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Singer Carly Simon turns 78 in 143 days
June 25 is the day we celebrate the birthday of Singer Carly Simon. Carly Simon was born in New York City, New York, U.S. in 1945. Carly Simon is 77 years old today and celebrates the next birthday in 143 days. Watch the video and save the date!
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Sh!t Theatre Present: Sh!t Theatre's JSA (Job Seekers Anonymous)
By Anna Reid
While not the slickest show this side of the Royal Mile, Sh!it Theatre’s Job Seekers Anonymous was definitely something extraordinary. Though advertised under cabaret, the show is essentially two young women explaining the flaws in the current employment market and the injustices in the benefit system. Don’t start yawning, I promise it works - somehow.
The charming thing about the show is that you can tell how genuinely angry and frustrated these girls are; this is the way a lot of us feel about the economic lot we’ve been handed and now have to go out and live with. Whether this show would appeal so much to non-students is questionable, but for someone poised on the edge of the real world it is very relatable. A song where they narrate their lifetime ambitions was especially effective: ‘When I was 18 I wanted to be a West End actress. When I was 22 I wanted to get off the dole.’
Despite tripping over the set and themselves, Sh!t Theatre threw in several moments of what has to be called physical theatre. They combined a song about the prevalence and inequity of unpaid internships with a circus act that involved Internship Girl jumping through flying hula hoops. This and other musical numbers were the highlights of the show and could have easily been utilised more. When someone has enough skill to sing songs about politicians’ dead kids and fashionable burqas then they should really make the most of it.
The performance was overall solid if scatty - I pitied their stage manager as they tore their costumes apart and repeatedly tripped over the set. Both costumes and set seemed unnecessary and simply hampered two excellent performers. However, the stage covered with ripped up newspaper, as with the whole show, might well prove more poignant for young people than others; like the performers, they are facing a future where a degree that was going to open doors seems now to be so much scrap paper.
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Instgram Reels video app to launch in August
Tech-savvy real estate professionals will be interested to learn that Facebook is launching a new app to take on TikTok. The app is called Instagram Reels, and like TikTok will be a video platform that enables users to create short, interactive clips with musical soundtracks.
A large number of real estate pros already use social media on a daily basis to communicate with clients and market themselves. Popular platforms include Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram, and the National Association of Realtors’ 2020 Member Profile, which surveyed NAR realtors, found that many believe those platforms generate plenty of new business for them.
Instagram Reels is similar to TikTok, which is another platform that’s already proved to be a hit with real estate pros. TikTok is especially popular with teens and young adults, and as such it’s a great platform for professionals looking to target that often neglected market.
Facebook said Instagram Reels is now being piloted in Brazil, France, Germany and India, and will come online in the U.S. early next month.
“The community in our test countries has shown so much creativity in short-form video, and we’ve heard from creators and people around the world that they’re eager to get started as well,” a Facebook spokesperson said.
Instagram Reels will feature several video editing tools, including a countdown timer and other tools that can adjust video speed and playback. Users will be able to create and post 15-second video clips set to music or other audio in the background, just as they can with TikTok. Instagram Reels will connect to the regular Instagram apps, so users can share their videos with followers on Instagram too.
Facebook is speeding up Instagram Reels launch as TikTok continues to face increased scrutiny. India recently banned the app, while in the U.S., the Trump administration has threatened a similar ban, citing reasons related to national security and the app’s ties to China.
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George Clooney, Amal Clooney Agreed to Adopt Twins? Ticket to Paradise Actor Allegedly Regrets Not Meeting His Wife a Decade Earlier
George Clooney and Amal Clooney allegedly will adopt a set of twins.
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George Clooney and Amal Clooney have been married for eight years. Two years after tying the knot, they welcomed their twins, Alexander and Ella. Now that the youngsters are 6 years old, there are rumors claiming that the Clooneys are finally ready to expand their family.
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According to New Idea, George Clooney and Amal Clooney agreed to adopt a set of twins. Since they have been sponsoring children in war-torn countries like Syria, the couple knows how important it is to give every child a permanent home.
"It's a no-brainer to adopt. It's something they both feel very strongly about. It's another way of making a difference in the world. They see the joy that adoption brings. This is something they have been talking about for some time," the source said.
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The source added that George and Amal know that adopting twin babies could be challenging. So, if this will not happen for them, the couple allegedly is open to bringing home a set of siblings.
"If it's not newborn twins, they're also open to adopting siblings. But for now, they're tempering their expectations and grateful for whatever comes their way. It's a very exciting time for the family. Even George can't hide it," the source said.
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George, who is 61 years old, allegedly wants time to stop so that he can see his twins grow up. And if he has one regret, that is he didn't meet his wife a decade earlier. This way, they could've been blessed with more children naturally.
"George wants time to stop; that's how happy he is being a dad. Adding to their family is going to keep the magic of those younger preschool days alive as the twins start focusing on their educations. He absolutely loves fatherhood and his only regret is now meeting Amal a decade sooner. They would have had a brood the size of a football team," the source said.
Last year, a source told Us Weekly that George and Amal are happy with having two children. However, it's a never say never situation for the couple.
During his interview with The Guardian, George revealed that he and his wife are very hands-on with their children despite their busy schedules. In fact, they only have nannies at home for four days a week.
"We have a nanny four days a week and the rest of the time it's just us. And during the lockdown, it was just us – for a full year! I felt like my mother in 1964, doing dishes and six loads of laundry a day," he said.
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Founder of TikTok owner ByteDance steps down as chairman as Chinese tech execs quit day-to-day roles
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GUANGZHOU, China — ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has stepped down as chairman, as the company continues to reorganize its business, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told CNBC.
ByteDance owns TikTok, the wildly popular short-video app.
Zhang announced his resignation as the CEO of ByteDance in May and said he would move into a strategy role this year.
Liang Rubo, who took over as CEO, will now also take up the role as chairman.
ByteDance declined to comment when contacted by CNBC.
The move comes after a huge reorganization at ByteDance this week. Shou Zi Chew, who joined ByteDance as CFO from smartphone maker Xiaomi in March, will step down from his role as finance chief to focus full time on his other job as CEO of TikTok.
The Beijing-headquartered firm has also created six business units to focus on different areas from gaming to enterprise software.
When Zhang announced his plans to step down as CEO in May, he said in a note to employees that he believed someone else can “better drive progress through areas like improved daily management.”
“The truth is, I lack some of the skills that make an ideal manager,” he said at that time.
ByteDance was caught in the geopolitical crosshairs last year after the administration of President Donald Trump dubbed the company a national security threat and tried to force it to sell its U.S. operations. That did not happen in the end.
ByteDance’s reorganization comes after a number of reshuffles at Chinese companies in which founders have stepped back from their day-to-day duties.
Last week, Su Hua, the co-founder of TikTok rival Kuaishou stepped down as CEO but stayed on as chairman. And in September, Richard Liu, the founder of e-commerce giant JD.com, stepped back from day-to-day operations to focus on the company’s long-term strategy.
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Monday and Tuesday after Low Sunday
Hocktide follows the celebrations of the Octave of Easter, and was a period of horseplay and insincerity after feasting, which itself followed the sombre time of Lent. Throughout the Middle Ages, Hock Monday, or Hock Eve, marked the first day of Hocktide and was followed by Hock Day, which was also known as Hock Tuesday. Both days were holidays from work for the working classes, which were few and far between, though Hock Day itself was a payment day for rents due.
The inspiration behind Hocktide appears to be a celebration of victories over the Danes by the Saxons at the beginning of the second millennium. The main connection is the massacre of the Danes, which was a large-scale national act of murder ordered by King Æthelred the Unready that took place on 13 November 1002. As a retaliation to frequent coastal raids, every Dane in England was killed. A mere fourteen years later, in 1016, Cnut the Great won the kingdom of England. Perhaps best known for the apocryphal tale of ordering the tide to go back despite knowing his orders were futile, thereby demonstrating the limits of his power to his courtiers and proving his own fallibility, Canute ruled over England and then passed the throne to his son, King Harthacnut. The last Dane to rule England, Harthacnut, or Canute III, died on 8 June 1042. Neither of these dates match that of Hock Day, though through folklore both are connected to it. Hocktide was seen as a celebration of victory over Danish oppression by the people of the time.
The Hock, or Hock Tyde, was held on Monday and Tuesday fortnight after Easter: Monday for men and Tuesday for women, when they stretched a rope across the road, intercepting all passengers, and made them pay tribute.
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Both days of Hocktide consisted of flirtatious horseplay, fundraising, and general silliness. On Hock Monday, tradition held that men would bind or tie women with rope, then demand a kiss or money in return for their release. On Hock Tuesday the roles would switch, with women catching men instead. Ropes would be drawn across highways, which restricted the freedom of passage that was legally assigned to the King’s highways, stopping travellers. Those who were held up by the rope, and of the designated sex of the day, would pay with money or kisses for their release. The coins collected during Hocktide were donated to the fabric funds for local parish churches, and it has been documented that women raised considerably more money than men. There were regional variations which mainly involved the roles being reversed on each day, so men were caught on Hock Monday and women on Hock Tuesday, though the records of this were mostly written after the fact, as opposed to the contemporary documentation which follows that women ruled on Hock Day. There is also some contention that the entire two days of Hocktide was less amusing than it was portrayed, with the linking of kisses in kind in lieu of payment to the collecting of rent, and it is possible the festival itself grew as an ironic ridiculing of and rebellion against the actions of predatory landlords.
Hocktide was banned by Henry VIII, though it continued to take place informally throughout the country and was known as Rope Monday and Binding Tuesday. It was eventually restored to the national calendar by Elizabeth I, but later fell out of favour. By the Victorian era, Hocktide was long passed, with the only surviving celebrations taking place in Hungerford, Berkshire, where Hock Tuesday is known as Tutti Day. In Hungerford, Tutti Men are elected by the Hocktide Council to go door to door throughout the town collecting rent money or kisses. The Tutti Men carry Tutti Poles—wooden staffs topped with flowers and oranges—and are accompanied by the Town Crier and an entourage who distribute oranges to visited households.
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Sigmund Shortle August 26, 2021 1 min read
Seven countries and territories have been added to the UK travelers’ “green list” – countries you can travel to without being quarantined on your return, regardless of immunization. Contrary to media speculation, Poland is not in this group.
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Canada, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores have been added to the list.
In turn, Montenegro and Thailand were moved to the “red list”, that is, countries whose return you have to undergo a paid quarantine in one of the hotels indicated by the authorities.
After the changes to take effect Monday morning, 43 countries and regions will be on the “green list”, although some are small or hard to reach, while the “red” list will include 62 countries.
All others, including Poland and most European countries are on the “yellow list”.
In addition, from August 2, fully vaccinated people in the European Union, EFTA countries (Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) and the United States, as well as Andorra, Monaco and the Vatican, can come to the UK without being quarantined.
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We are going to take a look at some of the Monday Night Football prop bets involving the key figures who will influence the outcome, as the Kansas City Chiefs play host to the New York Giants. They come from BetAnySports, and it would be well worth your while to check out Prop Builder, which makes your wagering much more exciting by presenting dozens and dozens and dozens of different angles for you to bet on.
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Daniel Jones — Passing Yards
Over 253.5 yards – 114
Under 253.5 yards -114
We’ll be honest with you; Jones has an average of a little under 247 yards per game. That is below this number, obviously, but when you factor in how bad the Chiefs defense has been, it might make sense to figure he could exceed it.
Kansas City is in a position where only six teams in the NFL have yielded more yardage through the air, and even though New York may not have a full set of offensive weapons, this could work for them.
We say that especially if they’ve got Kadarius Toney in the game. But remember another thing — If you’re expecting Kansas City to score a whole bunch of points, then the Giants will most likely be playing catch-up, and that means the ground game – or whatever there is of it – will be further minimized. OVER
Darrell Williams – Rushing Yards
Over 60.5 yards – 114
Under 60.5 yards – 114
Well, Williams has 181 yards in 52 attempts this season. Obviously that’s not super-productive, as he comes in just below 3.5 yards per carry. Since the Chiefs are missing Clyde Edwards-Helaire, Williams will be the #1 option in the rushing game.
But how much will the Chiefs really run the ball? Last week’s game, a 27 – 3 loss to Tennessee, may not have been much of a barometer, although they did throw 51 times compared to just 15 rushes. But BetAnySports over the last three games, Kansas City has run the ball less than 28% of the time. So we would go UNDER here, as we don’t expect Williams to be a major factor taking handoffs.
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Travis Kelce – Receiving Yards
One of the things defenses have been doing with Kansas City is playing two safeties deep, in order to minimize explosive plays. They’re not blitzing — in fact, Mahomes is only seen a blitz on 10.7% of his dropbacks — but there are a lot of people back in coverage. Unless he’s going to improvise, we would figure that Kelce, the All-Pro tight end, would be a pretty good short-range target for him. So we are going OVER on this one.
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We thought we’d take a shot with this one, although no one is 100% certain whether Toney will play. But he can be a very big factor if he does. This is a guy who has exhibited moves that indicate he could be a lot like Odell Beckham in terms of his impact on the Giants offense. And just a little more than eight quarters of play, he had over 300 yards in receptions, until he had to leave the game with the Rams a couple of weeks ago with an ankle injury. He’s been practicing, and if he plays, he could be dangerous. So this might not be a bad price, assuming, of course, that the Giants are in a position where they can get on the board first.
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Turkish opposition backs exit from NATO – media
Turks increasingly perceive the US as a threat and Russia as a friend, vice-chair of Vatan Party Ethem Sancak argues
Türkiye could leave NATO within months, a politician there has claimed, citing “provocations” by the US-led military bloc against his nation. Ethem Sancak is a Turkish businessman of Arab descent who is active in politics and who local media describe as close to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
He was commenting on an anti-NATO campaign in Türkiye that the Vatan (Patriotic) Party, where he holds the position of vice chairman for foreign relations, has organized.
“NATO forces us to take these actions with their provocations,” he stated, predicting that his party’s goal of getting Türkiye to leave the alliance may come to fruition “in five-to-six months.”
Speaking to the news website enbursa.com on Tuesday, Sancak noted that being part of the bloc puts Türkiye on a collision course with fellow member and longtime rival Greece, and also at risk of being pulled “into a whirlpool in the Middle East.” The recent Koran-burning stunts in some European nations make leaving NATO “a necessity,” he argued.
The Danish-Swedish right-wing politician and activist Rasmus Paludan staged a protest last weekend in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, which involved the burning of the holy book of Islam. The incident sparked outrage in the Muslim world, while the Turkish president said Stockholm’s choice to permit the action meant that Ankara would not support Sweden’s request to join NATO.
Sancak said that Turks were increasingly perceiving the US as a nation that pursues “the most hostile and destructive policies.” At the same time they “feel great sympathy towards Russia.”
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A survey conducted by the Turkish pollster Gezici at the end of last year showed that 72.8% of Turks wanted their nation to have good relations with Russia. Less than a quarter said they believed Moscow to be hostile towards Türkiye.
Omer Celik, the spokesman for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), rejected the idea, which he called “mind-blowing.” Türkiye is among NATO’s oldest members, and people calling for its exit are “talking about destroying” the bloc, he told journalists on Wednesday.
The Vatan Party believes that Türkiye would be better off if it dropped its attempts to become a member of the EU and forged good relations with China and Russia instead. It also advocates overcoming differences with Iran and Syria, nations that the US is targeting with crippling sanctions and other forms of pressure.
Sancak joined the Vatan Party last year, though his involvement in politics goes back decades to his days as a university student and activist. His business interests include pharmaceuticals and cosmetics as well as media, with the TV channel 360 and the daily newspaper Star among his best-known acquisitions.
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Oakley, Paul: Out Of The Ashes
There is a wealth of instrumental guitarist out there. Some get it right and many, many never do. It takes much more than the ability to shred or run the fretboard as fast as humanly possible to create music that gets into your soul. So many forget that this it is still about the melody and not a solo extended out for 3 or 4 minutes. When the artist gets it right it is as if a magical landscape explodes in your head from the sounds that are being sent there through your ears. Music can be a medium that makes you use more than your audio senses. It can make you look at things differently. It can touch you in ways nothing else can. When the artist is spot on with his instrument there is nothing in this world that will affect you in the same way.
All that is to prepare you for the dynamics of an artist I have never had the pleasure of hearing before but have found to be a guy that can depict the world we live in and the feelings that we have through the interpretation of his surroundings and his dreams using his six string. The pen might be mightier than the sword but Paul Oakley proves that the guitar can be mightier than any writing instrument known to man at creating a story or painting a picture. Here on this disc he gives you 11 interpretations of things going on in his life and our lives as well. From the melodramatic to the whimsical, Oakley delivers an instrumental tour de force.
Paul tells me that his first influence was Ritchie Blackmore and after that Gary Moore and David Gilmour. I guess you could say the "more" the merrier no matter how you spell it. He also mentioned that Uli Jon Roth and Jan Cyrka among his favorite guitarist too. While I hate to really compare Paul as he has a very unique sound but he reminds me more of the Joe Satriani, Gary Hoey and Rod DeGeorge school where the music is more about melody and painting vivid pictures with his playing. This album is not about riffs, it is about storytelling and the ability to create a tale with his music.
Take the first song "One Last Ride" that is as he describes it about selling his motorcycle and taking it out for the last time. When you hear the sound of the bike being fired up at the start it is just a prelude to a song that takes you out on the highway for a breathtaking ride. You can close your eyes and just envision the miles flying by as the music takes you for a two wheeled ride of a lifetime. You can feel the wind as he cranks the throttle and blazes off into the sunset.
From there he takes you to the whimsical world that cats live in with "Cattitude". As far as pets go, cats are the ones that have the most attitude and this tune captures it perfectly. This song shows the way that Paul paints with his music as you can just see a cat rolling around with a ball of yarn or batting the mouse toy.
This journey that Oakley takes you on is one that hits upon many different emotions along the way. The beautiful "Hand In Hand" really exudes love while the song "Out Of The Ashes" is full of hope. "Freefall" is all about excitement and you will have a deep respect for history and the finality of death with the majestic "The Last Pharaoh". Oakley is able to pull such feelings from his instrument. Luckily we are here to benefit from his ability.
It is not often you will find an artist of such extreme talent. Both in his playing and his songwriting, Oakley is superb. By the time you get to the last song "Final Sunset" you will be drained by the pure magic that he has put on this disc.
If I have any criticism at all it would have to be the booklet that comes with the CD. May I suggest, listen to this a few times before opening it up as Paul gives you a description of what the songs were written about. This does keep me from asking the question of him about the meanings but I also found that it made me think of the songs through his eyes. It is kind of like knowing the whole plot to a movie before seeing it. Maybe it is just me but I like to listen and then try to figure out what the artist is trying to say.
This is what instrumental music is supposed to be, something that you feel as well as hear. Few can pull it off but Paul Oakley does and what he has put out for you is one magical disc that gets into the soul. This is one that you should not just own but treasure for not many will come along like it.
1. One Last Ride
2. Cattitude
3. Hand In Hand
4. Out Of The Ashes
5. Freefall
6. The Last Pharaoh
7. Always
8. Driving Me Crazy
9. Race Against Time
10. Always(Reprise)
11. Final Sunset
Added: September 22nd 2010
Reviewer: Scott Ward
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BMI Icopal hot melt provides great result for sports area
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Pupils at a South East London school can now enjoy sport at height thanks to the timely completion of a rooftop ‘multi-use games area’ or MUGA. Flat roof specialist Byford Roofing tackled the job knowing that the installation was complex and demanding but also that the schedule was tight.
Byford chose BMI Icopal’s Parabit Holt Melt Duo that it applied to the concrete deck of the roof. Over that went a layer of inverted insulation and paving slabs ready to receive the MUGA pitch finish. “I chose Parabit because it’s a system we know well, we’re comfortable laying it and therefore it gave us confidence in achieving the target programme completion date. Not only is it suitable for a zero falls roof, it is also very robust,” explained Andrew Byford, Director at Byford Roofing.
He added: “Because of the limited storage space on site, we needed to get the hot melt laid as fast as we could so that we could use the roof area for storage of the other roofing materials. That meant it also had to be tough enough to cope with movement of people and materials around it.”
From an installation perspective, the most challenging aspect for Byford Roofing was ensuring that it provided a totally flat surface for the application of the sports surfacing. This meant accuracy in installing the insulation layer and the paving slab ballast. “It had to be completely level to ensure the MUGA could be laid to the correct tolerances,” said Byford.
To ensure the contractor met that requirement, Byford chose a paving support system that offered minimal build up with the most support. “After that it was all about making precise cuts, taking time to get it right and achieve that level finish,” he continued. “We increased our labour on site to include the highest skilled operatives to make sure we did that.”
Most of the 800m2 roof area was applied in an initial period of two-to-three weeks. Beyond that, Byford made return visits to site to work with the sequencing of other works by the main contractor. One of the later tasks was waterproofing with BMI Icopal Elastoflex around the fence posts that had been installed into the waterproofed parapet wall around the roof’s perimeter.
Given the demanding nature of the contract, Byford was pleased with the result. “I was happy with the spec we put forward,” he said. “It has worked well and it enabled us to complete the project on time and within budget. Working with materials that we trust such as BMI Icopal Parabit Hot Melt Duo, helped us achieve a really satisfying outcome.”
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Facebook’s AI Masters the Cooperative Card Game, Hanabi
Sumbo Bello Dec 09, 2019 at 10:15 am GMT
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Facebook‘s AI has also taken the challenge of playing the card game, Hanabi. While DeepMind created the first Hanabi-playing AI earlier this year, Facebook’s work is still considered a big deal.
AI models developed today have relied mostly on reinforcement techniques to defeat human gamers. For example, DeepMind‘s AI game player defeated human opponents in competitive games like AlphaGo, Dota II, and StarCraft II.
Cooperative games, on the other hand, are slightly different.
They usually involve putting yourself in the shoes of other players and understanding why they take specific actions. As a result, cooperative games provide an insight into how humans think.
Hanabi – the Japanese word for fireworks – is an excellent example of a cooperative game.
Unlike most other games, Hanabi is not about one opponent beating another. Instead, it’s a cooperative card game where competing teams help each other out.
It’s no wonder that companies use it as a team-building exercise. However, the game seems to have attracted the attention of AI-researchers, and here’s why.
Using Hanabi to Teach an AI the Theory of the Mind
In the game of Hanabi, a team of two to five players receives random cards with different numbers and colors that represent a point.
The goal is simple. Each team must group the cards by color, and in the numerical order on the table. The problem is that players cannot see their cards while their teammates can.
That means a teammate must give clues or hints to let a player know whether to keep or discard a card. But, that player should also be able to deduce what the clue means.
That’s where the theory of the mind comes in.
“Theory of mind is this idea of understanding the beliefs and intentions of other agents or other players or humans,” says a Facebook AI researcher. “It’s something that humans developed from a very early age. But one AIs have struggled with for a very long time.”
Now, imagine Hanabi bots that can understand the teammates’ hints based on the limited information in their cards. That’s what Facebook’s AI researchers developed.
Thanks to a combination of reinforcement learning and multi-search technique, the bots could play Hanabi on their own and with each other. Here’s why it’s a big deal
Facebook intends to develop a cooperative AI, and the Hanabi bot is the first step.
It could lead to AI agents that can reason better about cooperative interactions with humans. Also, chatbots will be able to understand why the people they’re interacting with made a particular statement.
Facebook AI researcher, Adam Lerer told Engadget:
“..Chatbots that can reason better about why people say the things they do without having to enumerate every detail of what they’re asking for is a very straightforward application of this type of search technique.”
Its application extends beyond human-machine interaction to autonomous vehicles.
By studying the cars ahead, self-driving vehicles will be able to understand that they’re slowing or stopping due to pedestrian crossing. The autonomous vehicle won’t need to see the pedestrians itself to conclude.
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377th TSC commanding general encourages students to find their “why”
Commanding General, Maj. Gen. Susan Henderson, 377th Theater Sustainment Command, sits and listens with other guests at the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville annual Veterans Day luncheon, November 10, 2022. The event, sponsored by the SIUE Student Government Association and SIUE Military and Veteran Services, featured Henderson as the keynote speaker. (U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Logan Whorton)
Commanding General, Maj. Gen. Susan Henderson, 377th Theater Sustainment Command, poses for a photo with members of the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Student Government Association November 10, 2022. The group invited Henderson to be the keynote speaker at its annual Veterans Day luncheon co-sponsored with SIUE Military and Veteran Services. (U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Logan Whorton)
Commanding General, Maj. Gen. Susan Henderson, 377th Theater Sustainment Command, poses for a photo with members of the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Reserve Officer Training Program November 10, 2022. Henderson served as the keynote speaker for SIUE’s annual Veterans Day luncheon. (U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Logan Whorton)
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville students and faculty speak with 377th Theater Sustainment Command Commanding General, Maj. Gen. Susan Henderson, following her keynote address at SIUE’s annul Veterans Day Luncheon November 10, 2022. (U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Logan Whorton)
Commanding General, Maj. Gen. Susan Henderson, 377th Theater Sustainment Command, addresses students and veterans at the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Veterans Day luncheon, November 10, 2022. The annual event is sponsored by the SIUE Student Government Association and SIUE Military and Veteran Services. (U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Logan Whorton)
Students with the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Reserve Officer Training Program, present the colors at a Veterans Day luncheon on campus November 10, 2022. The event, sponsored by the SIUE Student Government Association and SIUE Military and Veteran Services featured the commanding general of the 377th Theater Sustainment Command, Maj. Gen. Susan Henderson as the keynote speaker for the event. (U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Logan Whorton)
NEWS | Nov. 17, 2022
By 1st Lt. Logan Whorton 377th Theater Sustainment Command
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. –
The Student Government Association and Office of Military and Veterans Services at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) welcomed Maj. Gen. Sue Henderson, Commander of the 377th Theater Sustainment Command in the Army Reserve, as the key speaker for the annual Veterans Day luncheon this past Thursday at the Morris University Center on the SIUE campus.
Veterans young and old, students, active military members, and member of the SIUE community enjoyed the afternoon’s schedule, which included a buffet, SIUE brass ensemble playing military songs, and words from the invited speakers.
Mackenzie Richards, External Affairs Officer for SIUE Student Government, welcomed everyone to the event and thanked the veterans for their service.
Kevin Wathem, Director of Military and Veteran Services at SIUE, talked about student veterans having the hard but important conversations to help solve shared issues for their community. He also announced the upcoming 75th anniversary of U.S. military integration, which will be a celebrated focus for the organization next year.
In her keynote address following lunch, Maj. Gen. Henderson spoke about her unexpected journey to the highest ranks of the Army Reserve, explaining how she often felt like an imposter and considered retiring multiple times. However, people in her life — her husband, her father, a brigade commander — kept pushing her to be the best she could be and find her “why.”
While there are about 19 million veterans in the United States, fewer than one percent of Americans currently serve in the military. Henderson spoke to the cadets and students in the audience about the benefits and variety of people in the Army Reserve, which she described as a “level playing field.”
“I couldn’t have made that claim back during WWI or WWII, but I can do it now,” said Maj. Gen. Henderson. “In the Army today, we do not care if you are tall, short, black, brown, white, male, female, gay or even transgender. If you are willing to stand by my side and fight for the freedoms we enjoy in this country, you are a soldier.”
In closing, Maj. Gen. Henderson thanked the school for hosting the event, and she left the audience with a final message on leadership.
“The road to success is lined with very comfortable parking spaces, but I would urge you not to park,” said Maj. Gen. Henderson. “You have to have a ‘why’ that is bigger than your ‘but.’”
The luncheon ended with closing remarks by Maj. Eddie Woody, Professor of Military Science for the SIUE Army ROTC Program, who thanked everyone for attending.
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After the previous incredibly holding, intense, vulnerable, and intimate session I felt a bit weird going to the see Anita on the Monday. Part (ALL) of me hoped that everything was going to be ok still, but parts of me wondered whether A might have regretted holding me and saying what she did. Maybe on reflection she’d find me too clingy, too needy, and want to take a step back from me. I was braced for rejection despite the fact that Anita had sent me a picture on Saturday morning of my baby elephant sitting with some monkeys to keep him company in her home.
The fact that she did this totally delighted the young parts. It feels like she really gets what those parts need to feel connected and accepted. It is such a stark contrast to the way Em worked that part of me feels like I have to pinch myself – is this even real? And whilst parts of me are trusting that the relationship with Anita is safe and genuine I still felt a bit nervous going back to the room because the idea of having that closeness taken away (for whatever reason) is just traumatising (which is why the online therapy is tanking so badly – I feel abandoned and rejected and whilst adult me understands, the young parts feel like they have done something wrong and that’s why she’s gone).
If I’m ever in doubt with how to start a session I can say that a well-used plan for me is start with small talk (ugh TIME WASTING! – so frustrating). It seems very adult but what I am coming to see is that its’ actually a ‘false’ adult who is trying to ‘appear’ normal and is actually a bit avoidant, maybe a protector of sorts, but definitely not proper adult self. This part turns up and fronts because it takes a while, sometimes, to land in the room and settle.
Whilst I was jabbering about the weekend, beneath the surface, the child parts were tentatively peeking out trying to work out how things stood: was last session a mistake? Does she regret coming close to me? Will that amazing sense of connection and holding be a one off?
The thing that is a nightmare about ‘false adult’ is that she can witter on for ages and not notice the time is going. She’s doing her job, keeping vulnerability at bay. Then I glanced at the clock and realised that we were already twenty-five minutes into the session. What??? The child parts freaked out. ‘Don’t let the session disappear – please don’t hide us again – we need her to see us and hold us’ – and I think in that moment I just stopped talking altogether. It’s hard to know because time is weird in therapy especially when you’re dissociated but I reckon I must’ve been silent for a minute.
Anita continued to talk to me – or the adult – and mentioned that I hadn’t had a holiday, I think linking into something about how I had said I was exhausted and burnt out. But by the time she said this adult was gone and I had no idea what she was talking about. I was just mentally crying about how far away she seemed.
The child parts were there frozen. I don’t think I was really breathing. I think it was in part caused by panic. Panic that maybe she was going to stay away, over the other side of the room in her chair, and all the shame around needing her to come close was running wild in my head. All the horrible stuff about being too needy and disgusting was starting to get louder and I felt desperately alone.
Anita noticed the shift in me, her tone changed, and she gently asked, ‘What are you thinking? What’s going on for you?… Is it too hard to say?’
I couldn’t speak. I just sat there silent. Frozen. Anita wondered aloud, ‘Does it feel distant between us at the moment again? Do you want me to come sit over there? I am quite happy to.’
I nodded. There was so much relief flooding in but the shame was crippling. Anita got up and came and sat beside me on the sofa but I couldn’t look at her. It’s such a horrible feeling wanting to be close to someone but not knowing if it’s ok. I mean, clearly, reading between the lines it is ok but parts of me are so expecting rejection that they literally need to be given a huge flashing green light.
‘I guess it feels hard to come to where we are, after last Friday?’
‘Thank god’, I thought, ‘she gets it’. Our relationship changed so much, so quickly in the last session that it was almost dizzying. I sat there silent and unmoving. A then told me she was feeling a bit coldy and I replied that I didn’t care. I probably sounded like a complete dickhead. I corrected myself, ‘I do care, but I don’t care about the cold’ A understood what I meant and offered me a hug. I didn’t need her to stay away because of a cold.
Like a heat-seeking missile I snuggled in tight to her again. In that moment I literally didn’t want to be anywhere else. Neither of us said anything for a few minutes and I just waited for my breathing to settle, listened to her heart beating, and let the child parts get what they needed. This holding feels so healing and containing, I can’t really even describe it. But there’s also a grief that comes up alongside it is really hard and it comes in waves. Like I have needed this for my entire life and yet it’s not until now that I am receiving it.
Suddenly my breathing felt erratic and I felt panic. The shame that is so present was just kicking my arse. I can’t help but think of Em when the lovely stuff is happening and just feel so sad that she just did not care for me at all. The contrast between A and Em is so vast it’s insane.
A gently spoke into the top of my hair/head, ‘I know’ she soothed. The part of me that was struggling replied, ‘You don’t know’ and to be honest I don’t think I even really knew what I was feeling but if I didn’t know then how could she? ‘Can you tell me?…Does it feel horrible being this vulnerable?’ A softly asked. ‘Are you feeling very small?’
The child part whispered, ‘I didn’t think you’d still like me’. Anita’s body shifted slightly and she took in a shocked breath and held me tighter to her body, ‘Oh my goodness. I don’t just like you, I really love you. There’s nothing about you not to like. Not that I have seen. I know sometimes it can be hard to believe that – there’s lots of parts of you that are scared and feel unlovable but that’s because they haven’t been loved by the right people. I love them. All of them. Even the ones that want to kick off and stamp.’
Miserably, I replied ‘That’s not what my head says’ and A tried to reassure me, ‘I know. I know. And I don’t know how to make those parts believe me but I think it’s probably just got to be time and me showing you that it’s ok. Is there anything I can do to help build that trust?’
I shook my head. A said that it’s just going to take time and that’s ok with her, she’s not going anywhere.
A young part told her that ‘it’s silly’ (needing this). Anita replied, ‘It’s not silly. I guess it’s the different parts of you isn’t it? The child parts might really enjoy it but the adult part is like ‘why do I feel like this?’ but it’s the young parts that really need it – they were so neglected of it and that’s why it’s not silly. And it might feel alien but nice at the same time. Does that make sense? There’s so many different types of love aren’t there? And nurturing love – we all need it.’
A held me close and rubbed my back, I held her hand with one hand and hugged her with my other hand, there’s something really young, like a baby or toddler, when it’s like this. It reminds me of when my kids were little and they just want every inch of themselves to be touching. God it’s cringey isn’t it?! We didn’t say anything for a minute or two but it was starting to get louder in my head.
Then I said, ‘I wish my brain would shut up’. I was really battling with the inner critic who was trying to pull the entire thing apart, ‘A is a liar. She’s doesn’t care. She’ll see me in the same way Em did. I am too much’ etc etc etc. It was pure agony.
‘What’s it saying?’ questioned A gently, ‘My guess is that “this isn’t ok”. But it is.’
And then the saddest, little voice said, ‘I don’t want you to think I’m like a tick.’
And there it was. Right there. The damage. The pain. The excruciating feelings of rejection and abandonment. It was so raw. I just wanted to die coming in touch with those feelings so acutely. I buried my face deeper into A’s chest and held on tight.
Again A’s shifted, almost jolted, shocked, I could feel the response in her body and hear the sadness in her voice as she emphatically tried to reassure me, ‘Oh my god I don’t! Far from it!’ She let out a big exhale and then said, ‘I choose to give to you. That’s my choice. You don’t take from me. I give. A tick takes. You don’t! You didn’t ask me to come over here. I could still be sat in that chair over there. I want to give. Because you are worth it. Because I love you. It’s completely different to a tick.’
To have her so clearly refute what I was saying/worrying about and tell me how she felt was exactly what I needed. I can think of times when I might have said something to Em that felt painful, like the time I was struggling with wondering how she felt about me and it took me weeks to say, ‘I don’t even know if you like me’ and she stayed silent – or other times when I’d express something similar and she’d reply with something like, ‘what makes you think that?’ or some other thing that is designed to make you squirm in your own agony. And sometimes that’s fine but sometimes you just need to be love bombed…that’s where the healing is….well, for me at least!
I continued on, ‘It’s such a horrible thing to say.’ (Em calling me a tick)
Anita agreed, ‘Yeah. I can’t believe she said that to you. And the thing is, it shouts doesn’t it? It’s not you can forget about it. It really stuck. It’s a horrible, horrible thing to say. And so abusive. And you’re not like a tick. You’re really not. My guess is she’s so closed she doesn’t know how to give.’
I started to cry, ‘she never let me anywhere near her – which is why it seems such a really unfair thing to say’. I felt so sad. The grief was huge but I felt safe with A expressing it. She was holding me close and it allowed me to really feel the pain in a way that I haven’t really been able to before now, in the room. When I’ve been sitting across from Anita and talking about Em I have still held myself together and so haven’t really been able to get deep down to the deep pain that I feel about what happened.
A told me that she thinks that it’s strange that Em is in the profession she’s in given how little she gives of herself and that what she did was horrible. And what happened is not because there’s something wrong with me but instead that she let me down. It was not my fault.
Anita has an amazing way of speaking to the little parts and I felt so understood that I started sobbing, ‘I just don’t get it. I would get it if you said it to me’ (because I have so much access to her and check in with her most days via text and could understand if she felt bombarded or like I just never let go like a parasite)
A replied, ‘I’m not going to say it!’
We argued back and forth a bit:
RB: But it would make sense!
A: No it wouldn’t!
RB: Yes it would!
RB: It would!!
Anita changed tack then and said, ‘I think this is the hardest thing. It’s the child parts in you. Children think it’s all about them because that’s how children think. But it’s not about you. It’s her. And I know that’s really hard to believe. I would never say that. I’m not perfect. I have different flaws to her. She just doesn’t know how to give it.’
I told her that it wasn’t just that, but that I worry that it’s in some way wrong (this level of holding). I think because touch in therapy has been such a sore area for me with Em and she basically wasn’t even open to discussing it, I now feel like I am in some way wrong for wanting it or needing it. It’s also such a contentious area with therapists too – I mean how many of you have googled ‘touch in therapy’ or ‘will my therapist hug me?’ when this attachment stuff starts kicking off. The internet tends not to come up in favour of ‘touch’ which is weird really given how much we are now learning about somatic responses and child development.
Some sites/therapists are totally anti touch and say it’s dangerous and god knows what else, others are somewhere in the middle and will maybe give the occasional hug at the end, and then there’s the rare few that aren’t scared by it and see how beneficial it can be for particular clients. In our first session we discussed touch and she was clear then that it’s always guided by the client and their need but that for some people it makes a huge difference. She assured me that it’s not wrong to want this touch and that it’s completely fine to ask for hugs. Honestly it’s like a lottery win!
That seemed to settle the young parts who then went off on a tangent, you know how kids do, ‘oh my knee isn’t bleeding anymore… can we get doughnuts?’ and decided to ask A what her flaws were, which she told me, and then I asked her star sign (which I had already guessed) and we had a chat about our signs and how they match our personalities. It felt really nice and a departure from the emotional marathon that had just gone before.
I’ve said a few times, now, about how the young parts are more able to communicate with A when we are physically close to her. I think part of it is that I feel physically safe and contained. Another part of it is that when I am snuggled into her, I can’t see her face and she can’t see mine, and so it kind of offers more of an opportunity to say things that feel embarrassing. Anita can feel me but she can’t see me and this gives those parts that fear being seen and judged negatively chance to talk. Like in our rupture repair sessions (that I haven’t written about yet) I was able to tell her I’d like something as a transitional object that smells like her!! (CAN YOU IMAGINE ME SAYING THAT FACE TO FACE?!?!?)
Anyway, it was coming to the end of the session and Anita asked me how I was feeling. Just like in the last session she told me that she feels like she could hold me all day and felt like I need a lot of holding. I replied, ‘I feel safe with you. I can’t just come here for cuddles though’. Inside my child parts were screaming ‘why did you just say that???! We’ve just started to get what we need and your saying you don’t need it!’
Thankfully, A can see through my shit now and came back with, ‘But I believe that you have to do what feels right. It feels like at the moment we’re just reassuring and being safe which is what needs to be there for the rest of the stuff to come out. It doesn’t feel like we’re not doing anything in the cuddling. Does that make sense? It’s important for you to feel this safety and to feel that I can hold you and that’s what I am doing. And it’s what you need. You didn’t have enough of this ever’ then I felt something on the top of my head. ‘Did you just kiss my head?’ I wondered out loud as I turned to look at her. ‘I did’ she smiled.
It felt so great. So, so great. I got up and told her that I didn’t want to leave, she hugged me again and said ‘I know. And remember, I wanted to give it to you. You didn’t take. There’s a huge difference.’
And I left that session feeling amazing. Emotionally wiped out but also like some really healing work had been done. I am not a tick…but my friend has jokingly called me a baby monkey after these sessions!
I know I am like a broken record here but when work like that happens with the youngest most hurt parts it’s no wonder that online now feels so hideous. Try as we might those parts just can’t get what we need on a screen.
Humph!
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19 thoughts on “More Holding”
Lucy King November 19, 2020 / 10:42 pm
This is therapy. Em should be struck off. 💕
rubberbandsandchewinggum November 20, 2020 / 4:27 pm
I agree! x
LovingSummer November 19, 2020 / 10:47 pm
You guys are doing such amazing deep work, it is such a privilege to read. ♥️
Thanks LS. It has been brilliant…but man it’s hard right now being online. x
LovingSummer November 20, 2020 / 4:35 pm
Yeah. It’s better than nothing but not the same is it.
Sara November 20, 2020 / 12:30 am
Oh my goodness. I could feel my own inner child reacting to this post as I read. This feels so huge…creating safety and security that all of you needs moving forward with A. 💕
Thanks Sara. It is huge isn’t it? Finally…therapy that is therapeutic! x
Sara November 20, 2020 / 4:48 pm
skinnyhobbit November 20, 2020 / 7:58 am
This is amazing, amazing.. I wish therapists weren’t so afraid of touch.
I know. It was amazing…and I totally agree, it’s such a shame therapists won’t go there. x
Claire Louise November 20, 2020 / 3:01 pm
Wow. That’s all I can say… Wow.
thank you … it was definitely a wow moment xx
healing1973 November 20, 2020 / 3:20 pm
How wonderful! I swear, it is like you are in my head though lol. You are so good at describing exactly how I feel about some things. It is so nice to know I am not alone in these cringeworthy thoughts and feelings. Thank you!!!!
Ah thanks hun! I think the feelings we experience are fairly universal where this wound is concerned…it’s just a shame that people who don’t understand it or feel it can be so lacking in empathy! Ha… definitely not alone in the cringe!! xx
individualmedley17 November 23, 2020 / 10:52 pm
Thank you for sharing these two sessions, I am bowled over by them! I can’t actually believe that there are therapists who will do this nurturing work with clients who need it, but so glad you have found one! I know how far away online can feel, hopefully you will be back in the room together soon. X
Thank you 😊… it’s been a bloody rollercoaster these last few weeks. 9 more sleeps!
lydiahopebakker November 25, 2020 / 1:56 am
Jealous… but so happy for you! ❤❤
rubberbandsandchewinggum November 25, 2020 / 11:26 am
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Brahmas Defeat Bugs at Lone Star
The Shreveport Mudbugs (36-9-3-2) fall to the Lone Star Brahmas, 2-0 Sunday afternoon at Nytex Sports Centre.
After a scoreless first period, Ture Linden opened up the scoring by driving home a juicing rebound for his 12th goal of the season at 12:11 of the 2nd. Lone Star would take a 1-0 into the locker room after two periods of play.
The Mudbugs would create some scoring chances on Mitchell Gibson, but he made 15 saves to pick up his 8th shutout as a Brahma. Aidan Spellacy tapped in an empty net tally with 2 seconds left in the game to seal the victory for Lone Star.
Shreveport now hasn’t scored a goal against Lone Star in their last 191 plus minutes of play.
The Mudbugs will return home next Friday night for a two-game set against the Topeka Roadrunners at Georges Pond in Hirsch Coliseum. It’s Military Appreciation weekend. Puck drop is scheduled for 7:11pm for both Friday and Saturday.
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ISO/TS 15638-11:2013
Intelligent transport systems — Framework for collaborative Telematics Applications for Regulated commercial freight Vehicles (TARV) — Part 11: Driver work records (work and rest hours compliance) (DWR)
Это стандарт пересмотренISO 15638-11:2014
ISO/TS 15638-11:2013 addresses the provision of ?Driver Work Records' and specifies the form and content of such data required to support such systems, and access methods (4.1) to that data.
ISO/TS 15638-11:2013 provides specifications (4.41) for common communications and data exchange aspects of the application service (4.3) driver work records that a regulator (4.37) may elect to require or support as an option, including:
a) high level definition of the service that a service provider (4.39) has to provide, (The service definition describes common service elements; but does not define the detail of how such an application service (4.3) is instantiated, not the acceptable value ranges of the data concepts defined)
b) means to realise the service
c) application data, naming content and quality that an IVS (4.22) has to deliver.
The definition of what comprises a 'regulated' service' is regarded as an issue for national decision, and may vary from jurisdiction (4.26) to jurisdiction. This document does not impose any requirements on nations in respect of which services for regulated vehicles jurisdictions will require, or support as an option, but provides standardised sets of requirements descriptions for identified services to enable cnsistent and cost efficient implementations where instantiated.
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Three Candidates for a Second-Year Breakout NFL Season in 2022
June 15, 2022 by Winn Jones
The 2022 NFL season is rapidly approaching, with the opening fixture schedule for September 8, when the Buffalo Bills travel to the reigning Super Bowl champions, the Los Angeles Rams, in the NFL Kickoff Game. Teams are heading to their respective training camps, and many players have high hopes for the upcoming season. The following three players have a reason to be extra excited for the 2022 campaign because they are about to embark on their second year as NFL professionals and are highly likely to enjoy a breakout year.
TrevorLawrence – QB – Jacksonville Jaguars
Last season was another disappointing campaign for Jacksonville Jaguars, who slumped to a 3-14 record, ultimately resulting in Urban Meyer losing his job at the TIAA Bank Field. It was hardly the ideal situation for Trevor Lawrence to flourish. The 2021 first overall pick started all 17 regular season games, had a 59.6% pass completion rate from 602 attempts, racked up 3,641 yards, and threw 12 touchdowns. It is fair to say Lawrence was one of the few positives for the Jaguars.
While the Jaguars are not on the radar of anyone about to make NFL bets online for the coming season, they should be massively improved with Doug Pederson coming in as head coach. Pederson guided the Philadelphia Eagles to Super Bowl LII glory and is considered a quarterback guru by many, which should help Lawrence thrive.
The Jaguars have the likes of Evan Engram, Marvin Jones, and Christian Kirk on the perimeter, in addition to strengthening the offensive line that failed to protect Lawrence during the last campaign. Expect the Jaguars to be much improved throughout the 2022 season and Lawrence to be one of the main reasons for that vast improvement.
Zach Wilson – QB – New York Jets
The New York Jets selected Zach Wilson as the second overall pick in 2021, and it is easy to see why. The former BYU Cougar played 30 college games and enjoyed a 67.6% pass completion for 7,652 yards and 56 touchdowns, which earned him an overall rating of 162.9. Reproducing those figures for the Jets was always going to be a tall order.
The Jets went 4-13 during the regular season, partly because of their inability to stop the opposition defense from beating up Wilson. He was sacked 44 times and lost 370 yards due to those sackings, the most yards lost via sacks in the entire league. In addition, that lack of protection cost the Jets and Wilson dearly because he suffered a knee injury in Week 7 against the Patriots, which kept him out for four games.
Like the Jaguars mentioned above, the Jets have strengthened their offensive line and playmakers on the perimeter, making the Jets system very quarterback friendly. There are no excuses for Wilson not to have a breakout year and put up solid numbers in 2022, even if the Jets continue struggling.
Rondale Moore – WR – Arizona Cardinals
Rondale Moore joined the Arizona Cardinals as the 49th overall pick in Round 2, entering the 2021 season fourth on the Cardinals’ wide receiver depth chart. However, he still turned out 14 times in a Cardinals uniform, averaging 8.1 yards from 54 receptions and scoring a 77-yard touchdown.
Moore has a great chance of becoming a vital starting player for the Cardinals. Christian Kirk left Arizona for the Jacksonville Jaguars, freeing up one of the perimeter places. Plus, DeAndre Hopkins misses the first six games of the 2022 season through suspension, giving Moore the perfect opportunity to show what he can do on the football field.
The Cardinals acquired Marquise Brown from the Baltimore Ravens, but Moore should still enjoy plenty of game time. Combined more minutes on the field with an ever-improving Kyle Murray pulling strings at quarterback, you have the recipe for a potential breakout year for the former Purdue Boilermaker.
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Du Jiang is the first secretary of Yanglin Village, Xuzhuang Town, Dengfeng, dispatched by Zhengzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television & Tourism. These years, Yanglin Village vigorously develops rural tourism, relying on its rich green resources, sites and heritage related to the history of the CPC, and unique ancient village culture. It boasts Daxiongshan Xianren Valley Scenic Spot and Daxiongshan Zhaixinglou Scenic Spot, two A-level scenic areas, so it becomes one of the few administrative villages in the province with two scenic spots, developing fast.
Supported by Zhengzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television & Tourism, the team assigned by the bureau proposed and took the lead in the construction of an educational center for Party members to strengthen the education of Party members as farmers, bring grass-roots Party organizations' guidance into full play under rural revitalization, and further encourage Party members in the causes, while increasing villagers' earnings.
Du Jiang, first secretary of Yanglin Village, explains in detail to Wu Yan, Party secretary of Xuzhuang Town
On the morning of December 15, the educational center for Party members in Yanglin Village, Xuzhuang Town, Dengfeng, was opened to the public and welcomed its first visitors, a team led by Wu Yan, Party secretary of Xuzhuang Town, comprised of officials from the town government and representatives from grass-roots Party organizations of various villages. Du Jiang said, "Adhering to Party construction and rural revitalization and based on practicalities, the general Party branch will continue to collect physical exhibits that show the history of the CPC, the history of the district, and the local folk culture to enrich the exhibition hall."
Educational Center for Party Members in Yanglin Village
The educational center is located at the Wang's Ancestral Temple in the village. In 1945, it was occupied by the Western Henan Anti-Japanese Military and Political Cadre School. With an ancient style, the educational center is mainly divided into three exhibition areas, namely the history of the CPC, the record of Yanglin Village, and the history and conditions of Yanglin Village, displaying the village's revolutionary history, organizations, people with lofty ideals, and customs. The exhibition area with the theme of the history and conditions of Yanglin Village has three parts, namely the outline of Yanglin Village, the historical sites, and the local culture. Relying on the CPC culture, this area shows important conditions of Yanglin Village and displays features of the village, matching and complementing the exhibition area with the theme of the history of the CPC, highlighting the functions of publicity and education, and building a base of ideological education.
Over the past six months, the team has compiled village history materials with more than 20,000 Chinese characters by consulting the Records for Dengfeng County and the Records for Xuzhuang Village and visiting relevant sites. At the same time, the team has discovered little-known historical stories and stories of county sages. Centering around the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in western Henan, the team members display the village history and local stories in the exhibition hall based on lots of materials they gathered related to revolutionary history, integrating village history and revolutionary history which complement each other. In this way, they animate the revolution-themed historical building, innovate Party history education, better tell Yanglin Village's stories, carry forward the revolutionary spirit, and stimulate Party members' enthusiasm for work.
Besides, the educational center will be integrated with the site of the headquarters for the South Wang Mountain breakout war of the advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army in western Henan during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. During the extension of Henan (Western Henan) Resistance Base Memorial Hall, the educational center will further enhance its educational function and continue to enrich the rural tourism related to the history of the CPC on the basis of the Wang Mountain breakout war tourist routes under development, thus to maximize the role of the tourism industry in driving rural revitalization. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6253032684326172, "wiki_prob": 0.6253032684326172, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line52374"} |
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Excerpt from The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Vol. 6 of 6
Same time gave great offence to a Northumberland squire, whom he threatened to excommunicate, if he did not give up to him the church-lands, which his family had usurped ever since the reformation. In short, every man had cut out a place for himself in his own thoughts; so that I could reckon up in our little army, two or three lord-treasurers, half a dozen secretaries of state, and at least a score of lords-justices in Eyre, for each side of Trent. We pursued our march through several villages, which we drank dry, -making proclamation at our entrance, in the name of James the third, against -all concealments of ale or brandy. Being very much fatigued with the action of a whole week, it was agreed to rest on Sunday, when we heard a most excellent sermon. Our chaplain insisted principally upon two heads. Under the first he proved to us, that the breach of public oaths is no perjury; and under the second, expounded to us the nature of non-resistance; which might be interpreted from the Hebrew, to signify either loyalty or rebellion, according as the sovereign bestow ed his favours and preferments. He concluded with exhorting us, in a most pathetic manner, to purge the land by wholesome severities, and to propagate sound principles by fire and sword. We set forward the next day, towards our friends at Kelso but by the way had like to have lost our general, and some of our most ao tive officers. For a fox unluckily crossing the road, drew off a considerable detachment, who clapped spurs to their horses, and pursued him with whoops and hal loos, till we had lost sight of them. A covey of par tridges springing in our front, put our infantry into disorder on the same day. It was not long after this, that we were joined by our friends from the other side of the Frith. Upon the junction of the two corps, our spies brought us word, that they discovered a great cloud of dust at some distance; upon which we sent out a party to reconnoitre. They returned to us with in telli ence, that the dust was raised by a great drove of blac cattle. This news was not a little welcome to us.
Titel The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Vol. 6 of 6 (Classic Reprint)
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NinaBinaBallerina chapter 41 . 2/26/2011
omg! i can't wait to see what happens when they finally get home! love this story
thefaultinourpatronus chapter 3 . 2/25/2011
Hey, congratulations on winning the February WCC! Sorry this took so long, but anyway, on to the review.
The opening was fantastic. It talked about things that happen in our daily lives, something so real that it's easy to relate to. I think a prologue like that is interesting for the start of any chapter, it's like a small intro, but isn't related to the story. Awesome D
The ending was nice as well - it was sort of like the opposite of the beginning, which was terrible and sad, while the chapter ended on a happier note.
'Gravel tore at her cheek where the force of the explosion threw her. Her forearms and legs were likewise bitten by rock. Her back was hit with punch after punch of debris'
-Okay wow, the image here is scary, and so GOOD (: Fortunately or unfortunately, (lol) I can see the picture in my head clearly.
The details throughout the story and chapter are amazing. You know all these find descriptions and things about the history of Russia, it makes the writing immaculate. All the stuff about the explosives and bombs are just really really well written.
With a sad, silent smile, she nodded.
-Interesting line, because we don't really know whether she's won over by him, whether she believes him, or if she's just smiling to reassure him.
One line I thought was odd and could be re-worded
-Taking her hand, he kissed it and squeezed it.
The repetition of "it" sounds awkward when read out, so I suggest you change it to:
-Taking her hand, and kissed and squeezed it.
Again, congratulations! You're work as usual is amazing! (:
x mandy
lookingwest chapter 20 . 2/25/2011
Woo! Sophie, congratulations on WCC! Sorry this took so long! XD And yay, I made it to chapter twenty! Now I get to feel sweet while scrolling down on the chapter drop down box!
Opening- Loved the opening visuals with Mogilev because it gave me a better understanding of the setting. I liked the part about him detailing how he checks everything but was still troubled with thoughts about Nora and what happened between them. I also think you did a fantastic job transitioning into that past scene there-beautifully smooth!
Scene- My favorite scene was definitely the one with Zhukov-man, it sounds so real! You do a fantastic job and making their discussion sound legitimate and I just adore how you've twisted history in a way that makes sense and is so believable. That scene also really showed mastery of Russian history, I think-it's so obvious you know your stuff that you're able to shape it as you wish, haha, so cool.
Enjoyment- I really enjoyed this chapter because all the scenes fit together so nicely and such wonderful transitions. The end with Nora was chilling, I might add, and I liked also seeing where the story went after the squabble with her and Mogilev. Per usual, the Tsar puts me on edge!
Characters-I think as far as characters in this chapter, like I mentioned above, this was a chapter very centered on the Tsar and how he's changed from then and now, and then also how mysterious he is. You've definitely added depth to his character through that scene with Zhukov-that last bit where he was like, "how are you going to do it?" and there wasn't a reply was amazing, haha. Even after all these chapters he's still a chilling man and I never know exactly what he's going to do. Stark contrast from what we learned about him in school and in Russian history.
berley chapter 5 . 2/24/2011
Congrats on winning the WCC!
“Sometimes, the air was thick with them you could not help but breathe them in.”
- I really liked this line because it made me imagine a lot of things, including more than just one sense. It made me think of when I’m walking outside in the summer time and I walk through a bunch of aphids and they get into my eyes, nose and mouth. I think it’s really cool when a simple line like that brings back a specific memory or sense like that, it’s awesome.
I really enjoyed the beginning with Katya imagining her friends. I was confused for about a second since it has been a bit since I’ve read this story, but it didn’t take long to realize that her friends were not real. I enjoyed how they were mentioned so smoothly and it was almost like they were real, especially since one of the girls had lice and they were talking about the officer. It was a nice way to introduce the chapter.
I absolutely adore the chemistry between the officer and Katya and just how the two of them interact in general. You can feel the tension and emotion between them as you read, which is just brilliant. Their relationship, if that is what you want to call it, is progressing beautifully. You’re pacing everything so well so far, I love it!
Guh, I pretty much gush about everything when I read your writing. I was frozen with Katya while she was watching her officer get beaten. The tension you build up in the end of the chapter was great, I definitely can’t wait to read on!
Wow, melodrama to the fullest! With the officer walking in, looking at Katya - amazing scene.
Eleni seemed almost to float, her body pushed back by the force of Katya's invective.
I really like that line!
The pace towards the end of the chapter picked up nicely, and I really liked how frantic it was (:
It's also cool how this story isn't one of those typical romances... Believe me, I'm writing one, and this is definitely one of the unique few. I've read the later chapters, and you have amazing talents (: Keep writing!
this wild abyss chapter 39 . 2/21/2011
Congratulations on winning the February WCC!
Opening) I think that for the beginning, you went a little overboard with description. In comparison to what the rest of the story has been, the writing felt overly flowery and without that sparse feel that I’ve come to enjoy about this story. The sentences in the first paragraph didn’t feel quite as smooth and connected than they usually do, which made the transition into this chapter a little hard to follow. You established where the characters were, but not as well as you could have, I think. So overall, it wasn’t a great start to the chapter.
Description) You use a TON of color descriptors throughout the chapter. (umber, bronze, navy, ivory, purple, blue, grey, ) and it got a little weird after a while. I think it would have been better to stick with one color, or at least a general theme, because so many conflicting and varied descriptions did get to feel a little odd and confusing after a while.
Characters) I’ve loved the steady build-up in Katya’s personality to this moment, the moment she realizes she cannot be with her friends anymore. You’ve painted her internal struggle perfectly, and in this chapter, where the culmination of it all comes about, I got a great feeling of satisfaction. Katya is such a beautiful character, you made her transition from past to future perfectly. Lovely job with that.
