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Hengl, Tomislav
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Hengl, Tomislav (1)
Održivi razvoj i uređenje banjskih i turističkih naselja u Srbiji
Mapping population change index in Southern Serbia (1961-2027) as a function of environmental factors
Bajat, Branislav; Hengl, Tomislav; Kilibarda, Milan; Krunić, Nikola
AU - Bajat, Branislav
AU - Hengl, Tomislav
AU - Kilibarda, Milan
AU - Krunić, Nikola
UR - https://raumplan.iaus.ac.rs/handle/123456789/188
AB - Niche analysis methods developed within the biogeography community are routinely used for species distribution modeling of wildlife and endangered species. So far, such techniques have not been used to explain distribution of people in an area, nor to assess spatio-temporal dynamics of human populations. In this paper, the MaxEnt approach to species distribution modeling and publicly available gridded predictors were used to analyze the population dynamics in Southern Serbia (South Pomoravlje Region) for the period 1961-2027. Population values from the census administrative units were first downscaled to 200 m grid using a detailed map of populated places and dasymetric interpolation. In the second step, a point pattern representing the whole population (468,500 inhabitants in 2002) was simulated using the R package spatstat. MaxEnt was then used to derive habitat suitability index (HSI) as a function of gridded predictors: distance to roads, elevation, slope, topographic wetness index, enhanced vegetation index and land cover classes. HSI and environmental predictors were further used to explain spatial patterns in the population change index (PCI) through regression modeling. The results show that inhabiting preference for year 1961 is mainly a function of topography (TWI, elevation). The HSI for year 2027 shows that large portions of remote areas are becoming less preferred for inhabiting. The results of cross-validation in MaxEnt show that distribution of population is distinctly controlled by environmental factors (AUC > 0.84). Population decrease is particularly significant in areas >25 km distant from the main road network. The results of regression analysis show that 40% of variability in the PCI values can be explained with these environmental maps, distance to roads and urban areas being the main drivers of migration process. This approach allows precise mapping of demographic patterns that otherwise would not be visible from the census data alone.
T2 - Computers Environment and Urban Systems
T1 - Mapping population change index in Southern Serbia (1961-2027) as a function of environmental factors
DO - 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2010.09.005
UR - Konv_272
author = "Bajat, Branislav and Hengl, Tomislav and Kilibarda, Milan and Krunić, Nikola",
abstract = "Niche analysis methods developed within the biogeography community are routinely used for species distribution modeling of wildlife and endangered species. So far, such techniques have not been used to explain distribution of people in an area, nor to assess spatio-temporal dynamics of human populations. In this paper, the MaxEnt approach to species distribution modeling and publicly available gridded predictors were used to analyze the population dynamics in Southern Serbia (South Pomoravlje Region) for the period 1961-2027. Population values from the census administrative units were first downscaled to 200 m grid using a detailed map of populated places and dasymetric interpolation. In the second step, a point pattern representing the whole population (468,500 inhabitants in 2002) was simulated using the R package spatstat. MaxEnt was then used to derive habitat suitability index (HSI) as a function of gridded predictors: distance to roads, elevation, slope, topographic wetness index, enhanced vegetation index and land cover classes. HSI and environmental predictors were further used to explain spatial patterns in the population change index (PCI) through regression modeling. The results show that inhabiting preference for year 1961 is mainly a function of topography (TWI, elevation). The HSI for year 2027 shows that large portions of remote areas are becoming less preferred for inhabiting. The results of cross-validation in MaxEnt show that distribution of population is distinctly controlled by environmental factors (AUC > 0.84). Population decrease is particularly significant in areas >25 km distant from the main road network. The results of regression analysis show that 40% of variability in the PCI values can be explained with these environmental maps, distance to roads and urban areas being the main drivers of migration process. This approach allows precise mapping of demographic patterns that otherwise would not be visible from the census data alone.",
journal = "Computers Environment and Urban Systems",
title = "Mapping population change index in Southern Serbia (1961-2027) as a function of environmental factors",
doi = "10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2010.09.005",
url = "Konv_272"
Bajat, B., Hengl, T., Kilibarda, M.,& Krunić, N.. (2011). Mapping population change index in Southern Serbia (1961-2027) as a function of environmental factors. in Computers Environment and Urban Systems
Elsevier Sci Ltd, Oxford., 35(1), 35-44.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2010.09.005
Konv_272
Bajat B, Hengl T, Kilibarda M, Krunić N. Mapping population change index in Southern Serbia (1961-2027) as a function of environmental factors. in Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 2011;35(1):35-44.
doi:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2010.09.005
Konv_272 .
Bajat, Branislav, Hengl, Tomislav, Kilibarda, Milan, Krunić, Nikola, "Mapping population change index in Southern Serbia (1961-2027) as a function of environmental factors" in Computers Environment and Urban Systems, 35, no. 1 (2011):35-44,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2010.09.005 .,
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Front page - Fighting the U-boats - Allied Warship Commanders
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Lionel William Lendon Argles DSC, RN
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1 May 1932 S.Lt.
1 Feb 1934 Lt.
1 Feb 1942 Lt.Cdr.
30 Jun 1946 Cdr.
30 Jun 1952 Capt.
Retired: 10 Jun 1961
3 Apr 1942 Mentioned in Despatches (MID)
21 Aug 1945 DSC
18 Sep 1945 Mentioned in Despatches (MID)
10 Jun 1961 CBE
Warship Commands listed for Lionel William Lendon Argles, RN
Ship Rank Type From To
HMS Chiddingfold (L 31) Lt. Escort destroyer 12 Aug 1941 Apr 1943
HMS Vigilant (R 93) Lt.Cdr. Destroyer 22 Jul 1943 Jul 1945
Upon his retirement from active service in 1961 he became Captain Superintendant of HMS Worcester, The Incorporated Thames Nautical College, at Greenhithe Kent. He was the last serving captain to 'Worcester' until the closure of the ship to cadets in 1968.
Events related to this officer
Destroyer HMS Vigilant (R 93)
16 May 1945 (position 4.49, 99.42)
On 9 May 1945 the Japanese heavy cruiser Haguro and the Japanese destroyer Kamikaze (both offsite links) left Singapore for a transport run to the Andaman Islands. They were sighted the next day in Malakka Strait by the British submarines HMS Statesman (Lt. R.G.P. Bulkeley, RN) and HMS Subtle (Lt. B.J.B. Andrew, DSC, RN). To intercept the Japanese ships a task force made up of 2 battleships, 1 heavy cruiser, 2 light cruisers, 4 escort carriers and 8 destroyers left Trincomalee. Aircraft from the escort carriers attacked the Nicobar Islands on the 11th, forcing Haguro and Kamikaze to head back to Singapore.
On the 14th the Japanese ships again depart from Singapore for the Andaman Islands. They were spotted the next day north-east of Sabang by aircraft the British escort carrier HMS Shah (Capt. W.J. Yendell, RN). A few hours later they were attacked by aircraft from the British escort carrier HMS Emperor (Capt. Sir C. Madden, RN) causing light damaged to Haguro. In the meantime Japanese aircraft have sighted Allied destroyers closing in on Haguro and once again the Japanese ships reverse course.
In anticipation on the Japanese reversal of course the commander of the British 26th DF, Capt. M.L. Power, CBE, DSO with Bar, RN on board HMS Saumarez and the other British destroyers HMS Venus (Cdr. H.G.D. De Chair, DSC with Bar, RN), HMS Verulam (Lt.Cdr. D.H.R. Bromley, DSC, RN), HMS Vigilant (Lt.Cdr. L.W.L. Argles, DSC, RN) and HMS Virago (Lt.Cdr. A.J.R. White, DSC, RN) plotted a course to intercept the Japanese ships which they did shortly before midnight on the 15th. After careful manoeuvring the destroyers began attacking the Japanese ships from all sides shortly after one o'clock on the 16th. The Haguro was hit by torpedoed and gunfire and sank around 0230hours in position 04°49'N, 99°42'E but not before she hit the Saumarez with gunfire. The escorting Japanese destroyer Kamikaze escapes with only minor damage.
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How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
by Franklin Foer
Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It's a perfect window into the crosscurrents of today's world, with all its joys and sorrows. In this remarkably insightful, wide-ranging work of reportage, Franklin Foer takes us on a surprising tour through the world of soccer, shining a spotlight on the clash of civilizations, the international economy, and just about everything in between. How Soccer Explains the World is an utterly original book that makes sense of our troubled times.
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization quantity
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Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York's Other Half
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IMDb may have just accidentally revealed that this MAJOR "Game of Thrones" character is coming BACK
Meaghan Kirby
Updated Aug 08, 2017 @ 11:56 am
This post contains spoilers for Season 7 of Game of Thrones so if you haven't seen it or honestly don't want to know anything about upcoming episodes, row away as fast as you can!
We've been talking about this for weeks but it appears it's finally here: The long-awaited return of Gendry. The budding blacksmith and last remaining bastard of Robert Baratheon was last seen in season three, rowing away from Dragonstone after being rescued by Ser Davos. But now, he's finally rowing back into our lives during next week's episode "Eastwatch" — according to IMDb, that is.
The IMDb page for "Eastwatch" features Joe Dempsie in the cast listing for the first time since 2013:
Credit: IMDb
That's right, wedged between Liam Cunningham and Peter Dinklage is one Joe Dempsie!
This guy:
Credit: HelloGiggles / HBO
Much like IMDb announced Ed Sheeran's appearance in the Season 7 premiere, the entertainment website has revealed that we'll be meeting up with the beloved character in just a few days. Gendry's reappearance in the series has been speculated for years but Dempsie's appearance at the Season 7 premiere — not to mention being spotted in GoT's top filming site in Belfast — confirmed that we'd be seeing him again soon.
While we have no idea where Gendry will be making his grand reappearance — he *did* tell Davos that he knew nothing about swimming nor boats before rowing away — chances are, he'll quickly stumble into some drama. We honestly hope he reemerges The Hound-style or runs into Hot Pie, who will give him the SparkNotes version of everything he's missed.
Regardless, we have a feeling he'll find himself back in business as a blacksmith because Jon Snow will need one now that he's mining dragonglass. Seriously though, there's no way David Benioff and D.B. Weiss spent *that* much time telling us Gendry's an amazing blacksmith only to have him never forge anything again.
Credit: HBO
Gendry's long been one of the most curious characters on the HBO series.
During the first three seasons, he was an integral part of the drama over the Iron Throne before literally sailing off into the sunset (okay, rowing off in the middle of the night). That makes his return all the more interesting, seeing as most of the people who knew of his existence are either dead, or would assume he's long dead. But it seems the long absent character will return with a vengeance and once again become integral to the plot. In addition to being speculated as the blacksmith who will help Jon Snow forge his weapons to defeat the White Walkers, it's also been theorized that Gendry will revive the presumed dead House Baratheon.
While everything surrounding Gendry's reappearance on the show is a mystery, we're so happy to finally have him back. Now can he PLEASE reunite with Arya?!
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Watching nanofluids flow in 4D real-time (w/video)
(Nanowerk News) At the nanoscale, where objects are measured in billionths of meters and events transpire in trillionths of seconds, things do not always behave as our experiences with the macro-world might lead us to expect. Water, for example, seems to flow much faster within carbon nanotubes than classical physics says should be possible. Now imagine trying to capture movies of these almost imperceptibly small nanoscale movements.
This artistic rendering depicts fluid-filled nanotubes changing with time. Caltech researchers used four-dimensional electron microscopy to visualize and monitor the flow of molten lead within single zinc oxide nanotubes in real time and space. (Image: Caltech)
Researchers at Caltech now have done just that by applying a new imaging technique called four-dimensional (4D) electron microscopy to the nanofluid dynamics problem. In a paper appearing in the June 27 issue of Science ("Observing liquid flow in nanotubes by 4D electron microscopy"), Ahmed Zewail, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry and professor of physics, and Ulrich Lorenz, a postdoctoral scholar in chemistry, describe how they visualized and monitored the flow of molten lead within a single zinc oxide nanotube in real time and space.
The 4D microscopy technique was developed in the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at Caltech, created and directed by Zewail to advance understanding of the fundamental physics of chemical and biological behavior.
In 4D microscopy, a stream of ultra-fast-moving electrons bombards a sample in a carefully timed manner. Each electron scatters off the sample, producing a still image that represents a single moment, just a femtosecond—or a millionth of a billionth of a second—in duration. Millions of the still images can then be stitched together to produce a digital movie of nanoscale motion.
When this lead-filled zinc oxide nanotube was laser-heated, some of the molten lead squeezed out of the tube through a leak. This video shows the extrusion being reabsorbed once the tube cooled.
In the new work, Lorenz and Zewail used single laser pulses to melt the lead cores of individual zinc oxide nanotubes and then, using 4D microscopy, captured how the hot pressurized liquid moved within the tubes—sometimes splitting into multiple segments, producing tiny droplets on the outside of the tube, or causing the tubes to break. Lorenz and Zewail also measured the friction experienced by the liquid in the nanotube.
"These observations are particularly significant because visualizing the behavior of fluids at the nanoscale is essential to our understanding of how materials and biological channels effectively transport liquids," says Zewail. In 1999, Zewail won the Nobel Prize for his development of femtosecond chemistry.
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Candente Copper to Form a New Copper and Base Metals Exploration Company
Vancouver, British Columbia, May 17th, 2011. Candente Copper Corp. (TSX:DNT, BVL:DNT, US:CDOUF) ("Candente Copper") is very pleased to announce its Board of Directors have unanimously approved a proposal to undertake a spin-out transaction that would reorganize the business and capital structure of the Company into two separate public companies to allow Candente Copper to focus on the development of its flagship Cañariaco copper project.
Pursuant to the proposed transaction, Candente Copper will incorporate a new subsidiary, ExploreCo ("ExploreCo") to which it will transfer 100% of its indirect interest in all of its Peruvian exploration properties, other than the Cañariaco and Jehuamarca claims, which cover the Cañariaco Norte Deposit as well as the Cañariaco Sur and Quebrada Verde prospects by way of a Plan of Arrangement to be completed under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) (the "Proposed Arrangement").
In addition to the transfer of the properties, Candente Copper also intends to subscribe for common shares of ExploreCo as part of the Proposed Arrangement in order to provide ExploreCo with approximately Cdn$6 million in working capital.
Candente Copper intends to initially retain a position (approximately 15%) in ExploreCo and distribute the remaining common shares it receives of ExploreCo to its current shareholders on a pro-rata basis (expected to be 1 share of ExploreCo for every 5 shares of Candente Copper held) by way of a reduction of the capital of Candente Copper pursuant to the Proposed Arrangement.
ExploreCo will seek to list its common shares on either the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") or the TSX Venture ("TSX.V") and the Bolsa de Valores de Lima ("BVL ") stock exchanges.
The Proposed Arrangement remains conditional on the approval of final documentation by the Board of Directors of Candente Copper, the approval of the Proposed Arrangement and the listing of the shares of ExploreCo by the TSX or TSX.V (if applicable), the approval of the shareholders of Candente Copper and the approval of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, amongst other things.
Additional details of the Proposed Arrangement will follow upon completion of definitive documentation and will be described in detail in the information circular to be mailed to shareholders of Candente Copper in connection with the Company's annual general and special meeting at which approval by the Company's shareholders of the Proposed Arrangement will be sought.
About Candente Copper
Candente Copper Corp is a TSX and BVL listed mining company focused on exploration and development of base metal mining projects in Peru and Latin America. Candente Copper's flagship project is the 100% owned Cañariaco copper project located in northern Peru's prolific mining district.
Mr. Sean Waller, P.Eng., President of Candente Copper is a Qualified Persons as defined by National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the contents of this release, and is responsible for the information contained in this release.
This news release may contain forward-looking statements including but not limited to comments regarding the timing and content of upcoming work programs, geotechnical assumptions, geological interpretations, receipt of property titles or permits, potential mineral recovery processes, the timing and structure of proposed transactions, etc. Forward-looking statements address future events and conditions and therefore involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements. Candente relies upon litigation protection for forward-looking statements.
CAUTIONARY NOTE TO U.S. INVESTORS
We advise U.S. investors of terms that are not recognized by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including "mineral resources", "measured resources", "indicated resources" and "inferred resources". The estimation of measured and indicated resources involves greater uncertainty as to their existence and economic feasibility than the estimation of proven and probable reserves. U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that mineral resources in these categories will be converted to reserves. The estimation of inferred resources involves far greater uncertainty as to their existence and economic viability than the estimation of other categories of resources. U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that estimates of inferred mineral resources exist, are economically mineable, or will be upgraded into measured or indicated mineral resources. U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that mineral resources in any of these categories will be converted into reserves.
On behalf of the Board of Candente Copper Corp.
"Sean Waller" P.Eng.
President & Director
John Foulkes
VP Corporate Development
toll free: 1 (877) 689-1964 ext 2
Manager, Investor Relations
Nataly Reategui
Investor Relations, Peru
Tel.: (511) 715-2001 ext 107
[email protected]
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Headline: Hongkong Theatre: Old Land Office Building
On Apr 14, showing the thrilling serial, 11th and 12th episodes of 'Peg O' the Ring'; war graphic and Keystone comics; on Apr 18, continuation of 'Terence O' Rourke,' 4 & 6 episodes.
On Jun 5 at 5.15 pm, in aid of The Portuguese Red Cross Society, programme: War Graphic; Liberty (1st and 2nd episode); 'Foolshead Mistaken for Jim,' a Portuguese comic.
War Graphic; 'Two Mothers,' a beautiful Italian drama in 3 reels; 'The Child,' a sensational drama in 3 parts; also comics; don't forget on Jun 9, 'Liberty.'
Two great Italian dramas: 'An Ignored Mother' in 3 parts; 'The Outcast's Return' in 3 parts; War Graphic & comics; on Jun 15, string band night.
4th and 5ht episodes of 'Liberty'; War Graphic and comics.
Two sensational dramas: 'The Song Which Grandmother Sang' in 3 parts; 'A Missionary Sister' [sic] in 3 parts; War Graphic and comics.
6th episode of 'Liberty' entitled 'The Desert of Lost Souls'; a thrilling drama 'A Circus Heroine' in 3 parts; war graphic and 'Max on the Briny' (comic).
Tonight, the great Trans-Atlantic serial 'Liberty,' 7th and 8th episodes entitled 'Liberty's Sacrifice' and 'Clipped Wings'; war graphic; comics: 'Both in the Same Boat,' 'The Two Merry Tramps,' and 'Rosalie, Detective.'
Headline: Hongkong Theatre
Tonight, Florence Reed in 'The Eternal Sin' in 6 parts. At 7.15 p.m., 'Peg O' the Ring' episodes 1, 2 and 3.
A real sensation, Herbert Brenon presents the great wonderful production 'The Eternal Sin' with the beautiful Florence Reed. A very sad story of tragedy.
A very attractive programme is to be shown at the Hongkong Theatre for the week commencing this afternoon till Friday next, a drama 'Who Will Marry Me?' featuring the star Carmel Myers, is one of the first productions from the Universal Film Company. There is also a splendid picture…
The China Mail (4)
South China Morning Post (3)
Comic films (43)
The Diamond from the Sky (20)
Keystone Comics (19)
The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring (19)
The Goddess (11)
The Trey o' Hearts (11)
Mysteries of the Grand Hotel (8)
New Screen Magazine (8)
Neal of the Navy (6)
The Screaming Shadow (6)
The Woman in the Web (6)
The Iron Test (5)
Borrowed Clothes (4)
Gaumont Graphic (4)
The Carter Case (4)
The New Adventures of Terence O'Rourke (4)
The Secret of the Submarine (4)
Love Letters (3)
Neptune's Daughter (3)
The Belle of New York (3)
The Cabaret Girl (3)
The Crucible of Fate (3)
The Fly Cop (3)
The Right to Happiness (3)
What Happened to Mary (3)
A Child of the Paris Streets (2)
A Modern Enoch Arden (2)
Back of the Man (2)
Barbary Sheep (2)
Easy Street (2)
His Naughty Thought (2)
Lost in Transit (2)
Max Comes Across (2)
Out of the Drifts (2)
The Double Standard (2)
The Immigrant (2)
The Judgement House (2)
The Return of Draw Egan (2)
The Scholar (2)
The Yankee Girl (2)
(-) War graphics (8)
(-) The Eternal Sin (2)
Bijou Theatre (16)
The Palace Picture House (2)
(-) Hongkong Theatre (11)
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VIDEO: Bandits come back to beat Dragons, 4-2
BROOKS, AB (January 6, 2018) – The Brooks Bandits (28-11-1) came back from a first period 1-0 deficit on Saturday night, downing the visiting Drumheller Dragons (20-18-2) by a 4-2 final score at the Centennial Regional Arena.
After allowing an opening power play goal, the Bandits held Drumheller to just 10 shots for the rest of the game, scoring three times in the span of 4 minutes and 34 seconds in the second period to take the lead.
The win keeps the Bandits 7 points back of Okotoks for first place in the AJHL South, but extends their gap over Drumheller for second place to 15 points.
Drumheller's first power play of the game led to the opening goal at the 9:12 mark when Alex Rotundo scored on a wrist shot from the slot. It was the third time in four meetings that the Dragons had opened the scoring against Brooks.
But after outshooting Drumheller by a narrow 11-8 margin in the first, the Bandits outshot their opponents 25-10 the rest of the way, seizing control of the game just over the halfway mark. Arnaud Vachon (Ajax, ON) got tangled up with a forechecking Dragon, with the two colliding into the half boards. As a Drumheller defender came over to challenge Vachon, Carter Wolski (Sexsmith, AB) took the puck and charged to the front of the net unopposed, sliding a shot five-hole on Hunter Virostek to make it 1-1 and extending his point streak to 6 games.
Less than three minutes later, Nathan Plessis (Salmon Arm, B.C.) fired a pass along the blue line that Jakob LaPointe (Leduc, AB) drove a slap shot on; the puck glanced off a Drumheller stick and then off VIrtostek's glove and in to give Brooks its first lead. Plessis' assist also extended his point streak to 6 games.
At the 16:20 mark, Simon Boyko (Mississauga, ON) carried in along the left side, stopped up at the point, and fired a perfect pass across to Matt Cassidy (Medford, NJ) at the right circle. His one timer tipped off a Dragon stick and over Virostek's glove hand for the eventual game-winning goal.
In the third, the Bandits converted on their first and only power play when a Shane Bear (Calgary, AB) point shot was deflected in behind Virostek, where Plessis poked the puck over the goal line to make it 4-1. Drumheller got one back with 1:34 left in the game on a Bradley Stonnell power play point shot that went post and in.
Mitch Benson (Windsor, ON) made 16 saves on 18 shots for his league-leading 28th win, while Virostek had the loss with a 32-save performance on 36 shots against. The Bandits went 1 for 1 on the power play while the Dragons were 2 for 6.
The Bandits hit the road on Tuesday night for the first of consecutive games against Olds, first in the Grizzlys' barn at 7 PM before returning home to take them on Friday night at the CRA at 7 PM.
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Sweet Magnolias Season 2 Release Date, Synopsis and More
Based on books of the same name by Sheryl Woods, Sweet Magnolias revolves around the lives of mainly three women from Serenity that share a unique and strong bond as they overcome challenges. Season 1 was a huge hit. And it ended with the kind of cliffhanger that makes you impatiently wait for more episodes. And hence, since then, viewers have been waiting for Sweet Magnolias Season 2.
There is no reason to believe that there won't be another season. We feel that there will probably be a season 3 as well. As there is enough content and the show has received a lot of appreciation.
Here is everything about Sweet Magnolias Season 2!
Sweet Magnolias Season 2 Release Date
The show was renewed for another season in July 2020. At the time of renewal, Sheryl Anderson, the showrunner of the show, said:
"I'm thrilled and excited to come back with a cast and a crew that I love so much. It's such a valentine to everybody who worked so hard to make Serenity such a beautiful place. JoAnna, Brooke, and Heather and I were jumping up and down while texting each other, and we look forward to doing that over Zoom too."
Moreover, an official release date hasn't been revealed yet. But it has been confirmed that sweet magnolias season 2 will be out in 2022. We are expecting a release date at the beginning of 2022 or mid-2022. If we get any more updates on the release date, we will share them with you.
Sweet Magnolias Season 2 Cast
Here is a list of all the cast members that viewers can expect to watch in the much-awaited season:
JoAnna Garcia Swisher as Maddie Townsend
Heather Headley as Helen Decatur
Brooke Elliott as Dana
Logan Allen as Kyle Townsend
Chris Klein as Bill Townsend
Anneliese Judge as Annie Sullivan
Carson Rowland as Tyler Townsend
Justin Bruening as Cal Maddox
Al-Jaleel Knox as Gabe Weatherspoon
Dion Johnstone as Erik Whitley
Frank Oakley III as Harlan Bixby
Jamie Lynn Spears as Noreen Fitzgibbons
Brandon Quinn as Ronnie Sullivan
Chris Medlin as Isaac Downey
Bianca Berry Tarantino as Katie Townsend
Allison Gabriel as Mary Vaughn Lewis
Brittany L. Smith as Peggy Martin
Tracey Bonner as Pastor June Wilkes
Charles Lawlor as Collins Littlefield
Harlan Drum as CeCe Matney
Sam Ashby as Jackson Lewis
Hunter Burke as Trotter Vidhyarkorn
Michael Shenefelt as Ryan Wingate
Michael May as Simon Spry
Sweet Magnolias Season 2 Synopsis
No official plot details have been shared yet. But, we think that season 2 will open the door to mee mysteries and hopefully answer the mysteries of season 1.
Season 1 ended on a cliffhanger with Kyle in an accident. However, we still don't know who was with Kyle in that accident.
On the other hand, Maddie is perplexed as her ex-partner tries to get back in the picture. He has asked her for another chance and used their kids as a good reason for her to give him a chance. But, what does Maddie decide? Only season 2 can answer that!
Then there is Helen, who just ended things with her on and off boyfriend. So what will she do now? As she wanted to have a child of her own.
Additionally, Dana is suffering to make ends meet with her business. Also, she has recently been brought face-to-face because her estranged son is working in her very own kitchen.
So, what are the women of Serenity going to do? How are they going to face their challenges? Will Kyle and the passenger with him survive? All of this and more will be happening in Sweet Magnolias Season 2.
Sweet Magnolias Season 2 Trailer
A trailer for Sweet Magnolias Season 2 hasn't been released yet. And it will probably be a little more while until that happens. As the season won't be released until 2022.
How many episodes will be there in season 2?
Season 2 will probably have ten episodes 40 to 55 minutes long, just like season 1. A few titles of the episodes have also leaked. They are:
Episode 1 – Casseroles and Casualties
Episode 2- So Much To Say
Episode 3 – The More Things Change
Episode 4 – Walk of Faith
Has filming for Sweet Magnolias Season 2 begin?
Yes, filming has not only begun, but it has also ended for the upcoming season. Initially, Sheryll Woods, the author of the books, informed everyone that filming would begin in 2021. Then, in February 2021, the production team was in Georgia to get the sets ready and map out the entire season.
The show is filmed in Georgia, Atlanta as there is no real town named Serenity in South Carolina. Serenity is an imaginative town where the story takes place.
Filming finally began in early April as cast members posted pictures of back to filming on April 6, 2021.
Then, filming finally ended in mid-july as JoAnna Garcia Swisher, one of the cast members, posted a video on Instagram. Here is what the text with the video said:
"Last day in the chair with my sister, @symartmakeup, as we wrap up season 2 of #sweetmagnoliasnetflix! Bittersweet feelings because I'm going to miss this group so much. But I'm so proud and EXCITED for all of you to see what we have been cooking up in Serenity and can't wait for this dream team of a cast and crew to (hopefully!) be reunited ASAP to continue the journey!"
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#22 Starting a business in Oxford
Boasting business survival rates of 44%, Oxford is bursting with talent and business support. But is it the right location for your start-up?
by Ryan Platt
Updated: Jan 7, 2021 Published: Aug 21, 2017
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Why should you start a business in Oxford?
One of the oldest and most prestigious seats of learning in the world, Oxford continues to be at the forefront of cutting-edge developments in a variety of sectors. Businesses in knowledge-based industries like aerospace, engineering and life sciences choosing to locate here will find a wealth of expertise, infrastructure and collaboration opportunities in the city.
The world-class University of Oxford is closely connected with business activity in the city, and many successful start-ups begin as spin-outs from the institution. Notable alumni from the university include LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Eventbrite co-founder Kevin Hartz.
The well-educated talent base in the city has also given rise to a burgeoning technology and creative cluster, earning Oxford recognition as one of the UK's top 10 creative "hotspots" (according to innovation charity Nesta).
Despite its rather small size, Oxford has good transport links, with London Paddington just one hour away by train. Oxford Airport is located close by, but only serves regional destinations; for international links, the busy London Heathrow is around an hour's drive. The picturesque city is quiet and compact, and getting around it is a fairly simple process.
Access to talent in Oxford
72,500: Working age population with NVQ Level 4 and above (2015)
£589: Average full-time weekly earnings (2016)
2: Universities
The University of Oxford almost needs no introduction. One of the oldest universities in the world, it is consistently ranked amongst the top five globally and enjoys a peerless reputation amongst employers. Local businesses looking to recruit will find more than 22,000 of the UK's best and brightest students and graduates right on their doorstep.
The University's technology transfer subsidiary, Oxford University Innovation – changed from Isis Innovation in 2016 – helps businesses and academics research and commercialise their ideas and technology through a three-pronged business model. It has helped to launch more than 110 companies in the last 25 years with the start-up incubator supporting over 40 entrepreneurial ventures thus far.
Number of new start-ups (2015): 685 – see how this compares with other cities
Oxford is also home to the modern Oxford Brookes University, located just outside the city centre. Whilst it lives in the shadow of its more prestigious neighbour, it is a well-regarded institution in its own right (ranked in the top 50 in the UK) with a particularly strong pedigree in architecture.
The universities' dominating presence in the city has unsurprisingly resulted in a highly educated and qualified population. 63.4% of the workforce have NVQ Level 4 qualifications or above, second only to Cambridge (66.5%). Additionally, almost a quarter of employment in the Science Vale cluster is in professional, scientific and technical activities, compared with a South East regional average of just 8%.
While salaries are still considerably lower than London, the access to high numbers of skilled personnel has seen the weekly average increase, with Oxford now joint highest with Cambridge at £589 per week on average.
Access to business support in Oxford
1: Accelerators
3: Science parks
Business support in the Oxfordshire LEP is centred around the Science Vale UK Enterprise Zone, one of the most well-regarded science park complexes in the UK. Located 20 minutes drive from central Oxford, the 92-hectare site offers world-leading science facilities and access to research, alongside an extensive range of options when it comes to laboratory and office space.
Science businesses choosing to locate in Science Vale will be working alongside several leading science and technology companies including Infotec, Infineum, and Oxford Instruments, and will benefit from the usual range of incentives offered to Enterprise Zone businesses, including simplified planning, business rates discounts of up to £275,000, and superfast broadband.
Survival rates (2010-2015): 45%
In line with Oxford's reputation as an innovation centre, small businesses in the area can also access R&D tax credits of 225%. The Science Vale Enterprise Zone encompasses the two separate sites of Harwell Oxford and MEPC Milton Park – Harwell, in particular, is known for its work with the European Space Agency.
Science and technology businesses looking for nurturing environments elsewhere are spoilt for choice in Oxfordshire. Culham Science Centre, owned by the UK Atomic Energy Authority, specialises in cutting-edge nuclear fusion research and plays host to a number of commercial technology organisations alongside smaller start-ups hosted in its Innovation Centre.
Oxford Science Park is another option – operated as a joint venture between the University's Magdalen College and Prudential, the site aims to become a "centre of excellence" for science, technology and business occupiers.
Most of these complexes offer some forms of support, knowledge transfer and networking opportunities to start-ups. More intensive support is available for software business through the Isis Software Incubator, which supports nascent ventures in the development of products or services through its facility in Summertown (although it doesn't provide any direct investment).
Businesses in other sectors looking for office, lab or warehousing space have a good range of options. There are a number of commercial property parks in the surrounding Oxfordshire area, including Abingdon Business Park, Banbury, and Oxford Business Parks – a full list can be found here.
Oxford currently has a number of co-working facilities – WORKSPACE OXFORD, located a short walk from the city centre, The Old Music Hall, operated by Ethical Property and offering shared meeting rooms and a "communal breakout space" and HATCH, a co-work space and makervault (a converted vault set up for experimentation and prototyping, including a 3D printer and other tools).
Access to grants and funding in Oxford
Whether you are a seed-stage start-up or a fast-growth business, Oxford offers a good number of options when it comes to funding. Straightforward grant funding for non-social enterprises is, however, thin on the ground.
For smaller businesses, the Oxfordshire LEP offers 'Innovation Support Vouchers' which allow small and medium-sized enterprises to claim 50% (up to a maximum of £5,000 per voucher) of the cost of business training, mentoring, or access to specialised facilities which will drive the creation of jobs. This opportunity is currently closed, but future schemes will be announced on the website so it's worth checking back.
Additionally, if you are experiencing difficulty obtaining funding from traditional sources, the Fredericks Foundation could help; the charity offers business advice and loans to start-ups struggling to raise the finance they need elsewhere.
Number of business deaths (2015): 480
On the angel investment side, Oxford Early Investments provides backing of between £25,000 and £250,000 to innovative early-stage companies through its network of investors. The network is not sector-specific, and backs companies in the early stages of technical and commercial development with high growth potential.
For larger companies, the Oxford Investment Opportunity Network typically invests larger amounts of between £200,000 and £2m through its network. Whilst funding is, again, not sector specific, the organisation has a "particular interest" in companies with innovative or patented disruptive technologies.
Oxford's pedigree and network of support means that its start-up companies do especially well compared to the rest of the country and it has a start-up survival rate of 45% (businesses launched in 2010 and still trading in 2015), however this is markedly less than its rival Cambridge which boasts survival rates of 49%.
Quality of life in Oxford
£427,140: Property price average (September 2016)
30.71: Crimes per 1,000 people (June 2015)
22.5mbps: Average broadband speed (2014)
Oxford is one of the best known historic cities in the UK, and boasts an enviable array of cultural, historic and entertainment attractions for such a small city. As you might expect, the University's long presence here (the first colleges were established in the mid-1200s) provides the lynchpin of much of the city's employment and lifestyle. Many of the colleges themselves feature appealing historical architecture, and are tourist attractions in their own right.
The Ashmolean Museum is one of the world's most famous historic museums and contains artifacts and archaeological finds from across history, sourced from around the world. The stately home of Blenheim Palace, a stunning example of 18th century Baroque architecture, is another popular attraction. These are just some of many; the Visit Oxford site contains a more detailed index of the myriad diversions available.
The city has particularly impressive architecture, some of which dates back to the late Saxon period. The landmarks of Christ Church Cathedral, St. George's Tower, the Church of St Mary the Virgin and more contribute to Oxford's world-famous 'dreaming spires', and it is little wonder that the area continues to inspire authors, artists and filmmakers. The city is built around several rivers, most notably the River Isis (what the Thames is known as in Oxford) and the River Cherwell, famous for its punting and rowing.
Oxford's large student population also drives a lively nightlife and live music scene across the centre, so it is not all Inspector Morse and punting by any means.
As you might expect, the trade-off of living in such a prosperous, picturesque city is a high cost of living. The average house price in Oxfordshire stands at a steep £427,140 second only to rival university city Cambridge (£446,796). Crime, on the other hand, is at the opposite end of the spectrum, coming in at the lowest on our list.
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Brock's new Women's Choir preparing for inaugural concert
Friday, November 23, 2018 | by Jaquelyn Bezaire
The Brock University Choirs rehearse for their upcoming performance on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Cairns Recital Hall of the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre.
Brock University's new Women's Choir is joining forces with the established Chamber Choir to perform its first concert next month.
Assistant Professor Rachel Rensink-Hoff will lead the Brock Choirs in Concert performance on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. It will take place at the Cairns Recital Hall of the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre in downtown St. Catharines.
The concert is part of the Department of Music's Viva Voce! Choral Series, which begins its season Saturday, Nov. 24 with a performance by the Avanti Chamber Singers. The Women's Choir and Chamber Choir are each comprised of about 30 members from Brock University and the wider Niagara community.
Rensink-Hoff believes the concert provides a great opportunity to bridge the gap between students and the community and showcase the breadth of talented singers from the region as a whole.
"It's a neat dynamic as the students get to know the community members and vice versa," she said. "I've been trying to encourage interaction between the singers during breaks so that it feels as comfortable as possible and the singers can bond with each other."
The choirs will be joined on stage by the Walker String Quartet, which will also perform some solo pieces during the concert.
The Brock Choirs in Concert performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1 at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre.
Tickets for the concert are $15 for adults and $10 for seniors and students. There is also a $5 option available for eyeGo program members. Tickets are available through the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre (PAC) Box Office at 905-688-0722 or on the PAC website.
The next performance in the Viva Voce! Choral Series will take place on Feb. 23 featuring the Avanti Chamber Singers. For more details on upcoming concerts, visit the Department of Music website.
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U11B NJ Stallions 06 Barcelona Take 2nd Place at 2016 BETHESDA PREMIER CUP
The U11B NJ Stallions 06 Barcelona EDP team traveled to Maryland in November to compete in the 2016 Bethesda Premer Cup, and finished as FINALISTS competing against top programs from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. Over four games, the NJ Stallions boys finished with 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. In game #1 they defeated the #3 Pennsylvania West ranked team, Beadling Boys 1-0, then in game #2 they fought hard to a 2-2 tie against a very talented Bethesda SC 06 Black team. In the semifinal game against Montgomery Academy Grey, they earned a 2-1 victory to get them into the Final where they eventually lost to SOCA Cville 06, a talented team from Virginia.
Coach Antonio Meza had this to say about his team, "The players showed great character competing and finding a way to get to the final. Coming back from losing 1-0 to turning it around in the semifinal to win 2-1 was great to watch. We will build on this when we train this winter and prepare for the Spring season".
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CERN bails on Facebook's Workplace, cites cost
Editor's note: This story has been updated with new information about CERN's rationale for moving away from Facebook Workplace.
Research organization CERN will replace Facebook's Workplace with an open source alternative after deciding not to move to a new free version of the collaboration software that would eliminate enterprise management features.
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, first rolled out Workplace's free Standard version in 2016.
The organization has since been testing the premium version of the enterprise social network with staff, including CERN's HR and IT teams. About 1,000 staffers currently use Workplace, with around 150 active weekly users on the platform.
Facebook initially waived the costs of Workplace Premium, but then unveiled new payment plans last July. CERN was told to either begin paying for the full service or move to the free "Essential" version of the app. That change would have ended access to single sign-on and other enterprise features, CERN said.
"Paying for such features, for a tool that was not part of our core offering for the CERN community and where the existing level of control of our data did not correspond to CERN's needs, was not suitable. Therefore, we will end the trial of this platform," the organization said in a blog post.
CERN now plans to use Mattermost, an open-source tool, for instant messaging; it will join several other internal communications tools already available to staffers. It requested that all content hosted on Facebook's servers be removed.
CERN had initially said it planned to ditch Workplace because moving to the Essential tier would result in the loss of control of its data, which it said would be sent to Facebook. That statement was changed on Friday, with that claim retracted.
According to Facebook, a customer retains control over their data. "A community admin manages the community and the company owns and controls the data. The community admin can modify, delete or export your data at any time."
Facebook called CERN's fears about data control "inaccurate" and argued that cost was the primary reason CERN opted for Mattermost.
"Last year we announced an update to our pricing and packaging," a Facebook spokesperson said. "As part of this we moved from two tier offerings (one free, one paid) to three (one free, two paid). CERN [was] originally on our Premium tier for free, and we asked them to either pay for the technology or downgrade to our free tier. They declined for cost reasons…."
Alongside the free tier, Workplace now has two paid plans: Workplace Enterprise, which costs $8 per user per month, and Workplace Advanced, at $4 per user per month. The latter has limits on certain features such as storage and the number of people who can join group calls.
On all three tiers, "Facebook acts as the data processor, and our customers act as the data controller," the spokesperson said. "Our customers retain all rights, title and interest (including intellectual property rights) to their data.
"CERN saying that they were given a choice to pay or lose their administrative and data rights to Workplace is not accurate. They could join Workplace today on our Essential tier, which would allow them to use Workplace for free and retain the same admin and data rights."
CERN declined to discuss the move to replace Workplace in more detail.
Concerns over Facebook's use of data
There are 3 million paid Workplace customers, according to the most recent data on the app. That number includes deployments at large enterprise such as Nestle and the Royal Bank of Scotland.
However, concerns have arisen in the past about how controversies around handling of data in Facebook's consumer business might affect its enterprise operations. A survey by CCS Insight last year showed that 42% of employees felt their trust in Facebook had decreased in the last 12 months.
"…This is something we've seen become an increasing issue over the last couple of years following the Cambridge Analytica scandal," Angela Ashenden, a principal analyst at CCS Insight, said before CERN changed its explanation for the move to Mattermost.
"Overall, the Workplace team has done well to manage the impact of this on its enterprise business, but it's inevitable that there will be some fallout as a result…," she said.
Ashenden added that, while the Workplace free trial attracted a lot of interest from a range of companies and helped to kick-start its traction in the collaboration market, a move to a revenue model was inevitable, with most organizations accepting they have to pay for enterprise-grade security, governance and full control.
Raúl Castañón-Martínez, senior analyst at 451 Research, said it's not unusual to see data management concerns among large organizations.
"This highlights that … SaaS services like Workplace might not be a good fit for every company; this is further reinforced by the fact that CERN stated they are relying on services like Mattermost, which does provide companies with full control of their data.
"It is also notable that several members publicly stated that they did not trust Facebook in terms of data privacy," he said. "While Facebook has stated that its enterprise solution functions as a separate entity to their consumer services, they could benefit from expanding their efforts to address these concerns."
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Indian Cricket Legend Sachin Tendulkar retires from one-day internationals
India batting legend Sachin Tendulkar has reportedly announced his retirement from one-day internationals, although he still plans to play Test matches.
"I have decided to retire from the one-day format of the game,'' said Tendulkar, who will also continue to play in the Indian Premier League for Mumbai Indians.
"I feel blessed to have fulfilled the dream of being part of a World Cup-winning Indian team. The preparatory process to defend the World Cup in 2015 should begin early and in right earnest.
"I would like to wish the team all the very best for the future. I am eternally grateful to all my well-wishers for their unconditional support and love over the years.''
Tendulkar, the most-capped player in one-day internationals with 463 games and also the batsman with most runs (18,426) and centuries (49), made the announcement as national selectors were in the process of announcing the team for a limited-overs home series against Pakistan.
Former chief selector Krishnamachari Srikkanth said he was shocked at the timing.
"Sachin's announcement has come as a big surprise,'' said Srikkanth.
"I thought he would play in the one-day series against Pakistan.''
Tendulkar had been selective in playing one-day games over the past two years but completed an unprecedented 100 international centuries earlier this year during the Asia Cup in Bangladesh.
The Mumbai batsman had the knack of being among the runs in big international tournaments like the World Cup and his retirement brings an end to a golden generation of cricketers in the one-day format that included former captain Sourav Ganguly, Dravid and Anil Kumble.
Tendulkar scored the maximum runs in two editions of the World Cup - 673 to ensure India made the final in 2003 and 523 when India made the semi-finals in 1996. In 2011, he was the second top run-scorer (482) behind Sri Lanka's Tillekaratne Dilshan (500) but winning the tournament more than made up.
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Kansas Swimming and Diving Adds Seven
Women's Swimming and Diving Signees
Name Hometown
Hannah Angell Overland Park, Kan.
Graylyn Jones Marietta, Ga.
Lindsay Manning Spring, Texas
Allison Merecka Cypress, Texas
Leah Pfitzer Kingwood, Texas
Gretchen Pocisk Dayton, Ohio
Sammie Schurig Topeka, Kan.
LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas swimming and diving has signed seven student athletes including Olympic Trials qualifier and Topeka, Kan. native, Sammie Schurig, to National Letters of Intent during the fall signing period.
Schurig joins Hannah Angell, Lindsay Manning, Allison Merecka, Leah Pfitzer, Gretchen Pocisk and Graylyn Jones as student-athletes deciding to further their education and athletic careers at Kansas. The 2013 class spans four states, including two swimmers from Kansas, three from Texas, one from Ohio and a diver from Georgia.
"We are thrilled these seven athletes will be joining us next fall," Kansas head coach Clark Campbell said. "Each has the capability to help us immediately and make us a better team. Coach (Jen) Fox and coach (Eric) Elliott worked hard on this class for some time and we look forward to their arrival next season."
Schurig swam at Washburn Rural High School and for the Topeka Swim Association club team under head coach Barry Neville. She qualified for the 2012 Olympic Trials, where she swam with three current Jayhawks, with a time of 2:19.51 in the 200-yard backstroke at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Jenks, Okla., last March. In addition to her specialty in the backstroke, Schurig will also compete in the individual medley and middle distance freestyle events at KU.
"We've had our eye on Sammie for a while," Campbell said. "Of our signing class, Sammie was the lone 2012 Olympic Trial qualifier. Her local ties will create excitement in the swimming community as she develops her talents as a Jayhawk."
Angell also has local ties; the Overland Park, Kan., native joins the Jayhawks as the other commitment from the state of Kansas for the 2013 signing class. Angell attended Blue Valley Southwest High School and swam for the Kansas City Blazers club team under head coach Gardner Howland. Angell was a Junior National qualifier and narrowly missed qualifying for the Olympic Trials last summer.
"Hannah is an athlete that we've watched for a while as one of the top Kansas swimmers in the class of 2013," Campbell said. "She has improved a lot and we're excited to start working with her, as she has big goals and will make an immediate impact."
Manning joins the Jayhawks from Spring, Texas where she attended Oak Ridge High School and swam for the Magnolia Aquatic Club under head coach Scott MacFarland. She earned the distinction of Junior National Qualifier in several distance freestyle events, which is where Campbell sees her helping next year's team the most.
"Lindsay will play a major role for us in the distance group," Campbell said. "She is fortunate working with Coach MacFarland, as he has a lot of experience developing athletes in her area of expertise. As one of the top distance swimmers in Texas, she will come in and help us as soon as she arrives in Lawrence."
Merecka is from Cypress, Texas where she attended Cypress Woods High School and swam for the Cypress Fairbanks Swim Club (FLEET) under head coach Clayton Cagle and swam with current Jayhawks junior Morgan Sharp and freshman Chelsie Miller. Like Manning, Campbell hopes that Merecka will impact the Jayhawks distance freestyle events next year.
"Allison is our third athlete from the FLEET program in the last three years," Campbell said. "She is a lot like Morgan (Sharp) and will help us in the middle-distance freestyle events. Our hope is that she develops into a Big 12-level miler as well."
Rounding out the Texas portion of the class, Pfitzer comes to Lawrence from Kingwood, Texas where she attended Kingwood High School and swam for Blue Tide Aquatics under head coach Charlie Fry. Pfitzer is also a Junior National Qualifier and will help the Jayhawks in the butterfly and sprint freestyle events.
"Leah rounds out our contingent from Houston," Campbell said. "Leah will come in and help right away in the sprint free and fly events. We believe she will benefit from our strength program and develop into a high level sprinter."
Pocisk has KU ties through her grandfather, Riley Donald, who played basketball at KU under legendary coach Dr. Phog Allen from 1950-51. Pocisk attended Oakwood High School in Dayton, Ohio and swam for the Dayton Raiders club team under head coach Kevin Weldon. When Pocisk joins the Jayhawks, she will be looked upon to contribute in the breaststroke, the individual medley and the sprint freestyle.
"Gretchen continues her family's tradition within Kansas Athletics," Campbell said. "She will help right away in her specialty, which is breaststroke. We are also looking forward to developing her sprint freestyle capabilities as well."
Jones joins the Jayhawks as the lone diving recruit for the 2013 class. Jones attended Wheeler High School in Marietta, Ga., and dove for the Metro Atlanta Divers club team under head coach Bill Humber. Jones picked up two top-15 finishes at the 2012 AAU Diving National Championships, finishing seventh in the one-meter (313.5) and 12th in the three-meter (307.7) event.
"I think she will be very good," diving coach Eric Elliott said. "She is one of those 'diamond in the rough' types that come under the radar. She is an extremely hard worker and will do whatever you ask her to do and that is big. You want kids that want to work and want to improve."
The Jayhawks are currently training for their spring 2013 schedule, which begins on Saturday, Jan. 12, when they travel to Los Angeles, Calif., for a double dual against San Diego State and host UCLA at the Spieker Aquatics Center. KUAthletics.com: The official online source for Kansas Athletics, Williams Education Fund contributions, tickets, merchandise, multimedia, photos and much, much more.
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While eyes are on Russia, Sessions dramatically reshapes the Justice Department
The Washington Post reports: For more than five hours, Attorney General Jeff Sessions sat in a hearing room on Capitol Hill this month, fending off inquiries on Washington's two favorite topics: President Trump and Russia.
But legislators spent little time asking Sessions about the dramatic and controversial changes in policy he has made since taking over the top law enforcement job in the United States nine months ago.
From his crackdown on illegal immigration to his reversal of Obama administration policies on criminal justice and policing, Sessions is methodically reshaping the Justice Department to reflect his nationalist ideology and hard-line views — moves drawing comparatively less public scrutiny than the ongoing investigations into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with the Kremlin.
Sessions has implemented a new charging and sentencing policy that calls for prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges possible, even if that might mean minority defendants face stiff, mandatory minimum penalties. He has defended the president's travel ban and tried to strip funding from cities with policies he considers too friendly toward undocumented immigrants.
Sessions has even adjusted the department's legal stances in cases involving voting rights and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues in a way that advocates warn might disenfranchise poor minorities and give certain religious people a license to discriminate.
Supporters and critics say the attorney general has been among the most effective of the Cabinet secretaries — implementing Trump's conservative policy agenda even as the president publicly and privately toys with firing him over his decision to recuse himself from the Russia case. [Continue reading…]
This entry was posted in Department of Justice, Donald Trump, law enforcement, News, prisons on November 26, 2017 by News Sources.
The disturbing lessons of Trump's shameful Arpaio pardon
Scott Lemieux writes: During his very loosely hinged extemporaneous remarks in Phoenix on Tuesday, President Trump strongly hinted that he would pardon the infamous former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. On Friday evening, with a frightening hurricane descending on Texas, Trump made it official. The decision to issue his first pardon to a public official who made his reputation, such as it is, through race-baiting and a contempt for both legal restraints and basic human decency tells us a lot about Trump — and none of it is good.
It is highly relevant that Trump and Arpaio first became allies while Trump was rising to prominence within the Republican Party by pushing the racist conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. The Arizona sheriff actually launched a farcical investigation into Obama's birth certificate, wasting taxpayer money to build his cred with his resentful white supporters. That Arpaio and Trump would become mutual admirers was inevitable.
It should go without saying that Arpaio is a terrible candidate for a pardon. If you have any doubts, read this chilling 2009 profile of Arpaio by William Finnegan in The New Yorker. Arpaio's first claim to local fame was to make the conditions of imprisonment for inmates under his jurisdiction as inhumane as possible — housing thousands of people in tents next to cites like dumps and waste disposal plants in the brutal Arizona heat. He fed inmates for 30 cents a meal, two meals a day, and then made the Food Network one of three channels available to prisoners. He put many people who were being held for trial and had not been convicted of any crime to work on chain gangs. Under his watch, guards were so consistently cruel to inmates that the county had amassed more than $40 million in civil damages from lawsuits. And he also engaged in egregious racial profiling when detaining people suspected of being illegal immigrants.
Arpaio's focus on abusing prisoners and arbitrarily detaining people of Latin American descent also made his "tough on crime" reputation grossly misleading. The resources wasted on his cruel publicity stunts took money away from law enforcement, slowing response times and leading to (among other problems) hundreds of botched or perfunctory sex crimes investigations. He did, however, find the time to file frivolous charges against two journalists who were looking into his suspicious property dealings, leading to another huge legal settlement for Maricopa County's taxpayers to pay off. [Continue reading…]
This entry was posted in 2016 President Election, Analysis, Donald Trump, immigration, law, law enforcement, News, prisons, racism on August 26, 2017 by News Sources.
The incarceration industry was having a tough time. Then Trump got elected
James Surowiecki writes: Going into Election Day, few industries seemed in worse shape than America's private prisons. Prison populations, which had been rising for decades, were falling. In 2014, Corrections Corporation of America, the biggest private-prison company in the U.S., lost its contract to run Idaho's largest prison, after lawsuits relating to understaffing and violence that had earned the place the nickname Gladiator School. There were press exposés of shocking conditions in the industry and signs of a policy shift toward it. In April, Hillary Clinton said, "We should end private prisons." In August, the Justice Department said that private federal prisons were less safe and less secure than government-run ones. The same month, the department announced that it would phase out the use of private prisons at the federal level. Although most of the private-prison industry operates on the state level (immigrant-detention centers are its other big business), the news sent C.C.A.'s stock down by thirty-five per cent.
Donald Trump's victory changed all that: within days, C.C.A.'s stock had jumped forty-seven per cent. His faith in privatization is no secret, and prison companies aren't the only ones rubbing their hands. The stock price of for-profit schools has also rocketed. Still, the outlook for private prisons is particularly rosy, because many Trump policies work to their benefit. The Justice Department's plan to phase out private prisons will likely be scrapped, and a growing bipartisan movement for prison and sentencing reform is about to run up against a President who campaigned as a defender of "law and order." Above all, Trump's hard-line position on immigration seems certain to fill detention centers, one of the biggest money spinners for private-prison operators. [Continue reading…]
This entry was posted in Analysis, Donald Trump, prisons on November 28, 2016 by News Sources.
Private prison companies ready to cash in on throwing out immigrants
The Daily Beast reports: When the children were released from the privately run immigration detention facility in Karnes City, Texas, they were immediately taken to the emergency room with pneumonia.
Over the past few months, several children who fled from violence in South and Central America with their mothers have been hospitalized after leaving the facility run by GEO Group, a private prison company that saw its stocks jump following Election Day. The children's health problems were the result of poor medical care inside what is essentially a prison for mothers and their children, according to Amy Fischer of the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services.
With Donald Trump now president-elect, the Karnes City facility and a dozen more like it across the country are preparing to fill even more beds with immigrants and refugees. GEO Group and another private prison company, Corrections Corporation of America, are also preparing for more large, lucrative contracts with the federal government to run the detention centers.
Both companies saw their stock prices soar following Trump's historic and shocking win. [Continue reading…]
This entry was posted in Analysis, immigration, prisons, Trump administration on November 18, 2016 by News Sources.
Rebecca Gordon: Arresting our way to 'justice'
The figures boggle the mind. Approximately 11 million Americans cycle through our jails and prisons each year (including a vast "pre-trial population" of those arrested and not convicted and those who simply can't make bail). At any moment, according to the Prison Policy Initiative, there are more than 2.3 million people in our "1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 942 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,283 local jails, and 79 Indian Country jails as well as in military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, and prisons in the U.S. territories." In some parts of the country, there are more people in jail than at college.
If you want a partial explanation for this, keep in mind that there are cities in this country that register more arrests for minor infractions each year than inhabitants. Take Ferguson, Missouri, now mainly known as the home of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager shot and killed in 2014 by a town policeman. The Harvard Law Review reported that, in 2013, Ferguson had a population of 22,000. That same year "its municipal court issued 32,975 arrest warrants for nonviolent offenses," or almost one-and-a-half arrests per inhabitant.
And then there are the conditions in which all those record–breaking numbers of people live in our jails and prisons. At any given time, 80,000 to 100,000 inmates in state and federal prisons are held in "restrictive housing" (aka solitary confinement). And those numbers don't even include county jails, deportation centers, and juvenile justice institutions. Rikers Island, New York City's infamous jail complex in its East River, has 990 solitary cells. And keep in mind that solitary confinement — being stuck in a six-by-nine or eight-by-10-foot cell for 23 or 24 hours a day — is widely recognized as a form of psychosis-inducing torture.
And that, of course, is just to begin to explore America's vast and ever-expanding prison universe. The fact is that it's hard to fathom even the basics of the American urge to lock people away in vast numbers, which is why today TomDispatch regular Rebecca Gordon focuses instead on what it might mean for justice in this country if we started to consider alternatives to prison. Tom Engelhardt
There oughta be a law…
Should prison really be the American way?
By Rebecca Gordon
You've heard of distracted driving? It causes quite a few auto accidents and it's illegal in a majority of states.
Well, this year, a brave New Jersey state senator, a Democrat, took on the pernicious problem of distracted walking. Faced with the fact that some people can't tear themselves away from their smartphones long enough to get across a street in safety, Pamela Lampitt of Camden, New Jersey, proposed a law making it a crime to cross a street while texting. Violators would face a fine, and repeat violators up to 15 days in jail. Similar measures, says the Washington Post, have been proposed (though not passed) in Arkansas, Nevada, and New York. This May, a bill on the subject made it out of committee in Hawaii.
That's right. In several states around the country, one response to people being struck by cars in intersections is to consider preemptively sending some of those prospective accident victims to jail. This would be funny, if it weren't emblematic of something larger. We are living in a country where the solution to just about any social problem is to create a law against it, and then punish those who break it.
This entry was posted in prisons, TomDispatch, United States on September 26, 2016 by TomDispatch.
The U.S. is the largest jailer of children in the world
Liz Ryan writes: The mass incarceration epidemic in the US has been getting much-deserved attention in recent years. What's less well known is that some of the worst atrocities in the prison system are being committed against children—the US is the largest jailer of children in the world. With the looming presidential election putting prison reform in the spotlight, now is the time to reverse decades of bad policies.
Putting children in prison has a devastating impact on their families and communities, as well as on young people themselves. There are many examples of these atrocities in action. The Lincoln Hills youth facility in Irma, Wisconsin, is one of the largest youth prisons in the US. In the past 18 months, the facility has been the subject of federal and state investigations stemming from allegations of physical and sexual abuse, as well as guards using intimidation tactics to discourage youth from reporting incidents of pepper spray use, strangulation, and suffocation. In one incident, a boy's toes were amputated after a staff member slammed a heavy door on his foot.
For the past several years, the Connecticut Juvenile Training School, Connecticut's largest youth prison, has been under multiple investigations by the Office of the Child Advocate for excessive use of isolation, overuse of restraints, inadequate suicide prevention, lack of appropriate staff support and training, inadequate and harmful crisis management, and scant available information on quality, public safety outcomes, and oversight. Last year, the Child Advocate's office released video of staff members conducting face-down restraints on young people at the training school—which are illegal in Connecticut schools and treatment centers. [Continue reading…]
This entry was posted in Analysis, human rights, prisons, United States on September 1, 2016 by News Sources.
The secret U.S. prisons you've never heard of before
This entry was posted in Analysis, human rights, prisons, United States, US government on August 31, 2016 by News Sources.
Hate preachers to be held in separate prison units in England and Wales to curb radicalisation
The Guardian reports: Influential hate preachers will be held in separate prison units after an official inquiry found inmates were acting as "self-styled emirs" behind bars.
A government-ordered review into radicalisation in jails has concluded that some charismatic prisoners exerted a "radicalising influence" over fellow Muslims. It also claimed that some have attempted to engineer segregation, encouraged aggressive conversions to Islam, and been involved in the intimidation of prison imams.
The claims have emerged in a review led by former prison governor Ian Acheson and commissioned last year by then justice secretary Michael Gove. Such concerns in Whitehall were disclosed by the Guardian in February.
Its conclusions will overturn 50 years of dispersing the most dangerous prisoners across the prisons system. Critics have previously warned that such a move could also provide a focal point for public protests and claims of a "British Guantanamo". [Continue reading…]
This entry was posted in ISIS, Islamic extremism, prisons, United Kingdom on August 22, 2016 by News Sources.
How safe is it to lock up Anjem Choudary in prison with Muslims he could radicalise?
Andrew Neilson writes: The conviction of the cleric Anjem Choudary for inviting support for the Islamic State (Isil) brings into sharp focus a longstanding concern about prisons and radicalisation. The spectre is that jailed Islamist extremists – or indeed any other kind of political extremist – find that there is no better recruiting ground for their cause than prisons themselves.
We know, for example, that a number of extremists behind recent terror attacks in France associated with Isil had spent time in the French prison system and had been radicalised there. Now a man described as the "most dangerous man in Britain", who counter-terrorism chiefs have spent the best part of two decades pursuing on charges of radicalisation, will most likely be sent to prison for many years. What might he achieve in the potentially fertile recruiting ground of British prisons?
As it happens, and possibly with the looming conviction of Choudary in mind, the former Secretary of State for Justice Michael Gove commissioned a review into Islamist extremists in prison. That review is yet to be published, and with the appointment of Elizabeth Truss to the Ministry of Justice its future is currently rather uncertain. We do know, however, that the review found that such extremism is a growing problem within prisons (although we do not know what data the review relied upon to reach this conclusion). The review also found the National Offender Management Service, which oversees the prison system, lacked a coherent strategy to deal with the problem. Some 69 recommendations were made for change. [Continue reading…]
This entry was posted in Analysis, Islamic extremism, prisons on August 17, 2016 by News Sources.
'Abu Ghraib'-style images of children in detention in Australia trigger public inquiry
The Guardian reports: Australia's prime minister has launched a public inquiry following the broadcast of footage of children in detention being abused, hooded and bound in a manner likened to Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay.
Malcolm Turnbull announced a royal commission hours after the national broadcaster aired shocking footage showing children in detention at the Don Dale facility outside Darwin in the Northern Territory.
Footage aired on the ABC's Four Corners program on Monday showed one youth being stripped and physically held down by guards.
In another scene that the program compared with images from Guantánamo Bay or the Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad, 17-year-old Dylan Voller was shown hooded and tied in a restraint chair for two hours. [Continue reading…]
This entry was posted in Australia, News, prisons, torture on July 26, 2016 by News Sources.
How to stop prisons from turning criminals into terrorists
Cullen Thomas writes: Each time I learn of another terrorist who spent time in prison, I'm taken back to my own prison time. In 1994, I was caught smuggling hashish into South Korea and spent three and a half years imprisoned there. Since then I've struggled to understand the nature of confinement and its effects on the individual.
It's a striking and clear pattern that many of the most notorious terrorists of the modern era spent time in prison. Salah Abdeslam, the suspect behind the Paris and Brussels terror attacks, was imprisoned in Belgium with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who lead the Friday the 13th attacks in Paris last November.
Chérif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly, responsible for the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket attacks in Paris earlier in 2015, were imprisoned in France's massive Fleury-Mérogis, Europe's largest prison.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, before he became right-hand man to Osama bin Laden, was radicalised in Egyptian prisons. As Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006), put it, Zawahiri 'entered prison a surgeon. He came out of it a butcher.' [Continue reading…]
This entry was posted in Al Qaeda, Analysis, ISIS, prisons, terrorism on May 5, 2016 by News Sources.
Solitary confinement is 'no touch' torture, and it must be abolished
Chelsea E Manning writes: Shortly after arriving at a makeshift military jail, at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in May 2010, I was placed into the black hole of solitary confinement for the first time. Within two weeks, I was contemplating suicide.
After a month on suicide watch, I was transferred back to US, to a tiny 6 x 8ft (roughly 2 x 2.5 meter) cell in a place that will haunt me for the rest of my life: the US Marine Corps Brig in Quantico, Virginia. I was held there for roughly nine months as a "prevention of injury" prisoner, a designation the Marine Corps and the Navy used to place me in highly restrictive solitary conditions without a psychiatrist's approval.
For 17 hours a day, I sat directly in front of at least two Marine Corps guards seated behind a one-way mirror. I was not allowed to lay down. I was not allowed to lean my back against the cell wall. I was not allowed to exercise. Sometimes, to keep from going crazy, I would stand up, walk around, or dance, as "dancing" was not considered exercise by the Marine Corps.
To pass the time, I counted the hundreds of holes between the steel bars in a grid pattern at the front of my empty cell. My eyes traced the gaps between the bricks on the wall. I looked at the rough patterns and stains on the concrete floor – including one that looked like a caricature grey alien, with large black eyes and no mouth, that was popular in the 1990s. I could hear the "drip drop drip" of a leaky pipe somewhere down the hall. I listened to the faint buzz of the fluorescent lights.
For brief periods, every other day or so, I was escorted by a team of at least three guards to an empty basketball court-sized area. There, I was shackled and walked around in circles or figure-eights for 20 minutes. I was not allowed to stand still, otherwise they would take me back to my cell. [Continue reading…]
This entry was posted in Analysis, Defense Department, human rights, Obama administration, prisons, torture on May 3, 2016 by News Sources.
Little evidence to show that prisons have become 'universities of terror'
By Sarah Marsden, Lancaster University
From "shoebomber" Richard Reid, to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the attacks in Paris, there seem to be increasing examples of people becoming "radicalised" in jails. So how concerned should we be about the role of prisons in producing violent extremists?
Contrary to those who argue that jails are at risk of becoming "universities of terror" there is actually relatively little systematic evidence of a link between prison and involvement in terrorism.
That is not to say that apparently "radical" groups have not developed in prisons, or that there haven't been efforts to recruit people to militant Islamism in UK jails. Jamaal Uddin, who was convicted for assault and enforcing a "Sharia-controlled zone" in east London, boasted of his ability to "radicalise" people in the face of apparently powerless authorities. In the worst cases, such as in Iraq where several American-run detention facilities became pivotal in the development of what was to become Islamic State, prisons have been intimately implicated in terrorism.
This entry was posted in Analysis, ISIS, prisons on November 23, 2015 by News Sources.
The Kingdom of Silence: Literature from Tadmor prison
Linah Alsaafin reports: "When death is a daily occurrence, lurking in torture, random beatings, eye-gouging, broken limbs and crushed fingers… [When] death stares you in the face and is only avoided by sheer chance…wouldn't you welcome the merciful release of a bullet?"
This was taken from a report smuggled out in 1999 to Amnesty International by a group of former Syrian prisoners who had spent years in the infamous Tadmor (Arabic for Palmyra) prison, where unimaginable acts of torture took place against both dissidents and criminals alike.
Tadmor prison fell to the Islamic State group as it captured the city of Palmyra from government forces earlier this week, but the significance of its seizure has been overshadowed by widespread fears that IS could raze the UNESCO World Heritage site just south of the modern town. In fact the capture of the prison could be a much more important development, according to analysts and former inmates of the jail.
The prison, which used to be a French military barracks, is located in the desert in eastern province of Homs and is around 200 kilometres away from the capital Damascus. As previously reported by Middle East Eye, the massacre of hundreds of prisoners in 1980 after a foiled assassination attempt on then president Hafez al-Assad exacerbated the prison's symbolic status of repression.
Human rights reports were not the only medium to document what took place in what has been described as one of the worst prisons in the world.
The vicious reality of Tadmor, where the blood of those massacred in 1980 was not cleaned up resulting in the mass spread of gangrene amongst the rest of the inmates, created literary works written by survivors and former inmates that narrated their daily lives in stark detail. Whips were given human names, friendships were struck between prisoners and rats and cockroaches, and torture sessions were opportunities to experiment with excruciating devices.
This entry was posted in Analysis, prisons, Syria, torture on May 24, 2015 by News Sources.
This man came from Rome to show Americans why the death penalty is wrong
Cosimo Bizzarri writes: Today, 105 countries around the world have abolished the death penalty by law and 43 more have approved public or de facto moratoria against it. Among them are Gabon and Mongolia, Cambodia and Russia, Albania and Kyrgyzstan. In Cuba, death row is currently empty.
Worldwide, only a few dozens countries still stick to the death penalty, opposing the 2007 UN resolution that called for a global moratorium on its use. Among them, the most prolific executioners are China, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States, which has killed more than 1,400 people since 1976. Currently, the US holds more than 3,000 people in death row, including recently-sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
"Some US citizens, especially in the South, grew up with the idea that retributive justice is the only justice," explains Italian journalist and human right activist Mario Marazziti to Quartz. "This opinion is sometimes based on a fundamentalist reading of the Old Testament."
Marazziti, 62, is the spokeperson for the Community of Sant'Egidio, a Rome-based Catholic movement for peacemaking and human rights, and a co-founder of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. In the 1990s, Marazziti collected 3 million signatures in 157 countries calling for a worldwide moratorium against the death penalty. [Continue reading…]
This entry was posted in Analysis, Ethics, prisons, United States on May 24, 2015 by News Sources.
The cruel and unusual execution of Clayton Lockett
Jeffrey E. Stern reports: On the morning of his execution, Clayton Lockett hid under the covers.
Before a team of correctional officers came to get him at 5:06 a.m., he fashioned a noose out of his sheets. He pulled the blade out of a safety razor and made half-inch-long cuts on his arms. He swallowed a handful of pills that he'd been hoarding. And on April 29, 2014, when the team of officers knocked on the door of his cell in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, Clayton Lockett — a 38-year-old convicted murderer — pulled a blanket over his head and refused to get up.
