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Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam could not explain on Friday why former Virginia Democratic governor Doug Wilder will not endorse him.
Wilder blamed Northam for excluding Justin Fairfax from the Northam campaign flier, which caused controversy in October.
Wilder endorsed Lt. gubernatorial candidate Justin Fairfax but declined to endorse Ralph Northam.
Wilder endorsed Justin Fairfax in an interview, “Justin, in my judgment has not been dealt a good hand.”
Wilder also claimed that Ralph Northam should take the blame for the flier controversy, in which the Northam campaign excluded black Lt. gubernatorial candidate Justin from their fliers. Fairfax’s exclusion caused controversy among liberal and progressive Virginia Democrat groups. Democracy for America denounced the Ralph Northam campaign for the campaign flier faux pas and for Ralph Northam flip-flopping in favor of banning sanctuary cities.
“If I’m the candidate for governor, I’m responsible for whatever takes place in my campaign,” Wilder said.
MSNBC host Katy Tur asked Northam why Wilder will not endorse him for governor.
Tur asked, “You say you’re unified, but at the same time Doug Wilder isn’t endorsing you. There’s some division within Virginia. Are you really that confident?”
Northam responded, “I am confident, and you know, Doug Wilder is a good friend of mine. He was a great governor.
Tur retorted, “So why is he not endorsing you?”
Northam then admitted, “Well that’s up to Governor Wilder, and he’ll make that decision at the appropriate time.”
Ralph Northam’s campaign continues to drown in controversy as Virginia campaign finance reports revealed that the Northam campaign coordinated with the Latino Victory Fund to push a “sickening” ad that featured an Ed Gillespie supporter attempting to run down minority children. Democrats across the nation and in the state of Virginia remain increasingly worried about Northam’s chances of winning the gubernatorial election.
President Donald Trump tweeted that he believes Ed Gillespie “will be a great governor of Virginia.”
Trump said, “Ed Gillespie will turn the really bad Virginia economy #’s around, and fast. Strong on crime, he might even save our great statues/heritage!”
Breitbart News reported that recent polls have Ed Gillespie leading over Ralph Northam for governor. The election is on Tuesday, November 7. | positive |
FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2010 file photo, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh speaks during a news conference at The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu. Advertisers and some radio stations may have abandoned Limbaugh for calling a Georgetown law student a "slut." But the CEO of the radio company that distributes Limbaugh's show, Clear Channel, says he's sticking with the conservative talk show host, calling him the "king" of radio. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh lashed out at The Huffington Post on Wednesday for publishing a story that ties Mitt Romney's Bain Capital to brutal gangs responsible for political killings in El Salvador.
The Huffington Post article explains how the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee sought financing from dubious investors while launching the private equity firm Bain Capital. Some of those initial financiers had family ties to El Salvadoran death squads tasked with pushing back against reformists and left-wing guerillas during the country's civil war.
Limbaugh's comment was part of several diatribes on Wednesday aimed at what he frequently refers to as the "Huffing-and-puffing-ton Post."
"The 'Huffing-and-puffing-ton Post' reported today that Bain Capital was seeded from money with Hispanic families, by the way, with ties to right-wing death squads in El Salvador and other Latin American counties. No, no, no, no, not talking about the Kennedys. They don't talk about that aspect of the Kennedys, no, no. Don't you find it interesting -- yesterday, Romney essentially killed a guy's wife, and today Bain Capital was seeded with money from death squads?"
Limbaugh claimed that Democrats are the real culprits behind the so-called "death squads," pointing to Democrats' historical support for pro-choice institutions.
