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A report on new draft-legislation detailing how transgender people will finally be given legal recognition in Ireland has met with a mixed reaction over stipulations concerning partnership rights.
Authored by the Gender Recognition Advisory Group and launched this week by Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton, the legislation, which will be released by next year, will allow trans citizens to formally amend their gender identity on official records.
Under the bill an independent three member Gender Recognition Panel will be established, which will assess applications. A legal Gender Recognition Certificate will be issued along with a new birth cert.
The bill sets out that a person whose gender has been legally recognised would be entitled to marry a person of the opposite sex, or to enter a civil partnership with a person of the same sex.
The Department of Social Protection states that in order to qualify for recognition a person must be over 18 and must have been living for at least two years in their new gender. A formal medical diagnosis of their condition must be provided.
However, trans rights groups have raised "grave" reservations about certain stipulations in the bill surrounding partnerships and marriages. The draft-legislation would require applicants to divorce their partner if they are transitioning to the same-sex as that partner. The same goes for if a person is in an existing civil partnership and wishes to transition to the opposite-sex as their partner. This is because while Ireland recently began recognizing civil unions, the country does not recognize same-sex marriages. For trans people in happy partnerships, possibly with children, this amounts to yet another legal hoop to jump through and a heart-wrenching demand to boot.
Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) has said it welcomes the report and Irish ministers' move to recognize trans citizens, however the proposed law is, the group says, flawed.
The requirement to exclude people in existing marriages or civil partnerships from the proposed gender recognition will force trans people to break up their relationships in order to obtain recognition, causing serious hardship for trans people and their families.
"Some members of Ireland's trans community are in loving marriages with children. In effect, this would force them to choose between the integrity of their family and accessing a basic human right. No-one should be asked to make such a choice," declared Giambrone. "Ireland is a progressive country whose Constitution affords particular protection to the family based on marriage. This proposal shows no respect for Ireland's married trans families. The idea of forcing a happy couple to live apart and divorce is unimaginable."
This morning, GRAG Chairperson Oliver Ryan admitted that the proposal left couples in "a practically impossible position." The proposal is also contrary to the recent Council of Europe report dealing with gender recognition that encourages the separation of marriage from the legal recognition process.
TENI also points out that the medical requirements for gender change recognition is also problematic because it requires gender reassignment surgery before recognition can be granted. Reassignment surgery is not always required or wanted, and the diagnosis requirement may exclude intersex people. From the press release:
The requirement of either a formal diagnosis of gender identity disorder (GID) or having undergone gender reassignment surgery is also problematic. "The medical criteria are very restrictive and will act as an exclusionary barrier to legal recognition for some trans individuals. A diagnosis of GID also excludes intersex people, many of whom who would benefit enormously from accessing gender recognition legislation." Said Giambrone. "Furthermore, such a requirement would necessitate healthcare professionals with experience in gender identity who are trained to provide this service to people throughout the country. We're simply not there yet."
However, with ministers having committed to an "open door" policy on consultations surrounding the legislation, TENI seems quietly optimistic that at least some of these issues might be tackled before the draft legislation is complete, with Broden Giambrone of TENI saying, "This is a key moment for trans human rights. Ireland has the opportunity to lead Europe in progressive gender recognition legislation. We are eagerly looking forward to engaging the Minister and her staff to ensure that the experiences and voices of trans people are reflected and represented in the draft legislation."
Ireland was heavily criticized in a recent European report for so far having failed to address the needs of its trans citizens. You can read more on the report here.
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It's the same in the UK.If you receive treatment on the National Health Service, before you have Gender Reassignment Surgery, you have to divorce. Once you have transitioned, you can enter into a Civil Partnership but you cannot marry.
If you have your surgery via a private route, you can stay married but you cannot get a birth certificate in your true gender.
I think they need to go back to the drafting table on this one. There are too many problems with this legislation.
thanks for spreading word of this
The LPGA still has the policy that a birth certificate 'sex' is still different, and not equal, than the initial 'sex' at birth.
It sounds confusing and adds another piece of paperwork into a person's life. It also sounds like this is an attempt to maintain the concept of Civil Union equals Marriage, but continue the two separate legal definitions. I truly hope children of loving relationships, or their parents subject to the procedures, are not negatively impacted. The US still has a 'check-box' on many legal documents of 'divorced,' and although that should not impact a person's life going forward, it does.
Oops! David M I meant. Sausagefingers me!
Well said Davim M.
Nicolas A. It is indeed people like you who wish to keep the third worlk enslavened by the world of god, because that is all the religious texts do for humanity. Your ancient thoughts are not welcome here in 2011. Wake up and stop being a fool!
But, I would go as far as to say both of you need to stop thinking christian or religion and start thinking Humanist. It is more in tune with todays world and cares/considers for everyone! Religion is old hat and so, so, false.
This sounds like 'separate but equal' treatment.
Thanks for the article.
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"The drought has done more than dry up our land and evaporate our reservoirs; it also has destroyed thousands of acres of hay resources for producers who raise cattle, goats and horses," Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples said.
"The drought has indeed left its mark, and unfortunately, we cannot change the fact that many ranchers were forced to reduce or sell off herds and, in some cases, even close operations. We aim to connect those who need hay with hay producers across the state and nation to help alleviate the hardship."
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TDA is also working with the Texas trucking industry to provide ranchers with more affordable hay transportation in times of drought and other crises.
"The cost to transport hay from out of state, or even within the state, is a costly expense that many ranchers cannot afford," Commissioner Staples said.
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January 8, 2010
By James Phillips
The failed attempt to bomb an American airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day has focused attention on the rising threat posed by the al-Qaeda franchise based in Yemen, long a stronghold for radical Islamist forces.
Yemen offers al-Qaeda many advantages: the protection of friendly tribal leaders opposed to a weak central government, the support of radical Muslim religious leaders, porous borders that facilitate covert movements and offer a back door to Saudi Arabia, and a sympathetic population that has been spoon-fed anti-Western propaganda for decades by militant Islamists and pro-Soviet Marxists. To combat the growing threat of terrorists based in Yemen, the U.S. should work with the beleaguered Yemeni government, Britain, Saudi Arabia, and other threatened countries to attack al-Qaeda's regional leadership, disrupt its operations, and diminish its ability to launch terrorist attacks.
Hotbed of Islamist Radicalism
Yemen, Osama bin Laden's ancestral homeland, long has been a bastion of support for militant Islamism and al-Qaeda. Many Yemenis who migrated to Saudi Arabia to find work during the oil boom of the 1970s were exposed to the combative doctrines of Saudi Wahhabi Islam.
Yemenis made up a disproportionate number of the estimated 25,000 foreign Muslims who flocked to Afghanistan to join the jihad against the Soviet occupation in the 1980s. They also make up a large segment of al-Qaeda, which was founded by veterans of that jihad, to expand the struggle into a global revolutionary campaign.
Al-Qaeda's first terrorist attack against Americans occurred in Yemen in December 1992, when a bomb was detonated in a hotel used by U.S. military personnel involved in supporting the humanitarian food relief flights to Somalia. Al-Qaeda launched a much more successful attack in Yemen in October 2000 when it bombed the USS Cole in the port of Aden, killing 17 American sailors.[1]
Yemen also factored into the radicalization of American Muslims such as John Walker Lindh, who traveled to Yemen to study Islam before being recruited to fight in Afghanistan, and seven Yemeni–Americans from Lackawanna, New York, who were recruited by al-Qaeda before 9/11. While six were convicted of supporting terrorism and sent to prison, the seventh became a fugitive and later surfaced in Yemen.