The officers left and asked for permission to tase him. While they were gone, Lockett tried to jam the door. They came back, forced their way in, tased him, and dragged him out.
Eleven hours later, at about 5:20 p.m., after a medical examination, X‑rays, eight hours in a holding cell, and a shower, Lockett was brought by a five-member strap-down team into the death chamber. It was a small, clinical-looking room with white walls and a polished floor that reflected the lights overhead. A gurney stood in the center of the room; above it hung a microphone for Lockett's final words. [Continue reading…]
This entry was posted in Analysis, crime, Ethics, prisons, United States on May 15, 2015 by News Sources.
The use of force against the mentally ill incarcerated in America
Human Rights Watch: Jail and prison staff throughout the United States have used unnecessary, excessive, and even malicious force against prisoners with mental disabilities, Human Rights Watch charged in a report released today.
The 127-page report, "Callous and Cruel: Use of Force against Inmates with Mental Disabilities in US Jails and Prisons," details incidents in which correctional staff have deluged prisoners with painful chemical sprays, shocked them with powerful electric stun weapons, and strapped them for days in restraining chairs or beds. Staff have broken prisoners' jaws, noses, ribs; left them with lacerations requiring stitches, second-degree burns, deep bruises, and damaged internal organs. In some cases, the force used has led to their death.
"Jails and prisons can be dangerous, damaging, and even deadly places for men and women with mental health problems," said Jamie Fellner, US program senior adviser at Human Rights Watch and the author of the report. "Force is used against prisoners even when, because of their illness, they cannot understand or comply with staff orders."
This entry was posted in Analysis, News, prisons, United States on May 12, 2015 by News Sources.
Mass incarceration: The silence of the judges
Jed S. Rakoff writes: For too long, too many judges have been too quiet about an evil of which we are a part: the mass incarceration of people in the United States today. It is time that more of us spoke out.
The basic facts are not in dispute. More than 2.2 million people are currently incarcerated in US jails and prisons, a 500 percent increase over the past forty years. Although the United States accounts for about 5 percent of the world's population, it houses nearly 25 percent of the world's prison population. The per capita incarceration rate in the US is about one and a half times that of second-place Rwanda and third-place Russia, and more than six times the rate of neighboring Canada. Another 4.75 million Americans are subject to the state supervision imposed by probation or parole.
Most of the increase in imprisonment has been for nonviolent offenses, such as drug possession. And even though crime rates in the United States have declined consistently for twenty-four years, the number of incarcerated persons has continued to rise over most of that period, both because more people are being sent to prison for offenses that once were punished with other measures and because the sentences are longer. For example, even though the number of violent crimes has steadily decreased over the past two decades, the number of prisoners serving life sentences has steadily increased, so that one in nine persons in prison is now serving a life sentence.
And whom are we locking up? Mostly young men of color. Over 840,000, or nearly 40 percent, of the 2.2 million US prisoners are African-American males. Put another way, about one in nine African-American males between the ages of twenty and thirty-four is now in prison, and if current rates hold, one third of all black men will be imprisoned at some point in their lifetimes. Approximately 440,000, or 20 percent, of the 2.2 million US prisoners are Hispanic males. [Continue reading…]
This entry was posted in Analysis, crime, Department of Justice, inequality, law, prisons, racism on May 5, 2015 by News Sources.
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Depression in Primary Care: Clinical Epidemiology & Clinical Decision Aalysis
January-June 2006 Volume 3(1)
Special Article
Haider Naqvi
A clinical decision analysis (CDA) is a mathematical tool designed to facilitate complex clinical decisions in which many variables should be considered simultaneously. CDA is a feasible tool for multifaceted problem of management of depression in primary health care. It provides a systematic frame work for organizing all data relevant to the decision on recognition and management of depression. Clinical epidemiological perspective is used for assessing the validity of screening instrument. A decision matrix based on reported probabilities is also constructed. Chance nodes and decisions pertinent to comorbidities, illness severity and treatment options for depression are also presented.
Key words: Clinical epidemiology, Clinical decision Analysis, Depressive disorder, primary care, Pakistan.
New millennium has witnessed an epidemiological transition with rise in burden of non-communicable diseases. According to 1993 World Bank Report Neuropsychiatric diseases (including self-inflicted injuries) contribute 8.1% to the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD). Subsequently this contribution to GBD has been reanalyzed and found to be 10.5%. This is projected to increase to 15% by the year 2020. The "behavior related problems" contribute an additional 34% to GBD1.
Prevalence of common mental disorders is estimated to be 30 % to 50% in primary care settings of Pakistan. Most patients with mental disorders initially consult their general physicians (GP)2. Although CMD have been diagnosed in third of primary care attendees in developing Asian countries, primary care staff is generally reported to recognize only 10 % of the cases. Studies have shown that a substantial proportion of mental disorders in primary care are inadequately managed by the GPs3. There are many facets to this complex problem. Some issues are related to the physicians while other to the patients. Lack of time, awareness and general stigma related to mental illness poses a major problem for GPs4.
Patients presenting in primary care are much different from psychiatric settings. Generally they have concurrent medical illness, which remains the major focus of management. Another common reason for this under recognition is somatisation, i.e., presentation of psychological distress as somatic symptoms, and poor awareness of this in health professionals5.
A clinical decision analysis (CDA) appears to be a feasible tool for this multifaceted problem. CDA is a mathematical tool designed to facilitate complex clinical decisions in which many variables should be considered simultaneously. It provides a systematic frame work for organizing all data relevant to the decision. It also assigns a numerical value to various courses of actions, simplifying comparison among them6.
This is particularly relevant in the context of Pakistan, a South East Asian developing country. With the dearth of mental health professionals, management of common mental disorders is increasingly integrated in to primary health care. Complex clinical decisions are either delegated to clinical nurses or lady health workers. With explicit decision analysis, there is greater likelihood of adequate management of common mental disorders (depression and anxiety) in primary health care. CDA will also serve to promote informed consent as patients input can be taken in to account in evaluating outcomes.
Clinical Decision Analysis and Management of Depressive Disorder in Primary Health Care:
Major depression is a disorder characterized by persistent and pervasive low mood, anhedonia, impaired concentration, disturbed sleep, appetite and morbid death wishes. The point prevalence of major depression from community based studies is estimated to be between 25-66 % for females and 10-44% for males7,8. The prevalence estimates for MDD in primary care settings of Pakistan is estimated to be approximately 30% to 50%2. These are many times higher when compared with western countries. Additional problem is dearth of trained mental health professionals and scarcity of allocated resource.
A clinical decision analysis and algorithm appears feasible in order to address the above needs and rectify potential problems in the management of depression in primary health care. A rough guide and skeleton of the decision analysis is presented in Figures 1 and 2. Probability estimates of certain outcomes and potential multidimensional utility is presented when and where objective literature on the subject was available.
Fig. 1: Clinical decision Analysis: Management of Depression in Primary care.
CLINICAL DECISION ANALYSIS
D1: Decision Node 1; multiple somatic symptoms of Unknown origin.
C1: Chance node 1; Chance of Functional depressive illness (Pr 0.64)
C2: Chance node 2; Chance of Depression secondary to Co morbid medical condition (Pr 0.36)
C3: Chance node 3; Chances of no Thyroid abnormality (Pr 0.95).
C4: Chance node 4; Chance of Sub clinical Thyroid abnormality (Pr 0.05).
D2: Decision Node 2: Decision on severity of illness. C5: Chance node 5; Chance of mild-to-moderate depression (Pr 0.86; Detection rate 18.4%).
C6: Chance node 6; Chance of severe depression (Pr .13; detection rate 73%)
D3: Decision on Psychotherapy based on the severity (mild-to-moderate) and patient's preference.
D4: Decision on Antidepressants Medication based on severity.
D5: Decision to treat the underlying medical illness.
Figure 2: Clinical decision Analysis: Management of Depression in Primary care
(Final model after pruning the figure 1)
C1: Chance node 1; Chance of Functional depressive illness (Pr 0.64).
C2: Chance node 2; Chance of Depression secondary to Co morbid medical condition (Pr 0.36).
D2: Decision Node 2: Decision on severity of illness.
C5: Chance node 5; Chance of mild-to-moderate depression (Pr 0.86; Detection rate 18.4%).
C6: Chance node 6; Chance of severe depression (Pr .13; detection rate 73%).
D3: Decision on Psychotherapy based on the severity and patient's preference.
Somatic symptoms and high index of suspicion for depression (Node – D-1):
In primary care setting the most common presentation of patients' with depression is with multiple somatic symptoms. This premise is based on the comparative studies carried out by Mumford et al looking specifically at the somatic manifestation of psychological symptoms in the context of Pakistan. The sample population was group of people in Lahore, Pakistan and Leeds, U.K9,10. The decision node D-1 pertains to maintaining high index of suspicion for depression when patients' present with multiple somatic symptoms of unexplained nature. There is no study from Pakistan looking specifically at the characteristics or out come of this atypical presentation in Primary care.
The chance node C-1 pertains to the probability of somatic symptoms, given that the patient has underlying depressive illness (Pr 0.64). The chance node C-2 pertains to having somatic symptoms given that patient has underlying medical co morbidity.
According to studies carried out in the west, significant depressive symptoms are seen in 36% of medically ill patients11. Those with dementia, diabetes, stroke, hypercortisolism, asthma and renal impairment have especially high rates of co- morbid depression. Conditions like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, exists at the interface of medicine and psychiatry and are associated with major depressive disorder12,13.
Depression is also associated with use of medications. 3% of patients on high dose steroids report significant symptoms of depression. Calcium channel blockers, beta-blockers and digoxin are known to cause depression. Caffeine use may be associated with increased side effects and failure of some symptoms to improve (for e.g. anxiety and insomnia). Co morbid alcohol use and withdrawal from alcohol and stimulants are associated with depression14-16. Co morbid depression will require a similar treatment strategy as functional depression, besides the concurrent medical management.
Among these patients work up for thyroid abnormality should be carried out in order to rule out psychological symptoms secondary to thyroid abnormality (Node C-3). Thyroid abnormality typically mimics symptoms of depression and should be exclusively ruled out in the context of primary care. There are no studies from Pakistan on prevalence of abnormal thyroid hormones in the setting of primary care. However in clinical population (PC) from western countries it is estimated to be around 5 % (Node C4). In psychiatric subset with chronic treatment resistant depression, the prevalence of subthreshold thyroid abnormality is estimated to be much higher (around 50%)12.
After ruling out secondary and co morbid depression it is pertinent to establish the diagnosis of depression. Use of screening test/instrument is particularly relevant in the context primary care, where constraints of time and resources demands rapid assessment. It should be considered that any screening test, however robust it may be has its limitations. Result of screening instrument should be checked against a gold standard, measure of assessment. A brief discussion on the definition, process and limitations of screening is particularly relevant here, followed by issues pertaining to screening for depression in primary care setting.
Clinical decision analysis and disease screening:
Screening has been defined as "presumptive identification of unrecognized disease or defect by the application of test, examination, or procedure which can be applied rapidly to sort out apparently well person who probably have a disease from those who probably do not. A screening test is not intended to be diagnostic" (commission on chronic illness; italics added for emphasis). The whole process of screening appears to be quite simple but there are several underlying complexities, alike the subject of clinical epidemiology. There are concerns regarding the cost of screening which may be apparent or hidden. Cost can be related to screening process/instrument or treatment of additional cases however, identification of these subjects in the pre-clinical stage by astute screening instrument does make the early intervention possible. Thus screening can facilitate primary and secondary prevention.
Suitable disease & screening:
A variation among natural history of the diseases has an impact on the utility of early detection and treatment. A disease with long pre-clinical phase, like carcinoma of cervix, will definitely require early detection and screening, in order to modify its course. Besides the long latency period, severity of the illness also merits consideration while designing a screening program. A screening program for detection of upper respiratory tract infection will be less cost effective than screening program for breast cancer, solely based on the disease morbidity and mortality. In order to have effective screening program the disease under consideration should be an important health problem. The disease should be progressive with serious health consequences. An effective treatment at an earlier stage should be able to modify the natural history and course of illness17.
Major depressive disorder does full fill all these criteria. It is prevalent in community and primary health care setting, if undetected leads to progressive worsening with tragic loss of life by suicide. Long term vulnerability factors like loss of parent/s during child hood by death or separation and current non confiding spousal relations does lead to sub threshold symptoms. Thus detection of this preclinical phase of illness by screening test helps in early intervention and subsequent modification in its natural history.
Suitable test & instruments
There are certain consideration regarding the choice of screening test and instrument. Screening test should be inexpensive, easy to administer with minimal discomfort to the clients. Colonoscopy might be very effective in early detection of carcinoma of colon, but it has limited acceptability in routine use for apparently healthy subjects. Another important characteristic of good screening instrument is its ability to separate people with and without disease. A robust screening instrument should have high validity and reliability.
Validity & Reliability (Precision)
Simply stated, a test is said to be valid when it does what it is suppose to do. This is usually measured through its sensitivity and specificity. Sensitivity can be described as the ability of the test to identify correctly those who have the disease. In conditional probability notation, sensitivity is written P (T+/D+). Specificity of the test is its ability to identify correctly those who do not have the disease. In conditional probability notation, specificity is written P (T-/D-). Sensitivity and specificity determined by comparing the result with a definitive diagnosis. It is important to note that sensitivity and specificity are reciprocal in nature18.
Consistency and reproducibility of the test is said to be its reliability. It depends upon variation inherent in the method. The variation can be inter-observer or intraobserver. A same individual can rate the same observation differently on different occasions. Alternatively there can be a natural variation among two raters. In rounding off some raters have preference for higher values while others for lower values.
Determining performance of screening instrument (AKUADS) and assigning probabilities:
While the specificity and sensitivity remain an important issue in considering the use of instrument for diagnostic and screening purposes, the psychometric measurement becomes an additional issue when an instrument is applied in a cultural setting which is different from the one in which it was originally developed. EMIC-instruments and questionnaires with cultural sensitive explanatory models are reported to be preferable over ETICinstruments (instruments developed in another cultural setting). But research findings of studies using EMICinstruments only, without established cross cultural validity are open to question.
Aga Khan University Hospital Anxiety & Depression Scale (AKUADS) is a 25 item screening instrument, developed indigenously in the primary health care and psychiatric setting of Pakistan, for screening depression and anxiety disorder. It incorporates culturally pertinent somatic metaphors of depressive disorder. It has an advantage over ETIC instruments, in assessing locally relevant idioms of distress in the primary health care settings in Pakistan. To assess the performance of a screening instrument i.e., AKUADS, we take a hypothetical population of 10000 and calculate the sensitivity, specificity based on the sensitivity and specificity found in the literature.
Sensitivity & Specificity of Aga Khan University Anxiety and depression scale (AKUADS) as a screening instrument*
Summary of test performance characteristics (as stated in the published reports)4
These test characteristics can be used to generate 2 x 2 tables, or decision matrix, using an arbitrary sample size of 10000 patients (table 1). This can be used to assign probabilities to the branch node C-2, thus an accurate estimate of how the screening instrument is functioning.
Bayes' rule is a mathematical formula that can also be used to calculate unknown conditional probability, such as predictive value positive [P (D+ /T+)] directly from the reported values for sensitivity [P (T+/D+) = 0.66], specificity [P (T-/D-) =0.79] and prior probability of major depressive disorder [prevalence, P (D+) = 0.30]19. Thus,
In above example 1-sensitivity will be interpreted as probability of test results as negative given the disease status to be positive. For any screening instrument false negative rate is a major concern. This is particularly so in the context of primary health care in Pakistan. FNR of 0.34 means that quarter of a patients attending primary health care will be misclassified, therefore, losing valuable opportunity of early recognition and intervention.
In this circumstances use of another screening instrument simultaneously or sequentially can serve to rectify this potential problem. Use of two screening instruments simultaneously will serve to increase the sensitivity while sequential use will increase specificity. The choice for either mode of screening depends upon the purpose of screening.
With a population to psychiatrist ratio of 1: 100,000, primary care in Pakistan serves as the sole care provider, unlike its filtering role in western countries20. Therefore high specificity is desirable in the contest of Pakistan. Thus sequential screening using AKUADS followed by another instrument/tool might be more desirable. Diagnostic confirmation based on DSM-IV diagnostic criteria described by Reza H et al can be used sequentially with AKUADS, in the context of primary health setting in Pakistan21.
Depression sub-typing: differences in primary care and psychiatry (Node D-2):
There are number of factors mentioned in literature regarding "type" of depressive disorder seen in primary care and psychiatry. Patients seen in the two settings may be quite different. Depression seen in primary care is less severe and less impairing. Evidence of this comes from Michigan Depression Project (MDP), a longterm study of depression in primary care that has provided valuable data regarding the similarities and differences between depressed patients in primary care and psychiatry and whether the same treatment is appropriate in both settings.
In its first phase, MDP screened 1928 adult patients from fifty family physicians practices in southeast Michigan and completed structured diagnostic interviews on 425 distressed primary care patients and 123 depressed psychiatric outpatients using the structured clinical interview for DSM-III-R (SCID). Clinicians were asked independently whether each of the patients was clinically depressed. The full sample received comprehensive assessment of stress, social support, overall health, health care utilization, and depression severity at intake and 4.5and 9 months after enrollment. Of the 425 depressed primary care patients, 13.5% were diagnosed with Major Depression, but over 40 % of those meeting the criteria for MDD were mildly depressed. Many of the primary care patients with mild or moderate depression were not diagnosed; family physician only diagnosed 35% with MDD and 28% patients with any depressive disorder22. However detection rate for severe depressive patients was significantly higher; 73% of severely depressed patients were selected compared with 18.4% of mildly depressed patients.
In case of functional depressive disorder severity of the illness has implication on detection rate (D-2). Detection rate for sever depressive disorder is 73 % while detection rates for mild-to-moderate depression is 18.4%. This is in the context when 80-to-86% of the Depressive disorders is mild-to-moderate in intensity. In primary health care mild-to-moderate depression is the most common presentation as compared to psychiatric setting23. The severity of illness has implications for treatment; as mild to moderate depression is best treated by psychotherapy. Sever depressive disorder will invariably require anti-depressants medication therapy. There are no studies on severity of illness and its subsequent detection rates in primary care setting from Pakistan. This is shown in chance node C-5 and C-6.
Treatment option in primary care (Node D-3):
The third decision (D-3) is related to the available choice of therapies. General Physicians can prescribe short term (8-10 sessions) psychotherapy. Mild-to-Moderate depression is preferably treated with short term psychotherapy/counseling, in the setting of primary health care. However, the option of psychotherapy needs to be discussed with the patient, with clear delineation of utility and outcome.
In a randomized control trial, Ali et al showed the effectiveness of psychotherapy when conducted by minimally trained therapist. Short term counseling was particularly effective in low income group and can be usefully delivered in primary health care setting24.
Chance nodes on remissions and relapses are given in the decision making tree. Unfortunately there is no literature on the long term outcome of specific treatments for depression from Pakistan. In cases of relapse of the illness it is advisable for the Primary care physician (health worker) to refer the patient to a psychiatrist.
Decision node D-4 pertains to choice of psychotropic medication in cases of depressive disorder with moderate to sever intensity. There are no studies on the long term outcomes of depression in the context of Pakistan. Extrapolating findings from western literature, around 60 % patients with depressive disorder relapse with in a year. This is in the situation of successful response to psychotropic medications. However in the context of primary care setting in Pakistan, any recurrent and relapsing case should be referred to a psychiatrist. There may be complicating psychosocial determinants or co morbid psychiatric problems (personality disorders), that may be safely treatment by mental health physician.
There are certain limitations to this decision analysis. The data on outcomes and utilities is based on western literature; its generalizibility to the culturally unique setting of Pakistan needs to be considered carefully. Prospective data from primary care settings is required, in order to develop any robust model that serves decision making for management of depression in the context of primary care in Pakistan.
The author wishes to acknowledge Dr. Esfandiar Maram, for his inspirational teaching of Epidemiology & Biostatics. His keen interest in psychiatric epidemiology led to initiation of this work.
Assuming 30 % prevalence rate of MDD in primary health care, in a hypothetical population size of 10,000 people, screened with AKUADS, with a sensitivity of 66% AKUHADS will correctly identify 2,070 individuals who has the disease. It will however fail to detect 930 individuals who have depressive disorder. Similarly with a specificity of 79 % it will detect their disease free status among 5,530 individuals out of 7,000. However it will misclassify 1470 disease free individuals as disease positive, thereby creating some, albeit transient anxiety among them.
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Ropes of Lightning
By Apprentice August 18, 2018 September 14, 2018 Apprentice Storyteller, Idea Pile, Story
NOTE: This post is inspired by This Reddit Post and as such, the idea is entirely credited to u/LeastCoordinatedJedi and his kid.
Captain's Log of the Vessel Wayward Cloud. Date unknown.
Note about time and date: Date is unknown due to total lack of celestial objects. I do not know if the stars or sun and moon are even present, as candles don't even shed light here – they are only a dim point in the shape of a flame – though the air itself seems to be giving off some unnatural light. It confuses me when I try to think about it, and gives me a headache. It has probably been about 3 weeks since our vessel was lifted off the waves.
Note about our ship: I would call our ship a Galleon, so we thought ourselves quite safe in these waters (what with a full compliment of crew to fight pirates or monsters). but we lost a mast, multiple spars, and many sails, so we are rigged almost like a schooner at this point. I do believe now that we will not be returning to port for repairs.
Enough about the ship. It's no longer in the waves. This story is being entered in the ships logs and my personal diary in hopes that my logs will find their way back to civilized lands where monsters do not roam about uncontested. I hope that either a college of sorcery will be made aware that one of their member are attacking ships off the coast, or that the powers of the empire will be alerted and focused on those that have so treacherously preyed upon ships in the region.
We begin with the child that we found on flotsam – the partial wreckage of at least 2 ships. He had quite the story to tell, and I didn't believe him, until I saw it for myself.
We found young J-dai (he insisted with the enthusiasm that only 5-year olds can generate that his name was spelled exactly this way) clinging to flotsam of a merchant ship that was obviously attacked by pirates. Pretty ballsy of the pirates – this was an important shipping corridor, so the imperial patrol and even privateers like us were often found in these waters, and no-one takes kindly to black flags. We found him among the wreckage of 2 other ships, and he claimed that a third had been lifted to the sky. At first, we thought that J-dai was only mistaken as not nearly enough wreckage was available to be from 3 different ships, but then we found separate main masts still connected to badly bent straps and bolts that could only have been ripped apart from below the deck of 3 different ships.
The crew felt that we should have left with haste, but I disregarded their protests as silly superstition and thought that staying would be a good way to increase the reputation of professional privateers on these waters. I decided to look for further survivors to return to their loved ones and perhaps cargo that I might return to their rightful companies (and of course, claim for myself if no company brand was found). To my great shame, I led my poor crew and my beloved ship to cursed clouds of demon light and no lands, and I fell in to this trap while selfishly trying to improve the lot of privateer captains. If only we could have sunken under the waves with the first blast.
We found scattered foodstuffs and a few bales of cotton (details in the clerks log). All the other cargo seems to have been sunk or taken by the attackers. We found no other survivors, and we found no dead bodies. It was almost as if someone had scoured the sea for men, living and dead, and plucked them up with no regard for the other valuables in the salt. This was odd, as almost anyone attacking a ship will take whatever food they can find to bolster their own stores, and we found many barrels of brandy, apples, wheat, and other food.
The boy told me a quick version of his story while recovering with some hot food and a little wine in the captain's cabin, and told a long version of his story later to some sympathetic sailors before we were attacked. I was not present for the long version, but here is my best recollection of his short version:
First off, I can tell is that he has no idea why they were on a ship. I did my best not to allow him to think that I thought his story was preposterous – young minds are very imaginative, but they often have the seed of truth to their stories. I realized quickly that I would not know where he embellished his imagination, but it turns out to be far less than I initially thought.
In his abbreviated version, he tells me that his father was a merchant company's ship captain and there being 2 other ships with him was quite notable – the little boy was very proud of his father for the promotion (his story kept changing the particular rank – captain, admiral, mate, etc.). It seems they had outrun a storm for nearly 2 days in the straights at the nearby islands and the crew was totally exhausted, so they dropped anchor to let the entire crew rest and eat well for a morning.
J-Dai says that when the sailors were getting ready to be under way, the cries went up that the storm had caught up to them again and the whole crew began desperately trying to get farther away from the rocky shore – the boy was very insistent that earlier there had been an argument between senior staff that they were too close to some rocks and "150 paces is too close after that storm" – and there was great confusion about which way to go. The boy said that a great wind came up as a dark cloud overtook them, and "a huge red frog fell out of the sky – a frog sailor with black pants, standing on two legs." When the frog-sailor fell on his ship, it cracked the planks near the main mast. He watched as this invader then tied "a piece of lightning" to the mast, which was suddenly met by the sky as well – with a "big giant noise" – lightning came down from the newly formed clouds to join the piece tied to the mast, and while he was watching this from the captain's cabin, he heard more noises and saw the other ships suffer a similar fate.
After this, his story gets even more confused, as the melee was joined in full – with apparently more monsters coming down the lightning to join the red frog sailor. He doesn't know when the masts were torn from their bolts, but his father threw him on a mast as it fell over, apparently to simply get his child off the doomed ship. The boy hid, terrified, under the sail on a spar and he heard a lot of things happening in the water, and then the sound like a waterfall – he peeked out at that point and saw the noise was from water falling off the hull of the last remaining ship being lifted by "ropes of lightning twisted into a braid" into a "great purple hole in the clouds" – and he saw a stone castle through the hole as well, swearing that a witch was watching the whole encounter while standing on the water. The witch apparently walked up in to the cloud as it was disappearing. He waited more than a day on the now-calm seas before we showed up.
Once his story was over, I let the senior crew know that we may have a pirate on our hands, and they may have a renegade sorcerer with them. I feel that I took warnings from young J-dai's story, but while correct, they were insufficient. Looking back, I was very prideful in thinking that our ship was impervious to a sorcerer-pirate. Even with a battle-tested crew, I should have taken the warning an weighed anchor immediately.
The boy ate voraciously – I did not doubt the time frames that he told us. After a few more hours of scouring the wreckage for salvage (it helped that the sea was very calm – more like a fishing-pond) I began to get uneasy after finding the third ship's mast – an experienced sailor could tell in only a few moments how many ships the discarded sails were from.
And then it happened. A shadow came over the waters, further out to sea than ourselves. Cast by a great purple cloud, it was boiling and moving and glowing with an energy that is foreign to my eyes. This witch-cloud was growing and moving quickly from the sea towards shore, but it never got to the shore – it found my ship and stayed over it, blocking the sun from our search – making it almost like twilight, it was so wide. Cast by a great roiling purple cloud, I began to give the boy's story more credence – this must be the work of some powerful magic-user, as it could not be a typical storm. I immediately gave the order go regather the men from the boats in the water – we either needed them for the fight, or we needed the boats to flee upon.
As the first men got up from the sea to the main deck, I heard a sound that was loud like a clap of nearby cannon fire, but distant and rolling like thunder. The men were armed with saber, hook, and crossbow, and to their credit not a single one turned to give me shame for staying in those haunted waters – they each took up their battle positions and got the last of the men from the boats. We all stood ready, weapons in hand, for a few very long minutes.
Almost I ordered the anchor weighed or perhaps even the ship abandoned – but before the orders were given, the sound of some kind of foreign drum rolled over us. At the same moment, and the whole crew and I were enraptured as we saw a hole begin to open – a great circle whose edge was naught but roiling storm cloud and small splinters of lightning. The noise happened again and again, and I realized that the portal was opening ever-wider with each strike of the distant drumhead. And as we watched the spectacle, the true horror of what we were seeing came upon us. In the distance through that portal, we saw a great palace upon a hill of rock and boulders.
There was something not right about the way that we were looking at it. Almost like we were above it, but also like the front gates, all the pillars around the outside, and the roof were connected by a single acute angle instead of many obtuse ones. Perhaps it is best to describe it like we were within a trick mirror that was pointed at the fortress? Bah! I consider myself a man of letters but cannot fathom the words that should successfully describe how the hill and fortress were oriented to us.
The building glowed with sickly inner light and my mate held a spyglass and yelled that there were great crystals on all the ramparts, attended by some kind of monster, and that the sounds were made by these crystals.
As he watched, he reported with shock that creatures were climbing these magical devices by the dozen, and these stood waiting, looking to our ship, and then with a terrified scream he said that they were being launched off of the crystals toward us. I told the mate to keep his gaze upon the first ones that went in this way, and tell us when they would land on us. In a quick whisper he related "Only a few moments! At least a dozen in the first volley!" was his report, and then dropping the spyglass he roared "BLADES READY!"
Just as he said this, there were the sounds that no sailor ever wants to hear – the cracking and splintering of the planks of the deck. As the splinters settled, we were able to see it clearly – a monster that was in the general shape of a giant man – all the sailors were too stunned to rush initially, so it stood up from it's landing crouch while we took in what we were seeing.
It's stance was like that of a great bear on two legs, but even less clear delineation between the skull and the muscles of the broad back, and no fur. It stood taller than any man I have ever seen – with sloped shoulders and great long arms. It stood on two legs and wore black pants. It's head was low to it's shoulders and wide, with eyes more on top than in front, and a great mouth that almost seemed to reach to the back to it's shoulders. It was colored a deep crimson, mottled with large brick-red spots on it's head and back. It was indeed exactly the beast from J-dai's story – somewhat frog-shaped in the face and wearing black pants. The invader was even holding a short length of chain that glowed bright like a blue sun. As we watched, it held one end of the chain in it's fist up to the mast; the way you might knock on a door while holding a tool in the same hand.
As he did this, the rest of the monsters were landing, also cracking boards with the force of impact. The noise shook us out of our astonishment and some men charged. The frog-men (who were made in various colors) had already rushed to defensive postures around this one, apparently so that he could finish his work.
I stayed back for a moment longer, in order to perhaps find an opportunity to get past the monster's companions and engage with it more fully. The chain which initially appeared very short suddenly wrapped itself around the mast and the crimson beast let go, just as a great bolt of lightning streaked out of the sky with a huge thunder clap and joined the chain. All the men disengaged and took a few steps back. Unlike lightning, this thing maintained its presence – as soon as it hit it fell slack like a great rope made of vibrant blue-white light.
As I stood back, the other sailors and I realized that we were bested physically – the monsters didn't seem interested in a fight and kept simply catching our arms as we swung blades and maces, and pushing us back as their companions continued their work with the chains and lightning – some of the other monsters that landed also had the glowing chains. We got a few good hits, but none that were mortal.
It was in that moment of tense, industrious calm that I realized the true horror of what was happening. The ropes of lightning were losing their slack – whatever great wheel that had these devices mounted to it is turning and tightening the ropes. We were being lifted to that infernal castle. The weight was being put on the masts and anything that looked like it could bear the load. There were at least a dozen points the ropes of lightning were connected.
Some of the points began to buckle – some were attached to rails, to spars, and some just to planks. The first of these to buckle shocked us out of our horror and I cried "Kill the invaders! Your life is in your hands!" and to my great pride, every single sailor rushed as one and we slew several of the frog-men in the initial rush. The invaders then began to take us seriously and truly fought back.
The larger invaders would cleave off a limb with a single swipe of their falchions, but we could not kill them without the concerted effort of a dozen of us. We could overwhelm a few more, but they only fought us until we could feel the ship -the entire ship- lifted from the water. We all felt it begin to spin, and the invaders immediately ran to the points where the ropes of lightning were attached, and they began to scramble up the blue lines. We got a few more of them, but our doom was sealed.
One by one, my sailors – my friends – turned from the spectacle above us to look to me for direction. When I realized they expected an order, I gave it. "Abandon ship. She's been captured, but we need not be captured as well." Several men went to the life-boats, but then one man just dove off the side. He fell up into the purple hole in the clouds. His confused yell turning to terrified screaming will haunt the rest of my short days. We watched him float up through the purple air, and fell past the hill that the palace is on, and then we heard it – a great cackling.
There was laughter coming from the sea.
There was a woman. A woman standing on the sea, apparently still casting a spell in a circle of torches that floated about her.
She was in thick, black robes. Her auburn hair was flat around her shoulders – no wind seemed to touch her. She was standing in a circle of torches that were arranged on the water below us. I do not know what magic she used to stand there, but considering the sight above us, it did not seem unfeasible. She did not seem young or beautiful, but she also did not seem old or ugly. But as we caught sight of her, we felt the power of her.
As we breached the purple cloud, she seemed to be finished, and ascended past us by walking on the air. A few of my men fired crossbows at her, and one even hit. She did not seem to notice that a bolt was pinning her robe to her ribs. We lost all spirit of violence at that.
We suffered from extreme horror then. We were being pulled from our native waters to be prisoners in a world where frogs command high magic and even geometry did not seem to make sense. We thought initially that we would be pulled to the rocks and dashed before the palace. But his was not so. We were merely tethered. The men waited in silent anticipation for hours.
And the terror passed.
Terror turned to boredom.
Initially, I kept the crew busy doing normal maintenance of the ship, and rigging her up as if we expected to be plopped back in the water any minute. There are a dozen or so other ships that we have been able to signal with flags and with oil lamps, but we cannot get close enough for real exchange of information. The crew is doing their best to stay entertained, but music doesn't seem to sound right, and both dice and cards seem silly when you will likely never see the use of money again.
So now we are waiting for the end. Some of my crewmates have hastened that for themselves – jumping off always seems to have them fall forever past the palace and the rocks. We do not know if they ever find a sea or land. Others tried to climb the ropes of lightning – but it feels to the touch like a greased pole of hot brass. The only distance you can go is determined by your initial jump, and you can't hold on for long, anyways.
We are beginning to come to the end of our food stores.
Some crew have suggested a feast of the last of the rations, since there is no hope of rescue. Force the sea witch to deal with us or let us die.
In the end, I do think something will happen. As I write this, I see that one of our fellow tethered ships is throwing all it's cargo over the side, and I can see the palace responding – the frog-men are launching again to them. Whether to deal with them properly as prisoners and feed them, or simply to slaughter them for wasting wealth I do not know, but it would certainly be better than this incessant waiting in the purple air.
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Abdominal Distension and Digestive Disorders
More in Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Causes & Diagnosis
Support & Coping
Barbara Bolen, PhD
Barbara Bolen, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and health coach. She has written multiple books focused on living with irritable bowel syndrome.
Medically reviewed by Emmy Ludwig, MD on August 05, 2016
Emmy Ludwig, MD, is board-certified in gastroenterology and hepatology. She practices at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Emmy Ludwig, MD
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Distension is defined as something that is enlarged or stretched beyond its normal state, typically from within. Abdominal distension is a sense of increased abdominal pressure that involves an actual measurable change in the circumference of a person's abdomen.
Distension can be measured through the use of a tape measure. Distension over the course of a day can be measured more reliably by a device known as ambulatory abdominal inductance plethysmography (AIP). Such a device would most likely only be used during the course of a research study.
How Is Distension Different than Bloating?
When a person feels bloated, they experience a sense of increased pressure in their abdomen, but without any measurable change. With distension, there is an actual widening to the size and circumference of the abdomen. Many people, including doctors, will often use the two terms interchangeably.
Although the causes of both bloating and distension have not yet been well-identified, there are some research indications that different (but related) mechanisms may be underlying each of the two problems.
Bloating and distension are symptoms that are most characteristic of a functional gastrointestinal disorder (FGD), such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
How many people who have IBS experience distension alongside bloating? Estimates range from 50 to 75%. These patients are more likely to report it as a highly bothersome symptom. Distension is more likely to be reported by patients who have constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-C) as opposed to diarrhea-predominant IBS (IBS-D). Studies have shown that a slowing of the transit time of fecal matter through the gut is related to the experience of distension.
Typically, patients will report that distension is more likely to occur after meals and will worsen as the day goes on, with a reduction in the symptom overnight.
Distension that increases as the day wears on is most likely due to an FGD. Distension that occurs 24/7 may be indicative of a more serious health problem.
Although it seems like common sense to say that distension is related to excessive amounts of intestinal gas, this theory has not been fully supported by research. Rather, it may be that it is the way that the digestive systems of people who have IBS handle the gas that is the problem.
Another theory suggests that distension is related to a dysfunctional reflex of the muscles of the abdomen, triggered by the act of eating a meal. More research is needed to validate or discount this theory.
There are a variety of things that can cause abdominal distension (as well as bloating). Therefore there are no treatments identified that specifically target the symptom of distension. Instead, treatment focus on dealing with the symptoms of the overall digestive disorder.
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Agrawal, A. & Whorwell, P. "Review Article: Abdominal Bloating and Distension in Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders -- Epidemiology and Exploration of Possible Mechanisms" Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2008 27:2-10.
Lea, R. & Whorwell, P. "Expert Commentary – Bloating, Distension, and the Irritable Bowel Syndrome" MedGenMed 2005 7:18.
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Jack Allen's Kitchen 360 Is Now Open For Lunch, Dinner, And Brunch
It's Jack Gilmore's third restaurant.
by Nadia Chaudhury Apr 15, 2015, 12:30pm CDT
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Jack Allen's Kitchen 360
The Westlake location of Jack Allen's Kitchen is now officially open for lunch, dinner, and Sunday brunch on Loop 360. The third restaurant is helmed by chef Jack Gilmore. The farm-focused kitchen will serve the same sort of Texan comfort food fare, with some additional new items to the menu and cocktail list. It's also the home of Jack Allen's first wood burning oven. Dinner tonight features fried quail legs, stewed red chile pork shoulder, and a strawberry rhubarb cobbler.
The space, designed by Mann & Mann Architects, includes canning jar chandeliers, plenty of reclaimed wood, and other vintage details. Outside, there is a patio with both a fireplace and television screen. 360 is open from Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m.-11 p.m.. Sunday brunch is served from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
The new restaurant took over the former Trento space last spring. The restaurant opened for dinner service only last week.
Jack Allen's Kitchen [360]
3600 N Capital of Texas Hwy Ste D, Austin, TX 78746
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Home/Health/Veteran suicide: How to help military members with mental health, PTSD
Veteran suicide: How to help military members with mental health, PTSD
Randy McDonald once oversaw the manufacturing of precision-guided munitions and cluster bombs at Minot Air Force Base, sometimes working alongside some of the highest-ranking airmen. Now in his mid-40s, he had to make sure 10,000 items sat where they should on sprawling shelves at Home Depot: tools, thermostats, humidifiers, duct tape — you name it. He missed the camaraderie and brotherhood that had defined the first half of his life. Now, it felt like his sole goal was unloading enough retail from semi trucks to earn a bonus check.
He felt like a burden. He thought about ending his life and leaving behind his two daughters and his wife. Leaving behind the three-bedroom stucco house where they lived in Minot, North Dakota, and its brick-lined, arched front door. He came up with a plan. He knew the date, the time and the place, and how he was going to die by suicide. But then, a small deviation in his well-oiled journey snapped him out of his funk. "What the hell are you doing?" he thought.
He realized how close to the abyss he was teetering, and this realization set him out on a new journey. What if he could reach out to other veterans before it was too late, he wondered, even those in the far reaches of North Dakota?
He knew he was hardly the first veteran to think about suicide. Across remote areas of the country, from Pennsylvania to Montana, from Wyoming to Nevada, thousands are going through the same trepidations. They face a fragmented social fabric, a byzantine path to receiving health care and a pervasive stigma surrounding mental health. This, combined with a dearth of community resources, at-times crippling isolation and a gun-friendly culture, makes rural veterans 20% more likely to die by suicide than veterans as a whole. These former servicemen die by suicide at such a high rate, in fact, that they're driving overall self-inflicted deaths in rural counties.
Deep in the Intermountain West, mental health researchers have developed a program they say could help stem this tide of veteran suicides. It hinges on a radical shift of paradigm: What if people like McDonald — not just mental health experts — were the first line of defense against suicide? What if it took a veteran to save a veteran?
Twenty-two. The numerals appear in white font on black rubber band bracelets worn by veterans — the estimated number of veterans who die by suicide every day. That figure has fluctuated over the years and now probably stands at around 17. But this issue has afflicted the U.S. military at least since the 19th century.
Rural veterans are 20% more likely to die by suicide than veterans as a whole.
While suicide was deemed morally repugnant at the time, many Civil War veterans traumatized by the war still took their own lives. Some of the soldiers who'd survived World War I didn't live much longer after the conflict ended: In 1921, a former colonel in the Army's Medical Corps testified in front of a Senate committee that 400 veterans had taken their lives in New York state just the previous year. And about 9,000 Vietnam War veterans are estimated to have died by suicide from the time of discharge through the 1980s.
The trauma associated with combat exposure has long been blamed for veteran suicide. It was once referred to as "nostalgia," then as "shell shock" during World War I, and as PTSD after Vietnam.
By the time James Peake, an Army doctor who'd served in Vietnam, was appointed as the U.S. Army Surgeon General in 2000, the crisis was well documented. That's why when the U.S. invaded Iraq, Peake made sure to send mental health experts to the front lines to "drive mental health (treatment) deeper into the units," he says.
Researchers think veterans could hold the key to preventing suicides among their peers.
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The experts found that not much had changed since the Civil War. A number of soldiers who went to Iraq and Afghanistan were diagnosed with Post-traumatic stress disorder and reported heavy drinking, among other stresses and disorders. What was different was the avalanche of deaths the post 9/11 era ushered in.
One Boston University study found that 30,177 active-duty personnel and veterans have died by suicide on American soil since the Twin Towers fell, compared to 7,057 service members killed in war theaters. There's no one explanation for that escalation. Experts point to the growing military-civilian divide, society's scorn for interventions in the Middle East and the military's failure to adequately prepare its members for civilian life. Some suggest that armed forces now attract a certain profile of people more likely to have experienced psychological trauma before. And then there's the trauma many experience while serving, whether deployed or not, including sexual assaults and physical abuses.
Here's something else that changed. For a long time veterans bore the responsibility for suicide, which was seen as a sign of moral weakness. But the onus is now on the government for failing to care for its veterans. When Peake, then VA secretary, was called in to testify before the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs in 2008, lawmakers made clear something needed to be done. "We should all be angry at what has gone on here," one admonished him. Veteran suicide has since become one of the few nonpartisan issues on Capitol Hill. The last three VA secretaries all made it their top clinical priority, and Congress in recent years considered at least five bills or initiatives aiming to tackle suicides.
And yet, a rising number of veterans took their lives during the past decade, with the exception of a small dip between 2018 and 2019. Despite making up only 8.3% of adults, veterans today represent 14.3% of all suicides, according to the VA.
North Dakota hasn't been immune to this national trend. Veterans now make up less than 6% of the state's population but accounted for 17% of suicides in 2020. McDonald came perilously close to being one of them.
A burly man with kind eyes and a light brown beard, McDonald grew up in the college town of Morgantown, West Virginia, a Rust Belt community nestled in the Appalachian foothills, and the home of West Virginia University. It stands a few miles from the Pittsburgh coal seam and, at the height of the coal mining boom, men waiting to board buses for one of the 60 coal mines outside of town were a common sight. McDonald saw firsthand what mining will do to you. When his uncle died at 76, his lungs had soaked up about as much coal dust as tar from the three packs of cigarettes he smoked a day.
McDonald wasn't interested in suffering the same fate. He wasn't much interested in college, either, he says from a bakery in downtown Minot. He's brought lunch — a couple of turkey sandwiches and a bag of onion chips — but he barely touches it.
He says he did what many young men in rural areas do when faced with limited options. He walked into a military recruiting office and joined the Air Force. After training in San Antonio, he was put on the maintenance career track and was sent to Minot Air Force Base for three years. Now married, he was deployed to Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany, where his first daughter was born. He went on to Virginia to work in a bomb shop at Langley Air Force Base, before spending a few more years in Minot, this time supervising one. With his wife, he bought a house a few blocks from the Souris River, which flows through Minot. After stints in Guam and Turkey, he retired from the Air Force in 2013. He'd seen the world and had had a rich career serving with men he admired. What else could he ask for?
He got a job at Nash Finch, a wholesale food distributor. It was an uneasy transition from manufacturing bombs, to say the least. He'd been managing 70 people in Minot Air Force base, having in effect the power of "life and death" over people in far-flung countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, often the bombs' final destinations. Now, he had to make sure grocery stores got their extra case of soda, or that the ice cream wasn't too soft. He grew agitated, seemingly unable to hold on to a job for more than a year or two.
None gave him the same pride and satisfaction he'd felt as an airman. He hit a new low when he found himself working the night shift at a Home Depot, missing out on evenings with friends. The long winters only compounded a growing sense of isolation. He all but gave up painting, a long-held passion, instead spending his days watching TV or reading books. "Those are the times where you really start sinking down into your negative thoughts," McDonald says.
One memory especially sticks out. He sees himself walking down the street outside of Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey, where he's been stationed for a few months. It's 1999 and Albanian refugees have been pouring from war-torn Kosovo. A group of children materializes, swarming McDonald and other airmen, looking to thumb-wrestle for a soda or peddle $1 pieces of gum. Suddenly, a Turkish teenager watching from a distance pounces on an Albanian child. Airmen aren't allowed to intervene, and McDonald, about 24 at the time, watches powerless as the teenager beats the child, dragging him behind a corner.
He enters the rabbit hole. What happened to the kid? Did he lose his vision? Did he have broken bones? Sometimes positive thoughts put up a fight against the bad ones. Perhaps a church person or a doctor found the child and treated him? But more often than not, the good thoughts lose.
Due to the Air Force base, there's no shortage of veterans in Minot, where they make up nearly a tenth of the city's about 48,000 residents. The American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans and AMVETS all have chapters in town. But this doesn't necessarily translate into a tight-knit, multigenerational veteran community.
At Charlie's Main Street Cafe, you might see airmen in camouflage uniforms seated at one of the green upholstered booths, digging into a blueberry pie or wolfing down a hot beef sandwich. Veterans, on the other hand, don't wear uniforms, and many won't make their military history known.
In rural areas, 1 in 3 veterans isn't enrolled in VA health care, making it less likely they will be screened for depression as part of a routine checkup.
This means that former servicemen like McDonald can feel utterly isolated, even in a military town. The VA, of course, provides robust mental health services, including at the local clinic, a one-story building next door to a Little Caesars. But in rural areas, more than a third of all veterans aren't enrolled in VA health care, making it less likely they will be screened for depression as part of a routine checkup. For many who, like McDonald, suffered no service-related physical disabilities or injuries upon being discharged, receiving care through the VA isn't always the first option, especially if they have good private insurance.
"Once a service member leaves the service, there is nothing that overtly compels them to have contact with the VA," says Jeffrey Smith, an associate professor of history at the University of Hawaii Hilo who has studied military suicides. This makes it challenging for the VA to flag veterans who may be at risk. People sometimes think that "there's some kind of magic list with all the veterans, and that if we called all of them they wouldn't kill themselves," says Carl LoFaro, a suicide prevention social worker at the VA. "That's not really, unfortunately, how it works."
Historically, veterans clubs played a key role in suicide prevention, albeit not an explicitly defined one. Men sitting at the bar counter would suddenly spill out their guts in booze-fueled catharses, sharing harrowing war stories for the first time. But these days, mostly aging Vietnam veterans meet at vets clubs, a TV sometimes playing a black-and-white movie in the background. It can be hard for younger vets to feel welcome.
"We're having trouble recruiting new members," says Tammy VanWinkle, the head of the American Veterans' Minot chapter. This means that younger veterans, who research shows are more likely to commit suicide than older cohorts, aren't receiving the same informal peer support as their elders.
In this context, intervening before it's too late is akin to a crapshoot, especially in rural areas. Some groups like Forward Flag, a veteran nonprofit in New Mexico (it also has operations in Tennessee), have developed their own methods to ferret out former military members. There, volunteers drive a rusty Bluebird Wanderlodge bus deep into remote locales like the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation, and, once there, set up on well-trafficked parking lots. If they're lucky, a veteran's inquisitive grandmother or aunt will stop by and, later on, return with the veteran, opening up the possibility volunteers may identify signs of depression and direct them to mental health services.
In Minot, McDonald couldn't find the kind of peer support that would pull him out of the rabbit hole. A call with the ND Cares Coalition in Bismarck, a state-sponsored initiative that seeks to improve veteran-related services, finally brought him fresh answers. Someone, it turns out, was working on developing the sort of help he desperately needed.
The VA has been trying something new to make a dent in veteran suicide — make veterans themselves the first line of defense.
Nathaniel Mohatt, a research psychologist, stood in a conference room in front of a dozen veterans in Kalispell, Montana. It was early 2018 and he'd just flown with a team of experts from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, an interstate agency based in Boulder, Colorado. They had one goal: persuade the men to become the first line of defense against veteran suicide in northwest Montana.
Mohatt, a soft-spoken man with well-kept hair and tortoiseshell-rimmed glasses, knew a thing or two about rural veterans. In the 2010s, he'd worked on a mental health initiative targeting National Guardsmen in Kansas, and he'd studied ways rural primary care could better address suicide risks. In his years in the field, he'd noticed there weren't any structured, comprehensive programs in rural America. Rather, existing initiatives tended to be one-off, often led by counties' public health departments or by community behavioral health centers.
This observation led him and his colleagues at the VA-affiliated Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention to develop a new approach. What if veterans were the ones doing suicide prevention, as opposed to experts in lab coats? After all, it'd long been documented that veterans were more likely to open up to one of their own.
But to get the VA to fund the new initiative, called Together With Veterans, he would need to ground it in solid evidence. So, Mohatt set out to find successful programs for inspiration. After rummaging through the academic literature, he found three. The first one was in Arizona, where the White Mountain Apache Tribe trained law enforcement, EMTs and community leaders to recognize warning signs of suicide, put together awareness campaigns and taught coping skills to at-risk youths. It managed to cut suicide rates by more than 38%. Then there was the Air Force, which worked to normalize help-seeking and reduce stigma around suicide.
But even more promising was the third initiative, which targeted a broad slice of the population, and not just subsets. In Germany, the Nuremberg Alliance Against Depression had taught 2,000 priests, teachers, pharmacists, policemen and other community facilitators how to identify people with depression. It'd achieved a 24% reduction in suicide attempts and completed suicides, and inspired the European Alliance Against Depression, an international nonprofit that brought the model to Chile and Australia.
"It's worked with native populations, it's worked in Europe, it's worked with the Air Force," Mohatt thought. What if rural veterans could be trained to deliver the same kind of intervention in their communities?
The suicide prevention center contracted with the Western Interstate Commission to design a program drawing on these efforts. Now, the researchers needed to test out their idea. After scouring suicide and population data, Mohatt's team identified four communities to try it on. One of them was in the Kalispell region, whose high concentration of veterans and high suicide rates made it an ideal candidate.
But the veterans gathered in the conference room in northwest Montana weren't biting. They sat squarely in their chairs, their arms crossed as a lunch of sandwiches, chips and cookies arranged on a table laid untouched. "It was like talking to a silent room," says Mohatt.
At the end of a 40-minute presentation, the team asked a simple question. "Do you want this in your community?" Suddenly, the atmosphere in the room changed. The veterans had been given a choice — this program wouldn't be imposed on them unless they wanted to participate. Slowly, the veterans started weighing in on Mohatt's idea. "They started eating our food," he says.
For a year, Western Interstate Commission representatives flew in from Denver to craft a plan alongside the veterans. "While we were rolling the wheel down the road, we were inventing it," says L.D. Gross, a veteran involved in the effort. They set the main goals for the grassroots organization: reduce the stigma attached to seeking help; promote gun safety; provide suicide prevention training — including to primary care providers; and link veterans to suicide hotlines and mental health centers. Now named the Veterans Coalition of Northwest Montana, the group would receive a $100,000 grant from the VA spread over three years. It would be on its own after that.
Once organized, the veterans moved fast. They put up two big billboards on either end of Kalispell, showing a casket draped with an American flag, the words "NO MORE SUICIDE" superimposed on it, as well as the phone number to a crisis helpline. They got trained to teach "Question, Persuade, and Refer," a program focused on discerning warning signs of suicide. Invariably wearing military baseball caps, they became fixtures at local gun shows, giving away gun locks — firearms are the method of choice for veterans committing suicide — and leaflets.
It's too early to say whether these actions have made a dent in suicides, Mohatt says, in part because it takes two years for statistics on suicide deaths to trickle down to national databases. But there have been encouraging signs. Since 2019, the coalition has delivered QPR training to 432 people, including in vets homes and farming communities. It had 10,000 people attend its events and, crucially, helped 731 veterans access housing, receive food assistance or get health care. This is an important metric because veterans enrolled in the VA are less likely to commit suicide.
Some benefits might not be easily measured but feel equally important. After Gross and two other veterans finished teaching a QPR course at an American Legion post on the Flathead Indian Reservation, two old farmers in overalls stood up to speak. They'd lost five family members to suicide, all veterans, they said, tears streaming down their faces. "You can run into some pretty emotional stuff," Gross says. Soon after, the veterans got a call from the post. Could they organize another class?
Back in Minot, McDonald hopped on a phone call in late 2020 with a consultant for Together With Veterans. The program was expanding to dozens of communities across the country. Maybe McDonald could start the first chapter in North Dakota?
The model made sense to McDonald. "I've always noticed that veterans can talk to veterans easier than they can talk to anyone else," he says. So, in January last year, he started reaching out to local veteran groups and nonprofits, hoping to recruit volunteers to help him set up the nonprofit.
But things didn't go as planned. His efforts got little traction, which he chalks up in part to a perceived lack of legitimacy. "I failed miserably," McDonald says. In the summer, however, he gave it another try, reaching out again. He'd quit his job at Home Depot and started a new position as an outreach specialist for disabled veterans, in addition to studying for a master's degree in mental health counseling. This time, he received positive feedback.
He joined forces with a female veteran who agreed to take on the paperwork, and in the fall, the chapter held its first meeting at the local post of Veteran of Foreign Wars. After reading about the event in the Minot Daily News, about 15 people showed up, most having no idea what the meeting was really about, McDonald remembers. "That brought out a mixed crowd." One participant had lost her brother, a veteran, to suicide in another state two days before and couldn't immediately be with her family. The group was the only source of healing she could find at the time.
"I've always noticed that veterans can talk to veterans easier than they can talk to anyone else."
McDonald felt unsure about the initiative. How, for instance, would he go about reaching veterans removed from society, those who elect to live on farms surrounded by dirt roads, dozens of miles away from the nearest city? His plan was for the group to team up with a San Diego-based nonprofit to build bunk beds for kids. Perhaps a carpenter living in a rural area would hear about the workshops and get Bob, his veteran neighbor, to lend a hand and nail a few planks. Bob would show up and find a community ready to welcome him with open arms. Perhaps the dark thoughts would go away then. Perhaps his life would be saved.
Still, McDonald had mixed feelings about being the face of this effort. How could he talk about saving veterans when he'd come so close to losing himself? "This is my first time admitting this publicly," he wrote on the group's Facebook page in September 2021. "I've kinda felt like a fraud putting together a non-profit that focuses on rural veteran suicide, knowing how close I was just a year ago." But, he continued, "This organization matters to me, veterans' matter to me, YOUR LIFE MATTERS TO ME!!!!!"
A dozen people emerge from the biting cold and file into a spacious conference room inside the Ward County Administration Building in Minot, a rotund edifice with sleek glass panels. The emblems for the five military branches hang on a black wall, bathed in white light. The Minot chapter of Together With Veterans has been scrupulously following a 187-page toolkit developed by the VA for local groups. This evening, they're tackling phase two of a five-step plan: a SWOT analysis — the acronym stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats — of their community.
Ten fresh boxes of Papa John's pizza are stacked on a filing cabinet. The smell of hot, melted cheese fills the room. "Through this process, you guys are helping shape what this organization looks like," McDonald, wearing a cornflower blue polo shirt and a beige baseball cap, tells participants in a pep talk. They're mostly men, veterans ranging in age from mid-30s to late 70s. Some, sporting druid-like gray beards, resolutely prop up their elbows on one of four tables arranged in a rectangle. Others sit at a distance, coats still on. Some won't open their mouth once during the two-hour meeting, as though worried they may break a vow of silence.
Soon, among those willing to talk, the comments pour in. There are the long, depressing winters, says one. Surely that's a weakness. Old veterans have a hard time going grocery shopping, says another. A sexagenarian with a well-trimmed beard chimes in. "Does everybody in the community know that there is a veteran suicide issue?" An Iraq vet in a black hoodie emblazoned with an American flag holds up his smartphone and notes that there's no dedicated website for Together With Veterans. How is that for brand recognition? And by the way, how do we reach younger vets who don't read the local paper?
A man in a green sports jacket and brown boots notes another hurdle: How do we reach veterans with PTSD, who may steer away from big events? How about we do it in an open space, suggests someone. Green Jacket remarks drily that this leaves the group a 60-day window in the summer to organize meets, referring to the interminable North Dakota winters.
By the time the meeting is over, it's apparent the chapter has a lot on its plate. The group isn't even sure about the scale of the issue. When I point out to McDonald that only one veteran committed suicide in the county last year, according to provisional data provided by the North Dakota Health Department, he smirks. This number, he says "seems very, very low." But perhaps it doesn't matter if only one veteran in the whole county is saved. At the very least, veterans who didn't know each other six months ago have banded together, their eyes set on a larger goal than themselves, the despair they may experience at times receding in the depths.
McDonald knows what he's talking about. In the past months he has started meeting with a counselor, talking about his PTSD. Things are finally looking up. The sense of meaning that had eluded him all these years is slowly coming back, in no small part thanks to his involvement with the chapter. "It's a little self-serving, building this nonprofit itself," he says. "I get to accomplish what I need to accomplish for myself." Perhaps he's saved a life already.
Where to get help:
The Department of Veterans Affairs maintains a hotline for veterans in crisis that operates 24 hours a day.
Call 1-800-273-8255 and press 1. Online, visit veteranscrisisline.net/get-help/chat, or send a text message to 838255.
This story appears in the May issue of Deseret Magazine. Learn more about how to subscribe.
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Journal of Integrative Medicine ›› 2019, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (5): 338-343.doi: 10.1016/j.joim.2019.04.007
Assessing adverse drug reactions (ADRs) is a proven method to estimate the safety of medicines. The ADRs to herbal medicines in Australia (and by inference, the safety of herbal medicines in Australia) remain unknown. This study examines spontaneous ADR cases to four of the most popular herbs in Australia from 2000 to 2015: echinacea (Echinacea purpurea), valerian (Valeriana officinalis), black cohosh (Actaea racemosa) and ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba).
ADRs of echinacea, valerian, black cohosh and ginkgo reported to the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) between 2000 and 2015 were obtained from the TGA database. Data were collated and analysed according to age, sex, severity, type of ADR and body system affected. Statistics were calculated using GraphPad Prism software.
Most ADRs were mild or moderate. However, every herbal medicine was associated with life-threatening ADRs. In each life-threatening case, the herbal medicine was taken concomitantly with prescription medications. Black cohosh was associated with a significant number of severe ADRs (30.3% of the total), with 39.4% of these ADRs being associated with abnormal hepatic function, hepatitis or hepatotoxicity.
This study highlights the lack of public awareness with regard to herb–drug interactions, since most of the severe ADRs involved a herb–drug interaction.
Key words: Herbal medicine, Adverse drug reaction, Actaea racemosa, Echinacea purpurea, Ginkgo biloba, Valeriana officinalis
Claire L. Hoban, Roger W. Byard, Ian F. Musgrave. Analysis of spontaneous adverse drug reactions to echinacea, valerian, black cohosh and ginkgo in Australia from 2000 to 2015. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2019, 17(5): 338-343.
URL: http://www.jcimjournal.com/EN/10.1016/j.joim.2019.04.007
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N.Y. / Region|No Vehicles, but Plenty of People on Broadway
No Vehicles, but Plenty of People on Broadway
By DAVID W. DUNLAP MAY 24, 2009
Crowds clog Broadway in Times Square after the city began closing sections of the street. Traffic was diverted to Seventh Avenue. Credit Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times
Paul Ziemer and Pikkam So traveled to Times Square on Sunday from their home in Inwood, at the northern tip of Manhattan, and allowed their 14-month-old son, Benjamin, to do what few New Yorkers have ever done:
Walk safely right down the center of Broadway in the middle of the day.
On Sunday, the Bloomberg administration put a plan into effect to reduce traffic congestion in Midtown by closing two sections of Broadway to vehicles, from 47th to 42nd Streets and 35th to 33rd Streets. The idea is to eliminate the crosscurrents Broadway traffic creates on nearby avenues.
However, rather than suddenly apply a single tourniquet to the great diagonal limb of Broadway, officials closed it piecemeal throughout the afternoon and into the evening, more or less coordinating the project with a street fair on Seventh Avenue. Department of Transportation crews painted lane markers, hung new signs and adjusted traffic signals from Herald Square to Duffy Square, while pedestrians mobbed the sidewalks around them.
Because Broadway — like nature — abhors a vacuum, it took no coaching whatsoever to encourage the crowds to spill off the sidewalks and into the newly empty traffic lanes.
Mr. Ziemer and Ms. So made a point of coming to see a vehicle-free Broadway. They did not sound disappointed. "I've lived here for 15 years," Mr. Ziemer said, "and this was only closed for New Year's Eve" — not typically the best time for a stroll with a baby.
Ms. So said, "I like the experience because now I don't feel like I'm competing with cars."
One block away, Lev Teshler, from Kew Gardens, Queens, also found himself drawn to the middle of the street. "From my point of view, it's great," he said, "because I don't have to drive here."
And sure enough, a contrary opinion came from a cabdriver, Ben Stevens, who was caught in the vortex at Seventh Avenue and 45th Street. He did not mince words when asked his opinion of the closing.
Crowds clog Broadway in Times Square after the city began closing sections of the street. At right, traffic is diverted to Eighth Avenue. Credit John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times
"Nobody likes it," he said. "See the traffic? I hate it."
It is probably safe to say that the new traffic program, known formally as "Green Light for Midtown," will not get its real test until Tuesday, the first business day after the Memorial Day weekend.
Janette Sadik-Khan, the city's transportation commissioner, carefully noted the chance that some tinkering might result from that experience.
"It's an important first step to ease traffic and sidewalk congestion and create safe, attractive spaces that are good for business," she said. "But it's a work in progress, and we'll be monitoring the area closely during the initial adjustment period."
Though it sounds paradoxical to try to improve traffic flow by closing parts of a traffic artery, the transportation agency has its reasons. Vehicles are being banned where Broadway crosses Seventh Avenue (downtown-bound) and Avenue of the Americas (uptown-bound), like tracks in a switchyard. The hope is that this will improve the traffic flow on both avenues.
The remnants of Broadway on the affected blocks will become pedestrian plazas.
Seven bus lines that run downtown along Broadway — the M6, M7, M10, M20, M27, M30 and M104 — will be rerouted to Seventh Avenue on Monday. All of the crosstown streets will remain open.
Shortly before 8 p.m., the last vehicles passed down Broadway at 47th Street — a police van, a taxi and several pedicabs. City employees then placed eight orange barrels across Broadway, prompting a flurry of honking from vehicles and forceful whistling from the police officers who were waving traffic to the side.
"It's amazing how quickly people materialize on the streets when you close them off," said Ms. Sadik-Khan, as she watched pedestrians drift onto Broadway.
The sudden shift was a surprise to Alex Dzh, 23, a pedicab driver, who seemed bewildered by the orange barrels adorned with "Do not enter" signs. "Ten minutes ago, it was open," he said. "Now it's closed. I don't know what happened."
A. G. Sulzberger contributed reporting.
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Times Square via Broadway? Not Anymore. MAY 25, 2009
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Peyton Manning's Papa John's robbed during Broncos game
By Nina Mandell
A Papa John's store that according to CBS Sports is owned by Peyton Manning was robbed while he led the Broncos to a win over Kansas City on Sunday night. According to Denver Police spokesman Sonny Jackson, the robbers brandished a gun and took money from the register. No one was injured in the incident.
Manning purchased 21 of the popular pizza franchises last year and has appeared in commercials for the restaurant.
It was not clear if the accused robbers knew that the timing of their stickup was during the middle of the football game, but Jackson said the suspects may have committed other robberies on Sunday night as well.
The suspects were described as wearing hoodies, gloves and masks during the robbery.
A spokesman for Papa Johns did not immediately return requests for comment.
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Overview of the CESSMA
The CESSMA – Centre d'études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatiques (Centre for social sciences studies on the African, American and Asian worlds) – is a joint research unit. It was created in 2014 under the triple tutelage of : the University Paris Diderot, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) (National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations) and the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) (the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development).
On 1 January 2018, the Centre comprised 56 academics and research fellows, and 80 doctoral students.
1. The originality of the Centre's scientific project
The Centre was created with the aim to analyse the historical and spatial configurations of the dynamics of development and globalisation in the so-called countries of the "South". One of the key components of the project is a questioning of Worlds, the diversity, universality, or on the contrary, the specificity of development issues and the effects of globalisation. They are viewed as processes that are not only governed by economic logic but fully include its social, cultural and political aspects, and are hence historically constructed and situated processes.
The Centre capitalizes on its dual legacy of development studies (for researchers from the IRD and the former SEDET) and the tradition of area studies (INALCO).
The Centre's founding principles are :
Interdisciplinarity. The following social science disciplines are represented : history, geography, anthropology, sociology, economics, urban studies and political science.
Frequentation of four regional areas : the Africas, the Americas, the Maghreb and the Middle East, and the Asian worlds. All the researchers assiduously conduct fieldwork in the countries they are working on, speak the languages spoken in those countries, and dialogue with their scientific communities (including in the form of joint publications).
Comparitism. Scientific life is organized around four transversal thematic axes : 1) Norms, circulations, actors ; 2) Urban production, policies and practices ; 3) Work, finance and globalization ; 4) Construction and usage of knowledge. The CESSMA conducts interdisciplinary research programmes, which are deployed in a comparative manner throughout the countries of the South.
The CESSMA is the only research Centre in France to simultaneously :
be clearly focused on development studies (the Global South) ;
adopt a generalist approach in terms of its research themes ;
associate international comparative research programmes with thorough area studies ;
adopt an interdisciplinary approach, in particular by associating history with research on the present.
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House and Senate Seek to Save Net Radio
By Sherwin Siy
Senator Wyden, joined by Senator Brownback, today introduced a bill designed to nullify the Copyright Royalty Board's recent ruling, which raises music licensing fees precipitously and threatens to put a lot of webcasters out of business.
The bill, called the "Internet Radio Equality Act of 2007," first throws out the Board's rulings from this year. Second, the bill changes the standard by which the Board sets fees, making it more like the standard used to set rates for satellite radio services. The bill then temporarily sets the rate at either a third of a cent per hour of music per listener, or 7.5% of the webcaster's revenue. That's the (much lower) rate that satellite radio pays. The Copyright Royalty Board will set rates under the new standard after 2010.
Third, the bill lets noncommercial broadcasters pay lower rates for their webcasts of sound recordings. Currently, the law lets noncommercial broadcasters pay a statutory licensing fee to songwriters and visual artists, but not to record labels. A temporary fix was introduced in 2002, but expired in 2004. The proposed bill sets a temporary rate for these sound recordings at a 5% increase over the 2004 levels, applied retroactively to 2005 and lasting through until 2012. If noncommercial webcasters have already paid the labels more than they would have under this fee in the meantime, that money is credited against future payments.
Last week, Representatives Inslee and Manzullo introduced a similar bill in the House. The current incarnation of the House bill also requires a reports from three different bodies (the NTIA, the FCC, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting) on how Internet radio licensing fees affect the marketplace.
The resources mentioned by Alex do a good job of explaining this in further detail.
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Jerry Seinfeld Regrets Romantic Undertone in 'Bee Movie'
Jessica Marchese
On Jimmy Fallon's "The Tonight Show," Jerry Seinfeld reflected on and apologized for the seemingly romantic relationship between a bee and a woman.
Not kidding. The comedian straight up said the suggestive nature of the relationship between Barry B. Benson and Vanessa was "inappropriate for children." Interesting, considering how even the film itself points out the absurdity of their dynamic.
The movie has been widely memed since its release in 2007, and t-shirts made with the entire script printed on the front. But the weird fantasies Barry has in the movie including Vanessa hint towards something more than just friendship.
"The bee seems to have a thing for the girl, and we don't really want to pursue that as an idea in children's entertainment." Jerry Seinfeld
It also doesn't help that Barry comes between Vanessa and her boyfriend, making him paranoid that she's leaving him for a bee. Not sure what was going on in the writer's room that day. And from this past weekend's interview, neither does Seinfeld.
The comment raises questions about the film's cult popularity. The movie's premise is weird to begin with. But even writer Spike Feresten noted that "an interspecies love affair" isn't something they wanted to sell to prison. Yet, I'm sure most kids don't know who Ray Liotta is and he's in the movie for some reason.