"What do you call Planned Parenthood if that's not a death squad?" he asked, referring to the abortion provider. | positive |
Previously published evidence of the association between overweight/obesity and periodontitis has largely been based upon cross‐sectional epidemiological data collection and/or re‐analysis of existing health survey databases (Chaffee & Weston 2010 , Suvan et al. 2011 ). These studies have been valuable in generating the hypothesis of association, however fall short of using robust and consistent methods to diagnose periodontitis (pragmatic screening and heterogeneous case definitions) which may lead to biased results. The aim of this study was to ascertain the odds of having periodontitis if an individual is overweight or obese. The null hypothesis was of no association between overweight/obesity and diagnosis of periodontitis (case definition proposed for studies of risk factors for periodontitis (Tonetti & Claffey 2005 ) in an age‐matched sample of adults).
Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease driven by bacterial pathogens and is one of the most common oral infections worldwide (WHO 2004 ). The host response to periodontal pathogens represents a crucial determinant of the individual's susceptibility to periodontitis. Several pro‐inflammatory molecules and processes implicated in the pathogenesis of periodontitis, including cytokines (e.g. Interleukin‐IL‐6), chemokines and T‐cell function, could be altered by obesity (Falagas & Kompoti 2006 ). An altered (delayed and sustained) inflammatory state, such as that found both in animal experimental conditions (Amar et al. 2007 ) and in obese individuals, could predispose individuals to increased periodontal tissue destruction (Boesing et al. 2009 ). These findings are also corroborated by several lines of clinical evidence suggesting that obesity could be a novel risk factor for periodontitis (Suvan et al. 2011 ). Indeed, obese individuals present with an increased prevalence of periodontitis, with raised gingival inflammatory responses and possibly altered periodontal microbial compositions (Boesing et al. 2009 ).
Obesity is a highly prevalent condition worldwide especially in developed countries (WHO 2006 ). It is a metabolic condition occurring due to an energy imbalance (intake > consumption), which subsequently leads to an increase in adipose tissue deposits (Bray 2007 ). As adipocytes exert a number of endocrine functions, increased adiposity is associated with a state of low‐grade inflammation and insulin resistance (Bray 2004 , Gimeno & Klaman 2005 ).
In order to explore the relevance of different BMI (kg/m 2 ) cut‐off points from those used in the WHO definitions and the categories adopted here, a receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) was generated of all possible BMI values above which it is likely an individual has a chance of having periodontitis. This was achieved by determining a unique pair of values for sensitivity and specificity for each cut‐off point of BMI, and then plotting the sensitivity (the chance of a true positive) against one minus the specificity (the chance of a false positive), thus comparing the probabilities of a positive test result (i.e. when the BMI value suggests periodontitis is present) in people with and without periodontitis. The area under the ROC curve gives a measure of the discrimination between those that due and do not have the diagnosis of periodontitis. Interpretation of the area under the ROC is performed based on the notion that a perfect test for discriminating between presence or absence of the disease would have an area under the curve of 1 and a non‐discriminating curve (i.e. one which performs no better than chance) would have an area equal to 0.5.
Multivariable conditional logistic regression, accounting for the age matching, was used to estimate the odds ratio for diagnosis of periodontitis when either BMI as a continuous variable (kg/m 2 ) or BMI expressed as a categorical variable based upon WHO categories (BMI normal 18.5–24.99 kg/m 2 , overweight BMI 25–29.99 kg/m 2 , obese BMI ≥30 kg/m 2 ) were the explanatory variables of interest (WHO 2006 ). The regression models comprised gender, smoking status (never smoker, smoker, former smoker), ethnicity (White, Asian including Indian Asian, Other including African, Afro‐Caribbean and any other) and full‐mouth dental plaque scores as covariates. The variable of primary interest was BMI (continuous or categorical) with other variables included to adjust for potential confounding effects.
Following completion of descriptive statistics, statistical significance was set at a p ‐value of <0.05. Continuous, normally distributed variables were reported as means and standard deviations (SD). Categorical variables were summarized as percentages. Comparisons of all continuous and categorical data between groups (cases and controls) were analysed with paired t ‐tests and conditional logistic regression, respectively, to check for statistically significant differences between the groups. As the next step, univariable conditional logistic regression analyses were carried out to investigate the relationship of BMI and gender, ethnicity, smoking status and full‐mouth plaque score with periodontal diagnosis (being a case or control). Those factors found to be statistically significant at the 10% level were then included in the final multivariable models as potential predictors of being a case.
