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Volume 17 Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Agricultural, Commercial, Ecological, Legal, Pharmacological and Social Aspects
Bogers, Robert J.; Craker, Lyle E.; Lange, Dagmar (Eds.) 2006, XVIII, 309 p., Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5448-8
This book presents the opinions of an international panel of specialists that explored the agricultural, commercial, ecological, legal, pharmacological and social future of medicinal and aromatic plants. It represents a wide collection of views, reflecting the diversity of disciplines and interests of the panel members. It highlights the necessity of continued and integrated research on plant sources, conservation, bioactivity, analysis and marketing in examining future scenarios for application and sale of medicinal and aromatic plants. It shows the need for proof of efficacy and safety in drug development and the need to recognize societies contributing plant materials.
The development of safe and effective medicinal and aromatic plant products depends upon the collaborative efforts of growers, collectors, conservationists, processors and businesses along with those of educators, sociologists, researchers and investors in developed and developing societies. This book shows the progress that can be made by further developing this collaboration to enhance the discovery, production and use of medicinal and aromatic plants.
Researchers, educators, policy makers and comercial firms working with medicinal and aromatic Plants. Anthropologists, economists, patent lawyers, botanists, nature conservationists, food processors, pharmacologists and medical professions
The challenge of non-experimental validation of mac plants: towards a multivariate model of transcultural utilization of medicinal, aromatic and cosmetic plants
L.J. Slikkerveer
Medicinal plants and tomorrow's pharmacy: an American perspective
L.E. Craker, Z.E. Gardner
Cultivation of medicinal plants as a tool for biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation in the Amatola region, South Africa
K.F. Wiersum, A.P. Dold, M. Husselman, M. Cocks
Conversations with farmers in Sri Lanka
T. Flaster
Connecting the disadvantaged to the uninformed: problematic business communication in medicinal and aromatic plants industry
A. Brown
A comparison of cultivation and wild collection of medicinal and aromatic plants under sustainability aspects
U. Schippmann, D. Leaman, A.B. Cunningham
Sustainable wild collection of medicinal and aromatic plants: development of an international standard
D.J. Leaman
Revision of the 'Guidelines on the conservation of medicinal plants' by WHO, IUCN, WWF and TRAFFIC: process and scope
W. Kathe
Intellectual property protection for medicinal and aromatic plants
G. Van Overwalle
Amidst peril and progress: conservation of diversity and patent law
J. Koopman
International trade in medicinal and aromatic plants: actors, volumes and commodities
D. Lange
Designing for development: principles and practices of a sustainable medicinal plant chain in North India
P. Van de Kop, A. Ghayur
Devil´s Claw (Harpagophytum procumbens) from Southern Africa: sustainable use by cultivation combined with controlled harvesting in semi-wild populations
E. Schneider, J. Sanders, D. Von Willert
Conservation of Eastern-European medicinal plants: Arnica montana in Romania
What is marketing? A brief introduction to marketing for participants in the MAP industry
Demand and availability of Rhodiola rosea raw material
B. Galambosi
Drying of medicinal plants
J. Müller, A. Heindl
Quality control in the production chain of herbal products
M.J. Groot, J. Van der Roest
Plants as source for medicines: new perspectives
R. Verpoorte, H.K. Kim, Y.H. Choi
Research to improve the artemisinin production for use in the preparation of anti-malarial drugs
H. Bouwmeester, C. Bertea, J.W. De Kraker, F. Verstappen, M. Franssen
Functional genomic approaches to study and engineer secondary metabolism in plant cell cultures
N. Terryn, M. Van Montagu, D. Inzé, A. Goossens
The schweinfurthins: issues in the development of a plant-derived anticancer lead
J.A. Beutler, J.G. Jato, G. Cragg, D.F. Wiemer, J.D. Neighbors, M. Salnikova, M. Hollingshead, D.A. Scudiero, T.G. McCloud
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Grayling invests in senior strategic and creative hires in London and Manchester
26 April 2021 (updated 26 April 2021) | By Berith Hagvaag | 0 Comments
Grayling today announces the appointment of two new senior hires with Bronwyn Fieldgate joining the agency as Head of Strategy and Andy Garner as Creative Director.
Fieldgate joins Grayling from Ogilvy where she was a managing partner and strategic lead across the agency’s Walgreen’s Boots Alliance portfolio of brands. Prior to Ogilvy she was Planning Director at M&C Saatchi PR.
Garner, who will be based at Grayling Manchester, joins after a decade spent within the Engine group, most recently at MHP and Mischief. Both hires join IGNITE – Grayling’s central global strategic and creative team – with Garner acting as the agency’s first dedicated IGNITE hub outside of the London office. Fieldgate and Garner’s appointment is the latest in a continued investment from Grayling into its strategic, creative and design capabilities and follows client wins, including Badoo and MoreThan.
Commenting on the hire, Fieldgate says: “Grayling is moving at such a great pace and we’re really accelerating the strategic expertise we provide to clients. It’s a unique agency – a regional UK footprint that can’t be matched, a top-class network abroad, and of course a powerhouse London office. Add to that the combination of disciplines we offer and the fact that our talent is down-to-earth, happy and collaborative, the company feels perfectly positioned for where the communications industry is moving.”
Garner says: “I’ve always strongly believed that creativity exists outside of the M25 and Grayling clearly recognises that. I’m looking forward to helping to strengthen and grow Grayling’s foothold across the North but also tapping into the incredible creative minds that the area has to offer. The Beatles, LS Lowry, James Rodriguez… The North has long history of producing and attracting brilliant creatives and the future is just as interesting. Grayling has incredible teams serving both local and national clients and it’s really exciting to be building out our creative offer in the work we do across the region and beyond.”
Commenting on the hires, Nathan Kemp, Grayling’s global head of strategy and creative says: “Bronwyn and Andy are formidable – with talent like this joining the agency alongside the wider team there’s good reason PR Week named Grayling as a one to watch in 2021. We’ve invested heavily and consistently in ensuring we put brilliant strategic and creative thinking at the heart of everything we do, not just in London but across the Grayling network and these hires will ensure we can continue to do that as our client base grows, globally and locally.”
MORE THAN goes the extra mile with Grayling
31 March 2021 | By Berith Hagvaag | 0 Comments
Grayling has been appointed as a retained PR agency for MORE THAN insurance, part of RSA Group, as the insurer looks to build more emotional connections with consumers and reinforce its purpose of ‘doing more’ in the UK’s insurance sector.
Grayling will be responsible for driving brand awareness for MORE THAN across its home, motor and pet product lines, as well as providing creative communications and strategic counsel for the brand.
MORE THAN, first launched in 2001 with a mission to freshen up the consumer finance market, is currently undertaking a revamp of its marketing strategy across PR, social, digital and ATL. Brand communications is being underpinned by principles based on simplicity, ‘more-ness’ and forward-thinking to position MORE THAN as an insurer going the extra mile for customers, delivering more than words and treating customers as individuals.
Jonathan Curtis, Managing Director at Grayling, says: “We’re thrilled to be working with MORE THAN to reconnect consumers with its original brand ethos of doing more through compelling storytelling. As the UK’s best-connected agency, this brief plays right into our strengths of understanding both local nuances right through to what is happening at a national level. We’re excited about working in partnership with MORE THAN as it enters a milestone anniversary this year and deliver insight-led and creative campaigns.”
As part of the new brand refresh, MORE THAN recently launched a new website, putting simplicity, ease of use and care at the heart of its design.
James Loder, Chief Marketing Officer at MORE THAN, says: “PR and communications play a vital role in insurance, giving consumers reassurance that their provider will go above and beyond when they need them most, but also through using our insights to guide them on ways they can best manage their risks.
“Grayling stood out for us as the agency that can get truly get under the skin of the issues facing our customers, and has already been helping us creatively communicating how we as MORE THAN can be part of the solution.
“As MORE THAN celebrates 20 years of going above and beyond for our customers, we’re looking forward to beginning this new chapter with Grayling to deliver emotive, category-leading campaigns that puts more-ness front and centre.”
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Grayling creates a hair-raising social experiment to protect people against fraud
17 December 2020 (updated 22 February 2021) | By Berith Hagvaag | 0 Comments
It’s not every day that a trip to the barbers can help protect you against fraud; but that’s exactly what we did in a recent stunt and creative campaign for Lloyds Bank.
In the first half of 2020, there were over 1.4 million cases of fraud, totalling £582 million of financial losses. Despite this, more than eight out of 10 Brits (81%) say they could spot a scam, with men in particular being most confident.
This confidence however, is misplaced, with only 1 in 10 being aware of the most common scams or understanding how social media data is being increasingly used for financial fraud.
Lloyds Bank is committed to fighting fraud. Working with their experts, we designed a campaign to help people protect themselves, by making them think twice about what they share on social media.
Step inside Johnny’s Chop Shop – an iconic barbershop in central London and home to our fraud awareness stunt.
Our barbers scanned the public social media profiles of each unassuming customer, to find out as much as they could about them.
The last place they went on holiday? Check. Marital status? Check. Mum’s name? Check. Armed with this information, along with the scissors and shampoo, our barbers started to drop these anecdotes into conversation, while customers were in the chair. And we filmed the results.
A mix of surprise, shock, nervous laughter and suspicion, as our barbers revealed more and more personal details about their new customers. And if we could find all this out, so could a fraudster, couldn’t they?
This high-impact stunt got everyone talking about online fraud and social media – with 40+ pieces of media coverage, reaching a quarter of all Brits. We further amplified the campaign through a partnership with LadBible, with 300,000 followers taking an Instagram quiz about the latest techniques scammers are using.
And the result? 75% of people who saw the campaign said they will think twice about what they post on social media in future. This increased to 79% of men – a real result.
Want to find out more about this campaign or how we can help you? Contact [email protected].
Communications in 2021: What Does the Future Hold?
9 December 2020 (updated 22 February 2021) | By Ayer Mehmet | 0 Comments
Well, no one saw 2020 coming… Picking the bones out of a year defined by COVID-19 can seem difficult – but there have been some clear themes. For example, we’ve seen an incredible acceleration in digital transformation, while tech brands have also been forced to think about what they should communicate.
As technology PR heads put their communications plans together for 2021, I want to explore four themes that will define the near future for communications.
The COVID-19 legacy
Despite the rollout of a new vaccine, it’s highly unlikely that we will suddenly flock back to the way things were before the pandemic. I think we’ll see more people working both from home and the office. Work-life balance, support and professional development for staff is going to be a huge differentiator when it comes to attracting talent.
Positively, budgets are likely to pick up in 2021 with increased hiring set to follow. We are also all looking forward to attending live events, and we know nothing can replace the value of meeting face-to-face, especially for the first time. However, the virus has pushed many events to be adapted online, reaching huge audiences at low cost. I believe that we’ll see innovative online events continue to play a key role in tech communications during 2021. Online interactions are not fruitless after all, as we’ve seen at Grayling over the last 12 months, having both won new business and delivered great work this year for clients that we’ve only ever met on Microsoft Teams.
Brexit will cast a long shadow
It’s already December and we’re still not clear what the UK-EU relationship will look like, more than four years after the referendum. What is clear is that there will be an impact on recruitment. British PR firms, for instance, looking to access talent from EU countries will face new difficulties that will make hiring from abroad less attractive. The detail is yet to be finalised, but my hope is that Brexit does not impair our ability to hire the best talent, wherever those people come from.
Brexit also has potential impacts on the way we handle data in the UK and is set to dominate the news agenda during 2021, as the pros and cons of leaving the European Union become clear. This will have a knock-on effect for UK-based tech companies and those that do business here. As spokespeople for the tech sector, we should be ready to support the sector as it goes through this uncertain period – and continue to bang the drum for our world-leading technology industry in a post-Brexit world.
Communicators will just need to continue to be flexible.
Social media literacy more vital than ever
PR communicators need to think more carefully than ever before about how their campaigns could be perceived to avoid a backlash across social channels. At a time when many consumers and businesses are feeling under pressure, brands need to ensure they have their finger on the pulse and ‘read the room’ effectively. It is important to get a wide consensus on any campaign ideas before you commit to them and open them up for scrutiny with online audiences.
And then there is the rise of TikTok. The platform continues to have real momentum and I think it poses a real threat to the dominance of the other main social networks. We can expect it to play a key role in Europe, although its future direction in the US may well depend on how the new administration views the platform.
Video content is the most persuasive content format for the C-suite, this medium is still under-utilised in business-to-business marketing, in particular. I’m also interested to see how business leaders use LinkedIn’s new Stories function or Fleets on Twitter as we go into 2021.
The rise of B2B influencers
Influencers are going to grow in importance and continue to host valuable platforms for tech brands to reach their target audiences, especially for many business-focused brands that may not have considered working with influencers before.
At Grayling, we ran a very successful B2B campaign for Kaspersky this summer with the help of two thought leaders in their field. The webinar we hosted as part of this campaign provided two conflicting viewpoints which really helped us see thought-provoking sides of a critical argument and create a solid piece of long-tail content that continues to deliver coverage and links to our client. The key is to make sure the influencers you choose to work with have reach and credibility, and that they are a suitable brand fit.
It looks likely that we’ll see even more competition for creativity in both B2B and consumer-facing tech marketing.
Recent action from the UK Competitions and Markets Authority led to the Facebook-owned platform Instagram committing to doing more to prevent hidden advertising on the social network. The PR industry must be more stringent on disclosure and make sure it is built into their influencer contracts.
So, those are four key areas that will define tech communications in 2021. Let us see what the new year brings…
If you’d like to discuss how Grayling can support you in 2021, please drop me a line on [email protected]
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Did Westerners Fight alongside VC/NVA in Vietnam War?
In August, 1970, when I served with the 25th Division Wolfhounds outside of Dau Tieng near the Black Virgin Mountain, our company once spotted a blond caucasian male with a squad of NVA soldiers. He was hatless and wore green fatigues but we couldn’t spot an ammo vest or weapon. We didn’t fire at him thinking that he may be a prisoner(?) and didn’t want to hit him so we lit up those behind him. However, when the led started flying, he didn’t try to escape his captors(?), and instead, took off running with them. I’ve later heard that Russia had sent over military advisors to North Vietnam, but I seriously doubt any of them had ventured that far south and actually accompanied a ground unit. Never did find the blonde guy – dead or alive and God knows we looked for him. Anybody witness or hear of something similar? Who was this mysterious White Cong , White VC, or Super Charlie?
Another of the unsolved stories of the Vietnam War has to do with persistent reports that two Americans, one Caucasian and one dark-complexioned — nicknamed Salt and Pepper — were seen on many occasions operating with PAVN forces in I Corps.
Reports of Salt and Pepper span several years, are focused in a fairly small area of I Corps, and all reports are quite similar. The consistency of these reports is enough to convince US intelligence that something was going on there. I was never part of any of the work done on Salt and Pepper. Most of that was done during the war and, when I arrived in DIA, there was only the file (a large file) and we were not working on it, though I did read through it.
The bottom line is that there was never any firm identification established of Salt and Pepper. Most reports come from members of US combat units who report that, in the midst of a firefight, they observed a “black guy and a white guy” with the PAVN. Others report seeing only the white guy, others only the black guy. Some reports claim that one or the other of Salt and Pepper called out. People who claimed to have seen Salt and Pepper were shown photographs of missing Americans. While many guys picked out photos, there was no consistency to the selected photos sufficient to identify one guy as Salt or Pepper.
The reports consistently identified:
Salt as white; 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet; dark hair; medium to slender build.
Pepper as African-American or Hispanic; 5 feet 6 inches or so; black hair; medium build.
So, who were Salt and Pepper?
Could have been American deserters.
Could have been French colonial troops or Legionnaires. There were (are) some of those who stayed in Vietnam after the French withdrawl
Could have been from some third country serving as observers or advisors.
Other theories?
In looking through the internet, I’ve been unsuccessful in finding any information to support either of the above theories. I did find that of over 4,000 deserters during the Vietnam War Era, only 249 soldiers actually deserted while in-country. Many of them have come forward, but some remain as MIA. When amnesty was declared, many of these former soldiers turned themselves in. Dozens have chosen to remain in other countries outside of the U.S. since receiving citizenship during that time. Yet a handful remain hiding within the U.S.. A few have been found and charged, the latest, a man in the state of Georgia, who was arrested while filing for his social security pension and Medicare. Personally, I will never forgive any of them!
Here is a copy of the newspaper article referencing our experience with the blonde soldier:
Vol 5 No. 31 TROPIC LIGHTNING NEWS August 17, 1970
Caucasian Seen With Foe
By SGT DAN DAVIS
FSB LYNCH – A male blonde Caucasian was spotted among a group of enemy soldiers by the Wolfhounds of Alfa Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry near here recently.
As the point element of Charlie Company, a scout dog and handler from the 66th Scout Dog Platoon, approached a small clearing, the animal alerted to the presence of the enemy. The team moved to the edge of the clearing and spotted two enemy moving away from them and slightly across their path.
The handler opened fire and wounded one of them, causing him to drop his AK-47 and run into the woods.
Following heavy blood trails and numerous other visual signs, the Wolfhounds spotted another group of six to eight NVA soldiers – this time with an unusual addition.
One of the men was a blonde Caucasian.
“I was ready to fire,” said Staff Sergeant Joseph Burnett of Tryon, N.C., who was near the front of the Wolfhound element. “But I saw this blonde guy in the middle. “They were in line and heading away from us, about to go into the woods,” Burnett continued. “I figured the guy must be a prisoner, and I didn’t want to shoot him. So I engaged those behind him. He didn’t seem to try to escape but ran with the rest of the NVA into the woodline where we lost them.”
Along with the one rifle, the enemy left behind five rucksacks containing medical supplies and clothing.
The identity of the stranger remains a mystery.
My friend and Aussie brother, Barney Bigwood, sent this to me after publishing this article:
Caucasian Cong John Podlaski from Aussie Press . There are other sightings recorded in thev Official Unit War Diaries available online from the Australian War Memorial collections.
Information for this article obtained from:
MIA Facts site – http://www.miafacts.org/aa.htm
Tropic Lightning News – http://www.25thida.org/TLN/tln5-31.htm
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34 thoughts on “Did Westerners Fight alongside VC/NVA in Vietnam War?”
Dick. Rosser says:
I was with HMM-164 and flew 842 combat missions in 1967-1968. I rescued 2 survivors of a 3rd Force Recon team that had escaped and evaded an ambush with a black American wearing a red sash they claim they killed. Another 1st Force Recon extract of a team that ambushed NVA/VC near Da Nang led by a 6′ white man believed to be Russian or American.
Colonel Dick Rosser, USMC (Ret.)
Donnie Parker says:
I searched for this story and am so happy that I found it, because my best friend had told me about the blonde traitor who was fighting with the North Vietnamese against our troops. He told me this story way back in 1975 after I first met him, and I never forgot about it because it was so strange to me. We both worked together for 30 years for Gulf/Chevron Chemicals Co. in Baytown Texas. My friends name was David L. Harvison and was a very proud Marine from Pritchard Alabama and I loved him dearly. He has since passed away due to cancer from agent orange. He claimed to have seen this guy he said they called blondie, that he said was kind of like a phantom of sorts, and that they had seen him on several different occasions. He said that by the time that he and his fellow Marines figured out that he was the enemy, no one was ever able to get a shot at him again. He told me that just knowing that blondie was still out there somewhere had always haunted him. He took that to his grave! I want to thank you for your story on the blonde guy because he has haunted me as well, just knowing that such a person like that existed…to me…has made Viet Nam an even scarier mysterious place!
Claims the ‘Red Sash’ deserter was killed:
“Machine gunner LCpl Herrera was killed on the Thuong Duc plateau. Before dying, he killed the infamous traitor, ‘Red Sash.'”
From the Frederick J. Vogel Collection (COLL/5577) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division.
Sonny Guizzetti says:
In all wars, I’m sure there are these traitors. Sad to say but the enemy hates them also and their rewards are met out.
Aubrey sizemore says:
I was with the 3rd of the 506th 101st. I don’t know anything about salt and pepper, or anything about westerners working with the enemy. I did see a small white boy with very blonde hair while we were near nam be tuit (spelling). He was with a large group of villagers. I can’t say for sure but they may have been mountain nerds. We all looked at a large blonde fellow named Reed in our platoon and laughed as if he may have been responsible in some way. There was a white male somewhere. That’s my story and I am sticking to it. I a not sure about the location that we were at.
Frank Evans says:
See My chapter of Stand To… A Journey to Manhood near the end of the book of the tank attack on Ben Het SF camp. Russian radio traffic, Russian operating manuals and bits of Russian uniforms in the NVA destroyed tanks. I was there. Frank Evans
Grant ota says:
There was white marine private Robert garwood. (Wasn’t blond). Captured 1965 not released till 1979! supposed traitor was credited for going into field yelling in loudspeakers outside FSB trying to encourage American soldiers to surrender and there is black McKinnely Nolan defected late in war to NVA/NLF and later to Khmer Rouge. Later executed by Khmer Rouge after wars end. their stories tie into another mystery/controversy remaining from vietnam war. Were American POWs withheld after 1973?
As for the blonde cong I think all fingers point to covert Soviet or eastern bloc advisors going into field with VC/NVA. Although no official proof. If u read Mac v sog books they mention dropping a few Chinese PLA advisors that would accompany Nva units down ho chi Minh trail in Laos. Plausible to think Soviet or eastern bloc advisors would be come across in the field.
I was assigned to the 571st MI Detachment, 525 MI Group, from 1971-72. There were 3-4 times in which Salt and Pepper, operating as a VC Propaganda Team, were sighted west of Chu Lai. Each time, I would contact the local Special Forces team and they would go looking for them. Never heard if the Salt and Pepper team were caught or not.
The only time I have ever seen or heard of a NVA helo in Vietnam (or elsewhere) was recently in Vietnam magazine (October 2016 issue) in an article entitled, “Somehow Blow the Bridge.”
The Holy Sow says:
I almost forgot to say that there were many PRC PLA soldiers under orders to fight alongside the NVA in Nam from communist China. HC Trail is HCM Trail as I made an error.Even the ROC/Taiwan sent their soldiers and pilots to Nam.
Good article. Actually many Cubans,Russians and PRC Chinese were in the field as an adviser for the NVA. The US mil code was sold to the Russians by the USN John Walker under the false name of Ramon Garcia helped the Soviets to assign many field advisers out of sight of American troops in Nam.Did you know that NVA gave field tours to many rebel leaders (Yasser Arafat,etc) courtesy of the Soviets at that time.Yes they visited the RVN without a valid passport via the HC Trail and ended in Saigon as the final destination of tour.
Mitchell Miller says:
Good article. I was told in March 1970 by an officer who was DEROS out that the 101st had chased a male with red hair and hit the treeline he ran to with artillery. No body discovered. Later that summer I was battalion artillery ops when one of the 196th LIB snipers radioed that he had his rifle on a tall non asian male. He asked for clearance to kill him and I gave it after checking on known POWs. When the sniper was about to make the shot the tall male and his three asian companions disappeared into a cave.
James S. Mathison says:
In October or November of 1969, I was flying backseat for an insertion of troops from the 9th ARVN Division in the Mekong Delta. During the LZ prep by the gunships, I received a frantic radio call from an individual on the ground requesting that we immediately cease fire. He claimed to be an American advisor with VN troops from the local district, conducting operations in the area. He had a distinctly American accent, and I could hear the sound of our rockets impacting near him. We had not been informed of any district troops operating in the area, but I called the district HQ on my other radio anyway. They confirmed that they had no one in the area, and that I was free to fire. We resumed the LZ prep and inserted a battalion of troops to search the area. We found some evidence of VC activity, but no casualties. I made a follow-up report through the 9th Division headquarters. The only answer I got was that there had been several reports of an American deserter operating with the VC, but they were never able to confirm them.
Alan Biesenkamp says:
I was with D Co 1/27th when we spotted a tall blond soldier walking with an NVA file. They were too far away to engage and they disappeared into the woodline. A good friend of mine was the point man who saw him. This happened in the summer of “68.
Bernard Weisz says:
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Ron Sites says:
Summer of 69 with A Co 1/28th Infantry, Big Red One our CO told us that recon had spotted a red haired individual with enemy troops in our AO. He promised a 3 day pass to the man who killed him. We never did find him.
Greg Pullin says:
When in an OP BihnThuy north of Blackhorse we observed over 1000 VC- NVA and numerous blonde and black guys mostly carrying heavy loads but unarmed, also RC Nunscarrying weapons without magazines or ammo there were white and Asian priests with shackles and large packs.Some of these guys were badly wounded with crutches and a couple were being carried roughly on poles carried by big black guys all wearing US underware boxer shorts,some with hospital slippers, we thought they were foreign troops, so called in Duc Tahn Arty 175 mm and roughed them up big time, later on debrief we learnt they were US airforce and Army prisoners moving with Roman Catholic hostages through Phuc Thuy to the massive NvaVC prison camp in the Rung Sat zone.
Ralph Christopher says:
There were sightings of a long red haired man fighting with the VC down in the Mekong Delta and Rung Sat area. I have also heard of GIs who went over the hill and could have fought alongside VC. People were drafted and unhappy with America at the time and VC deserted and came over and served with American forces so why not Americans fighting with VC?
richard montgomery says:
Re: Salt and Pepper…see this article http://www.miafacts.org/greer.htm.
Joe Smith says:
This brings back an old memory. I was a grunt, in the 101st, in I Corp, in 1971. After I got back to the world I was traveling thru Miami with a backpack, and a guy approached me and asked me if I needed a place to crash. He was a black guy,and his buddy was a white guy. I stayed with them for a couple of days,in a cheap motel in Miami. They didn’t volunteer a lot of information about their backgrounds, and I didn’t ask; but I knew they had spent some time in VN, had run afoul of the UCMJ, and were laying low in Miami. I moved on after a few days. Sometime later, back at home in NJ,I saw something on “60 Minutes” I think, about deserters in VN who had gone over to the other side. Especially about 2 guys, Salt and Pepper, and an artist’s rendition of them. I got a chill. It was them, the 2 guys I had spent time with in Miami.
Bill B Allen says:
Took out the “red bandanna” Was a deserter/turncoat.
Billy Bonnette says:
I arrived at Tay Ninh base camp and was place in a hooch where a guy named Felix a skinny kid with red hair and freckles was. I was there for about 2 days and he suddenly disappeared. Rumor has it that he defected.
Never saw him again
in 1968, around May if I remember correctly, we (A Trp, 3/4 Cav, 25th I.D.) were going north on the MSR towards Tay Ninh (from Cu Chi). We had to stop to allow a convoy to go by us near Trang Bang (just south of Trang Bang). A man is a SUIT came walking down the MSR. We stopped and asked for I.D. Then we radioed in and the MP’s came along. Soon, this mysterious person was choppered out.
Later, we were told we had captured an EAST GERMAN!!!
David Sweeten says:
Great read about Salt and Pepper. But never heard of closeure. They never talk about flight crews shot down taken to Russia. What happened to Them ?
They are in Russia, forced to train a group of Russians to behave American and infiltrate the US as 5th columnists in the event of war between Russia and US.Now there are many Russian migrants in the US, I think they are retired in Russia.
Bob Chatigny says:
Great article! I was with G2/4 3rd Marine Div. 1968-1969 as an 0311 grunt. We were advised to look for salt and pepper, but never saw either of them. I found a Chinese soldiers cap with the red star in a cave North of Khe-Sahn combat base near hill 471 in 1969.
mike patton says:
Interesting. We heard but never saw a American wearing a “Red Headband” leading NVA to raid PPB’s . Nothing ever came of it besides we were pretty busy getting body counts for the skipper…..
John W Tobin says:
Do you mean, other than Hanoi jane?
Harold LeaMond says:
There was an article in the local Charleston paper about a Marine Recon team encountering the man with the red sash and wounding him. Garwood was said to have a scar that may have been then result of this encounter.
Donald E Chatterton says:
The French were there before us, could be a child born from union with them. Saw a few blonde women while I was over there.
Salt and Pepper? Could have been Cuban advisers/mercinaries?
Tom Carlson says:
I was based out of Phouc Vinh and did a lot of flying to Song Be Bu Dop , Tay Ninh. and heard these stories ……..
Charlie Wishart says:
During my tour I heard many rumors of this sort, and more. I listened to them as I often do now, but considered them as rumors only. I never heard a ‘first hand’ account. There is more about our involvent, the Chinese’ the Russians’ & others that supported so many sides of the war that we will never know. I can’t discount any of it, but I don’t contribute to any rumor mill w/o some credible source, evidence, etc. Thanx John.
Ted Miller says:
What year were you in Phuoc Vinh? I was there in 69 and we had sightings of Salt and Pepper was in OP/INTEL
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The Beginning of August and Other Plays
The Dadshuttle; Northeast Local; Minutes from the Blue Route; The Beginning of August
by Tom Donaghy
“Mr. Donaghy…is a dramatist of inventive eloquence, finding the poetry of longing in the empty mantras and sound bites of contemporary pop culture.” –The New York Times
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Publication Date November 15, 2000
ISBN-13 978-0-8021-3724-1
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Tom Donaghy is the author of the plays The Beginning of August, Minutes from the Blue Route, Northeast Local, Down the Shore, From Above, and The Dadshuttle, among others. Produced by some of the most prestigious theaters in the country, including the Atlantic Theater Company, The Goodman Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, The Magic, Playwrights Horizons and Seattle Repertory, and the plays are archived on video at Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts.� Mr. Donaghy is the recipient of many honors, including commissions from Manhattan Theater Club, South Coast Repertory, Steppenwolf and WNYC Radio; as well as fellowship and production support from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, The MacDowell, Millay, Albee, and Berilla Kerr Foundations, and, most recently, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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The Beginning of August and Other Plays showcases Donaghy’s exceptional ability to render the emotional undercurrents of quiet, hardworking families faced wit hthe reality that the lives they had envisioned for themselves are vastly different than the ones they are living. Donaghy’s plays prove The Village Voice‘s claim that he has “mastered the Chekhovian tactic of having people say everything except what’s on their mind.”
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“There’s a freshness to everything [Donaghy] does which lets you hang on every word, savor every incident.” –The New York Post
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STM Forum at Affiliate World Asia 2018
At Affiliate World Asia 2018, we interviewed Matecj Cechvala, also known as Matuloo on the STM Forum. One of the diamond sponsors of the show, STM Forum is the most reputable affiliate marketing online community, where affiliate marketers of all experience levels, affiliate network representatives, offer/product owners, and traffic providers come together. ?
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AWasia Interview with Matej Cechvala aka Matuloo, from STM Forum
What Makes STM Stand Out
?️ With FB communities and groups popping up by the dozens daily, how does STM position itself to stand out as a paid membership community?
Matej Cechvala:
It’s true that there are many communities on Facebook, basically on many other social media platforms but what I believe is it’s not about the platform, it’s about the people. So yes you can create a community on Facebook, get some people on it but the question is will the people be returning? Will they be sharing valuable information? Or will it just be an attempt that’s just going to fail?
So the question is, do you want to get answers from people in a new community or from a more established community such as STM, which has been running for many years. In my opinion, the answer is quite clear.
And I said it’s not about the platform but in a way, it is, because FB groups to me, are really hard to navigate, it’s hard for me to find something that’s been posted a while ago. While at discussion forums, such as STM, has a structure. There are sections that you know, you’ve seen some content posted somewhere so you know you can go back there and find it quite easily.
And STM Nation — STM is a paid forum, which I believe is another advantage in a way, because it keeps people who are not relevant, time-wasters, and the like, away from the forum. So that’s another great thing about the forum, I would say.
What To Focus on in 2019
?️ What are some of the areas you would tell an affiliate entering the space in 2019 to focus on?
When you speak about affiliates just entering the space in the next year, I assume they will be new people. So usually we would recommend people to start with pop traffic, but that’s kind of changing these days but we have a new format that’s gaining ground, which is called push notifications, which in my opinion is a good choice for a new person who just wants to learn the basics of affiliate marketing.
And then obviously some kind of trends to follow, which is ecommerce, which is still quite big. Facebook is big, that’s not going anywhere, so whoever can learn how to make money with Facebook is set for the future for many years to come. So that’s also a good choice.
I would tell people to not just be active in affiliate marketing and running campaigns but also think about how to make a real business, how to build something, so the knowledge people can get with affiliate marketing is applicable to so many areas. Learn how to work with traffic, learn the tricks that come with affiliate marketing, and apply it to a business and grow it.
What Are The Most Valuable Elements in STM
?️Which elements are the most valuable for a member of STM, is it the support, the following alongs, what do most members find the most useful?
That’s a good question, I think there’s no “one fits all” answer for this, it depends on the experience level of an affiliate. So for the new people, the advice they can get from the other members or from the moderators, the fact that they can browse the follow-alongs of others, and see how they did on their journey in affiliate marketing and learned from their mistakes. So that’s probably the most important thing for the new people.
But for experienced affiliates, they don’t need that much advice from us anymore, but they still come back to the forum to stay in touch within the industry, to talk to other people, to network. So yeah, it depends on the level. I think there’s something for everyone.
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Emirates announces limited passenger flights to select destinations in May 2020
Emirates airlines announces that they will operate a limited number of passenger flights for the month of May 2020. These are be outbound repatriation flights and are meant for citizens of the destinations to go back to their home countries.
Also Read: Etihad Airways to Operate Limited Passenger Flights to Multiple Destinations from April 24 to May 15
Below is the list of destinations included in the passenger services:
Dubai to Frankfurt – May 2, 04, 06, 09, 11, 13
Dubai to London Heathrow – May 03, 05, 07, 10, 12, 14
Dubai to Manila – May 03, 06, 08, 10, 13, 15, 16
Dubai to Sao Paulo – May 03
Dubai to Shanghai – May 02
Repatriation Flights by Emirates Airlines for May 2020
Please be advised that passengers who wish to return home need to be aware of the requirements and follow proper safety precautions.
Those who wish to travel to Shanghai must contact the embassy or consulate of the People’s Republic of China in the UAE. For all other flights, passengers can book directly on emirates.com or via their travel agent.
Only citizens of the destination countries, and those who meet the entry requirements of the destination will be allowed to board. Customers will be required to follow all health and safety measures required by the UAE authorities and the country of destination.
Similar to other repatriation flights that Emirates has operated thus far, for health and safety reasons, the airline will offer a modified inflight service that reduces contact, and the risk of infection. More information is available on emirates.com.
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Emirates’ Lounge and Chauffeur Drive services will be temporarily unavailable during this period and in-flight Wi-Fi service is available for purchase only. On board Emirates’ flights, seats are pre-allocated where possible with vacant seats placed between individual passengers or family groups in observance of physical distancing protocols.
Cabin baggage will not be accepted on these flights. Carry-on items allowed in the cabin will be limited to laptop, handbag, briefcase or baby items. All other items have to be checked in, and Emirates will add the cabin baggage allowance to customers’ check-in baggage allowance.
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Passengers are required to apply social distancing guidelines during their journey and wear their own masks when at the airport and on board the aircraft. Travellers should arrive at Dubai International airport Terminal 3 for check-in, three hours before departure. Emirates’ check-in counters will only process passengers holding confirmed bookings to the above destinations.
All Emirates aircraft will go through enhanced cleaning and disinfection processes in Dubai, after each journey.
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Family-friendly summer: an Ottawa itinerary
Weekend getaways are one of the joys of summer, and the Ottawa area is full of activities to keep kids (and adults) happy. Choose from the cultural, outdoor and just plain fun experiences outlined in the itinerary below to plan a few family-friendly days in Canada’s capital!
DAY 1 – Parliament Hill ceremonies, events and tours
Arrive in Ottawa and check into the hotel of your choice. Most of our accommodation members are located downtown near many of the city’s main attractions.
Stroll over to Parliament Hill, an iconic Canadian site and the setting for a variety of free events and tours.
Though the interior of Parliament’s Centre Block is closed to visitors for a decade-long rehabilitation, you can take a guided tour of the new and temporary interior spaces: the House of Commons in the West Block, and the Senate in Ottawa’s original train station. You can now reserve your free tour tickets online!
Make sure to time your tour so you can catch the Changing of the Guard ceremony on the Parliament lawn at 10:00 a.m. This popular military event features drills as well as a regimental band and pipers. The popular ceremony takes place every day from the end of June to the end of August (some exceptions apply).
For lunch and other meals during your stay, consider some of Ottawa’s family-friendly restaurants and other places to eat.
Return to Parliament in the evening to catch the free Northern Lights Sound and Light show, a bilingual multimedia presentation which is projected onto Centre Block from early July to early September (verify schedule).
DAY 2 – Museums, adventures and frozen treats
For a fun and easy way to get between sites, consider using one of the hop-on and hop-off tour services, like Gray Line’s double-decker bus or Lady Dive’s Amphibus.
Get hands-on at some of Ottawa’s seven national museums. Favourites include the giant locomotives and Crazy Kitchen at the Canada Science and Technology Museum, impressive aircraft displays at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, as well as dinosaur replicas, giant fossils and cool dioramas at the Canadian Museum of Nature.
Explore some of the Ottawa region’s beautiful outdoor spaces while taking part in adventurous experiences! Whether it’s ziplining through the trees or whitewater rafting on the Ottawa River, you’ll find your favourite adrenaline-pumping activity.
Cool off with some of Ottawa’s best frozen treats, including ice cream, gelato and also vegan and dairy-free options.
DAY 3 – Animal, culture and water paradise
Fuel up for a full day of fun at some of Ottawa’s best independent coffee shops. Order your favourite caffeinated beverage as well as breakfast goodies for the whole family.
Go on a self-driven Canadian safari at Omega Park – a giant wildlife and culture park located just 45 minutes from downtown Ottawa in Montebello, Quebec! You might see animals such as moose, elk, bison, wolves and bears, plus you can learn about Canada’s First Nations on a walking trail and enjoy special events and activities.
Soak up some culture at the Canadian Children’s Museum. Located inside the Canadian Museum of History (Canada’s most visited museum), the Children’s Museum encourages kids to experience different cultures through fun interactive activities. Then catch a film in the 3D CINÉ+ theatre!
Ottawa summer days can be hot and sunny – the perfect weather to visit Canada’s largest waterpark! Located just a 30-minute drive east of downtown Ottawa, Calypso has crazy slides, a wave pool, rivers and a whitewater experience. Meanwhile, smaller kids can enjoy a specific play area with small slides and games just for them!
For even more family-friendly ways to spend a few days in Canada’s capital – like cycling, haunted tours and biplane rides – see our list of indoor and outdoor family fun in Ottawa!
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The six habitat systems for which the California Central Coast Joint Venture have identified in its strategic planning effort offer points of entry into prioritization of conservation action. While these systems are interconnected, with actions taken in one influencing another, highlighting these spaces of need helps the C3JV and its partners to identify critical gaps, integrate existing actors, and discover the C3JV niche. Explore each of the six conservation targets in more detail below.
Conservation Spaces
Oaks and
Riparian and
Scrub and
Conifer and Mixed
Urban and
Coastal and
Prairies.
No terrestrial habitat in the C3JV region hosts greater vertebrate species richness than oak woodlands, alone supporting more than 330 species, including as many as 110 breeding birds. With the addition of hardwood rangeland and grassland components archetypal of the Oak and Prairie landscapes of the Central Coast, vertebrate species richness exceeds 450 species. This diversity, at least in part, is attributable to the habitat heterogeneity and productivity in oak and grassland systems, where the production of acorns drives significant avian species richness, while forb and grassland endemics characteristic of the Mediterranean hardwood rangelands support diverse species assemblages driven by dynamic disturbance such as fire. As a significant component of the California Floristic Province, diversity in the C3JV is augmented by endemism, exemplified by the occurrence of six of the seven California endemic oak species, among a total of fifteen oak species present on the Central Coast.
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Oaks and Praires
Oak Woodland and Savannah
Oak Woodlands principally consist of Coastal Oak and Blue Oak Woodlands in the C3JV region, though significant representation of Blue Oak – Foothill Pine and Valley Oak Woodland types are present. Oak woodland habitats are highly variable, consisting of closed canopies in mesic sites, to relatively open conditions in drier sites with poor, shallow soils. In closed canopies, trees tend to exhibit columnar shaped growth patterns with limited lower branch and foliage development. The understory is also variable, with shade-tolerant forbs (bracken fern, miner’s lettuce) and shrubs (toyon, California blackberry) under closed canopies and annual grasses and shrubs (coffeeberry, buckbrush, poison-oak) in open woodlands. Over 110 bird species are known to breed in Central Coast Oak Woodlands, with some characteristic bird species including black-headed grosbeak and purple finch in closed canopies, and oak titmouse, bushtit, and California scrub jay in more open, variable canopies. Savannah-like conditions exist principally in the deep soils of the Valley Oak Woodlands, though Blue Oak Woodland, Blue Oak-Foothill Pine Woodlands and Coastal Oak Woodlands all exhibit savannah under certain conditions as well. Oak Savannah habitats are grasslands with scattered oak trees and an open canopy (<25% cover). Oak trees in savannahs are “open‐grown” which at maturity results in large mushroom‐shaped trees with well‐developed limbs and canopies. Characteristic bird species include western bluebird, acorn woodpecker and lazuli bunting.
Annual and Perennial Grasslands
Grassland habitats in the Central Coast are often further classified into two main types: perennial or coastal prairie, consisting of small, relic hold-outs of native perennial bunchgrasses and forbs and often restricted to the coastal fog-belt; and interior grasslands composed primarily of annual, nonnative grasses and native and nonnative forbs, known as Annual Grasslands by CWHR or Valley Grasslands by others (Bartolome et al. 2007). The specific vegetative structure in Annual Grasslands depends largely on weather patterns and livestock grazing, but importantly, forb richness is typically four times greater than grass richness (Sims and Risser 2000). These habitats occur mostly on flat plains, coastal terraces and gently rolling foothills . Perennial species in the more humid climate of the coast maintain higher biomass and are active over a longer period of the year, whereas the native and non-native annual species in the drier inland areas thrive in the more erratic and generally lower moisture regimes . Characteristic bird species include northern harrier, western meadowlark and loggerhead shrike .
Vineyards, primarily including grapes but also kiwi, raspberry and other vine crops, are often developed in Oak and Prairie habitats, including annual grasslands, oak woodland and oak savannah ecosystems. Vineyard development has and continues to occur in regions of deep, fertile soil, often on valley bottoms or rolling foothill regions, and are mostly irrigated. While vineyards simplify ecosystems and reduce overall biodiversity, opportunities exist to strengthen practices that reduce wildlife conflict, and support greater bird and other wildlife species diversity through retention, restoration and integration of oak and prairie habitat conditions within operations. Characteristic bird species of vineyards include American kestrel, barn owl, and western kingbird. Photo by Cameron Venti on Unsplash
Oak and Prairie community types.
Riparian and Freshwater Wetlands.
Though composing a small fraction of the C3JV Region, riparian and freshwater wetland systems of the Central Coast can be characterized as perhaps the most important habitat for landbirds relative to their extent in the JV region.
Riparian habitats occur on the margins of freshwater features, embodying the transition zone between riverine, lacustrine and upland ecosystems. Highly productive, riparian systems play an outsized role on the landscape, particularly in semi-arid landscapes that characterize much of the C3JV region.
Freshwater wetlands include a diverse array of landscape features including rivers and streams, lakes (including natural and artificial), vernal pools, swamps, ponds, sloughs, and freshwater marshes. Importantly, coastal estuaries, lagoons, brackish and saltwater marshes are included in the Coastal and Marine Conservation Target. Major waterways include the Salinas, Santa Ynez, Pajaro, San Benito, Nacimiento and Santa Maria rivers, while hundreds of smaller perennial and thousands of intermittent streams further comprise the surface hydrology of the region. Perennial streams are typical to the coastal slopes, draining into the Pacific, while interior and eastern drainages are more commonly intermittent.
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Riparian
Riparian and Freshwater wetland community types.
Riparian Woodland
While riparian communities vary depending on elevation, rainfall gradients and other factors, characteristic canopy species common across the JV include western sycamore (Platanus racemose), Fremont’s cottonwood (Populus fremontii), California bay (Umbellularia californica), arroyo (Salix lasiolepis) and Pacific (Salix laevigata) willows and red (Alnus rubra) and white (Alnus rhombifolia) alders. The microclimates afforded by moist soil regimes tend to accommodate a well-developed understory of shrubs along riparian corridors, including poison oak, California blackberry, redberry, blue elderberry. Photo by Melanie Magdalena, Unsplash.
Often considered the largest underground river, the Salinas is the defining watershed of the California Central Coast.
Its also sometimes referred to as the upside down river as one of only a few large river systems in North America that flow south to north. Most larger watercourses in the C3JV region are dammed to support agriculture, reduce catastrophic flood risk and provide municipal water supplies to what is a relatively arid region. Of course, the functionality of rivers and streams are dramatically altered, a key constraint in the recovery of aquatic, and riparian habitats in the C3JV.
Perhaps unsurprising then, aside from a few natural waterbodies, inland lakes tend to be artificial reservoirs, including Lake San Antonio, Nacimiento, Cachuma, Lopez, and Santa Margarita. Open water bodies provide important water storage capacity for agricultural production and drinking water, recreational opportunities, and key stoppover and breeding habitats for avian species including Western Grebe. Photo: Cachuma Lake, Santa Barbara Co, by Katie Bonilla, Unsplash.
Rare Freshwater Habitats
Vernal pools (pictured), freshwater emergent wetlands, wet meadow, these are some of the rarest habitat types in the region. Though representing a minute fraction of the landscape, they provide unique and incredibly important habitats for a whole suite of endemic species, important breeding habitats for some of the most rarest of waterbirds, and critical habitat for a range of threatened and endangered plants and amphibians. Photo of a seasonal wetland with Cinnamon Teal by Laura Riege. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6874296069145203, "wiki_prob": 0.6874296069145203, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line891921"} |
Peak & Decay
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By: Niklas Forsberg
Dynamic duo of Christian Marquis and Thomas Winters are finally back after a four year hiatus. Even though their last album “Synthetic Movement” wasn’t their first, it became their in-genre breakthrough. A huge leap in quality from their uneven debut “Electroscope” it had dramatic, enigmatic song writing and a flow rarely heard in the club tinged electropop field. “Peak & Decay” naturally builds on that success and further explores their melodic aspects.
As there are so many bands (especially of German origin) that aspire for greatness in this particular niche, something extraordinary is required to make a band interesting. Chrom have elevated every single aspect of their musical abilities and ambitions from when they started. “Peak & Decay” is a remarkable collection of electropop tracks, firmly embraced by emotional darkness and, for the most part, furious club appeal. Intermissions of calm and mid tempo numbers make the album even more coherent and potent.
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Terry Teachout
Limitations gone:Since my mind fixed on the moon,Clarity and serenityMake something for whichThere's no end in sight. Votes: 3
Saigyō
Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere. Votes: 3
Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. Votes: 3
Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight. Votes: 3
SaigyÅ
Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist. Votes: 3
Limitations are like mirages created by your own mind. When you realise that limitation do not exist, those around you will also feel it and allow you inside their space. Votes: 3
Set high standards and few limitations for yourself. Votes: 2
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. Votes: 2
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. Votes: 2
I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse. Votes: 2
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. Votes: 2
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. Votes: 2
Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few. Votes: 2
Ha-Joon Chang
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me. Votes: 2
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. Votes: 2
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind. Votes: 2
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. Votes: 2
Cleveland Amory
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. Votes: 2
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. Votes: 2
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. Votes: 2
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement. Votes: 2
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. Votes: 2
The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong. Votes: 2
Creativity can release you from the limitations that the world has constructed around you; the everyday, mundane, 9-5 jail cell where everybody is waiting for the weekend to party so they can get outside of their head. Votes: 2
You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. Votes: 2
Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity. Votes: 2
I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly. Votes: 2
Lionel Blue
The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like. Votes: 2
Michael Badnarik
The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning with photography and telegraphy and the - in the 1840s. We tried to solve the problem of overcoming the limitations of space, time, and form. Votes: 2
Neil Postman
Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the 'adjacent possible.' We didn't stay in the caves. We didn't stay on the planet, and soon we won't stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet. Votes: 2
It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects. Votes: 2
When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations. Votes: 2
Monotony reveals our limitations. Votes: 0
All limitations are self-imposed. Votes: 0
The limitations are limitless. Votes: 0
Style is based on limitations. Votes: 0
John Hartford
Dream big with no limitations. Votes: 0
Robert Cheeke
Men must know their limitations. Votes: 0
We all have our limitations. Votes: 0
Your limitations create your sound. Votes: 0
Briefs need limitations and invitations Votes: 0
You can't deny your limitations. Votes: 0
A man must know his limitations. Votes: 0
But out of limitations comes creativity. Votes: 0
Debbie Allen
Wisdom lies in understanding our limitations. Votes: 0
Out of limitations, new forms emerge Votes: 0
People mistake their limitations for high standards. Votes: 0
Jean Toomer
Understand your limitations and capitalize on them. Votes: 0
All conceptions are limitations of the conceiver. Votes: 0
Neville Goddard
You are responsible for understanding your limitations. Votes: 0
Sara Genn
The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations. Votes: 0
A good man always knows his limitations. Votes: 0
A man's got to know his limitations. Votes: 0
Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations. Votes: 0
Michael Eisner
A man has to know his limitations. Votes: 0
With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish Votes: 0
Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments. Votes: 0
Francis Hutcheson
Pronounce your limitations vigorously enough and they're yours. Votes: 0
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. Votes: 0
The greatest illusion is that mankind has limitations. Votes: 0
Nothing limits you like not knowing your limitations. Votes: 0
Tom Hayes
Focus on your potential instead of your limitations. Votes: 0
Alan Loy McGinnis
Most of the time, our limitations are self-imposed. Votes: 0
Marcus Buckingham
We have to make peace with our limitations. Votes: 0
Harold Lindsell
I resent the limitations of my own imagination. Votes: 0
Medicine has its limitations, Life Force has none. Votes: 0
The man who knows his limitations, has none. Votes: 0
We live in a world that worships limitations Votes: 0
Tama J. Kieves
We are bound by our limitations to believe. Votes: 0
Mark Bishop
Fear is the foundation of all human limitations. Votes: 0
Benny Urquidez
Every man has got to know his limitations. Votes: 0
With grace we can overcome every human limitations. Votes: 0
That which has no limitations, has no form. Votes: 0
The limitations in life do not necessary limit you. Votes: 0
I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations. Votes: 0
Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge. Votes: 0
Chin-Ning Chu
Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations. Votes: 0
Simon Wiesenthal
Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them. Votes: 0
Acknowledge your limitations or they will tyrannize over you. Votes: 0
We are infinitely more than our limitations and afflictions. Votes: 0
Jeffrey R. Holland
There are no limitations to any of our dreams. Votes: 0
The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Votes: 0
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. Votes: 0
The new limitations are the human ones of perception. Votes: 0
We see an entire planet which has many limitations. Votes: 0
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them. Votes: 0
My work is one long triumph over my limitations. Votes: 0
Charles Willeford
The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not. Votes: 0
Benjamin Hoff
African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints. Votes: 0
Mo Ibrahim
Every human being in the human form has limitations. Votes: 0
Achieving a goal requires endurance and sacrifices beyond limitations. Votes: 0
T.F. Hodge
There are no limitations, just dreams to be fulfilled. Votes: 0
Joel Brown
I don't think an artist does well without limitations. Votes: 0
Hillman Curtis
Our knowledge has limitations even though we have infinite imaginations. Votes: 0
Love should be a vehicle allowed to travel without limitations. Votes: 0
Marvin J. Ashton
The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure. Votes: 0
Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations. Votes: 0
Robert A. Burton
The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves. Votes: 0
Jacque Fresco
The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless. Votes: 0
Dean Karnazes
Only acknowledge your limitations for the purpose of overcoming them. Votes: 0
Randy Gage
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. Votes: 0
Never accept your limitations - because there are NO limitations. Votes: 0
Felix Baumgartner
Genius has its limitations. Insanity...not so much" -Bumper Sticker Votes: 0
Darynda Jones
The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest. Votes: 0
He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them Votes: 0
To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence. Votes: 0
The only limitations are the ones we put on ourselves. Votes: 0
Ita Buttrose
With 'Game of Thrones,' there are no real limitations. Votes: 0
I'm not going to let other people set my limitations. Votes: 0
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations Votes: 0
You will never know your limitations until you find them. Votes: 0
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. Votes: 0
In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations. Votes: 0
The limitations you embrace become your life. Choose to be limitless! Votes: 0
Jo Ana Starr
I've found that limitations can be an artist's best friend sometimes. Votes: 0
Michael Gungor
Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve. Votes: 0
Rachel Naomi Remen
Human concepts, no matter how grand they may appear, have limitations. Votes: 0
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. Votes: 0
The human personality has no limitations except those which it accepts. Votes: 0
Jane Roberts
True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge. Votes: 0
Once your mind becomes absolutely still, your intelligence transcends human limitations. Votes: 0
Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are. Votes: 0
I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am. Votes: 0
sometimes it's in your limitations that you find your greatest strengths. Votes: 0
Julia Sweeney
For the believer, nothing is impossible. We put limitations on ourselves. Votes: 0
Sasha Azevedo
The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations! Votes: 0
Jennifer O'Neill
Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations. Votes: 0
J. William Fulbright
Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations. Votes: 0
It's fun to see people blow through their own perceived limitations. Votes: 0
I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations. Votes: 0
Technology has limitations on what it can accomplish. You do not... Votes: 0
Lou Gerstner
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Votes: 0
I'm not a politician, I'm a comedian. I know my limitations. Votes: 0
I believe the only limitations are the ones that we accept. Votes: 0
Debbi Fields
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them. Votes: 0
B.K.S. Iyengar
Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of body and mind. Votes: 0
To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them. Votes: 0
it is good to have measured myself, to recognize my limitations. Votes: 0
Charles Francis Richter
I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy. Votes: 0
You need to understand your limitations so you can overcome them. Votes: 0
I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations. Votes: 0
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them. Votes: 0
Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations. Votes: 0
It is the intelligent and highly educated that agonize over their limitations. Votes: 0
Louis Eliot
With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. Votes: 0
The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash. Votes: 0
Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom. Votes: 0
By ourselves we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful. Votes: 0
Max de Pree
There are no inherent limitations to the medium. There are just differences. Votes: 0
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. Votes: 0
Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity. Votes: 0
I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while. Votes: 0
I have always resisted putting limitations on myself, both professionally and personally. Votes: 0
Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb. Votes: 0
The only limitations man has are the ones he sets for himself. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo Trine
The realisation that limitations are imaginary will make you strong and overpowering. Votes: 0
Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are. Votes: 0
In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination. Votes: 0
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. Votes: 0
There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge. Votes: 0
The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations. Votes: 0
Celia Green
I've done everything I've done in America with the limitations I have. Votes: 0
Jose Antonio Vargas
You learn your limitations and then you try to work within them. Votes: 0
Al Hirschfeld
The only limitations we face are the ones we place upon ourselves Votes: 0
Ray Zahab
Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds Votes: 0
The promise of hope provides more comfort than the limitations of doubt. Votes: 0
The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves Votes: 0
The only limitations are mental. The guy who thinks positively will win. Votes: 0
Daley Thompson
Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer. Votes: 0
The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence. Votes: 0
Erwin McManus
When you're in governance, you understand the limitations and the complexities of governance. Votes: 0
Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible. Votes: 0
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities. Votes: 0
Terry Josephson
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. Votes: 0
Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together. Votes: 0
Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure. Votes: 0
Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself. Votes: 0
If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life. Votes: 0
I have no limitations. Unlimited power is mine within that which is universal. Votes: 0
Walter Russell
If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them. Votes: 0
I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own. Votes: 0
A man who knows not his limitations is of no use to anyone. Votes: 0
W. Edwards Deming
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations Votes: 0
I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form Votes: 0
I now go beyond other people's fears and limitations. I create my life. Votes: 0
A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them. Votes: 0
C.S. Friedman
It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. Votes: 0
A true leader helps people focus on their potential, not on their limitations. Votes: 0
I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength. Votes: 0
The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself. Votes: 0
Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. Votes: 0
Roy Bennett
My belief is that most of the limitations people have or face are self-imposed. Votes: 0
I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations. Votes: 0
Andrew Davies
Children are becoming disobedient... why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations. Votes: 0
How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none. Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations. Votes: 0
Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better. Votes: 0
You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece. Votes: 0
"God" is just a name to refer to something that is beyond all limitations. Votes: 0
Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations. Votes: 0
Everyone's perspective of themselves and others is based on the limitations of their exposure. Votes: 0
Never let the limitations or insecurities of others limit what is possible for you. Votes: 0
Hal Elrod
Children are becoming disobedient why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations. Votes: 0
A Warrior does not go into battle without knowing the limitations of his ally. Votes: 0
In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations. Votes: 0
Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations. Votes: 0
Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds. Votes: 0
Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive. Votes: 0
Betty Eadie
People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get. Votes: 0
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations. Votes: 0
If there were no limitations or consequences, what would your perfect average day look like? Votes: 0
Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations. Votes: 0
I grow beyond my family's limitations and live for myself. It is my turn now. Votes: 0
For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness. Votes: 0
Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations. Votes: 0
I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. Votes: 0
Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them. Votes: 0
Respect your needs and limitations as you work through your grief and begin to heal Votes: 0
American Pregnancy Association
I've had a mentality that I can do anything, I've never put limitations on myself Votes: 0
Urijah Faber
The only limitations that I can have are the ones that I set on myself. Votes: 0
Omar Epps
I don't really have any limitations for what I want to do, as an actor. Votes: 0
The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited. Votes: 0
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods. Votes: 0
Robert W. Service
Do something youre not ready to do. In the worst case, youll learn your limitations. Votes: 0
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious. Votes: 0
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. Votes: 0
John Wimber
In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves. Votes: 0
Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows. Votes: 0
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought. Votes: 0
Real limitations can be reasonably challenged and expanded, but a hobbled mind is not going anywhere. Votes: 0
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations. Votes: 0
It [science fiction] really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations. Votes: 0
All possibilities were once only imagined, but so are all limitations. Choose to imagine the former. Votes: 0
LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier
I'm not gonna be able to grow a beard. I've realized my limitations as a human. Votes: 0
Danny Pudi
There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology. Votes: 0
Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do Votes: 0
We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs. Votes: 0
My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think. Votes: 0
When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out. Votes: 0
Phyllis Bottome
a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life. Votes: 0
Kim Chernin
It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time. Votes: 0
Stanislav Grof
One of the biggest limitations on consoles is the amount of memory available to the game. Votes: 0
Leslie Benzies
When you hit a wall " of your own imagined limitations " just kick it in. Votes: 0
I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge. Votes: 0
Joseph Fiennes
Your present challenges or limitations cannot stop you from becoming what God has ordained you to be. Votes: 0
Tonto Dikeh
Seeking excellence means choosing to forge your own sword to cut through the limitations of your life... Votes: 0
James A. Murphy
It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics. Votes: 0
Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character. Votes: 0
Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late. Votes: 0
Concerning the limits and limitations of the women's game - why should we believe there are any? Votes: 0
Helen Wills
On network, you have limitations for how raunchy it can get and how violent it can get. Votes: 0
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth. Votes: 0
Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data. Votes: 0
In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them. Votes: 0
The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success. Votes: 0
Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing. Votes: 0
Vladimir K. Zworykin
I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband. Votes: 0
Sometimes believers are hampered in their public effectiveness by limitations that are no fault of their own. Votes: 0
Max Anders
The American people should be free to advocate for their candidates and their positions without burdensome limitations. Votes: 0
Being rich is living life on your own terms - according to your possibilities, not your limitations. Votes: 0
Paul McKenna
Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations. Votes: 0
Charles Fillmore
You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations. Votes: 0
Wayne Gerard Trotman
As great as technology is, it still has it's limitations, because it's only a frame of the truth Votes: 0
The sea reminds me of my finiteness, limitations, minuteness and powerlessness, because the sea is none of these. Votes: 0
Michael C. Christen
All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials. Votes: 0
There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations. Votes: 0
Elizabeth Gilbert
There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors. Votes: 0
Public health is purchasable. Within a few natural and important limitations any community can determine its own health. Votes: 0
Hermann Biggs
Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly. Votes: 0
Artists who take on curatorial activities have the advantage of negating the professional hurdles and limitations comprising institutions. Votes: 0
Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations. Votes: 0
Kim Hee-jin
I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence. Votes: 0
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle. Votes: 0
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. Votes: 0
The essence of forgiveness is seeing our humanness and seeing that we all have our limitations and follies. Votes: 0
Mark Coleman
The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem. Votes: 0
Hasso Plattner
It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists. Votes: 0
John Yoo
Today's thought for empowerment: If we would only love more all limitations in our lives would be gone! Votes: 0
John Randolph Price
The only limitations are the ones we put on ourselves and I just don't believe in limiting myself. Votes: 0
The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations. Votes: 0
Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction. Votes: 0
The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest. Votes: 0
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations. Votes: 0
Cavett Robert
I learned about the benefits and the vast limitations of such types of exploration, as did all my generation. Votes: 0
Love has no limitations. It cannot be measured. It has no boundaries. Although many have tried, love is indefinable. Votes: 0
Steve Maraboli
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. Votes: 0
Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you. Votes: 0
Og Mandino
I feel very much that I am a human being, with human limitations, and I need to respect that. Votes: 0
Phoebe Philo
I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation. Votes: 0
Transcending mind-made limitations doesn't mean you stop being yourself. On the contrary, you become more yourself than ever before. Votes: 0
When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love. Votes: 0
I think you never want to limit yourself to one style of anything. Why put those limitations on yourself? Votes: 0
I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses. Votes: 0
The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation. Votes: 0
Laurence Boldt
Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations. Votes: 0
Dreaming is the opportunity to hold a citizenship in two worlds, equally real but with different logic and limitations. Votes: 0
William C. Dement
Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence. Votes: 0
Giulio Douhet
I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range. Votes: 0
Yours is the energy that makes your world. There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in. Votes: 0
At least Romney and McCain, they respect the rule of law. At least Romney and McCain, they understand their limitations. Votes: 0
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up. Votes: 0
We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us. Votes: 0
Evelyn Boyd Granville
Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect. Votes: 0
Mata Amritanandamayi
We need a warrior's heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities. Votes: 0
And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer. Votes: 0
It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers. Votes: 0
That's it! Stretch way beyond your perceived limitations..Go for yours like you own it already, because you truly do. Votes: 0
Sereda Aleta Dailey
There are no limitations, unless you create them yourselves. Anything is possible. You are only limited by your own imagination. Votes: 0
Dolores Cannon
We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us. Votes: 0
Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do. Votes: 0
On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life. Votes: 0
Anna Howard Shaw
Believe that there are no limitations, no barriers to your success --- you will be empowered and you will achieve. Votes: 0
Ursula Burns
You can actually overcome all the limitations of life and achieve your dreams, if you don't give up too early. Votes: 0
Environment has its own ways of limiting us tightly. But leaders have their own ways of escaping those limitations narrowly. Votes: 0
My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations. Votes: 0
Glenn Tipton
The greatest progress in life is when you know your limitations, and then you have the courage to drop them. Votes: 0
The idea of thinking of our relationships with people as also being structured by limitations and constraints can be useful. Votes: 0
If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy. Votes: 0
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance. Votes: 0
The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations. Votes: 0
I perceive my limitations even as I work. There are times when I see nothing but restrictions, barriers. Learning takes time. Votes: 0
Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you. Votes: 0
I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing. Votes: 0
There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations. Votes: 0
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges. Votes: 0
Most of the time, it's not until we embrace our limitations that God can start to use us beyond our limitations. Votes: 0
Steven Furtick
If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind. Votes: 0
I grew up in a way where I didn't realize there were limitations.I always thought I could speak my mind. Votes: 0
If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once. Votes: 0
Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places. Votes: 0
Of all the hurdles you will need to face in this life time the hardest will be your self imposed limitations Votes: 0
Jan Hellriegel
Find your bliss and your joy, know that you are a white light disco ball with no ceilings and no limitations. Votes: 0
The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them. Votes: 0
Marv Levy
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go. Votes: 0
James A. Baldwin
Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others. Votes: 0
Judith M Bardwick
Your mind has a way of putting limitations on your goals. When you persevere, you develop character. Nobody knows their ceiling. Votes: 0
There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is. Votes: 0
The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well. Votes: 0
Tod Machover
If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations. Votes: 0
Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception. Votes: 0
Calling upon our crucible moments allows us to transcend our own limitations. Those moments create completely new possibilities within each of us. Votes: 0
Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations. Votes: 0
In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor, Votes: 0
Maurice Herzog
Practice unfettered living from the heart, abandoning all self-imposed limitations to emerge a new, creativity unleashed, giving of yourself like never before. Votes: 0
Pooja Ruprell
It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence. Votes: 0
Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing. Votes: 0
Don't condemn yourself - that only increases the hold of impurity. Accept your limitations but know that you're working towards changing them. Votes: 0
Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel. Votes: 0
Peter McWilliams
Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself. Votes: 0
Robert Green Ingersoll
In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field. Votes: 0
It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever? Votes: 0
the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves. Votes: 0
Ruth Simmons
People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung. Votes: 0
I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual. Votes: 0
Dennis Chavez
Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be. Votes: 0
I want to get to the end and feel that I've done all I could, given the limitations and given the opportunities. Votes: 0
There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief. Votes: 0
I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging. Votes: 0
Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations. Votes: 0
To change the limitations of our personal pasts, our minds need a reason to change what we believe-and a good one at that. Votes: 0
Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. âFocus on your potential instead of your limitations. Votes: 0
Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations. Votes: 0
The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it. Votes: 0
I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare . . . Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself. Votes: 0
Francoise Sagan
I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter. Votes: 0
In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations. Votes: 0
Stephen Elliott
When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence. Votes: 0
Clearly understand that the only limitations you will ever have are the limitations you impose upon yourself. You truly do have infinite potential. Votes: 0
The most successful people reach the top not because they are free of limitations, but because they act in spite of their limitations Votes: 0
You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side. Votes: 0
Tim Hecker
Whenever somebody reaches above their own limitations - I always tell people, the best time to go give is when you have nothing. Votes: 0
I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen. Votes: 0
The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women. Votes: 0
What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another. Votes: 0
The third-person or 'objective,' static, reductive models used in most science are important and yield significant results, but they have their limitations. Votes: 0
In reality there are no limitations. They are vibrant and changeable to whatever form you want them to take to realise your goals. Votes: 0
An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter. Votes: 0
In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions. Votes: 0
Alberto Gonzales
Enlightenment means having no human mind, no limitations. Your awareness is eternity, timeless, infinite, beyond boundaries, and yet it exists within all things. Votes: 0
Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd. Votes: 0
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. Votes: 0
You work really hard to make it, and maybe you get some acclaim, but then you realize there are certain limitations as an actor. Votes: 0
The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world. Votes: 0
Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power. Votes: 0
Robert Payne
I truly feel that if you understand yourself and set goals without the regulations and limitations others put on you, then nothing is impossible. Votes: 0
Like an engineer understands a car he or she designed, no one understands your limitations and possibilities better than the God who created you. Votes: 0
Todd Burpo
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations. Votes: 0
Anthony Daniels
While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work. Votes: 0
Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training. Votes: 0
Curt Sachs
Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations. Votes: 0
More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free. Votes: 0
The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations. Votes: 0
One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations. Votes: 0
Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengths - and makes the most of them. Votes: 0
My limitations are - I'm not Meryl Streep. I'm not playing anything in a foreign language, or anything too far from who I am. Votes: 0
Greg Grunberg
If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with. Votes: 0
Homaro Cantu
It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth. Votes: 0
Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us. Votes: 0
nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons. Votes: 0
I knew my limitations and the limitations of the courts I played on, and adjusted thusly. I was at my best in bad conditions. Votes: 0
The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes. Votes: 0
Len Wein
I love acting because it's this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on what's possible. Votes: 0
To me, strategy means trying to overcome your limitations and your weak points. To do that, I try to enhance and leverage my strong points. Votes: 0
Stan Shih
Problems, obstacles, and challenges can either become the markers of our limits and limitations, or they can become the springboard into a whole new world. Votes: 0
The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations. Votes: 0
It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking. Votes: 0
With Superman, there are certain limitations for an actor. You can't go past certain boundaries because then you cease to be what the character is. Votes: 0
The ability to know oneâs limitations, to recognize the bounds of oneâs own comprehensionâthis is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom. Votes: 0
Leah Hager Cohen
The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was. Votes: 0
I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish. Votes: 0
The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I." Votes: 0
My limitations make space for the gifts of other people. Without the grace of our limitations we would be isolated, dry, and insufferable creatures indeed. Votes: 0
Joan D. Chittister
Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours. Votes: 0
I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination. Votes: 0
In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent. Votes: 0
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations. Votes: 0
Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Votes: 0
A weak, insecure nation needs sporting heroes, players larger than life on the cricketing field, who can transcend the limitations of their country and team. Votes: 0
The mystical kundalini energy has some, I don't know if you'd call them limitations, but there are certain operational factors which you should understand about it. Votes: 0
Analytical tools have their limitations in a turbulent world. These tools work best when parameters are known, assumptions are minimal, and the future is not fuzzy. Votes: 0
John P. Kotter
Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language. Votes: 0
Manly Hall
In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's limitations to disappear. Votes: 0
James R. Swartz
The comic world has its own limitations, as everything does. I adore it, I respect it, but it's not going to take over all of me. Votes: 0
We crave, we deeply yearn for, release from the limitations of a dogma that declares separation, disunity, and judgment to be the essential condition of life. Votes: 0
When we come to a clearer and more sober estimate of our own limitations and responsibilities, that makes it possible more genuinely to love our neighbor. Votes: 0
No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death does not exist.' Votes: 0
TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. Votes: 0
If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences. Votes: 0
I think brilliant stuff comes out of working with limitations. One liners are very limiting, but that's what drew me to them in the first place. Votes: 0
Anthony Jeselnik
Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it. Votes: 0
Edwin Conklin
The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own limitations. Votes: 0
Jay Maisel
The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work - everything can become yoga. You can use any process of life to transcend your limitations. Votes: 0
The healthier people are, the more they are willing to admit to their limitations and so the more open they are to the possibility of improvement. Votes: 0
Robin Skynner
Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources. Votes: 0
John James Cowperthwaite
Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations. Votes: 0
Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations. Votes: 0
Lee Siegel
Pain will humble ones soul,my pain was necessary as it humbled me beyond my limitations,I do not rush what is meant to be slow,patience". Votes: 0
Patience Kudzu
Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. Votes: 0
Billy Childish
It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all. Votes: 0
Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about. Votes: 0
Stanley Schmidt
I never studied on fighting demons, but that don't mean I aim to let this one defeat us. The dark ones have their share of limitations too. Votes: 0
Erik Bundy
Be all you can be in whatever you choose to do. The sky is the limit, so go for it. And do not create any self-imposed limitations. Votes: 0
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. Votes: 0
It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of dance devotion. Votes: 0
I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe. Votes: 0
The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior. Votes: 0
You need to have the humility to accept your limitations as long as they're there, and have the humility to accept their end when that time comes. Votes: 0
I didn't want to think about a project that I couldn't finish. That's a kind of temptation. One has to realize one's limitations. Why kid yourself?  Votes: 0
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free. Votes: 0
I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer. Votes: 0
Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations. Votes: 0
Irving Townsend
Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations. Votes: 0
These women [abused by Donald Trump] certainly do have seen the statute of limitations expire. But if he attacks these women, they can allege defamation of their own . Votes: 0
When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations. Votes: 0
They say love is all about raging hormones. For me, it's mind's way of breaking through its self-imposed limitations in order to set the eternally ecstatic soul free." Votes: 0
We all have powers within us that we don't know exist until we're tested. There are no limitations to what you can do if you have the determination. Votes: 0
The light is not quantifiable. You experience it in meditation when thought stops. When you go beyond the limitations of the ego, the light is waiting for you. Votes: 0
It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors. Votes: 0
Vic Snyder
That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me. Votes: 0
I always say the only limitations are in your mind, and if you don't buy into those limits, you can do a helluva lot more than you imagine. Votes: 0
Marshall Ulrich
When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come. Votes: 0
Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives. Votes: 0
I don't think in terms of failure....I don't feel like anyone outside of me should be setting limitations. People should be encouraged to shoot for the moon. Votes: 0
Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic. Votes: 0
Idries Shah
The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s. Votes: 0
Eric Andre
Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust Votes: 0
Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest. Votes: 0
But I've never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive. Votes: 0
Randall Munroe
If you fall into a pit, you need a ladder, not a hoe. You must climb up and not dig up. Leaders discover the right way out of limitations. Votes: 0
As we become multi sensory, we move beyond the limitations of the five senses and we now are evolving to a different mechanism in the exploration of physical reality. Votes: 0
Gary Zukav
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." Longfellow "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. Votes: 0
Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament Votes: 0
Margaret Deland
Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past. Votes: 0
Jürgen Moltmann
I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator. Votes: 0
Laurie Graham
It takes an open minded individual to look beyond a disability, and see, that ability has so much more to offer,than the limitations society tries to place upon them. Votes: 0
Leadership is the ability to recognize the special abilities and limitations of others, combined with the capacity to fit each one into the job where he will do his best. Votes: 0
J. Oswald Sanders
Life can dictate that we suffer physical restrictions and limitations, but no one has the ability to restrict or in any way demean our spirit unless we agree to it. Votes: 0
If you do have limitations, then you have to find out what they are. And if you find out what they are and avoid them, then they aren't limiting anymore. Votes: 0
In life... we need to find a balance. You have to set rules and limitations - that is called discipline. And you have to practice that in all your worlds. Votes: 0
Jurgen Moltmann
I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations. Votes: 0
Gustav Heinemann
I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them. Votes: 0
We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are. Votes: 0
Allan Lokos
Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations. Votes: 0
I use my financial values to set my limitations. I have three children I want to put through college debt free. So that means I can't spend wildly or with disregard. Votes: 0
Michelle Singletary
I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it. Votes: 0
I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be. Votes: 0
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Votes: 0
My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm. Votes: 0
A happy life, a life making full use of all our potential is and must be a balanced life. The obstacles to it are mainly illusory; most of our limitations are self-imposed. Votes: 0
Louis Tice
I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own. It hurts sometimes, but it's good. I'm little extreme in that sense - the middle ground is not my forte. Votes: 0
We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome. Votes: 0
I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got. Votes: 0
Ben Vereen
I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear. Votes: 0
... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them. Votes: 0
Amelia Barr
If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.
...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.
William P. Young
To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.
Laozi
Humans create their own boundaries, their own limitations. We say what is humanly possible, and what is not possible. Then just because we believe it, it becomes truth for us.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.
The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.
The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.
James Joll
true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations.
[Donald] Trump is what happens in America every time it feels economically and politically threatened, and it encounters the limitations of its own white supremacists practices.
As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.
The premise of Kiss has always been to not live within the confinements and boundaries other people set for themselves. We set our own limitations, and those are no limitations.
I'm committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I've also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life.
The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations.
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
William J. Brennan
The main thing is, too many players feel like they're complete players when they're not, so rather than acknowledge their limitations and play within their ability, they overreach.
Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.
One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but they're always on the same turf. I don't have those limitations.
T.C. Boyle
The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.
Do your actions in the world, without forgetting that your find goal in life is to break free from all bondage and limitations. Always 'remember that you have a higher goal to attain.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Do you think, if you say the word "impossible" enough times, that difficult things will suddenly become easier for you?
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations - you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself
Willi Unsoeld
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
It's not usually anybody else's false when you don't get what you want. Sometimes it is. There's exceptions to everything. It's usually the self-limitations that we attach to ourselves.
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are few limitations to the happiness we may enjoy.
John Cowper Powys
Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.
The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice
There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government. ... The more we glorify government, the more liberties we will lose.
