [like this], it’s a gesture that will be remembered.”
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+Pat, Salome, and I left Hotel Chubu at 9a. Shalva was to come with us today but decided to stay back to rest which was fine as we had a new car and driver today. Lasha, our driver, was already waiting outside with his Mitsubishi Delica 4x4. He would be taking us to the remote mountain village of Ushguli and back. After a quick stop to get gas, we hit the road.
+Deeper into the heart of the Caucasus we went. It was a great day to be out and about. Yesterday's cloudy sky gave way to a brilliant blue one with barely a fluff of a cloud in the sky. Dramatic views of the craggy mountains, green valleys and raging waters of the Enguri River unfolded before us.
+Paved road soon gave way to unpaved road and Lasha had to drive very slowly to avoid ruts and large puddles of water. He even had to drive across waterfalls that flowed over the road. We were off-roading our way to Ushguli!
+Every now and again we would pass through a small village, most of which were filled with run down buildings. Life is simple but hard and for the most part, people are very poor here.
+We made a couple of stops along the way. The first was at a riverside tower home. There was an elderly couple working nearby so we didn't venture to the tower but it was good enough for us to appreciate from afar.
+But there is a story behind this particular tower home. Long ago, a young man and a woman, from two different villages, fell in love but the people living in their villagers did not consent to their marriage. So, instead of getting married, they chose to build their house (this tower) on this spot on the Enguri River, between the two villages and lived out their lives. Supposedly, the people living nearby are their descendants.
+Our second stop was in the teeny, weeny hamlet of Khe. It's Sunday today and Salome wanted us to see the hamlet's small church.
+Lasha parked the van alongside the main road and we walked up the hill to the small church.
+We walked pass the crumbling homes to the church with its small cemetery out front.
+At the gate to the church, we each took a skirt from the communal bin. The front door, to the church, was closed but as we approached it, I could hear the sound of a choir singing. Salome and Pat entered but before I could even put my foot across the threshold, the door was closed on me. I dare not open it so I walked around the church for a few minutes. Pat and Salome didn't stay inside long. They told me that the room inside was so small - it could barely hold 15 people, that after they entered, there was literally no more space for another person which explains why the door was shut after they went in. They also said they got some stares from the people inside. Considering how small the space is for worshippers, I'm not surprised that the local attendees did not appreciate available floor space being taken up by curious tourists! Salome really wanted us to see the church so we decided to give it a second try on our way back to Mestia. Services should be long over by then and we're sure to have better luck.
+We continued our journey to Usghguli. The road switched from paved to unpaved, straight to windy, wide to extremely narrow. Lasha had to drive very carefully which meant going very slowly. Personally, I wasn't in any rush and in fact, Lasha driving slowly made it easier for me to take photos....except when he was on road filled with large ruts. The scenery here is just spectacular and the fact that it was a picture perfect day made being in it all that much more enjoyable!
+I got a bit obsessed with taking photos of the tower homes. They are most definitely a unique element of the landscape here!
+Eventually, we saw the road sign. Yay!
+Given many of the far flung places I've traveled to, offroading is not an unusual experience for me. I have to admit, I rather enjoy it! Here's what our experience today was like.
+As we approached Ushguli, we caught up the one and only other car we had seen on the road all day. I really going to off the beaten path places that typical tourists don't travel to. I know pretty much every spot in the world has been discovered but traveling this way, I feel like I'm just one of a few travelers adventurous enough to come to such destinations.
+Whatever effort it takes to come to a place like this, I can assure you that the pristine beauty of the landscape here makes it all worth it! Most certainly, this is a view that I rarely get to see so I make all the effort to take it all in while I have the chance!
+Ushguli is actually comprised of four separate settlements - Zhibiani, Chvibianu, Chazhashi and Murkmeli. The settlements are situated 2060m-2200m above sea level and are considered as the highest and most certainly one of the most remote, populated places in Europe. I can only imagine how isolated this place gets in the heart of winter!
+We were on our way to Zhibiani and so we passed the other three along the way. Don't ask me which village we passed first, second or third - there were no road signs to identify them.
+Zhibiani, at last! Nestled in a valley at the converence point of three mountains. What a lovely view!
+First stop in Zhibiani was Lamaria Church aka St. Mary's Church. Even from a distance, the church did not have the outline of a typical church for it too had a defensive tower attached to it! At first glance you would bell tower at first glance but you'd be wrong!
+Getting to the church was not easy. Thank God, Lasha has driven this road countless times.
+Snowbanks and muddy potholes were blocking the road so Lasha parked the car as close as he could to the entrance of the church.
+As I stepped out of the car, I had a full unobstructed view of Shkhara which at 5,193 meters (17,040 feet) is the tallest peak in Georgia.
+Shkhara is the high point and the eastern anchor of a massif known as the Bezingi (or Bezengi) Wall, a 12 kilometer (7 mile) long ridge. There was a group of three French men and a French woman staying at Hotel Chubu. There were here to hike and we passed them on the way to Lamaria. Maybe they will attempt to climb Shkhara.
+The ground was still snow covered and with the melting snow, muddy in spots. They had not shoveled the path leading to the entrance. I had to walk carefully to avoid slipping and falling. We passed under a very low arch in the stone wall to enter the courtyard.
+Sunday service had just ended when we arrived. The women were chatting and the children scampering in the grassy areas out front of the church. This is pretty much a scene that plays out at every church on Sunday.
+The door was still open so we headed inside the church. I was definitely curious to see what a church in a small remote village in Georgia looks like. I was not expecting anything on the scale of the Church of the Virgin Mary at Gelati Monastery but I was pleasantly surprised by what I did see.
+The church was built between the 9th and 10th centuries and local residents believe that Queen Tamar is buried in the ground underneath. Somehow I find it hard to believe that someone of her royal stature would be buried in such a humble location.
+Inside, it was not structured like a typical church and I did not expect it to be. There was a small narthex with a few small paintings displayed on shelves.
+The apse was an equally small space and the only light was the bit of sun that flowed in from a small window.
+It was such a challenge to take photos in this dim room.
+Although much of the paint work, on the walls and ceiling is now damaged or faded, you can imagine how beautiful it must have been when it was originally painted.
+With just two small rooms to see, we didn't spend a whole lot of time inside Lamaria. There was something very endearing about Lamaria - perhaps because it's so humble and unpretentious. We exited the church the same way we entered - through the small opening in the wall.
+According to Salome, she would normally have us walk from here to the community nearby but the road was muddy and covered here and there with snow. If I had had two good feet, I might have considered the walk but not today. Instead, we all got back in the van and Lasha drove us a short distance down the hill, towards the community. I had Lasha stop for a photo op and after that, we decided to walk the rest of the way to the community. I took it slowly and carefully.
+We met back up with Lasha outside the entrance to a local restaurant where we would be having lunch. Today's local specialty would be kubdari aka Svaneti meat pie. I love meat pies but looking at the landscape around me, I set my expectations accordingly. It's not going to be anything like a Cornish pastie or an Australian meat pie - not going to have any fluffy puff pastry :-(
+Salome had obviously been here before. The moment she entered the restaurant, she was warmly greeted by a large, chubby woman who turned out to be the owner. Salome conveyed to the owner that we wanted kubdari for lunch. We had to pick from a four piece kubdari and a six piece kubdari. I presumed that was a reference to size. Of course, that did not convey how big a four piece kubdari is. Georgians eat large portions so I was certain a four piece one would be more than enough for me. Pat and I each ordered one. We also ordered chvishtari. Don't ask me how to pronounce the name. I just heard...."blah blah dari" :-) Salome explained it was bread but made from corn and then filled with cheese. Pat and I interpreted it as cornbread with cheese. It's a specialty of the region and we ordered one to share.
+We all wandered back into the kitchen to see how the kubdari was made. The woman went about showing us the process of making the kubdari. After dicing and seasoning the meat, the woman patted out a large circle of dough and piled a bunch of the meat on it. I again asked how big the four piece one. When she drew what looked like a 9 inch circle and I saw just how much meat was piled on top of it, I looked at Pat and we decided to share one kubdari rather than having one each!
+The woman also had some Svaneti salt for sale. According to Salome, Ushguli is home to the *real* stuff so I decided to hand over 5 lari for a small bag's worth of the salt. It's basically sea salt that has been mixed with some finely ground, dried local, mountain herbs - there's a green tinge to the salt. I tasted a bit of the salt - definitely less salty than the batch I bought yesterday. I think it would be good on grilled meat like lamb chops.
+We had to wait a while for the kubdari so to kill time, we chatted and I wandered outside to take a look at our surroundings. I can't complain about the wait time as it was being made fresh for us and there's only the woman doing the cooking. Poor thing, she was being pulled in multiple directions - she had to stop for a few minutes to breast feed her son, answer questions from a few people who had wandered in to the restaurant, and deal with neighbors stopping by.
+In the meantime, another small group of tourists had wandered in. I heard the sound of English speaking voices - at least one sounded very American to me. It was an older Asian man. I. Made myself a cup of tea and when I walked back to the table where Pat and Salome were sitting, the Asian man, who had obviously heard Pat and I speaking, asked if we were from the US. He introduced himself as Dennis and told us he lives in Oakland. I continued to chat with Dennis, who seems to be quite the intrepid traveler. After Georgia,he's headed to Paris for a few days and then it's off to Lahore, Pakistan where he begins a tour. After that, he returns home for a short 9 days before flying off to Jakarta for a tour of Indonesia. I thought I loved to travel!! We weren't able to chat for all that long but before he left with his group who has basically stayed just long enough to enjoy a cup of tea, he asked for my email address so we could remain in contact. He said he would email me tonight.
+Time to eat!
+The first thing that was delivered to our table was the chvishtari which indeed turned out to be a dough of cornmeal encasing cheese. Unfortunately, by the time I made it to the table, the other two had already dove in so I didn't get a chance to take a photo before my greedy travel mates cut into it. I must train them to wait.....though, unfortunately, patience is not one of Pat's virtues. Thankfully, they did leave me a piece. The whole thing had been fried so it was crispy on the outside and ooey gooey on the inside. Quite delicious!
+Then came the kubdari. So piping hot, we could not handle it to cut it. The dough was also a bit tough. I gave up trying to separate the sections with the kubdari on the plate so I lifted it and put in on top of the wooden table. The pie was quite tasty. The meat had been seasoned with salt, some local herbs and mixed with pieces of onion. There were also small chunks of beef lard. Too much fat for me so I pulled out pieces as I saw them. The pie was super filling. Pat and I could only down a slice each, leaving two behind which I decided we would share with Lasha and some of his fellow drivers who were seated at the table next to us. Salome also had slices left over so she also handed them over to the guys. Thank God we didn't order a pie each!!
+After lunch, we headed back to Mestia via the same road we had arrived in from. Bye bye Ushguli. It was a fun visit.
+More beautiful views. This time I was in the back seat so most of what I saw was from the side window.
+Salome handed her USB flash drive to Lasha. She said it contained some traditional Georgian music. My ears were captivate after just a few notes. I have no idea who's performing but it sounded like a choir to me. When you're offroading, you're jostled about like clothes in a dryer. It's not always enjoyable but the gentle a capella music that was coming out of the car's speakers was so soothing, I forgot completely about the bumpy ride. In fact, I enjoyed it so much, I took a snippet of video thinking perhaps I can use Shazam to identify it.
+I decided to Google "Georgian choir music" and at the top of the results list was a Youtube video, on the UNESCO channel, presenting what is known as Georgian polyphonic music. I don't particularly like the sound of the song in the video but the description that accompanies it is very informative. The music is featured on the UNESCO challenge because Georgian music has been designated by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
+Furthermore, I've learned that most Georgian songs, both sacred and secular, are sung unaccompanied in three-part harmony, symbolically associated with the Trinity. As you might expect, there are considerable regional differences in singing styles, and some songs, particularly from the Caucasus Mountains in the north of the country, are known to date from pre-Christian times.
+As promised, we did make a quick stop back that church that we had attempted to visit this morning.
+We walked up the hill to the church, past the remains of a house tower.
+Suspecting that the front door might be locked, Salome found a village resident who unlocked the door for us.
+As with Lamaria, the church here was very modest - in size and in decoration. I don't know when this church was built but the paint on the walls and ceiling had long faded. Still, there was a bit of simple, naive beauty in the design style. The villagers made the most of what little they had. I'm sure that's still true today.
+At the end of our visit, I asked the kind man who had let us inside the church if I could take a photo of him. He wasn't shy about having his photo taken but he was most certainly uncomfortable about smiling as his teeth were in poor condition. I did not press him to smile. I don't think there are any dentists here and I don't know where villagers go for medical attention. It's not easy living in a remote part of the world.
+Back on the road with Lasha and more scenes of the Svaneti region along the way.
+We arrived back into Mestia in the late afternoon.
+It was much too early to be holed up inside our room so we decided that we would take a stroll through town. More specifically, I had noticed a view of Mestia that I wanted to photograph and decided to use that as the reason for the walk. Salome offered to join us. The plan was to head out at 5:30p which gave us some time to rest in our room.
+Back in the lobby, there was a Bollywood movie playing on the TV in the lobby. As always happens, all 3 of us started watching the movie and before you knew it, we were sucked in by the drama that was playing out on the TV. The movie was dubbed into Georgian. Funny that we were watching an Indian movie and we needed the Georgian girl, aka Salome, who was interpreting into English for us Even without understanding the words, we were able to decipher some of what was going on.
+We decided to not watch the whole movie. When we made it to the front gate of the hotel, Shalva pulled up in our car. He was looking and sounding much better today than he had at dinner last night when it was obvious he wasn't feeling well. Shalva drove us to the spot where I wanted to take the photo. He drove off after leaving us behind.
+I had barely walked a few feet when I looked up a hill and saw what looked like a cow laying across a small stream. At first, I thought the cow was taking a cool dip in the water but when it started to flail its legs, I realized that something was not right. I pointed out the cow to Salome and Pat and all three of us decided to climb the hill to check it out. The cow was laying in the water and it was obvious that she had stumbled and fallen into the water. Her head was out of the water which was good as the water was running hard. I was so preoccupied with what was going on that I didn't even take a photo of the poor cow lying across the stream so the photo below was shot by Pat.
+As we stood around her, we watched her struggle to get up but the ground around her was too muddy and soft for her to get enough traction to push herself up. Salome tried to pull the cow out but was not able to. I didn't think she would have enough strength to drag a creature weighing several times her weight. Salome was looking distressed, not knowing what to do. I told her to go get help.
+There was a house higher up the hill and I expected her to go their first but instead, she scampered down the hill and headed towards town. We kept and eye from a distance until she disappeared around a corner.
+As we waited for Salome to return, a pair of tourists, a young man and a young woman, noticed us standing on the hill. I'm sure they also noticed the cow and were curious about the situation as well. When they approached, we told them what happened and that our friend had gone to look for help. The man replied that he would look for help as they walked. Ok. Thank you.
+A short while later, we notice Salome walking back towards us. Walking alongside her was a large Georgian man. I noticed he had a uniform on with the word *Security* embroidered on the sweater patch on his upper left arm.
+The man walked over to the cow and grabbed her by the horns. With just a few tugs, he was able to get her out of the water and standing. Strong man!! We were all so wrapped up in watching the man pull the cow out of the stream that none of us even took a single photo!
+As she stood up on solid, dry ground , the cow hook off the water. She was okay and we imagined, in a bit of shock. She didn't move but she was breathing. Poor man though. As he attempted to straddle the stream to cross over it, he slipped and both his feet went ankle deep into the water. I was certain his shoes, socks, and feet were now all wet! Not exactly a nice reward for a good Samaritan!
+We stood by the cow for a few minutes to see what she would do. I thought she would slowly walk away but she just continued to stand as still as a stone statue. After a few minutes of no action on her part, we decided to continue on our walk. As we climbed down the hill, we all occasionally looked back to see if the cow was still okay.
+We followed Salome back to the center of town.
+On the way, we passed the town's small museum where Salome told us she had found the security guard who had rescued the cow. We all laughed at the fact that cow saving was most likely not a requirement in his job description!
+We took the long way back to the hotel - walking through town.
+We ended up back at the square with the statue of Queen Tamar. Salome still doesn't like it. I think it would look awesome in my front yard though I don't think the residents of Mestia, even the ones who don't like the statue, would be willing to part with it. Not to mention, that I probably couldn't afford to buy it so this photo will have to do!
+We stopped at the park for a few minutes. Salome took the opportunity to wash her hands. After all, she did have to use them to try and pull a cow out of a stream. I think she's done her good deed for the day.
+These three cows appear to be a permanent fixture - standing in this same spot, the same time now both yesterday and today. I think they know to come here to wait for their owner to come get them. They are so used to standing in the path of humans that they don't mind one bit that we walked right between them!
+Tonight, we decided to have an earlier dinner - at 7p. Overly fried fish served in a green sauce of some sort and overly fried chicken served in a walnut sauce. Neither looked appealing to me so it was a veggie night for me. The French fries were tasty :-) I must say that I've not gone hungry here, meaning Georgia in general, mainly because the Georgians eat so much carb mainly in the form of bread and potatoes and cheese. They also use a lot of oil in cooking - good for lubricating the system and keeping me regular. :-)
+Tomorrow, we begin our trip back to Tbilisi. It's been wonderful being in the mountains but we have more to see so it's time to move on.
+Goodnight from Mestia!
+@vedmant, I disagree. It's not a complex approach. It's a very flexible approach.
+3rd October, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Complexity Of The Code Of Laravel And Its Performance • 2 years ago
+8th September, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Why Laravel Docs Not Good As Codeigniter • 3 years ago
+Even if there were more examples, there would still be complaining about how they aren't the right examples.
+The best examples are the code itself. If you haven't opened up your code editor and gone through the source, you can't blame anyone but yourself for not know what is going on.
+Maybe we can get Taylor to go ahead and just code our apps for us as well...
+15th August, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Laravel New Command • 3 years ago
+@ralanyo have you looked at their docs? They have a video for installing Laravel.
+Don't use the Laravel installer.
+19th July, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Why Is _ide_helper.php Full Of An Ocean Of Errors In PHPStorm? • 3 years ago
+Is it not working, as in not autocompleting? If it is, why are you spending time debugging an ide helper file?
+7th July, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Including File From Parent Directory In Blade Templates. • 3 years ago
+@include('path.to.the.view')
+@include('partials.header')">@include('language.type') @include('languages') and scroll down to "Including sub views"
+19th June, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Stopping Multiple Form Submission. • 3 years ago
+13th June, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Do We Still Need Guard $auth? • 3 years ago
+@Kryptonit3, curious... why do you feel like it is a "much cleaner approach" what makes it cleaner? Any ramifications when it comes time to test?
