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At this point I must have half a dozen sable recipes scattered throughout TMH’s pages. I just can’t help myself. And, I have no intention of stopping.
When the Wall Street Journal published their mother recipe for sables in the Off Duty section just before the holidays I was on it like an otter on an oyster.
I had some leftover candied orange peel and ginger from my own holiday baking and decided to throw them in.
As a category, sables are a lesson in simplicity. Just four ingredients: butter, sugar, flour and salt. And this recipe my friends, is the closest I’ve come to the golden quadrangle.
Slightly sweet, crumbly and while delicious plain, just asking for fun and unique combinations.
Herbs: fresh mint, rosemary, thyme, lavender (as a note–start with 1 TBS chopped and go from there). If you are going to herbs, a good way to further infuse flavor is to measure out your sugar and add it and your herbs to a ziplock bag. Let “steep” for at least an hour.
Using a stand mixer or electric hand mixer, beat the butter on medium speed until soft and whipped, 2-3 minutes.
Add sugar and continue beating until well incorporated. Add salt and beat to combine.
Add flour and beat until almost all flour disappears into the dough. Finish by giving the dough a few good folds with a rubber spatula. The dough will be crumbly.
Divide dough in half (I use the food scale here but eye balling works). Gently coax first half into a general log shape. Set the log on to parchment paper and roll it back and forth until you have an even log about 1 1/2 inches in diameter and 8ish inches long. Set aside and repeat with other log.
Sprinkle the sanding/decorating sugar onto your parchment and gently roll each log until the surface is completely coated.
Roll each log individually in either plastic wrap or parchment. As a note, I first roll the log in a sheet of parchment, then place in a paper-towel roll and THEN wrap the whole thing in plastic wrap. Rolls can now be frozen for up to two months. They can also be baked from frozen but I prefer to move them to the fridge a couple of hours before I want to bake, I think they cut more nicely.
When you are ready to bake, preheat oven to 325 degrees. Arrange racks in upper and lower thirds in the oven. Line baking sheets with parchment.
Remove parchment/paper towel/plastic wrap from logs. Using a sharp knife, cut into 3/8 inch disks. Arrange cookies on baking sheets with about an inch in-between (the sables will not spread).
Bake for 18-21 minutes rotating sheets halfway through and until sables are lightly toasted. Let stand for 1-2 minutes then slide the parchment off the pan and onto a heat-proof surface. Allow cookies to cool completely before removing from parchment.
A work friend of mine brought in the most ridiculous…ridiculousest? little cookies from a recent trip to Paso Robles. Rich and carmely with a sandy texture they came from the descriptively named Brown Butter Cookie Company. Don’t let their humble looks fool you–these are gift worthy little bites.
Once upon a time this would have been a challenge. Luckily, and a little to my disappointment, the internet has made things much easier. A handful of recipes popped up on my first Google search. The fact that multiple refer to these cookies as copycats to the Brown Butter Cookie Company’s recipe is testament to how delicious they are.
They’re also fun to make. There is no fancy equipment involved and the brown butter is stirred in while still hot making the dough a lot like wet sand. Once it cools down, into the oven it goes and in a few minutes you’ve got heaven. I made one single batch and then the next day got down to business with two more double batches.
Spoiler alert: I found the first new recipe to add to my holiday baking for 2015.
In a saucepan over medium heat, melt butter and allow it to caramelize. You know it’s getting close when it begging to smell nutty. Watch the butter closely until it turns a medium to light golden brown. Do not let it burn.
In a small bowl, sift together flour and baking soda.
Pour butter through a fine-mesh sieve into a medium-sized mixing bowl.
Whisk-in brown butter and sugar.
Fold-in flour mixture until just combined.
Allow dough to cool to room temp.
Using a small scoop (I use 1/2 ounce), scoop cookies into half-domes and place on cookie sheets about 2-inches apart.
If desired, gently flatten-out dough domes using the bottom of a glass. Dough will be fragile.
Sprinkle each with a few grains of fleur de sel.
Try not to eat all of them at once.
In the course of my holiday baking each year, I like to make a couple of different kinds of shortbready-sably type cookies. And each year, I like to try out something a little different.
If you don’t know about TD and pink peppercorns, you can catch up here. A couple of years ago I had some success with raspberry and pink peppercorn macarons so I thought it might be fun to translate that into a sable.
I added in some white chocolate chunks and accessorized with bright pink sanding sugar for a little pizzazz (yes, I just said pizzazz).
The results were interesting. While not for everyone, I thought they were a complex, if not festive addition.
Working with a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter at medium speed until it is smooth and very creamy. Add the sugars and salt and continue to beat until smooth and velvety, not fluffy and airy, about 1 minute. Reduce the mixer speed to low and beat in 2 egg yolks, again beating until well blended.
3. Scrape the dough onto a work surface, gather it into a ball and divide it in half. Shape each piece into a smooth log about 9 inches long (it’s easiest to work on a piece of plastic wrap and use the plastic to help form the log). Wrap the logs well and chill them for at least 2 hours. The dough may be kept in the refrigerator for up to 3 days or frozen for up to 2 months.
4. When ready to bake, center a rack in the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper and keep it at the ready.
It has occurred to me recently that an inherent craving for the byzantine helps fuel my love of baking and cooking. Generally the more difficult a recipe, the more piqued my curiosity. I also happen to feel this way about book and television show plots. Yes, I cried like a baby when Lost ended last spring.
There is certain elegance in simplicity and restraint. Think of the black Louboutin pump. A Rothco painting. A tulip. Or, in this post, a sable cookie. Sandy, crumbly, buttery and so subtly sweet that the first bite is almost surprising. This little French sugar cookie is about as perfect as a cookie can get.
When a cookie recipe only has six components, two things become paramount: ingredients and technique. You already know how I feel about ingredients in general: always buy the best you can afford (or, if the misanthrope in you is acting up–like it sometimes does with me–the best you are willing to feed other people). As for technique, thankfully, we have Dorie Greenspan.
In a 2004 article in the New York Times Style Magazine, Greenspan talks about how she first learned to make sables from Parisian bread baker Lionel Poilane. In her lovely description of the lesson, she explains that he made them like he made his bread: no spoons, bowls or mixers. Over time and with the help of Pierre Herme, she refined the recipe that ultimately appeared in Baking, From My Home to Yours (2006). In this recipe, technique is as important as the ingredients.
Sea salt and two types of sugar, confectioner’s and granulated, are added to softened and beaten butter until the mixture is smooth and velvety (not, fluffy as is often the case with cookies). Greenspan also notes that by “softened” she literally means, soft–not greasy and nearly liquid, as I often let my butter become.
Then a couple of egg-yolks are beaten in. The presence of yolks in this recipe surprised me. I had always assumed that sables, like shortbread, don’t contain eggs. In this recipe, they help to bind together a barely-mixed dough.
After this, flour, the final ingredient is added. Greenspan recommends adding the flour, covering the standing mixer with a towel and pulsing until it is just mixed-in. I prefer to start with a couple of turns of the paddle and then finish by hand. Not that I have control issues or anything. The dough doesn’t really come together as a smooth mass. You want soft curd-like (my word, not hers) crumbs.
Then you divide the dough in half and carefully shape each into a log, touching the dough as little as possible. Here is where I make a slight diversion from the original recipe. In the original, you roll the logs, wrap them and chill them in the fridge overnight. Then, before baking, you give the logs a good egg-wash and sprinkle on sanding sugar. I prefer to roll the still-soft logs in sanding sugar first, then chill.
Once chilled, the logs get cut into coins.
Popped onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.
And then, into an oven until slightly golden and crisp.
1. Working in a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter at medium speed until it is smooth and very creamy. Add the sugars and salt and continue to beat until smooth and velvety, not fluffy and airy, about 1 minute. Reduce the mixer speed to low and beat in 2 egg yolks, again beating until well blended.
5. To decorate the edges of the sables, whisk the egg yolk until smooth. Place one log of chilled dough on a piece of waxed paper and brush it with yolk (the glue), and then sprinkle the entire surface of the log with sugar. Trim the ends of the roll if they are ragged and slice the log into 1/3-inch-thick cookies. | 2019-04-19T05:17:56Z | http://www.tmhostess.com/tag/sables/ |
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What makes Dygma Raise different than the rest of the gaming keyboards?
Raise is designed to enhance performance, comfort, and prevent long-term injuries caused by gaming. It combines the tested and validated functionalities with esports professionals with an ergonomic design.
Split design. Improved posture is better for your health.
Fully customizable layouts. You can have multiple layouts and toggle instantly between them. Every key is remappable and also can be configured as a macro.
8 thumb keys. The thumb is the strongest and least used finger. The keys are where your thumbs rest so they are easy to access.
Gaming keypad experience and normal typing in the same device. You can detach any side and play with the other. You’ll have more space for your mouse. And if you want a normal typing experience you can just snap both sides together.
All these features take into account reducing the learning curve to zero.
What cables come with Dygma Raise?
2x USB-C to USB-C cables (15cm long) to connect each keyboard to the Huble.
One USB-C to USB-A cable (150cm long) to connect the Huble to your computer.
If you’re not happy with your Dygma Raise for any reason, please contact us. We have a 30-day return window from the date of delivery. You’ll have to ship it back at your own expense to China via a tracked shipping method. Note that the cost of shipping it back may be significant (depending on where you’re shipping from).
If you decide you want different switches within 30 days from the time you received the keyboard, you may exchange your unit for a new board. You would have to pay shipping both ways: to ship the old unit back to China (this may get expensive, depending on your location), and to ship the new unit to you. Yes, this does get expensive, unfortunately.
Why is Dygma Raise expensive?
When designing the Raise, we decided not to cut down the features. The consequence is that it is more expensive to manufacture than the vast majority of keyboards because of its many features and premium materials.
Because it is a split keyboard, it’s like manufacturing 2 keyboards, you need double the PCBs and aluminium cases. Also, this is our first product so we don’t have the volume to reduce the manufacturing costs as big brands do.
Fully customizable layouts. Any key rebindable and macros.
Gaming keypad and keyboard in the same device.
We hope this helps you understand Raise’s price.
Is Raise a good keyboard for programmers? I only play games from time to time.
Yes, this keyboard is good for programmers because of its health benefits and the customization options.
It is awesome for any professional, -programmers, graphic designers, 3D modelers or gamers-, who spends many hours in front of the computer and relies on shortcuts or frequent key combinations.
Raise’s firmware and software are open source. Check this video Matt (Dygma’s Tech Lead) did showcasing some stuff that can be done with it’s firmware.
Raise is split into 3 main pieces; the 2 sides and the Huble.
The Huble is the brain of the keyboard; the microprocessor and memory is inside it. It is important because with it, we are able to remove the left half (of the keyboard), and have the right half keep working or the vice versa. That is mainly why we need it as an external piece.
All your settings for the lighting and the key maps are stored in the Huble’s memory.
Is there any extra USB port in Raise?
In the beginning of the project, we planned to have a hub in the Huble. But due to technicalities and after letting our backers vote on their preference, we decided to remove the USB hub from the Huble.
If you want to learn more about this process, you can read it in our blog.
I'd like to place both sides of the keyboard far apart. Can I buy an extension cable?
Yes, the cables are detachable. They are the standard USB-A to USB-C for the Huble to the computer and USBC to USBC for the keyboard to the Huble. You can purchase a 1m long USB-C to USB-C cable in our shop.
Is Dygma Raise a mechanical keyboard?
Yes! You can buy your Raise with Cherry MX (Blue, Red or Brown) switches or Kailh Speed (Gold, Silver, Bronze or Copper) switches.
Mechanical switches are a standard in gaming but there’s an issue, once you buy your keyboard you are stuck with them until you buy a new one.
With Raise that’s not a problem any more. All our switches are hot-swappable, so you can easily pull them out and replace them with others whenever you want.
What keycap languages do you offer?
What are the benefits of split keyboards?
Raise is not only split, both sides are also detachable. There are a few direct benefits for your health and performance.
A normal keyboard forces the wrists to bend towards the pinky side of your hand. Rotating the split keyboard halves lets you keep your wrists at a more neutral angle which decreases pressure and strain over time. You can also adjust the total width between the two halves of the keyboard, potentially placing them directly in front of your shoulders and reducing shoulder internal rotation.
You can detach any sides and play with the other and you’ll have more space for your mouse and extra thumb buttons. And if you want a normal typing experience you can just snap both sides together.
If you get frustrated with teammates and enemies and type, Raise can help you stay focused. Playing with one side will prevent you from typing and will help you stay focused.
If you want to type timers you can configure the numpad on whichever side you’re using.
We are working in a tenting solution as an accessory, but we are only considering side tenting by now. In the front-back direction we already have a tilting angle of 3 degrees.
Raise being ergonomic, why isn't ortholinear?
Over a year ago when we started this project, our first design was ortholinear. We made multiple prototypes and sold 50 for a closed beta. We tested for two months and reached the conclusion that the learning curve was steep, making it riskier for our first product. We have the intention of making an ortholinear keyboard in the future.
If you are interested in reading about our development process, please check our blog.
How does RGB backlight and underglow benefit me in any way?
There’s a practical reason why Raise has RGB Leds, to have visual feedback when you change layouts. In the vast majority of gaming keyboards RGB lighting is just for aesthetic purposes but during our testing we learnt that it reduced user’s learning curve when getting used to multiple layouts.
With Raise, you can create multiple layouts and toggle instantly between them. Every key in every layout is rebindable and can be configured as a macro with its own color.
If you would like stronger visual feedback you could assign an underglow colour to every layout you create.
Dygma Raise will have all the classic RGB effects such as: chasing effect, breath, solid color, rainbow and so on. For both the backlight and the underglow.
Can I disable or lower the intensity of the underglow or backlight with the customization software?
Yes. You’ll be able to individually control every LED and assign colors depending on the layout you are on and the function the key has.
Is it possible to sync the RGB lighting with or other brands peripherals?
It totally depends on the other brands giving us access so we can sync with them. Our software and firmware are open source, so the other way around it won’t be an issue.
How many LEDs are there in the Raise, and how are they all controlled?
We’re using RGB LEDS, where each small package contains 3 separated LEDs, one for red, blue and green. Each key has an LED, and then we have 30 pointing down on each side for the underglow. This makes 135 RGBs, for 405 separate LEDs in total. We are still tuning the underglow lighting, so this number may change slightly as we go to manufacture.
Controlling that many LEDs uses a lot of pins! A common method to make this easier is to use ‘clever’ LEDs that contain some processing power inside (like the WS2812), this makes it easier to drive long chains of LEDs, but the downside is cost. To keep the cost low we’re using plain RGB LEDs with a special driver that can drive a matrix of up to 75 RGB LEDs. It handles the hard parts like current control and refresh rate so we only need to update what colour we want where over an SPI interface.
To know better Dygma and his team, please go to our About us page.
Why create an ergonomic mechanical keyboard for gaming?
During Deilor’s (Dygma’s CEO) experience as a eSports coach, he found that health and performance issues were due to bad habits combined with the lack of properly designed tools.
Not being able to find a solution, he decided to create it himself. Raise is just the first step. A gaming keyboard designed to help players improve their health and performance.
You can know more about Dygma’s story in our About Dygma page.
When will I receive my Dygma Raise?
Dygma Raise ships worldwide. We use //curriers// to get your keyboard to you as quickly and as safely as possible. We ship from China.
Shipping is $20 per keyboard bundle no matter where in the world you are. If you are ordering more than one keyboard, you will pay $20 per keyboard.
First things first: If you’re ordering from the US, there are no import duties (that’s due to US regulations). If you’re ordering from the EU or elsewhere, you will very likely be required to pay customs and handling charges. These are typically charged by the local shipping company upon arrival. We are not able to estimate or charge these fees in advance, nor do we have any control over them. These charges are unrelated to the shipping charge.
We understand that taxes can be frustrating, but once you receive your Dygma Raise and then change your mind because of the taxes your country charges, it means we have to pay UPS to ship it back to us. Therefore, we will not be able to issue a full refund.
Are keys rebindable? Can I program macros?
Raise is fully configurable. Its configuration software allows you to create multiple layouts and toggle instantly between them. Every key in every layout is remappable and can be configured as a macro.
Why there’s no numpad, arrows or F1-12 keys?
Thanks to Raise’s software you can configure the functions anywhere you want. We decided to not have the physical keys so you have to move your hands less. Raise has the functionality of a full size keyboard with a much smaller layout.
How to access second layout: configure whatever key you want to use as a modifier. The modifier can work as a toggle (like Caps Lock) or as a momentary layout (as Shift).
The configuration software and firmware is discussed as open source. Is there a location or project page I can go to today to contribute?
It works on all major OS’s like GNU/Linux, Windows and macOS. It even works on mobile devices though it’ll disable some LED functions due to power limitations when connected to a mobile device.
It doesn’t require any additional drivers but instead uses the built in generic keyboard drivers from the OS. All the functions such as Macros, Layers etc are handled on-board the keyboard itself with no real interaction from the OS so no extra drivers are required. Unless future OS’s remove their keyboard drivers its going to continue working. So I guess you could say the drivers for a specific OS is as Open Source as the OS itself. The real key here is the firmware being Open Source.
With the firmware and configuration software being GPLv2 and GPLv3+ respectively the Raise will continue to work even with nutty future OS’s as long as there is a programmer willing to maintain it. The GPL is a strong copyleft license so the the code can’t be closed.
What license will the "open source" software and firmware be released under?
The firmware is released under the GPL v2.
The configurator is released under GPL v3.
The giant space bar is one of the things that we’ve inherited from the typewriter that doesn’t make sense anymore; we don’t have the technical limitations from over 100 years ago.
We’ve added 8 thumb keys in the area that our thumbs rest so they are easy to access. The thumb is the strongest and least used finger and is dexterous enough to handle more than a big key.
Isn’t the spacebar key too small? I’m concerned I’ll misclick it.
The majority of people press a small area of the spacebar. Take a look at how you type and game and you’ll know which would be the best spacebar key location for you.
If you use a large area or use both thumbs, our software allows you to rebind any key. You’ll be able to rebind as many keys as you need for the spacebar.
What are the keys under the Spacebar? Are they comfortable to use?
We’ve called these keys the Under-row. We’ve tested the location of the under-row keys with professional gamers, programmers, designers and more and they loved it. This way you have fast access to more keys in a natural position for your thumbs.
Even though the location may seem weird because no other keyboard has them, they are comfortable to use.
Are they only going to be tenkeyless or are you looking into making a full keyboard one as well?
We will only do 60% keyboards. The reason behind it is that you can create multiple layouts and toggle between them instantly. Also every key in every layout can be remapped and can be a configure as a macro. So you can have the functionality of a full size keyboard in a 60% layout.
We decided to have a compact design is because you can set up multiple fully customizable layouts and can toggle instantly between them. Every key in every layout is remappable and can be configured as a macro.
You won’t need to leave your home row and you’ll have a compact keyboard with the functionalities of a full size one.
Are palm rest detachable? And palm pads?
Our original idea was to have detachable palm rests. We tested with multiple coders, designers and gamers and they all said that they would only remove the palm rests to transport it.
Knowing that our users probably would prefer to use Raise with the palm rests, we decided to not make them detachable to reduce the manufacturing complexity and costs.
Palm pads are detachable so they are easier to clean.
How tall is the palm rest?
The palm rests start at 8mm (0.31in) thick, close to the thumb buttons is 12mm (0.47in) thick and the top part of Raise is 16mm (0.63in) thick. The Palm pads are detachable and are 8mm (0.31in) thick. In the final product this numbers will probably be slightly different because of the different materials and manufacturing techniques.
Right now we only have one thickness for palm pads but for the future we want to have a thinner option too, in the area of 3mm (0.12in).
Do you have more questions? Send us a message. | 2019-04-21T01:15:56Z | https://www.dygma.com/dygma-raise-faq/ |
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The VDOT based system of paces is a tried and tested system for run training designed by Jack Daniels and a colleague of his who worked for NASA. The system, described in JD's book "The Running Bible" appears to be sound at first glance - it is established from metabolic testing and the foundational idea that equally performing runners can be assigned equal aerobic profiles.
JD has ofcourse outdone himself in both the national and international running stage so we can't argue whether he had his wits about him when he sat down to make VDOT.
I was interested to see how VDOT based paces, when converted to power, compares to the instruction in critical power based running zones. For this I pick an example runner, Tony.
This equates to a pace of 6:26/mile = 250 meters/min.VDOT is approximately 45 per the VDOT tables.
The goal is to find an equivalent power for the VDOT pace so that he could implement power based training zones. Jim Vance has defined a simple factor tying speed and watts called Efficiency Index, EI, which is defined as the ratio of speed in meter per minute over watts, both continously captured over a 30 second rolling duration.
Equivalent Power for 3K = 250/0.95 = 263W.
(According to the metric, as EI decreases, power to produce a given speed increases).
Given that 263W is an equivalent power estimated from race pace and an estimated EI, it must be checked whether this power value can be sustained when the powermeter is applied.
1) As a first check, Tony can peer into his power duration (PD) curve in his favorite software of choice. If the PD curve looked something like the one below, which is a multiparameter exponental model fitted to all of Tony's runs 12 minutes and below, the chart seems to suggest a theoretical maximum of 220W for the 12 minute duration.
Would it be correct to assume that Tony simply cannot sustain this wattage for this time? It might be fair to consider that the software generated PD curve in question just may not have race equivalent data. The model tries to make a trend around what is known, not what is unknown. If most of Tony's runs were from social runs in the park on weekends, the PD curve will underestimate his potential and would probably not be helpful.
2) The other bit of useful data from the VDOT system for this runner is the equivalency is terms of 5K, 10K, half and full marathon distances. For example, the equivalent 5K running time for the VDOT of 45 is 21:49 for the same ambient conditions. If you then used the Stryd's critical power model on their website, it suggests a critical power of 236W.
By the old definition, critical power is the steady state rate of work output someone can theoretically sustain "indefinitely" although the notion of an indefinite time period is a bit corrupted - no one can exercise indefinitely! As now understood by the scientific community, it is a threshold below which VO2 and heart rate will not not see a rise and is also seen as the greatest point at which energy provision is still wholly oxidative (Poole, Burnley et.al).
Knowing that Tony's critical power is 236W, it seems "feasible" that he can pull off a short excursion into his anaerobic energy systems for 12 minutes at 263 Watts, which equates to 111% of his critical power. In this unsteady state, Tony will accumulate fatigue and have a rising heart rate and VO2.
3) Tony can validate this power (i.e know whether he can sustain it for 12 minutes or not) by performing a 3k at race pace in well rested conditions on similar terrain. Perhaps he chooses the same race the next time it's organized. If the average wattage generated by his powermeter is within 3% of 236W, he might be able to conclude that the conversion is roughly equivalent. His pace to power conversion can also be adjusted by assuming a more generous Efficiency Index if prior data suggests that this is the case. It can also be adjusted by tuning the equivalent 10K pace resulting from the VDOT tables.
While the VDOT-power conversion hasn't been perfect, it allows Tony to be able to go out and do a trial run or two and make necessary adjustments. Therefore, in so far as VDOTs are generated from race performances and the effect of ambient conditions on race paces are taken into account, I find no flaw with this procedure.
Based on a conservative EI estimate of 0.90, these training speeds can be converted to power values by the procedure noted in the earlier section. For example, the easy pace zone for the mile in terms of power would be 188-200Watts. The marathon pace for the mile would be 225W. And so on.
The table below shows VDOT paces converted to power (watts) at two different EI estimates for the 1 mile distance. An EI = 0.9 for Tony would be conservative estimate for sluggish runs and sub-optimally executed fast races. An EI = 0.95 could be a theoretical maximum for optimal executed races. If evidence suggests the use of a more generous EI, I suppose that would be ok.
The key question is how these VDOT pace based power zones compare to critical power based running zones prescribed by Stryd.
Based on the comparison of the two zone tables, it seems that the choice of EI makes a key difference in interpretation. For example, for EI of 0.90, the VDOT marathon power of 225W would be considered to be threshold power under Stryd's model. For an EI of 0.95, the VDOT marathon power of 213W falls within the "moderate" power zone. But at the upper end, the VDOT repetition power of 261W comes conservative, whereas Stryd's power is a bit more aggressive at 10 extra watts.
1) Equivalent running paces from VDOT tables, critical power and Efficiency Index (EI) appear to be key parameters affecting the conversion of VDOT paces to power. In the particular example, using Tony's equivalent 10K pace and an EI estimate that corresponded to Tony's race data, the VDOT based powers bridge upto Stryd's power zones with minor differences. One might also make the assumption that training at two power values that are within 3-5% of each other elicits similar physiological responses.
2) A unique advantage of VDOT is that it accomodates pace derates for high temperature and altitude. Powermeter based running guidance has it's advantages, but it still has some catching up to do in terms of interpreting application for real world conditions - wind, temperature, humidity and altitude. The practicality of new, cookie cutter running programs based on power must be evaluated critically, particularly by runners living in hot, arid climates where the danger of heat stroke is real.
3) Because training zones are outputs from an algorithm that takes user input, they are estimations at best and it is a given that adjustments will need to be made to tally up RPE and overall whole body feeling to the prescribed guidance. Crucially, it is important that the zones are judged well before jumping straight into applying them in training. No one wants to waste time finding out they can't sustain a prescription.
4) As far as my experience goes, both the VDOT system and the power based training systems are equally time consuming, although the fruit of added insight for advanced training is a plus. Both systems require frequent data diving, critical evaluation and adjustments. More so, the zones have to be re-evaluated at regular intervals to see how training and racing have modified them, for the better (or for worse!).
5) The interesting and larger implication of my writeup is that a traditional VDOT based system might be nearly equivalent to the power based running prescription, "if used correctly", which means a) it doesn't create a strong case for conversion from one system to the other and b) means that fundamentally both are sound in that they are calibrated to metabolic test data.
6) Additional research is needed to give empirical guidance on how truly different is training by VDOT vs powermeter for different classes of athletes. For example, in cycling research, it has already been established that there is "no empirical evidence" to suggest the superiority of either power based training or HR based training in the implementation of interval training. Both were roughly equivalent in terms of responses seen in recreational cyclists after a multi-week training cycle. | 2019-04-24T00:31:07Z | https://www.georgeron.com/2017/07/harmonizing-vdot-pace-with-power-based.html |
A visit to Bern, a picturesque medieval town nestled at the foothills of the Alps is so energizing, unique and the perfect town for me to visit on my first trip to Switzerland. I spent a few days in the city, wandering its cobblestone streets, trapezing up and down the hillsides, and crisscrossing over all its bridges. This post is a compilation of all my adventures, highlighting the best recommendations for what I’d do again if I only had 24 hours!
You must must must MUST wake up and watch the sunrise over the mountains. I stayed at the Hotel Allegro just across the Kornhausbrücke bridge and paid extra for a room facing the city and it was worth EVERY PENNY. Watching the sky transform as the mountains and the city of Bern change colors from navy to lavender to peach is magical! I watched the sun rise and sun set every day from my balcony while I was there. Lauding from Houston where our city is flat and few buildings date before the mid-1900s, I fell in love with the picturesque Bern skyline of medieval row houses, bell towers and church spires winding their way through the morning light.
Next, we hopped over to the Bern Rose Garden to continue to see the morning evolve and get some fabulous views of the city built on a peninsula. Formerly a cemetery for the lower Bern population, the Rose Garden is now a public park overlooking the city. We wanted to visit the park in the early morning because in the photo guide recommendations from the city of Bern (click here to see them all!) the sunlight highlights the city best in the morning.
We were able to easily walk the few blocks to the Rose Garden from Hotel Allegro, although there are a few bus lines that pass by the block as well. Bern is incredibly walkable with the majority of the city centered around a peninsula that’s barely 1 mile wide and .5 mile long. With our stay at Hotel Allegro we also had passes for access to public transportation which we used a few times throughout the trip.
Although in mid-February the Rose Garden boasted more frost than roses, the city views made up for any lack of flowers! We grabbed breakfast at the Rose Garden Restaurant and sat in the interior terrace to enjoy our food and the continued scenery. We each got the “small breakfast” which consisted of croissant, brioche bread, and classic crusty Swiss wheat bread (it always seems to be crusty) with jam, butter, coffee, tea and orange juice and then split a cheese plate (Swiss cheese holla!!) with some antipasto items like olives, sun dried tomatoes and arugula. All in all a very typical European breakfast with the usual elevated Swiss price tag. The meal cost about $30 for two people. Views were totally worth it and my boyfriend and I both agreed that this meal was the highlight of our trip and even debated returning a second time.
It’s rumored that Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa, residents of Bern from 1902 to 1909, loved to visit the Rose Garden. And Bern leans pretty hard into the fact that Einstein once lived there. Not only can you visit his former apartment Einsteinhaus, but you can also go on a hunt to find all the Einstein benches the city (we found one at the Rose Garden!) as well as visit a coffee shop named in his honor–Einstein au Jardin.
We then made our way down the mountain to see the Bern Bear Pit. Spoiler they were hibernating in February but normally there are three bears roaming around a 6000 square meter enclosure. Bears are the symbol of the city of Bern, which according to legend dates back to 1224 hunting a bear as his first animal. You’ll see bear images incorporated into everything from statues, stone carvings, fountains (there’s some weird ones!) business logos, the bus system and more. Had we had more time in the city we would have grabbed a beer at Altes Tramsdepot, across from the bear pit and known for its Canadian influence.
The cobblestone city center of Bern has three major streets and is packed with shops and restaurants. The covered arcades are the largest in the world (6km!) and date back to the Middle Ages. Shopping didn’t interest us, as we preferred to save our dollars for food and wine. But it was so cool to see the underground cellars that were built into all the buildings. We even visited a few!
Whenever searching for good restaurants, I do some research online to see what’s good (and where to find vegan options) and then couple that research with looking to see where the locals go since they’re probably not the ones filling out the reviews in English on Trip Advisor. I’ve more or less mastered the planning a trip in 2 hours or less process and always find good places to go (click here for that blog post and my travel tips!). My boyfriend and I shared a Google Maps list with eating and tourist destinations flagged in the area.
For lunch, we grabbed quick sandwiches at Adriano’s Bar & Cafe one day and Tidbits the next. Tidbits is a vegetarian and vegan buffet, where they weigh your food before you pay (think like a Whole Foods salad bar) and they—wait for it—offer you free tap water!! Seriously, after a week of indulging on heavy bread and cheese the fresh ingredients in the mushroom and green bean salads, artichoke gnocchi, spicy harissa and seaweed glass noodles were SO refreshing. Tidbits was actually so amazing, we planned our return train trip from Grindelwald to have enough time in the Bern train station to go there again.
One thing we found was that even the simplest food in Switzerland tends to ring up at the high end of the spectrum. It’s not super unreasonable, but adds up over time. When I went the USD and Swiss Franc (CHF) had more or less the same value, but a simple cup of black coffee could easily be 5 CHF and a sandwich 14 CHF. Although we didn’t go, these cafes Ringgenberg and Café des Pyrénées were always packed with people enjoying an afternoon wine or coffee on the patio in the sun.
After lunch, we wandered across the Kirchenfeldbrüecke bridge to see the museums. Bern has a few like Kunsthalle (art) and Bern History Museum which could be of interest, but we were more interested in feeling out the vibe of the town and seeing more of the city. So we hopped on a random bus and rode it to its end destination and then took it back into town. It was an excellent way to get out of the cold (albeit the weather was SUPER mild when we went—no snow or anything) and rest our feet. I did a similar thing in Luxembourg which was quite fun as well.
As Bern is a relatively small city, the remainder of the afternoon was spent exploring other books and crannies of the city and checking off other photo destination recommendations from the city of Bern like the Zeitglockenturm clock tower which used to be the entrance of the city in 1191 – 1256, the Kornhauskeller which used to be a corn cellar that’s now refurbished into a fancy restaurant.
One thing that was not on the list, but I absolutely adored was a visit to the Bern Botanical Gardens. We stumbled upon this after crossing the Lorrainebrücke bridge and taking the staircase down towards the river. I loved the green houses with contained plants from tropical to desert like ambient. Again another great way to get out of the cold, see something fun, and not spend money!
If I spent more time in Bern, I would definitely bring my running shoes and take a lap around the river. A few trails trace around either side the Aare river and plenty of runners were seen getting their mileage in.
Plan your day accordingly so that you’re either watching the sunset from a high point, like the terrace of Hotel Allegro (open to the public), the Rose Garden, or a bridge because again the sunlight fading highlights the Alps and the city towers in the most magical ways! Please enjoy these pictures of us being cheesy and romantic on the Kornhausbrücke bridge.
For dinner, there’s only one option in Switzerland—FONDUE. Just kidding there’s way more than that, but if you didn’t try the queso fondue in Switzerland can you really say you lived? Be sure to make a reservation because most places are filled up between 7pm and 8pm. Our first night, we went to Gormanderie Moléson’s and enjoyed non traditional Swiss fair— fish in curry sauce and vegetable medley, accompanied by beer and crusty bread.
The second night we had to get our fondue fix and after some research we landed on one that we had passed by several times and just fell in love. I don’t know the name but it was near Klotzlikeller. Nearly every Swiss restaurant has fondue on the menu and after trying it, I think it’d be pretty hard to mess up. basically, it’s Swiss version of queso —traditionally they use Gruyère cheese and Emmentaler or another cheese that varies by region. It’s melted in a pot over a flame accompanied by bread, boiled potatoes and pickled accouterments like onions, pickles, and apples. It’s hearty and delicious and you can add-on things like meat which you can cook table side as well. Pro tip: order a salad beforehand because lawd knows your gonna need some green in your life to balance out the pot of molten cheese you’re soon to consume. Also some champagne to wash it down! We got a bottle for $50 at dinner. And across the board alcohol was the only thing that’s cheap / reasonably priced in Switzerland. Take advantage of this!
After dinner, grab a post dinner drink and dessert at Lieblings. We stumbled upon this place on our first night, fell in love and had to return the second night (I also left my Saint Bernard’s hat there—but still). Leiblings opens at 5pm serves coffee and alcohol. On the weekends they have live music and board games to play. We nibbled on chocolate and apple cake, sipped on coffees, and played German Scrabble (the letters are all different!) and Connect Four. Pro tip: make sure you have some cash because small places like this do not take credit card. Also when you go to coffee shops, treat them like you would a bar in America, where you open a tab and don’t pay until the end.
The night life in Bern is actually quite bumping. Wandering the streets we were able to identify a few places that looked fun. We continued our evening at by getting a beer nearby at Bistro Blue Cat (fitting for me). We considered going to Les Amis next door (open to 3am on weekends with a club and special cocktail menu) or grabbing another drink at Kreissaal. Throughout our trip, we enjoyed sampling whatever beer the bars had on tap—usually a local variety from the region. Again, Swiss Francs came in handy as none of these places took card.
I checked many things off my Bern bucket list and would hands down go again to this medieval town to see the city during the other seasons—actual winter weather with snow covered buildings and/or the Rose Garden filled with roses!
Did I miss anything?? Comment below with recommendations or questions you have about the trip!
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Except for an inconvenient accident of geography, the all-weather harbor of San Diego would have been a bustling hub of commerce in 1849-1861 linking the South- west to the booming gold fields of northern California. San Diego lay only 170 miles almost due west of Fort Yuma, located at the only practicable crossing of the Colorado River within 200 miles. During the US-Mexican War and the Gold Rush that soon followed, San Diego’s harbor should have been crowded with the flood of troops, gold-rushers, emigrants, and military supplies passing through Yuma, to connect with steamships from the East bound for San Francisco and the gold fields.
During this time, however, San Diego’s residents slumbered on beside an empty bay because of that one inconvenient geographic fact—about 80 miles to the east there was a then-impenetrable mountain barrier to wagon travel. That barrier made it much easier for horse or wagon travelers from the east to go to Los Angeles and its fair-weather San Pedro harbor than to San Diego.1 San Pedro, moreover, was 120 miles closer to San Francisco and the gold fields.
Today, Interstate 8 penetrates the barrier over the Mountain Springs Grade in the Jacumba Pass. The federal government built Interstate 8 grade in the 1970s at a cost of about one million dollars per mile. Its goal was to connect all major cities with high-speed freeways. But in the mid-1800s, there were no federal or state charters to build roads. If San Diego wanted a road, it had to build one out of its own resources.
The first stagecoach roads over the barrier were built past Mountain Springs in 1865-70. The residents of San Diego planned, financed by public subscription, and built the roads, as they were the only people vitally interested in San Diego’s commerce with the east. The first automobile road over the barrier was built in 1912-13, entirely financed by residents of San Diego. This is the story of the building of those roads, and the circumstances that led the people of San Diego to rise to the challenge presented to them.
The mountains to the east of San Diego rise from the Pacific shoreline in gentle stages through well-watered valleys to the summit of the Main Peninsular Mountain Range. At its eastern approach to the desert, the escarpment is reached, “a steep and rocky declivity,2 the jumping off place.”3 There, the terrain plummets precipitously from the rim of the escarpment to the desert down the slope of near solid rock mountains covered with enormous boulders and often choked with thick brush and cactus. For wagons, this barrier was impenetrable with the resources and technology of the 1849-61 period, so the tide of commerce swept to the northeast of San Diego.
The earliest trails circumvented the barrier between Yuma and San Diego by following northwesterly trending valleys that led in relatively easy stages to the Los Angeles area. The best known of these natural routes, later to be known as the Southern Emigrant Trail, was pioneered by the small horseback army of General Stephen W. Kearny in 1846 and further developed by the Mormon Battalion traveling behind Kearny in wagons in 1846-47. During the US-Mexican War of 1846-48, both of these small armies came from New Mexico to occupy California for the United States. The trail ran westward from Yuma, dipping into Mexico to go around the sand dunes, past the sites of the future towns of Calexico and Plaster City, into the “Carrizo Corridor,” past Vallecito, Warner’s Pass and Ranch, then on to Los Angeles. The famous Butterfield Overland Stage used the trail from 1858 to 1861. The route to San Diego was a side trip southwest from the Southern Emigrant Trail across the grain of the mountains. Kearny’s army went south from Warner’s Ranch to Santa Isabel, then to San Pasqual and Mule Hill, where battles with the Mexicans were fought, then on to San Diego.
The Mormon Battalion, with their wagons following behind Kearny as an army of occupation, continued past Warner’s to Temecula, then followed an existing wagon road to San Diego. Today, the most prominent side route across the mountains is the one now commonly referred to as the “Jackass Mail”4 trail, which left the Emigrant Trail near the mouth of Box Canyon to go over the barrier on mule-back on a narrow foot trail that led to Cuyamaca. Wagons then carried passengers and mail to San Diego.
These roads or trails, however, were at best 50 or more miles longer than the more direct route past Mountain Springs. The Mountain Springs route was unknown to all but local Indians until 1851.
The first documented traveler over the Mountain Springs grade with wheeled vehicles was Lieutenant E.B. Williston. The San Diego Tribune, citing an interview in 1916 with then-aged General Williston, reported that he “believes he was the first white man to break a trail to Yuma with wagons, if not the first under any conditions.”10 In or shortly after 1856, Williston was a lieutenant in the light artillery stationed in San Diego when he was ordered to take a battery of artillery, including six-horse teams and wagons, to Yuma. For reasons not stated in the article, he did not take one of the existing wagon roads over to the Emigrant Trail. Instead he followed a route through the South Bay, crossing the border into Mexico, back into the U.S. through Campo to “Jacumba Canyon, Coyote Well, Indian Well, and from there by the old trail to Yuma.” He states, “In covering that part of the trip between Jacumba and Mountain Springs we encountered the worst grades in our experience, and in addition to locking the wheels we cut down oak trees and dragged them behind the wagons.” Williston’s unit stayed in Yuma several months, then returned to San Diego. The article does not state by which route or with what equipment they returned. Inspection of the route makes it appear unlikely he returned up the grade with wagons.
San Diego did not have a newspaper from 1860, when the Herald stopped publication, to October 1868, when The San Diego Union began publication of a Weekly. The first wagon road past Mountain Springs was built during this period,11 and the circumstances and dates of construction are unknown.12 The first documented and dated proof of the actual existence of a road past Mountain Springs is found in a petition for a school district for Milquatay (Campo) dated January 26, 1867. The eastern boundary of the school district was defined as being at “Coyote Wells on the newly opened road from San Diego to Fort Yuma and known as the Jacumba Route.”13 So far as known, the circumstances of the building of this road are lost to history. However, its route over the mountain to Mountain Springs and along Devil’s Canyon is known, and the mountain portion can be traveled by high clearance, four-wheel drive vehicles today.
Above Mountain Springs, the road climbed over 800 feet in elevation in less than a mile, an average grade of 18.3 percent, with sections of over 30 percent grade.14 Below Mountain Springs, the road went along the bottom of Devil’s Canyon to the desert near current Ocotillo on Interstate 8. Settlers mostly from Texas used the new road in 1868-69 to settle the Milquatay Valley (later called Texas Camp, and now Campo). Using the new route, Milquatay was only about 50 miles from the Mormon Battalion Road at a point near today’s Plaster City, but 240 miles by the roundabout route along the Mormon Battalion Road to San Diego, then back east along the Mexican border to Campo.
After the Central Pacific Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, there was a boom in travel between Fort Yuma and the Eastern States via San Francisco. The Indian Wars in Arizona were in progress, and the military based in Fort Yuma created much traffic in passengers and supplies. Before 1868, this traffic traveled by steamboat via the Isthmus of Panama route. Ocean steamers brought them from Panama to the north end of the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), where they were transferred to river steamers for the 135-mile run up the Colorado River to Fort Yuma. After the transcontinental railroad opened in 1869, passengers and supplies from the East came by rail to the San Francisco Bay. From San Francisco, there were two possible routes to Fort Yuma: (1) by steamship around the tip of Baja California, then up the Sea of Cortez to the mouth of the Colorado River, then by river steamer to Fort Yuma; (2) by steamship to San Pedro, then stagecoach or wagon to Fort Yuma over an established wagon road. A third option, by steamship to San Diego, then over the Jacumba Pass road to Fort Yuma, would be a week faster than the all-steamer route and three days faster than the San Pedro route. But this option was not practicable because of the difficulties with the existing Jacumba Pass road.
There was a popular movement by the citizens and the business community of San Diego to improve the Jacumba Pass road and establish stagecoach and freight lines over the Pass to Yuma. The San Diego Union, which started publication in October 1868, became the enthusiastic booster and cheerleader of this effort. Two prominent local entrepreneurs made what appear to have been serious attempts to “stage the line.” The first known attempt was by “M.M. Price, Esq.”16 who, according to the newspaper, would by November 4 start to “run a line of stages between this place and Fort Yuma.”17 After much announcement and two more Union articles,18 Mr. Price’s plan to operate a stage line disappeared from the pages of the Union without explanation, never to be mentioned again. Approximately a month later, on November 21, 1868, the Union,19 stated that “Day begins to dawn, at last, upon our Fort Yuma road” because Seeley and Co. were purchasing stock and equipment “with which they intend to stage the line.”20 After this optimistic article, Seeley’s stage line to Yuma also disappears from the newspaper. The Union was apparently in the business of promoting a stage line, not dwelling on the difficulties of doing it.
J.C. Capron of Tucson, Arizona, received the contract to carry the mail between Los Angles and Tucson via San Diego sometime in late 1868.23 The San Diego Union reported on January 2, 1869: “J. C. Capron, Esq., of Tucson, the mail contractor for this route, is in the City.”24 The contract value to Capron was $84,000 per annum (about $1.5 million in 2015).25 On the San Diego to Yuma segment, mail was carried by buckboard. Sometimes it went via the Jacumba Pass, at other times by a route below the border with Mexico.26 Capron took up residence in San Diego to work on solving the manifest problems with the Jacumba Pass Road and establishing a heavy stage line.
From February through May 1869, there were ten articles in the Union about road construction, mail lines, and related matters. In April, the Union reported “our streets were filled with teams, recently arrived, for the purpose of conveying freight from this place to Fort Yuma.”29 On June 2, 1869, the Union carried an advertisement by Capron stating, “A Weekly Line of Four-Horse coaches will commence running between San Diego and Fort Yuma on and after Wed. next.”30 A week later, an article in the Union stated, “The good day has come at last. Fort Yuma, the hottest place in America, is connected with San Diego, the best climate on the continent.”31 Two months later, the newspaper announced, “The stages from here to Fort Yuma are running full.” According to the Union “Every old croaker in the county” had predicted that Capron’s line would fail, but it had paid from the start.32 Capron’s improved road down the mountain and through the canyon to the desert appeared to be a success.
Although the newspaper reports sounded cheerful about the Yuma stage line, something was plaguing the operation. Capron had left for the East in early November 1869, where he was married. When he returned to San Diego with his bride about January 19, 1870, he found his stagecoach operation in crisis.33 About two days after his return, there was an emergency meeting for the formation of a joint stock company to build a toll road. The Union reported “…our road to Fort Yuma…we must do something now, to meet the present emergency.”34 This meeting was attended by city leaders including Alonzo Horton, Judge Swift, and Supervisor G.W. McDonald. A committee of five was appointed “to mature a plan of action” to be presented at a future meeting, held three days later. A resolution “in favor of the county giving a franchise to a joint stock company to build the road” was adopted. Civil Engineer C.J. Fox, Capron, and a railroad engineer gave estimates ranging from $20,000 to $30,000 for the cost of building the road.
Road building plans continued over the next several months. A meeting of the “San Diego and Fort Yuma Turnpike Road Company” was held in March 1870. The Company organized with a capital stock of $50,000; share price was $25 each. The newspaper reported that Fox “was appointed to make a survey of the road and report at the next meeting as to grades, cost of work, etc.”35 Three weeks later, the engineer had completed his survey and gave his report.36 The Devil’s Canyon road would be completely rebuilt, including two new bypasses along the canyon walls, one 500-feet and one 700-feet long, with maximum grades to be 12 percent. The mountain road would be abandoned, and a new road would be built. The average grade would be 12 percent with a maximum of about 15-16 percent. Gpc estimated the cost as $3,000 for the Canyon and $3,000 to $4,000 for the mountain. Fox’s report was accepted, and a superintendent of roadwork was appointed. Company officers were elected, with Capron one of the directors. Within five days, work on the road began.
Both the old and the new roads are today intact, if somewhat eroded, and plainly visible on aerial and satellite photos. The old road over the mountain to Mountain Springs was abandoned. It ran southward from Mountain Springs to climb to the summit of the mountain with one switchback, gaining 900 feet of elevation in 0.8 miles. The new road went around rather than over the mountain. It ran northward from Mountain Springs, and rounded the shoulder of the mountain to head southwest along the wall of a canyon to intersect the old road beyond the old road summit, reducing elevation gain by 90 feet. The new road made the climb in about 1.7 miles, at an average grade of about 9 percent, nearly constant, with no steep switchbacks or pitches.
On April 13, 1871, the San Diego Union offered a fact-filled account of the first annual meeting of stockholders in the Turnpike Company.39 The first annual report summarized the past year’s effort. Road building had started about March 26, 1870.40 The road from the “Desert to Jacumba Valley” was completed September 5, after 5 months and 10 days work and a cost of $13,691.81. The estimated cost had been $6000 to $7000. The cost overrun was attributed to the “rocky character of the canyon, the great amount of blasting41 required, and (chiefly) the difficulty of disposing of the rock after it was broken.” A tollgate was erected mid-September at the foot of the mountain grade near Mountain Springs. Toll collections were about $180 per month.
Further newspaper references to the roads or stagecoach operations are infrequent and indicate only that Capron purchased new horses and equipment for the line, suggesting that the line was prospering.
On October 24, 1870, twenty-year-old George White Marston arrived in San Diego by steamer from San Francisco. That same day, he got a job as clerk at the Horton House hotel.42 One of his duties was to dust off the travelers who arrived by stage from Yuma, including Major General George Crook who traveled over the stage route in June 1871.43 There is little comment about the trip in Crook’s autobiography, save a note that the first 100 miles from San Diego was very mountainous, and that the desert heat was unbearable.
In 1874, Capron sold his stage line to Kerens and Mitchell whose intention was to extend their line of Concord coaches from El Paso to San Diego. The Union speculated that this would afford “a safe and speedy means of crossing the continent during the season when the Union Pacific is blockaded by snow.”44 Under Kerens and Mitchell, the stage line continued to prosper.45 The mail service was increased in the spring of 1877 from three times per week to daily delivery.46 Traffic over the line was especially heavy in the winter of 1876-77.
The last reference to the stage line is an advertisement in the Union on August 23, 1877: “Four-Horse Concord coaches leave Yuma daily immediately after arrival at Yuma of [railroad] cars.”49 Kerens is last mentioned on November 3 as “one of the proprietors of the Southern Overland Mail” who was stopping at the Horton House. There are no further articles about the Fort Yuma stage line after 1877 in The San Diego Union.
Little is known of use of the Jacumba Pass road through Mountain Springs after the railroad closed the stage line. Rather than driving his own rig over the desolate road to the Imperial Valley, or Yuma, a private traveler from San Diego almost certainly would have taken the stage to Los Angeles, then the train to Yuma. Any traffic must have been limited to locals, miners (if any), the occasional excursionist, or the adventurer. By the turn of the century, the old stagecoach road lay largely abandoned and neglected.
The development of the Imperial Valley and the advent of the automobile demanded that Jacumba Pass be used once again. Imperial Valley development began in 1901 when a system of canals brought water about 50 miles from the Colorado River into the Valley to create one of the richest farming areas in the United States. Almost overnight, what had been barren, unoccupied desert was developed into about 1,000 square miles of rich farms and several new towns. The center of the Imperial Valley is about 50 miles west Yuma and about 120 miles from San Diego via the Jacumba Pass.
When we reached the summit of Jacumba Pass, I paused and I gazed wistfully out over the surrounding country to the east, floating in the fascinating mirage, lay the great Imperial Valley, an empire in itself – “so near and yet so far,” our heritage: lost for want of transportation…An auto road to Imperial would be one of the best investments the people of San Diego could make….The auto is the coming vehicle. In fact, it is already here, and it’s come to stay: best we welcome it, and in the future build our roads with an eye to its requirements.
Given the growing economic importance of the Imperial Valley, public pressure mounted for a real “auto road” over the Pass. This would result in the building of a new road that abandoned both the mountain and the Devil’s Canyon routes.
Ed Fletcher, after whom Fletcher Hills and Fletcher Parkway and other San Diego places were named, was the guiding spirit behind the movement for the new road. He pulled the ropes, greased the skids, and raised the funds for a new road, on which construction began in late 1911 or early 1912, using Fletcher’s grading machines.
The first automobile route is known as the Boulder Canyon Route. The new road abandoned the mountain route of the old stage road 4 to 5 miles east of Jacumba, then ran eastward over In-Ko-Pa summit (where Interstate 8 currently runs) and along Boulder Creek canyon to Mountain Springs. The road did not run along the canyon bottom, but ran in a “notch” cut in the very rocky canyon walls well above flash flood waters. The road was still under construction but passable in April 1912 when the Union’s “pathfinder” car, a Chalmers 40, used it then passed through Devil’s Canyon to the desert.52 On April 25, an “Automobile Stage,” a seven-passenger six-cylinder Franklin, completed its first round trip from San Diego to El Centro and back. The return trip took 11 hours, 2 minutes, and the “trip was enjoyed by each of the six passengers.”53 Apparently these auto stage “buses” began running as soon as the new road was passable.
The next road to be built was the Myer Canyon Route. After completion of the Boulder Canyon segment, the road over the barrier was serviceable, but the Devil’s Canyon section left much to be desired. The road was rough, tortuous, and slow even in the best of condition. Most of the road was in the canyon bottom, subject to washout or rock slides with every heavy rain and requiring frequent closures and expensive repairs. The decision was made to abandon Devil’s Canyon for a new, all-weather road running along Myer Canyon (also called In-Ko-Pa canyon or gorge). Although the entire road was in Imperial County, it was built by San Diego County and largely, if not completely, funded by San Diego. Imperial County gave enthusiastic support, but their financial contribution was not significant. San Diego’s cost was $70,000.
On April 10, 1913, The San Diego Union reported, “Construction was begun November 3, 1912. Road completed yesterday.”54 This new road did not run along the bottom of the wash, as in Devil’s Canyon, but along the steep walls of the canyon at a relatively constant grade. The roadbed was “dirt,” appearing to be rather coarse decomposed granite. It followed every convexity and concavity in the canyon walls along which it passed. It therefore had almost continuous curves, some of very short radius. A large bridge had to be built across the mouth of Myer Canyon at its entry to the desert. The new road was 6.5 miles in length, with a maximum grade of 7 percent.
A gala opening ceremony was held at Mountain Springs on April 9, 1913. “San Diego and Imperial Valley Celebrating Opening of Highway Cut Along Rocky Canyon’s Sides,” reported the Union, and “Devil’s Canyon exists no more.”55 At the opening, there were 175 cars from San Diego, and 55 from various Valley cities. After the ceremony, the entourage went down to the desert on the new Myer Canyon road, then back to Mountain Springs on the old Devil’s Canyon road. This was done so that the achievement of the new road could be fully appreciated. The Devil’s Canyon route was then officially closed to traffic.
In 1926-27, both the mountain and canyon sections of the 1913 road were paved with concrete 20-feet wide. According to the newspaper, the road was “practically the same climb as it was before paving, except that the dangerous curves have been eliminated.”56 At about the same time, the wooden plank road over the infamous sand dunes west of Yuma was replaced by a paved road: “Dreaded Barrier Converted to Splendid Highway,” reported the Union.57 San Diego was now within six hours of the Colorado River.
In late 1938, the city began the “Mountain Springs grade realignment project.”59 The first construction unit of 255 miles from near the summit down to Mountain Springs was completed by January 1940.60 The new road eliminated all of older road’s sharp curves. It was 30-feet wide while the old road was 20 feet, and the minimum curve radius was 600 feet compared to 128 feet on the old.
The new road stayed lower in Myer Canyon in the upper two miles below Mountain Springs and separated from the old 1926 road by as much as a half mile. The cut-off section of the 1926 road has therefore survived, since it was not obliterated by the new construction. This road is accessible by high clearance vehicles today.
Interstate 8 was built from the 1960s to early 1970s. It has an average grade from Coyote Wells to the In-Ko-Pa summit of 4.2 percent with a maximum of about 7.5 percent just above Mountain Springs. Modern automobiles can maintain the legal 70 mph or higher both up and down grade without slowing. Older cars with marginal cooling or less efficient fuel systems can have problems because of the 11-mile sustained climb and high temperatures. Temperatures at the foot of the grade often top 110 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer, and still be 100 degrees at the summit. To assist drivers with overheating problems, there are 25 pull-outs with radiator water reservoirs on the up-grade side, placed about every half-mile.
Drivers of heavy big rigs manage their speed carefully on the downgrade. A runaway truck ramp is located 5 miles below the summit. The last 3.2 miles before the ramp averages over 6 percent grade. The ramp is located to stop runaway trucks before they enter the narrow and winding Myer Canyon. The truck driver’s challenge continues for about 5 miles in Myer Canyon, where the grade averages 5 percent, there are numerous curves, and sight lines in the twisty canyon are short.
In September 1976, much of the Myer Canyon downgrade washed away in the Hurricane Kathleen flood. Over 10 inches of rain fell in about 6 hours in the Mountain Springs basin and Myer Canyon. The flood that raced down Myer Creek also washed away the bridge over which the westbound lanes of Interstate 8 crossed Myer Creek wash. Interstate 8 was completely closed for 7 days, until a temporary road across Myer Creek wash was built and the former uphill only lanes were converted to two-way traffic. It took about a year to rebuild the downhill lanes and the washed out bridges and to restore full freeway operation.
At this time, almost all traces of the old Devil’s Canyon roads vanished. A popular jeep road ran along the bottom of the Canyon before the flood, but it disappeared and has not been rebuilt.
The summit of Jacumba Pass is one of the windiest places in Southern California. Superheated air rising up from the vast below-sea-level Colorado Desert to the east induces a strong flow of cooler air from the Pacific coastal area near San Diego. The wind whistles eastbound through the peaks of Jacumba Pass, down across the Mountain Springs basin, and down Devil’s and Myer Canyons. The interaction of vehicles and wind speeds produce strong side forces that buffet and can overturn tall vehicles. Several times each year, Interstate 8 is temporarily closed to “high profile” vehicles by the California Highway Patrol and includes most 18-wheelers and motor homes. Wind fences have been built at three locations where the wind problem is at its worst.
Over a period of almost one hundred years, the development of six versions of the road from the summit of Jacumba Pass down the mountain and through the canyons to the desert illustrates San Diego’s commitment to infrastructure and communications. The success of Interstate 8 has been made possible through a remarkable series of engineering innovations that continue until the present time.
Before its artificial harbor was developed after 1909 by dredging and building rock breakwaters, San Pedro harbor was completely exposed to winds from the south. In the mid-1800s, when southwestern storms blew, ships had to leave the harbor and ride out the storm in the open ocean.
San Diego Herald, June 2, 1851.
San Diego Union, October 17, 1868.
Officially the San Antonio and San Diego Mail Line The initial contractor was James E. Birch who carried the mail (and passengers, if any) over the barrier by pack mule over the “Jackass Trail” (exact route now lost) to Cuyamaca, then by wagon into San Diego. See also Ellen L. Sweet and Lynne Newell, Historic Stage Routes of San Diego Count,. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2011.
H.M.T. Powell is often said to have been the first traveler past Mountain Springs to leave a record of his journey (San Diego Tribune, October 6, 1934). Analysis of a detailed mileage log in his journal of his journey in late 1849 proves that he went along the Emigrant Trail to Carrizo, a watering place, where he spent the night near the stream. He then went four miles further west, and turned south to climb the barrier in the vicinity of Bow Willow Canyon, then past the vicinity of Live Oak Springs and into Mexico. He followed the border into the South Bay and on to San Diego. Curiously, his journal clearly states that he went by “Carrisa Creek,” so it is difficult to understand how the misconception that he went by Mountain Springs began. H.M.T. Powell, The Santa Fe Trail to California, 1849-1852, Wangenheim Collection, San Diego Public Library, Central.
San Diego Herald, June 12, 1851.
Richard F. Pourade, The History of San Diego: Vol. 4, The Glory Years (San Diego: San Diego Union-Tribune Publishing Company, 1964), 9. Pourade gives a very brief account of this period, without specific dates that appears to confuse the activities of several different individuals over a wide period of time. The “Smith-Groom route” of c. 1858 is sometimes erroneously shown on old maps as going past Mountain Springs. It actually went northward from the vicinity of Live Oak Springs over the barrier to Carrizo. In any case, it was only a planned “route,” never an actual road.
Ella McCain, Memories of the Early Settlements Dulzura, Potrero, and Campo (San Diego: n.p., 1955), 51.
Interstate 8 gains this same 820 feet in 3.3 miles, with an average grade of 4.6 percent and maximum grade of 7.7 percent.
J.L. Kelly, “Life On A San Diego County Ranch,” unpublished manuscript, c. 1925, SDHC Research Archives.
Pourade states that J.J. Tomlinson and Co. operated “stages” from San Diego over the grade to Yuma sometime after 1866. Tomlinson did operate from Los Angeles to Tucson, but he went via San Bernardino and the Desert. His contract was for mail, and it is not stated whether he operated stagecoaches or buckboards. The mail contract was modified in mid-1868 to specify that the mail had to go through San Diego. Tomlinson, who had lost $12,000 in four months operation, refused to come on the San Diego route, and discontinued his line. Pourade, The History of San Diego: Vol. 4, The Glory Years, 9; San Diego Union, October 24, 1868, 2, col. 2.
San Diego Union, October 10, 1868.
Ibid., October 24, 1868, October 17, 1868.
Alfred L. Seeley owned the Cosmopolitan Hotel in San Diego’s Old Town and was the operator of mail and stage lines around San Diego from 1869 through 1874.
A buckboard was a light wagon with a spring-mounted seat for two, and a small bed for light freight, normally pulled by two horses.
The first major mail contracts in this area were for the San Antonio and San Diego Mail of 1857-60, and the Butterfield Overland Mail of 1858-61, which ran from Saint Joseph, Missouri to San Francisco via El Paso, Yuma and Los Angeles.
San Diego Union, October 24, 1868.
Measuring Worth, https://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/ (accessed January 22, 2016); William E. Smythe, History of San Diego, 1542-1908: Volume I, Old Town (San Diego: The San Diego History Company, 1908), 254. Smythe says that Capron went to Washington “and secured the contract,” actually a subcontract. He adds that Capron started operating the line in 1867 (actual date mid- to late 1868 (buckboard mail only).
San Diego Union, May 26, 1869.
Ibid., April 21, 1869. Freighting apparently didn’t have the glamour of stage coaching. There are no freighting entries in the Union index, but occasionally freighting is mentioned in the stage indices. The last article indexed was in the Union, February 19, 1876, for a fast freight to any part of Arizona operated by F. Piazza.
San Diego Union, June 2, 1869.
Bertram B. Moore, “History of Road Development in San Diego County,” in Carl H. Heilbron, ed., History of San Diego County, Part II (San Diego: The San Diego Press Club, 1936), 381. Moore states that the turnpike road, which went into service in late 1870, was built in or shortly after 1900. This clearly an error as proven by several contemporary documents, including a detailed survey map of 1895 showing the road exactly where it is today. Survey Number 99, Field Book 19, Third Road District, 1895, by R.M. Vail, Co. Surveyor.
This is the first known mention of blasting associated with road building in this area.
Pourade, The History of San Diego: Vol. 4, The Glory Years, 77.
H.B. Warfield, Fort Yuma on the Colorado River (El Cajon: n.p., 1968).
San Diego Union, April 28, 1874.
At this time, the Union Pacific had not yet solved the problem of deep snow in the Sierra Nevada, which stopped their trains, by building many miles of snow sheds.
San Diego Union, April 13, 1877.
Warfield, Fort Yuma on the Colorado River.
Contracts for stages from “end of track” to some destination were common. The last contract for stages between the two ends of track on the transcontinental railway was for an initial 110 miles, awarded in April 1869. San Diego Union, April 14, 1869.
The advertisement reads: “New Today. Southern Pacific Mail Line from San Diego Cal to Mesilla, New Mexico. Four Horse Concord Coaches leave Yuma daily immediately after arrival [railroad] of cars …” for points east. San Diego Union, August 23, 1877.
Ed Fletcher, Memoirs of Ed Fletcher (San Diego: Pioneer Printers, 1952).
San Diego Union, April 24, 1912.
Ibid. For unknown reasons, the date of this celebration is almost universally dated incorrectly as “April 1912.” This oft repeated error might have started as a typographical error in the August 14, 1938, issue of the Union. It showed a photograph of the 1913 ceremony and gave the date as April 1912 in the caption. A photo on the wall of the Desert View Tower museum in April 2000 repeats the error.
San Diego Union, June 12, 1927.
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Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish-Jewish educator, children's author, and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary Doktor ("Old Doctor"). After spending many years working as director of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused sanctuary repeatedly and stayed with his orphans when the entire population of the institution was sent by the Nazis from the Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp, during the Grossaktion Warsaw of 1942.
Korczak was born in Warsaw in 1878 or 1879 (sources vary[nb 1]) into the family of Józef Goldszmit, a respected lawyer from a family of proponents of the haskalah, and Cecylia née Gębicka, daughter of a prominent Kalisz family. Born to a Jewish family, he was an agnostic in later life who did not believe in forcing religion on children. His father fell ill around 1890 and was admitted to a mental hospital, where he died six years later on 25 April 1896. Spacious apartments were given up on Miodowa street, then Świętojerska. As his family's financial situation worsened, Henryk, while still attending the gymnasium (the current 8th Lycée in Warsaw [pl]), began to work as a tutor for other pupils. In 1896 he debuted on the literary scene with a satirical text on raising children, Węzeł gordyjski (The Gordian Knot).
In 1898, he used Janusz Korczak as a pen name in the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Literary Contest. The name originated from the book Janasz Korczak and the Pretty Swordsweeperlady (O Janaszu Korczaku i pięknej Miecznikównie) by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski. In the 1890s he studied in the Flying University. During the years 1898–1904 Korczak studied medicine at the University of Warsaw and also wrote for several Polish language newspapers. After graduation, he became a pediatrician. In 1905−1912 Korczak worked at Bersohns and Baumans Children's Hospital in Warsaw. During the Russo-Japanese War, in 1905–06 he served as a military doctor. Meanwhile, his book Child of the Drawing Room (Dziecko salonu) gained him some literary recognition.
In 1907–08, Korczak went to study in Berlin. While working for the Orphans' Society in 1909, he met Stefania Wilczyńska, his future closest associate. In 1911–1912, he became a director of Dom Sierot in Warsaw, an orphanage of his own design for Jewish children. He hired Wilczyńska as his assistant. There he formed a kind-of-a-republic for children with its own small parliament, court, and a newspaper. He reduced his other duties as a doctor. Some of his descriptions of the summer camp for Jewish children in this period and subsequently, were later published in his Fragmenty Utworów and have been translated into English.
During World War I, in 1914 Korczak became a military doctor with the rank of lieutenant. He served again as a military doctor in the Polish Army with the rank of major during the Polish-Soviet War, but after a brief stint in Łódź was assigned to Warsaw. After the wars, he continued his practice in Warsaw.
In 1926, Korczak arranged for the children of the Dom Sierot (Orphan House) to begin their own newspaper, the Mały Przegląd (Little Review), as a weekly attachment to the daily Polish-Jewish newspaper Nasz Przegląd (Our Review). In these years, his secretary was the noted Polish novelist Igor Newerly.
During the 1930s, he had his own radio program where he promoted and popularized the rights of children. In 1933, he was awarded the Silver Cross of the Polonia Restituta. Between 1934–36, Korczak traveled every year to Mandate Palestine and visited its kibbutzim, which led to some anti-semitic commentaries in the Polish press. Additionally, it spurred his estrangement with the non-Jewish orphanage he had also been working for. Still, he refused to move to Palestine even when Wilczyńska went to live there in 1938. She returned to Poland in May 1939, unable to fit in, and resumed her role as headmistress.
In 1939, when World War II erupted, Korczak volunteered for duty in the Polish Army, but was refused due to his age. He witnessed the Wehrmacht takeover of Warsaw. When the Germans created the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, his orphanage was forced to move from its building, Dom Sierot at Krochmalna 92, to the Ghetto (first to Chłodna 33 and later to Sienna 16 / Śliska 9). Korczak moved in with them. In July, Janusz Korczak decided that the children in the orphanage should put on Rabindranath Tagore's play, The Post Office.
On 5 or 6 August 1942, German soldiers came to collect the 192 orphans (there is some debate about the actual number: it may have been 196) and about one dozen staff members to transport them to the Treblinka extermination camp. Korczak had been offered sanctuary on the "Aryan side" by the Polish underground organization Żegota, but turned it down repeatedly, saying that he could not abandon his children. On 5 August, he again refused offers of sanctuary, insisting that he would go with the children.
Dr. Janusz Korczak's children's home is empty now. A few days ago we all stood at the window and watched the Germans surround the houses. Rows of children, holding each other by their little hands, began to walk out of the doorway. There were tiny tots of two or three years among them, while the oldest ones were perhaps thirteen. Each child carried the little bundle in his hand.
There is a cenotaph for him at the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw, with a monumental sculpture of Korczak leading his children to the trains. Created originally by Mieczysław Smorczewski in 1982, the monument was recast in bronze in 2002. The original was re-erected at the boarding school for children with special needs in Borzęciczki, which is named after Janusz Korczak.
Korczak's best known writing is his fiction and pedagogy, and his most popular works have been widely translated. His main pedagogical texts have been translated into English, but of his fiction, as of 2012[update], only two of his novels have been translated into English: King Matt the First and Kaytek the Wizard.
As the date of Korczak's death was not officially established, his date of death for legal purposes was established in 1954 by a Polish court as 9 May 1946, a standard ruling for people whose death date was not documented but in all likelihood occurred during World War II. The copyright to all works by Korczak was subsequently acquired by The Polish Book Institute (Instytut Książki), a cultural institution and publishing house affiliated with the Polish government. In 2012 the Institute's rights were challenged by the Modern Poland Foundation, whose goal was to establish by court trial that Korczak died in 1942, so that Korczak's works would be available in the public domain as of 1 January 2013. The Foundation won the case in 2015 and subsequently started to digitise Korczak's works and release them as public domain e-books.
Korczak's overall literary oeuvre covers the period 1896 to 8 August 1942. It comprises works for both children and adults, and includes literary pieces, social journalism, articles and pedagogical essays, together with some scrappy unpublished work, totalling over twenty books, over 1,400 texts published in around 100 publications, and around 300 texts in manuscript or typescript form. A complete edition of his works is planned for 2012.
Korczak often employed the form of a fairy tale in order to prepare his young readers for the dilemmas and difficulties of real adult life, and the need to make responsible decisions.
He tries to read and answer all his mail by himself and finds that the volume is too much and he needs to rely on secretaries; he is exasperated with his ministers and has them arrested, but soon realises that he does not know enough to govern by himself, and is forced to release the ministers and institute constitutional monarchy; when a war breaks out he does not accept being shut up in his palace, but slips away and joins up, pretending to be a peasant boy - and narrowly avoids becoming a POW; he takes the offer of a friendly journalist to publish for him a "royal paper" -and finds much later that he gets carefully edited news and that the journalist is covering up the gross corruption of the young king's best friend; he tries to organise the children of all the world to hold processions and demand their rights – and ends up antagonising other kings; he falls in love with a black African princess and outrages racist opinion (by modern standards, however, Korczak's depiction of blacks is itself not completely free of stereotypes which were current at the time of writing); finally, he is overthrown by the invasion of three foreign armies and exiled to a desert island, where he must come to terms with reality – and finally does.
In 2012, another book by Korczak was translated into English. Kajtuś the Wizard (Kajtuś czarodziej) (1933) anticipated Harry Potter in depicting a schoolboy who gains magic powers, and it was very popular during the 1930s, both in Polish and in translation to several other languages. Kajtuś has, however, a far more difficult path than Harry Potter: he has no Hogwarts-type School of Magic where he could be taught by expert mages, but must learn to use and control his powers all by himself - and most importantly, to learn his limitations.
Korczak's "The Persistent Boy" was a biography of the French scientist Louis Pasteur, adapted for children - as stated in the preface - from a 685-page French biography which Korczak read. The book clearly aims to portray Pasteur as role model for the child reader. A considerable part of the book is devoted to Pasteur's childhood and boyhood, and his relations with parents, teachers and schoolmates. It is emphasised that Pasteur, destined for world-wide fame, started from inauspicious beginnings - born to poor working class parents in an obscure French provincial town and attending a far from high-quality school. There, he was far from a star pupil, his marks often falling below average. As repeatedly emphasised by Korczak, Pasteuer's achievements, both in childhood and in later academic and scientific career, were mainly due to persistence (as hinted in the title). A relentless and eventually successful effort to overcome his limitations and early failures.
In his pedagogical works, Korczak shares much of his experience of dealing with difficult children. Korczak's ideas were further developed by many other pedagogues such as Simon Soloveychik and Erich Dauzenroth.
In what extraordinary circumstances would one dare to push, hit or tug an adult? And yet it is considered so routine and harmless to give a child a tap or stinging smack or to grab him by the arm. The feeling of powerlessness creates respect for power. Not only adults but anyone who is older and stronger can cruelly demonstrate their displeasure, back up their words with force, demand obedience and abuse the child without being punished. We set an example that fosters contempt for the weak. This is bad parenting and sets a bad precedent.
In addition to theater, opera, TV, and film adaptations of his works, such as King Matt the First and Kaytek the Wizard, there have been a number of works about Korczak, inspired by him, or featuring him as a character.
Moshe en Reizele (Mosje and Reizele) by Karlijn Stoffels (2004) – Mosje is sent to live in Korczak's orphanage, where he falls in love with Reizele. Set in the period 1939-1942. Original Dutch, German translation available. No English version as of 2009[update].
Kindling by Alberto Valis (Felici Editori, 2011), Italian thriller novel. The life of Korczak through the voice of a Warsaw ghetto's orphan. As of 2019[update], no English translation.
The Time Tunnel - Kingdom of the Children by Galila Ron-Feder-Amit (2007) is an Israeli children's book in the Time Tunnel series that takes place in Korczak's orphanage.
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard (2015) is a fictional work that features Dr. Korczak and his orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto as main characters in the book.
Korczak by Nick Stimson and Chris Williams (2011) presented by Youth Music Theatre UK at the Rose Theatre, Kingston in August 2011.
Uprising (2001) directed by Jon Avnet, written by Avnet and Paul Brickman. Palle Granditsky portrayed Korczak.
The Zookeeper's Wife (2017), directed by Niki Caro. Arnošt Goldflam played Korczak.
King Mattias I - opera, music by Viggo Edén, from writings by Korczak, given World Premiere at Höör's Summer Opera (Sweden) on 9 August 2012.
Asteroid 2163 Korczak is named in his honor.
^ Korczak himself was unsure of his birth date, which he attributed to his father's failure to promptly acquire a birth certificate for him.
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The FAXIES Awards salute the year’s most outstanding communications initiatives and programs in the highly competitive and dynamic cable arena. The coveted awards set the industry benchmark for excellence across all areas of Marketing and PR.
Your hard work is done — now it’s time for you and your team to get recognized for it! Cablefax will salute the winners of The FAXIES Awards in June 2015 in New York City.
We look forward to seeing your entry and saluting cable’s best marketing & PR efforts of the year.
The FAXIES Awards are open to all individuals and teams worldwide including: cable operators and programmers, PR firms, public affairs and IR agencies, publicity firms, cable associations, vendors, non-profits, government agencies, NGO teams and sole practitioners. Vendors are also eligible to compete on behalf of a client.
To be eligible, the entry/campaign initiative must have taken place (either in part or in full) between March 2014 – March 2015. Some of the work must have occurred during this time, but it’s not necessary for it to be completed during the eligibility period.
Acquisition and Upgrade Marketing – Recognizing multimedia/digital campaigns, direct mail or TV promos designed to acquire new customers or upsell existing customers to better packages.
Advertising Campaign for a Single Program – Recognizing the most effective creative in getting out the word for a single show or television series.
Advertising Campaign for a Network – Recognizing the most effective creative for publicizing a network brand.
Affiliate and Partnership Marketing – Recognizing innovative partnerships in which distributors, programmers or vendors work together to increase sales or strengthen customer relationships through digital or multimedia marketing, use of premiums, video or experiential marketing and events.
Brand Image and Positioning Campaign – Recognizing campaigns designed specifically to extend a company’s brand and position in the marketplace, whether digital and multimedia marketing, experiential campaigns, events, TV promos or other branding efforts.
Corporate Social Responsibility / Green Campaign – A broad range of campaigns fit into this category: anything from persuading a community to accept a new recycling system to promoting a holiday drive that benefits those members of the community who are in need.
Community Relations – Honoring the most effective community relations campaign; a campaign that uses creativity, multimedia, stunts, and other methods to illustrate how your company is a concerned corporate citizen.
Direct Response Marketing – We’ll highlight campaigns that garnered impressive results through creative tactics. Eligible platforms include telemarketing, print, radio, television and broadband.
Integrated Marketing Campaign – How effectively the entrant has leveraged the power and reach of its media holdings, including print, television, broadband and mobile platforms. We’ll consider the customization and depth of an effort and ROI.
Marketing Campaign – Campaigns in this category combine public relations and communications with traditional marketing tactics to create a successful marketing campaign.
Marketing of a New Series or Show – We’ll honor the most creative efforts to make the public and industry aware of a new cable series.
Marketing of a Continuing Series – Successful marketers know that continuing cable series need fresh creative to continue to keep the public’s appetite whetted for your network’s series. We’ll salute the most creative efforts with this award.
Marketing of a Special or Documentary/Documentary Series – A special, documentary and documentary series bring a special pressure to marketers, who generally won’t have a second chance to market a short-running series or single special or documentary.
Media Event – Media events are those, from press conferences to press tours, which are built around in-person interaction between your company and journalists. Entries should exhibit creativity in planning and implementing the event, drawing the media to it and engaging press during the event.
Media Relations Campaign – We will recognize a campaign whose primary objective was to sway the media. These campaigns may include individual components eligible in other categories (like Media Event), but are representative of a complete campaign using a variety of tactics to reach the press.
Multicultural Marketing – This category is wide open. We’ll honor the best multicultural marketing of an event, cable series, special or documentary, network brand, operator offering, technology vendor product or community relations campaign.
Non-Profit Partnerships – Recognizing campaigns centered on non-profit partnerships and causes, including efforts across digital media, TV promo, experiential market or events.
Press Kit – We’re looking for the most creative mailed or shipped press kits.
Programming Stunt – Nearly every programmer produces several stunts yearly, marathons, special programming blocks, etc. We’ll honor those whose marketing is as creative as the programming stunt itself.
PR Stunt – Brides running down a city street in their bridal gowns, thousands of pizzas being sent to the press, fashion policewomen on a city street writing “tickets” for wardrobe offenses, fountains in major cities spouting blood instead of water. These are just a few of the PR stunts mounted to spread the word about cable programs or PPV events.
Public Affairs Campaign – This category encompasses a wide range of campaigns influencing or educating the public about social, economic, governmental and other issues.
Shoestring Marketing – Recognizing marketing campaigns, events and initiatives that get big results despite operating on a shoestring budget.
Social Media During a Program – Recognizing efforts to integrate social media into TV shows in real-time, allowing viewers to interact with each other and/or talent during the airing of a program.
Social Media Marketing – Recognizing marketing efforts that hinge on a comprehensive social media strategy that drives engagement and yields measurable results.
Sweepstakes and Games Marketing – Recognizing innovative use of games, contests, sweepstakes and related tactics to market cable shows, services and products to audiences.
Technology Vendor Marketing – Recognizing marketing tactics that promote a technology product or service to consumers or to a specific business sector.
Trade Show Marketing/PR – Entries can be part of submissions in other categories, including Media Event.
Tchotchke – It’s an inexpensive giveaway, true, but everyone wants it, and it can create buzz. Pound for pound, tchotchkes might be your most effective marketing. We’ll salute the most creative, fun and outrageous.
Marketer of the Year, VP Level and Above – Recognizes an executive’s marketing-related achievements in 2013, including campaigns spearheaded by this person, leadership qualities, innovative thinking, sound judgment, flexibility, creativity and financial management (where applicable).
PR Executive of the Year, VP Level and Above – Recognizes an executive’s PR-related achievements in 2013, including campaigns spearheaded by this person, leadership qualities, innovative thinking, sound judgment, flexibility, creativity and financial management (where applicable).
Supporting materials for all categories should show evidence of the success of your work. It can be any of the following:Sales Figures, Brand Media Coverage, Clippings, Photos, CDs, Research Documents and Testimonials.
What to Send? Send three (3) copies of your entry form, three (3) copies of your synopsis, three (3) sets of supporting materials and the entry fee.
Cablefax will not return any entries or supporting materials.
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Entries postmarked between March 21 and April 2, 2015, please add a $230 late fee per entry. Finalists will be honored in spring 2015 in New York City.
Entries are judged by the staff of Cablefax Daily and Cablefax: The Magazine. We evaluate your entry based on creativity, innovation, sound planning implementation and results. Our most important criterion is proven success in aligning your strategic objectives with your end goals..
Any communications team or individual — corporate, agency, association, governmental agency or nonprofit — of any size is eligible to enter The FAXIES Awards program.
Emphasize the goals of your campaign, as well as your campaign’s achievements in your introduction. Provide as many concrete and specific examples of success as possible, and explain clearly and succinctly your research, planning, implementation and measurement of the campaign.
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In North of Hope, Shannon Huffman Polson shared her journey in grieving for her father and stepmother’s death. One day, she was with her brother and his wife at an open air market and she received the dreaded phone call that nobody ever wants to hear. There has been a terrible tragedy that forever changed her life. Her stepmother and her father lived in Alaska. They were travelling and exploring the wilderness when a bear came upon their campsite and the bear brutally killed them. Shannon Huffman Polson found their notebooks and journals which in details described their actual whereabouts and which route they took. A year later, she gather up her adopted brother, Ned and his work colleague, Sally and they travelled the exact route. She discovered that the bear that killed her father and stepmother was a barren-ground grizzly and they are very aggressive creatures. The book described in full descriptions what Shannon experienced and saw along the way. The book also covered the relationship and memories of her father and stepmother.
She revealed her disappointments and her feelings of always trying to please her father. All she wanted was her father to be proud of her and she struggled with living for herself. For example, she shared that she went to Airborne School and when she came home for a visit. Her stepmother removed all of the pictures of the children and had a random friend’s child photo on the kitchen counter. Her dad reassured her that he remembered each of his children being born and he has the memories. I can definably understand how that would make anybody feel unwanted or unloved. I would have most likely reacted the same precise way. That pointed out to me that children see everything that you do and they look to their parents for their value and worth.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is undergoing grief and they are looking for encourage from someone who has been there. Shannon Huffman Polson story will inspire you to enjoy every moment with the ones you love deeply. Her journey in Alaska wasn’t an easy ride, at times it was extremely painful. I loved how Shannon Huffman Polson was very real and transparent about the grief she experienced along the journey. She elucidated that she hated getting asked, “Are you over it yet?”and “Have you moved on?” These questions are the type of questions people shouldn’t ask when you lose a loved one. How are you supposed to answer that? Does that bring you any comfort? You don’t ever get over people you care about and love. The memories you shared together still lives inside you. If you’re looking for a book from an author that has suffered tremendous lost and is willingly to help others through the pain, then read this one!
"I received this book for free from Handlebar Marketing/ Zondervan for this review".
When the opportunity came up to join the official launch team for The Christian Parenting Handbook. I gladly applied and I was accepted. I have been reading a review copy of the book and it’s has taught me a lot of new concepts of parenting. The book will guide parents into being a better parent. The Christian Parenting Handbook is a new exciting resources for parents to use to connect and make a lasting impression on the hearts of their children. This is an excellent life changing book for any people who would like to have children, expecting parents, and people who are already parents. There are 50 principles presented in this book.
Consistency is Overrated, Build Internal Motivation, Consequences Aren’t the Only Answer, Envision a Positive Future, Teamwork….Individual at Their Best, It Takes Two to Argue, but Only One to Stop, Discipline Kid Separately for Siblings Conflict, To Spank or Not to Spank, The Value of Grandparents, and much more.
Please check back for a review later this week.
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In Bound Together, Chris Brauns explored the concept of how everyone is connected together and we’re bound together. What one of us does, affects everyone else. We’re not lone rangers and we’re created for community. Adam was commanded by God to be fruitful and multiply and to have dominion over all creatures. They could have any fruit they wanted expect from one tree. Satan tempted Eve into eating from the forbidden tree of knowledge of good and evil and she talked Adam into it. Everything changed! Chris Brauns used the principle of the rope to elucidate that Adam’s sin in the Garden of Eden has profoundly impacted all generations. Since then, sin has consumed every generation and we’re all guilty of sinning. Because we’re all a part of Adam’s descendants. He used the term “solidary” to describe the principle of the rope. Solidary, denotes “a union of interests, purposes, or sympathies among members of a group. It speaks to the ties that bind a group together” Page 26). The book also goes on to say that Christ has died for our sins and when we received salvation we become a portion of His body. Christ is the ultimate head of the Church and the body. His death allows us a chance at repentance and forgiveness from our numerous sins.
Chris Brauns shared the example that if he leaves his wife and children it will negatively hurt everyone not just himself. We can’t assume that our choices that we make only effect ourselves. Chris Brauns also stated that divorce is like an amputation and it should only be done when it’s the last choice. Divorce brings deep emotional pain to everyone involved. He also discussed the significance of marriage and how God compared marriage to our union with Christ. Marriage bonds and ties us emotional, physically, and spiritually to another forever. Scriptures remind us that wives are supposed to submit to their husbands. And the man is the head of the wife like Christ is the head of the church. This doesn’t mean that if the husband is abusing the wife then you should submit. The scriptures also tell husbands to love their wife like Christ loves us. Basically this means we’re both called to love each other when we made the vow before the Lord to care for another person until the everlasting.
I would recommend this splendid book to anyone who has ever wondered why we have to pay for Adam’s and Eve’s sin and to people who feel believe their choices doesn’t harm anyone but themselves. This book goes into vast detail on the how each person’s life affects another whether we realize it or not. I loved the story of Rehab that Chris Brauns clarified. Rehab was a prostitute in Jericho and she hide the spies of Israel in her home. She asked the spies if God could spare her and her family from the destruction of Jericho. God answered her and they were the only family freed from the annihilation of Jericho. The grace of God forgave her for her sinful past and she became a huge follower of Jesus Christ. I cherished how Chris Brauns used this point to remind readers that the grace of God can cover them and He can forgive you for your sins. Even if your family has a history of generational sins, it can be broken completely with Christ’s assistance. I immeasurably loved the chapter devoted entirely to marriage and it helped me to see the importance of marriage in God’s eyes. Even though I haven’t met my wife yet, it gave me a much needed reminder on what my roles of a husband are intended to be. The book was an enormous reminder that our actions and behaviors doesn’t just impact us, they influence the next generations for good or for bad! It’s up to us to make a wise decision on which one we will ultimately choose. If you’re looking for a book that you reveal to the truth about why people suffer and how our choices affects others, then this book is for you!
Stress Test is a fiction novel that contains loads of suspense for the reader to enjoy. This is the first book that I have read by Richard L. Mabry. I can truly declare that he knows how to write an intricate plot that will engage readers into the very last page. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves to read medical, mystery, suspense, romance, and adventure filled novels. I deeply connected to Matt’s, who is a likeable doctor and he is exceedingly determined to save the patients’ lives. He has a dilemma and is being framed for a murder that he didn’t commit. I extremely don’t like when the innocent are being set up and injustice is taking place. Sandra is a lawyer that is struggling to find love and she prays to God one day to guide her in finding her husband if he even exists. God heard her prayer and throughout the book you will see if God does indeed have a husband for her. She also represents Matt and she tries to prove that he truly is innocent of the murders.
I immensely loved the Faith aspect of the novel, Matt wasn’t trusting God and didn’t really understand God’s love for him. But when circumstances began occurring and he has no one else but God to turn to. He starts praying again for the first time in years to be set free from the murder charge. Sandra on the other hand was a professing believer and has trouble dating doctors because of her last bad relationship with a doctor. Both of these characters have a lot they must overcome and deal with. The novel gave me encouragement that I should continue seeking God in finding my wife and the book displays that God can turn anything around. The book also had massive amount of twists and turns that I didn’t see coming. If you’re looking for a new exciting fiction novel to read, then this one will definably influence that God is in ultimate control and he can turn everything bad to good. The novel left me with a sense that God is directing our paths if we don’t see how everything is going to work out. | 2019-04-22T04:51:45Z | http://runningtowardschrist.blogspot.com/2013/04/ |
Welcome To Facebook Sign Up Login. Learn the best ways to visit and log out from your mobile browser, your desktop version and with the Facebook messenger app.
Facebook is the worlds largest social networking site, developed in 2004. Although it started as a site for Harvard trainees, its membership base expanded to consist of trainees at other universities then the public. Since 2006, it has functioned as a global social media for anyone over the age of 13.
The site enables its users to include other users as 'Buddies', post status updates, send messages to other users, upload and share photos and, more just recently, live stream video content. At present, Facebook boasts more than 2 billion month-to-month active users, making it the largest and most popular social networking site worldwide.
How Do I Develop a Facebook Account?
The information you utilize will be connected to your account, so if you enter your email address, that is the approach Facebook will utilize to call you. Your name is utilized on your account, permitting loved ones members to find you quickly. Your date of birth is required for age verification functions.
In many parts of the world, you need to be at least 13 years old to register for a Facebook account, although the age constraints on the site do vary, based upon regional laws. Once you have actually completed this kind, click 'Produce Account'. You will then have to validate your email address or mobile number to finish the process.
How Do I Visit to My Facebook Account From a Desktop?
Facebook Desktop and Laptop Computer Login.
Once you have actually created an account, you can use it to login on various devices, including desktops and mobiles. In order to login on a desktop or laptop computer system, go to the Facebook homepage and simply enter the e-mail address or phone number you utilized to register in the 'Em ail or Phone' field, followed by your password. Then click 'Log In'.
How do I visit to Facebook from a Cellphone?
The Facebook mobile login process is exceptionally similar, with users going to the main mobile website and entering their login qualifications. However, mobile and tablet users also have the alternative of using the Facebook App, which can be downloaded from Google Play or the Apple Shop. Simply open the app and enter your login credentials.
Facebook does have a mobile optimized login page that can be discovered here. Utilize this if the main check in page or homepage is not rendering properly on your hand held device.
Always take good care that you are on the appropriate login page prior to trying to login. Fake Facebook phishing pages do exist. Proper login urls include: https://en-gb.facebook.com/login/, https://www.facebook.com/login, https://m.facebook.com/login and https://touch.facebook.com/login.
For security and personal privacy functions, it is frequently advisable to log out of your Facebook account between usages and the process for this is likewise very simple. On the main desktop site, you can log out of your account by opening the 'Quick Assistance' menu in the leading right, symbolised by a downward dealing with arrow. Then click 'Log Out'.
The procedure for signing out of your account on the mobile App is a little different. To do this, click on the three horizontal lines along the taskbar at the top. Then scroll through the options on the menu that appears. Click the 'Log Out' choice, which must be at the really bottom of the list.
Click on 'Where You're Visited'.
Find the device you wish to log out from and click End Activity.
How can I read my Facebook messages on my mobile phone without needing to set up Facebook messenger?
Facebook recently has begun 'forcing' mobile phone users to install the Facebook Messenger App in order to check out messages. For numerous, this raises personal privacy red flags, and a a great deal of people want to continue to be able to read their messages on thier cellular phone without having to install the intrusive app.
This is how you can do simply that:.
Bookmark https://www.facebook.com/home.php in your mobile phone browser. This page is the desktop view of your Facebook messages. Open this page on your mobile phone whenever you want read your messages without the Facebook messenger app. You may have to zoom in to click on the messages tab.
Typical Facebook Login Issues and The Best Ways To Resolve Them.
From time to time, users inevitably experience Facebook login issues and there are a number of possible reasons for this. The very first thing to do is make certain you are going into the correct email address or mobile number. After that, ensure you are entering the proper password, taking notice of the website's case level of sensitivity.
With mobile login, if you are using your contact number to check in, make certain that you have consisted of the complete number, consisting of any country codes. You should, nevertheless, neglect any '+' signs or other unique characters.
If you attempt to login through a device you have actually never used before, you may be fulfilled with a Facebook security check, which will ask you to determine some of your buddies through their photos. If you are unable to do so, simply close the website and try again later on. This is created to secure your account from hackers and other misconduct.
On uncommon celebrations, the Facebook site may experience server problems, which can make both Facebook desktop and Facebook mobile login challenging or difficult. Usually any problems of this nature are resoled very quickly. If you are still not able to login, it is possible your account has been deleted for infractions of the terms of service.
In the contemporary world, web users typically have various different accounts and passwords on many different websites, so it can be simple to forget your login credentials, especially if you do not utilize the service regularly, or have taken a prolonged break from it. Luckily, an account healing procedure remains in location.
The most basic action is to reset your password, which can be done by clicking on 'Forgot Your Account?' on the main homepage. After entering either your mobile number or email address, you will have the ability to have a brand-new password sent to you safely through either SMS or e-mail.
If you have forgotten your e-mail address, but likewise have a mobile number connected to your account, you can merely enter your mobile number instead. Also, after you have a Facebook account, you can designate a username to the account. This will then give you the choice of getting in either an e-mail address, mobile number or username.
Another service linked to Facebook is Facebook Messenger, which allows those with Facebook accounts to send private messages to one another through an internal messenger service. In order to utilize this service on mobile, however, a separate App needs to be downloaded to your device.
The Facebook Messenger App is offered on any device running the Android or iOS operating systems. You can download it from either the Google Play Store or the Apple Store by going onto the pertinent shop and browsing for the phrase 'Facebook Messenger'. The App is available totally free of charge.
How Can I Contact Facebook Consumer Service?
If you have other concerns or concerns, you may have to get in touch with the Facebook client service team. The very best way to do this is through the 'Assist Centre' within your Facebook account. From there, you will see a number of alternatives, such as 'Using Facebook', and 'Privacy and Safety'. Click on the option most closely connected to your problem.
From there, you will have access to a step by step guide of exactly what to do and the best ways to make contact with Facebook's appropriate customer support department. If you still do not find appropriate aid, you can look for the official 'Facebook' page in the search bar and send them a message, or reply to one of their posts.
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BOSTON, Mass., June 30, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via PRWEB - Beaumont Vance, author of Enterprise Risk Management for Dummies and editor of Risk Management Reports, has launched a new blog. Vance's blog will focus on strategic level risk management for the board and C-suite level of decision-making.
I used to work for a company that boasted that 50% of employees worked remotely. The driving force was that the company, Sun Microsystems, was headquartered in Silicon Valley. Because housing was so expensive, many employees had to live far away in distant suburbs and face commutes of four hours PER DAY.
It made perfect sense to then allow employees to work from a home office. Not only could employees save money by living in lower cost areas, but the company could get rid of expensive real estate. Everyone wins.
The situation with high cost housing is now pretty much standard in the largest cities. Boston, San Francisco, Vancouver, and many others have housing costs 5 to 10 times higher than small cities. Living in Boston, I watch real estate shows where people buy houses for 1/20th of what they would cost in my town and drool. Apparently in Waco I could get a house for about half of what a down payment in Boston would cost. Holy cow!
So if the cost of living is so much cheaper across the US, why don't companies just hire people in smaller towns at half the cost and allow them to work remotely? If we can outsource call centers and coding jobs to India, then surely we could outsource finance, audit and operations to Boise or Buffalo.
But we are not. Sure, some companies have opened offices in low cost centers. Fidelity Investments has shifted some departments to Dallas, Albuquerque and Charlotte. But it still has a large workforce in Boston. Why isn't everyone shifting to the remote work paradigm.
One of a few things must be true. Either working remotely does not actually work, or companies are incapable of making this change in spite of wanting to. Of course, it is possible that they could, and sort of want to, but still cling to the belief that people have to work face to face.
If it were possible to have much of the workforce work from a distance, someone would be doing it and undercutting the market. The marketplace has a tendency to reward low cost providers. In a service economy, the #1 cost is people, so this would be the primary method of cutting costs.
That this is not happen would indicate that having workers spread out, working from home simply is not a workable solution.
Or possibly the opportunity for someone to start doing this and destroy their competition is just hanging out there.
Have you ever noticed how truly competent, intelligent people are often quiet about their ideas, while total buffoons are happy to go around shouting about their own goofy concepts? Yeah, we all have see thins play out.
This particular phenomenon is due to a cognitive bias first illustrated by Dunning and Kruger in 2009, and therefore referred to as the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
In 1995, McArthur Wheeler walked into two Pittsburgh banks and robbed them in broad daylight, with no visible attempt at disguise. He was arrested later that night, less than an hour after videotapes of him taken .from surveil- lance cameras were broadcast on the 11 o'clock news. When police later showed him the surveillance tapes, Mr. Wheeler stared in incredulity. “But I wore the juice,” he mumbled. Apparently, Mr. Wheeler was under the im- pression that rubbing one's face with lemon juice rendered it invisible to videotape cameras (Fuocco, 1996).
Apparently Wheeler had hear that Lemon Juice was used for invisible ink and thought it would therefore work to make his face invisible.
A couple of other cognitive biases partner together to make this worse. Attributions bias causes people to attribute bad outcomes to bad luck and good outcomes to skill. So if your business venture fails, it was because you were merely unlucky, had bad timing, etc. But if you win the lottery, it was because you had a superior system borne of a keene intellect.
The lake Woebegone Effect is named after Garrison Keillor's fictional town where "all the children are above average." If you ask a group of 100 people to rate themselves on a skill such as driving, 8-% of them will rate themselves above average. By definition no more than 50% can be above average, so 30% of these people are deluding themselves about their skill.
So in a group of people working together, the chances are good that there will be someone incompetent who believes that they are well above average, that they always make good decisions, and they will not have the self awareness or metacognition to be able to identify their own shortcomings. And here is the kicker: they will be far more confident about there own ideas and probably more vocal.
Why? because they feel smarter than everyone else and completely lack the ability to see the flaws in their own ideas!
I don't pretend to have a cure for this. But I have often wondered at why the truly talented people in an organization are often the quietest and most riddled with doubt. This explains it.
What it does suggest is that for those of us in senior management, we really must find ways to hear what the quiet people think. Allowing vociferous, confident people to dominate the conversations has a good chance of producing truly flawed plans. Confidence, it seems is not an indication of competence, but rather often, evidence of the opposite.
The media has been covering a remarkable story. Apparently 15 young North Sea Sperm Wales washed ashore in Germany. The news outlets have reported that they starved because their stomachs were full of plastic, including car parts.
It states:" Four of the whales had plastic and a few other marine debris in their stomach, but most had empty stomachs, they were starved. To conclude that all whales died from plastic pollution in the ocean is not accurate in our opinion."
So the reports jumped from four out of 15 whales having plastic in their stomachs, to all 15 dying from stomachs full of plastic. Clearly that is a far more sensationalistic story.
Of course what followed were the demands that drastic action be taken to clear our oceans of all of this plastic that is filling sea creature near to bursting. And thus a risk, and a mitigation are created from whole cloth in order to save an agenda.
IF this happened only in the media, it would be one thing, but clearly this happens on a smaller scale within organizations as well. As the old saying goes, In God we trust. With all others, verify.
Always check the facts before assuming a risk is as presented.
Rarely has "Süddeutsche Zeitung" been in such great demand in newsrooms. The exclusive story on the "Panama Papers" highlights the power as well as the impotence of journalistic work, DW's Marko Langer writes.
Terabyte. Tera-byte. May I be honest with you? I'm afraid I've never "read" a Terabyte. Many books, yes. Newspapers, too, lots of them. I'm also on the internet pretty much all day. But a … Terabyte?
2.6 Terabyte worth of data were leaked to "Süddeutsche Zeitung," one of Germany's leading newspapers, prior to its publication of the "Panama Papers." And it turned it into an impeccable story.
I have that on the best possible authority because I've read the paper. And now all those gentlemen - Poroshenko, Putin, Mossack, or Messi, have a, well, image problem. Quite a Scoop.
It's not for nothing that Stefan Plöchinger, the paper's editor-in-chief in charge of digital projects, took delight in the fact that none other than American whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked the story on Twitter prior to the deadline. Plöchinger tweeted "fun fact: Snowden has 'leaked' our leak - 12 minutes before the deadline."
That's journalism in the digital age. Today, on day one after the "Panama Papers" were released to the public, we must make two basic assumptions.
-Georg Mascolo, a star journalist who left Germany's "Der Spiegel" news magazine over a disagreement, will once again be proud of the research network composed of Süddeutsche and the WDR and NDR public broadcasters - he has been acting as its co-ordinator and spokesman for two years. "Der Spiegel", in turn, is having massive problems and trailing behind - just like many other major news publication outlets.
-Rarely does the whole dilemma of journalistic work become more obvious than on a day like this. According to the dictionary, a 'dilemma' is defined as a 'predicament you find yourself in that forces you to choose between two equally difficult or undesirable options.' Today, the dilemma nine out of 10 news outlets face is: "Do we copy it, or do we give it a miss?"
The answer is: everyone will copy it. That story is just too important. However, today virtually no journalist gets the opportunity to conduct their own in depth research into this complex and complicated issue. There is a shortage of time, money, contacts, resources. And - tomorrow there'll be another bandwagon to jump on anyway.
Therefore, I'm now going to disclose a very sad secret of our trade. That's the state of affairs, mostly. Everyone's copying from everybody else, and that's not always helpful when one strives to establish the truth.
Here are some heretical questions: Has anyone been to Syria recently? Or in Pyongyang? Or just made a personal appearance at Guido Westerwelle's funeral service in Cologne's St. Aposteln church? I don't see that many fingers raised.
So what's to be done? Every reporter who goes out there and sees things for him or herself is good, because he or she knows it is not about the reporter. And every medium which maintains an investigative unit driven by reporters is a good one from a journalistic point of view.
That is how, in the age of globally networked data streams, you can acquire the decisive advantage which enables you to get hold of such a story in the first place, thereby leaving your competitors to reel from disappointment. So how does it work? Ask Frederik Obermaier, one of the authors of Süddeutsche's "Panama Papers" story. He tweeted "what a year of research, still all hard to grasp."
Perhaps that is what German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier had in mind when, speaking at the LeadAwards ceremony - which honors exceptional works published in the German media - in November 2015, he demanded more diversity from us journalists.
It's not a good sign at all if a top politician issues a reminder like that. For the majority of newsrooms the message is clear: Do your homework! Become more effective. The New York Times has just gone public with its account of how they covered the first couple of hours after the Brussels bombings.
So, we conclude that the focus must be on substance. Reduce the waffling! Süddeutsche Zeitung - here's one final applause and cheer, dedicated to my colleagues in Munich - shows how it can be done. Excellent work! To everyone else I say, quoting satirist Kurt Tucholsky: "A bad journalist is not even a philosopher."
eI was reading The Rise And Fall of American Growth by Robert Gordon Which discusses the factors driving growth and lack thereof from 1870 to 2014.
In the discussion on air travel, he pointed out that flying has not gotten cheaper in the past 20 years and that it has become far more miserable. Speaking to risk management, he pointed out that the 9/11 attacks were not caused by improper screening or failing to take off a belt or shoes. Furthermore, he puts the lost productivity cost of the TSA check-ins at $8 billion. Add in the actual costs of employing the people and machines and one gets to some pretty big numbers.
So, safety is not improved, the risk is not mitigated, AND it costs us billions and makes life miserable.
You really can understand why some would dislike risk managers.
On Wednesday morning, the full moon will enter the shadow of Earth and darken ever so slightly in a penumbral eclipse. But potentially more interesting, especially for those on the East Coast, will be a very bright Jupiter, which will accompany the moon on Tuesday night.
For this eclipse, the central and western United States will be better positioned to catch the slightly — with an emphasis on slightly — darkened moon. Other parts of the world to see it include Australia, Asia and the Pacific, said noted eclipse expert Fred Espenak. Knowing about the eclipse on Wednesday morning may be more useful than seeing it — for practical purposes, the shading is so minuscule that it will be nearly indistinct from a regular full moon.
In lieu of the eclipse for those on the East Coast, steep some herbal tea and venture out on Tuesday night to behold the pleasantly plump waxing moon and its planetary companion Jupiter above it in the eastern sky.
Jupiter will be very bright at -2.5 magnitude, and the moon will be extremely bright at -12.4 magnitude. Jupiter reached opposition on March 8 — which means that the planet puts on a vibrant show all night long. Those lunar-planetary travel buddies cross the sky together, like a Bob Hope-Bing Crosby road picture, into the morning’s western heavens. | 2019-04-23T04:17:05Z | https://www.beaumontvance.com/blog/category/all |
Current status: NSC Planning Officers used their delegated authority to refuse the application on 23 August 2016. Taylor Wimpey subsequently submitted an appeal, which was heard between 31 October – 2 November 2017. The appeal was dismissed on 2 January 2018.
TW re-submitted an application in July 2017 (see below). This is still active.
Developers can submit a duplicate application and NSC has to consider each application on its own merits and cannot choose between them. This is not uncommon and often when there is a delay in determining the original proposal (or it is refused, as in this case), the applicant can take one to appeal if necessary. The duplicate application can be (by definition) almost identical with minimal differences – e.g. to conditions like affordable housing, which may have been subject to discussions with NSC.
All comments and objections will need to be re-submitted to the duplication application, here.
You can download the TW display boards here [large 5 MB PDF file].
Taylor Wimpey is currently preparing an Outline planning application for up to 70 dwellings at land off Stowey Road, Yatton for submission towards the end of June 2015. The purpose of this email is to give you advanced warning that we will be arranging to consult formally on the proposals over the coming weeks. Taylor Wimpey takes very seriously it’s obligations to local communities relating to public consultation. As part of our consultation process which will proceed formal application to the District Council, we will be holding a public exhibition (provisionally planned for Friday 5th June) at the Village Hall. We will send notification letters to all properties within the vicinity of the proposed development shortly and provide you with details of our stakeholder session which will take place on the same day to which the Parish Council will be invited. It goes without saying that development proposals of this nature can be a cause of great concern to local communities and we always aim to make the public consultation process as useful and informative to all participants as possible understanding that often very strong views can be held. We are also very aware that this is not the first residential proposal to emerge in the village during recent months. We believe that our proposal – being smaller in scale compared to others (we propose no more than 70 dwellings) – could make a valuable contribution to local housing needs and provide additional community benefits, including additional recreational land for the village.
Section 10 of this report into the 2012 North Somerset Floods details the flooding and sewerage problems in Claverham and Yatton.
The site is so constrained there is no means of introducing the sustainable drainage methods (SuDS) that are generally required for new developments.
The development plans are sketchy at best, with little or no drafted evidence of design considerations for the site’s drainage. This would seem to be echoed by comments made by The Environment Agency, Internal Drainage Board, and Wessex Water.
This is regardless of the presence of tidal defences further upstream.
I strongly object to any developement of this area due to infrastructure. The proposed residence of this developement will be trying to access Bristol via Claverham Road which is already a dangerous and very narrow road, where cars have to mount pavements to pass buses which use this route. People and children going to school have to use very narrow pavements and in some places no pavement to reach school/shops/doctors and more traffic will add to the potential for serious accidents. Along with the proposal for 100’s more houses in Yatton this it totally unstainable.
I strongly oppose this development and agree with J. Miller.
Not only Claverham Road narrow and dangerous the entrance from Stowey Road into Claverham Road is also restricted. At the moment many motorists use Stowey Road as a rat run to avoid congestion in the village. The sudden rise in application’s for Yatton is seriously worrying. The village is under severer pressure from every side. Not only are the services inadequate for the proposed increase in population it will also change the character of the village. When will it stop. It is about time that the villagers began to organise some peaceful protests to let their feeling be known.
The proposed site at Stowey Park is totally inappropriate for housing. The infrastructure in Yatton generally does not cope with traffic movements, but at the junction of Stowey Road/ Claverham Road the layout makes the manoeuvre into/out of Stowey Road extremely dangerous. Claverham Road suffers heavy traffic and has limited or no pavement at certain points. Buses and large vehicles leave motorists with no option other than to mount pavements where they exist thus endangering pedestrians.
Development of adjacent land would surely be detrimental to this wildlife site.
My objection to any proposed development in yatton.
Yatton hasn’t got the infrastructure to cope with Moor homes, parking, more congestion on the main road – which is a danger to the people walking on the pavement .
Medical centre is unable to cope now – what will be when more people are here?
We don’t need it, we don’t want it. Yatton green space is to valuable to loose, it’s a quiet sanctuary for all and if Moor homes go ahead Yatton village as we know it will disappear!
The entrance to this green field site is totally in the wrong place, the camber and bend on Stowey Road at this point, and an increase of 100+ cars (70 houses 2,3,4 bedrooms) will be an accident waiting to happen, also the extra wear on a roads Stowey Park / Road already requiring repairs. Plus all the noise pollution in a quiet elderly residential area. The wild life, day and night will be destroyed. Building on any green field site can increase the risk of flooding, a concrete jungle does not absorb water. The noise from a construction site with large lories coming and going all hours of the day (early morning late at night) plus site vehicles etc. etc. will be unbearable in this quiet area. There will also be light pollution with street lights and house lights and noise when houses are built. Our views across open land towards Clevedon will also be blocked.
All this so that greedy developers and land owners can make their Millions. Ruining Peoples lives.
USE BROWN FIELD SITES NOT GREEN FIELDS, WHEN THEY ARE GONE THEY ARE GONE, KEEP THEM FOR OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS AS OUR FORE FATHERS KEPT GREEN FIELDS FOR US.
I would like to make it known that all the people I have spoken to in Stowey Park, have NOT received the letter which has been circulating, regarding the development behind Stowey Park by Taylor Wimpy. What are they trying to hide ? Why has the people it will affect the most with this development NOT been informed. The noise from building will be unbearable. If this is the way they treat neighbours what hope do we have for the future ?. I forgot Taylor Wimpy don’t live in this area so why should they care about the disturbances, they only think about profits.
Please ask them about that at the consultation today.
I asked about this as we live on Stowey Road opposite Hangstones and also didn’t get a letter. They simply said it was an error, tried blaming Royal Mail – but I said about Stowey Park residents too and she couldn’t explain and apologised. Not going to admit to anything else I guess.
I know several people asked the same question from Stowey Park. with the same response, We told them there was NO excuse just bad organisation and a very bad reflection on the company. NO NO NO to this development the plans show 2/ 2.5 storey houses close to and overlooking the backs of our BUNGALOWS which is our bedrooms with no privacy. Also the houses are very close to our back fences, they are talking about raising the rhyne so they will not need the space for machinery to clear it. Another thing being proposed was to move the electric poles closer to our bungalows, so that they can build the houses. NO NO NO.
I think my major concern is the access to the proposed development. This is hardly realistic as the road already handles enough traffic, so adding another junction is crazy. The recreational space is hardly a seller too as we already have Hangstones next to it, so why would we want anything more ??? Also what happened to Stowey Park receiving consultation letters ????
We agree with all of the above comments and put these and other questions to the ‘Planning Consultant’ at the Village Hall Presentation last week. She did not answer any questions satisfactorily.
The fact that the residents of Stowey Park and those living in proximity to the Hangstones entrance did not receive notification of the proposals is appalling.
As a village we have all suffered from previous developments that have added nothing to the amenities. Surely, the developers must be made to realise that increasing the population puts more pressure on the already overstretched roads, schools, surgery etc. .
Should this proposal and others which are in the pipeline come to fruition life in the village will become impossible.
Ivor, Irene… we’ve taken the issue of publicity up with TW. We’re yet to receive a reply. The very narrow and patchy way developers door-drop residents… and the woefully inadequate adverts placed in local papers is something we want to take up with North Somerset Council.
Then there’s the virtual invisibility of the Council own notices in the streets.
Surveying now on this site 30/6/15 and 1/7/15 after chasing sheep. So they have taken no notice of residents comments?
Apparently this is an archaeological survey, could be the good guys ?
A very grave concern is that over 100 cars will if this goes ahead, either be travelling along Stowey Road which is already congested with cars parked and where children walk to school.The junction of where it joins Claverham Road doesn’t enable you to turn right when a car is coming from the Bristol direction as it is far too narrow, its an accident waiting to happen!! Claverham Road isn’t capable of taking more traffic, as it is the council require people to put their refuse on the pavement/kerbside which forces people to step into the road or hover on the edge of the pavement all highly dangerous add a further possible 800 houses in Yatton to the equation and the road will be lethal.
Hi Paul – we would definitely encourage those of you who live close to the proposed site to meet up and coordinate your objections. I will mention this in the next newsletter (Friday 11th).
There is a fair bit of ‘history’ behind the Stowey Road site – and many constraints. | 2019-04-26T11:42:04Z | https://nomoordevelopment.info/applications/taylor-wimpey/ |
Whether you want to push your limits or take in the sights, it's a must do ride!
After flying in from Seattle at an unspeakably early hour and rendezvousing with ADV Pulse Senior Editor Rob Dabney, we fled from LA like we were running from the law, lane splitting past Sunset Boulevard over the Grape Vine into the San Joaquin Valley, fighting high winds and triple digit temperatures the whole way. Just as I was beginning to wonder whose idea it was to ride all the way out to this event, we reached the Sierra foothills and my dissent evaporated.
Desert floor gave way to curvy climbs and long sweeping turns. The Honda Africa Twin and BMW R1200GS Rallye we were riding transitioned from racking up mind-numbing highway miles to scraping pegs with ease. The twenty-five-mile ascent from Prather up to Shaver Lake could be some of the best pavement I’ve ever experienced on two wheels. The closer we got to our final destination of Huntington Lake, it became more and more clear why this has been the home of the Adventure Rally Sierra Edition since its inception in 2013.
This event is designed to get people to experience riding in a new location with little or no preparation. The format is essentially a two-day scavenger hunt with a home base of China Peak Mountain Resort located in the heart of the Sierra. Imagine showing up to a region that you’ve never ridden before and being handed a map marked up by the most knowledgeable locals, with all the best routes and points of interest. Price of admission includes six meals; a loaded goody bag and more amazing riding than you could shake a stick at.
Pushing the big BMW R1200GS Rallye on a loose hill climb.
Each team of two to six people was given a map, score sheet, time card and guidebook just 30 minutes before being let loose in the Sierras Friday morning. The Rever app was employed to prove that groups had actually gone to where they claimed (along with Instagram posts) but navigation occurred primarily without GPS.
Once you reached a point of interest on the map, you marked it on your scorecard, took a picture with all the riders in your group (or all of the bikes) and then posted said picture to Instagram using pre-determined hash tags. The more places you visited the more points you got, with higher points awarded for harder-to-reach waypoints. Although it might seem complicated, it was actually quite an ingenious way to document and score the event.
The Adventure Rally is designed to get you out on the trail to see as many incredible vistas and unique destinations in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains as possible.
Friday was one of the most memorable days of riding I’ve ever had. It’s the only time I’ve ever been on an adventure ride that nearly degraded into a survival situation. Our group rode out of China peak at 8:30am brimming with excitement and didn’t return until 10:30pm that night: exhausted, dehydrated and cold as hell. Not due to lack of preparation but simply because we ended up on one of the gnarliest trails any of us had ever encountered on big bikes.