Enjoyment) This was a very nice chapter. Katya’s final conscious decision regarding the past has been a long time in coming, and I thought it was well done. However, the chapter by itself didn’t feel as if it should have been posted on its own. It was almost like it had been tacked on as an extra bit without being fully developed or written, if that makes sense. In short, I liked what happened, but I thought you could have given readers more.
Tawny Owl chapter 40 . 2/17/2011
Congrats on WCC.
Tiny grey space - loved that.
Shut up - should this be italics?
You captured Katya's emotions really well in thsi first part. The idea that she's going crazy on the inside, but frightened of people seeing it. It's like she's still aware enough to know herself and the outs side world, but can't quite control how she's seen. If that makes any sense?
Seeing Klya feeling the same was lovely too. (cold empty space was great - and showed the suddenness of it) and the cigarette was a great way to show it.
her insides slowly thawed again.
I love your descriptions. I know I keep saying it but I really do.
A snake, fat, gorged on the lives it had devoured.
That's amazing too!
Different girls, but the men always teh same? Because it was always th same soldiers - I loved that. and the way you set it out. The idea of the uniform as an entity in its own right further down, what with the way it gives them a lisence to behave sub human and all.
That was a nasty image. But I am kind of wondering why they're lining up if there's a whole train of women?
It was also interesting that Katya has the memories as an observer, it implied that it never happened to her. Not that I want it to, but, yes, I just kind of want to know haow she avoided it.
Oh? was her garanmama on the train too? or have I forgotten something?
Skyward Ending chapter 41 . 2/16/2011
First, congrats on winning WCC! Second, the review.
I liked how you kept bringing back Katya's demons. With what she went through, there is no question that this would happen and I think you did a good job of it. A part of me did want you to describe it a little more deeply.
Hehe, Nikolai. Susceptible, alas, to the vices of alcohol even in a situation like the one you gave...although if he did it totally of his own accord I think it's a bit out of character.
Some of the descriptions didn't quite ring well with me. How do whistles trill and brakes sing? I also thought "inspect" wasn't quite the right word, because in the context of war and soldiers the first thing I think of when I see "inspect" is someone doing a full body check or something, which is weird when followed by "ran away." Another thing that stuck out a bit was "aching mind." Although I really, really like how you took a worn-body-ache and applied it to the mind, the first thing I thought when I read that line was "how can a mind ache?" I think that was just me being really nitpicky though. Both of those are based on a first, normal-paced reading as opposed to a slower/second reading. The problem comes in that when I re-read things, it's usually because something didn't sit right with me.
Regarding a more technical issue, could Katya really fit into Nikolai's clothes, and he into hers, and are women soldiers common enough not to be suspicious in this society?
As you went back into part 3, I couldn't quite reconcile Katya's Nikolai with Nikolai's Nikolai. Did the training and the concentration camp change him that much or is it that I've gotten used to other people's views of him being rather condescending and regarding him as a liability/pest? I have to admit I find Katya's Nikolai considerably less annoying than the one of Part 2.
It's interesting how the suspense isn't stacked on-one could even argue that it ISN'T suspenseful, though it's certainly kept me reading :)-and instead feels more tired, doggedly moving on, wearily looking forward to being able to just collapse and rest, too exhausted to look any further into the future. Like Katya.
Is Nora really dead?
Adrenalin chapter 4 . 2/15/2011
Congratulations for winning the WCC!
The opening of this chapter is great: Katya having a nightmare felt real and I liked how you described it. At first I thought it had actually happened and then she wakes up - surprised me.
Funny how Katya says she doesn't want to get any closer than necessary to Nikolai but still thinks of him in a possessive way, as 'her officer'. And after she calls him 'Kolya' which sounds rather affectionate.
I was sorry for Katya all along that chapter. The way she just gives in, first when Nikolai says they have to turn back and when he decides to continue to the West, shows perfectly how damaged the camps have made her. Her hallucinations about Irina and the way she considers the bath (especially when contrasted with Nikolai's attitude) were very dramatic too.
This chapter, overall, was very good. It was less rushed than the previous one and the characterisation was especially good. I wonder in what direction Katya and Nikolai's relationship will evolve.
This was quite a slow moving chapter, but it felt like an important one. The train signals a new stage of their journey, as does Katya leaving behind her friends. And i think it was an important distinction that you made about her leaving them, rather than them leaving her.
although given Katya's prediction of what towns will be like I think she's always going to carry the gulag with her. It was a very strong image, actually, that despite teh fact she has been to other towns before she can't imagine them anymore. I don't think I fully appreciated what a huge mental vice an experience like hers could be until then.
And Kolya laughng at her! such a boy! It's kind of nice though, becasue at least it means she's more human to him and not an unatainable dream like the nora/katya. Although it dose tend to be the dreasm we can't have that we lust after more. Until we've gorged on them and feel sick anyway.
Loved the image of his breath melting on to her neck.
Fences - those she knew well - It might be worth contrasting them here, even those she does know them well. Garden fences would be different from those in a priosn cap, surely?
and interesting how reality has reinforced the roles that they had almost shed in the trapper's hut. That's kind of sad.
Mousie Moolie chapter 41 . 2/8/2011
I love this story so much. Thank you :)
berley chapter 4 . 2/7/2011
I really liked the beginning of this chapter, and your descriptions of the forest and the two of them running through it. The imagery was just beautiful, I really got a sense of what they were going through with the constant cover of trees and knowing that their pursuers were right behind them, being able to hear the muffled noises right behind them. It was really wonderful to read.
I think another favourite part of mine was when she was washing in the river, and the comparisons to the dirt she felt from being in the camps, the literal and figurative forms of filth that you used were great and tied together and expressed very well through the act of her finally being able to wash herself. It’s like she finally gets to start over.
I don’t really have any critique for you, your work is brilliant and I wish I had the time to read more than just a chapter or two at a time.
Michael Howard chapter 41 . 2/7/2011
First a minor quibble. As a long time reader of your work, I can testify to your evocative, highly original storytelling style. But the phrase "and the mare did a grapevine of panic" prompted confusion in me rather than any sort of mental imagery.
On a more favorable note, this chapter was an excellent example of how couples both need to be strong for each other at different times.
As for your conclusion, perhaps it wasn't a cliffhanger in the traditional sense but when you have a strong emotional investment in the future of this pair, cutting out almost on the doorstep of the place where that future may well be decided borders on reader cruelty.
Oh well, I'll forgive you if you update soon.
Punslinger chapter 41 . 2/6/2011
You continue to dazzle us with razor-keen phrases: "A wall of khaki hit her eyes." "A breeze inspected her, sniffing at her grimy clothes..."
However, (a drumroll to announce the coming biting criticism.)
Nikolai's fall into alcoholic helplessness without firm motivation and Katya's abrupt switch from fearful apprehension on the verge of hysteria to iron-nerved self-control just doesn't seem convincing. All during their escape journey you did well showing them as mutually supportive, each taking the leadership role when the other's spirits sagged. But here their actions don't seem to flow naturally from character and circumstances, but simply because the author wants them to behave that way.
Of course, Nikolai has personality weaknesses, as we saw when Nora was able to manipulate him. But he is no longer that innocent youth. His prison camp guard experiences should have toughened him and made him wary of temptation in the soldiers' vodka and boisterous companionship.
You might want to overhaul this chapter and have Nikolai become not totally incapacitated but just drunk enough for Katya to shame him out of it with a sharp scolding an bucket of cold water over his head. After all, you've made them practically an old married couple at this point and that's how a long-suffering wife would would treat hubby's fall off the wagon.
I hope some of this is helpful.
3H chapter 41 . 2/6/2011
:( Aw, short chapter. I love how you used the word propoganda film, I'm not sure why.
Freaking Koyla got suckered into drinking more than he should have. I can't say I blame him, he had to sct as a guard. Once he sobers up I hope Katya chews him out for not watching how much he consumed. I wonder if part of her thought, "I'm just gonna leave the bastard on the ground." I'm so glad they're nearly home free. Switching uniforms was a last resort option, smart woman that Katya. Now that they're coming to their final destination, I just know it's gonna start a whole new slew of problems. Can't wait... And I googled Wilfred Owen. I guess James Franco wasn't to far off but I'm still stuck with the images from my dream.
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Magazine - Married at First Sight’s Alexis Wants Her ‘Flexibility’: Video
Married at First Sight’s Alexis Wants Her ‘Flexibility’: Video
Coming Down to the core concern. Married at First Sight season 15 couple Alexis Williams and Justin Hall took a seat with relationship specialist DeVon Franklin to talk about their disputes.
“Let’s discuss the club,” DeVon states in United States Weekly‘s special clip from the Wednesday, September 28, episode of the Life time series.
Justin, 33, seems like he gets “parts of her” on the weekends, seeing Alexis, 29, for just a few hours. The New Jersey native, for her part, factors that she has pals that she wish to see.
DeVon senses this isn’t about her social life and inquires about how Alexis feels when she remains in the club. “I have such a hard task, and I need to remain in control a lot,” the marketing expert describes. “Simply to let loose and let my hair down — I enjoy it. I enjoy that type of, simply that flexibility.”
She does not feel extremely carefree with her brand-new partner. “I feel smothered,” she confesses.
Justin states that “it’s painful” to hear she feels that method. “I do not wish to smother her,” he describes. “I desire her to have her flexibility. I never ever wished to be that man, you understand? To hear it, I resemble, ‘Damn, I’m that man.’”
Married at First Sight couples fulfill at the altar, minutes prior to stating “I do.” Justin and Alexis are still learning more about each other as people while determining their brand-new vibrant as a married set.
the MAFS specialist reframes their discussion to check out how to enhance their circumstance. “It has to do with ‘In my marital relationship, I’m quelched.’ What would your marital relationship requirement to appear like for your marital relationship to represent the flexibility you truly desire?” he asks Alexis.
“Simply us doing it together,” she states, discussing, “I wish to take all that life needs to provide, whether that’s taking a trip, whether that’s treking, whether that’s severe sports.”
Justin notes that he likes all those activities. “Not just exist commonness, not just exists a connection, however it looks like you have a strong dedication to her flexibility. So I would truly motivate you to invest a long time [contemplating] what’s the very best, free-est, securest variation of ‘we’ that [you two] can develop? And what are those activities that sustain that?” DeVon asked.
They have actually been concentrated on themselves as people for so long, however they now need to get used to being a group. The self-help author verifies that Justin has “no issue” with Alexis desiring that sensation of flexibility. The logistics expert, in turn, opens about his real issue.
“I seem like I have a prospective opportunity of losing her,” he confesses.
That may be precisely what his partner requires to hear. “I take pride in you,” Alexis smiles. “I’m so pleased with you.”
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Can Pakistan survive the domestic insurgency?
With claims that Pakistan’s capacity to fight a conventional war has been reduced to a mere 3 days, the question I ask you is this: Can Pakistan army win a war with Afghanistan while it is faced with domestic insurgency, the TTP and defiant masses in PoJK-GB? – writes Amjad Ayub Mirza
In this article, I will attempt to look at the international, regional and national challenges and the possibility presented to us in terms of creating a different future for ourselves.
The war in Ukraine has shattered the dream of a cohesive and sustainable economic model called the European Union. It has brought Europe and NATO to the brink of a wider conflict that could bring about the collapse of the European Union as a viable economic project that was supposed to guarantee long term and sustainable peace in this part of the world.
German economy is facing a gloomy 2023 as energy crisis caused by the Ukraine war bites European economies. Therefore, the expectation of a possible post-Covid economic recovery in Germany is not happening. Hence, social unrest is on the horizon, and in a big way.
More than 30 German companies have announced that they are planning to cut down production in 2023. Inflation is double digits for the first time since reunification in 1990.
A survey by UK-based economists conducted with the assistance of the Financial Times has concluded that global recession will hit UK harder and longer than other G-7 countries. This will result in UK GDP shrinking by at least 1 per cent.
Industrial strikes are now kicking in and predictions suggest that social unrest combined with industrial action will rock London like never before.
In France, 20 per cent of students are reported to be living below the poverty line and this is despite France giving more financial help to students than most European countries. Recent sporadic riots in Paris are an indication that there is more to come.
Asia seems even more volatile. China is using Belt and Road Initiative as a pretext for imperialist economic expansion but it seems to be going nowhere.
Due to terrorism, China has suspended work on hydropower projects in Pakistan’s Swat and Shangla districts since July 2022. The Baloch insurgency has brought the Pakistan China Economic Corridor project to halt.
It is in this light that we should look at the regional developments in India, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey and beyond.
Indian economy is taking long strides in growth and export which has enabled it to climb to the status of the fifth largest economy of the world surpassing the United Kingdom.
Afghanistan has fallen under the yolk of an Islamic fundamentalist regime of the Taliban. This regional shift in power has ripped apart the whole democratic fabric of the Afghan society leading to authoritarian rule governed by fear and persecution. Women rights have been usurped and women have been barred from gaining university education. This has accelerated the isolation of Afghanistan among the global community even further.
Iran has entered a fifth month of deadly protests and riots against the Islami nizam (system) and the mandatory wearing of the hijab (head scarf). The Iranian currency Riyal has devalued to the tune of 42,000 Riyal to the dollar.
Turkey is experiencing an inflation of up to 64 per cent. The Turkish Central Bank has asked commercial creditors to refrain from large purchase in dollars due to lack of sufficient foreign currency reserves which have shrunk to less than $10 billion.
For the first time in decades, Bangladesh’s economic growth is stalling forcing it to seek a loan of $4.5 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The international orders that Bangladesh economy thrived upon due to the low manufacturing cost have gone through the roof due to increase in petrol costs since the Ukraine war.
Sri Lanka seems doomed and has become an epitome of Chinese debt diplomacy and economic exploitation. The forecast for 2023 is no different. The government has put a ban on employment for jobs in the public sector. The IMF is pressing Sri Lanka to agree to urgent debt resolution. The current debt of Sri Lanka stands at $40 billion of which 22 per cent is from Chinese creditors.
Pakistani Generals accuse Taliban govt of sheltering anti-Pakistan groups as 5 soldiers killed in attack.(photo:IN)
Pakistan is faced with the threat of going bankrupt due to lack of a sustainable economic or even political infrastructure and almost zero foreign currency reserve in real terms. Inflation rate is close to 30 per cent and on the rise.
The so-called parliament in Islamabad is still at the mercy of political engineering orchestrated by the Pakistan military establishment including the Inter Services Intelligence agency (ISI) in Islamabad and the General (Army) Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi.
The IMF is making demands on Pakistan to take harsh economic steps including raising the fuel prices by up to 200 per cent, increase the General Sales Tax on commodities and slash government spending.
Two sessions of National Security Council (NSC) conducted during last and this week (Monday) chaired by Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif himself have failed to come up with a comprehensive plan to tackle economic crisis or the threat of terrorism in the northwestern and the southwestern parts of the country.
The military has informed the NSC that they do not have funds to carry out extensive military campaigns against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or the Baloch insurgents.
The economic situation is so bad that the Combined Military Hospitals (CMH) have refused to treat retired military officers and their families due to lack of medicine.
In recent months, more than 5,000 Pakistan military officers have been reported to have submitted their resignation at the GHQ.
The corps commanders meeting held in Rawalpindi two weeks ago came up with a comprehensive plan to cut perks and privileges of the officers serving in the army.
Daily casualties that the Pakistan army is enduring at the hands of the TTP and the Baloch fighters has brought the moral of the general rank and file crashing down.
And, now, in the Pakistan occupied territory of Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB), a new wave of unrest has unfolded like never before.
For weeks, protestors have braved the sub-zero temperatures to attend protest rallies and sit-ins against government’s attempts of systematic land grab of private properties, imposing a revenue act, increase in fuel taxes, load shedding and cuts on wheat subsidies.
In Pakistani occupied Jammu Kashmir (PoJK), strikes against load shedding, price hike, increase in electricity bills, forced redundancies of health workers, non-payment of salaries, and delays in pensions have rocked every major city from Rawalakot in Poonch division to Bhimber in Mirpur division right up to the capital city of Muzaffarabad.
The state of Pakistan is in no position to crush a rebellion in PoGB or PoJK if the wider masses attempt to capture the so-called legislative assemblies, form a transitional government and declare a break with the state of Pakistan.
All indicators point toward an actuality that today the liberation of the people of PoJK-GB stands a chance of turning into a reality.
TTP announces shadow government as fighting with Pakistan intensifies(IN)
The TTP has announced the formation of a parallel government in Pakistan. The Afghan Taliban have moved their troops to Spin Boldak cantonment on the Pak-Afghan border along with military vehicles and armoured cars from Kabul to Kandahar. Pakistan has shifted Chinese and Turkish drones parked at the drone site near Mangla to Peshawar.
All of this indicates that the clouds of a protected war between Pakistan and Afghanistan are gathering at a lightning speed.
With the world busy tackling the economic uncertainty caused by the war in Ukraine, China is trying to contain a massive unrest caused by Covid restriction and a downfall in employment, and, with Iran and Turkey in turmoil I do not see how the rest of the civilised world would be able to rescue Pakistan.
Above all, with claims that Pakistan’s capacity to fight a conventional war has been reduced to a mere 3 days, the question I ask you is this: Can Pakistan army win a war with Afghanistan while it is faced with domestic insurgency, the TTP and defiant masses in PoJK-GB? Probably not.
All indicators point to a natural conclusion that if every single occupied nation living under the oppression of Pakistan decides to strike in unison, only then it could manifest the beginning of the end of the vile state of Pakistan.
And therefore I ask you again, this question: Would you not agree that the time to step forward and create a better future for generations to come has ever been so promising.
(Dr is an author and a human rights activist from Mirpur in PoJK. He currently lives in exile in the UK.)
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Physicists Just Broke the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Zayan Guedim Apr 23, 2019 at 7:15 am GMT
Zayan Guedim
Apr 23, 2019 at 7:15 am GMT
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We observe the principles of thermodynamics every day.
Left at room temperature, hot coffee can only get colder, whereas a cold beer can only get warmer. As two open natural systems, both the coffee and the beer can’t help but seek thermodynamic equilibrium — this is the second law of thermodynamics at work.
The second principle of thermodynamics states that entropy in an isolated system inevitably and irreversibly increases over time. Or in simpler words, heat can only transfer from hot to cold systems.
First formulated by Thompson in 1852, this law also applies to the Universe that is gravitating towards an equilibrium where heat is uniformly distributed across the cosmos. But because it’s expanding, the Universe might never reach thermodynamic equilibrium, or it could end in a “Heat Death”, when its entropy reaches its maximum.
From systems as insignificant as a cup of coffee, to our body, to the Universe at large, the second law of thermodynamics rules everything.
Life itself could be considered as a manifestation of the second law of thermodynamics, so it’s important to understand how this principle works — and how it doesn’t.
A team of Swiss researchers has built a device that at first glance seems to be violating the second law of thermodynamics.
Magic Cooling Device: Turning Boiling Water to Ice, no Energy Needed
Physicists at the University of Zurich (UZH) have found a way to go beyond the limitations imposed by the second law of thermodynamics.
They built an “amazingly simple” cooling device that overcomes constraints put on the direction of heat energy transfer allowing “heat to flow temporarily from a cold to a warm object.”
The experimental device can turn boiling water to ice without the need for an external power supply.
Professor Andreas Schilling’s research group from the Department of Physics at UZH used their device to bring the temperature of a piece of copper from over 100°C to significantly below room temperature, all with no energy consumption from an external source.
The team used Peltier elements that transform electric currents into temperature differences.
For the cooling of beverages, some hotel rooms are equipped with minibars that use Peltier-type appliances, or thermoelectric refrigeration, instead of absorption refrigerators with high power consumption and heat loss.
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Schilling’s team previously used Peltier elements in experiments:
“In connection with an electric inductor, to create an oscillating heat current in which the flow of heat between two bodies perpetually changed direction. In this scenario, heat also temporarily flows from a colder to a warmer object so that the colder object is cooled down further.”
Still, researchers say the device is technically in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics.
“With this very simple technology, large amounts of hot solid, liquid or gaseous materials could be cooled to well below room temperature without any energy consumption,” said Prof. Schilling.
However, Schilling admitted that the Peltier elements currently available in the market aren’t efficient enough for the large-scale application of this technology.
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New Delhi - In a bid to increase it! s outbound passenger traffic, Air India entered into a single codeshare agreement with Slovenian national airline Adria Airways. According to senior Air India official, the codeshare agreement will provide seamless travel experience to passengers from India to Slovenia. “Passengers can now travel on a single ticket from India to Slovenia. Air India will fly passengers to Frankfurt and there onwards Adria Airways will ferry passengers to Slovenia's capital Ljubljana,” a senior official with Air India told IANS. The agreement comes nearly two months after Air India's chairman and managing director (CMD) Rohit Nandan visited Slovenia to follow up on an earlier memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the two airlines.
Low-cost carrier SpiceJet on Monday triggered a third round of fare war by cutting ticket prices by a massive 75 per cent, a move which was soon followed by its rivals GoAir and IndiGo.
This is the third time in last one month that the Kalanithi Maran-promoted carrier has doled out enticing fares to customers, forcing the rivals to ape the move.
“Super Summer Sale’ offers up to 75 per cent off base fare plus fuel surcharge relative to last minute fares, for travel between April 1 and June 30,” SpiceJet said while announcing the scheme.
This offer comes after the “overwhelming” success of the earlier two similar schemes and aims at making those seats available to passengers at highly discounted advance purchase rates which would otherwise go empty, it said.
In mid-January, soon after the festive season came to an end, SpiceJet had triggered a fare war by offering up to 50 per cent discounts and subsequently 30 per cent discounts on tickets, which was followed by other carriers too.
“We received overwhelming positive feedback from customers who booked the earlier ‘Super Sales’ for taking the lead in making air travel more affordable not only for frequent travellers but also those who intend to take journey from other modes,” SpiceJet COO Sanjiv Kapoor said.
These offers are a win-win for customers, airlines and for the travel industry as well, he said.
Following suit, GoAir announced up to 70 per cent reduction in fares for booking in the next three days,
starting Monday, while IndiGo came out with discounted tickets on select sectors.
“SpiceJet and IndiGo are providing discounts on their summer fares to stimulate the market and leverage advance bookings for the upcoming holiday season. SpiceJet has launched a three-day sale with discounts ranging from 35 per cent to 75 per cent on current fares across sectors between the 1st of April and the 30th of June.
“We are already seeing strong demand on the key leisure destinations like Goa, Kerala, etc. and bookings have more than doubled post the announcement,” travel portal Yatra.com President Sharat Dhall said.
SpiceJet, facing fund crunch for quite some time now, posted a net loss of Rs. 172 crore in the December quarter.
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Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II “WartHog”
By Warbird August 15, 2008 A-10 Thunderbolt II, Fairchild Republic, Planes 11 Comments
The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II is also known as the Warthog, the Flying Gun and the Tankbuster. The A-10 and OA-10 Thunderbolt IIs are the first Air Force aircraft specially designed for close air support of ground forces. They are simple, effective and survivable twin-engine jet aircraft that can be used against all ground targets, including tanks and other armored vehicles. The primary mission of the A-10 is to provide day and night close air combat support for friendly land forces and to act as forward air controller (FAC) to coordinate and direct friendly air forces in support of land forces. The A-10 has a secondary mission of supporting search and rescue and Special Forces operations. It also possesses a limited capability to perform certain types of interdiction. All of these missions may take place in a high or low threat environment
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An A-10 pilot, takes off in an A-10 Thunderbolt II in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle)
Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. – An A-10C Thunderbolt II ground attack aircraft pulls up sharply out of a low-level strafing run during a combat search and rescue demonstration here Oct 4. The digitally-upgraded A-10C has been equipped with satellite-guided precision weaponry and advanced communications data links for transferring information with ground-based warfighters. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Tech. Sgt. Parker Gyokeres)
An A-10 Thunderbolt II takes off from Bagram Airfield, to fly a combat sortie in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The A-10 has excellent maneuverability at low air speeds and altitude, and is a highly accurate weapons-delivery platforms. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson)
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan ñ Senior Airman Troy Brown marshals an A-10 Thunderbolt II onto the end of the runway for de-arming after a combat sortie. Airman Brown and the A-10 are deployed from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Jennifer Gurganus)
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan ñ Senior Airman Troy Brown marshals an A-10 Thunderbolt II onto the end of the runway for de-arming after a combat sortie. Airman Brown and the A-10 are deployed from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Jennifer Gurganus)
The A/OA-10 aircraft was specifically developed as a close air support aircraft with reliability and maintainability as major design considerations. The Air Force requirements documents emphasized payload, low altitude flying capability, range and loiter capability, low speed maneuverability and weapons delivery accuracy. The A-10 is slow enough to be an observation plane. This greatly increases the A-10’s effectiveness at protecting ground troops. The aircraft is suitable for operation from forward air bases, with short take-off and landing capability. The aircraft has a long range (800 miles) and endurance and can loiter in the battle area.
The A/OA-10 is a single place, pressurized, low wing and tail aircraft with two General Electric TF-34-100/A turbo-fan engines, each with a sea level static thrust rating of approximately 9000 pounds. The engines are installed in nacelles mounted on pylons extending from the fuselage just aft of and above the wing. Two vertical stabilizers are located at the outboard tips of the horizontal stabilizers. The forward retracting tricycle landing gear incorporates short struts and a wide tread. The nose wheel retracts fully into the fuselage nose. The main gear retracts into streamlined fairing on the wing with the lower portion of the wheel protruding to facilitate emergency gear-up landings.
The A-10’s survivability in the close air support arena greatly exceeds that of previous Air Force aircraft. The A-10 is designed to survive even the most disastrous damage and finish the mission by landing on an unimproved airfield. Specific survivability features include titanium armor plated cockpit, redundant flight control system separated by fuel tanks, manual reversion mode for flight controls, foam filled fuel tanks, ballistic foam void fillers, and a redundant primary structure providing “get home” capability after being hit.
All of the A-10’s glass is bulletproof and the cockpit itself is surrounded by a heavy tub of titanium. Titanium armor protects both the pilot and critical areas of the flight control system. This titanium “bathtub” can survive direct hits from armor-piercing and high explosive projectiles up to 37mm in size. The front windscreen can withstand up to a 23mm projectile. Fire retardant foam protects the fuel cells which are also self sealing in the event of puncture.
The redundant primary structural sections allow the aircraft to enjoy better survivability during close air support than did previous aircraft. Designers separated all of the crucial battle and flight systems. Manual systems back up their redundant hydraulic flight-control systems. This permits pilots to fly and land when hydraulic power is lost. The wheels can roll in their pods, which lets the plane perform belly landings without significant damage to the aircraft. Dual engines are mounted away from the Warthog’s fuselage; if one is destroyed, the other can propel the craft to safety. Dual vertical stabilizers shield the hot exhaust from Russian-designed heat seeking missiles. The A-10 has two hydraulic flight control systems, backed up by a manual flight control system. This redundancy allows the pilot to control a battle damaged aircraft, even after losing all hydraulic power. Furthermore, redundant primary structural and control surfaces enhance survivability. Lastly, the long low-set wings are designed to allow flight, even if half a wing is completely blown off. No other modern aircraft can survive such punishment. The wings themselves are set low to allow for more weaponry to fit beneath the aircraft.
The General Electric Aircraft Armament Subsystem A/A49E-6 (30 millimeter Gun System) is located in the forward nose section of the fuselage. The gun system consists of the 30mm Gatling gun mechanism, double-ended link-less ammunition feed, storage assembly and hydraulic drive system. The General Electric GAU-8/A 30mm seven barrel cannon, specifically designed for the A-10, provides unmatched tank killing capability. The gun fires armor-piercing depleted uranium projectiles capable of penetrating heavy armor. It also fires a high explosive incendiary round, which is extremely effective against soft skinned targets like trucks. The cannon fires at a rate of 4,200 rounds per minute.
The A-10/OA-10 have excellent maneuverability at low air speeds and altitude, and are highly accurate weapons-delivery platforms. The A-10 has half the turning radius of the Air Force’s other primary CAS aircraft, the F-16. After initially leaving a target, the A-10 can turn around and hit the same target again, all in around 7 seconds. Due to its large combat radius, the Thunderbolt II can loiter for extended periods of time, allowing for the coordination required to employ within yards of friendly forces. They can operate under 1,000-foot ceilings (300 meters) with 1.5-mile (2.4 kilometers) visibility. Using night vision goggles, A-10/ OA-10 pilots can conduct their missions during darkness. The A-10s highly accurate weapons delivery system makes it effective against all ground targets including tanks and other armored vehicles.
The Thunderbolt II can employ a wide variety of conventional munitions, including general purpose bombs, cluster bomb units, laser guided bombs, joint direct attack munitions or JDAM), wind corrected munitions dispenser or WCMD, AGM-65 Maverick and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, rockets, illumination flares, and the GAU-8/A 30mm cannon, capable of firing 3,900 rounds per minute to defeat a wide variety of targets including tanks.
The first flight of the A-10 was in May 1972, and a total of 707 aircraft have since been produced. Originally manufactured by Fairchild, since 1987 the prime contractor for the A-10 has been Northrop Grumman, which carries out support and structural upgrade programmes from the Integrated Systems and Aerostructures Divisions at Bethpage, New York and at St Augustine in Florida.
The first production A-10A was delivered to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., in October 1975. It was designed especially for the close air support mission and had the ability to combine large military loads, long loiter and wide combat radius, which proved to be vital assets to America and its allies during Operation Desert Storm. In the Gulf War, A-10s, with a mission capable rate of 95.7 percent, flew 8,100 sorties and launched 90 percent of the AGM-65 Maverick missiles. The Thunderbolt II has also participated in operations Southern Watch, Provide Comfort, Desert Fox, Noble Anvil, Deny Flight, Deliberate Guard, Allied Force, Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
The upgraded A-10C reached initial operation capability in September 2007. Specifically designed for close air support, its combination of large and varied ordnance load, long loiter time, accurate weapons delivery, austere field capability, and survivability has proven invaluable to the United States and its allies.Over 350 A-10 aircraft are in service with the US Air Force, Air Combat Command, the US Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard.
Primary Function: A-10 — close air support, OA-10 – airborne forward air control
Contractor: Fairchild Republic Co.
Power Plant: Two General Electric TF34-GE-100 turbofans
Thrust: 9,065 pounds each engine
Wingspan: 57 feet, 6 inches (17.42 meters)
Length: 53 feet, 4 inches (16.16 meters)
Height: 14 feet, 8 inches (4.42 meters)
Weight: 29,000 pounds (13,154 kilograms)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 51,000 pounds (22,950 kilograms)
Fuel Capacity: 11,000 pounds (7,257 kilograms)
Payload: 16,000 pounds (7,257 kilograms)
Speed: 420 miles per hour (Mach 0.56)
Range: 800 miles (695 nautical miles)
Ceiling: 45,000 feet (13,636 meters)
Armament: One 30 mm GAU-8/A seven-barrel Gatling gun; up to 16,000 pounds (7,200 kilograms) of mixed ordnance on eight under-wing and three under-fuselage pylon stations, including 500 pound (225 kilograms) Mk-82 and 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms) Mk-84 series low/high drag bombs, incendiary cluster bombs, combined effects munitions, mine dispensing munitions, AGM-65 Maverick missiles and laser-guided/electro-optically guided bombs; infrared countermeasure flares; electronic countermeasure chaff; jammer pods; 2.75-inch (6.99 centimeters) rockets; illumination flares and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles.
Crew: One
Unit Cost: Not available
Initial operating capability: A-10A, 1977; A-10C, 2007
Inventory: Active force, A-10, 143 and OA-10, 70; Reserve, A-10, 46 and OA-10, 6; ANG, A-10, 84 and OA-10, 18
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11 thoughts on “Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II “WartHog””
tahtimbo August 15, 2008 at 6:02 pm
I love these planes. I was lucky enough to see one of these up close and personal, at an airshow. Since the A-10’s are stationed a few miles from our house, we get frequent fly-overs. Very intimidating to actually touch the main gun.
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Schanzerx August 16, 2008 at 10:12 am
Do you know the flight simulator “LockOn”? The A-10 is my favorite plane in the game.
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Warbird Post author August 16, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I have not heard of it, but I will check it out. Thanks for stopping by.
Tahtimbo, that must have been awesome, the A-10 is one of my favorite planes, I love the picture that I was able to find.
yanjiaren August 17, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Wow the pic is great and has such vibrancy..
I like the way you put the specifications in the post. I will come back to read more.
Stumbled the post too as yanjiaren5..well worth the stumbling. I find it very interesting to see new technology.
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Yanjiaren, thanks for stopping by, look forward to seeing you back again.
Maldiveslive August 18, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Very useful information for sky rocket viewers. I love your article.
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Anthony August 29, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Great post! I love that plane.
I’m retired form the Air Force of my country and when on duty used to fly as a WSO on a turbofan powered airplane with similar capabilities and purpose, the argentinian IA-58 “Pucará” which was “my” airplane for 12 years.
We, at our Squadron always saw the A-10 as the “next step” airplane to accomplish our task.
Keep the good work!
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Warbird Post author September 2, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Glad you liked the A-10 post. Come visit again, we have a surprise for you!
Sara December 28, 2019 at 6:53 am
I stumbled across this 1977 Fairchild Air Show press kit featuring the A-10. Any ideas what to do with it? Id love for it to be in the right hands. [email protected]
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Sir Lovelot Review: A Bite-Sized Adventure (PS5)
Sir Lovelot is the next entry in the tough 2D platformer craze, following in the footsteps of Super Meat Boy and Celeste. Set out on a cartoony adventure to save the princesses across the land. However, does it do enough to stand out from the crowd?
Adam Conner 2021-03-14
We all love 2D platformers. The genre rose to popularity during the NES and SNES era but slowly faded into obscurity with the advent of 3D graphics. Over the past roughly 10 years, 2D platformers have seen a surge in popularity, in some AAA games, but mostly on the indie scene. Donkey Kong Country: Returns and Rayman Origins proved that 2D platformers can be inventive, and indie darlings like Shovel Knight showcased how well classic 2D platformers can perform when done right. Tight controls, colourful art, and bright music make Sir Lovelot a great experience that only adds to the genre.
Sir Lovelot is available on PS5, PS4, Xbox One X/S, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, and Steam for your regional pricing.
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Gameplay – Precise fun
The number one thing that previous hits in this genre have is precise controls; Sir Lovelot is no exception. Movement feels great, every single jump and move is precise and I rarely felt frustrated. You can also shoot bullets to damage enemies, which looks quite strange considering he is a knight. You also have a dash move which I didn’t find out about until halfway through the game; I stupidly didn’t check the controls in the options menu so that was on me. From the get-go, the pixelated knight leaves a good impression due to how well he controls.
One thing I would like to commend the game on is the lack of story, hence why there is no story section in the review. I personally prefer as little story in 2D platformers as possible. When there is too much dialogue or cutscenes, it can kill the pacing of an otherwise good game.
There are four worlds on show here, each with its own main mechanic that is slowly built upon to ramp up the difficulty. The second world introduces water, which I wasn’t a fan of; the game is extremely fast and movement feels accurate but too often I found myself battling with the swimming mechanics. There are a few other level mechanics like levers to open doors or buttons to move platforms but for the most part, the game sticks with traditional 2D platforming, which I loved.
The levels themselves are really well designed, typically littered with spikes, enemies, and plenty of obstacles to get prevent you from reaching the end. Dying puts you back to the start of the room but the instant load times meant there was never too long a wait to jump back into the action. This is a must in these types of games so hats off to pixel.lu for implementing it.
Some tough platforming
Having only four worlds meant the game is quite short – at 61% completion, I have 1:30 logged. There may be a few more hours in it for completionists but I was never one to 100% 2D platformers. How you would do this though is by finding collectibles in the levels and completing them in a certain amount of deaths. There are 4 collectibles – flowers are required to beat the levels; gems, rings, lollipops, and geese are all optional and count towards 100% completion. Rings and lollipops are usually out in the open, requiring you to complete a particularly difficult part of a level, whereas gems and geese are found behind secret walls, which Sir Lovelot does a good job at leading you to these if you keep your eye out.
There is very little in the way of boss fights. At the end of each world, there is a chase mission where you just run away from a rolling skull. I found these a fun way to change up the pace. They acted as a culmination of all the mechanics used in the world but with added urgency. The only true boss fight is the final boss and it didn’t really stand out in any regard.
I was expecting a challenge. I died on average 6.23 times per level, which isn’t much at all when I consider my playthrough of Super Meat Boy. While there is a small amount of trial and error, the levels are relatively simple to navigate. Finding the secrets and obtaining the optional collectibles is where the challenge arises. I personally think this is the best way for platformers to be designed. If you take the recent Donkey Kong Country games for example. Beating them poses some challenges, but trying for completion increases the difficulty, making it accessible to all fans of the platforming genre.
Graphics and Audio – A real standout
The presentation is by far the stand out in Sir Lovelot, oozing charm in every way. The protagonist himself is a cute knight and the enemy designs match the style. For such small sprites, they are extremely expressive. The four different worlds are essentially palette swaps. This would usually be an issue but the brevity of the game meant it never wore down on me.
The cuteness of Sir Lovelot is only amplified by the little ‘pew’ noises when you shoot or the bubble-like pop noise when you meet your untimely demise. Audio in general is solid, giving good feedback when you kill an enemy, die, or flick a switch. The tunes accompanying you on your adventure are a highlight. They match the style of the game perfectly and lend themselves to the frantic nature of a 2D platformer where every jump counts.
Orange palette swap
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End of level
Sir Lovelot was reviewed on PS5, a review code was provided by Evolve PR
Sir Lovelot is a great 2D platformer. While it does nothing new, what it offers is some tight platforming, a decent challenge, and some gorgeous visuals. Since the game is short, its lack of innovation doesn't stand out, and at a cheap price, it's worth a buy for any fans of Celeste or Super Meat Boy.
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Woodchester Valley beat established rivals to the coveted crown Credit: ITV News
Until now wine production in Gloucestershire has been something of a well-kept secret.
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Widely recognised as one of the most coveted prizes in the world of wine, the boutique vineyard beat more established rivals to win the £20-£30 bottle category of unoaked entries.
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It's a reward for 15 years of hard work cultivating three sites in the Stroud Valley where, unlike other English vineyards, only grapes grown on-site produce the wine made there.
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What began as a one-acre site in 2007 is now 57 acres strong filled with 83,000 vines producing an average of 100,000 bottles of white, red, rose, still and sparkling a year.
Woodchester's 50 tanks hold around 4,000 bottle of wine each Credit: ITV News
Winemaker Jeremy Mount quit a New Zealand vineyard to join the Stroud family-run business, so passionate is he about the growing English market.
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Art collective to pass on message at New Haven show
Oct. 15, 2019 Updated: Oct. 15, 2019 2:57 p.m.
The Concepts Group members with their mentor Constance Keirmaier.
Rejuvenation by Donna Collins will be included in the "Creativity is the Key" show.
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The 11 members of the Concepts Group will display their commissioned work on Nov. 2 and Nov. 3 at the West Yale Campus in Orange.
Members of a Fairfield County artist collective, known as the Concepts Group, will be paying their mentor’s message forward in their “Creativity is the Key” show Nov. 2-3 as one of the 13 projects commissioned for Artspace’s annual City-Wide Open Studios exhibit in New Haven.
Meg Tweedy, a member of Concepts Group, said the 11 members of the collective will be displaying a piece of art inspired by a key given to each of them by their former mentor Constance Kiermaier. In 2016, at age 88, Keirmaier moved to Maine, but not before the retired art instructor took the time to impart a personal message with a key to each of her students in the Concepts Group.
Now years later, the students will reunite with Keirmaier for the Concepts Group’s “Creativity is the Key” show at the West Yale Campus in Orange. During the show, the artists will display their individual keys and messages with their recent work to show how Keirmaier’s passion inspired her students.
“We are excited to be able to pay this act forward during our show,” Donna Collins, a founding member of the group, said. She added that they will provide an interactive table with materials where visitors can craft their own “creativity keys.”
In addition to Collins and Tweedy, the Concepts Group is rounded out by Carol Conze, Karen Neems, Cate Leach, Pam Lindberg, Jane Lubin, Mary Manning, Lisa Thoren, Cynthia Whalen and Mary Whalen. All of the members vary in age from 60-92 and reside in Darien, Stamford, Norwalk, Greenwich and Westport.
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Rams hire Sean McVay as youngest NFL Head Coach Ever
by January 12, 2017 0 comment
The coaching search for the Los Angeles Rams head coach has ended with the Rams hiring Sean McVay as the new head coach. McVay who will turn 31 in a couple of weeks is now the youngest ever to hold the position of head coach.
McVay was responsible for turning around not only the offense with Washington Redskins, but also in veteran quarterback Kirk Cousins. Cousins had two very impressive seasons the last two seasons under McVay as the Offensive Coordinator.
McVay is the grandson of former head coach of the New York Giants and San Franciso 49ers Executive John McVay who was responsible for the success and run of the 49ers in the 80’s.
The Rams are getting a former high school quarterback as their new head coach who is very creative with the football. McVay will be looking to develop Jared Goff into the QB the franchise envisioned when they drafted him no.1 overall last year.
The hiring of McVay has silenced all the complaints and frustration of the Los Angeles fans on the news that broke early this morning the San Diego Chargers would be relocating to Los Angeles and play their home games at the Stub Hub Center in Carson, CA.
Rams fans get ready for a great season under this offensive minded coach who will air the ball often opening gaping holes for Todd Gurley with the run.
Coaching staff has not been named but it has been rumored that Wade Phillips will be the Defensive Coordinator and expect that Anthony Lynn will be the Offensive Coordinator.
Possible McVay/Phillips ticket could make the Rams great again
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By BlogMaster | Published March 21, 2014
Committing solely to wireless technology is ‘a recipe for failure’ for integrators. Here are the four home network infrastructure options to consider for every project.
Commitment certainly has its place in this world, like in relation to spouses or sports teams. But over-committing to a singular technology? That can be a risky move.
While Wi-Fi is the technology buzzword, particularly with homeowners, those of us tasked with actually fitting the myriad of modern electronics and digital services into a high-functioning, seamlessly networked home must understand the whole landscape.
What makes the current 802.11 Wi-Fi standards so alluring is the convenience of its mobility, ubiquity, and interoperability between so many devices. While the appeal is that Wi-Fi is seemingly in everything—our computers and smartphones, our televisions and cameras—that is also part of the problem. The 2.4GHz spectrum is being shared by all of your Wi-Fi devices, all of your neighbors’ Wi-Fi devices, and even proprietary devices such as baby monitors.
That’s quite a load. When the physical limitations of RF bands are strained or exceeded, it reduces the quality of service for every device, and consequently every person relying on them.
Those limitations are the source of audio drop offs, buffering delays or reduced definition during a streaming movie, and latency in competitive multiplayer video games. These nuisances undermine the intent of quick, reliable access to content, which is the very point of incorporating many technologies into the home. Your customers deserve better than that.
Part of the solution can be to use the 5GHz band for 802.11n or the upcoming 802.11ac standard to help alleviate some bandwidth traffic, but these options are not without their own limitations. First, the 5GHz band has less range than 2.4GHz and struggles to pass through walls and other building obstacles. Second, many devices today only communicate on 2.4GHz. While additional devices are expected to be dual band, 2.4GHz will continue to be the most used band in the near future.
So, truthfully, the real solution is recognizing wireless is not the be all, end all. And that’s okay. What a network needs to be about is uninterrupted access and content, and it falls on the installer’s shoulders to ensure the best user-experience.
Networking a home with a strong wired backbone remains the best practice to achieve top performance. Should an existing home have only a limited wired Ethernet network, a coax network using the MoCA standard, or a powerline network using the HomePlug AV standard, may be able to bridge the Ethernet service to the desired destination. Both of these wired technologies are affordable and easy-to-install networking alternatives that can relieve the Wi-Fi network of its highest bandwidth responsibilities. This will ensure superior performance for streaming and surfing on mobile and smart devices.
At the end of the day, all customers really care about is streaming that movie on Netflix with a pristine picture, synced audio, and no interruptions. Committing solely to a specific technology is a recipe for failure. Employing multiple technologies to build a complete, robust networking solution that can handle multiple applications is often the best solution.
Knowing Your Networking Options
When it comes to home networking, some technologies get more press than others these days (like, wireless). However, there are many viable options out there, each suited to address particular needs and overcome specific obstacles. Understanding all of the technologies available allows you to make the educated call on how best to accomplish each stage of designing a strong network for the technology-filled home.
Here’s a quick roll call of the networking players:
The Not-Extinct Ethernet Option: This option remains tried and true. Despite the introduction of newer alternatives with impressive stats and advantages, the truth is that nothing is faster, more reliable, or more secure than wired Ethernet systems. The solution already offers throughput capabilities of up to a Gigabit per second in a 1000BaseT network and 10Gbps for a commercial oriented 10GBaseT network using Cat 6a.
And innovation hasn’t stopped finding new uses of Ethernet, either. HDBaseT has made it viable to use Ethernet cables for transmitting HDMI signals over long distances, enabling streaming of high definition video and audio around to multiple areas from a central location. Though retrofitting Ethernet installations into existing homes can be costly and labor intensive, it is the best option for steady, high-quality performance.
The Up-and-Coming Coax Option: For existing homes with a limited Ethernet network, coax networking is emerging as a feasible alternative technology. Commonly referred to as MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) in deference to the technology’s leading standards body, this technology is already built into most cable boxes for multi-room DVR functionality. MoCA works reliably by transmitting over a frequency band unused by cable TV transmissions.
MoCA can also be used to stream video and audio to areas of the home that were previously without streaming service. The most frequently used MoCA standard today, 1.1, has a throughput of 170Mbps. The speed and reliability of this offering, paired with its ease to employ and cost-effectiveness, make it an attractive choice.
The Not-To-Be-Overlooked Powerline Option: The powerline option uses the readily available electrical lines to extend a home network’s reach. Though early powerline technologies encountered many issues, making some installers wary of the technology, the more recent standards from the HomePlug Powerline Alliance deserve due consideration due to better performance and greater stability. The HomePlug AV2 specification, introduced in 2012, delivers a maximum throughput of 500Mbps. It’s also the simplest of networking equipment options to configure. Merely plugging in two powerline networking modules gets a quick auto-confirmation of the connection within seconds. The modules then act as transmitters or receivers for data signals over the electrical line, and with most hardware, provide extra Ethernet ports for incredible flexibility.
Like all technologies, this one also has limits and obstacles. One obstacle is surge protectors, which can block network transmissions. Powerline also suffers from greater signal loss and more noise than Ethernet cable or coax, making it the third best option for high-bandwidth applications. However, for a simple and convenient solution, powerline technology may be the best fit for a fast extension of the wired network.
The Ubiquitous Wireless Option: Wireless is the new “it” thing. It’s the enabler for all mobile applications and often thought to be the networking option that makes your customer the true master of his or her space . It’s an undeniably flexible solution, which can offer speed and convenience to both you and your customers. Since its formation in 1999, the Wi-Fi Alliance has governed the evolution of the most commonly used standards. The most recent standard, 802.11n, was released in 2009 and boasts an impressive maximum speed of 300Mbps with the capability to broadcast over two frequency bands, 2.4GHz and 5GHz.
The convenience of Wi-Fi is why it’s so frequently turned to for streaming our entertainment. But it also has limitations: Scarce bandwidth, range limitations and vulnerability to interference all need to be considered in the network design, and many of these limitations or shortcomings can be avoided by offloading high-bandwidth applications to wired networks where possible.
The key to constructing the most robust home network is assessing the best solution for the right application. There is no single solution that meets the performance expectations and budget of every application. Installers must understand the strengths and limitations of each solution so they can best service the needs of their customers.
By Tom Cunningham
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Tong Fuk prison guards arrested for smuggling porn, phones
Two guards at the Tong Fuk Correctional Institution have been arrested for allegedly smuggling contraband.
The two illegally brought into the prison mobile phones, cigarettes and USB sticks containing pornographic photos and videos, Oriental Daily reports.
ICAC and the Correctional Services Department carried out a joint investigation into the case and arrested the pair on October 23.
In another incident at the medium-security jail last week, a man imprisoned for his role in the 2016 Mongkok riot was attacked in a prison workshop.
The 34-year-old man victim, Lo Kinman, was taken to the hospital for assessment. He had been sentenced to seven-year term two years ago for rioting – one of the longest sentences handed out to demonstrators in Hong Kong’s spate of protests over the last six years.
The alleged assailant was a 32-year-old Vietnamese national serving time for immigration offences.
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Tong Fuk’s last calf dead as car hits two cattle on S. Lantau Rd
Two cattle from the Tong Fuk herd died this morning after being struck by a vehicle on South Lantau Road.
The female and its calf both suffered broken legs and abrasions in the accident, which occured near the old Tung Chung Road turn-off between 6am-7am.
Both were euthanised by AFCD vets at the scene.
The calf was the last born to the Tong Fuk herd prior to the neutering of all of the females.
Most females in other South Lantau herds have also been neutered in recent years as the AFCD, backed by local rural committees, try to aggressively limit and reduce cattle populations.
The driver of the car did not stop at the scene but later filed a report at South Lantau police station. No charges were laid.
Separately, a dog was killed on Tung Chung Rd last night. Altogether animals have died in four fatal accidents on Lantua since the start of summer.
Photos: Lantau Buffalo Association
Written by Robert Clark Leave a comment Posted in Accidents, Cattle & Buffalo Tagged with Tong Fuk
Illegal land filling consuming Tong Fuk coastal greenbelt
Tong Fuk has become the latest Lantau village to suffer from unauthorised land clearance, a result of the vague planning laws and lack of enforcement that have plagued the rest of the island.
In the last three years, reclamation work has claimed hundreds of square metres of greenbelt between Tong Fuk village and the oceanfront, HK01 has reported.
The original work created a car park but has continued well into the adjacent green space, a cattle habitat and recreation area that also hosts the annual poon choi banquet.
Lantau’s landfill love affair spreads to Tong Fuk
The reclamation intrudes onto government land but the developers have ignored Lands Department warnings to halt work.
As with the rapidly-disappearing Pui O wetland, the entire zone between South Lantau Road and the beachfront is designated Coastal Protection Area (CPA) – but no planning or environmental laws exist to provide any actual protection.
Local conservation group Save Lantau Alliance wrote to the Sustainable Lantau Office and other departments about the unauthorised development, HK01 reported.
Outline Zoning Plan: virtually all land between South Lantau Rd and beach is zoned CPA (Source: TPB)
The Planning Department confirmed that the site is zoned CPA, which means any land filling or development work requires permission from the Town Planning Board (TPB). It said no development application for a car park or landfill had been received.
But planning agencies exercise their powers through the development approval process, which has never covered Tong Fuk or other villages on South Lantau Road, so they have no power to influence or stop any development.
As the Planning Dept said: “There is no regulatory authority there.”
The private-held portion of land belongs to a Mui Wo-registered company called Yuky Co. Ltd (耀崎有限公司), according to HK01.
A 1980s court case involving the late Heung Yee Kuk strongman Lau Wongfat found that the government cannot enforce planning laws on privately-held agricultural land.
Written by Robert Clark Leave a comment Posted in development, Wetland Tagged with SLO, Tong Fuk
Woman detained after new-born baby allegedly thrown out of window
A 21-year-old Filipino woman has been detained by police after the corpse of a newly-born baby was discovered in an alley in Tong Fuk this morning.
The body of a baby girl with an umbilical cord attached was found around 10:30 by a neighbour letting his dog outside, Apple Daily reported.
A woman admitted to giving birth in the bathroom of her second floor apartment last night. She reportedly told police the baby was stillborn and had thrown it out of the window.
According to Apple Daily, the size of the foetus indicated it was 28 to 32 weeks old, but it had bruises and bleeding that may have been caused by falling from a height.
The woman’s mother, 53, who also lived in apartment, said she did not know her daughter was pregnant.
Lantau police blocked off the scene while they investigated. The later took a Filipina with Hong Kong ID to the station for further inquiries.
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Police called after campaign worker alleges assault in Tong Fuk
Police were called to Tong Fuk this evening after a canvasser for candidate Fung Siu Yin alleged she was assaulted by an unknown man.
The woman, a Mui Wo resident who declined to give her name, said she was handing out leaflets for Sunday’s district council poll when a man tried to take her campaign sign.
When she resisted, she said he struck her in the stomach and ran off. She said the contact was not forceful and she did not require medical attention.
The woman’s screams attracted a crowd, and she said she was “shocked” to find herself suddenly surrounded by about 12 people. Some of them abused her and threatened to attack her.
Lantau police mollify villagers
Another campaign volunteer called the police, who attended the scene at around 9:45 and spoke to the campaign workers and villagers. No arrests were made.
There is no suggestion that the incident was premeditated or involved any other political groups.
Written by Robert Clark 1 Comment Posted in Crime, Local politics Tagged with election 2019, Tong Fuk
Another porpoise washed ashore at Tong Fuk
A finless porpoise has washed up on the Tong Fuk beach yesterday, the latest in a spate of strandings.
It was the third found on Lantau and the eighth in Hong Kong this year, Apple Daily reports.
The porpoise, about 1.1 metres long, was severely decomposed, with its abdomen and tail cut open.
The Ocean Park Conservation Foundation said it was not possible to determine the cause of the wounds.
The foundation says members of the public who find a beached porpoise or dolphin should call the 1823 hotline.
Photo: Apple Daily
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Brawls break out in Tong Fuk prison over ‘illicit activities’
Two brawls broke out in Tong Fuk Correctional Institution earlier this month, causing injuries to an inmate and a prison guard.
The fights were connected to “illicit activities” in the medium security jail, the Correctional Services Department said.
The brawls, involving 13 prisoners and an unspecified number of staff, took place first in the laundry workshop and later in a dining hall on February 5.
Prison officers had received intelligence in late January about planned illegal activities and were on alert for the violence, the CSD said.
One prison officer suffered injuries to his shoulder and wrist and a prisoner sustained head and hand injuries in the brawls.
Both were transferred to hospital for further treatment.
Twelves prisoners involved in the brawls and suspected of involvement in illegal activity were separated and put under investigation.
The prison atmosphere was “stable” following the incidents, which had been reported to the police for further inquiry, CSD said.
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Five Lantau beaches added to priority cleanup list
Five more South Lantau beaches to the government’s priority foreshore cleaning roster.
From now on Cheung Sha, Tong Fuk, Shap Long, Ham Tin and Tai Long Wan are among 29 beaches that will be serviced by Marine Department cleaners.
Pui O, Fan Lau and Tai O on Lantau’s south and western coast, and Sam Pak Wan and Nim Shue Wan near Discovery Bay, were already on the list.
The Environmental Protection Department updated the list of coastal sites based on “factors including cleanliness, the amount of refuse collected, cleaning frequency, geographical and hydrodynamic conditions, public accessibility, ecological value and concerns raised by the public,” a government statement said.
A dozen beaches were dropped list because of “sustained improvements in their cleanliness,” the statement said.
South Lantau residents organised multiple beach cleanup operations last year after two typhoons and a palm oil spill.
Cleanup operations on the priority beaches have increased 50% since the list was created two years ago, the government says.
It says Hong Kong is now working with 13 cities in the Pearl River catchment to monitor real-time rainfall data to help predict which beaches might be hit with heavy volumes of marine rubbish.
A notification system has been activated seven times.
The Marine Department’s contractor has been operating 80 scavenging vessels to clean up floating refuse in Hong Kong waters since October.
The contractor’s fleet includes six new quick response workboats and two scavenging catamarans equipped with mechanical devices to increase the efficiency of clean-up operation in narrow water channels and to enhance scavenging service in offshore waters. In addition, the number of foreshore cleaning teams has been increased from two to three in order to step up efforts in cleaning up the foreshore areas.
Written by Robert Clark Leave a comment Posted in Environment, waste Tagged with beach cleanup, Cheung Sha, Ham Tin, Pui O, Tai Long Wan, Tong Fuk
With burglaries up 20%, Lantau police push video surveillance
Burglaries in Lantau are up 20% in the first 11 months of the year, police say, as they promote a video surveillance scheme for local villages.
Lantau District Police Commander Josephine Mak-Lau Wai-mun said the number of criminal cases this year is similar to last year, but burglaries and criminal damage cases have increased from 30 to 49.
Police are now rolling out a scheme called ‘Lantau Eyes’ in which they make use of CCTV owned by villagers to build up an anti-crime network, Apple Daily reports.
Currently nine villages, including Tong Fuk, Lo Wai village in Pui O and Ma Wan San Tsuen in Tung Chung, are taking part in the trial.
CCTV increases the difficulty of making crimes, Lau said. In Sham Shui Po, where she was previously posted, the number of burglaries had fallen by a quarter after introduction of video surveillance.
She said many of Lantau’s 58 villages were in remote locations, while villagers often were not accustomed to locking up at night or when they left their houses.
Mak said the first phase of the scheme would be to make good use of camera already installed by villagers themselves, while police would work with village leaders and rural committees to invest in the equipment.
Said police would have access to the video data only with the consent of the villagers.
Police also would post notices where videos were operating so that member of the public would be aware they were being recorded.
Fan Chi-ping, chairman of the Tung Chung Rural Committee, said it plans to spend $60,000 to $70,000 on video surveillance for its 16 villages.
Across the border, China has deployed AI-equipped 20 million cameras on city streets in the world’s most aggressive video surveillance programme.
Written by Robert Clark 1 Comment Posted in Crime, Police Tagged with Lo Wai, Pui O, Tong Fuk, Tung Chung
The Lantau fox is doing well but still hasn’t found a home
Three months after being found hungry and homeless, the Lantau red fox is doing well in quarantine at Ocean Park.
According to the park, right now “he is in good health, his appetite is good, and his weight is significantly higher,” according to HK Animal Post.
The baby fox was found in the Tong Fuk catchwater by snake-watcher Ivan Li in July. Li’s photos of the rescue went viral and were picked up by local media.
The animal, just a few months old when discovered, is not native to Hong Kong but is a popular pet in some countries. Most likely it was abandoned by its owner or those who smuggled it into the city.
The fox is half-way through its six-month quarantine period. However, Ocean Park has said it can’t look after it permanently because it is not compatible with its existing Arctic foxes and it lacks the expertise to care for it.
Eating well (Source: HK Animal Post)
In a letter to lawmaker Roy Kwong, the park said it is still in discussions over the fox’s long-term future, though it is committed to caring it it until the AFCD and the SPCA make final arrangements.