+dberry left a reply on Code Editors/IDE's For OS X Yosemite • 3 years ago
+10th June, 2015
+dberry left a reply on L5.1 Create Method ? • 3 years ago
+@crazymonster, what error did you get?
+dberry left a reply on Software To Track Development Of Project • 3 years ago
+Asana and also leankit
+dberry left a reply on Code Editors/IDE's For OS X Yosemite • 3 years ago
+Already been said... PHPStorm & Sublime Text...
+Other Tools I love...
+9th June, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Custom Accessor Not Working Anymore ? • 3 years ago
+dberry left a reply on ::lists No Longer Returns An Array. (Laravel 5.1) • 3 years ago
+dberry left a reply on Custom Accessor Not Working Anymore ? • 3 years ago
+@mstnorris, he said "custom accessor" and "where the label attribute did not exist." meaning "append"-ing an attribute that doesn't exist in the data model, which unless it changed in 5.1 from 5.0 isn't called the same way as accessors/mutators for attributes that exist in the data model.
+4th June, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Extra. Extra. Get Your Shirt! • 3 years ago
+yeah, some man-sized shirts would be great :)
+28th May, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Clever Way To Index (Related) Models Into ElasticSearch • 3 years ago
+Here's a couple of packages that might be of use either for integration or to give ideas for implementing it on your own.
+18th May, 2015
+dberry left a reply on HMVC In Laravel 5? • 3 years ago
+I'm not sure what you mean by CRUDish.
+I think you're not thinking outside of the box and in a linear thought process. Say I have a base platform and I wanted to give user's the ability to choose what features they want to use or charge for different modules/extension. Say the Platform is a CMS of sorts, and there is an extension to add a Blog, or Shopping Cart or Photo Gallery... there really is no limit here. Or if I wanted to give developers an easy system to hook into.
+It all 100% depends on the application that you are building and there is no "this is the way is should be done" or "that just seems like a terrible way to do it".
+If I'm just building a simple blog that I'll use for personal use, then no, you don't need a full out extension system. However, if I'm building something that a customer can use in place of say WordPress, then an extension system makes perfect sense.
+We're building a huge learning platform right now, where a modular approach makes perfect sense.
+I think that the preface to your statement is, "You tried it and it didn't work for you" and the explanation should be "This is the background on what I was doing and why it didn't work in this scenario"
+I can name you pages and pages of well-built, extremely usable, easy to develop, very profitable apps using a modular approach. It 100% depends on what you're doing and how you do it.
+17th May, 2015
+dberry left a reply on HMVC In Laravel 5? • 3 years ago
+I've used modules (i.e. extensions) in several apps, several very large apps and have never had an issue. Depending on the app, I love the modular approach. Some modules are completely independent of any other module, some modules require other modules, which I handle through dependency checking and sorting.
+I've personally never had to deal with issues like @andy on how to deal with modules that could depend on another module, and I disagree with @sukonovs in that it's "bad" or a bad way to build an app.
+If you do it poorly, then it's a bad way. I built an extension system that I use and so far it hasn't turned out "bad" and I'm also pretty happy/confident in my code and in that it wasn't designed poorly.
+Moral of the story, plan it out before you write a single line of code, don't jump in balls deeps without knowing what you're getting into and you'll be fine.
+6th May, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Research About Laravel! Developers Please Respond! • 3 years ago
+It's just a google form questionnaire folks that took two minutes to complete. Obviously English isn't a first language in this case, it could probably hide questions that aren't relevant based on other answers, but it's a simple Google form.
+dberry left a reply on What Would You Love To See In Laravel 5.1? • 3 years ago
+@EliasSoares, you could just advise your users to put
+php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Your\Provider in the composer.json
+post-update-cmd scripts. then they won't have to run the command every time.
+3rd May, 2015
+dberry left a reply on A Few Ideas • 3 years ago
+Slugs can be handled pretty easily, just use a mutator:
+public function setMySlugAttribute($value) { $this->attributes['my_slug'] = \Str::sluggable($value) ; }
+If you want, you can throw in validation or whatever, or use a different field, whatever you want. You can throw it in a trait to reuse.
+I've never used a package to handle slugs.
+Adding a related model is also pretty trivial and there is an example in the docs.
+For dynamically adding rows, that is pretty trivial as well and is javascript. Google "jquery add remove rows"
+Multiple video uploads, just do a foreach and loop over them.
+28th April, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Javascript Frameworks? • 3 years ago
+This is an older thread, but I had mentioned seeing a package before to ease the pains of the validation on the server/frontend side, here is a package that attempts that:
+I haven't tried it, but it look simple enough.
+23rd April, 2015
+dberry left a reply on ERP Open Source • 3 years ago
+@martinbean, it was just poor english... All the he/she did was ask "hey does anyone know of an ERP package based on Laravel" Even with the bad english, I think that was a pretty clear question that anyone who took a second to read it and had any comprehension skills whatsoever could figure out. Not everyone speaks english as a first or even second language.
+@pmall, you're right, I get sometimes just doing it yourself is what you have to do, but before you venture down the road of re-creating the wheel, especially when it comes to something like an ERP, there is no hurt in asking the community if there is a package out there already. It's not like he said "Hey this is what I need, will you code it for me".
+dberry left a reply on Persisting Data Application • 3 years ago
+It's always available in the request...
+Request::user() app('request')->user()
+Or you can do something in a base controller that you extend :
+$this->current User = app('request')->user(): app('view')->share('currentUser', $this->currentUser) ;
+I typed this in my phone so excuse errors and the brevity.
+dberry left a reply on ERP Open Source • 3 years ago
+22nd April, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Laravel 5 CRUD • 3 years ago
+Create a route to your controller
+Route::get('increment', 'MyController@methodName');
+Then use that uri in your ajax
+21st April, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Developing Your Packages In Laravel 5 • 3 years ago...)
+20th April, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Developing Your Packages In Laravel 5 • 3 years ago
+19th April, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Open Link In New Tab • 3 years ago
+dberry left a reply on Practical Uses For Lumen? • 3 years ago
+@LeBlaireau, I didn't quite mean it in that sense. I meant it is pointless to keep adding features to it to make it more like Laravel and have all of the features that laravel has. If you need that then just use laravel.
+Lumen has a specific purpose, geared towards specific types of apps/services and doesn't need all of that extra.
+18th April, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Practical Uses For Lumen? • 3 years ago
+I don't know that I'd go so far as to say
+Expect these kind of features in the future ;)
+They really just aren't needed. Why even have Lumen if all you are going to do is make it Laravel? Why does this even make sense?
+Most stuff people really like in Laravel might get added to Lumen
+Just use Laravel. Don't you think that if he could implement it any faster in Laravel, he would just do it in Laravel? Why leave it as is in Laravel and then
+modify it a bit so the speed of Lumen isn't touched!
+How does that even make sense?
+dberry left a reply on Lumen - Binding Repo To Implementation Based On Route Param? • 3 years ago
+Why are you porting your Laravel App to Lumen?
+dberry left a reply on 'SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column Not Found: 1054 Unknown Column • 3 years ago and scroll down to Inserting Related Models (Many To Many)
+dberry left a reply on 'SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column Not Found: 1054 Unknown Column • 3 years ago
+$user->courses()->attach(1)
+Courses should be the method...
+dberry left a reply on 'SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column Not Found: 1054 Unknown Column • 3 years ago
+hasMany is not a pivot relationship... If the
+User hasMany Courses, it's going to look through the courses table and find all of the courses that has a
+user_id matching the user. hasMany === a one to many relationship.
+You want a many to many relationship here, so use belongsToMany
+dberry left a reply on 'SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column Not Found: 1054 Unknown Column • 3 years ago
+belongsToMany() not hasMany()
+dberry left a reply on 'SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column Not Found: 1054 Unknown Column • 3 years ago
+dberry left a reply on 'SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column Not Found: 1054 Unknown Column • 3 years ago
+what's the code your calling that's giving you that error?
+dberry left a reply on Practical Uses For Lumen? • 3 years ago
+@godabout, I think that the real benefit is going to be for people who have already been using Silex, Slim 3 or similar, in places where Laravel just doesn't make sense to use and the people who actually understand the architecture difference rather than folks who happen to know a little code, but aren't really developers.
+17th April, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Case Insenstive Auth • 3 years ago
+Case insensitive passwords sounds like a really terrible idea.
+dberry left a reply on Practical Uses For Lumen? • 3 years ago
+Similar to @gregrobson usage, I'm working on a service for handling my Stripe webhooks. Handle the incoming requests from Stripe, triggers queues and events for sending out emails, triggering events in the app to update the database, etc...
+dberry left a reply on Practical Uses For Lumen? • 3 years ago
+Example Lumen app & tutorial from the always informative @mattstauffer
+dberry left a reply on Practical Uses For Lumen? • 3 years ago
+dberry left a reply on Practical Uses For Lumen? • 3 years ago
+For those times whee it just seems silly to be using a full-fledge full-stack framework, when all you need is something quick, that performs.
+16th April, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Create A "Lumen" Channel For Lumen Specific Questions • 3 years ago
+Haha, sorry, i couldn't resist!!
+dberry left a reply on Create A "Lumen" Channel For Lumen Specific Questions • 3 years ago
+15th April, 2015
+dberry left a reply on Lumen • 3 years ago
+@andy, haha, dev-ing on a mac is so much easier overall than on Windows.
+I do use vagrant now, it's just so easy, but, I started off on the server engineering side of things so there was a time I had to setup servers from a blank command-line.
+Take the time to learn how to set up a server on your own, break down and start learning virtualbox & vagrant, you'll thank everyone in here who has badgered you thus far.
+Head over to sign up, do the tuts, look over the forums, buy the book. @fideloper has done a hell of a job with this.
+Being a dev, you don't have to be a server engineering genius, but it is beneficial to you to know how everything fits together and even knowing the basics will make you a better developer.
+dberry left a reply on Lumen • 3 years ago
+Yeah it works just fine for me out of the box. I've already finished two different services and started an API.
+I used WAMP once, I also wiped my ass with poison oak on mistake too once, both experiences sucked and were painful.
+dberry left a reply on Laravel 5 Response()->json() Is A Undefined Method • 3 years ago
+Use the response()->json() method like you are doing rather than just returning an array.
+As others have said, you can just pass the array and Laravel is indeed smart enough to figure out that it needs to be turned into JSON, but.... this is a really bad practice, especially if you are building an API.
+Jeffery does a good job of explaining this, take a second to watch this video, you can skip to the middle if you're impatient.
+dberry left a reply on Lumen • 3 years ago
+The issue here is not understanding the difference between a full-stack framework and a micro-framework. They serve two completely different purposes.
+Forget the terms Laravel and Lumen and figure out the difference between the two types of frameworks. As far as terminology goes, you can interchange Lumen with Silex, Slim 3 or any of the other micro-frameworks.
+So think in terms of where would I use Slim versus using Laravel to develop my project? Does my project require a full-blown framework, or do I just need it to serve a single purpose?
+I can't stress enough that they are two different frameworks that serve two completely different purposes.
+I really don't know how it can be explained any better than this...
+Want to change your profile photo? We pull from gravatar.com.
+An Interview with Fearscape’s Ryan O’Sullivan, Andrea Mutti & Vladimir Popov
+Gentle reader, perhaps you’ve heard of a little comic called Fearscape?
+What’s that? “Of course,” you say, scoffing at the notion that anyone who’s anyone would’ve missed one of Vault Comics’ fine releases in 2018!
+We, like you, have been poring over every issue with a fine-toothed comb. Digging into every conceit, every turn of phrase, every homage, every fib and fiction and flub and flutter that emanates from the man, the myth, the … well, let’s just call him by his name, shall we? Henry Henry, our hapless and hazardous narrator.
+Ryan O’Sullivan, Andrea Mutti and Vladimir Popov were kind enough to lend us some of their time this month to chat about the series thus far in advance of issue #4 which drops during the week we celebrate everything to do with love (and despair). Fitting, no?
+First off, thanks everyone for your time! Ryan, you’ve mentioned elsewhere that Fearscape’s digs at certain comic conceits are reader bait – whatever their intended effect, does working conceptually present any challenges?
+Ryan: Not especially, because the high concept elements of Fearscape are just extensions of the protagonist’s character. What initially could appear as experimental formalism, or reactionary deconstruction, the attentive reader soon realizes is just a means for a metafictional story to express the character of its lead, Henry Henry. Forget my reasons for telling the story the way I am. Focus instead on Henry Henry’s reasons for narrating the story the way he is.
+Ignore the man behind the curtain. He spells funny.
+Fearscape is impressive because it toys with the medium’s underpinnings while carrying so much emotional weight. It’s an effective and uncomfortable read on multiple levels. How easy is it for you to drop into Henry Henry’s voice?
+Ryan: The sheer density of his thought and observation, ever-present in the narration, makes him slower to write than other characters. With that said, he’s not especially difficult to write. Like all my characters, I have his movements plotted out months before I sit down to physically write the scripts. I can’t imagine “letting the character feel their way through a scene.” What a terrible idea. Henry Henry is far too manipulative to be allowed such freedom.
+With Henry Henry’s actions in issue #3 I’m curious to see if he doubles down on narrative control or if we’ve pivoted, as there are other forces that tug at the edges. How much stock should we put in any one entity’s perspective in this piece?
+Ryan: Interesting question. Could Henry Henry’s unreliable narration itself be a red herring, to distract the reader from the deception of a different character in the story?
+I advise my readers trust no-one but themselves in answering the above. (Certainly don’t believe a damned word I’m saying.)
+Will we see more of Arthur in the next issues, or is the nature of that relationship another piece of bait?
+Ryan: Arthur plays an important role. I assure you I’m not using Gogolian antics with him, at least.
+Andrea, what’s it like working in a meta narrative? Do you approach panel layouts or composition any differently?
+Andrea: The script is very clear and clean. I realize a fresh pencil, and most of the effects are in the inked version. With the watercolors I try to add a “dreamlike” touch. It’s my first time with this new approach but I have to say that it really fits with the vibe of the whole story.
+How do you balance the banality of the present with the fantastical Fearscape? There’s bleed, obviously, but is it fun to work across both in one book?
+Andrea: Oh yes, it’s very fun and a great chance to dig into different graphic solutions. In the Fearscape I am totally free, and every “effect has a kind of … sense, If you understand what I mean. The real world is very realistic, but still retains this dreamlike sense, I guess.
+The Muse’s beauty is exceptional. What was your inspiration for her pure form?
+Andrea: Ok, ok. I have to be honest – it’s my wife. Not for the whole likeness but for the soul. But please, not a word about that to her. Or she’ll want any rights back!
+Vladimir, tell me a bit about how you chose the palette for this comic. Was your process any different than how you usually work?
+Vladimir: I chose a palette for this comic in the same manner as for every other project I am working or worked on in the past: organically and in several steps. Step one is I read the script and then contemplate on it a day or two, to try to collect all my feelings and thoughts about it. Step two is to talk to the writer and artist (in this case Ryan and Andrea), express my thoughts on the approach and art direction to them through email or Skype/Facetime, and see what they think the approach should be. After that, I color the first two to three pages to see how I actually feel the artwork while working on it. Step three s the first revision circle, where we discuss and analyze the approach on the first few pages one more time and after we lock everything, I dive in with full pace on the book. To summarize, a bit slower start but a faster ending.
+And usually, after I finish the first issue I get the real picture and feel about how the book should look in colors and go back and tweak here and there to adhere to the desired image. After that, everyone looks at the book and sends their feedback and opinions back to me. I read through their thoughts and apply what I think will make the book better, and we are all set!
+Henry Henry seems to gather muted colors around him, while the rest of the landscape holds the light. Was this intentional?
+Vladimir: Kind of. I thought about it a bit and it made sense to me to showcase Henry’s actions through colors in this subtle way. Since Henry is lacking originality and ideas in his writing, he gets muted colors, while the world of Fearscape and Arthur’s world has more vivid colors because of their originality. Henry lacks a sparkle inside him, so no sparkling around him.
+Same goes for the Muse and Fearscape color choices. It made sense to me to make the Muse pure gold since she is the divine beauty and inspiration for any artist, and to make the Fearscape into a mysterious purple fading place. At the same time, both the Muse and the Fearscape work perfectly with these color choices due to their color dynamics and color theory, because yellow and purple are complementary colors. So, a little bit of inspiration and a little bit of color design were thrown in the mix while molding Fearscape‘s colors.
+Despite some of its recognizable archetypes, the Fearscape is an intangible landscape that you both render in tender detail – how do you work together to maintain this unreality without sacrificing clarity?
+Vladimir: Through good artwork, I would say. You can draw and paint anything with clarity, no matter the reality if you know what you are doing. Andrea certainly knows what he is doing, and I like to believe that I do too, although sometimes the path to clarity can often be blurred!
+And also through good teamwork and team-building. Andrea and I have worked together for half a decade now and I know what he likes and dislikes in coloring, sometimes better than he does! [laughs]
+Ryan, without venturing into spoilers, how important is it that we feel sympathy for our flawed narrator?
+Ryan: Sympathy I leave up to the reading tastes of each individual reader. I’m much more interested in my readers empathizing with Henry Henry. You may not agree with his selfish actions, but you must understand them.
+I’ve always enjoyed inverted heroes (emerging villains?) like MacBeth and Walter White. Even as we see their mask fall, and the monster underneath emerge, their actions are always personal and understandable. I think this is why I gravitate towards these sorts of characters; they feel more human, and less cartoonish, than a lot of the villains we typically see in comics.
+Are there any other stories you’d like to tell in this universe, or is this a contained piece?
+Ryan: The setting allows for more stories, and the sales/response has been good enough to warrant it. But, we shall have to see. I have thoughts for a second book percolating, as well as something else that focuses on Francesco Petrarch.
+Although the Petrarch idea will probably become its own thing, separate from the Fearscape. (As much as any of my works can be.)
+What’ve each of you got on the docket for 2019? Anything, comics or otherwise, you’re excited about working on or would like to share?
+Ryan: Nothing I can share, unfortunately. Although expect some news from Vault Comics soon.
+Andrea: Some cool new ideas with Ryan, some cool sci-fi stuff and more. No spoilers yet!
+Vladimir: A novel, so I can put every little detail I want in it, and spin the story the way I like it!
+And finally, if you had one shot to tell your life story, what medium would you choose?
+Ryan: I’ve found there are two types of writer: those who have experienced dark tragedy or trauma, and write to escape from it, almost as a sort of escapist therapy; and those devoid of any life trauma who create simply for the act of making art. Aggressively white and middle class, I belong entirely to this second class of undeveloped-backstory-possessing writer.