In 2002, al-Qaeda bombed the French oil tanker Limbourg off the coast of Yemen. Later that year, a senior al-Qaeda leader was killed in Yemen in one of the first publicly revealed Predator drone attacks. Al-Qaeda grew much stronger in Yemen following the February 2006 escape of 23 al-Qaeda suspects—including some of the terrorists responsible for the bombing of the Cole—from a Yemeni prison. U.S. intelligence officials assessed that the well-organized jailbreak was assisted by members of Yemen's intelligence services sympathetic to al-Qaeda.[2]
Al-Qaeda's Growing Threat
Yemen became increasingly important as a base of operations for al-Qaeda after crackdowns in other countries in recent years. In September 2008, al-Qaeda launched a complex attack on the U.S. Embassy in Yemen that killed 19 people, including an American woman.
Yemen's importance to al-Qaeda increased further when al-Qaeda members pushed out of Saudi Arabia merged with the Yemeni branch to form Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in January 2009.
Yemen is also the refuge of radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi, a Yemeni–American ideologue believed to be an influential guide for many al-Qaeda members, including three of the September 11 hijackers. Major Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 soldiers in a November 2009 rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, sought guidance from Aulaqi and exchanged e-mails with him for months before the attack.[3]
The Yemeni government has linked Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be Christmas Day bomber, to Aulaqi.[4] AQAP had previously used explosives similar to those Abdulmutallab used in a failed assassination attempt by a suicide bomber last August against a Saudi prince who led the kingdom's counterterrorism efforts.
AQAP, which is estimated to have 200–300 full-fledged members, has exploited alliances with powerful, well-armed Yemeni tribes, including the radical cleric's Aulaq tribe, to establish sanctuaries and training bases in Yemen's rugged mountains. This is similar to al-Qaeda's modus operandi in Afghanistan before 9/11 and in Pakistan's tribal badlands today.
Boosting Counterterrorism Efforts in Yemen
Yemen is not a failed state, but it is on the path to become one if present trends continue. Yemen's meager oil exports, the chief source of government revenue, peaked in 2002 and will probably run out in the next decade. Growing water shortages, high unemployment, government corruption, Sunni–Shia tensions, and tribal rivalries have handicapped one of the fastest-growing populations in the Middle East.
The U.S. has repeatedly prodded the Yemeni government to take stronger action against al-Qaeda. This has produced some results, but the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh perceives greater threats from a Shia rebellion led by the Houthi clan in the north and chronic secessionist agitation in the oil-rich south. This region was formerly part of South Yemen, which merged with North Yemen in 1990 and mounted a bloody uprising in 1994. President Saleh crushed the rebellion with the help of Islamist militants and is reluctant to burn his bridges to his former allies, many of whom sympathize with or support AQAP.
The launching of at least two air strikes against AQAP targets in December suggests that the Yemeni government has stepped up cooperation against al-Qaeda. The U.S. should leverage foreign aid increases to secure stronger cooperation in the future. Washington should also help build up Yemeni counterterrorism capabilities, ensuring that they are fully focused on AQAP, not diverted for use against the Houthi rebels. Funding, training, equipment, and close cooperation should be afforded to Yemen's National Security Bureau, an intelligence agency that has a much better track record in fighting AQAP than the Political Security Organization, an intelligence agency infiltrated by AQAP sympathizers that should be shunned.[5]
Washington should also press for the use of Predator drone strikes against high-ranking AQAP leaders while taking care to minimize civilian casualties to the greatest degree possible. This is not a silver bullet, but over time it can reduce the effectiveness of AQAP.
Washington should also work with allies such as Britain and Saudi Arabia to increase economic development aid to reduce a fertile recruiting pool for AQAP. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for an international conference to provide aid to Yemen. This is unlikely to be a long-term solution but can help to increase Yemeni counterterrorism cooperation in the short run. Saudi Arabia can also be helpful in rewarding Yemeni tribal leaders for turning against AQAP or at least denying it access to their territory.
Of course, one of the most useful policies would be to stop making the problem worse by repatriating Yemeni terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, where they form the single largest group of remaining prisoners.[6] Yemen's revolving-door prisons, some of which are staffed by al-Qaeda sympathizers, offer little assurance that repatriated detainees will not return to their murderous activities.
The Saudi terrorist rehabilitation program has also yielded questionable results. At least two of the planners of the Christmas Day bombing were al-Qaeda members who were released from Guantanamo in 2007 and sent home to Saudi Arabia, where they were enrolled in an "art therapy rehabilitation program" that had little known effect on their murderous ideology. The two later found sanctuary in Yemen.[7]
Diminishing the Threat
Given the favorable Yemeni environment that it operates within, Osama bin Laden's transnational terrorist network is likely to remain a potent force in that troubled country for many years to come. Nonetheless, discreet and well-targeted U.S. counterterrorism cooperation with the Yemeni government and close coordination with other allies can help diminish the threat.
James Phillips is Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, a division of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, at The Heritage Foundation.
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[1]See James Phillips, "The Yemen Bombing: Another Wakeup Call in the Terrorist Shadow War," Heritage Foundation Executive Memorandum No. 773, October 25, 2000, at http://www.heritage.org/Research/MiddleEast/EM703.cfm.
[2]Sudarsan Raghavan, "Al-Qaeda Group in Yemen Gaining Prominence," The Washington Post, December 28, 2009, at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/27/AR2009122702022.html (January 8, 2010).
[3]Stephen F. Hayes and Thomas Joscelyn, "Connecting the Dots," The Weekly Standard, November 23, 2009.
[4]Lee Keath, "Yemen Says Nigerian May Have Met Radical Cleric," Associated Press, January 7, 2010, at http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_YEMEN_AL_QAIDA?SITE=MAHYC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT (January 8, 2010).
[5]Michael Knights, "Strengthening Yemeni Counterterrorism Forces: Challenges and Political Considerations," Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 6, 2010, at http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=3158 (January 8, 2010).
[6]Charles Stimson, "Yemeni Terrorist Transfers: Policies That Make Sense," Heritage Foundation WebMemo No. 2745, January 6, 2010, at http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandSecurity/wm2745.cfm.
[7]Brian Ross, Joseph Rhee, and Rehab El-Buri, "Al Qaeda Leader Behind Northwest Flight 253 Terror Plot Was Released by U.S.," ABC News, December 28, 2009, at http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/northwest-flight-253-al-qaeda-leaders-terror-plot/story?id=9434065 (January 8, 2010).
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I'm a former 6.0 owner and I had the CCV mod done on my old truck. The CCV mod is popular with the 6.0's because the oily CCV mist gets oil in the intercooler and "intercooler pipe boots" causing them to pop off under load. I went ahead and did the CCV mod to my newly aquired turbo IDI 7.3 when checking the air filter. There was an oily film on the air intake tube and the turbo, and in my opinion the CCV mod allows cooler, cleaner air to get to the turbo. What I don't like is that the turbo IDI 7.3 puts out way more CCV fumes than the 6.0 did. If the truck is at a standstill it literally looks like something is burning or the engine is overheating because of the fumes! So I just want to know if there is any benefit to having the CCV mod done on a NON-INTERCOOLED engine such as the turbo 7.3 IDI?
Also, K&N air filters are frowned upon by the 6.0 guys what about turbo 7.3 IDI's?
not much, i honestly would leave it, it keeps a slight vacuum on the which prevents leaks.