SPSS 20.0 (IBM Corp 2011 ) statistical software package and Stata 10.0 (StataCorp) were used for data analyses. Data for all participants were combined in SPSS 20.0 and the database was checked for accuracy and consistency. The data were then imported into Stata 10.0.
Periodontal health or disease status was based upon recording of whole mouth probing pocket depths and clinical recession. Dental plaque levels and gingival bleeding on probing scores were assessed dichotomously as plaque or bleeding being present or absent (O'Leary et al. 1972 , Ainamo & Bay 1975 ). All clinical parameters were assessed at six sites per tooth for all teeth present in the mouth.
At the study visit, following informed consent, the study examiner obtained the participant's medical history update, oral examination, a lifestyle questionnaire (exercise, diet, oral hygiene practice, etc.), demographic data (age, gender, smoking history and ethnicity) and body weight and height for calculation of BMI. Height and weight were measured by a trained dental nurse using a wall‐mounted height measure and mechanical scales (BMI was calculated as kg/m 2 during data processing).
Data collection methods were the same for all study participants. All visits were carried out in the same setting and measurements were performed by one of the three calibrated study examiners. Prior to the initiation of the study, an examiner repeatability exercise was undertaken to confirm adequate intra‐examiner repeatability using 10 non‐study patients suffering from moderate to severe periodontitis (duplicate measurements with another patient or waiting a time period of 30 min between). Following this, a calibration exercise was carried out on 10 patients per examiner to confirm inter‐examiner agreement (measured by one examiner then alternate examiner on the same day). The data were analysed to confirm intra‐examiner repeatability and inter‐examiner calibration at a pre‐determined success criteria level of agreement within ±2 mm for CAL in a minimum 98% of sites measured. All examiners reached levels above the 98% agreement threshold for repeatability and calibration.
Sample Size Tables for Clinical Studies software were used to calculate the sample size for this study (Machin et al. 2008 ). A sample of 274 individuals (137 participants per group) would have 90% power to detect a clinically relevant odds ratio of 2.0 for presence of periodontitis in obese compared to normal weight individuals, assuming a prevalence of obesity in the general population of 23.8% and using a 0.05 two‐sided significance level (DOH UK 2006 ).
This subset study sample was selected from the overall based upon the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) case definition of periodontitis for epidemiological studies of risk factors. A “periodontitis case” was defined when “proximal attachment loss of ≥3 mm in ≥2 non‐adjacent teeth” was identified (Tonetti & Claffey 2005 ). Based on presence/absence of this criterion a case or a control population were identified. Furthermore, as ageing represents an important risk factor for periodontal tissue loss (Grossi et al. 1994 ), 143 age‐matched pairs (one to one based on year of birth) were identified for analysis.
The overall clinical study sample consisted of 471 individuals recruited from the UCLH NHS Trust (UCLH Eastman Dental Hospital) new patient clinics between June 2006 and December 2010. Periodontitis cases were recruited from referrals to the Unit of Periodontology whilst periodontally healthy controls from other units within UCLH Eastman Dental Hospital. All participants (cases and controls) were ≥18 years old, had a minimum of 20 natural teeth and were otherwise systemically healthy (no active infectious diseases such as hepatitis, HIV or TB, or uncontrolled metabolic diseases including diabetes, kidney, liver or cardiovascular diseases assessed by the examining clinician and medical history). Exclusion criteria comprised pregnancy, chronic use of non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs; antibiotics use within 3 months of study visit and past periodontal therapy. Cases were included if they presented with the presence of one or more sites with PPD ≥5 mm or radiographic evidence of bone loss ≥20% of the root length. Controls were included if they had no evidence of periodontitis (absence of sites with PPD ≥5 mm).