I'd forgotten how challenging comics can be until I started working on Ropes. Yes, you're restricted by the boundaries of the page, but we all work within technical limitations of some kind.
James Vance
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.
James L. Buckley
When I know and accept myself-all my strengths and all my limitations- I am immediately respectful of everyone else because I know they have something beautiful within them that I do not have.
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with
Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are not aware of its limitations and of the nature of the things outside.
Paul Feyerabend
I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been.
My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.
You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.
Jeff Olson
We should understand the limitations of war. We should understand the sacrifices our young men and women go through losing lives and limbs. And they should only do it for the highest of purposes.
There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.
I know my limitations. I know I'm not perfect. I know what I know, but more importantly, I know what I don't know. When I don't know something, I surround myself with people I can trust to teach me.
The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.
Norbert Wiener
Before you can create a strategy, you need a vision of the company. Before you set that vision for the future, you have to understand your current position in the market as well as your limitations.
The finite mind of man can never grasp the mysteries of the infinite. It is the highest wisdom, as it is our great happiness, to accept our limitations, to use what we have, and leave the rest to God.
I think we all have limitations, as directors. I don't care what the budget is, it's probably never enough money and never enough time. You figure it out. Sometimes the limitations bring more creativity.
Francesca Gregorini
Whenever we see something that we want to create, the first thing we bump into is these beliefs (reasons) that have shaped our experience thus far. And so the battle ensues. Possibilities vs. Limitations.
Harold Homer Anderson
I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into.
You are given the gift of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs; yours is the creative energy that makes your world; there are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.
Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of deals or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.
Maggie Scarf
Dancing allows me to explore myself in so many ways, to learn about my limitations and strengths, my ability to cope with adversity and to go farther than I thought I could. You find out what you're made of.
Andrew Asnes
Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors.
I learned 30 years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.
I think that too ended up affecting a lot of the different research questions that I later asked was really was about well to what extent... How do we balance choice as possibility and choice as limitations?
I think when you have a disability people are always putting limitations on you, telling you, even in a nice way, what you can't do. My attitude to that has always been: You can't tell me that. I'll show you.
Louise Sauvage
I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this," it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment.
There is a story that you have to tell within a certain amount of time, and you can only show so much of the character. So as much as the script is born from the source material, there are certain limitations.
Start walking. When you hit a spot where you're gasping for breath, that should tell us our limitations. (Xypher) Oh, joy. I can't wait to be the guppy. (Simone) Glub, glub, little fishy. Start walking. (Xypher)
Working within the limits of the medium forces us to change our own limits. Improvisation is not breaking with forms and limitations just to be 'free,' but using them as the very means of transcending ourselves.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
Real leaders are people who âhelp us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.
Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.
The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people.
Look for good things about where you are, and in your state of appreciation, you lift all self-imposed limitations - and all limitations are self-imposed - and you free yourself for the receiving of wonderful things.
Esther Hicks
Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is that straightforward descriptions of reality are seen as being biased.
Jonathan Alter
At a certain point I left my spiritual teacher because I began to see the limitations of my teacher, who was a very powerful occultist, but who I thought was, to some extent, limiting others in their spiritual growth.
There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to be. You can write the simplest song, and that's lovely, or you can just write a song that is abstract art.
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, donât accept your limitations, jump before youâre pushed, leap before you look.
It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.
Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.
An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitationsâ¦
With respect to the outlines of what's in the Army Field Manual, there's no doubt in my mind about the limitations it places not only on the DOD, but on the Central Intelligence Agency. And I'll always comply with the law.
James Mattis
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.
The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.
If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies -- to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage -- to make it the tool of our survival.
Americans are very big about loving the dog first, so when you tell them you have to set rules and limitations, a lot of people believe it's going to hurt their feelings. They're actually looking for you to be the pack leader.
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.
People who are rooted in the here and now, who are not defeated by their limitations, who donât compare themselves to others, who confidently advance along their chosen path-such people are happy, such people are truly great.
By a persistent effort of will it is possible to change the whole body. The athlete must always keep in mind this concept of change and progression. He must never accept his limitations as being permanent, because they are not.
Emil Zatopek
In the infinity of life where I am, All is perfect, whole and complete, I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack, I now choose to begin to see myself As the Universe sees me --- perfect, whole, and complete.
Well for me, courage means having the courage to walk off the edge of what is known, with complete faith that you're not going to go crashing to the bottom. Stepping outside of your own self-perceived boundaries and limitations.
That is what the blueprint for this time is about. We're leaving behind the limitations and the illusion of the struggle. We're moving much more into having a very different experience now on the Earth plane with our sacredness.
Christine McCormick Day
Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation.
Hugh Herr
We've created a device that has absolutely no limitations. There's no insurance company that can say 'no.' There's no hospital that can say 'no.' Anybody who's paralyzed now has access to draw or communicate using only their eyes.
Mick Ebeling
God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be his holy people and reverence everything that he says, cherish it, value it, and thus live it out.
By bridging the literacy barrier through the use of 3D interactive models we overcome the inherent limitations of text. At the same time, language differences become much less important as text is replaced by interactive, 3D images.
Fay Chung
It's always the case for writers that when there are limitations, you have the opportunity for your creativity really to blossom and to become deeper and fuller and to move in directions that you wouldn't have discovered on your own.
Emily Barton
Those who violate the rules of a language do not enter new territory; they leave the domain of meaningful discourse. Even facts in these circumstances dissolve, because they are shaped by the language and subjected to its limitations.
Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of its limitations and it's unworthiness to become the ideal civilization of the world.
It [voicing animation] is very freeing. Nobody in the cast is doing their voice. No one is talking like they normally talk and it's because, all of a sudden, you're freed from the physical limitations of how you look, which is amazing.
Love is the very process of passing over, of transformation, of stepping outside the limitations of fallen humanity - in which we are all separated from one another and ultimately impenetrable to one another - into an infinite otherness.
Act as if you are going to live for ever and cast your plans way ahead. You must feel responsible without time limitations, and the consideration of whether you may or may not be around to see the results should never enter your thoughts.
Hyman Rickover
You have a great road map when you play somebody that exists. That's the amazing thing. But then you have great limitations from that road map. It's hard to deviate from it creatively as an actor. It's like, "Oh wait, he'd never do that."
Instead of looking at our challenges and limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin to look at them as blessings, magnificent gifts that can be used to ignite our imaginations and help us go further than we ever knew we could go.
Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the English language. We are not concerned with what effects cannot be produced with our materials.
You don't need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren't, you must recognize your limitations and follow a course certain to work reasonably well. Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences.
When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations.
The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
William Osler
You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?"
When we think about the people with whom we work, people on whom we depend, we can see that without each individual, we are not going to go very far as a group. By ourselves, we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations; your conscious expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a great, new and wonderful world.
There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Chaos is but unperceived order; it is a word indicating the limitations of the human mind and the paucity of observational facts. The words "chaos,' "accidental,' "chance,' "unpredictable,' are conveniences behind which we hide our ignorance.
Harlow Shapley
... despite the limitations and problems inherent to photographic representation (and especially the representation of politics), it remains for me the most powerful and engaging medium today - one central to the development of cultural dialogue.
It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead.
Dalia Grybauskaite
Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.
I didn't get a high school diploma. I really didn't have much of an education, which left me open to educating myself throughout my life, without the limitations on intellectual curiosity a formal education can impose. I followed what interested me.
Elayne Boosler
Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains.
Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier in an effective, selective and cold killing machine. A people without hate cannot triumph against the adversary.
Placing one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limitations, to show my inner strength. No obstacle too hard, for this warrior to overcome. I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won.
Travel, I was coming to realize, was a metaphor not only for the countless options life offers but also for the fact that choosing one option reduces you to the parameters of that choice. Thus, in knowing my possibilities, I also knew my limitations.
Rolf Potts
In God's eyes, all creatures have value whether we find them cuddly, affectionate, beautiful or otherwise. Our own perspective-in a way-is neither here nor there. Theology, at its best, can help to liberate us from our own anthropocentric limitations.
I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but it's basically the world I grew up in and there's no way in which I would have been able to survive in the so-called real world.
Paul Lansky
To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something [the Reality] beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor not-living. It is a state of Pure Awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time.
There are apparently few limitations either of time or space on where the psyche might journey and only the customs inspector employed by our own inhibitions restricts what it might bring back when it reenters the home country of everyday consciousness.
Tom Robbins
You are the architect of your owner destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Accept the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.
But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist order, bourgeois ideology as a whole and with it bourgeois economics began abandoning both reason and history.
Paul A. Baran
The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.
The only thing that could hurt me is if my success encouraged me to return to my childhood fantasies of omnipotence - but that is not likely to happen as long as I remain engaged in the financial markets, because they constantly remind me of my limitations.
I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love - what a wonderful testing ground, what a wonderful place to see and sense our limitations, to know that the pain reflects your state of awareness and not being able to hide from it.
Donât burden others with your expectations. Understanding their limitations can inspire compassion instead of disappointment, ensuring beneficial and workable relationships. Remember that you have only a short time together. Be grateful for each day you share.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
As for my voice, it cannot be categorized-and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo or spinto range. I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.
I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.
Daniel Webster
Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
Love is our true essence. Love has no limitations of caste, religion, race, or nationality. We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love. To awaken this unity-and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature-is the true goal of human life.
There are a lot of people who are successful and have a lot of money, but you can almost see their limitations because they have these walls around them. Harmony Korine exceeds those walls, and those are the types of people who go on to exceed people's expectations.
In the present moment, you are beyond all definition. This means that you are no longer defined by the pain and limitations of the past. You are no longer defined by your judgments, opinions or beliefs nor are you defined by the judgment, opinions or beliefs of others.
...the limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I would collapse. Then something would happen to attract my attention...miraculously, the distraction always provided wings, carrying new strength, a second wind.
Marlo Morgan
Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.
Only that which points the human spirit beyond its own limitations into what is universally human gives the individual strength superior to his own. Only in suprahuman demands which can hardly be fulfilled do human beings and peoples feel their true and sacred measure.
You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut in large slices, not grudgingly, not sparingly. You know your limitations and proceed to eliminate them; your abilities, and proceed to develop them. You are free.
Alice Foote MacDougall
Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views.
Peter Singer
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people "must" behave.
Ellen Willis
What we've also got to think about is the limitations of military power. Maybe it's time to focus on the economic issues, and most of all the political issues, because the political failure in Iraq right now is almost worse than the military failure. And the two are intertwined.
Paul Rieckhoff
They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being pushed, academic economists were explaining the limitations of markets for instance, whenever information is imperfect, which is to say always.
Christ was one person, limited to ministry in only one place at a time. In order to minister as an omnipresent Spirit, Jesus relinquished His fleshly dimension with its limitations of time and place. He entered a higher realm of restoration and love by becoming an indwelling Spirit.
Earl Paulk
John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.
Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will; that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves.
My interest in the psychological roots of psychosis has both personal (my brother Andrew committed suicide) and professional origins (I was trained in a behaviorist approach to psychology which - whatever its limitations - at least taught me to see human behavior in its social context).
Richard Bentall
Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.
W. H. Auden
It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.
The biblical model is that God deliberately chooses imperfect vessels - those who have been wounded, those with physical or emotional limitations. Then he prepares them to serve and sends them out with their weakness still evident, so that his strength can be made perfect in that weakness.
Christine Caine
I idolized all of the bodybuilders who came from that old-school hardcore era. Those guys didn't need any fancy equipment; they trained with intensity and focus, regardless of the gym or other limitations. These guys could do presses with pails full of cement and still get a great workout.
Mike Matarazzo
There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.
Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and cultural biases, psychological preferences, and mental limitations (in universal modes of thought, not just individualized stupidity).
Stephen Jay Gould
A life without problems or limitations or challenges--life without "opposition in all things," as Lehi phrased it (2 Nephi 2:11)--would paradoxically but in very fact be less rewarding and less ennobling than one which confronts--even frequently confronts--difficulty and disappointment and sorrow.
Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one to satisfaction with the things given in this world, whereas pain and suffering drive one to seek a more profound happiness beyond the limitations of this world.
Seraphim Rose
Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the next simplest, limited monarchies; but all republics, all governments of law, must impose numerous limitations and qualifications of authority, and give many positive and many qualified rights.
Destructive Failure: Reveals limitations and weakness, highlights your shortcomings and when not processed correctly, keeps you feeling inadequate and defective. Productive failure: Reveals limitations and weakness, highlights your erroneous thinking and when processed correctly, leads you to better options and keeps you dependent on the Lord.
June Hunt
Sustainability is especially ripe for political controversy and opposition because fundamentally it is a new paradigm that represents significant challenges to the status quo. The paradigm of sustainability, with its notions of limitations and carrying capacities confronts dominant paradigms of progress which do not recognize limits to unchecked growth
Hazel Henderson
Limitations of strength (28 quotes)
Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengths - and makes the most of them. Votes: 1 Jim Crace
Limitations of the body (17 quotes)
As you become aware of what has robbed you of the purity of an innocent mind, a clear heart and a strong body, you will be deeply served by letting go of those familiar limitations. Votes: 2 Debbie Ford
Overcoming limitations (22 quotes)
Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity. Votes: 2 Stephen Hawking
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New blog out now: Cath(art)sis: how women in historical and contemporary art have used their practice to process their trauma. Read here!
The Drug of Art has a monthly podcast hosted by Alison Lapper.
Art and creativity play a valuable role in building self-esteem, fulfilment and wellbeing. Through connecting with one another over art, we are able to delve into an open dialogue about the benefits creativity has on our mental health. The Drug of Art Podcast invites artists, in conversation with Alison Lapper, to discuss how art has benefited their life, and how creativity has been a tool for their self exploration, understanding and/or healing for their mental self. Through emphasising the impact art can have we have an aim to encourage young people to find their medium of expression!
You can listen to the podcast below, or through Spotify.
Episode 7 invites the Kirkwood Brothers from Glasgow to discuss how they collaboratively work together as brothers. Jonny and Jordan create art through conversation, in an effort to break down stereotypes of neuro-diversity and mental health with humour as the central vehicle to their drawings. Tune in to discover how drawing has become a tool for the Kirkwood Brothers to express and process what they have been struggling with to each other.
In Episode 6, Alison chats with artist and founder of the Outsider Gallery, Ben Wakeling. Ben discusses his extremely emotive painting process and how it has been a form of escape. Ben shares this ability with others who need it the most within the NHS.
TW: Please note that this episode discusses vulnerable topics such as suicide, self harm and depression.
In episode 5, Alison invites soft sculpture and textiles artist Hattie Porter to share their story. Hattie's work explores personal experiences of health and illness as a non-binary autistic person. They discuss their experience of being sectioned and how they use textiles to communicate these feelings.
In episode 4, Alison is joined by Stevie Georgina - a textiles artist documenting their well-being journey on YouTube. Hospitalised in 2017 after experiencing psychosis, Stevie experiments with arts & crafts, exploring how they can help make her struggles more manageable. She talks to Alison about how crochet helped get her back on her feet and seeing the light in every situation.
In episode 3, Alison talks to photographer and director, Rankin. Rankins portfolio ranges from fashion, portraiture and documentary. In conversation with Alison, Rankin discusses grief and how his creative process has been a tool for connecting with others which has hugely benefited his wellbeing. Through sharing and relating on personal stories, helping others and learning from each other, we feel seen and heard.
In episode 2, Alison is joined by artist Dawn Blake. Dawn uses a wide multi-displinary approach incorporating domestic objects into performance, film and installation. She aims too subvert gender norms in regard to power, control, sexuality and identity. They discuss how art gave Dawn a voice to express her trauma as a domestic abuse survivior.
In episode 1, Alison is joined by artist, podcast host and ex-prisoner, Gary Mansfield. They discuss Gary’s experience with mental health whilst serving 14 years in prison and how art helped him build a new life. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5745872259140015, "wiki_prob": 0.42541277408599854, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line1107117"} |
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Navy bases begin requiring masks
Josh Farley
BREMERTON — Cloth masks must be worn at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and all of Kitsap's Navy installations in any area where social distances of 6 feet cannot be maintained.
The order from the Department of Defense, which includes all its properties, was announced publicly early Monday. Personal residences on military bases were exempted.
The order came with instructions from the CDC on how sailors and workers can fashion their own masks.
The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard has also ramped up the production of the now must-have commodity in this pandemic. So far, its crews have manufactured 2,000 cloth masks but hope to be making 2,000 a day soon.
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Dakota King, a nuclear training supervisor, said the sail loft realized there was the supply to make them, and, with help from an internet design, it began a small production run. With help from Naval Hospital Bremerton, workers perfected a design with four layers of grade A linen. The shipyard's sheet metal shop pitched in with bendable aluminum nose pieces so they can better fit to workers' faces.
Production began March 25 and workers are producing up to 500 a day.
“I could not be prouder of our team for thinking outside the box and taking the initiative to explore how we can best serve our workforce and the local community during this dynamic time,” said Capt. Dianna Wolfson, the shipyard's commander.
Masks of any kind are now being recommended by the CDC to be worn in public. Meanwhile, a study found liquid droplets from sneezes, coughs and exhaling can travel more than 26 feet and stay in the air for minutes in the right conditions.
The masks are meant to help workers and could be donated to Naval Hospital Bremerton if needed. But the shipyard acknowledged the masks are "homemade" and not medical grade.
The shipyard had already begun making hand sanitizer to distribute around its vast facility on the waterfront of Sinclair Inlet.
The workforce continues to help fix the nation's nuclear-powered Navy fleet, even as the pandemic rages on. One shipyard worker had tested positive for novel coronavirus before the Pentagon's ban on individual commands publishing such tests last week.
More than 2,000 workers are telecommuting, and many are working staggered shifts to improve social-distancing. Workers over 65 and those deemed vulnerable are out on paid leave.
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CHARLOTTE, NC. — What started as a hobby is now getting Andy and Melanie Tritten up before the sun.
"I always made sauce, a lot of it, just on a whim, and it would be everywhere and we'd start giving it away," said Melanie Tritten.
But after years of cooking for fun, this self-taught chef wanted to share her love for roasted tomatoes and fresh herbs with her community.
Within a few months, the couple perfected Melanie’s recipes and Cannizzaro Sauces was born. The husband-wife team makes six different sauces and sells them in stores across seven states, even shipping them across the country.
"There are a lot of painstaking things," said Melanie. "We seed in all of our tomatoes. I hand core every tomato. He chops all the onions. He has goggles he has to wear because there's so many!" she laughed.
"It is a labor of love, and very labor intense, and if it takes time, it means that it's good."
When the pandemic hit, the Trittens were surprised and relieved that the tasty recipes they were cooking up were on nearly everyone’s shopping list.
"When we saw that the shelves were cleared, we said to ourselves, 'We got to get cooking. We got to get cooking because people need it,'" said Melanie.
From neighborhood shops to big box stores, Cannizzaro Sauces were filling shelves when other products were out of stock. You can order anything you find in stores online HERE.
"A normal order for us from our distributor maybe once a month is about 60 cases, and then our first order after this happened, and it happened very quickly, it was for 225. And then another one, and then another one, and we were just in here triple time," said Melanie.
They even had to bring in help.
"Our cars are full of hundreds of pounds of tomatoes. I mean, it was everything we could think of to do. We were bringing friends in who lost their jobs could come in and help us label," said Melanie.
Their business is a unique success story in the midst of so many shutdowns and losses for family businesses this year.
"I work for a family-owned restaurant. That's my other job, my ‘job job,’ and it's been hard to watch it. We're lucky that we happened to pick something that we love to do that survives this. Who would have thought? So, we're lucky, and we're hopeful for everybody else," said Melanie.
That luck is something so many other local businesses have been wishing for but haven’t seen. However, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) said online shops and the movement to support small business is only growing.
"The hope is still there, but we’ve seen more go out of business this year than we saw in 2008 and 2009. But, we’ve anecdotally heard from them, things are better," said Tom Bartholomy, with the BBB.
That may be in part because shoppers are making more of an effort to find local businesses. According to a Nextdoor survey, 72 percent of members said they will frequent local businesses more often, even after this crisis.
The National Retail Federation says nearly half of all shoppers have made a purchase specifically to support local, small businesses during the pandemic.
"I hear that a lot: ‘We want to support local. We want to support local,’" said Tritten.
It’s a trend this couple is paying forward with their own work. They’re collecting homemade items from other family-owned businesses and boxing them up for Christmas.
"We made a ‘Local Loves’ basket with elderberry syrup, like all sorts of things that people like to get and made these really cute baskets with them, and they're flying. We made 20 of them yesterday for one customer. So now, we can keep going and finding more and more local people, pandemic or not, to keep making those baskets all year," Melanie said.
The Trittens are hoping the love they have for their business will be felt by all who taste their sauces.
"The reaction that people get trying to for the first time is probably one of the most rewarding things for me."
They say the silver lining this pandemic brought them is a blessing they will dedicate their lives to protecting. The couple says their hope is to be able to hire more people and create more jobs. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9562270641326904, "wiki_prob": 0.9562270641326904, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line925795"} |
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SOMA review: Ghostly machines beneath the sea, exploring humanity’s depths
Sinking into the abyss.
By Hayden Dingman
Games Reporter, PCWorld Sep 21, 2015 6:00 am PDT
Story straight out of the golden era of science fiction
Deft manipulation of point-of-view
Not the horror game Amnesia fans will expect
Occasionally feels too linear
SOMA is not the horror game I expected from Frictional, but it’s an excellent piece of science fiction that feels of a piece with stories by Harlan Ellison and Philip K. Dick as much as Frictional’s previous work.
It’s appropriate that the first words you’ll see in SOMA are a quote by the late science fiction visionary Philip K. Dick. Sure, the quote—“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away”—pertains to the story you’re about to experience, but that’s not what I mean.
The quote is an appropriate opening because SOMA feels like a piece of classic science fiction—something that would’ve come out of Harlan Ellison or Ray Bradbury or, yes, Philip K. Dick.
It’s a story you might’ve seen in grainy black and white on Twilight Zone or maybe The Outer Limits. It is bits of Blade Runner, of Demon with a Glass Hand, of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and The Martian Chronicles and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and so many other legendary works of science fiction. It’s a story that deals with that most human of all topics: What does it mean to be human?
NOTE: I’m going to try not to spoil anything in this review that wasn’t already covered in the game’s trailers, but be warned there are minor plot points ahead.
20,000 leagues
Most importantly, it’s the first time Frictional has developed a game where its output matches its ambitions.
That’s not meant as a slight on Frictional’s previous work. In fact, it’s testament to the studio’s creative talent that both Penumbra and Amnesia became staples of the horror genre despite the obvious constraints of limited budget and personnel.
SOMA is something more though. It’s barely even a horror game, for starters. If you’re looking for another experience as overtly terrifying as Amnesia, look elsewhere. There are certainly horror elements to SOMA. There are dark corridors and blood splatters and things that go clank in the night. There are even monsters, of a sort.
But SOMA is mostly psychological—more first-person adventure game than first-person horror. After briefly playing the game at E3 I said SOMA seemed full of existential dread, and that remains true after ten hours with the game.
[FINAL SPOILER WARNING – AGAIN, ONLY THINGS COVERED IN TRAILERS]
SOMA takes place in (and sometimes outside of) PATHOS-II, an underwater laboratory far below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. At one point PATHOS-II was a thriving facility, but now it’s mostly inhabited by robot…things. I mean, they look like robots, but they talk like people. They think they are people. They can hold conversations. They remember their lives. They feel pain. They can hate.
You play as Simon Jarrett, who—no surprise—wants to get the hell out of PATHOS-II before the robots turn on him or the station falls apart. Good luck.
Like I said before, the game is mostly a first-person adventure. Frictional still tosses in the occasional enemy—and their designs are as unnerving as ever—but encounters are far less pervasive than they were in, say, Amnesia, where you spent 90 percent of the game crouched and creeping through shadows.
Instead, SOMA goes for quality over quantity. While Amnesia featured tons of rank-and-file monsters, most anyone will tell you the “Water Monster” was the most memorable part of the game. The Water Monster (or “Kaernk”) in Amnesia was a special encounter in a flooded basement—an invisible monster you could only track by watching where the water splashed. And it was memorable because it was unique.
While I don’t think any adversary in SOMA quite reaches that level of genius, it’s clear Frictional took a different approach to the game, utilizing bespoke, one-off enemies instead of a single creature repeated ad infinitum. The result is threefold: Unforgettable moments, better pacing, and less mindless repetition.
But most of your time with SOMA involves exploring PATHOS-II. It’s a character in itself, separate from the crew. Its groans and metallic creaks keep you company during long stretches of isolation. Its cold green lights start to feel like a warm, familiar hug after five minutes traversing the barren ocean floor. The hiss of an airlock sounds like someone welcoming you home.
And when the lights go out, you know it’s time to hide. Or run.
Post-E3, I made the obvious comparison—SOMA is like BioShock. After all, they both take place underwater and they both take a stab at telling a “real story” instead of the usual video game tripe. I’m amending that though, because the truth is SOMA does BioShock better than BioShock ever did BioShock.
It’s like a trail diverged in the woods, and two separate-but-yet-extremely-similar games sprung from System Shock 2. One designed a story around the need for, as Ken Levine put it, “a skill component” (a.k.a. guns), and became BioShock. The other eschewed combat, focusing instead on System Shock 2’s world-building and the potential of telling a story in the first-person perspective. Thus, SOMA.
There are sequences in SOMA that only work because this is a video game, and more specifically, a first-person game—real gut-punches that only hit because you are inhabiting a character. A few bits make such expert use of first-person perspective I’m reminded of the original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare which, before the series became a parody of itself, wowed an entire industry with its audacious manipulation of point-of-view.
But where Modern Warfare used it for spectacle, SOMA uses it to mull on various crises of conscience. To isolate you. To sit and reflect amidst the groaning of pressurized steel and billions of gallons of water churning above your head. Again, all in service of one pervasive question: What does it mean to be human?
SOMA is not the horror game I expected out of Frictional, but I don’t care and it doesn’t matter. This is an excellent work of science fiction, not necessarily unique but uniquely told through its skillful use of video game conceits. It’s System Shock 2 for a modern sensibility, BioShock freed of its AAA chains. It’s damn good and, for my money, the most cohesive and ambitious game Frictional’s made so far.
I leave you with another Philip K. Dick quote—the mirror to SOMA’s opening: “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
Author: Hayden Dingman, Games Reporter
Hayden writes about games for PCWorld and doubles as the resident Zork enthusiast.
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Fri November 25, 2022, 22:55
Originally posted by Artoo View Post
I love seeing Madonna with all of her kids. We know that’s her true happy place. The photoshop of her body is such a 2000s throwback though
Never mind it. At least I don't mind.
everyone does it. Even the girls in their 20s do it. Why not madonna.? I know she's gorgeous. She can let herself allow and play the new technology. I don't mind it
Madonna is the queen of pop and the biggest selling female music artist of all time!
I like her hair color. Her new eyebrow came from the sex era. They appeared the same in the videos and interviews during that era. She hasn't done it like that since that era. But it's a fashion trend nowadays and came back again.
Artoo
Originally posted by autumnwind View Post
I have nothing against it. Her body, her photos, her choice.
I have a bad feeling about this.
browlowkid
Well maybe its not photoshop? She probably started working out again?
cindycgy
She looks so amazing on her Thanksgiving party With the family. She could still pull it off. Never underestimate her.
the bad lookinglooking a while ago was just for causing a commotion and irritating fans reaction. Lol she still looks beautiful.
She looks like a completely different person in the photo with Lourdes. Good or bad, I’m not gonna say. She looks happy and that matters. I’d always admired Madonna for her incredibly fit body until MadameX era where she started to gain weights. Hopefully she will get in shape again for the 2023 tour.
Last edited by cindycgy; Sat November 26, 2022, 00:38.
floridagrl
Madonna, The Holy Queen of Music!
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/wor ... ing-artist
Couldn’t get there in person, but reserved one to pick up next week
Coolers. Show us when you pick it up!!
spiritboy
I wish she debuted her new body with new, hardcore photos for SEX book re-release. She would finally put a stop to rumors whether she has paddings or not
Cha Cha Instructor
castorino
I am really surprised by the possible tour announcement. Of course she won't do stadiums , I don't think she will ever do them again, but arenas I am confident she can still fill them. If she tours North America in the summer, I would expect a European arena leg to follow in the fall
Originally posted by castorino View Post
She expressed herself in one of the Instagram lives this year she wants to tour stadiums next. If Elton can still sell out stadiums in US I dont see why couldn't Madonna - especially for a Greatest Hits tour if she does one
I love reading all this chart/sales/trivia stuff on her. I've learned so much recently. A genuine superstar!
Sun November 27, 2022, 10:44
Originally posted by browlowkid View Post
Elton has done a lot to preserve and enhance his legacy and public image in the last years plus the successful biopic, while Madonna has done a lot to destroy it and the biopic that could possibly do some repairing won't be out before the tour. Plus, Elton's has been promoted as a final farewell tour and Madonna's won't because she is not retiring.
What she wants is relevant until a certain point, if there is not sufficient demand. If she insists on doings stadiums and they remain half-empty, it will be another disaster for her public image and legacy, the media and her haters wil have a field day posting pictures of empty rows and sections all over the Internet. Way better for her to fill arenas, it will come out as a success.
Last edited by castorino; Sun November 27, 2022, 10:49.
She was told her career would be over for rolling all over the floor in 1984. Here we are in 2022.
Agree. She’s no longer interesting as an entertainer like she used to. Furthermore, many fans still can’t get over how unprofessional and rude she was when she showed up really late, almost midnight, at her shows and was angry and yelled at her fans for being mad at her unprofessional conduct. She acted like a spoiled child. Fans could tolerate that in the past because they knew she was a great showgirl. No way they will put up with that sh!t anymore nowadays given that she no longer can sing or dance like she once could and most of her fans are really old and can’t stay up late. Sorry but not sorry, I just don’t see she will be even able to fill arenas.
Last edited by cindycgy; Sun November 27, 2022, 19:15.
Originally posted by cindycgy View Post
Prepare to be amazed.
She wouldn't be able to fill arenas? Come on now, it's MADONNA. People will attend even if she would do the shittiest show ever. She is a brand, people will go no matter what just for the hits and nostalgia if nothing else. Seeing her is on a bucket list of so many people...
Angeman
I think she can fill stadiums. It depends on the amount of dates and the promo campaign. How they market it will determine the success. With stadiums she doesnt need to play in every state. She plays in certain areas where people from multiple states will need to travel. Its the same principal as the MXT. Except tickets will need to be cheaper.
Let’s face it. She doesn’t have many fans left and certainly is not the hottest ticket in town, far from it in fact. Young people nowadays are not interested in her or don’t even know who she is. I still remember she couldn’t sell out the theatre MadameX tour and her people had to give out tickets for free to fill out the seats. Furthermore, there will be an intense competition in 2023 when all the hottest hit girls like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna also tour. She may be able to fill arenas in developing countries like South America, Eastern Europe or some Asian countries but I highly doubt she will be able to do it in North America, especially the US and Western Europe.
Forreal
The woman do not need any hater when she has fans like that…..
So people in their 40's and 50's are "really old"? Smh
AlphaMale
Remember that we, the Olds on our 40's and 50's, have the money to pay big bucks to see her, anywhere in the world. We don't have to ask mom and dad for money.
Also, she's already done a ton o stadiums, broke every record, now it's time for arenas because, once again we the old fans, love to be comfortable.
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HighTower Group Announces its Second Product Launch of 2015; Adds 12 New Products to its Modern Contract Furniture Collection
September 23rd, 2015 / Kansas City, MO
Nadia Guest
HighTower Group today announced the release of 12 new products from designers around the world – including Most Modest, Busk+Hertzog, Nadia Arratibel, Gabriel Teixido and Pascual Salvador. Also in the new lineup for Fall is an entirely new collection – Ondarreta.
“Since HighTower was founded, we have been steadfast in our commitment to provide the A&D community access to a global community of world-class designers,” said HighTower’s President and Founder, Scott Hartkopf. “That’s why we’re thrilled to bring 12 innovative and cutting-edge products to market from designers around the globe; all of which help cultivate an open and social environment at the office or on campus.”
Arlo Highback
HighTower’s lineup of new products includes:
The Arlo Lounge Collection
Arlo Lowback
Sit back, relax and get to work. Designed by Most Modest and inspired by the way people interact in today’s office environments, Arlo is a flexible and inviting sofa series that adapts to users as their needs shift throughout the day – providing maximum comfort and versatility. Available as a traditional lounge seating collection or with extended panels, Arlo is the perfect solution for privacy, comfort and versatile space division.
http://hightoweraccess.com/product/arlo-sofa/
The Ondarreta Collection
Inspired by the land and the natural resources of Northern Spain, the Ondarreta Collection exudes the essence of design simplicity and warmth. With a commitment to environmentally sound sourcing of natural materials, both sustainability and design excellence are achieved.
Through this exclusive new partnership, HighTower is thrilled to bring an exciting combination of exquisite Spanish design and American craftsmanship to the North American design community. The Ondarreta Collection includes a variety of seating for various applications:
Nadia Barstool
With one look, Nadia’s clean profile, timeless design and stunning details might just steal your heart. Inspired by the organic, soft lines found in nature, Nadia combines natural materials, time-honored woodworking techniques and the latest technologies to deliver a chair that’s as functional as it is stunning. Exposed finger joints transition to gracefully tapered legs, lending to Nadia’s unique, organic curves and instantly likable appearance. Choose from a variety of natural wood and lacquered frames or a chrome or powder coated metal base. Pair it with a bentwood or fully upholstered seat to give Nadia a look that’s all your own. Nadia is available as a dining chair, guest chair or barstool.
http://hightoweraccess.com/products/family/nadia-family/
Unconventional simplicity. The Alo family of seating has a pronounced character, defined by the space between the seat and frame – light filters through, creating simple, clean lines and providing a more comfortable and flexible sit. This classic and simple series of chairs is finely crafted and a perfect fit for a variety of applications, from dining areas and cafes to reception and lounge spaces. Alo is available as a dining chair, guest chair and barstool.
http://hightoweraccess.com/products/family/alo-family/
Simple, striking design. Inspired by the impressive worker ant who carries many times its weight, the Ant Barstool combines simple yet striking design with a versatile and resilient structure, making it ideal for high traffic areas. The durable polypropylene seat offers a curved form that adapts to the user and a slightly extended back, for added support. Durable and unique, the Ant Barstool provides a simple solution for barstool seating.
http://hightoweraccess.com/product/ant/
Trio Table
Trio is a modern coffee table with a subtly playful presence. Its clean lines and minimal form are paired with an organic shaped trio of pedestals – a beautiful design detail that adds a charming touch. The steel base, available in White or Anthracite, is available with a matching elliptical top in compact laminate with a beveled edge. Find out more: http://hightoweraccess.com/product/trio-table/
Capri Lounge Chair
The clever design of the Capri Lounge chair combines aesthetics with a superior seating comfort. The clean lines of the back continue into armrests on both sides. The wide seat enables a range of seating positions and postures. Now available with solid Oak legs – adding warmth and personality to this stunning chair. Legs available in Solid Soaped Oak, Clear Lacquered Oak or Black Stained Oak. Find out more: http://hightoweraccess.com/product/capri-lounge-wood/
Capri Guest
Capri Guest Chair
This stunning and comfortable fully upholstered guest chair adds warmth and personality to any space. Capri Guest is perfect for break out, meeting, waiting and executive areas – anywhere a stylish yet comfortable chair is needed. Also available in a lounge version. Legs available in Solid Soaped Oak, Clear Lacquered Oak or Black Stained Oak. Find out more: http://hightoweraccess.com/product/capri-guest-wood/
In addition to the 12 new products, HighTower is also expanding upon previously released products, Sally and TAC, adding new available finishes.
Find out more about all of HighTower’s new products, including pricing and availability, at http://hightoweraccess.com/products/new-products/fall-2015/ or contact us directly at [email protected].
About HighTower Group
HighTower Group is a family owned, design-driven US-based furniture manufacturer, made up of passionate design enthusiasts. Partnering with designers and manufacturing partners from around the globe, HighTower brings a different perspective to the contract furniture industry, with a collection of products that delivers fresh, modern designs that inspire collaboration, connection and creativity in commercial spaces.
Headquartered in Kansas City, HighTower also has offices in High Point, NC, Bellingham, WA and San Francisco, CA, as well as a manufacturing facility in High Point, NC.
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Vampire islands: S/Fdo hustler burgles Adams’ memorial
Friday 3 January 2014 Live Wire 4
It turns out politicians are not the only ones in Trinidad and Tobago who are happy to exploit a corpse for personal gain. At Presentation College in San Fernando, the past pupils’ association president Steven Samlalsingh set up a memorial, which included a photograph, candles and flowers, for former student …
TTFA exorcises Native Spirit; “I Support Akeem” tee-shirts allegedly cost $53
Friday 8 November 2013 Global Football, National Football, Volley 12
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) today drew a line under its relationship with the controversial “I Support Akeem” venture, which was done in tandem with Native Spirit. And it was not good news for the clothing company. “It is twice we have dealt with that company,” said TTFA …
TTFA apologises; but no figures for “I Support Akeem”
Wednesday 6 November 2013 Global Football, National Football, Volley 7
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) today finally apologised for its role in the “I Support Akeem” tee-shirt controversy, which was part of its “Heart of a Warrior” fund-raising drive for 22-year-old Ferencvarosi defender and former two-time Trinidad and Tobago World Youth Cup player, Akeem Adams. The TTFA told …
Show us the money: TTFA asks Native Spirit for breakdown of Akeem venture
Friday 1 November 2013 Global Football, National Football, Volley 6
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) and the Native Spirit clothing company both pointed towards each other today as Wired868 sought further information on money raised from the sale of “I Support Akeem” tee-shirts. The $100 tee-shirts, which sold out last month, were designed to raise funds for former … | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9396925568580627, "wiki_prob": 0.9396925568580627, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line1831966"} |
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Meet the ILCA Board of Directors
The ILCA Board of Directors has decision-making powers regarding matters of policy, direction, strategy, and governance of the organization. They steer the organization toward a sustainable future by adopting sound governance and financial management policies, and ensuring adequate resources.
IONA MACNAB, BA(Hons), LLB, IBCLC
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Iona Macnab began her professional working life as a lawyer in Australia. She subsequently moved to Tokyo Japan, where she lived for 25 years, raising her three (formerly) breastfed children and unexpectedly changing careers. She became a volunteer La Leche League (LLL) Leader in Tokyo in 1997 and later served as the LLL Regional Administrator of Leaders for Asia, Africa and Middle East for 7 years. In 2002 she became an IBCLC in Japan, supporting the international community both in person and remotely. After returning to Australia, she helped establish an online lactation education platform in 2011. She continues to volunteer with LLL, served as the volunteer Conference Coordinator for Lactation Consultants of Australia and New Zealand (LCANZ) for 5 years, and was Chair of ILCA’s Professional Development Committee prior to her election to the ILCA Board. Her vision for ILCA is to strengthen our international partnerships and global advocacy efforts so that all IBCLCs and lactation care providers can be recognised and supported in their work.
MAXINE SCRINGER-WILKES RN, BN, MN, IBCLC
New President Elect: 2024 – 2026
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Maxine Scringer-Wilkes honed her maternal child nursing skills while working in outpost nursing, she moved into public health and through working with amazing mentors and resiliant families she developed an understanding of the many challenges and complexities of breastfeeding. Currently the lead IBCLC in a children’s hospital and primary to the surgical NICU, Maxine collaborates in developing and updating feeding policies, clinical guidelines and resource documents for parents and health care workers. Maxine envisions ILCA championing breastfeeding as an equalizer for families, she believes ILCA should foster partnerships with national organizations to inform and facilitate collaboration with health authorities on the importance of skilled lactation care.
TOVA OVITS, IBCLC
Secretary (Second Term: 2022 – 2025)
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Tova Ovits graduated from Pace University with a BA in English. While breastfeeding her youngest child, she read The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding and discovered how much she didn’t know while nursing her older kids. Tova has been dedicated to helping mothers and babies breastfeed ever since. She volunteered with an international breastfeeding peer support organization and became an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant to help even more families enjoy a healthy, happy beginning.
Janet Jones, IBCLC, RLC
Treasurer (2020-2023)
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Janet Jones is a proud mother of three breastfed children, an IBCLC, and the CEO and Co-Owner of The Breastfeeding Success Company. Breastfeeding Success is the exclusive provider of lactation services for a network of seven hospitals in Central Texas, US. Janet’s vision for ILCA is to focus on the creation of formal career ladders with the partnerships between non-profits, NGOs, government agencies, and community-based peer counseling programs. She believes establishing career ladders for all lactation support providers from diverse backgrounds is one way to further ensure ongoing quality lactation care in marginalized communities and build skill sets to overcome systemic barriers.
NOR KAMARIAH MOHAMAD ALWI, BE, MIT, IBCLC
Second Term: 2020 – 2023
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First Term: 2021 – 2024
Split, Croatia, Europe
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Zoe Faulkner is an IBCLC lactation consultant in the community public health service. She works in the specialist infant feeding team, as an educator, mentor and delivers the specialist service for families experiencing complex and persistent feeding challenges. She also runs the breastfeeding peer support programme, recruiting training and supervising a team of 30 volunteers working in both community and hospital settings. Zoe also has extensive governance and operational experience running an organisation and is currently Chair of Lactation Consultants of Great Britain.
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Brown, Chris
Card: Press Pass Old School 2003
Acquired: Texans Blitz 2009
Chris Brown has been a highly touted runningback at every level he’s played. In college for Colorado he broke many of the school’s rushing records and had a shot at the Heisman that year, but injury derailed his attempts and he decided to declare for the NFL draft as a Junior in 2003.
Brown surprisingly lasted till the third round that year, where the Tennessee Titans looking for help at that position drafted him. Brown’s running style has always been a source of controversy and concern, as he has a ‘straight up’ slasher running style (like that of Eric Dickerson). Scouts felt that he would be prone to fumbling and also injury- and for the most part, they were right as Brown never played a whole 16 game slate over his career, sitting out all of 2008.
Brown was cut by the Titans in 2008 and signed with the Texans that year, who were looking to add depth to their running backs and needing a ‘big back’ to compliment young scatback Steve Slaton. After fumbling the ball away in a 2009 game, he got what I call ‘Sammie Smith-itis’ and seemed to lose confidence holding onto the football. At 6-3, 219 he never really got comfortable in the role as a goal line short yardage back for the team, and the Texans decided to go in another direction in 2010, electing not to resign him.
I have always been a fan of Chris- and felt that he had gotten a bad rap at his stops in Tennessee and Houston as a fumbler. (14 fumbles over his career.) He has had his shares of extreme ups and downs, and during the 2004 season he single-handedly crushed the Green Bay Packers in primetime, helping me win in fantasy football, (as I got lucky starting him that week,) rushing for 148 yards and 2 touchdowns. He wasn’t a bad receiver out of the backfield either grabbing 90 catches over 6 seasons and Brown had 1900 rushing yards over 26 a game period. I got Chris’ autograph as part of the ‘Texans Blitz’ through my friend’s brother who plays for the team.
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Potential homebuyers to face plenty of challenges in 2018
Getting prepared now could make the process easier
Mark Huffman Reporter
Photo (c) Martin Barraud - Getty Images
Consumers who want to purchase a home this year, whether a starter home or a move-up residence, will have their work cut out for them. Real estate experts say it remains a seller's market.
That's because there continues to be fewer available homes for sale. In a new report, real estate marketplace Zillow describes the inventory shortage as "at crisis levels" in the nation’s hottest housing markets.
There are 41 percent fewer homes on the market in San Jose, Calif., compared to last year. In Las Vegas, where home prices have surged in the last 12 months, inventory levels are down 27 percent.
Nationwide, the number of homes for sale has fallen for 35 straight months. Almost no housing analyst is predicting an abrupt turnaround until homebuilders become more active.
Uncertain homebuying season
The outlook for the spring homebuying season is marked by uncertainty. While inventory levels remain tight, Zillow senior economist Aaron Terrazas says it is possible home prices could actually dip in some places because of changes in the tax law that make homeowner deductions less valuable.
Terrazas says the result could be the most expensive homes lose some value while the most affordable homes are the object of more intense homebuyer competition, boosting their values even more.
"On the supply side, the market is starving for new homes, but it won't be easy for builders struggling with high and rising land, labor, and lumber costs,” Terrazas said.
"Aging millennials and young families may be able to find more affordable new homes for sale this year, but they'll most likely be in further-flung suburbs with more grueling commutes to urban job centers."
Get ready now
For consumers preparing to begin house-hunting this year, John Danaher, president of consumer interactive at TransUnion, advises taking steps now to improve their credit scores.
“Building credit doesn’t happen overnight,” Danaher said in an email to ConsumerAffairs. “Check your credit at least three to six months before you think you’ll apply for a mortgage to avoid any surprises down the road. That way, if your credit needs a boost, you still have time to make a real impact.”
A strong credit score will not only smooth the mortgage application process, it will help ensure you get the lowest interest rate. That will make a difference in your monthly payment.
On a $200,000 mortgage, the difference in payment on a four percent loan and one at five percent is $119.
The best way to build your credit score is to pay all of your bills on time every month. Also, pay down credit card balances as much as possible. A lower credit utilization rate will improve your credit score.
Danaher suggests setting aside the money you plan to use for a down payment and closing costs and getting pre-approved by a mortgage lender before venturing into what is expected to be the most competitive homebuying season in many years.
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Mark Huffman has been a consumer news reporter for ConsumerAffairs since 2004. He covers real estate, gas prices and the economy and has reported extensively on negative-option sales. He was previously an Associated Press reporter and editor in Washington, D.C., a correspondent for Westwoood One Radio Networks and Marketwatch.
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NHL teams prep for return of arena fans
By Kevin Reichard on February 23, 2021 in Hockey, NBA, NHL
As COVID-19 restrictions are loosened as cases and deaths decline, NHL teams are preparing for the return of arena fans as early as next week, subject to approval of local health officials.
We’ve already reported on Gov. Andrew Cuomo approving New York arena openings, paving the way for Madison Square Garden, Nassau Coliseum and Barclays Center to welcome a limited number of fans to NHL and NBA games. And with reported cases, deaths and positivity rates in free fall, the sports and entertainment industries are seeing a loosening of venue restrictions, whether it be tens of thousands of fans planned for MLB ballparks or smaller crowds allowed for NBA, NHL and college-basketball play.
In New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy has approved an opening of his state’s arenas at 10 percent capacity for indoor venues holding 5,000 or more and 15 percent capacity for outdoor venues. That means the New Jersey Devils will be welcoming fans to Prudential Center beginning March 2.
“This is a day toward which our entire staff has been planning, working and looking forward to for the past 11 months,” said New Jersey Devils President Jake Reynolds. “Those who enter the building will feel confident that our process and protocols are focused on making their safety the number one priority. That includes maximizing social distancing, minimizing contact and using products and technology to ensure the wellbeing, safety and enjoyment of our fans and attendees. The fan’s journey has been developed to provide consumer confidence from the street to the seat, and we can’t wait to feel their energy welcome them back to the Prudential Center to cheer and celebrate Devils’ victories in person.”
That same 10 percent threshold is the one used by Gov. Mike DeWine to allow Ohio venues to open. In Nevada, the state’s Department of Business and Industry is allowing T-Mobile Arena to open at 15 capacity, or 2,600 fans, for Vegas Golden Knights games. We expect other states to move forward quickly with arena reopenings in the same capacity range.
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Anonymous campaign mailer touting Bob Burns, sent by Democratic mail shop in Massachusetts.
Notorious ‘Steele Dossier’ Atty Representing Dem Mail Shop in NH-02 Probe
Posted to Politics September 02, 2022 by Michael Graham
New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella announced Friday his office is investigating a series of apparently illegal political mailers sent by a Democratic mail shop to influence the Second Congressional District GOP primary.
The law firm representing the mail shop is the Elias Law Group, founded by notorious Democratic operative Marc Elias, best known for his work as Hillary Clinton’s attorney who “helped bankroll research that led to the now-infamous dossier on alleged ties between the Donald Trump campaign and Russian government operatives,” Politico reports.
The Elias Law Group is now refusing to disclose the source of the funding for a Democratic mail campaign promoting a “MAGA Republican” in the upcoming Republican primary.
As first reported by NHJournal, pro-Trump candidate Bob Burns’ candidacy has been boosted by a series of anonymous mailers, with no disclaimers, sent from the Reynolds DeWalt mail shop in New Bedford, Mass. The firm has done printing for Hillary Clinton, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and other prominent Democrats.
According to a statement from Formella’s office, “an unknown entity has paid for at least four political advertising mailers regarding the Congressional District 2 race. These mailers have been sent to New Hampshire residents throughout Congressional District 2. These mailers do not contain information identifying the person or entity responsible for the advertising—known as ‘paid-for’ disclaimers—that are required by New Hampshire and federal law.”
And, the statement added, the Attorney General’s Office has confirmed NHJournal’s reporting that “the mailers were produced by Massachusetts printing company Reynolds DeWalt, which is represented by the Elias Law Group.”
“Reynolds DeWalt and Elias have both refused to disclose to the Attorney General’s Office the name of the person or entity responsible for the mailers. However, following discussions with this office, Elias has confirmed that the four mailers without the ‘paid-for’ information were the only ones sent and any additional mailers distributed in New Hampshire by Reynolds DeWalt will contain paid-for disclaimers.”
Marc Elias is no stranger to controversy. In addition to his role in promoting the “Russia Collusion” story, later proven to be a hoax promoted by the Hillary Clinton campaign, Elias also stepped in to help the national Black Lives Matter organization after allegations of financial improprieties arose, including the secret purchase of a $6 million mansion in Malibu, Calif.
Elias was also sanctioned by a federal judge for his behavior in a Texas election law case.
The Burns campaign, along with GOP primary candidate Mayor George Hansel and incumbent Rep. Annie Kuster all said they knew nothing about the mailers or who funded them, the Attorney General’s Office said, adding it will “continue its investigation of the four mailers for violations of New Hampshire election law.”
It also said, “The Attorney General’s Office welcomes information from the public regarding political advertising they find concerning due to lack of paid-for disclaimers. Please provide copies of the mailer and the dates when received to our email address: [email protected]”
The Elias Law Firm did not respond to requests for comment.
“Annie Kuster can’t win with a record of voting with Joe Biden 100% of the time, so Marc Elias and the Democrats know their only hope is to meddle and detract from her failed tenure in Congress,” said NRCC spokeswoman Samantha Bullock.
Asked about the potential consequences for sending illegal, anonymous political mailers, Myles B. Matteson with the Attorney General’s Office Election Law Unit told NHJournal that, in federal campaigns like this, federal enforcement would supersede the state’s. However, if New Hampshire’s election law were applied, the entity responsible for an illegal mailer could face felony charges.
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World’s largest barbecue pit hails from Texas, cooks four tons of meat, and is for sale
Behold, the Undisputable Cuz.(Courtesy photo)
By Tiney Ricciardi
4:04 PM on Jan 28, 2015 CST
Here’s something that could really up the game at your next tailgate: A couple from Brenham, Texas is selling what they say is the world’s largest barbecue pit.
The "Undisputable Cuz," as it's called, is a 76-foot smoker that can cook up to four tons of meat at one time. Now that's a lotta beef.
It has 24 pit doors (12 on each side), seven smoke stacks, a walk-in cooler near the front, four beer taps and, of course, a giant Texas emblem bringing up the rear. The thing is so large that it requires a special permit and escort just to drive down the road, according to USA Today.
Owner Terry Folsom acquired the Undisputable Cuz through a business deal two years ago. He says the previous owner, after whom the pit is named, treated the smoker as a traveling show.
“It goes to major events like the Super Bowl, NASCAR, it’s been to Las Vegas too,” Folsom says. “It’s been everywhere.”
Folsom, who has a trucking company and farm in southeast Texas, has used the pit in the time he owned it, but says it's now his turn to keep truckin'. So he's asking $350,000 for the smoker itself, plus an additional (optional) $50,000 for the truck and rig used to haul it, via eBay.
“I just want to get my money back and move on with life,” he says.
Tiney Ricciardi. Though she was born in California, Tiney is a Texan at heart with two degrees from Dallas’ Southern Methodist University under her belt. Her passions for music and language have taken her across the world, from Peru to Switzerland and all corners of America. A self-proclaimed master of puns, she currently resides in East Dallas priming her online publishing skills and snuggling with her cats. Ask her where to find good music and good beer.
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Bradley rallies South Alabama past Old Dominion 27-20
Nov 25, 2022, 11:17 PM | Updated: Nov 26, 2022, 1:19 pm
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Carter Bradley threw three touchdown passes and South Alabama held Old Dominion scoreless in the second half to rally for its fifth-straight win, 27-20 win on Saturday.
South Alabama needed Troy to lose Arkansas State in a late game to win the West Division and advance to the conference title game.
Old Dominion’s Jason Henderson had 18 tackles, giving him 186 for the season, a total only exceeded by the 193 of Lawrence Flugence of Texas Tech in 2012 and the 191 of Luke Kuechly of Boston College a year earlier. Henderson had double-figure tackles in every game — with a high of 22 — except for getting just two last week before suffering an injury.
The Jaguars (10-2, 7-1 Sun Belt) trailed the Monarchs (3-9, 2-6) 20-13 at halftime as Hayden Wolff threw a pair of touchdown passes for Old Dominion.
Then Bradley engineered a pair of long touchdown drives with an interception, the only turnover of the game, between them.
First the Jags went 83 yards in 12 plays with Jalen Wayne hauling in a 30-yard scoring pass. After his pick, Bradley found DJ Thomas-Jones for a two-yard score to end a 15-play, 69 yard drive.
After scoring on four of five possessions in the first half, Old Dominion only got the ball four times in the second, punting on the first three and giving up the ball on downs at the South Alabama 41 with 1:46 to play on the last.
The Monarchs only had 69 of their 381 yards on the second half. South Alabama had 398 yards but kept the ball more than 10 minutes longer.
La’Damian Webb had 74 yards rushing for South Alabama to surpass 1,000 for the season.
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'A grave without a cross'
A translation by Trevor Jaggar from the Kiswahili of the 1990 reprint of Kareithi's novel, with a translator's note and preface, 54 pages. In his note Jaggar explains that his purpose in translating Karethi's work was 'to enable British and other readers of English to learn something of what the Mau Mau War felt like to a Kikuyu striving for the independence of Kenya from British colonial rule'.
A journey in French West Africa in 1901
An account of a journey undertaken by White, then 23, and two companions, from Dakar through St Louis, Kayes (on Mungo Park's route to the Niger), and Djéné on the Bani River, arriving finally at Bobodiulasso, 15 pages. There are references to the activities of Samori and comments on colonial policy. The account is accompanied by a covering letter from White to the Secretary of the Royal Empire Society, 12 July 1948, and the Secretary's reply, 21 July 1948.
A journey to Asia and Africa
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011MMM-XXX
Scope and Contents A collection of albums, containing captioned black and white photographs, taken by one, or more, people travelling in the same group. The albums form a photographic account of a six-month long touring holiday.Of the albums, the first ten are all of the same style and manufacture and each has an embossed title on the front. They follow the journey chronologically. The remaining two contain a smaller selection of images from the same journey, again in chronological order. They are...
Dates: 1935-09 - 1936-03
A memoir of life as a colonial officer in Sierra Leone, West Africa
Memoir (228 pages) accompanied by notes and rough drafts (circa 100 pages). An index is filed with the collection.
'A walk to the Nyassa country'
An account of Edward Steere's journey to Lake Nyassa written in Zanzibar, Lent 1876, 24 pages. There is an accompanying letter from Steere to Major Evan Smith, Consul General, 23 August 1875, informing him of his plans for the expedition.
A.C. Barnes collection on East Africa, Nigeria, and Fiji, 1914-1933
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468CC
Scope and Contents Collection of photographs on 64 album sheets with 24 loose prints. 225 relate to British East Africa (Kenya), German East Africa (Tanganyika) and Uganda, 55 to Nigeria, 4 to the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 16 to Zanzibar and 35 to Fiji (including some duplicates).The album sheets appear to have come from five albums, as follows:A Light brown, 230 x 275 mm. (Plates 1-56 on nine sheets)B Dark grey, 220 x 268 mm. (Plates 57-134 on nineteen sheets)C Dark brown,...
Accra Post Office. circa 1915
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448B
A collection of uncaptioned loose prints, measuring approximately 200 x 145 mm. The collection was exhibited in the Gold Coast section of the British Empire Exhibition 1924 and were deposited at the Royal Colonial Institute on the instruction of Major W.T.E. Wallace, Acting Postmaster General of the Gold Coast (see letter accompanying prints). Prints 11 and 12 show other Post Offices in the colony. Photographer unknown.
Achimota College (A.W.E. Winlaw collection)
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I
Scope and Contents Collection of loose prints with duplicates measuring, unless stated, approximately 210 x 160 mm. The collection contains a variety of photographs, some of them taken by the Information Services of the Gold Coast/Ghana, while others are amateur photographs. Nos 1-5, showing Fraser in the Principal's house are clearly pre-1935, when he left Achimota. The majority date from Mr Winlaw's Headship and include a number of views of buildings put up in that period, particularly the Assembly Hall...
Africa miscellanea
Scope and Contents A wide range of material relating to different parts of Africa, notably Nigeria, Rhodesia, South Africa and Uganda. Many of the papers relate to Europeans who worked in Africa, including army officers and missionaries. A number of the collections are comprised of single items, such as letters or artwork. There is also a significant amount of photocopied material. The titles and captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is...
African land utilisation and settlement, Kenya
Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints (originally 80 but lacking No. 75) measuring approximately 155 x 105 mm., with typewritten explanatory captions on the reverse. The collection, which illustrates the progress of land utilisation and betterment schemes in various districts of Kenya is identical, apart from minor variations, with the illustrations in the 'African Land Utilisation and Settlement Report 1962.'Photographs by the Aircraft Operating Company of Africa Limited, Johannesburg (Nos....
African travel diary of A.R.H. Mann
A diary describing a journey from London via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons and South Africa in four volumes, each of 50 pages.
African villages and townships in Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052I
Collection of loose prints measuring approximately 21 x 150 mm., with typewritten captions pasted to the reverse of the prints. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.
Alan Rudwick collection
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J
Scope and Contents Loose photographs taken by Alan Rudwick unless otherwise indicated. All photographs are 215 x 165 mm unless otherwise stated. They fall into two groups; photographs of trade castles (1-28) and other views, chiefly of Achimota. Along the West Africa coast are the remains of more than 40 castles and fortified posts set up by European nations engaged in commerce, including the Transatlantic slave trade, with West Africa, the greatest concentration being in what became the Gold Coast, now...
Album of family photographs taken in Kenya 1934-1936
Scope and Contents A small brown album containing photographs measuring 135 x 85 mm, plus four index prints. There are handwritten annotations in the album or on the reverse of the photographs. Subjects include scenes of Treetops (safari lodge) and big game, the Gerra River Nyeri, the wedding of St. John Shaw and Mary Roe, the family's bungalow and garden, Silver Jubilee celebrations at the Nyeri Club in 1935, children thatching with banana leaves, a holiday in Mombasa, views of Mount Kilimanjaro, Free Town,...
Album souvenir d'Alexandrie: Ruines, 1882
An album of albumen prints. This collection contains a series of views of destruction caused by the bombardment of the city on 11 July 1882 when the English fleet attempted to destroy Arabi Pasha's nationalist forces. The photographs are captioned in French on the photographs themselves.
Albums by Francis Frith
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214A-C
Scope and Contents This collection consists of printed published volumes illustrated with albumen prints tipped on to the leaves with detailed text accompanying each photograph.The landscape and monumental remains of Egypt and the Middle East had exercised a profound fascination upon the European imagination for centuries, but it was only in the 19th century - and particularly after the impetus of Napolean's Egyptian campaign of 1798 - that visitors arrived in any great numbers. Scholars, adventurers...
Albums of Lt. Col. R.E. Thorne
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468DD-EE
Scope and Contents This collection consists of two albums relating to the career of Richard Everard Thorne (see Y30468DD/13), who was born in 1901, educated at Haileybury, and joined the Tanganyika Police in 1925. After returning home to get married in 1930, he served in Iringa (twice) and Dar-es-Salaam during the period 1930-1939. During the Second World War he was seconded from Tanganyika Police to the Somalia Gendarmerie. He returned to Tanganyika 1949-1952, then after attending the Senior Officers'...
Alexander Russell Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe] photographs 1900-7
Scope and Contents Collection of 5 " x 4 " copy negatives from an album containing twelve prints measuring approximately 155 x 110 mm, with letterpress captions printed beneath the photographs (in some cases different photographs have been inserted and the captions amended). The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. The album, created by Telegraphist and Postmaster Alexander Russell, offers an interesting visual record of Salisbury and the surrounding areas in...
Alexander Russell Southern Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe] photographs, 1900-1901
Scope and Contents The collection consists of modern 5" x 4" copy negatives from an album containing twenty prints measuring approximately 155 x 110 mm, with handwritten captions on the mounts in Russell's hand. The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. An inscription on the inside cover reads: 'To Jack with best wishes for a prosperous future from Alec 1.1.02.' ...
Amy Wilson collection on South Africa 1901-1902
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305Q
Scope and Contents A diary of a visit to South Africa, 100 x 120 mm, with original photographs and 4 cut from publications. The photographs include professional prints, but for the most part are amateur work, presumably by Amy Wilson herself, save for the few in which she appears. Most of the photographs can be linked to episodes described in the diary and many are captioned either below or on the reverse.With the aid of the lists published in 'South Africa' on the day of sailing from Southampton, 26...
Archdeacon R.H. Walker in Uganda
Scope and Contents An album of photographs measuring approximately 105 x 75 mm or 75 x 105 mm and arranged two to a page. Annotations written on paper (presumably by Archdeacon Walker) are stuck into the album. The photographs show groups of people and domestic life in Uganda, including: crossing a swamp, a funeral procession, a village schoolroom, Daudi the infant King of Uganda, interior of the Parliament House, Apolo Kagwa the Katikiro or Prime Minister, Mr. And Mrs. Cyril Gordon, making a bridge, boat...
A.R.H. Mann Collection, 1935
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468N
Scope and Contents Collection of negatives, contact prints and enlargements. Mann travelled from London, which he left on 20 June 1935, via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons to South Africa, arriving in Johannesburg on 31 October. 1-516 are enlargements of Mann's photographs and 517-575 are photographic postcards, chiefly of the Sudan. In addition there is a box containing the original negatives 45 x 45 mm with contact prints, but these have...
Armstrong family of Natal [KwaZulu/Natal]
A collection of three loose prints and one pencil sketch, of various sizes, with some identification on the reverse, which have been used as titles. They appear to relate to the emigration of the Armstrong family to southern Africa. Photographs by T.F. Haskell and others.
Subject: Africa (continent) X
South Africa (nation) 104
Nigeria (nation) 72
Kenya (nation) 64
Ghana (nation) 52
Tanzania (nation) 52
Egypt (nation) 37
Sierra Leone (nation) 33
Zimbabwe (nation) 33
North and Central America (continent) 32
Oceania (continent) 31
Sudan (nation) 26
Zambia (nation) 24
Sri Lanka (nation) 18
Australia (nation) 17
Congo (nation) 17
China (nation) 16
Malawi (nation) 16
New Zealand (nation) 16
France (nation) 15
Botswana (nation) 14
Canada (nation) 14
Lesotho (nation) 14
Malaysia (nation) 14
Great Britain (island) 13
South America (continent) 13
Cameroon (nation) 12
Gambia (nation) 12
Jamaica (nation) 12
Saint Helena (dependent state) 12
Gibraltar (dependent state) 10
Italy (nation) 10
Japan (nation) 10
Malta (nation) 10
Mauritius (nation) 10
Pakistan (nation) 10
Spain (nation) 10
KwaZulu-Natal, Province of (province) 9
Palestine (historic region) 8
Gauteng (province) 7
Eastern Cape, Province of (province) 6
Seychelles (nation) 6
Somalia (nation) 6
Western Cape, Province of the (province) 6
Zanzibar (inhabited place) 6
Johannesburg (inhabited place) 5
Mozambique (nation) 5
Rhodesia (region (general)) 5
Singapore (inhabited place) 5
Zambezi (river) 5
Zanzibar (region) 5
Central African Republic (nation) 4
Colonial administration 4
Germany (nation) 4
Namibia (nation) 4
Port Elizabeth (inhabited place) 4
Rwanda (nation) 4
Saint Helena (island) 4
Ganda 2
Multiple languages 1
Sotho, Southern 1
Church Missionary Society 5
Smith, Sir (Walter Buchanan-, 1879-1944, Knight) 4
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Fatemeh Naghshvarian is a PhD candidate for the ERC Advanced Grant Beyond Sharia: the Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam, related to the project Qalandars in the ‘Divine Religion’ in India. She is an enthusiastic admirer of literature and interested in the intersection of humanities with the new technological developments and their applied implications. She did her graduate studies in Cultural Studies (MA) and Digital Humanities (MS) at the University of Leuven (K.U. Leuven), Belgium, and has previously studied English Language and Literature (BA) at Shiraz University, Iran. Fatemeh graduated magna cum laude from the University of Leuven. For her Cultural Studies master thesis, Fatemeh focused on the formal questions of aesthetic experimentations in conjunction with the sociocultural inquiries within the independent cinema of Ramin Bahrani. For her Digital Humanities master thesis, Fatemeh concentrated on exploring the role of structured data for performing arts by conducting a critical analysis of open data and audience engagement. After her graduation, Fatemeh did an Erasmus internship at Ofoundation in Utrecht. The project she was working on involved the promotion and online publication of Saleha Waheb Wassel’s art and poetry that entail elements of Sufism.
By and large, Fatemeh is passionate about the reciprocated authority of literature and society in shaping one another, identity formation, culture and politics, ideologies and the construction of knowledge. Fatemeh decided to join the Beyond Sharia project since she is particularly interested in the mutual influences of the historical evolvement of Islam and various receptions of the aesthetics and doctrines of Islamic mysticism. In this respect, within the ERC project, she will study the works of the poet laureate Feyzi (1547-1595) in conjunction with other contemporaries of the laureate to examine the formation of “Divine Religion” (din-e elahi) at the Indian Mughal court of Emperor Akbar. Her research will closely follow the chronological line of evolution embedded in the arch project, starting from the ‘wise fool’ ideas of the 9th and 10th centuries to antinomian movements in later centuries. By seeking to understand the pertinent influences of antinomian thoughts and heterodox religious thinking within Islam, she aims to navigate the impact of Islamic critical thinking on shaping the political implications of Divine Religion and “Universal Peace” in 16th-century Mughal India.
Encountering ʿAyn al-Qużāt’s Tamhīdāt in Iran’s Antagonism of Mullocracy
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‘In the Fire of Spring’: Omar Khayyam on Love, Heresy, and Resurrection
Call for papers: A Boundless Ocean: Rumi’s Thought and Reception
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RudyC3 02.04.2017#4026
Just ordered this, which should arrive by next morning. My mate got this one for his Switch at launch, and I must say I'll feel a lot better knowing that my Switch is well protected by this. I chose not to go cheap on purpose (it was 15€) and to go with a tempered glass protection. Now I only need a good pouch, but the system itself + 2 games + that protection has left me dry, and I want to save for MK8 Deluxe later this month cause I want in on that action with you guys when it launches .
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Just ordered this, which should arrive by next morning. My mate got this one for his Switch at launch, and I must say I'll feel a lot better knowing that my Switch is well protected by this. I chose not to go cheap on purpose (it was 15€) and to go with a tempered glass protection. Now I only need a good pouch, but the system itself + 2 games + that protection has left me dry, and I want to save for MK8 Deluxe later this month cause I want in on that action with you guys when it launches ;). [img]https://s4.thcdn.com/productimg/600/600/11415228-2054461781133160.png[/img]
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Azuardo 02.04.2017#4027
Yeah, glass protector is defo the way to go for the Switch. Heard some bad things about film layers not working so well with it.
Not sure who is picking MK8 on Switch from here tho. I rinsed it dry on Wii U, and the price they're selling it for makes no sense for me to buy it just for a battle mode that should have been in there already. I really have no reason to return to that game on either console now. Add more cup tracks and I would have thought about it, but even then, it would need to be a lot cheaper.
Yeah, glass protector is defo the way to go for the Switch. Heard some bad things about film layers not working so well with it. Not sure who is picking MK8 on Switch from here tho. I rinsed it dry on Wii U, and the price they're selling it for makes no sense for me to buy it just for a battle mode that should have been in there already. I really have no reason to return to that game on either console now. Add more cup tracks and I would have thought about it, but even then, it would need to be a lot cheaper.
Azuardo said:
If ever DLC there should be again, it will be for this one, not the Wii U version (even if technically they still could, they wouldn't, so as to shift copies of the Switch version). I also agree that there should have been more tracks from the start, but I'm pretty sure they'll be there eventually and they're going to make us pay for it. DLC sold well on MK8, that worked well for them, so I don't see them not trying it again on Switch. It will be worth it in the end, and I don't see the price of a MK game going down any time soon. Maybe down the line, there will be a MyNintendo discount, but I think it's unlikely for it to go down soon. Pretty sure a hard copy of the Wii U version still goes for the same price it did at launch.
Some places are selling it for 60€ over here, but if you look well other places sell it for 10€ less.
[quote][b]Azuardo said:[/b]
Not sure who is picking MK8 on Switch from here tho. I rinsed it dry on Wii U, and the price they're selling it for makes no sense for me to buy it just for a battle mode that should have been in there already. I really have no reason to return to that game on either console now. Add more cup tracks and I would have thought about it, but even then, it would need to be a lot cheaper.[/quote] If ever DLC there should be again, it will be for this one, not the Wii U version (even if technically they still could, they wouldn't, so as to shift copies of the Switch version). I also agree that there should have been more tracks from the start, but I'm pretty sure they'll be there eventually and they're going to make us pay for it. DLC sold well on MK8, that worked well for them, so I don't see them not trying it again on Switch. It will be worth it in the end, and I don't see the price of a MK game going down any time soon. Maybe down the line, there will be a MyNintendo discount, but I think it's unlikely for it to go down soon. Pretty sure a hard copy of the Wii U version still goes for the same price it did at launch. Some places are selling it for 60€ over here, but if you look well other places sell it for 10€ less.
If they ever add DLC, that's probably the only time I'd think about rebuying it for Switch, but it's a big ask. I don't often rebuy games I already own on other systems, but when I do, it's when they're a lot cheaper. I have a hard time justifying me rebuying this one, even though I know it makes sense for them to bring it to the Switch. I just believe there should be a lot more added for those that bought it on Wii U already. The price doesn't justify the content*, and while I had a lot of fun in MK8, I'm not sure I have much desire to return to it now. I burnt myself out finally getting 10,000pts online lol. Never say never tho - if I miraculously find it for a great price one day, I'm sure I'll get it, but right now it's highly unlikely.
*By this, I mean for someone that already hammered it to death on the Wii U, and that it is a port with not a lot added. It's definitely great value for money, especially with all the included DLC, but as a port of a 3-year-old game that I have already hammered, it's just too much for me to buy again.
( Edited 02.04.2017 16:51 by Azuardo )
If they ever add DLC, that's probably the only time I'd think about rebuying it for Switch, but it's a big ask. I don't often rebuy games I already own on other systems, but when I do, it's when they're a lot cheaper. I have a hard time justifying me rebuying this one, even though I know it makes sense for them to bring it to the Switch. I just believe there should be a lot more added for those that bought it on Wii U already. The price doesn't justify the content*, and while I had a lot of fun in MK8, I'm not sure I have much desire to return to it now. I burnt myself out finally getting 10,000pts online lol. Never say never tho - if I miraculously find it for a great price one day, I'm sure I'll get it, but right now it's highly unlikely. *By this, I mean for someone that already hammered it to death on the Wii U, and that it is a port with not a lot added. It's definitely great value for money, especially with all the included DLC, but as a port of a 3-year-old game that I have already hammered, it's just too much for me to buy again.
I have not hammered it nearly as much, so that's perhaps why I'm more inclined to get it again. That and the fact it's now portable, and I can see myself playing this two player with split JoyCons on the go, I mean I can picture this kind of situation arising in the future where I'd use the game that way. Otherwise I wholeheartedly agree with you of course. If they offered a trade-in or something for the Wii U version, or discount for owners of the original, that would be so much more worth it and an easier buy for sure.
I Am Panda 02.04.2017#4031
Yeah, I don't know about Mario Kart 8. I don't plan on picking it up at launch, but if it drops quite a bit in price or I can get a discount, I may get it in the future. I'm pretty happy with the Wii U version for now, if I really want to play. I want to play the Battle Mode (especially Bob-Omb one), but it's not enough to make me go out and get it again for the price they're selling it at.
I will add though, it's a great deal if you've never played or owned Mario Kart 8 before. I'd get it in a heartbeat if I hadn't got it on Wii U.
( Edited 02.04.2017 20:23 by Marzy )
Yeah, I don't know about Mario Kart 8. I don't plan on picking it up at launch, but if it drops quite a bit in price or I can get a discount, I may get it in the future. I'm pretty happy with the Wii U version for now, if I really want to play. I want to play the Battle Mode (especially Bob-Omb one), but it's not enough to make me go out and get it again for the price they're selling it at. I will add though, it's a great deal if you've never played or owned Mario Kart 8 before. I'd get it in a heartbeat if I hadn't got it on Wii U.
Flynnie 03.04.2017#4032
I have the same issue with FAST Racing RMX on Switch, i own the disc version of NEO which comes with the DLC, although RMX has added 8 new tracks i still can't justify another 17quid on the Switch version.
However with MK8 i don't own the DLC...so....if i saw MK8 for the right price i might just cave...
Also, i have a screen protector for the switch, but not a tempered glass one...although i can't imagine ever taking a hammer to it anyway...
( Edited 03.04.2017 00:28 by Flynnie )
I have the same issue with FAST Racing RMX on Switch, i own the disc version of NEO which comes with the DLC, although RMX has added 8 new tracks i still can't justify another 17quid on the Switch version. However with MK8 i don't own the DLC...so....if i saw MK8 for the right price i might just cave... Also, i have a screen protector for the switch, but not a tempered glass one...although i can't imagine ever taking a hammer to it anyway...
FAST RMX I'm not getting right away for that reason as well. Though I don't have the DLC, but I'm also not nearly as big a fan of FAST as I am of Mario Kart. Later down the line FAST RMX is bound to be discounted on the eShop and there's always the small chance that they do a physical release once again with possibly some more DLC tacked on (though I don't know about the latter cause the game is pretty packed as it is at this point).
If FAST RMX was physical at that price then i would re-purchase it. But not for digital. Nuh uh!
Also just picked these up!
If FAST RMX was physical at that price then i would re-purchase it. But not for digital. Nuh uh! Also just picked these up! [img]https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51BsULWnySL.jpg[/img] [img]https://www.digiseller.ru/preview/132143/p1_50302171319290.JPG[/img]
Phoenom 06.04.2017#4035
Works much better than the original did! Shame about the lack of inside box art though. :/
[img]https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/434c9098-cbcc-493c-bc48-4c0e1dc3548d_1.b75e8e6197d16a058d8b0ef9ad3c5d84.jpeg[/img] Works much better than the original did! Shame about the lack of inside box art though. :/
I plan on picking it up at some point, too! I never got it on Wii U, and it it looks really great. Seems like the Switch version is a really good port, too with some nice improvements over the original. I also heard the Nintendo exclusive content is still in the Switch version, so that's a nice bonus.
I had a hard time getting into it on Wii U when it was lent to me. I always felt that there wasn't really much to the open world outside of missions that interested me. I don't know why, but I just don't click, so I don't think I'll get it this time either.
I've had a hankering to get LEGO City on Switch, but these games do perhaps feel a bit too easy for my liking.
I purchased this on the weekend (retail) as it was half price $19 (AUS), I initially had a tough time with it but I am starting to quite enjoy it. It does feel like a game of luck though. It's pretty brutal at times.