Perhaps it was difficult for the writer's to create a platonic friendship between Barry and Vanessa on paper. It speaks more to the fact that most times, screenwriters only put women in positions to be desired or sought after.
Though Vanessa own hers own business, it does cater to Barry's interests and his main purpose of pollinating. She is what grounds Barry, as a friend should, but there's no distinct line she draws to derail Barry's delusions.
I think this is why the writers got "carried away" with their team-up. Ultimately they decided on what would make the story even more absurd and whimsical. Unfortunately, under the scrutiny of modern critics, the dynamic did not age well.
In this article:Bee Movie, Featured, Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld
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British PM Johnson warns England not to relax after coronavirus lockdown ends
Pedestrians walk near a billboard displaying a Manchester City Council message about the national lockdown restrictions, on Nov 26, 2020. PHOTO: AFP
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LONDON (BLOOMBERG) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned of "long months ahead" in the fight against coronavirus, as his government put most of England into the highest two tiers of new restrictions when a lockdown lifts next week.
London will be placed in tier 2, avoiding the toughest rules from Dec 2 and allowing pubs, restaurants and bars to open - but restricting alcohol to being served as part of a meal.
Cities including Birmingham and Manchester were placed in the toughest tier 3, in which pubs and restaurants must close except for takeaway. Households will not be allowed to mix indoors in either tier.
"What we want to avoid is relaxing now too much, you know, taking our foot off the throat of the beast now," Johnson said in a televised press conference Thursday (Nov 26). "There is a substantial relaxation across all tiers but we're not abandoning the fight yet, of course not, because we still, as I say, have long months ahead."
The regional three-tier system is tougher than before England entered a four-week partial lockdown this month. Ministers want to make sure they have some control of the virus's spread before people are allowed a further five-day relaxation of the rules during the Christmas holidays.
Christmas risks
And even then, Johnson's scientific advisers warned people not to take risks and to avoid endangering their elderly relatives.
"Would I encourage someone to hug and kiss their elderly relatives? No, I would not," England's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said at the press conference. Don't hug a relative "if you want them to survive to be hugged again," he warned.
Johnson's government is trying to balance the risks of the virus again getting out of control with the need to support an economy going through its worst slump in 300 years.
Virus cases have surged across the UK in the fall, and the prime minister's scientific advisers are trying to chart a course that prevents the state-run National Health Service from being overwhelmed.
But the premier also faces a looming rebellion from members of his own Conservative Party angry about the restrictions imposed on their districts.
Influential Tory MP Graham Brady said he will oppose the new measures when they are put to a vote in Parliament next week.
'Too authoritarian'
"The policies have been far too authoritarian," he told the BBC on Thursday. "There has got to be a real danger that if these restrictions aren't lifted very, very soon there will be a lot of businesses that simply won't reopen."
Some 41% of England - or 23 million people - will be in tier 3, including large swathes of the northeast, northwest, and the Midlands. Bristol, in the southwest, and the southeast county of Kent are also included.
London to be placed in second highest Covid-19 risk category
England will end Covid-19 lockdown with stricter tiered system
Another 57% of England, or 32 million people, will be in tier 2, including much of southern England and the northwest region of Liverpool which has pioneered mass testing. Only Cornwall, the Isle of Wight and the Isles of Scilly are in the lowest tier 1.
Johnson said he wants other parts of the country to "replicate" Liverpool's success with testing, pledging to roll out the system to all tier 3 areas as fast as possible. He also suggested the goal is a system that allows people more freedom if they can show they don't have coronavirus.
'Untried'
"Testing on this scale is untried, but in due course if it works, where people test negative it also may be possible for families and communities to be released from certain restrictions," he said.
Under the new rules, the general requirement for people to stay home will end, and shops, gyms and hairdressers will reopen. But in all areas, people will be urged to continue to work from home if they can.
The announcement triggered an immediate push back from the hospitality industry, 98% of which is covered by the top two tiers in England, according to trade body UKHospitality. That will wipe out an estimated £7.8 billion of trading compared to last year if the restrictions last all of December, it said.
"We still have not seen any evidence that hospitality venues -- which have invested great time effort and money to making their spaces Covid-secure -- are a problem,"
UKHospitality Chief Executive Kate Nicholls said in a statement. The new system is a "huge blow" and "it seems unfair and arbitrary that hospitality is being dealt such a harsh hand," she said.
'Destroying lives'
The threat to business angered Tory MPs who had lobbied ministers to keep their areas out of the highest tiers.
The coronavirus restrictions are "destroying lives and livelihoods," Conservative MP Richard Drax said in a statement. "We need a new strategy based on common sense, not fear and more fear."
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government will review which region is in each tier on Dec 16, based on infection rates and pressures on the National Health Service, and then every week after that.
Johnson said he's "convinced" that with a vaccine on the way, "by April things genuinely will be much much better." But Chief Scientific Officer Patrick Vallance injected a note of caution, warning that while three different vaccines have recently revealed positive trial results, they still need regulatory approval.
"This is going to take months into spring, before we start to get significant degrees of vaccination to create protection," he said.
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The Pitt News • February 14, 2021 • https://pittnews.com/article/163419/blogs/the-pitt-prescription-my-experience-getting-the-moderna-covid-19-vaccine/
The Pitt Prescription | My experience getting the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
The Pitt Prescription is a biweekly blog where student pharmacist and senior staff writer Elizabeth Donnelly provides tips on how to stay healthy in college. This edition was reviewed by Karen S. Pater, Pharm.D, CDCES, BCACP.
Shruti Talekar | Contributing Editor
The Pitt Prescription
By Elizabeth Donnelly, Senior Staff Writer
At the end of December, I received an email telling me that it was my turn to get vaccinated. I work as a pharmacy intern at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, and we were the first hospital in the City to get and administer the COVID-19 vaccine.
I remember feeling incredibly grateful that I was one of the lucky health care workers who would receive the vaccine that early. I jumped at this opportunity and got my first dose scheduled for the following day — Dec. 29, 2020. I received the Moderna vaccine, which was granted Emergency Use Authorization by the Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 18, 2020.
[Read more about the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines here.]
I kept a detailed record of any sort of side effects I experienced and how I felt once I received my injection. I am one of the lucky people who didn't experience any intense side effects, which goes to show that the vaccine has a variable effect on different people's bodies. For any side effects experienced after vaccination, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed V-safe, a smartphone-based tool that provides individualized health check-ins and allows you to report any side effects you experienced.
I received the vaccine at 3:15 p.m. at the clinic at Children's Hospital. It was a quick process, taking about five minutes total from check-in to injection. Then, I was moved to the monitoring station, where chairs were set out 6 feet apart for those who received the vaccine. I got monitored for 15 minutes and then I was free to go. It is recommended to monitor everyone getting the vaccine for at least 15 minutes, just in case they experience any immediate adverse reactions. Anybody with a history of allergic reactions to vaccines should be monitored for 30 minutes to ensure their safety.
After receiving my vaccine and leaving the monitoring station, my arm was a bit sore at the injection site, but this went away after 30 minutes. Overall I felt fine the day of my vaccine, but my arm started to develop some soreness toward the evening, right before I went to sleep.
The next day, I woke up with very severe muscle soreness — worse than I had experienced with any other vaccination before. I took ibuprofen, which helped alleviate the soreness significantly. Later that same day, I started to experience a mild headache and my arm soreness returned. My arm also started to show a bit of an injection-site reaction, with redness, swelling and soreness. I felt pretty tired overall and took several naps throughout the day.
Two days after receiving the vaccine, my arm was still sore, but it was improving. Additionally, the redness at the injection site spread a little bit and my arm felt hard to the touch, as if there were something under my skin (there wasn't anything there, it was just the muscle hardening). I didn't experience any more headaches, but I still felt a bit more tired than usual throughout the day. None of these symptoms stopped me from functioning as I normally did.
On the third day after receiving the vaccine, all of my symptoms cleared up. My arm soreness, the redness and swelling at the injection site and the fatigue all went away, and I felt like I was completely back to normal. I didn't experience any other side effects for several days.
On Jan. 7, about a week after getting the vaccine, the redness and swelling at the injection site returned. It was more significant this time and it also itched — however, there was no pain. This stayed for about 24 hours and then disappeared again, and it never returned after this instance.
I have heard several people tell me they experienced something similar after getting the Moderna vaccine — a delayed immune response about a week after that included this redness, swelling and itchiness at the injection site. I spoke with my doctor and he told me that it was a normal immune response and nothing to be worried about. This redness is not considered a "rash" — it is considered a localized injection-site reaction. The difference between this type of reaction and a rash is that rashes often cover a larger portion of the body and would not be localized to where you received your vaccination. With vaccines, rashes are typically considered allergic reactions, whereas injection-site reactions are not.
It's important to note that side effects, like injection-site reactions, nausea, vomiting, etc. are not the same thing as allergic reactions, which usually consist of anaphylaxis. The CDC recommends that patients who are allergic to any ingredients in the vaccine or who had an allergic reaction to their first vaccine dose should not get the vaccine — or second dose — unless told otherwise by a doctor. If you experience side effects, that doesn't preclude you from getting the second dose of the vaccine.
Many people confuse their severe side effects with allergic reactions, but it is important that you understand the differences between the two so that you follow the vaccine dosing that is right for you.
I experienced pretty minor side effects with my first dose, but was told to be prepared for a worse reaction after my second immunization. It is theorized that people experience more/worse side effects after their second dose because there is an increased immune response after the second dose of the vaccine. Anecdotally, many of my peers have experienced chills, fever, headaches, body aches and extreme fatigue after their second doses. I, on the other hand, experienced not a single side effect my second time around other than a sore arm and some fatigue the day after my shot.
I received my second dose of the Moderna vaccine in the clinic at Children's Hospital on Jan. 27 at 1:30 p.m. I was prepared for the worst, but I really only had muscle soreness and fatigue the day after my shot. After getting a good night's sleep, I felt completely fine, and it's now been almost two weeks since I got that shot (at the time of writing), and I haven't experienced any other side effects, including the injection-site reactions I had the first time around.
It takes about two weeks after the second dose of either EUA COVID-19 vaccine for the vaccine to exert its maximum effects. Once you are vaccinated, it does not mean it's a free-for-all and that things can return back to normal. I know this is not what people want to hear, myself included, but the CDC recommends continuing to wear masks and social distancing even after you are fully vaccinated. With all of the new variants and the ever-evolving state of the virus, the CDC says experts need to understand more about the protection offered by the COVID-19 vaccines before they can recommend that people stop wearing masks or socially distancing.
Additionally, it remains unknown if getting vaccinated will prevent you from spreading the virus to other people, which means that even if you don't get sick yourself, you may still potentially give it to someone else and cause them to get sick. At the time of publication, the CDC is still recommending that everyone, including fully vaccinated individuals, wear a mask over their nose and mouth, keep a distance of at least 6 feet between themselves and others, avoid crowds, avoid poorly ventilated spaces and wash their hands often.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of the pandemic, I understand the frustration with having to continue to take these precautions. However, as of right now, they are the only way we can curb the spread of the virus and keep as many people alive and healthy as possible. I am fully vaccinated and I am extremely grateful, but I will continue to wear a mask and act in a safe manner.
Elizabeth writes primarily about self-care and pharmacological topics. You can reach her at [email protected].
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2018-19 Men's Lacrosse News
2018-19 YEAR IN REVIEW: Men's Lacrosse
SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team concluded the 2019 season with its eighth straight season of 10 wins or more. Additionally, seven were selected as All-Conference selections.
SAA Announces Winter/Spring 2019 All-Sportsmanship Teams
ATLANTA - The Southern Athletic Association has announced Friday the 2019 SAA Winter/Spring All-Sportsmanship Teams.
119 Student-Athletes Earn SAA Winter/Spring Academic Honor Roll Honors
ATLANTA - The Southern Athletic Association (SAA) has announced the Winter/Spring 2019 Academic Honor Roll. 119 student-athletes earned the honor at The University of the South for the Easter Semester.
Stubits Garners All-Region Honorable Mention Nod with IMLCA
SEWANEE, Tenn. - Announced this week by the Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IMLCA), face off specialist Ryan Stubits was selected as an All-South Region Honorable Mention after a career-breaking senior campaign.
Stubits Earns All-American Honor; Named to 2019 USILA Senior All Star Game
BALTIMORE - Announced by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA), Sewanee face off specialist Ryan Stubits has been honored as an All-American for NCAA Division III. In addition, he will play in the 2019 USILA Senior All Star Game on Friday evening.
Sewanee Athletics Celebrate Year-End Banquet
SEWANEE, Tenn. - In partnership with the Sewanee Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and the Sewanee Department of Athletics, the 2019 annual year-end banquet was held on Tuesday night inside the Fowler Center Fieldhouse.
Season Ends in SAA Semifinals for Men's Lacrosse
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team saw its season come to an end in the semifinals of the 2019 Southern Athletic Association Men's Lacrosse Tournament against the regular season champions in Rhodes, 13-7, Friday afternoon from Crain Field.
Men's Lacrosse Heads to Memphis for SAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament
SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team, after taking down Birmingham-Southern, 13-12, on April 20 at home in the first round game of the 2019 Southern Athletic Association Men's Lacrosse Tournament, will look to advance to its seventh straight SAA Tournament Championship game, but they will need to knock off the regular season Champions in Rhodes Friday night in Memphis.
Seven Men's Lacrosse Student-Athletes Selected to All-SAA Team
ATLANTA - Announced on Tuesday by the Southern Athletic Association, seven men's lacrosse student-athletes were selected to the All-SAA Men's Lacrosse Team.
SAA Spring Championships Sites, Brackets Announced
ATLANTA - Championship Week is upon us in the Southern Athletic Association. With the exception of baseball, who will garner a winner next weekend, nine sports will be hoisting conference tournament championships at the end of the week.
Men's Lacrosse Survives Upset Attempt in SAA First Round, Advances to Semifinals
SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team, for the second straight game against Birmingham-Southern, needed overtime to secure the victory over the Panthers, 13-12, Saturday afternoon in a first round play-in game from historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium.
Men's Lacrosse Begins SAA Tourney Run Saturday
SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team enters the 2019 SAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament as the number four seed, and they will play in a first round game on Saturday afternoon versus Birmingham-Southern.
Men's Lacrosse Drops Regular Season Finale, Will Host First Round Game
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team was unable to keep a first half lead, as the Tigers were downed by the Lynx of Rhodes College, 12-7, Sunday afternoon.
Men's Lacrosse Keeps Tourney Top Seed Chances Alive with Win at Hendrix
CONWAY, Ark. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team spoiled Senior Night at Hendrix with a 19-12 victory over the Warriors of Hendrix College Friday night at Young-Wise Memorial Stadium.
Late Goals by Vikings Spoil Attempted Comeback Bid for Men's Lacrosse
MOUNT BERRY, Ga. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team overcame a 12-6 halftime deficit by taking a 15-14 lead with 5:37 left in regulation, but two goals by Berry were enough to hold off the Tigers with a 16-15 loss, Saturday afternoon at Vahalia Stadium.
Thomas Lynde Selected as SAA Men's Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week
ATLANTA - Announced on Monday by the Southern Athletic Association, Sewanee attacker Thomas Lynde has been chosen as the SAA Men's Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week after his performance last week.
Senior Day Comeback Complete for Men's Lacrosse, Rallies to Overtime Win Over BSC
SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team used a seven-goal fourth quarter to rally from a 9-6 halftime deficit to defeat Birmingham-Southern, 15-14, in overtime Sunday afternoon at Historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium.
Men's Lacrosse Upended by Transylvania
SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team saw its six-game winning streak come to an end on Friday evening at Historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium, as the Tigers were defeated by the Pioneers of Transylvania, 9-7.
Hayden Hunt Chosen as SAA Men's Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week
ATLANTA - The Southern Athletic Association has announced that Sewanee attacker Hayden Hunt has been chosen at the SAA Men's Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week, the conference office announced on Monday.
Men's Lacrosse Returns to SAA Play with 20-4 Rout of Oglethorpe
ATLANTA - 10 different Tigers scored and 11 recorded points on the day as the Sewanee men's lacrosse team cruised to a 20-4 victory over Oglethorpe Saturday afternoon.
Pratt's Overtime Goal Lifts Men's Lacrosse to Sweep in Colorado
COLORADO SPRINGS - The Sewanee men's lacrosse, for the second straight game, edged an opponent, but this time, the Tigers had to play overtime to win the contest. The Tigers defeated the Pride of Springfield College, 12-11, Thursday afternoon in a neutral-site game on the campus of Colorado College.
Men's Lacrosse Fends Off Colorado College in Offensive Explosion
COLORADO SPRINGS - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team recorded a 16-15 victory over the Colorado College Tigers in an offensive clinic between the two former Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) schools on Tuesday afternoon at Washburn Field.
Second Half Rally by Men's Lacrosse Leads to 11-6 Win in SAA Opener
SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team overcame a first half deficit to defeat the Colonels of Centre College, 11-6, Saturday afternoon from historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium.
Ryan Stubits Selected SAA Men's Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Week
ATLANTA - Announced by the Southern Athletic Association on Monday afternoon, senior midfielder Ryan Stubits was named the SAA Men's Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Week after his performance in Sewanee's two wins this past week.
Men's Lacrosse Holds On for 9-8 Win Over Scranton in Sunday Matinee
SEWANEE, Tenn. - As the clocks sprung forward on Sunday morning, the weather also took a turn from freezing temperatures and many inches of rain to a 60-degree, spring-like day on the Cumberland Plateau for Sewanee men's lacrosse at historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium. The Royals, despite a goal with 7:07 left in regulation, turned the ball over twice in the final minute to give the Tigers a 9-8 win.
Strong Second Half Lifts Men's Lacrosse to Win Versus Piedmont
SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team used a 9-2 second half to take down the Lions of Piedmont, 16-5, Wednesday night inside historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium.
Fourth Quarter Charge by Kenyon Dooms Men's Lacrosse on the Road
GAMBIER, Ohio - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team suffered a 12-9 setback to the Lords of Kenyon College Sunday afternoon from McBride Field.
Watters Wins 100th Game, Men's Lacrosse Takes Care of Augustana in Home Opener
SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team captured its first win of the 2019 season with a 16-5 victory over Augustana (Ill.) Wednesday night inside historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium. With the win, head men's lacrosse coach Marty Watters won his 100th game with the program.
Men's Lacrosse Falters at Guilford
GREENSBORO, N.C. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team dropped a 13-8 decision to Guilford College on Sunday afternoon.
Men's Lacrosse Tripped Up in Season Opener at No. 13 Roanoke
SALEM, Va. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team opened the season with No. 13 Roanoke on Friday. The Maroons took the contest, 17-7, from Kerr Stadium.
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"Panda" is the debut single by American rapper Desiigner. The song premiered on 15 December 2015. It was released for digital download on the iTunes Store as a single. Before being re-released on 23 February 2016. The song was written by Desiigner and its producer Menace. "Panda" was heavily sampled by Desiigner's fellow GOOD Music label-mate and founder Kanye West. For "Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 2", a song on West's seventh studio album The Life of Pablo. It inspired a number of remixes. The single topped the US Billboard Hot 100 at the end of April 2016. An official video was released on 10 May 2016. The song has been nominated for best hip-hop video at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards.
Sidney Royel Selby III (born 3 May 1997). Known professionally as Desiigner. Is an American hip hop recording artist from Brooklyn, New York. He rose to prominence after the release of his debut single "Panda". Which later reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. In February 2016, rapper and producer Kanye West (who sampled "Panda" for his seventh album The Life of Pablo). Announced Desiigner's signing to his GOOD Music imprint, under the aegis of Def Jam Recordings.
On May 5, 2016, producer Mike Dean announced that he would be serving as the executive producer for Desiigner's upcoming debut studio album. On May 24, Desiigner announced that the title to his upcoming debut album would be called The Life of Desiigner. In June 2016, XXL magazine revealed their annual "Freshmen Class" for 2016, and Desiigner was included on the list with nine other new artists. In June 2016, "Champions" was released as the lead single from the GOOD Music's upcoming compilation album, Cruel Winter. Desiigner made a guest appearance on this track, alongside his label-mate Kanye West, and other rappers such as Gucci Mane, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, Travis Scott, Yo Gotti and Quavo.
In the same month, Desiigner made his US television debut, when he performed his single, "Panda" at the 2016's BET Awards. On 26 June 2016, Desiigner released his first full-length mixtape, titled New English on Tidal, following a live premiere of the mixtape on 22 June. In July 2016, American pop singer Demi Lovato brought out Desiigner at her concert in New York. On 21 July 2016, Desiigner premiered the track, called "Tiimmy Turner", which was released as a single on iTunes the next day. Desiigner appeared as a special guest on the Netflix series Bill Nye Saves the World.
Artist: Desiigner
Title: Panda (Explicit)
Album: New English
Title: Zombie Walk
Studio album
The Life of Desiigner (Release date TBA, Label: GOOD, Def Jam).
New English (2016 Label: GOOD, Def Jam).
As lead artist
"Outlet" (2017 Album: N/A), "Tiimmy Turner" (2016). "Champions" (with Kanye West, Gucci Mane, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, Travis Scott, Yo Gotti and Quavo) (2016) and "Panda" (2015).
"Strapped & Ready" (Rah Smooth, Money and Loopy) (2016 Non-album single). "Finesse" (Jim Jones featuring Rich Homie Quan, ASAP Ferg) (2016 Album The Kitchen). "On the Low" (Phresher) (2016 Non-album single). "Danny DeVito" (Phresher featuring Rowdy Rebel) (2016 Non-album single). "Gucci Snakes" (Tyga) (2016 Album TBA). "Circles" (Pusha T featuring Ty Dolla $ign and Desiigner) (2016 Album King Push).
"Pt. 2" Kanye West (2016 Album The Life of Pablo). "Freestyle 4" Kanye West (2016 Album The Life of Pablo). "Back in My Ways" Young King & Mekado (2016 non-album single) and "The Difference" Meek Mill & Quavo (2016 Album DC4).
(2017) Grammy Awards – Best Rap Performance ("Panda") Nominated. (2016) WatsUp TV Africa Music Video Awards – WatsUp TV Viewers Choice Award ("Panda") Won. (2016) Teen Choice Awards – Choice Music: R&B/Hip-Hop Song – ("Panda") Nominated. (2016) MTV Video Music Awards – Best New Artist & Best Hip-Hop Video (Himself) Nominated. (2016) BET Hip Hop Awards – Best Hip Hop Video ("Panda"). People's Champ Award ("Panda") and Best New Hip Hop Artist (Himself) Nominated. (2016) MTV Video Music Awards Japan – Best Hip Hop Video ("Panda") Nominated. (2016) American Music Awards – Video of the Year ("Panda") & Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Song ("Panda") Nominated.
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As we head into August, the long-awaited release of the brand new iPhone 13 is on the horizon.
Anthony Hill
As we head into August, the long-awaited release of the brand new iPhone 13 is on the horizon. While the global chip shortage is still causing manufacturing challenges for many companies across industries, Apple still seems to be un-phased and is expected to announce new smartphones in September.
So what's the big hype about the new iPhone 13?
LTPO displays with 120Hz refresh rates for Pro model displays
Improved 5G modem
Faster A15 Bionic chip
Improved ultrawide lens on the Pro models
Touch ID in the display
Smaller notch
Note: 120Hz LTPO displays are the next generation of LCD screens. They have been implemented in digital devices like gaming consoles and televisions for years now. This means that the iPhone 13 will be able to display a higher refresh rate with less ghosting than ever before.
In general, these displays have a higher contrast ratio because they are more capable of displaying deep blacks and whites without distortion or compromise. This means that the user experience is much more immersive than it would be on a standard LCD screen.
Will the new iPhone 13 be more expensive?
Some analysts predict that the iPhone 13 might be a little more expensive than the previous generation, but overall, we think Apple will keep the existing price range of $699, $799, $999, and $1,099, respectively.
There is a really good video from Matt Talks Tech which summarizes all the new features and release date worth checking out. See video above.
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Samsung had their Unpacked Event today, and several new devices were announced. Check them out!
Samsung had their Unpacked Event today, and several new devices were announced and demoed. The highlighted gadgets were the Galaxy Z Fold 3, Galaxy Z Flip 3, Galaxy Buds 2, Galaxy Watch 4, and new S Pens specifically designed for the Z Fold 3.
No, we did not attend the event in person. However, we did watch the keynote presentation. The overall event was pretty good, but, some parts were underwhelming. I guess that's to be expected nowadays with virtual events?
The guys over at Unbox Therapy did an awesome job showcasing the new devices they received for review. Check out the video above if you want an unbiased unboxing of all Samsung devices unveiled today.
Electric planes were once thought to be a futuristic pipe-dream, however, they will become part of mainstream air travel sooner than you think.
Airlines have always been so dependent on the price of oil, but if we switch to electric planes, they will be less susceptible to changes in fuel prices. Electric planes have been in development for more than a decade now, but they're finally reaching an age where they could be practical for commercial use.
What is an Electric Plane?
Electric planes are not to be confused with their gas-powered counterparts and are instead powered by batteries or fuel cells that power the electric motors. They offer a variety of benefits over gas-powered planes, such as reduced noise pollution, zero emissions at take-off and landing, and much longer flight times.
Benefits of Electric Planes
Electric planes have several advantages over gas-powered planes such as:
They're quieter and much cheaper to operate, with no need for oil changes or fickle jet engine parts.
Since electric planes are powered by electricity, the engines are quieter and they don't produce greenhouse gases as traditional aircraft do. They also don't use a propeller which means less noise pollution for the environment in general.
Traditional aircraft create so much turbulence that it causes them to have an unpleasant ride for passengers. However, electric planes produce very little turbulence which means it gives passengers a smoother ride and a better experience overall.
Airports will also be able to take advantage of this technology because it will lower their operating costs due to electric planes being more efficient in terms of fuel consumption.
The only downside for the passengers is that the battery life in these planes would be much shorter than traditional planes. However, that may not be a downside at all since it could mean cheaper and more frequent flights for passengers.
Currently, research is being undertaken into what it would take to make them mainstream, including estimates of when the first flight may occur.
Wendover created a very interesting video making the case for electric planes to go mainstream. Definitely worth check it out above!
Check out some of the most accurate Sci-Fi movies ever made that could become part of our world in the near or distant future.
Theo Quarters
In the genre of science fiction, there are a lot of films that were made over the years all claiming to be the best. Not many were scientifically accurate if you understand the basic laws of physics.
I know most of us aren't physicists like Mr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. However, I'm sure, while we were being entertained we could not help but wonder, "This looks cool and all, but, can this happen?" There are certain things you see in a Sci-fi movie and are amazed and wish it was real. Then there are other things you truly hope you're not alive to even witness.
Joe Scott compiled some of the most accurate Sci-Fi movies made that could become part of our world in the near or distant future. Here's the list:
While some of us are still waiting for the day when some of these technological developments come true, I'm sure we can all agree Sci-Fi movies capture the human imagination in ways that were once thought to be magic.
So which movies are your favorite and the most accurate? If you're in the mood for something interesting to watch should definitely check out some of these sci-fi movies if you haven't already!
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Horoscopes with Saturn in Scorpio
You will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Saturn in Scorpio.
Born: Thursday, February 24, 1955
Sun: 5°45' Pisces AS: 22°17' Virgo
Moon: 7°45' Aries MC: 21°19' Gemini
Dominants: Aries, Virgo, Aquarius
Mercury, Mars, Jupiter
Chinese Astrology: Wood Goat
Height: Steve Jobs is 6' 2" (1m88) tall
Biography of Steve Jobs (excerpt)
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 (source: his birth certificate) – October 5, 2011) was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney.
Born: Thursday, October 25, 1984
In: Santa Barbara (CA) (United States)
Sun: 2°23' Scorpio AS: 10°47' Scorpio
Moon: 17°57' Scorpio MC: 16°32' Leo
Dominants: Scorpio, Capricorn, Sagittarius
Houses 1, 12, 2 / Water, Fire / Fixed
Height: Katy Perry is 5' 8" (1m73) tall
Biography of Katy Perry (excerpt)
Katheryn Elizabeth "Katy" Hudson (born October 25, 1984 (source for her birth time: Craft, Astrodatabank, BC)), better known by her stage name Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter and actress. After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager.
Sun: 0°22' Sagittarius AS: 1°08' Sagittarius
Moon: 24°12' Scorpio MC: 16°35' Virgo
Dominants: Sagittarius, Scorpio, Capricorn
Sun, Jupiter, Moon
Height: Scarlett Johansson is 5' 3" (1m60) tall
Biography of Scarlett Johansson (excerpt)
Scarlett Ingrid Johansson (born November 22, 1984 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Astrodatabank)) is an American actress and singer. The world's highest-paid actress since 2018, she has made multiple appearances in the Forbes Celebrity 100. Her films have grossed over $14.
Born: Friday, January 28, 1955
Sun: 8°11' Aquarius AS: 26°06' Virgo
Dominants: Aquarius, Aries, Virgo
Mercury, Venus, Mars
Height: Nicolas Sarkozy is 5' 5½" (1m67) tall
Biography of Nicolas Sarkozy (excerpt)
Nicolas Sarkozy, born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa; 28 January 1955) is the 23rd President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He has served since 16 May 2007 and is set to step down on 17 May 2012 to make way for François Hollande.
Sun: 0°24' Cancer AS: 15°28' Scorpio
Moon: 10°34' Leo MC: 25°28' Leo
Dominants: Scorpio, Cancer, Leo
Venus, Pluto, Saturn
Height: Lana Del Rey is 5' 6½" (1m69) tall
Biography of Lana Del Rey (excerpt)
Elizabeth Grant (born June 21, 1985 (birth time source: her Twitter account https://twitter.com/LanaDelRey/status/1136755314890383360 . Before, her official Instagram account https://instagram.com/p/zbWLxCFnmR/ copy of the screen: http://www.astrotheme.fr/images/Lana_Del_Rey_time_of_birth.jpg displayed antother time of birth), better known by her stage name Lana Del Rey, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, poet, model, and music video director.
In: Seattle (WA) (United States)
Sun: 5°02' Scorpio AS: 26°58' Cancer
Moon: 8°15' Aries MC: 4°52' Aries
Dominants: Aries, Libra, Leo
Moon, Mars, Uranus
Houses 4, 10, 2 / Fire, Water / Cardinal
Height: Bill Gates is 5' 9½" (1m77) tall
Biography of Bill Gates (excerpt)
William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, and computer programmer. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014.
Born: Wednesday, December 8, 1982
In: Saint James, Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago)
Sun: 16°08' Sagittarius AS: 0°34' Aquarius
Moon: 27°21' Virgo MC: 9°06' Scorpio
Mars, Pluto, Saturn
Houses 11, 9, 1 / Fire, Earth / Mutable
Chinese Astrology: Water Dog
Height: Nicki Minaj is 5' 2" (1m57) tall
Biography of Nicki Minaj (excerpt)
Onika Tanya Maraj (born December 8, 1982 (birth time source: http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/nickiminaj.html no given source)), better known by her stage name Nicki Minaj, is a Trinidadian rapper and singer-songwriter. In August 2009, Minaj signed to Young Money Entertainment with distribution from Universal Motown.
In: Funchal, Madeira (Portugal)
Sun: 16°22' Aquarius AS: 3°15' Capricorn
Moon: 10°51' Leo MC: 21°16' Libra
Dominants: Capricorn, Aries, Aquarius
Neptune, Pluto, Saturn
Houses 1, 3, 8 / Fire, Earth / Cardinal
Height: Cristiano Ronaldo is 6' 1" (1m85) tall
Biography of Cristiano Ronaldo (excerpt)
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, OIH, (Portuguese pronunciation: ; born 5 February 1985 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (source for his birth time: Astrodatabank, accuracy in question)), commonly known as Cristiano Ronaldo, is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a winger or a forward for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and serves as captain of the Portuguese national team.
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
Born: Saturday, September 15, 1984
In: Paddington, London (United Kingdom)
Sun: 22°57' Virgo AS: 11°25' Capricorn
Moon: 21°20' Taurus MC: 17°04' Scorpio
Dominants: Scorpio, Capricorn, Virgo
Saturn, Moon, Mercury
Height: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex is 6' 1" (1m86) tall
Biography of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (excerpt)
Prince Henry, Duke of Sussex, KCVO (Henry Charles Albert David; born 15 September 1984), more commonly known as Prince Harry, is a member of the British royal family. He is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is sixth in the line of succession to the British throne.
In: Kosciusko (MS) (United States)
Sun: 9°00' Aquarius AS: 29°41' Sagittarius
Moon: 4°32' Sagittarius MC: 17°25' Libra
Dominants: Aquarius, Sagittarius, Libra
Venus, Jupiter, Neptune
Houses 2, 11, 10 / Air, Fire / Fixed
Height: Oprah Winfrey is 5' 6½" (1m69) tall
Biography of Oprah Winfrey (excerpt)
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born Orpah, January 29, 1954 (born January 29, 1954 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, from memory)) is an American media executive, actress, talk show host, television producer and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago.
Born: Monday, May 14, 1984
In: Dobbs Ferry (NY) (United States)
Sun: 24°08' Taurus AS: 20°58' Virgo
Moon: 18°44' Scorpio MC: 19°30' Gemini
Dominants: Scorpio, Taurus, Virgo
Height: Mark Zuckerberg is 5' 9" (1m75) tall
Biography of Mark Zuckerberg (excerpt)
Mark Zuckerberg, (born May 14, 1984 (birth time source, a rectification from http://laurendelsack.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/birth-time-rectification-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg/)) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. As a Harvard student, he created the online social website Facebook, a site popular among students worldwide, with fellow computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
In: Mayfair, London (United Kingdom)
Sun: 0°12' Taurus AS: 21°24' Capricorn
Moon: 12°07' Leo MC: 25°34' Scorpio
Dominants: Scorpio, Leo, Capricorn
Saturn, Pluto, Neptune
Houses 1, 10, 7 / Water, Earth / Fixed
Height: Elizabeth II is 5' 4" (1m63) tall
Biography of Elizabeth II (excerpt)
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926 (birth time source: Fagan quotes official announcement, birth certificate)) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. When her father died in February 1952, she became head of the Commonwealth and queen regnant of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon.
In: Omaha (United States)
Sun: 14°09' Aries AS: 3°44' Sagittarius
Moon: 13°05' Aries MC: 20°32' Virgo
Dominants: Aries, Sagittarius, Taurus
Jupiter, Uranus, Venus
Height: Marlon Brando is 5' 10" (1m78) tall
Biography of Marlon Brando (excerpt)
Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, birth certificate) – July 1, 2004) was a two-time Academy Award-winning iconic actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. Brando is best known for his roles in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, both directed by Elia Kazan in the early 1950s, and his Academy-Award winning performance as Vito Corleone in The Godfather and as Colonel Walter E.
Born: Saturday, March 19, 1955
In: Idar-Oberstein (Germany)
Sun: 28°20' Pisces AS: 27°42' Virgo
Moon: 2°31' Aquarius MC: 27°04' Gemini
Dominants: Pisces, Aquarius, Virgo
Sun, Mercury, Neptune
Height: Bruce Willis is 6' (1m83) tall
Biography of Bruce Willis (excerpt)
Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955 (birth time source: Steinbrecher, Astrodatabank)) is an American actor, producer and singer. His career began on the Off-Broadway stage and then in television in the 1980s, most notably as David Addison in Moonlighting (1985–89).
In: Los Angeles Cedars Sinai Hospital (CA) (United States)
Sun: 6°43' Cancer AS: 25°40' Aquarius
Moon: 25°19' Gemini MC: 8°37' Sagittarius
Dominants: Cancer, Sagittarius, Aquarius
Uranus, Jupiter, Venus
Houses 5, 10, 4 / Water, Air / Cardinal
Height: Khloe Kardashian is 5' 9½" (1m77) tall
Biography of Khloe Kardashian (excerpt)
Khloe Alexandra Kardashian (born June 27, 1984 (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodadabank, BC. Previsouly, Kylie Jenner on Instagram https://instagram.com/kyliejenner/, copy of the informations: http://www.astrotheme.fr/images/Kendall%20Jenner_Kylie_Jenner_Khloe%20Kardashian_birth_time.jpg) which was not correct) is an American television personality, celebutante, socialite, model, and businesswoman. She is best known for her appearances on the reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Born: Monday, July 9, 1956
In: Concord (CA) (United States)
Sun: 17°29' Cancer AS: 21°45' Virgo
Moon: 9°52' Leo MC: 20°41' Gemini
Venus, Mercury, Mars
Houses 10, 6, 11 / Water, Air / Mutable
Chinese Astrology: Fire Monkey
Height: Tom Hanks is 6' (1m83) tall
Biography of Tom Hanks (excerpt)
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956 (birth time source: birth certificate, Astrodatabank)) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, Hanks is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon.
Born: Thursday, September 27, 1984
In: Belleville, Ontario (Canada)
Sun: 4°33' Libra AS: 13°39' Libra
Moon: 7°58' Scorpio MC: 16°26' Cancer
Dominants: Scorpio, Libra, Sagittarius
Venus, Pluto, Neptune
Height: Avril Lavigne is 5' 1" (1m55) tall
Biography of Avril Lavigne (excerpt)
Avril Ramona Lavigne (pronunciation: /ˈævrɨl ləˈviːn/; AV-ril lə-VEEN; born 27 September 1984 (birth time source: P. Petitallot, Astrodatabank, original source unknown))) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She was born in Belleville, Ontario, but spent most of her youth in the small town of Napanee.
Born: Tuesday, January 3, 1956
In: Peekskill (NY) (United States)
Sun: 12°30' Capricorn AS: 14°59' Cancer
Moon: 0°01' Libra MC: 24°22' Pisces
Dominants: Capricorn, Scorpio, Libra
Moon, Sun, Neptune
Height: Mel Gibson is 5' 9½" (1m77) tall
Biography of Mel Gibson (excerpt)
Melvin Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3, 1956 (birth time source: British Entertainers, Franck C. Clifford)) is an American-born actor, director, and producer raised primarily in Australia. After establishing himself as a household name with the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon series, Gibson went on to direct and star in the Academy Award-winning Braveheart.
In: Jersey (United Kingdom)
Sun: 14°01' Taurus AS: 11°38' Aquarius
Moon: 13°05' Aquarius MC: 7°05' Sagittarius
Dominants: Sagittarius, Aquarius, Taurus
Uranus, Jupiter, Moon
Houses 10, 3, 1 / Fire, Air / Fixed
Height: Henry Cavill is 6' 1" (1m85) tall
Biography of Henry Cavill (excerpt)
Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill (born 5 May 1983 (birth time source: interview in 2004, by email)) is a British actor. Early life Cavill was born in Jersey and was educated at St. Michael's Preparatory School on the Island, before attending Stowe School, a boarding school, where he acted in many plays.
Born: Thursday, March 4, 1954
In: Le Mans (72) (France)
Sun: 13°43' Pisces AS: 11°46' Libra
Moon: 9°42' Pisces MC: 14°44' Cancer
Dominants: Pisces, Libra, Cancer
Uranus, Venus, Moon
Height: François Fillon is 5' 9½" (1m76) tall
Biography of François Fillon (excerpt)
François Charles Amand Fillon (French pronunciation: ; born 4 March 1954 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French lawyer and politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 17 May 2007 to 16 May 2012. He was appointed by President Nicolas Sarkozy on 17 May 2007.
Born: Saturday, July 17, 1954
In: Hamburg (Germany)
Sun: 24°34' Cancer AS: 16°31' Sagittarius
Moon: 15°27' Aquarius MC: 21°37' Libra
Dominants: Cancer, Sagittarius, Libra
Neptune, Jupiter, Mars
Height: Angela Merkel is 5' 5" (1m65) tall
Biography of Angela Merkel (excerpt)
Angela Dorothea Merkel (pronounced ( listen); née Kasner; born 17 July 1954 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is a German politician and former research scientist who has been the Chancellor of Germany since 2005, and the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 2000.
Born: Tuesday, March 26, 1985
In: Teddington, Middlesex (United Kingdom)
Sun: 5°47' Aries
Moon: 29°59' Taurus
Dominants: Aries, Taurus, Scorpio
Fire, Earth / Fixed
Height: Keira Knightley is 5' 7" (1m70) tall
Biography of Keira Knightley (excerpt)
Keira Christina Knightley (born 26 March 1985 (source: http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/keiraknightley.html)) is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress, and came to international fame in 2003, after major roles in the films Bend It Like Beckham and the first film in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy.
In: San Diego (CA) (United States)
Sun: 12°15' Scorpio AS: 28°43' Virgo
Moon: 23°12' Cancer MC: 28°37' Gemini
Dominants: Libra, Scorpio, Virgo
Houses 2, 11, 10 / Water, Air / Cardinal
Height: Kris Jenner is 5' 6" (1m68) tall
Biography of Kris Jenner (excerpt)
Kristen Mary "Kris" Jenner (née Houghton, previously Kardashian; born November 5, 1955 (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodatabank, birth certificate))) is an American television personality, socialite, and businesswoman. She is also the manager for all of her family members including Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Khloe Kardashian.
In: Englewood (NJ) (United States)
Sun: 29°38' Aquarius AS: 29°06' Cancer
Moon: 11°11' Virgo MC: 13°36' Aries
Dominants: Cancer, Pisces, Virgo
Moon, Uranus, Venus
Height: John Travolta is 6' 2" (1m88) tall
Biography of John Travolta (excerpt)
John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954 (birth time source: Eugene Moore, Astrodatabank, birth certificate)) is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, dancer and singer, best known for his leading roles in films such as, Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Pulp Fiction.
Sun: 4°35' Cancer AS: 14°15' Aries
Moon: 3°45' Libra MC: 6°06' Capricorn
Dominants: Cancer, Libra, Gemini
Sun, Moon, Mars
Houses 3, 6, 7 / Air, Water / Cardinal
Height: Isabelle Adjani is 5' 4" (1m63) tall
Biography of Isabelle Adjani (excerpt)
Isabelle Adjani (born Isabelle Yasmina Adjani on 27 June 1955 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French film actress and singer. She is a five-time César Award winner and two-time Academy Award nominee. After success in the Comédie-Française, Adjani gained further fame in 1975 for her lauded performance as Adele Hugo in The Story of Adele H.
Born: Tuesday, October 8, 1985
In: Waikiki, Honolulu (HI) (United States)
Sun: 15°43' Libra AS: 2°42' Pisces
Moon: 7°50' Leo MC: 10°25' Sagittarius
Dominants: Sagittarius, Libra, Pisces
Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
Houses 8, 10, 7 / Fire, Water / Mutable
Height: Bruno Mars is 5' 7" (1m70) tall
Biography of Bruno Mars (excerpt)
Peter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985 birth time sources: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_time_was_Bruno_mars_born and http://twittywatch.com/mycity.php/Honolulu-Hawaii/1307559600/17)), better known by his stage name Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter and music producer. Raised in Honolulu, Hawaii by a family of musicians, Mars began making music at a young age.
Nicolas Hulot
Born: Saturday, April 30, 1955
In: Lille (59) (France)
Sun: 9°12' Taurus AS: 8°41' Cancer
Moon: 23°23' Leo MC: 6°16' Pisces
Dominants: Cancer, Leo, Taurus
Moon, Neptune, Jupiter
Height: Nicolas Hulot is 5' 8½" (1m74) tall
Biography of Nicolas Hulot (excerpt)
Nicolas Hulot (born 30 April 1955 in Lille, France (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – officier de la Légion d'honneur, chevalier des Arts et Lettres) is a French journalist and environmental activist. He is the founder and president of the Fondation Nicolas Hulot, an environmental group established in 1990.
Born: Thursday, November 7, 1867
In: Warsaw (Poland)
Sun: 14°35' Scorpio AS: 12°02' Capricorn
Moon: 16°29' Pisces MC: 18°37' Scorpio
Dominants: Scorpio, Capricorn, Cancer
Saturn, Sun, Uranus
Houses 10, 9, 2 / Water, Earth / Fixed
Height: Marie Curie is 5' (1m53) tall
Biography of Marie Curie (excerpt)
Maria Skłodowska-Curie (born Maria Skłodowska; known in France and most other countries as Marie Curie; November 7, 1867 (birth time source: Dariuxz Proskurnicki, Astrodatabank, birth certificate) – July 4, 1934) was a Polish-French physicist and chemist. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first twice-honored Nobel laureate (and still today the only laureate in two different sciences), and the first female professor at the Sorbonne.
Born: Tuesday, December 28, 1954
In: Mount Vernon, Westchester County (NY) (United States)
Sun: 5°56' Capricorn AS: 7°34' Libra
Moon: 9°02' Aquarius MC: 8°47' Cancer
Dominants: Capricorn, Cancer, Libra
Houses 3, 2, 10 / Water, Air / Cardinal
Height: Denzel Washington is 6' 1" (1m85) tall
Biography of Denzel Washington (excerpt)
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954 (birth time source: Steinbrecher, Astrodatabank, BC)) is an American actor and filmmaker. Washington has received much critical acclaim for his film work since the 1990s, including his portrayals of real-life figures such as South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko (in the 1987 film Cry Freedom), Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X (in the 1992 film Malcolm X), boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (in the 1999 film The Hurricane), football coach Herman Boone (in the 2000 film Remember the Titans), poet and educator Melvin B.
Born: Tuesday, October 13, 1925
In: Grantham (United Kingdom)
Sun: 19°30' Libra AS: 15°16' Scorpio
Moon: 28°38' Leo MC: 3°51' Virgo
Dominants: Scorpio, Leo, Libra
Saturn, Moon, Pluto
Height: Margaret Thatcher is 5' 5½" (1m67) tall
Biography of Margaret Thatcher (excerpt)
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, née Roberts (13 October 1925 (birth time source: Charles Harvey, Astrodatabank) – 8 April 2013), was a British politician, the longest-serving (1979–1990) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century, and the only woman ever to have held the post.
Sun: 6°02' Aquarius AS: 13°04' Capricorn
Moon: 1°39' Pisces MC: 8°25' Scorpio
Dominants: Capricorn, Scorpio, Pisces
Saturn, Mercury, Pluto
Height: Paul Newman is 5' 9½" (1m77) tall
Biography of Paul Newman (excerpt)
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth certificate) – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, producer, race car driver, IndyCar owner, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He won and was nominated for numerous awards, winning an Oscar for his performance in the 1986 film The Color of Money, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy Award, and many others.
Born: Friday, November 15, 1985
In: Artesia (CA) (United States)
Sun: 23°17' Scorpio AS: 27°02' Sagittarius
Moon: 6°51' Capricorn MC: 14°49' Libra
Dominants: Scorpio, Sagittarius, Libra
Mars, Neptune, Jupiter
Houses 1, 10, 11 / Air, Water / Cardinal
Height: Jeffree Star is 6' 1" (1m85) tall
Biography of Jeffree Star (excerpt)
Jeffree Star (born Jeffrey Lynn Steininger on November 15, 1985 (birth time source: Viktor E., birth certificate, Astrodatabank)) is an American entrepreneur, make up artist, YouTuber and singer, and the founder and owner of Jeffree Star Cosmetics. In 2009, Star released his first and only studio album, Beauty Killer, which included songs such as "Lollipop Luxury" featuring Nicki Minaj.
Born: Sunday, May 12, 1895
In: Madanapalle (India)
Moon: 25°22' Sagittarius MC: 29°02' Scorpio
Dominants: Taurus, Scorpio, Gemini
Uranus, Mercury, Sun
Houses 5, 4, 9 / Water, Air / Fixed
Biography of Jiddu Krishnamurti (excerpt)
Jiddu Krishnamurti or J. Krishnamurti, (May 12, 1895 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, biography)–February 17, 1986) was a well-known writer and speaker on fundamental philosophical and spiritual subjects. For nearly sixty years he traveled all over the world, pointing out to people the need to transform themselves through self knowledge, by being aware of their thoughts and feelings in daily life.
In: Pyongyang (Korea, North)
Sun: 17°01' Capricorn
Moon: 11°05' Pisces
Dominants: Sagittarius, Capricorn, Scorpio
Pluto, Jupiter, Neptune
Water, Fire / Mutable
Height: Kim Jong-un is 5' 7" (1m70) tall
Biography of Kim Jong-un (excerpt)
Kim Jong-un (Chosŏn'gŭl: 김정은; Korean: ; born 8 January 1984 (source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/27/aunt-of-north-korea-dictator-kim-jong-un-runs-dry-cleaners-in-ne/ but other sources give 1983, like https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/world/asia/rodman-gives-details-on-trip-to-north-korea.html)) is the Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly referred to as North Korea.
In: Lynwood (CA) (United States)
Sun: 28°22' Capricorn AS: 25°28' Virgo
Moon: 4°16' Sagittarius MC: 25°04' Gemini
Dominants: Sagittarius, Virgo, Cancer
Houses 5, 3, 10 / Fire, Earth / Cardinal
Height: Kevin Costner is 6' 1" (1m85) tall
Biography of Kevin Costner (excerpt)
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955 (birth time source: Steinbrecher, birth certificate)) is an American actor, director, producer, and musician. His accolades include two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, one Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Ciara (singer)
In: Austin (TX) (United States)
Sun: 2°14' Scorpio
Dominants: Scorpio, Pisces, Libra
Pluto, Neptune, Venus
Water, Air / Fixed
Height: Ciara (singer) is 5' 8" (1m73) tall
Biography of Ciara (singer) (excerpt)
Ciara (born Ciara Princess Harris on October 25, 1985) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress. Ciara made her debut in the summer of 2004 with the Billboard number-one single "Goodies". The album Goodies was released the fourth quarter of 2004 and first quarter of 2005.
Born: Tuesday, December 8, 1953
In: Athens (GA) (United States)
Moon: 12°50' Capricorn MC: 27°02' Scorpio
Dominants: Scorpio, Sagittarius, Aquarius
Houses 10, 8, 6 / Water, Air / Fixed
Height: Kim Basinger is 5' 7½" (1m71) tall
Biography of Kim Basinger (excerpt)
Kimila Ann Basinger (born December 8, 1953) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model. Early life Basinger (pronounced (bay-sing-er), often mispronounced ) was born in Athens, Georgia. Her father, Don Basinger, was a big band musician and loan manager who landed in Normandy during D-Day.
In: Omaha (NE) (United States)
Sun: 28°38' Taurus AS: 4°56' Capricorn
Moon: 29°51' Aries MC: 29°43' Libra
Dominants: Taurus, Cancer, Capricorn
Houses 4, 5, 7 / Earth, Water / Cardinal
Height: Malcolm X is 6' 3½" (1m92) tall
Biography of Malcolm X (excerpt)
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was a Black Muslim Minister and spokesman for the Nation of Islam. He was also founder of the Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Born: Friday, August 13, 1926
In: Biran (Cuba)
Moon: 11°13' Libra MC: 19°11' Pisces
Dominants: Leo, Gemini, Pisces
Houses 3, 2, 4 / Fire, Water / Fixed
Height: Fidel Castro is 6' 3" (1m91) tall
Biography of Fidel Castro (excerpt)
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born on August 13, 1926 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, conflicting/unverified sources), died on November 25, 2016) is the current President of Cuba. On July 31, 2006, Castro, after undergoing intestinal surgery for diverticulitis, transferred his responsibilities to the First Vice-President, his younger brother Raúl Castro.
Sun: 3°54' Cancer AS: 11°30' Leo
Moon: 28°36' Capricorn MC: 0°29' Taurus
Neptune, Sun, Venus
Height: Anthony Bourdain is 6' 4" (1m93) tall
Biography of Anthony Bourdain (excerpt)
Anthony Michael Bourdain (June 25, 1956 (birth time source: Astrodatabanlk. In the Noel Tyl discussion forum a member derived the time 8:35 from a vedic chart on a computer screen in an online video, where Bourdain had his chart read by an Indian astrologer in Jaipur, the chart has been confirmed by Pamela Young) – June 8, 2018) was an American celebrity chef, author, travel documentarian, and television personality who starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition.
Sun: 4°18' Pisces
Moon: 10°30' Cancer
Dominants: Sagittarius, Pisces, Cancer
Moon, Jupiter, Neptune
Height: Emily Blunt is 5' 7½" (1m71) tall
Biography of Emily Blunt (excerpt)
Emily Olivia L. Blunt (born February 23, 1983) is a Golden Globe Award-winning English actress known for her work in the film My Summer of Love and her appearance as Emily Charlton in The Devil Wears Prada. At the 2007 Golden Globes Ceremony, she won the Best Supporting Actress award for the BBC TV film, Gideon's Daughter, and was also nominated for The Devil Wears Prada.
Born: Friday, April 9, 1926
Sun: 19°18' Aries AS: 25°53' Virgo
Moon: 13°37' Pisces MC: 25°11' Gemini
Dominants: Pisces, Aries, Virgo
Mercury, Uranus, Neptune
Height: Hugh Hefner is 5' 9" (1m75) tall
Biography of Hugh Hefner (excerpt)
Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 (birth time source: the Wilsons, Astrodatabank, birth certificate) – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher, editor, businessman, and playboy. He was best known as the editor-in-chief and publisher of Playboy magazine, which he founded in 1953.
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CHILD ABUSE NETWORKS - WESTMINSTER AND BEYOND
The editor of the Daily Mail with Ghislaine Maxwell
The £118m child sex abuse probe finds no evidence of Westminster paedophile network
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART ONE
It is believed that Sir Jimmy Savile was an agent of the security services.
JIMMY SAVILE; HORACE MANN; ROY COHN; THE CIA
The blog Fighting Back has a child abuse Timeline
Here are extracts and some additions:
1950 - Eisenhower, Hoover, Edward Teller, and Ernest Lawrence attended the Bohemian Grove in California.
Reportedly, Bohemian Grove is where the top people meet to carry out child sacrifice.
BOHEMIAN GROVE AND THE US MILITARY
Eisenhower at Bohemian Grove 1950.
1953 - The US government sanctioned Project MKUltra, the CIA's programme to produce mind-controlled people, including sex slaves.
Experiments are carried out on large numbers of children taken from children's care homes, such as Boys Town.
A child victim of the CIA's MK ULTRA
The MK ULTRA scientists, working in around 80 institutions, include Nazi war criminals.
Donald Ewen Cameron worked on the programme in Canada and William Sargant worked on the programme in London.
The MK ULTRA scientists made use of torture.
Roger Dean Kiser-Founder of "The Whitehouse Boys", the boys of the Arthur G Dozier School. (http://www.thewhitehouseboys.com/)
1950s 1960s - The Arthur G Dozier School, in Marianna in Florida, was a home for boys.
Excavators have discovered 50 bodies buried in the grounds of the school, which was shut in 2011.
In 2008, the Governor of Florida, Charlie Crist, was forced to launch an investigation into the "hundreds of unmarked graves located at the school".
Marianna and Marianna Army Air Field.
Rape, torture and murder took place at this school in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
Don Stratton says "I witnessed them killing a boy, OK. They beat him to death."
Dick Colon said he was forced to lie face-down on a blood-soaked pillow that had small pieces of lip, tongue and skin from the previous boy's beating.
Colon recalls looking through the steamed-up window of a tumble-drier in the school laundry and seeing a black boy inside, churning round and round.
1950s and 1960s In Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom, there was 'Nazi-style' abuse of children in children's care homes.
One former resident says that "he was in a chain gang polishing floors, bathed in detergent as punishment and sexually assaulted by a woman when he was aged five or six.
The Sisters of Nazareth order of nuns oversaw St Joseph's Home in Termonbacca in Londonderry and used to bath the children in Jeyes fluid.
The witness claimed: "It was kind of like a Zyklon B gas chamber."
Church-run 'hell hole' homes were 'like Nazi concentration camps' / Children Forced To 'Eat Their Own Vomit' In Church-Run 'Hell Hole' / Children's homes 'like Auschwitz'
Nazareth Lodge
1955 - Earliest recorded instance of child abuse by Jimmy Savile, in Manchester when running dance hall.
Late 1950's - Savile (suspected of working for the security services) visits Moscow.
Mid 1950s - The charity Colonia Dignidad was set up in Chile by a 'Jewish Nazi' called Paul Schäfer Schneider.
Reportedly, the CIA, Mossad and the West German secret service used Colonia Dignidad for experiments involving the torture and mind control of kidnapped children.
"It was known since 1964 that the members of the commune were being subjected to torture; it was known since 1977 that political prisoners were tortured there; and the child abuse was known about since the 1970s."
Child abuse charity, CIA child torture, Colonia Dignidad
Colonia Dignidad, which became Villa Baviera.
"Germans in the colony knew how to keep a person alive for several days or weeks while putting him or her through the most terrible agony and humiliation..."
Colonia Dignidad is said to have links to a large number of Nazis linked to Operation Paperclip, MK ULTRA brainwashing, satanic ritual abuse, AmeriCares, the Knights of Malta and the Vatican.
German authorities investigated charges that from thirty to forty children reported missing from the Bonn and Cologne areas wound up at Colonia Dignidad.
Michael Townley - "the primary liaison between Colonia Dignidad and the Pinochet regime was an American CIA agent named Michael Townley who also served as a member of the Chilean secret police in addition to helping plan the military coup that ousted Allende. Latin American Cults Part I
1956 - John Ross led a fact-finding committee investigating Australian children's homes to which British children had been sent.
He wants 26 institutions blacklisted.
His report is ignored by the government.
It later transpires that large numbers of children have been tortured and raped in children's care homes in Australia.
Boys' home horror recalled.
Often the police have been involved in the abuse.
Two journalists from Australia's Sun-Herald claimed see evidence of the satanic ritual abuse of children.
They interviewed six mothers whose children had disclosed experiences of SRA and organised abuse in New South Wales.
LAND OF CHILD ABUSING CLERGY, POLITICIANS..
Cathy O'Brien
1957 - Cathy O'Brien is born. She becomes a child victim of the mind control government project named Project Monarch, part of MK ULTRA
She recalls that as a child she was sexually abused by international pedophile rings, drug barons and satanists.
THE BUSH FAMILY.
Moira.
11-year-old Moira Anderson is last seen boarding a bus in Coatbridge, near Glasgow, Scotland.
According to The Sunday Times (Pressure on police to release paedophile dossier), 23 April 2006, Strathclyde Police have a dossier listing members of a child-abuse ring.
The dossier is said to implicate senior public figures, including senior police officers and members of the Crown Office and former Scottish Office.
The Bexley Boys Home in Australia - opened in 1915 and closed in 1979.
1960s 1970s - Boys are being 'rented out' for abuse at a Salvation Army boys' home in Australia.
At several salvation army homes for boys in Australia, boys are being beaten and sexually abused.
"A man named FV told police that in 1974 the Superintendent of the Bexley home, Captain Lawrence Wilson, introduced him to a woman in Salvation Army uniform who was accompanied by a man.
"FV said they took him back to their home and sexually abused him."
1960 - In his book 'As It Happens', Savile describes this as the year he visits Elvis Presley in California.
Harvey Proctor.
1961, 1st January - Conservative Monday Club founded by Ian Greig, Paul Bristol, Cedric Gunner and Anthony Maclaren.
Some members that appear on the Elm Guest house (boy brothel) list are: Harvey Proctor, John Rowe, Peter Campbell, Richard Miles, Peter Glencross (editor of newsletter), Charles Irving and Stan Mathews (not footballer).
John Wetterer
1963 - War in Vietnam. AmeriCares began in Vietnam when Robert Macauley helped a 'child-abusing' American soldier, John Wetterer, set up the Shoeshine Boys Foundation.
Allegedly, the Shoeshine Boys was a pedophile ring serving the American military.
ukpaedos-exposed.com.
1963 - 1968 - abuse at Kincora boys home, Belfast (believed to be run as a boy brothel by MI5)
1963 - Male victim comes forward to claim Savile raped him in Cheshire but is told by police to "forget about it".
Kray Twins, possible victims of mind control.
1963 - Lord Boothby introduced to the Kray twins (gangsters who reportedly supplied young boys to the elite).
1964 - William Combes says he witnessed "the abduction of ten fellow residential school children by the Queen of England and her husband in October, 1964 at the Catholic school in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada."
Reportedly, around 50,000 aboriginal (native Indian) children died in residential schools in Canada
1965 - 1988 - Savile volunteer porter and fundraiser at Stoke Mandeville hospital. Also had his own quarters there. Satanic abuse alleged.
1965 - Greystone Heath, approved school for boys in Warrington, being used by child abuse ring.
http://www.nickdavies.net/1998/04/01...se-in-britain/
1966 - Mountbatten introduces Savile to Prince Philip.
1966 - Jimmy Savile awarded honorary green beret by the Royal Marines.
1966 - Michael Trestrail (linked to the Elm guest house boy brothel) becomes the Duke of Edinburgh's "personal police officer".
1967 - Prince Edward begins service as the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England, the governing body of Freemasonry in England and Wales.
Guy Marsden
1967 - 13 year old Guy Marsden, Jimmy Savile's nephew, frequently taken to wealthy celebrities houses in London with his friends, where men sexually abused girls and boys as young as 10, with Savile present.
1969 - Savile visits the child abuse island of Jersey.
1969, 10th December - Savile records 'Christmas Songs of Praise' for the BBC from Calder High School.
Warwick Spinks, who was caught on secret camera offering to supply a video in which a 10 year old boy was killed and one featuring the horrific abuse of a young boy
Early 1970's - soldier John Peters, who takes part in 'Bjorn tape' video of horrific sex assault on 8 yr old boy, goes absent without leave.
PEDOPHILE RING IN PRIME MINISTER'S HOME?
70's - 80's - abuse in Islington's children's homes under the watch of Margaret Hodge. Abuse in childrens homes nationally during this period an epidemic.
1970's - Savile becomes a regular visitor to Haut de La Garenne on the child abuse island of Jersey.
1970 - The Spartacus International Gay Guide published, annually. It lists child brothels worldwide.
1970 - first recorded instance of abuse by Savile at Duncroft school in Surrey.
Savile and Heath
1970, June 19th - Edward Heath, a frequent visitor to the child abuse island of Jersey, becomes Prime Minister.
1971, March 29th - Claire McAlpine, who had been a young dancer on BBC TV,commits suicide at 15. In her diary she named showbusiness personalities who she claims "used" her.
The allegations were dismissed both within and outside the BBC, and Jimmy Savile denied having known her.
Father Bruce Ritter mixing with the teenage boy prostitutes of New York.
1972 - Father Ritter, a vice president of Americares, set up a charity called Covenant House, 'as a cover for a pedophile ring'.
Cia's 'Christian' faction; AmeriCares, pedophile rings.
1973 - Michael Trestrail (linked to Elm Guest House) becomes the Queen's bodyguard.
1973 - 1982 - Children from Grafton Close Children's Home being abused at Elm guest house by top people.
PEDOPHILE RINGS; NAYPIC.
Right - Sir peter Morrison with Thatcher. Left - North Wales children's care home used as a boy brothel. ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE.
1974 - 1990 - Child abuse occurs at various North Wales children's homes.
Margaret Thatcher's close friend Sir Peter Morrison, and a McAlpine, are reportedly involved.
mid 1970's - P.I.E. campaign to legalise sex with children over 4.
1975 - Prince Edward serves as President of The Scout Association.
A large number of child celebrities are reported to be victims of the CIA's MK ULTRA mind-control.
1975 - Project MKUltra is brought to public attention by the Church Committee of the U.S. Congress.
1975 - Jimmy Savile 10 day 'state visit' to Israel. He meets President Ephraim Katzir and Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek, and was organised by John Levy of the Friends of Israel Educational Trust.
1975 - Savile reportedly beat and raped girl at Stoke Mandeville hospital as part of a satanic ritual with other adults in the hospital basement. He chanted 'Hail Satan' in Latin. Girl first spoke out in 1992.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/370...f-satanic-ring
1970s onwards - Boys being sexually abused at Boys Town.
Larry King got children for his Franklin child abuse ring from Boys Town, Omaha.
Child victims said that King took part in the satanic ritual murder of children. (Franklin Credit Union Child-Sex Scandal)
The "Washington Post", "New York Times", "Village Voice" and "National Law Journal" referred to the accusations.
King was linked to Iran-Contra.
King was said to have provided the CIA with information gained from the users of the child sex ring.
BOYS TOWN AND THE POPE / OMAHA IS FAMOUS.
Savile and Thatcher
1975, 30 October - 1980, 17 Nov- The Yorkshire Ripper murder spree.
Savile later viewed as a suspect in Ripper murders and questioned by West Yorkshire Police. Moulds taken of teeth.
1976 - Jimmy Savile at Haut de La Garenne sexually abuses ''John'' who is aged 10 at time of assault. Two top police officers officers claim that Jersey's the Haut de la Garenne care home was at the heart of a ''well-protected paedophile ring''.
Victims of the Oakland county child killer.
1975 - 1976 - Francis D Shelden owned North Fox Island, in Lake Michigan. The island was a major centre of child abuse activity. Shelden was also reportedly Frank Torey editor of PAN and of Spartacus with Stamford.
http://catherinebroad.wordpress.com/...circa-1975-76/
1976 and 1977 - Oakland county child killer, unidentified serial killer responsible for the murders of
four or more children, two girls and two boys, in Oakland County, Michigan, USA. Frank Shelden/Torey?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland...y_Child_Killer
1976 - Savile in Belfast, site of the Kincora Boy's Home (reportedly used as a boy brothel by MI5).
Guatemalan children with the Toybox charity which has links to the 'CIA front' organisation World Vision.
1976 - John Hugh Wetterer, a Vietnam War veteran founds an orphanage in Guatemala City called Mi Casa. According to reports, it becomes a centre of child abuse.
JOHN WETTERER, GEORGE BUSH, CHILD ABUSE IN Guatemala.
1977 - victim, aged 11, abused by Peter Righton and other members of P.I.E. in London until 16. Cyril Smith and other vips allegedly involved.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...ophile-1815932
1977, February 5th - Ripper victim number 3 - ROUNDHAY murder of Irene Richardson. Savile living at his penthouse flat overlooking the park at this time and some time before, yards from the murder. Savile viewed as a suspect and questioned by West Yorkshire Police. Moulds taken of teeth. David Wilson calls for inquiry.
1978, July - Savile thrown off luxury cruise liner SS Canberra after an assault claim on a 14 yr old and being quizzed by the Captain. (But he will back on board 15 yrs later in 1993.)
1979 - 81 - Vincent, abused in Elm Guest house age 11 and house next to church in Sea Rd, Bexhill.
1979, 4th May - Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister.
Martin Allen
1979, 5th November - Martin Allen, 15, disappears. Last seen by a friend at King's Cross Tube station as he made his way home from school.
Man and boy seen acting suspiciously at Earl's Court, just a few miles from Elm Guest House. Photofit bears remarkable resemblance to Harvey Proctor.
http://ukpaedos-exposed.com/cold-cas...n-london-1979/
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART SIX
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART FIVE
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART FOUR
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART THREE
CHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART TWO
CHILD ABUSE NETWORKS - PART ONE
Bodybuilders Word por Kurt Stallaert.
Certain documents explain how child abuse networks are protected.
The following is from: The Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics
The first document was a death bed testimony from an old woman named Jacqueline Smolders.
(Schaarbeek Police, Jacqueline Smolders interview, March 18, 1997)
Smolders started out by saying:
"I want to testify in relation to the murdered and missing children, the investigation of which is ongoing at the District Attorney's Office and the examining magistrate in Neufchateau."
(Neufchâteau, Belgium )
photo.huanqiu.com.
Smolders spoke about Le Stanley, a club in Brussels that organized sex orgies.
It existed from the 1960s until1972.
Smolders was a member at the time and knew the owner, Marcel Hofmans.
Members of the club included Belgian executives of U.S. corporations including IBM and Union Carbide.
The Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics
Michel Nihoul (left)
At the club was a young black girl that Smolders thought could well have been Virginie Baranyanka, the lawyer of Michel Nihoul who was part of the Dutroux child kidnap and murder scandal in Belgium.
Smolders suspected that at least several members of club Le Stanley must have known Nihoul.
Loubna Benaissa
Smolders was virtually certain that the father of the murderer of Loubna Benaissa (Dutroux Affair) had been a member of Le Stanley.
Smolders testified: "In the club was a member whom I didn't know by name but who was in the possession of a private airplane.
"He flew to Switzerland to get these films for Le Stanley.
"I know these films were flown from Sweden to Switzerland where the member in question went to pick them up."
Belgian parents.
"One day, in 1969, this plane crashed over the province of Namur with all the pornographic material onboard.
"The police intervened and all the pornographic material was confiscated.
lookheretech.blogspot.com.
"That evening, however, Marcel Hofmans had all the the movies in his possession, because of the intervention of apparently influential persons in the judicial sphere of Namur...
"I don't know the names of the persons who constantly protected him.
"I do know that it always involved very important persons, by their background, their wealth or social position.
"I'm talking about politicians, top-level army and police officers, judges and district attorneys."