A spokesperson for the SPCA said some foreign animal care organisations had expressed interest in providing a permanent home, but each had different quarantine procedures and import regulations. The SPCA is still studying these.
However, the association doesn’t rule out the possibility of the fox being adopted in Hong Kong by experts with the right knowledge. It has submitted a proposal to the AFCD about the options for care of small foxes. The AFCD has not yet responded.
Roy Kwong said: “Bless him, I hope that the small red fox can be like a [Hong Kong] drugstore cat and be adopted in a good local home.”
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HomeCANADAIn 2022 Q3, Average Home Price In Toronto Up By 3.3% To...
In 2022 Q3, Average Home Price In Toronto Up By 3.3% To $749K From Last Year
Following the ownership market as a whole, Q3 2022 condominium apartment sales were off by approximately 46 per cent compared to Q3 2021. Despite there being substantially more balance in the market in the third quarter relative to a year earlier, the average selling price was up year-over-year, albeit by less than the current pace of inflation.
There were 4,177 condo apartment sales reported through TRREB’s MLS® System in Q3 2022
compared to 7,795 in Q3 2021. The number of new listings was also down over the same period by 16
per cent to 10,258.
“The condo market remains a very important segment in the GTA housing market both in terms of
ownership and rental. The ownership side of the market has been slower, as some first-time buyers have
been sidelined by higher borrowing costs and the hit on affordability. Many of these would-be buyers
have shifted to the condo rental market in the short- to medium-term to meet their housing needs,” said
TRREB President Kevin Crigger.
The average selling price for condominium apartments in Q3 2022 was $720,132 – up 4.5 per cent
compared to $689,230 reported for Q3 2021. In the City of Toronto, the average selling price was
$749,375 – up 3.3 per cent.
“The pace of condo price growth has moderated as higher borrowing costs have hampered affordability
since the spring. However, the impact has been mitigated to a certain degree by a dip in listings over the
same period. A shorter supply of condos will likely provide some support for prices in the months ahead,”
said TRREB Chief Market Analyst Jason Mercer.
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ITF 2017: Travel deals to Philippine, international destinations up for grabs
by Marlen Limpag on June 30, 2017 6:54 pm on June 30, 2017
A special section showcasing luxury resorts and a “super seat sale” by Cathay Pacific are just a few of the travel deals available in the upcoming International Travel Festival (ITF) 2017 from July 14-16 at Ayala Center Cebu.
Stephanie Villahermosa, ITF project director, said that over 80 exhibitors had already signed up for the travel event a day before its media launch last June 21.
They include hotels and resorts, tour and travel agencies, as well as local and international airline companies.
Cathay Pacific Cebu manager Catherine Sin said they will offer promo fares to destinations like Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand and super discounted rates to Southeast Asian countries, China, and Korea during ITF 2017.
TRAVEL DEALS. A special section showcasing luxury resorts and a “super seat sale” by Cathay Pacific are just a few of the travel deals available in the upcoming International Travel Festival 2017 from July 14-16 at Ayala Center Cebu. Photo shows organizers, partners, and guests during the media launch.
During the travel event, national flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) will offer a seat sale to domestic and international destinations as well. The company already has an ongoing seat sale for its recently started Cebu-Tagbilaran route starting at base fare of only P500 up until October 2017.
SilkAir, regional wing of Singapore Airlines, will also join ITF 2017 and offer low fares to various destinations.
Now on its fourth year, the travel show organized by MyEventology grows even bigger and will now include a special section featuring several luxury resorts throughout the country.
According to Villahermosa, these include Shangri-La Mactan Resort and Spa, El Nido Resorts, Manila Hotel, and the Eskaya Beach Resort and Spa in Bohol.
She added that previous ITFs had enjoyed high foot traffic based on the official visitor count by Ayala Center Cebu to an average of 90,000 persons daily for the three-day event. Over a hundred exhibitors, including tourism offices of the different Philippine regions, signed up for ITF 2016.
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Facebook, Axios And NBC Paid for Whitewashing Wikipedia Pages
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“The vast majority of the people who propose and make changes to Wikipedia are volunteers. A few people, however, have figured out how to manipulate Wikipedia’s supposedly neutral system to turn a profit.”
“That’s Sussman’s business. And in just the past few years, companies including Axios, NBC, Nextdoor and Facebook’s PR firm have all paid him to manipulate public perception using a tool most people would never think to check.”
“And because Sussman is open about what he’s doing, he’s forced to play by Wikipedia’s rules, which means disclosing his affiliation every time he suggests an edit on behalf of a client.”
““I am not the one sucking in the business,” he said. “The ones sucking in all the business are the firms who, when they get a call, say, ‘Oh yeah, I’ll take care of it.’ And they just take it down and they don’t do a disclosure.” Edits made by someone with an undisclosed conflict of interest are certainly rampant, but once discovered, those illicit edits are reversed. Sussman’s suggestions, because they’re allowed within Wikipedia’s guidelines, can have much more lasting influence.”
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Taxation What are taxes and what are they used for?
Taxes are the state’s most important source of revenue. The state uses the money to pay for things that are in the public interest. But who decides how much we have to pay in taxes? And why are there so many different kinds of taxes? This brochure provides answers to these and other important questions relating to taxes. It shows who pays what kinds of taxes and explains key terms using …
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Public Finances German Draft Budgetary Plan 2023
Germany’s 2023 draft budgetary plan presents the fiscal projections for the budgets of the Federation, Länder, local authorities and social security funds (including their off-budget entities) on the basis of current trends and planning.
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Climate action FAQs: Climate Action Programme 2030
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Public Finances A timeline: Measures to compensate for National Socialist Injustice
This brochure provides a chronological overview of the compensation and restitution measures that have been adopted by Germany from the end of the Second World War up to the year 2020. Many of the measures listed are accompanied by a brief description. Sources are also provided in order to facilitate more in-depth research.
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On 27 April 2022, the federal cabinet adopted Germany’s Stability Programme for 2022. In the report, the Federal Ministry of Finance provides the EU with an overview of Germany’s medium-term fiscal planning. By reducing the debt ratio as projected, the German government will ensure fiscal soundness. At the same time, the German government is stepping up to take its share of international …
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Allow us to introduce Ellie Yahn, a Portland resident and graduate from the University of Maine Orono, who joins our administrative team.
Starting school in 2011, Ellie studied Journalism, Art History, and finished her degree traveling to the Pacific Northwest with NOLS, the National Outdoor Leadership School.
Also at UMO, she volunteered for Call to Care Uganda, a non-profit out of Madison Ct., as Social Media Director and Grant Research assistant. She was able to travel to Western Uganda with CTCU in 2012.
“That trip really changed my life,” Yahn explained. “I had never seen such genuinely happy people in such a tough situation, it really put things into perspective for me.”
Ellie came from a small town located in the northwest corner of Connecticut called Sharon. Nestled in the foothills of the Berkshires and between the Hudson Valley, her appreciation for the wilderness continued to grow and so did her indescribable desire to go to Maine when she had finished high school.
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“Maine became my home very quickly,” Yahn explains. “I remember when I first moved to Orono and to Portland I felt the same way. I had never felt so welcome in a new place before.”
Since then she has never looked back. After graduation, Ellie has spent her last year working in Portland for Portland Beer Week 2016 and for The Thirsty Pig, a local beer bar on Exchange St.
Fascinated by the impressive amount of new breweries in Portland, Ellie discovered a new direction her writing degree could take…BEER!
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“When I first moved to Portland, it felt like there was a new brewery or distillery popping up around every corner,” Ellie told us. “I knew I wanted to be a part of it.”
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Date with Googlebot, Part II: HTTP status codes and If-Modified-Since
четверг, ноября 27, 2008
was so wonderful, but it's hard to tell if we, the websites, said the right thing. We returned 301 permanent redirect, but should we have responded with 302 temporary redirect (so he knows we're playing hard to get)? If we sent a few new 404s, will he ever call our site again? Should we support the header "If-Modified-Since?" These questions can be confusing, just like young love. So without further ado, let's ask the expert, Googlebot, and find out how he judged our response (code).
Supporting the "If-Modified-Since" header and returning 304 can save bandwidth.
Dearest Googlebot,
Recently, I did some spring cleaning on my site and deleted a couple of old, orphaned pages. They now return the 404 "Page not found" code. Is this ok, or have I confused you?
Frankie O'Fore
Dear Frankie,
404s are the standard way of telling me that a page no longer exists. I won't be upset—it's normal that old pages are pruned from websites, or updated to fresher content. Most websites will show a handful of 404s in the Crawl Diagnostics over at Webmaster Tools. It's really not a big deal. As long as you have good site architecture with links to all your indexable content, I'll be happy, because it means I can find everything I need.
But don't forget, it's not just me who comes to your website—there may be humans seeing these pages too. If you've only got a very simple '404 page not found' message, visitors who aren't as savvy could be baffled. There are lots of ways to make your 404 page more friendly; a quick one is our 404 widget over at Webmaster Tools, which will help direct people to content which does exist. For more information, you can read the blog post. Most web hosting companies, big and small, will let you customise your 404 page (and other return codes too).
Love and kisses,
Hey Googlebot,
I was just reading your reply to Frankie above, and it raised a couple of questions.
What if I have someone linking to a page that no longer exists? How can I make sure my visitors still find what they're after? Also, what if I just move some pages around? I'd like to better organise my site, but I'm worried you'll get confused. How can I help you?
Yours hopefully,
Little Jimmy
Hello Jimmy,
Let's pretend there are no anachronisms in your letter, and get to the meat of the matter. Firstly, let's look at links coming from other sites. Obviously, these can be a great source of traffic, and you don't want visitors presented with an unfriendly 'Page not found' message. So, you can harness the power of the mighty redirect.
There are two types of redirect—301 and 302. Actually, there are lots more, but these are the two we'll concern ourselves with now. Just like 404, 301 and 302 are different types of responses codes you can send to users and search engine crawlers. They're both redirects, but a 301 is permanent and a 302 is temporary. A 301 redirect tells me that whatever this page used to be, now it lives somewhere else. This is perfect for when you're re-organising your site, and also helps with links from offsite. Whenever I see a 301, I'll update all references to that old page with the new one you've told me about. Isn't that easy?
If you don't know where to begin with redirects, let me get you started. It depends on your webserver, but here are some searches that may be helpful:
Apache: http://www.google.com/search?q=301+redirect+apache
IIS: http://www.google.com/search?q=301+redirect+iis
You can also check your manual, or the README files that came with your server.
As an alternative to a redirect, you can email the webmaster of the site linking to you and ask them to update their link. Not sure what sites are linking to you? Don't despair - my human co-workers have made that easy to figure out. In the "Links" portion of Webmaster Tools, you can enter a specific URL on your site to determine who's linking to it.
My human co-workers also just released a tool which shows URLs linking to non-existent pages on your site. You can read more about that here.
Yours informationally,
Darling Googlebot,
I have a problem—I live in a very dynamic part of the web, and I keep changing my mind about things. When you ask me questions, I never respond the same way twice—my top threads change every hour, and I get new content all the time! You seem like a straightforward guy who wants straightforward answers. How can I tell you when things change without confusing you?
Temp O'Rary
Dear Temp,
I just told little Jimmy that 301's are the best way to tell a Googlebot about your new address, but what you're looking for is a 302.
Once you're indexed, it's the polite way to tell your visitors that your address is still the right one, but that the content can temporarily be found elsewhere. In these situations, a 302 (or the rarer '307 Temporary Redirect') would be better. For example, orkut redirects from http://orkut.com to http://google.com/accounts/login?service=orkut, which isn't a page that humans would find particularly useful when searching for Orkut***.
It's on a different domain, for starters. So, a 302 has been used to tell me that all the content and linking properties of the URL shouldn't be updated to the target - it's just a temporary page.
That's why when you search for orkut, you see orkut.com and not that longer URL.
Remember: simple communication is the key to any relationship.
*** Please note, I simplified the URL to make it easier to read. It's actually much more complex than that.
Captain Googlebot,
I am the kind of site who likes to reinvent herself. I noticed that the links to me on my friends' sites are all to URLs I got rid of several redesigns ago! I had set up 301s to my new URLs for those pages, but after that I 301'ed the newer URLs to my next version. Now I'm afraid that if you follow their directions when you come to crawl, you'll end up following a string of 301s so long that by the end you won't come calling any more.
Ethel Binky
Dear Ethel,
It sounds like you have set up some URLs that redirect to more redirects to... well, goodness! In small amounts, these "repeat redirects" are understandable, but it may be worth considering why you're using them in the first place. If you remove the 301s in the middle and send me straight to the final destination on all of them, you'll save the both of us a bunch of time and HTTP requests. But don't just think of us. Other people get tired of seeing that same old 'contacting.... loading ... contacting...' game in their status bar.
Put yourself in their shoes—if your string of redirects starts to look rather long, users might fear that you have set them off into an infinite loop! Bots and humans alike can get scared by that kind of "eternal commitment." Instead, try to get rid of those chained redirects, or at least keep 'em short. Think of the humans!
Yours thoughtfully,
Dear Googlebot,
I know you must like me—you even ask me for unmodified files, like my college thesis that hasn't changed in 10 years. It's starting to be a real hassle! Is there anything I can do to prevent your taking up my lovely bandwidth?
Janet Crinklenose
Janet, Janet, Janet,
It sounds like you might want to learn a new phrase—'304 Not Modified'. If I've seen a URL before, I insert an 'If-Modified-Since' in my request's header. This line also includes an HTTP-formatted date string. If you don't want to send me yet another copy of that file, stand up for yourself and send back a normal HTTP header with the status '304 Not Modified'! I like information, and this qualifies too. When you do that, there's no need to send me a copy of the file—which means you don't waste your bandwidth, and I don't feel like you're palming me off with the same old stuff.
You'll probably notice that a lot of browsers and proxies will say 'If-Modified-Since' in their headers, too. You can be well on your way to curbing that pesky bandwidth bill.
Now go out there and save some bandwidth!
Good ol' Googlebot
Googlebot has been so helpful! Now we know how to best respond to users and search engines. The next time we get together, though, it's time to sit down for a good long heart-to-heart with the guy (Date with Googlebot: Part III, is coming soon!).
As told to Chewy [Trewhella], Developer Advocate
UPDATE: Added a missing link. Thanks to Boris for pointing that out.
Our date with Googlebot was so wonderful, but it's hard to tell if we, the websites, said the right thing. We returned 301 permanent redirect, but should we have responded with 302 temporary redirect (so he knows we're playing hard to get)? If we sent a few new 404s, will he ever call our site again? Should we support the header "If-Modified-Since?" These questions can be confusing, just like young love. So without further ado, let's ask the expert, Googlebot, and find out how he judged our response (code).
Ярлыки: crawling and indexing
Better targeting your indic language site
and how to better target content through meta tags. Our users have raised a number of interesting questions about creating websites in different languages, like the one below.
‘ganex':
> How does one do for INDIA.
> As there are many languages spoken here.
> My Site is primarily in English, but my site targets different cities in INDIA.
> For Hyderabad - I want in Urdu & Telugu and for Chennai I want in Tamil
> for Bengaluru I want in Kannada.
> For North I want in Hindi.’
We’d like to introduce the transliteration API for Indic languages (languages spoken in India) in addition to our Ajax API for languages. With this API at your disposal, content creation is simplified because it not only helps integrating transliteration in your websites but also allows users visiting your site to type in Indic languages.
To include the transliteration API, first you need the AJAX script.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></>
This script tag will load the google.load function, which lets you load the individual Google APIs. For loading Google Transliteration API, call to google.load looks like this:
google.load("elements", "1", {
packages: "transliteration"
When it comes to targeting, don't forget to add meta tags in your local language. And for your questions, we have a new addition to our already existing communication channels like the webmaster help groups and webmaster tools (available in 26 languages!). We also have our own official Orkut webmaster community! Here users can share thoughts and discuss webmaster related issues.
Sign up for our Orkut community now and if you have any additional thoughts we'd love to hear about them.
Jayashree and Zareen, Search Quality Team, Google India
A lot has been said about how to start a multi-lingual site and how to better target content through meta tags. Our users have raised a number of interesting questions about creating websites in different languages, like the one below.
Ярлыки: general tips , localization
On-Demand Sitemaps for Custom Search
with the Custom Search platform earlier this year, webmasters who submit Sitemaps to Webmaster Tools get special treatment: Custom Search recognizes the submitted Sitemaps and indexes URLs from these Sitemaps into a separate index for higher quality Custom Search results. We analyze your Custom Search Engines (CSEs), pick up the appropriate Sitemaps, and figure out which URLs are relevant for your engines for enhanced indexing. You get the dual benefit of better discovery for Google.com and more comprehensive coverage in your own CSEs.
Today, we're taking another step towards improving your experience with Google webmaster services with the launch of On-Demand Indexing in Custom Search. With On-Demand Indexing, you can now tell us about the pages on your websites that are new, or that are important and have changed, and Custom Search will instantly schedule them for crawl, and index and serve them in your CSEs usually within 24 hours, often much faster.
How do you tell us about these URLs? You guessed it... provide a Sitemap to Webmaster Tools, like you always do, and tell Custom Search about it. Just go to the CSE control panel, click on the Indexing tab, select your On-Demand Sitemap, and hit the "Index Now" button. You can tell us which of these URLs are most important to you via the priority and lastmod attributes that you provide in your Sitemap. Each CSE has a number of pages allocated within the On-Demand Index, and with these attributes, you can us which are most important for indexing. If you need greater allocation in the On-Demand index, as well as more customization controls, Google Site Search provides a range of options.
Some important points to remember:
You only need to submit your Sitemaps once in Webmaster Tools. Custom Search will automatically list the Sitemaps submitted via Webmaster Tools and you can decide which Sitemap to select for On-Demand Indexing.
Your Sitemap needs to be for a website verified in Webmaster Tools, so that we can verify ownership of the right URLs.
In order for us to index these additional pages, our crawlers must be able to crawl them. You can use "Webmaster Tools > Crawl Errors > URLs restricted by robots.txt" or check your robots.txt file to ensure that you're not blocking us from crawling these pages.
Submitting pages for On-Demand Indexing will not make them appear any faster in the main Google index, or impact ranking on Google.com.
We hope you'll use this feature to inform us regularly of the most important changes on your sites, so we can respond quickly and get those pages indexed in your CSE. As always, we're always listening for your feedback on Custom Search.
Written by Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager, Search
Since we launched enhanced indexing with the Custom Search platform earlier this year, webmasters who submit Sitemaps to Webmaster Tools get special treatment: Custom Search recognizes the submitted Sitemaps and indexes URLs from these Sitemaps into a separate index for higher quality Custom Search results. We analyze your Custom Search Engines (CSEs), pick up the appropriate Sitemaps, and figure out which URLs are relevant for your engines for enhanced indexing. You get the dual benefit of better discovery for Google.com and more comprehensive coverage in your own CSEs.
Ярлыки: sitemaps
Google's SEO Starter Guide
среда, ноября 12, 2008
Webmasters often ask us at conferences or in the Webmaster Help Group, "What are some simple ways that I can improve my website's performance in Google?" There are lots of possible answers to this question, and a wealth of search engine optimization information on the web, so much that it can be intimidating for newer webmasters or those unfamiliar with the topic. We thought it'd be useful to create a compact guide that lists some best practices that teams within Google and external webmasters alike can follow that could improve their sites' crawlability and indexing.
Our Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide covers around a dozen common areas that webmasters might consider optimizing. We felt that these areas (like improving title and description meta tags, URL structure, site navigation, content creation, anchor text, and more) would apply to webmasters of all experience levels and sites of all sizes and types. Throughout the guide, we also worked in many illustrations, pitfalls to avoid, and links to other resources that help expand our explanation of the topics. We plan on updating the guide at regular intervals with new optimization suggestions and to keep the technical advice current.
So, the next time we get the question, "I'm new to SEO, how do I improve my site?", we can say, "Well, here's a list of best practices that we use inside Google that you might want to check out."
Update on July 22, 2009: The SEO Starter Guide is now available in 40 languages!
Written by Brandon Falls, Search Quality Team
Note: The SEO Starter Guide has since been updated.
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Pelosi Has Mental Breakdown… Willing To Gamble & Lose EVERYTHING to Impeach Trump
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) indicated Saturday that successfully pursuing impeachment of President Trump would be worth losing the Democrats’ House majority in 2020, The Hill reports.
During an interview at Tribune Fest, hosted by the Texas Tribune, Pelosi argued that following Congress’ mandate to hold the president accountable is more important than politics.
“It doesn’t matter,” Pelosi said. “Our first responsibility is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
“People say you have to take a political risk doing that,” she said. “That doesn’t matter. That doesn’t matter. Because we cannot have a president of the United States undermining his oath of office, his loyalty to his oath of office, undermining our national security, and undermining the integrity of our elections.”
.@SpeakerPelosi: "I think right now, there’s a cover-up of the cover-up.” #TribFest19 https://t.co/365pEc5z9p pic.twitter.com/Jsi35ObwIc
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) September 29, 2019
Chris White at The Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) has more:
Pelosi’s remarks were made after she announced an impeachment inquiry after details about a July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. During the call, Trump asked the foreign leader to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s dealings in Ukraine as they relate to his son, Hunter Biden.
The House Intelligence Committee released a whistleblower complaint on Sept. 26 discussing the phone call.
Pelosi’s move to open an inquiry comes several months after the California Democrat maintained that her party was far from interested in an impeachment push. Neither she nor any other Democrat have provided evidence suggesting Trump’s call broke the law.
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Eritrea Dominates Junior, Women Road Races
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Eritrean youngsters Biniam Hailu and compatriot Tomas Yosief win gold and silver in junior men’s category in a two-man sprint finish.
By Bonnie Mugabe | KTPress
African Cycling Giants Eritrea dominated Saturday’s junior and women road races to extend their medal triumphant at the ongoing 13th African Continental Road Championship.
The 13th Africa’s biggest annual cycling event got underway on Wednesday and will run through toFebruary 18 in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali.
On Saturday, riders were in contention for junior men and women and elite women and U-23 category honours with the day ending in favour of the Eritreans as they won a total seven medals.
It was an all-Eritrean podium finish in male category and gold in junior women’s fray as the Eritreans stretched the medal haul for Africa’s top cycling nation to 13 medals, of which eight are gold pieces, 2 silver and 4 bronze medals respectively.
Eritrean youngster Biniam Hailu clinched gold in junior men’s category in a two-man sprint finish with compatriot Tomas Yosief. Both used one hour, 56 minutes and 43 seconds to cover the 84km distance. Hager Mesfin, also from Eritrea, finished third to win bronze.
In junior women’s road race, 17-year old Desiet Kidane of Eritrea bagged a gold to make it two gold medals on her name after winning the Individual Time Trial (ITT) accolade on Thursday. Ethiopia’s duo of Tsadkan Kasahun and Zayid Hailu finished second and third respectively.
The 2018 newly crowned champions Biniam replaces last year’s winner Hamza Mansouri of Algeria while Kidane dethroned Ethiopian Haftu Hailu Zayd who claimed last year’s title in junior women’s road race.
In the elite women and U-23 category which covered 84km, Eritrean Ghebremeskel Bisrat won the race in 02h46’31” followed by Ethiopian Beyene Tsega finished second with Eritrean Debesay Mosana bagging bronze medal in 02h46’38”.
In the women U-23 Road Race, Ethiopian Gebru Eyeru Tesfoam won the contest in 02h46’38”, followed by Eritrean Gebrehiwet Tigisti while Ethiopian Amha Selam bagged bronze in 02h46’46”.
After the third day of the African Continental Road Championship, Eritrea tops the medal standings with 17 medals including nine gold, three silver and five bronze medals.
Ethiopia is ranked second with 13 medals (three gold, seven silver and three bronze) while Rwanda is third with eight medals (two gold, four silver and two bronze).
Burundi has one gold medal in fourth spot followed by Namibia who have one bronze and Algeria with one bronze.
So far only six nations; Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Algeria and Namibia out of 23 countries in competition, have managed to win at least one medal. Some of the usual suspects such as South Africa, Morocco and Egypt are yet to win a single medal in Kigali.
The championship will conclude on Sunday with elite men’s road race.
Africa Continental Road Championship
Day Three Results
Women Junior Road Race (48km)
Kidane Desiet (Eritrea)01h32’26”
Kasahun Tsadkan (Ethiopia)01h36’05” 03’39”
Hailu Zayid (Ethiopia)01h36’05”
Men Junior Road Race (72km)
Hailu Biniam (Eritrea)01h56’43”
Yosief Tomas (Eritrea)01h56’43”
Mesfin Hager (Eritrea)01h59’42” 02’59”
Women Elite Road Race (84km)
Ghebremeskel Bisrat (Eritrea)02h46’31”
Beyene Tsega (Ethiopia)02h46’38” 07”
Debesay Mosana (Eritrea)02h46’38”
Women U-23 Road Race (84km)
Gebru Eyeru Tesfoam (Ethiopia)02h46’38” ”
Gebrehiwet Tigisti (Eritrea)02h46’38” ”
Amha Selam (Ethiopia)02h46’46” 15”
Eritrea: 17 (9 gold, 3 silver, 5 bronze)
Ethiopia : 13 (3 gold, 7 silver, 3 bronze)
Rwanda: 8 (2 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze)
Burundi: 1 (silver)
Namibia: 1 (bronze)
Algeria: 1 (bronze)
Eritrea Dominates Junior, Women Road Races Reviewed by Admin on 12:00 AM Rating: 5
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By David Folkenflik
Published November 16, 2022 at 2:19 PM MST
The headline on the bottom of The New York Post's front page today reads simply "Florida Man Makes Announcement" - Page 26. That was about former President Donald Trump launching his latest bid for the White House. The Wall Street Journal's editorial board called him the Republican Party's biggest loser. Even Fox News is cooling on Trump. Murdoch-owned media companies had been among Trump's biggest boosters. And now, NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik is looking into whether they are bailing on him.
David, tell us more about how Murdoch outlets are covering this announcement.
DAVID FOLKENFLIK, BYLINE: Well, so much is pegged, as you suggest, to the unrealized red wave of last Tuesday's elections. It simply didn't materialize. And a lot of folks are putting that at Trump's doorstep given how many of the major candidates he endorsed flailed at the polls. You've seen The New York Post really deriding him and at the same time denying him oxygen. That Page 26 story was short. It was brief. It sort of made fun of the lack of knowledge about his cholesterol levels - you know, did not take him seriously as a consequential political figure. The Wall Street Journal, as you note, you know, essentially said it's time for him to get out of the business of this so Republicans can regroup and prove themselves.
And let me give you a flavor of the ambivalence on Fox News, you know, and Fox Business, really the homes of his strongest support. This clip I want to play from you is from Fox Business Network's Stuart Varney, a long-time Trump champion. He's asking a question here of a Fox News contributor whose name is Lara Trump. That is the wife of Eric Trump. Here's what Varney asked.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "VARNEY AND CO")
STUART VARNEY: You were there. So I'm sure you're very supportive of your father-in-law. But those of us on the outside looking at it, it didn't seem as he got the old magic.
FOLKENFLIK: Even stars like Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson have suggested Trump would be a mixed bag for the Republican Party. They've been pretty full-throated defenders and supporters until now.
SHAPIRO: How is this different from the way Murdoch-owned media outlets responded to other tough times for Trump, from the impeachments to the insurrection?
FOLKENFLIK: Well, look; we have seen this before. It's worth noting the Murdochs swung away during the hearings of the January 6 committee earlier this year. But then they snapped back into line when Trump supporters were outraged by the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago for classified documents held by Trump. Why? Well, those Trump supporters make up Fox's core audience. That's how Fox dominated in the era of streaming and in the emergence of these new right-wing outfits like Newsmax and OANN.
Even so, this represents a significant shift. The Murdoch support, particularly through Trump, has been real. Trump noticed. He's been trashing the Murdochs of late. And I think that there's sign of a potential real rift.
SHAPIRO: So is the conclusion here that backing losing candidates is, in Murdoch world, a greater offense than trying to overturn democracy?
FOLKENFLIK: I think the Murdochs got a lot of what they wanted out of Trump - those very conservative justices appointed to the Supreme Court, huge tax cuts for the wealthy. And it's a moment of weakness for Trump. Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch have signaled they want to move on. Somebody who I spoke to who has talked to Lachlan says that right now, you know, Fox News can cover the news as it's happened, both in opinion and in - on the news side, and they won't be tying themselves into pretzels to try to make things look good for Murdoch. You know, I think it's a moment of weakness, and they want to see they can take advantage of it to find a new face for the Republican Party.
SHAPIRO: How are we going to know whether this time the split is real and not just temporary?
FOLKENFLIK: I'm something of a skeptic on this. It's like Lucy with the football again and again with Charlie Brown. I will say, when the campaign starts to pick up, if they give running room and license to major Republican figures, particularly those on Capitol Hill, to criticize Trump without being beaten down and suffering a real backlash from Fox stars, that'll tell you something. But if Trump's followers rebel, I think the Murdochs will probably sprint to the head of the Trump parade and make it look like they were leading all along.
SHAPIRO: That's NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik. Thank you.
FOLKENFLIK: You bet. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Sun Trap Is Coming
Posted on May 19, 2015 // 0 Comments
BBC One have released the trailer and a batch of promotional images for forthcoming sitcom Sun Trap – and naturally, there’s a TVO face or two to be found lurking within.
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The series, originally titled Woody when announced last year, stars Kayvan Novak (Four Lions, Inside No. 9, Bad Sugar, Paddington – you name it, he’s probably in it!) as an undercover reporter on the run after being set up by his corrupt editor.
Escaping to a holiday resort, he finds his old mentor (Bradley Walsh) now running a bar, and together the pair take on a series of hilarious investigations by adopting a variety of guises.
Also starring Jamie Demetriou, Emma Pierson and Bea Segura, the show has been described as a combination of Magnum, Minder and classic BBC comedy, the show is a madcap, fun-filled adventure in the sun, and features a cavalcade of top notch guest stars, including Jack Dee, Keith Allen, Lee Boardman, Clive Swift, Cavan Clerkin, Sean Gilder and Kara Tointon.
Joining the fun for an episode here and there are TVO regulars Alex Kirk, Tony Way, Paul Kaye, Tracy Ann Oberman, Simon Day and Morgana Robinson, some of whom can be glimpsed in the trailer below.
Their parts are currently under wraps, and you’ll just have to watch the show to find out more, but as Bradley Walsh’s website let slip that Kaye is playing Frederico Mercury, and the character can be seen in the behind the scenes shots released by the Beeb, it’s safe to tell you you’re in for a real treat with that one!
TVO connections carry on behind the scenes on the show too. The director is Ben Palmer, whose previous directing work has included Star Stories, Penelope Princess of Pets, The Inbetweeners, Milton Jones’ House of Rooms, Bad Sugar and London Irish, all of which had at least some notable involvement from TVO regulars.
On producing duties is Neil Webster, whose work includes Would I Lie To You and The 11 O’Clock Show. Sun Trap marks their second major collaboration together, following Them From That Thing featuring Dan Skinner, Morgana Robinson, Kevin Eldon and lots of other talented folk. Together, they have formed production company Happy Tramp, who are currently working on the forthcoming Morgana sketch-show pilot for the BBC, and have lots of other great things in the pipeline.
Sun Trap begins on Wednesday, 27th May at the rather mental time of 10:45pm on BBC One. Tune in and stay peeled for more info, and enjoy a gallery of images from the first episode below.
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Blu-ray: Must Own
Release Date: September 5th, 2017
Rebecca - Criterion Collection
Review Date September 14th, 2017 by David Krauss
Romance becomes psychodrama in Alfred Hitchcock’s elegantly crafted Rebecca, his first foray into Hollywood filmmaking. A dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel, the film stars the enchanting Joan Fontaine as a young woman who believes she has found her heart’s desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter (played with cunning vulnerability by Laurence Olivier). But upon moving to Manderley—her groom’s baroque ancestral mansion—she soon learns that his deceased wife haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well. The start of Hitchcock’s legendary collaboration with producer David O. Selznick, this elegiac gothic vision, captured in stunning black and white by George Barnes, took home the Academy Awards for best picture and best cinematography.
Must Own
Technical Specs: Blu-ray (Two-Disc Set)
2 BD-50 Dual-Layer Discs
Length:130
English Descriptive Audio: English LPCM Mono
Special Features: Audio commentary from 1990 featuring film scholar Leonard J. Leff
Isolated music and effects track
New conversation between film critic and author Molly Haskell and scholar Patricia White
New interview with special effects historian Craig Barron on the visual effects in 'Rebecca'
Documentary from 2007 on the making of 'Rebecca'
Screen, hair, makeup, and costume tests including actors Joan Fontaine, Anne Baxter, Vivien Leigh, Margaret Sullavan, and Loretta Young
Casting gallery annotated by director Alfred Hitchcock and producer David O. Selznick
Television interviews with Hitchcock and Fontaine from 1973 and 1980
Audio interviews from 1986 with actors Judith Anderson and Fontaine
Three radio adaptations of 'Rebecca' from 1938, 1941, and 1950, including Orson Welles’s version for the Mercury Theatre
Theatrical rerelease trailer
Movie Studio: Criterion
"Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again..."
Like the unnamed heroine who recites one of literature's most famous opening lines, moviegoers have returned to the grand estate of Manderley countless times over the past seven decades. And like the dead titular figure whose spirit oozes from its every nook and cranny, Rebecca continues to haunt and fascinate us well into the 21st century.
And with good reason. Forget the enticing air of mystery and romance that swirls around the characters and the psychosexual underpinnings that consume them. Rebecca is a notable film for a number of other reasons. First and foremost, it marks director Alfred Hitchcock's American debut and producer David O. Selznick's first release after Gone with the Wind. It also stands as the only Hitchcock movie ever to win the Best Picture Academy Award. Yet despite such notoriety, this faithful, often riveting adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's bestselling novel often gets left out of critical discussions and assessments of Hitchcock's work. And that's a shame, because Rebecca brims with the same amount of style, tension, nuance, humor, and romance that distinguish so many great films by the Master of Suspense. Its heroine may not be blonde, but she resembles innumerable Hitchcock women who begin as shrinking violets and blossom into strong, substantive, mature individuals. Its plot also stands the test of time, featuring inspired twists and turns, as well as a deceased, never-to-be-seen character whose palpable presence looms over the entire movie, influencing the action and shaping all who fall under her spell.
Though its presentation may be largely traditional, Rebecca remains one of those rare motion pictures that reveals new treasures with each viewing. Subtle themes, bits of technique, and delicate performance touches warrant continued examination. Is it a classic Hitchcock film in the most literal sense? Perhaps not. Many have argued Selznick's constant meddling and more polished, opulent vision of the material stymied Hitchcock's creativity and tainted the production, which some believe bears the stamp of Selznick more than Hitchcock. Yet the feel of Hitchcock still permeates the entire movie. Though the technical audacity that would define the director once he gained his footing in Hollywood may be absent in his first American outing, the seeds are there, and many of them flower beautifully before our eyes. Just because Rebecca is slightly less inspired from a cinematic perspective than many Hitchcock films shouldn't diminish its reputation.
Criterion's new release properly salutes Rebecca, lavishing this classic with all the attention it so richly deserves. With a brand new transfer, hefty 40-page booklet, and supplements galore, this two-disc set easily eclipses the 2012 MGM release and instantly becomes the definitive edition of a beloved film. For an in-depth look at Rebecca, check out my colleague Steven Cohen's take on the movie, written at the time of the 2012 Blu-ray release: https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/3205/rebecca.html#the-movie-itself. His feelings pretty much mirror mine.
Vital Disc Stats: The Blu-ray
The two-disc Criterion edition of Rebecca arrives on Blu-ray packaged in a standard Criterion case. A beautifully appointed 40-page booklet featuring an essay by Selznick biographer David Thomson, extensive excerpts from memos between Selznick and Hitchcock regarding the film, several rare black-and-white photos, a cast and crew listing, and transfer notes is tucked inside the front cover. Video codec on the two Blu-ray discs is 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 and audio is LPCM mono. Once the discs are inserted into the player, the static menus with music immediately pop up; no previews or promos precede them.
Blu-ray (Two-Disc Set)
English LPCM Mono
Audio commentary from 1990 featuring film scholar Leonard J. Leff
According to the liner notes, "this new digital transfer was created in 16-bit 4K resolution...from the 35 mm nitrate original camera negative," and it immediately supplants any other home video rendering as the definitive version of Rebecca. Perfectly pitched contrast and exceptional clarity distinguish the picture, which sports a lovely grain structure that supplies essential texture while maintaining the feel of celluloid. Blacks are deliciously lush (as evidenced by Maxim's dinner jacket and Mrs. Danvers' uniform), whites are crisp, and superb gray scale variance heightens detail levels and enhances depth. All the etchings, carvings, wallpaper patterns, lush fabrics, and delicate laces that adorn the ornate sets are perfectly defined, and images shot through sheer curtains are equally sharp. Shadow outlines and delineation are distinct (crush is never an issue), close-ups beautifully highlight Fontaine's fresh-faced complexion and tear-stained cheeks, and nary a nick, scratch, or speck of dirt mars the pristine print. Though the transfer on the 2012 Blu-ray is quite nice, this effort clearly eclipses it with richer contrast and a cleaner, more balanced image, and as a result, this 77-year-old classic looks almost brand new. If you're a Rebecca or Hitchcock fan, this edition is well worth an upgrade.
The LPCM mono track, which was remastered from the original soundtrack negative, supplies clear, well-modulated sound. Any age-related imperfections, such as hiss, pops, and crackles, have been meticulously erased, and a wide dynamic scale handles all the highs and lows of Franz Waxman's romantic score without a hint of distortion. Music plays consistently throughout the film, but it never overwhelms the action, and all the dialogue is well prioritized and easy to comprehend. Atmospherics like wind and rain come across cleanly, and sonic accents like fireworks are crisp and distinct. Though not particularly complicated, this track features a number of competing elements, and handles all of them with ease.
Criterion imports a couple of extras from the 2012 Blu-ray release of Rebecca, but most of the supplements are unique to this edition. That poses a bit of a problem for those who own the previous release, so if you enjoy the audio commentary by film critic Richard Schickel, the Gothic World of Daphne Du Maurier featurette, and a couple of Hitchcock audio interviews with Peter Bogdanovich and François Truffaut, you might want to hold onto that disc. Rest assured, the extras presented here are of excellent quality and provide a wealth of insight into the film and its creators.
Disc One
Audio Commentary - Recorded in 1990 for the Criterion Collection, this commentary by Leonard J. Leff, author of Hitchcock and Selznick, is as polished as the film itself. Leff describes the making of Rebecca as "sometimes as rocky as the Cornwall coast near Manderley" due to the conflicts between Hitchcock and Selznick that plagued the production, and he documents those legendary run-ins with relish. He relates Rebecca to many other Hitchcock films, analyzes the director's technique, points out scenes Selznick reshot, identifies censorship issues, discusses various deletions and abandoned bits, explores casting, and reveals the film's excessive dialogue looping most likely cost Rebecca an Academy Award nomination in the sound recording category. Leff also details Fontaine's insecurity and how the British cast snubbed her, notes differences between the novel and its adaptation, and tries to dissect the ambiguous motivations that drive the characters. This is an excellent discussion of a rich and vibrant film, and Leff's remarks remain as relevant today as they surely were 27 years ago.
Dialogue Between Molly Haskell and Patricia White (HD, 25 minutes) - Author and film critic Molly Haskell sits down with scholar Patricia White for a lively exchange that examines Rebecca from a feminist perspective. Both women laud the film as they discuss such wide-ranging topics as the second wife syndrome, the power of an unseen presence, the movie's sexual dynamics and politics, and direct parallels to Citizen Kane. They also analyze the characters and explore the pronounced feminine sides of Hitchcock and Selznick. Haskell says Rebecca plays better today than in 1940 and defends the heavy involvement of Selznick, who often battled with Hitchcock over the film's look, pacing, and performances.
Featurette: "The Making of Rebecca" (HD, 28 minutes) - A holdover from the 2012 Blu-ray release, this retrospective featurette includes interviews with directors, film historians, and Hitchcock relatives as it touches upon the conflicts between Selznick and Hitchcock, the casting quagmire, the novel's adaptation, and how Hitchcock transitioned from England to Hollywood. Several anecdotes and a few archival comments from Hitchcock himself punch up this slick mini documentary.
Theatrical Re-release Trailer (HD, 2 minutes) - Hyperbole abounds in this re-release preview, which hails Rebecca as "the most glamorous motion picture ever made" and "the motion picture still unsurpassed for suspense and romance."
Music and Effects Track - This isolated track allows us to revel in the alternately romantic and creepy strains of Franz Waxman's music score and enjoy the nuanced audio effects without any dialogue interference.
Disc Two
Visual Effects Featurette (HD, 17 minutes) - Effects technician Craig Barron provides a comprehensive overview of the myriad visual effects that enhance and beautify Rebecca. Many are seamlessly woven into the film's fabric and include matte shots, miniatures, rear projection and subjective camera work, even puppets. Barron points out a clever processed shot, examines the intricacies of the Manderley fire sequence, introduces us to the movie's technical crew, and addresses Selznick's micromanagement in this highly entertaining and informative piece.
Documentary: "Daphne Du Maurier: In the Footsteps of Rebecca" (HD, 55 minutes) - One of the best supplements included in this package, this 2017 documentary produced for French television elegantly chronicles Du Maurier's life and work, and how the character of Rebecca haunted the author for years. Through interviews with historians and one of her daughters, we learn about her aristocratic background, sexual ambiguity, attraction to the Cornwall countryside, and the conflict between the masculine and feminine sides of her personality. This intimate portrait also examines her marriage, friendships with other women, and includes clips from a rare 1971 BBC television interview with Du Maurier herself, during which she unveils the original typed manuscript of Rebecca. Du Maurier was a fascinating figure, and this absorbing look at her colorful life enriches appreciation for her and her wide-ranging works.
Casting Gallery (HD) - Extensive casting notes from producer David O. Selznick, which outline his thoughts regarding the central female role in Rebecca, are followed by glamour portraits of a couple of dozen actresses who either tested or were considered for the part, accompanied by Hitchcock's succinct written evaluations of each one.
Screen Tests (HD, 42 minutes) - Six rare screen tests are included here (the 2012 Blu-ray only had two), and all of them are fascinating in various ways. In three separate attempts, a very young Anne Baxter models different hair and makeup, while two tests featuring Vivien Leigh pit her opposite actor Alan Marshal in one and Olivier in the other. (In the former, it's tough to divorce Leigh from her iconic turn as Scarlett O'Hara - which she had just completed - and it often seems as if she's addressing Ashley Wilkes instead of Maxim de Winter. Leigh is far better acting with Olivier, but still not at all right for the part.) Fontaine's test is also included (she does well, but grew considerably over the course of production), as are tests with Margaret Sullavan, who appears too mature, and Loretta Young, who is quite appealing and probably would have succeeded had she been cast.
Lighting and Makeup Tests (HD, 3 minutes) - Baxter, Sullavan, and Leigh model various hairstyles and makeup in these brief, silent tests that feature a few audio remarks from Leonard J. Leff.
Costume Tests (HD, 3 minutes) - Fontaine, looking sullen and fatigued, models several gowns - none of which made it into the finished film - in these silent tests.
Vintage TV Interview (HD, 17 minutes) - Fontaine appears on a 1980 episode of the talk show Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder, who interviews the actress about Rebecca, her long-running feud with sister Olivia de Havilland, and her political, social, and moral views. Fontaine appears animated and in good spirits throughout the chat, during which she shares anecdotes about gossip columnists Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, discusses her high regard for Hitchcock, hints at tensions between herself and Olivier during shooting, and recalls how the moguls ruled Hollywood with an iron hand.
Audio Interviews (31 minutes) - Back in the 1990s, when Leonard J. Leff was researching his book Hitchcock and Selznick, he conducted phone interviews with both Fontaine and Dame Judith Anderson. The complete Fontaine call and an excerpt from his conversation with Anderson are included here and provide additional insights into the making of Rebecca. Fontaine expounds on the technique of movie acting, admits being ostracized by Rebecca's British cast members improved her performance, complains about Selznick's constant memos, and warmly recalls Hitchcock's personality, humor, and biting sarcasm. She also learns for the first time that Hitchcock reportedly sought her services for Foreign Correspondent and Shadow of a Doubt, and believes Selznick sabotaged those opportunities. Anderson bemoans the constraints of screen acting, remembers how Hitchcock walked her through Rebecca's famous bedroom scene, and states she did not consciously suggest any lesbian tendencies in her performance as Mrs. Danvers, but certainly sees them now. She also amusingly recounts how a pesky fly disrupted shooting on the set for three hours one day, and her trepidation when she was told to wear an asbestos lining under her costume for safety reasons during the climactic fire scene. Both women are extremely forthcoming with Leff, and it's a treat to hear their recollections.
Alfred Hitchcock on Tomorrow (HD, 44 minutes) - On November 26, 1973, 74-year-old Alfred Hitchcock sat down with host Tom Snyder for a wide-ranging interview that sadly doesn't address many of his films, but allows us to drink in his colorful personality. Hitch is in fine fettle, cracking jokes, telling funny and creepy stories, and providing an extensive definition of rhyming slang. He talks about dieting and his fluctuating weight, the nature of suspense, his fear of the law, and how stupidity makes him angry. He also rues the expansion of communication and electronic media sources (what would he think today?) and expresses deep regret that the assassination scene he devised in Foreign Correspondent was tragically reenacted in real life only a few years after the film was released. Hitchcock and Snyder share a fine rapport, and the director seems to genuinely enjoy the conversation. While more movie talk would have added more relevance to the interview, this rare program is still well worth watching.
Vintage Radio Adaptations (180 minutes) - A whopping three complete hour-long radio adaptations of Rebecca are included, and all merit at least a brief sampling. The first was produced a couple of years prior to the film version and mounted by Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre company on a December 9, 1938 episode of The Campbell Playhouse. (The adaptation aired just a couple of weeks after Welles shocked the nation with his historic War of the Worlds radio broadcast.) Welles, who was unbelievably just 23 at the time (though he sounds at least a decade older) portrays Maxim de Winter with great gusto, and Margaret Sullavan is quite good as his bride. Mildred Natwick takes on the role of Mrs. Danvers, Agnes Moorehead appears briefly as Mrs. Van Hopper, and Bernard Herrmann supplies the dramatic music score. The adaptation closely follows the book, sticking to the original climax (which the Hollywood censors quickly nixed), and the broadcast concludes with scripted banter between Welles and Sullavan and a brief exchange with author Daphne Du Maurier, who calls in from London to congratulate the performers.
The second adaptation, broadcast on February 5, 1941 as part of CBS's long-running Lux Radio Theatre series, stars Ronald Colman as de Winter and Ida Lupino as his young wife. Judith Anderson reprises her role as Mrs. Danvers, and director Cecil B. DeMille hosts the program. This version is a truncated adaptation of the movie, and Colman and Lupino handle their parts with ease. Producer David O. Selznick contributes a few remarks at the broadcast's conclusion.
The final adaptation, also a Lux Radio Theatre installment, was broadcast on November 6, 1950, and allows Olivier the chance to reinterpret Maxim de Winter a decade after the film's release. His wife, Vivien Leigh (his original choice for the movie version's female lead), plays opposite him, but at age 37 her vocal timbre sounds a bit too mature for the shy young ingenue she portrays. The slick reading ends with some scripted interaction between Olivier, Leigh, and host William Keighley, during which Leigh talks about the recently completed but not yet released film version of A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Akpojotor Advocates For Girls’ Education in Nigeria
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Written by Rochelle Beighton, CNN
Only 10 countries in the world have a bigger gender gap than Nigeria when it comes to education, with around 70% of boys in the country attending primary school, compared to only 58% of girls.
It’s just one of the issues that Nigerian artist Marcellina Akpojotor addresses in her work.
She has exhibited around the world and gained international recognition for her family portraits that combine acrylics with scraps of Ankara fabric. But behind their dynamic patterns, Akpojotor’s works tell a deeper story of family, femininity and female empowerment in contemporary African society.
“If she could be born again, she would ask to be educated”
Akpojotor, 33, presented a body of work at last year’s Art Basel in Miami entitled “Ode to Beautiful Memories,” which pays homage to her community in Lagos. Featuring eight pieces, the collection tells the story of her female family members across five generations, starting with her late great-grandmother Dede Eboheide Anare and ending with her six-year-old daughter.
“Songs of Home,” from 2021, shows Marcellina Akpojotor’s her female family members across five generations. Credit: Marcellina Akpojotor.
Akpojotor’s great-grandmother was a farmer who harvested cassava to sell at markets. Aspects of her life have been incorporated into Akpojotor’s work, which traces education from her great-grandmother’s era, when girls seldom went to school in Nigeria, until today.
“The work is taken from the stories my mother told me of her,” Akpojotor said, explaining that these pieces use the red-brown color of the earth typical of the region her family came from.Believing strongly that education is a source of empowerment for girls, Akpojotor wants her great-grandmother’s story to spark conversations around female education in Nigeria.”If she could be born again, she would ask to be educated, to read and write,” said Akpojotor. “There are schools everywhere you go now in Nigeria, but there are still some regions where female education is low.”
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About 18.5 million children in Nigeria, mostly girls, do not have access to education, according to a UNICEF official. The UN children’s agency also estimates that less than half of all girls attend school in Northern Nigeria, because of factors including “economic barriers and socio-cultural norms and practices that discourage attendance in formal education, especially for girls.””Dialogue can be a tool for social change,” Akpojotor said. “It’s one tested way to get empowerment because when you are enlightened, you do more in society.”
Born and raised in Lagos, Akpojotor discovered her love for art while helping her sign-writer father with sketching, drawing and calligraphy projects. Like him, Akpojotor went on to study art and industrial design at Lagos State Polytechnic, where she began to formulate her signature abstract style.Inspired by the people around her, Akpojotor started collecting old photographs from her family archive and sketching out relatives to reflect their life experiences. Exploring the legacy left by previous generations has become one of the central themes in her work and featured in earlier exhibitions such as “She Was Not Dreaming” and “Daughters of Esan.”
More than a material to Akpojotor
Akpojotor has also become known for her use of Ankara fabric in her abstract portraits, exploring the material’s history and significance to women across Africa today.Featuring vibrant, colorful patterns, it’s found in homes and shops across West Africa. Outside of the continent the material is often thought of as quintessentially African, but its history is more complex.
Ankara textiles were only introduced to Africa by Dutch entrepreneurs in the 19th century, made using a method derived from a traditional Indonesian wax-resist dyeing technique called batik.”It was embraced by Africa but not originally made for the Africans,” said Akpojotor. She added that it became popular because it was mass-produced and affordable, and by incorporating the material into her art, she is making it more accessible.
Akpojotor uses Ankara fabric in all her works, including “Dreams in Bobozi Farm.” Credit: Marcellina Akpojotor.
As part of her creative process, Akpojotor travels around Lagos, collecting scraps of Ankara fabric from local fashion houses. She says this adds an extra story to her pieces as each fabric has its own journey and origin before reaching her hands.
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“I borrow things from my background and incorporate them into my work,” she said, “and I think it makes it uniquely mine.”
Akpojotor says Ankara fabric, themes of female empowerment, and social issues will continue to be incorporated into her work as she hopes to engage audiences further with tales of ancestry and memory.
“I want people to be inspired to look at their lives and the lives of other people around them,” she said.
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‘Women’s Writing from 1900–1920’
Guest Edited by Meredith Miller and Joanne Ella Parsons
The period from 1900 to 1920 falls partially into several of the canonical categories used to periodize early twentieth-century literature, yet is often wholly defined by them. Is this the tail end of the fin de siècle? Should these decades be viewed as a gestational waiting space in which the high modernism of the 1920s would soon develop? Should we view them through the largely masculinist lens of a war which did not begin until 1914? Each of these frames embodies an instance of what Raymond Williams termed ‘the selective critical tradition’, rendering huge areas of literary production invisible even as it frames the canon of primary texts which receive the greater majority of our critical attention.
This special issue looks to reframe these first two decades of the twentieth century. In this moment the address of women writers to their readers broadened its focus in a lively publishing landscape. This was a period in which social movements, including the suffrage movement, inspired a wealth of fiction and non-fiction publishing. There was also a tremendous growth in popular weekly magazines in these decades, including new story magazines, many aimed at working women, their desires, and their practical needs. Women novelists wrote for a whole group of new publishers taking advantage of new methods of book production and distribution and new cultures of review. In the present moment examinations of each of these phenomena are often divided by disciplinary boundaries and/or underexamined altogether.
We seek to reframe these decades by collecting a group of essays which does not conform to dominant critical periods of study or divisions of cultural register, but which allows critics and researchers to see a clearer picture of the whole landscape of women’s writing during this pivotal moment in the history of women’s work and social participation.
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The most dangerous Spirit that appears in the series. Kurumi transfers into Shido’s class in volume 3 and even announces that she is a Spirit. She is attracted to Shido from the very start, gaining the envy of Tohka and Origami. However, Kurumi reveals to Shido that she transferred to Raizen High School in order to eat him, or specifically the power that he has within him, to gain a large amount of life. Her left eye is an inorganic golden clock face, representing her remaining time (essentially measuring how much life she has left.) Although she is prone to killing people without a second thought, there is a twisted justice to her actions, and she cares a bit about animals. She has so far only killed humans who are delinquents, and has a history with Mana, as Mana has been repeatedly killing Kurumi, but fails due to the fact that Kurumi keeps reappearing through the use of her clones. After a failed attempt to dissuade Kurumi on a triple date, a battle occurred on the school’s rooftop and retreats from Kotori’s overwhelming power, from that point Kurumi no longer attends the school. In the volume’s epilogue Kurumi is seen regaining her time using her shadow powers to absorb the life of people within a building just enough to knock them out for a bit, but without killing them to ‘avoid attracting attention’. She seems to have taken a liking to Shido as she appears in several side stories forcing him to do something with her for fun, but without trying to ‘eat’ or kill him.
She reappears to help Shido rescue Tohka who has been captured by DEM Industries and roaming on the streets alone due to Miku’s intervention. It is revealed that Kurumi had been looking for and had failed to find the “Second Spirit”, who was captured by DEM and held somewhere, and was the only one who knew the location and identity of the “First Spirit”, the one that caused the spatial quake 30 years ago. In the middle of volume 10, Kurumi helped Origami return to the past on her request, and then sends Shido back 5 years meeting Kurumi’s past-self on her behalf for resolve Origami, as her current berserk state, is unstoppable. In volume 12, Kurumi tried to retrieve the Second Spirit from a DEM plane carrying the spirit, but destroyed by Shido’s spirit power earlier on and found out that she had escaped. After Origami’s appearance in the new timeline and the conflict with Mukuro is resolved, Kurumi resurfaces before who has also retained memories of the original world; Shido, Tohka, and Origami are stunned to see Kurumi has return to school. Kurumi stipulates a challenge between Shido and her; whoever makes the other fall in love first will be able allowed to accomplish his or her goal. Her powers have yet to be sealed by Shido.
Her Angel is Zaphkiel, which takes the form of a massive clock face with a musket and a flintlock pistol taking the place of the minute and hour hands of the clock, and which allows her to control time. She is able to summon her past selves to fight or take her place as they are essentially Kurumi herself. This not only allows her to cheat death by summoning herself from before her death, but also makes it more difficult for Shido to reach her; such as when Shido was able to persuade a clone on top of the school but was interrupted when she killed that version of herself for showing weakness, circumventing any emotional persuasions the same way as physical injuries. From within her shadow they can reach out their arms and grab people to hold them or to drag them into the shadow which somehow ends up with the person seeming to have exploded when the area is shown later. While in her Astral Dress, she wears her black hair in twin tails, with the hair on her left side longer than her right. While not in her Astral Dress, her hair is tied up slightly differently, with both sides being of the same length except for the fringe covering her left eye, showing only her red right eye.
The twelve Roman numerals on the clock has different powers that only the original Kurumi can use. She has twelve different abilities she can use, which are named after the first twelve Hebrew numerals. The abilities she has shown so far include First Bullet: Aleph (which speeds up time, allowing the target to move faster), Second Bullet: Bet (which slows down time and causes the target to move slower), Fourth Bullet: Dalet (which reverses time and which can undo injuries the target sustains), Seventh Bullet: Zayin (which stops time, freezing the target and preventing it from moving), Eighth Bullet: Het (which makes clones of the target, these clones being cloned from a past form of the target, and this ability being the secret behind her past selves and why she keeps reappearing after being killed), and Tenth Bullet: Yud (which allows her to see the past experiences of the target). Her power causes her life to be eaten away, the clock hands on her eye rapidly turning in the clockwise direction each time she uses Zaphkiel’s power. This forces her to obtain ‘time’ from outside sources, specifically from either killing other humans using her shadows, or using the City of Devouring Time to weaken those caught in her shadows to strengthen herself. In addition, the real reason she wants to gather a large amount of time is to not only be able to use Twelfth Bullet: Yud Bet to go back 30 years in time to kill the First Spirit, but also to have enough left over to do the deed. Her AST codename is <Nightmare>.
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“It’s never about one person,” Brady said after the Bucs first full padded practice Monday. “This isn’t ever what this sport is about. It’s an ultimate team sport. I love players that are professionals, want to work hard, and players that put the team first.”
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Learn English > English lessons and exercises > English test #125789: Black swift 2
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Black swift 2
In test, I told you about swifts nesting in the putlog holes of our buildings when those over three-year-old breed, because otherwise they never land! Black swifts arrive every year in Europe, during April after crossing Africa, where they spend the winter months.
Once the nest is found and the couple is reformed, (because they do not arrive at the same time and do not follow the same paths), the incubation lasts about seventeen to twenty-two days. The female lays two to three eggs, a few days apart, depending on the meteorology (the time between the first and third eggs can reach the week)! It is only when the third egg is laid that the parents incubate in turn for about three weeks.
At the end of April to mid-May, it's the birth boom. The chicks are bald, deaf, blind, but they take away their insect rations with a ferocious appetite from their parents. Our roofs become the scene of incessant comings and goings to feed their hungry offspring, whose cries are piercing. It's really fascinating to watch them decelerate just before reaching their nest in the tiny opening!
Sometimes, when the sun is too hot, the chicks try to escape from the nest furnace when they are not yet fully feathered. On the ground, they are always in danger of death (hunger, organ injuries, or predation)! Adults have great difficulties taking off from the ground because they are too short-legged birds, and therefore they will not come to feed them, unlike other birds that would experience such misadventure.