This study was designed as a case–control analysis of age‐matched participants enrolled in a larger clinical study recruiting cases and controls based on the presence or absence of periodontitis as confirmed by full‐mouth periodontal examination. The exposure of body mass index (BMI) was calculated during data analysis based upon height and weight (kg/m 2) measured by the clinician during the study visit. The protocol was reviewed and approved by the Joint UCL/UCLH Committees on the Ethics of Human Research (Ref 05/Q0502/84). All participants gave written informed consent prior to participation. This report conforms to the STROBE guidelines for the strengthening of reporting of observational studies (von Elm et al. 2008 ).
The ROC analyses had an area under the curve of 0.62, suggesting that it was reasonable to use this approach to discriminate between those individuals with and without periodontitis (Fig. 1 ). The cutpoint of 24.32 (related to BMI) produced the optimal sensitivity of 61.54% and specificity of 61.54% and 61.89% were correctly assigned overall with a likelihood ratio (LR) of 1.6 (meaning the disease is 1.6 times more likely in an individual with the BMI ≥ 24.32).
Multivariable conditional logistic regression with BMI considered in three categories demonstrated that the overweight category and the obese category were associated with increased odds of diagnosis of periodontitis when compared to the normal category (Table 3 ). The estimated odds ratio for having periodontitis if an individual was overweight was 2.56 (95% CI 1.210–5.400, p = 0.014). The odds ratio for a diagnosis of periodontitis for obesity was: 3.11 (95% CI 1.05–6.48, p = 0.015). As in the continuous analysis (Table 2 ) gender, ethnicity and smoking were statistically significant predictors of periodontitis diagnosis in this categorical analysis.
Multivariable conditional logistic regression with BMI as a continuous variable (kg/m 2 ) demonstrated that BMI had a dose–response association with an increased risk of being a case compared to a control, with an odds ratio of 1.12 per increase in 1 kg/m 2 (95% CI 1.045–1.197, p = 0.001), after adjusting for the other covariates in the model (Table 2 ). Gender, ethnicity and smoking were also statistically significant predictors of periodontitis diagnosis, whilst dental plaque scores were not.
The study sample consisted of 286 individuals (143 case/control pairs) ranging in age from 25 to 66 years. Statistically significant differences in gender, ethnicity and distribution of former smokers were noted (Table 1 ). Furthermore, cases tended to exhibit greater values of BMI and there were more overweight/obese individuals than controls. All periodontal clinical variables recorded in the sample resulted in statistically significantly higher average values for cases compared to controls (Table 1 ). Univariable analysis showed all covariates to be statistically significant at the 10% level. Therefore, all were included in the multivariable conditional regression models (Tables 2 and 3 ).
Discussion
The main finding of this analysis was a positive strong association between body mass index (continuous and categorical definitions) and diagnosis of periodontitis in an age‐matched case–control study, and this association was independent of gender, ethnicity, smoking status and dental plaque levels.
These results were obtained in a sample representative of the UK population BMI distribution with a prevalence (49.0%) of overweight/obese (BMI ≥ 25) that is similar to that for the English population (50%) at the time of study recruitment. It was slightly less representative, however, with regard to prevalence of overweight and obese categories separately, with 32.0% of the sample classed as overweight and 17.0% classed as obese compared to estimates for the English population of 26.2% and 23.8% for overweight and obese, respectively (DOH UK 2006).
Previously published research has suggested a positive association between BMI or overweight/obesity and prevalence or presence of periodontitis, based upon cross‐sectional surveys and case–control analyses (Suvan et al. 2011). One epidemiologic database analysis considered the prospective onset of periodontitis and demonstrated an association with periodontitis prevalence (Jimenez et al. 2012). However, there is a lack published reports of an association between BMI and periodontitis based on a sample that was recruited according to presence or absence of periodontitis based upon full‐mouth clinical periodontal assessment.