(Schaarbeek Police, Jacqueline Smolders interview - March 18, 1997)
newsletter.tour-taxis.com.
Mary Porsont, who used to work at La Piscine, one of the clubs owned by Marcel Hofmans in the early 1990s, has also given a testimony that appears in the Dutroux files.
In the 1993-1994 period she worked for the labour union SETca (Syndicat des employés, techniciens et cadres) and the Socialist Party.
Among the people she got to know was a certain Richard de Groot.
De Groot soon introduced her to Roger Labarbe, the national chairman of the SETCa.
They offered her to come with them to sexual orgies, for which she would get a considerable compensation (she needed money).
Guy Coëme. Le Parti Sataniste (PS)
The three of them subsequently went to the swing club Hoeve Bornedries, which, according to de Groot and Labarbe, belonged to former defense minister Guy Coeme, who got burnt in the Agusta scandal (ELIO DI RUPO).
www.absoluteartgallery.com.
More frequently they would go to the private club La Lune des Pirates, which was later renamed La Piscine.
Porsont eventually ended up working at La Piscine.
About La Piscine Porsont testified:
"In the club I met magistrates, lawyers from the Court of Assisen, gendarmes, police officers, officers from the District Attorney's police, but also surgeons and other people with money...
In Belgium, Member of Parliament Laurent Louis publicised a list of names that an 'anonymous' group sent to all parliamentarians in Belgium. The list was of all the people ALLEGEDLY involved in the Dutroux affair. Among the names listed: US General Michael Aquino (who has had an important role in military psychological warfare; involved in "Monarch" brainwashing; Councillor for Western Europe Chiefs of Staff) Paul Bonacci, victim of Monarch brainwashing, Willy Claes Secretary General of NATO in 1994 and 95, Elio di Rupo currently Belgian Prime Minister, André Cools , assassinated Belgian government minister... http://jeugdzorg-darkhorse. blogspot.nl/2013/03/no-faith-in-dutch-family-law.html
"In the half year I worked at La Piscine I did not see any pedophile activity.
"But I did hear enough about the bizarre sexual preferences of so called higher ups and that there were possibilities to organize orgies with children.
"A certain Eric and Nina asked me to approach those higher ups who came to us at La Piscine and left their phone number with offers of special evenings.
"Especially Nottebaert ('a socialist politician who liked Sadism and Masochism') but also quite a few ministers turned out to be very interested in those kind of evenings.
"At the union and the Socialist Party I learned a lot about their sexual preferences.
Elio di Rupo
Porsont testified:
"Elio di Rupo (currently prime minister of Belgium), for example, who had a relationship with Spitaels's son."
(Guy Spitaels was a top politician in Belgium.
According to the declaration of Dany Lefrant to the Belgian Judiciary: "Pink Ballets (orgies with underaged children) took placee with ... SPITAELS Guy, at bar Le Cancan".
Le Cancan was the bar where Elio Di Rupo, according to Cancan's owners, went to pick up boys).
(ISGP - Belgian X-Dossiers)
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in Charlotte, North Carolina
Marcel Hofmans reportely set up a Belgian branch of the (reportedly CIA-linked) Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Cult which shared headquarters with La Piscine.
(HEADLEY AND CIA LINKED TO RAJNEESH CULT) (Parquet du Procureur du Roi, Brussels, PJ 301, No. 37117 - September 2, 1996)
The Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult (later called Osho) practiced free sexual relations.
The CIA and its friends are believed to be heavily involved with sex cults, new age groups, child abuse, satanic ritual abuse and mind control.
In April 1994, the address of this Bhagwan sect was changed to the Kammenstraat 29, 2000 Antwerp.
On November 27, 1995, police conducted a search at this very same address.
They were looking for Eric Mattheeussen, who had been accused of taking illegal photographs at a morgue in the aftermath of a tragic traffic accident.
Mattheussen used this building as a storage or working place.
In this building, the police found many boxes.
"In these boxes we find amongst other things thousands of photos of children...
"We find hundreds of pictures of corpses of children, often in the most hideous poses.
"Many of the pictures have been made by himself; other pictures were made on order by other photographers. ...
"In several boxes we find child pornography... penetrations of often very young children by grown ups, and also some very unusual pedophile fantasies. ... Pictures of deceased children in concentration camps... newspaper clippings of prominent disappearances."
(Gendarmerie, Antwerp Brigade, PV 113181/95 - November 27, 1995)
Boy from Charleroi in Belgium, near the home of Marc Dutroux, who allegedly worked for the security services. ( the world's worst ...)
Former Charleroi mayor and Walloon prime minister Jean-Claude van Cauwenbergh (who followed Elio di Rupo in this last position) reportedly has ties to child abuse networks.
The following is a 2004 letter written by Hans Laroes, editor in chief of the NOS News (one of the most respected news programs in the Netherlands), to the Council for Journalism:
"Already in 2000 top public official Joris Demmink attracted the attention of the research office of the [NOS] News.
"In march that year we did an investigation with the question if the Belgian Marc Dutroux Affair had tentacles in the Netherlands.
"It was the time that the Zandvoort child porn case had relit and the media was laying in front of the door of the Belgian Morkhoven workgroup.
"The name Joris Demmink had been given to me in conversations with detectives.
"These spoke about a 1998 investigation, ran from a very secret location in Utrecht: an investigation into a network of top public officials, two district attorneys (19 in total at the time in the Netherlands), a former minister, a former attorney of the Queen and a single professor who would have sex with underaged boys.
"The investigation had begun at the direction of the College of Prosecuter-Generals - instigated by the district attorney of Amsterdam, Vrakking.
"Demmink played an important role in that investigation. Detectives had suspected that this top public official had given information to one of the main suspects, the Amsterdam professor Van R., with whom he was friends. Because of that, the professor avoided prosecution, the detectives stated."
(January 1, 2004, Hans Laroes, editor in chief of the NOS News, to the Council for Journalism.)
The letter recalled how in October 2003 both the Gay Krant and Panorama magazines had published an article about Demmink (not giving his name), who was Holland's secretary-general of justice, and his apparent involvement in child abuse...
CHILD ABUSE NETWORKS - PART TWO .
CHILD ABUSE NETWORKS - PART THREE .
Labels: Child Abuse, networks
posted by Anon @ 01:27 35 Comments
At 25 February 2020 at 10:44 , Anonymous said...
How much can one lie?
https://deadline.com/2020/02/donald-trump-harvey-weinstein-1202867737/
Enorme scandale en Belgique : Les Anonymous publient une liste de personnalités impliquées dans le réseau de l'affaire Dutroux. (Article+Vidéos)
http://openyoureyes.over-blog.ch/article-enorme-scandale-en-belgique-les-anonymous-publient-une-liste-de-personnalites-impliquees-dans-le-r-105554633.html
@BBCNewsnight:
"In August 2015 I made it clear that there was no Westminster VIP paedophile ring. I was castigated for saying that."
"The inquiry, today, has justified fully what I have been saying."
- Former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor
https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1232437542391287809?s=20
@BarbaraMHughes:
"Get that fucker Harvey Proctor off your programme. Wtf is he doing on there. #Newsnight"
https://twitter.com/BarbaraMHughes/status/1232437367715201026?s=20
Ex Jersey Senator Stuart Syvret
@StuartSyvret:
"Don't think for one moment @InquiryCSA #IICSA is 'The-Word' on British child-abuse cover-ups
"#IICSA is every bit as corrupt - and intellectually indefensible - as the UK tax-haven Jersey island fake 'public-inquiry'
"Some of the same people worked in both.
"We got your number"
https://twitter.com/StuartSyvret/status/1232465046107635717?s=20
@craftymuvva:
"Yep, KINCORA is a blight on our history and it's a disgrace it was not investigated by iiCSA."
https://twitter.com/craftymuvva/status/1232404420111085569?s=20
Don Hale OBE @perryscope21:
"Nothing changes after IICSA cover up ..."
https://twitter.com/perryscope21/status/1232374025856442369?s=20
@cheeriowatson:
"Soon-to-be Baroness Alexis Jay paid £185k in 2015/16, over £190k in 2018/19 & probably more this financial year for chairing IICSA, with an extra £40k in expenses.
"So for £230k she has refused to speak to the media.
"Where is she?
"A lakeside retreat in Sweden perhaps?"
https://twitter.com/cheeriowatson/status/1232364448612003840?s=20
@financialeyes:
"Has Jay has turned a blinder eye to paedophilia than David Steel?"
https://twitter.com/financialeyes/status/1232537998182490112?s=20
@ProtestUrban:
"... 'no proof of Westminster vip paedo ring'
"You. Are. Having. A. Laugh.
"Warren Spinks made it totally clear EXACTLY a ring operated in Westminster, drunk, the night he raped me.
"Perhaps the inquiry didn't ask the right qs?"
https://twitter.com/ProtestUrban/status/1232428547995820032?s=20
@richardtgarland:
"Still nobody has offered a valid explanation as to why Kincora was not included in the CSA, leaving the HIA without the power to compel documents and witnesses. Instead we were given verbal assurances, and an Inquiry that victimised whistleblowers."
https://twitter.com/richardtgarland/status/1232296269504241667?s=20
@SobukiRa:
"... Not just Kincora. KENDALL HOUSE was also excluded, despite overwhelming evidence that children were raped and drugged by care home staff there."
https://twitter.com/SobukiRa/status/1232296955495297024?s=20
@AllyFogg:
"While we're rightly horrified at David Steel, don't forget during the same period MI5, the Northern Ireland Office & both Labour & Tory governments were turning a blind eye to - and probably actively instigating - systematic child abuse at Kincora Boys' Home."
https://twitter.com/AllyFogg/status/1232380964116074498?s=20
Islington Survivors Network
@theIslingtonSN:
"Islington survivors were taken by abusive childrens home managers from Grosvenor Ave and Gisburne House in 70s to HAUT DE LA GARENNE JERSEY - we have photographs ..."
https://twitter.com/theIslingtonSN/status/1232410329029709830?s=20
Cyril Smith accuser calls for David Steel to be prosecuted
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/25/cyril-smith-accuser-calls-for-david-steel-to-be-stripped-of-peerage
At 25 February 2020 at 23:20 , Anon said...
In Tel Aviv a plaque on a wall commemorates the life of jimmy Saville and his " service" to israel. In grove rd walthamstow was a boys club in the 1960s. It was run behind the scenes by the Krays, the Krays were run by seniour mossad operative mrs silverstein.
In the UK she ran youth clubs to find useful " proteges"
From web forum thread on current Julian Assange events
Meme photo of Julian with this text:
CIA Mossad & MI5-MI6 congratulate their agent faker & hoaxer
on a decade of success scamming & duping sheeple around the world!
'Without your lead I couldn't have scammed the whole world too!'
- Eddie 'Snowman' Snowden
'Hope you can fake die too, and then join me in Israel!'
- Jeffrey 'videoman' Epstein
https://i.ibb.co/PjkRxng/Julian-Assange-super-hoaxer.jpg
CIA-Mossad celebrate fake UK 'trial' of agent Assange Mr Super Fake
Sheeple luv 'muh hero' Julian Assange, ignore proof Wikileaks was always fraud & so is this week's UK 'extradition trial'
CIA-Mossad-MI5-MI6 laugh how sheeple will ignore proof Assange is hoax even if in their faces
- Sheeple ate up hoax re 'years living in Ecuador embassy' - just there for photos meetings
- Sheeple ignore how Assange luvs Israel n says 9-11 truthers, Israel critics are stupid loons
- Netanyahu long ago told Israeli media Assange was their asset
- CIA Brzezinski admitted on TV Wikileaks are from intel
- Assange a Rothschild boy, Wikileaked to destroy Rothschild rival bank Julius Baer, shared lawyer with Rothschilds, Rothschild sister-in-law posted his bail HA
- Assange lawyers serve MI5-MI6 Doughty Chambers, tho one John Jones was thrown under a train and killed, can't have people expose Julian is hoax
- Peter W Smith dead after contacting Wikileaks, Assange chuckles he never got the files HA
At 29 February 2020 at 03:30 , Julien romanovsky said...
http://alcuinbramerton.blogspot.com/2008/09/madeleine-mccann-held-on-private-orders.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-488654/Why-Portugal-haven-paedophiles--disturbing-backcloth-Madeleine-case.html
"Behind the abduction of four-year-old Madeleine McCann from the Ocean Club Resort, Praia da Luz, Portugal, on Thursday 3rd May 2007, was a shadowy German organisation called the Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst (DVD) and the Portuguese politician Jose Manuel Durao Barosso, the 12th President of the European Commission."
https://hnewswire.com/ruling-elites-pedophile-bloodlust-for-children-from-antiquity-to-today/
At 2 March 2020 at 11:33 , Julien romanovsky said...
https://www.place4free.com/Downloads/Books/Interesting/ORANJES.pdf
More orderly version of the "Dutch Pedo Files" of Anemary van Blijenburgh aka as the Supergetuige, the Superwitness.
In Dutch only, use the translation machine to get a global view.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWEw4nfhMVM (clear audio)
https://www.ecaglobal.org/deaf-survivors-to-pope-francis-you-knew-and-you-did-not-act/
Pope Francis and Argentina's 'disappeared'
- By Mark Dowd BBC News 11 April 2013
https://www.newsweek.com/romes-subculture-gay-priests-rocks-vatican-74397
by Barbie Nadeau 7/27/10
https://humansarefree.com/2017/07/largest-catholic-church-pedophile-bust-in-history-unprecedented-amount-of-child-porn-discovered-in-the-vatican.html
"The paradox is this: The catholic church defends to the last the right of the unborn child, and yet the right of the born child they seem to compromise on their own effort."
vid 4.40:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=292&v=xkt_vBMWHKE&feature=emb_logo
https://archive.org/details/pdfy-jE87IzV9MFhV07FV/page/n11/mode/2up
Kennedy - Lucifer's Lodge - Satanic Ritual Abuse in the Catholic Church (2004).pdf
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/894528/Bernard-Law-Boston-archbishop-child-abuse-Spotlight-Catholic-Church-Boston-Globe
https://eu.ydr.com/story/news/2019/09/04/list-abusive-priests-other-clergy-every-state-since-pennsylvania-grand-jury-report/2139297001/
List: Every abusive Catholic church priest, clergy member named in every state in past year (dec. 2019)
https://katc.com/uncategorized/2019/01/13/john-anthony-mary-engbers/
https://rapevictimsofthecatholicchurch.wordpress.com/category/bishop-david-zubik/
https://rapevictimsofthecatholicchurch.wordpress.com/category/bishop-christopher-coyne/
" In his trip to the United States in the fall, Francis told victims that "words cannot fully express my sorrow for the abuse you suffered." Yet his initiative to establish a Vatican tribunal to judge bishops who enabled or ignored pedophile priests has come to naught. Not a single bishop has been called to account by the tribunal, which itself remains more notional than real."
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/12/23/legionaries-christ-report-chain-abuse-victims-went-abuse-others
The report:"The vast majority of the victims were boys between the ages of 11 and 16... 111 of the 175 victims -- more than 63% -- "were either victims of Father Maciel or were victims of his victims."
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/scandal-secrecy
"In 2003, plaintiffs' attorneys Daniel J. Shea and Carmen Durso sent a copy of this newly uncovered "secret" Vatican document to the U.S. Attorney in Boston, alleging that Crimen provided proof that the Vatican had orchestrated a worldwide cover-up of clergy sexual abuse of children. Shea said that Crimen was "not just a smoking gun but a nuclear bombshell." The story made headlines around the world."
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/vatican-purchases-23m-building-that-houses-europes-biggest-gay-sauna-29123076.html
"If you can't go to the gay sauna for fear of being seen what do you do if you have millions of Euros stolen from Italians? You buy the apartment block with the sauna inside."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoulaehrD_I
How the Catholic Church Hid Away Hundreds of Irish Children | Times Documentaries--- NYT
https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/celebrities/2018/2475508.html
Bishops Disown Vatican for Child Rape, Sacrifices, Trafficking
Friday, September 28 2018
"Pope Francis made a direct order to conceal a mass grave of 400 dismembered baby corpses (believed to be ritually abused) - by the care taking nuns, jr - in a Tuam, Ireland Catholic Nun septic tank."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fbB0dvVJUM
"Ex-catholic nun, whistleblower Kerry Burnor - part 1 of 4
Prejudicing Catholics is clearly not the goal of the interview but is for efforts for exposing truth to effect reformation." A MUST WATCH - Part 1 of an Incredible - Each Part gets more intense - Believe me ! This is a 3 1/2 hour interview with Ex Catholic Nun Sister Keri Burnor. She gives us background of how she became a Nun, the sexual deviance that goes on in the church and how she became a targeted individual attacked by military grade Nano Technology."
At 11 March 2020 at 07:07 , Julien romanovsky said...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=GwUQXUiqYcU&feature=emb_logo
Uploaded by DefendingTheFaith. Why Is The Papal Audience Hall Shaped Like A Giant Reptile?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2BMDEtwer0&app=desktop
Uploaded by a former Catholic altar boy.
00.30 : "I am not knocking the Catholic faith or anything like that but it is my duty to follow the breadcrums no matter where they go, even if I don´t like what I see..."
http://robscholtemuseum.nl/neon-revolt-the-blood-on-bergoglios-head-argentinas-ghosts/
At 3 September 2020 at 03:34 , Anonymous said...
JORIS DEMMINK DUTCH PEDOPHILE MINISTER OF JUSTICE STILL NOT ARRESTED . WHY ?????
https://youtu.be/XM4tWW3bMy0
Greetings by @rogowskibubba on twitter
Name: Anon
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Prime Proposal Group Founder: 'It's About Delivering Results'
Tammye Brownlee, founder of Prime Proposal Group, shares how implementing a "less is more" strategy and building a team of financial advisors has helped her business along the path to success.
By: Sheryl Nance-Nash , Contributor
Tammye Brownlee, Founder of Prime Proposal Group, shares the ways in which her business has adjusted to recent struggles and the business tactics from which she's gleaned success. — Prime Proposal Group
Tammye Brownlee loves winning. "When my clients win, I win," said the owner of Prime Proposal Group.
Since 2019, her company has helped small and minority-owned businesses bid on federal, state, and local contracts, achieve certifications, get grants, and assisted with strategic planning, website design, brand development, and more.
Brownlee worked in universities, corporations and nonprofits in events and partnership management, corporate development, and strategic alliances. But for 25 years she also wrote grants and requests for proposal (RFPs). "My side hustle overshadowed my job. I had so much demand that it got to the point where the side hustle could sustain me. I can make in one month what some make in a year. So, I took the leap," said Brownlee, who is also a recipient of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's Coalition to Back Black Businesses (CBBB) 2022 Enhancement Grant.
In her short time in business, she has worked with some 400 clients—and she has seen results. From January through June of this year, she helped clients close more than $30 million in awards. But while business is booming, that's not to say there haven't been challenges.
Be ready to pivot
The evil twins of the pandemic and rising inflation hit her client base. Some of them have suffered revenue losses and others, particularly her transportation clients, have been affected by rising gas prices and have had to lay off staff.
As a result, she adjusted. "I put some clients on payment plans," said Brownlee.
Pre-pandemic conferences were also a way for her to network and get new business. When conferences stopped because of the pandemic, she responded by bolstering the company's digital presence, and increased the use of email marketing.
Focus on quality, not quantity
Like most entrepreneurs, Brownlee has experienced growing pains.
When she started her company, she had three vice presidents and about 15 independent contractors. "The focus was on volume. I thought I needed a lot of people to get the revenue I wanted. But quality went down," says Brownlee.
She then switched to a "less is more" strategy. Brownlee now has three design assistants and one federal grant review panelist who reviews grant applications for accuracy and completeness, and she does all the writing to maintain writing integrity. "The shift to quality and a boutique model is serving us well, allowing us to focus more on quality over quantity. We now handpick the right firms to work with to develop and implement growth opportunities in a sustainable and profitable way."
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Brownlee has learned some things the hard way, like taxes. "You're making a lot of money, say you brought in $1 million, but there's this tax bill for like $300,000 that you weren't expecting," says Brownlee. After her first year in business, she got an accountant and other advisors. That's one piece of advice she has for other entrepreneurs: "Get a team of advisors to help keep you compliant and afloat financially."
Keep seeking new opportunities
Right now, though, she's looking forward to relaunching her nonprofit to teach youth and POC entrepreneurship and eyeing expansion of her Miami business, that has many Midwest and Southeast clients, to include the West Coast and specifically Silicon Valley. "My research says there are a lot of POC business owners there [who] need support. I want to see how we can help bring their vision alive."
That's what she does. "It's about delivering results, winning."
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More natural gas vital to Queensland's electricity generation mix
Queensland's Natural Resources Minister Dr Anthony Lynham has reportedly told a conference on the Gold Coast that gas-fired power provided the "perfect co-existence model" alongside renewable energy sources such as solar, hydro and wind.
"The Minister has described gas as a "fuel of the future". All credible analysts agree with him," said APPEA Chief Executive Dr Malcolm Roberts.
"This is refreshing honesty in an often polarised energy debate. Queensland needs a mix of energy technologies to deliver reliable, affordable and cleaner electricity. No single technology can meet all these needs."
Queensland Natural Resources Minister Dr Anthony Lynham Gas has called gas "a fuel of the future".
The use of gas should be expanded as the use of renewables expands, because gas can be rapidly switched on or off to meet falls in output from intermittent wind and solar.
Failing to increase use of gas in step with expanding renewables will undermine emissions reductions as well as energy security.
"Gas-fired generation is unique in our energy mix," Dr Roberts said.
"It alone can supply electricity within minutes to meet spikes in demand or falls in output from other generators. It is ideal for supporting intermittent renewable energy because of this rapid response.
"The International Energy Agency has modelled how the world's use of energy will change to meet the challenge of cutting emissions. The IEA forecasts that, in a carbon-constrained world, the global use of natural gas will increase to 2040.
"The same point has been made for Australia. The most recent modelling for the Climate Change Authority indicates that we will need to more than triple output from gas-fired plants to meet our 2030 emissions targets.
"The Minister's comments are welcome. Gas should be playing a greater role in Queensland's future energy mix because it is cleaner burning, reliable, affordable and perfectly complements renewables," Dr Roberts said.
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'I felt a sense of relief' | North Carolina opens vaccine appointments to front-line essential workers
Gov. Roy Cooper announced North Carolina will open COVID-19 vaccine appointments for all essential front-line workers starting Wednesday, March 3.
Author: Chloe Leshner (WCNC), Richard DeVayne, Hank Lee
Published: 5:25 AM EST March 3, 2021
Updated: 6:05 PM EST March 3, 2021
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — One year after North Carolina reported its first lab-confirmed case of COVID-19, all essential front-line workers are eligible to get vaccinated against the disease.
They're the employees who have not been able to work from home or slow down, so that some aspects of life could remain business as usual.
Some have witnessed first hand the hardships local families have faced because of the pandemic.
"In 2020 with almost no volunteers we fed 120,000 people," said Paige Stryker, IT director for Loaves and Fishes. She can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Working for Loaves and Fishes makes her an essential frontline worker. Wednesday morning, she scheduled a vaccine appointment for later in the week.
"I'm just so excited to move forward and kind of be able to escape what we've all been dealing with for the past year. I felt a sense of relief that finally there's an answer, there's a solution for the pain and hurt this illness has caused a lot of Americans," she said.
Gov. Roy Cooper announced Tuesday that the state was opening vaccine appointments to the remainder of Group 3 one week ahead of the previously announced date of March 10. Now, pharmacies across North Carolina, in stores like Walgreens and Harris Teeter, have some appointments available, including some this week.
"The state and our providers continue to work extremely hard to get people vaccinated in a way that's fast and fair," Cooper said. "The third vaccine and improving vaccine supply will help us get more people vaccinated more quickly. Our essential front-line workers have remained on the job throughout this pandemic and I am grateful for their work."
Group 3 includes first responders and emergency personnel such as police and firefighters, people who work in-person in manufacturing, food and agriculture, grocery stores, government workers, and clergy, among others. The state will begin Group 4 vaccinations on March 24.
"They're ready to feel like they have some protection. Our clerks are required to wait on customers even without masks, and they have these plastic shields up but that doesn't protect everything," said Miriam Bell, a Charlotte-area USPS worker and president of the local APWU chapter.
Postal workers are among those that became eligible to get vaccinated on Wednesday.
"While I might get COVID and I'm okay, you could get covid and you could suffer debilitating illness from it or even lose your life. I think its important that people who can be vaccinated are," said Bell.
Allowing more people to get the vaccine is good news and shows vaccine distribution is gaining momentum. But, getting an appointment will be more competitive until the supply grows.
"While we're going to move into group 3, if the amount of vaccine allocation remains the same our efforts can't really be expanded," Dr. Jerome Williams with Novant Health said.
And until there's enough vaccine for everyone who wants it, those working on the front lines will be better protected.
"It's going to help us feel safer when we're in the community providing these necessary services and it's also going to help us provide more services because we'll be able to be better available in different pockets in the community," said Stryker.
Read more details about North Carolina's Vaccination Group 3 and Group 4.
Cooper received his first COVID-19 vaccine dose on Wednesday. He is eligible under group 3 because he is an elected official.
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As the race to vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as possible continues, tens of thousands of doses of the recently approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine will arrive in North Carolina Wednesday. State health leaders are expecting more than 80,000 doses, with 10,000 of them going to Mecklenburg County's health department. Those 10,000 shots will be shared with Atrium Health and Novant Health, the area's two largest health care providers.
"When you've been vaccinated you are incredibly well protected from covid. And as more and more people in our communities are vaccinated, we can get back to life," said Dr. David Priest with Novant Health.
The Mecklenburg County Health Department will begin booking appointments from March 10-31 starting at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 4.
"I think the main point here is that this is a fluid process as we learn more about what vaccine is available, and I think all of us are working as hard as we can to get those folks who need to be vaccinated," Health Director Gibbie Harris said.
State officials say people who can work from home should wait to get vaccinated with Group 4 if they qualify then or later.
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Have a relative or friend in another state and want to know when they can get vaccinated? Visit NBC News' Plan Your Vaccine site to find out about each state's vaccine rollout plan.
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Sequim mastodon creates mystery about the first humans here
The death of a mastodon nearly 14,000 years ago is helping reverse scientific thinking about the origins of human settlement in the Americas. Clearly, sophisticated hunting took place without any spread of culture from Alaska down the West Coast.
Daniel Jack Chasan
Clovis spear points
Who killed the mastodon? Now we know, as we had long suspected, that the beast probably didn't die of natural causes. Somebody stuck a spear into it. The bone point remained in its ribs. For 13,800 years.
The basic story has been well-covered recently: In 1977, Emanuel Manis was using a backhoe to dig a pond on his property in Sequim, when he unearthed the remains of a mastodon, one of the big, hairy elephant-like critters that inhabited much of North America during the Ice Age. Manis called in Washington State University archaeologists to look at the remains. WSU's Carl Gustafson found a piece of sharpened bone embedded in one of the mastodon's ribs. He concluded that the bone was a projectile point, that some early hunter had used it to do the mastodon in, and that this had all happened some 13,800 years ago.
At the time of Manis's find, people figured that the continent's earliest inhabitants had belonged to the Clovis culture, whose craftsmen made fluted stone points. Clovis people had obviously killed and butchered mastodons and mammoths — their distinctive points have been found with the bones — and they had obviously lived all over what is now the United States. But they had appeared in America — which is to say, their earliest spear points had been dated to — only — only! — 13,000 years ago. When Manis scooped those dark, curving tusks out of the mud, the archaeological mantra was "Clovis first."
If Gustafson was right that the mastodon had been killed by people rather than dying of other causes, Clovis wasn't first. In fact, someone had beaten the Clovis culture to the Northwest by 800 years.
Until the latest developments, most scientists were skeptical that there were any peoples in the area before the Clovis culture. "That Clovis-first model really took root into the psyche of archaeologists," says archaeologist Michael Waters. The mastodon tusks and bones were displayed at the Museum & Arts Center in Sequim. Gustafson retired. The Manis find became a kind of footnote to regional history.
Waters, who directs the Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A&M University, and colleagues took a new look at the evidence. They ran the rib through a powerful CAT scan. They sampled DNA from both the rib and the point embedded in it. They dated protein from the rib. Their conclusion: Gustafson was right all along. Someone really had speared the mastodon. And it really had happened 13,800 years old.
That conclusion seems less revolutionary now than it did in 1977. Evidence of pre-Clovis people had been around since the 1950s and '60s, Waters explains, but most archaeologists didn't want to believe it, and they always found a plausible reason not to. Then came Monte Verde: Papers published in the late 1980s suggested that people had lived at a site in Chile at least 14,800 years ago.
"Monte Verde was really the big turning point for a lot of us," Waters says. "But it wasn't the turning point for a lot of people." After all, "it was only one site." But Monte Verde no longer stands alone.
Archaeologists keep finding new evidence of pre-Clovis people. Waters himself has excavated a site in central Texas that may date back 15,500 years. There's another pre-Clovis site in Wisconsin, others in Pennsylvania, Virginia and elsewhere, and one in the Paisley caves of central Oregon where coprolites — mummified turds — have yielded human DNA dating back 14,500 years, the oldest human DNA found on this continent. Earlier this year, archaeologists identified delicate points found on California's Channel Islands as artifacts of a non-Clovis people who may have both preceded and coexisted with Clovis culture. "Clovis first" seems on its way to join such historic slogans as "Nixon's the one" and "all the way with LBJ."
Which begs the question of who these guys were, if not Clovis. At this point, no one knows.
Did small groups of Ice Age guys with bone- or stone-tipped spears wipe out whole species of megafauna? Probably not. At least not single-handedly. The Ice Age was over. Nicholas Wade wrote in The New York Times two years ago, "Whenever modern humans reached a new continent in the expansion from their African homeland 50,000 years ago, whether Australia, Europe or the Americas, all the large fauna quickly disappeared." One could evoke climate change and other explanations, but "circumstantial evidence from the fossil record suggests that people's first accomplishment upon reaching new territory was to hunt all its all large animals to death."
Sediment cores from old bogs have shown that spores of fungi that grow on the dung of large mammals were abundant 15,000 years ago. The number of spores and presumably of animals started dropping 14,800 years ago. They became gradually less abundant for 1,000 years. Then, about 13,800 years ago, spore numbers dropped sharply. By 12,700 years ago — about the time the mastodons and mammoths go extinct — they were gone. What happened 13,800 years ago to the critters whose dung nourished the fungi that produced spores? The Manis mastodon offers a clue: People with bone points and atlatls started killing them.
Or did they? In writing about the implications of the dwindling spores, The Times' Wade suggested that on the other hand, it isn't "clear that the pre-Clovis people had the technology to take down large game like mammoths."
Well, evidently the Manis site makes it clear. Those pre-Clovis people out in Sequim evidently made a habit of taking down large game. Not only did somebody kill the Manis mastodon, Waters and colleagues also found that somebody had killed it with a point made of mastodon bone. And, Waters explains, old mastodon bone would be too brittle; any pre-Clovis toolmaker would have used fresh bone.
But could those pre-Clovis guys really have driven even a nice, fresh mastodon-bone point into a mastodon rib? Waters doesn't see why not. For one thing, he says, the point itself, thin, tapered, shaped much like a bullet, penetrates extremely well. "Bone projectile points are really durable weapons and really lethal weapons," he explains.
For another, those early hunters must have used atlatls or spear throwers, which extended the length and therefore the leverage of a human arm. Waters says that some people have built and experimented with such weapons. Not surprisingly, the researchers have found that those old tool makers knew what they were doing. "I saw a fellow take one of these spears," Waters says, "and launch it with an atlatl, and it went through quarter-inch plywood."
He recalls that there was "an old car out there in the field, and he shot it at the old car, and it went right through the door." These guys weren't primitive. Clovis points, while they had more cutting power, wouldn't have penetrated a mastodon as well, Waters says.
Maybe the hunter threw his spear in a long arc that came down into the animal's side, Waters speculates. Or maybe this mastodon was on its last legs, and the hunter launched his spear close up. Either way, would a single hunter have taken on a beast that large? "I don't think anybody would have gone alone," Waters laughs. He envisions those late-Ice-Age hunters working in groups, the way African hunters have worked to bring down elephants: A lot of people drive spears into the animal, then they follow it until it finally bleeds out.
The hit men had arrived. But who were they? Clearly, they weren't Clovis ... yet. Perhaps, eventually, they became Clovis. Why not? Someone did. We don't know much about the Clovis people, but they evidently didn't bring their fluted stone point technology down from Alaska. Fluted points found in Alaska are 1000 years younger than those found in the Lower 48, which suggests that the culture spread south to north. "Pretty clearly," Waters says, "Clovis did not come from Alaska." But you don't have to imagine that culture arriving from somewhere else.
"All the antecedent technologies that could become Clovis are present in North America" before Clovis appears, he says. University of Oregon archaeologist Jon Erlandson, co-leader of the project that found and dated the spear points on the Channel Islands, hypothesizes that maybe the seafaring people who left the points there continued down the coast to the Isthmus of Panama, from where some continued south and others turned north, eventually making their way to the interior United States, where they developed the Clovis culture.
'It makes logical sense that the people who were here before Clovis became Clovis," Waters theorizes. "Now the big question is why? ... Why did Clovis all of a sudden appear on the landscape? How did Clovis spread? ... What was the spark?"
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Study reveals internet access inequities in Seattle and Portland
CenturyLink offers some poorer neighborhoods with more residents of color slower internet for higher prices, an analysis found.
Kaylee Tornay
Daniel Jack Chasan is an author, attorney, and writer of many articles about Northwest environmental issues.
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Five Minutes with a| Gaz Regan
by Jack Robertiello |
Oct 20, 2009 12:25pm
Gaz Regan, the bartender formerly known as Gary, just released his latest book, The Bartender's Gin Compendium (Xlibris Corporation, August 2009). He graciously offered to sit still for an interview for our inaugural issue.
NCB Mix: Why The Bartender's Gin Compendium?
Regan: I was trying to clean up my computer to make it easier for me to find stuff, and I noticed that I had lots of material about gin. I like gin. I thought, "Wait a minute, I bet if I did a lot of copying and pasting, I'd have a book in no time at all."
That's not how the book came together, though. I started to do more research and one thing led to another, and before I knew it two years had passed. Books have a long gestation period, you know.
NCB Mix: Here's where you make your sales pitch: Why should any bartender or industry pro buy this book?
Regan: If you have a question about gin, the answer is in this book. It covers all styles of gin, describes how each is made, goes into the history of all gins, and I peppered the thing with barroom tales, quotations, trivia and hundreds of cocktail recipes old and new.
NCB Mix: Why is gin so hot now among bartenders?
Regan: It's been hot for a few years among bartenders. The big news is that it's hot among consumers right now, so bartenders need to know this category inside out.
NCB Mix: Can you define the various types of gin for us?
Regan: Four: Dry, Genever, Old Tom and Plymouth.
Dry gin can be broken into four styles: Compound gin, made by adding oils and essences to vodka; distilled dry gin, made by re-distilling vodka with various botanicals, juniper among them; New Western dry gin; and London dry gin.
London dry gin has just been re-defined by the European Union. Here's an excerpt from the book that will, hopefully, explain.
"The powers that be in the European Community saw fit, in 2008, to redefine gin, and they didn't do a bad job of it, but they weren't bloody wizards when it came to gin, either … I think it's necessary to point out one aspect of these mandated guidelines that threw a spanner in the works when it comes to that beautiful style of gin that we've lovingly known as London Dry Gin for over a century.
"London Dry Gin, as a category, probably needed some tightening up, since it used to refer to any distilled gin that was made 'in the style of' London Dry—a pretty vague definition. One of the aspects of these new regulations has made it necessary for some gins to take the word 'London' off their labels. Since these new regulations went into effect, you see, in order to use the phrase 'London Dry,' the gin must be made by having all its botanicals distilled into it in one fell swoop — and that's not easy.
"The temperature at which gin distillers run their stills makes a massive difference to the end product, mainly because, in lay terms, some botanicals release their flavors better at different temperatures than others. It might be desirable, therefore, to distill the botanicals separately, each one at the appropriate temperature, and then marry the resultant distillates to make gin. Or perhaps the botanicals can be distilled in, say, three different batches, each at a different temperature, before the three 'flavored vodkas' are united in a gin bottle. This sort of stuff can make quite a huge difference to the finished product.
"There are quite a few styles of Genever, but it's fairly safe to say that in order to make this style of gin, a mash of grains (basically beer) is distilled into a whisky-like spirit known as malt wine. The malt wine is then married to another spirit that's essentially a dry gin, made by distilling botanicals, including juniper, into neutral grain spirits. The percentage of malt wine in any bottling of Genever will drastically alter the flavor of the spirit, of course, and if Genever is aged, then this, too, has an effect on the product.
"Old Tom was probably a euphemism for gin in the 1700s, and at some point in the early 1800s, when distillers started adding sugar to their gins, probably to disguise their badly made spirits, Old Tom became a term that used to describe sweetened gins. These gins could have been Genever, or Genever-style gins that might have been aged, or could have spent time in wood when they were transported, thus getting just a little age on them. By the end of the 1800s it's more than likely that most bottlings of Old Tom gin were sweetened dry gins.
"In defining Plymouth gin as a category, it's possible only to say that Plymouth is a gin that's made in Plymouth. But we can say that Plymouth gin has less juniper up front than traditional London dry gins, and because more sweet root botanicals and fewer bitter botanicals are used in its production, Plymouth gin certainly has a style all its own. Call it a somewhat gentler gin than London Dry, but a gin with tons of character all the same. And strangely enough, because of the newly written E.U. regulations that define styles of gin, Plymouth gin could legally be called a London dry gin, since all the botanicals are distilled into the gin in one fell swoop."
NCB Mix: You also mention New Western Gin — what's that?
Regan: Ryan Magarian, one of the producers of Aviation Gin, wrote a definition for me (it's in the book):
"This designation seems to have evolved over the past nine years, as a result of efforts from both large brand houses and regional distillers in Europe and in the United States. In taking a good hard look at today's rather loose definition of dry gin, these distillers realized a greater opportunity for artistic 'flavor' freedom in this great spirit and are creating gins with a shift away from the usually overabundant focus on juniper, to the supporting botanicals, allowing them to almost share center stage. And while the juniper must remain dominant in all dry gins, these gins are most certainly defined, not by the juniper itself, but by the careful inclusion and balance of the supporting flavors, creating what many experts believe to be an entirely new designation of dry gin that deserves individual recognition."
NCB Mix: How do you tell quality gin from those that are poorly made?
Regan: Bad gins are lacking in complexity, and they usually bear a glycerine oiliness, too. They are pretty easy to spot.
NCB Mix: What's your favorite gin cocktail?
Regan: The East Ender, which is my creation; though it's actually just a Sweet Martini circa 1900, with a lot of bitters, unless you want to call it a gin-based Manhattan.
The East Ender
3 ounces London dry gin
1 ounce sweet vermouth
3 to 5 dashes Angostura Bitters
Serve on the rocks or straight up with an orange twist garnish (optional).
NCB Mix: Anything you'd like to share about the book that we haven't touched on?
Regan: I need to sell tens of thousands of these babies if I'm gonna make the rent this month.
Spirits Bartenders Cocktail ideas Beverage trends
Jack Robertiello
Founder - Drinks Ink
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EWELL v. PETRO PROCESSORS OF LOUISIANA, INC.
Civ. A. No. 86-693-B.
From F.2d, Reporter Series
508 F.2d 920 - WATKINS v. GROVER, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
667 F.2d 1385 - ARMSTRONG v. ALABAMA POWER CO., United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
676 F.2d 152 - IMFC PROFESSIONAL, ETC. v. LATIN AM. HOME HEALTH, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit B
737 F.2d 435 - SPENCER v. NEW ORLEANS LEVEE BD., United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
From So.2d, Reporter Series
298 So.2d 848 - COX v. W. M. HEROMAN & CO., INC., Supreme Court of Louisiana.
376 So.2d 340 - GOAD v. MAY, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.
370 So.2d 521 - LOTT v. HALEY, Supreme Court of Louisiana.
From U.S., Reporter Series
305 U.S. 382 - MINNESOTA v. UNITED STATES, Supreme Court of United States.
355 U.S. 41 - CONLEY v. GIBSON, Supreme Court of United States.
461 U.S. 273 - BLOCK v. NORTH DAKOTA EX REL. BOARD OF UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL LANDS, Supreme Court of United States.
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Pavesi Ringo Vanilla Cream Cookies, 1...
Pavesi Ringo Vanilla Cream Cookies, 11.6 oz (330 g)
PavesiSKU: IT-2949
Pavesi Ringo cookies are one of the most beloved treats in Italy. Famed for their lusciously sweet flavor and crunchiness, these vanilla cream-filled cookies provide a perfect harmony of soft and crumbly texture. Made with no palm oil, this pack of Ringo contains 6 cookies enriched with fragrant vanilla filling.
Sandwich biscuit is a type of treat that consists of two cookies and a smooth, creamy filling that varies from chocolate and vanilla to cream cheese, peanut butter, caramel, and many other options. Hydrox, the original sandwich cookie, had its debut in 1908. Although it wasn't a huge success (as you might have guessed from the odd name), it became a total game-changer on the market, inspiring cookies like Oreo (chocolate sandwich cookies with a creamy white filling) and Italian Ringo (with both chocolate and vanilla cookies in response to the Oreo's). To discover more of Italy's favorite treats, including sandwich cookies, wafers, traditional Cantuccini, amaretti, ladyfingers, and more, check out our wide selection of Italian cookies!
Pavesi is an authentic Italian cookies manufacturer famed for its two-tone filled Ringo cookies. Founded in 1937 by Mario Pavesi, this brand began making biscuits in a small oven in the capital city of Piedmont - Novara. These cookies were an instant success that turned into an industrial scale production after only 3 years. Their biggest hit, Ringo cookies, was launched in 1967 and became the cookie of new generations with the name reminiscent of the famous drummer of The Beatles - Ringo Starr. With an iconic tube-shaped packaging, these irresistible cream-filled cookies became an absolute banger that you can find in our wide assortment of Italian grocery items along with many other unique as well as popular Italian products.
Ringo vanilla cream cookies by Pavesi are bound to become your favorite pantry snacks ready to be enjoyed at any time of the day. Whether you'd like to pair them with a cuppa or munch on them as-is, Ringo vanilla biscuits will make for a perfect way to add an Italian character to your dessert sessions.
Ingredients: Wheat flour, vegetable oils (sunflower oil, canola oil, shea oil), sugar, wheat starch, dextrose, whey powder, low fat cocoa, glucose syrup, salt, leavening agents (sodium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate), vanillin: an artificial flavor. Contains wheat, shea nuts, and milk. May contain peanuts, other tree nuts, soy, and eggs.
Product Weight: 11.6 oz (330 g)
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Rita Wilson to perform at BMI event at Sundance festival
NEW YORK (AP) - Rita Wilson is known for her acting chops, but she will be singing at the Sundance Film Festival.
Performing rights organization BMI said Tuesday that Wilson, singer-songwriter Craig Wedren and pop singer Morgan Saint will perform at its 16th annual Snowball on January 23 at The Shop at Park City, Utah.
BMI will also hold its 20th annual composer/director roundtable, dubbed "Music & Film: The Creative Process," on January 21 during the festival. Panelists include Emmy-winning composers Jeff Beal and Dustin O'Halloran; Emmy-winning filmmaker Lauren Greenfield; and Peter Golub, director of the Sundance Institute Film Music Program.
FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2018 file photo, actress and singer Rita Wilson attends the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. Performing rights organization BMI said Tuesday, Jan. 9, that Wilson, singer-songwriter Craig Wedren and pop singer Morgan Saint will perform at its 16th annual Snowball on Jan. 23 at The Shop at Park City, Utah. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
Wilson has appeared in several films, TV shows and on Broadway. She has released two albums.
The 2018 Sundance Film Festival will be held January 18-28.
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Reno Convention Authority CEO Phil DeLone Resigns, Misconduct Allegations Arise
Posted on: February 20, 2020, 11:57h.
Last updated on: February 20, 2020, 12:07h.
Phil DeLone, CEO of the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority (RSCVA), has resigned amid misconduct allegations, though he cited medical reasons for his departure.
Phil DeLone is out as CEO of the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority. (Image: RGJ)
The Reno Gazette Journal broke the news earlier this month that DeLone was under investigation by the RSCVA.
Though the authority declined to provide specifics as to what alleged misconduct was committed by the chief executive, the media outlet learned from sources close to the matter that it involved improper sexual behavior. The Reno-based convention and visitors bureau confirmed his departure yesterday.
"In accordance with the terms of his Employment Agreement, Mr. DeLone has tendered his resignation as the President/CEO of the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority, citing medical reasons," a RSCVA statement explained. "Mr. DeLone's resignation will be addressed at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the RSCVA Board of Directors."
The authority added, "The RSCVA wishes Mr. DeLone well as he addresses his medical needs."
The RSCVA is tasked with attracting overnight visitors to the Reno Tahoe area. The Washoe County Reno market reported gross gaming revenue win of $626.8 million last year – a 1.59 percent decline compared with 2018.
Reno Too
According to the Reno Gazette Journal, DeLone has a long track record of being accused of sexual misconduct – long before the #MeToo movement changed the social climate regarding bringing such allegations to light.
The paper reached out to a woman who accused him in the 1990s of such misconduct while he was the executive director of Safari Club International. Dianne Jurica claims DeLone fostered a male-dominant culture, and that, per his leadership, "several board members just condoned the environment."
When Phil came in, it just seemed to bring the worst out in some of the board members and their attitudes toward the women and staff," Jurica stated. "(DeLone) was like a facilitator, really."
The RGJ says DeLone has been accused of misconduct in three of his last four job stops.
DeLone was hired as RSCVA CEO in November of 2016. He came to the authority from the Safari Club, where he also served as chief executive. DeLone holds a degree in hotel administration from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
Last August, DeLone received a $110,000 bonus and a five percent pay increase to bring his annual compensation to nearly $400,000.
Tourism Scandals
The Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority is the second-largest tourism board in the state behind its Las Vegas counterpart. And similarly to the RSCVA, the authority in Sin City has recently been engulfed in scandal.
Rossi Ralenkotter, the former CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), is charged with improperly using $90,000 worth of Southwest Airlines gift cards. An investigation found that Ralenkotter and others allegedly devised a scheme to make the gift cards appear to be promotional credits given to LVCVA executives.
In reality, however, the cards were said to be purchased with LVCVA funds. The case is ongoing, and set to continue in May when a judge will determine whether a trial is warranted.
Former Reno-Sparks CEO Allegedly Called Mayor 'C-Word,' Harassed Female Employees
Reno Convention and Visitors Authority CEO Phil DeLone Under Investigation of Alleged Misconduct
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Steve Wynn Investigation Littered with Confidentiality Issues, New WSJ Report Claims
Experian Study Says Online Gamblers' Attention Span Is Four Minutes
Devin O'Connor — June 10, 2020
Devin O'Connor — February 4, 2020
Philip Conneller — June 18, 2018
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Shaping Young Minds: Meet Kezia Stegemoeller
The executive director of the Friends of the Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy is proud of the successes of the school's students.
The school will graduate its fifth class of seniors this year, and so far it has an enviable record—a 100 percent graduation rate and college attendance rate.
by Nicholas Sakelaris • May 3, 2019
Kezia Stegemoeller, executive director of the Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy
It doesn't take long for Kezia Stegemoeller's passion to show through. Just get her talking about the students at the Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy in Dallas—currently numbering 460—and the many successes they've had.
She calls them "big smile moments."
Stegemoeller is the executive director for the Friends of the Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy, a nonprofit that raises money for the Dallas Independent School District magnet school.
Her wide-ranging efforts may entail securing a grant to send students on a college visit, giving them the chance to study abroad, or funding full-time college advisers to help students stay on track for graduation and college.
"There are so many parts of my job that I'm incredibly proud of," she says. "Exposure is so important for any young person, but especially from communities where their parents and family members may not have access or relationships to make that happen."
"Without the natural curiosity and interest, my job wouldn't be possible," Stegemoeller says. "I bet so much on our young men because I believe in them so much. They work so hard and they try so hard."
No matter what she's doing, these youngsters are on her mind.
In 2018, she participated in the Dallas Regional Chamber's Leadership Dallas program. This class, and the alumni group she participated in afterward, gave her a direct pipeline to Dallas' business elite, the perfect role models for the students at the school.
"There are so many corporations here. Being part of the Dallas Regional Chamber (DRC) allows me to be a bridge," Stegemoeller said. "I formed relationships with presidents of banks, vice presidents, and architecture firms. More than half of my [leadership] class visited the campus throughout the last year." She adds that she's had dinner or breakfast with nearly everyone in her DRC leadership class to talk about what she does.
She and the business leaders did some valuable community service during that class. Their project was remodeling a shed at the Promise House, a homeless shelter for youth in Dallas. They made it a functional space for the children and spent time playing games with them.
Stegemoeller also works with the Junior League of Dallas, an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, which gives her a welcome chance to join in the energy of other women. One of their recent projects was helping Our Friends Place, a Dallas-area organization that, among other things, helps young women who age out of foster care.
This falls right in line with her passion to help local underserved youth.
She believes the work she does at Friends of the Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy, the DRC, and the Junior League will bring benefits far beyond the people she's directly helped.
"There's a ripple effect to philanthropy. There's a ripple effect to love, and there's a ripple effect to care," she says. "I'm doing my part as best I can to make Dallas better for everyone. I want people to understand that when we strengthen communities that are disenfranchised, we strengthen everyone."
The academy's first alumni are now graduating from college, and Stegemoeller has an active interest in tracking their progress.
"I am eager to find out where our alumni are going and what they're going to do to change the world," she says. "I'm happy to have played a very, very small part in changing their trajectory and that of their families."
Leadership Dallas, the flagship program of the Dallas Regional Chamber for leadership development, is aimed at increasing the leadership pool for community activities in the Dallas area.
This story first appeared in the Dallas-Fort Worth Real Estate Review.
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The DEC Network's State of Entrepreneurship Event Has a Confirmed Speaker Lineup and a New Title Sponsor
The State of Entrepreneurship will celebrate the people behind North Texas' thriving startup ecosystem on May 5. Title sponsor Dallas Incorporated helps take innovations from idea to market in 30 days. This year, attendees can enter to win $100,00 of startup support. Here's how, along with the just-announced lineup of speakers.
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Home » Latest » UN chief to address Afghan moot in Islamabad, to visit Gurdwara in Kartarpur
UN chief to address Afghan moot in Islamabad, to visit Gurdwara in Kartarpur
In Lahore, Antonio Guterres will meet students; to attend an event on polio vaccination campaign
by Muhsen Ali
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Prime Minister Imran Khan will inaugurate two-day international conference on 40 years of hosting Afghan refugees in Pakistan.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will pay a three-day visit to Pakistan from February 16 and will address an international conference on 40 years of hosting Afghan refugees in the key South Asian country.
The two-day conference, which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Imran Khan, is being organized in Islamabad by the Pakistan government and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Although Antonio Guterres has been to Pakistan several times as UN High Commissioner for Refugees, this will be his first visit as the UN secretary-general.
Antonio Guterres will address an international conference in Islamabad along with High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi
UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq said that the secretary-general would speak at the international conference, along with High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, and would participate in a high-level panel discussion and other events at that conference. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Antonio Guterres and Filippo Grandi would also speak to the press, he said.
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Foreign Office spokesperson Aisha Farooqui said in Islamabad that the two-day conference, inaugurated by Prime Minister Imran Khan, will be attended by ministers and senior officials from around 20 countries, who have been supporting the refugees across the globe. She said that this conference is taking place at a critical juncture when efforts at consolidating peace in Afghanistan are making progress.
Officials said that the meeting in Islamabad will provide an opportunity to highlight the exemplary compassion, generosity, and hospitality exhibited by Pakistan, in hosting one of the largest refugee populations in the world. The participants would also identify key developments and milestones in the 40-year-long evolution of the refugee situation, identify challenges, and discuss solutions for dignified repatriation of the refugees to Afghanistan.
Pakistan is confident that the participants will reinforce efforts as agreed at the UN Global Compact on Refugees and Global Refugee Forum to bring about a renewed focus on the refugees. Aisha Farooqui said that it will help in building a positive narrative on refugees, especially at a time when borders are being closed on them and millions are being made stateless under nationalistic and ideological pretense.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will travel to Kartarpur to visit Gurdwara before returning to New York.
During his stay, the UN chief will also meet President Arif Alvi on Monday. The secretary-general would be in Lahore on February 18, where he would meet students and attend an event on Pakistan's polio vaccination campaign. The UN chief will also travel to Kartarpur to visit Gurdwara before returning to New York on February 19.
Late last year, UN High Commission for Refugees Deputy Representative Iain Hall said that Pakistan is not only a key partner as far as services to refugees are concerned where it has been rendering valuable services for the past 40-years for more than 1.5 million Afghan refugees but also for peacekeeping around the world.
A total of 6.3 million Afghan refugees were hosted in Pakistan and Iran by 1990, he said. By 2013, Afghanistan was the largest refugee-producing country in the world, a title it held for 32 years. At the moment, Iain Hall said that Afghans are the second-largest refugee group after Syrians. The majority of Afghan refugees (95%) are located in Pakistan and Iran, he said.
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Muhsen Ali is a co-founder and senior journalist at The Wallet.
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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 2, West London
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 2, West London. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1925.
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9. KENSINGTON.
(O.S. 6 in. London, Sheet J.)
The borough of Kensington is generally conterminous with the civil parish of the same name, but includes a portion of the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster. The principal monuments are Kensington Palace and Holland House. The former, built by William of Orange, became the normal residence of the princes of the House of Hanover and the birthplace of Queen Victoria. Holland House, a great Jacobean mansion, passed from Sir Walter Cope, the builder, to the Riches, Earls of Holland and Warwick, and from them, by descent, to the Earls of Ilchester. It was here that Addison died.
(1) Parish Church of St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, was entirely rebuilt in 1869–72, but contains from the old church the following:—
Fittings—Coffin-lid: In churchyard—immediately S.W. of W. doorway, upper half of marble (? Bethersden) coffin-shaped slab, with remains of brass rivets, probably late 13th-century. Monuments and Floor-slabs. Monuments: In organ-chapel—on W. wall above arcade, (1) to Lionel, only son of William Ducket, 1693, (he married Martha Ash), plain white marble tablet with cartouche-of-arms. In vestibule to vestry—S. wall, (2) to Henry Frohock, A.M., 1692, white marble tablet with flowers and palmborder, oval form, with shield-of-arms. In S. transept—on W. wall, (3) to John Dickens, 1694, and Catherine, his widow, 1702, white marble draped tablet with two cherubs. In N. aisle— on N. wall, (4) to Laud D'Oyley, eldest son of Robert D'Oyley, 1709, white marble tablet with drapery, cherub-head, and shield. In S. aisle— on S. wall, (5) to Colin Campbell, 3rd son of John, 1st Earl of 'Bread Albany' and Holland, and Mary (Campbell), Countess Dowager of Caithness, his second wife, 1708, white marble tablet with cherubs, fruit, drapery and cartouche-of-arms; (6) to Thomas Henshaw, 1700, Gentleman in ordinary of the Privy Chamber to Charles II and James II, etc., and Anne (Kipping), his wife, 1671, five sons and one daughter, black and white marble tablet with cornucopias and drapery: achievement-of-arms at top; (7) to Aaron Mico, merchant, 1658 (he married Joanna Methold), black and white marble tablet with segmental pediment, moulded sill and achievement-of-arms. On W. respond of S. arcade, S. side, (8) to Anthony Carnaby, 1678, and Mary, daughter of Anthony Carnaby, 1705, black marble tablet with plain white marble frame. In porch —on W. wall, (9) to William Courtens, 1702 (?), freestone tablet with cherubs and shield-of-arms. In churchyard—in passage N. of tower, (10) to Henry Dawson, M.P., alderman and twice mayor of Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1653, freestone tablet with side pilasters and scrolled pediment, two shields-of-arms. Floor-slabs: In churchyard—W. of church, (1) to Dr. Thomas Hodges [1672], and Margaret, his wife, 1696, top part missing; (2) to Moses Giraudeau, 1712, born at Fontenay, and others of the same family added 1722 and later; (3) to Christopher Bea(l ?)e, 1675, with shield-of-arms; (4) to Mark Gray, 1710; (5) to Isabella, wife of John [Hartstonge], Bishop of Ossory, 1713. Plate: includes cup of 1683; a cup of 1769, with a foot of 1683; a flagon, silver-gilt, of 1619, embossed with fruit, flowers, etc., and with panels of dolphins, a winged cherub-head on top of handle; a seal-topped strainer - spoon of 1657. The rest of the old plate (Plate 104) is now lent to the Victoria and Albert Museum and includes: (a) a standing-cup embossed with scallop-shells and with a baluster stem, 1599, silver-gilt; (b) a large plain flagon of 1684, inscribed "This Flaggon was bought in ye year of Our Lord 1685—John Dickins, William Munden, churchwardens"; (c) standing-cup of 1697, with baluster stem, inscribed "Christiana Verney," with shield-of-arms and crest; (d) paten of 1697, with crest of Verney; (e) a plate of 1697, inscribed "The gift of Eliz. Knightley to Kensington Church April 98", with the Knightley arms; (f) circular rosewater dish, possibly of 1537, ornamented with fruit, etc. Pulpit: hexagonal, with moulded foot, panelled stem and moulded base enriched with flutings; angles enriched with foliage, moulded and carved cornice. Each side with panel with carved border enclosing inlaid work, with the monogram of William and Mary, variously designed, accompanied by crown, Tudor rose, star, etc., and on one panel the date 1697; painted and grained, stairs modern. Miscellanea: In vestry—fragment in stone or plaster, gilt, of irradiated triangle with Hebrew word Jehovah, late 17th or early 18th-century.
Condition—Rebuilt, present condition good.
(2) Kensington Palace, house, outbuildings, orangery, etc., stands at the W. end of Kensington Gardens, about 300 yards N. of Kensington Road. The walls are of brick and the roofs are covered with slates and tiles. In 1661 Sir Heneage Finch, afterwards first Earl of Nottingham, bought from his younger brother a house which stood on the site and appears to have rebuilt it. In 1689 Nottingham House was purchased by William III and renamed Kensington House. Work was begun at once on the new palace of which the building accounts have been preserved. From these it would appear that Nottingham House stood on the N. side of Clock Court, and was altered and transformed into lodgings. The new buildings begun in 1689 consisted of the main block at the E. end of Clock Court, called "the five new pavilions" (referring to the central and four angle blocks of which it consisted), the S. range of Clock Court called the "Long Gallery Range" and the W. range of the same court called the "building next the road." The portico on the road was completed in 1690. The Queen's Gallery, being the range running N. from the main block, was finished in 1691. In 1695 the large new block at the E. end of the S. front was begun and with it the existing great staircase at the back; the latter impinging on one of the angle pavilions of the building of 1689. The architect for the whole of this work was Sir Christopher Wren. Between 1718 and 1726 the palace was considerably altered; the main block E. of Clock Court was rebuilt, its angle pavilions refaced or rebuilt, and the great staircase refaced. Nottingham House with Prince of Wales' Court at the back was entirely reconstructed. Other additions included buildings of one or more storeys built against the N., E. and S. sides of the Princesses' Court. The group of buildings to the W. of the old S.W. corner of the palace are also modern, though they incorporate some fragments of the older projecting W. wing. The roofs, more particularly those to the State Apartments, are for the greater part modern.
The building is of interest as having been mainly built as a Royal Palace, but the elevations, except for those to the King's Gallery block at the S.E. corner of the building, are of a character found in the smaller domestic building of the period, and the interior has been much altered in the 18th century and later times.
Kensington Palace, Plan of the Second Floor
The S. elevation (Plate 105) has at the E. end the King's Gallery wing. This wing is of three storeys, with attics to the middle part, and is of rubbed brick with some stone dressings and is covered with a hipped roof of slates; it is in eleven bays with plain pilasters at the angles and to the three middle bays; at the first-floor level is a plain stone band, moulded across the three middle bays and projecting round the pilasters as does also the entablature below the eaves; the frieze is enriched with acanthus brackets; above the three middle bays is an attic with plain pilaster strips superimposed over the main pilasters, plain raised brick panels between and a plastered dentilled cornice and four ornamental stone vases. All the windows are square-headed with small roll-mouldings at the angles, and on the string above each of the three middle windows on the ground-floor are three key-stones, the middle one carved with a classical head. The W. end of the S. front, together with the projecting S.W. wing, is of two storeys with basement and attics. At the first-floor level is a projecting brick band, and at the eaves a modillioned cornice; the basement windows are segmental-headed, and those above have flat arches; the dormers and chimney-stacks are modern, and the E. end of the wall has been considerably rebuilt and the first-floor windows enlarged. There are several rain-water pipes with the crowned W and M monogram. The E. elevation of the return front of the King's Gallery block is similar to the S. elevation of that wing. The remaining walls on the E. and return front of the S.E. block have been rebuilt. The S. end of the wall running N. from this block is of somewhat earlier date than the remaining wall and has a lower roof. The windows are squareheaded and at the floor-levels are projecting bands of rubbed brick. The remaining block is of two storeys with attics and basement, and has square-headed windows, projecting brick bands at the ground and first-floor levels, and a modillioned eaves-cornice of wood. Brick pilasters accentuate the staircase-block at the N. end of this wing, and there are two similar pilasters towards the S. end of the wall. The lower part of the wall to the basement has been refaced, and the first-floor windows appear to have had aprons which have since been removed, the walls having been refaced with modern brick. The entrance doorway (Plates 99, 100) to the Queen's Staircase at the N. end of the front is square-headed, and is flanked by panelled pilasters with fluted consoles supporting a curved pediment enclosing in the tympanum carved swags of fruit and flowers and a foliated cartouche ensigned with the royal monogram of William and Mary; the doorway is of wood but rests on a stone plinth; the door itself is modern. Above the doorway, between the first-floor windows, is a round-headed niche, semi-circular on plan, of rubbed brick; the lower part is filled with a panelled pedestal with a carved scroll-bracket projecting from the front which supports an urn. There are four square rain-water pipes on this front with W and M monograms on the junction bands. The W. elevation has modern additions built against the southernmost end, and the buildings N. of the Clock Court are the work of Kent and his successors. The remaining buildings, with the exception of the Clock Tower (Plate 106), which forms a central feature to the entrance to the Court, are of two storeys with attics and basements. At the first-floor level is a projecting brick band and at the eaves is a wooden modillioned cornice; the windows are square-headed and the attics are lighted by flat-topped dormers. To the S. of the entrance to the Court the lower walling has been refaced, and two windows to the basement have been inserted; N. of the entrance the wall has a plain plinth of brick. The Clock Tower is of three storeys, with a concave-sided roof surmounted by a cupola or bell-turret; in the ground-stage is the entrance-archway of rusticated masonry, with a three-centred arch, moulded imposts and a scrolled key-stone surmounted by a moulded string at the first-floor level; the archway is flanked by brick pilasters which rise to the modillioned cornice at the attic-floor level; the cornice is carried across the front of the tower and is surmounted by a pediment; in the second storey, above the archway, is a square-headed window uniform with those in the wings on either side; the attic-storey has brick pilasters at the angles, and is finished with a modillioned cornice of wood; in the W. front is an oval window; the bell-turret has in the lower part a modern clock-face, above which, on each side, is a round-headed opening with moulded archivolt and plain key and impost blocks; each opening is flanked by plain pilasters with moulded caps and surmounted by a moulded cornice and pediment; the bell-turret is finished with a square lead-covered dome with a weather-vane of the William and Mary monogram. The bell in the turret is by William and Philip Wightman, 1690. S. of the Clock Tower, and at right angles to the main W. range, is a projecting onestoreyed wing terminating at the W. end in a colonnaded portico; the wing has been largely rebuilt, but the lower part of the shafts to the columns and the moulded bases are old and of Portland stone. The N. elevation is at the E. end similar to the return wall of the E. front, but has a modern doorway and some of the basement windows blocked, while the W. end is the work of Kent and his successors.
Clock Court (Plate 65)—The elevations to the S. and W. ranges are generally similar to the respective external elevations of these wings; in the tympanum of the pediment over the entrance-archway in the W. range is an oval-shaped shield of the royal arms of William and Mary within a garter, with supporters surmounted by a crown. Towards the E. end of the S. side the wall projects slightly to form a bay over which the cornice is carried in a pointed pediment; the entrance-porch to the ground-floor of the bay is modern, but the windows on this front retain their original wood frames, each window being divided into two lights by a solid mullion and transom; the roof is tiled and the dormer-windows are original and have moulded cornices and pediments. The elevation to the E. block is mostly the work of Kent, but the block in the N.E. corner is of 17th-century origin with a modern second floor; the lower parts of the walls are plastered and the entrance porch is modern. The elevation to the N. range E. of the break towards the middle of the court is of 17th-century date, and is similar in character to the S. and W. ranges; the windows, however, have double hung sashes. The western half of the elevation is of 18th-century date.
Princesses' Court (Plates 107, 108)—The N. range is of three storeys, but has the lower part covered by a modern arched passage; at the first and second-floor levels are projecting brick bands, and at the eaves a wooden modillioned cornice; to the first floor is a range of five segmental-headed windows and to the floor above five flat-headed windows, one of which is blocked, while two retain their original frames and sashes. The E. range has had modern additions built against the whole of its length, of one and two storeys at the S. end, and of three storeys at the N. end; that part of the original wall which is visible has a projecting band of brick at the second-floor level, a wooden modillioned cornice at the eaves and three segmental-headed windows to the second floor. The W. range from the N.W. corner of the courtyard to the break in the wall is modern; the middle part of the front is mainly of c. 1690, and has an original panelled door at the N. end and a flat projecting band of brick at the first-floor level. The S. end of the wall has a projecting brick plinth, a flat projecting band at the first-floor level and four gabled dormers to the attics; two rain-water pipes have the W and M monogram on the bands. The S. range is of three storeys with attic and basement at the E. end and one storey lower at the W. end; against the ground-floor has been built a modern passage; the eastern part of the elevation has a projecting brick band at the second-floor level and a wooden modillioned cornice at the eaves, as has also the W. end of the wall; one of the first-floor windows in the W. end, though now blocked, retains its original frame.
Interior. Those parts of the palace which are now used as private residences have been extensively modernised, and little of the original work remains.
Main S.E. block—On the first floor the King's Gallery (96 ft. by 21½ ft.) is the principal room (Plate 110); it has a dado with bolection-moulded panels with moulded rail and skirting and a moulded and enriched cornice, but the painted ceiling above is modern; in the S. wall are nine windows with panelled shutters; the doorways (Plate 100) have moulded and enriched architraves, carved friezes, and enriched cornices, and the doors are panelled and have enriched mouldings; one of the doors in the E. wall is a dummy, and there are similar dummy doors in the N. and W. walls. Above the modern fireplace (Plate 111), within a square frame with enriched gilt mouldings, is a map of N.W. Europe, by Robert Norden, 1694; the map is surrounded by a circular band marked with the compass-points, and the spandrels are painted; in the centre of the map is a pointer showing the direction of the wind and working in conjunction with the weather-vane which still exists above the roof.
The Presence Chamber (26¾ ft. by 26¾ ft.) has a low panelled dado and a richly carved and moulded cornice; the fireplace (Plate 111), though now blocked, has a bolection-moulded marble surround, and the overmantel has applied carving of drapery, festoons and swags, with carved fruit, flowers, birds, cherub-heads, etc.; it is arranged round a panel for a picture, and is the work of Grinling Gibbons. The King's Grand Staircase (Plates 109, 113), in the S.E. angle of Clock Court, has had the walls, as built by Wren, refaced by Kent, who also inserted an arcade of two arches on the S. side supporting a gallery above; the steps themselves are of black Irish marble, and each of the three landings is laid out in squares of black and white marble; the balustrading is of open wrought-iron work, with panels of scroll-design and a moulded wood handrail. The projecting block in the N.E. corner of Clock Court on the first floor has a room with a panelled dado and moulded and enriched cornice and a fireplace with a moulded surround.
Clock Court—In the W. range, part of the early staircase to the Tower remains; it has a moulded string and handrail and twisted balusters. In the S.W. angle is a staircase of similar type which is said to have been removed (except the treads) from the S.E. corner of the Princesses' Court. The S. range has towards the E. end an original staircase with twisted balusters, moulded string and handrail and shaped newel-posts and, above, rising to the attics, is another staircase with twisted balusters. The gallery on the first floor has two fireplaces with moulded surrounds, now covered with paint but probably original; a few old panelled doors remain. The N. end has, at the junction of the original building with Kent's later wing, an original staircase with square balusters and newels, moulded string and handrail. The walls of the hall and main staircase are panelled and the latter has moulded string and handrail, turned balusters and square newels with moulded cappings and ball-finials. On the first floor is a powder-closet with original panelling and cornice, and one room at the E. end of this range is also lined with panelling and has a fireplace with a moulded surround of marble and two original panelled doors. The attics above are lined with panelling, and the dormer-windows retain their old sashes.