K and nare also frowned upon on idi, and diesel engines in general, run one for a few hundred miles then wipe your finger on the inside of the intake, all that sh$% is going in your engine. You are better off going with a larger than stock air filter. since its a turbo, you probably can put the air filter used on the DIY that we use on the 7.3 powerstroke depending how big the compressor inlet is
Last edited by ryandamo; 12-26-2010 at 06:48 PM.
I will be un-doing the mod tomorrow. What about other high flow air filters like airaid, etc?
I have a K&N on mine and I have had no issues.
I have been doing a lot of forum jumping and reading about the CCV oil problem in the cooler and I got my reason and solution for modification on the TDI VW forum.
In 2000 VW owners had discussion and modifications on this problem and it was explained.
Oil fumes in the CCV system are sucked in the turbo and on in the CAC cooler and in there it will be condensated due to cooling the air and it will stick in the passages and after time it will block passages. The oil collecting in the pipes is nothing compared to the oil condensing in the passages of the cooler.
The solution was to cool the flow of vapours before they get to the turbo, but not enough to freeze neither.
By rerouting it to a container/filter the vapours can be cooled and drip at the bottom in a container that may be dump at oil changes.
They found if cooling did not happen the oil mist in the fumes are hard to remove and filtering just plug and limit the fume flow.
They found out that VW had a CCV fume extractor that had fibre wool in it that was a heat transfer media instead of filtering.
I have tought about this problem and feel that I have come up with a fairly easy solution.
The fumes should be directed to a canister with an inlet at the middle but to the side to form a cyclonic air flow and outlet to the top center. The heavy oil will be directed along the container walls and the lighter air is discharged in the center. Then the canister has to be filled with cupper or aluminum wool to cool the air as it passes through the container.
There I have it solved and hope someone has success with it.
Will try to make one to install on mine.
CCV mod is a complete waste of time on any truck
As to the K&N on non turbocharged engines they work fine as long as they are properly oiled
Sorry my write up was for trucks with Turbos and CAC coolers
I did install a K & N filter on my 6.2L non turbo GM in 95 after I got tired of changing the air filters in order to pull my RV. I installed it after the improved exhaust and found a world of difference with the pulling power. Much improved compared to the exhaust modification. and I did 60Miles on the original without oiling. The dust in the filter is an improvement in filtering and did not block air flow.
I had a 4 speed standard and slowed down to 40 MPH in a long hill while traveling south.
With the exhaust improvement it was 45MPH at the same hill and it was 55 MPH with the K & N filter.
I did the trip 3 times and each time I averaged 18MPG and there was never any changes in MPG with the changes of Exhaust or Filter.
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There is a lot of bad info floating around in this thread. I also don't feel it is a waist of time or money either. I actually think every Powerstroke should perform the CCV mod. , not so I can benifit in any way, but because I feel it is a worth while mod to perform. But let's be honest here, this mod will not gain mpg, will not add any horsepower, and it does nothing to lower EGT, or increase boost pressure. Yes I have read all of the above on different forums, including this one. By dumping the oily vapors into the intake it creates a problem when the boots get saturated in oil they can be difficult to keep in place especially on vehicles with higher boost numbers. The main reason I would recommend the CCV mod is simply a maintenace issue. The oil saturates the boots and they begin to drip into the valley and eventually down the back of the block making you think you have a rear main seal going South. Not to mention all the crap that sticks to the oil saturated boots. I have had my CCV Mod on my truck since 2003 and I have never once removed my boots for any cleaning at all. Many on this forum have seen my engine compartment and can testify that by boots still look brand new. I believe I have photos in my webshots album linked to in my sig. On powerstrokes that have higher mileage on them this oil will usually collect in the bottom of the IC. The IC is there to cool air not collect oil. All in all I believe keeping this oil out of my intercooler is a mod well worth doing. But I am not going to lie to anyone about any further benifits of doing this mod. Not everyone is as anal about their engine as I am. If you have ever had a intercooler boot blow at higher boost levels, I am sure you would agree with me that you don't want to have it happen again.
Let me also say that there are several ways of doing the CCV mod. Some good and some not so good. I have seen many that try welding a bung onto the exhaust and running the oil vapors to this bung where they can be burnt up by the hot exhaust gasses. This sounds great in theory, but the truth is that if the bung isn't welded at the exact angle and at the specific point in the exhaust it will actually cause back pressure on the crank case. The powerstroke is very sensitive to back pressure. So this is never recommended. Other will just vent a hose to atmosphere. This will drip oil on your driveway, all over the underside of your truck, plus it stinks bad and in the winter people will tell you that your truck is on fire. Not to mention it is technically illegal according to the emission laws. This may nmot affect your state now, but trust me it's coming. Just watch CA as it will usually start there and spread like the flu. A much better way is to not change the flow of air into the intake but to reroute this air, send it through a collection canister where the oil clings to a filter media, and what returns to the intake is clean air, free of oil. If this mod was really not worth doing I doubt I would have sold as many as I have. But I do agree with Dave that there is a lot of bad information out there as far as this mod is concerned, hopefully I have put a rest to much of this in this thread. If anyone has any further questions you can PM me and I will try and answer each one.
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he is not talking about a powerstroke, he is talking about an IDI, which comes with a crankcase depression relief valve to keep a slight vacuum on the motor. Unlike powerstrokes, which have superior sealing, the 7.3 and 6.9 motor WILL leak without the valve in place. some Powerstroke owners install a road draft tube , but when it comes to an idi, it is a completely different engine than a powerstroke.
Also IDI's have no intercoolers to collect oil, and only see between high teen boost numbers at the very max if they are even equipped with a turbo so boots slipping are not an issue
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I have un-done my CCV mod, no more smoke show.
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SPECIAL THANKS to Geoff and Livia for their selfless packing help, Clara, for coming in to hang out for a bit despite her long day, my roomies Mandy, Elliot, and Mike, for bearing with me during these crazy times, Vienna, for always being there to drag me out of the house, Beverly, for spending a good part of her day with me running around in Oakland, Ilya, for his ass-saving storage offer and Labor Day party, Victor A., for his call to see how I was doing, Julia and Jeffrey for their last-minute stage retrofit, and everyone else for their support. :)
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The Morning After The Morning After The Night Before
There are good victories and there are bad victories. Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of VE Day, the day my fellow citizens danced in the fountains of Trafalgar Square to celebrate the fall of Hitler and the Nazis and the triumph of Democracy.
Yesterday was also the day I woke up from not much sleep, having listened most of the night to the results of the General Election as they came in, to the prospect of a majority Tory government and 5 more years of a very different austerity to what faced the victorious nation in the aftermath of the war. Instead of bold visions of the future like the National Health Service this is a prospect of the NHS being sold off to rapacious corporations who actually don't perform any better than the incumbents and cream off cash for shareholders at the expense of the service-users. The last 18 months has seen not only an obvious deterioration of the NHS, in particular A&E, but also a blossoming unfairness. We're not all it it together and never have been. The Conservatives aren't capable of doing One Nation, it's not in their nature.
Last week Richard Rogers, the architect of 124 Horseferry Road, Channel 4's HQ just round the corner from the Houses of Parliament, came in to his building to talk to us, the staff of C4, about his work and life and the building we work in. He was interviewed by Channel 4 News' Cathy Newman in our cinema and among the most interesting revelations was that he hadn't intentionally created the Channel 4 penis. It's long been an urban myth that when you look down on the two revolving doors and the see-through entrance canopy it was deliberately designed to look like a todger.