It was getting late in the afternoon and after completing several trails rated “black diamond” earlier in the day with no trouble, we figured this one would be no different. With a description in the book of “Masochists will love it” and what looked like only a short distance on the map, we couldn’t resist.
The first rocky descent had us all thinking “I hope we don’t have to ride back up that” and the trail just continued to get more brutal with one loose, rocky hill climb after another. Every now and then we’d get a few hundred yards of smooth riding that would tempt us into thinking we were done with the hard part, but this only lured us into more torturous terrain.
Eventually, we caught up with another team of riders from the rally that had made the same fateful decision. One of the riders was too exhausted to ride anymore and another had smoked the clutch on his KTM 950 Adventure. At this point we were all struggling to get our big bikes through the rough sections, so we joined forces and worked together as a team (leaving the 950 on the side of the trail) pushing on.
We were sure salvation was just around the next bend, but as the Sun began to set, we ran into a group of locals in heavily modified jeeps that gave us the bad news that we had more difficult riding ahead of us than behind us. Continuing on would guarantee us a night in the forest with no food, water or shelter, soaking wet with sweat in freezing temperatures. Reluctantly, we made the decision to turn tail and head back the way we came in.
To no one’s surprise, what was difficult in daylight was nearly impossible in darkness. Steam emanated from our helmets and sweat dripped off our chins while we repeatedly dropped and picked up 500-pound bikes at over 9,000 feet elevation. Having run out of water long ago, at one point we were literally taking turns face down in a creek sucking water through a Life Straw.
We hiked steep grades, rode at the upper-most limits of our skill (what we had left) and dug deep to find the will to keep pushing forward. This was the kind of exertion that reeks of desperation and we still had miles to go.
One of the riders in the group we had merged with was in bad shape and was struggling just to walk the trail. There was no cell reception in this remote part of the forest, but one of our team members had a Garmin InReach with two-way text messaging that allowed us to alert event organizers to our situation.
Working together to get all the bikes up the last gnarly hill climb, we finally got everyone out. Event coordinators were there to meet us at the trailhead with hot food and water and were in sheer amazement that we even attempted the trail on our big bikes. They told us the waypoint we were trying to reach was intended to be accessed from the south and that normally when riders try to reach it from the north, they immediately turn around after encountering the first rough section.
We discovered later that this particular trail was actually an infamous rock crawling gauntlet similar to the Rubicon Trail. While it’s just 16 miles long from start to finish, the Swamp Lake trail is usually done over a two-day span in well-equipped, high-clearance vehicles with expert operators. It it doable on 500-pound adventure motorcycles? Yes but not advisable, especially with a late afternoon start.
We tried almost every trick in the book to get this KTM 950’s clutch working again. Unfortunately, it had to be left on the side of the trail overnight to be retrieved the next day.
Luckily, there were no major injuries and our motorcycles were still able to get us back to camp under their own power. Soaked in sweat and shivering cold with an ambient air temperature of around 35 degrees, we finally headed back. I watched animal eyes flash and disappear in the dark abyss on the side of the road and all I could think about was what we would get to experience tomorrow. Sleep came easy after one of the most thrilling, humbling and adventurous days I’ve seen.
Saturday morning was greeted with aching bodies and sleepy eyes. No longer concerned with the competition aspect of the weekend, we opted to drink coffee while other attendees hurried out the door. Once adequately caffeinated and dosed with enough ibuprofen to function, we set about fixing our hobbled motorcycles.
The master at work! Owen Balduf of RawHyde Adventures offered to help repair the Rallye. He has performed countless valve cover repairs on GSs over the years.
Of the bikes in our group, the BMW R1200GS Rallye had a hairline crack in the valve cover along with a broken off shift lever. One of the Africa Twins had a right foot peg that was completely severed from the bike and the other had a cracked water pump housing as well as a skid plate that was dangling from its subframe. The RawHyde staff, managing the demo fleet for BMW, were kind enough to assist us with repairs on the GS while Team Red (Honda) helped us with the Africa Twins. In the interest of time, the guys at Honda let us to swap our press loaners for AT’s from their demo fleet, allowing us to continue without delay.
With a “good as new” GS and two fresh Africa Twins, the ADV Pulse team was back on the make but ready to take it a bit easier than the previous day. We ran into the REV’IT! Women’s Team on our way out and decided to join forces checking out part of the famous Dusy Ershim trail and several scenic points of interest.
We got a chance to ride with the REV’IT! Women’s Team on day two. It was great to see how passionate these ladies are about adventure riding.
Carving twisty asphalt deep into the Sierra Mountains, we eventually made it to Mono Hot Springs. We soaked our sore bones in the warm pools, lay in the Sun and marveled at the distant sequoias. Our ride Saturday was the polar opposite of the day before and a good example of how the Adventure Rally can be anything you want it to be.
That night points were tallied and an award ceremony was held after dinner, along with boisterously swapped war stories and battle scars from the weekend. My biggest takeaway was the community atmosphere that the event organizers were able to cultivate. It was a refreshing take on the standard adventure motorcycle rally format. I had more fun, logged more miles and connected with more people than at any other event this year.
I was more than a little impressed with the Africa Twin after testing it in extreme conditions. It felt much more nimble than its weight specs would suggest on the technical trails of the Sierras.
Returning to the smog, heat and clogged highways of Los Angeles after the long weekend in the Sierra made me appreciate this event even more. It’s hard to imagine a starker contrast than the one between the rugged beauty of that mountain wilderness and the urban sprawl of LA. Not only is the remote location of the Adventure Rally Sierra Edition its defining characteristic but also its best kept secret.
The Adventure Rally Series events are held annually in June and September with one in Colorado (Rockies Edition) and the other in California (Sierra Edition). If you haven’t been to one already, it’s an event you have got to experience for yourself.
great read, i’ll definitely mark it on my calendar for next year!
Very impressive guys! Well done!
It’s funny how the best rides we remember are the hardest ones. Looks like this one will be deeply embedded in your memory.
Very true! This one won’t be forgotten anytime soon.
thinking about trails like that a lot. Don’t you think the AT DCT model, even though heavier, will help a lot?
The other AT in our group had DCT and the rider said it performed very well in these circumstances.
Great article! Thank you for sharing the ride.
We have something in The Midwest called the Big Woods 200. Similar concept. This year there were 250 bikes, of which there were only 25 of us on big adventure bikes. I was thoroughly beat up after day 1.
It’s a great format for an event if you ask me, tons of fun! | 2019-04-19T14:38:50Z | https://www.advpulse.com/adv-rides/adventure-rally-sierra-edition-2017/ |
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My personal journey into jazz began when I started going out with a young jazz vibraphone player at Royal Holloway College. We bonded over a piece of classical music with tinges of jazz: Britten’s opera, Paul Bunyan. The college Opera Society were presenting it, but owing to its deeply philosophical nature, many students dropped out in a state of total bewilderment.
I ended up singing about a dozen different roles, while my husband-to-be played percussion. One of the numbers was The Quartet of the Defeated, a bluesy dirge about broken American dreams.
I realised many classical composers have been fascinated by jazz, so on Radio 3’s Sunday Morning I decided to follow their example – in the third hour of the programme, I play a favourite jazz track that appeals to the classical musician in me. Here are some recent examples.
Sarah was born in Barnsley where her earliest enthusiasms were music, art, writing and making taped "radio shows" for her friends. She studied music at Royal Holloway College and Reading University, where she specialised in performance. Since then she has worked as a broadcaster, pianist and teacher. Sarah has a strong interest in contemporary music and in 1995 completed a PhD on the subject of English experimental music. Pursuing that interest, she has performed with many new music groups and has premiered lots of new material.
With Duke Ellington’s music, what attracts me most is the orchestration – instruments blended with such ingenuity that you’re hard pressed to tell exactly what you’re hearing. Ellington was deeply influenced by classical music, and his New Orleans Suite (or another favourite of mine, the Far East Suite) are like tone-poems in their evocative power.
Portrait of Mahalia Jackson celebrates the Queen of American gospel: it’s a strong, slow piece starting with angular piano chords and continuing with a flute melody that really defies description – there’s nothing else like it. Music of enormous originality and character!
If you enjoy the cool and colourful pianistic textures of Debussy – and his fascinatingly ambiguous harmonies – then Bill Evans’s piano playing will delight you. This classic jazz waltz (named after the pianist’s niece) dates back to 1956, and I chose one of the most celebrated recordings, with Evans joined by vocalist Tony Bennett in 1975. Tony Bennett, by the way, is a fine visual artist as well as a musician, which gives me further inspiration.
With Tony Bennett (vocal) and Bill Evans (piano).
One of my favourite films is Jazz on a Summer’s Day – shot at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival…not only is it totally fascinating to watch the fashionably-dressed audience members prowling around in their fly-style sunglasses, relaxing as they watch the big jazz stars of the day…but some of those performances actually shook the musical world. For instance, Anita O’Day with Sweet Georgia Brown (and if you’ve never seen the film, you must look for that clip!). So for Sunday Morning, I played her studio version of that unforgettable performance. The changes of tempo and mood are an absolute wonder – the band responding so quickly to her inspired direction. Anita O’Day was a singer in full musical control: the match of any virtuoso instrumentalist she worked with.
I was aware of the Modern Jazz Quartet since the 1980s, as my husband was inspired by their vibes player, Milt Jackson. The quartet were renowned for their forays into the classical repertoire, playing Bach’s music with great flair. Then they turned their attention to Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 by Villa-Lobos. Their version (from their 1964 album The Sheriff) expresses the music’s Latin rhythmic flavour with a subtle, often fragmentary counterpoint between bass, drums and piano, with vibraphone singing out over the top.
From the album, The Sheriff, with the Modern Jazz Quartet.
One of my favourite jazz pianists is André Previn, also renowned as a classical conductor (I’ve featured his Swan Lake with the London Symphony Orchestra many times!). I first got to know his playing from his work with Doris Day in their 1961 album, Duet (Doris Day – there’s an underrated singer if there ever was one! Her expressivity and variety of tone colour is magnificent! But I digress….) Previn is an incredibly sensitive accompanist: his playing ranges over the whole keyboard. It’s colourful and complex, yet never overwhelms his musical partner. This track is a non-vocal, featuring his regular trio: it’s a touching rendition of Maria from West Side Story, reflecting Previn’s admiration for a fellow polymath, Leonard Bernstein.
I’ve been playing piano in a big band for nearly 20 years: the Runnymede Jazz Orchestra. It’s a fantastic way for a classical musician to learn how to play jazz: in the average band piano part, some of the music will be fully written out, and some will be just chord symbols.
Eventually your understanding and knowledge grows, until you can play the more complex symbols (or until you head off to get proper lessons, as I have done recently with Tim Richards at Morley College... I can now play 13th chords*, thanks to him).
I’ve come to revere the big band repertoire, and Moonlight Serenade is the ultimate American swing ballad: it was Miller’s own composition and an instant hit when it was first released in 1939.
*with either hand, as long as the wind is blowing in the right direction.
With Glenn Miller and his Orchestra.
I wanted to share this next track with listeners because of the glorious vitality in the piano part. No wasted energy or empty virtuosity, but a fantastic sense of energy in the way Tim Richards puts down the keys! With my background in contemporary classical music, I really appreciate the way that jazz seems to encourage lots of new music to be composed: creativity is an important part of the culture, and every participant makes a contribution. I love the Latin flavour of this track.
Tim Richards Trio: Tim Richards (piano); Matt Home (drums); Dominic Howles (bass).
George Gershwin is one of the most label-defying composers: equally embraced by the classical world and that of jazz. Summertime is one of the few songs that sounds beautiful in either style; I can enjoy recordings by both the opera singer Barbara Hendricks and the peerless jazz vocalist, Ella Fitzgerald.
This version, by the legendary Bebop saxophonist Charlie Parker, is an interesting one. When Parker made two albums of popular standards, accompanied by mellow-sounding strings, some of his fans wondered if he’d sold out.
But in the opinion of the saxophonist himself, this was some of his best work. In Summertime, recorded in 1949, the strings in Jimmy Carroll’s arrangement add incredible atmosphere…a touch of film noir, perhaps, and they flesh out the arrangement so there’s always something to captivate the ear (quite aside from the extraordinarily passionate sax playing).
I got to know about Miles Davis in a slightly unusual order – starting with his later, funk and pop-inspired music and gradually progressing to his earlier recordings. I saw him perform at the Royal Festival Hall around 1991, and I loved the music he was making then – the harmonies and grooves were less overtly “jazz”, but there was still that trademark quality of improvisational fantasy and expressivity.
This made me a great believer in musical cross-fertilisation, and I still enjoy “impure” sorts of music, like when a fashionable dance creeps into a Bach fugue, or Stravinsky’s gritty modernism marries with Russian folk. This track – Les filles de Cadiz – shows Miles Davis (on flugelhorn) and arranger/bandleader Gil Evans engaging with a classical melody by Delibes.
With the Gil Evans Orchestra and Miles Davis (flugel).
At college, one of my music lecturers was somewhat anti-jazz and pop music, yet welcomed the fact that the words of popular songs tended to be more clearly audible. I frowned as I heard this, thinking of the Bee Gees’ song Staying Alive, which I’d always misheard as Stay in a Line (after all, the Bee Gees were always positioned in a line).
But when it comes to the Great American Songbook, I agree that the words are generally audible and furthermore, full of incredible wit and rich in contemporary flavour*. So for an August edition of Sunday Morning, I played a song that’s been particularly admired in that respect: Too Marvellous for Words. It has very clever lyrics by Johnny Mercer, which fit Richard Whiting’s melody perfectly, and it was popularised by Frank Sinatra, on his album Songs for Swinging Lovers. I played a fresh interpretation by Laura Zakian, whose singing I’d first encountered at Morley College: I studied with Laura for two years, soaking up huge inspiration from her.
*for instance, I was fascinated to learn that “Mr Moto”, referred to in the 1940’s song Java Jive, was a fictional Japanese secret agent. Or there’s “Winchell” in The Lady is a Tramp (as in “I follow Winchell and I read out every line, that’s why the lady is a tramp”) – Walter Winchell was an influential gossip columnist.
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Look at the picture above. What do you see? Some of you will automatically see a beautiful young woman from a different era. Others will see a decrepit old lady. If you look long enough, you will soon see both. This is a powerful illustration of how different people will see the same picture and see different things. Though you see something different from the next person, you’re both right. People can reach different conclusions and no one is wrong. We’re just seeing the same thing from different perspectives. Similarly, people will read the same Bible passage and reach different conclusions. Yet, no one is wrong. Two readers can reach two different conclusions and they can both be right. Just like with the illustration above, parts of the Bible lend themselves to more than one correct conclusion. As we come to see that, we come to embrace one another and live in unity together, not merely tolerating one another, but actually affirming one another.
Really? If you think that Bredenhof has finally come to his senses, you need to read further. If you think that I’m buying into that manner of thinking, I can assure you I’m not.
To begin with, we need to recognize something about that illustration above. It was designed so that people would reach two different conclusions. Whoever created it did so with the intention of portraying both a young woman and an old lady. This illusion was no accident. Because of the intention of the creator, the person who says that it only portrays a young woman is just as wrong as the person who says that it only portrays an old lady. The person who says that it portrays a young woman is just as correct as the person who says that it portrays an old lady, but neither is as correct as the person who says that it portrays both. The intention was to get people to see both.
But what if the person who created a portrait only intended it to be understood one way? What if his intention was to portray one thing and one thing only? Now, what if a vast majority of people had an eye-defect which prevented them from seeing only the one thing that the creator intended to portray? This eye-defect is what creates illusions. But then, further, what if the artist had a pair of corrective lenses that he could give to viewers of his portrait, so that, with these lenses, they see only what he wants them to see? With these corrective lenses, viewers would comprehend the sole correct meaning of the portrait. That changes the situation quite drastically, doesn’t it?
Let’s go to the Bible for an illustration. In 1 Thessalonians 1:10, the apostle Paul writes that the Thessalonian Christians are waiting for the return of Jesus from heaven. He adds that this Jesus is the one whom God raised from the dead: “…whom he raised from the dead…” Now someone might approach that passage and say, “It’s like the illustration of the old lady and the young woman…” To which we must immediately reply, “Oh, you mean the illusion of the old lady and the young woman?” Someone might say, “You could take this literally and say that Paul believes that the heart of Jesus started pumping blood again on Easter Sunday, but you could equally say that Paul is teaching that Jesus came to life again in the hearts of his disciples. Both could be correct.” Really? What this fails to see is that we are not dealing merely with the words of man, but the infallible Word of God. The nature of God must factor into this. The God of truth does not lie or create illusions. The problem is with man. The problem is that we have not only an “eye-defect,” but also a heart-defect. Since we are inclined to hate God, we are inclined also to misread his Word and see what we want to see.
God corrects our heart-defect with his Spirit. His Holy Spirit, who inspired the Word in the first place, gives us the desire to understand God’s Word as he intends it to be understood. God has promised that the Spirit of Truth will lead us to his truth (John 16:13). Therefore, the Christian says, “Father, help me with your Spirit to understand what you mean in your Word. Help me not to see illusions, but the true reality.” This is a prayer that pleases God and will be heard by him.
God answers our prayer and helps us to see the true reality with his “corrective lenses.” His Spirit leads his children to put on these corrective lenses so that our “eye-defect” can be addressed. What are these corrective lenses? It’s the rest of his Word. If we’re looking at 1 Thessalonians 1:10, a faithful Christian is going to go elsewhere in Scripture to help us understand this teaching in the correct way. For example, we go to 1 Corinthians 15. In that passage, the Holy Spirit is adamant that Jesus rose from the dead and this was not felt in the hearts of his followers, but seen with their eyes (1 Cor. 15:3-8). In John’s gospel, the disciples touch Jesus and he eats with them — this did not happen in their hearts. There is only one correct understanding of 1 Thessalonians 1:10 — Jesus physically rose from the dead on Easter Sunday. This was history. This is no illusion. It really happened as plainly described by God in his Word.
There are still difficult passages in Scripture where we struggle to reach the correct conclusion. As a preacher, I have occasionally encountered passages where I have to honestly say, “I’m not sure.” There are some passages where faithful Christians do reach different conclusions, even with the Spirit filling them and leading them to put on the corrective lenses. But that still does not mean that all the different conclusions are equally legitimate. Some are wrong and some are right or some are more wrong and some are more right. Even if we can’t perceive it, this is the way things are. The God of truth is still speaking in this Word and his intention is not to offer illusions to confuse us, but absolute truth to encourage us (John 17:17).
The most important thing to realize is that the Bible is ultimately not a human book. In the final analysis, this is God’s book. Yes, there are 66 books where various human authors were involved, but behind them all was one Author. In every chapter, every verse, even every word, this one Author has his intentions. The unregenerate will not discern those intentions, certainly not with any consistency. Christians can and will. Our calling as Christians is to prayerfully follow the Spirit by putting on the corrective lenses of the Word, comparing Scripture with Scripture, and thereby striving to faithfully discern what our Father intends to say. The inerrant Word must always be our guide, also when it comes to understanding the Word.
I have written recently about the decisions made by the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands at Synod Ede 2014, specifically decisions relating to women in office. As part of the decision-making process, the synod asked a number of experts for advice. One of those experts was the retired professor of New Testament, Dr. J. Van Bruggen. Jaap and Arjen Vreugdenhil have translated this letter and, thanks to their efforts, I can share it with you here. It’s definitely worth a read. Dr. Van Bruggen is certainly not alone in his protest against these developments in our Dutch sister churches.
To the General Synod of the Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland, Ede 2014.
Your assembly asked me to comment on the report, Men And Women In The Service Of The Gospel. It should be short, I was told. It can only be short if we focus on the essentials.
But before these ‘benefits’ move you to consent to this report, you should consider what price you will have to pay.
After all, it cannot be denied that our Apostle Paul, guided by the Holy Spirit, requires of us, in the organization of congregational life, to take into account the different creation of man and woman (1 Timothy 2:13; compare the reference to the Law [in this case Genesis 1-2] in 1 Corinthians 14:34b, and 1 Corinthians 11:8-9:12), as well as the reality of the history of sin in paradise (1 Timothy 2:14).
It is our responsibility to account for this in later times with very different organization of congregations in various times and countries. Worldwide and through all earlier centuries, this brought the churches to distinguish between offices that man ought to fulfill, and other tasks that belong specifically to the woman, or to man and woman together.
Traditionally, the Reformed Churches also aligned to this custom and practice of all congregations (for such alignment, compare 1 Corinthians 11:16, 14:33, 36). The Reformed Churches (liberated) reaffirmed that alignment in 1993, when at the introduction of women’s right to vote they stated in the grounds that this does not concern an act of government.
The committee does not justify their departure from this argument in this fairly recent decision of a synod of their own federation. That is odd, but not incomprehensible. Underlying the decision of the Synod of Ommen 1993 was a consideration of how the Bible speaks to us today concerning the offices in the Church. It was summarized as “governing”. The committees no longer enter into a discussion of this kind, because they deem the Apostle’s instruction on this matter not directly relevant for us today.
Paul, an apostle of our Lord Jesus Christ, was convinced that “every Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable to teach, to refute errors and mistakes and to educate a virtuous life” (2 Tim. 3:16). On the basis of this conviction he also wrote, using Genesis 1-3, about the organization of church life. He reasoned from the Holy Scriptures to the congregations that they should be trained in piety and virtue (see Acts 20:28-32).
The committee report presents a very different picture. Paul allegedly used the Scriptures as a source for arguments when describing what impression the congregations make on their surroundings. If this were true, we modern Christians, through a similar reasoning, might arrive at very different conclusion, to adjust to what our culture perceives as normal.
In 1 Timothy 2 [Paul] does not appeal to a specific given from Scripture (“Scripture says…”), but he reminds us of the story of Adam and Eve as a historic event: creation, fall, redemption. Such a reminder of a historic event, even at the beginning of history, is not a normative appeal to the precepts of God. In a similar way, Peter confronts his female readers with the example of Sarah, who addressed her husband as ‘my master’ (1 Peter 3:5-6; see Genesis 18:12). In 1 Timothy 2:13 (“For Adam was formed first, then Eve”), Paul uses the situation in Paradise to point Timothy and his church in their situation in the right direction. In doing so, he interprets the order of creation events as an order of rank. While the notion of a created order of rank, in which each person was assigned his or her proper position, fit well with the existing social patterns of the day, in our situation such an idea feels foreign. Thus the use of this argument, too, is coloured by its context.
1. The beginning of this quotation immediately raises questions. Why would an appeal to God’s history in creation and redemption not be a ‘given from Scripture’? Why would a reminder of a ‘historical event’ have no normative value? God’s history with his people “took place as an example, for us”, Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 10:6. Paul and Peter point to the examples of Adam and Eve and Sarah because they provided men and women with models for their own behavior. The work of the Creator and the attitude of Sarah are instructive for us, Christians—according to the apostles of Jesus Christ!
2. Precisely because Paul writes as “commissioned by God” (1 Timothy 1:1), it is strange that the quotation speaks about his words to Timothy and Ephesus in such a humanistic and limited way. They write that Paul “uses the situation in paradise to point Timothy in the right direction”. Paul would be ‘interpreting’ the creation sequence as an order of rank. That is, in 1 Timothy 2:13 we are dealing with an example from creation, but with an interpretation by Paul that is not in the Bible (Genesis), but which he adds to adjust to what “fits well with the existing social pattern”. In other words, we owe the example of ‘rank’ not to Genesis 2, but to society in the first century A.D., and Paul employs Genesis 2 to suggest that this ‘ranking’ was actually created! This means that the apostle of our Lord Jesus Christ, in fact, would have abused Scripture in his reference to Genesis 2.
3. Despite all the good words in the report on the authority of Scripture, the quotation above implies that 1 Timothy 2:13 has no authority for us, because it is Paul who ‘interpreted’ the creation order ‘as a ranking’, and because this interpretation was well-suited to his own time but no longer to ours. Just as the prevalence of a certain view inspired Paul to make a specific use of a past situation (Paradise), so the ‘foreignness’ of this idea in our own time might move us to dismiss the word of Paul, as something that has only been valuable in the past.
When we leave these words of our apostle behind us, in the context of his own time, and focus on the context in which we live ourselves, we arrive at a dead end. For which culture becomes our norm? That of D-66 [politically bland, AVr] Netherlands, or certain subcultures of Amsterdam or Utrecht? The Kampen ethics professor recently wrote that churches in Muslim countries might have to deal very differently with women in office, in order to obtain the same effect of giving no offense. But what impression does the church give to the 16.9% Muslims in the Netherlands?
Thankfully the Lord through the Scriptures puts us on the continuing road of his own history, and his goal is to express this in his church. In the eyes of the world she will share in their attitude to the gospel: foolishness to Greeks! How good it is that we, Christians, precisely on the basis of the special characteristics of the church, can tell about the reality of Adam and Eve, of creation and fall of man, of love and mercy.
As I write this, I but wonder with some dismay whether I this write for a synod of Reformed Churches. Who would carry coals to Newcastle? Am I off-track in this letter because I fail to discuss in-depth the hermeneutics developed in the report? After all, is not this hermeneutics the justification for no longer applying the Pauline statements about Adam and Eve, creation and fall of man?
It was indeed first my intention to write a note about that hermeneutics, but it gradually dawned on me that this would really get my advice off-track.
1. The elaborations presented in the report, complete with charts, do not belong in an ecclesiastical and pastoral document. This would also apply to an analytical discussion of them.
2. One may fill many or few pages with arguments, but in the end we believers read what Paul writes, without theoretical considerations and diagrams. And then we cannot escape the fact that he urges the churches to account for Genesis 1-3 in the organization of congregational life. He never says that he uses the texts of Genesis merely as an occasional argument to remain in line with the social position of women and men in his time. How could he do so? So many centuries later, the narrative of Genesis is still decisive for the churches of the New Testament, because it is God’s work and our history! Therefore, the apostle appeals to it, even though the new Christians in Ephesus were not familiar with the stories from Genesis, which sounded foreign in their culture. That is why Paul also commands the preacher Timothy to “communicate this in his teaching” at Ephesus (1 Timothy 4:11). We should therefore take his arguments seriously and allow ourselves to be taught by it (whether we find this is difficult or easy). If we fail to do so, we will not only push Paul aside, but Genesis as well! And we miss the fact that Paul is not concerned with the removal of potential offenses to unbelievers, but rather with the teaching of what is proper for women who claim to worship God (1 Timothy 2:10). Are we not descendants of our ancestors Adam and Eve in the same way as our brothers and sisters in Ephesus?
3. When I asked your clerk what exactly was involved in this request for an advice from me as an exegete, because the report takes a decisive position on hermeneutics for the reading of Scripture, he kindly wrote back that I’ve taught Hermeneutics in Kampen. Indeed, in the line of Van Andel and Greijdanus I have taught the rules for the interpretation of the Bible (classical hermeneutics) for 35 years, and over and again I have refuted the new hermeneutic: it considers the Bible as a document from the past, which must continually be infused with new meaning in new contexts. I have also written about it in Het Kompas van het Christendom and other publications. This is not so much about knowledge or information, but rather about choices and decisions.
The committee suggests that the line of their report is in line with the Reformed tradition (p. 20). For proof of this they mention my name. Unrightfully so: in the article cited by the committee, I was dealing with the relationship between the meaning of words and the cultural and social context. The view of the deputies has to do with a different issue, namely: the meaning of text and cultural and social context.
4. Do I accuse the committee of bad faith? No, but rather of rashness. Perhaps some people imagine that we can say goodbye to some Pauline texts merely on the matter of men and women, and nothing else. But that is quite naïve. There are at least two major shipwrecks on the beach that should be beacons to us. When the Gereformeerde Kerken (synodaal) opened up all offices for women, with an argumentation very similar to that of your committee, they really had no intention to introduce higher criticism or make the Bible inoperative. The outcry was great when Prof. Dr. H.M. Kuitert immediately declared that his synod had now legalized higher criticism. Yet he was proven right: this rash decision was later regretted by many. The same process was repeated with the Christian Reformed Churches. I am unwilling to believe that any of the committee members or synodical delegates wants this. But I do say: look at those beacons and think again! Surely you don’t want this?
At the end of the day, it should not be difficult for your assembly to decide about the report.
a. You may declare that this report has not shown convincingly that in the organization of our church life we need no longer take into account the decisions of our apostle Paul about the difference between Adam and Eve and the significance of the fall.
b. Furthermore, your synod may state that the report rightly devoted many good words to the service of men and women for the sake of the gospel, but that it wrongly ignored what Scripture says about what we call “the office of government” (recently confirmed by the synod of Ommen, 1993).
c. If you want to complete the discussion about this entire issue, as was the intention of the previous Synod, you may decide that no compelling reasons have been found to deviate from the practice of many centuries and of most of the churches, based on 1 Timothy 2, to assign the offices of teaching and oversight to the responsibility of the man.
Much more difficult than taking a decision, is a return to instructing the congregations about the importance of the history of creation and salvation in general, and about these scriptural data in particular. We have become desensitized to these realities and become more sensitive to the world around us. However, it is very important to regain this sensitivity. Only through education and example will reappear the love towards the story of Adam and Eve and the respect for what the Lord attaches to it. I’m not sure if synods can decide anything about that. In any case, they cannot execute or accomplish it. The responsibility lies with those who as shepherds must lead the flock to be citizens of a kingdom this is above, and with all Christians who would persevere in their desire for a heavenly kingdom, that is not of this world.
The decision-making about the report takes place in an ecclesiastical reality that is adrift. I pray therefore for all of you, that you may have wisdom and courage. You will not be able to take a decision to change reality. But you can make a decision that is responsible. And the Lord can make that decision in his time and manner into a blessing for the church and the gospel, for men and women.
The other day I mentioned this book by Graeme Goldsworthy. Today I’m reposting my review from 2007. Going through the book again, I’m impressed by Goldsworthy’s commitment to starting with what the Word of God says when it comes to developing principles of biblical interpretation. He doesn’t call it that, but this is a Reformed approach because it honours the crucial principle of sola Scriptura. Whether it comes to apologetics, worship, ethics, hermeneutics (or anything!), we have to begin with the Bible — and the Bible alone. It’s so basic to being Reformed — and it’s in danger of being lost.
Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics: Foundations and Principles of Evangelical Biblical Interpretation, Graeme Goldsworthy. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2006. Hardcover, 341 pages, $20.15.
There is nothing more important than rightly understanding the Bible. In its essence, we believe that the Bible is a clear revelation from God. Yet because of the fall, what should be clear is many times clouded by human sin and weakness. For this reason, when there are difficulties in understanding the Scriptures, it is the divine Scriptures themselves that must shed light and lead the way.
One man from our own tradition who understood this was Dr. Seakle Greijdanus (1871-1948). Greijdanus was a professor of New Testament in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands. In 1946 he published his most important work, Scripture Principles for Scripture Interpretation. In this book (a summary of which can be found here), Greijdanus drew out in detail what it means to believe that “Scripture interprets Scripture.” We call this a presuppositional approach to hermeneutics; this approach to the science of Scripture interpretation says that we have to begin with the presupposition that the Bible is the authoritative Word of God that also speaks to this science.
This is an important book for our age, an age (not unlike others) in which proper understanding of the Scriptures is under attack. While it is a technical book that would serve well as a text for college and seminary students, informed “laypeople” would also benefit from Goldsworthy’s gold. This is the third Goldsworthy book that I’ve read in the last year (According to Plan & Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture being the others) and while the other two are also worth recommending, Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics is the best.
Last night I did a brief introduction to Biblical Interpretation (hermeneutics) for my congregation. A lot of what I said was based on an excellent book by Dr. S. Greijdanus, Schriftbeginselen ter Schriftverklaring (Scripture Principles for Scripture Interpretation). Back in 2006, I blogged through this material. Eventually I put it all into a .pdf and it’s been available on my resource site ever since. For last night I revised the document, improving here and there, and eliminating the typos. The new and improved edition is now available for download under “Teaching Tools” on the right hand side of this page. You can also get it directly by clicking here. | 2019-04-24T12:32:49Z | https://yinkahdinay.wordpress.com/tag/hermeneutics/ |
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you 10 always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you. 11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you— 12 that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine. 13 I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles. 14 I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. 15 So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
1And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:2And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.3And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.4And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.5And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.6This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.7So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.8And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.9Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.10Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:11For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons:12And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.13These are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
1These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.2(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)3And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;4After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:5On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,6The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:7Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.8Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.9And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:10The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.11(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)12How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?13Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.14And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.15So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.16And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.17Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.18And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.
1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,2(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)3Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;4And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:5By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:6Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:7To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.9For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;10Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.11For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;12That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.13Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.14I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.15So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.16For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.17For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
How did God keep the inheritance within each tribe?
Why did Paul receive grace and apostleship?
How do we mutually encourage and comfort each other?
Why shouldn’t you be ashamed of the Gospel?
Encourage someone who has encouraged you today. | 2019-04-23T18:47:43Z | https://biblestudytogether.com/chronological-cross-reference-bible-reading-plan/day-220/ |
And we welcome with gladness unspeakable the throngs of you who share this hour on radio and on television. You are now a part of our dear, wonderful First Baptist Church in Dallas. Now you pray for me as I preach a textual sermon, a sermon from a text in Ephesians 5:14: "Wherefore God saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." And the title of the message, Awake and Arise.
There is a duality in the Christian faith that is undeniable, and you have a brilliant, dynamic instance of it here in this text. Paul has just written in the second chapter of the Book of Ephesians [verse 1] that we are dead in trespasses and in sins. And if we are dead in trespasses and sins, how are we going to raise ourselves? We cannot do it: God has to raise us up. A corpse cannot bring itself to life. Now that is what Paul wrote in the second chapter. Now in the fifth chapter he writes that we are to awake and to arise from the dead; we are to do it. In the second chapter he says God has to raise us up. In the fifth chapter he says we raise ourselves up from the dead. That is typical of the duality of the double nature of the Christian faith. God has a part and we have a part; and it takes both of them together to bring it triumphantly to realization.
You have another instance of that in the word of the apostle Paul in Romans 4: "Abraham was justified by faith," Paul writes; then in James, the pastor of the church at Jerusalem, in his second chapter [verse 21] he says, "Abraham was justified by works." Now Martin Luther read that and called the epistle of James a letter of straw, and it ought to be taken out of the Bible. That’s what Luther wrote. Now, it is just another instance of the duality of the Christian faith. When Paul writes in Romans 4, "Abraham was justified by faith," he’s referring to the fifteenth chapter of the Book of Genesis [verse 5], when God took Abraham out under the stars and sky, and said, "Can you count those stars in the firmament? Thus will your seed be." Then the next verse in the Bible says, "And Abraham believed God, and his faith was counted for righteousness." He was justified by faith. Now when James says he was justified by works, he’s referring to the twenty-second chapter of the Book of Genesis [verse 2] when God told Abraham to go to Mount Moriah, and raise up his knife and plunge it in the heart of his son Isaac. And the Book of Hebrews says, "He believed that God was able to raise him from the dead; for that son was to be the one who would inherit all the promises of God" [Hebrews 11:17-19]. So James says he was justified by works, by commitment to God. It’s both: it’s by faith and it’s by works.
That duality, I say, is always found in the Christian faith. You find it in the person of our Lord Jesus. He was God as though He were nothing but God; but He was also man as though He were altogether man. You find it in the way of salvation: we are saved by the atoning grace and blood and sacrifice of the Lord Jesus, as though all of it were His; we don’t have any part in that, the atonement of Christ is altogether our Lord. Yet, the second chapter of the Book of Philippians [verse 12] says we are to "work out our own salvation with fear and trembling". It has to carry with it from us a repentance and a commitment to the Lord – a duality in the Christian faith.
You have it again in the service here this morning. Look at ourselves, these men pray, "O God be with us." And conviction has to come from the Lord, and conversion has to be wrought by the mighty omnipotent hand of God. "O God, bless the church, bless our services, hear our prayers." And at the same time we have to roll up our sleeves and go to work. It’s both of them: we have to put feet to our prayers.
There were a couple of little kids on the way to school. And they dilly-dallied along and played along the way. And when the bell rang they were still not in school. And the little girl said, "Oh, little brother, let’s kneel down here and pray that God won’t let us be late to school." And the little boy replied, "Sister, let’s you and I run as fast as we can, and let’s pray while we run." Now that’s both of them. That’s both of them, both of them.
Here is a man that prays, "O God, give me a house for a home." And he says, "Amen," with a hammer and a saw. Here’s a fellow who says, "O God, give me a job." And he says, "Amen," looking at the want ads, going to all the places and making application, and maybe studying to prepare himself for a fine job. Here’s a fellow who says, "O Lord, give me a wife, give me a wife, give me a wife." And he comes down here to Sunday school, and he joins the choir – you got any single people in the choir? – comes down here and joins the choir. That’s putting feet to his prayers.
I was walking underneath this auditorium; there’s a long hallway underneath this thing. And I was walking, and a couple of teenage boys, and one of them said to the other, "You know, that girl, ooh, I just, I’d love to have a date with her." And the other one said, "Well, ask her." And the boy said, "Well I don’t know how to ask her." And he said, "Listen, there ain’t no wrong way to ask her, just ask her. Just do it."
So we pray God bless us, and then we give ourselves into the work. The Christian faith is a great sermon; it is also a great service. The Christian faith is a great message; it is also a great mission. The Christian faith is a great doctrine; it is also a great deed. The Christian faith is a great orthodoxy; it is also a great orthopraxy.
"Awake," he says, "and arise from the dead." That is addressed to each one of us individually, as a Christian, as a member of the house of God, the family of the Lord. It is addressed to us individually: "Awake, arise from the dead" [Ephesians 5:14].
We can’t serve God any other way. So many of us are alive and quickened and sensitive out in the world; we are cognizant of the profits and we enjoy entertainment and we’re out there in a thousand ways in the world. But in the house of God, in the service of the Lord, we are dead; we are insensitive and indifferent, and we can’t serve the Lord in deadness and indifference.
Now you can dream in your sleep, and you can walk in your sleep, and you can talk in your sleep, and I have been to churches when I thought the preacher was dead in his sleep up there; but you can’t serve God until you are alive and awake and quickened! The Lord called Moses when he was tending sheep. The Lord called Gideon when he was working at the threshing floor. Jesus called Peter when he was plying his business of fishing. And the Lord called Matthew at the receipt of custom. We’re to be busy with the Lord. And that carries with it, I say, a calling to each individual – not just the preacher called, not just Fred called, not just Jody called – but all of us are called, all of us. There are people that you touch that we never even see. There is work you can do that we cannot begin to do. Each one of us is called into the service and ministry and faith of our Lord Jesus Christ. And we don’t have to be elected by the church, and we don’t have to be put on a committee: God has set us in the earth to be witnesses for Him. "Awake and arise!"
If a man fell in a river and was drowning, you wouldn’t wait to be appointed to a committee to help. If you see a house on fire, you wouldn’t wait to be appointed to a committee to holler for help. So it is in the ministry of our Lord: each one of us is called.
You know, the best committee in the world is a committee of three: one of them dead, one of them in the hospital, and one of them doing the work. That’s the best committee in the world; there’s none like it. "Awake and arise from the dead." That means we’re to be quickened, we’re to be sensitive, we’re to be dedicated, we’re to be enthusiastic, put our hearts and souls into that ministry of God.
You know that’s an interesting thing, that word "enthusiasm." There’s a Greek word enthusiazo, enthusiazo, and that’s based on the word, the Greek word entheos, "in God." Enthusiasm is God in you. And that’s a marvelous and wonderful way to be: awakened, quickened, alive, interested, dedicated, enthusiastic; nothing like it in this earth. Oh, brother!
I used to go out here to the Fair Park when they opened the thing, and attend the football game between Oklahoma and Texas. Now how in the earth this ever happened I don’t know, but right there in the middle of the Texas section where I was seated, I was out there as a guest of one of our families here in the church, and I was seated there in the Texas section, and right in front of me was a rooter from Oklahoma, right there in front of me. Well, he was a little inebriated. And as the game started, in the days of Bud Wilkinson, when Oklahoma never lost a game, that guy right in front of me stood up with a five hundred dollar bill in his hand, and waved it around, and said, "Say, all you Texans, I’ll give you ten points and bet this five hundred dollar bill we beat you." Well, there wasn’t any Texans about to take him up, so as the game progressed, and Bud Wilkinson was running away with it, why, he stood up again and held up that five hundred dollar bill, and waved it around and said, "Say, all you Texans, I’ll give you twenty points and bet this five hundred dollar bill we beat you." And nobody took him up. So he sat down again. And as that game progressed and Bud Wilkinson was just running over Texas, that guy stood up a third time and waved that five hundred dollar bill over his head and said, "Say, all you Texans, I’ll give you thirty points and bet this five hundred dollars that we beat you." And nobody took him up, and he sat down right there in front of me. And I thought, "Man, I’d love to have that guy in my church. I’d love to have him in my church. He believes in his team, and he puts his money where his mouth is. Boy, I’d like to have him in my church! Dear me!"
That’s what it is to be an evangel for God: full of life, full of hope, full of optimism, full of expectancy – like that old codger who married at the tender age of eighty-four, and immediately began looking for a bigger house close to an elementary school. Isn’t that all right? Oh dear, that is just marvelous, to be alive toward God.
So many of us burn out, almost overnight; like kerosene put on shavings of wood, burn for a moment and it’s over. Like the old farmer speaking of his well, "It’s a good well, but it freezes up in the wintertime and it goes dry in the summertime." Oh, no! to be a servant of God, and rejoicing in it every day of your life.
We must hasten. Not only is this addressed to the individual, "Awake thou that sleepest, and rise from the dead," but it is addressed to the church. This letter is an encyclical. Here we have it Ephesians; some of the letters will have Laodicea there, some will have other church names there. It’s a general letter; it is addressed to the church. We’re to be awake, and we’re to be alive, we’re to assemble ourselves, as the Book of Hebrews says, "Not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together" [Hebrews 10:25]. There is private prayer, there is public prayer; there is private Bible reading, there is public Bible reading; there is private praise, there is public praise; there is private worship, there is public worship; and we are to assemble ourselves together, looking forward to the gathering with gladness and joy and anticipation. As it was, the preacher last Sunday said about John Chrysostom, "They’d rather go to church and listen to John Chrysostom than to go to the theater or go to the games." That’s wonderful! That’s glorious. It’s in the assembly of God’s saints that we make our public confession of faith, according to the Word of God. And it’s in the assembly of God’s saints that we are baptized. It is a public commitment, a public avowal, a public giving of ourselves to the testimony of Jesus our Lord and what He means to us.
And when we come to church, it’s just wonderful that we be alive and quickened. The music, the playing, the congregational gladness and joy and welcome, it’s just wonderful to be a part of the house of God; and loving it, and that the church itself be quickened. I read one time a legend where someone asked Satan when he was cast out of heaven, "What do you miss the most?" And he said, "I miss the most the blowing of the trumpets in the morning that called the assembly to the worship of God." Well, I can sense that, too. Oh, dear! how wonderful the anticipation of being a part of the family of the Lord!
In these years gone by, I used to go to Ridgecrest, North Carolina, and preach, many times in the summer, to our Southern Baptist assembly there. Well, this time I was preaching at the college assembly. And while I was there, one of those young preachers gave one of the most unusual testimonies I ever heard in my life. He said he and a little group of college kids going to Ridgecrest, to the assembly, came just a little early, and on a Wednesday evening they went to a restaurant near Ridgecrest. "And," he said, "it was such a delightful experience." He said, "The waiters and the waitresses were college students. And they came out and took their orders, and then went joyfully back into the kitchen and came out carrying all of those things that they had ordered, and set them down. And then as the evening progressed, they all came out, stood together, and sang some beautiful songs. Oh," he said, "it was a happy experience eating dinner that Wednesday evening with those college kids and their service there in the restaurant." Well, he said, "Later on, then we went to a church, to its midnight service, to its midweek service, to its Wednesday service, to its prayer meeting service." And he said, "It was dead as the proverbial doornail. It was dull and dry." And then he added, "You know, if both of them had given an invitation that evening, I would have joined the restaurant." That’s the Lord’s truth.
There is no sense, and there’s no holiness, and there is no sanctity in being dull and dumb and dry. Now you listen to that: put life in it, shine for Jesus. I’m just reading out of the Book, "Awake ye that sleep, and rise from the dead." Honor God.
That carries with it ,of course, an obedience to the great assignment God has given us. Like the Lord said to Moses, "Speak unto the children of Israel, forward!" and they’re standing there before the Red Sea, an ocean. "Speak unto them that they go forward" [Exodus 14:15]. Well, I can easily imagine a runner being sent out from the camp of Moses, and he goes through all of the tribes and says, "God says, Rise and march. God says, Arise and march. God says, Go forth!" Well I could easily imagine a fellow out there with a shotgun, and that’s also called the Sea of Reeds, the Reed Sea, and he says, "Well, this is duck season and I’m out here hunting. I can’t march forward for God; I’m hunting ducks." And another one says, "Look at this sea full of fish. I can’t march forward for God; I’m out here fishing." And another one says, "My, my, how can I go forward? My wife is sick."
You know that reminds me of two deacons, two deacons that were out fishing on Sunday morning. And while they were out fishing on Sunday morning, the church bell rang. And one of the deacons said to the other, "Oh, I just feel so guilty, I feel so bad. We ought to be in church, and here we are fishing." And the other one said, "I don’t feel guilty. I couldn’t go to church anyway, my wife is sick." Oh, dear!
I can imagine another one that has a hot dog stand. And he says, "Why, you say the Egyptian army is coming? Wonderful. Wonderful, that means money for me." Others look at the sea and say, "Why, we’ll get drowned. God says go forward, and we would walk into that sea; we’ll drown!" That doesn’t make any differences one way or the other: whatever the obstacle, whatever the discouragement, whatever the difficulty, if God says march, our part is to stand up, awaken, and march, go forward!
I think of our own program here in this church, this televised program. And this is one of the most marvelous things to me in God’s technological gifts to the world: you can hear this sermon that I am preaching now all over the earth if you have a satellite dish, or whatever you call that thing. You can hear it all over the world. It’s being heard on about forty different cable systems, and, of course, all over Texas and southern Oklahoma. I cannot imagine that, standing here and preaching to thousands and thousands and thousands of households. Well, the thing is an expensive arrangement. Our televised program costs over half a million dollars a year, in fact, it costs over six hundred thousand dollars a year. In fact, it costs soon over seven hundred thousand dollars a year. And that brings a great deficit into our church. And you who are listening to this, if you will send us a gift it would help us enormously and thank you for it. Bless your heart. But, oh my! No matter what, our church ought to do it. It’s the way of God’s call and open door for us.
Same way about this tremendous campaign into which we are placing our lives this moment in getting ready for this spring: a campaign that will cost more than eight million dollars. It’s our campus for our school. It’s this 505 North Ervay building. We’re filling that building full of the ministries of the teaching of God’s Word and of the things in the church. Thank God for them. Matching our souls against the greatest program any church ever faced in its history, thank You, Lord, that You compliment us, believing, God help us, that we can do it. And we shall, with His grace.
I have to close. Not only is this addressed to us individually, not only is it addressed to the church, "Awake thou that sleepest, and rise from the dead," but it is also addressed to the lost, to the lost, you who are lost. You’ve never given your heart to the Lord, you’ve never accepted Him as your Savior, "Awake and rise from the dead." Find life and light in Jesus our Savior.
As you know, I was born in Oklahoma; I came down here from Muskogee. There was in Oklahoma a little town named Gans, G-a-n-s, Gans, Oklahoma. When I was a young man, there was a freight train driving toward Gans, Oklahoma. And the engineer saw a terrible killer tornado moving toward the sleeping town. That engineer pulled on his whistle just as long and loud as he could, starting at 5:58, at two minutes till six. At six o’clock, that terrible tornado swept through that little town of Gans. And at four minutes after six, the town had been completely destroyed, and the people asleep had been killed, the entire town. It was one of the greatest tragedies in the story of Oklahoma.
My sweet friend, the sounds of eternity are rushing upon us. A few minutes maybe, a few hours maybe, a few days maybe, and we stand in the great judgment bar of Almighty God. Dear Lord, and then what? And then what?
In my reading this past week, I could hardly believe my eyes: nineteen out of every twenty who become Christians do so before they reach the age of 25; after 25, only one in ten thousand is saved; after 35, only one in fifty thousand is saved; after 45, only one in two hundred thousand is saved; after 55, only one in three hundred thousand is saved; after 65, only one in five hundred thousand, one in half a million; and after 75, only one in seven hundred thousand. The sounds of eternity: if you’re not saved now, the multiplied odds are you’ll never be saved, you’ll never know God, and you will die without Christ and without hope in the world.
Oh, my brother, my sister, how infinitely better to cast your life and soul in the arms of the loving Jesus who died for you, who rose for you, who someday will be coming for you. And I’ll meet you in heaven at the end of the way.
And to you who have listened on television, how humbly and earnestly we pray that the message will move your heart to ask, "How I can accept Christ as my Savior?" On the televised screen you will find a name, an address, and a telephone number. Call us or write to us, and we’ll tell you how to be saved, how to accept Christ. Do it now, make it now, and I’ll see you in heaven some glorious and triumphant day.
And to the great throng in the sanctuary, in the balcony round, down one of these stairways, in the throng on this lower floor down one of these aisles, "Pastor, this is God’s day for me, and I’m coming." A family you, a couple you, a one somebody you, come and stand with us, and journey and pilgrimage with us to heaven. Make it now; may angels attend you in the way as you come, while we stand and while we sing.
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On Tuesday evening, "Piers Morgan Tonight" welcomed a live studio audience along with a full collection of guests to discuss the most important topics on the mind of Americans as President Barack Obama begins his new term in office.
At the top of the program, Piers Morgan discussed the news of the day including a new school shooting, this time at the North Harris campus of Lone Star College where three people including a school maintenance worker were injured.
Morgan spoke to Lone Star college student and EMT trainee Mark Zaragoza who, while treating the injured, realized he was caring for one of the shooters.
"When we got to the front of the campus, I found out that one of the gentlemen that I was trying to treat wounds on was the suspected shooter," said Zaragoza.
Later, author Suzanna Hupp joined the program and voiced her staunch support for gun ownership by using the argument of suicide.
"You are not going to bring down suicide numbers by having less guns," said Hupp. And when Morgan pointed out the statistic that "in countries like Australia, where they brought in strict gun control the suicide rate involving guns plummeted," Hupp simply responded, "Well, suicide rate involving guns, yes. But not suicides."
Watch the clips and listen to the interview as Hupp argues that a gun is "something that puts me on equal footing with gang members."
Piers you continue to mislead your audience with statistics. Compared to its Western European neighbors gunless Britain has the highest murder rate. Globally the Swiiss, Germans and Fench are the 3rd, 4th and 5th largest gun owning nations in the world. The Swiss own on a pet capita basis nearly 8 times as many guns as your fellow countrymen, the British, and the Germans and French nearly 5 times as many, and yet the per capita homicide rates in these countries is nearly 40% lower. If we subscribe to your notion that more guns mean more crime these countries would have significantly higher homicide rates than Britain, but they don’t.
I thank you for your continuing effort to disclose Morgan's deliberately-misleading so-called "facts".
Ichiro, not Suzuki, the question is: "WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO HAVE TO RELY ON GUNS TO MAKE OUR POINTS FOR US? WHY DO WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO SLAUGHTER ONE ANOTHER? WE CAN GATHER GUNS AND BARRICADE OURSELVES IN LIKE SO MANY SURVIVORS IN ROAD WARRIORS, BECAUSE WE HAVE THE LAST OIL RESERVES, BUT WE PURPORT OURSELVES TO BE BETTER THAN THAT! SO WHY ARE WE ACTING LIKE WE "ARE" NO BETTER? AND WE CALL OURSELVES, "CIVILIZED"?
Eric, I have no idea what you are screaming about. Can you put together a bit more coherent statement?
Got to hand it to Piers Morgan for intelligantly unmasking Dane loesches fallacy and false intellegance about any issues in the american peoples agenda and News Worthy. ( my opinion ) Dana makes up and falsely twists the topic to anothertopic way out of outerspace , actually where her brain is. Lets put a listick comparment on a gun for her and a mirror for her forehead tokeep checking that smile of hers when we debate serious safety concerns for our children. Not that she can shoot a gun!
What's happening in Britain is not BS, it's widely reported in the British media and the statistics and numbers are available from a plethora of sources including the UN, Home Office for England and Wales and the respective reporting bodies for Scotland and NI. Google, UK named most violent country in the EU!
Wake up you morons.... You are your worst enemy.
Quite so but maybe you need to ask the question why are some countries more violent than others. Britain has a virtual gun ban and yet has one of the highest violent crime rates in the western world. In fact it's overall violent crime rate is higher than this country's.
Yes, we should wake up. Cars are much more dangerous than guns.
Which translates into a .000034 % chance of you being murdered with a firearm, if you're wealthy and live on the good side of town you need to add 4 zeros to that. The chances you will be murdered with a assault rifle is 0.0000000323426573. You've got a better chance of being struck by lightening.
You basically want to disarm 60 million people because there is a .000034% that someone is going to get killed. You're willing to give government the total monopoly on violence, and rely soley on them to protect you. Where are the police in the aftermath of a disaster – ask the folks in NOLA.
Tell that to all the rich kids families who died in Connecticut, or over by columbine, or at that mall in Oregon. Clearly this is an issue that doesn't just affect the "bad parts of town". We've seen mass killings in every part of society now, including a movie theater.
eric, then please do tell me why we can’t protect ourselves against vicious gang members with powerful weapons.
Hi cr, if we are talking about firearm related death wouldn't it make sense to compare stats for fire arm related deaths? UK is very low and USA is very high according to Wikipedia.
You have to look at the overall homicide rates. Homicide is homicide, whether it is by gun, knife or in Piers' case a cricket bat. Citing the gun murder rate is skewed because the Brits own very few guns. It's probably fair to say that more Brits have been killed by crickets bats than Americans. A better comparison is to look at some of Britain's Western European neighbors, many of whom are the largest gun owning nations on the planet. As I mentioned above the Swiss own nearly 8 times as many guns, on a per capita basis, than the Brits, and the Germans and French own nearly 5 times the number, but yet the overall homicide rates in these three countries is nearly 40% lower than the Brits. I reiterate this point, if we subscribe to the notion that more guns mean more crime these countries should have per capita homicide rates that are significantly higher than tha Brits, but they don't!
I didn't say anything of the sort. I think you need to re read my post.
No, cr, I said it to Ros, I'm agreeing with you.
Hi CR, so we can agree that UK stats are skewed as in the UK there are less firearms, which shows that less firearms means less firearm related death. I don't subscribe to there being a direct correlation between the number of firearms available and overall crime rates, there are way too many variables. The debate is about how to reduce deaths due to firearms and the answer may be to be to reduce the number of firearms available.
According to Wikipedia France, Switzerland and Germany have higher rates of firearm related death than UK too.
Do you think that a mass murderer would choose another weapon if there was no gun available? Do you think a murderer could kill more than 20 people with a cricket bat? I think guns are attractive to weak minds as a symbol of power and control over others.
I think that if a gun is used in a suicide, the victim thinks it will look "romantic" and be more accepted, also by him. Suicide by any other means seems more tragic or stupid or senseless. The gun makes it more acceptable, unfortunately, even the NRA encourages the view that the gun is macho, etc.
Where there are more tall buildings the rate of suicide doesn't go up, but the rate of suicide from tall buildings goes up.
Tall buildings have sealed windows airhead.
I very much appreciate that you have taken up the issue of guns. It's got me tuning in, but last night when you talked about climate change I was stunned to see your response and the response from most of the panel was that climate change is kind sorta happening, and I'm not sure how big of a problem it is. Piers you and your panel need to get with it! Climate change is here for sure, and a huge, huge problem. I hope you keep talking about guns, but I hope you can eventually take up the cause of climate change as it's truly the largest problem we all face in the U.S., and around the world. We are all individually the cause and the solution.
Sorry, but the economy (global, not just US) cannot currently afford to "go green".
As much as I'd like to see it happen so that our children and grandchildren can have a planet on which to live... It's just not going to happen.
I'm wondering if Piers will comment on the fact that a rifle was not used at Sandy Hook, even though most of us that cared to delve into the information ourselves knew this fact already. Seems like you and your team would be able to find this info too. Pushing our own agenda a bit?
Cat, I guess you, along with Mr Morgan, really need to update your information, here it is right from MSNBC news.
What I'd like to know is how is the administration going to accommodate legitimate competive shooting sportsmen and women in any new law?
Shooting sports are more than just hunting.
There isn't going to be any new laws. Look at the voting records of the current House and Senate. Not even close to getting any of these new bills passed. All for show.
The other week New York passed the most stringent laws in the nation and legislated many legimate competive shooting disciplines into extinction. The Governor and senate committee that brokered the deal didn't even bother to consult the various bodies that represent these shooting disciplines.
New York has always been way left and they keep electing those far left people. The people need to send those politicians home. If the majority of the people in New York agree with it, then relocation is the only option. I was talking about the federal government not doing anything. The Senate remembers the last time they voted a gun ban that also didn’t work. We sent them home. If the New York politicians have the support, good for them. If not? They will get a surprise. Truth is New York seems to favor gun control.
Maybe if the State Dept. would spend it's budget on embassy security instead of "greening" our embassies in Europe, we wouldn't be in this situation.
I'm wondering why Susan Rice, who Barack Obama claimed had nothing to do with Benghazi, appeared on all those Sunday shows. Where was Hillary? Did she not want to go on and spew those false talking points, as it might affect her run for the Presidency in 2016?
So Hillary wants us to look forward and not dwell on the past. She might want to talk to her buddy, Barack, about that. It's been 4 years, and he's still whining about George Bush. Dems also didn't want to look forward when it came to Iraq.
I so agree with Piers about gun control, BUT let others have their opinions. You cut off the lady who opposed your opinion last night. Hey, you cut Dan Rather off. When I I tune into CNN I expect to be able to hear differing opinions. I want my point of view to be challenged. I was so disappointed last night that I turned off my tv and went to bed. Hope you get over the flu soon!
Piers I saw your inauguration coverage. You were moving & dancing to Madonna's song "Everybody"! I thought you didn't like Madonna right? You're banning Madonna on your show correct? If so I don't think you should've danced to Madonna's song!
Please Republicans, stop trying to ambush the recent events by blaming Democrats. Reposition your party for 2016 and look realistically without party platforms to the problems that address America today: Newtown and reformed gun laws that will really make a difference, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton and her honesty in what she knows, Immigration reform, tax reform. Stop stonewalling America for your re-election interests. And, please CNN, give us informed objective guests who have remarks and commentary that fit the needs of America without their party interest.
The will of the people MUST rise above the will of the NRA. Now is the time. I'm so sorry for the loss in your community Beth. We have the power to change things, the question is, have we elected anyone in Congress with enough backbone to stand up for the people instead of the gunmakers. I think the NRA has become a group of fantatics who could care less that these guns are being turned on our own citizens. 6 and 7 year olds will never be allowed to carry guns, so they are counting on us to protect them, preferably with laws that remove the 2nd amendment altogether. With the most powerful and expensive military in the world, we no longer have a need for it. And the "militia" that the 2nd amendement refers to is clearly not "well-regulated". You can't have a mass shooting without a gun. American citizens should not be required to give up our right to life or health care privacy so that people can have guns in this country.The guns need to go. All of them.
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Please give me a step-by-step foolproof instruction of how I should hold off two armed men until police arrive (in my area, sometimes it can take 30min.), I’ll forever be in your debt for your wisdom.
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Piers, why aren't you or anyone else asking the most obvious question – Where is the regulation of the "well-regulated militia" that is referred to in the 2nd Amendment? Who is doing the regulation? The 2nd Amendment doesn't hint at self-protection or hunting. It's about protecting our country. If everyone is going to walk around with a gun in their hand to protect the country, then I want my tax money returned since we obviously have no need for the US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or Coast Guard – all of which actually ARE well-regulated.
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Hickory Dickory controdictory DANA LOESCH is with her positions on every answer or debate she speaks or tries to Defend. The Spawn of HItlers daughter ( my opinion, just sayin ) is so fake and manufactured form the doners of probably the NRA to her Radio show to insight hate and division ( again my opinion ) to all the live radio and TV interviews she says. I thought I might have lost a little respect for Piers wasting our time having her on the show intead of senator and congressmen of both sides, But thank you so much for the comical intertainment form Dana Loesch during the ppainful topic of slaughter of innocense by guns and the Way we pass new legislation to ban the semi-automatic weapons in america! Love to see her trip up every word and defense, No substance.
I would love to debate Piers Morgan about guns. Clearly he knows nothing about weaponry and the use of semi-automatic firearms. I have sold weapons, have friends who are in the business of manufacturing firearms, currently I sell tooling to firearms manufacturers, and am a semi-avid hunter. I am also not like some of the gun nut crazies he has had on his show and who cannot defend their positions without getting overly emotional. I realize this probably makes me exempt from talking with him, as he seems to like talking over guests with whom he disagrees. Mostly, I would like to educate him on why reasonable people have a legitimate reason to own the consumer versions of weapons fashioned after military type rifles.
I have not yet heard a convincing argument as to why the implementation of stricter traffic laws shouldn't take the precedence over that of stricter gun laws. It is surprising to me that the anti-gun people who are so concerned about public safety would turn a blind eye to the road safety issue. Car accidents kill over 30,000 people every year.
It’s not fair to pick on responsible gun-owners as if they are selfish for not agreeing with new gun laws which may do more harm than good. Especially when we are willing to ignore automobile-related deaths and injuries because we don’t want stricter traffic laws imposed on ourselves even we may save thousands of lives. How’s that for being selfish?
It doesn't make me feel any better if my child was not gunned down, but killed by a careless driver. The latter possibility is 3 times higher, I, for one, want to see something gets done about it. Why on earth aren't we having heated national discussions over it? Why isn't Mr. Morgan hosting shows after shows after shows inviting traffic experts and talking about it??
I’m not a gun enthusiast. On the contrary, I've never owned a gun. But I strongly support the Second Amendment. Some people do need high capability guns to protect their lives.
Another thing a lot of people are missing is that the USA is the most heavily medicated nation on earth. There is a connection between these shootings and psychiatric precription drugs. Nobody seems to have the will to take on the powerful pharma industry over this.
radioactive isotopes, thermal imaging, .. , ?
Piers, I agree with you on gun control, I record and watch your show every day. But, stop interrupting your guests every time you ask them a question! It is rude, embarrassing (for you) or it should be! You have experience, are a professional, so act like one! You interrupted Dan Rather for goodness sake! Show some respect, I appreciate that some of the individuals that are on your show are complete delusional idiots, and many don't want to hear their drivel, but non the less, let them hang themselves completely without interruption from you! you are afforded a great opportunity to discuss and debate serious issues, so do it.
Two or three nights ago you were talking to a lady who approved of guns, her parents ha been shot or some such. She said that there are more murders were guns were prohibited, these people believe the stories of the NRA so it is sort of unfair to get cross with them for their obtuseness in defending guns, they have swallowed a lot of false facts.
Recently, I was talking about how the financiers got us into the financial mess we are in to a taxi driver and he objected that financiers have been to universities, as if that made people infallible. It is hard for many people to disrespect the choices of those who have been to university and who wear suits, which is one good reason to educate everyone, when you have been to university your respect for other people who have got a degree too gets diminished. Also, people believe well heeled people in suits, it is not for nothing that the right wing all look so well heeled and well dressed.
When other groups of people, also with degrees, try to show up such as the NRA, then there starts to be a confusing exchange of opposing facts that does not clear up the case at all.
I used to think that people in suits could be believed because if they lied other dignataries would put things straight but I have learnt that when people try to point out that somone else is falsifying reality, then the falsifiers just say the person who is trying to put things straight is the lier and there is a back and forth that creates a tremendous muddle of information for non experts to try to navigate their way through.
I think the general public should be made aware of this so that they try to use their own heads and memories instead of trusting to the heads and memories of besuited people with university degrees. I dont mean to disrespect education, I totaly approve of masses of education but knowing facts does not make you a straight person or even, always, a sensible one.
Q. Piers, what do you know of criminal harassment networks, organized crime, assaulting citizens from neighbouring homes, public place, and at the court houses with energy assault weapons, powerful radar, aimed at inflicting deadly cancers through bone marrow damage, cell damage, leukemia, lung cancer, etc, in British regimes and Canada that advocate gun control and claim to have a low homicide rate?
And their links to the basic human rights violations in the criminal code and the British regime police, "secret police", ?
Q. Piers, organized crime has identified a vulnerability that they can attack through acts of terror, our child and schools. Do you believe that our children need to be protected from organized crime acts of terror?
Organized crime acts of terror to advocate gun control, a defenseless population.
Terrorists target planes and trains because they are a target that includes many people who are vulnerable, organized crime is targeting schools for the same reasons. The solution was not to ban air travel or trains, or disarm people from protecting themselves from terrorists, this would be what terror regimes do. | 2019-04-24T08:34:28Z | http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/23/clips-from-last-night-another-school-shooting-and-a-gun-rights-advocate-argues-you-are-not-going-to-bring-down-suicide-numbers-by-having-less-guns/ |
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1 Anti-Corruption Mechanisms to Enhance Transparency, Integrity and Accountability in Public Administration "National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme- an Indian case study in anti-corruption" C.R.Kamalanathan, Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad, A.P., India. Corruption and maladministration are at once a cause and consequence of bad governance. Corruption results from the absence of the essential principles of good governance, i.e., transparency, accountability, integrity, equity, responsiveness and effectiveness on the part of those who wield authority in public affairs. According to Johnston entrenched or systemic corruption affects institutions, and influences individual behavior at all levels of a political-socio-economic system. Institutions matter for both long and short term, because they form the incentive structure of a society and provide the underlying determinants of economic performance (North). Though formal rules are in place, they are superseded by informal actions. This becomes extremely difficult to tackle and needs a comprehensive approach to anticorruption involving all limbs of governance. Root causes Motivation Motivation or incentive, driven by need or greed, is the personal or human aspect of corruption and could be perverse or positive. Corruption is the result of personal moral failing on the part of an individual. Models that focus on the individual behavioral dimension to explain corruption attribute corruption to the principal agent problem. Contrary to the maxim that agents should consider the principal s money as their own and treat it with prudence and care, (Thirukkural) agents betray the principal s interest in pursuit of their own narrow selfish ends. Disloyalty to the principal i.e., the government, and dishonest personal conduct of the part of the agent i.e., the public servant, leads to corruption. Information asymmetry or absence of transparency keeps the principal in the dark about the misdemeanor of the agent, and facilitates and shields the agent in this process (Klitgaard). Low risk induces more people to be corrupt, further reducing the efficacy of enforcement. As the World Bank puts it, C (Corruption) = O (Opportunity) + G (Gains) D (Detection) P (Penalty) High expectations of returns from corruption, and low probability of being caught, result in entrenched, high levels of corruption (UNDP). To put it in the form of another well known formula, C (Corruption) = (Motivation) (Pay) (Rewards) (Risks) Arms length principle requires that personal relationships shall play no role in economic decisions and that equality of treatment of all is essential in a well functioning economy. Corruption is the intentional non-compliance with the arms length principle aimed at deriving some advantage for oneself or for related individuals from this behavior (Vitto Tanzi).
3 conduct and conflict of interest, break down in financial management system, inadequate attention to results, and ineffectual watchdog institutions and anti corruption agencies which have become instruments of harassment. Free press and active confrontationist civil society agencies will be the silver linings in the cloud in such a situation. Strategic Anti-corruption Framework Prevention and control of corruption is not merely about going after a few government servants. It is not about mere punitive enforcement. It is equally about tackling the root causes of corruption referred to above effectively. It has to focus on both institutions and individuals constituting the system. This can only be done successfully on the basis of a strategic vision and concrete measures of reform informed by such vision. The strategic framework should comprise a combination of mutually reinforcing elements of prevention, public participation, and punitive enforcement and composite measures should be designed specifically to tackle the risk factors and specific vulnerabilities of particular sectors all through the phases of - o policy formulation, o planning, and budget consultation o design and implementation of programmes o financial management including procurement and construction, o personnel deployment, o monitoring and evaluation, o service delivery, and o regulation. A strategy and action plan, to be successful, has to have the following features: strong political vision, commitment and leadership Sustained administrative drive and determination at the top effective enabling and substantive legal and institutional framework promoting participation, transparency, integrity and accountability responsive public service delivery by aligning the public servant s action in tune with citizen interests, efficiency and effectiveness in the provision of public services inclusiveness and equity subsidiarity that is to devolve responsibilities at the level at which it ought to be handled. Right based approach to governance Public service is no longer treated as charity doled out at the will and pleasure of the State. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act confers right to work on rural population in India. This together with the Right to Information Act, 2005 provide the framework for enforcing right to employment.
4 Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme This study examines how the essential elements of transparency, integrity, accountability, and participation are built into the Act, rules, guidelines, processes, and decisions, and in the institutions, and enforced on the personnel in charge of planning, programming, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme, with particular reference to how it is being implemented in the State of Andhra Pradesh, in order to ensure corruption free implementation of the massive mission for removal of poverty. Right to Employment The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), 2005 is a landmark legislation in Indian history of social security legislation after independence. The NREGS is perhaps the largest programmme of its kind in the world guaranteeing work and failing which mandates payment of an allowance It builds in the right to employment, decentralized participative bottom up planning and implementation, and the fundamental principles of accountability, transparency and integrity all through the value chain through the mechanism of participatory management of services and full association of civil society. Civil society involvement in this ensures inclusive, equitable, responsive, open, transparent, and accountable government through an enabling environment for adversarial and advocacy action and substantive, participatory and collaborative action. The current year s country outlay on the programme is a massive sum of Rs.440 billion, approximating to $9 billion. Andhra Pradesh is allocated an outlay of Rs.60 billion, which is sought to be raised to Rs.89 billion. It guarantee employment of 100days to all rural families, covering million adults in the state spread over grama panchayats. It employs in the state staff. The cumulative expenditure in the state since its commencement in Feb to date is Rs. 126 billion. Corruption in the Programme. Corruption in this massive programme takes the shape of misappropriation, bogus work, fudged muster rolls, false measurement, delayed payment of wages, nonpayment, poor quality of work, and local capture. Loss on account of detected cases of misappropriation in A.P. alone amounts to Rs.860 million. Undetected cases are likely to be substantial. So far about 1428 field assistants and 144 technical assistants have been dismissed, 1150 officers have been suspended, 203 civil suits for recovery filed, and about 600 criminal cases have been filed for criminal prosecution. Strategy for Prevention and Control The design of the NREGS programme is unique in being largely demand driven, rights-based, time bound and bottom up planning, with incentive and disincentive structures, and guaranteed resource availability and accountability. Right based approach It grants the right to work, compensation in the event of failure, or delay in providing work, attempts to provide apart from the right to work, the ability to demand the same through the organization of eligible workers through Shram Shakhti Sanghas, i.e., workers fronts, guaranteed minimum wage, gender equity, and right to equal wage without discrimination, right to information through both proactive publication and on demand supply of information, access to process, copy of records, right to take samples, and to inspect work. Grievance redress is built in. Whistle blowing has also been initiated.
7 3. Centralised On Line Help Line for grievances redress 4. Bio-metric smart card for enrolment, identity, and electronic payment through smart card 5. Electronic muster roll with hand held PDA phones 6. Use of GIS and GPS systems for planning, measurement, recording of work, and display of work data 7. Electronic MIS, and 8. Electronic Fund Management System Conclusion The forgoing analysis shows how risk, rights and governance oriented participative management have been incorporated with the help of ICT to effective management and prevention of corruption in this unique programme.
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On the morning of 17th August 1510, Edmund Dudley – notorious minister, lawyer, and general agent of King Henry VII – made his way to Tower Hill in London to be beheaded. No account of the execution itself survives, though one can imagine the anticipation and satisfaction with which the crowd witnessed the death of a man who had allegedly wreaked “the most savage harshness” upon the king’s subjects. According to Francis Bacon, whose History of the Reign of King Henry VII has remained the preeminent account since its conception in the early seventeenth century, Dudley was “one that could put hateful business into good language”; a man who appeared at exactly the right moment to shroud the poor ethics of Henry VII’s financial policies in the cloak of law and justice. He was imprisoned just two days after that king’s death in 1509. Ever since, he has been demonised as one of “the king’s long arms with which he reached out… and took what was his,” a cunning enabler of royal corruption. In recent years, however, research beyond the narrative of Bacon has heralded an adjustment of Dudley’s reputation. The ethics of his actions remain open to interpretation, but the significance of his career to historians of this most obscure of Tudor reigns is only just on the cusp of being fully understood. This article will scrutinise the validity of the traditional view of Dudley, asking whether he deserves the reputation he has borne – and considering why it remains important to explore this issue further.
Edmund Dudley was born in 1462, just a year after the 18 year old Edward of York had dramatically seized the throne from Henry VI at the Battle of Towton. Dudley’s grandfather was John Sutton, first Baron Dudley, one of the many noblemen in England to swap camps from the Lancastrian army of King Henry to the Yorkist forces of Edward – and to be subsequently rewarded in the aftermath. Thus, whilst Dudley’s childhood and adolescence were marked by the tribulations of the Wars of the Roses, his noble blood placed him within the small minority at the top of the societal hierarchy. The family survived even the demise of the Yorkist regime, with Dudley’s father, Sir John Dudley of Atherington in Sussex, later recorded as working on numerous commissions with Sir Reginald Bray, a councillor to Henry VII.
As was standard for men of his social rank, it is likely that Dudley was first educated at Oxford University before moving to Gray’s Inn, one of the Inns of Court in London, from around 1478. John Fortescue had earlier described the curriculum at the Inns as consisting of legal sciences, scripture, chronicle history, and “a cultivation of virtues and a banishment of all vice.” Here Dudley also lectured on quo warranto (the proceedings by which the king could enquire into the land holdings of his subjects) and on various other statutes related to the king’s prerogative. Thus, far from being one of Henry VII’s entirely ‘new men’, Dudley was not only the heir of a family already closely connected to the Crown but was also quickly establishing himself as an expert in the legal capacities of that Crown. With this in mind his ascendancy seems inevitable.
Dudley’s ascension into the king’s inner circle was, however, more gradual than has usually been presumed. From 1491 onwards, whilst still lecturing on statute law at Gray’s Inn, Dudley was elected as a Member of Parliament, first representing Lewes and then acting as a knight of the shire for Sussex. From then on he appeared to follow in the footsteps of his father, working on commissions within Sussex well into the new century. He also held the important position of under-sheriff of London from 1492 to 1502, a role which gave him a long-lasting connection with the city of London. It must thus be noted that the suddenness with which Dudley appears on the scene in the narratives of writers such as Polydore Vergil and Bacon is overstated; by the time he was officially made a councillor of the king in 1504, Dudley was in his 40s, had an established career in law, and would have been familiar to most of the realm’s leading officials.
Nevertheless, Dudley must have had particular favour with the king, who also gifted him the position of Speaker of the House of Commons in 1504 and soon after made him the first lay president of the royal council. Subsidiary to this main council, Dudley seems to have fallen in with a small yet significant group known as the ‘Council Learned in the Law’, an “indeterminate body” responsible for hearing a variety of different cases, usually at the whim of Henry VII himself. Largely Dudley’s work appears to have included pursuing cases in the king’s interest, often in relation to property or to the misdemeanours of those tied into a financial bond with the king. Although technically legal, the means and ethics of these activities – including the use of packed juries and intimidation tactics – have long been questioned. Dudley’s account books note exactions from some of the king’s wealthiest subjects in exchange for pardons and, more shadily, the “kingis gracious favour.” Complaints against Dudley were, unsurprisingly, common; one plaintiff claimed that Dudley had cut him out of his case against the Earl of Derby altogether, the £300 pay-off going directly to the king, whilst Horowitz detailed how a London haberdasher named Thomas Sunnyff was imprisoned in the house of one of Dudley’s men in lieu of a £500 fine which he allegedly owed.
For evidence of the success and wealth accrued by Dudley through these activities, one need look no further than the inventory of the goods of his house in ‘Candlewykstrete’ in London, taken shortly after his arrest in 1509. The list of items from the 22 rooms included many decorated with the “Dudeley armes,” and one glass for rhenish wine engraved with the “rose ffloweres… & pourt colys” of the Tudors. He also owned “Ffrench chayres”, a women’s saddle “afte the almayne ffassion”, “a table of spaynysse makyng” and several items of crockery of “beyounde see makyng” – he was a man of expensive tastes, and had the money to fulfil them.
This material wealth, alongside his controversial role within Henry VII’s administration, perhaps explains the envy and isolation that resulted in the swift downfall of Dudley and his colleague, Richard Empson. When Henry VII died in 1509 the two men were absent from the Privy Chamber, giving the powerful figures wronged by the old regime the opportunity to use them as scapegoats. The new King Henry VIII was encouraged to imprison them almost immediately upon his accession, though it took over a year of deliberation and cajoling before he finally signed their death warrants. The charge of extortion deemed too politically insensitive in the aftermath of Henry VII’s death, Dudley was eventually accused of treasonously raising armed men against the new king. Thus was his fate sealed as the first of many Henrician ministers sent to the block.
It is difficult to know exactly what to make of Edmund Dudley. Within the scholarship on Henry VII, the initial criticisms levied against him stick firmly: Thomas Penn’s award-winning Winter King and accompanying documentary present Dudley as almost the sole architect of Henry VII’s most pernicious policies. Although the fact of Dudley’s actions cannot be denied, in the case of Penn especially there remain issues with conflating the claims of chroniclers with reality. To put it another way, portraying Dudley as taking advantage of a weakened and aged king in chronicles served the need of the new regime (that of Henry VIII) to distance itself from the heavily-criticised policies of the preceding years without besmirching the Tudor name.
More recent scholarship by James Ross and Mark Horowitz has emphasised the pervasive role of Henry VII in all of Dudley’s activities. It has long been known that Henry VII personally oversaw much of the Crown’s business, and that he coveted for himself the power to make or break men. In The Tree of Commonwealth, written during his imprisonment in the Tower, Dudley voiced concern for royal servants forced to “do further then consciens requirith… to wynne speciall thank of the king” – this despite the pressing need to placate the new king! He also pointed to the influence and demands of the king in his responses to complainants: in his ‘confession’ of 1509 concerning the Sunnyff case he explained that “the kinge hadde yor money evry grotte and I no penny therof.” He had made much the same claim in responses written in 1504, suggesting a consistent sense on his part as to the corrupt power of the monarch to direct affairs. Furthermore, if Dudley’s accounts are to be trusted (and considering the fact that Henry VII had examined every page it is likely that they can be) it is difficult to see how the opportunity could have arisen to pocket any money additional to that given to him by the scrupulous king. All in all, it must be noted that it was a given of this period that allegedly ‘evil’ counsellors would take the public blame for the actions of the untouchable monarch; the same fate awaited Wolsey and Cromwell in the next reign.
Furthermore the evidence in favour of the treason charge against both Dudley and Empson remains mostly unconfirmed. There is, of course, the tantalising reference to a small pile of arms amassed in Dudley’s home, but beyond that nothing sticks. Dudley seemed to hold to his own innocence. The more poignantly personal passage of his treatise The Tree of Commonwealth laments how “men trusting to die in ther beddes in good prosperitie oftetymes die by execution, and not worth a penny… And oftentymes his superfluous prosperities be the cause and not the guylte.” Far from putting “hateful business into good language”, here Dudley condemned the work of “pillers, pollers and… Westminster Hal,” and urged the new king to act as the moral compass for his servants and subjects alike. In summary, it is possible to construe Dudley not as the criminal “hawk” of Polydore Vergil’s account, but as a servant of the Crown like any other – whose undignified end has come to define modern-day views of his life and career.
In an age in which the rehabilitation of previously maligned Tudor ministers (a la Thomas Cromwell in Hilary Mantel’s works) is in vogue, more work is perhaps needed to uncover the reality of Edmund Dudley’s life and career. Dudley has been presented as a man who shot quickly to power from obscurity, manipulated a vulnerable king to great personal advantage, and paid the ultimate price thanks to the outcry of the people. In many respects the facts of his life contradict this account, whilst elsewhere there is simply not enough evidence to confirm the truth either way. Certainly the claim that Henry VII, of all the Tudor monarchs, could have been entirely swayed by any of his servants is to be seriously doubted – and the comments of Dudley uncovered by recent research point to the opposite being true. This is not to say that Dudley can be entirely acquitted of all the charges against him. His own account books and other material from the public records archives are enough to prove that his activities, though legal, were enough to make him deeply, justifiably unpopular.
Dudley’s career must be contextualised; he was the public face of a regime which did relatively little to acquaint itself with the common people at a time when it was dangerous to publicly criticise the king personally. It remains convenient to accept him as a scapegoat. Furthermore, the reduction of Dudley’s role in history to that of the Baconian self-interested manipulator has led to a dismissal of the personal testaments to be found in his writings, overlooking some valuable evidence of a reign for which there is already relatively little to work with. On the contrary, the realities of his actions, words, unpopularity, and unfortunate end reveal a moment of considerable tension concerning the relationship between the legal capacities of the Crown and the king’s ethical responsibilities towards his people which is yet to be fully explored. As such, the Edmund Dudley behind the accepted narrative may be just as, if not more, interesting to historians than is usually presumed.
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The authors she recommends are described in detail below. A list of books, broken down according to historical era, can be found below the author information.
The field of Russian and Soviet art history has been shaped and influenced by several notable individuals, both from the territories of the former Soviet Union and, more recently, from the West. They come from diverse backgrounds and often have very different life experiences, but their one commonality is the contribution that they have made to their respective research domains. Often, their early experiences informed their later work and research, such as that of anti-communist art critic Igor Golomshtok, whose father was arrested in the 1930s on charges of “anti-Soviet propaganda.” The following biographies give a brief overview of some of the best names in the field – to help get students on their way to exploring more about the vast and fascinating artistic heritage of Russia and the former USSR.
Unfortunately, many of these important works are now out of print – however students should be able to find them through interlibrary loan. We’ve also provided links to Amazon’s offerings, when available. Just click the names.
In his work on the architecture of Dagestan, Khan-Magomedov has personally identified and studied more than 1000 architectural monuments in Dagestan, and has written widely on the subject. His works include Folk Architecture in Southern Dagestan, Lezgin Folk Architecture, and Dagestan Mazes.
Igor Golomshtok (Golomstock) was born in Kalinin (modern-day Tver), Russia on 11 January 1929. In 1934 his father, Naum Yakovlevich Kodzhak, was arrested on the charges of “anti-Soviet propaganda” and sentenced to five years in a prison camp. As such, Golomshtok was registered in school under his mother’s maiden name, which he continues to retain to this day. In 1937, mother and son moved to Moscow, where they resided for two years before relocating to Magadan, where they lived until 1943. Surely influenced by these early experiences, Golomshtok gravitated towards anti-communist art criticism.
Golomshtok’s roots were not originally in art history, and he graduated from Moscow’s Financial Institute in 1949. However, he had clearly been drawn to art history early on, and began taking night classes at Moscow State University’s art history department in 1948, while still studying at the Financial Institute. Between 1955 and 1963, Golomshtok was employed in the department of traveling exhibitions at Moscow’s Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, where he worked in the research workshop for the restoration of architectural monuments.
In 1965, Golomshtok was called before the courts to testify in the pivotal Sinyavsky-Daniel case against Russian authors Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel. The trial is widely acknowledged to be “symbolic of the end of the ‘Khrushchev Thaw’ and the beginning of the Brezhnev era.” However, having co-authored the Soviet Union’s first work on Picasso with Sinyavsky, Golomshtok refused to testify, and as a result, was sentenced to six months’ hard labor. In 1972, Golomshtok moved to Britain, where he continues to live.
However, the move to Britain did not stop Golomshtok’s involvement with the Russian arts scene. He contributed to the inaugural edition of Kontinent, which was founded in 1974 with writer Vladimir Maksimov as editor-in-chief. From the beginning, the journal included the works of Western writers and intellectuals, as well as those of Russians living abroad. The four guiding principles of the journal were those of unconditional religious idealism, unconditional antitotalitariansm, unconditional democratism, and unconditional antifactionalism. Golomshtok was also published in the journal Syntaxis.
Golomshtok has taught at the universities of St Andrew’s, Essex and Oxford, and worked with the BBC’s Russian service for many years.
Dmitry Sarabyanov was born in Moscow on 10 October 1923, the son of Vladimir Sarabyanov, a Marxist philosopher. He later married Elena Murina, a Russian art critic.
After graduating from high school in 1941, he attended Moscow State University, enrolling in the department of art history. It was at this time that he also began work as an art critic. Unfortunately, his studies were briefly interrupted by the Second World War and his service in the Soviet army, for which he was awarded both the Order of the Patriotic War and the “Military Merit” medal. Following demobilization from the army, he returned to Moscow State University to continue his studies, and upon graduation, applied for and was accepted to a graduate program in art history. He graduated in 1952, and by 1955, he had been admitted to the Union of Artists. In the same year, he began work as the senior researcher at the USSR’s Academy of Sciences, and went on to hold the positions of Deputy Director and Head of the Institute of Art History before his departure in 1960.
Between the years of 1966 and 1996, Sarabyanov held multiple positions at Moscow State University, including those of associate professor, head of the art history department, and Russian art history consultant. He earned his PhD in 1971, and his research interests include the history of Russian art, non-Russian art during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, issues in the relationships of art and literature, the interaction of Russian and Western art and peculiarities particular to the Russian avant-garde movement. He has published over 360 articles and books, and in 1992, he was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He currently resides in Moscow.
Christina Lodder, current honorary professorial fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Dr. Lodder currently resides in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she holds the position of Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She is a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh as well as the Royal Society for the Arts, and is the vice president of the Malevich Society of New York.
John Ellis Bowlt was born in London, England on 6 December 1943, and currently teaches at the University of Southern California. He completed his PhD in Russian Literature and Art at Scotland’s St Andrew’s University in 1971, and his main research interests include Russian literature and art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as twentieth century Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia. He has written countless books and monographs the Russian avant-garde, Russian stage design in the years 1900-1930, the memoirs of Benedikt Livshits, and Sergei Diaghilev. He has a number of books forthcoming in 2013, including works on the Russian Silver age, Léon Bakst, and a catalogue raisonné on the stage designs of Nina and Nikita D Lobanov-Rostovsky.
Bowlt has been awarded numerous awards and grants, including most recently a Fullbright-Hays follow-on award to continue research on the works of Léon Bakst in Moscow and Europe in 2010, and the Order of Friendship, which was awarded by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in 2009. In 2012, he was awarded $17,000 from Moscow’s Prokhorov Foundation towards the publication of the English translation of the literary legacy of Léon Bakst. For this work, he also received $10,000 from the Advancement of Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences from the University of Southern California. Bowlt has taught and lectured internationally, including work as a visiting professor at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University in 1985 and New Zealand’s University of Otago in 1982.
John E. Bowlt currently teaches Slavic languages and directs the University of Southern California’s Institute of Modern Russian Culture.
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Taryn Jones graduated in 2008 from the University of Victoria (Canada) with her BA in history and anthropology. During that time, she also studied Russian and art history, and was heavily involved with the university’s Russian Studies course union. In January 2012, she will begin her studies at the University of British Columbia in a double Master’s program in library and archival science. Ideally, she would like to work in a gallery or museum’s library or archive. She has traveled throughout Russia on numerous occasions, and first studied in St Petersburg in 2007. In 2009, she traveled across the country, beginning at the Mongolian border and going westwards towards St Petersburg. In recent years, she has studied art history and museum studies in St Petersburg with SRAS. Most recently, she wrote articles for SRAS’s “Cheap Eats” feature and interned in the Youth Education Center of the State Hermitage, where she researched artists, edited English-language texts and translated Russian texts to English. Taryn’s specific artistic interests are the Wanderers, Socialist Realism and photography. | 2019-04-20T22:34:54Z | http://museumstudiesabroad.org/historians-of-russian-and-soviet-art/ |
Job Description: I check to make sure all the phone toll from the switches is in so we can bill our customers appropriately.
Words of Wisdom: Never stop researching and learning about new computer technologies because the field of Information Technology changes and advances rapidly.
How has your work experience prepared you for your position in SWE (or other professional society)? It taught me to work as part of a large team and not be afraid to speak up with suggestions when I saw something that could be improved.
Do you have any hobbies? Bowling, arts and crafts, coin collecting (US and foreign) and playing Pokemon GO.
1. I'm a brother of Alpha Phi Omega Co-ed National Community Service Fraternity, and that's how I met my husband (he's also a brother).
2. Walt Disney World is one of my favorite vacation destinations and it's on my bucket list to visit all the Disney Parks in the world. I've been to the two parks at Disneyland in California, and I'm visiting Disneyland Paris for the first time in May.
3. I have been RITchie the RIT Tiger a number of times, including the time I surprised my dad at the President's Ball when he was celebrating the 35th anniversary of his RIT graduation.
Job Description: I design a project’s site layout, grading and drainage, utilities, and erosion and sediment control. I put together technical specifications and cost estimates as well as conduct inspections.
Why my job is so SWEet: I get the opportunity to work on a large variety of projects: small and large scale, local and across the country, as well as working with different disciplines within the company. That allows me to learn new things and keeps me on toes! I also love watching the construction process – there is so much to learn from going out in the field and seeing how contractors make your design a reality. It’s a great, satisfying feeling when a project is completed and you can say “I was a part of that”.
Words of Wisdom: Don’t be afraid of branching out of your comfort zone and trying new things, because there is so much to learn from projects that aren’t what you’re used to.
Do you have any hobbies? I don’t have that one thing I’m extremely passionate about, so I try to do a lot of different things: I snowboard, snowmobile, rock climb, hike, bike, play tennis, do yoga, knit, cross stitch, do puzzles, read, and spend time with friends and family.
Name three things that others probably don’t know about you: I am a big Syracuse basketball fan. I went every game I could in the 4 years I attended Syracuse University, including driving with 2 friends overnight to Atlanta to watch them in the 2013 Final Four. I also studied abroad for a semester in Dublin, Ireland and traveled to 7 countries while in Europe.
Company: Ravi Engineering and Land Surveying, P.C.
Job Description: I work with a team of structural engineers to make the Architects' visions come to life from design conception through construction completion by providing design, modeling, and analysis of new and existing building in reinforced concrete, steel and wood.
Why my job is so SWEet: No building is ever the same! Each building has its own challenges whether it's a unique new building being built over an existing one or an existing structure being repurposed and upgraded to meet current codes.
Words of Wisdom: If you don't know what you're doing, ask! But by the third time you better remember.
Do you have any hobbies? I love to shoot pool and enjoy summers on the lakes in my boat!
Name three things that others probably don't know about you: I started out at Syracuse University before transferring to RIT. Go Orange! Some may think I love watching football, but really it's just an excuse to eat chicken wings and enjoy some beers - I have no idea what's actually going on!
Job Description: I provide water/wastewater services through analysis and design. Most recently this has included modeling and design of a conveyance system, and sewer rehabilitation. I also have opportunities to provide construction observation and perform field work.
Why my job is so SWEet: I learn something new every day. Whether I am doing something for the first time, or the hundredth time, there is always an opportunity to learn and improve. This allows me to challenge myself to be better every time I step into the office.
Words of Wisdom: Don’t be afraid to ask questions, and always be willing to learn.
Do you have any hobbies? Anything that allows me to be outside! Running, playing sports and spending time with family and friends. I enjoy getting crafty and I also love to cook and bake – I’m always looking for new recipes to try!
Something others probably don’t know about you: I love to travel and experience new cultures and adventures; I have traveled around five of the seven continents (still need to check South America and Antarctica off my list!). I have run a marathon, although I much prefer halfs! Orange is my favorite color (which made my choice of attending ‘Cuse an easy decision)!
Job Description: I work on the Mechanical team in the Campus and Institutions segment at CHA, meaning I can work on the design of HVAC, plumbing, or controls of airports, universities or correctional facilities.
Why my job is so SWEet: I enjoy being challenged and learning, so to be able to work on massive projects is a dream. I also get to combine my past controls experience with new mechanical skills. So I’m excited to build on my skill set.
Words of Wisdom: You will never know everything. If you feel like you do, then you’re doing something wrong.
Do you have any hobbies? I come from a traveling family, so I love going out of town, whether domestically or internationally. I try to get to Toronto & Nashville as much as possible to visit family and friends, I lived in Germany for a year, and spent three months in Costa Rica. I’m planning a trip to Southeast Asia to visit my sister and brother-in-law, who are traveling the world, and I hope to get to Cuba and Iceland in 2017, but I might run out of vacation time by then. I also love exploring different restaurants, and a good book.
Something that others probably don’t know about you: I’m the youngest of six, but I ended up being the second tallest (after my only brother). My mom says I used to hate school because it was “too easy.” According to her, I would cry from Friday about going to school on Monday. So I ended up skipping the first grade. I guess I stopped crying after that.
Job Description: I work as part of a project team to provide practical and cost-effective design solutions to a variety of development projects. My responsibilities include completing site plans, utility service design, stormwater management design, drainage, grading, earthwork, construction details, and agency approvals/permitting.
Why my job is so SWEet: I’ve gotten to work on a variety of different development projects, and the most rewarding aspect is getting to see our designs come to life! Site engineering has given me the opportunity to put my problem solving skills to the test, as every project site promotes different design challenges to overcome. As one of only two female engineers in our department, I feel we are always treated with respect and our work is greatly appreciated. Along with the design aspect, the people at BME make coming to work each day enjoyable, we work hard, have fun, and support each other when the going gets tough.
Words of Wisdom: Keep asking questions, don’t be afraid, and soak in everything you’re told. You literally keep learning something new every day!
Do you have any hobbies? I am an avid Syracuse Basketball and Denver Broncos fan. I enjoy playing basketball, golf, trying new recipes and traveling. BME’s office is also located in the Village of Fairport, adjacent to the canal…there is always something fun to do!
Something that others probably don’t know about you: I’ve slept over in the Carrier Dome a few nights while camping out for the SU/Villanova game my freshman year. I competitively rode horses for 10 years as well as won a NY State Championship in basketball. One of my dream vacations would be to go to New Zealand and visit some of the sets where The Lord of the Rings was filmed.
Job Description: I work on hazardous waste sites and sites that have known contamination by investigating & developing cleanup strategies for the site based on collected data.
Why my job is so SWEet: I get to play in dirt, I love knowing that I am helping to clean the environment, and I am always learning new and more efficient ways to remediate and prevent pollution.
Words of Wisdom: I work with many attorneys, landowners, engineers, etc. on hazardous sites and have to explain and justify remediation, which has developed my communication and leadership skills. In addition, I review and write many reports, which has improved my comprehension and writing skills.
Do you have any hobbies? I love biking, reading, and cooking.
Name three things that others probably don’t know about you: I was in a rodeo, my husband and I are beekeepers, I have biked around 6 Finger Lakes and hope to bike around them all!
Additional Comments: There are many different topics in Environmental Engineering. I work in remediation, but there is water/wastewater, renewable energy, solid waste, stormwater, air quality, geospatial, and geotechnical/soil to name a few.
Job Description: Conduct energy studies to evaluate system wide energy use for industrial and manufacturing facilities. Propose solutions to increase energy efficiency with low payback on investment.
Why my job is so SWEet: I have the unique opportunity to work in all different manufacturing plants across NY. We get to see firsthand how products are made. Consulting is a mix of field work and desk work. The work is always different, challenging and fun! My job allows me to propose energy efficient solution to high end users. By implementing these proposed solutions, companies are not only saving oodles of money, but also avoiding unnecessary fossil fuel consumption. Essentially, I am paid to fulfill one of my life long aspirations to save the planet in whatever way I could.
Words of Wisdom for someone starting in my field: Be willing to think critically, make decisions you can stand behind and accept that sometimes you may not always get it right. Failure is the key to success; listen to feedback and learn from others.
How has your work experience prepared you for your position in SWE (or other professional society)? I often need to reach out to clients and facility management for data collection. My networking and communication skills have become more advanced through my position. This skill is helpful in organizing Outreach events, such as the Explorer’s Post.
Do you have any hobbies? After graduation, I started working out at a Crossfit gym three times a week and I love it! I also love cooking and trying new recipes. I’m a huge fan of Paint Nite, puzzles and just going out for dinner with my husband and/or friends.
Something other SWE members may not know about me: I am a balloon artist. I used to make balloon animals at children’s parties. Now I do it at the company BBQ. I was an insurance agent before I became an engineer and I own a home in Johnson City, NY.
Job Description: I design RF printed circuit boards which are used in military radios and vehicular amplifiers. I work on power amplifiers and their associated harmonic filters.
Why my job is SWEet: I get to see a product go through the entire design process: from brainstorming ideas for a design, to seeing the final product being built and manufactured. I love knowing that my radio products are the basis of communication among military personnel. It is very rewarding to hear stories about how these radios have played a part in saving lives. I also get the opportunity to take part in recruiting and outreach events.
Words of Wisdom for someone starting in my field: Know your worth and take every opportunity to learn and grow. Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Go after what you want.
How has your work experience prepared you for your position in SWE (or other professional society): I was in SWE as a college student and that gave me many opportunities to develop leadership skills. I was treasurer, vice president/acting president, and participated in many outreach events. I have learned how important it is to be a role model for young women to show them the possibilities of engineering. At Harris I have led a few outreach events and am involved with recruiting. Branching out has allowed me to meet many people I otherwise would not have both within Harris and professionally in Rochester. Making these connections and taking on these roles has in turn helped me progress as a leader in SWE. Every position I take is an opportunity to learn and grow.
Something other SWE members may not know about me: I love the Buffalo Bills and attend at least 1 game a year. I enjoy learning about the process of making wine and beer and have taken many classes on the subject.
Why my job is SWEet: Every day is different - there are always new problems to solve, new projects to be a part of and new things to learn.
Words of Wisdom for someone starting in my field: Always ask questions. Not only can you learn a lot from those around you but asking questions shows that you are paying attention, eager to learn and could even lead to some great discussions that turn into improvement projects.
How did your outreach experience in college prepare you for the workplace?
The greatest thing I gained from participating in outreach events was learning how to effectively communicate information depending on the audience. For example, my methods of presenting Lean Manufacturing principles to middle school aged kids would be different than talking to high school girls and again would be different if giving a presentation to classmates. Similarly, when I am giving a presentation at work what I choose to talk about, how detailed I get and even style of presentation will differ based on the group of people the information is meant for. In addition to this skill, participating in outreach events helped a lot with building my network and helped me improve upon my public speaking skills.
Job Description: My responsibilities include technical investigations, traffic analysis and transportation system planning, street and highway system design, technical report writing, specification development and cost estimating.
Why my job is SWEet: No two days are the same – Every day that I go to work I’m doing something different! Whether it’s a traffic study, a field visit, a public open house for a project or just doing design work at my desk, it’s always something new and exciting. The People - My coworkers are not only super intelligent, but they are approachable and friendly when I need assistance figuring out a problem. Girl Power – Being not only the youngest person in my department, but also being the only female engineer, gives me an edge in the workplace. Having a different perspective than many of my male colleagues has proved to be beneficial for both parties. I’m respected and treated as an equal.
Words of Wisdom for someone starting in my field: Be a sponge! Absorb, absorb, absorb! As a young professional just starting out in this field, my best advice is to listen and gain as much knowledge as you can every day! It is truly amazing how much more I know now, than when I graduated college!
How has your work experience prepared you for your position in SWE? As part of my job I am expected to effectively communicate both written and verbally with many of our major clients. I use these same skills as the SWE Meeting Coordinator when I have to call and investigate local businesses for potential membership events and meetings.
Something other SWE members may not know about me: I was a competitive dancer for 13 years when I was growing up. My sister works in Disney World so I have a sick obsession with vacationing there! I went to Ithaca College for two years before transferring to UB.
Additional Comments: Transpo is such a broad field with so many opportunities that people don’t think about! Look around you… someone had to take the time to decide how long the traffic light at the end of your street should be green, someone decided how wide the parking spots in a parking lot should be, and someone had to decide how fast we should be going through the Can of Worms on I-490… that someone is a Transportation Engineer.
Other Professional Society Affiliations: Black Women’s Leadership Council; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated (Parliamentarian); National Society of Black Engineers; Rochester Black Employees Association; and The Women’s Alliance at Xerox.
Job Description: I manage a team which solves new and/or complex customer problems, provides direct remote and on-site service and support, and engages engineering for problems we cannot solve.
Why my job is SWEet: Customer Satisfaction is key to Xerox Business. Device problems lead to unhappy customers. When a hardware issue arises at a customer site that on-site service personnel cannot solve, it comes to my team for resolution. Making the customer happy is very rewarding. In addition, I enjoy being able to interact with people of many disciplines to get my job done.
Something other SWE members may not know about me: I attended the 2014 Rose Bowl with my mom (MSU vs Stanford) and the first 2 days of the 2014 US Open Tennis Tournament in Flushing, NY with my parents. I have participated in five 5K sanctioned runs.
Job Description: Pinewoods Engineering, P.C. is a civil/site engineering consulting company I started. We provide excellent engineering and service, at a very competitive price, to a select group of clients, whose corporate goals and policies align with our mission. Our mission is to provide support to companies with an interest in: community involvement, environmental sustainability, and promoting education.
How has your job prepared you for your position in SWE: One of my sustainable energy clients seeks public funding in the form of grants and loan securities. I have been on his team helping to write grant applications and form the relationships needed to guide those through the review courses. I was excited to be part of SWE and do grant writing for some of their projects as well.
Why my job is SWEet: I get to work for clients I am proud of. There are some companies doing really great things and I love getting to being a part of it and support them. I really believe in the companies and causes I work for and am as much dedicated to their success as my own corporation’s. I’m challenged all the time. My clients are demanding and their projects can be really challenging. I enjoying working through problems with them and being proud of the results we formulate. My job gives me the opportunity to be involved in the community. Like being a member of SWE and helping to support their incredible outreach efforts and be a part of their talented and impassioned efforts.
Words of Wisdom to someone starting in this field: Don’t ever leave your desk without a paper & pencil. Write down all the direction you’re given, even if you think you’ll remember them. It makes the person giving them feel like you are really listening and they’ll be more open to questions or providing further assistance later.
Something other SWE members may not know about me: I was electrocuted three times while doing the Tough Mudder, once fully submerged in water. I once worked as a camp counselor taking Girl Scouts on week long backpacking trips. I am an avid poker player; in fact, I met my husband during a poker tournament. It came down to just the two of us. I won, but he claims he let me win because he liked me.
Job Description: I design industrial mixers for large projects all over the world. They are used to make hair products, food, drink, and car fuel; I help your world go round!
Benefits of SWE membership: Being a part of SWE has helped me grow as an engineer personally and professionally. Meeting these great women gave me goals of things to reach for, i.e. Six Sigma Black Belt. It has given me great connections to help with future ideas and endeavors I may want to venture towards.
Why my job is SWEet: I have travelled to some places I never thought I would, like a petroleum plant in the Canadian plains. I keep your water clean – with our mixers in over half of the nation’s waste water treatment plants, I literally clean your water.
Words of Wisdom to someone starting in this field: Leave your emotions at the door and take each day with a mindset of today is just a day tomorrow is a new one.
Something other SWE members may not know about me: I am on an album cover for the local band Muler. I am, or used to be, very good with oil paints and water colors and have sold a few paintings in my prior years.
Why my job is SWEet: Today’s business world is global. I am fortunate to interface with people all over the world every day. Engineers are problem solvers – whether it is technical or personal. We change the world around us, we actually define the future or should I say we ‘design’ the future today. Technology is ever changing and I get to add my ideas to the pool for consideration.
Words of Wisdom to someone starting in this field: Your career is what you make it! Understand the unique opportunities that are available to you and determine how you best fit in. And always make time for networking. You never know what you might learn, who you may be able to assist, or who can be of help to you in the future.
Something other SWE members may not know about me: I was a pretty good shot with an M-16 rifle in my days with the Army and I am a blue belt in Karate.
Why my job is SWEet: As faculty advisor, I get to work directly with the young ladies during their college experience. It is rewarding to help guide them to become better leaders, run effective meetings, and become better engineers in the process. To see the growth from freshman year to graduating students is always amazing to watch. During the SWE-RIT outreach activities, it is fun to see the impact our young ladies have on the younger students.
Words of Wisdom to someone starting in this field: You have to love working with young people.
One thing other SWE members may not know about me: I used to play cello in civic symphonies, and would like to get back to playing when I stop being my sons’ chauffeur.
Working at an engineering consulting firm means there’s an ever-changing variety of projects to work on – every project is unique. After working for years at a satellite office for an international firm, I love working for a smaller, local company and being able to point out projects that my company has designed when traveling around Rochester. As a bonus, LaBella has a great culture – we work hard, but we’re recognized for it…engineers spend so much time at work, it needs to be more than just a workplace.
Get involved! There’s an organization for everyone, whether it’s related to your career or a special cause. Build up your network because many times it’s “who you know” that matters.
How did your work experience prepare you for being the RES President?
Working with clients, co-workers, and teams from other firms has prepared me to work with the diverse RES Board, and in understanding the needs of the Rochester area engineering community. | 2019-04-21T06:54:49Z | http://www.swerochester.org/sweet-engineers.html |
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THE United Kingdom has now enjoyed the benefits of Free-trade for more than thirty years. During that period the wealth of the country has increased with such unparalleled rapidity, that Englishmen have often been tempted to wonder at the reluctance shown by foreign nations in following our example, and effecting a similar reform in their fiscal arrangements. We have at last, how- ever, reached a period of commercial depression which has not only suggested to foreign statesmen the expediency of making still more rigid their already restrictive tariffs, but which appears in many quarters here in England to have raised grave doubts as to the wisdom of our own financial policy. There could not, therefore, be a more opportune moment for a fresh investigation by the light of maturer experience of the old controversy between Free-trade and Protection, which was supposed to have been finally settled in this country at least a generation ago. Mr. Fawcett brings to the task, as we need scarcely say, not merely the trained skill of an accomplished expert, but an acquaintance with practical politics, in which few economists have rivalled him, and a judicial candour in which he has been surpassed by none. A striking illus- tration of this last quality is afforded in the introductory remarks to the present volume, where the author points out how largely accidental circumstances, which are not likely to be repeated elsewhere, helped to secure the triumph of Free-trade in England, and how, since the victory was achieved, it has been credited with many good results to which it has contributed but little, if at all. Protection in England was at once a producer's and a consumer's grievance, enlisting in the ranks of Free-trade forces so strong even in isolation, so irresistible when allied, as the manufacturing interest and the half-starving multitude. Nor should we forget that besides Free-trade, many causes have been at work to produce our recent commercial prosperity. The abolition of Protection hero was accompanied or closely fol- lowed by the development of our railway system, the extended use of machinery in almost all branches of productive industry, and a large emigration to the gold-fields of Victoria and California. Many of the import duties, moreover, which Sir Robert Peel and his successors got rid of, were in no sense protective, and there- fore whatever advantages have accrued from their removal must be put down not to Free-trade, but to the simplification of our fiscal system. The first apostles of Free-trade were naturally and excusably prone to exaggerate its efficacy, and Mr. Fawcett does well to point out to its advocates in these latter days, who adopt the same tone without the same justification, that they only bring discredit upon the cause which they seek to advance.
• Frec-Tcade and Prolectien. By Henry Fawcett, M.P. London: Macmillan and Co. 187S. were the test of profit—be profitable to both ; what the one gained the other lost,—gain or loss being interpreted to mean addition to or subtraction from the store of precious metal held by each at the commencement of the trade. Hence international trade came to be regarded as a kind of war with well-recognised weapons of offence and defence,—import duties with which to keep the enemy out, export duties with which to carry the war into his country. The mercantile system is dead ; its epitaph was written by Adam Smith a hundred years ago ; but its disem- bodied spirit still revisits the commercial world from time to time, and even haunts the cabinets of statesmen. Much of the nonsense that has of late been talked and written in chambers of commerce and financial journals about "reciprocity" and "retaliatory duties," is a survival of the theory just described. But notwithstanding the constant employment by protectionists of phrases which seem to imply that international trade is still looked upon in some quarters as a form of warfare, there can be no doubt that the ostensible, and in most cases the real motive, for the imposition of protective duties now-a-days, is the desire to make a country self-supporting, and to -encourage various branches of native industry. It is, we think, important to remember that this is an end which cannot be exhaustively or finally judged from the economisCs point of view. We may, though not perhaps very easily, conceive of practical conditions under which a wise statesman might deliberately choose that his country should be comparatively poor, but wholly self-sufficing, rather than that she should be rich and prosperous, but partially dependent on other lands for her sup- plies of food. It is certain that not only the politicians, but the greatest political thinkers of antiquity, living under the most various conditions, and starting from the most dissimilar pre- mises, unanimously adopted this view. It would be out of place to attempt any discussion of the general question here and now ; we simply enter a caveat in passing. All that the economist asks of the protective system is,—How does it affect the production and distribution of wealth? Does it make the nation which adopts it richer or not ? Does it benefit the producer, or the consumer, or both, or neither? Tried by these tests, Protection breaks down utterly. To take first the case of bounties on exports, Mr. Fawcett clearly shows that, leaving out of the question the foreign consumer of the exported product, the only class who profit by them are the owners of the soil on which the raw material of the protected trade is grown. The home consumer loses doubly,—first as tax-payer, and again in the enhanced price of the commodity whose export is encouraged. The pro- ducer, in whose interest the bounty is nominally granted, is pre- vented by competition from making any larger profit on what he exports than on what he sells at home. The French bounty, for instance, on the export of sugar enables us in England to buy sugar more cheaply than the French, from whose country it comes. No doubt it injures the English sugar-refiner, but it benefits the English consumer. On the other hand, it in- jures the French consumer without benefiting the French sugar- refiner. It does no good to any one in France but the small fraction of the people who are cultivators of beetroot. Exactly the same observations apply to the supposed advantages conferred by import duties upon particular trades. A protective import- duty is never imposed except to prevent the foreign producer from underselling the home producer in the home market. Unless, therefore, the duty raises the price of the protected commodity above what it would be if free importation were allowed, it is wholly unnecessary for the purpose in view, and stands self-condemned. It is obvious that the home consumer cannot but suffer in his character of consumer from a tax the very test of whose efficacy is that it makes him pay more than he otherwise would for the article in question. Where, moreover, the subject of the import-duty is a thing like iron, which is itself an instrument of production, he suffers further in his character of producer, if he be a producer, from the increased dearness of the processes of production. Nor does the advanced price of the protected commodity confer any lasting advantage upon the very class of producers whom it was intended to benefit. For the moment, no doubt, capital invested in the favoured trade yields a larger profit, and the labour en- gaged in it earns higher wages ; but the increase in both cases is temporary, and only endures until, by the agency of competition, an influx of capital and labour, which was previously idle or otherwise employed, reduces the gains of the protected industry to their normal level. Here, again, the only persons who ulti- mately profit, and that at the expense of the community, are the owners of the raw material,—or rather, of the soil in or upon which it is found. Such are the conclusions to which the econo- mist is led by a process of strict deduction, and Mr. Fawcett shows how entirely they are verified by the results of our own experience in the matter of the Corn-laws. The Corn-laws were intended to benefit the agricultural interest. When they were abandoned, after a trial of thirty years, it was found that they had largely raised the rent of land, and that the landlords, as a class, had profited by them. To secure this result, the tenant- farmers had been all but ruined, the agricultural labourer had been reduced to pauperism, and the poorer class throughout the country was in absolute want of the first necessary of life.
This, in rough outline, is the argument against Protection, which Mr. Fawcett fills in with abundant detail and a wealth of illustration which adds immensely to the vividness of the impres- sion made upon the reader. But he is not content with restating a series of old positions. He goes on to deal with the latest development of the protectionist spirit in England,—the cry for reciprocity. No one in this country now doubts that Free-trade is a good thing, but we are constantly being told that "one-sided Free-trade is an absurdity." It cannot, of course, be denied that the adoption or retention of a restricted tariff by most other nations is not only very disappointing to the hopes of English free-traders, but causes serious and ever-increasing injury to English commerce. But the question is,—Should we be any better off if we were to retaliate on the countries which do us so much harm, by imposing import duties on such of their products as they send to us ? It is obvious, of course, to every one that the English consumer would suffer from the proposed retaliatory duties. It matters not to him where his silk comes from, but it becomes a serious thing when the price of every yard of silk is raised. But let it be assumed that the rise in price of the commodities whose import is to be restricted is very incon- siderable,—not more than the consumer will willingly put up with for the advancement of English trade,—what then ? Will the home producer really be benefited ? Mr. Fawcett takes, by way of illustration, our trade with the United States, which at present send us every year three times more than they take from us, and are therefore, in the eyes of the reciprocity-mongers, the fittest subjects for vindictive measures. Now, nine-tenths of the Ameri- can imports into the United Kingdom are articles of food and raw produce ; in fact, more than a third of the whole is raw cotton. If, therefore, we wish to inflict a real injury upon the Ameri- cans, in return for that which they have inflicted on us, we must put an import - duty on some of these things. In other words, we must either tax food or raw cotton. As to the effects of such a tax on food, the Corn-laws taught us such a lesson, that we are not likely to be asked to repeat the experiment. To tax raw cotton means to increase the price of every pound of yarn and every yard of calico which our manu- facturers export to foreign countries. Already they tell us they are being driven from foreign markets by competitors who can spin and weave more cheaply than they can ; and do they propose, by way of reinstating themselves, and regaining their lost or failing customers, to add to the already 'excessive cost of produc- tion, by taxing the raw material ? This, surely, is retaliation run mad. But, it is said, it is not only the raw material that is im- ported ; American calico is actually sold in Manchester and London ; by our absurd system of one-sidedness, we are allowing ourselves to be undersold in our own markets. That American cotton-goods are being imported into England in any considerable quantity, we wholly disbelieve ; but even if it be so, what good will a retaliatory duty do ? It will injure the American exporters, doubtless, but will it raise the rate of profit in Lancashire ? We say nothing as to the unfortunate consumer, who ex hypothesi is to be deprived of the advantages of competition, in order that things may be made to look a little more lively on the Manchester Exchange. The utmost that a prohibitory import-duty upon American calico could do, would be to give a momentary stimulus to the stagnant energies of the English cotton manufacture ; and at a time like this, any accession to the profits of any branch of industry would be eagerly and at once annihilated by the feverish inrush of capital, at present famished for want of employment, and so to speak, frozen out. The truth is, that the panic-fear of foreign competition, whether well or ill-founded, is excited and kept up not by the casual consignments of cotton or iron goods which desperate American and Belgian manufacturers send from time to time to England, but by what is going on in foreign markets where we have hitherto been without a rival. This is where the shoe really pinches, and the jargon of reciprocity only distracts attention from the real remedy. Assume that we succeed by means of an import-duty in expelling American calico • mid We in Japan, and Japanese Child-Stories. from the English market. Shall we be any better able than we I Bachelier-es-Lettren, ac. London: Griffith and Duran.
now are to undersell our transatlantic competitor in China, or to win back the customers whom he has enticed away from us there and elsewhere, by the superior quality of his wares and the greater honesty of his workmanship? If it be true that our foreign trade is waning, the true remedy is to be sought not in a revival of obsolete fiscal fallacies, but in the abandonment of these discredit- able methods of production and exchange which our manufacturers and merchants learnt to practise in an evil hour for themselves and for the honour and profit of British commerce.