Princesses' Court—Queen Mary's Gallery (84 ft. by 21½ ft.) occupies the greater part of the E. range on the first floor (Plate 112). It is lined with bolection-moulded panelling divided into two heights by a moulded dado-rail, and has a moulded skirting and moulded and enriched modillioned cornice; the doorways have bolection-moulded architraves, friezes carved with acanthus leaves and enriched cornices; the northernmost fireplace in the W. wall has a bolection-moulded surround of coloured marble, but the S. fireplace is modern; above each fireplace is a gilded overmantel with Vauxhall mirror-plates divided by moulded glazing bars, and all within a frame of carved drapery and scroll-work; they are the work of Gerard Johnson and Robert Streeter, executed 1689–91. The windows in the E. wall have two window-seats and panelled shutters. The Queen's Closet (23 ft. by 12 ft.), which adjoins the Gallery on the S., has been considerably altered, but the windows have moulded architraves and panelled shutters. Queen Anne's Dining Room (17½ ft. by 14 ft.) has a panelled dado with moulded rail and skirting, moulded and enriched cornice, moulded architraves to the doorways and a fireplace similar to that in the Gallery. Queen Mary's Privy Chamber (25½ ft. by 16 ft.) has a panelled dado and an enriched cornice carved with acanthus leaves alternating with the W and M monogram surmounted by a crown. The staircase to the W. of the Queen's Closet has the original treads, but the balusters have been removed to the staircase by the S.W. corner of the Clock Court. The Queen's Staircase (Plate 113) at the N. end of the range rises from the ground to the first floor in three flights; the walls are lined with bolection-moulded panelling, and have a moulded dado-rail and skirting; the doors to the staircase-hall are panelled, and have moulded architraves; all the windows have panelled shutters, and those on the first floor have moulded architraves and window-seats with moulded edges; the first-floor windows on the E. side have original sashes; the stairs have turned balusters, square newels, moulded handrail and moulded treads returned round the outer face of each step; the steps are of bracket-form and supported on a plain string, and the soffit below the third flight is panelled. The N. range has an early 18th-century staircase with moulded string and handrail, twisted balusters and square newel-posts; the walls have a panelled dado and are partly panelled above; some of the old doors and doorways remain, and at the N.W. corner of the Court is a staircase (Plate 7) taken from some other part of the palace and reconstructed; it has a heavy moulded string and handrail, turned balusters and square newel-posts with panelled sides. The W. wing has, in the older part, an early 18th-century staircase with moulded string and handrail and twisted balusters, and a fireplace with moulded stone surround.
Outbuildings, etc.—Two cottages, a few yards N. of the palace are each of one storey with attics; the walls are of brick and the roofs are covered with tiles and slates. They are of early 18th-century date but have been much altered. The Stables stand to the S.W. of the palace and are of two storeys with attics; the walls are of brick and the roofs are tiled. They form a long rectangular block facing the N., with gabled crosswings at either end projecting slightly towards the S.; through the middle of the building is a passage. At the eaves is a moulded wood cornice, and at the first-floor level a projecting brick band. The central passage on both floors is entered through an elliptical arched opening with plain stone imposts; the windows and doorways have rubbed brick dressings and are square-headed except those to the ground-floor on the S. front, which have segmental arches. There are flat dormer-windows lighting the attics at either end of the building and some of the window-frames at the back are original. There are two old panelled doors hung on strap-hinges and one lead rainwaterpipe has the W and M monogram. Inside, the building has been much altered, but a little old panelling and one old panelled door in the attics remain.
At the E. end of the main stables is a brick building, probably the coach-house. The N. front has pilasters at the corners with Doric capitals, and both N. and S. wall have moulded cornices and pediments of wood; the lower part of the S. wall has been cut away and has had modern doors inserted.
N. of the cottages are two gate-posts, probably the work of Wren. They are square and built of brick with rubbed brick angles, stone plinth and moulded stone cornice; above the cornice each pier has a large stone acorn with acanthus-leaf base.
The Orangery stands about 100 yards N. of the palace. It faces the S., and is a symmetrically designed building of one storey; the walls are of brick with rubbed brick and Portland - stone dressings, and the roof is covered with slates; in front of the building is a raised terrace of Portland stone. It was built from the designs of Sir Christopher Wren in 1704 and, internally, consists of one long rectangular compartment with circular pavilions at either end. The S., or principal, front (Plate 114) has a central feature, marking the entrance to the main compartment, and slightly projecting features at either end; the central feature is of three bays with attached Doric columns of rusticated brickwork flanking the middle bay and corresponding square piers flanking the side bays; both columns and piers have plain stone bases and moulded capitals and support an entablature which is recessed over the middle bay; the entablature is partly of cement but the cornice is of wood and continued along the whole front at the eaves-level; above the cornice is a stone blocking course, and over the middle bay is a semi-circular window flanked by brick piers above the columns with moulded caps and a curved pediment; above the side bays are carved stone trusses flanking the piers to the pediment; the lower part of the entrance has panelled doors, and above is a sash-window; there are sash-windows to the bays on either side, and between the heads of the windows and the entablature are wood panels. The end features are each of three bays; the middle bay projects slightly and has a large sash-window set between rusticated brick piers, recessed back with concave jambs to the windows and having plain stone bases, moulded imposts and a semi-circular arch with a carved mask key-stone; the tympanum above the window is of wood with radiating panels, and above the cornice is an attic recessed back in the middle in a curve and supported on either side by carved stone trusses; the side bays have each a semi-circular niche with a round head and, above, a shallow round-headed recess with stone sill and brick apron. The walls between the central and end features are each pierced by a range of four large square-headed windows with moulded stone sills and plain triple key-stones.
Kensington Palace, The Orangery
The E. and W. elevations have slightly projecting brick pilasters at either end round which the main cornice is returned and forming a base for the pediment of the gable. In the middle of each front is a large sash-window with panelled doors below and a semi-circular tympanum above with radiating panels; the jambs are of rusticated brickwork with plain stone bases, and the semi-circular arch is also rusticated with a plain keystone and stone impost mouldings; on either side are shallow round-headed recesses with squareheaded recesses above having stone sills and brick aprons; above the window in the gable is a shallow round-headed recess.
The N. elevation has in the middle a plain semi-circular projection, and the walls on either side have each six plain brick panels.
Interior (Plate 115).—The E. and W. ends of the main hall are similar; each has a central round-headed opening of two orders; the inner has a panelled soffit and springs from responds panelled on the inner faces and with moulded and enriched imposts, and the outer is panelled and springs from panelled pilasters with enriched imposts and moulded bases; above the archway are carved festoons of flowers with a central cherub-head, and the archway is flanked on either side by a round-headed, semi-circular niche with moulded archivolt, enriched imposts and seats. Below the ceiling is an enriched modillioned cornice which is continued round the side walls. The N. wall is panelled to more than half its height, the panelling having an enriched cornice; in the middle is a central feature divided and flanked by fluted Corinthian columns supporting an enriched entablature; in the middle bay is a square-headed doorway with enriched architrave, entablature and pediment; the door is in two leaves with raised panels; the side bays have each a round-headed niche similar to those in the end walls. The S. wall has in the middle a central feature of three bays generally corresponding to that in the N. wall; the windows have moulded and enriched architraves and windowseats, and between the four windows on either side of the central feature are bolection-moulded panels. The end blocks are internally circular on plan; in the S. and external side walls are combined doors and windows; in the N. walls squareheaded recesses and in the wall adjoining the main hall round-headed openings; between these features are round-headed niches similar to those in the main hall and flanked by attached and fluted Corinthian columns supporting an enriched entablature. The semi-circular chamber at the back of the main hall has a semi-circular niche and a blocked window.
The Terrace is approached by two flights of steps, one at each end, and also one from the middle of the front; the front of the terrace has a plain projecting base and moulded capping.
W. of the N. wall are two gate-posts flanking the path leading to the N. end of the garden; they are of brick with moulded stone bases and cappings, and are each surmounted by a carved stone vase; they do not appear to be in situ.
The lower part of the garden-wall running W. from these posts still remains, and there is also some original brickwork to the wall running S. The stables at the W. end of the N. garden-wall have been considerably rebuilt but the greater part of the E. wall still remains.
Holland House, Kensington
The Alcove, at entrance to the gardens S. of the S.W. wing, is for the greater part modern, but incorporates, in the attic surmounting the entablature, three panels probably of plastered wood and of late 17th-century date. The middle panel is the largest, and has a cartouche surmounted by a crown supported by two amorini who are sitting astride branches of foliage; the side panels have vases and conventional foliage.
(3) Holland House stands nearly ½ m. W. of the parish church. The central portion is of three storeys with basement and attics, the E. wing is of three storeys, and the W. wing of two storeys and basement. The walls are of red brick with stone dressings; the roofs are covered with tiles or slates. It was built for Sir Walter Cope, of Kensington, early in the 17th century, and an original plan (now in the Soane Museum) shows the side wings drawn in different ink to the main block and bears a note by John Thorpe that it was " perfected " by him. The central block was begun in 1605 and completed in 1607, and the side wings, including the towers, were designed and perhaps added soon after. Surviving building-accounts of 1638–40 relate to an extensive addition to the house and to the erection of new stables, etc. It is uncertain if the addition referred to was a large wing formerly projecting to the W. of the house and destroyed in 1704, or to the existing E. wing. In any case the existing E. front appears to be of about the date of the accounts. These works were done for Henry Rich, K.G., first Earl of Holland and son-inlaw to the original owner, to whom the decoration of the Gilt Room, the fireplace and chimney-piece in the China Room, and the panelling in the White Parlour may be attributed. The house was repaired in 1748 and 1796, and during the 19th century a large addition was made adjoining the W. wing, and both wings were altered and much repaired.
Though 18th-century and modern additions and repairs have to a great extent destroyed the original character of the building it yet remains a good example of the larger type of Jacobean mansion. To-day (1925) it is the finest remaining example of the country-house in the county of London. The main staircase, the Gilt Room, the White Parlour and the chimney-piece in the China Room are noteworthy.
Elevations—The elevations throughout have been greatly restored; many of the walls have been almost entirely refaced, others patched and in places renewed, and the whole of the stone dressings completely renewed or restored in cement. The windows throughout,unless otherwise described, are square-headed with moulded jambs, heads and mullions; the larger ones are divided by transoms; those in the gables are modern.
The S. Front (Plate 116) is symmetrical; in the middle is a projecting block of three bays with a central semi-hexagonal feature of three storeys surmounted by an ogee-shaped roof and flanked on either side on the ground and first floor by bay-windows, each of four lights with four-centred heads on the front and one similar light on the return. The semi-hexagonal bay forms a porch on the ground-floor and has at the angles enriched Doric, Ionic and terminal pilasters standing on panelled or enriched pedestals and supporting entablatures which are continued across the bay-windows of the two lower floors; the porch has round arches, enriched key-stones and oval panels; the first floor has round-headed windows and the top floor an enriched blind balustrade below the windows. All the dressings below the first-floor level are of cement, and, above, of modern stone, but probably reproducing the original design. The walls on either side of the projecting bay are carried up in shaped gables in which are windows to the attics, and the return walls have pointed gables. In the angles between the central projecting block and the main building are small bays which stop below the second-floor level. The walls behind are carried up in shaped gables and have, on the first floor, bay-windows surmounted by cresting. Above the staircase-blocks at either end of the main building are square towers having pyramidal roofs with concave sides covered with modern slates. The S. fronts of the side wings have each a three-sided stone bay with enriched Ionic pilasters at the angles and pierced cresting to the two upper floors; on the ground-floor in the middle of the bay is a round-headed arch with moulded imposts; the bay to the top storey is of less projection than to the floors below; it is of brick from the floor to sill-level. Flanking the central block and returned along the side wings is an open loggia with round-headed arches carried on enriched Doric piers and pedestals; the arches have shaped key-blocks, and, above, is a frieze surmounted by an entablature with pierced cresting of large attached fleurs-de-lis; the arches at the S. ends of the side arcades have on either side enriched Doric pilasters rising the full height, and there is a similar pilaster on the return faces of the southern angle piers. The whole work has been thoroughly restored in cement, though it probably reproduces the original detail. The walls within the arcade are cemented, and below the ceiling on the W. wall of the E. wing is a corbelled cornice of arcaded form, possibly of 17th-century date. The paving in the arcade next the E. wing is possibly original and of stone flags set diagonally with small squares at the corners; against the W. wall of the E. wing is a portion of a 17th-century bench with shaped front and turned legs.
The E. Front is of three storeys; it is divided into eight bays by enriched Doric, Ionic and Corinthian pilasters, superimposed, which stand on pedestals and support continuous entablatures at the floor-levels; above the top cornice each bay is carried up in a shaped gable, one dated 1888. With the exception of the southernmost, each bay on the ground-floor has a round-headed opening with ' jewelled' key-blocks, moulded archivolts and panelled imposts.
The W. Front, in consequence of later restorations and additions, has practically no original work visible.
The N. Front (Plate 117) is of three storeys, with attics to the central portion and with the projecting side wings of two storeys each; the storeys are divided by moulded string-courses, and the walls are finished with stone copings and have shaped gables to each of the projecting bays and two similar gables over the recessed central portion. The bay-windows to the end wings and adjoining blocks are each of two storeys; that to the E. wing on the ground-floor has been rebuilt square on plan; those to the projecting ends of the central block are surmounted by Jacobean cresting. There are six lead rainwater-heads of various shapes and possibly all of early 17th-century date; one bears the date 1607, and another the initials W.D.
Interior. The Breakfast Room (41 ft. by 18½ ft.), formerly the Entrance Hall (Plate 118), has an ornamented plaster ceiling with intersecting quatrefoils of flat bands of ' strapwork ', and scroll-enrichment in low relief; in the middle of the alternate quatrefoils are pierced pendants and square panels containing the letter H and a coronet. The doorways have semi-circular heads with moulded archivolts divided into sections by square, panelled blocks and console-shaped key-blocks; the jambs have long and short raised panels. The doorways (Plate 119) in the side walls are filled with elaborate wooden screens having in the middle a round-headed door with carved arabesque head, fluted jambs, archivolt with carved key-block and spandrels filled with arabesque carving; the door is flanked by coupled and fluted Doric pilasters standing on panelled pedestals and supporting a continuous entablature; the frieze is carved with arabesque ornament and the tympanum above the cornice is filled with carved strapwork. The doorway (Plate 119) into the Journal Room is round-headed and has applied decoration in the form of an enriched arch, flanking pilasters, enriched entablature and cresting. In the window-recesses are portions of original benches with segmental-headed arched fronts and half-turned baluster legs. The Journal Room contains no original work. The China Room (24 ft. by 13 ft.) has an original oak chimney-piece (Plate 120), refixed in its present position in the 19th century; the stone fireplace is modern; it is flanked by tapering Ionic pilasters; above the fireplace is an arabesque frieze surmounted by a fluted cornice with lion-head masks; the overmantel is divided into three bays by coupled Doric columns standing on panelled pedestals, each carved with a mask and supporting an entablature with arabesque frieze and dentilled cornice; between the columns the middle bay has an elaborate panel enclosed within a carved frame and having in the centre an inlaid H; the side bays have each an enriched round-headed niche containing carved figures representing Peace and Plenty. The E. doorway is round-headed with architrave and archivolt similar to that on the side to the Breakfast Room; the door on the inside is plain and is flanked by pairs of enriched Doric pilasters supporting an architrave and frieze with triglyphs; the tympanum above is filled with radiating fluting with carved half rose in the centre. The White Parlour (28 ft. by 20 ft.) is lined with panelling for three quarters of its height (Plate 121); it is divided into bays by fluted Doric pilasters standing on pedestals and supporting a continuous entablature with arabesque frieze and dentilled cornice, and in the middle of each bay is an architectural composition enclosing the letter H. The doors are of similar character to the panelling, and over the doorway to the staircase is a convex shelf with strapwork surmounted by small pedestals with vases. The fireplace has a black marble surround with moulded head and jambs; it is flanked by tapering Doric pilasters; they stand on panelled pedestals and are enriched with arabesque work and support a continuous entablature with enriched straps. The overmantel is in three bays, the middle one similar to a bay of the wall-panelling; the side bays are narrow and have pairs of enriched Ionic columns standing on carved and shaped pedestals and supporting a continuous entablature with a dentilled cornice, and enriched frieze; beneath the columns are shallow niches and round recesses containing vases. The bay on the E. side of the room is lined with modern panelling. The Staircase Hall has on the N. and W. sides remains of continuous seating with arched fronts and turned legs; it is now set close to the walls and forms a base to the panelling above; this is in two heights, the lower rectangular, the upper with semi-circular arches and 'jewelled' imposts; it is divided into bays by Doric pilasters carrying a continuous entablature. The door-frame to the White Parlour has a moulded head, jambs and stops.
Basement. The Servants' Hall has panelling similar to that in the Staircase Hall. In the W. wall is a round-headed alcove (Plate 119) of black marble; it is set within a rectangular surround of rusticated slabs and has a semi-domed head; in the alcove is a fountain-jet of white stone carved in the form of a lion's head. In the opposite wall is a wide semi-circular arched opening with jambs and head of similar rusticated blocks.
First Floor. The Gilt Room (41½ ft. by 22 ft.) is lined with panelling in four heights with fluted Ionic pilasters at intervals standing on panelled pedestals and supporting a continuous entablature (Plate 122); the panels have cut and shaped borders, and in the middle of each are quatrefoils charged alternately with crosslets (from the arms of Rich) and fleurs-de-lis (from the arms of Cope); each quatrefoil is set within two palm-branches surmounted by a coronet; the main cornice is enriched with triglyphs and the frieze between them with ornamental panels in relief; the doors in the E. and W. walls are formed out of the panelling and are without architraves; the doors in the N. wall are in two leaves each of six panels similar to those lining the walls; the semi-circular arch has the soffit painted with scroll-work panels with female figures, the spandrels have painted angels, and in the tympanum is a fan of radiating fluting; the opening to the recess opposite is of similar character; the two chimney-pieces in the N. wall are of slightly different design; the W. fireplace is flanked by attached and coupled Doric columns, standing on pedestals and supporting a shelf of convex section ornamented with cross palm-branches and cartouches enclosing painted female figures; the overmantel is in two bays with attached coupled Doric columns at either end and two single columns in the middle flanking a narrow rounded-headed panel with painted enrichment surrounding the letter H; in each of the side bays is a round-headed panel with the painted figure of a woman (probably Peace and Justice) seated on a pedestal; the pedestals below the columns are painted with female figures and a group of dancers; the enriched panels between the pedestals are painted and have in the middle of each a small medallion painted with the heads of James I and Charles I; the painting on the E. fireplace differs slightly from those on the western one; in the angle of the room, on the middle of the side walls and above the N. doorway, are carved cartouches, surmounted by coronets and painted with the following shields-of-arms, etc.—(a) Rich impaling Cope, (b) Rich quartering Baldry, (c) the wyvern crest of Rich, surrounded by a garter, (d) Rich, (e) Rich impaling Cope, (f) the motto " DITIOR EST QUI SE", and (g) Cope. The room is painted a creamy stone colour, blue and gilt, and the decoration is attributed to Francis Clein.
Lady Holland's Sitting Room, in the E. wing, has a fireplace of early 17th-century date, but apparently much restored.
The Long Gallery (100½ ft. by 17½ ft.), now the Library (Plate 123), has in the W. wall two original chimney-pieces alike in design and detail; the surround to the fireplace is enriched and the lintel carved with arabesque work; it is flanked by enriched and tapering Doric pilasters on either side which support an entablature with a convex corniceshelf; on the shelf are two medallions painted with cherubs; the overmantel is divided into two bays by fluted Ionic columns supporting an entablature enriched with strapwork and arabesque ornament; between the columns are four panels enclosing an elliptical cartouche painted with a female figure. In the passage next to the Library are two panels made up of fragments of glass including two shields-of-arms, a fleur-de-lis, two quarries with badges, a round box or trunk, and a wheatsheaf, two Dutch inscriptions and fragments; all 16th-century and of English work except the inscriptions. On the second floor one of the bedrooms is lined with early 17th-century panelling with two original doors, and in the attic is another door of the same date.
The Principal Staircase (Plate 124) is in three flights from floor to floor and rises from the ground to the second floor; the strings and handrail are moulded, the newels are square and rusticated and have shaped and pierced pendants and the balusters are in the form of rusticated piers with raking capitals and bases and support small arches with shaped key-blocks; the newels were originally surmounted by finials, but only one, on the second floor, remains. On the first-floor landing, the doorway to the Gilt Room has a moulded frame and is flanked by Ionic pilasters, standing on pedestals and supporting an ornamental entablature; the doorway on the N. side is similar but has no pilasters.
The Gate Piers (Plate 125) in the garden near the E. side of the house are of Portland stone, and were built from the designs of Inigo Jones by Nicholas Stone in 1629; each pier has on the S. side two attached Doric columns, standing on panelled pedestals and supporting an entablature and pediment; between the columns is a semi-circular niche surmounted by a plain recessed panel and a carved cartouche and coronet; above each pediment is a pedestal with a carved griffin, the one holding a shield of the arms of Rich impaling Cope and the other Rich quartering Cope, and the cartouches above the niches are carved with the same shields; the N. sides of the piers are similar to the S. sides but have pilasters in place of columns.
At the W. end of the formal garden, to the W. of the house, is a range of round brick arches, partly of the 17th century, but much repaired with modern brick. They formed part of the old stables, probably those built in 1638–40.
Condition—Good, much altered.
(4) Kensington Square. Houses, Nos. 11 and 12, at E. end of S. side of the square, 300 yards S.S.E. of the parish church, are of three storeys with attics and basements; the walls are of brick and the roofs are tiled. They were built in 1700, each on a rectangular plan with small blocks projecting on the S. The front wall of each house has been covered with stucco up to the level of the first floor and the windows have modern stucco architraves; between the storeys are projecting bands and, at the eaves, is an enriched modillioned cornice; the attics are lighted by dormer-windows with moulded cornices and pediments; the doorway to No. 11 has an enriched coved hood supported on carved brackets. Inside the building many of the rooms are panelled and retain their original coved or moulded cornices. The staircase to No. 11 is original and has moulded string and handrail, square newels and turned balusters, and the staircase to No. 12 is similar, but the ends of the steps of the lower flights have carved brackets.
Condition—Good.
Some of the other houses in the square are probably of about the same date but, with the exception of those described above, they have been so extensively altered both internally and externally as to present no original features.
(5) Houses, Nos. 10 and 12, Holland Street, on N. side of road, 100 yards N. of the parish church, are of three storeys with cellars. They were built early in the 18th century but have since been altered and the ground-floors have been converted into modern shops. The front elevation has a projecting brick band at the level of the second floor and a brick parapet; the groundfloors have modern shop-fronts, but, above, the windows have flat brick arches and No. 10 retains its old flush frames. Inside the buildings many of the rooms retain their original panelling. No. 10 has an early 18th-century staircase with moulded string and handrail, turned balusters, and newels in the form of small Doric columns.
(6) Row of Five Cottages, Nos. 8–12, King Street, on W. side of road, 200 yards S. of the parish church, are of two storeys with cellars; the walls are of brick and the roofs are tiled. They were built early in the 18th century but have since been restored and altered. The front windows to Nos. 8–12 have segmental-heads and those to Nos. 11 and 12 have flat arches; some of the windows retain their old frames.
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PALI By-Laws
This Association was formed to promote and maintain the highest standards and practices for licensed investigators, to foster and perpetuate among its members a spirit of cooperation, and establish mutual trust, good will and fellowship, among licensed investigators, private security personnel, persons engaged in law enforcement, and with all the citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Association shall also provide for the continuing education of its members.
ARTICLE I – NAME
Section 1. The name of the Association shall be Pennsylvania Association of Licensed Investigators. The abbreviated version of the Association name shall be PALI.
Section 1. The objectives and purpose of this Association shall be to promote professionalism and ethical standards within the licensed investigators' industry and to promote the principles and policies set forth in the foregoing preamble to this Constitution and Bylaws. This is meant to include continuing education as a means to promote professionalism. The use of the term "investigator is synonymous with the term, "detective†for these purposes. The Association is also to provide a collective voice for the private investigation industry in the Commonwealth.
ARTICLE III – LOCATION, EMBLEM, SEAL
Section 1. This Association shall be incorporated as a nonprofit entity in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Section 2. The location of the principal office of PALI shall be the address as directed by the President. The Board of Directors may authorize the President to hire an Executive Secretary who would serve as a focal point for the group and a Corporate Consul for legal advice.
Section 3. The official emblem of the Association shall consist of an outline of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in a circle with the name in the circle. The word PALI shall be scribed in the middle of the Commonwealth outline.
Section 4. The official emblem of the Association shall be used for official business only. Use of the official emblem or Association name by members in personal advertising matter or on business cards or stationery to infer sanction is prohibited, except that members may indicate membership in the Association.
Section 5. The corporate seal of the Association shall be in such form and design as the membership may select, and shall bear the name of the corporation and the year and state of its incorporation. The corporate seal of the Association shall be maintained by, and held in the custody of the Association Secretary.
Section 1. Full membership is open to all persons who meet the eligibility requirements set forth by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and are licensed. Membership applications are subject to review and recommendation by the Membership Committee. Applicants' names are to be published and voted upon by the Board. A simple majority shall be sufficient to approve an applicant for membership. Membership is a privilege, not a right and applications for any type of membership may be denied. Existing members maybe expelled by a majority vote of the PALI board.
Section 2. Associate membership is open to any individual residing outside of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and who is qualified to operate as a private investigator under the respective laws and regulations existing in that person's jurisdiction.
Section 3. Affiliate membership is open to all persons engaged in the profession of private investigations, or private security services, or who exhibit and express an interest in furthering the standards and objectives in the preamble and Article II of this Constitution and Bylaws. Affiliate members shall be eligible to serve on appointive committees but shall not be eligible to hold office nor to vote. An example of an affiliate member would be an investigative employee of a licensee, a corporation or law firm or other entity not requiring licensing under the Pennsylvania Private Detective Act.
Section 4. Service and Industry membership is open to any individual or corporation that provides services or products relating to the private investigative industry and has an interest in furthering the standards and objectives in the Preamble, Article II of this Constitution and Bylaws.
Section 5. Retirement membership is open to any individual that has retired from the active practice of investigations and/or security services who wishes to retain all the privileges of membership except the right to vote. Retirement membership is open to any former PALI member who has relinquished his or her private investigators license to the issuing county, has completed the closure of his/her private investigative business, and is no longer employed by any investigative or security agency. Any Retired member who is found to have re-entered the active practice of investigations or security services shall be liable for dues payments for all years in which he/she enjoyed Retired member status whether active or retired. Any Retired member is welcome to rejoin PALI as a Full member if he/she should resume his/her business.
Section 6. All full members in good standing of the Association as described in Section 1 above shall be equal with respect to voting privileges and eligibility to hold office.
Section 7. Application for membership shall be made on an application form approved by the Association, accompanied by the appropriate membership fee.
Section 8. The membership year shall begin on the first day of January and end on the last day of December.
Section 9. Continued membership in the Association shall be granted after membership dues have been paid in full for the new membership year.
Section 10. Membership shall only be granted to applicants who are recommended by the Membership Committee after the investigation outlined in Article VIII, Section 7 of these Bylaws. Membership shall be denied to anyone who is denied a private investigator's license, loses their license during their membership term, or upon recommendation of the Membership and Ethics Committees.
ARTICLE V – DUES
Annual dues for all members of the Association will be set by the Board of Directors to meet the needs of the organization. The dues policy of any given year shall be stated in an Addendum to these By-Laws, which is attached hereto and incorporated by reference.
ARTICLE VI – OFFICERS, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES, ELECTIONS
Section 1. Any full member in good standing may hold elective office in the Association.
Section 2. Elected officers of the Association shall consist of President, First Vice President, Second Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Chairman of the Board, six (6) Regional Directors, and three (3) Directors at Large. The President shall not hold that elected office for more than two (2) consecutive terms.
Section 3. Officers shall be elected by secret ballot for a term of two (2) years by a majority vote of a letter vote or E-mail ballot of the membership.
Section 4. The President shall be the chief administrative officer of the Association. The President shall exercise general supervision over the business affairs, interest and welfare of the Association, shall appoint all standing committee chairmen and such special committees as deemed necessary. The President shall be an ex officio member of all committees and shall perform such other duties as may be approved by the membership. The President shall serve without compensation. Also, the President shall hire and supervise the Executive Secretary who will handle the general administration function of the Association.
Section 5. The Vice Presidents shall assist the President in the exercise of the duties of that office, shall preside in the absence of the President and shall perform any and all duties specifically delegated by the President. The Vice Presidents shall serve without compensation.
Section 6. The Secretary shall ensure that an accurate account of the minutes of all meetings and votes of the Board of Directors of the Association are kept; receive and answer all communications addressed to that office or that may be submitted to that office for this purpose by officers of the Association; supply and issue applications for membership and receive such applications when executed and forward them to the Membership Committee Chairman for appropriate action; and perform such other duties as may be required. The Secretary shall serve without compensation. Some of these duties may be delegated to the Executive Secretary, the headquarters staff person.
Section 7. The Treasurer shall collect and record all money due to the association from the Executive Secretary and in other means, deposit the funds in the Association bank account and pay all valid bills upon presentation of a suitable invoice. A report will be given to the Board at any meeting or at any time as specified by the President. The Treasurer shall serve without compensation.
Section 8. The President of the Association shall assume the post of Chairman of the Board when the term of President is over. The Chairman of the Board shall serve as the meeting chairperson in the absence of the President. This individual shall preside at all Board Meetings, according to Robert Rules.
Section 9. The elected officers and directors of the Association may be removed by a majority vote of the Board of Directors.
Section 10. The Regional Directors are elected to actively participate in the management process by recruiting new members, maintain contact with existing members, assist in the resolution of problems, coordinate regional meetings for networking purposes and other duties as specified by the President and Board of Directors. They should also work with the District Attorney's and Court Clerk's office in developing and maintaining the mandatory list of licensed investigators in their regions.
ARTICLE VII – BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Section 1. The Board of Directors shall be composed of the Chairman of the Board, President, First Vice President, Second Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, six (6) Regional Directors, and three (3) Directors at Large. All standing committee Chairpersons and the Legal Counsel are non voting members of the Board.
Section 2. The Board of Directors shall be recognized as the governing body of the Association, subject to the Constitution and Bylaws.
Section 3. The Board of Directors shall act in an executive capacity and will vote on any relevant issues and matters which would require action prior to or at any Annual, Regular or Special Meeting of the Association. The position of Legal Counsel and Affiliate Representative are non-voting positions.
Section 4. A majority vote of the Board of Directors voting shall be binding on the Association.
Section 5. All members of the Board shall have one vote each.
Section 6. The Chairman shall make a report to the membership at the annual meeting of the Association.
Section 7. The Board shall perform all duties and functions as set forth in the Constitution and Bylaws.
Section 8. The Board shall establish policy governing the conduct of its own affairs and shall alter its procedures in its sole discretion.
Section 9. A majority of the Board members in good standing shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of the Board.
Section 10. The Board shall have the authority to remove from office, any officer or Board member who fails to perform his or her duties. The Board shall also have the authority to appoint a replacement for any unfilled Board or Officer vacancy.
Section 11. Board Members may remain on the Board of Directors until the end of their elected position until the expiration of their elected term, even after a voluntary non renewal of their license.
Section 12. The President may appoint members or non members as special advisors at his/her discretion.
ARTICLE VIII – APPOINTMENTS, COMMITTEES AND DUTIES
Section 1. The President may appoint a Chairman and Co-Chairman for each standing committee, to serve for the term of his or her office. The President may also appoint affiliate members to serve the Association in various capacities as he or she sees fit. The President may also remove any committee member for any good reason.
Section 2. Standing committee appointments shall be published at the earliest possible time on the PALI web site, or in such publication as the President may select.
Section 3. The President shall establish other committees and make appointments as necessary.
Section 4. The Constitution and Bylaws Committee shall examine the Constitution and Bylaws of the Association when necessary and will recommend proposed amendments and/or revisions.
Section 5. The Education and Training Committee shall coordinate and schedule speakers, seminars and any other activities related to education and training as offered by the Association.
Section 6. The Legislative Committee shall study, draft and prepare bills, ordinances and resolutions representing the Association's position on issues for local, state and federal legislative and/or regulatory governmental agencies charged with the administration of matters of interest to the Association; further, the Legislative Committee shall be responsible for informing members and/or other committees of proposed industry regulations or legislative matters of interest.
Section 7. The Membership Committee shall have charge of all matters pertaining to the procurement of new members and shall thoroughly investigate all applicants for membership; further, the Membership Committee shall maintain records of member participation and shall have the power to recommend revocation or denial of membership as appropriate for just cause after providing the applicant or member with notice of the reasons for the revocation or denial and an opportunity to be heard thereon.
Section 8. The Publications Committee shall be responsible for the preparation, editing and publication of all official publications of the Association. The Publications Committee shall be responsible for the timely publication of all notices pertaining to proposed membership in the Association and to membership renewal. The newsletter Editor shall be either the Chairman or Co-Chairman of the Publications Committee.
Section 9. The Steering Committee shall provide the Board with guidance on matters of revenue, organization, membership, continuing education or other issues that may be requested by the President.
Section 10. The Ethics Committee shall provide guidance to the Board in regard to the ethical behavior of the members and advise the Chairman of any instance where a member may have violated generally accepted behavior of those in the profession. The Board shall be asked to decide what action, if any shall be accomplished by the organization.
Section 11. The Arbitration Board shall be appointed by the President and the members of this Board will be held in confidence by the President. The Board will investigate disputes between members and any association member may request a board hearing but the rulings of the board will be binding to the affected members. Board members will remain anonymous from the membership and each other and will act in the best interest of the PALI organization. The operating details shall be the responsibility of the President based on the circumstances involved.
ARTICLE IX – QUORUM
Section 1. Ten (10) members in good standing including two (2) members of the Board of Directors, one of whom should be the President or Chairman of the Board, shall constitute a quorum to transact business at any regular or special meeting. Meetings need not be of a personal nature and teleconferences may be used to expedite the issues. Votes on issues other than for the annual elections may be made by email.
Section 2. No person shall take active part in any meeting unless such person is a member in good standing.
Section 3. The President or Chairman of the Board must recognize motions that would change the operations or Bylaws before a Board vote may be conducted. After this recognition, the President or Chairman of the Board will call for the appropriate discussion and vote and the Secretary shall duly record the vote and disseminate the results to the membership.
ARTICLE X – S
Section 1. Regular business meetings of the Association shall be held at least once a year, at a time and place to be determined by the President and announced in a timely manner in the newsletter and on the web site. Email to the membership may also be used to communicate with the membership and hold Board meetings. The Annual meeting for the election of officers shall be held in September, October, or November in time for the officers to assume their duties on the first day of January.
Section 2. Special meetings of the Association may be called by the President or Chairman to transact any business deemed appropriate, providing, timely notification to all members in good standing is made specifying the time, place and purpose of the meeting.
Section 3. Any three officers of the Association may call a special meeting of the Association to transact business deemed appropriate, providing, timely notification to all members in good standing is made, specifying the time, place and purpose of the meeting.
Section 4. The President shall schedule a special meeting of the Association upon a written request of twenty percent (20%) of the members in good standing, who shall state the time, place and purpose of the request.
ARTICLE XI – AMENDMENTS OR REVISIONS
Section 1. This Constitution and Bylaws may be amended or revised by a two-thirds (2/3) majority vote of the Board of Directors, provided that the proposed amendments or revisions shall have been communicated to the members of the Board , either by United States mail or electronic mail dated at least fifteen (15) days prior to the vote. Amendments maybe offered for consideration on a timely basis.
Section 2. All amendments or revisions to this Constitution and Bylaws shall become effective immediately following an affirmative vote of the membership.
ARTICLE XII – PROCEEDINGS
Section 1. Robert's Rules of Order, on all points not specifically provided for in this Constitution and Bylaws, shall govern all proceedings of the Association.
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20 Best Online Schools Bachelor's in History
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In case you are searching for an online Bachelor's in a History degree program, you are in the right place.
We are offering you a list of 20 best educational institution in this field which deliver an education that allows students to examine historical data and utilize them in addressing certain requirements in today's public, business, and organizational settings while at the same time can organize his/her schedule according to his/her private obligations.
Bachelor of Arts in History Online Degree Program
The University of Central Florida features an online Bachelor of Arts in History program.
The curriculum is designed so as to prepare students to find a promising career in international affairs, public policy, law, and more.
Besides developing students' analytical skills and critical-thinking skills, the program triggers the students' appreciation for the historical and cultural events that impact the world.
Coursework allows the students to organize their studies according to their interests in emphasizing a specific geographic region namely Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America & North America, and the Middle East.
So as to graduate, students need to earn 120 credit hours.
University of Maryland-University College
B.A. in History Programs Online Degree
The University of Maryland-University College is located in Adelphi, Maryland and has an online Bachelor of Arts in History.
Students who graduate will get a solid foundation of critical thinking skills needed to pursue graduate studies or build a rewarding career.
Some of the topics are related to geographic areas and historical eras and throughout the coursework, students will conduct research and writing assignments suitable for presentation and publication.
This is a 120-credit hour program and students learn how to apply historical patterns to contemporary life.
Core history coursework includes Historical Methods, World History I and II, Historical Writing, History of the United States to 1865, and Senior Thesis in History.
Online Bachelor of Arts in History Online
The University of Memphis is established in Memphis, Tennessee, and it boasts an online Bachelor of Arts in History.
Some of the subjects that the curriculum is focused on are Women, Gender and History, U.S. History, Medieval Europe, and Western Civilization to name a few.
What students will learn at this university is how to analyze primary historical sources, conduct research work and present a clear and well-written historical discovery.
Obligatory coursework includes World Civilization I and II, Ancient World, Traditional East Asia, Medieval/Renaissance Europe, and Modern Europe.
Bachelor of Arts in History Online (B.A.)
Nicholls State University is proud to offer the online Bachelor of Arts in History which is designed for students interested in studying Asia, Europe, and modern America.
The education is provided by experienced and highly knowledgeable faculty staff through a range of courses.
They are provided with the necessary ability to develop their critical-thinking skills, write research works and identify significant issues influencing the modern world.
This is 120-credit hour online program which is divided into four main requirements and those are University Requirement (UR), Oral Communication Requirement (OCR), General Education Requirement (GER), and Computer Literacy Requirement (CLR).
Online Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in History
Oregon State University is located in Corvallis, Oregon has an online Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in History that is led by OSU's College of Liberal Arts.
This college is on the top of the list of online liberal arts colleges, and this is thanks to its researched-focused online program designed to prepare students for successful careers.
The students at this university will be equipped with essential skills such as writing, documentation, argumentation, and critical-thinking skills necessary for a promising career.
Unlike other similar programs at other educational institutions, this is 180-credit hour program which has six (6) themes and those are Science & Society, Gender & Sexuality, The American West & Environmental History, Mediterranean & Middle Eastern History, Armed Conflict, Genocide & Society, and Race, Diaspora & Politics in the Atlantic World.
Mount Mary University
Bachelor of Arts in History Degree Program Online-B.A.
Mount Mary University is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where students can attend regular on-campus and an online Bachelor of Arts in History program.
The students will learn how to explore not only men but also women and underrepresented historical accounts.
Some of the skills they will get after graduation are how to think critically, communicate effectively, analyze problems, and interpret a series of events.
What students find great is that Mount Mary provides them with the opportunity to travel to a United Nations conference through the Model United Nations course every other year.
All history students are required to complete an internship program or a cooperative study project and earn 128 credits to get this degree.
Online Degree-B.A. in History
The University of North Dakota features an online Bachelor of Arts in History degree.
What the students will get there is the knowledge related to how to explore different discoveries, answering big questions, conduct investigative research, and explain the past.
Furthermore, this is an online history program that has a variety of topics covered in their course works such as World History, North America, Europe, and Asian studies.
The graduates will be able to look for careers in public or digital history, government services, business and teaching, and law but only once they earn 126-credit hours.
Core history courses such as Western Civilization I and II, World Civilization I and II, European History, North American History, and The Historian's Craft have to be taken and a research capstone is required to earn this degree.
Bachelor of Science in History Degree Program Online
King University, which is located in Bristol, Tennessee boasts its an online Bachelor of Science in History program that was created for those students who are interested in learning Western history, historical research, and non-Western history, but look for a more flexible way of reaching that educational goal.
Just like the on-campus program, this one is based on several areas of study including the Reformation, the Holocaust, Colonialism in Africa, and medieval Europe.
Core requirements include An American Nation: Beginnings to 1877, Professional Historian: Methods and Historiography, Cultures in Contact: The Middle Ages and The Atlantic World, Europe, and the Great Wars, and The Civil War to name a few.
So as to get a degree, students are required to obtain a total of 124 credit hours and once they finish this program, they will be equipped with knowledge that will enable them to pursue careers and vocations in law, church ministries, educational institution, historic preservation, and museum curacy.
Online Degree Program-Bachelor of Science in History
Liberty University is located in Lynchburg, Virginia, and besides its on-campus program, it boasts an online Bachelor of Science in History degree.
What students will develop throughout the studies here is an in-depth investigation of historical events of the human society and past events, which is designed so as to equip students to discover motivations of figures and peoples, and employ these facts to improve the future.
Students will learn a variety of core skills and will be equipped with analytical, critical thinking, research skills, an extensive understanding of historical events, figures, and places.
Core history courses include Geography, History of Western Civilization, Survey of American History, and Historical Methodology and students are required to earn a total of 120 credit hours so as to get the degree.
Bachelor of Arts in History Online-B.A. Program
Southern New Hampshire University is located in Manchester, New Hampshire, and boasts an online Bachelor of Arts in History program.
Actually, this is a program made for distance learners who want to get liberal arts education with an emphasis on the linkages between modern societies, and ancient civilizations, but are not able to attend regular classes.
What students will learn are critical-thinking and analytical skills which will help them improve their communication skills.
This is an online history degree program which has four concentrations – Military History, Middle Eastern History, European History, and American History.
Those people who graduate from SNHU's BA in History can look for a rewarding career in law, history, education, and other fields where research, analysis, and communication skills are highly appreciated.
This is a 120-credit online program that consists of mandatory core courses such as United States History I and II, World Civilizations: Prehistory-1500, World Civilizations: 1500-Present, and History Research Seminar.
University of Illinois Springfield
Bachelor of Arts Online in History
The University of Illinois Springfield has to offer an online Bachelor of Arts in History degree.
This program and its training provide students with communication skills, analytical skills, and research capabilities, while at the same time preparing them for a variety of career pathways.
Graduates can search for a career in administration, business, history, journalism, government, politics, and writing.
The curriculum consists of unique mandatory courses such as Game of Thrones, Women in the Middle East, The Historical Jesus, Gods and Heroes of Early Europe, Animals in Antiquity, and History of Russia: Peter I to Putin.
Westfield State University
Online Bachelor of Arts in History Degree Program
Westfield State University is another educational institution that offers an online Bachelor of Arts in History degree for both new and transfer students from any college or university.
Its History program is designed so that students attend a wide range of classes in Africa and Asia, World History in Latin America, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East while getting a complete understanding of the past.
Graduates will be developing the analytical skills that enable them to deal with a different range of problems.
Core required courses include U.S. History to 1865, U.S. History since 1865, Western Experience I and II, and Introduction to Historical Research and Analysis.
Furthermore, there are electives offered in three categories – European & World History, Latin American History, and the United States History.
University of Nebraska Kearney
Online Bachelor of Arts in History
The University of Nebraska Kearney is one of many schools that offers an online Bachelor of Arts in History degree.
Actually, this educational institution provides students with outstanding knowledge of events, ideas, peoples, and values from a historical point of view and after they finish studies, they will be able to comprehend both past and modern societies.
What they will get there are the skills of critical thinking, writing and reading so that they can start their successful careers in the fields such as the business world, public history, education, or law.
Core history requirements include American History I and II, Introduction to Latin America, Western Civilization I and II, and Non-Western World History, while there are some electives divided into three major categories – U.S. History, European History, and Non-Western History.
Bachelor of Arts in History-B.A. Online
Granite State College, located in Concord, New Hampshire, is an outstanding educational institution that offers an online Bachelor of Arts in History degree.
The curriculum is designed so that it helps students discover trends and patterns from the pre-history to the present circumstances, to do some research related to specific periods of historical events, explore world history and be able to link it with current happenings.
This is a 120-credit hour program that consists of mandatory core courses – Great Civilizations, Historical Methods, European History: 19th and 20th Centuries or History of World War II, History of New England or Vietnam War: A Historical Perspective, and Expository Writing to mention just a few.
University of Louisiana Monroe
Bachelor of Arts in History Online Program
The University of Louisiana Monroe is located in Monroe, Louisiana, and features an online Bachelor of Arts in History degree which is designed so as to provide essential arts and sciences education integrated with U.S. and Non-U.S. related studies.
This online History major program is ideal for students who are looking for flexibility in the process of their education while at the same time want to be prepared for a career in a variety of fields such as counseling, education, foreign affairs, journalism, law, publishing, public relations, and the state or federal civil services.
Students will learn skills in historical research and analysis, and develop in-depth learning of past events.
They are required to earn 120 credit hours to achieve this degree.
Bachelor of Arts in History
Moscow, Idaho is home to the University of Idaho.
This educational institution provides two online degrees in History and those are Bachelor of Arts in History and Bachelor of Science in History.
Both of them have curriculums based on a rich historical perspective and strong research fundamentals, analytical skills, writing skills, and critical-thinking skills.
This 121-credit hour online program will help prepare students for successful careers as historians, curators, regulatory affairs managers, archivists, or history teachers.
The BA degree requires a 20-credit language minor, while both degrees require a capstone seminar or a research project for graduation.
Bachelor of Arts in History Online B.A. Degree
The University of Arizona is located in Tucson, Arizona and besides offering a regular on-campus program, it also offers an online Bachelor of Arts in History degree.
The program teaches students to study past events and historical events as remembered and recorded, as well as to write well-documented research work.
Throughout the studies, students will improve their analytical skills and logical skills.
Furthermore, students have the opportunity to choose from a different set of courses that explore the history of Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States.
By the end of their studies, students need to conduct research work or complete a capstone project in their chosen geographic area.
Thomas Edison State University
B.A. Online Degree in History
Thomas Edison State University offers an online Bachelor of Arts in History degree.
This program is made so that it prepares adults for a career shift, graduate education as students are exposed to the discipline of data gathering and weighing pieces of evidence and they are trained to be able to evaluate great events and significant personalities in the history of mankind.
What students will learn during the program is how to apply methodologies, and conceptual theories within the fields of history.
This is a 120-credit hour online History program that includes core required courses such as Western Civilization I and II, American History I and II, Non-Western History, and World History I and II to name a few.
Last, but not least, a Liberal Arts Capstone is mandatory for graduation.
Bachelor of Science in History Online Programs-Online Degree
Excelsior College is located in Albany, New York, and among its numerous programs, it has to offer an online Bachelor of Science in History degree.
Throughout this program, students will be thought to understand how and why events in the past happened and will be able to interpret discoveries and pieces of evidence about those significant events.
Excelsior's BA in History degree holders will improve critical-thinking capabilities, and written analysis and will learn how to evaluate, process, and relocate pieces of information from the past.
Mandatory core History courses are United States History I and II, World History I and II, European Renaissance, Revolutionary America, and Global Popular Culture Since 1945.
Bachelor of Arts in History Online Degree B.S. Programs
Arizona State University features an online Bachelor of Arts in History program which is created so as to give students an understanding of the history of human society as well as the economic, cultural, political, and social aspects that influence the modern world.
This online History program will teach students how to analyze objects that were left behind by ancient people such as bones, constitutions, diaries, land deeds, and guns.
The graduates will know how to perform quantitative and qualitative analysis and present their discoveries.
Obligatory courses include United States History, Methods of Historical Inquiry, Studies in Asian History, and History in the Wild and a total of 120 credit hours is required to earn this degree.
Q. What kind of people are considered suitable for the enrollment in an online Bachelor's in History degree program?
Not everyone is suitable to enroll in an online bachelor's degree in History and this is the science that demands time and effort in conducting research work.
So as to be considered appropriate, an applicant has to possess skills in analyzing and debating, considering and composing facts and theories, and deal with some of the most controversial topics ever dealt with mankind.
This degree program is considered perfect for people who have a deep passion for historical events and past events that have a strong influence on today's society.
Also, people who love to improve their critical-thinking abilities through in-depth analysis of data gathering or evidence and interpret and write documentation are also highly encouraged to enroll in this program.
To conclude, an online bachelor's degree in History is for people who are genuinely curious about past events.
Q. What kind of jobs can graduates of Bachelor's in History look for?
Once you graduate from an online bachelor's degree in History program, you will be ready to starts a successful career in a variety of fields.
You might look for jobs in business, education, and government.
Furthermore, some people find their career as a museum technician, being that they have studied and have been trained to answer profound questions asked by museum visitors.
Also, they are able to provide assistance to curators to prepare museum collections.
Those professionals with additional education and training can look for jobs in corporate communications, information management, and historic preservation fields.
Others can become writers, editors, and authors of history books and other publications, archivists, curators, journalists, lobbyists, researchers, educators, and political campaign workers.
Q. How much money do Bachelor's in History degree holders earn?
An online history degree prepares students for a variety of careers and how much they will learn depends on the places where they find jobs.
Employment opportunities in the fields of business, education, politics, international relations, and law are numerous and the amount of work performed can also affect their salaries.
Common careers for graduates with an online degree in History include Historians that earn a median annual salary of $59,120.
Professors have an average yearly salary of $59,170, while museum curators have $47,360.
The online Bachelor's in History degree programs offer its students a chance to achieve valuable skills, including in-depth analysis, research, and writing.
And once you get a degree in an online Bachelor's in History program, you will be able to choose from various and numerous future career options.
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Home >> Bands >> Archiv >> Anguish
Magna Est Vis Suignah
High Roller Records
Almost ten years into their career, Swedish Doomsters ANGUISH are back! And to celebrate this first decade, they will finally release their third full-length album via High Roller Records. 'Magna est vis Siugnah' is not only the long-awaited follow-up to their 2014 masterpiece 'Mountain', but also a kind of a "back to the roots" perspective, a look back in time, not letting the ultimate goal be forgotten. As vocalist J.Dee recalls: "A while back I thought I lost it, lost her. But I found the source again. (...)The core of creativity, and that is the true meaning of 'Magna est vis Siugnah'." Looking back on the time since the band was founded, it feels very natural to come up with a new record at this very point. Time also takes its toll and line-up changes and creative draughts could not have been fully avoided. But after a few years of modelling new songs, new ideas and a new lyrical scenery came about and ANGUISH reformed into a four-piece.
Lyrically speaking 'Magna Est Vis Siugnah' is also a step back, back to the roots. This was a necessity for the band since deity of chaos still is present. "It has always been about her, and this time it is related to her return. Might be confusing, but for me it is as clear as clean water. It's a collection of stories from a diverse timeline, with no beginning nor end. Still it is about Death and the life after, and about pain and anguish. Siugnah is showing the world that she will not let herself fade away. To find peace inside, you must get eternal - Life Eternal, Mayhem."
The mastering of 'Magna Est Vis Siugnah' was done by Patrick W. Engel (Candlemass, Pentagram and Trouble) at Temple of Disharmony in Bamberg, Germany. Recording and mixing was done by Johan Ericson at Dead Dog Farm Studio in Säffle, Sweden between May 18th and June 4th 2017. The guest guitar solo on 'Blessed Be the Beast', played by Hasse (Third Storm, former Die Hard) was recorded by guitarist David in his barn in the forest outside of Uppsala. For the cover artwork of 'Magna Est Vis Siugnah' the band got in touch with Czech artist Vojtěch Doubek at Moonroot art. Instead of any details on how they wanted it to be, the band provided him with the lyrics and the demo tracks and gave him a free hand. Vojta has been following ANGUISH since the 2012 debut "Through the Archdemon's Head" and knows their concept better than anyone else. A perfect match for 'Magna est vis Siugnah'.
1. Blessed Be The Beast
2. Magna Est Vis Suignah
3. Of The Once Ravenous
4. Requiescat In Pace
5. Elysian Fields Of Fire
6. Our Daughters Banner
J.Dee - Vocals & Bass
David - Guitar
Linus - Guitar
Rasmus - Drums
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Sen. Ben Sasse talks Kavanaugh, Trump, history and Cornhusker football in Iowa City
Zach Berg
U.S. Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) discussed President Donald Trump, defended his vote to approve U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and gave an American history lesson in Iowa City on Thursday night.
Sasse spoke in front of around 200 people in the University of Iowa's Memorial Union ballroom as a part of UI's Lecture Committee's series of fall speakers.
With the audience about as quiet and attentive as a UI lecture hall filled with students, the Republican senator tried to woo a seemingly liberal crowd.
The only time the audience reacted with even remote vociferousness came after his 40-minute lecture on why the U.S. should remain a leader on the global stage.
Iowa Public Radio host Ben Kieffer read audience questions to Sasse, one of which asked why the senator regularly chastises Trump but often ends up voting for policies the president supports, including voting to approve Kavanaugh.
After the room erupted into applause, Sasse responded.
"The Senate Judiciary Committee doesn't work," Sasse said, pointing to increasing partisan rhetoric and battles that inflame many judiciary approvals, not just Kavanaugh's. "The whole process is ugly."
He criticized Democrats on the committee, chaired by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), for not using confidential means to report Christine Blasey Ford's allegations against Kavanaugh.
Sasse has been rumored as a potential rival to Trump in a Republican primary ahead of the 2020 election. Though he has said in the past the odds of him running are low, he's done things past presidential hopefuls do before running: visiting Iowa and promoting a new book, "Them: Why We Hate Each Other — and How to Heal," which was released last week.
Sasse criticized much of Trump's rhetoric during his hour-long Iowa City event, but had little negative to say about his policies.
Kieffer asked Sasse if Trump's regular use of derogatory comments toward his Democratic rivals and the media may of created an atmosphere that provoked the mailing of several explosive devices to the Obamas, the Clintons, CNN and other Trump critics on Wednesday.
"There is no place in America for a phrase like 'the press is the enemy of the people,'" Sasse said, garnering loud applause from the audience. He added that any American, including Trump, has the right to question or debate news stories, but that Trump calling the press an enemy was absolutely wrong.
The senator switched between dissenting and approving of the Commander in Chief, from the beginning of his lecture, which he opened by saying "this speech is not about Donald Trump."
"I think President Trump is far more right than the national foreign policy establishment," he said, adding "We need a conversation about what the purpose of our foreign policy is. One of the virtues of Trump disruptive campaign in 2016 is he sort of forced us to rethink and ask some fundamental questions."
Sasse then shifted gears and chided his own party and leadership.
"Acknowledging that we need disruption in our conversation to sort of rethink and reshape our fundamental principles about what the U.S. role is in the world, that's an important truth, but it's insufficient to say we've been sort of rudderless for a couple decades on the global stage," he said. "I think I'm in a party right now that doesn't have much of an actual plan," he said, adding that he could criticize Democrats for the same.
Sasse's lecture style is decidedly professorial, which makes sense as he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He also served as the president of Midland University from 2009 to 2014, when he was elected to the Senate.
"We need a clearly shared vision of America's role in the world," Sasse said, stressing that the country has lost its way as a global leader.
He discussed the last 100 years of U.S. history, dividing it into three parts: post-World War I, post-World War II and post-Cold War.
Arguing that the country's isolationism after WWI helped allow the rise of the fascist powers America fought in WWII, he stated that the U.S. needs to stand firmly at the front of global affairs.
"Will we retreat in the face of a rising China and obstructionist Russia?" he asked the crowd. "If America pulls back from the world, bad actors will undoubtedly step into our place."
Maybe the warmest reaction Sasse received in Iowa City was when he talked about the struggling University of Nebraska-Lincoln football team, a rival of UI's Hawkeyes.
"I lost a bet," Sasse said. "Iowa has been successful for awhile, but Nebraska, the most-winning college football team of the last 50 years, has had a bumpy couple of years here."
Iowa has beaten Nebraska each of their last three Big Ten Conference contests. With Nebraska being 1-6 and Iowa 6-1, fate seems to favor the Hawkeyes once again this year.
To pay off the bet, Sasse said he handed out giant turkey legs in front of Kinnick Stadium before his lecture. At the end to the lecture, he handed the last two turkey legs he had to people sitting in the front row of the IMU ballroom.
Reach Zach Berg at 319-887-5412, [email protected] or follow him on Twitter at @ZacharyBerg.
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Students, labour, academics: Growing Canadian solidarity with Palestine
By David Heap
This article was published on rabble.ca on May 19, 2011.
Events across Canada underline the growing concern on and around Canadian campuses for issues relating to Palestine and in particular, around Palestinian academics and labour unions.
From May 18 to June 2, Dr. Amjad Barham, president of the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE), will be touring Canada and Québec to speak and meet with academics and other members of the labour movement.
The speaking tour, entitled "Building Solidarity from South Africa to Palestine." (see below for details), includes Barham representing the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) as well as Tahir Sema from the South African Municipal Workers' Union (SAMWU), an affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).
Officials from the Canadian Association of University Teachers will meet Dr. Barham when the tour reaches Ottawa. CAUT already has a collegial relationship with PFUUPE: last year the two organizations signed a reciprocal membership agreement, and CAUT is assisting the PFUUPE in its application for membership in Education International. Last November's CAUT Council adopted a general motion from the floor to investigate and report back on ways to support academic colleagues in Palestine.
"Dr. Barhams's visit to Canada will allow us to explore further ways we can work with PFUUPE to develop its capacity to defend the academic and professional rights of staff in the West Bank and Gaza.," says CAUT President Penni Stewart.
This speaking tour will be an important opportunity for debate and discussion on the question of how we as academics and trade unionists can stand in solidarity with Palestinians. The tour will be an occasion for questions and debate around issues such as: Why are trade unionists around the world increasingly comparing the situation in Palestine with that of South African apartheid? What is the situation of Palestinian academics, students and workers today? Why has there been a call by Palestinian trade unions for a campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) modeled on the solidarity movement against South African apartheid? What is the role of trade union activists in what is happening in Palestine and South Africa today?
This solidarity tour is aimed at fostering relationships between Palestinian, South African, Canadian and Québécois trade unionists in the hopes of building on the already considerable work of Canadian and Québec solidarity campaigns. It is also an important opportunity for public education on the experiences of workers and trade unionists in Palestine and South Africa.
"Faculty for Palestine is very excited to hear that Dr. Amjad Barham, will be touring Canada as part of an important labour solidarity tour which will also feature a South African trade unionist." says Alan Sears, a sociologist at Ryerson University who is active with Faculty for Palestine, a network of more than 450 Canadian faculty at more than 40 universities and 15 colleges across the country, which organizes primarily around the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign (including academic boycott), the right to education under occupation and building ties with Palestinian colleagues, students and staff, and defending freedom of expression on Canadian campuses around Palestinian solidarity. In Québec, similar work is being done by a group called CUWU (College and University Workers United).
Sears continues: "Dr. Barham is the President of the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees and a strong supporter of the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions. In a context in Canada in which student-led divestment campaigns against investment in Israeli apartheid are shaking up many of our university campuses and challenging with Israeli institutions, the tour promises to be an excellent space for strategic debate, analysis of apartheids, and further organizing."
As was the case in the struggle for divestment from apartheid South Africa in the 1980s, student groups on a growing number of campuses have been taking leadership positions in the movement for divestment from companies involved in violations of Palestinian human rights and the occupation of Palestine. Students Against Israeli Apartheid at the University of Toronto, York University and Carleton University correctly point out that these "complicit companies create military technologies used in the murder of civilians, the destruction of infrastructure and the daily humiliation of Palestinians." As the growing educational campaigns during Israeli Apartheid Week spread to more campuses each year, they stimulate increased discussion and debate around these issues which lasts much longer than just a week.
At the campus where I work, a student group (Solidarity with Palestinian Human Rights) joined with other community groups to help support the Canadian Boat to Gaza initiative (canadaboatgaza.org), a civil society campaign to challenge the blockade of Gaza. While not directly an academic or labour union issue, the illegal blockade of Gaza of course affects students and university staff along with everyone else. Despite marginal improvements since last summer`s flotilla, aid deliveries to Gaza are still a fraction of what was needed before the blockade was imposed in 2007. As my colleague, Ziad Medoukh (head of French and director of the Peace Centre at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza) notes, schools supplies, computer equipment and books are still among the goods which are severely restricted and only sporadically available under the blockade of Gaza. Despite high levels of participation in primary-secondary education and healthy enrolments at the five universities in Gaza, the hopes and aspirations of a whole generation in Gaza are being needlessly stunted due to senseless restrictions which have nothing to do with anyone's "security". Those who finish their studies and earn scholarships abroad are often caught by restrictions on human mobility which cruelly curtail travel for academic, medical, commercial or family purposes. While there is now hope that the Rafah border with Egypt will open (and stay open) for people and goods, Palestinians also have the right to free ship traffic through the port of Gaza – the only Mediterranean port which is closed to shipping – and to the use of their own territorial waters.
Ziad Medoukh adds that the Palestinians of Gaza are left with "a hope in international civil society solidarity which is organizing throughout the world in order to try, through peaceful actions, to break this blockade, in particular with, the 'French Boat for Gaza', 'Canadian Boat for Gaza', an 'International Boat for Gaza' campaign – a whole flotilla for Gaza. We in Gaza, given our current situation, are impatiently awaiting the arrival of this international freedom flotilla… with one clear message: the blockade of Gaza must and will be lifted."
More and more Canadians, on campus and in our communities, are heeding this sort of call from Palestinians, be they in Gaza or from the West Bank. Whether it is by working on civil society campaigns like the Canadian Boat to Gaza, by joining student-led initiatives on campus for boycott, divestment and sanctions, or simply by showing up and listening what our academic colleagues and fellow trade unionists from Palestine have to say, the growing involvement of Canadian faculty for Palestine is a cause in which we can all participate.
Labour tour: Building solidarity from South Africa to Palestine
The speaking tour will begin at the Convention of the Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux (CSN) in Montreal (May 15-19), then travel through Ontario, to Regina and Vancouver. CAUT members and affiliates will be welcome as part of the discussion at the different solidarity tour venues across the country.
TORONTO: Saturday May 21, 6:30p.m.-9:30p.m., Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St. (Bathurst subway). Thursday May 26, 7p.m.-10p.m., CUPE Ontario Convention, Sheraton Hotel, 123 Queen St. West
WINDSOR: Sunday May 22, 2p.m.-5p.m., Oak Room, Vanier Hall, University of Windsor.
HAMILTON: Tuesday May 24, 6 p.m.-8 p.m., McMaster University.
LONDON: Wednesday May 25, 7 p.m.-9 p.m., Tolpuddle room, 380 Adelaide St. North (at King)
REGINA: Thursday May 27. 7:30 p.m., Regina Union Centre, 2709 12th Ave
VANCOUVER: Sunday May 29, 6p.m., Maritime Labour Centre, 1880 Triumph Street, Vancouver (Victoria and Triumph, two blocks north of Hastings St.)
MONTREAL: Wednesday June 1, 7 p.m., Centre St. Pierre, 1212, rue Panet (metro Beaudry)
OTTAWA: Thursday June 2 7pm. CUPW National Office, 377 Bank St.
Ways you can support this important tour:
Sponsor the tour, host the trade unionists, organize members to come out to the event in your community, donate funds, publicize the tour or write about it in your newsletter or website.
To Sponsor, Donate or Participate in the Tour, please contact: [email protected].
More information about the tour can be found here.
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Synaxarion of the Holy Martyrs Trophimos, Sabbatios, and Dorymedon
On the nineteenth of this month [September], we commemorate the Holy Martyrs Trophimos, Sabbatios and Dorymedon.
To Trophimos and Dorymedon
Inspired Dorymedon and Trophimos,
Accepted the sword and the end of their lives.
To Sabbatios
Scraped with sharp iron Sabbatios the Martyr,
Attains the divine sabbath rest.
On the nineteenth Trophimos with his two fellow athletes were cut asunder.
During the reign of Emperor Probus (276-282), and Atticus the succeeding vicarius, namely the locum tenens of Antioch, in the year 278, Saints Trophimos and Sabbatios came to Antioch from a foreign land. When they saw all the inhabitants there in a frenzy and out of their minds for the festival of the false god Apollo in Daphne of Antioch, for this reason they were grieved in their souls. Therefore they cried out to God with sighing hearts for the salvation of the city, and by this they revealed that they were Christians. So they were brought before the vicarius, who first interrogated Saint Trophimos. He boldly confessed his faith in Christ, and for this reason he was stripped and stretched out from the four parts of his body. After being cruelly beaten like this, to the point where the entire ground was red with blood, he was then hung up and had his sides scraped. Then he was imprisoned and stretched out to the four holes of the torturous and punishing wood.
After this Sabbatios stood before the vicarius, and because he boldly confessed Christ he was struck in the chin, and his sides were torn at with iron claws. This exposed his bones and joints, so that they were stripped of any meat, and his stomach and innards were entirely visible. Being taken down from the stake, shortly after the thrice-blessed one delivered his spirit into the hands of God, and he received the crown of the contest.
Trophimos was sent to Synnada, the chief city of Phrygia, to Governor Perennius of Phrygia Salutaris, wearing shoes pierced with sharp iron nails. Standing before him, he boldly confessed his faith in Christ. Therefore he was the four parts of his body were stretched out, and he was beaten cruelly with the sinews of an ox. And being bound to a stake, he was was scraped without mercy for many hours. Then vinegar and salt was poured out over his wounds. With his flesh entirely torn apart, they cast him into prison, and sealed his feet in the punishing wood.
Then Dorymedon, who was a chief senator, went to the prison to attend to the Martyr. Because he was not present with the governor at the sacrifice to the idols, he was asked for, and he boldly confessed his faith in Christ. For this he was sent to prison. The next day, because he rebuked the tyrant, his sides were pierced with iron skewers. He was then hung up and mercilessly scraped at in his sides and face. They then removed his teeth by the root, and entirely removed with cruelty the hairs of his head and beard. Like this they laid him out over a fire.
After this Saint Trophimos was once again brought for trial, and he showed even more boldness than before. He was hung up once again, and with burning skewers his eyes were removed. Then they again threw him into prison. Afterwards, Trophimos and Dorymedon were brought before the governor, and they were given as food to a wild and hungry bear. Then they were given as food to a lion, which was urged by its keeper to tear the Saints apart, however it instead turned against him and tore him apart. Because the Saints remained unharmed after such fierce torments, for this reason they were beheaded. In this way they completed the struggle of their martyrdom.*
* A reliquary in the form of a sarcophagus containing some of the bones of Trophimos was discovered at Schifout Kassaba (Synnada) in 1907, and transported to the museum at Bursa; this monument may date back to the third century.
Apolytikion in the Third Tone
Adorned with the might of the Trinity you cut off the thorns of error, blessed Trophimos delight of the Church, wise Sabbatios adornment of athletes, and Dorymedon glory of the faithful. We praise you with hymns.
Another Apolytikion in Plagal of the Fourth Tone
God praised in Trinity has glorified a trinity of martyrs: Trophimos, Sabbatios, and Dorymedon. By their faith, they overthrew the adversary. Through their prayers, O Christ our God, have mercy on us.
Kontakion in the Fourth Tone
Martyrs Trophimos, Sabbatios and Dorymedon, you were a river flowing with the gifts of the Spirit, and now you water the world with miracles.
Kontakion in Plagal of the Fourth Tone
As the foundation of athletes and the confirmation of piety the Church honors and glorifies your brilliant suffering, wise and glorious Trophimos, ever-praised and blessed athlete. Together with your fellow sufferers, ask cleansing for those who hymn you, for you are invincible.
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Our Bhagavan-Stories
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Re: Our Bhagavan-Stories
At the Feet of Bhagavan - T.K. Sundaresa Iyer.
Sri Ramana Gives Rama Darsan:
It was in 1908, I first contacted Sri Ramana Maharshi, then in the Virupaksha Cave, when I was a boy of twelve. Had you seen
Him in those days, you would hardly have taken Him for a mere human being. His figure was a statue of burnished gold.
He simply sat and sat and rarely spoke. The words He spoke on any day could be easily counted. He was an enchanting
personality, who shed a captivating lustre on all, and a life giving current flowed from Him, changing all those nearby, while
His sparkling eyes irrigated those around Him with the nectar of His Being.
Peace, peace, peace. Now you have lost your individuality in Him. He absorbs you, is your all, is the All. I remember how well!