If an adult is on the ground, it is because it is exhausted, injured or thirsty. Give it one to two drops of clear water at the end of a clean cotton swab that the swift will suck to drink, placing the cotton swab along the beak, without forcing on the beak.
(!)(!)(!) Be careful, it could drown, its nostrils are at the begining of and above its tiny beak.
The bird will have to be put in a blunt cardboard box large enough to spread its wings, so as not to be injured and let it breathe, the bottom lined with paper towels, which will prevent it from soiling its feathers to be able to fly as soon as possible.
If you find a nestling, the mission is more delicate ! Do as if it were an adult, and then call for a wildlife centre, after weighing the bird to the nearest gram, and describes as accurately as possible the condition of their feathers, which helps to determine its age, its needs, and its chances of survival. It needs forty days to complete all its feathers to be they are at the right length to allow it all its aerial acrobatics.
(!)(!)(!)Never give it any cat food, minced meat, milk, or bread. Birds never tolerate bread that destroys their organs, and their feathers and finally condemns them to death, this is true unfortunately for all birds!
Swifts are strictly insectivorous. Their part of insects must be prepared and given to the swifts every two hours... (neither wings, nor legs, and neither chitin nor antenna). For birds that almost never land, the condition and excellent health of the feathers is paramount. It's hard to make them eat, because they don't open their beaks easily... and you can break it, by manipulating them inappropriately! Plus, they move a lot, and struggle! Small, but very energetic!
If you encounter swifts on the ground, please call for specialists, such as local Wildlife Protection Associations.
At the end of July, young nestlings which are able to fly (they only weigh forty grams), begin their first trip, with adults. The others will leave later... if they can!
Data on swifts are recent because this species arises only to nest. Enthusiasts take turns to help, study, feed and care for these remarkable and courageous birds.
In a future test, we will discuss policies here and there, for the reception and protection of the swifts.
Choose the right answers. All of them are given in this text.
Now, you can try.
Have fun and good luck to you!
English exercise "Black swift 2" created by chocolatcitron with The test builder. [More lessons & exercises from chocolatcitron]
1. Why do we see chicks on the ground? Because their nest is too hotthey are hungry and want to eatthey are too bigI don't know .
2. Why can you find an adult on the ground ? Because it is drinking or eatingthirsty, worn out, injuredthirsty, hungry,it feeds its chicksI don't know .
3. Do swifts follow their partner using the same paths when they migrate from a place to another one? No they don'tYes, they always doI don't know .
4. How long does a chick need to be completely feathered? A chick needs two monthsa monthforty daysthree weeksI don't know to be able to fly.
5. How can you give any clear water to a swift ? One or two drops with a cotton swabBy giving the swift a glass of water!By turning on the tapI don't know .
6. When do swifts incubate their eggs? When the female laid its secondthirdfirstfourthfifthI don't know egg.
7. What can a swift eat? A swift can only eat breadcat foodminced meatmilkinsectsI don't know .
8. What is the main disadvantage for swifts to be short on legs? Swifts can't scratch themselveslandtake offdancerunI don't know easily.
9. Why do you need to weigh the bird and describe its feathers before calling a centre ? To determinate its age, its needs, and its chances of survivalits sex and its specieits healthI don't know .
10. Is it easy to make a swift eat? No, they move a lot and don'tYes, they are quietI don't know open their beak easily!
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Cracking the Code
In Cracking the Code, new music superstars ACME and Third Coast Percussion present two major works by leading American composer David T. Little: companion pieces that explore the tension between the individual, secrecy, and state violence.
Haunt of Last Nightfall, a visceral “ghost play in two acts” for percussion quartet and electronics, examines America’s role in the 1981 massacre at El Mozote, El Salvador. AGENCY, for string quartet and electronics, questions individual autonomy, whether we are subject to unknown and powerful social and political forces. When paired together, The New York Times described the music as “forthright, visceral, bloody, with the intimacy and polish of a classical chamber ensemble but bulging with the loud, reverberant sweatiness of rock.”
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Spontaneous Emotion with Mateo Centeno
A kid with "Mxtive" is rare to find now a days. So many different opportunities offered, too many distractions, and too many temptations. 17 year old Mateo Centeno knows his "Mxtive" and making the moves to reach his goals. Living to inspire and being the difference Mateo is using the power of HipHop/Rap to open the eyes and hearts of his listeners.
Starting at 8 years old Mateo started taking classical piano classes, let's just say he didn't gather an appreciation of it until him and his friend formed a band when they were 12. Once the band was formed, he was interested in teaching himself guitar, ukulele, drums for producing purposes and for the cherry on top he even taught himself how to play the Kazoo...haha. At Rock 101 Bar in Texas, Mateo went on stage for the first time with his band and had a rocking good time. That rockstar confidence unfortunately didn't carry over to his very first solo performance. Even though everyone at his church said he was amazing, he knew he had to work on himself, and that he did!
He was able to create an album called "Mxtive" which hits all what you're looking for in an album. Songs that make you dance, songs that make you feel, and songs that are a driving force to create/achieve your goals. Musicians aren't always in despair, just most of them focus to write about the time they are. What Mateo achieves is to be able to put the enjoyment of life in his music as well. Anytime he feels something he jots it down or types it up on his iPhone. He never wants to miss out on inspiration that comes his way.
Pulling inspiration from experiences and other genres to putting into his music, you won't be disappointed with what you hear. Coming out with new content all the time, whether it's a completed track or a snippet of a song cover on instagram, you will be hooked to find out what his next move will be.
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International Law and Reparations: The Inter-American System
AUWCL Dean Emeritus Claudio Grossman Pens New Book on International Law, Reparations
An analysis of the Inter-American Human Rights Court (IACtHR) as it relates to full reparations is the topic of AUWCL Professor and Dean Emeritus Claudio Grossman’s latest book, International Law and Reparations: The Inter-American System.
The book, co-authored by Agustina del Campo and Mina A. Trudeau, explores the notions of "fair remedy," "injured party," and the possibility of achieving "restitutio in integrum" for human rights violations through an analysis of decisions issued by the IACtHR. The reader is encouraged to consider not only the current status of the law, but also the role played by victims, lawyers, commissioners, and judges in its jurisprudential development.
“My motivation for this book was grounded in the importance of promoting a victim centered approach, supported by the law, in order to open possibilities of justice for violations of human rights norms,” Grossman said. “I tremendously value the contributions of my co-authors in this collective effort.”
International Law and Reparations: The Inter-American System interprets Article 63 of the American Convention on Human Rights, and underscores that the IACtHR is guided by the notion that human rights instruments should be interpreted in light of its object and purpose in accordance with the State members of the Organization of the American States. The Court's jurisprudence ensures that victims of human rights violations are awarded not only monetary compensation, but a full array of reparations designed to restore their dignity and reaffirm the value of the rule of law, including moral compensation, guarantees of non-repetition, and truth as a measure of satisfaction.
"International Law and Reparations: The Inter-American System is an indispensable book for practitioners and scholars working in the area of international human rights,” said Viviana Krsticevic, executive director of the Centre for Justice and International Law. “It provides a comprehensive, systematic, and insightful analysis of the jurisprudence on reparations of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. In doing so, it makes a definitive contribution to the field of international law, and strengthens our collective capacity to achieve meaningful and effective reparations on behalf of victims."
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Packers vs Lions Game Recap
Posted on 01/10/2022 by Michael Johrendt
It’s more than safe to say that the Green Bay Packers were hoping to head into the playoffs on a better note, but their 37-30 loss to the hapless Detroit Lions was how the 18th game ultimately played out at Ford Field.
For the Packers, they utilized a combination of starters and reserves to get through the game, helping keep some of their regular players fresh and on a normal schedule, while also getting backups key playing time in a game that had no impact on the playoff seeding, as the Packers had already clinched the NFC’s top spot.
Offensive tackle David Bakhtiari and center Josh Myers both returned to the field on Sunday, two much-needed additions for the Packers as they head into the postseason. Both players looked solid in their returns, helping shore up an area that of the Green Bay lineup that has been decimated at times by injuries.
Aaron Rodgers started the game and played only in the first half, throwing for 138 yards and 2 TDs, both to Allen Lazard. Davante Adams was able to set the Green Bay all-time record for receiving yards in a season Sunday with a little help from Rodgers, as he finished this season with 123 receptions for 1,553 yards and 11 TDs.
Adams had six receptions for 55 yards, a healthy number for not having played the entire game. Lazard hauled in five receptions for 75 yards and his two scores, Josiah Deguara caught a long TD from Jordan Love, and the duo of AJ Dillon and Patrick Taylor combined for 25 carries for 116 yards and a score that went to Taylor.
Love’s day was rocky, as his 10/17 for 134 yards, 1 TD and 2 interceptions shows. Essentially playing mop-up duty in the second half, Love’s decision-making process was quite up and down, missing targets and ultimately having poor ball placement that led to the two turnovers.
Defensively, allowing a now-three win team to put up 20 points in the second half is a rough look for one of the league’s better units. Only sacking Jared Goff once and allowing over 300 total passing yards from one of the league’s worst offenses is not necessarily something for this unit to hang its hat on moving forward.
With the NFC playoff slate set, the Packers comfortably can sit back and enjoy their upcoming bye week, but with an eye towards the rest of the competitive NFC postseason opponents, the Packers will be hard-pressed to continue their regular-season success into the postseason, an accomplishment they were far from achieving on Sunday.
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Mike Johrendt has been an avid fan of the Packers ever since he can remember. He is now a writer at PackersTalk and you can follow him on Twitter at @MJohrendt23
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FILE – Money is exchanged at a food stand inside Grand Central Market on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, in Los Angeles. U.S. inflation, an economic afterthought…
FILE – Money is exchanged at a food stand inside Grand Central Market on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, in Los Angeles. U.S. inflation, an economic afterthought for decades, returned in 2022 with the relentless rise in prices devouring workers’ pay and putting American consumers in a foul mood. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
High inflation and efforts to tame it defined 2022 economy
by: PAUL WISEMAN and ANNE D'INNOCENZIO, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the economy, 2022 was a throwback year. And not in a good way.
At times, it felt like the 1970s or early ’80s. Inflation running rampant. The United States and its European allies engaged in a not-so-Cold War with Russia. A bleak outlook leaving people feeling sour and anxious.
It wasn’t supposed to turn out like this.
When the Federal Reserve’s policymakers made their 2022 forecasts a year ago, they seemed almost cheery. After two years of tumult ignited by the pandemic, they foresaw the U.S. economy returning to something close to normal.
They expected consumer inflation to reach 2.6% at the end of 2022 compared with 12 months earlier. That would’ve been only a few ticks above their 2% annual target but nothing ominous — and a clear recovery from high inflation earlier in 2021.
The Fed’s officials, it turns out, underestimated how pay increases, federal aid, supply shortages and a pent-up desire by consumers to spend would conspire to accelerate inflation — and keep it high. But mainly they didn’t foresee that President Vladimir Putin would send tens of thousands of Russian troops to invade Ukraine in February this year — an act of shocking aggression that upended world trade in energy and farm products and sent oil, natural gas and grain prices soaring.
“Without that Russian invasion,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, “we’d be in a very different place today.”
Normal would have to wait.
U.S. inflation, an afterthought for decades, resurged with a vengeance this year, reaching heights unseen since the early 1980s. Galloping prices shrank Americans’ inflation-adjusted pay — despite high wage growth for many — and put consumers in a foul mood. The price spikes forced the Fed to raise interest rates aggressively at the risk of plunging the world’s largest economy into recession.
It was hardly just the United States. Inflation buffeted countries across the world. The International Monetary Fund expects worldwide inflation to hit 8.8% this year. That would be the highest rate since 1996.
Europe has been especially pummeled by Putin’s energy shock. Consumer prices are rising at double-digit rates across the continent and the United Kingdom. The spending power of consumers has been crushed. Many see a European recession in 2023 as a near-certainty.
As the year ends, though, it looks like relief may be coming — tentatively, gradually, perhaps, but still likely on its way. Inflation numbers in Europe and especially in the United States are edging down.
“I think we’ve seen the peak in inflation; it was probably back in the summer,’’ Zandi said. “We will see much better inflation numbers over the course of the next 12 to 18 months.’’
Yet for now, the pain of higher prices continues to inflict hardships on many. For American workers, inflation-adjusted hourly pay fell 1.7% in November from a year earlier. It was the 20th straight month that that figure has declined year-over-year.
And even though overall inflation in the United States eased in November for a fifth straight month, food prices kept surging. Compared with 12 months earlier, coffee was up 15%. Bread rose 16%, frozen vegetables 18%, canned fruit 21% and eggs an eye-glazing 49%.
Businesses large and small are struggling to contain the higher costs and to determine whether and by how much they can pass their higher costs on to their customers as higher prices.
Wayne Shumar, who owns Pepperronnies Family Restaurant in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, became so exasperated with inflation that he posted his receipts for shredded lettuce and tomatoes on his restaurant’s Faceook page. Those prices had doubled in six months.
To save money, Shumar has shifted from using one vendor to four. He scans each of their websites for the best deals before placing an order. He also picks up orders himself to avoid vendors’ fuel surcharges.
“Before I spent more time out in the dining room,” Shumar said. That’s what a family restaurant entails. Now I spend more time sitting here, looking at a computer screen, trying to keep costs down.”
Likewise, Logan’s Roadhouse, a chain of 136 restaurants, is contending with a 28% increase in premium sirloin prices. It expects those prices to surge an additional 20% early next year.
“We are constantly evaluating the cut of meat,’’ said Josh Kern, CEO of Logan’s parent company, SPB Hospitality. “Are there recipe changes that we can do?”
In another cost-cutting move, Logan’s switched from premium-priced waffle fries to straight-cut fries. (So far, diners haven’t rebelled.) Butter is up 42% from a year ago. So Kern’s company is negotiating with butter vendors.
The chain is now making its own macaroni and cheese instead of buying it from a manufacturer.
“We looked at everything in the pantry, and we could make just as good macaroni and cheese, ” Kern said.
Pucker Up Lemonade, which sells drinks at its stand in Compton, California, and at festivals and convenience stores, used to buy its refillable cups from a local vendor for $1 each. Now, those cups are $2.50. The owner, Karneisha Christian-Stewart, is preparing to buy them from China, having calculated that she could save $15,000 on a bulk order of 10,000 cups.
“I’ve never imported before,’’ Christian-Stewart said. “I have to do that because the cost savings is a lot for a small business.’’
John Catsimatidis, who owns the New York supermarket chains Gristedes and D’Agostino’s, complains that beef and chicken cost about 30% more than they did a year ago. Fish prices are up even more.
Inflation’s unexpected and unwelcome re-emergence in 2022 wasn’t the only wild turn the economy has taken since early 2020.
First, COVID-19 brought economic activity to a sudden halt as businesses shut down or reduced hours and consumers stayed home as a health precaution. In the United States, the economy imploded: It contracted at a record annual rate of more than 30% from April through June 2020. Employers wiped out a staggering 22 million jobs in March and April 2020.
The Fed and other central banks slashed rates, and governments delivered huge economic stimulus through spending programs. The result was a stunning rebound. Flush with government aid, consumers, especially in the United States, splurged on furniture, appliances, exercise equipment, video games and other manufactured goods.
The sudden burst of spending caused shortages, delayed shipments and higher prices. Companies recalled many of the workers they’d laid off in early 2020. Yet they still couldn’t hire fast enough to keep up with customer orders. Many of them sharply raised wages to try to attract and keep workers.
Consumer prices began to tick up in the spring of 2021. But Fed Chair Jerome Powell suggested that higher inflation was likely “transitory’’ and would ease once global supply chain bottlenecks unsnarled.
Yet month after month, the supply shocks refused to fade. Sometimes, bizarre incidents intervened. A surprise freeze in Texas paralyzed petrochemical production. A mammoth container ship got stuck in the Suez Canal and severed trade between Asia and Europe. A drought in Taiwan disrupted semiconductor manufacturing. An avian flu wiped out a near-record number of poultry.
Those factors combined to send inflation steadily up toward multi-decade highs well into 2022.
“Some of this stuff you can’t make up,’’ said Daniel Swan, co-leader of the operations practice at the consultancy McKinsey & Co. “I don’t know what normal is anymore.’’
Worst of all, Putin invaded Ukraine and blew up global energy and food markets.
In response, the Fed has raised its benchmark rate seven times this year, most recently on Wednesday. Its key rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, is now at its highest level since 2007.
The Fed intends the higher rates to slow the economy enough to bring high prices under control without tipping the economy into a recession — a notoriously difficult maneuver to achieve.
At least supply chains are gradually working out their kinks as demand for manufactured goods slows. Many ports, which had strained under backlogs at the start of 2022, are operating normally again. Lower shipping costs alone are likely to shave half a percentage point off global inflation, Simon MacAdam, senior global economist at Capital Economics, has estimated.
The official inflation numbers are looking better. The U.S. government reported this week that American consumer prices rose 7.1% last month from a year earlier — still high but a big improvement. Year-over-year price increases peaked at 9.1% in June and have slowed every month since.
Even the 10% inflation last month in the 19 countries that share the euro currency was down from 10.6% in October. The United Kingdom’s government reported that annual inflation dipped to a still-painful 10.7% last month from 11.1% in October.
Oil prices have plunged since early November, easing prices at the pump. A gallon of unleaded gasoline cost an average $3.19 on Thursday, down from $5.02 in mid-June, according to AAA.
All that said, the fight against inflation is hardly over. Some economists worry that worker shortages will endure, especially in labor-dependent services businesses, thereby keeping upward pressure on wages and prices.
Inflation has been shifting from goods to services, where it is typically more intractable. According to the inflation gauge the Fed favors — the government’s personal consumption expenditures price index — services prices were up a brisk 0.4% in October and 0.6% in both September and August.
“Inflation is very likely to have peaked and will be lower in 2023 than it was in 2022,’’ said Jason Furman, a Harvard economist who was a top adviser to President Barack Obama. “The problem is that ‘lower’ could mean 3% or 4%, which would still be too high for the Fed. And lower is happening in part because the economy is weakening.’’
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Betty Kyallo’s dad speaks on the kind of childhood she had
By Ghetto Radio On Sep 14, 2020
Media personality Betty Kyallo’s dad Wilfred Kyallo has revealed the kind of childhood his celebrity daughter had.
Speaking in a phone interview on Churchill show, Mr. Kyallo described his daughter’s childhood as a very bright one adding that she was never one to cause trouble.
He further went on to describe his daughter as hard working and a go getter.
“Betty has been very consistent. She’s very hardworking, she is a go-getter. She plans her goals and makes sure she achieves them. Betty has consistently been in the media until when she left K24, she had a very bright future in the media. She is a very big blessing to us as a family and we love her so much. She is very kind to us and does a lot in the Family. She was very bright and concentrated much on her studies, she was very kind and always led us in prayers and most of the times she would remind us when it’s time to pray. She was never known to cause trouble, she was actually very kind and understanding, and even when it came time to share anything, she will be the last to ask for her share. She was not very committal in public issues as she would let other people go first…she was a child every parent would love to have and we are very proud of her. I have got very enterprising daughters and I am very happy about them. They are all achievers and whatever they do, they do with a lot of zeal and crest and Betty leads the way. They prefer calling me Baba Betty” he said
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Speaking on the same interview, Betty Kyallo’s mother Julia said the one wish she has for her daughter is that she never lands an abusive husband.
Julia said her daughter has been through a lot in life with a serious accident that almost killed her.
The former news anchor’s mother said all she wishes for her daughter is that she lands a good man.
“When she was in from three, she had a bad accident which broke her collar bone and it was so bad. I used to cry although i could not show her. She used to ask me ‘mummy iko aje..’ she was in kenyatta hospital for one and a half years and she’s a fighter. She is a nice girl even at school she was always good. She’s a miracle. So i hope even in future nobody beats her, that’s my worry. Should not get a husband who will beat her because everything is on her face…” she said
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FWC redefines the term “navigational hazard,” at odds with federal law. Because Covid-19!
TBG_admin March 30, 2020
Eric Sutton, the head of the Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), has decided that “behavior that may result in mass gatherings or congregations of people susceptible to the spread of” the coronavirus to be a “navigational hazard.” The decision came in this executive order issued Friday
However, Sutton’s order is inconsistent with how federal law defines a “hazard of navigation” for the United States Coast Guard. Sutton’s order is also inconsistent with the international maritime law understand of the term.
Eric Sutton
Under the US Coast Guard’s legal definition of a “hazard to navigation” is “an obstruction, usually sunken, that presents sufficient danger to navigation so as to require expeditious, affirmative action such as marking, removal, or redefinition of a designated waterway to provide for navigational safety.”
The “behavior” prohibited in the executive order, or any behavior, can never be a “hazard to navigation” under federal law. Furthermore, Florida Statute 327.46 in which Sutton found the “navigational hazard” language doesn’t rely on there being a state of emergency. It’s a statute that applies all the time, which raises further concerns.
Under Sutton’s unusual interpretation what a “hazard to navigation” is, he could for example also prevent unvaccinated children from gathering in groups on the water because their behavior “may” spread measles. Or mumps. Or whatever.
In an other scenario, those same children may just have allergies, but are unable to convince an FWC officer that their symptoms aren’t a sign that they’re carrying the latest pandemic. FWC could thus prevent those allergy-plagued children and their families from gathering on the water, and there doesn’t even have to be a state of emergency for them to do so.
The sky is the limit when “legal logic” such as Sutton’s is advanced.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
Also Eric Sutton
The quote is from Lewis Carroll’s famous book “Through the Looking-Glass.” Humpty was speaking to Alice, as in “Alice in Wonderland.” Sutton is just one of numerous state and local mini-popes who are usurping power and taking us in to Wonderland. It is worth remembering that Wonderland is neither a democracy nor a republic, it’s a monarchy ruled by the Queen of Hearts, who often issues capricious an arbitrary decrees of capital punishment.
Increasingly authoritarian, draconian and lawless “orders” are reigning raining down on citizens during this health crisis. Here is our previous reporting on government gone wild during this pandemic crisis:
Pinellas County provides “non-essential” businesses misleading information
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We asked the FWC to answer our questions about the executive order, but did not receive an answer by the publication deadline, even after extending it. Three of our questions were:
1/ Does the FWC believe that it has the authority to deem other “behavior” that “may” spread diseases other than Covid-19 to be navigational hazards as well?
2/ Does FWC believe that its authority to declare potentially disease spreading behavior to be a navigational hazard only exists during a declared state of emergency?
3/ Has the FWC chief legal counsel provided an opinion that the EO is lawful and/or likely to be upheld by a court of law if challenged? If so, provide that opinion.
We asked the second question because of what was discussed above: that Florida Statute (327.46) in which Sutton found the “navigational hazard” language is not a statute related to a declared state of emergency. It is therefore important to know what they think the (no) limits to their authority are.
It seems that we are only a “nation of laws” for those who have the money to mount court challenges against the thousands of diktats from the many appointed and elected state and local demigods. These quasi-divine beings are usurping powers during this emergency that the Legislature never gave them.
Members of Legislatures, meanwhile, just want to be re-elected. Especially in this world of increased scrutiny through social media. They would rather never be on the record as having voted yes or no on anything, and are only too happy to abdicate their responsibilities to apparatchiks like Sutton.
As always….the Guardian reports and our readers decide. Like our Facebook page to find out when we publish articles.
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Everton 2020/21 Season Preview: Under 23s
What’s new for the young Blues ahead of an opening day fixture against Liverpool?
By Pete Reynolds@PeteReynolds_ Sep 11, 2020, 10:00pm BST
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Everton Under-23s finally return to action on Sunday – and with an eye-catching fixture to start: a derby against Liverpool - along with the Women’s and Men’s sides who are also in action.
They’ll also have Leighton Baines watching closely, with the world’s soundest ever left-back signing up be the club’s first ‘Professional Development Coach’.
But after an extended break and a summer of turmoil, how will David Unsworth’s side be shaping up?
Who’s Out
Despite sending out 14 players on loan last season and 21 the year before, Everton have been quite slow in sorting temporary moves away for their youngsters so far. Only Nathan Markelo, 21, has completed a loan move away, joining Twente Enschede in his homeland on a season-long loan.
With the first team apparently trying to complete a loan move for young Chelsea centre-back, Fikayo Tomori, one would imagine that would free up both of Everton’s highly-rated young centre backs, Lewis Gibson and Jarrad Branthwaite, to also secure loan moves away in order to get some valuable first team experience – although it’s unlikely the Blues will send either out until Mason Holgate and/or Yerry Mina are back fully fit.
Loan moves should also be on the cards for the likes on Joao Virginia, Beni Baningime, Con Ouzounidis, Dennis Adeniran and Ellis Simms, while the likes of Callum Connolly, Nathan Broadhead and Josh Bowler will also be heading out of the club – whether that be on loan or on permanent moves.
There have, however, been several players from the Under-23 setup leaving on a permanent basis. Kieran Phillips, Morgan Feeney, Alex Denny, Matty Foulds, Manasse Mampala and Korede Adedoyin were all released on frees, while Fraser Hornby joined French side Stade Reims for a £1.5 million fee and Kieran Dowell also left for a couple of million to Norwich City.
Who’s In
David Unsworth has been known to recruit externally for the under-23’s in previous years, but he’s been quiet on the transfer front this time around.
Niels Nkounkou, 19, is the only youngster to have joined the club this summer, but he’s already been linking up with the first team during pre-season – which is a hugely promising sign, with the club requiring cover at left-back. It seems likely that Nkounkou will provide back-up for Lucas Digne for the first team, while getting minutes for the under-23 this season.
Of course, several players have made the step-up from the under-18s this summer, with Sebastian Quirk, Bobby Carroll, MacKenzie Hunt, Lewis Dobbin and Rhys Hughes having played a key part in pre-season.
After being awarded a three-year contract in July, the club clearly have high hopes for lanky midfielder, Tyler Onyango. The Luton-born 17-year-old made seven appearances for the 23’s last season, but you’d expect him to be a key player for David Unsworth’s side this season.
With all of Everton’s senior goalkeepers all on international duty for last weekend’s 2-0 pre-season win over Preston, the number one shirt was given to 18-year-old Harry Tyrer, who caught the eye with some excellent saves, solid distribution – and, of course, a clean sheet. He may yet go out on loan, but if not he should star for David Unsworth’s side.
Another well-known name from the youth setup is Ellis Simms. He had a solid year for the under-23s last season, scoring nine goals in 19 appearances. In an ideal situation, one would hope the big 19-year-old striker would move out on loan for the season, but if not, he could dominate at this level and provide some extra cover up top for the first team.
Last but not least, 19-year-old right-back, Kyle John, could be set for an important season – especially after he played an hour for the first team against Preston. The right-back spot for the first team is still up for grabs, with Jonjoe Kenny and Seamus Coleman currently battling it out, but if John is able to excel for the under-23s, don’t be surprised to see him enter the first team setup if either Kenny or Coleman get injured.
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Franco Zeffirelli is celebrated and honored with so many awards that made him one of the most distinguished Italians on the cultural and cinematic stage. He is the only Italian to have the title of "Sir", given in 2004 by Queen Elizabeth II for his exceptional contribution to the spread of the English theater in the world, staging Shakespeare's great works in a refined, faithful manner.
Zeffirelli was born Gianfranco Zeffirelli, on 12 February 1923, just outside Florence. Both his father, Ottorino Corsi (who was to recognize him many years later, when the name in the records became "Gianfranco Corsi Zeffirelli"), and mother, Alaide Garosi, were married to other partners, so his mother was unable to use her surname or Corsi's for her child. She chose "Zeffiretti", the "little breezes" mentioned in Mozart's opera Così fan tutte, but the surname was mis-spelled in the civil records office and became "Zeffirelli".
When he was six years old, his mother died and a group of English expatriate ladies, the "Scorpioni", looked after him. These ladies were subsequently taken to an internment camp, and Zeffirelli never saw them again (the Scorpioni ladies inspired Zeffirelli's semi-autobiographical 1999 film "Tea with Mussolini"). During his years with the Scorpioni, Zeffirelli learned to love Shakespeare. Decades later, Zeffirelli's 1968 Romeo and Juliet was to become the best ever movie adaptation of the play (both he and the film received Oscar nominations).
In 1941 he graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, and on his father's advice began to study art and architecture at the University of Florence. Fair-haired and handsome, Zeffirelli was working as a set designer when he met Luchino Visconti, starting a long cooperation and tormented love.
Between the '40s and '50s he became the assistant of famous directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini and Luchino Visconti himself. His activity ranged in various fields, from theater to film, opera and television, painting, politics, education, achieving critical acclaim and audience success.
In recent years (in an interview in January 2013 he claimed he has projects that will keep him busy to the end of the 21st century), in his house outside Rome, in the company of the two adopted sons, Pippo and Luciano, he is concentrating on his Fondazione Zeffirelli for a "Centro delle arti internazionali e dello spettacolo" which was born in May 2013.
His favourite themes came from Shakespeare and religion, fields were he produced movies of exceptional beauty and insight, among them:
The Taming of the Shrew (1967), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, who helped fund the production and took a percentage of the profits rather than their normal salaries.
in 1968, he chose two unknown teenagers Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey (who will impersonate Maria in Jesus of Nazareth), for Romeo and Juliet, still today immensely popular and unsurpassed
Brother Sun, Sister Moon, about the life of St. Francis of Assisi, one of the great "heroes" in Franco Zeffirelli's own pantheon, with Jesus and Mother Theresa
an extended mini-series Jesus of Nazareth (1977) a co-production of Italian RAI and British ITC International Television Corporation, a major success in the ratings and frequently shown on TV, with Robert Powell as Jesus and an all-star cast including Plummer, Bancroft, Steiger, Olivier, Borgnine, Ustinov and Quinn.
The Champ (1979) a remake of the Academy Award-winning film of 1931 directed by King Vidor.
Endless Love (1981) adapted from Scott Spencer'a novel.
Hamlet, where he chose the then-action hero Mel Gibson for the lead role and Glenn Close as Queen Gertrude
An adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1996), which was a critical success.
Franco Zeffirelli has also been a major opera director of productions since the 1950s.
La Traviata (1958), with Maria Callas, Dallas, Texas
Tosca (1964), with Maria Callas and Tito Gobbi, Royal Opera House.
Lucia di Lammermoor (1959), with Dame Joan Sutherland
Norma, Callas' last interpretation, Paris Opera. A great friend of Maria Callas, in 2002 Zeffirelli directed a movie in her honor, "Callas Forever".
several productions of La Bohème, Tosca, Turandot and Don Giovanni for the Metropolitan Opera, New York
Don Carlo (1992) with Luciano Pavarotti
"Per Firenze" (1966), on the occasion of the disastrous flood of 4 November 1966, narrating voice (in Italian) of Richard Burton, montage Amedeo Giomini, musical score Ennio Morricone, costumes Anna Anni. The documentary was of great importance in fund-raising to help the city recover from the emergency.
"Omaggio a Roma" (2009), a tour through thousands of years of history and art whose leit-motif is water and marble, photography Daniele Nannuzzi, montage Cecilia Zanuso, musical score Alessio Vlad, with Monica Bellucci, Andrea Bocelli, and historical clips with Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn, Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg, and Anna Magnani.
Suggested reading and links
Franco Zeffirelli's official website: francozeffirelli.it
Franco Zeffirelli's interview with Rai Storia [in Italian]
Franco Zeffirelli's interview with Financial Times [in English]
Omaggio a Roma
The documentary in the YouTube video below (the last 10 minutes are shorter, promo versions) includes three musical pieces whose lyrics can be seen in the scrollbox below the video:
Anna Magnani's interpretation of "Com'è bello fa' l'amore quann' è sera" in the fifth episode (Fioraia del Pincio), directed by Luchino Visconti, of the 1953 movie "Siamo donne"
Andrea Bocelli in "E lucevan le stelle" ("And the stars were shining"), from the third act of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, sung by Mario Cavaradossi, a painter in love with the singer Tosca, while he waits for his execution in a cell in Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome.
Andrea Bocelli in "Nessun dorma" (=None shall sleep), an aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot, sung by Calaf, the principe ignoto (=unknown prince), who fell in love at first sight with the beautiful, cold Princess Turandot, who likes to play a cruel game with her suitors: who wishes to marry her must first answer three riddles; if he fails, he will be beheaded. The background where Bocelli sings in the Coliseum by night.
The video is no more available in its complete version because of copyright issue. Small parts can be found searching for "Omaggio a Roma Zeffirelli". The transcript is maintained below for reference.
Nu scennevano le coppie innamorate
se ne stavano abbracciate a pomicià,
er barista je portava la guantiera
cò' la bira e cor caffè che allora c'era.
There came down loving couples
they were embraced cuddling each other,
the barman took them a tray
with the beer and cofeee they had at the time.
Ma che luna... ma che luna c'è stasera
vede er monno chi s'affaccia a 'sta ringhiera,
da San Pietro all'artre cupole laggiù
fino ar mare più lontano sempre più.
But what a moon... what a moon tonight
you see the world from these railings
from St Peter's to the other domes there
as far as the sea, farther and farther
Che m' importa se quassù
non c'è nessuno,
che m'importa
si nun trovo da scajà,
What I care if up here
what I care
if I can't earn,
mo' sti fiori li regalo a Roma bella
che li porti ad un sordato in sentinella.
Now these flowers I'll give to beautiful Rome
so they'll be given to a sentry soldier.
e olezzava la terra
stridea l'uscio dell'orto
e un passo sfiorava la rena...
The stars were shining,
And the earth was scented.
The gate of the garden creaked
And a footstep grazed the sand...
Entrava ella fragrante,
mi cadea fra le braccia.
Fragrant, she entered
And fell into my arms.
O dolci baci, o languide carezze,
mentr'io fremente
le belle forme disciogliea dai veli!
Svanì per sempre il sogno mio d'amore.
Oh, sweet kisses and languorous caresses,
While feverishly I stripped
the beautiful form of its veils!
Forever, my dream of love has vanished.
L'ora è fuggita,
e muoio disperato!
That moment has fled,
and I die in desperation.
And I die in desperation!
E non ho amato mai tanto la vita,
tanto la vita!
And I never before loved life so much,
Loved life so much!
Tu pure, o Principessa,
nella tua fredda stanza
None shall sleep! None shall sleep!
Even you, O Princess,
in your cold bedroom,
che tremano d'amore e di speranza...
watch the stars that tremble
with love and with hope!
But my secret is hidden within me;
none will know my name!
No, no, sulla tua bocca lo dirò,
No, no! On your mouth I will say it
when the light shines!
Ed il mio bacio scioglierà
il silenzio che ti fa mia.
And my kiss will dissolve
the silence that makes you mine!
Voci di donne (le stelle)
Il nome suo nessun saprà...
E noi dovrem, ahimè, morir, morir!
No one will know his name,
and we will have to, alas, die, die!
[Il principe ignoto]
Dilegua, o notte! Tramontate, stelle!
All'alba vincerò!
Vincerò! Vincerò!
Vanish, o night! Fade, you stars!
Fade, you stars!
At dawn, I will win!
I will win! I will win!
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E5C4P3 - The Journey Tribute
I grew up as a drummer. In 1991 I had finally learned that I had a talent in singing that seemed to be above average in the karaoke bars. So I became interested in finding a band that needed a singer instead of playing drums. After auditioning for a few bands, I was hired by 'Heavens Reign' (ironically not a Christian band). We did some originals and a bunch of cover tunes including 'Stone In Love'. When that band broke up, the bass player suggested we start a Journey tribute since I sound like Steve Perry. Thank you, Randy! What a life-changing suggestion...
E5C4P3 first started in June of 1993. Randy and I from 'Heavens Reign' joined up with friends of his Al and Tony, and we begged Rob, lead singer of another band we knew, to play keys and rhythm guitar. I became the biggest fan of Journey as I studied the music that I didn't already know. Then, strangely, I noticed an ad from a Journey tribute band looking for a keyboardist. I called to find out what their story was...and ended up replacing their singer (which effectively meant firing all four of the guys I'd been playing with. I felt bad but it was a necessary decision).
This brought in the Pennsylvania era of E5C4P3. Joe on guitar, Paul on bass, Rick on drums, and Todd on keys. Todd had recently disbanded a popular cover band called Bootleg. We played a lot of Pennsylvania and Ohio venues. Remember the Buffalo Lodge, guys? Check out our old demo recordings below!
After a while, Joe, Paul, Rick, and Todd had to leave the band for various reasons and the hunt was on. While we played a gig at Stage II in Brunswick, OH, Steve Beyeler and Scott Psota watched the show and asked me if I was interested in singing with their original project. These guys could play Dream Theater!
When I first jammed with these guys they were calling themselves 'Rapture'. We played 'Pull Me Under' by Dream Theater and the songs 'Escape' and 'Edge Of The Blade' by Journey. These are NOT hit songs and they played them better than any previous line up of E5C4P3 had ever played (sorry, guys). And I was hunting for pretty much a whole new band at the time! Steve joined first and did a few gigs and told the other guys how much fun he had. Then Scott Psota, Scott Dunn, and Kit wanted in, too. Boom...third new line up.
E5C4P3 has played all over the eastern United States. From New York City to Texas and Minnesota to Florida, favorites will always be The Toy Tiger in Louisville, KY, Club LaVela in Panama City Beach, FL, and of course The Odeon and Cleveland Cafe here in Cleveland.
The struggle of traveling every weekend took its toll on everyone over time. And the 'tribute band scene' didn't really become 'respectable' until the 2000's. Steve quit and Justin came in to replace him. Scott Dunn quit and was replaced by Shawn. Scott Psota likewise quit and was replaced by Carlito. The 6 year ride had been fun but it was certainly time for a break by the end. E5C4P3 had played its final show in September of 1999. UNTIL...E5C4P3 returned in 2008!
The current E5C4P3 now includes George McGrew on guitar, Erney Chaney on keys, Billy Jones on drums, and Paul Soos returning on bass. And now we're doing things right...
Melodic Rock.com forum post #1 about me.
More E5C4P3 on YouTube
Here's some old mp3's!!!
Lovin' You Is Easy - E5C4P3 1996
Roll With The Changes - '1996 Powerhitters' with E5C4P3
Original Demo Recordings! We've gotten a lot better over the years.
Any Way You Want It - E5C4P3 1993
Open Arms - E5C4P3 1993
Juke Box Heroes
Juke Box Heroes is a classic rock dance band. It's also my "track band". The basic concept is to choose songs people love that other bands don't do and play them like the original recording using a little prerecorded help to fill in what's missing. It's not rocket science, really...and props out to Tim Burris and Disco Explosion for teaching me the concept.
Being a multi-instrumentalist, this band gives me an opportunity to use my keyboard and harmony skills to back myself up. On most of our songs, I could play a keyboard part or a rhythm guitar part. I feel it's a better show to play the guitar parts live and prerecord the keys instead of vice versa. Also, in the real world, I can sing live harmonies along with anyone...except for myself. So, using tracks, I get to sing along with myself so we can pull off Journey songs and make it sound like the studio recording (where Steve Perry recorded most of the harmonies himself). Don't worry...the other guys in JBH sing, too.
So, with that said, JBH is just a fun opportunity to dance to some awesome tunes. It's my concept of what a cover band should accomplish. People want to dance, so you can't play a lot of slow songs (but we have a few) or progressive art rock stuff and expect the masses to love it. So, as much as I love Rush, I'd never put 'Tom Sawyer' in the middle of a JBH dance set. (Although I'd love to see people try to dance to the keyboard solo when it goes into 7/8 time. That would be hilarious!)
JBH came around after Eclipse broke up. I first joined a band called 'Cleveland Rocks' which was short-lived because the guitarist soon moved to Florida. So the drummer, Rick Strah, and the bass player, Ken Marklow, both joined me in creating JBH. Rick just happened to know Scott Psota, my guitarist from E5C4P3 back in the 90s, and mentioned he was interested in playing again (other than the E5C4P3 reunion). I also reconnected with Rob Biglin. He and I worked together in Breakfast Club until I foolishly left the band right before they got so popular. So the five of us put together JBH, but Ken, who also played with other bands, couldn't continue with JBH. So we just continued on as a 4 piece band with Rob on bass. (Incidentally, Rob and I also played together in Sellouts with Rob on guitar and me on bass.) Rob moved back to Indiana and we eventually found Gary (G Rock) Stulak. Mark Matthews (previously in E5C4P3), Dave Warner (who used to run lights for E5C4P3) and even George McGrew (from Eclipse and 2112) filled in on bass until Gary came around. Hey! Look at that! All those bands mentioned within one paragraph. I'm starting to feel like Kevin Bacon.
In 2016, JBH went through some major changes. Disagreements on the future direction of the band led to going our separate ways. I then was joined by Steve Raz on guitar, Paul Soos on bass, and Tim Sprow on drums. Michael Scott Nelson eventually joined the band on drums and Carmen Carlucci later joined on bass. In 2022, George McGrew joined on guitar and Jason Brosmier on drums. In late 2022, Jason Brosmier left the band. I decided to play drums myself until a new drummer could be found.
Jason Kelty - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Keyboards, Bass
George McGrew - Lead Guitar, Vocals
Carmen Carlucci - Bass, Guitar, Vocals
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Rubix Cubed
Rubix Cubed came from out of nowhere. I was asked to fill in on bass for one gig. All of a sudden, I got Cubed and joined a new band! For the first year, I was the keyboard/rhythm guitar player. Then the drummer left and I switched over to drums. I had never gotten a chance to be a drummer in a band even though I grew up playing drums. This band couldn't be any more fun for me! It's the band I would have wanted to be in when I was in high school. I get to solve Rubik's Cubes and wear parachute pants for a living! Who could ask for more?! OK, so the parachute pants didn't last. The silly outfits had to stop. Now it's just about the music.
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Keltyoke
During the 2020 Pandemic Shutdown, I decided to record myself singing some songs that I'd probably never do in any of my bands.
Kelty plus Karaoke equals Keltyoke!
The Longest Time by Billy Joel
Leader Of The Band by Dan Fogelberg
More Today Than Yesterday by Spiral Staircase
Feel Your Love Tonight by Van Halen
Tom Sawyer by Rush
Abbey Road Album by The Beatles
Rock'N Me by Steve Miller Band
Day After Day by Badfinger
Buddy Holly by Weezer
Hotel California by The Eagles
Lady by Little River Band
An Innocent Man by Billy Joel
Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles
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Co-founder and director of the Associació Jiwar Creació i Societat
An artistic vindication of neighbourhood values
By Mireia Estrada Gelabert.
Over the last five years, artists from very different cultures have come through the Associació Jiwar – jiwar means “neighbourhood” in Arabic. The association is the driving force behind a project that stands for artistic creativity as a tool for change and for rethinking the city.
A working session in the Jiwar garden with artists from the Xabaca project.
Photo: César Cid / Jiwar
When, on a May day in 2014, New York poet Sharon Dolin, just out of curiosity, picked up a book from Jiwar’s library called Six Catalan Poets and was deeply touched by the poems of Gemma Gorga, it was the start of a collaboration between the two poets, previously unknown to each other, which gave rise to the English translation of the Book of Minutes collection of poems that went on to win the American PEN/Heim prize for translation in 2016. This didn’t happen in any literary fair, university, poetry reading or institutional meeting; it happened at an artists’ residence and creative incubator which for the last five years has been working to forge connections between artists from around the world and the host city, Barcelona.
Jiwar means “neighbourhood” in Arabic; it’s the driving force, the very essence of a project that vindicates artistic creativity as a tool for change, for rethinking the city and as a new way of interacting in it. Artists from very different cultures have spent time here working on projects that to a large extent would not have been possible without a dialogue with the people that make up this city: recollections from the neighbourhood’s oldest residents for work on a novel set in 1937 (Fernando Grajeda, Guatemala, 2013), the personal stories of refugee artists in the city for an exhibition (Esther Belvis Pons, Barcelona, 2015), sharing the most emblematic everyday spaces and letting yourself be photographed there (Andrei Farcasanu, Romania, 2013), revealing the communal and individual experiences that take place in the city’s kitchen gardens (Wil Weldon, USA, 2014) and the intimate and politically incorrect testimony of all kinds of mothers (Deema Shahin, Jordan, 2015), etc. The list of formats, explorations, research and collaborations is rich and diverse.
Although Jiwar positions itself as an organisation staunchly fighting for an open, intercultural city, it is maybe the “Making Neighbourhood” project that best exemplifies the approach of “sharing the city”, a term often used by the philosopher and thinker Marina Garcés. The project was born in 2013 during the first year of a partnership with the Africa Centre in South Africa, through which Jiwar (and other creative venues and artists’ residences around the world) annually host an artist-in-residence from any country in Africa, from any discipline, following an international selection process.
Palestinian singer Haya Zaatri at the Jiwar artists’ residence.
Participative photography
In that first year of collaboration with the Africa Centre, the selected artist was the South African anthropologist and photographer Sydelle Willow Smith, who presented the “Making Neighbourhood” project. This project revolved around a participative photography project with people from different African countries now living in Barcelona, each of them with their own very different personal story, legal situation and daily life. The participants offered views of their city, using single use cameras provided by Sydelle. She, in turn, followed up on these people and created a video, Vecinos (Neighbours), which set out to capture the African diversity and the life experiences of its protagonists in a social context very different from their home countries. It revealed situations of great hardship and uncertainty, but also positive experiences that did not fit the clichés.
Sydelle’s project triggered a strong response and with her permission Jiwar borrowed its title to give name to an annual call for art projects based on the central theme of neighbourhood values as a research topic. Since then, and thanks to the support of Barcelona Interculturalitat, “Making Neighbourhood” has been an exploration of the different ways of being and living in a city. It’s an exploration of neighbourhood as a special and necessary space that is only made possible by the interaction of equals. That’s why we say that it not only changes the artists that lead the projects but also the people who take part in them, because it lets them recount their own experiences from unusual and unique perspectives and this forces us to reflect critically and creatively on the complex reality of sharing a city.
This is not the place for describing all the projects that have been developed over the years, but it is worth emphasizing what it is that makes them happen: the dialogue with the human and social fabric. For example, the artist and curator Thomas Strickland (Canada, 2013 edition), creator of “Transitions”, worked with the LGBT diaspora in Barcelona, people who have had to flee their home countries because of their sexuality, whether they are officially recognised as refugees or not. Strickland used a participative process to build a relationship of trust through a series of meetings and walks around their city. He offered them some guidance on how to tell their stories: a letter to the home country, a letter to the host city and a photograph of the person’s hand in a symbolic place. This project would not have been possible without the support of the ACATHI association for migrant LGBT rights, and its absolute and heartfelt commitment to it.
Likewise, the wide range of women who took part in the “Home is Where Mom is” project by Deema Shahin (Jordan, 2014 edition) was a result of the diverse doors we knocked on that invited us in with such generosity, for instance the PAH (Mortgage Victims Platform) and the day centre for the elderly in Gràcia. It is this wealth of profiles and origins of our artists and the diversity of work, synergies and people that give meaning and enrich not just “Making Neighbourhood”, but the entire Jiwar project as a space for experimentation and exchange.
And what do the artists themselves take away from it? As well as the experience, which is fundamental, the creative material can be used to suit their own interests and project. We are keenly aware of the duty we have to break away from a stereotypical view of the city and to give an opportunity to writers, musicians, visual artists, film-makers, etc., to explore and interact with this other Barcelona, the one whose heart beats concealed under layers and layers of gaudy make-up. Thanks to them, we have also gained a glimpse of some painful cracks that we knew little of. So let’s stand up for this local/global dialogue as a way of living in and of seeing the city in which we live. Interaction is, after all, is good cure for prejudice.
Performance photography of South African Khanyisile Mbongwa, winner of the 2014 Africa Centre Artists in Residency award.
Photo: Txumari Ezpeleta / Jiwar
154 artists from 43 countries
During the course of these five and a half years, 154 artists from 43 different countries have passed through Jiwar. It has been a really positive experience, with only a very few difficult moments which it has always been possible to resolve. The diversity of backgrounds is also due to our aim of hosting as many artists as possible with a non-Western outlook and to offer opportunities to people from countries with less generous cultural policies or fewer resources, such as Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Peru, Iran, Chile, Mexico, Palestine, Georgia, Lebanon, Sudan, Ethiopia or Uganda. Our own geographical situation means that we have a particularly strong interest in artists from both the northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, indisputably historic and cultural neighbours subjected to a biased media spotlight that does not to justice to the complexity of their realities, eclipsing their human and particularly their artistic talents.
With this in mind, the Xabaca project, developed together with the International Institute for Nonviolent Action, Novact, and the Al Fanar Foundation for Arab Knowledge, has begun an interesting line of work hosting five female artists-in-residence from Arab countries, part of a project against censorship and creative self-censorship in various contexts.
The experience of supporting the Afghan performer Kubra Khademi during her first months in exile, the collaborations with the Catalan PEN club’s programme to host persecuted writers, and the launch of a project with the New York Institute of International Education’s Artist Protection Fund have all opened up an area of work in which we hold a strong belief: hosting and supporting persecuted artists. Once again, the international agenda holds sway and it’s just not possible for us to work in our own space without seeing ourselves reflected in the terrible mirror of today’s world. For our part, we will continue to take small steps to make Jiwar a space of light, a creative sanctuary that is open and attentive to the worldand our surroundings.
Kubra Khademi with the iron breastplate that she wore for a walk through the centre of Kabul on 26 February 2015 to denounce the treatment of women.
Photo: Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Images
From Kabul to Barcelona
In March 2015 we offered residency to the Afghan journalist Mariam Mana on her first stay outside Asia. It was an exciting and very enriching experience. Mariam arrived with all that comes with being a woman today in Afghanistan and with the recent terrible experience of sheltering, incognito and under death threats, her artist friend Kubra Khademi, who had carried out a performance walking through the centre of Kabul wearing an iron cuirass shaped like a woman’s torso and buttocks, to demand a place in the public space without abuse or impunity. Her walk only lasted eight minutes. The harassment was so intense that Kubra was forced to flee by literally jumping in a taxi that took her to Mariam’s house on the outskirts of the city. She continued to receive death threats. From there, she moved on to other hiding places and, following the public lynching in Kabul city centre of a young woman called Farkhunda, the French embassy rushed through a tourist visa to help her flee the country.
Kubra arrived in Paris without any contacts in Europe. An informal network of residency spaces and independent projects brought her to Catalonia: first to L’Empordà and the village of Les Escaules for its La Muga Caula Festival of Action Poetry and Performance Art, then to the Nau Côclea arts centre in Camallera, Girona, and finally to Jiwar. This initial experience allowed us to build up a network of contacts that we are strengthening with a view to setting up a permanent programme for hosting persecuted artists, along the lines of other such projects around the world.
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Drivers Clinch Titles at the 2017 NASA Western States Championships
Eighteen champions take the checkers at the NASA Western States Championships presented by Toyo Tires
Culminating a full season of racing, the nation’s top amateur auto racers earned titles in 18 classes on Sunday at the 2017 NASA Western States Championships presented by Toyo Tires at Thunderhill Raceway Park.
A wind-fanned grass fire during Sunday morning’s practice session delayed the start of the Championships until the afternoon. Drivers had to contend with wind gusts up to 70-mph on the 3-mile-long road course.
More than 150 amateur drivers representing seven states competed at the 12th NASA Championships, which featured a deep and talented field of competitors. The NASA Eastern States Championships will be held at Sebring International Raceway, October 19-22.
“All our drivers put in a lot of hard work this year just to get to the Championships, and they drove their hearts out this weekend,” said Jeremy Croiset, NASA Racing’s director of business development. “Championships are earned, not given, and our guys definitely earned their place in the record books this weekend.”
Brian Lock admits he was a little nervous going into the NASA Prototype race because his car was just a tick faster than his competitors, despite winning the qualifying races on Friday and Saturday. A setup tweak made the difference and Lock won his second consecutive NP01 Championship.
“It’s great to defend the title,” Lock said. “This year winning both qualifying races and the feature race was great. This year was a little more complete for us.”
Tristan Littlehale
Teen Mazda Challenge driver Nick Sommers crossed the finish line first with a 5.4-second gap over Littlehale, but officials later determined the 18-year-old Sommers had jumped the start, and awarded the Championship to Littlehale.
The class had the deepest field of the weekend, with 29 cars running on the road course.
“The officials were already looking into the start, and requesting videos from us,” Littlehale said after the decision was rendered. “It feels pretty good to win. We worked really hard for this weekend.”
Sommers said the strong winds made racing a challenge.
“The wind was a big factor and it made every lap different,” Sommers said. “The car was very twitchy. It was just a hard race to control and stay consistent.”
Michael Shawhan
As one of NASA’s newer racing classes, Spec E46 is in growth mode. The class this year brought more cars to the Championships event than last year. That’s good because four of them were DQ’d after the race, one of which was Marco Gallaher, who passed the leader Michael Shawhan under yellow on the white-flag lap.
“I was sitting behind this 944. I couldn’t pass because it was yellow, and then he passed me, so I celebrated the rest of the lap,” Shawhan said. “He had the race won. He had the pace on me. If he had just waited till after the last flag, he would have easily won it. The only chance I had to win the race was traffic. I did not have the pace.”
Larry Fraser
Larry Fraser had to work hard to earn his second Western States Championship after a dyno violation during Saturday’s qualifying race required him to start on the back row. It didn’t matter because Fraser methodically chased down 14 Spec E30 competitors to take the lead about midway through the race.
“My approach was to get to the front as fast as I could,” Fraser said. “I wish I would have been starting up front a little more to make it a little easier, but it was definitely a hard-fought race.”
Ryan Walton
Chasing gremlins earlier in the week, Ryan Walton didn’t know what to expect when he hit the track for the Championship. The team corrected the problems by setting the K&N-sponsored Mustang up to handle the corners that Walton was having problems with in qualifying.
“We struggled the whole week,” Walton said about the qualifying races. “I tore a splitter off twice, went off the track a bunch of times. We pretty much had a second-place car. They were quicker than us but at the end we got it together when it counted.”
John Pentelei Molnar
John Pentelei-Molnar won his second Championship in two years, but he dedicated the victory to his identical twin brother, Steve, who had spent the morning fighting a grass fire that broke out on the back half of the Thunderhill Raceway track. His brother serves on one of the Thunderhill safety teams.
With his brother watching, Pentelei-Molnar diced through traffic to pass Marcelo Vine with three laps left in the race to earn the victory.
“We’re talking about New York City traffic out there, no different than the taxis out there,” Pentelei-Molnar said, later adding, “I knew if I got in front of Marcelo and didn’t make any mistakes that would be it.”
Honda Challenge 4
Rob Krider
Rob Krider knows how to win. He proved it at last year’s Western States by winning Honda Challenge 4 in a car he built specifically for that event. Early in 2017, when the rules changed and certain parts of his car didn’t meet the requirements, he changed the car again and brought it to Thunderhill to throw down — and took home his second consecutive Honda Challenge 4 Championship.
“This was a very sweet Championship for us because last year they made a bunch of rule changes based on my car’s engine management system,” Krider said. “So, my feeling was, fine, we’ll put a stock computer back in it and still kick everybody’s butt, and that’s what we proved today.”
Ronald Swenson earned his second Championship after spending the entire race fending off challenges from George Smith, who pressed Swenson to make a mistake.
Swenson started from fourth place, but by the time they completed the first lap, it was Swenson’s race to lose. Smith and Swenson finished within 1.2 seconds of each other.
“I had to maintain my pace because I had George on my tail the entire race,” Swenson said. “It was good fun.”
Wiping the champagne from his eyes, Skip Rebozzi smiled as he talked about his first Championship and what it means to him.
“I’m thrilled. I love NASA,” Rebozzi said. “I’ve been running with NASA since 2005, but it seems we’re always somewhere else when they run Champs.”
Rebozzi led from start to finish and never looked back by putting some significant distance between himself and second-place finisher Drew Wadolny.
“The car was flawless. It ran really good,” Rebozzi said. “We worked on the handling all weekend long to make it better and better.”
Scott Smith had scored enough points in the qualifying races to start from pole, but when it was time to take the green, conditions were nothing like he’d experienced all weekend, and his tire choice ended up working against him in the early going.
“It was super windy out there and everybody else was on a different tire than I was. They were able to have grip right away. I got passed by three guys by Turn 3,” Smith said. “But then, it was just a matter of being methodical and staying with them, and one by one, the people in front of me spun or slid off and I was able to get those positions back. Basically, the wind blew everybody off the track in Turn 1, Turn 10 and Turn 1 again.”
For the whole race, Smith trailed Brett Strom, who crossed the finish line first, but a post-race DQ for being underweight handed Smith the win and the Championship.
Dave Schotz
For David Schotz, winning the Super Touring 4 Championship was bittersweet. He had hoped to match up with Austin Newmark, but Newmark was late getting to the starting grid. They were both running lap times consistently in the 1:55s.
That late start made a big difference as Schotz held on to beat the hard-charging Newmark by 3.46 seconds. Schotz knew Newmark was late getting onto the track but that he couldn’t let up.
“I really do feel horrible,” Schotz said. “We race locally together and he’s a fast kid. He’s the reason my car is this fast. He’s made me step up my game considerably this year, so I really do feel for him.”
Paul Geddings
Paul Geddings made history at the Western States Championships, piloting a Mercedes-Benz to its first Championship win in German Touring Series 2. The victory almost didn’t happen as Geddings was chasing problems and wasn’t able to shake it out.
“We had problems with the car all weekend,” said Geddings, who also won his first Championship. “We didn’t get to run on either of the two qualifying races because we had problems with the clutch, so we were working on it for three days. I was just so glad the thing held together.”
Brian Frisselle completed something of a “triple crown” in his Super Unlimited Norma chassis with a resumé, which now includes a 2016 Eastern States Championship, 25 Hours of Thunderhill overall win in 2015 and now the Western States Championship in 2017.
Frisselle watched as Jon Van Caneghem got a quick jump at the green flag, but Frisselle quickly passed him to build a 23-second lead.
“I’m so happy for the team. They deserve it,” Frisselle said. “They’ve given me a rocket ship so many times, I’m happy to bring it home.”
James Laughlin credits his wife and crew chief for making the right call on setting up the racecar for the windy conditions to bring home the victory.
“She made a good call—the tire pressure and setup on the car to help with these windy conditions,” Laughlin said. “It worked out perfectly.”