+Utterly devoid of conflict, I doubt my life story would be worthy of any medium other than, perhaps, many decades in the future, some sort of literary biography that would allow my especially dedicated readers to piece together how my life influences(ed?) my work.
+Andrea: Damn, in comics of course!
+Vladimir: A bit more of Fearscape and few unannounced projects for some European publishers, as far as comics are going. My main plan for 2019 is to shift my focus onto my own projects and do some other stuff outside comics, like novels (like my self-published novella series StarJack under a pen name) and video games. I have been coloring comics for full eight years now, and I want to experiment with storytelling and other mediums outside comics now.
+Fearscape #4 hits shelves in February, and I, for one, cannot wait to see what this clever cadre has in store for us. O’Sullivan, Mutti, Popov and Bennett are hitting all the right notes in this surreal epic.
+Nelson Mandela once said: “It always seems impossible until it is done”.
+And so it is with preparedness. At the beginning, the task of prepping seems impossible. But once you start, and once you really get going, the process does not seem so difficult and most definitely seems possible.
+Now don’t get me wrong. Talk to any prepper and he or she will tell you that the job is never done. Oh sure, you eventually acquire enough gear, water, and food to get you by for three days. Next, you work on being prepared for a week, then a month and ultimately, for as much as six months or a year.
+And even then, the job is not done. There are new skills to learn, old skills to fine tune and before you know it, a whole new list of stuff to buy. This month I want to remind you that it is perfectly okay and even preferable to start slowly as you begin your journey down the path of preparedness.
+Try to think of yourself as a little fish in a big pond. Each month the little fish grows and becomes stronger. The little fish begins to have to have confidence, and thrives in its ability to fend for itself.
+The beginning prepper is like the little fish. You only take on as much as you can handle without suffering physical, mental, or financial exhaustion. At the same time, you stay nimble and alert and ready to make a quick decision should the big fish try to swallow you up.
+A lot has happened in our world during these first nine months of prepping. Natural disasters have occurred, random acts of violence have proliferated, and around the world, cities and even countries face total economic collapse. This is as ongoing cycle, and nine months from now, there will be additional natural disasters and additional disruptive events of one type of another giving us concern for our safety.
+Amid the chaos, I would like to think that the school of little fishes that started the 12 Months of Prepping Series has matured a bit, and has gained the confidence needed to weather the storm no matter what. And with this confidence, I would like to think the fishes have begun to find other even smaller fishes that they, too, can help educate.
+But I get ahead of myself. Let’s see what we need to accomplish in 12 Months of Prepping: Month Nine.
+Twelve Months of Prepping: Month Nine
+MONTH 9 SUPPLIES & GEAR:
+The Magic of Duct Tape
+You need duct tape. And lots of it. Duct tape has so many uses that entire books and even websites and blogs have been set up to extol its virtues. This month you are going to add one roll to your emergency kit and another roll to your first aid kit where it can serve a variety of purposes.
+First let me give you a brief history of duct tape. This miracle stuff was created during World War II when the US military needed a flexible, durable, waterproof tape to use making repairs in the field. A strong tape was created by Permacell, a division of Johnson and Johnson for this purpose. As the legend goes, the GIs called it “duck tape” because it was waterproof – like a duck’s back.
+Duct tape, as it is now called, is handy stuff that can be used to temporarily repair a broken window, hold together broken parts on gear in your survival kit, serve as an emergency compression bandage or sling in your first aid kit and, along with plastic sheeting or tarps, create an indoor tent to shelter in place. Duct tape can also be used to repair ripped clothing or a torn backpack and it can even be used as a fly-catcher. And that is just a start.
+Duct tape typically is sold in rolls of various lengths starting at 10 yards up to 60. Be sure to keep the size of the roll in mind as you comparison shop. Something else to keep in mind is that there are different qualities or grades. The grades are Industrial, Professional and Premium with industrial being the most basic, and least expensive quality, for day to day use. The higher the grade, the thicker the tape and the better the holding strength.
+That is not to say that it is wrong to purchase an inexpensive grade or brand. Quite the contrary. As I have said before, purchase the best you can afford but if the budget is tight, go for a less inexpensive brand or purchase a smaller quantity of the good stuff. You want to include duct tape in your kit; this stuff is just too darn useful to go without.
+On the other hand, duct tape, or its companion, Gorilla Tape, should be best you can afford. I do not say this often but from personal experience, I can tell you that while cheap duct tape works swell for a quick mending job, but for long term performance you want the good stuff.
+For additional reading, visit 34 Ways to Use Duct Tape for Survival. You will be surprised by its versatility!
+Other Month Nine Purchases
+Something else we need to do this month is add to our supply of backup batteries. This is where it is important to look carefully at your gear to insure you get properly sized batteries. Do you need AA’s, C’s, or perhaps D’s for your tactical flashlight? Be sure to look beyond flashlights, though. If someone in your family wears hearing aids, be sure to get extra batteries
+for them as well. The same applies to other medical devices.
+If your budget can handle the extra $20 to $30, consider a solar battery charger along with rechargeable batteries. I happen to prefer the Panasonic Eneloop brand of rechargeables because they will hold their charge for two years or more but there may be other brands that do this as well, just be sure to read the fine print.
+What about batteries for your radio and cell phone? If you have been following along, you will have already purchased a hand crank radio that has cell phone charging capabilities. Still, include the radio’s batteries on your shopping list. Redundancy is important and while cranking by hand is nice and may be necessary, it is tedious and takes a long time so yes, some extra batteries would be nice.
+A Quick Tip for Storing Water
+Before moving on to the tasks in month 9, add some additional water to your stored water supply. Adding three days or drinking water per person is the bare minimum so do not stop there if you have the room.
+Here is a tip. Gather some empty soda bottles and after cleaning them with soapy water then rinsing, fill them with tap water. This untreated tap water should be good for six months.
+You can also use juice bottles or milk jugs, but because you may not be able to remove all of the sugars, current thinking is that the water inside is not suitable for drinking. On the other hand, water stored in this manner will surely be good for hand cleaning, housekeeping and personal sanitation (potty) purposes. Just be sure to label these jugs as NON POTABLE so you do not drink from them by accident. Unless treated with bleach or purification tablets, untreated water stored over a long period may not be safe to drink.
+MONTH 9 TASKS:
+- Follow up on efforts to organize your family and your neighborhood
+- Conduct an earthquake drill at home: stop, drop and hold, then go outside. Earthquakes can happen anywhere so conduct this drill even if you do not live in “earthquake country”.
+- Swap out stored medications with fresh versions. Review your prescription medicines and add those that are missing from your kit.
+Remember when I said that you are no longer the littlest of fishes and that you have now matured enough to share your knowledge?
+In 12 Months of Prepping: Month Five, we talked about the importance of community. Did you do something then? If so, you are to be congratulated and if not, plan to step up your efforts this month. Find one person or find a group, but share your prepping skills with someone you know.
+Tip: this can even be a reluctant spouse, partner or family member.
+Teach member of your community a skill and in turn, see if they have a skill that they can share with you. In addition, work on a communication plan so that community members can contact each other in the event of an emergency and so that you can verify everyone’s condition and their safety following a disaster.
+The 21st Century “Phone Tree”
+Resurrect the concept of a “phone tree” even though you may need to use something other than a traditional phone to propagate the tree. By definition, a phone tree is a network of people organized in such a way that they can quickly and easily spread information amongst each other.
+The way it works is this: each person in your self-defined community has a list of people they will try to contact in an emergency. Once contacted, those people have their own list and so on. The idea is to communicate news and information as quickly as possible without an undue burden on any one member of the group.
+For this to work, multiple contact methods should be planned for, including cell phones, texting, HAM radio, or even going door to door and knocking. In a true emergency, traditional forms of communication such as telephones and email may not be functional. Be prepared for that.
+Earthquakes Happen Anywhere & Everywhere
+As recent events have proven, earthquakes can and do happen everywhere. It is not the purpose of this article to discuss why this is happening in seemingly non-earthquake prone locations but rather to make you aware of the possibility, and to help you respond when and if it happens.
+With that in mind, the next task is to gather around your family and conduct an earthquake drill. You can read more about how to do this in the article Be Prepared: Learn to Survive an Earthquake. In addition, you can find some excellent information on earthquake readiness on the Ready.gov Earthquake page.
+Taking things one step further, now is a good time to review your plan to escape the danger if the big one occurs and you must evacuate. Is your bug-out-bag good-to-go with some water, basic food items, a first aid kit and copies of important documents (perhaps both on paper and on a flash drive)?
+Do you Take Prescription Drugs?
+In Month Four we added a seven day supply of prescription drugs to our emergency survival kit. Has anything changed? Are there medications that need to be added, changed or deleted? Now is a good time not only to see what you have in your kit, but also to swap out the old for new. I also recommend increasing the original 7 day supply by adding an additional 7 days, bring the total to 14 days or two weeks.
+For those of you with a good memory, you might recall that originally, in 12 Months of Prepping, I suggested that Month Nine be used to check the expiration dates of your stored medications so you could replace them with fresh, depending upon their expiration dates. I now feel it is important to note that in a true, SHTF situation, many so-called expired or outdated drugs will be just fine.
+As the U.S. military, the Harvard Medical School and others will attest, the actual shelf life of prescription medicines is typically far longer than the one year than is automatically recorded by your pharmacy..
+Source: Drug Expiration Dates – Do They Mean Anything? – Harvard Medical school
+So are drug expiration dates a scam? I won’t go so far as to imply that and leave it up to you to do your own research. The important thing is to make sure you have an adequate supply of your meds to keep you healthy for at least seven to fourteen days following a disaster or disruptive event, and preferably longer. And what if you have to bypass the insurance company to purchase these extras? Hopefully you will find a way to work the cost in to your budget.
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+The Final Word
+This month has been about preparing for the eventuality of something bad happening. Although I have used the example of an earthquake, you could substitute a flood, a fire, a hurricane or a tornado and drill for that instead of or in addition to the earthquake drill. I can not emphasize enough that these things do not just happen to other people.
+They can and do happen to ordinary folks who get up each morning and go about their business in an unobtrusive manner. Some are rich and some are poor. Some are old and some are young. Some have jobs and others are unemployed. It happens to anyone and everyone and it could happen to you.
+Being prepared is not always easy, especially when faced with the fear or superstition that being prepared may “jinx” you and that by anticipating the worst, it will indeed happen.
+Nothing can be further from the truth. I, more than anyone, do not want anything bad to happen. I hope that I will never, ever have to use my preps. I hope that ten or twenty years from now I can donate my stored food to a food bank for distribution to the needy.
+But, being a realist, I know that there is a possibility that the big one will occur near my home at some time during my lifetime. To that end, I sleep better knowing that I have the stuff, I have the skills, and I have a plan.
+As you take these monthly steps toward preparedness, adapt them to your budget and to the risks you see in your area. You, too, will sleep.
+3M Heavy Duty All-Weather Duct Tape
+: This heavy duty duct tape happens to be a favorite in our household. On the other hand, we keep some 3M Utility Duct Tape around for lighter duty jobs.
+Duct Tape 911: The Many Amazing Medical Things You Can Do to Tape Yourself Together: This is a handy book to keep in your first aid kit along with a roll of duct tape, of course.
+Gorilla Clear Repair Tape and Gorilla Tape 35-Yard Roll: Enough of you told me I needed to try Gorilla Tape and I did. If you can imagine a product even better than duct tape, this is it.
+Potable Aqua Water Treatment Tablets: Potable Aqua Water Purification Tablets make questionable water bacteriologically suitable to drink. Easy to use and the water is ready to drink in 30 minutes. One 50 tablet bottle treats 25 quarts of water.
+Panasonic Eneloop AA New 2100 Cycle Ni-MH Pre-Charged Rechargeable Batteries
+: You will have to trust me on this one – these rechargeable batteries are amazing. I have (safely) disposed of my old rechargeables and use these exclusively. I charge them up, throw them in a draw and when I need them a few months later, they are still fully charged. You can use them with your existing battery charger.
+Solar Charger for Rechargeable Batteries: This Goal Zero Guide 10 Plus Power Pack , coupled with the Goal Zero Nomad 7 Solar Panel is what I use to charge up AA and AAA batteries as well as my electronic devices. I purchased mine as a kit from Amazon.. See Gear Review: SunJack Portable Solar Charger..
+![ Ease into preparedness with 12 months of prepping. In month 9, we add duct tape to our kit, learn, about disaster drills, and a whole lot more. There is no need to become overwhelmed when it comes to preparedness. Take it slowly, one month at a time!
+via]() alot to learn in these coming months to fill his proverbial shoes. And we have both learned that being prepared is not just about gathering supplies, it is about knowing the day-to-day simple operations that keep you going and what to do when life thows you a curve ball. Please remember this as you prepare. It will definitely payoff some day?
+Margie – Thank you so much for sharing your experience and your thoughts with us. Whether it is prepping skills or merely knowing how to balance the family checkbook, couples need to learn to backstop each other so one can do the job of another if and when it becomes necessary.
+Shelly and I send good thoughts to you and your husband for a speedy recovery.
+Good tip with the empty 2 liter bottles. I’ve done that for years. Only had to use the backup water a few times but glad I had it
+It’s true that duct tape was created during WW2 and co-incidentally, that’s about the time central heating and AC came along. Duct tape is silver colored and is called duct tape because it was and still is used to tape the joints between sections of air ducts. People who are not HVAC techs have other names for it like duck tape. Nascar calls it 200 MPH tape and uses it to hold wrecked cars together.
+I am wondering why reusing soda/juice/water jugs would make the refilled water in them undrinkable? If those items were used for drinking purposes, would they not be safe for a few more “reuses”?
+The problem is not that the water in unsafe for the short term, but that without being treated with bleach or purification tabs, there is a possibility that bacteria and other nasties will bloom after extended storage.
+There are many ways that soda bottles can become contaminated but if they are washed and swished with a bleach solution before refilling they will be fine for six months give or take.
+I need to update the article to make this clear. Thank you for posing the question.
+@margie morawiec, I understand where you are coming from. My hubby’s story is almost identical to yours. He too had a heart murmur caused by a mitral valve prolapse for most of his life but was always a fit, strong, and healthy man. Then 5 years ago he just started getting very winded just walking across a room. His cardiologist recommended he have surgery to repair the valve and boy was it scary! After the surgery while still in recovery his heart rhythm just would not stay steady. After days of wondering if he needed to undergo a secondary surgery to implant a pace maker, the good Lord allowed my hubby’s heart to stay in rhythm(with the help of a med). His recovery then went exceptionally well and to this day he is doing fantastically! I am praying for you two that you will have the same “happy ending”. More to the point of your post though, you have made a very important point about making sure that one partner doesn’t have all the info and skills needed to get through everyday life or a disaster situation.
+What is Prayer?
+Prayer is simply talking to God, and listening out for when He talks to us – (this second part is a little more complex to explain – more on it later!)
+I’ve grown up in a Christian household where prayer was routine so it never occurred to me that people looking into the Christian faith from the outside might find it hard to understand this particular aspect of our faith.
+It’s like this: because God is a person, and He is everywhere at once, then I can speak to Him from literally anywhere, and I can be confident that He will hear me. The most important aspects of this are that we believe that we are actually speaking to a real Person, and we believe that because He is everywhere, then He will hear us – even when we pray silently in our hearts, or in our minds.
+Prayer is just talking to God:
+Over the last week, I have been to a number of church services as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. (I now realise that many of these churches simply packaged up their usual weekly services as “Fringe performances”, thereby getting extra visitors through the door – honestly!!!)
+Because I was going as a spectator and not as a worshipper, I have been to a number of services in a number of churches that I would not normally go to in observance of my faith (and I have also inhaled so much incense it’s unbelievable!)
+For instance, I found myself in a Catholic church during the week. I always think that Catholicism is as distant from my experience of faith as is Islam (or Hinduism, or Buddhism..or…) – and I believe that I was proven to be right by the experience of going to this particular church. Firstly, it was a special Latin mass, so literally everything was said in Latin – (although they did admittedly provide programmes with translations). The priest would say things, and then the congregation would respond in special set ways. My body was in constant motion – standing, sitting back down, kneeling, sitting again, standing again – and I had to watch the rest of the congregation to know what to do at any point (it was actually written in the programme, in English – but no-one actually seemed to be following it!)
+I am sure that God is big and open-minded enough to accept this (although I am suddenly reminded of a passage where Jesus said that we should not be like the Gentiles, who think that God will accept their prayers because of their many words – Matthew 6v7 – and Jesus specifically said we should not use meaningless or empty repetitions – what could be more meaningless than a language you don’t actually speak, or understand?)
+My somewhat long-winded point in all of this is that all of it: the ceremony, the robes, the glittering gold, the incense, and most especially the use of an alien language – this is not and has never been what I think of as prayer. To me, taking my cue from Jesus Himself, prayer is simply me as a normal person, having a conversation with God. This is a real conversation, so I speak in my normal voice with normal language, and it is about being real and honest, both to myself and to God. On the whole, I don’t use “Thee”s and “Thou”s and old-fashioned language like that. Why would I? If I tried to pray like that, I know that I would quickly get bored, or fed up, and give up. So for instance, if I am feeling frustrated, I say “God, I’m feeling frustrated!” If I am feeling ecstatic, then I will say “Father, I thank You, I am feeling ecstatic!” Yes I do call God “Father”. This is about as formal as my prayers get! Sometimes I personally also refer to God as “Lord”.
+Prayer is about inviting God, and all that He is, into different situations in my life:
+In a way, God really does not need to be invited into different situations in the world or in my life, because He does after all own everything. However, by praying about something, I specifically hand over control of that issue to God. It’s like saying:
+“God, I am not big enough to deal with this. However, I know that You are God – please do Your thing!”
+Prayer is about seeking the power of God for positive outcomes in different issues in my life, and in the world:
+Because God is a good God, and His plans for us and the world are good plans, then I can pray positive things and trust that God will want to answer these prayers. There are 2 parts to this:
+Firstly, the Bible defines for us what God thinks of as being good and right. So if I pray for things to happen that are outside God’s standards, then surprise surprise, He will not answer those requests. For instance, if I were to pray for gold to rain down from the sky so that I could go out to buy as many clothes, bags and shoes as I want (and a house that is big enough to store all of them!) then I would be praying for a very long time, because that prayer would never be granted!
+On the other hand, I might sincerely, but wrongly, believe that something is good and acceptable to God – and it will be in the process of praying about it that I realise that I am wrong.