I remember, how well! The first song I sang before Him at that time - it was the famous Namasivya Padigam, commencing
'maRRupaRRenakkkinRi', the gift of the great Saint Sundarmurti Swamigal. From then on He had me linked inseparably to
Himself. I know one and only one thing, and that is He alone exists, as the Divine, and all else has only the appearance of
existence, but in reality is not.
I never had to leave Tiruvannamalai after my nineteenth year. Sri Kavyakanta Ganapati Muni was at that time in Tiruvannamalai.
His Vaidika Sabha Society was very active, and he gave a series of discourses on the Vedas. His magnetic personality and
exposition of the greatness of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi so deeply impressed me that I decided to study the Vedas at his
feet, and was gladly accepted as a student. He was then living in the Mango Tree Cave below the Virupaksha Cave on the Hill.
Eight years I studied the Scriptures under him. Daily we visited the Maharshi together and enjoyed the benefit of His Presence.
After the Maharshi's Mother, Azhagammal, passed away, Sri Maharshi came down the Hill, and the present Asramam came into
being. Sri Kavyakanta Ganapati and his pupils would come down to the Maharshi's abode, when there would be memorable
and scintillating discussions. When the Muni was in the Hall, Sri Maharshi could be seen in the full bloom of His Being. The discussions
ranged over various schools of thought and philosophy, and it was a period of great literary activity at the Asramam.
contd.,
Arunachala Siva.
Silent Power: Prof. B.L. Atreya:
A Saint is as great a necessity for human society as is a great scientist, a great thinker and a great leader, nay the necessity is
even greater. For a scientist discovers the secrets of life and of the universe, a thinker tries to understand the meaning and
purpose of existence, and a leader tries to shape and transform humanity or a portion of it according to his own notions of what
it ought to be.
A saint is one who makes a whole hearted effort to realize in himself, in his own life, the highest and furthest possibilities of
human life, which is a natural course of evolution may take centuries to actualize.
A saint is a man perfected, a fulfilled hope of humanity, a successful experiment in human sublimation, and a source of inspiration
and guidance to travelers on the path to perfection. He is the embodiment of the highest values of humanity, an indubitable
indication that ideals can be made real, that man can be what he ought to be, here and now.
His life is a measure of man's manhood, when it is lived in the midst of humanity and not in sanctified seclusion. It is a practical
solution of the various puzzles of life, provided it is a comprehensive one. Considered from various points of view, a saint is
the greatest asset to human society. A perfected being, he is the eternal beacon to sadhakas the world over.
I have read the biographies of many a saint, seen a number of them and have come into contact with some. I have had the
privilege of being at the Asramam of Sri Ramana Maharshi for a short time in March 1940, and since then in correspondence with
He made a deep impression upon my mind, a mid that has been moulded by a study scientific and philosophic writings of the
east as well as the west. The greatest peculiarity and merit of Sri Ramana Maharshi's life is that although He has molded and
perfected His personality on the lines of Advaita Vedanta, a purely Indian way of Self Realization, He is highly appreciated and
resorted to by by western seekers and by those Indians who have been educated on the western lines.
One of the reasons for this fact may be that some English and French writers happened to praise Him highly in their books.
But the fact remains to be explained why these western seekers were themselves so impressed by the Maharshi. Mere
publicity does not in the least establish the greatness of saints, although it may make them known as in the case of Jesus
Christ to a wider public.
Silent Power - Prof. B.L. Atreya:
continues....
Maharshi's greatness is more deeply founded. It is based on His actual living by the creed of Advaita Vedanta which holds that
Reality is One without a second, that everything in this universe is but the reality which is Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.
True to His creed, He regards nothing as alien, none as other, no event as undesirable. For Him the ideal is the real and the
real is the ideal. He has no other relation with anyone but that of love. He thinks as much of others as He thinks of Himself.
Love, affection, kindness, mercy etc., which are the expressions of one and the same thing, and the feeling of unity with all,
ever flow from Him. This is the secret of the Maharshi's unique greatness and consequent popularity. The whole of humanity
owes its homage to this great Sage amidst us.
Jnana is like Akasa. The supreme Self which is to be known through the Sadhana is also like the ether. The various objects
we see in the world as well as as the souls are like ether. Therefore who is to know which? What is to be known by what?
The supreme realization is that there is no plurality. True knowledge is distinctionless. That knowledge is the Self, the light
divine. That knowledge is Bhagavan Ramana.
May we offer our obeisance to this supreme Lord who came to save the world and who still abides and will ever abide with
us in order to make us perfect.
May, we on this auspicious occasion, renew our faith in our Bhagavan and pay homage to Him so that no only we, but the
entire world may be saved.
At the Feet of Bhagavan - T.K. Sundaresa Iyer:
Ramana Gives Rama Darsan:
Besides Kavyakanta, Kapali Sastri, Muruganar, Lakshmana Sarma, Arunachala Sastriar of the Madras Gita fame, Munagala
Venkataramiah, Sivaprakasam Pillai, and a host of others used to be in the Hall, which was open all through the hours of
day and night. It was then the World of Freedom of Sri Ramana, our Lord, Guru and very Self. Our lives were based and
turned upon that one central Personality. Nothing gave us greater joy than to be in His Presence as often as possible
and to do His bidding.
Thus did time pass till 1929, when on leaving Tiruvannamalai for good, Sri Kavyakanta made me over to the care of Sri
Maharshi, and in the very first letter he wrote, he asked Bhagavan to take particular care of me. I was at school when
the letter was received and the Maharshi tucked it under His cushion. He pulled it out, read it to me when I returned
from school, and said, 'Look here, you must not run away from here. I am answerable to Nayana; he may come at anytime
and claim you from me.'
Our happiness in the presence of Sri Bhagavan was comparable to the joy of the hosts of Siva on Mount Kailasa. Sri
Bhagavan used to say, 'Kailasa is the abode of Siva; Arunachala is Siva Himself. Even in Kailasa things are as they are
with us here. Devotees go to Siva, worship Him, serve Him and hear from Him the interpretation of the Vedas, and Vedanta
day in and day out. ' So it was Kailasa at the foot of Arunachala Hill and Arunachala Paramatman in human form was Bhagavan
Sri Ramana Maharshi.
In May 1933, on my 36th birthday, after the usual bath and prayers, I sat in Sri Bhagavan's presence in a pensive mood.
I addressed a prayer in Tamizh viruttam style to Sri Bhagavan, complaining: Oh, Bhagavan! I have completed three and a half
decades, and yet have not had the experience of the real You. Pray let me have this day the touch of Your Grace.'
Handing over this slip of paper, I prostrated to Him.
Bhagavan bade me sit down and gazed steadily at me. I was still in a pensive and meditative mood. All of a sudden I lost
body-consciousness, and was absorbed in Sri Maharshi. I was turned inward, and the voice of Bhagavan bade me see whatever
I desired, I felt that if I could have darsan of Sri Rama my life would have been fruitful, as I was much devoted to Sri Rama. I then
had immediately a darsan of Sri Rama, with Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Satrughna and Hanuman.
The ecstasy of the vision defied description. I simply sat on, with Maharshi perhaps gazing on me without my being aware
of His gaze. Two hours thus passed in pin drop silence, lost in the vision, until it vanished. I prostrated at the feet of Sri
Maharshi with tears of ecstasy in my eyes and my hair standing on end. To Bhagavan's inquiry I replied, that of course, I had
seen dear Sri Rama.
Bhagavan asked me to fetch the book Dakshinamurti Ashtottara, which I had not read, and opening a page therein, He gave
it to me to read. 'The fifth name from the last read, 'Om Sri Yoga Pattabhiramaya Namaha.' Bhagavan said: " Sri Rama is
Dakshinamurti and Dakshinamurti is Sri Rama. Do you know where Ayodhya is? The Vedas say it is in the Sun, and describe it
as ashtachakra navdhwara devanam Purayodhya (the Gods' city is Ayodhya with eight corners and nine gates). Arunachala
is also Ashta chakra puri (eight cornered city). and Lord Arunachala is 'Sri Rama as well as Sri Dakshinamurti. One has no
need to go to the Sun to see Ayodhya or Sri Rama, but one may see them here and now."
At the Feet of Bhagavan: T.K.Sundaresa Iyer:
THE MAHARSHI'S GREATNESS:
Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi's greatness needs no recapitulation here. He was a Knower (Jnani) by birth, like Suka and
Vamadeva. In his teens He woke up to the reality of the Self not apart from the Divine (Brahman) -- the Fourth State - turiya;
the shock of death brought it about. The Grace of Meenakshi and Arunachala were there and showed Him that State. He was
drawn to Arunachala, the Hill-magnet attracting souls to It. There He shone as Sri Dakshinamrti, by explanations through Silence
proclaiming the Divine Reality. He shone as the One Self that projects from Himself both Maya and the world. In His Presence,
peace and the experience of nectar were enjoyed by all beings, including birds and beasts. For almost forty years, His soothing
voice, silvery radiance and golden touch were the solace of thousands of devotees and visitors from East and West.
He shed His physical presence in 1950, but He Himself ever IS -- in His transcendental state. Even though we can no longer
hear that voice or see that shining face, we find even more as the long years roll by that He is still with us, in out midst, still
able to guide His devotees who come to Him from distant places to the Light of true and eternal wisdom. There is nought that is
not He. Let us put aside the ego, or surrender to Him, and He will fill us with His Being and sweeten our lives, helping us to be
He Himself.
Silent Power - K. Lakshmana Sarma:
An inevitable consequence of Bhagavan's state as a jivanmukta, permanently established in the egoless state, was that He
could not claim any rights, even the right to choose what shall be done or not done to His body, because from His point of
view, that body was not His. Also, He was so full of compassion, that He could not bear to hurt anyone's feelings. Anyone
that came to Him offering edibles or medicine was sure of its being accepted, though He did not want it. Once He said,
'Nature cure is right. But.... ' And He did not complete the sentence.
Yet He showed His real view of drugs by implication. When a quantity of a drug had to be taken for a certain period, He would
take only one dose and would never take a second. That is, He would not follow the prescription as one who believed in the
goodness of the drug would do, as to benefit by it.
The same was the case when an operation was proposed. He submitted to the operation only to please the person who
wanted to do Him good.
On the last occasion, when a number of doctors and surgeons who came from Madras, wanted to operate on Him to remove
the cancer He was having, He first very gently suggested that it was not necessary. He did that because He knew the future,
that the end was near. The doctors did not take the hint. They insisted on operating and hence Sri Bhagavan submitted to
the operation without an anaesthetic. The operation lasted for nearly three hours and produced a severe shock, from which
the body never recovered.
When all these medical efforts had failed, a number of devotees came to Him and prayed to Him to use His spiritual powers
to heal the disease. Bhagavan replied, 'I did not want any treatment. It was you who wanted it.' After a brief pause, He
added, 'In two more days it will become alright.' What He meant was that the end would come then. And it came exactly
as He said.
Crumbs from His Table - Swami Ramananda Swarnagiri:
OBSTACLES AND HATHA YOGA:
Devotee: People practicing meditation etc., are said to get new diseases; at any rate, I feel some pain in the neck and front of
the chest. This is stated to be a test by God. Will Bhagavan explain this and say if it is true?
Bhagavan: There is no Bhagavan outside you and no test is therefore instituted. What you believe to a test or a new disease
resulting from spiritual practices is really the strain that is now brought to play upon your nerves and the five senses. The mind
which was hitherto operating through nadis to sense external objects and thus maintaining a link between itself and the organs
of perception is now required to withdraw from the link and this action of withdrawal naturally causes a strain, a sprain or a snap
attendant with pain, which people term disease and perhaps tests by God. All these would go, if you would but continue your
meditation bestowing your thought solely on understanding your Self or on Self Realization. There is no greater remedy than this
continuous yoga or union with God or Atman. There cannot but be pain as a result of your discarding your long acquired vasanas.
Devotee: Hatha Yoga practices are said to banish diseases effectively and are therefore advocated as necessary preliminaries to
Jnana Yoga.
Bhagavan: Let those who advocate them use them. It has not been the expereince here. All diseases would be effectively
annihilated by continuous Self Inquiry.
Devotee: What about pranayama?
Bhagavan: What about it? While I do not speak about it in term of the well known phraseology of purakam, rechakam, and
kumbhakam and their matras (units of time), I have said that it can be used. Mind and Life breath spring from the same source;
if you stop the course of one, you have automatically stopped the course of the other. Control of mind is easier than control of
breath. The latter resembles the forcible milking of the cow and the former, the cajoling of the cow by a feed of grass and caressing
it by gently patting its back.
Sri Bhagavan one day had told an anecdote from the Life of Prabhulinga while speaking on the subject of Hatha Yoga etc.,
Silent Power - Lucia Osborne:
ARUNACHALA:
"Arunachala ! Thou are the inner Self who dances in the Heart as "I" . Heart is Thy Name, O Lord!" (Arunachala Pancharatnam, V.2)
In the Puranas Arunachala is referred to as the oldest Hill on the earth and is regarded as the Heart of the Universe. Scientists
have also pointed out that the eastern ghats of the Deccan Plateau as the oldest land. Arunachala has many names: Arunagiri,
Sonagiri, Sudarsana Giri, Annamalai, to mention but a few and is also referred to as the Tejolingam - the lingam of effulgence -
which is the formless emblem of Siva.
The form of the Hill is said to resemble Sri Chakra, the emblem of the Cosmos, with its substratum, and Shaktas regard this
Hill as Sri Chakra itself. Bhagavan took an active part in the installation of Sri Chakra in the temple dedicated to the Mother.
Devotees of Siva consider this divine Hill as the form of Siva, who appeared in the midst of Brahma and Vishnu as a column of
fire, without beginning or end, in order to dispel their ignorance. Both failed to realize His Presence by their physical efforts.
This signifies the inability of mind or intellect to go beyond itself. Arunachala is traditionally identified with Sudarsana, ( a form
of Chakra or discus of Vishnu). In the form of a deity, Sudarsana appears in a fierce aspect, armed with weapons of destruction.
When a seeker penetrates beyond the semblance of the terrible, while struggling to overcome what seems terrible for himself
--- namely, the dark downward propensities of his own psyche -- grace reveals itself as love and compassion. This, according to
Dr. Mees, an authority on symbolism, is the etymology of Sudarsana which aims at the destruction of these propensities, so as to
reveal love and beauty.
Many saints and sages have sung and composed songs in praise of Arunachala and its import, and some have attained enlightenment
here. Sri Sankara also seems to have visited Arunachala. In one of his compositions he calls this Hill 'Meru' and says, like
Bhagavan, that Siddha Purushas are found here. Saint Guhai Namasivaya lived in one of the caves, which is still called by his
name. His disciple has written the well known Annamalai Venba, a hymn in praise of Arunachala. Another well known Saiva
Saint, Virupaksha, also lived in a cave higher up on the slope. It is said to be in the shape of OM - and some devotees have
heard there, the sound of OM in silent meditation. The saint's tomb is also there, and this cave bears his name. Bhagavan
Sri Ramana spent seventeen years in it and later moved up to Skandasramam, where a trickle of water changed overnight to
a perennial stream whose water, like that of Ganga, does not deteriorate with time. Arunagiri Nathar another notable saint
is also a celebrated for his songs of praise after he received illumination through the grace of Muruga, the son of Siva, in the
Arunachaleswara Temple
Crumbs from His Table - Swami Ramanananda Swarnagiri:
The Third Visit:
The writer used to have always two conflicting desires, one to visit Sri Bhagavan as frequently as possible, the other to postpone
it as long as he could till he felt he had some tangible evidence of progress. In the meanwhile, however, through some agency
or other, he was pushed before Him, obviously through His Grace. The first time it was through his immediate superior, the second
was through the telepathic command, confirmed on the same day by a letter from one of His long standing devotees, and this time
it was again an officer in government service, who suggested that he would feel it a pleasure to visit the Asramam in his company,
or rather, an indirect suggestion to him that he had better place himself before Sri Bhagavan at an early date.
This time, he took leave for fifteen days and stayed with Sri Bhagavan. Conscious of his own retrogression and want of steadfastness in his yama and niyama, he did not sit or stand before Sri Bhagavan this time, as continuously as he used to do on former occasions.
Sri Bhagavan would however peep into his room in His casual rounds at about 10 am. and 3.30 pm. and make various inquiries.
During this time, he was living on coffee and rice cakes in the morning, one or two handfuls of plain cooked vegetables in the afternoon
and a cup of milk at night. About ten days after his arrival, one fine morning, the writer was accosted by Sri Bhagavan with the
following query: "Is coffee and iddli all you need in the morning?", the obvious meaning of this remark being that there was no
need for such austerity on the part of His devotees, i.e. for those who had taken to Vichara. For further enlightenment of aspirants
it might be stated here that Sri Bhagavan has often remarked that all that is required is that aspirants should take, in very moderate
quantities of whatever food comes their way and not stipulate, discriminate or pick and choose in the matter of diet. That, in contrast
to the claim of hatha yogis that yoga practice is necessary to ward off disease from the physical body and make it pure and healthy
to help concentration etc., The inquiry method, if followed strictly as directed, with absolute one pointedness of mind, is capable of
devouring all the germs of disease wherever and whenever they arise. He would appear also to be of the view, that for such an
inquirer, yama and niyama will automatically come, as in His own case. He said that when He was staying in Gurumurtham for
18 months, His diet was only a cup of milk-mixture for the whole day. His insistence is on continuous one pointed inquiry, like the
unbroken flow of oil, would automatically ensure a steady asana, freedom from hunger and thirst and freedom from disease; only
a beginner cannot easily obtain this state, and has to contend with his vacillating tendencies.
During this visit the writer had another surprise from Sri Bhagavan. A well educated unemployed youth was regularly attending
the Asramam. He was so steady in his meditative posture and so continuous for hours together that some, if not all, appeared
almost envious of his rapid progress. Perhaps to set our doubts at rest, Sri Bhagavan was heard to remark one day that the boy
was not meditating upon God or Self but praying to Him for His grace to get a job and added that worldly people desirous of
obtaining fulfillment of their desires, should seek them where they were available and that He could not do anything for his
employment. 'Do I give jobs to people here? I am a sannyasi without any possession or work.' The youth who had heard most
of the conversation, though appeared outwardly oblivious to what was going on around him, acknowledged later that what
Sri Bhagavan said was absolutely correct.
At the end of his stay, the writer took a trip to Tirupati, Kalahasti etc., and Sri Bhagavan, who did not appear to look with favor
on such tours b one who, for all purposes, appeared to be convinced of the efficacy of the Who am I? inquiry method, and of the
secondary value of worship of images, japas, mantras etc,, dismissed him with a simple 'yes, yes,' when he took leave.
This unspoken but well understood disapproval and he loftiness of His own teaching haunted the writer's mind all through his
tour of Seven Hills, the Papavinasam Falls, Kalahasti, Sri Vyasa Ashram, Yerpedu, the Kailasanatha Konai (Water falls), the
Nagari Buggi temple, and waterfalls, the Tiruttani Temple and so on. Therefore, when on his way home he was again standing
before Sri Bhagavan, he was quaking. But fortunately, a smiling countenance and a remark from Sri Bhagavan, that they were just
then talking about him and found him in the precincts and soon after the close of the talk, consoled him not a little.
T.K. Sundaresa Iyer: At the Feet of Bhagavan:
A Voice from the Hill of the Holy Beacon:
A certain Mysorean, well built and short in stature, presents himself before Sri Bhagavan and puts a question on a familiar
yet enigmatic subject. He asks: What is this thing they call Guru Kripa'? All the devotees sitting there are expectantly
watchful for the answer that will come the statue like figure on the divan, utterly unswayed by the happenings around Him,
with His eyes gazing into somewhere -- the depths of which we know not -- with an expression whose simple placidity catches
even those with a superior air of their own. Unassuming He is, yet His authority tells; naked in every sense of the word, yet
He is clothed in all that is wholly divine; poor, yet possessing and claiming by right all the Cosmos as His own; simple, yet a
problem and a marvel for all who come to study Him. He is the One Man to whom real India, nurtured on her glorious traditions
of the great past, looks for light and life.
This Sage of Arunagiri was one who burned His boats even at the age of seventeen, while He was a student in Madurai.
This was so that He might be drowned in the Ocean of Arunachala and dissolved in It, so that there might be no trace of His
little 'self' and He be only the One Self that is, was, and shall ever be. This is to Him 'Arunachala' -- the one resplendent and
immutable Truth, which is the Substratum of all that is, was, and shall be. For aruna means red, radiant and achalam, the
changeless rock bottom of Truth. To Him life in the wakeful stage is as good as a moment of dream. According to Him, the one
problem of life is how to wake from this perennial dream. For when we awaken from life's dream, aware of the One Seer and
all of that passes before His gaze, painful and pleasurable, we shall abide ever as the unaffected witness, immortal and infinite.
What is Guru's Grace? Well, this is exactly the word that awakens us from this dream of life of ours, to which we cling so hard
until the tiger of death pounces on us and proves that it is ephemeral and unreal.
continues...
When mention was made one day of the tank adjoining the Asramam, being called Agasthya Tirtham, the Maharshi was asked
if that sage ever visited the Hill. Bhagavan remarked, 'Yes, of course, everyone must come here eventually,' meaning that every
one must eventually return to the Source - Arunachala.
Sages have said that one can attain salvation of being born in Tiruvarur, by dying in Kasi, by worshipping Chidambaram, and
by merely thinking of Arunachala. 'So worship Arunachala of shining golden lustre for mere remembrance of Him ensures
deliverence,' Bhagavan also affirms.
Bhagavan said that the Hill is one of light. Sometimes one can see manifestation of lights on the Hill. In the early years, a
French devotee, Sujata Sen, once spent the night on the Hill in protest against an order of the management not allowing
women devotees to remain in the Asramam after dark. This was the most wonderful time for many devotees when Bhagavan
used to sit with them for an hour or so in radiant silence. Sujata dwelt on her grievance one pointedly. Next morning, she told that she was taken inside the Hill and found a whole world in it, which she described. Strangely enough many years later, in 1970, to be
precise, another devotee, Mr. S.N. Tandon, had a similar experience which he described in detail in the April 1970 issue of the
Mountain Path in 1970, that year. It is reminiscent of Dante's inferno, leading by stages to light, in which all manifestation disappears
in the feeling of pure I-am-ness.
Sri Visvanatha Swami, who from his adolescence spent many years with Bhagavan, shares with us the following account. Bhagavan
said to him one day, in the early twenties, 'Innumerable are the visions I have had of this Hill, Arunachala. I have seen beautiful
groves of trees, and fine palaces inside it. Once I saw a large tank and a big congreagation of Rishis and yogis seated on a wide
plain around it. Every face was familiar and so were the surroundings. A dais was there and I went up and sat on it with my right
hand held up in Chinmudra. It seemed my usual place and my usual pose.' Chinmudra is a pose in which the right hand is held up
with the thumb and forefinger joined and the three remaining fingers straight up. It is the pose of Sri Dakshinamurti. It denotes
the unity of the individual with Brahman, the transcendental Reality beyond three gunas.
It is said in the Puranas that a Siddha Purusha, the ancient teacher in the form of an eternal youth, is present higher up on one
of the slopes seated under an enormous banyan tree, diffusing his spiritual radiance in silence.
In the early days Bhagavan used to roam a good deal on the Hill. One day, He found, in a dried up watercourse, a banyan leaf
of such enormous size that it set him wondering what tree could produce such a leaf. Proceeding further He saw from a distance
a huge banyan tree growing on what looked like sheer rock. Going closer, Bhagavan inadvertently put His foot in a hornet's nest
and did not withdraw it until the hornets appeased their anger for being disturbed, by badly stinging His leg.
Bhagavan did not go near the tree but returned to His abode. Subsequently He firmly discouraged devotees from trying to find
the place saying that it was inaccessible and not advisable for them to do so. 'It is impossible. I know it!' He told them. 'for there
shall no man see Me and live.' (Exodus 33,20)
Deceptive Appearances
One afternoon in 1944, when devotees were conversing about sundry matters in Bhagavan's presence, the topic of deceptive appearances and talks came up for discussion. Addressing Bhagavan, a devotee said, "Some people put on all sorts of false appearances to deceive the world.�
Bhagavan said, "Yes. Not some, but many. What of that? If people put on false appearances, it is their own minds that get troubled ultimately. They begin to be afraid of what others would think of them and so their minds become their own enemies. If people think of deceiving others by putting on false appearances they themselves get deceived ultimately. They think, 'We have planned and have deceived others and thereby have shown great cleverness.' With pride they practice more and more deceptions. The consequences of their actions will be realized only when the deceptions are discovered. When the time comes, they will collapse as a result of their own deceits.�
While all were wondering whom Bhagavan had in mind, Rama Yogi said, "Swami, this reminds me of an incident. I remember to have read somewhere that Bhagavan had once put on Panganamam (distinctive caste mark of a Vaishnavaite). Is it true?�
Bhagavan replied as follows: "Yes. That was during the early days of my life on the hill. At that time some Vaishnavaites used to come to me, and at their pressing request I used to put on the namam, having nothing to lose thereby. Not only that. Do you know what I did once?
Those were the days when a Kalyana Mandapam was constructed in Arunachaleshwara temple. It was Navaratri time (Dasara Festival). A bhajana troupe had arranged in the temple a display of dolls for worship. They pressed me to go with them to see the display. As I was afraid that somebody might recognize me and start doing all sort of services, I put on a dhoti of Palaniswami and covered my body with another cloth, put on a namam like a Vaishnavaite and went with them. The administrators of the temple knew me well. I wanted to avoid them. They however, recognized me at the gate itself, and came after me saying, 'Swami! Swami! You also have come here to see the Swami? You yourself are a Swami, aren't you?' What to do? I felt I was deceiving myself. I somehow managed to evade them and get inside but I felt that everyone was looking at me only. I did not see the Mandapam nor could I see anything else. I turned back intending to return home unnoticed but the chief amongst the Archakas caught me again at the gate. "Swami! Swami! You have come in this dress? Aha! How nice it is, Swami! Please wait.�
So saying he stopped me; and addressing his assistants, he said, 'You fellow! Bring a garland of flowers. Bring sandal paste. Bring prasadam. Our Brahmanaswami has come here putting on the dress of Lord Sri Krishna. It is our great luck.' So saying, they began to shower temple honors on me. I somehow managed to escape their attentions and went away. Later on, I tried a number of times to hoodwink them and somehow go to the temple but invariably they used to recognize me and give me all the temple honors. Thereupon I gave up all further attempts and stopped going to the temple altogether. It is the same with everything. You can stay anywhere without fear, if you are in your real form. If you put on a dress to deceive others, you will be afraid every minute that someone might catch you at your deception and so your mind becomes your own enemy and troubles you,� said Bhagavan.
Suri Nagamma
Recollections of Sri Ramanasramam
Om Namo Bagavathe Sri Ramanaya
Echammal's Visit to Sri Bhagavan:
Echammal repeated her visits to the Asramam day after day, and in a few days
she could talk of her departed children and recall facts associated with them without being overwhelmed by tears
and without even a bitter pang in her heart. How the dense cloud of sorrow, the whirlwind of grief
gave place to a comparative calm in her breast, she could not understand.
It was all his grace, the kindness of the Maharshi on the Hill.
sanjaya_ganesh
22nd December, 1948
(211) PACHAIAMMA -- DURGA
Today is Tuesday, my (Suri Nagamma) Giri Pradakshina day. Hence, I obtained Sri Bhagavan's permission yesterday evening itself and started going round the Holy Hill, early morning at 3.30. By the time I reached "Pachaiamma Temple ", the Sun had just risen. As the day was not yet advanced, I thought of going from there along the foot of the Hill and through the forest, so that I could see the "Tortoise Rock", where Sri Bhagavan had once rested when His Heart stopped, and from there reach the Ashram by the same route. So, I went to the tank opposite the temple where a man was taking his bath and asked him whether the Shrine was open for worship.
"I am the priest. I will open the doors presently," he said. As I had heard that Sri Bhagavan used to stay in the Temple,now and then, in His earlier days, I have gone there several times to see the place, with great enthusiasm, but had not been able to see it, because the priests were not there and the doors were closed. I was therefore overjoyed at this opportunity of seeing the place and went inside with the priest. I saw the Goddess surrounded by Sage Gauthama and other rishis, worshipped the Goddess Pachaiamma, received the Prasad of holy ashes (vibhuti) and vermilion powder (kumkum) and walked along the hill path to see the 'Tortoise Rock'. I could not however identify it. I came back to the Ashram by that path. As soon as I got up after prostrating before Sri Bhagavan, He noticed the small packets in my hand and asked me what they were. I related to Him the story of my journey.
Looking at T.K.Sundaresa Iyer who was close by, Sri Bhagavan said, "It seems that that is the prasad of Mother Pachaiamma. Bring it here." So saying, He took it and smearing it on His forehead, said, "There are two rooms to its right, newly built. Have you seen them ?" I replied, "Yes. I have seen them. Some one had arranged a fireplace for cooking." "Yes, yes. That is it," said Sri Bhagavan. "They were built specially for cooking. When they were newly built, we thought of going round the Hill and, on the way, camp at Pachaiamma Temple. The authorities who were working there, were very pleased at our arrival and requested us to grace the new buildings with our stay and enjoy a feast by cooking there. That is just what we wanted, and we did the house-warming ceremony. When Nayana and myself had been living there, those rooms had not yet been built and so we used to do everything in the presence of the Mother (i.e., the Idol of Goddess Pachaiamma)."
"How did She get the name 'Pachaiamma' ?" I asked. Sri Bhagavan said, " 'Pachai' means emarald colour. When Mother Parvati came to Gautama Ashram to perform austerities to appease Lord Shiva, Her form was of emerald colour and She performed austerities at that place. Then, it is said, that She went round the Hill in pradakshina, stayed at several places at different times continuing Her austeities, and finally merged into Lord Shiva as half of His body and came to be known as 'Apita Kuchamba'. "
"How was it that that Goddess was given the name of 'Durga' ?" asked one devotee. "It is said that the Goddess killed a demon called 'Durgama' and so from that name was derived the name 'Durga'," replied Sri Bhagavan. The devotee again asked, "In the Durga Temple in this place, there is the tank (tirtha) known as the 'Khadga Tirtha'. What was its origin ?"
Sri Bhagavan, "It is said that the Goddess started from here for killing the demon, 'Mahishasura'. On killing the demon, the Idol of Lord Shiva ('Shiva Linga') which was tied round his neck, was caught in Her hand and could not be removed. She came here for a bath but there was no water anywhere. She thereupon dug the ground ( a monolith, rock)with Her sword and water gushed forth there. She took Her bath in the water, released the Idol of Shiva from Her hand, installed it on the bank of the tank, worshipped it with the water of that tank and then discarded the fiery spirit She had assumed to kill the demon. After that, She stayed on in the place to bestow boons on Her devotees. That tank has a perennial supply of water. However great the scarcity of water experienced here, that tank will always have water."
Dedvotee, "We hear that Sri Bhagavan repaired the 'Sri Chakra' (a tantric symbol of worship) of that temple when it got damaged."
Sri Bhagavan, "Yes. When I was in the Virupaksha Cave, the 'Maha Kumbhabhisheka' of that Durga Temple was performed. Before that festival, they brought the 'Sri Chakra' to me saying it was damaged slightly and wanted me to repair it. I acceded to their request."
So saying, Sri Bhagavan became silent.
---from " LETTERS FROM SRI RAMANASRAMAM ", pp.488--490
Salutations to Bhagawan
Another interesting incident Masthan Swami relates is about Bhagavan and a large golden colored mongoose. That it was golden colored itself was unusual considering these shy creatures are grey in color. It was the Karthikai Deepam festival time. Hundreds of people were climbing up the hill. Running through the crowds, this mongoose went into Virupaksha cave. It began searching every nook and corner of the cave. At that time Palani Swami, an attendant of Bhagavan, was not there and was taking a bath in a stream nearby. Not finding Bhagavan inside, the mongoose went outside and licked Palani Swami's feet. Then it started climbing up further toward Skandashram where Bhagavan was. On reaching Skandashram, the mongoose royally jumped onto his lap and sat gazing at Bhagavan.
Bhagavan caressed it and looked at it, pouring his grace. Though the Ashram was crowded with people, the attendant present was Masthan Swami. He took care that this creature didn't get hurt and didn't hurt the peacocks there. Wherever the mongoose went, he followed it, unnoticed, and after a while it disappeared. When the Ashram manager, Perumal Swami returned, Masthan Swami related what happened. Perumal Swami said, ―You should have caught that mongoose and kept it tied down here!‖ Bhagavan smiled at them, ―Can you catch him? Can you tie him down? He is a Siddha Purusha. Arunachala is home to so many Siddha Purushas. One of them wanted to come and spend some time with me. He came here. Can you ever think of catching him and tying him down here?"
-- From Human Gospel
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ABC News Publishes, Then Quickly Removes Lefty Mother Jones Article on GOP 'Redefining Rape'
By Scott Whitlock | January 31, 2011 11:18 AM EST
ABCNews.com on Monday republished, then removed an article from Mother Jones magazine on Republicans "redefining rape." The piece briefly appeared on the network's website with no explanation that it was by the associate editor of the liberal magazine.
The article, by Nick Baumann, featured both the incendiary headline from Mother Jones, "The House GOP's Plan to Redefine Rape" and the nasty sub-headline: "Drugged, raped, and pregnant? Too bad. Republicans are pushing to limit rape and incest cases eligible for government abortion funding."
Unlike CBSNews.com, which has an opinion and analysis section, this article received no label. One could easily assume Baumann was simply an ABC News journalist.
In the piece, Baumann, attacked the "anti-choice" Republicans:
Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law.
For years, federal laws restricting the use of government funds to pay for abortions have included exemptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. (Another exemption covers pregnancies that could endanger the life of the woman.) But the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act," a bill with 173 mostly Republican co-sponsors that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has dubbed a top priority in the new Congress, contains a provision that would rewrite the rules to limit drastically the definition of rape and incest in these cases.
The only experts cited in the article are those attacking congressional Republicans, including Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America. That would be fine, of course, had the article not been featured on ABCNews.com (or had it been identified as commentary).
National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez created a screenshot of the (now gone) ABC News article and the Mother Jones original:
— Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center. Click here to follow him on Twitter.
Media Bias Debate ABC
Scott Whitlock is the associate editor for the Media Research Center's NewsBusters.org site.
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Man wounded by police has filed multi-million dollar suit against city, officers
Posted: 12:41 PM, Jun 04, 2019
By: Action 10 News
A man who was mistakenly shot by police who were looking for a robbery suspect has now filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against those officers and the City of Corpus Christi.
The suit, filed in federal court on behalf of Richard Salazar , alleges excessive force on the part of the two officers involved.
The suit also claims Salazar's civil rights were violated and says the officers were not properly trained.
Salazar was shot several times back in March by officers looking for two robbery suspects.
The officers said Salazar matched the description of one of the suspects.
The suit asks for just more than $12 million in damages.
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Canon EOS R with RF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM Lens Without R Adapter
Quick Overview The EOS R pairs a redeveloped lens mount and an updated full-frame image sensor for a unique and sophisticated multimedia camera system. Revolving around the new RF lens mount, the...
The EOS R pairs a redeveloped lens mount and an updated full-frame image sensor for a unique and sophisticated multimedia camera system. Revolving around the new RF lens mount, the EOS R is poised to be the means from which to make the most of a new series of lenses and optical technologies. The combination of these technologies offers a wide sensitivity range up a native ISO 40000, fast continuous shooting to 8 fps, and UHD 4K30 video recording. In addition to imaging, the sensor also facilitates an advanced Dual Pixel CMOS AF system, which uses 5655 selectable points for quickly and accurately acquiring focus. Also catering to the tactile cravings is a Multi-Function bar, which is customizable for intuitively adjusting shooting settings. And as a camera built to withstand the toughest environments, the magnesium alloy body is dust and moisture-sealed. The mount also incorporates a 12-pin electronic contact system for more sophisticated autofocus and image stabilization capabilities. When paired with the DIGIC 8 image processor, the EOS R affords a native sensitivity range of ISO 100-40000, which can be expanded to ISO 50-102400 for working in a variety of lighting conditions. When working with still imagery, this focusing system works to acquire focus quickly and accurately, making it ideally suited to shooting and tracking moving subjects so that critical focus is attained with each shot. When shooting video, a Movie Servo AF mode offers smooth and natural focusing when changing from different subjects or different distances within the scene, as well as the ability to specify tracking sensitivity, AF speed, and Face Tracking priority when recording in-camera, 4K video has 4:2:2 sampling and 8-bit color depth, a 4:2:2 10-bit clean output in ITU-R CT.2020 is possible when using an external recorder. These adjustments include focus fine-tuning that can help you ever-so-slightly adjust the focus point to bring out extra details, shift bokeh around for improved composition, and reduce the impact of ghosting on your photos. This requires the use of Canon's Digital Photo Professional software. It can be used to adjust ISO or white balance, to check focus/display focus info or AF modes, change to movie shooting modes, uses flexible-priority AE, or be customized for other functions. the camera body is the versatile RF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens; a standard zoom covering wide-angle to portrait-length focal lengths. Its f/4 constant maximum aperture maintains consistent performance throughout the zoom range and suits working in a variety of lighting conditions. Digital Lens Optimizer helps to minimize the appearance of various optical aberrations in-camera, including diffraction, for cleaner image quality. Images can be saved as Compact Raw files, which offer smaller file sizes for faster post-processing.
Canon EOS R Specs
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6 British TV shows and film locations you can visit for free!
by Lisa | Aug 11, 2019 | England | 54 comments
A location tour of your favorite British TV shows and films
1. Poldark
Where to find the best British TV shows and film locations
2. Downton Abbey
3. Doctor Who
4. Harry Potter
5. Bridget Jones Diary
6. James Bond
(Updated October 2020)
Do you have a favorite British TV show or movie? Are you passionate about Poldark or prefer the delights of Downton Abbey? Whatever your preference, I want to take you on a tour of the best TV shows and film locations in the UK.
Film locations in the UK
I'm always amazed by how many questions I receive from readers about the period TV drama Poldark. It's a series set in the 18th century, based on the novels from author Winston Graham. The story revolves around Ross Poldark, a British army officer who has returned to his home in Cornwall.
It's a show bursting with romance, drama and chivalry, and is a bit hit worldwide. However, as popular as the show — and its main front runner — is, the locations are also worthy of a mention.
Where is Poldark filmed?
Cornwall in the south-west of England takes center stage for most of the filming locations in Poldark. It follows the setting of the books, featuring the rugged cliffs, sandy beaches and hidden coves of the area.
The following places are some of the locations where they filmed Poldark. See which of these you recognize from the show.
Porthcothan Beach
Cornwall is known for its magnificent sandy beaches and wide-open bays. Near the town of Newquay is Porthcothan beach, a location that features frequently in Poldark. It was used as Nampara Cove, the land of the Poldark estate.
Here, you'll find soft white sand, high cliffs and simply one of the prettiest coves in Cornwall.
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Film locations in the UK — Bodmin Moor
Speaking of the Poldark home, the family cottage you see in the show is set on Bodmin Moor. The wild and rugged landscape is also the setting for many horseback scenes.
True fans of the show will also recognize Bodmin Moor as the place where Ross meets his future love interest Demelza.
A perfect setting for Poldark: Porthcothan Beach in Cornwall
Botallack and Levant — filming locations in the UK
Botallack and Levant are not just filming locations in Poldark; they're also 2 important sites of interest in Cornwall. Both portray the area's rich mining heritage — something which features often in the Poldark story.
Botallack is the setting of Poldark's Wheal Leisure mines, while Levant Mine acts as the fictional Tressiders Rolling Mill.
At Botallack, the old engine houses sit on the cliff tops overlooking the dramatic Tin Coast. It's also the scene of several clifftop encounters in Poldark.
Botallack and Levant are part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site and are both managed by The National Trust.
What else is there to do at Botallack and Levant?
Other activities you can do at Botallack include exploring the mines and visiting Botallack Count House Workshop. It was once a stable, workshop and classroom for Penzance School of Mines. Today, it's a place where you can find out about Cornish mining over a slice of cake and tea.
From Levant, choose from one of several coastal walks. You'll get to explore the glorious stretch of land — and splendid scenery — along the Tin Coast.
St Agnes Head
The last UK filming location I want to share on the Poldark tour is St Agnes Head. A location with engine houses on the cliff's edge, it features as Nampara Valley in the show. St Agnes Head is also the place where many horse-riding scenes have been filmed.
Best boutique hotels to stay in Cornwall
Talland Bay Hotel, Talland
Talland Bay Hotel is one of those hotels you instantly fall for. There are 2, award-winning restaurants on site, and sea views to admire from your room.
Rooms are individually styled — as you'd expect from a boutique hotel, and the coastal path is minutes away. Check availability for your upcoming stay.
Boskerris Hotel, St Ives
Check into the fabulous Boskerris Hotel in St Ives, Cornwall, with modern styled rooms and fantastic views. It's 70m from Carbis Bay and a great setting for your Poldark tour trip.
The Botallack mine in Poldark – film locations to visit in the UK
"However, as popular as the show — and its main front runner — is, the locations are also worthy of a mention."
No-one does period drama better than the British, as shown by the hugely successful TV series Downton Abbey. In case you're unfamiliar with the show, the story revolves around the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family.
It's set between 1912 and 1926, following the lives of the family upstairs, and their servants downstairs, on their Yorkshire estate.
Film locations in the UK — where is the castle in Downton Abbey?
The real-life stately home featured in Downton Abbey is actually Highclere Castle near the town of Newbury. It's easy to reach from London and is also an ideal day trip to see the famous castle.
Once here, you can take a tour of the lavish state rooms, the gardens and woodlands. Explore the gorgeous Secret Garden with its curving green borders, and wander the Wood of Goodwill, with its 38 native British trees.
How can I reach Highclere Castle?
The most straightforward way to visit Highclere Castle is by car. They advise not to use your GPS when near the castle, as it will take you to the wrong entrance. Instead, enter this postcode, RG20 9LE, and follow the brown tourist signs to the main entrance.
Another way to reach Highclere Castle from London is by train. There are hourly trains from London Paddington station to Newbury. From here, it's about a 14-minute taxi ride to reach the castle.
The last way to get to Highclere Castle is by joining a tour. From London, there are several options that also include transportation to and from the venue.
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The grand Highclere Castle from Downton Abbey
Where is the village in Downton Abbey?
The real-life location of the village featured in Downton Abbey is called Bampton. It's sits in a green, leafy region of England called The Cotswolds, and is the classic chocolate-box English village.
Bampton is the location for many scenes, including:
Branson teaching Lady Edith to drive, and
Lord Grantham, Lady Mary and Tom walking across Shill Brook.
St Mary's Church in Bampton dates back to the 12th century, and features as the entrance to the cottage hospital. It's one of the oldest towns in England, and lies in the county of Oxfordshire.
Where to stay in Newbury, UK?
Treat yourself to a 5-star spa hotel experience at The Vineyard. With beautifully styled bedrooms, it's an ideal location to reach Highclere Castle (12.9km), and Newbury Racecourse (8km).
The attraction of Bampton: St Mary's Church a.k.a. the entrance to the cottage hospital in Downton Abbey
The British BBC TV show, Doctor Who, has gained a legion of devoted fans since it began in 1963. It follows the adventures of a time lord, who travels the universe in a time-traveling spaceship called the TARDIS. He typically has a trusty sidekick who helps him in his battle against the Daleks and cybermen.
Filming locations of Doctor Who have usually been in the UK. However, season 12 was filmed in South Africa.
Film locations in the UK — Doctor Who filming locations in London
Doctor Who has been filmed against the backdrop of many London top attractions. Cybermen have marched down the steps from St Paul's Cathedral, and the Doctor met Shakespeare himself inside the Globe Theatre.
Avid fans of the show may be interested to take a Doctor Who London walking tour. It's your chance to follow in the footsteps of the much-loved protagonist, and with like-minded people that share your interests.
UK filming locations: The Globe Theatre in London features in Doctor Who
Doctor Who filming locations in Wales
The more recent series of the show has mainly been filmed in the studios in Cardiff in Wales. However, you'll be happy to read that there are also some outdoor locations they use in the show. See how many of these you recognize.
2 Welsh castles in Doctor Who — film locations in the UK
There are not 1, but 2 castles in and near to Cardiff, which feature in Doctor Who. Cardiff Castle is right in the capital city center, meaning there's no excuse not to visit. The castle was built in the late 11th century by Norman invaders, and is dripping in history.
Cardiff Castle has been the backdrop for several Doctor Who episodes, as well as the spin-off show, Torchwood.
Caerphilly is a short drive (29 minutes) from Cardiff, and is home to Caerphilly Castle.
The largest castle in Wales was built by the English in the 13th century, with massive walls, towers and gateways. It has its own leaning tower similar to the one in Pisa, and has featured many times in Doctor Who.
There's also the option to visit inside the castle, but at a small cost.
Cardiff Castle in the Welsh capital is one of many UK filming locations
Film locations in the UK — the secret alleyway in Doctor Who
Transport yourself back to series 9, where viewers are introduced to the mysterious Diagon Alley. The Doctor and his sidekick come across the hidden entrance to the secret alleyway.
As it turns out, it's not so secret, as you can find this along Westgate Street in Cardiff. Take caution, as you never know where it may lead!
Southerndown Beach in Doctor Who
Die-hard Doctor Who fans will instantly recognize this beach from one of the most popular episodes of the series.
A beautiful backdrop for a tearjerker ending, Southerndown Beach is where the Doctor bids farewell to his traveling companion Rose.
If you'd like to visit this memorable setting, there are several ways to visit from Cardiff. By car, it's around 46 minutes, while train is 27 minutes from Cardiff Central to Bridgend. Afterwards, it's a short taxi ride (9 minutes) to get to the beach.
The third option's by bus. Look for the X2 bus and get off at the stop called Corntown, The Paddocks. From here, you'll also need to get a taxi.
The stunning Southerndown Beach in Wales – the scene of the sad finale in Doctor Who
Boutique hotels in Cardiff
Extend your Doctor Who tour by spending a night or 2 in one of these sublime boutique hotels.
Jolyon's Boutique Hotel
Boutique by name — and by nature, Jolyon's Boutique Hotel is a striking townhouse in the docklands area of Cardiff.
Booking into this hotel also gives you a chance to stay in the same place as Doctor Who himself. Actor Chris Eccleston played the ninth doctor in the show and stayed at the hotel saying, 'it's much better than the tardis!'
Hotel Indigo — boutique hotels in Cardiff
Just 300m from Cardiff Castle is Hotel Indigo. With charming and colorful rooms, Indigo Hotel is not only a comfortable choice, it's centrally located too.
There's a terrace, fitness center and an all-round lovely hotel for an excellent price. Other nearby attractions include the Motorpoint Arena Cardiff and Principality Stadium.
Caerphilly Castle is another Doctor Who historic film location in the UK
No post about the best British film locations to visit would be complete without mentioning Harry Potter. The story of the lovable boy (and later teenage) wizard and his friends has captured a mass fan base worldwide.
Alnwick Castle, Alnwick
You may recognize Alnwick Castle from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and the Chamber of Secrets. The castle was used as the exterior of Hogwarts — the school of magic in the movie.
Unlike many uninhabited castles around the UK, the dukes of Northumberland live at Alnwick Castle.
The castle is in the town of Alnwick in the county of Northumberland, north-east England. While it's probably easier to drive, there are also buses that can take you there.
If traveling from London, you can take the train from London to Edinburgh and get off at Alnmouth. From here, take a taxi or a bus to Alnwick Castle.
There's an entrance fee to visit the castle, the garden, and the castle and garden. However, you can choose to explore the exterior and keep the experience totally free.
Alnwick Castle in the north of England – Do you recognize it in Harry Potter?
Malham Cove — Harry Potter UK filming locations
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Harry and Hermione hide from Voldemort behind a unique rock formation.
It's called Malham Cove, and you can visit this limestone rock camp for yourself near the village of Malham. The unique shape was made by the river that once ran over it, and it's totally free to explore.
Gargrave is the nearest train station to Malham Cove and it's about 7 miles. If you're arriving by car, prepare for the narrow country lanes from Gargrave to Malham. While exploring Malham Cove is free, I can't say the same for the parking.
Harry Potter film locations — Ashridge Wood
While Ashridge Wood is known for its diverse variety of flowers, plants and trees, it's also famous for something else. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Ashridge Wood is where the Quidditch World Cup takes place.
The woods are ideal for Harry Potter fans and nature lovers alike. It's a colorful setting for a fall or spring walk and makes for a great family day trip. The visitor center is open from 10am to 4pm and costs nothing to enter.
There are different options to get to Ashridge Wood. By train, you can travel from Newbury and get either a bus or taxi. By car, it's about 1 hour and 30 minutes from London.
Malham Cove – the mysterious rock formation in Harry Potter ©George Hodan
Harry Potter filming locations in Scotland
Glenfinnan — film locations in the UK
Several of the Harry Potter movies were filmed against the glorious backdrop of Scotland. The magnificent Glenfinnan Viaduct features in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the Prisoner of Azkaban, and the Goblet of Fire.
Fans of the franchise will recognize the Glenfinnan Viaduct as the bridge upon which the Hogwarts Express makes its journey.
To make the same ride across the iconic bridge, you can take a train from Glenfinnan. There are daily train services running between Fort William and Glenfinnan, which will take you across the famous viaduct.
Loch Etive — where did they film Harry Potter in Scotland?
The incredible Loch Etive features in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. It's located in Argyll and Bute, towards the west coast of Scotland. You may recognize the location as the setting where Harry, Hermione and Ron had their camping trip.
Taynuilt is the closest town to Loch Etive. It's about 87 miles north of Glasgow, but worth visiting if you love the movies and the outdoors too.
By train, you need to take the route from Glasgow Queen Street station and get off at Taynuilt. The ride is approximately 2 hours and 36 minutes.
Where can you stay in Glenfinnan?
Extend your break in the inspiring Scottish Highlands and take a look at these cozy and chic accommodation choices.
The Armoury, Glenfinnan
Book a night, or 2, at a traditional Scottish villa-style home with lake and mountain views. The Armoury has all the amenities you need for a comfortable stay, and is just 200m from the Glenfinnan Viaduct.
Camas Tana
How does a Scottish style lodge with lake views and a roaring fire sound? Camas Tana is a unique property that lets you connect with nature, and is just a few steps from Glenfinnan Station Museum.
Jump on board and experience the wondrous Glenfinnan Viaduct for yourself
Film locations in the UK — Harry Potter London film locations
The UK capital features across all the Harry Potter movies, and they're also all free to visit. King's Cross Station is probably the most visited of all the film sites in London. It's where you'll find the famous platform 9 ¾: the stop for the Hogwarts Express.
It's easy to find the hidden access to platform 9 ¾. You'll spot it instantly once you see the luggage cart halfway into the wall. Take home a souvenir of your visit, and take a photo near the suitcase complete with a Gryffindor scarf.
Go all out on your London Harry Potter experience and book a studio tour. Transport is included in the ticket price and it's a great day out for fans and families too.
St Pancras Renaissance Hotel
Along with having a fabulous luxury spa, the 5-star St Pancras Renaissance Hotel is also known for its grand exterior. The hotel features as the entrance to King's Cross station in Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets.
Millennium Bridge – Harry Potter London filming locations
Cast your mind back to the opening of Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, and the collapse of the Millennium Bridge. Today, the bridge still very much exists, and connects Bankside to the City of London. It was once known as the 'wobbly bridge' because it moved as pedestrians crossed it on first opening.
Millennium Bridge was closed soon after for 2 years to correct structural issues. It was re-opened to the public in 2002. The closest tube station to see Millennium Bridge is Blackfriars, and of course it's absolutely free to visit.
Millennium Bridge in London – Harry Potter London filming locations
Free film locations in London
It'd be criminal of me to leave off some much-loved British films that were filmed in London. I'm guilty of watching the following movies several times, and enjoy recognizing the places in the capital.
How many of these have you seen?
I've watched all 3 (maybe there will be a fourth) in the franchise of the hapless yet lovable protagonist. While chick flicks aren't usually my thing, I've read the books, watched the movies and smiled throughout.
There are several places you can visit in London (for free) that feature in the film series.
8 Bedale Street — where does Bridget Jones live?
Bridget's home is located above a pub called The Globe Tavern. It's very close to London Bridge tube station and is also right by Borough Market.
The door that's her home in the movie is a real door — and most likely to someone's home. Just don't go knocking on it!
Bridget Jones fight scene. The hilarious fight scene between Mark and Daniel takes place outside a Greek restaurant near Bridget's home. In real life, the restaurant's a wine shop called Bedales, named after the street.
When Bridget does a TV interview. Outside the Royal Courts of Justice, Bridget conducts an interview for a landmark legal case. The nearest tube station to the courthouse is Chancery Lane, which is on the Central (red) line.
The last scene. We all love a happy ending, and in the first movie, Bridget makes hers in her underwear. When she finally chases down Mark, they share their romantic exchange, and kiss, at the Royal Exchange in Cornhill. It's easy to find as it's near the grand Bank of England, right by Bank tube station.
Bedale Street in London Bridge – the home of hapless romantic Bridget Jones
When you're in the mood for a good spy film, you can do no wrong with James Bond. And though the English spy travels frequently to fight off the bad guys, he always returns to his London base.
And so, it's only right that the capital features often throughout the entire Bond franchise. However, rather than me list every London location in the James Bond catalogue, here are some landmarks that frequently appear.
MI6 building: the headquarters of the British intelligence is a regular in many of the films. From Dr No and From Russia with Love, to Skyfall and Casino Royale, you can't miss this iconic building.
In real life, you can find the MI6 building in Vauxhall, immediately south of the river. The nearest tube station is Vauxhall, which is on the Victoria (light blue) line. A word of caution: be careful about how many photos you take of MI6; someone may be watching you!
The MI6 building in Vauxhall, London
Houses of Parliament — James Bond film locations in the UK
In Skyfall, the iconic Houses of Parliament feature in the smash movie. Big Ben (still under construction at the time of writing), and the house is free to visit. However, if you'd like to take a peek inside, you may want to consider taking a tour. It's an interesting, and educational, way to learn more about the history of the British Parliament, and see the incredible interiors.
Westminster is the nearest tube station, and sits on the Circle (yellow), District (green) and Jubilee lines.
Film locations in the UK — National Gallery
One of my favorite, and free, places to visit in London, also features in James Bond. During a scene in Skyfall, Bond meets up with Q in one of the rooms in the gallery.
If you visit London, do yourself a big favor and visit the National Gallery. It's one of many free museums to visit in the city, and an incredible building to wander around. The National Gallery is near another great landmark, Trafalgar Square, and is close to Charing Cross tube and train station.
The National Gallery in Charing Cross is a must-see in London – free film locations in the UK
Best boutique hotels in London
You're spoiled for choice with boutique hotels in London, so it can over-whelming knowing where to start.
Flemings Mayfair
Flemings Mayfair is a chic and central luxury boutique hotel in the upmarket area of London. The neighborhood's close to Hyde Park, and about 7 minutes' walk to Piccadilly Circus.
No two rooms are the same at Flemings Mayfair, and the sizes are also generous for central London. There's also an excellent restaurant and cocktail bar on site, plus the chance to have a traditional afternoon tea.
The closest tube station is Green Park, which is on the Piccadilly (dark blue) and Victoria (light blue) lines.
Hip, uniquely styled and in the heart of the action is how I'd describe Dean Street Townhouse. Part of the SoHo House group, non-members are more than welcome to book at this SoHo-based boutique. A standing bathtub is the star attraction in the room, adding an elegant and almost retro feel to the look.
As the name suggests, Dean Street Townhouse is in Dean Street, which is in the SoHo area of London. While it's a hotspot for nightlife outside, especially on the weekend, inside, you won't hear a thing.
What did you think of this list? Were there any British shows or films that I missed that you'd like to know its locations? Let me know in the comments below.
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Amar singh on August 28, 2019 at 4:13 am
A great post if you are a U.K. production buff and would like to visit some of those amazing locations that these were filmed in. Living in london I have visited some of these and always love to find out about more and this post does help me. My favourite are the bond movie locations and I always remember Bond driving past the Mi 6 buildings always. Harry Potter studio seems to be a great one to if you are a fan of the series like myself. Thanks for sharing the top U.K. locations from movies and serials
Lisa on August 28, 2019 at 6:08 pm
You're welcome! The Bond locations are good fun to visit
Yukti on August 24, 2019 at 2:11 pm
Wow so many locations of some of my favorite films. I thought some of the castles are just set and never existed mostly just Harry Potter ones. Would now plan for these places when I plan for UK. It is great you tipped us that not to use GPS for Highclere castle as it takes to wrong entrance.
You're so welcome! Yes, many people make the same mistake and then end up at the wrong place!
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France is the only country that has such a wide range of cheese. Exported all over the world for decades, this heritage was built up over time. Set off and explore this unique diversity of products and expertise.
France is the only country that has such a wide range of cheese. Exported all over the world for decades, this heritage was built up over time. Set...
From Alsace to Normandy, Brittany to the Pyrenees, from Provence to Corsica, each part of France has delicious products. In France, every cheese reveals a terroir. Behind every cheese is a dairy tradition. In addition, behind every cheese family is a special process. The cheese making technique, the weight, the shape, and finally, the maturation where its flavour is perfected, all depend on the particular quality of the milk and expertise.
What is cheese?
Cheese is a fermented product produced by coagulating certain milk proteins (caseins). Cheese can be fresh or matured, more or less rich in fat. A smooth Camembert, a strong Pont-l'Évêque, a tender Saint-Nectaire, a fruity Beaufort… There's a cheese to suit everyone's tastes and the food and cooking habits of different continents!
The strengths of French cheeses
Diversity of products
Inimitable taste
1200 varieties of cheese and seven families
There is a wide variety of cheeses. This is due to the different cultural practices of the people who make them. But it can also be explained by the many different types of milk there are (cow's, ewe's, goat's, buffalo's - there are lots of dairy breeds). Finally, the production technology used, and whether the milk is raw or pasteurised, means that there is a variety of around ten families. Between authentic cheeses with a strong character which are enjoyed every day, to fondue or spreadable cheese, there are many ways to navigate through this vast family.
What are the different cheese families?
Cheese has played an important role in commercial transactions, the payment of taxes to lords and farm rent. With Pasteur's discovery of fermentation microorganisms, the emergence of industrial refrigeration and finally, the development of transport, the art of cheesemaking experienced considerable growth from the 19th century.
Discover the history of French cheeses
An enjoyable and healthy food
Cheese is essential from a nutritional perspective: it is a source of energy (45-450 kcal/100g cheese), proteins and minerals (including calcium and phosphorus, particularly for cooked pressed cheeses). To varying degrees, it is also high in vitamins A, D and B (present in the mould of veined cheeses and the soft centres of cheeses with bloomy rinds).
More information about nutritional benefits
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Salt Lake Chamber Statement on State Correctional Facility Relocation Decision
Lane Beattie, President and CEO of the Salt Lake Chamber, issued the following statement following the Prison Relocation Commission's recommendation of the I-80/7200 West Salt Lake City site as the location for a new State Prison:
"As the voice of business, representing over 8,000 Utah businesses, I want to commend the Prison Relocation Commission for their recommendation to relocate the prison to the I-80/7200 West Salt Lake City site. This is a complex issue. Today's recommendation is the culmination of a thoughtful and methodical process including dozens of studies and countless hours by those involved.
"A new state-of-the-art correctional facility will support the Legislature's criminal justice reform effort, which protect the taxpayer and reduces recidivism. It is also clear that if done wisely, there is substantial opportunity for our state's economy in the redevelopment of the current Draper location. Every Utahn has an interest in the future of this property. As a business community, we will actively engage to ensure this generational opportunity is not squandered.
"Leadership requires making hard decisions with a strong vision for our state's future. We encourage the entire Legislature to thoughtfully consider and support this recommendation."
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Fable III Review
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by Andrew Giese | Reviews Xbox 360 | 1 Comment | 03 Nov 2010
The original Fable almost never released, but was one of the best selling games on the original Xbox, and stood at the top of the charts at Major Nelson's blog as one of the most played games until the original Xbox servers were taken offline. Now Fable is in its third iteration, but has the series finally delivered on any of its lofty goals?
What's It About?
Fable III is set fifty years after the end of Fable II, which was set a few hundred years after the end of Fable I. You are the son or daughter of the hero from Fable II, and your older brother is currently king. You are exposed to the extent of your brother's tyranny in an opening quest that sets your resolve on revenge. Accordingly, you escape the castle at night with your mentor Sir Walter Beck and personal butler Jasper.
You soon discover that you are a Hero like your father and those legendary people of old. As a Hero, you are visited by Theresa the blind seer and set upon a quest to take the throne from your despotic sibling.
Fable has this fantastic way of leading you along, making you push to do just one more quest before you turn it off, and before you know it, it's 2:00 am and you have to be at work by 8. Fable III continues that trend with some notable quests, deep characters, and great exploration.
There is one rule that all adventure games should live by and that is to reward the player for exploring. Crammed into every nook and cranny of Fable III's rather large yet dense, world are worthwhile prizes for exploring. If you wander just off the beaten path you'll find treasure chests, keys, tattoos, and more.
The developers have taken a new, minimalist approach to the UI, getting rid of menus wherever they could. Instead of your traditional menus when you press Start, you're teleported to the Sanctuary, where your character must physically travel to rooms to change weapons, put on different outfits, and view statistics. The effect is some aesthetic enhancement at the expense of convenience, and I personally didn't have a problem with it.
The combat hasn't changed much from Fable II. It's still one-button combat, but with the addition of a glut of flourishes, it manages to stay fresh. Everything has been tweaked only slightly to make it a little more streamlined.
Earning money is always a huge draw in RPGs, and Fable II really lacked any money sinks. So while it was fun to get to a couple million dollars, the novelty grew old after you realized you had nothing to spend it on. In Fable III, there are a few notable money sinks; those being investing in more realty, paying upkeep to houses you already own, and keeping the kingdom's treasury full after you've become the monarch.
However, not everything is absolutely perfect. The minimalist UI can feel really inadequate sometimes, and it's often quite a pain to have to teleport to your "sanctuary", then walk up to the map just so you can see your available quests. The quests themselves are great, but quest management is really a flop. Buying houses may be fun, but paying upkeep is tiresome and tedious. A "Repair all" option would have both accomplished the minimal feel Lionhead was going for while simultaneously allowing you to spend less time in menus and more time playing.
Another issue is that of frame rate. The game really struggles to keep up sometimes, and for me actually flat out froze a few times. A quick Google search will tell you that my case is not the exception here. Luckily the game auto-saves so it's hard to lose much progress.
Finally, a Fable III review wouldn't be complete without mentioning the Co-Op. This time around co-op is actually a joyous, not joy-less, experience. Your friend can drop into your game with his character, and you two can embark on quests and even romance together. Players connected to Xbox Live will see their stats compared to their friends', which is a physically small yet psychologically huge feature that keeps you playing in an effort to 1-up your buddies.
In summation, the reasons to care about Fable III are numerous: a compelling story, diverse characters, a breadth of things to do, new and unique controls, and genuinely satisfying cooperation.
Why Is It Worth My Time And Money?
The second Fable was a good game, but felt incomplete. Fable III feels like the game the developers meant to make. Fable III is basically Fable 2.5; there's nothing really new here. That doesn't mean Fable III is not worth your money; if you can get over the fact that despite its "Start a Revolution" tag, Fable III doesn't change many game mechanics from former iterations, then you'll find that all the things that made Fable II good are still intact.
Additionally, one almost doesn't need to be reminded of the star power delivering the dialogue in Fable III's story. With a cast including Simon Pegg (Star Trek, Shaun of the Dead), John Cleese (Life of Brian, Monty Python's Flying Circus), Ben Kingsley (Shutter Island, Prince of Persia), and more you can bet on a story that is alternatively profound and humorous. All this is complemented by yet another fantastic score.
At the most superficial level if you want to compare value by time played, then you won't be disappointed there either. While the intrepid hero may be able to sprint through the story in eight hours or so, it's nearly impossible to avoid getting sidetracked chasing hidden treasures. A moderate amount of time spent playing this game is well over twenty hours.
In the end, Fable III is an easy recommendation. With an endearing, dynamic world and pure unadulterated adventuring, it will leave you with fond memories and a sense of accomplishment.
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Apple updates iOS Security Guide with Face ID, Apple Pay Cash & more
Christian Zibreg ∙ January 12, 2018
Apple's detailed iOS Security Guide has been revised with fresh new information related to Face ID, Apple Pay Cash, CloudKit end-to-end encryption and other new technologies.
Last refreshed in July of 2017 following the release of iOS 10.3, the updated document is available as a PDF download via Apple's website. Dated January 2018, it underscores the fact that iPhone X facial data is stored in an encrypted form in the Secure Enclave, a cryptographic coprocessor that's embedded into the main chip and has its own encrypted memory.
The same info is provided in an earlier support doc, titled "About Face ID advanced technology."
"Touch ID and Face ID don't replace your passcode, but provide easy access to your device within thoughtful boundaries and time constraints," says Apple. "This is important because a strong passcode forms the foundation of your iOS device's cryptographic protection."
The probability of a false match with Face ID, the document notes, is different for twins and siblings that look like you as well as among children under the age of 13, "because their distinct facial features may not have fully developed."
As for Apple Pay Cash, the document reveals that transaction data is actually stored by Apple Payments Inc. for troubleshooting, fraud prevention and regulatory purposes once a transaction is completed.
For privacy reasons, Apple Payments Inc. is separate from Apple Inc.
"The rest of Apple doesn't know who you sent money to, received money from or where you made a purchase with your Apple Pay Cash card."
iOS Security Guide is a fascinating read for anyone looking to delve deep into the inner workings of how Apple's in-house designed chips and software work tightly together to protect the privacy and strengthen the security of its customers.
Aside from the Face ID and Apple Pay Cash sections for iOS 11.2, the revised document contains the following updates for iOS 11.1: Security Certifications and Programs, Touch ID, Face ID, Shared Notes, CloudKit end-to-end encryption, TLS, Apple Pay, Paying with Apple Pay on the web, Siri Suggestions and Shared iPad.
If you're interested to learn why iOS is the most secure mobile operating system in the world, and understand the basics of encryption, you're wholeheartedly recommended to add this informative guide to your reading list.
Image: iOS Security Guide in Readdle's PDF Expert for Mac
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Dan Gearino covers the U.S. Midwest, part of ICN's National Environment Reporting Network. His coverage deals with the business side of the clean-energy transition and he writes ICN's Clean Economy Weekly newsletter. He came to ICN in 2018 after a nine-year tenure at The Columbus Dispatch, where he covered the business of energy and won state and national awards for his work, including from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and the National Headliner Awards. Before that, he covered politics and business in his native Iowa and in New Hampshire, working as a newspaper reporter and an occasional radio correspondent. He grew up in Warren County, Iowa, just south of Des Moines, and is an alumnus of Macalester College in St. Paul. He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and two daughters. Reach Dan at [email protected].
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Ms. Alma White
Funeral services for Ms. Alma White of Americus, Georgia will be held on Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 11:00 A.M. at Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church with Pastor Curtis Frazier officiating. Burial will follow at the Eastview Cemetery.
Ms. Alma White, affectionately known as "Dunnie" to those who loved her, was born May 27, 1934 to the late Charles and Tassie Lee White. At an early age she joined Friendship Baptist Church in DeSoto, GA. She lived a great portion of her adult life in Detroit Michigan surrounded by family. She later moved to Americus, GA to become a faithful caregiver for her oldest sister whom she preceded in death. She took care of Ozella until her own health failed. She was a quiet peaceful spirit with a big heart for her family. On March 27, 2017 God needed an Angel and he called her home. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Mr. Virgil White and Mr. Curtis White; one sister, Mrs. Margaret (Johnny) Mercer.
She leaves to mourn her passing two sisters, Ms. Ozella (Belle) White and Mrs. Leila Mae White Josey, Americus, GA; devoted nieces, Ms. Deborah Josey Burks, Byron, GA, Mrs. Alice (Eddie) Mercer, and Mrs. Brenda (Allison) Harris, Americus, GA; devoted nephews, Mr. Clarence Josey III, Mr. Ronald Josey, Mr. Ernest Josey, Mr. Johnny Josey, Mr. Johnny Mercer, Jr., Mr. Darryl Mercer, and Mr. Michael Mercer; devoted cousins whom she loved like sisters, Ms. Leila-Clifford Meadows, Cusseta, GA, Ms. Estella Meadows Campbell, Detroit Michigan and Ms. Ozella (Maximo) Cobb, Columbus, GA; great nieces: Mrs. Amber (Tavares) Caldwell, Ms. Leila-Chassity Jones, Ms. Rayven Josey Burks; Ms. LaToya Raven Williams, Ms. Alyson Janee Harris; Ms. Marquita Clark; Ms. Erica Mercer; Ms. Michala Mercer; great nephews: Mr. Christopher Raven, Mr. Arthur Raven, Mr. Eddie Mercer, Jr., Mr. Darrell Mercer, Jr., Mr. Nicholas Mercer and Mr. Johnny Mercer III; a host of nieces, nephews, and cousins
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DEAR FAMILY AND FRIENDS,
IT IS NEVER EASY TO LOSE A LOVED ONE.MAY YOU FIND COMFORT IN GOD'S
PROMISE AT (JOHN 6:40) WHICH TELLS US,"FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF MY FATHER,
THAT EVERYONE WHO RECOGNIZES THE SON AND EXERCISES FAITH IN HIM SHOULD HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE ,AND I WILL RESURRECT HIM ON THE LAST DAY."