EB Games have a 7 day returns policy (similar to what Gamestation did with their 10 returns policy back in the day) , so I reckon i'll play it, try and complete it and then return it and use that money towards Mario Kart 8....(i've caved).
Also, this could be a quick way to get MyNintendo Gold points, providing I don't piss off EBgames that is.
I actually bought this set and traded it straight back in but took the amiibo and cards out. I paid $6 in total so totally worth it!
Back in stock! So i had to pick up a second controller!
I've had a hankering to get LEGO City on Switch, but these games do perhaps feel a bit too easy for my liking. [img]http://www.gamestop.com/common/images/lbox/141704b.jpg[/img] I purchased this on the weekend (retail) as it was half price $19 (AUS), I initially had a tough time with it but I am starting to quite enjoy it. It does feel like a game of luck though. It's pretty brutal at times. EB Games have a 7 day returns policy (similar to what Gamestation did with their 10 returns policy back in the day) , so I reckon i'll play it, try and complete it and then return it and use that money towards Mario Kart 8....(i've caved). Also, this could be a quick way to get MyNintendo Gold points, providing I don't piss off EBgames that is. [img]http://animalcrossingworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/animal-crossing-amiibo-festival-bundle-box-art.png[/img] I actually bought this set and traded it straight back in but took the amiibo and cards out. I paid $6 in total so totally worth it! [img]http://www.toysrus.com/graphics/product_images/pTRU1-24703750_alternate1_dt.jpg[/img] Back in stock! So i had to pick up a second controller!
Well, today I ordered my very first Microsoft console...
A refurbed Xbox 360 60GB. I figure it's worth a punt at £30, so why not? And then I went straight on a shopping spree that pretty much sums me up.
Well, today I ordered my very first Microsoft console... [img]http://store.musicmagpie.co.uk/spree/products/1470680/product/image_1.jpg?1491385376[/img] A refurbed Xbox 360 60GB. I figure it's worth a punt at £30, so why not? And then I went straight on a shopping spree that pretty much sums me up. [img]https://gamefaqs.akamaized.net/box/4/6/1/53461_front.jpg[/img] [img]https://gamefaqs.akamaized.net/box/4/3/1/13431_front.jpg[/img] [img]https://gamefaqs.akamaized.net/box/4/2/1/68421_front.jpg[/img] [img]https://gamefaqs.akamaized.net/box/1/3/8/18138_front.jpg[/img] [img]https://gamefaqs.akamaized.net/box/3/0/8/69308_front.jpg[/img]
Well I guess that makes sense given your avatar, did you buy some kleenex to go with all of that
I'd recommend the Gears of War games, you could probably pick them up pretty cheap these days!
Well I guess that makes sense given your avatar, did you buy some kleenex to go with all of that :P I'd recommend the Gears of War games, you could probably pick them up pretty cheap these days!
haha, unfortunately, the pre-DOA5 anime doll style doesn't quite do it for me any more XD
Will look into GOW. Probably gonna wait to see if the console works nice and proper first.
haha, unfortunately, the pre-DOA5 anime doll style doesn't quite do it for me any more XD Will look into GOW. Probably gonna wait to see if the console works nice and proper first.
Check after playing a first disc in it to see if your system doesn't scratch discs. Problem with those cheap systems, even if they are labeled refurbished, is that they may still have some small flaws that do not hamper its immediate usability, but discs that get repeatedly scratched along the same line all around the disc by a 360 with an unstable drive become unreadable over time. Best to not damage multiple discs at once if you can help it by being vigilant.
Will look into GOW. Probably gonna wait to see if the console works nice and proper first.[/quote] Check after playing a first disc in it to see if your system doesn't scratch discs. Problem with those cheap systems, even if they are labeled refurbished, is that they may still have some small flaws that do not hamper its immediate usability, but discs that get repeatedly scratched along the same line all around the disc by a 360 with an unstable drive become unreadable over time. Best to not damage multiple discs at once if you can help it by being vigilant.
Noted. I know it's a risk buying such an old system, but the price was too good to pass up. I thought it best I buy from a proper seller with a warranty than finding it in some random indie store.
Yea 360's are literally built so shoddly. I can't believe that they were ever able to continue selling the 360 given the sheer number of problems with that console!
He's gone Xbox crazy! Just bought this lot for £30. Very happy with that deal.
He's gone Xbox crazy! Just bought this lot for £30. Very happy with that deal. [img]http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/bgkAAOSwB-1Y56pW/s-l1600.jpg[/img]
But why? Your 360 could have played most of the XB games anyway?
Just wanted a huge box in your house?
But why? Your 360 could have played most of the XB games anyway? Just wanted a huge box in your house?
Keyword is "most." It won't play DOAX1, so I needed an OG Xbox. Plus, I'm somewhat of a collector, and a good deal is a good deal, so nice to have an extra couple of old consoles I've missed out on. Will be able to pick up any OG Xbox games that won't work on the 360 now too.
OG Xbox is the shizzle. Good buy.
Cheers! Looking forward to playing it. It's amazing how well some games still look on the OG Xbox. Tecmo at the time really got the most out of it, hence DOA3 and DOAX1 still looking superb today.
I still think the remake of Conker looked ok, but then the fact its censored MORE than the N64 version makes it inferior.
See if you can find the Panzaar Dragoon and Jet Set games on there. SEGA's support of the console was probably one of the best things about it!
I still think the remake of Conker looked ok, but then the fact its censored MORE than the N64 version makes it inferior. See if you can find the Panzaar Dragoon and Jet Set games on there. SEGA's support of the console was probably one of the best things about it!
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We Are The City
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Since forming in 2008, Kelowna, BC's We Are The City has become one of the most exciting and unpredictable forces in the Canadian music scene. The band soon began earning accolades for its atmospheric progressive-pop sound with the release of their debut LP In a Quiet World in 2009. In January 2010, the band earned a whopping $105,000 by winning the PEAK Performance Project, a massive "battle of the bands" contest hosted by Vancouver's 100.5 The PEAK.
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Now, the trio of Cayne McKenzie (vocals/keyboard), Andrew Huculiak (drums) and David Menzel (guitar) are ready to take their most ambitious step yet. In March 2011 the band will release six songs entitled High School, the result of an experiment that began as a side project during some down time in the summer of 2010.
High School was originally envisioned as a fictional band, with the members tying shirts over their faces and adopting aliases in order to disguise their identities. Cayne was Lindsey Jone. Andrew was Matthew Curran. Blake was Bobby Reynolds. The project gave the band a chance to revisit their teenage years, laying bare some shameful memories from their past.
We Are The City found themselves venturing into new musical terrain. On the quirky "Happy New Year," West African-inspired licks give way to garage-y rock outs and fuzzed-out Rhodes piano. "Dark/Warm Air" takes a gentler approach, bringing together delicate guitar arpeggios with baroque pop breakdowns and a dash of tropical Mellotron samples.
High School allowed We Are The City to introduce the use of drum machines and string arrangements into their already very layered sound. They are ecstatic to have worked with Tom Dobrzanski (Said the Whale, Hey Ocean!) who produced the sessions taking place in Vancouver at Vertical and Blue Wave Studios.
With the completion of High School, the band members now have their sights set on a sophomore LP. While it remains to be seen in which direction they will steer their music, one thing is certain: We Are The City will continue their attempt to push musical boundaries and hopefully stumble across something not yet heard in the process. 'Read more on Last.fm'. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Everton vs Southampton – Prediction, Betting Tips & Odds
The Premier League game at Goodison Park on Saturday sees visitors Southampton facing home side Everton. The current difference in the Premier League standings between the two teams clashing at Goodison Park on Saturday is three points.
Everton vs Southampton Stats
In the last 5 matches in a row Everton played, both teams scored
In the last 4 home matches in a row Everton played, both teams scored
Everton have conceded in 12 of the last 14 matches
In 6 of the last 7 Everton matches the sum of goals was over 2.5
In 6 of the last 7 Everton home matches the sum of goals was over 2.5
Southampton have conceded in 21 of the last 23 matches
Southampton have lost 6 of the last 7 away matches while scoring less than 1.5 goals
In 6 of the last 7 matches Southampton played, both teams scored
Southampton have lost 6 of the last 8 matches while scoring less than 1.5 goals
Southampton have lost 6 of the last 7 away matches
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In their previous three outings, Everton drew 1-1 with Manchester City, before losing 1-4 against Brighton and 3-1 against Manchester United. Everton managed to win two of their past six home matches in the Premier League. In the remaining four, they drew zero and lost four, as they scored seven and conceded ten goals. Everton are among the three lowest-scoring home teams in the Premier League this season. They managed eight goals at Goodison Park, while conceding 12.
In their last three matches, Southampton lost 1-0 against Nottingham Forest, beat Crystal Palace 1-2 and won 2-0 against Manchester City. In their last six Premier League away matches, Southampton failed to win more than once. Instead, they’ve drawn zero and lost five, scoring three while also conceding 11 times. Southampton have the worst away defensive record in the Premier League, having conceded 17 goals on their travels so far.
Everton vs Southampton H2H
Southampton lost 2-1 against Everton in their latest encounter. This served as payback for the 2-0 defeat Southampton handed out in the match before. Everton were a little more successful than Southampton in recent meetings, and go into their next encounter with a 5-2-3 advantage. Naturally, betting on Everton has more often than not proved the profitable way to go. The bookies best betting odds on a home win are at 2.20.
Current Premier League Standings
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Everton won four of the previous 10 home matches across all tournaments, while drawing two and losing four as well. Southampton won four from a possible 10 away from home, as they also drew zero and lost six in this run. Everton won two of their last 10 games on home soil without allowing a goal.
Everton triumphed in a 2-1 win against Southampton the last time they faced off. However, Southampton secured a 2-0 win in the match before that. Both teams to score came out seven times in the past ten matches between Everton and Southampton. Odds on both teams finding the back of the net are best priced at 1.80 with the bookies.
Over 2.5 goals came out five times in the last ten encounters between these two teams. Everton managed an average of 1.3 goals, with Southampton averaged 1.2 goals in these games. Both teams to score was a winning bet seven times in this run of matches. Everton scored an average of 1.4 goals in their last ten matches, in which over 2.5 goals happened seven times. Over 2.5 goals happened in seven of the last ten outings for Southampton, who managed to score 1.7 times in those matches.
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Intrusion Detection Related Publications
Listed are Lincoln Laboratory publications and publications by various members of the Intrusion Detection research community that relate to the DARPA Intrusion Detection Evaluations.
Lincoln Laboratory Publications 2002
Rossey, L. M., Cunningham, R. K., Fried, D., Rabek, J. C., Lippmann, R. P., Haines, J. and Zissman, M. A., LARIAT: Lincoln Adaptable Real-Time Information Assurance Testbed. IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, USA, March 9-16, 2002. [PDF]
Joshua Haines, Lee Rossey, Rich Lippmann and Robert Cunnigham, "Extending the 1999 Evaluation", In the Proceedings of DISCEX 2001, June 11-12, Anaheim, CA. [PDF]
Joshua W. Haines, Richard P. Lippmann, David J. Fried, Eushiuan Tran, Steve Boswell, Marc A. Zissman, "1999 DARPA Intrusion Detection System Evaluation: Design and Procedures", MIT Lincoln Laboratory Technical Report, [PDF]
Richard Lippmann, Joshua W. Haines, David J. Fried, Jonathan Korba, Kumar Das "The 1999 DARPA Off-Line Intrusion Detection Evaluation", Draft of paper submitted to Computer Networks, In Press, 2000. [PDF]
Jonathan Korba, "Windows NT Attacks for the Evaluation of Intrusion Detection Systems", S.M. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June, 2000. [PDF]
Richard P. Lippmann, David J. Fried, Isaac Graf, Joshua W. Haines,Kristopher R. Kendall, David McClung, Dan Weber, Seth E. Webster, Dan Wyschogrod, Robert K. Cunningham, and Marc A. Zissman, "Evaluating Intrusion Detection Systems: the 1998 DARPA Off-Line Intrusion Detection Evaluation", Proceedings of the 2000 DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition, 2000, Vol. 2, pp. [PDF]
Richard P. Lippmann, Robert K. Cunningham, David J. Fried, Issac Graf, Kris R. Kendall, Seth E. Webster, Marc A. Zissman, "Results of the DARPA 1998 Offline Intrusion Detection Evaluation", slides presented at RAID 1999 Conference, September 7-9, 1999, West Lafayette, Indiana. [PDF]
Richard P. Lippmann and Robert K. Cunningham, "Using Key-String Selection and Neural Networks to Reduce False Alarms and Detect New Attacks with Sniffer-Based Intrusion Detection Systems", presented at RAID 1999 Conference, September 7-9, 1999, West Lafayette, Indiana. [PDF]
R. K. Cunningham, R. P. Lippmann, D. J. Fried, S. L. Garfinkel, I. Graf, K. R. Kendall, S. E. Webster, D. Wyschogrod, M. A. Zissman, "Evaluating Intrusion Detection Systems without Attacking your Friends: The 1998 DARPA Intrusion Detection Evaluation", SANS 1999. [PDF]
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Related Publications 2000
T. Bowen, D. Chee, M. Segal, R. Sekar, T. Shanbhag, P. Uppuluri, "Building Survivable Systems: An Integrated Approach based on Intrusion Detection and Damage Containment," Proceedings of the 2000 DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition, 2000.
Salvatore J. Stolfo, Wei Fan, Wenke Lee, "Cost-based Modeling for Fraud and Intrusion Detection: Results from the JAM Project", Proceedings of the 2000 DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition, 2000.
Giovanni Vigna, Steve T. Eckmann, Richard A. Kemmerer, "The STAT Tool Suite", Proceedings of the 2000 DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition, 2000.
John McHugh, "The Lincoln Laboratory Intrusion Detection Evaluation: A Critique", Proceedings of the 2000 DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition, 2000.
Brad J. Wood, Ruth A. Duggan, "Red-Teaming of Advanced Information Assurance Concepts", Proceedings of the 2000 DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition, 2000.
R. Durst, T. Champion, B. Witten, E. Miller and L.Spagnuolo, "Testing and Evaluating Computer Intrusion Detection Systems", Communications of the ACM, 42(7), 1999, pp. 53-61.
A. K. Ghosh, A. Schwatzbard and M. Shatz, "Learning Program Behavior Profiles for Intrusion Detection", Proceedings 1st USENIX Workshop on Intrusion Detection and Network Monitoring, Santa Clara, California, April 1999.
A. K. Ghosh and A. Schwatzbard, "A Study in the Feasibility of Performing Host-Based Anomaly Detection", Second International Workshop on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), Purdue University CERIAS, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1999.
W. Lee, S.J. Stolfo, K. Mok, "Mining in a Data-flow Environment: Experience in Network Intrusion Detection", Proceedings 5th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD '99), San Diego, CA, August 1999.
Wenke Lee, Salvatore J. Stolfo and Kui W. Mok, "A Data Mining Framework for Building Intrusion Detection Models", 1999 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, California, May 9-12, 1999.
S. Staniford-Chen, S. Cheung, R. Crawford, M. Dilger, J. Frank, J. Hoagland, K. Levitt, C. Wee, R. Yip, D. Zerkle, "GrIDS — A Graph-Based Intrusion Detection System for Large Networks", The 19th National Information Systems Security Conference.
Ulf Lindqvist and Phillip A. Porras, "Detecting Computer and Network Misuse through the Production-based Expert System Toolset (P-BEST)", 1999 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, California, May 9-12, 1999.
P. Neumann and P. Porras, "Experience with EMERALD to DATE", Proceedings 1st USENIX Workshop on Intrusion Detection and Network Monitoring, Santa Clara, California, pp. 73-80, April 1999.
R. Sekar and P. Uppuluri, "Synthesizing Fast Intrusion Prevention/Detection Systems from High-Level Specifications", Proceedings 8th Usenix Security Symposium, Washington DC, Aug. 1999.
G. Vigna and R. Kemmerer, "NetSTAT: A network-based intrusion detection approach", Proceedings of the 14th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, December 1998. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9401262402534485, "wiki_prob": 0.9401262402534485, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line50106"} |
Watch Out CSPAN
Published August 31, 2006 by Mario Burgos
Ok, it’s common knowledge that Attorney General Patricia Madrid is very reluctant to debate Congresswoman Heather Wilson in the contest for the 1st Congressional seat:
If the 1st Congressional District race were about who has confirmed the most televised debates, U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson would be winning – at least right now.
Wilson, an Albuquerque Republican, has confirmed she will appear at five debates, four of which will be broadcast on TV.
Of those five, Madrid plans to attend one with Wilson, a Sept. 17 debate at Congregation Albert. She’s expected to confirm Monday for an Oct. 24 debate on KOB-Channel 4, her campaign said.
Now it seems that Madrid is attempting to do an about face on the Congregation Albert debate. Apparently, KRQE frustrated with Patricia Madrid’s reluctance to commit to a televised debate on their network, has been working to get permission to broadcast the Congregation Albert debate. The Madrid camp is in hysterics over this prospect and have threatened to pull out of the debate.
Which leaves one to wonder…
If Patricia Madrid were successful in her bid, what would she do once she learned that CSPAN broadcasts the debates on the floor of the House of Representatives. Would she refuse to debate her esteemed colleagues on the floor unless CSPAN shut off its cameras?
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7 Reasons Why Wine on Tap is the Future of Drinking
How wine on tap can make your business more efficient while boosting the bottom line
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Wine on tap is exploding in popularity—talk with any operators who’ve added kegs to their wine program. It seems more like a movement than a trend. From bustling brunch spots to New American wine bars to rustic pubs, venues across the country are reaping the benefits of faster service, smoother operations, improved bottom lines, and a dramatically decreased carbon footprint. Here, six operators, from San Francisco to Orlando, discuss the ways in which tap wine has changed the way they do business:
1. Service Is More Efficient
Samantha’s Tap Room & Wood Grill is a high-energy, high-volume New American restaurant and bar with soaring ceilings and windows overlooking downtown Little Rock, Arkansas. Before the owner, Chris Tanner, opened Samantha’s three years ago, he talked to fellow restaurant owners in other cities who offered wine on tap at their bars.
Based on their positive feedback, Tanner decided to add a 20-tap wine system to his operation. “I liked the concept, and it turned out to be a good deal for us,” he says, adding that taps help keep service running smoothly and efficiently when the restaurant gets crowded. “If you’re doing any kind of volume, it really helps,” he says. “We’re able to get the drinks out quick, and we pride ourselves on that.”
2. Smoother Daily Operations
From a logistical standpoint, it’s hard to argue with the appeal of wine on tap—it just makes day-to-day operations easier. Stocking, storing, and discarding bottles may seem like insignificant tasks, but they add up. When that work is eliminated, time is freed up for more important things, says Matthew Cristi, the general manager at Highball & Harvest in the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, in Florida. “When you begin to break down the time it takes to accomplish all of these minute tasks,” he says, “taps are much more of an effective and exciting way to sell wine.”
Jess Voss, who opened San Francisco’s Jamber Wine Pub in 2012, says that installing draft wine equipment during Jamber’s buildout was a no-brainer for her. “Dealing with the headache of numerous bottles of wine—the storage, the bottle, the label, the cork … you can skip all of that,” she says. Plus, tapping a keg and not having to change it for a week or two lets staff avoid the scramble of searching for a particular bottle. Storage consolidation is another benefit: Jamber offers 24 wines on tap, and all of its kegs fit into one closet.
For Snooze, mimosas are top sellers at every one of its 20-plus breakfast and brunch restaurants. Jon Schlegel, cofounder of the Denver, Colorado–based chain, says Snooze saw an immediate increase in service efficiency after sparkling wine on tap was installed—and the time savings allowed his staff more room for creativity. “We have a lot more confidence now to play with drink recipes because operationally, we can handle more volume,” says Schlegel. “Taking the time to unwrap the foil, remove the cork, trying not to hit a guest with the cork … all of that is eliminated. You save 10 or 15 seconds per glass, which for us is significant.”
Finally, at Samantha’s Tap Room, Tanner points out that trash duty is much easier. “When the staff take the garbage out at night,” he says, “they can hold the bag with two fingers.”
3. No Oxidation or Consistency Concerns
The longer a bottle of wine is open, the more the wine shifts from its original flavor profile, inching toward the flat, acetic notes of oxidation. Even if you’re able to salvage the wine before it becomes oxidized, the shifting flavor means that pours vary from one night to the next. For venues that prize consistency, wine on tap has been a game changer. For Justin Beam, the general manager of Sixty Vines, a Dallas wine bar, it’s a priority to deliver wine to the customer as the winemaker intended. With Sixty Vines’ 42-tap system, that’s exactly what he’s able to do. “We’ve never had a glass come back stale,” Beam says. “The last glass tastes exactly the same as the first.”
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Even worse than pouring wine inconsistently is pouring it down the drain. For Kent Bearden of Saint Marc, a popular American cafe and pub in Huntington Beach, California, wines on tap helped solve a common operator’s problem: seeing staff open six bottles at the beginning of a shift but then only selling four. “That means you’ve got two bottles of wine that are going to spend a minimum of 24 hours being exposed to oxygen before they have the opportunity to be served again,” he says. “Wine on tap eliminates that.” In addition to protecting the wine from oxygen by keeping it pressurized, Bearden says, the stainless steel kegs prevent damage from light as well: “It really is kind of the best container for protecting the quality of the wine.”
4. Math that Makes Sense
The economics of wine on tap benefits both operators and guests. Highball & Harvest, for one, experienced a 20 percent rise in sales from wines by the glass once it implemented wine on tap, says Cristi.
Voss, at Jamber, appreciates that she can pour higher-quality wines at lower prices. “Wine on tap is more economical for us, and therefore more economical for the customer,” she says. “We can pass down the savings so they can get a better wine at a more modest price because it’s coming to us at a less expensive price.”
Saint Marc’s Bearden adds that as consumers have access to better wines through retail, they’re more likely to notice high markups on the same wines in a restaurant. “Because I’m saving on waste, I’m saving on spoilage, and the vessel that I receive [the wine] in I return for a credit, I’m able to be much more aggressive in my wine pricing,” he says. While a wine like the red-blend Arise, from Napa’s Blackbird Vineyards, would typically run $35 to $40 a glass in a fine-dining restaurant, Saint Marc has it on the menu for $20 a glass.
5. Improved Guest Experiences
As wine kegs become more commonplace in bars around the country, consumers are getting up to speed, too. An element of education is still necessary, but Voss says it’s an easy sell. “In the beginning, it was something new to people, but the awesome thing about wine on tap is that you can pour [people] a little taste to find out what they like,” she says, noting that her staff spends more time talking to customers about the wine and letting them taste samples, and less time finding and opening bottles. According to Voss, the bar’s keg wine program is essential to its cozy, rustic, laid-back vibe: “I wanted Jamber to be a place where you could come in, wearing whatever you want,” she says, “and order a glass of wine [the way] you would order a glass of beer, to just enjoy it with your friends.”
When Beam opened Sixty Vines last year, he was concerned about how quickly guests would embrace the program of wine on tap. “What we realized quickly was that if the wine tasted great and there was a really good value, that’s all the guests cared about,” he says. “One of the biggest things we’ve come to understand and have learned is that wine on tap works, and there’s a market for it.”
6. Reduced Carbon Footprint
Glass can be difficult and expensive to recycle—and a high-volume wine bar goes through tons of bottles every year, most of which end up in landfills. Opting for stainless steel kegs stops this waste. Since 2009, Free Flow Wines estimates that its keg program has prevented some 21 million bottles from entering landfills.
Even at the individual venue level, the savings can be substantial. Schlegel notes that Snooze has diverted an estimated 100,000 bottles from the landfill since it moved to wines on tap. And Cristi says that over the past three years, Highball & Harvest has saved more than 16,000 glass bottles, 15,000 wood-based corks, and some 500 cardboard shipping boxes.
Saint Marc, meanwhile, serves only wine on tap and beer in aluminum cans—there’s no glass at all in the venue’s wine and beer program. “When you think about a high volume restaurant,” says Bearden, “that’s a tremendous impact just from one store.”
At Sixty Vines, environmental responsibility is built into the company mission. “It’s in our ethos as a company to be sustainable and do things the right way,” says Beam. “We’re a small part of the movement, but we’re super proud of it.”
7. The Wine Selection Is Bigger Than Ever
When Bearden was putting Saint Marc’s wine list together in late 2015, it wasn’t as easy to find a range of wines that suited the pub’s program. But now the tables have turned, he says—“I have more people asking for placement than I have handles to give. We’re serving a Chinon Blanc, and a Malbec, and we have some beautiful red blends, and we served a French Colombard … It really is interesting to see, just in that small snippet of time, how much the industry itself has really fast-forwarded.” Bearden adds that Saint Marc recently hosted, for the first time, a sold-out five-course wine dinner with a single producer, who provided all of the wines in kegs—no bottles.
What years ago was a limited category has now exploded with brands and varietals. At Jamber, Voss used to ask wineries to put their wines in a keg. “Now people are banging on my door to get on my taps,” she says. Beam echoes this, saying that producers who initially balked at requests to put their wine in kegs are now knocking at Sixty Vines’ door; the wine bar’s 42 wines on tap are not only stylistically but geographically diverse—ranging from Argentina to Italy to New Zealand. “This is a trend that’s not going away,” says Beam. “It’s going to grow. I really think it’s how millennials and my own children will experience the future of wine by the glass.”
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A shop in Halifax town centre has been temporarily shut down by police in order to reduce anti-social and ‘criminal behaviour’.
West Yorkshire Police presented evidence to magistrates in Leeds in relation to the Halifax shop Immy G’s (formerly known as Newsline) at 7 George Street in the town centre. It followed a number of complaints going back over two years relating to “anti-social, disorderly and criminal behaviour” according to police.
A closure notice was served on the business owner Imtiyaz Mamaniyat by a police inspector on December 21 and there was a hearing at Leeds magistrates the following day, police said. The initial hearing was adjourned for two weeks until January 5 and it was ordered that the shop should remain closed.
A closure order has been granted until just before midnight on February 4.
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A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said: “It is anticipated that the closure of the premises will have a long-term impact on reducing the levels of anti-social, disorderly and criminal behaviour associated with the premises and the surrounding area.”
The Force said it presented evidence on January 5 during a closure request hearing at Leeds Magistrates Court.
As a result of the evidence presented by West Yorkshire Police, the court was satisfied that:
• A person has engaged or is likely to engage in disorderly, offensive, or criminal behaviour on the premises
• The use of the premises has resulted or is likely to result in serious nuisance to members of the public
• There has been or is likely to be disorder near to those premises or associated with the use of those premises and
• The order is necessary to prevent the behaviour, nuisance, or disorder from continuing, recurring or occurring
The closure order is in force until 11.59pm on February 4, 2023.
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Addiction doc says: It’s not the drugs. It’s the ACEs…adverse childhood experiences.
May 2, 2017 By Jane Ellen Stevens in ACE Study, Adverse childhood experiences, Child trauma, Community prevention programs, Solutions 397 Comments
He says: Addiction shouldn’t be called “addiction”. It should be called “ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking”.
He says: Ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking (what traditionalists call addiction) is a normal response to the adversity experienced in childhood, just like bleeding is a normal response to being stabbed.
He says: The solution to changing the illegal or unhealthy ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking behavior of opioid addiction is to address a person’s adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) individually and in group therapy; treat people with respect; provide medication assistance in the form of buprenorphine, an opioid used to treat opioid addiction; and help them find a ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking behavior that won’t kill them or put them in jail.
This “he” isn’t some hippy-dippy new age dreamer. He is Dr. Daniel Sumrok, director of the Center for Addiction Sciences at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine. The center is the first to receive the Center of Excellence designation from the Addiction Medicine Foundation, a national organization that accredits physician training in addiction medicine. Sumrok is also one of the first 106 physicians in the U.S. to become board-certified in addiction medicine by the American Board of Medical Specialties.
Sumrok, a family physician and former U.S. Army Green Beret who’s served the rural area around McKenzie, TN, for the last 28 years, combines the latest science of addiction and applies it to his patients, most of whom are addicted to opioids — but also to alcohol, food, sex, gambling, etc. He sees them in the center’s two outpatient clinics: his clinic, which the Center for Addiction Science has taken over as its rural clinic, and another that opened recently in downtown Memphis.
Since he first sat down in the early 1980s to write a research paper (“Public Health Legacy of the Vietnam War: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Implications for Appalachians”) to describe the symptoms of the newly named post-traumatic stress disorder in Vietnam veterans – “problems with the law, having trouble sleeping, anxiety, divorce, sleep troubles, substance use disorders, depression, anxiety, cognitive and chronic pain issues” — Sumrok has pieced together the ingredients for a revolutionary approach to addiction. It’s an approach that’s advocated by many of the leading thinkers in addiction and trauma, including Drs. Gabor Maté, Lance Dodes and Bessel van der Kolk. Surprisingly, it’s a fairly simple formula: Treat people with respect instead of blaming or shaming them. Listen intently to what they have to say. Integrate the healing traditions of the culture in which they live. Use prescription drugs, if necessary. And integrate adverse childhood experiences science: ACEs.
“My patients seem to respond really well to this,” he says.
ACEs understanding changes practice
Learning about ACEs more than two years ago was a big turning point for his understanding of addictions, explains Sumrok. “I was working in an eating disorders clinic and someone told me ‘90 percent of these folks have sexual trauma’. I remember thinking: That can’t be right. But that was exactly right. Since I’ve learned about ACEs, I talk about it every day.”
He also practices it every day, by integrating ACEs assessments for all patients in his clinics. He currently has about 200 patients who are addicted, most to opioids (heroin and prescription pain relievers, including oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine, and fentanyl). “I’ve seen about 1,200 patients who are addicted,” he says. “Of those, more than 1,100 have an ACE score of 3 or more.”
Sumrok knows that score says a lot about their health and ability to cope: ACEs comes from the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study), groundbreaking research that looked at how 10 types of childhood trauma affect long-term health. They include: physical, emotional and sexual abuse; physical and emotional neglect; living with a family member who’s addicted to alcohol or other substances, or who’s depressed or has other mental illnesses; experiencing parental divorce or separation; having a family member who’s incarcerated, and witnessing a mother being abused. Subsequent ACE surveys include racism, witnessing violence outside the home, bullying, losing a parent to deportation, living in an unsafe neighborhood, and involvement with the foster care system. Other types of childhood adversity can also include being homeless, living in a war zone, being an immigrant, moving many times, witnessing a sibling being abused, witnessing a father or other caregiver or extended family member being abused, involvement with the criminal justice system, attending a school that enforces a zero-tolerance discipline policy, etc.
The ACE Study is one of five parts of ACEs science, which also includes how toxic stress from ACEs damage children’s developing brains; how toxic stress from ACEs affects health; and how it can affect our genes and be passed from one generation to another (epigenetics); and resilience research, which shows the brain is plastic and the body wants to heal. Resilience research focuses on what happens when individuals, organizations and systems integrate trauma-informed and resilience-building practices, for example in education and in the family court system.
The ACE Study found that the higher someone’s ACE score – the more types of childhood adversity a person experienced – the higher their risk of chronic disease, mental illness, violence, being a victim of violence and a bunch of other consequences. The study found that most people (64%) have at least one ACE; 12% of the population has an ACE score of 4. Having an ACE score of 4 nearly doubles the risk of heart disease and cancer. It increases the likelihood of becoming an alcoholic by 700 percent and the risk of attempted suicide by 1200 percent. (For more information, go to ACEs Science 101. To calculate your ACE and resilience scores, go to: Got Your ACE Score?)
High ACE scores also relate to addiction: Compared with people who have zero ACEs, people with ACE scores are two to four times more likely to use alcohol or other drugs and to start using drugs at an earlier age. People with an ACE score of 5 or higher are seven to 10 times more likely to use illegal drugs, to report addiction and to inject illegal drugs.
The ACE Study also found that it didn’t matter what the types of ACEs were. An ACE score of 4 that includes divorce, physical abuse, an incarcerated family member and a depressed family member has the same statistical health consequences as an ACE score of 4 that includes living with an alcoholic, verbal abuse, emotional neglect and physical neglect.
Subsequent research on the link between childhood adversity and addiction corroborates the findings from the ACE Study, including studies that have found that people who’ve experienced childhood trauma have more chronic pain and use more prescription drugs; people who experienced five or more traumatic events are three times more likely to misuse prescription pain medications.
Dr. Dan Sumrok with group therapy members at McKenzie, TN, clinic (Photo: Yalonda James, The Commercial Appeal)
“ACEs just doesn’t predict substance abuse disorders,” says Sumrok. “All of our major chronic diseases link to substance abuse, so this is too big to ignore.”
Whether you’re talking about obesity, addiction to cigarettes, alcohol or opioids, the cause is the same, he says: “It’s the trauma of childhood that causes neurobiological changes.” And the symptoms he saw 40 years ago in soldiers returning from Vietnam are the same in the people he sees today who are addicted to opioids or other substances or behaviors that help them cope with the anxiety, depression, hopelessness, fear, anger, and/or frustration that continues to be generated from the trauma they experienced as children.
Learning about ACEs helped him understand that the original definition of PTSD, which many people still cling to, is not accurate. In the 1980s, PTSD was defined as a result of trauma that was outside the realm of normal experience.
“That was just wrong,” says Sumrok. “Divorce, living with depressed or addicted family members are very common events for kids. My efforts are around helping people to see the connections, and that their experiences are predictable and normal. And the longer the experiences last, the bigger the effect.”
He also says, “Drop the ‘D’, because PTSD is not a disorder.” It’s what he learned from van der Kolk, who wrote The Body Keeps the Score. “Bessel says we’ve named this thing wrong. Post-traumatic stress is a brain adaptation. It’s not an imagined fear. If one of your feet was bitten off by a lion, you’re going to be on guard for lions,” explains Sumrok. “Hypervigilance is not an imagined fear, if you’ve had one foot bitten off by a lion. It’s a real fear, and you’re going to be on the lookout for that lion. I tell my patients that they’ve had real trauma that’s not imagined. They’re not crazy.”
Patients who learn about their ACEs understand that they can heal
This is what happens when a person sees Sumrok for the first time: They fill out the 10-question ACE survey (Got Your ACE Score?) in the waiting room. “Then when I see them, I go through each question and ask them again,” says Sumrok, who also does a normal physical exam. “Frequently, there’s a difference between the two. For example, this morning, I saw a woman and she reported an ACE score of 1 on the survey. Then, when I asked her the questions, she reported nine out of 10.”
That’s just how I grew up, she told Sumrok. She didn’t think being beaten, humiliated or seeing her mother smoking crack every day was harmful or unusual, especially since most kids she knew were experiencing the same thing.
Sumrok normalizes their addiction, which he explains is the coping behavior they adopted because they weren’t provided with a healthy alternative when they were young. He explains the science of adverse childhood experiences to them, and how their addictions are a normal – and a predictable – result of their childhood trauma. He explains what happens in the brain when they experience toxic stress, how their amygdala is their emotional fuse box. How the thinking part of their brain didn’t develop the way it should have. How it goes offline at the first sign of danger, even if they’re not connecting the trigger with the experience. Drugs like Zoloft don’t really help much, he tells them. Zoloft and other anti-depressants don’t remove the memory triggered by the odor of after shave that was worn by your uncle who sexually abused you when you were eight, or the memory triggered by a voice that sounds just like your mother who used to beat you with a belt, or by a face of a man who looks like your father who used to scream at you about how worthless you were…the examples are infinite. That’s why van der Kolk says, “’The body keeps the score’,” Sumrok says.
“After I explain all this to them, many of them stare at me and say: ‘You mean I’m not crazy?’” says Sumrok. “I tell them, ‘No, you’re not crazy’.” Sometimes he yells out the door to his nurse: ‘Patsy! Where’s my not-crazy stamp? I need to stamp this person’s chart.”
For people who are addicted to opioids, he prescribes buprenorphine (one of the brand names: Suboxone), which helps them to withdraw from opioids and to keep their job, or return to work. For most people, the drug is less addictive than other opioids. Sometimes if people are young, healthy and haven’t been addicted long, they can withdraw from opioids without buprenorphine.
“There’s no buzz associated with buprenorphine,” says Sumrok. “They can concentrate and think. Once they’re free of the continuous distraction of the acquisition and use of substances, they become pretty valuable employees.”
For people who are addicted to alcohol, he prescribes naltrexone (one of the brand names: Revia), because alcoholics have a high risk of death if they aren’t provided medication. And in this current national attention on opioids, Sumrok is careful to point out that although 33,000 people died from opioid overdose in 2015, 88,000 people die annually from alcohol-related causes, and 480,000 from cigarette smoking. The complicating factor — and why policies don’t work when they chase the eradication of one drug, only to focus on eradicating the next popular drug of choice for “ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking” — is that many people use opioids and alcohol and cigarettes. And if they receive no help to get at why they’re using legal or illegal substances, they will move on to another, more easily accessible drug when the current drug they’re using becomes more difficult to find.
All patients sign a contract agreeing that they won’t drink alcohol or take other drugs. “We don’t mess around with that,” says Sumrok. “We can’t deal with them being deceptive, because if they drink or do other drugs, it can kill them. If their drug screens aren’t consistent, we ask them to find another doctor.” Just about everybody stays, he says.
They also participate in group therapy. For physicians who prescribe buprenorphine, it’s now required, but Sumrok had seen the research about the effectiveness of group therapy, and had started 12-step groups for his patients about 10 years ago. Talking with others who have the same experiences helps each person normalize their own experiences. Sumrok and the others in the group help each other find “ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking behaviors” that won’t kill them or put them in jail, such as coaching their kid’s soccer team or volunteering at a food bank. (Sumrok often quotes Forest Gump: “Helping helps the helper.”). He also encourages them to integrate other rituals into their lives, such as walking 30 minutes a day or other exercise, joining a 12-step group or finding a path to encourage a spiritual awakening.
“Six months into this,” says Sumrok, “they start saying things like, ‘My wife and I are back together’, they’re hanging out with their kids. It’s pretty cool to see how people get their lives back. My favorite word is ‘normal’. When they tell me they feel normal, I know they’re doing okay.”
So, how long does it take before they’re cured? “How long should you take insulin if you have diabetes?” responds Sumrok, making the point that this is a chronic disease, that people should be in treatment for as long as it is necessary, and that some may relapse. His goal is for them to not have to use buprenorphine, but he knows that because of the number and duration of their ACEs, and the paucity of resilience factors provided to them when they were children, many will need continual support. He helps them learn how to integrate that support into their lives.
“When a diabetes patient comes in with a blood sugar level of 300, we don’t say: ‘Give me back that insulin.’ We intensify the treatment to get them back in balance,” explains Sumrok. “Only in addictions do we shame people. We tell them they can’t be part of this recovery anymore. We create a teeny hoop that’s called abstinence, and not too many people can jump through that hoop. If every time we saw a diabetic, we told them that their kidneys were going to fail, they would be blind and we would amputate their extremities, there wouldn’t be many diabetics who got help. I have patients who drop out, and then return a couple of months later, and say, ‘Doc, Christmas came, I saw some of my buddies, and I started using again.’ I tell them, ‘Come on in. Let’s work with you.’ And I remind myself that I’m not saving souls, I’m saving their asses. It’s about getting them so they can function at work, at home, at play. It’s not about making them perfect human beings.
“It has been abundantly clear to me and reinforced over a 40-year career,” continues Sumrok, “that patients desire, and respond better to, sensitive and informed care. From the Navajo Nation to Appalachia to Memphis and from the mountains of Honduras to the jungles of Amazonia, people regard respect as the sine qua non of quality care.”
Stories AND data drive solutions
Although Sumrok thinks his approach benefits his patients, he knows he needs data to prove it. When he saw a recent study that said 43% of people on buprenorphine were using other opioids, he did his own analysis of a sample of his patients, and found that only 8% were using other opioids. After tracking down those who were, most had good reasons, such as a man whose arm and shoulder were in a new cast after surgery repairing an injury, and he was taking a narcotic. Only one did not, and when shown his drug test, he said, “You know what? I slipped.” He talked about it in group, says Sumrok, and everyone in his group hovered around him to make sure he’d continue the program.
Dr. Karen Derefinko
Because Sumrok has kept fastidious records of the patients who have done their ACE scores, Dr. Karen Derefinko, a clinical psychologist and assistant professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is starting a research project to examine all 1,200 records in Sumrok’s clinic in McKenzie to look at the relationship between people’s ACE scores and their adherence to treatment and their relapses.
“We think that people with high ACE scores are likely to have more relapses,” she says. “And that may be because people with higher scores have fewer resources and more difficulty associated with adhering to their treatment plans.”
She and her research assistant will de-identify the records, so that all information is anonymous, and then collect the data. Once that data is analyzed — probably within two months — Derefinko and her assistant will conduct focus groups of some of Sumrok’s patients. She’s already been sitting in some of the groups.
“Dan encourages this participatory nature of his groups,” she says. “People are very willing to talk. After the group sessions, they’re often not done talking about why they came to Sumrok and why other programs didn’t work for them.”
Through the records and the focus groups, Derefinko hopes to identify barriers to care, which include basics such as how people can find good care easily (most of Sumrok’s patients find out about him through word of mouth), being wary of the treatment because it isn’t explained to them, or — what Sumrok hears a lot — being judged or talked down to instead of given understanding and respect.
“In Shelby County, people complain about barriers to care, which many people think is because of economics,” she says. “But it may not be just economics that is keeping people from accessing treatment; it may be more about being judged, and not knowing what the treatment looks like.”
Being treated with respect builds trust, trust builds health
One of Sumrok’s patients – I’ll call him John, which is not his real name – has been driving 140 miles from Southeast Missouri to see Sumrok for the last five years. He began using drugs off and on during his 20s. When he was in his 30s, he injured his back, was sent to a worker’s comp physician, who prescribed stronger doses of pain killers until his back stopped hurting.
“I was taking pain pills like candy,” says the 46-year-old, who is married and has a son. “All of a sudden, the pills are gone, and you’re very sick, and I start looking for them everywhere – on the street, taking them from family members without asking – just to keep me from getting sick. I thought I had to have them to function. If I didn’t have six or seven pain pills, I wasn’t going to be able to get out of bed. If I didn’t get them, I’d be sick, puking….I’d do about anything to have those pills.”
After he spent his and his wife’s life savings, and the money they’d put away to buy a home, and his retirement fund from a previous job; after he saw friends die from overdosing; and after he realized that he was risking losing his wife and son, he told his wife he needed help, and they found Sumrok.
“It’s been a miracle, for sure,” says John. As the Suboxone took effect, “after two or three weeks, I began to feel normal again.”
About two years ago, Sumrok asked him to fill out the ACE survey. “It really did make a difference,” says John. He had never connected experiences in his childhood with using drugs as an adult.
“When I was just a baby,” recalls John, “my grandpa took me from my mother, and told my parents: ‘When you guys are stable, I’ll let you have him back.’ Up until I was 10 or 11, I called them ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’.’” His older sisters were sent to live with his other set of grandparents. He didn’t live with his parents again until he was 15 years old. His sisters were adults and out on their own by then.
Until he did the ACE survey and talked with Sumrok about his childhood, it didn’t dawn on him that losing his mother, father and his sisters at a young age could have affected him in ways he didn’t realize. “I knew I was loved by my grandfather and grandmother, but being a young kid and seeing other kids going out with their parents was frustrating,” he says. “I lived with old people who never left the house, while my parents were out running around. I maybe thought my mom and dad didn’t care about me enough to change. I might have always felt like I wasn’t important enough to my mom and dad for them to change the way they were living and acting.”
But now he has a better understanding of what it was like to be a 19-year-old in the late 1960s and involved in the drug and party scene then, as his parents were. He understands them better, and why they weren’t able to care for him. He and his family members have “had our discussions,” says John. “My family life is a whole lot better. I didn’t have relationships with my parents or sisters. We only live seven miles apart, and I barely saw them twice a year, if that. But now I have my wife back. I’ve got my son back. And I see my parents and sisters all the time. We’re a tight-knit family.” He’s also able to hold a job, and is a reliable employee.
John sees Sumrok once a month now. He participates in group therapy, where they can safely talk about their ACE scores without having to get into specifics. He checks in with Sumrok, who renews his prescription.
“I like group therapy with Dr. Sumrok,” says John. “He talks to us with respect. We feel very comfortable with him. Dr. Sumrok never lies. I trust him fully. And he trusts me. It took five or six months to build that trust. The more I met with him, the more I realized that he was really concerned about me. He wants to help people. Let him train more doctors in the procedures he uses. You can’t treat people like they’re nobodies.”
A 29-year-old patient, who chose to be called “Mr. Big” since I’m not using his real name, has been seeing Sumrok for the last six months. He had been in a methadone treatment program, and found Sumrok after he couldn’t pay for treatment any longer. Sumrok was the only physician who would take his insurance. Mr. Big filled out the ACE survey in the waiting room, but reported his score as a two. Then Sumrok went through the survey with him, and Mr. Big’s score climbed to an 8.
“It does help me understand my addiction better,” says Mr. Big, who is a single father of two children, five and six years old. “For one, my trauma in my childhood was very dramatic. I thought everyone’s parents did what they were doing. I could see why I related to narcotics and stuff. It was the only place I had to turn. I started taking opiates when I was 11 or 12 years old. I was playing football, and broke my ankle. They gave me painkillers that made me feel like Superman. I couldn’t get enough, because I wasn’t feeling like Superman without it.”
The Suboxone helps him feel “normal — probably the way everybody else feels,” says Mr. Big. “Nothing I took ever gave me that feeling before. I’m a better person, father, and a better brother” to his sister, whom he convinced to also get help from Sumrok.
The first time he went for help, to a methadone clinic, he didn’t like it for two reasons: Methadone made him nod off or feel high, and the people at the clinic treated him as if he was a number, or just there for the drugs. “That’s just unprofessional, in my opinion,” he says. “Sumrok actually sits down and talks to you like a human being.”
Mr. Big wants to work with Sumrok to develop a “game plan so that I can live without my medicine,” he says. He just wants to live a normal life. What does a normal life mean?
“It means that I’m home overnight with my children,” he says. “I don’t have to rob, lie, steal, or cheat to find drugs. I can fit in with society and not be high off my mind. I can wake up every day and do stuff. My children — they know Daddy’s not in bed sick any more. It’s wonderful. I’m wore out. I never knew that first grade and kindergarten had homework that was so complicated.”
With addictions and deaths on upswing, how to increase addiction docs?
Prescription and illicit opioids are the “main driver of drug overdose deaths,” according to the CDC, with 33,091 deaths in 2015. That’s four times more than 1999. And between 2014 and 2015, Tennessee saw a 13.8 percent increase in opioid deaths. More than 1,000 people died from opioid overdoses in 2014, and tens of thousands of people lead desperate lives, most of them unknowingly fueled by their childhood experiences. Only 10% of these are getting the help they need, says Sumrok.
Dan Sumrok is just one doctor, in one part of the country. How can what he does be scaled up to thousands of physicians who can treat addiction — all types of addiction — successfully in all parts of the U.S.? By doing what Dr. David Stern, Robert Kaplan executive dean and vice-chancellor for clinical affairs for the University of Tennessee’s College of Medicine and the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, did: launch the Center for Addiction Science.
“This really starts with Dr. Altha Stewart, who’s the director of the Center for Health in Justice-Involved Youth,” says Stern. “She’s the one who showed me that kids with high ACE scores end up in trouble. When I developed the Center for Addiction Science, it had to be like a cancer center, it had to be multi-disciplinary. In the old days, we thought people who had addictions were weak in the moral department. You really needed someone to straighten you out, because your mother didn’t do a good enough job.”
Dr. David Stern
But that approach doesn’t work. Neither does criminalizing addictions. Stigma drives problems underground, says Stern, instead of driving them to a solution. The center is taking an integrated approach to using research and education to help people in all possible ways, from physiology to genetics to counseling.
Stern believes that every physician should know about ACEs science, which is one of the reasons he chose Sumrok to lead the center, along with his willingness to be creative and seek solutions across disciplines. “Two of the most prevalent things in acute care are depression and addiction,” says Stern. “I think it’s important to be able to understand what ACEs mean to patients, what addiction is all about, how to recognize it, how to treat it.” He’s in the process of finding an associate dean for medical education, and is looking for someone who will integrate ACEs and other social determinants of health into the school’s curriculum.
“I think a medical school should provide for the community it serves,” says Stern. “This medical school should be the medical school for Memphis. We should develop solutions that are scalable.”
Dr. Altha Stewart, associate professor of psychiatry in the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, learned about ACEs in 2009 when a group in Shelby County began educating people about ACEs science. They brought Dr. Vincent Felitti, co-founder of the ACE Study, and Robin Karr Morse, who wrote Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence, which was published in 2007, to give a presentation. (Karr-Morse later wrote Scared Sick: The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease with Meredith S. Wiley; it was published in 2012.)
Dr. Altha Stewart
“It’s become a core part of what I do now in my professional work,” says Stewart, who was recently named president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association. She’s working with the Shelby County community and the local criminal justice system to integrate trauma-informed and resilience-building practices to find ways to help youth who enter the justice system — all of whom have likely experienced ACEs — instead of shaming, blaming or punishing them.
The things that have happened to kids — as well as to many people who come into the health care system — are out of their control, says Stewart. “When you’re a child, you don’t control the people who abuse and assault you, who create hostile environments, who don’t provide you with clean clothes,” she says. “If a child can’t control their environment, because of these things they grow up thinking they’re bad, different, horrible people. This new approach (integrating trauma-informed and resilient-building practices based on ACEs science) helps them feel like they’re not drowning anymore. When they can pop their head out of the water and get a breath, and see outstretched hands, a life preserver, a life boat, that changes their entire perspective.”
When Sumrok began integrating ACEs into addiction treatment, that was innovative, says Stewart. “If you don’t ask these questions, people tend not to tell you,” she says. Sumrok’s approach is part of a shift in patient engagement and involvement. “The trend in health care is that patients are partners in their treatment.”
This new knowledge about why and how humans behave the way they do also speaks to how “we have trained the medical profession,” says Stewart. The traditional approach is that physicians “know everything. The people whom we treat know nothing. We tell them what to do, and if they don’t get better or do what we say, it’s their own fault.
“That’s simply not true,” she emphasizes. “Some of us have come to understand that there’s more expertise in the community and our patients than we’ve understood. That takes a bit of humility on the part of a physician, and an understanding that we are partners in helping a person heal.”
Sumrok’s experience with the young fellows at the Center for Addiction Science is giving him some real hope that the medical profession can change. When he’s explained to them how important it is to ask patients about ACEs and other aspects of their lives — such as food availability, safe housing, transportation, jobs (in the medical profession vernacular: social determinants of health) — “they say ‘isn’t that just taking a patient history?’”
He and others at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center have an opportunity to educate young physicians outside the state, too. Derefinko is also director of the newly created National Center for Research of the Addiction Medicine Foundation. The foundation oversees the 130 addiction medicine fellowships at 46 medical schools across the country.
“We want metrics to understand the impact they’re having” when they go out in the world, says Derefinko: where they go, whom they’re treating, how they’re practicing, whether they’re integrating ACEs science. In addition, the foundation will be developing some accreditation guidelines so that all fellows receive the latest and best education in addiction medicine.
One of those elements, says Sumrok, has to be empathy, which physicians can practice by listening, acknowledging and understanding how the experiences in a person’s childhood and adulthood have shaped their lives and health.
“Can you teach empathy?” he asks. “Can people learn to be empathetic providers? I think you can. I think so.”
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Lorena Vidaurre says:
I, personally, thoroughly appreciate the research and response to ACEs discussed here. I have about 5 ACEs, but my strong relationship with God and deep emotional/spiritual healing through the Holy Spirit have given me true freedom. Consequently, I never resorted to any of the aforementioned unhealthy coping mechanisms.
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Jessica Lynn says:
Idk if ppl still check this post, but I only learned of this theory, and although I never considered it (I had believed addiction was scientific & related to chemical deficiencies that people were born with
However, the data I have, supports this theory. It also explains why programs like NA, AA, GA, SA… have been so successful for certain ppl, but triggers for others (I’ve noticed that attractive young females & young males of color are less likely to be accepted, unless the meetings were specifically created for them.)
I’m too tired to text everything right now, but if anyone reading this researching a theory along these lines, I would be very interested in sharing info. Would also love to converse w/the writer. There were so many statements made that I’ve Seen to be true, but are discredited due to ignorance. Excellent article. I’m actually ashamed b/c the only reason I was searching was b/c of something said on a Netflix series (Sense8)—
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This man is right on target. It’s about time people learned about addiction. We are not bad people. We are sick people getting better. Amen
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Max poul says:
Great article!Very informative for me!I can see how this science will play a large part in curing addicts.
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Diane Masterson says:
As a person in their mid fifties who is completing their counselling journey and also a teacher of young children this helps so much. My own Aces score will certainly reflect my gains and losses on this journey and making much more sense of this -accepting myself- and managing the tricky times. There has been so much shame and guilt it feels so liberating to frame it in this understanding as I know I have to really help myself and care so much about helping others. Thank you
I’m a school psychologist and I firmly believe that utilizing the ACE study and survey can help children and adults. If you can name it you can tame it. I utilize the ACE when working with adolescents in the school system and I believe it helps open the door to healing.
vegetative.training says:
This is a new approach to reality. Understanding that the basis of all our actions is how we were introduced to reality orientation and on what premises were we told about what the real world really is.
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ACE makes a lot of sense to me. My grandmother
died in childbirth with my uncle at the age of 28.
My mother was two and never got the help she needed. She became mentally ill and alchoholic and died at 54. I am now 72 and understand these problems are not criminal. Much understanding and legal changes need to be made! My father an MD was no help. He sent my brothers to boarding schools to be away from her; he was very self assured but not very understanding. It is striking to me that he shared a birthdate with Donald Trump.
My husband came from a mostly wonderful family but died from cancer 14 years ago. I wish we HHS’s both understood this before he died but our three children, now in their 40’s are doing very well.
Im a social worker who recently opened a men’s substance use treatment facility. I want to be fully trained in ACES and teach my men about it. They desperately need this! How can I get that training?
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Janeth Trowbridge says:
This is huge for the landscape of our culture. It needs to be published far and wide! Has it been presented to TED talks? Can it be put on the docket in training judges? I see that the concept of brain development and plasticity is finally entering the mainstream. We have to return to respect and teaching of stay at home moms. Thanks and gratitude to all these people doing research and practicing what has been learned!
Great article and very commendable work, but I wonder if there is data support this: “For most people, the drug is less addictive than other opioids,” regarding suboxone. The overwhelming majority of people I have spoken to who either were or had been on it have told that they wished they had never started taking it. The withdrawal was worse and far more prolonged than it had been with any other opiate they had taken. Certainly, suboxone saves lives, but what happens when patients cannot continue taking it for whatever reason?
Rachel H says:
Extremely inciteful article..information that needs to be shared with everyone who works in recovery programs.
Dianna Duchemin says:
Wonderful, well written article. Thank you for what you do.
I have spent 20 yrs. of learning, growth & healing ., what a journey. I was out on lithium at 30 yrs. of age for mood swings- they said cyclothimia, lowest rung in ladder of Bi-Polar .. but could get worse with hormonal swings (menopause). moved away from my mom & started my healing journey ..
today I am 3 yrs. off lithium, my GP said he has never thought I was bi-polar, just dealing with too much big – not knowing how to deal with it actually. I have never felt better, I wrote a chapter in a compilation book of overcoming adversity, have helped turn around relationship with my mom -by standing up for myself & setting healthy boundaries, I have a beautiful morning routine involving energy work & I seem to inspire others just by bring ME .
Yea … early life experiences are held in our subconscious & can SO hold us back – UNLESS we dig deep, excavate that’s sh*t ..
My key word is LIGHTHEARTED… it has always been & still is my GOAL of his I want to feel – positive, open, non judgemental … 🙏❣️💪
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Sonia Straley says:
Spot on! Keep up the good work!
This is such an amazing approach to healthcare regarding addiction. I hope this spreads like wildfire across the United States, as we so terribly lack a great approach to the mental health of our addicted people. I’ve watched too many families struggle and also lost a loved one over addiction. This could have been a tremendous help for him. Thank you all for your dedication and research.
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Jane Cantrell says:
Right on, Doc, you rock!
I have worked in the field of addiction for over 20 years. ACE scores help to identify the trauma that
the body remembers. Working with clients as a master’s-level therapist and Healing Touch Practitioner, I know that the root foundational energy center, anchored into the body by the adrenal glands, holds cellular memory of unsafe experiences.
Identifying and processing trauma is a key to
the healing process.
Ally says:
THANK! YOU! As an adult child of alcoholics I’m just now figuring a lot of this out and this article really moved me! I feel so inspired to learn about my ACEs and how I can train or go to school to help at the Center for Addiction, or locally as so many others like myself and my family have felt betrayed by this medical system and past approaches. ACE Science and studies are going to change the world for the better.
Leslie Fowler says:
I agree so much with this article, I keep trying to tell people but no one understands. I work in an addiction center and do a lot of EMDR . I always give the ACE as part of my assessments, no one who is struggling with addiction has a low ACE score. I frequently see scores of 8-9 and 10. Emdr is great in addressing childhood trauma
Leah Russack-Baker says:
Thankyou for this well written article of hope and compassion through MAT, validation and witnessing a person’s trauma.
I am a AADC in Ct and appreciate this information as I continue to provide treatment in a respectful trauma informed manner.
Joan Balue says:
Do you also use EFT? Emotional Freedom Technique?
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Grant Anderson says:
I read your artical, i realise how the mistreatment has guided my mental issuse.
A good counler can be hard to find and some make matters worse!
Treatlng people with repect can only help and not hurt are efforts to get well.
Kimberly H Garland says:
I am so thankful for the new research into ACE’s and the knowledge being spread so that we can all be aware. One thing I wish the article had also addressed is the genetic predisposition to addiction. I have been working with children for thirty years. I see many who are living in very loving two-parent families, but who have a strong family history of addiction. Many of those children have an addictive tendency to things like sugar or electronics.
One other observation: I have also worked with families living in poverty for many years and I can tell you that just giving them money (welfare, food stamps, etc.) does not reduce the ACE scores. Positive relationships, networking with people who can provide experience, counsel, good childcare, jobs, etc. is much more effective.
Turid Hopwood says:
Excellent. Thank you. It is our judgementalism and moralising that gets in the way of our seeing reality of human suffering… Maybe, it’s frustration and anxiety of sitting with uncertainty and not easily solveable problems…
Sharina Fowler says:
Can you please recommend anyone who practices this approach in the Dallas FortWorth area?
Mrs Irene Urquhart says:
This is brilliant my daughter 35 was abused by a female teacher at 6 and a half till 8 she was sellotaped to seat her mouth sellotaped face squeeze ears pulled and humiliated and at 16 a locum GP diagnosed bulimia she also smoked and At she also drank alcohol and last 2 years got worse but the bulimia and alcohol she purges she has also been diagnosed with ASD bottom line NO help from NHS u here in Scotland she has had no childhood no peer groups no help . I went private to a psychologist in May this year who treats with EMDR and CBT so it is a slow process but it’s like an old fashioned telephone exchange and she’s pulling out all connections and replacing them all slowly one by one And reading aces too high has hit it all right on the right nail and I thankyou I will read everything and hopefully help my daughter to get a life Mrs Irene Urquhart
bob carlisle says:
thanks so much doc. high ace score. been on opiates for missing l4,l5 for 22 yrs. past all American in tennis and excelled in other sports too.
been doing bio oxidative medicine for nearly 30 years. have extensive background in bb of aa and pentecostal church.
off all opiates rt now and alcohol for back pain.
trying like he’ll to heal the brain and internal organs.
have heated with wood for nearly 50 years
last 22 with missing discs. continual cycle of pain med and diluted elder berry for back pain but now had enough
been aware acoa has been at root for years.
God bless yah warrior dr.
love yah……
go back to dr. Sam fuller of the mayflower. grandparents were fantastic but father was crazy from his childhood and ww11. he came to the relief of 101st at bastogne and then 4 major battles after.
but he beat. my brother and I unmercifully and was abusive
he,s still alive at 96 and haven,t seen him all summer.
Mww Kinney says:
Thank you so much for this article. I have been saying this for years and was not very popular amongst my 12-step black belt coworkers. I was considered “too soft”. I do hear talk about considering trauma now, but is it being actually implemented where it counts? I still hear the horror stories of people being treated with little respect by clinicians so I think the actual consideration of trauma within the treatment setting is very spotty. They are still hearing, “there’s the door don’t let it hit you in the ass” Maybe not actually hearing those words, but when people are being judged they are given the boot, and often without a lifeline. This has to stop if we are ever going to fix our broken treatment system! Many cancer rates have a better survival rate than addiction–but the physical health side worked at it hard using evidence based research to change treatments until they drove those numbers down. Why doesn’t the behavioral health treatment system do the same thing?
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Tony McCormick says:
Well – finally – addiction treatment that makes sense… Adopt the simple belief: “human beings want to be 1) loved, 2) feel like they belong and 3) are competent”. And, in service to that belief: add “all behavior is purposeful”. Suddenly, it all makes sense… Yep – Mate makes us aware ‘addicts want to feel normal” and changing the chemistry of my brain to promote those “feel normal/good” chemicals sure makes sense… BRAVO DOC – wish there were a lot more of YOU out there. Thank you…
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Ramona Quintana says:
Hi, thank you for the article it was very eye-opening. I believe my family fasten the skylights. Can you recommend a doctor that we can go see? We live in Palm Springs, California, and would be willing to drive
Cyndi says:
Help me find this therapy!! I live in Dayton Ohio. I want to take the test because I would be scoring high!!
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Marcia trappen says:
I cried while reading this article. Are
There centers near Lansing mi that I can attend? Or therapist trained in my area?
Excellent article! Give hope. Needs to get this teaching in our schools!
I have found your article very interesting.. I read Eckert Tolle and his philosophy is to live in the moment.. He had helped me a lot…He talks about our childhood abusive experiences as conditioned thinking and the method of changing our thinking is to live in the moment.. bring our minds into the present by focusing our mind on maybe a book that is in our present. I found this has helped me to change my conditioned thinking.vim much happier now
Terence Lee says:
Wow, Wow, Wow, Wow, Wow…
Jo Allebach says:
This soundsvery reasonable.
Barbara simmerman says:
Susan selfridge says:
Great! Agree! Makes perfect sense. But, this long article does not present a ‘go to’ for addicts or even white-knuckle recovering addicts.
Toby Pratt says:
Powerful information!
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lindacrumb says:
I was an abused child hit and starved at times. I drink. It stops my night mares at night. I don’t have health insurance right now. I do have stable housing and I am food sucure. I wish I could find a program like this I’m my area. I live near Portland Oregon USA.
Thank you Debbie
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Maribel Lopez says:
Excellent article!! Are there any treatment places in Florida? And, how about providers that may use this model of treatment for the many people out there that are not addicts, however struggle with the ACE’s adversities?
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The biology of desire by Marc Lewis is a great book dealing with this.
Sara-Michelle says:
It is starting to move this way, I know from personal experience, there’s still a long way to go but it is being realised that the underlying issues with substance abuse and why people become “addicted” is because of these underlying issues ACEs as well as other factors but also with the article on opioids it should be based on absolutely every mood altering substance not only opioids but everything, that’s why the support for the underlying issues , ACEs, needs to be addressed very much so.
Robert B. says:
Life changing!!!- Thank you Dr. Sumrok for opening our eyes to this new paradigm of treatment. I firmly believe we are extensions of our childhood experiences. Your approach will show the new healthcare providers a different and better way to treat addiction that hopefully will begin to dissolve stigma that surrounds addictions and mental Illness.
Etti says:
Nuala says:
Fabulous!! This model exactly fits my understanding and experiencing The Aces scoring is a shower tool but the underpinning of real relational and functional care is a fine model.
Still don’t know where to find such for my son but still seeking.thabkyou.
Rita Soman says:
The sad part is that the addictions treatment professional are still using just traditional talk thearapy that is not geared to address the trauma that is stored in the subconscious level of the mind.
Amy Pershing says:
Many thanks! I treat binge eating disorder and trauma, and without question, if the trauma is not addressed, binge eating remains. We need this strengths-based approach integrated into our treatment approaches, our criminal “justice” system, and our legal system immediately.
Lee J. Collier says:
LOVE this article. Highly informative and wise. This has motivated me to take physical action to get healthier. Fortunately I have a very emphatically supportive Doctor who treats me with utmost respect and kindness and I’ve had some lovely therapists too. Thank you for educating us! From a childhood survivor 🌹
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sonya iverson says:
All that is good reading BUT………..MY QUESTION IS……..IS ADDICTION……..A DISEASE?? Because…..i was an addict(heroin….meth…..acid……you name it…i did it for 29yrs(from age 15 to 44) been clean now for 11years. And i……….say its a disease. Its starts with the choice to use but…….eventually turns into addiction which i believe is a disease. Just as alcoholism. Sooooo…………IS addiction a disease? Yes or no?
Eran says:
You said it yourself that “addiction starts with a choice.” We don’t choose to get a disease i.e. cancer, diabetes, cad, htn, etc.
So then, based upon that ONE observation, I wouldn’t put them in the same category. 😊
MCC says:
People often make choices that lead to disease. They eat diets high in carbohydrates and processed foods and develop type 2 diabetes as a result. I spent too much time in the sun with too little sunscreen and got skin cancer — twice (slow learner, I guess). People get lung cancer from smoking, liver disease from drinking alcohol to excess, heart disease from maintaining a high stress lifestyle. Lots of our diseases start with choices we make.
I’m no expert, but they teach us in nursing school that addiction is very much a chronic disease.
Addictions are not diseases in the literal sense but thinking of them in that way has been very helpful to many sufferers. It’s a reasonable and useful metaphor and can be used as such. I wouldn’t waste much time arguing it with people. Pleased to read of your success!
Yes it is a dis-ease. But it is not purely defined. It is a complex diagnosis with multiple components including physiological, behavioral, spiritual, genetic, environmental, psychological, etc. It includes abnormal brain neurochemistry which can be developed as a result of normal brain adaptation. Thus, you have choice in the recovery but not in all aspects of the dis-ease development.
Daniel Sumrok says:
I am often asked that question.
I think the disease model is useful, if incomplete.
I don’t find it useful to be stuck on the model though.
I see SUDs as symptoms of trauma.
Bless you on the journey.
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John Walston says:
This all maybe true in the beginning of an addicts are alcoholics doping are drinking careers, and yet I believe that once I found out how much I enjoyed being “high”(the endorfen releases) it was on baby! And I then proceeded to drive the wheels off of it! Glad I quit before I caught it on fire.
Bridget Regar says:
I agree with this. I am a 20 years clean, crack addict, and many other drugs. You know Bill W. said this many, many years ago. If we don’t deal with our demons they will kill us. Sometimes the tragedy was too traumatic we stuffed way down in that hiding spot in our brain. Drugs and alcohol make it even easier to hide it. It took 7 treatment centers, 28 days in jail, and a great sponsor with many meetings to make me accept my past and be able to live in the present and have goals for the future.
Jay lee says:
I totally agree with this doctor.
Treat unwell people with respect and dignity and listen to what these people have to say
Then the doctors can help choose there path to recovery………
fefeeley412 says:
This is an important discussion. i sort of knew there was more to addiciton than the high. It costs a person too much to be just a recreational thing. I too suffer from ACES with a score of 8 and while I am not addicted to drugs or alcohol – I’m not happy. Yet, when I bring this up to my therapist or to a regular doctore they either say it’s ‘in the past’ and I should let it go or they don’t know what I’m talking about.
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Thought provoking. . Thank you!
Sharon Birch says:
Fascinating article which makes an awful lot of sense and could result in meaningful and long lasting change for so many people and their families. It would be really interesting to look at ways in which preventative methods can be applied in the care and treatment of children and young people who are known to have experienced childhood trauma, but before patterns of addictive behaviour are formed.
Jacqueline says:
Very interesting article.
This may have already been asked: Obviously not all people who have experienced ACE’s become addicts or engage in ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking. What is it that triggers it in some and not in others?
Browndog says:
I hope some of the recent work on electronic stimulation of brain centers advances quickly. I am admittedly suspicious of advocates of unending therapy for others. On the drugs chart, that looks like a careless error. Do people actually die from nicotine? I believe they die from cancer caused by tars and other compounds in smoke that serve as systemic poisons. Second hand smoke causes health damage; it does not addict people to nicotine.
Kim Cooper says:
Jacqueline — I had the same question. I think, reading between the lines, that the people who had ACEs but didn’t turn to drugs, somehow developed ways of coping with their traumas — comforting themselves — that didn’t involve drugs or alcohol.
Look at the info here on “resiliency”. It relates to the factors we might have in our lives that help us rebound from stresses. Like, we may have ACE points from a missing parent and a divorce, but maybe we have a grandma close by who is loving, supportive, accepting and shows us better coping strategies.
MP says:
Look at all the overweight people we have in the U.S. Overeating is definitely comfort-seeking.
My son has been doing meth and shooting heroin for 10 years now . The only risk factors , his mother is a chain smoker and coffeeholic . On my part a bit of workaholic and late night food bingeing . No Drugs or pills or alcohol for either of us . No sex abuse .No verbal abuse to kids . His Mom and I have done a lot of open bickering in front of the kids that probably stressed them . What kind of ACE score would that ring up ??
Four ACEs. Enough to use drugs to cope.
Phyllis Miller says:
I am a Licenced Professional Counselor. I want to work with this man!!! I’ve known this forever!! Trauma MUST BE NUMBED! Addiction is NOT a brain disease, it’s a human response to unspeakable horror!! I refuse to ignore or gloss over the HUGE ELEPHANT in the treatment industry. I walk into a client’s trauma with them, one step at a time. It’s scarier than the scariest horror flick they’ve ever seen. Some refuse to go. Some have had enough numbing and are willing to try. I’ve witnessed miracles. ACES MUST BE ADDRESSED! Thank you, Dr. Sumrok. I would drop everything in my life to work with colleagues who “get it.”
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Excellent article! I am encouraged to read that more sensible viewpoints are coming out about the causes and treatments for addiction . When the underlying causes are properly understood then proper treatments will follow . Though some will become addicts without experiencing trauma, I believe those people will fortunately find recovery a somewhat easier process since they will not have the same need to escape traumatic experiences. Pain appears to be at the soul of addiction and escape from pain is what the addict is attempting to do.
Earlene says:
I do not agree. While I can only speak for my own experience…I had a wonderful childhood…stable home life…no “uncles” or family friends touching me…no abuse physically emotionally or psychologically…raised in a Catholic..not to tight home..with both parents…and siblings…yet I am an addict…recovered today. However, what your saying doesn’t ring true for me…
Janine says:
My daughter is similar to you, having had a good upbringing etc….and she too has addiction issues. However, I, her mom, suffered with a Post Partum Depression from 5 month’s till she was around 14 months old. On some level , the attachment relationship suffered, And her brain became wired differently? Gabor Mate who is a well respected doctor in this field, says yes, my depression would have caused some changes in how her brain became wired, and not to blame myself though, as I was doing the best I could under the circumstances. Not sure if maybe something like this resonates for you.
carolyn M connors says:
Although I was not raised in an abusive home either, I was shamed through Catholicism and the general attitude towards females in the 60’s and 70’s. I don’t think there are many in our society who have suffered zero abuse or trauma. If you experience something that devalues you I believe that can lead to substance abuse and then to addiction. The absence of awful doesn’t mean it was neccissarily good either. Just my opinion.
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Please add Adoption to your list os ACE. Being removed from your mother and lying alone in a hospital crib for 4-6 weeks waiting to die is pretty scary.
ALM says:
That situation is addressed by the ACE measure of having one or no biological parent(s) in the home. It isn’t termed specifically adoption, but it is there.
Reed Coles says:
my son was adopted from Russia (actually Siberia), premature, given up at birth, spent an extended time in intensive care of a hospital, then went to a baby house till 10 months old when my wife and i came on the scene to adopt him. we brought him back to the USA and consequently changed his language and life. he is gay and is addicted to alcohol and nicotine. he is now 25 going on 26.
We sure could use some help. Reed Coles 413-537-0245
You might want to contact people at the Attachment and Trauma Network.
Yes, I agree. I was disappointed to not see adoption on the list.
Subsequent ACE surveys include involvement with the foster care system.
Karam says:
Very informative readings. Thanks
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Totally!
Dr Larry Oulliw says:
Does his work include the impact of faith or lack of faith in Christ on inner healing from Aces? And as an alternative habit pattern of ritualized comfort behavior?
Please remember that Christ is only one of many great spiritual Teachers that have appeared on earth. So the question could be: faith or lack of faith in God, Higher Power, Buddha, Mohammed, Allah, Ra etc. etc.
Hi Laura, Thank you! I think perhaps the question about faith in a higher power may have been in reference to the principles in the 12 step programs, which urge participants to seek help from their high power, however that looks for the individual. You reference a Higher Power by many names by which that One has been known by many faiths. Thank you for bringing your perspective!
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Karmela Gulliver says:
What a wonderful program you have. Is there anything like that in OKC! I’m the daughter of a Vietnam Vet, and I believe his pstd spread into my life. Thank you,
lbertolett says:
Thank you for your research into addiction and in going a step further into just what causes comfort seeking behaviors. The root cause is where our answers always come! My son has been to treatment two times now, and I was absolutely shocked at the punitive approach! I hope that you continue to teach our medical professionals. I look forward to studying the ACE’s exam in depth.
Thank you again!!
Lori Bain says:
Excellent article!! Are there any Dr.s in Utah?
melissa charbonneau says:
Dr. Sumrok, I have read the article that Jane wrote in May 2017 a few times. I love the work that you are doing and am glad to see the outcomes that you are getting. I had a question about the ACEs screen that you provide to patients. There were a couple of instances noted that the ACE score, when first filled out by the patient was low and then when you sit down with the patient and go over each item, you get a higher score. Can you talk a little bit about how that exchange goes with the patient, as to the shift in understanding what each question is asking?
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Julia Williams Schlegel says:
Thankyou. This is giving me hope that I can heal and help my kids and the community.
Stigma of human suffering STINKS.
I’m tired of having to defend myself from more abuse when I’m seeking help.
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drifterindiefilm says:
Fascinating and clarifying article, and the ACEs and Resilience tests were revealing and helpful.
I can recommend ‘In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts’ by Dr. Maté as well, which is excellent.
It seems our collective understanding of the nature of addiction is becoming more precise, which I think is essential in terms of how it is viewed by society at large (ie not as a defining characteristic, but as a symptomatic behaviour created by a deeper wound).
I think it is also essential to remember that nobody is addicted to the substance or behaviour (as such), but to the increase of endogenous morphines that is provoked by that substance or behaviour.
One is seeking the comfort that love provides. Addiction is a love—replacement therapy, in my experience, but that love that was lost can’t be replaced.
However, you can learn to love yourself, which includes the cessation of addiction.
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How can I get in touch with this doctor and this program!
Thank you for this discovery
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That’s tremendously kind of you to give everyone a way to reach out to you directly. Thank you for that and for your important and transformative work.
Richard Di Santo says:
Fantastic, hope-filled article that needs to be required reading for all of us.
Marie-Christina Virago PhD says:
It’s an excellent article. Garbor Maté’s book “In the realm of the hungry ghosts” is also excellent, and humbling. This is, however, and unfortunately, not new news. It is how we worked with addicts in the Sydne Drug Advisory Centre in the mid 1970’s. It is also a policy which has been successful in Europe for a long time. Unless, and until, the concept of a “War on Drugs” can be addressed, politically, the situation is unlikely to change. There is far too much money tied up in policing and incarcerating those who become “addicts” for it to change any time soon, particularly in our current combative political climate.
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Renada Williams says:
Please!! I need you to help my boyfriend!! I need to get him a therapist right away who specializes in this & can help him!! I will pay ANYTHING to get him help before it’s too late. I am in the Alsip, I’ll area & need a doctor ASAP!! PLEASE SOMEONE RESPOND TO ME & HELP US!!