Rogers was genuinely surprised at the revelation so the urban myth was officially put to bed. At the amusement no doubt of the lowly member of Richard Rogers' draughting team who probably snuck it in.
Rogers also spoke about how, when he comes home to his self-designed Georgian conversion in Chelsea, most of the buildings he walks by at night have next to no lights on since they are not homes but investments of the rich and foreign, they are laundered cash and expressions of no faith in their own nations. They are emblems of the last 5 years of Tory-driven government, empty, an insult to the sufferers of the nationwide housing crisis, dark, undermining of this great city, my native London. For the first time in my life it is deteriorating before my eyes – as I discussed here in Blitzed Again.
So I woke up from the kind of sleep you'd get in an Underground tunnel at night with German bombs falling above, shell-shocked by the unexpected result of a majority Tory government in the face of weeks of polls and punditry to the contrary. Not only that but the excellent Labour candidate in my constituency (and I'm not a Labour supporter) also failed to get elected in spite of a truly exemplary campaign – well organised, committed, personal and with heart. Sarah Sackman is a talented local candidate, young and with energy, not cynical but engaged and hopeful. Instead we got 5 more years of a tired party hack who can't even be relied on to protect the Grade 2 listed library at the cultural heart of our community. After writing this I'm off on a march to call for the saving of easyCouncil Barnet's library service – another aspect of public life the last Cameron regime failed hopelessly to safeguard right across the country.
I actually voted for Sarah but it was the result of a vote-swop facilitated by Swap My Vote www.swapmyvote.uk through which I had my Liberal vote cast in the West Country where a slim LibDem majority was being defended. In return I voted for Labour on behalf of a total stranger who I met through the site and exchanged a few messages through Facebook to get a sense of his bona fides. His vote, which would have had no impact where he lives, got to contribute to a very tight Conservative-Labour race here. It was an uplifting contact through new technology and for me was the only silver lining of the horrendousness of this drawn-out election. Apart from the unelection of the horrendous George Galloway of course (if only Scotland would take that son of theirs back). It represents the upside of the internet age in that this clever application of web technology means that if we don't get given Electoral Reform (4M UKIP votes gave them 1 seat, 1M Green votes gave them 1 seat, while 1.4M SNP votes yielded 56 seats) we the people can take it for ourselves. Those numbers should leave a lot of frustrated and disempowered and angry people in their wake. I have never voted tactically before in the whole of my adult life but I just couldn't face 5 more years of being all in it together with the complacent, hypocritical, greedy and out of touch.
Swap My Vote was set up in typical internet start-up MVP style by a Channel 4 colleague, Tom de Grunwald, and a PhD scientist, James Allen. It is a ray of light in the looming darkness.
So I got up with effort and went off to work. I felt the need to talk to people so on my way in to the Richard Rogers penis-less edifice (will this lot of Tories sell off this bit of the family silver?) I went to a meeting at the media cliché that is the Groucho Club in Dean Street, Soho where I had the privilege of watching Nick Clegg's dignified and masterful resignation speech, truly historic, with the historian Simon Schama. I recently saw him deliver his own masterful speech at Names Not Numbers in Aldeburgh where he spoke without notes for over an hour in a fluent and inspirational way which was the quintessence of what a university lecturer/professor should be. We also watched Ed Miliband's resignation speech, an interesting contrast, not because it was poor or unfelt, but because it lacked the same insight and historical scope.
From there I walked towards the office in the company of a Cambridge mathematician I had also befriended at Names Not Numbers. We picked over the ashes together. We took our leave at the new 4th plinth, Gift Horse, a sculptural statement by German-American artist Hans Haacke about austerity in contrast to City excess.
I walked across the square to look again at the fountain captured in the VE Day photo which opens this, enjoying the joining across seven decades through photography:
The VE Day 70 display boards, courtesy of the Mayor of London who re-entered the House of Commons yesterday as a potential rival to Cameron, Dougal to Cameron's Ermintrude, afforded an opportunity to link then and now:
I then headed straight down Whitehall an hour ahead of the wreath-laying commemoration for this special VE Day at the Cenotaph. I didn't have the heart to glimpse over at 10 Downing Street.
There are bad victories and there are good victories. I did my best to drown the bad in the good, like empty cans in a fountain.
UK Democracy: a travesty of a mockery of a sham of two mockeries
I've just been re-watching this TED talk by TV presenter Rick Edwards, stalwart of E4 and Channel 4, about young people and voting.
It's an interesting enough watch, clear, addressing a critical topic, not least just a few weeks out from a hard-to-call general election. But I'm having my own mid-life election crisis. I've managed to get to my silver fox period without missing an election but without ever having a vote that truly counts. I've lived in constituencies that are not marginal and I've voted for neither of the two big parties because neither represents my views. I'm having a crisis this time out and for the first time ever I'm going to vote tactically because I can't take 5 more years of Toryism. Our MP seems to be hard working but that just makes him a hard-working cunt. He still comes from a mind-set that would sell its own grandmother. Does sell its own grandmother. Does sell the city I love. Does want to sell the library I love. Does sell the electoral roll data. Does sell the ground underneath my house and your house. Does sell our national health service.
…Ok, I just took a little rest after that rantette and watched this – it was made in 1976, just watch the first 30 seconds – nothing's really changed in 40 fucking years…
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!
Actually I probably will, like the rest of you schmucks. We'll all get loaded up with debt from the minute we're old enough to open our own bank account and be turned into wage slaves.
So here's what I want help with – How is this Democracy…
- I get to vote once every 5 years (in a general election)
- I'm voting in a constituency and borough which is not marginal – so one party I loathe impacts on my life both locally and nationally
- When, in the past, the constituency was under other control, it was the other main party that doesn't represent my views or philosophy either
- The two parties I've voted for have Big Fat Zero chance of being elected nationally, a bit more locally though it's never happened so far
- I didn't want to vote tactically on principle – I wanted to express what I actually think by voting for the representative closest to my views
- So my vote has made no direct impact on anything in over 30 years, both in the general and local elections
- Now I've cracked – I'll be voting for the Lesser Evil – how rubbish is that as an option?
- So how is that Democracy? How can a first-past-the-post system be fair or genuinely democratic?
I genuinely would value your thoughts on this…
Rick Edwards' and others' ambitions to get young people to vote are laudable but while the UK system is like this for the many citizens in situations like mine (i.e. all non-marginal seats) it really does beg the question what's the point?
Don't You Go
If you ever wanted to know the value of Scottish-English union it's perfectly captured in John Martyn – born in England, educated in Glasgow, genius fruit of the union of an English mother and Scottish father – and if you voted today in the Scottish Independence referendum I hope his words guided your hand:
Can't you see it in my eyes? I'm saying
Don't you go
So many reasons you should stay here, baby
Don't you go, don't you go
So here I am sitting in a land colonised by Scots (at the Beech Hill in Derry) following the outcome of today's vote. I'm genuinely and deeply concerned about how things turn out. As I watch this non-television let me set out 4 of those 'reasons you should stay here', 4 reasons why it would be a shame (in its true sense) for this family of nations to be torn apart…
1. The history of the world is one of the ebb and flow of the scale of our nations, seeking the optimum size to organise ourselves at. Roman Empire too big. San Marino too small. Scotland is too small too. It is not a substantial enough market to thrive. You only have to look south from here to the Republic of Ireland and, for example, to my industry, television/media to see that 4-5M people does not enable you to compete effectively or have a stable base from which to work outwards. 63M constitutes a really good market from which to radiate.