Laughlin battled with Dave Allen for about seven laps, but pulled away to victory. The group is tightknit, competing in 10 to 12 races a season.
“I love running up here at Thunderhill,” Laughlin said. “It means an awful lot to win this.”
Brian Gibson
Thunder Roadster is a tight class, so when one racer captures the Championship, the whole group celebrates. It was Brian Gibson’s turn to celebrate on top of the podium in 2017.
“I’m just as happy to see someone else win as they are to see me win,” said Gibson, noting that the drivers in the class have raced together for years. “It feels good, really good to win.”
Robert Dietz came to the track not expecting to win a Championship in a rookie season. But there he was atop the podium, celebrating the victory with a champagne hose-down.
“I expected to come out and watch some fast guys and learn a lot, so to come home with any hardware is just a treat,” Dietz said. “Obviously we had a small class this year, but it was a great learning experience and great competition in general with the other classes.”
Time Trial Recap
NASA Time Trial is another component of NASA Championships racing in which drivers compete for the fastest lap time rather than track position, as in racing. In Time Trial competition:
TTU: Jon Van Caneghem 1:41.280
TT1: Isaac Bouchard 1:51.339
TT2: Monsuru Tony Ibraheem 1:57.453
TT3: Matt McIntyre 1:53.820
TT4: Dave Schotz 1:53.344
TTC: Bryce Kliewer 2:03.622
TTD: AJ Gracy 2:00.876
TTE: Clay Schoen 2:12.947
TTF: Josh Buckwalter 2:20.453
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Batman v Superman is the Dawn of What, Exactly?
Posted on March 29, 2016 by Merlin
As much as I’ve criticized DC and Warner Bros, I was still determined to give Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice a fair and proper chance to impress me. I am not always successful, but I do try to keep an open mind, ya know? It’s not like Man of Steel, for all its problems, was utterly devoid of things to like, so why not? Besides, the true launching of the DC Extended Universe was something I didn’t want to miss. So I went to see it opening night.
It proved to be a most intriguing experience, and I walked away with mixed feelings.
On the one hand, almost everything I have said, every prediction I made, turned out to be completely accurate. They did give away almost everything significant in the trailers. Note that I used the word, “almost.” Yes, there were a few surprises, which I will try to skate around to avoid spoilers, but I will simply say that they mostly pertain to setting up the rest of the DCEU, rather than having a huge impact on the movie itself. Well, ok, it impacted the quality of the movie, but not really the plot.
One does need to keep in mind, DC and Warner are clearly trying very hard – too hard, in fact – to catch up with Marvel.
Marvel changed the game with the MCU, started a brand new race, so of course they’re in the lead, far, far, faaaar ahead of everyone else. DC, especially, has been left in the dust, where they were once in the lead. However, as far as races go, I recall a famous one that featured a turtle and a hare. It taught something about winning with a slow and steady pace, if I recall right? And something about not resting on your laurels, getting overconfident and lazy? That’s how Marvel got so far ahead in the first place, by carefully building up their strength and momentum, and putting in a continuing effort as the MCU has picked up momentum. In contrast to this, DC just shot this movie up with a truckload of performance enhancers, trying to make it do and be far too much all at once.
Result: it may be a step up from Man of Steel, which is a forward step for the DCEU, but there remains much to be desired.
First, because talking too much nasty leaves a bad taste in my mouth, a few good points:
The actors, each of them, did a phenomenal job with what they were given to work with, with super applause going to Ben Affleck and Gal Gadot, who just knock it straight out of the park.
The plot was more intricate than I expected, albeit in ways which are both good and bad.
I personally liked the music, especially that bit when we see the real Wonder Woman finally make her big screen debut (everyone who has seen this movie knows exactly the song I mean).
The fights were generally well done, if also a bit over the top with the explosions (just what was in that building that went sky-high solely from having Doomsday knocked into it?).
So it’s not like there was nothing good in this movie. It just could have been a whole lot better is all. I blame DC in general and Zack Snyder in particular for this. Going into every little detail about that (this is not my first draft of this review) gets to be a very long, complicated, detailed list, filled with spoilers. So, dropping about 90% of my more nit-picky complaints…
“Where on Earth do we BEGIN with this?!”
Once again, they are using the cookie cutter approach, and everything, literally everything, is, yet again… dark and EPIC!
That intricate plot I mentioned? The movie was full unto overflowing with setup and setup and more setup, not only for the fights we all wanted to see, but also for the rest of the DCEU movies, including “dark and epic” portents of the overarching conflict.
There were so many unnecessary scenes, including the lot that gave us our first, incredibly minor, yet still “dark and epic,” introductions to the Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg. But it’s not just limited to the setup, there were also scenes that were clearly meant only for this movie, yet contributed very little. All they did was slow the movie down even more.
Speaking of, the romance between Lois and Clark was never really shown, just acknowledged, and Lois was even more of a damsel in distress than she was in Man of Steel, albeit one that ran into distress as much as she was dragged into it, which made her presence feel forced, her relevancy contrived.
Instead of the random flash backs about how the heroes are important, we have the random dreams and visions to the same effect, some of them very intricate, all of them “dark and epic.”
The beginning was “dark and epic,” and the ending was “dark and epic and rushed” to finish setting things up.
The dialog always felt so heavy and lacking in any sort of subtlety. (*coughdarkcough* *coughepiccough*). Every last word is essentially exposition and statements of how important everything is, so much that the characters themselves had, like, zero room to grow and be people. I wanted to come up for a breath of fresh air long before the movie’s conclusion! It was all about the plot, not the people, which is ironic for a movie that brought in the element of lowly human civilians having been caught in the crossfire of Superman’s fight with Zod, and this has serious repercussions.
Do you think they could have packed in any more (dark and epic) references to God and the Devil in here? Sheesh! Overblown and obvious, much?
You get what I mean about the dark and epic yet? 😉
“The list of your sins is long, Zack Snyder!”
Now, for a couple points that are more “in-between,” being neither very good nor very bad on their own, but certainly jarring and potentially harmful to DC’s image.
It’s worth noting that most of these characters are also very different versions from those that have long graced us with their presence in our comics, movies, television shows, and video games. In a word, they are much more aggressive, even deadly.
We’ve already seen Superman kill one enemy in Man of Steel and he was willing to kill in this movie too, which is extremely out of character for him.
Batman was merciless and brutal, with no reservations about torturing and killing people, which is even more out place for his mythos, but fits with how “broken” he is as a human in this iteration. That’s another difference: while he’s typically been shut off from others, being “whole” is often what has separated him from his enemies.
Wonder Woman was all right, though, seeing her as a symbol of hope, some of her dialog made it feel like she’d given in to despair a long time ago and was only now rekindling her indomitable fighting spirit.
Even this iteration of Doomsday had more abilities than I’ve ever seen him have.
Basically, everyone, even Alfred, were rougher and less refined than usual. This did lend itself to some unexpected and pleasing journeys for the characters, but, again, it was all either prolonged or rushed.
Yet the most outstanding example I saw of all this was Lex Luthor. I have been correct when I said he seemed more like an annoying ankle-biter than Superman’s single most classic arch-enemy, but it is so much worse than I feared.
“Couldn’t they have just left well enough alone?!”
Lex Luthor has always been a wealthy mad scientist, but part of what made him so formidable is that his madness was cloaked in a cold, business-like rationality, or at least that’s the version I’ve usually seen in the movies and television shows. This version of him seemed barely capable of holding together even a fleeting semblance of sanity, not even for five minutes, and it strained credulity that so many people would work with a guy who is so clearly unstable.
Still, he was a conniving, ruthless, talented schemer, and one with a far greater knowledge of the heroes and their secret identities than I’ve ever seen. Yeah, he was an ankle-biter, but he really managed to sink his teeth deep into those ankles. He, like the heroes, may be different, and darker, but that idea is not entirely without merit.
And then to have the movie end on him just being a pawn for some other interstellar evil? Come on! I’m guessing that’s Darkseid, by the way, but either way, it is so much more gratifying to see Luthor as an equal peer to all the greatest DC villains, just as it is to see Batman as an equal to Superman, Wonder Woman, and the other members of the Justice League.
Now, for what I think is the biggest strike against Batman v Superman: a movie with such a name should have more direct conflict between them. That was the original lure of the movie, what we were promised: a collision between the two most famous superheroes in the world. Just imagine if, say, they’d had a Round 1 where Superman dominated, but then Batman came back for Round 2 and properly held his own this time. But no, instead we had to wade through, as I’ve mentioned, a prolonged setup (have I mentioned that enough times, yet?) that lasted the better part of two hours! Then after all that waiting, the fight, however well-crafted, was far too brief!
I did like that it was the result of Luthor’s manipulations, instead of just the result of Batman being paranoid as it seemed in the trailers, but, then again, Superman was trying to talk to Batman more than hurt him, which means he was holding back on some level, which diminishes Batman’s accomplishments a bit, which feels really sour, ya know? Not entirely dissimilar to having Lex be a pawn.
“They couldn’t at least keep the normal humans as proper equals to the aliens?!”
It was good, don’t get me wrong… but still disappointing when you stop to think about it. Much like the rest of the movie: good, but not great.
I know, I’m sounding pretty harsh. I do appreciate the risks they took, changing things so much. But either this is going to fail, or this will be DC’s most enduring and overwhelming cinematic effort, thus time casting the characters, the themes, everything forever as it is, and if that’s not really true to the original spirit of the comics… then why bother making the DCEU, or at least this version of it, at all?
To end on a good note, I find myself oddly more hopeful about the DCEU as a whole in spite of all the failings of this movie. I mean, DC may have made mistakes, but Zack Snyder made many mistakes, both in this film and Man of Steel. But the other DC films, like the upcoming Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and The Flash, all have different directors! We know Gal Gadot can shine as the Amazonian princess now, so I’m particularly looking forward to her movie! 🙂
Man of Steel was not a great opening note, but Batman v Superman, numerous problems notwithstanding, was a definite improvement, and if they can just keep improving instead of regressing, then DC just might make a long-hoped-for comeback after all! Here’s hoping!
But, to judge this movie solely on its own, and by its own merits…
Grade: C-Minus.
And that is me being generous.
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odysseanmiscellany says:
Hey! Well-written piece =). Just wondering, what would your excitement level be for the solo films in the DCEU? My top 5 would have to be:
1. Wonder Woman
2. Aquaman
3. Batman
4. Flash/Shazam
Ooooh, that’s a good one! Hmmm…
1. Wonder Woman, we agree there. 🙂
2. Aquaman/Shazam, two heroes who have been largely overlooked outside their animated adventures.
3. Cyborg.
4. Flash.
5. Batman. After the Nolan trilogy, that bar is set at a ridiculous height. 😉
And thanks for the compliment! 😀
Hmmm, just wondering, why is Cyborg so high on the list? The theme of tech and humans interacting I think should be pretty well covered by a much prettier cyborg (Scarlett Johansson) in Ghost in the Shell ;). And I definitely agree re: Aquaman and Shazam, it’s high time that they shine outside of cartoons. I mean, Shazam is Earth’s mightiest mortal! I’m thinking that they’ll probably age him up to at least be a teenager – hopefully not a full adult.
Well, in complete honesty, it’s not so much “high” as “higher than Flash because I’m enjoying the Flash TV show, so that’s another high bar.” 😉
No, seriously, Cyborg hasn’t had much live actions screen time either. He’s just a shade lower than Aquaman and Shazam because… well, delving into the seas or the world of magic is a little more exciting for me, personally, than diving into computers.
We do agree, though, Scarlett will make for a very pretty cyborg. 😉
You are a critic! What do you know! If you were a proper DC fan you would love the movie….(Sorry, couldn’t resist).
ROFL! I think you just made my day with that! 😀
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MyGov, the government’s resident engagement platform, tweeted on 15 August that it will bring precise transactions under its scanner. But the post was later deleted. According to the tweet, companies and institutions will report to the income tax department the details of about 12 specific transactions, such as hotel bills of over ₹20,000, health insurance premium of over ₹20,000, annual electricity bills of over ₹1 lakh, and abroad travel.
Reporting of some high-value transactions is already a part of the statement of financial transactions (SFT), a tax department’s lead whose scope may now widen. “In the July 2019 budget, the finance minister had said that the government will extend the scope of SFT to receive more information for enabling pre-filling of income tax return forms. By doing this, it would be able to catch tax evaders and get more individuals into the tax net,” said Naveen Wadhwa, deputy general manager, Taxmann, a tax, and accounting firm.
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Earlier, banks, mutual funds, and different institutions reported specified transactions under the annual information return or AIR, which was replaced by SFT from FY21.
Transactions, including investments and expenditures surpassing a threshold limit by certain individuals, are reported to the tax department. For example, banks need to file SFT when the total cash deposits in all the savings bank accounts of a consumer exceed ₹10 lakh in a year. Registrars file SFT for transactions of fixed properties where the deal value exceeds ₹30 lakh. Likewise, if you buy mutual funds, bonds, or shares worth over ₹10 lakh, the transactions will be listed by the issuer.
However, the tweet indicates, the government could be preparing to change the current thresholds. The tweet also considered reporting of bank lockers under SFT. “As banks can’t ask for the details of the contents of the locker, I think, if it is executed, the banks will have to report the name and PAN card of the person,” said Amit Maheshwari, tax partner, AKM Global, a consulting firm.
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He aimed out similar exercises in the past that was not sufficient. About two decades ago, in 1998, the government had launched a scheme called “One-in-Six”. Under this, taxpayers had to imperatively file ITR if they possessed a house, or a car, or a telephone, or a credit card, or had a club membership, or traveled abroad. “The scheme did not in inducing substantial tax revenues, but increased the agreement burden. The scheme was withdrawn in 2006,” said Nangia.
Other tax specialists agreed that while the purpose of such terms is to increase tax collection, it must be done in a way that large tax evaders are brought into the tax net, instead of creating hardship to small taxpayers.
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Increasing the range of SFT may not get a direct result in an increase in the agreement burden on the taxpayers as the further transactions will have to be reported by different institutions. The data reported under SFT will be visible in Form 26AS.
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Honest taxpayers don’t have to think much about ITR as their transactions are unlikely to not be in sync with the income shown in the ITR they file.
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James Alexander Gordon sadly retires
by Gildas the Monk on July 28, 2013
The most poignant news of the week for me was that of the retirement of James Alexander Gordon. Many Raccoonistas have something of an aversion to sport, but Gordon was a man who rose far above mere sport, and became for very many of us, something of a constant, a feature as safe and reassuring as Big Ben or Sailing By, a voice of poetry and an oasis of mellifluous tones that provided a vital and constant part of at least two generations. For those who do not know, let me explain.
As a youngish BBC staff announcer in 1973 Gordon was given the laconic order by a producer to “nip over and do the footie”. He had, to use his own words, not the faintest idea what the producer was on about. Over at the sports desk Gordon was given a list. It was the afternoon’s football results, and Gordon was totally baffled by what to do with it, all these names and numbers. However, Gordon, who had suffered from very severe polio as a child in Scotland and had a speech problem as well, but had been given a musical training as part of his therapy, and considered that perhaps giving a slight musical intonation and rhythm, might be a good way to read them out.
And so it began, for an almost completely unbroken span of 40 years. Saturday afternoon at 5 pm meant “Sports Report” with its traditional jaunty theme, Out of the Blue, as it still does today.
“And now the classified football results, read by James Alexander Gordon.”
And then followed the mellifluous, honeyed tones, with their hypnotic rhythm and cadence and a rich hint of Scots that would always tell you in advance how your team or arch enemy had done. A rising, optimistic note for “Arsenal, four” and a gentle, consoling descent for “Aston Villa, nil.”
James Alexander Gordon’s gentle, gentlemanly and slightly old fashioned and educated voice was always there. It has been there for almost all my life. It reminds me of Saturdays as a child, which would begin with two comics – the Beano and The Victor. Then a visit to the model shop to buy an Airfix Spitfire or Panzer Tank, football in the park, followed by wrestling on TV. This was always accompanied by Mr. Kipling cakes. My mother worked on a Saturday, so my father would make what we called “Saturday tea”, a roast of beef, sometimes with roast potatoes, sometimes just bread and butter, a hymn to working class aspiration made good. At five there was the aforementioned Sports Report, and then after James Alexander Gordon and the match reports, it was back to the telly, and hopefully Doctor Who. At least, that is how I remember it.
Later as I got older there was walking back from a match in the freezing air with a transistor radio, awaiting the rival’s results. Or later being abroad in some foreign hell hole, but hearing a little touch of home on the World Service.
Sadly and ironically, after a fight with throat cancer and an operation, the mellifluous voice is no longer strong enough to carry on and he has been forced to retire. The words “national treasure” and “national institution” are too often used he deserves them. By all accounts he was a total gentleman, a charming and modest man. He was somehow a beacon of civilised, old school values manners, consistency, dedication and diction in a modern world sadly lacking all of these qualities. I don’t want to drag him into political matters, but a world with values, and values despised by many in power today. I salute him and bid him well in his retirement, although reluctant, well earned.
James Arthur Gordon video clip
Squirrel Nutkin
A very nicely written posting that chimed strongly with my own
nostalgia.
Three small comments:
1. I rather imagine that JAG, as “… a total gentleman, a charming and
modest man … a beacon of civilised, old school values manners, consistency,
dedication and diction…” (which is certainly how he sounded) would not have
thought it remotely appropriate to launch into some random fit of islamophobia
in a comments thread like this one.
2. As the OP implies, but contrary to
the north London local paper piece cited by Moor Larkin, the mellifluous tones
of JAG were not broadcast in the 1950s (I can remember him appearing from
nowhere as the off-peak newsreader for Radio Two in the nearly 1970s) – that
journo was presumably getting confused by memories of other fine readers of
the football results …
3. … such as the not-that-long-retired Tim Gudgin
and his predecessor Len Martin, both of whom had fine radio voices and both
skilfully employed that musical prefiguring of the result they were
Matt July 29, 2013 at 12:55
Did I read not long ago that BBC Religious broadcasting is now controlled
by a muslim ? If so I’m sure we can expect fair-mindedness, balance ,
even-handedness, fair does for all etc.
Poynton July 29, 2013 at 11:48
Quite so. When Bill Bryson returned to the States after his first sojourn
in the UK, he said the two things he missed the most were the shipping
forecast and JAG reading the football results.
Engineer July 29, 2013 at 10:40
Gildas, I’m not a footie person, but I do know exactly what you mean.
There’s a smallish cadre of ‘voices’ who somehow managed to rise above being
mere commentators or sports reporters. Bill McLaren in rugby, Johnners,
Blowers, Christopher Martin-Jenkins and John Arlott in Cricket, ‘Whispering’
Ted Lowe in snooker (“For those of you watching in black and white, the blue
is the one behind the pink.”), Murray Walker in motor racing – they all had a
special something – old world values and a deeply engrained enthusiasm for
their sport, perhaps? – that raised them above mere BBC central casting sports
desk wallahs.
Enjoy your retirement Mr Gordon.
“Forfar four – East Fife five.”
Saul July 29, 2013 at 11:40
Not forgetting Sid Wadell of course.
Nor Johnners, and wondrous “leg over” incident.
For this feller, TMS is just about the only thing that makes the BBC
worthwhile. The rest of the time, when I do listen to BBC radio (we don’t
have a TV), I wonder who it is they are talking to, and why Thought For
The Day seems now to be exclusively for Muslims. I’m sure that
constitutionally we are a Christian country.
Hysteria July 29, 2013 at 09:51
“James Alexander Gordon sadly retires” – do we know for a fact that he
retired in a manner that demonstrated his sadness?
Bob July 28, 2013 at 23:37
I always thought it was a bit wasteful to employ someone to only read the
footy results. However well he read them.
Mark July 28, 2013 at 20:44
He still going? Listened to him when I were a lad. Sort of John Peel
What else did he do for a living?
Larkin July 28, 2013 at 18:31
This article from 2003 is spookily prescient.
http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/393728.print/
One for
the Fortean Times I should say.
Frank Limadere
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Philosophy of Cognitive Science > Philosophy of Neuroscience
Philosophy of Neuroscience
Edited by Robert Foley (University of Western Ontario)
Assistant editor: Michelle Thomas (University of Western Ontario)
Summary The philosophy of neuroscience includes applications of neuroscience to philosophical problems as well as philosophical investigations of neuroscience. The application of neuroscience to philosophical problems (such as problems in philosophy of mind) is sometimes referred to as "neurophilosophy". The philosophical investigation of neuroscience is a sub-discipline of the philosophy of science.
Key works See the pioneering Churchland 1986 for an early overview of key themes in philosophy of neuroscience. Anthologies of note include Bickle 2009 and Bechtel et al 2001.
Introductions For a concise introductory overview, see Bickle et al 2006. See also Brook & Mandik 2007 and Bechtel et al 2001.
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What Neuroscience Tells Us About Mental Illness: Scientific Realism in the Biomedical Sciences.Marc Jiménez Rolland & Mario Gensollen - 2022 - Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso 20:119-140.details
Our philosophical understanding of mental illness is being shaped by neuroscience. However, it has the paradoxical effect of igniting two radically opposed groups of philosophical views. On one side, skepticism and denialism assume that, lacking clear biological mechanisms and etiologies for most mental illnesses, we should infer they are constructions best explained by means of social factors. This is strongly associated with medical nihilism: it considers psychiatry more harmful than benign. On the other side of the divide, naturalism and reductionism (...) are on the look for failures in the biological functioning of the organism whenever a genuine mental illness occurs. Psychiatry as currently practiced, accordingly, exhibits the gaps of an ongoing research programme; a yet to be completed neuroscience would link mental illnesses with identifiable biological mechanisms. Both sides of this divide claim to be fostered by scientific discoveries and advances in neuroscience, when taken at face value. Against this background, we argue instead for a modest view. To that end, we draw attention to some nuances in the scientific realism debate. While contending that neuroscientific theories and models aim to provide true representations of their target systems, and can justifiably claim to have attained some, we argue that our confidence should not be placed beforehand in specific features of these scientific representations. Hence, it would be unwarranted to extract morals for psychiatry from posits (or their absence) in neuroscientific explanations of mental illnesses. To illustrate our position, we examine some recent discoveries in neuroscience concerning bipolar disorder. We conclude by linking our topic to a broader issue in the philosophy of medicine: insofar as psychiatry is a biomedical specialty, its classifications of health and disease are guided by pragmatic concerns, as well as by scientific discoveries. (shrink)
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Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life.Robert Chapman & Havi Carel - 2023 - Journal of Social Philosophy 53 (4):614-631.details
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Why Neuroethical Analyses of Invasiveness in Psychiatry Should Engage with Mental Health Service User Movement Knowledges and Considerations of Social In/Justice.A. Lee de Bie & Daniel Z. Buchman - 2023 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 14 (1):25-28.details
Bluhm et al.’s (2023) qualitative study on psychiatric electroceutical interventions describes several types and characteristics of invasiveness identified by psychiatrists and people living with a...
Perceptions of Invasiveness: A Moving Target for Neuromodulation.Nir Lipsman, Patrick J. McDonald & Judy Illes - 2023 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 14 (1):15-17.details
Major depression is among the most common, challenging and disabling conditions. It is highly heterogeneous, affects patients throughout the lifespan and, in up to one-third of people affected, res...
Invasiveness is Inevitable in Psychiatric Neurointerventions.Nick J. Davis - 2023 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 14 (1):13-15.details
In their recent target article, Bluhm et al. (2023) discuss the construct of “invasiveness” as it relates to medical treatments, and in particular to treatments that affect brain function. Cruciall...
The Normative Evaluation of Neurointerventions in Criminal Justice: From Invasiveness to Human Rights.Sjors Ligthart, Vera Tesink, Thomas Douglas, Lisa Forsberg & Gerben Meynen - 2023 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 14 (1):23-25.details
Medical interventions are usually categorized as “invasive” when they involve piercing the skin or inserting an object into the body. However, the findings of Bluhm and collaborators (2023) (hencef...
Human Rights in Social and Political Philosophy
Neurotechnologies and Identity Changes: What the Narrative View Can Add to the Story.Alexandra Zorila - 2023 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 14 (1):48-50.details
Do neuromodulation technologies change patients’ personal identities? Haeusermann et al. claim that there is not enough evidence to support this worry. In their study, participants, following a res...
Closed-Loop Neuromodulation and Self-Perception in Clinical Treatment of Refractory Epilepsy.Tobias Haeusermann, Cailin R. Lechner, Kristina Celeste Fong, Alissa Bernstein Sideman, Agnieszka Jaworska, Winston Chiong & Daniel Dohan - 2023 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 14 (1):32-44.details
Background: Newer “closed-loop” neurostimulation devices in development could, in theory, induce changes to patients’ personalities and self-perceptions. Empirically, however, only limited data of patient and family experiences exist. Responsive neurostimulation (RNS) as a treatment for refractory epilepsy is the first approved and commercially available closed-loop brain stimulation system in clinical practice, presenting an opportunity to observe how conceptual neuroethical concerns manifest in clinical treatment.Methods: We conducted ethnographic research at a single academic medical center with an active RNS treatment program and (...) collected data via direct observation of clinic visits and in-depth interviews with 12 patients and their caregivers. We used deductive and inductive analyses to identify the relationship between these devices and patient changes in personality and self-perception.Results: Participants generally did not attribute changes in patients’ personalities or self-perception to implantation of or stimulation using RNS. They did report that RNS affected patients’ experiences and conceptions of illness. In particular, the capacity to store and display electrophysiological data produced a common frame of reference and a shared vocabulary among patients and clinicians.Discussion: Empirical experiences of a clinical population being treated with closed-loop neuromodulation do not corroborate theoretical concerns about RNS devices described by neuroethicists and technology developers. However, closed-loop devices demonstrated an ability to change illness experiences. Even without altering identify and self-perception, they provided new cultural tools and metaphors for conceiving of epilepsy as an illness and of the process of diagnosis and treatment. These findings call attention to the need to situate neuroethical concerns in the broader contexts of patients’ illness experiences and social circumstances. (shrink)
Conflict Over Death by Neurologic Criteria: Caution, Consent, and Nursing Considerations.Sabrina F. Derrington & Brenda Barnum - 2023 - American Journal of Bioethics 23 (1):88-90.details
Maddie’s story illustrates the critical importance of healthcare teams (HCTs) having inclusive multidisciplinary provider meetings prior to siloed conversations with families. It is paramount that...
Disputes over Diagnosing Death: Is It Ethical to Test for Death by Neurologic Criteria over Parental Objection?Leah R. Eisenberg - 2023 - American Journal of Bioethics 23 (1):86-87.details
In popular culture, death is typically presented as clear and binary- someone is either walking and talking and alive, or very obviously still and dead. Reality is more complicated than the movies,...
Responding to Parental Objections Over Testing for Death by Neurologic Criteria.Ian D. Wolfe - 2023 - American Journal of Bioethics 23 (1):94-95.details
Navigating tragic circumstances in pediatrics requires consideration of parental grief responses. We meet parents where they are, not where we might want them to be. Different parents grieve differ...
Neurophenomenology and Intersubjectivity: An Interdisciplinary Approach.Mirko Di Bernardo - 2022 - Axiomathes 32 (2):95-111.details
The article aims to provide the main conceptual coordinates in order to fully understand the state of the art of the most recent research in the field of neurobiology of interpersonal experience. The main purpose of this work is to analyze, at an anthropological, phenomenological and epistemological level, how the fundamental characteristics of the recognition of otherness and intercorporeity among human beings contribute to changing the image of nature in the light of a possible new relationship between living bodies, neurophysiological (...) systems and empathy. From this point of view, the hypothesis to investigate is that neurophenomenology, understood as a new evolutionary, multidimensional and autopoietic approach, is capable of probing the preconditions of the possible delineation of a phenomenology of intersubjectivity shaped by the neuroscientific turning point, represented by the discovery of mirror neurons. At this level, the neuroscientific data are interpreted according to a specific interdisciplinary perspective, thus trying to offer a possible unitary and integrated theoretical framework. (shrink)
Reactive Natural Kinds and Varieties of Dependence.Harriet Fagerberg - 2022 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 12 (4):1-27.details
This paper asks when a natural disease kind is truly 'reactive' and when it is merely associated with a corresponding social kind. I begin with a permissive account of real kinds and their structure, distinguishing natural kinds, indifferent kinds and reactive kinds as varieties of real kind characterised by super-explanatory properties. I then situate disease kinds within this framework, arguing that many disease kinds prima facie are both natural and reactive. I proceed to distinguish ‘simple dependence’, ‘secondary dependence’ and ‘essential (...) dependence’ between a natural kind and its classification, and argue that a natural kind is only really reactive, in an important sense, under conditions of essential dependence. On this basis, I offer a principled hypothesis for why psychiatric kinds tend to be more metaphysically unstable than paradigm somatic disease kinds. (shrink)
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The “cognitive neuroscience revolution” is not a (Kuhnian) revolution. Evidence from scientometrics.Eugenio Petrovich & Marco Viola - 2022 - Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 13 (2):142-156.details
_Abstract_: Fueled by the rapid development of neuroscientific tools and techniques, some scholars consider the shift from traditional cognitive psychology toward cognitive neuroscience to be a _revolution_ (most notably Boone and Piccinini). However, the term “revolution” in philosophy of science can easily be construed as involving a paradigm shift in the sense of Kuhn’s _The Structure of Scientific Revolutions_. Is a Kuhnian account sound in the case at hand? To answer this question, we consider heuristic indicators of two features of (...) paradigm shifts: the incommensurability of ontologies; and a gap between scientific communities. Based on our evidence, we argue that no revolution has occurred (at least, not yet). _Keywords_: Cognitive Neuroscience; Cognitive Psychology; Philosophy of Science; Thomas Kuhn; Scientometrics _La “rivoluzione delle neuroscienze cognitive” non è una rivoluzione (in senso kuhniano). Evidenze scientometriche _ _Riassunto_:_ _Complice il rapido sviluppo di strumenti e tecniche in neuroscienze, alcuni studiosi (in particolare Boone e Piccinini) intendono il passaggio dalla psicologia cognitiva classica alla neuroscienza cognitiva nei termini di una _rivoluzione_. Tuttavia, il termine ‘rivoluzione’ in filosofia della scienza è strettamente associato alla nozione di successione di paradigmi esposta da Kuhn ne _La struttura delle rivoluzioni scientifiche_. Obiettivo di questo lavoro è capire se effettivamente la concezione kuhniana offra una corretta descrizione di questa dinamica storica. In particolare, prenderemo in esame due indicatori euristici delle rivoluzioni kuhniane: l’incommensurabilità ontologica trai due paradigmi e la diversa composizione demografica delle comunità scientifiche. Sulla base delle evidenze scientometriche che prenderemo in esame, affermeremo che non è avvenuta nessuna rivoluzione (almeno per ora). _Parole chiave_: Neuroscienze cognitive; Psicologia cognitiva; Filosofia della scienza; Thomas Kuhn; Scientometria. (shrink)
Neurofeedback as placebo: a case of unintentional deception?Louiza Kalokairinou, Laura Specker Sullivan & Anna Wexler - 2021 - Journal of Medical Ethics 48 (12):1037-1042.details
The use of placebo in clinical practice has been the topic of extensive debate in the bioethics literature, with much scholarship focusing on concerns regarding deception. While considerations of placebo without deception have largely centred on open-label placebo, this paper considers a different kind of ethical quandary regarding placebo without an intent to deceive—one where the provider believes a treatment is effective due to a direct physiological mechanism, even though that belief may not be supported by rigorous scientific evidence. This (...) is often the case with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) techniques and also with some mainstream therapies that have not proven to be better than sham. Using one such CAM technique as a case study—electroencephalography (EEG) neurofeedback for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)—this paper explores the ethics of providing therapies that may have some beneficial effect, although one that is likely due to placebo effect. First, we provide background on EEG neurofeedback for ADHD and its evidence base, showing how it has proven to be equivalent to—but not better than—sham neurofeedback. Subsequently, we explore whether offering therapies that are claimed to work via specific physical pathways, but may actually work due to the placebo effect, constitute deception. We suggest that this practice may constitute unintentional deception regarding mechanism of action. Ultimately, we argue that providers have increased information provision obligations when offering treatments that diverge from standard of care and we make recommendations for mitigating unintentional deception. (shrink)
Transdisciplinarity, neuro‐techno‐philosophy, and the future of philosophy.Nayef Al-Rodhan - forthcoming - Metaphilosophy.details
Philosophy and science have always striven to make sense of the world, continuously influencing each other in the process. Their interplay paved the way for neurophilosophy, which harnesses neuroscientific insights to address traditionally philosophical questions. Given the rapid neuroscientific and technological advances in recent years, this paper argues that philosophers who wish to tackle intractable philosophical problems and influence public discourse and policies should engage in neuro-techno-philosophy. This novel type of inquiry describes the transdisciplinary endeavor of philosophers, (neuro)scientists, and others (...) to anticipate the societal implications of the impending transformations of subjects and theorizers. While human enhancement is likely to irreversibly change what it means to be human, disruptive technologies might lead to the emergence of artificial intelligent agents and human-machine hybrids. The paper predicts that neuro-techno-philosophy will be indispensable to understanding and engaging with these game-changing innovations and thus play a pivotal role in the future of philosophy. (shrink)
Violation of social perception in patients with neurosis-like schizophrenia with obsessive-phobic syndrome.Svetlana Lvovna Rudenko - 2022 - Известия Саратовского Университета: Новая Серия. Серия Философия. Психология. Педагогика 22 (3):322-326.details
Introduction. The study is focused on identifying disorientation in the communication of patients with neurosis-like schizophrenia with obsessive-phobic syndrome. Insufficient scientific development and high medical and social significance of the topic are shown. The assumption is formulated that patients have a pronounced violation of social perception, interconnected with positive, negative symptoms and quality of life. Empirical analysis. The results of the study showed significant difficulties of perception and interpretation of social information, interrelated with clinical symptoms. The leading role is played (...) by rigidity, stereotyped thinking, which determine the fragmentary and superficial perception of emotions, as well as elements of delusional ideas and hallucinations that distort the understanding of social situations. Over the course of the disease, inadequately inflated estimates of life are formed. Social anhedonia mediates the influence of clinical symptoms on social perception, stabilizing the deficits of social perception and intelligence. The length of the disease contributes to life satisfaction in connection with a protective self-attitude and reconciliation with the status of “disabled”. Conclusion. Patients have pronounced difficulties recognizing emotions by facial expressions, posture and gestures associated with positive and negative symptoms. An increase in the subjective assessment of aspects of life in society reflects a protective worldview and self-attitude, as well as a downward drift of standards. (shrink)
Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience: A Philosophical Introduction.C. Dicey Jennings & B. D. Young (eds.) - 2021details
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PÉREZ CASTELLS, JAVIER, Neuronas y libre albedrío. Reflexiones sobre neurociencia y libertad, Digital Reasons, [S.l], 2018, 171 pp. [REVIEW]Javier Bernácer-María - 2019 - Anuario Filosófico 52 (3):650-653.details
The moral epistemology of intuitionism: neuroethics and seeming states.Hossein Dabbagh - 2022 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.details
Covering moral intuition, self-evidence, non-inferentiality, moral emotion and seeming states, Hossein Dabbagh defends the epistemology of moral intuitionism. His line of analysis resists the empirical challenges derived from empirical moral psychology and reveals the seeming-based account of moral intuitionism as the most tenable one. The Moral Epistemology of Intuitionism combines epistemological intuitionism with work in neuroethics to develop an account of the role that moral intuition and emotion play in moral judgment. The book culminates in a convincing argument about the (...) value of understanding moral intuitionism in terms of intellectual seeming and perceptual experience. (shrink)
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Free will: philosophers and neuroscientists in conversation.Uri Maoz & Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (eds.) - 2022 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.details
What is free will? Can it exist in a determined universe? How can we determine who, if anyone, possesses it? Philosophers have been debating these questions for millennia. In recent decades neuroscientists have joined the fray with questions of their own. Which neural mechanisms could enable conscious control of action? What are intentional actions? Do contemporary developments in neuroscience rule out free will or, instead, illuminate how it works? Over the past few years, neuroscientists and philosophers have increasingly come to (...) understand that both fields can make substantive contributions to the free-will debate, so working together is the best path forward to understanding whether, when, and how our choices might be free. We therefore asked leading philosophers and neuroscientists which questions related to free will they would most like the other field to answer. Those experts then voted on the 15 most important questions for each field to answer. This book is a collection of the answers to those questions along with follow-up questions from world experts in the neuroscience and philosophy of free will. These varied perspectives will fascinate, illuminate, and stimulate students from both fields along with anyone who wants to be brought up to date on these profound issues. (shrink)
Free Will and Neuroscience in Philosophy of Action
THE THIEF CAN NOT CATCH THIEF HIMSELF The ancestry of Meditation being explained by neurobiology.Regina Chamon, Liliana Centurione, Elaine Sales, Mary Uchiyama Nakamura & Roberto Cardoso - 2018 - Simbio-Logias Revista Eletrônica de Educação Filosofia e Nutrição 10 (13):141-148.details
Is the state we experienced meditating a religious, philosophical, mystical experience? Or is it just a change in brain physiology? Is it possible to achieve a state "beyond the mind" (meditative state) through a technique that uses the mind (meditative technique)? This article explores these aspects by the perspective of neurobiology.
Neurofenomenologia e Meditação: Breves Apontamentos Para o Diálogo Entre Práticas Contemplativas e as Ciências Cognitivas Enativistas No Século XXI a Partir da Noção Emergentista de Determinação Descendente.Leonardo Ferreira Almada - 2018 - Simbio-Logias Revista Eletrônica de Educação Filosofia e Nutrição 10 (13):119-140.details
From an investigation of the theoretical, structural, methodological, and conceptual rudiments of the neurophenomenology, such as developed by Francisco Javier Varela, I seek, at first, to investigate the possibility of a theoretical model whose purpose consists in the integration between the subjective experience and the cerebral dynamic. To the study of the fundamental diagnosis of neurophenomenology — namely, the interpretation which Varela offers to the theoretical and methodological position of Chalmers’ ‘hard problem’ of consciousness —, I will associate the conception (...) of downward determination I borrow from the emergentism. My intention is to demonstrate that the notion of downward determination — as exemplified in meditative practice — can greatly contribute to the consolidation of a theoretical perspective for the problem of mind-body-life relations which is beyond the theoretical, structural, methodological and conceptual implications of the highly acclaimed ‘explanatory gap’. From my belief that meditation brings with it the possibility of filling the mind-body gap on a phenomenological level, I proceed to investigate the elements through which Buddhism and phenomenology can mutually benefit the sciences cognitive; in this sense, I am not presupposing the limitations, but rather the possibilities and the scope of the introspective method, as Varela has previously done in his neurophenomenology. (shrink)
Práticas Contemplativas e Tomada de Decisão: A Relação Entre a Neurofenomenologia, Meditação e a Regulação Top-Down Das Emoções.Marlos Vinícius Oliveira Ramos - 2018 - Simbio-Logias Revista Eletrônica de Educação Filosofia e Nutrição 10 (13):34-54.details
This article has as its objective to analyze the relationship between the human decision making processes and self-regulating capacity / in the development of top-down regulation, in this particular case, by means of contemplative practices, principally mindfulness meditation. This debate is supported upon the nexus established between the cognitive and emotional processes, searching for comprehension of the casual bases of human decision making and the cognitive and affective process. From this theoretical perspective, emotions exercise the role of prominent neurobiological mechanisms (...) in the decision-making process, thus revoking very influential rationalist and dualist Cartesian logic that have held sway until the present day. Through such characteristics, the dichotomous perspective between emotional and cognitive processes loses impact and augmentative influence, whereas the collaborative and integrative role between these two mechanisms that regulate the decision making behavior of individuals is reinforced. The theoretical foundation that supports the approach defended in this study is sustained upon neurophenomenology, which interacts synergistically with phenomenological approaches, modern discoveries from neuroscience and the oriental contemplative practices. In another sense, the interdisciplinarity between philosophy and the practical sciences provides the means for a conceptual proposal that produces a consistent dialogue with that of experimental, cognitive and neural discoveries. Thus producing the groundwork for a meaningful analysis of neurobiological and philosophical hypotheses of the classic problems related to our capacity for self-determination, self-government and voluntary control over our actions. In summary, through an examination of the current situation, few academic discussions propose such a broad and interdisciplinary debate on this theme, thus falling time and time again upon old conceptual paradigms, which are today already noticeably outweighed by empirical findings of the mind. Therefore, by incorporating into the philosophical debate cognition, millenary practices and scientific experience, we will produce a short theoretical conceptual revision concerning decision making until our arrival at the modern experiments performed with experienced meditators. Through this journey we will propose a philosophical discussion that presents new academic perspectives congruent with the debates on modern decision making and our capacity to self-regulate. (shrink)
Lidová psychologie v současné neurovědě: diskuse o kognitivních ontologiích.Matěj Dražil - 2022 - Filozofia 77 (6):442-455.details
Sociálno-etické dôsledky neurovylepšovania.Jana Tomašovičová - 2021 - Filozofia 76 (3):181-194.details
Is punishment backward? On neurointerventions and forward‐looking moral responsibility.Przemysław Zawadzki - 2022 - Bioethics (2):1-9.details
This article focuses on justified responses to “immoral” behavior and crimes committed by patients undergoing neuromodulation therapies. Such patients could be held morally responsible in the basic desert sense—the one that serves as a justification of severe practices such as backward‐looking moral outrage, condemnation, and legal punishment—as long as they possess certain compatibilist capabilities that have traditionally served as the quintessence of free will, that is, reasons‐responsiveness; attributability; answerability; the abilities to act in accordance with moral reasons, second‐order volitions, or (...) Deep Self. Recently leading compatibilist neuroethicists added the condition of not feeling alienated from desires motivating a person's action. This article argues against such attempts to determine conditions under which patients undergoing neuromodulation should be subject to negative reactive attitudes and legal punishment. Compatibilism should not be used to justify basic desert moral responsibility and legal punishment. Instead, a new way of thinking about the function of moral responsibility attribution is proposed for patients with neuromodulation. Their compatibilist capabilities should serve as important indicators for determining appropriate, forward‐looking courses of action, such as quarantining and restorative treatment, to ensure the public safety and well-being of the patients. (shrink)
Control and Responsibility in Meta-Ethics
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Free Will and Responsibility in Philosophy of Action
Law and Neuroscience in Philosophy of Law
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Neurosurgical robots and ethical challenges to medicine.Arthur Saniotis & Maciej Henneberg - 2021 - Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 21:25-30.details
Over the last 20 yr, neurosurgical robots have been increasingly assisting in neurosurgical procedures. Surgical robots are considered to have noticeable advantages over humans, such as reduction of procedure time, surgical dexterity, no experience of fatigue and improved healthcare outcomes. In recent years, neurosurgical robots have been developed to perform various procedures. Public demand is informing the direction of neurosurgery and placing greater pressure on neurosurgeons to use neurosurgical robots. The increasing diversity and sophistication of neurosurgical robots have received ethical (...) scrutiny due to the surgical complications that may arise as well as the role of robots in the future. In this paper, we address 3 ethical areas regarding neurosurgical robots: Loss of neurosurgical skills due to increasing dependency on robots; How far do we want to go with neurosurgical robots? Neurosurgical robots and conflict of interest and medical bias. (shrink)
José Manuel Giménez Amaya; Sergio Sánchez Migallón: De la Neurociencia a la Neuroética. Narrativa científica y reflexión filosófica, Pamplona: EUNSA 2010, 172 pp. [REVIEW]Roberto Casales Garcia - 2013 - Tópicos: Revista de Filosofía 40 (1):261.details
José Manuel Giménez Amaya; Sergio Sánchez Migallón: De la Neurociencia a la Neuroética. Narrativa científica y reflexión filosófica, Pamplona: EUNSA 2010, 172 pp.
Unseld Lectures 2018: Patricia Churchland - The Neurobiology of Moral Conscience.Daniel Krchňák - 2018 - Pro-Fil 19 (1):67-68.details
Consciousness and Neuroscience in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Neurorehabilitation of Offenders, Consent and Consequentialist Ethics.Francisco Lara - 2022 - Neuroethics 16 (1):1-15.details
The new biotechnology raises expectations for modifying human behaviour through its use. This article focuses on the ethical analysis of the not so remote possibility of rehabilitating criminals by means of neurotechnological techniques. The analysis is carried out from a synthetic position of, on the one hand, the consequentialist conception of what is right and, on the other hand, the emphasis on individual liberties. As a result, firstly, the ethical appropriateness of adopting a general predisposition for allowing the neurorehabilitation of (...) prisoners only if it is safe and if they give their consent will be defended. But, at the same time, reasons will be given for requiring, in certain circumstances, the exceptional use of neurotechnology to rehabilitate severely psychopathic prisoners, even against their will, from the same ethical perspective. (shrink)
Psychopathy and Treatment in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Can we learn from hidden mistakes? Self-fulfilling prophecy and responsible neuroprognostic innovation.Mayli Mertens, Owen C. King, Michel J. A. M. van Putten & Marianne Boenink - 2021 - Journal of Medical Ethics 48 (11):922-928.details
A self-fulfilling prophecy in neuroprognostication occurs when a patient in coma is predicted to have a poor outcome, and life-sustaining treatment is withdrawn on the basis of that prediction, thus directly bringing about a poor outcome for that patient. In contrast to the predominant emphasis in the bioethics literature, we look beyond the moral issues raised by the possibility that an erroneous prediction might lead to the death of a patient who otherwise would have lived. Instead, we focus on the (...) problematic epistemic consequences of neuroprognostic SFPs in settings where research and practice intersect. When this sort of SFP occurs, the problem is that physicians and researchers are never in a position to notice whether their original prognosis was correct or incorrect, since the patient dies anyway. Thus, SFPs keep us from discerning false positives from true positives, inhibiting proper assessment of novel prognostic tests. This epistemic problem of SFPs thus impedes learning, but ethical obligations of patient care make it difficult to avoid SFPs. We then show how the impediment to catching false positive indicators of poor outcome distorts research on novel techniques for neuroprognostication, allowing biases to persist in prognostic tests. We finally highlight a particular risk that a precautionary bias towards early withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment may be amplified. We conclude with guidelines about how researchers can mitigate the epistemic problems of SFPs, to achieve more responsible innovation of neuroprognostication for patients in coma. (shrink)
Life Support in Applied Ethics
Medical Research Ethics in Applied Ethics
Prophecy in Philosophy of Religion
A New Interpretation of the Essence of Aesthetic Experience: From the Perspective of Cognitive Neuroaesthetics and Aesthetic Anthropology.Fanjun Meng & Yushui Liang - 2022 - The Journal of Aesthetic Education 56 (4):97-120.details
Abstract:In the transformation from classical to modern aesthetics, the proposition and exploration of aesthetic experience constitutes one of the major dimensions of various aesthetic problems. Pragmatic aesthetics, phenomenological aesthetics, hermeneutic aesthetics, analytical aesthetics, and new pragmatic aesthetics have comprehensively analyzed and discussed aesthetic experience. Through the construction and deconstruction of aesthetic experience in aesthetic history, the study of the key concept seems to have come to a certain predicament. This is mainly reflected in the fact that the subjective and objective (...) attribute of experience remains unclear, and the material base of aesthetics is not solid enough. In this regard, cognitive neuroscience and anthropology provide new ways to understand aesthetic experience. From the perspective of aesthetic anthropology, the study on aesthetic experience is rooted in a broad field and serves as a solid material basis for its objectification. Cognitive neuroaesthetics explains the psychological mechanism of aesthetic experience. Together, they provide an opportunity for the study on aesthetic experience to enter a new realm. Moreover, the new interpretation of the essence of aesthetic experience will help to improve the theory and practice of aesthetic education. (shrink)
Aesthetic Experience in Aesthetics
Ethical consideration for neurodevelopmental disorder pathway service evaluation and research.Mithila Turna Tribenee, Barry Tolchard & Shamima Parvin Lasker - 2022 - Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics 13 (3):61-66.details
The Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 of United States in act to prevent social exclusion of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) and to cut back on unneeded expenditures to society. However, despite the protective legislation, the rights of adults with neurodevelopmental disorders have not yet been fully realised. There are several obstacles to overcome the neurological development related health care services, including health care usage, educational and career (...) pathways, family and social lives, self-fulfilment, and quality of life. There are significant gaps in the transition process that affect the health care systems. Lack of transition and transfer planning, neurodevelopmental disorder health care pathway services have lack of experience, education, and expertise which result the inadequate growth of the health care quality and create communication gap in between service providers and service users. The aim of this short communication is to mention and clarify the ethical concerns of neurodevelopmental service evaluation. (shrink)
Challenges and Problems of Neuroeconomics: Several Tasks for Social Scientists.Michal Müller - 2019 - Teorie Vědy / Theory of Science 40 (2):157-190.details
Neuroscience is a fascinating discipline – its dynamic progress has led to the emergence of new interdisciplinary research programmes with great potential. One of these research areas is neuroeconomics. As will be shown in this article, this discipline, which is difficult to clearly characterize and define, is faced with many problems. This paper argues that social scientists should be interested in the problems and tendencies in social neuroscience for several reasons. Neuroeconomics, and other disciplines inspired by neuroscience, will compete with (...) their parent disciplines in many fields of interest. On one hand it will be necessary for scientists to define and defend the irreplaceable roles of their disciplines, but also critically evaluate the potential of new approaches on the other. In the context of this discussion, which reopens questions about the scientific status of economics and its roles, this paper introduces the main problems related to neuroeconomics. This paper concludes that these problems represent a wide domain for social scientists and methodologists of science. (shrink)
Implications of Neuroplasticity to the Philosophical Debate of Free Will and Determinism.Panagiotis Kormas, Antonia Moutzouri & Evangelos D. Protopapadakis - 2022 - Handbook of Computational Neurodegeneration.details
Neuroplasticity, the capacity of the brain to induce changes in response to environmental stimuli, entails a continuous rearrangement of the neural network through a complex interaction between genetics and environment. Within this process, the plastic brain uses its internal representations to predict future conditions and proactively proceed to actions. It can be said that plasticity demands a rethinking of the concept of determinism as the process of coming-to-be is directly related to modifications produced by experience. Pure determinism and complete randomness (...) are the two ends of a spectrum of positions relevant to the debate of the existence of free will. However, none conceptually supports free decision-making. How brain activity and the conscious experience of volition are related to one another has been a matter of significant research, with a plethora of findings indicating that early brain signals precede the self-reported time of the decision to act. The meaning of these findings, however, has been debated at both a theoretical and empirical level and the controversy is still ongoing. Consciousness is intertwined with free will along the dimension of time as it would otherwise be purposeless, taking place right at the next moment. Electrical activity of the brain is a measure of neurophysiological function and contributes to the understanding of processes that underlie high-order cognitive functions. A multidisciplinary approach in the study of free will could be designed in a way that philosophical concepts are connected to neural correlates by psychologically functionalizing them in terms of cognitive abilities. Such abilities are at the margins of conscious and nonconscious sensory information and are closely linked to brain processes of executive functions like attentional control and working memory. (shrink)
La prevalencia de los neuromitos en la educación.Fabio Morandín-Ahuerma - 2022 - In Neuroeducación como Herramienta Epistemológica. Puebla, Pue., México: pp. 1-22.details
El objetivo de este capitulo es identificar los llamados neuromitos, creencias justificadas o no, sobre el cerebro y su funcionamiento que han prevalecido a lo largo de los años y que, en muchos casos, llega a distorsionar e incluso prejuzgar la visión de los docentes hacia con sus alumnos, por lo que se cometen errores en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. Aquí se analizan los argumentos que sostienen los neuromitos y los contraargumentos que la ciencia ofrece para desmentirlos.
Neuroeducación como Herramienta Epistemológica.Fabio Morandín-Ahuerma (ed.) - 2022 - Puebla, Pue., México: CONCYTEP.details
La neuroeducación es un campo académico cuyo objetivo final es dilucidar la base neuronal y los mecanismos bio-epistemológicos de la cognición, pero, en sí misma, es un campo transdisciplinar integral y complejo. Debido a la naturaleza de esta gran área, la neuroeducación tiene una conexión horizontal con una amplia variedad de saberes. Este trabajo multidisciplinario incluye los elementos de la neurociencia en las disciplinas relacionadas con el comportamiento humano y la educación, partiendo de la premisa de que el cerebro es (...) la raíz del proceder humano y que, la actividad intelectual es el resultado emergente del trabajo que se realiza en el sistema nervioso central (SNC). Además, un nuevo enfoque de la neurociencia está abriendo la puerta a las Humanidades y a las Ciencias Sociales desde la perspectiva de disciplinas, aparentemente tan disímiles, como la inteligencia artificial (AI), la medicina y la ética. (shrink)
Overcoming barriers to informed consent in neurological research: Perspectives from a national survey.Lauren R. Sankary, Megan E. Zelinsky, Paul J. Ford, Eric C. Blackstone & Robert J. Fox - 2023 - Research Ethics 19 (1):42-61.details
The ethical recruitment of participants with neurological disorders in clinical research requires obtaining initial and ongoing informed consent. The purpose of this study is to characterize barriers faced by research personnel in obtaining informed consent from research participants with neurological disorders and to identify strategies applied by researchers to overcome those barriers. This study was designed as a web-based survey of US researchers with an optional follow-up interview. A subset of participants who completed the survey were selected using a stratified (...) purposeful sampling strategy and invited to participate in an in-depth qualitative interview by phone or video conference. Data were analyzed using a mixed methods approach, including content analysis of survey responses and thematic analysis of interview responses. Over 1 year, 113 survey responses were received from US research personnel directly involved in obtaining informed consent from participants in neurological research. Frequently identified barriers to informed consent included: cognitive and communication impairments (e.g. aphasia), unrealistic expectations of research participants, mistrust of medical research, time constraints, literacy barriers, lack of available social support, and practical or resource-related constraints. Strategies to enhance informed consent included: involving close others to support participant understanding of study-related information, collaborating with more experienced research personnel to facilitate training in obtaining informed consent, encouraging participants to review consent forms in advance of consent discussions, and using printed materials and visual references. Beyond conveying study-related information, researchers included in this study endorsed ethical responsibilities to support deliberation necessary to informed consent in the context of misconceptions about research, unrealistic expectations, limited understanding, mistrust, and/or pressure from close others. Findings highlight the importance of training researchers involved in obtaining informed consent in neurological research to address disease-specific challenges and to support the decision-making processes of potential research participants and their close others. (shrink)
Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity by Paul Thagard.Samuel Taylor - 2022 - Review of Metaphysics 75 (4):831-833.details
(0November 2022 to 2014) The UNBELIEVABLE similarities between the ideas of some people (2006-2016) and my ideas (2002-2008) in physics (quantum mechanics, cosmology), cognitive neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and philosophy (this manuscript would require a REVOLUTION in international academy environment!).Gabriel Vacariu - manuscriptdetails
The main ideas of the EDWs perspective are in Gabriel Vacariu’s PhD thesis posted online by UNSW (Australia) in 2007!!! I have realized the GREATEST discovery in the history of human knowledge: the EDWs! With discovering the EDWs, I have changed everything in Philosophy, Physics and Cognitive Neuroscience! This has been the main reason, so many people have published UNBELIEVABLE similar ideas to my ideas, many years I published my first works! -/- UNBELIEVABLE, many (hundreds) “great” or small thinkers did (...) the same thing in 2006-2007 and later: they published the same ideas, UNBELIEVABLE similar to my ideas from 2002-2005! They believe they would be considered co-authors of the same new framework of thinking. They did not know that many “professors” would do the same thing: they plagiarized my ideas and they hurry up to published their work as soon as possible (in 2006-2007, depending when they discovered my article 2005). So, in the same 2 years, many people “discovered” the same new framework of thinking, the EDWs perspective, each of them did not think that there would be so many other people doing the same thing, that is, many people “discovered” the same new framework (the greatest challenge in the history of human thinking!) in the same period! Such coincidences (the discovery of the EDWs in the same two years!!!) are quite IMPOSSIBLE!! This is the reason nobody quoted my name, but nobody quoted any name who PLAGIARIZED my ideas… In 2006-2007, I was wondering why nobody quote my name, but in fact, they plagiarized my ideas. Nobody discovered this framework of thinking 2500 years, and in 2-3 years, many people discovered it!!!! IMPOSSIBLE!!!! There were some "professors" who published articles/chapters very close to Bohr's complementarity, Dirac, de Broglie's dualism before 2005 (for instance Carlo Rovelli 1996 or Ladyman), but their works were constructed within the "unicorn world" (Universe/world), therefore, these works had nothing in common with the EDWs perspective!!!! In reality, all of them plagiarized my ideas! It was like many people composed Beethoven Fifth’s Symphony, claiming that they never listen Beethoven! Who would be so stupid to believe them? (shrink)
Consciousness and Physics in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
(1October 2022 to 2014) The UNBELIEVABLE similarities between the ideas of some people (2006-2016) and my ideas (2002-2008) in physics (quantum mechanics, cosmology), cognitive neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and philosophy (this manuscript would require a REVOLUTION in international academy environment!).Gabriel Vacariu - manuscriptdetails
Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics in Philosophy of Physical Science
Quantum Theories in Philosophy of Physical Science
The Reflected Face as a Mask of the Self: An Appraisal of the Psychological and Neuroscientific Research About Self-face Recognition.Gabriele Volpara, Andrea Nani & Franco Cauda - 2022 - Topoi 41 (4):715-730.details
This study reviews research about the recognition of one’s own face and discusses scientific techniques to investigate differences in brain activation when looking at familiar faces compared to unfamiliar ones. Our analysis highlights how people do not possess a perception of their own face that corresponds precisely to reality, and how the awareness of one’s face can also be modulated by means of the enfacement illusion. This illusion allows one to maintain a sense of self at the expense of a (...) precise discrimination of self-face. The internal dynamics of different brain processes, associated with the construction of bodily identity and the sense of self and capable of integrating signals from different sensory channels, particularly visual and tactile, create a mirror-mask effect. According to this effect, the self-face reflected by a mirror becomes a mask for the self, which has the features of the subject’s face, but nonetheless does not correspond perfectly to its characteristics. This poses interesting questions about the nature and construction of one’s self, as self-face reflections allow the mind to mediate between analogue and virtual reality, between past and future events, between memories and plans of action and, most importantly, between beliefs about our identities. (shrink)
Depersonalization Puzzle: A New View from the Neurophenomenological Selfhood Perspective.Andrew And Alexander Fingelkurts - 2022 - Journal of Neurophilosophy 1 (2):181-202.details
While there is still a limited understanding of the Selfhood phenomenon, an emerging consensus is that the experiential Selfhood refers to a sense of the undergoing experience in its implicit first-person mode of givenness that is immediately and tacitly given as “mine”. It is also evident that there are phenomenological disruptions within self-consciousness ranging from normal everyday short-lived dissociative episodes to pathological, intense and prolonged forms of dissociative experience classified as depersonalization disorder (DD). In the present study we explored the (...) neurophenomenology of Selfhood (using the recently introduced neurophysiological three-dimensional construct model of experiential Selfhood, Fingelkurts et al., 2020) in a newly diagnosed and untreated 29-year-old female who suffers from DD. According to the triad model of Selfhood, three major components of Selfhood (phenomenal first-person agency – “Self”, embodiment – “Me”, and reflection/narration – “I”) are related to three operational modules (OMs) of the self-referential brain network (reliably estimated by electroencephalogram operational synchrony analysis). We have found that subject with DD exhibited a strong enhancement of functional integrity of the brain Self-module, a moderate decrease in the functional integrity of Me-module, and a pronounced decrease in the functional integrity of I-module, – all of which were associated with severity of specific DD symptoms. (shrink)
Dissociative Identity Disorder in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
First-Person Approaches in the Science of Consciousness, Misc in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
First-Person Contents in Philosophy of Mind
Neural Synchrony and Binding in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Nonconceptual/Prereflective Self-Consciousness in Philosophy of Mind
Self-Consciousness in Psychology in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Self-Consciousness, Misc in Philosophy of Mind
Understanding the development and use of tools in neuroscience: the case of the tungsten micro-electrode.Juan Manuel Garrido Wainer - 2022 - Synthese 200 (6):1-22.details
The philosophical interest in experimental practice in neuroscience has brought renewed attention to the study of the development and use of techniques and tools for data production. John Bickle has argued that the construction and progression of theories in neuroscience are entirely dependent on the development and ingenious use of research tools. In Bickle's account, theory plays a tertiary role, as it depends on what the tools allow researchers to manipulate, and the tools, in turn, are developed not in order (...) to test theories but as solutions to engineering problems. However, Bickle's account is not entirely precise in explaining what informs researchers' decision-making in their atheoretical laboratory tinkering. Identifying the sources that guide researchers in tool development and use is crucial if one wishes to contribute to the philosophical or meta-scientific understanding of experimental practice in neuroscience. In the following paper, I claim that decision-making in tools' development and use in neuroscience is doubly guided. Pre-existing theory and concepts determine information's relevance, whereas tools' functioning in controlled situations determines information's reliability. Accordingly, experimenters' decision-making is situated both in the context of analysing, modelling or interpreting information and in the context of producing information. I study the case of the tungsten microelectrode developed by David Hubel during the 1950s. First, I show that pre-existing theory and concepts determine in advance what information would be relevant to obtain from the microelectrode. Second, I show that Hubel's tinkering follows the guidelines derived from the very structure of what we recognise as reliable experimentally produced information. Finally, I suggest that data-production processes allow experimenters to assess what to expect from an experimental system in terms of concept- and theory-generation and confirmation, thereby endorsing Bickle's tenet on the tertiary role of theory in neuroscience. (shrink)
Distinctly Entangled. [REVIEW]Carolyn Dicey Jennings - 2022 - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.details
Pessoa envisions an approach to neuroscience that treats the brain as an “interactionally complex system”: a system that cannot be understood through analysis and manipulation of its parts. I provide reason to support Pessoa's overall approach while putting pressure on some of the specific claims. -/- .