Very good article…I’ve looked at ACE’s as they relate to addition and other life problems…however, an ACE score of 0 doesn’t mean you’re immune to addiction…but reviewing ACEs with an addict/alcoholic is a very sound approach to achieving recovery…
I always thought the answer to addiction is in the “why”. Been through rehab at a young age
There to understand the why and learning to love myself has been a long road. Thank you for your research.
Kay A. Williams says:
I would like to know where I can receive treatment for ACE, I live in San Mateo, CA
Hi, Kay:
Try searching these sites for people in your area:
The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation: Find a Therapist – http://www.isst-d.org/default.asp?contentID=18
Psychology Today: Find a Therapist – https://therapists.psychologytoday.com/rms
Association for Training on Trauma and Attachment in Children (ATTACh) Clinical Referral List – http://www.attach.org/attach-resources/registered-clinicians/
At an AA meeting, NA meeting…all depends on what your addiction is. Go to 1 of these meetings and ask somone who has been there a long time. they will help.
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aro says:
When a sex addict gives his wife herpes, HIV, hepatitis…it’s going to be pretty hard to offer him something other than anger. “Sex addiction” drives sex trafficking. It is part of compulsive abusive sexual relational disorder. Calling it sex addiction is a huge disservice to the patients and the people that have a life time of suffering as a result. Many people have ACE’S and do not end up addicted.
Character disturbance (as per George Simon) is a part of the picture here.
failedartistalcoholic says:
Drug addiction drives drug trafficking. I’m not sure the point you’re making.
Amazing research. I would love to join this study.
Kathy Tobin says:
Nothing at all mentioned about the death of a parent or a parent with a chronic disease. My mother passed away from cancer when I was eight, after being ill for almost 2 years.
Hi, Kathy: The original ACE Study looked at only 10 types of childhood adversity, but subsequent studies have included others, including racism, bullying, involvement with the foster care system, moving often, homelessness, etc. Living with a parent who’s very ill for a long time and losing a parent certainly qualify as ACEs.
spottedcouchblog says:
This is an amazing article. I have an ACE score of eight. Pretty high. I consider myself a fairly high functioning person. With that said, I will probably die young as I have major intimacy issues and I move in and out of addiction behaviour every few years — which is a self-soothing behavior but not the least bit healthy.
I just want to add that although I consider my resilience to be exceptionally high, it isn’t an antidote. I still exhibit highly addictive behavior. I’ve just learned how to work around it.
Bonnie says:
That’s my problem, also although I had severe childhood trauma. I didn’t start abusing drugs till I was in my late thirties. I was also abused by my 1st husband. So why so late in life?
Don Evans says:
Ace score 7. Clean since 4 6 16. DOC opiates. Interesting case study, with some troubling conclusions. The medically assisted treatment program is not what I recommend, but can be somewhat effective in extreme cases, but only as a step down tool. The theory of childhood trauma being a precurser to substane abuse is not new to me, but the health risks for other chronic diseases, due to increased ace scores, is surprising. I feel the calling addiction a disease is misleading. My recovery requires constant attention, my addiction is still here, which makes it disease like. I have a mental illness that becomes activated when I use. I feel my addiction is more of an allergy than a disease.
disease of add
I agree that addiction is not a disease. It is a coping mechanism that is rooted deeply in the brain. That is my take.
I disagree I don’t feel I chose to all of a sudden f- up my life, not to mention my grown children. All I ever wanted was love & all I got was pain & more pain. Plus it makes since b/ c I started realizing about 8mos. ago I do things on impulse when something bad happens . I’m trying hard to change but I keep felling.
I’ve always like the allergy model over the disease model since, generally, you must have exposure to the allergen before you realize effects…however both are just models to simplify and make more understandable a very complex issue…the AMA looks at addiction as a brain reward system disease and there is certainly data to support that position…I believe that everyone has a biological potential to become an addict much like everyone has the potential to become a diabetic…some have a greater potential than others and that’s genetically determined…it’s not a digital yes/no condition but more of a continuum…with repetitive heavy use over time, just about anyone will be come an addict/alcoholic but there are those who become addicts/alcoholics in a rather short period of time (Type I vs Type II alcoholics)…the discussion of ACEs in this article (and elsewhere) is of great insight because it looks to address why people get into repetitive heavy use in the first place… I don’t think there is a singular path to addiction, but a high ACE score definitely increases the potential that someone will use drugs to self medicate and continue until they reach the point of biological addiction…
Mama Bear says:
I wholeheartedly agree with your entire comment Steve.
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One thing that should be mentioned is that children with such issues not only struggle with substance addiction, we are basically addiction prone. Can be addicted to shopping, eating/binging, hoarding… I get addicted to everything I do… even gambling. That is on top of the regular substance I used to be involved with but no longer. I now choose to be addicted to healthy things (legal things)…
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Connie Nichols says:
Great advancement in treating the whole human being with compassion, empathy, and medication.
Kim Prestenberg says:
I think my son is taking dangerous drugs like heroine. I don’t know if he has any addictions. He is also taking a narcotic that his doctor prescribes him improperly. We live in the Dallas, TX area. Is there someone you can recommend here that can help him?
Amazing ! Thank you.
mamaditto says:
What angers me is when addiction is called a “disease.” That needs to stop, too.
Spenser says:
Scored a 10. I have no addictions but my health is an incredible disaster. Four chronic illnesses – two of which are life threatening. Attention span issues and diagnosed ASD – so I have NOT (obviously) read all the comments above. Is there any hope for someone like me?
Hope so. There definitely needs to be more help for adults with ACEs. Doctors like the one in this article are few and far between.
Advocate World Wide says:
I currently study Diploma of Alcohol and Other Drugs and Diploma of Mental Health issues concurrently in Melbourne Australia. For those asking ‘if they can learn (or are they too old)’; I can tell them, I am in my mid-60’s. NO ONE IS EVER TOO OLD TO LEARN new information, if they choose to put in the hard work. This information Dr Dan Sumrok has offered could be [an entire addition] Master’s Degree Thesis &/or PhD to go forward learning more. I personally appreciate the information Dr Dan and others have offered to add to my own knowledge base. My goal is attending training in USA and bringing it back to this region to teach others. THAT is what it is all about: ‘Each one Teach one’ (Frank Laubach, 1884-1970, Literacy); this LITERACY about Substance Healing and Rehabilitation needs to be taught/learned by others, as well.
Kind regards and thank you for your continuing work, Dr Dan and others, AdvocateWorldWide.
Tina Hahn says:
This guy is a friggin hero. I have been saying this for 25 years. Let’s get on with it #PedsDocs4SinglePayer #PedsAgainstACEs
stl health says:
Lots of good information here and a very interesting read. Thanks for sharing.
Toni Sullivan says:
Where are doctors in state of Iowa that work with this program?
Brennan Baker says:
The ACE study is 100% accurate. I scored about a 6 or 7. I was sexually abused when I was young. Later when I was a teen I became addicted to sex, then alcohol, then drugs. I have been to 8 or 9 treatment centers and have been unsuccessful staying sober. I’m currently going to the methadone clinic and have been for over 4 years.
Ann Page says:
Finally! What a breakthrough! So happy to learn about this!!
Richard Jackson says:
Wonderfull! I have known this from my own personal experience. I fell off a balcony age 18month was traumatized as a result of and being handled by medical staff. I have a mood disorder and don’t handle stress well also have gut problems . I don’t seem to get the right kind of help. I am 61years old Email [email protected]
krystian says:
How about… rather than spending money on fighting the war on drugs and then more money on treatment, as a society we wage a war on (seems to be popular at the moment) and spend resources fighting child abuse, family violence, poverty, racism, discrimination, unemployment, sexism etc etc? Too radical?
Corinne haggerty says:
You are definitely on the right track
There is a slippery slope when everyone who has SUD has to have experienced ACE. Many did not. You do them no favors by forcing them into a pigeon hole where the normal experiences of growing up are labeled as “trauma.” I am not talking about the true trauma survivors I work with as a child welfare attorney. I am referring to the upper middle class kids raised with every advantage and a 0 ACE score who nonetheless became addicted to drugs. Any one size fits all approach creates problems for those who are not in that category. Group therapy to recover from trauma is of no use to someone whose addiction is not driven by trauma. And like many others working with the SUD population, I have yet to find anyone who fully recovered with suboxone, rather I have seen many times suboxone being abused, being sold, and leading to relapse.
Daniel Sumrok M.D. says:
I agree that one size does not fit all.
Sandy Labrecque says:
I would bet that if you traced back on these middle-class, “zero ACE” kids, you’d find that there is trauma in their ancestry. Addiction often skips a generation. Epigenetics explains that trauma in our ancestors gets passed down in our genes. Just because something is not currently included in the ACE assessment doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be. Rather than throwing the baby out with the bath water, these circumstances need to be understood and included in the ACE assessment.
Middle or upper class folks are not immune to trauma. In fact, in many of those cases, the trauma is extraordinarily hidden for status reasons.
janemktherapy says:
Ava, it may not look like a “big T” trauma but lack of self worth / self love can be established in any childhood regardless of money and class. It’s not necessarily what we experience but how we perceive it and what beliefs we form about ourselves. Coming from a privileged background can cause some sensitive souls to suffer with huge guilt and shame, or carry great weights of expectation etc. To end up so abusive of self indicates to me that there is some deep level of trauma, possibly unconscious and/or preverbal, much of which can occur in the womb or during birth without anyone being aware. We might also consider the physiological and psychological patterns set up in new borns by drugs given during labour, and our subsequent reliance on them later in life…
“upper middle class kids raised with every advantage and a 0 ACE score who nonetheless became addicted to drugs”
I had every advantage, but was emotionally abandoned at 18 months when the next baby was born as was she when the third one came – I am addicted to alcohol – I suffer from anger, depression and sadness. I am 62 and have tried to get rid of it with EFT but it still lingers.
Yet I am an intelligent person and function in society, but life is a drag and I can’t wait to numb myself at the end of the day (or sometimes at the beginning of the day)
My score is 3 – my thinking is that umc kids that have everything, but no emotional support score at least a 1
Three is a big number in the scheme of things where ACE is concerned.
So what is your definition of trauma. Is everyone’s trauma the same? Is all trauma obvious? Is the early childhood experience the only form of a thousand traumas. Just like the law, this science requires training and an opened mind. Not a disfunctional retort from an early unrecognized traumatic experience.
Leslie Peters RN says:
Hi, I have an ACE’S score of 7. When I started my transformation a few years back the most refereeing and healing words I heard were ” Honey, you weren’t crazy, they were!” Luckily I never did drugs and alcohol usage was limited to my college days- I believe my need to be in full control kept me from partaking.
The problem with ACE’S is you know you’re different than most, you struggle more with routine life skills, but you don’t know why. I also think many us tend to have more of a creative mind; that combined with the unhealthy mechanism we develop really sets you apart from others. Without an outlet for the creativity, people just don’t know what to do with how different they are. It’s extremely difficult to “fit in” with emotionally well persons. They try to numb all that creative energy so it won’t drive them crazy. What helps as an adjunct therapy is daily work on developing self awareness and then learning techniques to retrain the brain. I wrote “Stuck in Our Stories No More” a step by step guide on how I transformed my mind, body and soul. I train individuals, corporations (employee assistance programs) and health care team providers.
Leslie Peters RN
Nurse Consultant, ACE’s
Hi, Leslie: Since the ACE Study and subsequent ACE surveys in more than 30 states show that ACEs are common, I think that if we create a culture where we can be more open about our ACEs, we’ll all discover that most of us have ACEs and have incorporated mostly unhealthy ways of coping — including over-achieving, engaging in thrill sports and over-eating.
Great testimony!
I think your point about using adjunct therapies to help retrain our brains is a very important one. My fiancee was helped significantly by EMDR. For me, it was EFT, NLP, and CBT that did the job in combination. No “one size fits all” approach is likely to succeed as well as an integrative, tailored approach that takes individual and cultural factors into consideration.
What about childhood bullying and low self esteem issues? We’re these looked at in the study?
Hi, Michelle: Thanks for your question. Bullying wasn’t included in the original ACE Study (and low self-esteem comes from ACEs of many types), but it and several other types of ACEs have been included in subsequent ACE surveys. Some of those are racism, involvement with the foster care system, living in an unsafe neighborhood, and witnessing violence outside the home. What some people are beginning to do is to ask the people they’re serving about their traumatic experiences, and adding those. For example, Roseland Pediatrics in Santa Rosa, CA, serves people who have immigrated to the U.S., so one of the questions they incorporated in their ACEs assessment is “Did you lose a family member to deportation?”
Linda Long says:
This is right on target and moving in the right direction. I didn’t see depression and suicides addressed and childhood trauma is definitely the cause. I struggle daily and have searched over 30 years for relief. I’m trying cbd oil now with not much improvement.
Please look into Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT). It is an energy psychotherapy that heals childhood trauma and it works.
Great testimony!thanks.
I will check it out.
http://www.thesacredplant.com has a webinar series explaining in detail the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. The right kind, strength and method of delivery is crucial.
I too have struggled a long time – it started after I had my first baby – I was asking myself:”how can anyone beat kids?”
I am 62, my score is 3
May I suggest EMDR. It helped me more than years of other therapy, recently I am trying somatic psychotherapy and this also is very helpful.
Mary Jo Edwards says:
Grateful for this article!
Mary Jo Edwards, RN says:
Implementing Trauma Informed Care has elevated the quality care I deliver to my patients resulting in more positive patient outcomes. I am a psychiatric nurse working in hospital acute care unit for 22 years. For the past 20 years I identified the negative consequences of childhood events determined ones behaviors. Patients need assistance in identifying this. New, effective interventions need to be implemented and available for both inpatient and outpatient populations to save lives!
Pam S Tinker says:
AWESOME!! GOD’S GIFT TO HURTING PEOPLE!!
Can you give me any information on finding a group and doctor in Georgia who use ACE to help addictions?
Joe M says:
There’s no medical, chemical, psychological, edible, sexual or material solution to a spiritual problem.
Joe M, what does the word “spiritual” mean in this context? Your advice may be helpful for people who are “spiritual”, but people who aren’t spiritual actually do get better and conquer their addictions. I’ve seen them do it. I’ve also seen very spiritual people die from the struggle. Calling it a spiritual problem and disregarding the science/medical/psychological/chemical aspects of this problem is incomplete.
Excellent point. Rational Recovery is a substance abuse recovery group with no spiritual aspects that has a higher recovery rate than the 12 step groups (which are only barely better than placebo). If a person has a need to believe that a “higher power” with intelligence is looking out for them, then good for them if they find comfort and a path to better, healthier coping strategies that involves that, but it’s not for everyone.
It’s not only a spiritual problem.
John Entingh says:
While I agree that treating all people with respect returns the best results and that the ACE concept may be true for many, my 40 + years working with addicts informs me that addiction can come about in a multitude of ways and affect even people whom have had stellar childhoods. In contemporary addiction treatment the most effective approaches start with assessing biological, psychological, and social factors that are core issues in subjective addiction and/or other mental health issues. The biopsychosocial approach was strong body of evidence and many years of global research to back it up.
I also have found that addiction destroys the sense of family and creates comfort seeking, after all, drug and alcohol use is all about instant gratification that is contrary to long term goals. So I can see why this instant gratification seeking may get confused with childhood issues. However, I have worked with hundreds of addicts who have lived to retirement age with very high social functioning and visit their doctor for some obscure pain issue, get a prescription for Percocet, and have their life unravel in a few years as addiction sets in and instant gratification becomes the primary focus. These cases are used to support the biological approach that some individuals are more predisposed to develop addictive tendencies than others. To disregard this theory and attempt to say the person had unresolved childhood issues is a slippery slope. If the person had never visited the doctor, they would have never been exposed to opioids and thus addiction and given the unresolved childhood issues never would have impacted their life.
So to hold the ACE theory true in absolute, would be to say that opioid use brings out unresolved childhood issues after living 65 years of very high social functioning and that giving the person buprenorphine will help reverse the neurological damage created by the opioids. In sum, one drug that activates opioid receptors creates neurological damage yet another drug that attaches to opioid receptors fixes the problem, of course with the proper therapy.
Great dialogue, but let us be careful to not put the blinders on.
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Danesh says:
I’m a counselor who specializes in psychoactive-assisted recovery.
It is astonishing to me that this article doesn’t mention therapeutic value of Ibogaine and Ayahuasca in addiction treatment.
Prescription of Suboxone and group therapy is an excellent short-term solution for some people, but most folks, especially the younger generation, resist this form of treatment and for good reason: it is a life sentence and never-ending contract with Big Pharma.
And why should they opt for Suboxone, when they can detox with Ibogaine in just a 48-hour long session? Why should they be forced to do 12-step, when joining an Ayahuasca circle will provide spiritual, emotional and physical healing, on a level of depth and authenticity that is exactly what they’ve been looking for all along?
There is no longer any reason to deny the therapeutic value of Ibogaine / Ayahuasca intervention for addiction. In fact, these medicines have been researched internationally and there is plenty of scientific data available that shows exceptional, unparalleled benefits on the brain, as well as cognitive-emotional functions. Simple google them and check publications on PubMed.
Dr. Gabor Mate has worked with Ayahuasca traditional doctors for many years, so is Jascque Mabit, a french MD who started Takewasi center in Peru, the first in-patient center to treat addicts with Ayahuasca.
In 2012, I co-founded an in-patient center in Mexico, that specializes in post-Ibogaine integration (therapeutic aftercare) called Living Clean Ibogaine (www.livingcleanibogaine.com). Since then we supported recovery of dozens of people, healing from opiate addiction. Our long-term success rate is close to 70% and it can be even better. We worked with middle-class families from US and sons of political leaders from Europe, we bridge indigenous medicine tradition of Mexico and Amazon with integrative medicine, as well as yoga, nutrition and T-Group process as group therapy (much more effective than 12-step!!!).
Ibogaine is illegal in Mexico and Ayahuasca is in legal “gray zone”. I understand that MD like you can’t legally prescribe these drugs.
But I also believe that to be in integrity with this profession and to really respond to this dramatic moment of epidemic, at the very least this article must mention the existing practice and research in the area of psychoactive-assisted recovery. Otherwise it is just as misleading as the very stigma of addiction that the concept of ACS is attempting to overcome.
I’m available.
Danesh Oleshko, LLM
Director, Co-founder,
LivingCleanIbogaine.com
Tom W. says:
Questions: Ayou a recovered alcoholic or addict yourself? How long have you been prescribing your combination drug-therapies? Less than 10 years? Longer?Longitudinal studies conducted? What is your rate of recitivism for your program? Are there side effects to the drugs you use? As Thomas Szazz stated many years ago: the psychological / psychiatric professions have created a plethora of regimens but most treat the symptoms not the root cause.
Ibogaine and ayahuasca are both promising treatment modalities, but there is no “one size fits all” approach that works for everyone. While for someone with a physical dependency to opioids, ibogaine is likely a helpful means through the withdrawal, it’s not going to treat the cause of the problem if there was trauma and/or maladaptive coping strategies behind that dependency.
For some people, the idea of an ayahuasca circle is frightening, intimidating, or simply contrary to their culture and upbringing. A titrated dose of MDMA (ecstasy) or LSD in a controlled setting with an experienced professional counselor can be a lot less stressful for those folks, and just as effective (per current research status). And though it’s a lot slower approach than ibogaine, high-dose baclofen treatment can be very effective in facilitating a clean withdrawal and maintaining sobriety. The body of research on that is still small, but compelling, as are the anecdotal accounts you find if you Google “baclofen alcohol” or start at the drugs dot com user reviews section.
Short version: there are a lot of paths that can end up in the same general destination, and it’s good to have alternatives.
Herb says:
Scientists are now working on erasing traumatic memories, I can see how this science will play a large part in curing addicts.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/will-scientists-soon-be-able-erase-our-most-traumatic-memories-180951167/
How do I get an ACE score? Where can I take it?
Hi, Taylor: Go to Got Your ACE Score? — it explains the ACE Study, has the ACE survey, and also a resilience survey.
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Grew up with an effed up childhood, mother tried to commit suicide and I found her at age 11 along with many other things. Growing up and even now never drank, did drugs, smoked no promiscuity but food was my comfort. Never went to any sort of therapy until now and I’m in my 40’s. Recently found out my score is a 6 and I’m having a hard time of letting go of the notion that I have to have a brave face on 24/7. As she said I picked a profession that reflected my childhood, running from one emergency to the next. I’m just overwhelmed now and not sure where to go from here.
katgarrett says:
Hello, can you let me know where I can find help (groups and a doctor) in Georgia? Thank you so much for offering hope and compassion.
Sirkka says:
Makes COMPLETE sense!!! I have longgggg believed the chronic self (ill prescribed ) medicating is a result of trauma and no healthy or soft place for individuals to get the inner healing tools they NEED!! Nature vs Nurture and self worth is lost in trauma….pain is so individually experienced even if all children in the family seen the same things! I hope more CARING and tool instilling programs are implemented around the world!!!
Kyle Popadziuk says:
I think this is absolutely fantastic.. Nice to know there is a movement that truely addresses the needs of these patients, with dignity.
Peace says:
Because some ER doctor prescribed suboxone to one of my brothers years ago, they are both now every bit as controlled by and addicted to it as they ever were any street drug. When you can’t hardly find a doctor to prescribe it (seems like one for every three counties), I have a hard time believing it’s a good thing. There’s obviously a lot I don’t know about drug abuse, but I do know the heartache of having two addicts in the family.
Sako says:
Sorry to hear about your brothers. Addiction is a family disease, and it’s super taxing to those closest to the addict or recovering person. I know from personal experience.
As for the Suboxone issue, it’s not a magic fix, but isn’t supposed to look like what you described it to be in your post. Suboxone treatment is medication-assisted therapy, not purely medication therapy (chemotherapy). Individuals who are working with a Suboxone provider are usually required to attend weekly counseling sessions, have a treatment plan for active recovery, and should be discussing a taper with their prescribing physician. If their Suboxone doc is simply writing them scripts for refills with no conversations around progress, recovery-oriented movement, and a game plan towards a gradual taper, there’s something wrong. Of course, it is up to your brothers to actually show up and lean into these services in order for them to be successful, and thus the recovering individual has a bigger responsibility for their own recovery than anyone else. It’s not a question of blame or duty — it’s a question of empowerment.
Addiction is not a disease.
HelplessMom says:
Wow. This article was like a kick in the chest. My son is 30 years old, and has abused every drug out there, and has been in and out of prison since he was 18. He’s in prison now, and will get out in September. I have known for years that divorce and several other issues affected him deeply. He needs you. I would like to get him in to help as soon as he gets out. We live in Northeast Arkansas. Can you direct us to the proper help? Thank you so much.
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Ronald says:
Hi Dr. Sumrok, Please let me direct your attention to my book written in 1997 called The Craving Brain. Ronald Ruden MD
Gale Hendrick says:
I moved to El Dorado County, California recently which seems to have many more people (by my own observation and by some professional input from others) with addiction issues. Is there someone in this part of the country who understands ACE’s that I could collaborate with (I’m a pastor and help find meaningful solutions) to bring some hope? We host an AA meeting on our church campus, but I’d like to help facilitate folks finding even more help.
Hi, Gale: There’s an active ACEs initiative in the county. You can find out more information here – http://www.acesconnection.com/g/el-dorado-county-ca-aces-connection
If you join ACEsConnection.com, and then the El Dorado group, linked above, you’ll be able to see and contact members to find out more information.
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Ruth M says:
I am filled with joy and hope for these people…….. the medical community finally are understanding this….. stop looking at us as if we have 4 eyes!!!!! We are just like you!!!!! We all are not jobless losers, bad parents,and careless spouses!!!!! The world has been short changed by writing us off!!!!!! So much pain,and shame has been handed out to great people simply because they are sick!!!!!!! I know no other illness where people get treated like criminals rite off the bat!!!!! This is why people don’t get help!!!!! It’s not help at all!!!!!!! It hurts very bad…… after all….. Nobody wants to be different!!!! We just long to be NORMAL!!!!!!!!! Thank god for you!!!! Keep up the good work❤️
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Shawna Loveland says:
I read through this whole article. It appears to be spot on, I have a child that is addicted to heroin and has overdosed and almost died. If the ambulance did not have Narcon on board, he wouldn’t of made it to the hospital. i’m so grateful to the men who saved his life. He is now currently incarcerated, for the next two years due to his overdose. It is my opinion, that in the state of Idaho, its easier to lock him away rather try to figure out whats going on with this child…he’s 20. He was an athlete, very popular intelligent, well spoken and handsome, still is. His father walked away when he was young, I remarried sometime later and subsequently, his step father walked away as well. He started to run with a tough crowd strangely enough, none of these kids had a father in their life. I honestly believe this is do to trauma in his life, he suffers from severe anxiety and was also diagnosed with ADHD. Rather than throwing these kids in prison and spending tax payers dollars, wouldn’t it be more beneficial to try and use the resources to get them into some counseling and rehabilitation, out in the community and working. These people have no idea what these kids go through being incarcerated. When they come back out they can’t integrate back into society, they have little or no self esteem, can’t get a job or anywhere to live due to their felony. It’s hard for them to be in public places…sad deal. I also have a daughter that’s heading off this year to do an intern at Stanford and she’s only 18. Why is it that my son is hurting so deeply, does not having a farther in the picture or two fathers walk out of his life play a part in this? I can’t help but wonder as the whole group of boys my son was using heroin with are now all incarcerated and all fatherless.
Sheryl Allred says:
Would love to train in this area! Getting my masters in addiction counseling will be looking for pre- practicum site for intern!!
Anne, RN, CCRN says:
Bupe??!! Really? I was a surgical unit nurse in a hospital where it was given to post-op patients. They should signs of addiction within 24 hours. Getting them off it, just a few days post op so we could discharge them, was difficult; they became hostile, uncooperative, complained about everything, etc.
If you are given people Bupe all you are doing is substituting one narcotic addiction for another.
Sharon Anderson says:
I have a family going back generations whose addictive personalities have provided lives that survived, but Looking through the eyes of a care worker, lives that could have been without so many of the tears and pain.
Could I at 61 still learn and teach others some of these tools?
I’m from NZ but living in Melbourne Australia at the moment
Hi, Sharon: Absolutely you can still learn and teach others! Even at 91! I’m 68 and doing this every day.
Swamiji has a really good track record of healing Rituralized Compulsive Comfort Seeking. innerawakening.org
Maria Gutschi says:
Great, great article. My ACE is about 4, but I have a high resilience score. I have never abused drugs or alcohol, nor even tried marijuana, and became a pharmacist LOL.
BUT my body sure remembered. I now have RA and MS. Is there any data supporting autoimmune diseases to high ACE scores? And if psychotherapy etc can help decrease the risk?
Stress from ACE can negatively affect gut bacteria which can lead to all sorts of chronic illnesses. google stress and gut bacteria eg. The microbiome: stress, health and disease. (antibiotic use also affects gut heath).
then investigate ways of improving gut health. going gluten free, eating fermented vegetables, taking supplements, there is a lot of information on youtube eg. Healthy Gut Healthy Body: Intestinal health & chronic disease.
Google and read about Doctor Terry Wahls who has reversed her MS with diet.
Peter Reid says:
Gerald May has some very enlightened ideas about attachment and addiction (worth a read)
There is no doubt that Dreadful ACEs make for dreadful addiction and morbidity/mortality
It’s the subtle “ACEs” which cause an awful lot of harm ,ones like religious belief whether they be Christian Jewish Muslim or any other .
Forcing our beliefs on children messes with their minds . How many people realise the psychological damage of “pushy parenting”,or parents forcing little girls to perform in beauty pageants or the like
I could write an list of “acceptable “behaviours which are damaging to children’s minds
Very few people have escape ACEs .
Folks if you really want to get straight or sober – if you know without a doubt deep down that how you are living is going to kill you or end up in prison – AA & NA are free to you. All you have to do is show up. They work practically in “saving asses”. I’ve been sober almost 36 years thanks to the AA program and the people in AA who you can not bullshit like you can MD’s / psychologists / psychiatrists who do not suffer the addiction themselves. In fact, many of us who are real alcoholics / addicts have tried EVERYTHING including doctors, drugs, religion, therapy, etc. before getting to AA / NA as a last stop. I guess you might say AA has been addressing “ACE’s” (as you call them) since 1935 working thru the 12 steps. Just my 2-cents.
I have advised12Steps to clients for many years and I believe in it.
I also am aware of clients on medically assisted treatments being shamed at times in the rooms.
Bill W ,an infantry lieutenant in the trenches of WW1 certainly suffered what today would be called PTSD. It just wasn’t called trauma in the 1930s.
The Big Book speaks eloquently about trauma without using the word.
It also acknowledges more to come and willingness to incorporate new info.
I look for the common threads.
I also have been at 12 Steps meetings from Barrow ,Alaska to Ojojona,Honduras ,no copay or deductible required.
No church or party affiliation required.
Only a desire to stop using.
Same story really.
I hope we can agree that carrying the good news to others I’d more important than defending any single paradigm.
It works if you work it.Thank you.
Yes Sir. We can most certainly agree.
In addition to your insight on ACE’s I would add that in my opinion – not provable of course – personality trait(s), factor(s), gene(s), etc. may be inherited & passed on that predisposes one towards alcoholism / addiction. While such an individual may have some “internal” challenges in life, as long as this person stays away from alcohol / drug abuse, everything is OK. Otherwise, introduction of alcohol / drugs brings the predisposition into “full bloom”. It is only a matter of time. Your ACE’s may or may not contribute to development.
I believe Jack Anderson wrote an article (1930’s or 1940’s) regarding alcoholism / AA, fairly new phenomena’s at that time. In it I believe he mentioned that extreme immaturity and / or being an only child as the most 2 common characteristics exhibited by alcoholics. I have found this true to varying degrees just as I have found that alcoholics are many times above average in intelligence if they stay away from drinking.
If you have not read it already, an interesting read on AA / Oxford Group that you mentioned in your reply above, is the book “Not God”. Written as an objective historical research by the author if I’m not mistaken (Ernest Kurtz). He was granted access to much of the “closed” literature, notes & AA files at the time. Don’t let the book title fool you. (I sense however you have already read this book.)
Lastly, there is a saying in AA that seems to dovetail into your ACE’s: Isn’t it amazing that people who get sick by the mouth (drinking) are healed by the mouth (talking it to death). Free association therapy within psychoanalysis also comes to mind.
BR Tom W.
Devin Nickle says:
Thank you Dr. Sumrok for your desperately needed work. I recently discovered the ACE’S study by chance. Why is that? This information is ground-breaking and revolutionary. I have a score of 8. I’m 56, and never understood why my life has been filled with addiction and relationship disasters. I live in Eugene OR, and have searched for support groups and treatment programs, but people don’t know what I’m talking about or where to send me. I’m in AA, and have been clean and sober again for 3 months. (3rd. time) I believe dealing with my trauma is the key to having a “normal” life.
You can also do it without 12 step programs.
Adam:
Most certainly. There are a number of ways to success in defeating addictions at various stages. “If it works, don’t fix it”.
IMO, there is an inverse relationship between the remaining amount of willpower (self-will) of the alcoholic / addict and conquering the problem alone. Once all willpower is gone, I find it very unlikely an individual will succeed without help, without which in most cases will end up in the penal system or early death (say nothing of impact on their families).
The 12 step program is the last stop for many of us – when all else has failed. It is an extremely pragmatic program. IMO only, if one cannot make it in such a program, then from my experience and observations, the progressive physical nature of the disease (or “syndrome”) will take its course. I think it is a mistake to divorce the physical aspect of alcoholism from the “ACE” induced emotional / mental aspect. I would postulate that over time many people have had “ACE’s”. (Freud, Jung, Adler et al invented a whole school of thought on such.) But they live normal lives not becoming alcoholic or addicted. Only an alcoholic / addict has an additional physical trigger that if left untreated progresses over time. Again, just my 2 cents. BR, Tom W.
How do you treat addicts with 8/10 ace
With attention to their autonomy,respect, and nonmaleficence always seeking beneficence.
The hard things are addressed right away and the impossible things take a little longer.
It’s the way I heard it in the Navy.
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M Simon says:
What is left out is that long term PTSD (or PTS if you prefer) is genetic in origin and we know the genes. Well at least quite a few of them. Funny enough no test for those specific genes has been devised despite being widely mooted a few years back.
Sort of. Toxic stress from ACEs can alter genes. See ACEs Science 101 on this site.
Progress in the genetics has been rapid and complex defying easy or simple understanding of Mendelian genetics.
There may not be a clinical lab test yet for PTSD but biomarkers and their mechanisms are emerging.
Is there someone in Melbourne Australia who follows this method?
You may be able to find resources here:
The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation: Find a Therapist
Psychology Today: Find a Therapist
Association for Training on Trauma and Attachment in Children (ATTACh) Clinical Referral List
Susan Diamond says:
Where can I find this treatment for my daughter? She is currently in Syracuse, NY but Charlotte, NC is also an option. Thank you!
Elizabeth Poole says:
How do you get help for someone who is homeless and returning from incarceration repeatedly for 12 years?
Julee Sipper says:
Ive listened to Dr Garber Mate on TED TALKS. I’m reading the book The Body Keeps The Score. And going through intense therapy for DID. Ive been molested as a young girl. Raped & Stocked as a woman. 2 bad marriages. Currently getting off opioids, that were prescribed after a MVA. I have a serious Gambling Addiction. Ive fought my entire life to quiet my mind and memories of a traumatic childhood. It didn’t work,when as an adult my past was just to overwhelming to stay in the present. I fell apart when I learned my 8 yo son had been sexually abused. Your article gives me hope! Especially for others who need help. Not one additive person should ever be treated LESS THAN! I truly believe addiction is the direct link of childhood trauma.
Vicky McBrayer says:
Dr Sumrok my son HSS been addicted to pain meds since his ankle accident in 2007 fell off a roof crushed his ankle and heel he’s has no job no money no insurance we are willing to help what we can but if something doesn’t haven’t I’m afraid the worse will happen I think he has tried subutox given by a friend not sure any suggestions would help with your ACE program
Henri adams says:
Good knowledge but no solution and that does not help my son’s problem.
Can’t help a 52 year old man hooked on meth for 10 years!
It is really a hopeless situation. Homeless and a walking mental case. No money, no insurance, no HELP.
Hopeless 😫
Many people who ended up getting help with Dr. Sumrok and others who take his approach felt the same way. Keep looking.
I’m in the same situation with my son he’s been an addict for 10 yes anything available to him he has no job no insurance no money and I don’t have any idea how to get in touch with this program he is 35 yes old he needs help before matters get worse he’s been incarcerated a few times I’ve never given up but I’m at the point of no returns locations of one of the ACE CLINICS near my location would be appreciated desperate in Marysville Tn 37801
Alan DesChamps says:
I was sent this email today which is Sabbath afternoon. I have been struggling and all these ways in my PTSD and addictions since my childhood. I started smoking weed, and drinking in early TEEN years.
Been diagnosed with all kinds of things from the VA hospital here in Loma Linda California.
PTSD, bipolar manic depressant, stress and anxiety disorder, ect…..
I’m 57 years old now and I am suffering with so many health issues it’s sometimes too much to even handle.
after reading this article I’m more than willing to go down to the VA on Monday morning and see dr. Mickey ask who’s the head of the psychiatric unit and ask him to read this email and hopefully he’ll be willing to treat me so that I might stand a chance on recovering and getting back to somewhat of a normal life.
thank you so much for this informative information.
I just wish you all were out here in California and that’s so far away.
and if someone wants to reach me by phone to talk with me or encourage me I am leaving you my cell phone number. 909-246-6393
I just want to thank God for this blessing today that which I received.
God bless all of you.
Sincerely and respectfully,
Alan DesChamps Sr.
Alla Hayes says:
I found this most helpful, I am a survivor of child trauma in very sense of the word and have struggled with alcohol abuse. I today am proud of how far I have come along this journey.
Charles Trant says:
First, one physician can’t just decide PTSD is not a disorder. Second, physician’s don’t think addiction is strictly a physiologic process but is strongly affected by past experience, but remember: many members of the same family often suffer from addictions, but not always the same addiction, and they don’t have the same personal traumas, therefore, there appears to be a genetic predisposition to addiction with variable penetrance and variable expression.
Think dynamic epigenetic rather than static genes,penetrance etc.
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I wonder where boarding school sits in all this, I hear from too many people really struggling with depression who went to boarding school
That’s an interesting point, Tess. That’s another way of being separated from your parents, isn’t it, like divorce.
I have seen a lot of institutionalized trauma at boarding schools.
Some are there because of failed relationships at home.
Abandonment,anxiety,affirmation trauma often haunt kids away from home.
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Eugene C Corbett Jr MD says:
Have you read William Wordsworth poem “My Heart Leaps Up” ??
Renee Henry says:
For years, I have felt that my daughter’s extremely traumatic treatment for leukemia between the ages of 3 and 6 contributed heavily to her addiction. Her treatment included over 300 spinal tap/chemo injections and bone marrow aspirations WITHOUT anesthesia because that was not used then. By the time her chemo was over, she resembled a survivor of Mengele’s horrible concentration camp experiments. Since she is in the first group of survivors, I imagine there is a growing number of childhood cancer survivors who deal with addiction now. Are you doing any work with this particular group? Or do you know anyone who is? Thank you.
We have seen children survive cancers and sickle cell disease who after their childhood treatment suffer addiction.
Vicki Stevens says:
Yes, people can be taught empathy.
Click to access empathy-connection.pdf
Thank you, Vicki.
Michelle Smith says:
Both my daughters are addicted to opioids. Between the 2, I have 5 grandkids . I suffered with depression since I was little. I am now raising 5 grandkids. I feel like I’m going g to destroy their lives by being the only one in their lives.
Seek help for your own trauma.
Bless your effort.
Robert Anderson says:
Donna:
This is right on, and van de kalk and Lance Dodes were my main guys, along with Logotherapy (Frankle) and others. Listen, give respect, seek out trauma (big and small) and help people discover purpose…healing can then occur. It takes time, though, and often we just don,t have a sufficient amount of it.
Do Fostering! (@dofostering) says:
My name is Sean, and I grew up in central England; a place called Nottingham. I now live with impact of deep, wounding childhood abuse. Together those form psychological, emotional, physical and sexual in nature. My head feel to my arm resting on my desk. I found myself thum;ing the table in dismay. I read British psychotherpatist’s book: Who Says I’m An Addict?’, and, some years ago, benefited massively from his alternative interpretation of the impact of childhood psychological abuse, before he moved to Zurish, Switxerland. Yet, as agonisingly predictalbe, our world-renowned, and valued NHS remains stuck in limbo, ‘treating’ people like me with more or less useless cognitive therapy: my despair-saturdated approach that merely lead to the essenitally obvious realisation that (a) ther was a problem, related to my childhood problem, and that (b) that problem lay inside of me. Not an entriely useless, but fatally handicapped limntation, it was only until I recieved eye-movenemt desensitisation and reprogrsamine theraoy: ‘why must I be constantly inflicted with the pain of continuous misunderstandibng by a profession, that is, psychological medecine, that here, in the UK, refuses to accept contemporary thinking, in spitev of it’s obvious, and increasinlly obvious accuracy in common with the overwhemlming number of us who relate with the understandable agone, and releif, of lethally infected, arguably by the profession itself, with acsense of long-overdue understanding, and now frustration and the inability to find answers to ur cognitive, bandonment trauma within the massive majority of NHS-diafgnosed conditions?’ But for \David, and later, Patrcia Heyland’s professionally deepr quidance and depth of understanding willingness to embrace less conventonal, but significantly more effective methodsv of treatment, I’d still be thumping my frustrated fisats on this desk, oblivious to what is now such a compdlling and pesuavie answer to this issue. cd
EMDR rocks.
Love this work and as a potentially high ACE scorer look foreard to taking the test myself. Would like to know more and if this type of treatment is available in the world elsewhere.
Hi, Sarah: You can take the ACE survey and a resilience survey at Got Your ACE Score? on this site.
Donna Massa-Chappee says:
ACE addiction may apply to some individuals. But, what I see happening more is the inability to understand real Chronic Pain and the need to address what opiod treatment does in the human body when in tremendous non stop continuous knawing pain. Yes opidods may become dependent but their ability to illustrate how it affects the human brain, and the Nervous System to aid in helping chronic pain is in no way a means a of getting high, but in fact a means of neutralizing the ability to cope with the normalcy of living a fairly decent and productive life… In order to understand Chronic Pain you need to experience it and live with it for years.
Chronic pain is often a PTSD symptom.
Many nonnarcotic approaches used alone or in concert can help.
Michelle Stuhr says:
I am a nurse in a clinic that prescribes buprenorphine for opiate addicted people. We have a higher rate of relapse than what you describe. It seems “subs” are not always enough to get people to stop using opiates. I would love to talk with someone On the staff about methods, learns about trainings or come to visit and learn some new strategies about what is working in recovery; How to talk to participants in our program about ACEs. Any info would be welcome.
Sharon Sarvey says:
I cannot begin to thank you for an answer to constant suspicion….
Roxanne Walsh says:
My upbringing left me with feelings of shame,
deep sadness, trust issues, poor self with
and major depression and anxiety. It is difficult
to be around people who drink or abuse drugs.
but my addiction is to food. At 5’3″ I once weighed over 300#. I have always struggled with my weight. After many years of Psychiatric
treatment I am now in a drug regime that has me feeling the best I ever have mentally. Fibromyalgia and arthritis plague me and I struggle with how to cope with pain despite access to all sorts of opioids and other meds
I have. I firmly agree with the ACE accessment and treatment plan. I wish it was available in our area for those who struggle here.
EMOTIONAL BRAIN TRAINING by Dr Laurel Mellin. Takes this to a whole new level. Teaches you how to rewire the brain. SHOWS YOU HOW!!! Life saving. Life changing. Thanks for the article.
Janice Jester says:
I have been on suboxone for 5 years and it makes me feel how I think normal people feel. Before opiates and suboxone I suffered from severe depression. When I have to change Drs due to insurance I’ve fighting to stay on it every since. Dr says we don’t give suboxone for depression. I told them if they took me off that it would be a death sentence. They don’t care the just want me to take more antidepressant s. Very frustrating.
One of the first observations of buprenorphine when initial studies were done at Columbia is that about 85% of clients got an antidepressant effect.
It is correct that it is not approved as an antidepressant.
But it works.
I was wondering if there were support groups/treatment centers for this in Austin Texas?
I’m from a family of 7 kids. I estimated my score at a 5 and several of my siblings’ scores to be higher than that.
Hi, Candice — If you join ACEs Connection, the companion social network to ACEs Too High, you can search for other people in and around Austin, TX, to get your answer. There are quite a few members from that area.
Are there any resources available to find a dr and/or therapist in my area who understands ACES and treats patients accordingly? I’m in the Phoenix area….
Hi, Jodi:
Trudy LaValley says:
there may be addictions, but I also believe there is something that looks like addiction I call, Something Other Than Addiction SOTA.
George Howley says:
Where can you go to participate
Where do you live, George?
A great post – thank you from NZ!
My daughter and her husband have just returned from a year of work at Rotarua.
Historical trauma with the Maori?
Deana McCulley says:
My child (45 yrs old) was raised in our home with an alcoholic father. He has struggled his whole life with the affects. Alcohol has also been his attempt to cope. I love your concept of Empathy rather than shame! Is there a connection worth Oregon Health Sciences University?
Hi, Deana: Can you explain what you mean by your question: Is there a connection worth OHSU?
Ann Kruey says:
Wow – This article has my son’s name written all over it. No matter your ACE score – because everyone has had different levels of experiences – it seems from reading this it can help whether your score is 1 or 5 and that there are different approaches depending on the individual. We have been struggling for years trying to find the right help and still feel lost. Definitely need to check into this more. Wish there was something and doctors exactly like this here in Michigan or even if we could go there.
We are working on increasing the workforce who are trauma informed.
Stay in touch and I will ask some Michigan contacts.
Sherrie ptak says:
Sorry my son had a blessed life with a wonderful loving family. He was placed on ADHD meds after he and my husband also Ryans biological Dad ( sad that I need to say that. But asked all the time!) Married 26 years we talked it over. I’m a nurse and was not ok with medication for a normal, high energy strong willed, heigh IQ kid In the 4th grade!
It felt wrong to me but we felt so pressured. Thisewerethe first pills that sent a very clear message. If you don’t feel right or are getting yelled at or under stress pop pills.
It all makes me sick!!
Not all SUD sufferers have univing horrible memory of family. Our son Ryan knew we were NEVER GOING TO GIVE UP
May he Rest In Peace at last. 7 rehabs failed him but they were paid so let’s face it,that’s ALL that matters.
God help our next generation along with this one. 🙏💔🙏😥
it felt wrong to me. Little boys NEVER SAT STILL in my day.
Look at the mess we’re in. My son had no abusive family, he did had an over zealous prosecutor in Iredell County NC which was very traumatic on his life.
Many traumas haunt kids that are not included in the ACE questions.
Many ADHD kids are misdiagnosed as you say.
Many also hate being labeled and feeling like they are stigmatized by it
Shanda Wiman says:
Thank you. Very informative and accurate.
I lost my father(who was a retired physician ) to opiate overdose in 2015.
I struggled with addiction most of my adult life.
I’ve been clean 2 years now, and I went through 7 treatment centers over the years before finally coming to terms with the very things written in this article.
Can’t express to you enough how true it is, all of it.
Especially treating the addicted person with respect.
It makes so much difference in the way one feels about our future, and the possibility of actually staying sober.
Again, thank you.
All respect to you and your sensitivity.
judgedblog says:
Like Dr Vincent Feletti says [we always knew this [all of this] about addiction, about child abuse. It’s the result of ACE’s.
He is a giant.
Proud to stand on his shoulders.
Jaime says:
I love this work. I have a high ACE score and I’m an addict with 27 years of sobriety from drug/alcohol addictions but very newly sober around people addictions that have nearly killed me.
One piece missing from this work is that structural oppression creates violence in the lives of children and adults. Racism, economic injustice, sexism — one need not have the police pull you over and harass you to feel the terrorism of police violence every day. My ex grew up in the neighborhood where Mayor Goode dropped the bomb on a house of Black critics of the system, killing 11 people including 5 children and destroying 60 adjacent homes. This terrorism left an indelible mark — moreso than her mother’s frantic and sometimes violent parenting, which was a desperate attempt to keep her ‘in line’ and out of harms way.
ACE scores as you have designed them do not explain the current opioid epidemic. But the massive redistribution of wealth in the US and the foreclosure of employment options for white workingclass people does. The crack epidemic can be similarly explained — but unlike today, there was no empathy whatsoever for crack addicts — because, racism. And all of that addiction was characterized as ‘poor character’ and ‘poor choices’. Add structural violence to the ACE scale and it will have much more powerful explanatory value. AND rather than focusing solely on individual therapy, it may move the nation to consider how sick the hoarding of resources and the ‘blaming’ of people on the receiving end of structural violence makes our society.
Extremely well phrased, Jaime! History matters!
I have an eight but never addicted to opioids (although other things).
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Shelly V says:
I could not agree more. This is what we practice in our clinic every day. My colleague and I developed a trauma informed care training using the neuroscience of addiction and trauma, including ACE’s data, as the framework for why it’s so important. We’ve done this training for the last three years mainly in primary care offices. We insist all staff, including providers, be present for the training. We get the same feedback every time, “This totally changes how I think about addiction and some of our difficult patients. And will definitely change how I act .” We get these same comments from a variety of staff, including physicians. We also incorporate MAT into and discuss the impact it has on recovery, again using science data and math as we call it.
Where do you visit to train? Will you come and train my staff in Upstate NY? Please let me know.
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Tana wright says:
This is not an original idea!! As a trauma therapist, this us certainly a “no brainer”. What I’ve found working in the trauma world, lots if providers are not “trauma-informed” & dismiss the adverse affects of trauma. It only seems like an original idea because he’s just now “clueing in”.
Hi, Tana: Thanks for your comment. Are you educating your clients about ACEs?
You are correct. For many of us working in this space it can perhaps be seen as a “duh.” The more important thing is the realization by the rest of the healthcare world that this matters. Even within my own profession as a LCSW I continually meet colleagues who don’t know anything about ACEs or trauma informed care or addiction. No matter what our profession we are all in it for the patient first and the more we work together and share information the better care our patients get.
Sorry to be late to the party but glad to be here.
Let’s work together as healers to get the word out.
Thanks for your observation about which I agree 100%.
rjs12 says:
Bravo! I attended one of these trainings years ago in my quest for CE. Makes so much sense! I have worked with this client population for 30 years. First as a substance abuse counselor now as a life coach with a speciality in behavioral health. From my experience, there is an underlying trauma that supports self-medicating with compulsive / addicting behaviors. I work holistically addressing mind, body, emotions, and spirit. And I bring in my yoga teacher training. This can have profound affects on trauma reduction.
Love the somatic work w yoga incorporated.
Mary convey says:
I am not an addict but 2 out of my 4 children are opiate. Addicts I really need help for them i have sent thousands of dollars on methadone. Clinics a little success for a bit but back to square 1 again. Because my daughter is an addict I’m. Taking care of her 2 youngest. Children they are 6 and 8 I love them and love caring fir them but I am 64 years old and now work 40 plus hours a week and really need another job for financial. Reasons please what can I do to help. Them my other 2 children are successful
grannymamagrg says:
Mary, Raising our grandchildren – the children of addicts – is very complicated and stressful, on top of the stress of having addict children. If you don’t know this already, there are many FB support groups that are private (closed) where you can connect with others doing the same. There are millions of us, not only in the US, but all over the world. You most definitely are not alone. I’m doing the same and send you big hugs. If you are interested, search ‘grandparents raising grandcildren’ on FB. xo
Elena Lopez says:
Thank you! I have a clearer understanding of trauma! A lot on my plate!!
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Nancy Thomas says:
I am expecting the trauma levels in our country to skyrocket due to the disrespect now being shown through rhetoric, legislation, deregulation and massive tax cuts targeted to health care and social services. Rampant hopelessness, fear and lack of compassionate services is changing the very culture and character of our country.
Emily Kahn-Freedman says:
Reblogged this on Psych Choices Blog and commented:
Many people understand addiction as a normal response to childhood trauma. This article points out the importance of healing the trauma in order to heal the addiction.
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Courage Coaching says:
Fantastic post! Have re-blogged! All the best x
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An incredibly insightful piece of writing! Addiction should be renamed to “ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking”.
I like a simpler construction.
People in chronic pain chronically take pain relievers.
From Dr Dodes.
1Wise-Woman says:
This is one of the best articles I have read in a long time. I am in recovery from opiate addiction and also have several mental health diagnoses, including PTSD, and also have an autoimmune disease. I agree with everything here. When I went to treatment the first time, it was all about just getting off drugs, no therapy around the reasons why I used drugs. The second time i went, I intentionally sought out a treatment center that focused on my past trauma and healing my mental health issues. I knew that if I didn’t learn healthy ways to manage them, that I would die from my drug use. I’m so glad that these important, critical issues are being seen in a different light. Thank you for posting!
Thanks, IWise-Woman! I’m very glad you found a treatment center that focused on your past trauma.
Me too. It saved my life!
Lisa Robin says:
Agreed! I am in recovery from complex traumas. I tell everyone, even while in my master’s program of Clinical Mental Health Counseling (that I just graduated from with a 4.0 smile…), that post traumatic stress symptomology and responses are “NORMAL” AFTER TRAUMA, AND NOT A DISORDER!!! It was refreshing to hear the doc speak this out.
Great job on the master’s program! I agree… I just experienced a trigger a few days ago that I haven’t had in years. It is normal! And I’m glad that I have the tools to manage it now. I’m so glad this information is being spread and talked about. Best wishes to you.
You are correct. Short term PTS happens to everyone (to varying degrees). Long term PTS(D) is genetic in origin. The genes (at least some of them) have been mapped.
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-study-identifies-first-genes-231248
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4443770/Scientists-discover-PTSD-gene.html
Thanks and bless you.
Deborah Bullen says:
Such a wonderful read…thank you so much.
Thanks, Deborah!
Dr. Aimie Apigian says:
In my experience working with children with early relational trauma and attachment issues, and now adults with substance use or “addictions” – I could not agree more! I see it as the same neurobiology! Substance use is an external means to regulate their dysregulated nervous system that they failed to have regulated during early childhood. The most effective treatment would be to focus on the underlying problem – not the drug use which is just the presenting symptom at the top of the iceberg. Very encouraging to read your post!
Aimee, do you educate your patients about ACEs science?
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Jed Diamond says:
Great article. I’ve worked in addiction medicine for more than 40 years and I’m glad these ideas are finally catching on.
Hi, Jed — You’ve been ahead of your time for a long while! Thanks for reading this and your comment.
I wonder why it has taken so long to catch on.
Lisa Hopper says:
So Dr Sumrock, since I live so close you, do you think , this program will work for nicotine addition. I have kicked every other addiction myself, or well I think I have. I read it all, you are are something special. Proud to know you
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In the first Sex and the City movie, which was released in 2008, party girl turned monogamous girlfriend Samantha Jones shocks her cohorts by debuting a new look: five extra pounds of weight.
Based on the way her friends treated her, you would think she grew a second head, but the weight is barely noticeable to the average person. In fact, it wouldn’t be visible at all if she were not wearing low-rise jeans — a style indicative of the era.
Her friend Carrie Bradshaw confronts her as she slovenly eats cake, a behavior meant to emphasize her sloppy new appearance, by saying, “How could you not notice?” As if a longer shirt wouldn’t have covered it right up.
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The low-riding and skin-tight outfits, like what Samantha Jones wore in the Sex in the City movie, embody the hottest styles of the era for the ideal body type of the time: as thin as possible. For everyone else, they magnify perceived imperfections and make healthy weight gain seem like excess.
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“The most famous accessory of the 2000s was skinny,” one TikTok commenter said, summing up the ideal body type for all those bold fashion choices.
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Those styles are now on their way back into mainstream fashion.
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Trends tend to cycle in and out decade by decade, but the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic depression have played a role in popularizing clothing that has only recently become “vintage.”
TikTok user @guyfieri.superfan, whose real name is Alexandra Hildreth, explained in a post that the “skimpy, simplified aesthetic” of the early 2000s came from the dot-com boom. People imagined what our lives could be like with a simplified, streamlined approach to things, and fashion followed suit.
Hildreth said that lately there’s been a cultural shift toward spending less money that has people reverting to “archival” pieces from the Y2K era.
This has given rise to a sort of thrifting boom, as well. Old trends are resurfacing because genuine vintage pieces are being re-worn. People in their 20s and 30s don’t often have access to clothing from the 1970s and 1980s, but they might have a few baby tees from the 2000s in their parents’ attics.
Why fatphobia is inherent in Y2K fashion trends
Unfortunately, the same old ugly cultural problems associated with those fashion trends are now coming back in style, too.
TikTok fashion expert Jessica Blair explained in a post that there was an “immense” amount of body-shaming happening during this time that led to rampant fatphobia. It goes far beyond the skinny white women who were shamed for putting on a couple of pounds.
“Anybody above a size 2 seemed to be demonized, fat people were blatantly ignored and clothing options for plus-sized people in the early 2000s were virtually nonexistent, thereby completely excluding fat people from fashion,” she said in a TikTok video.
Blair further explained to In The Know that most stores didn’t even carry plus sizes, and if they did, they didn’t carry fashionable and trendy pieces in them.
“The ignoring and neglecting of fat people are still shown today, as a lot of brands take forever to actually catch up with trends in plus sizes,” she said.
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Katie Irving, an expert on youth trends and culture and the CEO and founder of Moonshot Agency, told In The Know that “exclusivity” was part of the “allure” of Y2K fashion at that time.
“[Trends] only worked for such a small percentage of people,” she said. “Sadly, you were either in or you were out.”
There is a sinister double standard that colors many popular fashion trends
Not only are those trends hard to access for people above a size 2, but when anyone else tries them on for size, they’re often seen as lazy and disheveled.
Blair used low-rise jeans as an example of the differing standards for thin and fat people in fashion.
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“These jeans are usually only considered cute and fashionable when they’re paired with a flat stomach,” she told In The Know. “When a thin person wears these jeans, they’re effortless and adorable. When a fat person wears these jeans, which often don’t even come in plus sizes anyways, they’re viewed as ‘gross’ or ‘unflattering.'”
A viral tweet from July 2020 described a double standard that exists in fashion, in which style “is judged exclusively by the bodies that wear it.”
a tweet making fun of these women has 100k likes but i swear to god if bella hadid wore this exact outfit it would be on a million "80s casual inspo ❤️" pinterest boards bc, as always, fashion is judged exclusively by the bodies that wear it pic.twitter.com/eBZ6P3Zrmh
— rayne fisher-quann (@raynefq) July 14, 2020
Fatphobia in fashion can spread to ‘essentially every aspect of a person’s life’
Fatphobia doesn’t just give off bad vibes for people hoping to have fun dressing up the bodies they live in. It can make accessing fashionable clothing more difficult and expensive, and Blair said it can even lead to harassment and ridicule of plus-sized people hoping to wear the same trends thin people are praised for.
When fatphobia rears its ugly head in fashion, it sinks into pop culture as well, which is often at the root of the way people treat others.
“Fat characters are typically comic relief, lazy and unlovable slobs, or a ‘before’ picture before a character loses weight and becomes attractive,” Blair said in another TikTok.
Fatphobia can have “significant consequences for fat people in essentially every aspect of their lives” that “quite literally affect fat people’s livelihoods and lifespans,” she explained.
Blair said fatphobia negatively affects self-esteem, increases risk of disordered eating and significantly affects stress levels. Beyond that, it can lead to systemic discrimination in health care, employment and education as well.
All of this because low-rise jeans are becoming a trend again? No, of course. It’s not the fault of the jeans — it’s on us to judge the jeans for their inherent fashion value and leave our bodies out of it. Otherwise, it’s only a matter of time before that Sex and the City clip becomes another viral, real-life moment.
What we can do to stop fatphobia in its tracks
Camila Reed, a body acceptance blogger, said our society is still in the “hey, fat people exist and we like to look good, too” stage of things.
She called for increased representation in fashion, knowing plus-sized people will be held to higher standards than their straight-sized counterparts.
Blair said everyone — not just the people who are marginalized — should be advocating for and uplifting fat people.
“It’s really important for people to educate themselves about fatphobia and thin privilege and also to call out fatphobia whenever they see it,” she said. “Whether it be a brand only going up to a size L or your grandma making a comment about your mom’s weight: call them out.”
As Y2K fashion makes its way into the zeitgeist of the 2020s, I’ll be ready to rock a size 14 Juicy Couture tracksuit right alongside Paris Hilton’s size 2.
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S: (n) component, constituent, element, factor, ingredient (an abstract part of something) "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech"
S: (n) component, constituent, element (an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system) "spare components for cars"; "a component or constituent element of a system"
S: (n) chemical element, element (any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter)
S: (n) allotrope (a structurally different form of an element) "graphite and diamond are allotropes of carbon"
S: (n) transuranic element (any element having an atomic number greater than 92 (which is the atomic number of uranium); all are radioactive)
S: (n) noble gas, inert gas, argonon (any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group in the periodic table)
S: (n) argon, Ar, atomic number 18 (a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere)
S: (n) helium, He, atomic number 2 (a very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas))
S: (n) krypton, Kr, atomic number 36 (a colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; occurs in trace amounts in air)
S: (n) neon, Ne, atomic number 10 (a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts)
S: (n) radon, Rn, atomic number 86 (a radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium; the heaviest of the inert gasses; occurs naturally (especially in areas over granite) and is considered a hazard to health)
S: (n) xenon, Xe, atomic number 54 (a colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts)
S: (n) metallic element, metal (any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.)
S: (n) heavy metal (a metal of relatively high density (specific gravity greater than about 5) or of high relative atomic weight (especially one that is poisonous like mercury or lead))
S: (n) base metal (a metal that is common and not considered precious) "lead, iron, copper, tin, and zinc are base metals"
S: (n) noble metal (any metal that is resistant to corrosion or oxidation)
S: (n) gold, Au, atomic number 79 (a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia)
S: (n) 24-karat gold, pure gold (100 per cent gold)
S: (n) gold dust (the particles and flakes (and sometimes small nuggets) of gold obtained in placer mining)
S: (n) green gold (a gold alloy (at least 14 karat gold with silver or silver and cadmium) that has a green appearance)
S: (n) guinea gold (22-karat gold from which guinea coins were made)
S: (n) platinum, Pt, atomic number 78 (a heavy precious metallic element; grey-white and resistant to corroding; occurs in some nickel and copper ores and is also found native in some deposits)
S: (n) silver, Ag, atomic number 47 (a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography)
S: (n) coin silver (a silver of the degree of purity established for making legal silver coins)
S: (n) aluminum, aluminium, Al, atomic number 13 (a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite)
S: (n) alum, potassium alum, potash alum (a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum)
S: (n) alum, ammonia alum, ammonium alum (a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum)
S: (n) americium, Am, atomic number 95 (a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms)
S: (n) antimony, Sb, atomic number 51 (a metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of alloys; found in stibnite)
S: (n) barium, Ba, atomic number 56 (a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite)
S: (n) baryta (any of several compounds of barium)
S: (n) barium hydroxide (white poisonous crystals; made by dissolving barium oxide in water)
S: (n) barium monoxide, barium oxide, barium protoxide (an oxide of barium; a whitish toxic powder)
S: (n) barium dioxide, barium peroxide (a white toxic powder obtained by heating barium oxide in air)
S: (n) berkelium, Bk, atomic number 97 (a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding americium with helium)
S: (n) beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4 (a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element)
S: (n) bismuth, Bi, atomic number 83 (a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals)
S: (n) cadmium, Cd, atomic number 48 (a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores)
S: (n) calcium, Ca, atomic number 20 (a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals)
S: (n) calcium ion, factor IV (ion of calcium; a factor in the clotting of blood)
S: (n) californium, Cf, atomic number 98 (a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particles)
S: (n) cerium, Ce, atomic number 58 (a ductile grey metallic element of the lanthanide series; used in lighter flints; the most abundant of the rare-earth group)
S: (n) cesium, caesium, Cs, atomic number 55 (a soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metal)
S: (n) cesium 137 (a radioactive isotope of cesium used in radiation therapy)
S: (n) chromium, Cr, atomic number 24 (a hard brittle multivalent metallic element; resistant to corrosion and tarnishing)
S: (n) chrome (another word for chromium when it is used in dyes or pigments)
S: (n) cobalt, Co, atomic number 27 (a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition)
S: (n) cobalt 60 (a radioactive isotope of cobalt with mass number 60; a source of exceptionally intense gamma rays; used in radiation therapy)
S: (n) copper, Cu, atomic number 29 (a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor)
S: (n) blister copper (an impure form of copper having a black blistered surface)
S: (n) curium, Cm, atomic number 96 (a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei)
S: (n) dysprosium, Dy, atomic number 66 (a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; forms compounds that are highly magnetic)
S: (n) einsteinium, Es, E, atomic number 99 (a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons)
S: (n) erbium, Er, atomic number 68 (a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium)
S: (n) europium, Eu, atomic number 63 (a bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group)
S: (n) fermium, Fm, atomic number 100 (a radioactive transuranic metallic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons)
S: (n) francium, Fr, atomic number 87 (a radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium)
S: (n) gadolinium, Gd, atomic number 64 (a ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group)
S: (n) gallium, Ga, atomic number 31 (a rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element; brittle at low temperatures but liquid above room temperature; occurs in trace amounts in bauxite and zinc ores)
S: (n) hafnium, Hf, atomic number 72 (a grey tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals; used in filaments for its ready emission of electrons)
S: (n) holmium, Ho, atomic number 67 (a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds)
S: (n) indium, In, atomic number 49 (a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite)
S: (n) iridium, Ir, atomic number 77 (a heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group; used in alloys; occurs in natural alloys with platinum or osmium)
S: (n) iron, Fe, atomic number 26 (a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood)
S: (n) alpha iron (a magnetic allotrope of iron; stable below 906 degrees centigrade)
S: (n) beta iron (an allotrope of iron that is the same as alpha iron except that it is nonmagnetic; stable between 768 and 906 degrees centigrade)
S: (n) gamma iron (a nonmagnetic allotrope of iron that is the basis of austenite; stable between 906 and 1403 degrees centigrade)
S: (n) delta iron (an allotrope of iron that is stable between 1403 degrees centigrade and the melting point (= 1532 degrees))
S: (n) ingot iron (iron of high purity)
S: (n) cast iron (an alloy of iron containing so much carbon that it is brittle and so cannot be wrought but must be shaped by casting)
S: (n) alloy iron, alloy cast iron (cast iron containing alloying elements (usually nickel or chromium or copper or molybdenum) to increase the strength or facilitate heat treatment)
S: (n) Ni-hard, Ni-hard iron (cast iron to which nickel has been added to make it resist abrasion)
S: (n) Ni-resist, Ni-resist iron (cast iron consisting of graphite in a matrix of austenite)
S: (n) pot metal (cast iron used for making cooking wares)
S: (n) wrought iron (iron having a low carbon content that is tough and malleable and so can be forged and welded)
S: (n) Swedish iron (wrought iron of high purity made in Sweden)
S: (n) galvanized iron (iron that is coated with zinc to protect it from rust)
S: (n) pig iron (crude iron tapped from a blast furnace)
S: (n) basic iron (pig iron containing a high percentage of phosphorus; used in making steel by a process that removes the phosphorus)
S: (n) cinder pig (pig iron containing a substantial proportion of slag)
S: (n) mine pig (pig iron made entirely from ore)
S: (n) spiegeleisen, spiegel, spiegel iron (pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel)
S: (n) scrap iron (iron to be melted again and reworked)
S: (n) structural iron (iron that has been cast or worked in structural shapes)
S: (n) lanthanum, La, atomic number 57 (a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth)
S: (n) lead, Pb, atomic number 82 (a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey) "the children were playing with lead soldiers"
S: (n) hard lead (unrefined lead that is hard because of the impurities it contains)
S: (n) hard lead, antimonial lead (a lead alloy that contains about 5% antimony)
S: (n) grid metal (a kind of hard lead that is used for grids in storage batteries)
S: (n) pig lead (lead that is cast in pigs)
S: (n) lithium, Li, atomic number 3 (a soft silver-white univalent element of the alkali metal group; the lightest metal known; occurs in several minerals)
S: (n) lutetium, lutecium, Lu, atomic number 71 (a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; usually occurs in association with yttrium)
S: (n) magnesium, Mg, atomic number 12 (a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine))
S: (n) manganese, Mn, atomic number 25 (a hard brittle grey polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic; used in making steel; occurs in many minerals)
S: (n) mercury, quicksilver, hydrargyrum, Hg, atomic number 80 (a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures)
S: (n) molybdenum, Mo, atomic number 42 (a polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties; used to strengthen and harden steel)
S: (n) neodymium, Nd, atomic number 60 (a yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs in monazite and bastnasite in association with cerium and lanthanum and praseodymium)
S: (n) neptunium, Np, atomic number 93 (a radioactive transuranic metallic element; found in trace amounts in uranium ores; a by-product of the production of plutonium)
S: (n) nickel, Ni, atomic number 28 (a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite)
S: (n) niobium, Nb, atomic number 41 (a soft grey ductile metallic element used in alloys; occurs in niobite; formerly called columbium)
S: (n) columbium (a former name for niobium)
S: (n) osmium, Os, atomic number 76 (a hard brittle blue-grey or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals; the heaviest metal known)
S: (n) palladium, Pd, atomic number 46 (a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry)
S: (n) polonium, Po, atomic number 84 (a radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth; occurs in uranium ores but can be produced by bombarding bismuth with neutrons in a nuclear reactor)
S: (n) potassium, K, atomic number 19 (a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite)
S: (n) praseodymium, Pr, atomic number 59 (a soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; can be recovered from bastnasite or monazite by an ion-exchange process)
S: (n) promethium, Pm, atomic number 61 (a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group having no stable isotope; was discovered in radioactive form as a fission product of uranium)
S: (n) protactinium, protoactinium, Pa, atomic number 91 (a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead)
S: (n) radium, Ra, atomic number 88 (an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores)
S: (n) rhenium, Re, atomic number 75 (a rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys; is obtained as a by-product in refining molybdenum)
S: (n) rhodium, Rh, atomic number 45 (a white hard metallic element that is one of the platinum group and is found in platinum ores; used in alloys with platinum)
S: (n) rubidium, Rb, atomic number 37 (a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group; burns in air and reacts violently in water; occurs in carnallite and lepidolite and pollucite)
S: (n) ruthenium, Ru, atomic number 44 (a rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group; it is found associated with platinum)
S: (n) samarium, Sm, atomic number 62 (a grey lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group; is used in special alloys; occurs in monazite and bastnasite)
S: (n) scandium, Sc, atomic number 21 (a white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite)
S: (n) sodium, Na, atomic number 11 (a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt))
S: (n) strontium, Sr, atomic number 38 (a soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group; turns yellow in air; occurs in celestite and strontianite)
S: (n) strontium 90 (a radioactive isotope of strontium (with the mass number 90) that is present in the fallout from nuclear explosions; can be assimilated like calcium into bones)
S: (n) tantalum, Ta, atomic number 73 (a hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite and tantalite)
S: (n) technetium, Tc, atomic number 43 (a crystalline metallic element not found in nature; occurs as one of the fission products of uranium)
S: (n) terbium, Tb, atomic number 65 (a metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite)
S: (n) thallium, Tl, atomic number 81 (a soft grey malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air; it is highly toxic and is used in rodent and insect poisons; occurs in zinc blende and some iron ores)
S: (n) thorium, Th, atomic number 90 (a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands)
S: (n) thorium-228, radiothorium (radioactive isotope of thorium with mass number 228)
S: (n) thulium, Tm, atomic number 69 (a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group; isotope 170 emits X-rays and is used in small portable X-ray machines; it occurs in monazite and apatite and xenotime)
S: (n) tin, Sn, atomic number 50 (a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide)
S: (n) titanium, Ti, atomic number 22 (a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite)
S: (n) tungsten, wolfram, W, atomic number 74 (a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite)
S: (n) uranium, U, atomic number 92 (a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons)
S: (n) uranium 235 (a uranium isotope with mass number 235; capable of sustaining chain reactions)
S: (n) uranium 238 (the commonest isotope of uranium; it is not fissionable but when irradiated with neutrons it produces fissionable plutonium 239)
S: (n) vanadium, V, atomic number 23 (a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite)
S: (n) ytterbium, Yb, atomic number 70 (a soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime)
S: (n) yttrium, Y, atomic number 39 (a silvery metallic element that is common in rare-earth minerals; used in magnesium and aluminum alloys)
S: (n) zinc, Zn, atomic number 30 (a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende)
S: (n) spelter (impure zinc containing about three percent lead and other impurities (especially in the form of ingots))
S: (n) zirconium, Zr, atomic number 40 (a lustrous grey strong metallic element resembling titanium; it is used in nuclear reactors as a neutron absorber; it occurs in baddeleyite but is obtained chiefly from zircon)
S: (n) alkali metal, alkaline metal (any of the monovalent metals of group I of the periodic table (lithium or sodium or potassium or rubidium or cesium or francium)) "the hydroxides of the alkali metals are strongly alkaline"
S: (n) alkaline earth, alkaline-earth metal (any of the bivalent metals of group II of the periodic table (calcium or strontium or barium or magnesium or beryllium))
S: (n) nonmetal (a chemical element lacking typical metallic properties)
S: (n) transactinide (any of the artificially produced elements with atomic numbers greater than 103)
S: (n) actinium, Ac, atomic number 89 (a radioactive element of the actinide series; found in uranium ores)
S: (n) arsenic, As, atomic number 33 (a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar)
S: (n) astatine, At, atomic number 85 (a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium)
S: (n) bohrium, Bh, element 107, atomic number 107 (a transuranic element)
S: (n) boron, B, atomic number 5 (a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder)
S: (n) bromine, Br, atomic number 35 (a nonmetallic heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens; found in sea water)
S: (n) carbon, C, atomic number 6 (an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds)
S: (n) fullerene (a form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms)
S: (n) buckminsterfullerene, buckyball (a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene)
S: (n) carbon nanotube, nanotube (a fullerene molecule having a cylindrical or toroidal shape)
S: (n) radiocarbon, carbon 14 (a radioactive isotope of carbon)
S: (n) char (a charred substance)
S: (n) bone black, bone char, animal black, animal charcoal (black substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone; used as a black pigment)
S: (n) snuff (the charred portion of a candlewick)
S: (n) charcoal, wood coal (a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air)
S: (n) carbon black, lampblack, soot, smut, crock (a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink)
S: (n) activated carbon, activated charcoal (powdered or granular carbon used for purifying by adsorption; given orally (as a slurry) it is an antidote for some kinds of poisons)
S: (n) graphite, black lead, plumbago (used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors)
S: (n) lead, pencil lead (mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil)
S: (n) pencil (graphite (or a similar substance) used in such a way as to be a medium of communication) "the words were scribbled in pencil"; "this artist's favorite medium is pencil"
S: (n) diamond, adamant (very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem)
S: (n) carbonado, black diamond (an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing)
S: (n) chlorine, Cl, atomic number 17 (a common nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; best known as a heavy yellow irritating toxic gas; used to purify water and as a bleaching agent and disinfectant; occurs naturally only as a salt (as in sea water))
S: (n) radiochlorine (a radioactive isotope of chlorine)
S: (n) darmstadtium, Ds, element 110, atomic number 110 (a radioactive transuranic element)
S: (n) dubnium, Db, hahnium, element 105, atomic number 105 (a transuranic element)
S: (n) fluorine, F, atomic number 9 (a nonmetallic univalent element belonging to the halogens; usually a yellow irritating toxic flammable gas; a powerful oxidizing agent; recovered from fluorite or cryolite or fluorapatite)
S: (n) germanium, Ge, atomic number 32 (a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite)
S: (n) hassium, Hs, element 108, atomic number 108 (a radioactive transuranic element)
S: (n) hydrogen, H, atomic number 1 (a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe)
S: (n) tritium (a radioactive isotope of hydrogen; atoms of tritium have three times the mass of ordinary hydrogen atoms)
S: (n) iodine, iodin, I, atomic number 53 (a nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; used especially in medicine and photography and in dyes; occurs naturally only in combination in small quantities (as in sea water or rocks))
S: (n) iodine-131 (heavy radioactive isotope of iodine with a half-life of 8 days; used in a sodium salt to diagnose thyroid disease and to treat goiter)
S: (n) iodine-125 (light radioactive isotope of iodine with a half-life of 60 days; used as a tracer in thyroid studies and as a treatment for hyperthyroidism)
S: (n) lawrencium, Lr, atomic number 103 (a radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium)
S: (n) meitnerium, Mt, element 109, atomic number 109 (a radioactive transuranic element)
S: (n) mendelevium, Md, Mv, atomic number 101 (a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles (Md is the current symbol for mendelevium but Mv was formerly the symbol))
S: (n) nitrogen, N, atomic number 7 (a common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas; constitutes 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume; a constituent of all living tissues)
S: (n) azote (an obsolete name for nitrogen)
S: (n) liquid nitrogen (nitrogen in a liquid state)
S: (n) nobelium, No, atomic number 102 (a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding curium with carbon ions; 7 isotopes are known)
S: (n) oxygen, O, atomic number 8 (a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust)
S: (n) liquid oxygen, LOX (a bluish translucent magnetic liquid obtained by compressing gaseous oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point; used as an oxidizer in rocket propellants)
S: (n) phosphorus, P, atomic number 15 (a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms)
S: (n) plutonium, Pu, atomic number 94 (a solid silvery grey radioactive transuranic element whose atoms can be split when bombarded with neutrons; found in minute quantities in uranium ores but is usually synthesized in nuclear reactors; 13 isotopes are known with the most important being plutonium 239)
S: (n) plutonium 239 (a highly fissionable isotope of plutonium that is used in atomic weapons and as a reactor fuel; produced by irradiating uranium 238 with slow electrons)
S: (n) weapons plutonium, weapons-grade plutonium (plutonium 239 that is recovered when nuclear weapons are disassembled; it is stored in plutonium pits)
S: (n) roentgenium, Rg, element 111, atomic number 111 (a radioactive transuranic element)
S: (n) rutherfordium, Rf, unnilquadium, Unq, element 104, atomic number 104 (a radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized)
S: (n) seaborgium, Sg, element 106, atomic number 106 (a transuranic element)
S: (n) selenium, Se, atomic number 34 (a toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium; occurs in several allotropic forms; a stable grey metallike allotrope conducts electricity better in the light than in the dark and is used in photocells; occurs in sulfide ores (as pyrite))
S: (n) silicon, Si, atomic number 14 (a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors)
S: (n) sulfur, S, sulphur, atomic number 16 (an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions))
S: (n) brimstone, native sulfur, native sulphur (an old name for sulfur)
S: (n) tellurium, Te, atomic number 52 (a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold)
S: (n) ununbium, Uub, element 112, atomic number 112 (a radioactive transuranic element)
S: (n) ununhexium, Uuh, element 116, atomic number 116 (a radioactive transuranic element)
S: (n) ununpentium, Uup, element 115, atomic number 115 (a radioactive transuranic element)
S: (n) ununquadium, Uuq, element 114, atomic number 114 (a radioactive transuranic element)
S: (n) ununtrium, Uut, element 113, atomic number 113 (a radioactive transuranic element)
S: (n) trace element (an element that occurs at very small quantities in the body but is nonetheless important for many biological processes)
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S: (n) element (the most favorable environment for a plant or animal) "water is the element of fishes"
S: (n) element (one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe) "the alchemists believed that there were four elements"
S: (n) element (the situation in which you are happiest and most effective) "in your element"
S: (n) element (a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone)
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There are several privately-owned garbage removal companies that homeowners and property owners can hire within the City of Danbury.