+Prayer is about bringing all that I am to God:
+For me, it is about saying “God, this is where I am at”. Sometimes, that will be a great place, and I will be full of gratitude. Sometimes it will be a place of confusion, and I can only offer God ramblings and a chaotic mindset.
+For me, honesty is vital in prayer. There have been countless times when I have expressed my anger or my disappointment at the way God has acted – or seemingly failed to act in my life. I will compare events or matters in my life to the glowing promises in the Bible, and I will say “God, I am frustrated and I am angry. I don’t understand why You didn’t do this!!!” or “God, I honestly don’t know how You could let this happen to me, to me Lord! I pursue You with everything that I have, my life is totally submitted to You…frankly Lord, I feel as if You have disappointed me here!”
+These are not prayers to deliberately immerse ourselves in, but sometimes as Christians they will reflect our honest state of mind. If we are praying honestly, then in my experience God will work to grant us a more positive state of mind, or a positive perspective, even if He does not actually resolve the situation we are complaining about.
+I personally think that determination to be honest with God in prayer is the difference between real strength and real perseverance as a Christian, and the kind of faith that does not actually make any difference at all. That is, have you ever read any of those comments from Christians where they are always smilingly bright and act as if life as a Christian is always perfect and free from challenges? Facebook is a great place for this! I know that it is important to be positive, but my secret confession – I usually dismiss comments like these and scarcely bother to read them. What I like to see is sincere acknowledgement of the challenges that we as Christians face, sometimes – that is many times! – brought on by our own predictable human weaknesses – and the way that God can act mightily through these to genuinely transform situations. Now those are the status updates that catch my eye, and which I like to ponder upon!
+Prayer is also about bringing my own heart to be shaped by God and His Word.
+Prayer is definitely about asking God for things, “God, please help my business to succeed!”…”Father, where is my husband?!!!! (That is, why have I not yet found a man that I can marry?!!!)” However, it is also about bringing my own self to God, so that He can shape me and mould me more into the kind of person that He wants me to be, so that I can be more like Christ. I can hasten the process by identifying aspects of my life that need work: “God please grant me love, grace, a forgiving heart, and the humility of Christ!” – Amen!
+Prayer is about God talking to me:
+Now this part is a little more complex to explain.
+People will ask: “Does God talk to you audibly?”.
+Answer: In the Bible, God called audibly to Samuel when He was a young boy serving in the Temple. Moreover Jesus obviously spoke audibly to His followers (ha ha!)
+However, this seems to be the exception rather than the rule especially in our own lives post-Bible times. (In some churches it seems to be immensely controversial to suggest that God has spoken to you audibly).
+However, God definitely does speak to us, audibly or otherwise.
+The primary and most important way that God speaks to us is through the Bible. It is this that we use to weigh up other things, and discern whether they truly are, or could be, from God. That is, everything that God tells us will be in line with the Bible. If it contradicts Bible teaching then it is simply not from God. This is because God remains the same, as do His opinions. Unlike us He does not change back and forth. So the Bible remains as reliable a guide to the attitudes of God regarding various human issues as it was when it was first written, and as it will be a thousand years from now. Time does not change God, not least because He is outside time.
+However, to use the Bible as a reliable guide to what God may or may not have said, does mean that we need to know the Bible – what it actually says, and what it actually means. Where other people – like other Christians, pastors or leaders, (or me, for instance) are telling us that God has told them something – sometimes this “something” might be about us; then it is knowledge of the Bible that will help us know whether what they say could actually be from God. The Bible makes it clear that we should never just accept anything from anyone as being from God, without checking it out in the Bible, and in prayer. This is because (apart from Jesus) we as human beings are all weak and frail and broken, only God is a perfectly reliable source. This is true even of the Christian leaders that we revere most highly. I could name names….
+Besides the Bible, other ways that God can speak to us include impressions or ideas in our heart, often while praying. Sometimes, an idea will just occur to me, while I am praying about something completely unrelated, or sometimes when I am not praying at all. Everyone gets these “lightbulb” moments, not only Christians, but as a Christian I happily attribute them all to God! For instance, there was a time recently when I was really struggling with one aspect of a site that I was creating for a webdesign client, and wondering why it simply wasn’t working. It was literally while I was discussing the issue with a Christian friend in a Christian gathering, explaining my frustration, that the answer came to me, and I realised what the issue had been; when I got home, I fixed it, and instantly it worked. Hallelujah!
+Sometimes, God will be speaking, but we have to be very very quiet, put aside issues that might be floating around in our mind, and listen with our hearts, to what the Bible calls “a still small voice”: 1 Kings 19:11-13 -(in this translation referred to as a soft whisper of a voice).* From experience, it can be so easy to think that God is saying x or y, when it is actually my own personal feelings that are speaking.
+People also say that God speaks to us through other people, but I am naturally very distrustful, so I personally find it hard to trust whatever other people say, especially when they say “God has told me that…!” and then they expect me to simply accept whatever they say as being from God, just because of their status in some supposed church.
+So these are some of the things that make up prayer. When I first started taking prayer seriously, I find it very difficult to “get into”, like a book. It can require a certain level of concentration and focus, which can be hard to find when our minds are filled with other things. However, I am glad that I persevered. God is the one Person with whom I can be perfectly honest – for instance about other people, and know that He will not tell anyone; even about Himself, and He will not display insecurity, or any passive-aggressive attitudes. I can also be honest about myself and know that He will not be intimidated by my dreams of greatness or disillusioned by the secret thoughts of my heart which I kid myself that I am successfully hiding from other people.
+Obviously I would say this, but sincerely, it is completely worthwhile to be real with God! If you’ve never prayed before I would encourage you to try it out. If you are worried about feeling silly then you could always do it in secret where no-one else is going to find out. Just start by believing that God is real and that He cares about your life, then just tell Him a few issues that are on your mind!
+*While doing some googling to find the exact reference for this passage, I found an article which questions the meaning of the Bible passage quoted, suggesting among other things that the passage does not actually mean that God speaks to us in a still small voice. However, in my personal experience God does often speak to me in this way, or I find that I can discern what God might be saying through tuning out mental issues and listening hard with my heart, so I believe it is still good and relevant to use these terms.
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+Please note that we will not be updating this page again until the end of August. Have a great summer!
+Each week, we’ll upload some of the recordings that students create as part of their Talking Tuesday discussions. You can use these recordings to discuss the reading materials more with your children, and have them really reflect on the author’s main idea and deeper purpose. Feel free to leave a comment here letting us know what you think of these recordings, and giving students meaningful next steps for improvement as they continue to work on developing their reading comprehension skills.
+Thanks for your help with this!
+Miss Bucciacchio and Miss Dunsiger
+Wednesday, June 19, 2013
+In class today, students spoke about the different things that they’re reading at school and at home. Many students are reading about famous Canadians as they research for their Social Studies Projects. Students are realizing that they don’t just need to read books: websites, articles, and even texts count as reading. Hopefully students will continue to read lots over the summer!
+Wednesday, June 12, 2013
+Since I (Aviva) was away today, students did not record their book discussions, but they spoke about reading this week, especially as they looked at the connections of different texts to our Quest2Matter Project. Students also conversed about books that they read at home: making connections, asking questions, and inferring meaning based on what they read.
+Wednesday, May 29, 2013 and Wednesday, June 5, 2013
+With EQAO this week and next week, we will not be doing our regular Talking Tuesday routine. This will begin again once EQAO is over.
+Wednesday, May 22, 2013
+This week, students will be “talking” about what they read in a combined Talking Tuesdays/Thinking Thursdays Radio Show at 9:20 tomorrow morning. You can listen in on 105 the Hive. A recording of our radio show can be found here.
+Wednesday, May 15, 2013
+Tomorrow is our Star Party with Cosmic Connections, and students have started researching the planets in preparation for tomorrow and because of our new Science unit on Space. Students are sharing their thinking aloud before, during, and after they read. Here are a few short videos of their thinking.
+Wednesday, May 8, 2013
+For Talking Tuesdays today, students read articles in the newspaper that they found interesting and wrote about what made these articles interesting. They discussed the key points with their peers, and connected these articles to other ones that they’ve read before. You can find some of their tweets about these articles in our Storify Stories on the Daily Shoot Blog.
+Wednesday, May 1, 2013
+For Talking Tuesdays today, students discussed their reading in class, focusing largely on understanding information in the text and looking at various points of view. As they continue to work on their Genius Hour Projects, students are talking about reading more frequently. You can see some of this information recorded in our Daily Shoot blog posts.
+Wednesday, April 24, 2013
+I (Aviva) was at a meeting all day today, so these book discussions were not recorded. Students spoke about and reflected on their reading all week though thanks to The Hamilton Spectator’s Homegrown Sports Heroes project. You can read some of these online discussions here.
+Wednesday, April 17, 2013
+I (Aviva) am away today, so these book discussions were not recorded. Students spoke about and reflected on their reading all week though thanks to The Hamilton Spectator’s Homegrown Sports Heroes project. You can read some of these online discussions here and here.
+Wednesday, April 10, 2013
+Students took some time at school this morning to discuss what they read. To align with our TLCP, students continued to talk about the point of view of the characters in the book, and how they know that this is what the characters think and feel. Please note that we did not record the Talking Tuesdays this week. We’ll work on recording them next week.
+Wednesday, April 3, 2013
+With it being a short week, today was an incredibly busy day, and so students discussed their books in many different ways. Some students spoke to their peers about what they read, while other discussed their reading online using a Today’sMeet Room. Some students even used our Divergent Point of View chatroom to discuss their reading while also looking at point of view in a book that we’re reading together. This links directly to our TLCP on point of view.
+Wednesday, March 27, 2013
+Our book discussion today was really part of our Hot Seat Radio Show. See what students contributed to the written conversation as well as our oral one on 105 the Hive.
+Wednesday, March 20, 2013
+With our GeoArt Project Sharing Time today, many students just discussed their books and articles aloud with each other. A few students added to our Talking Tuesdays Today’sMeet Room. They can show you their work by visiting the room. If you have any questions about this, please let us know.
+Wednesday, March 6, 2013
+As we were trying to work on various projects in class before the March Break, we did not get a chance to record these Talking Tuesday discussions. We will record more after the Break though. Sorry about this!
+Wednesday, February 27, 2013
+Today we had a radio show to discuss the books and articles we read. Below is the Livescribe recording of the radio show. Here’s a link to the transcript of the questions and discussion.
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+Wednesday, February 20, 2013
+Today we had a radio show to discuss the books and articles we read. You can find out more here.
+Wednesday, February 13, 2013
+Most the students shared their ideas in a Today’sMeet Room. Here’s a link to the transcript of the chat.
+One group recorded a video as well. Below is their recording:
+Wednesday, February 6, 2013
+Many students shared their ideas in a Today’sMeet Room. Here’s a link to the transcript of the chat.
+Wednesday, January 30, 2013
+There were a few different things happening at the same time today, so some students discussed their books orally in the classroom, other students wrote their ideas in their Thinking Books, and many students contributed to this Today’sMeet Room.
+Wednesday, January 23, 2013
+With all of our Duct Tape Challenge activities today, we had limited time for Talking Tuesday discussions, but some students contributed to a Today’sMeet Room. One group also recorded this video.
+Wednesday, January 16, 2013
+Many students shared their ideas in a Today’sMeet Room. Here’s a link to the transcript of the chat.
+There was one video recording as well, but there seems to be a volume issue. If I can fix the problem, I will post the video tomorrow.
+Talking Tuesday recordings will now be added to the website again. Thanks for your understanding during our brief hiatus.
+Wednesday, January 9, 2013
+This week we did a radio show for Talking Tuesdays. Here are the notes from the radio show.
+Wednesday, December 5, 2012
+1) Here is a link to the transcript from the Today’sMeet Room, where students talked about the books that they read.
+2) Videos
+My apologies about one of the videos. Two students read and discussed, The One and Only Ivan, but there was a problem uploading it, so the video is not here. I’ll try to upload the video again tomorrow. – Aviva
+Wednesday, November 28, 2012
+With two assemblies today, we didn’t have a lot of time for Talking Tuesday, but students took advantage of our 15 minutes in the library to share their book discussions. Here are two audio recordings from today. With 60 Grade 6’s in the one room, there is some background noise, but the recordings are both still clear.
+Wednesday, November 21, 2012
+For Talking Tuesdays today, many students shared their thoughts about what they read using either our Today’sMeet Room or Twitter. You can see a transcript of the comments and a story of the tweets below.
+1) Transcript Of Comments From Today’sMeet:
+2) Storify Story of Tweets
+3) Video Discussion
+Wednesday, November 14, 2012
+We didn’t do Talking Tuesdays this week because of our trip to the Bulldogs Game. Check back here next week for recordings.
+Wednesday, November 7, 2012
+For Talking Tuesdays this week, many students used our Today’sMeet room to discuss their books. It was great to see so many students eager to share their thinking and learning with others in a way where they could “talk” and “write” at the same time. Here is a link to a GoogleDoc transcript of this chat session from today.
+Livescribe Pencast One group of students chose to use the Livescribe Pen to record a pencast of their Talking Tuesdays discussion. We love how they spoke and wrote to share their reflections from this week’s readings.
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+Wednesday, October 31, 2012
+Even though I (Aviva) was away this morning at a meeting, it was great to see students still using different forms of technology to record their Talking Tuesday discussions. Many students used Edmodo to discuss their books, and you can see their posts by logging into Edmodo with your child.
+1) Audio Recording:
+2) Video Recording:
+Wednesday, October 24, 2012
+Aviva was away at Minds on Media and ECOO this week, so less devices were available for students to record their book talks. One group of students recorded their discussion though, and the videos (two parts) are embedded below. Regular recordings will begin again next week.
+Wednesday, October 17, 2012
+1) Many students posted their discussion on Edmodo or on the Commons under the 6bd groups. Your child can login to Edmodo or the Commons with you and show you these posts.
+2) Audio Recordings:
+3) Video Recordings:
+Wednesday, October 10, 2012
+1) Many students posted their discussion on Edmodo under the 6bd group. Your child can login to Edmodo with you and show you these posts.
+2) Audio Recordings:
+Group 4 (Part 1) – These students chose to record this discussion today (Thursday) since they were away yesterday at Cross Country.
+Group 4 (Part 2) – These students chose to record this discussion today (Thursday) since they were away yesterday at Cross Country.
+3) Video Recordings:
+\
+This is a recording that students decided to do during literacy centres today, so that they could extend their “book talk.”
+Docs
+Spawn A Radio Station
+Airtime Manual
+- Introduction
+- What is Airtime?
+- Rights and royalties
+Updated aPost×768 pixels. Airtime looks its best on a high definition display of 1920×1080 pixels. The recommended web browsers are Mozilla Firefox 25 orGoogle:
+Airtime workflow
+This typical workflow is intended to clarify the difference between the various components that make up a complete Airtime system.
+- There are media files on a storage server, which include metadata in their tags (title, creator, genre and so on). This storage server might be accessed directly via studio workstations on the local network.
+- The Airtime media-monitor keeps track of files being added, renamed, moved or removed from storage, and reads their metadata using the Mutagen library.
+- A PostgreSQL database contains the location of those media files and their metadata. This means you can search for and playlist a set of media files according to the specific metadata that you require, or use a ‘smart block’ to select the files for you. The database also contains details of specified remote input streams.
+-.
+- Monit monitors the health of pypo, media-monitor and Liquidsoap, and reports the status of these services to Airtime.
+- RabbitMQ pushes messages from Airtime to media-monitor and pypo about changes to media files and the playout schedule.
+- Airtime manages all of these components, and provides an easy, multi-user web interface to the system. It enables your station staff, depending on the permissions you have granted them, to:
+- a) upload media files to the storage server via theAdd Mediapage
+- b) automatically import file metadata into the PostgreSQL database
+- c) search for and download media files, and edit the metadata of individual files, if required, on theLibrarypage
+-Calendar theManage Userspage
+- h) see what is about to be played by Liquidsoap on theNow Playingpage, with support for last-minute changes to the content
+- i) upload media files from Airtime to a third-party hosting service, such as SoundCloud
+- j) audition available output streams from the server using theListenbutton
+- k) check the status and resource usage of system components on theStatuspage
+- l) export the broadcast schedule to external sites via the Schedule API
+- m) see logs on thePlayout Historypage and view graphs on the Listener Stats page
+- n) configure the Airtime system on thePreferences,Media Folders and Streams
+Example studio broadcast system.
+Example web broadcast system.
+Rights and royalties
+If copyright holders. The royalty collection societies require payment before you.
+- Using Airtime
+- On air in 60 seconds!
+- Getting started
+- Smartphone journalism
+On air in 60 seconds!
+Here’s how you can use Airtime to manage your broadcasts. Chapter names in this book are shown in italics, to help you find the details of each step (if you need to read more).
+- Log in to your Airtime server with yourUsernameand Password (Getting started).
+- Add your files to the Airtime library by clickingAdd mediaon the main menu, then click the Add files button. You can drag and drop your files into this window too. Then click the Start upload button (Add media).
+- Create a show by clickingCalendaron the main menu, and then clicking the + Show button (Calendar). Only admins and program managers can add shows (Users).
+- Set a name for your show in theWhatsection of the box, and a date and time in the When section, then click the + Add this show button (Calendar).
+- Add media to the new show by clicking your show in theCalendarand selecting Add / Remove Content (Calendar). Or if the show has already started, use the Add / Remove Content button on the Now Playing page (Now Playing).
+- Click media in the search results on the left side of the pop-up window which will appear, and drag it into your show on the right side (Now Playing).
+- You’re on air! Click theListenbutton to hear available streams.
+Page 4
+Getting started
+IfUsernamePreferences for configuration details.
+The E-mail address you enter must match the address stored in the database for your Username.
+Register Airtime.
+The Master PanelSave.
+Checking an Icecast server.
+Page 5
+Smartphone ‘ogg ‘Limit folders browsing’ give the app access to all of the SD Card storage of the phone.
+Back in the main recording window of RecForge, create a directory such as ‘recordings‘ ‘recordings‘ directory to select it, then tap the OK button. The files are credited to ‘Unknown artist‘ because they have not yet been tagged with creator metadata.
+After tapping the Start upload button on the Add Media page, the files are now copied into the remote Airtime library.