Space will not allow us to follow Mr. Fawcett in his admirable chapters on" Commercial Depression" and "Commercial Treaties." We commend them and the whole volume to the careful attention of all who are interested in the most pressing economic problems of the time. | 2019-04-21T04:37:10Z | http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/28th-december-1878/18/books |
Why is this passing around on the internet?
This post follows up the nighttime photos of the Frozen Falls. It really is a breath-taking sight with the Falls lit up in colorful lights. This is the next morning above. Parts of the Falls are frozen, but you can clearly see water still falls.
That post was a bit gratuitous because I knew it would be off the charts in views. How I did was the post Niagara Falls Under the Ice in Holiday Spirit was soaring, so as a savvy blogger in the know, I thought to get photos at night to capitalize on the viewer traffic.
We had a good share of flooding last year and do not look forward to it again for 2014. Creeks are over-flowing and systems are over-loaded. Storm drains are backing up because of the ice blockage in the Niagara River. I am lucky enough to live right above the Niagara Gorge – at least this is one big hole in the ground for water to drain.
I took these photos on Thursday with blue skies and Friday with darkened gray skies, giving some images the look of black and white photography.
With rising temperatures, the ice is falling from the trees, a very dangerous thing to have it fall on one’s head.
The parks department has most areas with trees cordoned off to protect the tourists, now increasing as the thermometer rises.
Take the tour from the comfort of your warm and dry homes.
If you want to see photos of when it did, see my post, Not a Green Leaf in Sight, Only a Green Dinosaur.
And they keep on top of the ice in the river, having the ice-breaker boats out for the past few days. It helps melt the ice as temperatures rise above freezing.
The image above is the gorge wall. There are many “falls” of frozen water along the rock face of the Gorge.
Want to have a seat?
If you do, you will be rewarded with a sight rarely seen elsewhere. If you are a follower here, you know why the ice forms. If not, see this post with pretty images of the iced trees on a blue sky day. Not much beats Niagara Falls for beauty in winter.
Even the magnitudes and poundage of ice are a marvel.
Here are the two boats hard at work. I think one is a US coast guard vessel, the other a Canadian ice cutter boat. Note the flags.
Sunday morning, want more ice? Duckdom, the conclusion. Sorry regular readers, I had to get this post in a timely manner. Bear with me duck lovers.
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I wish there was more color. The day could not have been more drab.
We just love Niagara Falls! And I thought wow, wouldn’t it be cool to see the falls frozen solid. And now, it isn’t??? Those news people. They’ll say anything.
Nice photos and an interesting story. The evidence is convincing!
It was more frozen than normal, but really was blown out of proportion by the news services. There headlines were so sensational I could not imagine anyone not believing them. One even said the falls was Niagara No Falls.
Amazing! Thank you for these photos.
These are beautiful photos! And thanks for setting the record about the freeze straight!
I felt I needed to at least show images from the last two days. Too much misinformation.
Amazing to see what shapes ice will form. Love all the photos.
I wish the day was not so dark. It was hard to expose to get the shapes. Much more was there than I could record.
This is an amazing post with photos. The news must having nothing else to talk about lately, but the weather we have been having. Timely post. Your viewership clicks should go up with this one too!
It all started because people were posting images from 2007 and saying it was from yesterday. It makes me wonder how these news agencies around the world check their stories. And another photo from our hometown newspaper was also from a different day, but it was this year at least. All for a story….
Looking down at the ducks is like seeing the edge of a glacier.i heard somewhere in the world that the icebreakers could not get through the ice because it was too think. It is interesting how humans interact with nature to help alleviate future problems caused by present conditions.
That water being piped in I believe is storm water. In Niagara Falls our sewers go into storm pipes. Also there are places the chemical factories dispense heated steam water (used for cooling) into the river. They used to dump waste, but to my knowledge, that is no longer allowed. And the storm/sewer water I am certain goes through the treatment plant first. But I still feel the ducks as they are getting a poor substitute for their natural conditions.
yes, more than likely.The water treatment centre pushes out hot water into the river here and this is where you can always find ducks that seemingly over-winter. This is where the eagle and coyotes feed as well.Do ducks know they have choices about flying south to warmer climates? Who knows .
Thanks for stopping by and be careful this weekend not sure about that area but with heavy rains and ice jams we will be looking at bad flooding hope it is not like FL just had 😦 all this ice then temps in the 50’s Stay Safe!
We are in the midst of the melt down with rain, but temps are to drop again which will leave us in an icy mess.
Well, I think many have not seen a sight like this and the hype builds and builds. I have grown a bit accustomed to it, yet I still think it is beautiful, even on such a grim day as some of these photos were taken.
my my my! these images are beautiful, and i am very thankful to be viewing them from ecuador and not experiencing that cold in person! the magic carpet will definitely put you on its flight plan when the airlift/flower drop gets underway – probably sunday night or monday morning, internet willing!
sending you warm-weather thoughts and images of tropical flowers!
I would be happy to fly off to lands of blooming flowers. Last year at this time, I was in St. Lucia and at home they had a snow storm.
I think the lighting conditions worked great for these. Tremendous scenes and sure looks cold!
Oh, I had a heck of a time because the mist was so thick it grayed out everything. I could barely see the Falls myself. I kept trying for a happy medium to get some contrast, yet still have snow look white. Usually, I find shooting in snow effortless, but you would know as a sports photographer, some days are not optimal.
I found places far from here were the worst at sensationalizing the ice at the Falls. I have seen it like this quite a few times, so to me, I did not think it so extraordinary.
sensationalizing…that is the right term!
I remember going to Niagara Falls with my parents in the late 70’s. Such a spectacular site…..live your photos of this masterpiece partially frozen!!
It is so different at this time of year. I actually prefer it. Less tourists and interesting landscape.
Spectacular photos. Wish I had been there. Next time the weather is like that, I’m going to drop what I’m doing and go to Niagara Falls.
I will call you! It looks like next Thursday the arctic air returns here, so the weekend Fall’s view should be a sight again.
Certainly winter has its stark beauty, but I prefer to see it through your lens and talented eye, than personally.
Thank you, Les. When the sun is out and blue skies above, the starkness is gone. It feels so different between these kind of days.
I enjoy the cold weather and dress for it too. I go to feed the birds each day, so I am there often. Where the birds are in the woods, does not get the wind and mist from the Falls. Much better conditions.
I guess I didn’t realize you lived so close. That’s awesome you can visit regularly.
But what did the ducks do before we were there to create warm pockets of water? I guess they all migrated. Yesterday the weather suddenly warmed to above freezing and the rain poured. We are now living in the Land of Slush.
Those warm pockets are no picnic for the birds though. It is from the storm system and also from the factories along the river. I am not sure how it works now, but at one time, it was raw sewage and chemical dumping. I believe now it is treated water sent to the river.
Nature does have a way of letting us know who really is in charge around here. Lovely photos, so happy you shared them.
I am surprised, someone coming here instead of leaving. I hope he does well in his job and finds the area a place to make home. We are melting today, but cold weather is back on the way.
I was wondering how it could possibly freeze solid…great images…unbelievable how it can freeze and look even more beautiful.
It is a marvel at all times of the year, but winter is my favorite.
Stunning images. I can’t even imagine how dangerous it must be to have ice falling from the trees. Wow.
Some of what falls is rather large too, especially when it brings down a whole tree branch. Best to stay in the areas designated for safety.
Hi Donna, haven’t been here for a while, maybe you already forgot my name. I saw the frozen falls also in the net as well as the one saying it is false, ka so I thought of you and came up here. Now I know what to believe, thanks. And your photos are NG materials, am sure there will be future copiers of these again. I haven’t greeted you yet, Happy New Year!
Since few people outside the region probably travel to Niagara Falls in winter, you have given us a rare glimpse of this beautiful frozen landscape. I just humped over to “Not a Green Leaf in Sight . . .” (which I notice was posted–most refreshingly–in August). I have seen vintage 1907 postcards of hundreds of people ice skating on the frozen Ohio River between Bridgeport, OH, and Wheeling, WV. Evidently, the river froze over fairly regularly back then, although it hasn’t in my lifetime. | 2019-04-24T14:00:17Z | https://gardenwalkgardentalk.com/2014/01/10/niagara-falls-was-not-frozen-solid/ |
A young man once left for war. He didn't come home.
When Dale Pulliam left for Vietnam almost 38 years ago, he could have wrapped his arms around a slender maple tree in his front yard between Haysville and Derby. In the years since he left the home where Betty and Leonard Pulliam raised him, the tree has grown to 3 feet wide.
Dale, a 21-year-old Marine lance corporal, died from an enemy mortar attack near Vietnam's demilitarized zone on Mother's Day 1967. And at 4 p.m. the next day -- his mother will never forget what time it was -- two Marines arrived to give the news to her and Leonard.
When Betty heard the words, when the shock struck her, she remembers, "I had a wild impulse to run to the bathroom and lock the door."
She wanted to shut out the terrible news and hide. She pounded her husband's chest as he put his arms around her.
And now, when she hears about a soldier dying in Iraq, she says, "I cry... because another boy has died. It is a devastating thing for a family to go through."
The families of men and women dying in Iraq have only begun to experience the kind of loss she has survived for nearly four decades.
She is 78 now, part of a dwindling generation of parents who lost sons in Vietnam.
To know what she has endured is to know what other families might face.
She sees parallels between the two wars. "To me, it's almost like Vietnam all over again because we shouldn't have been in Vietnam, and we shouldn't be in Iraq."
In both cases, as she views it, Americans sending children to war were "told a big story, but it wasn't true."
But she remains supportive of troops serving overseas now, and a sign in her front yard says so. "You can't blame them for anything," she says.
Dale attended Derby schools but transferred to Clearwater High School his junior year so he could play more sports. He graduated with Clearwater's Class of 1964.
In Betty's living room -- where Dale put his arm around her before going to war in 1966 -- hangs a picture of Dale wearing his Marine dress blues.
His face resembled his mother's, but "his eyes were darker than mine," Betty says. "His eyes could talk." Dale was so friendly, she says. Dale never met a stranger -- she often uses that phrase to describe him.
The Clearwater community lost four of its own in Vietnam, including Dale, Betty says. "And in a small town like that, that was a lot."
Almost a year since U.S. soldiers went into harm's way in Iraq, more than 500 have died. In Dale's war, sometimes 500 soldiers died in just one week.
But even war had its wondrous moments for Dale. "The stars are so beautiful at night, it seems like you're out in your own back yard," says a letter Dale wrote from Vietnam to a friend in February 1967. But, he added, "you're really here and have to be alert at all hours of the night.
"Today most of us stopped at a river and took baths. It made me think of being in the river over by Clearwater (except for all the banana trees)."
Betty didn't know until after he died that Dale had sent a letter to his older brother Stanley, a Marine who had returned from sea duty near Vietnam. Dale wanted Stan to know his wishes for any funeral arrangements. He realized he couldn't ignore the possibility of his death.
In March 1967, Dale wrote to the friend: "Our company really got hit hard last week; we killed 700 Viet Cong in two days but 200 of our men (almost the whole outfit) was wounded. I was so scared I couldn't believe I was over here seeing so many men die for no reason."
And in his last letter to the friend, dated May 1, 1967, he wrote: "We are in mountains again and are moving every night to keep from getting surrounded... God will watch over me."
Two weeks after he wrote the letter, as his unit moved toward an enemy position in Quang Tri Province, enemy mortar fire hit Dale the mortar man.
"Your son received multiple fragmentation wounds, which proved to be instantly fatal," said a letter Betty and Leonard received from Dale's commander.
At her home, Betty pulls out the letter, its paper still crisp, its ink signature still vibrant.
Betty has carefully kept the letter along with snapshots Dale sent home. There's Dale strumming a guitar. There's Dale cradling a black and white puppy rescued from a burned village. He wrote about how he fed the pup his "C rations." He carried the vulnerable animal for miles.
As she looks through the pictures, Betty, a woman with good posture and silky white hair, begins to softly cry.
One day after Betty received word of Dale's death, a postman delivered his clothes and other personal items in two large boxes. Inside one was his Purple Heart. He had been wounded by shrapnel in his arms about two months before he died. "They patched him up in the field and sent him back out," Betty says.
She also received a watch he wore in one of the pictures, looped into his vest.
The watch bears an indentation, as if something struck it.
After his death, Betty says, she felt compelled to remain strong for her family. Although she talked openly about Dale, she tried not to cry in front of others.
When she had time alone, the tears flowed. She told her doctor: "I go back to bed and cry myself to sleep." He told her that might be a good remedy. Her grief was like a fever. She had to let the fever break.
The most comforting words came from her grandson Cary, 4 at the time of Uncle Dale's death. The first time she saw the boy after Dale died, he told her, emphatically: "Grandma, Grandma, Dale isn't dead!"
God came to him in his bed, Cary told her, took him on a visit to Heaven and showed him that Dale lived there. To this day, she says, Cary's comforting words are "printed on my mind."
She was a stay-at-home mother and wife and tried to stay busy and positive.
She would tell herself, "Thank God, I still have three children" -- Stan and daughters Sandra and Sheryl.
Art became an outlet. She took a painting class and created luxurious landscapes that hang from her walls.
She wishes she had had a support group. None were available to her in 1967.
In 1971, she joined Gold Star Mothers, whose members have lost sons or daughters who died while serving in the military. The group became part of her identity, part of her coping. She is working to have a Gold Star Mothers monument erected at Wichita's Veterans Memorial Park. She serves on the group's national executive board.
Over the years, she learned a survivor's saying: "You don't ever get over it. You learn to live with it."
She learned to live with Dale's death. She survived breast cancer, survived heart problems.
Betty's husband, Leonard, a World War II Army veteran who survived the Normandy invasion, endured his son's death as well. He retired after 31 years at Boeing, where he worked as a tool and die maker.
Health problems resulted in his leg being amputated. But Betty was proud of him because he didn't give up. With one leg, he would get on his motorized scooter, reach down with a short-handled rake and gather any debris that blew onto his lawn. Leonard died in 1998.
Dale died, but his legacy survives. Some of his nephews and great-nephews have "Dale" as middle or first names.
Dale remains a tangible part of his mother's life. Standing in her living room, Betty stoops by her fireplace and picks up a sturdy teddy bear. "This was Dale's bear," she says, laughing as she holds the stuffed animal. She brings the bear out around Christmas time.
Even 37 years after Dale died in combat, she still has questions. "I found it awfully strange that after all this, we haven't heard from anyone who was with him." He was assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, 3rd Marine Division. "Did they all get killed or what?" And what happened to his dog tags? She never got them.
A few ago, Betty heard about other mothers traveling to Vietnam so they could see where their sons died in the war. At first, Betty didn't like the idea. She thought it would bring back bad memories. She wondered if such a trip might make her feel animosity toward whoever killed her son.
But she has decided to take the journey and just received her passport. She thinks the trip may give her the closure she has yet to feel.
The lack of closure, Betty says, has to do with never getting to see Dale's body. His casket remained closed.
For a while after he died, she hoped it was all a mistake. She couldn't help clinging to a desperate belief that it wasn't Dale's body that had come home. Dale was supposed to return in September 1967. Maybe he would still walk through her door as the maple tree started to drop its leaves.
But September came and went, and she knew: Dale would never walk past the maple tree in the front yard again. The maple tree kept growing without him.
Betty had an unsettling dream about his homecoming. In the dream, Dale walks down her sidewalk with his duffel bag slung over his shoulder. In the dream state, she tells Leonard to hurry up and hide a telegram announcing Dale's death, so she could shield her son from his own death notice.
Now, she believes it might rest her mind to see the land where Dale last walked this world.
Where he sweated under forest canopies, where he stared at star-lit skies that reminded him of his back yard, where he saved a puppy -- where he gave his life.
Reach Tim Potter at 268-6684 or [email protected]. | 2019-04-23T12:24:32Z | http://derbyclassof64.com/Pulliam.html |
long-long ago for $3–I’ll bet it originally included some lantern-styled glass around it. I’m always collecting misc parts of things~found this wood piece in one of my bins with a $1 price sticker on it. AND a random lamp shade was laying around- 50¢.
The wood piece looks like it was part of a lamp so it was already drilled out down the center–YaY! I DID still have to make/drill some modifications to fit the center shaft through it. Then I put the chandy back together -THEN- I painted!
Now the shade—it LOOKED like the perfect size and scale to add to the end look and design!
Digging through my stashes of grain sack- I was excited to find an end cut still WHOLE in its tubular form. And can you believe, it was EXACTLY the right diameter. Omg- MEANT to be?
Don’t ya’ love when that happens?!?
And now a REcovered — CUSTOMIZED lamp shade!
I took the chandy apart one last time at just the top section so I could feed the shade into the mix for a solid attachment.
I LUV IT—but time to get back to what I actually WAS working on!
Small in scale but perfect for a hall, foyer, or small bedroom!
on the subject of Birdhouses. . .
Even back then- my thoughts gravitated towards the ROOF of a birdhouse. Two of them!
Obviously, I bought it– and promptly deconstructed it!
But sadly, any kind of project got back-burner’d into my stashes.
So now I’m thinking about this potential project–again.
I just think the two BIG “roofs” will make super fun -and even biGGer- Birdhouses!
Btw~ yesterday I ran back to the antique mall with a few props for my latest two favs! I really love them—and if for some reason they don’t sell- I really won’t be so terribly upset about it.
So you see- my mind is stuck on spring. . . if only Mother Nature would get on board!
I can’t remember ever sharing this with you—from 4 years ago.
. . . gotta love when that happens!
I painted them with a charcoal gray metallic spray paint, and decoupaged the metal shades with parts of an early 19oo’s newspaper.
so fun stumbling onto these old pictures!
SOMEONE wanted to update their bed.
They hired my favorite furniture strippers—who stripped the head board~foot boards and, as instructed, CUT OFF the decorative bed posts.
But that was the COOLEST PART—wt??
The guys already chucked some of the parts, but others were still laying on the ground. . . .until I happened by with a project in tow.
“What’s T H I S?
Clearly, I’m not above begging. And once they checked the owners didn’t want ’em back—THEY WERE MINE!
I asked the guys to strip them—they’re Maple! I cut off the extra “ends,” drilled holes down the center (not an easy task with HARD wood), and pulled some Maple veneered plywood to make a pair of plinth boxes for them to sit on.
THESE are going to become lamps!
and then I remembered I had a perfect pair of lamp shades found in the ReStore! Yes~I also hoard collect lamp shades. Don’t judge~it’s a sickness.
But look at what I found for the price! Perfect!
now onto wiring and some finishes!
In spite of the totally royal pain in the p’tutie it was to create my first —I took on another!
it was to get all those crisp stripes. Not to mention the challenging iconic logos.
~did I price it too low?
The first time around I suffered greatly—all because of “cheap” painter’s tape. I thought. Well, once a victim~twice a volunteer, and I wasn’t volunteering for another round of punishment! I spent the crazy-extra dollars for Frogtape!
That’s laughable considering the amount of pre-planning and strategizing required. I bought both of the expensive multi-surface and delicate surface tapes—I thought it might take both throughout the different stages of the project.
Now, let me just say— I’ve given a LOT of thought to this before writing. Sorry Frogtape, maybe we could talk?
This was a L O N G project to get through. No joke.
◊ I sanded the body just to even out the raised stenciling—and generally AWFUL paint job. It also gave the dresser a tooth for my painting.
◊ I stripped the top. Evened it out with a lighter stain, and waxed it.
◊ I mixed up some “Burberry” beige and painted the body of the dresser. It just so happened that it was 2 days before I could come back to continue, so the paint was well cured.
I planned, I strategized, I worked the math. And I finally started taping off the first of the stripes—the white. I used the multi surface Frogtape. I painted all six white verticals and immediately peeled off the tape—so far so good.
I probably gave this part about 2 hours drying time. I had lunch, I cut the grass, checked emails, it was a moderately hot day. I gave the stripes a VERY light sanding and got busy REtaping for the dark gray stripes. I used some standard painter’s tape to keep accurate spacing throughout the project. I used a chip brush to achieve a striae’d effect.
Again, I peeled the tape off right away. This time I saw a bit of bleed through, but worse—it pulled off the other paints!
I know all about burnishing the tape edges and have actually discovered over many years of painting that using a razor blade applies much more consistent/even pressure and adhesion—WaY better than your fingers!
I was really disappointed to see even a little bit of bleed through considering all the hype. But I was IRRITATED beyond measure that it ripped the paint off!
I lightly sanded, REpainted the white, and walked away from THIS project till the next morning.
With a fresh attitude—I REtaped and painted the gray stripes, AGAIN, and peeled the tape off right away—successfully. I had other projects going simultaneously and resumed work a couple hours later with the horizontal (mathematical) stripes.
I taped (forever), I painted, I peeled off tape. AND paint! In OTHER areas!
Come on~moderately hot weather, with exception to the “touch ups,” everything had a gOOd amount of set up/drying time, so WT???
I used the delicate surface tape this time thinking that the problem was in the multiple layers of paint –right?- but it still peeled paint off—arrrrgh!
4 days in now, my attitude was becoming hotter than the weather.
Day 5, just looking at this project conjured ideas of rolling the whole dang thing outside to build a good bonfire—so I ignored it for more cooperative projects. I certainly had enough else to do.
Day 6. THIS project needed to be ready for the next morning’s trip to Door County so -like it or not- I had to deal with it.
I taped off for the red stripes—and prayed for success. The paint held, but I saw a little bit of bleed through again and settled in for a good amount of touch up by HAND, where I found my Venetian plaster trowels to be incredibly helpful! The thin sharp edge created a nice guide to paint against—sort of like the tape was supposed to do. Insert sarcasm here. I lightly sanded the whole dresser for “wear” and to camouflage the many crummy areas (IMO).
I made a “new” hardware selection of old, tarnished brass L&R pulls found at the ReStore—it was 9pm and I had nothing left for this guy.
EARLY next morning~ I headed back out with scaled print outs and tracing paper to work on those iconic logos. I traced the images, then drew back over them with a sharpie marker. I locked them in by lightly over-spraying with a non-yellowing sealer.
11am and I was finally pulling everything out that needed to get loaded.
7. days. in. NOT some of my finest work—but hopefully someone will like LUV BUY it!
Uh WoW~ the picture makes this 42″ tall dresser look short~???
Okay. . .Frogtape. . .I don’t know.
Guess I’d like to have a conversation with a rep to problem solve my issues before bailing altogether. I hate to sound negative or burn a product-bridge, but—HOW MUCH CURE TIME does paint need before you can use this tape? ‘Cause I really felt like this was the main problem. What’s your experience?
March 7 I chased 30 miles south to pick up an old cabinet off Craigslist. Which happened to be ¼ mile from one of 3 ReStores around this area—so I stopped in.
A bit of a rant—feel free to bypass.
*We have 3 Restores—right here, about 30 miles North and 30 miles South of us. Now, I love and totally believe in the philosophy and purpose of the ReStore, and both patronize and donate…BUT. I’ve developed a bit of an attitude. Right or wrong, here’s why.
The best is about 30 miles North, and the one I actually feel committed to- by patronage, donations, and my own built-for-charity projects.
I was there as they opened next morn’ and was told they had lead paint and got crushed in the dumpster. W H A T? I was upset. 1-I would have taken them right to the strippers to make them safe, and 2-if I donated something they didn’t want to/couldn’t sell, I’d take it elsewhere! At least give the option—DON’T just destroy it! Before I left the store, a volunteer I had some familiarity with very quietly told me the “dumpster” was the MNGR’s TRUCK. W H A T?? I’ve only gone back there twice in 4 years. Under “duress.” I will NEVER again give that store a donation. TOO MUCH? Well…MOVING ON….
So I got that cabinet above for $30 and have some fun plans for it!
At the ReStore, I did buy this poor thing with no identity. It was priced at $75. Seriously folks?
They were calling it “a desk,” but I knew that wasn’t true. They also decided to reduce the ridiculous price to $37.50.
I thought it was interesting and had potential!
A few days ago -in the fog of a baaad headcold- I pulled it into my work space to figure out what it WAS and think about what it COULD BE.
Well~ it had the tell-tale signs of originally being a tall dresser. Damaged? That somehow caused the dissection? It was actually too low for a chair to go under it to be the desk they said it was—only 18″ leg clearance.
♥ I could picture lowering it even more to create a (masculine) coffee table—on wheels—but how to address the back…?
♥ It might be nice as a nightstand and add a shelf in the lower midsection…?
What if I just finish PROPERLY what someone else started and make it a desk for real!
I stripped its top to see what I had. Nice– but for what looks like an ink ring. Let’s just call that CHARM!
By its size I thought about a younger boy—by its style I thought about travel. I dug through my collection of vintage maps and found one that covered a horizontal section of the upper Midwest-East coast that seemed meant to be!
I painted the sides -inside & out- and the back.
I also repaired the inside sides from the old drawer construction.
I decoupaged the inside legs with another of my vintage Midwestern maps.
◊ I ripped and contoured ¾” boards to beef up the cut off bottom~now “legs.” I ran them through the router to 1-round over the bottom edge and 2-add a bead detail to the top edge as it meets the desk legs.
◊ It also gives more support to the reproduction ball-styled wheels I’ve added. All this boosted the desk leg clearance to 21¼”, good for a bench.
The desk legs feel beefier, and the whole desk is more substantial now that it’s boosted higher.
It came out really nice and is at the antique mall already!
I’m sharing this project with The Curator’s Collection! | 2019-04-19T10:31:42Z | https://freddyandpetunia.wordpress.com/category/the-restore/ |
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A throw of dice is all it takes to determine the winners and losers in this table game. Yet, few can resist the lure of a 7 or 11 in the first round. What if a 2, 3 or 12 shows up? Craps! Blame it on bad luck and continue betting in several different ways.
Place a bet before the hot dice is rolled. Click on the chips and choose the nature of bet by clicking again on that spot on the table. The table is marked with all the names of the bets. You can change the amount you want to bet, by clicking on the 'amount to bet per click.' Place multiple bets by clicking on the bets. You can clear most bets (except pass and come bets) from the table and start over. You can also modify the bets.
Craps is a dice game where players guess which number will be rolled. There are different ways to bet on a number. One can bet that the value of the numbers on the two dice would be 7. Or one can bet that before the 7, a 5 will be rolled. The roller is called the shooter.
Craps is played in rounds. This round can end automatically, depending on the bet placed. If that does not happen, the number that was rolled becomes the 'Point'. The round following this comes to an end only if a point or a 7 is rolled. Each outcome carries its own meaning in terms of winning and losing and payouts, which is explained later. Unless you know the different kinds of bets and what they mean, you cannot play Craps.
The Pass Line bet is the basic bet one wagers in a game of Craps. It is a series bet, where the shooter may have to roll the bet several times to determine the outcome. This also means the wager is a contract -one cannot withdraw after a round, unless the series is completed. The first roll in this series is called the come-out roll.
In this round, if 7 and 11 appear, it is an automatic pass line win, you win even money and the game ends.
If 2, 3 or 12 (referred to as Craps -French for 'toad', meaning bad luck) is thrown up, it is an automatic loss. The game ends with just one roll.
Any other number rolled – 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 – becomes the shooter's Point and the series continues.
If the shooter establishes a point, the objective of the shooter is to roll the point number again before a 7.
If any number other than the point or 7 is rolled, the shooter merely has to roll again.
If the point is rolled, the series ends with a win for all pass line bets. Payouts follow a pre-determined pattern as shown below in Table 1.
If a 7 is rolled, it is called a 'seven out' and the series ends with all pass line bets losing.
In other words, rolling a 7 after a point leads to loss of wager.
Example: The shooter throws the dice on a come-out roll and a 4 is rolled. This is a 'point' of 5. The dice is rolled again and an 8 is thrown up. There is a status quo on pass line bets. The shooter throws the dice again and rolls a 5. A 'point' is established. Pass line bets remain unaffected. The next dice roll yields a 3. It has come after the point, so nothing happens. Another roll throws up a 5 yet again. It is a win. If a 7 had been rolled as this stage, it would have been a 'Seven Out' with all pass line bets relinquished.
Also called 'taking the odds', it is an additional bet one can make midway through a Pass Line bet, when a point has been established. The bet is that the Point will be rolled before a 7. The Pass Odds bet has to be a multiple of Pass Line bet and has the same payout as shown in Table 1.
This is a series bet and is the opposite of the Pass Line Bet. Considered equivalent to betting against the shooter, the wager is that 2 or 3 will be rolled on the come-out roll, or that a 7 will be rolled before the Point.
If a 7 or 11 (Natural) is rolled, you lose.
If a 2 or 3 (Craps) is rolled, you win even money.
If a 12 is rolled, it is a push (tie).
If a number other than the above appears, it is the Point.
If a 7 is rolled before the Point, you win according to the payout table shown in Table 2.
Come bet is nothing but a pass line bet, placed after a point has been established. It is a contract bet. The next roll of the dice then becomes the come-our roll for your bet. In effect, this means multiple rounds of Craps are played simultaneously.
If 7 or 11 (Natural) is rolled in the come-out roll for your bet, you win even money.
If the Point is rolled before a 7, you win according to payouts shown in Table 3.
If a natural or craps is not rolled on the come-out roll and a Point is established, your chip is moved to the Come box for that number. For example, if the Point is 6, your chip is moved to the Come 6 box.
The come-out roll applies to the Come bets.
The come-out roll does not apply to Odds bets.
If the Come bet is resolved on the Come Out roll, the Odds bets are returned.
A Come Odds or taking the odds is an additional bet that the Point will be rolled before a 7. You can only place this wager only after placing a Come bet and after a Point has been established. The Come Odds bet is a multiple of the Come bet and has the same payout as the Come bet as depicted in Table 3 below.
If the Point is rolled before a 7, you win.
A Don't Come bet is akin to a Don't Pass bet. However, a Don't Come bet is placed after the Point has been established for another round of Craps. The next roll of the dice then becomes the come out roll of the bet. This allows multiple rounds of Craps to be played simultaneously.
If 2 or 3 (Craps) is rolled in the come-out roll for your bet, you win even money.
If a 7 or 11 (a Natural) is rolled on the come-out roll, you lose.
If a 12 (Craps) is rolled on the come-out roll, it is a push or tie.
If a 7 is rolled before the Point, you win according to the payout Table 4.
If a Natural or Craps is not rolled on the come-out roll and a Point is established, your chip is moved to the Don't Come box for that number. For example, if the Point is 8, your chip is moved to the Don't Come box for the number 8.
This is an additional bet which you can wager after a point has been established in your Don't Come bet round. The bet is that a 7 will be rolled before the Point is rolled again. Your Don't Come Odds bet is a multiple of your Don't Come bet.
This is bet which allows you to bet that a particular Point number will be rolled before a 7. Point numbers include 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10.
If the number you made a Place bet on is rolled before a 7, you win according to a pre-determined pay table. See Additional Rules for payouts.
This is a type of Place bet, wagered after a point is rolled. You bet that a 6 will be then be rolled before a 7. The Big 6 bet pays even money or 1:1.
This is another type of Place bet. After a point is established, you bet that an 8 will be rolled before a 7. The Big 8 bet pays even money or 1:1.
If the number you made a Buy bet on is rolled before a 7, you win according to the pay table below.
You bet that a 7 will be rolled before one of the Point numbers is rolled. Point numbers include 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10.
If the number you made a Place bet on is rolled before a 7, you lose.
If a 7 is rolled before the number you made a Place bet on, you win according to the pay table included in Additional Rules.
Think of the lay bet as a place lose bet, with a 4% commission for fair odds. The odds with corresponding payouts are listed under Additional Rules. You bet that a 7 will be rolled before one of the Point numbers will be rolled. Point numbers include 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10. If a 7 or the Point is rolled before the number you made a Lay bet on, you win according to a pre-determined payout list. In effect, it is the opposite of a buy bet.
You bet that the next roll will be a 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, or 12. Payout is determined by the number rolled. The numbers, 3, 4, 9, 10, and 11 pay even money, the 2 pays 2:1 and 12 pays either 2:1 or 3:1. Payouts are detailed under Additional Rules.
This is a contract wager that a pair of 2s, 3s, 4s or 5s will be rolled before a 7 or an easy way of arriving at the same sum of 4, 6, 8 or 10. As it is difficult to get two of the same number, these bets are called Hard Four, Hard Six, Hard Eight and Hard Ten respectively. The reasoning is that it is an easy way to get a four with a one and a three. This bet cannot be withdrawn once the round begins. The payouts for hard way bets are pre-determined and featured in the Additional Rules section.
Reproduced below are the payout tables followed by the Silver Oak Casino site with respect to some bets that are popular in Craps. As mentioned earlier, a 4% commission is deducted from both Buy Bets and Lay bets. Commission is rounded off to a quarter of the lowest denomination in the game.
In a game like craps which has multiple bets, it is better to stick to those which carry a low house edge.
With this criterion alone in mind, the proposition bet is not advisable as it is a single dice roll bet with very high house edge. For instance, the Any Craps bet commands more than 11% house advantage.
The 5% commission coupled with low odds is reason enough to steer clear of lay bets. If you have to place this wager, make sure you maximize your win by betting in set amounts of exact denominations. Do not give the casino a chance to round off earnings.
Though the buy bets carry a 5% commission, they carry high odds. The numbers 4 and 10 are a good choice for this bet, as they are the only numbers which produce high odds of 2:1. Casinos usually charge 5% commission on every $20 wagered (meaning a $5 bet and a $20 bet both have a $1 commission charge, just as a $22 bet and a $39 bet both have a $2 commission); so when you make a buy bet, always do so in multiples of $20 in order to maximize return.
The House Edge on field bets is quite low -5.5%. Yet, this is a risky bet as it involves a single dice roll. They help to bring variety in the wagering and can come in handy when you have a strong hunch that a shooter will roll a 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, or 12.
If you wish to make place bets, 6 and 8 may be better options as they return a house edge of 1.5%, compared to 5 and 9 which produce a 4% edge and 4 and 10 which carry a 7% edge. Also, the 4, 5, 9 and 10 bets should be wagered with multiples of $5, while the 6 and 8 should be wagered with multiples of $6. Any other amount will produce uneven amounts, which the casino will round down to make an even payoff amount.
All other basic bets like Pass, Don't Pass, Come and Don't Come are player-friendly and offer low house advantage, especially in conjunction with free odds wagers. These are the additional bets on existing pass, don't pass and don't come. All these wagers carry the 'true odd' or fair odd which brings down house advantage from 1.5% to .8%. As mentioned earlier, it is better to wager in specific denominations as casinos round off to the nearest quarter. This is not as important for a 4 or 10 as these numbers pay 2:1 odds. But numbers like 5 and 9 with payouts of 3:2, an even amount wager is beneficial. Only then will you actually get true odds.
Another method is to calculate house advantage per roll of dice, indicated as loss per hour, rather than per bet. Though the pace differs for each dice throw, on an average, it is calculated as 102 rolls per hour for a full table. Calculations are then made in terms of rate of loss per hour and for five-hour-a-day, four-day period gambling stint.
When the dice rolls, there are 36 possible outcomes. Here below is a probability chart of the possible combinations that would throw up a result of 2 to 12 with the odds against each combination.
It is evident from the above chart, that six out of every 36 results can give you a 7. The rare result is 2 and 12 as they are outcomes of a single combination.
Using this chart, one can judge the chances of rolling a 7 or 11 in the come-out roll. The plausible combinations are 6 and 2. This means 8 out of 36 combinations can give a 7 or 11. Similarly, losing a come-out roll is 4 out of 36 (combining chances of rolling 2, 3 and 12. In other words, the chances of winning in a come-out roll are double that of losing.
Another way to look at this chart is this. What are the chances of winning or losing the pass-line bet? Winning is 8 in 36, losing is 4 out of 36 -a total of 12. In percentage terms that is one-third or 33.33%. Once you learn to calculate the odds in this manner, you can devise your own odds-based strategy.
By most accounts, Craps can be traced to a game called Hazard which was played in the Middle Ages by European aristocracy. It arrived in America through the French Louisiana colony of Acadia.
Some believe the rules of the game were formulated as far back as in 1700s by Mont mort. There is evidence that one Bernard Mandeville of New Orleans simplified the game of Hazard in 1813 and gave the world Craps, based on the use of a fixed dice. John H Winn introduced the 'right' and 'wrong' bets and changed the Craps table layout to introduce the 'Don't Pass' bets as well. Thus betting for or against the roller came into existence.
It is most likely that the name of the game also originated from the English word 'Crabs' or from the French word Crapeaud (toad).
There is another theory that the game was played in the Holy Roman Empire. The story goes that the soldiers of the Roman Legions shaved pig's knuckles into cubes and tossed them on to their inverted shields as a form of entertainment while in camp. In effect, they 'rolled the bones' for entertainment.
The Encyclopedia Britannica says the name came from the Arabic words 'al zar' or 'azzah' which actually means "the dice". This would obviously imply the game is of Arabic origin.
Be that as it may, the fact remains that Craps has survived and evolved through the ages. Now it is a very popular game online.
Aces: A bet on the dice roll giving an outcome of 2.
Advantage: The House Edge. It is the incremental benefit that the Casino enjoys over bets on the table.
Any Craps: A roll wherein the shooter will return any combination between 2, 3, and 12.
Any Seven: A roll that will produce a 7, and help a shooter win. This is usually the target number for all shooters, the other being 11.
Betting Right: Bets such as the Pass Line and Come Bets on the table, which predicts a win for both the bettor and the shooter.
Betting Wrong: A bet that expects the throw to go wrong -meaning, if the shooter loses his throw attempt, the bettor wins.
Big Red: Placing bets on a seven from the roll.
Boxcars: Betting that two 6s will come out of a roll.
Buffalo: Bets placed on Hardway and Any Seven on the craps table.
Buy Bet: A conservative manner of lessening the odds by giving the house a 5% commission for more accurate odds on the table.
C and E Bet: A bet that any roll will fall between the craps numbers 2, 3, 11 or 12.
Craps: Used to refer to the numbers 2, 3 and 12.
Crap Out: An initial roll that returns a 2, 3, or a 12.
Dices in the Middle: The dice are placed in the middle until wagers are made by players on the table.
Down Behind: A term to inform a Don't Bettor that he lost in his bet.
Drop: The cash wagered on the table.
Easy Way: A safer route to follow for dice rolls that return a 4, 6, 8 or 10 being different from one another.
Frontline: Another terminology given for the Pass Line.
Hardway: A roll that will return a 4, 6, 8 or 10 before a 7 comes out.
Hi-Lo: A bet placed on either a 2 or a 12.
Hook: Player positions near the corners of the table.
Hop: A roll for a particular die combination on the table.
Hoping Hardway: The probability of returning a 2-2 combination from the die roll.
Horn Bet: A bet placed on combinations of 4 with a unit of 2, 3, 11 and 12.
Horn Numbers: Bets returning a 2, 3, 11 and 12.
Inside Bet: Bets placed on the 5, 6, 8 and 9 on the table.
Late Bet: Bets that are placed after the dice have been rolled; also known as No Bet.
Lay Bet: A Bet placed that a 4, 5,6,8,9, or 10 will be returned before a 7.
Line Bet: Bets placed on the Line or Don't Pass Line.
Monster Roll: An instance where a table generates a lot of winnings for a particular period of time.
Natural: The rolling out of a 7 or an 11 on the come out roll.
Odds Bet: A bet placed on true odds where the house does not have any advantage.
Off: When a bet is not active on the next roll.
On: When a bet is active on the next roll.
One Roll Bet: A bet placed on the next roll of the die.
Outside numbers: Numbers 4, 5, 9, and 10.
Pass: A throw made off the point or a natural throw.
Pass Bet: Bet that the shooter will throw a point or a natural.
Payout: The return of the bets for winning rolls.
Point Numbers: 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 are point numbers.
Seven Out: A seven rolled out before making the point.
Shooter: The person throwing the dice.
Snake Eyes: This is the term used for rolling out a two or a pair of 1′s.
Take the Odds: A free-odds betting that is assumed to be the right one.
Yo: A slang term for an eleven.
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In a sign of increasing partisan hostilities, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee plan to construct a wall -- a physical partition -- separating Republican and Democratic staff members in the committee's secure spaces, according to multiple committee sources. It's expected to happen this spring.
For now, some Republican committee members deny knowing anything about it, while strongly suggesting the division is the brainchild of the committee's chairman, Devin Nunes, R-California.
"I'm not part of that decision," said Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas. "You've got to talk to Devin. I don't know what they're trying to do one way or the other."
"I swear to God I didn't know that," said Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Florida, when asked about the plan. While acknowledging a wall might not be constructive for the committee's work, he said, "The level of trust and the level of everything down there is -- it's poison. It's absolute poison down there."
Rooney said one reason for the tension is an erosion of trust, exacerbated by an ongoing ethics investigation into the "entire Republican staff," including "the woman up front that answers the phone" for alleged leaks. He later added that the matter was being handled by the Office of Congressional Ethics.
Bipartisanship, he said, "is gone. It's gone from that committee."
The OCE reviews allegations of misconduct against House members and staff and, when appropriate, refers matters to the House Committee on Ethics. It is not clear what -- if any -- evidence has been submitted in this matter, or whether an investigation has been opened by OCE, which as a practice does not confirm or deny the existence of an investigation. The OCE declined to comment.
A spokesman for the panel's majority offered no comment on either issue – plans for the wall or on the existence of an ethics investigation.
The ranking member of the committee, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, does not want to see a partition built.
"We have heard reports that the chairman may seek to erect a 'wall' to divide the staff of the intelligence committee on a partisan basis -- this would be a terrible mistake," Schiff told CBS News. "While we have more than our share of difficulties, the important oversight work of the committee continues with our staff working together irrespective of party. This would be a very destructive decision."
While other House committees commonly have some divide between their majority and minority staff, for a committee whose history, broadly, and whose burden, arguably, is to be functionally bipartisan, the plan for the wall -- in all its unfortunate symbolism -- is a troubling sign of things to come.
It raises new questions about the committee's ability to complete its sputtering investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, and even to conduct its regular oversight of the country's 17 intelligence agencies.
In recent weeks, rancorous and highly public disagreements between Republicans and Democrats have seemed often to disrupt and sometimes undo the committee's investigative progress on the Russia probe in particular. The committee has not interviewed a witness since former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski cut his interview short on Jan. 18. A day earlier, former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon did the same. Both, at the direction and apparent insistence of the White House, refused to answer questions beyond a certain scope.
Only Bannon has been issued a subpoena to reappear before the committee. So far, he has failed to do so three times.
In Bannon's case, Republicans tend to express concern. "If we have a subpoena out there that's being ignored and we just don't do anything about it, guess what? Nobody's going to come down to the [committee] anymore to answer questions," Rooney said in a recent interview.
In Lewandowski's case, it's less clear what course the committee will take. On Wednesday afternoon, Schiff announced that lawyers for Lewandowski told the committee he would refuse to appear a second time. Though Schiff said in a statement that the committee must now "move to compel" Lewandowski's testimony, there seems to be little appetite on the part of the majority to issue a subpoena.
Reusing a common response to reporters' questions about scheduling witnesses, Conaway, the Republican who runs the Russia investigation, said only, "I don't talk about what I might do."
Even the impasse over some witness scheduling has taken a backseat, of late, to controversy surrounding the release of dueling memos drafted by the committee's factions on alleged surveillance abuses by the FBI. The Republicans' memo on the subject has been released to the public, un-redacted and with the president's blessing. The Democrats' memo is being reviewed by the White House, which is expected to deliver its decision on releasing it Friday.
The move to release the memos triggered an intense public battle in which Nunes and Schiff, in particular, traded barbs almost daily, and which may have culminated in a pair of tweets Monday from President Trump -- one roundly condemning Schiff, the other praising Nunes.
"Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington," the first tweet said in part. The second, which followed later, read, "Representative Devin Nunes, a man of tremendous courage and grit, may someday be recognized as a Great American Hero for what he has exposed and what he has had to endure."
Immediately following the Republican memo's release, Nunes spoke with several conservative outlets about his plans to pursue "Phase 2" of an investigation related to, but separate from, the committee's ongoing Russia investigation -- this one said to be focused on "irregularities" at the State Department.
But like plans for the wall, the number and focus of Nunes' ancillary, investigatory phases appear to be mostly unknown to the rest of the committee.
"I'm doing all the Russia stuff and he's doing all the investigatory things," Conaway said recently. "I haven't talked to him about where he goes from here."
Still, that the committee is suffering a crisis in leadership is not a notion being entertained by the majority. Both Conaway and Rooney said they had confidence in Nunes' leadership, and that he should stay on as chairman.
Neither, however, claimed to speak for the entire majority. "It would be unfair for me to answer on their behalf since none of us have had that conversation," Conaway said.
Last week, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer both called publicly for Nunes' removal as chairman. Schiff has also said he believes Nunes should step aside, as have other Democrats on the committee.
"The committee is still redeemable -- but not with Devin Nunes as chair," said Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-California. "It's bigger than one person and I believe we can go back to that spirit with a new leader."
In a Politico/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday, only nine percent of registered voters said they had "a lot of confidence" in the House Intelligence Committee. And some of the most vested observers of the committee's worsening internal dynamics have expressed concerns over its work, reputation and relationship with the intelligence community.
"It's very hurtful to me to see the degradation of this committee and it's wrong," said Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Maryland, who served on the it for twelve years and was Ranking Member for four, alongside former chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Michigan. The two were often praised for their efforts to, despite some disagreements, maintain a bipartisan rapport.
"When Devin and Schiff get over this battle they're talking about right now, it will be right for our country for those two to work together in a bipartisan way," Ruppersberger said. "These are some of the most dangerous times our country has ever faced," he said, listing threats from Russia, China and ISIS.
"If there was ever a time to work together, it's now."
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect that the Office of Congressional Ethics has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of ethics investigations into Republican members or staff on the House Intelligence Committee. | 2019-04-23T00:11:49Z | https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-intel-committee-gop-plan-to-wall-themselves-off-from-democrats-devin-nunes-adam-schiff/ |
Morphylogeny: MMAR 336 "Climb Every Fountain"
#148: MMAR 336: "Climb Every Fountain".
The complete program, from "Today On" to end of Saban logo, lasts roughly 20:37;12.
Number of uses this episode: 4 (including a non-speaking variant).
Slow pan right over to the Command Center exterior at ground level.
Zedd gets up from his throne and goes to our right, leaning back laughing briefly, talking as he gestures right hand, soon turning to our left.
Recycled, runs a little longer at each end.
Continued, Zedd stands facing our left, talking.
Zedd facing our right, talking, raising right hand, then turns to our left for a moment, before turning back to the right, raising both arms bent like he's stomping down.
Zedd gets up from his throne and goes to our right, leaning back laughing briefly, talking as he gestures right hand.
Recycled again, runs a little longer at start.
Sitting on his left-facing throne, Zedd is turned to our slight right, gripping his staff and talking.
Zedd gets up from his throne and goes to our right, then talking as he gestures right hand, soon turning to our left.
Recycled. Cuts laugh section to split scene to fit in some new Rita/Rito stuff.
Lord Zedd slumps on throne, then suddenly turns to our right, raising staff as shot zooms in on the Z tip which fires electricity.
Recycled shots, composited together for the first time.
Downward angle on Alpha pressing buttons on console and talking, as alarm light spins, camera lowering to ground level slowly, as he ceases pressing, looks up.
The five Alien Rangers stand atop a series of cement blocks, facing our left, ceasing a team pose, before all together raising their right hands, slowly gliding them down, then sharp zoom in on Red as they all thrust their left bent forearms forth.
Prior sequence of individual roll calls is cut.
New angle, the five Alien Rangers facing our right now, connect both their hands with fingers gestured, raise them up and lower them, then motion back over their right shoulders.
Straight on, the five Alien Rangers now grip both ends of their sword sheaths, and straighten up while squatting down.
Downward shot of Slotsky looking up at us, pointing right hand and jerking arms about.
Letting go of his sword, Red Alien Ranger raises his right thumb up, then turns it into a thumbs down, before jumping.
Close on Red Alien Ranger's back sheath as he pulls his sword out while in mid-air.
Zoom in as Red Alien Ranger leaps forth, slashing his sword at us.
Cuts follow-up of Red sparkily slashing Slotsky a few times.
Close-up on Slotsky's magnet hand catching hold of Red's sword.
Slotsky swings Red's sword around, then sparkily slashes him away with his magnet hand, before turning and blocking Blue's sword and sparkily slashing him off, then sparkily slashing Yellow, and finally blocking White's sword strike.
Slotsky sparkily slashes White Alien Ranger down, then looks to our upper right.
Sharp zoom in on Black Alien Ranger leaping at us and slashing sword.
Close-up on Slotsky's magnet hand catching hold of Black's sword.
Upward angle on Slotsky using his magnet hand to redirect the leaping Black Alien Ranger into flipping over him.
Black Alien Ranger twirls about as he hurtles away from Slotsky.
Zoom out as Black falls to the ground, his teammates regrouping defensively around him as Slotsky stands in foreground.
Slotsky holds up his magnet hand, charges it up with red energy, and slow-motion zoom in on it as he thrusts it forth.
Close-up on Blue Alien Ranger's holster, as his Blaster flies out of it.
Close-up on Yellow Alien Ranger's holster, as his Blaster flies out of it.
The pair of Blaster fling across the sky over us.
Close-up on Slotsky's magnet hand, glowing red and pulling the two Blasters to it via bluish energy.
The five Alien Rangers react to this, Yellow & Blue looking down at their now empty holsters in shock.
Now holding a Blaster in each hand, Slotsky crosses them over his chest for a moment, sharp zoom out as he points them forth and fires yellow energy bolts to our slight right.
Spark bursts erupt all around the five Alien Rangers.
Close on Red Alien Ranger as the spark bursts and smoke knock him back.
The empty costumes of the five Alien Rangers fall to the smoky ground.
Slotsky sees the five empty costumes before him, and alterly rushes to our left.
Close on Slotsky as he turns around and looks behind him, when suddenly Red Alien Ranger's hand comes into frame and pats him on the neck twice, prompting him to turn back around to face us.
Red Alien Ranger raises up his right fist, sporting a black and gold brass knuckles-like device, punching it into the screen. Repeats immediately with a different take.
Close on Slotsky getting sparkily punched away by Red Alien Ranger's enhanced fist.
Cuts freeze-frame with sound effect word over it in middle of scene.
Slotsky falls and rolls over to the cement blocks, getting up wearily.
Cuts follow-up sequence where Red uses a special sword attack on Slotsky.
Zoom out as Red turns to face us, his fellow Alien Rangers regrouping around him as he punches his fist to his palm triumphantly.
Close on Slotsky, spreading arms, punching down, then spreading arms again.
Zoom out as both Rita & Zedd raise their respective staves, crossing them and firing flashing bolts of combined lightning energy forth, while saying, "Oh mighty scepters, make our monster grow!"
Bluish lightning pours down upon Slotsky, causing him to glow and grow gigantically, towering above us.
Replaces follow-up Rangers' Zord summoning with US footage.
Five golden glowing balls streak across the city, and in a flash of swirling energy, form into the five Battle Borgs.
Sharp zoom out as Slotsky reacts to the Battle Borgs before him in foreground.
Cuts follow-up of five Rangers gesturing from below.
Side angle on the five Battle Borgs, facing our left, bending down and posing, before rushing forth.
Close on Slotsky punching forth as shot zooms in.
Multiple bright spark bursts erupt across the city in the path of the five Battle Borgs, zoom in as they press on through the smoke, undeterred.
Close on Red Battle Borg's feet rushing forth, then the legs come together and jump.
Upward shot on the Red, Black, Blue, Yellow, and White Battle Borgs flipping over the camera under the sky.
Quick shot of Blue & White Battle Borgs leaping forth, zoom in as they punch at us.
Close on Slotsky getting punched by both Blue & White Battle Borgs at once, knocking him back.
Quick shot of Yellow & Black Battle Borgs leaping at us and kicking forth.
Close side angle on Slotsky getting kicked by both Yellow & Black Battle Borgs at once, knocking him back.
Slotsky hurtles off through the air.
Cuts follow-up additional similar shot.
Sharp zoom out as Slotsky falls to the ground, while Blue & White Battle Borgs land in foreground.
Close on Yellow & Black Battle Borgs, standing shoulder to shoulder as Red Battle Borg lands atop their connected shoulders.
Zoom out as Red Battle Borg folds arms, standing atop Yellow & Black while White & Blue crouch down in front of them, all facing forth.
Replaces follow-up Rangers' gesturing shot with US footage.
Close, downward angle, on White & Blue Battle Borgs connecting their arms together by gripping each other's forearm.
As White & Blue bend down below with arms connected, all five Battle Borgs look forward, sharp zoom in on Red, holding arms out.
Close on Yellow & Black Battle Borgs, each with an arm out, as Red jumps off their shoulders.
Upward shot of Red Battle Borg flipping over the camera.
Downward angle on White & Blue's connected arms as Red lands upon them, and is thrown off with an added boost from the pair of Battle Borgs.
Red Battle Borg flies & falls away from White & Blue as they rise up behind it.
Sharp zoom in on Slotsky, making panicky motions as he looks upward.
Red Battle Borg soars through the air at us, motioning arms, then suddenly transforming into flaming energy.
The flaming energy streak rips through Slotsky, causing him to spark burst.
Across the city, the flaming energy streak shoots in and transforms back to Red Battle Borg, who turns and poses in a crouch.
Zoom out, side angle on Black, Blue, White, and Yellow Battle Borgs, posing together to our left.
Sandwiched between the five posing Battle Borgs, Slotsky falls over and explodes massively, prompting Red to turn around to us and give a monkey-gesture pose.
The five Battle Borgs face our smoky left, shifting out of poses, into lowering their arms victoriously.
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Abstracts: February 15th, 2012 (500 words).
Notification of accepted abstracts: March 15th, 2012.
Full papers: June 15th, 2012 (8000/9000 words).
Notification of accepted papers: September 15th, 2012.
By the second decade of the 21st century, mobile phones have reached saturation levels in many countries in the world, surpassing the number of landlines and personal computers. Although initial scholarly interest on the social use of mobile phones focused on Europe, Asia, and the United States, the impact of mobile phone on the developing world (or Global South) is increasingly evident and perhaps much more profound. As Ling and Horst (2011) note, “the mobile phone has quietly provided people at the bottom of the income pyramid access to electronically mediated communication; often for the first time.” For many, the mobile device is the first phone, the first internet connection, the first TV set, and the first global positioning system.
Among developing nations, Brazil is a key site for studying the social dimension of mobile technologies. The country is part of the so-called BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China), an acronym that refers to fast-growing developing economies. Brazil is the fastest growing economy in Latin America, and has over 217 million mobile phones, which represents an average of 111 working devices per 100 inhabitants. The country has also experienced one of the fastest mobile phone growth rates in the world since 2005 (averaging 16.6% annually); is the largest mobile phone market in Latin America; and is the fifth-largest mobile market in the world in absolute numbers, with roughly 217 million subscriptions as of September 2011. However, numbers alone reveal little if not analyzed within a broader social, cultural, and economic framework. The focus on a homogeneous large-scale market leads to overly sanguine perspectives that often obscure how socioeconomic diversity causes and reflects mobile phone use. As in many developing countries, Brazil has astounding income gaps among different sectors of the population which influence and are influenced by technology development and use. For example, the use of high-end services such as mobile banking, and location-based services like Foursquare and Yelp is an intrinsic part of the daily mobile practices of the high-income population in the country. Conversely, the lower-income population in Rio de Janeiro is familiar with the diretão – a mobile phone that allows users to make clandestine calls to anywhere in the world with the use of an illegal sim card. However, Brazil has also been at the forefront of an experimental and innovative approach towards new technologies, forecasted in cultural events that focus on art, music and film festivals dedicated to new and creative uses of mobile technologies, such as the Mobilefest and Arte.mov.
Despite this cultural and socio-economic diversity, and the relevance of its marketing, the social use and development of mobile phones in Brazil is largely under theorized and poorly studied. With the goal of contributing to bridge this gap, this special edition invites essays that critically investigate the inter-relations among mobile technologies, culture, and social development within the Brazilian society.
(1) History of mobile phones in Brazil. Essays are encouraged to explore the development of mobile phones in Brazil, comparing them to the landline infrastructure and internet growth within the Latin America socio-economic and political framework. Authors may explore the development and use of new mobile services, such as the mobile internet, text messaging, mobile apps, etc.
(4) Location-based services. Submitted essays should investigate the uses and development of location-based services in Brazil, such as mobile annotation, location-based social networks, and mobile mapping.
Proposed abstracts (500 words) are due by February 15th, 2012. The authors will be notified about accepted abstracts by March 15th. Those accepted will be requested to submit full papers by June 15th, 2012. Full papers will undergo a double blind-review process. Submissions may be in the form of empirical research studies or theory-building papers and should be 8000/9000 words in English. Papers must also include a brief biography of the author(s). Proposals and inquiries should be sent electronically to Isabel Froes ([email protected]).
Adriana de Souza e Silva is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University (NCSU), affiliated faculty at the Digital Games Research Center, and Interim Associate Director of the Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM) program at NCSU.Dr. de Souza e Silva s research focuses on how mobile and locative interfaces shape people s interactions with public spaces and create new forms of sociability. She teaches classes on mobile technologies, location-based games and internet studies. Dr. de Souza e Silva is the co-editor (with Daniel M. Sutko) of Digital Cityscapes-Merging digital and urban playspaces (Peter Lang, 2009), the co-author (with Eric Gordon) of the book Net-Locality: Why location matters in a networked world (Blackwell, 2011), and the co-author (with Jordan Frith) of Mobile interfaces in public spaces: Control, privacy, and urban sociability (Routledge, 2012).
Isabel Fróes has received her Masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Programme at New York University (NYU) and a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, PUC-RJ in Brazil. She is a lecturer at the IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark), where she works both as a practitioner and scholar in the fields of communication, mobility, art and design. With a focus towards valuable interactions between people and technology, her research analyzes the future implications and current uses of digital media. In her courses she taps into the value of interactive elements in every arena and explores how they could affect the ways new concepts and activities are developed in distinct fields. She has presented some of these thoughts at various events such as the AAM conference (2009), and the IXDA South America (2010). She has taught various courses at Danish institutions such as IT University of Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen and Kolding School of Design as well as Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Querétaro in Mexico.
The complex form, function and geography of business travel, both domestic and international, have been persistently overlooked in existing literatures on international human resource management, international business, the sociology of work and labour, transport demand, transport planning, management and logistics, and organizational studies. At the start of the second decade of the Twenty-First Century, and amid one of the worst economic downturns in recent history, the importance of business travel as a mode of capitalist production which enables organizations to attend in-house meetings or training, visit clients, pitch for new business, provide product support, attend trade fairs/conferences and visit sub-contractors and suppliers to monitor quality control or negotiate new business, has arguably never been higher or more controversial. For many workers, business travel, involving what can be best described as persistent or mundane travel, represents a normal component of the working day, but it is one which can adversely affect family life and individual health and wellbeing. For others, however, business travel constitutes a ‘perk’ and is a welcomed and deliberate lifestyle choice which helps to enhance personal careers, afford much job satisfaction and introduce variety to the working week.
Business travel ‘mobilities’ are increasingly recognised as being an important emerging discourse within business and management studies, sociology and human geography (particularly in transport and economic geography). In economic terms, business travel now appears to be a fundamental process in the production of the global knowledge economy. But, despite intra- and cross-border business travel being a significant feature of the twenty-first century workplace questions about the form, function, geography and carbon intensity of business travel as an economic practice and facet of contemporary transport panning and management have yet to be adequately addressed.
The formative aim of this themed volume is to address this research lacuna and explore some of the important contemporary debates associated with the organizational strategy, management, planning and sustainability of business travel in the twenty first century.
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Writers, musicians, activists, researchers, educators, visionaries… here are 25 Generation X and Y people who are making a difference in our region. This is by no means an exhaustive list – who would you add to it? Email us!
Silas House has done that, from the publication of his first novel, "Clay’s Quilt," in 2001, a New York Times bestseller. That and the books that followed (including “A Parchment of Leaves” and “The Coal Tattoo”) received major literary awards. Studs Terkel wrote his last blurb praising “Something’s Rising,” a collection of writings about mountaintop removal mining House published with Jason Howard; other books include "Same Sun Here" and "Eli the Good."
He returned to Richmond, then came back for another artist-in-residence position in Clifton Forge, Va., then back to Richmond, then to New York (along the way, composing music for symphony and ballet and working in film). His third artist-in-residence position brought him to Richlands, Va. Three days before was was to leave, 9/11 occurred.
He left New York that Friday, moved to Tazewell County and stayed.
In 2008 he became interim executive director of The Crooked Road, and program manager in 2012, and his focus is on TCR’s Traditional Music Education Program.
Erik Reece grew up in Kentucky. A high school teacher inspired him to go into journalism. After five years in Scottsville, Va., he came back to teach and write and live – “I wanted to be a place-based writer,” he says. The place – Kentucky – became his subject. He’s written for Harper’s, Orion and The New York Times. A story for Harper's became a book, “Lost Mountain,” which won awards from Columbia University and the Sierra Club. He’s also written “An American Gospel: On Family, History and the Kingdom of God.” Much of his writing is focused on Appalachia.
“I have this fundamental sense that the creation and the creator are of one piece,” says Reece. “There’s an incredible environmental ethic in that kind of thinking.” Though, he admits, “you don’t know when you’re going to alienate someone” by talking about it.
It wasn’t an easy path: Garnto has a rare form of dyslexia that wasn’t diagnosed until he was in his 20s – after he was expelled from school at age 15, he finished his GED and enrolled in college but still struggled with academics. An art professor at Young Harris College realized the problem was a learning disorder.
He went on to study at the Atlanta College of Art; he returned to Blairsville to open his fine arts studio in 1994, and has stayed ever since.
Erika Johnson and Kris Hodges are the brains behind FloydFest, one of the best-loved festivals in the region, celebrating its 12th year in 2013 (“Rise and Shine” is this year’s festival theme). Johnson describes herself as a “Floyd County semi-native” – her family moved to the county when she was five, during the back-to-the-land movement. Some years later, she and Hodges met in a restaurant in downtown Roanoke – a musician, Hodges had come there by way of Atlanta and Raleigh. They started a restaurant in Floyd, Oddfellas, where they hosted musicians including Rhonda Vincent, Mike Seeger and Stacey Earle.
They sold the restaurant and started the festival with a business plan and some good contacts. The early years were difficult, but the festival has flowered.
He’s as inspired by history as he is by the present-day – he’ll spin moving stories from the Civil War and the early days of Hagerstown (the love story between Jonathan Hager and his wife, for instance), and then expound on what’s wonderful about the here and now – the fine arts museum, the symphony orchestra, the skiing.
Thomas Watson moved to Asheville, N.C. to start the nonprofit Center for Participatory Change.
While volunteering for Big Brothers Big Sisters, he realized he loved working with kids. That’s when he discovered the work of community organizing.
Today, Watson’s work with Rural Support Partners focuses on the economy, environment and social justice in rural communities.
Beech Mountain runs in the family - Talia Freeman’s mother, an artist, worked at the resort in the 1970s, and Freeman has just completed her fifth year at Beech, where she is director of marketing and sales. An athlete herself (she went to Lees-McRae College on a softball scholarship), she has been instrumental in building Beech’s mountain biking offerings to the point that the resort hosted USA Cycling’s Mountain Bike Gravity Nationals in 2012 (she readily admits she’s a beginner biker herself).
“Western North Carolina offers an incredibly diverse terrain, combined with some of the most beautiful, scenic trails in the country.” She credits Lees-McRae College, the town of Beech Mountain, and the resort’s trail developer, Christopher Herndon, with being part of landing the Gravity Nationals.
Sports and wellness are passions for Freeman, who coaches for the nonprofit Girls on the Run. Her goals: to make outdoor sports in North Carolina affordable and accessible to youth, to promote the state’s outdoor assets, keep producing four-season events at Beech Mountain, and run a marathon.
Ed Walker has strengthened where he lives – Roanoke, Va. – revitalizing downtown by buying and renovating old buildings to be re-visioned as residences and businesses, including Kirk Avenue Music Hall and micro-cinema, pocket parks, shops and restaurants; apartments from a cotton mill, a department store and a historic hotel. He’s received a Loeb fellowship to study placemaking at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and when we caught up with him he was in between flights to Boston, New York, Quito, Ecuador and Richmond, Va. The New York Times profiled him in July 2012.
“Roanoke, like most places, has talented people – from commerce, education, arts and culture, technology, government and many other fields – that can create extraordinary achievement in unexpected places and unexpected ways,” Walker says.
Leah Wong Ashburn has joined a family business – her father, Oscar Wong (whose first career was in engineering) started the Highland Brewing Company in the 1990s, moving from Charlotte to Asheville.
She wanted to work for him then: “I asked Dad for a job as a beer rep. He didn’t hire me! He told me to find my way first. I did – and had a great career.” She worked for a yearbook publishing company, combining her interests in writing, photography, design and “details.” She came back to the company 15 years later.
Highland works to be green and sustainable, giving spent grain to a local farmer, helping in environmental efforts. Their awards aren’t just for beer, but for environmental excellence, leadership and hospitality.
Food is something of an art for Damien and Betsy Heath. Damien, a chef who trained in Wilmington, N.C., Baltimore, Md. and Ireland, met his wife Betsy in Shepherdstown, W.Va. After working in North and South Carolina, they decided to come back to Berkeley Springs to open a restaurant in Damien’s hometown, where both his parents are artists.
The restaurant is named for exactly where it’s located – the original Lot #12 in the Town of Bath. The house dates from 1913.
“Everything was there – we just had to clean it up a little bit,” says Damien. “It’s nice and elegant, but we don’t want to be the stuffy, jacket-required” kind of restaurant.
But beyond the restaurant space, the Heaths are part of the local food movement, members of Slow Food USA, Local Harvest and other organizations, working with local farmers, greenhouses, coffee roasters and growers with the goal not only of serving fresh, organic and local food but supporting sustainable agriculture.
Elaina Arenz-Smith started climbing when she was a student at UT-Austin. She used to visit West Virginia every summer for two weeks, and fell in love with the community in Fayetteville, and finally moved there 10 years ago. A year later, she bought New River Mountain Guides from the former owner, a friend.
“I had a lot of experience teaching climbing and working as a guide, but hadn’t thought of making it my living until the opportunity presented itself.” Since 2004, she’s grown the business by double digits and started programs including kids’ climbing camps, women’s programs, yoga/climbing retreats and partnerships with professional climbers.
Dreama Gentry’s job title may not express fully the extent of her work’s impact. Gentry directs an annual budget of $20 million and a staff of 140, with the goal of encouraging young people in rural Appalachian Kentucky to go on to college. It's based at Berea College, which has built a long history of reaching out to empower first-generation college students, many from impoverished areas.
She was an only child, and had strong academics, and her role models were teachers.
After college, Gentry went to law school at University of Kentucky, practiced for a while in Bowling Green, but wanted to do work that made a difference. She came back to Berea with two sons and a husband. At that point, her position was part-time; she had one other employee, and they worked with one middle school and one high school. Federal funding and vision did the rest: they now work with 19 school districts made up of more than 13,000 youth.
Fifteen years later, Hazen is director of the West Virginia Dialect Project, and has devoted his time at West Virginia University to studying the speech patterns of the state – evolving and disappearing phrases, the influences of both north and south. He works with students on the research, collecting interviews with people (more than 180 so far) and analyzing what they’ve recorded. The students are undergraduate, and some come out of the work with published articles, a real accomplishment.
In 2010, Lyons was hired to start the West Virginia Food & Farm Coalition, part of the West Virginia Community Development Hub (though the coalition will be independent by fall 2013). The coalition works with educators, farmers, policymakers, businesses and state employees to help create a sustainable economy in local food.
“Two weeks ago I spoke at a conference of Appalachian economic developers about ways to help food entrepreneurs.” She recently spoke to state legislators about on-farm poultry processing and school gardens.
Gwynne Rukenbrod comes to Asheville, N.C., by way of Ohio, Thailand and Texas. She moved to Asheville in 2011 to HandMade in America. Her artistic background is in glassblowing.
Rukenbrod sees craft and art as a way toward economic stability, not just personal expression. “I truly believe that craft can transform our rural economy and communities.” She sees craft as being in transition.
Anna George, originally from Texas, and Kathlina Alford, from middle Tennessee (her husband’s from Knoxville), both live and work in Chattanooga, researching and teaching at the Tennessee Aquarium.
Their focus: Southern Appalachian brook trout, “the only trout native to the Southeast,” as George points out, and “they are exceptionally pretty.” They’re also under threat – they can only be found in three percent of their historic range in Tennessee and North Carolina. The two scientists have been working on restoration projects in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, with grant money from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
But it’s not just about recreation: “At a broader level, though, this is about maintaining the rich aquatic biodiversity we have in the Southeast. We have more freshwater fish in Tennessee and Alabama than any other states in the U.S.
Kelli Billips, Taylor LaPrade and Victoria Curtis all spent spring break 2013 in the mountains of Kentucky, learning about mountaintop removal mining and helping revive the land impacted by it, planting blight-resistant chestnut trees and learning about the history and economy of the region.
“It does not matter if a person is pro-coal or against it, because from what I have seen so far, the people who live here have this sense of pride about themselves and their cause. They care!
“I grew up on an 80-acre farm,” says Kelli Billips, who’s from Bluefield, W.Va. She grew up making apple butter and maple syrup, with cattle, helping her grandparents plant. She remembers planting sunflower seeds at the beginning of summer, and taking the sunflowers to the fair at the end of summer: “Watching something grow from a small little sprout to something big like a sunflower” – that was inspiration.
Paige Cordial, who grew up on Big Sewell Mountain, W.Va., is a doctoral student in counseling psychology at RU. She’s been living in the midst of mountaintop removal mining and working with communities, writing her dissertation on how MTR affects wellness in central Appalachia, partnering with activists Kathy Selvage, who’s based in Appalachia, and Jason Fults, who's in Florida. | 2019-04-24T10:47:56Z | https://blueridgecountry.com/newsstand/magazine/25-people-making-a-difference/ |
You’ve got a great idea, you’re starting up, and now it’s either sink or swim. If your business doesn’t cut if online, it surely won’t last offline.
If you’re a newcomer to the world of online marketing, we’ve got you covered. Chances are, you’re on a shoestring budget and on the hunt for strategies that turbocharge results with minimal resources. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.
In this post, you will learn about effective digital marketing strategies for startups, the power of online advertising, and how not to be Water Under The Bridge.
Learn about your market before you become the provider. Here are time-tested aspects of effective digital marketing strategy for start-ups that every CEO/founder needs to consider which are crucial towards business growth and long-term success.
Your leads are your potential customers. Lead generation and conversions are your vehicles to successful business growth. Converting leads to returning clients should be at the forefront of your online marketing strategies. Do follow-up emails and reminders, build FAQ pages, and give incentives, and ask your customers questions to grab attention and retain them long-term.
Learn about your niche, be on top of your game, and find out key competitors. Who is doing well, what’s trending and what’s not? Ask these questions and follow up your content marketing strategy with action plans that problem-solve them.
Who is your ideal customer? Is it teenagers or seniors or a mix of both? Maybe between certain ages? Find out your ideal target audience and cater your product/services by providing them solutions which solve their problems.
Want to build an awesome strategy to kick-start your business?
SEO is highly important since it builds brand credibility and a good user following. The higher your page ranks on Google’s Search Engine, the more effective lead generation becomes.
Your business will gain a wider reach and customer base through a solid SEO strategy. Find out about trending topics, hot content, and research keyword density using tools like BuzzSumo and EpicBeat.
Think about long-tail keywords, short-tail keywords, and implement them organically in your brand content. SEO is the future, don’t miss out on it.
You can’t drive a car without knowing the destination. The same applies to your business/startup. Set realistic expectations, create short-term and long-term business goals, and follow up with action plans that incorporate them.
For example, if you want to increase brand awareness then spending more effort on your social media marketing strategy will pay off, however, if you want to garner sales traction online, then you should shift your company’s focus to generating website leads through online advertising platforms and outlets.
Here are a couple tips and tricks which you should be aware of you go gung-ho on your marketing strategies, or your digital marketing checklist, in a nutshell.
Want to build a successfull Social Media Strategy for your startup or business?
You can’t go solo and do everything by yourself if your competition is huge. Here’s where your advertising allies come in – your friendly neighborhood digital marketing companies for startups. Sometimes you need to outsource your advertising grimes and a startup digital marketing agency helps you with this by providing a panel of experts who walk the talk and give results.
Find out about their prices, growth hacking strategies, check their online credibility and fan-following and you should be good to go. If they’re interested and provide genuine feedback, they’re legit.
Plan. Plan. Plan. And don’t run out of money while running those plans.
Since you’re on a shoestring budget, invest wisely according to your needs. Prioritize your advertising campaigns based on your current product/business needs. 20-25% of your budget towards online marketing strategies is ideal for first years in startups/businesses.
Think design and function when it comes to website creation.
Do web pages load fast?
Is your website optimized for viewing on mobile devices and visually appealing?
Be it directly or through referrals, first impressions are your best impressions, and you don’t want to ruin them through cluttered or dysfunctional site designs. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Start simple and iterate based on customer’s needs. Remember to base your designs from a consumer-centric viewpoint.
This is the pie in this post, digital marketing strategy for startups.
Good strategies get you started, great strategies get you places.
From crispy headlines to catchy messages, emails drive sales success up by over 122% if done right. Email marketing provides a personal touch, and nothing fires up product addiction over receiving customized mails from your favorite business.
Think from the consumer’s perspective and give them what they want. Use digital marketing tools like Constant Contact and MailChimp for automating emails for your e-commerce platform to stay on top of your marketing game.
Inbound marketing leverages several online marketing techniques by using a blend of blogging, social media platforms, SEO, and landing pages.
Your focus on inbound marketing is to generate product/service awareness and provide educational content regarding your business/services. Here, you don’t reach out to your customers, instead, become easy to spot online through informative and time-tested content.
Create live events and webinars to stand out from the competition along with newsletters and whitepapers to gain online traction. Again, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram are your best bets regarding this.
You have your landing pages up, emails and newsletters rolling in, and your blogs are being updated with hot content regularly, but you’re still not making your expected gains. This is where influencer marketing comes in where you reach out to influential players in your niche and get them to talk about your business or even become brand ambassadors. How you ask?
Do a hashtag search on Twitter or other social media platforms to identify key players and get in touch. Your influencer is your mascot and represents your brand. Be sure to keep your brand image in mind before hiring an influencer to market your efforts.
Facebook continues to be the most widely used social media platform while LinkedIn and Pinterest come second and third, respectively, regarding advertising prowess. Twitter users constitute of 81% millennials who check in at least once a day according to 2017 demographics by WordStream.
Social media platforms allow you to interact with your prospective customers, engage audiences, and spread overall awareness about your businesses and services. Customer interaction and user engagement rank high in terms of converting leads to sales using social media. Use tools like SproutSocial to analyze and generate performance reports to identify trending content, most clicks, audience reach, and learn insights on user engagement.
Engineering successful PTC campaigns will convert those clicks to conversions effectively. PTC ads give you a high ROI and provide you with data and insights for drafting effective marketing strategies. The catch is, you pay for only when customers click on your ads which makes this perfect for those with a limited budget.
The times are changing and it’s time to switch up your game. Be the player and the provider by participating in community discussions, joining social media circles, and engaging in forums online.
People will get to know you and your brand better by you being active in your niche. Drop in notes, suggestions, and nuggets of sage wisdom beyond the boundaries of your website to win hearts and gain new customers. As the term implies, off-site marketing even includes interactions on other social media platforms, websites, and groups as well. Even anything beyond your business (but related to the industry) and out of sight!
To end this post on a fruitful note, enter the mindset of the customer when drafting your business plans and online marketing strategies.
Start small, invest wisely, and remake your digital marketing strategy for startups accordingly. It’s not a battle, it’s a war, and with great wars come greater strategies – which stands true for your business, of course.
Did we miss out something? Drop a note below and comment your thoughts! | 2019-04-26T01:37:47Z | https://blog.upgrowth.in/killer-digital-marketing-strategies-for-startups-on-a-shoestring-budget/ |
Under Sessions, who will keep tabs on the cops?
NEWARK, N.J. — Despite the torrential rain outside, Newark residents filed into St. Stephen’s Church, in the heart of the city’s multiethnic Ironbound neighborhood, last Monday night for a meeting with Peter Harvey, the federal monitor assigned to oversee the implementation of court-ordered reforms by the Newark Police Department.
Newark was one of 14 police departments to enter into consent decrees with the Department of Justice during the Obama administration as a result of investigations into unconstitutional practices by police in cities across the country. Now, that department is led by an outspoken opponent of police oversight: Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Law-enforcement agencies, local judicial systems and civil-rights advocates are all looking for signs of how the change in leadership will play out in cities under consent decrees — and in those without them as well.
In late March, Sessions issued a memo ordering a broad review of all the department’s existing investigations, training, compliance reviews and other engagements with local law enforcement agencies — including “existing or contemplated consent decrees” — to ensure that they do not undermine the Trump administration’s law and order agenda.
Harvey had been slated to discuss the findings of his first quarterly report on the Newark department’s progress. But he was met with repeated accounts of abuses at the hands of the department he was monitoring — including threats, harassment and physical assault against civilians.
“He kicked the door in, as if he was my personal enemy,” said Julio Sancho, describing an encounter with a Newark police officer who’d become aggressive after Sancho, an Ecuadorian immigrant who has lived in Newark for 17 years, questioned the officer about why he was ticketing cars across the street. With the help of an English translator, Sancho described in Spanish how the officer proceeded to physically assault him, pepper-spraying his children—the youngest of whom is 4 years old—as they yelled for him to stop.
“My children are traumatized,” said Sancho’s wife, Gloria Solano, becoming choked up as she corroborated her husband’s account.
“The conduct you’re describing is exactly why the Newark Police Department got put under a consent decree,” said Harvey, a former New Jersey attorney general. The consent decree was the result of a three-year investigation by the Justice Department’s civil rights division, which found rampant racial profiling, unlawful stops and searches, excessive use of force, and theft, among other unconstitutional patterns and practices, in the Newark Police Department.
Despite Sessions’ assertion in his March memo ordering the review that “It is not the responsibility of the federal government to manage non-federal law enforcement agencies,” police and city officials in Newark as well as several other jurisdictions under DOJ monitoring insist they are committed to following through on their court-ordered reforms — with or without the attorney general’s support.
In New Orleans, “the current attorney general’s comments on his department’s policies don’t impact our commitment to constitutional policing and ongoing reform,” Beau Tidwell, a New Orleans Police Department spokesman, told the New Orleans Advocate following the release of Sessions’ memo.
“I do think [the Newark police] are committed, but frankly they also have no choice,” said Dianna Houenou, policy counsel for the ACLU of New Jersey, pointing out that once a consent decree is put into effect by a federal district court, it becomes legally binding.
That’s why, Gupta said, choosing a monitor — a process now underway in Baltimore, which came under DOJ scrutiny after Freddie Gray died from injuries sustained in the back of a police van — is so important.
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said police reforms would continue there as well, though perhaps with less stringent oversight from the DOJ. In its latest progress report, released earlier this month, the Cleveland monitoring team found CPD to be noncompliant in almost half of its consent decree duties, including the creation of a Force Review Board and a requirement that officers clearly report the justification for all stops, searches and arrests. The department was deemed partially compliant on key reform areas like the development of new policies for lawful use of force and bias-free policing.
“The Monitoring team has run out of words to capture the depth and breadth of the progress that needs to be made to cure the current inability of Cleveland residents to have complaints about city employees fairly and fully addressed in a timely manner,” read one part of the latest report.
In his latest assessment, released in April, independent monitor James Ginger reported that the Albuquerque Police Department has made progress in some areas while demonstrating “deliberate non-compliance” in several others. And despite the police chief’s earlier statement, at a hearing to discuss the report last month, Ginger said he’s observed a “palpable shift” in the attitudes of department leaders, suggesting less serious commitment to reform.
“As far as I’m concerned, these consent decree processes are really about assuaging the concerns of white, middle class residents,” said David Correia, an anti-police violence activist and professor at the University of New Mexico. Correia attended the progress hearing last month and said the DOJ attorney there was “praising APD in ways they never had before,” despite the negative tone of Ginger’s report. The DOJ representative assured the meeting that there had been no instructions from Washington to soften enforcement.
Though Correia is careful not to suggest that “it doesn’t matter if Sessions calls off the dogs,” he questions whether consent decrees can provide a real solution to longstanding, systemic police problems.
One recent study on the effectiveness of consent decrees suggests the money saved by preventing future lawsuits over police violence and other misconduct is worth the steep costs most cities must incur to comply with most consent decrees. However, other surveys indicate that deeply rooted problems often linger well after the Justice Department has left town.
Last week, the independent monitor overseeing Seattle’s reforms released a report declaring that the department had been in initial compliance with all of its court ordered reforms since 2012, including new policies on use of force, stop-and-frisk, and bias-free policing, and could now petition the judge to find the city in full compliance of its consent decree.
The same day the Seattle monitor released that glowing report, two white Seattle police officers shot and killed Charleena Lyles, a pregnant black mother of four, after she’d called to report an attempted burglary at her apartment. The officers said that Lyles, who reportedly suffered from mental health problems, was wielding a knife when they opened fire on her in her home.
A spokesperson for the Justice Department in New Jersey declined to comment on whether they’ve received any guidance from Washington to ease off enforcing Newark’s consent decree during the review.
Among the department’s handful of first quarter achievements was the relocation of its internal affairs unit to a nonpolice facility, intended to make citizens feel more comfortable filing complaints about officer conduct. However, according to Harvey’s report, while “NPD has begun to revise its internal affairs policies and procedures,” the department has yet to provide either a revised internal affairs policy or new training materials, which must be approved by both the independent monitor and the Justice Department as part of the consent decree.
Still, at Monday’s meeting, Harvey insisted that the Newark residents should report misconduct to the internal affairs unit, comparing it to a leaky faucet that must be tested to determine whether it’s fixed. But Harvey discovered that the relocation had made little impact on the department’s longstanding practice of responding to civilian complaints with ambivalence, hostility, and even retaliation.
While one resident said many in her neighborhood choose not to report officers for fear of retaliation, Corey Ross said he’s gone to the new internal affairs unit a number of times already with complaints about officer misconduct, only to have those fears reaffirmed.
About a month ago, Ross said two officers showed up at his front door in the middle of the night after he filed a report against them earlier that day.
“You made a report against me!” Ross yelled, re-enacting the angry officer’s arrival by banging on the chair in front of him.
Though seemingly shocked that such practices were continuing, Harvey urged everyone to be patient and to continue to report these experiences to internal affairs.
But, Ross wanted to know, “how do we protect ourselves when we make reports against individual officers, to ensure our safety as human beings against retaliation by police officers while change is being implemented?” Harvey didn’t really have an answer.
According to this report, the Justice Department’s civil rights division has investigated a total of 69 police departments for patterns and practices of unconstitutional conduct since it was first given authority to do so by Congress in 1994, following the riots sparked by a video of Los Angeles police beating Rodney King two years before.
Twenty-four of those investigations were launched during the Obama administration, many of them prompted by high profile police killings—like those of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., Freddie Gray in Baltimore, and Laquan McDonald in Chicago—that, much like the King beating, caused long-simmering tensions to boil over into civil unrest.
But while Obama’s Justice Department may have been more committed than any of its predecessors to imposing police reform, such incidents have continued, raising questions about future reform in cities that have not already committed to consent decrees. That includes places like Minneapolis, where recently released video footage has renewed outrage over a police officer’s acquittal in last year’s shooting death of Philando Castile, and other cities where such incidents have yet to become the subject of a viral video.
While a federal judge in Baltimore rebuked Sessions’ request to delay approval of the consent decree negotiated by the DOJ and city officials before Obama left office, the new attorney general’s opposition to police oversight seems to be having an effect in Chicago, where Mayor Rahm Emanuel backed off his previous promise to sign a consent decree with then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Emanuel is opting instead to work with the DOJ on an agreement to implement reforms without court oversight.
Gupta, who called the move by Emanuel “woefully insufficient,” explained that “there’s a reason” only 14 of the two dozen investigations of local police departments conducted by the division since 2009 have resulted in consent decrees.
“Chicago was that kind of place,” she said.
“It’s really hard to continue trusting in a criminal justice system and law enforcement officers if you have no assurances that the people who are supposed to protect your constitutional rights — especially at the federal level — are going to do so,” she said.
Even if consent decrees fall short of completely reshaping the way local police departments approach law enforcement, the simple requirement that officers be trained to treat civilians like human beings can at least lay the groundwork for a more positive relationship between police and the people they serve.
Julio Sancho has experienced the difference firsthand. Sancho has had his fair share of encounters with both the Newark and New Jersey State police, who came under their own consent decree in 1999 after a Justice Department investigation into pervasive racial profiling in traffic stops.
The latter decree, which was dissolved in 2009, hasn’t stopped Sancho from getting pulled over regularly. But while his encounters with Newark officers have been abrasive, tense, and completely devoid of pleasantries, Sancho said the state troopers are “a little more respectful,” always making the effort to ask how he’s doing before requesting to see his ID. | 2019-04-25T09:21:32Z | https://www.yahoo.com/news/sessions-will-keep-tabs-cops-183825475.html |
Is my brother ever getting over psychosis or is he doomed to get schizophrenia?
Hi there. My brother was diagnozed with acute psychosis about a year and a half ago after he took lots of drugs in one day (speed, ecstasy, cannabis) which prevented him from sleep for 4 days. He smoked weed for years but only occassionaly and few times took some chemicals. He was hospitalized for 2 months and aftewards went back to the hospital (on his own accord) 4 times within 6 months, but only stayed for 5-8 days each time. It was a difficult time for him as his ex left him when he came out for first time so that may have worsen his symptoms for those 6 months making him go in and out of mental hospitals. Now it's been a year since the last time he went there and says is not thinking about going back anymore, but he still doesn't feel tip top. He has been prescribed antipsychotics and should take them for 3 to 6 years which is very long for acute psychosis. He never heard voices or seen things nor thought someone following him ir similar. On the other hand he did part way with a few family members as believe thay are against him because of his drug use in the past. The reason he was hospitalized first time was insomnia. He is taking his meds but in much smaller dosis then prescribed. He has panick attacks every few days. He feels very anxious most days and sometimes feels dizzy for few minutes or half hour. Other times he feels good. He even has a new girlfriend now and is really trying to improve his life and wants to do more things in life. My worry is that our mum was diagnosed with schizophrenia around the age of 30 and it happened very quickly for her. My brother is 23 now and this all started when he was 21. My worry is that he will end up like mum, unable to take care of himself. What are the chances he will not get schizophrenia? As it looks like it's heading that way. What can we do to prevent it? He can communicate normally and do most things like anyone else but he doesn't like to plan anything and lives day to day. He is afraid of going to the trips in case he will feel unwell.. The psychiatrist told him he will not be able to work nor take care of himself ever again. I don't understand why would they say that for acute psychosis? Wouldn't they then diagnose schizophrenia? He is capable of taking care of himself perfectly, and he is, but because of the stigma he has been given he feels like he is useless and doesn't want to get a conventional job, because of what the dr said but also because he will not feel good around a lot of people he doesn't know. He makes his living of buying and selling stuff online and he is doing very well with that and pays all his bills. He is pretty organized with his work and responsible. He has not taken any illegal drugs in nearly a year and hardly ever drinks alchohol in tiny amounts. Smokes only a few cigaretts a day. Since he found a girlfriend he lost a bit of weight that he gained because of medications, he is exercising and eating healthy. But the exercise does bring on the panic attacks and anexiety so he has to slow down now. Sometimes he is a bit weird but 90% of the time he is normal, makes normal decisions. He is aware of his illness and not denying it nor is delusional. He says himself that some things he feels like dizzyness or anexiety are just a projection of his mind. So... what is your opinion? Will he develop schizophrenia like his mum or is there a chance he can get better? Very worried that it's down to his genetics. Any advice will be most appreciated.
P.S. We live in Bulgaria and the health system is very poor here.
With one parent who has schizophrenia, you and your brother's chances of getting it is 10 percent. Your brother could get it but may not. There have been studies done that have looked into people that have started to show early signs of getting schizophrenia, and not all of them go on to get it. Some get better. I believe one study found that if the people took fish oil pills, there chances of not going on to get schizophrenia got better. This might be something to look into because I can't remember much of the article I read about this. I think it is ridiculous that his doctor told him he will never be able to work. That is like saying that nobody with psychosis or schizophrenia can work, but in reality, many do work.
The psychiatrist told him he will not be able to work nor take care of himself ever again.
I have found the hard way that this can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"took lots of drugs in one day (speed, ecstasy, cannabis) which prevented him from sleep for 4 days "
As extreme as this may sound, it's not extreme at all in fact it's perfectly normal. I did notice a few cases of people who took this combination and took too much speed/MDMA, too soon. This means that they were relatively drug naive and took a dose that even users with 10-20 years of experience using found to be quite high. In cases like these the person experiences extreme anxiety/paranoia, psychosis, even after weeks of use, with a various degree of mental confusion or permanent brain damage. In all cases, aside from the brain damage, symptoms resolve themselves without any intervention after a week or so, unless the person has schizophrenia.
Sadly, it looks like that drug mix was nothing but a trigger to an existing mental condition that was perhaps dormant or had not fully expressed itself. A normal person cannot reasonably expect to end up like that after taking that mix, and these types of accidents that make it to the casualty department are often fatal overdoses. If the patient survives the mixture, symptoms should have resolved, on their own, within a week.
What a informative educational post MeropeneM. I do not do drugs-alcohol is my downfall especially on medications. Has not been long though as I stopped drinking for years.
I was diagonosed at first with schizo-affective disorder then severe psychosis. So with this mix I believe I am a little schizophrenic. I feel for your brother Dona.
I just tried working at a gas station I went hysterical. Too much at one time-I had to quit.
Although I do sell stuff online and do pretty good but not lately as I do not have product. Your brother is brave doing this.
I tried the Flea Markets Could not handle all the people coming up around me. If it was not for my cousin coming I would not have sold anything as I hide in the back.
It's also important for the person recovering from such a high, unless it's an overdose requiring ER, to remain in a familiar setup such as in his room, with his family so that he can go like "ok, this is my bed over here, this is my piano over there, I'm a musician I play the piano really well, there's my desk over there with...the paper I wrote days ago...this is my good old stuff, there's my wife"
This way, the brain can easily make it's way back and not get lost or lose itself on its way back. You also never interact or start an argument with the person recovering from a high.
Thank you all for your advices. Can you advise how to stop this from happening. Is there anything we can do to at least stop the progress or to avoid it all together?
You may want to look into giving him fish oil.
I use that all the time. You can bite on the gelatin pills and pour it over food or just eat fish.
Hmm...I'm skeptical. I've been eating fish my whole life and I was still diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. My sister, on the other hand, who is a vegetarian, nver developed psychosis.
Well, according to the study, there were still some people who took the fish oil that got schizophrenia. There were just less of a percentage of people who got it. More studies have to be done for this to turn out as a viable future treatment. I don't know how much fish oil they took either. It might have been a large dose that could be more than what you can get from eating fish. The bottle of fish oil pills I take says to take one twice a day.
Fair warning, this may be long.
His psychiatrist should not have given you guys such a grim outlook. That was kind of cruel of him. People with psychosis and schizophrenia can be very successful in life. There's a much higher percentage of people with schizophrenia who make it to remission and that isn't even including the percentage that are functional but still need help. What you describe honestly sounds more promising than you'd think, I was not as progressive. Recovery with psychosis is slow paced.
So as for whether or not he'll end up having schizophrenia, I don't know. Based on the DSM-5, the difference between psychosis and schizophrenia is the duration of how long it's gone on. However, I've had psychosis for 4 years and I have not been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Cannabis is known to be an "activator" for schizophrenia when it's in your genetic makeup. But even if he doesn't have schizophrenia, psychotic breaks leave a very permanent mark.
Recovery takes a long time. Either way, he will likely not be the same again, but that doesn't mean he can't find his way. The way you describe him going day to day is pretty normal. There's something called negative symptoms in psychosis - meaning a lack of something that was once there - that causes things like a lack of interest in life.
Vitamin B12 can help a little with negative symptoms and some research shows antidepressants can, too. Fish oil is just good in general if you have psychosis tbh. As for his panic attacks, did they start when he started antipsychotics? I had panic attacks as a side effect with a few APs. He could maybe ask his pdoc if that's a possibility. | 2019-04-20T22:11:34Z | https://www.mentalhealthforum.net/forum/threads/is-my-brother-ever-getting-over-psychosis-or-is-he-doomed-to-get-schizophrenia.195993/ |
The Great Event is Coming ~ Sananda, 12 March 2018.
It is with great delight, joy and immense love that I bring you the biggest update in recent times. The time is NOW for ALL (who are ready) to return to LOVE.
You, my beloved lightworkers, have been patiently waiting for this for a long time. For a magnificent, miraculous Event such as this one can only occur at the perfect Divine Timing. We, the company of Heaven, must wait until the frequency of Light on Planet Earth is high enough to catalyze/trigger the Event and until everyone (who has, at a Higher Level, decided to Ascend) is sufficiently ready.
We all have worked hard for this massive project for thousands of Earth years; for what felt like eons in your linear concept of time. The amount of highly-evolved Light Beings participating in this grand adventure number in the trillions; located on both sides of the realms (physical and non-physical). And you are among them! Your dedication, hard-work, courage, perseverance, immense victories over ‘seemingly impossible to overcome’ challenges and all the experiences that you had gone through in current and past lives, have brought you right to this point. They have made you ready.
And the time is NOW for all of you to reap the rewards!
This message is designed to give you a clear, easy-to-understand and a thorough understanding of the coming ‘Great Event’.
Let us begin with the following question ‘What is this Great Event?’ You may have heard of the Event mentioned in passing, in other messages, blogs or books. And for some of you, this may be the first time you have come across this information.
Simply put, the Event is a singular, cosmic, completely visible, planetary-scale ‘explosion’ of Divine Light and Love on Earth. These powerful waves of Divine Light and Love will come straight from God/Source; channeled through the Great Central Sun. They will pass through your galaxy and planetary systems, to arrive and encompass all of the Earth in ONE single moment ~ reaching all living within the planet at the same time. Gaia and all of Her inhabitants will be able to see and feel the Event, and not a single person will remain unaffected afterwards.
What is likely to happen during the Event? During the Event, all incarnate souls will feel a powerful, undeniable surge of the following feelings all mixed in together: Unconditional Love, Divine Bliss, Complete Acceptance of who you are, Divine Grace/Blessings, and, strong feelings of finally being HOME again. During this powerful energy surge, some of you will be able to witness the appearance of an Ascended Master: leaders/founders of the religions/faiths that you believe in or have a close spiritual connection with.
For example, if you are a Christian, you may see a vision of Lord Jesus and will be able to talk to Him personally. If you are a Buddhist, you may see a vision of Siddharta Gautama (the Buddha) and be able to have a private conversation with Him. You will instantly be able to recognize who they are, by the very powerful Light and Loving vibrations they emanate and by your own eternal connection with the souls of these highly-evolved Light Beings.
Even after reading what is written above, it will be challenging for most of you to even imagine what the Event will feel like, because you do not yet have a previous life experience as a starting point of reference to compare it with (from within this lifetime). However some of you reading this had experienced something similar to the Event, during your meditation/spiritual awakening, but in a much smaller scale. If you belong to this latter group, bear in mind that whatever you had previously felt in the past, you will feel all of the above feelings again, but magnified more than a thousand times during the coming Event.
What will happen to everyone after the Event, however, is where it gets a little bit tricky to explain. Every one of you will perceive and process the Event differently: depending on the type of soul group you belong to among the 4 different soul groups below.
Group 1 consists of awakened souls, our Lightworkers; all of you who are reading this. You will know and understand the Event as what it truly is. It is the great catalyst that will simultaneously: mark the beginning of Nova Gaia ~ Utopia Earth and mark the End of Times (the End of Life as you have previously known it, in third-dimensional Earth). You had been awakened earlier than most of Humanity for a very important reason: you have been entrusted to be the guides, the way-showers and the leaders of fifth-dimensional living.
You all have been training and preparing for this moment in time for a very long time, and are now completely ready to take up the mantle of leadership and be the teachers/mentors/trainers you have come here to be. The blueprint of your life; the next steps that you need to take; the role that you will assume after this Great Event will be revealed to you in greater depth and clarity by your Higher Selves and your spirit team. Most of you have answered your Calling and have begun/already settled into these Light-work roles anyway by now, in some way, shape or form.
You will be leaders of the fifth-dimensional way of life and will receive constant guidance and direct assistance from your Galactic Brothers and Sisters from many highly-evolved, advanced civilizations. You will enjoy the lessons these Galactics will provide to help with the planetary healing of Gaia as well as the formation of Nova Earth.
Many new, fifth-dimensional structures are now ready to be put into place and your spiritual powers will be fully awakened and start to develop at a faster rate. You will learn how to master your thoughts since humanity will soon be a race of beings who, predominantly, communicates via telepathy. Mastering your thoughts is the first step to Mastering the Art of Creation and Manifestation. And your Galactic Brothers and Sisters will greatly help you on this as well. And when your lessons with them are complete, you will then go out into the world to share this knowledge with others so that ALL HUMANS on Planet Earth will one day, be the Living Embodiment of their Higher Selves. All will become powerful Creators and Manifestors. Earth will become a planet that only consists of Loving Beings who truly embody Oneness and Unity; of Masterful Beings who have Ascended to the fifth dimension.
Group 2 consists of unawakened souls (who, at a Higher Level, have decided to Ascend in this lifetime), the Event will: trigger tremendous shock, confusion and cause them to initiate research into greater understanding on what exactly has happened to them. The Event can be likened to THE loudest wakeup call they have ever heard in their entire lives; one that can no longer be ignored. They will start (with a sense of deep urgency that only they can feel) to seek and attract into their lives, guidance from you, my beloved Lightworker friends. They will intuitively find the ‘perfect’ mentor for them who possesses the higher knowledge needed to help them move forward in their own Great Path of Light. Spiritual development will become their main focus in life. And with time as they grow more spiritually mature, these souls will also come into a full remembrance of their true, Higher Selves and strive to embody Divine Love in their everyday lives.
Group 3 consists of unawakened souls (who, at a Higher Level, have decided Not to Ascend in this lifetime). They will still feel the intensity of the Great Event and also experience all the feelings that come during it. However, after it is over, they will slowly return to life within the third-dimensional paradigm. Even if they were to come across ‘real and authentic’ news about The Event and what it signifies, their inner reaction will be strong: doubts, disbelief and denial.
The Event is the greatest wake-up call to all incarnate souls on Planet Earth who are currently still sleeping. This group of souls however is sleeping too deeply and have (at a Higher Level) decided not to wake up in this lifetime. Thus the Event will not trigger any interest in all things spiritual; as they are not at the phase where spiritual development becomes a priority. In other words, they are not mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually ready to Ascend right Now, in this current lifetime.
Group 4 consists of unawakened souls (who, at a Higher Level, have decided to play the roles of the Darks in this lifetime). If you haven’t already done it, please read this channel’s last week message titled ‘Embracing the Dark’ for more information about this particular group of souls. There are two types of the Darks in this particular soul group. One that is ‘in-the-know’ of what is happening on Earth right now, and another who is ‘completely in the dark’ and have no idea/care about the Event and what it means.
Those who are ‘in the know’ – who have so far actively and deliberately tried to prevent and stop the spiritual progress of Humanity – will come to a sudden realization that their time has now come to a complete end. They will know that all is lost for their Dark purpose/cause, as Humanity will no longer hold any interest in living in the type of lower-vibrational, third-dimensional consciousness these Darks thrive in.
All the souls in group 4 will be faced with only two possible paths to undertake after the Great Event.
Path A is the path of a possible return to the Light and Love of their Higher Selves. This is the path that offers, one final, last chance, for these souls to embrace the Light and return to their Divine origins in this current lifetime. For the souls who are choosing this, great courage is needed to walk the path. They all have to ‘come clean’ with all the wrongs they had done in their current lifetime (i.e. all the things that were harmful to the Planet, and/or harmful to the people, groups/societies/citizens of their own countries).
All will be disclosed anyway, in one way or another. Nothing can remain hidden in Nova Gaia. Every human being on the Planet will one day find out all the wrongs that had been done to them by this group of souls whose previous purpose was to have ‘Power over Others’ and satisfy their greed. Every harmful action they had ever been a party of (either directly or indirectly) will come under intense scrutiny.
You are called to be the voice of reason; the voice of LOVE. You will be called to be the anchors of a fifth-dimensional way of being: the way of Unconditional LOVE. You will be the voice of Calm, the voice of Peace. You will speak and stand up in front of many citizens of Earth and persuade them to choose the way of Unconditional Love, the way of Forgiveness and the way Letting Go of the Past.
These leaders will first have to assess the true intention of all who belong to group 4. There must be TRUE remorse; a genuine intention to reform and a willingness to surrender to the decisions of: not only the selected spiritual leaders, but also the group of people they had harmed in the past.
The leaders will have the ability to detect all deceits and lies they may be given by some of these souls. A deliberate attempt to deceive and lie will definitely fail; in the event where some of these souls’ true intention is just to, one way or another, escape the consequences they are being forced to face.
Only those with the most genuine of intention to: make amends, reconcile and pay for their mistakes and adopt the fifth-dimensional way of living in the spirit of Love, Unity, Peace and Abundance for all, will eventually be forgiven, embraced and continuously guided so that they will once again walk the path of One Living in the Light.
After going through the above assessment, if/when it is found that some souls are so lost in the Dark that nothing further can be done to return them back to the path of Light (i.e. it will likely be group 4 souls who are ‘in the know’), then Path B is the only option these souls can undertake. No other path will be allowed.
Path B is where these souls will have to be ‘returned’ or ‘merged’ back to the Light of Source, back to God’s loving embrace in the spirit realm, to then be re-born/re-incarnated to a different third-dimensional planet that still supports Duality, Fear, Lack and Separation consciousness. Their ‘return to the Light of Source’ will happen in a loving, respectful manner. These souls will be allowed to continue to engage with living in a low-vibrational planet and ‘play’ the roles of the Darks until they are ready to reunite with the Light and Love of their Higher Selves.
There is 1 important point to remember here: God has given each soul the free will to do whatever it wishes with the life He/She had given it. There is no judgment. No condemnation.
Every single soul, who currently belongs to group 4, has (pre-birth; at a Higher Self level) decided whether to follow the Path of A and Ascend Now in this lifetime, or Path B and Ascend Later in their future lifetimes elsewhere, once they become ready.
Your job, all of my beloved Lightworkers currently reading this, is to lead and live by example. You must be one of the first ones to step up and show your willingness to embrace, forgive and let go of all the wrongs these souls, in group 4 Path A, had done prior to the Great Awakening; prior to the Great Event.
Now, here comes the BIG question that I am sure everyone reading this is asking within. ‘When is this Great Event supposed to take place?’ There had been many different answers. Some channels recently reported that it will happen soon this very month, in late March 2018. Some wrote that it will happen before the end of this year. Others predicted it will occur much later, perhaps between 3 to 10 years’ time from now. Which one of these answers is the correct one?
Predicting the future is a risky business. That is why when you go to visit two different psychics at two different times (say, one visit in your early twenties and another in your early thirties), there is a big possibility that these psychics will give you two very different answers to the same question you had asked them. Out of the INFINITE number of potential, future realities lying ahead of you, i.e. your probable timelines, these psychics can only provide predictions based on your vibrations and intentions you held, at the time of your visit. Every single person you met in life, who played a part in your life back then, or, who would (in the future timeline) play a part in your life will, have the power to change your probable future. It is really ‘Forks in the Road’ stuff for everyone who will play a potentially significant role in your life.
In the case of the timing of this Great Event, however, the risks of a misprediction is magnified a million fold. There are many micro and macro factors, coming from the human collective, that can influence space and time to produce a different timeline than what was originally predicted/estimated/forecasted.
That being said, here comes our final answer to your BIG question. With the presumption that all things/all matters continue to develop at their current velocity of change, there is a 56% possibility that the Great Event will probably take place within the next 3 to 6 months from today. This answer is based on current Light Data and planetary vibration level of Earth. Please do not be disappointed if it comes slightly later than the above forecast. There is even a 30% chance that it will take place before the above time range.
The most important thing to bear in mind, regardless of when the Great Event will actually occur, is that this cosmic, magnificent and miraculous Spiritual Event is inevitable. It will definitely happen. The Light is already victorious! Absolutely nothing can prevent Nova Earth from being manifested into your physical reality right here, right now.
It will soon be time for you to join the extremely lively celebrations now already going on in Heaven, in the higher dimensional realms. Cheers and great joy are resonating throughout all the galaxies in this Universe. The entire Galactic community, all of your Brothers and Sisters of Light (from your past/future lifetimes in the higher dimensions; in different races/civilizations), stand ready to embrace and welcome all of Humanity into their fold. Into the spirit of Oneness and Unity with All That Is.
These are truly great times you are living in. Please deeply recognize the honour you had been given by being physically embodied on planet Earth whilst this Great Change is happening. Let us give our profound, heartfelt thanks; in loving gratitude to Father/Mother God, Source/Prime Creator for this Great Gift of Love and to Mother Earth, Gaia, for Her deep, enduring Love and the sacrifices She had given for all of Humanity throughout the eons of time.
There is truly nothing extra for you to do from this moment onward, my beloved Lightworkers. Continue to shine your Light and live every day, fully committed to: your own magnificent Great Path of Light and a high-vibrational way of living.
Please also continue to walk around every day acting like you are the embodiment of your Higher Self, and acting as if Nova Earth is already here. Both facts, in the great NOW moment, are definitely true and not a false belief at all.
All of us here in the higher dimension, bow to you all in great respect, love, gratitude and admiration for your participation, courage, bravery and hard work in creating and manifesting Nova Earth. We will continue to be your loving, supportive work partners in this grand Ascension project. All the way through to its completion; to the end.
I am walking with you, every step of the way. Call out for help whenever you need it. We all stand ready to assist. You are never alone.
Sending much love & light your way. | 2019-04-26T12:16:42Z | http://sananda.website/sananda-via-adele-arini-march-12th-2018/ |
If you haven’t yet visited Fantasy Faire 2016 you have through tomorrow to do so. As I said in my first post, this event is enormous. It’s comprised of 14 sims. I showed you four in the last post. Today I am going to show you another five, and I will finish them off with another five tomorrow.
Echtra, sponsored by The Lost Unicorn Gallery, is dark, mysterious and just gorgeous. Look at the materials work in this picture. They were just stunning, and I knew I had to capture that. Please note that while there IS rain on the sim, it didn’t photograph well for me on any of the WL settings I wanted. So I added the rain you see below as an after effect. Here you’ll find a complete list of the stores located on Echtra.
Next on the tour is The Golden Delta. Sponsored by Fallen Gods Inc. this desert sim conjures up images of Ancient Egypt. I particularly fell in love with the water (I am a bit obsessed with Linden water, I must admit… probably from years of sky dwelling). When I visited The Golden Delta, I couldn’t help but think of how critical water is in a desert climate, how life and civilizations spring up around those precious resources. Check out the list of stores featured on this stunning sim here.
I probably ought to have posted Fairelands Junction in my first blog about the event. But to be honest, I wasn’t happy with the pictures I’d taken, so I wanted to go back and reshoot. I finally found one I liked. I wanted to show off the portals to the sims, because I love how through each portal you see a glimpse of what that sim looks like. While you can teleport directly to any of the sims, I highly recommend a visit to the Fairelands Junction, just because it’s such a unique gateway to the entire event. This critical sim was sponsored by Roawenwood, and you can read more about it here.
Lucentia, with its stunning, gigantic crystal was one of my favorite places. Maybe it just made me think of my own name. 😛 But for whatever reason, I loved the drama of this sim, which is sponsored by The Looking Glass. Here’s the list of stores you’ll find located on Lucentia.
Malfience is the sim at the heart of The Fairelands Quest. This is an interactive quest for Fairelands visitors, and you can learn more about it here and here. I found this sweet old woman in her cottage, and we had a lovely chat about life before Belfience became Malfience over tea (okay, not really but I’m pretending here). I’d encourage you to hurry over to do this quest. Maybe you can help this kind woman!
That’s all for now! I’ll post pics of the final five sims in the event tomorrow (or possibly later tonight)!
Fantasy Faire 2016 is open and runs through May 5th. This event supports Relay For Life, which if you’re not familiar helps to raise money for cancer research. But it’s also a celebration of those who’ve been through cancer and lived to share their stories and a time to remember those whose battles could not be won with our still far too limited treatment options. Fantasy Faire features so many fabulous designers, with products for sale to help raise funds, and those creators have, as usual, outdone themselves with both their talent and generosity in giving to this great cause.
But the stars of Fantasy Faire each year are the amazing builds. This year there are fourteen sims in total. FOURTEEN. It’s crazy! There are ten shopping sims, an entertainment sim, a literary sim, a sim that commemorates and celebrates those lost and, of course, The Fairelands Junction, which is your portal to all of the other sims.
I took pics on all sims, and my goal is to share all fourteen pics with you. I have four to share right now.
First, sponsored by Arcadia, is Blackmoor. Blackmoor is dramatic and darkly mysterious and beautiful. I’ll be blogging a bit more of what I’m wearing in a future post, but my rain boots and umbrella are both Decoy and available at The Epiphany, as is the dress from Luas. If you click here to go to the official Fantasy Faire blog, you can see a completely list of stores you’ll find on Blackmoor.
Breeze, sponsored by Solarium, is colorful and really, really cute. It has a feel of being something out of a children’s book (at least to me). Here’s a link to the list of stores to be found on Breeze.
Sponsored by KittyCatS, I think Bright Haven is the sim where I’d most like to live! The cheerful, bright little cottages and the beautiful waterfront just makes it so quaint and charming. Here you’ll find the list of stores located on Bright Haven.
And finally, for today, Dangarnon. Sponsored by Death Row Designs, this darkly beautiful sim speaks (to me) of a bygone era. Click here for a complete list of stores on Dangarnon.
For all of the information you’ll need to navigate this large event, I highly recommend going through the official Fantasy Faire website. And if you’re not into fantasy, but still want to help the cause, you will find plenty of donation kiosks throughout the sims to do just that!
Happy Friday! I have a couple of Fifty Linden Friday releases to show you. It’s also the final couple of hours for Fashion For Life, so do be sure you check it out before it ends at 11:59 pm SLT tonight!
The adorable bench I am sitting on is from Sway’s, as is the knot artwork. These items are both available for L$50 for FLF today, so go grab them! Also for FLF, from fri.day, are my cute heels. The artwork and this gorgeous lingerie set from Blacklace inspired this photo… the concept of “tying the knot.” The candles from Collage for We ❤ Role-Play helped to set the perfect mood.
My gorgeous skin is Evie by Lumae for The Cart Sale. This beautiful skin can be yours for just L$10!
Fashion For Life is winding down, and the event has already raised a tremendous amount of money for the American Cancer Society. You can check the current amount that’s been raised right here.
For this post, I’m featuring the gorgeous Shae gown from Miamai. Miamai is located on the Wander sim at Fashion For Life, which runs through June 21st. This is a 75% donation item, and it’s really stunning. I love how unique it is, and how detailed. The beautiful prop pose is from Infiniti’s gacha for the Tales Of Fantasy event, which runs through June 30th. My skin is Livy from Glam Affair for The Arcade. I’ve added some mascara tears to it, but don’t worry…I plan to show you a better look at this gorgeous face soon.