While Danbury does not run its own transfer station, there is availability to drop your unwanted items for a fee at Oak Ridge Waste and Recycling located at 304 White Street in Danbury.
On the first Saturday in May, the Mayor's Office hosts Clean City Danbury Day with the generous help of Oak Ridge! On this day only, you can bring unwanted items to one of our dumpster locations for free. Look for this information on our news feed as the date approaches!
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To help our residents with their yard clean up needs, the city runs a Spring and Fall Leaf Pick-Up program for six weeks each season.
Only leaves bagged in paper leaf bags with no tape should be left at curbside in front of residences for the City's Highway Department to pick-up.
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Limbs must be cut into lengths no longer than 4 feet, no limb may be larger than 4 inches in diameter. Branches must be bundled with twine in bundles no heavier than 35 lbs.
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The Pickup Programs are divided by I-84; Section A is south of I-84 (zip code 06810) and Section B is north of I-84 (zip code 06811). For upcoming pickup schedules please visit our homepage during the season.
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Want to learn more about the Hat City? Stop by the Danbury Museum and Historical Society. Located downtown, the Museum always has an exciting exhibit on display. Take a tour through the Joan and Mary Rider House built in Danbury's post-Revolutionary War period or the Marian Anderson studio that Marian used when she and her husband lived in Danbury. There are so many things to learn and see at the Danbury Museum!
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Our city center offers endless possibilities for dining and entertainment! Downtown Danbury is home to a multitude of diverse cuisine that highlights our community.
Looking for something to do tonight? CityCenter Danbury will guide you in the right direction. With a summer concert series and a number of events throughout the year, this downtown partnership will keep you entertained!
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Danbury Fair Mall
Now bustling with tons of fine shops and restaurants, the Danbury Fair Mall stands in the place of the century-old Danbury Fairgrounds. At 1.3 million square feet, it is one of the largest malls in Connecticut!
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Yes, it's true. The City of Danbury has officially named its sewer plant, the John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant. Stop by for a photo with the sign!
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Episode 37: This Week in the City, Danbury ALERT
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Episode 35: This Week in the City, Upgrades to the John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant
Episode 34: This Week in the City, Honoring the Legacy of Joe Pepin
Episode 33: This Week in the City, Happy Holidays
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Episode 31: This Week in the City, Danbury Career Academy Progress Update
Episode 30: This Week in the City, Light the Lights
Episode 29: This Week in the City, Permit Department
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DAVE WEAVER: SKATEBOARDING, BUFFALO & BATTLING BRAIN CANCER
March 29, 2013/ Lurper/ INTERVIEWS/ Comments: 26
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Skateboarding in Buffalo, New York is extremely difficult. The weather is terrible, the city is falling apart, and the few skate spots the city has are some of the roughest and most difficult in America. Simply put, skateboarding in Buffalo is a battle.
Dave Weaver and the rest of the guys from Sunday skateshop are at the center of this battle. They are out there and fighting the cold, the snow, and the ice everyday so they can keep the scene alive. Weaver’s story is particularly interesting, because he has also been fighting brain cancer just to keep himself alive. Nearly two years ago Weaver had a brain tumor surgically removed and today he is in chemotherapy, but he hasn’t let this slow him down or take him out of the scene. While quietly pushing through this illness with the support of the local skate community and his girlfriend (who has also battled cancer) he is still out there skating and even put out a new part in Sunday’s video “Whatever the Weather.”
Buffalo is located in the Rust Belt of America and it is one of the hardest places to skate. The city is overflowing with poverty and crime, the buildings are decaying, the weather is frigid, and there aren’t many spots. How do you manage skating in this environment?
Skating is really difficult considering how few spots we have, and some of the best spots were knobbed and torn down, which makes it even harder. We’ve had this little DIY ledge spot for the past six years and they’ve been trying to put a casino in its place so they keep tearing down all the ledges and obstacles.
The city doesn’t generate much income so investment in new infrastructure isn’t high on the priority list. The long winters are difficult to deal with and the spots we do have are pretty janky. Luckily, JP (owner of Sunday) has generously built a private mini-ramp that’s all birch and amazing. Our local indoor park is pretty kooky so I think the mini-ramp is our saving grace during our 6 long winter months.
Your shop sponsor, Sunday seems to be the glue that holds the Buffalo skate scene together. Why do you think this is?
JP owns it. He is the hardest working skateboarder, with the best advice and vision not just for skateboarding but really the entire city. He’s lived here a long time and he invests everything he’s got to fostering an all-inclusive scene future generations. He’s a father figure to a lot of us and even though that brings some conflict, it’s all love and Sunday is always going to be the place where anybody who actually cares about where their money goes is going to get their new board or even just have coffee and hang out there with JP. The shop is kind of like an orphanage some days. It’s great. JP is always dolling out life lessons. We’ve all been scolded by him but it’s only because he cares.
photo: bill bottriel
The Illness
While studying abroad in China you found out you had a brain tumor, what alerted you to the fact that you were ill?
I was actually visiting my sister in South Korea between studying in China and Australia when I found out. It was January, and the day before I had ran a few miles and went to a hot yoga session with my sister. That day I woke up late and met her at our favorite coffee shop to make plans for when she got out of work and I took some sips of a latte and had a seizure. I woke up in an ambulance, and they took me to the hospital. They gave me a CT scan and the one girl in the whole hospital that spoke some English told me, “You have brain tumor.”
What was your first thought when she said this to you?
I didn’t believe her.
What kind of treatment did you have to go through during your battle with cancer?
I’m currently on my 22nd month of chemo: I take 140 mg every night for 21 days then a break for 7 days. That whoops my ass. The stuff I take has like mustard gas derivatives and kills every cell in your body, especially the cells that replicate most frequently like your immune cells and bone marrow. Some days I can actually feel the flex in my bones. I did a full month of radiation and have had Gamma Knife Radiation surgery twice. I also get injections of this shit called Avastin that supposedly triggers the release of a protein that tells my body to stop building vessels around any abnormal cells to basically starve the cancer out. Trying to hit it from as many angles as possible so my girlfriend who is also a survivor has hooked up all types of homeopathic herbs, infrared saunas, nebulizers, etc… to supplement that shit.
”There’s just a lot of responsibility added when your life is threatened by this unstoppable bitch of a disease.”
After you get these injections how does your body react?
I hardly notice the infusions, it’s the chemotherapy that just wears the body down.
So did you and your girlfriend meet during treatment?
It’s a funny story. Buffalo is a really small place. I had lost my phone, and I was borrowing my friend Dave’s Blackberry. He had hit on her and gotten her number. I accidentally kept pocket dialing and texting her nonsense having no idea who she was. I met her at a random party months later and hit it off talking about the movie Gummo and she needed a Spanish tutor, so I tried to help out.
How has dating another cancer survivor helped you through your treatment?
She and her mother have been angels. When she was 3 the doctors told her mother she had two weeks to live. Long story short, her mom force fed her wheatgrass shots and all types of herbs to keep her alive and she just turned 23 two months ago. Her mother ended up making a 20 year career out of homeopathy so my treatment has been very integrated. On top of my FDA approved crap I’ve seen shamans, done theta healing, nebulized colloidal silver, I just did acupuncture for the first time, the list of far out eastern treatments goes on. I back it all though. She’s got our apartment looking like a health center with lazer therapy pads, I grow wheatgrass, we have an Ozonator, I juice daily, and she even hooked me up with my own infrared sauna!
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Returning to life after cancer treatment can be difficult for many people. Many young cancer survivors report participating in fewer activities than their peers, they often feel isolated, and they often don’t feel ready to return to “normal life,” but you are already partying again, you’re killing it on your board, and you’re doing well in college. Why do you think your battle with cancer wasn’t able to slow you down?
I feel really lucky even though it’s been a very hard ride. I guess I never lost my mental focus and ambition. I battle through all the nausea and fatigue to accomplish whatever I feel I have to do. I’ve completed my internship, worked a job, and maintained this little DJ gig on the side. I can’t really sit still for too long. I was so close to being done with school that I felt I could still handle it, so I’m just finishing now. I’ve definitely cut drinking alcohol out for the most part lately just because my health still comes first. It’s incredibly difficult because ALL of my friends still do what they do so I’ve definitely gone to the bar with a water bottle out of boredom just because I still love to at least witness the aforementioned hijinx, if not create it.
Few of us encounter such a serious illness. What have you taken away from this experience?
Some people say it has made me a more humble person. I’m not sure what I think of that statement really. If anything I just had to grow up. My lifestyle is so opposite from how it was before. I went from party animal to paleo diet health freak. I feel guilty when I eat salami now. There’s just a lot of responsibility added when your life is threatened by this unstoppable bitch of a disease. There’s all kinds of paper work, insurance, and medical garbage I have to take care of but it’s for my own benefit so I can’t say I’m at all mad about it. It’s just a big perspective change really. At first I felt so scared but now I’ve seen the worst and every day is winding so maintaining PMA (positive mental attitude) is critical.
Mostly that coupled with traveling can only broaden your perspective and open your heart. I’ve witnessed so much suffering that regardless of the crappy cards I’ve been dealt I’m eternally grateful for everything and still can’t find much to complain about.
Do you feel more hesitant when you skate now or are you more willing to just go for it?
I do feel like I am more cautious now. I’m a lot more mortal now than I ever was, which is harsh. I did try that kickflip post-cancer, but looking back I must have been crazy. Half the medical community is trying to understand, prevent, and cure this disease to stop it from killing me. I’m just trying not to kill myself. In my mind I’ll always be 16 though. It is a constant mind-body conflict unfortunately. My family and doctors always laugh that I still skateboard but of course nobody gets it.
Do you find it hard to relate to the crew sometimes now that you have distanced yourself from that lifestyle?
I have certainly felt more distant though, indeed. They go out, drink, smoke, and I stay in and smoke weed and listen to Brian Wilson or Bob Dylan. Music is a great escape.
”I only want to help the world and have some fun, otherwise I don’t really care to live.”
It’s maddening how dumb people are when we dull ourselves to the level of dumb beasts as Hunter S. would say. At night, I’ve noticed how dumb my friends and I get but luckily I’m aware of their bottled handicap. I’ve definitely hardened on some people who are just obtuse. I’ve released a lot of anger on ignorant people and of course I can’t handle complainers. And now, I’m a lot less fearful of people so I have been mouthing off a bit more. Luckily, I have the best of the best of friends so I’m usually very content.
You’re about to graduate from Buffalo State College with a double major in Business Marketing and Asian Studies. What are your plans after graduation?
I grew up protecting the deserts of southern Utah, so I’d like to continue doing some sort of environmental conservation. I only want to help the world and have some fun, otherwise I don’t really care to live.
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TOM DELONGE ON SKATING, EARLY BLINK 182 & FAME
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THE STORY OF THE FIRST SKATER-OWNED ENERGY DRINK
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A NEW EA SKATE GAME IS COMING (FOR REAL)
We don't know exactly when, or what it will even be called, but it's definitely coming. For real this time. We promise.
June 18, 2020/ Lurper/ ARTICLES/ Comments: 45
Joey Sinko
Gummo, Dylan and skating. What more do you need? Nice article and tricks Dave. Inspiring! Keep the faith. My Dad’s a walking miracle himself. Cancer sucks. I’ll Keep you in my prayers. Peace..
Inspiring.
bangerbill
incredible fucking story.. how this guy is skateboarding after going thru chemotherapy = totally insane.
keep it up man!
DKT
This man is an absolute hero and inspiration to the rest of Buffalo.
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Press Briefing on Population Decline and Immigration Policy
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Kishida shows leadership at TICAD on global health and security
This piece by JCIE/USA Executive Director Kazuyo Kato highlights the significant of Japan’s recent pledge to the Global Fund, made at TICAD8.
Japan and America Can Restore a Healthy World Order
This piece by JCIE Senior Fellow Jim Gannon and Friends of the Global Fight Chief Policy Officer Mark Lagon highlights the history of US-Japan collaboration on health, and how the two countries can continue creating more sustainable and equitable health systems.
The Struggle for Democracy in Asia Deserves Our Support
This piece by Freedom House President Michael Abramawitz highlights recent trends in democracy in Asia and beyond, as well as Mr. Abramawitz’s attendance at the recent Sunnylands Initiative Retreat in Odawara, Japan.
JCIE/USA Fellow and Board Members Featured in Special COVID Edition of Global Asia
“The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the lack of high-level political leadership in co-ordinating global action against the pandemic, with resultant failures in securing agreement between governments in support of common goals and alignment of efforts to tackle health, social and economic challenges. As a result, coherent global strategic directions in pandemic response have not […]
It’s Time for a Japan-US Pandemic Partnership
Beyond their moral responsibility, Japan and the United States have compelling interests in doing more together to battle COVID-19 internationally.
Malaysia’s Path to Becoming Ageing Nation Fast Even By Global Standards
“MyAgeing was awarded with the 2021 Special Prize for Covid-19 Response for its contribution in helping the elderly during the pandemic… The award was part of the Japanese government’s Asia Health and Wellbeing Initiative (AHWIN) and co-managed by the Economic Research Institute for Asean and East Asia (ERIA) and the Japan Centre for International Exchange (JCIE).”
Invite Foreign Interns to Settle in Japan, Think Tank Says
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How do flights affect darts – What is better for you?
While darts may seem like a simple game, there are a lot of strategies involved in playing. One important aspect of the strategy is choosing the right flights for your darts.
What are flights?
Flights are the plastic or feathery things attached to the back of the dart that helps stabilize the dart in flight. There are many different types and styles of flights, and each type can affect the way the dart flies. Choosing the right flight can help you improve your accuracy and score more points.
How do flights affect darts?
The weight, shape, and material of the flight can all affect the way the dart flies. Heavier darts will fly slower and have less spin, while lighter darts will fly faster and may be more likely to wobble in flight. Flights with more surface area will create more drag and slow the dart down, while smaller flights will reduce drag and allow the dart to fly faster. Softer materials like feathers will cause the dart to slow down more quickly than harder materials like plastic.
What is the best type of flight for me?
There is no one answer to this question. It depends on your style of play and what you are trying to accomplish with your darts. If you are just starting, you may want to experiment with different types of flights to see what works best for you. If you are a more experienced player, you may have a preference for a certain type of flight. Ultimately, it is up to you to decide what works best for you.
What do pear Dart flights do?
Pear dart flights are a type of flight that is designed to provide stability in flight. They are wider at the back than they are at the front, which helps to keep the dart stable. Pear dart flights are a good choice for beginners as they can help to improve accuracy. Experienced players may also prefer pear dart flights if they are looking for a more stable flight.
What are No 6 dart flights?
No 6 dart flights are a type of flight that is designed for speed. They are narrower than pear or standard dart flights, which reduces drag and allows the dart to fly faster. No 6 dart flights are a good choice for experienced players who are looking for a fast, aerodynamic flight.
No 2 dart flights are a type of flight that is designed for a spin. They have two small wings that protrude from the back of the flight, which causes the dart to spin in flight. This can help to improve accuracy as it makes the dart more stable in flight. No 2 dart flights are a good choice for experienced players who are looking for a flight with a good spin.
What are standard dart flights?
Standard dart flights are the most common type of flight. They are wider at the back than they are at the front, which provides stability in flight. Standard dart flights are a good choice for beginners or experienced players who are looking for a stable flight.
What are winged dart flights?
Winged dart flights are a type of flight that is designed for speed. They have two small wings that protrude from the back of the flight, which reduces drag and allows the dart to fly faster. Winged dart flights are a good choice for experienced players who are looking for a fast, aerodynamic flight.
What are scalloped dart flights?
Scalloped dart flights are a type of flight that is designed for a spin. They have a series of curved indentations along the back edge of the flight, which causes the dart to spin in flight. This can help to improve accuracy as it makes the dart more stable in flight. Scalloped dart flights are a good choice for experienced players who are looking for a flight with a good spin.
What are dimpled dart flights?
Dimpled dart flights are a type of flight that is designed for stability. They have a series of small indentations along the surface of the flight, which helps to reduce drag and keep the dart stable in flight. Dimpled dart flights are a good choice for beginners or experienced players who are looking for a stable flight.
When should you use Slim Dart flights?
Slim dart flights are a type of flight that is designed for speed and accuracy. They are narrower than standard dart flights, which reduces drag and allows the dart to fly faster. Slim dart flights are a good choice for experienced players who are looking for a fast, aerodynamic flight.
Flights can affect darts in many ways. The weight, shape, and material of the flight can all affect the way the dart flies. Heavier darts will fly slower and have less spin, while lighter darts will fly faster and may be more likely to wobble in flight. Flights with more surface area will create more drag and slow the dart down, while smaller flights will reduce drag and allow the dart to fly faster.
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UMIDIGI S2 Pro Officially Launched in Nepal
by Samrat Amatya 2018-02-08
written by Samrat Amatya 2018-02-08
Vividtech Pvt. Ltd, the official distributor of UMIDIGI smartphones in Nepal, has launched its latest premium mid-range smartphone- the UMIDIGI S2 Pro. The phone has a lot to offer like a near bezel-less design, dual-camera set up, some powerful specs, and a water-resistant body. But are these features justifiable for the phone to be priced heavily at Rs 54,900? Well, before we answer that, let’s take a deeper look at what other things the phone brings to the table.
The UMIDIGI S2 Pro packs a 6.0 inch Full HD (2160×1080) TDDI display with an 18:9 near bezel-less design. The display is edged out by a 2.5D curved glass giving users a seamless experience. Encasing the internals of the phone is a metallic shell which not only looks good but also feels quite premium in the hands. Under the hood, the S2 Pro packs an octa-core MediaTek Helio P25 processor along with the Mali-T880 MP2 GPU. The processor is backed by a whopping 6GB of RAM and 128GB Of internal storage. The memory of the phone can be further expanded via a micro-sd card up to an additional 128GB. The phone also supports dual sim cards but only at the expense of the memory card slot. And all this goodness comes packed in a water-resistant body.
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In the camera department, the UMIDIGI S2 Pro packs a dual camera set up made by a f/2.0 13MP and a 5MP sensor. The phone also sports a 16MP front camera for all your social media ready selfies. And just sitting below the rear cameras is a fingerprint scanner embedded into the phone’s back panel. It also comes with face unlock for an additional layer of security. Moving on, at the software front, the S2 Pro runs a skinned version of Android 7.0 Nougat. And finally, powering the device all up is a large 5100mAh non-user removable battery. This coupled with support for Quick charge 2.0 will make for a prolonged battery life in the day to day use.
The UMIDIGI S2 Pro has a lot to offer and we are quite impressed with it. That said, the price of Rs 54,990 is outrageous to ask for the phone. Especially, when the phone is available internationally for $279.99 (offer, original price $339.99) from UMIDIGI’s own official website. This is a huge difference in the price which is just unfathomable! We wish UMIDIGI Nepal had thought it through and priced the phone more competitively. If the phone had been tagged at Rs 35,000, it would have been difficult for us not to recommend this phone.
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Samrat is the Chief Executing Officer at Phones In Nepal. He is a huge tech enthusiast who loves writing and making tech videos. He also is a huge anime fanatic.
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Voting rights trial hits halfway mark
As the courtroom showdown over new election laws closes out its first week, here’s a look back at some of the highlights so far.
by Alex Sakariassen 08.19.2022 08.22.2022
Expert witness Daniel McCool, a political science professor at the University of Utah, approaches the stand in Yellowstone County District Court Monday. McCool was one of a slate of witnesses who testified throughout the week about the impacts of new election laws on Montana voters.
The past week has been a busy one in Yellowstone County District Court, as plaintiffs and defendants in Montana’s high-profile election administration lawsuit worked through the first five days of a 10-day trial. More than a dozen witnesses took the stand, with county election officials, tribal members and individual voters answering flurries of questions from lawyers about the impacts of new voting laws passed by the 2021 Legislature.
The lawsuit, presided over by District Court Judge Michael Moses, will decide the fate of a trio of laws that ended Election Day voter registration, implemented new photo identification requirements for voters and prohibited paid ballot collection in the state.
A collection of plaintiffs including the Montana Democratic Party, four tribal nations, youth voting organizations such as Montana Youth Action, and the Indigenous voting rights nonprofit Western Native Voice are challenging the constitutionality of the new laws. Attorneys representing Republican Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen, the case’s sole defendant, have countered that the laws were necessary to prevent voter fraud and bolster voter confidence.
So far, the trial has had its lighter moments. On Thursday, as the day’s action looked like it would wrap early, Moses stated his kids wouldn’t mind as it was his birthday — a candid moment that inspired a round of applause from both legal teams. But the weight of the events that unfolded in court was undeniable, as the testimony entered by witnesses fueled tense moments and hit on the personal experiences of voters navigating Montana’s new electoral landscape.
Here are some of the high points from the trial’s first week:
ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN
One of the defense’s primary arguments is that HB 176 reduces the Election Day burden on local election administrators — a position originally staked out by Republican lawmakers advocating for its passage during the 2021 legislature. On Wednesday, the court heard directly from Missoula County Election Administrator Bradley Seaman on that point. Seaman acknowledged in his testimony that his office has experienced long lines on Election Day in the past, but clarified that those lines occurred at the county’s election center, where same-day registration activities were consolidated prior to their elimination.
“You can’t register at the polling place by law in Montana,” Seaman said, suggesting that the lines did not inhibit registered voters from casting their ballots at the polls.
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Seaman went on to describe, in detail, the various safeguards in place for county election officials to protect against voter fraud and stated that he’s “unaware of any mistakes” he or his staff have made in the past due to Election Day registration lines. Seaman also noted two details about the new laws. In the case of HB 176, he testified that the law still allows a “small subgroup” of voters who have moved to a new precinct within the same county to update their registration and vote on Election Day. Seaman said SB 169 established a new form — known as a Declaration of Impediment — that election officials can have voters fill out in lieu of a photo ID in certain extenuating circumstances.
The form displayed in the courtroom indicated it was created in April 2021, four days after Gov. Greg Gianforte signed SB 169 into law. Seaman testified he didn’t learn of it until February 2022.
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“I’m not certain why we didn’t see it,” Seaman said.
On cross-examination, defense attorney Mac Morris pressed Seaman about the stance various county election officials took on HB 176 during the 2021 session. Morris noted that roughly two dozen officials from rural counties expressed support for the bill in a survey conducted by the Montana Association of Clerk and Recorders. Seaman maintained that he didn’t recall the exact number of county officials who supported HB 176 but said he knew that the association’s members were split on the issue.
Also on the administrative impacts front, Montana Democratic Party Data Director Jacob Hopkins was asked Friday if he had observed any delays in ballot processing at county election offices. Hopkins said that data from Gallatin County did lag somewhat during the 2020 general election cycle. The delays, he added, were due to the county storing absentee ballots for five days before processing them to prevent election staff from potential exposure to COVID-19.
IMPACTS ON INDIGENOUS VOTERS
Attorneys on both sides spent much of late Tuesday and early Wednesday questioning Dawn Gray, managing attorney for the Blackfeet Nation, about the impacts of the new laws on Indigenous voters. Gray reiterated many of the observations previously made by expert witnesses regarding the lack of transportation and reliable mail service in reservation communities and spoke at length about recent challenges the tribe has faced in improving voter access for its members.
“This was before the vaccine, so it was scary times, and we wanted to provide safe access to voting during that time frame.”
Dawn Gray, managing attorney for the Blackfeet Nation, commenting on the removal of ballot dropboxs in the days before the 2020 election.
Gray testified that in 2020, election officials in Glacier County abruptly pulled ballot drop boxes from reservation sites three days before the election. The drop boxes were highly desirable on the reservation at that time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gray said.
“This was before the vaccine,” she said, “so it was scary times, and we wanted to provide safe access to voting during that time frame.”
The tribe, Gray said, responded by employing ballot collectors to assist members in submitting their ballots — an option the plaintiffs maintain is jeopardized by HB 530. The defendants said ballot collection could still be available to tribal governments pending Jacobsen’s adoption of new rules under the law.
THE FRAUD ARGUMENT
The specter of voter fraud came up repeatedly throughout the week, with defense attorneys asking several witnesses whether they’d seen any evidence of fraud occurring in the state. That narrative came to a head Friday when Leonard Smith, an attorney representing Jacobsen, cross-examined Hopkins. Smith stated that two individuals were arrested in Phillips County last year for illegally registering and voting in a mayoral election. As Montana Free Press previously reported, those individuals — a pair of non-U.S. residents employed as public school teachers — were not arrested but are facing charges.
Smith asked if Hopkins was aware that if those two votes were found to be fraudulent, that they could have impacted the result of the election. Hopkins replied that that would depend on how the individuals voted.
Smith also pressed Hopkins about a 2016 news story about a Livingston resident complaining to law enforcement about intimidating behavior on the part of a canvasser later identified as working for the Montana Democratic Party. Hopkins said he had no knowledge of the incident as it predated his involvement with the party, but he agreed with Smith’s assertion that intimidation goes against the party’s guidelines for ballot collectors.
As for the plaintiffs’ stance on voter fraud, that was summed up Monday by expert witness Daniel McCool, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Utah.
“As another political scientist put it, you’re more likely to die in a lightning strike than to commit voter fraud,” McCool told the court.
VOTER PERSPECTIVE
Some of the most compelling moments in the trial’s first week came from the testimony of voters, called by the plaintiffs’ attorneys to share first-hand their experiences with the new laws. Kendra Miller, a data analyst for the Montana Federation of Public Employees, laid the groundwork for this side of the trial Wednesday by telling the court her analysis of the effects of HB 176. Miller testified that through public records requests and data from the secretary of state’s office, she determined that 268 Montanans attempted to utilize Election Day voter registration during the 2021 municipal elections — 59 of whom were unable to cast their votes due to the new law.
Two such individuals took the stand this week. Thomas Bogle told the court Tuesday that he and his wife moved to Bozeman in April 2021 and registered to vote absentee that September while obtaining their Montana driver’s licenses. His wife received her ballot, Bogle said, but he never got his. He said when he arrived at the courthouse on Election Day, he was informed that his voter registration form never made it to the county elections office, and as such he was unable to vote.
Jacobsen’s legal team countered that testimony, saying it’s the responsibility of individual voters, such as Bogle, to check their elector status earlier and address any problems before the close of late registration. Under HB 176, that deadline is now noon the day before an election.
“If I had missed work, I would have been fired.”
Bozeman voter Sarah Denson, in response to a question from a lawyer for the Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen who asked Denson whether she thought working on Election Day was more important than voting.
Sarah Denson, a Miles City native now living in Bozeman, pushed back on that argument. Denson testified Wednesday that she believed she had successfully updated her residency status in 2021 when she changed her address through the U.S. Postal Service. After her absentee ballot failed to show up, she said, she visited the courthouse on Election Day and was informed that she was still registered to vote in Miles City.
Attorney David Knobel, representing Jacobsen, asked Denson whether she could have driven to Miles City to cast her ballot in person on Election Day if she had chosen not to go to work. Denson replied that was not an option.
“So you thought that working was more important than voting?” Knobel asked.
“If I had missed work,” Denson answered, “I would have been fired.”
The trial resumes Monday in Yellowstone County District Court and is currently scheduled to conclude on Friday.
A bill to cement existing federal protections in state law for Native American children, families and tribal nations navigating child welfare proceedings received broad support from Indigenous child welfare advocates during a packed hearing at the Montana Legislature.
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SAFETY of STUDENTS and STAFF is OUR TOP PRIORITY!
Act 143
In March 2017, the WI State Legislature passed ACT 143 to encourage school districts to study and improve emergency procedures and protocols. Below is how the Eau Claire Area School District is addressing improvements in Safety and Security:
Safety Assessments
In December 2018, each school in the ECASD District conducted a School Security Assessment examining the Infrastructure, Technology, and Human Actions of each School. This assessment was conducted in partnership with the Eau Claire Police Department, District Administrators, District Buildings and Grounds personnel, and the District Safety Coordinator. Assessment results help schools and the district identify and improve processes, procedures, and overall security and safety for ALL students, staff, and community members. This assessment will be repeated a minimum of once every three years at each ECASD school.
Safety Plans
Each school in ECASD has a specific Crisis Response Plan that guides the school to identify and respond to incidents. These plans educate staff, teachers, students, and other key stakeholders to their roles and responsibilities before, during, and after an incident. The guidelines and procedures in these plans outline an organized, systematic method to prepare, prevent, mitigate, respond to, and recover from incidents.
Safety Grants
Eau Claire Area School District has received two grants from the WI Department of Justice – Office of School Safety. Grants have allowed improvements in secure entrances, additional security technology and communication tools, and necessary training of staff in threat assessment and mental health awareness.
Emergency drills are conducted at every ECASD school. These include fire drills, severe weather (tornado) drills, and Intruder Alert and Get Out/Hide Out Drills.
Mandatory Reporting of Threats
All school district employees are required to report any threat, whether spoken, written, or symbolic, to law enforcement if they believe that there is a serious and imminent threat to the health and safety of others.
Community & Family Safety
Eau Claire Area School District collaborates with multiple local agencies to ensure a safe and productive learning environment in all district schools. Your family also plays a key role in ensuring everyone’s safety. Take time to discuss these issues with your family and stay up to date with your school’s policies and procedures regarding safe schools. Addressing Acts of Violence in Schools (A Guide for Educators and Parents).
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Five housebuilders now on site at Winchburgh as second phase begins
THE second phase of housebuilding at Winchburgh is underway after Winchburgh Developments welcomed CALA, Barratt Homes and J Smart & Co to its new joint marketing suite.
They join Robertson Homes and Bellway in delivering 407 new homes across the development, ranging from one-bedroom canal-side apartments to six-bedroom properties.
Spanning 352 hectares, Winchburgh is one of the largest placemaking projects currently underway in the UK.
John Hamilton, CEO, Winchburgh Developments Limited, said, “We’ve reached an exciting point in the development here at Winchburgh. Work on the first phase of Auldcathie District Park is set to commence shortly following the completion of land remediation. We’re also progressing rapidly with delivery of both the new marina on the Union Canal and on the new schools’ campus. I believe the range of homes now available, combined with the exceptional lifestyle on offer is absolutely unrivalled at the moment in Scotland.”
CALA’s new development, called Oakbank, will offer 74 four and five-bedroom homes, surrounded by woodland and close to the new town centre and canal marina, as well as Auldcathie District Park. Gavin Pope, land director with CALA Homes (East), added, “We’re very pleased to launching in Winchburgh. The development offers a wide range of family homes which will benefit from the excellent amenities and environment that will be delivered as part of this very exciting placemaking development.”
95 three and four-bedroom homes, including 20 affordable homes, are being launched by Barratt Homes at its Caisteal Gardens development. Anne Ross, sales director at Barratt East Scotland, said, “Winchburgh is an exciting project for us and we’re investing in creating five-star homes for buyers from all walks of life. Alongside the other developers in Winchburgh, we’re looking forward to creating a burgeoning community with first-class infrastructure and amenities.”
J. Smart & Co’s two developments include a Canal Quarter comprising of 50 apartments and 14 three-bed houses overlooking the new marina, as well as releasing four bespoke five-bedroom architect-designed family homes at The Courtyard.
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Culture & Religion — April 4, 2015
Can Your Body Be Hacked to Achieve Radical Longevity?
Could humans someday live to be 1,000 years old? Life extension and radical longevity are rising topics of conversation among futurist circles... and wealthy tech entrepreneurs are listening.
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Could humans someday live to be 1,000 years old? Life extension is a rising topic of conversation among futurist circles (including several prominent Big Think experts). What’s important now is that wealthy tech entrepreneurs are beginning to listen and the promise of major potential breakthroughs in the coming decade has their ears ever-widening. Christian Borys writes over at The Daily Beast about several current projects in place that hope to achieve what is commonly called radical longevity:
“One of the new leaders of the movement is Joon Yun, a hedge fund manager who has created a $1 million prize called the Palo Alto prize to initiate the development of breakthroughs in the science of human longevity. Instead of accepting that humans all have to die by the age of 120, he wants people to consider the possibility of maintaining the wellness of our 20s far past our 120s. In other words, he believes we can be as healthy in old age as we are in youth.”
Yun’s focus is on homeostatic research. You’re likely familiar with the concept of homeostasis. If not, Borys explains:
“Homeostasis is like a control system for the human body and as you age, this control system naturally erodes. It’s like an old engine that gradually loses strength, until one day, it stops working.”
If you think of homeostasis like the utilities that feed a house: As a house ages, the pipes begin to rust, wires fray, and suddenly your radiator decides it doesn’t want to work anymore. What Yun wants is a way to maintain upkeep of the body’s utilities so that everything still works at 100 like it did at age 20.
Meanwhile, Borys writes that The Singularity is Near author Ray Kurzweil shares this sense of optimism:
“Kurzweil says scientists have the opportunity to work on the fundamental structure of the body in the same way that an engineer can develop software. Armed with genetic code, scientists may have the ability to reprogram humans.”
Another Big Think expert quoted in the piece is Aubrey de Grey of the SENS research foundation, who argues that doubters of radical longevity fail to see aging and death as medical issues that can be cured.
While the above is all tremendously intriguing, the theory and pursuit of radical longevity remains a contentious issue within scientific communities. Here’s Borys again:
“However, many scientists do not agree with de Grey and are quite vocal about it. Dr. Richard Miller, who has a Ph.D. in Human Genetics from Yale, has been critical of de Grey’s work for quite sometime. Miller, along with many colleagues, published a scathing review of de Grey. In it writing that ‘the idea that a research programme organized around the SENS agenda will not only retard ageing, but also reverse it — creating young people from old ones — and do so within our lifetime, is so far from plausible that it commands no respect at all within the informed scientific community.’
That said, there are still plenty of innovative minds at work toward or invested in achieving life extension. Venture capital trickles in here and there — the SENS research foundation has a modest though not insignificant $5 million annual budget — but the promise of potential breakthroughs in the coming decade would almost certainly mean more investment in this type of work. As with many fascinating ideas explored on Big Think, all that we can really do is wait and see.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
In the video below, futurist and tech entrepreneur Peter Diamandis discusses efforts in gene sequencing that could one day make 100 years old the new 60.
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Rebuilding Red Wings An Extreme Longshot To Make NHL Playoffs In 2023
Dylan Larkin is among the young stars the franchise hopes to build around for years to come
Bennett Conlin
The Detroit Red Wings haven’t made the NHL postseason since 2016, and they haven’t advanced beyond the first round since 2013. Betting odds suggest those streaks aren’t likely to end this season.
FanDuel lists Detroit at +2200 to make the postseason this year. The Red Wings, who are seven points out of a wild card spot, entered the season with minimal expectations. They’ve shown positive flashes, while also losing too frequently to be at the forefront of the playoff hunt.
Detroit’s playoff odds on DraftKings are more favorable than FanDuel’s, with the “yes, Detroit makes the playoffs” at +1200. The “no” option is -2500.
Rebuilding phase
General Manager Steve Yzerman is widely respected across the NHL, and there’s faith in Detroit that Yzerman will put the Red Wings in position to succeed in future years, even if they fall short of the playoffs in 2023. The Red Wings have bright young talent, including Dylan Larkin.
Larkin leads the Red Wings in goals and assists, and he’s deserving of a long-term contract to keep him in Detroit for years to come. Forward Jonatan Berggren, forward Joe Veleno, center Michael Rasmussen, defenseman Moritz Seider, and wing Lucas Raymond are also likely key pieces of the Red Wings’ future. The Red Wings have impressive up-and-coming talent, which bodes well for the franchise’s future prospects.
In the last 30 years, the only Red Wings' rookie forwards to record more points than Jonatan Berggren through their first 27 games:
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Additionally, Marco Kasper is playing well in the Swedish Hockey League. There are rumors the recent draft pick will join Detroit as soon as next season, and he’s a likely future contributor for the team. Goalie Ville Husso has performed admirably this season, and at 27 years old he could have a long-term future with the franchise.
Thursday battle with Vegas
While the odds don’t suggest a 2023 playoff appearance, part of being a fan is hoping your team defies expectations. Detroit isn’t out of the playoff hunt in 2023, and the Wings could make a late-season surge.
That could start Thursday against the Vegas Golden Knights, one of the best teams in the NHL. Vegas is favored at all mobile sportsbooks, including BetRivers, BetMGM, Caesars Sportsbook, FanDuel, and PointsBet, although the Red Wings are favored to at least cover the puck line of +1.5 goals.
Detroit is a +150 moneyline underdog at multiple mobile sportsbooks, including DraftKings. The total for the game is listed at 6.5 goals.
The two teams have played each other once this season, with Vegas winning 4-1 in Detroit on Dec. 3.
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Bennett Conlin is a sports betting reporter. He began his sportswriting career crafting recaps of family wiffle ball games. He’s covered more meaningful games since those early days, most recently writing about the University of Virginia’s athletic programs for The Daily Progress. Bennett can be reached at [email protected].
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BMW i Vision Circular: Endearingly Strange, Undoubtedly Sustainable
Sometimes it’s okay to like futuristic concept cars.
byHazel Southwell| PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2021 12:11 PM
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Usually, grand concept cars that illustrate the electric future are nothing more than vaporware to people in the real world. The Audi Grandsphere is, like, fine—not the best, not the worst. It’s essentially a vision of a world where people will continue to use private jets and it’s got some sustainable stitching.
The i Vision Circular, though, is really, genuinely likable. It’s one of those big statement concepts about what BMW is doing as a brand, which is—like every car company—trying to reinvent itself as carbon-neutral, environmentally friendly, and a leader in circular economy. BMW is promising that it'll sell 10 million BEVs by 2030 and every second car off its assembly lines will be electric at the end of the decade.
Compared to, say, a Cybertruck, the i Vision Circular is tiny. It’s a little car, modest and minimal not in the sense that it’s had all its detailing removed but in the way it’s a much quieter statement than something the size of a fricking bus. A person standing next to it can easily see over the roof and you could probably fit two in most parking spaces.
That’s a statement in itself. In a world of yet more crossover SUVs and two-ton EVs that need specialist truck tires to roll, it is an honest delight to see a little car. That’s not just my European preference showing through, it’s that the i Vision Circular stands out by being genuinely different from most of the cars being shown here at IAA.
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It’s little, it’s pretty—dainty almost. The blushy velvet interior looks like a Twitch streamer’s setup but not in the lurid LED way cockpits seem to be heading in. The nude, anodized aluminum of the exterior bodywork feels touchable, the dull glow inviting. The combination grille and headlights look like something out Blade Runner concept art but in a good way.
Inside the car, the strange, shimmering purple touch-control dash is so beautiful it’s hard to resist putting your hand on it. Like going to a natural history museum as a kid and wanting to touch all the rocks in the gift shop, it’s irresistibly alluring. The steering wheel, too, feels like you want to touch it—and it’s not a self-driving robo-prototype. It’s intended to be driven and for you to enjoy that.
Honestly, I don’t give a damn what the range or battery size or power output or regen capabilities on it are because it’s a prototype. I’m never gonna get to even sit in one let alone drive it but this is the first concept in a long time that I’m actually anguished about that fact over. I want this car; the idea of sitting in its gently formed interior makes me ache with need in a way I actually didn’t know I could over anything that wasn’t some sort of 1980s heap of crap I’ve developed nostalgic insanity over.
The detail of it is lovely, too. Made with recycled parts everywhere possible, the i Vision Circular is intended to be disassembled. That might sound irrelevant or even like a bad thing but for sustainability purposes, we need vehicles to be easily repairable. Every part is fixed with, where possible, a single fastener to be able to replace just the smallest section whenever it’s required, minimizing the need for new parts.
Design-wise, I called it a Cybertwingo when it was unveiled and well, maybe that’s why I like it so much. But the thing that actually sells it to me is it’s not bullshit—it’s a statement that’s well thought through and which commits lots of ideas in a way that delivers an actual vehicle that I actually want to drive.
It’s fun to look at, not a dystopian vision of a grim future where we hide in mobile greenhouse lounges sealed from the elements. It’s a car that someone drives places, built for a practical future of production.
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Top 10 Movies of 2012
Posted on February 21, 2013 May 10, 2021 by Courtney Young
After watching many films in theaters and on Netflix, I’ve finally compiled what I consider the top tier of 2012. Two foreign films, one documentary, a few Oscar nominees and some incredible snubs of the year made my list. The Academy doesn’t always get it right, but I’m curious to see what “surprise” they shock us with this year.
Plot: “An investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military.”
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Crime
Director: Kirby Dick
Actors: Amy Ziering, Kirby Dick, Kori Cioca
Oscar Nominations: (1) Best Documentary
Bottom Line: This documentary is a disgusting and merciless glimpse at how rape in the US armed forces is an “occupational hazard” and has continuously been ignored…until now. The Invisible War is well-researched and has shocking testimonies from victims who are demanding to be heard by the government for a change in the system. If this wins best documentary, which I think it will, the government better be prepared to quash this epidemic.
Plot: “One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.”
Genre: Foreign (Norway), Drama
Director: Joachim Trier
Actors: Anders Danielsen Lie, Hans Olav Brenner, Ingrid Olava
Oscar Nominations: None
Bottom Line: I would have never known this foreign drama existed had it not been for the proactive movie buffs in the blogosphere! There’s nothing groundbreaking about this addict’s story, but it’s subtle tone adds to the beauty and tragedy of August 31st for the protagonist. The script and acting give this story an extreme sense of realism and less of a Hollywood journey–reminiscent of Half Nelson’s simplistic approach to a comparable subject matter.
Plot: “When a debt puts a young man’s life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.”
Director: William Friedkin
Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple
Bottom Line: This is the Shame of 2012 that was completely ignored by the Academy due to the NC-17 kiss of death rating. With such a twisted script, this was the only film that had me completely speechless once the credits rolled. The ensemble cast gave some of the best performances of the year–particularly Matthew McConaughey, Juno Temple and Gina Gershon. I was never a huge fan of McConaughey until Killer Joe; he just needs to stick to scripts like this instead of C-grade rom-coms.
Plot: “A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster’s beloved Shih Tzu.”
Actors: Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken
Bottom Line: This is either a love it or hate it type of movie, and I loved it. Seven Psychopaths boasts the most hilarious ensemble cast–Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken specifically. There’s a lot you can’t take seriously about this film, and there’s a lot of Tarantino-esque violence, but there’s a heart at the core of all the silliness that ties in well to the plot.
Plot: “An introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world.”
Director: Stephen Chbosky
Actors: Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller
Bottom Line: On the surface Perks came across as a sweet, stereotypical film about teens conquering the ups and downs of high school. I had absolutely no idea what this movie was about prior to viewing. Perks is nostalgic, tragic and realistic to the point of discomfort. Films in recent years that aimed to present realistic high school issues in a comedic fashion, like Easy A, resonated with audiences as clever and unique. Perks raises the bar and steps beyond the isolation of the typical “high school genre.” Will this be the next Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, or Dead Poet’s Society? No. But Perks is the answer to the void we’ve had since classics such as those.
Plot: “Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali’s bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.”
Genre: Foreign (France), Drama, Romance
Director: Jacques Audiard
Actors: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure
Bottom Line: WHERE IS MARION COTILLARD’S NOMINATION? Cotillard’s performance in Rust and Bone is one of the best of 2012. This pitiless film offers a raw, emotionally-charged plot revolving around two characters who have hit rock bottom and find comfort together. Sweet? Not exactly. Matthias Schoenaerts’s character is not likeable and was responsible for dissatisfied opinions amongst viewers. But the reality of the film produces a more authentic plot–real life isn’t perfect, nor are there always happy endings, but Rust and Bone offers a sense of hope despite the tragedy both characters endure… not to mention the CGI effects on Cotillard are astounding!
Plot: “With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.”
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Western
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington
Oscar Nominations: (5) Best Picture, Actor in a Supporting Role (Waltz), Writing/Screenplay, Sound Editing and Cinematography
Bottom Line: Despite it’s lengthy 2:45 running time, and an unnecessary cameo by an Australian Tarantino, Django proves to be another home run for Tarantino and his cast. Equipped with the familiar Tarantino-violence, Django added a greater shock-value than any other Tarantino film to date. A great script coupled with great actors, Tarantino knows how to cast his films well. For me, Christoph Waltz and (surprisingly) Leonardo DiCaprio were the scene stealers in what was likely the most controversial Christmas Day opener to date. Tarantino can do no wrong.
Plot: “Faced with both her hot-tempered father’s fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.”
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Director: Benh Zeitlin
Actors: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly
Oscar Nominations: (4) Best Picture, Director, Actress in a Leading Role (Wallis) and Writing/Screenplay
Bottom Line: This is the little engine that could of movies that Hollywood never saw coming. With a small budget and no-name amateur actors, Beasts proved that newcomers can compete in the Oscar race with some of Hollywood’s greatest directors and actors. Beasts is not a film that is easy to summarize. It’s an apocalyptic vision, a magical fable, an environmental drama, modern culture vs. counterculture, a coming-of-age story and a father-daughter relationship all rolled up in an hour and a half. Quvenzhané Wallis delivers a debut performance that sets the Oscar bar high. I only wish Dwight Henry received a nomination as well.
Plot: “A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran.”
Director: Ben Affleck
Actors: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin
Oscar Nominations: (7) Best picture, Actor in a Supporting Role (Arkin), Writing/Screenplay, Achievement in Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Original Score and Editing
Bottom Line: Argo caught a lot of criticism for it’s fact vs. fiction plot, but for an adapted screenplay, it’s damn good. Argo combines an appropriate sense of humor with a devastating piece of history that younger generations know little about. With a strongly adapted script and a hell of a standout cast, particularly by Goodman, Arkin and Cranston, arguing fact vs. fiction can only go so far. It’s hard to please everyone when retelling history from behind the lenses in Hollywood, especially while attempting to keep the audience’s attention and balancing that with historical integrity. Affleck has another great film to add to his directorial resume, but WHERE is his Oscar nomination? If there was a glitch in the system, there’s still time to tweak this confusing misstep.
Plot: “After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.”
Director: David O. Russell
Actors: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jackie Weaver
Oscar Nominations: (8) Best Picture, Director, Actor in a Leading Role (Cooper), Actor in a Supporting Role (de Niro), Actress in a Leading Role (Lawrence), Actress in a Supporting Role (Weaver), Writing/Screenplay and Editing
Bottom Line: While I initially penned Argo as my frontrunner, I realized I couldn’t ignore the tremendous heart and depth of Silver Linings. The script is emotionally messy, dysfunctional and unapologetic tackling the topic of mental illness. Some critics argue that Silver Linings is conventional and predictable, but I think David O. Russell tapped into a hushed-topic in society and humanized the reality of mental illness with each character. We all know how this story is meant to end; Cooper’s character reveals this in the first 20 minutes of the movie, but the uncomfortable and emotionally resonating struggle to find that “happy ending” made it my number one for 2012. It goes without saying that this ensemble cast all deserve awards for their surprisingly brilliant performances, and that O. Russell opened a door that surpasses the screen.
“I went on [Hardball with Chris Matthews], and he said people reach out to him and say they appreciate the ability to talk about these things they’ve been through that they haven’t really spoken about openly. It’s a door opening for people who suffer sielently with this, who have traumas that they handle privately in their families”—director David O. Russell speaking about Silver Linings.
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31 thoughts on “Top 10 Movies of 2012”
mettelray February 21, 20132:22 am Reply
A nice list.. decent films and I am glad to say I’ve seen a large portion of them. Finally, I’m actually watching great movies ! 😀
Courtney Young February 21, 20132:14 pm Reply
You always watch good movies with great reviews!
mettelray February 21, 20132:40 pm
Hah. Thanks! I’m trying to keep my movies sophisticated this year. 😀
keith7198 February 21, 20132:36 am Reply
Fun list! It’s funny, only two from my top 10 made yours (#2 and #3). That’s pretty much it! But I love ready these top 10 lists! Good stuff!
It was extremely hard to narrow down, and I’m disappointed I haven’t seen Amour, but this was what it boiled down to!
Natalie Stendall February 21, 20132:44 am Reply
A great list! Glad to see Beasts Of The Southern Wild on here – I agree with you that Dwight Henry deserved a nomination too. Haven’t seen your 10, 9 and 8 – will try to catch up with them soon!
As a local New Orleanian, it’s hard not to fall in love with Beasts, aside from the fact that it’s a brilliant screenplay with amazing acting and directing. So pretty ❤
Julie February 21, 20139:38 am Reply
Thank you Courtney! I’ll put all the ones I haven’t seen on my Netflix
sati February 21, 20139:59 am Reply
Since you have Argo and Silver Linings Playbook in your top 2 you are probably much more excited about the Oscar night than I am 🙂 Great list, I really have to check out number 9 and 10!
I won’t be reviewing Oslo, but I think it’s a beautiful piece that you could review really well. It’s on Netflix! Watch it.
Erik (AngryVader) February 21, 201310:55 pm Reply
I’m glad to see we have some overlap in our ‘best of 2012’ lists. I never got a chance to see either Rust and Bone or The Invisible War, but I definitely want to check them out. You’ve got me intrigued with Oslo, as I’ve never heard of it. I’ll have to add that one to my queue as well.
Courtney Young February 21, 201311:08 pm Reply
I stumbled upon Oslo by chance, and it was a really beautiful, yet tragic watch. Rust and Bone is a must. The trailer was what really sold it for me. Most powerful trailer of 2012!
quirkybookandfilmbuff February 22, 201312:31 am Reply
Excellent list! I haven’t seen all these yet, but my favorites on your list are Oslo and Silver Linings. I love your description of Silver Linings Playbook as “emotionally messy, dysfunctional and unapologetic.” 🙂
Courtney Young February 22, 201310:27 am Reply
Like I said above, I wouldn’t have known Oslo existed had it not been for all the bloggers out there talking about it! It was so simple, yet incredibly powerful to unfold a story in a 24-hour span.
SLP won it for me with it’s unconventional stab at mental illness coupled with family interactions. It was just great all around.
Inspired Ground (@InspiredGround) February 22, 20138:56 am Reply
Nice choices! I have Perks of Being Wallflower, Rust & Bone, and Silver Linings in my top 10 as well. Haven’t seen some others on your list though
Glad you have those 3! They definitely deserve to be there! I’m seeing Amour tomorrow, and I wonder if that will influence my Top10 opinion. Definitely check out Oslo, Seven Psychopaths and Killer Joe if you haven’t already.
CMrok93 February 26, 20135:27 pm Reply
Great list, Courtney! And I’m also glad to see The Invisible War up there. Should have won the Oscar, but I guess the Academy wasn’t too much about making a statement this year.
Thank you! I haven’t seen Sugarman, but I was surprised The Invisible War didn’t win because of the highly relevant, sensitive topic. Not to mention it was put together very well. The Academy has been repeatedly dropping the ball each year.
Bonjour Tristesse February 28, 201312:19 am Reply
A fine list! The only one I haven’t seen yet is THE INVISIBLE WAR. Will have to look out for it.
Definitely worth a watch. And thank you!
Alex Withrow February 28, 20135:56 pm Reply
Superb list. Many of these were in my Top 10 of 2012 as well, the ones that weren’t, I loved them still. Rust and Bone… now you’re talking. Love that film.
Yes! Didn’t expect Rust and Bone to be so high on my list, but it was so devastatingly beautiful.
sanclementejedi March 11, 201312:44 pm Reply
Hmmm I have seen your top four films and enjoyed them all but have yet to watch any of your bottom six although I have heard good things about at least four of them. Hope to getting around to checking them all out eventually.
Courtney Young March 12, 20139:04 am Reply
Bottom six are all worth giving a chance, especially Perks of Being a Wallflower. That was a huge surprise for me.
sanclementejedi March 12, 201310:19 am
Courtney I have heard nothing but good things about that film. Sounds like something the misses would be into as well.
Chip Lary March 11, 20133:11 pm Reply
Perks, Django, and Argo made my recent Top 10 of 2012 post. SLP just missed the Top 10. I haven’t seen a couple of your choices yet.
No SLP??? Whaaaaaat!
If I had done a Top 15 it would have been on it, probably at 12 or 13. If you are curious, you can see what I had that just beat it out here:
http://tipsfromchip.blogspot.com/2013/03/movies-my-top-10-of-2012.html
Here is my review of SLP: http://tipsfromchip.blogspot.com/2013/02/movie-silver-linings-playbook-2012.html
As you can see I said in the comments as recently as a month ago that it was in my Top 10. I just happened to see a few more movies that were good enough to bump it down.
I did have an issue with the concept that a woman who wants and enjoys sex is not only a slut, but mentally ill. I wrote about that here: http://tipsfromchip.blogspot.com/2013/02/on-silver-linings-playbook-and.html
To make a short story long, I did enjoy the movie quite a bit. I just liked some films a little more.
Courtney Young March 12, 20135:43 pm Reply
I’ll definitely check both out. Thanks!
Lights Camera Reaction April 30, 201311:27 am Reply
What did you think of Life of Pi?
Nice list though, Killer Joe makes my top ten, as does Perks.
Courtney Young April 30, 201311:33 am Reply
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How to Unlock the Overwatch 2 Winter Wonderland 2022 Twitch Drops
Overwatch 2 Winter Wonderland 2022 event began on December 13, 2022, and will run until January 4, 2023. The events bring Winter Wonderland skins, Twitch drops, and many more. Many players are currently wondering how to obtain certain Winter collection Twitch Drops. This guide explains how players can get or unlock Overwatch 2 exclusive Winter Wonderland 2022 Twitch Drops for free.
Launched in 2022, Overwatch 2 is a first-person shooter (FPP) game. The game is set in an optimistic future world. Overwatch 2 is the sequel to 2016’s shooter Overwatch. The game offers 5v5 players in every battle. Earlier in 2016, the team size was 6, but later this year it was reduced to 5. Overwatch 2 is free to download and play. And is available for almost all platforms, like the PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Series S, as well as Microsoft Windows.
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So you can get a lot of free skins, weapon charms, voice lines, etc from Overwatch 2: Winter Wonderland 2022 game. The new Overwatch blog post has mentioned Season 1 in its title. So, it is assumed that there will be one twitch drop for at least one season.
Players must watch the Overwatch 2 stream between December 25, 2022, and January 4, 2023, to receive the Twitch rewards. These Twitch drops are available only for a limited time, and it is mandatory to watch a Twitch stream. On successful completion of watch hours, players can claim their Twitch drops.
Here’s a quick guide to claim free Overwatch 2 Winter Wonderland 2022 Twitch drops. The procedure is as follows:
Go to account.battle.net and log in with your Battle.net credentials.
A new page will be open; On the sidebar menu, search for connections and click on them.
Look for Twitch and click the “+connect” button.
Finally, connect to Twitch by clicking on it.
After a successful connection, a window will pop up on the screen, as shown below.
This means that it is working, and if you have watched enough, the particular twitch will drop. Then you are eligible to unlock the Twitch drops.
There are two twitch drops in Season 1 of Overwatch 2’s Winter Wonderland event in 2022. They are as follows:
The D.Va Victory Pose is available to players who watch the Twitch stream for at least two hours. Players do not need to watch two hours continuously (as it counts total watch hours); they just have to spend two hours on the Twitch stream between the provided dates, which are December 25 and January 4, 2023.
Sleighing D.Va. legendary skin is available to players who watch the Twitch stream for at least four hours. Players do not need to watch four hours continuously (as it counts total watch hours); they just have to spend two hours on the Twitch stream between the provided dates, which are December 25 and January 4, 2023.
After successfully completing the watch hours (which are indicated by a timer and a progress bar). You can check your progress and claim your Twitch drops by following these steps:
Click on your profile icon.
A menu will appear with a section named “Drops” showing progress.
Finally, when the progress bar reaches 100%, you can click on it and claim your rewards.
Note: It is mandatory to connect your battle.net account; otherwise, the rewards will expire after seven days of being claimed.
This brings us to the end of this guide to Unlock the Overwatch 2 Winter Wonderland 2022 Twitch Drops. Please note that you will need access to your battle.net account in order to claim the Twitch drops awards. Otherwise, they will expire within one week time. Currently, only 2 Twitch drops have been announced, and more will be announced in the future. So make sure to bookmark us and visit daily for new updates.
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Training / Certification Paths
Is the CDPSE Worth It?
Now that the GDPR has become the law of the land in most parts of the internet, companies and businesses that previously didn't care about online privacy are scrambling to create robust privacy programs and practices. Even in places where the EU's data protection regulation isn't the legal benchmark, it's still the status quo. IT professionals who can plan, manage, and execute data privacy regimes and programs are going to be increasingly valuable as time goes on. That's what the CDPSE delivers.
It’s not just the European Union, individual U.S. states are writing and passing laws that require companies that collect user information to store, use and process it according to specific and strict requirements. The CDPSE is an industry certification that proves to an employer you know how to create a data security program that will keep them safe legally and digitally.
What is the CDPSE?
The CDPSE stands for Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer. CDPSE is an industry certification maintained by ISACA. ISACA is the international professional association best known for their eight certifications in IT governance. Their vendor-agnostic certifications are often considered the gold standard for IT professionals who work with IT management and governance.
The CDPSE from ISACA is an experience-based technical certification and when it debuted was the first of its kind. The CDPSE validates that an IT professional is able to implement privacy by design, enabling organizations to use privacy technology platforms and products with confidence. The CDPSE treats digital privacy like a holistic characteristic that can be applied to the entire organization's processes and production, regardless of what the company manufactures or sells.
The need for data privacy governance used to apply mostly to data companies and service providers only. But that's changed, and now companies that normally wouldn't have even supported an in-house IT team of their own are finding themselves in need of data security professionals with a certification like the CDPSE. Law firms, marketing companies, even retailers and manufacturers are now trying to find data security professionals to ensure their websites and data networks are safely handling PII.
What Does the CDPSE Exam Test?
ISACA refers to the exam necessary for earning the CDPSE as simply the CDPSE exam. ISACA doesn't share much about the questions on the exam, but the CDPSE exam has three work-related domains:
Domain 1: Privacy governance
Domain 2: Privacy architecture
Domain 3: Data lifecycle
Each of those domains depends on being able to build and implement privacy solutions that are closely aligned with unique organizational needs and goals. On top of answering the questions on the exam, you can't attain the CDPSE certification without three years of proven practical experience in the field of data security management. You can take the exam at any time, but must document your work experience in the data security field before you'll be eligible for the certification itself. You must also stay a member of ISACA in good standing to keep the certification.
How Much does the CDPSE Exam Cost?
The cost of the CDPSE exam is a little bit complicated because it depends on whether or not you're a member of ISACA. An ISACA membership costs $135, which comes with its own benefits. Attempting the CDPSE exam costs $575 for ISACA members and $760 for non-members. Once you pass the CDPSE exam, you have to pay a $50 application fee to apply to be vetted and certified. After all that, you still have to pay an annual maintenance fee of $45 for members and $85 for nonmembers to stay in good standing.
All told, it will cost an ISACA member $625 to earn the CDPSE certification and $45/year after that. For nonmembers, the CDPSE will cost $810 and $85 per year after that.
What Experience Do You Need for the CDPSE?
If you plan to earn the CDPSE, you need to have at least three years of experience in jobs that depend on three work domains. The three CDPSE domains are privacy governance, privacy architecture and data lifecycle.
Experience in the first domain, privacy governance, would be job responsibilities like identifying internal and external privacy requirements that are specific to the company's governance and risk management programs and practices. Privacy governance includes writing privacy policies that align with legal and regulatory requirements as well as industry best practices. You should have some experience developing, monitoring and reporting on performance metrics for privacy programs.
Experience in the second domain, privacy architecture, is more practically minded and more about technical skills around maintaining data security programs. You should have experience doing privacy impact assessments or developing privacy control procedures for specific programs. You should be able to evaluate an enterprise architecture and ensure that it supports privacy by design.
Experience in the third and final domain for the CDPSE, data lifecycle, is harder to describe because so much of the requirements are particular to individual companies, data types and sources. But earning the CDPSE means you're familiar with data purpose and data persistence principles. You'll need experience evaluating programs and ensuring they're maintaining data lifecycle considerations.
Experience in those three domains isn't just helpful for the exam – it's explicitly required from ISACA. Even if you pass the exam, you can't earn the certification without three years of experience working with privacy governance, privacy architecture and data lifecycle considerations.
Who Should Take the CDPSE?
The CDPSE is a broad certification that applies to IT/IS professionals in different capacities. Anyone who creates or implements privacy solutions should take the CDPSE. As should anyone who navigates those data privacy solutions to do their daily job. Good candidates for the CDPSE include consultants, data analysts and scientists, IT project managers, and privacy engineers.
Is CDPSE Worth It for Data Analysts and Data Scientists?
Yes, the CDPSE is worth it for data analysts and data scientists because so many of the tools and software you'll use in your daily life are governed by the practices and principles covered by the CDPSE. As time goes on and you navigate more databases that receive data from around the world, or as you retrieve the results of queries that draw from multiple sources, the burden of proving you're maintaining user security is going to increase.
Earning the CDPSE is a good idea for data analysts and scientists because it proves you're competent with maintaining IT privacy in addition to the more formal parts of your job.
Is CDPSE Worth It for IT Project Managers?
Yes, if you work as an IT project manager, the CDPSE is worth it to make sure you're steering your team members and projects in directions that are in keeping with your organization's data security policies and in accordance with applicable laws and policies. When you get pressured by leadership to pull off a new project or deliverable, you need to have data privacy considerations ready to go in your back pocket.
The CDPSE can help IT project managers keep their teams and their organizations compliant with data security regulations in cost-effective ways when they incorporate what they learned from the CDPSE into their projects.
Is CDPSE Worth It for a Privacy Engineer?
Yes, although privacy engineer is a relatively novel career, the CDPSE is one of the most common certifications for one to earn. That's because there might not be any better certification for proving your broad familiarity with the principles of privacy design and implementation than CDPSE. The CDPSE is a practical, skills-focused certification that proves your privacy programs and policies are cost-effective, efficient and beneficial.
Having the CDPSE will reduce friction between you and other cybersecurity personnel as you design or explain security risk assessment processes that address privacy compliance and risk mitigation. Privacy engineers can design network architectures and data frameworks that maintain data security principles. But privacy engineers with their CDPSE know how to design them so that their architectures pass inspections with flying colors and respond to updated privacy policies.
The CDPSE is an expensive certification. Earning the CDPSE doesn't just require that you prove years of on-the-job experience, it also means preparing for a challenging exam. But for IT professionals who work with data, it's a very worthwhile certification. Earning the CDPSE is worth it because it demonstrates a commitment to understanding and maintaining the complex laws and regulations that companies know they need to follow but aren't sure how.
Using CDPSE to Learn Skills
The CDPSE certification is focused on validating technical skills and knowledge. It's not about certain vendors or technology, which is why it's such a valuable certification for learning data security maintenance skills.
Taking a CDPSE preparation course will necessarily cover data security governance, management and data lifecycle training that will make you a more capable and useful data professional. If you've worked on the technical end of implementing data security tools and technologies and want to move into a managerial and oversight role, the CDPSE can help you learn the skills necessary to move into that senior position.
Using CDPSE to Validate Skills
The CDPSE is an advanced, specialized certification. That means that it's ideal for data security professionals with several years of experience who want to prove that they understand how to shape data security policies and govern data security architectures.
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Town of Mono's COVID-19 Message Centre:
Omicron — What should I know about TESTING and RISK
This message from the Town of Mono was posted on
About Testing:
What is the difference between a PCR Test and a Rapid Test?
PCR Test:
For the PCR you'll need to go to a testing centre, and with this test it will take several days before you get the result. The PCR has been the standard test used in testing centers and has been used at international borders crossings. In a newly infected person, the PCR test is likely to become positive almost immediately.
Rapid Test:
You should now be able to obtain rapid tests (Rapid Antigen Test) throughout Dufferin County. at pharmacies and grocery stores. You perform the test yourself and it gives you a result in matter of minutes.
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/full-list-of-where-to-get-free-covid-19-rapid-antigen-tests-in-ontario-1.5774753
If you become infected with COVID-19 your rapid test will be negative on the day of infection. It will take a few days until you will test positive. If you get symptoms — usually a runny nose or sore throat or unusual fatigue — the test will usually be negative on the first day of your symptoms. You should test yourself on the third day of illness and if negative retest 48 hours later. If still negative, it's highly unlikely you have COVID. However, if the test is positive, it's usually very accurate. You have COVID.
The most recent recommendations for accurate results when doing the rapid test are to swab both cheeks, followed by the back of the throat or tongue, and then both your nostrils. Place this swab in each cheek and roll it gently, swab the back of the throat or tongue, and then place it into each nostril straight back until it gets to the tickle point and roll it again. Directions are with the test kit and must be followed carefully. It has been found that the Omicron virus seems to start in the mouth and then move over time to the nose, a fact that has resulted in the advice to test in both mouth and nose.
About the risk: It is well known that Omicron is the latest COVID-19 variant and that it passes from one person to another very easily. Fortunately, in Ontario and in Dufferin County this wave peeked around mid January and we have been on the down slope since then.
For assessing previous waves, we have relied on new case numbers as indicated by COVID testing of symptomatic and asymptomatic persons. Unfortunately, with this wave, we were not able to continue with community testing — largely because the testing capabilities were swamped by the massive size of the omicron wave. Wastewater testing has now become the standard means of assessing community infection. Wastewater testing evaluates the amount of active virus in the community and relates directly to the number of people that are infected and provides a number known as a signal. The size of the signal is directly proportional to the number of active cases in the community. Province wide we currently test wastewater from 101 treatment plants and pumping stations in all 34 of our Ontario Public Health Units. This covers almost all persons in urban areas. The signal has been decreasing since mid-January. Currently its strength decreases by 50% every 10 days. Clearly, we are currently on the downslope of the Omicron wave. The signal is still significantly higher than it was prior to the Omicron wave, which indicates that there are more people currently infected with COVID than there were prior to Omicron’s arrival in Ontario
Well, what then is my personal risk?
We know that the Omicron virus passes from one individual to another more easily than previous variants. We also know that with this variant the standard 2 jab vaccination is not nearly as protective as with previous variants. With three jabs (including a booster) you are much less likely to get the disease. If you have not been able to or have chosen not to get vaccinated you have a 10 to 12 times greater risk of being admitted to an ICU and potentially requiring a ventilator than if you have had 2 or 3 vaccinations. As it has been with all other variants the risk of death is higher for persons over 70 years of age and higher still for persons over 80 years of age. Risk is again increased if you have other health conditions such as diabetes, cancer or are immunocompromised.
The virus usually/almost always is passed on in an indoor setting. Although initially in the pandemic it was thought that the virus was passed from one person to another when they were within six feet or closer by coughing or sneezing or otherwise expelling large respiratory droplets this is no longer thought to be the dominant method of spread. It is now clear that most infections are transmitted through fine droplets that float about in the air for minutes to hours. These droplets — sometimes called aerosols — are produced by normal breathing and talking and in larger quantities by shouting, coughing and singing. The best way to prevent transmission from an infected person is to not be in an indoor place especially if poorly ventilated where aerosols can accumulate, be fully vaccinated and be well masked. A good mask should be held to your face without air leaks. N95 or KN 95 masks are now more available especially online. Their ability to prevent you from receiving these fine droplets is extremely good and is many times better than the standard blue surgical mask or triple layered cloth mask.
Can I repeatedly use my mask?
Yes, just keep it clean and store it in your car or at home in a clean container or plastic bag. It is estimated that you can use an N95 or KN95 mask for about 40 hours before disposing of it. This depends on you keeping it clean and it being intact. Virus particles do not accumulate on it from day to day. The virus “dies” when outside the human body. An N95 or KN95 will not be as effective if it is washed. It will lose some of its superior efficiency due to loss of its electrical charge — an important function that is there to attract small particles. Blue — looking like paper — surgical masks cannot be washed and should be disposed of — probably after a day of use, while three-layer cloth masks can be repeatedly washed and reused.
The New Version of the Pandemic
It is certain that more Ontario residents will get infected by Omicron than were infected by any of the previous variants and will do so by this February, or sooner.
Transmission of COVID -19 Viruses
Our understanding of the infectious process has evolved and at the same time variants have become more transmissible and more severe. These factors must govern our future public health and personal care planning.
Third Vaccination Message: Local Update & FAQs
Suggestion of a third wave, variants of concern, and some frequently asked questions about the vaccines with answers.
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Election: Unofficial Results
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Voters: 1,880 voted out of 7,486 eligible voters (25.1%).
Results of the 2022 Municipal Election
Election Results: Councillor (3 to be elected)
Number of Votes
Percentage, Total Votes
Elaine CAPES 637 13.1%
Marc DARBY 445 9.1%
Melinda DAVIE 656 13.5%
Frank FLOOD 354 7.3%
Robert John LACKEY 393 8.1%
Ralph MANKTELOW 988 20.3%
Bradley MAYER-HARMAN 566 11.6%
Shona ROBBINS 472 9.7%
Doug THOMSON 333 6.8%
SPOILED 3 0.1%
DECLINED 22 0.5%
Acclaimed
John Creelman (ACCLAIMED)
Fred Nix (ACCLAIMED)
Elected Candidates
Elaine CAPES
Melinda DAVIE
Ralph MANKTELOW
School Board Trustees
2022 School Board Trustee Election Results
Upper Grand District School Board
Election Results: Upper Grand District School Board Trustee
Trustee Candidate Name
Dr. Raymond J. SETO 2,738 43.4%
Lynn TOPPING 3,575 56.6%
English-language Separate School Board
Election Results: English-language Separate School Board Trustee
Paula DAMETTO-GIOVANNOZZI 66 43.7%
Domenic MAGGI 14 11.9%
Vince MANZELLA 18 11.9%
Sheralyn ROMAN 53 35.1%
French-language Public School Board
Election Results: French-language Public School Board Trustee
Saveria CARUSO 1 16.7%
Eric LAPOINTE 5 83.3%
French-language Separate School Board
Election Results: French-language Separate School Board Trustee
Genevieve GRENIER 6 100%
Patrick O'NEIL 0 0%
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Town of Mono Certified Election Results
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John Creelman
Doug Thomson
Frank Flood
Marc Darby
John Lackey
Fred Nix
Shona Robbins
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2022 Municipal Election: Watch the Oct. 4 Meeting
Come out to an All Candidates Meeting for your chance to learn more about the candidates running in the upcoming election. Sep. 24 at Mono Community Centre from 9 am to noon hosted by MC²; Oct. 4 at Monora Park Pavilion from 7 pm to 9 pm hosted by Dufferin Board of Trade; and Oct. 17 at Monora Park Pavilion from 7 pm to 9 pm hosted by Concerned Citizens of Mono.
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You will receive a Voter Instruction Letter that will have your PIN and instructions on how to vote online or by phone. A Voter Help Centre will be established at Mono's Town Hall to assist electors with the online & telephone voting process or other general election inquiries. The help centre at the Town Hall will be available on the following dates and times:
Friday, October 14, 2022 from 10 am to 4:30 pm
Monday, October 17 to Friday, October 21, 2022 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
8:30 am to 8:00 pm on Monday, October 24, 2022 (Voting Day)
Residents of the Town of Mono or an owner or tenant of land in the Town
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Electors must also
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Electors can have their name added to the Voters' List up to the closing of polls on Voting Day. To have a name added, one piece of identification that includes name and current residential address must be shown. You can view a complete list of acceptable identification in the Municipal Elections Act, 1996 (Ontario Regulation 304/13 Voter Identification).
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347209 Mono Centre Road, Mono, ON
The Offices to be elected are as follows:
Office of the Mayor (ACCLAIMED)
Deputy Mayor (ACCLAIMED)
Councillor (3 seats)
Upper Grand District School Board Trustee
Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board Trustee
Conseil Scolaire Viamonde Trustee
Conseil Scolaire Catholique MonAvenir (formerly Conseil Scolaire de District Catholique Centre-sud)
Candidates for Mayor
Candidates for Deputy Mayor
Candidates for Councillor (3 candidates to be elected)
Candidates for School Board Trustee (one candidate to be elected for each school board)
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The data centre environment is in Halifax and it hosts some of the most sensitive government and financial systems running in Atlantic Canada. It is built to provide a highly secure and reliable solution to ensure voter anonymity and secrecy of your vote while also ensuring a fair election process. Stealing and opening another person's mail is illegal as is representing another person and stealing that person's right to vote in an election. If you know someone else has voted with your PIN, report it to the Election Official immediately.
1. I won't be in Mono during the voting period. Can I still vote?
Yes, even if you're on vacation outside of Canada, as long as you can either call or connect to the Internet, you can vote.
2. I find a lot of websites are difficult to navigate. How can I vote?
The voting system has been designed to meet the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) requirements to make sure everyone can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the system. If there are any issues (Internet connectivity, etc.), there is also the option to call and vote.
3. I use a screen reader. Can I vote online?
Yes, the system is WCAG-2 compatible and supports voting using screen readers.
4. What if I don't get a PIN in the mail by Election Day?
If you are an eligible elector and on the official Voter List, but did not get a PIN in the mail by the start of the election period, you can request a replacement PIN.
5. Is registration required?
No. At anytime during the election period, you may use your PIN to vote online or by phone.
In an effort to ensure that the 2022 Municipal Election is consistent with the core principles of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, the Town has developed an Accessibility Plan in advance of the election to identify measures to be taken.
2022 Municipal Election Accessibility Plan
Waterway Signing Survey
Please view the pictures & map below and use the intersections, roads, etc. for geographical context. There is a spot to fill in any alternative current, historical, or colloquial names of the rivers/streams/creeks/etc.
Personal information on this form is collected under the authority of the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and will be used for the purposes of collecting alternative names for waterways for potential inclusion in signage. Questions about this collection should be directed to the Clerk’s Office: [email protected], 347209 Mono Centre Road, Mono ON L9W 6S3, 519.941.3599.