+If you prefer, you can upload audio files to the organize folder on the Airtime server using an SFTP client, skipping the web browser step. See the chapterManage media folders for details. Suitable client applications include AndFTP for Android: Airtime’s live rebroadcast feature include KoalaSan for iOS: andBroadcastMySelf for Android: DemoIcesShout for Android also shows promise, although it can only stream a static file, rather than stream from a microphone:
+A live workflow does of course depend on a steady network connection between the phone and Airtime: AirtimeServer: airtime.example.comPort: 8003Mountpoint: mastermountStream name: AirtimeDescription: A live stream to AirtimeGenre: NewsUsername: masterstreamerPassword: masterpasswordCodec: mp3Bitrate: 128Protocol: Icecast2Stereo:Icecast Settings page, where example settings could be:
+Hostnameairtime.example.com Port8003 Path/mastermount Usernamemasterstreamer Passwordmasterpassword MP3 Encoder Bitrate128 Kbit/s Metadata Template_song__artist Streaming Buffer SizeMP Airtime, Airtime output will fade from scheduled play to the stream from your mobile device. See the chapter Stream settings for more details of connection preferences.
+- The System menu
+- Preferences
+- Users
+- Media folders
+- Stream settings
+- Support feedback
+- Status
+- Listener stats
+Preferences enable live, read-only access to the Airtime schedule calendar for your station’s public website with the Allow Remote Websites to Access “Schedule” Info? option, if you wish. (There is more about this feature in the Exporting the schedule chapter, in the Advanced Configuration section of this book). ‘From’ Emailfield to help ensure emails are delivered correctly. Then click the Save button.
+SoundCloud Settings). Then click the Save button.
+Page 7
+Users
+IfUsersAdminmenubutton to update your account.
+Page 8
+Media folders
+Airtime’s media library is inside the /srv/airtime/stor/ folder on your server, by default. In Media folders on the System menu, you can change this default location, or add extra folders to be watched by Airtime.
+If you specify a network drive as a media folder and that network becomes disconnected for any reason, Airtime’s media monitor will flag the files as ‘missing’ in its database until the drive is reconnected. If those files are still missing at the time of the show, the broadcast output could be silenced.
+For the same reason, if a removable drive (such as a USB memory stick or MP3 player) is specified as a watched folder, that drive has to be present and powered on until the corresponding show time, so that the Airtime playout engine can download the files needed for the show. If your station staff use removable drives to store media files, it is safer to use the Add media page of the Airtime administration interface or the airtime-import copy command to copy the files to the main storage server. See the chapters Add media and Using the airtime-import script for more details.
+The metadata for new media files you add to the organize folder or a watched folder will be automatically imported into the Airtime database. The organizeor watched folders can be exported to computers on the local network. This would enable dragging and dropping of media uploads using the file managers on the desktop computers at your studio.
+A file dropped into the organize folder will appear to vanish as the metadata is read, and the file is moved to the correct location under the importeddirectory, according to its creator and title. This means you can find files for download and editing using a file browser connected to your server, as well as in the Search table in the Library. This location could be under a filesystem path such as /srv/airtime/stor/imported/Beck/Midnite Vultures/ in the screenshot below.
+If a media file is corrupted and cannot be played by Liquidsoap, Airtime will move the file to the problem_files folder in the storage archive, and its metadata will not be added to the database. This feature ensures that all files are tested for encoding errors or upload corruption before playout time.
+Files in watched folders are not moved into the main Airtime storage folder. However, just like in the main storage, files deleted from a watched folder will be automatically flagged as missing in any show that they are part of.
+Edits to your stored and watched media files are noticed by Airtime. If you edit any file known to the database and change its duration, Airtime will automatically adjust the duration of playlists, smart blocks and shows that the file is included in. If you edit the metadata tags of a file, Airtime will automatically update the database with the new information. This may invalidate existing playlists or smart blocks that the file is part of. For example, if you use ‘genre’ as a search criteria to create a playlist or smart block and then edit the ‘genre’ tag for a file, that file may no longer match the original search criteria. A playlist or static smart block would still have an entry for the original file if either of these items was created before you modified the tag of the file in question.OK button to confirm your choice.
+The Manage Media Folders page will now display the new storage location.
+The storage folder cannot be changed while a file import is in progress. If you attempt to do this, an error message will be displayed.
+Watching a folder
+Under Watched Folders,.
+Page 9
+Stream settings
+You theReplay.
+Switching input streamsicon to the left of the source name.
+Output stream settings streamingServer IP address or domain name, and Port details. The default port for Icecast and SHOUTcast servers is 8000.
+Click Additional Options to expand a box in which you can enter the usernames, passwords and metadata to send to the streaming server. The defaultUsername for Icecast servers is source, and if this the name in use on your streaming server, you can leave this field empty. The Admin User andAdmin Password settings are optional, and are used to query the streaming server for audience numbers by the Listener Stats page on the Systemmenu.Save button. If the streaming server is down for any reason, or you have entered an incorrect Server name or Port number, you will see the message Can not connect to the streaming server.
+Page 10
+Support feedback
+If you did not already register Airtime when you installed it, as shown in the Getting Started chapter, you can click Support Feedback on the Systemmenu to display Airtime’s automated feedback options. Check the Send support feedback box in order to post technical details about your Airtime installation to Sourcefabric, over the Internet. These details help Sourcefabric diagnose any problem that you might be having with your Airtime (of up to 600 x 600 pixels). If you have already checked the box to indicate your acceptance of the privacy policy, a link to the policy will be displayed instead.
+Page 11
+Status). Library. Alternatively, you could move some files to a watched folder on another disk, or ask your system administrator to install additional storage capacity.
+Page 12
+Listener stats
+The Listener Stats page on the System airtime_128, on the Streams page of the System.
+Now playing
+The Now Playing page provides a view of the content your station will play out, or has already played out, which defaults to showing the 24 hours ahead. This page also enables you to make last-minute changes to running shows.
+If you’ve only just installed Airtime, Fadetimes and Mime type (file format) can also be shown. This information can help you to prepare voice tracks for insertion into the show, including time checks if you wish. Putting current time information into.
+Removing content from a running showTrash Airtime’s library (main storage or watched folders) subsequently. Items which are included in forthcoming shows cannot be removed from the Library via the Airtime interface.
+Advanced and simple library searches
+In the top left corner of the page is an Add / Remove Content button which enables you to open Airtime Airtime Ownercolumn. After you have made your search, you can click the header of the Uploaded column to find the items that person added to the server most recently.
+Advanced search terms are matched using ‘and’ rather than ‘or’ logic, to narrow your search. Perhaps you have tagged some jazz-flavoured station idents intended for use in a particular show called ‘Jazz Airtime ‘or’ logic for multiple search terms, so a simple search for jingle ident will return items matching either keyword.
+Clicking on an item in the library table opens a pop-up menu which enables you to audition the item, or remove it from the Airtime Airtime Airtime..
+A live show set for recording from the Airtime server’s sound card is displayed with a red dot icon in the first column. It would not contain any files or playlists, smart blocks or web streams.
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+Add media
+If.
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+Library
+This page of the Airtime Playlist Builder page. Airtime’s library using the Trashcan button. preview button on the left side of its row. (If the format of the file is not supported by your browser, the triangle in this button will be greyed out). If preview of the file format is supported, a pop-up audition. Click the Clear button to remove all content from the playlist, or click the Delete button to remove the playlist from the Airtime library altogether.
+To adjust start and end fades, click the playlist Fade button (two horizontal white arrows crossing in a grey rectangle), to the left of the Delete and Savebuttons.button Airtime.
+Creating a smart block
+Smart blocks are automatically filled with media files from the Airtime Airtime’s metadata categories, such as Title, Creator or Genre. The modifier depends on whether the metadata in question contains letters or numbers. For example, Title has modifiers including contains and starts with, whereas the modifiers for BPM include is greater than and is in the range.. (The criteria are not case sensitive). For a static smart block, click the Generate button to see the results. Dynamic smart blocks do not display the Generate or Shuffle buttons... in Library searches and refined at any time. They can be re-opened by clicking on the smart block and selectingEdit from the pop-up menu.
+Adding a web stream
+A web stream URL and metadata can be added to the Airtime Airtime playout schedule.
+To add a web stream, click the New button on the right side of the Library page, and select New Webstream from the pop-up menu..
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+Calendar
+The Calendar page of the Airtime administration interface has three views: day, week and month, which can be switched using the grey buttons in the top right corner. By default, the month view is shown, with today’s date highlighted by a pale greenday future row or box in the Calendar which is empty. Either of these actions opens the Add this show box, which has six sections, arranged vertically: What, When, Live Stream Input, Record & Rebroadcast, Who, and Style. Click the small black triangle to the left of the section name if you wish to minimize or maximize it.
+What
+In the What box, enter the Name, public website URL, Genre and Description for the show that you are creating.fields. ‘Updating your own account’ in the chapter Users for more details.
+Airtime will only allow you to enter valid times for shows. If you attempt to schedule show times which would be impossible, by ending the show before it begins, AirtimeUse Airtime Authentication box, the DJs (presenters) of the show will be able to connect a live stream to Airtime Airtime server for that person.
+A reminder of the Connection URL for the live input stream to use is shown at the end of the Live Stream Input section.
+Record & Rebroadcast
+In the Record & Rebroadcast section, checking the Record from Line In? box enables automatic recording of the soundcard line input, if your Airtime server has one, at the time of the show. Shows set for line-in recording should not also contain files or playlists. The default audio format for live recordings is 256kbps Ogg Vorbis, and the files are saved in the recorded folder, under the Import Folder path set in the Media Folders page on theSystem menu. See the chapter Host configuration for details of recorder settings.
+If you wish the recording to be played out at a later time, check the Rebroadcast? box, and then select up to ten date and time slots in the Choose Daysbox.
+Shows set for recording have a small red dot icon in the calendar, while rebroadcast shows have a white loop icon.
+Who
+In the Who section, type the first few letters of the name of the show’s DJ (presenter) in the Search Users field to select a name from the Airtime.
+Finally, click the Add this show button at the top or bottom of the box. The new show will now be displayed in the Calendar, with a regular slot if you have chosen to schedule one.
+Editing a showbox, which is almost exactly the same as the Add this Show box. Click the + Update show button at the top or bottom of the box when you are done.
+Alternatively, individual shows can be clicked on and dragged to new days and times in the calendar. However, Airtime.
+Adding content to a show
+To add content to a show, click the show in any view on the Calendar, and select Add/Remove Content Add/Remove Content Show content from the pop-up menu to view a list of content now included in the show.
+The Contents of Show window is a read-only interface featuring an orange bar which indicates how much media has been added to the show. Click theOK button in the bottom right corner, or the white x icon in the top right corner, to close the window.
+Removing content from a show
+To remove an individual item from a show, click on the show in the Calendar, and select Add/Remove Content from the pop-up menu. In the window which opens, click any item you wish to remove from the show, then click Delete on the pop-up menu, or check the box in the item’s row then click theTrashcan icon at the top of the table. To remove all files and playlists from a show, click on the show in the Calendar, and select Remove All Contentfrom the pop-up menu.
+Deleting a forthcoming show
+To delete one forthcoming instance of a repeating show, click on the show in the Calendar, and select Delete, then Delete This Instance from the pop-up menu. If you wish to delete all future instances of a repeating show, select Delete This Instance and All Following from the pop-up menu.
+You cannot delete or remove content from shows that have already played out. These shows have only one option on the pop-up menu, which is Show Content.
+Cancelling playout
+If you wish to cancel playout of a show while it is running, click on the show in the Calendar and select Cancel Current Show from the pop-up menu. Airtime will ask you if you are sure about this action, as it cannot be undone.
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+History Airtime.
+Manual logging
+If your station features playout from analogue sources such as turntables or microphones, there is no automatic metadata for Airtime.
+History Templates
+Page 18
+ListenSupport Airtime server, only the stream monitoring on your desktop computer or laptop.
+Page 19
+The first entry on Airtime’s Help menu offers a Getting Started guide for new users. Further down, there is also a link to the online version of this User Manual and an About page, which displays version and licensing information. email, please register or login to the forum by clicking the appropriate link. Then visit your profile page at and click the link My Email Subscriptions on the left side menu. In the pop-up window that opens, check the boxes for the mailing lists you wish to subscribe to, then click the Save button..
+- Airtime in the studio
+- Recording shows
+- Live shows with Mixxx
+- Icecast and SHOUTcast
+Recording shows
+Live show recording from the input of the server’s sound card, if one is fitted, can be enabled in the Add Show box of Airtime’s Calendar (see theCalendarAlbumOK button.
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+Live Airtime, using either the Show Source or Master Source.
+To configure Mixxx for streaming into Airtime, click Options, Preferences, then Live Broadcasting on the main Mixxx menu. For server Type, select the default of Icecast 2. For Host, Mount, Port, Login and Password, use the Input Stream Settings configured in the Airtime Streams page, on Airtime’sSystem.
+After downloading one of the skins, extract the zip file and copy it to the skins directory on the computer where Mixxx is installed. For example, on Debian or Ubuntu:
+unzip Airtime1280x1024_skin_for_Mixxx.zipsudo cp -r Airtime1280x1024 /usr/share/mixxx/skins/
+Then, start Mixxx and select the Airtime skin by clicking Options, Preferences, then Interface in the Mixxx main menu.
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+Icecast and SHOUTcast
+Airtime supports direct connection to two popular streaming media servers, the open source Icecast () and the proprietarySHOUTcast (). Apart from the software license, the main difference between these two servers is that Icecast supports simultaneous MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis or Ogg Opus streaming from Airtime, Airtime supports simultaneous streaming in multiple formats, it is possible to offer one or more streams via your website, and another independent stream for direct connection from hardware players. You can test whether Ogg streams sound better at low bitrates for yourself, by using theLISTEN button in Airtime Airtime storage server are encoded at an equivalent bitrate, or higher.
+UTF-8 metadata in Icecast MP3 streamsRestarting icecast2: Starting icecast2Detaching from the consoleicecast2.
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+Preparing media for ingest
+Before uploading media to an Airtime server, there are a number of factors which should be considered. Getting your ingest workflow right will save you a lot of time later.
+Metadata quality
+Airtime a Debian or Ubuntu desktop machine, you can install this program with the command:
+sudo apt-get install exfalso
+After installation, you can run this program with the command:
+exfalso
+or from the desktop menu..
+Metadata in legacy character sets
+Airtime
+Audio loudness
+On file ingest, Airtime Airtime Airtime. ggAnalyzingggAnalyzing. TheNew compensates for leading and trailing silence with the use of automatic cue-in and cue-out points, it may be preferable to trim these files to the intended length before upload. This is because media in the Airtime library could potentially be re-used in many different systems. Audacity is a cross-platform editor suitable for the task of trimming audio files, available from
+Very quiet introductions or over-long fades can also lead to apparent gaps in your broadcast playout. Some audio CDs feature a ‘hidden track’ at the end, which in fact uses a long period of silence within the final track, rather than an actual separate track on the disc. This means that CD encoding programs will often encode both the hidden material and the silence in the media file. For example, the track Debra from the CD Midnite Vultures by Beck includes hidden material preceded by seven minutes of silence, as shown in the screen shot from Audacity below.
+PICTORIAL: Round 1 World Superbike Championships - Phillip Island
+The first round of the World Superbike Championships was held in Australia on the weekend at the Phillip Island racetrack with strong indications that the 2014 championship will be won on one of five bikes: an Aprilia RSV4 1000, a Kawasaki ZX-10R, a Ducati Panigale, a Suzuki GSX-R1000 or a Honda CBR1000RR.
+"The Island" is a racetrack of majestic sweeping proportions and it is unquestionably the best riders' track in the world - when veteran race journalist Matt Oxley asked the world's leading MotoGP and WSBK riders to name their favourite corner on any racetrack anywhere in the world, four different Phillip Island corners were named among the favourites.
+Only twelve riders were asked and the Phillip Island corners nominated were Turn 12 (chosen by Cal Crutchlow, Stefan Bradl, and Jorge Lorenzo), Stoner Corner (Mick Doohan), Turn 1 (Colin Edwards) and Lukey Heights (Scott Redding). In total, six of twelve riders chose a corner from the Phillip Island circuit. Phillip Island is the best riders circuit in the world! QED.
+The first round of any major championship is always worth watching - new riders, new bikes and new rules often portend a new order and this year is no exception.
+The Riders
+Most of the field is comprised of the usual suspects, with Tom Sykes, Sylvain Guintoli, Marco Melandri, Eugene Laverty and Davide Giugliano the most likely to take the championship at the end of the season, at least as divined by the bookmakers.
+The table below represents the odds from odds aggregator Oddschecker, where if you decide you're going to back your judgement with hard-earned Baksheesh, you can find which bookies will give you the best odds for your money. I'm a longtime student of the odds, though I never wager a cent - across four decades of journalism, I have found the bookies are the most credible assessors of probability for just about anything, mainly because it's their job to get it right, and they lose money if they get it wrong.
+Just below the most favoured contenders, you'll see the name of rookie Alex Lowes. Lowes was the 2013 British Superbike Champion, and certainly made a mark in his first race under the rejuvenated Suzuki team which will this year go under the name Voltcom Crescent Suzuki.
+Lowes was the fastest rider in the first three timed sessions on the track, finishing sixth on the grid in superpole and showing enough promise to indicate that he's not lacking anything to compete at this level. Riding a racetrack at world championship pace is extremely difficult and only a handful of people in the world can do it at any given time - Lowes showed that he can do it when seeing a track for the first time, but in the end, he wasn't the fastest.
+The Machinery
+On the machinery side of things, this year is the beginning of a superbike renaissance, with nine marques competing: Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Ducati, BMW, Aprilia, Bimota, MV Agusta and EBR (Erik Buell Racing).
+Bimota BB3
+Bimota won't be joining the fray with its Bimota BB3 until the second round of the titles in Aragon (Spain), but the marque's long time hallmark, being extremely fine handling characteristsics, will no doubt play a role when the mock-up above becomes real a month from now. The engine in the BB3 is based on the BMW S1000RR and with a top flight rider in the form of Ayrton Badovini who has already ridden the BMW for two season's successfully, the Rimini-based manufacturer might surprise once the season proper gets underway.
+Erik Buell Racing 1190RX
+For the Hero - Erik Buell Racing team, the weekend showed that it will need more development to run at World Superbike pace, and the two-rider team finished the weekend one man down (Geoff May broke a collar bone) and a long way short of the pace on the fast Island circuit. The machinery has previously been competitive in the American Superbikes series, and can be expected to be competitive in WSBK too, given more time to develop the entirely new bikes.
+Kawasaki ZX-10R
+Aprilia RSV4 1000
+Honda CBR1000RR
+Honda last won the World Superbike title in 2007 in the hands of James Toseland, and its bikes have won races in every season since, though it has never really been a serious competitor for the title since Toseland's narrow 2007 win over Nitro Noriyuki Haga's Yamaha R1. The PATA Honda World Superbike Team lacks for nothing, with two stellar talents in Jonathon Rea and Leon Haslam - if luck runs its way, the CBR1000RR is capable of winning the title.