2. Diversity strengthens, tribalism diminishes. Genetics makes this very clear.
3. If Scotland leaves the UK, by definition it becomes a competitor and although a neighbour, effectively only on the same basis as Ireland, Norway or France. Any business with a UK remit will no longer have any duty or strong rationale to buy from Scottish suppliers.
4. There's so much conflict and shit in the world, we need to find family and friendship, unity and co-operation wherever we can.
Here's hoping unity and being greater than the sum of our parts wins the day.
Update 06:08 19th September 2014
The voting results have reached their conclusion. We remain together, for which I'm grateful. My hopes are these:
That the incredible energy released by this exemplary exercise in peaceful democracy with its turnout of a standard-setting 86% is channelled into [Alex Salmond is just making making his speech of defeat as I write – he just used the words "at this stage" with reference to Scotland's decision, typifying once again his weasel nature, given his promise to respect the result] is channelled into making the future of Scotland an even greater success.
That Scotland with all that energy becomes a powerhouse alongside my own native London in driving this union forward.
That the massive issues facing our united kingdom of inequality and poor representation, the need for social justice and sustainable living get tackled by all our populations. As a lifelong non-Tory, non-Labour voter I've never had a vote that truly counted.
That we do not take one another for granted as nations and revel in our strength together.
Fuck 9/11
Another year, another day reclaiming my birth date.
I kicked off the day with a jog round St Pancras & Islington cemetery (at this juncture I'm the world expert on that place) listening to David Crosby on BBC Radio 4's Master Tapes, great stories from late 60s LAlaLand. I bought a copy of If I Could Only Remember My Name when I got back to the house, struck once again by the odd pricing of music these days – £7 for the MP3 album, £5 for the CD with free MP3s. I hope the Great Digital Rip-Off on books and music gets addressed before too long – you corporate feckers, you've got no manufacturing or distribution costs these days, do the right thing.
First food of the day – a blackberry off the bush on our fence.
First work of the day – looking at rough cut of Episode 2 of the short form series I've commissioned about Bez, Happy Monday and aspiring politician. This episode was shot in Portmeirion, famed for The Prisoner and suppression of freedom. They probably would have had fracking there if it had been invented. Needless to say this episode is called: I am not a Number.
Next a meeting at Temple tube with Steve Moore, former Channel 4 colleague and always good for a great chat. And this one was a humdinger! Better than a novel…
We went on to visit the Temple to discuss an interesting project of his for 2015. I got a private tour of the Temple Church, a location made popular in recent years thanks to Dan Brown, conducted by the very expert Robin Griffith-Jones, Master of the church, who explained the essence of the Magna Carta to me. I hadn't grasped he was the Master/some kind of vicar and took him at first as a trendy lawyer with a taste for round-collared shirts.
In the tradition of Video Arts (where are my royalties?) and other such learning there are a convenient three points to grasp:
- no taxation without representation
- equality in the face of the law / fair trials
- constitutional restraint / the monarch is not above the law
Pretty civilised – especially in contrast to the 9/11 fuckers and their 'values'.
The barons negotiated with King John (was not a bad man, he had his funny ways) in the safety of the church (Joe Public was keen to lynch KJ), a tough week of negotiations guided by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, evidently the hero of the day. They then all went up West and signed the mother (of all bills of rights).
Then into Channel 4 HQ for a meeting about Don't Stop the Music ("Give us yer focking instruments!" – Bob Geldof) ("petition donations here dontstopthemusic.co.uk" – Stephen Fry) – no, we mean it, give that old unused instrument of yours here and now.
Followed by a meeting with cake kindly provided by the gals at Antidote Media, a new indie (cake monetary value technically below declarable levels but sentimentally worthy of an entry on declaration of gifts).
In the evening went en famille to The Bald Headed Stag. That was a tip of the hat to my grandmother Rita who used it as the orientation point for all her car journeys regardless of where she was going. Nice drop of green gazpacho, a pint of Normandy cider, then back to ours for a family viewing of Educating the East End.
No nutters in the sky. A flawless day.
Hooley in Belfast (Day 75)
Writing this one in Terri Hooley's kitchen with Terri at the table sorting out his Facebook and emails. On the fridge door is a magnet saying "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king". The weird thing is that is from 4Talent, a Channel 4 talent development initiative I was in charge of establishing in my first years there. It couldn't have ended up in a more appropriate place after all these years (it must be a good five years old by now, more probably).
I spent the whole of Day 75 in Belfast with Terri, mainly at his Good Vibrations record store on North Street. I picked up a copy of Teenage Kicks there for a fiver. How could you not? – it was on the wall crying out to me. I also picked up a New Order LP with a Saville cover and not much by way of writing – no title or band name as was the Factory way, just FAC153 on the spine.
Terri took me on a tour of the area past the site of Wizard recording studio where Teenage Kicks among other Good Vibes things was recorded. We also went by the site of the Harp Bar, hub of Punk Belfast. We ended in the John Hewitt for a swift pint or three. I'd been there in the past, originally with Peter Logue, then Channel 4's Man in Northern Ireland, and later with Kev Largey aka KVLR, a (street) artist who I first met through 4Talent – then known as Ideasfactory Northern Ireland – and one of whose pieces appears in Terri's book Hooleygan.
We headed back to East Belfast to Van territory and Terri's place to do an interview which was quite revealing about the kind of person Terri is and therefore some of what fuelled his catalysing of Punk in Belfast, which proved to be an important act in the context of the bleak days of The Troubles. He has many things in common with Tony Wilson (and some key differences) but the political dimension and the urgency of need to provide an alternative were particular to Terri's situation and enabled him to help deliver the Needed Thing at the right time.
As we sat up late partaking of some grapejuice, listening to Stuart Bailie's show on Radio Ulster (with roots in John Peel), news came on about a failed incendiary device attack in Belfast city centre around the time we were in the Hewitt. Some eejit ended up setting himself on fire. Kingdom of the Blind.
Reading between the lines
Today's editorial in the Daily Mail [and some commentary]
An evil legacy ["evil": that familiar touch of religious irrationality] and why we won't apologise [welcome to the angry world where apology, change of mind, compromise and growth of understanding are not on the agenda]
By DAILY MAIL COMMENT [and Adam Gee Comment]
PUBLISHED: 00:11, 1 October 2013 | UPDATED: 11:48, 1 October 2013
Red Ed's [an improvement on Red Ken but still childish] in a strop with the Mail. Doubtless, [aren't these the Lynn Truss school of zero-tolerance language fascists? if so, why the comma?] he's miffed that his conference was overshadowed by the revelations of his former friend, the spin doctor Damian McBride, serialised in this paper, which exposed the poisonous heart of the Labour Party.
Nor did he see the funny side when we ridiculed the yucky, lovey-dovey [boarding school sexual hang-ups emerging] photographs of him and his wife, behaving like a pair of hormonal teenagers in need of a private room.
But what has made him vent his spleen — indeed, he has stamped his feet and demanded a right of reply — is a Mail article by Geoffrey Levy on Saturday about the Labour leader's late father, Ralph, under the arresting headline 'The Man Who Hated Britain'. [for "arresting" read 'bears little connection to the substance of the article' / 'attention grabbing' without the need to substantiate its meaning]
Of course, it was not the Mail that first drew the prominent Marxist sociologist Professor Ralph Miliband — a man who was not averse to publicity — into the public arena. This was the decision of his son who, for two years running, has told Labour conferences how his refugee father fled Nazi persecution to Britain. [we wouldn't want our politician's showing any humanity would we?]