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If you have difficulties filling out the form or want to take a conversational approach to providing feedback, please contact Councillor Ralph Manktelow:
Email: [email protected]
Reference Map for All Waterways
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29 Road Crossings Selected for Signage
Please provide a list of name corrections or alternatives in the fields. Please separate each name with a comma (,).
Enlarge Waterway 3
(3) South Branch Nottawasaga River
Location: 10 Sideroad
(4) McMaster Creek (or Stream)
Location: Hockley Road and Hurontario Street Intersection
Location: Hurontario Street
(6) North Branch Nottawasaga River
(7) Humber River Tributary
Location: 7th Line EHS
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(10) South Branch Nottawasaga River
Location: Hockley Road and 1st Line EHS Intersection
Location: Hockley Road and 2nd Line EHS Intersection
Location: 3rd Line EHS
(14) North Branch Nottawasaga River
(15) Nottawasaga River
(18) Mono Centre Creek
(19) Humber River Tributary
(20) North Branch Nottawasaga River Known locally as Elba Creek
(21) South Branch Nottawasaga River Known locally as Young Drain
Location: Blind Line
(26) Nottawasaga River Tributary Known locally as Penelton’s Creek
Location: Mono-Adjala Townline
(27) Sheldon Creek
(31) Boyne River Tributary Known locally as Primrose Creek
(37) McMaster Creek
(39) Sheldon Creek Tributary
10 Other Road Crossings Not Selected
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(1) McMaster Stream
Location: Mono-Amaranth Townline
(2) No Known Name
(22) No Known Name
(25) No Known Name, part of Penelton's Creek
(35) No Known Name, part of Elder Creek
Location: Blue Heron Drive
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Are there any of the above "10 Other Road Crossings Not Selected", that you feel should be selected for signage. Please reference the stream number from the previous section. Provide one waterway per line and include the reason why you feel the additional waterways should be signed.
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High speed fibre Internet for all of Mono:
Where do you and your party stand on rolling out high speed fibre for all of Mono? Multiple providers have applied to the Federal and Provincial governments for grants to extend service throughout the Town yet no announcements have been forthcoming. What will you do to expedite a process seemingly bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy?
Green Party of Ontario (GPO) Response
Ontario Greens support access to high speed internet as an essential service, our economy and education systems depend on it. Eliminating needless red tape is a first step in the process. Luckily, the Town of Mono has already been working very hard to provide high speed broadband to many residents in Mono. The province should also level the playing field so that more providers have access to the market. Finally, we have to ensure that we are making the appropriate investments in this area and not leaving municipalities in the dark; we know that the Ford government cut funding to this priority early on in their term.
As an aside, our political leaders could use their leverage to urge Ontario Hydro to lower their lease fees to allow internet providers to use hydro one infrastructure rather than exclusively burying fiber optic cable.
Ontario Liberal Party Response
It’s ridiculous that in 2022, a large part of our province does not have access to reliable high-speed internet. Access to high-speed internet across Dufferin-Caledon has been a problem for over 15 years. We talk a good talk about the importance of bringing reliable, affordable high-speed internet across our riding but little has been done to progress the situation. Mono has been especially hard hit by this issue.
Ontario Liberals will finally put an end to these cat-and-mouse games in Dufferin-Caledon. Every Ontarian will have reliable, affordable high-speed internet by 2025 under a Liberal government - that’s every single business, household, and First Nations reserve. Our Liberal government would improve access to internet while driving down costs through greater competition – leveraging existing public fibre assets to expand small, municipal or community-owned networks. We will also invest in low Earth satellites so that more options exist for residents.
We need to bring reliable, affordable high-speed internet under control in Dufferin-Caledon, and that’s exactly what I’ll do alongside Ontario Liberals at Queen’s Park by 2025.
Ontario NDP/NPD Response
Broadband is an essential service for rural Ontario, and we’ll treat it like one. It will be a priority for an NDP government it will be delivered in a way that local service providers compete, not just the big telecom giants.
We will finally connect rural communities so farms and agricultural businesses have the broadband they need to compete, and rural families have the broadband they need to stay connected.
We will deliver province wide high speed internet across rural Ontario by or before 2025.
Ministerial Zoning Orders:
Where do you and your party stand on use of this process to override local planning decisions? In general, where do you and your party stand on the ability of local municipalities to determine their future through locally driven planning solutions?
The Ford government has abused the MZO process to favour political insiders at a very disturbing cost to our natural environment and heritage and at the expense of our communities and our autonomy. Ministerial Zoning Orders are a planning tool that is only meant to be used in emergencies, like when the community of Elliot Lake needed a new grocery store following the tragic collapse of their shopping mall in 2012. In principle, Ontario Greens do not oppose MZO’s as a planning tool. But I believe that we need to reconsider the conditions under which they are used. Indeed, Ontario Greens believe that municipalities should have much more capacity to determine their own planning directions. Currently we are seeing growth targets imposed by this province that encourage urban sprawl and are not appropriate for rural communities that are primarily agricultural. Locally, the decision of LPAT to override our own opposition to the Violet Hill Pit is another example of where the voice of our community was ignored.
Ontario Greens are deeply committed to meaningful consultations with our municipal leaders and their communities. Locally driven, grass roots planning is crucial- but we must ensure that planning tools are not abused at any level of government
Let me be clear. The Ontario Liberals will eliminate Ministerial Zoning Orders (MZOs) once and for all. We’ve seen the negative impacts of MZOs across our riding and I am ready to put a stop to it. Under Doug Ford and Sylvia Jones, we’ve seen a record number of MZOs being pushed through without the public’s input. Unlike the Conservatives that abuse the use of MZOs, I believe in public process. I believe we should have our municipalities (through public consultation) dictate the needs for their community.
MZOs have brought an incredible amount of warehousing, environmental destruction, and self-benefiting backroom decisions to Dufferin-Caledon. Ontario Liberals will put a stop to it.
Ministers' Zoning Orders are designed to allow the Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister the final say on land use in the province — no option for appeal by municipalities, citizens or advocacy groups. Under the current government, Minister's Zoning Orders are being over used to strip away decades of progress in terms of policy and planning designed to protect the natural environment and farmland.
The NDP will put an immediate halt to the use of Ministerial Zoning Orders. We respect regional and municipal planning, along with environmental and agricultural assessments of land in consultation with community stakeholders.
Do you and your party support the construction of a highway that parallels an under-utilized highway (407) Are you willing to support subsidizing use of the 407 as an alternative?
Ontario Greens were the first to announce our opposition to the 413 (and the Bradford Bypass, an equally destructive project). I have personally been involved in trying to stop the 413 for the past two years. We fully support utilizing the 407. Consider that the company that owns the 407 owed Ontarians $1 billion in fines because it didn’t meet traffic threshold requirements. Doug Ford simply forgave that debt when he could have negotiated access to 1-2 dedicated trucking lanes on the highway. The 413 isn’t about alleviating congestion- a study we the taxpayers funded (in 2018) determined it would only save drivers 30 seconds. The 413 is instead designed to service new e-commerce locations that are being built on prime farmland (through the use of MZOs). All of this is deeply disturbing and doesn’t serve Ontarians. We need to be making investments in high quality public transit infrastructure, repairing our existing roads and bridges, and building affordable housing within existing urban boundaries. Our climate goals require us to preserve and protect the farmland that feeds us. We need to stop paving over our future.
I have been a champion for agricultural and environmental sustainability for decades. As the president of Beef Farmers of Ontario and my various agriculture roles, I’ve advocated against the destruction of farmland at Queen’s Park. Unfortunately, I know firsthand how the destruction of farmland has impacted our community and the climate.
Highway 413 needs to be stopped! Projects like Highway 413 will continue to destroy prime agriculture and local ecologies if built. Ontario Liberals have pledged to stop, once and for all, the construction of Highway 413. Ontario Liberals were the ones who created the Greenbelt and we will continue to protect and expand it.
It’s simple: if the Ford government is re-elected, Highway 413 will be built and will divide Dufferin-Caledon. The Ontario Liberal Party is the only party that can form government and stop this reckless project. We need to unite the proogressive vote to stop this Highway from being built - if we don’t, it will most certainly be built by Doug Ford and Sylvia Jones. That’s the reality that we face in Dufferin-Caledon.
We need smart solutions to public transit other than an under-utilized east-west corridor. We need more north-south options. I have already committed to advocating to speed up the construction of Caledon GO, and I most certainly will do the same for other parts of the riding, including Mono. We need solutions that make sense for our residents, not a concrete jungle.
In the meantime, Ontario Liberals will reduce transit fares to $1 across the province, will provide $8000 incentives for electric vehicles, and add additional High-Occupancy Toll Lanes to ensure that we can get Ontarians moving.
The NDP does not support Highway 413 or the Bradford bypass. We will cancel the highway. The NDP will open up the 407 for commercial trucks, alleviating congestion on the 401. We will shift our focus to intercity transit, filling the gaps left by Greyhound, with the goal of municipal fleets becoming electric by 2040.
Regional Transit:
Are you in favour of better GO bus service to Dufferin County including greater frequency, extension to Shelburne through Mono, weekend service, express runs to Brampton and general rationalization of service?
Yes! Ontario Greens fully support expansion of regional transit infrastructure that is affordable, accessible, reliable and connected. GO service is a key piece of that. The province has to make this happen and continue to push GO to expand service. Ironically, the “business case” for high quality rail service across our area was there in 1915 (see vintage maps of Dufferin at the Museum), but GO argues that folks aren’t embracing transit in 2022. This isn’t true. If the service was more frequent, and more convenient, more would use it.
I am fully in favour of reliable transit solutions for our residents. I will advocate for this at Queen’s Park. We need north-south solutions for our residents and I will be fighting for as your MPP.
Ontario Liberals have a plan to make transit $1 across the province. Not only will this save thousands of dollars for Ontarians but it will eliminate 400,000 vehicles off our roads each day. We need green solutions for the future of our province, and that means investments in public transit all across Ontario.
When speaking to people, it is clear that our region needs better transit. People cannot get from town to town without a vehicle. The reality is that more and more household are relying on our limited municipal transit systems. We need a regional approach to address this issue. The NDP is committed to restoring public funding to public transit, covering 50% of transit funding to municipalities. We will commit to filling in the gaps created by Greyhound.
Aggregate extraction:
Will you and your party support an assessment classification for pits and quarries that better recognizes their commercial/industrial activity? Will you also support an increase in the tonnage fee remitted to municipalities that better reflects wear and tear on roads and local impacts?
Yes. We are in favour of a better assessment process for our pits and quarries. In fact, we support a moratorium on further aggregate licenses until we have done a full independent review/audit of what is needed to meet our demands, and prioritized using recycled aggregate materials in some of our construction projects where appropriate. I believe the ARA needs to be revisited again so that we can prevent below-water table extraction in sensitive areas, and also have proper provincial monitoring of pits so we don’t have illegal fill being dumped. Finally, we need to ensure that rehabilitation happens in a timely manner, and is not being left to communities to seek funding for. The tax incentives for pits to remain dormant and not converted into rehabilitated greenspace creates a major barrier to this process. Aggregate operations are a crucial part of our local economy, and our construction processes, but we have to make sure we are extracting aggregate sustainably and responsibly. And yes, an increased tonnage fee is important so our communities can mitigate some of the negative impacts on our roads and other infrastructure.
I believe that the gravel and aggregate industry should be held responsible for the impact it has on local communities. I have been clear that I support a temporary moratorium on aggregate mining. In addition to the impacts of home devaluation for neighbours that live near these quarries and pits, the serious impacts to the environment cannot be overlooked. Ontario Liberals have already committed to cleaning up the mercury contamination in the St. Clair and English-Wabigoon River system and reduce pollution in Lake Simcoe and the Great Lakes, and we’ll certainly be doing more to restore and clean up Ontario’s precious greenspace from environmental degradation. We cannot let these industries ruin Dufferin-Caledon’s natural landscape. I will make sure that the aggregate industry pays its fair share to communities.
The NDP supports a moratorium on issuing new approvals for gravel pits. Ontario needs a coordinated strategy for gravel mining, and the NDP supports the calls to pause new approvals until we have a strategic plan in place.We acknowledge that gravel and aggregate are a necessary part of development and growth, and are an important industry in Ontario - but the province needs to have more control over the location of these mines.
Right now, gravel mining approvals are not coordinated well.There are pits popping up all the riding, and they disrupt people’s lives.
There are some problems associated with gravel pits being relatively close to homes and farms: water tables are impacted when digging happens down to the limestone, noise/dirt become an everyday reality, and rural municipalities end up paying for road repairs. We support calls to pause new approvals for gravel mines, until we have developed a comprehensive balanced plan for future mine locations.
Increased fines and penalties for drivers who break the law:
Mindful of epidemic speeding and reckless driving on our roads, do you support increased fines and penalties under the Highway Traffic Act, many of which have remained the same for 30 years? Mono has also called for the ability to use Automated Speed Enforcement on roadways with a speed limit of 80 km. without restrictions or conditions. Will you support this essential tool to curtail reckless road behaviour?
Yes, I would support increased fines and penalties for speeding. Living in Mono myself, I can tell you that this has become a major problem even on our quiet road. I would also support automated speed enforcement. This makes perfect sense to me, it would be cost effective and help increase monitoring.
Keeping communities safe is top of mind. If you thought that the roads were dangerous now, wait until Highway 413 is built. I will personally support the use of Automated Speed Enforcement in Community Safety Zones and will look at other options to curb speeding and illegal street-racing, including a focus on community policing. We also need to bring to date modernized penalties for people that continue to break the law. As a former police officer, I know the importance of this issue and I will work with the Town of Mono to combat these crimes.
We believe in councils’ right to decide on what's best for the community and know that municipal councils are in the best position to ensure safety for their residents, especially seniors and children in traffic calming zones. There has been much success in places like Ottawa with a 80 - 90% compliance rate. We acknowledge that there are some concerns regarding civil liberties — the NDP has an open door policy and will listen to our constituents and always act in their best interest.
Measures to increase affordable housing:
What is your plan to encourage affordable housing in municipalities such as Mono while at the same time being sensitive to their rural character?
Mono is a rural community that is entirely unaffordable for young families and farmers to settle in. This is a major problem. During the pandemic, we saw this problem worsen as our housing markets soared and many wealthy buyers saw more of an opportunity in our community to work from home. But Mono must remain primarily rural, agricultural. The land here could feed our surrounding towns. This is a key part of building a sustainable, local food system. But we do need to address affordable housing here, as we do across the province. Ontario Greens encourage, via zoning tools, planning that allows for more multi-generational living- which are good for the farming community (and more secondary suites like barn apartments, which are already common here). We also need to ensure that folks can build tiny homes on their properties to allow for some rental units within Mono. That being said, the growth that Dufferin is set to see should be happening within our towns like Shelburne and Orangeville- and that growth needs to prioritize affordable housing and gentle density so they don’t also continue to sprawl out. Orangeville is already seeing applications for taller residential buildings. In my view, we haven’t fully explored all of the incentives for secondary units in existing residential neighborhoods and also, duplexes, triplexes, and quadplexes. On Broadway south of C-Line one strip mall recently saw added apartments on top- this is a great way to create more housing supply without increasing the footprint of the location. Ontario Greens have a masterclass housing policy which can be found at www.gpo.ca/housing
There is an affordable housing crisis in Ontario. In the past 4 years under the Doug Ford and Sylvia Jones government, they’ve had 4 different plans to fight the rising costs of homes in Ontario - none of them have worked. The cost of homes has increased by over $500,000 in the past 4 years. And what was one of their first decisions when entering office? Cut rent controls, even though they promised they wouldn’t do it. The Conservatives have shown that they cannot be trusted to provide affordable housing for Ontarians.
The Ontario Liberals have a plan that will build 1.5 million new homes so that more young people, seniors, newcomers and families have a place to call home. We will also bring back rent controls to make sure that they do not continue to rise disproportionately to incomes. I’ve heard from residents that have said that their rent has increased $500-600 - Ontarians can’t keep up.
Ontario Liberals will do these things while preventing urban sprawl. We will restore urban intensification requirements that the Ford Conservatives weakened and cut the red-tape to convert underutilized industrial and commercial sites into new homes. We will not build on prime farmland and put at risk our food security. Finally, instead of propping up developer buddies like Doug Ford and Sylvia Jones have been doing for years, Liberals will introduce a ‘use it or lose it’ tax on developers sitting on land ready for development
Ontario Liberals have a plan to get more people into homes and to make homeownership more affordable. That’s what I will fight for at Queen’s Park as your MPP.
We believe housing is a human right. We believe that young people should be able to get a safe, affordable place of their own when they’re ready. Everyday people should be able to rent without the constant threat of eviction or huge rent hikes. That buying a home should not be out of reach for hardworking families. And that families should be able to afford a good home, in the community they love.
Currently Doug Ford is giving his developer buddies (and donors) a blank cheque to pave over farmland, wetlands and greenbelt with costly and destructive sprawl while ignoring the environment, sidelining public consultation, and violating all established principles of sustainable land use and growth planning. Housing unaffordability is also a demand problem (due to speculation and financialization), but supply is absolutely necessary. We know we need to create more places for people to live.
Through our Homes You Can Afford platform - we present a completely different approach to land use and planning. We will enable the building of LOTS of homes that are actually affordable, located where people want to live, meeting the real needs of Ontario families. We will:
Build 1.5 million new homes over the next decade
End exclusionary zoning to enable more affordable "missing middle" housing options like duplexes, triplexes and townhouses within existing urban boundaries
And create a new public agency, Housing Ontario, to build 250,000 new affordable and non-market rental homes over ten years
Pay what the last tenant paid: bring back real rent control for all apartments, eliminating the financial incentive for landlords to squeeze out tenants to raise the rent.
The NDP values housing as a human right because everyone deserves a place to call home. And we can do this without wastefully paving over irreplaceable farmland or destroying cultural and natural heritage — because that is what we value.
Dufferin-Caledon Candidates
BANYAI, ANDREA
Political Party: New Blue
Website: www.andreabanyai.com
Contact: use the contact form at www.newblueontario.com/dufferin-caledon
Political Party: Green Party of Ontario GPO
Website: laura-campbell.ca
Contact: 519-278-4602 | [email protected]
EMMANUEL, ERICKUMAR
Political Party: Ontario Moderate Party
Website: ontariomoderate.com
Contact: 416-839-4889 | [email protected]
GORDANIER, BOB
Political Party: Ontario Liberal Party
Website: www.bobgordanier.ca
Contact: 519-215-2135 | [email protected]
JONES, SYLVIA
Political Party: PC Party of Ontario
Website: dufferincaledon.ontariopc.ca
Contact: 519-942-0790 | [email protected]
NGUYEN, LILY
Political Party: Ontario Party
Website: www.ontarioparty.ca/our_candidates_en
Contact: [email protected]
PRENDERGAST, TESS
Political Party: Ontario NDP/NPD
Website: www.tess.prendergast.ontariondp.ca
Contact: [email protected]
SAYER, KAY
Political Party: Public Benefit Party
Website: publicbenefitparty.ca
Contact: [email protected]
Source: voterinformationservice.elections.on.ca/en/election/4-general-election-jun-2-2022/23-dufferin-caledon?tab=candidates, retrieved May 20, 2022
An Informational Guide to Town of Mono's New Checkout Bag Bylaw
Please select whether you are a Resident / Member of the General Public or a Business
Resident / Public
On January 1, 2021, you should no longer receive checkout bags from stores in Mono. You may only receive a bag if:
You are first asked whether you need a bag and you respond that you require one
The bag you receive is a paper bag
You must pay for the bag
Businesses must allow you to use any reusable bag that you may already have, including bags from competitors.
You may still receive bags in situations when the bag is being used to do any of the following:
Package loose bulk items, such as fruit / vegetables, nuts, grains, or candy;
Package loose small hardware items such as nails and bolts;
Contain or wrap frozen foods, meat, poultry or fish;
Wrap flowers or potted plants;
Protect prepared foods or bakery goods that are not already packaged;
Contain prescription drugs received from a pharmacy;
Transport live fish;
Protect linens, bedding, or other similar large items that cannot easily fit in a reusable bag;
Protect newspapers or other printed material that may be left outside;
Protect clothes after laundering or dry cleaning;
Protect tires that cannot easily fit in a reusable bag;
Collect and dispose of animal waste
You may also receive small paper bags at no charge for smaller purchases.
For more information, view the Plastic Bag Bylaw.
On January 1, 2021, you should no longer provide checkout bags to customers. You may only supply a bag if:
You first ask customers whether they need a bag and they respond that they require one
The bag you provide to customers is a paper bag
Customers must pay for the bag. Businesses can set whatever price they feel is appropriate for these bags.
Customers should be allowed to use any reusable bag that they may already have, including bags from competitors.
You may still provide bags in the following situations if the bags do any of the following:
You may also provide a small paper bag at no charge for small purchases.
Contravening the new Plastic Bag Bylaw will result in a fine of $150. Any person who is charged with multiple or repeat offences under this Bylaw is liable to the following fines if found guilty under Part 3 of the Provincial Offences Act:
$500 for each day or part day that the offence continues, limited to $10,000
$500 for each offence in a case of multiple offences and the total of all fines for each included offence is limited to $10,000
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A skilled carpenter, my dad built Julio a sturdy and spacious cage for the short time it would take for him to grow from a fledgling into an adult parrot. When Julio was old enough to fend for himself, Dad planned to release him, a sad fact that we kids had to accept, for as my father said, “He was meant to be free.”
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LAW4112 - Advanced constitutional law - 2017
This unit focuses on issues in Australian constitutional law that are not covered in depth in either Principles of Public Law and Statutory Interpretation (LAW1112), or Constitutional Law (LAW 3201). Issues will be selected for examination depending on their current theoretical or practical importance. Examples include methods of constitutional interpretation (including tensions between the framers' original intentions and contemporary values); the nature of implications drawn from the Constitution; express constitutional rights (trial by jury and freedom of religion); compulsory acquisition of property; the separation of powers as source of implied rights; the "races power"; the defence power both in war and peace; parliamentary privilege; and the process of constitutional amendment. Other issues that acquire public prominence from time to time, such as proposals for constitutional amendment, may also be examined. Comparisons with the constitutional law of other jurisdictions will be considered where appropriate.
At the successful completion of this unit students should be able to:
Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the nature of constitutional law and constitutional interpretation in Australia, and especially its fundamental constitutional principles;
Demonstrate the intellectual and practical skills needed in the complex process of constitutional interpretation.
Articulate and critically examine contemporary issues relating to the Australian constitutional system;
Demonstrate an advanced ability to evaluate the role and functioning of the High Court in contemporary Australian society, and its relationship with the elected branches of government;
Class participation 10%; research assignment (2000 words) 40%; final examination (2 hours plus 30 minutes reading and noting time) 50%
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. The unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
Emeritus Professor H P Lee
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For students who commenced their LLB course prior to 2015: LAW1100 OR LAW1101 and LAW1102 or LAW1104; LAW3200 OR LAW3201
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Digital Transformation is the most disruptive thing of this Decade: Interview with Dr. Soumya Patnaik
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July 16: “There are innumerable, unimaginative and prolonged interventions of Digital Transformation in rapidly evolving Corporate world. The impact and impression lie in our approach and balancing act.” Shares Dr. Soumya Patnaik.
Dr. Soumya Ranjan Patnaik is concurrently the Strategic Advisor, Board of trustees, and Business Transformation Master Facilitator. He has over two decades of international business management experience, including 15 years in executive coaching, Digital Transformation, and leadership development and training with reputed Universities in India and abroad.
He has consistently addressed and resolved those issues by defining and setting strategies to strengthen revenue, profit, and digital transformation. Capitalising on these experiences, he launched Genext education LLC in Delaware, USA, Better Matter Foundation, and Apoorva Designware Pvt.Ltd in India is centred on developing and successfully mobilising strategic change necessary to address emerging threats to deliver and sustain meaningful growth. Dr.Patnaik has a passion for “success through others”.This passion helped him successfully work with a range of clients such as Bare International, USA Research International, and the UK, apart from many organisations from India and Africa.
On the occasion of launching the Digital campaign “Mo Gharani Sadhabani” organised by his non-profit Better Matter Foundation, in this interview with Dr. Soumya Patnaik, CEO, Genext Education LLC & Apoorva Designware Pvt. Ltd emphasised how to adopt, invest and implement Digital transformation- deploying the strength of a high-tech work environment, prevailing in the hearts and minds of the stakeholders and customers, and equipping your company to excel at what it aims to.
Q: The concept of the efficacy of Digital transformation brings dexterity, resilience, and niche-centricity is now both a managerial inspiration and leadership excellence. However, consistent with numerous studies, maximum Digital transformation efforts are failing. What do you believe is your experience of the situation?
A: The reality is that we see this concept with all new ideas. We are all searching for the nectar of life, the magic wand, the ultimate answer. We sincerely don’t do sufficient research, planning, and crisis management. With all the vivid new matters, we don’t want to forget the basics, and we’re people first, so suppose human-focused approximately any new initiative.
Q: The expectancies of humans have modified noticeably within the last couple of years, and so do their expectancies from technology. How are we able to position humans at the core of digital transformation?
A: We have recognised since the 80s of the ideas of behaviour engineering and design thinking. But, to entice, the magic answer has been offered to us with the aid of using a notably negligible number of IT services vendors – which they could be available and resolve all of our issues, of course, at a price. Of course, we depend on the vendors of the IT and technologies– maximum enterprises now no longer have in-house development capability to create their very own solutions. But, we have to ensure that the vendors who work for us now no longer dictate to us. We have to make certain that what they advise suits our vision, mission, and values; serves the particular desires that we our organisations have; and that, with inside the method of design and implementation, we win the hearts and minds of individuals who will want to buy-in to the solutions, the human end-user.
Q: Digital transformation isn’t always something new, though. The stride of transformation has amplified and accelerated. What has modified approximately efforts to convert business models and digital platforms?
A: The process of globalisation and the notion inside the want for non-stop increase in preference to sustained performance. Also, with such occasions as the Covid19 pandemic, corporates have understood that in which that they’d 2 or 3 years plan, they might really put into effect a change in a month. The hassle is that the human component became effectively ruled out because of a loss of choice. However, the results of that took lots longer than a month to be recognised.
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Call for Papers: 7th Asian International Economic Law Network (AIELN) Conference - Building a Sustainable Future: New Asian Regionalism in International Economic Law
7TH ASIAN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW NETWORK (AIELN) CONFERENCE
Building a Sustainable Future: New Asian Regionalism in International Economic Law
9-10 December 2021 (Webinar via Zoom)
Co-organized by the Centre for Commercial Law in Asia of the Singapore Management University (SMU) Yong Pung How School of Law and the Asian International Economic Law Network (AIELN) – the Asian Branch of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) with the support of the Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy of National Taiwan University College of Law and the Sumitomo Foundation of Japan
I. Theme
The co-organizers will hold the 7th AIELN Conference on 9-10 December 2021. The theme of the Conference is “Building a Sustainable Future: New Asian Regionalism in International Economic Law.” The virtual conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for academics, private practitioners, and government officials to present works in progress across the spectrum of international economic law issues related to Asia. The tentative schedule for the Research Forum is as follows:
Thursday, 9 December 2021: Opening Ceremony and Conference Sessions
Friday, 10 December 2021: Conference Sessions and Closing Ceremony
II. Submission of Paper Proposals
The organizing committee welcomes proposals on the following areas of international economic law:
1. New Asian regionalism (e.g., developments in ASEAN, the CPTPP, the RCEP and digital economy agreements; investment liberalization and protection including ISDS and the Investment Court System)
2. Trade and sustainable development (e.g., Asian countries’ approaches to environmental sustainability, fisheries subsidies, forest management and food security)
3. Legal responses to COVID-19 (e.g., TRIPS waiver for vaccines, tariffs and non-tariff barriers imposed on medical devices, and investment in the healthcare and technology sectors)
4. International monetary and financial law (e.g., AI in finance; central bank digital currencies; sustainable finance and financial inclusion)
5. Other aspects of Asia’s new economic order (e.g., US-China trade tensions; Indo-Pacific policies of ASEAN, the US and the EU; trade disputes and strategies of Australia, India, Japan, Korea and Taiwan)
Paper proposals of no more than 500 words must be submitted by 30 September 2021, using the online submission form (https://forms.gle/ingAMKo2FjEKS1rJ8). Please also provide a short biography including recent publications in English.
The organizing committee welcomes proposal submissions from academics and other professionals. Junior faculty members are particularly welcome. The organizing committee will select proposals and announce the results in October 2021. Paper presenters are required to submit complete, unpublished papers by 1 December 2021. The footnotes should conform to the US Bluebook format.
III. Other Information
Papers will be selected for publication in the special issue of the Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy (Scopus and SSCI-indexed). The deadline for submitting revised papers to the journal is 10 January 2022. Submissions will undergo peer review and the editorial board of the journal will make the final publication decision. Articles in the journal will also be made available on HeinOnline and Westlaw.
Registration details will be announced in November 2021. Inquiries can be directed to the organizing committee (Professors Douglas Arner, Yuka Fukunaga, Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez, Pasha Hsieh, Jurgen Kurtz, Tsai-yu Lin, Han-Wei Liu, Neha Mishra, Junji Nakagawa, and Heng Wang) by e-mail at researchlaw [at] smu.edu.sg.
The AIELN was established as the first regional branch of the SIEL in 2009. It is an international non-partisan, non-profit and non-governmental organization with the following objectives: to promote research, education and practice of international economic law by serving as a center of activities among scholars, practitioners, governments and international organizations focusing on international economic law in Asia and elsewhere; to foster and encourage Asian perspectives of international economic law; and to promote public awareness of international economic law in Asia.
The Centre for Commercial Law in Asia (CCLA) at the Singapore Management University was established in 2014. CCLA aims to advance commercial growth in Asia marked by sustainability, inclusion and innovation through excellent research. It conducts and facilitates research in all areas of commercial law, with focus on its application, development and impact in Asia.
With the support of various partners, this AIELN Conference aims to strengthen the SMU-SIEL collaboration on promoting international economic law research related to Asia.
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MainStreet, a startup that helps other startups uncover tax credits that was valued at $500 million last year, has laid off about 30% of its staff, according to a tweet from CEO Doug Ludlow.
In that tweet, Ludlow said MainStreet “took the difficult step of reorganizing and restructuring the company” this week. He did not say if these cuts impacted all teams across the company or if any executives were laid off. He also did not state exactly how many employees are impacted by the move.
Ludlow added: “We did not take this decision lightly, and we are doing everything within our power to provide as much transition assistance (severance, health care, recruiter and job placement assistance) as is possible…We took this action because we believe that there is a very strong chance that today’s incredibly rough market is only going to get worse, and potentially remain so for months, if not years.”
TechCrunch has reached out to the San Jose, California-based company for further details.
The startup built a business around helping startups uncover research and development tax credits, a pool of which it takes a 20% cut from. In 2020, MainStreet crossed the $1 million ARR run rate threshold and helped the average MainStreet client save $51,000, per previous TechCrunch reporting. In 2021, MainStreet’s revenue crossed $15 million, per industry newsletter Not Boring. It’s unclear what these figures look like today – but Ludlow’s tone suggests that growing challenges await.
“We believe that there is a very strong chance that today’s incredibly rough market is only going to get worse, and potentially remain so for months, if not years,” Ludlow continued in his Twitter thread. There’s been a string of layoffs recently, including Cameo cutting 87 members of its team and Amazon aggregator Thrasio confirming that it has begun laying off portion of the company. Robinhood, a consumer investing and savings company, also announced that it is cutting 9% of staff, roughly 300 people.
MainStreet is backed by investors including SignalFire, Tusk Ventures, Shrug, Moxxie Ventures, Weekend Fund, Gradient Ventures, Sound and SV Angels. According to Crunchbase, the company has raised $64.7 million in known venture capital to date.
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Dogeliens is Catching up to TRON and Filecoin in the Race for Widespread Cryptocurrency Adoption, and It Could Soon Outrun Them
Although the crypto industry has come a very long way since its early days, it still has a long way to go. Traditional financial systems and institutions are still dominant, even with the clear advantages cryptocurrencies and blockchain systems have over them. A lot of cryptocurrencies have been launched with a lot of features and services in an attempt to get more users.
TRON (TRX) and Filecoin (FIL) have been able to get a lot of users because of the broad range of features and services they offer. Now, Dogeliens (DOGET), the new meme coin, is chasing after them, and it has become a very close race.
Dogeliens (DOGET) Might Have Widespread Adoption in its Future
Dogeliens (DOGET) has joined the crypto market, and it is on track to achieve its goal of completely taking over. The alien race that inspired Dogeliens (DOGET) is from the planet Puptopia, and they have a crypto adoption rate of 100%, which is more than ten times what it is on earth. They want humans to see and appreciate the value of cryptocurrencies and all the advantages they have over the traditional financial systems that exist currently. To achieve this, the Dogeliens Academy will provide people with free education on cryptocurrencies and the crypto market.
As a good gesture, people will also have access to free education courses on mathematics, reading, writing, and geography. As a meme coin, Dogeliens (DOGET) will also provide users with a lot of fun activities with Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).
TRON (TRX): The Perfect Creator Platform
TRON (TRX) is an open-source cryptocurrency that joined the crypto market in 2018. The TRON network was built to provide content creators with a platform where they can be paid properly for their work from their communities. Unlike the current setups of the large, centralized creator platforms like YouTube and Facebook, the TRON network links creators with their communities directly, and there is no middleman to share revenue with creators. Users can reward creators directly with Tronix (TRX) tokens.
The Tronix (TRX) tokens are the native cryptocurrency of the TRON network, and they are used for all other transactions within the blockchain. The TRON network was run by the TRON Foundation until December 2021, when control was transferred to the community, through a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO).
Filecoin (FIL) is Showing Users the Right Way to Handle Cloud Storage
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Impacts of Long-Term Temperature Changes on Electricity Investments
Improving power sector detail in model shows 3-22% increase in capital investments across the U.S.
Modeling monthly day/night dynamics in the power sector component of a multisector model helps improve estimations of how temperature change and variability affect electricity demand and investments.
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Long-term temperature changes can affect building heating and cooling demands and the corresponding electric sector capacity and capital investments. This study explores the effects of long-term temperature changes and variability on electric sector capacity in the U.S. by accounting for monthly day/night profiles of electricity use, associated electric sector investments, and power plant operations within a long-term, multisectoral model with state-level detail (GCAM-USA). The study shows that future peak temperature changes could drive increases in capital investments by 3-22% across the U.S. relative to a future scenario that assumes temperature has no impact on electricity demand. These temperature-induced capital investments are highly sensitive to socioeconomic assumptions, which underscores the importance of using a multisectoral approach.
The results of this study underline the need for electric sector capacity expansion planning and modeling to account for impacts of temperature changes on the peak electricity loads (rather than the mean, the focus of many prior efforts) since peak loads drive capacity and investment requirements. The study also underscores the need for such planning and modeling to account for broader socioeconomic drivers and the development and interactions of other sectors with the electric sector. Simultaneously accounting for these factors will help ensure a long-term electricity system that is reliable with sufficient capacity to meet demands at all times of the year.
This work sets the stage for future research on how a variety of factors, like electricity storage, electric vehicle penetration, and battery charging patterns, might impact the future evolution of the electric sector.
The improved version of GCAM-USA calculates electricity loads by service in the residential and commercial building sectors in 25 sub-annual (24 monthly day/night plus a “superpeak” segment) time-segment units, thus endogenously and dynamically capturing the impacts of future temperature changes on sub-annual load profiles. The model performs a merit-order based routine to dispatch capacity to meet energy loads, prioritizing the cheapest energy first. Simultaneously, it calculates the retirement of existing capacity and necessary capacity investments, where investments depend on superpeak demand, existing stock, and retirements.
The study uses the improved model to examine the implications of long-term temperature change and spatial and temporal variability on electric sector capacity and capital investment requirements. Under middle-of-the road socioeconomic assumptions and future climate change consistent with 8.5 W/m2 forcing by 2100, mean temperature changes drive increases in national annual electricity demands by about 5%. However, peak temperature changes drive increases in installed capacity and capital investments by about 15%. This difference in temperature impacts suggests that planning for future electricity systems based only on annual impacts on electricity supplies and demands could grossly underestimate the economic implications of long-term temperature changes. These temperature-induced increases in electric capacity and investments vary spatially across the U.S. based on local conditions.
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This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, as part of research in MultiSector Dynamics, Earth and Environmental System Modeling program.
Z. Khan, G. Iyer, P. Patel, S. Kim, M. Hejazi, C. Burleyson, M. Wise, “Impacts of long-term temperature change and variability on electricity investments.” Nature Communications, 12, 1643, (2021). [DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21785-1] | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5590082406997681, "wiki_prob": 0.44099175930023193, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line1258412"} |
Building confidence across Kashmir through trade
Ameya Kilara examines the factors of the enduring trade between the Indian and Pakistani administered parts of Kashmir, despite political obstacles and feeble peace process.
Ameya Kilara
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Emotional GDP has immense potential to make borders irrelevant
It was a day of tremendous hope in Kashmir when, in 2008, trucks laden with goods crossed Aman Setu (‘Peace Bridge’) for the first time in 60 years of conflict. The governments of India and Pakistan had agreed to open two routes across the Line of Control (LoC) for trade between the Indian and Pakistani administered parts of Kashmir.
The move was termed as a historic confidence building measure, or CBM, partly in the hope that it might reinvigorate a peace process that appeared to be struggling to survive. As it turned out, the timing was unfortunate. A month later the Mumbai attacks drove the final nail into the coffin of the official peace process which, seven years on, is yet to be fully revived. At the same time, what is interesting from a peacebuilding perspective is that trade has continued, despite the diplomatic impasse following the Mumbai attacks and subsequent political upheavals.
What then has allowed trade to persist, despite political obstacles and the fact that there are inherent limitations to this trade? And what factors enable cross LoC trade to build confidence in the midst of prolonged conflict? While undoubtedly multiple factors are at play (most important being the direct economic and emotional stakes of traders themselves), the role of local institutional mechanisms such as the Jammu and Kashmir Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industries is fundamental.
What do we mean by ‘confidence building measures’?
CBMs are designed to build trust between parties to a conflict, to create a friendly environment for political negotiations. In the context of the Kashmir conflict, the meaning of ‘confidence building’ is itself embedded in the multiple layers of conflict. CBMs that seek to connect the two sides of Kashmir, including cross LoC trade, cannot be understood only as measures to bring the Indian and Pakistani governments closer. They play a role in symbolically softening a barrier between people living in Kashmir on either side of the LoC. They also demonstrate a commitment of both governments to take practical steps to alleviate the sense of alienation and victim-hood felt by the Kashmiri people.
A policy brief by the Kashmir Initiative Group says that CBMs are meaningful when they reflect predictable, consistent and accountable behaviour, arguing for them to be institutionalised. In other words, if cross LoC trade is to function as a CBM, it needs to be governed by a set of rules that are applied consistently on both sides, so that people involved in the process know what to expect. Traders, officials and others involved need to have a way to redress grievances when the system is not functioning the way it is meant to. Finally, if this CBM needs to realise its symbolic/sentimental value, then there must be a way for it to take root in the imagination of people in Kashmir who are its intended beneficiaries.
Trade across the LoC was initiated with a huge sense of celebration but is often seen as lacking some of the other supporting elements of sustainable CBMs. This is precisely where the Joint Chamber plays a pivotal role in enabling cross LoC trade, fraught with limitations as it is, to build confidence in a meaningful way.
The Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industries
The Joint Chamber has grown into an organisation with 48 members
In October 2008, businesspersons from the Pakistani side visited the Indian side of Kashmir and announced the formation of a joint platform – the Jammu and Kashmir Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industries. This subsequently emerged as the first-ever organisation with members from both sides of the LoC. Since 2009, Conciliation Resources, a UK based peacebuilding organisation, has been working alongside local partners with the Joint Chamber to provide practical support to the development of this institution and the trade process. This work was recently recognised with a 'Positive Collaboration Award' from international NGO umbrella body, Bond.
The Joint Chamber began with the established business chambers and federations in the capital cities on either side of the LoC. Gradually, trade associations were formed at the LoC to represent the traders directly. Meetings of the Joint Chamber have resulted in its members negotiating and signing three agreements on the constitution and working of this institution. These are all remarkable steps in a conflict-affected region that has never seen cross-divide platforms previously, let alone with such enthusiastic participation.
Kashmiri leaders release doves as they await the first trade vehicles from India administered Kashmir. Image credit: Muhammad Arif Urfi.
Six years later, the Joint Chamber has grown into an organisation with 48 members drawn from 14 constituent business associations from across the different regions of Kashmir. It is becoming increasingly democratic in its functioning and acts as the glue between local traders, big business chambers, wider communities and the two governments. Its members represent a broad spectrum of religious, cultural, linguistic and political diversity. This forum has now gained the confidence and credibility to lobby governments for expanded trade. For example, when trade has been suspended on account of political level disputes, the Joint Chamber has played a role in advocating for its prompt resumption. Perhaps more than anything, it has made it possible for a wider section of society to associate with the trade process, despite setbacks. The words of its current President express this well:
More than actual GDP, what the trade process has brought to fruition is emotional GDP... I believe that this has immense potential to make borders irrelevant - Y.V. Sharma, President, Jammu and Kashmir Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industries.
What have we learnt?
Our work with the Joint Chamber has taught us three key lessons:
Ownership of confidence building initiatives by local communities makes them more sustainable and meaningful, even when official negotiations are stuck. Cross LoC trade has sustained because local traders and communities have a real stake in keeping it going.
Institutions play a crucial role in creating local participation and in supporting confidence building initiatives. Without the Joint Chamber, cross LoC trade would likely have become an ad hoc activity by a small group of traders. The existence of the Chamber makes possible larger public support for, and engagement with, this trade process.
Long-term support is required to build institutions that can champion confidence building. Even six years after its inception, the Joint Chamber is in the process of redefining how it can function effectively given the challenges presented by the conflict. Peacebuilding organisations, donors and governments need to frame strategies that acknowledge this reality in order to promote confidence building more effectively.
We hope the Joint Chamber can provide a blueprint for similar institutions, working across the LoC, to emerge. Ultimately intra-Kashmir CBMs, such as the trade initiative, reflect a prudent decision by the Indian and Pakistani governments to keep a small space open for positive engagement, even when the official dialogue process is dormant. Such collaborative institutions can ensure that these small windows do not close before their full potential for encouraging the broader peace process has been realised.
Ameya Kilara is the South Asia Projects Manager at Conciliation Resources, a peacebuilding NGO supporting people at the heart of conflicts.
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Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? Restrictive Laws . (Concluded .)
BUT lest oppression should trample upon the rights of the laboring classes, and aim at their enslavement, - which actually happened afterward, and was one of the principal items of God’s indictment (Jeremiah 22:3; 34:8-22) against the Jews prior to their destruction by Nebuchadnezzar, - three special enactments were made to prevent such iniquity, and break up any attempt at chattel slavery in the nation.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 145.2
First. The law against kidnapping. - Exodus 21:16. “He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.” Thus the one great means of obtaining slaves is forbidden. He who (no matter where) seizes a human being (no matter whom), and reduces him to involuntary servitude, shall die; for he seeks to take away the rights and privileges of freedom, all that goes to make up life; seeks to make property of man, to extinguish the man in the chattel.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 145.3
“But,” it is said, “this only refers to stealing slaves.” Mark the logic: a man could seize and enslave another with impunity; but if, afterward, the father, brother, or friend of the enslaved should attempt to rescue him, he must die! Glorious argument for slaveholders and slavecatchers! It is also said this refers to Hebrews, not strangers. Let God answer. Leviticus 24:22: “Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger as for one of your own country; for I am the Lord your God.” This is his interpretation of the breadth of the law given in the preceding verse, “He that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.” The law, therefore, is unrestricted and universal; Hebrew or heathen, he that killeth a man and he that stealeth a man shall alike die; thus putting slavery and murder on the same footing, as equally criminal. Now, if God sanctioned slavery, why did he make such an inconsistent law as this forbidding it?ARSH October 8, 1861, page 145.4
Second. The law concerning fugitives. Deuteronomy 23:15, 16: “Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee; he shall dwell with thee, even among you in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates where it liketh him best; thou shalt not oppress him.”ARSH October 8, 1861, page 145.5
There is no equivocation here; “thou shalt not deliver unto his master.” It is imperative; they were to receive him among them as a citizen, and, if need be, protect him from his master; mark, not a “heathen” or “Hebrew” servant, but the “servant,” heathen or Hebrew, whoever should fly from the ill treatment or injustice of a hard master. Compare for a moment the Hebrew and American fugitive laws. The Hebrew says, “Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant that is escaped.” The American says, “Thou shalt deliver him up to his master, or be fined one thousand dollars, and suffer six months’ imprisonment.” The Hebrew says, “He shall dwell with thee ...thou shalt not oppress him.” The American law says, “The commissioner who tries the case shall get five dollars if he fails, and ten if he succeeds in ‘delivering to his master’ the fugitive, on the simple affidavit of the former that he is his slave.”ARSH October 8, 1861, page 145.6
What are the deductions from this law of Moses? The return of stray property is expressly commanded in Deuteronomy 22:1-3; the return of servants is expressly forbidden here; the servant could leave a hard master at any time, and the State could not compel him to return: it did not recognize the condition of forced, but only voluntary servitude, and thus render the existence of chattelism impossible.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 145.7
The third great protective law was that of the Jubilee. - Leviticus 25:10-55: “And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall be a jubilee unto you, and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man to his family.” ...Here the expression is emphatic, no reservations are made, no restrictions allowed. As the sound of Yoval, Yoval, sounded through the land, and was echoed back from hill and village, from hamlet and town, the cry was taken up, and borne along by the laboring thousands of Israel, many of whom had been toiling under contract for years, by the unfortunate debtor, and those whom poverty had compelled to part with “the old house at home,” all returned, all were free. “Liberty, liberty!”ARSH October 8, 1861, page 145.8
It is vain to assume that the benefits of the Jubilee were restricted to a particular class. To what class? Not the six years’ servants; they were freed in the seventh. Not to debtors; there was no law compelling them to serve at all; therefore they could only serve voluntarily to pay their debts. Not to thieves; they could only be compelled to make restitution of the thing stolen, or its value; that paid, they were free. The only other classes to whom the law could apply were “all the inhabitants of the land” who served the longest time, the Hebrew “forever” servants, and the heathen servants, thus preventing the possibility of the rise and growth of a servile class, the curse of any country. In this way only can we account for the fact that Jewish history never mentions the existence of a large servile class, or a servile insurrection in Israel, so common and disastrous an occurrence in the history of ancient slaveholding communities.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 145.9
Some object here, that the term “inhabitants” implies “all the Hebrews,” and excludes the strangers, Canaanites, etc.; but by admitting that “all the Hebrews” were freed at the Jubilee, they admit that those who, in Exodus 21:6, are servants “forever,” are also freed, and thus to serve “forever” only implies till the Jubilee. If, then, “forever” means only till the Jubilee in in one case, it means no more in the other. And if we show that the strangers and Canaanites were considered “inhabitants of the land,” then the Jubilee referred to Hebrew and stranger alike, and both were free. In Exodus 34:12, 15, “Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest;” and Leviticus 18:25; Numbers 33:52-55, Moses calls the heathen “the inhabitants of the land;” and as he was likely to understand the meaning of the term pretty well, he either refers in the Jubilee law to Hebrews, Canaanites, and all, or he meant Canaanites and heathen alone, which is still more decisive. Again, in 2 Samuel 11:2-27; 23:39, we find one of these strangers, Uriah the Hittite, not only an “inhabitant” of Jerusalem, but one of David’s best officers, and his wife becoming queen of Israel and mother of Solomon; and in 2 Samuel 24:18-25, another, Araunah the Jebusite is a householder, and more, is praised as acting like a king toward king David, who bought property of him whereon to build an altar; and yet, forsooth, they were not inhabitants!ARSH October 8, 1861, page 145.10
But, as if to prevent equivocation, Moses defines the phrase “all the inhabitants;” “Ye shall return every man to his possession, and ye shall return every man to his family.” Not every Hebrew, but every man, the same generic term as in the law against killing or stealing “a man;” it is unqualified and universal. Thus with one blow this noble law strikes down the two principal sources of social oppression - monopoly of land and monopoly of labor. All who had by poverty been compelled to part with the old farm and homestead received it back; all claims of service against any person, however mean and humble, were canceled; and the land and its inhabitants were again free as God had made them.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 145.11
These accumulated arguments, each separately weighty and forcible, but collectively insurmountable, we think prove conclusively that the form of servitude among the Israelites was not chattel slavery, and that there is no sanction or authority for it in the Mosaic laws and regulations.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 145.12
Thus in Jewish history we see the Israelites groaning under Egyptian bondage, and God’s arm outstretched to rescue them when fugitives, and punish their pursuers - a warning to all such thereafter; we see laws enacted to prevent the existence of chattelism among them, by restricting the master’s power, and securing the servant’s freedom at regular intervals, and the opposite doctrine of equality among men asserted; we see the Israelites disobeying these commands, and adopting, with the idolatry of their neighbors, their slavery also, and God’s fiery wrath denounced on them for it by Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and fulfilled by Nebuchadnezzar in the destruction and captivity of the state.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 145.13
NEW TESTAMENT Teachings of Christ
Ages pass, the Jews are restored to their land, but the Roman eagle overshadows it and all the civilized world. Despotism is enthroned; and the idea that the world and its people are the property of Rome and its citizens is questioned only in murmuring whispers. All the relations of Roman life partake of this idea of absolutism; slavery is everywhere, liberty nowhere. Then the glad tidings of Messiah’s coming is announced to an expectant world. Whom will he side with - the crushed and despairing millions, or the aristocratic and haughty few? Will he adopt and develop the idea of equality found in Jewish law, or the principle now ascendant, - “Might makes right,” - the Roman slave law? Let him answer.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 145.14
Standing in the synagogue at Nazareth, the home of his boyhood, amid his expectant friends and relations, he reads (Luke 4:16-21) from Isaiah, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book and sat down, ...and began to say to them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.” There is his commission and the constitution of his kingdom. Can anything be more explicit?ARSH October 8, 1861, page 146.1
Christ himself comes with glad tidings for the poor, to destroy slavery and oppression, and establish liberty. Rejoice, ye poor, taught hitherto that ye were made only for the service of the rich; there is glad tidings for you. Rejoice, captives and slaves, “bruised” with the lash and fetter; God comes “to preach deliverance to the captives, liberty to them that are bruised, and the acceptable year (the Jubilee) of the Lord.”ARSH October 8, 1861, page 146.2
How did he fulfill this commission and pledge? No code of laws and dogmas, terse and dry, were issued by him for the government of his kingdom; but the great principle was proclaimed of a common brotherhood as children of God our Father, and of love to him as such. In his sermon on the mount, the parables of the lost sheep and silver piece, the good Samaritan, the prodigal son, the Pharisee and the publican; in his private teachings to his disciples; and, above all, by his daily example he taught and illustrated, as the leading characteristics of his kingdom, love to God, the brotherhood of man, the rights of all, however poor, degraded, or despised.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 146.3
More, he makes this idea of brotherhood and equality even with himself, the great test in the judgment. Matthew 25:40, 45: “And the king shall answer, and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” What will those who now boast of their large churches, composed almost entirely of slaves, Christian ministers, and church members, bought, sold, lashed, and treated like cattle, answer the King in that great day?ARSH October 8, 1861, page 146.4
But to return: the result of such teachings was soon evident. “The common people heard him gladly,” hung on his steps and words by thousands, and hailed him as deliverer; while Scribes and Pharisees, priests and rulers, denounced him as “a friend of publicans and sinners,” only seeking popularity among the masses, to disturb the public peace, and revolutionize the government. Mark, it was not simply religious, but political interference and teaching they charged him with, and on this charge they finally compassed his death.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 146.5
In his private teachings to his disciples he strongly inculcated this truth. Striving among themselves for the supremacy, he charges them, Matthew 20:26-28, and many other places, “It shall not be so among you; but whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant; even as the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.” The law thus explicitly laid down, and in John 13, enforced by his example, is the very opposite of chattelism. In his church, none were to claim supremacy over others, much less enslave them; none to despise labor and the laborer, much less condemn others to it while themselves lived in idleness.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 146.6
Thus Christ, so far from sanctioning chattelism or property in man in any shape or form, by precept and example taught the opposite, the dignity of labor and the laborer, the common brotherhood of man, and consequent equality, political and religious. Did his apostles endorse this doctrine, or, fearing the result, did they side with the all-prevalent system of class legislation and slavery?ARSH October 8, 1861, page 146.7
Teachings of the Apostles
The result of their teaching in Judea is given in Acts 4:32-35: “And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and one soul; neither said any of them that aught of the things he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. Neither was there any among them that lacked; for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold and laid them down at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made to every man according as he had need.” They not only believed in “liberty, equality, and fraternity,” but practised its extreme - not only equality of rights, but equality of property, among the brotherhood.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 146.8
But this was comparatively easy in Judea, where the principle of equality was already partly recognized, and the existence of chattelism prevented by the action of the Mosaic code. The apostles only fairly came in conflict with the spirit of caste and slavery when, filled with love and the Spirit, they entered heathen countries, “preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom,” and establishing everywhere the glorious brotherhood of humanity, whose primary law is, “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another as I have loved you. By this shall men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.” John 13:34-35. And Paul expounds it to the Gentiles, 1 Corinthians 12:13: “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free, and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.” Galatians 3:26-28. “Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus; for as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” Again, Colossians 3:11: “There is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free; but Christ is all and in all.”ARSH October 8, 1861, page 146.9
Can language be more express and conclusive than this? The distinctions here dissolved by the waters of baptism, and blended into “one in Christ Jesus,” are not, as our Southern brethren assert, simply religious, but NATIONAL, POLITICAL, AND SOCIAL - slavery, and the spirit of caste and clan which upholds it, alike forbidden, and liberty, equality, and fraternity, social, political, and religious, proclaimed as the rule of Christ’s kingdom.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 146.10
Principles like these came upon the world like the morning sunlight, scattering the mists of superstitious ignorance, melting the icy pride and selfishness of the mighty, permeating all classes and relations of society with their secret influence, and blending all into one harmonious brotherhood of love and peace. Apparently they were subject as others to the laws of the state, but in secret were bound by stronger ties, and governed by higher, nobler laws, than the world outside dreamed of.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 146.11
Instead of the Roman law of marriage, regarding the wife as the husband’s slave, he must love her as himself; more, as Christ loved the church. Instead of the tyranny on one side, and the retaliating disobedience on the other, of the Roman parental relation, it became the image of our heavenly Father’s love, and our trusting obedience to him. The relation of slave, “pro nullo, pro quadrupedo, pro mortuo (as a nobody, a quadruped, a dead man), to his master, became the relation of brethren, the one to render true and faithful service, Ephesians 6:5, the other never to threaten, Ephesians 6:9, much less punish; not to regard them as chattels, as under the Roman law, but to give them just and equal compensation for their service, Ephesians 6:9; Colossians 4:1, “knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven,” “neither is there respect of persons with him.” The legal deed of manumission was unnecessary; for as, when master and slave land in England, they may remain connected as master and free servant, never as master and slave, so, on admission into the brotherhood of the church, the waters of baptism, as shown above, dissolved the relation of slavery, and substituted that of freemen and brethren.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 146.12
Again, believers were members of Christ’s body. He dwelt in them; and therefore every indignity and injury done to them was done to him in their person. To enslave, buy, and sell them was to enslave, buy, and sell Christ himself. “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” Who, then, would dare hold a brother Christian as a slave? What! make merchandise of the person of Christ? Never! the cry of Judas would ring around them as they were driven ignominiously from the church.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 146.13
“Why,” it is objected, “did not the apostles preach immediate emancipation, instead of endorsing slavery by defining its duties - ‘Servants, obey your Masters,’ etc.? and Paul even sent back a slave.” 1. The primary object of the apostles was not simply “to preach liberty to the captives;” this was but a branch of the tree planted “for the healing of the nations.” Their object was to sow the principles of faith, love, justice, and equality, well knowing that, when these took root and flourished, among the first fruit would be “liberty to all the inhabitants of the land.” 2. Had this been their great object, they took the best and speediest plan for its accomplishment. Attacking the system directly, the appearance of the Christian missionary would have been the signal for servile war and untold bloodshed, the slave against the master, the poor against the rich; and the heathen rulers, eager for a pretext to crush them, would have denounced them as lighting the torch of rebellion and war; and the further spread of the gospel would have been drowned in the blood of its founders. But they took the very course which God adopted among the Israelites in regard to servitude, not directly prohibiting it, but inculcating principles of social equality and progress, restricting the master’s power, and protecting the servant’s rights, till, master and slave blended in one, the name of slave was lost in that of Christian. 3. The relation and duties of master and servant are defined by the apostles exactly as they might be to-day in England or the free States - as those of men, never as owner and property; on the contrary, all ownership of man by other than God is expressly denied. 1 Corinthians 6:19, 20: “What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own. For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.” There the ownership is clearly asserted; how can man claim it; “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s,” lest you be found robbing God himself. Again, 1 Corinthians 7:21, 23: “Art thou called, being a servant? care not for it; but, if thou mayest be made free, [dunasai genesuai, canst become free] use it rather.” What can be more explicit than this? First, ownership of man is denied even to himself, much more to another. Next, the exhortation to slaves is, if they can not get free from this great wrong, to bear it as such, but, if they can, “use it rather;” and the reason given is followed by a rule of action to be adopted wherever possible. Verse 23: “Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.” If this be not express prohibition of chattelism, and command to slaves to free themselves from it, then the language is totally contradictory and unintelligible.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 146.14
Contrast these laws of Paul with the laws of most of the Southern States, forbidding even the master to free his slaves, while States and Congress unite in hounding back to whip and task the poor slave who dares obey that command; nay, offer large rewards for men, even Christian ministers, when attempting to obey it. “But Paul sent back Onesimus to his master, and therefore sanctioned the sending back of fugitives.” We answer, there was no sending back at all. Paul, a prisoner, could not send him back; a Jew, he was forbidden by his religion to do so. Deuteronomy 23:15. It was simply a recommendatory letter sent with Onesimus, returning voluntarily to Colosse and his master. Let us look at the letter. Verse 8 begins: “Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, yet, for love’s sake, I rather beseech thee. I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, .... which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me; whom I have sent again, .... not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved,” etc. Here Onesimus is described as having been, while heathen, an “unprofitable” trouble to his master, and had either run away or been sent away by him. Converted at Rome, Paul heard his story, and in his letter, instead of thinking he is doing Philemon a favor, has to earnestly “beseech,” almost command, his reception as a favor to himself. Not one word of property or right in him, save the right of love as one of the brotherhood. “NOT NOW AS A SERVANT, but above a servant, a brother beloved, especially to me, but how much more to thee!” Onesimus had left the “slave” in his heathenism; in Christ he became the “brother” of Philemon and Paul. Instead of sanctioning chattelism, it positively denies it by affirming voluntary service, the equality of men as brethren, to be loved as Christ himself.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.1
Thus Christ and his apostles, so far from upholding chattelism in their teachings, denounced the ownership of man by any but God, and inculcated its opposite - love, liberty, equality, and fraternity - by precept and example. And subsequent history showed the result.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.2
Christ said of the teachings of the Pharisees, “By their fruits ye shall know them.” Apply this test to the teachings of the apostles and the primitive churches in regard to slavery. When they went forth, “darkness covered the earth, and gross darkness the people;” slavery sat enthroned in might over Europe; and the cries of the oppressed millions had only a hearing on the battle field, or before the throne of God.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.3
When the Reformation came slavery had disappeared in Europe; and the voice of the people was heard asserting their rights, feebly, indeed, at first, but ever since growing stronger and stronger “as the voice of many waters.” What has caused this change.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.4
Historians, Protestant and Catholic, ascribe it to the influence of the church, not by direct emancipatory decrees, but, following the example of God through Moses, by gradually restricting the master’s power, and protecting the slave; by girdling the poison tree till it withered and fell, though, sad to say, the ruins still disfigure too much of the fair fields of Europe and America.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.5
No fact is more patent in history than the truth expressed by Paul to the Corinthians: “Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is LIBERTY.” The whole tendency of the Bible and true Christianity, direct and indirect, is to the liberty and advancement, never the slavery and degradation, of man; and those who have attempted to shield the monster curse of our country and age with the garb of the gospel may find too late, when that awful voice shall ring in their ears, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me,” that Christ came not only “to preach deliverance to the captives” and “to set at liberty them that are bruised,” but also “the day of vengeance of our God.” - Premium Tract.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.6
Troubles Abroad
IT is no relief from our own national troubles to turn to those of other countries, but it gives us juster views and a more patient spirit to reflect that ours is no exceptional case, but that apprehension and disturbance constitute the rule among the nations of the earth, rather than security and tranquility.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.7
To the south of us, Mexico lies in her chronic condition of internal warfare. Her capital, lately invaded, has been freed from the immediate danger of attack by hard fighting on all sides; but success in the field seems only to lead to feuds among the victors, so that security is never to be reckoned among the fruits of triumph. Farther on, New Granada has just gone through with a revolution, somewhat bloody but probably bootless. Among the States of South America there is hardly one but that has its internal troubles, although they are of so little concern to the rest of the world, as in general to pass unnoticed.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.8
Looking upon Europe we behold the two great governments of England and France in a state of apparent peace and professed security - and yet the former is bristling with riflemen and steel-plated frigates, and the latter bears the tramp of more soldiers and armed horses than this country does at this moment, having added within twelve months six millions of dollars to her warlike expenditures. Some nations had rather be plunged into actual fighting than to be subjected to such onerous preparations.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.9
The great empire of Austria is drifting upon dissolution, or upon the bloody assertion of its despotic claims. Of its thirty-five millions of subjects, sixteen millions refuse to accept the new constitution and to send members to the Imperial Council. Italy will wait no longer than spring for the release of Venetia, by sale or otherwise, from the grasp of the Hapsburgs; and if Hungary postpones open revolt to that period, it will only be from motives of policy. The estrangement seems to have gone beyond remedy, but the prospect of a combined attack on two sides of Austria is a great inducement to patience on the part of the Hungarian leaders.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.10
In Italy, Cialdini is crushing out brigandage and reactionary demonstrations with a vigor which the friends of the Union in this country may well emulate. The Pope’s troubles continue, and may be immensely aggravated some morning by the withdrawal of that staff of the French military support, on which he has hitherto leaned for his existence as a sovereign. In the north of Europe, the Russian difficulties with Poland threaten momentarily to break out into conflict, and the commotions excited by the emperor’s emancipation scheme are unabated. The Holstein quarrel is so far from being composed, that it was noticeable that the last public declaration of the king of Denmark was the first implication of expected war that has passed his lips. In the eastern part of the continent, Omar Pasha is carrying on a vigorous warfare against the insurgents of Montenegro.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.11
And so it is the world over - a world, if not “lying in wickedness,” yet surely not exempt anywhere from troubles and all the dangers of blood-shed. Even the “gorgeous East” is passing through the ordeal of terrible revolution. Japan is the theatre of the conflict between the powers of darkness and seclusion and the powers of light and friendly intercourse. China is prolific in mysterious disturbances, and our last advices tells us of a new insurrection near Pekin, and of the breaking up of commerce beneath the fitful blows of imperial and rebel successes. While, then, we behold the nations of the earth subject to the extremes of afflicting plagues - to the fire running along the ground or the darkness that may be felt - why should we wonder that our long unexampled prosperity has at last been interrupted for a season? - Boston Journal.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.12
AWAKENED sinners can not stand still. They must go forward or backward. If they go backward, they lose all religious impressions, become more hardened in worldliness and sin, and less easily affected by gospel truth. Their plain duty is to go forward, groping their way, if need be, through thick darkness, and grappling with obstacles that may seem insurmountable. Rev. T. L. Cuyler, in the Christian Intelligencer, says:ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.13
It is the first step that costs. When the Israelites came up to the Red Sea, the command of God was, “Speak to the children of Israel that they go forward.” But how? The Jewish leader might well cry out, We have no fleet to bear us over. Go forward! But Lord! we cannot ford the gulf before us. Go forward! Wouldst thou have us, Lord, to perish in the billows? Still the same answer comes - “Speak to the children of Israel that they go forward.” The command is peremptory. It admits of no delay. And just as soon as Israel goes forth in obedience to Jehovah’s voice, lo! the waves part asunder, and the mighty cavalcade marches through, dry shod! Unhesitating obedience to God always ensures a blessing.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.14
Here is a lesson for troubled inquirers. To you comes the command of God, “Go forward” Death is behind you. Hell follows after you. There is no salvation in retreat. Heaven lies before you - not behind. No man ever saved his soul by relapsing into indifference. If you give up, you are lost.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.15
Perhaps you say, “I have prayed many a time already, and no blessing has yet come.” Will that bring an answer? As well might a voyager to Liverpool, when one hundred miles from port, put about helm, and steer back to New York; he is almost there; why does the foolish man retreat? How many a soul has quit praying when the door of mercy was just about opening to them! Go forward.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.16
Another is kept back by fear of ridicule. He can not stand a laugh. There is a sneer waiting for him at his father’s table, or a cutting sarcasm in his counting room. He wavers before it. He winces under the slightest word, and imagines terrible things in store for himself. Go forward; the sea will open to you, and so will many a heart to cheer you on. You will inspire respect in the very quarters from which you now expect opposition. He is a weakling, who is pushed back with a straw.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.17
A third person complains, “I am in the dark; I can not see my way.” Then go forward, and get out of the dark. The determination to do your duty will be attended by a luminous discernment of the path of duty. God will show the way; only go forward, looking for the cross.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.18
Unbelief draws back a fourth. There is only one way to conquer doubt. It is - to believe. Then, instead of halting and shivering in an ague fit of indecision, take a bold, decisive step. End the torturing uncertainty by going forward, “looking unto Jesus.”ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.19
The only way to do a thing is to do it. God only gives strength to the obedient. He has no promises for cowards, or double-minded, vascillating doubters. He bestows grace on those who try to do their duty. His grace is all-sufficient for you. The deepest sea of difficulties will divide its waters for your advancing footsteps, just as you determine to obey that voice which says to you, Go forward.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.20
Powder-mill Piety
SAID a little girl who had just been reading the newspaper account of an explosion, “Ma, don’t you think that people who work in powder-mills ought to be pious?” There was a great deal of human nature in that question. The world, like the little girl, thinks that all who are especially exposed, ought to be prepared for sudden death. But is not the whole world a vast powder-mill? Is it not filled everywhere with the elements of destruction? The very air we breathe may become poisonous and slay us. The water we drink may contain some deadly ingredient which neither sight nor taste can detect. We are encompassed ever by unseen dangers. We are never certain of to-morrow. Then should we not be prepared, whatever our age, our business, or our locality, for sudden death?ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.21
GOOD ground, good seed, good weather, and a good crop, prove that we have a good God; but a good heart, good purposes, good works, and a good end, prove that we have a gracious God.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 147.22
THE REVIEW AND HERALD
“Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.”
BATTLE CREEK, MICH. THIRD-DAY, OCT. 8, 1861.
JAMES WHITE, EDITOR
MICHIGAN GENERAL CONFERENCE
THE Michigan General Conference was held with the church at Battle Creek, Oct. 4-6. There were none at this meeting from other States, and not a large gathering of the brethren in Michigan. The short notice, the busy season of the year, and the lack of means with some to pay their pledged shares of stock in the Publishing Association, kept many from this general gathering. The house of worship was comfortably filled with the friends of the cause, who came to act their part in the work. This week’s receipts give some idea of the activity of the working hands who attended the conference.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 148.1
Our ministers had unusual freedom in preaching the word, and the social meetings were excellent, especially the general conference meeting on Sunday evening. This meeting held three hours with increasing interest. The time was filled up with short testimonies from many brethren and sisters. A calm, sweet, melting spirit pervaded this meeting making it the best of the kind we ever witnessed. We heard many brethren remark in regard to the conference that it was the best ever held at Battle Creek. With the sweet influence of the meeting upon the minds of the brethren and sisters, they parted Monday morning to go to their several homes.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 148.2
The unity existing among the brethren at this conference, the eagerness to take a decided position upon organization, and the general readiness to sustain the Publishing Association, have greatly encouraged us. We are not, in point of hope, faith and courage where we stood prior to the trials of the last eighteen months, and perhaps we never shall be; but we certainly made rapid progress during the three days of our conference.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 148.3
DOINGS OF THE BATTLE CREEK CONFERENCE, OCT. 5 & 6, 1861
THE Conference convened for business purposes, evening after the Sabbath, Oct. 5, at 6.30 P. M. Elder Joseph Bates was chosen chairman, U. Smith secretary. Meeting opened by prayer by Bro. White.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 148.4
Brn. White, Loughborough, Cornell, and Hull, having consulted together in regard to the business to be brought before the Conference, Bro. White proposed that if the Conference would accept them as a committee to present business to the meeting, they were ready to report.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 148.5
On motion of Bro. Gurney these brethren were accepted as the business committee of the Conference.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 148.6
The first business presented was the organization of churches. Bro. Loughborough said: I consider it proper and necessary to consider here the organization of churches, as the subject has been agitated among us, especially for the last six months; and in order to bring the matter before the meeting, I move that we consider the proper manner of organizing churches. Seconded by Bro. White. Carried. Bro. White then presented the following resolution:ARSH October 8, 1861, page 148.7
Resolved, That this Conference recommend the following church covenant: We, the undersigned, hereby associate ourselves together, as a church, taking the name, Seventh-day Adventists, covenanting to keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus Christ. Seconded by Bro. Hull. Adopted.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.1
The vote not being full, Bro. White said: I hope that matters of so much importance will not be passed by without discussion, if any are disposed to question them. Nothing hurt my feelings more than the non-committal position of some at last fall conference. I hope therefore that these subjects will have the benefit of a full and free discussion, and that the sisters will take part in the vote, and that the action may be unanimous. I would be in favor of trying this vote again.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.2
Moved by Bro. Loughborough that we re-consider the last vote. Carried.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.3
Bro. Hull said: I have but very few words to say on this subject. The covenant proposed is very nearly such a one as I have several times written out for churches who were about to organize. The need of some such covenant has been seen and felt. I believe it is according to apostolic custom to have our names signed to something; and this must be something written out. We pledge ourselves only to do one thing, to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. There can be nothing more in christianity. We pledge ourselves to help each other along in the christian journey. No one can call this a creed or articles of faith.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.4
BRO. BYINGTON. If we carry out this matter, not only merely covenanting to do, but practically doing it, then it can be said of a truth, Here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.5
BRO. WHITE. If there is no one to raise any objections to this step, I have almost a mind to raise some myself, so that the subject may be discussed. Circumstances have driven me to an examination of this subject somewhat, and it is a very clear one to my mind; but perhaps it might be objected to on this ground: It will look like patterning after the churches around us; and what will be the influence? I would like to hear remarks upon this point. It will certainly be doing like those around us; and certain individuals will say that we are following after Babylon; and this may be an objection in their minds.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.6
BRO. LOUGHBOROUGH. It may with equal propriety be said that we are patterning after the churches in building meeting-houses. We call the churches Babylon, not because they covenant together to obey God. I am still of the opinion I advanced sometime since through the Review: The first step of apostasy is to get up a creed, telling us what we shall believe. The second is, to make that creed a test of fellowship. The third is to try members by that creed. The fourth to denounce as heretics those who do not believe that creed. And, fifth, to commence persecution against such. I plead that we are not patterning after the churches in any unwarrantable sense, in the step proposed.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.7
BRO. CORNELL. The point in the covenant is to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. I never heard of a people making such a covenant, and hence cannot consider that we are patterning after the churches in such a covenant as that. Again: We have Bible-classes, and Sabbath-schools just like the churches, but no one accuses us of patterning after them in these respects.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.8
BRO. WHITE. I am convinced: not by what the brethren have said: for I was convinced before. I wish to say a word now in favor of the resolution. I prefer that the brethren should be uniform in this thing. This would tend to unity in the church. Let us set a right example here, and let it go out from this meeting. This is one reason why I would vote for this covenant. On the subject of creeds, I agree with Bro. Loughborough. I never weighed the points which he has presented, as I have since I began to examine the subject for myself. In Ephesians 4:11-13, we read, “And he gave some apostles, and some prophets,” etc. Here we have the gifts of the church, presented. Now I take the ground that creeds stand in direct opposition to the gifts. Let us suppose a case: We get up a creed, stating just what we shall believe on this point and the other, and just what we shall do in reference to this thing and that, and say that we will believe the gifts too. But suppose the Lord, through the gifts, should give us some new light that did not harmonize with our creed; then, if we remain true to the gifts, it knocks our creed all over at once. Making a creed is setting the stakes, and barring up the way to all future advancement. God put the gifts into the church for a good and great object; but men who have got up their churches, have shut up the way or have marked out a course for the Almighty. They say virtually that the Lord must not do anything further than what has been marked out in the creed. A creed and the gifts thus stand in direct opposition to each other. Now what is our position as a people? The Bible is our creed. We reject everything in the form of a human creed. We take the Bible and the gifts of the Spirit; embracing the faith that thus the Lord will teach us from time to time. And in this we take a position against the formation of a creed. We are not taking one step, in what we are doing, toward becoming Babylon.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.9
BRO. CORNELL. I think we have many examples in the Scriptures of the people of God entering into a covenant. It is always proper to covenant to do right; and there can be no more appropriate covenant than to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. [Reads 2 Chronicles 15:12, and says] Here it seems the people of God were at one time together, and all entering into a covenant to do what the Bible commanded them to do. I think, in the step we propose, we are only entering into a covenant to do what the Lord commands us to do.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.10
BRO. BYINGTON. A covenant I understand is a promise or vow. The Bible requires us to pay our vows unto God. We could not pay them unless we had made them.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.11
BRO. WHITE. The 19th chapter of Exodus shows that there was a covenant entered into between God and the people to keep the commandments of God. God promises that if they would keep his commandments he would be their God; and the people say, All the words that the Lord has spoken will we do. Read also 2 Kings 23:3.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.12
BRO. LOUGHBOROUGH. The greatest objection that rests in the minds of individuals, I presume, is having this thing set down in writing. I do not know as I ever went into a meeting, but there were some to express the determination to renew their covenant. Now there is the covenant; but to just put that down in writing, seems, in the minds of some, to be Babylon. You see at once that here is where the difficulty lies; for when I state a thing I endorse it; and all the difference there is between that and what we now propose, is that one is set down in writing and the other is not.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.13
The question was called for, and unanimously carried.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.14
2. The next question being in regard to the proper manner of organizing churches, after some remarks by different individuals, the following resolution was presented by Bro. White:ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.15
Resolved, That we refer this subject to the ministers present, instructing them to hold a Bible class on it, and write an address to the brethren, to be published in the REVIEW. Unanimously adopted.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.16
3. Organization of Conferences. On this subject the following resolutions were presented by Bro. White:ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.17
Resolved, That we recommend to the churches in the State of Michigan to unite in one Conference, with the name of The Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Adopted.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.18
Resolved, That the conference be composed of ministers and delegates from the churches. Adopted.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.19
By Bro. Loughborough.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.20
Resolved, That the officers of this Conference consist of a Chairman, Clerk, and a standing committee of three. Adopted.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.21
Resolved, That our present Chairman and Clerk, act as officers of this Conference for the coming year. Adopted.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.22
By Bro. White.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.23
Resolved, That John N. Loughborough, Moses Hull, and M. E. Cornell, be the Conference committee. Adopted.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.24
Resolved, That the first session of the Michigan State Conference of Seventh-day Adventists be held at Monterey, Mich., Oct. 5-8, 1862. Adopted.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.25
4. Ministers’ papers. On this subject the following was presented by Bro. Cornell:ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.26
Resolved, That our ministers’ papers consist of a certificate of ordination, also credentials to be signed by the Chairman and Clerk of the Conference, which credentials shall be renewed annually. Adopted.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.27
By Bro. Hull.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.28
Resolved, That this Conference give credentials to the ministers of this State who are in good standing. Adopted.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.29
5. Interests of Publishing Association. Resolution presented by Bro. White:ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.30
Whereas, There are heavy debts upon the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association, thereforeARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.31
Resolved, That we recommend to the brethren scattered abroad to remember in their liberalities the wants of the Association. Adopted.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.32
Adjourned to 8 o’clock in the morning.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.33
MORNING SESSION
Meeting opened with prayer by Bro. Cornell.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.34
6. The sixth subject presented for the consideration of the Conference was the recommendation of books, when the following resolution was presented by Bro. Loughborough:ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.35
Resolved, That we recommend to our churches and brethren the new Hymn Book. Adopted.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.36
Whereas, The press is a powerful means of disseminating Bible truth, and,ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.38
Whereas, Many can be brought to the knowledge of the truth by reading our publications, therefore,ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.39
Resolved, That we recommend to our brethren greater sacrifice and activity in circulating all our books; and that the brethren especially furnish themselves with the forth-coming History of the Sabbath, and Spiritual Gifts, volumes one & two. Adopted.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.40
7. Tent operations in Michigan. Resolution presented by Bro. White:ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.41
Resolved, That this Conference instruct the tent committee to purchase a tent for the State of Michigan, and secure the labors of two efficient ministers and a tent-master for next tent season. Seconded.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.42
BRO. WHITE. I have been dissatisfied for a few years past with the course we in Michigan have been pursuing. I do not know why Michigan is not as good a field of labor as can be found anywhere on this globe. Again: I would say I believe there are encouragements to labor in Michigan, which do not exist in any other State. There is union to a great degree in the State; and that union may be attributed partly to the influence of our general conferences. Our large gatherings where our meetings are thrown open to all the testimony which we believe that God, in his providence, designed to bless us with, and where under a uniting influence we have been enabled to stand to a very good degree in union - these have had a powerful influence on our brethren scattered abroad. It is true we have had at some of our large meetings, some little discord. A few years since there were some little difficulties which arose from sentiments written out by Bro. Woodhull, and hastily published in the REVIEW. But that was entirely an imported difficulty. We had some little difficulty, too, in regard to organizing a Publishing Association. That difficulty was also an imported one. It came up from Ohio and New York. All in Michigan were united. Now I do not want to praise you brethren, but I must speak of these facts. Where people are brought out on the truth in this State there seems to be a warm influence exerted in favor of the truth; and it seems to me that there is more encouragement for messengers to labor in such a State, than in those places where distracting influences are liable to bear them down. There is another fact: Notwithstanding there has been a good degree of union in this State, we have sent our ministers out of the State. I would not give this as a reason why we have prospered, by any means; but to bring out the fact that while the brethren have stood alone, with efficient ministers out of the State, they have enjoyed a good degree of prosperity. Now is this right? It seems to me it is working for the advancement of the cause rather at arms’ length. There are sinners in Michigan as well as in other States, and many places where the truth has never been preached. After we get over the Publishing Association (and I suppose Michigan will do a large share of that: you pledged more than all the rest put together, and your donations are coming up accordingly), after we get through with the establishment of the Association, then we are ready to take hold of tent operations. I would not exhort our brethren against selfishness; for we have not been selfish. We have loved our neighbors a great deal better than ourselves. And while the Lord may look with approbation upon this, I believe there are duties for us here. We ought to go into tent operations strong next spring.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.43
BRO. LOUGHBOROUGH. My mind has been stirred up for labor in Michigan, especially since my return from the West, and since I have seen how little excitement there is here on the war question, in comparison with other places. I would also endorse the remarks of Bro. White in regard to the union existing here. It would not be here as in Wisconsin where we labored hard for six weeks to raise up a large church, and an influence came right in from a neighboring church, to scatter them all to fragments. It would be encouraging to labor in a State where there is union.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.44
The question was here called for, and the resolution adopted.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.45
Moved by Bro. Loughborough that the present tent committee, Brn. G. W. Amadon, William Hall, and Myron J. Cornell, act as committee for the coming season. Carried.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.46
8. The interests of the cause in Ohio. This subject was introduced by Bro. White with remarks respecting the present condition of things in that State, the discouragements under which the brethren there are laboring, and their calls for help. He read before the meeting a letter from Bro. Baker, and offered the following resolution:ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.47
Resolved, That Brn. Loughborough, Cornell and Hull be a committee to consider, and, as far as possible, supply, the wants of the cause in Ohio. Adopted.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.48
Moved by Bro. White that the minutes of this Conference be published in Review. Carried.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.49
Adjourned sine die.