Published systematic reviews have identified two other case–control studies of the association between periodontitis and obesity (Buhlin et al. 2003, Alabdulkarim et al. 2005). Buhlin and co‐workers reported an association between overweight/obesity and periodontitis in a sample of 50 periodontitis cases and 46 periodontally healthy controls. They reported an odds ratio of 4.54 (95% CI 1.588–13.00) which is higher than that found in this study (OR 2.76 95% CI 1.487–5.127) (Buhlin et al. 2003). This could be due to a difference in sample size or differences in covariates included in analyses. A study of 200 obese compared to 200 non‐obese participants demonstrated an odds ratio of 1.86 (95% CI 0.99, 3.51) (Alabdulkarim et al. 2005), which is lower than the odds ratio of 3.11 (95% CI 1.05–6.48) for the same comparison in this study. These differences could be due to the retrospective nature of the Alabdulkarim study and the use of radiographs as the sole means of periodontal assessment. Differences might also be due to other unknown confounding factors.
The study reported here infers a dose–response association between a common measure of overweight/obesity (BMI) and diagnosis of periodontitis. Both continuous and different categorical definitions of overweight/obesity were strongly associated with diagnosis of periodontitis. Odds ratios were higher than those resulting from a systematic review meta‐analysis published in 2011 (Suvan et al. 2011), which showed odds ratios (compared to BMI < 25 Kg/m2) of 1.27 (95% CI 1.06–1.51), 1.81 (95% CI 1.42–2.30) and 2.13 (95% CI 1.40–3.26) for overweight, obese and overweight/obese combined categories respectively. This study found odds ratios of 2.56 (95% CI 1.21–5.40), 3.11 (95% CI 1.05–6.48) and 2.76 (95% CI 1.48–5.12) for the overweight, obese and overweight/obese combined categories, respectively.
When considering the odds ratios of the associated risk of smoking for presence of periodontitis in this study, OR 2.46 (95% CI 1.09–5.56), this is similar to that for overweight (OR 2.56, 95% CI 1.21–5.40), but that for obese is higher (OR 3.11, 95% CI 1.05–6.48) (Table 3).
Exploration by use of the ROC curve of whether a different cut‐off point of BMI (than those currently defined by WHO for overweight (BMI 25–29.99 kg/m2) and obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2) would be a better predictor of increased risk of periodontitis found that the optimal combination of sensitivity and specificity coincided with the current combined categorization of overweight and obese (BMI ≥25) compared to normal weight individuals (BMI 18.5–24.99 kg/m2). This cutpoint of BMI which resulted in an estimated OR of 2.46, although less than the OR for of 3.11 for obese offers insight of the importance of considering overweight individuals when considering oral health status and investigating the possible mechanisms involved in the association.
Limitations of this study are associated with the bias that may occur in the case–control study design. These include the fact that the participants were identified and selected based on whether or not they had the disease (periodontitis in this case) and the exposure (BMI, overweight, obesity) was then investigated within the cases and controls. It is recognized that there may be potential for selection bias due to the recruitment of all individuals from those referred to a dental hospital. Interpretation of results is limited by the lack of knowledge of the onset of periodontitis or the start time of the exposure. This is a common limitation for the case–control study designs but is heightened in this study, because the complexity of the exposure is increased due to the apparent dose–response associated with various levels of overweight and obesity. In addition, variation in the exposure over time increases the complexity of quantifying the exposure. Overweight and obesity are not exposures that have a fixed start date but, rather, weight gain normally occurs gradually. This analysis was based on BMI and BMI categories without analysis of body fat percentage or some other measure of body fat. Increase in fat mass with decrease in lean tissue mass over time with ageing is a normal physiological change in the body (Kotani et al. 1994). Although consistent and statistically significant, the increased odds or magnitude of effect of BMI on the risk of having periodontitis cannot prove a causal relationship between the BMI and the presence of periodontitis. Results from studies demonstrating a temporal sequence of exposure followed by disease are required before firm conclusions can be drawn about causality. Recently published evidence from two longitudinal studies of 40 years reported an association of obesity as well as weight gain with periodontal disease progression (Gorman et al. 2012a,b), but further prospective studies are needed to confirm a temporal association between overweight/obesity and periodontitis.