More pertinent still, McBride argues that Miliband Jnr is obsessed with maintaining Ralph's legacy.
Winning the leadership, he writes, was Ed's 'ultimate tribute' to his father — an attempt to 'achieve his father's vision'. [The son has made it clear the father did not agree with his politics or have any love for New Labour.]
With this testimony before us, [undue weight on the testimony of a proven unscrupulous spin-merchant and a flimsy hook to hang a whole article like this on] from a former Labour spin doctor who knew Mr Miliband inside out, the Mail felt a duty [dishonourable behaviour dressed in fake duty and unmerited honour] to lay before our readers the father's vision that is said to have inspired our would-be next Prime Minister.
How can Ralph Miliband's vision be declared out of bounds for public discussion [no-one said that, it is the lie of the headline which is the problem – Ed Miliband explicitly stated in The Times (2/10/13): "It's legitimate for the Mail to talk about my father's politics"] — particularly since he spent his entire life attempting to convert the impressionable young to his poisonous creed? [nobody mention Viscount Rothermere here or his treacherous attempts to "convert the impressionable young to his poisonous creed"]
Today, we stand by every word we published on Saturday, from the headline to our assertion that the beliefs of Miliband Snr 'should disturb everyone who loves this country'.
In his tetchy and menacing response, which we publish in full on these pages, the Labour leader expresses just pride in his father's war record as a volunteer in the Royal Navy.
But he cites this, and his father's affection for his shipmates (which, as shown on these pages, was riven by class hatred), as if it were conclusive proof that he loved this country.
So how is it that shortly after his arrival in Britain, the 17-year-old Miliband senior had confided to his diary [the evidence of a teenage diary not in the child's mother tongue, a bit low and flimsy?]: 'The Englishman is a rabid nationalist. [The likes of Viscount Rothermere bear this out to a reasonable degree] They are perhaps the most nationalist people in the world . . . you sometimes want them almost to lose [the war] to show them how things are'? Isn't it permissible to surmise that a man who had expressed such views joined the Royal Navy not so much to fight for Britain as to fight, like the Soviet Union, against the Nazis? [It's permissible to surmise but surmising isn't worth a hill of beans.]
Yes, as his son argues, Mr Miliband Snr may have felt gratitude for the security, freedom and comfort he enjoyed in Britain.
But what is blindingly clear from everything he wrote throughout his life is that he had nothing but hatred [strong word – where do they get that from? Isn't it permissible for an academic in a democracy to question its institutions? We are talking about a country in a period where the Police have been proven to have lied on a mass scale over Hillsborough; the Journalists have been proven to have breached the privacy of all manner of citizens; the Members of Parliament have been proven to feather their own nests with public money; etc. etc.] for the values, traditions and institutions — including our great schools [that must mean the private ones e.g. 'One in four boys is labelled as having special educational needs as state schools rake in funds' (Mail headline 31 July 2013)], the Church [oh, is that this Church? 'Church of England to admit 'deep grief and shame' in an historic apology for child sex abuse' (Mail headline 6 July 2013)], the Army and even the Sunday papers [like The News of the World?] — that made Britain the safe and free nation in which he and his family flourished.
The constitutional monarchy, the bicameral legislature, property rights, common law . . . even 'respectability' and 'good taste' — all were anathema to this lifelong, unreconstructed Marxist who craved a workers' revolution.
Significantly, when he defended students for silencing a visiting speaker with whom they disagreed, he wrote: 'Freedom of speech is not always the overriding criterion.'
As for the Falklands war, our defence of British sovereignty so appalled him that it moved him to four-letter words of disgust.
At the London School of Economics, he was taught and heavily influenced by the extremist Left-winger Harold Laski, who said the use of violence was legitimate in British elections. One of his closest friends was Eric Hobsbawm (though, as we reported, at least Miliband wouldn't join his fellow Marxist in refusing to condemn Stalinism's mass murders or the brutal Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956). [According to Ralph Miliband's obituary in that known hothouse of left-wing views, The Times of London: "he was in no sense a rigid Marxist, never a member of the Communist Party and a strong anti-authoritarian"]
It is all too easy today to forget that Marxism supplied the philosophical underpinning to a monstrously evil regime.
Under Stalin's Communism, countless millions were murdered, tortured, starved to death, executed or sent to endure a sub-human existence in the gulags.
Religion, the family and the very spirit of the individual were brutally crushed. The arts, newspapers — justice itself — were ruthlessly controlled by the commissars.
Freedom of expression was purged. Even as late as the Seventies, dissidents were locked in mental asylums, while the Press was controlled by the State for another two decades.
Truly, Ralph Miliband and Hobsbawm were, in the withering phrase often attributed to Lenin, the 'useful idiots' who validated this most pernicious doctrine, which has spread poverty and misery wherever it has triumphed.
That's why the Mail — which is not Pravda — said that readers who love this country would be truly disturbed if they understood about Miliband's father's views.
We do not maintain, like the jealous God of Deuteronomy, [not so subtle Jewish reference] that the iniquity of the fathers should be visited on the sons. But when a son with prime ministerial ambitions swallows his father's teachings, as the younger Miliband appears to have done [no evidence, in fact signs to the contrary], the case is different.
Indeed, his son's own Marxist values can be seen all too clearly in his plans for state seizures of private land held by builders and for fixing energy prices by government diktat. [better to let them get fixed by fakely competitive semi-monopolies and cartel-like behaviour, with a bit of mis-selling and deliberate obfuscation of pricing thrown in for good measure?]
More chillingly, the father's disdain for freedom of expression can be seen in his son's determination to place the British Press under statutory control. [ah, so that's what this is all really about…]
Next week the Privy Council, itself an arm of the state, will meet to discuss plans — following a stitch-up with Hacked Off over late-night pizzas [the Mail must be miffed they didn't have the obligatory Byron burgers] in Mr Miliband's office — for what will ultimately be a politically controlled body to oversee what papers are allowed to publish.
Put to one side that Mr Miliband's close involvement with degenerates [the degenerate whose testimony is the rationale for this whole article? "degenerate" "entartet" a good Nazi word] such as Damian McBride gives him scant right to claim the moral high ground on anything.
If he crushes the freedom of the Press, no doubt his father will be proud of him from beyond the grave, where he lies 12 yards from the remains of Karl Marx.
But he will have driven a hammer [a bit too blunt?] and sickle through the heart of the nation so many of us ["us" – now there's a poser] genuinely love. [hate masquerading as love – the essence of the Mail]
Honest Serving People
The debate about Syria and the use of chemical weapons as conducted in the UK and beyond these last few days has been marked by lack of clarity and thoroughness in the thinking. In such circumstances it never hurts to fall back on Kipling's Six Honest Serving Men to make sure you have the basics addressed:
I KEEP six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
- What happened in Syria last week? Were chemical weapons used?
- Who used them?
- What can be done about it?
- Who should carry out the response? Where is it most in the national interest to get involved?
- How will military action help?
- What will happen as a result? And when will it end?
I've traded in my Why for an extra What because the Why is very complex in itself: Why should we respond to the use of Chemical Weapons? Why do we distinguish them from say cluster bombing? Why do the current lead voices reckon they have moral authority when they have used napalm, agent orange, white phosphorus, depleted uranium and the like themselves, even in recent times?
I have a strong conviction, for these and other reasons, that any action to be taken, diplomatic/political or military, needs to be multilateral, preferably through the UN. Whether the United Nations Security Council is up to the job will be tested again. With two major powers who seem to conduct their foreign affairs consistently with no moral dimension it's a body which really needs to justify its existence. It would be good to find a way to get Russia and China to actually suggest solutions. Likewise it would be good to put a bit more of the onus on the Arab League to see if they can contribute something positive to the world.