JOSEPH BATES, Chairman.
URIAH SMITH, Secretary.
EAGLE HARBOR DISCUSSION
To J. M. ALDRICH - Dear Sir: In your notice of the discussion at Eagle Harbor, in the N. Y. tent, on Sunday the 4th inst., you state in full the five points made by Bro. Hull in his opening address; and then you add, “Bro. H. drove his pins on the foregoing points so tight that Eld. S. very wisely concluded to let them remain. Instead, therefore, of attempting to reply to the solid arguments of Bro. H., he led off in the discussion with nine propositions as the foundation and superstructure of his position on the question under debate.”ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.50
Did I not attempt to reply? Let me try to refresh your memory. Did not Bro. Hull in his opening address say he would present but a few of his points at that time, in order to give me a chance to reply, and have time besides to offer arguments in support of my side of the question? And did I not attempt to reply to his first point (which was that the Sabbath was made for man) by saying that if it was for the Jews only, it would be made for man; for a Jew is a man? Did I not attempt to reply?ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.51
His second point was, The Sabbath was given to the children of Israel as a sign. Did I not attempt to reply by admitting it was given to them, but not to Christians?ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.52
His third point was, The observance of the Sabbath was for a perpetual covenant. Did I not attempt to reply by saying you might take your Concordance and find the word perpetual, and you would find it was applied to things that have an end, as the word forever does sometimes? Therefore it did not follow that the Sabbath would always continue.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.53
His fourth point was, God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. Did I not attempt to reply to it, by admitting it, and that it was to be binding as long as the old covenant lasted?ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.54
His fifth point was, The covenant containing the Sabbath is a covenant of ten commandments. Did I not attempt to reply by saying that he saved me the trouble of proving that old covenant was the ten commandments, and that I admitted it, and did not Bro. H. refer to my admitting so much, when he came to reply?ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.55
Now, if on reflection you should recollect that what I have called to your mind is correct, will you please make the acknowledgment through the same paper in which you attempted to give a notice of the debate?ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.56
I would call your attention to the omission you made in not giving all the texts of scripture I supported my seventh and eighth propositions with. The following I gave with the seventh, in addition to what you gave. John 5:22; Mark 9:7; Romans 7:22; 8:1-21; John 2:4. Also the following with the eighth: Romans 7:14; Romans 7:6, - very important supports to be left out of a pyramid that was so weak that “it fell to the ground by its own uncomely proportions.” If it is true, as you say about it, why not give me the benefit of the quotations, while you gave Bro. Hull so full and explicit a report of his opening?ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.57
But, by the by, will you tell us when it was that the “well-directed artillery of Bro. H. scattered that pyramid to the four winds?” Was it before it fell? If so, there could not have been anything to fall. But if the great slaughter was performed after it fell, I should think he would have saved his ammunition for another occasion. If that was so, I do not wonder that you say it was a “very interesting discussion.” Perhaps you draw upon your imagination somewhat, as some think you did, when you stated that “hundreds had to stand outside the tent.” I will close this by expressing the hope that while you are striving to keep the fourth commandment, you will have some respect for the ninth. Exodus 20:16.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.58
P. A. SMITH.
Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 27, 1861.
ELD. P. A. SMITH - Dear Sir: Through the courtesy of the Review I am here permitted to reply to the foregoing communication, wherein you complain so bitterly of my report of the discussion between yourself and Bro. Hull.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.59
Now, really, Eld. S. I deeply sympathize with you; and you will allow me to express the wish that I might do something to help your condition. Indeed, if the adage be true respecting the “wounded bird,” also the proverb that “a drowning man will catch at straws,” your case must be truly perilous; for the way you have “fluttered” since the discussion, and the desperate effort you now make to “catch at straws,” shows that you were not only seriously “wounded,” but that you are now in the very last stage of “drowning!” What shall be done? But hold! There is hope! That “old covenant of ten commandments” - that “old law” - forsooth, is doing its work! It slew Paul; possibly it may drown Smith! and he consequently be led to exclaim, “Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good!”ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.60
Hoping that your seemingly perilous case may turn out thus favorably, I will pass to notice some of your principal items of complaint. You complain most bitterly of my saying that you did not attempt to reply to the arguments of Bro. Hull. I confess I am surprised that you should bring such a complaint. I did not suppose that you would claim that you did attempt to reply to the points he made in his opening address. I thought I was very modest in making the report in this respect as I did; for had I chosen other language I should have said that you did not only not attempt to reply to his points, but admitted nearly or quite all of them. But you try to refresh my memory by stating certain points which you say you did make in attempting to reply to the five points made by Bro. H. And I submit that your own version of the matter does not materially strengthen your case, unless you claim that your several admissions were “attempts” to reply. Let us notice the points in order.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.61
1. You admitted with respect to the first point, that the Sabbath was made for man in the garden of Eden. You also admitted that the term “man” in the proof text [Mark 2:27] represented the whole human family. Now under this point, with these admissions, what was there left for you to “attempt” to reply to? Bro. Hull claimed no more. But do not these admissions rather take the wind out of what you now say you offered as an “attempt” to reply to this point? viz., “If the Sabbath was made for the Jew only, it would be made for man; for a Jew is a man.” By your admissions you conceded that the Sabbath was made for “man,” the representative of the whole human family, over two thousand years before there was a Jew in existence! hence it could not have been made for Jews only. Do you see?ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.62
With reference to the second point, you said you admitted the argument drawn by Bro. H. from his proof-text. Exodus 31:13. The argument was that the Sabbath being given as a sign to the children of Israel, to run throughout their generations, and their generations being still in existence, therefore the Sabbath is yet binding on them; but the middle wall of partition being now broken down that the Gentiles may become fellow-heirs, etc., therefore the Sabbath obligation also rests upon Christians. So having admitted his argument thus made, there was nothing left under this point for you to attempt to reply to.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.63
3. You claim that you attempted to reply to his third point by showing that the word perpetual was often applied to things that have an end, etc. My notes assure me that you did show such was the fact; but that showing did not meet the case; for Bro. H. had not put that point in issue. He showed that the Sabbath as a perpetual covenant was based on the fact that the Lord made heaven and earth in six days, and rested on the seventh day. Exodus 31:16, 17. But the fact, or basis, still remains, and will ever remain; therefore from your own reasoning, the word perpetual, when relating to, and connected with, such a fact, cannot be limited as to duration; hence from your own testimony there was nothing in issue between you and Bro. H. under this point.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 149.64
4. As to the fourth point, my notes are silent as to anything said by you; and I have no recollection of your making the attempt that you claim. It is my impression that you waived this point entirely. But under this head you now claim as your “attempt,” etc., that “the Sabbath was to be binding as long as the old covenant lasted.” Let us bear this in mind as we proceed to examine the next point.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.1
5. As to the fifth and last point, you admitted that the ten commandments were the covenant commanded to a thousand generations. 1 Chronicles 16:16. No issue then here! But under this point you claim as your “attempt,” etc., that “the old covenant was the ten commandments.” Now put these admissions together, and see what will be the conclusion. 1. “The old covenant is the ten commandments.” 2. “The ten commandments were the covenant commanded to a thousand generations.” 3. “The Sabbath is to be binding as long as the old covenant lasted.” I submit that you have fairly convicted yourself. If you do not keep the Sabbath now, the fault will lie at your own door.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.2
You next complain that I left out of your pyramid some very important props! This should not have been. It was not intentional. It was a very difficult thing to prop up, and I trust you will excuse me if I did my part of the work in a bungling manner. But you complain of me for not giving you the benefit of the quotations named, while I gave Bro. H. “so full and explicit a report of his opening.” If you will look at the report you will notice that I gave you the benefit of eleven proof-texts, while I gave only four to Bro. H.! But about the “slaughter” of that “pyramid!” Were you not there? Have you forgotten so quick? Did you not see how it was done? Did you not witness its fate with your own eyes? Still do you ask for information? How slow of perception! Let me then again assure you that your “pyramid”(!) did fall, and must have fallen for the very reason stated, and which you have quoted. And I therefore confess that the work performed by the “artillery” was hardly necessary under the circumstances. There was in fact, as you have intimated, a needless waste of “ammunition.” Though doubtless it was deemed expedient that a little powder should be burned on your account, and perhaps a very few others, who like yourself imagined there was something about that mis-named structure that was truly formidable!ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.3
But as you draw your article toward a close, you wax very sarcastic. Did you count the persons “outside of the tent?” I confess that I did not; therefore in forming my judgment as to the number, perhaps I am somewhat guilty of the charge you insinuate, to wit., “drawing on my imagination.” Possibly it was overdrawn. I do not claim any particular skill in the matter whereof you charge.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.4
Your closing remark, though the most cutting and wicked of all, contains a redeeming quality worthy of note. You acknowledge thereby the utility and binding force of what you term the “old covenant” - “the ten commandments.” I am glad of such acknowledgment from you, though made thus indirectly. May I not therefore in response to the “hope” you expressed for me, cherish a similar hope for you: that you will yet establish yourself upon the law of God, and thenceforth strive faithfully to obey all its precepts. Sincerely desiring that your convictions may thus lead you, I remain yours truly.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.5
J. M. ALDRICH.
THE following statement is called out by the fact that Eld. P. A. Smith is circulating the report that Bro. Hull was unfair and ungentlemanly during his debate with him in the tent at Eagle Harbor. I have not permitted a Sabbath-keeper to sign it. E. B. SAUNDERS.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.6
We, the undersigned, citizens of Eagle Harbor and vicinity, attended the discussion of the Sabbath question in this place, Aug. 4, and we are free to say that we heard no language used by the disputants that savored of blackguardism or scurrility.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.7
Moderators. J. M. JACKSON.
ISAAC V. SAUNDERS.
I. YOUNGS.
O. S. WATTERS.
M. HOUGHTON.
J. M. D. MAY.
A. M. MORGAN.
H. NOBLE JR.
EDWIN WILSON.
UNWILLING FAITH
THE apostle James tells us “faith without works is dead, being alone.” This we sometimes call a “dead faith.” But I have thought of late there was a kind of faith that might with more strict propriety be called an unwilling faith. That is a case in which the force of testimony is such that persons cannot reasonably reject the conclusion, and yet they do not perform the act which their faith necessarily calls upon them to perform. For instance, a man says, “I believe the seventh day is the Sabbath.” Do you keep it? No; it is not convenient for me. This is an unwilling faith. Persons believe because there is no way to shun the force of testimony, yet would almost doubt if they thought that they must obey after they had believed. And those who stand and parley with duty often become unbelievers. And why? Because it is so inconsistent to say they believe what they do not obey.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.8
So it is with those among us who say they believe the Lord has spoken to us through the gift of prophecy, and yet go on for months in the practice of those things which are directly reproved by that gift. I find a brother, for instance, who is in the habit of using tobacco, and say to him, Do you believe the gift of prophecy is now in the church? Yes. Do you believe the testimonies which have been given, reproving wrongs, all the way along since the rise of this message? Most certainly, I do. Well, do you know that these testimonies have spoken in the most pointed terms against the use of that filthy weed, tobacco? Yes; but then I do not see how I can give it up, and I do not use only a little. Ah! here is unwilling faith, which is in reality just no faith at all. You need not tell us again that you believe the testimonies, unless you undertake to live them out. Is using “just a little” laying it aside? Well, I use so little the brethren do not know it. Well, if you could deceive your brethren you cannot deceive God.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.9
But we inquire of the sister who is perhaps rejoiced to see the tobacco-mongers plainly dealt with, Do you believe these testimonies? O, yes, I always believed them. Do you know they declare it a shame to wear hoops? Yes, but I do not think that means moderate-sized hoops. That means the large ones, and I always thought they looked bad. Is not this unwilling faith again? Does your conscience feel clear when you thus reason? Do you know what kind of example you set? You virtually sanction the practice, and leave the size to be ranged by the taste of the wearer.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.10
Again, by your example you deny the testimony you profess to believe. You have perhaps been in the truth for years. Others who are just embracing the truth look to you for example, and whether they have a right to do so or not, it is perfectly natural that they should do so. What estimate, think you, will they put on testimonies you treat thus? To show that I am not mistaken I will copy a little of the experience of my natural sister, as given in a letter received a short time since. She says:ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.11
“I hope I am profiting by sister White’s testimonies. It shows me what an awful sinner I am, and when I can see myself as I am, I am encouraged to make greater efforts to secure Christ’s friendship. I did not realize that I was so proud until I came to question the propriety of wearing hoops. I laid them aside a week since, and Friday was the first time I went into the street without them. I went to the post office. I wished I could get rid of going, but after I started my conscience felt so much at rest I was glad I went, and now the cross is becoming very light. Perhaps you think it strange that I have worn hoops so long. I do, too, and profess to believe the present truth. Before I came out on this truth, I had decided to leave them off if I should embrace it. But about that time I became acquainted with a young lady who wore them, and she had been a Sabbath-keeper some time, She always wore a skeleton-skirt, something I never felt justified in buying. But I was influenced by her to have one, and I never put it on without feeling guilty. If I had been among Sabbath-keepers who did not wear them, I presume I should not. But since I have been here, the weather has been so hot I have excused myself in that way. I conclude I can get along as well as I could before they were worn.”ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.12
Dear brethren and sisters, may the Lord give us all willing hearts to obey what our faith readily assents to as truth, so that we may not have an unwilling, but a willing and living faith.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.13
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
Battle Creek, Sept. 24, 1861.
NORTHERN IOWA TENT REPORT
As near as we could ascertain, about one hundred and twenty-five embraced the truth. Our expenditures were $94,03, and receipts $109,65. By vote of the conference the $15,62 on hand was applied toward our traveling expenses to Michigan, which, with other donations, brought us home, and we have about $15 left towards necessary clothing for winter. The friends of truth have our thanks for their kind remembrance of us in time of need. May the Lord reward them.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.14
At the conference at Marion we read 2 Chronicles 15:12-15, after which about one hundred took a solemn vow to be more zealous in living out this great truth. The church at Fairview, and others assembled with them, passed the same resolution. Seven were baptized at Anamosa. Two discourses were given during the meeting on spiritual gifts, and for the most part they were well received. Our impression is that the standard should be raised on that subject.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.15
We were happy to labor with Bro. Shortridge a few weeks, and to see that he was growing in the truth. He anxiously desires to be fitted up for the great work. We parted with Bro. S. at the Mississippi river, and he went to see his family at Mt. Pleasant, and we came on safely to our home.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.16
M. E. CORNELL.
Battle Creek, Oct. 3, 1861.
TENT MEETINGS IN MINNESOTA
WE are not able to report as large a measure of success as our brethren in other States. We have had to contend with difficulties, however, which can hardly have stood in the way of others as they have in ours. Nevertheless, the whole is known to God.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.17
The meeting at Orinoco, in Olmstead Co., has been already reported. I am happy to say that it resulted in raising up a small church of steadfast believers, who now bid fair to go through to the holy city. I did not join the tent until the last week of this meeting.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.18
The tent was pitched at Lake City, Wabasha Co. Our meeting was one continued struggle with adverse circumstances, which effectually defeated our efforts to do good in this place.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.19
When this meeting closed some time was spent in selecting a new location. As we had no tidings from the brethren, and as Bro. Allen and myself were pretty much entire strangers in the State, this caused considerable delay. Grain harvest had just opened, and the people of each locality thought they could not attend a tent-meeting until that was passed. At length we received a letter from Bro. Morse inviting us to pitch the tent at Medford, Steele Co., on the same spot where it was pitched last year. We were glad to accept the invitation. Here, though we failed to call out that portion of the community that last year rejected the truth, there was nevertheless a good work wrought. The church were revived and quickened, and several heartily embraced the truth, and it is believed that quite a number of others will likewise step out upon it.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.20
From this place we removed to Cleveland, Le Seur Co., where the tent was pitched Aug. 30. Of this meeting I can safely that it was one of the best, if not the very best, tent-meeting that I ever attended. The interest was deep and wide-spread through the community, and continued to increase as the meeting progressed. I was obliged to leave, Sept. 18, in order to attend the Ashland conference. Bro. Allen, however, remained to finish up the work, and he will report the result.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 150.21
In conclusion I would say that I humbly trust that God will accept our labors in this State the present season. They have been performed under great difficulties and discouragement, but with a sincere purpose of heart to please him and to declare his whole counsel.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.1
J. N. ANDREWS.
Steamer Flora, Mississippi River, Sept. 25, 1861.
CHURCH MEETING IN KIRKVILLE, N. Y
THE Sabbath-keepers in Kirkville met at the house of Bro. H. Gardner, Sept. 22, for the purpose of transacting business relative to church order, etc. Came to order by calling Bro. F. Wheeler to the Chair, and P. Z. Kinne, Secretary.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.2
Resolved, That we organize a church, to be located at Kirkville, by adopting the following covenant:ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.3
We, the undersigned, do unite together in church capacity, taking the name, Seventh-day Adventists, as our church name, pledging ourselves to strive to keep all the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, to meet together from Sabbath to Sabbath (and oftener if necessary), to worship God in singing and prayer, and to exhort one another, and so much the more as we see the day approaching, taking the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the rule of our faith and practice.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.4
Resolved, That Bro. H. Gardner officiate as deacon.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.5
Resolved, That P. Z. Kinne officiate as church clerk.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.6
Resolved, That we adopt the plan of systematic benevolence.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.7
Resolved, That P. Z. Kinne act as treasurer of the systematic benevolence fund. ELD. F. WHEELER, Chairman. P. Z. KINNE, Secretary.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.8
I would like to say for the encouragement of those that have not as yet organized, that at the close of the above meeting the Lord was pleased to let the sweet influence of his Spirit rest upon and bless us in the step we had taken. May the Lord hasten the time when the church will be united and prepared for the great work that lies before them. O, for the oneness of the church! Do we as individuals realize what it is to be a member of that church which is to be without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.9
Brethren, let us awake and put on the whole armor. Soon our Saviour will come to make up his jewels. Let us be ready.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.10
P. Z. KINNE.
DEAR BRO. WHITE: Upon the subject of organization I have thought much. My prayer has been, and still is, that we may be guided by heavenly wisdom in this important matter. That a pressing necessity exists for some steps to be taken, whereby we may know who belongs with us, who has received and who are resolved to live out the truths of the third message, I doubt not.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.11
It is time we knew who feels responsibility sufficient to stand and unitedly act in this great work. And that some form of organization may be adopted by us as a people, that will greatly tend to accomplish this object, I fully believe.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.12
The Lord is leading his people on to a sure, speedy and glorious victory. And as we march on, exposed to ten thousand strong and mighty foes, will the Leader be displeased and frown upon us while he beholds order and unity, harmonious with the Bible, in our ranks? We rather think we hear him say, “Let all things be done decently and in ORDER.” I wait and pray for the Holy Spirit to direct, and the church to so act that the joyful presence of the Lord may be with us.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.13
In hope of eternal life when the Life-giver comes,
A. S. HUTCHINS.
Roxbury, Vt., Oct. 1, 1861.
LETTER FROM BRO. COTTRELL
DEAR BRO. WHITE: I am not permitted the privilege of meeting with the Conference at your place, to participate in the business of the Publishing Association, and confer upon the form of church organization; but I have an interest in these things, and I pray God that his wisdom may guide those that shall assemble, and that measures may be adopted which may aid in bringing the church into unity of faith and action.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.14
You know I have ever been in favor of order in the several churches, as taught in the New Testament, and I see no objection against different churches co-operating in the spread of the truth, as, for example, in sending out a tent. If this co-operation is right, then it is not wrong for individual churches to represent themselves in general conference to aid such purpose.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.15
I have been waiting in this matter, not because I had any objections, but because I have felt that I did not know sufficiently what should be done; and for this reason I have hoped that some one else, more competent, would take this work in hand. But I have now come to the conclusion that it is for me to lead out in this in Western N. Y., and I wait to hear the recommendations of the Conference at your place, in order to gain what instruction I can so as to act in unison with the church generally. Then, the Lord favoring, I hope to see the churches in this part of the State organized severally, and prepared to send delegates and form a State Conference. I hope that preaching brethren in other parts of the State will organize the churches in their sections of the State, so that we may be fully prepared to form a State Conference before the commencement of another tent season.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.16
Yours for the cause.
R. F. COTTRELL.
ETERNAL life! O, glorious theme! Eternal life! to me so dear. There’s nothing on this earth I deem Can with that priceless boon compare.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.17
Eternal life! ah, who can know The fullness of that blessed state? Nor words, nor height, nor depth, can show The ceaseless joys that round it wait.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.18
Eternal life! who could not bear
All things that cross our path below,
If such rewards we may but share
When from these earthly toils we go?ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.19
Eternal life! inspiring thought!
When rugged scenes before us rise,
When into sadness we are brought,
It bids us view the glorious prize.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.20
Eternal life! I ask no more.
Let life’s uneven tide roll on.
Let me but reach that heavenly shore,
Where fears of death can never come. E. W. DARLING.
Wawkon, Iowa.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.21
“Then they that feared the Lord, spake often one to another.”
From Sister Mackey
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I have for a long time felt it duty to write to you through the Review, but I have excused myself because my talent is so small. But will God excuse the one that has but one talent sooner than the one that has ten? I think not. When the Lord comes he will claim his own with usury. I desire to seek diligently to know all his holy will concerning me. I thank the Lord for the light of present truth. It is some over a year since we commenced to keep the Sabbath, and I am not tired. No; praise the great and holy name of Jesus, that he ever sent his messengers to Marquette to proclaim the third angel’s message. The way grows brighter, and O I anxiously wait for my Lord when he returns from the wedding.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.22
We have meetings three times a week. Last Sabbath the ordinances of the Lord’s house were attended, and we had a sweet melting time. I think the church generally are coming up on higher ground.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.23
I do believe that we are living in the perils of the last days, when evil men and seducers are waxing worse and worse; and unless we have on the breast-plate of righteousness, we are an easy prey to the enemy.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.24
My earnest desire and prayer to God is, that I may be constantly on the watch tower, and overcome the world with all its delusions, and meet you all where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.25
A. C. MACKEY.
Marquette, Wis.
Sister M. F. Carpenter writes from Waterville: “In our present lukewarmness, I am sometimes reminded of meetings of the Christian church, years in the past: the same complaining, ‘I do not enjoy my mind as formerly,’ ‘I am not what I should be,’ etc. Now when these complaints become habitual, do we comfort each other by meeting together? Does it not rather discourage those who are easily discouraged, and burden those who are not? Ought we not rather to go to our closets where the declension first began, and cry mightily to God to restore unto us the joys of his salvation, pleading his promise, which says, ‘Ye shall find me when ye shall seek me with all your hearts?’ Then we could go to the house of God and say, ‘Draw near, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what great things he has done for my soul.’ Then we could comfort each other with the prospect of the soon coming Saviour. But if we are lukewarm we shut our own prayers out of heaven. God has told us if we regard iniquity in our hearts he will not hear us pray. Then we can be no benefit to our children, or to any one; for without Christ we can do nothing. Our enemies are looking on and saying, ‘So would we have it.’ ‘This is the day we looked for.’ Surely it is not the will of God that we should be given over a prey to our enemies, and a reproach to them that are round about us. If we allow ourselves to be lukewarm we grieve that tender-hearted Saviour who says, ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice, and will open the door, I will come in and sup with him and he with me.’ O, shall we any longer allow our sins to bar the dear Saviour from our hearts? Let us arise and take hold on strength. God has said, Let them take hold on my strength.”ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.26
SYSTEM. - The farmer who would proceed in his affairs regardless of system, would soon fail in everything: his crops sown, and tended, and harvested out of season; his teams over fed or neglected, or from irregular attention, reduced to worthlessness; his fatting animals unthrifty for the like reasons; and his various interests suffering from the same cause; ruin is sure.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.27
Not less sure the ruin of the Christian who attempts to live out the precepts of Jesus without systematic effort; and this is peculiarly applicable to us at present as individuals, as well as a body. Let us be systematic in this warfare. The word of God is our book of disciplinary system. Do not reject any of it.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.28
PAIN. - Going without tea and coffee gives you such a heavy, dead pain in your head! Disobeying the word of God - does this pain your conscience any? Our decisions are for life or death.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.29
AGAGS. - There are a variety of Agags. Saul was directed to slay all; but he might have thought, I will keep Agag a little while, just enough to grace my triumphal return, he is such a splendid prize and carries himself so elegantly; and these nice cattle - true, the the prophet directed me to slay the cattle; but I will not take the extreme meaning of the prophet’s words: I will use my common sense, and this teaches me to spare such fine stock, so fat and strong; those symmetrical, well-built Devonshires, surely the prophet cannot object to my stocking my new farm in Ramah with such noble animals; and (lucky thought) I will let the prophet have some of the finest for sacrifice; this will be a plaster, and rather than offend him (if worst comes to worst) I will donate the whole (except those finest young cattle) to religious purposes. As to Agag, I can kill him any time if I find the prophet is not in a pleasant mood about it. In fact, I will no doubt have Agag slain, as he can be of no use to me after the triumphal return. I will just keep him a few days, it will add to the glory of my victory. I do not think the prophet meant I should take the extreme meaning of his words.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.30
So now, some continue their idols - tobacco, coffee, tea, hoops; one is out of health, one is old, another will wait till winter, or till the sickly season is over, another wants it once in a while, another thinks coffee, tea and tobacco should not be classed together.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.31
Oh that these modern Agags might be hewed in pieces before these modern Sauls have the kingdom rent from them! See 1 Samuel 15. CAN’T. - That is not the difficulty - you won’t. J. CLARKE.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 151.32
BATTLE CREEK, MICH. THIRD-DAY, OCT. 8, 1861
ANNUAL MEETING Of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association
ACCORDING to previous notice, the first annual meeting of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association was held in the city of Battle Creek, Michigan, sixth-day, Oct. 4, 1861, at 9 o’clock, A. M. Present, all the officers of the Association. Meeting opened by prayer by Bro. Joseph Bates. The Roll was then called by the Secretary. Members present, 57, representing 107 votes.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.1
The next business in order being the Auditor’s Report, Bro. J. N. Loughborough, Auditor, presented the following, being the Treasurer’s accounts and statements, which he read before the Association, and submitted as his report:ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.2
Report of the S. D. A. Publishing Association, from June 2, 1861, to Oct. 4, 1861.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.3
CASH on hand at date of transfer, $ 201,72
” Rec’d in subscriptions for Review, 991,59
” ” ” ” ” Instructor, 93,02
” ” From Book sales by mail, 197,86
” ” For Shares in Association, 2132,35
” Borrowed, 1402,74
” Received on Deposit, 243,00
” Received from Custom Work, 39,25
” ” For Missionary Purposes, 84,62
” ” In Premiums on Drafts, 6,93
” ” For Michigan Tent, 22,42
” ” On Account, 402,30
Total, $5817,80
The Association has paid
For work on Books and Papers $ 811,56
” Material and Sundries, 1154,10
On Borrowed Money, 489,82
Jones & Day on Building, 2530,41
On Missionary Account, 27,38
It has Cash on hand to balance, 804,53
FURTHER STATEMENT RESPECTING THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE OFFICE
When the transfer of Office Property was made to the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association by Bro. White, June 2, 1861, the Assets of the Publishing Department were as follows:ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.4
Presses, Engine, Type, Books, Stock and Accounts, $ 9833,08
Cash on hand, 201,72
Amount, $10034,80
Against this there were Liabilities to the amount of $3542,21
These were assumed by the Association, leaving the net value of property transferred, 6492,59
To this has been added as follows:
Real Estate in Lots and Office Building, 4181,40
Whole amount received on Shares and in Donations to Association, 3590,36
This includes all the Shares issued out of money previously deposited in the Office, and all that have been issued on Account, which will explain the difference between the amount as here given, and that stated in the Cash Account above.
Received on Review, 991,59
” ” Instructor, 93,02
” ” Book sales by mail, 197,86
” ” From Custom Work, 39,25
Due from Custom Work, 108,35
Estimated increase of Stock, 1000,00
Total, $17103,65
Since its Organization the Association has paid as follows:
For Material and Sundries, $1154,10
” Work on Books and Papers ($80,85 of which has been settled by note), 892,41
This is the entire amount paid on the building, including what has been paid on Account as well as in Cash.
” Missionary Account, 27,38
Amount, $5911,34
The Association has present liabilities, including all those liabilities originally assumed which have not been canceled, as follows:ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.5
In outstanding notes, $4790,86
” Amount due for work in Office, 187,60
” ” ” James White for Books, 155,95
” ” ” Missionary Board, 387,95
” ” ” Michigan Tent, 75,87
URIAH SMITH, Treasurer.
Battle Creek, Mich., Oct. 3, 1861ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.6
This may certify that I have examined the foregoing account, and find it correctly cast and properly vouched.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.7
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Auditor.
Battle Creek, Mich., Oct. 4, 1861.
The members of the Association then proceeded to the nomination and election of officers for the ensuing term. The following brethren were nominated and chosen: James White, President. Geo. W. Amadon, Vice President. Cyrenius Smith and J. P. Kellogg, Committee on Publication. E. S. Walker, Secretary. U. Smith, Treasurer. J. N. Loughborough, Auditor. James White, Editor of REVIEW AND HERALD, and G. W. Amadon, Editor of YOUTH’S INSTRUCTOR. According to Art. III, Sec. 1, it became necessary for the Association to fix the salaries of the President, Editors, Secretary and Treasurer. The following resolutions were submitted and adopted:ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.8
Resolved, That the President be paid for the next term of his service as President and Editor, seven dollars per week.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.9
Resolved, That the Secretary, Treasurer, and Editor of YOUTH’S INSTRUCTOR, be paid for all their labors and duties in connection with the Office for the next term of their service at the rate of seven dollars per week.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.10
In accordance with Sec. 2, of Art. III, the following resolution was adopted:ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.11
Resolved, That the Auditor be paid the sum of ten dollars for his services for the past term.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.12
Brn. S. Rumery, J. S. Day, O. B. Jones and H. S. Lay, presented the following resolution, which was adopted:ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.13
Resolved, That the next annual meeting of the Association be held at Monterey, Mich., on Friday, the 5th day of October, A. D. 1862, at 9 o’clock A. M.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.14
JAMES WHITE, President.
E. S. WALKER, Secretary.
NOTE TO BRO. WAGGONER
THE church in Colon, Mich., have a matter of business that very much concerns the prosperity of the church, which they have referred to you and myself for settlement. It is thought best to attend to their matter Nov. 8, nine o’clock in the morning. You are requested to remain over the Sabbath.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.15
This early notice is given that all concerned may be ready, as one brother is in Illinois.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.16
JOHN BYINGTON.
Battle Creek, Mich., Oct. 6, 1861
APPOINTMENTS Ohio Conference
BY the urgent request of many friends, and the advice of the Committee on the wants of the cause in Ohio, we, accompanied by Mrs. W., will, providence permitting, visit Ohio, and hold a conference at Green Springs, Oct. 26 and 27. We will hold meetings at Lovett’s Grove the 30th, and at Gilboa Nov. 2 and 3, if that church request it through the REVIEW. JAMES WHITE.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.17
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will hold meetings with the brethren in Salem, Ind., Oct. 12, and the following week where the brethren may appoint. JOHN BYINGTON.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.18
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will meet the church at Nile, Allegany Co., N. Y., Oct. 13,14. And also will meet the church in Catlin, Chemung Co., N. Y., Oct. 19,20. We would like to meet as many of the brethren at these appointments as possible. Dear brethren, come in the Spirit, prepared to work for the Lord. N. FULLER.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.19
HISTORY of the Sabbath will be ready in about two weeks. It will contain 344 pages. Orders will receive prompt attention. The price of this work in paper covers is 30 cents, well bound, 60 cents.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.20
S. W. Flanders: We send again.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.21
Receipts FOR REVIEW AND HERALD
Annexed to each receipt in the following list, is the Volume and Number of the ‘Review and Herald’ to which the money receipted pays. If money for the paper is not in due time acknowledged, immediate notice of the omission should be given.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.22
Caleb Johnston 1,00,xix,1. Geo. Miller 1,00,xx,1. A. W. Snyder 1,00,xix,13. S. T. Chamberlain 1,00,xix,14. J. E. Strite 2,00,xix,20. D. Weaver 2,00,xix,21. Jas. Collis 2,00,xviii,20. A. Lutz 1,00,xx,1. E. M. Kimble 1,00,xx,1. D. J. Shirly 2,00,xvii,17. W. Harris 2,00 (2 copies) xix,1. S. A. Snyder 2,00,xx,1. T. Howe (for A. B. Slyter) 2,00,xviii,1. Francis Moorman 2,00,xx,7. J. Furguson 2,00,xx,14. J. Wilson 1,00,xvii,14. W. Hastings 2,00,xx,14. J. Sisley 1,00,xix,13. I. A. Olmstead 2,00,xxi,1. A. Simons 1,60,xviii,18. J. M. Whitham 0,58,xviii,18. S. Peckham 3,00,xxii,1. H. H. Holbrook 1,00,xviii,13. I. Colcord, Sr. 1,00,xix,1. J. Tillotson 4,00,xx,1. Jane Collar 1,00,xx,6. G. W. Strickland 1,00,xx,21. S. Southwell 0,50,xix,1. S. Rumery (for J. T. Lay 0,50,xix,10; for J. Rumery 1,50,xx,1) 2,00. Chas. Russell 2,00,xx,19. C. Russell (for Mrs. L. Densmore) 0,50,xix,19. H. Kenyon 1,00,xix,14. Jas. Brezee 2,00,xx,1. Russel Hoag 1,00,xix,1. Wm. Carpenter, Jr. 1,00,xxi,1. J. Edgerton 2,00,xx,1. J. T. Ashley 1,00,xix,1. Jos. Clarke 1,00,xx,1. Mary E. Beach 1,00,xxi,1. James Sawyer 1,00,xix,7. Joseph Stillman 1,00,xx,19. T. Finch 1,00,xix,1. L. L. Glover 1,00,xix,7. Robert Cochran 3,00,xxi,1. E. Bracket 1,00,xx,1. Mrs. E. Bracket (for Mrs. S. Allen) 1,00,xviii,15. Wm. Smith 1,00,xx,1. James Lane 1,00,xx,1. B. Dewitt 0,50,xix,7. D. Scott 1,00,xviii,18. Mary Monk 0,50,xx,9. E. Degarmo 1,00,xix,1. C. G. Cramer 1,00,xx,21. T. Gilbert 0,50,xix,19. A. T. Wilkinson 2,00,xxi,1. H. S. Gurney (for S. Gurney) 0,50,xx,1. H. S. Gurney 1,00,xx,1. G. M. Foster 1,00,xviii,1. Lewis Hacket 1,00,xv,17. Wm. Bryant 1,00,xix,1. I. D. Cramer 2,50,xix,14. John Lindsay 1,00,xix,1. Mary Alexander 0,60,xix,1. N. Keezer 4,00,xxi,17. Sr. Tomlinson (for S. Lindsay and V. Tomlinson) each 0,50,xix,19. F. F. Camp (for E. Goodale) 0,50,xix,19. W. Camp 2,00,xxi,1. C. Amy 2,00,xviii,14.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.23
For Shares in Publishing Association
David J. Burroughs $10,00. Abner Z. Hoyt $10,00. Huldah Godsmark $10,00. G. W. States $5,00. Leander Kellogg $5,00. M. E. Cornell $10,00. Daniel Andre $10,00. Russel J. Lawrence $20,00. Mrs. Russel J. Lawrence $10,00. Jane Higley 10,00. Anna E. Rhodes $10,00. Richard L. Rhodes $10,00. Francis Moorman $10,00. C. W. Moorman $10,00. S. A. McPherson $50,00. R. J. Foster $5,00. J. Furguson $10,00. Sanford Rodgers $10,00. A. W. Maynard $10,00. Phidelia A. Maynard $10,00. James Harvey $10,00. F. Swartz $5,00. John P. Hunt $10,00. P. Palmblad $1,50. S. Peckham $10,00. Wm. H. Hafer $10. E. S. Griggs $40. H. Kenyon $10. Geo. Leighton $80. Rocksilda Leighton $20. Chas. Russell $10. S. Rumery $80. B. J. Rumery $20. T. Finch $10. Jas. Brezee $10. Wm. Carpenter, jr. $10. L. L. Byington $10. H. S. Lay $10. J. Mears $10. Chas. O. Taylor $10. G. T. Lay $80. Mary E. Lay $20. H. Gardner $30. Diantha S. Gardner $20.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.24
Donations to Publishing Association
Ch. at Ayersville, Ohio, (S. B.) $5,00. E. S. Decker $5,00. Ch. at Shelby, Mich., (S. B.) $20,00. Three friends at Addison, Mich., (S. B.) $20,00. Ch. at Jackson, Mich., (S. B.) $33,00. Elizabeth Olmstead $2,00. L. Schellhous $5. G. W. Strickland $2. Ch. at Monterey, Mich. (S. B.) $45. Ch. at North Plains, Mich. $15. Ch. at Burlington, Mich. (S. B.) $8. Ch. at Tompkins, Mich. (S. B.) $10. Ch. at Ceresco, Mich. (S. B.) $35. J. T. Ashley for Ch. at Dartmouth, Mass. $5. O. Mears $5. Ch. at Kensington, Ct. (S. B.) $10. B. Graham $1. Ch. in Owasso, Mich. (S. B.) $15. Ch. at Convis $7,21. Ch. at Buck’s Bridge, N. Y. $7. Ch. at Allegan, Mich. (S. B.) $15. C. G. Cramer (S. B.) $1,46. Balance of Conference Collection $1,03. W. B. $1,00.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.25
Books Sent by Mail
S. W. Flanders 0,54. W. W. Giles 0,80. H. Hilliard $2,40. Sarah A. Beach 0,12. M. Austin 0,15. S. O. Davis $1,00. Polly Maynard $1,00.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.26
Cash Received on Account
J. Furguson (E. W. S.) $2,00. Henry Gordon (E. W. S.) $5,00. E. E. Taylor 0,80. J. W. Stuart $10,00. J. H. Waggoner $1,40.ARSH October 8, 1861, page 152.27 | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6636556386947632, "wiki_prob": 0.3363443613052368, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line1055190"} |
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How Bitcoin ATMs in Greece fare during a record-breaking tourist season
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Greece is world-renowned for its idyllic beaches and laid-back lifestyle. Before the outbreak of the global pandemic, the World Travel and Tourism Council said that tourism generated more than a fifth of Greece’s GDP.
This year, the country faced a record number of travelers during the summer tourism season. In the month of August alone, the country received nearly one million travelers per week, according to Greek Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias.
A report from ForwardKeys on this year’s summer tourism revealed that among the ten best “sun and beach” locations in Europe, Greece ranked six. These destinations included the island of Mykonos, Thera (Santorini) and Heraklion (Crete), as well as Thessaloniki. Athens, the country’s capital, ranked third in terms of “urban” destinations in Europe.
Among the 27 member states of the European Union, Greece ranks sixth in terms of crypto ATMs, with 64 countries active in use. More than half of crypto ATMs in Greece are shared between Athens and Thessaloniki.
However, Bitcoin ATM operator BCash has strategically placed some of its ATMs in trendy destinations on Mykonos, Santorini and Crete. Cointelegraph spoke with BCash Managing Director and Co-Founder Dimitrios Tsangalidis about how cryptocurrency, or its impact, is affecting the tourism season in Greece.
Although Mykonos and Santorini are the most visited tourist destinations, ATMs on the mainland have the majority of traffic, according to Tsangalidis — especially central Athens, where the first ATM was installed, and Thessaloniki.
However, the co-founder noted that Crete, the country’s most populous island and a popular tourist destination, has a “very loyal crypto crowd.”
“There is a strong crypto community in Heraklion in Crete [which is] the location of one of our ATMs.”
In Heraklion, the capital of Crete, local startup H2B Hub has teamed up with the Greek-speaking University of Nicosia to create and support a local blockchain community.
Both Athens and Thessaloniki have active and regular encounters for the crypto and blockchain community.
While tourism supports parts of the Greek economy, according to Tsangaldis, it does not translate to the cryptocurrency scene. “Unfortunately, the exact opposite happens,” Tsangalidis says.
“In the summer months and high tourist seasons, the demand drops. But we’re in the middle of the crypto winter that came earlier this year, so it’s really hard to tell.”
Especially in terms of regular traffic, the drop can also be offset by locals leaving for vacation.
Related: Tourists flock to El Salvador despite Bitcoin bear market
In general, Greece needs more awareness of cryptocurrencies and their usefulness in everyday life, Tsangalidis summarizes.
“The impact on local tourism can only be seen if there is a general adoption of cryptocurrencies within the community.”
Currently, he adds, there is little infrastructure or adoption at the level of Greek companies and local governments. “If our government becomes crypto-friendly and if companies are given the green light, then adoption will follow.”
In May this year, the head of the Greek National Tourism Organization, Angela Jericho, said that the country is currently exploring how blockchain technology can bring safety and transparency to tourism.
Source: CoinTelegraph
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Written in textbook format by two experts in this new area of research and practice, this title incorporates the latest evidence-based research on the relationship between lifestyle factors and disease. Addresses public health concerns such as obesity, cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease using a holistic approach to physical, mental and spiritual wellness. Includes modifiable lifestyle factors that positively affect health, nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress control and social support.
Discusses the global burden and risk factors of the modern disease epidemic
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Leka med elden (1892) (Playing with Fire) by Swedish playwright August Strindberg (1849-1912) about an artist's wife who nearly goes off with his best friend.
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Translated into Afrikaans as Wie Met Vuur Speel for the radio by S.J. Pretorius, adapted for the stage by Herman Pretorius.
Performance history in South Africa
1967/8? A production of the English text was done by the Drama Department of the University of the Orange Free State, directed by Marlene Kotzen with Schalk Jacobsz, Temple Hauptfleisch, Hudson Earp,
1983: A production of the English text was done by the Baxter Theatre in association with Minotaurus, directed by Dieter Reible, starring Chris van Niekerk, Mitzi Booysen, Michael Drin, Megan Kruskal, Marthinus Basson. The first performance in the Baxter Studio was on 13 April 1983.
1986: Wie Met Vuur Speel was presented by Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch in the H.B. Thom Theatre in September 1986, directed by Juanita Swanepoel. Decor by Emile Aucamp, costumes by Elaine Aucamp.
Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987.
Playing with Fire theatre programme, 1983.
World Drama by Allardyce Nicoll. Harrap, 1949.
UTS theatre programme
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How Will Ontario’s Increased Foreign-Buyer Tax Affect Americans Purchasing Homes There?
In October, the Canadian province upped the ante by raising the transfer tax surcharge on non-residents from 20% to 25%
By Michael Kaminer
| Originally Published On November 10, 2022 | Mansion Global
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Every week, Mansion Global poses a tax question to real estate tax attorneys. Here is this week’s question.
Q: I’m an American looking to buy a home in Toronto for around C$2 million. How will Ontario’s increased foreign-buyer tax affect me?
Two Canadian provinces, British Columbia and Ontario, impose special taxes on foreign buyers of residential property. In October, Ontario upped the ante by raising the tax from 20% to 25% “to help Ontario home buyers,” Ontario minister of finance Peter Bethlenfalvy said in a news release announcing the change.
“Our government is increasing the Non-Resident Speculation Tax rate by another five percentage points to 25%, making it the highest in Canada, to further discourage foreign speculation in Ontario’s housing market,” the minister said.
For a buyer who is not a citizen or permanent resident of Canada, “the 25% tax on the value of the transaction will be collected upon closing the purchase, so cash will be required at closing,” said Armando Minicucci, a tax partner in the Toronto office of Grant Thornton Canada.
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On a C$2 million home (US$1.5 million), the tax will amount to C$500,000. “The tax applies to any residential property from one to six units,” Mr. Minicucci said. “If you’re buying an apartment building or multifamily dwelling with more than six units, it won’t apply.”
Ontario’s foreign-buyer tax has risen progressively since its inception in September of 2021, Mr. Minicucci explained. In April 2017, the Provincial government introduced a 15% tax on foreign buyers who bought property in the Greater Golden Horseshoe, the densely populated Southern Ontario region that includes Toronto. The tax rose to 20% in March 2022—and expanded to cover all of Ontario. The 25% tax rate took effect on Oct. 25.
“We’ve had individuals contact us about it, but we were able to ensure that they were exempt because they were Canadian citizens living abroad or permanent residents,” Mr. Minicucci said.
But the Non-Resident Speculation Tax is just one hurdle for foreign buyers, Mr. Minicucci said. In September, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration unveiled the so-called Underused Housing Tax, an annual 1% tax on the value of a property that is not occupied for at least six months out of the year. Like the foreign-buyer tax, it’s intended to give Canadians more access to homes that might have been bought by non-residents, the government has said.
“The property must be occupied for at least a complete month, and for 180 days or more over a calendar year,” Mr. Minicucci said. While renting out a home would count toward satisfying those requirements, “renting creates other issues for non-residents, including the need to file a Canadian tax return, because they’ll be generating rental income in Canada,” he added.
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Three Strategies for Finding an Ancestor in Scottish Records
by Lisa Cooke | Jan 28, 2019 | 01 What's New, Scottish Genealogy | 2 comments
What a treat it is to have Amanda Epperson, PhD joining us here on Genealogy Gems! Amanda is an expert on Scottish genealogy research, and is the author of The Family Tree Scottish Genealogy Guide. If you even suspect that you have Scottish roots keep reading because Amanda is about to share some of her top strategies to help you find your ancestors in Scottish records.
Scottish Genealogy Starts with Scottish Records
If your love of tartan, bagpipes, and kilts equals your love of family history research, you are likely hoping to find an ancestor who was born in Scotland. Or perhaps nothing would surprise you more than to find a Scottish ancestor. In either case, the next step is to find this ancestor in Scottish records.
As with all immigrants, the first step to finding them in their homeland is to research their lives extensively in America before searching for them in Scottish records. Once you do that, use these three strategies to locate your ancestor in Scottish records.
1. An Important Divide in Scottish Genealogy
First, determine whether your Scottish-born ancestor arrived in the United States before or after 1855, the year Statutory (or Civil) Registration began in Scotland. This year is an important divide in Scottish Genealogy. Before 1855, you will need to start your research with the Old Parish Records (commonly known as the OPR) and after 1855 you can use the Statutory Records. With this knowledge, you will be able to organize your research and manage expectations of the data you will find. If your ancestors came to America after 1855, then they and their relatives should be included in Statutory records. These records are extremely detailed and each type invariably includes the name of an individual’s parents. Parish records are an amazing resource, but they are not complete and were not well-kept in all parishes. Consequently, many people do not appear in the OPR.
Scottish Parish Records
Indexes for parish records are available at many websites (for example https://www.familysearch.org). Images of these documents can be viewed at your Local Family History Center or an affiliate library (https://www.familysearch.org/locations/). Statutory Registration records (called civil records in the FamilySearch catalog) are partially indexed at FamilySearch and select years are also available at your local Family History Center. ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/) has a complete set of OPR and Statutory Records available on a pay-per-view basis.
Image above: When you download Statutory records from ScotlandsPeople, like this death record for John Sharp Hood, complete citation information is included. Photo Credit: 1908 Hood, John Sharp (Statutory Register of Deaths 488/2) ©Crown copyright, National Records of Scotland.
2. Determining Your Scottish Ancestor’s Birthplace
Second, determine your ancestor’s Scottish birth place. The name of the parish is best, but you may be able to manage with just the county if you ancestor’s name was uncommon or you know the names of several of their family members. Check available U.S. records for this information. For example: vital records, post-1906 Naturalization records (before this date Naturalizations usually only record the country of origin), passenger lists, county or local histories, or in correspondence. If you are really lucky, you may find your ancestor in the series of books by David Dobson who mines both U.S. and U.K. records for emigrant Scots. Several of his books are available at Ancestry.com and are searchable. Location is a key fact because many Scots have the same name and many surnames (like Smith, Campbell, and Stewart) are quite common. Additionally, the same surname does not guarantee a family relationship, even for more uncommon names.
Many passenger lists record an emigrant’s last place of residence, which for Europeans was their place of birth. However, due to high rates of internal migration in Scotland, this may not be true for many Scottish immigrants. Keep an eye out for other locations associated with you ancestor; also be sure to check if the passenger list records the name and residence of the immigrants nearest relation in the old country. It is possible that this is your ancestor’s actual place of origin.
3. The Importance of Name Variations in Scottish Genealogy
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Third, determine all variations of your ancestor’s first and last names, especially if your ancestor was from the Scottish Highlands. In this region, the bulk of the population spoke Scots-Gaelic until the nineteenth century. However, all church records were kept in English, even if the minister spoke Scots-Gaelic. This meant that all Gaelic names, both first and last, needed to be rendered in English. There was often no consistency in how this was done. Some English renderings were reasonably close to the Scots-Gaelic name, but others were inspired by biblical or Latin names. Two commonly interchangeable first names include Donald and Daniel, and Angus and Aeneas. Highlanders also easily changed surnames, especially when moving from the land of one landlord to another. These name changes are often included in parish registers as an “alias” as in McIntosh alias Cattanach. And when Gaelic speakers moved south, they often Anglicized their surnames, so MacThoimish in Inverness became Thomson in Glasgow. You can learn more about interchangeable names in a brief article by Alan G. McPherson (https://www.clan-macpherson.org/museum/documents/alang12.pdf).
Scottish Genealogy Success
While finding any immigrant ancestor can be a challenge, and Scots are no different, there is the advantage that most of the records are in English, are easily available, and many of have been indexed. Following these three basic steps will help you identify your ancestors in Scottish records. Read more about newly available Scottish records here at Genealogy Gems.
About the Author: Amanda Epperson, PhD
Amanda Epperson is the author of the book The Family Tree Scottish Genealogy Guide. Since completing her Ph.D. in history from the University of Glasgow in 2003, Amanda has taught history at the college level, researched and edited family histories, most recently for Genealogists.com, and written articles for a variety of publications including Family Tree Magazine and Your Genealogy Today. She blogs occasionally at the Scottish Emigration Blog.
Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 225
by Lisa Cooke | Jan 10, 2019 | 01 What's New, Genealogy Gems Podcast
Get ready for a fun and inspiring start to your new genealogy year. I’m not going to lecture you about how to get organized and all that – you get enough of that New Year banter other places. Today I’m going to bring you a talented lady who’s a sharp genealogist and just happens to be one of the hosts of the television series Genealogy Road show., Kenyatta Berry.
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GEM: A Conversation with Kenyatta D. Berry (Genealogy Roadshow)
I had the pleasure of working with Kenyatta Berry last summer when we filmed a webinar together at the FGS national conference. She was beaming from ear to ear about the book she was working on, and I encouraged her get in touch with me when it was done so we could talk about it here on the show.
Well, the book turned out to be a beauty: it’s called The Family Tree Toolkit. It’s a great overview for those new to genealogy, and a quick reference manual for more experienced genealogists with all of its charts and resource lists.
Kenyatta asked me to moderate her Dallas book tour event. In December of 2018 we met up at the Dallas main library in downtown Dallas for An Evening with Kenyatta. This was a wonderful opportunity to not only spend the evening with her and a room full of dedicated genealogists, but also to record it all and bring it you!
In today’s episode, Kenyatta Berry shares how she caught the genealogy bug, busting brick walls, her thoughts on DNA, and of course some of the most memorable experiences on the Genealogy Roadshow.
Kenyatta Berry’s book The Family Tree Toolkit is available here.
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GEM: A Family History Discovery in Home Movies
I made an amazing discovery this week thanks to my guest Dr. David Haas from episode 223. As you’ll recall David shared his family’s history of making home movies, and the hours of old film footage dating all the way back to the 1920s that he had restored and digitized. His story inspired me to start digging through my closets and I found the canisters of 8mm film that I had converted to VHS back in the 1990s. The problem with that first conversion is that 1) VHS is completely obsolete. And 2) the film which dated back to the 1960s was converted in its deteriorated state. It was washed out and grainy making it hard to see everything.
So, in December I sent those original films off to the same company that David used – Video Conversion Experts in Chandler, AZ. Right after the new year the fully restored and digitized files arrived on my doorstep along with the original films. The results are jaw-dropping. The film is gorgeous color just like David’s were, clear as the first day they were taken back in the ‘60s, and now finally in a digital format that I can use for all kinds of projects and sharing.
But here’s the kicker, in reviewing them I made a startling discovery.
About 20 minutes into the film my great grandfather came on the screen. This is the only known film of him in existence, and I was floored that I hadn’t spotted him before. But the VHS was so washed out it wasn’t obvious. Now I see him smiling and standing with his son (my grandfather) and his son (my uncle). Three generations of Burkett men, the oldest having been born in 1880 – and all there on film for me to see.
Left to right: My uncle, my great grandfather, and my grandfather c. 1962
View the restored video on my Instagram here
I love finding genealogical documents but I would take moving images of my ancestors any day of the week over a document. It just goes to prove that you can never say never, that at any given moment something can surface that you never thought possible.
Thank you to Video Conversion Experts!
They did a phenomenal job, but that’s not surprising because they are one of the top labs in the country. They restore video for the movie and TV industry too. They offer varying levels of restoration. It’s not cheap, but if you need professional restoration it’s an investment you won’t regret. I certainly don’t. We don’t have a promo code with Video Conversion Experts but be sure and tell them you heard about them here on the podcast and sign up for their sale emails.
In fact, we received this comment on the episode from Jodi. She writes:
The episode about home movies and David Haas was wonderful. I had also found some old film footage when my parents moved back in 2011. I debated about getting them transferred to digital because of the price. But my father was just diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. I am SO glad that I spent the money to get the project done. He was able to see the old films of his family and explain to me who some of the people were. What a gift! Thank you for encouraging people to do this and sharing all of your knowledge with us so graciously.
Click here to view her old family videos on YouTube.
I took a look at Jodi’s videos, and they’re wonderful. She did a tremendous job with the documentation in the video descriptions. Absolutely brilliant the way she included the linked time stamps to the various videos that she had posted to YouTube. She really took to heart our follow up conversation in episode 224 about how to share the videos once you digitize them.
Larsen Digital Saves Money and Handles a Variety of Media
Yesterday I received a batch of VHS tapes that Larsen Digital converted for me. I’ve known Kristen Larsen for several years. They offer an excellent affordable option that is safe, reliable and great quality. They also really stand out because they can pretty much convert anything you have. I sent them VHS, Mini DVs and even a reel of audio tape and some cassettes of family interviews. They handled all of it affordably and Kristin and her team communicate with you along the way, so you can rest easy that all your precious memories is in good hands.
I have about a zillion family history projects I want to do now that I have these audio interviews in an mp3 digital format. My first plan is to create some Animoto videos where I can drag and drop the audio in with the scanned photos that they describe.
You can contact Larsen Digital at www.larsendigital.com
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View My Video Find on Instagram
Head to Instagram.com/genealogygems (image right) to see the restored video of my great grandfather. Instagram is my favorite social media platform and one that I post to personally nearly every day. You can download the app to your phone for free from your app store and then just search for Lisa Louise Cooke in the app and tap follow. I post genealogy tips and ideas, behind the scenes and stuff about me and my family. It’s a lot of fun!
More with Kenyatta Berry
We’re going to have a lot of fun this year! In the next Genealogy Gems Premium podcast episode (#167). Premium members will hear the Q&A we did with Kenyatta after the interview was over.
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by Lisa Cooke | Dec 12, 2018 | 01 What's New, Genealogy Gems Podcast | 8 comments
In this episode we recap 2018, and explore additional ideas to help you organize your home movies. Whether you have 8MM film, VHS tapes, Mini DV tapes or DVDs, this episode has what you need to preserve and organize them.
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Lisa’s Recent Travels
Swedish Genealogical Society in Edina, MN and a side trip to Winthrop, MN.
Above: Speaking at the Swedish Genealogical Society
Above: Bill (left) with his new found Larson cousin.
Oslo Norway – MyHeritage
Above: Speaking at the MyHeritage conference in Oslo, Norway
The Viking Ship Museum
with my genealogy crew at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, Norway
Read Are You Part Viking? By Anna Swayne
A Visit to Sweden
Above: Lacey in Gothenburg, Sweden
Non-Genealogical Recommended Reading:
Unlearn Your Pain by Dr. Howard Schubiner
High school teacher Lindsey called in to share an unexpected occurrence of genealogy serendipity.
Here the original Genealogy Gems Podcast episode 185 where George Ella Lyon reads her poem.
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Followup on GGP 223
I’m organizing and digitizing my Grandmother’s old home movies with Video Conversion Experts. I told my uncle about it and now he’s sending me the rest of his old home movies! Video Conversion Experts is the company that Dr. Haas used to convert his films. They did an exceptional job in post production restoration, and are known for this work in the film industry. They are the ideal company to go with if you want to invest in the highest quality of restoration. They are currently running a terrific 35% off sale now through 12/21/18.
I’m digitizing my family’s High 8 home movie tapes with Larsen Digital. The list of mediums that they can digitize is one of the most extensive I’ve seen. They are even able to digitize the unmarked audio tape that I found among my grandmother’s home movies. Kristin and her team are well known in the genealogy community and are based in Utah. They have graciously extended a 15% off to my listeners. Use the coupon code: GenGem. Discount is valid on: video tapes, movie film, audio reels, audio tapes, slides, negatives, photos & specialty film.
Your feedback on episode 223
On Instagram from Erin:
“I loved this episode Lisa! Anna’s song is so beautiful too! I learned a lot and the way you shared this story was wonderful. A favorite gem for sure.”
From Greg in New Zealand:
“I’m loving the new narrative/profile episodes and had noticed the evolving voice and style in GGP 223. You and your team are wonderful writers…David Haas’ story reminded me of my good friend Mark Holtze. An editor in Toronto, Mark has digitised all of his grandfathers’ 16mm vacation films from across Canada in the 50s, 60s and 70s. They are brilliantly presented. Mark is very talented. I think they’re worth sharing with your listeners. I don’t know Mark’s connection to this posting specifically but it’s an amazing one on his playlist.”
I couldn’t agree more! Here’s the description of the video: A number of 8mm film reels were purchased at a Flea Market in New York City for $10. They ended up being home movies taken in the late 40’s and 50’s. How they ended up at a Flea Market in Manhattan all those years later is one thing, but most importantly was getting the films reconnected with the family. …60 years later….
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Organizing the videos you find online
After listening to episode 223, Kate was inspired to head to YouTube in search of videos that illustrate her memories. She writes:
“I’ve been trying to set up a collection of my memories on you tube. Do you have any thoughts on to put this together? Is it possible to add clips and not full videos?”
My suggestions:
YouTube: Organize with playlists
You can use Playlists to group the videos you find by topic. You could create playlists for locations, timeframes, people and so on. Sign in with your free Google account which will give you access to your YouTube “channel.” When you find a video, under the title of the video click the plus sign that says “Add to”. Select a playlist from the playlists listed in the dropdown menu. These are playlists you have already created in your account. If it’s a long list, use the search box to search for a playlist title. Or create a new Playlist by clicking “Create New Playlist” at the bottom of the menu.
Unfortunately, YouTube doesn’t give you a way to add your own notes. And you can’t create clips of videos (at least not as of this writing), but I do know that when you share a video you can mark that it start at a point in the video that you select. Which brings me to my next suggestion…
Pinterest: Organize Videos into boards on Pinterest
If you would like to have even more control over organizing the videos that you find, and you want to be able to add your own notes and memories, consider using Pinterest. In your free Pinterest account you can create as many boards as you want. Create a board for each topic (much like with the Playlists I suggested previously) and save YouTube videos to them. And of course, you can save any other online content “memories” that you find along with them if you want. The beauty of pinning is that you can add your own notes and memories, plus you can set the video to begin at any point within the video that you want. Simply click “Share” under the video in YouTube, and click to check the box for “Start at.” Next, click on the player timeline that runs across the bottom of the video on the spot where you want the video to begin playing. Finally, click the Pinterest icon in the Share area to pin it to your Pinterest board of choice.
Profile America: TV Tech
Thursday, December 13th. The important holiday business of viewing such classics as “It’s A Wonderful Life” and “A Christmas Story” on home TVs owes much to a technological advance this month 80 years ago. In December 1938, Russian-American engineer Vladimir Zworykin was awarded two patents for cathode ray tubes. One was for the iconoscope to capture video images. The other was for the kinescope, which displayed television and computer monitor images for decades until the advent of flat panel screens. Whatever the ills of TV programming, obviously the American people consider it an appliance for a wonderful life. More than 98 percent of American households own at least one set, a percentage that has held steady for years and across all age groups.
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by Lisa Cooke | Nov 25, 2018 | 01 What's New, Genealogy Gems Podcast | 1 comment
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Bit Players in Someone Else’s Show
If you happen to catch an old episode of the TV Series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you may be surprised to spot Ben Affleck dribbling down a basketball court in the not so highly acclaimed role of Basketball Player #10.
And you might need to set your popcorn down and rewind while watching Monk from 2006 on Amazon Prime Videos to confirm that indeed you did just see Jennifer Laurence from Hunger Games fame pull off a lion mascot head after a high school game in the infamous role of “Mascot Girl”.
Or how about funny man Jack Black of School of Rock fame in the walk-on part of “Taxi Driver” on the iconic 1980s comedy The Golden Girls.
Yep, at some point we are ALL bit players in somebody else’s show. And that is even more true with old home movies
Your friends, your neighbors and even perfect strangers have likely at some point captured you or someone in your family in one of their own old home movies. And the same is true for your ancestors. As long as film has been around, the chances of someone in your family tree appearing in someone else’s videos at some point in time is actually quite high.
And think about it, when film – or moving pictures – came into being right around 1895, it had the capability of capturing someone born as early as even 1800. That’s a lot of potential generations of your family!
David Haas MD knows this better than most folks. he has experienced first-hand that any one of us may find ourselves, quite by surprise, as the keeper or even the Archivist of film footage that connects to potentially hundreds if not thousands of other people and families. And there’s a very good possibility that yours is one of those families.
Your family could very well indeed be one that has been a bit player in somebody else’s film, and you didn’t even know it. But that’s OK, because thanks to technology, it’s never been easier to find the celluloid that once lay sleeping in a stranger’s attic.
The best place to start our story is how I came to know David Haas.
I’ve been encouraging you through this podcast, my book The Genealogist’s Google Toolbox (which includes an entire chapter devoted to YouTube) and my in-person lectures to turn to online video, and specifically YouTube in search of your family. Long time listener Debby Warner Anderson contacted me to let me know that she had followed my suggestion with dramatic results. She wrote:
“I had interviewed my Dad to get details of his memories and found the 2 YouTube links about the 1945 Macy’s Parade that my father went to and the video about W.C. Handy who my Dad remembered seeing. My Dad was so tickled to see the YouTube videos to go with his memories. It gave my family members and my son a real glimpse in to my Dad’s memories. Thank-you for the suggestions!”
I clicked the link she shared to an article that she wrote on her blog called Debby’s Family Genealogy. The article called Recording a Family Thanksgiving Tradition described the find in detail and included the video, called Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade – 1945.
David Haas MD had uploaded this video to YouTube, and it’s one of hundreds on his YouTube channel under his name David Haas MD. You need only click it and watch just a few moments to be mesmerized. The video, comprised of old home movies, is striking in its color quality, and you instantly feel yourself falling back in time, pulled there even further by the haunting music that serves as the backdrop to this silent film.
I was so taken by how this video, sitting out there for free on YouTube, fit so beautifully into Debby’s family history, helping to bring it just a bit more into focus.
I sat and watched the Macy’s Day parade video all the way through. It was so clear that it was carefully and thoughtfully restored and shared, and that it must have come from someone else’s personal home movie collection.
Clicking on the name of the person who uploaded any video on YouTube will bring you to their YouTube channel. Anyone can have a free YouTube channel by simply signing in with a free Google account and uploading a video. It’s called Creators Studio, and these days it sports an impressive collection of tools that anyone can use to create, enhance and share videos.
Many channels will have only one or maybe a handful of videos. This is not the case with David’s channel. It’s difficult to scroll down the page far enough to get to the end of the impressive video list. Where did all these home movies come from? What motivated him to invest the time to make the available on YouTube?
Literally hundreds of people appear in the 4 ½ minute Macy’s Parade (1945) film: the folks in the parade, the people lining the streets and even the people watching from the fire escapes of the surrounding buildings.
The film was created by William G Whitman Sr. A veteran of World War I, he made his way after the war as a bit of a jack of all trades, and the path eventually got the ball rolling that led to the home movies.
William G Whitman, Sr. was David’s grandfather on his mother’s side. William, his wife Catherine and their 10 year old daughter Catherine who is David’s mother can be found in the 1930 census living in Brooklyn. At that time William says he’s a manager of a store. By 1940 he has followed his passion and is proudly declaring he works in Photographic retail as a photo finisher.
But it was as far back as the year that the Great Depression hit, 1929 that William began capturing his growing family on film. In those early movies David’s mother, Catherine, was just 9 years old. David’s collection of films span from this time period all the way through the mid-1970s.
In the earliest of the home movies which you can see on David’s YouTube channel, William Whitman did what most of us do, take home movies of the people and things we love the most. In those films, David’s mom clearly relishes being in front of her father’s camera. She worshipped her father, who was a bit of a big kid himself.
“My mother always remembered things in a sunny way…it’s very much like the pictures we see on the internet, where people tend to post the most rosy possible pictures. Often times, I think it’s the same with the home movies. You really have to dig deeper to kind of get the whole story.”
This phenomenon of capturing and sharing the rosiest version of ourselves is nothing new. And as genealogists, we are in the perfect position to leverage old movies like these and dig deeper for the rest of the story. Story is a running theme through William Whitman’s films. You only need to watch a few to see what a keen eye for composition and telling stories that he had. He developed his skill while shooting weddings professionally.
William got his whole family into the act of shooting, developing and editing his films. After his daughter Catherine (image below) married David’s father, he too joined in. William passed his skills and knowledge onto his son-in-law. He soon started shooting film of his own further adding to the collection of home movies.
Catherine Anna Haas
Lawrence W. Haas
As with so many genealogical tales, great treasure troves like these films are often found with three part deep digging and one part luck. In David’s case, the path to the treasure starts with the family’s refrigerator. His father used to project the movies onto the white kitchen refrigerator. Many years later, after his parents passed away, he found his father’s movies. But it wasn’t until his Aunt Markie mentioned that there were much older 16mm movies in existence dating back to the 1920s that the rest of the collection was discovered in the basement. David set to work getting them digitized.
David not only discovered that these movies were a priceless find for his own family, he soon realized that they held a vast amount of treasure for many other families in a wide variety of locations. “It really was about the people…they needed to be shared!” He felt a moral obligation to do so, and it soon turned into an obsession.
The Gold Waiting to be Found
And that’s the gold here! If we are all bit players in everybody else’s show, and this show was happening in so many different locations, then there are a lot of bit players out there waiting to be found by their families too, right there in David’s films. While the films of course covered Brooklyn where David’s family lived, they branch out to Queens NY, Ventner NJ, and as far away as San Francisco.
The genealogical value in old home movies is immense. If as researchers we can occasionally shift our focus from ancestors’ names to locations, we could very possibly hit pay dirt and find old films online that include our family.
It was in the town of Suffern, NY that David’s father shot quite a bit of footage, but there’s plenty to be had in many different locations. Once he posted them on YouTube the response was swift.
“Our Suffern – A Remembrance Through Home Movies”.
(This compilation of footage was created to commemorate the 40th Reunion of the Suffern High School Class of 1975. It is 41 minutes in length and premiered on October 3, 2015 at the historic Lafayette Theatre in downtown Suffern, NY.)
The color video Haas family, Mickey Mantle’s 500th Home Run, Yankee Stadium 1967 on David’s YouTube channel garnered dozens of comments from grateful viewers.
His father filmed elements of the game that the news didn’t which viewers appreciated. And some had been at that very game.
We’re Not Getting Any Younger
David stresses that timeliness is important when it comes to sharing old home movies like these. “People aren’t getting any younger” he says, and “Others may have insights you may miss.”
One connection made through sharing the movies on YouTube, that just barely missed making a personal connection, revolved around David’s mother’s younger sister, his aunt Margaret Whitman. She lived in Brooklyn in the 1930-1940s, and there are movies of “Markie” with her friends. One film from the 1930s included her good friend Charlie Russell. (Watch below starting at about the 30 second mark.) A few years ago, David received a message from a Charlie after he saw one of the videos! Sadly, he made the connection literally a week after Markie passed away at the age of 89. “If I could have made this connection 6 months earlier it would have been so wonderful for both of them. By then all their other friends had passed away.”
Another viewer who was touched by the films was a woman who saw herself walking around the Suffern swimming pool with her mother. It was priceless to her since her parents later died in an airplane crash and she had few photos of them. That was one of many stories.
“There was a little league game that my father filmed in Suffern, and there was a young boy who struck out, and as he was walking off and one of the coaches kind of patted him on the butt, sort of saying “good try, good job”, and then the game was over and they were all kind of hugging each other because they won the game. And this young boy ended up seeing the film now, I guess 50 years later. His father had passed away not long after that little league game, and here he was seeing his father who was his coach, encouraging him after he struck out. And again, he said he couldn’t speak for hours. It was just amazing.”
Another woman even found her parents in one of the videos on Coney Island where they ran a pony ride with her grandfather!
David’s willingness to share his family’s treasure trove of home movies put him in a unique and unexpected position to touch many people’s lives in truly meaningful ways. The only difference between him and many others who have even just a few spools of film is that he took action to share them. And along the way, he learned some important lessons about what makes film so distinct in its value. It’s those unique characteristic that told him more about his own family. “What I’ve learned is that photographs are powerful, but there’s nothing like moving images”.
David’s father had captured the moments of other people’s lives while filming his own. David didn’t use to be interested in genealogy. His father, however, was obsessed with it. But now, David finds that he is grateful to be able to pull the genealogy back out and reconstruct who the people are in the movies.
It’s a word so often associated with genealogy – obsessed. David’s father became obsessed with it and now David has become obsessed with processing and making available his cache of his father’s and grandfather’s home movies. This has in turn gloriously ensnared him in the world of genealogy.
David hopes by sharing his story of how these videos have impacted and continue to impact the lives of strangers from around the world, it will inspire all of us who have a few reels of old family movies to make it a priority to get them digitized and make them available. Our families and other unknown families are counting on us.
“One thing that I’m really passionate about is that people who have home movies, if they can, they should really do their best to get them digitized” David continues, “Having gone through the experience, and it’s really been transformative, I feel very passionate about getting my wife’s movies, her family’s movies or her father when he was arrived, getting these converted and sharing these with my wife’s family. So that they can really forever see these movies and share them with their children, so that they can be passed down for generations.”
The Process: Digitize, Enhance and Share
We’ve all seen the commercial where they peer into the camera and aske “what’s in your wallet”. Our question today is “what’s in your closet”. I’ve looked through my closets and I have several home movies my grandmother shot on 8mm film. I also have a box full of VHS tapes from back when Bill and I got our first video camera right after we got married in the 1980s.
The process for digitizing and sharing your home movies can appear daunting at first glance. That’s why I asked David Haas MD to share some specifics about his project so that you can learn what you need to consider and some tips from somebody who’s already been through this in a big way.
Although David’s collection of film runs about 10 hours, has several hundred videos because he kept them short – about 4 minutes long each. This is a smart strategy because of the attention span of YouTube viewers. It’s also about the length of a song, which makes setting them to music easier.
David went the extra mile and created a website where he makes available indexes of all the videos which can be searched by location, year and person. David really thought about the potential value of these films and set up a system for making it easier for visitors to find what they are looking for. In a case like his where he has such a volume of these 3-5 minute videos, this is a huge help to other researchers. But don’t worry if having your own website isn’t in your wheelhouse. YouTube has a powerful search engine, and it’s called Google. You can make your videos very easily searchable by simply including the details that pertain to a particular video in the video description that appears below the video on YouTube.