The house I’m standing on is incredible, and I plan to show more pics of it in a coming post (I’m still decorating!). It’s Scarlet Creative’s offering for the current round of Collabor88, and here is the truly amazing, remarkable part… it’s just L$88. No, for real. I know, right? Incredible deal, definitely one not to miss. Though what I’m standing on is far more like a pergola, it made me think of a widow’s walk, and the rest of the picture was inspired from there… the dress has this old-fashioned feel I love, and the pose is one that, to me, captures both sorrow and also acceptance, in a truly beautiful and unique way.
There are so many events happening right now… some of our regular faves, like Collabor88. And then there’s Fashion For Life, which is a massive, amazing event that raises money for the American Cancer Society. I’ve written before about why fundraisers like FFL and RFL are meaningful for me, so I won’t go into that again. But suffice it to say, I think the good these events do is amazing and impressive. And I love the theme of Wanderlust for this year. You can read more about the event here, and there is a complete list of slurls on this page, too. There are a lot of sims for this event, which means lots of opportunities to shop and help raise money for a great cause!
I’m wearing the new Summer II from Glam Affair, which can be found at the new round of Collabor88. I fell hard for Glam Affair’s Summer last year, so I was happy to see another take on this beautiful skin. My adorable sun dress is from SySy’s for Fashion For Life, as is the playful suitcase pose/prop by NanTra. These strappy sandals are SLink add ons from fri.day, also at Collabor88. My bracelet by Theosophy, the chairs on my deck, and the bookcase you can see a glimpse of inside are also all items from Collab. The chairs are by Trompe Loeil, the bookcase is from Schadenfreude.
Here’s a close up, to show you both the gorgeous Glam Affair skin and also the Cae jewels for Serafilms Gone With The Wind round, which opens today (June 12th)! I’m also debuting my new shape here. I’ve been tweaking my face for a few days, and I like the end result. I’m sure most people won’t see a huge difference, but to me it’s a fairly dramatic change, lol.
More soon… I’m getting back into the swing of things after traveling and dealing with a flare up. | 2019-04-21T16:49:33Z | https://luciebluebird.com/category/rfl-sl/ |
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In the second week of February I shall take up the position of director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in Canberra, having spent nearly eleven supremely enjoyable years living in the United States and serving as curator then senior curator of paintings and sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art here in New Haven, Connecticut. There is a great deal to be done between now and then, and, of course, in the years ahead I doubt I shall have enough time to maintain this modest bloggy train of thought—such as it has been. By exchanging the old curatorial hat for the novel director’s, I shall in future speak more directly for my institution and less often for myself, so you, my readers, may wish from time to time to visit http://portrait.gov.au to see what we are up to. Looking back over the past five years I am astonished to discover that I have dispensed several millions of words in this little spot—and I can thoroughly recommend it as a discipline, and as a form of recreation. One is occasionally astonished by the wide reach of this medium, by its capacity to reignite old friendships, and to create new ones. For all of this I am very grateful, and to all of you I say not goodbye but au revoir—and, of course, Happy New Year!
Among the numerous bronze and brass commemorative wall plaques in Christ Church, New Haven, my favourite reads: “ELEVEN / STATIONS OF THE CROSS / WERE PLACED IN THIS CHURCH / BY THE MUNIFICENCE OF / GRACE M. FOGG / IN MEMORY OF HER FATHER / EZRA D. FOGG / AND HERSELF.” I have never felt compelled learn more about the munificent Miss Fogg, I suppose because so much is hinted at in the inscription. The stations themselves are impressively large, and carved in fine-grained sandstone, possibly Portland. Miss Fogg paid for all but three. Which three? Did she have some objection to certain of them on scriptural grounds (or lack of these—although several more than three stations of the cross are absent from the Gospels), or was this simply a question of firmness in the face of an unfortunate budgetary overrun? The specificity of “eleven,” and not ten or twelve or some other tally is so very intriguing, and I cannot imagine it may be attributed to a pedantic executor. One senses that these are the words of Miss Fogg herself. She was certainly not given to false modesty; the stations commemorate not only her late father but herself too, hardly an afterthought. The desire to be remembered after we are gone is natural and widespread, but few people take steps to erect a church monument for that express purpose. I imagine Miss Fogg was a doughty New Englander who did not hesitate to call a spade a spade. She was evidently an only child. Perhaps in later years she concluded that nobody would do her the honors if Miss Fogg did not see to it herself. I see that Ezra D. Fogg was in 1899 president and treasurer of The Ezra D. Fogg Company at 87 Church Street, New Haven, wholesale lumber merchants (“SPECIALTY—Pine and Spruce Boxes and Shooks, and Brick Pallets”). Shooks are lengths of wood sufficient for one hogshead or barrel, prepared for use and bound up in a portable packet, a sort of kit. At this date Mr. Fogg resided at 389 Edgewood Avenue in Westville, not too far from me. I imagine Miss Fogg stayed there until she died, interesting herself up to a point in the affairs of the parish—and perhaps inadvertently terrorizing successive curates and churchwardens.
North American motorists are among the worst I have ever encountered—over nearly 30 years driving on both sides of the road in many countries spread across four continents as well as on numerous islands. I am not sure why this is so. Perhaps Americans learn to drive far too early—often at the age of fifteen or sixteen—and are held to a breathtakingly low standard, mostly using vehicles with automatic transmission. Many people freely admit that they could not possibly operate a “stick-shift,” or manual. Parallel parking is an almost complete mystery to them, for it is not part of the test. All you have to do in Connecticut is to steer your nose through 90 degrees into a vacant spot in a parking lot, and finish up somewhere between the two solid white lines. By contrast in downtown New Haven one often witnesses the comic spectacle of people making five, six attempts to parallel park, such that the end result is not parking so much as abandonment—four or five impressionistically unaligned feet from the curb, sometimes more, having for several minutes prior swooped, bumped, and zig-zagged, earnestly and longingly, in the hope of attaining eventual success. In heavily built-up urban environments they wander aimlessly between lanes, much encouraged by the extra space provided by one-way streets with three or more wide lanes, divided by lines mostly ancient but occasionally still visible. They hesitate, or suddenly change their mind in the middle of busy intersections. They ignore pedestrian crossings completely and often run red lights, as if these were merely advisory. They turn left from the right without indicating, tracing a wobbling arc that delivers them in the end to an inside lane at right angles, often against oncoming traffic, which is frequently ignored on the assumption that those of us with the right of way will intuitively, even gladly yield by braking sharply. On the interstate highway system, meanwhile, people steer their creaking old bedpans, many the epitome of un-roadworthiness—hubcaps and bodywork scraped, dented, battered, or missing; lights often broken or defunct—at 70 miles per hour and upwards when the speed limit is 55—aggressively tailgating, passing on the wrong side (a much cherished and particularly dangerous habit here in Connecticut), safe in the knowledge that they will almost certainly not be ticketed by any state troopers attempting to impose order. Motorists treat huge lorries as if they are as maneuverable and responsive as a Corvette. You see many yelling illegally into their mobile phones, and sometimes even texting at the wheel. Motorcyclists are free from any obligation to wear helmets. These lethal habits know no distinction as to race, age, or gender; they are universal. And every Saturday morning on National Public Radio a succession of callers to Car Talk (a program that runs of out of Boston), seek guidance about some 1983 Corolla that has clocked up 280,000 miles and is emitting smoke, or making an alarming noise, or conking out suddenly and inexplicably on the open road. The roads themselves, meanwhile, are pockmarked, bumpy, and shored up with dribbling lines of bitumen and stray gravel, or else clobbered and patched up in so ad hoc a manner that you wonder how the entire system can survive the punishment of another winter. The contrast between all this and the wilderness of late-model Mercedes Benzes, BMWs, and Renaults one encounters nowadays in the eastern suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne, or the velvety smoothness of our freeways, could not be more stark, and provides an apt metaphor for the sluggishness and malaise in which the United States’ economy is in many sectors and many regions still immured—despite reassuring but mostly misleading noises from Washington and Wall Street. It is equally if not more worrying that many people think, in the face of all possible reason, that American drivers are, on the whole, pretty good, and that American streets, roads, and highways are as safe as can be!
A journalist asked Premier Chou En-lai (Zhou Enlai) what, in his opinion, had been the full impact of the French Revolution? Chou’s answer, after a long and thoughtful pause, was: “It is too early to say.” A good one, no? Perhaps too good. Obviously this anecdote gained traction in the wake of Vietnam, and ever since, as a measure of the sage Chinese “long view,” but because it is repeated so regularly, and with a suspicious array of variations—occasionally also attributed to Ho Chi Minh, and even to Mao—I have become increasingly skeptical about its authenticity. There is a whiff of orientalist fantasy, after all, to say nothing of plain condescension in the broad historical conceit. Add to these a suggestion of facetiousness on Chou’s part and the whole thing strikes a false note. No doubt it held some appeal, too, for student radicals in the west to whom Chou was most appealing in the guise of Confucius, and not so much as master of the Party Congress. At last I think I have cracked it. According to Charles W. Freeman, Jr., a retired American diplomat who acted as the official interpreter for President Richard M. Nixon during his famous visit to China in February 1972, Chou made his remark to Nixon over lunch or dinner in Peking (as it was then still known), during a rather delicate political discussion about revolutions that had succeeded, and ones that had failed. These included the Hungarian uprising of 1956 and the Prague Spring of 1968. According to Freeman it was quite clear from the context that in saying it was “too early to say” Chou was referring specifically to the upheaval that took place in Paris in May 1968, and not to 1789. There are other theories, for example that Chou made his remark to a French journalist at the Geneva conference in 1954, but I suppose this simply demonstrates the tendency of enjoyable snippets to take on a life of their own, and powerfully to resist clarification, correction, or debunking. I think we can safely predict that Chou will continue indefinitely to say “it is too early to say,” without any fear of contradiction.
Angus Trumble will begin work as Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia on February 10, 2014. He has been Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, since May 2003. Angus is the author of a number of books, including A Brief History of the Smile and The Finger: A Handbook, which has lately been published in New York by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, in London by Yale University Press, and by Melbourne University Publishing. He is an occasional contributor to the Burlington Magazine, Apollo, and a more regular one to The Times Literary Supplement, the Australian Book Review, and Esopus Magazine. | 2019-04-22T19:15:03Z | http://angustrumble.blogspot.com/ |
The war between the states had begun more than a year earlier with the rebel assault on Fort Sumter (April 1861) and quickly grew into the greatest conflict that the young nation had seen since the Revolution.
In the months that followed, President Lincoln called upon congress to authorize hundreds of thousands more men to join the fight to preserve the Union.
Lester Angell worked as a farmer in Cape Vincent, New York and married Ann Eliza Baird in the fall of 1861. They had given birth to their first child, Anna Lettie Angell, in June 1862. Leaving his wife and newborn child with his extended family, Lester answered the call of duty and enlisted for a period of three years in the Union Army on August 14, 1862 -- just two week before his 22nd birthday.
On September 11, 1862 he mustered-in at Sackets Harbor and began his training at the site made so locally famous by a War of 1812 battle. Private Lester C. Angell was now a member of Company C, 1 Battalion, New York Black River Artillery.
The new recruits were organized, quartered, and hastily trained at Sackets Harbor as they awaited orders. One week after being mustered in, they received word from New York Governor Edwin Morgan that they were to proceed to New York City for equipment. On Thursday, September 18th, 1862, the first and second battalions, including Lester's Company C (later renamed to Company M), marched from Sackets Harbor to the railroad junction of the foot of Arsenal Street in the village of Watertown.
Captain E.B. Webb published remembrances of the day in his 1887 book History of the 10th Regiment: "This march was accomplished in good time through a broiling September sun, the men, in heavy marching order, carrying their haversacks, knapsacks and canteens, together with much et ceteras as the civilian soldier deems necessary to his comfort." Webb further recalls the many friends and family members of the men that greeted them along their route, and that "the ladies of Watertown and vicinity, anticipating their arrival, hunger and weariness, had prepared at the hotel then kept by S.P. Huffstater at the Junction, an ample repast of sandwiches, coffee, etc., to which the tired and hungry soldiers did ample justice." That afternoon, 1200 men boarded 24 New York Central Railroad coaches "amid the cheers of the soldiers and the tears of the friends they left behind" and set out to war.
On September 19, the men arrived at Park Barracks in New York City. They were allowed to visit any portion of the city, a novelty for many, and requisitions were made for camp equipment including tents, blankets and cooking utensils. Their stay in New York was brief -- within 48 hours they boarded a boat and sailed down the river to Camden, New Jersey. From there, they proceeded by rail to Philadelphia, Baltimore, and ultimately Washington, D.C.
The regiment's first assignment of the war was defence of the nation's Capitol. Southeast of the city, at Fort Baker, they set up camp and were drilled in light and heavy artillery tactics. During this time in the fall of 1862, Captain Webb recalls the confusion and disagreement over the organization of the troops. After much discussion and politicking of Governors, Generals and various officials, the regiment was reorganized by the end of the year. Lester Angell's original Company C of the 1st Battalion was now known as Company M, 4th Battalion.
The 10th Regiment was highly regarded for its duty of defending Washington and being "the only barrier between the rebel forces and the National capitol, in case the enemy should force the Federal lines, and make a raid into Maryland," writes Webb. While they would remain in this garrison service until March 1864, some of the men, including Lester, were detached to similar duties around New York Harbor. The following muster card shows January 23, 1863 as Lester's date of detachment to New York City, where he would serve for the next six months.
With battles raging in Virginia in May and June of 1863, the detachment was ordered to return to Washington, D.C. to once again help protect the Capitol and also to guard deserters as indicated on the muster card below. 80 miles to the north, the pivotal battle of Gettysburg takes place July 1-3.
Letters written by soldiers and sent to newspapers back home provide a further glimpse into their lives during the war. The following is an excerpt of a letter from a Company A soldier (only identified as "NIX") describing their impromptu 4th of July celebration at Fort Baker. Lester's company was very likely part of this celebration. You can find more clippings here, courtesy of the New York State Military Museum.
After less than a year of service, Lester Angell was promoted to the rank of Corporal on July 31, 1863. In mid August, he fell ill and was admitted to the regimental hospital with intermittent malaria. With the unsanitary battlefield and camp conditions of the time, disease was quite common throughout the war. It has been estimated that for every three soldiers that died in battle, five more died from disease. This admission to the hospital was the beginning of perhaps the most challenging aspect of Lester's service.
NOTE: While malaria is most often associated with more tropical climates, it was a common ailment in the American Civil War. National Geographic reports that "In the late 1800s, malaria was so bad in Washington, D.C., that one prominent physician lobbied - unsuccessfully - to erect a gigantic wire screen around the city. A million Union Army casualties in the U.S. Civil War are attributed to malaria."
At regimental hospital, Fort Baker, D.C.
After three weeks in the regimental hospital, Lester was sent to another convalescent facility, most likely near Arlington, Virginia. "Sick in hospital" is the most amount of detail that exists on muster cards for the next few months. On February 2, 1864, after nearly six months of illness, Corporal Angell was issued a sick furlough and allowed to return to his home in upstate New York for 40 or 60 days (there are conflicting reports of the furlough's length).
"I do not consider him yet able to travel with safety by himself to Washington. That he is suffering from severe disease of the digestive [system?] especially hindering the liver and stomach. [...] [He is in] such a state as would effectively prevent him from doing any kind of artillery duty."
This statement ostensibly extended Lester's furlough...or so he thought.
After forwarding the surgeon's letter to his command, Lester remained in Jefferson County for the next five months. During this time the 10th Artillery continued their garrison duties at Fort Baker until being pressed into active service at the Battle of Cold Harbor in early June 1864.
Today, a situation like this could probably be solved with a few phone calls and a couple e-mails. The exchange of information in 1864 was not as swift, and it took the next two months to sort out the affair. Lester provided documents from the surgeon as well as sworn statements from Christopher Baird, Morgan Klock, and his father David W. Angell detailing his illness and intent to rejoin his company. At some point, Lester was transferred to the Washington Street Prison in Alexandria, Virginia. His commanding officer, Captain Armstrong, also came to his defense and by November 1864, Corporal Lester C. Angell was back on duty with Company M.
After more than a year of illness, arrest, brief imprisonment and acquittal, Lester is finally able to rejoin his brothers in arms. In mid September 1864, he was transferred to Fort Whipple, Virginia, where the 10th was now stationed. The men were ordered to join the Army of the Shenandoah at Harper's Ferry on September 23. From there, they served guard on General Sheridan's supplies and in October, fought to hold their position at Cedar Creek against Confederate General Early.
Late in the year the regiment was ordered back to the army of the Potomac, and on December 31, 1864, they made camp at Bermuda Hundred, just south of Richmond. There they were attached to the Provisional Brigade commanded by General Edward W. Ferrero during the ongoing Seige of Petersburg. As the 10th prepared to spend the winter in their position, back home on December 17, Lester's second child, Lillian, was born.
The cities of Petersburg and Richmond were taken back by the Union on April 3, just days before President Lincoln's assassination. A month later, as the war is winding down, Lester Angell is promoted to Sergeant on May 8.
On June 23, 1865, the final Confederate General, Stand Watie, surrenders in Oklahoma, which effectively ends the war. The troops of Company M muster out of Petersburg on that same day and begin their journey home.
As the men returned home and the war was won, celebration and recognition of the those who served was evident throughout the area. One such event was planned for the 4th of July at Sackets Harbor, the place where it all started for the 10th Artillery three years earlier.
Source Notes: This account of Lester Angell's Civil War service was constructed using his military records from the National Archives, "History of the 10th Regiment" by E.B. Webb, newspaper accounts, information from the New York State Military Museum, and Census records. | 2019-04-20T20:35:55Z | https://siragusafamily.com/lester-angell-civil-war |
The grassroots fundraising efforts organized by Friends of NRA’s countrywide network of Field Representatives, volunteers, attendees and donors who contribute to the local events would not be possible without the additional support of the program’s generous and enthusiastic corporate sponsors. Backed by a group of new and continuing industry sponsors, Friends of NRA is primed to continue achieving greater success and reaching more shooting sports enthusiasts in 2018.
Daniel Defense has been a program sponsor since 2014 and now enters its fifth year at the highest level of industry support for Friends of NRA—the National Corporate Sponsor Program’s exclusive Guardian level. After becoming involved with Friends of NRA by supplying rifles through the Vendor Direct program, the relationship between the program and the firearm and accessory manufacturer has grown stronger each year.
"I encourage everyone to find a way to get involved on some level to ensure the next generation has the same level of access to shooting sports."Cindy and Marty Daniel are passionate about supporting shooting programs focused on education and training for youth and women in particular, an interest that perfectly connects with The NRA Foundation’s goals to support educational programs that ensure the continuation of America’s proud shooting and hunting heritage for generations to come. Even as they focused on constructing a vast new manufacturing facility in Black Creek, Ga.—which will house all Daniel Defense employees under one roof and accommodate the company’s growing production and sales demands—the couple’s dedication to and support for Friends of NRA activities and fundraising has remained a priority.
Their commitment to Second Amendment freedoms extends beyond the Friends program as well. Among other sponsorships and NRA support, Daniel Defense has been the presenting sponsor of the NRA America’s Rifle Challenge (ARC) program, along with supplying rifles for competitions like the World Shooting Championships ARC Match rounds.
"We want to thank Daniel Defense and its committed staff for all the support they provide The NRA Foundation as a sponsor and as an American company providing an American product for use at our local Friends of NRA events," says Director of Volunteer Fundraising Sarah Engeset. "That support is just part of the commitment that Daniel Defense makes to the NRA, The NRA Foundation and the mission to preserve freedom."
GASTON J. GLOCK style LP, an international manufacturer of traditional hunting and shooting apparel and accessories, has been involved with Friends of NRA since 2012 when it began underwriting fundraising activities in Georgia, the home state of GASTON’s U.S. headquarters in Smyrna. In 2014 GASTON took its support to a national scale and now enters its fifth year as a National Corporate Sponsor.
“We are always looking to support NRA and NRA Foundation efforts to provide opportunities for all kinds of firearms training,” says CEO of GASTON USA Beate Arnold. She emphasizes the GASTON™ brand and Friends of NRA’s shared interest in preserving the shooting sports lifestyle, a goal which focuses on preserving quality of life and traditions. In the last four years, GASTON has invested more than $200,000 in sponsorship support of Friends of NRA, including continued involvement with the Georgia program and its focus on youth participation in the shooting sports in that state.
“Like The NRA Foundation, GASTON seeks to preserve the resources that support outdoor lifestyles and shooting traditions,” notes Arnold. In 2018 the Protector level sponsor will make and donate Coolmax® sports shirts with the NRA Foundation logo and ‘Wall of Guns’ text to the NRA Foundation events at the Great American Outdoor Show and NRA Annual Meeting for the fourth year.
Henry Repeating Arms has provided two decades of steadfast support for Friends of NRA and The NRA Foundation, beginning with their participation as a reliable vendor for the fundraising program. In 2015 the manufacturer of classic rifles “Made in America, or not made at all” expanded on that commitment as a National Corporate Sponsor. As a 2016 and 2017 sponsor of Friends of NRA, it donated tens of thousands more dollars in monetary support and firearms to the program, including 1,150 Frontier Model lever action rifles to be used at Friends of NRA events across the country.
“We all strive to protect our Second Amendment rights and promote youth shooting sports and firearms safety."Henry Repeating Arms continues to be a vital partner as a 2018 Defender level sponsor, a firearms supplier for the Friends of NRA Standard Package and Vendor Direct program, and a donor to national events. It has also contributed a great deal to other NRA programs through roles including organizer of the Henry 1,000 Man Shoot in November 2016—from which some of the Golden Boy Silver rifles donated to Friends of NRA's fundraising efforts.
In 2018 Henry will sponsor the Wall of Guns at both the Great American Outdoor Show (GAOS) and NRA Annual Meeting—as well as the National NRA Foundation Banquet at Annual Meeting—for the fourth year. Over the past three years, it has also created the tradition of recognizing Americans with inspiring stories of service and bravery by presenting them with special Henry Tribute Rifles at the National Banquet.
The passion for family and freedom shared by Johan and Zelda, and Friends of NRA and its attendees, drove the couple to seek out a way to do something bigger and broader. As a result, Ibamba Safaris will be a Protector level sponsor of the program in 2018, donating 100 hunts to be used at local events across the country as well as at the National NRA Foundation Banquet at NRA Annual Meeting. “We are delighted to receive their contribution and support, and we look forward to having their hunts at our banquets nationwide in 2018,” says Engeset.
I.O. Incorporated (Inter Ordnance Inc.) is also new as a National Corporate Sponsor for Friends of NRA, though it has supported the program on a local level over the years with donations to the event near its former manufacturing plant in Monroe, N.C. The newly-relocated company sought to get to know the grassroots firearms enthusiasts and community in its new home on Florida’s space coast and to have more involvement with The NRA Foundation on a national scale. As a Protector level sponsor in 2018, it will achieve that.
I.O. Inc. has donated 100 of its American-made rifles to The NRA Foundation, and those AKM247 and M215-KM15 firearms will be available at select Friends of NRA banquets in 2018.
O.F. Mossberg & Sons, Inc., has long supported the NRA with donations to national events, sponsorship of the National NRA Foundation Banquet and television shows, and more. In 2015 it became a National Corporate Sponsor of Friends of NRA and sponsored games at the NRA Foundation Banquets at GAOS and NRA Annual Meetings. It continued that dedication as a 2016 and 2017 Defender level sponsor of the program and as a game sponsor at the 2016 National NRA Foundation Banquet, and it will carry that support into 2018 with its fourth year as a Defender level corporate sponsor.
Numzaan Safaris also became a National Corporate Sponsor in 2015 by donating 50 hunts to be used over two years at local events across the country as well as at the National NRA Foundation Banquet at NRA Annual Meeting. They are now making the same commitment and continuing to supply 25 hunts per year as a Protector level sponsor in 2017 and 2018. Previously, the South African outfitter and Booking Agents Ed and Linda Stevens had already supported Friends of NRA fundraising on the local level for several years, and that established relationship has helped to make their national sponsorship a fulfilling experience for all involved. As of mid-December, Numzaan hunts had raised more than $1.4 million at Friends of NRA events since 2012—including nearly $450,000 in 2017 alone.
Safari Specialty Importers, Inc., (SSI) is another new member of Friends of NRA’s National Corporate Sponsor program. Owners Robert and Rosella Quartarone started SSI as a means to be an advocate on behalf of the hunter, and over the years it has become the hunting industry’s leading expert for importing and exporting hunted species worldwide. Much like the awareness and training that The NRA Foundation centers around, SSI raises awareness through educating the hunter and all involved in the service chain in its business. With their years of experience and personal enthusiasm for the cause, the Quartarones are dedicated to supporting hunting organizations with their time and funds.
“With the NRA at the forefront to save hunting from extinction, it is our calling—as both a hunter and a successful business dedicated solely to hunting—to support The NRA Foundation.”SSI now lends that support to Friends of NRA as a Protector level sponsor by providing discounts for the export of hunting trophies in conjunction with hunts donated by Ibamba Safaris. Their services make hunting abroad a stress-free experience by providing each hunter with a Personal Importer who manages the entire process of getting trophies safely home. SSI coordinates all aspects of exporting and importing a hunter’s trophies, including filing U.S. customs paperwork and securing permits before the hunt, applying for import permits, and paying all dipping, packing and shipping charges on the hunter’s behalf.
SecureIt Tactical, Inc., continues its sponsorship of Friends of NRA for the fourth year in 2018. The company has donated some of its unique firearm storage solutions to The NRA Foundation and NRA’s Law Enforcement Division: Falcon FAST Box gun safes in 2015, RAPID 6 retrofit modular gun safe conversion kits in 2016, and RAPID 2 kits in 2017. Those items were available at select Friends of NRA banquets, generating funds to support local and national shooting sports programs and bringing the SecureIt weapons storage platform to event attendees throughout the U.S. Now the Protector level sponsor has donated 150 Model 47 FAST Boxes to Friends of NRA for 2018.
Smith & Wesson, a leading name in the firearms industry, has also become a brand closely associated with the NRA after decades of involvement and support for all aspects of the organization and its mission. It has made a profound impact in support of the Second Amendment. “They have filled just about every sponsorship or industry support role at some point,” notes da Silva.
Participating in the National Corporate Sponsor Program as a Defender level sponsor for its second year in a row, Smith & Wesson has a long history of involvement with the Friends of NRA program. It has provided product for local Friends of NRA events since the 1990s, continually provided firearms for The NRA Foundation’s national events, and in 2014 through 2016 it also sponsored games at The NRA Foundation national banquets at both the Great American Outdoor Show and NRA Annual Meetings.
“Our sponsors' generosity is a testament to their dedicated advocacy for the future of shooting sports in this country.”Corporate Sponsors directly impact millions of firearm and outdoor enthusiasts through their relationships with Friends of NRA and their contributions of money, services and auction items to the program. Each one is an investment in the next generation and another piece of the one team, one voice, one vision that the program has built for the future of freedom.
Interested in becoming a Friends of NRA National Corporate Sponsor? Visit friendsofnra.org/corporate-sponsors.aspx or contact the NRA Corporate Development Team at 703-267-1356 to learn more. | 2019-04-20T07:18:41Z | https://www.nrablog.com/articles/2018/1/2018-friends-of-nra-national-corporate-sponsor-program/ |
False and misleading prescription drug advertising is common and dangerous. Prescription drug marketers are inundating doctors, and to a lesser extent, the public, with marketing that misrepresents risks, promotes unproven uses, and makes unsubstantiated claims. The false and misleading messages are communicated through conventional advertising, sales representatives, doctors speaking on behalf of drug marketers, and through clinical trial suppression, manipulation and misrepresentation. Sadly, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is ineffective at addressing the problems. This report takes a comprehensive look at all of these facets of the prescription drug marketing problem and suggests effective solutions.
Deceptive drug marketing is pervasive, dangerous, and primarily aimed at doctors.
• From 2001-2005, 85 companies received 170 notices from the FDA explaining that the marketing for 150 different drugs was false and/or misleading.
• 62% of the false or misleading messages targeted doctors, and those messages were expressed by 38 different types of advertising. By contrast, the public was exposed to 17 different types of false or misleading ads.
• The false messages were serious: 35% misrepresented risk; 22% promoted unproven uses; and 38% made unsupported or misleading claims. For deceptive messages targeting doctors, 37% misrepresented risk; 24% promoted unproven uses; and 36% made unsupported or misleading claims.
• 28 companies—approximately 1/3 of the total— received more than one letter declaring their ads false or misleading in the five years we examined. In fact, these companies accounted for two-thirds of all the letters received.
• 26 companies received more than one letter relating to advertising for the same drug that was deemed false or misleading in the same way.
Deceptive marketing includes sales representatives.
• Sales representatives, as a group, form long and deep relationships with doctors, beginning in medical school. Research suggests those early relationships increase doctors’ receptiveness to sales representatives once they are in practice.
• Perhaps reflecting those relationships, other research has shown that sales representatives have a profound influence on prescribing decisions.
• Sales representative statements accounted for 30 of the 869 deceptive messages in the FDA letters, an amount that is enormous given the very small percentage chance that the FDA will detect such statements. Other research suggests that as much as 11% of sales representative statements are false and favorable to the product they pitch.
Deceptive marketing includes clinical trials.
• In the letters identifying advertising as false or misleading because it contained unsupported claims, FDA highlighted at least 82 times that the advertising cited clinical trials for propositions they did not support. In some instances, the cited trials even contradicted the claims.
• Drug marketers turn clinical trials into marketing tools by suppressing some unfavorable data; by using PR firms to write favorable reports (the PR firm does not appear as an author of the report, instead a doctor is retained to be the named author); by misrepresenting unfavorable data that is published; and, most subtly, by designing studies to get only the results they want.
Our numbers dramatically understate the problem.
The FDA letters we examined do not address anywhere near the full universe of prescription drug marketing.
• The FDA routinely reviews only “classic” advertising and does not comprehensively monitor sales representatives, doctors acting as pitchmen, or clinical trial data manipulation. Moreover, the FDA’s review of classic advertising is not complete; not all ads are submitted to it, and of those that are, the FDA only reviews some.
• The FDA letters rarely identify how many times, or where, an ad was used. A deceptive print ad may have run in several newspapers and magazines. Each of those print runs would be another dissemination of the deceptive messages in the ads.
• The FDA reviews advertising after it has been disseminated and only requires corrective measures a quarter of the time.
• The best measure is how many people internalized the deceptive measure, an impossible figure to determine. The 869 disseminations of deceptive messages that we were able to count from 2001- 2005 included TV ads, print ads, and other mass media. How many people are deceived by a single deceptive TV ad watched by a million viewers? Similarly, a single sales representative may convey deceptive messages to hundreds or thousands of doctors in a year.
• To address the scientific misconduct that is the suppression, manipulation and misrepresentation of clinical trial data, states should establish a comprehensive, searchable database of clinical trials. Drug marketers would register every clinical trial done in humans for every drug they sell in the state. To be successful, the clinical trial registry must include all the clinically significant aspects of the trial design and trial results. Such a registry would be placed in the state’s department of health, and could be financed with registration fees from the drug marketers.
• To address the problem of deceptive classic advertising, deceptive sales representative statements and deceptive doctor-to-doctor marketing, states can create a new type of citizen lawsuit. This would allow citizens to sue for injunctive relief—stopping the false advertising and conducting corrective advertising—reasonable attorney’s fees, and, at the judge’s discretion depending on the circumstances of the case, civil penalties payable only to the state. Suits could only be won if the deceptive advertising created a public health risk; deceptive advertising that misleadingly, but not dangerously, hypes a drug’s properties would not qualify. Doctors, their patients, attorneys general, and in certain instances, the public, would have standing to sue, depending on the type of marketing.
Examples of sufficiently dangerous advertising might include promoting a drug for illnesses for which the company knows it’s not effective, or denying or consistently minimizing serious risks. The advantage of this approach is it enables the recipients of deceptive advertising—the people who can most easily detect it—a way to address the problem but it avoids creating financial incentives that would distort enforcement.
• Levy significant fines against drug marketers, fines that escalate to truly punitive levels, to serve as a deterrent and eliminate today’s rampant recidivism.
Th e medical profession and the independent organizations and academic institutions that service it can help.
• Doctors need better access to independent, accurate, digested information about drugs. The information produced by the clinical trial registry should be packaged by an independent group or agency into a form easily useable by prescribers who want information about treatment options. The information provided should include not only the clinically important information about each drug, but also how the drug compares to other treatments in terms of safety, efficacy, and cost. The Drug Effectiveness Review Project (DERP) generates this information, but it is aimed more at policy makers than prescribers. Similarly, Consumers Union takes DERP’s data and packages it for patients, as part of its BestBuyDrugs project. To the extent that the information is already accessible (for example, The Medical Letter), the profession must find a way to ensure that doctors use it. Only by breaking their reliance on sales representatives and other sources of promotional information can doctors ensure they are getting unbiased information.
• Medical schools and teaching hospitals should heavily invest in training students and residents to be skeptical of pharmaceutical sales representatives and to rely on independent sources of information.
After introducing the problem and laying out the regulatory context, the report presents the results of our analysis of the most comprehensive database on false and misleading advertising available: FDA’s enforcement letters to pharmaceutical companies engaging in deceptive marketing practices. We look at five years of letters to see what kinds of false messages pharmaceutical companies are directing toward whom and how. We also explain why those numbers are grotesque understatements of the problem. One reason they are understatements is that they mostly address conventional advertising, such as ads in professional journals or on TV; they rarely address sales representative statements or the presentations made by doctors consulting for the drug marketer. The latter activities are currently beyond the FDA’s resources to monitor.
Then we look at the ways the FDA currently fails to address even the classic advertising slice of the false marketing problem, the one it monitors as closely as it can. As part of our evidence of the FDA’s failure, we describe the high rates of “general recidivism,” that is, drug marketers that have received multiple letters from the FDA about their false or misleading marketing, and “specific recidivism,” that is, drug marketers who have received multiple letters about their advertisements for a single drug, advertisements that are all false or misleading in the same way.
We complete our analysis of the deceptive marketing problem by focusing on the marketing outside of the FDA’s routine review. Specifically, we focus on prescription drug sales representatives and clinical trials. Sales representatives are powerful marketing forces because they have many opportunities to interact with physicians, and the evidence shows that they give false and misleading information far too often. As disturbing as our findings in this area are, they may be mitigated to some extent, given that doctors may expect sales representatives to present misleading information. After all, their job is to sell drugs, not educate physicians. Clinical trials, however, are the cornerstone of prescription drug science, and few physicians let alone patients would anticipate the extent to which drug marketers shape and control them.
We conclude with concrete solutions that states can take now and off er recommendations for addressing FDA’s problems. Fortunately, steps the states can take are powerful enough to rein in the drug marketers to the point where the public can again be confident that they and their doctors are consistently receiving accurate information. Best of all, the state steps are inexpensive.
To fill in the big picture of deceptive marketing we sketch, we present six case studies of deceptive marketing of prescription drugs in the appendix, located in the center spread. Four—Vioxx, OxyContin, Paxil, and Neurontin—are offered primarily to illustrate different features of the problem and to convey how deceptive messages can permeate drug marketing. Two other case studies, Accutane and Tindamax, are included to highlight the FDA’s inability to police drug marketers. | 2019-04-26T14:42:29Z | https://uspirg.org/reports/usp/turning-medicine-snake-oil |
When asked about his approach to songwriting, eminent pop producer Max Martin often speaks of something called “melodic math.” As Martin owes much of his success to the catchiness of his melodies, this paper examines the psychological principles behind catchiness––what makes a melody memorable. A cursory look at various scientific studies linking memory and aspects of melody provides insight into several principles of melodic catchiness: repetition and motivic variation across phrases and sections, implication and realization within pitch contours, cognitive limits of recall in regards to rhythm span, and textual integration. Examination of Katy Perry’s “Roar”––a quintessential example of Martin’s songwriting––reveals that Martin does, in fact, adhere to these principles. Whether this is by study or instinct is less certain, but it suggests that “melodic math” may a viable discipline that other writers can emulate.
Karl Martin Sandberg, more widely known by the pseudonym Max Martin, is one of the most successful songwriters of the past generation. With twenty No. 1 Billboard hits as of 2015, (in a cool third place behind John Lennon and Paul McCartney, he falls into the upper echelons of pop heavyweights, reliably producing smash hit after smash hit. He fills various roles in the process of production, but he’s most often celebrated for his “gift for melody, which is timeless, and owes as much to Edvard Grieg…as to any contemporary influence.” (Seabrook, 2015, p. 75, 97) According to Savan Kotecha, a successful producer and songwriter in his own right, Martin “has the best ear for catchy melodies––maybe the best in pop history… He can write great melodies, [and] he understands what’s wrong with other people’s melodies.” (Thompson, 2017, p. 76) Famously elusive and tight-lipped, Martin has given the public precious few insights into his creative process. However, when asked about the secret to his success, he has several times mentioned something called “melodic math,” (Seabrook, 2015, p. 40) hinting at a repeatable, algorithmic approach to the construction of his vocal hooks.
Martin may be exaggerating or misnaming his process, but he raises an interesting question: Are there quantifiable principles behind successful melodies and if so what are they? Is a hit melody the output of some mathematical formula that dictates ideal combinations of intervals and rhythms?
To answer this, we must determine what constitutes a successful melody in the first place. For our purposes, we will be focusing specifically on the vocal melodies with lyrics attached that constitute the primary salient feature of top 40 pop. Rather than attempt to evaluate these melodies on the basis of pure quality (which would demand consideration of the aesthetics of western music, harmonic tension and release, counterpoint, etc.), we will confine our investigation to memorability or “catchiness”––that quality which enables a melody to successfully infiltrate the brain’s systems of recall and embed itself there as an earworm. "I will sacrifice everything,” Victorian songwriter Felix McGlennon famously said, “rhyme, reason, sense, and sentiment, to catchiness.” (Hamilton, 1998) To determine the viability of Max Martin’s supposed “melodic math” as it relates to memorability, we will delve into the science of catchiness, breaking melody down into its component parts––phrasing, pitch contour, rhythm, timbre, and text––and discussing some of the relevant psychological research into how the human brain responds to each.
Along the way, we’ll be looking at Katy Perry’s “Roar,” one of Martin’s #1 smashes (penned by Martin in collaboration with Perry as well as Lukasz Gottwald, Bonnie McKee, and Henry Walter) as an example of his “melodic math” at work.
So, while the human brain responds positively to repetition, there is a negative side to it as well. A listener could easily become annoyed by an overabundance of motivic recurrence. Or, alternatively, he/she may become habituated to it to the extent that the music loses his/her attention altogether. “Catchiness,” however, has more of a positive connotation, describing something that is not only memorable but memorable in an agreeable way. (Catchy, n.d.) Industrial designer Raymond Loewy sought a balance in his own work between familiarity and novelty as is reflected in his MAYA principle: Most Advanced Yet Acceptable. Loewy felt that people had an innate preference for the familiar––the comfortable and recognizable––mixed with a penchant for seeking out the novel and it was necessary for a designer to cater to both. (Thompson, 2017, p. 56) Musically speaking, Loewy’s MAYA principle could be expressed as a balance of motivic restatement and development. According to BBC resident psychologist Tom Stafford, “tunes that become earworms have a little twist or peculiarity.” (2012) When pursuing catchiness, repetition must be tempered with variation.
One example of this balance can be seen in the score below. Figure 1.1 demarcates (via color coding) the melodic phrases within the first verse and chorus of Katy Perr’s “Roar.” The repetition is obvious: the first melodic phrase (labeled A) repeats exactly three times within the verse. This repetition is tempered by simple alternation with phrase B and subsequent abandonment. This is possibly the first clue as to Martin’s “melodic math” approach. “If you’ve got a verse [that has] a lot of rhythm,” he once told an interviewer, “you want to pair it with something that doesn’t. Longer notes. Something that might not start at the same beat… You need a balance, at all times. If the verse is a bit messy, you need it to be less messy right after. It needs to vary.” (Gradvall, 2016) Far from being messy, the phrasing in this example is meticulously exact. The repeated phrases, in every aspect except text, are carbon copies of one another. According to songwriter Bonnie McKee, Martin is “really stubborn about syllables... If you add a syllable, or take it away, it’s a completely different melody to him.” (Seabrook, 2015, p. 263) This motivic symmetry is encouraged by songwriting instructor and author Jason Blume who promotes the use of “lines that have the same number of notes, with stresses and emphases in the same places.” (Blume, 2004, p. 111) “Roar” is a pristine example of this. Nearly every note in the verse and chorus belongs to a phrase that is repeatedly exactly at least once.
The overall structure of the song reflects this balance of repetition and variation as well. “Anything repeated (straight or varied),” writes Richard Middleton, “is defined as a unit, and this is true on all levels, from sections through phrases.” (1990) Thus, it is repetition that gives pop its modular structure. Figure 1.2 shows the overarching songform of “Roar.” This form––Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus-Bridge-Chorus or ABABCB––is “the most common pattern in the last fifty years of pop music.” (Thompson, 2017, p. 84) And while there are probably myriad reasons for this, David Huron, a musicologist at Ohio State University, has an idea about how songforms like this one may be rooted in a biological response to habituation and surprise. Huron performed a study in which mice were startled with a loud noise and then habituated to that noise through repetition. After a certain threshold of exposure, the noise ceased to elicit a surprised response from the mice. In the next phase of the study, other noises were introduced in various sequences with the first. “To scare a mouse for the longest period of time with the fewest notes, scientists…found success with variations on the following sequence: BBBBC–BBBC–BBC–BC–D.” (ibid.) The tail end of that sequence (BBC–BC–D) resembles the songform of “Roar” and other songs like it. Obviously, the similarity is not exact, mice are not people, and startling noises are not melodies. As T.W. Adorno believed, this structure may have simply gained its ubiquity within pop music by conforming to societal norms. (Middleton, 1990) However, there may be a biological/neurological connection between songform and habituation that researchers could further explore.
We’ve examined motivic symmetry and structure of melodic phrases, but can a phrase be catchy in and of itself? Are some figures or intervals more objectively memorable than others? One clue can be found in the concept of expectancy––how listeners anticipate a melody will continue once begun. A study by psychologist Mark Schmuckler suggested that “melodies in which endings fit with listeners’ expectancies [are] better remembered than melodies that did not fit listeners’ expectancies.” In other words, if a melody continues the way we think it will, there is a better chance we’ll remember it.
Registral Direction: An interval of 6 semitones or less implies the melody will continue in the same direction, whereas intervals greater than 6 semitones imply the direction of the melody will reverse.
Registral Return: When a pitch contour reverses direction, large intervals will be followed by smaller ones.
Proximity: Listeners have a tendency to predict smaller intervals overall.
“Roar,” as shown in Figure 2.1, seems to follow the principles of the revised I-R model to some extent. The chart shows the incidence of intervals within the first verse and chorus of Katy Perry’s “Roar.” Minor thirds and major seconds together account for over 80% of intervals used. The largest interval used, the perfect fifth, is the only interval over six semitones used in the song and when it is used, the melody reverses direction as per the principle of Registral Return.
Keeping melodies proximate and easy for non-musicians to sing along with is another idea promoted by songwriter and author Jason Blume as expressed in his acronym K.I.S.S.: Keep It Simple and Singable. “Many developing songwriters,” he writes, “…make the mistake of composing complicated melodic lines that are too intricate for a nonsinger to retain.” (2004, p. 104) With “Roar,” Martin and his collaborators have written a melody that largely conforms to the revised I-R model, making it (in theory) easier to sing along with and easier to remember.
Melodies are not simply sequences of notes. They owe their identities to rhythm, duration, and rests as much as pitch. What makes a rhythm easily memorable? In one study conducted by Schaal, Banissy, and Lange, participants including musicians and non-musicians were challenged with a rhythm span memory task evaluating their capacity to memorize rhythmic sequences of varying lengths. Their results indicate that memorizing longer rhythmic patterns is a task that favors listeners with “many years of formal musical training.” (2015, p. 3) Likewise psychomusicologist Judy Edworthy “demonstrated that contour information becomes less precise in memory as melody length increases.” (Hallam and others, 2009, p. 102) If the goal is memorability, then, it is best to deploy brief patterns of durations and rests.
Referring back to our example in Figure 1.1, the longest phrase in “Roar” is the first instance of phrase E which, including its pickup note, measures only six beats in length. Most of the phrases in Figure 1.1 fit within one bar. In Schaal’s rhythm span task, most non-musician participants’ capacity for rhythmic retention capped at around four seconds. (See Figure 3.1) At 90 beats per minute, four seconds is the exact time that “Roar’s” longest phrase takes to sing. Whether this is a coincidence or knowledge of research like this informs Martin’s “melodic math” is unclear, but the example cooperates with the data.
Pitch contour and rhythm are the most obvious components of melody, but there are other aspects to consider, including surface features such as key, tempo, and timbre. Research by Schellenberg and others suggests that while features like key and tempo are encoded in long-term memory after abundant exposure, first-time or second-time listeners do not retain this information as integral to a melodic identity. (2014, p. 84) In other words, you might notice a difference when you hear your favorite song played in a new key, but you’re not likely to perceive the key of a freshly-heard tune. Timbre, however, is different.
In a study conducted in Brasilia and São Paulo, a selection of both musicians and non-musicians heard forty-eight British and Irish folk melodies in four different timbres (voice, piano, banjo, and marimba). Participants “showed a…memory advantage for vocal melodies. Moreover, pianists [remembered] melodies played on piano [no better] than on other instruments.” (Weiss and others, 2015) These findings suggest the human brain more easily retains musical information that is sung rather than played on an instrument. A separate study by Lim and Goh explored the effect of differences in articulation on memorability and found that differences in articulation interfere with listeners’ ability to retain melodies. (2013) Marrying a melody to a particular voice ensures a certain degree of consistency of articulation and, therefore, may further enhance recall.
It is no wonder, then, that pop songs are almost universally “a composite of melody, lyrics, voice, and instrumental arrangement [not to] be confused with the way we think of music in the strict sense.” (Hesmondhalgh & Negus, 2002, p. 33) The catchiest hooks are delivered on the instrument we all possess and use on a daily basis––the human voice.
Songwriters often ensure maximum integration with the hook by repeating the lyrics of choruses, though not those of verses. Thus, verses develop lyrical themes while the chorus repeats and summarizes them. In Figure 5.1, the hook of “Roar” is shown in red text along with repetition of lyrics within the verse and chorus (shown in blue, green, and yellow). The repetition of the phrase “I am a champion” sets up the following hook: “You’re gonna hear me roar.” The hook is further emphasized melodically as the highest note of the song’s tessitura (circled in red) falls squarely within it.
Max Martin’s catchphrase “melodic math” alliterates nicely and hints tantalizingly at the prospect of a foolproof mechanism of hit-composition. However, without more evidence of his actual working processes, it’s impossible to know how methodical or “mathematical” his personal approach actually is. What we can conclude from examining the relevant literature is that there are several psychological factors behind the phenomenon of catchiness: a human proclivity for repetition both in terms of musical phrasing and text, a connection between expectancy and memory, a comfort found in small, singable intervals, and limitations on the length of phrases that listeners can remember. The example we have studied, “Roar,” seems to apply these principles. Martin’s melodies are tightly structured and highly symmetrical. The pitch contours are predictable according to the I-R model. He knows how to place a hook and make it stand out. Regardless of whether his approach is studied or instinctual, the data supports the techniques he and his colleagues implement in their songwriting, suggesting that “melodic math” (though perhaps, in the absence of a discussion of ratios and formulas, “method” may be a better word) may a viable discipline that other writers can emulate..
This is not to say, of course, that the data supports a one-size-fits-all approach. There are fundamental principles at work here but songwriters are free to conform to or subvert these norms as they wish. And, as Raymond Loewy believed, people need a healthy dose of novelty to balance out familiarity and convention. They are caught in a “tug-of-war between the opposing principles of neophilia versus neophobia.” (Thompson, 2017, p. 56) If hit melodies were nothing but math, every song would resemble a sort of Platonic ideal––the mean of all other songs. Rather, it is the X factor––variation––that gives music its life.
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We have adapted the verses for the 3 yr olds through first grade.
Below you will find the new verses for the next quarter.
1 John 5:12 The one who has the Son has life. The one who doesn't have the Son of God does not have life.
Isaiah 26:3 You will keep in perfect peace the mind that is dependent on You, for it is trusting in You.
Isaiah 53:5 But He was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; punishment for our peace was on Him, and we are healed by His wounds.
Isaiah 53:6 We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the LORD has punished Him for the iniquity of us all.
John 14:1 Your heart must not be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in Me.
John 14:2 In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if not, I would have told you. I am going away to prepare a place for you.
John 14:3 If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also.
Memory Tip: In our 100 verses we are including John 14:1, 2, 3, and 6. Why not go ahead and learn verses 4 and 5 too? It's one of the Bible's most reassuring paragraphs.
John 14:6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Your heart must not be troubles or fearful.
1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Psalm 100:4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him and praise His name.
Revelation 4:11 Our Lord and God, You are worthy to receive glory and honor and power, because You have created all things, and because of Your will they exist and were created.
Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise, give thanks to Him and praise His name.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Deuteronomy 6:6,7 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Deuteronomy 6:8,9 Tie as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
1 John 5:14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us in our time of need.
1 John 5:15 And if we know that He hears us – whatever we ask- we know that we have what we asked of Him.
1 John 5:11 We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him.
John 14:1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in Me.
John 27 Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Romans 10:9 That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord, “ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
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2. Mirror Writing: Write the memory verse backwards on the chalkboard and let the children discover what it says.
3. Erase-a-word: Write the entire verse on a chalkboard and erase one word at a time. Have the children repeat the verse after each new word is erased. At the end, the board should be blank and the children should know the verse.
4. Jumbled Words: Write the memory verse on strips of paper. Place one word on each strip. Mix the strips and have the children arrange the words in proper sequence. For use on a flannel board, back with flannel.
5. Translations: Look up your memory verse in some of the many different Bible translations. Do the verses say the same thing? Is one translation clearer than another? From which translation do the children prefer to memorize the verse?
6. Secret Code: During the week send each child in your class a letter containing a secret message. Ask the children to crack the code and learn your message. The message? It's your memory verse, or course! Be sure to include the code index (ex: A=Z, B=Y, etc.) with your message. Books on various types of codes may be found in your public library.
7. Life Application: When studying a memory verse, show the children how they can use a particular verse in their own life. You may also want to ask the next week how many children used this verse during the past week.
8. Bulletin Board: Decorate your bulletin board to represent the verse of the day. Have the children tell you the correct verse.
9. Verse-of-the-Month: If your children have difficulty memorizing difficult Scriptures, try having them learn just one verse a month. Select the most appropriate verse to fit your lessons. It is better to have one learned than none!
10. Puppets: Let a puppet teach the memory verse to the children.
11. Competition: Let the boys compete against the girls in a review of the past quarter's verses.
12. Want Ads: Write the memory verse in black marker (or bright colored chalk) across the want ad pages of your local newspaper.
13. Pictures: Find pictures to match various verses you have studied. Let the children match them to the correct verse.
14. Cassette Player: Pre-record the memory verse on a tape before the class begins. Allow the children to listen to the verse at their own pace. You may want to include some explanation as to what the verse means.
16. Key Words: Look up the meanings of various key words in a verse. Use a concordance or a Bible dictionary.
17. Mobile: Make a mobile using the various words of a verse. Display and let the children say the verse.
18. Slides: Put the memory verse on a write-on-slide(s) and show the verse on the wall. Allow the children to learn the verse while it is being shown.
19. Find the Verse: Place the individual words of a memory verse on strips of paper. Hide the pieces around the room and let the children find them. For an added challenge, hide a few extra words and let the children discover which are the correct ones. If they need help, let them look up the verse in their Bibles.
20. Photo Cube: Put the words of a memory verse in the various windows of a photo cube. Let the children handle the cube and learn the verse.
next line. You will need to start writing the verse at the bottom of the shade.
22. Use the Wall: Place individual words of a memory verse on card strips. Place these strips on different sections of your wall. Have one child stand by each strip. Then let each child say the word he is standing beside in the proper word sequence.
23. Picture: Have each child draw a picture of the way he can use the memory verse in his own life.
24. Paraphrase: After having learned the memory verse, let the children write the verse in their own words.
25. Rebus: Find pictures of symbols to replace various words of a verse. Let the children read the verse.
26. Hot Potato: Let the children stand in a circle and pass an object around the group. When someone says, "stop", the one holding the object must be able to quote the memory verse. If unable they must sit out the rest of the game.
27. String Across Board: On a piece of poster board; in scrambled order, write the words of your memory verse. At the beginning of each word, place a wire brad. At the first word of the verse, tie a long piece of yarn or string to the brad. Then by wrapping the yarn around each brad, let the children follow the words of the memory verse in sequence.
28. Original Song: Learn the memory verse by putting it to music.
29. Fill-in-the-Blanks: Write your memory verse leaving out key words. Let the children supply the missing word.
30. Whispering: Seat the class in a semi-circle. Beginning with one of the end children, whisper the memory verse to him. Each child in turn whispers.
31. Bible: Let the children look up the memory verse in their Bibles.
32. Adding Machine Tape: Stretch a long piece of adding machine tape across one wall of your room. Call on different children to come to the tape and write the next word of the memory verse on the tape.
33. Those Wearing Red: In order to use variety, try having various groups recite the verse together. For example: "Everyone who has red on, say the memory verse."
34. Find The Other Half: Print some of the quarter's memory verses on colored slips of paper. Cut these slips in half. Hide one of the halves around the room. Then, give each child one of the remaining half pieces. The child is to find his matching piece only. When all are found, read the verses out loud.
35. Puzzles: Write the memory verse on an 8 1/2 X 11 sheet of paper. Cut this sheet into various sized puzzle pieces. Let individual children reassemble the puzzle. If you wish, each child could be given a separate custom-made puzzle.
36. Together: Read the memory verse in unison.
37. Responsive Reading: If you have an exceptionally long verse let the boys read one part of the verse; then let the girls read the next segment.
39. Envelopes: Write the quarter's memory verses on separate 8 1/2 X 11 sheets of paper. Cut each memory verse into puzzle pieces. Place in separate envelopes. Allow the children to choose one envelope and complete the memory verse puzzle. When they finish they should sign their name on the envelope to show they did that puzzle.
40. Monk Writing: Bring the memory verse with no spaces between words. Let the children draw lines to separate the words. For example: "Thoushaltnotsteal", would be "Thou/shalt/not/steal."
41. Morse Code: Place a copy of the International Morse Code on a piece of poster board. Write the memory verse in code and let the children translate it.
42. Scroll: Make a scroll. Write a verse or verses for the quarter on the scroll.
43. Scrambled Words: Scramble the words to a memory verse. Have the children quote the unscrambled verse.
45. Write each word of the memory verse on a slip of paper. Children must place the slips in the correct order.
46. Children line up or sit in a circle. Each child says a word (or phrase) of the verse, going from child to child.
47. Write the first letter of each word of the memory verse on the board. Children then try to write the verse.
48. Ping Pong—A child calls out the first phrase of a verse, then another calls back the second phrase, and so forth. This can be played in pairs or in teams with the children facing each other in a line.
49. Children sit around a table. Someone writes the first word or phrase of a verse (or the reference) on a sheet of paper and passes it to the next person who writes the next word or phrase, and so forth until the verse is completed. The next person starts another verse, and so forth. By timing the children to see if they can “beat” their previous time, you can liven up the activity. Timing the activity may help you determine which verses and how many to include (e.g., see how many verses they can they write in 10 minutes).
50. Have a “spelling bee” to review verses.
51. Make a word search using all the words in the verse.
52. Hot Potato—Have children sit on the floor in a circle. The first child says the first word of the verse and rolls a ball to anyone in the circle. The child receiving the ball says the second word of the verse and so on.
54. Picture It—Have the children write the verse, drawing as many pictures for the words as possible.
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I started watching Alex Becker’s YouTube videos back in 2016. He taught me the best way to conduct a Shopify shop, and that a bunch of things online advertising, about entrepreneurship.
It was right around that time that Alex published his book, The 10 Pillars of Wealth: Mind-Sets of The World’s Richest People. I got that book as soon as I watched it and I jumped to highlight it and then mark it up. In reality, I might go re-read it.
Actually, Market Hero is not even his only multi-million dollar business. He founded the search engine optimization software development firm Source Wave and today he’s running a nutritional supplement brandnew. He got a couple of courses out there in the marketplace teaching people to grow their email lists and market more.
Anyhow, Market Hero is among the best email Because it concentrates on revenue metrics autoresponders available on the market today and it is so much better than its rivals.
I have used a lot of email autoresponder software through the years, including MadMimi and Drip. Drip was my favorite up until I started using Market Hero. Drip allows you to do a lot of stuff, like track your rates and tag your readers.
But if you are anything like me, as you take care of open prices and click-through rates, the thing that matters is SALES. Sales are the lifeblood of your business and sales is what places cold, hard cash in your pocket. Market Hero helps you track sales, plain and simple.
The service is not amazing to the point at which they provide you with detailed step-by-step videos and also hold your hand through each step along the way, however it is not terrible. In any case, if you need that degree of coddling and hand-holding, perhaps Market Hero isn’t for you.
Market Hero has English-speaking support team available to respond to your questions through live chat at no cost. Like some unscrupulous firms do you do not need to be part of any exceptional plan or package that is upgraded to have priority service. You just log in and start chatting.
On Market Hero’s homepage, one of those headings You will see states,”4X Your Email Business With Unequaled Delivery and Sales Metrics”. This immediately set off my B.S. detector because I understand how difficult it is to 4X an email arrangement, particularly if you’re any good at everything you are doing.
But Market Hero offers a free trial, and so I figured I’d sign up and see whether it was any good. I figured I only need a little increase in earnings for Market Hero to pay for itself and when it did 4X my enterprise, I would be flying high.
Now, in the interest of full disclosure I do want to tell you that Market Hero has NOT improved my earnings 4X (yet), but I am getting more sales than previously and Market Hero IS paying for itself. Easily, in fact. I had my own game tight and was doing well, so that I understood a 4X increase could be tough.
I know I already mentioned this, but the key to Market Hero is how it retains your customers’ lifetime value (LTV) facing you constantly and it changes as you send out emails and tweak your own autoresponder. As soon as you understand your customer value, you can literally”buy” customers. What Market Hero does is actively every conversion for each and every guide on your listing and monitor every sale. It then averages together everything and gives you.
If you were to do this manually, then you would probably have to experience different programs, various spreadsheets, and go back through your previous earnings. You would need to crunch a great deal of amounts that you don’t have anymore. Market Hero simplifies this issue better than anybody else available on the market.
Let us say that I am running two different campaigns for the identical audience. Anyone who opts-in to the very first campaign will be tagged as”A” and anybody who opts-in into the next campaign will be tagged as”B”.
If you do so again and again, you can create a powerful business because you will constantly be split-testing to determine which kinds of people are worth more to your enterprise.
And getting this up and running will be super-easy too. All you have to do is take the pixel that Market Hero provides you and put it in the areas that you want to monitor. From that point, Market Hero will keep tabs on all your clients, sales, conversions, etc., to supply you with the information that you need to grow your business.
I believe that this is a wise move by Alex Becker because it shows that he knows his market. He understands that are currently using things like this and he wants to be certain that his software integrates.
My only criticism is that lots of the software I use, for example OptinMonster and Thrive Topics has not been put in the”integrations” tab. That doesn’t mean you CAN’T integrate thembecause you can (you use Zapier to make them speak to each other) but it’s not as simple as something like ClickFunnels or Shopify.
The best way for me to explain it is of The other autoresponders were created for email marketers. I’ve nothing against marketers that are email and that I send mails however, their thinking has its own limits. Market Hero was built BY a company owner FOR company owners.
Market Hero differs because it provides you with a bunch of different ways to assist you monitor ROI and create more profit from the emails.
For instance, among the coolest features is that it shows you how much each lead is worth. Imagine logging into your email autoresponder and seeing that each lead is worth $6.87 for you. That means that you can go out and”purchase” email addresses to create money. Everything you do is that you purchase paid visitors from Google, Facebook, etc. and send that traffic into an opt-in page. If you can get a successful than it’s worth, you get a profitable small business. Rinse and repeat as many times as possible.
From what I’ve seen, absolutely not. I think that At this time, by being a scam artist Alex Becker has too much to lose. Businesses’s running and he is smart enough to realize that if his reputation was tarnished by him, he would be screwed.
From what I have seen, people have complained about his refund policy. However, these individuals are typically the individuals who have used Market Hero for weeks and try to get their cash. These are the scammers. You are scum, if you are not willing to pay money for a service which may improve your life and your business. Plain and simple.
Market Hero’s free trial offer is pretty straightforward. It states that if you cancel within 14 days you won’t be billed anything.
When I began composing this Market Hero review, I Was worried that it went to lean a little too much. That’s why I want to stress this Market Hero will help you in ANY online business, not Shopify.
On his YouTube channel, Alex has published a great deal of different videos about Shopify. Once you get beyond the names that are clickbait-style, you discover he provides a whole lot of helpful information on the best way to earn money with Shopify. Part of this reason he does so is because he needs to get folks to check out Market Hero because he understands it might help them with their Shopify company.
For instance, Market Hero allows you to create abandoned cart sequences. Whenever someone starts the checkout procedure in Shopify (by entering their email) but doesn’t finish it, that gets tracked in Market Hero. From that point, you get them back to complete their purchase and can follow up with that person.
based on the study which you read, the ordinary cart abandonment rate for an internet shop is generally somewhere in the area of 70-80%. Are there people with abandonment rates? Sure, but this is the typical.
Imagine you have 100 people go through your checkout process and 80 of those individuals abandon your cart. This means you have 20 customers and 80 non-customers. Imagine if a cart recovery sequence just got a 10 percent of this non-customers to purchase?
The reason Market Hero is so strong is because you’re able to use tags and track LTV. When you link Market Hero into Shopify, it begins monitoring immediately. Purchase tags are implemented that show you that purchased which products.
Imagine you have a Shopify store selling print-on-demand dog tops. If someone bought a pug shirt, then it would be silly to try and sell Golden Retriever things to this person? But that is since they do not have the information in front of them, exactly what a lot of online entrepreneurs do. Because Market Hero enables you to see what the individual purchased, you can concentrate on selling only pug-related stuff to your pug customers.
You are able to totally geek out with this stuff. You can get as comprehensive as intricate as you would like. In my private business, I use it to section the subjects that advisors want to know more about. I don’t need to bombard them because they’d be irrelevant because I sell products that help advisors GET clients and let them KEEP clients, if someone is interested in KEEPING clients. This individual would eventually unsubscribe.
Oh, and in case you’re interested, here’s a movie of Alex Becker showing you ways to raise your own Shopify sales 300% with Market Hero. Just keep in mind that Market Hero may be used with ANY business, not Shopify.
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You’re on the go, and you only have time to eat or drink something quickly. That doesn’t mean you want some greasy burger or some other type of junk food. You want to avoid the highly caffeinated or sugary beverages and focus on getting nutrients and wholesome food.
Is that even possible? The great news is you can get healthy snacks. And these snacks will not have to cost you a fortune. Some of them you will need to make in advance, but you can store them relatively easy to take them on the go as you need to. They’ll be worth making, as they’ll be suitable for everyone in the family.
Here’s a look at 13 perfect snacks you need to have that are healthy, cheap, and easily portable.
Let’s stock up on one of the easiest snacks to get your hands on right now: bananas.
You can usually pick them up for a couple of dollars, depending on size and weight, and you’ll get a bunch that will last you a week or so. There are just so many ways that you can enjoy this nutritious snack.
Firstly, one banana has just 105 calories. While this can sound like a lot for a piece of fruit, it’s worth noting that there are many nutrients that you get with the 105 calories. The number of calories is also far less than your traditional snacks of crisps and chocolate, making it an excellent choice.
Bananas are known for their high potassium count. Potassium is needed to help the body convert calories to energy. You’ll boost your metabolic rate, helping you to burn a few more calories in the day. Eating a banana before your workout will also help to fuel your body throughout while reducing the risk of lactic acid building up (causing cramps in the muscles).
Bananas are also excellent for the probiotics. They will help to keep the level of good bacteria in the gut up, which in turn keeps the level of bad bacteria down.
The fiber count also cannot be overlooked. Bananas have three grams of fiber, helping to balance out the natural sugars, like the intestines, and keep the digestive system working effectively.
Of course, bananas are easily portable. They’re covered in a skin that you just peel when you want to eat your snack.
You want to stock up on any melon that you can. They’re all excellent when it comes to snacks and extremely easy to take with you. All you must do is chop up the melon into cubes, pop in a portable tub, and you’re on your way!
All melons are affordable. They are also packed with vitamin C, which is a necessary vitamin for fighting stress and keeping your immune system supported. When you have less stress in the body, the immune system’s inflammatory response is less likely to kick off. Less stress also helps to keep your digestion working, which means you’ll find it easier to absorb more nutrients.
There is absolutely nothing fattening in melons. In fact, they’re mostly just water with some fiber, which offers the benefits of better hydration, improved digestion, and better satiation. You won’t want to eat as much because you will feel fuller quicker and for longer. You’ll be able to get rid of that feeling of bloating after you’ve eaten.
Honeydew melons tend to have the most vitamin C, but you really can get all the benefits from others.
Buy large bags of oatmeal and start using the ingredient throughout the day. You don’t just have to make porridge on a morning!
Oatmeal is extremely cheap, especially considering the bulk bags that you can get. It’s packed with fiber, which will help you lower your cholesterol levels, lose weight, and lower your risk of developing Type II diabetes.
But how is it a snack on the go?
Well, oatmeal can be added to some Greek yogurt and fresh/frozen fruit and placed in a tub. You let the ingredients mix together and eat it all cold. The yogurt will help to soften the oatmeal.
It’s also possible to create oatmeal bars, which you can take on the go with you. Wrap them in tin foil or cling film to carry them around and eat on the go.
Make sure you prepare these for your breakfast overnight. Add a layer of oats, a layer of fruit, and then a layer of yogurt and put in the fridge. The next morning, you’ll find the yogurt and fruit juices have worked their way into the oats, and you have a breakfast to take with you.
If you’re not allergic, you want to stock up on some nuts. Walnuts, almonds, and pistachios tend to be the best, but you can get so many benefits from the others. In fact, if you have a selenium deficiency, you want to look out for Brazil nuts, as just one will give you your daily recommended amount!
Nuts can be the more expensive snack of the lot, but they’re still relatively cheap. This is especially the case when you just need a handful to make you feel satisfied.
Why nuts? They’re full of healthy fats and protein. The two macronutrients will help to energize you for the long term. They break down slowly to keep you feeling full while supporting your muscles and organ health. Walnuts and almonds tend to be the best for these two nutrients.
Pistachios are beneficial for the shell peeling. You’ll realize just how many you’re eating, making you more mindful of your food. This offers some extra benefits when it comes to weight loss since you have the time for your stomach to tell your brain that you’re full.
It’s time to boil some eggs hard and take them on the road with you. Just pop a couple in a sealable tub, and you have an excellent and cheap snack. After all, you can get packs of 30 eggs for a few bucks!
Eggs have had a bad reputation for years, but the reputation isn’t exactly fair. Because of the protein and cholesterol, eggs have been labeled as bad for the heart health. The truth is eggs are full of good cholesterol, the type that lines your arteries with a protective, smooth lining to help your blood flow well. The good cholesterol gets rid of the bad.
Of course, you need to watch the amount you eat. Even too much good cholesterol can be bad. The benefit is you get something that is packed with nutrients that your body desperately needs.
The eggs are also packed with protein, which helps to build muscle. More specifically, they have an amino acid known as choline. This is a nutrient that specifically targets the fat and encourages the metabolism to take from the fat instead of the muscles.
If you don’t fancy carrying around hard boiled eggs, you can also make egg mayonnaise for some wraps and have them as your snack!
Make sure you get the right type of crackers for this snack. You want whole grain crackers, which have more fiber and are healthier options. Look out for the non-salted variety. Watch out for labels that say “enriched” crackers. They’re made with white flour and can cause some issues for your digestive system.
With whole grain crackers and goats’cheese, you’ll get both the fiber and protein that your body needs to feel fuller for longer. Goats’ cheese is better than other cheese when it comes to fats. Yes, there are some fats, but goats’ cheese doesn’t have as many saturated fats, which means fewer issues with blocked arteries and high bad cholesterol levels. Out of all the cheese in the world, goats’ cheese is the healthiest.
The snack is relatively transportable, especially if you’re taking out a picnic. Make sure you transport the two separately. The crackers will become soggy if you put the cheese on them.
Instead of stocking up on lots of bottles of water, opt for a bottle or carton of chocolate milk. If it remains cool, it will be good to drink on the move. You can keep it cool in cooler bags when you’re in the car!
It can sound hard to believe, but chocolate milk isn’t as bad as many people would have you to think. This is especially the case when you opt for low-fat or almond chocolate milk. It’s a perfect mixture of nutrients, carbs, protein, and electrolytes, making it especially good for the after-work out treat or snack.
Studies back up the idea of drinking chocolate milk as a healthy snack. Drinking it after exercise helps to improve muscle mass, reduce fat, and improve training times compared to those who drank the typical sports drinks. There are fewer sugars in chocolate milk, and most of them are natural sugars.
Even if you’re not going to drink it yourself, don’t stop your kids having it at school. They can have normal white milk whenever they’re at home.
While goats’ cheese is good, you can also get many of the same benefits from cottage cheese. This is lower in saturated fats than traditional cheese, mostly because you end up eating less of it! You can find it easier to control your portion sizes, so you end up eating a healthy amount. There are also low-fat options, but you will need to watch out for the sugar content in these!
Add some cottage cheese with your fruit. It’s especially delicious when mixed with apple slices, banana chunks, or even strawberries.
The protein in the cottage cheese will help to satisfy your hunger cravings and look after your muscles. With the fruit, you also get the fiber and extra nutrients to satisfy you until your next meal. Keep the fruit and cottage cheese in separate tubs when traveling.
If you’re feeling extra adventurous, try adding some cottage cheese to some crushed whole grain crackers with some fruit on the top. You can add a little Greek yogurt in too. The mixture will have a similar texture and taste to cheesecake, but it’s so much healthier!
You’ll see these sold in stores, but likely initially think they’re bad for you. Well, that’s not quite the case. In moderation, Asian snack mixes can be excellent options. They are certainly easily transportable, giving you something that you can just throw into a bag and grab a handful of when you’re walking around.
If you don’t want to buy a packet, you can make your own. Get some Asian sesame sticks, pistachios nuts, and peas covered in wasabi. Just combine everything and pop it in small bags that you can easily grab.
You’ll get a good mixture of all your necessary food groups, without causing damage to your health. Of course, it’s not perfect, and you will need to stick to small portions. The great news with the peas and pistachios is that you’ll find the snack fills you up relatively quickly.
If you don’t fancy the spices, you can make your trail mix instead. Nuts, seeds, and dried fruit will all offer a similar affect. You just don’t have the spice. It’s the spice that helps to raise your body temperature to help raise your metabolic rate.
Most juices aren’t great for you, but tomato juice is slightly different. You could also opt for a mixture of vegetable juices.
The benefit of vegetables is the lack of natural sugars. Well, not quite the lack but they don’t have as many as fruits. You get a lot of the nutrients in an easier to digest form, without causing a massive hike to your blood sugar levels.
Tomatoes are excellent for the vitamin C and other antioxidants to help fight against viral and bacterial infections. They will help to boost your immune system while helping to cleanse your body from toxins.
If you’re going to buy the juices from the supermarket, look out for those with lower sodium counts.The alternative, you can make your own.
Try adding some hot sauce for a bit of an extra kick. The spice will increase your body temperature, which will boost your metabolism and help you burn more calories.
Hummus is one of the best dips you can get. It’s made from chickpeas, a legume that is packed with fiber and other nutrients. You will be well on your way to a supported digestive system.
The chickpeas are also packed with protein. When it comes to the after-gym period, you’ll want the protein to help repair the muscles and build stronger ones.
Making a roll up is easy. You spread hummus into a tortilla wrap and then take it on the go! Make sure you use whole grain tortilla wraps. Like with the whole grain crackers, the wraps will offer more fiber to support your health.
If you want a little extra flavor, you can add some vegetables into the middle. Opt for vegetables that won’t be over water, such as carrots, leafy greens, or peppers.
Not a fan of hummus? Replace it with some nut butter instead. Peanut butter is the most popular, but there are many others depending on your tastes or needs. When opting for peanut butter, make sure it is natural peanut butter. Many of the store-bought ones now contain a lot of sugar and salt, which work against the health benefits of the peanuts.
Nut butter get a bad reputation for being fitting. It’s the extra additives of the commercial varieties that cause this. When in their natural form, the nut butteris extremely good. They’re packed with proteins and healthy fats, supporting your muscle, brain, and cell health.
Allergic to nuts? Seed butter will give you some of the same benefits. They’re not as good, but they’re at least an alternative.
You don’t need more than a tablespoon of nut butter in your snack. Anymore than that and you’ll consume too many calories.
This is an option that has been mentioned a few times. Well, there’s a reason for this. It is an excellent option for your health.
You want to get plain Greek yogurt or natural yogurt. Avoid those with fruity flavorings, as they tend to be full of sugar. If you get one that’s sweetened with sweeteners, make sure they’re natural ones like Stevia.
Greek yogurt, like cottage cheese, is packed with protein. They will help to improve your muscle tone and build, without needing very much. Opt for it with some fruit, oats, or cottage cheese to create a powerful snack for your after-gym snack.
Snacks don’t have to be unhealthy. Cheap snacks certainly don’t have to be unhealthy! There are so many out there that you can grab and quickly eat on the go. Whether you love nuts, prefer something sweet, or are looking for a drink, there is something for you.
Make sure you choose something that offers the nutrients you need at the time. Look out for proteins and fibers for the sustained energy boosts. | 2019-04-22T08:33:10Z | https://www.positivehealthwellness.com/infographics/13-healthy-cheap-snacks-take-go/ |
Agape Health Products General Health - Perfect 7 Intestinal Cleanser.
Perfect 7 Intestinal Cleanser Powder from Agape Health Products contains effective natural extracts that could support digestion‚ cleanse the colon and digestive tract‚ and relieve constipation. This supplement from Agape Health Products contains psyllium seeds and husk‚ buckthorn bark‚ alfalfa leaves‚ cascara sagrada‚ rosehips‚ bentonite clay‚ garlic‚ cayenne‚ and goldenseal. It is very important to maintain good digestive health‚ because any disruption in the system could affect overall health. The herbs used here might have the ability to support and promote the health of the digestive system. Fiber is considered an important component of the daily diet and it plays an important role in digestion. Fiber can help you feel full‚ stay full longer‚ and support healthy bowel movement. The psyllium husk and seeds present here might provide optimum amounts of fiber to aid the system. Buckthorn bark is an herb that might positively support bowel ailments‚ while the cascara sagrada may help relieve constipation by stimulating the mucosa lining in the colon. Also present here are cayenne and goldenseal that could improve the absorption and elimination of food. Alfalfa could induce appetite‚ relieve indigestion‚ and provide vitamins and minerals. Rosehips may be a good source of vitamin C and may support stomach health. The lactobacillus bifidus present in the special formula is a probiotic strain that could promote good digestive health. Goldenseal might support immune health and may be useful for reducing inflammation of the mucus membranes in the digestive system‚ while garlic could aid in healthy digestion. The bentonite clay in Perfect 7 Intestinal Cleanser Powder from Agape Health Products might help cleanse the Body of toxins. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These products are not meant to diagnoseâ treat or cure any disease or medical condition. Please consult your doctor before starting any exercise or nutritional supplement program or before using these or any product during pregnancy or if you have a serious medical condition.
Agape Health Products Metabolic Support - Perfect 7 Senna Herbal.
Perfect 7 Senna Herbal Supplement Tablets from Agape Health Products may provide gentle and effective digestive relief. Symptoms of constipation are hard stools and less than 3 bowel movements per week. Constipation can be painful and inconvenient. This specially formulated supplement from Agape Health Products contains senna‚ tamarind‚ figs‚ prunes‚ dates‚ and apple fiber to potentially relieve constipation and support healthy bowel movement. Senna or Cassia angustifolia is a shrubby herb that is found commonly in parts of North Africa and India. It has been used as a laxative for ages and is known to stimulate the colon to potentially induce bowel movement. Tamarind is commonly used for flavoring in Asian cooking. The pulp obtained from the tamarind fruit is said to have various health benefits like antioxidant properties‚ vitamin C‚ phytochemicals‚ and B vitamins. Apart from providing these benefits‚ tamarind juice might act as a digestive aid. The prunes used in this supplement are considered a natural aid for constipation. Dates may provide relief from constipation‚ diarrhea‚ and intestinal issues. The figs and apple fiber added to the mix may provide optimum amounts of fiber required for proper digestion. This Perfect 7 Senna Herbal Supplement from Agape Health Products is an all natural‚ vegan‚ gluten free‚ and non-GMO product that could help you find relief from constipation. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These products are not meant to diagnoseâ treat or cure any disease or medical condition. Please consult your doctor before starting any exercise or nutritional supplement program or before using these or any product during pregnancy or if you have a serious medical condition.
Ortho Molecular Products Cellular Support - 4Sight - 60 Capsules.
4Sight provides excellent support for those who want to maintain eye health‚ and also for those with age-related Antioxidant issues. Developed in conjunction with a nationally known Ophthalmologist‚ 4Sight was “in the trenches” giving support to those who needed it‚ long before age-related antioxidant issues made the headlines with such great media exposure. Ingredients used in 4Sight are of the upmost quality‚ ensuring you the proper support your eyes deserve. Many of the ingredients included in 4Sight‚ such as lycopene and lutein‚ have been used in studies for their role in supporting eye health.Why These Natural Ingredients?Lipoic AcidAlpha-lipoic acid is most widely known and used as an antioxidant. Lipoic acid is able to “recharge” other antioxidants such as vitamins E and C‚ and glutathione and has been shown in studies to improve visual function.Ginkgo BilobaGinkgo biloba has historically been used to increase blood flow and and is used as an antioxidant. A few studies have shown that eye tissue has a high affinity for ginkgo‚ making it a logical choice for eye support.Carotenoids (Lutein‚ Lycopene‚ Zeaxanthin)Lutein and zeaxanthin are found in high concentrations in the macula lutea portion of the eye. These two carotenoids are thought to quench free-radicals before they damage the lipid membranes. Low levels of lycopene‚ one of 10 carotenoids found in the serum‚ has also been shown to be a risk factor for poor eye health.BilberryBilberry extract contains high amounts of anthocyanadins‚ components used in countries such as France and Germany for night vision support. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These products are not meant to diagnoseâ treat or cure any disease or medical condition. Please consult your doctor before starting any exercise or nutritional supplement program or before using these or any product during pregnancy or if you have a serious medical condition.
Ortho Molecular Products Detoxification - Core Restore - 7 Day Detox.
Core Restore detoxification program will transform your health by removing toxins‚ enhancing digestion‚ and improving nutrient absorption - Helping you feel more energized!Kit Contains:- Alpha Base capsules without Iron (30 Capsules)- PhytoCore (20 Capsules)- Core Support Powder (19 oz [546 Grams])- Core Restore Patient Guide.- A Convenient‚ portable hand mixer.The Core Restore Kit is a strategic system designed to safely enhance and promote the primary pathways of detoxification in the liver. The Core Restore kit provides three active formulas – Core Support‚ Alpha Base‚ and PhytoCore – which function synergistically to support Phase I and Phase II pathways of liver detoxification to help neutralize environmental pollutants‚ hormone disruptors‚ unhealthy estrogen metabolites‚ xenoestrogens (synthetic compounds that imitate estrogen)‚ and other harmful toxins. This powerful trio of specialized formulas provides Essential micronutrients‚ phytonutrients‚ and a source of easily digested‚ low-allergen protein that purifies the liver and fuel optimal biotransformation. The Core Restore Kit is an easy-to-follow‚ 7-day program‚ complete with an in-depth Patient Handbook‚ designed to reduce the incoming burden of toxins and help restore optimal health.Clinical Applications:- Revitalizes Liver Health and Supports Natural Detoxification Mechanisms.- Focuses on Both Phases of Liver Detoxification.- Provides Micronutrients‚ Phytonutrients‚ and Cofactors that Support Detoxification of Xenobiotics and Xenoestrogens.- Supports Healthy Estrogen Metabolism.- Increases Antioxidant Protection and Glutathione Production.- Promotes Gastrointestinal Health. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These products are not meant to diagnoseâ treat or cure any disease or medical condition. Please consult your doctor before starting any exercise or nutritional supplement program or before using these or any product during pregnancy or if you have a serious medical condition.
Jason Natural Products Oral Health - NutriSmile Enamel Defense.
Jason® Natural Products brings Nutrismile® Enamel Defense Anti-Cavity CoQ10 Toothpaste with Fluoride (Orange‚ Cinnamon & Mint 6 oz (170 Grams) that helps provide nutrition to your teeth. Besides‚ it could leave you with a pleasant breath. Vitamin C in this formula appears to be the body’s main water soluble Antioxidant. Many people believe that it helps strengthen the gum epithelium and promote healthy gums and periodontal tissues. Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) present in this formula from Jason® Natural Products could act as an antioxidant‚ thereby neutralizing cell destroying molecules called free radicals. Studies show that CoQ10 may maintain healthy gums by aiding in gum repair. In addition it may boost the integrity of the tooth enamel‚ thereby fortifying your teeth. Fluoride is a mineral that aids in remineralization of the teeth to protect it from decay-causing acids. It gets attached to the enamel and could ward off the formation of cavities. In addition‚ this toothpaste has a natural refreshing taste of orange‚ cinnamon and mint that could leave you with fresh breath. Restore your dental health with Nutrismile® Enamel Defense Anti-Cavity CoQ10 Toothpaste with Fluoride (Orange‚ Cinnamon & Mint 6 oz (170 Grams) from Jason® Natural Products. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These products are not meant to diagnoseâ treat or cure any disease or medical condition. Please consult your doctor before starting any exercise or nutritional supplement program or before using these or any product during pregnancy or if you have a serious medical condition.
Jason Natural Products Skin Care - Vitamin E Oil 45,000 I.U. - 2 fl..
Banish fine lines and wrinkles with Vitamin E Oil 45‚000 I.U. 2 oz from Jason® Natural Products. It helps nourish‚ protect‚ moisturize and rejuvenate your facial skin. This organic product contains vitamin E that could have antioxidant capabilities thereby destroying harmful free radicals. Free radicals may be responsible for the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles on the skin. Vitamin E may also cleanse the skin of dirt and debris‚ giving it a fresh glow. Black currant oil present in this formula from Jason® Natural Products is rich in essential fatty acids‚ vitamins‚ minerals and antioxidants that could promote skin Health. It may hydrate skin and prevent premature signs of aging. Evening Primrose seed oil is rich in essential fatty acids and gamma linolenic acid that could moisturize the skin. Macadamia seed oil is rich in fatty acids and phytosterols that help hydrate and heal skin. Borage seed oil contains salicylic acid‚ omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. It could tone the skin‚ rehydrate and nourish it. Switch to Vitamin E Oil 45‚000 I.U. 2 oz from Jason® Natural Products and restore your skin health. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These products are not meant to diagnoseâ treat or cure any disease or medical condition. Please consult your doctor before starting any exercise or nutritional supplement program or before using these or any product during pregnancy or if you have a serious medical condition.
Jason Natural Products Hair - Thin to Thick Extra Volume Conditioner -.
Thin to Thick Extra Volume Conditioner 8 oz (227 Grams) from Jason® Natural Products may be just the conditioner for you to nourish‚ cleanse and add volume to thin hair. This organic product also aids in managing hair ends‚ giving your hair a thick and glossy appearance. Biotin and panthenol are B vitamins essential for maintaining hair health. Studies reveal that both these vitamins could coat and even permeate the hair shaft‚ thus strengthening it‚ apart from adding Body to it. Another benefit of panthenol is that it could moisturize your hair and improve flexibility. Vitamin A present in this conditioner from Jason® Natural Products is rich in antioxidants that could nourish and moisturize the scalp and make it more manageable. This conditioner also contains vitamin C that helps improve blood circulation to the scalp‚ thereby leaving your hair healthier and stronger. Vitamin E‚ a fat soluble vitamin may have antioxidant properties and improve the immune system. It may stimulate the scalp for better hair growth‚ repair split ends and condition it. Switch to Thin to Thick Extra Volume Conditioner 8 oz (227 Grams) from Jason® Natural Products for enriching your hair. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These products are not meant to diagnoseâ treat or cure any disease or medical condition. Please consult your doctor before starting any exercise or nutritional supplement program or before using these or any product during pregnancy or if you have a serious medical condition.
Jason Natural Products Hair - Smoothing Sea Kelp Conditioner - 16 oz.
If you are looking to control and tame frizzy hair‚ you may want to use Smoothing Sea Kelp Conditioner from Jason™ Natural Products. While sunflower seed oil in the conditioner might tame the frizz‚ and kukui nut seed oil potentially hydrates and softens your hair. Algae extract in this herbal conditioner from Jason™ Natural Products could restore shine and bounce while adding to your hair’s volume. Natural sea kelp is enriched with vitamins‚ Minerals and fatty acids and may rehydrate dry hair. It may take care that your hair does not weigh down after conditioning. Ginseng root and Plumeria acutifolia may control and calm frizzy conditions. Calendula officinalis and chamomile flower extracts could bring about a suave texture to your hair. Grapefruit and Equisetum arvense leaf extract might give a sleek‚ nourished look to your hair and control split ends. Lavender flower extract appears to calm frizzy strands of hair. Ginger root extract in Smoothing Sea Kelp Conditioner from Jason™ Natural Products may give a nourished look to your hair. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These products are not meant to diagnoseâ treat or cure any disease or medical condition. Please consult your doctor before starting any exercise or nutritional supplement program or before using these or any product during pregnancy or if you have a serious medical condition.
Jason Natural Products Botanical Oils - Purifying Tea Tree 100%.
Purifying Tea Tree 100% Organic Oil 1 fl. oz (30 ml) from Jason® Natural Products is an organic product that may be helpful in promoting healthy skin. This formula contains Melaleuca alternifolia leaf or tea tree oil that has the ability to combat harmful microorganisms that appear to pose a threat to your skin’s health. For years tea tree leaves have been used as a skin remedy by Australian Aborigines. Tea tree oil has a nutmeg-like fragrance. Its active ingredient is terpinen-4-ol that may have antibacterial‚ antiviral‚ antifungal and antiseptic properties. Studies show that tea tree oil present in this formula from Jason® Natural Products may be helpful in promoting skin immunity as it easily mixes with the skin cells. Many people believe that tea tree oil could promote hydration of your skin‚ soothe it and encourage healing. Switch to Purifying Tea Tree 100% Organic Oil 1 fl. oz (30 ml) from Jason® Natural Products for enhanced skin health. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These products are not meant to diagnoseâ treat or cure any disease or medical condition. Please consult your doctor before starting any exercise or nutritional supplement program or before using these or any product during pregnancy or if you have a serious medical condition.
Ortho Molecular Products Hormone/Glandular Support - SereTone - 90.
Moodiness affects a lot of people‚ especially if they don't get enough sleep. Being moody or stressed out for a long period of time can lead to serious negative consequences in your relationships and job performance. A bad mood may even lead to physical health conditions if the problem isn’t addressed. If you're under a great deal of stress and having trouble controlling it‚ you may benefit from a supplement like Ortho Molecular Products’ SereTone. Each capsule contains a blend of vitamins‚ minerals‚ and 5-HTP‚ which may improve mood by helping your body maintain normal nerve function and produce more serotonin. Serotonin is a brain hormone that helps regulate moods‚ alleviate headaches‚ and promote more high-quality sleep. Taking care of yourself is essential to taking care of business. Some of the ingredients SereTone provides include: Vitamin B6—a nutrient that produces antibodies‚ supports the nervous system‚ and breaks down proteins. Calcium—a mineral that helps form and maintain strong bones‚ while also helping the body secrete hormones and enzymes that send messages throughout the nervous system. Zinc—a mineral that plays a role in mood regulation. 5-HTP—a naturally-occurring amino acid that may help you sleep better‚ feel less anxious‚ and experience fewer tension headaches. This bottle of SereTone by Ortho Molecular Products contains 90 capsules‚ which should last for about one month at the recommended dosage of three capsules per day. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These products are not meant to diagnoseâ treat or cure any disease or medical condition. Please consult your doctor before starting any exercise or Nutritional supplement program or before using these or any product during pregnancy or if you have a serious medical condition. | 2019-04-22T14:28:15Z | http://lacedirectory.com/tag/products/71/ |
Help when You, a friend or loved one is going through a tough time in your life.
The information on these pages are aimed to provide information if you, a friend or loved one is going through a tough time in your life. The following links provide tips to help work through your issues and emotions.
1. Connect with others. Research suggests that social connection fights stress, promotes health and can lengthen one’s life. To connect with others try to create new ties, strengthen existing relationships and join support groups.
2. Stay positive. Research suggests that thinking negatively can affect mood, actions and health. You can stay positive by fostering optimism, practicing gratitude and by not dwelling on worries and self-criticism.
3. Get physically active. Research suggests that exercise helps prevent heart disease, immune system problems, eases pain and improves mood.
4. Help others. Research indicates that those who help experience less depression, are calmer and enjoy better health.
5. Get enough sleep. Research shows that poor sleep is linked to greater risk of depression and anxiety, increased risk of heart disease and stroke and greater likelihood of accidents. Tips for improving sleep includes regular bedtime, watching caffeine intake, sleep medications and getting help for insomnia.
6. Create joy and satisfaction. Research suggests that positive feelings can support resiliency, boost ones ability to solve problems and help fight disease. Tips for creating joy and satisfaction include humor, music, arts, nature, massage and other relaxation techniques.
7. Eat well. Research indicates that the right foods can boost energy, lower the risk of developing certain diseases, provide fuel to your brain and counteract the impact of stress on one’s body.
8. Take care of your spirit. Research suggests that religious beliefs, practice and attending services combat stress and may help fight disease.
9. Deal better with hard times. Research studies found that people who problem-solved in a stressful situation felt less depressed and those who focused on the positives in their lives suffered less from painful memories.
10. Get professional help if you need it. Treatment is effective. 80 percent of people treated for depression improve.
It may seem that there’s nothing you can do about your stress level. The bills aren’t going to stop, there will never be more hours in the day, and your career or family responsibilities will always be demanding. But you have a lot more control than you might think. In fact, the simple realization that you’re in control of your life is the foundation of stress management.
• Do you explain away stress as temporary (“I just have a million things going on right now”) even though you can’t remember the last time you took a breather?
• Do you define stress as an integral part of your work or home life (“Things are always crazy around here”) or as a part of your personality (“I have a lot of nervous energy, that’s all”).
• Do you blame your stress on other people or outside events, or view it as entirely normal and unexceptional?
1. Avoid unnecessary stress. Not all stress can be avoided, and it’s not healthy to avoid a situation that needs to be addressed. You may be surprised, however, by the number of stressors in your life that you can eliminate.
– Learn how to say “no” – Know your limits and stick to them. Whether in your personal or professional life, refuse to accept added responsibilities when you’re close to reaching them.
– Avoid people who stress you out – If someone consistently causes stress in your life and you can’t turn the relationship around, limit the amount of time you spend with that person or end the relationship entirely.
– Take control of your environment – If the evening news makes you anxious, turn the TV off. If traffic’s got you tense, take a longer but less-traveled route. If going to the market is an unpleasant chore, do your grocery shopping online.
– Avoid hot-button topics – If you get upset over religion or politics, cross them off your conversation list. If you repeatedly argue about the same subject with the same people, stop bringing it up or excuse yourself when it’s the topic of discussion.
– Pare down your to-do list – Analyze your schedule, responsibilities, and daily tasks. If you’ve got too much on your plate, distinguish between the “shoulds” and the “musts.” Drop tasks that aren’t truly necessary to the bottom of the list or eliminate them entirely.
2. Alter the situation. If you can’t avoid a stressful situation, try to alter it. Figure out what you can do to change things so the problem doesn’t present itself in the future. Often, this involves changing the way you communicate and operate in your daily life.
– Express your feelings instead of bottling them up. If something or someone is bothering you, communicate your concerns in an open and respectful way. If you don’t voice your feelings, resentment will build and the situation will likely remain the same.
– Be willing to compromise. When you ask someone to change their behavior, be willing to do the same. If you both are willing to bend at least a little, you’ll have a good chance of finding a happy middle ground.
– Be more assertive. Don’t take a backseat in your own life. Deal with problems head on, doing your best to anticipate and prevent them. If you’ve got an exam to study for and your chatty roommate just got home, say up front that you only have five minutes to talk.
– Manage your time better. Poor time management can cause a lot of stress. When you’re stretched too thin and running behind, it’s hard to stay calm and focused. But if you plan ahead and make sure you don’t overextend yourself, you can alter the amount of stress you’re under.
3. Adapt to the stressor. If you can’t change the stressor, change yourself. You can adapt to stressful situations and regain your sense of control by changing your expectations and attitude.
– Reframe problems. Try to view stressful situations from a more positive perspective. Rather than fuming about a traffic jam, look at it as an opportunity to pause and regroup, listen to your favorite radio station, or enjoy some alone time.
– Look at the big picture. Take perspective of the stressful situation. Ask yourself how important it will be in the long run. Will it matter in a month? A year? Is it really worth getting upset over? If the answer is no, focus your time and energy elsewhere.
– Focus on the positive. When stress is getting you down, take a moment to reflect on all the things you appreciate in your life, including your own positive qualities and gifts. This simple strategy can help you keep things in perspective.
4. Accept the things you can’t change. Some sources of stress are unavoidable. You can’t prevent or change stressors such as the death of a loved one, a serious illness, or a national recession. In such cases, the best way to cope with stress is to accept things as they are. Acceptance may be difficult, but in the long run, it’s easier than railing against a situation you can’t change.
– Don’t try to control the uncontrollable. Many things in life are beyond our control— particularly the behavior of other people. Rather than stressing out over them, focus on the things you can control such as the way you choose to react to problems.
– Look for the upside. As the saying goes, “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” When facing major challenges, try to look at them as opportunities for personal growth. If your own poor choices contributed to a stressful situation, reflect on them and learn from your mistakes.
– Share your feelings. Talk to a trusted friend or make an appointment with a therapist. Expressing what you’re going through can be very cathartic, even if there’s nothing you can do to alter the stressful situation.
– Learn to forgive. Accept the fact that we live in an imperfect world and that people make mistakes. Let go of anger and resentments. Free yourself from negative energy by forgiving and moving on.
5. Make time for fun and relaxation. You can reduce stress in your life by nurturing yourself. If you regularly make time for fun and relaxation, you’ll be in a better place to handle life’s stressors when they inevitably come.
– Set aside relaxation time. Include rest and relaxation in your daily schedule. Don’t allow other obligations to encroach. This is your time to take a break from all responsibilities and recharge your batteries.
– Connect with others. Spend time with positive people who enhance your life. A strong support system will buffer you from the negative effects of stress.
– Do something you enjoy every day. Make time for leisure activities that bring you joy, whether it be stargazing, playing the piano, or working on your bike.
– Keep your sense of humor. This includes the ability to laugh at yourself. The act of laughing helps your body fight stress in a number of ways.
6. Adopt a Healthy Lifestyle.
– Exercise regularly. Physical activity plays a key role in reducing and preventing the effects of stress. Make time for at least 30 minutes of exercise, three times per week. Nothing beats aerobic exercise for releasing pent-up stress and tension.
– Eat a healthy diet. Well-nourished bodies are better prepared to cope with stress, so be mindful of what you eat. Start your day right with breakfast, and keep your energy up and your mind clear with balanced, nutritious meals throughout the day.
– Reduce caffeine and sugar. The temporary “highs” caffeine and sugar provide often end with a crash in mood and energy. By reducing the amount of coffee, soft drinks, chocolate, and sugar snacks in your diet, you’ll feel more relaxed and you’ll sleep better.
– Avoid alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs. Self-medicating with alcohol or drugs may provide an easy escape from stress, but the relief is only temporary. Don’t avoid or mask the issue at hand; deal with problems head on and with a clear mind.
– Get enough sleep. Adequate sleep fuels your mind, as well as your body. Feeling tired will increase your stress because it may cause you to think irrationally.
• Exercise now…and again. A 10-minute walk can improve your mood for two hours. The key to sustaining mood benefits is to exercise regularly.
• Choose activities that are moderately intense. Aerobic exercise undoubtedly has mental health benefits, but you don’t need to sweat strenuously to see results.
• Find exercises that are continuous and rhythmic (rather than intermittent). Walking, swimming, dancing, stationery biking, and yoga are good choices.
• Add a mind-body element. Activities such as yoga and tai chi rest your mind and pump up your energy. You can also add a meditative element to walking or swimming by repeating a mantra (a word or phrase) as you move.
• Start slowly, and don’t overdo it. More isn’t better. Athletes who over train find their moods drop rather than lift.
– Eat foods rich with Omega-3 fatty acid. Foods rich in certain omega-3 fats called EPA and DHA can give your mood a big boost. The best sources are fatty fish such as salmon, herring, mackerel, anchovies, sardines and some cold water fish oil supplements.
– Boost your B vitamins. Deficiencies in B vitamins such as folic acid and B-12 can trigger depression. To get more, take a B-complex vitamin supplement or eat more citrus fruit, leafy greens, beans, chicken, and eggs.
– Consider taking a chromium supplement. Some depression studies show that chromium picolinate reduces carbohydrate cravings, eases mood swings, and boosts energy. Supplementing with chromium picolinate is especially effective for people who tend to overeat and oversleep when depressed.
• Set a regular bedtime. Go to bed at the same time every night. Choose a time when you normally feel tired, so that you don’t toss and turn. Try not to break this routine on weekends when it may be tempting to stay up late. If you want to change your bedtime, help your body adjust by making the change in small daily increments, such as 15 minutes earlier or later each day.
• Wake up at the same time every day. If you’re getting enough sleep, you should wake up naturally without an alarm. If you need an alarm clock to wake up on time, you may need to set an earlier bedtime. As with your bedtime, try to maintain your regular wake–time even on weekends.
• Nap to make up for lost sleep. If you need to make up for a few lost hours, opt for a daytime nap rather than sleeping late. This strategy allows you to pay off your sleep debt without disturbing your natural sleep–wake rhythm, which often backfires in insomnia and throws you off for days.
• Be smart about napping. While taking a nap can be a great way to recharge, especially for older adults, it can make insomnia worse. If insomnia is a problem for you, consider eliminating napping. If you must nap, do it in the early afternoon, and limit it to thirty minutes.
• Fight after–dinner drowsiness. If you find yourself getting sleepy way before your bedtime, get off the couch and do something mildly stimulating to avoid falling asleep, such as washing the dishes, calling a friend, or getting clothes ready for the next day. If you give in to the drowsiness, you may wake up later in the night and have trouble getting back to sleep.
• Make your bedroom more sleep friendly. Keep your noise down and your room dark and cool. If you can’t avoid or eliminate noise from barking dogs, loud neighbors, city traffic, or other people in your household, try masking it with a fan, recordings of soothing sounds, or white noise. White noise can be particularly effective in blocking out other sounds and helping you sleep.
Getting the support you need plays a big role in your mental health. On your own, it can be difficult to maintain perspective and sustain the effort required to beat illnesses, such as depression. But the very nature of these illnesses makes it difficult to reach out for help. However, isolation and loneliness make mental illnesses even worse, so maintaining your close relationships and social activities are important.
The thought of reaching out to even close family members and friends can seem overwhelming. You may feel ashamed, too exhausted to talk, or guilty for neglecting the relationship. Your loved ones may be a good source of help.
10 Tips for reaching out and building relationships.
1. Talk to one person about your feelings.
2. Help someone else by volunteering.
3. Have breakfast or lunch with a friend.
5. Accompany someone to the movies, a concert or a small get-together.
6. Call or email an old friend.
7. Go for a walk with a workout buddy.
8. Schedule a weekly dinner date.
9. Meet new people by taking a class or joining a club.
10 .Confide in a counselor, therapist or clergy member.
If you have a family member or friend who has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness, you are probably wondering what you can do to help. Although new forms of therapy, medications and community services have enabled many individuals to lead full, independent lives, support from family, friends and peers remains an essential element in the recovery process.
There are many ways you can help someone with a mental illness navigate the treatment system and work towards recovery. As in any relationship, emotional and practical support is always needed. Occasionally, family and friends participate in someone’s recovery by offering transportation, financial and housing assistance. Whatever form it takes, your support, compassion and respect matter.
• Educate yourself about the diagnosis, symptoms and possible side effects from each treatment. Mental Health America of the Heartland, public libraries and the Internet are good resources to learn about mental illnesses and treatment options.
• Recognize that your family member or friend may be scared and confused after receiving a diagnosis. Though some people are relieved to receive a diagnosis and actively seek treatment, it may feel devastating to others and bring on stressful feelings.
• Listen carefully to your family member or friend and express your understanding back to him or her. Recognize the feelings he or she is experiencing and don’t discount them, even if you believe them to be symptoms of the illness.
• Encourage your family member or friend to become an active member with his or her treatment team to gain knowledge about what treatments and services will help in his or her recovery.
• Recognize that it may take time for your family member or friend to find the proper medications and dosages that work.
• Understand that recovery from mental illness isn’t simply a matter of “just staying on one’s medications.” Self-esteem, social support and a feeling of contributing to society are also essential elements in the recovery process.
• Encourage your family member or friend to speak immediately to his or her healthcare provider about any problems related to medications. | 2019-04-21T02:15:41Z | https://mentalhealthkc.org/coping-tips/ |
2013 was a fantastic year for children's publishing. So many amazing books were published it’s quite possible even the most dedicated of parents missed a few. Below are favourites chosen by our book experts. Just click on the age range you are interested in.
One of our Books of the Year 2013 & July 2013 Book of the Month A sun drenched and poignant new story from the best-selling US novelist captures one long, last, high school summer vacation for Emaline in her small home town by the sea. Everything is planned for; Emaline will be doing her job, hanging out with friends and, above all, spending time with her boyfriend Luke before they move onto college. But all plans change when Theo, a young student working on a film about a reclusive local artist, arrives. Suddenly Emaline has a lot of choices to make and she has to decide what and who really matter to her. A touching story about growing up and knowing when old loyalties matter most. ~ Julia Eccleshare A Piece of Passion by Gemma Green, Marketing Mangager, Penguin Children's Fiction. So why read Sarah’s books over any others in this genre? Easy. She gets it – the characters, settings and plots all feel completely real and a part of your life. The protagonist becomes your best friend, her hopes, dreams and loves become yours – and finishing a Sarah Dessen book leaves you feeling a bit bereft, like the best summer holiday coming to an end. Sarah’s got a huge legion of loyal fans and followers, and it’s easy to see why. As we say here at Penguin, read her once and fall in love. It’s true – try The Moon and More and see what we mean!
One of our Dyslexia Friendly Books of the Year 2013 - Interest Age 5-8 Reading Age 6+ Best-selling Eoin Colfer’s Mary knows better than most about a bad hair day. Her hair is bad every day! Determined to improve on her horrible curly mop Mary takes matters into her own hands. Literally! The results are disastrous and Mum says she is never to cut her hair again. But Mum didn’t say she couldn’t dye it or perm it! Mary’s battle with her hair and the crafty solutions to her problems are hilarious. About the Little Gems series: Little Gems are in a gorgeous new chunky format, with high-spec production including coloured endpapers and jacketed flaps with activities. Additional features include high quality cream paper, Barrington Stoke font and illustrations on every page. They are perfect for 5-8's and with a reading age of 6+, these quality stories promote good reading practice for all newly independent readers. They are also suited to children of 7-10, reading below this leve and to dyslexic or reluctant readers.
Winner of the UKLA Award 2015 in the 12 - 16 years category. A stunningly original and edgy exploration of love, longing and the boundaries of identity that will make you view the world from a different perspective. Both funny and thought-provoking.
One of our Books of the Year 2013 & May 2013 Book of the Month A comic strip comes to life with the help of some magic ink... a hilarious adventure that could only have come from the madcap mind of Mr Steve Cole, bestselling author of Astrosaurs, Cows in Action and Slime Squad! No child aged 7 or 8+ can fail to be hooked by the mind-blowing madness that ensues when Stewart's artwork gets out of hand!
One of our Books of the Year 2013 & January 2013 Debut of the Month Originally self-published as an e-book, Stick Dog has been a bestseller in the US throughout 2011 and is now published in the UK. With hilarious illustrations and pitch-perfect humour which appeals to both child and adult, this adorable four-legged hero and his quest for a delicious dinner is destined to be Top Dog.
One of our Books of the Year 2013 - August 2013 Book of the Month - Shortlisted for the 2013 Leeds Book Award By the best-selling author of Wolf Brother, Gods and Warriors is this year's most hotly anticipated children's novel. The first book in a breathtaking adventure series set in the Greek Bronze Age: a time when the lowliest goatherd could rise to become a hero. Click here to download a letter from Michelle Paver to her readers, which tells more about the time the book is set and how she used her research to bring the Gods and Warriors series to life.
One of our Books of the Year 2013 A touching and inspiring story is told with striking originality. Hannah and Becky are enjoying a happy outing on a boat with Hannah’s dad when disaster strikes. Swept overboard, the girls survive and wake up to find themselves washed ashore in Tasmania. How they survive in the bush relying only on a tiger to help them is a story full of magic, hope and surprise. An exceptional story by an award-winning Australian author. "Into That Forest" will have the same impact as "Life of Pi", "How I Live Now" and "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas". Haunting, captivating and totally extraordinary. It reads like a true story - it's in turn wonderful, truly moving and shocking. You'll never forget it. _____________________________________________________ In addition to our Lovereading expert opinion for Into That Forest a small number of Lovereading members were lucky enough to be invited to review this title. Scroll down to read them. Here’s a taster from one of the reviews. “Louis Nowra has created a book that you can lose yourself in" Scroll down to read the rest of this review and all the reader reviews.
One of our Books of the Year 2013 & July 2013 Book of the Month Laugh out loud at the hilarious escapades of Tallulah Casey as she returns to Dother Hall for a third summer of drama school and – more importantly – boys! Louise Rennison has a well-deserved reputation for capturing the wild and unpredictable enthusiasms and passions of teenagers. Tallulah Casey and her friends are a riotously unruly group who are determined to live life to the full! .............................. Louise Rennison won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2010 with Withering Tights which is the first in the Tallulah Casey series. Click here to download an extract!
One of our Books of the Year 2013 and Winner of the 2013 Lovereading4Kids People's Choice Best Kids Book. There’s laughter and tears in this hilarious roller-coaster story of teen life in the starry world of modelling. Self-avowed geek Harriet tells her own story of friendship, family and the extraordinary world of fashion. Harriet’s cleverness is not necessarily a great help as she tries to find her way through the teen confusions as a geeky outsider but, in the end, after some unexpected moments on the cat walk, all ends well! Elizabeth Clifford, Commissioning Editor of Geek Girl - on why she chose to publish the book......In February this year, I first read the immortal line: ‘My name is Harriet Manners, and I am a geek…’ and I knew I’d found something really special. Funny, fresh and utterly genuine – Holly Smale’s debut, Geek Girl, captures the very essence of being an awkward teenage girl as self-confessed geek, Harriet, accidentally gets model scouted and stumbles her way from school bus to catwalk. A layered and engaging read with real heart, Geek Girl is much more than a teen fashion story; it explores deeper emotional themes of best friends, romance, bullying and betrayals, and wittily turns transformation myths on their head – all with a smile. Shortlisted for the Leeds Book Awards 2014, 11-14 age category - Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2013 - March 2013 Debut of the Month ....................................................................... In addition to our Lovereading expert opinion for Geek Girl a small number of Lovereading4kids members were lucky enough to be invited to review this title. Here's a taster....'I recommend this book to teenagers everywhere, it is a timeless classic that will be remembered forever, Read it!.'.... Scroll down to read more reviews... -------------------------- The winners of the Leeds Book Awards are chosen by you! Read the books, talk about them with your friends & teachers and decide which one is your favourite. You can vote in your local library or at www.leedsbookawards.co.uk. Voting closes on Friday 25th April and the winners will be announced on Tuesday 20th May.
One of our Books of the Year 2013 & May 2013 Book of the Month The stunning final instalment in the bestselling Hush, Hush sequence, now in paperback, began with Hush, Hush, continued in Crescendo and then Silence. Can the love of Nora Grey and fallen angel Patch survive a seemingly insurmountable divide. And in the end, will there be enough trust left to rebuild what has been broken? The lines are drawn - but which sides are they on? If new to this incredible series then get reading now with the first one Hush, Hush. It won't disappoint.
Shortlisted for the Leeds Book Awards 2014, 11-14 category - One of our Books of the Year 2013 & June 2013 Book of the Month We loved Paula Rawsthorne's debut novel in 2011, The Truth About Celia Frost, and are delighted to see her second novel, Blood Tracks, is equally explosive. A psychological thriller, packed with mystery but with a clever plot that will appeal to existing fans of Paula's and will also attract a swathe of new readers - both girls & boys. In addition to our Lovereading expert opinion for Blood Tracks a small number of teenagers were lucky enough to be invited to review this title. Here's a taster....'This was a fantastic book! It’s really thrilling and I couldn’t put it down; it has a terrific twist... Blood tracks is probably the best book I’ve read this year so far!' Scroll down to read more reviews... --------------------------- The winners of the Leeds Book Awards are chosen by you! Read the books, talk about them with your friends & teachers and decide which one is your favourite. You can vote in your local library or at www.leedsbookawards.co.uk. Voting closes on Friday 25th April and the winners will be announced on Tuesday 20th May. See below for the entire shortlist.
Overall Winner of 2014 Red House Children’s Book Award - One of our Books of the Year 2013 & May 2013 Book of the Month This is a novel that packs a punch on every page with hope and despair in equal measure alongside life and death. It will leave you gasping for breath and keep you hooked to the end and long after it'll be a book that makes you think. In a sentence it's The Passage meets The Hunger Games and it's the first of a new and epic dystopian series from Carnegie-shortlisted Rick Yancey. The sequel to The 5th Wave is equally gripping - download an extract of The Infinite Sea here!
One of our Dyslexia Friendly Books of the Year 2013 - Interest Age Teen Reading Age 9 Award-winning Meg Rosoff is wickedly funny as well as deeply caring and empathetic in this intelligent and touching story about a teenager and her unusual baby. Being a teen mum brings opprobrium from all but when Jess gives birth to a baby moose, there are no holds barred to the advice and criticism she receives. Lightly but with very serious intent, Rosoff charts the pernicious ways in which society judges and rejects children who are born different. How Jess and her boyfriend Nick cope as outcasts is a triumph. It will spur all readers into thinking things differently.
One of our Books of the Year 2013 & February 2013 Debut of the Month The shocking death of Jackson’s best-friend Wilson launches a tense thriller with a dark heart. Jackson and Wilson, students at the elite, top rated, Learning Community are sent on a mission. Wilson is killed and, when Jackson returns to school, he finds his records have been erased and no one remembers him. What is going on? Jackson is consigned to the Academy, a dumping ground where the teachers teach in cages and where violence rules. Here, Jackson uncovers the uncomfortable truth about they system he once believed in. A Piece of Passion from the Editor, Jane Griffiths The Disappeared is a brilliantly gripping dystopian novel by debut author C.J. Harper and one of the books I’m most excited about publishing in 2013. When the manuscript for the novel first arrived on my desk, I started reading and just couldn’t stop; the bleak and brutal future world is completely believable and Jackson’s story pulls you in and doesn’t let go – in fact when I finished I immediately wanted to read the next instalment, which didn’t even exist at the time! A fantastic mix of fast-paced action scenes, emotionally heart-breaking moments and dark, dry humour, this is a novel about self-discovery and believing that everyone has the power within them to change the world for the better. Perfect for fans of books like The Declaration by Gemma Malley, Unwind by Neil Shusterman and the classic 1984 by George Orwell, The Disappeared is a novel not to be missed and I can’t wait to see out in the world, I just hope that everyone loves it just as much as I do! (Plus, take a closer look at the cover - it features the faces of competition entry winners, some members of the S&S team and even the author herself!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A shocking, page-turning, fast-paced, moving dystopian thriller shot through with a streak of dark humour, The Disappeared is a brilliant debut from a fantastic new British talent, with shades of Orwell and Huxley. In addition to our Lovereading expert opinion for The Disappeared a small number of Lovereading members were lucky enough to be invited to review this title. Scroll down to read their reviews.
Longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Book Award 2014 - One of our Books of the Year 2013 - July 2013 Book of the Month Ebullient, life affirming, witty and utterly convincing and tinged with credible sadness, thirteen year old Bluebell Gadsby’s diary is a brilliant teen diary in the mode of Dodie Smith’s classic I Capture the Castle. The complications of family and romance swirl around Blue and she records all both on film and in her diaries. Blue’s entertaining record captures the dramas of her noisy family, which includes a nest of pet rats, and her own stirrings of love for Joss, the ‘bad boy’ from next door under the lax supervision of Zoran, the young temporary babysitter their parents have bought in while they are away, busy with their own lives. But all is tempered by Blue’s deep grief caused by the recent death of her twin sister. Have the rest of the family really forgotten? Natasha Farrant tugs all manner of heart strings in her emotionally rich rendition of family life.
Each year thousands of children's books are published and each month we feature around 80 of our favourites, all categorised by age range.