+Ducati 1199Panigale R
+After featuring strongly in World Superbikes since the beginning, Ducati had a season worth forgetting in 2013, failing to win a single race. This season the Ducati team looks more settled and with Giugliano continuing to improve every season, there's every chance the Panigale will return to the winners circle, though perhaps not enough to take the crown.
+BMW S1000RR
+The BMW Motorrad Italia Superbike Team lost Silvain Barrier to injury before the race, and local rider Glenn Allerton deputised at short notice to great effect, though never challenging for a podium. Barrier is a great natural talent, having won the Superstock title for the last two years. If he can regain fitness quickly, he can play a role in shaping the title, and though it's unlikely he can take the outright championship this year, he might well claw back the lead in the EVO class before the end of the series. That's the BMW Team Toth S1000RR undressed above.
+MV Agusta 1000 F4
+The win was Agostini’s 122nd GP win, his last and the last for the once dominant MV Agusta marque. Corti cannot be expected to emulate those exploits just yet, though the MV Agusta Reparto Corse Yakhnich Motorsport Team has the talented Corti (runner-up in the last two Superstock titles) and the famous MV Agusta brand at its disposal, and Corti is confident he will be a contender in 2015 once the EVO rules are fully implemented.
+Suzuki GSX-R1000
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+With a young bull (Alex Lowes) and an old bull (Eugene Laverty) sharing the riding duties, a completely new Yoshimura-infused K14 Gixxer and an old hand steering the rudder (Paul Denning), the Voltcom Crescent Suzuki Team looks very well placed to give the title a shake this year. Laverty's first race win was a masterful display as he found himself well down in the field during the opening lap, crossing the line in seventh after the first full circuit.
+From there, he had to fight his way into clear air and when he'd done that on lap six, he still had more than three seconds to make up just to get on the back of the Guintoli-Melandri-Giugliano freight train in the lead.
+He slowly but surely hunted the breakaway trio down and six laps later had latched onto the rear of the lead group, taking another five laps to find his way through to the lead. From there, he quickly established a small lead, building it to a very convincing three second win at the chequered flag.
+A mechanical failure whilst in the lead almost certainly cost the Irishman a double win, but he's as hard-as-nails, with racecraft to match, and will be amongst the leading points scorers at the business end of the season. Another title for Suzuki looks more than possible.
+The Rule Changes
+This year the biggest change in the rules is the introduction of the EVO class. EVO class bikes are much closer to the bikes everyone can buy in the showroom. It's a prelude to 2015 where the entire class of superbikes will follow EVO rules and become immediately more relevant to the man in the street. The EVO class follows superbike technical regulations for chassis, suspension and brakes, while the engines will follow the same tech regulations as the FIM Superstock rules.
+Many other new regs came into force for the championships contenders for 2014, all of them designed to lower the cost of competing in the 13 event series, and all of them levelling the field so that electronics genii don't establish performance margins that teams of modest budgets can't overcome. There is now a limit of eight engines per season per rider in the superbike class and six engines for EVO riders, the number of gear ratios has been limited, and both suspension and brakes now have a price cap.
+This will make for much closer racing in 2014, and even closer racing in 2015.
+Just for the record, the results, fastest laps, ideal times and everything you could possibly ask for in terms of statistical performance, are all available at the official World Superbike site.
+Our pictorial coverage of the Phillip Island event covers far more than who passed who on which lap - it's a wholistic look at the entire experience, both inside and outside the pits.
+Please note: All of the images in our Phillip Island gallery are published under the CC BY 4.0 License. You are free to use in any way you wish, as long as you link to and acknowledge Gizmag.com as the source, whether you're a media outlet, advertiser, PR company or private citizen.View gallery - 494 images
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+48 in kids room brushed nickel ceiling fan reversible , top 10 ceiling fans for kids room 2019 warisan lighting, top 10 ceiling fans for kids room 2019 warisan lighting. Installing a ceiling fan in a kid’s bedroom is fun and expressive way to highlight the favorite color, game or hobby of your kid. No matter if you are just redesigning your kid’s room or simply making a fresh decoration start, you will find only top rated ceiling fans for kids listed above It goes without saying that a baby room should be a comfortable living area.
+Overall, this awesome soft colored pink or green ceiling fan is designed to deliver joy to your kid’s playroom for years to come because the Craftmade Company provides you with a lifetime warranty on the product. Overall, the ceilings fans that are designed for kid rooms give a fun-loving impression and adds a unique decor element that echoes the hobby or interest of your kid. Moreover, fans for kids rooms also feature all the great features of a ceiling fan, such as alight kit for illumination, remote and reverse-mode to name a few.
+Ceiling Fans for Kids can add fun, themes, or colors to any room. Our vast selection of children’s lighting, from kids lamps to children’s ceiling fixtures, is matched by unsurpassed customer service that includes real-time customer assistance through our toll free number and the lowest prices on the web GUARANTEED through our Preferred Customer program. Appearance – This is the perfect ceiling fan to have in a kids’ room, and not just because of the bright blade colors.
+After all, most of them are designed for other types of living spaces, and until recent years, it was all but impossible to find lighting fixtures that are designed specifically for kids’ rooms. Cute Child Ceiling Fan Lamp Modern Kids Ceiling Fans With Lights for Kid Bedroom Living Room Ceiling Light. Home > Cute Child Ceiling Fan Lamp Modern Kids Ceiling Fans With Lights for Kid Bedroom Living Room Ceiling Light.
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+Us 387 6 50 off children wood ceiling fan with light yellow blue led lamp for kids kindergarten bedroom cartoon creative 360 degree rotating on. Ceiling fans give coolness to a space through the air produced from it. But aside from that function, there are some that also bear lightings. Most of the top companies sell specially designed kids ceiling fans.
+Ceiling fan Children 105 Cm with 40 points opal Watts, and colorful remote control and blades. Ceiling fan Children 105 Cm with 40 Watts spot opal and colored remote control and blades. Bigger blades tend to have more control over the wind speed, a larger motor that’s sized appropriately to the fan, and hopefully a good shot at running silently and lasting a long time.
+Craftmade Bloom 52″ White Kids Lights Ceiling Fan w/ 10 Blades – K1061. Zoomie Kids 42″ Forestport 2 Blade Ceiling Fan with Remote Light Kit Included aNJF6697. Black Vintage Industrial Ceiling Fan with Remote Control, 5 Light, 5 Wood Reversible Blades, Pull Chains.
+Kids Play Ball Indoor Ceiling Fan is an excellent choice for your kid’s playroom, and it also provides an excess amount of air circulation. The Craftmade Tiger shark Warplane ceiling fan has the 3 blade design, and their candelabrum light gives illumination to your kid’s room. Some kids, especially girls would suggest their fan to be very small and cute, and it would be always in such a way that no one other the kid would get air from the fan moreover small fans are speedy and requires a low power motor only.
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+Many of our kids themed ceiling fans come with a remote control, because sometimes your child may not yet be tall enough to reach the old fashioned pull chain switches. However, the more blades the ceiling fan has, the quieter will be. This makes it circulate less air, it could slow the motor. Bold colors, sturdy construction, quiet motor and nice look are more than enough reasons to get this fan for your kids’ bedroom.
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+So if you have a relatively normal kids’ size room and higher ceilings- you still have the option to go with a fan or a hanging light. In case you are looking for a unique style that goes perfectly with a specific theme, it is easy for you to browse through the ceiling fans for kids review section here above and pick out one from the wide range of fans. If you are interested in installing a more modern ceiling fan in your kids bedroom then you can of course go for something that looks great instead of focusing on something that kids will like, you can find more ceiling fan reviews in this section or alternately you can browse through our list of the overall best ceiling fans.
+Most, if not all ceiling fan manufacturers provide excellent decor solutions for those who are looking for ceiling fans for kid’s rooms. Just like with standard ceiling fans, kid’s ceiling fans come in all shapes and sizes There is no one-fan-fits-all-rooms” type of ceiling fan on the market. The heavy-duty motor was designed to provide a whopping 4202 cubic feet per minute air circulation at high speed.
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+You can set the motor to reverse-mode to have the blades spin counterclockwise to provide cold air effect during summer or clockwise to push down warm air from the ceiling during winter. Kids room ceiling fans provide excellent choices of ceiling fans for kids as well as for the rest of your home. But, kid’s ceiling fans aren’t just for fun and play.
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+These ceiling fans add a playful touch by creating a rare design element that reflects the kid’s interests or hobbies. Kids’ ceiling fans keep children comfortable year-round as the play with siblings or friends in a playroom, draw or color during a rainy day, or watch movies during a weekend sleepover. Kids’ ceiling fans come in many different designs and styles for boys and girls.
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+Frequently Asked Questions About Negligence
+Whatactions caused your injury
+Once we prove that the defendant was negligent, you have the right to be compensated for your damages.
+What is the duty to use care? people owe one another less than this regular duty. The most important of these situations are: 1) one generally has no duty to take affirmative action to help another; and 2) one generally has no duty to avoid causing unintended mental suffering to another.
+A person generally cannot be liable in tort solely on the grounds that she has failed to act. This means that if you see that another person is in danger, and you fail to render assistance (even though you could do so easily and safely), you are not liable for refusing to assist.
+Example: Sam, passing by, sees Mike drowning in a pond. Sam could easily pull Mike to safety without risk to Sam, but instead, Sam walks on by. Sam is not liable to Mike for any harm sustained by Mike.
+There are a number of commonly-recognized exceptions to the "no duty to act" rule. In the above example, if the danger or injury to Mike is due to Sam's own conduct, or to an instrument under Sam's control, Sam has the duty of assistance. Similarly, in the event Sam started to give Mike assistance, once Sam voluntarily begins to render assistance to Mike (even if he was under no legal obligation to do so), Sam must now proceed with reasonable care.
+What is reasonable care?
+The key to determining whether someone is negligent is to define what constitutes "reasonable" care in any given set of circumstances. Since there is no clear definition of what is reasonable in any given situation, what is reasonable to one person may not be reasonable to another.
+Courts often decide whether someone has exercised reasonable care by asking what a person of average intelligence and judgment would have done under similar circumstances. For example, a "reasonable" driver preparing to make a left hand turn across oncoming traffic would not do so without first checking to make sure that there was ample time to safely make the turn. It would be negligence if a driver failed to check to make sure there was time to make the turn, made the turn anyway, and caused an accident.
+Are different people held to different standards of care?
+The level of reasonable care required varies, depending on whether you are an adult, child or professional.
+Reasonable person standard - An adult is guilty of negligence if he or she fails to act the way a person of ordinary intelligence and judgment would have acted in similar circumstances.
+Reasonable child standard - Both a child and his or her parents can be held liable for a child's wrongful conduct. Children, however, are not held to the same level of care as adults. A child's conduct is measured against what would be expected from a similar child of like age, intelligence and experience under similar circumstances. Because a child does not have the same mental capacity or life experience as an adult, the courts recognize that in some instances a child should not be held responsible for otherwise "negligent" behavior. For this reason, children of very young ages generally cannot be held liable for negligence. The judge will decide a child's capacity for negligence. If the child is deemed capable of negligence, then the issue of whether or not the child actually was negligent will be decided by a jury.
+One major exception to the rule is that a minor will generally be held to an adult standard of reasonableness if the child is engaging in "adult" activities. For the most part, a child will only be held to this standard in situations in which the child is operating a motorized vehicle.
+Professional community standard - Professionals (lawyers, doctors, architects, engineers, psychiatrists, etc.) are held to a higher standard of care due to their specialized training and experience. Professionals and individuals who practice "skilled trades" (plumbers, carpenters, electricians, beauticians, etc.) may be found to be negligent if they do not exercise the same degree of skill and knowledge normally exercised by other qualified and competent members of their professions working in their communities.
+What is causation?
+In order for a person who is negligent to be liable to you for damages suffered from an accident, it must be proven that the negligence actually caused your injury. The negligent person's action or inaction can be the sole cause or your injury or one of a number of causes.
+Example: Suppose a truck is speeding too fast along the road when it suddenly approaches a car left abandoned in the middle of the road. To avoid a collision, the driver of the truck attempts to apply the brakes. A local mechanic recently repaired the brakes, but forgot to change the old, worn out brake pads. As a result, the brakes fail and the truck barrels into the parked car, which in turn collides with you as you try to cross the street in an area that is not a designated crosswalk. The resulting injury you received had many causes, including the trucker's negligent driving, the negligent repair of the truck's brakes, the car negligently left in the middle of the road, and your own failure to cross the street in a safe manner.
+What if I am partially at fault for my own injuries?
+Comparative Negligence
+In the above example, the judge or jury determines the degree of the each party's negligence and apportions to each party a portion of the total damages you suffered.based on each party's percentage of fault for causing your injury. This process is called "comparative negligence", and is the method by which damages are awarded in Arizona. In "pure" comparative negligence, the award of damages awarded.
+Is it considered negligence if someone violates a law?
+Violation of a Statute
+In some circumstances, proof that an individual violated a statute or law is enough to prove that the individual is negligent. Under the doctrine of "negligence per se", an individual is negligent if he or she violates a legislative statute, regulation or ordinance and causes an injury or loss.
+Example: Suppose an ordinance prohibits people from making U-turns at a particular intersection. If an individual makes an illegal U-turn and injures someone while making the turn, the person who made the illegal turn can automatically be held responsible for the injuries, regardless of whether they used reasonable care when making the U-turn. The fact that they violated the ordinace makes them negligent per se.
+The doctrine of negligence per se applies only if the accident is the type of accident the statute or ordinance was designed to prevent and the injured party is within the class of people that the statute or ordinance was meant to protect.
+Example: A U-turn law is normally enacted to protect other drivers passing through the intersection. If a driver passing through the intersection is injured by someone making an illegal U-turn, the doctrine of negligence per se is applicable.
+In certain situations an individual's violation of a statute or ordinance is excusable in certain circumstances. For the most part, these permissible excuses include physical circumstances beyond the individual's control, sudden emergency situations not created by the individual, and/or situations in which compliance with the law would create a greater danger to those involved than would a violation of the law.
+What are some common defenses to negligence?
+Assumption of Risk
+If you participate in activities that you know are risky or dangerous, and are injured as a result, it may be determined that you "assumed the risk" of injury associated with that activity. For example, a skier who knowingly skis down a steep mountain containing large moguls assumes the risk of harm inherent in such an activity. His claim for damages would most likely fail, unless his injury resulted from a condition unrelated to those for which he was fully able to appreciate and assess the risk. For example, the skier may have realized that skiing can be hazardous and have a full understanding of the dangers. However, he would not have anticipated that a ski-lift cable would break and fall in his path, causing him to fall and get injured. Assumption of risk does not protect the defendant in this type of situation.
+Open and Obvious Danger
+Another defense which is similar to assumption of risk arises when you engage in an activity that poses an open and obvious danger. Whereas assumption of risk focuses on an array of dangers that are inherently possible, open and obvious conditions deal with one's knowledge of a specific known threat. For example, suppose you enter your neighbor's yard knowing that it contains an angry pit bull, and despite the posted warning, "Danger, attack dog, do not enter. Your neighbor could use the open and obvious danger defense to argue that you clearly understood the danger of being bitten by the dog but decided to enter the property nonetheless.
+What is the Statute of Limitations for negligence claims?
+As with all lawsuits, a statute of limitations restricts the time in which you can file a lawsuit for negligence. In Arizona, the statute of limitations for negligence is two years. If you miss the deadline, you have no legal recourse. Note that this time is much shorter if you are alleging negligence against a public entity, municipality, or public employee, in which case a notice of claim must be filed within 180 days from the date of the accident.(A.R.S. § 12-542) If you are injured, it is essential that you contact an attorney immediately so as be sure to preserve all of your legal rights before they are barred by law.
+Burden of Proof
+The burden of proof in all negligence claims, including automobile accident claims, is on the plaintiff. This means that the plaintiff must go forward first with the evidence at the trial and must present evidence from which a fact finder (judge or jury) could reasonably conclude that the defendant was negligent, that the defendant's negligence proximately caused the accident and that the plaintiff's injuries are causally related to the accident. The standard which plaintiffs are held to in civil cases, including automobile accident cases, is called the "preponderance of the evidence " standard. It is much less strict than the standard in criminal cases of proof "beyond a reasonable doubt." The "preponderance of the evidence" standard has been defined to mean that the evidence presented by plaintiffs must be more likely to be true or accurate than not true. In essence this means that plaintiff's evidence must convince a fact-finder mind more than 50% that the facts alleged by the plaintiff are true.
+This can be illustrated for juries by comparing it to the scale of justice. If one party's evidence is placed on one side of the scale and the other party's evidence is placed on the other side of the scale, the slightest tipping in favor of the party bearing the burden of proof on an issue means that that party has prevailed on the particular issue. If the scale remains evenly balanced, then the party who bears the burden of proof on an issue has failed to sustain the burden. Each party who has the burden of proof on a particular issue, in order to prevail on that issue, must sustain their burden of proof based upon a "preponderance of the evidence"..
+A Comprehensive Guide To Wireframing And Prototyping
+(This is a sponsored article.) With the big picture established and your user interface considered, it’s time to start building some prototypes. My sixth article in this series of ten articles dives into the prototyping process.
+As I’ve stressed before in the earlier articles in this series, the best design follows an iterative process:
+- You undertake research, working with users to identify the underlying user requirements that need to be addressed.
+- With this research in hand, you define the problem you’re trying to solve and establish a hypothesis.
+- With the problem defined you build a prototype.
+- Using this prototype you test your assumptions, measuring against your hypothesis.
+- Finally, you return to stage one, refining your thinking and iterate through the process again, working your way closer to a finished solution.
+At each loop throughout the process, the fidelity of your prototypes increases. The earlier in the process you can identify and fix problems, the easier and the less expensive it is. The further into a process you get, as the fidelity of what you’re building increases, the more expensive it becomes to make changes. This is where prototyping comes in.
+As designers working today, we’re fortunate to have a wealth of prototyping tools at our disposal. Tools like Adobe XD, in particular, enable us to build immersive clickable prototypes at relatively low cost.
+These tools allow us to undertake a great deal of our testing before we get to the expensive part of the process, building fully working products in the medium they will be delivered in.
+With the big picture of user flows established and some thought given to building a design system that ensures consistency, it’s time to put together some interactive prototypes.
+This article, the third in this series within a series, explores the benefits of wireframing and prototyping, before covering the process from paper prototyping to lo-fi wireframing to hi-fi prototyping with mockups.