YOUR PAIN MAY LAST A LIFETIME,BUT SO WILL THE WONDERFUL MEMORIES.
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I extend my condolences to you all for the loss of your dear loved one. May Jehovah the God of tender mercies and comfort provide you all support throughout your grief. 2 Corinthians 1:3,4
My condolences to the family. I am so sorry for your loss but the almighty god jehovah gives us a resurrection hope at john 5:28 and 29,at that time we have the opportunity to see our love ones again. This is a comfort that we can look forward to.
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About a dozen rifles stolen from south Tulsa gun store
The Associated Press - November 10, 2017 12:37 pm
TULSA, Okla. (AP) – Police in Tulsa say about a dozen assault-style rifles were stolen from a gun store by men who used a sport utility vehicle to smash into the building.
Cpl. Chris Butterfield says the SUV was driven into the wall of a south Tulsa shopping center about 4 a.m. Friday, through two offices, then through the wall of Action Arms.
Police say the men then took 12 to 15 AR-15 rifles and drove out of the building.
Butterfield says the SUV was found a few blocks away and had been reported stolen.
Butterfield says it's believed the men transferred the weapons into another vehicle and drove away.
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Community encouraged to dig deep for SA Bushfire Appeal
The State Government has expanded its SA Bushfire Appeal to raise much-needed funds for South Australians directly affected by recent devastating bushfires on Kangaroo Island – and everyone is encouraged to give generously.
An additional $1 million has been pledged by the Marshall Government to help the Kangaroo Island community rebuild, on top of the $1 million already committed for those affected by the Cudlee Creek bushfire.
The SA Bushfire Appeal will be the primary appeal for South Australia's emergency relief effort, raising money for the SA Emergency Relief Fund.
Premier Steven Marshall said the entire community stands shoulder to shoulder with the community affected by the state's devastating bushfires.
"The outpouring of support for South Australians in their hour of need has been an inspiration, with every dollar raised going directly to the families and communities who need it most," said Mr Marshall.
"We have all been shocked and saddened by the scale of destruction on Kangaroo Island, coming on top of the devastating losses in the Adelaide Hills.
"Not only has there been tragic loss of life, families have lost homes and properties, people have lost businesses, vineyards, livestock and – for some – their livelihoods.
"At this difficult time, we're encouraging South Australians to continue to dig deep and donate what they can to the SA Bushfire Appeal, to help their fellow South Australians rebuild in the weeks, months and years ahead.
"South Australians have already given very generously, with more than $1,041,881 raised so far from 3316 donors.
"Every dollar donated to the SA Bushfire Appeal will go to South Australians who are doing it tough and every dollar makes a difference."
After donating, people are being encouraged to 'like and share' the SA Bushfire Appeal Facebook page to help spread the word around the world.
All donations over $2 to the SA Bushfire Appeal are tax deductible. Donations can be made online, in person or by post:
* Electronic funds transfer to the SA Bushfire Appeal, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, BSB 065 266, Account 10020160, description should state 'SA donation'
* Credit card – visit the SA Bushfire Appeal BPoint payment website at www.bpoint.com.au/payments/serf or dial 1300 276 468 (1300 BPOINT) and enter biller code 1002359
* Cash – go into any branch of the Commonwealth Bank and donate over the counter giving the details: BSB 065 266, Account 10020160
* Cheque – mail to SA Bushfire Appeal, Donations, QA Finance, GPO Box 292, Adelaide SA 5001
For more information or to donate to the SA Bushfire Appeal go to sa.gov.au/bushfireappeal
To stay up to date on all the latest relief and recovery measures for the current SA bushfires, visit dhs.sa.gov.au/recovery. People directly affected by the fires can phone the Recovery Hotline on 1800 302 787.
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Highlighted Year: Raymond Berry, 1957
Offensive End, Baltimore Colts
3rd season in pro football & with Colts
College: Southern Methodist
Berry didn't have much opportunity to show off his pass receiving skills in college, catching just 33 passes and scoring one touchdown, but he was chosen as a future pick by the Colts in the 20th round of the 1954 NFL draft. He joined the team in '55 and caught 13 passes as a rookie and, with the arrival of QB Johnny Unitas, improved to 37 receptions for 601 yards (16.2 avg.) in 1956. What he lacked in speed and heft he made up for with reliable hands and an excellent work ethic.
Most receptions, game – 12 (for 224 yds.) at Washington
Most yards, game – 224 (on 12 catches) at Washington
Average gain – 17.0 [17]
TDs – 6 [3, tied with Ray Renfro, Elroy Hirsch & Billy Wilson]
200-yard receiving games – 1
TDs – 6 [9, tied with ten others]
Points – 36 [19, tied with ten others]
1st team All-NFL: Sporting News
2nd team All-NFL: AP
Colts went 7-5 to finish third in the NFL Western Conference while leading the league in passing yards (2388) and touchdowns (41).
Berry followed up by leading the NFL in pass receiving in each of the next three seasons, in pass receiving touchdowns in 1958 and '59, and pass receiving yards in 1959 and '60, despite being hindered by a leg injury in the latter year. He was a consensus first-team All-NFL selection after all three years and also had an outstanding performance in the 1958 NFL Championship overtime win over the Giants (12 catches, 178 yards, 1 TD). While he didn't lead the league and missed two games due to injury in 1961, the steady Berry had a career-high 75 catches and was chosen to a fourth straight Pro Bowl. He went on to play a total of 13 seasons, all with the Colts, and retired as the career pass receiving leader at the time with 631, for 9275 yards (14.7 avg.) and 68 TDs. Berry was a consensus first-team All-NFL selection three times, received some first- or second-team honors after two other seasons, and was named to the Pro Bowl six times. He was selected to the 50th and 75th-year all-time NFL teams. The Colts retired his #82 and Berry was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Class of 1973. Berry went on to a coaching career and was head coach of the New England Patriots when they won the AFC Championship in 1985.
Labels: 1957 NFL season, Baltimore Colts, Highlighted Years, Indianapolis Colts, Pass Receiving Yardage Leaders, Player Profiles, Raymond Berry
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Posted on December 4, 2012inQ-AdmininStudents
Q Language, A Very Different Hong Kong Language School
One aspect that makes language study at Q Language so special is the fact that our students join us here from all over the world. We are one of the only language schools in Hong Kong that can say this and it is one of the reasons that make our language school the popular choice for so many language students who come to Hong Kong.
The multi-national mix creates a great learning environment for both students and teachers alike. As Byron, one of our best English teachers says,
My favourite thing about teaching at Q Language is the background of all the students. They come from almost every continent, so they have a lot of different perspectives and stories to bring to the classroom so we have really interesting classroom discussions."
And one of our ex-teachers, Anneka, once said,
At Q Language, I mainly teach small groups of students from lots of different countries and that's what I enjoy most about teaching here. There are students from all over the world: from South America, from Europe, from Asia, (for example) and it's nice to have a mix of lots of different students in the class."
One of our newer and already very popular English teachers, Marika, recently interviewed two of her students to find out what motivated them to come to Hong Kong and why they had decided to study English. They were also asked why in particular they chose to study at Q Language. As you will read, both students had a similar reason for coming to Hong Kong but different motivation for studying English. Here's what Marika learned about the students' respective stories and how their English language levels have developed whilst at Q Language:
The Interview With Cenk Gunay & Huriko Ku
Hiroko Ku & Cenk Gunay
Firstly, a few words to introduce the students: Cenk Gunay, who comes from Turkey, has been in Hong Kong for almost a full year, out of which he has studied English for seven months. He plans to continue on his English course for about two months more. He was placed in an intermediate level English class even though he admitted,
The level was too high for me at that time, but I wanted to have a challenge."
The second student who kindly agreed to share their experience with us was Hiroko Ku, who comes from Tokyo, Japan. She has been in Hong Kong for about two years, out of which she has spent ten months studying English. She started at beginner level but worked hard and finished her studies at end of October this year at intermediate level. Hiroko reminisced,
I chose to start with the lowest level, because I couldn't speak at all."
Both Cenk and Hiroko, like many other expatriates, followed their partners to Hong Kong and it conveniently gave them a good opportunity to start studying English.
It is my first experience in Asia and I have enjoyed it so much!"
Cenk said with a big smile on his face. He continued,
Hong Kong is such a modern city with many opportunities for shopping and for tasting interesting cuisines from all over Asia".
Hiroko added,
"I've been lucky to find many good opportunities in Hong Kong as well as meeting people from many different countries".
They both agreed that the people here are friendly and that the atmosphere in Hong Kong is quite pleasant. In fact, Hiroko laughed as she said,
I'm enjoying my time here so much that I would prefer to stay in Hong Kong."
Cenk Gunay, studying hard with his classmates.
Even though they had similar reasons for coming to Hong Kong, their motivation for studying English was quite different. Cenk chose to learn English to further his career as he had worked for an international company in Turkey and he knew that being able to communicate well in English would have boosted his career prospects.
Hiroko, on the other hand, wanted to make friends with people from other countries and be able to travel independently or with her friends.
Cenk and Hiroko both agreed that the main reason for choosing Q Language over other language schools was the relatively flexible class schedules available. Cenk explained that he was able to build a schedule which easily matched his personal needs.
Note: Q Language students can choose an Intensive schedule with morning and afternoon lessons up to 24 hours per week with group and private lessons or a more relaxed schedule with only a few classes per week. See all English courses and schedules by following the links here.
Cenk pointed out,
When I started with the Intensive English Program, I had five different teachers who came from either England, Australia or North America. This gave me a great opportunity to learn different accents and some colloquial vocabulary."
I especially appreciated the fact that I could choose my lessons according to my learning targets and this allowed me to concentrate on my weaknesses, which were speaking and reading. I also managed to adjust my work schedule to fit in with my English studies."
Hiroko with her classmates.
Cenk's also pointed out that Q Language was easy to find on the Internet and that the website had all the necessary information he needed.
Hiroko, on the other hand, got a recommendation from her friend whose English had improved a lot after taking an English course at Q Language.
For many language students, the most important goal is to improve their speaking skills, and Hiroko and Cenk agreed that this was especially important for them.
They both also said that their English course at Q language has been very effective as they can feel that their understanding and speaking has improved dramatically. Neither student had the confidence to speak in English before they started. Cenk recalled,
At the beginning, I just smiled."
They both agreed that they had learned more than just the language. They said,
We have learned so much more than just the language, too. We learned about other cultures and countries,"
And Hiroko added, enthusiastically,
I didn't have opportunities to speak with people from other countries in Japan, so I'm very happy to be in Hong Kong and studying English."
As an additional benefit, Cenk felt that he has learnt how to study English and how to use the Internet to support his studies. He also noted,
I have really found a passion for languages whilst studying here at Q language."
He was quite content, too, that he didn't have to sit any exams!
The only negative point that the students came up with was that this experience has to come to an end. As a result, when that day comes, both of them plan to continue studying by reading books and newspapers as well as listening to English radio or watching English films and TV programs.
It has been a pleasure to follow Hiroko and Cenk on their journey. From the start, both of them worked hard and both were highly motivated. Consequently, they have gained a lot more confidence and a real passion for learning English.
Thanks, Hiroko & Cenk! 🙂
For everyday situations, this means that Cenk and Hiroko are able to express themselves better and they no longer shy away from any situation when it comes to English.
We would like to send a big thank you to Cenk Gunay and Hiroko Ku for sharing their experience of studying English with us and thank them, too, for choosing Q Language. As with all our students, we wish them continued success with their language studies and respective chosen life paths.
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Downhill all the way at Ambleside film premiere
The first film premiere I went to was in Leeds for the comedy, A Private Function. My friend Eileen played the farmer's wife and I sat one row behind the scriptwriter, a chap called Alan Bennett.
It's been downhill all the way since then, ending at Zeffirelli's in Ambleside tonight for the premiere of Downhill, an endearingly funny road movie about four guys who avoid all the roads and attempt to walk the Coast to Coast path. They covered – and drank – 192 miles of glorious northern countryside and glorious northern hospitality, apart from the B&B where the mushrooms got mixed up with the baked beans.
Such detail never bothered Alfred Wainwright whose description of the route inspires thousands every year to make the pilgrimage from St Bees in the west to Robin Hood's Bay in the east. And inspired writer Torben Betts to tackle a comedy full of errors, directed by James Rouse, and produced by Benji Howell.
They call it a testament to the tragically incompatible, a blow-by-blow account of the highs and lows of decades-long friendships. Their actors – Richard Lumsden, Karl Theobald, Jeremy Swift and Ned Dennehy – were calling it torture after the first day. But they survived – at least, most of them – to make the crossing intact, with only one drop-out, one cheat (a small misdemeanour) and one gay outing.
It's filmed as a spoof documentary, with the invisible cameraman revealed briefly as the son of one of the characters (who steps from behind the lens and to his dad's defence. And there's a bit of the plot revealed briefly.) The technique works very well indeed, as do the closely-studied shots of the landscape, revealing the slate and the stone of the Lake District and North Yorkshire more dramatically than the leaf and the lane.
The early stages are my home territory, the end of the route sentimentally familiar. My running club, Clayton le Moors Harriers, once tackled the Coast to Coast as a relay event and I ran the last 19 miles from Glaisdale to Robin Hood's Bay carrying the baton – a pebble picked from St Bees' beach. I can still taste the fish and chips that the Downhill wanderers relished at the end of their journey.
Sand in their shoes, stars in their eyes, they asked guests at the premiere to turn up in evening dress and hiking boots. Or wellies, like the main star of the night, Dorothy Smith, manager of Zeffirelli's, who hosted a gala night with a difference. We had champagne, we had canapés, we had a jazz band. We had a green carpet, and sheep on the pavement outside.
Zeffs is the cultural centre of the Lake District, a five-screen cinema which hosts live music, a café bar by day, a packed restaurant by night, and an artistic sibling in the next street, Fellini's. Dorothy and her team rise to all sorts of occasions, and won a customer service award at a recent ceremony. They served stars and guests as if they hosted the Oscars every week, and they handed over a cheque for £900 to the local mountain rescue team at the end of the evening. It was night to remember, even if it was Downhill all the way.
Downhill is on general release from Friday, opening in London at the Empire, Leicester Square.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2014 by Stagey Lady.
Portrait of Dorothy Wordsworth returns to the family home
A rare portrait of Dorothy Wordsworth as a young woman has been bought by Rydal Mount, her home near Ambleside that she shared with brother William and his wife, Mary.
The unsigned and unattributed miniature was given by Dorothy's niece Dora to Maria Jewsbury who, at the age of 24, had presented a collection of her poems to William Wordsworth.
It was sold for an undisclosed sum by auctioneers Bonhams of London to members of the Wordsworth family, who still own the house where the poet lived for most of his life. Curator of Rydal Mount, Peter Elkington, said he was thrilled at this acquisition.
"Dorothy lived a long time, and most of the representations of her show her as a placid, middle aged woman. But she was known to be enigmatic in her youth, and the essayist Thomas de Quincy described her wild eyes and impulsive nature. This comes much closer to that notion of her."
Maria Jewsbury was invited to stay with the Wordsworths at Rydal Mount where she became a great admirer of Dorothy and firm friends with Dora and the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's daughter, Sara.
In 1831Maria married a missionary and on departing for India she offered the portrait to Dora – who turned it down because she didn't like it. Maria died in India in 1833 – of cholera – and the painting was given to Henry Coleridge, Sara's husband and cousin. It was one of a number of items relating to Coleridge the writer which were sold by Bonhams.
Now it has come home, to hang in the drawing room at Rydal Mount alongside the more famous portrait of Dorothy as a mature woman. Said Peter Elkington: "It's a really significant addition to our collection and sheds more light on the life and nature of this influential woman."
Share your photos of remarkable Lakes exhibition Reflective Moments
Visitors to the Lake District's most unusual art exhibition are being invited to share their own photos of the events and installations on social media.
Reflective Moments opens this weekend and runs for a week at a number of venues from Dunmail Raise and Allan Bank in the north of the Windermere catchment to Fell Foot Park. It is organised by environmental campaigners Windermere Reflections.
Visitors will be invited to peer through a viewing tunnel, step inside a giant kaleidoscope, and experience the landscape through a camera obscura. On the Windermere ferry they will be encouraged to create poetry on giant "fridge magnet" boards.
And at each site they will find details of how they can upload their own photos to share their creative moments.
Reflective Moments sets out to show not just the grandeur of the landscape but how it has been viewed through history, particularly at the time of the picturesque and Romantic eras.
The viewing tunnel is at Allan Bank near Grasmere, once the home of William Wordsworth. The kaleidoscope is at the head of Windermere near Ambleside, and the camera obscura at a wartime pillbox on Dunmail Raise.
Visitors will also experience sensory exhibits at Claife on the west shore of Windermere, try Chinese landscape painting, and create poetry on the cross-lake ferry.
The events mark the final months the Windermere Reflections programme, which was tasked with informing and educating residents, businesses, landowners and visitors of the need for diligence to maintain good water quality in the lake.
Alongside the workshops, the temporary art installations created by Cumbria-based artist Steve Messam celebrate the work of Windermere Reflections while highlighting the significant contribution of the Lakeland fells to international culture and heritage.
"The fells have influenced the way we perceive and appreciate landscape," said Windermere Reflections' programme manager Liz Davey. "Windermere's water flows from Dunmail down through the catchment past historic landscape vantage points of Roman and modern British warfare, to those of the picturesque and Romanticism movements."
Visitors' photographs can be uploaded to the Windermere Reflections' Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/WindermereReflections, and also shared via Flickr.
Lead artist Steve Messam said: "We are encouraging people to look at the landscape in a different way and to share their own creative moments. It's going to be one big photo opportunity."
Reflective Moments will comprise the following:
Dunmail Raise viewing box – the WW2 pillbox beside the Grasmere to Keswick Road will be transformed into a Camera Obscura – a fitted lens in one of the windows projects the view over Grasmere on to the opposite wall, while the outside will be clad in 2,000 silver balls, reflecting the surrounding landscape and making it shimmer in sunlight. From May 23.
At Allan Bank in Grasmere, once home of William Wordsworth and a key location in the development of the Romantic movement, visitors will be able to send their cameras 1,000ft into the air beneath weather balloons to take stunning aerial photographs in a drop-in workshop with artist Bryony Purvis. They can also visit the Victorian viewing tunnel in the grounds. May 24/25
Rydal Hall: Cumbrian artist Irene Sanderson will host free workshops in Chinese landscape painting in the viewing "grotto". The oldest purpose-built viewing station in the UK, it was refurbished in 2005 and overlooks a waterfall.(Rydal Hall is one mile north of Ambleside.) May 24/25
Borrans Park at Waterhead will see the installation of a giant kaleidoscope, three metres high and five metres long, which will look out down Windermere and fragment the view while people silhouetted on the lakeshore become moving patterns.
Windermere car ferry – Foot passenger can create their own Lakeland verse with giant magnetic poetry. From May 24 for a week.
Claife viewing station: the 'Sound Mirror' is a collection of unheard sounds of water and the lake emanating from the rocks and trees. The sounds of trees drinking and crayfish walking are part of the audible treasure hunt. May 30/31 and June 1.
Fell Foot park will host 'Drop', Messam's giant reflective installation based on a raindrop – the building blocks of the Lakes – and standing the height of a three-storey building. There will be another chance to take aerial photos with Bryony Purvis. From May 30.
The project is part of Heritage Lottery funded Windermere Reflections to mark three years of campaigning to improve the water quality in the Windermere catchment area. Liz Davey said: "As with all our work this has been a true partnership initiative from start to finish and in selecting the sites for this work we are grateful for the support of the National Trust and their tenant farmers, South Lakes District Council, Cumbria County Council and Windermere Ferry, and Rydal Hall."
She added: "Through our work we've enjoyed using art as a way of introducing environmental issues and connecting people to their landscape."
Artist Steve Messam added: "This is a way to facilitate opportunities for people to share what they see, and to share their understanding of the landscape. The way that the project finishes at the foot of Windermere, with the possibility of following the water's onward journey out to sea with aerial photos, truly connects key areas through the catchment and th
Tea and cake help charity in Windermere
Two days of feasting on tea and cake in Windermere raised more than £800 for charity.
A tea party at Windermere preparatory school was followed by an afternoon tea at the Cedar Manor hotel, both events organised by the hotel's owner, Caroline Kaye.
The money raised is going to fund research into the causes and possible cures for lupus, a condition suffered by Caroline's 21 year old daughter, Natalie.
Caroline is also in training for the Great North Run to raise further funds for the cause.
The school tea party raised more than £400 thanks to the generosity of the parents, teachers and friends, many of whom donated cakes.
The baking for the hotel afternoon tea was done by sous chef Michael Vango, along with friends of Caroline and her husband Jonathan, and visitors there raised almost another £400.
Lupus is a chronic and presently-incurable illness of the immune system, a condition in which the body's defence mechanism begins to attack itself through an excess of antibodies in the blood stream.
It causes inflammation and damage in the joints, muscles and other organs. Caroline said: "Natalie was diagnosed when she was 15, but it had taken two years to identify from when she first showed symptoms.
"That's not unusual as the condition is very difficult to identify. We are helping the charity in their attempts to research the causes, and possible treatments, for Lupus."
Natalie is a beauty advisor and make-up artist for Estee Lauder at Selfridges in London. Younger sister Elizabeth, 8, a pupil at Windermere School, is playing her part by helping Caroline's training efforts – she goes alongside on her bicycle when mum goes for a run.
Caroline has done just two races so far, 10k trail events at Coniston and Derwentwater. After surgery for a knee problem last year, she's back in training and confident of achieving her goal at the famous north east race
She said: "Local people, and our visitors, have been very generous. I know that there are many demands on people's kindness. We have raised money, and just as importantly, we have raised awareness about the condition."
Caroline can be sponsored at http://www.justgiving.com/CarolineKaye
Falling in love with the Cedar Manor
Falling in love with the Lake District – the story of Cedar Manor hotel
(As published in Lancashire Life)
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged cedar manor hotel, Lake District, Windermere on May 7, 2014 by Stagey Lady.
Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours, in Windermere
Residents of a road in Windermere are proving what it really means to be neighbourly, while protecting their local environment.
The voluntary efforts of people living on Victoria Road North have taken community action to new heights, from woodland management to the planting of a communal orchard.
They are being supported by green campaigners Windermere Reflections as part of their Windermere Footprint project. But the residents themselves have led the way.
"We wanted to see how our community could work together to live more sustainably and increase neighbourliness," said Barry Butler, one of the residents.
Following a survey to find out what local people wanted to do, the group began in style with a new year party hosted by one of the residents. Since then they have been improving their area, and helping to clean up the environment.
The group won support from South Lakes District Council to fund a woodland management plan for School Knott Community Woodland, and organised woodland management and woodcrafts events for local people.
Windermere and Bowness Civic Society agreed to 'adopt' the woodland group to help support its work, and community orchard was planted with the help of the Wood Education Programme and the Windermere Food Group. One resident is making bird and bat boxes for the woodland area.
All the residents received a Windermere Reflections Property Pack with tips on cutting carbon and pollution. And they have booked a training session with a wildflower expert and a bird expert in order to understand how to attract more wildlife to the woodland, with support from Windermere Reflections.
"We have done several community litter picks to remove the disintegrating plastic rabbit guards from the trees. One person has spent a lot of time doing this and has collected 35 bags of guards," said Barry.
"People have been interested in different elements of the project, but it's the idea of helping to look after and make improvements in the woodland which has been the most popular part. Being involved has certainly got some people talking and having fun when they didn't know each other before."
Windermere Reflections' programme manager Liz Davey said: "These people are truly local heroes. They have sought advice and support, and then got on with it themselves, improving their own environment. We could all learn a great deal from their example, and we are thrilled with what they have achieved."
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Windermere, Windermere Reflections on May 2, 2014 by Stagey Lady.
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There's many way's to describe what this UFO looks like because it's got the typical Cigar shape and the Dart shape.
But for arguments sake let's add in the possibility that it's a man made aerial vehicle and just like that it goes from being a UFO and it becomes a rocket.
Credit: UFO Planet YouTube/UFO Sightings Footage/UFO News/Canva.
Is this a new type of rocket maybe that utilises it's own power supply but in a much better way? The fuel could be revolutionary and a new type. Rocket's tend to fly in one direction which is 9 time's out of ten, upwards. This is flying sideways so it's kinda straying into missile territory but it's definitely not a missile as far as I can tell.
If it is a missile then it's a brand new kind of missile. Something in the order of "Top Secret" maybe...
Lee Lewis UFO SIGHTINGS FOOTAGE.
The YouTube channel Alien Planet has this UFO video on it's uploads list and it's got no information with it whatsoever. Everyone in Ufology focuses primarily on the UFOs which have an intriguing back story or is legendary in their own right or at least they can say where it was filmed. But nobody really focuses on the UFOs without information. I'm going with what's right and even though it's got nothing much to say, I'm so grateful that the person who reported it anonymously did so, thank you.
The Clearest UFO Cluster Probably Ever Seen
It absolutely looks like this crazy thing could have been filmed from the inside of a cockpit with a copilot making the video? It's almost as if it could be a testing of a secret weapon or a secret aerial vehicle "scaled down testing" because that 100 percent happens in many private and public sectors. Scaled down testing always happens in research and development departments looking for specific information on how aerodynamics etc work on specific designs. I mean it would probably answer this question perfectly?
It's still the history of Ufology, it's got to be, no it must be looked into, it's still got to be ruled in or ruled out one way or another.
And it's still got a story about it no matter what, even if it's just a UFO video. Some people need the story to write the story if you know what I mean? It's like on one hand a UFO has been reported to MUFON and it's got a ton of information supplied by the eye witness. But on the other hand, there's a UFO sighting reported to MUFON but without any coordinates, no date, no name, nothing to tell which year it was filmed - but yet it looks more realistic than the latter.
I'm going to choose the one that I like, I'm standing behind the UFO that appeals to me and the UFO which I fully believe needs to be told. To be honest with you guy's, I'm actually going to be writing about them all! Every single UFO sighting must be sorted, put into piles of possible and feasible and probable.
The next step is to open up the UFO videos, photos etc to a wider audience and let them decide because although I'm good, I'm not that good at single handedly bringing all the UFO report's to a wider audience. So, I'd like it if you guy's could share it with as many people as possible so we can all be educated together on what is, in my own view is the best kept secret in history, that we aren't alone in the universe.
I fully believe this and I fully understand what the implications of this mean.
And it's not a negative attitude, it's one of hope, learning, evolving, progressing and travelling. The stars the limit just remember that. The UFO in this video definitely could be a man made craft, I'm not sure how big it is, how fast it's going and where it's going? There's nothing to gauge the size and speed of the craft against.
Here's the full UFO video:
Please share your thoughts on what you think about this UFO video, if you can share this post as well I'd appreciate it, cheers.
Labels: cigar shaped ufo, cylinder UFO, metallic silver, silver metal craft, tube ufo, ufo cigar, UFO missile, ufo video
Gremlin30 Wednesday, August 25, 2021 6:43:00 pm
Interesting... If the object is traveling fast how was the camera aircraft able to film it broadside and keep up with it ??
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Daniel Powter Live at The Bee 29 June 2019
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Jason Cheah 10th Jun 2019
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Special announcement to all Daniel Powter fans – we've just got word that the 'Bad Day' singer is currently working on some hot new stuff which is gonna hit the charts in a big way. With that in mind, we will be postponing his showcase to a later date so that fans get first dibs on his new material.
Those who have already bought tickets will automatically receive a full refund from airasiaredtix.com and you will be the first to get dibs on tickets before we release the ticket sales.
We'll announce the new date as soon as we can. Stay tuned!
In 2005, radio stations all over the world were playing this song as music lovers mouthed the lyrics in unison anytime it hit the soundwaves. This 29 June, 2019, punters of pop rock and alternative rock will be able to catch Canadian musician, Daniel Powter live in Kuala Lumpur at The Bee, Publika, Solaris Dutamas, KL and sing along, up close and personal, to his self-penned hit song Bad Day.
Charting at #1 in over 40 countries around the world, Bad Day was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts for five consecutive weeks and sold over 15 million copies, making it the best-selling digital single of all time in the United States. The hit was also recently certified as the second biggest radio hit in history around the world. Daniel won Juno awards and was nominated for Grammy and Brit awards for Bad Day and the debut album. Bad Day and Free Loop, another hit single from Daniel's debut album, both received massive airplay in Greater China.
The man himself refers to his music as a little 'different from the norm'. Sure, songs like Bad Day don't sound that different when you listen casually at first. If anything, it sounds like well-crafted, edgy pop, boasting infectious rhythm, rock-solid chords and hooks that dig into your brain and don't let go. But listen again and you'll find that dark lyrics thread through those happy melodies, some of which he sings with a hint of sarcasm and anger tightening the quiver in his falsetto. He is an artiste that focuses on everyday life, though he doesn't miss the dirt swept under society's rug.
In 2017, After a four year hiatus, Daniel released a single in the form of a rather funky pop tune Delicious. The song sees Powter using his fantastic, trademark vocal style but with a rather more synth-driven sound behind it and fans were more than excited to have him back.
In December of last year, Powter released his album Giants combining eight of his most recent singles in one juicy EP. Songs in the album include Perfect for Me, Survivor, Delicious, re-recordings of Bad Day, Free Loop and Tell Them Who You Are with altered lyrics and tunes. A remixed version of Do You Want to Get Lucky is also included featuring extra bells and no vocal reverb.
To commemorate Giants, Powter returns to Asia on tour with his band, performing his songs, both new and old. In Daniel's words, "Playing shows and having an audience engage and sing back to me the songs that I wrote are all the awards I would ever want. Meeting new people and traveling, and staying humble and grateful, rewards your soul."
THE BEE, PUBLIKA: 36B, Block C, Level G2, Publika, Solaris Dutamas, Jalan Dutamas 1, KL. Early bird tickets are priced at: RM88, Advanced are priced at RM118 and VIP tickets are going for RM288. Tickets for the show are now on sale through: https://airasiaredtix.com/danielpowter
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874 F. 2d 647 - United States v. Ayarza
874 F2d 647 United States v. Ayarza
Miguel Gabriel AYARZA, Defendant-Appellant.
Argued Jan. 10, 1989.
Submitted April 21, 1989.
Decided May 9, 1989.
Joseph W. Bottini, Asst. U.S. Atty., Anchorage, Alaska, for plaintiff-appellee.
Nancy Shaw, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendant-appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Alaska.
Before WRIGHT, TANG and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges.
WIGGINS, Circuit Judge:
Appellant Miguel G. Ayarza appeals his conviction of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, in violation of 21 U.S.C. Sec. 841(a)(1) (1982), and his sentence of 78 months imprisonment, four years of supervised release, and a $3500 fine. Appellant entered a conditional plea of guilty, reserving his right to challenge the district court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence seized by Alaska State Troopers after they exposed his carry-on luggage to trained narcotics detection dogs. Further, Appellant challenges the propriety of his sentence, which the district court imposed according to the terms of the Sentencing Guidelines. The district court had jurisdiction of this case under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3231 (1982). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291 (1982). We affirm.
One month prior to arresting Appellant, Trooper Al Storey had observed him conversing with United Airlines ticketing agents. Trooper Storey's attention had been drawn to Appellant because the agents had denied him access to a flight bound for New York, believing him to be under the influence of a controlled substance. One month later Trooper Storey's attention was again drawn to Appellant after ticketing agents told Trooper Storey that Appellant had returned and was again bound for New York, but that his ground time would be less than eight hours. Trooper Storey did not see Appellant board the aircraft, but the agents at the gate described Appellant and told him that Appellant's luggage consisted only of a small carry-on bag.
Through the use of airline reservation computers Trooper Storey was able to determine that Appellant arrived in, and departed from, New York according to his itinerary. Trooper Storey was able to determine further that Appellant's flight arrived in Seattle, Washington too late for him to catch his connecting flight to Anchorage, but that Appellant had been reassigned a seat in row eleven of a flight that would arrive in Anchorage the following afternoon. Trooper Storey was waiting at the gate when Appellant was the first passenger to disembark from this flight.
Trooper Storey followed Appellant as he walked quickly through the concourse, leaving the other passengers far behind. Trooper Storey noticed that slung over Appellant's shoulder was a large garment bag that he believed did not match the description of the small carry-on bag that Appellant had with him when he departed from Anchorage. Trooper Storey further observed that Appellant's pace quickened as he walked through a glassed-in hallway, and that Appellant repeatedly glanced at the window, which by that time of day reflected the interior of the concourse. Trooper Storey also observed Appellant walk to the far left of the exit area where the airport's security monitor was posted.
Appellant proceeded to the first available exit on the upper level of the terminal and, as he passed through the door, he looked over his shoulder to see that Trooper Storey was following him. Appellant stopped at the curbside and looked to his left as though expecting somebody to pick him up. Trooper Storey approached Appellant at that time, identified himself as a law enforcement officer, and asked Appellant if he could speak to him. Appellant gave an affirmative response. Trooper Storey advised Appellant that he was not under arrest and that he could leave without saying anything more. Appellant declined to leave.
Trooper Storey first asked appellant if he could see some identification. Trooper Storey observed Appellant sort through various documents in his billfold, including what appeared to be an Alaska identification, before extracting a California driver's license. Trooper Storey asked Appellant where he had traveled from and Appellant replied that he had come from Seattle. Trooper Storey then asked Appellant the purpose of his visit and Appellant replied that he had visited a sick aunt. When Trooper Storey asked Appellant if his aunt lived in Seattle, Appellant replied that his aunt lived in New York and had recently had an operation for the removal of corns on her feet. Appellant explained that he had gone for two days. Trooper Storey noticed that Appellant's nervousness heightened when, in response to Appellant's query, Trooper Storey explained that he was conducting a drug investigation. Appellant then explained to Trooper Storey that he had come directly outside of the terminal in order to catch a cab. Trooper Storey knew, however, that cabs usually pick up passengers at the lower level of the terminal.
At this point Trooper Storey asked Appellant if he would allow his bag to be exposed to a scent detection canine. Appellant hesitated, replying that he wanted to contact his attorney. Trooper Storey allowed him to make a phone call, but required him to position the garment bag so that it was not concealed from Trooper Storey's view. When Appellant returned he told Trooper Storey that his attorney advised him not to allow the search unless he was placed under arrest. Trooper Storey then told Appellant that he was free to go, but that he was going to detain the garment bag and expose it to a scent detection canine. He further explained that Appellant could accompany him and that at most the procedure would take thirty to forty minutes. When Appellant declined, Trooper Storey advised Appellant that the bag would be returned immediately if the dog did not alert to its contents. Trooper Storey offered Appellant a receipt for the bag, but Appellant declined to accept one.
Trooper Storey took possession of the bag and a few minutes later exposed it to "Irma," who alerted positively to the odor of a controlled substance contained in the bag. Trooper Bowman, who had joined Trooper Storey toward the end of his conversation with Appellant, then exposed the garment bag to "Meik," who also alerted positively to the odor of a controlled substance contained in the bag. The Troopers then obtained a search warrant, opened the bag, and found a large, rectangular object rolled up in some clothing items. White crystalline powder found inside the object field-tested positive for the presence of cocaine. A subsequent analysis confirmed that 1005.7 grams of cocaine were contained in Appellant's garment bag.
Appellant filed a motion in the district court to suppress the evidence of cocaine on the grounds that Trooper Storey's conduct in detaining Appellant's garment bag amounted to an unreasonable search and seizure, contravening the fourth amendment to the United States Constitution. The district court referred the matter to a magistrate who, after conducting an evidentiary hearing, recommended that the motion be denied. The magistrate reasoned that Trooper Storey had reasonable, articulable suspicion to believe that criminal conduct was in progress, and that many of the so-called "drug courier profile" factors supported this suspicion. Over Appellant's objection the district court adopted the magistrate's recommendation.
Before receiving his sentence Appellant filed a motion challenging the constitutionality of the 1984 Sentencing Reform Act. The district court ruled that the Act was constitutional, and therefore denied Appellant's motion. Appellant also filed a motion for a downward adjustment of the sentence required by the Sentencing Guidelines, arguing that his cooperation with the authorities warranted an exemption. Over Appellant's due process objection, the district court ruled that the exemption could not be made except by motion of the Government. Pursuant to his conditional plea of guilty, Appellant appeals the district court's denial of each of these motions.
* We review de novo to determine whether under the stated facts1 Trooper Storey had reasonable and articulable suspicion for detaining appellant's garment bag. United States v. Erwin, 803 F.2d 1505, 1509-10 (9th Cir.1986). At bottom, this issue involves "balancing the amount of intrusion upon individual privacy," Florida v. Royer, 460 U.S. 491, 515, 103 S.Ct. 1319, 1333, 75 L.Ed.2d 229 (1983) (Blackmun, J., dissenting), against the public's "compelling interest in detecting those who would traffic in deadly drugs for personal profit," United States v. Mendenhall, 446 U.S. 544, 561, 100 S.Ct. 1870, 1881, 64 L.Ed.2d 497 (1980) (opinion of Powell, J.). The problem is best illustrated by envisioning a three-tier structure, at the bottom of which lies the government's authority to stop and question any individual, for any reason, "[a]s long as the person to whom questions are put remains free to disregard the questions and walk away." Mendenhall, 446 U.S. at 554, 100 S.Ct. at 1877 (opinion of Stewart, J.). At the top of the structure lies the government's authority to effectuate an arrest, but only for "probable cause." Beck v. Ohio, 379 U.S. 89, 91, 85 S.Ct. 223, 225-26, 13 L.Ed.2d 142 (1964). And in between these two extremes lies the government's authority to detain an individual or his possessions for purposes of furthering a valid investigation, the scope of which is circumscribed by the officer's reasonable and articulable suspicion. Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 21, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 1879-80, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968); United States v. Place, 462 U.S. 696, 706, 103 S.Ct. 2637, 2644, 77 L.Ed.2d 110 (1983).
Each of these three tiers may be implicated in a single sequence. For example, an officer may initiate a conversation with an individual who has every reason to believe that he is free to leave. See, e.g., Mendenhall, 446 U.S. at 555, 100 S.Ct. at 1878 (opinion of Stewart, J.) ("nothing in the record suggests that respondent had any objective reason to believe that she was not free to end the conversation in the concourse and proceed on her way, and for that reason we conclude that the agents' initial approach to her was not a seizure"). Nevertheless, this conversation may evolve into a situation where the individual's ability to leave dissipates. If the officer restrains an individual's ability to leave or limits his freedom to control his property, he is justified in doing so only by the presence of reasonable suspicion. See, e.g., Florida v. Rodriguez, 469 U.S. 1, 6, 105 S.Ct. 308, 311, 83 L.Ed.2d 165 (1984) (per curiam) ("Assuming, without deciding, that after respondent agreed to talk with the police, moved over to where his cohorts and the other detectives were standing, and ultimately granted permission to search his baggage, there was a 'seizure' for purposes of the Fourth Amendment, we hold that any such seizure was justified by 'articulable suspicion.' "). Even if this requirement is met, however, the circumstance may escalate into what essentially constitutes an arrest. Unless the officer has "probable cause" by this point, the arrest violates the fourth amendment. See, e.g., Florida v. Royer, 460 U.S. 491, 503, 507, 103 S.Ct. 1319, 1329, 75 L.Ed.2d 229 (1983) (opinion of White, J.) ("As a practical matter, Royer was under arrest" by the time officers questioned him in an interrogation room, and under the circumstances the prosecution could not justify his "custody by proving probable cause.").
Applying these principles to the circumstances at hand, we conclude that a reasonable person in Appellant's position would have believed himself free to ignore Trooper Storey's initial questioning. Cf. United States v. $25,000 U.S. Currency, 853 F.2d 1501, 1505 (9th Cir.1988) (suspect "was not seized for purposes of the fourth amendment at the time of the initial encounter nor at the time he was asked for his airline ticket and identification"); Erwin, 803 F.2d at 1508 ("a reasonable person in Erwin's position [who had been stopped in an airport parking lot and asked for identification and plane tickets] would have considered himself free to leave"). By the time Trooper Storey told Appellant that he would have to detain his luggage, however, the situation had evolved into one where Trooper Storey needed reasonable suspicion. Cf. id. at 1509 ("the seizure of Erwin's day pack required only reasonable suspicion, not probable cause"). Assuming for the moment that this prerequisite was satisfied, Trooper Storey's exposure of Appellant's garment bag to a canine sniff test, conducted promptly after inviting Appellant to observe, was within the permissible scope of the investigatory stop. Id.; cf. Place, 462 U.S. at 710, 103 S.Ct. at 2646 (90-minute detention of Place's luggage deemed unreasonable, especially because agents failed to inform Place of the details of the procedure or how he could recover his luggage in the event the investigation dispelled the officers' suspicion). Moreover, the positive result of this test supplied probable cause to obtain a search warrant for the full search of the garment bag. See id. at 701, 103 S.Ct. at 2641 (law enforcement officers who have probable cause to believe a container holds contraband, but who have not obtained a warrant, may seize the container until a warrant is properly issued). In short, the seizure of the cocaine from Appellant's garment bag was lawful unless, upon further analysis, we conclude as a matter of law that Trooper Storey did not have reasonable and articulable suspicion--at the time he asked Appellant to consent to a canine sniff test--that Appellant's garment bag contained narcotics.
The government argues that Trooper Storey had reasonable and articulable suspicion to believe that Appellant was transporting narcotics based on his knowledge that Appellant's conduct matched various factors of the "drug courier profile," including: (1) Appellant scheduled a two-day trip to a known drug source city with a ground time of only eight hours; (2) he deplaned first even though he was seated in the eleventh row of the aircraft; (3) he carried only carry-on luggage and returned with a bag different than the one he carried on the date he departed; (4) he appeared nervous and walked at a rapid pace through the terminal; (5) he repeatedly glanced at the reflection in the concourse window in an effort to detect surveillance; (6) he exited the terminal at the top level even though taxi service was generally available at the bottom level; (7) he avoided revealing that his trip was to New York; (8) he produced a California identification even though Trooper Storey saw him pass over an Alaska identification; and (9) he offered an implausible excuse for traveling so far for so little time.
The government relies mainly on our decision in United States v. Erwin, 803 F.2d 1505, 1509-10 (9th Cir.1986), to support its argument that these factors, viewed collectively, establish the requisite reasonable suspicion needed to detain Appellant's luggage. In Erwin we concluded that enforcement officers had reasonable suspicion to detain luggage based on Erwin's long distance trip for only a brief time period; he traveled alone and carried only a day pack; he scanned the passenger area after deplaning; he walked erratically through the terminal at a quick pace; he backtracked through the baggage claim area without picking up any luggage; he appeared nervous when questioned; and he offered an implausible excuse for his conduct. See id. at 1506-07. The government argues that the nearly identical circumstances of Erwin warrants a conclusion that Trooper Storey's detention of Appellant's luggage was supported by reasonable suspicion.
Appellant, on the other hand, distinguishes Erwin from the facts of this case because, unlike here, Erwin took a circuitous route through the airport in an effort to evade detection. According to Appellant, this factor is persuasive evidence of an "ongoing" criminal enterprise that is needed before a conclusion of reasonable suspicion can be found. Appellant thus argues that this case is controlled by our decision in United States v. Sokolow, 831 F.2d 1413 (9th Cir.1987), rev'd, --- U.S. ----, 109 S.Ct. 1581, 104 L.Ed.2d 1 (1989), in which we held that "reasonable suspicion may be founded upon evidence of ongoing criminal behavior," which may only then be "supplemented by other aspects of the [drug courier] profile that would not by themselves create reasonable suspicion." Id. at 1421. Appellant's counsel conceded at oral argument, however, that the proper course in this case was to postpone consideration of this contention until the Supreme Court had the opportunity independently to consider the rule announced in Sokolow.
The Supreme Court has now issued its ruling in that case, which clearly disapproves segmenting the evidence into that which indicates "ongoing" criminal activity and that which does not. United States v. Sokolow, --- U.S. ----, ----, 109 S.Ct. 1581, 1586, 104 L.Ed.2d ---- (1989). Such a rigid formula, according to the Court, seems only "to draw a sharp line between types of evidence, the value of which varies only in degree." Id. Because "reasonable suspicion" cannot be " 'readily, or even usefully, reduced to a neat set of rules,' " the Court reiterated its oft expressed belief that the ultimate determination depends solely on the " 'totality of the circumstances.' " Id. (quoting Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213, 232, 103 S.Ct. 2317, 2329, 76 L.Ed.2d 527 (1983), and United States v. Cortez, 449 U.S. 411, 417, 101 S.Ct. 690, 66 L.Ed.2d 621 (1981)). Our disposition of this case is controlled by the Court's reasoning. Therefore, we need not dispute counsel's argument that each factor known to Trooper Storey, if viewed alone, was consistent with wholly innocent activity. Cf. Reid v. Georgia, 448 U.S. 438, 441, 100 S.Ct. 2752, 2754, 65 L.Ed.2d 890 (1980) (three drug profile characteristics described "a very large category of presumably innocent travelers," and a fourth factor was insufficient on the facts of that case to establish reasonable suspicion). We conclude instead that these factors, viewed collectively, support a finding that Trooper Storey had reasonable suspicion to believe that Appellant was transporting narcotics. See Sokolow, --- U.S. at ----, 109 S.Ct. at ---- (although none of the factors "by itself [is] proof of any illegal conduct," "taken together they amount to reasonable suspicion").
Important to our decision is the district court's finding that Trooper Storey was able to track Appellant through the airline reservation system and confirm that his ground time in a known drug source city was very short compared to his flight time. Cf. id. ("surely few residents of Honolulu travel from that city for 20 hours to spend 48 hours in Miami during the month of July"). Also important is the fact that Appellant offered an implausible excuse when asked about his travel arrangements. Cf. Erwin, 803 F.2d at 1510-11 (explanation for weaving through airport implausible); see also Florida v. Rodriguez, 469 U.S. 1, 6, 105 S.Ct. 308, 311, 83 L.Ed.2d 165 (1984) (per curiam) (suspects contradicted themselves when questioned about their identities). These two factors, combined with the others, leaves us with the impression that Trooper Storey reasonably suspected that Appellant's conduct was inconsistent with innocent activity. We therefore find unconvincing Appellant's argument that Trooper Storey lacked reasonable suspicion simply because he neither traveled under an alias nor avoided detection by walking on a circuitous route through the airport terminal. Cf. United States v. Mendenhall, 446 U.S. 544, 563-66, 100 S.Ct. 1870, 1882-83, 64 L.Ed.2d 497 (1980) (opinion of Powell, J.) (inter alia, suspect deplaned last on a flight arriving from a known drug source city and appeared nervous as she scanned the concourse). We hold that the district court properly rejected Appellant's motion to suppress evidence because Trooper Storey had reasonable suspicion, under the totality of the circumstances, to detain Appellant's garment bag and subject it to a canine sniff test.
The district court rejected Appellant's challenge to the constitutionality of the 1984 Sentencing Reform Act. On appeal Appellant relies on our decision in Gubiensio-Ortiz v. Kanahele, 857 F.2d 1245 (9th Cir.1988), vacated, --- U.S. ----, 109 S.Ct. 859, 102 L.Ed.2d 984 (1989), on remand, 871 F.2d 104 (9th Cir.1989) (per curiam), to argue that the district court's decision was erroneous and therefore his case should be remanded for resentencing. Our decision in Gubiensio is no longer valid law, see 871 F.2d at 104; Mistretta v. United States, --- U.S. ----, 109 S.Ct. 647, 102 L.Ed.2d 714 (1989), and therefore we cannot accept Appellant's contention. Appellant argues alternatively that the district court erred in rejecting his motion for a downward adjustment to the sentence based on his "substantial assistance in the investigation or prosecution of another," as permitted in section 5K1.1 of the Sentencing Guidelines and also in section 3553(e) of Title 18. Each of these provisions, however, explicitly conditions such a downward adjustment "upon motion of the government"--a prerequisite that is not met here.
Appellant argues nonetheless that this prerequisite violates the doctrine of separation of powers by delegating to prosecutors the unbridled discretion to decide who is entitled to a sentencing reduction.2 A similar argument was considered and rejected in United States v. Severich, 676 F.Supp. 1209 (S.D.Fla.1988), aff'd, 872 F.2d 434 (11th Cir.1989). The district court there adopted the magistrate's reasoning that the sentencing process is not inherently judicial and that, even if it were, the government's authority to recommend a reduced sentence was not impermissibly obtrusive. Id. at 1212-13. To the same effect is the Eleventh Circuit's decision in United States v. Musser, 856 F.2d 1484 (11th Cir.1988), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 109 S.Ct. 1145, 103 L.Ed.2d 205 (1989), in which the court noted that there is no "constitutional right" to the availability of a substantial assistance provision, "and hence no grounds upon which to challenge Congress' manner of enacting it." Id. at 1487. We find the reasoning of these decisions persuasive.
Appellant also argues that section 3553 and section 5K1.1 violate his constitutional right to due process. Again, this argument was considered and rejected in Severich because, according to the magistrate's reasoning, the defendant's liberty interests under Rochin v. California, 342 U.S. 165, 72 S.Ct. 205, 96 L.Ed. 183 (1952), and Palko v. Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319, 58 S.Ct. 149, 82 L.Ed. 288 (1937), gave way "to the antidrug abuse strategies advanced by Congress." Severich, 676 F.Supp. at 1214. The magistrate believed, as the Government argues here, that it is rational for Congress to lodge some sentencing discretion in the prosecutor, the only individual who knows whether a defendant's cooperation has been helpful. See also Musser, 856 F.2d at 1487. We agree. Therefore we hold that section 3553 and section 5K1.1 are not unconstitutional insofar as they allow only the Government to seek a departure from the minimum mandatory sentence to reflect a defendant's "substantial assistance."
The district court did not err in denying Appellant's motion to suppress evidence, and it correctly rejected Appellant's motion for a downward adjustment of his sentence. Accordingly his conviction and sentence are AFFIRMED.
Neither party contests the district court's findings of fact, and therefore we assume that the stated facts are not clearly erroneous. Cf. United States v. Sokolow, 831 F.2d 1413, 1417 & n. 3 (9th Cir.1987), rev'd on other grounds, --- U.S. ----, 109 S.Ct. 1581, 104 L.Ed.2d 1 (1989)
Appellant also suggests that section 5K1.1 is an invalid exercise of the Sentencing Commission's delegated authority because 28 U.S.C. Sec. 994(n) (Supp. III 1985), which empowers the Sentencing Commission to provide for downward adjustments to account for a defendant's "substantial assistance," does not limit the district court's sentencing discretion to motions brought by the government. We believe that the Sentencing Commission did not exceed its authority in drafting such a requirement in view of the fact that Congress itself drafted section 3553 the same way
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The term "biodegradable" has been used over the past few years, to describe plastics or packaging that could potentially be metabolized by microorganisms in nature, with complete breakdown to CO2/Methane, water and biomass. However, there is significant confusion and controversy surrounding biodegradable plastics since many suppliers have used the term to loosely describe their material/packaging without specifying the conditions under which the material would degrade in nature. For instance, some plastics (like PLA) will only degrade under industrial composting conditions, while some others (like PHA) can break down under a wider range of conditions and environments (industrial, backyard, marine). Given this widespread confusion and the misuse of the "biodegradable" term, many global government and industry organizations have issued guidelines to restrict or eliminate the unqualified use of biodegradable as a descriptor of plastics or packaging. These include the European Commission guidelines (European Plastics Strategy) and the Federal Trade Commission Green Guides in the US.
In line with such guidelines, Ubuntoo's recommends that companies providing biodegradable materials, products or packaging:
1.Avoid unqualified use of the term "biodegradable" to describe their products
2.Any claim of biodegradability should be accompanied by a description of specific conditions and environments under which the material or product will undergo degradation in nature
3.It is strongly recommended that companies provide globally accepted certifications or testing for various biodegradability claims (such as the BPA certification for industrial composting)
Further in line with the position articulated by the European Commission as well as major CPG companies, Ubuntoo recommends that "biodegradable" plastics should not be considered a solution for littering (or worse a license to litter). Appropriate collection and end-of-life solutions (such as industrial composting or home composting) need to be put into place to avoid biodegradable plastics ending up as litter in the environment.
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Developing competitive value chains for PHA bioplastics
NENU2PHAR is an ongoing research project that aims to use Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) to develop competitive value chains of bioplastics for high-volume consumer goods industries. The project is being completed by a 16-member consortium led by Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (France).
Due to the environmental impact of plastics there is creating a growing demand for sustainable alternatives. There is a need to focus on bioplastics based on bacteria, fungi, and algae which have a smaller carbon footprint and are also suitable for sustainable waste management options like composting.
The project aims to develop a new route of production of PHAs using micro-algae biomass and a selection of bacteria strains. It will develop eight products with end-of-life scenarios. It will formulate and functionalise polymers for masterbatching and compounding. This will ensure that the material is processable and can meet the needs of manufacturers.
Processes to ensure that the materials achieve properties at least as good as fossil-fuel plastics will be developed along with prototypes of eco-designed PHA-biobased products. The project will use material selection, design and process definition to reduce waste.
It will explore end-of-life scenarios such as composting, recycling and re-manufacturing. Eventually the project has a goal to establish a range of cross-sectoral connections between biopolymer extraction, compounding, product plastic manufacturers, recycling and remanufacturing industries.
The project includes 16 partners:
4 large industrials: DANONE (France), KAJ PLASTICS (Poland), SOFRADIM PRODUCTION (France), IFG EXELTO (Belgium)
6 SMEs: ELIXANCE (France), CELABOR (Belgium), BIO-MI Ltd (Croatia), BIOTREND (Portugal), LOMARTOV S.L. Applied Innovation Engineering (Spain), ZERO EMISSIONS ENGINEERING B.V. (The Netherlands)
4 RTOs: CEA (France's Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission), Innovation Plasturgie Composites (France), ITENE (Spain), CENTEXBEL (Belgium)
1 academic: Université de Bretagne Sud – Institut de recherche Dupuy de Lôme (France)
1 innovative cluster: IAR, the French Bioeconomy Cluster (France)
The project started on September 1st, 2020 with a total budget of €6.39 million that includes a grant of €4.98 million from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI-JU). It is expected to end in February 2024.
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Choose the Simplest Git Workflow For Your Team
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Git has become the ubiquitous source code management since its introduction in 2005. Along the way, a number of branching strategies ("workflows") have evolved. As with anything in software architecture, there is no one right way to do anything; it all depends on context. In this post I'll describe three common workflows to help you choose the simplest Git workflow for your team.
Basic Workflow
In this workflow there is only one branch – master. Everyone commits and pushes their changes to master. All team members can readily see all the changes to the code base. Your build server is easier to configure because it only needs to respond to changes on master. As a result, the team gets faster feedback because everyone is working on the same branch. This workflow is suitable for when the pace of development is slow, and the team can complete all the features planned for the coming release.
Where the Basic Workflow becomes a problem is when the development pace is faster than the release cadence. In other words, when the team decides to take a release through QA testing and production deployment while simultaneously working on features for the next release. You can overcome this by using feature flags to hide new features from the current release. But the code needs to be clean and modular in order for feature flags to be useful. Spaghetti code and bad designs won't work with feature flags.
Feature Branch Workflow
Similar to the Basic Workflow in that there is only one permanent branch – master. But each new feature has its own temporary branch, known as a feature branch. A developer creates a feature branch from the head of master, and makes all their changes on that feature branch. When they are done, they merge it back in to master, and delete the feature branch. Many teams have the developer issue a pull request (PR) before merging so the lead developer or other team members can review the changes. Once approved or up-voted, someone merges the feature branch back into master.
It's important that each developer frequently merge changes from develop into their feature branch. This should be done at least once a day so that they incorporate other team members' work into theirs. It also avoids merge conflicts and breaking builds since everyone can keep their local copies up to date.
This workflow is handy for tracking the code changes for a particular feature. When the team names their feature branches after the feature name, tracking is simple. In fact, Atlassian's Jira makes this easy. Another is the use of PRs promotes learning by having other team members review the code changes. It also helps a lead developer or architect monitor the evolving design of the software.
One drawback is not everyone sees the changes to the code base. If you are on master, you won't see a developer's feature branch until it is merged back in. Another drawback is if your build server (Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.) is configured to look at just one branch (master), there is a delay in feedback until the feature branch is merged into master.
Gitflow Workflow
In the Gitflow workflow there are two permanent branches – master and develop. The master branch reflects what is in or on its way to Production. Feature branches are taken off develop and merged back in. When the time comes to make a release, the team merges develop into master.
This workflow is great for when the pace of development exceeds the release cadence. When the team decides to make a release, they merge develop into master so the latter now has all the features planned for the upcoming release. Work on the next release continues on develop, with feature branches created off it and merged back into it.
The Gitflow Workflow handles production hot fixes quite nicely too. These are critical fixes that cannot wait for the next scheduled release. Take a branch off master to work on the hot fix. When complete, merge the hotbox branch into both master and develop.
Which Workflow Do We Use?
So there you have three of the most common Git workflows. But how do you choose? My advice is to choose the simplest Git workflow for your team. Start with the Basic Workflow. If that works for your team, great! If you realize you need the capabilities of one of the other workflows, and you can live with its drawbacks, then adopt it. Conversely, if one of these workflows turns out to be overkill for your team, you can fall back to a simpler once master and develop are aligned.
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TNW at IBC: GoPro cameras for extreme filmmakers have 'vomit-proof' housings
by Jamillah Knowles — in Video
The Next Web has been in Amsterdam at International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), livestreaming interviews from the event with the help of LiveU.
If you missed the streaming live, our interviews are on site so you can find out what the future of broadcast looks like. You can find more of our video coverage and catch up with the future of broadcasting from IBC here.
GoPro, the camera company known for products that can be used extreme conditions, in the trickiest places were at the convention and Kash Shaikh, director of global communications at the company came to chat with us about the development of 'the little grey box that could'.
GoPro was founded in California by a surfer who wanted to capture images of surfers in the barrel of a wave. At the time there was no way for people to capture an event while experiencing it.
Anywhere, anytime filming
Initially GoPro cameras were created to be worn on the wrist and now the unit can be worn in most places and used in multiple ways.
"The most magical thing we could do was put our camera in the hands of creative people who are showing us new ways to use it that we couldn't have imagined. Now people in film, entertainment, music and even science are using our cameras, even NASA is sending our cameras into space," explains Shaikh.
But it's not only the extreme sportsmen and women who are using the GoPro cameras. "We really consider our camera to be a lifestyle camera, says Shaikh. "People attach them to their dog's collar or to the handlebars of their little girl's bike as she learns to ride for the first time, they can capture her expression. People are using it in their daily lives in ways they were not able to before."
Shaikh has some big plans ahead, including work with a US fighter-jet team where the GoPros will be mounted to the jets. He'll be sitting in the jets as they perform free-dives, a stomach flipping exercise for most people, but Shaikh assures us, "These camera housings are vomit-proof so we should be good."
Check out the video to find out what he will be up to in the skies.
Read next: TNW at IBC: Irdeto on tracking global piracy habits across the Web
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14 Nintendo Switch Ports We'd Still Love To See
As soon as the Switch was revealed, attention swiftly turned to "ooh, do you think this and that game will be on it, I want to play that one while riding in a hot air balloon / sitting in a park / on the loo". Since that day dreams have been fulfilled as some iconic games have been available in portable form, with the most recent announcement (at the time of writing) being Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection.
Over the winter holidays we generally run an annual list of games we'd be ecstatically pleased to (re)play on Switch, and the announcement of Assassin's Creed II — one of our very favourite games in that series — finally coming to Switch had us reminiscing about the games we've dared to dream might get a Switch port in the past. Our hybrid wishlists have been fulfilled from right across the industry, from major triple-A titles like The Witcher 3, Dark Souls and Bioshock: The Collection through to Indie classics beyond count. The little system has even answered the ultimate gamers' question — can it run Crysis? Yes, yes it can.
But, we always want more.
Below we've consolidated a bunch of games we'd still love to see make their way onto Switch in an update to a previous article that collects more titles, old and new, into a single ongoing list that we'll keep updated in the future. There are a few remaining Wii U games that haven't come to Switch which we've excluded from the running, but each and every one below would be gratefully received on Nintendo's console should a publisher deign to make it happen. We're open to adding more — and hopefully subtracting some, too — so feel free to suggest worthy additions in the comments.
Wallets open, money ready. Come on, it's there for the takin'…
Tomb Raider: Survivor Trilogy
That title refers to the recent-ish compilation release of Tomb Raider (2013), Rise of the Tomb Raider and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the trilogy developed by Crystal Dynamics and Eidos-Montréal. They're rather good games (with the original being a real stand-out late in the PS3 / Xbox 360 era) that tell the origin story of the iconic character, and they all have a flair for cinematic action and some occasional tomb raiding. Not all diehard fans of the IP approve of the games, but we reckon they're a fun time.
Low-ish, we'd say. This is an anniversary year for the franchise and would have been the ideal time, but Square Enix instead announced Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris for Switch, due this year. Still, it's better than nothing.
Inscryption is a deckbuilding roguelike psychological horror puzzler and various other bits thrown into a piece of software that's been the talk of the internet for the last few months and also graced many a multiplatform GOTY list. Even if the word 'roguelike' has you rolling your eyes into infinity, this is one you'll want to put aside your preconceived notions for.
Devolver Digital like the Switch. The game looks like a perfect fit for the platform. If we had to put our money on any game from this list coming to Switch, it would be this one.
Then again we said Persona 5 was a dead cert years ago. Speaking of which…
We hate to keep harping on… but we're gonna.
Persona 5, a game that — lest we forget — released on PS3 back in 2016, is still not available on a Nintendo system. Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers was pleasant enough, but it's not Persona 5.
Who can say when Atlus and Sega are concerned. They're leaving a sizeable wad of cash on the table as far as we're concerned, but perhaps Sony has the exclusivity rights tied up for something. If it was going to happen, it surely would have happened by now — but we're optimists at heart. It's never too late, Atlus.
Batman: Arkham Collection
It sometimes feels like the Rocksteady developed 'main' Arkham games have been done a disservice. Not only was the 'Return to Arkham' PS4 / Xbox One collection a technical disappointment, but the newest entry (Arkham Knight) has gone unloved and hasn't had any upgrades for the latest hardware. The trilogy, nevertheless, is comprised of three excellent games (in this scribe's humble opinion) that would be awesome to play on Switch.
It should be technically possible, though the third entry would be rather demanding to port across. The first two games should be do-able however, and let's not forget that we had Batman: Arkham City: Armored Edition and Batman: Arkham Origins on Wii U, and even Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate on 3DS (later in its HD form on Wii U). The precedent is there.
Will it actually happen? Considering the haphazard treatment of the games over the years probably not. Still, you never know…
GOTY Winner at The Game Awards, It Takes Two relies on co-operation via splitscreen local (or online) play, and seems like it would be a perfect fit for Switch.
The game was developed by Hazelight Studios and founder Josef Fares' Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is available on Switch. The studios previous game, A Way Out, is only available on other platforms, though, and with EA on publishing duties, it's tough to predict whether or not Nintendo gamers will see this critically acclaimed title, however good a fit it would seem to be. Bringing it over might present an unappealing technical challenge, too.
NieR: Automata / NieR Replicant Ver. 1.224etc…
We've mentioned this one a lot in previous lists, so we might as well do it again — Platinum Games' award-winning NieR: Automata wouldn't be an easy port, but that doesn't mean it would be an impossible one. We now also have NieR Replicant 1.224EtcEtc on the market for other systems, which is an excellent remaster of one version of the original (its release origins, like the lore, are complicated).
Given the effort that would be needed to make solid Switch ports, we like to think that Platinum and other companies sitting on unwieldy but classic games are just waiting for some new Nintendo hardware — something slightly more powerful that would take the developmental headaches out of ports thanks to extra grunt in the specs department. They're all there, just waiting for news of 'Switch 2' or 'Switch Pro' or whatever, waiting to pump out impressive ports of slightly older classics and give this hypothetical system the greatest launch of any console in video game history.
That's what we like to think, anyway. Or some magicians could get them going on Switch.
First-person bug-hunter Bugsnax is still something we think would fit nicely on Switch. Nintendo gamers love ensnaring weird little monsters, after all, and we're eager to find out more after hearing strange murmurs over the last year concerning the exact nature of these ominously named entomological morsels.
Young Horses' game was a PS launch exclusive on consoles, and the developer has said "we'd love to bring the game to other platforms". Performance was choppy on PS4, so a Switch version would be a challenge, but certainly possible.
First-Ever Live Action NFT Series Casts Star of 'Hawkeye' & 'Van Helsing'
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Spread across a chain of thousands of islands between Asia and Australia, Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population and Southeast Asia's biggest economy. Ethnically it is highly diverse, with more than 300 local languages. The people range from rural hunter-gatherers to a modern urban elite.
Sophisticated kingdoms existed before the arrival of the Dutch, who colonised the archipelago but gave in to an independence struggle in 1949. Indonesia has become one of the world's major emerging economies, but faces demands for independence in several provinces and increasing attacks by Islamist armed groups.
Capital: Jakarta
Population 261 million
Area 1.9 million sq km (742,308 sq miles)
Major languages Indonesian, 300 regional languages
Major religion Islam
Life expectancy 67 years (men), 71 years (women)
Currency Rupiah
UN, World Bank
(http://www.livinginindonesiaforum.org)
Anda disini: Home International Student Living in Indonesia About Indonesia
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Rose Brand Gardens and Recycles
May 27, 2009 UncategorizedClean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Collective Expression, Communal Garden, Earth Day Celebrations, Efficient Lighting, Employee Volunteers, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Protection Agency, Event Entertainment, Hartz Mountain Industries, Lighting And Sound, Lighting Systems, Occupancy Sensors, Perennial Herbs, Political Alignment, Rose BRand, Secaucus New Jersey, Sound America, Theatrical Fabrics
Reprinted from: Lighting and Sound America Online (20 April 2009), (6 April 2009)
Hartz Mountain Industries, owner of the building at 4 Emerson Lane, Secaucus, New Jersey, has given permission to its tenant, Rose Brand, the specialist in theatrical fabrics, fabrications and supplies for the event, entertainment, and display industries, to plant a communal garden in celebration of Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22nd.
The garden will occupy 360 sq. ft. on the west side of the building with planned crops including vegetables, perennial herbs, and some flowers. Rose Brand employee volunteers will care for the garden and ultimately benefit from the food and herbs grown. This year, over one billion people worldwide are anticipated in the 2009 Earth Day celebrations.
Rose Brand's corporate headquarters and warehouse in Secaucus is considered state-of-the-art in terms of energy conservation, the company reports. With highly efficient lighting systems, occupancy sensors, and careful monitoring Rose Brand is actively reducing its carbon footprint. Hartz Mountain Industries has cited this building as being the paradigm of retrofit energy usage and a star in its portfolio of millions of square feet of commercial space. Rose Brand's operations manager, Bob Bertrand, stated, "This garden is an important milestone in our continuing education of our employees about environmental issues."
Earth Day has achieved a rare political alignment, enlisting support from both secular and religious leaders, rich and poor, urban dwellers and farmers businesses and labor leaders. The first Earth Day in 1970 lead to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the passage of The Clean Air Act, The Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act. Earth Day is widely celebrated around the world as a collective expression of public will to create a sustainable society.
In a continuing effort to reuse, reduce, and recycle, Rose Brand will be earning money to be donated to The ESTA Foundation's Behind the Scenes by collecting empty printer cartridges and used cell phones and recycling them for cash credit at Funding Factory, a company based in Erie, Pennsylvania offering nationwide free recycling. The fundraiser continues Rose Brand's support of Behind the Scenes and the company's commitment to the environment.
As Josh Jacobstein, Rose Brand's sales director, said, "We have a long-term relationship with the entertainment industry and the hard-working people who make it all happen. With our recycling efforts we will create a benefit to Behind the Scenes and that's a perfect way of continuing our ongoing support of the industry and people we work with."
Rose Brand's Deborah Sperry added, "Rose Brand is on a journey to find the types of eco-friendly behaviors and activities that are genuine and sustainable. As the coordinator for Rose Brand's green journey I am pleased that our recycling of used toner cartridges and cell phones will result in a contribution to Behind the Scenes and our green goals."