Below, after much debate in the office, are the ones we think are the best of the year.
Many of them are available in a selection of formats including eBooks.
So, browse away and make sure you haven't missed out on our 'must reads' of 2013.
And why not also check our Book Awards category which lists all the shortlisted and winning books for the most prestigious awards of 2013. | 2019-04-22T14:15:29Z | https://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/genre/y13/Books-of-the-Year.html |
Dating can definitely be an adventure. Some moments are sweet and others just downright sour. Couldn’t we all use a little help navigating the journey? So I took some time to pull together some surefire signs it may be time to look elsewhere for a partner. Honestly, some of these tips are either based on personal experience or observations of people in my sphere — friends, coworkers, family, etc.
The Creeper — Okay, I’ll put my own experience out there for this one. So it started off innocently enough. I met this guy at Borders, and he asked me for my number. He was a nice-looking man who seemed nice and polite. So I gave it to him. We went to the movies and nothing out of the ordinary happened. At some point in conversation, I mentioned my future plans for going to a coffee shop for a poetry reading — alone. After I went, the guy told me he saw me there. He never came into the building but saw me through the window and correctly described to me what I wore. Ding, ding, ding! The dude was lightweight stalking me! Suffice it to say, I never talked to him again. Anybody who shows up where you are unannounced and possibly undetected means you no good.
Leftover Lover — Some folks don’t know when to let go and have a balanced life. There are some people that have unhealthy attachments to people or things (i.e., family members, a job or other obligations) and it’s nearly impossible for them to be emotionally present. If you always feel like you are always put on the back burner and not a priority, it’s time to seriously consider moving on. You can have a conversation about it, make your feelings known and see if anything changes, but more than likely this person is not ready to contemplate a serious relationship.
Control Freak — This person doesn’t want to let you out of his sight for a minute. While hanging out with friends more than likely this guy wants to dominate your attention and often wants to ditch the crew early. Be careful he doesn’t begin to alienate you from friends and family and you feel dependent on him for all your needs. Often this is a precursor for abusive behavior.
Mr. Almost Right — So you meet an attractive goal-oriented guy going to school or with a great career. He has a great sense of humor, the conversation is great and the chemistry is so on point. But…your values are not the same. Whether its spiritual beliefs, family goals or political affiliation — the very thing you ignore can become an anchor weighing down the relationship. If your beliefs are very important to you, serious consideration needs to be made regarding a relationship that can cause serious heartache down the road.
Drama King — Guys can be just as insecure as women, but they may express it differently. He may put you or himself down in subtle ways, undermine your dreams or blame you for things that are his fault. Or avoid dealing with wounds from the past. He can be very sensitive but avoids admitting he has any feelings. Or he can dangerously resemble a lit powder keg — ready to explode at any minute. This man could use some counseling and spiritual guidance more than a woman in his life. Run FAST.
Baggage Handler — Baby mama drama. Shady associates. Sky-high debt. Old girlfriends are still calling him. Even his family is giving you the Why-Are-You-With-Him? look. This guy is just trouble. Stay away — period.
Any of the guys sound familiar? You may have met someone fitting one or more of the descriptions above. Of course this is not an exhaustive list, but overall we know when the person we are dating is not a good fit. It may take a little time to come to the conclusion, but lingering in a so-so situation makes you unavailable for the right person. Keep it moving until the man meant for you comes into your life.
Most people either know or have heard of someone who has tried online dating. Ten years ago, it was still a pretty new concept. Many people scoffed at the idea of meeting a stranger remotely and it conjured in many minds images of the crazy “cat lady” or the quiet neighbor on the block with bodies buried in the backyard. But in the face of an ever-changing global environment and relentless updates to digital communication, meeting people for love online has flourished. Personally, I know quite a few people who have had relationships or met their husbands and wives through various sites such as match.com, eharmony.com, and faithmate.com. There are so many options nowadays it can be a bit overwhelming for someone who is a novice to this new way of meeting people. Your color, nationality, age, spiritual beliefs, or lifestyle choice does not factor into the number of sites to choose from. You will be hard-pressed not to find a community that has not been marketed to. Now if you want to talk quality, that should be reserved for another post. But not surprisingly, you get what you pay for. Nuff said. Of course, you have loosely related sites for “other” activities. I am not speaking for those folks. I am speaking to people who are actually looking to be in a committed, long-term relationship that eventually leads to marriage.
It’s now reported that 20% of marriages in the United States are the result of Internet dating. And while many naysayers have come around to accepting this as a legitimate way to meet a spouse, there seems to still be a significant number of folks who give anyone on a dating site the side eye. Let’s just call them “traditionalists.” But the world is not the same as it was 20 or even 10 years ago. Our lives are busier and filled with more distractions than ever in world history. The pace of the digital age has been a technological blessing, but it has left us more disconnected in our personal lives. We are so attached to our iPads, Twitter pages and smartphones, all the while working longer hours and at the end of a long day the question still remains: When is there time to actually meet new people? If you live in a town like mine where there is no subway system and the weather is often cold, it makes encountering a possible match even more challenging.
“Traditionalists” often site the fact that you don’t know who you are meeting. Does anyone ever? If you meet someone at a party or bookstore, do you really know that person either? And there is always the argument about running into someone who is mentally unstable online. I guess that never happens in person either, huh? Isn’t it entirely possible to meet a “crazy” person in the flesh just as well as online? And if it’s just a matter of compatibility you can easily have a phone conversation or cup of coffee in a public place and realize whether or not there is a real connection.
1. The Profile–First off, are most of the questions filled out? And I am not talking about one-word answers. Most answers should be thoughtfully filled out and preferably with very few spelling errors. It speaks to the level of earnestness and effort the person is putting into making a first impression. And really pay attention to the answers. This is really the time to read between the lines–literally. If you desire to have children, and Mr. or Ms. Beautiful DOES NOT desire children, keep clicking. This is not the time to compromise. Don’t be swayed by the gorgeous professional photo staring back at you.
2. Speaking of Pictures–Oh boy. I could really go on about this.
a. If the first pic you see is of someone holding a beer of glass or wine, this may be a very clear indication this is how this person rolls all the time. Proceed with caution. If drinking and partying all the time is not your thing, it’s probably best to look elsewhere. Pictures should be clear and look recent (no jheri curls, mullets, or hi-top fades). Pay attention to the environment this person is in while taking pics. A lot of family oriented or bar/club pictures will give you an indication of this person’s personal interests and how he/she spends his or her free time.
b. Some people don’t post any pictures. Most websites will encourage you to post a pic because it will increase your number of responses. Personally I find it rather annoying when someone initiates contact and there is no profile pic. It is only fair to give someone an idea of what you look like.
c. Maybe you like to see muscles and cleavage before you know if a potential date smokes or not. I prefer a guy who doesn’t take a bathroom photo with his shirt off. I like a nice physique like anyone else, but maybe like me you are looking for a little bit more substance. So think twice if there are more pics of this person posing in front of a Jaguar or showing off a lavish lifestyle versus a nice head shot with a sincere smile.
3. Spotty Communication–okay so you’ve started communicating with someone you share mutual interests with and find attractive. But how is the conversation? If it’s taking the person a while to reply and the answers are brief, the person may not be as interested as you first believed or is just not serious about monogamous dating. At this point, if there is not talk about having a mini date over cappuccino anytime soon, it may be time to invest more of your time on looking at other profiles.
4. Dating in an Open Space–We’ve all heard it before, but for the sake of folks new to Internet dating: Meet people in public places.
5. Pray–Yeah, I said it. Not everything is revealed with the senses. You can’t always trust what you see, hear or sense. The heart is a tricky thing and when you couple that with attraction, you are prone to miss some important signs such as STOP or PROCEED WITH CAUTION.
So if you’re single and looking to meet someone new, the choice is ultimately up to you. Whether it’s howaboutwe.com, plentyoffish.com or farmersonly.com (yes, that is a real site), there are many options to explore. Or if you still think digital dating is not your thing, try a new hobby or setting that will allow you to get out there and be seen. You may find yourself meeting a whole new social group and enjoying life more. And maybe meet a really great person along the way. Happy dating to all! | 2019-04-20T12:53:46Z | https://lovedfrst918.wordpress.com/tag/women/ |
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Sahyadri Mountain Range: The Pride of Maharashtra!
Sahyadri Mountain Range – Western Ghats!
Amazing view from Rajgad Fort!
Sahyadri mountain range which is also known as the Western Ghats is an important series of high hills. The contribution of this range in weather, environment, defence & tourism is very vast. This mountain range is called as Sahyadri Mountains in Maharashtra and Karnataka states, Nilagiri-Malai in Tamil Nadu state and Sahya-Parvatam in the state of Kerala.
The Sahyadri Mountain Range or the Western Ghats is among greatest mountain ranges in India. The Sahyadri Mountains are located in south-west India. It is one of the longest mountain ranges in the world as well with its stretch spreading over 1600 kms. This line of mountains originates at Tapti River near state boundary of Maharashtra & Gujarat which later extends up to Kanyakumari region of South most India.
These mountains lie in the various states of India like Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu in the end. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj had started building his empire from this range only!
The Sahyadri Mountain Range is protecting western coast region of India since last many ages. India has got the strong line of defence from foreign enemies as well as from adverse weather conditions due to Sahyadris. The average height of these mountains is about 1200m.
All mountains are densely covered with thick lavish green jungles having large varieties of trees. This causes heavy rainfall near the West Indian coast region. Annually, Sahyadri hills receive a huge rainfall of about 400 cm. In the rainy season, these hills wear a beautiful thick green blanket. Entire Sahyadri mountain range looks very splendid in the monsoon months.
As the Sahyadri mountain region has a thick forest, it has a large number of wildlife animals. Various species of animals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects & many other creatures have their homes in the Western Ghats.
Various varieties of crops, fruits, flowers & trees can be seen near the Western Ghats. There are close to 7402 plant species in the Sahyadri mountain range. Out of them, 5588 are native, 1438 are planted and 376 species are exotics naturalized.
There are huge numbers of travel spots in the entire Sahyadri mountain range. Various Hill Stations, Wildlife Sanctuaries, Forts, Religious Spots, Trekking Routes, Adventure Spots are situated amidst these mountains. As these hills are located close to the coastal region, many beaches are also located nearby the hills. These spots offer ample of travel opportunities to tourists.
The Western Ghats unleash their beauty during the monsoon. It attracts many tourists to enjoy trekking, see magnificent beauty of nature and to spot animals-birds. We will specifically see the tourist spots nestled in Sahyadri mountains of Maharashtra state.
Many hill stations such as Lonavala, Khandala, Matheran, Panchgani, Mahabaleshwar, Amboli, Kudremukh and Kodagu lies on the Western Ghats.
Matheran: It is placed close to Mumbai still it has preserved its astonishing natural beauty. The major attraction of Matheran is a Toy Train which runs from Neral to Matheran. It is located in Raigad district along Sahyadri mountain range.
Lonavala: Lonavala is a perfect weekend destination for tourists of Mumbai & Pune. It drags huge crowd of these cities throughout the year. There are many beautiful & adventurous sightseeing spots in Lonavala.
Khandala: Being a neighbour of Lonavala, Khandala offers same natural beauty than that of Lonavala. Various tourist spots like Amrutanjan Point, Tigers Leap, Dukes Nose, Bhushi Lake, Bhaja Caves pulls many people.
Mahabaleshwar: Mahabaleshwar is popular for its beautiful and pleasant climate. Mahabaleshwar has very dense forest and it receives the second highest rainfall in India. Due to the heavy rainfall & elevation, this place offers amazing atmosphere.
Panchgani: Panchgani is blessed with amazing natural beauty & soothing climate. The eye pleasing beauty of this hill station is amazing.
Varandha Ghat: Varandha Ghat road is a beautiful mountain pass in Pune district. It is located amidst the Sahyadri mountains. This is an ideal location for the long drive near Pune. Very less number of tourists gives the visit to this place as it is least explored.
Amboli: Amboli ghat is a beautiful mountain pass (Ghat) on the route from Pune to Goa. This ghat offers amazing scenic views. There are many splashing waterfalls at Amboli Ghat. This place looks like a paradise in monsoon season when many waterfalls originate from the mountains.
Kalsubai Peak: Kalsubai Peak (कळसूबाई शिखर) is the highest mountain peak of Maharashtra & of Western Ghats too. Annually, a large number of hikers perform trek at Kalsubai Shikhar. It is a dream of any aspiring hikers to climb this peak.
Harishchandragad: The Harishchandragad fort is a beautiful hill fort located in Ahmednagar area of Maharashtra. It is a very famous trekking destination among hikers. There are many harishchandragad trek routes for hikers.
Ratangad: This fort is situated near Igatpuri. The surrounding region of fort has dense forest. One can see a number of umbrella waterfalls, water reservoirs, caves and lush greenery while doing trekking at Ratangad. One can see magnificent views of the Kalsubai peak from Ratangad.
Rajmachi: Rajmachi fort trek is one of the popular trekking destinations among hikers & adventure lovers. A huge number of hikers visit rajmachi every year. As difficulty level of trekking is easy it takes 35-40 minutes to reach the top of the fort.
Shivneri Fort: Shivneri is a birthplace of The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Bhosale. Shivaji Maharaj was born on this fort in 1630 AD. Altitude of the shivneri fort is 1067m (about 3500 feets) above Mean Sea Level. The shape of the fort is triangular & tapers to the one side. The fort is wide at the south end and narrow at the north side.
Apart from these, there are many other trekking destinations present at various places in Sahyadri mountain range.
Maharashtra is a precious land of the Great Shivaji Maharaj. He built a huge number of land forts as well as hill forts in entire Maratha Kingdom. There are lots of forts situated on Sahyadri mountain range in Maharashtra.
Raigad Fort: The Raigad fort was an important fort in a strategic point of view. This fort is one of the important forts in Sahyadri mountain range. It was the place of the capital of Maratha empire. The fort lies 820 meter above mean sea level.
Shivneri Fort: Shivneri is the birthplace of The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Bhosale. Shivaji Maharaj was born on this fort in 1630 AD. This is the place where Shivaji Maharaj spent his most of the childhood.
Sinhagad Fort: Sinhagad was formerly known as Kondana Fort. Almost everyone in Maharashtra knows the story of Tanaji Malusare who saved the precious life of the Shivaji Maharaj in order to capture Sinhagad Fort.
Purandar Fort: Purandhar fort is one of the strong forts in the Western Ghats. This fort has fought many historical battles. The siege of Purandar is among remarkable sieges in the history of India.
Lohagad Fort: Lohagad fort is a twin of Visapur fort located amidst Sahyadri mountain range near Lonavala region. The backwaters of Pauna dam looks spectacular from this fort.
Torana Fort: Torna was the first fort won by Shivaji Maharaj in 1643. This fort has the highest hill fort in the Pune district (1403 metres above mean sea level). There were various monuments and structures built inside Torana.
Pratapgad Fort: Pratapgad was among impregnable hill forts of Shivaji Maharaj. The fort has thick forest cover around it. This fort has the strong double line of fortification and walls on its all sides.
Rajgad Fort: Rajgad was the capital of Maratha Kingdom for the long duration. Rajgad means the king of all forts. One can see magnificent views of Sahyadri Mountain range from this fort. This fort is an ideal spot for camping.
As you can see, Sahyadri mountain range holds each and every type of leisure spots for tourists. These tourists spots in the Western Ghats calls thousands of travelers every year. Trekking & exploring forts are among the most popular adventure activities in Maharashtra between enthusiastic adventure lovers!
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If you haven’t booked your holiday travel yet, it’s time to stop procrastinating! As Thanksgiving approaches, flights are getting full and prices are sky rocketing. The same goes for Christmas travel, it’s never too early to book your flights! This also goes for all of your other accommodations like hotel, rental car and Fort Lauderdale airport parking. How can you prepare for your hoildday travel? Here's 8 simple steps!
Planning a trip can be exciting, but most of the time stressful. How can you eliminate stress while traveling? Being prepared and organizing the details beforehand can make your trip run much more smoothly. After you’ve taken the time off work and booked the flights, here’s what to do next.
Summer is passing right before our eyes, but it’s not too late to plan a family vacation! In fact, most travel sites say that the cheapest time to travel in the summer is in August and September. Whether you’re looking for a change of scenery, affordable destinations, or outdoor experiences, here are four different vacation ideas for your family!
8 Travel Tips to Make the Best of Your Trip.
Do you have a summer trip coming up? Whether you’re traveling close or far, on a plane or on a cruise, these tips will help make the best of your trip! Remember to book your cruise ship parking or long-term airport parking with the best, FLL Park Safe!
Traveling isn’t cheap. At FLL Park Safe we’re committed to providing our customers with an affordable option for airport parking. However, we can’t control the rest of your travel accommodations. That’s why we decided to dedicate this blog to tips on how to save money on your next trip.
It’s almost that time again, travel fans! Spring Break is quickly approaching, so you’re probably already well into the planning stages of your big trip this year. Whether you plan on spending time on one of the many beaches here in the Fort Lauderdale area, enjoying the wildlife in the nearby Everglades, or taking off on one of the many cruises that port here in Fort Lauderdale, we’ve got tips on how to ensure the safety of yourself and your belongings.
Traveling with kids is never an easy task. It takes a lot of planning, preparation, and patience. Here are some tips that will help prepare you and your children for a safe and smooth trip.
Now that the holidays are over and the Christmas travel bustle has died down, you might find yourself planning your next getaway. Whether it’s a tropical cruise or a skiing trip, we’ve got the dish on some of the best locations to visit.
Is a Trip on a Large Cruise Ship the Choice for You?
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Vehicle thefts take place when you least expect them. Studies have shown that every 44 seconds another car is stolen in the United States, and most of these thefts can be chalked up to OWNER ERROR. A professional Chop Shop (illegal garage where your car is broken down for parts) can disassemble a vehicle in under 30 minutes, and then your pride and joy is shipped all over the country on websites like Ebay Motors. If this sounds a bit unreal or shocking, that’s because the truth is often scarier than fiction.
Enough lead up… Lets jump into the 10 Best Ways: To Deter Vehicle Theft!
Summer is here. If you are travelling to or from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, chances are you will encounter some sun. Perhaps even more so if you are travelling someplace even warmer and sunnier like if you are going on a cruise. Long term parking in Fort Lauderdale, Florida is a handy way to start out your trip, but to stay comfortable—and pain-free—during your trip, chances are you are going to need sunblock.
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Airport parking is a great way to start out any trip from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. But what about more specific advice for traveling to other countries? In this list of overseas travel tips, learn where to renew a passport, which vaccines are recommended for which countries and where to find travel safety resources.
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While we pride ourselves on keeping your vehicle safe for extended periods of time when you leave it with FLL Park Safe, we still love to offer tips for happy traveling! Here are a few things to take care of before parking your car long-term that will make your return a pleasant one.
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Long term parking is a safe, reliable service for those who are departing from the Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport. Even so, there are actions a car owner can make to ensure his or her vehicle less enticing to thiefs. Here are some helpful tips that can prevent you from being a victim of a car break-in.
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Using a long term parking service like the one we offer near the Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport is safe, convenient and affordable. Although our track record speaks for itself, a lot of people have concerns about how safe their car is when they travel on vacations.
What is the ‘Safest’ Airline?
People seldom stress airport parking leaving from Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport. They have greater concerns about airlines--and rightfully so. It's important to know the safety of an airline before you decide to fly.
Airport parking in Fort Lauderdale, Florida is fast, reliable and convenient. However, flight delays can be maddening. Here are some tips to travel smoother.
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Stories They Told Me by Theresa C. Dintino is a novel of shamanism and Goddess Spirituality set in the Bronze Age world of Minoan Crete. It is a threefold tale exploring violence against women from the perspectives of characters who live in a world where such violence is unknown. Early in the novel Aureillia and Danelle travel to Malta. There, in an underground temple, they witness a shared vision of Danelle murdering Aureillia in a future life. This knowing sends them onto individual journeys of discovery. Danelle, artist and oracle, flees to Libya where he meets the local Shaman Rodin. Together they examine the heart breaking questions of his soul. Aureillia, Priestess of the Bird, returns to Crete where a prophecy she told long ago resonates in ways unexpected. Throughout the book there is a third voice telling stories, all different stories with different narrators. It is unclear to the reader until the end who is speaking, but Danelle and Aureillia's daughter Lilith is listening, being filled up by story.
At the village, I began to teach other women to ride-those of us who had been planning our exit together. We worked in secret and gradually, so as not to be noticed. The young ones were the easiest-forming a relationship with the horse quickly. I led them on visits to our new home. We journeyed there two at a time to begin the task of setting up shelter, planting seeds to sow at our first harvest there. The plan was to leave in the next warm season. We became impatient. It seemed too long. We knew, however, there was still much to be done.
We learned to steal horses. Slowly, and one at a time. If they thought only some of the women left, especially the difficult women, they would not care. If they knew we had taken horses, they would come after us for sure. We took them at night so that it seemed they were escaping.
Before I left the village completely, there was one thing I still had need to learn-something I myself had never been schooled in-metallurgy. This was a sacred art that I had not been called to perform. I knew we would need weapons, that we would not be complete upon the horse until we were armed.
Long ago I had been schooled in the art of clay baking. My mother was a potter, as had been her mother before her, and she had passed that sacred teaching to me. It was the mothers before them who first discovered metals hidden within the clay; shiny flecks cooked to smoothness in their fiery pottery ovens. It was those mothers who refined the craft of softening hardened rock into thick liquid that could then be pounded into shape, into strong, sharp tools, sharper than anything we had known.
Before they came, before I came to know the horse, I spent my time working soft warm clay into rounded, open wombs in which to contain Her. I sat, satisfied, humming songs to myself as I painted swirling whirls and spirals-eggs electric with Her presence-onto rounded female forms. Before they came, I worked beside my mother, our fingers sinking into deep clay, in the workshop below the temple where I would go often to offer Her my best work.
When they came, the within me grew wild and restless. The workshop could no longer hold me. I began to create only horses, clay horses running, sleeping, standing-painted horses on vessels-women riding horses, until I stopped going to the workshop altogether.
"Why do you not come and do the work you were chosen for, the work the village needs you to perform," my mother said to me one day upon meeting me on the path to the stable.
"I have a different job now, mother," I said, avoiding her eyes, for I knew that I had abandoned her. "I am busy with other things."
"It is an insult to Her to turn your back on the gift She has given to you. An insult to me," she said, lowering her tone.
"Mother," I said, whispering at the utterance of words such as these, "I no longer find Her in the work with the clay. Not as I once did. I now find Her in the wind that rushes through my hair as I ride the wildest of horses, in the heat between my legs as we gallop, by the river's gentle bend and the tall tree encircled with stones. I must go to the place where She leads me, Mother. I must follow Her call."
She eyed me suspiciously. "I know," she said, "that you are planning to leave."
"You must know that it is no longer safe here. Please, mother, you must come with us."
Her lips were pursed but there was water staining her eyes, which looked toward the village. "I wish to see this tree," she said, "this place by the river's bend."
I took her hands into mine. "First," I said, "I must teach you to ride."
I approached the village smith at his workshop. I asked him to teach me his craft.
"Only men may learn it," he said.
"It is women who discovered it," I said.
"Do you think I do not know that?" He said, pounding hot metal thin with a hammer and shaking his head. It was enormously hot inside this smelting hut. He was sweating. Dirt clung to his bare chest. He put down his hammer, took a piece of cloth from the bench and wiped his face. "I only wish to protect myself from danger," he said, throwing the cloth back down onto the bench. "They will not tolerate me teaching you."
He snicked a laugh and smiled at me. The smile contained tenderness. "Why is it that you wish to learn?"
"I and some others, we are leaving. This is a skill we shall need, yet none of us possess."
He looked down at his work, then out the window. "Leaving," he said, "leaving is a good idea."
"Leaving is the only option," I said.
He looked at me. Sadness covered his face. I began to perspire. He returned his gaze to the window. "Not here," he said. "You must not be here."
"I know a place," he said, approaching me, the metals he worked, mixed with the juices of his body, gave him a strange metallic smell. "There is a cave," he whispered, "a cave behind yonder hill. It is a small cave with a hole in the side of one of the walls."
"There. Meet me there." I looked into his eyes. The fire reflected within them. "Tomorrow."
"I must go now," I said, backing away. "It is too hot in here."
He walked me to the door and stood in it, filling it with himself, as he watched me walk away.
"The first thing you must learn," he said to me the next day when I met him at the cave, "is how to remove the metals from the places in which they are found." He had cleaned himself. His hair was tied back into a long mane of deep browns and auburns. In the morning light, I noticed specks of green in the browns of his eyes. The heat, the fire was still there upon him, pulsing in waves from his body; revealing itself in the deep creases that lined his dark face. He was dressed in clean trousers and a soft, wool blouse. He carried with him a large, leather bag. "We shall walk together to the places where She gives forth."
"We need not walk," I said, "I ride."
"I have seen you ride," he said. "I, however, do not ride."
"You shall ride behind me."
I helped him onto the back of my horse. He held me tight around the waist. I turned to face him. He hid not his fear. "It is all right," I said. "She is a good horse."
I put my hand upon his that held me around my center. We rode slowly. His hand, warm within mine began to relax, my center melting to molten liquid beneath the heat.
We arrived at the place between two hills where She offers herself in rich streams of minerals. He set his bag down and extracted a long pick. I watched as he inserted his tool into Her, as She gave Herself to him in rich dark copper. At other places, he showed me how to determine which rocks contained Her, to chip away at the hard wall of stone, forming workable clumps which we would smelt, freeing the copper hidden within them.
"Now you," he said, handing me his tools, heavy and foreign. What he had made look easy, for me was extremely difficult. I struggled, became frustrated.
"It is difficult at first," he said, "but you shall become accustomed to it. Your hands are strong. They match your will. That is all you really need."
He took me to a streambed. He taught me how to pan and dredge for tin. "The tin is hard to come by," he said, stooping and bringing up a pile of black dirt into a clay bowl which had small holes in the bottom of it to allow the water to spill back through it. He sifted through the remaining dirt, extracting large clumps of hardened black rock and showing them to me. "Sometimes," he said, "I use arsenic to harden the bronze. I am not going to show you that way. I want you to use tin to harden your bronze."
Back at the cave, he taught me how to build my own smelting oven deep into the earth. "The hole," he said, making a small opening in the back of the bottom of the oven, "there must be an opening. Through the opening will be released the slag. The copper will be left within."
He stacked within the small oven layers of charcoal and the pieces of ore we had mined. Then he lit the fire and covered the oven. With his foot pushing on a small leather pump inserted into the side of the oven, he fanned and fanned the flames, stoking up the fire until it became so hot, he removed his shirt and the stone released the copper in a gush of steaming hot liquid.
This, he then took and reheated, purifying it more. Some he took in a warm, semihardened state and hammered into shape. Others he cast, pouring a steaming, white, liquid mixture of copper and tin together to form bronze.
"I used to work only with copper," he said, "but these new people, they have a taste for bronze."
I watched him moving quickly from fire to floor with a heated heap of copper to pound with his hammer. I watched his face, serious and focused, his lips, pouting as he worked. I watched his hand, skilled and quick with the hot metal, his arms quivering from the stress of the work. I enjoyed this, this watching him work. There was something profoundly comforting in observing this act of creation.
In the extreme heat, combined with the intense effort it was taking me to learn this skill-something I was not naturally inclined toward-I began to lose my will.
He could have let me. He could have let me sit there watching him, allowed me to melt into another piece of workable material for him to form into any shape he wished. He could have let it happen. I was not aware until it was too late. But, he didn't. He saw what was happening. He would not allow it.
He began to force me to work. "It is only certain people," he said, " who can tolerate such heat without melting. You must stand tall, strong to the heat, Sadie. You must not allow it to reduce you."
He pushed me, every time I was exposed to the heat, presenting me with chore after chore. "You must learn this," he said; leading me out of the cave when I was overwhelmed, to take in a breath of coolness, to harden me back into shape. "You cannot go out into that world without this skill."
He ceased to work, began only to watch me pound clumsily against softened metal, pour liquid rock into a cast I had made, my arms moving involuntarily in staggered, jerking movements under the weight.
"It is the heat," he said, "the heat which transforms. Fire which alters. Only with fire may we change things." He took a cloth from the belt around his waist and wiped my damp face with it. "You posses this element within you," he said. "It is good. "You will need it. You must be careful, however, because you are made of fire, so you are especially vulnerable to it."
I looked at him, he who had pulled me out of the flames, yet left me intact. "Why do you do this for me?"
"I do not do it for you. I do it for us, our people, our village. Do you think I like these barbarians?"
"I have not yet decided."
y skills improved. Alone, I mined for minerals, built the fire, transformed stone into liquid heat, pounded soft metal into a hardened, sharp-edged sword.
"You no longer need me," he said to me one day and smiled. It was a crooked smile, its right side higher. A smile I had come to look forward to.
"How can I ever thank you?" I asked, touching the sharp edge of the blade I had only just formed.
He came and stood himself before me so that his chest touched the cloth of my dress. "Take me with you," he said into my face, in a voice so innocent, so full of need and longing that it took my breath away.
"I cannot," I said, there was a galloping in my chest. "It has been agreed. Only women. I thought you understood that."
"I thought by now you would see that I am not one of them."
"Of course, I know that," I said, touching his chest with my hands. "I am so grateful to you. There is so much that you have done for us, more than I ever could have expected. I have also grown very fond of you." I sighed, collapsing a little. Then I remembered the burning in the women's eyes when they talked about the men. These strange and different men, at whose hands so many of them had already suffered, still bearing the bruises they had acquired when they were forced to share themselves against their will. How could I explain to him the torment this was having on us as women? The distrust that now permeated every encounter with men?
"I cannot allow it," I said, looking at him. "In spite of my feelings for you."
"You cannot leave me here, Sadie," he said. He held my face within his hands. I allowed him to kiss me. His warm mouth encompassed mine; a furnace deep with leaping flames. I felt myself surrendering within, the 'yes' beginning to form within me. I felt the opening that wanted to happen, to let him in, to merge together into something other, something new. But the 'no.' I needed the 'no.' The 'no' was what sparked the fire, what fanned the flames. "I cannot," I said, breaking away from him, from his strong, confident embrace.
"Sadie," he said, "even if you do not allow me to join you, let us at least have this."
"I cannot," I said, backing away from him. "Don't you see," I repeated. "I cannot."
"No, I don't see," he said.
"I cannot feel this way about you. This opening, this spreading of my being that wants to happen. I cannot allow it. It will ruin everything."
"Nothing has to change," he said.
"But everything will," I said, pounding my fists against my chest. "Inside. Inside. I need, more than anything, this cool, hard shell I have grown."
From Stories They Told Me © 2003 by Theresa C. Dintino. Submitted by the author for publication in MatriFocus. All rights reserved.
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It has been said that women do not sweat, they just gloss, but whoever made that statement never tolerate high humidity temperature South. When August rolls around everyone sweat if they venture outside.
Summer sweating is not attractive, does not smell pleasant, and leaves you feeling sticky all. There are a few things you can do to reduce the amount of sweat that you have.
Wearing appropriate clothing can reduce the amount of summer sweat you need to deal with. In summer you should wear clothing that fits loosely. Looser clothing will allow air to get between cloth and skin and it will allow the moisture to evaporate.
Wear light colored clothing is made from cotton and natural fibers. Cotton allows air to enter through a cloth and cool off naturally. Darker colors absorb heat and make you feel hotter than lighter colors reflect heat and cool off.
Deodorant disguises foul smell like perfume makes. You do not want to be deodorant during the summer. Deodorant is fine for the winter months, but when the heat starts to get over seventy degrees you need to switch to antiperspirant.
Antiperspirants help to stop you from perspiring as much. They also help to block the smell, so you get the odor reduction Deodorant phone would provide sweat reducer.
Some simply can not find antiperspirant that works well for them. If you have tried the majority of antiperspirant brand and still have trouble with some sweat then you might want to see your doctor for a prescription antiperspirant.
If you have a large sweat issues, and nothing seems to help her, then you might want to look into Botox. Botox injections have been known to stop people from sweating profusely.
Nerves send chemical signals to the brain that says what you are overheating and need to sweating. Botox blocks this signal so that the message is not received and sweat begin to seep from the pores.
Botox works well for people who sweat profusely under their hands, and always have yellow stains on their clothes. The injections also help reduce perspiration that occurs in the hands and soles devices.
You can expect a Botox treatment to provide you relief from excessive sweating for up to six months.
The word salary comes from the word salt. In fact, it was used as a payment method in many countries. It was also used for bargains. Pinch of salt from a bag worn by each party was added to the bag of others. Only if these special grain could be removed could salt covenant be broken. If it was so important then why is it being maligned now?
Preservatives: Fresh food, particularly animal protein, will not last without some external method of preservation. In fact, you can see this in the refrigerator sometimes. As a dish that got pushed way back and turned into a science experiment proves it.
Those in the days before canning need to either dry or salty food. Salting was the easiest … if you live near somewhere that had it. Drying requires a lot of work and there was always the possibility that meat would not dry enough or flies would get it.
Tooth Cleaning: People clean their teeth long before toothpaste was invented. Be grateful for the salt was often part of the cleaning.
Goiter Belt: Some areas, including parts of the United States do not contain iodine in the soil. Iodine, trace quantities needed to prevent expansion of the thyroid in the neck. When it was discovered iodine was added to table salt. As long as people in those areas using iodized salt, their chances of developing a goiter is small.
Gargle: How old is this job I could not tell you, but in most herbal I have read one of the treatments for a sore throat is warm salt water gargle. In fact, my doctor has recommended. It is also used for sinusitis of them can handle the process.
Flavor: Even desserts contain salt. It is a flavor enhancer. Without all tastes bland. The only way to get enough flavor without salt is going overboard in the spice department, and even that might not work. That is why most prepackaged foods list salt as an ingredient.
Salt can be overdone, as other foods. That does not make it an enemy. Too much of anything is dangerous. If you have questions about salt intake, talk to your doctor. You may be referred to a nutritionist and come up with the right amount to keep the tastebuds happy and goiters no longer a threat.
A large part of the everyday actions of our habits, habits that we have formed over a lifetime. It is estimated that about 40% of the daily activities of people’s habits. Some habits serve a positive purpose- such as locking the door when you leave the house, talk to pleasantries during a call or let the dog out when he sits at the back door.
Most of us, however, have a routine that we did could break. Many, revolve around food. Examples have something sweet in the afternoon to get you out of energy slump, snacking at night when you’re not hungry, or reward yourself with a second helping of dinner after a stressful day at work.
Habits, especially bad habit is hard to break. Breaking the habit takes a tremendous amount of willpower, and willpower is a limited resource. It is highest in the morning after a peaceful night’s rest is easily fall by stress, fatigue, anxiety, joy, or almost any emotions or situations. It wavers when someone offers you a piece of chocolate, and admits defeat in the smell of fresh baked pie. It may put up a good fight with breakfast; after all, most people find it relatively easy to say no to chocolate cake on at 7. But even on a good day, you can find willpower levels are pretty low with 3 or 4 in the afternoon. It leaves vulnerable bread basket at dinner, but a handful of cereal for supper, or chips after the kids are in bed.
Willpower is not the answer. So instead of trying to break bad habits, aim to change them.
The life cycle of habit can be broken down into three parts; cue, routine and reward. For example, a cue to lock the door when leaving the house well, leaving the house. The routine is to lock the door, and the reward is peace of mind that your house and possessions are relatively safe. In the example of 2pm treated as a ‘pick me up’, the white was a feeling of falling energy, feeling bored at work, or simply the fact that it is 02:00. The routine was on the way to the vending machine, the office kitchen or desk drawer in search a candy bar or a muffin. The salary would be short-lived increase in energy, the pleasure of having something sweet on the tongue, and a break from work.
If you want to stop the sugar habit, simply saying “I’m going to give up my afternoon entertainment” is probably not enough. When it hits a gesture, it’s hard to resist! The body needs something- until this point you’ve been feeding her treats.
To change habits, you first need to stop and recognize that your actions are just the Member habits. Also, you must remember that you are in charge, and you have the power to change your habits.
Ask yourself the following simple but often emotional question “What do I really want?” Think about rewarding how you want to feel? When the day slump hits, you want something. But do you really want a little old donut or wolf down a chocolate bar while sitting on the table? Or, you are simply bored with the task you are working and need a break? Do you feel re-energized? Do you need a pleasant experience?
Next, think about the different practices that could yield the same salary. If you are fighting energy slump and need to feel energized, would a short walk or do some squats to get the blood flowing do the trick? Maybe, short with a co-worker to offer a change of scenery or consider a break? How about going out for some fresh air, or take a few minutes to stretch? If you are slightly hungry would crisp, juicy apples do the trick?
What the evening rummage through the cage after the kids are in bed? Are you looking for a reward after a long, hard day? Are you bored? Are you stressed? Again ask, “What do I really want?” Do you excited to overcome boredom? Are you just need to relax? Would work on a project, indulging in an interesting novel or writing in the journal give you what you really need?
To start, pick one habit you want to change. Identify the white associated with the action, and the feeling you get from the prize. Make a list of options, more healthful habits you can join to change this bad habit. Exercise situation in mind and picture yourself taking part in the new habit. The more you practice, the better you’ll get!
While routine can certainly be changed, the process is not always easy. Do not expect to change habits overnight. It takes patience and perseverance! Continue with kindness, understanding and acceptance of yourself. Celebrate success and learn from your mistakes.
Ideal healthy life means optimal state of euphoria that makes you lead a dynamic and vibrant life. It is more than just freedom from ailments; complete and comprehensive wellness facilities include high-level physical, mental, social, emotional and spiritual well-being.
We live in a fast paced world where everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere. Every day we read and get to know the various situations where workload, stress, erratic lifestyle and irregular eating habits cause serious lifestyle diseases such as obesity, gastrointestinal problems, chronic respiratory disease, Alzheimer’s disease, hypertension, heart problems, and diabetes among people all around worldwide.
Experts in the field of wellness and management say they have been monitoring the disturbing trend where conditions such as diabetes, cholesterol and hypertension, who were a few years ago most often in people over 40 years, is diagnosed in people as young as 20. This day, not received or lifestyle diseases arising from poor decisions as poor diet, lack of exercise, lack of sleep, smoking and alcohol consumption cause of death in the world. As the statistics and estimates of the World Health Organisation (WHO) more than 16 million people die early each year worldwide due to lifestyle diseases.
Lifestyle diseases are generally different from other diseases as they are potentially preventable, and may decrease with changes in diet, lifestyle, and environment and with the help of various wellness treatments and alternate medicine system available around you.
Most of us are quite aware of and understand the rationale for a healthy lifestyle and need, even though we do not understand the disease process that can occur when we do not keep healthy habits. Despite understanding many lack proper knowledge, confidence in the outcome and the basic skills needed to find and be completely and holistically well.
Nevertheless, possible healthy lifestyle changes and can be easily availed with appropriate involvement and knowledge. All that is needed is to build awareness of the ease of treatment and practices around you.
So let’s come and share all of our wellness experiences, ideas, tricks, case studies and stories – whatever it may be – to share everything related to wellness and treatment and encourage millions of people around us to live a healthy life.
Keep obesity at bay today, parents pay more stress on academics and the outdoors, causing weight problems, especially obesity. Obesity is not just gaining extra pounds, but it is the cause of many diseases. With regular exercise and outdoor activities, obesity can be controlled to live better, as well as healthier life.
Keep better mental health: depression among young people has been witnessed in recent times and has increased to a great extent, that is a serious matter. Studies have proven that lack of exercise affects mental health, leading to issues such as stress, depression and anxiety. Regular exercise can help to keep both mind and body fit. It helps maintain better mental health and is a great stress relieving.
Dealing with insomnia: Insomnia is a sleep disorder, resulting in lack of sleep or the ability to fall asleep. It has become quite common among both youth as well as adults, and it may as well be related to the lack of adequate exercise. Insomnia can affect the health and lack of proper sleep leads to several diseases. Exercise is the best way to deal with insomnia and live a healthy life.
Keep away diabetes: Now-a-days, many young people fall prey to the deadly disease, diabetes. Generally, improper diet is considered to this disease; However, food is not the only reason for this problem. Weight gain is one of the reasons leading to this disease and weight gain is a result of lack of exercise. With proper exercise and outdoor activities can help you to save you from falling prey in the hands of this deadly disease.
Maintain the cholesterol level: Increased cholesterol can cause heart disease, which can be fatal at times if not controlled at an early stage. In order to maintain cholesterol levels, exercise combined with a healthy diet is important.
These are some of the reasons to understand the importance of fitness among youth to maintain a healthier life. It is necessary, even for elders to understand the importance of outdoor activities to keep youth well as they are the future of the nation.
This article is written by the Indian Health & Fitness expert who works as a fitness instructor in a reputed gym in New Delhi, India. He is a registered dietician and holds a doctorate in nutrition and biochemistry. He writes Daily health blog with short, simple tips on health for youth to live longer and happier.
Staying fit can sometimes be a challenge, but it can get encouragement to even start a productive fitness regimen. When you come home from a long day at work, the first thing you really want to do is sit down and put your feet up. But sometimes you have to push yourself to the end of the day slump and get yourself re-energized, to give you the motivation you need to really make a difference.
Of course, the prospect itself can be difficult. Losing weight, get fit and build muscle are long-term goals, and sometimes even the idea of having to keep up a certain routine is enough to stop you from even starting. In other cases, people simply do not have time to do the real work out, and they suffer for it.
How can you make the transition from couch potato to Adonis with minimal disruption to daily life? Can you even get the body you want without gym membership? The answer is yes, and here are some simple changes you can do to change your life for the better.
This sounds hard, but it need not be. Regular exercise can be very beneficial for a person outside the obvious choice; not only does it help you become healthier physically, but it can also improve other aspects of your life. For example, exercise can be great for stress relief and regular exercise improves sleep patterns.
The key is to incorporate exercise into your life in a way that is actually achieved. If you know that you are less likely to practice after work, then do not. Exercise for the work place. What is important is that you give yourself no excuse.
Exercise does not have to be a tedious chore, and just because all your friends will get you for 6am run does not mean you have to do the same. You will be more likely to disappear with the movement of the work you enjoy, creating a workout that you find attractive and fun. If you really want to practice, you will be much more likely to do it often.
Similarly, do not pick one exercise and stick to it, because your body will eventually become accustomed to it, slow down your progress. Having a variety of activities that you can do to keep things varied. For example, you could go swimming one day and the self-defense class to the next.
It may seem obvious, but it can not be stressed enough how important a good diet and proper hydration, especially when it comes to exercise, weight loss and body building.
Change your diet not only include what you eat and drink, especially if you’re really serious about getting fit and build muscle. There is a variety of natural sports supplement powder that you can use to help the body breakdown and recovery during exercise. Just be careful and make sure you conduct a thorough research before buying anything; there is a difference between using something like MET-Rx protein shakers and body supreme whey protein diet, it is important that you understand these differences and know how different supplements available can be beneficial to you.
This is the hardest part of all, but a bit of patience will go a long way. Getting motivated is easy, it’s staying that way that creates a challenge, so make sure you do not let the fire die out! Do whatever you have to so you can keep pushing yourself further; if you hate exercising alone, ask a friend or partner to practice with you. If you are struggling to get out on time in the morning, preparing gear the night before.
The key, as before, is to allow you the opportunity to excuses. It does not matter if you are not extraordinary athlete from the first day, what matters is that you just keep going.
How to Secure your baby’s health?
With the child, parents are born. You may have led a carefree life, but when you become a parent, responsibility also comes automatically. You want the best for your child and the struggle very hard to put things in order. In fact, parents leave no stone unturned in order to invest in facilities that ensures the best possible outcome for your little one. Teaching your child to lead a healthy life will always be a good option as it ensures a happy future.
Of all the things, it is important to understand that a child’s health is one of the biggest assets that he or she will have. After a healthy body is the biggest blessing that your child may have, is not it?
Here are some simple measures that can ensure the child’s health and contribute to the improvement of his future.
-Stealing Cell storage. Thanks to advances in technology, you now have new options to protect the future of your little one. Stem cell storage is also one such service where doctors freeze cells from the umbilical cord. These cells can later be used to treat various types of chronic diseases, if any problems in the future.
-Preach A healthy lifestyle. If you are able to teach your child the importance of a healthy lifestyle, he or she has a better chance to enjoy a happier future. Up to eat right on the importance of utilizing possible to teach children in a playful way that ensures that they enjoy the process as much as they adhere to it.
-Clean Environment. Give your child a clean environment. Teach them the importance of cleanliness to ensure that they pursue the goal to lead a healthy life. Also, keep the environment clean will reduce the risk of the child developing any ailments or diseases. Always remember that the conditions for the child extends beyond the four walls of your home. This means that even when you are choosing a school, day care center, etc., you must exercise caution and choose a good place.
-Additional Security: Simple things like encouraging children to participate in regular health checks are also important. These preventive measures are expected to help in identifying the problem, if present at an early stage and to ensure better treatment as well as a healthier future. It is one of the most important things to remember.
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Whoever said that you have to starve for a healthy body has surely had all the basics wrong. Eating is important if you plan to live a healthy life. You do not have to give up food than simply remember to eat right. Yes! To eat on time and eating the right kind of food are two simple rules that can transform you from being lazy man to be absolutely healthy person. Plan your diet is not a time consuming task. However, we recommend that you take advice from a reputed dietician or your family doctor before making any drastic changes.
Keep your body hydrated. Drinking sufficient amount of liquid such as fresh juices, butter, milk, water and much more. Also hydration will ensure that you eat only the required amount of food instead of piling it up. Just remember to avoid sugar as you savor a drink.
Reduced oil and butter is also a good practice. Ideally, three table spoons enough to take care of the daily needs of ordinary people. Given the sedentary lifestyle that we are used to, eating high calorie foods like deep fried stuff, candy, etc. will only spell disaster for the future.
More salads, fresh cut salads with little or no salt and some pepper are tasty and calorie free as well. Make sure you have plenty of salad for every meal. This will keep your tummy full and prevent you from eating junk food.
Eat more. You may find it hard to believe but eating more is the secret to losing weight. You need to eat small portions several times a day. Needless to say, these small portions of food to be healthy options like fruit, juices, etc.
Grill not fried: We asked you to cut down on fried foods devices but it does not mean you should give up all the tasty things in life. You can still eat everything you want by just promoting a healthy style of cooking. Instead of frying, opt for grilled food. It is easier to prepare, consumes less oil and a change in taste is hardly noticeable.
Important things to remember is to turn into a healthy lifestyle, but the promise of reaping riches returns in the future ensure that your health and well-being prevails even when you get older.
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It is necessary and required each person to be healthy. This is because staying healthy can help a person to live a very long life without having to face any serious health issues. If a man holding his army or health properly, he or she can work efficiently and give a lot to the community. Maintaining health requires a certain type of protocol to follow. This protocol related to proper eating habits, exercise regularly and stay away from any type of bad practices that may affect your health in a negative way, directly or indirectly.
You need to have a positive frame of mind. This can have a very positive impact on your overall health as well. You need to maintain a connection with each person and create Create text node good vibes in front of everyone to be healthy mentally as well.
Eat only healthy food, no matter what happens. Green vegetables, milk and other healthy foods Many must eat regularly to keep you healthy.
No matter what you do or what you are in life, you need to sleep well every night. Without proper sleep you will not be able to live a healthy life. The standard of living depends on your night sleep. You can bother you mentally if you are not a good night’s sleep.
Stick to a specific exercise regimen and follow it regularly. Exercising regularly can help you a lot, then it can also increase the life span effectively.
Be loyal by keeping a clean living in a clean environment. Keep yourself away from dirty environments. If you stay loyal, you can keep you away from many diseases. Brush daily, take a bath every day and clean your house every single day.
The above steps, if taken seriously can help you very positive. You have to make sure you do not add on any of the steps described above. There is a need for a healthy person these days. Make sure you’re one of them.
New Year, New You: Live Ideal 100th lifestyle now!
Another year has passed and a new year has begun with high hopes, expectations and objectives for a more prosperous and healthy new year expected ahead. Shortly after the Time Square ball has dropped, the balloons have all click and timburmennirnir have eased, New Year’s resolutions once served with gusto are often quickly forgotten and replaced by recent habits and former habits. To fulfill your goals and dreams for the coming year you must first change your thinking. Amended thought changes everything! Get a bigger vision, increase to every day before, as a good gift and a limited number.
How are going to spend temporarily cause the minimum possible year after? Are you going to accept business as usual, or you’re going to constantly live your ideal lifestyle 100 years, to achieve your goals with greater health and longevity? The fastest growing segment of the population in the world today are those who live to 100 years of life, celebrated centenarian. The media often highlights the extraordinary senior skydiving, marathon running and weight lifting well in 90 of them and beyond. Unfortunately, the vast majority are poorly prepared for the unexpected longevity ahead. The greatest generation has become a nursing generation, often spending the last remaining of the year in nursing homes rather than on cruise ships or golf.
If you now realize that you have a chance to live longer than the generation that preceded you, make sure you live it with quality and not just quantity. Instead of worrying so much about inadequate health insurance, focus on strengthening enough ‘health assurance “with new incentives for the life style of prevention. Develop a plan that promotes practices and changes needed to support life longevity and success instead persistent and diseases. The choice you make today will affect the quality and quantity of life tomorrow, choose wisely and live well.
Re-sensitive tongue! The holiday delicacies of pies and cakes, butter and steak, ice cream, cookies, candy and all dudes have taken their toll on the ‘desire’ your taste buds. Daily requirement of sugar candy to satisfy your palate dulled and widening waistline is a symptom of leptin resistance. The hormone leptin, produced by fat cells, the signal the brain when full, which instructs the body to reduce hunger, increase fat burning and reduce fat storage. Unfortunately, the cause of many sugary treats the body to become leptin resistant and never reach satiety. So are your ‘sweet tooth your body is unable to respond to leptin or leptin resistance. In addition, to destroy all sugar and grains from the diet while adding natural, nutrient dense foods will also cure burned- the receptor insulin (insulin resistance) and change the forecast of obesity and diabetes health and longevity.
Get E.S.S. Your Shape: Endurance, Strength and Structure! For endurance, start with 20 minutes a day of interval training on the treadmill, lifecycle, oval, or simply walk to maximize your cardiovascular system. Within 20 minutes of endurance exercise, bursting with activity for 30 seconds every 2 minutes for better results fat burning. For rapid strengthening of proper weight training builds muscle fast and helps burn fat at any age. Regular exercise increases feel good endorphins and neurotransmitters, rather to introduce a new healthy lifestyle with certainty that last.
The structure of the body determines the role of the body or how it works. Recent research shows the ill effects of “Tech Neck” created by constant forward head posture and back neck profile than looking down on our smart phones, tablets and computers. Up to the 60 pounds of additional power is applied artificially reduced our neck vertebrae and spinal cord disc in this faulty position, setting the stage for degenerative disc disease and rapid aging. posture and spinal corrective chiropractic particular methods rehab, effectively addresses this common problem with results that last, reverse the aging process and add years to your life and the lives of your years.
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Comenity bank store credit cards are currently heavily sought after due to something called the “shopping cart trick“, which allows people to get approved for the store cards without actually doing a hard pull or going through a traditional credit check. This is especially great for people with little or bad credit, and it means that anyone can get a comenity bank card without having a hard pull on their credit score (which will lower it).
Finding a list of store cards offered by comenity bank is hard because they are always being updated, and some stores stop using their cards in due time. Because of this, I have decided to compile a list of which store cards are still active as of July of 2017.
Remember that if an approval popup asks for your full social, don’t do it! Asking for a full social usually results in a hard pull.
One of the biggest factors in having a good credit score is how many accounts you have open.
It sounds crazy, but the more accounts you have, the higher your credit score will be. Having multiple accounts shows that people trust you with money, and that in turn boosts your score. Now I know you’re asking yourself, “if it was that easy, why can’t I just open a bunch of credit cards and have a great score??” – which leads me to the second reason why having cards through comenity bank can increase your score….
You can obtain store cards issued through comenity bank without a hard pull on your credit.
Opening a new account, whether it be a credit card, a store card, or an auto loan, requires your credit to be pulled in order to get an approval. If you open multiple cards, chances are your credit will be checked multiple times. In the long run, your score will bounce back and be higher than it was before, but in the mean time, you are left with a bunch of hard inquiries on your credit which docks your score a few points each time an inquiry is ran.
Comenity cards are special, because you can actually get approved for them without having your credit pulled at all! This method is called the shopping cart trick, and I highly recommend you checking it out by going to the main page on this website and reading my free guide. It’s as good as it gets – you can obtain as many cards as you want and you never need to have your credit checked. This also means if you have bad credit, you can still get approved without ever having your score checked.
Remember that Comenity Bank store credit cards are not actual visa or mastercards. They will still help boost your score, but they will not be able to be used at any other store other than the one specified. I highly suggest getting a credit card, either secured or unsecured, through your bank and start using it right away. Certain cards through comenity will only report to one bureau, while most other bank cards report to all three major bureaus: Experian, Transunion, and Equifax.
Also, people tend to ask me if they have to use the card in order to keep it. Although comenity bank can (and sometimes does) close cards due to non-use, they rarely do so. You typically do not have to . I have the Victoria’s Secret card, the Brylane card, the Gamestop, Total Visa, and more in my collection, and I hardly use any of them unless I am making a purchase that will give me a discount if I use the card.
My credit score has still skyrocketed in the meantime, which is great. It’s been over a year since I started this website and my journey into getting a better credit score, and I have still not had a card closed down by comenity bank. So make of it what you will. If you check online, mainly on the MyFico Forums, you will find that some other people have had their cards closed down after a period of inactivity.
If you’re looking for a card that gives you a higher limit and also guarantees your approval, I suggest the Horizon Gold Card due to the fact that they are super lenient about who they give a card to. I have never seen anyone not be able to get that card. True, it doesn’t give you cash back rewards or travel points, but when you are struggling to build up your credit and get a better score, it really is a great option to keep in mind. I’ve had my Horizon card for quite a while and I still use it a lot.
Hopefully this list of comenity bank store credit cards can help you get approved for some credit. I also suggest reading my full guide on the shopping cart trick here. Best of luck!
Not sure how the cart trick works but I went in on each site and filed out an application. It does a hard hit on your credit but hey mine was bad already. BUT, the more you get (do them all at one time),your credit starts going back up because of all the lines of credit you have. I’ve gone from 475 to 635 in a year. Just applied for another card to add more credit line. I would actually be higher but I do use my cards lol.
Beware of the shopping cart trick high!!!!
I can’t get Wayfair to pop up! Can you tell me exactly what you did?
You don’t have to purchase anything, but u will still get your card though if u accepted it and filled out the application.
The only one that has worked for me is Victoria secret. Could it be because I order frequently from the website? I’ve tried the others store but nothing has poped up yet, is it that you can only get approved once a day?
Help, please. I have (2) Comenity Bank Store Cards: Pier 1 Imports and Bealls of Florida. I haven’t used them in awhile and notice they are not on the above list. Are their cards no longer good?
My credit is 563 and I was able to get approve for over 4 cards, including a visa.
Which visa did you get approved for?
Boscov’s, Victoria Secret, Overstock, Ulta, these stores gave me pop up the first try, keep trying, use different email address if didn’t work on 1st one, make sure you clear all history and sign up for all there rewards 🙂 Best of luck, Don’t give up it really does work.
Ulta gave you a pop up?
Did you try on CPU or mobile website. Nothing working for me but I’m on mobile. And is there a number of items when I should stop adding to cart and move on?
It might have been the Sportsman’s Guide Visa. That is the one that I was able to get with the SCT.
What was your credit score at the time you got the visa?
Which stores approved you & which Visa??
Brylane and Overstock are the ONLY ones that worked. I tried the others several times.
Try Brylane Home . maybe use a different email address.
I have seen 515 score tried the shopping cart trick and got 2 buckle and Victoria Secret. Very proud!! I hope to get more especially express. I am working hard on building my credit!
I have a 515 score tried the shopping cart trick and got two, buckle and Victoria Secret. Very proud!! I hope to get more especially express. I am working hard on building my credit!
I am not getting any.Ugh.Could it be because I have a log in already with some fo the sites?
I have same score & can’t get a pop up, help!!
JCrew, Coldwater, and Romans instantly, and I have been trying to get anything to pop for MONTHS.
Just make sure your browser has been cleared. Some say works in incognito mode, but I found it wasn’t necessary.
While I would love one of the actual mastercards, not sure that will happen.
i have a low credit score as i have never reallt had credit before. my score is 529 and i got approved for J.Crew , King size, The limited and overstock.
My first credit card was from Cabela’s Visa with a low credit score (+/- 500). Paid it off every month and a year later my credit score is almost 700 and I now have a Discover Card, American Express and a couple of other MasterCards and Visas. I NEVER buy if I can’t pay it off each month. That is the key. Works in just over a year. If you really want to build your credit that is the way to do it. Never spend more than you can pay and you will build your credit fine.
Got approved for Victoria Secret. Yup trick worked… This is about 3 weeks ago. Went on my credit karma account and now my score dropped down 14 points. The only change on it, was that I got a new card. So, I’m not very sure how this trick “works” without hurting your credit score. Pretty disappointed 😞.
Did you max out your card or even just half of it? They look at your credit card utilization. Under 10% is considered excellent. If you only have the one card it hurts more than it does good to keep it above a certain percentage.
No I haven’t even used it yet and I keep track of my credit utilization and is below 10% I have more than one major credit card. I got a reply a while back that your score will drop for a bit then go back up. I’m just hoping that won’t take a long time!
I have most of the Comenity Bank Cards, except Lexus, BJ’s, Moddells, etc. I tried paying more than the minimum monthly payment. I used them mainly on emergencies.
Does it deny you if you apply for too many in a row?
I’m wondering if it’s because overstock is soooo expensive? Does any one know?
Does overstock report to cb?
Great info now I know how to help my friends!!!
The SCT worked for me with Victoria Secret, Wayfair, Gander, and Express. I wish I’d be able to get any of the Visa’s but so far it hasn’t worked with those yet.
I applied I got 2 victoria secret 2 NY company and an Abercrombie. My score 534. Very pleased all done on the shopping cart trick.VERY IMPORTANT do not entire full SS. If it ask your not going to get it.
Just filled Ch. 7 and was discharged on 11/4/16. Tried this a few times and finally got approve for VS. $250 CL. Very happy. Wish there was a way I could get a Visa or MC this way? Does anyone know?
Robert…How much merchandise did you have in your cart?
Omg it works. Victoria Secret approved me. Wow.
I didn’t care about the amount. I only cared about that they report to all three credit reporting agencies : Experian, Equifax, and Trans Union. I verified this with a representative by the name of Angela who works at the BrylaneHome division.
Would like to know if anyone has success with the Shopping Cart Trick with any of the visa or MasterCard comenity bank cards.
Just wanted to add, that they report on a monthly basis like any other credit card.
I just got the sportsmanship visa, don’t know limit, should be a sp, only asked for last 4 ss, I got overstock yesterday but asked for all ss# so I put 000-00-####. Still got a hp, but approved, for overstock and sportsmanship always put the membership in cart.
Also I noticed that some of the cards are offered by Comenity Bank and the others by Comenity Capital Bank. Are these the same Bank affiliation?
I was able to get 4 of the cards using the shopping cart trick tonight.
I tried about 10 others and did not get the popup alert.
Which of these cards have authorized user.
I can’t get any pop ups from any sites I’ve been trying on..wonder how everyone else is getting them to pop up… wanted a Victoria Secret card..
shopping trick worked for me , i received in one day. VS 250 cl, gamestop 250 cl, overstock 350cl. was very happy it worked for me as i am repairing my credit.
Do I have to lift my credit freeze?
real deal holly field!!! it works!!! key is doing exactly every step right. | 2019-04-22T14:15:26Z | http://shoppingcarttrick.net/comenity-bank-store-credit-cards/ |
This week Vince discusses how being comfortable while you work is more than satisfying, it can be downright healthy! He also brings us developer news, Mentor Q&A and tidbits of info you can't live without!
Maybe it's just me, but there's something I've noticed that makes me wonder. Certain diseases seem to become "trendy" for a while, and everybody is diagnosed as having them, then the next thing you know, they're no longer so fashionable and the incidence rate seems to drop dramatically. I'll give an example, but first let me say that I'm only giving a lay person's crude observations; there's nothing medical or scientific about them!
A little while ago everybody was talking about TMJ. It stands for temporomandibular joint, which is where the jaw joins the skull, but was used to refer to all sorts of problems associated with that joint. It seemed like everywhere I turned people were being diagnosed and treated for TMJ, then it just seemed to fade away. A friend of mine recently mentioned that he was being treated for TMJ and the thought popped into my head "I remember that, I wonder whatever happened to it!" It has become what I call a definite "Hmmmm!"
Then there's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. This is associated with the pain people experience when they use a computer keyboard too much. Or perhaps it's when they use it incorrectly; I'm not really sure. It was all the rage for a while, though, and stores were selling wrist rests and ergonomic keyboards and other paraphernalia like it was going out of fashion. Which, strangely enough, it seems it was! The people I know who have bought these items swear by them, though, so there's no arguing with the result. I've been using computers for more decades than I care to admit and in that time I have found that the pain in my wrists builds mostly when I'm having the hardest time with what I'm working on, not when I'm typing the most. I call it tension and for me the cure is to get up, walk away and do something else for ten minutes or so. I usually can think better when I return, also.
I certainly don't mean to belittle these diseases, though. I know that they are truly a problem for those who suffer from them; I just wonder if there aren't cases where stress and tension are diagnosed as something else.
Years ago, monitors sat on top of desktop computers on your desk, putting the bottom edge of the screen some nine or ten inches above the desktop. Then along came monitors with "tilt and swivel" stands that were designed to stand directly on the desktop and put the bottom edge of the screen about six inches above the desktop. I remember when I first used one. At the end of the day I was noticeably less tired and felt less strain in my neck. It seems that the slight change in the angle of my head made a big difference to me. I have since observed this many times, especially when I help out somebody who has their computer arranged in one of those furniture pieces specifically designed for a computer, and sporting a shelf for the monitor to stand on. I only have to sit there for a fairly short while before I can feel the tension in my neck. One of my neighbors recently replaced their computer hutch with a flat table as I had suggested. They tell me that they are using the internet more now because it seems less stressful.
As the day gives way to the night and I am still working away at my machine, I will notice my eyes getting tired and the pain building in the back of my neck. If I keep going without making adjustments the pain gets to the point where I am forced to stop and am now miserable. I am sure that there are a lot of contributing factors, such as ordinary tiredness or my ever increasing age (funny how that happens, isn't it?!) etc., etc.. My observation here, however, has been that there seems to be a relationship between the tension I feel building and the relative brightness of my monitor to that of the room it's in. For example, I might start working at the same time each day, but will feel the strain earlier in the winter than I do in the summer. The cure is as simple as turning the lights on.
In my workroom, I recently replaced the ceiling fan and the new one came with a light fixture for four bulbs where the old one only had one. The pull chain that turns on the lights turns on first one pair, then the other pair, then all four. I have two forty watt bulbs for the first pair and two sixties for the second. This gives me eighty, one hundred and twenty or two hundred watts worth of light. My old one was just sixty. I have found this to make a huge difference. As the horizon rises to conceal the sun and steal the ambient light from my room I only have to remember to turn on the light and I can continue much longer than before without any pain building up. It seems that my eyes feel the strain more when my screen is so much brighter than the room. Getting rid of eye strain is as much a matter of training myself as training my eyes!
Like I said before, these are only a lay persons unscientific observations, but if you sometimes suffer from these annoying symptoms while using your computer, you might try these little fixes to see if they help at all. Of course, if they don't help, get medical help -- we want you to enjoy your computer in comfort so that you will continue to build on the internet we have come to depend on so much!
As to the eye strain I feel, I feel it is less than I strain my punny language!
Q. I am using the script under the So You Want to Resize Your Window, Huh? tutorial and was wondering if I could have it so that when a website visitor clicks on my main image, the re-sized window would pop up rather than them having to only click a text link.
/*Create window and display large image of thumbnail.
and left of the edge of the screen.
of these must be setup in the image preload sections above.
Q. I have noticed that some of my internal pages will come up on a search engine. Is there anyway that I can have these visitors redirected to the main home page instead of having them link to a page that is basically out of the flowing order of the site?
You would place the above in the head section at the very beginning. The drawback to this script is that if they go to this document from anywhere in your site other than the document specified it will redirect them to that one document (page).
Q. Is there any way that a web page can be updated by using a simple form button? For example: a school wants to post that their school is closed by going to a page and clicking the "school is closed" button, which updates the home page.
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This is the fourth part in a series of hands-on tutorials that will take you through all the steps to build a complete application using Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. The tutorial is finished by creating a Web Service to host the data and then consume the Web Service from Windows, the Web, and the business layer.
This tip, from Wade, demonstrates how to use a trigger and xp_sendmail to alert a DBA or developer when any data is updated in a certain database table.
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Under 23 (a) (2) of the Internal Revenue Code, an individual taxpayer was not entitled to deduct from his gross income, for federal income tax purposes, an attorney's fee paid for contesting the amount of his federal gift tax in the circumstances of this case. Pp. 119-127.
(a) The attorney's fee was not deductible under 23 (a) (2) as an expense "for the production or collection of income." Pp. 121-124.
(b) There is no adequate basis in the record in this case for holding the attorney's fee deductible under 23 (a) (2) as an incident of petitioner's "management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for the production of income." Pp. 124-125.
(c) Expenses for legal services do not become deductible merely because they are paid for services which relieve a taxpayer of liability; nor because the size of the claim to which the services relate is large in proportion to the income-producing resources of the taxpayer; nor because the claim, if allowed, will consume income-producing property of the taxpayer. Pp. 125-126.
(d) The result here reached is not inconsistent with 1944 Treasury Regulations; and it is in accord with specific provisions of Treasury Regulations since 1946, containing an administrative interpretation of 23 (a) (2) which is entitled to substantial weight, especially since Congress has made many amendments to the Internal Revenue Code without revising that administrative interpretation. Pp. 126-127.
In a suit for a refund of federal income tax, the District Court entered judgment for petitioner. 84 F. Supp. 537. The Court of Appeals reversed. 188 F.2d 964. This Court granted certiorari. 342 U.S. 810 . Affirmed, p. 127.
Harry Baum argued the cause for the United States. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Perlman, Acting Assistant Attorney General Slack and John F. Davis.
The question here is whether, for federal income tax purposes, an individual taxpayer was entitled to deduct, from his gross income, an attorney's fee paid for contesting the amount of his federal gift tax. For the reasons hereafter stated we hold that he was not.
In 1940, Joseph T. Lykes, petitioner herein, gave to his wife and to each of his three children, respectively, 250 shares of common stock in Lykes Brothers, Inc., a closely held family corporation. In his federal gift tax return he valued the shares at $120 each and, on that basis, paid a tax of $13,032.75. In 1944, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue revalued the shares at $915.50 each and notified petitioner of a gift tax deficiency of $145,276.50. Through his attorney, petitioner sought a redetermination of the deficiency, forestalled an assessment, and, in 1946, paid $15,612.75 in settlement of the deficiency pursuant to a finding of the Tax Court based on stipulated facts. In 1944, petitioner had paid his attorney $7,263.83 for legal services in the gift tax controversy but, in his federal income tax return, had not deducted that expenditure from his taxable income. In 1946, he claimed a tax refund on the ground that the attorney's fee should have been deducted under 23 (a) (2) of the Internal Revenue Code. 1 His claim was denied by the Commissioner and petitioner [343 U.S. 118, 120] sued for a refund. On stipulated and uncontroverted facts the District Court held, as a matter of law, that the payment should have been deducted and entered judgment for petitioner. 84 F. Supp. 537. 2 The Court of Appeals reversed. 188 F.2d 964. Because of the important statutory issue involved and petitioner's claim that this case is distinguishable from Cobb v. Commissioner, 173 F.2d 711, we granted certiorari. 342 U.S. 810 .
Section 24 adds that in "computing net income no deduction shall in any case be allowed in respect of - (1) Personal, living, or family expenses . . . ." 53 Stat. 16, 56 Stat. 826, 26 U.S.C. 24 (1). Insofar as gifts to members of a donor's family are in the nature of personal or family expenses, the donor's expenditures for accounting, legal or other services incurred in making those gifts are of a like nature. The nondeductibility of such expenditures, therefore, is indicated both by the absence of any affirmative allowance of their deductibility under 23 and by the express denial of the deductibility of all personal or family expenses under 24.
To change that result, Congress, in 1942, added the present 23 (a) (2). 6 That provision, as demonstrated in its legislative history, permits the deduction of some, but not all, of the nontrade and nonbusiness expenses of an [343 U.S. 118, 122] individual taxpayer. It specifies those paid or incurred (1) "for the production or collection of income" or (2) "for the management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for the production of income." See H. R. Rep. No. 2333, 77th Cong., 2d Sess. 7 Congress might have gone further. However, neither the decision that occasioned the amendment, the Committee Reports on it, nor the language adopted in it indicate that Congress sought to make such a change of policy as would authorize widespread deductibility of personal, living or family expenditures in the face of 24 (1). Bingham's Trust v. [343 U.S. 118, 123] Commissioner, 325 U.S. 365, 374 ; McDonald v. Commissioner, 323 U.S. 57, 61 -63.
Similarly, there is no substantial factual basis here for treating the stock transfers and the related attorney's fee as mere incidents of petitioner's "management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for the production of income." Even assuming that petitioner's 3,000 shares in Lykes Brothers, Inc., did constitute property originally held by him for the production of income, there is no finding, and no adequate basis for a finding, [343 U.S. 118, 125] that his donation of one-third of that stock actually was not the gift he represented it to be. Petitioner does not claim that the gift itself is deductible and, if it, as the principal item in the transaction, is not deductible, we find no adequate basis in this record for holding the related attorney's fee deductible.
II. Legal expenses do not become deductible merely because they are paid for services which relieve a taxpayer of liability. That argument would carry us too far. It would mean that the expense of defending almost any claim would be deductible by a taxpayer on the ground that such defense was made to help him keep clear of liens whatever income-producing property he might have. For example, it suggests that the expense of defending an action based upon personal injuries caused by a taxpayer's negligence while driving an automobile for pleasure should be deductible. Section 23 (a) (2) never has been so interpreted by us. It has been applied to expenses on the basis of their immediate purposes rather than upon the basis of the remote contributions they might make to the conservation of a taxpayer's income-producing assets by reducing his general liabilities. See McDonald v. Commissioner, supra, at 62-63.
While the threatened deficiency assessment of nearly $150,000 added urgency to petitioner's resistance of it, neither its size nor its urgency determined its character. It related to the tax payable on petitioner's gifts, as gifts, and it was finally settled on an agreed revaluation of the securities constituting those gifts. The expense of contesting the amount of the deficiency was thus at all times attributable to the gifts, as such, and accordingly was not deductible.
If, as suggested, the relative size of each claim, in proportion to the income-producing resources of a defendant, were to be a touchstone of the deductibility of the expense [343 U.S. 118, 126] of resisting the claim, substantial uncertainty and inequity would inhere in the rule. For example, the expense of defending a personal injury suit for negligence, or a suit for alienation of affections, claiming $1,000 damages, probably would not be a deductible expense for any defendant. On the other hand, if the same plaintiff on the same facts asked for $5,000, $10,000 or $100,000 damages, and the defendant held some income-producing property, that defendant might be permitted to deduct from his taxable income the same expense for precisely the same services as those upon which his less well-to-do neighbor would have to pay a tax in the other case. It is not a ground for defense that the claim, if justified, will consume income-producing property of the defendant. We find no such distinction made or implied in the Revenue Act.
Such a regulation is entitled to substantial weight. See Commissioner v. South Texas Co., 333 U.S. 496, 501 ; Morrissey v. Commissioner, 296 U.S. 344, 355 ; Fawcus Machine Co. v. United States, 282 U.S. 375, 378 . Since the publication of that Treasury Decision, Congress has made many amendments to the Internal Revenue Code without revising this administrative interpretation of 23 (a) (2). See Revenue Act of 1948, c. 168, 62 Stat. 110; Revenue Act of 1950, c. 994, 64 Stat. 906; Revenue Act of 1951, c. 521, 65 Stat. 452; Higgins v. Commissioner, supra, at 216; Morrissey v. Commissioner, supra, at 355.
[ Footnote 1 ] "SEC. 23. DEDUCTIONS FROM GROSS INCOME.
"(2) NON-TRADE OR NON-BUSINESS EXPENSES. - In the case of an individual, all the ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred [343 U.S. 118, 120] during the taxable year for the production or collection of income, or for the management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for the production of income." (Emphasis supplied.) 53 Stat. 12, 56 Stat. 819, 26 U.S.C. 23 (a) (2).
[ Footnote 2 ] "To construe the law as giving to the Commissioner the power to assess a taxpayer with a deficiency tax greatly in excess of what he owes and to hold that such law denies to the taxpayer the right to contest such assessment, except at his own personal expense, just isn't justice under the law. The statute in question gives the Commissioner no such power . . . . " 84 F. Supp. 537, 539.
[ Footnote 3 ] The tax is "levied, collected, and paid for each taxable year upon the net income of every individual . . . ." 53 Stat. 5, 26 U.S.C. 11. "`Net income' means the gross income computed under section 22, less the deductions allowed by section 23." 53 Stat. 9, 26 U.S.C. 21.
[ Footnote 4 ] There have been expressions by this Court placing a restrictive interpretation upon allowable deductions by virtue of "the now familiar rule that an income tax deduction is a matter of legislative grace and that the burden of clearly showing the right to the claimed deduction is on the taxpayer." Interstate Transit Lines v. Commissioner, 319 U.S. 590, 593 ; Deputy v. du Pont, 308 U.S. 488, 493 ; New Colonial Ice Co. v. Helvering, 292 U.S. 435, 440 . Such an interpretation is not necessary here and is not relied upon in this case. See Griswold, An Argument against the Doctrine that Deductions Should Be Narrowly Construed as a Matter of Legislative Grace, 56 Harv. L. Rev. 1142.
[ Footnote 5 ] And see United States v. Pyne, 313 U.S. 127 (attorney's fees and other expenses of executors in caring for securities and investments not deductible); City Bank Co. v. Helvering, 313 U.S. 121 (similar expenses of testamentary trustee not deductible); Van Wart v. Commissioner, 295 U.S. 112 (attorney's fee for litigation to recover income for a ward not deductible).
[ Footnote 7 ] ". . . Due partly to the inadequacy of the statute and partly to court decisions, nontrade or nonbusiness expenses are not deductible, although nontrade or nonbusiness income is fully subject to tax. The bill corrects this inequity by allowing all of the ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred for the production or collection of income or for the management, conservation or maintenance of property held for the production of income. Thus, whether or not the expense is in connection with the taxpayer's trade or business, if it is expended in the pursuit of income or in connection with property held for the production of income, it is allowable.
". . . The expenses, however, of carrying on a transaction which does not constitute a trade or business of the taxpayer and is not carried on for the production of income or for the management, conservation, or maintenance of property, but which is carried on primarily as a sport, hobby, or recreation are not allowable as nontrade or nonbusiness expenses.
"Expenses, to be deductible under section 23 (a) (2), must be ordinary and necessary, which rule presupposes that they must be reasonable in amount and must bear a reasonable and proximate relation to the production or collection of income, or to the management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for that purpose.
"A deduction under this section is subject, except for the requirement of being incurred in connection with a trade or business, to all the restrictions and limitations that apply in the case of the deduction under section 23 (a) (1) (A) of an expense paid or incurred in carrying on any trade or business." Id., at 46, 75. To the same effect, see S. Rep. No. 1631, 77th Cong., 2d Sess., at 87-88.
[ Footnote 8 ] For cases resulting in the nondeductibility of legal expenses, see e. g., Croker v. Burnet, 61 App. D.C. 342, 62 F.2d 991 (C. A. D.C. Cir., en banc) (defending suit to have taxpayer's husband declared incompetent and to set aside his transfer of property to taxpayer); Dickey v. Commissioner, 14 B. T. A. 1295 (defense against suit for malicious prosecution); Joyce v. Commissioner, 3 B. T. A. 393 (defense of validity of postnuptial agreement); Oransky v. Commissioner, 1 B. T. A. 1239 (defense and settlement of action for death due to negligence of taxpayer's minor son using taxpayer's automobile). See Kornhauser v. United States, 276 U.S. 145 , for an example of legal expenses held deductible as business expenditures rather than personal ones.
[ Footnote 9 ] The record shows that the corporation was organized in 1910 by petitioner's elder brothers and was originally engaged in the cattle, ranching and meat packing business. Later it engaged in extensive steamship and stevedoring operations through a subsidiary. While [343 U.S. 118, 124] it was a large enterprise with numerous stockholders besides petitioner, his wife and children, the stock never had been on the open market. It was held by sons, nephews and sons-in-law of the Lykes brothers. It was the practice of the brothers to foster in this way a continuity of family ownership and management. At the time of petitioner's gift of 1,000 shares of common stock, there were outstanding about 25,000 shares of that class of stock.
[ Footnote 10 ] The issue here is distinguishable from that in Bingham's Trust v. Commissioner, supra. In that case the legal expenses were incurred partly in contesting an income tax deficiency assessed against the taxpaying trust and partly in winding up the trust after its expiration. All of those expenses were integral parts of the management or conservation of the trust property for the production of income and, as such, deductible under 23 (a) (2).
[ Footnote 11 ] Treas. Reg. 111, 29.23 (a)-15 (b).
Lykes made a gift of corporate stock to his children. It was a legitimate transaction, duly reported for gift-tax purposes and a tax of over $13,000 paid thereon. By overvaluing the stock which had been given, the Commissioner asserted a gift-tax deficiency of $145,276.50, of which about $130,000 was found by the Tax Court to be unjustified. But, to protect himself against the Government's unjustified claim, Lykes spent $7,263.83 for legal services.
I am unable to understand why this payment was not deductible as being an expense incurred "for the management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for the production of income." Had the taxpayer yielded to [343 U.S. 118, 128] the Government's unjustified demand, it would have depleted his capital by about $130,000 and thenceforward he could not have enjoyed income from it. Of course, it is not the amount but the principle that is significant. Indeed, the burden of legal expense is likely to be in inverse proportion to the amount of the deficiency asserted. Here the expense was only about 5% of the saving. In small cases of small taxpayers the percentage will be far greater and in many may exceed 100%. Certainly contest against unwarranted exaction, regardless of its amount or outcome, is for the conservation of property and its reasonable cost is deductible.
A majority of my brethren seem to think they can escape this conclusion by going further back in the chain of causation. They say the cause of this legal expense was the gift. Of course one can reason, as my brethren do, that if there had been no gifts there would have been no tax, if there had been no tax there would have been no deficiency, if there were no deficiency there would have been no contest, if there were no contest there would have been no expense. And so the gifts caused the expense. The fallacy of such logic is that it would be just as possible to employ it to prove that the lawyer's fees were caused by having children. If there had been no children there would have been no gift, and if no gift no tax, and if no tax no deficiency, and if no deficiency no contest, and if no contest no expense. Hence, the lawyer's fee was not due to the contest at all but was a part of the cost of having babies. If this reasoning were presented by a taxpayer to avoid a tax, what would we say of it? So treacherous is this kind of reasoning that in most fields the law rests its conclusion only on proximate cause and declines to follow the winding trail of remote and multiple causations. | 2019-04-20T13:29:07Z | https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/343/118.html |
I really took a break from SIFF this week. Saw so many films over Memorial Day weekend (10!) that it made me less eager to see anything during the week. I worked a quiet will call shift at Pacific Place on Wednesday, had pre-existing plans on Tuesday, and decided to stay at home on Thursday instead of watching The Artist and the Model as previously planned. I’ve been leaning towards trying the passholder thing, but weeks like this one make me wonder if I could sustain the film watching enough to make the pass worthwhile. Film count: 16. Volunteer vouchers: 18.
This one was a lot of fun. There were four short stories from a rejected manuscript that found their way into the lives of the people who rejected it. At the Q&A, someone asked the director if there was any other connection between the stories. He said no and that the manuscript thing was a “lame” way to do it. Russian humor! I liked the first and last one the best because they were the funniest. However, I suspect I’d get more out of the 2nd and 3rd if I had the chance to watch them again. All of them commented on the state of modern Russia in clever ways. In the first story, a couple meets with a wedding planner who takes it a step further and helps them plan out their lives. In the last one, a man meets an attractive younger woman, only to be slowly repulsed by her lack of knowledge of Russian history or anything else. The director claimed that he wasn’t intending for anything in the film to be funny (really??) but that people laughed so they called it a comedy. Someone in the audience insisted that his work had to have been influenced by some Russian writer whose name escapes me, and the director answered that he definitely would have been influenced… if he had read any. The Russian films have been meshing well with me at SIFF. Must be sure to see more next year.
So many Middle East social issues films… I chose this one and decided not to see several others (Zaytoun, Inch’Allah, When I Saw You) because it seemed like this would give the most authentic experience. It’s a good companion film to last year’s 5 Broken Cameras. While watching this compilation of years of home videos, I didn’t find myself as engaged as I would have liked. Obviously, real life – especially in a refugee camp – isn’t as dramatic as a narrative film. But this place lingered in my thoughts long after the film was over. I remember the older Palestinians, patiently waiting in the camps until they are allowed to return home, and the angry younger generation, young people with no education, no work prospects, and no ability to leave. “I bet most of the guys who blew themselves up felt the same way I do. They just used Palestine as an excuse to end their lives,” one of the men says. That’s an angle I hadn’t seen before, and it’s heartbreaking.
This story is about child who is considered to be bad luck because he was born a twin. After his family is forced to leave their home village, he decides to enter a rocket competition to win money for a new home. It’s hard to tell from the description, but this is no sentimental cliched Hollywood style flick. The characters are fantastic – the kids are great actors, and the are two quirky older characters that almost steal the show. Lots of laughs, but there’s genuine suspense as the family faces dangers in post-war Laos. Some members of the audience were so emotionally invested that they blurted out, “Oh no!” during one of the more tense moments. One of my favorites of the festival so far. It deserved a bigger theater than the (sold out) Uptown 3.
I saw this one right after The Rocket, also in the sold out Uptown 3 theater. I wish the order had been reversed so I could end on a high note. I expected this film to be more serious, with some sort of hard-hitting message. Instead, it was really slow-paced with a few random screwball laughs here and there, nothing more. Sure, there are some messages that could be read from a few of the scenes, but they were more like hints than messages. Finally, the film isn’t really focused on the 111 girls. Yeah, maybe that’s one of the messages, but I don’t care. That’s not the film I wanted to see.
If not for the whole “I should see the entire trilogy” thing, I would have skipped this one. There wasn’t a whole lot of redemption in this overlong drama between a fanatical Catholic and her Muslim paraplegic husband. It was unpleasant to watch her practice her extreme religion and mistreat her husband. The scenes where she was trying to evangelize at other people’s apartments were more interesting, but this was mainly because of the other people.
I was worried about watching two Paradise films back to back, but fortunately, this one was shorter and lighter in nature. A friend pointed out that it was the only film of the trilogy where the main character’s focus wasn’t allowed to take over herself and everyone around her. I liked the way the film explored the relationship between teenager Melanie and the older doctor, and interactions between the teenagers felt very authentic. I ultimately ended up liking Love the most out of the trilogy (which was not what I expected!), and what kept me from liking Hope more was the lack of a strong message.
After watching back-to-back Paradise films, I immediately ran to the Uptown and saw this one. It was definitely overkill. I was tired and had trouble staying awake during parts. Originally, I was really excited about this film because one of the featured bloggers was Yoani Sanchez, who wrote Havana Real, one of the books I read during the Around the World challenge last year. I do think that honest bloggers in repressive regimes are an important subject, but this documentary didn’t give a lot of good insight. The Iranian blogger is living in exile out of her country. The Chinese blogger is under house arrest. Okay, that’s not groundbreaking news. To be fair, there was more focus on Sanchez and some of the events that took place in Cuba, but I had already read about them in greater detail in the book, so it wasn’t new to me. The film itself was fine, and the information may be good enough for someone totally new to the subject, but it was far less than what I was hoping for. A combination of reading Havana Real and watching the Ai Wei Wei documentary would be much more interesting and informative than this.
I feel bad even rating this one. I went in and watched because it was during my volunteer shift, but I wasn’t really interested to begin with. As a documentary, I think it really could have benefited from a narrator explaining background on some things a little more or at least prompting the subjects by asking questions. Without the background, I didn’t know enough to care about what was going on. People are poor in the village. They go elsewhere to dig sand up from the bottom of the river to sell so they can have some money. But more and more people start to do this, and they’re worried about running out of sand. The end. On the plus side, the short film they screened before it was pretty good.
This documentary wasn’t on my radar at all because, believe it or not, I had never heard of Anita Hill. I was only 8 years old when the judicial hearings were going on, and I guess I never paid attention. I’m really glad I got to see this one on my volunteer shift because it’s such an important event in history. The director was there for Q&A (I think she came in during the film and stood in one of the aisles for awhile, probably blocking views). The audience was asked how many people watched the judicial hearings back in 1991, and most of the audience raised their hands. That’s unfortunate – I think younger people who aren’t familiar with this are the ones who might get the most out of the film. Hopefully once this film gets a wider release, it will reach more young people. It’s great to see how far things have come regarding things like sexual harassment in the workplace and gender equality, but the victim blaming we saw in the film is still very much alive and well today.
Imagine is about a blind man with controversial techniques of walking without a cane who goes to teach children at a hospital. The story itself is nothing terribly extraordinary, but it’s the way the director chose to shoot the film that makes it great. Visually, it’s beautiful, with lots of light and nice scenery. But the uniqueness is how it gets us to understand “how it is to be blind.” This seems counterintuitive for a film, since we’re obviously watching it. However, in this film, we often are not shown what we expect to see. Many shots are close up so we can see the character, but like the blind, we can’t see his surroundings. When he talks about how he can sense a large ship in a harbor close by, I instinctually expect the camera to show whether he’s lying or not, but instead, I’m kept blind. I loved the tension this created and the new way of perceiving the world. | 2019-04-26T14:54:23Z | http://tiredcoder.blogspot.com/2013/06/ |
Estee Lauder Companies (EL) reported 2nd Quarter December 2018 earnings of $1.74 per share on revenue of $4.0 billion. The consensus earnings estimate was $1.54 per share on revenue of $3.9 billion. The Earnings Whisper number was $1.59 per share. Revenue grew 7.0% on a year-over-year basis.
The company said it expects third quarter earnings of $1.26 to $1.28 per share on revenue of $3.54 billion to $3.57 billion. The current consensus earnings estimate is $1.24 per share on revenue of $3.47 billion for the quarter ending March 31, 2019. The company also said it now expects fiscal 2019 earnings of $4.92 to $5.00 per share on revenue of $14.36 billion to $14.50 billion. The company's previous guidance was earnings of $4.73 to $4.82 per share and continues to expect revenue of $14.23 billion to $14.37 billion and the current consensus earnings estimate is $4.85 per share on revenue of $14.34 billion for the year ending June 30, 2019.
Estee Lauder Cos Inc is engaged in manufacturing & marketing skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE: EL) today reported outstanding financial results for its second quarter ended December 31, 2018. The Company’s quarterly net sales exceeded $4 billion for the first time. Net sales of $4.01 billion increased 7% from $3.74 billion in the prior-year quarter. The Company posted net sales growth in nearly all product categories, geographic regions and channels. Excluding the impact of currency translation and the adoption of the new revenue recognition accounting standard (“ASC 606”), net sales increased 11%.
Net earnings rose to $573 million compared with $123 million last year. Diluted net earnings per common share increased to $1.55 compared with $.33 reported in the prior year. Before the $.11 impact of ASC 606, adjusted diluted earnings per common share, which excludes items detailed on page 2, were $1.86, up 22%, or 25% in constant currency.
Fabrizio Freda, President and Chief Executive Officer, said, “We delivered an excellent performance in our fiscal second quarter. Importantly, this was our eighth consecutive quarter of impressive net sales growth that met or exceeded our long-term goal, all while navigating many global macro issues. Our sustained progress is the result of our multiple engines of growth strategy, and demonstrates our agility in moving resources to the best global opportunities. Our earnings per share in the second quarter grew more than twice the rate of net sales in constant currency, delivering an impressive first-half performance. With confidence in our continued ability to execute effectively and grow share in prestige beauty, while simultaneously making strategic investments in our business, we are raising our net sales and EPS guidance for the year.
Adjusted diluted earnings per common share excludes restructuring and other charges, goodwill and other intangible asset impairments, changes in contingent consideration and the finalization of provisional charges for the impact of the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) as detailed in the following table.
Net sales and operating income in the Company’s product categories and regions outside of the United States were unfavorably impacted by a stronger U.S. dollar in relation to most currencies. Total reported operating income was $771 million, a 9% increase from $710 million in the prior year. Operating income increased 18% excluding (1) the unfavorable impact of currency translation of $24 million, (2) the adoption of ASC 606 that reduced operating income by $54 million, (3) restructuring and other charges of $35 million compared to $69 million in the prior-year period, and (4) goodwill and other intangible asset impairments related to Smashbox of $38 million. The improvement in operating income largely reflected higher net sales and disciplined expense management throughout the business.
The change in total net sales was unfavorably impacted by the adoption of ASC 606, as previously mentioned. Adjusting for the impact of ASC 606, total net sales in constant currency increased 11% and reported operating income increased 16%.
The adoption of ASC 606 reduced reported net sales growth by $48 million, or 3%, and reduced operating income growth by $33 million, or 7%.
Skin care net sales grew across most geographies, channels and brands, particularly Estée Lauder, La Mer and Origins. Clinique’s skin care net sales also grew globally in constant currency.
The Estée Lauder brand delivered net sales growth in every region and most channels. The double-digit increase reflected continued strength in its existing product franchises, supported by successful innovation such as Advanced Night Repair Eye Supercharged Complex.
Double-digit growth at La Mer was also broad-based, with net sales increasing across regions and channels, driven by higher net sales of existing products. Additionally, incremental net sales from new product launches, including The Treatment Lotion Hydrating Mask and The Luminous Lifting Cushion Foundation also contributed to La Mer’s growth.
Operating income increased sharply, reflecting higher net sales, primarily at Estée Lauder and La Mer.
The adoption of ASC 606 reduced reported net sales growth by $14 million, or 1%, and reduced operating income growth by $18 million, or 8%.
Growth in makeup was primarily driven by strong increases from Estée Lauder, M•A•C, Tom Ford Beauty and BECCA. These increases were partially offset by lower net sales from Clinique and Smashbox.
Estée Lauder generated solid double-digit growth, driven by strength from its Double Wear line of products.
M•A•C’s strong performance was led by double-digit growth across Asia/Pacific, the Middle East, including Turkey, and Italy.
Net sales from Tom Ford Beauty increased double-digits, primarily driven by its lip color and eye shadow franchises.
BECCA’s growth was largely driven by the BFF Collection and the Ultimate Lipstick Love new product launches.
Makeup operating income declined, reflecting planned investments at Too Faced to support new and existing products, as well as international expansion. Lower makeup net sales from Clinique and Smashbox also contributed to the decline, as did $38 million of goodwill and other intangible asset impairments related to Smashbox. This decline was partially offset by increases at Estée Lauder, Tom Ford Beauty and M•A•C, primarily due to higher net sales.
The adoption of ASC 606 reduced reported net sales growth by $9 million, or 2%, and reduced operating income by $5 million, or 5%.
The net sales decrease reflected a change in promotional strategy for holiday by Estée Lauder and lower net sales of certain designer fragrances. The decreases were mostly offset by growth from our luxury and artisanal fragrances, including Jo Malone London, Le Labo, Tom Ford Beauty and By Kilian.
Jo Malone London’s net sales increase primarily reflected the launch of holiday collections and expanded targeted consumer reach.
Increased net sales from Le Labo, Tom Ford Beauty and By Kilian reflected expanded targeted consumer reach and new product launches.
Fragrance operating income declined in line with net sales.
Hair care net sales increased, primarily reflecting higher net sales from Aveda, due to continued growth from recent launches and online.
Hair care operating income declined, as higher net sales from Aveda were offset by strategic advertising investments to support product launches, digital outreach and the brand’s innovative social media and digital campaign activity.
The adoption of ASC 606 reduced reported net sales growth by $39 million, or 3%, and reduced operating income by $21 million. The unfavorable impact of foreign currency translation reduced reported net sales by 1%.
Net sales in The Americas region declined 3%, excluding the impacts from the adoption of ASC 606 and currency translation.
This was the final full quarter of net sales to Bon Ton in the prior year.
Net sales grew double-digits in online and single digits in specialty-multi in North America.
Operating income in The Americas decreased, primarily reflecting lower sales, the impairment of goodwill and other intangible assets related to Smashbox and investments in technology.
The adoption of ASC 606 decreased reported net sales growth by $4 million, or less than 1%, and decreased operating income growth by $7 million, or 2%. The unfavorable impact of foreign currency translation reduced reported net sales growth by 3%.
The Company generated strong net sales growth in the region, both on a reported basis and in constant currency, primarily due to strong double-digit net sales growth in travel retail, and the Middle East, including Turkey. Net sales in Russia also grew double-digits, in constant currency. This growth was partially offset by slightly lower net sales in the United Kingdom.
The emerging markets in the region were negatively impacted by foreign currency translation. Excluding this impact, the net sales in most of the countries reflected strong growth and two-thirds of them delivered double-digit increases. The Middle East growth was primarily driven by M•A•C.
In travel retail, strong double-digit net sales growth was broad-based across brands, led by Estée Lauder, La Mer, M•A•C, Tom Ford and Origins. Growth was also realized across many geographies and reflected increases in international passenger traffic, improved conversion, successful innovation and expanded targeted consumer reach.
Net sales performance in the United Kingdom reflected reduced consumer confidence ahead of Brexit, House of Fraser door closures and lower traffic across brick-and-mortar stores that was mostly offset by higher online net sales.
Operating income increased, primarily due to strong double-digit growth in travel retail and, to a lesser extent, many countries throughout the region, partially offset by lower results in the United Kingdom.
The adoption of ASC 606 reduced reported net sales growth by $24 million, or 3%, and reduced operating income growth by $26 million, or 12%. The unfavorable impact of foreign currency translation reduced reported net sales by 3%.
The Company delivered another quarter of strong double-digit net sales increases in Asia/Pacific, both on a reported basis and in constant currency. The growth was broad-based, with nearly half of the markets in the region growing double digits.
China, Hong Kong and Japan continued to deliver strong growth, and Korea net sales accelerated. Prestige beauty in China accelerated and the Company continued to build share.
The Company generated double-digit net sales growth in virtually every major product category and channel.
Operating income increased, primarily due to higher net sales.
For the six months ended December 31, 2018, the Company reported net sales of $7.53 billion, a 7% increase compared with $7.02 billion in the prior-year period.
Net earnings were $1.07 billion, and diluted earnings per share was $2.88. In the prior-year six months, the Company reported net earnings of $550 million and diluted earnings per share of $1.46.
During the six-months ended December 31, 2018, the Company recorded restructuring and other charges, goodwill and other intangible asset impairments and changes in contingent consideration combined of $111 million ($94 million after tax), equal to $.25 per diluted share. The prior-year period results include restructuring and other charges and changes in contingent consideration combined of $110 million ($83 million after tax), equal to $.22 per share, as detailed in the table on page 15.
Adjusting for restructuring and other charges and adjustments, diluted net earnings per common share for the six months ended December 31, 2018 was $3.15, and in constant currency rose 18%. For the six months ended December 31, 2018, the negative impact of foreign currency translation on diluted net earnings per common share was $.07.
The adoption of ASC 606 reduced reported net sales growth by $134 million, or 2%, decreased operating income growth by $85 million, or 7%, and decreased diluted earnings per share by $.18 or 7%.
Adjusting for restructuring and other charges and adjustments, and excluding the impact of currency translation and the adoption of ASC 606, net sales increased 11% and diluted earnings per share rose 25%.
For the six months ended December 31, 2018, net cash flows provided by operating activities were $1.27 billion, compared with $1.44 billion in the prior year.
The decline primarily reflected higher international inventory levels to support our growth and timing of payables and receivables that was mostly offset by an increase in earnings before taxes.
The Company continues to see strong consumer demand for its high-quality products and expects to continue to deliver growth at the high end of its long-term net sales and earnings per share growth targets. We continue to expect global prestige beauty to grow 5% to 6% during the fiscal year. The Company expects to grow ahead of the industry. However, the Company is mindful of risks related to social and political issues, including the government shutdown in the United States, geopolitical tensions, regulatory matters, global security issues, currency volatility and economic challenges that could affect consumer spending in certain countries and travel corridors.
Future moderation of net sales growth in China and Travel Retail, which we have not experienced to date, to reflect current geopolitical and economic risks.
Impact of the planned tariff increase in China in March.
Announced closings of certain department store locations in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Some costs associated with the upcoming anticipated Brexit in the United Kingdom.
Reported net sales are forecasted to increase between 5% and 6% versus the prior-year period, including a 5% impact from currency translation and a 2% benefit from the adoption of ASC 606. Excluding these items, net sales are expected to grow between 8% and 9%.
Reported diluted net earnings per common share are projected to be between $1.17 and $1.20. Excluding restructuring and other charges and adjustments, diluted net earnings per common share are projected to be between $1.26 and $1.28.
The adoption of ASC 606 is expected to increase diluted net earnings per common share by approximately $.18, reflecting the cumulative impact of revenue deferrals in the first half of the fiscal year that we expect to be recognized in net sales in the second half of the fiscal year.
Currency exchange rates are volatile and uncertain. Using the December 31, 2018 spot rate, the negative currency impact equates to about $.09 of diluted earnings per common share.
On a constant currency basis, before restructuring and other charges and adjustments, as well as the impact from the adoption of ASC 606, diluted earnings per common share are expected to increase between 1% and 2%, which includes investments behind strong innovation programs for some of our largest brands and to build capabilities for long-term growth.
The Company expects to take charges associated with Leading Beauty Forward of approximately $40 million to $45 million, equal to $.08 to $.09 per diluted common share.
Reported net sales are forecasted to increase between 5% and 6% versus the prior-year period, which includes a 3% impact from currency translation and no impact from the adoption of ASC 606. Excluding these items, net sales are forecasted to grow between 8% and 9%, above the Company’s long-term growth goal of 6% to 8%.
Reported diluted net earnings per common share are projected to be between $4.55 and $4.67. Excluding restructuring and other charges and adjustments, diluted net earnings per common share are projected to be between $4.92 and $5.00.
The adoption of ASC 606 is expected to reduce diluted net earnings per common share by approximately $.01.
Currency exchange rates are volatile and uncertain. Using the December 31, 2018 spot rate for the remaining quarters of fiscal 2019, the negative currency impact equates to about $.22 of diluted earnings per common share.
On a constant currency basis, before restructuring and other charges and adjustments, as well as the impact of ASC 606, diluted earnings per common share are expected to increase between 14% and 16%. This is well ahead of the Company’s long-term goal of double-digit earnings per common share growth in constant currency. This growth is well ahead of sales growth even while investing during the second half of the year behind strong product innovation programs for some of our largest brands and to build capabilities for long-term growth.
The Company expects to take charges associated with previously approved restructuring and other activities relating to Leading Beauty Forward in fiscal 2019 of approximately $155 million to $170 million, equal to $.33 to $.37 per diluted common share.
For the full fiscal year, the Company expects the global effective tax rate to be approximately 22%, before charges associated with the restructuring and other charges and adjustments.
Conference Call The Estée Lauder Companies will host a conference call at 9:30 a.m. (ET) today, February 5, 2019 to discuss its results. The dial-in number for the call is 888-294-4716 in the U.S. or 706-902-0101 internationally (conference ID number: 8459666). The call will also be webcast live at http://www.elcompanies.com/investors/events-and-presentations.
Statements in this press release, in particular those in “Outlook for Fiscal 2019 Third Quarter and Full Year,” as well as remarks by the CEO and other members of management, may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements may address our expectations regarding sales, earnings or other future financial performance and liquidity, product introductions, entry into new geographic regions, information technology initiatives, new methods of sale, our long-term strategy, restructuring and other charges and resulting cost savings, and future operations or operating results. These statements may contain words like “expect,” “will,” “will likely result,” “would,” “believe,” “estimate,” “planned,” “plans,” “intends,” “may,” “should,” “could,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “project,” “projected,” “forecast,” and “forecasted” or similar expressions.
(18) additional factors as described in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018.
The Company assumes no responsibility to update forward-looking statements made herein or otherwise.
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. The Company’s products are sold in over 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Prescriptives, Lab Series, Origins, Tommy Hilfiger, M•A•C, Kiton, La Mer, Bobbi Brown, Donna Karan New York, DKNY, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Michael Kors, Darphin, Tom Ford, Smashbox, Ermenegildo Zegna, AERIN, Tory Burch, RODIN olio lusso, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, By Kilian, BECCA and Too Faced.
(A) In May 2016, the Company announced a multi-year initiative (Leading Beauty Forward) to build on its strengths and better leverage its cost structure to free resources for investment to continue its growth momentum. Leading Beauty Forward is designed to enhance the Company’s go-to-market capabilities, reinforce its leadership in global prestige beauty and continue creating sustainable value. During fiscal 2019, the Company continued to approve specific initiatives under Leading Beauty Forward. The Company plans to approve additional initiatives through fiscal 2019 and expects to complete those initiatives through fiscal 2021. Inclusive of approvals from inception through December 31, 2018, we estimate that Leading Beauty Forward may result in related restructuring and other charges totaling between $900 million and $950 million, before taxes. Once fully implemented, Leading Beauty Forward is expected to yield annual net benefits of between $350 million and $450 million, before taxes. These savings can be used to improve margin, mitigate risk and invest in future growth initiatives.
(B) The Company recorded $2 million of expense and $9 million of income within selling, general and administrative expenses for the three and six months ended December 31, 2018, respectively to reflect changes in the fair value of its contingent consideration related to certain of its fiscal 2015 and 2016 acquisitions. During the three and six months ended December 31, 2017, the Company recorded charges of $2 million and $3 million, respectively, of such expense.
(C) In December 2018, the Company recorded goodwill and other intangible asset impairments of $38 million ($34 million after tax), or $.09 per diluted share, related to its Smashbox reporting unit. Smashbox made revisions to its internal forecasts reflecting a slowdown of its makeup business driven by increased competitive activity and lower than expected growth in key retail channels for the brand.
(D) During the three months and six months ended December 31, 2018, the Company recorded a net charge of $6 million and $5 million, respectively, equal to $.02 per common share to reflect the finalization of the provisional amounts for the impact of the TCJA. For the three and six months ended December 31, 2017, the Company recorded provisional charges for the impact of the TCJA totaling $394 million, equal to $1.05 per common share.
The change in total net sales was unfavorably impacted by the adoption of ASC 606, as previously mentioned. Adjusting for the impact of ASC 606, total net sales in constant currency increased 11% and reported operating income increased 21%.
This earnings release includes some non-GAAP financial measures relating to charges associated with restructuring and other activities, goodwill and other intangible asset impairments, the changes in the fair value of contingent consideration, the Transition Tax, the remeasurement of U.S. net deferred tax assets as of the TCJA enactment date and the establishment of a net deferred tax liability related to foreign withholding taxes on certain foreign earnings resulting from the TCJA. The following is a reconciliation between the non-GAAP financial measures and the most directly comparable GAAP measures for certain consolidated statements of earnings accounts before and after these items. The Company uses certain non-GAAP financial measures, among other financial measures, to evaluate its operating performance, which represent the manner in which the Company conducts and views its business. Management believes that excluding certain items that are not comparable from period to period, or do not reflect the Company’s underlying ongoing business, provides transparency for such items and helps investors and others compare and analyze operating performance from period to period. In the future, the Company expects to incur charges or adjustments similar in nature to those presented below; however, the impact to the Company’s results in a given period may be highly variable and difficult to predict. Our non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by, or determined in a manner consistent with, other companies. While the Company considers the non-GAAP measures useful in analyzing its results, they are not intended to replace, or act as a substitute for, any presentation included in the consolidated financial statements prepared in conformity with GAAP.
The Company operates on a global basis, with the majority of its net sales generated outside the United States. Accordingly, fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates can affect the Company’s results of operations. Therefore, the Company presents certain net sales, operating results and diluted earnings per share information excluding the effect of foreign currency rate fluctuations to provide a framework for assessing the performance of its underlying business outside the United States. Constant currency information compares results between periods as if exchange rates had remained constant period-over-period. The Company calculates constant currency information by translating current-period results using prior-year period weighted average foreign currency exchange rates. Beginning in fiscal 2019, the Company adopted a new accounting standard related to hedging that resulted in gains/losses on its foreign currency cash flow hedging activities to now be reflected in Net Sales, where in prior periods they were reflected in Cost of Sales and Selling, general and administrative expenses. To better assess its performance in a constant currency environment, beginning in fiscal 2019 the Company is excluding the impact of these hedging activities in its constant currency calculations.
The following table details the impacts of ASC 606 on the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2018.
Source: The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. | 2019-04-24T06:28:38Z | https://www.earningswhispers.com/epsdetails/el |
Expelled from school at a young age by the Italian Fascist regime, Lisetta Carmi has concentrated her gaze on social issues for decades. A musical performer turned photographer, Carmi makes work that, though dismantling in theory, is sensitive in form: For the better part of the 60s and early 70s, Carmi chronicled the overlooked and the ostracized at a time of enormous social and political repression. She began first with the dockworkers of her hometown of Genoa, pretending to be one of their wives in order to document the scenes around them. Soon after, she moved to the Via del Campo to begin her most compelling series to date: arrestingly intimate portraits of city’s transvestites, a group considered outsiders by Italian society. Spanning seven years, the images—later published in her book “I travestiti”—view each subject in cinematic moments of suspended vulnerability.
Overlooked at the time, Carmi’s images are featured at the Fondazione Prada Milan in a new show curated by the artist Francesco Vezzoli. Titled “TV 70,” the exhibition explores Italian public television as a driving force for social and political change in three separate sections. The last, “Intrattenimento e Televisione” (“Entertainment and Television”), focuses on the female body as an object of both gaze and desire. There, Carmi’s images are shown beside the likes of other female artists. In advance of the opening, Vezzoli spoke with Roxana Marcoci, MoMA’s senior curator of photography, about Carmi’s inviting eye and clandestine influence.
Joshua Glass—What are some important themes that run throughout Lisetta Carmi’s body of work?
Roxana Marcoci—The idea of infiltration is critical. The images of “I travestiti” speak of a social milieu: the Jewish ghettos of Genoa, which is where the transvestites lived, worked, performed. The fact that she befriended them before taking their portraits is so interesting. There is a quote from Carmi that stayed with me. She said, “Thanks to them, I learned to accept myself. When I was a child I looked at my brothers, Eugenio and Marcelo, and I wanted to be a boy. I knew I didn’t want to get married, and I rejected the roles society assigned to women. The transvestites made me ponder over the right that we all have to determine our own identity. It took me a while, but I got to embrace the joy of being a woman.” It’s quite compelling that it was through these subjects that she began to understand herself.
The idea of infiltration is critical. The images of “I travestiti” speak of a social milieu: the Jewish ghettos of Genoa, which is where the transvestites lived, worked, performed.
Roxana—I’d say that Carmi was one of the first photographers to represent this new postwar type. The transvestite is a figure struggling to tweak authority to escape a conformist society. I think that this encounter freed her from the conformity of marriage, as she herself said, and of the dynamics of sexual machismo, which was so strong at the time. She was contesting the social hierarchies of patriarchy and cultural taboos, while working with Cesare Musatti, a well-known psychoanalyst. A few years ago, I did an exhibition of the work of Grete Stern, a German artist trained at the Bauhaus, who immigrated to Argentina. Interestingly, she did a whole series of photomontages for a feminist magazine called “Idilio,” and she too was working with a psychoanalyst to interpret women’s dreams. Like Stern, Carmi can be seen as a cross-figure in the history of photography and feminist psychoanalysis.
Francesco—“Feminist psychoanalysis,” I like that. Not just feminism.
Roxana—Yes, because her work gave birth to a new gender political discourse in Italy.
Francesco—I would add between brackets that Italy is a very Catholic country, which we must not forget.
Roxana—Very Catholic. And when you look at her pictures, there is a kind of mediation between the scenes represented and the symbology within the representation.
Francesco—It’s like the famous Nan Goldin of the Caravaggio.
Roxana—There is another picture, which is quite wonderful because of the almost maternal relationship between the transvestite and the doll she is holding, but also the theatricality of her pose.
Francesco—The story of the book that she published with these photos is amazing. It came out in 1972, and nobody bought it.
The story of the book that she published with these photos is amazing. It came out in 1972, and nobody bought it.
Roxana—But also the book was—not precisely censored— but the booksellers didn’t want to promote it. It was kept under the rug?
Francesco—Yes. One day, this radical intellectual, Barbara Alberti, decided to buy all the books. All of them! She filled her house with all the copies; they became the table in front of the couch. Soon, you could only find the book for $3,000, $4,000 because of its rarity. She decided that—because this book had been so misunderstood— it should only be given out to intelligent people as a gift. Which I love. It’s part of the history. This woman, bourgeois, Jewish, super smart, belonging to a courageous family, courageous herself, makes a book. The book doesn’t sell. Another smart woman goes out, buys all the books, and decides to become—how can I say it—the surreal distributor. The abstract distributor of an intellectual object that is too radical to be bought.
Roxana—It speaks a lot about the kindred relationship between production and reception. In this case, it’s a society of women who make this happen.
Joshua—Isn’t it interesting, because the content is so humanizing, that it becomes such an elitist object. Do you think that plays a role in determining her relevance today?
Roxana—This exhibition will certainly bring her visibility.
Francesco—I’d like to think that above the intellectual power of the Fondazione Prada there can only be the power of communication. I am sure that this room with photographs will draw an enormous amount of attention. Not to forget that they are housed in the foundation of a woman who has redefined herself the idea of femininity through her own work. I am very happy that, after the woman who bought the books, I am able to show her work to as many people as possible.
Roxana—Given the theme of this exhibition, these pictures are also extremely cinematic. It seems that Carmi approached her subjects through a filmmaker’s lens, and in some cases, delivered an entire narrative into a single frame. Which brings me to the idea of what was happening at the time with Neorealist filmmaking, with, obviously, Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, and Roberto Rossellini. Despite her quietness, Carmi reworked some Neorealistic features of [Federico] Fellini, whose subjects were very flamboyant and who also faced censorship for some of his films such as “La Dolce Vita.” Like [Carmi for] her pictures, he was denounced as immoral because it was the first film to show gay subjects and transvestites. Or “Satyricon,” which was considered “a pre-Christian film in a post-Christian world.” [Pier Paolo] Pasolini’s political activism is important too in this context.
Francesco—Pasolini’s Catholic identity made him his own censor. If he were alive today, I would go to him right now and ask him about it, but I like this fil rouge that you’re drawing. In Fellini there is always a slightly cynical eye that I perceive less of in Lisetta. In her work, I see a more embracing gaze.
Roxana—I agree. Fellini constructs, while she empathizes with her subjects. There is a lot of intersubjectivity between Carmi and her subjects. And I think she made history, you know, because she is the first to document the LGBTQ community in Italy. That’s quite impressive, right?
Roxana—Carmi shot these pictures at the same time that Diane Arbus was making hers in New York, and the Swedish photographer Christer Strömholm was shooting his in the red-light district around Pigalle, in Paris. Carmi’s photographs are stylish, subterranean, and very humane. One senses an intimacy and vulnerability that also reminds me of Andy Warhol’s superstars at the Factory in New York in the late 1960s.
Francesco—Warhol, just like all those great figures, had his clan, the group of people that he assigned roles to not only in the movies but in real life, just like Fassbinder. Lisetta is a woman and has a different approach to the power scheme. She is more embracing over her girls. It’s less exploitative.
Joshua—Roxana shared this beautiful quote from Carmi about self-discovery through her work and, Francesco, you mentioned that you’ve been working on this whole exhibition for over a year now. I wanted to know if it has led to any sort of self-reflection or personal discoveries?
Roxana—You engage with the period of when you were born, right? It’s interesting that you start from your origins.
Francesco—Yes. Somebody at the press conference asked me, “Why 1970? You were born in 71.” And I said, “But my father and mother conceived me in 1970.” [Laughing.] What can I say? It was so much fun. For my own practice, I would have never guessed that curating an exhibition could be as much fun as making art.
Roxana—But you know why? It’s because in this you act like a director. Being a curator is just working with a larger crew, doing research, and organizing it in a way that is very artistic.
Francesco—Had I not done this, this conversation would not have happened. The only other dynamic would be the situation where I was explaining my work, which is the kind of thing that artists do all the time. Even when they are really pure, they are on some level trying to sell what they do. Here, I’m selling Lisetta Carmi.
Roxana—And it’s a dialogue that we both enjoyed.
Francesco—Grazie. Da vero. Da vero, da vero.
These images from Lisetta Carmi’s “I travestiti” can be seen in “TV 70: Francesco Vezzoli guarda la Rai” on exhibition at Fondazione Prada, Milan, May 9 through September 24, 2017, and was conceived by Francesco Vezzoli with the curatorial support of Cristiana Perrella.