In the meantime I'd strongly encourage UK citizens to make their views clearly known by writing to their Member of Parliament via MySociety's brilliant Write to Them service, the easiest way to get an email off to your elected representative in a matter of moments.
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"Living Breakwaters" took the grand prize of the 2014 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, considered to be the highest award for social impact design. Designed by a multidisciplinary team led by SCAPE / Landscape Architecture, Living Breakwaters uses an "Oyster-tecture" ecological intervention concept to help create resiliency for coastal cities. As its starting point, the project uses the Northeastern Seaboard of the U.S., which suffered heavy damage from Hurricane Sandy. — bustler.net
Kate Orff of SCAPE will accept the Fuller Challenge prize and the US$100,000 cash award on behalf of the winning team at The Wythe in Brooklyn, NY on November 20.The SCAPE team is composed of: SCAPE/LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE with Parsons Brinckerhoff, Dr. Philip Orton / Stevens Institute of... View full entry »
The next edition of the prestigious Buckminster Fuller Challenge has already begun! Every year, the highly competitive international challenge searches for the most inventive -- and effective -- holistic solution strategies to the world's most pressing problems. The Challenge Review Committee selected 20 semi-finalist initiatives out of 450 proposals worldwide. Each project went through three rounds of rigorous evaluations. — bustler.net
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In the past few weeks, the Buckminster Fuller Institute has been introducing numerous finalist entries for the sixth annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge [...].
Today now, the BFI announced the overall challenge winner: Ecovative, a Green Island, NY-based materials science company that has developed a new class of home-compostable bio-plastics based on living organisms, mushroom mycelia — a high-performing, environmentally responsible alternative to traditional plastic materials. — bustler.net
The 'mushroom material' inventors, Eben Bayer, Gavin McIntyre, and the Ecovative Team, will be awarded the $100,000 cash prize at a ceremony at Cooper Union in New York City on November 18, 2013. Previously: Announcing the 2013 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Finalists View full entry »
The Buckminster Fuller Institute announced the finalists for the 2013 Buckminster Fuller Challenge today. Out of 19 semi-finalists--who we previously covered back in August--the distinguished Jury selected the top five after a day of deliberation on Oct. 7. — bustler.net
Previously: 2013 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Semi-finalists announced UPDATE: 'Mushroom Plastics' initiative Ecovative wins 2013 Buckminster Fuller Challenge View full entry »
It's that time of year when we announce the semi-finalists for this year's Buckminster Fuller Challenge from the Buckminster Fuller Institute. [...]
Each of the 19 projects represent a collective body of work including whole systems solutions and targeted efforts that address pressing global issues in sanitation, materials, water, energy, disaster prevention, poverty, food and ecology. — bustler.net
UPDATE: 'Mushroom Plastics' initiative Ecovative wins 2013 Buckminster Fuller Challenge View full entry »
The Buckminster Fuller Institute has published 103 entries to this year's Buckminster Fuller Challenge in the IDEA INDEX— BFI's ever growing repository of whole systems solutions to the world's most pressing problems. Entries were submitted from all parts of the world— the US, the UK, India, China, the Sahel, the Arctic, South Africa, Rwanda, Barbados, Haiti, and Afghanistan, among others. — bustler.net
Blue Ventures, a conservation organization that simultaneously protects marine environments while improving the standard of living in some of the world's poorest coastal communities, has been named the winner of the 2011 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. The London based non-profit, which validates the bio-economic viability of conservation, was awarded $100,000 to further develop and scale up its work. — bustler.net
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Film: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
He looks like the villain of a melodrama – moustache-twirling, cane-sporting – who got really into a biography of Dali. He acts like a particularly spoilt 8 year-old. And he's so foppish that even an 18th century dandy would advise him to butch up a bit, dude, seriously. There's much to love in Brody's baddie, in other words, as he skirts the edge of tantrum in his quest to keep his grubby hands on the entirety of his late mother's fortune. That he is backed up by three black-clad, utterly silent sisters straight out of The Addams Family only adds to his sense of weirdness.
Film: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Even by the standards of the Tenenbaum family, Chas is neurotic. To call him highly strung would be unfair to violins, in fact, since he's hiding a lifetime of anger, abandonment and grief beneath his red tracksuit and referee's whistle. "I wasn't worried about trying to make it funny," said Stiller of the role. "I was more concerned that in every scene he's so angry and I wanted, somehow, for people to be able to connect with him on some level. It's about trying to understand where his anger is coming from." By the end, of course, you do, with Chas joining the ranks of Anderson blowhards to admit their emotional weaknesses.
Film: The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)
Some might pick Latin crooner and maritime safety bod Pelé dos Santos (Seu Jorge) – and he does do a fine Portuguese 'Queen Bitch' – while others could single out perma-peckish frogman Bobby Ogata, but our first Life Aquatic MVP is the Belafonte's "physicist and original score composer", Vladimir Wolodarsky. Named after Simpsons' writer (and Fantastic Mr. Fox cast member) Wallace Wolodarsky, he's a former substitute teacher – true to his itinerant spirit, he never quite locked down one school to call his own – who enlisted for Team Zissou as its Casio-equipped composer and the most hapless sonar man this side of the Titanic. We love him for his shy charm and the fact that, on his upper lip at least, it's Movember all year round.
Film: The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
When Anjelica Huston appears in a Wes Anderson movie it's generally to provide the voice of sweet reason amid the utter chaos caused by her families, the eye of a swirling storm of neurosis and self-destruction, and Sister Patricia is no exception. The three Brothers Whitman finally visit their mother after their reunion aboard the Darjeeling Limited goes thoroughly wrong (deadly snakes, disastrous love affairs, drug use – you name it) and she somehow provides succour for what ails them, from Francis' suicidal depression to Peter's ambivalence towards his impending fatherhood. This comes despite her attempts to delay their visit that include a transparently false tale of a man-eating tiger that turns out to be absolutely true. Patricia, in the end, isn't quite so unfeeling as her air of serenity might suggest.


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What they trust in is fragile; what they rely on is a spider's web.
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My six year old grandson and I have been reading Charlotte's Web together. He's been fascinated with spiders and spider webs. Their intricate patterns with purpose yet very delicate, destroyed with a falling leaf or sudden gust of wind. At the same time spider's webs can be deceptively strong, clinging, entangling, difficult to extract oneself from once encountered.
In a recent radio program I heard reported that two-thirds of Americans don't trust one another. Not only that, they think it's dangerous to put their trust in someone else. It seems as if we are becoming a society that is grounded less in spirituality and more in consumerism. Trusting tablets, televisions, video games to bring us peace and fill the void. I can't help but think of these things as spider webs, attractive, clinging, but neither supportive nor life giving but life-taking. And yet in "things we trust." Or so it would seem as we spend our dollars, thinking this will show our families how much we love them or worse show how much value we have in what we buy.
When I think on the times that I have been most blessed, felt most valued and cherished it has been when someone has placed their trust in me. Trusting me with a confidence, a fear, a shared hope. Opening their heart in my presence and trusting I will hold it with great care. That trust is the most amazing gift I have ever known. And it's scary, to keep that trust, to want desperately not to fail, to not want to cause harm or betray that trust. But stepping forward boldly and holding that trust with equal vulnerability.