Finally, the results of this study may have been influenced by the relatively small sample size and imbalances between the groups for gender and ethnicity. Strengths of the study include age matching of the sample, which minimized bias that may have been introduced by the complex clinical association of increasing disease and exposure associated with increasing age. Using a widely accepted case definition of periodontitis following full‐mouth detailed periodontal assessment adds to the external validity of these findings together with the adjustment for various covariates including dental plaque.
The statistical significance of the positive association between BMI by unit, overweight and obesity (WHO category >25 kg/m²) and the presence of periodontitis is consistent with the hypothesis of an altered inflammatory response associated with obesity as a chronic inflammatory disease. This dysregulated inflammatory response has been proposed to be at the patient level or limited to the site level, that is, the host response to the plaque biofilm within individuals with a BMI at the level of obesity (Genco & Borgnakke 2013).
The validity of BMI as a measurement tool for the study of the association of body composition or obesity with disease or health risks is controversial (Vazquez et al. 2007, Jimenez 2013). In this project, information secured through other measures of body composition including analyses of body fat measurements together with BMI might have provided further insight into the nature of the association, including the association with the severity of disease in the cases. Future studies of the relationship between periodontitis and overweight/obesity should include measures of body fat and preferably, visceral fat in addition to BMI, to continue to evaluate the validity of each body composition measurement for assessing associated health risks. | positive |
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At the start of Training Camp, if you’d asked us to hypothesise a “worst case” NFC South scenario going into this week 4 game against the Cowboys, we would probably have struggled to eclipse reality. You really couldn’t draw it up any worse. The misfiring 0-3 Saints are firmly rooted in the basement of the NFC South, whilst the undefeated Falcons (3-0) and Panthers (3-0) vie for supremacy above. Both Atlanta (vs HOU) and Carolina (@ TB) have favorable week 4 matchups. In all likelihood both will be 4-0 by the time the Saints kickoff on Sunday night…
If the “alarm bells” sounded distant last week before the tough loss in Carolina, they are at full volume going into Sunday’s game. The small matter of a primetime Superdome matchup against the Cowboys stands between the Saints and hope (1-3) or despair (0-4).
Read on below for our Dallas Cowboys @ New Orleans Saints matchup preview, where we highlight 3 reasons why the Saints can beat the Cowboys (and indeed 3 reasons why they can’t), finishing up with our summary “BoiLa’s take” on the matchup on either side of the football.
The Boila’s Snapshot – The Dallas Cowboys (in two paragraphs or less): By a quirk of scheduling, Sunday will represent the 6th time the Saints have renewed their heated rivalry with the Cowboys in the last 7 seasons. New Orleans are 3-2 in that stretch. The Saints and Cowboys fortunes have largely mirrored one another since 2009, which is part of the reason for the (almost annual) intra-division matchup. Well, we say largely mirrored… But we digress. And we can’t start living on former glories of course. That would make us as bad as… You know who! Of course, these 2015 Cowboys are a different breed to their predecessors. As any Cowboy fan would have told you before the season started – “this is our year”! Just like 2014 was. And 2013. And 2012. And 2011. And every other year since 1995. Still, notwithstanding the annual Cowboy hype-train, this is undoubtedly a talented (if injury-hit) Dallas squad, built around one of the best offensive lines in football. We won’t see Tony Romo and Dez Bryant on Sunday, but that certainly does not make this game an automatic home “W”, particularly given the Saints own frailties and injury question marks.
THE COWBOYS OFFENSE by the numbers: 0 – Number of sacks attributable to mistakes by the Cowboys O-Line in 2015, per PFF. 16 – Number of offensive penalties committed by Dallas through weeks 1-3. Only Washington and Tampa have more. 21 – Number of catches by TE Jason Witten so far in 2015. Highest in the league amongst TEs. 4 – Number of Brandon Weeden’s passes targeting WR’s vs ATL in week 3. His 22 other throws were all to RBs/TEs.