All images by Lisetta Carmi. Courtesy of Galleria Martini & Ronchetti. | 2019-04-23T20:15:30Z | https://www.documentjournal.com/2017/05/artist-francesco-vezzoli-uncovers-the-radical-images-of-lisetta-carmi-with-momas-roxana-marcoci/ |
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Gold fever grips the Kootenay region of British Columbia and the gold rush is on - ‘Pay dirt’ is hit in July 1884 high up in the rugged Columbia Mountains and the Wisconsin & Lucky Strike claims are staked in a lost world amidst a sea of rugged mountain peaks covered in snow for much of the year. More than a century later, nearly all the gold and silver is still lying beneath the ground!
The story of the Wisconsin Mine and these properties starts back during the gold rush to the Kootenay region of British Columbia in the early 1800's … one of the most rugged areas in North America, described by David Thompson the famous map maker who explored the area in 1808 as "Stupendous and solitary wilds covered with eternal snow where mountain is connected to mountain to immense glaciers."
The old mine is situated high up in the Columbia Mountains, south of Kokanee Glacier and the rugged Valhalla Wilderness, with its deep river valleys, sub alpine lakes and jagged granite peaks.
The old time prospector had little knowledge of geology; his outstanding traits were the ability to travel and live under pioneer conditions, buoyant optimism, dogged perseverance and open-handed hospitality. He was an adventurer willing to undergo hardship for the opportunity to live an independent and roving life and for the chance of, just maybe, striking it rich. In the days of the true pioneers there were those who spent their entire lives prospecting - always hoping and believing they would strike another Klondike - that another Dawson City or Barkerville would be named after them.
Some of the equipment hauled up the mountain to the site by packhorse in the mid 1930's - a Gardner Denver compressor and a McCormack Deering diesel engine. The site had its own engineering workshop and forge, the building standing until the mid 1990's when it finally succumbed to the heavy winter snow loads and collapsed. But the length of time it stood is testament to the skills and abilities of the early miners who had very few tools.
In 1985 when SELCO blasted the final 4-miles of road through to the Wisconsin mine - they found an Aladdin's Cave awaiting them. All the original equipment, hauled in so painstakingly half a century earlier, was lying there undisturbed just as the miners had left it some 50-years earlier; in buildings that were still intact - since then some/all have collapsed. Much of this was donated to the Britannia Beach mining museum north of Vancouver, and is now on show there to the general public.
SELCO/British Petroleum paid for the transportation and other costs, though they never did any mining, only exploratory work.
While the Wisconsin Mine has never produced on a commercial basis, much work has been done over the years in exploratory tunneling and shafting at different levels.
The site has had a number of operators over the years and supported small ‘settlements’ (in the late 1800’s, early 1900's up until about 1940) with bunkhouse, cookhouse, dining room, store-house, blacksmith shop, maintenance shed, dynamite magazine sheds and assorted buildings for a crew of about 16-men. Some of these still remain standing while others have collapsed through the rigors of time and the weight of winter snow.
More recently (1985), an extensive diamond drilling, survey and exploratory program was undertaken by SELCO (the mining division of British Petroleum Resources, Canada) at a cost of half a million dollars. They completed the last four miles of road to the mine, did extensive geological work and, during drilling, maintained a crew of nearly 20 on site - work at times was around the clock (a helicopter load of beer was flown in every Friday).
They substantiated a deposit in the main zone of 400,000 tons of ore bearing an average of 4-grams of gold and 25-grams of silver per ton - many millions of dollars in value of both gold and silver.
This is the territory of the grizzly bear - with the nearest neighbor some 40-miles distant - a setting where time has little meaning - a place far removed from the madding crowd. British Columbia has the world’s only temperate inland rainforest, all of which is found in the Columbia Mountain ranges (Purcell, Selkirk, Cariboo, and Monashee).
Western hemlock, Western red cedar, Engelmann spruce, pine and subalpine fir dominate the landscape. A great variety of wildflowers bloom in the meadows of the sub-alpine including Indian paintbrush, glacier lily, fireweed and spring beauty.
Most of the Wisconsin site is forested with lodgepole pine, spruce and hemlock, apart from an area adjacent to the mine site due to a forest fire back in the late 1930’s. In fall the forest understory takes on the appearance of a glorious rich checkered carpet with every imaginable color - red, bronze, yellow - a site to behold. In late summer bears feast on the wild huckleberries.
The old mine buildings, squeezed against the mountainside, have stood for almost a century of watching the snows of winter gild the peaks of the surrounding mountains - the warm winds of spring lick them bare again. With the coming of each summer her hopes for survival diminished; her golden past became a little more forgotten, until she finally became a ghost.
It is not safe to enter the old mine workings today. The main adit, opens up after 100-yards or so into an enormous chamber carved out of the rock. High up here, in what resembles a bell-tower, still hangs the original pulley that lowered the miners down a shaft to workings on a lower level - this shaft is now flooded, as it often was. When looking at the tunnels and crosscuts today it's hard to imagine the vast amount of work then went into boring these - originally with just a hand-steel - and the conditions that the men had to work under.
In July of 2008, a German noble sold his 55,000 hectares of wilderness adjoining these particular properties called Darkwoods to the Nature Conservancy of Canada. This acquisition remains the single largest private land purchase for conservation in Canadian history.
Due to the Conservation project public access through the Darkwoods forest is limited. Public access is granted with a permit process from July through September. The forest service roads that lead through the Darkwoods project lead to the Wisconsin Mine site. From our due diligence access through the Darkwoods property needs to be investigated further. The roads leading to the mine site have not been maintained or are in the process of being deactivated.
In years past the current owner was able to navigate the road system to the properties however Helicopter access to the property was the preferred method. It was a short 15 minute ride from Nelson which makes it cost effective. The current owner flew in materials and constructed a cabin. Prior to the Purchase of the Darkwoods property by the Nature Conservancy of Canada access was not restricted and vandals on ATV’s vandalized the cabin he built.
Vandalism is no longer a concern as the permitted traffic into the Darkwoods property is foot traffic only which limits the range of the public.
My impression today is; here you are on a private 100 acre mountain top surrounded by nature looking over the largest conservancy project in Canadian history on one side and not too far away a Provincial Park on the other. The idea is very intriguing! Your very own private nature reserve!
Past mining activity on the site has opened up roughed in road ways on the property enabling one to get about on the property easy. At the 6,500 foot elevation near the top of the mountain the views are spectacular.
A small spring above the cabin site has been tested and reportedly safe for drinking in accordance with Canadian drinking water standards.
Location : 38 km south of Balfour on Kootenay Lake at Midge Creek is the original packhorse trail used by protectors over 100 years ago. The trail follows the creek and leads you up into the mountains and to the old mining site located on the property. Roughly 25 km inland.
Access : Please contact listing agent. The GPS co-ordinates for the property are: 116 degrees, 57 minutes, 50 seconds west by 49 degrees 24 minutes and 42 seconds north. | 2019-04-26T16:30:17Z | http://www.bclandpro.com/RecentSales.php/Details/202/100-acres-of-historic-past-kootenay-lake-area-bc |
Hemoglobin C disease is a hemoglobinopathy causing mild hemolytic anemia.
Although individuals with Hemoglobin C disease have the disorder all their lives the symptoms are usually not be life threatening. Life expectancy is normal.
Chronic mild hemolytic anemia may cause fatigue and decreased activity tolerance. Also individuals may experience exacerbations of muscle and joint pain similar to those of sickle cells anemia .
Aplastic crises may occur with acute physiologic assault: injury with significant blood loss, severe infection, and pregnancy .
Patients with Hemoglobin C disease generally present with mild hemolytic anemia. Symptoms of anemia may also be present: fatigue, exercise intolerance, and chronic muscle and joint pain . They are otherwise asymptomatic.
Aplastic crisis happens when there is the need for red blood cells increases dramatically due to parvovirus infection, injury with blood loss, surgery, or excessive physical activity . When red blood cell production cannot keep pace with need, severe anemia results. The episodes usually resolve spontaneously in several days or weeks. However in rare instances blood transfusions are required.
The retinopathy associated with Hemoglobin C disease if due to hypervacuolization of the retina resulting from the aggregation of the abnormal red blood cells and chronic anemia. Recent studies have shown the occurrence of retinopathy in individuals with Hemoglobin C trait as well .
Newborn screening for sickle hemoglobinopathies will identify various abnormalities in hemoglobin at birth. The purpose of newborn screening is to identify children with these genetic disorders early so treatment and monitoring can begin before morbidity or complications occur .
Newborn screening for sickle cell disease and hemoglobinopathies began in the United States in 1990. Today all 50 states screen for these anomalies .
Hemoglobin electrophoresis: To further evaluate the abnormality, hemoglobin electrophoresis is used. Individuals who are homozygous for hemoglobin C will have 100% hemoglobin C. Those who are heterozygous (have the trait) for hemoglobin C may have approximately 35% hemoglobin C .
Dental x-rays may show infarction or abnormal dental marrow. Abdominal ultrasonography may be used to diagnose gallstones and splenomegaly . Examination of the retina of the eye using fluorescein angiography should be used to detect retinal abnormalities associated with vascular changes .
Regular eye examination with fluorescein angiography for early detection of neovascularization.
Early detection and treatment of acute problems such as aplastic crisis.
Folic acid (1 mg/day orally).
Iron supplementation only when iron stores are low.
Cholecystectomy if gallstones are presence.
No restriction in physical activities.
Hemoglobin C is a structural variant of normal hemoglobin resulting from a substitution in amino acids at position 6 of the β-globin chain . It is a single gene autosomal recessive disorder associated with chronic mild anemia.
Like in sickle cell anemia, the abnormal hemoglobin C molecule gives protection against malaria . Hemoglobin C is linked to a 29% reduction in clinical malaria in individuals with the trait for the disease and a 93% reduction in those with the disease . Since Hemoglobin C has a more limited pathology compared to the severity of Sickle cell anemia, it suggests that the incidence of Hemoglobin C disease will surpass sickle cell disease over time .
Hemoglobin C disease occurs primarily in those of African descent. It is also seen occasionally in individuals of Hispanic and Sicilian ethnicity. Generally it occurs most often in areas with endemic malaria.
Hemoglobin C disease has an incidence of approximately 0.17% in African Americans. The incidence in North Africa may be as high as 13% .
Although Hemoglobin C disease is present at birth , many patients world-wide are not diagnosed until adulthood .
Males and females are affected equally .
Hemoglobin C is a variation in the structure of normal hemoglobin resulting from a substitution of lysine for glutamic acid at position 6 of the β-globin chain in red blood cells. The abnormal hemoglobin C forms crystals . The crystals affect the red blood cells by decreasing their ability to change shape in order to freely move through capillaries and blood vessels. This abnormality increases the viscosity of the blood .
Red blood cells with abnormal hemoglobin C have an accumulation of iron and lipids in their membranes which make these cells more friable and shorten their life span. The mechanisms for this are not known .
The spleen removes the abnormal red blood cells and crystals from the circulatory system. As a result individuals with Hemoglobin C disease may experience splenomegaly . In individuals with normal hemoglobin about 3% of the total hemoglobin is removed from the circulatory system every day . Hemoglobin C molecules are destroyed at a much higher rate resulting in mild anemia. With physiological stress from illness, injury, or exercise the rate of cell destruction increases even further . Physiological stress with exercise along with the increased blood viscosity result in exercise-induced hemoglobin desaturation .
Aplastic crisis may result. This, possibly life-threatening complication of Hemoglobin C disease is the sudden occurrence of severe anemia when the body cannot produce sufficient hemoglobin and red blood cells for the demand.
If both parents have the trait each child has a 25% chance of having the disease and a 50% chance of having the trait.
If one parent has the disease and the other parent has the trait all their children will at least have the trait and a 50% chance of having the disease.
If one parent has the disease and the other is free of the trait, each child will have the trait.
Prevention with regard to the management of Hemoglobin C disease should be aimed at the prevention of the complications of the disease.
The anemia of Hemoglobin C disease increases significantly with fever, infections (especially parvovirus B19), and pregnancy. The resulting aplastic anemia may necessitate blood transfusions . Prevention and/or early intervention with these conditions is paramount in the care of individuals with Hemoglobin C disease.
Hemoglobin C disease is an autosomal recessive disorder causing mild hemolytic anemia . It is a benign blood disorder involving the production of hemoglobin.
Today in the United States most individuals with Hemoglobin C disease are diagnosed in the newborn period through newborn screening programs . For those not screened, Hemoglobin C disease may not be diagnosed until adulthood.
Hemoglobin C is a common variant in the structure of human hemoglobin . The changes in the hemoglobin molecule cause the production of crystals within the red blood cells making them less flexible and decreasing their life span. Mild hemolytic anemia and increased blood viscosity result.
Symptoms of the disease include those associated with mild to moderate anemia: fatigue, exercise intolerance, susceptibility to infection, and retinal damage .
Although Hemoglobin C disease causes only mild clinical symptoms and complications, early diagnosis and genetic counseling are important .
What is Hemoglobin C disease?
Hemoglobin C disease is an inherited genetic blood disease which causes mild hemolytic (abnormal destruction of red blood cells) anemia. It is an autosomal recessive disorder meaning the defective gene must come from both parents. Individuals with only one abnormal gene are asymptomatic and are said to have the trait for the disease.
What are the symptoms ofHemoglobin C disease?
The primary symptom of Hemoglobin C disease is a chronic mild anemia. Musculoskeletal pain may often occur especially when oxygen need increases. Retinal abnormalities, gallstones and enlarged spleen may also occur.
What causes Hemoglobin C disease?
Hemoglobin C disease is an inherited genetic disease. It is caused by a defect in the gene that controls the production of hemoglobin, the oxygen carrying portion of the blood. Instead of normal hemoglobin, an abnormal Hemoglobin C is produced. Hemoglobin C forms crystals which cause them to be inflexible and short lied.
Who gets Hemoglobin C disease?
Hemoglobin c disease occurs most frequently in those of African or African American descent. It may also occur in individuals of Hispanic or Sicilian ethnicity.
How is Hemoglobin C disease diagnosed?
Hemoglobin C disease in the United States will most often be identified through newborn screening done for sickle cell anemia and other hemoglobin abnormalities.
Further testing for the presence of Hemoglobin C is required to confirm the diagnosis.
How is Hemoglobin C disease treated?
Hemoglobin C disease is treated primarily by monitoring for the anemia and for the occurrence of complications. Your health care provider may prescribe folic acid and iron supplements.
What are the complications of Hemoglobin C disease?
What can we do to prevent the complications of Hemoglobin C disease?
See their health care provider regularly to monitor their anemia.
Have regular eye examinations including fundoscopic exams.
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I find this article (“Lowland Maya” Equates to Book of Mormon “Wilderness”; “Highland Maya” Equates to Book of Mormon “Mountains” by Ted Dee Stoddard www.bmaf.org/articles/lowland_highland_maya__stoddard) about a supposed "Maya Problem" particularly interesting. This article is a response to Stoddard's paper.
For the record, regarding Book of Mormon geography I am a Mesoamericanist, and I am persuaded fully to “Mormon’s Map” as exhaustively studied internally in the Book of Mormon and charted verse-by-verse onto paper by BYU Professor John L. Sorensen. I have studied his Geography of Book of Mormon Events: A Source Book and studied all the many proposed BofM geography systems, and, “Mormon’s Map” derives directly from the BofM text. It is to me, our best preliminary BofM geography.
For myself, an archaeologist by vocation and profession, there never has been any “Maya Problem” with the Book of Mormon.
This does not mean I don't have many unanswered questions - unanswered in the factual sense of evidences answering the questions. It just means that, using my own intellect, seeing the geography, and knowing what I do know about history as academia currently believes the history to be - I see various potential, viable and very satisfactory answers. Any of these answers I see can – eventually - by evidences be validated. I don't worry about which may be eventually validated - or if some totally yet undiscovered answer is some day found. The geography is there, and, the Nephite Record is one tiny surviving history set within this geography.
How this geography and The Book of Mormon record coincide is largely – largely, an issue of perceptions, both of the writers and of the modern readers. Those who believe The Book of Mormon records everything about all peoples in this geography need to go back and look at The Old testament and The New testament – highly exclusive cultural religious narratives set in a small geography mostly ignoring the surrounding peoples, omitting the neighboring nations’ concurrent histories and events.
The Hebrew writers of the Old Testament knew everything about the world and peoples around them, having regular news from caravans and ships, merchants and travelers. Yet their perception as OT writers was utterly narrow, and these Jews never wrote much about any of the outlying “Goyim” – because it did not pertain to their Jewish history or the religious history they were writing. Likewise the Jewish writers of the New Testament knew everything about the peoples surrounding them – all the Greco-Roman culture and cities in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Rome, and Mesopotamia - from caravans, ships, merchants, travelers and the imprinted “news” on the numerous “newsy” stamped coinages of even far-flung kingdoms and the vast Roman Empire circulating in their hands every day. Yet the perspective of the Jewish NT writers was also utterly narrow, and none these “newsy” outside peoples – “Goyim” - or their current events get much into the NT record.
So we see that 99.9% of the history of the Middle East and the Levant is ignored by these classic Hebrew and Jewish texts, and only very few mentions about Goyim appear in their specifically one-sided exclusive religious narratives.
In “Biblical Lands” vast ongoing archaeological efforts have for 150 years been searching, digging and discovering the remains of all the ancient peoples in the Middle East area, and we have found myriads of cities, ruler’s names and other historical references recorded in the minimal notices within the OT and NT texts. BUT we have also found myriads of cities, ruler’s names and even empires NOT mentioned in the OT or NT. In parallel, no one sees any “Maya Problem” in these discoveries, either way. Additionally, archaeology in Biblical Lands is entirely benefitted by the abundant existence of written artifacts, all now deciphered and translated which enormously helps in comparing records of one people with another - building corroborating evidences “proving” The Old Testament and The New testament to be accurate histories of the tiny, microcosm of events of the single people they were written to record.
The book of Mormon was likewise written by a Hebrew, Jewish people, with very specific religious focus in writing, who like most Hebrew and Jewish historians, ignored almost or entirely, all peripheral peoples, their “Goyim.” Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere is made difficult by the combined lack of writing systems in most cultures, and, by the wholesale, exhaustive destruction of all codices by the Catholic Fathers during the Conquest, such as Bishop Fray Diego de Landa.
So. I do not see any “Maya Problem” given the perspective these facts provide. To me, these facts provide a set of very useful perspectives, when we stand back and look at BofM history academically as any other history.
My first perspective is context - to see the coming of Lehi and his small group as the "Lehiaic Invasion" (my term) circa 585 BC. This VERY small group found a land largely uninhabited - that is to say, vacant of human settlements - with some existing undeveloped cultures and settlements eventually being found. My perception is that while Jewish-traditional "Nephites" followed Hebrew custom and only married within their circle, Laman and Lemuel left the group and intermarried with "the locals" – the Goyim - and in the classic Hebrew tradition of "Goyim" we see the Nephites soon calling all non-Nephites "Goyim" by an eponymous name - as we have it recorded, "The Lamanites."
My friend the late Dr. Paul Cheesman, BYU Professor and author of many books on the Book of Mormon – and author of several Visitor’s Center short films commissioned by the First Presidency about The Book of Mormon archaeology – in his last years frequently reminded me “It is a mistake to say ‘the Book of Mormon is a record of the American peoples.’ It is only a record of the Nephites, and thus it is only a history of some of the American peoples.” This is part of my perception of the “Lehiaic Invasion” – that other peoples were here – we all know this now – and, that the Nephite Record is relatively a very SMALL record of a small people in a vast land.
As noted above, this same perception is the correct world-view of the Hebrew Record we call The Old Testament: a VERY small people wrote a very big book, they star in it almost exclusively, and, geographically they occupied a very SMALL area of land. By careful measurement of all Book of Mormon geographical notations (in the chapters and verses themselves) it has been accurately determined that the geographical, physical area in which ALL the action of The Book of Mormon took place is no larger than the area we call “the Holy Land” in Palestine which is the main activity-ground of the older Hebrew Record, The Old Testament.
Thus my BofM perception begins with visualizing the small “Lehiaic Invasion” landing on the west coast of southern Mexico, having been carried there by the actual equatorial current we can trace in any book on Oceanography, with its logical and almost predictable land-fall. This small invading group walked into a jungle equatorial land already sparsely inhabited by myriads of dark-skinned peoples, living in primitive villages scattered in the forests, difficult to find.
Considering the small size of the Lehiaic Invasion and its separatist nature by Jewish tradition, the “invasion” was literally centuries making inroads of expansion. Any expansion they made was along paths they found or cleared, and, what lay to either side of them extending out for 20 and more miles - they would not know due to the jungle and forested terrain.
The truth of this perception is seen in the 40 years since my mission living in Brazil. Over these 40 years, more than 20 totally unknown native Indian tribes have been "discovered" by explorers and missionaries in the Amazon jungle basin, which is a vast area, reaching up to the Andes Mountains in the west.
How could tribes elude detection with so many aircraft flying over?
Very simply, the jungle hides peoples better than we imagine.
When we thus consider that from 1970 to 2010 some 20 previously unknown tribes of peoples have been discovered in Brazil - living in isolated villages cut out of the jungle and foraging within a very narrow radius, each with its own language, unable to speak to other tribes perhaps as near as only 40 miles away - and themselves often unaware and not knowing of the existence of any neighboring tribes living as close as 40 miles away - the true nature of the Book of Mormon “Mesoamericanist Perception” comes alive.
A second perception is separatism - the facts yield that, in academic terms and historical perspective as a cultural invasion, the “Lehiaic Invasion” or Jewish migration into Mesoamerica was sociologically a separatist movement, and ultimately its cultural impact was “a failure.” As historically most Jewish communities have done, it kept to itself; however, even as a separatist society it “assimilated” or took on more cultural ways of its indigenous “Goyim” neighbors than it gave to these Goyim neighbors. This was necessitated by the drastic difference in climate, lack of former clothing materials and building materials, and different flora and fauna materials available for all aspects of arts and crafts. Throughout its brief existence as the separatist “Nephite” culture, it was poorly tolerated by the indigenous populations as it came into contact with them.
By the record, after a long period of isolated gestation, its few, eventually larger cities enjoyed a brief time of prosperity before succumbing to a combination of internal strifes and external attacks from various outlying indigenous peoples. The sudden increased intolerance toward the separatist Nephite culture and the attacks were provoked, probably, by the Nephite peoples’ resistance to the historic rising of the urbanizing unification phase of the primitive Maya tribes, which time we call the beginning of the Classical Period c. 250 AD. The Maya – Goyim, or Lamanite ascendency period - coincides clearly with the separatist Nephite decline, attrition and extinction phase. It also coincides with the invasion by Teotihuacan against Tikal. Were the Nephites “caught in the crossfire” of the invading northern hoard, as well as besieged by surrounding Maya tribes? Whatever the case, the “Lehiaic Invasion” became internally moribund, and because it was resistant to the strong unification movement of the Maya surrounding it, finally succumbed to a massive unified attack by “the Goyim,” who had poorly tolerated the Nephite presence for most of their thousand years.
We know that one hundred years into the Maya unification urbanizing phase starting c. 350 AD the cities and villages of the Nephites were, as we read in the BofM starting to be razed and taken over by the conquering Lamanite or Goyim tribes, and we must imagine that all signs of the foreign Nephite culture were destroyed and replaced with Goyim arts and embellishments. So, within 150 years of the start of unification phase of the surrounding Maya – the time of Mormon and Moroni - the urbanization or Classical period destroyed the last of the resistant descendents of the Lehiaic Invasion, who were killed and dispersed into the jungle where they either died, or were assimilated into the surrounding Goyim – Lamanite - culture through submission and intermarriage. This preserved Father Lehi’s seed as promised.
The perception of the Book of Mormon as a record of "The Lehiaic Invasion" in historical terms has greatly helped my perspectives in fitting the very round peg in the very round hole in the Mesoamerican board. Considering the small size of the Lehiaic Invasion, the separatist nature of Hebrew-traditional Nephites, and the generic use of the eponym "Lamanites" for "Goyim" with the impasse of physical jungle, it all sets the stage for a much better understanding of how we need to look at the interface of the BofM Record of a relatively small separatist people whose culture was eradicated with prejudice, leaving few remains throughout this area. This is the perspective of reality as we attempt any and all interfaces with excavated remains.
A third perception is identification, a key factor entirely reliant upon Nephitic eponymous nomenclature and excavation of inscribed artifacts. Of paramount importance in regarding any so-called “Maya Problem” with interfacing the BofM is a true perception of identification by place-names. The use of eponymous names for peoples and cities prevailed anciently, and, in naming unidentified sites today, we still use this system – we assign names where no name has been found. The new name we give an ancient ruin usually has nothing to do with the ancient site except in our modern perception of it. A key example is our name TIKAL for the greatest lowland Maya center – a modern name meaning either “the place of the waterhole” or “the place of the voices” given shortly after discovery of its ruins in the 1840’s. This naming practice enormously exacerbates our problem of identification today.
This problem pervades almost all modern Mesoamerican orthography. Chichen Itza seems to be this city’s actual name at the time of the Conquistadores, but it had an earlier name which started with “Seven” and numerous different translations for the rest of the city’s more ancient name. Itza is the eponym of an early ethnic lineage conquering people. Calakmul – another huge regional center linked to many other cities by causeways - was earlier called Ox Te Tuun yet we do not know the name of its people whom we have in modern times dubbed “The Snake Kingdom” after key iconography at the site. Becan was named by archaeologists; it means "ravine or canyon formed by water;" Uaxactun got its name meaning “Eight Stones” from its discoverer in 1906 but an actual earlier name Siaan K'aan or "Born in Heaven" has been proposed, but both the name and its meaning are debated. Other ancient Mesoamerican city ruins bear such equally orthographically useless names as Monte Alban, El Mirador, El Tintal, La Muneca, and the list goes on. Most of the city and place names we DO know for certain pertain to late periods, long after the collapse and extermination of the Nephitic culture.
Because the Lehiaic Invasion was a failure, we must expect that all eponymic Nephite nomenclature recorded in the Book of Mormon was utterly erased by the conquering Maya unification peoples, who surely replaced all Nephitic names with new names in their languages. Virtually ALL of these names have been lost, and we have placed our own arbitrarily selected names on all these unidentified city ruins. Cities change names.
We all remember Irving Berlin’s catchy 1929 song “It’s Istanbul, Not Constantinople.” Founded in 660 BC, eponymically named Byzantium after its first king Bysas, the Roman Emperor Constantine made it his eastern capital eponymically re-naming it after himself. Over the centuries the city has had many colloquial names, and in 1930 Turkey made “Istanbul” – one of several names in use since the 10th century AD (meaning simply “in the city”) its official name. This is an excellent example of how even major capital cities change names. The Nephitic culture produced only a few larger cities, most Nephites living in what today we would call towns and villages, which leave meager remains. The primary reason we do not know whether or not excavators have found any large Nephite cities or towns or villages is entirely due to the absence of inscribed ancient city-names. This problem plagues even the vastly easier old-world Biblical Lands archaeology where hundreds of discovered cities, towns and villages remain unidentified for lack of finding an inscription, though we dig the ruins. We seem to forget this.
A fourth key perception is reading “Goyim” for “Lamanites” every time we try to interface the BofM with Mesoamerican excavations. It is paramount that we remember: "Lamanites" indeed refers to ALL "Goyim" whether actually involved by blood with Laman and Lemuel's lineages or merely dark-skinned indigenous predecessors living in the regions peripheral to the "Lehiaic Invasion" – the outlying lands of the “Lamanites.” This is an important perception, which must be recognized. “Lamanites” merely means “non-Nephite” or “Goyim.” We read that the Goyim surrounding the Nephites were widespread and numerous.
Typical of all Hebrew classical literature - and most histories of ancient peoples - the "world-view" of the Jewish-Nephite recorders is exclusive to the Jewish-Nephite history, recording only histories, events and thoughts of Nephites - as if no one else in the world existed.
As noted above, typical of ancient writings, other peoples are seldom mentioned, and when mentioned, they are assigned names in common usage by the people writing the text. As we know from myriads of ancient texts around the world, these outsider-people reference names often are internal and relate only to the culture writing the text, i.e. not the name the outsider people call themselves. For example, in the USA we call a certain people "Germans;" the Italians call them "Tedeschi;" the French, Portuguese, Spanish and Arabic peoples call them "Alemani" - while these people call themselves "Deutchelanders." This typical people-naming practice complicates all readings of all ancient texts as far as eponymous nomenclature goes - and the typically Hebrew practice of eponymous naming of peoples after some individual within that people is the common practice of reference to outsiders in The Book of Mormon.
As the Book of Mormon history unfolds, this eponymous practice extends even to subgroups within "The Nephites." Because of this, determining WHO specific groups of "Lamanites" may be in referencing the nomenclature of OUR modern names for these contemporary people surrounding the invading Lehiaic Group is impossible. Usually even WE do not know what an ancient people called itself, and even our reference names are not the names we can expect to find in ancient texts, to stand as “evidences” corroborating tribal nomenclatures.
We face this problem with the ancient Mesoamerican peoples’ names WE have invented.
For example of this, the name "Olmec" means "rubber people" and comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec; this was the Aztec name for the people who lived in the Gulf Lowlands in the 15th and 16th centuries AD, some 2000 years after the Olmec culture died out. We do not know what the "Olmec" peoples called themselves. We just know their culture died out shortly after the "Lehiaic Invasion" arrived in their area.
Further, there are two distinct and separate peoples we group together and call “Olmec.” By art, and by DNA, we know the "Negroid" Olmec - whose colossal Negroid-feature heads are so famous - are only part of the people we call "Olmec." They immigrated to Mesoamerica from the Ivory Coast regions of Africa - transoceanic African voyagers. The other main DNA group we call "Olmec" is the "Asian" Olmec who we now know are Chinese - proved by art (the classic "Olmec Baby" terracottas etc), DNA and now inscribed textual evidences – they were Chinese transoceanic voyagers.
A fifth important BofM perspective is botanical terrain. I always remind myself that the geography of The Book of Mormon is largely JUNGLE forested landscape. It is possible to pass within less than a mile of a village in the jungle, and miss it entirely. This is why jungles are so dangerous: it is so easy to get lost in jungle, and, to quickly perish. It is literally impossible to "see people from afar," unlike all other non-jungle regions of the world. In the Middle East, Levant, and desert Africa, plains America, all open regions - panoramic views are very disclosing of distant geological formations and human settlements. Not so in Mesoamerica. Even views from mountaintops - where such exist, seldom climbed (no motive) - do not reveal much.
Thus in thinking about WHO or which peoples were actually encountered and confronted by the initially small "Lehiaic Invasion" a true perception is that due to the jungle conditions, the Lehiaic Group remained far more isolated by conditions than most LDS scholars admit to – when trying to imagine interfacing the existing surrounding cultures. Our reading of the Book of Mormon can falsely lead us to imagine there were no other people around them, because we forget: Lehi’s Group entered a jungle region. The “Lehiaic Invasion” was physically isolated from all other tribal settlements by physical jungle – muffling sound, blocking view, giving the false impression of being alone. The gradual spread of Nephite geography, and thus discoveries of peoples living not even very far away, was indeed gradual, and, always restricted and limited by jungle conditions.
My mission in Brazil through 1969 to 1970 was instructive in this regard. I experienced the tropical jungles in Rio de Janeiro - yes, it is utterly dense jungle where man has not cleared - and in the jungle areas of Maceio in Alagoas and Joao Pessoa in Paraiba, as well as the small city cut into the jungle in Goias, Anapolis. In the Northeast the Tupi Indians are predominant, in the interior State of Goias, several tribes live out in the surrounding jungles.
In 1970, in Anapolis, every few weeks utterly "wild" Indians would walk out of the jungle into this small town, and stand all day - all day - on a corner silently watching the cars and people, and then melt into the jungle before nightfall. I was told to ignore them, not try to speak to them, and let them be. They were virtually naked, only bits of skins and feathers, had long hair, large ear-disks, long black hair, some face paint, they carried hand-made bows and arrows and crude hand-made knives. They never spoke, even among themselves.
Having myself tried to "take a walk" in the jungles surrounding Rio de Janeiro, Maceio, Joao Pessoa and Anapolis, I learned this: forget about it. Even with a machete, it is exhausting, and slow to the point of turning back very quickly. Furthermore, without visual references - you can only see 10 yards in any direction at best - there is no way to easily tell which direction you are going, nor what may be only a few hundreds yards away from you - a road? a village? You don't know. This is jungle.
In summary, during the first 850 years of the "Lehiaic Invasion" the Maya - what we call the pre-classical period - were village-culture tribes. The high days of the culture we call "Classical Maya" (who did not call themselves by this name) began around 250 AD - this after the highest peak of Nephite culture was already falling into decline, as we read in the record. Thus the time from 250 AD through 400 AD - the time the Maya just begin their urbanization phase and begin to build their famous cities of stone - is the time of the end of Nephite culture. Did this rise of the "Classical Maya Culture" have anything to do with the aggression of "The Lamanites" or "Goyim" we read about in the final books of the Book of Mormon? Especially in this crucial period of Book of Mormon history, the use of the "Goyim" term (Lamanites) gives us no clue as to the "ethnic origins" of peoples for whom we have invested our own names, today. Nephite record-keepers in these final generations were under siege, and had much more serious things to write about - and deal with - than travel-log curiosities about new peoples encountered in their jungle world. All enemies were "Goyim" or "Lamanites."
In my perceptions, the rise of the Classical Maya peoples coinciding with the decline of Nephite cities and culture confirms a picture very clearly in my mind. All the various forces that arose against the Nephite cities, towns and villages during these years 250-400 AD - Lamanites and Gadianton Robbers - Goyim - seem to find certain identification in the rising aggressions of the Maya in their urbanizing and building phase, invasions of other peoples such as Teotihuacan, etc. And in this tumultuous period I see: building all those huge, tall stone temples for human sacrifices - they needed a lot of outsiders to sacrifice. The “Nephites” – by whatever name the Maya called them – were a different, separatist, uncooperative people: being Hebrew and thus very resistant to abrupt severe cultural modification, they were a people easier to merely exterminate.
Just as we have no clue or idea what names the Olmec, Maya or any other of the indigenous Mesoamerican tribal jungle peoples called themselves at the time of the "Lehiaic Invasion," neither do we have any clue or idea what those peoples called the invading Lehiaic Group. As the African and Asian Olmec were dying out in the first two centuries of the very small Lehiaic Invasion, due to the sparse number of digs and discoveries in this area of the world, little has been discovered of what lies waiting underground.
Finally, I constantly remind myself: Less than 1% of the archaeological activity expended in the Biblical lands (which still leave so many unknowns and unanswered questions where arid, bare landscapes would seem to reveal and yield ALL their secrets but do not) has been devoted to Mesoamerican archaeological excavation and exploration. We have yet to find any recognizable archaeological evidences telling us if the Lehiaic Invasion played any role in the demise and extinction of the African and Asian Olmec. Likewise, 800 years later, when the "Classical Maya" were in ascendency, at the decline of the Nephite culture, again, due to the many noted complications, we have yet to find any recognizable evidences of the Maya ascendency playing any role in the recorded attacks on Nephite cities and towns during the final 150 years of their decline and final extermination. Nor do we have any way of knowing how many of the actual final Lamanite Hoards were in fact Maya - as we would identify Maya as distinct from other Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures and peoples and tribes of those centuries, who were part of the surrounding, attacking “Lamanite” Goyim.
Reciprocally, when by comparison we remember that less than 1% of Mesoamerica has been archaeologically excavated and explored in the wholesale manner 150 years of campaigns in the Levant and Middle East has uncovered and discovered, my perception is very clear in remembering that as much as we think we know about Mesoamerican peoples, we are just barely beginning to scratch the vast, jungle-hidden and humidity-decayed remains of the peoples who inhabited this region at the arrival of the small “Lehiaic Invasion” and throughout its 1,000-year existence. In trying to correlate Book of Mormon records with our minimally-revealed data about the history of all peoples living in Mesoamerica during this 1,000 years, it is my perception and belief that Mesoamerican chronologies will change as discoveries are made; maps will change as new cities and finds are marked on them; histories will change as additional knowledge of events is discovered and interpreted from inscriptions and artifacts.
We still look through the archaeological glass darkly. As I was reading this very interesting article (“Lowland Maya” Equates to Book of Mormon “Wilderness”; “Highland Maya” Equates to Book of Mormon “Mountains” by Ted Dee Stoddard www.bmaf.org/articles/lowland_highland_maya__stoddard), carefully noting names of ancient neighboring cultures we have named so colorfully and imaginatively, noting the locations of this ancient city ruin and that ancient cultural center ruin – I am so reminded of how much still is to be discovered in these dense jungles, and how much more is there, which we cannot yet reference because we haven’t yet discovered it. It is so tantalizing to try to piece together the puzzle with only a few of the pieces in hand, and yet most of the arguments and even discussions forget how few pieces of the Mesoamerican puzzle we have – and yet we speak of it as if we had bought the box new and have every piece intact. We have so much still to discover, and these discoveries will dramatically alter counter perspectives, as they always do.
As for the much earlier wave of the “Jaredite Invasion” and thoughts relating the Jaredites to early, pre-classical Maya – who by academia appear around 2,600 BC, a reasonable dating for this Group – or to other early-appearing peoples in Mesoamerica, we just don’t know. It is so tantalizing to speculate, and truly it is rewarding to do so, yet if there is a “Maya Problem” and an “Olmec Problem” and a “Jaredite Problem” resulting from current speculations, the speculators must remember: less than 1% of this vast region is explored, discovered, excavated, interpreted and published. How really can anyone refute the Book of Mormon text on any basis of negative evidence? On the basis of negative evidence there were no Hittites until 1906 and Bogez Qoy, and the Hebrew Text invented “the Hattie” as a fiction. We still can’t find the capital city of Akkad. In Mesoamerica, negative evidence – “it hasn’t been found” – should make everyone laugh. 99% of what remains to be found is still to be found. It hasn’t been found YET, which is no problem at all.
We are fortunate to have what we have to date, in discoveries and knowledge of Mesoaerican peoples, and all we know helps us understand what was here, and what kind of world the “Lehiaic Invasion” entered. For surely they arrived, and, they lived in this region. Their own perceptions of what existed around them is more evident to us today than it was to them as they lived there, because today we have airplanes and satellites to fly over these vast regions; we have roads cutting through jungles and interconnecting so many centers within these tropical jungles; we have already done some exploration, excavation and discovery within the dense jungles which still cover and hide 99% of this area – still.
The way the Book of Mormon recorders wrote about their world is the way they perceived it from their limited view in a jungle world. Reading the Book of Mormon and knowing a bit about Mesoamerican history in its geography gives us a new perspective on the Book of Mormon writers’ limitations of knowledge, experience and contact with their greater world beyond their borders. Our perspectives gained from Mesoamerican archaeology should be teaching us this humble reality: the writers of The Book of Mormon were far less in touch with their world around them than WE have always believed they were. WE are the ones who need to reduce our imagined scope of vision. The scope of vision during Book of Mormon times was limited by the surrounding density of jungle growth and difficult terrain. They didn’t have satellite views to know what lay beyond to the South, the North, the East or the West, beyond what they could see, and what scouting parties had seen and lived to come back and report. We need to learn: the writers of the Book of Mormon had far more limited knowledge of their immediate world than we have always wanted to give them credit for. This is what contemporary Mesoamerican archaeology should be teach us, as we slowly plod along trying to visualize the word encountered by the Lehiaic Invasion.
My perception of the “Jaredite Invasion” is that it happened, they evolved, they built, they declined, they died out, leaving their cities in ruin. They are there somewhere, whether we have found them yet and not recognized them, or still have to find them and hope to recognize them.
My perception of the “Lehiaic Invasion” is that it was truly pitifully small, a mere handful of humans in a vast tropical jungle region already inhabited by scattered villages of tribes and peoples with dark skins, whom they co-existed with for some time without being discovered or discovering others. My perception is that over time, as the Nephite geography expanded, they still knew less about what lay beyond the walls of jungle surrounding them we give them credit for. They cared little about it in keeping their religious records focused on spiritual matters.
I hope in this brief essay I have explained the perceptions I see as I look at the thousand years of the "Lehiaic Invasion" and its minimal impact on the evolving histories of the indigenous peoples, and how the massive impact of these "Goyim" or "Lamanites" upon the Lehiaic Group, led unto its utter destruction. We can see it today: they were little fish in a big pond full of many ferocious fish. It is a miracle they survived in this milieu for 1,000 years.
I continue to see in everything we know of Mesoamerica an archaeological effort less than 1% of that expended in Biblical lands, where even now, entire civilizations are still being discovered beneath 30 and more feet of built-up mud and dirt, in barren, unobstructed lands where visibility on clear days reaches to the horizons. I see thus a dearth of evidences in Mesoamerica, due first to comparatively minimal search efforts, compounded by the jungle conditions which enormously obstruct discovery. I see every reason to find in the "Goyim" or "Lamanites" of the Book of Mormon Record ALL of the peoples in Mesoamerica whose remains and archaeoligical evidences we see HAVE been found, and find it amazing the Lehiaic Invasion survived as long as it did in this world. Truly, they were protected by the Hand of God. | 2019-04-21T16:06:34Z | http://bmaf.org/articles/maya_problem_different_perspective__swingler |
No one is 100% perfect in the ring, but some wrestlers are evidently better than others. Many of WWE’s top wrestlers are careful with their offense and hit every move precisely as intended. On the other hand, there are other WWE superstars who completely miss their spots, causing the superstars to improvise or resulting in a poorly executed maneuver. Granted, not every wrestler can have years of experience under their belt before entering the WWE, but WWE officials have a tendency to bring superstars that aren’t quite prime time ready, to the forefront of Monday Night Raw or SmackDown Live regardless. Being flawed or just flat-out dangerous in the ring doesn’t seem to affect the push of certain superstars thanks in part to backstage politics, favoritism, look or marketability. Unfortunately, fans are seeing the results from pushing these superstars that are prone to botching after recent accidents that have surfaced.
Accidents will always happen in the ring, but superstars who constantly botch shouldn’t be rewarded because of who their family is or what reality show they star in.
Thankfully, the WWE has plenty of great talent gathered from around the world that can carry virtually anyone to a great and safe match. Yet, ironically, it’s very seldom that these superstars get to work together or receive the big push. However, in this article, I want to give credit to these great superstars who, in many cases, have to take a backseat from a big push, while also recognizing some of the more botch-tastic wrestlers in WWE at the moment. Without further ado, here are 10 of superstars that are a walking botch reel, and 10 other superstars that are completely safe in the ring.
I don’t mean to pile on, because she has taken a lot of grief for her poor in-ring performances, but Brie Bella has been a walking botch reel since her return. It’s bad enough that there is zero demand for the Bella Twins, but Brie can’t even get over without stealing someone else’s taunts, moveset and gimmick. To make it worse, Brie is a liability in the ring, to herself and to others.
Brie’s not the most technically sound wrestler, so when she attempts moves that are difficult for even the best wrestlers, “Brie Mode” easily becomes Botch Mode. We all remember the botch that nearly took Liv Morgan’s head off during a three-woman tag match. Brie either needs some serious training in the ring or needs to stay away from it completely.
“The Big Red Machine” lives up to his billing. Kane is massive, his offense is powerful, and, for a seven foot monster, he’s alarmingly agile. In the past, super heavyweights have been notoriously clumsy and have accidentally hurt their opponents, but this has never been the case with Kane.
Kane is widely regarded as one of the safest wrestlers ever in WWE despite his size. His powerful offense looks impressive, but Kane delivers the slams and uppercuts so flawlessly that in reality his opponents are none the worse for wear. That’s a good thing, because a monster the size of Kane could take out most of the WWE roster, but he is such a master in the ring no one ever has any issues working with him.
Nia Jax is the exact opposite of someone like Kane. The Big Red Machine has earned the reputation of being safe and smooth in the ring. “The Irresistible Force” has not. In fact, quite the opposite. I’m not saying Jax doesn’t belong in the WWE or that she’s a bad wrestler, but she has been a little careless in the ring on more than one occasion.
Whether it’s dropping an opponent on her head, nearly injuring Charlotte, running through her opponent like a freight train, injuring Bayley, ragdolling her opponent off the mat, injuring Alex Bliss, torpedoing her opponent over the top rope, concussing Zelina Vega or punching Becky Lynch’s lights out, fracturing her face, Nia’s history speaks for itself. Luckily for Nia Jax, her bloodline will keep her employed and booked strong regardless.
“The extraordinary man who does extraordinary things,” Finn Balor lives up to the hype. His moveset is quite extraordinary, and yet, he never misses a spot. His dives always hit the mark, his offense is fluid, his kicks look crisp, and his selling is top notch.
Balor is one of these wrestlers who can hit his fast-paced offense and look great doing it. He avoids mistakes and keeps his opponents safe in any spot or gimmick match. In addition to making his offense safe while looking great, “The Demon” also makes his opponent’s offense look fantastic. Balor is always where he’s supposed to be and sells for his opponent without putting himself in unnecessary danger.
Lana may be ravishing but she is rubbish in the ring. To be fair, Lana hasn’t had years of wrestling training or matches under her belt, but that begs the question as to why she is wrestling on the main roster at all. Shouldn’t she be getting more training before starting/continuing her singles career?
Lana was right where she belonged, as the manager of Rusev. She could have been training while simultaneously managing. Instead, she is thrust into the ring where even Charlotte and Asuka struggle to get a decent match out of her. Lana is constantly out of position, either falling without her opponent touching her or too far from the ropes during a planned leverage pin spot. The botches are obvious and expose Lana's subpar wrestling skills.
WWE may have never wanted to push “The Show-Off,” but WWE realizes that Ziggler can make anyone look fantastic. Ziggler is one of the better wrestlers on the roster and can make his offense look painful, despite being completely safe. Ziggler’s real value to the company comes from making his opponent look like a million bucks by selling like a champ. Ziggler may never win another World Title, but he has some serious job security as long as he keeps turning underwhelming talent into gold.
Lashley’s poor promo skills were addressed by randomly pairing him with Lio Rush. However, his ring work is still a little suspect. Lashley almost dropped Rush after he climbed onto his shoulders and has dropped his opponent awkwardly in past matches as well.
Lashley never was the most technically gifted in the ring, and surely Lio Rush yelling “LASHLEY!” during his matches can be a little distracting. Still, even early into his WWE return, Lashley nearly hurt Big Cass after botching a suplex and botched a simple sidewalk slam on Elias both occurring during the Greatest Royal Rumble event. Luckily, Lashley has the look or “The Dominator” or officials would have soured on him months ago.
Natalya is the first female graduate of the Hart family “Dungeon” and is one of the longest active women’s wrestlers on the roster. Natalya has seen wrestlers come and go, and yet, retirement has thus far eluded her. While some fans wonder how much “The Queen of Harts” has left to give the Women’s Division, one reason why Natalya isn’t going anywhere is because she’s one of the safest wrestlers in the company.
Natalya certainly isn’t the most over women’s wrestler and never has been the focal point of the “Women’s Evolution,” but she has been great at putting superstars over and keeping them protected while doing so. Despite working with some inexperienced talent throughout the years, Natalya hasn’t hurt anyone and not only avoids botches but helps prevent her opponents from botching as well.
From jobber to WWE Champion. That could have been a nice storyline for Jinder Mahal, but that’s certainly not how WWE marketed “The Modern Day Maharaja’s” rise and ultimate fall. Mahal’s career has been a roller coaster, from jobbing out with the 3-Man Band, to getting released, to returning to WWE looking in the best shape ever, to winning the WWE Title out of the blue, to ending up right back to jobber status.
Fans can’t deny Mahal has the look and that WWE’s writers haven’t helped him, but Mahal’s ringwork is all on him. Mahal’s track record isn't good when it comes to botches. Mahal being out of position and awkwardly dropping after Jeff Hardy blatantly missed Whisper in the Wind or Mahal giving Finn Balor a stiff forearm are just a few of Mahal’s unfortunate botches.
Backstage reports have hinted at a push for Apollo Crews, and it’s seemingly already begun. He’s separated from Titus Worldwide and there's more to come. For many fans, this push is well-deserved. He’s incredibly talented, his moves are flashy, and he’s incredibly safe in the ring.
Put anyone in the ring with Apollo Crews, and they'll get a clean match. Crews has never hurt anyone, and, despite his high risk flips and extravagant moveset, remains safe and botch-free. Apollo has the look and perfect blend of strength and athleticism to carry him far in WWE, and his safety in the ring will only endear him to WWE officials even more.
Speaking of Titus Worldwide, Titus O’Neil achieved the mother of all botches during the Greatest Royal Rumble event by tripping down the ramp and sliding underneath the ring apron. Titus’s botch became the talk of the event, the victim of multiple replays and the punchline of some cringeworthy scripted segments.
However, Titus’ GRR spill wasn’t his first. During a “Keg Carry Challenge,” Titus completely ate it, landing face first onto the padded floor around the ring. Clearly, Titus has had trouble making his way to the ring, but once inside the ropes, Titus isn’t nearly as awkward. Still, the “Titus Brand” has, in a the past, looked a bit awkward from time to time while there as well, i.e. the botching of his Royal Rumble elimination in 2015.
Kevin Owens’ former “best friend,” Chris Jericho, has said that one of the few moves he refuses to take ever again is Kevin Owens’ apron powerbomb. Who can blame him? The move that slams opponents against the hardest part of the ring looks extremely painful and apparently feels the same way. Despite having that maneuver in his arsenal, Owens still remains absolutely safe in the ring.
Owens has been wrestling for a long time and keeps his botches to an extreme minimum. After nearly 20 years of wresting, Owens prides himself on safety and excellence in the ring and has yet to hurt any of his opponents in a WWE ring. His apron powerbomb may hurt, but even that move has yet to put anyone on the shelf.
Ronda Rousey was WWE’s big acquisition almost a year ago and has been in a handful of high profile matches. Rousey is still very marketable, she’s over with the crowd and has handled herself well in the WWE locker room. However, “The Baddest Woman on the Planet” looks like she’s one misstep away from seriously harming someone.
In fairness, "Rowdy" Ronda Rousey hasn’t had much training in professional wrestling and is actually exceeding fans’ expectations in the ring. However, with the way she tosses her opponents around the ring and hits awkward powerbombs, it’s only a matter of time before Ronda’s recklessness and inexperience comes back to bite someone. Thankfully, that hasn’t happened nor have fans turned on her due to her sloppy offense, yet.
Jericho has always been widely regarded as one of the best wrestlers in the business, and he’s also a master at patching up the botches of others.
Even early in his career, Jericho was mostly botch free. During his WCW days, Jericho covered up the botches of Cruiserweights that slipped off the ropes. In WWE, the trend continued after he saved Jeff Hardy from possible injury by catching him after Hardy slipped on the top turnbuckle all the while making it look like a planned spot. Jericho truly is the best in the world at what he does, even making the mistakes of others look like part of the show.
There have been two wrestlers behind the Sin Cara gimmick. The first, Luis Urive, who had a laughable WWE debut, botching the big finish to his match and continued to botch his trampoline entrance. Unfortunately, the second Sin Cara, Jorge Arias, aka Hunico, was no better.
If you want to have flashy, high-risk maneuvers in your moveset, it’s good to actually be able to execute said maneuvers. Sadly, Sin Cara II botched almost just as badly as the first. Crashing and burning after springboard attempts, getting caught in the ropes during suicide dives, botching hurricanranas or completely missing senton bombs all make it a miracle that things didn't end up being worse for either Sin Cara.
A lot of fans probably wrote off the reality TV star turned wrestler, Mike Mizanin. However, not only has The Miz won several championships, including the WWE Championship, he has also become the “most must-see” superstar whether he’s on Raw or SmackDown. Miz has carried both brands as the top heel and has become one of the better wrestlers in the business.
The Miz isn’t going to do a bunch of moonsaults or dives through the ropes, but he can get a solid, safe match out of anyone. Sure, he may have forgotten how to catch R-Truth many years ago, but after getting chewed out backstage, he’s catching any and every superstar that has ever flown over the ropes since.
When Sin Cara debuted on Raw, Primo Colon was given the task of making him look good. Needless to say, Primo failed horribly and took a lot of heat for it. While getting a botch-free match out of Sin Cara is no easy task, Primo has had struggles in the ring with other opponents as well.
Primo’s fast-paced offense has caused him to trip off the ropes on more than one occasion. This occurred most recently at the Greatest Royal Rumble. Primo is a second generation superstar, and is no rookie in the ring by any measure, but despite all of his wrestling experience, Primo still finds a way to botch off the ropes or look awkward against his opponents.
Son of the legendary, Curt Hennig, Curtis Axel is a third generation superstar and continues his dad’s reputation of being one of the safest wrestlers in the WWE. Mr. Perfect had an uncanny ability to keep himself and his opponents safe in the ring, while selling well for them. That has earned him so much respect backstage.
Legends like Triple H, Chris Jericho and John Cena have all worked well in the ring with Axel. Even behind the scenes, other legends like The Rock and Brock Lesnar have trusted Axel to train them and improve their ring work. Axel may not be winning a World Title anytime soon, but he’s easily winning over the respect some of the most prominent wrestlers in the business.
One could argue that Mandy Rose entered the WWE one era too late. With her look, Mandy Rose would have been a perfect “Diva.” However, in the “Women’s Evolution Era,” wrestling takes precedence, and Rose’s lack of said wresting skills has hurt her push thus far.
Sadly, she has a laundry list of botches. Rose messing up her spots, missing cues and clumsily taking offense from some of the roster’s best talent greatly expose her poor ring work. Hopefully, Mandy improves because she does have a great look and has yet to hurt actually anyone, but Mandy still needs a lot of seasoning, especially in this era.
Cesaro remains one of the most underrated superstars in the WWE. His matches against the sometimes awkward John Cena were so flawless that Cesaro received a standing ovation backstage from WWE officials. Cesaro has been wrestling for a long time even before his tenure in WWE. Thanks to that experience and strength, Cesaro avoids botches and keeps his matches safe, with a few exceptions.
Cesaro has taken to the air from time to time, but his dive through the ropes against Sheamus landed Cesaro on his head. Amazingly, Cesaro didn’t seriously hurt himself and has held himself off from doing anymore dives since. With dive botches now off the table, all he needs to do is clean up the botches on the mic and he’ll be golden. | 2019-04-25T13:54:50Z | https://www.thesportster.com/wrestling/wwe-stars-botching-safe/ |
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Thanks Sven, very useful, especially the link to the roadmap on the SAP Service Marketplace: here. | 2019-04-19T15:19:22Z | https://blogs.sap.com/2015/05/06/sap-s4hana-frequently-asked-questions-part-6-the-cloud-edition/ |
Heartbreakers and toetappers with a lot of the new songs the Wangfords are currently recording for the new album.
So with luck Hank’s old heart will convert from the wild Elvin Jones drum solo and be beating regularly keeping him in good voice. Come down to Crouch End and let Hank, Spanner and Lord Kevin wrench more tears from your dripped-dry ducts and laughter from your lungs.
Hank Wangford, Lord Kevin Foster and Brad Breath (Andy Roberts).
Hank and Brad and Lord Kevin go down to Malvern for a summer country festival. All sorts of goodies will be at St Peter's Art Church which you can see on the link below. The Wangford Trio will offer up a mix of the best of some old favourites with many of the new songs Hank is currently recording on his new album.
At all gigs there will be CD copies of Hank’s double 'SAVE ME THE WALTZ' album for sale.
Click the image of Bill Pickett to read Hank's lyrics and see a few very rare images of Bill Pickett, The first Black Cowboy.
Self self self! Hank has been so self obsessed in the last two months he’s missed on letting you know what’s new. Understandable, since just getting his cardiac reboot six weeks ago, getting more involved with the new album recording and then running away to Rancho Wangford to better enjoy the fiercest winds that Storm Gareth has to offer. And for winds – howling down the chimneys of the Rancho, blasting in off the wild Atlantic by the gate and screaming through the overhead wires – there’s nowhere to beat the Connemara coast. But back to you folks – pulling through assorted sicknesses that struck down the Wangford Bass Combo we had a glorious gig at Bungay’s Fisher Theatre when BJ Cole stepped in for the ailing Lord Kevin Foster and we harangued a warm partisan crowd with a bunch of fresh songs from the new album along with a smattering of oldies. Hank will come back from the Wild West this week to be ready for the Bass Combo’s return to the wonderful Green Note in Parkway, the hub of Camden in London. Come and hear Hank performing better than ever. The Cardiac Reboot looks to have done the trick and Hank – the Frankenstein of Alt Country – has risen from the moribund with his charge to the heart. The Reboot might even inspire the title of the new album… We’ll see.
Crawling out of the Great Darkness, two in London one in East Anglia’s Waveney Valley. We start with the Wangford Bass Combo pouring Country scorn on the cloying sweetness of Valentine’s Day. So successful last year the Half Moon have demanded a return to the cutting edge of revenge.
We've added some footage of Hank and Spanner's performnce at at the Ballintubbert for the Footsbarn / Glen Hansard festival in Ireland last September. See it HERE on Hank's YouTube page.
Now Hank is sparked up after his Full Moon birthday (born during the London Blitz of the Second World War on the Blood Moon – or Hunter Moon – from his Communist mother in a Nazi Stately Home) he is back for his Xmas presentations in Brighton and London.
First he joins Brad for Yule Yodels in Brighton then back home for some London dates. He takes his Bass Combo to the wonderful Green Note in Southern North London’s Camden and to the deep North of Crouch End to the excellent King’s Head. In between he slips over Putney Bridge into the South London Badlands at the semi-historic Half Moon.
Next month Hank goes back into the studio to lay down the tracks for his new album. Then he is back to Hammersmith Hospital at the end of January for another heart operation – another ablation – to ready him for the rest of the recording and the rest of 2019.
We urge y’all to come and enjoy Hank, his new songs and old, in the full flush of his Atrial Fibrillation and wildly irregular heartbeat. Who knows – he might get boring with his new predictably post-op regular heartbeat.
And who could resist a Fibrillating Country Singer?
Hank will be Cerys’ guest sometime between 10.30 and 12 noon on Sunday 29th.
Some years ago Hank presented a series of radio programmes on Radio 2 on Yodelling around the world called “Looking For The Lonesome Yodel”. Cerys wants to talk yodels with Hank as she shares his love of the universal yelp that transcends almost everything – time, space, souls, life and death.
Tune in and hear yodels from Kalahari Bushmen to Mongolian long song.
The single Jabberwock is one of RECORD COLLECTOR'S Top One Hundred psychedelic recordings of all time. Jabberwock and Which Dreamed It, written by Sam Hutt & Lewis Carroll, was released in 1968 by Parlophone Records. Both are featured in a new Cherry Red CD compilation of Psychedelia. Looking At The Pictures In The Sky – The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1968: will be released on 10 November.
Here's a 3D image of Hank's heart with the burn out ablation spots marked in pink. These are the points where, with another electrode passed up from Hank's groin, they established the rogue points which were firing off electrical impulses which were confusing Hank's heart. This had sent him into the fast irregular rhythms called atrial tachycardia and atrial fibrillation. Another groin catheter snakes up into Hank's heart, punches its way from right to left through the middle wall and gets to work zapping the bad boys around the root of Hank's pulmonary vein. So the pink spots are the burned out bad boys.... It may be modern techno but Hank thinks it's magic.
Hank was guest of honour at the legendary Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Miniature Railway, which he last visited as a child. As a special guest he was allowed to 'sit' in the famous locomotive 'The Southern Maid' and enjoy a wonderful trip in the Royal Carriage on the Southern Maid - a treat indeed for the 'foreveryoung' Hank.
Finally got Ablated last week.
The cardiac surgeon had a new mapping kit to plot out all the electrical points, good and bad, of my old heart. Very flash and two Cardiologists from Denmark were guests. Once the rogue areas that had been pumping out the wrong rhythms were identified they were burnt out. Mapped and zapped. By special request they didn't destroy the Love Centre or the Misery Centre so I'll be back singing from the dark underbelly of Country Music by mid-March Lungs recovering after over three hours under the anaesthetic and groins healing from the catheter attack. All good at last in Rancho Wangford.
Regular rhythm - what we call Sinus Rhythm - Rocks!
As does the wonderful NHS in spite of all the attacks by our terrible government. Here we are post op - note the NHS Salmon & Cucumber Recovery Sandwich.
Lub dup lub dup lub dup!
Hi Folks and Hallo 2016!
Hope the turn of the year treated you well. Though we lost Lemmy before the New Year and Bowie just after I guess we should be grateful we’ve still got Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard in spite of all.
What better way of navigating the dark underbelly of Country than with the thump and thud of twin bass guitars drilling their way through sad songs of lost love, breakups and betrayal, the malignant glue of relationships and the sticky end of the divorce court. Singing songs from the Dark Side of life is so much better down in the shadowy sonic world below 150 Hertz. Hank Wangford, the grizzled Godfather of British alt. Country, is joined by two bass players: Kevin KillaHertz Foster, the Jaco Pastorius of Country music and ex-Doll by Doll is the bass player of the Lost Cowboys. Spanner Subwoofa Robinson the new Chanteuse with the Cowboys and ex-bassiste of The Hallelujah Trails brings her heaven sent harmonies to Hank’s songs. Together the three explore Country from the bottom up, back to bass basics. The bass line in any song is mostly felt then forgotten and the Bass Combo seeks to home in on this unsung carrier of sad songs. The Bass Combo is joined by special guest Brad Bassbin Breath aka Andy Roberts from the Wangford 4.
When misery’s that deep, for a Boombastic Country experience it must be the Wangford Bass Combo.
Have a great Christmas and more importantly a happy, easy, friendly, prosperous and healthy New Year.
Some of you may know - When Hank is not playing and promoting Country music I work as a doctor in Sexual Healthcare and Contraception.
We've just added several more reviews of Hank's new double CD release, 'SAVE ME THE WALTZ' to the website. You can catch them HERE.
We've just added a photo of Hank after a night's session (until 3am!) in Green's Bar in Kinvara on Galway Bay with three Greats - John Faulkner, folk & Irish music Titan, the inimitable John Prine and rising Irish star Declan O'Rourke. Great songs. Great singing. A welcome goodbye to the infamous Celtic Tiger. Visit the Gallery HERE.
Hank visited the hallowed ground of Wembley to see his team win the FA Cup Final a few weeks ago. We have added a photo with him alongside Buster Bloodvessel of Bad Manners fame and Gaz Mayall (John Mayall's son). Visit the Gallery HERE.
" A Magnificent Night " is what the press said about Hanks 'Save me The Waltz' tour. We have uploaded a handful of gig reviews onto Hanks website. You can read the full reviews and see some photos from the tour HERE.
To coincide with the release of 'Save me The Waltz', Hank was interviewed by Paul Kerr and you can read the full interview HERE.
The first reviews of Hanks new album, 'Save me The Waltz' are coming in and we have them on the MEDIA pages HERE. Hank will be out touring and promoting Save Me THe Waltz beginning this ocming week, when both the vinyl album and CD will be on sale at all the shows.
New year new sickness? We hope not and that y’all are fighting off those wintry colds and flus and keeping the floods away from your doors. Here at Rancho Wangford the excitement creeps up as we’ve received the first handsome CD copies of the all-Waltz Save Me The Waltz double album. Once we get the vinyl 12 inchers it’ll be even more handsome. We are planning to officially release them on the week of Mother’s Day at the end of March. Watch this and other spaces for a major tour in May to see if Britain is Ready To Waltz!?
Cast your eyes over this tv quiz show screen-grab, brought to our attention by an avid fan, and see if you can answer the question!
Now who can that person be?
Our attention was recently drawn to an article in The Times newspaper about the Archbishop, Justin Welby, who goes Jogging each day and could possibly be a fan of Hank's suitably entitled piece - 'Jogging with Jesus'. Click HERE to see the article.
Hank is still recovering from George Jones' death so it's The Colonel here to tell you of a couple of imminent appearances of my boy. He's finished recording his Double Waltz album and I have to say it's sounding good. Warm, fat and old-fashioned.
There are a couple of tracks for you to listen to on the website to make your own minds up. Hank is now struggling with record company stuff - registering with PRS and MCPS and getting ISRC codes from PPL for all of the twenty five tracks.
He's a bit down about it all and keeps complaining to me that he didn't sign up for all this. "I mean, acronyms are all very well but this is having a larf!" he moans.
Just wants to write and make music, poor fool. I keep reminding him that it's a music Business. And how am I to get my 50% if he doesn't get it right?
Later this week Hank is joined by Brad and Spanner for another visit to the Green Note then next week is back to the Half Moon with the complete Lost Cowboys.
And now we're deep in the heart of Hat Season Hank will take Lost Cowboys old and new and a truckload of hats down to Bridport in Dorset to open the Fourth Bridport Hat Festival before Hank runs off to stick his head in some Irish sand out on the West at Rancho Wangford.
Two tracks from Hank's upcoming CD 'SAVE ME THE WALTZ' are now on the site and free for you guys 'n' girls to listen to... 'Sunk Without Trace' by Hank and 'I Love You So Much It Hurts' by Floyd Tillman. You can find them on the little ol' radio on Hank's Media page HERE.
Been a while since the last Wangletter. Blessed relief perhaps but just meant that Hank had an extended time off the road and concentrated on recording the new album. And they’ve done it! Finished mixing the sessions at the end of May. Now they need to get the cover designed and the tracks mastered, a process where a “Master” polishes them up to a wondrous audionic shine. So Save Me The Waltz, Hank’s album of Waltzes, is born but needs a little incubation. They recorded in Rock of London a fine analogue studio in Hackney and have achieved a warm fat sound with some real old-style waltzes. There are some special extras with contributions from special guests like Billy Bragg and others. But the real stars are Hank and the Lost Cowboys themselves who were in tremendous form. In fact there are so many waltzes in Country music that it has to be a Double Waltz album. We may put a couple of tracks up on the website as teasers for you. Expect a release in the Autumn. And remember the Waltz is the waymark on the borderline between Rock ‘n Roll and Country. Not a lot of waltzes in Rock but Country is littered with them. And the saddest most miserable songs are often waltzes so you can imagine Hank’s joy playing them.
Now we have the sad news of George Jones' death. Here's my obituary for George in the Guardian (CLICK HERE). Meantime I've taken time off the road to dive into recording the new Waltz album Save Me The Waltz (The Wild Wonderful Wayward & Wicked World of Waltzing With Wangford). We're laying it down in Rock of London, a fine and funky studio in the Hackney Road crammed with classic analogue machines for that warm authentic Country sound we in the Lost Cowboys love.
We've recorded sixteen new tracks, four originals and twelve covers of favourite Country waltzes that have followed me through my life. The album's true heroes are the Lost Cowboys and it is peppered with special guests I'll let you know about closer to the time. The time? If all goes well I expect to release this Waltzerama in the autumn.
Hank Wangford and Brad Breath will play the 600 seat Speigeltent at this year's Brighton Festival. The duo play Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th May and will have BJ Cole and Jeff Rulf accompanying.
Hank welcomes Spanner Robinson, a new voice in the Lost Cowboys. He first saw her in the duo she has with Jeremy Mendonca, Hallelujah Trails and was knocked out by her harmonies. He hopes to feature her harmonies on the projected Waltz album. She will certainly join the Lost Cowboys at selected venues. Watch the listings.
You may have noticed that we've recently tweaked Hank Wangford's website. It now includes a slightly modified menu and an all new and singin' GALLERY which includes lots of new photos of Hank. Take a peek HERE.
The Olympic flame is currently on its way round Britain. Hank is mortified, as I’m sure you will be too, by the news that it is travelling round Suffolk, through quaint Southwold, on to Reydon an unremarkable village but – shock horror! – bypassing Wangford, Hank’s spiritual home. Wangford is a sleepy place and is already bypassed by the A12, the classic Fish Finger run from Lowestoft to London, but this Olympic cold shoulder is one rebuff too many. This is an outrage and if you feel as lacerated by the iniquity of this appalling decision please make your feelings known to your local Olympics committee or write to your MP. Better still go to Southwold at 11.34 on Thursday 5th July to protest at this heartless affront to the great man and his native heath. So here (left) Hank conducts his own personal protest taking The Flame into the crater of the great volcano Haleakala, the House of the Sun, on his recent trip to Maui.
Before Hank became a full card carrying Hippie, the drugs kicked in and his fashion values disappeared up his William Morris print flares, he was a Mod.
Living in Soho in the '60s, married to his agent, Hank was a Mod-suited Satirist when not a medical student. He regularly bought Mod suits from Dougie Millings the Beatles tailor. High collar, four button, waisted. He loved his Ivy League gold and black broad striped jacket he got in Sportique on a very early Carnaby Street. He played the West End in Beyond The Fringe in a Mod suit. He wore a Mod suit down at the All Nighter in The Flamingo listening to RnB from Chris Farlowe, Georgie Fame, Zoot Money, Herbie Goins, John Mayall and even the great Solomon Burke in a defiantly non-Mod salmon pink Lurex suit with emerald Lurex lapels (see Hank's piece on "Negramiculaphilia", the love of Black Men wearing Capes). Even morphing from Mod to Hippie left No Room for Country in Hank's world.
Now Hank has reverted big time in a spectacular Late Life Crisis to his beloved Mod roots. Wangford fans have been heard muttering "Where's the Cowboy boots? The Western shirt and jacket? Where's the Stetson, Hank??"
All since he discovered Adam of London right on his doorstep near Rancho Wangford on the Portobello Road.
"DO YOU WANT TO LOOK LIKE S**T?
Adam do fine '60s cut figure fitting suits, coats and shirts. Shiny Two-Tone Tonik mohair! Tab collar and pin-through collars! It's a Mod dream. Or a Madmen dream.
My heart attacks me out of the blue...!
Hank has written about his trip this year to Maui, Hawaii to find the Paniolo, the Hawaiian Cowboys. Certain that no one in the UK has ever heard of the Hawaiian cowboys, Hank has been waiting years to go over and ride with them and hear their special brand of music. He's written about them and an article will apear in the Guardian Travel section on Saturday July 23rd and simultaneously in Guardian Online (the largest online newspaper in the world after the New York Times). That same day, July 23rd, Hank will appear on BBC Radio 4's Excess Baggage at 10 am.
If you miss it then you can catch up with BBC iPlayer or download it as a podcast. Later we will post the article and other Hawaiian thoughts from Hank here on Hank's Trails.
Kylie Ramone (!) seems to be working overtime and sticking footage on to YouTube as fast as she can get hold of them. Latest is a clip of Hank and the Lost Cowboys playing the Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Festival in good ol' 1984. Catch 'em HERE.
We've added a few images of Bill Pickett which had been put out by the US Mail in 1993. "Click the Bill Pickett picture to see more photos. Sadly, the US Mail got it wrong, and the image is not of Bill himself but his brother. And it wasn't Wilson."
Hank is the cover face for The Hat Magazine latest issue. As a compulsive hat wearer and newly honoured Patron of the Bridport Hat Festival, Hank is pleased and proud. He is happy, too, to see that at last more British citizens are becoming hat-aware again. Here he is wearing a black straw Rancher cowboy classic from Western Express of Bridgeville PA. He bought the hatband in Conway Texas, inspiration to Harold Jenkins for his new stage name Conway Twitty which makes Hank Wangford seem normal by comparison. The band was made by local Comanche Indians using Indian conchos and ersatz bone. Check out The Hat Magazine and Mr Snook in Links.
This November Hank will turn 70 before his time so the rest of the world can feel twenty years younger. He will celebrate his 70th birthday weekend with two very special gigs. In West London on Sunday 14th November he will be at the Half Moon Putney for his Birthday Prequel and on Monday 15th November Hank will celebrate his Actual Birthday in his homeland North London at the O2 Academy in Islington. On both nights he will have a clutch of special guests joining the Lost Cowboys to help him through the pain of three score and ten. The legendary Brad Breath – Andy Roberts – will be yodelling into your hearts and offering you a Glimpse of Gloom on both nights. Despite the party atmosphere and whatever guests turn up Hank pledges as always to keep the proceedings miserable. And Keep It Country!
Hank Wangford & Brad Breath kick off their nationwide (Dorset - the county) tour this weekend with several No Hall 2 Small gigs. Catch them at Puddletown, Ibberton, and Wootton Fitzpaine over the weekend. We have a taster for all you fans of misery HERE.
Hank will appear on GMTV's 'This Morning' show tomorrow morning (Monday 2nd August) as judge and jury for a Celebrity Cowpat Flinging contest. Hank, of course, is one of the countries leading experts and once officiated at Edinburgh Festival with the Hank Wangford $incere Product$ International Pro Celebrity Cowpat Flinging Contest with Billy Bragg (see photo). You can catch 'This Morning' at 10.30 on ITV.
New additions to the site are both sides to Hanks single from 1968 when he was recording under the name of Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful Soup. The tracks are the A-side, 'Jabberwock' and the B-side 'Which Dreamed it'. The single is one of RECORD COLLECTOR'S Top One Hundred psychedelic recordings of all time. We also have the tracks 'Anyway' and 'Lizzie' which Hank recorded with The Bhundu Boys, the Zimbabwean Jit band, in 1992. The tracks are from the album 'Friends on the Road', released in 1993. Listen to all HERE.
The Academy in Islington is offering tickets for Wangford fans for half price. So if you want to come next Saturday to see Hank and the Lost Cowboys with the Tennessee Three follow the link below and give them the password "hankie". That way you'll be able to buy your way in for £10 and not £20! This is for Wangford fans only. That's you! HERE'S THE LINK..... PS: Hank and the Cowboys take to the stage at 7.15 - so get there early!!
This month's 'Song Of The Month' is the man himself with The Lost Cowboys from way back in 1983 playing at the Peterborough Festival of Country Music. Hank and the Cowboys are playing "Cowboys Stay On Longer". CLICK HERE TO SAMPLE SOME STONKIN' MUSIC.
It’s quiet times for Hank & The Lost Cowboys. We’re all separately busy with Martin and Kevin just back from extensive Swedish touring with Ducks Deluxe and along with BJ soon going to the Isle of Man. BJ is playing amongst others with Brian Eno around the country and Hank is still struggling with his “No Hall Too Small” book. The great news is that after an upswelling of local opinion and a takeover by Carrie and Jamie the Half Moon Putney has been reprieved. So last December’s gig was not our last. Tribute bands will be given the bum’s rush and a new forward looking booking policy is in place. Friday nights - our night for a while – is now indie band and DJing night until two in the morning. We are moving to Sundays which will be at the normal time, playing until eleven and not closing early.
So everyone on the London music scene is delighted that for once the inevitable march of accountants, auditors and gastropubs has been diverted and one of London’s historic music venues (Rolling Stones, Who, U2, KD Lang, Ralph McTell etc etc) continues to thrive.
We've added a new feature to the site. You can take a peep at Hank's 'Song Of The Month' here. This month the featured artists Floyd Tillman with Hank Garland "Slipping Around". We'll be adding new videos of Hank and the Lost Cowboys soon, so keep tuned!
Hank sends his New Year thoughts to all website visitors, with his latest blogeen. For the uninitiated, a Bloggeen is a shortened version of a Blog (Of course it is)!! Read it here at HankWangford.com/newsletter.
Since having been divorced by Reg Meuross in the summer of 2009 Hank has joined up with his old musical buddy and saddlepal Brad Breath aka Andy Roberts. Together they will come back to the rural arts touring round village halls that Hank loves so much and will do the smaller gigs that are too small or low paid for the whole Lost Cowboys posse. Big and small we love them all and will find a format to suit your venue. Misery and melody, raw emotion and open ribcages will continue to be our trademark whatever form we take. Hank will forever be the High Prince of Pain and offer his unique Glimpse of Gloom whoever he is playing with. Divorce, a double edged knife, brings sadness and pain mixed with overwhelming joy and Hank as a new divorcee looks forward to meeting and greeting more of life's rejects out on the never ending road. Keep Yodelling through it all! CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE NEW HANK & BRAD PAGE!!
The Half Moon in Putney is closing in January 2010. It seems the brewery wants to convert it to a gastropub, smarten it up and stop it being a music venue. So big news for us is SUNDAY 20 IS OUR LAST GIG EVER AT THE HALF MOON. Come and sob uncontrollably with us. Christmas is as always a time for tears and knife in the heart sadness. So join Hank & Martin & Kevin & BJ & Roy for the final Half Moon. LATEST: The Half Moon is SAVED!!!
Hank is pleased to announce that after lots of requests, HankWangford.com now includes lyrics to a handful of his songs. We'll be adding more and more over the next few months, so STAY TUNED!. See Hank's lyrics here.
The distribution company for "Whistling in the Dark" has completely sold out of the first run of Hank's album. A big 'thank you' to everyone who has bought the album. A new batch has been ordered and should be in the shops in the next few days.
album, "Whistling in the Dark" on its long haul Transatlantic flights to the USA and Canada.
AOL have destroyed Hank's email account for no reason. [email protected] is no more. To contact Hank for bookings, mailing list enquiries and such go to the guestbook here on the website or email [email protected]. The AOL account is a black hole and you will get no response. Hank warns "Stay away from AOL. They are dangerous and unreliable."
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Hank Wangford and the Lost Cowboys won't be appearing at this year's Maverick Festival, but Hank and the Band will be at the Festival in 2010. You can grab your tickets for this year's event from the Maverick website.
FLY TRANSATLANTIC HANK! British Airways has recently added Hank's new album, "Whistling in the Dark" on its long haul Transatlantic flights on the Country music selection.
Hank's email account with AOL has died a death and we are in the process of reconfiguring a new address. In the meantime, if patrons, record company barons and promoters would like to get in touch, please use the guestbook.
Hank and the Lost Cowboys have recorded a session for Mark Lamarr's "God's Own Jukebox". They have recorded five songs, four from Whistling in the Dark and Nothing Left from Best Foot Forward. There will be a version of Jealousy from Whistling on the BBC website for a full month from 28th February. The other tracks, along with chat with the Lost Cowboys and a selection of their choices of inspirational tracks, will be on Mark's Jukebox on BBC Radio 2 at midnight on Friday 27th into Saturday morning until 3 o'clock. For the elderly and infirm Wangford fan and the Wangford diaspora overseas the whole programme will be available on the Internet on the BBCs Listen Again service on www.bbc.co.uk for a full week after the programme.
The latest edition of MOJO has Hank's 'Little Bird' as No.6 on it's TOP TEN playlist!!!
Hank's new CD, recorded with the Lost Cowboys: Whistling in the Dark is now available at gigs and in all good record shops! | 2019-04-22T13:09:15Z | http://www.hankwangford.co.uk/hank_news.html |
Shoemaker Annie Mohaupt nearly closed down a year ago after her move to make sandals in China proved a bust. The sandals could easily be pulled apart.
She looked into what it would cost to make her sandals in another country but returned production to Chicago. The decision, she said, allows her to tap into growing demand for U.S.-made products and to utilize manufacturing technology that makes her company, Mohop Inc., a global competitor.
"I have a factory," Mohaupt said, her statement reflecting her evolution from thinking of herself solely as a designer. As a manufacturer she understands she has control over the quality of her products — a key to sales and growth. "I'm happy but it's also intimidating. There is a lot to manage and wrap my head around."
Mohaupt's tale is illustrative of what manufacturing experts and politicians have been saying for quite some time: American manufacturers can be successful and create jobs by using the latest technology in producing and developing products.
So far this year, Mohaupt has sold about 1,500 pairs of sandals for about $158,000, she said. Mohaupt credits Facebook fans and word-of-mouth recommendations for a 500 percent increase in sales this fall over a year ago, and she expects to sell about 5,000 pairs of sandals in 2013. When she reaches annual sales of 10,000 pairs, Mohaupt said she'll need to invest in more equipment, like a new wood-cutting machine.
"I want for her to be making her shoes in the U.S.," said Greg Kaleel, owner of American Male & Co. a family-owned retail shop in Oswego, adding that his customers will pay more for shoes made here. "That's how important the 'made in America' is."
On a recent evening, the sweet smell of burned walnut filled Mohaupt's basement shop in a three-story building in Chicago's River West neighborhood. The smell emanated from a computerized machine about the size of a pingpong table cutting walnut blocks into triangles with concave curves and arches. Those curves support the heel and arch of a woman's foot and create a sleek, sophisticated look.
An architect by training, Mohaupt, 37, feeds her three-dimensional designs into a program that converts it into letters and numbers and tells the machine where to cut. That was the easy part for her to learn. To operate the machine, Mohaupt relied on a tutorial from the machine-maker and learned the rest via the Internet.
The soft-spoken woman employs three people, including an office manager and a young designer. If sandals sell as planned, she would hire four to six temporary workers in the spring. That's when sales typically ramp up after the winter lull. Mohaupt wants to expand her product line to lessen her dependence on sandal sales. One idea is a moccasin she can sell in the cold months.
Mohaupt has come a long way since 2005, when she cut and glued layers of plywood by hand to make her sandals. Her early versions featured a cylindrical wooden heel and elastic loops on each side of the sole that acted as guides for ties or ribbons that customers could change at will — her signature design.
She sold her first sandals for $70 at a craft fair and appeared to be off and running. The bliss of her success crumbled the following morning when customers complained that the shoes easily came apart. The heels broke off and the loops snapped. In effect, the stumble marked the beginning of her apprenticeship as a manufacturer.
Mohaupt spent the next year quizzing seasoned shoemakers and shoe repairers about how she could improve the quality of her shoes. Ultimately, she decided that her sandals should be able to withstand 100 miles of use. To test her designs, she wore her sandals while taking her dog on five-mile treks.
"I lost some weight," she said. She also test-marketed the evolving sandals by mailing samples to her first customers. Some got up to five pairs as Mohaupt developed — and later patented — a system to keep the elastic loops in place. One problem licked, she then focused on the labor involved.
Cutting the plywood by hand was grueling work in its own right. And then she had to glue together the layers. "I would end up covered in glue," she said.
So Mohaupt began experimenting with wooden blocks, which she'd sculpt with a saw into wedges. That eliminated having to glue together layers of plywood but still was physically draining.
That's when she made a decision that would forever change her business. In 2009 she bought on credit a $70,000 computer-driven machine that could read her 3-D designs and cut heels in minutes, saving hours of labor. The machine also allowed Mohaupt to experiment with new designs. For example, she could for the first time produce curved heel bases and make shoes with added arch support.
Demand grew steadily, which should have been a good problem. But even with the machine she couldn't keep pace with orders. Mohaupt tried training people to make the sandals but found that she couldn't train them and make shoes at the same time.
That's when she first considered outsourcing production. She tested a Canadian shoemaker but severed the relationship after it sent her a shipment of poorly made shoes. Mohaupt also was unsuccessful in lining up production in Argentina.
Then, suddenly, a competitor emerged that jolted her into making a decision that ultimately would nearly bring down her company. The competitor was selling sandals almost identical to hers and nudging her sandals out of local shops she had supplied for years. Its prices also were lower because it was producing its sandals in China. She faced being driven out of business, she said.
She considered suing the competitor, but her lawyer told her she'd be wasting her time and money. She needed to figure out how to stay ahead. "I couldn't let people take away what I had worked so hard for," she said.
Determined to fight for her business, she booked a flight to China and met with two so-called sourcing agents, who act as middlemen in lining up factories to produce outsourced goods. The pair, an American man and a Chinese woman, had been trying to persuade her for almost a year to make her shoes in China.
A week later, she was in Dongguan, a manufacturing city, and the agents took her to a factory that made high-end fashion shoes for internationally recognized brands. The factory owner boasted about the high caliber of the factory's customers and reassured her that its shoes were high quality.
She gave him the thumbs-up to produce her sandals and returned to the U.S. to put together instructions and videos on how to make her sandals. If China worked out, Mohaupt planned to rely on her sourcing agents to also market her sandals to China's expanding middle class.
As the months rolled by Mohaupt suspected there were manufacturing problems, and when the prototypes arrived, her instincts proved on target. She detailed how to fix the issues and sent them back to the factory. Racing against a tight deadline to deliver the shoes by spring 2011, Mohaupt ordered the first batch of Mohop sandals — 1,000 pairs in six different styles.
The shipment arrived in February 2011. Mohaupt immediately tried on a pair. The shoes held together for the rest of the day and she went to bed relieved. The next day, as she was walking out of a store she heard a pop. She rushed back to her shop, where she found that the elastic loops had snapped. And she burst into tears.
"My world was falling apart," Mohaupt said.
As she unpacked more boxes containing different sandal styles, she found more problems — damaged wood and hanging threads. A water-resistant finish hadn't been applied to some sandals. Others had loops too small to lace a ribbon.
She tried to halt a second shipment of 1,500 sandals, but learned it was already en route. The agents, in short, said there was not much they could do. Mohaupt had approved the prototypes without putting them through a rigorous test. Once the shipment was out the door, it was a done deal, Mohaupt said.
As she repaired the sandals, she realized the Chinese factory had skipped important steps in production that weakened the structure of the sandals. "I never realized that I should try to see if the nails come out,'' she wrote to her agents.
It was yet another costly mistake. In retrospect, Mohaupt said that to guarantee the quality she should have supervised the production.
Mohaupt spent the summer fixing the sandals. At times she worked too quickly, making mistakes, a problem that worsened when some shops decided to drop her as a supplier.
Kevin Fitzpatrick, who invested $50,000 in Mohaupt's business, said he was disappointed when the Chinese deal fell apart. "Annie was very trusting," he said.
By the end of 2011 Mohaupt was essentially broke. While that year's revenue was $141,000, she had spent about $160,000 on the Chinese-made sandals, including additional materials and labor to try to repair them. And she still owed on her cutting machine.
It was a time of soul-searching.
"Some companies just fold," Mohaupt said, but she didn't want to go back to being an architect and she didn't want to do anything else with her life.
At the same time Mohaupt learned that the building where she was renting space was to be demolished and she needed a place to keep her wood-cutting machine. "I had to have somewhere to put it, so I had to have a new workshop." Within a month, she rented a basement unit at 700 N. Carpenter St.
"I was sick of feeling sorry for myself and feeling depressed, and sales started picking up," Mohaupt said. In the spring she hired back workers, looked around at her equipment and thought, "Oh, it looks like I have a factory."
Mohaupt realized that by fixing the sandals she had learned how to run a factory. She also realized that the technology she had in her shop gave her an advantage over manual labor in China.
Still, she needed a product that she could make at a faster pace and at a lower cost. In October, she introduced a hybrid between her wooden sandals and the flats, which she calls Mopeds by Mohop. She added a triangular piece of wood between a quarter-inch of foam and the sole, giving the flats a heel and making them more flexible because the wood ends right before the toes.
The sandals come in three different heights and can be made at a fraction of the time it takes for her to make the wedges. Mopeds are also priced lower, between $124 and $164. The flats are $84. The wedges are between $340 and $415. | 2019-04-25T19:45:32Z | https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-1202-shoemaker-20121202-story.html |
When General Minkhir returned through the Winged City’s gates, her clay servant Chukash saw the emblem of conquest in her hand. This time it was a bronze crescent, drenched in blood as always. Chukash fell in beside her, holding a basin to catch the blood. The trees to either side of them straightened, the gray-brown limbs flushing to a green-tinged hue, but the street was as dry as it had been before the general’s departure weeks earlier. It was an inauspicious sign when the city’s need for water was still dire.
Chukash kept his head lowered all the way to the temple called the White Bowl. He counted the drops of blood, the red splashes before the basin absorbed all traces of death, or life, or anything human. He liked to think that the blood-beat was his pulse, and that it made him more human.
One time he had stumbled, spilling a drop of blood. It had left a mark on the road like a toeprint. Sometimes the toe on his left foot ached. The general had never reprimanded him for it, but he knew. And the city with its thousand eyes knew.
Water flowed around the White Bowl. The sacred brook ran around or through each of the city’s temples, fed by the clouds the city swallowed in its orbit.
The brook was rimmed by the brown stubs of flowers. They crunched underfoot as Minkhir crossed the brook to make her offering. From the shaded huts, Chukash could hear the mournful hymns, betraying the priests’ disappointment. They already knew the offering, even of an entire vanquished city, would not suffice to restore water to the city.
Minkhir whispered the names of the Queen of Jewels, the sky goddess, while Chukash tilted the basin over the holy stone. Drink, O Queen, Chukash thought. Nothing happened, no blood or dew or storm from sky above.
For over a century it had been thus, only conquest, cloud-harvest, and pillage compensating for the city’s dwindling stores of water.
Minkhir gazed at the Bowl. Then she bent the bronze crescent and flung it to the ground, where it stopped bleeding. There was an appalled silence.
Shaking, Chukash reached for the crescent. The Queen of Jewels regarded him not, so his touch upon the offering meant for her did not offend her. The general forestalled him. Their hands met momentarily. Hers was warm, sheened with sweat. His was neither.
The priests recovered their song. Had it been within their purview, one of them would have cursed the general for her impudence. The general’s honor guard, standing a respectful distance from the temple, shifted restlessly.
Minkhir turned on her heel and rejoined the guard. She handed the crescent to one, who paled but accepted it. Its edges left white blotches on his skin. The blotches would spread in days to come, as the crescent’s curse consumed him.
Afterwards, the general withdrew to be cleansed by oil and scented water. Chukash stood watch. He was not human, not quite alive; purifying rituals did not need to be performed on him.
He had not realized that the White Road, the sky road, had not always been a part of the city. He knew little of beginnings. It was not fitting for a man of clay to study history. “Which of the Crescent Cities did you conquer this time, General?” he asked.
Chukash did. The impossible garden arch from which fruit fell into the baskets of widows. The wild horses who came to your hand if you played a certain song upon a flute. The three-tiered market square, the learned men and women, the oracle born underwater.
I am clay with dust for blood, thought Chukash. I do not drink.
Minkhir had maps of clay, so detailed that Chukash almost felt he had walked these faraway places. “There are only two of the Crescent Cities left,” he said. Over the years he had watched as Minkhir and her staff prepared the battle plans, and later as they tallied the spoils.
Chukash looked upon her in bewilderment. The three-and-three had many responsibilities, but had Minkhir always regarded hers so bitterly?
He thought suddenly: If she questions her duty, must I question mine?
“It is heresy.” Clay was not flesh, nor would it ever be the equal of flesh. Clay was the food of the dead.
Chukash wished for reassurance, but she had none for him. She turned around and finished combing her hair. Her servants came in to replace Chukash. Damp from the steam, he took his place among the ponderous amphorae and eyeless statuary.
Of all the generals, two were women and four were men. The first of the three-and-three, General Tambere, appeared in luxurious folds of dyed linen and wool. She loved her pleasures. Death was one of them.
Raguor, Ojidan, Akenkeran, and Khetur wore more formal attire, cloaks sewn with bronze scales. Ojidan, the sixth of the three-and-three, had also brought an unhuman, this one shaped like a girl with a bird’s head. Whisperer, he called it. It played the lyre, but did not sing, and it was not sacred the way musicians were.
Chukash stood at General Minkhir’s side and across from Whisperer. If you spoke, he thought, you would have a proper name. Whisperer never spoke. Perhaps it was a proper thing of clay who carried within it all the secret, vulnerable places of the human body without desiring them for itself.
“The thing that makes clay fertile,” said Akenkeran, the Quiet One.
The three-and-three, as well as Whisperer and Chukash, made the sign of the circle to ward off the city’s founder’s wrath.
“No water is enough,” said Tambere. “No deaths are enough, and we have brought many. Each time we march through the doors of the sky, we reach lands our cartographers never imagined. Each time the conquest leaves our gods parched. They are thirsty. I am thirsty.” She flung an untasted cup of wine to the floor. The rivulet dampened Chukash’s feet.
Water, he thought. No true water in me.
The city was becoming like him, an unhuman, trickle by trickle.
It was a bad sign when truth became heresy.
Whisperer’s head swiveled. The alien bird-eyes met Chukash’s. Chukash remembered the buds of weeds at his heels and the sudden absence of living greenery when they entered that holy place. Nothing had withered. Nothing had grown.
“Who are you to say what a goddess hears?” Khetur said.
“It is the same with the red,” Akenkeran said. The Red Road was the road of the earthbound world, with its small gods. Chukash knew little of its ruling goddess, the Red Woman, save that she wandered the world due to her brother’s death.
“Then we must turn our armies upon the last of the Crescent Cities,” said Tambere.
They fell silent, for the little queen had peculiar whims. If the whim took her, she might order them to less fruitful pursuits.
Tambere struck Minkhir across one cheek, then the other. Minkhir blinked but made no other motion. Tambere said, “Sister, let go this madness. If it’s a folly of passion”–beside her, Khetur coughed–“why, I have three-and-three comely servants for your pleasure, and none of them have sown fertile seed in my belly, as the priests promised.” Her tone was sly.
Chukash was aware of their eyes upon him. General, he thought, I will do whatever you ask, but please do not put yourself in danger.
“You are monstrous,” said Raguor.
“It is possible,” said Akenkeran.
There was not. Tambere lingered until Minkhir made ready to leave. Tambere said to Chukash, “We will weep no tears for you when you fall.” Her voice held the bite of malice.
“You were always monstrous,” said Tambere, and let them pass.
The little queen had no name. Her face changed from generation to generation. Her ancestor had raised the city upon its three massive wings. So long as the line survived, the city would remain skyborne.
Chukash had only seen two of the queens. They were alike in visage, unlike in manner. The previous one had attended his birth, for only she could approve the making of men of clay. She had made nervous motions when his senses awakened from the inert dust that wrapped his skin. By then she had been very old, engulfed by the cloth-of-gold and diadem of her rank, and the lines around her mouth were deep but kind.
This queen was no taller. People whispered that the blood was thinning again, that the next queen would have to be drawn from another branch of the tree. No one would have suggested this to the previous queen; even less this one, with her rapacious eyes and honey-poisoned voice. Chukash feared her.
The three-and-three were as dust motes in the little queen’s court. She sat upon a dais carved with birds that Chukash did not recognize. She wore three-and-three bracelets of different metals upon her left arm, and three rings in her left ear, and three rings in the right.
Assembled to either side were the high priests of the white and gray, and a seer of the red. Oracles knelt at the little queen’s feet, their hair shorn and their eyes glazed with drugged wisdom. And more: sacred musicians with feathers in their hair; a man who stood on his hands and capered for the little queen’s pleasure; children sitting with silent women.
“Folly, sister, folly,” said Khetur.
Chukash went. The queen’s guards let him leave without comment. The servants in the halls hardly marked him. Puzzled, Chukash stood beneath a bas-relief of the gods. He had not known there were so many besides the Queen of Jewels, the Queen of Hymns, and the Red Woman. There was also the Half-Faced Archer, who was Night’s consort, and the Bird With No Eyes, who was a messenger when it pleased him and a trickster otherwise. They were at war in the relief. Cities and ordinary people were tiny in comparison, besieged by fire and storm, great swords and fierce-faced charioteers.
For some time he searched the wall for a likeness of the Red Woman’s slain brother, some explanation of why he had died or what had become of him, but found none.
Chukash heard a sound like feathers against cloth. It was Whisperer. It gestured across the strings of its lyre, plucking an octave. Chukash followed it down the hall.
Whisperer made a whistling noise. One of the tapestries puckered slightly. Behind it lay a dark passage. Chukash and Whisperer entered. No one stopped them.
When the dim light from the opening gave out, their footsteps began to make soft sucking sounds. The touch of mud thrilled through Chukash. He stopped. He could see in the darkness, which had never been true before. Whisperer followed him, now.
“Hush,” said the voice, waking more echoes.
As the echoes died, they heard the tumult of the little queen’s court. Chukash could discern General Minkhir’s voice. Whisperer plucked the string again. Perhaps it heard Ojidan.
The voice came from a face upon the wall–no, a face beyond the wall–no, from some unseen hall.
“Man of clay,” said Chukash. “My master calls me Chukash.” He had to say it; the general would not have him go unclaimed.
Whisperer, who might know, could not tell him. It plucked another octave. Chukash did not know.
A wavering light moved over the wall with its paintings of ancient creatures. Between each was the impression of a face. Chukash felt a clenching sensation, which made him aware of the false heart inside him, the false liver, the unnecessary skeleton: an impression of a human from the inside out.
Whisperer moved its fingers over the lyre’s strings. The bird-eyes held a welling longing.
One of the faces rippled; a mouth opened. Clay moved, reshaped itself into another face. Chukash felt himself growing inert, one more piece of clay in a place of clay. In that stillness he felt the shape of his maker’s handprint emerging outward from heart to skin. Because this was not pain he bore for the general’s sake, he cried out.
Whisperer bowed before Chukash, graceful in the way of water birds. It set down its lyre, heedless of the mud. With precise hands, it unclasped Chukash’s tunic to reveal the handprint. Whisperer picked up a pinch of clay and smeared it over Chukash’s chest. In a moment the handprint vanished.
Whisperer clacked tauntingly. Bird eyes, Chukash reminded himself. Bird beak. Outwardly more unhuman, inwardly the same.
The voice was accompanied by ghost-footsteps, as though something walked back and forth in the distance. “Now you are insolent. Why should clay in a dying city be the image of fertility?” A gash smiled in the wall. In place of teeth, it showed tiny shells and chips of petrified wood. “Listen,” it said.
Minkhir gave the answer she had to give, although Chukash did not at first recognize her voice. “As you will, O queen.” He shivered at her anger.
The general would expect him. He walked back through the passages, Whisperer at his side. With each step, he thought of faces and birds, footprints and fingerprints and hidden hearts.
Chukash stood at the side of the procession when the three-and-three emerged. Priests preceded them. As Chukash had countless times, he fell into step beside General Minkhir. The absence of crowds unnerved him. He was glad when they passed beyond the ziggurats where the priests performed the monthly rites of smoke and blood.
The general’s stride matched the others’, yet it betrayed greater impatience. Her presence beat against him like thunder, the rain that the priests’ drums evoked–not always with success–or the noise of chariot wheels, the noise of a thousand footsteps moving as one.
Ojidan hissed her silent. Tambere smiled brightly and said no more.
The generals parted ways with curt nods. Chukash gazed after Whisperer, wondering how much Ojidan knew. Men of clay should not have to think such things.
Minkhir did not send him back to her house, as he had expected. It was a bad day for expectations. She bade him follow her into an armorer’s shop.
The armorer stood tall in the general’s presence and blinked when she noticed Chukash.
The general said, “I wish him to have a breastplate and a helmet and greaves,” and the armorer said yes to each. The general said, “I wish the patterns upon his armor to be like the patterns upon mine,” and the armorer said yes.
Then the general said, “I wish him to go into battle at my side,” and the armorer paled. Armor to decorate a man of clay–a toy–was one matter. It was another to armor a man of clay as though he would trade blows with a soldier of flesh.
“As you will,” said the armorer. Her assistants came forward to measure Chukash. Each time one of their hands lay firm upon him, he thought of the handprint he bore within him in place of a heart.
The smith stood straighter and said, “I remember them, General. I remember them all.” Why do you test me? her tone suggested, and: I am yours.
I am yours, Chukash thought, holding still over and over again. For all the novelty, he was glad when the general ordered him back to her house.
He joined the statuary and asked each, as the dark-eyed servants went back and forth, “Were you once of clay?” The bronze horses clearly were not, nor the painted pillar broken from its place at some siege. There was a clay urn in the corner, its shape that of countless other urns. It was empty. He had checked many times, while the servants cast him pitying looks.
He had exhausted his questions by the time the general returned. Her hair was tousled, her skin flushed. That was the problem with clay: ask, and ask, and the tongue never wearied. He could not ask the general what lay in her heart, if she had one. Unlike the priests, he had never opened a woman with sword or pick to see the soft parts inside. For all he knew, the three-and-three were constructed differently.
Minkhir’s brother had had an ordinary human heart. Surely Minkhir herself could be no different?
Chukash did not leave the general’s army for the next fortnight. General Minkhir paid no heed to him. Chukash came and went in the streets. Sometimes he gathered up the locusts that blew in upon the wind, sweet to the tongue, ominous portents patterned upon their wings. Children begged him for the locusts, which he gave them.
Minkhir strode up behind the priest. By the flick of his eyes, he was aware of her presence. Minkhir struck him. He staggered. Silence stretched along the street.
“If you write a curse upon my house,” said the general, “you are no true priest of the Winged City.” She raised him up. He held a clay tablet. She shattered it. Her blood stained the shards.
The words upon the tablet whipped through Chukash. They were holy words, words of wrath, and they bore the priest’s fingerprints. At the general’s nod, Chukash gathered the shards. The priest whitened.
The dust trickled through his hands. Water never felt like this.
The priest shook his head and made reverence to her, backing away from her at the same time. The mule-drivers and weave-wives in the street made space for him. They dared not show the general or the priest greater courtesy. Therefore they did nothing.
Chukash, too, did nothing. The wind against his face was hot and gritty.
“Never tell anyone the words he wrote,” Minkhir said. Only then did Chukash realize that he could read the words upon the pulverized dust. He had the general’s brother’s handprint inside him. What were a few bitter words, compared to that?
The day before they departed, General Minkhir fasted. She unbound her hair and stripped off her armor. Chukash’s armor rested on a goatskin next to it, similar in all things but the proportions. His eyes were drawn to the motif: two fruiting trees meeting each others’ limbs.
While Minkhir recited passages from the Wall of Laws, Chukash was struck by an image of rippling water. A fish moved uncaught; a dragonfly escaped the fish. A girl sat combing her hair while servants tossed a ball back and forth for her entertainment. The image dissolved, leaving behind the smell of summer.
“It is done,” said Minkhir as Chukash recovered from his reverie. She already wore her armor. The spear was bright and unwavering in her grasp. The servants, more timorous than usual, oiled Chukash’s skin before helping him put his armor on. He did not like the oil: no friend to water.
“Is he fair to look upon?” asked Minkhir.
The servants bent their heads.
“I am not a warrior,” said Chukash.
The three-and-three met before the palace, their armies filling the streets. Four men of clay bore the little queen upon a wood-and-gold chair to the gates of the palace. Her hair was braided, her hands poisonously still.
They drew up before the great gate. Chalky footprints were visible before them, disappearing into a sun-beaten haze. Chukash bore no bowl. Perhaps the general had had a second man of clay made to receive her victory when she returned. He hoped not. The horses drawing the war chariots huffed and stamped.
The people of the walls chanted. Their shouts and drums boomed over the rooftops. The horses, well-trained, did not spook at the noise. White dust enveloped the army as it moved through the gate, and words appeared in rows as though carved in the dust. The chiseled shapes opened until they engulfed the army.
The sudden silence was all that told Chukash that they were upon the White Road. Dust parted before them, then contracted into points. The people of the walls tended the night’s jewels; they knew the constellations by which one might travel to this city or that. Chukash had not realized how brilliantly the stars shone, or how black the world became around them.
The stars became less and less brilliant. The night was interrupted by inscriptions of green, brown, gray. As before, the inscriptions widened. Then Chukash saw that the shapes were those of hill or river or wall, like the general’s clay maps.
The armies of the three-and-three waited upon the hills commanded by Engaz Ut. The city’s gates were closed. The scouts went to investigate the walls, on which symbols of protection were painted. One scout, a dark, compact woman, returned with a wax tablet. She gave it to the general, who gave it to Chukash.
“I am sorry,” he said. “The only words I can read are the words our priests would inscribe.” He began to return the wax tablet to the scout. She shook her head.
General Akenkeran held the rear. His servants met Chukash at the perimeter and escorted him to the general’s tent.
The general signaled. A servant brought him a stylus. He scraped clear all the words they did understand from the exacting transcription. Chukash could not read any single symbol, but they formed a crude pattern: the winged circle.
“I shall tell General Minkhir,” Chukash said.
Akenkeran forestalled him. Chukash knelt. At first he did not understand what was happening. The general’s hand was light but not unassertive upon his head. Chukash closed his eyes, accepting the blessing, as he must. The handprint within him made no demand.
The touch withdrew. Chukash stood. The escorts led him back to Minkhir’s tent. He showed her the altered tablet.
“General.” He bent his head.
Nearby, a horse whickered; a soldier stopped himself mid-whistle, remembering that music before sundown was a soldier’s ill fortune.
“We await dawn,” said Minkhir. “General Tambere has decreed it so.” She withdrew. Chukash, still armored, stood outside her tent through the night.
When dawn came, the armies formed up. The heralds brought out their horns and played a loud note three-and-three times. From the city’s walls returned defiant drumbeats. The horns blared. The answer was the same. On the third time the heralds brought out the other horns, coiled and serpent-scaled. These unfolded in the heralds’ hands to hiss at the city, raising a great wind. Birds startled out of the hills in every direction. One of Ojidan’s archers shot one out of the air: a promising omen.
The gates ground open. A phalanx of the Crescent emerged, each soldier in perfect position. Each had a red crescent painted on his forehead, and a black jewel in the center of his chest.
The distance between their army and that of Engaz Ut vanished in what seemed like moments. Spears met flesh; swords met clay-made-flesh. Both bled. Chukash had a man’s strength, as did these foreign soldiers, but his armor felt light, and, as Minkhir had promised, few blows reached him. The general’s armor blazed in the sunlight as her sword met the spears of her foes.
Twice a spear missed her to lodge in Chukash’s shield. On the second time, he took a blow to his side while he was pulling out the spear. It was not until after wheeling to protect Minkhir’s back that Chukash realized that he was bleeding. It did not weaken him.
It needed no response, he told her with a glance. He felt her approval. The soldier shouted another phrase, and this time Chukash understood it: Join the dead, then.
Did the others think of themselves as alive?
At the hour’s end, red spears were raised on both sides, drums answering horns and the other way around. Both sides peeled back from the battlefield. People looked pitiably small when dead in piles. Minkhir and Chukash walked among the corpses. The soldiers gathered their fallen, chanting paeans to the Queen of Hymns.
The fallen men of clay were beginning to crumble. Was that what he would be reduced to when he died, a handful of dust in a handful of moments?
Minkhir met with her captains. Chukash flinched from their uneasy stares. “Bandage him,” Minkhir told the servants who came to clean her sword. They did so, bringing rolled linen.
“It’s heresy,” the second captain said of the enemy, even though Minkhir had committed the same heresy by granting a man of clay the status of a soldier, of one of the living.
The courier bent his head and folded out of sight.
The council followed not long afterward. General Tambere’s eyes no longer held their accustomed languor; Khetur spoke crisply, without mockery. Akenkeran remained silent. Ojidan did not bring Whisperer. But Minkhir bade Chukash accompany her.
Khetur could not deny it.
Akenkeran crushed the ore between his fingers. There was a flash, and the pressure dissipated.
Minkhir looked at Chukash. He looked back. The thought of leaving her terrified him, however accustomed he was to her departures.
He bore her brother’s handprint.
He deluded himself that he had a choice.
“If you wish it,” Akenkeran said to Minkhir and the others. They did.
“You are traveling farther than I ever intended,” Minkhir told Chukash. She was sharpening her spear. A drop of red glistened from its point. When she was satisfied, she licked her finger clean.
Chukash had no answer. Blood made him ill for the first time in his existence.
General Akenkeran’s tent smelled of sweet things. It took a moment for Chukash to identify them as the blossoms they had crushed upon their arrival.
The general held up the false stone. It shone richly. Chukash approached and bared his chest. The jewel fixed itself in his chest, darkening as it did so. A cool sensation spread across his skin.
Akenkeran shifted his attention to the captain who was making hurried notations upon a wax-and-wood tablet.
Chukash left the tent. Soldiers fingered three-winged talismans for luck. Chukash passed the tents holding the wounded, where the surgeons chanted as they stitched wounds shut with the jaws of living ants. Nearby, the soldiers’ prostitutes tended the dead, wrapping them in gray cloth so the Queen of Hymns would know them as her own.
The hills before the city’s great gate had been churned by the feet of grappling soldiers. Chukash paused to turn a piece of earth right-side up so that the roots faced into the ground and the leaves faced him. He made his way from ridge to ridge, tree to tree. What was it like to live surrounded by such greenery?
The prayers upon the wall of Engaz Ut, seen from up close, looked like gashes in flesh. He made himself still again, another part of the wall.
It did not take long before the armies of the Winged City approached the gate once more. The horns demanded entry. The drums refused. General Tambere, who loved danger, was first up against the gates. Her soldiers crouched beneath their shields for protection against the rocks and hot oil dropped from the walls. The battering ram swung ponderously from its frame; its voice against the gate drowned out the drums. The other generals moved their ladders closer while the siege engineers lobbed urns filled with vipers or noxious vapors.
Then the defenders appeared through a gate drawn by curving lines like the whorl of a fingerprint.
Chukash ran to the gate, dodging Tambere’s soldiers and charioteers. As the soldiers and the city’s defenders joined combat, Chukash flung himself through the gate, which was beginning to seal shut. Five lines for the five walls. The first two looked like ordinary walls, but the others were of materials Chukash could describe only as glassy, or gritty, or grown from thorny bushes. The last pricked his arm as he entered the city.
He emerged on an inner wall, lower and thicker than the curtain walls. Sentries stood to either side of him, and drummers. He stood.
A captain approached him. Chukash, face empty, turned to meet her. She glanced at his chest and cocked her head. One of the nearby sentries huffed in disgust. Ignoring him, the captain moved on.
Once Chukash had satisfied himself that no one would interfere with one of the sorcerer’s toys, he made his way down the stairs and up another set to the great gate. He stood and stood until they forgot his presence. He stood some more until night fell and the armies outside withdrew.
The outer gates’ builders had known better than to design it so one man could open it. Chukash pressed his hand against it and learned that someone had beaten the hinges of the great door from blood and bronze. There was no clay here. But a black jewel had replaced each bearing, surely the black sorcerer’s work. Chukash understood then that he must kill the sorcerer.
The false gem, with its affinity to black sorcery, led him through streets where lamps burned in few windows and women’s voices murmured alien endearments. A beggar slept against a wall. The streets had been swept clean.
Chukash stopped before a simple house whose windows did not have curtains. A pale light came from within. The darkness had drained from the false jewel. Not knowing how he should commit murder, Chukash knocked upon the door.
A shuffling answered him. A second later, the door opened. “Come in,” said the man, who sounded like an ordinary man. One of his feet was deformed. Chukash helped the sorcerer back to his mat. They looked at each other in silence.
“So you are my death,” said the sorcerer. He did not have a cruel face, or a cunning one.
It was not Minkhir’s curiosity Chukash thought of, but Akenkeran’s. “Speak,” Chukash said, wary of any small movements. He did not fear the large ones.
Chukash admitted that he knew of no such thing.
“This cannot end well,” said Chukash.
Chukash did not fear even a sorcerer’s poison. He brought this cup from the shelf. It tasted sweet and salty. He set it down. The sorcerer opened his mouth. Chukash grabbed him and twisted his neck, breaking his spine. Then he laid the man down.
He raised his hand to his face and felt moisture. Surely not, he thought. Of all people, this man–? But tears were tears, and he valued water.
The house began to fill with an intoxicating black gas. Chukash ran–others were already fleeing their houses–toward the gates he knew. A sorcerer’s death took a terrible form. He should have guessed that earlier.
In the distance, the serpent horns hissed their exultation. Chukash saw men of clay, posted as guards throughout the city, slumped at corners, black dust smeared on their mouths and fingers.
The gates had fallen from the hinges inward. Then Chukash understood. The black sorcerer had, by releasing his spells, taken revenge on those who had killed his people. Horns howled. General Tambere’s soldiers laid about them with sword and spear.
Chukash had no desire to interfere. He had to return to General Minkhir. Moving amid the wounded and the scavengers, he searched for the bronze gleam of her armor. It flared before him, throwing off glints of light like stars. The light led him to General Ojidan, not Minkhir.
Whisperer drew him under the cover of its shield while the general drew and released an arrow. At the touch, grief stabbed through Chukash. He knew why Whisperer had the body of a girl but the head of a bird. How Ojidan had sired and lost a courtesan’s daughter, Chukash did not know.
“The little queen,” Chukash said as the screams and cries continued around them. She had given Whisperer a bird’s head so the general must forever remember that his true daughter lay in the earth.
“I must find my general,” he said.
Ojidan paid them no attention. Another archer on the city walls fell.
Whisperer pointed toward the ruined stairs up the wall. Soldiers fought to defend the stairs lest the Winged City’s armies breach the walls at another point. Chukash had no spear, but the dead had many. He picked one that was not tipped with a crescent. Minkhir would not like him to appear before her with one of the enemy’s weapons.
As he passed, Chukash did not join the fight. The dying clutched at him, speaking with their eyes. Some he stabbed, some not, as they required. Surely mercy from a man of clay was still mercy.
Those who attacked him he fended off with great blows. Few tried twice. Then came a strike from behind, so sleek it almost felt like a servant’s touch. He stumbled; the blade missed him the second time. With his spear he pierced the swordsman, who wore finer clothes than Tambere. By this and the mournful cry that went up, he realized that he had wounded a champion of the Crescent. He did not pause. Thus he only came to know as he neared the steps that his right arm was missing, and that he had taken up the spear with his left hand.
Chukash felt neither pain nor regret.
The defenders shied from him. He did not strike them. In any case, he had only to go halfway up the stairs to spot Minkhir’s armor, blazing like a pillar of fire. She led her army against those defenders who had sortied from the city in a brave gamble.
The sun passed and passed in the sky. Straight lines became tangled when one crossed a battlefield. When Chukash reached Minkhir, she nodded at him to keep out of the way. She bore her shield herself and scarcely needed it.
Chukash retreated down the hill, finding more of the fallen. This time most of them belonged to the Winged City. He left them for the physicians. A woman in the shadow of a tree attracted his interest. She clutched a lyre. When she looked up at Chukash her eyes held no fear.
“What do you do here, musician?” Chukash asked.
The woman opened her mouth. She had no tongue.
He saw that her lyre was broken. “Use my voice, then,” said Chukash, though it made him afraid. But he had given a toe and an arm already. A voice was little more.