As I reflect on advent this season, I can't help but think about the miracle of trust. How did Mary trust her experience of the visitation? How did Joseph trust what he had heard? I can only imagine how hard it would have been as they began to share with friends and neighbors. The comments, the gossip, relationships they trusted, tested and perhaps failed. But yet they placed their trust in a higher place and were willing to be vulnerable in sharing that trust. They knew that in being vulnerable one can be hurt. And theirs was not an easy or painless life.
What would our life look like if we placed our trust in God, owning that in the vulnerability of giving our trust to others we will most likely be hurt? But also, we may experience that graced gift of returned trust, acceptance and love, sharing with one another our willingness to be vulnerable and love.
Civil rights leader Vincent Harding recently said in an interview on NPR's program On Being, "It's going to be generations before that really comes to fruition. Not just generations, but working generations. Commitment to give ourselves fully and deeply to the task of creating something new, not just assuming that by sitting around the new is going to come. Only as we, strengthened by the grace of God, say there must be something new and we must help to embody it and to create it."
And that requires trust, the miracle of trusting in the movement of the Holy Spirit, the miracle of trusting in one another and a willingness to see that as strength not the weakness of a spider's web. As Mary and Joseph waited, they also gave themselves fully, deepening that trust with God and one another. In this time of waiting for the miracle, how have you trusted? Where have you been willing to step boldly, making something new from the gift we were given?
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Comparison of Femtosecond Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery to Conventional Phacoemulsification Cataract Surgery
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In this project, the investigators aim to compare the safety, efficacy, and predictability outcomes of conventional CEIOL surgery to Femtosecond-laser-assisted CEIOL (FLACS) in an effort to improve cataract surgery outcomes. The investigators hypothesis is that FLACS may lead to preservation of endothelial cells compared to conventional CE IOL.
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|Comparison of Femtosecond Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery to Conventional Phacoemulsification Cataract Surgery on Corneal Endothelial Cell Loss
- endothelial cell density three months after conventional CEIOL or FLACS compared to baseline [ Time Frame: up to 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]endothelial cell density will be compared at baseline and three months after a patient undergoes FLACS or Conventional CE IOL to see which technique causes less endothelial cell loss.
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|August 2016
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|May 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Patients who undergo routine cataract surgery using conventional phacoemulsification technique
Patients who undergo femtosecond laser assisted cataract surgery
Detailed Description:
This study will only include patients who are eligible to undergo cataract surgery. All patients will receive treatment that is FDA approved for cataract surgery. Because all study participants will have been scheduled for elective cataract extraction regardless of their participation in this study, there will be little or no additional surgical risk associated with participation. A total of 720 patients are expected to be enrolled in the study during a period of 2 years. The investigators will recruit patients with bilateral operable cataracts. One eye will undergo cataract surgery using conventional cataract extraction technique including phacoemulsification whereas the second eye will undergo FLACS. No significant increased risk to the patient is expected in either arm of the study compared to routine cataract surgery. The patients will be examined as per previous post-operative cataract surgery guidelines on POD1, POW1, POM1, POM3, POM6, POY1 and POY2. The only treatment difference will take place at the time of the cataract surgery. Post-operatively, endothelial cell count will be obtained by the no-touch technology of specular microscopy at baseline as well as three months after surgery. If the study ends prematurely, the investigators do not anticipate any significant change in the care of the patient.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 90 Years
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Patients who present to our center with visually significant cataract and who may benefit from cataract surgery
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients older than 18 years of age
- Ability to understand and sign an informed consent
- Visually significant cataract eligible to undergo cataract extraction by phacoemulsification with primary intraocular lens implantation in at least 1 eye
- Ability and commitment to follow up for 18 months after surgery
- No other ocular pathology and no previous/concurrent surgery
Exclusion Criteria:
- Any other ocular pathology that may affect best-corrected visual acuity
- Previous or concurrent ocular surgery
- Subjects who are pregnant, lactating, or planning to be pregnant during the course of the study.
- Patients with keratoconus or keratectasia
- Patients who are blind on one eye
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02096627
|Contact: Yassine Daoud, MD
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|Johns Hopkins University
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|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21044
|Principal Investigator: YASSINE DAOUD, MD
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|yassine daoud, md
|Johns Hopkins University
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|Yassine Daoud, Asst Prof Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University
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|Study First Received:
|March 16, 2014
|Last Updated:
|March 23, 2014
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Keywords provided by Johns Hopkins University:
Cataract, femtosecond laser, FLACS
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Corneal Endothelial Cell Loss
Corneal Diseases
Eye Diseases
Lens Diseases
Pathologic Processes
Postoperative Complications
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As vocations go, sitting down, staring at a screen a lot and tapping some keys appears to offer little in the way of danger. The occasional repetitive strain injury and moderate poverty aside, the life of a writer would appear one of circumspection and safety. And for many, I suppose it is. You study your craft diligently, then reproduce your own story by way of pastiche, or if you've an ounce of originality, as derivation. This is all fair enough. It's what we're told to do: learn from the best and mimic their techniques and style to achieve the same end.
But will this risk-free approach truly satisfy the artist in you? More importantly, will you stand out from the slush pile? Probably not. It saddens me when I read a story so heavily influenced by a great writer of the past that it becomes indistinguishable (with the exception of being inferior). Of course other people's work will have shaped your own aesthetic output; the way I know a piece of writing is good, is that I immediately start to wish that I'd written it. I don't mean this in an arrogant sense, in that I could have written it, just that my admiration for it comes from being a writer first and a reader second. But as someone who reads hundreds of submitted stories, I crave writing that's brave, that's taken a risk. I might get a beautifully crafted piece of writing, workshopped to within an inch of its life, boxes all ticked, structurally perfect. But at no time do I forget I'm reading; the writer has taken not one chance, and it likely gets rejected.
So what are these risks I'm talking about? Well, finding your own style for a start, a voice that's shaped by your own experiences, not one that blithely imitates or produces formulaic prose. Playing with structure and style is important, though I'm not advocating being experimental for its own sake and at the expense of quality. But it's the substance I'm talking about here. Yes, you're telling a story, but as a writer, I'd hope you were illuminating a truth about the world and the beautiful, fragile, foolish, remarkable and terrible people in it. And revealing this truth involves taking risks. There's the risk of looking inside yourself in order to write about something, and not particularly liking what you find. Been there, done that one. There's the risk of offending people, of producing work you know people close to you won't enjoy or respect. But (and I'm really only talking about literary fiction here) you're not in this, I'd hope, to make friends. There's the risk that you might spend an entire year or two trying to capture the essence of this truth, only to fail.
It's all a gamble, but you can improve your odds.
As someone once commented here, try to 'write drunk', without contrivance or even control. Learn to trust what's inside and let it spew out, whatever it might be. I mentioned before about writing one page a day with the strict promise that you'll destroy it before anyone sees it, which can be liberating. Write down what really scares you, those thoughts nobody else knows, and this will echo into the next time you compose some fiction.
Try not to predict what will be selling in a year or two, or what you think agents or publishers want to read. Tell your story. Trust what you have to say, and remember you're in this for the long haul.


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Synonyms: 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate:dUMP C-methyltransferase activity, dTMP synthase activity, methylenetetrahydrofolate:dUMP C-methyltransferase activity, thymidylate synthetase activity, TMP synthetase activity
Definition: Catalysis of the reaction: 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate + dUMP = 7,8-dihydrofolate + thymidylate.
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GO:0042083 - 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate-dependent methyltransferase activity
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thymidylate synthase (thyA)
Unification Links: GO:0004799
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