All laser and inkjet cartridges and cell phones collected through this effort are sent to Funding Factory. Items are inspected and the value for each collected item in Rose Brand's account is then sent to The ESTA Foundation's Behind the Scenes program.
Go to the Green Theater Initiative
Greenwashing Alert: Rose Brand Neo-Flex
November 17, 2008 newscolortool, efficacy, efficiency, fiber optics, Flora Seris, Ian Garrett, LED, lighting, Linear ligt, Los Angeles, NeoFlex, Panorama Tour Edition, rope light, Rose BRand, Source Four
I receive a lot of mail, electronic and other wise, that deals with the lighting industry. My personal artistic practice is heavily centered in the discipline of lighting design and it behooves me to keep up with what is happening in the industry.
Lighting design in theater is uses alot of resources. The amount of electricity needed to illuminate a show is staggering even on the lowest levels, as compared to your average home or office. And, since technology is not in a place where you can really design a show in a traditional sense, it will be a very hard transition to make headway in this sector of the performing arts. I won't go into it much here, but will refer you to my paper, The Ecological Sustainability of Theatrical Lighting, on the site here.
This morning I received an email for Rose Brand, a company that makes curtains, expendables and useful items for theater production, based in Los Angeles. It is promoting their NeoFlex product. It is a Flexible Linear Light, which may as well be called rope light. It uses LEDs and can come in different colors as well as an RGB color change model. It is diffused to look like a solid linear light and since it uses LEDs, it is extremely energy efficient, which is to say it is marketable as "green."
So is it green?
For any application which it is suited, yes, it is a more "green" solution that others on the market. I won't say it's the greenest; I'm not going to do a side by side analysis of similar products. But if you need a linear lighting solution, sure, it is. If you're looking for an alternative to neon, it would be a good one. Neon, relative to an incandescent bulb, is pretty efficient, so the energy savings wouldn't be huge. But, it is safer since it is not breakable glass and doesn't require the high voltages that neon does. And it won't be as hot as neon. There are some design advantages too: it is flexible, reusable, doesn't need to be made to order and the color options are greater, especially the color changing RGB.
What other applications does it have? You could use it for cove lighting… where you have a wash against a wall or the ceiling to provide indirect decorative lighting. You could use it for any light rope application as well. You'd probably only want to replace rope light that was decorative though because of the look of the NeoFlex as it is much more expensive. But, the point is that it is primarily decorative, not a particularly practical light source at all. As a designer, I'm more interested on what its applications are and what I can do with it. As a color changing, cool to the touch, flexible linear light source I'm interested in it. I like that it uses much less power, and my clients will like that it would save them money if they're looking for the effect that it produces versus an alternative.
Why? It doesn't solve a problem. It offers an interesting solution to a design problem, but not a constructive solution to a particularly unsustainable and existing solution to that design problem. It is a little more energy efficient than fiber optic solutions, but doesn't do anything that you can't already do with fiber optics. Furthermore, it uses more material and isn't as adaptable as fiber optic solutions as I have used it.
There is a lot of lighting products out there being green washed. LEDs aren't yet practical or cost effective in general use, but they are pretty, colorful and you can control their use pretty extensively, so they are used a lot in theatrical settings. For putting color on stage or anywhere for that matter where you would otherwise use a lot of incandescent or halogen sources, LEDS offer a great step in the right direction on energy used and heat generated. But, it seems that you stick an LED in something and it becomes green. It isn't as green washed as the source four, which is marketed as green because it has high efficacy and outputs with 575w for which other instruments require 1000w, but it's tiring.
Just because something use an LED doesn't make it green, especially if you have developed it for the other benefits of LED use. It's lazy marketing and a paid forward pitch for the marketing of the application, be it show or club or what have you, to pitch that application as one which use green technology over alternatives.
Using more of something which is more efficient is still using more.
Also in the email, which you can see if you click here, are the Flora Series of fabric hanging flowers, Design Master Colortool® Spray Paint, 12 oz. Cans and Panorama Tour Edition. What the first and last have to do at all with being green I don't get and to call an aerosol paint "eco" because the can is partially recycled steel and it's non-toxic after it dries is a stretch (read the warnings on those labels folks). Be careful.
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Winding down the year: Mellow rockers Ikebana released the beautiful "When You Arrive There" back in June. The duo will play a Flau Records showcase on Dec. Dec. 22 with labelmates Cuushe, Sparrows and more. | 22 WITH LABELMATES CUUSHE, SPARROWS AND MORE.
CSS, Makoto Ozone and Shonen Knife get a round of shows in before New Year's
by Shaun McKenna
With the year winding down and the holiday season approaching, the concert scene in Japan gets pretty quiet. Although there will be a few international acts headed here in the middle of December, your best shot for a live performance might be checking out local acts before they go into hibernation for New Year's holidays.
Of the acts coming over, there still might be a few tickets left for Brazilian hipsters CSS, the always charming Elvis Costello and slightly mature boy band The Wanted.
CSS will be playing Nagoya's Club Quattro on Dec. 11 (052-264-8211), Osaka's Umeda Club Quattro on Dec. 12 (06-6535-5569) and Ex Theater Roppongi in Tokyo on Dec. 14 (03-3444-6751). Tickets for all shows are ¥6,000 in advance, and starting times are 7 p.m. for the Tokyo gig and 7:30 p.m. for the other two. Costello will have three gigs with his band The Imposters at Ex Theater Roppongi from Dec. 11 to Dec. 13 (7:30 p.m. start; ¥8,000; 03-3444-6751) before heading to Namba Zepp in Osaka on Dec. 15 (6 p.m. start; ¥7,500-¥8,5000; 06-6535-5569). Costello is touring in support his new album "Wise Up Ghost," a collaborative effort with hip-hop outfit The Roots. The Wanted, meanwhile, will be playing Shin Kiba Studio Coast in Tokyo on Dec. 18 (03-3499-6669) and Morinomiya Piloti Hall (06-7732-8888). Both shows will be ¥6,000 and start at 7 p.m.
A few indie shows in Tokyo next month will showcase some of the country's best up-and-coming acts from 2013. First off, check out Flau Night in Tokyo, happening at Vacant in Harajuku on Dec. 22 (4:30 p.m. start; ¥3,000 in advance; 03-6459-2962). Vacant is a great spot to hold this event, which will feature Ikebana, Cuushe, Sparrows, Twigs & Yarn and Black Elk. Cuushe did well overseas this year after releasing her album "Butterfly Case." Due to popular demand, Flau will be releasing a vinyl version of it in early 2014. Ikebana did fairly well overseas, too. The female duo rarely speak to the press but still managed to get on the radar of music journalists at Spin magazine in the States.
Also playing shows next month will be indie group Boys Age. The alt-rock act will perform at Ruby Room in Tokyo on Dec. 7 (7:30 p.m. start; ¥1,000) and Lights Out Rec in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Dec. 15 (3 p.m.; ¥1,500). There will also be a show at Force in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 11 but details haven't been confirmed yet. The band will release a new album, "Epstein Orkestar," on Dec. 7 and will also feature on a 51-artist compilation being put out by Sauna Cool on Dec. 25.
Shonen Knife are doing a "Space Christmas Tour" next month, but before that happens the band will play a gig with Sebadoh at Metro in Kyoto on Dec. 1 (6:30 p.m.; ¥4,500 in adv.; 075-752-4765). Keiichi Sokabe and Shinsei Kamattechan will also be on this bill, Sebadoh will be coming straight from an appearance at the Hostess Club Weekender in Tokyo they day before. Then, Shonen Knife sets out on a Christmas tour. The group. who made a splash overseas in the 1990s, will hit Osaka's Shinsaibashi Conpass on Dec. 15 (06-6535-5569), Tokyo's Shin Daita Fever on Dec. 21 (03-3444-6751) and Nagoya's Club Upset on Dec. 22 (052-936-6041). All shows cost ¥3,000 and start at 6 p.m.
If pop and rock isn't your thing, an interesting event titled Drums and Voices is happening at Bunkamura Orchard Hall in Tokyo on Dec. 18 (7 p.m. start; ¥5,000; 03-3477-9111). To celebrate 40 years of ASEAN-Japan relations, a pan-Asian smorgasbord of musicians from various southeast Asian countries will play alongside drummer Tsubasa Hori and shakuhachi player Dozan Fujiwara. The concert has toured other parts of Asia since October and the music is being curated by Michiru Oshima.
Also playing Bunkamura next month will be jazz artist Makoto Ozone, who will be gigging with Branford Marsalis there on Dec. 12 (7 p.m.; ¥6,500-¥7,500; 03-3477-3244). The pair will also play at Hitachi Civic Center in Ibaraki Prefecture on Dec. 5 (6:30 p.m.; ¥4,000 for adults; 0294-24-7720), Shunan City Cultural Center in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Dec. 6 (7 p.m.; ¥4,000-¥6,000; 0834-22-8787), Blue Note in Nagoya on Dec. 7 and 8 (5 p.m., 8 p.m. starts; ¥8,900; 052-961-6311) and Sankei Hall Breeze in Osaka on Dec. 10 (7 p.m.; ¥7,000-¥8,000; 06-6341-8888). Ozone will end the year in Sendai for a New Year's Eve show at Denryoku Hall (7 p.m.; ¥6,000; 022-268-2174).
Keeping on the jazz tip, while there should be many options for New Year's Eve entertainment at clubs in most cities across the country, Mado Lounge at the top of Roppongi Hills' Mori Tower in Tokyo will feature jazz singers Karen Aoki and Akiko along with some DJs (8 p.m. start; ¥5,000 in adv.; 03-3470-0052). The singers' lounge style will be a lovely soundtrack for a view over the entire city as the countdown to 2014 commences.
When it comes to countdowns, though, music magazine Rockin' On's four-day event will be tough to beat. The festival takes place at Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba from Dec. 28 to Dec. 31. The first three days will start at 1 p.m. and end around 9:30 p.m. Shows on the final day, though, start at 3 p.m. and end at 5 a.m. The lineup doesn't change much from year to year, headliners include Quruli, Sakanaction, Rip Slyme and Man With a Mission (who will play during the countdown). (Shaun McKenna)
Elvis Costello, ikebana, Flau, Shonen Knife, Cuushe, CSS, The Wanted, Boys Age, Drums and Voices, Michiru Oshima, Makoto Ozone, Branford Marsalis
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Did you forget about COPPA? Here are 170 million reasons to remember it.
A deep dive into the circumstances and motivations behind Google's $170M COPPA settlement and why they signal a new era in privacy concerns for game publishers
Since I started blogging here in 2014, I've discussed how COPPA (and later, GDPR) are going to change the mobile gaming world. To some degree, I was the guy saying "The sky is going to fall". And for a long time, not much happened.
The FTC appeared to be unwilling to enforce COPPA, even when faced with an extremely egregious violation in the form of the 2015 Vtech data breach, which exposed all sorts of private information of millions of children – probably the worst imaginable COPPA infraction. Three years later, the FTC fined Vtech just $650,000.
Today, a lot has changed; GDPR has been in force over a year and is finally beginning to be enforced, with Google breaking the ice with a €50M fine, followed by a €183M fine to British Airways and €99M to Marriott, both for data breaches. Unrelated to GDPR, in July the FTC fined Facebook $5 Billion for violating a 2010 consent decree, and many privacy advocates declared the fine too low. Because the US has no general federal privacy law, many U.S. states have been passing their own privacy regulations based on GDPR, with California, Nevada and Maine laws going into effect in just a few weeks.
And this week, following a year-long investigation, the FTC and State of New York announced a mammoth $170M COPPA fine against Google for improperly handling children's privacy on its YouTube platform.
Even though this fine is 30 times larger than any previous COPPA fine, many have pointed out that with Google's $130+ Billion annual sales, this fine equates to a few hours worth of revenues, hardly a deterrent. I'm not here to debate the size of the fine.
So what is my point?
I think game publishers need to understand the megatrends that are running behind these recent actions, with an eye toward where things are going in the next couple of years. I've referred to this megatrend as the "Privacy Tsunami" many times and I still think the name is very apt.
GDPR represents the tip of a spear representing a global backlash to the massive amount of privacy surveillance, tracking and outright data theft that characterized the first 20 years of the Internet age. Regulations are finally catching up with technology. The number and severity of backlash regulations have increased, and I feel comfortable saying that within a few years, every market that you care about will have a stiff privacy regulation in place.
With virtually no COPPA enforcement since 2014, when COPPA was updated, you may wonder why the FTC is suddenly fining Oath $5M, TikTok $5.7M and then Google $170M, just in the last 9 months.
Here's my take. It's political. In the US, we do not have a single federal privacy regulation, just a patchwork of balkanized departmental privacy regs, of which COPPA is just one. HIPAA is another. As the privacy tsunami has come ashore over the past few years, pressure has been mounting for Congress to create a comprehensive federal privacy law similar to GDPR. Unfortunately, Washington has been beset by partisan gridlock since 2012, and other than press releases about Privacy, very little was done.
The vacuum was filled in an odd way. In 2017 a California real estate developer named Alistair MacTaggart was dismayed at the amount of private information and tracking was being done on the web and in apps and devoted several million dollars into gathering signatures and creating a proposition that California voters could vote into law.
The regulation he proposed easily gained enough signatures to become California law. The tech cabal in Silicon Valley realized their days of blissful surveillance and data capture were coming to an end. Rather than let MacTaggart's proposal come to a vote (and instantly go into effect if approved), the Tech lobby made a last-minute deal with MacTaggart, and used their political power to rush a watered-down bill through both California state houses. And that's how the California Consumer Protection Act became law - as a jumbled, self conflicting patchwork, literally thrown together in a few days.
With many similarities to GDPR, CCPA will go into effect on January 1, 2020. Many other states have their own GDPR-like regulations pending, or passed (in the case of Maine and Nevada). In short, we are heading for a world where most states have their own privacy regulation, fines and enforcement agency – an example of the states gaining power and the federal government losing it due to its gridlock.
So, lacking any ability to pass new privacy laws, what was left for Washington to do? Wait, we have this old child privacy regulation that's been in on the books for 19 years! Let's enforce that so we look like we're being an effective part of the global privacy tsunami!
So that is why COPPA is now a red hot topic, and you can expect many more COPPA fines in the coming months. This is also why the FTC has agreed to advance its 10 year scheduled COPPA review by 4 years and is currently seeking comments on ways to improve COPPA.
Based on the Google settlement and several other investigations of which I am aware, I'm here to tell you that COPPA isn't going to be a joke for game publishers anymore. With EU regulators now aggressively enforcing GDPR, the California attorney general enforcing CCPA starting January 1, Nevada's attorney general enforcing SB220 on October 1, and a revitalized and motivated FTC focused on COPPA, I'm strongly suggesting that game publishers "get your privacy act together".
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Climate change website
science / aasCorals: threatened by global warmingscience / aas
A virtual database about climate change has been launched by the British Embassy in Brazil, by the British Council and by the Child Rights News Agency (Andi). With material in Portuguese the web address is www.mudancasclimaticas.andi.org.br. The site has videos, recordings of statements, photographs, interviews and articles as well as a glossary of terms on the subject. The decision to launch the website, the goal of which is to improve the debate about climate change in Brazil, was taken after Andi and the British Council launched a study about coverage of the subject in 50 Brazilian press vehicles between 2005 and 2007. The analysis identified a series of problems, such as overstating the impact of global warming in detriment to the causes of it, or the scant emphasis given to the implications of the phenomenon for the economic development agenda. "The site reinforces the need identified in the survey for the theme to be put into context better", observes the executive director of Andi, Veet Vivarta.
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science / aasCorals: threatened by global warmingscience / aas A virtual database about climate change has been launched by the British Embassy in Brazil, by the British Council and by the Child Rights News Agency (Andi). With material in Portuguese the web address is www.mudancasclimaticas.andi.org.br. The site has videos, recordings of statements, photographs, interviews and articles as well as a glossary of terms on the subject. The decision to launch the website, the goal of which is to improve the debate about climate change in Brazil, was taken after Andi and the British Council launched a study about coverage of the subject in 50 Brazilian press vehicles between 2005 and 2007. The analysis identified a series of problems, such as overstating the impact of global warming in detriment to the causes of it, or the scant emphasis given to the implications of the phenomenon for the economic development agenda. "The site reinforces the need identified in the survey for the theme to be put into context better", observes the executive director of Andi, Veet Vivarta.
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Kate Middleton Brings Her Royal Style Signatures to Zoom
By Christian Allaire
Photo: Courtesy of Kensington Palace
Yesterday, Kate Middleton and Prince William took a moment to acknowledge the many teachers across the U.K. who are keeping schools open for the children of key workers and vulnerable children. To amplify that message, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge video chatted via Zoom with staff and students at the Casterton Primary Academy in Burnley, one such school remaining open for those in need. During the call, students shared their Easter-themed arts and crafts projects. Afterwards, the couple then chatted with some of the teachers providing care for the students.
"We just want to say a huge thank you to you guys for keeping it all going," said Prince William to the teachers over video. "Please pass on many messages of support to all of the staff and volunteers; they are doing a great job." Middleton also added, "For all of the parents who are key workers, to know that normality is there for their children, and that they've got the structure and a safe place to be… it's fantastic."
https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/1247992637367468033
Admittedly, the video conference call is a highly unusual medium for official royal appearances of this kind, even still Middleton brought forward her signature regal polish. The Duchess chose a high-impact top, a bright orange crewneck sweater by Zara, for the occasion, an easy way to make a stylish impression on the app. She accessorized it with a sleek pair of gold dangly earrings, giving her at-home ensemble an even dressier finish. Prince William, meanwhile, went for a business-causal look in a classic blue button-up shirt.
The couple's joint appearance hit an appropriately pulled-together note, underscoring the message of gratitude to educational workers at this time. With the U.K. and many parts of the world under lockdown for the foreseeable future, there will likely be more royal Zoom appearances in this celebratory and stylish spirit to come.
TopicsKate Middleton
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Tag: The Americans
Brain Dump: The Americans, Coco, The Split
A few brief comments on television and movies coming at you in this edition of a brain dump. I'll talk about The Americans , Coco , and The Split . Continue reading "Brain Dump: The Americans, Coco, The Split"
Author Virginia DeBoltPosted on June 4, 2018 Categories Movies, TV seriesTags Abi Morgan, Annabel Scholey, Anthony Head, brain dump, Coco, Deborah Findlay, Fiona Button, Holly Taylor, Jessica Hobbs, Keidrich Sellati, Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Nicola Walker, Noah Emmerich, The Americans1 Comment on Brain Dump: The Americans, Coco, The Split
Lois Smith in The Americans and in Ruth & Erica
Last week in the "Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep" episode of The Americans , Lois Smith was a guest star. It was an important episode of The Americans because it showed the Russian spy, Elizabeth (Keri Russell) as she begins to grasp the horror of what she does as a spy. Continue reading "Lois Smith in The Americans and in Ruth & Erica"
Author Virginia DeBoltPosted on April 3, 2015 February 27, 2016 Categories TV series, Web SeriesTags elders rock, Keri Russell, Lois Smith, Maura Tierney, Michael C. Hall, Philip Baker Hall, Ruth & Erica, Steven Weber, The Americans, WIGSLeave a comment on Lois Smith in The Americans and in Ruth & Erica
Brain Dump: House of Cards, Empire, The Americans, The Fosters
It's a brain dump day. Just a little bit of one thing or another in disconnected ramblings.
Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright in House of Cards
When Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) finally has all the power in the world in his hands, he becomes a tyrant and a bigger ass than he ever was. And when Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) has a chance, she chooses to do the right thing. Unlike dear Frank.
House of Cards is more about the relationship between Frank and Claire than it is about political intrigue and power. Season 3 really brings that home, especially the final moments.
Favorite scenes: 1. When Claire shamed the Russian President on Russian TV. 2. When Frank caused Jesus to go all to pieces. 3. When Claire – aw, shucks, that's too big of a spoiler to share.
Taraji P. Henson and Terrance Howard in Empire
I'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying Empire . I know I'm a sucker for any show with music, but I thought this one would be different because I don't enjoy rap. I get tired of all those male voices in rap. But the music on this show is good, with only an occasional bit of rap and with plenty of women performers in the mix.
I'm also into the characters and the drama. Taraji P. Henson as Cookie Lyons and Terrance Howard as Lucious Lyons show off outstanding acting chops in every episode, with the rest of the cast doing just as well. I'm happy it keeps climbing in the ratings, because that means it will probably be back for another season.
Holly Taylor in The Americans
In The Americans , Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings (Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell) have agonized all season over when (or if) to explain to their oldest child Paige (Holly Taylor) that they are Russian spies. Phillip doesn't want to. Elizabeth wants to but can't bring herself to do it. It underscores everything that happens this season from what they do as spies to how they relate to each other and their daughter. It's fascinating to watch their lives and all their assumptions kind of unravel over this issue.
Cierra Ramirez in The Fosters
I think we need more geeky young women on TV as role models. Well, we got one. Cierra Ramirez as Mariana on The Fosters turns out to be quite the hacker. I love Mariana the geek! More geeky girls, please.
Author Virginia DeBoltPosted on March 6, 2015 Categories Streaming, TV seriesTags brain dump, Cierra Ramirez, Empire, Holly Taylor, House of Cards, Keri Russell, Kevin Spacey, Matthew Rhys, Robin Wright, Taraji P. Henson, Terrance Howard, The Americans, The FostersLeave a comment on Brain Dump: House of Cards, Empire, The Americans, The Fosters
Watch This: Previews for Season 3 of The Americans
The Americans will start season 3 on FX on January 28. I've been watching this drama about Soviet spies in the U.S. during the Cold War in the 1980s since the first season. As unlikely as it sounds to say that I like a show about Soviet spies, I am saying it here.
This married couple are not what they seem
Much of the reason this show is so good are the outstanding performances from Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys. They are brilliant in their parts as Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two KGB officers who pose as a married couple living near Washington, D.C. They have two children, played by Holly Taylor and Keidrich Sellati. Their neighbor Stan (Noah Emmerich) is an FBI counter-intelligence agent who spends his days trying to catch people like them, and his evenings exchanging small talk with them over barbecue.
The spies have a "handler." For a while their handler was played by Margo Martindale, an actress I simply love. This year Frank Langella is stepping into the role of handler. Richard Thomas is also a regular, playing another FBI agent.
There are recognizable events in the story, real characters and real happenings from the period, but ultimately – at least for me – the story is about Elizabeth and Philip: their relationship, their marriage, their family.
How about it? Are there any other fans of The Americans among readers?
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Author Virginia DeBoltPosted on December 17, 2014 Categories TV seriesTags Frank Langella, Holly Taylor, Keidrich Sellati, Keri Russell, Margo Martindale, Matthew Rhys, Noah Emmerich, Richard Thomas, season 3, The Americans, trailersLeave a comment on Watch This: Previews for Season 3 of The Americans
Brain Dump from a Teeming TV Filled Mind
Random thoughts and observations on this and that as seen on my teevee.
Did you see the episode of The Walking Dead called "The Grove?" Brighton Sharbino and Kyla Kenedy as the two young girls were fantastic. Brighton, in particular, was 100% convincing. Very impressed to see such outstanding acting from two young actors.
I'm loving what they've done with The Walking Dead this season: splitting everyone up and charting their journeys to find each other again. (Assuming that they will be reunited at Terminus.) It's given them a way to let characters develop with full episodes devoted almost exclusively to just one or two characters.
Brittany and Santana kiss on Glee
What about this kiss in the episode "100" of Glee . Glee has never been about grown up sex. Yes, there have been relationships but they are immature high school kinds of things. Even the teachers have immature relationships on Glee .
But in the episode called "100" (as in the 100th episode) we see a grown up Brittany, (Heather Morris) dragged into adulthood by numbers and a failure of joy.
Brittany evolved. Who'd a thunk that?
Couple that with a sort-of-grown-up Santana (Naya Rivera). I say sort of grown up because Santana still has a mouth on her that needs to embrace tolerance and forgiveness – mature ideas she hasn't mastered yet. Nevertheless, Brittany and Santana exchange a kiss that is the first grown up, adult looking kiss I've seen on Glee .
A whole episode of Person of Interest was built around Root (Amy Acker). The episode was called "Root Path." Most of the time, Root is only on the screen for a few seconds. Even then she's the most interesting thing in the show – mysterious, powerful, illusive. You know what would make me really happy? An episode that featured only Sarah Shahi and Amy Acker together for a whole show.
Is Castle getting better this season? It seems like the writing has improved. The stories are flat out good. Last year Castle frequently put me to sleep, but there is none of that this year.
The crazy adjustable bed that Stef's mom gave Stef and Lena as a wedding gift on The Fosters is keeping them apart. I say we start a Kickstarter campaign to get Stef and Lena a new bed. A nice flat one. Or, as they put it on OITNB,
Come be my little spoon. #OITNB pic.twitter.com/yaZ0QmiWPF
— Orange Is the New… (@OITNB) November 15, 2013
This show gets more fascinating each week with all kinds of complicated loyalty questions and emotional issues. Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys impress me in a new way in every episode. Keri Russell's character slamming that guy's arm over and over again with a trunk lid was really intense and surely will make her face the fact that she's cracking. Plus Margo Martindale was back this week, which is guaranteed to make me happy.
Still ahead this week are Grey's Anatomy and Scandal . Must dump brain before then!
What is burning in your brain from this week's TV?
Author Virginia DeBoltPosted on March 20, 2014 August 8, 2014 Categories TV seriesTags Amy Acker, brain dump, Brighton Sharbino, Castle, Glee, Heather Morris, Keri Russell, Kyla Kenedy, Margo Martindale, Matthew Rhys, Naya Rivera, OITNB, Orange is the New Black, Person of Interest, Sarah Shahi, The Americans, The Fosters, The Walking DeadLeave a comment on Brain Dump from a Teeming TV Filled Mind
Random Thoughts from a Teeming TV Filled Brain
The TV is brewing a brain full of random ideas in me this week. It's a mish-mash.
The Americans season 2 started last night on FX and it's extra good. Don't ask me why I care so much about Russian spies, but Kari Russell and Matthew Rhys make me care. The stakes are so high in this show, the situations so tense, and the drama so tight. I can't tell from the first episode if Margo Martindale will be back in season 2, but they were talking about her as if she won't. She's off on another show now, and I'll miss her here.
With so many shows, I have to record a bunch of them. When I play them back I fast forward through the ads. I really appreciate the shows that have a second or two of something recognizable before each new segment starts. That brief cue lets me stop in time to get the beginning of the action. For example, Person of Interest often shows cityscapes and camera locations just before the action starts. Could all shows please do something like this? Thank you.
Why do actresses decide to have a baby while they are on a hit show? Jennifer Beals and Lauren Holloman both did it on The L Word . Anna Silk did it on Lost Girl . Kerry Washington is having a baby soon with Scandal in the middle of astronomical popularity. There has to be some logic to this, but what is it?
Wow! Did Naya Rivera ever knock "Don't Rain on My Parade" out off the ballpark on Glee this week! The Barbara Streisand franchise on Glee up to now belonged to Lea Michelle – as well it should, she's got it locked – but Naya can belt, too. Indeed.
Can you tell Lady Mary's (Michelle Dockery) two suitors apart on Downton Abbey ? Me either.
Image Credit: Still from The Americans by Craig Blankenhorn via IMDB
Author Virginia DeBoltPosted on February 27, 2014 November 21, 2014 Categories TV seriesTags Anna Silk, Barbara Streisand, brain dump, Downton Abbey, Glee, Jennifer Beals, Keri Russell, Kerry Washington, Lauren Holloman, Lea Michelle, Lost Girl, Margo Martindale, Matthew Rhys, Michelle Dockery, Naya Rivera, Person of Interest, Scandal, The Americans, The L WordLeave a comment on Random Thoughts from a Teeming TV Filled Brain
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At COP26, governments and businesses turned a new leaf on protecting nature to halt climate change
Author Gautam Naik
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At the U.N. conference, asset managers, governments and companies aligned on the use of nature-based tools to tackle climate change.
Nearly $20 billion in public and private funding was pledged to halt deforestation.
There was widening support for blue bonds, which allow ocean-dependent economies to use the proceeds for marine conservation.
Calls to slash energy-related greenhouse gas emissions have been a common refrain at the U.N.'s annual climate summits, and COP26 was no different. At this year's meeting in Glasgow, however, many asset managers, corporations and policymakers embraced a much broader theme: Preserving and harnessing nature to fight climate change.
One reason delegates gave for the sharp focus on nature is the continuing impact of COVID-19. The disease, caused by a virus that possibly emerged from the natural world, has upended lives, stock portfolios and entire economies. And at a higher level, governments and businesses are realizing they cannot fix the climate problem unless they halt the decline of natural systems.
Direct emissions and the destruction of nature are continuously reinforcing each other. Biodiversity loss, for example, affects the climate by changing carbon, nitrogen and water cycles. Destroying forests to clear land for agriculture and urban development also releases a vast amount of previously stored CO2, further heating the air, land and oceans. If tropical deforestation were a country, it would rank third in CO2 emissions behind China and the U.S., based on data from a 2016 study cited by the World Resources Institute.
Global warming, in turn, triggers more droughts and wildfires, killing plants and animals. Warmer seas hurt corals and other marine life. Restoring nature is therefore indispensable to tackling the climate problem — a strategy that risk managers and corporate boards are increasingly starting to accept.
"At this conference, nature has come alongside energy [emissions reduction] as being one of the great solutions to the climate change problem and keeping our planet safe," Andrew Mitchell, a co-founder of the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, or TNFD, said at a panel discussion held during COP26 and moderated by S&P Global Sustainable1.
Deforestation's carbon impact
The idea is that by regrowing forests, restoring coastal wetlands and making agriculture more sustainable, a large quantity of CO2 can be captured from the air and sequestered in plants, soil and sediments. According to an estimate published in the science journal Nature in May 2021, ramping up nature-based solutions quickly could avoid the emission of 10 gigatonnes of CO2-equivalent per year — more than what's emitted by the entire global transportation sector.
The momentum behind nature-based strategies has accelerated in recent months. The TNFD launched in June and aims to deliver in 2023 a framework for companies and other organizations "to report and act on evolving nature-related risks." In October, at the first phase of a U.N. biodiversity conference in Kunming, China, more than 100 countries committed to putting biodiversity on a path to recovery by 2030. Although that declaration wasn't a binding agreement, it was a spur for new commitments unveiled at COP26.
The long-term challenge is persuading companies to eliminate deforestation completely from their supply chains, while eventually putting a price on nature's bounty that they currently use free of charge.
A Nov. 8 report from S&P Global Ratings noted that although the Amazon rainforest helps regulate the earth's climate, extensive deforestation — mainly to clear land to raise cattle for beef — had turned parts of it into a net source of carbon instead of a sink. Beef producers have not priced in the flora, fauna or climate-stabilizing effects that were lost.
"Had the cost of nature loss been incorporated as a cost of production it would have represented around 12% of these companies' revenues in 2020," or about $4 billion, the report said. "In other words, for every US$100 sale of beef-related products in Brazil there is potentially an additional unpriced cost of US$12."
Combatting deforestation in South America was the focus of another private sector financial commitment at COP26. The U.N.-backed Innovative Finance for the Amazon, Cerrado and Chaco initiative, or IFACC, announced that several large companies were investing $3 billion to shift commodity production in the region to more sustainable models. The group is aiming to disburse at least $200 million by 2022.
Forest pledges and blue bonds
Policymakers and businesses have taken some initial steps to redress nature's plight, though a lot more needs to be done.
At COP26, on Nov. 2, countries including Canada, Russia, Brazil, Indonesia and the Republic of the Congo, which together encompass 85% of the world's forests, agreed to reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030. The pledge was supported by $12 billion of public finance from 12 countries, including the U.K., for the 2021 to 2025 period. The money will help developing countries restore degraded land, tackle wildfires and support indigenous communities.
Private investors stepped in with a further $7.2 billion. More than 30 financial institutions with over $8.7 trillion of global assets also promised to phase out deforestation from their commodity portfolios by 2025. The commitments target products that are closely linked to deforestation, including beef, soy, palm oil, pulp and paper.
The deforestation pledges are projected to deliver a 3.5 gigatonne annual reduction of CO2, one of the largest components of the overall 9 gigatonne CO2 reduction promised by governments at the meeting, according to the Energy Transitions Commission.
"That commitment is a huge step forward; delivering it [is] a crucial priority," said Adair Turner, chair of the commission, in comments made at COP26.
Other announcements followed. On Nov. 6, the U.K. said it would provide £500 million to support the Forest, Agriculture and Commodity Trade Roadmap in which 28 countries are working together to protect forests while promoting development and trade. A further £65 million will support a "Just Rural Transition" to help developing countries, the U.K. said. About 100 companies also pledged to become "nature positive." Sainsbury's, on behalf of the big five U.K. supermarkets, said it would halve the environmental impact of the average U.K. shopping basket by 2030.
The oceans got some attention, too. On Nov. 1, the first day of COP26, Ecuador said it would significantly extend the marine reserve around the Galapagos Islands in partnership with Colombia and Costa Rica, with a goal of reaching 30% marine protection by 2030.
A few days later, Belize, in partnership with Credit Suisse, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation and the Nature Conservancy, said it had closed on a $364 million blue bond and would use the proceeds to help protect 30% of its ocean. On Nov. 10, Fiji said it would issue its first sovereign blue bond in the summer of 2022. The proceeds will go toward marine conservation.
At the Glasgow summit, IDB Invest, the private sector institution of the Inter-American Development Bank Group, also said it had issued a 50 million Australian dollar, 10-year fixed rate bond — the first blue bond in Latin America and the Caribbean. James Scriven, CEO of IDB Invest, which manages $13.1 billion in assets, said IDB had taken on the task of making such opportunities more attractive to overseas asset managers.
Many international investors "have a threshold of investment grade below which they do not or cannot invest," said Scriven, at the Nov. 3 panel hosted by Sustainable1. "So when [a project in a developing country] is already up and running, and the risk is no longer there, we are able to crowd in international investors that are looking for that ESG investment."
This piece was published by S&P Global Sustainable1 and not by S&P Global Ratings, which is a separately managed division of S&P Global.
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By Naphtali Ziff September 10, 2021 September 10, 2021
The Costs of Fracking
By Rege Behe
About eleven years ago, Rusted Root's Michael Glabicki met with a group of Pittsburghers concerned about plans to introduce fracking within the city's limits. Since then, he's become increasingly concerned about the procedure's effects.
"I hear from fans whose drinking water has been devastated in their towns and others who have started experiencing earthquakes in their community from fracking," Glabicki says. "People are scared. I am scared."
Glabicki and Rusted Root will headlined "Freedom From Fracking: A Benefit for the Friends of the Harmed" May 16, 2015 at Mr. Small's in Millvale. Mike Stout & the Human Union, Kellee Maize & Friends, Liz Berlin, UJAMAA, Anne Feeney, Smokestack Lightning, DJ Paul Dang, Gene Stovall, Jasiri X, Palermo Stone, Vanessa German, the Benevolent Sneaky Mike and Tom Breiding also are scheduled to perform.
Proceeds will benefit The Friends of the Harmed, which assists families who have been harmed from fracking related activities in the region, via The Thomas Merton Center.
The US Energy Information Administration estimates that there are 2.119 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 25.2 billion barrels of crude oil available in the US via fracking. Fracking is responsible for 90 percent of oil and gas production in the United States, according to National Parks Conservation Organization.
But at what cost?
Food & Water Watch, a public interest organization based in Washington, DC, states that communities in proximity to fracking activities are subject to increased crime, decreased property values, and losses in tourism and agriculture.
Fracking also is exempt from major environmental laws including the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the process uses approximately five million gallons per well. The waste water from fracking can pollute streams, lakes and rivers, and the water supply
"The New York Times just came out with an article citing a new study showing that high levels of Butoxyethanol are showing up in Pennsylvania's drinking water from fracking," Glabicki says. "This stuff is irreversible. I went up to Dimock, (in Susquehanna County) and sat in the living rooms of several families listening to their horror stories. Many had no drinking water and had to ship it in. Many of the children were sick for months before figuring out it was from fracking. I can go on and on. There are so many wells around Pittsburgh and it is just a matter of time before a major disaster happens here."
Glabicki met a former worker in the fracking industry who said he'd dumped truckloads of contaminated water on the side of the road near Dimock. The worker was fearful he'd lose his job if he didn't dump the water.
But contaminated drinking water may be just one consequence of fracking.
"There are so many other issues that we don't know the full extent of yet," Glabicki says. "We just added earthquakes to the list! They are happening in Michigan and West Virginia as well as other areas. Who know what this might turn into? There is much we don't know about the dangers of fracking. Oil companies are going full steam with it, trying to make as much money as they can, before we can figure it out."
Author: Naphtali Ziff
Mr. Pirchesky's spirit has been an entrepreneurial one, and in 2006, he founded the internet business, One World Blue, LLC, with the establishment of the first online site. The long term and overall goal for One World Blue has been to create a social media platform that will be a place for Social and Planetary Healing. The One World Blue Network is a platform to spotlight the good individuals have done to transform the world, celebrate and appreciate cultural diversity, showcase the beauty of the Earth in Planet Sanctuary, and to act as a catalyst for conflict resolution thru the Overture to Peace module. In 2010, the plan was begun to build the social media platform which was given the name Blupela, The One World Blue Social Good Network. After over three years of research, development and investment into this transformative network, Blupela.com now offers this unique social networking experience as it provides a dynamic and comprehensive service by utilizing innovative tools to connect people and ideas with the goal of improving the world one good deed at a time. As the progression of The One World Blue Network has evolved, in December 2014 Mr. Pirchesky completed his Master's program at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned his Master's in Public Policy and Management, with a focus in International Development, and graduated Summa Cum Laude.
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Tetra Pak Commits to 100% Renewable Electricity by 2030
By: 3BL Media: Corporate Social Responsibility, Energy and Health News
SOURCE: Tetra Pak
June 6, 2016 /3BL Media/ - Tetra Pak has joined RE100, committing to increase its use of renewable electricity from 20% today to 100% across all global operations by 2030. The announcement was made at the Clean Energy Ministerial forum yesterday in San Francisco, US.
Charles Brand, Executive Vice President, Product Management and Commercial Operations at Tetra Pak said: "Signing up to RE100 reflects our on-going commitment to minimising our climate impact and increasing our use of renewable resources.
"We have set an ambitious target to ensure carbon emissions across our value chain are capped at 2010 levels through to 2020, and we are making excellent progress. In 2015 emissions were down 15% from the 2010 baseline, despite a 16% increase in production.
"Since setting our climate goal we have maximized our efforts to reduce energy consumption; committing to a renewable electricity target is a natural next step. By joining RE100 we will benefit from expert guidance and peer-to-peer learning on renewable electricity options in different markets."
Mark Kenber, CEO of The Climate Group, said at the forum, "The demand push from corporates is as important as supportive government policy – bold action by businesses, cities and governments sends a strong market signal and means we can hold global warming below two degrees far more quickly.
"The Clean Energy Ministerial is shining the spotlight on RE100 as a model of best practice in galvanizing the switch to renewable energy, and the leadership of influential companies – such as Tetra Pak, which is joining RE100 today – shows the business case for 100% renewables is as strong as ever."
RE100 is a global, collaborative business initiative led by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP to drive demand for, and delivery of, renewable power.
Tetra Pak's decision to join RE100 once again underscores its commitment to tackle climate change, and comes just six months after the company joined the Paris Pledge for Action at COP21.
Tweet me: Proud to be announced a member of @theRE100 at the Clean Energy Ministerial http://bit.ly/1Uji4hG #RE100
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KEYWORDS: Environment and Climate Change, Tetra Pak, RE100, renewable energy, renewable electricity, Clean Energy, climate impact, renewable resources, Carbon Emissions, the climate group
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A respite from the streets
When Scott was a child, he found a Hawaiian lei adorned with miniature alcohol bottles in his parents' basement. Scott sampled from the bottles and got drunk for the first time.
He was five years old.
It was a foreshadowing of things to come. By the time Scott was in high school, he was drinking a fifth of schnapps per day and had begun to dabble in cocaine.
As an adult, he became a diesel mechanic and a dad, but he never stopped drinking and doing drugs.
Now 53, Scott's lifestyle has taken its toll. He uses a walker and a wheelchair and has a host of chronic medical conditions that recently required hospitalization. Scott is also homeless and currently sleeping at Harbor Light Center, a shelter in downtown Minneapolis.
But Harbor Light's medical respite program is helping him make the best of a bad situation.
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homeless cohorts
Across the country, there's been a proliferation of medical respite programs for homeless adults. The National Health Care for the Homeless Council, which keeps a directory, counted 78 in 2016. Harbor Light's medical respite program, which is operated by Hennepin County Public Health, is one of three medical respite programs for homeless adults in Minnesota.
These programs are designed for people with an acute illness or injury who are too sick to recover on the streets (without risking complications or re-hospitalization) but who aren't sick enough to stay in a hospital.
Although their services vary, medical respite programs generally offer clients a shelter bed, meals, case management, and onsite medical care.
The programs aim to improve the health of homeless adults, a demographic that tends to be sicker than the general population. (The 2015 Minnesota Homeless Survey found that 51 percent have a chronic health condition, 60 percent have a serious mental illness, and 21 percent have a substance use disorder.)
Health professionals also hope that the programs will lower health care costs by reducing the number of times that homeless adults access emergency rooms and hospital inpatient facilities (or by avoiding these visits all together).
programs for
homeless adults
in America,
In 2016, Scott was sleeping in the cab of his truck.
He was also becoming increasingly sick.
Without proper medical care, it's likely he would have died inside his vehicle, but a concerned citizen called the police, and the police brought Scott to the hospital.
After his hospitalization, Scott was set to be discharged to the streets. He would have gone back to living inside his vehicle, and it's likely that he would have suffered from complications or been re-hospitalized in short order. But a social worker intervened and connected him with Harbor Light Center's medical respite program, instead.
Most of the dorm rooms at Harbor Light are lined with bunk beds. But in the medical respite wing, it's medical beds that angle up or down, allowing a person to elevate his legs or head or both.
For Scott, who has trouble breathing, it's meant a more restful night's sleep.
Scott also has reduced mobility and alcohol-induced neuropathy (numbness) in his arms and legs. The more spacious respite wing (12 people versus 24) makes it easier for him to access the bathroom, his locker, and other parts of the shelter like the onsite Health Care for the Homeless clinic.
Scott receives much of his medical care at the Health Care for the Homeless clinic (when he has an offsite appointment, he'll take a cab there from the shelter). At Harbor Light, he also attends Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
In addition to accessible health care, Scott appreciates the shelter's social connectedness and says it's helped him maintain his sobriety. "For me, spending too much time alone -- I used to spend a lot of time alone -- makes me want to do things I shouldn't be necessarily doing," Scott explains, admitting that without the presence of other people, he'd likely be drinking.
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Currently, Harbor Light is one of five medical respite programs in the country that are participating in the National Health Care for the Homeless Council's medical respite innovation project. The multi-year project receives funding from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and is tracking metrics like emergency room and hospital admissions.
Since Harbor Light began participating in the project, 132 patients have used the shelter's medical respite services.
To date, the average rate of hospital readmissions (per enrollee-month) after placement in medical respite has decreased 39 percent, the average rate of emergency department visits (per enrollee) has decreased 20 percent, and the average rate of hospital observational stays (per enrollee) has decreased nine percent.
Learn more about the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.
visits (per enrollee)
Although Scott faces many challenges, his situation could be worse. Because of the medical respite program, he's not living in his truck, and he hasn't had any complications since his hospitalization or been re-hospitalized. He's also receiving regular health care and has managed to maintain his sobriety.
A caseworker is trying to help him find permanent housing.
Susannah King, a senior clinical social worker at Health Care for the Homeless, says the medical respite program gives staff the flexibility to meet clients like Scott "where they're at."
"Where they're at" may not be a desirable place, but it's a place from which staff can help clients become more stable and self-sufficient.
The project described was supported by Grant Number 1C1CMS331336 from the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or any of its agencies.
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Leech Lake Tribal College Names Dr. Donald Day as its Next President
Cass Lake, MN-The Board of Trustees of Leech Lake Tribal College has announced that Dr. Donald Day, Director of the American Indian Resource Center at Bemidji State University, has been selected as the next President of the College, effective August 13. He will succeed Dr. Ginny Carney, who is retiring in August after more than a decade of service at LLTC.
In announcing the appointment of Day, Rose Robinson, Chair of the Leech Lake Tribal College Board of Trustees, stated "On behalf of the LLTC Board of Trustees, I extend a warm welcome to Dr. Day. We are all looking forward to working with Don as he steps into this leadership role at an entity that is so important to our community."
Day's career in education spans more than 35 years, and has covered a wide range of roles including academic counseling, teaching, research, student services, curriculum development, and administration, including a successful stint as president of Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College. Day mentioned that one of his proudest accomplishments was gaining approval from the Higher Learning Commission for FDLTCC to offer its first ever four-year degree program – a big leap forward for any community college.
"Leech Lake Tribal College is an awesome institution with strong academic programs that are grounded in Anishinaabeg values" Day said. "I look forward to working for my people again and expanding the already impressive services and outreach efforts in which the college faculty and staff are now engaged."
Dr. Carney will stay on board at LLTC until August 15, and then plans to return to southeast Tennessee to spend time with family and friends. "My 11 years at Leech Lake Tribal College have been some of the most rewarding and fulfilling years of my life, and I am confident that Dr. Day will be given the same warmth and respect that I have received," said Carney. "I offer my congratulations to Don and wish him all the best as he assumes his role as President of LLTC."
Founded in 1990, Leech Lake Tribal College is a public, 2-year college that provides higher education grounded in Anishinaabe values. For more information about the college, visit www.lltc.edu or call 218-335-4200
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Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Genomics
The Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology (EEOB) invites applications for a 9-month tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of Evolutionary Genomics starting July 1, 2020. Candidates should address key evolutionary questions using genomic data at the scale of populations, species or above, or questions involving evolution of the genome itself. Candidates proficient in the application of advanced statistical methods to genomic data are particularly encouraged.
The successful candidate will join a vibrant community of researchers in the EEOB Department, and in such graduate programs as EEOB, and GGB (Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics), both of which involve outstanding interdepartmental groups of faculty. Other collaborative research groups on campus include the Center for Conservation Biology, the Center for Invasive Species Research, the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, and the Environmental Dynamics and GeoEcology (EDGE) Institute. The successful candidate will also have access to modern campus facilities including a genomics and proteomics core, a high-performance computing cluster, and the Center for Advanced Microscopy, and to the UC Natural Reserve System (UCNRS.org), an outstanding network of field stations in diverse California ecosystems. Consult eeob.ucr.edu for further details.
A Ph.D. in evolutionary genomics or a related discipline, at least one year of postdoctoral training, and demonstrated excellence in research are required. The successful candidate must be willing and able to pursue extramurally funded research in order to develop a creative research program, and contribute to teaching in our undergraduate and graduate core curricula in physiology and related areas within the department.
Applications must be submitted through: aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF01192, including a cover letter, curriculum vitae, separate statements of research and teaching interests, and up to three selected publication reprints. A statement addressing the candidate's past and potential future contributions to promote a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment is also required. This can be reflected through research, teaching, supervision, mentoring, community engagement, service, and any of the other varied activities that are a part of an academic career. In addition, applicants should request that three letters of recommendation be submitted through this site.
Evaluation of applications will begin November 27, 2019, but the position will remain open until filled. For full consideration, applicants are encouraged to submit their applications prior to the above date. For more information about the position, please contact Dr. Leonard Nunney, Chair of the Search Committee, at [email protected]. For inquiries regarding the application process, please contact Mary Stuart, Academic Personnel, at [email protected].
The University of California, Riverside is a world-class research university with an exceptionally diverse undergraduate student body. Its mission is explicitly linked to providing routes to educational success for underrepresented and first-generation college students. A commitment to this mission is a preferred qualification.
Advancement through the faculty ranks at the University of California is through a series of structured, merit-based evaluations, occurring every 2-3 years, each of which includes substantial peer input.
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/ADA/Veterans Employer.
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The Katoomba Neighbourhood
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w73 5/15 pp. 306-312
Leaving the City of Refuge Means Loss of Life
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom—1973
BLOODGUILT THROUGH SHARING RESPONSIBILITY
HOW TO FLEE TO TODAY'S REFUGE CITY
REQUEST TO GOD FOR A CLEAN CONSCIENCE
HOLDING FIRM DOWN TO THE END
WHEN FREED FROM THE CITY OF REFUGE
Stay in the "City of Refuge" and Live!
The Way to Security
Keeping Within the Bounds of Refuge
Avoidance Inside the Cities of Refuge
1. In what position like the Jews of Jesus' day does Christendom stand?
TODAY bloodguilt rests heavily upon Christendom and upon all the world. Many sincere persons, because they have not personally killed a man or directly engaged in war, are unaware of their own personal share in the guilt. Nevertheless, they must share this responsibility with those represented in prophecy as having shed innocent blood. Christendom today stands in the same position as the Jews of Jesus' day, to whom Jesus said: "Here I am sending forth to you prophets and wise men and public instructors. Some of them you will kill and impale, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city; that there may come upon you all the righteous blood spilled on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. Truly I say to you, All these things will come upon this generation. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the killer of the prophets and stoner of those sent forth to her."—Matt. 23:34-37.
2. From what did Jerusalem's bloodstained record come, and what retribution did she receive?
2 Jerusalem's bloodstained record came, not from engaging in theocratic warfare under the command of Jehovah God, but because she shed innocent blood and deliberately put to death many of God's prophets, even Jesus, God's Son, being condemned to death there. This was not done in innocence, for seven centuries earlier, in Jeremiah's day, Jehovah exposed Jerusalem's bloodguilt when he said through his prophet: "Also, in your skirts there have been found the blood marks of the souls of the innocent poor ones. Not in the act of breaking in have I found them, but they are upon all these. But you say, 'I have remained innocent. Surely his anger has turned back from me.' Here I am entering into controversy with you on account of your saying, 'I have not sinned.'" (Jer. 2:34, 35) Acting directly upon these words, in 607 B.C.E. Jehovah did express his anger against Jerusalem for her wanton bloodshed, and his Babylonian executioners poured out her blood upon the ground in an appalling destruction. So, too, Jerusalem came in for another bloodbath, in fulfillment of Jesus' words, and before it was finished in the summer of 70 C.E. 1,100,000 had died within the besieged city.
3. Why did many perish who had not directly taken life?
3 Let those in Christendom particularly take heed from this warning example. Not all the Jews killed by the Babylonians or by the Romans were guilty directly of killing God's prophets or otherwise taking human life, yet they perished with those who had willfully shed innocent blood. Why so? Because they upheld the record and traditions of Judaism and thus shared in this society responsibility for her bloodguilt.
4. Why cannot Jehovah overlook Christendom's record?
4 Christendom is truly a modern-day counterpart of Jerusalem and her realm of Judah. Christendom's record before God has been stained with blood unjustly shed from her beginning in the fourth century, in Constantine's day. This record cannot go unnoticed, for Jehovah, who does not change, stated to Noah: "Your blood of your souls shall I ask back. From the hand of every living creature shall I ask it back; and from the hand of man, from the hand of each one who is his brother, shall I ask back the soul of man. Anyone shedding man's blood, by man will his own blood be shed, for in God's image he made man."—Gen. 9:5, 6.
5. (a) What acts of Christendom have established her record, and why can they not be justified? (b) Who share responsibility in Christendom's bloodguilt?
5 Christendom's hundreds of wars besides religious inquisitions and crusades prior to 1914 have expended the lives of countless hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting persons, and the two world wars since 1914, for which Christendom must bear the major responsibility as to tens of millions of lives, have amassed a frightful blood debt, which she must settle according to God's covenant concerning blood. These wars cannot be claimed to be theocratic wars fought in God's name, although priests and clergymen of both sides in these controversies that were fought in Christendom have imparted blessings on their participants. This has not authorized anyone to kill his fellowman and stand without bloodguilt before Jehovah God. Coming under such priest's or clergyman's blessing was not a coming into the "city of refuge" of Jehovah's High Priest, Jesus Christ. Though fought sincerely by many in a religious or patriotic fervor, the calling of God's name on such conflicts has not relieved the participants of bloodguilt. Additionally, those who approve, aid or back up those persons that directly commit bloodshed, or engage in propaganda and such movements that lead to innocent spilling of blood, likewise come under a society responsibility as parties to the crime and must stand before the God of justice, who cannot and will not pass by such bloodguilt.
6. Of what further act is Christendom guilty, and will she escape punishment for this?
6 Of a far more serious nature, however, is Christendom's bloodguilt because of taking the lives of many of God's true servants. Babylon the Great, the worldwide empire of false religion, of which Christendom is the dominant part, is described in the book of Revelation as being "drunk with the blood of the holy ones and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus." (Rev. 17:6) Just as surely as Christendom has failed to heed the warning of Jehovah, so Jehovah's judgment will soon be entered upon her as it was upon her prototype, Jerusalem and Judah, in 607 B.C.E. and 70 C.E. All persons found to be in association with her at that time will be sharers in her guilt and must also share in her destruction.—Rev. 18:4.
7. When will Jehovah's Avenger of blood strike, and where only is refuge to be found?
7 Jehovah has mercifully held back his Avenger of blood, the Lord Jesus Christ, from striking out with his angelic hosts against Christendom and all those sharing in her bloodguilt, but soon the time limit will be ended. (Rev. 7:1-3) In the coming "great tribulation" the Avenger of human blood will strike. "For, look! Jehovah is coming forth from his place to call to account the error of the inhabitant of the land against him, and the land will certainly expose her bloodshed and will no longer cover over her killed ones." (Isa. 26:21; Matt. 24:21, 22) When that time of decision comes, all mankind will be brought face-to-face with their joint responsibility, and this on a larger scale than Jerusalem and Jewry ever faced. All who have not found the place of safety will be made to pay the penalty. For all time the earth must be cleansed of the blood of those unrighteously slain. Atonement must be made in order that the covenant concerning the sanctity of blood made with Noah might be fulfilled. The only way to flee to safety is to find the road leading to Jehovah's antitypical "city of refuge" and abide there until the day of Jehovah's wrath is past and continue dwelling in it under the benefit of Jehovah's great High Priest, Jesus Christ. What, then, is the antitypical city of refuge?
8. What is the antitypical city of refuge, and how is entrance made into it?
8 In ancient Israel the manslayer must flee to one of the six cities especially designated, and, after establishing his innocence in regard to wanton slaying, he must abide in the city of refuge until the acting high priest died. (Num. 35:9-34) Thus the antitypical city of refuge must be Jehovah's provision to protect one from execution for violating God's covenant concerning the sanctity of blood. Entrance into that city is made by our coming and remaining under the benefits of the active service of his High Priest, Jesus Christ. Jesus' perfect human life, which he sacrificed on earth, was equivalent to that which the first man Adam enjoyed in the paradise of Eden. Jesus surrendered this sinless life in death and after his resurrection and ascension to the right hand of God in heaven he was able to present the value of the ransom sacrifice for the sake of Adam's dying descendants. Thus Jesus became mankind's Redeemer, our closest relative. The administration of the benefits of this ransom sacrifice therefore cleanses us of guilt and provides a reconciliation for mankind to God.—Heb. 2:14; 10:12; Rom. 5:11; compare Acts 2:37-40.
9. (a) In seeking God's forgiveness, what must be done by every violator of the divine covenant concerning the sanctity of blood? (b) How does Paul stand as an example?
9 Every violator of the divine covenant concerning the sanctity of blood, whether willful or unintentional, must seek God's forgiveness and the cancellation of his sin through faith in this lifeblood of the High Priest, Jesus. He must show sincere repentance over having committed a violation by obediently remaining under the divine provision through Christ, trusting in the righteousness and the good offices of the High Priest. Paul, the apostle, who as Saul of Tarsus persecuted the Christian congregation, even approving of the murder of them, stands as an example of those violating the covenant concerning blood. "Nevertheless," he says, "I was shown mercy, because I was ignorant and acted with a lack of faith." (1 Tim. 1:13) Because Jehovah through Christ saw this repentant attitude in Saul, established later by many faithful works, the Avenger of blood, the resurrected Jesus Christ, did not put him to death later in the 'day of vengeance of our God.' (Isa. 61:2) When Jesus revealed himself to Saul and exposed Saul's persecution of the true church as persecution of Him, Saul repented, changed his course of action, and availed himself from then on of the benefits of the ransom sacrifice, as in a refuge city.—Acts 9:1-19.
10. How does one today seek to have a clean conscience before God?
10 Coming into the ancient city of refuge on the part of the unintentional manslayer was not enough for his protection. Before he could remain in the city and receive the benefits the city had to offer he must prove that he had a clean conscience toward God in regard to the intentional spilling of blood. Today this clean conscience toward God can be obtained only by a sincere, honest request to God expressed in dedication of oneself to God through Christ and then baptism. This means that the person coming to God must recognize the sins that he has committed in violation of God's law and must change his course of action in regard to the doing of God's will. Thus, a full and unreserved dedication of his life must be made to Jehovah and then a presenting of himself for total immersion in water must take place in symbol of his dedication. Especially now as the world's end nears.
11. What is the clean conscience that we request, and how is it maintained?
11 The apostle Peter spoke of the saving power of baptism and its relation to the Christian conscience when he wrote at 1 Peter 3:20, 21: "That which corresponds to this [that is, Noah and his family's passing through the flood in the ark in that end of the world] is also now saving you, namely, baptism, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the request made to God for a good conscience,) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ." The conscience that we request from God by complying with his baptismal arrangement is a conscience that is freed of any guilt toward God. It is an awareness of the provision of Jesus' atonement sacrifice that cleanses us of all sin, not like the animal sacrifices that had to be repeated every year. No, this good conscience that God gives us allows us to come into a clean relationship with Jehovah and stay that way by availing ourselves of the services of his great High Priest. Those coming into this condition must maintain that good conscience by continuing to perform the work assigned to them in this antitypical city of refuge. The conscience therefore plays an important part in our remaining in the city of refuge.
12. How could we put ourselves in the dangerous position of leaving the modern-day city of refuge?
12 Having come into the antitypical city through dedication and baptism under the provision of the atonement sacrifice of Christ Jesus, we leave behind all sense of guilt and we should continue on in the city with that same freedom. Should we, however, begin to harden our conscience against God and justify ourselves for even minor infractions of Jehovah's law for those refugees in the city, we are putting ourselves in the dangerous position of eventually leaving the city altogether. God's law is clearly defined for us in his Word and through the Bible publications that he has provided to understand his will and purpose for mankind in the time of the end. To ignore this clear direction of God's spirit is to ignore the direction of our Christian conscience. To ignore the conscience is in time to feel no pain or disturbance when it should prick us. Eventually, as Paul said, the conscience can become hardened like flesh seared with a branding iron. In this condition the conscience, like proud flesh, feels no pain, no sense of guilt. In time we could become complacent toward wrongdoing, and when wrong is called to our attention we will eventually just shrug it off as though to say: "So what? Who cares?" Such an indifferent attitude can lead only to a complete disregard for the provision under which we were permitted to enter the city, and if we are overtaken in this condition, this state of mind, we would have no protection from the Avenger of blood because we would be no longer in this city under the protective benefits of the High Priest during the coming "day of vengeance."
13. How does one leave the antitypical city of refuge, how can this be avoided, and what danger is faced by those who do leave?
13 Since becoming self-reliant and losing faith in the High Priest's sacrifice and trusting no more in its covering of sins is to leave the city of refuge, thus exposing ourselves to destruction at Armageddon, we do well to heed the warning of the apostle Paul when he said: "That is why it is necessary for us to pay more than the usual attention to the things heard by us, that we may never drift away." (Heb. 2:1) The time for Jehovah's Avenger to go into action is ever closer. Now is no time to be caught unawares, outside the city of refuge or in a dangerous position near the edge of the pasture grounds, which marked the limits of this sanctuary provided by Jehovah. We must never fall into the snare of thinking that we can deviate even just a little from the righteous requirements of Jehovah. Who of us can say at what point one becomes willful in ignoring Jehovah's provision and ceases to be one who is 'just using poor judgment'? Remember what Paul said in 1 Corinthians 4:4: "For I am not conscious of anything against myself. Yet by this I am not proved righteous, but he that examines me is Jehovah." Can we say that we are putting our trust in Jehovah if we deliberately ignore or violate his commandments to us? To think of leaving the antitypical city of refuge even temporarily is to tempt God to save us from his Avenger of blood. Besides, if a person in such a condition had to face death right now from natural causes before the "great tribulation," what share has he in the resurrection? Never should we neglect laying a sufficiently sound basis in faith, relying sufficiently on the great High Priest's services, for the Avenger of blood to remember us favorably when resurrection time comes. (Matt. 24:21, 22) Failure to do so in this "time of the end" can mean extinction for all time. One would not be privileged to survive the coming "great tribulation." One is executed.
14. How long must those now on earth with heavenly hopes stay within the antitypical city, and why until then?
14 How long must the former bloodguilty ones stay inside the city of refuge? Until they no longer need the services of the High Priest. Paul wrote to the Hebrews: "Consequently he is able also to save completely those who are approaching God through him, because he is always alive to plead for them. For such a high priest as this was suitable for us, loyal, guileless, undefiled, separated from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens." (Heb. 7:25, 26) Such services, then, are for those survivors of the "great tribulation" who are in human imperfection. As long as any bloodguilt continues, the services of the High Priest are necessary in order to maintain a right standing with God. Those who have been anointed by God's holy spirit to be spiritual sons, joint heirs with Christ, must keep within the antitypical city of refuge till they faithfully finish their earthly course in death, thereby forever sacrificing their human nature. Since Christ's sacrifice applies only to those having human nature, the High Priest "dies" to them in the sense that he no more needs to act in their behalf with the merit of his human sacrifice, for in the case of the "little flock" of "joint heirs with Christ" in the resurrection they are changed from human to spirit and reside henceforth in heaven as possessing a "divine nature."—Luke 12:32; Rom. 8:17; 2 Pet. 1:4.
15. When are those with earthly hopes free to leave the antitypical city, and what accomplishes this for them?
15 Those survivors of the "great tribulation" with hopes of earthly life, however, are not freed from the city of refuge when God's enemies have been destroyed at Armageddon and retribution has been meted out for the blood of those innocently slain throughout the generations of mankind. True, before the Avenger of blood acts as Jehovah's executioner, those of this "great crowd" must have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Still, the "great tribulation" does not remove their bloodguilt or rid them immediately of the sins inherited from Adam. Even though they have a clean conscience toward God, they must continue to maintain this clean conscience by staying within the bounds of the antitypical city of refuge until restored to human perfection, thereby no longer needing the services of the High Priest. When will this come? Only when they have attained to human perfection at the end of the thousand-year reign of Christ and he yields them over in their perfection to Jehovah for a final test of their integrity on their own merit. When they come out from under this protection of the great High Priest, Jesus Christ, he, in effect, as High Priest dies to them, for he will no longer need to act in their behalf with the cleansing blood of his sacrifice.
16. What position toward the antitypical city of refuge do those have who come forth in the resurrection to life on earth?
16 What of those, then, who will be resurrected during Jesus' thousand-year reign? Must these, too, come within the city of refuge and remain there until the "death of the high priest"? No. For these have paid the penalty for their sinfulness by their own death. (Rom. 6:7) They have been acquitted of sin by going down into the common grave of all mankind. On coming forth from death, they are now standing on a road that leads, not into the antitypical city of refuge, but into life everlasting. Continuing on this highway of life they too will be aided by the High Priest to attain to human perfection. Their passing the final test after the end of the thousand-year reign of Christ will bring them also Jehovah's declaration of them righteous and a guarantee of endless life on earth. Failure, however, to meet the requirements of God that will apply to mankind in that day will bring upon them a final judgment of condemnation and they will be exterminated forever, just as those who were executed a thousand years earlier in the "great tribulation."
17. What questions arise as to the "death" of the High Priest?
17 But, someone might ask, what of Paul's words to the Hebrews: "This hope we have as an anchor for the soul, both sure and firm, and it enters in within the curtain, where a forerunner has entered in our behalf, Jesus who has become a high priest according to the manner of Melchizedek forever"? (Heb. 6:19, 20) Why is it said that Jesus will be a High Priest forever if his services as High Priest are to end toward the world of mankind at the end of the thousand years? In what way does he continue as High Priest forever?
18. What service of the great High Priest will come to an end, but why will this not put an end to all his relationship with mankind?
18 In the Jewish type the high priest literally died, thus ending not only his services as high priest but his life as well. This is not so with the greater High Priest, Jesus Christ. True, his services end in this capacity when mankind is brought to a complete standing in righteousness before Jehovah, but Jesus at Jehovah's right hand continues forever. Cessation of his office as a mediating High Priest toward mankind does not end his life. The good effects of his service as King and High Priest over mankind will remain forever with mankind, and mankind will forever be indebted to him for having served as King and High Priest in their behalf. To all eternity they will bow the knee at the name of Jesus and confess that he is Lord to the glory of God the Father. (Phil. 2:5-11) His services toward mankind will then no longer be necessary in the application of his atonement sacrifice toward them. But as Jehovah's great Administrator and Spokesman, he will unquestionably continue throughout all eternity as the preeminent One in magnifying Jehovah's praise and leading in worship that will unify the entire universe to Jehovah's glory and honor.
19. What can now sustain us, and what should our earnest effort be?
19 What a blessed privilege it will be to be among those happy creatures who have survived down to that time! How thankful we will be for the mercy of Jehovah that has made this marvelous provision possible! It is this hope now that can sustain us. May we cherish it as we treasure life itself, for remaining in Jehovah's refuge city now in this "time of the end" of the bloodguilty world does mean our life.
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After Another Disappointing Loss, Mizzou Shifts Their Focus To Senior Night
By: Nate Smith
Twitter: @NateSmithNBA
The Missouri Tigers suffered their fourth straight loss on Saturday when they fell to the 11th ranked Florida Gators. The 23-6 defeat dropped the Tigers to 2-4 in SEC play and 5-5 overall on the year. The Tigers' performance left something to be desired, as fans voiced their frustration on social media following the game.
With only two games remaining on the season, and the NCAA yet to make a ruling on the bowl ban, it's fair to wonder what the team's goals are as they round out the year. Speaking after the Florida game, many of the Missouri players referenced the upcoming senior night game against Tennessee. Quarterback Kelly Bryant said, "we've gotta finish (the season) on the right note, at home for the seniors." Bryant and the rest of the Missouri offense struggled to get going on Saturday, as they were unable to find the end zone. A pair of Tucker McCann field goals provided the only points on the afternoon for the Tigers.
Linebacker Nick Bolton talks about his near pick-six against Florida
Cornerback Jarvis Ware doubled down on Bryant's comments, saying "our plan is to send the seniors out the right way." Ware, a Florida native, was very vocal on-field following the loss to the Gators, drawing some criticism for how he handled himself. Despite that, Ware remained very humble and transparent in his post-game media availability. "We've all got to keep our heads up…everybody takes losses but what really matters is how you bounce back from a loss. If everybody keeps their heads up, (and we keep putting the work in) and keep grinding…we will come out successful."
Cornerback Jarvis Ware talks with media members following the tough loss
Center Trystan Colon-Castillo shared some insight from the coaches' post-game locker room message. "Coach Odom told us all it's on them, it's on the coaches, which as players, we didn't think (that)." Colon-Castillo also brought up senior punt returner Richaud Floyd, who addressed the team with a motivational message of his own, that was also centered around sending the seniors out on the proverbial right note.
Trystan Colon-Castillo talks with media members following the game
Bolton and the Tigers will look to rebound next weekend against Tennessee, who will also enter the contest with a .500 record. Mizzou opened as four-point favorites before the line adjusted to -5.5 in favor of the Tigers. A win against the rival Volunteers wouldn't solve all of Missouri's problems, but it would be a step in the right direction for a talented, yet inconsistent team in desperate need of a confidence boost. The Tigers and Volunteers will kick-off from Faurot Field on Saturday at 6:30 PM. Mizzou fans are understandably discouraged by the turn the season has taken, but they can be at least somewhat encouraged by the positive strides that the defensive unit has continued to make. Star linebacker Nick Bolton has stepped up to help ease the burden caused by the injury to team leader Cale Garrett. Talking about his near pick-six against Florida that barely slipped out of his hands, Bolton said "I've gotta make that play…I consider myself a playmaker." Had Bolton secured the interception and returned it for a touchdown, it would've cut the Gator lead to 13-10 with just over nine minutes remaining in the third quarter. Bolton's playmaking has stood out this season, as the Tigers' linebacker already has one pick-six on his resume. While he wasn't able to repeat the feat against Florida, Bolton's attitude, on-field play, and leadership all speak volumes for a Missouri team going through a tumultuous season.
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