He had not even thought about what Minkhir required of him.
The walls of Engaz Ut peeled away one by one. Stone had fallen to catapults. Other layers dissolved in glinting black dust or warped mesh. Engaz Ut’s soldiers laid down their weapons and cried with one voice to their gods.
Black dust swirled in the serpent-horns’ wind. The gods did not answer the people of Engaz Ut, for Engaz Ut had trusted in the arts of a black sorcerer. This was their punishment.
The musician’s fingers moved as though she might pluck a dirge for the fallen city.
“Do you mourn them?” asked Chukash.
Birds converged on the city from every direction. Some of them perched upon the ruined walls. They had pale yellow eyes, like stars, looking into the city. Chukash gazed upon them, awestruck. In the Winged City, great birds drove the wheels that powered the mills. They did not act in unison outside of the city’s dictates.
The musician snapped the lyre cleanly, completing the fissure. The strings sprang out, scoring her arms. For a second, the strings resembled the wings of a falling bird.
Chukash, grieved, cradled the lyre’s broken frame, thinking of Whisperer’s bent hands. The strings became a vapor, faint and sweet, disappearing in wisps like smoke.
“Where is your family?” he asked the woman.
“Where is your family?” she echoed in his voice.
Chukash said, “I–” Whisperer had its own mysteries. His handprint belonged to Minkhir’s brother, but that man was dead; General Minkhir would not permit him to regard her so familiarly.
The musician’s mouth curved downward.
“I did not want to be a weapon,” Chukash told her, as though his wants determined anything.
She held three fingers up in front of his mouth: Be silent.
The birds lifted their heads and sang one song in their many voices. It was the great hymn that echoed sometimes in the gray caverns, which even the priests dared not sing. It took Chukash several minutes to recognize it over the shouts of despair and the crackling of fire. The musician must have known it immediately.
The birds flew away, still singing. No archer dared loose an arrow upon them. Did they go to bear the Queen of Jewels news of the world below? The waiting grew unbearable, yet everyone waited. If a man of clay found the waiting difficult, it must be more difficult for the others. The musician showed no sign of it.
A wind rose, and with it, clouds. A shadow lengthened over the land. One of the clouds was no cloud. Upon three immense wings came the Winged City, churning the sky before it.
The ground darkened splash by splash. Chukash stared at the water caught upon his fingertip.
Some soldiers drank from their hands in a madness of thirst. Others sheltered beneath their shields as though the rain were hot oil. Chukash sang for the first time in his existence, the bird-song, the rain-song.
The emblems of bee and blossom, of reed and ibis, of fish-tailed lion or slashed sun, all these appeared among the broken army. Chukash was unprepared when an arm dragged him up: Minkhir, hair unbound and dripping, demanding that he face her. She bled from gashes to the arms and legs, and a broken-off haft protruded from her side where the armor had failed her.
“She has no tongue,” Chukash said.
Minkhir’s breathing was labored. Chukash had not noticed this earlier. In all her past campaigns she had come back proud, uninjured; even the haft in her side seemed unreal.
“What is your name, musician?” asked Minkhir, ignoring the world drowning around them.
The Red Woman rose. She was taller than Minkhir. She drew the spear from the general’s side. The general hissed. The Red Woman drew back.
“You have another,” she said through Chukash.
Chukash knew his way now. “I will not send you to her,” he said. She drew back from him. “I will send you upon the Red Road.” He laid a hand upon her head, completing the little queen’s poisoned blessing. The handprint inside Chukash unmade itself, leaving him hollow, like a drum.
“I always knew you would be my death,” Minkhir murmured.
He caught her as she fell.
Brother, the Red Woman said to him upon the strings of the wind, have you not fed them enough of yourself? Walk the Red Road, the earth road, with me and not these others.
His voice was his own, as it never had been.
Holding the general in his arms, Chukash sat down to wait for the earth to catch the Winged City.
Here is a high fantasy so colorful and creative that I will read it again and again. It is no suprise that I love this story so much. Yoon Ha Lee, a voice we should all listen to, wrote this after all.
I love this story with an enormous, deep love. Thank you for publishing it, GigaNotoSaurus!
A wonderful, as usual. Very well done, Yoon and _GigaNotoSaurus_ both.
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Vall-Llobrega Catalonia is beautiful and has lots of apartments. Ofcourse we are only looking for the best apartments in Vall-Llobrega Catalonia. It’s important to compare them because there are so many places to stay in Vall-Llobrega Catalonia. You’re probably wondering where to stay in Vall-Llobrega Catalonia. To see which apartment sounds better than the other, we created a top 10 list. The list will make it a lot easier for you to make a great decision. We know you only want the best apartment and preferably something with a reasonable price.
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Located 19 miles from Lloret de Mar and 17 miles from Girona, Pool Guest House offers accommodations in Vall-Llobrega. The property features views of the pool and is 26 miles from Roses. Free WiFi is provided throughout the property and free private parking is available on site.A microwave and a toaster are provided in the kitchenette. Other facilities at Pool Guest House include an outdoor pool.Girona-Costa Brava Airport is 19 miles from the property.
Offering accommodations with air conditioning, Arrels d’Emporda is located in Palafrugell, just 22 miles from Lloret de Mar. Girona is 18 miles away. Free WiFi is provided throughout the property and private parking is available on site.Some units include a terrace and/or balcony. There is also a kitchenette, equipped with a microwave and refrigerator. There is a private bathroom with a shower and a hairdryer in every unit. Towels are available.Arrels d’Emporda also includes a seasonal outdoor pool. Guests can enjoy a drink at the on-site bar.Roses is 24 miles from Arrels d’Emporda. Girona-Costa Brava Airport is 20 miles from the property.
Nice and clean appartment with perfect infrastructure around.
The hotel staff was very helpfull and friendly.
Room was amazing. We had a little apartment, so we could cook and relax without go to some restaurant.
The two bedroomed accommodation is on two floors-only one bathroom which is on the bottom floor. Steep staircase to the top floor-but has a super large balcony although views are restricted to houses across the road.
Great value for the money, very close to Calella where I did the swimming Radikal race – veryclean and comfortable, nice clean sunny small swimming pool for the kids. Helpful hosts.
The reception staff were excellent. So helpful and friendly.
This property is 2 minutes walk from the beach. Aparthotel Palamós is located in Palamós, just 17 miles from Lloret de Mar. Girona is 18 miles away. Private parking is available on site.Featuring a balcony, all units are air conditioned and have a sitting and dining area. There is also a kitchenette, equipped with a microwave and refrigerator. Towels and bed linen are provided.Aparthotel Palamós also includes a seasonal outdoor pool. Guests can enjoy a sun terrace and a restaurant on site. The property also has packed lunches.Roses is 29 miles from Aparthotel Palamós, and Tossa de Mar is 13 miles from the property. The nearest airport is Girona-Costa Brava Airport, 19 miles from the property.
Buffet breakfast was very nice. Gentleman at the reception very helpful! Helped us to find a babysitter too.
The hotel has great location (sand beach is only 50 m walk, supermarket 150 m). Clean and comfortable room. Great place to stay with small children (hotel provides cots, kitchen has everything for cooking). There are lots of playgrounds nearby. The area is quiet and safe.
The proximity to the beach. A nearby lidl and esclat . Within walking distance to the old town. Always had wifi.
One of our best sellers in Palafrugell! Featuring air conditioning, Can Tarongeta Apartments is located in Palafrugell, just 22 miles from Lloret de Mar. Girona is 18 miles from the property. Free WiFi is available and free private parking is available on site.The accommodation has a satellite flat-screen TV, DVD player, and iPod docking station. Some units have a terrace and/or balcony with garden or city views. There is also a dining area and a kitchen fitted with a microwave and toaster. A refrigerator and stovetop are also featured, as well as a coffee machine and a kettle. Every unit features a private bathroom with a hairdryer. Towels and bed linen are provided.Roses is 24 miles from Can Tarongeta Apartments. Girona-Costa Brava Airport is 21 miles away.
The rooms were clean. It was fully furnished. Very tastefully done. Excellent terrace.
This well equipped apartment was in a quiet location, but within walking distance of the centre of town. With easy access to all the main routes, it was a good base to explore the area and the parking facility with the elevator was a bonus.
Our communication with Gemric was very good and overall we would recommend this property.
Great location, a short walk to the market and main square. The apartment was clean and functional, if a little short on character.
Fantastic location in the heart of quiet, mostly pedestrianised town centre. Local produce market one street away (fresh fish, veg, fruit, etc). All staff very friendly and helpful. Large terrace! Beaches moments away by car. Parking included at property!
One of our top picks in Platja d’Aro.This property is 2 minutes walk from the beach. Located in Platja d’Aro, Aparthotel Comtat Sant Jordi features a garden and terrace. Lloret de Mar is 15 miles away.The accommodation is equipped with a sitting area. Some units feature a dining area and/or balcony. Some units also have a kitchenette, equipped with a refrigerator. Every unit features a private bathroom with a bathtub.Guests can enjoy a meal at the on-site restaurant.You can play ping-pong at the property, and bike rental and car rental are available. Girona is 17 miles from Hotel Comtat Sant Jordi, and Roses is 31 miles from the property. The nearest airport is Girona-Costa Brava Airport, 17 miles from Aparthotel Comtat Sant Jordi.
The bed covers were a bit ropey and some extra bog roll would have been nice.
Very clean and well equipped, lovely friendly staff and kids loved the pool and park. We will definitely be returning in the future.
Kitchen, refrigerator, gas stove, microwave, living room, balcony.
There was not much I liked about this place. There was a nice member of staff when we checked in and a lovely helpful girl in the shop. The sheets seemed clean. What else was nice… ? …. I can’t think of much.
One of our top picks in Palafrugell.Featuring free WiFi and air conditioning, Residencial Super Stop Palafrugell is located in Palafrugell, just 22 miles from Lloret de Mar. Girona is 18 miles from the property. Free private parking is available on site.The accommodation is equipped with a dining area and sitting area with a TV. There is also a kitchen, fitted with a microwave. A toaster and coffee machine are also available. There is a private bathroom with a bathtub in each unit.Guests can enjoy a meal at the on-site restaurant or a drink at the bar.Roses is 24 miles from Residencial Super Stop Palafrugell, and Cadaqués is 27 miles away. The nearest airport is Girona-Costa Brava Airport, 21 miles from Residencial Super Stop Palafrugell.
It was clean and cozy and the host Montse was very helpful.
Comfortable beds. Very quiet at night. Small but well equipped cooking facilities with an excellent sharp knife and enviable corkscrew. Well placed for walking into centre of Parafrugell and driving to beaches. Large Supermarket and several local shops and cafes close by.
spacious, everything nearby, clean, lots of parking.
I booked on the description which was accurate. It is an ideal stopover. For people touring the Costa Brava. The town of Parafugell is a good 20 minutes walk from the apparment. Great little town and worth the walk, I found a real sense of community. The convenience of being above a Carrefour supermarket in my view was an added bonus.
One of our top picks in Palamós.This property is a 5-minute walk from the beach. Apartaments Pal Beach Palamós are just 650 feet from Platja Gran Beach, in the Costa Brava fishing port of Palamós. Each simple apartment includes free WiFi and TV.All Pal Beach apartments have attractive wooden furniture and tiled floors. They include a living-dining area and a kitchenette with a fridge, microwave and electric hob. Most rooms feature a balcony.Apartaments Pal Beach Palamós have a small supermarket and self-service laundry room. Staff can provide information about Palamós and the surrounding area.Apartaments Pal Beach Palamós is only 1,000 feet from Palamós Harbour, and there are various shops within a 5-minute walk. You can enjoy freshly caught fish and the famous Palamós prawns in the town’s traditional restaurants. Girona Airport is a 45-minute drive away.
Apartments were large enough, spacious, close to the marina.
I booked this for 2 guests as a business booking and they found it perfect for their needs.
The location and the facilities were very good for the money.
This property is 1 minute walk from the beach. Featuring free WiFi, Apartaments Sadurni is located in Palamós, just 17 miles from Lloret de Mar. Girona is 18 miles away.All units include a sitting and dining area. There is also a kitchen, fitted with an oven. A microwave and coffee machine are also featured. There is a shared bathroom with a shower in every unit. Bed linen are available.Roses is 29 miles from Apartaments Sadurni. The nearest airport is Girona-Costa Brava Airport, 19 miles from Apartaments Sadurni.
The location is great, close to the beach and the old town is just around the corner (200 m). The see view from the living room is fantastic.
Fantastic view to the beach and the port. Very very good location, easy access to city center.
Airport shuttle bus is in the nearby, this accommodation is worth by plane, too.
The apartment was very clean, they provided toiletries and a kitchen welcome pack which included rubbish sacks washing up liquid.
Best of all the location and view from the apartment. Superb. We loved it.
This property is 2 minutes walk from the beach. Apartamentos Royal S´Alguer offers accommodations in Palamós. Lloret de Mar is 19 miles from the property. Free WiFi is available throughout the property and free private parking is available on site.The accommodation features a flat-screen TV. Some units have a dining area and/or terrace. There is also a kitchen, fitted with an oven, microwave and toaster. A refrigerator and coffee machine are also featured. Each unit is fitted with a private bathroom with a bathtub or shower. Towels are provided.Apartamentos Royal S´Alguer also includes an outdoor pool.Girona is 19 miles from Apartamentos Royal S´Alguer, and Roses is 28 miles away. The nearest airport is Girona-Costa Brava Airport, 20 miles from the property.
El anfitrión Carlos, estuvo atento a nosotros toda la estancia y resolvio y ayudo en todas las dudas que teniamos.
Carlos, personne en charge de la résidence est tres disponible, tres sympa et serviable. C’est le petit plus de cette résidence très calme.
Bien placé, a 100m de la plage, piscine disponible. Restaurant tres proche. Parking privé tres appréciable.
Ens va rebre en Carlos, un noi molt amable i va procurar que no ens faltés de res. Apartaments molt tranquils, còmodes per passar uns dies de vacances, zona comunitària excel·lent, ideal per famílies amb nens. La platja de la Fosca a pocs minuts caminant és un paratge excepcional. Hi tornarem.
Piso Riera offers pet-friendly accommodations in Palamós. The property is 18 miles from Lloret de Mar and free private parking is featured.The kitchen is equipped with a dishwasher. A TV is provided.Girona is 18 miles from PISO RIERA, and Roses is 28 miles from the property. Girona-Costa Brava Airport is 19 miles away.
The above is a top selection of the best apartments to stay in Vall-Llobrega Catalonia to help you with your search. We know it’s not that easy to find the best apartment because there are just so many places to stay in Vall-Llobrega Catalonia but we hope that the above-mentioned tips have helped you make a good decision.
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This week we present a timely and important guest-author series on debt renunciation and forgiveness by longtime contributor Zeus Yiamouyiannis. Today: Part 5: Deficit spending: National absurdity, international gamesmanship, and manipulation by transnational corporations.
Analysis: About all that can be said for the major global economies of the U.S., China, the European Union, et. al. is that they are collectively insolvent and engaging in massive interactive fraud, misrepresentation of national financial health, and mutual exploitation.
The U.S. as the overseer of reserve currency is trying to print its way back into solvency and its banks, like Goldman Sachs, have provided the poison pills for EU implosion with their fraudulent derivatives. Europe will not face the facts that it has unsustainable welfare state commitments and that its banks extended credit and covered debt for Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Ireland (often through private banks in those countries) that were not warranted and could not be paid back.
China (the current growth darling) is devaluing its currency, destroying its environment, poisoning its population, experiencing growing unrest, separation of wealth, collapse real estate values, and corruption in governance in the government’s effort to maintain unsustainable growth, trade imbalances, and grip on autocratic power.
The real threat, however, to the global economies is not nation against nation but transnational corporations allied with so-called “ruling elites” against 99% of us.This alliance is intentionally playing nations against each other in an effort to control, maximize, and concentrate parasitic wealth in the hands of a global few at the expense of productive middle class citizens.
There has been no better evidence of this than the eerie world-wide cover-up and bailing out of derivatives and bank fraud, the non-prosecution of hundreds of thousands of confirmed cases of forgery over private property conveyance (United States), the hollowing out of national revenue and well-being through austerity (Ireland), and the stripping of national assets and sovereignty (Greece with more to come). Bought and sold has acquired a whole new level of meaning.
Intervention: Growing awareness and unrest are beginning to challenge this pattern, but what are its implications for debt forgiveness? Hopefully global movements will lead to much needed turnover in world governance or non-violent social revolution and civil disobedience that renders illegitimate the hold current government leaders have on power.
Frog-marching bank executives and other abusers of the global public trust in front of the International Criminal Court could bring the same legal and moral accountability that applies to ruthless dictators. These abusers could be charged and convicted, their personal assets confiscated, their Swiss banks accounts raided, and their persons thrown in jail, or (if one is to get into the spirit of forgiveness) they could be required to do community and national service for the rest of their lives to compensate for the damage they have caused.
Nations who finally elect people of integrity in government with the wisdom to recognize environmental, cultural, social, political, and economic interdependence and the fortitude to prosecute international financial criminals would be well advised to collectively zero out national debts.
What countries owe one another is a pittance compared to aiding and abetting of hundreds of trillions of dollars of publicly supported private fraud. Even “real number” debts have dubious foundations: The U.S. supposedly “owes” China a trillion dollars or so, but China has likely taken at least that amount from the U.S. in intellectual property theft (industrial patents, computer software, and entertainment) as well as the sale of counterfeit brand name goods.
The same unregistered reciprocity exists with the couple of trillion or so the U.S. owes India and Saudi Arabia. India has benefited massively from the public U.S. university system and the private offshoring of technology jobs, and Saudi Arabia has been able to hold a stable grip on its repressive power largely with the implicit backing of U.S. foreign policy and military.
I’m not sure what would come after international debt forgiveness. Global youth are much interconnected and cooperative. Perhaps a global currency will come into existence, based on a kind of “Esperanto dollars,” backed by some agreed upon standard of exchange value. I would not be surprised to see formal national money take a backseat to voluntary forms of exchange and trade like local currencies or swapping of services, skills, and information.
Analysis and intervention: I won’t comment much on this except to encourage readers totreat as a massive debt the kind of “borrowing” we have taken from Mother Nature in the form of resource extraction and literal deposit of “toxic liabilities” in the form of pollution. This debt will not be forgiven by more trickery or a fundamentalist belief in the magic of the market (though creative market responses will be essential to slowing damage and creating sustainable opportunities). I am highly suspicious of speculative markets like carbon trading, just as I am of speculation in water supply. These arenas are too intrinsic to human survival to be toyed with in largely abstract, remote, and ripe-for-abuse speculative market posturing.
Debt forgiveness here really involves a whole-scale transformation about how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the world around us. Honoring our debt to nature means that we recognize our pursuit of happiness depends upon our physical sustenance. This will require comprehensive education, re-grounding in natural experience, and recommitment to simple living to pay down the massive debt of ignorant living to which we have grown accustomed.
It will call for an evolution of ideas of the good life that move from physical manufacturing, use, and exploitation of the material world, to one where the material world provides only the bare support needed to explore, expand, and develop our increasingly non-material opportunities and aspirations. I personally find this a heartening and exciting direction, but many are likely to view it as a step down. This will be one of the most important global conversations in the next century.
One of the greatest barriers to enacting alternatives is getting over the false idea that debt is some kind of either natural phenomenon or moral law. Debt is not natural; it is created by humans and can be erased by humans. There is nothing moral about a nation running up its children’s national credit card to the tune of 15 trillion dollars (with another 100 trillion+ in federal entitlements) and expecting the next generation to pay it. Nor is it morally reasonable to expect individual people, who have worked hard and followed the economic rules, to suffer with life-long debt servitude for mid-game changes in the rules and shifts in the global context.
In point of fact, our current “sea” of international debt is merely a very large man-made lake, damned up by ignorance, greed, and exploitation. The only healthy way to manage current debt is to drain this lake completely through debt forgiveness. It is time to take down the dam and let democratic prosperity flow. True, people will not get their individual material dreams and hopes of unlimited riches fulfilled, but they will take important steps toward preventing a war of humanity against itself, and they will be able to engage new opportunities and definitions of the good life involving working together creatively to build a better, more just world.
Instead of the old dream where we impose static past fantasies on a dynamic future, we can embrace a new dream where we create, explore, express, unfold, and reinvent who we are and what we can be through shared, interactive achievement and improvement. The old economic system based on scarcity and false security is thus converted toward new ends—freedom, health, quality of life, creativity, autonomy, and mutuality.
In pursuing this progress in jubilee, we go a long way to clearing out our past entrapments, inequities, and animosities. We also wisely devote our shrinking material resources toward developing a widely shared and exchanged, mostly non-material, experiential and social currency that multiplies in abundance and increases in value the more it is shared.
by Zeus Yiamouyiannis, Ph.D., copyright 2011. All opinions presented in this essay are solely those of the author.
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Is Marketing Way Of Thinking In Antagonism With Spiritual Nature Of Music?
There are two ways of thinking about the relationship between music (or even arts or culture) and marketing. We can watch this problem from the philosophical and practical point of view. In philosophical dimensions we can disputate, whether cultural organizations, whose mission lays in the fields of protection the cultural or spiritual values, arts or increasing the cultural awareness of the nations, should even deal with marketing, which is thought to be a product of commercial sector of economy and a way to sell people non-essential goods and bring them closer to the consumer way of life.
This way of thinking is typical for the staff of many small amateur but also great professional culture organizations. Marketing as a principle is often rejected in the significant part of Czech non-profit sector, where people consider using it to be way of losing one’s credibility, in the branch of culture also kind of vulgarization of audience and loss of exclusiveness consequent to the mass advertising or promoting.
From the marketing analyst’s point of view the product of cultural (art, music) organizations is the same (or similar) kind of product like that of industrial enterprise, somehow specific, but still only product interesting for some - maybe small - target group of customers. What is important - part of this target group doesn’t know about this product, doesn’t know where to buy it etc. On the other hand, there are other (non-primary) target groups, which could see other benefits of the product, than the primary target group does (that means, the primary target group goes to the classical music concert because of the artistic impression of the piece they know; the secondary target group just wants spend somehow Saturday’s evening and the classical music concert is only one - but still relevant - of many possibilities). From the marketing point of view this specific cultural product may bear some specific benefits, which may be communicated (promoted) through specific communication channels.
That means, we can believe, that connection of “romantic” idea of non-profit artwork and “practical” marketing techniques (Lee, 2005) exists, though in fact it is often intuitive, non-professional of non-effective and very often it isn’t called “marketing”. Nevertheless the most of cultural organizations execute some “marketing”, because they try to satisfy the interests, needs and desires of all relevant stakeholders (McLeish, 1995).
Is The Connection Between Marketing And Arts Possible?
At first sight the marketing and art aims of cultural organizations may seem to be in an antagonism. One of the basic principles of marketing theory is the emphasis on consumer’s (client’s) needs and desires, but the cultural organizations carry on the artistic production considered to be expression of inner feelings of the author, which can’t be revised by nothing outer, less by the “consumers’ needs”.
The relationship between marketing and arts has anyway two levels. The first of them relates to artistic creative process, the second relates to the arts’ presentation. The problem of marketing-orientated reasons of creative process is false and relevant in romantic and post-romantic era. Even the 18th century composers didn’t know this problem, because part of their works came from someone’s (nobility’s, church’s) order, that means - had to satisfy someone’s needs and desires. The romantic era brought the idea of independent artist, whose production can be funded, but not determined by someone else. New era of the artistic creative process inspired by societal or even commercial order has come in the second part of 20th century. Nowadays it is again possible and there are no doubts about it (Fillis in Kerrigan, Frazer, Özbilgin, 2004: 133).
Neither in the world of arts presentation (or interpretation) by cultural (arts) organizations marketing orientation to the consumers´ needs and desires doesn’t have to mean rejection of the artistic value, but seeking and finding a reasonable compromise between majority and minority interests. Or, according to Kotler and Scheff, „Marketing, as it relates to the arts, is not about intimidation or coercion or abandoning an artistic vision. It is not „hard selling“ or deceptive advertising. It is a sound, effective technology for creating exchanges and influencing behavior that, when properly applied, must be beneficial to both parties involved in the exchange.“ (Kotler, Scheff, 1997: 30).
To be able to do this, the cultural organization needs to identify its consumers and their needs and desires. The key point is, that there is not only one type of consumers (attenders, listeners), who have the same relationship to the product, understand it the same way and have the same expectations towards to it. In every audience there are at least two (but in fact more) kinds of consumers: the first of them has a deep interest in the branch and seeks above all the artistic dimension of the product, while the second demands above all entertainment and some smart or intelligent way of spending the spare time. Whilst the first kind (type) consumers knows very well what he/she is looking for, the second type consumer may be indifferent towards the product and towards to making the decision of going to the classical music concert, theatre, cinema or even watching TV or doing shopping. These two consumers can obviously come to the same concert, but every of them expects something different.
The marketing access means, that cultural organization can recognize the different ideas of the different target groups and either prepares different products (kinds, variants of product) for every of them (that doesn’t mean lose of artistic value, but only diversification of the product), or prepares different ways of marketing communication of the same product for different target groups (traditional consumers of art are interested above all in the name of composer, piece, soloist or conductor; the people wanting only somehow spend spare evening must learn, why they shouldn’t go to the theatre, but should go to the concert; they must learn the emotional side of the performance, while the traditional consumers are interested only in the rational description, because they know what to expect). Every product can bring different benefits to different people and performing marketing means to know, what benefits are important for particular target groups.
How To Define Arts Marketing?
Arts (culture) marketing started to be broader reflected in the literature from 1967, when Philip Kotler in his book Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning and Control wrote, that cultural institutions produce “cultural goods” and must compete to attract on the one hand the customers and on the other hand the national financial resources; that means they face the marketing problem (Colbert, 2001: 12). During 1970s this topic was broader popularized in the literature. Some socially-marketing activities of course were present before too - for example after World War II many governments increased the support of arts, maybe because of treatment the society stroked by the war. This increased the interest in arts in the countries (Kolb, 2005: 33).
In other books there are defined the aims of arts marketing. Kotler in his preface to the book Marketing the Arts identifies its four main tasks: increasing attendance, cultivation the audience, development of membership and fundraising (Kotler in Mokwa, Dawson, Prieve, 1980: preface). Nearly twenty years later the same author describes the objective more simply - the main problems of culture organizations marketing are seeking the markets for their supply, broadening markets and sustenance their audience (Kotler, Scheff, 1997: 20).
All these definitions highlight only some aspects of the whole problem. Summarizing all the points of view we can say, that the objective of marketing management in culture organizations is balancing number of (at first sight contradictory) interests. The interest of artists, cultural organizations, society, philanthropists and traditional consumers of arts is to support the creation and protection of highly valuable artworks. The interest of founders (owners) of the organizations and their staff is to reach appropriate economical profit (at least avoid the loss and provide wages). The interest of cultural consumers and the public is to spend meaningfully and culturally their spare time. And finally the interest of commercial sponsors is to support a cultural activity with the possibility of speaking to its audience and communicating them their own values (products, aims etc.). That means marketing in culture organizations is to provide valuable and diversified products interesting for various target groups, suitably react to the attitudes of audience, education and cultivation the audience and raising the funds including own entrepreneurship.
Is Marketing In The Arts Something New?
Marketing or let us say business activities in the world of arts are not anything new. In the seventeenth century the opera societies were very successful entrepreneurial organizations, though later some of them faced bankruptcy (Bukofzer, 186: 577). The role of impresario as a promoter of cultural production was as important as the role of the author (Chong, 2002: 33). Occasionally these two roles were integrated in one person (Georg Friedrich Händel in the deep past and Andrew Lloyd Weber nowadays - see Chong, 2002: 30, 34), in spite of their generally supposed incompatibility. This model of impresario as a artistic manager and marketer lasted until the beginning of the second half of twentieth century, when the more bureaucratically admission started to take place in arts organizations (similarly as in the business sphere) (Porvazník, 2003). The role of impresario of course remained till today in form of marketing manager, if you like agent of celebrities of the world of culture or arts. Simultaneously with the tendency of changing traditional „manager“ (as administrator) into „leader“ (as teacher or coach, Vodáček, Vodáčková, 2001) might traditional model of impresario (as someone who communicates to the various stakeholders including community public) become more important (Colbert, 2003).
Culture And Arts: Marketing Versus Spirituality?
As we could see in the previous paragraphs, some prejudice towards marketing and possibilities of its co-existence with the world of arts and culture may have its roots in misunderstanding the right content of species “marketing”. In the non-professional world it is mostly understood as “hard-selling”, the attempt to sell something “at any price”, sometimes it is understood as a synonym of words “cheating”, “lying” etc. According to marketing theory this term is emotionally neutral and means steady collection of some attitudes and techniques which - used correctly with knowledge of social and economical context - may help to reach the entrepreneurial success or at least economically stable production of some economical goods. That means, marketing needn’t to be in any opposition to spiritual dimension of arts. Anyway, marketing cannot be understood as a recipe leading to sure success. We can expect the laws of commercial goods markets are the same as those of culture goods markets. Nevertheless characters of these markets are different, especially in parameters of size of the target groups. Of course, this has some consequences for probability of success and effectiveness of implementation of marketing procedures on these markets. | 2019-04-25T02:21:07Z | https://www.forfest.cz/colloquy/42 |
Many old customs are still preserved in the villages during the Christmas and Easter celebrations. In the past, white animals (sheep and cows) should enter houses in order to keep evil spirits away. Similarly, sea squills are hanged on the doors as a symbol of immortality. A unique event not to be missed is the celebration of the Christmas mass in a real manger in the cave Marathokefala. Moreover, in the Christmas village at plateau Omalos, the snow confers a magic aura of Christmas to the setting.
Fruit-bearing trees, especially citrus trees, thrive in many areas of Crete. Oranges from Maleme in Chania have been awarded PDO status, though other famous varieties include oranges from the planes of Milopotamos and Fodele, bananas from Arvi, and apples from Lassithi Plateau. At present, alternative crops have been developed and previously ignored products, such as prickly pears, have become standardized. Dried figs, sultanas and currants have always been crucial both for the islanders’ diet and as an exportable product. Their high energy value makes them more suitable for the winter period.
The rugged terrain of Crete is a paradise for lovers of off-road exploration. Driving in dirt tracks, on the edge of steep slopes with breathtaking sea views, is a unique experience. The island is home to an increasing number of companies offering four-wheel drive excursions in the most amazing places of the island. Crossing mountains on motorbikes is also a very popular activity of local motor clubs. Cycling, either off-road or on asphalt-paved roads, is also a wonderful way to explore the hinterland. Many companies and cycling clubs operate in this sector. The Cycling Tour of Crete is one of the most famous cycling events and attracts many visitors from all over the globe.
The best way to explore Crete is to walk off the beaten track, follow ancient paths, enjoy the wonderful scents of herbs in the canyons, climb on the tops of the highest mountains and gaze at the deep blue Cretan and Libyan Sea on the horizon. The E4 European Long Distance Path involves a large network of trails with special cultural, natural and historical value. It is marked by the European Ramblers Association and crosses the island, from Kissamos to Zakros. Hikers have the opportunity to explore a wide range of landscapes of great diversity. Apart from the E4 trekking path, there are plenty of options for majestic mapped routes. Many travel agencies offer packages for trekking on the island and there are many hiking and mountaineering clubs. Important mountain races are also organized, such as Psiloritis Race and the Marathon of Samaria.
Apart from Cretans, most visitors ignore that the snowy peaks of the Cretan mountains in winter are ideal for snow sports. All mountaineering clubs on the island organize courses and training sessions related to snow mountaineering, especially in the ranges of White Mountains and Psiloritis. Mountaineering is usually combined with a stay in one of the many mountain shelters. Ski mountaineering, an exciting winter sport that combines trekking on snow-covered surfaces with skiing, attracts an increasing number of fans. Many Cretans climb up the whitewashed mountains and descend slopes on skis or snowboard. Snow-kiting is a relatively new winter sport, which has spread rapidly around the world. The sport is similar to water-based kiteboarding, yet with the footwear used in snowboarding or skiing. Crete is an ideal destination and champions of the sport were excited to do kiteboarding around the white peaks with the blue sea in the background.
Nothing is repeated in Crete. Enormous geological contradictions and special weather conditions have formed unique landscapes, surprising the visitors and keeping senses constantly alert. Each route in Crete is unique. Variant sensations, pictures, colors, flavors, sounds accompany visitors at every step.
Crete is characterized by a great diversity of landscapes and in combination with its isolated geographic location, it hosts a large number of plant species. Great Britain, whose area is 40 times larger than the island of Crete, encompasses almost the same number of species of plants. This is indicative for the variety of species available on the island. Over 1700 species have been recorded up to date in Crete, many of which are endemic. Some remote areas of the island, especially the White Mountains and the surrounding islets are home to many stenoendemic species and subspecies, i.e. plants that are only distributed in this limited area.
Crete has a rich biodiversity and the best moment to witness this is in the spring when the flora is at its best. Over 1.700 species have been recorded up to date in Crete, many of which are endemic. Some remote areas of the island, especially the White Mountains and the surrounding islets are home to many stenoendemic species and subspecies, i.e. plants that are only distributed in this limited area. Every year these rare species attract botanists from all over the world. They come to study wild flowers, including impressive native Cretan orchids. Moreover, endemic tulips grow on the White Mountains, on the Dikti range, on the Gramvousa peninsula and in the small botanical paradise of Gious Kampos in Rethymnon. Crete is also famous for its aromatic plants and herbs that grow everywhere on the island. Many of them have been used since ancient times for their therapeutic properties and they are currently cultivated in many places of the island.
The existence of numerous caves is inextricably linked to the rugged topography of Crete. Crete has more than 4.500 mapped caves and sinkholes, available to each experienced speleologist who wants to enjoy their rich decoration and fauna. The geological importance of Crete is indicated by the numerous international caving missions for the discovery of unexplored caves and sinkholes. Internationally famous precipices are Gourgouthakas (the deepest in Greece with a depth of -1.208m), Leon (with a depth of -1.110m) and more. Areas that host a large number of caves, ideal for cavers, include mount Stroumboulas by Heraklion, the Geopark of Sitia, the Geopark of Psiloritis and Melidoni area at the White Mountains. On the island, many speleological clubs offer their research and educational contribution. All clubs together constitute the most active speleological community in Greece.
Carnival is another great celebration with roots deep into the past and it is enthusiastically celebrated in places like Gergeri in Heraklion, with Arkoudiarides (wild bears) wearing furs and bells, the soiled faces of the Lerades, Siviani which is a special mask made of the roots of the American aloe plant (known in Greek as the immortal plant) and other typical figures such as the Camel and the Cadi (Turkish judge). The larger cities on the island organize parades and treasure hunts. The main Easter customs include the auction of the Holy Cross, passing the sheep under the Epitaph procession, burning the effigy of Judas in a big bonfire, carrying the Holy Light from the church to the homes and placing red eggs on the graves.
From the dunes of Lafonissi and Xerokambos to the tropical shores of Kedrodasos and Chrissi, from the hidden beaches in the wild gorges of Sfakia and Asteroussia to the emerald bays of Triopetra and Plakias, from Balos and Elounda lagoons to the palm groves of Preveli and Vai, from piney beaches of Ierapetra to the long organized strands of the northern coasts, Crete offers the ultimate combination of carefree holidays and natural beauty.
Thousands of kilometers of coasts carved by salt, the sun and the wind. Crystal waters exhausting the color palette of blue and green. Steep mountains which abruptly raise above the sea … this scenery is met in all areas of Crete. The coastline of Crete is 1046 km long, with very well organized, popular beaches, but also isolated, scenic and pristine places. In Crete, visitors can escape to one of the numerous hospitable, organized beaches located mainly in the northern coast that hosts the major tourist resorts. All those beaches offer visitors a wide range of services, amenities, security, cafes, bars, restaurants, water sports, lifeguards, etc. Most of them have been awarded with the Blue Flag for their safety, cleanness and immaculate amenities.
For romantics and adventure lovers, there are pristine beaches of incomparable beauty, especially in the southern coast. Small emerald heavens are reached after driving in serpentine dirt roads on the edge of steep slopes with breathtaking sea views, or after walking on ancient paths and crossing wild gorges. The winter in Crete is mild, while the spring and the autumn are soft and pleasant; the summer is warm and bright with cool breaks due to the northern winds (meltemi) of August. Crete falls into two climatic zones, the Mediterranean and the North African zone, mainly falling into the former.
Sea temperature rarely falls below 15 degrees Celsius in winter, especially to the south. Winter swimming with the whitewashed peaks of the Cretan mounts at in the background is a unique experience and attracts an increasing number of fans. The climate of Crete is considered as one of the finest, healthiest and mildest climates in Europe. One factor that plays a key role in the formation of the climate is the sea surrounding the island and alleviating the heat intensity of the summer sun. Ierapetra is considered the warmest Greek city and the coastline of the Libyan Sea and Gavdos are the warmest in Greece. The southern coast, including the plain of Messara and the Asterousia Mountains, falls into the North African climatic zone and thus has many sunny, warm days all year round.
Crete’s rugged terrain below sea surface, forms imposing abysses, caves and reefs. Furthermore, numerous shipwrecks and airplane carcasses are dispersed around Crete, as a reminder of its history. Guests of Crete have the opportunity to escape to the magical underwater world by choosing among a large number of companies that deal with diving. Besides diving, visitors can explore coasts through snorkeling or participate in fishing trips or bottom-glass boat excursions.
The options for exploring the coasts of the island are endless. There are daily boat services to many of the most famous remote beaches, such as Balos, Preveli and Agia Roumeli. Visitors can also join trips to the islands of Chrissi, Gavdos, Dia and Koufonisi. Those looking for more options or seclusion could rent a motor or sailing vessel from the marinas of Lassithi, Heraklion, Rethymnon and Chania and in almost all smaller harbors of the island. Indeed, there are many people combining vacation in Crete with a trip to the magical island of Santorini. In recent years, the number of visitors who prefer exploring the rugged coastline and the beautiful beaches that offers canoe kayak amenities has increased. Several companies offer equipment and kayak lessons.
Crete is a heaven for nature lovers and those combining adventure and fun on their vacation. The island offers a variety of activities and opportunities for exploring nature and promises a unique and unforgettable experience for those who decide to explore it.
Crete is isolated from other continental regions of Europe, Asia and Africa and this is reflected on the genetic diversity of the island’s fauna. From the proud Cretan ibex, the wildcat and the Cretan shrew to the endemic arthropods and bats, the fauna of Crete hides many secrets about the evolution of species in the Eastern Mediterranean. On the island there are no animals that could harm humans. The ancestors of the Cretans attributed this either to a labor of Hercules in order to honor the birthplace of Zeus, Crete, or to the blessings of Paul the Apostle, who spent two years in Crete. Avifauna of Crete is considered one of the richest in Europe, home to over 350 bird species. Cretan mountains host the highest insular population of vultures in the world, while along with Corsica, Crete hosts the last couples of lammergeiers in the Balkan Peninsula.
In autumn, Crete is a favourite resting place for a vast number of migratory birds. Many observation huts and towers have been installed in wetlands where bird watchers can watch a great variety of birds. Apart from wetlands, watch towers have been placed in several gorges and mountains that are home to a large number of birds of prey. The largest natural lake in Crete is located at Kournas by Georgioupolis, where visitors can observe birds from the local watch tower. Small, but important, natural ponds with water all year round are also located at Tersanas by Chania, at Mohos and Thrapsano while seasonal ponds are met at Orne, Parakalouri, Ziros, Omalos by Viannos, Achendrias, Stroumboulas, various plateaus of north province Mirabello, Gergeri and in several more places. Artificial lakes where one can observe birds are located at Ayia by Chania, Votomos by Zaros, at the large dams of Bramiana, Aposelemis, Faneromeni, Potami and the numerous small dams in the hinterland of Heraklion. Rivers and wetlands that are home to large populations of wading birds are also found in numerous sites of the island. The most famous include the estuaries of the rivers Aposelemis, Anapodaris, Almiros by Gazi, Preveli, Platys, Almiros by Agios Nikolaos, Kyliaris and the four rivers of Georgioupolis. Other extremely important locations are the saltpans of Xerokambos, Gavdos, Chrissi and the marshes of Malia, Katalyki and Falassarna.
The island of Icarus and Daedalus is home to several companies and clubs that organize contests or offer lessons and equipment for air sports. Crete is full of steep slopes, ideal for mountain sports associated with the wind, such as paragliding or paramotor. The area of Avdou by Hersonissos is one of the most popular paragliding spots. All major airports of Crete house certified air-sport clubs that provide seminars and small aircrafts to rent. There are also many clubs for aircraft modelling that organize astonishing demonstrations. For extreme athletes, there are various skydiving schools with experienced instructors. The schools operate at some airports of the island, such as Timbaki.
Crete offers a very wide range of options for experiences that will follow the visitor forever, most of which are related to nature. Horseback riding is one of the most common activities in Crete. The island has a long tradition in using horses in everyday life. Even today, many Cretans own a Cretan horse (georgalidiko), a breed perfectly adapted to the rugged terrains of Crete, and take part in competitions and shows. On the island there are many riding clubs and associations, while companies offer riding courses or excursions. Wetlands of Crete are shelters for a large number of plants and animal species. They are crucial for the conservation of biodiversity on the island. During fall and especially in spring, visitors can observe migratory birds in the numerous watch towers placed at most wetlands. Watchtowers have also been installed in mountainous areas with a large array of predator species. | 2019-04-20T20:45:57Z | https://www.incrediblecrete.gr/seasons-crete/ |
Perfect Illusion, in the most biblically cultural tense, is the sonic record of an experience birthed in those few shared hours of the Catholic liturgical calendar between the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mother and The Feast of Saint Peter Claver.
Literally writing an autobiography with the modifier as the mood: the illusory hallucinogen, the amplified amphetamine, the bombastic blow into a cracked mirror… but recognizing that once this rupture occurs, once that false reflection is realized as nothing more than a barren concept: modern ecstasy. Sublimation is in the sonicscape of that fundamental ethereal transcendental alchemical fuel: the muse, the music, that shared source frequency; proving that even amidst apparent solitude, this tribe will always emerge, so long as you play your tune. And in that invisible bond beyond apparent isolation, Gaga, the monsters, the music-fueled masses, need no narcotic, need no exogenous agonist to trigger connection, need only that signature hymn for vamp-driven direction beyond vice to that glorious edge on the verge of whatever liberation she has promised since conception.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world there was a music industry. Really it's just you and me and our songs.
She’s not real, she’s theatre; in Hollywood, there is no theatre, just cinema: way too reel to be wrong, and “Perfect Illusion” is the signature song. Is not the mirror itself a perfect illusion? The beautiful synergy of silver and glass formed to reflect those most apparent facets of the unknown self; even more so this, the living mirror, the projected muse, the mercurial viscera existing in increasing measure as nothing more and never anything less than the soundtrack of a world culture. Not every individual will see themselves reflected in this mirror, and those who do will see this reflection in sound and psyche. Perfect Illusion as what it is, is a subliminal shared experience within that musical enclave of misfit noise. Beyond The Fame, this is Gaga, and that is the perfect illusion.
“Perfect Illusion… ” This one’s interesting I guess, you know, I see it as a mirror, Perfect Illusion being nothing more and nothing less than that … It’s interesting though, because I never really approached the project as one would approach a “song.” I think the everything about the release, for lack of a better term, is just the anticipation… I mean, in the three years since ARTPOP, you’ve had projects and you’ve had work but you’ve not had a proper release, and I think that’s what’s so crucial about this is that it was the first proper release… and with each passing day, moment, project, you’ve got Gaga being an increasingly impactful star… and to withhold that source energy from popular music, to withhold that proper release for whatever reason, is always felt.
So I guess all of that is to say that to have this drought in the pop music world without a proper Gaga release, or just work there, was definitely part of this experience: that people were starving, they were thirsty, and they were drowning in noise and starving for music; and that’s the perfect illusion: the apparent decadence, the apparent deluge, and the actual drought and depravity… and the duality of it all. The duality of the reflection versus the reality, the reflection as reality, all of the things that go into pop music and a proper release are what make a perfect illusion what it is.
And I think here again is the idea that none of this was ever a song, and I think we get this idea with Gaga all the time is that, it’s a release, it’s a form of expression. Everything she does is just an energetic force, and depending on the conditions of captivity, you’re going to have different forms of expression – and that’s the fun part, seeing how she translates the experience and the absence in her current presence. And again, these are all very dualistic words: “absence,” “presence,” “captivity,” liberation, “expression,” and that’s the perfect illusion: it is just the human condition, as it is.
This subliminal state of transcendence through perpetual passion and alchemy of apparent triumph, descent, and renaissance; and hers as an artist, as a star, is to create and to release; and as a pop star with global impact and global – if nothing else, projection and access – her job is to be a living mirror: to get you to move and to reflect and to see yourself in whatever it is she creates. This is because as an artist, she needs to release; and as a public figure, as a celebrity, as a pop artist, as a performance artist, as an entertainer, that dependency – that inherent dialectic between the actor, the author, and the audience – requires a reciprocation, some kind of reciprocity; for Gaga, beyond applause, it is that reciprocated creation. So, if you’re best at being a cheerleader, then yes, by all means, applaud; but if you’re an artist, create something that responds to this, and if you’re a chef, let this seep through your recipes, in your work, and just feel the energy and let it manifest through you… and that’s the illusion: that there is any kind of duality or separation between the author and the audience, or the actor and the audience: they’re all just creative beings who express with one another about their own experiences, and so it’s all a perfect illusion. And the song itself is merely a seed but, like she said before, so is she: put her somewhere and she’ll grow.
… and fundamentally, anything she creates is nothing more than an aural idea, it’s just an idea and a message that has been crafted in the invisible world of music, and you can’t kill an idea because it’s timeless, and this idea has been expressed and now it exists, as nothing more and nothing less than the energy, and so within that: it’s a language.
Music is nothing more than a language. The fact that Gaga writes a song just means that she’s telling people what to say. She knows people are going to sing the song, so what do you want people to say? And really, the thing about this is, it’s not what you say – it’s how you say it. These lyrics are so ambiguous, so ambivalent, and so universal that it’s the tone someone gives it that makes it what it is. So, effectually she’s just given the world a mirror as a canvas… to create, and just by expressing recognition of that instrument, you engage with your own reflection through the shared release because you are manifesting the mirror through the pop dialogue of “Perfect Illusion,” the eternal narrative of that perfect illusion of the contemporary living human condition – which at this moment in culture, is The Fame.
And so everyone who thinks of this as a market product, it’s okay: it’s #1 in 63 countries; for everybody who thinks of this as a song recording, well, it’s incredibly well-composed, a complete immersive sonic projection of an immediate future world, an aural testament to the new present… lightning synth propels creation from the primordial ooze… the familiar tone emerges boldly beyond, that primary life force, the signature mantra, the mitochondrial Eve staking verbose claim over the deserted sonic plane… four-on-the-floor canyon kick bass rolls on beneath the tonal rocky road… subtle undertones begin to echo as the masculine parallel to the initial narrator, distant claps generate a steady foundation, the sonic support of a tribe on the brink of choral emergence just on the other side of primary verses… with a guessing game as strong as the moccasin game of new natives… only to recognize the fallacy of apparent reality, to shatter the glass of this two-way mirror that is the fourth wall between celebrity and citizenry, to rupture all duality between every living entity within this shared bond of humanity, to bring the penthouse back to the pit, to reverse pop logic and bring that fringe disco underground soul back to the pulpit… then we have the chorus, the karaoke keeping the crowd in sonic unison… “it wasn’t love, it was the perfect illusion…” #bam what does it mean, it means what it’s always meant; it means the reality is its own fantasy: to make that real. “You were,” and love is: manifest that mind, that beautiful mine, attest to make it real.
Love is the perfect illusion, love is the only anything maintaining bonds, barriers, and bridges… So, if “perfect” is having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics (as good as possible to be), and “illusion” is a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses, then the perfect illusion is nothing more than a beautiful lie, likely the very same seed of future truth for which a one Lady Gaga forever lives and dies. | 2019-04-26T14:37:04Z | https://swiperbootz.com/2016/09/12/ciao-manhattan-sunset-genesis-in-the-lens-of-perfect-illusion/?shared=email&msg=fail |
Calligraphy (from (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek καλλι calli "beauty" + γραφος graphos "writing") is the art of decorative (The work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect)) writing.
Western calligraphy is the calligraphy of the Latin writing system, and to a lesser degree the (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek and (An alphabet drived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages) Cyrillic writing systems.
Calligraphy is an art dating back to the earliest day of history, and widely practiced throughout (A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world) China to this day.
Calligraphy, literally "beautiful writing," has been appreciated as an art form in many different cultures throughout the world, but the stature of calligraphy in Chinese culture is unmatched.
To better understand how calligraphy came to occupy such a prominent position, it is necessary to consider a variety of factors, such as the materials used in calligraphy and the nature of the Chinese written script as well as the esteem in which writing and literacy are held in traditional China.
In trying to understand why calligraphy came to occupy such a prominent position in China, it is useful to consider the features that were prized when calligraphy began to emerge as an art form distinct from mere writing; that is to say, when specimens of handwriting began to be valued, collected, and treated as art.
Calligraphy at every point in time is a conscious art, which is distinguished from the studies of Epigraphy or Palaeography in general.
Chinese calligraphy typically uses ink brushes to write Chinese characters (called Hanzi in Chinese, Kanji in Japanese, and Hanja in Korean).
Arabic calligraphy is often displayed in Muslim art, because it serves as an inspiration.
Chinese Calligraphy is an art dating back to the earliest day of history, and widely practiced throughout China to this day.
Chinese calligraphy is a unique oriental art form to Asian cultures with a brilliant tradition as ancient as the culture itself.
Calligraphy is not just another way of writing Chinese characters, but also a beautiful, elaborate and a stylish art of interpretation and a branch of learning.
Earlier periods of the Chinese history reveal that calligraphy was viewed as a matchless and independent visual art form rather than merely an ornamental art and was highly regarded over painting and sculpture, and paralleled alongside poetry as a means of self-expression and cultivation.
Calligraphy, the writing of characters, is an art which has developed over many centuries in China.
The earliest known examples of Chinese writing are inscriptions on animal bones and tortoise shells dating from the 13th century B.C. during the Shang dynasty.
In Chinese calligraphy it is essential to be able to vary the width of the strokes simply by applying a little pressure to the brush.
Emphasize the different types and styles of calligraphy that are produced by various calligraphy artists (i.e., free flowing and traditional).
Chinese calligraphy is written beginning on the right side of the paper, and the characters are written downward instead of across the paper.
Explain that Chinese calligraphy and painting is characterized by efficient uses of painting strokes.
Chinese calligraphy is an Oriental tradition rooted in centuries of practice.
It is an art of turning square Chinese characters into expressive images by the responsiveness of rice paper and speed and pressure of a pointed Chinese brush.
Execution and appreciation of brushwork in Chinese calligraphy are bound by strict rules.
Calligraphy is understood in China as art or writing.
Chinese scripts are divided into five groups: the seal characters, the running hand, the official script, the regular script, and the cursive hand.
The ink stone is the most important of the four treasures for calligraphy which are writing brush, ink-stick, paper and ink stone.
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Calligraphy, literally "beautiful writing," is one of the traditional four arts dating back to the earliest days of Chinese history.
A Chinese calligrapher's tools, like thos`e of a painter, are comprised of four basic items that are commonly referred to as the "four treasures of the study".
This publication of the John B. Elliott Collection of Chinese calligraphy at the Princeton University Museum is that rare mixture of basic reference and thoughtful scholarship that will be a useful addition to any library on Chinese art, at home or in the University.
Calligraphy holds a special place among the arts in China because it not only provides artistic pleasure, but it is also the mechanism through which culture and heritage are transmitted through the ages.
Calligraphy’s blending of ritual and continuity with personality and innovation reflect our own search to define ourselves both as individuals and within a larger spiritual and historical context.
Chinese Calligraphy Art with name translation and words, zodiac in Chinese writing on t-shirt, cap, mug, and more gift products.
Chinese calligraphy is a unique art of writing.
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Chinese characters are in common use today, and are called Seal Script.
As a student of both Chinese painting and calligraphy, I have spent a great deal of my time practicing a character in a nine-square grid in order to get the spacing and composition of the character correct, just as children in China do every day.
Their use and development in Chinese literature and in Chinese custom and attitudes to life are traced lucidly and precisely.
Chinese calligraphy, like the script itself, began with the hieroglyphs and, over the long ages of evolution, has developed various styles and schools, constituting an important part of the heritage of national culture.
Chinese masters have always compared with vivid aptness the three styles of writing-kaishu, xingshu and caoshu-to people standing, walking and running.
Chinese calligraphy is an art form, and calligraphers are highly respected.
Chinese ink- It is solid, and usually comes in the shape of sticks.
Chinese brush- Brushes are made from animal hair that is bundled together and put on bamboo reeds.
Chinese painting may be done either on Chinese paper or silk.
Chinese paper is usually known as rice paper in English.
Chinese calligraphy is at least four thousand years old, based on legendary tales and on textual criticism in archaeology.
True enough, these inscriptions are outstanding examples of ancient Chinese calligraphy written by means of a metal tool, but it would not be correct to say that all inscriptions on bone or tortoise shell were done by means of a metal tool.
The style of the calligraphy on the pottery piece in Dinggong Village is too complicated to have been inscribed directly on the pottery with a sharp tool.
For the Chinese, calligraphy, the ancient art of the written word is not just a method of communication but also, a means of expressing the dynamic forces of the natural world.
Concerned with both the present and a long past, calligraphy is at once the most rigorously convention-bound and the most fiercely individualistic of the graphic arts.
Calligraphy developed slowly in China over more than 2,000 years before the modem, regular script evolved in the third century.
Chinese calligraphy, Chinese paintings, art, antiques, everthing about culture.
When you speak up to your Chinese friends, they will feel you know them better.
Every Chinese festivals come from a story or history event.
Chinese Calligraphy - Chinese Rainbow Calligraphy.
Chinese calligraphy (Rainbow) -is an ancient art form that dates back at least 2,000 years to pictography engraved on Neolithic pottery.
The rainbow calligraphy strokes of your name are modelled according to the strokes of your name in fl/white calligraphy and NOT in any random fashion.(compare Diagram A vs Diagram B) You name may in the end, consist of a combination of different Chinese symbols.
Remember, the outcome of the chinese calligraphy symbols of your name are greatly determined by the original strokes patterns of your name in its fl/white format.
Following a history of Chinese calligraphy—going all the way back to the pictographic beginnings of Chinese writing more than 4,000 years ago—the author explains the basic construction of individual characters and the ways in which calligraphy is used by Chinese artists, including calligraphic seals and inscriptions on paintings.
Chinese calligraphy is a mammoth subject with thousands of years of history.
In the introduction to "The Art of Chinese calligraphy", the author says that the purpose of the book is allowing the readers to delight in the intrinsic beauty of Chinese calligraphy, even if they haven't yet mastered the Chinese language.
Zhang Ruitu was well versed in calligraphy and landscape paintings, with his style of bold and vigorous strokes.
Xu Wei was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province of the Ming Dynasty.
He was well versed in calligraphy and was an expert of stone tablets.
The earliest known Chinese logographs are engraved on the shoulder bones of large animals and on tortoise shells.
The keynote in Chinese philosophy is humanism: man and his society have occupied, if not monopolized, the attention of Chinese philosophers throughout the ages.
The British officer known as Chinese Gordon was famous for his romantic adventures in Asian countries and for his dramatic death at the siege of Khartoum.
Calligraphy is the most direct form of all artistic expression.
The structure of the character may be compared with that of human body; its balance is architectural, arrived at through strict laws of construction.
The composition of the characters all contribute to the mood and spirit of calligraphy. | 2019-04-19T10:32:09Z | http://www.factbites.com/topics/Chinese-calligraphy |
Do you desperately need your hair trimmed, but don't want to pay at the salon? Or, are you in-between cuts and need to look good fast? Here's a basic guide on how to trim your own hair at home for less. Although you should never give yourself a full haircut [for example, having waist-length hair and trying to cut it to your shoulders], it is quite possible to give yourself a salon-quality trim -- about 1–3 inches (2.5–7.6 cm) off of the ends. This guide will help.
Wash your hair. Use a mild shampoo and be sure that your hair is clean and free of any hair-care products before you begin trimming.
You do not need to condition, but it may help eliminate any tangles.
Rinse your hair until no residual bubbles or soap are present in the run-off. The water flowing from your scalp should be clean and clear.
Hair that is very thick, curly or coarse should be washed twice to make sure it is clean.
Lightly towel dry any excessive moisture. Do not dry entirely, but instead, allow your hair to remain damp. This will make it more manageable.
A spray bottle filled with water can be used to moisten the hair as it dries.
Cover your shoulders with a towel. This will catch any drips and will also keep the hair from falling down your shirt as you trim. It will also make cleaning-up afterward easier.
A towel or tarp can also be placed on the ground to catch the hair as it falls.
Use a hairdresser's cape if you happen to have one.
Brush your hair. Be sure to remove any tangles or knots, starting at the ends and working your way up. If you have curly hair, use a wide-toothed comb instead.
It may help to re-moisten your hair.
Comb your hair straight back. Using a fine or large tooth comb, begin at your forehead and end at the base of your neck. Once your hair is slicked back it will be easier to make clean, perfectly straight parts.
Clean parts are crucial to making proper sections of your hair.
Part your hair. Starting immediately behind your left ear, draw the comb across the top of the scalp using the tip or edge of the comb. Stop when you reach the same position behind your right ear.
Hold the comb at an angle like you would a knife.
Depending on your own hair type and thickness, you may want to use a larger-tooth comb.
Comb the top section of hair forward. Remember, a clean part is the key to getting even sections, which will result in a more even trim.
Secure the front section of hair. Use ties or bands to form pony tails that draw the hair away from the back of your head.
Clips will work better for shorter hair.
Create another part or section in your hair. Placing the tip of the comb at approximately the same position you did for the first part, draw a line around the back of your scalp that is parallel to the ground. End just behind your opposite ear.
Hair above this part is considered the top, while the hair that falls below is referred to as the bottom.
Secure the top section as you did the front. Use ties or clips as needed.
Do not section the bottom.
Make a scissor like motion with the index and middle fingers of your free hand and "pinch" off two-to-three inches of hair. Be sure to select hair from the bottom section and on one-side of the scalp or the other, but not the middle. This will be your guide cut.
In this case, your freehand will be the hand that you will not be using to hold the sheers or scissors.
You will be doing this repeatedly, so be sure to maintain consistency with each pinch.
Comb this portion of hair straight. Be sure to work-out any knots or tangles and repeat as necessary.
It might help to re-moisten your hair.
Depending on your hair type, a brush might work better to remove knots and tangles.
Run the comb through this portion, again. This time, as you run the comb the length of your hair follow it with your pinched fingers. Leave approximately a quarter-inch of a gap between your fingers and the comb and be sure to maintain a consistent pinch.
Pinch too loosely and the hair will not sit right and will result in an uneven trim.
Not much tension is necessary, so don't feel like you need to pinch very tightly either.
Do not use a brush for this step.
Stop sliding your fingers just one-inch from the tips. If you have managed to hold your fingers properly throughout the comb--and the slide--you will be able to see uneven growth at the ends.
Practice this over-and-over and be sure to maintain consistent motions.
The more consistent you can be with this, the more consistent your trim will be.
Make your guiding-cut. Using clean, sharp, salon quality scissors or sheers, even out the ends of your hair by making a cut that is parallel to your pinched fingers.
The amount of hair trimmed is up to you.
Standing in front of a mirror helps when you are trimming your own hair. It can, however, be quite difficult getting used to working with your mirror image.
Pinch off another portion of hair. This portion should be immediately next to the portion of hair that you just worked with and should include about 25-percent of the hair that you just trimmed.
Once this portion is combed straight, you should be able to see a sharp difference between the hair that has been trimmed and the hair that has not. Use the trimmed hair as a guide.
Repeat steps one through four. Make sure to use the exact same scissor-pinch motion.
You should be able to see a sharp contrast between trimmed and non-trimmed hairs.
Even out the hair. Extend the straight-edge line you created with your guide cut by trimming the overgrown hairs.
Take a few deep breaths to steady your hand if needed.
Work your way throughout the bottom section. Repeat steps one through five as needed.
Complete your trim. Once you have completed the bottom-section of your hair, you can now move on to the top, and later, the front. Repeat steps one through five for each portion of hair, in each section until you are finished.
How do I trim my long hair to a straight blunt cut?
If you don’t have much experience cutting your own hair, I would recommended letting a professional cut it for you. Because your hair is already so long, you may have a challenging time performing an even, blunt cut.
How can I trim long hair easily?
After you’ve shampooed, detangled, and sectioned your hair, start with the bottom section, pinch the hair followed by running the comb down the length of your hair, and trim off the desired length, whether it’s 1 or 2 inches. Repeat these steps section by section, using each previously cut piece of hair as your guide.
How do I cut my hair into a V shape?
I would recommend going to the salon for that. It's very hard to do a V-shaped cut at home.
How do I speed up my hair growth?
Coconut oil and using good shampoo and mask, if your hair is damaged. Incomplete proteins, such as gelatin (contained in foods like Jello, gummy bears, fruit snacks, or in capsule form) aids in hair and nail growth.
How do I cut my long hair at home?
Reference wikiHow to Cut Your Own Long Hair.
How do I straighten my curly hair?
The easiest method is to use a straightener on dry hair. If you don't have a straightener, you may find Wikihow's article on how to make your hair straighter without a straightener helpful.
Is there a video tutorial on how to maintain a short, layered women's hairstyle?
Try searching on Google or YouTube.
How can I trim my hair at home if its very layered?
How to cut long hair myself?
How do I trim feathered bangs?
How to cut hair in a U shape?
How to trim short hair?
Remember this article is about trimming! Do not try to use these steps for a real haircut- you may be disappointed.
If you are doing it on yourself or to someone else, start very slowly and carefully.
If someone else is doing it for you, keep your back straight. It is very important not to move as it could change the straight line the scissors are going in, and result in a very uneven trim.
It's better to get someone else to trim it for you.
Never use safety or kitchen scissors.
Proper hair-cutting scissors or salon sheers.
To trim hair at home, first wash your hair and lightly towel-dry it so it’s damp. Then, part off the top and middle sections of your hair using hair-bands. Now, starting with the bottom part, divide off a 2 to 3 inch piece of hair and use your fingers to pinch the bottom, about an inch from the tips. Use scissors to trim the hair parallel to your fingers, and repeat this process for all the parts of your hair. For more detailed instructions on how to correctly comb and evenly part your hair, read on!
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The people of Koreatown were on the brink of getting something urban planners and psychologists said Los Angeles’ most densely packed neighborhood desperately needed: A public outdoor space for respite in a booming urban corridor increasingly smothered in concrete and glass.
Now, five years later, a 346-unit luxury apartment building dubbed the Pearl on Wilshire is taking root where Koreatown Central Park was slated to go. It will have a dog wash, yoga room, putting green and spa, but not so much as a park bench for public use.
And as heavy equipment roars and beeps at the once-vacant lot at Wilshire and Hobart boulevards, people familiar with the abandoned project are left to wonder: Who’s to blame for letting a park die in this neighborhood where residents have about one-hundredth of the park space as the average Angeleno citywide?
Most people read this and moved on. Me? My eyes stopped on the phrase “the once-vacant lot at Wilshire and Hobart boulevards”. I grew up at Wilshire Blvd Temple (WBT). WBT is located on Wilshire Blvd, between Hobart and Harvard. Next to it to the east is a major catholic church. Wilshire, in fact, now owns all the land betwen Hobart and Harvard, between Wilshire and Sixth, and operates an outreach and support center for the community on the Sixth Street end.
Here’s my question: What is the Jewish obligation in this issue? Should WBT (and its neighbor, St. Basil’s) be speaking up for the park. Should they have been lobbying for the park. Going back to when I attended Wilshire in the 1970s and 1980s, that land was vacant. Should Wilshire have tried to purchase it for the community? How does one balance the responsibility to your community of faith with the responsibility to the community at large?
I’m not sure I know the answer, and I’m not sure they could have made a difference. But I thought the question was an interesting one.
Living in the Past. Suppose your kids just can’t put that modern technology down. What do you do to teach them a lesson? How about forcing your family to live as they did years ago for a year? That’s what one family did. Now they didn’t go back to Elizabethan or other really historic times — they chose the glory days of… 1986. No Internet (so they say). Cassettes. Vintage Encyclopedias. Hard-wired phones. Banking in person. Paper maps. My only problem with this is that they did have Internet back in 1986. I know; I’ve been on the net since 1979. Of course, they would have had to restrict themselves to USENET, Gopher, and Email, and dial-up connections unless they could afford a T1 line. Oh… and Unix. At that point, I don’t think MS-DOS was networked (Windows 3.1 was 1992).
Clowns Will Eat Me. Here’s an odd article: Smithsonian explores the history of Scary Clowns. Now I’m not the type that is scared by clowns, but there are a number of clowns that are intentionally scary. The history and many forms of the clown itself is quite interesting.
Running Away. When you’re scared, you want to run away. That’s just what one county in California wants to do: Siskiyou County has voted to secede from California. They want to get a number of other Northern California and Southern Oregon counties to join them. Never mind the fact that they would never get the legislatures of California and Oregon to go along with their scheme, and they certainly wouldn’t get Congress. Never mind the fact that they would have no major cities or industries to provide the state with a sustainable income. Facts don’t matter. If you recall, a few weeks ago, I wrote about a county in Northern Colorado that wanted to do the same thing.
Chatzi Kaddish. Etsy Problems. OK, this one didn’t theme anywhere, unless you can figure it out. Here’s an article on why the Esty Economy is Crumbling… in the face of Chinese knockoffs. Perhaps this link is like the Chatzi Kaddish — a rest between subjects.
Licorice Pizza and Stinky Cheese. Turning to Los Angeles. Here are two interesting finder lists. The first talks about the best place to find Vinyl (i.e., LPs — Long Playing albums, once sold by a store called “Licorice Pizza”) in Los Angeles. I’m familiar with some of these: Record Surplus on the West Side is great, as as Amoeba in Hollywood. Orphaned CDs near us is good, but it is hard to find things. I’ve always meant to stop by Record Outlet in T.O. All these stores tend not to price used vinyl like new CDs (which is what we saw in San Diego). As for cheese, here’s a list of the best cheese shops in Los Angeles.
A Temple Restored. This Rosh Hashanah saw the return to service of the main sanctuary at Wilshire Blvd Temple in Koreatown. I spent many years at WBT, and knew its depths well.. but I never really explored the main sanctuary. It was lightly used even in the early 1980s when I was there. They’ve also installed a fascinating new art exhibit.
Saving the Neon. Here’s an interesting article about another attempt to save a sign in Los Angeles: They are attempting to save and restore a Chinese Dragon neon sign that used to be at Graumann’s Chinese. They’ve even got an Indegogo to raise funds. This comes on the heels of the rescue of the Tiffany Theatre sign, and the rescue of the Henry’s Tacos sign.
Chatzi Kaddish. Owl Suits. Our last chatzi kaddash — something to close the Los Angeles theme. Did you know that Italian has a word meaning the-jacket-left-hanging-over-the-back-of-your-chair-in-the-office-while-you’re-gallivanting-around-town? It is “Giacca civetta“, which means “Owl Jacket”. I’m sure we all have our Owl Jackets that we leave out for others to see.
Los Angeles History. Like Los Angeles history? Here’s the history of Los Angeles as told by 232 (and perhaps a few more) Objects.
The Los Angeles That Wasn’t. A number of articles this week on the new book “Never Built Los Angeles”. I particularly like this article because it includes a number of different rendings of what might have been. I like this article because it includes a lot of highway information. The Times also has a good review. Yes, the book is on my Amazon wishlist.
Wilshire Blvd Temple — Revitalized. I spent much of my youth at Wilshire Blvd Temple. I worked in the storage areas under Piness, sang in Warner Youth Center, and attended services in the main sanctuary. They are just about to reopen after a multi-year revitalization, and it sounds beautiful.
Unintended Results. Many people pushing for term limits have championed them as a means to get the entrenched out of office. The problem is: it doesn’t work — it becomes a game of musical chairs. Case in point: The Los Angeles City Council, which is a new home for termed-out state legislators. Not only do they get to keep working for the public, they can get more salary and bigger pensions. Was this on purpose? I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.
After we moved out of Westchester when I was young, our family switched congregations to WBT. I soon joined their youth group, TAG, and became part of the High Holy Day Choir. This included numerous trips back and forth to WBT for rehersals (I remember carpooling with Leslie, Lida, and Alex), culminating with our doing youth services in the Warner Youth Center, on the 3rd floor of the main building. This also included fasting, and I still remember the feeling as the concluding services ended. Later, the youth choir took over the family services that were being held in the Piness Auditorium, across from the main sanctuary. I don’t think, in any of my years at WBT, I ever actually attended a HHD service in the main sanctuary.
So what is Wilshire going to do while the main sanctuary is down? According to the article, “During the 18 to 24 months of construction, regular Shabbat services will be in an auditorium across from the sanctuary. Weekly bar and bat mitzvahs will also be held there. For next year’s Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services, the temple has rented the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.” What this means is that Piness Auditorium (which may not be in great shape itself) will be the interim sanctuary. Of more interest is the use of the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion for high holy days. I can’t even imagine how they will do the Torah procession there, especially if they have people in the balconies!
In the spirit of last night, a story about me. In part, this is prompted by my finding a certain piece of paper while going through my dad’s autographs, which I’ve scanned and posted with this entry.
Back when I was in high school, probably 16 or 17, I was part of the high school class at Wilshire Blvd. Temple. As I wasn’t teaching, I didn’t drive all the way to WBT from Brentwood: we had bus transportation provided by the Temple. The rabbi at that time, Larry Goldmark (who is now at Temple Beth Ohr in La Mirada), had arranged a speaker program of famous Jews. This included folks like Ed Asner, Monty Hall, and many others. This particular day in question, the speaker was Marvin Hamlisch. I presume it was an interesting talk (I don’t remember any of it). What I do remember, however, is that at noon I got up and started to walk out to catch the bus. Hamlisch stopped what he was saying, turned to me, and asked where I was going. I indicated I had to catch a bus to get home. He said he didn’t like his audience to walk out on him, and said that he would give me a ride back home. So, after he finished his talk, he kept his word and gave me a ride back home. I remember that on the way we stopped at the newsstand in Westwood so that he could pick up the New York papers — it seems “A Chorus Line” had just opened and he wanted to read the reviews. When we got back to my car, I grabbed a piece of notebook paper and had him sign it for my dad.
One of today’s la_observed items was about Wilshire Blvd Temple–specifically how a chunk of plaster had fallen from their main sanctuary, closing that part of the building. However, the original headline was that “Wilshire Blvd Temple Is Closed”, which prompted me to go out to their website, look for news, etc.
That got me thinking. I’m a dues paying member of Temple Ahavat Shalom right now. But I still get the Temple Beth Hillel e-Newsletter, and I still regularly read the Temple Beth Torah newsletter. Even though I don’t read the newsletter regularly, I still care about the folks at Wilshire Blvd Temple, and even the folks at Or Rishon, because I care about the Rabbi there. I still, in some sense, even have a spiritual connection to Temple Akiba in Culver City as it is the spiritual successor to my first congregtion, Temple Israel of Westcheter/Temple Jeremiah, and to Kol Tikvah, the spiritual successor to Temple Emet of Woodland Hills. Although I am only paying dues to one of these, I view myself (to varying degrees) as still a member of the community of my past congregations.
So here’s my question to you: What is your relationship to your past congregations (and churchs count as well, for you Christians out there). Once you leave a congregation, is it “good bye and good riddance”, or do you still view yourself as a distant family member, still caring about the people there even though you might never see them again?
I’ve been through a variety of congregations in my life. However, when I was growing up, there were two main ones: Temple Israel of Westchester, which later became Temple Jeremiah under Rabbi Mordecai Soloff, and Wilshire Boulevard Temple, under Rabbis Magnin, Wolf, Dubin and Goldmark. Most of the conscious phase (meaning my Jr. High and teen years) were at WBT, which I knew like the back of my hand. I explored the catecombs of the A/V area under the Piness Auditorium, I wandered the Warner Youth Center, and so on. Yet then, in the 1970s and 1980s, there were stories of problems. The Jewish center of Los Angeles was moving west, and Wilshire was losing members. The growth was at congregations like Steven S. Wise, University, and the ones in West LA. There were even rumors of Wilshire’s demise or relocation.
Over the years, however, it has survived. It opened up a beautiful school and satellite campus in West Los Angeles, and of course has continued to expand and grow the camps. But it is about to grow more. Today’s Los Angeles Times has an article on how WBT is poised to do a major expansion and remodelling… of its downtown campus! The article noted how Wilshire has already spent $20 million to purchase the entire block upon which it sits, so that it owns the land bounded by Wilshire Blvd, Havard, 6th Street, and Hobart. It then expects to spend $30 million renovating its santuary, as well as doing a major expansion of the facilities: construction of a six-story parking structure (which anyone who has parked there know they really need); a K-6 day school; a parenting center; and a cafe. Knowing Wilshire, I’m sure a museum or facility to display their extensive collection of Jewish artifacts will be included.
I should note this isn’t the only Wilshire facility expanding: when I was at Gindling Hilltop Camp in July, I learned of major expansion plans there. There will be a new master plan and rework of the facilities at GHC and CHK to better serve the campers. There are also plans for a fourth camp across Yerba Buena Road to serve adult conference needs better.
But what is amazing is not the size of Wilshire’s expansion: this is a monied congregation, with a long history (and thus, endowments). They know how to invest and how to do things fiscally correct. What is amazing is that the downtown campus, almost written off 20 years ago, is growing. The Times article notes that the temple is following the return of younger Jews to places like Silver Lake, the Wilshire corridor, downtown and Los Feliz. A survey commissioned by the temple found that from 1995 to 2005, in the area roughly from La Cienega Boulevard to Glendale and from the Hollywood Hills to the Santa Monica Freeway, the number of Jews increased by 28%, about 4,000 more people. An estimated 500,000 to 600,000 Jews live in Southern California, making it the second-largest Jewish community in the country, after New York. Rabbi Leder at WBT looks at the changes taking place in Los Angeles as an opportunity for the temple to grow well beyond its current 2,500 families.
I should also note that Wilshire is also active in its community: I know there have been strong efforts by Rabbi Leder to create bridges between the Jewish and Korean communities in the area.
The Los Angeles Times has an interesting article today on Wilshire Blvd. Temple. Now, I grew up at Wilshire, which is near the intersection of Wilshire and Western, in what is now Koreatown. According to the article, one day WBT got a call from Koreatown leaders wondering if the building was for sale. Rabbi Stephen Julius Stein responded “We can’t sell you the temple, but how about building a relationship?”. From there, dialogue between the communities started, leading to much better understanding. The Koreatown community received an invitation to use Wilshire Boulevard Temple’s facilities, which include an 1,800-seat sanctuary, a 600-seat auditorium and a 300-seat banquet hall, at member rates… and the two communities will also join forces to address issues affecting the Koreatown community, such as crime, poverty, the granting of multiple liquor licenses and the idea that growth should take place in a thoughtful way.
I think this is a wonderful thing. The WBT facility is a beautiful facility, and it is nice to see that (a) it is committeed to staying, and (b) committed to forging a relationship with the community. This is something that was never even discussed during the days of Rabbi Magnin… and I’m not even sure Rabbi Fields considered it. I think that interfaith activities are a remarkable way of building community (and it is one of the reasons I applaud Rabbi Jim at TBH for his work building relationships with the churches in Arleta). | 2019-04-20T07:09:13Z | https://cahighways.org/wordpress/?tag=wbt |
Ethan Root July 29, 2018 Leave a Comment on The 6 iOS app development tools every developer must know.
Learning iOS app development is created abundant easier by the massive quantity of tutorials. Also learning the material on the internet.
The language is stable and extraordinarily refined. And also the choice of tutorials for the Xcode IDE, editors, libraries, plugins. Also, alternative resources are immense and of excellent quality.
We’ve place along a guide to best resources developed for Objective-C and Swift.
Apple’s proprietary language that every one of those relevant to native iOS app development coding. In contrast to for android wherever, plugins may solely work on specific editors and ides.
First, we begin with Editors and IDEs, and if you’d like additional resources still, confirm to examine out our ios App Development Tools Directory.
An Integrated Development setting (IDE) is an application that facilitates application development. In general, associate degree IDE may be a graphical user interface (GUI)-based workbench designed to assist a developer. In building software applications with an integrated environment combined with all the specified tools at hand.
XCode is that the original IDE created by Apple, however there area unit alternatives. We tend to suggest you are trying Xcode out initial before deciding to move. There are enough plugins that you just will in all probability customize your expertise to be precise as you wish it.
The official IDE for Swift by Apple was XCode, the Cupertino company’s attention to detail makes this. The most potent committal to writing platform for products across its range: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV.
JetBrains’ IDE for each iOS app development and OS X development go with a thirty-day free trial and supports Objective-C likewise as Swift.
Claims to run any language, not just Swift, and comes at the very cheap worth of $14.99, with a demo version out there too. Additionally has a large number of code templates.
If you fancy learning Swift whereas, on the move, this perpetually updated ios mobile app development can teach you anyplace you’re. Initial 2 chapters are free.
Knowing your chosen IDE within and out can facilitate, however, in fact, you furthermore may recognize the underlying language.
The languages are, of course, Swift and Objective-C. Below we’ve rounded up a number of the most straightforward tutorials out there, as well as the notable and remarkably suggested Stanford free tutorial.
The language for iOS app development programming. The bulk of this guide is geared towards Swift-related resources.
Udacity introducing the Swift language. A fast thanks to perceiving what the language is regarding, and don’t forget to look at Udacity courses on Swift additionally.
Free and created by Stanford, therefore you recognize it’s a high-quality tutorial – the videos are typically over an hour long. However, they’re very thorough. If you persist with it, you won’t like another tutorial.
A tutorial pulls in resources from everywhere the web, it starts from the very basics and takes you thru a series of modules on overarching ideas like management flow and OOP.
An excellent resource on pondering android app development from a designer’s purpose of view.
38 free Swift tutorials if you would like to find out online, otherwise, you should purchase the physical book for $40.
Learn to programme from scratch, with a hundred completely different exercises. You’ll be able to get the app and also the ebook for $40.
Of the “learn to code by building an app straight away” form of tutorials, perpetually updated and intensely user-friendly.
You don’t ought to code or produce everything from scratch – there are libraries to assist speed things up.
The first two resources during this a part of the list alone offer you access to thousands of libraries. Instead of gift you with a large quantity of alternative and going away you to try to do your analysis.
We’ve additionally gotten a bit specific, choosing what we tend to see as a number of the foremost helpful, and most often used, libraries in iOS development by app developer in London.
An entirely vast assortment of iOS and OS X libraries with terribly handy search and browse functions. Community maintained.
The foremost famous dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C programming, it comes with eighteen thousand libraries. That’s right. A vital tool.
Libraries utilized in the highest a hundred iOS Apps – Fantastic analysis of the first used libraries, written in Oct 2015. Lists the libraries at the end of the article, and that we have featured a number of them here.
Extremely counseled library for asynchronous programming. You’ll be able to notice a practical guide by DroidsOnRoids here.
If you’re programming in Objective-C, each the community and Apple suggests using this as your base library.
Conversely, if you would like to code in Swift, this can be the counselled library.
The first used libraries utilised in Cocoa, updated daily.
A library for HTTP networking.
Because the name implies, a decent library for JSON use.
A guaranty of implementation with an asynchronous programming focus.
Geared for asynchronous programming with futures and promises.
This section of the list may maintain forever. There are numerous plugins, each free and not, to be found on the net that enables you to customise XCode to extreme detail.
We’ve listed quite a few of the foremost famous and helpful ones, however, if you don’t notice one thing to fit your specific wants here – don’t stop looking!
Open source Plugin and package manager additionally comes with its discovery engine for plugins, templates and color schemes. (Available for Xcode seven and above).
Enter of the illustrious iOS and OS X dependency manager, makes the use of CocoaPods from at intervals XCode a lot more natural.
Amendment implementation of an Objective-C category and have it work while not restarting the app.
Fixes a number of the problems with XCode’s prefix-based autocomplete. Quality-of-life plugin.
Created by Robbie Hanson, add colours to the lighting console to give you a visible aid throughout the debug method.
Takes a leaf out of video games’ books and attracts a minimap of your code to recognize wherever you’re at intervals it instantly.
A code snippet manager, however, new significantly, an API documentation browser with 150+ offline documentation.
Once your assets are missing, It Creates dummy pictures and Checks for image size.
Write import statements via pop-ups.
Autocomplete ImageNamed: calls by scanning through your image folders.
To streamline code revisions, it adds visual info to git at intervals Xcode.
Another quality-of-life plugin, this one highlights and presents TODO, FIXME, !!! and ??? comments.
Enter code snippets using natural triggers.
Wish to code collaboratively with someone? This permits you to with the employment of Bonjour.
Auto-select all targets once adding a brand new file to Xcode.
Run comes on multiple iOS devices, all at constant time.
Creates clickable log messages that jump to the corresponding line of code and vast quality of life improvement.
Because the name implies, permits you to authorise a mask from within Xcode.
Run section entirely and Choose a part of the code, all whereas inside Xcode.
Will what it says on the tin, refactoring Swift and Objective-C.
Syncs your snippets with a git repository by this snippet manager.
Streamlines use of colors inside interface builder.
Adds an oversized range of hotkeys.
Brings and identifies unused import statements to your attention.
Plug-in with several functionalities with the aim of creating code more straightforward to look at and edit.
Adds search by keywords practicality.
Management your iOS device from at intervals XCode for testing. Additionally permits macros on the device.
Preview hyperlinks and images from inside Xcode.
Jump on to the code’s location on GitHub. Additionally works with BitBucket.
If you’re the sort of learner who prefers to visualize what they’re meant to try to, you’re in luck – there are many Youtube tutorial series on committal to writing in Swift. Here may be a choice of the simplest of them.
An informally applied programmer has three playlists worth checking out: Objective-C development, iOS App and iOS game programming. Begin from here if you would like to find out the main variations between these and do all of your learning before you catch on programming.
An excellent introduction to the series – skip the second video on system necessities (now dated) and move straight to the teaching. The series starts off with the very basics, from templates to Xcode, and tends to concentrate additional on however the tools work instead of using the “mobile app development” kind of tutorial.
This is one for the extremely serious and committed to the swift. One among the additional famous programs out there, its free (you will notice it on iTunes with supporting documentation) and a mammoth of a course with videos typically duration in at over an hour.
Zero programming expertise needed and perpetually updated once new versions of iOS or XCode start off. We tend to suggest you begin off with the way to build an App – Episode 1: Tools and Materials.
We featured The New Boston in our great android app development Videos on Youtube likewise, and given their breadth of videos; we’d highlight them for just about any platform. 37 videos on iPhone development tutorials, sixty-five on Objective-C, and manymore additional on web design, C#, PHP.
B. Advent teaches you the fundamentals of Swift via the development of apps or games. There’s variety of tutorials on his channel starting from an easy list app to 3D touch games, likewise as shorter videos on specific topics like icons and sets.
One of the additional in-depth playlists here, duration in 97 videos covering all kinds of topics starting from memory management to notifications and UI design. Additionally look at the channels alternative playlists that cowl non-iOS specific ideas.
Features 3 lists for a complete of over 200 videos on iOS app development, the foremost recent of that solely date to some of the months past. Very thorough, maybe not too beginner friendly, however, you’ll notice just about everything you’ll like here. There’s additionally a series specifically on the use of Xcode.
After two larger series, we tend to set to recommend one that keeps things transient too – AppShocker’s five videos guide you thru the creation of an easy game. A decent place to know whether or not Swift coding is for you.
If you’re developing your app, you must additionally recognise wherever and the way best to advertise it. Below are a number of the most straightforward ad networks within the world.
Scale, retention, ubiquity… Facebook is that the leader in mobile advertising across all platforms. It covers all media formats and may be a key a part of any app promoting campaign.
Focus on gaming, Extremely targeted ads to loyal customers provided by Chartboost, for a retention rate hr above the type of the other networks. Covers video, animated, GIF and interstitial ads.
AppLovin – Knowledge and programmatic in-app inventory and video ads are centered on Applovin, and this strategy has placed it among the highest performers for gaming ad networks.
Subtle user analytics including real-time knowledge drive high ROI and effective campaigns.
Clearly, the scale and reach of Google is, on its own, a decent reason to use it as an ad network.
It’s additionally harnessing the “power of intent” – analysing a user’s behaviour to work out their intentions before presenting the right ad to them.
A selected target video ads network, it boasts one among the lightest SDKs out there, aiming at increasing eCPMs and optimising user expertise. Employed 4000+ apps with offices in San Francisco, London, Berlin and Beijing.
If you’re talking games, you can’t mention the Unity engine. Having currently touched on the far side development and into ads, they recognise precisely. However, players behave and what they need, and that they provide good content to support your campaigns and monetisation.
This mediation platform connects devs with media companies and With a monthly average of 150 million distinctive users, including top quality ad formats (rewarded videos, provide walls and interstitials) and offering a compelling choice of publisher tools.
Instant-Play Technology is the primary product of AdColony’s, that the company claims HD video adverts to load and play despite device or connection quality. Including triggered content and loyalty programs, AdColony is a beautiful ad network for games.
As the Appsflyer report states, whereas Twitter doesn’t have the scale on its side it will have very high user retention. It additionally solely bills once people complete specific actions, providing you with full management over once and the way abundant you pay, likewise as very accurate targeting because of its user knowledge.
Mobvista celebrating its third day and recently acquired NativeX, quoted on the NEET index, it’s ad network goes from strength to strength, with actually world reach and (it claims), 10 billion daily impressions.
Lifestreet’s platform permits you to check many ad varieties to know that results in the most straightforward conversion rates and come on investment. Claims to achieve 600 million app users per month.
A cost-per-install basis, AppDriver is operated and has access to a number of the largest Asian mobile markets as well as China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. As you merely pay for actual installs, AppDriver says, it’s a risk-free model.
AppLift – one among the premier ad networks and most kitted-out SDKs out there, collaborating with over 500 publishers as well as Zynga, Lyft and Goodgame Studios. Features a proprietary optimization algorithm to extend ROI and works with 5000+ media partners.
NativeX makes games as a primary focus and yields beautiful performance with the most straightforward validation and user acquisition, based in 2000, NativeX additionally offers ASO services, white papers, and analysis on app monetisation usually.
Clear, straightforward to use and mediating some the most extensive ad networks (AdColony, AdMob, Facebook), HeyZap supports native, static opening, rewarded and non-rewarded video and banner ads and backs it up with powerful segmentation and analysis tools.
The Gemini project has the advantage of sound into Yahoo!’s large knowledge set, tracking trillions of actions and “signals” to see the most straightforward time to serve the right ads to the users possibly to convert. Claims to achieve 1 billion users per month, of that 600 million on mobile.
Has access to the Chinese market, and per se has vast potential for ROI merely in virtue of its scale and reach. Programmatic advertising and competitive payouts are just the cherries on the cake of this vast ad network.
Boasts a proprietary data set including segmentation tools to spice up ROI and set up promoting campaigns. To reason users in 250+ varieties and target them with the correct adverts, it Uses the “Personas” model. Covers ninetieth of all active mobile devices within us.
The online advertising giants of the MarsMediaGroup, providing developers premium ad deals it additionally has a variety of tools to calculate lifetime worth and numerous pricing models like CPI, CPA, CPM, and CPC.
Motive’s platform uses website ID chase and “Customary Second Action” tracking to optimize campaigns Partnered with Tune, Kochava and Appsflyer to call many and partnered with Tune, Kochava and Appsflyer to draw many, however, is additionally versatile in being receptive third-party metrics and tracking systems. Works on a CPA and CPI basis.
The prospect to each delivers and make Aarki’s platform offers mobile adverts, likewise as variable testing. And big-data analytics. Extremely clear, its chief providing is “creative optimisation”, improvement oversaw by their in-house creative designers, to extend ROI.
One among the most native adverts networks, it’s grown since foundation in 2009 to possess 90+ million monthly activations and over ten,000 traffic sources. Are often integrated each with API or a light-weight SDK.
Programmatic buying, high worth eCPMs campaigns. Also targeted user acquisition all return beneath the Mobupps umbrella. Straightforward integration, period data reporting, and an analytics dashboard area unit all additionally a part of their platform.
These area unit resources that didn’t extremely slot in any of the categories higher than. However, are still ought to be mentioned.
A “journal of the unmasked bits in Objective-C, Swift, and Cocoa. Perpetually updated this can be terribly niche however you’ll be able to notice some nuggets in there!
No resource list might be complete while not Ray Wenderlich’s colossal content and list of tutorials.
This guide covers the key aspects of iOS development. Therefore, we hope you’ll have found a minimum of one resource here that’s helpful to you.
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andyb wrote: No pigs aren't violent, Tamworths are boisterous and noisy, but very friendly..
I have heard of large amounts of pigs ganging up on a weak one but I thinbk this is more a product of thoughtless husbandry than bad tempered pigs...get em young and treat them well and they will reward you..
How much land would I need to keep, say half a dozen? And, how much meat does one pig generally yeild say on average?
Hi from the S. Pacific.
I have read with great interest all your posts, especially those from ceebee and GrAsUK. I raise pigs and make small goods in the Solomon Islands. I should have retired and took up pig breeding as a hobby but since I got onto Franco in September last year it is running away with me. I first bought some sausage seasoning, hog casings and a hand mincer/filler and got into home sausage making with a lot of help from other very kind members (Oddley, Paul Kribs, Wohoki, Welsh Wizard and Spuddy, to name but a few). I slaughter two pigs a month but can't get good sausages here for love nor money. The idea of my own pork in my own sausages appealed to me. Then I got into bacon and ham curing followed by smoking and my latest addition is salami. The result of all this is that I can't keep up with the demand so it's becoming more of a retirement job than just a hobby.
Many of we 60 year olds we have reinvented ourselves and changed direction many times in our lives. I am no exception. I would never have dreamed a few years ago that I would be living here breeding pigs, milling timber and producing copra, coconut oil and bio-fuel. I was born in London but raised in Andalucia until I was about 8 then back to the UK for school and University College Hospital, London for my MB. I didn't like all the sick people I saw every day so I gave that up and took various courses in embryology, physics & organic chemistry before joining MAFF, Whitehall. Whilst there, in my spare time, I wrote my Masters paper on palaeolithic hominid evolution at the Instutute of Archaeology, Tavistock Square. I left MAFF after 3 years to be ordained and work in the Archdiocese of London for the Sunday School programme for a further 3 years. Meanwhile I found time to get married in 1970 and was offered an interesting position with an insolvency practitioner who had a number of businesses under his receivership. One company was trading with Ecuador in Balsa wood so, armed with my neglected Andaluciano with best Islington accent, I took it over and traded out of trouble. I became a self-taught expert in restructuring businesses and pulling them out of receivership then appointing managers or selling them on. Other businesses followed including a petrol station with repair shop, injection moulding & precision engineering. I taught myself from necessity how to sell petrol, panel beat and respray cars, run injection moulding machinery, make moulding tools and high precision engine parts mainly for the MoD. Most importantly I learned how to make �1 do the work of �2 or more. What were my qualifications to do all this? Absolutely none at all.
By the mid 80's Balsa from Ecuador became very expensive so in 1989/90 I researched and set up my own Balsa plantations, timber mill and kiln dryers in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea and introduced Balsa as a commercial species to the Solomon Islands in 1993. That was all working well until 1994 when the 3 volcanoes around Rabaul erupted burying the town and my plantations and mill in 16ft of volcanic ash that turned to cement the following week when it rained. Luckily I was here in the Solomons at the time doing some extension work for my belated PhD (Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests). In 1986 my wife had begun showing symptoms of schizophrenia that deteriorated until she had to be put under permanent Local Authority supervision in 1989. With permission from my Bishop I obtained a divorce in 1994 on the above grounds, gave all my businesses away to the employees, retired from business and moved here to the Solomons. I married my present wife in 1996. I still hold my Orders and celebrate morning service every day for the surrounding community. Many of them help out with my pigs and I run workshops from time to time on simple husbandry. Amazingly, most of them haven't a clue so even the little I have learned means a lot to them. My wife, from Choiseul, one of the most westerly islands, runs a small store and serves lunches from an annexe at the front of our house in an industrial area East of Honiara. The store is also our outlet for pork and small goods. Well there you have it, so now to pigs.
I run a 2 breeding sow unit from the yard at the back of my house. These each produce an average of 2 litters of 8 piglets per year so I have just over one porker per fortnight to slaughter and process. I have another 3 breeders with a friend about a mile away who sells off the weaners to local farmers who have some basic husbandry knowledge. Picture of my piggery is attached for interest. Very basic but with good shade, dry concrete floor and 24/7 water from drinking valves.
I note what ceebee and co. say about popular breeds in the UK and I too go for a Large White-Duroc cross. The only difference is that we keep a trace of local feral gene in the Large Whites to prevent laminitis and other ailments that European breeds can suffer in the tropics. It usually works well. Mange and trichinella can cause problems but a clean sty and good quarantine usually avoids infestation. I spray my piggery (but not the pigs) twice a year with NaoH solution and I seems to work well. My sows are given prophyllactic shots of Ivomec a month before each farrowing. Better safe than sorry. I always prepare the jot myself and I've never seen a trichinella yet. I don't allow alien stock into my sty. This isn't a problem because I have a working Large White boar for the Duroc sow and the Large White sow gets AI from a friend's Duroc Boar.
Picture of my Large White Sow follows. She is 60 days in farrow so 55 to go. She is a bit overweight at 180 kg but she's a good breeder and produces exceptional milk. I weaned her last litter after 5 weeks and the piglets averaged 14kg. I could hardly believe the scales.
I think I must be lucky here when it comes to feeding. I get millrun from a local flour mill for say �1.80 per 40kg bag and spent copra meal for say �2.80 per 60kg bag. I mix my own feed 47%/47% millrun/spent copra and 6% fishmeal from a local cannery that costs about �8.00 for a 40 kg bag. The whole lot works out to to less than 5p per kg. Must cost a lot more than that in the UK. The waste food from the lunches and house goes to the pigs too and they thrive on it. The pic. below shows some of my Large White/Duroc crosses at 6 months. They average 60kg each. I usually raise my weaners for 40 weeks to get 120kg to 140kg live weight. I aim for 100kg to 120kg dressed weight so this is about right. Surprisingly, there always seems to be about 20kg loss in the dressing regardless of the size of the pig. The offal, blood, hair and epidermis must reach a threshold of 20kg at say 80kg body weight and never exceed that weight so it makes sense for me to produce bigger pigs that have a higher percentage meat yield.
Large White-Duroc crosses are known to grow fast and I am delighted with the results I get. The meat is good and back fat is not more than 10mm. The shoulders are perfect for sausage, the loins are perfect for bacon and the hams are excellent for roasting joints or curing. The head and trotters go for brawn which people here rave about and the blood, of course, black pudding. Fortunately I have a source of pearl barley and rolled oats here.
OK my friends, that's all from me for now. Let me have some feedback from other pigeries so I can compare notes. We never stop learning.
Please excuse the intrusion, I injoyed your post & pics.
I too have kept pigs in the past, but until lately, I was never able to make proper bacon and now sausages!! I am married and live in Ireland I have been searching for over 20 years for my we corner of paradise, been to Australia, Africa, USA, and most of Europe...I am very hard to please! I am looking for somewhere firstly with good weather (but not too hot) ideally with seasons, where English is spoken and where a pound goes a very long way!!
Perhaps you could tell me more about the Solomon Islands, I too would like to get back to keeping pigs and this time I would be able to produce good saleable produce.
I once saw a television programme about how badly pigs were treated by some breeders and decided I would no longer eat pork; until then it had always been my favourite meat. Co-incidentally that week my husband saw an advert in a local paper for some piglets and suggested we raise our own as his father had done many years previously. At the time we lived in S.W. Scotland with an acre of garden, half of which was fenced off for our 20 or so egg producing chickens. It seemed like a good idea so off we went and brought home 2 piglets.
When the time came, off they went for slaughter and thence to a butcher. One came back as bacon and the other as pork and they both went into the new freezer (bought for the occasion) and there they (mostly) stayed.
I not only had a problem cooking them, I just couldn't bring myself to eat them and eventually we gave them all away. To this day, my husband's sister-in-law seems to take pleasure in telling me that it was the sweetest pork she has ever eaten, whereas I reverted to buying pork from a butcher and try not to think of the animal it came from.
For what it's worth, my advice on this topic is; if you decide to keep an animal that you are going to eat it can be very rewarding but don't give it a name.
I used to stay in Suffolk during the summer as a child, far cry from north London where I spent the rest of the year. The family nearby raised the runt of the litter and kept it in the house. The runt became a lively piglet named Greta Grunter who lived in the house and quite liked a kip on the sofa during the afternoon!
As the sofa heaved under the strain of the increasing weight of growing pig it was decided the time had come to do the deed and Greta became a large selection of pork joints and cuts. We all remembered her with fondness as each plateful was consumed. Charlie the chicken also went down well if I remember rightly.
Vernon, please keep up with the authoring of the tales and exploits of your life. Aside from being beyond fascinating on its face, your style is intriguing and captivating. While at first seeming to being a factual if brief detail of how you got into pigging, it is nonetheless a great read.
It would seem that we would all learn more from your jorney and style than from mine.
" To be the stewards of what we have been given, to reap what we sow, to enjoy the harmony of it all. | 2019-04-19T12:57:14Z | http://forum.sausagemaking.org/viewtopic.php?p=15453& |
It has been around a year since I bought my 15" 2016 MBP, just under since I 'reviewed' it.
I liked quite a lot about it, was excited about Thunderbolt 3 & USB-C, but had some concerns around long term comfort on the keyboard and a few other things. There were some battery concerns that have seemingly dissipated and the touchbar was of questionable value, but nothing really stood out as a massive issue for me - in those early days.
So what has happened in the past year? Well, quite a lot in regards to this particular story. I have been through three 2016 models and I'm currently on my 4th touchbar 15" Macbook Pro, a 2017 model. Let's start with reliability.
Picked it up the day they arrived in the stores in the UK. It developed a fault within a couple of weeks. One of the arrow keys and the 'T' key, they double pressed or didn't press at all when certain parts of the key was pressed. I exchanged it for a new unit as I was still within the extended Christmas return period.
Developed several faults over a few months, first the left speaker blew out - it lost bass. It blew when I just opened the laptop up from sleep, no real reason that I could tell. Then a few weeks later the treble blew on the right speaker when just randomly playing a regular video on twitter. This unit also developed an annoying creak.. and cracking sound as it warmed up through regular use (from cold), it was snapping and.. cracking.. periodically. It also creaked when certain parts of the display were pressed.
On top of all that, it also had a keyboard fault too - the comma key was depressed and wouldn't register properly.
So I took this second unit in for repair, they replaced basically the full top side - but couldn't determine the issue with the creaking so didn't replace the display. I got the repaired unit back after an extended (longer than quoted) repair time with a keyboard that was worse in every way. It was un-usable. The speakers were fixed, I was told I got a new battery and trackpad out of it too - but the keyboard was useless.
Having waited so long for a botched repair, I went back in the next day and asked for a new replacement unit I could take home then. Apple obliged.
This third unit didn't have the creaking at first, but developed it much earlier on than the last one. Then the speakers blew in a similar pattern (but in different circumstances) to the last one, the keyboard was fine, but I still had two annoying issues - faulty speakers and the creaking.
So I took it in for repair, I explained my persistent issues and the technician was very sympathetic. He didn't suggest a repair, and instead suggested a short triage (3 days) to confirm the issues and then provide me with a quicker solution than a repair would bring. I thought that was reasonable, I suspected they wanted to confirm there wasn't any damage caused by myself to the device before just giving me a new one.
5 days later, 2 days longer than they said they'd have a solution for me, it appears the information noted down by the technician (e.g. this was just a triage to determine whether to replace it or not) had not been passed down properly. They were suggested they would need to do a repair, so on top of the 5 days I already waited - they were asking for potentially another 10 days.
I explained the situation, what I was told, and I was passed on to a manager. He was listened, read through the notes again and asked if I could come into the store that day to pick up a new model. It was an equivalent priced 2017 model, so an upgrade. Newer generation CPU (Kaby Lake i7 7820HQ), 'newer' generation GPU and actually the tier above the one I had (Radeon Pro 455 2GB -> Radeon Pro 560 4GB), which is quite a sizeable upgrade. So all in all, I was happy with that.
At this point, it was about 10 months after buying the first machine, so I'd have rather not spent all this time messing about with an expensive laptop that should not have had the quality and reliability issues this had, but there was a silver..ish.. lining.
It has been a couple of months with this 2017 model and it doesn't seem to be exhibiting any of the problems I had previously, the creaking hasn't returned, the keyboard functions as expected.
The experience has been mixed. When it works, when it all comes together, it's brilliant. However, thunderbolt 3 accessories are still ridiculously expensive, full 'docks' are £200-£300, even dual display adapters are around £70, the latter I didn't mind paying for to get the setup I wanted.
I like to plug my laptop into my main desk setup (dual monitors, regular keyboard and mouse, usually plugged into my Windows desktop). This dual display device, some pre-routed cables/hubs and a keyboard switch has made the process of switching quite simple - not as simple as a proper dock and a switch, but for the money I'm saving - the 20 seconds extra I'm spending is not too bad.
USB-C has otherwise seen pretty good adoption, with the main issue remaining the hundred thousand different ways manufacturers can implement the USB-C standards, creating a bit of a fragmented and confusing market.
When it works, it's great, but expensive.
The keyboard is one of the biggest mistakes Apple has made in the last 10 years, easily. The primary issue is the reliability, the issues are seemingly quite widespread, repairing them is difficult - requiring a full top side replacement, keys are not designed to be removed and cleaned and can be broken if you attempt to do so. The design of the keyboard is so that small particles can render a key useless and all you can do without going for a full repair is hoping compressed air can get it out.
It's a simply unacceptable design. Now, from a usability perspective - I think it has many really positive points. The keys are wide, perfectly stable and offer a really nice chunky click. But there's next to zero travel, and that affects longer term comfort. This was my main worry in my original review and it has been confirmed. However, the bigger usability issue (ignoring reliability), turned out to be the awful arrow keys.
They are a stupid shape and they're indistinguishable from each other (up/down) when working at any kind of speed and touch typing (as is expected). But really, the conclusion here, is that the reliability is just unacceptable. The tolerances are far too low for a moving component that is used constantly through the life of the device.
I said in my original review that it may be not too far off being a really, really great keyboard. Add 15-20% more key travel and you have potentially one of the all time best laptop keyboards. That seems unlikely, but maybe after all the reliability issues, Apple may reconsider for their MacBook Pros.
I wasn't so pessimistic about it this time last year, at worst I thought I'd ignore it, and that has mostly been the case. It hasn't really proven itself outside of a few particular use cases to be any real addition to the device. I wouldn't miss it if it went away.
TouchID is cool though, if sometimes a bit slow, although I think it has improved somewhat in High Sierra. FaceID (from the iPhone X) does feel like it would be at home on a laptop though, perhaps more so than a fingerprint sensor.. so.. Apple.. ditch the Touchbar and give us a FaceID sensor array.
The reliability issues have soured me significantly on this device, but then I've come to not expect reliable laptops from Apple. I've had several MacBooks over the years and they have not been what I consider reliable - and had the Apple store not been a thing - I'd have probably long since abandoned the Mac, despite my preference for macOS.
There have been some indications that Apple are beginning to recognise the importance (indirectly) of their 'pro' and enthusiast market for the Mac and that they do want to address some of their (our) concerns of the Mac lineup. So I hope that happens, because overall - I am unsatisfied. My laptops are my development machines, moving to another laptop to use with some kind of Linux distribution may be in my future if I don't see Apple taking it a bit more seriously.
I wrote this post as a separate one a while back (although after publishing the post above), I decided to cut out a lot of the crap from that one (although there's still plenty here), and add it on to here. The post I'm butchering was written purely because I wanted something to write about, not because I had much more to say.
This post was spurred on by this post by Marco Arment.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I think the keyboard has severe design issues. One of Marco's primary points is the keyboard, whilst I happen to like many things about the new keyboard (tactility, stability and accuracy) I do think there's a balance that can be made to make it more palatable for everyone*. But the primary issue is reliability, Marco's solution is one I can get on board with.
The second is ports, and I'll come to my views on this later on in a section about 'perspectives', but again - it kinda comes back to the whole idea of balance. USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 are mostly pretty great, especially for a pro machine. But is it necessary to have all ports be that? Probably not, so perhaps getting rid of one or two of them in favour of an SD card slot and a couple of USB-A ports would have gone a long way. The argument here is in favour of more versatility.
Also, another point I hadn't thought of myself - but one that seems obvious now. Apple should invest more themselves in creating USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 accessories, because the market out there is a bit confusing and actually not terribly competitive for certain types of Thunderbolt 3 accessories (e.g. docks, which Apple kinda of sold the future on).
Thirdly, Touch Bar. Getting rid of it is something I'd probably support at this point, I've had some issues with it more recently that have continued so I'm changing my stance - it's overall a net negative. It has introduced complexity where there shouldn't be, and that complexity has resulted in simple things like changing the volume to become a risky task, as if you're in certain apps in certain states and you change the volume, you may find yourself with a frozen Touch Bar. Utterly unresponsive for a 5-10 seconds... and all you want to do is change the volume. It's dumb, adds nothing but a cool look and detracts plenty. These issues have happened across the several laptops I've had, across Sierra and High Sierra (including latest betas).
TouchID is cool and it's not necessary for that to go should the Touch Bar be axed.
There are other points in there, which I personally think are minor or I don't actually agree with - so I'll leave that there. Overall, I actually do agree with many of the principles of Marco's arguments. However, these things are weighted a bit differently depending on your perspective.
On the latest Accidental Tech podcast, Marco and Casey Liss argued on what these mean to different people. So my initial reaction to the all-thunderbolt-3 announcement of the latest MacBook Pros was one of excitement, I actually thought it was quite a cool idea. I understood it'd be a bit awkward in certain instances, but overall, I thought it was a good move. These were my immediate, very self-centred thoughts.
A few seconds later, you begin to think about the wider audience and understand a lot of people will not like this. But what other people like isn't necessarily my concern, so it didn't dampen my excitement.
Because this is where the different perspective comes into it. I use my laptops in a particular way. I (used to at least) carry it to and from work, plug it into a set of monitors, keyboard and mice and it'd just be sat on a desk untouched for the day. The extra functionality and versatility offered to me by having four high bandwidth ports that can do practically anything I need was super exciting for someone who uses their laptop in situation like this. At the end of the day, I'd unplug it very easily, go home and if I wanted to keep working on my laptop - I'd do the same on my home desktop setup (which is primarily used for my windows desktop, but can be used for my laptop too when I want to do some dev work).
When I use my laptop portably, I use it entirely individually - I rarely ever have anything else plugged into it, nor actually need to. Plugging into TVs in meeting rooms is probably the most common task, but those events are planned - and having a couple of dongles in the bag I carry my laptop in is a minor effort, but admittedly it's not as simple as simply having the compatible port on my laptop. But overall, as I said, I was geeking out about the possibilities afford by four high bandwidth ports that can do anything on my laptop.
My only attitude change in regards to all this over the past year has been.. I want this laptop to be more things to more people. It's better for the Mac ecosystem that more people feel well served by the available hardware and I think it would signal that Apple has a better understanding of their 'Pro' market. I'd sacrifice a couple of these ports for that.
Brilliant trackpad, the size is a big improvement - and over the past year I have not had a single accidental touch of it despite concerns.
The keyboard is clicky with great feedback and accuracy, the old one is definitely still a good keyboard, but the keys are smaller and wobblier, so I'm less accurate and quick.
Thunderbolt 3 (doing more with less in my desktop setups).
There are solutions to the issues with the reliability of the keyboard, I hope if Apple does take action that it doesn't sacrifice too much of the things I like about it, but as I said previously, I'd sacrifice something so that we can get a device that appeals to more people.
The keyboard reliability is the biggest issue of this laptop, maybe I believe that because it is the issue I've had the most experience with. However, it also appears to be the one people speak about most (of those who actually use the device, the port situation is something people who use them don't seem to talk about so much, anecdotally).
I hope this is the last of these boring posts about a laptop. I'm not sure what makes me care so much about something most people don't give a second thought to a few weeks after buying, but I am a bit of a snob about the computer hardware I use and despite my efforts, I can't shake it off. | 2019-04-23T22:46:54Z | https://blog.qassim.uk/2017/11/11/touchbar-macbook-pro-15-2016-2017-revisited/ |
The once grand bipartisan visions of American diplomats such as Dean Acheson, George Kennan, George Marshall and others long ago more than fulfilled their enlightened promises. The U.S. in 1945, unlike in 1918, rightly stayed engaged in Europe after another world war. America helped to rebuild what the old Axis powers had destroyed in Asia and Europe.
At great cost, and at times in both folly and wisdom, the U.S. and its allies faced down 300 Soviet and Warsaw Pact divisions. America contained communist aggression through messy surrogate wars, avoided a nuclear exchange, bankrupted an evil communist empire, and gave Eastern Europe and much of Asia the opportunity for self-determination. New postwar protocols enforced by the U.S. Navy made the idea of global free trade, commerce, travel, and communications a reality in a way never seen since the early Roman Empire.
The original postwar order was recalibrated after 1989, as the Soviet Union vanished and the United States became the world's sole superpower. On the eve of the First Gulf War, President George H.W. Bush, in a September 11, 1990 address to Congress introduced "the new world order" (the 9/11 date would prove eerie). The Bush administration's ideal was an American-led, global, and ecumenical community founded on shared devotion to perpetual peace, and pledged to democratic nation-building.
The 1990s were certainly heady times. A year after the fall of the wall, Germany was reunited. A UN-sanctioned global coalition in 1991 forced Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. Francis Fukuyama published The End of History in 1992, suggesting that all the ancient political, economics and military controversies of the past were coalescing into a Western, and mostly American, consensus that was sweeping the globe.
The ensuing world confluence might well make war and other age-old calamities obsolete. The transformation of the once loosely organized and pragmatic European Common Market into a utopian European Union was institutionalized by the Maastricht Treaty of 1993. Fossilized European notions such as borders and nationalism would supposedly give way to a continental-wide shared currency, citizenship, and identity.
For a while these utopian ambitions seemed attainable. America, under the guise of NATO multilateral action, bombed Slobadan Milosevic out of power in 2000. Calm seemed to return to the Balkans at the price of less than 10 American combat deaths. The UN grandly declared no-fly zones in Iraq to stymie a resurgent Saddam Hussein.
President Bill Clinton ushered in a supposedly lasting Middle East peace with the allegedly re-invented old terrorist Yasser Arafat in 1993 at Oslo. Palestinians and Israelis would live side-by-side in adjoining independent nations. Wars would soon give way to economic prosperity that in turn would render their ancient differences obsolete.
Boris Yeltsin's post-Soviet Russia seemed on the preordained pathway to Western-style consumer capitalism and constitutional government. Hosts of Western intellectuals, academics, and "investors" swarmed into Russia to help speed the inevitable process along.
The former Warsaw Pact nations went from Russian satellites to NATO partners as magnanimous Western statesmen talked glibly of welcoming in Russia to the alliance as well. The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were considered only a temporary setback for Chinese democracy. Certainly, the commercial arc of retiring reformist Chinese strongman Deng Xiaoping would ultimately bend toward the moral embrace of American ideas like constitutional government and unfettered expression. Everyone just knew that democracy followed capitalism, as day did night.
Western intellectuals bragged of "soft power". They went so far as to suggest that the moral superiority of Europe's democratic socialism and its economic clout, fueled by state-aided industries, had overshadowed calcified American ideas of unfettered free enterprise, carrier battle groups, and the resort to military force.
In short, never had the Western world seemed so self-satisfied. The brief calm from 1989 to 2001 was often compared to the legendary 96 years of the so-called "Five Good Emperors" of imperial Rome, the Nerva–Antonine dynasty that the historian Edward Gibbon had canonized as "the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous". In the absence of a cold war, and global chaos, the only crisis that the West seemed to be worried about was "Y2K", a fanciful notion of a worldwide, computer shutdown at the start of the new millennium. Globalization had delivered 2 billion people out of poverty.
Then the mirage blew away on September 11, 2001, with terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, followed by messy wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, the spread of radical Islamic terrorism, the 2008 global financial meltdown and decade-long anemic recovery, institutionalized near-zero interest rates and stagnant economic growth, and massive waves of illegal immigration across the Mediterranean into Europe and freely across the U.S. southern border. There were more wars in the Middle East between Israel and a coalition of Hamas, Hezbollah and radical Islamists. Russia made a mockery of the Obama administration reset-button outreach. It annexed the Crimea, absorbed Eastern Ukraine, and in 2012 went back into the Middle East to adjudicate events after a hiatus of nearly 40 years. North Korea ended up with nuclear missiles pointed at Portland and San Francisco.
The United States increasingly found itself isolated and unable to control much of anything. The Obama administration had declared its lethargy a preplanned "lead from behind" new strategy, and contextualized American indifference through the so-called apology tour and the postmodern Cairo Speech of 2009. Certainly, all the old postwar referents were now either impotent or irrelevant.