Reduction in Cognitive Science in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
“You've Got to Work on This Axon”: J. Z. Young and Squid Giant Axon Preparations in 20th‐Century Neurobiology.Kathryn Maxson Jones - 2022 - Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 45 (3):317-331.details
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 317-331, September 2022.
(October 2022 to 2014) The UNBELIEVABLE similarities between the ideas of some people (2006-2016) and my ideas (2002-2008) in physics (quantum mechanics, cosmology), cognitive neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and philosophy (this manuscript would require a REVOLUTION in international academy environment!).Gabriel Vacariu - details
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Effect of pinch types on pinch force sense in healthy adults.Lin Li, YanXia Li, Peng Jia, Shuyan Wang, Wanpeng Wang & Yuxiang Liu - 2022 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16.details
Pinch force sense plays an important role in the performance of daily finger movements, including tip, key, palmar pinch. The present study investigated the roles of pinch type in the sensation of pinch force among healthy participants in the ipsilateral force reproduction trial. This study instructed forty healthy adult subjects in producing reference forces at different levels [10, 30, 50% maximal voluntary isometric contraction ] by adopting 3 pinch types and in reproducing the above force levels with the identical hand. (...) Our study revealed that subjects are significantly more sensitive detecting alterations of pinching forces with tip pinch but not key or palmar pinch under high forces but not at lower force levels. (shrink) | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5983838438987732, "wiki_prob": 0.5983838438987732, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1486777"} |
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Foreigners swept up as Sri Lanka searches for clues to Easter Sunday bombingsaquarius love august 2020> Family members pray for their mother, a victim of the Easter suicide attacks, at the site of a mass burial in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on Thursday. | REUTERS
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COLOMBO – Sri Lankan authorities swept up more people, including foreigners, for questioning on Thursday as they probed deeper into the Easter Sunday bombings, which killed 359 people in potentially the deadliest operation claimed by Islamic State.
Police said an Egyptian and several Pakistanis were among those detained overnight, although there was no immediate suggestion they had direct links to the attacks on three churches and four hotels that also wounded about 500 people.
An explosion occurred in a town east of the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, on Thursday but there were no casualties, a police spokesman said, adding it was not a controlled explosion like other blasts in recent days and was being investigated.
A picture has emerged slowly since Sunday of a group of nine well-educated, home-grown Islamist suicide bombers, including a woman, who carried out the attacks in the Indian Ocean island country.
However, Sri Lankan and international authorities have also focused their investigations on international links to domestic Islamist groups — National Thawheed Jama’ut and Jammiyathul Millathu Ibrahim — they believed carried out the attacks.
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Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks but offered no firm information to back up its claim.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday another of the bombers had lived in Australia with his wife and child on a student visa but left the country in 2013.
Morrison did not identify the man, although his family have said his name was Abdul Latheef Mohamed Jameel.
Police said on Thursday 16 more people were detained for questioning overnight, taking the number detained since Sunday to at least 76. That number includes a Syrian national.
A police statement said one of those detained overnight was linked to a “terrorist organization” but gave no other details.
It said another was taken into custody after they investigated posts on the individual’s Facebook page and found what they described as “hate speech.”
“It was related to the spreading and preaching of terrorism,” a police spokesman said.
Others have also been caught up in the broader crackdown.
Police said they detained an Egyptian who was found not to have a valid visa or passport. The man taught Arabic in a school about 70 km (45 miles) from the capital, Colombo, and had been living in Sri Lanka for more than seven years.
A police spokesman also said that a group of Pakistanis had also been detained among an unspecified number of foreign nationals for overstaying their visas.
The bombings shattered the relative calm that has existed in Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka since a civil war against mostly Hindu, ethnic Tamil separatists ended 10 years ago, and raised fears of a return to sectarian violence.
President Maithripala Sirisena will meet representatives of different faiths later on Thursday to address concerns of a sectarian backlash.
Sri Lanka’s 22 million people include minority Christians, Muslims and Hindus. Until now, Christians had largely managed to avoid the worst of the island’s conflict and communal tensions.
Hundreds of Muslims have fled the Negombo region on Sri Lanka’s west coast since scores of worshippers were killed in the bombing of the St. Sebastian church there on Sunday. Communal tensions have since flared.
Hundreds of Pakistani Muslims fled the port city on Wednesday, crammed into buses organized by community leaders after threats of revenge.
“Because of the bomb blasts and explosions that have taken place here, the local Sri Lankan people have attacked our houses,” Adnan Ali, a Pakistani Muslim, told Reuters as he prepared to board a bus.
Sri Lankan officials have said they believed the bombings were carried out in retaliation for the March 15 attacks by a lone gunman on two mosques in New Zealand that killed 50 people.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said she has seen no evidence to support that claim.
Most of the Easter Sunday victims were Sri Lankans, although authorities have confirmed at least 38 foreigners were also killed. These included British, U.S., Australian, Turkish, Indian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch and Portuguese nationals.
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[1] And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
And he hath quickened you — In the nineteenth and twentieth verses of the preceding chapter, St. Paul spoke of God's working in them by the same almighty power whereby he raised Christ from the dead. On the mention of this he, in the fulness of his heart, runs into a flow of thought concerning the glory of Christ's exaltation in the three following verses. He here resumes the thread of his discourse.
Who were dead — Not only diseased, but dead; absolutely void of all spiritual life; and as incapable of quickening yourselves, as persons literally dead. In trespasses and sins-Sins seem to be spoken chiefly of the gentiles, who knew not God; trespasses, of the Jews, who had his law, and yet regarded it not, Ephesians 2:5. The latter herein obeyed the flesh; the former, the prince of the power of the air.
[2] Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
According to the course of this world — The word translated course properly means a long series of times, wherein one corrupt age follows another.
According to the prince of the power of the air — The effect of which power all may perceive, though all do not understand the cause of it: a power unspeakably penetrating and widely diffused; but yet, as to its baneful influences, beneath the orb of believers. The evil spirits are united under one head, the seat of whose dominion is in the air. Here he sometimes raises storms, sometimes makes visionary representations, and is continually roving to and fro.
The spirit that now worketh — With mighty power; and so he did, and doth in all ages.
In the sons of disobedience — In all who do not believe and obey the gospel.
[3] Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Among whom we — Jews.
Also, formerly had our conversation: doing the will of the flesh — In gross, brutal sins.
And of the mind — By spiritual, diabolical wickedness. In the former clause, flesh denotes the whole evil nature; in the latter, the body opposed to the soul.
And were by nature — That is, in our natural state.
Children of wrath — Having the wrath of God abiding on us, even as the gentiles. This expression, by nature, occurs also, Romans 11:24 But in none of these places does it signify, by custom, or practice, or customary practice, as a late writer affirms. Nor can it mean so here For this would make the apostle guilty of gross tautology, their customary sinning having been expressed already, in the former part of the verse. But all these passages agree in expressing what belongs to the nature of the persons spoken of.
[4] But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Mercy removes misery: love confers salvation.
[5] Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
He hath quickened us together with Christ — In conformity to him, and by virtue of our union with him.
By grace ye are saved — Grace is both the beginning and end. The apostle speaks indifferently either in the first or second person; the Jews and gentiles being in the same circumstance, both by nature and by grace. This text lays the axe to the very root of spiritual pride, and all glorying in ourselves. Therefore St. Paul, foreseeing the backwardness of mankind to receive it, yet knowing the absolute necessity of its being received, again asserts the very same truth, Ephesians 2:8, in the very same words.
[6] And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
And hath raised us up together — Both Jews and gentiles already in spirit; and ere long our bodies too will be raised.
And made us all sit together in heavenly places — This is spoken by way of anticipation. Believers are not yet possessed of their seats in heaven; but each of them has a place prepared for him.
[7] That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
The ages to come — That is, all succeeding ages.
[8] For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
By grace ye are saved through faith — Grace, without any respect to human worthiness, confers the glorious gift. Faith, with an empty hand, and without any pretence to personal desert, receives the heavenly blessing.
And this is not of yourselves — This refers to the whole preceding clause, That ye are saved through faith, is the gift of God.
[9] Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Not by works — Neither this faith nor this salvation is owing to any works you ever did, will, or can do.
[10] For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
For we are his workmanship — Which proves both that salvation is by faith, and that faith is the gift of God.
Created unto good works — That afterwards we might give ourselves to them.
Which God had before preprepared — The occasions of them: so we must still ascribe the whole to God.
That we might walk in them — Though not be justified by them.
[11] Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
Wherefore remember — Such a remembrance strengthens faith, and increases gratitude.
That ye being formerly gentiles in the flesh — Neither circumcised in body nor in spirit. Who were accordingly called the uncircumcision - By way of reproach.
By that which is called the circumcision — By those who call themselves the circumcised, and think this a proof that they are the people of God; and who indeed have that outward circumcision which is performed by hands in the flesh.
[12] That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Were at that time without Christ — Having no faith in, or knowledge of, him.
Being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel — Both as to their temporal privileges and spiritual blessings.
And strangers to the covenants of promise — The great promise in both the Jewish and Christian covenant was the Messiah.
Having no hope — Because they had no promise whereon to ground their hope. And being without God - Wholly ignorant of the true God, and so in effect atheists. Such in truth are, more or less, all men, in all ages, till they know God by the teaching of his own Spirit.
In the world — The wide, vain world, wherein ye wandered up and down, unholy and unhappy.
[13] But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Far off — From God and his people.
Nigh — Intimately united to both.
[14] For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
For he is our peace — Not only as he purchased it, but as he is the very bond and centre of union.
He who hath made both — Jews and gentiles, one church. The apostle describes, 1. The conjunction of the gentiles with Israel, Ephesians 2:15-18. Each description is subdivided into two parts. And the former part of the one, concerning abolishing the enmity, answers the former part of the other; the latter part of the one, concerning the evangelical decrees, the latter part of the other.
And hath broken down the middle wall of partition — Alluding to that wall of old, which separated the court of Israel from the court of the gentiles. Such a wall was the ceremonial law, which Christ had now taken away.
[15] Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
Having abolished by his suffering in the flesh the cause of enmity between the Jews and gentiles, even the law of ceremonial commandments, through his decrees - Which offer mercy to all; see Colossians 2:14.
That he might form the two — Jew and gentile.
Into one new man — one mystical body.
[16] And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
In one body — One church.
Having slain — By his own death on the cross.
The enmity — Which had been between sinners and God.
[17] And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
And he came — After his resurrection.
And preached peace — By his ministers and his Spirit.
To you — Gentiles.
That were afar off — At the utmost distance from God.
And to them that were nigh — To the Jews, who were comparatively nigh, being his visible church.
[18] For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
For through him, we both — Jews and gentiles.
Have access — Liberty of approaching, by the guidance and aid of one Spirit to God as our Father. Christ, the Spirit, and the Father, the three-one God, stand frequently in the same order.
[19] Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Therefore ye are no longer strangers, but citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem; no longer foreigners, but received into the very family of God.
[20] And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets — As the foundation sustains the building, so the word of God, declared by the apostles and prophets, sustains the faith of all believers. God laid the foundation by them; but Christ himself is the chief corner-stone of the foundation. Elsewhere he is termed the foundation itself, 1 Corinthians 3:11.
[21] In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
On whom all the building fitly framed together — The whole fabric of the universal church rises up like a great pile of living materials.
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With the latest digital art software, you can easily create next-level results. You can easily create stunning photo art with hundreds of artist-created brushes and various art tools.
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The creators of the popular software, Corel Painter, create a digital art application that simulates the behavior and appearance of various traditional media such as paintings, drawings, and printmaking. It is helpful for artists looking to create realistic and expressive art.
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Hurricane recovery continues in Texas
ib2newseditor — December 14, 2017
Volunteers aid homeowners after year of historic storms
Illinois Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers prepare a meal for Hurricane Harvey victims in Vidor, Texas. The Illinois volunteers prepared over 40,000 meals during their callout. Facebook photo
A difficult year for many people in the U.S. meant Illinois Baptist Disaster Relief (IBDR) volunteers were hard at work in 2017.
The most extensive callout was to Texas, where Hurricane Harvey left many homeowners displaced in August. Two childcare teams were the first Illinois units to deploy. They were stationed at the Dallas Convention Center, where they attended to children while their parents—refugees from flooding in Houston—stood in lines to meet with insurance companies and government agencies.
All other ILDR teams were sent to serve in the Vidor, Texas area. Two shower and laundry trailers from Franklin and Macoupin Associations were deployed. They provided 8,700 showers, and volunteers completed approximately 2,320 loads of laundry. Glenn and Sharon Carty spent three weeks in Vidor working with a laundry/shower trailer team. “You feel for the people and all they’re going through,” said Sharon. “But it’s the children who break your heart.”
IBDR: In 3 states and Puerto Rico
14,401 man hours worked
166 gospel presentations
326 gospel tracts distributed
161 Bibles given
16 salvations recorded
Also in Texas, a 26-person mobile kitchen team based out of Living Faith Baptist Church in Sherman was staffed by volunteers from around the state and used to prepare over 40,000 meals.
As the callout continued, IBDR was asked by national Send Relief to take on a greater role. Dwayne Doyle, IBDR state coordinator, said, “IBDR incident command led the First Baptist Church, Vidor, Texas, joint ministry site between the new Send Relief program of the North American Mission Board and Southern Baptist Texas Convention Disaster Relief. During this time, our volunteers gave leadership to more than over 500 students from churches and universities across the nation.”
Illinois teams are continuing the work in Vidor, with more workers scheduled to return in January.
Earlier in the summer, heavy rains led to record flooding in Lake County, near the Illinois-Wisconsin border. Volunteers worked on nearly 150 homes, doing mold remediation in an effort to help homeowners get ready to rebuild. Their efforts have resulted in a church plant in Round Lake, as local Disaster Relief volunteers have followed-up with homeowners.
Disaster Relief volunteers also served in Illinois after early spring tornadoes in northern and southern parts of the state. Volunteer Don Kragness worked in the southern Illinois town of Vergennes. He summed up the motivation of many Disaster Relief volunteers when he told local television station WSIL, “We are here, basically, because we love Jesus and we want to serve him, and the best way we know how to serve him is to help people when they’re in need.”
Illinois has nearly 1,600 trained Disaster Relief volunteers. Their ministry is made possible through the generosity of churches and individual donors, and the volunteers themselves, who help provide equipment, supplies, and fuel for travel. To learn more about the callouts, training, and how to donate, visit IBSA.org/dr.
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Chinese envoy says exchanges with India not to be affected by novel coronavirus
NEW DELHI, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Bilateral exchanges between India and China will not be affected by the novel coronavirus epidemic, Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong has said.
"I think the difficulties are temporary and will be overcome," Sun told a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday.
"I believe bilateral exchanges will not be blocked by the virus and China-India relations (will) not be affected by the epidemic," he said.
The envoy briefed the media on China's efforts to contain the novel coronavirus epidemic.
"We are grateful that (Indian) Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi sent a letter to (Chinese) President Xi Jinping and assured readiness to stand by China and provide the assistance that India can to face this challenge," he noted.
The acts of goodwill fully demonstrate Indian people's friendship with Chinese people, the ambassador said.
"We need to maintain high-level exchanges, hold institutional meetings and a series of celebratory activities, expand personnel exchanges and trade, and scale the bilateral relations to a new height," he said.
The ongoing year marks the 70th anniversary of diplomatic ties between New Delhi and Beijing, and both countries have earmarked 70 different programs to celebrate the bond between them. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9930598735809326, "wiki_prob": 0.9930598735809326, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1201519"} |
Three-car collision, including a Palm Springs police SUV, destroys traffic signal and injures two
Colin Atagi
Palm Springs Desert Sun
A Palm Springs police SUV was involved in a multi-vehicle collision that injured two people and blocked a busy intersection for more than an hour Monday morning.
Police say a woman was heading south on Indian Canyon when she ran a red light at Racquet Club Road just before 7 a.m. Her 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt struck a 2017 Ford Explorer and a 2006 Honda Civic that were moving east in parallel lanes.
The Cobalt clipped the rear of the Ford, which was occupied by a Palm Springs police official who was on his way to work, police Lt. Mike Villegas said at the scene.
The officer was treated at a local hospital for minor injuries, police said.
The Honda got the brunt of the impact and it was pushed toward the southeast corner of the intersection, where it knocked over a traffic signal.
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The Cobalt came to a stop several yards south of the intersection.The collision forced its airbag to deploy and left the car's front completely smashed in.
Paramedics rushed both drivers to a local hospital for minor injuries, police said. It did not appear drugs or alcohol were factors in the collision.
Southbound traffic was detoured onto Racquet Club and northbound traffic was sent onto Via Olivera as police investigated the collision.
All lanes were open just before 8:30 a.m. but repairs were expected to continue at the intersection for several more hours.
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Palm Springs Public Works employees were called in to remove the destroyed traffic signal and install a new one.
All other signals at the intersection appeared to be working and there was no indication traffic was going to be further impacted throughout the day.
Area residents gathered at the intersection during the collision's aftermath and took photos as they observed the scene. Several of them said they were frustrated by what they saw.
"This isn't the first crash to happen here, but it looks like a bad one," Palm Springs resident Richard Lawrence, 53, said as he stood along Racquet Club. "It's very unfortunate." | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9282212853431702, "wiki_prob": 0.9282212853431702, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1439169"} |
Granger on Film: 'The White Lotus: Season 2' features a strong cast
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Jennifer Coolidge plays a guest at a tropical resort and Murray Bartlett the concierge in the HBO series "The White Lotus." (Mario Perez/HBO/TNS)
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For its Emmy-winning initial season “The White Lotus” was set at a luxurious Hawaiian resort. Now, “The White Lotus: Season 2” moves to a deluxe Sicilian hotel, perched on the cliffs of Taormina overlooking the Ionian Sea. It debuted on Oct. 30 and will conclude on Dec. 11.
“It’s a different vibe,” clarifies series creator/writer/director Mike White. The first was focused on the guests vs. the employees — who has the money, who has the power — set against a colonialism backdrop. While still revolving around decadent, rich discontents, the second season is more about sexual politics with elements of a bedroom farce as people sneak in and out of hotel rooms.
Jennifer Coolidge returns as blowsy, insecure heiress Tanya McQuoid, now married to Greg (Jon Gries) whom she met in Maui. She’s accompanied by a harried assistant (Haley Lu Richardson), who wants a fun fling, particularly when Tanya is distracted by a gay British aristocrat (Tom Hollander) and his friends.
The strong ensemble cast includes F. Murray Abraham as a lecherous Italian-American octogenarian, determined to explore his ancestral roots with his sex-addicted, Hollywood producer son (Michael Imperioli) and amiable grandson (Adam DiMarco). One day, he hires a car to take his family to the various local sites featured in “The Godfather” films.
An oblivious wife (Aubrey Plaza) and her financier husband (Will Sharpe) are hosting a newly rich couple (Meghann Fahy, Theo James). When the wives take a side trip to Noto, a town known for its Baroque architecture, their husbands jet ski and indulge in drunken debauchery.
The officious hotel manager (Sabrina Impacciatore) tries to maintain an aura of dignity and serenity despite the persistence of two enterprising young prostitutes (Simona Tabasco, Beatrice Granho).
Problem is: we know that dead bodies have been found — so there’s also a murder mystery.
Décor-wise, there are bizarre ceramic "heads," based on a local legend originating in the 12th century when Arabians occupied Sicily. It seems an Italian woman was seduced by a Moorish man. When she discovered he was married with children, she cut his head off and stuffed it with basil, which grows everywhere.
FYI: The hotel is really Taormina’s Four Seasons San Domenico Palace, built within a renovated convent.
On the Granger Gauge of 1 to 10, “The White Lotus: Season 2” is an opulent, indulgent 8, streaming on HBO with an upcoming third season already confirmed.
Susan Granger has been an on-air television and radio commentator and entertainment critic for more than 25 years. Raised in Hollywood, Granger appeared as a child actress in movies with Abbott & Costello, Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, and Lassie. She currently resides in Westport.
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Starring Gary Oldman, Ben Mendelsohn, Lily James, Stephen Dillane, Kristin Scott Thomas
There was a huge wave of buzz after Darkest Hour debuted at Telluride. Not only just for the obvious best actor race, but even some mention of best picture. Mainstream American audiences will likely write this film off a stuffy historical drama where history plays out in a bunch of different rooms. It’s true that Darkest Hour could be a companion piece to Dunkirk, another presumed best picture nominee. I started out a huge admirer of director Joe Wright, his Keria Knightly collaborations remain his best work. However, Darkest Hour is certainly a step toward redemption for Wright following Pan. It might be the second film this year about Winston Churchill, but it’s the first guaranteed acting nomination. Only once nominated Gary Oldman (Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy) gives the epitome of an epic performance, but is that enough?
When parliament decides that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (Ronald Pickup) is no longer fit to lead England to victory against the Nazi threat, the larger than life, controversial Winston Churchill (Oldman) is chosen as the new Prime Minister. “You really must try to be more kind… and calm,” Clementine Churchill (Thomas) says. The king (Mendelsohn) isn’t thrilled with Churchill in charge, but supports him nonetheless as England is already backed into a corner, losing France and Belgium to Hitler. Some of parliament see no path to victory and try to convince the stubborn Churchill to negotiate peace, but he refuses to entertain that idea. He must carry the weight of the country on his shoulders and provide hope where there isn’t any.
With everything that’s good about Darkest Hour, the film is still not much more than a string of conversations that vary from calm to heated.
He’s overdue, often overlooked, completely transformed with padded body weight and facial prosthesis. Oldman was the 2017 front runner for best actor without question until awards season hit, then picking him seemed "uncool". He will have great support from within the industry, having worked with the majority of voters but Oldman's win is no longer a guarantee due to the rising popularity of Timothee Chalamet's virtuoso performance in indie darling Call Me By Your Name. The talky historical flick won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, I found myself fighting sleep because either you already know the history because of well, history. Or you saw Churchill back in the spring where Brian Cox (also fantastic by the way) explores the same figure just in a slightly different era. With so many different Churchill performances out there currently on TV and film, voters and ticket buyers might not see the urgency for Darkest Hour. Churchill is the perfect role for an actor to exercise every muscle and ounce of talent they have. The entire movie is a continuous two-hour Oscar clip for Oldman. What’s even more surprising is how Oldman pulls off the funny one liner moments often in scenes of darkness and despair.
Most of the movie takes places in either the underground war room, inside Winston’s dark private quarters or in lavish rooms with the King. The setting is already cinematically claustrophobic because of the locations, but Wright is simultaneously playing into the erosion of Churchill war options. Wright throws in a few signature continual takes (nothing like his famous Dunkirk scene in Atonement), but his visual obsession in this film is the overhead (drone) shot. The production design is off the charts, sustaining the quality we have some to expect from Wright. With everything that’s good about Darkest Hour, the film is still not much more than a string of conversations that vary from calm to heated. An elaborate history lessons.
Darkest Hour is Gary Oldman’s finest hour, a performance that will hijack the 2017 awards race.
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MACNEIL WELCOMES MOVEMENT ON ETVs AFTER PRESSURE
SNP Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP Angus MacNeil has welcomed movements by the UK Government indicating that a further extension of the emergency towing vessels contract is expected after their current contract ends in January. Last week Angus MacNeil MP tabled questions to the UK Government regarding the future of the ETV contracts.
Mr MacNeil said,
‘I am happy to see that a bit of pressure has resulted in what looks like, yet another, reprieve for our tugs from the UK Government.
‘While I am happy that the Minches will, most likely, have an additional three months of tug cover we need a more comprehensive, long-term plan on maritime safety.
‘I do not want to be in this position again in April 2012 and, potentially July 2012. This piece-meal plan cannot continue in perpetuity.
‘Maritime safety may not be at the forefront in the minds of the Coalition but, it is always paramount in the hearts and minds of the employees and families who work at sea.
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Federal Reserve : a history
October 12, 2005 by Richard Moore
http://www.worldnewsstand.net/today/articles/fedprivatelyowned.htm
The Federal Reserve is
PRIVATELY OWNED
by Thomas D. Schauf
"There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at
each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the
finality of existing modes of knowledge."
Dear American:
Pursuant to your request, I will attempt to clear up questions
you have about the Federal Reserve Bank (FED). I spent much
time researching the FED and these are the shocking and
revealing conclusions.
THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK IS A PRIVATE COMPANY .
Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution states that Congress
shall have the power to coin (create) money and regulate the
value thereof. Today however, the FED, which is a privately
owned company, controls and profits by printing money through
the Treasury, and regulating its value.
The FED began with approximately 300 people or banks that
became owners (stockholders purchasing stock at $100 per share
- the stock is not publicly traded) in the Federal Reserve
Banking System. They make up an international banking cartel
of wealth beyond comparison (Reference 1, 14). The FED banking
system collects billions of dollars (Reference 8, 17) in
interest annually and distributes the profits to its
shareholders. The Congress illegally gave the FED the right to
print money (through the Treasury) at no interest to the FED.
The FED creates money from nothing, and loans it back to us
through banks, and charges interest on our currency. The FED
also buys Government debt with money printed on a printing
press and charges U.S. taxpayers interest. Many Congressmen
and Presidents say this is fraud (Reference 1,2,3,5,17).
Who actually owns the Federal Reserve Central Banks? The
ownership of the 12 Central banks, a very well kept secret,
has been revealed:
Rothschild Bank of London
Warburg Bank of Hamburg
Rothschild Bank of Berlin
Lehman Brothers of New York
Lazard Brothers of Paris
Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York
Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy
Goldman, Sachs of New York
Warburg Bank of Amsterdam
Chase Manhattan Bank of New York
(Reference 14, P. 13, Reference 12, P. 152)
These bankers are connected to London Banking Houses which
ultimately control the FED. When England lost the
Revolutionary War with America (our forefathers were fighting
their own government), they planned to control us by
controlling our banking system, the printing of our money, and
our debt (Reference 4, 22).
The individuals listed below owned banks which in turn owned
shares in the FED. The banks listed below have significant
control over the New York FED District, which controls the
other 11 FED Districts. These banks also are partly foreign
owned and control the New York FED District Bank. (Reference
First National Bank of New York
James Stillman National City Bank, New York
Mary W. Harnman
National Bank of Commerce, New York
A.D. Jiullard
Hanover National Bank, New York
Jacob Schiff
Chase National Bank, New York
Thomas F. Ryan
Paul Warburg
William Rockefeller
Levi P. Morton
M.T. Pyne
George F. Baker
Percy Pyne
Mrs. G.F. St. George
J.W. Sterling
Katherine St. George
H.P. Davidson
J.P. Morgan (Equitable Life/Mutual Life)
Edith Brevour T. Baker
(Reference 4 for above, Reference 22 has details, P. 92, 93,
96, 179)
How did it happen? After previous attempts to push the Federal
Reserve Act through Congress, a group of bankers funded and
staffed Woodrow Wilson's campaign for President. He had
committed to sign this act. In 1913, a Senator, Nelson
Aldrich, maternal grandfather to the Rockefellers, pushed the
Federal Reserve Act through Congress just before Christmas
when much of Congress was on vacation (Reference 3, 4, 5).
When elected, Wilson passed the FED. Later, Wilson
remorsefully replied (referring to the FED), "I have
unwittingly ruined my country" (Reference 17, P. 31).
Now the banks financially back sympathetic candidates. Not
surprisingly, most of these candidates are elected (Reference
1, P. 208-210, Reference 12, P. 235, Reference 14, P. 36). The
bankers employ members of the Congress on weekends (nickname
T&T club -out Thursday...-in Tuesday) with lucrative salaries
(Reference 1, P. 209). Additionally, the FED started buying up
the media in the 1930's and now owns or significantly
influences most of it Reference 3, 10, 11, P. 145).
Presidents Lincoln, Jackson, and Kennedy tried to stop this
family of bankers by printing U.S. dollars without charging
the taxpayers interest (Reference 4). Today, if the government
runs a deficit, the FED prints dollars through the U.S.
Treasury, buys the debt, and the dollars are circulated into
the economy. In 1992, taxpayers paid the FED banking system
$286 billion in interest on debt the FED purchased by printing
money virtually cost free (Reference 12, P. 265). Forty
percent of our personal federal income taxes goes to pay this
interest. The FED's books are not open to the public. Congress
has yet to audit it.
Congressman Wright Patman was Chairman of the House of
Representatives Committee on Banking and Currency for 40
years. For 20 of those years, he introduced legislation to
repeal the Federal Reserve Banking Act of 1913.
Congressman Henry Gonzales, Chairman of a banking committee,
introduces legislation to repeal the Federal Reserve Banking
Act of 1913 nearly every year. It's always defeated, the media
remains silent, and the public never learns the truth. The
same bankers who own the FED control the media and give huge
political contributions to sympathetic members of Congress
(Reference 12, P. 155-163, Reference 22, P. 158, 159, 166).
THE FED FEARS THE POPULATION WILL BECOME AWARE OF THIS FRAUD
AND DEMAND CHANGE
We, the People, are at fault for being passive and allowing
this to continue.
Rep. Louis T. McFadden (R. Pa.) rose from office boy to become
cashier and then President of the First National Bank in
Canton Ohio. For 12 years he served as Chairman of the
Committee on Banking and Currency, making him one of the
foremost financial authorities in America. He fought
continuously for fiscal integrity and a return to
constitutional government (Reference 1). The following are
portions of Rep. McFadden's speech, quoted from the
Congressional Record, pages 12595-12603:
"THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD, A GOVERNMENT BOARD, HAS CHEATED
THE GOVERNMENTOF THE UNITED STATES AND THE PEOPLE OF THE
UNITED STATES OUT OF ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY THE NATIONAL DEBT.
The depredations and the iniquities of the Federal Reserve
Board and the Federal Reserve banks acting together have cost
this country ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY THE NATIONAL DEBT SEVERAL
TIMES OVER."
About the Federal Reserve banks, Rep. McFadden said, "They are
private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the
United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign
customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; the
rich and predatory money lenders. This is an era of economic
misery and for the reasons that caused that misery, the
Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks are fully
liable."
On the subject of media control he state, "Half a million
dollars was spent on one part of the propaganda organized by
those same European bankers for the purpose of misleading
public opinion in regard to it."
Rep. McFadden continued, "Every effort has been made by the
Federal Reserve Board to conceal its power but the truth is
the Federal Reserve Board has USURPED THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
UNITED STATES. IT CONTROLS EVERYTHING HERE AND IT CONTROLS ALL
OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS. IT MAKES AND BREAKS GOVERNMENTS AT
WILL.
No man and no body of men is more entrenched in power than the
arrogant credit monopoly which operates the Federal Reserve
Board and the Federal Reserve banks. These evil-doers have
robbed this country of more than enough money to pay the
national debt. What the Government has permitted the Federal
Reserve Board to steal from the people should now be restored
to the people."
"Our people's money to the extent of $1,200,000,000 has within
the last few months been shipped abroad to redeem Federal
Reserve Notes and to pay other gambling debts of the
traitorous Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve
banks. The greater part of our monetary stock has been shipped
to foreigners. Why should we promise to pay the debts of
foreigners to foreigners? Why should American Farmers and wage
earners add millions of foreigners to the number of their
dependents? Why should the Federal Reserve Board and the
Federal Reserve banks be permitted to finance our competitors
in all parts of the world?" Rep. McFadden asked.
"The Federal Reserve Act should be repealed and the Federal
Reserve banks, having violated their charters, should be
liquidated immediately.
FAITHLESS GOVERNMENT OFFICERS WHO HAVE VIOLATED THEIR OATHS
SHOULD BE IMPEACHED AND BROUGHT TO TRIAL", Rep. McFadden
concluded (Reference 1, contains an entire chapter on Rep.
McFadden's speech).
If the media is unbiased, independent and completely thorough,
why haven't they discussed the FED? Currently, half the states
have at least a grass roots movement in action to abolish the
FED, but there's no press coverage. In July, 1968, the House
Banking Subcommittee reported that Rockefeller, through Chase
Manhattan Bank, controlled 5.9% of the stock in CBS.
Furthermore, the bank had gained interlocking directorates
with ABC.
In 1974, Congress issued a report stating that the Chase
Manhattan Bank's stake in CBS rose to 14.1% and NBC to 4.5%
(through RCA, the parent company of NBC). The same report said
that the Chase Manhattan Bank held stock in 28 broadcasting
firms. After this report, the Chase Manhattan Bank obtained
6.7% of ABC, and today the percentage could be much greater.
It only requires 5% ownership to significantly influence the
media (Reference 14, P. 56-57). This is only one of 300
wealthy shareholders of the FED. It is believed other FED
owners have similar holdings in the media. To control the
media, FED bankers call in their loans if the media disagrees
with them (Reference 25, P. 134-137).
Rockefeller also controls the Council on Foreign Relations
(CFR), the sole purpose of which is to aid in stimulating
greater interest in foreign affairs and in a one world
government. Nearly every major newscaster belongs to the
Council on Foreign Relations. The Council on Foreign Relations
controls many major newspapers and magazines. Additionally,
major corporations owned by FED shareholders are the source of
huge advertising revenues which surely would influence the
media (Reference 14, P. 56-59). It can be no wonder why groups
such as FED-UP(tm) receive minimal, if any, press attention.
How do taxpayers stop financing those whose purpose it is to
destroy us? First, expose their activity, then demand change.
Currently all we do is exchange FED money (interest attached)
for real U.S. money (interest-free) dollar for dollar as
Kennedy tried to do. We should not be required to pay interest
on our own currency. According to Benjamin Franklin, this was
one of the primary reasons we fought the Revolutionary War.
Today we are still fighting the same family of bankers
(Reference 4, Reference 1, P. 211, 212).
The U.S. Government can buy back the FED at any time for $450
million (per Congressional record). The U.S. Treasury could
then collect all the profit on our money instead of the 300
original shareholders of the FED. The $4 trillion of U.S. debt
could be exchanged dollar for dollar with U.S. non- interest
bearing currency when the debt becomes due. There would be no
inflation because there would be no additional currency in
circulation. Personal income tax could be cut if we bought
back the FED and therefore, the economy would expand.
According to the Constitution, Congress is to control the
creation of money, keeping the amount of inflation or
deflation in check. If Congress isn't doing their job, they
should be voted out of office. Unfortunately, voters can't
vote the FED or its Chairman out of office.
If the government has a deficit, we could handle it as Lincoln
and Kennedy did. Print money and circulate it into the
economy, but this time interest-free. Today the FED, through
foreign banks, owns much of our debt and therefore controls
us. The FED will cease to exist as taxpayers become informed
and tell other taxpayers. The news media and Congress will
have no choice but to meet the demands of grass roots America.
(Reference 1, P. 17, 22)
AMERICA DECEIVED
By law (check the Congressional record), we can buy back the
FED for the original investment of the FED's 300 shareholders,
which is $450 million (Reference 1, P. 227, Reference 17, P.
36). If each taxpayer paid $25, we could buy back the FED and
all the profit would flow into the U.S. Treasury. In other
words, by Congress allowing the constitutionally illegal FED
to continue, much of your taxes go to the shareholders of the
FED and their bankers. Note: The people who enacted the FED
started the IRS, within months of the FED's inception. The FED
buys U.S. debt with money they printed from nothing, then
charges the U.S. taxpayers interest. The government had to
create income tax to pay the interest expense to the FED's
shareholders, but the income tax was never legally passed
(Reference 20 shows details, state-by-state why it was not
legally passed). The FED is illegal, per Article 1, Section 8
of the United States Constitution. Not one state legally
ratified the 16th Amendment making income tax legal.
Currently, fewer and fewer Americans are being convicted for
refusal to pay income taxes. In IRS jury trials, the jury, by
law, must decide if the law is just. If taxpayers do not
believe the law is just, the jury may declare the accused
innocent. Judges are legally bound to inform juries of their
right to determine the fairness of a law. Judges often do not
disclose this information so they can control the court
outcome. Luckily, more and more citizens are becoming
informed. If one juror feels the law is unfair, they can find
the defendant innocent (Reference 19). In Utah, the IRS quit
prosecuting taxpayers because jurors verdict is not guilty.
Please tell your friends and sit in the next jury.
If we eliminate the FED and uphold the Constitution, we could
balance the budget and cut personal income tax to almost
nothing. In Congressional hearings on September 30, 1941, FED
Chairman Eccles admitted that the FED creates new money from
thin air (printing press), and loans it back to us at interest
(Reference 17, P. 93). On June 6, 1960, FED President Mr.
Allen admitted essentially the same thing (Reference 22, P.
164). If you or I did this we would go to jail.
It is time to abolish the FED! Tell your friends the truth and
win America back. We don't even need to buy back the FED. We
only need to print money the way the Constitution requires,
not the new proposed international money. We want to keep our
sovereignty and print real U.S. money.
Why has Congress allowed the FED to continue? If a
Congressperson tries to abolish the FED, the banks fund the
Congressperson's opponent in the next election (Reference 17,
P. 35). The new Congressperson will obviously support the FED.
When Congresspeople retire, political campaign funds are not
taxed. Get elected and be a millionaire if you vote right. By
the way, the profit of the FED is not taxed either (Reference
1, 9). Once America understands, and takes action,
Congresspeople will then gladly abolish the FED. In 1992,
Illinois Congressman Crane introduced a bill, co-sponsored by
40 other Congressman, to audit the FED. This is a step in the
right direction.
America is a great nation. As "We the People" become informed,
the media and Congress will be forced to buy back the FED,
balance the budget, significantly cut taxes, and stop allowing
bribes to determine voting strategies. I have already heard
from politicians who claim they will change their platform to
include abolishing the FED if enough people become informed.
IT IS UP TO YOU TO INFORM THE PEOPLE.
The FED hopes you will be passive and not act on this
information. We believe in grass roots America - we are waking
up America. Ultimately, the battle plan is to inform all
Americans and demand change in the media and Congress. True
Americans should run for office and throw out the politicians
who allow this fraud to continue. Congress may refuse to deal
with this issue. That's why each person needs to go to their
local county/state government with the proper paperwork and
ask them to abolish the FED. With the proper documents, they
are legally obligated to do it.
WE NEED LEADERS TO BEGIN THIS ACTION. WILL YOU HELP?
Consider this fact. Most of the given sources in this booklet
show how the blood line of family bankers who own the FED
funded both sides of all major wars. They created fake
colonial money to destroy the Americans during the
Revolutionary War and tried to finance both sides in the
American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln refused and the South
accepted. Many publications show that these bankers financed
World War I, World War II, and the Russian Revolutionary War,
which helped Napoleon, Lenin, and Hitler come to power. They
financed both sides from money created from nothing and
profited greatly. These same bankers created a number of
American depressions to change the U.S. legislation and seize
our wealth. Read the sources for details. This is why our
forefathers wrote in the Constitution that only Congress can
issue money - not private banks (Reference 18).
More wars create more debt which means more profit to the
bankers (Reference 1, 21). These bankers planned three world
wars so people would welcome United Nations intervention to
govern the world in peace, not war. (Reference 22 gives
specific details on World War I and World War II, showing
exactly how the bankers were responsible for the beginning and
continuation of these wars for their profit).
The banks have publicly announced they will force us to a
cashless society by 1997. Furthermore, they plan to create a
one world government through the United Nations headed by the
FED, Trilaterals, and the Council on Foreign Relations
(Reference 3). By the definition of treason, they have
committed treason! This means you lose your rights under the
Constitution and Bill of Rights. Does this sound far fetched?
Twenty-four U.S. Senators (two of them presidential
candidates, Harkin & Tsongas) and 80 Representatives have
signed a "Declaration of Interdependence." This Declaration,
designed to make a one world government, is treason to the
oath of office they took. The media remained silent. The FED
announced publicly that their first objective was to get
nationalism out of the American people's heads because
patriotism to a country would not be of value in the future.
The media makes us think the U.N. has all the answers, and to
"think globally." Congress passed a law stopping certain
individuals from being tried for this treason (Reference 6,
Reference 1, P. 191-198). Why pass this law if no treason was
committed? State Department document 7277 calls for the
disarming of America, thus turning our sovereignty over to a
one-world government. Again, the media is pushing to eliminate
guns. Our forefathers believed that the right to bear arms
would prevent a takeover of our government. History shows that
before any government took over, they disarmed the citizens.
Hitler did it, and before our Revolutionary War, King George
told us to disarm - good thing we didn't!
Under the Federal Reserve Bank Act, the bankers control our
economy. The FED controls interest rates and the amount of
money in the economy. These factors determine either economic
prosperity or the lack thereof. Bankers are now pushing for a
one world government and a cashless society. Why cashless? No
cash means no money for drugs, no theft, and the ability to
collect taxes on the underground economy. Anyone who wouldn't
support a cashless society must be a drug dealer, thief, or
tax evader, right? What a cashless society really means is the
banks can now control you. Today you fear the IRS. In a
cashless society, if you disagree with the bankers' political
goals, you'll find your money gone via computer error. (For
additional information on a cashless society, read Reference
13, P. 174; Reference 3; Reference 14, P. 9-12; Reference 15,
P. 136; Reference 25, P. 216).
If you could accurately predict future interest rates,
inflation and deflation, you would know when to buy or sell
stocks and make a bundle of money. The FED has secret meetings
(per Congressional Record) to determine future interest rates
and the amount of money to be printed. The Securities Exchange
Commission (SEC) by law, stops insiders from profiting by
privileged information. Congressional records prove that FED
bankers routinely hold secret meetings to profit by
manipulating the stock market via interest rates and the
amount of money they create. FED bankers also profit greatly
from economic disasters like the Depression (Reference 22, P.
56). The bankers create inflation, sell their stocks before
the market crashes, then buy up stocks at cheaper prices.
Bankers admitted this to Congress. This violates the law, yet
Congress does not act because these bankers are large
political contributors (Reference 17, P. 96-98; Reference 1,
P. 162-163; Reference 22, P. 114-170 & P. 136). Thomas
Jefferson predicted this scenario if we ever allowed a private
bank, like the FED, to create our currency (Reference 1, P.
FED Chairman Burns states "Killing can be made simply by
knowing the next few months newspapers ahead of time."
Congressman Patman said "The FED officials own more than 100
million dollars (of stocks) while making decisions influencing
these stock prices..." (Reference 24, P. 123). History proves
that banks profit from bankrupting a nation (Reference 22, P.
Congress consistently defeats balanced budget amendments. In
the past 30 years, Congress has raised our taxes 56 times and
balanced the budget only once. We need the sound banking
system our forefathers wanted us to have. History proves that
banking systems like the FED don't work. Major world powers
have been destroyed over similar banking systems (Reference
1). If we don't change this system NOW, in five years the only
thing our taxes will pay is the interest on the national debt.
Section 7 of the Federal Reserve Act, passed December 23,
1913, states that much of the profit of the FED should flow
into the U.S. Treasury. In 1959, new legislation allowed the
FED to transfer bonds to commercial banks at no cost to the
bank. Now the FED receives less interest income and less
profit for the U.S. Treasury because the money is diverted to
other banks through an accounting entry (Reference 17, P.
115-130). Congress and the IRS do not have access to the
financial records of the FED. Every year Congress introduces
legislation to audit the FED, and every year it is defeated.
The FED banking system could easily be netting 100s of
billions in profit each year. Through "creative accounting"
profit can easily be reclassified as expense (Reference 14, P.
20, Reference 17, P. 239). Within the first few years, the
shareholders of the FED received their initial investment back
with no risk. All the income is tax-free, except for property
tax, according to the Federal Reserve Act. When are the
profits of the FED going to start flowing into the Treasury so
that average Americans are no longer burdened with excessive,
unnecessary taxes? Clearly, Congress cannot or will not
control the FED. IT IS TIME TO ABOLISH IT!
3 WAYS TO ABOLISH THE FED AND ISSUE MONEY PER THE UNITED
STATES CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE 1, SECTION 8:
* Buy back the FED and have the U.S. Government collect all
profits.
* Abolish the FED by printing real U.S. dollars as President
Kennedy attempted (Executive Order 11.110, 1963) (Reference
* Request your county/state to use their Constitutional powers
to abolish the FED. This is the BEST SOLUTION. Nearly half the
states are attempting or considering this action (Reference
5). Congress has had 80 years to follow the Constitution, and
has refused to abolish the illegal FED. The state/county
effort is working faster than any other method. We need your
support to start a local chapter of FED-UP(tm) Inc. and
petition your county.
THE WRONG SOLUTION THAT HAS FAILED FOR 80 YEARS:
Congress and the media may want to require the FED to return
the required profits into the U.S. Treasury (per the Federal
Reserve Act, 1913). The problem is that with "creative
accounting" techniques, profit can be easily masked as
expense. The FED has expensed items illegally to lower profit
(Reference 17).
"We the People" have pushed the following states to pass or
introduce legislation calling for an end to the FED: Arizona,
Washington, Arkansas, Idaho, Oregon, Indiana, and Texas. We
still need your signatures on petitions, even if you live in
these states. Many other states are considering such action
due to your petitions. These states and a few honest
Congresspeople are powerless until all Americans become
informed and demand change. Please pass out the petition. Once
we demand change, the media will have to report the whole
truth and not just push their own agenda. FED-UP(tm)
challenges the media to expose the facts on prime time talk
shows or news programs.
By abolishing the FED, we would not pay interest on Federal
Reserve Notes. Until it is abolished, the FED has a monopoly
on profit on our currency and whether our money supply will be
increased or decreased, inflation or depression. The banks are
capable of controlling business by controlling who can or
cannot obtain a loan.
WE'VE DONE OUR PART - NOW IT IS UP TO YOU TO SPREAD THE WORD.
Please take the brochure (Cutting taxes $6,000 per family per
year) to VFW, Moose/Elk Lodges, Bars, Union Halls, Churches,
and Association groups. Make copies of the "single-page"
brochure for everyone at work and ask your friends to do the
same. Ask small business owners in your community to tell
other business owners and spread the brochure and petition
through the local Chamber of Commerce. CPAs should be
interested in saving their clients taxes. Ask your CPA to mail
the brochure and petition out to his/her clients. Upon
receiving this petition, many presidents of large corporations
made this brochure and petition available to all employees.
Once people are informed, we can force a change. People will
have more money to spend, the economy will be strong, and we
can keep our Constitutional rights, liberties, and freedoms.
Contact your library for the names and addresses of your local
and federal Congresspeople. MAIL THEM AN ENVELOPE WITHOUT YOUR
NAME AND ADDRESS ATTACHED. In the envelope, say "FED-UP(tm)
Inc. Abolish the FED." Also enclose one teabag (Boston Tea
Party). Ask your friends to do the same (give them the
addresses). Politicians are aware of the "Teabag Protest." If
you don't mail it in, they're going to believe that we're not
organized or we just don't care. IF YOU DON'T DO IT NO ONE
ELSE WILL!
Many Congresspeople want to make this change, but can't
without the support of the people.
WHY OUR FOREFATHERS FOUGHT THE FED
"Allow me to control the issue and the nation's money and I
care not who makes its laws!" The above quote has long been
attributed to the 18th century banker Amshell Rothschild (his
blood line controls the FED). For if one unscrupulous group is
allowed to print a nation's money - it can eventually use that
money to gain control of the press AND the politicians - and
thus gain control of making the nation's laws - and finally -
control of the nation itself. (Reference 4)
If you will take the time to read the reference material
listed which has been researched by Professors of
Universities, Congresspeople, etc, you will turn up
information that might frighten you. For instance, in 1921 the
stockholders of the Federal Reserve financed an organization
called the "Council on Foreign Relations" (CFR). Harpers
magazine called this the most powerful organization in the
United States. Ninety percent of the people in the State
Department and key positions in the Executive Branch are
members of the CFR. The CFR publishes a magazine called
"Foreign Affairs." Read it if you want to know what is going
to happen in coming years. The CFR is in favor of a New World
Order (Reference 3).
Congressman Patman re-quoted Thomas Jefferson showing that our
founding fathers knew this banking principle very well. "I
believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our
liberties than standing armies...." "Already they have raised
up a money aristocracy that has set the government at
defiance. The issuing power (of money)," he said, "should be
taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it
properly belongs." The American Revolution was a struggle to
wrest control of wealth from the Bank of England and to
restore the centers of power to the People where it "properly
belongs." The Constitution is specific about the authority of
the People, through their elected officials, to control the
money, and thus, the affairs of their government. (Reference
5, P. 32).
Ben Franklin said in his autobiography that the inability of
the colonists to get the power to issue their own money
permanently out of the hands of George III and the
international bankers was [one of] the PRIME reason[s] for the
Revolutionary War. (Quoted in Reference 4)
Thomas Jefferson stated, "If the American people ever allow
private banks to control the issue of currency, first by
inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that
will grow up around them will deprive the people of all
property until their children will wake up homeless on the
continent their fathers conquered." (Reference 1, P. 247)
Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh of Minnesota said: "This
[Federal Reserve] Act establishes the most gigantic trust on
Earth. When the President [Wilson] signs this bill, the
invisible government of the Monetary Power will be
legalized... the worst legislative crime of the ages,
perpetuated by this banking and currency bill." (Reference 5,
P. 33)
Robert H. Hemphill (Credit Manager, Federal Reserve Bank in
Atlanta): "We are completely dependent on the commercial
banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in
circulation, cash, or credit. If the banks create ample
synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are
absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a
complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our
hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It
[the banking problem] is the most important subject
intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so
important that our present civilization may collapse unless it
becomes widely understood and the defects are remedied very
soon." (Reference 1, P. 247)
Napoleon, a sympathizer for the international bankers, turned
against them in the last years of his rule. He said: "When a
government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not
the leaders of the government control the situation, since the
hand that gives is above the hand that takes... Money has no
motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without
decency; their sole object is gain." (Reference 4)
Congresspeople have referred to Federal Reserve Notes as
"FIAT" (no- backing) money. (Reference 1, P. 128, 169)
In 1879 the Supreme Court declared that the U.S. Government
can legally issue United States Notes, debt and interest-free,
just as Lincoln and Kennedy attempted. (Reference 1, P. 233)
A bank that attempted to repossess property on the basis of
default faced Judge Mahoney in a jury trial. Jerome Daly was
found innocent. The bank could not foreclose on the property
because it created the loan money from thin air, as many banks
do. Use this as a precedent the next time any bank tries to
foreclose on your house. (Reference 17, P. 82, 83 for court
records)
The FED violates Security & Exchange Commission (SEC) rules.
(Reference 17, P. 96-98)
California 9th Circuit Court declared FED banks are private,
not government. (Reference 17, P. 273)
Mr. Marriner Eccles, who was Chairman of the board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System longer than any other
man, testified before the Joint Economic Committee in August
1962. When Chairman Rep. Wright Patman asked whether it was
not a fact that the Federal Reserve System has more power than
either the Congress or the President, Eccles replied: "In the
field of money and credit, yes." (Reference 1, P. 206)
Dr. Hans F. Sennholz, Chairman of the Department of Economics
at Grove City (PA) College stated: "The Federal Reserve System
facilitates the government's own inflationary financing in
"periods of emergency." It makes easy the inflationary
financing of budget deficits and the inflationary refunding of
government loans. It stabilizes the government bond market
through inflationary methods and manipulates this market to
the advantage of the government. It does all this by wrecking
the purchasing power of the dollar; by subtly stealing from
the people of this country what it thus provides for the
government, through a process exactly on par with the coin
clipping of ancient kings but much less visible." (Reference
1, P. 250, 251)
Source: Banking Act of 1935, Hearings before a Subcommittee of
the Banking and Currency Committee, U.S. Senate, 74th
Congress, 1st Session, on S.1715, May 1935, pp 871-2. "The
Federal Reserve System is in the wrong hands. No
Constitutional republic can function when the government's
money powers are in the hands of the financial oligarchy such
as New York financiers.
A Republican Senator, who preferred to remain unnamed, stated:
"Congress is too much motivated by fears and anxieties
concerning pressure groups and the "non election." (Reference
1, P. 210)
By controlling Congress, the FED has been able to control the
nominating conventions of both political parties. In this way,
it has been able to hand-pick the presidential nominees so
that no matter which party wins, their nominee for President
is under definite obligations to the FED... (Reference 1, P.
210; Reference 22)
In 1975, the Rockefeller Foundation Report discussed the
"Interdependence" of the countries of the world on each other.
It stated we are one world and America shall become a
nation-state under one government. They also say we must reach
a zero state population growth. The Rockefeller Foundation
stated that they have in excess of 747 million dollars to
achieve this with. (Reference 3)
Congressman John R. Rarick states that the Council on Foreign
Relations CFR) is dedicated to a one world government. The
media remains conspicuously quiet. The CFR wants to convert
the U.S. from a sovereign, constitutional republic into a
servile member state of a one world dictatorship. On February
17, 1950, CFR member James Warburg (banker, and architect of
the Federal Reserve System) stated before a Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, "We shall have one world government
whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent." Again,
the media remained silent. In the April 1974 issue of the CFR
journal, "Foreign Affairs", page 558, Richard Gardener states
that the new world order "will be built... but an end run
around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will
accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal assault."
Congressman McDonald, Heinz and Tower stated that this is a
conspiracy. Again, the media remained silent. (Reference 14,
P. 17, 18, 32, 33).
THE CFR WANTS TO ABOLISH THE CONSTITUTION. (Reference 14) WE
MUST STOP THEM!!
In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, John Adams wrote: "All the
perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not
from defects in the Constitution or confederation, not from
want of honor or virtue, as much as from downright ignorance
of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation".
British bankers have stated "Those that create and issue money
and credit direct the policies of government and hold in their
hands the destiny of the people". (Reference 1, P. 200-214)
Adams, Jefferson, and Lincoln believed that banker capitalism
was more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. In a
republic, banks would lend money but could not create or
manufacture it. (Reference 1, P. 215)
Later, Jefferson used stronger language and denounced the
institution as "one of the most deadly hostilities against the
principles and form of our Constitution." Some have said that
Jefferson did not favor a strong central bank. What he did not
favor was the delivery of our monetary system into private
hands to be run for private profit. (Reference 1, P. 230)
President James A. Garfield said: "Whoever controls the money
in any country is absolute master of industry [legislation]
and commerce". (Reference 1, P. 247, Reference 4)
Without the Federal Reserve System, there can be no continuing
march towards socialism, and with it there can be no free
economy. (Reference 1, P. 251)
By controlling our own money, Thomas Jefferson expected that
the government would incur no debt, as had occurred in the
European system. (Reference 1, P. 243) European banks are like
the FED.
The FED system is the death of our Constitution. (Reference 1,
P. 250)
THE PLAN TO REDUCE PERSONAL INCOME TAX BY 75% AND BALANCE THE
BUDGET BY ABOLISHING THE FED CAN BE PROVEN BY AMERICAN
* England lost the Revolutionary War.
* England nearly destroyed the Colonies by creating fake
Colonial money and hyper-inflation.
* Rothschilds who control the Bank of England (Like our FED)
said that by controlling the issue of money (printing it) you
can control the government.