Since your videos will be on your YouTube channel, researchers be able to simply go to your channel’s home page and type a name, place event or some other set of keywords in your channel’s search box. Google will search just your channel and retrieve only the videos that match the search terms. If you want to see this in action, go to my YouTube channel at youtube.com/genealogygems or David’s channel and try a search.
Digitizing Your Home Movies
The first step is to get the movies digitized. It can be a pretty scary thought to send your precious movies off to some stranger. David considers his videos his “most priceless possession.”
Through a bit of trial and error, David landed with a company who could do the job. He first tried a local place but ultimately went with Video Conversion Experts in Chandler AZ. They did an excellent job and cleaned them up and optimized the film. He recommends overnighting your films so that you can control when they arrive. You can receive both hard drives and DVDs of the digitized movies.
Watch this video from Video Conversion Experts. It explains the difference in quality that they provide. The difference between a company like this and the big box stores conversion is dramatic!
Sharing Your Home Movies on YouTube
At first, David thought he would take the movies to the local library. His daughter Anna convinced him to try editing them with iMovie and then uploading them to YouTube. The first film he edited was called A Drive through Suffern.
Free video editing tools:
(Mac) iMovie – https://www.apple.com/imovie/
(PC) Movie Maker – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/movie-maker-10-tell-your-story/9mvfq4lmz6c9?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
Thank goodness for David’s daughter Anna Haas! Just think if these videos had only landed in one physical location like a library versus online. Now another generation of the Haas family has entered the picture to preserve the family’s legacy and touch the lives of so many others. And it’s Anna’s inspiring music that provides the backdrop for the Macy’s Day Parade and several others.
Get the song Find Your Home here on her album Crazy Is.
Visit Anna Haas’ website: http://annahaas.com
Anna’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/annahaasmusic
Anna Haas Music Video: Find Your Home (watch below)
When you love people, you just can’t justify keeping old home movies to yourself. You can’t in good conscience leave them in dusty boxes stuffed away in the back of closets in risk of deteriorating to dust. For the woman who saw her parents again in the swimming pool video, to the man who felt the affection from a father long gone, and for countless unnamed others the action that David has taken to digitize, preserve and share his home movies has been valuable beyond words.
“Don’t be afraid to do it, don’t hesitate to do it. even if you don’t have the skill set to do it, there are other people who are more than happy to kind of walk you through it and help make it happen. I would be extremely encouraging of everyone to convert their old movies and share them as widely as possible.” – David Haas MD
Collection of articles on the topic of video at the Genealogy Gems website
Browse his phenomenal collection of home movies at David’s website
You’ll find inspiration and you might just find an ancestor captured on film. Because we are all bit players in everybody else’s show.
Hannah Fullerton, Audio Editor
My deepest thanks to David and Anna Haas for sharing their family photos, videos and music with me for this episode.
Genealogy Gems Podcast Part of Pandora’s Major Podcast Launch
by Lisa Cooke | Nov 13, 2018 | 01 What's New, Genealogy Gems Podcast | 3 comments
Pandora is now poised for podcast delivery!
Podcasts have always faced an obstacle: it just hasn’t been that easy to find them or listen.
After I launched The Genealogy Gems Podcast in early 2007, I spent most of my time trying to explain to potential listeners how to “subscribe” to the show. Along came the smartphone, and eventually podcast apps, and things got a little easier. In 2010 we launched our own Genealogy Gems Podcast app in hopes of improving the listener experience even more. That’s great for those tenacious enough to find us in the first place, but what about everybody else? Also though podcasts have experienced a huge surge in popularity thanks to the viral Serial podcast, 83% of Americans still aren’t listening on a weekly basis.
Pandora, the largest streaming music provider entered the game today and plans to change all that. And thanks to you, our loyal listeners, The Genealogy Gems Podcast has been selected by Pandora as part of their initial offering of podcasts!
Read below how this music giant is going to tap technology and human curation to recommend podcasts to those who are sure to love them. I’m sure that once Americans discover through Pandora that their family history is just waiting to be discovered, and that The Genealogy Gems Podcast is here to help them do just that, we’ll be welcoming many new listeners. Keep reading for all the details from Pandora. And, be sure to sign up for the early access offering here. You can expect to start seeing our show on Pandora sometime in December.
Thanks for listening friend!
Lisa Louise Cooke
OAKLAND, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pandora (NYSE:P), the largest streaming music provider in the U.S., today unveiled its podcast offering, powered by the Podcast Genome Project, a cataloging system and discovery algorithm that uses a combination of technology and human curation to deliver personalized content recommendations. Beginning today, Pandora will roll out beta access to select listeners on mobile devices. Those interested in early access to the offering can sign-up here, with general availability in the coming weeks.
“It might feel like podcasts are ubiquitous, but, eighty-three percent of Americans aren’t yet listening to podcasts on a weekly basis, and a majority of them report that’s because they simply don’t know where to start,” said Roger Lynch, Chief Executive Officer, Pandora. “Making podcasts – both individual episodes and series – easy to discover and simple to experience is how we plan to greatly grow podcast listening while simultaneously creating new and more sustainable ways to monetize them.”
Similar to how its namesake the Music Genome Project has helped Pandora become the best and easiest way to discover music online since 2005, the Podcast Genome Project recommends the right podcasts to the right listeners at the right time, solving the questions, “is there a podcast that’s right for me?” and “what should I listen to next?” It evaluates content based on more than 1500 attributes – spanning MPAA ratings, timely and evergreen topics, production style, content type, host profile, etc – and listener signals including thumbs, skips and replays. It also utilizes machine learning algorithms, natural language processing, and collaborative filtering methods for listener preferences. And, similar to the Music Genome Project, the Podcast Genome Project combines these techniques with our expert in-house curation team to offer episode-level podcast recommendations that reflect who you are today and evolve with you tomorrow.
“With the introduction of podcasts, listeners can now easily enjoy all of their audio interests – music, comedy, news, sports, or politics – on Pandora, the streaming service that knows their individual listening habits the best,” said Chris Phillips, Chief Product Officer, Pandora. “The Podcast Genome Project’s unique episode-level understanding of content knows exactly what podcast you’ll want to discover next, and will serve it up through a seamless in-product experience that is uniquely personalized to each listener and will continue to grow with their tastes over time.”
At launch, Pandora has partnered with top-tier publishers including APM, Gimlet, HeadGum, Libsyn, Maximum Fun, NPR, Parcast, PRX+PRI, reVolver, Slate, The New York Times, The Ramsey Network, The Ringer, WNYC Studios, and Wondery, and will continue to feature existing podcast content including Serial, This American Life and Pandora’s original Questlove Supreme, with many more to come in the future. These partnerships introduce hundreds of popular podcasts across a wide variety of genres including News, Sports, Comedy, Music, Business, Technology, Entertainment, True Crime, Kids, Health and Science, offering inspiring audio experiences for a variety of diverse interests.
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Putin loyalist dials up nuclear rhetoric as NATO partners push for more weapons for Ukraine
By Uliana Pavlova, CNN
Updated 11:52 PM EST, Thu January 19, 2023
Dmitry Medvedev attends a ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 12, 2019.
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Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council and key ally of President Vladimir Putin, warned on Thursday that defeat for Russia in Ukraine could lead to nuclear conflict.
The former Russian president made the threat in a Telegram post ahead of a key meeting of NATO allies and other nations in Germany, where they are expected to make additional pledges of military support to Kyiv.
“The loss of a nuclear power in a conventional war can provoke the outbreak of a nuclear war,” Medvedev wrote. “Nuclear powers do not lose major conflicts on which their fate depends.
“This should be obvious to anyone. Even to a Western politician who has retained at least some trace of intelligence.”
Medvedev, who served as president of Russia from 2008 to 2012, has struck a bellicose tone during Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, repeatedly raising the specter of nuclear conflict.
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - DECEMBER 5 (RUSSIA OUT) Russian President Vladimir Putin talks during the awarding ceremony at the We Are Toghether Youth Forum, on December 5, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. President Putin visited a youth forum, hosted by State Agency for Youth Affairs. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images)
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Ukraine war is going to 'take a while,' Putin says as he warns nuclear risk is increasing
Last April, he warned of Russian nuclear expansion should Sweden and Finland join NATO, and in September said strategic nuclear weapons could be used to defend territories incorporated into Russia from Ukraine.
His remarks Thursday, while no doubt intended to intimidate NATO partners, also appear to be a rare admission from a senior Russian official that the Kremlin could potentially lose in Ukraine as Moscow’s faltering invasion approaches the 11-month mark.
The nuclear rhetoric comes just days after Moscow said it is planning to increase its armed forces due to the “proxy war” it says the West is waging in Ukraine.
Putin has made similar comments in recent months, saying in December that the conflict is “going to take a while” and warning of the “increasing” threat of nuclear war.
The US has previously warned Russia against using nuclear weapons in Ukraine, both through private direct communications, as well as public channels, including at last year’s UN General Assembly.
Debate on increasing military aid
On Friday, NATO’s Ukraine Defense Contact Group will gather in Germany for a meeting at the US’ Ramstein Air Base, hosted by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, focusing on more military aid for Ukraine.
The Pentagon on Thursday announced a $2.5 billion Ukraine security package as the US and its European allies debate whether to send increasingly sophisticated weaponry to Kyiv, including longer-range missiles that would allow Ukraine to hit targets as far as 200 miles away.
The United Kingdom, Poland, Finland and the Baltic states have all been pushing for NATO members to provide heavier equipment to Kyiv amid what they believe is a key inflection point in the war. Both Ukraine and Russia appear to be gearing up for new offensives, and there are signs that Moscow could be preparing an additional troop mobilization.
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'They have us over a barrel': Inside the US and German standoff over sending tanks to Ukraine
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Western tanks would represent the most powerful direct offensive weapon provided to Ukraine so far, and if used properly, they could allow Ukraine to retake territory against Russian forces that have had time to dig defensive lines.
Other Russian officials have also issued warnings ahead of the Friday meeting, with Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov saying Thursday that discussions by the West about supplying Ukraine with weapons were “extremely dangerous.”
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I took up photography in 2009, bought my first camera: a Canon EOS XSi. I now own the beautiful full frame Canon 5D MKII. My first concert assignmernt for TC Daily was Stone Temple Pilots at the Roy Wilikins. Since then I have done several dozen assignments of different varieties for The Planet. I have had some awesome opportunities that I wouldn't normally have had. Outside of the TC Planet I do many different photo jobs and I enjoy every minute of it. I have always loved music. My first offical cassette tape was Run-DMC's 'Raising Hell'. I enjoy music so much it's not natural. My first love is electronic music (Kruder-Dorfmeister, Theivery Corp etc). I also love dub (not step). I grew up in Bloomington, MN. Lived in NE Minnepolis and after creating two kids, now reside in Elk River.
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MUSIC PHOTOS | Christopher Owens at the Turf Club
By Jeff Rutherford (TC Daily Planet) | October 6, 2014
On Saturday, October 4, Christopher Owens played at the Turf Club in St. Paul.Coverage of issues and events that affect Central Corridor neighborhoods and communities is funded in part by a grant from Central Corridor Funders Collaborative. Continue Reading
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MUSIC PHOTOS | Washed Out play a dreamy set at First Avenue
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Natalie Mueller’s Car-Free Plans Could Save 660 Lives Every Year in Barcelona
A study by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health says its radical superblocks scheme could cut air pollution by a quarter.
20.09.2019 | by Christy Romer
Photo by Alfons Taekema on Unsplash
Cities around the world are cracking down on air pollution by gradually increasing the amount of car-free spaces. Pedestrian zones have cropped up in London, Brussels, Copenhagen, and, controversially, Madrid — a city that tried, and failed, to let the cars back in.
Now a new study in Barcelona, by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, estimates that the city could stop more than 660 people dying early every year if it followed a radical ‘superblock plan’.
The Guardian explains that these superblocks are groups of streets where traffic is all but eradicated — and spaces where areas previously taken up by cars are replaced by pedestrians and play areas.
The conclusions come from a new report that finds that if a total of 503 superblocks were created, air pollution would be reduced by a quarter — bringing the output of nitrogen dioxide in line with strict World Health Organisation recommendations. It is currently overshooting these limits by 17.5%.
Superblocks have already been deployed in areas of the city including Grácia, Sants, and Poblenou.
The report adds that if the recommendations in the report are followed, the life expectancy of the average Barcelona resident could increase by almost 200 days — and save the city €1.7bn ($1.9bn) by decreasing pollution and heat effects.
Natalie Mueller, lead author of the study, said that the data presented involves estimates. “Nevertheless, irrespective of the specific figures, what this study shows is that urban planning and transport interventions like the superblocks have significant implications for public health.”
She added that Barcelona needs to combine the superblocks methods with strategies to tackle climate crisis, improve air quality, and break away from car-centred urban planning.
Despite initial opposition, superblocks have reportedly led to a 30% boom in local businesses. The Guardian notes that other cities have been eyeing up the model, and there is a proposal from the US to introduce something like the Barcelona scheme in an area in Capitol hill.
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Settlement of Mars Using Synthetic Biology
By Prakriti Karki
Will the dreams of those who wish to see humans settle Mars be limited to dreams only or will they turn out to be a reality some day? There are several signs that the latter may come to fruition — some important technologies like those of synthetic biology (SynBio) are even giving more hope to making Mars settlement a reality within our lifetimes.
Synthetic biology is a new trending engineering approach in biology which has made engineering organisms easier, more efficient, and faster. For instance, the Nobel Prize winning discovery of CRISPR/Cas9 is no longer solely an academic biology lab tool, it has found broader applications in several other sectors. Literally, you will soon likely be able to edit your own DNA simply with an oligonucleotide and an enzyme.
Our world has long been dominated by a myriad of microbes (rather than human population or other living creatures) and, in the present context, the advancement in science and technology has led to several possibilities which were thought to be impossible even just a few years back. Researchers and scientists with a keen interest in having humans explore space have been developing the tools needed for human settlement on Mars, and some are now intrigued at the potential outcome of exploiting terrestrial microbes for various applications on the Red Planet.
However, we should be clear that microorganisms alone cannot make settlement possible. The easy modification, faster growth, adaptability in variable conditions, and more understanding of their biological mechanisms make them our perfect choice to use. Nevertheless the most important learning from our Mother Earth is that the coordination of physical, chemical, and biological factors and the diversity within them are what makes settlement on the planet possible.
To understand how we can use Earth life to explore Mars, let’s explore a bit more about the Martian physical and chemical environment: the Red Planet’s surface is covered in dust and even has some water in the form of ice; atmospheric gases consist of primarily CO2 (95%) with some N2 (<2%); and, relative to Earth, Mars has low gravity, low surface pressure and low temperature at the surface, less incident sunlight but higher UV (due to the lack of a magnetic field), and a regolith rich in perchlorates (salts that contain a highly oxidized chlorine atom and which are highly reactive with organic molecules). These factors on the Martian surface are, to some extent, obstacles to human settlement (we are not well-evolved for living in such an environment). However, one research study has indicated that the lower gravity on Mars may not be a major problem for organisms like plants to grow and develop.
But does this mean physical factors like gravity do not have a significant effect on survival of living organisms ? Of course not, more research studies are needed to understand the long term effects and also gravity is not the single factor we should tackle for survival on Mars..Studies on plants and other eukaryotes cannot correlate with microorganisms and vice versa. Omics level i.e. data driven synthetic and system biology research can aid in such cause-effect relationship research.
Similarly, researchers are using shortcuts to make survivability of humans on Mars possible by mimicking Earth conditions there. This is why we often talk about building habitats and greenhouses to sustain a human presence on Mars. But, even then, how will we best adapt our food sources and our building materials and our living spaces to provide for Earth-life like ours while surviving the harsh environment of Mars? Can you imagine the possibility of permanent human settlement on Mars while requiring a continual supply of foods, pharmaceuticals, and other materials from Earth, given that transportation would cost so much (costs could be as high as about $300,000 per kilogram)? Can synbio play its heroic role in solving this problem too?
Yes. SynBio approaches, related to engineering or reprogramming organisms and integrating genetics and computer science, are directed toward designing biological systems and engineering them to manufacture a variety of products such as polymers, fibers, drugs, food, fuel, and even biological building materials for habitat construction.
Engineering microorganisms to facilitate plant life on Mars. Source: Llorente, Williams, & Goold (2018)
We can even design microbes to be adapted to extreme environmental conditions like those found on Mars — such as a yeast whose whole genome is being re-engineered by the International Consortium. Using the principle of synthetic biology, genes from algae and other plants were cut and pasted into yeast to make substances like omega-3 fatty acids that could prevent bone density loss in astronauts. Engineered yeasts can synthesize rubber hydrocarbons directly from carbohydrates without unwanted side products like proteins, resins, sugars, and other secondary metabolites. Likewise, in the Mars Simulation Laboratory in 2021, it was reported that lichens and cyanobacteria (which convert N2 to NH3 and CO2 to organic material) show photosynthetic adaptability after 34 days in simulated conditions. Use of these microbes with proper optimization and modification at the genomic level could help us get perfect microorganisms for an evolving environment on Mars and making desired bioproducts.
Similarly, shelter is a basic need of many living organisms. For the establishment of human shelter, microbes can help in the production of building materials — like bricks. It is suggested that bricks could be created through microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) with clumping of Martian regolith by microorganisms (like Bacillus pasteurii). Such microorganisms could be engineered to get more effective results by designing them to survive changes in pH, inducing the release of extracellular polysaccharide that helps to bind or adhere soil particles together and prevent dessication.
In a similar way, martian soil which is rich in hazardous perchlorate, can be treated biologically by engineering CO2-utilizing bacteria to express perchlorate reduction enzymes, thereby enhancing removal of perchlorate. Even biomining, a method of using genetically altered microbes for mining on Mars, could be a great application of synthetic biology. For instance, in a Mars mimic experiment performed on the International Space Station, pieces of basalt soaked in bacterial solutions were used to evaluate the potential of three species of bacteria to extract rare earth elements from the rock.
There are many applications of SynBio — rather than being limited by looking at physical and chemical barriers, we can play with biological tools to overcome those challenges. Synthetic biology has given that power to play. Interdisciplinary science has given hope. The more we explore, the more we discover. This is the magic of synthetic biology.
But is not the transport of such microorganisms to Mars a burden? Yes, a little. There is always a tradeoff. Multitudes of synthetically-altered microorganisms are very little burden to transport to Mars and their proper utilization could be fruitful in making dreams for terraformation of Mars successful. Biofoundries, through automation of robotic facilities, have served to be a boon in the efficient engineering of microorganisms along with providing aid in testing millions of DNA designs in parallel. With the decrease in the cost of DNA synthesis and reading, use of robotics, automation, and AI, this field is sure to show us several ways to explore Mars more efficiently within the next few decades.
Synthetic biology has already broadened the possibilities for human exploration and settlement on Mars. Synthetic biology startups and R&D have been gaining support from several funding agencies and investors. Public agencies like ESA, NASA, and ISRO, along with private organizations like SpaceX, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin, are devoting more resources to future developments of permanent Mars settlement. Our future looks bright.
Obviously with the clear intersection and collaboration between academia and industries on this topic, we are going to make this dream possible earlier than some have imagined.
Are we ready to travel to Mars? Are we prepared to live on Mars? With the pace of innovation in space science, it seems very nearly a reality. Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX says, “I think that Mars is gonna be a great place to go. It will be the planet of opportunity.” If everything goes fine, we will be living on two planets. Perhaps, it will be fun to travel to Mars during the winter vacation.
Won’t it be? Nothing can stop us from dreaming. Thanks to SynBio.
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Bachelor of Science in Nursing, BScN
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Applicants who do not meet the Grade 11 Math requirement will require a minimum of 65% in Grade 12 U-level Math course.
Applicants must take the Casper test.
Additional Admission Criteria
English-Language Proficiency Requirements
Each student granted admission to Western University must be proficient in spoken and written English. All students applying for undergraduate admission whose first language is not English will be required to provide acceptable proof of English-language proficiency. You are encouraged to write a test at the earliest possible date and, at the latest, before March 2022. Scores for any test written before January 1, 2020, may not be accepted.
You may be considered for an English-proficiency exemption if you studied for 4 full-time years in a Ministry-approved high school in Ontario or other Canadian provinces, and successfully completed Grade 12 English, ENG4U or its equivalent. This exemption does not apply to Nursing programs.
Applicants from other countries who have a total of 4 years of formal education in an English-speaking school system where English is the primary language and language of instruction, may be considered for an exemption on an individual basis. The Admissions Committee will consider all previous and current academic work and all documentation submitted in support of an application for an exemption.
The Undergraduate Admissions Office may require you to write a test of English proficiency. At the discretion of the University, you may be asked to present further evidence of English proficiency if your English proficiency score does not match your academic English prerequisite achievement.
Find additional details on acceptable proof of English proficiency.
Note: English-language proficiency requirements for admission to Undergraduate Nursing programs are different than the requirements for other programs at Western. For more information, visit the Nursing website.
Ontario Grade 12 Curriculum Requirements
If you currently attend an Ontario high school, you must successfully complete an Ontario Secondary School Diploma, including each of the following, to be considered for admission:
Six 4U and/or 4M level courses (excluding co-op)
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Prerequisites for your program as specified by Western
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If a student has 3 or more repeats, this may be taken into consideration. If a student has 2 or fewer repeats, the highest attempt will be taken.
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Western's Main Campus does not have automatic alternative offers of admission. If you wish to be considered for more than 1 program, list each program as a separate choice on your OUAC application.
One-year deferrals of admission may be granted to high school applicants. A written request must be sent to the Admissions Office that outlines the reasons for deferral.
Note: A deferral will not be granted to those students who will be studying at another postsecondary institution.
The Special Consideration Profile is available for students who may have had extenuating circumstances that led to academic difficulty and that may put them marginally below the university's minimum admissions requirement. Extenuating circumstances may include disability, personal illness, financial circumstances, required employment, family illnesses or other personal or family matters. Deadline: March 1.
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Temasek unit, Bank of China buy 27 community lenders from China Construction Bank for $321m
date_range 28 August 2018
The acquisition of 27 community banks from China Construction Bank will help the BOC Fullerton Community Bank brand to expand its network, benefit from economies of scale and consolidate its leading position in rural banking.PHOTO: REUTERS
SINGAPORE - Fullerton Financial Holdings, a unit of Temasek Holdings, and Bank of China have jointly acquired 27 community banks from China Construction Bank for 1.606 billion yuan (S$321.3 million) - setting a new record in terms of the number of community banks being transferred in a single transaction.
The public listing and auctioning process of the state-owned assets to be transferred were facilitated via the Beijing Financial Assets Exchange. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions, said FFH in a media release on Tuesday (Aug 28).
Its CEO, Gan Chee Yen, said: "Together with our acquisition in 2017 of 15 community banks from China Development Bank, it further demonstrates FFH's continuing commitment and ability to use our successful SME and micro-financing business models to help in the development of community banking in China."
FFH has been jointly invested in the building of community banks in China with BOC since 2011. This joint partnership leverages on BOC's branding and capital resources, together with FFH's SME and micro-financing business models, to produce a brand of community banks under the BOC Fullerton Community Bank (BOCF) brand.
The BOCF distribution network is the largest community banking group in China. As at June 2018, it comprised about 100 community banks with 119 branches and 297 rural financing service stations, serving customers across 19 provinces nationwide.
Tuesday's acquisition will result in the group expanding to 128 community banks.
BOCF supports the causes of China's "three rural" policy and small micro-enterprises by providing practical rural financing solutions and innovating with new products and services. This in turn helps the acceleration of the economic development of counties and villages.
The transaction will enable the BOCF brand of community banks to make further inroads in its implementation of the national "three rural" policy by strengthening its financial services capacity in counties, said FFH.
The acquisition of 27 CCB community banks will also help BOCF to expand its network, benefit from economies of scale and consolidate its leading position in rural banking, it said.
FFH is an independently-operated strategic and operating investor in financial and related services in emerging markets.
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Advent Calendar & Christmas Movie 2022
Posted: Dec, 02, 2022
Joseph Millson.com is happy to share a new 2022 Joseph Millson Advent Calendar. View "gifts" for each day of December leading up to Christmas. Each December day, another "door" will open and you will be able to view what is behind the door. To add to the wonederful festive season, Joseph Millson fans can catch him now in Prancer: A Christmas Tale, a lovely Christmas movie starring James Cromwell and Sarah-Jane Potts, and available to watch this Sunday 4th December on Sky Movies premiere! The film is also available to own on Blu-ray and DVD.
A Prancer Tale: Christmas film for Universal Pictures wraps shooting
Posted: Feb, 25, 2022
Joseph Millson has spent the last few weeks in Romania filming a Christmas movie for Universal Pictures, starring alongside Sarah-Jane Potts (as revealed by Sarah-Jane's agents). Joseph has shared behind the scenes photos from the filmsets on Twitter and Instagram. Joseph shared that his role in the film wrapped shooting last night.
A Prancer Tale has been directed by Phil Hawkins, and will hopefully be released for this year's festive season. Phil has been posting updates on his Facebook Page.
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Pssst, Tamil Crook’s ‘Wife’ Wants Your Help
By SearchIndia.com on February 14, 2012 General
Tamil Crook Raj Rajaratnam, who’s serving time in a Massachusetts prison, has made it big time. Even e-mail fraudsters are starting to trade on Rajaratnam’s ill-fame and trying to make money off the man’s miserable plight. You see, a little while ago we received the following obviously fake e-mail from ‘Asha Rajaratnam’: Namaste, My name […]
Tamil Crook Raj Rajaratnam Won’t be Able to Watch Rajinikanth Movies for Next 11 Years
By SearchIndia.com on October 13, 2011 Diaspora, People
Sri Lankan Tamil hedge fund billionaire will be a guest of the American prison system for the next 11 years for insider trading. The sentence is the longest ever for insider trading. Judge Richard J.Holwell, who sentenced Rajaratnam today, also fined him $10 million and ordered the forfeiture of $53.8 million. Judge Holwell said: Insider […]
Tamil Hedge Fund Manager Raj Rajaratnam Convicted
By SearchIndia.com on May 11, 2011 America, Business, Diaspora
Sri Lankan Tamil hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam has been found guilty on all 14 counts of securities fraud and conspiracy by a 12-member jury in New York City. Great day, folks. The Augean Stables of Wall Street are certainly ripe for a thorough cleansing. Raj Rajaratnam is the most well known name to be […]
Rajaratnam Sings Ponal Poggatum Galleon
By SearchIndia.com on October 21, 2009 America, Business, Diaspora
Yesterday’s Tamil hedge fund mapillai but today’s alleged Wall Street criminal and billionaire Raj Rajaratnam is winding down his Galleon hedge fund. In a letter to investors, Rajaratnam, who was arrested last Friday on insider trading charges and is now out on $100 million bail, wrote: I have decided that it is now in the […]
Where there’s a Scandal, there’s a Desi. 5, Actually
By SearchIndia.com on October 20, 2009 America, Business
This is kinda amazing. Sure, scandals and desis are never far from each other. Close acquaintances, really. Desis in the U.S. are forever involved in some nasty case or the other. But the Galleon Group hedge fund scandal currently rocking Wall Street is a new high water mark – Five desis count among the dramatis […] | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7122779488563538, "wiki_prob": 0.28772205114364624, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line1159505"} |
KPD e-News Release: Impaired North Carolina Woman in Stolen Vehicle Causes Fatal Crash in Kingsport
SUBJECT: Impaired North Carolina Woman in Stolen Vehicle Causes Fatal Crash in Kingsport
CASE #: 18-007970 (Crash Report)
18-007971 (Incident/Arrest Report)
On March 15, 2018 at approximately 1:45 AM, Crash Reconstructionists from the Kingsport Police Department Traffic Unit responded to a fatal motor vehicle collision at the intersection of East Center Street and East Sevier Avenue in Kingsport. Their subsequent findings are as follows:
On March 15, 2018 at approximately 12:30 AM, a beige 1996 Ford Ranger pickup truck was stolen from a grocery store parking lot in Mars Hill, NC while the owner was at work. Approximately one hour and fifteen minutes later, that same stolen pickup, driven by Stephanie A. Houle, was westbound on East Center Street approaching a red traffic light at the intersection of East Sevier Avenue in Kingsport.
Meanwhile, a silver 2002 Hyundai Accent 4-door sedan, driven by Gregory A. Sturgill, was southbound on East Sevier Avenue and crossing the intersection with East Center Street under a green traffic light. The Ford ran the red light and struck the Hyundai directly in the driver’s door. The Hyundai was spun completely out of the roadway and into an adjacent building with such force that it knocked pieces of siding off of the structure.
Mr. Sturgill was killed in the crash. Ms. Houle crawled out of the back window of the wrecked Ford and ran from the scene to a nearby residence. She knocked on the door, and when the resident answered the door, she ran inside. The resident exited the home and summoned the arriving officers for help.
With the assistance of a Taser, responding officers overcame active resistance, and were eventually able to take Ms. Houle into custody, but not before she assaulted at least one of the arresting officers.
Once at the Kingsport City Jail, Ms. Houle performed poorly on a series of field sobriety tests. A check of her North Carolina driver license status and history revealed that it was currently suspended for a variety of previous offenses to include multiple prior convictions for Driving Under the Influence. She was ultimately charged with the following:
1) Vehicular Homicide
2) Leaving the Scene of a Motor Vehicle Collision Resulting in Death or Serious Injury
3) Driving Under the Influence
4) Driving on a Suspended License
5) Motor Vehicle Theft (Possession of a Stolen Vehicle)
6) Assault on a Police Officer
7) Resisting Arrest
Ms. Houle currently remains incarcerated pending arraignment. As this remains an active investigation by the K.P.D. Traffic Unit, no additional information can or will be released at this time.
Investigators ask for anyone who witnessed this crash who has not yet spoken with law enforcement to please contact the K.P.D. Traffic Unit as soon as possible at 423-224-2750.
SUSPECT INFORMATION
Name Stephanie A. Houle
Age Date of Birth 7/19/1977
Residency 160 Grandview Road
Alexander, North Carolina
Charge(s) 1) Vehicular Homicide
5) Motor Vehicle Theft (Possession of Stolen Vehicle)
Model Ranger
Type Compact Pickup Truck
Driver Name Stephanie A. Houle
Residency Alexander, NC
Model Accent
Type 4-Door Sedan
Driver Name Gregory A. Sturgill
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Porto-vecchio Villas
Luxury Villas In Porto-vecchio
Porto Vecchio is an attractive old town perched high on dramatic hilltop with views across a natural harbour and deep bay. Beyond the city lies some of Corsica's most spectacular countryside.
Measuring around 5km from North to South and nearly 6km from West to its Eastern mouth, Porto Vecchio’s natural, lagoon-like harbour was an attractive proposition for the diverse succession of rulers who came to Corsica. Today, it hosts a vibrant marina, a bustling port with Roman origins and a series of beaches, all overlooked by a picturesque old town and a 16th-century fortification.
The old town centre of Porto Vecchio is one of Corsica's most popular, thanks to its characterful maze of streets, its piazzas, its restaurants, bars and boutiques, its street market, its charming atmosphere and its views. For students of history and architecture, there are some interesting sites to visit, including the Bastion de France (in reality there are five bastions but three are private and one is in ruins), Place de la République (once the Roman heart of town), Porte Genoise (the town’s original gate) and the 16th-century citadel.
Porto Vecchio’s popularity is also due to the beauty and interest of its surroundings. which feature some of Corsica’s most idyllic beaches (Palombaggia, Santa Giulia, Cala Rossa and Pinarello), the forested hills of Ospedale just inland, and the archipelago of Cerbicale, four islets whose unspoilt transparent waters and wooded interiors form part of a nature reserve.
Any trip to Southeast Corsica should include a visit or two to Porto Vecchio. There are few better spots in which to while away a few hours strolling, dining or sipping on a chilled drink while watching the world go by.
FR0018: Villa Celine
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Villa Celine is a luxurious and thoroughly modern property in Corsica, an island of natural beauty and age-old charm.
FR0020: Villa Cosette
Villa Cosette is a wonderful modern two bedroom Corsican villa, ideal for a family or a small group looking for that special getaway.
From £1059 per person per week
FR0079: Villa Cieara
Villa Cieara is a supremely secluded villa with a spectacular 14m pool, original artwork, hand crafted furniture and a rather magnificent kitchen.
From £12296 per week
FR0101: Villa Sable Blanc
Facing the sea, this magnificent property with its long infinity pool affords a spectacular 180-degree view of Palombaggia beach towards Sardinia, Corsica's southern coast - a unique opportunity for a family beach holiday so close to the Corsican shore.
FR0119: Maison du Port
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How to tell if you’re actually common law married in Montana.
Big Billy
Big Billy Published: January 24, 2023
In the state of Montana people have had many misconceptions about common law marriage. This practice does indeed exist here, however a lot of people including people in my family have the wrong idea when it comes to common law marriage.
There Are Misconceptions
According to Legal Zoom people think it's just being together for a certain number of years, or if you have kids together, others think if you buy pieces of property together it constitutes common law marriage.
Common law marriage is recognized in Montana, but there are certain rules and things people need to identify with in order for it to be legal and binding.
According to The Montana DPHHS, this document shows that there are rules and some of them can be a difficult hurtle.
In the state of Montana, there has to be both consent and agreement. All parties involved in petition have to both agree to the present situation.
Both parties have to me competent enough enter common law marriage.
Here where the whole 'live together' aspect comes into play. Both parties must live together and be out and be recognized by family, co-workers, neighbors and the general public as a married couple and there has to be evidence of such.
using the same last name
reference to using the titles of husband an wife in public to other people
listing each other on insurance polices and filing taxes
Owning or buying property is NOT one of the conditions of evidence to be presented in a common law marriage petition.
Moving out of state.
According to Legal Zoom, most states do not recognize common law marriage, where ever you are moving, check with the state laws and plan accordingly.
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California Senators To Introduce Supplement To SB 206 In Advance Of NCAA’s January Name, Image, and Likeness Vote
By Gregg E. Clifton on December 7, 2020
Posted in Collegiate Sports, Labor Law and Sports, NCAA
California State Senators Nancy Skinner and Steven Bradford, the initial drafters of the historic California state legislation which granted student-athletes the legal right to seek remuneration for their name, image and likeness rights, plan to introduce new state legislation to bolster Senate Bill 206 (SB206).
Although the specific language of the new bill has yet to be introduced, Senator Skinner announced that the language in the new co-sponsored bill will be aimed at ensuring full protection for college athletes’ rights. It would also move up the effective implementation date of SB 206 to no later than January 1, 2022 or to an earlier date, which would coincide with the effective date of any NCAA NIL rule changes.
As a result, if the NCAA’s anticipated effective date for implementation of NIL rules remains August 1, 2021 following their anticipated January 2021 vote, the California law would also become effective on August 1, 2021.
SB 206 won unanimous bipartisan approval in the California legislature (112-0). It made California the first state to legislate the right of college student-athletes to earn compensation from their name, image, and likeness (NIL) when Senator Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law in September 2019. The law authorizes student-athletes to earn income from endorsement and sponsorship deals and further authorizes college athletes to operate a business or take jobs as a coach or instructor.
Of equal importance, the law also specifically prohibits California public postsecondary educational institutions, athletic associations, conferences, or any other organization with authority over intercollegiate athletics from affecting a student athlete’s scholarship or athletic eligibility to participate in college sports for earning compensation in connection with the use of the student athlete’s name, image, or likeness.
Commenting on her new proposed legislation, Senator Skinner stated,
“It’s good that the NCAA has followed California’s lead, but their proposed rules changes come up short. The NCAA doesn’t appear willing to give student athletes the autonomy and full range of benefits that California law does. This new bill will ensure that California athletes are not unfairly and unnecessarily restricted.”
The bill’s co-sponsor Senator Bradford commented on the new bill as well, “preventing students from seeking compensation for their likeness while you profit off it yourself is akin to institutionalized slavery.”
While the NCAA has offered drastic changes with regard to student-athlete NIL rights, the current proposal does not provide the same extensive rights to student-athletes as the California law. Specifically, the NCAA’s current proposal provides schools individual discretion to prevent athletes from entering into endorsement agreements that are deemed to conflict with existing school sponsorship arrangements. While the California law does contain certain limitations, it does not empower each school to enact broad based rules automatically preventing student-athletes from entering into potentially conflicting agreements with school sponsorship deals.
In summary, the new legislation is expected to add several key elements to California’s existing law, including:
the move of California’s effective date for NIL rights;
the addition of the right to earn compensation from what is known as “athletic reputation,” which ensures that a student athlete could identify the name of their college or university in endorsements and advertisements received; and,
the addition of specific protections should the NCAA challenge SB 206 in court or if a California school denies college athletes their rights.
The new bill is also expected to include safeguards to ensure that college athletes are not denied the same basic rights afforded to all other college students, except when it comes to recruitment. This proposed change would also conflict with current NCAA bylaws and anticipated NCAA NIL rules.
Senator Skinner further commented, “The struggle for equality and fairness for student athletes has been underway for decades. California can be proud that SB 206 was the legal kickstart to that movement, prompting states across the country to finally say, ‘no,’ to the exploitation of college athletes,”
Senator Skinner concluded, “This new bill will ensure that California’s achievement is fully protected.”
Jackson Lewis’ Collegiate and Professional Sports Practice Group will continue to monitor this new proposed California legislation once it is formally introduced. Please feel free to reach out to any member of the Collegiate and Professional Sports Practice Group with questions.
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Assistance scheme now open
30 November, 2022, 10:30 am
Dr Anjeela Jokhan. Picture: FILE
TRANSPORT assistance applications for students for the 2023 academic year are now open.
In a statement, Education Ministry permanent secretary Dr Anjeela Jokhan said all students in Years 1-13 whose parents’/guardians’ combined household income was $16,000 or less were eligible to apply for the assistance.
“The ministry will be piloting an optional online transport assistance application process for students in Years 10-13 for the 2023 academic year where parents/guardians can register and apply for transport assistance using a new online parent/guardian portal,” Dr Jokhan said.
“This is in line with the ministry’s modernisation strategy, which includes the increasing use of online platforms.
“The online Parent/Guardian portal will offer a more streamlined application process for families and schools, and provide improved communication to parents/guardians on the status of their children’s transport applications.
“The online Parent/Guardian portal can be found at studentparentsportal.edu.gov.fj.”
Ms Jokhan said families with students in Years 10-13 who do not have internet access and/or email addresses to register and apply online could still submit a paper application for transport assistance.
“Parents/Guardians for students in Years 1-9 for the 2023 academic year are required to only submit paper applications for transport assistance to schools.
“The online transport application process will be offered to students in Years 1-9 at a later stage.
“Parents/Guardians must ensure they submit an online application or paper Transport Application to their child’s school with all the required supporting documentation by December 9, 2022.”
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At the Annual General Meeting of Getinge AB (publ) held on 26 April 2022, the following was resolved.
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Adoption of the Income Statement and the Balance Sheet
The AGM adopted the Income Statement and the Balance Sheet as well as the Consolidated Income Statement and the Consolidated Balance Sheet for the financial year 2021.
In accordance with the proposal by the Board of Directors and the CEO, the AGM resolved to declare a dividend of SEK 4.00 per share. Thursday 28 April 2022 was determined as record date for dividend. The dividend is expected to be distributed by Euroclear Sweden AB starting Tuesday 3 May 2022.
Discharge from liability
The Board members and the CEO were discharged from liability for their administration of the company for the financial year 2021.
Board of Directors and remuneration
In accordance with the proposal by the Nomination Committee, Carl Bennet, Johan Bygge, Cecilia Daun Wennborg, Barbro Fridén, Dan Frohm, Johan Malmquist, Mattias Perjos, Malin Persson and Kristian Samuelsson were re-elected as members of the Board. The previous member of the Board, Sofia Hasselberg, had declined re-election.
Johan Malmquist was re-elected as Chairman of the Board.
It was recorded that Peter Jörmalm and Fredrik Brattbord had been appointed as board members by the employee organizations, with Åke Larsson and Pontus Käll as deputies.
It was resolved that remuneration to the Board of Directors shall amount to a total of SEK 6,075,000 of which SEK 1,525,000 to the Chairman and SEK 650,000 to each of the other Board members elected by the AGM who are not employees of the Getinge group of companies. In addition hereto, the AGM resolved that work in the Audit and Risk Committee shall be compensated with SEK 290,000 to the Chairman and SEK 142,000 to each of the other members, while work in the Remuneration Committee shall be compensated with SEK 145,000 to the Chairman and SEK 105,000 to each of the other members.
Auditor and fees
In accordance with the proposal by the Nomination Committee, the AGM resolved to re-elect the registered auditing company Öhrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers AB as auditor of the company for a term of one year. Öhrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers AB has informed that Peter Nyllinge will be the auditor in charge. It was resolved that auditor fees shall be paid in accordance with approved invoices.
The AGM resolved to approve the Board’s report over remunerations in accordance with the Chapter 8 section 53 a, the Swedish Companies Act, regarding the financial year 2021.
Guidelines for remuneration to senior executives
The AGM resolved to approve the Board of Directors proposal regarding guidelines for remuneration to senior executives. The guidelines are in principle equivalent to the guidelines resolved by the AGM 2021, save for that (i) the targets for annual variable remuneration have been supplemented with a sustainability target, (ii) the measurement period for the LTI-bonus covers adjusted earnings per share during a three-year period, and (iii) the payment of variable remuneration to the CEO during one year has been limited to a maximum of one year’s salary. The guidelines cover the individuals who, during the validity period of the guidelines, are included in the group management of Getinge AB (publ).
The guidelines shall be applicable on remuneration agreed, and amendments in remunerations already agreed, after the adoption of the guidelines by the AGM 2022. The guidelines do not apply on any remuneration decided on by the General Meeting.
The Board of Directors may temporarily resolve to derogate from the guidelines, in whole or in part, if in a specific case there is special cause for the derogation and a derogation is necessary to serve the company’s long-term interests, including its sustainability, or to ensure the company’s financial viability. The remuneration committee’s tasks include preparing the Board of Directors’ resolutions in remuneration-related matters, which include any resolutions to derogate from the guidelines.
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Becoming a Veterinarian in Australia
Australia / By Amanda Kaffah
A veterinarian is a doctor who studies animal health and helps to protect the welfare of both animals and people.
Many veterinarians detect animal health conditions, vaccinate against viruses, treat animals with parasites or illnesses, wash and dress wounds, repair bones, perform surgery, and counsel owners on animal food, actions, and training.
Veterinatians can also apply to both human and animal welfare. A variety of veterinarians collborate alongside clinicians and experts to identify ways to prevent and handle different problems that can impact human health.
To work this occupation, you must have a strong interest in Science, since your training will consist mostly of science-based coursework in this subject.
Why should you study VETS?
The satisfaction to help animals
One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that our own hands can be useful for not only other humans, but also other species. Thus, it is one of the advantages of becoming a veterinary, the fact that this field of study is a hugely impactful career choice for both humans and animals.
Well-paid salary
The demand of veterinarian always increasing every year. The average salary for a Veterinarian in Australia is ranging from AUD$60,000 per year.
Jobs for veterinary in Australia are projected to grow strongly over the next 5 years, according to Job Outlook. Additional career opportunities are available for a Veterinarian such as feed companies wildlife agencies, academic institutions, and veterinary pharmaceutical sales companies.
Interacting with animals
For animal lovers, they would have a strong interest in pursuing this career path at a young age. Helping and caring for those innocent and helpless animals by providing shelter and food for them.
Alternative career options with a Veterinary Science Degree
There are certainly plenty of job opportunities for those of you who took a degree but don’t want to be a veterinarian. Here are some of other options that you can definitely choose :
The Veterinary Technician is an assistant of Veterinary Surgeon, helping during the surgery by passing tools and other tasks. Examine, test, and provide service to animals including performing various physical tests such as gather blood samples, examine pet’s ears and eyes and measure the temperature.
Take care of a pet is not easy, the owner would need to have the essential knowledge about the “do” & “don’t” on their own pet. A Veterinary Consultant provides helpful advice and knowledge to the pet’s owners, helping them to understand more about their pets.
A Veterinary Nurse is much similar to Veterinary Technician but Vet Nurse involve in surgery and emergency procedures. A Vet Nurse is qualified to undertake the diagnostic test, medical treatment, and minor surgical procedures.
Pathway to study veterinary science
Top universities to study veterinary science in Australia
1. University of Sydney
University of Sydney was founded in 1850 as a public research university. It consists of 9 faculties and provide a wide range of programmes such as bachelor, master, and PhD.
Bachelor of Veterinary Biology
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM)
Academic Requirement
Year 12 High School certificate (UEC/STPM/Matriculation)
Pre Requisite subject: Maths, Physics, Chemistry.
English Requirement
IELTS: A minimum result of 7.0 overall and a minimum result
of 7.0 in each band
TOEFL IBT: A minimum result of 96 overall including a
minimum result of 23 in Reading, Listening and Speaking and 25 in Writing
Indicative Fee (2020)
AUD 52,000 (Bachelor + Doctor)
Up to AUD 10,000 per annum
2. University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne was established in 1853, main campus is located in Parkville. It covers 10 academic units and it was considered as one of the oldest universities that provide excellent service and quality.
Bachelor of Science (Hons)
UEC: A2
STPM: 3.30
Matriculation: 3.50
Pre Requisite subjects: English, Mathematics and one of Biology,
Chemistry or Physics.
IELTS: 6.5 or more with no band less than 6.0
TOEFL: 577 or more including a score of 4.5 in the Test of Written
English for a PBT, or a score of 79 and scores of 21 for writing, 18
for speaking, 13 for reading, 13 for listening for IBT
AUD 45,944 (Bachelor) + AUD 71,488 (Doctor)
3. University of Queensland
University of Queensland was established in 1909, located in Brisbane, Australia. It was known as one of the Australia’s leading universities for its professionalism and expertise.
Bachelor of Veterinary Science (Hons)
Malaysian STPM
Pre Requisite subjects: Mathematics (SPM level),
Mathematics T, Chemistry, Physics, Biology.
IELTS: Overall 7; reading 7; writing 7; speaking 7; listening 7.
TOEFL IBT: Overall 100, listening 25, reading 25, writing 27,
speaking 23.
TOEFL PBT: Overall 600, listening 59, reading 59, writing 64/6.
AUD 66,592 (Bachelor)
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Very expressive young actors playing siblings Cal (Owen Teague of The Stand and I See You) and Erin (Haley Lou Richardson of Five Feet Apart and Edge of Seventeen) in Montana Story . “as well worth seeing as the majestic scenery of Montana itself.
This “Story” of family betrayal, regret, and redemption is very similar to the Montana landscape wrapped in Native American culture, from atmospheric songs played on the radio during copious countryside trips, echoing the distance between characters, to heartbreaking news, carefully placed on television. . in the background, filling even the airwaves in this film with the desperation of our players.
Contemporary local life is casually portrayed in patient performances by a few local actors as constant reminders to appreciate land, animals, and even invasive species that supplant everything native.
Against this very literal backdrop of pure America, Erin and Cal’s father lies in a hospice in their childhood home, as hated now as ever, but Cal is left alone to care for him, as Erin made a traumatic sudden departure many years ago after her death. her father. beloved horse and a particularly cruel beating at the hands of his father.
She never forgave him or her brother for not stepping in to protect her, and they haven’t spoken since they were both adults. Erin comes home only to give her assailant a cheeky look, but instead finds a desiccated, comatose man who is cared for like a child, and this only opens her wounds. Cal convinces her to stay long enough to learn about each other’s lives (Erin became a chef in upstate New York and Cal graduated from college in Wyoming with an engineering degree) and looks after the remaining animals on their ancestral farm until it is liquidated.
An aging horse unexpectedly becomes Erin’s focus and a touchstone for the film, because it’s easier to take care of an animal that can’t hurt you than a human being, now behind an unattainable apology.
She is determined to save this horse as she was unable to save her childhood horse and first plans to buy a trailer to take it to New York with her and then find a nice local home for her.
In this quest, we learn that not all animals are equal in her eyes, because one night she kills a chicken with her bare hands, being a chef from farm to table, in one tender moment lovingly preparing a special dish for her brother and her father’s guardian (because food is still love).
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We are passionate about delivering a more natural and immersive audio experience without headphones.
Noveto is disturbing the advertisement industry with more personalised audio messaging. We plan to transform smart living at home and in the office through a ground-breaking intuitive interface and advanced audio technologies. We believe this will change the way the world experiences sound through interaction with our smart devices.
Noveto has created a new audio technology capable of beaming sound directly outside your ears creating an immersive personal audio experience.
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Dr. Christophe Ramstein
Christophe brings over 20 years of international experience in business, corporate, IP, products and licensing development.
Christophe fulfilled many senior/executive management positions. This includes VP Engineering at Logitech, CTO at Immersion (NASDAQ). He also has been instrumental in several start ups, such as Haptech, Novasentis and Myotest.
Christophe holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Polytechnic Institute in France.
Christophe joined Noveto as the CEO 2 years ago.
Gil Lev
CBO & GC
Gil brings over 20 years of experience in business and legal practice.
Gil’s experience spans from business administration (tech, cyber, sports) to corporate and commercial Law to M&As, and IP.
He holds an LLB (Law) and a MBA.
Gil is acting as the CBO of Noveto for over 4 years.
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Stefan is leading the engineering team at Noveto for over a year.
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Springboards for Discussing Prejudice
This page contains an assortment of "springboards" for discussing the first section of Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination. Instructors using other textbooks or readings are welcome to edit and adapt these questions as they see fit. Printable versions of this page are also available in Word and pdf formats.
Is it possible to be free of prejudice? Have you ever met anyone who was?
Are you prejudiced? If so, what are some recent instances in which you behaved in a prejudiced way? If not, how do you know that you're not prejudiced?
If you've behaved in a prejudiced way, what caused the prejudice, and what might reduce it? How did other people respond to your behavior?
If a close friend or family member were to make a prejudiced comment, would you protest? Why or why not? What about a stranger or acquaintance -- would you respond in that situation?
If you were to make a prejudiced comment at a party or among a group of friends, would your friends say something?
Does the categorization of people always result in prejudice? What about categorizing people in a positive way -- does that result in prejudice?
Are stereotypes ever a good thing? Have you ever tried to get people to stereotype you, either positively or negatively?
Does the very categorization of people -- for example, as female, a college student, African-American, or Texan -- necessarily rob them of individuality?
At a psychological level, what are the common denominators that link all forms of prejudice?
In general, which forms of prejudice seem to be declining over time, and which forms seem to be persisting or increasing?
Which forms of prejudice most socially acceptable, and which are least acceptable? Why are some forms more acceptable than others?
When, if ever, is it best to remain colorblind to race and ethnicity? When, if ever, is it best to celebrate multicultural differences? Do the goals of colorblindenss and multiculturalism conflict with each other?
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2022-2023 Rice Women’s Basketball Season Preview
The 2022-2023 Rice women’s basketball season is around the corner and the team can’t wait to build on last season’s successes.
The most common word Rice women’s basketball head coach Lindsay Edmonds would use to describe last season was whirlwind. Coming in as a first-time head coach in the midst of a program in transition with a minimal roster and the lingering challenges of COVID-19 was never going to be easy. Edmonds and her team persevered.
One year later the program seems poised to continue its ascent. For one, they have more bodies. Edmonds added the No. 1 recruiting class in Conference USA to supplement a much more experienced roster than they had at this point last season.
Edmonds joked that one of the biggest differences from last year’s squad to this one is readily apparent when you walk into the gym. “Last year we took half of a court to stretch,” she laughed. “[This year] we take up an entire sideline!”
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2022-2023 Rice Basketball Season Preview
It’s been a slow build for Rice basketball. Will the 2022-2023 season be the time when it all comes together and the Owls truly take flight?
Rice basketball head coach Scott Pera knows there’s no silver bullet. He’s coached a lot of basketball to this point and was honest in his preseason assessment of the 2022-2023 team and what he felt the program needed to do to take another step in the right direction.
“You can’t take huge jumps. It’s really hard to improve a lot in certain areas,” he said. “We’ve got to be a little better defensively. We’ve got to be a little bit better offensively. We’ve got to shoot the ball from the free throw line a little better.”
Little by little, Pera theorized, those gradual improvements stack up to meaningful change.
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Buy Now: The Roost’s 2021 Rice Football Season Preview and C-USA Preview
July 7, 2021 By Matthew Bartlett
The Roost is pleased to announce the release of the 2021 Rice Football Season Preview and the 2021 Conference USA Football Season Preview. These digital magazines are the one-stop-shop for every Rice and Conference USA Fan.
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The 2021 Rice Football Season Preview
This 150+ page publication details everything you could imagine about Rice Football. It includes insight on the entire Rice roster, position by position, as well five pages of commentary on every Conference USA team and all four of the Owls’ non-conference opponents. Each profile was compiled with the help from local experts who cover that beat on a daily basis with timely transfer information and any available spring updates. This goes deeper than some national overviews.
As one Rice administrator dubbed it:
it’s the bible for Rice Football fans.
Get answers to questions like “Has the quarterback problem been solved?” or “Which incoming players could make the biggest impact?” or “Who are the top returning players Rice will face in Conference USA?”
This year’s edition included a feature story based on an interview with new offensive coordinator Marques Tuiasosopo. In the piece, we discuss his plans to revitalize the Rice football offense and how new transfer quarterback Luke McCaffrey could fit into that solution.
The 2021 Conference USA Football Season Preview
The complete contents of the Conference USA Preview are contained within the Rice Preview. This 88-page guide includes everything Conference USA fans need to know for the upcoming season. Every team in the conference has a five-page profile. These profiles including coaching notes, pressing questions and the major storylines each squad faces this season. It also includes roster breakdowns with profiles on the biggest incoming and outgoing players.
No preview would be complete without the numbers, and this one has those in bunches. Each team section includes Conference USA metrics, returning production notes and analysis as well as stat lines for every returning player. There’s also a more detailed review of the conference’s top returning players for each major statistic. And it’s all at your fingertips rather than a dozen google searches away.
The Conference USA Preview omits the Rice-specific content like the position and player breakdowns, rising stars and more. Most Rice fans would prefer the Rice Preview whereas fans of other C-USA schools might prefer this version.
What are people saying about the Previews?
Don’t just take our word for it. Here’s what people are saying:
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2021 Rice Football Season Preview Promo and Patreon Updates
Happy July! We’ve been working overtime at The Roost this summer to make sure you’ll have access to the best coverage of Rice Football and Rice Athletics that we can bring. To that end, we’re excited to announce a few improvements we’ll be rolling out for our subscribers.
FREE PREVIEW FOR FIRST TIME SUBSCRIBERS
We did this last year and received tremendous amounts of positive feedback so we’re bringing it back. Anyone who begins a subscription on the Starting Lineup tier or higher for their first time in the month of July will get a copy of our 2021 Rice Football Season Preview absolutely free.
Take a test drive of our exclusive insights into media days and stick around for fall camp and more.
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UPGRADED TIERS
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We’ve also added some additional perks for the All-American Tier (get a Roost mug and periodic behind-the-scenes microcasts) and free season previews and everything else we offer for our Booster Tier patrons.
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Rice Volleyball: Owls ready for 2021 spring season
Rice Volleyball will soon begin its 2021 spring season. From the key games to preseason accolades. Here’s everything you need to know.
Amid the many changes forced on college athletics by COVID-19, Conference USA moved all fall team sports (except football) to the spring semester. That included the Rice Volleyball season, which will begin in late January now rather than having its traditional fall start. When the Owls do retake the court, they’ll do so with robust expectations.
Rice Volleyball has continued to climp under the direction of head coach Genny Volpe. The Owls have reached the NCAA Tournament in each of the last three seasons, winning 20+ games in all three years. In the Owls’ most recent campaign, they finished an outstanding 27-4. That’s a high bar, but the Owls won’t shy away from the lofty precedent.
Preseason C-USA Poll
Conference USA moved to divisional formats for the season rather than the traditional top-to-bottom ranks. Rice was picked to win the West. Western Kentucky was picked to win the East. The Owls finished a game behind the Hilltoppers in the overall conference standings last season.
📢: Announcing the 2021 #CUSAVB Preseason Poll as voted on by the league’s coaches! #TheCUSAWay 🏐
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— Conference USA (@ConferenceUSA) January 14, 2021
Preseason All C-USA Team selections
Rice had two players selected to the preseason All-Conference team: Nicole Lennon and Anota Adekunle. Both earned First Team All-Conference selections at the end of last season.
📢: Announcing your 2021 #CUSAVB Preseason All-Conference Team as voted on by the league’s coaches! 🏐 #TheCUSAWay
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Notable games
Rice opens their season at Tudor Fieldhouse on Saturday, Jan. 23. Then they’ll make the short trip down the road to the Fertitta Center to play Houston on Sunday, Jan. 24. That marks the first set of a series of couplets versus like opponents.
Conference play begins on Feb. 7 and Feb. 8 at home against Louisiana Tech. The Owls will play 12 conference games against six opponents before closing out their regular season with marquee matchups home against Baylor (Mar. 19) and at Texas (Mar. 23.)
Any necessary makeup games will be played the week between those nonconference games at the Conference USA Tournament, slated to begin on April 1. You can see the complete schedule here.
Offseason notes
Rice Volleyball was featured in part of our extended offseason showcase, featuring stories about Nicole Lennon’s ascent and expectations for the team in 2021 any beyond. You can check those five pieces out here.
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Crown Prince attends high-tea reception hosted by RBAF
By Lyna Mohamad
His Royal Highness Prince General Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah, the Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime Minister's Office, General of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF) and Her Royal Highness Paduka Seri Pengiran Anak Isteri Pengiran Anak Sarah yesterday afternoon attended a high-tea reception in conjunction with His Royal Highness' 35th birthday celebration hosted by officers of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces.
Accompanying Their Royal Highnesses to the reception that took place at the Officers' Mess Bolkiah Garrison was His Royal Highness Prince 'Abdul Malik.
Their Royal Highnesses were greeted upon arrival by the Commander of RBAF Pehin Datu Lailaraja Major General Dato Paduka Seri Haji Awang Halbi bin Haji Md Yussof, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence I, Dato Paduka Hj Mustappa Hj Sirat and Deputy Permanent Secretaries of Defence, Colonel (Rtd) Pg Dato Paduka Hj Azmansham Hj Mohamad and Mohd Sahrip Othman.
Also in attendance were service commanders, commandants, military and civilian directors, senior officers and officers of the Ministry of Defence and the RBAF.
The function began with a group photo of the royalty with senior officers of MinDef and RBAF and their spouses followed with the introduction to His Royal Highness of the newly commissioned RBAF officers before signing the Royal Parchment.
Their Royal Highnesses then viewed an exhibition displaying pictorial collections of His Royal Highness' series of visits to the MinDef and the RBAF throughout 2008.
HRH was presented a 'pesambah' of a Photo Book Album entitled 'Sejambak Ristaan II', which shows pictures of His Royal Highness' visits to the MinDef and RBAF.
A thanksgiving prayer was read by Lt Col (U) Hj 'Abdur Rahim Hj 'Abdul Karim, Head of RBAF Religious Department (JAMA'AT) to bless the high-tea reception. - Borneo Bulletin (27th Feb 2009) | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9036795496940613, "wiki_prob": 0.9036795496940613, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line1778819"} |
The Images of Sikh Heritage
All About Sikhs: Sikh Heritage
Only Maharani Jindan , the prima donna in the drama, which unfolded towards the end of the Sikh kingdom, was painted and sketched. Before joining Ranjit’s boudoir she was the daughter of Ranjit’s dog keeper, Manna.
No traces are there of other prominent Sikh ladies having been painted, though there were quite a few – starting with Sada Kaur, Ranjit’s resolute mother-in-law (see in Sada Kaur section), who used her position in the Kanhaeys misl to help install Ranjit in the first place. Though she later fell out with him when she persisted, successfully, in foisting the claims of her daughter’s son, Sher Singh, to the line of succession; Mehtab Kaur, another prominent wife of Ranjit Singh, who is said to have had forty six wives in all; or Chand Kaur, Kharak Singh’s wife. Photographs exist of Daleep Singh’s wife, Maharani Bamba Daleep Singh, who was half English and half Abyssinian. (see in Maharaj Dalip Singh section)
Rani Jindian
The last famous lady in the line was Princess Bamba Daleep Singh, later Mrs. Bamba Sutherland (as often written – ‘she married a certain Col. Sutherland’). Much prior to that, most of the wives of the Sikh gurus were exceptional personalities, but none were painted. Among them were Bebe Nanaki (Guru Nanak’s elder Sister) and Mata Sulakhani (Guru Nanak’s wife), Mata Khiwi (Guru Angad’s wife) who started the tradition of the langar, free kitchen, Bibi Bhani who was Guru Amardas’s daughter, wife of Guru Ramdas and the mother of Guru Arjan Dev, Mata Ganga – Guru Arjan Dev’s wife, Mata Nanaki – wife of Guru Hargobind and Guru Tegh Bahadur’s mother, Guru Har Rai’s wife and Guru Harkrishan’s mother Mata Kishan Kaur, Mata Gujri – Guru Tegh Bahadur’s wife and Guru Gobind Singh’s mother, and Guru Gobind Singh’s wives Mata Sahib Devan and Mata Sundri.
A shortcoming of paintings of the period of the Lahore court was the relative lack of a variety of subjects. Most of the Lahore court paintings show the seated Maharaja Ranjit Singh with his real and accepted sons Kharak Singh, Sher Singh, the infant Daleep Singh; the favourite boy Hira Singh is also shown with Naunehal Singh; Dhian Singh is respectfully standing at the back and occasionally shown with his brothers Suchet Singh and Gulab Singh of Jammu. Ranjit Singh is sometimes surrounded by his non-Sikh courtiers like his Finance Minister Dina Nath the Brahmin , his Foreign Minister Aziz-ud-din and Jamadar Khushal Singh, who was actually a Brahmin. Also included in some paintings are Europeans who organized his army – the Italians Ventura and Avitabile who were infantry experts, Allard who was his cavalry organizer and another French man, General Court, who trained and equipped his artillery. Also included were his friends from Afghanistan and other European adventurers. (In fact, all these elements of his court are brilliantly portrayed in a later oil painting of August Theodore Schoefft, a Hungarian who visited his court). Coupled with this was the fact that Sikh paintings on subjects other than portraiture were restricted in any case. The miniature paintings, thus, on surface appear to be very limited in diversity but to appreciate them one has to understand the historical events and the intrigues of the court – and then a great drama unfolds, which finally ended when the British defeated Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s successors and disbanded the court of Lahore in 1849.
Maharaja Ranjit Singh with his sons, Maharaja Kharak Singh, Sher Singh & Dalip Singh. Raja Dhian Singh. Gulab Singh & Suchet Singh are also seen standing behind
Raja Dina Nath
Raja Khushal Singh
In fact, the British went to the extreme of auctioning the treasures of the court to recover their campaign costs, after dispatching the best objects to London – the Koh-i-noor, jewels and the golden throne.
Information regarding this period is available from a number of sources – the camp chronicle of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, ‘Umdat-ut-Tawarikh’, British government records and accounts of European travellers, artists and painters. The Umdat-ut-Tawarikn was a Sort of daily diary full of hyperbole and praises to Maharaja Ranjit Singh, though full of interesting facts. The British government records appear to be fairly accurate on information, but the most absorbing and relevant to this book are the accounts of the other Europeans, even though their superciliousness sometimes comes through. Generally these accounts are frank, appreciative as well as critical and chatty.
Fakir Aziz-u-deen
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Cease Evictions Ireland
national | housing | press release Monday February 04, 2013 11:03 by Anti Eviction Taskforce - Anti Eviction Taskforce info at antievictiontaskforce dot com
Motion to the Dáil to ban eviction in Ireland
The Anti Eviction Taskforce (AET) have written to all Government Ministers across all political parties on behalf of all distressed mortgage holders in Ireland today, delivering a mandate to bring a motion before the Dáil to ban eviction in Ireland. This letter will arrive on the desks of all Ministers on February 4th 2013.
To explain the logic behind this mandate: The Government and Financial institutions continue to ignore the issue of distressed mortgages, which is resulting in much family distress, family break-up and, in some cases, suicide. While, as yet, eviction is not an everyday occurrence, it is only a matter of time before eviction becomes common place. This threat, along with the inaction by both the Government and Financial Institutions to devise credible resolution is disabling distressed mortgage holders and resulting in impasse.
To consider a typical distressed mortgaged home just now, the main wage earner is most likely unemployed (through no fault of their own). The value of the family home has diminished by over 50% but the cost of mortgage repayments are actually increasing. This is with no income now to cover this cost. Meanwhile, any earnings which are coming in to the family home are being diminished as a result of an increase in indirect taxation - the European Social Charge and Property Tax and numerous others.
While we at AET would not advocate that mortgages not be paid, it is very evident that in the current economic climate maintaining such payments is impossible. This is weighted against actual value, and in denial of a raft of issues; financial institutions behaved recklessly with the investment funds of citizens - hedging investment for private gain on the international financial markets with products which were essentially flawed (and in some cases no more than a 'cloud') - this all lead to the lack of funds available in the banks to furnish their customers' needs; this in turn led to the same banks withdrawing overdrafts for businesses; this led in turn to those businesses being unable to pay either their suppliers or their staff, this leading in turn to suppliers going out of business and staff becoming unemployed.
This is not news: this is the harsh reality of how banks treated their customers, government failed to protect the state, and the state in turn failed it's citizens. The situation is dire and pretty much impossible for great numbers of citizens who did no more to contribute to this situation than to enter into the market of owning their own home where they would raise their children in their own country and fulfil their own destinies. Much has been said. Many payments have been made to the 'highwaymen' who shield themselves behind the wrench they have exercised against our government who in turn has failed its people.
It is time for platitudes and payments to be properly addressed. At the very least, the mortgaged homeowner should now have a viable writedown appropriate to the financial wreckage which has been leveraged against their expectation. How this will be assessed will be a mathematical exercise based on the realities of the newly inherited market disaster which is currently to the benefit of no-one but the institutions and their bond holders. This is a Pandora's Box just waiting to be opened.
We have not mentioned in any detail here the fact that many of these mortgages are with institutions which were merely agents for financial products, sub-prime lenders, or institutions lacking in accountability which are currently moving out of Ireland and in some cases ceasing to exist (or altering their trading identities). Knowledge is Power, as Foucault presents. The people will seek answers - justice, truth, accountability and fair reasoning; the people will not be fooled forever. Those who do not emigrate, those who do not wish to see their deals rescinded and their futures blighted may well rise to ask questions, or seek to have questions answered in their names.
Many of these people are facing the execution of orders against their homes, their lives, their futures.
A repossessed home just now is put on the market and sold for a fraction of its value while the original mortgage holder is left homeless and dependent on social welfare. There is no logic here: and no Justice. By removing the option of eviction, financial institutions will have no choice but to engage fairly with the distressed mortgage holder in a manner that would be satisfactory to all parties.
Turning a blind eye to this issue, which has been the order of the day to date, is futile. The Government are taking money from citizens via: indirect taxes, wage cuts, social charges, property tax and others and in truth there has been little resistance to this, but we have now reached crisis point. Across all sectors from civil servants, Gardai, private sector workers, public sector workers - an inability to meet mortgage repayments is now the norm rather than the exception.
We want all ministers to know that as a representative body for distressed mortgage holders the AET expect that this mandate be regarded as a serious representation of the will and the wishes of the mortgaged homeowner and that it will be acted upon as Step One in the process of delivering equitable and achievable resolution to the issue of Distressed Mortgages in Ireland.
There are so many people in this country who could easily find themselves in a situation where they need help from the Anti Eviction Taskforce. Just imagine if you were to lose your job or worse, your health (or the health of a family member). If the unthinkable were to happen, would your family home be safe or would you be in danger of losing that too? We will be here to support you and your family. We would encourage everyone to please contact their local constituency offices to show their support for us, and for each other.
Signed: Anti Eviction Taskforce
For and on behalf of Distressed Mortgage Holders.
We are asking for support from people by sending the following letter all representatives
Dear Sir / Madam
I am writing to you on behalf of the currently distressed mortgage holders in Ireland:
Statistics March 2012
77,630, or 10.2 % of Mortgage holders, were in arrears of more than 90 days. This compares with 70,945 accounts (9.2 % of total) that were in arrears of more than 90 days at end-December 2011.
The number of accounts that were in arrears of more than 180 days was 59,437 at end-March 2012, equivalent to 7.8 per cent of the total. At end-December 2011, the number of accounts in arrears of more than 180 days was 53,120, or 6.9 per cent of the total.
Therefore, 116,288 accounts were either in arrears of over 90 days or had been restructured
and were performing as at the end of March.
In arrears 90-180 day: 87,293, over 180 days 1,209,459. Total = 1,296,752
Residential properties in possession – at end of quarter.
As you can see from the above statistics, distressed mortgage holders make up a large proportion of the Irish Electorate and these numbers are growing monthly. The issue of distressed mortgages in Ireland has been allowed to fester and grow since the downturn with both the Financial Sector and the Government of the day determinedly avoiding to take responsibility for the situation or to focus on developing equitable resolution to the issue (as is their duty).
Article 45 IV: That in what pertains to the control of credit the constant and predominant aim shall be the welfare of the people as a whole.
We have seen household debt increase from 68.9% of personal disposable income in 2000 to over 150% in 2007, and this % continues to rise as debt remains stagnant while income reduces or in many cases disappears
The result of this negligence by the Government of the Day is:
Ever increasing numbers of distressed mortgage holders
Ever increasing debts / arrears per household
Serious damage to the domestic economy
Untenable stress levels within those family units
Dramatic increases in family break-ups
Dramatic increase in suicide figures
This negligence by the Government (and by default, the financial sector) must now stop. It is critical that the issue of distressed mortgages be given top priority by this Government:
It now must be the goal of this Government to devise and drive resolution, to save family units, to save family homes and to save the lives of family member.
Step one in this process has to be; A Complete Cessation of Eviction in Ireland.
The automatic benefits of this cessation will be:
To reduce stress levels within family homes struggling with distressed mortgages.
A change in the playing field to focus both the Government and Financial Institutions on devising equitable and workable resolution to this issue thus eventually eliminating the issue long term.
A return to the ethical basis on which the Irish Constitution is founded; for the good of Irish Citizens.
In this letter we, the distressed mortgage holders of Ireland, deliver to you a clear mandate to present the Government with a motion to introduce a complete ban on eviction from the family home in Ireland with immediate effect.
This letter is being distributed to the attached list of Ministers / TD’s.
Please be advised that we do not wish to receive any automated replies, replies from your secretaries or any replies advising that you will look into this matter. This mandate requires your personal and IMMEDIATE ACTION.
There is no justification for any family to be put under severe duress or threat of eviction because of the economic downturn.
As our elected representative in this democratic country of Ireland, you are duty-bound to deliver on this mandate on behalf of the citizens of Ireland by immediately bringing forward a motion in the Dáil for a complete cessation of eviction in Ireland to protect the family home.
The Anti-Eviction Taskforce, (for and behalf of Distressed Mortgage Holders)
http://www.contact.ie/contact-national-politicians
Related Link: https://www.facebook.com/notes/anti-eviction-taskforce/cease-eviction-mandate-letter/536566296376945
Assumptions used for figures?
by T Tue Feb 05, 2013 00:26
I don't understand how these particular figures are derived: "In arrears 90-180 day: 87,293, over 180 days 1,209,459. Total = 1,296,752"
Also I would assume that the number of accounts in arrears over 180 days is already included in the total for the number of accounts in arrears 90+ days. Seems like there is something wrong in the assumptions. Perhaps the author can explain
bailing out the banks ... not the people..
by anon Tue Feb 05, 2013 14:49
People on the dole even,have to pay back the bankers,while those in the dail decided those on 100,000 + salaries do not have to take a cut,and taking a cut in ''optional'' for those ''working''(posturing more like) in the dail..
Nobody was consulted in this so called democracy about bailing out the banks,we should have nationalised the banks while we had our oppurtunity,but alas there is not real business acumen in the dail..
Bunch of gombeen self serving careerists with no professional political background,sure look at enda kenny himself,a former teacher in a primary school!!!
This is the sort of crowd we have ''working'' in the dail..
Bailing out the banks,not the people is what its all about.The difference is unlike the bankers,you don't have enda kennys phone number on speed dial..
"Nobody was consulted ..."
by W. Finnerty Wed Feb 06, 2013 06:12
Reply to "anon" Tue Feb 05, 2013 14:49 ...
"Nobody was consulted in this so called democracy about bailing out the banks": which I believe is a straightforward and extremely serious violation of Article 6.1 of Bunreacht na hEireann, the SUPREME LAW of the Republic of Ireland.
The Article 6.1 matter has been raised in the e-mail dated February 4th 2013 to Ban Ki-moon (Secretary-General of the United Nations) at:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/UnitedNations/4Februa...l.htm
As can be seen at the www address just above, the message-text of the above-mentioned e-mail begins as follows:
"In connection with events of recent years, all three of the main branches of Republic of Ireland Governments (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial) have 'form' regarding the matter of very seriously violating Article 6.1 of our Constitution."
NOTE: For those who might not know, "form" is slang for "criminal record" in some places. Thanks to the impunity arrangements the criminals in question have in place for themselves, our government criminals are "unconvicted criminals" who can keep on committing crime for as long as they wish. At the present time, "the people" have no known LAWFUL means of stopping them, IN PRACTICE: thanks to our red-rotten-with-corruption justice system, and our red-rotten-with-corruption legal profession who run our justice system.
Also, a follow-up e-mail to Mr Ban Ki-moon, sent yesterday, contained the paragraph in the section just below:
2) the threat posed by the ignorant/arrogant members of governments (executive, legislative, and judicial) who, collectively, continue to be able to frequently, and with the greatest of ease, get away with criminally exceeding their authority, neglecting their duty in extremely important ways, and so on, and to do so with 100% impunity!!: despite the now decades-old existence -- on paper -- of powerful constitutional and human rights law, which has been specifically designed to prevent such government "tin-god" and/or "bullyboy/girl" abuses: abuses that is of the most basic God-given rights which the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights strives to protect, and which "government tin-gods" have no right whatsoever to be depriving anybody of.
The full text of yesterday's follow-up e-mail Mr Ban Ki-moon, titled "Government abuse of 'the people' needs to end", can be viewed at:
"Chief Justice Susan Denham, Unconstitutional legislation, government crime, Republic of Ireland, William Finnerty"
http://tinyurl.com/a63jg2j
Number of evictions in Spain so far = 400,000. That would be equivalent 38,000 here given our population
by T Fri Mar 01, 2013 17:23
In an article covering recent protests last week in Spain where hundreds of thousands of people protested in 50 cities, it mentions that there have been over 400,000 evictions so far in Spain. That's an incredible number and I presume is broadly correct.
And as we now for the past few weeks the media have been very busy reporting that the govt is now urging the banks here to start evictions -or repossessions using their language. Indeed the govt statements on the matter have been surprisingly brazen and upfront about it.
If we take the Spanish figure and relate it to Ireland we can do so by simply taking the ratio of the two populations namely ours at 4.5m and Spain at 47.2m the that would mean for the Irish level to be the same as the Spanish one we would have: (4.5 * 400,000 ) / 47.2 = 38,135 or rounded to 38,000 evictions. And if they are at the same rate, then that is about a quarter or 9,500 a year. Given there are about 90,000 people here in mortgage arrears then if the same trends / numbers apply that would suggest one third will be kicked out.
I think that shows there is a lot of work ahead for the Anti-Eviction task force.
The Spanish figure was in this sentence: ...A week earlier, thousands marched in over 50 cities to protest harsh repossession laws that have led to 400,000 evictions.... from the article titled: "Strikes and demonstrations rock Spain" and linked below.
A casual search showed the figure was 300,000 in 2012 since 2008 and that works out at close to 100,000 per year therefore making the 400,000 figure for 2013 broadly correct.
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