An increasingly anti-democratic and anti-American European Union started to resemble a neo-Napoleonic "Continental System," with Germany now playing the imperious role of 19th-century France. Indeed, the EU was soon drawn and quartered. Southern nations resented what they saw as a Prussian financial diktat. Eastern European nations of the EU balked at Berlin's orders to open their borders to illegal immigrants arriving from the Middle East. The United Kingdom fought Germany over the conditions of Brexit. Its elites soon learned why the people of England wanted free from the German-controlled league.
But it was in the United States that the erosion of the costly postwar order of adjudicating commerce and keeping the peace proved most controversial. An increasing number of Americans no longer bought into the accepted wisdom that an omnipotent, omnipresent U.S., could always easily afford, for the supposed greater good, to underwrite free, but not fair, global trade, police the world, and subsidize the trajectories of new nations into the world democratic community.
In truth, globalization had hollowed out the American interior and created two nations, one of elite coastal corridors where enormous profits accrued from global markets, outsourcing, and offshoring, juxtaposed with a red-state, deindustrialized interior where any muscular job that could be xeroxed abroad more cheaply, eventually was.
Wars were fought at great cost in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, but not won and often waged at the expense of those Americans often dubbed "losers". Most NATO members followed Germany's lead and reneged on their defense spending commitments, despite their greater proximity to the dangers of a resurgent Russia and radical Islam.
Germany itself ran up a $65-billion trade surplus with the U.S. It warped global trade with the world's largest account surplus, insisted on asymmetrical tariffs in its trade with the US and usually polled the most anti-American nation in Europe all in the era when the century-old, proverbial "German problem" of Europe was supposedly a long-distant nightmare.
In sum, by 2016 Americans saw the postwar order as a sort of a naked global emperor, about whom all were ordered to lie that he was splendidly clothed.
Then came along the abrasive Donald Trump, who screamed that it was all pretense. What was the worth to America of a postwar order with a $20 trillion national debt, huge trade deficits, and soldiers deployed expensively all over the world especially when Detroit of 2016 looked like Hiroshima in 1945, and the Hiroshima of today like the Detroit of 1945.
Without regard to the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution, or Ivy League government departments, Trump abruptly pulled out of the multilateral Iran Deal. He quit the Paris Climate Accord, bragging that U.S. natural gas did far more in reducing global emissions than the redistributive dreams of Davos grandees. He took up Sarah Palin's reductive call to "drill, baby, drill," as the U.S., now the world largest producer of natural gas and oil, made OPEC seem irrelevant.
Trump jawboned NATO members to pony up their long promised, but even longer delinquent, dues or else. He renegotiated NAFTA and asked why Mexico City had sent 11 to 20 million of its poorest citizens illegally across the border, ran up a $71 billion trade surplus, and garnered $30 billion in remittances from the U.S.
Trump moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, declared the Palestinians no longer refugees after 70 years and thus no more in need of U.S. largess. Likewise, he dissolved US participation with the International Criminal Court, and questioned why the U.S. subsidized a UN that so often derided America.
Both the U.S. and global establishments screamed that Trump had destroyed an ossified postwar order. In its place, Trump's advisors talked of "principled realism", a sort of don't-tread-on-me Jacksonism that did not seek wars, but, if forced, would win them. In a world of multilateral bureaucracies, Trump adopted the of spirit of the Roman general Sulla: allies would find in the U.S. "no better friend", as enemies learned there was "no worse enemy". Both trade and war would be now adjudicated through bilateral relations, not international organizations.
In sum, the late 20-century global order of grand illusions had long ago gone comatose, but only now has been taken off life support.
Perhaps in the 21st century we are returning to the old 19th-century notions of balance of power, reciprocal trade, bilateral alliances, and military deterrence in keeping the peace rather than soft power and UN resolutions.
Trump is blamed for ending the postwar order. But all he did was bury its corpse very loudly and bigly. | 2019-04-23T22:13:41Z | http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0918/hanson092318.php3 |
Interesting article in today's NYT about research on what brings happiness.
"Extraordinary experiences bring great joy throughout life. No surprise there. But what the pair found again and again was that the older people got, the more happiness ordinary experiences delivered. In fact, the happiness-making potential of everyday pursuits eventually grows equal to that of ones that are rarer."
It was a beautiful day the other day and I lay down in the grass and watched the clouds blow by... Bliss! As I drifted, I found myself 7 again.
For people who have not saved enough or have broken into their savings because of lost jobs and health crises, the findings offer a glimmer of hope. If you can cover basic expenses, pursuing inexpensive, everyday things that bring comfort and satisfaction can lead to happiness equal to jetting about on international trips in your 70s and 80s.
Well duh! You don't have to spend a fortune to have a good time and to have wonderful experiences worth remembering. Imagine that.
If someone's longing to see faraway places is so strong as to ruin their everyday fun, and if they have the funds for it, then they should go for it! But that doesn't mean that others are not having just as good a time (or better) enjoying inexpensive, everyday experiences such as those described in the article.
I think this is part of what LBYM is about. We gain great happiness from ordinary things now, and thus can extend that as life goes on, without work.
One LBYM example: no opulent vacations. Just trips to the mountains to hike, or National Parks to explore the wonder.
Yesterday, we explored our local (very large) farmer's market. Why hadn't we done this before? It was fantastic and just set DW and I into a great mood all day.
I'm far from my 70s, but the joy that we have found in everyday living in ER is a great, unexpected bonus.
We still travel a lot, but we also get great joy from simple things around the house & around Denver - like the free jazz concert we just returned from, our weekly hikes in the mountains during the summer, cooking for ourselves & for friends, socializing with friends, walking around new neighborhoods. The list is simply endless! The only thing not on it is cleaning & laundry!
I am glad I take pleasure in doing simple things around the home and enjoy being at home a lot of the time. As I swear money just flys out of my wallet whenever I get in my car and go somewhere.
1. Ron Lieber is located in New York City and this is a New York Times article. Lots of people around the world dream of a vacation to NYC before they dream of a vacation to Paris. Also New Yorkers just have to step outside to enjoy a world-class vacation destination.
2. I was also thinking of a similar figure in LeMonde of a Parisien dreaming of going on vacation to NYC. They would have picture of the Status of Liberty instead of the Eiffel Tower, but the opera pic would be the Met instead of the Paris Opera.
You make such a great point. We live in Colorado - and what I think of as an "ordinary" outing, others might deem "extraordinary". And before this, we lived just outside NYC.
I think the same goes for all sorts of things depending on your economic, health & geographic situation (among other things).
+1 Except it's the zero-gravity recliner, and I watch the clouds and the trees rustle in the wind, through the skylights of the porch.
Average 3-4 hrs./wk. doing this. Truly a return to childhood bliss!
A big +1 to this. I used to love lying in the grass as a kid, either in the back garden, or in the fields nearby, and watching the clouds slowly move across the sky. To this day, whenever I stare up at the sky and hear the rustle of the leaves in the trees, it stirs something very deep in me. Part of that it is the nostalgia for my childhood, but part of it is something deeper and very peaceful.
I remember a friend in college laughing at me because I took interest and pleasure in what he thought were very mundane things. He found it most amusing that it didn't take much to keep me happy.
But really - how much do you actually need to be content?
Major Tom, made me happy just to read your comment. Something tells me, the more I can strip away the extraneous, the more I can find pleasure in the most simple activities. There's something too about being outside on a sunny day.
I just spent two hours gazing at the city lights outside my window while petting a cat. The purr of a cat is so therapeutic. When the weather is good, I like to sit quietly at the park and observe people and nature's wonders while eating my lunch. I like to feel the warmth of the sun and the coolness of the breeze on my skin. I find that so relaxing. When it's rainy and foggy, I like to go on a walk. The fog mutes the sounds of the city and I enjoy the sound of the rain hitting my jacket. Then I make a pot of tea and sip on it for a couple of hours while reading the paper.
Great article, thanks for posting! I especially liked the part on the library. We have a great one near us. I like to ride my bike there off hours.
I was at a golf tournament a few weeks ago, and I noticed a lot of "rich" people talking about traveling to Europe, etc. Seems like they weren't that happy. Some were really complaining about something/someone. Total waste of positive energy, and no fun to be around.
I have always felt that being able to find happiness in the ordinary, everyday things shows a level of contentment that goes against what a lot of "society" tends to push. Those ordinary, everyday things tend to help us slow down, pace ourselves, and just enjoy the moment without rushing about. This is good for us in the long run. However, what gets pushed a lot is the "tyranny of the urgent" - you need to be do something all the time, quickly, and just taking time out to enjoy and watch the world go by is boring and a waste of time.
I think of this every time I mention planning for retirement to someone and part of their reply is "won't you get bored?" Maybe because DW and I find so much happiness in ordinary things is why we can't see me retiring ever being boring.
The library things strikes home in a good way. As a kid, outside of school my favorite places where the sports field and the library. I remember on Saturdays when the weather was too bad for sports I would just spend the day in the library reading all kinds of things. I've never found it to be boring and with the increased resources in libraries these days it is an even more pleasurable place to be.
Add in the distant clatter of lawn mowers and/or the occasional hum of a small propeller plane and you've got it perfect.
The rustling of palm fronds and the ebb and flow of waves on the beach is another one that's hard to beat. Add in the occasional cry of a gull or other sea bird and it's perfect again.
Daily bike rides, a walk through town to people watch on Saturday night, sitting on the pier at night looking at the stars while listening to the waves roll in, these are a few of my simple pleasures. I still enjoy the extraordinary but I too can see where the "ordinary" becomes more and more fulfilling as time goes by.
For us we often have a better time piling into our old car and heading to the mountains then going to a distant European place. It is not about money. Recently we went up to the High Sierras and did day hikes. We did watercolor sketches around little alpine lakes. Beautiful and precious memories. When it is raining in the winter here, I will think back to the Marmots and other small creatures up in the high country wilderness.
Right now the weather in Northern California is just delightful. Soft September sunlight and fall color.
The fragrances of freshly mown grass outside and then bread baking in our kitchen, a three-year-old explaining in great magical detail and vocabulary just how something works, a thirty-year-old watercolor portrait by DH of our daughter, a golden sunrise to compensate for a sleepless night. Beauty is indeed all around.
It's very heartening to see that so many here also enjoy the simple pleasures. Although I have always been very driven when focused on a goal, once that goal is achieved, my drive goes down, and I want, in fact, I need, to relax.
I have friends who feel guilty if they "do nothing". I put that phrase in quote marks, because "doing nothing" never is a complete absence of activity, even though it may represent a lack of concrete, measurable goals. I have never, ever felt guilty for doing very little because I know from experience that my drive to work toward a specific goal will come back - and if one day, it doesn't, what does that matter? I am just one early retiree in a world of billions of people.
Last night, I sat outside with my neighbor's cat. He's an indoor/outdoor cat who refuses to stay indoors. I worry for his safety in this urban environment, but I have to accept that this is something I cannot control (especially as he's not my cat). I sat outside with him for 30 minutes last night and completely "got" why he wants to be outside. The warm night air was alive with sights and sounds and quite frankly, it was more comfortable outside than inside. We sat, experiencing the night together, and I think I got to see just a little bit of the world from his point of view. I still wish he'd stay indoors, but I now understand him better.
Nothing "concrete" or measurable was achieved in that 30 minutes, but I got to see the world from a different perspective, and that is most definitely worth something.
On the other hand, perhaps I am simply trying to justify the fact that I really enjoy lying around Here's a picture of Stephen, my neighbor's cat. He's a beautiful boy, and FIREd - as the father of 3 indoor cats, I'm glad yours is an indoor cat too. I'd worry too much about mine if they went outdoors around here. | 2019-04-24T04:31:04Z | http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f27/taking-pleasure-in-ordinary-experiences-73470.html |
It is a pleasure for me to be with you this evening and to be part of this prestigious event, which is a first of its kind.
Let me start first by thanking the host, BEPA organisers for all the efforts behind this initiative of making this dream a reality and also for inviting me to be part of the event.
The initiative to launch the Association could not have come at the right time, when we are celebrating the life well lived of the Mother of the Nation, our stalwart Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela who devoted all her life for the betterment of our people. As quoted from Mama Winnie Memorial Obituary “The life of Madikizela Mandela encompasses commitment to community upliftment, opposition of apartheid and determination to build a non-racist, non-sexist and democratic South Africa”. It is up to all of us to take a batton from where she has stopped and continue with the struggle for Radical Economic Transformation.
Environmental sustainability through efforts to reduce pollution and to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Furthermore, the NDP envisages a South Africa which, by 2030, will have amongst other things, adequate supply of electricity and liquid fuels to avoid disruptions to economic activity, transport and welfare. The NDP therefore proposes diversity by way of alternative energy resources and energy supply options, both in terms of power generation and the supply of liquid fuels.
Given South Africa’s current socio-economic realities, our development focus and available resources, we have to take a pragmatic approach. The economic structure of our country still does not reflect our demographics. The energy sector is no different. There is therefore a need for increased and greater participation in the economy by the previously marginalized.
Some progress has been since 1994, but a lot more must still be done. The energy sector is a unique sector as it is an economic enabler. Its transformation goes beyond issues of ownership but also to issues of access and affordability.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Black Energy Professionals Association formation will provide a solid platform for Black professionals to share ideas, forge closer working relationship with government, to influence government energy policy, and collaborate.
We therefore have to work together (Government, Public and Private sector) towards a radically transformed and inclusive economy. This is a non-negotiable for our country.
The energy sector covers electricity, gas and liquid petroleum.
South Africa recognizes the role of all forms of energy in ensuring security of energy supply and meeting the challenge of climate change. We promote an energy mix of coal, gas, renewables and nuclear.
My recent approval and sign off of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Projects supports an increase in black participation through increase not only at ownership level, but at operational and manufacturing level towards the creation of black industrialists.
South Africa’s IPP Programme remains the only vehicle that progressively enables participation by black investors and industrialists in electricity generation. Through its unique programme design, the Renewable Energy IPP Programme requires a mandatory 40% of South African Entity Participation and black enterprise and broad-based black participation in the form of ownership, economic and socio-economic benefits.
With these latest projects, black shareholding of 64.2% of local ownership has been achieved, and shareholding by black South Africans has also been secured across the value chain. Black ownership and participation in Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) and Operating and Maintenance (O&M) Project Companies have improved under this new round of projects. Around 86%, or 1 748, of the top management jobs of the new IPP Project Companies will be filled by black professionals.
Furthermore, the IPPs have committed to an average of about 40% or R8.90 billion of the local goods and services spend to be procured from black-owned enterprises during the construction period.
Another important focus of the IPP Programme is to ensure sustainable benefits for these mostly rural local communities. The Renewable Energy IPP Programme is embracing local community socio-economic and enterprise development and through an inclusive geographic approach it has created opportunities across the country – in all 9 provinces – in mostly lagging rural areas.
Local community shareholding (total equity) in the newly signed projects amount to 7.1% (or R1 627 million). The local community shareholders for these projects will receive R5.9 billion net income over the 20 year life of the projects. In addition, the IPPs will enable local communities to further benefit directly from the investments attracted to the area and IPP commitments in the areas of education and skills development social welfare, healthcare, general administration and enterprise development.
The newly signed projects will contribute a total R9.8 billion to socio-economic development initiatives and R3.39 billion to enterprise development over the 20 year life time of the projects.
Although these statistics are encouraging, we believe that there is so much more we can do to optimise black ownership and ensure active participation in the energy sector. Some of the economic transformation building blocks that we are already working on are in areas such as improving access to finance for local black shareholding companies and the structuring of re-financing arrangements. Finding innovative and affordable funding mechanisms for the participation of black entrepreneurs in this space, will allow the development of black industrialists as well as ensuring participation of black entrepreneurs in main stream economy.
We are also reviewing community ownership structures to ensure that communities have an active voice in decision-making. Ownership without getting the necessary opportunity to develop skills and participate in the projects is of no value. We would like to see South African black Independent Power Producers very soon bidding in other countries, leading the teams developing these projects.
I have also recently proposed the development of an Energy Transformation Charter, and here, the Black Energy Professionals Association can play a positive role to develop and mutually agree on commitments to ensure that South Africa builds on its already well-known brand as a pioneer in the energy sector.
The Department’s Electrification programme also provide opportunities in the electricity sector. The government has in this current MTEF been spending on average around R5 billion per annum to electrify households. This electrification is delivered through Eskom and municipalities. Many small engineering and construction firms benefit from this programme but a lot more can be done to facilitate participation by new entrants. BEPA members are therefore encouraged to take their space in this sector.
In as far as liquid fuels and gas, transformation in the oil and gas sector has made some progress since the dawn of democracy, however not at the pace that we expected. We celebrate the fact that Spring Lights Gas is a black owned company operating in the natural gas sector with major clients in KZN. We also are mindful of Total’s unencumbered BEE status that was achieved a few years ago.
The Department is working to unlock more opportunities in the Fuel retailing Sector, which has gross under representation of African women and men. The Audit currently being conducted will be used as a baseline from which a commitment on targets must be made by the oil majors.
The Department is also in the process of aligning the Liquid Fuels Charter (LFC) to the B-BBEE Act, 2003 as amended and to ultimately develop a sector-specific Code of Good Practice in order to ensure compliance with the B-BBEE Act, 2003. This is to ensure that there are no conflicting prescripts with respect to transformation requirements in the petroleum Sector.
Shale gas exploration and development is a nascent industry in South Africa. We therefore together with social partners need to ensure that representation of the majority of the population in this sector is prioritized from the beginning.
Ladies and gentlemen, I believe that black owned companies have enough experience to begin to import a certain quantity of crude oil working together with their counterparts in countries of crude origin. I believe that the immediate focus should be to enable BEE companies to import the sizeable of West African crude oil. Nigeria and Angola account for 50% of South Africa’s crude oil imports. The Financial Institutions in the country will need to back up such transactions. This approach should extend to the transportation of crude oil through joint chartering of vessels. This will require discipline and competence on the part of all those companies that participate.
Access to import and export infrastructure by emerging black owned companies also remains a challenge. We are supportive of Transnet’s initiative to open up this area of the value chain to black owned companies. This newly formed organisation should keep a keen interest the deliberation on the port infrastructure strategy and exert the appropriate influence in its implementation.
The area of supply of diesel to the mining sector, defense and State Owned Companies is an area that should have set asides for black owned petroleum companies. These are major consuming industries that can contribute to radical socio economic transformation.
The department adjudicates and where appropriate issues licenses for retail service station, wholesaling and very rarely for manufacturing. The participation of BEE Companies in the retail sector is way below expectations and in this regard oil companies continue to renew leases with White owned retailers. This has got to change rapidly. A commitment is required from the CEOs of oil majors in this regard. BEE Companies end up applying for wholesaling licensing and after getting the wholesale licenses still have to negotiate with oil majors for products.
With regard to Gas to Power: South Africa has recognized this global shift and has set itself the vision to enter the global gas market and promote the development of a gas market, not only locally here in SA but also in the Southern Africa Region. For emerging economies, switching to gas as a competitive, cleaner and more flexible source for power production is a game changer.
South Africa’s introduction of gas into the energy mix, could also play a major role in regional development. Sourcing of gas from neighbouring countries such as Mozambique can result in a win-win situation, where piped gas will stimulate economic activity along the routing areas in both Mozambique and South Africa. Through regional transport networks, gas could be introduced into adjacent, landlocked SADC countries.
The LNG-to-Power Programme will be the main vehicle through which to stimulate this envisioned gas market in South Africa. It requires an all-inclusive effort by the general government and other stakeholders in South Africa. Over the last number of years, we have been putting in place the enabling framework for private sector participation in our energy sector to enable gas industry development and growth.
There are therefore opportunities in this area to transform the energy sector and the economy.
Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot overemphasize the significance of sustainable energy and its solutions to the economic well-being of South Africa and the rest of the continent. I am here today because my Department supports the efforts of black professionals like yourselves engaging in such discussions to create more opportunities.
Ladies and Gentlemen, my department is ready to walk this journey together with the BEPA towards a transformed energy sector. I appeal to all professionals in the energy sector to use this platform to build on the Department’s transformation initiatives and support the nurturing of women, people with disabilities and youth.
With these few words of support, I wish the BEPA all the best in achieving its objectives.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of The Department of Energy, South Africa.
Furthermore, the NDP envisages a South Africa which, by 2030, will have amongst other things, adequate supply of electricity and liquid fuels to avoid disruptions to economic activity, transport and welfare. The NDP therefore proposes diversity by way of alternative energy resources and energy supply options, both in terms of power generation and the supply of liquid fuels. Given South Africa’s current socio-economic realities, our development focus and available resources, we have to take a pragmatic approach. The economic structure of our country still does not reflect our demographics. The energy sector is no different. There is therefore a need for increased and greater participation in the economy by the previously marginalized. Some progress has been since 1994, but a lot more must still be done. The energy sector is a unique sector as it is an economic enabler. Its transformation goes beyond issues of ownership but also to issues of access and affordability. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Black Energy Professionals Association formation will provide a solid platform for Black professionals to share ideas, forge closer working relationship with government, to influence government energy policy, and collaborate. We therefore have to work together (Government, Public and Private sector) towards a radically transformed and inclusive economy. This is a non-negotiable for our country. The energy sector covers electricity, gas and liquid petroleum. South Africa recognizes the role of all forms of energy in ensuring security of energy supply and meeting the challenge of climate change. We promote an energy mix of coal, gas, renewables and nuclear. My recent approval and sign off of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Projects supports an increase in black participation through increase not only at ownership level, but at operational and manufacturing level towards the creation of black industrialists. South Africa’s IPP Programme remains the only vehicle that progressively enables participation by black investors and industrialists in electricity generation. Through its unique programme design, the Renewable Energy IPP Programme requires a mandatory 40% of South African Entity Participation and black enterprise and broad-based black participation in the form of ownership, economic and socio-economic benefits. With these latest projects, black shareholding of 64.2% of local ownership has been achieved, and shareholding by black South Africans has also been secured across the value chain. Black ownership and participation in Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) and Operating and Maintenance (O&M) Project Companies have improved under this new round of projects. Around 86%, or 1 748, of the top management jobs of the new IPP Project Companies will be filled by black professionals. Furthermore, the IPPs have committed to an average of about 40% or R8.90 billion of the local goods and services spend to be procured from black-owned enterprises during the construction period. Another important focus of the IPP Programme is to ensure sustainable benefits for these mostly rural local communities. The Renewable Energy IPP Programme is embracing local community socio-economic and enterprise development and through an inclusive geographic approach it has created opportunities across the country – in all 9 provinces – in mostly lagging rural areas. Local community shareholding (total equity) in the newly signed projects amount to 7.1% (or R1 627 million). The local community shareholders for these projects will receive R5.9 billion net income over the 20 year life of the projects. In addition, the IPPs will enable local communities to further benefit directly from the investments attracted to the area and IPP commitments in the areas of education and skills development social welfare, healthcare, general administration and enterprise development. The newly signed projects will contribute a total R9.8 billion to socio-economic development initiatives and R3.39 billion to enterprise development over the 20 year life time of the projects. Although these statistics are encouraging, we believe that there is so much more we can do to optimise black ownership and ensure active participation in the energy sector. Some of the economic transformation building blocks that we are already working on are in areas such as improving access to finance for local black shareholding companies and the structuring of re-financing arrangements. Finding innovative and affordable funding mechanisms for the participation of black entrepreneurs in this space, will allow the development of black industrialists as well as ensuring participation of black entrepreneurs in main stream economy. We are also reviewing community ownership structures to ensure that communities have an active voice in decision-making. Ownership without getting the necessary opportunity to develop skills and participate in the projects is of no value. We would like to see South African black Independent Power Producers very soon bidding in other countries, leading the teams developing these projects. I have also recently proposed the development of an Energy Transformation Charter, and here, the Black Energy Professionals Association can play a positive role to develop and mutually agree on commitments to ensure that South Africa builds on its already well-known brand as a pioneer in the energy sector. The Department’s Electrification programme also provide opportunities in the electricity sector. The government has in this current MTEF been spending on average around R5 billion per annum to electrify households. This electrification is delivered through Eskom and municipalities. Many small engineering and construction firms benefit from this programme but a lot more can be done to facilitate participation by new entrants. BEPA members are therefore encouraged to take their space in this sector. In as far as liquid fuels and gas, transformation in the oil and gas sector has made some progress since the dawn of democracy, however not at the pace that we expected. We celebrate the fact that Spring Lights Gas is a black owned company operating in the natural gas sector with major clients in KZN. We also are mindful of Total’s unencumbered BEE status that was achieved a few years ago. The Department is working to unlock more opportunities in the Fuel retailing Sector, which has gross under representation of African women and men. The Audit currently being conducted will be used as a baseline from which a commitment on targets must be made by the oil majors. The Department is also in the process of aligning the Liquid Fuels Charter (LFC) to the B-BBEE Act, 2003 as amended and to ultimately develop a sector-specific Code of Good Practice in order to ensure compliance with the B-BBEE Act, 2003. This is to ensure that there are no conflicting prescripts with respect to transformation requirements in the petroleum Sector. Shale gas exploration and development is a nascent industry in South Africa. We therefore together with social partners need to ensure that representation of the majority of the population in this sector is prioritized from the beginning. Ladies and gentlemen, I believe that black owned companies have enough experience to begin to import a certain quantity of crude oil working together with their counterparts in countries of crude origin. I believe that the immediate focus should be to enable BEE companies to import the sizeable of West African crude oil. Nigeria and Angola account for 50% of South Africa’s crude oil imports. The Financial Institutions in the country will need to back up such transactions. This approach should extend to the transportation of crude oil through joint chartering of vessels. This will require discipline and competence on the part of all those companies that participate. Access to import and export infrastructure by emerging black owned companies also remains a challenge. We are supportive of Transnet’s initiative to open up this area of the value chain to black owned companies. This newly formed organisation should keep a keen interest the deliberation on the port infrastructure strategy and exert the appropriate influence in its implementation. The area of supply of diesel to the mining sector, defense and State Owned Companies is an area that should have set asides for black owned petroleum companies. These are major consuming industries that can contribute to radical socio economic transformation. The department adjudicates and where appropriate issues licenses for retail service station, wholesaling and very rarely for manufacturing. The participation of BEE Companies in the retail sector is way below expectations and in this regard oil companies continue to renew leases with White owned retailers. This has got to change rapidly. A commitment is required from the CEOs of oil majors in this regard. BEE Companies end up applying for wholesaling licensing and after getting the wholesale licenses still have to negotiate with oil majors for products. With regard to Gas to Power: South Africa has recognized this global shift and has set itself the vision to enter the global gas market and promote the development of a gas market, not only locally here in SA but also in the Southern Africa Region. For emerging economies, switching to gas as a competitive, cleaner and more flexible source for power production is a game changer. South Africa’s introduction of gas into the energy mix, could also play a major role in regional development. Sourcing of gas from neighbouring countries such as Mozambique can result in a win-win situation, where piped gas will stimulate economic activity along the routing areas in both Mozambique and South Africa. Through regional transport networks, gas could be introduced into adjacent, landlocked SADC countries. The LNG-to-Power Programme will be the main vehicle through which to stimulate this envisioned gas market in South Africa. It requires an all-inclusive effort by the general government and other stakeholders in South Africa. Over the last number of years, we have been putting in place the enabling framework for private sector participation in our energy sector to enable gas industry development and growth. There are therefore opportunities in this area to transform the energy sector and the economy. Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot overemphasize the significance of sustainable energy and its solutions to the economic well-being of South Africa and the rest of the continent. I am here today because my Department supports the efforts of black professionals like yourselves engaging in such discussions to create more opportunities. As I said earlier BEPA provides a solid platform to take radical socio-economic transformation of the energy sector forward. Remember this: “If you want to run fast run alone, if you want to run far run together” Ladies and Gentlemen, my department is ready to walk this journey together with the BEPA towards a transformed energy sector. I appeal to all professionals in the energy sector to use this platform to build on the Department’s transformation initiatives and support the nurturing of women, people with disabilities and youth. With these few words of support, I wish the BEPA all the best in achieving its objectives. I thank you. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of The Department of Energy, South Africa.
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My friend looked on, aghast, as oil spilled down my shirt.
One second earlier, I had bitten down into, quite simply, the greasiest sandwich I have ever eaten, purchased for the equivalent of 12 US dollars from an operation calling itself The Cheese Truck. The oil poured from a molten block of English cheddar the size of a day planner, mingled with butter from the griddle. And then there was the truffle oil, literal puddles of it, which I had ordered on a whim for an additional ten dirhams. I was eating a fat sandwich, fried in fat, with more fat injected into its belly. But I once heard truffle oil is actually a “good fat,” and anyway, you can’t not order the truffle oil when you’re at the Love Food Festival.
Described on its website as “a celebration of extraordinary food,” the Love Food Festival could be construed as a more refined and self-conscious version of a county fair. Over the course of a mid-February weekend, a plot of turf in pristine Mushrif Park is filled with tents, kiosks, bandstands, demo stages, and “15 of the best street food traders from the streets of London,” trucks and all.
Yes, they literally transported 15 food trucks from London to the UAE. It’s fun to imagine that the trucks drove here through the Balkans, or that they floated lazily through the Suez Canal. Perhaps they went around the Cape of Good Hope. But why would you ship 15 food trucks 3500 miles in order to park them, immobile, in an open field?
The festival is put on by a company that has organized similar events across the UK since 2008, though the Abu Dhabi arm is in its second year. 38,000 people visited the inaugural round of UAE festivals and, if I were to guess, I would say there were 38,000 people there the day I visited this year. I was excited to check it out – in my 18th month of living in Abu Dhabi, I was in a bit of a food rut. I had recently (re)discovered a love for cooking and eating, a realization quite in opposition to my growing feeling that all food in Abu Dhabi tasted the same. The prospect of food trucks (“From London! They have a real food scene there!”) appealed to the vaguely elitist, bougie, West-Coast-USA part of me that was succumbing to food ennui. I chose to see this festival not as a one-off “cultural event,” the type of which come and go in Abu Dhabi all the time, but rather as a harbinger of good things to come. An indication that the people of Abu Dhabi – all 38,000 of them – were hungry for an enjoyable eating experience, an innovative culinary scene, and more creative, varied options for reasonably priced food.
In some ways, the restaurant options in Abu Dhabi run parallel to the city’s demographics. There is no lack of good food here, of course. And most of it you can purchase for less than 20 dirhams. South Asian, Levant, Khaleeji, and East African food is plentiful and almost universally delicious – or, at least, well worth the very modest price. Swing the pendulum to the other extreme, and you get the bedazzled and boozy “fine dining” establishments in the beach resorts and high-rise hotels frequented by wealthy tourists. Almost none of these spectacles can offer particularly great food or ambiance (minimalism is not a strong suit in Abu Dhabi restaurant design), and even those that do serve skillful haute cuisine are not worth the money (the exception being Zuma, which is the best restaurant in the city). Of course, most cities have their fair share of not-worth-the-money fancy restaurants – these suspicions are occasionally, gloriously confirmed by scathing NYT reviews such as the recent Per Se debacle – but their foodie reputations don’t rest on tasting menus and wine pairings. Cities stretch their culinary legs smack in the middle of the $-$$ section of Yelp, Zomato, and Tripadvisor.
As I wander around the food festival, peanut oil mist beginning to hang in the air like airport-closing fog, I reflect on the many personal biases that play into my attitude about food in this city. I have tastes that are totally dictated by my background, my hometown, even my parents (who basically thought meat was frivolous, a deprivation that I have been making up for with a lot of steak every since I moved out of the house). I have some small amount of disposable income that I can devote to eating for pleasure and intellectual curiosity, rather than just needing to fill my stomach. And when I talk about food, about cuisine, I’m thinking on a more conceptual or categorical level than just “things we eat.” I’ve never been an artist, but food is like art for me. I can look at and swish around and prod at and slurp on a plate of food the way that some people interact with a painting or a performance. And I suppose cuisine, in the way I’m envisioning it, is a performance. Someone creates something new, exciting, and thought-provoking…and then it’s gone, and won’t happen quite the same way again. But whoever saw it happen might be inspired by it, try to replicate it, and make something new themselves.
Some things are constant, comforting. I go to a place like Foodlands because it offers stability – the man at the counter will reliably give you a couple falafel while you wait, and your shawarma will be spicy and creamy every time. I don’t expect them to do a “deconstructed shawarma with uni and gold leaf,” and I don’t want that – that sounds lame. But for a person who thinks about food as a stimulating, literally and metaphorically nourishing part of life, even shawarma stops being inspiring if you eat it every day. It’s a sad place to be in your life when you start to get sick of shawarma, but I’m only human. And the so-called “fine dining” in Abu Dhabi simply doesn’t offer a better alternative.
Abu Dhabi is putting a lot of effort into defining itself as a cultural hub, a place where the local and global interact to produce expressive, international, boundary-blurring innovation. Whether or not that is happening is food for another essay. But to me, it seems that developing “food culture” should be an obvious part of this type of “development” and “redefining” and “global positioning.” To say Abu Dhabi has no food culture is, of course, absurd. Tell that to the naan guy with the tandoor behind the dry cleaners! So how do I define the gap I’m identifying without using my Western upbringing as the backbone of my argument? What does it mean that I saw a glimmer of hope in a festival modeled on others from Britain, of all places? The best I can say is that Abu Dhabi has a lot of room for thoughtful, intentional, accessible, reasonably-priced food. And, judging by this year’s Love Food Festival, there is a lot of demand.
And, judging by this year’s Love Food Festival, it seems to be a rule that food trucks must incorporate wordplay into their names. Bangwok. Crabbie Shack. Hip Pops. I suppose they are trying to lure us to the window, where the man in the cycling cap will be reliably sardonic and grumpily flirtatious. The “funny names” trend sets a very grim tone, however, when you have purchased a sad and overpriced meal that has been cooked in a bright yellow motor vehicle emblazoned with the words Fried Egg, I’m in Love. (I only use this food truck as an example because of the striking ridiculousness of their pun – this Portland staple actually has excellent food and I endorse them wholeheartedly).
Questionable marketing practices aside, as you walk around the festival grounds you see people truly enjoying themselves. For every British hipster food truck, there’s a local restaurant getting in on the fun. The whole enclosure is filled with a muffled buzz of “ooh”s, “oh!”s, and near-explicit “unngggh”s. Emiratis, expats, tourists, pre-teens, and families line up for Moti Roti. A pair of local mothers, their children playing with the nanny, watch intently as a Food Network Arabia star shows them how to use up their wilting spinach in a coconut noodle sauce. And the food is pretty good! A sushi burrito, a bagel burger, a bread bowl of biryani. Amongst the overwhelming crowds, between the hastily-erected pavilions, under the piles of soiled paper plates, through the muffled dubstep emanating from the halfhearted DJ’s laptop, I see the hint of an emerging culture of food that values unique, whole, thoughtful, reasonably priced foods of all kinds.
So, I get on board and buy the grilled cheese sandwich. The oil drips onto my shirt. Yes, it’s indulgent in a particularly Abu Dhabi way. But it’s playful. It’s make-able at home, though maybe a bit better for being slung from a truck by a man with full sleeve tattoos.
Of course, there are a lot of lingering questions. How does this type of food become a more reliable part of Abu Dhabi’s urban fabric? Is it so easy for a city to simply change its thinking around cooking and eating? Is there a way to do that responsibly? Moreover, who am I to impose my values on this adopted city of mine? How are we defining “creativity” and “good cuisine”? Is this simply a matter of adding more food trucks, or is there something deeper at play? Is this even important? Who would actually benefit from all this?
I don’t know the answers. The more I think about it, the more questions I have. And yet, I see Abu Dhabi (whatever and whoever that means – and probably only some of it, the part that I can see) becoming more interested in the things that create a culture of culinary experimentation. Perhaps people are thinking less about consuming, and more about producing, embracing, savoring, innovating, and making food local. And we are creating spaces for eating that are built around community, inquiry, and pride in the people who love their food and the flavors they bring to the table. And, because it’s Abu Dhabi, we pay 40AED just to get in the door of the food festival. If there is a shift in the food scene, and it’s not just my imagination, that will come with all the pitfalls and tensions of any other scene that purports to refine and enhance a place’s culture. But, judging from the Love Food Festival, it’s happening — and it’s oily, and messy, and delicious. | 2019-04-19T07:34:44Z | http://electrastreet.net/2016/04/u-a-eat/ |
This post is brought to you by the “Women of Fisheries”, a Facebook group dedicated to providing a place for the awesome women of fisheries to connect, share stories, ask questions, learn from each other, and together tackle some of the issues facing women in our field.
What do you think of when you envision a fisheries scientist, especially one in the field? Who do you picture hauling in a seine, slogging through marshlands wearing waders, analyzing data, or tagging a salmon? Chances are your mental image isn’t one of a woman, and it almost certainly isn’t a pregnant woman. But it turns out that women working in fisheries are just like other working professionals, and many start families during their careers. The challenges of work-family balance are not unique to our field, though our work environment might be just a bit out of the ordinary.
There’s not a reliable method to determine how many women work in fisheries research-related fields, partly because we work in so many different capacities, including government agencies, universities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and consulting firms to name a few. Anecdotally, we have seen a considerable increase in the proportion of women in fisheries research – many of us of *ahem* a certain age can remember being the only women in our respective offices 15, 20, and 30 years ago. We still have a long way to go to reach the 50% threshold (especially in the graduate school to career pipeline), but it is encouraging to see so many women coming up through the ranks.
Many working women may delay starting a family until they have job security, or even choose not to have children at all for personal, professional, or financial reasons. In our field especially, working mothers often pursue a non-conventional career path, which may include part-time consulting, delayed pursuit of graduate school, or extended leaves of absence. Young women just starting out in the field could easily look around and be discouraged by the lack of mothers among their mentors.
Which is why we bring you Moms: the True Livebearers of Fisheries Research, where we share photos and stories of some of the women who conduct research while simultaneously creating and sustaining brand new human beings. We want to highlight some of these inspiring scientists to demonstrate that not only is Mom-ing in Science doable, but it also can be fun and rewarding, and having kids is not a career (or even field work) killer. And of course who doesn’t want to show off their amazing accomplishments?
We asked a few of our colleagues to share photos and brief snippets about their work, including challenges, anecdotes, funny stories, and unique solutions they have found.
I found that a baby bump makes an excellent clipboard rest while conducting interviews with deep-sea fishers in Guanaja, Roatan.
What are some challenges you face that others might not consider?
Bathroom access! Drinking water becomes your second job when you’re pregnant, so easy access to a bathroom is sometimes a logistical problem, especially when traveling or doing field work.
What are some awesome support systems you have seen in our field or would like to see?
The choice to work from home a couple of days a week or have flexible working hours would be a huge help, both while pregnant and after having kids. As progressive as modern offices can be, it’s really nice to be able to put your feet up, or even take a nap when you really need to. I am very fortunate that my employer allowed me to relocate for my last trimester- it allowed me to continue to work up until my due date and gave me peace of mind for medical care and quality of living.
What are some things that supervisors and coworkers can do to put you in the best position?
If you are in the position to lend a hand, offer a bit of respite to parents at meetings or conferences. Juggling travel, child care, and putting together presentations is stressful, and often parents are already sleep deprived. Just having another pair of hands to hold the baby for a minute, or even taking them for a couple of hours can make a huge difference.
Thirty weeks pregnant with triplets, on bedrest, and participating by phone in a PhD qualifying exam (“I don’t think my questions were very brilliant!”).
Eight months pregnant with first child, participating in Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s annual open house (Marinequest) in St. Petersburg, FL. This outreach event is attended by thousands of stakeholders each year.
With Chelsey Crandall with babies in tow at the 2017 American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL. Both were on the planning committee for the meeting and put their babies in child care there for the first time.
Field work definitely becomes a challenge for many reasons, especially in the beginning. I delegated some of the “fun stuff” for quite awhile, during which I missed some of the work camaraderie but wouldn’t have traded it for the quality time I spent with my babies. Long offshore research cruises and extended travel aren’t as much fun either when you miss your little one, but it can be done. Pumping in the field is always an adventure – I cut holes out of an old sports bra to hold my flanges while pumping on a small boat and used a nursing cover and antibacterial gel to keep everything sanitary.
The ability to use paid leave accrued over many years instead of taking straight work without pay was a lifesaver for me and extended the time that I could be at home with both of my babies. When I returned to work, a flexible work schedule and the option to work from home made the transition so much easier. I have been blessed with understanding supervisors and coworkers and a supportive spouse. Their trust in my work ethic and time management skills has led to a high level of accountability on my part to get the job done even in unconventional ways. Conference calls planned around naps and working on papers with a sleeping baby on my lap are just a few examples of multitasking while my babies were little.
I’ve made use of pumping rooms at two annual AFS conferences and the ability to bring young children along on these types of trips is sometimes the only way to make it work. In addition, being able to learn from other moms in the same workplace and get tips on how to make things work is a huge help.
Amber Mouser, Environmental Scientist-Plumas/Sierra County Fisheries with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
22 weeks pregnant with second child and doing a fisheries pre-stocking evaluation of Snake Lake, Plumas County, California.
I was lucky to have a super supportive supervisor and coworkers during my pregnancies and when my kids were newborns. They were willing to have meetings at my house (so I could be with the babies), schedule calls during naptime, and generally work around the crazy schedule that is part of having a baby. Also, just knowing they were supportive and understanding meant a lot!
Having childcare and a pumping room at conferences is so important, and was the only way I was able to attend the national AFS meeting in Tampa. Allowing for flexible schedules is also so helpful, and I would love to see more ways to provide new parents with flexible or part-time work.
Conducting a field seining outreach with kindergarteners with 5-month-old Joseph.
Honestly, the biggest hurdle I’ve had is continuing to be productive while having very limited time. As naps have gotten shorter, my work time has become more and more limited. I have to shift to evening work or get a babysitter if I want to continue making progress.
Continual support throughout. My advisor is a dad. He has teenage kids. He remembers what it’s like to try to juggle. My co-students have been very flexible with me. They understand that I can only be on campus a very limited amount of time (because childcare is expensive). But also, assume that I can get things done. I may take a couple of days longer to accomplish a task, but I am going to get it done. Don’t count me out just because I’m a mom.
My situation has been incredibly supportive. My advisor has never stopped supporting me mentally and physically throughout this entire journey. I never was required to take a semester off. I’ve never been asked to go on long field expeditions when I could be at home with my nursing baby. My needs as a mom have been accommodated 100% of the time.
In addition, I have taken my kid with me to every conference I’ve been to, even if there’s no specific child-care plan. My husband and I even plan to take him to Florida chapter AFS meeting in a few weeks where we’ll both be presenting.
Any tricks, secrets, “hacks” you used to make the process easier?
Work when the baby sleeps. This has been my mantra throughout. If he’s napping, I’m working.
Prioritize. Make the hard choices about what needs to get accomplished and what doesn’t at any given moment. A lot of things in grad school are opportunities not necessities.
Good enough is good enough. Stop being a perfectionist. Things will get done and they will get done well. They won’t be perfect, but they’ll be pretty darn good.
Anywhere I’m welcome, the kid is welcome too (within reason). TGIF with the grad students? Kid is coming along. Need to run to the lab to get some samples thawing? Kid is coming along. Conference with no child-care? Bring a babysitter and bring him along.
Fisheries parents: what has your experience been? Share your pics, stories, and tips in the comments below!
Edited and minor contributions by “The Fisheries Blog” member, Patrick Cooney…who is also married to an awesome Woman in Fisheries!!!!
Here are some links to other posts we have published about people and their experiences in the fisheries science field.
Pregnant and giving birth while earning a PhD.
Being a mom and a military spouse while working in fisheries.
Increasing diversity in the fisheries profession takes resilience.
Giving back through fisheries research.
Job opportunities in the fisheries profession are diverse, and working for a power company is a wonderful option to consider.
Revisiting the notes, research, and life of a fisheries scientist no longer with us.
Encouraging creative adaptations to each parent’s situation during pregnancy and in those early years is important. Parents can be super productive with some (often) small changes in work assignment or schedule, and support makes such a difference in mom’s (or dad’s) stress level- which makes for a healthier work environment for everyone. In my own case, I worked from home and took on some extensive data-entry as I transitioned out of maternity leave. My supervisor assigned me a task that needed to be done and that I could do in short increments at any time. I always remind early-career folks (since pregnancy often comes when you are a newly minted professional) that asking for what you need or brainstorming what might work for you, your employer, and your family is not “asking for too much” or “special treatment”. We have lots of options for making changes that can get things done. It is also helpful if a supervisor starts the conversation and demonstrates a willingness to think creatively. This initiative coming from the supervisor models the idea that pregnancy is not a “problem” for the rest of the crew, it’s just another thing we will coordinate on. | 2019-04-24T18:23:15Z | https://thefisheriesblog.com/2019/04/01/moms-the-true-livebearers-of-fisheries-research/ |
DotaBlast met Natus Vincere’s Danil “Dendi” Ishutin for an interview in Minsk, during the StarLadder i-League StarSeries LAN finals. Dendi talked about the problems his team is facing, his loyalty to Na’Vi, why we don’t see more CIS players breaking into the professional scene, and his artistic inclinations as a child.
The Dendi interview was conducted on January 15th, during the StarLadder i-League StarSeries finals, in Minsk. Both video and transcript versions of the interview are available below.
DotaBlast/ Andra: How’s it going, Danil?
Dendi: It’s going so and so. We already lost here (note: at StarLadder i-League), so it gets pretty tough at some point, but everything’s alright.
DotaBlast: Did you have especially high expectations for StarLadder i-League?
Dendi: Yes. I think I always have high expectations. That’s the right mindset. You should believe that you can beat everybody. I don’t want to be top 16 or top 32 or whatever. I want to be top 1, so I need to fight for that and in order to do that I should be able to beat any opponent – at least in my mind. So, expectations were high for me. Maybe not for everyone on my team. Maybe. But for me, there were high expectations, for sure.
Discipline is what we’ve really been lacking for a long time. As CIS players, we’re always very aggressive, and sometimes we lose track of what’s going on.
DotaBlast: What happened exactly? What went wrong?
Dendi: We are not that strong yet. I think individually we’re pretty high level, but there are a lot of other aspects in Dota that you need to excel in so that your team achieves something: team spirit, friendship, discipline, and many other things. For example, what I think went wrong for us is that we’re losing a lot of points when it comes to communication, we’re not giving enough information, we’re not giving information at the right time, we’re not giving the correct information in-game, and that costs us a lot in-game. What else? Communication and discipline, I guess. Discipline is what we’ve really been lacking for a long time. As CIS players, we’re always very aggressive, and sometimes we lose track of what’s going on. We lose our discipline and we go full “yolo”. It happens a lot, we’re trying to work on it. For now, our discipline is really low, that’s why we’re making mistakes. Usually we’re leading in the game, for example – it’s really what I feel happens – but then we start throwing somewhere. I think a big part of the problem is communication and discipline.
DotaBlast: Do you think the current lineup is going to improve on those aspects? Or do you need to make roster changes and experiment further with the roster?
Dendi: I think any lineup can improve, it all depends on the human mindset, on the players’ mindset. If you know your weaknesses, if you know what’s wrong with your team or what’s wrong with you as a player, you’re starting to work on it harder, much harder than on other aspects, you improve and next time you see improvement. I see improvement for our team. We started playing together not long ago and we practiced every day. I saw a lot of improvement. We had some break around New Year’s a little and then we went on a small bootcamp before the Major qualifiers. In the qualifiers we played pretty decently, I think. I see a lot of improvement, but still not enough. We’re not there yet. We had the same problems that we had here (note: at StarLadder i-League), but to a bigger extent. So, I see improvement, I really do.
Usually people see what they want to see. In games, they look at how certain players perform and draw conclusions. In reality, you should draw conclusions on the entire team.
DotaBlast: So, you’re still pretty confident in this particular Na’Vi lineup.
Dendi: I’m usually not the player who would want to change teams, to be honest. I always have confidence in my team, in my players. I think it’s also some kind of skill that you need to have when you’re playing at a high level: trust in your teammates, all your teammates. I really have a huge trust in my teammates when I’m playing and I think that helps me a lot. If the players have trust in each other, the team spirit is very high and you can come up with a lot of high level plays, you can play some heroes that you don’t often play. I’ll give you a simple example: let’s say I want to play Pudge. If all my team believes in me, I’ll play it and I’ll probably play it well, because I know I have backup from my teammates, I know that they trust me, that they’re willing to help me. When I don’t have their trust, obviously, I can’t play Pudge, or I won’t play it really well. It all depends on this. Usually people see what they want to see. In games, they look at how certain players perform and draw conclusions. In reality, you should draw conclusions on the entire team. When everyone’s playing well, everyone will shine, but if something’s lacking, a player is bound to do some things he might not do if there was nothing lacking.
People don’t know what’s happening in the team. They’re not listening to our TeamSpeak, they’re not here, they don’t see what we see, so obviously they don’t know anything, but they’re drawing conclusions. That happens everywhere, not only in Dota. It’s the same in politics and other areas. In reality, we’re picking together – we’re trying to pick together, so everyone should take the blame.
DotaBlast: About that, ArtStyle has been taking the blame for drafts quite a lot, and you’re saying that it shouldn’t be his fault, it’s the entire team that underperformed, right?
Dendi: Yes, that and not only that. People don’t know what’s happening in the team. They’re not listening to our TeamSpeak, they’re not here, they don’t see what we see, so obviously they don’t know anything, but they’re drawing conclusions. That happens everywhere, not only in Dota. It’s the same in politics and other areas. In reality, we’re picking together – we’re trying to pick together, so everyone should take the blame. I like our picks even now. I know that some are harder, some are easier. For example, against Fnatic we had a push line-up. We made a lot of mistakes – micro-mistakes, macro-mistakes – a lot of things went wrong, and after some minutes it’s getting increasingly difficult to win against split-push with push when you’ve already lost the momentum. So, at some point you can blame the draft, but if you played well you wouldn’t have to blame the draft. When we played against Alliance, I think our draft was much, much, much, much better at some point and we played it really well, we gave them heroes they’re actually not that comfortable with. It’s only my opinion, but I think it really went well for us, so you could say it was a good draft. It’s really hard to compare drafts, but you can win with every draft, with the right mindset, with the right ideas. We’re picking together and there’s no reason to blame ArtStyle, because if you do, you should blame everyone else on the team just the same.
I’m just trying to be loyal. No one respects loyalty these days, I guess.
DotaBlast: You’ve been on Na’Vi for a really long time – almost unprecedented in Dota for a player to be on the same team for such a long period of time. You gave us quite a scare a couple of months ago, when the news broke that Na’Vi disbanded and that you were off the team. Do you see yourself playing for another organization, maybe in the distant future – not right now? Is that even a remote possibility?
Dendi: Yes, everything can happen, I’m not saying anything, but I’m trying to be loyal. I know that my organization gave me a lot of things, changed my life in a good way, so I feel like I owe them. I feel comfortable, and I owe the people I play with and the people who work for the organization, so there’s no reason for me to leave for now. I have a huge trust in my teammates. I don’t want any changes, I just want to play and if someone is lacking something, I want them to improve and I’m trying to do something and help them if I can, if I can’t, I just wait. I’m just trying to be loyal. No one respects loyalty these days, I guess. Whatever.
DotaBlast: Do you miss Sasha?
Dendi: Yes, of course. I really enjoyed playing with XBOCT for a long time. There was no moment when I wouldn’t have continued playing with him. I could still play with him, no problem.
DotaBlast: We talked to him at the Frankfurt Major and he told us he misses playing with you too. You guys were very good friends. Are you still in contact?
Dendi: We live in different cities, so it’s not easy (note: to see each other) in real life. Obviously, we’re going to see each other on tournaments a lot and sometimes we write messages to each other. We got really used to each other at some point because we saw each other so much in those five years. We had a lot of tournaments in the past 2-3 years, we were always travelling together, always having bootcamps together. When we had three days off, we took time off from each other, but then we were missing each other, like a couple. (laughs) We were like a family at some point.
DotaBlast: Now that you’ve mentioned family, I first saw you on Free to Play and I really identified myself with your family and your childhood, partly because I also took piano and dancing lessons. How long have you studied piano?
Dendi: My mother is a piano teacher, so she wanted me to study music and she chose piano for me when I was in the first grade, in school. But I think I like the violin better.
DotaBlast: Can you play the violin as well?
Dendi: No, I can’t, but at some point I realized that I would’ve wanted to learn violin instead.
DotaBlast: Yeah, but your fingers are fit for a pianist.
Dendi: I was going to study piano and I had an advantage from all the other students, because my mom was teaching me at home.
DotaBlast: Can you still play?
Dendi: No, no, I don’t play. But I think if I spent maybe a month or two practicing, I would remember things and maybe I’d be able to play.
DotaBlast: Who’s your favorite composer?
Dendi: Oh, I don’t know, that’s really hard. I like a lot of classical music, I like jazz music. I really like classical music. Last time I was listening to Debussy.
I actually was thinking about going on that (artistic) path. I don’t remember what changed my mind, I really don’t.
DotaBlast: I really like Debussy, but my favorite ones are Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Bach. What about the dancing classes you took? You seemed really artistically inclined back then. I wonder why you didn’t go on that path.
Dendi: I actually was thinking about going on that path. I don’t remember what changed my mind, I really don’t. I really loved dancing, I still love watching high level dancers – modern dances, folk dances, anything – when I see high level dancers, I enjoy watching and I’m really impressed. About myself? I was 6-7 years old, maybe, I traveled around with my group, dancing competitively. We weren’t super high level, but we were young. I think dancing really helped me in Dota, because you dance in front of a crowd or you take your piano exams in front of an audience. Those things helped me, because now, in Dota, I don’t feel any pressure when I play on stage. I feel really normal.
I actually think that one of the most skillful players around are in the CIS, but our problem is that most players are not used to team work. (…) You can be 9K MMR, yeah, you’re going to be good at playing alone, but in a team it’s a totally different story.
DotaBlast: Considering the high number of people playing Dota in the CIS region, why do you think there are so few people breaking into the professional scene every year?
Dendi: That’s a pretty tough question. I can only guess, because it’s really weird for me. Maybe it’s a mentality problem. Our mentality is pretty tough, compared to some other mentalities. I actually think that one of the most skillful players around are in the CIS, but our problem is that most players are not used to team work. You know, everyone is trying to draw attention on them: “Look at me, I’m so good!” In a team it doesn’t work like that, you need to be one unit, you need to work for each other. There are a lot of high level ranked players, with high MMR or whatever, but that doesn’t give you anything. You can be 9K MMR, yeah, you’re going to be good at playing alone, but in a team it’s a totally different story. You need to have some experience, you need to know a lot of things, you need to be friendly, you need to know how to trust in your teammates, how to communicate, and many other things. All those things are not easy, especially when your mentality is that you’re a little bit cocky.
DotaBlast: So, you’re saying it’s a mentality problem.
Dendi: Maybe. That’s my guess.
DotaBlast: Who do you think will be the next rising star in the CIS region?
Dendi: Oh, it’s pretty hard to tell. You could call Ramzes (note: Roman “Ramzes” Kushnarev, from Team Spirit) a rising star, because he’s young.
DotaBlast: How old is he?
DotaBlast: Oh, 16. He definitely qualifies for the rising star title.
Dendi: My teammates, if you can call them young, but I guess they’re not that young anymore.
DotaBlast: SoNNeikO is pretty young.
Dendi: He’s already a star!
DotaBlast: He is, that’s right. There’s still plenty of room to “rise”, though, there always is.
Dendi: He’s insanely good, you have no idea! We’re just pulling him down, I guess.
DotaBlast: You called him a diamond once.
Dendi: Yeah. I can repeat it. He’s still a diamond!
DotaBlast: Thank you so much for the interview. Any shoutouts?
Dendi: Shoutout to my team – hi, guys! – to my friends, to my family, to my fans – I love you, everyone! Let’s do a hug!
When will dendi back??? Such legend cant just stop like that!! TAKE MY ENERGY DONDO!! | 2019-04-18T18:29:29Z | https://dotablast.com/dendi-interview-drafts-loyalty-navi-his-almost-career-dancing/ |
The number-one series continues for another season of epic romance, suspense and a bloody good thrill ride. Based on the best-selling book series, The Vampire Diaries is the story of two vampire brothers, obsessed with the same gorgeous girl, who are battling to control the fate of an entire town.
In the third season premiere, on the morning of Elena's 18th birthday, Caroline Forbes (series star CANDICE ACCOLA) is busy planning a party, but Elena is focused on searching for any clues that might help her discover where Stefan is. Damon is also searching for Stefan, while trying to protect Elena and keep her from doing anything that would draw Klaus's attention. Meanwhile, Klaus and Stefan are busy trailing a werewolf named Ray Sutton (recurring guest star DAVID GALLAGHER-Super 8, 7th Heaven). Now working at the Mystic Grill along with Matt Donovan (series star ZACH ROERIG), Jeremy Gilbert (series star STEVEN R. MCQUEEN) is struggling to understand why he keeps seeing the ghosts of Vicki (recurring guest star KAYLA EWELL) and Anna (recurring guest star MALESE JOW) since he was brought back to life by Bonnie Bennett's (series star KAT GRAHAM) magic. Meanwhile, Alaric does his best to watch over Elena and Jeremy, while dealing with his grief over Jenna's death, and Caroline and Tyler Lockwood (series star MICHAEL TREVINO) face a new and unexpected challenge.
Klaus puts a plan in motion that will give him even more power, but even with the unwilling participation of werewolf Ray Sutton (recurring guest star DAVID GALLAGHER), things don't go exactly as Klaus had planned. Damon and Alaric reluctantly go along with Elena's new strategy to find Stefan, leading Damon into a dangerous fight with an unexpected enemy. Jeremy turns to Matt for help as he continues to try to understand what the ghosts from his past want from him. Unaware that Caroline is in need of his help, Tyler faces an emotional confrontation with his mother (recurring guest star SUSAN WALTERS - One Tree Hill, Melrose Place).
Klaus and Stefan arrive in Chicago, where Stefan is reunited with a vampire (recurring guest star CLAIRE HOLT - Pretty Little Liars, H20: Just Add Water), who hasn't really moved on from her interest in him decades earlier. In a flashback to Chicago in the 1920s, Stefan comes face to face with a shocking chapter from his wild past. After Damon gets a tip on Stefan and Klaus' whereabouts from an unexpected source, he and Elena follow their trail. Meanwhile, back in Mystic Falls, Tyler is concerned about Caroline and turns to Sheriff Forbes (recurring guest star MARGUERITE MacINTYRE) for help.
Still in Chicago, Klaus uses Gloria (guest star CHARMIN LEE - Girlfriends, Supernatural), a witch he knew long ago, to help him track down missing information that will explain why his plan isn't working. Gloria's spells reveal intriguing glimpses of the truth, but she soon realizes she needs Stefan's knowledge to complete the puzzle. When Stefan suddenly finds himself in danger, help comes from a surprising ally. Back in Mystic Falls, a frustrating new enemy pushes Damon over the brink and he lashes out in a way that will have lasting consequences. Caroline struggles with her own emotional issues, even as she tries to help Elena face her feelings. Jeremy makes a brief but disturbing breakthrough with one of his ghostly visitors, leaving him more confused than ever. Finally, Bonnie has a strange encounter that will affect everyone.
With help from Elena and Bonnie, Alaric tries to decipher the meaning behind his recent discovery. Elena and Rebekah (recurring guest star CLAIRE HOLT) engage in a mean-girl power struggle, until Rebekah finally reveals some of her family's ancient secrets and the violent past she shares with Klaus and Elijah (recurring guest star DANIEL GILLIES). Damon tries a reckless new approach to make a breakthrough with Stefan, and they're both surprised by an unlikely ally.
On the night of the Homecoming dance, Rebekah (recurring guest star CLAIRE HOLT) opens up to Elena about why the evening is so important to her, leaving Elena with conflicting emotions. Caroline and Matt are both shocked at Tyler's behavior throughout the evening. The night takes a surreal turn when Klaus puts his latest plan into action. Determined to outsmart Klaus, Damon enters into a dangerous partnership, leading to a terrifying turn of events. The band MY MORNING JACKET performs in the party scenes.
Stefan has hidden the coffins containing the bodies of Klaus' family, and Klaus quickly turns to violence to convince Damon and Elena that no one will be safe until he finds Stefan and gets his family back. Tyler continues to make the most of his new abilities as a hybrid, but he has to face the disturbing consequences of his actions as well. After a terrifying incident, Elena and Alaric grow increasingly concerned about Jeremy's attitude and, ultimately, his safety. Alaric meets the beautiful Dr. Fell (recurring guest star TORREY DeVITTO -Pretty Little Liars), who is intrigued with his amazing ability to heal. While trying to strike a deal with Klaus, Elena delivers news that truly shocks him. Also in the episode, Internet personality JUSTINE EZARIK appears as a bartender.
Although Caroline is in no mood to celebrate her 18th birthday, Elena, Bonnie and Matt surprise her with a small party in an unusual location. Damon and Stefan disagree on the best way to handle Klaus, and a reckless Stefan decides to test his theory by taking things to dangerous extremes. Bonnie is concerned when Elena tells her about Jeremy's new plans. At a Founder's meeting, Alaric once again runs into Dr. Fell (recurring guest star TORREY DeVITTO), who is in the middle of an argument with her ex-boyfriend, the medical examiner (guest star DAVID COLIN SMITH). Tyler refuses to go along with Klaus' latest demand, and is surprised when Klaus seems to accept his decision.
Bonnie believes her recurring dreams about Klaus' coffins will tell her how he can be killed. The dreams also lead Bonnie to a reunion with her mother, Abby (recurring guest star PERSIA WHITE - Girlfriends), whom Bonnie hasn't seen for 15 years. At Abby's remote farmhouse, Bonnie and Elena meet Jamie (guest star ROBERT RI'CHARD - One on One), the young man Abby took in years earlier. Bonnie's sudden appearance catches Abby off guard, but she does her best to explain the past. Tyler turns to an unexpected ally in his quest to regain his free will. Damon is intrigued by Alaric's new friend, Dr. Fell (recurring guest star TORREY DeVITTO), and Klaus continues his bitter negotiations with Stefan over control of the coffins containing his family members.
Sheriff Forbes (recurring guest star MARGUERITE MacINTYRE) delivers some disturbing news to Alaric and Elena about the weapon used in a recent murder. In the Salvatore brothers' escalating quest to kill Klaus, Stefan turns to Bonnie and Abby (recurring guest star PERSIA WHITE), while Damon reaches out to an old acquaintance for help in setting up an elaborate plan. Intent on a plan of his own, Klaus hosts a strange dinner party, where he reveals another story from his family's violent past until an unexpected guest brings the party to an end. Meanwhile, Caroline is heartbroken when she is unable to stop a tragedy from unfolding.
Elena is surprised to receive an invitation to a formal ball, and when Damon and Stefan hear the party is being hosted at Klaus' newly renovated mansion, they both insist on attending the event with her. Caroline and Matt also receive invitations to the ball from unexpected admirers. At the elegant party, Elena learns of a horrifying plan that could lead to numerous deaths and she must decide who she can trust with her new information. Caroline discovers a side of Klaus no one would have suspected. Finally, after an evening of violence and dashed hopes, Damon finds a new way to cope.
After starting her day with a startling discovery of Damon's latest indiscretion, Elena is frustrated to find that none of her friends agree with her on how they should react to the Original family's internal power struggle. Once again caught up in the destiny of the Bennett witches, Bonnie and Abby (recurring guest star PERSIA WHITE) find themselves playing a part in a ritual to appease the spirits of nature. When Elijah (recurring guest star DANIEL GILLIES) gives Damon and Stefan a dangerous ultimatum that puts Elena in danger, they turn to Alaric and Meredith (recurring guest star TORREY DeVITTO) for help with a plan that leads them to a terrible choice.
The present-day murders in Mystic Falls remind Damon of a similar crime spree a century earlier. In flashbacks to 1912, Damon recalls a beautiful vampire, Sage (recurring guest star CASSIDY FREEMAN -Smallville), who showed him a whole new way to exist. Sheriff Forbes (recurring guest star MARGUERITE MacINTYRE) warns Damon not to get involved in her investigation, but Damon is convinced she's going after the wrong suspect. Elena and Matt resort to breaking and entering in their search for evidence to prove Dr. Fell (recurring guest star TORREY DeVITTO) is a murderer.
Additionally, Elena comes to a new understanding of the path her life has taken, and Damon makes an emotional confession to Stefan. Plus, for reasons known only to her, Rebekah (recurring guest star CLAIRE HOLT), becomes interested in locating one of the town's oldest landmarks.
A century after their first encounter, Damon and Sage (recurring guest star CASSIDY FREEMAN) meet again at the ceremony to kick off the restoration of Wickery Bridge. Damon is surprised to learn the reason why Sage has returned, and pleased when she devises an unusual method to help him figure out what Rebekah (recurring guest star CLAIRE HOLT) is up to. Abby (recurring guest star PERSIA WHITE) is having a hard time adjusting to her new reality, despite Bonnie and Caroline's efforts to help. When Damon informs Elena of Stefan's latest struggles, she reaches out to Stefan to help her save a friend in danger, in hopes that it will help bring Stefan even closer to his humanity. Finally, when Damon discovers a new secret weapon, he lets Stefan in on the news.
Damon and Stefan focus a new project that will bring them closer to destroying Klaus, and they quickly bring Elena, Caroline and Matt in on the plan. After Klaus threatens someone close to Bonnie, she has no choice but to work on the spell he needs. Meanwhile, Klaus and Rebekah (recurring guest star CLAIRE HOLT) find the perfect motivator to convince Finn (recurring guest star CASPAR ZAFER -Tirante el Blanco) to cooperate with them, but Rebekah is more interested in her own brutal plan to take revenge on Damon. Stefan's emotional turmoil leads him to a dangerous confrontation with Klaus and, later, to a heartbreaking moment with Elena.
Elena and Damon set off together to make sure Jeremy is safe in Denver, and to see if his special abilities can help reveal the information they need about ancient vampire bloodlines. It doesn't take them long to learn that Jeremy has been hanging with the wrong people. Stefan and Klaus both go to brutal extremes in their search for the missing weapon. Caroline is thrilled when Tyler returns to town, but Tyler soon suspects that something has been going on between Caroline and Klaus. Matt has his hands full trying to keep Rebecca (recurring guest star CLAIRE HOLT) busy organizing the school's upcoming 1920s Decade Dance.
Alaric finds an unexpected ally to guide him on his dangerous new path, while Damon and Meredith (recurring guest star TORREY DeVITTO) try to figure out what their next move should be. At the school's 1920s Decade Dance, Bonnie asks Jamie (recurring guest star ROBERT RI'CHARD) to go with her and, at Caroline's suggestion, Elena asks Stefan to be her date. Caroline is pleasantly surprised when Tyler shows up at the dance determined to sweep her off her feet, but Klaus does his best to come between them. The dance takes a deadly turn when Damon and Stefan realize they need the help of Matt, Jeremy and especially Bonnie to undo a spell that could prove devastating for everyone.
Klaus acts on his intentions to leave town with Elena, but finds resistance from a surprising new enemy. Bonnie calls on Abby (recurring guest star PERSIA WHITE) to help her with a difficult spell. As events spiral out of control, Elena is determined to protect Caroline; Damon and Stefan enlist Tyler's help; and Bonnie and Jeremy take a terrifying risk to make sure her spell is effective. Plus, Damon and Stefan have a surprisingly candid conversation about the future.
In the third season finale, determined to protect his sister, Jeremy makes a decision that will change everything. In the harsh reality of the present situation, Elena longs for simpler times when her parents, Grayson (guest star JASON MACDONALD) and Miranda (guest star ERIN BEUTE), and Aunt Jenna (guest star SARA CANNING) were still alive and her biggest concern was her relationship with Matt. Stefan and Damon leave Mystic Falls together on a mission, but soon split up when Elena needs one of them. Caroline and Tyler are forced to make a life-changing decision. Finally, Bonnie makes a secret deal that has heartbreaking consequences. | 2019-04-24T18:10:56Z | https://www.warnerbros.co.uk/tv/the-vampire-diaries/season-03 |
If you are searching for how to improve your Pinterest profile and useful tips to improve Pinterest profile? then this article is for you. Pinterest is one of the highest growing profile and while its user’s list has been crossed to the magnificent number of 70 million its reputation, powerful presence and status are very hard to match. Here, we are going to discuss the start to end steps of the Pinterest strategy and guide you about profile improvement and getting benefit from it. Pinterest is an amazing platform and once you start to play with pins, boards and repinning a wonderful world with some very exciting opportunities will be open for you.
Let’s go through some very helpful tips that can remarkably boost your Pinterest marketing strategy.
1 How To Get The Most Out Of Pinterest?
How To Get The Most Out Of Pinterest?
The earlier personal account of the Pinterest has been replaced with a new and smarter Pinterest business page. One can easily convert its personal Pinterest account into a business page. This won’t change your profile yet, gives you some additional features of advanced Pinterest.
The traditional static images have been developed as the fully animated ones. Now we can have a better facility to present and watch the pins.
A rich pin is that contains the information much more than just a picture.
Articles: that contains the headline, writer’s name, detailed subject matter and related links.
Product: this pin contains the information about offering prices, availability status and where to buy.
Recipe: This pin contains the ingredients, a time consumed and serving methods.
Movie: this pin contains the rating, reviews, and cast.
Place: this pin informs about the geographical presence, address, contact number etc.
If you are thinking about rebranding your social site profile, this tool can be proven very handy to you. This facilitates the image creation for it and pins the right size.
As an extension of the Google’s image search feature, it really creates the real excitement. Now each pin is further loaded with the attached pin in the tool that will commence the Google search related to the picture.
When you are interested in using the Buffer extension option to share images, you can do it easily by using PinImage. You just have to attach a “Share to Pinterest” menu for Firefox usability.
This feature makes it very easy to share any screenshot of the websites on Pinterest. Do it simply by clicking a button and create a pin from the website you are watching.
With having this facility in your hands you can watch the expanded view of another spin without clicking on it each time. Pinterest will do it automatically for you.
Use this tool for sharing the quotes on your Pinterest board. Now, you can quickly and easily create good-looking images from the text and share them as pins.
While having this tool with you, it becomes very easy to share the pins you have drafted by using the quotes, texts, Twitter profiles and others. This is your one-stop destination to add a variety of content on your pinboard.
This fantastic and handy tool supports in measuring, scheduling and sharing your Pinterest pins through buffering.
1. Pin and upload from anywhere on the web.
2. Develop a day to day pinning schedule and customize it just for the customer.
3. Smartly tracking and measuring likes, comments and repins.
The recipe is the most searched pin on the Pinterest. So no doubt, there is some very interesting recipe search tools are being provided to make this search very fun filled. There are some additional filters that can classify the overall recipe collection on a different basis like, ingredients, types and originate.
Isn’t that fun to get knowledge about the tools and tactics that can be proven very helpful in using Pinterest in very interesting a useful manner.
As the next step of our journey, we will find some useful tips to improve the profile on Pinterest. These steps will defiantly help you in increasing the visibility.
Following are the experts’ suggested tactics to support you in creating and developing the social profile on Pinterest.
Pinterest is the medium to inform the users about the product or service; it also influences them to buy them. So while creating a pin don’t forget to include the price tag as it simply grabs the attention of deserving clients and to help them in decision-making. Pinterest is the site that is visited by the much number of visitors than of Google+, YouTube, and any other leading portal and by providing clearer information about price and others, you can utilize this number power in your favor.
You can write an article or blog, in a part of it on your board and complement both with the relevant URLs. With this facility, the others can bookmark our post for later reading. It also helps in link building.
By regularly pinning some of your best pins in weekly or monthly basis, you can turn your customer’s mailbox into a pin box that gives them some ideas and executions. Here you can add the screenshots of your pin and related clickable links. If they find your pin interesting they will further visit your pinboard for more information.
This is the experts’ recommended trick to use the Pinterest groups as the way to reaching more and more people for the best benefit of your business as the increasing number of repins, traffic and followers will directly result in boosting sales and profits. Usually, it is very hard to find the right groups so to assist in this task a new tool is available on the web called “PinGroupie”. This very efficient tool makes the task easier and finds out the group boards. Also, it is free of cost.It is very convenient to use Pin Groupie; you just need to type the category of your interest in the search box on the PinGroupie home page. Also, the filter option helps in refining the categories and make it more suitable.
Sometimes the situation comes into the view when the marketer wonders about the less response of their well-created Pinterest profile, even the brand on it are of popular category and they regularly maintain and update their profile. The only thing you need to do to get rid of this traffic dryness on your board is the promotion of your presence. Now a fantastic news! Promotion of your Pinterest presence is absolutely free here.
2. Make the posts about your Pinterest activities on Facebook.
3. You also can add the free Pinterest app to your Facebook account.
As a Pinterest profile promotional technique; you can develop a blog board and it will provide your followers a platform to find you and all your blog posts. Here the followers will easily be informed about a posting of any new blog on their homepage. It is very important that you have named your board involving the relevant keywords. This helps the followers to find the search engine results with a great convenience. Each time you post your blog on your website, you have to pin it on your board. The subject matter of the pin must include a short introduction of the article, a high quality, relevant image and the link to reach to the blog post. These visuals and the ideas inform and encourage the followers to visit the site.
Pin alert is the smart tool that alerts you whenever something is pinned out from any domain and you can easily find those pinners. This is the method by which you can compare the following status of you and your competitors.
So, these all are best Pinterest tools and useful tips to improve Pinterest profile, if followed in the right way. Pinterest tools and useful tips will defiantly help you in increasing the visibility of your Pinterest business profile page. If you have any query related to this how to improve your Pinterest profile article then you can comment below on the blog.
Pinterest is a free website to add your web page and get back-linked for search engine optimization (SEO). To be sure it’s a powerful site to increase the traffic of your web page. It’s very much easy to use and it works very fast. Just you have to know some easy techniques. However, the present article will guide you to create a Pinterest account and add your web page to get increased traffic. | 2019-04-26T09:57:51Z | https://www.digitalseoguide.com/social-media/how-to-improve-your-pinterest-profile/ |
Sometimes it is hard not to have a wry smile at the way events are reported. Especially as in this instance it has been a success for my style of analysis. If we take a look at the fastFT service we were told this yesterday.
German industrial production unexpectedly drops in November.
My immediate thought was as the German economy contracted by 0.2% in the third quarter we should not be surprised by declines. Fascinatingly the Financial Times went to the people who have not been expecting this for an analysis of the issue.
German data released over the past two days have painted a glum picture for how Europe’s biggest economy performed during the latter part of 2018. fastFT rounds up what economists and analysts have said about what is happening. Anxieties over global trade wars and political uncertainty in the eurozone have taken their toll, and Europe’s powerhouse is showing signs of fatigue. Questions of whether a recession is looming have also been raised, while many economists remain cautiously optimistic in their prognosis.
If we now switch to what we have been looking at I wrote this on December 7th about the situation.
If we look at the broad sweep Germany has responded to the Euro area monetary slow down as we would have expected. What is less clear is what happens next? This quarter has not so far show the bounce back you might expect except in one area.
So not only had there been an expected weakening of the economy but there had been at that point no clear sign of the promised bounce back. What we know in addition now is this which was released on January 3rd.
So another decline and if we look for a trend we would expect Euro area growth to continue to be weak and this time around that is being led by Germany. The link between monetary data and the economy is not precise enough for us to say Germany is in a recession but we can expect weak growth at best heading into the early months of 2019. The FT does to be fair give us a brief mention of the monetary data from Oxford Economics.
The problem with that which as it happens repeats the argument of Mario Draghi of the ECB is that it is a lagging indicator in my opinion as banks respond to the better economic news from 2017.
As these matters can be heated let me make it quite clear that I wish Germany no ill in fact quite the reverse but the money supply data has been clear and has worked so far. Frankly the way it is still being widely ignored suggests it is likely to continue to work.
This morning’s release started in conventional fashion as we got the opportunity to observe yet another trade surplus for Germany.
Germany exported goods to the value of 116.3 billion euros and imported goods to the value of 95.7 billion euros in November 2018………The foreign trade balance showed a surplus of 20.5 billion euros in November 2018. In November 2017, the surplus amounted to 23.8 billion euros. In calendar and seasonally adjusted terms, the foreign trade balance recorded a surplus of 19.0 billion euros in November 2018.
In world terms an annual decline in Germany’s surplus is a good thing as it was one of the imbalances which set the ground for the credit crunch. But if we switch to looking at this on a monthly basis this leapt off the page at me about imports.
A fall in imports is a sign of a weak economy as for example we saw substantial falls in Greece back in the day. There are caveats to this of which the biggest is that monthly trade data is inaccurate and erratic but such as the numbers are they post another warning. The other side of the balance sheet was more conventional in that with current trade issues one might expect this.
also reports that German exports in November 2018 remained nearly unchanged on November 2017.
Let us move on by noting that due to the way that Gross Domestic Product or GDP is calculated lower imports in isolation provide a boost before a “surprise” fall later as it filters through other parts.
If we step back to Monday there was some troubling news on this front.
Based on provisional data, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that price-adjusted new orders in manufacturing had decreased in November 2018 a seasonally and calendar adjusted 1.0% on the previous month.
So not much sign of an improvement and it was hardly reassuring that geographically the issue was concentrated in the Euro area.
Domestic orders increased by 2.4% and foreign orders decreased by 3.2% in November 2018 on the previous month. New orders from the euro area were down 11.6%, new orders from other countries increased 2.3% compared to October 2018.
Then on Tuesday we got disappointing actual production numbers.
In November 2018, production in industry was down by 1.9% from the previous month on a price, seasonally and calendar adjusted basis according to provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). The revised figure shows a decrease of 0.8% (primary -0.5%) from October 2018.
So November has quite a fall and this was compared to an October number which had been revised lower. This meant that the annual picture looked really poor.
At then end of last week we were told this by the Markit PMI ( Purchasing Manager’s Index) at the end of last week.
November and its lowest reading since June 2013.
The latest slowdown was led by the service sector, as the rate of manufacturing output growth strengthened for the first time in five months, albeit picking up only slightly and staying below that of services business activity.
The problem for Markit is that rather than leading events they are lagging them as they are recording declines after the economic contraction in the third quarter. If we took them literally then the economy would shrink by even more this quarter! Anyway they no seem to be on the case of the motor industry. From yesterday.
Latest data indicated a worsening downturn in the European autos sector at the end of 2018. Production of automobiles & parts fell for the third month running, and at the fastest rate since March 2013. New orders fell sharply, with new export business (including intra-European trade) declining at the fastest rate in six years.
The German economy found itself surrounded by dark clouds as 2018 developed and as I am typing this we have seen more worrying signs. From @YuanTalks.
It’s the FIRST YEARLY DROP in at least 20 years. Passenger car sales slumped 19% y/y in Dec 2018 to 2.26 mln vehicles.
Over 2018 as a whole car sales fell by 6% so we can see the issue is accelerating and there are obvious implications for German manufacturers. It has been accompanied by another generic sign of possible world economic weakness from @LiveSquawk.
Suddenly there is a lot of concern over a German recession or as it is being described a technical recession. In case you were wondering that means a recession that is within the error range of the data which actually covers most of them! Because of these errors it is hard to say whether the German economy grew or contracted at the end of last year, as for example wage growth should support consumption. But what we can say is that the broad sweep from it to the like;y trend for the early part of 2019 is weak. Perhaps some growth but not much after all even 0.2% growth in the final quarter would mean flat growth for the second half of the year.
For those who think ECB policy is set for Germany this poses quite a problem as it has ended its monthly QE purchases just as things have deteriorated in a shocking sense of timing. But to my mind just as bad is the issue that my “junkie culture” theme that growth was dependent on the stimulus also gets a tick including something of a slap on the back from Mario Draghi who seems to have come round to at least part of my point of view.
According to Handelsblatt every little helps.
Germany has saved €368 billion in interest costs on its debt thanks to record low interest rates since the financial crisis in 2008, according to Bundesbank calculations. That’s more than 10% of annual GDP.
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Auto output is bound to be down. In just a few months you will be hammered for driving a 4 year old diesel car in central London at any time of the day. Any diesel car before the later part fo 2015 will be hit by the ULEZ and yet you will be able to drive petrol cars from 2005 onwards. Given a significant proportion of German manufactured cars are/were deisel you can see how this might have an effect. I have literally no idea what I should buy when my current vehicle becomes uneconomical to repair as I drive long distances and have to enter London. At present I can skirt the ULEZ but in a few years time it expands to the boundaries of the north and south circular.
Other cities may follow suit. Manchester has been threatening this for a while. I have no issue with regulation to improve air quality but telling me a 4 year old vehicle cannot be driven without a large daily payment comes across as unfair. People feel they were misled into buying diesel and a car is an expensive purchase. If I buy a modern deisel that currenly complies will I get hit again when someone changes their mind.?This is the thought that must be crossing puchasers minds and so they wait to see what happens with the cost and range of Hybrid and Electric vehicles. 4 years is less than the length of some Personal Contract Plan schemes and the resale value at the end will fall.
In the UK we love buying German made vehicles in a sort of crazy reverse patriatism. This has to be affecting the German economy.
6. In the USA, but not Europe, consumers were compensated through the court and federal system.
Bottom of the heap are therefore European buyers of fraudulently marketed diesel cars.
The bigger picture is diesel, the major transport and agricultural fuel is drying up as conventional oil deposits decline to be replaced by shale (and other unconventional sources).
These sources cannot supply the heavier distillates (bunker oil for shipping, diesel for transport) in anything like the amount required.
There is a concerted effort to get the private road user off diesel. Differing approaches as we can see here in the UK compared to France’s approach but the fundamental reasoning is the same, conserve diesel for transport while other solutions are found.
indeed Dilbit is used for Canada – I believe the pipeline is maxed out though and cannot use more LTO from the States. With any heavy to very heavy oils ( aka Asphalt 🙂 ) its more like mining operation than a drilling one.
Venezuela doesn’t want to ship it’s bitumen to the USA but even it does , putting the military in command like it has , does not mean it can stop the decline in its output – the skilled staff are leaving. I note the US has its refineries optimized for heavy oil too , and not LTO .
Then Germany will out bid us on Norway’s natgas too , how then will we run out homes and industry on cold windless nights ? ( 20 GW now of wind capacity that at its max gave us a few hours of 14.9GWh and, on cold windless days, was as low as 0.38GWh- the load being taken by gas and coal generation ) current load factor is 19% , not a 33% as assumed , and also calculated back 38 years of good weather data too. Don’t think its been done with solar yet but without a good battery solution to cover several weeks I don’t see us being able to stop gas and coal generation …… mind you I doubt that would stop , say, the Labour party from trying !
I hope you aren’t suggesting the entire EU political class is run by incompetent and/or corrupt treasonous politicos that would sell their country out for a few shekels, believing in scams such as global warming to justify the economic collapse of their economies by the closing down of cheap carbon based generating stations and their replacement by intermittent/unstable “green” alternatives?
And if that were to happen in this country, and we ended up in the position we expect, being outbid in an escalating bidding process for winter electricity supplies, by buying gas at ever higher prices(falling value of sterling adding to the price to prevent house prices from falling)we will surely blame Russia(who will probably end up supplying it), that is all white van man and the rest of the sheeple will need to be told, when explained to them by the BBC, the Daily Mail, the Sun and other mainstream media.
2. I think that following the money supply was tainted in the eyes of many in the media by its olitical association with Mrs Thatcher and her association with Patrick Minford.
It’s so much easier to cut and paste ECB/IMF/ government statistics than it is to analyse data especially with a lag time that the mainstream media seem to have given up.
You are right that the media wants quick hits these days which is why it so often charges in the wrong direction. The money supply saga in the UK was quite something and a matter I have studied in great detail as well as working through the latter parts.
We had a choice between narrow money and broad money and chose broad money just as the financial system was being shaken up meaning the £M3 measure used missed some of it. The newly demutualised building societies for example. We had a type of reverse QE where we issued too many Gilts to try and soak up some liquidity but that didn’t help much. So Nigel Lawson went for a form of exchange-rate targeting ( older readers may recall a level of 3 Dm to the £) until that policy blew up as we were ejected from the ERM in the autumn of 1992.
We will never know if the narrow money measure ( wide monetary base) would have worked better but we do know that apparently it was nobody’s fault….
Lidl / Aldi in Eire not buying the German gadgets in their centre isles might explain some part of it? Tatty euro cars not ordering German components for their assemblies possibly assuming lovely tariffs post brexit? Electrical bits and pieces for white goods etc?
Just musing and really don’t know but would be interesting to see some more detail as to what and why don’t you think? | 2019-04-24T16:15:17Z | https://notayesmanseconomics.wordpress.com/2019/01/09/the-outlook-for-the-germany-economy-has-plenty-of-dark-clouds/ |
The state, as a legitimate power, subjects its citizens to the law. It enforces justice, thereby compelling its citizens to recognize each other’s free will. The administration of justice ensures the protection of person and property as well as the sovereignty of the state. It maintains competition by making the freedom of private individuals dependent upon the correspondence of their actions with the law. The state judges everything citizens do in terms of whether it conforms with the law, and makes its judgment valid by restoring the law whenever it is violated. In this way, through the power of the state, the law becomes immanent in the actions of citizens. Citizens in turn recognize the state’s commands as ethical standards which they apply to themselves and to other citizens, which is what morality is.
When it protects free citizens, their person and their property, by restricting them, the state is not based only on the collisions of competition. It is in fact the only purpose of the bourgeois state to preserve a society in which the augmentation of property, the expansion of the sphere of personal freedom, excludes all but the owners from participating in the wealth of society. By using its power to prevent any party from infringing upon persons and their property, the state ensures that the economic differences it is confronted with continue to exist. It thus also ensures that the conflicts of economic life will have their say, producing more or less guaranteed results.
Fanatics of equality will simply not believe that the equal treatment of competitors having different resources at their command is the best guarantee for the continual existence and even growth of their inequality. These people think of equality as an ideal with which to measure the differences in society, rather than as what it really is, a relationship of force.
Despite what idealists of equality think, the actual practice of the state is no injustice. It is just the normal state of law. By comparing the actions of private persons with the content of the law, the state ensures that individual freedom ends where property begins. There is thus an essential difference between a legal judgment and a scientific one. A scientific judgment is the theory about some object. It explains the object, capturing in thought what it really is. By contrast, a legal judgment has nothing in common with an explanation of the actions to which it pertains. Jurists are not concerned in the least with what justice is. They know that it exists in the form of laws, which are not the result of any scientific efforts, but of legislative fiats by the state. Their only concern is to see whether the actions of citizens conform to the laws or conflict with them. Their theoretical activity consists simply in bringing each “case” under the appropriate law as preparation for deciding the “case” in practice. Their judgments are not knowledge but comparisons. They abstract from the concrete content of the actions of citizens by relating them to laws, which are made objectively valid through forcible acts against the individuals. This is what police are for, and what the administration of justice is all about.
By protecting person and property, the state secures a sphere of freedom for individuals which sets limits on the pursuit of their particular interests. The exercise of one free will is dependent upon all the other free wills. It is therefore regulated by law, the state dictating to citizens the forms their social relations must assume. The realization of their private interests is their right, i.e. it is permitted on the condition that it not violate the law.
The state applies its monopoly on force to ensure that the collisions between the interests in society occur without the use of force. The subjection of all activities to the law is the basis for the bourgeois definition of force as an unlawful act, which makes capitalist society appear rather idyllic to its many loyal supporters. Bourgeois minds are so delighted about the state’s monopoly on force that they easily forget that the validity of the law entails that all private acts involve submission to state power, so that an interest in freedom is simultaneously an interest in force.
1. In civil, or private law the state lays down how mutually dependent private persons are to relate to each other. The state sets norms for those activities in which private individuals avail themselves of their personal freedom and utilize their property.
In its legal definitions of natural and juridical persons, the state lays down the conditions under which someone is considered a legal subject and as such is allowed to perform legal acts, i.e., when and to what extent a person’s will must be respected. Evidently, this is hardly a matter of course in bourgeois society.
In its laws on contracts and property, the state lays down different kinds of legal transactions, how they are to be carried out and their consequences. Since private citizens are only interested in their own advantage in their dealings, the state must impose on them the fundamental form of legal transactions, the contract, by most pedantically regulating all aspects of it. The law defines what is considered an act of volition, when an act of volition is valid, what this validity implies (performance) and how a promise to perform is to be kept. And since each party treats the other only as a means for gaining his or her own advantage, the state must also make sure its citizens do not make contracts about objects or services which are beyond their authority. By using force, the state brings home to them the exclusive nature of private property, which is desired and esteemed by everyone and therefore always disregarded.
In family law, the state lays down the relations of person and property when they are deranged by the relations between the sexes and between parent and child. Special regulations are necessary because the love between man, woman and child tends to get in the way of their duties as legal subjects. The state forces them to divide and share rights and duties in the very sphere in which they abandon mutual exclusion because of individual affection. The state thus declares the happy home a regulated utilitarian relationship, which is why the breach of the holy sacrament of marriage it not only a matter for the Final Judgment. It also has its mundane aspects, which are taken up in the family courts.
In inheritance law, the state lays down the relations of person and property resulting from the death of a property owner. It guarantees the continuing usefulness of property for the family and therefore limits the free disposition of private property by wills, which is already anticipated during a person’s lifetime in diverse prohibitions.
2. In criminal law, the state lays down how the law must be restored when it has been violated, how it itself must react to acts which break the law. This is in contrast to civil law, which standardizes the state’s definition of private claims with an aim to imposing law-abiding behavior, i.e., nothing is to happen unless it is permitted. Since the state’s reaction to lawbreaking is also written into the law as the criminal code (“nullum crimen sine lege,” no crime without a law for it), the protection provided by law completely loses the idyllic appearance which comparisons to earlier “lawless” epochs help to maintain. Justice, the restoration of law, has nothing to do with a power arbitrarily responding to a private injury. It treats revenge, feuds, duels, etc., themselves as breaches of the law. Since the judicial point of view is not at all that of an aggrieved interest, but rather that of free will objectified in the state, the administration of justice maintains a society in which every individual acts in accordance with a principle, the principle of legality, which in itself recognizes and anticipates that there are always plenty of reasons to break the law.
The principle of guilt requires not only that wrongdoers be shown to have a free will (responsibility), but above all that they are aware that they are subject to the law they break (intent and negligence). A crime can only be committed by someone who obeys the law.
This is why the punishment, which restores the law, is directed against the free will. It is force against person and property and is thus appropriate to the guilty party (confession, or “I deserve punishment”). Prevention and rehabilitation are secondary goals derived from the actual purpose of punishment, and reflect an awareness that punishment has nothing to do with preventing crime, although this fact is of no interest to sociological-minded advocates of useful punishment.
When the measure of punishment is fixed by seemingly contradictory standards for different violations (e.g. white collar crimes versus robbery), this only goes to show that the state has a different interest in different offenses. And by making emotional impulse a mitigating circumstance when assessing how deliberate an action was, the law makes allowance for the sad reality of bourgeois society, that quite a bit of will power is required to tolerate all the restrictions. This also explains why a calculating will, which is highly appreciated in other situations, counts as a base motive when it breaks the law.
The legitimate power of the state, which citizens accept as restricting their interests, resulted historically from struggles against a sovereign whose power over society was not subordinated to the purposes of society. This in contrast to the constitutional state based on the rule of law.
Against a ruler whose word was law, the struggle was waged to universalize justice, to separate it from the ruler’s own personal will. The demand for freedom and equality was accompanied by a fight aimed at committing the lawmakers to the will of the people, subjecting the government to the law and making the courts independent. Hence came the doctrine of the separation of powers.
In some countries the bourgeoisie fought this battle successfully. In Germany on the other hand, where a bourgeois state failed to establish itself, philosophers proclaimed its necessity in treatises on the ideals of this form of state. The philosophy and literature of the Enlightenment promoted the bourgeois state by deducing its moral principles, for example, in the practical philosophies of Kant and Fichte.
The emergence of American democracy differs from that of its European cousins. The seizure of the unowned land brought with it free competition and the right of the stronger, forcing these competitors to establish a state. In this case, the state was the result of the actions of free property owners, who assigned sovereign rights to the state power only in so far as they seemed useful for competition. It was therefore, from the outset, solely a means of furthering the competitive interests of the people, the first democracy which even today shows its rough practices!
Citizens want the law for the sake of personal advantage, despite the fact that it also restricts them. To seek their advantage, then, they also have to want those restrictions imposed on themselves, and this is what morality is. Moral citizens justify their submission to a damaging power by citing the ideal of that power, adding their own private virtue to the force imposed on them. Thus, they not only abide by the law, they also have a righteous attitude which allows them to endure their obedience. They measure all their actions against the ideal of righteousness, so that whenever they violate their duties in the pursuit of their advantage, they do so with a bad conscience. If repeated success leads them to forget to judge their actions as good or bad, other people’s judgments will invariably remind them. Likewise, they themselves will serve as a bad conscience to other people, engaging in public hypocrisy.
This area of morality demonstrates remarkably well that the “Good” is a mere semblance, rendering its best services only when upheld as an ideal. Those who try to actually practice these ideals are therefore contemptuously called “idealists.” Citizens allow their young ones a certain attachment to ideals. They can be sure that the hard world of work will transform any such “unrealistic” enthusiasm for ideals into the moral employment of these same ideals in the interest of personal gain. Adult moralism, on the other hand, is considered an annoying trait of character. Terming an adult an idealist therefore always means accusing him or her of being blind to reality or unable to cope, an accusation commonly directed to anyone wanting to make some changes, even before presenting any danger to society.
Morality is thus anything but a superfluous accessory to the bizarre spectacle of democratic life. It is the subjectivization of force accepted for the sake of success. That is to say, morality is the force of law made into something subjective, the will of the state made into the will of the individual. It is the attitude one needs in order to cope with the forbearance that success requires. It may even last through long periods devoid of any personal advancement, proving true to its purpose both on the sunny side and on the bleak side of society. In the first case it is a welcome accessory to one’s success. Successful people proclaim nonchalantly that they have higher aims, the Good, the True and the Beautiful. In the second case its popular forms offer consolation in the face of misery. In both cases the glorification of abstinence is itself abstinence as far as changing things is concerned.
It is therefore no surprise that, in the most modern of societies, the prevailing moralism is a hard nut to crack for radical critics. This moralism is not only a theoretical matter, a form of false consciousness. From the seamstress to the First Lady, people have an urge to practice the ideals of altruism, modesty, honesty, compassion, charity, etc. Everyone donates to the Cancer Fund, UNICEF and so on. People join associations which promote stupidity in young people, firmly believing that this is an opportunity to experience something workaday life denies them: community of purpose, solidarity, friendship. They compensate for the necessity to compete against each other by forming disgusting groups on the basis of their ideals, even if their idealism demands further sacrifices.
Even in this form of “spiritual submission” in the Community of Christ, there are some small differences which cannot be overlooked. Some people preach and instil the required morality into others, which has become a genuine profession. Other people adopt this morality, their hypocrisy in the sphere of Christian standards being rather amateurish.
The Church does not limit itself to propagating morality as a theoretical matter, but turns its congregation’s faith into the demand for worldly commitment, which has caused some people to leave the church. This loss of attractiveness of secularized faith is matched by the institution’s meddling in public affairs in the manner of an interest group. The idealism of religion, practiced alongside the materialism of capitalist society, can live with this decline in religiousness. All the more so since the state has long since discovered the useful side of faith in the form of Christian nurses and chaplains in prisons, schools and the armed forces. In some countries the state even collects a church tax. As a byproduct, the zeal of Christian charity stirs up hatred for those who neither love animals, nor contribute to the continuation of bourgeois misery by making an additional sacrifice to the ones already demanded of citizens.
The logic of moral thinking is in keeping with the reason for morality, submission to the state as the price to pay for golden freedom. When citizens in basic agreement with the restrictions imposed by the state are out to gain some advantage at the expense of their fellow man, they will inevitably argue that it would be to the disadvantage of the losers to resist, and would also cause general harm in society. The normal form of disapproving what other people do differs considerably from a true critique, which would have to deal with the aims favored and prescribed by the state in this great society of ours. Normal disapproval is always directed against the freedom of other people, from the standpoint of wanting to take advantage of the existing power for oneself.
This is customary not only in the nasty little things people say to each other privately, but also in the public discussion of basic questions of “human society” and how things in general should be. A decent citizen’s social theory shows strong tendencies toward a fascist condemnation of even the smallest liberties which someone might take (“where would we end up if everyone did that!”). Revisionistic moral philosophy has a slightly different way of dividing citizens and their actions into useful/good versus harmful/bad. The firm point of view of the masses that revisionists like to go by has nothing to do with Marx, although they cite him as their authority. Marx criticized capital and therefore the capitalists, so that he did not think of forming alliances with any of them, no matter how nice and small. Moreover, he did not consider the masses to be basically good but deprived of rights. Nor was financial capital unfair (a nice point of agreement with fascists!) along with all the other unpleasant things in life.
The moral criticism of society, which is summarized in the “Ideologies” section of each chapter of this book, is first-class nonsense when regarded logically, but it makes an immense contribution to orderly life in a democracy. This is noticed by “hippie” types in all countries, who cultivate, in an emphatically immoral way, the needs of the individual in opposition to their taming by bourgeois life. That these alternative ideas, especially regarding ecology and sexuality, are promptly assimilated into bourgeois society testifies to the tolerance of “our” public order. One is allowed to be a little unconventional, as long as it does not interfere with the course of capital and the affairs of state.
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Successful prosecution under the new Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act could run into millions of pounds, although the pecuniary costs could be dwarfed by damage to employer reputation.
But road risk experts say that the new law that comes into operation on 6 April next year asks nothing more of organisations than they are already legally obliged to do under a raft of legislation such as the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
But leading fleet industry solicitor David Faithful, of law firm Lyons Davidson, suggests that small and medium-sized firms in particular, may be turning a blind eye to the legislation. Faithful, also an advisory board member of automotive-led road safety charity RoadSafe, which is managing the government’s ‘Driving for Better Business’ programme, says that “the cost of compliance is not great, but the cost of non-compliance is enormous, [with] much of [the expenses] hidden in other areas of business.” Therefore, managing occupational road risk in accordance with the law is as much a financial issue as a corporate responsibility issue.
Organisations that can show they have taken all reasonable steps to manage risks, and have effective health and safety management systems in place, have nothing to fear from the new law.
The starting point for directors of organisations that run business vehicles and have yet to implement occupational road risk management policies should be the Health and Safety Executive’s document Driving at work – managing work-related road safety guidance (accessible by visiting www.hse.gov.uk/ pubns/indg382.pdf).
Dubbed the ‘bible’ for managing all at-work drivers, including staff who drive their own cars on business, it details the safety steps directors and senior managers should take to responsibly manage driving at work.
The key to mitigating the risk of prosecution is a formal written risk assessment of drivers, vehicles and journeys. That then becomes the focal point as to whether enough actions have been taken to ensure safe working practices or whether interventions need to be put in place to minimise the risks posed. “This may require a management change whereby responsibility for health and safety will have to be demonstrated from the managing director down; this is a prerequisite of avoiding a prosecution,” says Faithful.
Jeremy Hay, managing director of the Essential Risk Consultancy, says that many organisations adopt a scatter-gun approach and purchase solutions such as driving licence checks, driver assessment or driver training but fail to undertake an initial risk assessment process. An initial assessment would result in an audit trail of both employees and the employer and lead to a cultural change with implementation of an action plan. “Each intervention is OK but they should be part of a solution to the overall problem. We continually find that fleets have bought ‘solutions’ from risk management providers, but they have not assessed the scale of the problem at the beginning,” he says.
It’s a view shared by Jim Kirkwood, managing director of risk management providers DriveTech (UK). “Time after time, the directors of many organisations are completely reactive to occupational road risk issues and only act when something dramatic, or serious, happens… but, by then, it’s frequently too late. It’s often a case of penny wise, pound foolish,” says Kirkwood.
Average crash repair costs are around £700-£750 per insurance claim, but the Health and Safety Executive has calculated that for every £1 recoverable, between £8 and £36 may be lost to the organisation in uninsured costs.
For example, trained drivers are going to avoid the usual ‘bumps, bangs and scrapes’ that often are not worth claiming on insurance. Often, this sort of damage is either paid for by the employer, and consequently comes straight off the bottom line, or is just ignored in the hope that nobody will notice it at sale time. So a driver risk management programme can have a positive influence on residual values at disposal.
Every employer, says Faithful, should have a nominated director or boss responsible for corporate health and safety including at-work driving and that could be the finance director. In the event of a serious road crash the director will be involved in lengthy and detailed discussions with investigating police officers and lawyers and, possibly, Health and Safety Executive representatives. And, it is not just criminal actions that may result from a serious at-work road crash, but civil claims for damages against employers are a serious likelihood. Organisations that have failed to put in place legal safeguards may find themselves the subject of litigation from injured employees and third parties.
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act comes into force on 6 April 2008. Organisations and their employees that cause death will face criminal prosecution. Driving is a key liability area.
Organisations that can show they have taken all reasonable steps to manage risks and have effective health and safety systems in place, will have nothing to fear from the new law. The key to mitigating against the risk of prosecution is a formal written risk assessment of drivers, vehicles and journeys.
Many organisations adopt a scatter-gun approach and purchase solutions such as driving licence checks, driver assessment or driver training but fail to undertake an initial risk assessment process.
Assign a senior executive for managing driving at work.
Implement a health and safety policy, which incorporates driving at work.
Record and act on the findings of risk assessments dealing with all aspects of driving at work.
Ensure that every incident involving any vehicle driven on behalf of the organisation is recorded, the information is analysed and action is taken to reduce recurrence.
Provide a handbook that includes road safety guidance and driver responsibilities, in support of employer policies and procedures.
Ensure all employees who drive at work are vetted, inducted and regularly assessed, to establish that they are properly licensed, competent, suitably trained and medically fit.
Ensure that vehicles are fit for purpose and importance is placed on safety features.
Ensure all vehicles used on behalf of the employer are regularly inspected and strictly maintained using the manufacturer’s recommended service schedules.
Check whether a road journey is really necessary and encourage the use of alternative modes of communication/transport where practical.
Ensure that necessary journeys are scheduled to a realistic timetable and are planned to take into account the essential need for adequate rest periods.
Rospa’s online ‘Complete Compliance Review’ costs from £1,200 VAT for a year’s licence. It includes corporate risk assessment; individual driver risk assessments; driver audits and legally required information; a manual for directors and managers; prioritised management action plans and performance targets; and a return on investment monitor. • Individual online driver risk assessments cost £10-£25. Usually 20% of drivers rate as ‘high risk’ and are recommended one-to-one training at £140-£300 each.
Licence checks cost £7-£15. Sight checks cost £18.
Individual e-learning programmes cost £20-£35 each.
Safety seminars for up to 20 people cost around £400.
In broad terms crashes cost the employer of a 750 car fleet some £365,625 per annum. This is based on a statistically-based 65% accident rate, equating to 487.5 incidents a year costing £750 a time.
According to risk management specialist Drive & Survive, implementing a driver risk management programme including online risk assessments and remedial training would cost the employer of a 750 car fleet some £51,000 in year one. Industry data suggests that a targeted programme should result in a 20% crash reduction, representing a saving of more than £73,000 – a net saving to the company of £22,000 – with further savings of around 5% in year two and three.
The ‘hidden’ costs of crashes is three times the cost of an incident – lost outputs and orders, admin and legal fees.
Savings can be accrued through reduced wear and tear (5%), fuel economy (5%-7%) and residual values of the vehicles themselves (4%). | 2019-04-20T16:57:51Z | https://www.employeebenefits.co.uk/issues/november-2007-online/fds-should-be-aware-of-fleet-risk/ |
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Tidbits is honoring Smithsonian Day on August 10 by bringing you some facts on this institution, home to 137 million artifacts, works of arts, and specimens. • James Smithson was an English chemist, mineralogist, and Oxford graduate who devoted his life to science, authoring 27 published papers on mineralogy. Although he had never even visited the United States, upon his death in 1829, he left his entire estate “to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” • Smithson’s bequest was sent to the U.S. in the form of gold sovereigns filling 11 boxes, along with his personal items, scientific papers, minerals, and library. The gold was sent to the U.S. treasury in Philadelphia to be reminted, a total of $508,318.
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• There are 19 different museums and galleries in the Smithsonian complex, including the Air and Space Museum, National Zoological Park, American History Museum, American Indian Museum, National Portrait Gallery, and Natural History Museum. The American History Museum, with over three million artifacts in its collection, contains everything from a piece of Plymouth Rock to the ruby slippers and scarecrow costume from 1939’s The Wizard of Oz. Lewis and Clark’s compass from their 1803 expedition is housed there as well as a section of the first transatlantic telegraph cable, completed in 1866. • In 1920, Harry Burt started the Good Humor Ice Cream Company and operated a fleet of 12 trucks complete with freezers and bells. His salesmen wore crisp white uniforms and were required to tip their hats to all ladies. The Smithsonian is home to a 1938 Chevrolet Good Humor truck, a valuable piece of American history. • In February of 1960, four African-American students sat down at a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth’s lunch counter, filling seats vacated by white customers. After being refused service, they stayed in their seats, initiating a peaceful sit-in against racial inequality, and launching a pivotal phase of the civil rights movement. A section of that lunch counter, along with four stools, is a popular landmark in the American History Museum.
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SMITHSONIAN (continued): • One of the most popular exhibits in the Smithsonian is the Star-Spangled Banner flag, also called the Great Garrison flag, which flew over Baltimore’s Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. This flag was the inspiration for Francis Scott Key, who penned the now-famous poem “Defense of Fort McHenry,” which was later set to music, becoming the U.S. national anthem. The flag with its 15 stars and 15 stripes was sewn by a Baltimore woman named Mary Pickergill in 1813 for $405.90. After the war, the banner was in the possession of the family of Major George Armistead, the commander of the fort, until 1912, when it was donated to the Smithsonian. It has undergone several restorations, the first in 1914 and the most recent, a long-term restoration begun in 1999. • Pieces from the life of George Washington abound in the Smithsonian, including a wisp of his hair, a brick from his childhood home, a letter hand-written by him in 1785, his uniform from the Revolutionary War, and wood from his coffin. There is also a 12-ton marble statue of the nation’s first president, completed in 1841, sitting atop a granite pedestal. Walk over to the National Portrait Gallery and you can see Gilbert Stuart’s famous painting of Washington, the image we see every day on the dollar bill.
• The world of sports is well-represented at the Smithsonian with a pair of 1823 roller skates, Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves, Bobby Orr’s hockey gloves, Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls jersey, and jockey Steve Cauthen’s horse-racing silks. The speed skates worn by Olympic gold medalist Apolo Ohno at the 2002 Winter Olympics, Arthur Ashe’s tennis racket, Roger Staubach’s football jersey, and Hank Aaron’s baseball jersey are all part of the collection of 6,000 sports items.
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4. Between the 1950-51 and 1989-90 NBA seasons, only one regular-season 1. Name the major-league team scoring champ was also on with the longest playoff a championship-winning drought entering the 2014 team. Name him. season. 5. Who was the last player to 2. Which of these Astro teamwin golf’s Masters tournamates led the National League ment in his first appearance in runs scored more times: Jeff there? Bagwell or Craig Biggio? 6. How many Final Fours has 3. The Los Angeles Kings set a the Ohio State men’s basketregular-season team record ball team reached since the in 2013-14 for most shutouts. Buckeye’s last championship How many was it? in 1960?
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ing. On June 12, the German team had buried explosives Long Island to use later. On July 18, a second team had successfully landed in Florida. • On Aug. 5, 1962, movie actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her home in Los Angeles. Empty bottles of prescription pills were littered around the room. An autopsy found a fatal amount of sedatives in her system, and her death was ruled probable suicide. • On Aug. 9, 1974, Gerald R. Ford is sworn in as the 38th president of the United States after the resignation of Richard M. Nixon. After taking the oath of office, Ford spoke in a televised address, declaring, "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over." • On Aug. 7, 1987, Lynne Cox braves the freezing waters of the Bering Strait to make the first recorded swim from the United States to the Soviet Union. Her training regimen included regularly swimming in water at between 38 and 42 degrees F. Cox rarely swam in a wetsuit regardless of water temperature. © 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
SMITHSONIAN (continued): • Over 26,000 square feet of the transportation hall are filled with objects chronicling the nation’s travels, including a railroad car from 1836, a 1903 Winton, which was the first car driven across the United States, and a 40-foot section of the famous Route 66. • The green-domed Museum of Natural History opened in 1910, among the first Smithsonian buildings to be constructed. Its area is the size of about 18 football fields and houses fossils, minerals, meteorites, dinosaur skeletons, taxidermy, and sections. The insect exhibit features 30 million creatures pinned into boxes. In the herbarium, 4.5 million plants have been pressed onto sheets of paper. • The legendary Hope Diamond is a 45.52-carat deep blue diamond, famous for a supposed curse upon its owner, allegedly bringing tragedy to all who own it or wear it. It’s believed that King Louis XIV bought the gem in 1668 for his wife Marie Antoinette. The pair were guillotined during the French Revolution. After a series of owners, American heiress Evalyn Walsh McLean brought it to America, and following her death, jeweler Harry Winston bought the diamond. In 1958, Winston chose to donate it to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, and put the irreplaceable gem in a plain brown wrapper and sent it by registered first-class mail. Insured for $250 million, the Hope Diamond is displayed in its own room behind a 3-inch-thick bulletproof glass. • Eugene Cernan was the last man to walk on the moon on Dec. 14, 1972. The National Air and Space Museum is home to Cernan’s spacesuit, garb that weighed about 185 lbs. on Earth. Visitors to this museum can also see a lunar roving vehicle, Saturn V rockets, Charles Lindbergh memorabilia, and the B-29 Superfortress, the Enola Gay.
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JAMES NAISMITH Thanks to Canadian-born James Naismith, the world enjoys the popular sport of basketball. Here’s the lowdown on the origins of this sport and its inventor. • A native of Almonte, Ontario, Naismith studied at Montreal’s McGill University, majoring in physical education. Naismith was a multi-talented athlete, representing his college in football, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, and gymnastics He then earned a diploma from the Presbyterian College in Montreal. Following graduation, he became the physical education teacher at his alma mater McGill University, a post he retained for three years. • In 1890, Naismith made the move across the border to take a position in Massachusetts at Springfield College, which was the international YMCA training school. During the severe New England winters, students became unruly and restless when confined indoors, and in 1891, Naismith’s supervisor gave him two weeks to come up with an indoor activity that would help athletes stay in shape, while reducing their cabin fever and rambunctious behavior. • Naismith devised a game using a soccer ball and two peach baskets as goals, with nine players on each team. He named his new game “Basket Ball,” and went on to establish 13 basic rules. Two years later, the peach baskets were replaced with iron hoops and a hammock-style basket. But it was several years before open-ended nets were used. Prior to that, each time a goal was scored, the ball was manually retrieved from the basket.
• After five years in Springfield, Naismith moved on, back to his studies, receiving his MD in 1898. He took a teaching position at the University of Kansas, where he founded that institution’s Jayhawks basketball program, and was their coach until 1907. It was not Naismith’s intention to establish their sports program. He had planned to teach physical education and act as the chapel director. To Naismith, basketball was just a game, and he actually preferred wrestling and gymnastics, believing they were better forms of physical activity. • It would be logical to think that a team coached by the inventor of basketball would have an outstanding record. But Naismith was not a competitive type, and he felt the game should be played “for fun and health.” He rarely attended the team’s practices, and his record of 55-60 reflected his lack of interest. He remains the only losing coach in the history of the Kansas basketball team. • Yet Naismith saw his invention thrive as basketball became an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 in St. Louis. It was made an official event at Berlin’s 1936 Summer Olympics, and the 74-year-old Naismith himself handed out the gold medal to the United States’ team, the silver to Canada, and the bronze medal to Mexico. He remarked that seeing the game played by so many nations was the greatest reward he could have received. Little did he know that the game would go on to be played by 300 million people worldwide today. • Naismith authored two books, A Modern College in 1911 and Essence of a Healthy Life in 1910. He also served for a short time during World War I. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame (officially the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame) in 1959. The facility is located in Springfield, Massachusetts, the site of the game’s invention.
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ROOT BEER Since August 6 is National Root Beer Float Day, it seems like a good time to investigate the origins of this popular beverage. • Root beer was originally a concoction invented by early native Americans using various plant roots, herbs, and berries, with sassafras as the main ingredient. Depending on the formula, a recipe might include flavors of vanilla, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, nutmeg, ginger, maple, acacia, anise, molasses, cinnamon, clove, and honey. In 1960, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration prohibited the use of sassafras oil after determining it has caused cancer and liver damage in laboratory rats. Root beer producers then switched to artificial sassafras flavorings.
• Hires introduced his beverage to the public at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, giving away free samples. In his first year of production, he sold 864 bottles of extract. By 1891, that number was two million. He began selling bottled carbonated root beer two years later.
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• In 1876, Philadelphia pharmacist Charles Hires launched the brewing of root beer as a commercial venture. Hires was on his honeymoon in a New Jersey hotel when the owner served up an herbal “root tea” to which Hires took an immediate liking. He persuaded his hostess to share her recipe of 16 wild roots, which included juniper, wintergreen, sarsaparilla, hops, and pipsissewa. Back in his pharmacy, Hires blended his own formula, offering a 25-cent packet of powder that customers would mix with water, sugar, and yeast, yielding five gallons of root beer. Shortly afterward, he began bottling extract and syrup concentrate for sale to soda fountains, as well as shipping out the beverage in kegs.
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