* The authors of the Constitution understood private banks"
control over governments. The Constitution gives only Congress
the right to print money.
* From the beginning of the United States to present there
have been two ways to issue new currency:
The first way is to have the government print the money, debt
and interest- free, and circulate it through the economy for
use as a medium of exchange. There is no tax levied to pay
interest on the currency in circulation because it is debt and
interest-free. This is the system Lincoln used with his
"greenbacks", a system Kennedy desired, and Jefferson
demanded.
The second method is: The Citizens allow the bank to print
$500 billion in currency (cash). The bank pays for printing
costs, ink, and paper. The Citizens do not charge the bank any
interest for use of the $500 billion in printed currency. The
bank uses the $500 billion cash to buy a $500 billion
government bond which pays the bankers interest. The bank
keeps some of the bonds and sells, for a fee (10%), some of
the bonds to the public. The bank can buy back the bonds from
the public simply by printing more money. The bankers can
create inflation and depressions by manipulating the amount of
currency in circulation. The FED operates exactly like this
today. It also prints money (through the U.S. Treasury) and
uses this printed money to buy loans from other banks. This
money has created our inflation. We give the bank cash
interest-free, then they charge us interest on our own
currency.
Take a look at our history in view of the two banking systems:
BEN FRANKLIN - THE TWO BANKING SYSTEMS
From the autobiography of Ben Franklin as reported by Gertrude
Coogan in Money Creators:
...the inability of the colonists to get the power to issue
their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and
the international bankers was the PRIME reason for the
Revolutionary War. (Reference 4).
Ben Franklin answering a question about the booming economy of
the young colonies: "That is simple. In the colonies we issue
our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in
proper proportions to the demands of trade and industry."
(Colonial Scrip had no debt or interest attached.) (Reference
International bankers saw that interest-free scrip would keep
America free of their influence, so by 1781 banker-backed
Alexander Hamilton succeeded in starting the Bank of America.
After a few years of "bank money", the prosperity of "Colonial
Scrip" was gone. Benjamin Franklin said, "Conditions were so
reversed that the era of prosperity had ended and a depression
set in to such an extent that the streets of the Colonies were
filled with the unemployed!" Bank money was like our FED
money. It had debt and interest attached. By 1790 Hamilton and
his bankers had created a privately owned central bank and
converted the public debt (interest-free) into interest
bearing bonds, payable to the bankers. When Hamilton's bank
charter expired in 1811, the international bankers started the
war of 1812. By 1816, another privately-owned U.S. bank was
started with $35 million in assets - only $7 million of that
was owned by the government. This bank lasted for 20 years.
U.S. history shows that currency with debt and interest
attached created a depression. (Reference 4)
ANDREW JACKSON - A GREAT PRESIDENT!
When the 1816 charter expired in 1836, Andrew Jackson vetoed
its renewal. It was then that he made two famous statements:
"The Bank is trying to kill me - but I will kill it!" Later he
said "If the American people only understood the rank
injustice of our money and banking system - there would be a
revolution before morning..." (Reference 4)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN - ANOTHER GREAT PRESIDENT!
President Lincoln needed money to finance the Civil War, and
the international bankers offered him loans at 24-36%
interest. Lincoln balked at their demands because he didn't
want to plunge the nation into such a huge debt. Lincoln
approached Congress about passing a law to authorize the
printing of U.S. Treasury Notes. Lincoln said "We gave the
people of this Republic the greatest blessing they ever had -
their own paper money to pay their debts..." Lincoln printed
over 400 million "Greenbacks" (debt and interest-free) and
paid the soldiers, U.S. government employees, and bought war
supplies. The international bankers didn't like it and wanted
Lincoln to borrow the money from them so that the American
people would owe tremendous interest on the loan. Lincoln's
solution made this seem ridiculous. (Reference 1, P. 46, 47;
Reference 4)
Shortly after Lincoln's death, the government revoked the
Greenback law which ended Lincoln's debt-free, interest-free
money. A new national banking act was enacted and all money
became interest bearing again. (Reference 4)
The late Thomas A Edison explained the matter of issuing
currency this way: "If our nation can issue a dollar bond
(interest bearing) it can issue a dollar bill (interest-free).
The element that makes the bond good makes a bill good also.
The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond
lets money brokers collect twice the amount of the bond and an
additional 20 percent, whereas the currency pays nobody but
those who contribute directly in some useful way. It is absurd
to say that our country can issue $30 million in bonds and not
$30 million in currency. Both are promises to pay: But one
promise fattens the usurers (interest collectors) and the
other helps the people." (Reference 1, P. 46)
The FED is owned largely by foreign banks that control our
economy and Congress through the power of money and the media
which they bought with profits generated with profits
generated by artificial debt.
If we can convert U.S. dollars that are debt and interest-free
to interest bearing currency, we can change it back just as
easily. Both the media and the banking system will probably
claim that such a change will cause hyper- inflation. The
answer however, can be found in history. Lincoln printed debt
and interest-free Greenbacks (cash) to finance an entire war.
With added production you can add currency without having
hyper-inflation. Lincoln proved it. John F. Kennedy - a
President with vision! On June 4, 1964, President Kennedy
issued Executive Order 11110. This Executive Order called for
the issuance of new currency - the United States Note. At the
time, $4,292,893 of this currency was put into circulation.
This new currency was to be distributed through the U.S.
Treasury and not the Federal Reserve System. Furthermore, it
was to be issued debt and interest-free. Upon Kennedy's
assassination, this currency was withdrawn from circulation,
never to be issued again. The media remained silent on how
Kennedy would have eliminated the debt and interest payments,
and therefore eliminated the FED. Interest-free United States
Notes do not result in hyper-inflation. By issuing United
States Notes, interest-free, we have less interest expense,
and less taxes. With less taxes people spend more and buy
more. This result is added production, and therefore, you can
add dollars without inflation. Either Rockefeller and his
people will spend your tax money into the economy or you get
to spend your own money by paying less taxes. The bankers want
you to think you'll have mass inflation by changing the
system. This is only true if you add dollars to the economy
without added production. For example, look what happened in
post World War I Germany. They merely printed money without
increasing production. The result was hyper-inflation. Another
example: In the entire economy, if you have only 10 loaves of
bread and only $10, each loaf would sell for $1. If you print
an extra $10, now you have $20 and the 10 loaves which would
sell for $2 each. This is only true if we don't have added
production. By cutting taxes, people will spend more and buy
more bread. If we print more money and bake more bread, we
have $50 and 50 loaves, so each loaf still sells for $1. As
long as you monitor production with increased cash, inflation
will not occur. Under the FED system, the price of bread has
dramatically increased since 1913. If we cut taxes and YOU
spend your money instead of the BANKERS spending it, you will
have more bread, cars, and wealth than the bankers. SOMEONE
will spend your money - it might as well be YOU!
A FED-like banking system has destroyed other governments. In
five years the only thing taxes will pay is the interest on
the debt. Clearly, the FED must be abolished before we're
demolished! Already laws are set up to have a dictatorship
when we have the economic crisis (Federal Emergency Management
Act, or FEMA).
Under the FED system, when a new dollar is issued, we pay
taxes to pay for the dollar as the principal (debt) plus
interest on the dollar. We pay for each new dollar twice, and
who gets most of the money? The bankers, who control this
money. Taxpayers should only pay taxes for the paper, ink, and
printing costs of new money. Why should we give bankers the
right to print money on a printing press, charge them no
interest on this money, and then let them exchange their
"free" money for a government bond that pays them interest??
England never gave up on owning the United States. They are
still silently fighting the same Revolutionary War. The Bank
of England, through the Rothschilds, owns and controls the FED
(Reference 22). We have been robbed of our wealth, and in five
years we will be bankrupt if there is no change. The FED
bankers will LEGALLY OWN OUR NATION; OUR HOUSES, OUR CARS, OUR
BUSINESSES, just as Thomas Jefferson predicted.
SPECIFIC PLAN: HOW TO GET OUT OF DEBT
U.S. history proves that issuing debt and interest-free
currency allows our economy to prosper, as long as Congress
controls the amount of money created. You can add printed
dollars into the economy as you add production, and there will
be no inflation. With today's sophisticated computers, we can
easily monitor the printing of money and inflation.
Congress needs to buy back the FED and/or abolish it. Any
government debt they own would be automatically eliminated.
All remaining debt could be paid as needed with the same type
of currency Kennedy issued (debt and interest-free United
States Notes). United States Notes are backed by the full
faith of the best government in the world - The United States
of America. This is no different than the backing of today's
Federal Reserve Notes. U.S. citizens collect only a small
fraction of the interest income on Federal Bonds and Bills.
Foreigners benefit from this interest, but we pay the tax so
that they collect interest on our currency. This makes sense
to bankers and Congresspeople who receive money from bankers
and foreign lobbyists.
As we pay less interest, government spending will decrease and
so will taxes. Less taxes mean that people buy more goods and
services and our economy expands. An expanded economy means
more jobs and higher profits for businesses. More profit means
increased state/federal business taxes. Businesses continue to
pay taxes while personal taxes decrease. People will have more
money to spend, will buy more, and therefore pay increased
state sales tax. This allows the states to balance their
budgets without raising real estate taxes. As history proves,
we will prosper.
For 80 years the FED has destroyed our economy. It will take
years to undo this damage. Just as Congress appoints a Postal
Service, we will have Congress appoint an agency to monitor
inflation as we exchange our retiring government debt for debt
and interest-free United States Notes (cash). We need to break
up all Central Banks created by the FED and return to the
Constitution of the United States. We have to return the power
of the citizens' money back to the people.
THERE ARE SEVERAL SIMPLE WAYS TO ABOLISH THE FED:
* Inform all Americans of this report and collect signatures
on the petition.
* Demand that Congress and the media support "We the People's"
rights to uphold the Constitution and abolish the illegal FED.
* Write to your local newspaper, show them this report and ask
them to keep freedom of the press alive, support the
Constitution and abolish the FED. Freedom of the press should
not be limited to those who own it.
* Write to CNN and other media. Tell them you want to see
FED-UP(tm) on their programs.
* Ask your State/County Representatives to use their
Constitutional powers to enforce your rights under the
Constitution to have the FED abolished. Write to Reference 5
for detailed paperwork to be given to your local government.
* Call in on TV and radio talk shows and discuss why the FED
should be abolished.
* Support businesses who distribute the petition and display
the sign "FED-UP". If they don't, please ask them to.
* Ask candidates if they plan to introduce legislation to
abolish the FED and uphold the Constitution which they are
obligated to defend. Make candidates take a stand! Have the
politician sign a contract with "We the People" enacting
legislation to abolish the FED by a certain date or the
politician must resign from office. The Democratic Congress
and President promised the people "no FED" before the
election. Thirteen months later, they passed the FED.
* Display your bumper sticker to show support and inform
* If 5,000 people distribute 2-3 brochures daily, we can
inform half a million Americans monthly. Roughly 10% of these
half a million people will make copies and inform others. Our
goal is to inform 70 million adult Americans. Public opinion
will soon be on our side. Once 10% of the population know, the
other 90% will follow.
* Pray and ask God to return us to "One nation under God."
It is our recommendation that you research the references
listed, support all organizations that re trying to stop this
fraud, and help us in our goal to get every American to sign
this petition.
(1) "The Federal Reserve Bank", by H.S. Kenan, published by
The Noontide Press
(2) National Committee to Repeal the Federal Reserve Act, P.O.
Box 156, Westmont, IL 60559
(3) "The New World Order,Saving America", P.O. Box 1205,
Middleburg, FL 32050-1205
(4) "Bulletin", February 1989 & November 1991 issues, P.O. Box
986, Ft. Collins, CO 80522 (Newsletter; $3 each)
(5) "The Most Secret Science", Betsy Ross Press, P.O. Box 986, Ft.
Collins, CO 80522 (Book) States attempt to abolish the FED. $12.00
(6) "Insider Report", P.O. Box 84903, Phoenix, AZ 85071
(7) "Phoenix Journal Express", P.O. Box 986, Tehachap, CA 93581
(8) $16 trillion in government and private debt, much of which the FED
printed and collected interest on (Reference 3)
(9) Northpoint Tactical Team, P.O. Box 129, Topton, NC 28781
(10) Christian Defense League, Box 449, Arabi, LA 70023
(11) "Bulletin", June 1992 issue, P.O. Box 986, Ft. Collins,
CO 80522 (Newsletter; $3 each)
(12) "Savings and Loan Unethical Bailout" by Rev. Casimir F. Gierut
(13) "Dark Secrets of the New Age" by Texe Marrs
(14) "En Route to Global Occupation" by Gary H. Kah
(15) "One World" by John Amkerberg & John Weldon
(16) "The Spotlight", Liberty Lobby, 300 Independence Ave. S.E.,
Washington, D.C. 20003 (Newspaper)
(17) "Repeal the Federal Reserve Banks" by Rev. Casimir Frank Gierut
(18) The Constitution of the United States
(19) "Walls in Our Minds" by M.J. Red Beckman, Common Sense
Press, P.O. Box 1544, Billings, MT 59103. A must read book -
(20) "The Law That Never Was" Volume I, Bill Benson & M.J. Red
Beckman, P.O. Box 1544, Billings, MT 59103 or write to Bill
Benson, P.O. Box 550, South Holland, IL 60473. Proof that the
16th Amendment (income tax) was never properly ratified.
(21) "New World Order: The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies"
by William T. Still
(22) "The Secrets of the Federal Reserve" by Mullins
(23) "The Social Security & Pension Conspiracy" by Metz
(24) "The History of the Federal Reserve. How to Replace It or
How to Reform It" by Metz - for references 23 & 24 write to
Howard Metz, P.O. Box 341, Malverne, LI 11565
(25) "The New World Order" by Pat Robertson. On page 131 he states
that we must abolish the FED.
(26) "Operation Vampire Killer 2000", highly recommended book.
$6.00 ($8.00 for 2) from ACLA, P.O. Box 8712, Phoenix, AZ
85066 This is a must read book with quotes from well known
people. This book proves conspiracy. Your local police needs
to read this book so they will protect you - not become United
Nations Agents against you. This book will stop the New World
Order plan to take over the U.S.A.
"America Betrayed", Center For Action, 652 N. Glenview, Nesa,
For references 1, 12, and 17, contact The National Committee
to Repeal the Federal Reserve Act (Reference 2)
MEDIA BLACKS OUT THE FACTS
Here's one terrific example. John Swinton, the former Chief of
Staff for the New York Times, was one of New York's best loved
newspapermen. Called by his peers "The Dean of his
Profession", John was asked in 1953 to give a toast before the
New York Press Club, and in so doing, made a monumentally
important and revealing statement. He is quoted as follows:
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history,
in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know
it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest
opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would
never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest
opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you
are paid similar weekly salaries for similar things, and any
of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions
would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I
allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper,
before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The
business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie
outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of
mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily
bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this
toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of
rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they
pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities,
and our lives are all the property of other men. We are
intellectual prostitutes."
RICHARD M. COHAN, Senior Producer of CBS political news said:
"We are going to impose OUR AGENDA on the coverage by dealing
with issues and subjects that WE choose to deal with."
RICHARD SALANT, former President of CBS News stated: "Our job
is to give people not what they want, but what WE decide they
ought to have."
And what is "their" agenda? What do they believe we, the
American people, - THE COMMON HERD, "...ought to have?" Here
is the answer:
NORMAN THOMAS - For many years the U.S. Socialist Presidential
candidate proclaimed: "The American people will never
knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of "liberalism"
they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until
one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing
what happened."
HERMAN DISMORE, foreign editor of the New York Times from 1950
to 1960: "The New York Times is deliberately pitched to the
liberal (socialist) point of view."
WALTER CRONKITE: "News reporters are certainly liberal
(socialists) and left of center."
BARBARA WALTERS: "The news media in general are liberals
(socialists)."
Reference for everything above - Operation Vampire Killer,
P.O. Box 8712, Phoenix, AZ 85066
The world, finally including even the balky American public,
is "being rapidly educated into overcoming limited patriotism"
and accepting "United Nations solutions to common global
problems," said Henry Kissinger.
Bilderberg participants expressed satisfaction with progress
toward world government on two fronts:
* Establishing a UN tax to not only finance new global
programs, but to condition "citizens of the world" to paying
tribute.
* Conditioning the public -- again, especially "those stubborn
Americans" -- to accept the idea of a UN army that could, by
force, impose its will on the internal affairs of any nation.
"Today, Americans would be outraged if UN forces entered Los
Angeles to restore order; tomorrow, they will be grateful,"
Kissinger said (of the 1992 Los Angeles riot).
Kissinger reported on a shocking speech made by UN Secretary
General Butrous Ghali to the American Association of Newspaper
Publishers at UN headquarters in New York in early May. The
publishers' newspapers covered up the story.
The UN Security Council must have a permanent force that can
be deployed anywhere in the world, instantly, to "protect the
peace" and "ensure human rights" the secretary-general told
the newspaper publishers.
UN TO INVADE U.S.
This force must be allowed to intervene "at the local and
community levels," the UN leader told the American publishers.
What is "especially gratifying," Kissinger said, "is that the
publishers showed no reservations about the prospects of UN
forces landing in the United States and imposing the UN's
will."
Reference - The Spotlight, June 8, 1992, page 10. Liberty
Lobby, 300 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003
(Newspaper)
SUMMARY OF QUICK FACTS
* Various dates and proofs that the Bankers created panic to
push Congress to pass laws favoring bankers... Reference 22
* President Wilson received $85,000 bribe from bankers...
Reference 22, pages 25-26
* How England, through the Bankers, controls our Congress...
* Rockefeller is connected to President Carter... Reference
22, page 171; Reference 25, page 103
* How George Bush is directly connected to the FED bank...
Reference 22, page 49
* President Hoover and President Roosevelt were international
Bankers... Reference 22, pages 69-71 and pages 157-159
* President Nixon was hired by Rockefeller's law firm to
become President... Reference 25, pages 100-101
* FED owner's manual to destroy and control U.S. citizens...
* Proof Bankers claim they control the government... Reference
22, page 59
* Proof the FED knowingly created the Great Depression for
their gain... Reference 22, pages 137-170
* FED bankers are directly linked to the New World Order and
the United Nations. New World Order was discussed by George
Bush, Rockefeller, Adolph Hitler, and Jimmy Carter...
Reference 25, pages 5-7
* The Great Seal on back of the FED $1 bill, below pyramid,
the NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM means "New World of the Ages" or --->>
New World Order... Reference 25, page 35
* How the Banker's tax-exempt organizations fund activities to
destroy America's freedom by attacking our Constitution and
way of life... Reference 25, pages 138-159; Reference 14
(throughout whole book)
* Senator Barry Goldwater warned of economic powers capable of
bypassing or controlling the political powers. Bank induced
depression is possible in the future to force political
change... Reference 25, 131
* Rockefeller's money was used to seize control of America's
teaching and training of students by rewriting history and
textbooks. Rockefeller has also funded the National Education
Association (NEA)... Reference 14, page 61
* Gary Kah, high-ranking government liaison having first-hand
knowledge of the New World Order exposes the truth. Read his
book and En Route To Global Occupation... Reference 14
QUICK FACTS FROM TOM SCHAUF:
First, we must uphold the Constitution. Please call the
Hotline (217-854-7504) weekly for new information. When a
state considers a Constitutional Convention, concerned
Americans call the Hotline and it gives us the names and
telephone numbers of the legislators involved. It tells us
exactly what to say, and to whom. The Hotline helps us to
fight and win!
Secondly, we must change the opinions of the masses with
information. The brochure has been a big help, and once 10% of
the population agrees to abolish the FED, the rest will
It is obvious the media (radio and newspapers) have lied about
the FED and the efforts of FED-UP(tm) to educate people with
the truth. This will not stop us - we will persist! Decide for
yourself if you want to win America back. If 10,000 patriotic
Americans each distribute 1,000 brochures, 10 million
Americans will become informed. It would be almost impossible
to stop people from talking about abolishing the FED if that
many Americans were informed. Another way you can participate
is to put a bumper sticker on your car. Over 1,000 people
every month will see that bumper sticker about abolishing the
FED.
If you think our goal is impossible, remember this; only 3% of
Americans supported the Revolutionary War, and we won that
war. We can win this war too, but only with your help.
For the secret owners of the FED to control the volume of
money and become our absolute masters, they had to get the
Gold away from our grandparents. This was accomplished in 1933
with the threats of fines and imprisonments by their President
Franklin D. Roosevelt with aide Harry Hopkins, who said...
"Elect, elect, elect, tax, tax, tax, spend, spend, spend, for
the people are too damned stupid to understand". By the way,
Roosevelt was an international Banker. See Fool's Gold is
Green by Winston Smith.
THE FED IS SLOWLY DESTROYING AMERICA
Our government never had a chance...with political corruption
ravaging its Constitution. The *real facts* don't lie...and
neither do government documents...Congressional Record,
Congressman Wright Patman, A Primer On Money prepared by the
Sub-committee on Domestic Finance, House of Representatives,
Committee on Banking and Currency - 88th Congress, 2nd
session, August 4th, 1964 and December 23, 1913, page 1464 &
Congressional Record, Congressman Louis McFadden, June 10,
1932, House of Representatives, pages 12604-12605
Congressional Record, 98th Congress, 1st session, February 3,
1983, Congressman Ron Paul
Congressional Record, Committee on Banking and Currency, House
of Representatives, 77th Congress, 1st session, Tuesday,
September 30, 1941, pages 1342-1345
THERE ARE MANY MORE CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONIALS
IS THERE BIAS IN THE MEDIA REGARDING THE FED?
DURING THE TV PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES, CLINTON WAS ASKED SHOULD
THERE BE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FED? THE NEXT DAY, MAJOR
NEWSPAPERS SAID THEY COVERED THE WHOLE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
TEXT, BUT MANY NEWSPAPERS ELIMINATED THIS ONE QUESTION. CHECK
YOUR LIBRARY!
The Revolutionary War was fought and the Constitution was
written to prevent other nations and private banks from
issuing (printing) money and controlling our currency.
In 1913, members of Congress committed treason and violated
their oath of office to defend the Constitution against all
enemies foreign and domestic by voting in the Federal Reserve
Bank.
For the New World Order to create a one world government, they
must control a central bank, eliminate the Constitution, end
Christian values, disarm America, and control the media. The
Council on Foreign Relations has openly said they will take us
over in favor of a one world government. The American people
must be warned or we may lose our freedom forever. If we do
not demand our rights and uphold the Constitution, the CFR and
bankers will continue their march toward socialism. If we
allow them to continue, they will abolish our rights and put
an end to our present government. I urge all Americans to
distribute the "main" FED-UP brochure ("saving $6000 in taxes
per year, per person & balancing the budget) and collect
signatures on the petition (see order form in the main
brochure). Then all informed Americans can take action and
hold their politicians accountable. The bankers control the
media, but can not stop patriotic Americans from using copy
machines to distribute information and inform America. Once
informed, people will demand an explanation why Congress
allowed this fraud as the media appeared to be independent and
investigative, but remained silent on this important issue.
The ones who scream the loudest to keep the Federal Reserve
Bank probably profit the most.
[About the Author:]
Thomas D. Schauf, CPA, is a national speaker to Certified
Public Accountants and business leaders. Mr. Schauf's
expertise includes banking, the economy, business appraisals,
mergers, and acquisitions.
We are looking for leaders in all states to help us abolish
the FED. Please write and let us know you're willing to help.
The future of America depends on you.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONTINUE THE CAUSE ARE APPRECIATED
PLEASE HELP DISTRIBUTE INFORMATION AND COLLECT SIGNATURES ON
Mr. Schauf and other speakers are available to speak at
seminars, group meetings, on radio, and on television.
FED-UP(tm) * P.O. Box 834 * Streamwood, IL 60103-0834
(C) 1992 Thomas D. Schauf
PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE WIDELY WITH NO CHANGES
Our country likes to thank our forefathers for the
I wish to thank Mr. Lou Gamboa for his research of the
Constitution and our banking system. Lou Gamboa is a national
speaker on the subject, and has spoken on numerous radio
programs in an effort to educate the public.
I also want to thank Bob Corcoran for his research and
encouragement.
I applaud the thousands of patriotic Americans who are
spreading the word so we can live in economic prosperity and
uphold our Constitutional rights.
VALUE THEREOF.
IN 1935 THE SUPREME COURT RULED THAT CONGRESS CANNOT
CONSTITUTIONALLY DELEGATE ITS POWER TO ANOTHER GROUP.
(Reference 22, P. 168)
Rothschild, a London Banker, wrote a letter saying "It
(Central Bank ) gives the National Bank almost complete
control of national finance. The few who understand the system
will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent
on its favours, that there will be no opposition from that
class... The great body of the people, mentally incapable of
comprehending, will bear its burden without complaint, and
perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical
(contrary) to their interests." [The bankers created the
legislation for the FED]
In 1913, before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, Mr.
Alexander stated: "But the whole scheme of a Federal Reserve
Bank with its commercial-paper basis is an impractical,
cumbersome machinery, is simply a cover, to find a way to
secure the privilege of issuing money and to evade payment of
as much tax upon circulation as possible, and then control the
issue and maintain, instead of reduce, interest rates. It is a
system that, if inaugurated, will prove to the advantage of
the few and the detriment of the people of the United States.
It will mean continued shortage of actual money and further
extension of credits; for when there is a lack of real money
people have to borrow credit to their cost."
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"Anxiety now prevails" A Conversation with Dmitry Vilensky
Anastasia Chaguidouline
In the evening of 2 November 2018, Dmitry Vilensky, a founding member of the collective Chto Delat (“What is to be done”) and I met in Zurich. We talked about Russia, anxiety, the failure of capitalism, and the territoriality of the New Left.
Anastasia Chaguidouline: What was your practice before founding Chto Delat?
Dmitry Vilensky: I gained quite meaningful experience in curatorial and self-organisational practices. I was running different self-organised spaces in Saint Petersburg and worked as a curator in Germany. The work was mainly focused on art practices rooted in photography.
Another important endeavour before Chto Delat was the collaboration between Olga Tsaplya Egorova and myself, another founding member of Chto Delat. We started producing art projects, publications, newspapers—that became later the Chto Delat newspaper.
AC: How did the collective Chto Delat and the practice of merging art, political theory, and activism emerge? Was this practice new to the Russian art scene?
DV: Chto Delat developed out of a political action. We, the participants, found ourselves in a very difficult political situation in 2003. The public action was called We Are Leaving and took place on the occasion of the 300-year anniversary of the city of St. Petersburg. This action was a culmination of a general discontent with local cultural politics, shared between a vast range of cultural workers. In addition, there was a very important new aspect that is difficult to grasp nowadays. There was a new understanding of Left politics and an appearance of a new political language, not only in Russia, but internationally. One can think, for instance, about the Zapatista movement. In the West, this happened somewhat earlier than in Russia, due the post-Soviet ‘90s. One can see proper documentation of this event in our first issue of the newspaper called “What is to be done” published shortly after.
I don’t think that there were really groups merging political activism and art before 2000 in Russia, at least not in a “Western sense.” One might mention the Moscow actionists, yet their practice belonged more to the field of actionism than activism. They did great work and linked it to political theory—people like Anatoly Osmolovsky, Alexander Brenner, Radek group, and some others. Also some neo-anarchist groups were active even after Perestroika; however, they did not necessarily use the medium of art. What we have done is quite different from the people I mention above. We were not really active in the form of street interventions; however, between 2004 and 2007 we realised a few actions like Stop the Machine (2004), Kronstadt Forever (2005), and In Praise of Dialectics (2006).
AC: How does the current political climate in Russia influence your practice?
DV: The opportunities for exhibiting and funding are scarce. However, they always have been scarce. Therefore, it is important to learn how to use them well. The state funding of critical contemporary art is close to 0%. Especially for us or other leftist artists who are considered dissident. There is no systematic funding for the established arts, unlike in the West. However, for specific projects, one might get support from foundations. There are several biennales happening, for example, in Moscow and in Ural, and new contemporary art centres are opening their doors. It is interesting to note that while Moscow has seen many important art centres open its doors, including Garage and Elektrozavod, paradoxically St. Petersburg lacks resources and does not have any important contemporary art institutions. There are some galleries, but very little in number. Generally speaking, the contemporary art scene in St. Petersburg is a very apolitical one and stays outside of social life.
After 2012, the opportunities decreased even further for contemporary Russian artists. Paradoxically enough, these repressive times brought up new opportunities for Chto Delat. We could open a Rosa’s House of Culture and establish our art school, School of Engaged Art thanks to the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
AC: The name of your collective, Chto Delat, is a very prominent one, as it coincides with the title of a pamphlet by Lenin that was published in 1902. What importance does this name have for you?
DV: I think we were very lucky with the choice of our name. For us, it has more references to the 1863 novel by Nikolai Chernyshevsky and plays a bigger role in terms of meaning than Lenin’s pamphlet.
However, the concrete inspiration for the name appeared around the year 2001, out of my exposure to or exchange with the Western, namely German, context. I remember seeing a series on the TV channel Arte with the title Was Tun? (What Is to Be Done? in German). Back then, these series really struck me, as they showed such a panorama of new political activity, such as the Zapatista movement or the new Italian Left.
So, when we were thinking about the name for our own collective, the idea was to reclaim that title from the Russian perspective. The name felt right and remained. This gesture of positioning ourselves as politically left in Russia at that time was still very scandalous, as the whole intellectual and cultural world was generally right-wing liberal. I would not say conservative, because there was much less conservatism back then than there is nowadays in Russia. However, liberalism in Russia clearly differs from the West. In Russia, you have clearly more of a right-wing liberalism. That being said, our gesture back then was clearly a gesture of dissidence.
AC: How has the constellation of your workgroup / collective changed or remained?
DV: The constellation changed, but not very much. Some members left and others came. However, Chto Delat is not an open collective. Our core group is permanent. I can’t say that the core group is closed by protocol; nevertheless, we have strong generational and personal relations. The last person that joined the group was the choreographer Nina Gasteva in 2010. Since then, some members have left. I think we will either stay in this constellation in the future or disperse.
On the other hand, we have active and lively inter-generational temporal collaborations. Recently, we have worked with other prominent artists such as Anton Kats and Babi Badalov. Our pedagogical practice is closely tied to our artistic methodology. Indeed, the pedagogical practice became more and more important with, for instance, the founding of the School for Engaged Art. Art education is traditionally inter-generational, if one looks at the relationship between mentor and student. I think that the exchange between two different generational viewpoints can lead to completely new ways of creating and working. This can be very fruitful and beneficial for both sides involved.
We are positioning ourselves as a national and local St. Petersburg collective. For us, it is very important that the working language is Russian. The language and the territoriality are crucial for us as a collective. Chto Delat was formed in St. Petersburg. There was a small branch of the collective in Moscow, and some members live outside of the territory of St. Petersburg today, yet it still remains a St. Petersburg collective, through its histories and its main genealogy.
AC: How would you describe St. Petersburg’s genealogy?
DV: It is difficult to succeed in formulating what the St. Petersburg context really is. Many have tried describing it, everyone feels it, but when one starts generalising it, the result usually turns out to be bad.
On the one hand, the context is a very old one, starting with the era of great Russian literature, with Pushkin, Dostoyevsky. All these great writers could not fully grasp the city or its context, because after all, the city is in a way artificial. It appeared as a kind of mirage, as the city was copied from the West and then even became a double or mirrored mirage, when it lost its status as a capital. Andrey Beliy once wrote in his most famous conceptual novel Petersburg at the beginning of 20th century: “If St. Petersburg will not be the capital, St. Petersburg will not be!” So, before the October Revolution, the important identity feature of the city was its hold on political power and governance. Later, the city was deprived of its power, its glory, and its money.
AC: Do the individual members of Chto Delat all position themselves as politically left?
DV: Yes, however, without being overly dogmatic—left in a broader sense of the term. At the beginning, we had many discussions, “Auseinandersetzungen,” that were reminiscent of the arguments between, for instance, the Bolsheviks and Anarchists.
There are a lot of different positions within the Left, but there is a certain shared vision or understanding. The main point of this shared understanding stands in sharp contrast with the liberals. It is a strong feeling of disappointment in capitalism and human rights rhetoric. It is a serious understanding that capitalism is not the answer to the question, but instead the problem and maybe the central problem of society and democracy. And that most importantly, its hegemony is total, and it doesn’t allow for any doubt.
AC: Speaking about ideology and the future, do you believe that socialism could be an answer for Russia and/or maybe the world?
DV: At the moment, it is very difficult to say anything. The prevailing feeling is disappointment and depression. I have to say that we as a group are still carried by the optimism of the early 2000s. There was a social burst and various social movements emerged at that time. There wasn’t this permanent feeling of anxiety. Anxiety now prevails, it dominates. It has reached a stage of disease. Additionally, this anxiety is fed every day, by the media, by the politics, by your neighbour. On a daily basis, you hear about yet another disaster, and you can’t do anything.
AC: How did the feeling in the ‘90s differ from what is experienced now?
DV: Actually, we lived through the ‘90s quite happily, as I recall. When the restrictive Soviet Union crashed, it was a shock. However, freedom came to Russia and a certain openness towards the world outside, and a lot of possibilities appeared. Of course, there were a lot of people who had problems, whose lives crashed completely, and many families lived at the level of hunger. Actually, many people died or were not born those days. It was a tough moment, but I wouldn’t agree with the people that say that the ‘90s were a social disaster. It is difficult to generalise, but this is my personal experience. And I think ultimately there was this, in a way, hopeful feeling of: “Now, we will go through this suffering and at the end better times await!”
Of course, there were tragic biographies; someone who previously was an engineer would become a cleaner… Yet these unexpected trajectories brought with them a lot of adventure, sometimes tragic, sometimes magical. There was a sense of shock and transformation. In those times, even when I think about the generation of my parents, people were thinking that this hard transformative journey would lead to a better place. Maybe I am idealising, but there was a will to survive.
Another problem of capitalism, in comparison to the times of communist Russia, is the problem of choice. Nowadays, there is an abundance of things to choose from, which naturally leads to over-consumerism. No matter what you choose, you choose wrongly—you can only make the wrong choice and remain frustrated. You regret your choice, because someone has chosen something better than you. In the Soviet Union, there was no vicious circle of psychological frustration, because there was nothing to choose from. There was one party and one type of sausage. When there was only one TV channel, everything was easier.
AC: Did Chto Delat mostly work in St. Petersburg at the beginning of your collective practice? How fast did you enter the international realm?
DV: Exhibition-wise, in the first couple of years we realised a few large-scale projects in St. Petersburg. We also did some important stuff in Moscow in 2005 and 2006. At the same time, we had started grass-roots exchanges internationally along the activist networks, as a kind of micro-politics, but a very important practice. After this came a long period that was dominated by international practice. Then, we founded our school and the Rosa’s House of Culture locally again, so our practice at the moment is very local, but we manage to keep our international presence as well.
We always tried to claim a certain notion of equality. We don’t see ourselves as exporters of a certain knowledge to the West. In parallel, we are bringing a lot of materials and ideas from the West and translating them into local experiences. We started to speak about certain things which at that time in Russia were yet unspoken of. We saw ourselves as translators, not only in one direction, but in both.
Furthermore, the films that we are producing are very distinct. They are available online, and one can really see them as a digital archive. For us, it is important to show this narrative openly and clarify that we differ from common gallery artists in our standpoint on copyrights. We are paying a certain price for this standpoint, but I am sure that this type of distribution is the future—the development of new forms of commons and sharing. This standpoint on copyrights is our modest strive to adhere to the values that we are talking about.
AC: Is there a specific goal in your practice? How long do you think Chto Delat will operate as a collective?
DV: We have the possibility to make certain statements about the world, and we will continue to make them, as long as it remains interesting to us and to someone else. In my opinion, our practice is about insisting on certain values that not a lot of people would speak about.
I think, as a group we can operate as long as we are still interested in what we are doing and have a willingness to do something and argue/share with the younger generation. I feel that there will be an end, a limit of our practice, which will not come with the end of our physical lives, but some time before.
1 Herbert Marcuse, “An Essay on Liberation,” 1969. Available at marxists.org, www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/1969/essay-liberation.htm.
2 Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, trans. Betsy Wing. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1997, p. 6.
3 I am deliberately not using the English translation of “powerlessness” for the German word Ohnmacht, as in Ohn- (deriving from Ohne = without) and Macht (power), because the construction “in Ohnmacht fallen” is a phrase in German used to describe fainting, a somatic reaction to being overpowered by forces outside of one’s body. To wake up from Ohnmacht would be described in German as “zu sich kommen,” which means to come to oneself. Hence, the process of being Ohnmächtig is connected to a detachment of the self from the body.
4 Fred Moten, “Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh),” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 112, no. 4, Fall 2013, p. 739.
5 Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Richard Philcox. Grove Press, New York, 2008, p. 119.
6 Despite my fascination, I think it is always important to stress that Fanon’s writing was deeply heteropatriarchal. See also T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 1998.
7 When I write “imperial” I am referring also to its aftermath, which Alexander Wehelyie poignantly described as “the uneven global power structures defined by the intersections of neoliberal capitalism, racism, settler colonialism, immigration, and imperialism, which interact in the creation and maintenance of systems of domination, and dispossession, criminalization, expropriation, exploitation and violence that are predicated upon hierarchies of racialized, gendered, sexualized, economized, and nationalized social existence.” Alexander G. Wehelyie, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2014, p. 1.
8 Sara Ahmed. 2015. “Melancholic Universalism.” Accessed 15.12.2015. feministkilljoys.com/2015/12/15/melancholic-universalism/.
9 See Decolonizing Enlightenment: Transnational Justice, Human Rights and Democracy in a Postcolonial World, ed. Nikita Dhawan. Barbara Budrich Publishers, Leverkusen, 2014.
10 Cornel West. 2017. “Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama.” The Guardian. Accessed 9.1.2017. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/barack-obama-legacy-presidency.
11 Daniel Matlin, On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2013.
12 David Scott, Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2004, p. 2.
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Anna C Stern of Bonduel, Shawano County, Wisconsin was born on May 1, 1904, and died at age 88 years old on February 13, 1993.
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In 1904, in the year that Anna C Stern was born, the "Teddy's Bear" was first produced. After seeing a political cartoon of President Teddy Roosevelt refusing to kill a clubbed and tied up bear, Jewish Russian immigrant Morris Michtom - who owned a candy shop and sold stuffed animals that he and his wife made at night at the store - made a "Teddy's Bear" and put it in his shop's window. The stuffed bears were an immediate success and Michtom and his wife went on to found the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.
In 1939, Anna was 35 years old when on the 1st of September, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. On September 17th, the Soviet Union invaded Poland as well. Poland expected help from France and the United Kingdom, since they had a pact with both. But no help came. By October 6th, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany held full control of the previously Polish lands. Eventually, the invasion of Poland lead to World War II.
In 1945, she was 41 years old when on May 7th, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Jewell Ridge Coal Corp. v. United Mine Workers of America. The Court ruled that the underground travel time of coal miners was compensable work time under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
In 1975, she was 71 years old when on September 5th, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme tried to assassinate President Ford in Sacramento, California. She failed when her gun wouldn't fire. President Ford escaped a second assassination attempt 17 days later on September 22 when Sarah Jane Moore tried to shoot him in San Francisco. A bystander saw her raise her arm, grabbed it, and the shot went wild.
In 1993, in the year of Anna C Stern's passing, on February 26th, a truck bomb exploded in the garage under the North Tower of the World Trade Center. While the bomb didn't do what was planned (collapse the North Tower into the South Tower), it did kill six people and injured thousands of people.
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El Lío: Argentina Ups Online Gambling Taxes by 150%
November 27, 2020 • 3 min read
Argentina’s online gambling sector is said to earn billions per year. But no one can officially say any figure because it is currently almost entirely unregulated.
This new law aims to go some way towards fixing that – with a small tax on every single online gambling transaction to the tune of 5% on the “gross value of each bet and/or game.”
Economy Minister Martín Guzmán confirmed the bill into law this week during National Congress sessions in Buenos Aires. It will also see a 10% tax levied on any foreign operators based in “low or non-existent tax countries,” otherwise known as tax havens.
These changes come as part of the country’s National Budget for 2021. The bill, with all the relevant gambling laws, was passed by 139 votes to just 20 against.
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“Our economy’s recovery with macroeconomic stability is our horizon and the budget, our tool; and the key element in our strategy,” Mr. Martín Guzmán told politicians and reporters after the vote.
Just like many countries globally, Argentina’s economy has suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic. In times of downturn, it is often bookmakers and gambling companies that see taxes and restrictions first – as we have been reporting on all over the world in recent months.
It seems like Argentina is no exception.
This new taxation regime is still a little vague. However, Mr. Guzman (somewhat optimistically) stated that 95% of the new tax revenue would be distributed to the devolved provincial governments rather than spent federally.
The duty of hashing out the details and monitoring or enforcing compliance of these new taxes will fall on two companies.
The state telecoms regulator Enacom will be working in conjunction with the partly state-owned telecoms operator Argentine Satellite Solutions (ARSAT).
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Meanwhile, in the very state where this new tax law on foreign operators was passed, Buenos Aires itself is heading towards a completely legal online market in the next year.
Spanish company Codere was the first (and biggest) of 17 applicants to get into the license queue since the potential market was announced last year. As with many countries, including Ireland and the Netherlands, the launch has been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
That would be a double blow for Codero, which has had all its physical betting shops in the country close, too.
Although the legal market would be confined to city residents only (around 3 million people), the hope is it would encourage market legalization at a wider level.
Companies will pay $100,000 a year for access to the market and take a 10% tax. The reasonable number of casinos willing to take that offer shows how appealing full legalization is to legitimate companies.
Despite what politicians may say, hiking up taxes on offshore operators is unlikely to be successful and may even drive those who are based in Argentina offshore.
This point was echoed by the Association of Lotteries, Casinos, and State Quinielas of Argentina in a statement.
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CARD15/NOD2 gene variants are associated with familially occurring and complicated forms of Crohn’s disease
T Heliö1,
L Halme2,
M Lappalainen1,
H Fodstad1,
P Paavola-Sakki1,
U Turunen1,
M Färkkilä1,
T Krusius3,
K Kontula1
1Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
2Department of Surgery, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
3The Finnish Red Cross Blood Service, Helsinki, Finland
Dr T Heliö, Helsinki University Hospital, Department of Medicine, Haartmaninkatu 4, 00290 Helsinki, Finland;
tiina.helio{at}hus.fi.
Background: Variants of the caspase activating recruitment domain 15/nucleotide oligomerisation domain 2 (CARD15/NOD2) gene have been associated with susceptibility to Crohn’s disease (CD).
Aim: Our aim was to evaluate the allele frequencies of the CARD15 variants R702W, G908R, and 1007fs in Finnish inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients and to search for possible associations between CARD15 variants and occurrence of familial forms of IBD or complicated forms of CD.
Patients and methods: We investigated 198 sporadic CD patients, 46 probands with familial CD, 27 CD probands from mixed IBD families, 99 unrelated patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), and 300 control individuals for the occurrence of the CARD15 gene variants R702W, G908R, and 1007fs.
Results: In CD patients, the allele frequencies for the rare variants of these polymorphisms were 3.3%, 0.6%, and 4.8% (total 8.7%), and the corresponding frequencies in healthy controls were 1.8%, 0%, and 1.7% (total 3.5%) (8.7% v 3.5%; p<0.01). In UC patients allele frequencies were comparable with those in controls. The frequency of the 1007fs polymorphism variant allele was significantly higher among all CD patients than in controls (4.8% v 1.7%; p<0.01) but there was no significant difference in allele frequencies between the CD and UC groups. The 1007fs allele frequency was higher in familial CD than in non-familial cases with CD (10.9% v 3.5%; p<0.01). There were no significant differences in the allele frequencies of the R702W and G908R polymorphisms between CD patients, UC patients, and controls. We found that 15.5% of CD patients, 9.1% of UC patients, and 6.7% of controls carried at least one of the CARD15 variants. In CD patients carrying at least one of the three NOD2 variants, the ileum was affected more often than in non-carrier CD patients (90% v 73%; p<0.05), they had stricturing or penetrating disease more often than non-carriers (88% v 56%; p<0.01), and they had an increased need for bowel surgery.
Conclusions: The frequency of NOD2 gene variants was lower in genetically homogenous Finns than in other populations. The 1007fs variant was associated with CD. The occurrence of CARD15 variants predicted ileal location as well as stricturing and penetrating forms of CD.
CARD15 gene
disease phenotype
Apaf-1, apoptotic protease activating factor 1
CARD, caspase activating recruitment domain
CD, Crohn’s disease
IBD, inflammatory bowel disease
LPS, lipopolysaccharide
LRR, leucine rich repeats
NFκB, nuclear factor κB
NOD, nucleotide oligomerisation domain
PCR, polymerase chain reaction
UC, ulcerative colitis
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gut.52.4.558
Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are relatively common major forms of chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Both genetic and environmental factors have been suggested to predispose to CD and UC. Among Finns, affected first degree relatives were recently discovered in 15.6% of patients with CD and in 13.8% of patients with UC, values comparable with those reported elsewhere in Europe.1 A number of linkage studies carried out in separate populations have confirmed the genetic linkage of CD to chromosome 16.2–10 Hugot and colleagues11 and Ogura and colleagues12 have independently unravelled the CD associated nucleotide oligomerisation domain 2 (NOD2) gene, located on chromosome 16q12 within the area of strongest linkage to CD. NOD2, recently renamed as caspase activating recruitment domain 15 (CARD15), appears to belong to a family of NOD1/apoptotic protease activating factor 1 (Apaf-1) related proteins which regulate apoptosis and some of which activate nuclear factor κB (NfκB).13,14 Unlike NOD1 and Apaf-1, CARD15 is mainly expressed in monocytes, but not in lymphocytes, normal colon, or the small intestine. The exact function of CARD15 remains unknown but it seems to play a role both in intracellular recognition of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) typical of Gram negative bacteria and subsequent activation of NFκB.15
More than 60 sequence variants have been identified in the CARD15 gene, with three main variants (R702W, G908R, and 1007fs) proposed to be associated with susceptibility to CD.11,12,16–19 One of these (1007fs), which shows the most consistent association with CD, has also been reported to result in phenotypic consequences. Insertion of an extra cytosine molecule causes a translational frameshift creating a premature stop codon in the 10th leucine rich repeat (LRR) of CARD15, and this alteration has been shown to decrease NFκB activation by LPS.12
The present study was undertaken to evaluate the occurrence of the CARD15 variants R702W, G908R, and 1007fs in Finnish IBD patients. Our particular aim was to search for associations between hetero- or homozygosity for the CARD15 variants, familial forms of IBD, and complicated forms of CD.
Consecutive Finnish patients with familial and sporadic IBD were recruited from the capital city of Helsinki by investigators at the Helsinki University Hospital and Maria Hospital. In addition, IBD families were recruited by collaborators from University Hospitals in Turku, Tampere, Kuopio and Oulu, as described previously.1,20 Patients and their affected first degree relatives completed a questionnaire concerning the history and details of their disease as well as the number of affected and non-affected relatives. Subjects with familial CD had at least one first degree relative with IBD whereas subjects with sporadic CD did not. In pure familial CD, all patients in the same family had CD. In mixed families, the proband had CD and at least one first degree relative had UC or indeterminate colitis. Details on the course of the disease in participants with IBD were obtained from patient records. Standard endoscopic and histological criteria were used to establish the diagnosis.21 The Vienna classification was used to grade CD.22 For location of disease, we used the largest extent of the disease according to x-ray and endoscopy protocols as well as surgical reports. The behaviour of the disease was classified as penetrating if there were intra-abdominal or perianal fistulas at any time during the course of the disease, even if there were coexisting strictures.
In total, we studied DNA samples from 198 patients with sporadic CD, 46 probands with familial CD, 27 unrelated probands with CD from mixed IBD families, and 99 randomly chosen unrelated patients with familial and sporadic UC. Informed written consent was obtained from all patients. DNA samples from 300 healthy blood donors were obtained through the Finnish Red Cross Blood Service (Helsinki, Finland). Consent obtained for the use of blood from these donors precluded collection of any clinical data.
This study was approved by the ethics review committees of each of the participating centres.
Analysis of CARD15 variants
Genomic DNA was extracted from venous blood samples by standard procedures using digestion with proteinase K followed by phenol/chloroform extraction. Each CARD15 variant was assayed using initial amplification of the DNA sample by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and subsequent analysis of the PCR products by restriction enzyme cleavage and gel electrophoresis on 12% polyacrylamide (R702W) or 3–4% agarose (G908R and 1007fs).
For assay of the R702W mutation, the forward primer was 5′-AGATCACAGCAGCCTTCCTG-3′ and the reverse primer was 5′- CACGCTCTTGGCCTCACC-3′. The PCR product (185 bp in size) was digested at 37°C for 16 hours with 2 U of MspI, resulting in the following fragments: 20, 35, 54, and 76 bp in R702R homozygotes; 20, 35, 54, 76, and 130 bp in R702W heterozygotes; and 20, 35, and 130 bp in W702W homozygotes.
For assay of the G908R mutation, 5′-CTCTTTTGGCCTTTTCAGATTCTG-3′ was used as the forward primer and 5′-CAGCTCCTCCCTCTTCACCT-3′ as the reverse primer. The PCR product size from these primers is 163 bp. After digestion for 16 hours at 37°C with 2 U of Hha I, the following fragments were obtained: 163 bp in G908G homozygotes; 27, 136, and 163 in G908R heterozygotes; and 27 and 136 bp in R908R homozygotes.
In order to detect the 1007fs mutation, PCR was carried out using the forward primer 5′- GGCAGAAGCCCTCCTGCAGGGCC-3′ and the reverse primer 5′- CCTCAAAATTCTGCCATTCC-3′ resulting in an amplified fragment of 151 bp in size. After digestion for 16 hours at 37°C with 2 U of ApaI, the following panel was obtained (leucine represents the codon 1007 in the wild-type allele): 151 bp for Leu1007Leu homozygotes; 20, 131, and 151 bp in Leu1007Pro heterozygotes; and 20 and 131 bp in Pro1007Pro homozygotes.
Frequencies between patient and control groups were tested using Pearson’s χ2 statistics or Fishers’s exact test. The Student’s t test for unpaired samples was used to compare continuous data between two groups of patients. Bonferroni’s correction was used to take into account the number of hypotheses tested.
Allele frequencies in patients and controls
The CARD15 gene variants R702W, G908R, and 1007fs were determined in 198 unrelated sporadic CD patients, 46 unrelated probands with familial CD, 27 unrelated probands with CD from mixed IBD families, 99 randomly chosen unrelated familial and sporadic UC patients, and in 300 healthy blood donors. The CARD15 allele and genotype frequencies are summarised in table 1. The allele frequency of the 1007fs mutation in familial CD cases was 10.9%, in sporadic CD patients 3.5%, in CD patients from mixed families 3.7%, in UC patients 3.0%, and in controls 1.7%. The allele frequency of the 1007fs variant was significantly higher among all CD patients than in controls (4.8% v 1.7%; p<0.01), and the corresponding frequency in familial CD cases was higher than in sporadic CD cases (10.9% v 3.5%; p<0.01). The frequencies of the R702W and G908R variants were relatively low in all patient categories and in controls, with no significant differences between the groups (table 1): 15.5% of CD patients, 9.1% of UC patients, and 6.7% of control subjects carried at least one of the CARD15 polymorphisms. The difference in allele frequencies between the CD group and controls, but not between other groups, was significant (p<0.01).
Carrier and allele frequencies of the CARD15 gene variants R702W, G908R, and 1007fs in patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) or ulcerative colitis (UC) and in controls
One of 198 patients with sporadic CD and two of 46 patients with familial CD were homozygous for the 1007fs mutation. Other CD patients carrying these three variants were also heterozygous (table 1). A total of nine (9.1%) of 99 UC patients were heterozygous carriers of one of the three CARD15 variants (table 1). There were two combined heterozygotes in relation to the R702W and G908R variants among CD patients (one sporadic and one familial CD case), and one compound heterozygote in relation to R702W and 100fs polymorphisms among controls.
CARD15 alleles and clinical phenotypes
When median ages at diagnosis in those CD patients who were hetero- or homozygous for any of the rare CARD15 variants (n=42) and in those homozygous for the wild-type CARD15 allele (n=229) were compared, no significant differences were noted (table 2). In contrast, median disease duration was approximately twice as high in the former than in the latter group (table 2). Based on the Vienna classification, CD patients with at least one of the rare CARD15 variants had more often the ileum affected (90% v 73%; p<0.05) and more often a stricturing or penetrating form of the disease (88% v 56%; p<0.01) compared with non-carrier CD patients (table 3). In addition, carriers of the CARD15 variant alleles had undergone bowel surgery more often than non-carriers (67% v 46%; p<0.05) (table 2). There were no significant differences in the use of 5-ASA, metronidazole, steroids, or immunosuppressives (azathioprine, methotrexate, or cyclosporine) between CD patients who were carriers of any of the three CARD15 variants investigated compared with non-carriers (table 3).
Characteristics of patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) according to CARD15 gene status
Vienna classification of patients with Crohn’s disease according to CARD15 gene status
When UC patients were classified into carriers of any of these CARD15 polymorphisms and non-carriers, no significant differences were observed with regard to mean age, median age at diagnosis, median duration, need for medication, or need for surgery (not shown). Of the CD patients, 48% were smokers and 17% were ex- or casual smokers, while the corresponding frequencies among UC patients were 13% and 35% (p<0.01).
Characteristics of patients and their affected siblings homozygous for 1007fs
Both of the two familial CD patients homozygous for the CARD15 1007fs mutation had one affected sibling who was also found to be homozygous for the 1007fs polymorphism. As a group, these four CD patients homozygous for 1007fs shared some phenotypic characteristics: age at diagnosis was 20 years or less, only the ileum was affected, and CD showed a stricturing course. The single sporadic CD patient who was homozygous for the 1007fs allele differed from these two sibling pairs in that, in addition to the ileum, the right colon was also affected. His disease was diagnosed at the age of 13 years, stricture formation complicated the disease, and the patient had undergone three bowel resections.
Since 2001, several independent studies have demonstrated that the NOD2/CARD15 gene variants contribute to a significant extent to the risk of Crohn’s disease.11,12,16–19 The allele frequency of the insertion mutation 1007fs, predicted to result in a truncated CARD15 protein, was found to be 8–16% in CD patients but only 2–4% in control populations from the USA12 or Europe.11,16–18 Two other mutations (R702W and G908R) have also shown a significant relation to the risk of CD,11,17–19 while there was no significant association between CARD15 gene variants and the risk of UC. Hampe et al estimated that the relative risk of CD in 1007fs heterozygotes was 2.6 and in homozygotes 42.6.16 Cuthbert and colleagues18 reported a relative CD risk of 3.0 for individuals heterozygous for any of the three CARD15 gene variants and a value of 23.4 for homozygotes or compound heterozygotes. According to Hugot et al, the corresponding relative risks were 3, 38, and 44, respectively.11
Our material of familial CD was limited as the whole population comprised approximately 5 million inhabitants and secondly, there is no national IBD register, which makes it more difficult to recruit patients. In our material, the frequencies of all of the CARD15 variants investigated were low in comparison with many other Western populations.11,12,16–19 Recently, Inoue et al have reported lack of common NOD2 variants in Japanese subjects with CD.23 Our data confirm the association between the CARD15 1007fs variant allele and CD, although there was no difference in allele frequencies between CD and UC groups. This association may not be as strong in the Finnish population as in other Caucasian populations studied to date. There were no significant differences in the allele frequencies of the two other CARD15 gene variants investigated (R702W and G908R) between patients with CD and UC or controls. The CARD15 1007fs mutation was more prevalent among probands with familial disease compared with sporadic cases. The studies by Hugot et al and Ogura et al, showing an association between CARD15 mutations and CD, also comprised familial cases.11,12 As suggested by the observations by Inoue et al, there may be other disease causing polymorphisms of the CARD15 gene, or entirely other genes, which predispose to CD. The search for other clinically significant CARD15 variants among the Finns is warranted.
The Finns derive from a small relatively isolated founder population in which the population growth was rapid and breeding units were small.24 The Finnish population has been extensively and successfully investigated for several rare monogenic diseases.25 A few more common diseases, such as familial hypercholesterolaemia or long QT syndrome, are caused by founder mutations typical of Finns.26,27 Recently, the properties of isolated populations in mapping variants underlying complex diseases have been evaluated.24,25,28,29 The fate of alleles with a frequency of 1% in a rapidly growing population, allowed to mate randomly, was simulated by computer and after 20 generations the frequency of the most common allele was 6% whereas some alleles were lost.24 This means that random genetic drift has a strong influence on allele frequencies in small fast expanding populations: rare alleles may get lost or survive at unusually high frequencies.24 If a disease gene has several mutations, some may have been lost and some major mutations preserved.
We have previously shown that the percentage of familial IBD among Finnish patients is comparable with that in other European populations.1 No remarkable clinical differences were observed between patients with familial or sporadic disease.1 In the present study, a carrier status for any of the three CARD15 variants, and especially for the 1007fs mutation, predicted ileal localisation of CD as well as liability to complications of CD, such as strictures, fistulations, and need for surgical revisions. Very recently, similar findings were reported by other investigators.16–19 An increased frequency of the CARD15 mutations in ileal specific disease has been reported in several independent studies,17–19 and Hampe et al also reported an association between CARD15 variants with right colonic disease in comparison with left colon specific disease.30 In our study, the rare homozygous patients had a form of CD with an early onset and a complicated course, a finding strikingly similar to that of Lesage and colleagues19 observed in a French population. In the present series the median duration of disease was twice as long among CARD15 variant carriers compared with other CD patients. The use of the Vienna classification, especially behaviour, in phenotype- genotype analyses has been strongly criticised by Louis et al. They determined behaviour and location of disease over 25 years of follow up from diagnosis in 297 CD patients, and found that the behaviour of CD varied dramatically over the course of the disease while location was relatively stable.31 They recommended that patients should be classified for genotype- phenotype analyses after a fixed duration of disease; this was not feasible in the present series. In our material, there was a lack of association between age at diagnosis and carrier status of the CARD15 variants. We chose to use age at diagnosis instead of age at onset as the data were collected retrospectively from patient records of the participating centres.