+The Benefits Of Prototyping
+We are fortunate as designers to have a wealth of prototyping tools at our disposal at a wide range of fidelities. At one end of the spectrum, we have lo-fi paper prototypes, while at the other end of the spectrum we have hi-fi digital prototypes.
+Digital prototypes allow us to build realistic, clickable proof of concepts that allow users and stakeholders to get a feel for what we’re building. These prototypes enable us to test our assumptions and move progressively towards finished solutions.
+Building a clickable prototype using a tool like Adobe XD is considerably quicker than diving deep into HTML, CSS, and JS to build a website or diving into the complex build of a mobile application.
+Clickable prototypes also allow us to test our designs with users and other stakeholders, bringing them into the design process in a meaningful way and allowing us to test: information architecture, layout and visual hierarchy, and interactive elements.
+There are numerous other benefits of prototyping, including:
+- Saving time and money;
+- Getting everyone involved and bought into the design process;
+- Acting as a bridge between designers and developers.
+Let’s dive a little deeper into these and make a case for prototyping — as a bridge between your original idea and your final build — as a core part of the design process.
+Prototypes Save You Time and Money
+The golden rule of prototyping — and developing any new idea — is to fail early and fail inexpensively. Prototyping enables misunderstandings to be identified and addressed as early in the design process as possible. The earlier in the process issues are addressed, the better, saving you time and money.
+The deeper into a project you are, the more expensive it is to fix mistakes. Prototypes — whether lo-fi paper prototypes or digital hi-fi prototypes — are a cost-effective way of identifying changes that might need to be made before you embark upon a finished build, at which point changes become increasingly more expensive to implement.
+Prototypes Help Get Everyone Involved In The Design Process
+Even a modest project will typically encompass a number of different stakeholders. It’s important to engage with everyone involved in a project, bringing them on the journey from idea to finished product.
+Prototypes are helpful for including the wide range of participants in a project: designers, developers, project managers, business analysts and everyday users. (This list — depending on the size and scope of the project — is potentially just the tip of the iceberg.)
+Prototypes are a great way of getting everyone involved in the design process. They also keep the conversation going, so that designers don’t disappear for weeks on end building complicated solutions to problems that perhaps don’t exist.
+Prototypes Act As A Bridge Between Designers And Developers
+As our industry has become more and more complex, the idea of ‘unicorn designers’ — who have deep skills as both designers and developers — is one that’s thankfully being left behind. It is simply too complex now to be ‘a master of all trades.’ We are increasingly working in multi-disciplinary teams, drawing on the strengths of different specialists and in this context, prototypes act as the glue that holds everyone together.
+When the design of a product or feature is finished, and it is being passed on to a more skilled developer to undertake the final build, a high fidelity, clickable prototype ensures that the developer has a clear understanding of what’s what.
+This is particularly true when it comes to designing interactions. Rich, interactive prototypes are considerably more powerful — not to mention immersive — than a series of flat, visuals that lack interaction. They provide a very clear picture of not only how something looks, but also how it works.
+So, with this in mind, let’s explore the process of building prototypes.
+Paper Prototypes, Wireframes And Clickable Prototypes
+With the benefits of prototyping defined, it’s time to dive deeper into the prototyping process. We can, of course, create product prototypes at a wide range of fidelities and using a wide range of tools. These include:
+- rapid, sketched paper prototypes;
+- lo-fi, monochromatic wireframes; and
+- high-fidelity, clickable mockups.
+As we move through the spectrum of prototypes, we can provide a more comprehensive view of our design, including color palettes, typographic choices, and other aspects including interactions and animations. In short, prototyping takes place across a spectrum of fidelity, from low detail to high detail.
+As we work our way up the levels of fidelity, we’ll eventually build prototypes in the medium they’ll be delivered in. For example, the final prototypes for a website will ideally be built using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript so that we can tailor them to the medium.
+The prototyping process is a journey, transitioning through levels of fidelity. There are many different types of prototypes — low- medium- and high-fidelity — and these are suited to different points on the design journey.
+At the start of the journey it’s important to focus on low-fidelity approaches that are low cost and fast to implement. Paper is the perfect prototyping tool at this stage in the process. Once you’ve undertaken some initial testing with your paper prototypes, it’s time to move onto something at a higher level of fidelity.
+With some feedback gathered, it helps to move to the next level of fidelity, using tools like Adobe XD to create clickable lo-fi prototypes with wireframes. These help your users and stakeholders get a much better picture of how everything works.
+Again, with testing done it’s time to move on to high-fidelity prototypes. At this point in the process, we’re increasing fidelity, moving from wireframes to mockups. Creating clickable hi-fi prototypes with mockups provides users and stakeholders with a very clear picture of the end result.
+Finally, we move towards the end medium for prototyping, for example using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for a website. Building a native prototype ensures that what you are creating is as close as possible to the finished product.
+Of course, every project is different and — at times — you might need to approach your prototyping in a different order. When building a complex web-based SaaS application, for example, you might need to start prototyping in HTML earlier in the process in order to implement and test web technologies. As always, the approach you choose will depend on the project in hand.
+For this article, I’m exploring paper prototyping, lo-fi prototyping with wireframes, and hi-fi prototyping with mockups. If you’re looking for an in-depth and exhaustive — in a good way! — book that covers prototyping in detail, I’d recommend Ben Coleman and Dan Goodwin’s book, "Designing UX: Prototyping"." It has an excellent in-depth chapter covering HTML prototyping.
+The Power Of Paper
+Paper is an incredibly powerful tool for prototyping. As a very low-cost prototyping medium, it frees you up, reducing the ‘weight of expectation.’ The beauty of paper is that it’s also collaborative, allowing you to design as a team, collectively. As Khoi Vinh’s Design Tools Survey shows, paper is embraced by designers the world over with 64% of designers using paper as an integral part of their process.
+Like anything, paper prototyping is a skill that gets better with practice and some time spent sketching interfaces will pay off. I recently attended a full day workshop on sketching interfaces with Eva-Lotta Lamm, and I left with lots of ideas to enhance my paper prototyping approach.
+One simple technique that improved my sketches dramatically was being set the task to draw an interface (Twitter, YouTube, Kickstarter, and so on) in as short a time as possible, just a minute or two. Running through this process repeatedly forced you to focus and speeded up your sketching considerably.
+The more you draw, the more you improve your thinking and communication skills. You don’t need to be in a workshop to do this, however. Simply set aside some time and practice, and your paper prototyping skills will improve immeasurably. Just as an athlete warms up before a race, so too, we can warm up our mental muscles — before embarking on a paper prototyping session — in a similar manner.
+In workshops I run — whether it’s for students or professionals — I’ll always kick off with paper. It’s the perfect tool for generating and realizing ideas. We can think through paper and understanding that is incredibly liberating.
+Paper is considerably faster than working on a computer. By working at an inherently lower level of fidelity, it forces you to think through the process, defining flows and mapping out interfaces. Lastly, a paper prototyping kit is incredibly inexpensive to build and is within reach of anyone regardless of budget. You could start with the following:
+- Pens (at different thicknesses and fidelities)
+- Paper
+- Templates and other tools
+When paper prototyping, I find it helps to have pens available in a range of thicknesses. Sharpies force you to think in low fidelity, because of their thick nibs. Muji Gel Pens, on the other hand, allow you to think in a higher fidelity because they’re thinner. The Tombow ABT N75 Dual Brush Pen in Cool Grey 3 is fantastic for creating shadows and giving your drawings a ‘lift.’ (If you buy one pen, buy the Tombow, it’s fantastic.)
+With your paper prototypes developed, it’s time to move to the computer and create some lo-fi wireframes, which can be stitched together to create more immersive prototypes for the screen.
+Lo-fi, Low Stress Wireframes
+With the broad brushstrokes established at a low fidelity using paper prototypes, it’s time to start transitioning towards a slightly higher level of fidelity using wireframes. At this stage in the prototyping process, we’re moving from paper to screen and incrementally increasing the fidelity.
+A wireframe is essentially a ‘skeleton’ for your design. As a lower fidelity design deliverable — which is focused on structure, as opposed to look and feel — wireframes help you to focus on functionality and not get lost in detail. Wireframes distill the interface down to simple, monochromatic shapes and are helpful for communicating high-level structure.
+Wireframes offer a number of benefits:
+- With the ‘visual grammar’ or ‘look and feel’ stripped out, they are faster to create, enabling you to focus on functionality.
+- As lo-fi deliverables they can be rapidly updated during user testing.
+- With their stripped-down design they put less pressure on users and stakeholders, allowing them to speak freely about design decisions without fear that they are criticising a ‘finished’ design.
+- They are less ‘precious,’ allowing designers to take on board feedback without feeling too attached to them.
+- Their unfinished look takes the pressure off; no one expects a wireframe will be in a fit state to ship the next day.
+As I noted in my previous article, Adobe XD provides a number of pre-built UI Kits that save you from re-drawing commonly used user interface elements. These UI Kits provide you with a wealth of different elements you’re likely to need when building out a design, including those covering:
+- Activity Feeds
+- News Feeds
+- Articles and Posts.
+UI Kits can be used to transform a paper prototype into a lo-fi, clickable prototype relatively quickly and they’re a huge time saver. Even better, if you’re using Adobe XD, they’re free.
+With their focus on information architecture, wireframes enable you to quickly map the journey through content. Wireframes are also useful for helping to establish the scope of a project, enabling you to identify all the different screens you might need to design.
+You don’t need to wait until you have high-fidelity mockups to start to build interactive, clickable prototypes. Tools like Adobe XD enable you to create lo-fi clickable prototypes, and these can be incredibly useful to help move your thinking on and test your assumptions.
+By providing users and other stakeholders with a ‘functioning’ prototype that enables them to click through a series of screens, lo-fi prototypes are extremely useful for driving design conversations, enabling you to edge your design forward through discussion.
+With a lo-fi, clickable prototype developed and tested it’s time to create a more fully realized clickable mockup, helping you to paint a picture of what the finished product will look like in your stakeholders’ minds.
+Hi-fi, Clickable Prototypes
+Once you’ve used your lo-fi clickable prototypes to iron out any issues, it’s time to build a higher fidelity prototype to provide a more realistic experience.
+At this point in the journey you’re fusing your functional wireframes with the elements you created when you designed your element collages. This results in a high-fidelity, clickable prototype that is more powerful and engaging for everyone involved.
+This is the final stage of the prototyping process before you start to build prototypes using the medium you’re designing for, for example, HTML, CSS and JavaScript, if you’re building a website or a language like Swift, if you’re building an app for a mobile context.
+Tools like Adobe XD — which has been created by designers for designers – reimagine how user experience designers take their ideas from paper prototype to wireframe to interactive prototype. By allowing you to take separate screens and link them together using ‘hotlinks’ they enable you to build standalone clickable mockups.
+These rich visual mockups provide a number of benefits:
+- By allowing you to publish prototypes on the web and providing a link for stakeholders to view or comment on your prototypes, they allow you to gather feedback from everyone involved in the project.
+- They can be viewed remotely, so you can talk a client through a prototype without having to be in the same room as them.
+- They can be used to share specifications with developers, enabling them to inspect your designs for colors, typographic styles, and various measurements.
+Tools like Adobe XD also allow you to gather feedback directly within your prototype, enabling everyone involved in the process to leave comments. This is useful not just for the feedback it allows, but for the documentation it provides of the design process.
+High-fidelity prototypes are useful for bringing a design to life, helping everyone to get a feel for both the visual design and the interaction design. By including real content in your prototype, your users can experience how a website or an application functions and flows and provide helpful feedback.
+Prototypes at this level of fidelity — rather than in the finished medium — are also considerably quicker to build, helping you to:
+- Validate your assumptions, testing your ideas;
+- Communicate your thinking, enabling others to provide feedback; and
+- Pitch ideas, when you’re proposing a new feature, for example.
+As our industry has evolved, so too has its tools. As designers, we’re fortunate to have easy to use prototyping tools like Adobe XD at our disposal now. Access to these tools enables us to create, update and maintain prototypes in a way that just a few years ago would have been impossible to imagine.
+Collaboration And Feedback
+As I’ve noted in this article, and in the previous articles in this series, design is an iterative process that includes multiple stakeholders. The more you can keep the lines of communication open throughout that process the better.
+By embracing an iterative approach towards your prototyping you can draw on the wisdom of everyone involved in the process. To create truly memorable user experiences, it’s critical to ensure that users are involved in the design process at every step of the journey.
+In the past — before the advent of tools like Adobe XD and other tools that allow you to publish prototypes to the web — there was an inherent delay at every step of the process, as you brought various stakeholders in to the studio, or visited them on site.
+The web has changed that, allowing you to maintain the flow of information throughout a project, streamlining the process considerably. With shareable prototypes that allow for users to leave comments you cannot only gather feedback, but you can also pinpoint clear, trackable design documentation.
+Thanks to the use of commenting tools, it’s easy to see who said what about a design and when, allowing you to collaborate with others and respond to feedback easily. Design is at heart about people and communication, and commenting tools ease this communication.
+The ability to have everything available in one package — from design through to commenting — has considerably eased the design process. The result is a workflow that is not only faster, but one that encompasses everyone involved in a project.
+In Closing
+Tools like Adobe XD now occupy a central place in the user experience designers’ toolbox. By acting as a bridge between the ideas captured at the paper prototyping stage and the finished build, they have transformed how we work as user experience designers.
+As we work our way through the design process, it’s important to embrace the right tool for the job at hand. Different tools have different strengths and lend themselves to different tasks.
+When you’re mapping out ideas at an early phase in the design process, paper is the perfect tool. It is both cheap and efficient and — because of this — it takes the pressure off you. Paper is also perfect for collaboration, allowing multiple designers to prototype collectively.
+Wireframes are perfect when you’re focused on testing functionality and getting your high-level structure in place. Stitching wireframes together to create lo-fi prototypes enables you to map out user flows without getting lost in the details.
+Finally, high-fidelity prototypes created using more detailed mockups allow your stakeholders to get a feel for how a design looks and feels. At this point in the prototyping process, the details matter: color palettes, typographic choices, and other aspects including interactions and animations.
+Regardless of the end outcome — be it desktop or mobile, web or native — a considered prototyping process, one that is iterative in nature, will deliver the required outcomes, ensuring that what’s designed meets our users’ needs. Pick the right tool for the job, and you’ll be all set to go.
+Suggested Reading
+There are many great publications, both offline and online, that will help you on your adventure. I’ve included a few below to start you on your journey.
+If you’re looking for a comprehensive overview of the prototyping process, Ben Coleman and Dan Goodwin’s book, "Designing UX: Prototyping is excellent. As they put it, “A prototype is worth a thousand words,” and their book takes you through every step of the prototyping process, from low- to high-fidelity. I’d strongly recommend it.
+If your budget will stretch to some training, I’d highly recommend Eva-Lotta Lamm’s "Sketching Interfaces" workshop, it’s worth every penny. Lamm is also working on a book that explores sketching interfaces in depth, which I will certainly be buying when it’s published. You might like to keep an eye Lamm’s Twitter and Instagram accounts to be notified the moment it’s published.
+If you’re interested in a complementary perspective on wireframing and prototyping, Nick Babich’s lengthy article for the Adobe Blog, "Everything You Need To Know About Wireframes And Prototypes" is comprehensive reading, providing lots of useful insight.
+Lastly, there are a wealth of templates that you can use to speed up your paper prototyping process. 3flab inc.’s Printable PDFs cover every platform imaginable and are excellent. I use them in my workshops and encourage participants to download_4<<
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+Tossed Salad ~ 2.50
+Cottage Cheese ~ 1.75
+Applesauce ~ 1.50
+Gelatin Dessert ~ 1.50
+Coleslaw ~ 1.75
+Potato Salad ~ 1.75
+Pit Beans ~ 1.95
+All oils used for deep-frying are zero tans fat
+DIS 13
+Breakfast All Day!
+AVAILABLE AFTER 11:00 AM
+Eggsactly!
+Farm Breakfast Special*
+Two eggs any style, hash browns and
+choice of bacon, ham or sausage links ~ 6.75
+Jogger Breakfast*
+2 eggs any style and 2 strips of bacon
+or 2 sausage links ~ 5.75
+Sirloin Steak* & Eggs*
+A hearty breakfast of two eggs, and a sizzling
+7-oz. sirloin steak, served with hash browns ~ 7.95
+Eggs* & Chops*
+Two eggs, two pan-fried pork chops
+and hash browns ~ 7.95
+Eggs* & One Chop* ~ 7.50
+Eggs* & Hash Browns ~ 4.95
+Omelettes
+Omelettes are served with hash browns
+Substitute fresh fruit for hash browns ~ .50 extra
+Western Omelette
+Ham, cheese, onion, peppers and mushrooms
+cooked in a 3 egg omelette ~ 7.50
+Mexi-Omelette
+Three farm fresh eggs folded with
+spicy chicken, cheddar and onion.
+Served with salsa on the side ~ 7.50
+Spinach, Swiss & Cheddar Omelette
+A three egg omelette filled with cheese
+and creamed spinach ~ 6.95
+Ham & Cheese Omelette ~ 7.25
+Veggie & Cheese Omelette
+Onion, green pepper, mushrooms & tomatoes ~ 6.50
+Cheese Omelette ~ 5.95
+Low Carb Breakfast
+Three eggs, meat and choice of cottage cheese
+or sliced tomatoes ~ 7.50
+From the
+Griddle
+Pancakes
+Served plain ~ 4.25
+With Blueberries ~ 4.50
+Add bacon, ham or sausage for only 2.50
+Add two eggs* your way for 1.50 additional
+French Toast
+Dusted with powdered sugar ~ 4.25
+Add bacon, ham or sausage for only 2.50
+Add two eggs* your way for 1.50 additional
+Desserts
+Hot Fudge Boat
+Two scoops of vanilla ice cream topped with hot
+fudge and whipped cream ~ 3.25
+Chocolate or Strawberry Sundae
+Two scoops of our delicious ice cream covered
+with chocolate or strawberry topping ~ 2.95
+German Chocolate Cake
+Two layers of moist chocolate cake topped
+with a delicious coconut icing! ~ 2.75
+Turtle Pie
+If you like the taste of chocolate, caramel and
+pecans, you'll LOVE our famous Turtle Pie! ~ 2.50
+Fresh Strawberry Pie (in season)
+Mounds of fresh strawberries topped with
+a crown of whipped cream ~ 2.95
+Vanilla Ice Cream ~ 2.50
+Pecan Praline Ice Cream ~ 2.50
+Specialty Ice Cream ~ 2.50
+Pecan Pie ~ 2.65
+Assorted Fruit Pies ~ 2.50
+Cream Pies ~ 2.50
+A la mode ~ .75 extra
+Root Beer Float ~ 2.50
+Beverages
+Pepsi • Diet Pepsi • Dr. Pepper • Mountain Dew
+Sierra Mist • Mug Root Beer • Raspberry Iced Tea
+Lemonade ~ 1.89 (free refills for above beverages)
+Old Time Phosphates
+More refreshing and far fewer calories
+than cola. Vanilla, cherry, strawberry,
+chocolate, lemon or lime ~ 1.89
+Milk ~ 1.60 Large Milk ~ 2.40
+Hot Chocolate ~ 1.60
+Juice
+Orange • Tomato • Apple • Grapefruit
+Small ~ 1.60 Large ~ 2.65
+Hand-Dipped
+Milk Shakes & Malts ~ 2.95
+Vanilla • Chocolate • Strawberry • Cherry
+Cappuccino ~ 1.80 Coffee ~ 1.75
+Hot Tea ~ 1.75 Iced Tea ~ 1.75
+*Consuming raw or uncooked meats, fish or
+poultry products may cause illness.
+All oils used for deep-frying
+are zero trans fat
+122
+DI
+yapp -m MyParser grammar_file.yp
+...
+use MyParser;
+$parser=new MyParser(); $value=$parser->YYParse(yylex => \&lexer_sub, yyerror => \&error_sub);
+$nberr=$parser->YYNberr();
+$parser->YYData->{DATA}= [ 'Anything', 'You Want' ];
+$data=$parser->YYData->{DATA}[0];
+The script yapp is a front-end to the Parse::Yapp module and let you easily create a Perl OO parser from an input grammar file.
+Tokens are the symbols your lexer function will feed your parser with (see below). They are of two flavours: symbolic tokens and string literals.
+Non-terminals and symbolic tokens share the same identifier syntax:
+[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*
+String literals are enclosed in single quotes and can contain almost anything. They will be output to your parser file double-quoted, making any special character as such. '"', '$' and '@' will be automatically quoted with '\', making their writing more natural. On the other hand, if you need a single quote inside your literal, just quote it with '\'.
+You cannot have a literal 'error' in your grammar as it would confuse the driver with the error token. Use a symbolic token instead. In case you inadvertently use it, this will produce a warning telling you you should have written it error and will treat it as if it were the error token, which is certainly NOT what you meant.
+This file is divided in three sections, separated by "%%":
+header section %% rules section %% footer section
+exp: exp '+' exp | exp '-' exp ;
+A right hand side may be empty:
+input: #empty | input line ;
+(if you have more than one empty rhs, Parse::Yapp will issue a warning, as this is usually a mistake, and you will certainly have a reduce/reduce conflict)
+A rhs may be followed by an optional %prec directive, followed by a token, giving the rule an explicit precedence (see yacc manuals for its precise meaning) and optionnal semantic action code block (see below).
+exp: '-' exp %prec NEG { -$_[1] } | exp '+' exp { $_[1] + $_[3] } | NUM ;
+Note that in Parse::Yapp, a lhs cannot appear more than once as a rule name (This differs from yacc).
+They are (usually, but see below "In rule actions") written at the very end of the rhs, enclosed with "{ }", and are copied verbatim to your parser file, inside of the rules table. th right order. Sorry for the inconvenience.
+{ "{ My string block }". "\{ My other string block \}". qq/ My unmatched brace \} /. # Force the match: { q/ for my closing brace } / q/ My opening brace { / # must be closed: } }
+All of these constructs should work.
+In Parse::Yapp, semantic actions are called like normal Perl sub calls, with their arguments passed in @_, and their semantic value are their return values.
+$_[1] to $_[n] are the parameters just as $1 to $n in yacc, while $_[0] is the parser object itself.
+Having $_[0] beeing the parser object itself allows you to call parser methods. Thats how the yacc macros are implemented:
+yyerrok is done by calling $_[0]->YYErrok YYERROR is done by calling $_[0]->YYError YYACCEPT is done by calling $_[0]->YYAccept YYABORT is done by calling $_[0]->YYAbort
+All those methods explicitly return undef, for convenience.
+YYRECOVERING is done by calling $_[0]->YYRecovering
+Four useful methods in error recovery sub
+$_[0]->YYCurtok $_[0]->YYCurval $_[0]->YYExpect $_[0]->YYLexer
+return respectivly the current input token that made the parse fail, its semantic value (both can be used to modify their values too, but know what you are doing ! See Error reporting routine section for an example), a list which contains the tokens the parser expected when the failure occured and a reference to the lexer routine.
+Note that if "$_[0]->YYCurtok" is declared as a %nonassoc token, it can be included in "$_[0]->YYExpect" list whenever the input try to use it in an associative way. This is not a bug: the token IS expected to report an error if encountered.
+To detect such a thing in your error reporting sub, the following example should do the trick:
+grep { $_[0]->YYCurtok eq $_ } $_[0]->YYExpect and do { #Non-associative token used in an associative expression };
+Accessing semantics values on the left of your reducing rule is done through the method
+$_[0]->YYSemval( index )
+where index is an integer. Its value being 1 .. n returns the same values than $_[1] .. $_[n], but -n .. 0 returns values on the left of the rule beeing reduced (It is related to $-n .. $0 .. $n in yacc, but you cannot use $_[0] or $_[-n] constructs in Parse::Yapp for obvious reasons)
+There is also a provision for a user data area in the parser object, accessed by the method:
+$_[0]->YYData
+which returns a reference to an anonymous hash, which let you have all of your parsing data held inside the object (see the Calc.yp or ParseYapp.yp files in the distribution for some examples). That's how you can make you parser module reentrant: all of your module states and variables are held inside the parser object.
+Note: unfortunatly, method calls in Perl have a lot of overhead,
+and when YYData is used, it may be called a huge number
+of times. If your are not a *real* purist and efficiency
+is your concern, you may access directly the user-space
+in the object: $parser->{USER} wich is a reference to an
+anonymous hash array, and then benchmark.
+If no action is specified for a rule, the equivalant of a default action is run, which returns the first parameter:
+{ $_[1] }
+typedef: TYPE { $type = $_[1] } identlist { ... } ;
+When the Parse::Yapp's parser encounter such an embedded action, it modifies the grammar as if you wrote (although @x-1 is not a legal lhs value):
+@x-1: /* empty */ { $type = $_[1] }; typedef: TYPE @x-1 identlist { ... } ;
+where x is a sequential number incremented for each ``in rule'' action, and -1 represents the ``dot position'' in the rule where the action arises.
+In such actions, you can use $_[1]..$_[n] variables, which are the semantic values on the left of your action.
+Be aware that the way Parse::Yapp modifies your grammar because of in rule actions can produce, in some cases, spurious conflicts that wouldn't happen otherwise.
+yapp -v Calc.yp
+will create two files Calc.pm, your parser module, and Calc.output a verbose output of your parser rules, conflicts, warnings, states and summary.
+What your are missing now is a lexer routine.
+It is called with only one argument that is the parser object itself, so you can access its methods, specially the
+$_[0]->YYData
+data area.
+It is its duty to return the next token and value to the parser. They "must" be returned as a list of two variables, the first one is the token known by the parser (symbolic or literal), the second one beeing anything you want (usualy the content of the token, or the literal value) from a simple scalar value to any complex reference, as the parsing driver never use it but to call semantic actions:
+( 'NUMBER', $num ) or ( '>=', '>=' ) or ( 'ARRAY', [ @values ] )
+When the lexer reach the end of input, it must return the '' empty token with an undef value:
+( '', undef )
+Note that your lexer should never return 'error' as token value: for the driver, this is the error token used for error recovery and would lead to odd reactions.
+Now that you have your lexer written, maybe you will need to output meaningful error messages, instead of the default which is to print 'Parse error.' on STDERR.
+So you will need an Error reporting sub.
+item "Error reporting routine"
+If you want one, write it knowing that it is passed as parameter the parser object. So you can share information whith the lexer routine quite easily.
+You can also use the "$_[0]->YYErrok" method in it, which will resume parsing as if no error occured. Of course, since the invalid token is still invalid, you're supposed to fix the problem by yourself.
+The method "$_[0]->YYLexer" may help you, as it returns a reference to the lexer routine, and can be called as
+($tok,$val)=&{$_[0]->Lexer}
+to get the next token and semantic value from the input stream. To make them current for the parser, use:
+($_[0]->YYCurtok, $_[0]->YYCurval) = ($tok, $val)
+and know what you're doing...
+First, use the parser module:
+use Calc;
+Then create the parser object:
+$parser=new Calc;
+Now, call the YYParse method, telling it where to find the lexer and error report subs:
+$result=$parser->YYParse(yylex => \&Lexer, yyerror => \&ErrorReport);
+(assuming Lexer and ErrorReport subs have been written in your current package)
+The order in which parameters appear is unimportant.
+Et voila.
+The YYParse method will do the parse, then return the last semantic value returned, or undef if error recovery cannot recover.
+If you need to be sure the parse has been successful (in case your last returned semantic value is undef) make a call to:
+$parser->YYNberr()
+which returns the total number of time the error reporting sub has been called.
+$parser->YYParse( ... , yydebug => value, ... )
+where value is a bitfield, each bit representing a specific debug output:
+Bit Value Outputs 0x01 Token reading (useful for Lexer debugging) 0x02 States information 0x04 Driver actions (shifts, reduces, accept...) 0x08 Parse Stack dump 0x10 Error Recovery tracing
+To have a full debugging ouput, use
+debug => 0x1F
+Debugging output is sent to STDERR, and be aware that it can produce "huge" outputs.
+In the case you'd prefer to have a standalone module generated, use the "-s" switch with yapp: this will automagically copy the driver code into your module so you can use/distribute it without the need of the Parse::Yapp module, making it really a "Standalone Parser".
+If you do so, please remember to include Parse::Yapp's copyright notice in your main module copyright, so others can know about Parse::Yapp module. noticed should be included in your software copyright too, and the copyright notice in the embedded driver should be left untouched.
+Mayoral candidates debate in La Jolla
+Mayoral candidates Carl DeMaio (left) and Bob Filner (right) take part in a debate at La Jolla Country Day School, moderated by Steve Dinkin of the National Conflict Resolution Center. PAT SHERMAN
+By Pat Sherman
+La Jolla was the site of two recent mayoral debates — the first hosted by the Rotary Club of La Jolla and the second by La Jolla Country Day School, in collaboration with the Preuss School, City Club of San Diego and the National Conflict Resolution Center.
+Candidates Carl DeMaio, a Republican city councilman serving San Diego’s fifth district, and Bob Filner, a Democratic congressman serving California’s 51st district, squared off Sept. 4 during the Rotary club’s weekly luncheon at La Valencia Hotel.
+Noting that the DeMaio- backed and voter-approved Proposition B — which would replace pensions with 401(k)-style retirement plans for most new city hires and freeze pensionable pay for five years — could be tied up in the courts for some time, moderator Pat Stouffer asked what the candidates would do in the meantime to solve the city’s fiscal crisis.
+Filner said if the measure was still in legal limbo when he is mayor he would put a cap on six-figure pensions for city management.
+Rotary Club of La Jolla’s president-elect, Pat Stouffer, moderates a Sept. 4 mayoral debate between candidates Carl DeMaio (left) and Bob Filner.
+“I invited Carl to join me in supporting that; he’s never favored it or not,” Filner said, adding that the only cost-saving aspect of Prop. B is the five-year pensionable pay freeze.
+“I’m the only one who can implement that immediately; I’ve already talked to the employee groups,” Filner said. “If Carl goes into any negotiations with the people he has said are the enemy of San Diego, he goes into these negotiations as the declared enemy.”
+Before answering the question, DeMaio took the opportunity to wish Filner a “happy 70th birthday,” evoking some gasps from those in attendance, to which Filner later responded, “I appreciate the birthday wishes, but like my favorite president, Ronald Reagan, said when he ran against Walter Mondale, ‘I will not use the youth and inexperience of my opponent as an issue in this campaign.’”
+La Jolla Country Day School students endured the mid-day heat to watch mayoral candidates Carl DeMaio and Bob Filner exchange equally heated jabs.
+Speaking to the issue of Prop. B, DeMaio said, “Our pension payment went from $48 million in the year 2000 to a whopping $238 million this year. … We have to reform pensions, which is why I didn’t wait to be in the mayor’s office to tackle this important issue. I helped to create Proposition B, and worked with a bipartisan coalition to get things done.
+“Prop. B is not tied up in the courts,” DeMaio maintained. “The unions have filed a number of frivolous lawsuits and they have not succeeded in getting any judge to say that we cannot implement it.
+“And I have not called the employee unions the enemy,” DeMaio added. “Mr. Filner, you need to stop trying to misrepresent my positions in a very divisive way.”
+Asked how the candidates would determine funding for quality-of-life issues such as the arts, DeMaio said his “fiscal reform agenda” would create money to revive programs that have been cut, such as library and park and recreation center hours, code compliance programs and water quality management.
+“As we increase our hotel tax revenues over the next eight years, which we expect to double, we will also double the funding for arts, culture and science programs,” DeMaio said.
+Filner countered that DeMaio has repeatedly voted against funding arts and after-school programs.
+Carl DeMaio (left) fields a question during a mayoral debate at La Jolla Country Day School as opponent Bob Filner listens with circumspection.
+“When you talk about quality of life in the neighborhoods of our city — including La Jolla — you have to say, ‘Why don’t we have this infrastructure? Why don’t we have the beach maintenance, why do we have the traffic congestion? You know why? Because there are special interests that are governing city hall, and Mr. DeMaio is the candidate of those special interests,” Filner said. “That’s where all his contributions come from; that’s where all his support comes from.”
+Stouffer prefaced another question by stating that each candidate represented his party’s “extremes.”
+“How will you then build consensus and operate in a centrist political arena?” Stouffer asked.
+“This is kind of funny, this question being posed to a gay, pro-choice environmentalist, who takes on the downtown establishment time and time again,” DeMaio said.
+“People can try to apply labels, but at the end of the day what I’m fighting for are the issues that unite, rather than divide,” DeMaio said, touting his bipartisan support for efforts to save the city money by putting public services out to bid, and his successful effort to defeat a half-cent sales tax increase he said “would have hit our working poor the hardest.”
+Noting his experience working collaboratively with others as a school board president, deputy mayor and 10-term congressman, Filner said, “I guess to know where somebody is going, you’ve got to know where they’ve been. … The person who has stressed division and chaos and who has thrived on it is Carl DeMaio. … I can bring people together and get things done. I think that’s what you want in a mayor.”
+NBC Channel 7 reporter Gene Cubbison and Alexander Garcia, an advanced placement U.S. government student at La Jolla Country Day School, served as panelists during a Sept. 7 mayoral candidate debate.
+During the Sept. 7 debate at La Jolla Country Day School, the candidates fielded questions from a panel of professional journalists and students, including, Country Day’s Alexander Garcia and the Preuss School’s Joshua Piedra.
+Noting that DeMaio recently returned from a “jobs tour” of Mexico, during which he met with business leaders to forge a stronger relationship between San Diego and the Baja region, Garcia asked what policy changes DeMaio would put into effect to assure “San Diego’s unique tie to the Mexican economy grows and benefits all San Diegans.”
+“We have to start acting as a region, a better region, working on the strengths that both sides have,” DeMaio said. “We have come out with a number of economic strategies that both sides can benefit from to bring investment to both sides of our region. It will be one of the cornerstones of my economic strategy as mayor.”
+Filner touted his role representing the border region for 20 years while serving on the city council and in Congress, and in one, instance, advising President Clinton on Baja issues aboard Air Force One.
+The candidates were next asked by NBC Channel 7 reporter Gene Cubbison how much faith they have regarding the amount of money and jobs the proposed convention center expansion would generate — numbers the city auditor and independent budget analyst claim are overstated.
+Filner said the convention center is “an economic engine” and its expansion should be supported, along with the expansion of San Diego’s port.
+Expansion of the port has “the biggest single potential for (increasing) middle class jobs in this nation,” Filner said. “We’re talking about thousands of jobs — jobs that pay a livable wage. That has an impact on the whole economy, and whether tourists come.”
+DeMaio began by piquing students’ interest in the convention center with a reference to Comic-Con — San Diego’s largest annual convention.
+“It’s covered across the world by media,” DeMaio said. “People see San Diego and our beautiful environment, they learn about our city. If we don’t expand the convention center, Comic-Con will probably end up leaving our city. … With an expanded convention center we will bring additional Comic-Con-sized events, perhaps not with the types of costumes that they bring, but equally important for the jobs that those conventions and conferences represent to San Diegans.”
+DeMaio said his opponent has opposed the convention center expansion “every step of the way.” While he agreed that expanding San Diego’s port is important, DeMaio asked, “Why did the congressman oppose President Clinton on NAFTA and oppose free trade? If you don’t have free trade, congressman, we’re not going to have a whole lot of cargo and commerce at the port.”
+Asked by Los Angeles Times reporter Tony Perry what credentials the candidates possessed to oversee law enforcement as mayor, Filner included in his answer that he believes officers should not be allowed to ask about immigration status during routine stops.
+“We should not have racial profiling in our city,” he said, stating that DeMaio had supported Arizona’s SB 1070, a tough anti-immigration measure that is viewed by detractors as a legal means of racial profiling.
+Though DeMaio countered that he did not support the 2010 measure, Filner noted that DeMaio declined to support a subsequent San Diego City Council resolution condemning it.
+Perry asked DeMaio if officers should be prevented from asking a person’s immigration status.
+“If someone is detained and immigration status can get them off the street because they have committed a crime, I believe it should be an arrow in the quiver,” DeMaio said. “I think it should be part of our arsenal.”
+Following the debate, senior Julia Julima said she felt the debate was “more eruptive than a volcano.”
+“But I can see they were trying to be civil,” said Julima, 18. “I can see that DeMaio had really big goals and plans. He said he really wanted to help change education and public schools, but he really doesn’t have that much that he can do, so I wonder how he plans on being that change.
+“Mr. Filner definitely had a lot of experience, but that’s all I kept hearing about,” Julima added. “He didn’t have any meat, any substance, besides saying that he had a lot of experience. I have to do my homework and see what kind of policies he’d make.”
+Associated student body president Josh Church said he didn’t know much about the candidates heading into the debate, but was pretty sure he would vote for DeMaio in November.
+“I felt like Filner was talking about his experiences a lot, and too repetitive with that,” said Church, 18. “I just had a better vibe with DeMaio.”
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+Your membership website will come total with registration web pages, subscription gain access to web pages, and material web pages which you could easily secure or drip feed to your customers according to purchases they made in your funnel.