The CARD15 gene product belongs to a Nod1/Apaf-1 superfamily of apoptosis regulators and is mainly expressed in monocytes.14 CARD15 contains two N terminal caspase activation recruitment domains (CARD) and several C terminal leucine rich repeats (LRR).14 It is involved in the activation of the NFκB signalling pathway.14 The CARD15 1007fs mutation, resulting in a truncated protein lacking part of the LRRs, is deficient in inducing LPS mediated NFκB activation.12 The NFκB system has been shown to be activated in IBD.32,33 Glucocorticoids and sulphasalazine both effectively inhibit NFκB. In our material, there were no significant differences in the use of 5-ASA or steroids between carriers or non- carriers of any of the three CARD15 variants investigated, neither were there any significant differences in the use of metronidazole or immunosuppressives between these two groups (table 3).
In conclusion, the allele frequencies of the three CARD15 gene variants (R702W, G908R, and 1007fs) were lower in Finns than in other populations studied to date. There was an association between the 1007fs variant allele and CD. In this retrospective study in Finnish CD patients, the NOD2 gene variants were associated with ileal disease as well as stricturing and penetrating forms of the disease, and CD patients homozygous for the CARD15 gene variants tended to suffer from a disease with early onset and a complicated course. No significant differences in the use of 5-ASA, steroids, metronidazole, or immunosuppressives were observed between CD and UC patients who were carriers of any of the three CARD15 variants investigated compared with non-carriers. There may be CARD15 variants or genes predisposing to CD among Finns other than those previously investigated in Western populations.
We warmly thank Dr David van Heel (Oxford University, UK) for providing advice and control DNA samples for NOD2 variant analysis. Docent Markus Perola is acknowledged for advice with statistical questions. We thank the study participants and their families for volunteering for this study. We are obliged to our collaborators Professor Heikki Järvinen (Helsinki University Hospital), Dr Heimo Nurmi (Turku University Hospital), Docent Anna- Liisa Karvonen (Tampere), Docent Risto Julkunen, Dr Markku Heikkinen, (Kuopio), and Docent Seppo Niemelä (Oulu). We thank Ms Tuula Soppela-Loponen for excellent technical assistance. This study was supported by a grant from the Special State Funds of the Helsinki University Central Hospital.
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Aaron Beck and the History of Cognitive Therapy
Steven D. Hollon
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology
Cognitive theory posits that how one interprets an event determines how one feels about it and what one will try to do to cope with it. It further suggests that inaccurate beliefs and maladaptive information processing lie at the core of most disorders. Cognitive therapy seeks to reduce distress and relieve dysfunction by teaching patients to examine the accuracy of their beliefs and to use their own behaviors to test their validity. The history of cognitive therapy is in essence a tale of two cities and one institute. Aaron Beck, the progenitor of the approach, did his original work in Philadelphia focused largely on depression before he expanded to other disorders. He spent time subsequently at Oxford University at the invitation of department chair Michael Gelder, whose young protégés David Clark and Paul Salkovskis refined the cognitive model for the anxiety disorders and supercharged their treatment. Anke Ehlers, who extended the model to posttraumatic stress, joined them in the 1990s before all three decamped for the Institute of Psychiatry in London, only to return a decade later. Jack Rachman at the Institute was an early mentor who commissioned conceptual treatises from all three. Chris Fairburn, who stayed at Oxford, developed a cognitive behavioral treatment for the eating disorders that focuses on changing beliefs, and Daniel Freeman from the Institute joined in 2011 with an emphasis on schizophrenia. Cognitive therapy has had a major impact on treatment in the United States but even more so in the United Kingdom, where it reigns supreme. Cognitive therapy encourages patients to use their own behaviors to test their beliefs but keeps its focus squarely on those beliefs as the key mechanism to be changed. It is one of the most efficacious and enduring treatments for the various psychiatric disorders.
Serafina Cuomo
An abacus (ἄβαξ, ἀβάκιον), a counting board, was the usual aid to reckoning in antiquity. The Greeks and Romans alike used a board with vertical columns, on which (working from right to left) units, tens, and hundreds; or (where money was in question) units of currency, for instance the Attic signs for ⅛ obol, ¼ obol, ½ obol, 1 obol, drachma and so on, could be inscribed. The Salamis abacus is an example of a type of flat, large counting board, made of stone, of which more than twenty have survived from antiquity (Figure 1).There are also significantly fewer examples of small, bronze abacus. (Figure 2).The extant flat, large counting boards have been found in the Greek-speaking part of the Mediterranean, whereas the small bronze abaci appear to originate in the Roman world, and are engraved with Roman numerals. There are different possible reconstructions of how calculations were carried out on the ancient Greek or Roman abacus, which would seem to indicate that different procedures were also in use in antiquity In general, with addition, the totals of the columns were carried to the left, as in ordinary 21st-century addition.
Abaris
Alan H. Griffiths
Abaris, legendary devotee of *Apollo from the far north, a shamanistic missionary and saviour-figure like *Aristeas whom *Pindar (fr. 270 Snell–Maehler) associated with the time of *Croesus—perhaps in connection with the king's miraculous rescue from the pyre and translation to the *Hyperboreans. Herodotus, ending his discussion of the latter (4. 36), tantalizes by refusing to say more than that ‘he carried the arrow around the whole world while fasting’ (cf. the mission of *Triptolemus, and *Demeter's search for Persephone).
Abbott, Edith
Jean K. Quam
Edith Abbott (1876–1957) was a social worker and educator. She was Dean of the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago from 1924 to 1942 and she helped in drafting the Social Security Act of 1935.
Abbott, Grace
Grace Abbott (1878–1939) was a teacher who went on to become Director of the Immigrants Protective League of Chicago and Director of the U.S. Children's Bureau. In 1934 she became professor of public welfare at the University of Chicago.
The ABCs of Media and Children: Attention, Behavior, and Comprehension
Ellen A. Wartella, Alexis R. Lauricella, Leanne Beaudoin-Ryan, and Drew P. Cingel
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Please check back later for the full article. Children are and have been active media users for decades. Historically, the focus on children and media issues have centered on the concerns and consequences of media use, generally around violence. In the last 40 years, we have seen a shift to study children and media from a more holistic approach, to understand both the positive and negative relationships between children and media use. Further, the recognition of the very important developmental differences that exist between children of different ages and the use of grand developmental theories, including those by Piaget and Vygotsky, have supported the field’s understanding of the unique ways in which children use media and the effects it has on their lives. Three important constructs related to a more complete understanding of children’s media use are the ABCs (attention, behavior, and comprehension). The first construct, attention, focuses on the way in which children’s attention to screen media develops, how factors related to parents and children can direct or influence attention to media, and how media may distract attention. The second construct is the behavioral effect of media use, including the relationship between media use and aggressive behavior, but importantly, the positive effect of prosocial media on children’s behavior and moral development. Finally, the third construct is the important and dynamic relationship between media and comprehension and learning. Taken together, these constructs describe a wide range of experiences that occur within children’s media use.
Abdera
James Maxwell Ross Cormack and Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond
Abdera, a flourishing Greek city east of the Nestus river on the coast of *Thrace (Diod. Sic. 13. 72. 2). It was traditionally founded as a colony of *Clazomenae in 654 bce, a date for which 7th-cent. Greek pottery affords some support. It was reoccupied by colonists from *Teos (among them *Anacreon) in the second half of the 6th cent. (Hdt. 1. 168; Pind. Paean 2); its site was near Bulustra, a corruption of the name it bore in the Middle Ages, Polystylon. Like *Aenus, Abdera owed its wealth (it was the third richest city in the *Delian League, with a contribution of 15 talents) to its corn production (see the coins), and to the fact that it was a port for the trade of inland Thrace and especially of the Odrysian rulers. Abdera was a resting-place for the army of Xerxes in 480 bce when it was marching to invade Greece (Hdt.
Abernathy, Ralph David
Lou M. Beasley
Ralph David Abernathy (1926–1990) was a pastor who became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after the assassination of Martin Luther King. He was director of personnel, dean of men, and professor of social studies at Alabama State University.
Abhidharmakośabhāṣya (Treasury of Metaphysics with Self-Commentary)
Oren Hanner
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion
The Abhidharmakośabhāṣya (Treasury of Metaphysics with Self-Commentary) is a pivotal treatise on early Buddhist thought composed around the 4th or 5th century by the Indian Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu. This work elucidates the buddha’s teachings as synthesized and interpreted by the early Buddhist Sarvāstivāda school (“the theory that all [factors] exist”), while recording the major doctrinal polemics that developed around them, primarily those points of contention with the Sautrāntika system of thought (“followers of the scriptures”). Employing the methodology and terminology of the Buddhist Abhidharma system, the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya offers a detailed analysis of fundamental doctrines, such as early Buddhist theories of mind, cosmology, the workings of karman, meditative states and practices, and the metaphysics of the self. One of its unique features is the way it presents the opinions of a variety of Buddhist and Brahminical schools that were active in classical India in Vasubandhu’s time. The work contains nine chapters (the last of which is considered to have been appended to the first eight), which proceed from a description of the unawakened world via the path and practices that are conducive to awakening and ultimately to the final spiritual attainments which constitute the state of awakening. In its analysis of the unawakened situation, it thus covers the elements which make up the material and mental world of sentient beings, the wholesome and unwholesome mental states that arise in their minds, the structure of the cosmos, the metaphysics of action (karman) and the way it comes into being, and the nature of dispositional attitudes and dormant mental afflictions. In its treatment of the path and practices that lead to awakening, the treatise outlines the Sarvāstivāda understanding of the methods of removing defilements through the realization of the four noble truths and the stages of spiritual cultivation. With respect to the awakened state, the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya gives a detailed description of the different types of knowledge and meditational states attained by practitioners who reach the highest stages of the path.
Abhisamayālaṃkāra (Ornament for Clear Realization)
James B. Apple
The Abhisamayālaṃkāra (Ornament for clear realization) is an instructional treatise on the Prajñāpāramitā, or Perfect Wisdom, whose authorship is traditionally attributed to Maitreyanātha (c. 350 ce). As a technical treatise, the Abhisamayālaṃkāra outlines within its 273 verses the instructions, practices, paths, and stages of realization to omniscient buddhahood mentioned in Prajñāpāramitā scriptures. In its abridged description, the Abhisamayālaṃkāra furnishes a detailed summary of the path that is regarded as bringing out the “concealed meaning” (sbas don, garbhyārtha) of Prajñāpāramitā. The Abhisamayālaṃkāra contains eight chapters of subject matter, with a summary of them as the ninth chapter. The eight subjects (padārtha) of the eight chapters (adhikāra) correspond to eight clear realizations (abhisamaya) that represent the knowledges, practices, and result of Prajñāpāramitā. The Abhisamayālaṃkāra’s eight clear realizations are types of knowledge and practices for bodhisattvas (“buddhas-in-training”) to achieve buddhahood set forth within the system of the five paths (lam lnga, *pañcamārga) common to Indian abhidharma and Yogācāra literature. The first three clear realizations are types of knowledge that comprise Perfect Wisdom. Total Omniscience, or the wisdom of all aspects (sarvākārajñatā, rnam pa thams cad mkhyen pa nyid), is regarded as the fundamental wisdom and the central concept of Prajñāpāramitā. Total Omniscience is direct, unmediated knowledge that exactly understands the manner of reality to its fullest possible extent in all its aspects. Path-omniscience (mārgajñatā, lam shes nyid) comprises the Buddhist path systems of śrāvakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas mastered by bodhisattvas. Empirical Omniscience (vastujñāna, gzhi shes) cognizes empirical objects in conditioned existence that are to be abandoned. It correlates to knowledge that is comprehended by śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas. The path to buddhahood itself and the detailed means of its application are covered in the Abhisamayālaṃkāra by the fourth through seventh clear realizations. The fourth chapter is devoted to the realization of wisdom of all aspects (sarvākārābhisaṃbodha, rnam rdzogs sbyor ba), a yogic practice that enables a bodhisattva to gain a cognition of all the aspects of the three types of omniscience. The fifth realization is the summit of full understanding (mūrdhābhisamaya, rtse sbyor), whereby yogic practices reach the culmination of cognizing emptiness. The sixth chapter defines the gradual full understanding (anupūrvābhisamaya, mthar gyis sbyor ba) of the three forms of omniscience. The seventh abhisamaya clarifies the “instantaneous realization” (ekakṣaṇābhisamaya) that occurs at the final moment right before buddhahood. Abhisamayas four through seven are known as “the four methods of realization” of the three types of knowledge. The eighth realization, and last subject in the Abhisamayālaṃkāra, is the realization of the dharma body (dharmakāyābhisamaya). In this way, the first three realizations describe the cognitive attainments of buddhas, the middle four realizations discuss the methods that take the cognitive attainments as their object, and the eighth realization describes the qualities and attainments of the dharma body, the resultant body of buddhas. The treatise was extensively commented upon in Indian Buddhism and has been widely studied in Tibetan forms of Buddhism up to the present day.
The Abolition of Brazilian Slavery, 1864–1888
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
Brazil was the last Western country to abolish slavery, which it did in 1888. As a colonial institution, slavery was present in all regions and in almost all free and freed strata of the population. Emancipation only became an issue in the political sphere when it was raised by the imperial government in the second half of the decade of the 1860s, after the defeat of the Confederacy in the US Civil War and during the war against Paraguay. In 1871, new legislation, despite the initial opposition from slave owners and their political representatives, set up a process of gradual emancipation. By the end of the century, slavery would have disappeared, or would have become residual, without major disruptions to the economy or the land property regime. By the end of the 1870s, however, popular opposition to slavery, demanding its immediate abolition without any kind of compensation to former slave owners, grew in parliament and as a mass movement. Abolitionist organizations spread across the country during the first half of the 1880s. Stimulated by the direct actions of some of these abolitionist organizations, resistance to slavery intensified and became increasingly a struggle against slavery itself and not only for individual or collective freedom. Incapable of controlling the situation, the imperial government finally passed a law in parliament granting immediate and unconditional abolition on May 13, 1888.
D. Lynn Jackson
Until the 19th century, abortion law was nonexistent and abortion was not seen as a moral issue. However, by the turn of the 20th century, abortion was legally defined and controlled in most states. The landmark Supreme Court case, Roe v. Wade (1973), marked the legalization of abortion but did not end the controversy that existed. Legislation at both the federal and state levels has added restrictions on abortion, making it difficult for women to exercise their reproductive rights. Social work's commitment to promote the human rights of women compels social workers to be aware of and involved in this issue.
Patty Baker
Complex perceptions existed about abortion in the ancient world, indicated by different medical definitions of what constituted an abortive, contraceptive, and expulsive. According to Soranus (1st/2nd century ce) an abortive was “that which destroys what has been conceived”; a contraceptive (atokion) was something that prevents conception, and an expulsive (ekbolion) could be defined in two ways (Gyn 1.59–65). Some thought it was synonymous with an abortive because both resulted in the termination of a pregnancy. In contrast, others defined an expulsive strictly as shaking and leaping to dislodge the fetus from the womb. In explaining this, Soranus (Gyn 1.60) repeats a story told in the Hippocratic work (see hippocrates) Nature of the Child (13, L7.488–490; late 5th bce) about a dancing girl thought to be six days pregnant. She was told to expel the seed by jumping up and down so her heels touched her buttocks. After the seventh leap, the fetus dropped from her body. This technique for early-stage abortion was preferable to termination caused by pharmaceutical preparations and surgical intervention, which could cause harm to the mother. Therefore, Soranus stated that it was safer to prevent pregnancy than to perform an abortion (Gyn 1.
Abortion in American Film since 2001
Fran Bigman
In American cinema from 1916 to 2000, two main archetypes emerge in portrayals of women seeking abortion: prima donnas and martyrs/victims. While the prima donna category faded over the course of the 20th century, study of abortion in American cinema from 2001 to 2016 shows that the victim archetype persists in many films. Women who have abortions are cast as victims in films across a variety of genres: Christian, thriller, horror, and historical. Some recent films, however, namely, Obvious Child (2014) and Grandma (2015), reject this hundred-year-old tendency to portray abortion as regrettable and tragic—especially for the women choosing it—and instead show it as a liberating experience that brings women together, breaking new ground for the depiction of abortion in American film.
Absent Information in Integrative Environmental and Health Risk Communication
Jari Lyytimäki and Timo Assmuth
Communication is typically understood in terms of what is communicated. However, the importance of what is intentionally or unintentionally left out from the communication process is high in many fields, notably in communication about environmental and health risks. The question is not only about the absolute lack of information. The rapidly increasing amount and variability of available data require actors to identify, collect, and interpret relevant information and screen out irrelevant or misleading messages that may lead to unjustified scares or hopes and other unwanted consequences. The ideal of balanced, integrative, and careful risk communication can only rarely be seen in real-life risk communication, shaped by competition and interaction between actors emphasizing some risks, downplaying others, and leaving many kinds of information aside, as well as by personal factors such as emotions and values, prompting different types of responses. Consequently, risk communication is strongly influenced by the characteristics of the risks themselves, the kinds of knowledge on them and related uncertainties, and the psychological and sociocultural factors shaping the cognitive and emotive responses of those engaged in communication. The physical, economic, and cultural contexts also play a large role. The various roles and factors of absent information in integrative environmental and health risk communication are illustrated by two examples. First, health and environmental risks from chemicals represent an intensively studied and widely debated field that involves many types of absent information, ranging from purposeful nondisclosure aimed to guarantee public safety or commercial interests to genuinely unknown risks caused by long-term and cumulative effects of multiple chemicals. Second, light pollution represents an emerging environmental and health issue that has gained only limited public attention even though it is associated with a radical global environmental change that is very easy to observe. In both cases, integrative communication essentially involves a multidimensional comparison of risks, including the uncertainties and benefits associated with them, and the options available to reduce or avoid them. Public debate and reflection on the adequacy of risk information and on the needs and opportunities to gain and apply relevant information is a key issue of risk management. The notion of absent information underlines that even the most widely debated risk issues may fall into oblivion and re-emerge in an altered form or under different framings. A typology of types of absent information based on frameworks of risk communication can help one recognize its reasons, implications, and remediation.
Abstract Nouns in the Romance Languages
Philipp Burdy
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics
Abstract words such as Fr. livraison ‘delivery’, It. fedeltà ‘faithfulness’, Sp. semejanza ‘resemblance’, belong to the word class of nouns. They do not possess materiality and therefore lack sensory perceivability. Within the spectrum of nouns, abstract nouns are located on the opposite side of proper names; between them, there are common nouns, collective nouns, and mass nouns. Abstract nouns are in part non-count and not able to be pluralized. In terms of meaning, there is typically a threefold division in groups: (a) Action/result nouns (e.g., Fr. lavage ‘washing’, It. giuramento ‘oath’, Sp. mordedura ‘bite’); (b) Quality nouns (e.g., Fr. dignité ‘dignity’, It. biancore ‘whiteness’, Sp. modestia ‘modesty’); and (c) Status nouns (e.g., Fr. episcopat ‘episcopate’, It. cuginanza ‘cousinhood’, Sp. almirantazgo ‘admiralship’). From a purely morphological standpoint, a classification of abstract nouns according to derivation basis appears suitable: (a) (primary) denominal abstract nouns (e.g., Fr. duché ‘dukedom’, It. linguaggio ‘language’, Sp. añada ‘vintage’); (b) (primary) deadjectival abstract nouns (e.g., Fr. folie ‘madness’, It. bellezza ‘beauty’, Sp. cortesía ‘courtesy’); and (c) (primary) deverbal abstract nouns (e.g., Fr. mouvement ‘movement’, It. scrittura ‘writing’, Sp. venganza ‘revenge’). Other abstract nouns arise from conversion, for example, Fr. le devoir ‘duty’, It. il freddo ‘coldness’, Sp. el cambio ‘change’. In light of this, the question of how far the formation of abstract nouns in Romance languages follows Latin patterns (derivation with suffixes) or whether new processes emerge is of particular interest. In addition, the individual Romance languages display different preferences in choosing abstract-forming morphological processes. On the one hand, there is a large number of Latin abstract-forming suffixes whose outcomes preserve the same function in the Romance languages, such as -ía (astrología ‘astrology’), -ura (scriptura ‘writing’), -ĭtia (pigrĭtia ‘sloth’), -io (oratio ‘speaking’). Furthermore, there is a group of Latin suffixes that gave rise to suffixes deriving abstract nouns only in Romance. Among these are, for example, -aticu (Fr. péage ‘road toll’, Sp. hallazgo ‘discovery’), -aceu (Sp. cuchillazo ‘knife thrust’), -aria (Sp. borrachera ‘drunkenness’, It. vecchiaia ‘old age’). On the other hand, suffixless processes of abstract noun formation are coming to full fruition only in Romance: The conversion of past participles (e.g., Fr. vue ‘sight’, It. dormita ‘sleep’, Sp. llegada ‘arrival’) is of special importance. The conversion of infinitives to nouns with abstract meaning is least common in Modern French (e.g., penser ‘thought’) and most common in Romanian (iertare ‘pardon’, durere ‘pain’, etc.). Deverbal noun formation without suffixes (Fr. amende ‘fine’, It. carica ‘charge’, Sp. socorro ‘help’, etc.), in contrast, is known to have developed a broad pan-Romance geographic spread.
Abusive Supervision
Ann Peng, Rebecca Mitchell, and John M. Schaubroeck
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management
In recent years scholars of abusive supervision have expanded the scope of outcomes examined and have advanced new psychological and social processes to account for these and other outcomes. Besides the commonly used relational theories such as justice theory and social exchange theory, recent studies have more frequently drawn from theories about emotion to describe how abusive supervision influences the behavior, attitudes, and well-being of both the victims and the perpetrators. In addition, an increasing number of studies have examined the antecedents of abusive supervision. The studied antecedents include personality, behavioral, and situational characteristics of the supervisors and/or the subordinates. Studies have reported how characteristics of the supervisor and that of the focal victim interact to determining abuse frequency. Formerly postulated outcomes of abusive supervision (e.g., subordinate performance) have also been identified as antecedents of abusive supervision. This points to a need to model dynamic and mutually reciprocal processes between leader abusive behavior and follower responses with longitudinal data. Moreover, extending prior research that has exclusively focused on the victim’s perspective, scholars have started to take the supervisor’s perspective and the lens of third-parties, such as victims’ coworkers, to understand the broad impact of abusive supervision. Finally, a small number of studies have started to model abusive supervision as a multilevel phenomenon. These studies have examined a group aggregated measure of abusive supervision, examining its influence as an antecedent of individual level outcomes and as a moderator of relationships between individuals’ experiences of abusive supervision and personal outcomes. More research could be devoted to establishing the causal effects of abusive supervision and to developing organizational interventions to reduce abusive supervision.
Stephen Mitchell
Was the best harbour on the Asiatic side of the *Hellespont. In the Iliad (2. 836) an ally of Troy and then a Thracian settlement, it was colonized c.700 bce by Milesians (see colonization, greek; miletus). From 514 it was under Persian control and served in 480 as the Asiatic bridgehead from which *Xerxes crossed into Europe (Hdt. 7. 34, 43 ff.). Thereafter it was successively part of the *Athenian empire until it revolted in 411 (Thuc. 8. 61–2), a Spartan ally until 394, and under Persian rule again until freed by *Alexander (3) the Great in 334. It put up heroic resistance when besieged by *Philip (3) V of Macedon in 200 (Polybius 16. 29–34). In Roman times and in late antiquity it was an important customs-station (OGI521). There are no significant archaeological remains at the site, but its coinage, including early electrum issues, is important.
Academic Capitalism
Richard Münch
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
Academic capitalism is a unique hybrid that unites the scientific search for truth and the economic maximization of profits. It turns universities into enterprises competing for capital accumulation and businesses into knowledge producers looking for new findings that can be turned into patents and profitable commodities. To understand what this new institutional setting means for science and the evolution of scientific knowledge, science as a field in a Bourdieusian perspective, which operates in the tension field between autonomy and heteronomy, is explored. On this basis, crucial features of academic capitalism and their impact on science as well as the evolution of scientific knowledge are described. Academic capitalism is located in the zone of the intersection of scientific research, economic profit maximization, and innovation policy. The institutional conflicts of interest involved in the corporate funding of academic research are addressed. The logic of academic capital accumulation is spelled out by describing the entrepreneurial university. Field effects of academic capital accumulation on science, namely increasing inequality, over-investment at the top, and under-investment among the rank and file are examined, along with the organizational effects of academic capital accumulation in terms of tightened managerial quality assurance on diversity and creativity as crucial prerequisites of advancing scientific knowledge. The main results of the analysis are summarized and some guidelines for future research are presented.
Academic Coping
Ellen Skinner and Emily Saxton
Academic coping describes the profile of responses children and adolescents utilize when they encounter challenges, obstacles, setbacks, and failures in their scholastic work. Coping is one of multiple strands of research from a variety of subareas within educational and developmental science that share a common interest in this topic, including work on academic resilience, buoyancy, mastery versus helplessness, tenacity, perseverance, and productive persistence, as well as adaptive help seeking, self-regulated learning, and emotion regulation. These approaches focus on the responses (including emotions and goal-directed behaviors) students actually undertake on the ground when they encounter academic difficulties in their daily lives; patterns of action can be contrasted with the belief systems, motivations, or skill sets that underlie these responses. Since the mid 1980s, several dozen studies have examined academic coping in children and youth from 2nd to 12th grade (ages 7–18), including samples from 29 countries (Skinner & Saxton, 2019). These studies have identified multiple adaptive ways of dealing with academic stress, including problem solving, help seeking, and comfort seeking. These responses are considered productive because they allow students to gather resources and strategies, and so re-engage in demanding tasks with renewed purpose, vigor, and effectiveness. Multiple maladaptive ways of coping have also been identified, such as escape, rumination, or blaming others. These are considered unproductive because when enacted in response to academic demands, they are more likely to trigger disaffection, amplify distress, or provoke negative reactions from social partners. In general, research indicates that students normatively show a profile of coping that is high in adaptive strategies (especially problem solving, help seeking, and support seeking) and low in maladaptive responses. Studies find that students’ adaptive coping is linked to their academic functioning and success, including their educational performance, engagement, persistence, and adjustment to school transitions. In contrast, maladaptive coping is linked to a pattern of poor academic performance, disengagement, and school-related burnout. Students cope more adaptively when they possess motivational assets (such as self-efficacy, relative autonomy, or sense of belonging) and experience interpersonal supports from their parents, teachers, and peers. Studies documenting developmental trends suggest normative improvements in the coping repertoire during elementary school. However, over the transition to middle school in early adolescence, many adaptive ways of coping decline while reliance on maladaptive responses generally increases. Starting in middle adolescence, these problematic trends stabilize, and some studies indicate renewed improvement in coping, especially problem solving. Current research on academic coping faces theoretical, methodological, and applied challenges: (a) theoretically, more comprehensive conceptualizations are needed that integrate coping perspectives with social contextual, motivational, and developmental approaches; (b) methodologically, standard measures are needed that focus on core categories of academic coping, and that utilize allocation scoring; and (c) to further applied work, additional studies are needed that describe and explain normative and differential age-graded changes in adaptive and maladaptive coping across childhood and adolescence. Researchers who study academic coping believe that this work has much to offer educational theories, research, and interventions aimed at understanding how to help children and adolescents develop the capacity to deal constructively with the obstacles and problems they will inevitably encounter during their educational careers. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7357922792434692, "wiki_prob": 0.7357922792434692, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1381235"} |
KSRTC Services Flags Off To M’lore Junction.
KSRTC’s city bus services between State Bank and Mangaluru Junction Railway Station via Padil were flagged off on Sunday by Mangaluru City South MLA D Vedavyas Kamath, thereby offering the much-needed connectivity to the railway station.
Flagging off the services, Mr Kamath said that the facility will be of much help to local residents as well as railway passengers. He said that two buses will operate on the route at an interval of about one hour to make 19 single trips.
The Dakshina Kannada Regional Transport Authority (RTA) on February 14 issued a temporary permit to the KSRTC valid till June 13 to operate the services. The first service from Mangaluru Junction will start at 6.50 a.m. and the last at 6.35 p.m.
From State Bank, the first service will start at 7.30 a.m. and the last at 5.55 p.m. It will operate via Dr Ambedkar Circle (Jyothi), Bunts Hostel, Kadri, Nanthoor, Maroli and Padil.
Commenting on the new service, social activist Gopalakrishna Bhat said that it is a welcome move as Mangaluru Junction had very few bus services. He had been fighting to get the service for the last seven-eight years in different ways.
Mr Bhat said that the demand has been realised with the proactive approach of [MLA] Mr. Kamath, the local councillor of Mangaluru City Corporation and the residents. The service connects State Bank with Mangaluru Junction for the first time, he said.
The RTA also issued a temporary permit to KSRTC on February 14 to operate city services between State Bank and Adyar (Sahyadri College) via Bunts Hostel, Maroli and Kannur. The service is yet to be introduced.
Meanwhile, Mr Bhat has urged people’s representatives and KSRTC to operate existing KSRTC services between State Bank and Jalligudde/ Bajal via Mangaluru Junction Railway Station.
Ashna Rai, a cadet from St. Aloysius PU College's NCC navy wing, was presented with a gold medal by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for her participation in the annual NCC rally held in New Delhi on Saturday. She had wanted to join the NCC since she was a young child. She joined the NCC when a student at Canara CBSE School's eighth grade level. Later, she kept working hard in the same field. Ashna was chosen for the NCC rally because to her outstanding district and state performance. This accomplishment of Ashna at the NCC Rally is attributable to the cooperation shown by NCC cadets Anish Rahul, Atique D B, Roopith D'Souza, and Manish as well as the leadership of wing commander Chandan Garg and Allwyn Misquith. Ashna is the daughter of Akshatha Rai, a teacher, and Ramanna Rai, a businessman who lives in Kadri Kambla. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9560037851333618, "wiki_prob": 0.9560037851333618, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1649923"} |
WEST SOUNDER: Bremerton's Amanda Hall takes state vault title
J.J. Jensen — Apr 5th, 2001
For the fourth consecutive year, Amanda Hall, a 17-year-old junior at Central Kitsap High School, won the Level 10 vault competition at Sunday's Washington State Gymnastics Meet at the Evergreen State College.
"It was cool," said Hall. "Vault's my favorite event so I was happy. There's always room for improvement, but it was fun."
Hall, who is fielding 15 scholarship offers from colleges around the country, defeated 61 other participants at her level.
A three-time national competitor, Hall also recorded her highest-ever all-around score, a mark of 37.15.
In winning the vault (9.6), taking second on the bars (9.325), placing fourth on the floor (9.274) and scoring 8.95 on beam, Hall helped her gymnastic club, Grace Gymnastics of Lakewood, take the Level 10 state title.
"I was really happy," Hall said. "I was kind of disappointed, finishing fourth all around, but I couldn't be too mad. That our team got first made the night."
Olympic High School senior Jacynda Wnek, also of Grace Gymnastics, finished fourth on the beam (9.425). She, too, posted her highest all-around score, with 36.05.
Up next for Hall and Wnek is the Regional gymnastics competition, April 21 at Juanita High School in Kirkland.
WEST SOUNDERS: Gymnastics: Underwood claims state uneven bars title
OLYMPIA -Heather Underwood, 13, of Silverdale won the uneven bars title with a score of 9.325 in the 13-year-old division at the State Level 7 meet at Evergreen State College. Underwood, competing for Olympic Gymnastics Center, was also third on the vault (9.15) and second in the ... [Read More...]
GYMNASTICS: Locals bound for nationals
The Sun Staff Amanda Hall, Jacynda Wnek and Christina Churchill of the Olympic Gymnastics Center won all-around titles at the Holiday Gym Fest in Bellingham last weekend. Hall, Wnek and Morgan Terronez, all Level 7 gymnasts, will represent the Silverdale-based club at the National ... [Read More...]
WESTSOUNDERS
* HANDBALL Cardens repeat Glenn Carden was 12 when he played in his first handball tournament with his father, Keith. Sunday in Portland, the Bremerton father-and-son duo defended its title in the Pacific Northwest Regionals Masters (over 40)Doubles Championship. Glenn, 47, and Keith, 72, combined to beat ... [Read More...]
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* GYMNASTICS Hall wins all-around at Reno invite Amanda Hall had a big afternoon in Reno, Nevada, on Saturday at the 1999 Flips Invitational gymnastics meet. Hall, competing at level 10 for Silverdale's Olympic Gymnastics Center, won a championship in floor exercise and placed fourth in ... [Read More...]
Gymnast a state champion Olympic's Schneider wins vault
The Sun Staff Melissa Schneider of the Bremerton-based Olympic Gymnastics Center is a state champion in the vault. The Fairview Junior High eighthgrader won the event at the Washington State Level 8 meet last weekend at Issaquah High School. Schneider, competing against 53 other gymnasts, ... [Read More...] | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9623110294342041, "wiki_prob": 0.9623110294342041, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line127949"} |
Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America
James Poniewozik (Author)
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Television has entertained America, television has ensorcelled America, and with the election of Donald J. Trump, television has conquered America. In Audience of One, New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik traces the history of TV and mass media from the Reagan era to today, explaining how a volcanic, camera-hogging antihero merged with America's most powerful medium to become our forty-fifth president.
In the tradition of Neil Postman's masterpiece Amusing Ourselves to Death, Audience of One shows how American media have shaped American society and politics, by interweaving two crucial stories. The first story follows the evolution of television from the three-network era of the 20th century, which joined millions of Americans in a shared monoculture, into today's zillion-channel, Internet-atomized universe, which sliced and diced them into fractious, alienated subcultures. The second story is a cultural critique of Donald Trump, the chameleonic celebrity who courted fame, achieved a mind-meld with the media beast, and rode it to ultimate power.
Braiding together these disparate threads, Poniewozik combines a cultural history of modern America with a revelatory portrait of the most public American who has ever lived. Reaching back to the 1940s, when Trump and commercial television were born, Poniewozik illustrates how Donald became "a character that wrote itself, a brand mascot that jumped off the cereal box and entered the world, a simulacrum that replaced the thing it represented." Viscerally attuned to the media, Trump shape-shifted into a boastful tabloid playboy in the 1980s; a self-parodic sitcom fixture in the 1990s; a reality-TV "You're Fired" machine in the 2000s; and finally, the biggest role of his career, a Fox News-obsessed, Twitter-mad, culture-warring demagogue in the White House.
Poniewozik deconstructs the chaotic Age of Trump as the 24-hour TV production that it is, decoding an era when politics has become pop culture, and vice versa. Trenchant and often slyly hilarious, Audience of One is a penetrating and sobering review of the raucous, raging, farcical reality show--performed for the benefit of an insomniac, cable-news-junkie "audience of one"--that we all came to live in, whether we liked it or not.
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James Poniewozik has been the chief television critic of the New York Times since 2015. He was previously the television and media critic for Time magazine and media columnist for Salon. He lives in Brooklyn.
Now that the Donald Trump freak show has replaced all regularly scheduled programming, staggering us daily, as one of its longtime chroniclers I'm grateful for this brilliant, lucid, and essential book to help make sense of this American nightmare.--Kurt Andersen, author of Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire
With wit, insight, and clarity, James Poniewozik puts Trump at the center of a series of changes that swept through American popular culture and political systems. Poniewozik's essential book shows how these evolutions incubated Trumpism, even as Trump's rise exposed the limits and vulnerabilities of the media, which too often found itself floundering in the face of his shameless manipulations.--Maureen Ryan, chief TV critic for Variety
This is both a fascinating look at the ways television has changed and shaped the U.S., and a compelling lens through which to look at how we got to November 8, 2016.--Booklist
The smartest, most original, most unexpectedly definitive account of the rise of Trump and Trumpism we've had so far. It's also the best book yet written about the bride-of-Frankenstein mating of American politics and American pop culture, a wedding practically nobody saw coming until Trump provided the shotgun... [An] uncommonly rich and stimulating book.--Tom Carson
A dazzling dual biography of television and Donald Trump.... The book is so rich with insights about the man and the medium that it isn't until the end that readers will realize it's still not clear how 60 million Americans could come to see an obviously phony performer as the person they wanted in the Oval Office.--Jessica T. Matthews
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2023 Toyota Crown: Features, Price, & Specs — New SUV-Like Sedan!
by Mark Putzer linkedin | More Articles: Crossovers
This article was updated for headline clarity and with the latest information.
The Toyota Crown returns to the United States following a five-decade hiatus. While the latest incarnation of the Crown is a replacement for the outgoing Avalon sedan, the Crown is not a typical sedan. With its unusual styling and raised ride height, it has both sedan and crossover SUV characteristics. This complements a roomy, upscale cabin and many premium features. Find out what we know so far about the release date, price, specs, and features of the new 2023 Toyota Crown.
When will the 2023 Toyota Crown be available?
2023 Toyota Crown | Toyota
The new 2023 Toyota Crown will be available in early 2023 at Toyota dealerships throughout the U.S. and in various international markets. Also, prospective customers can now build the Crown on the Toyota site. The Crown offers a choice of three trims: XLE, Limited, and Platinum.
How much is the 2023 Toyota Crown?
The starting price of the 2023 Toyota Crown sedan is $39,950 MSRP for the XLE trim, $45,550 for the Limited trim, and $52,350 MSRP for the Platinum trim. Compared to the outgoing 2022 Avalon, which starts at $36,825 MSRP, the Crown costs more.
2023 Crown specs: Hybrid engine options and gas mileage
The new 2023 Toyota Crown offers two hybrid engine options:
Toyota Hybrid System (2.5-liter four-cylinder engine and three electric motors): 236 horsepower
HYBRID MAX (turbocharged 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine and one electric motor): 340 horsepower
The XLE and Limited trims feature the Toyota Hybrid System and a continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT), while the top-of-the-line Platinum trim comes equipped with the more powerful HYBRID MAX and a six-speed automatic transmission. Also, all Crown models have an all-wheel drive system and selectable drive modes. Additionally, the Platinum trim has an adaptive variable suspension.
For efficiency, the Crown gets estimated gas mileage of up to 38 combined mpg for the Toyota Hybrid System. The HYBRID MAX has an estimated fuel economy of up to 28 combined mpg.
2023 Crown: Exterior and interior design and features
Compared to the outgoing Avalon sedan, the 2023 Toyota Crown has a flashier design. Also, as mentioned earlier, it has a raised ride height with crossover SUV-like characteristics. Inside the cabin, compared to the Avalon, the Crown is more upscale, especially for the Limited and Platinum trims. Additionally, it has a generous amount of passenger space.
Notable interior features offered for the Crown include heated and cooled front seats, a dual-zone climate control system, ambient interior lighting, and a panoramic sunroof. Also, notable interior technology features include a 12.3-inch infotainment touchscreen, a second 12.3-inch display for the digital cluster, a Wi-Fi hotspot, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone integration, and a wireless smartphone charging pad.
What are the color options for the Toyota Crown?
Exterior paint color options for the 2023 Toyota Crown include:
Oxygen White
Also, the Platinum trim offers two-tone color options, with black paint that extends from the hood to the trunk.
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Additionally, for warranty coverage, the 2023 Crown has a 3-year/36,000-mile basic warranty and a 5-year/60,000-mile powertrain warranty. Furthermore, it offers a free maintenance plan, with two years or 25,000 miles of coverage.
This article was updated on 11/2/2022 with the latest vehicle information.
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53,768: A Performance in Hot Metal
Ashleigh receiving her grant from NAWF vice-president Jon Roper.
Supported by the NAWF, Welsh sculptor Ashleigh Harrold is performing at this year’s International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art in Scranton, PA.
Her performance, entitled 53,768,celebrates the number of Welsh miners that emigrated to Scranton in the early 1800s and will use the two symbols of Scranton’s Welsh history - the Red Dragon and the Electric City Light Bulb.
Ashleigh will pour iron through the head of a Welsh red dragon to cascade out of the mouth and eyes into a mould of the Scranton light bulb, illustrating how the Welsh helped form the industry of iron and steel in Scranton. The mould will then be cracked open revealing a glowing bulb, much like the one seen on the Scranton Electric Building.
Ashleigh is a sculptor and hot metal artist, specializing in cast iron. A native of Tredegar in the heart of the iron-making South Wales Valleys, she attended Carmarthen School of Art from 2014-2017.
The performance takes place at the Historic Furnaces, Scranton PA. on Friday 1 June 2018 between 8-10pm
STUDENT CELEBRATES SCRANTON'S WELSH HERITAGE
A young artist from Tredegar, heart of iron smelting area of South Wales, is being helped by the NAWF to exhibit at the Conference of Contemporary Cast Iron Art in Scranton Pennsylvania this summer.
Ashleigh Harrold is a graduate of the Carmarthen School of Art, the only university in the UK teaching students to cast iron. The conference organisers invited her to present her performance sculpture consisting of a wooden and iron dragon that will emit flames through its mouth before consuming itself. The performance is named 53,678, signifying the number of people who migrated from Wales to the Scranton area in the nineteenth century.
Prof Jon Roper Vice President NAWF (Wales), described Ashleigh as a highly motivated and talented artist who was a deserved recipient of the award. Ashleigh described her work as a celebration of the Welsh-American heritage of the Scranton area. She was delighted to receive the bursary as it allowed her to book her airfare to Pennsylvania. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8019484281539917, "wiki_prob": 0.8019484281539917, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1445242"} |
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EPISODE #188: That '90s Show
January 26, 2023 • 40 min
Calling all That '70s Show fans! Have you checked out the spin-off series That '90s Show?! If you're a long time listener, you know how much we love a reboot of a classic 90's - 2000's show. In this weeks episode, we chat about the '70s show spin-off and share some fun facts about the show! From the original cast cameos to furniture on the set that was also used in the original. We hope you enjoy this episod...
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January 6, 2023 • 35 min
HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's officially 2023 and we decided that our first episode of this year is all about movies that are celebrating 20 years since their release date! We truly love so many movies on this list but also ended up feeling very old when we realized how long it's been since we first watched them. Listen to hear which ones are on the list! We hope you enjoy this episode!
EPISODE #185: Elf
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We're so excited to share this weeks episode with you! We are joined by Mitch Holleman, who played Jake Hart in the show Reba! We talk all about how Mitch got started in acting, his experience working on such an amazing show, the many celebrities who have literally lifted him up and so much more (listen to hear more about this)! We hope you enjoy this episode!
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"Casper, the friendly ghost, the friendliest ghost you know!" Today's episode is all about everyones favorite adorable ghost, Casper! We dive into the history of Casper and discuss these classic TV shows and movies. We hope you enjoy this episode!
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We've been waiting so long for Hocus Pocus 2 to be released! It's finally here! Join us as we share our thoughts on the movie and some fun behind the scenes facts!
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If you're a long time listener of our podcast, you know how much we absolutely LOVE our queen, Hilary Duff! She celebrated her birthday this past week and in honor of that, we thought it was only right to go through a list of all of her movies (ranked by IMDB rating), the amazing TV shows she's been in as well as some of our favorite Hilary Duff songs! We also discuss David's love for the McDonalds app, Rihanna's Su...
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EPISODE #178: Father of the Bride
August 18, 2022 • 47 min
We both love the Father of the Bride movies so much! We've watched them so many times and have even visited the house from the movies! This week, we're talking all about the iconic film, Father of the Bride. We share some fun facts about the film, as well as some of our favorite moments! If you also love this movie, you don't want to miss this episode!
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A Tale As Old As Time! Beauty and the Beast is a one of our favorite Disney animated films about finding true love! In this weeks episode, we dive into this Disney classic and share some fun facts about the film. We also came across an article stating the Beasts real name?! Or, what some think is his real name... listen to find out what we mean! Be Our Guest and join us in this episode as dive into in the magical world of Beauty an...
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If you've listened to us before, you know how much we both love Big Brother! We're so excited to find someone else who loves the show as much as we do, if not more! This week we're joined by Madison McGhee, who hosts the podcast On the Block. We talk all about her podcast, this season of Big Brother, and some of Madison's 90's-2000's favorites. Listen now!
Hocus Pocus with Jason Marsden: Best of BTTB #4
The cult classic Hocus Pocus celebrated its 29th anniversary this week! And yes, this Halloween movie was originally released in July! To celebrate one of our favorite Halloween movies anniversary, we are bringing you our fourth "Best of Back to the Best" episode and revisit an awesome interview we had with Jason Marsden who voiced Thackary Binx in the original Hocus Pocus! Jason also voiced Max Goof in A Goofy Movie and wa...
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Aloha BTTB Ohana! Lilo & Stitch recently celebrated it’s 20th anniversary since the film was released and you know we couldn't let this pass without doing an episode all about it! In this episode, we are back with some 90’s - 2000’s news & birthdays and some awesome fun facts about Lilo & Stitch! We both love this movie so much and had a blast learning more about this iconic Disney movie. We hope you enjoy!
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We're both huge fans of The Proud Family and All That and are SO excited about this week's episode! We're joined by Alisa Reyes, who was one of the original All That cast members, and who voices LaCienega in The Proud Family and the Disney+ revival, The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder. We had such an amazing time chatting with her about these iconic shows and so much more! Listen now!
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This week we are joined by our hilarious friend Lucy Drew! Lucy is a comedian who is also studying to be a Psychotherapist, a killer combination! In this weeks epsisode, Lucy gives us both an in depth Co-Star reading, shares a hilarious story about how she got asked to Prom and of course, we talk out favorites DCOM's and 90's - 2000's favorites. We hope you laugh as much as we did recording this one!
EPISODE #171: The Hellmouth Con Recap
Last weekend we got the chance to attend The Hellmouth Con in LA! It was a weekend celebrating shows and movies like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Hocus Pocus, Bring It On and more! We're doing a full recap in this week's episode, and including a clip from Clare Kramer's q&a where we got to ask her a very important question about Buffy and Bring It On! Listen now! | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5464684367179871, "wiki_prob": 0.45353156328201294, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line34539"} |
Arsenal 3-1 Stoke: Gunners win, Ramsey scores in Ozil's home debut
Arsenal's midfield and defense supplied the team's attack, and Ozil sparkled, supplying three goals.
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Mesut Ozil may only (only!) have had two assists in his home debut, but he supplied all three goals as Arsenal defeated a less-kicky-but-still-annoying Stoke City. In an odd reversal of roles, all three Arsenal goals came on set pieces, while Stoke held possession and scored on a 20-yard strike by a defender. Who knew? Aaron Ramsey scored early, as an Ozil free kick was parried away by Asmir Begovic directly into his path. After a Geoff Cameron (yeah) equalizer, headers from Per Mertesacker and Bacary Sagna put Arsenal ahead and put the game to bed, respectively.
It was a bit of an odd game, in that Arsenal didn't really play all that well while the ball was actually in play. The passing was not as sharp as you might expect from an Arsenal team (particularly one with Mesut Ozil in it) but it was good enough, for the most part.
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MARKET OVERVIEW – WEEK 44 / 2022 – Since October 31 to November 06 / 2022
Banana selling prices in St. Petersburg ranged from USD 22.50 to USD 24.10 per box CIF. Around 1.92 million boxes were discharged in week 44, and 2.03 million are expected for week 45. November 4 was Unity Day -also called Day of People's Unity -, a public holiday in the Russian Federation. The exchange rate between the USD and the Ruble was almost the same as the previous week,1 USD=61.62 Ruble.
During the week ending October 24, 2022, the year-over-year inflation rate in Russia was measured at 12.88 percent, down from 13.1 percent measured over the previous week. The growth in consumer prices at the end of February and March 2022 was caused by the war in Ukraine and subsequent international sanctions on Russia.
Prices in the Mediterranean were USD 13.00-14.00 per box CIF according to brand, region, and volume. Prices in the Mersin Free Zone ranged from USD 14.00 per box and up to USD 16.00-16.50 per box for the re-exported fruit.
The higher prices were paid for good quality bananas of Ecuadorian origin and cartons of higher weight. Lower prices were paid for old bananas from previous shipments kept in cold storage or of Central American origin. The market was depressed, although lower volumes of bananas arrived -a total of around 150 FEUS, according to local traders. The exchange rate between the USD and the Turkish slightly worsened compared to the previous week, with 1 USD = 18.62 Lira.
Prices in Iran were almost identical to the previous week, but the local currency lost further ground to the US currency, and the exchange rate was 1 USD=345.000 IRR.
The Rial might continue losing ground to the USD for the turmoil and street protests affecting the Persian country. There were no bananas from the Philippines discharged at Bushehr during the week.
In a very peculiar activity, prices in the Ecuadorian Spot market ranged from USD 13.00 and up to USD 15.00 per box, only for the fruit during the week. The crops were still affected by lower temperatures and short periods of solar luminosity, which hindered the growth of the bananas. Large volumes of fruit didn’t reach the required grade to be exported due to the adverse weather conditions influenced by the Niña phenomenon expected to affect Ecuador until February or even later. Production was reduced, and there was a drop in crops by up to 50% in some producing areas. Shippers with difficulties in completing their shipments were the ones who paid the higher prices. According to industry sources, production is not expected to improve because of low bagging.
Regarding the Chartering Market shipments of citrus from Morocco started during the week, with the first vessel destined for the US east coast, and more shipments will follow from Agadir to Russia.
The expected frequency is to be 2-3 vessels per week, including both destinations.
Larger volumes are expected to be moved by Specialized Reefer Vessels in about four weeks.
With the start of the cherry shipments from Chile to China, 4-5 Specialized Reefer Vessels are expected to be employed.
Also, the Chile-USA grape trade is expected to start later in December.
One Specialized Reefer Vessel of about 353,000 cubic ft operated by Japanese interests was fixed at a non-disclosed rate to perform a banana voyage from Ecuador to Russia.
According to brokers, at least four large vessels were fixed for one year, at rates rumored to be over 115 US Cents per cbft, per month for that period.
Some smaller vessels were employed in the fish trade and potato shipments from Northern Europe to Northern Africa.
In general, rates for Specialized Reefer Vessels are expected to be higher than the previous year.
Time Charter rates remained at almost similar levels to the previous week:
US Cents 95-100 per cbft, per month for larger vessels
US Cents 80-90 per cbft, per month for smaller ships.
Bunker prices:
VLSFO MGO
Gibraltar $ 680.50 $ 1,229.00
Rotterdam $ 633.50 $ 1,017.00
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The Last Word: You Can’t Be Syria’s
Sep 1, 2006 | Jeremy Jones
You Can’t Be Syria’s
It can’t be easy being the diplomatic representative of Syria in Australia. The job description would include putting a gloss on the Baathist regime, with its strong ideological roots in European fascism of the 1930s. Added to this is the fact the Baathists in Syria have failed their people economically, socially, culturally, politically and on the diplomatic level.
Keysar Trad: sought by Marxists and racists alike
With a ruler who is almost universally derided as an incompetent coward with a thuggish streak, Syria would logically be a hard case to sell. To add to these standard woes, Syria has come under attack in recent days by nearly all its comrade states in the Arab League, after the aforementioned President called Middle Eastern leaders “half men” for not giving more support to Iran’s pet murderers, Hezbollah.
So where can a Syrian Ambassador find friends? Well, there are always university campuses, which throw open their figurative arms to apologists for virtually any ideology or political obscenity.
Given Syria’s open and public promotion of crude anti-Jewish stereotyping, there is also the reliable gang of far-right political fringe dwellers, which has a track record of cynicism and hypocrisy on issues of Arabs and Muslims, who on one hand appear as demonic threats to white civilisation but on the other hand are perceived as comrades-in-arms against Jews.
Back in 1998, the Holocaust deniers of the Adelaide Institute hosted the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates at the first “Australian Revisionist Conference”, so it was not completely surprising to see that the publicity for the 2006 “Sydney Forum” promoted a “Special Guest”, His Excellency Tamman Sulaiman, Ambassador of the Syrian Republic.
In the publicity, the organisers of this annual gathering of far-right wingers wrote, “It is the view of the Sydney Forum that no Australian soldiers should be employed in the Middle East in roles that inevitably serve Zionism and the American agenda. Perhaps the views of Syria deserve real consideration in defining the issues.”
The decision to invite a Muslim, any Muslim, created tension within the far-right and the acceptance of the invitation upset a few Arabic speaking opponents of the Sydney Forum crowd.
At the time of writing, the Australia First Party is promoting the Syrian as a speaker while an anti-racist group is claiming that he has cancelled his engagement.
Meanwhile, the far left-wingers have a Sydney Forum equivalent, in which they celebrate the relevance of Marxism to contemporary humanity in much the way the Sydney Forum celebrates the contribution of race-based nationalism. High on the list of speakers in promotional material is that most un-Marxist of speakers, Keysar Trad.
Given Marxism’s view of religion, it might appear a little odd to have this conference promote a one man bandwagon who spruiks a conservative variety of a faith which includes tenets fundamentally opposed to Marxism.
But just as the Sydney Forum could find a place for a Syrian diplomat in their coalition against “Zionism”, Australia’s Marxists slotted Mr. Trad into a session on “where the US war is headed and the growth of resistance”.
When justifying his own address to the right-wing rabble known as the Australian League of Rights a few years ago, Mr. Trad told me that he would unapologetically address any group willing to listen to him defend Islamic peoples from outside intervention. But the issue is not so much of one of Mr. Trad’s crusade, but of the intellectual corruption and ideological dishonesty of those who have invited him to speak.
When observing recent rallies in support of Hezbollah, one could not but be bemused to see people marching in support of a group with an ideology so fundamentally opposed to their own human rights.
It appears that, for some in Australia, unity against “Zionism” exists on a higher moral plane than ideological consistency and a higher practical plane than objective self-interest.
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S02EP02: ‘The Granddaddy’ with True Lewis
Germany, Military History, Slavery, USA
In the second episode of Series Two – The Granddaddy – Andrew gets to meet genealogist True Lewis. He’ll be finding out how she got started in her research, what challenges she has faced in researching her enslaved African-American ancestors, how she joined the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and about her work with Nicka Sewell-Smith as one of the hosts of Black Pro Gen Live.
S02EP02 – 'The Granddaddy' with True Lewis – The Family Histories Podcast
Also available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and others…
The Life Story:
Ike Ivery
True chose her Great Great Grandfather, Isaac ‘Ike’ Ivery for her Life Story.
Ike was born into slavery to William and Minta Ivey in approximately 1853, in Alabama. The family added the ‘r’ to create the family name ‘Ivery’ when they were emancipated in Alabama, thus diluting their connection from slave owner Mr Ivey.
Ike married True’s Great Great Grandmother Mary Haynes in 1875, and he would go on to be married three times – Mary Haynes, Mary Henry and Berta Hatcher, with his marriages resulting in a total of 23 children.
True’s family clearly has very fond memories of Ike and they have held family reunions which have seen 300 people attend, and True even made a documentary about his life, and you really get a sense of love, celebration, and respect for him throughout True’s telling of his life story.
It sounds like he was also a familiar face in his community through his work as a local farmer, and through his chaplaincy at the Mt. Coney Missionary Baptist Church that he helped found, and in which he laid in state upon his death in 1937.
The Brick Wall:
Anna Maria Lambert
It’s off to Albany Township, Berks County in Pennsylvania, USA to see if we can break down one of True’s long-standing research brick walls – her 5x Great Grandmother Anna Maria Lambert.
Anna Maria, sometimes recorded as Anna Mary, was born June 19th, 1764, in Albany Township, but it’s unclear who her parents were. True has heard rumours that her parents were Dorothea Zimmerman and Nicholas Lambert, but she’s not sure, and hasn’t seen documented evidence for herself. To add to this, Anna’s death date is not certain either – it is believed to be somewhere between 1820 and 1829 – ambiguous due to a broken headstone in Marklesville, Pennsylvania.
It is known that Anna married in 1783 to Nicholas Barrick (True’s Patriot ancestor), but even the location of this marriage is a bit vague – other than possibly in Tyrone Township or in Berks County also in Pennsylvania.
In her searching, True has run DNA tests with most commercial family history testing companies, and her mitochondrial (female line) ancestor group, which contains Anna Maria Lambert, is U5b1c2.
If you think that you can help True to break through her research brick wall, then you can contact her on her website or over on her twitter profile @MyTrueRoots. Alternatively, you can send her a message via our Contact form, and we’ll pass it on.
In the meantime, True is very happy to accept Andrew’s offer of help, but her enthusiasm might just come at a cost…
Episode Credits:
Series Two, Episode Two
Andrew Martin: Host & Producer
True Lewis: Guest
Alabama, Albany, Anna Maria Lambert, Daughters Of The American Revolution, Ike Ivery, Pennsylvania, Slavery, The American Revolution, True Lewis
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Sep 20, 2020 - Politics & Policy
How the Biden campaign protects the candidate's health on the campaign trail
Hans Nichols, author of Axios Sneak Peek
Joe Biden speaks with reporters as he arrives at Duluth International Airport in Minnesota. Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
Traveling with Joe Biden's press corps shows how the campaign juggles an intense focus on protecting his health, with an imperative to keep the coronavirus at the top of voters' minds.
Driving the news: I got to see this firsthand on Friday, when it was Axios' turn to serve as the print pooler for his trip to Minnesota. The timing meant I also happened to be in the bubble when Biden learned of and reacted to the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
In the air: The Gulfstream IV that flew Biden to Duluth, Minnesota, had an air cabin refresh rate of three minutes.
There were only 11 passengers in the main cabin, with a total capacity of 16.
On board, everyone was required to wear an N95 mask.
All staff and security in close proximity to Biden are tested regularly.
The press: Instead of dozens of reporters crowded in the back of a candidate’s plane, the rotating press pool, which shares its reporting with other news organizations, traveled in a separate plane.
For the 2½-hour flight to Duluth, 12 of us were spread out in a 36-seat Embraer 135, giving everyone their own row.
Reporters took temperature tests before boarding a press bus in the morning.
On the ground: Tape marked up the shop floor, letting press, carpenters and the candidate know where they could go. “I want to stand on my x,” Biden said at one point.
The shop was cleaned by multiple crews, with at least two sanitizing sessions.
Chairs for reporters were encircled by plastic rings, twice the size of hula hoops.
But there wasn't much social distancing during a tarmac gaggle, with reporters elbow-to-elbow together, straining to hear Biden through his mask over the jet engines.
Why it matters: Biden has staked his campaign on how he would have handled COVID-19 differently than President Trump, and he makes a point of strictly adhering to CDC safety protocols and individual state guidelines.
The mask is more than cosmetic for Biden: When his cloth mask kept slipping down his nose, he excused himself and changed to a surgical one.
Between the lines: A critique of Biden's social distancing on the campaign trail has been that it minimizes his interactions with the press corps.
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