THE COWBOYS DEFENSE by the numbers: 18 – Percentage of downs on which the Cowboys D blitzed in 2014. 2nd lowest in the NFL. So far in 2015, the Cowboys blitz pct has fallen to 15%. 3 – Sacks by Dallas so far this year. Only Miami and San Diego have fewer. 3.6 – YPC of the Cowboys’ opponents in 2015. =7th lowest in the NFL. 7 – Passing plays of 20+ yards given up by the Dallas D in 2015. Only Carolina and Pittsburgh have been tighter against “big plays”.
3 REASONS WHY THE SAINTS WILL DEFEAT THE DALLAS COWBOYS:
1. Brees is back… And against the Cowboys pass rush, he should be safe
Who Dat Nation rejoice – for Drew Brees is back. Friday’s word from Airline Drive is that Brees is “full go” on Sunday, which is a huge relief after the swirling rumors and hearsay of rotator cuff-gate. Although McCown played admirably in defeat at Carolina last week, he isn’t Drew Brees. Especially in primetime in the Superdome, where Brees is an incredible 17-2 since 2008.
The returning Brees will be playing with a target on his back on Sunday, though. Through weeks 1 and 2, the Saints O-Line often struggled in pass protection – never moreso than in the first half against Tampa when Brees took “that hit” from Jacquies Smith. Last week, however, marked an encouraging improvement for the Saints up-front. Against one of the best front-sevens in the league, the Saints did an excellent job of protecting reserve QB Luke McCown, conceding only one “sack” (which was actually more of a run for a short loss as McCown scrambled to the sideline out of bounds).
This week, Brees will thankfully face one of the weaker pass rushes in the NFL for his return. The Cowboys have only had 3 sacks all year, and rely almost exclusively on their defensive front to generate pressure and sacks. Dallas blitz only 18% of the time – less than almost every other D in the league. In defense of the Cowboys anaemic 2015 pass rush, they have been missing 3 crucial edge players in recent weeks. The dangerous Jeremy Mincey, former Panther Greg Hardy and talented second round rookie Randy Gregory have all been absent. Of the trio, only Mincey is set to return this week, with Gregory still injured and Hardy still suspended.
Even with Mincey back, the Cowboys still represent one of the less dynamic defensive fronts the Saints will face this year. And as we are well aware, the essential key to slowing down the Saints offense is getting pressure on Brees. In 2014, per PFF, when not under pressure Brees completed 75% of his passes at 8.1 yards per attempt for 30 TDs and 8 INTs. When under pressure, Brees completed just 56% of his passes at 6.2 yards per attempt for just 3 TDs and 9 INTs. It’s a relatively simple equation – if the shorthanded Cowboys defensive front continue their 2015 trend of being unable to get to the QB, and the Saints O-Line build on their improved display in Carolina last week, Brees should have a clean pocket. Which makes the prospect of 18-2 in primetime Superdome games all the more likely
2. Brandon “Game Manager” Weeden is under center for Dallas
Brandon Weeden took the “game manager” role to almost unprecedented extremes in his first start of 2015 last week. On first glance, his stat line looks passable – impressive even – 22/26 for over 200 yards. However, a staggering 21 of his 26 pass attempts were short passes of 9 yards or less. Of his 5 longer downfield throws, only 2 were completed and 1 was picked off. Everything else was a checkdown – and 19 of the 21 checkdowns were thrown “between the numbers” straight over the middle. Oh, and only 4 of Weeden’s passes were thrown to WRs. Whichever way you look at it, it is an unbelievable stat line.
On the defensive side last week, the Falcons countered initially by happily giving Weeden the “easy” short gains on 1st and 2nd down, then clamping down on 3rd down. That worked a treat, as Weeden only converted one 3rd down on the day. In the second half, having had more time to see what Weeden was (or indeed wasn’t) doing, the Falcons simply shut him down. Dallas scored 0 points and only had 52 yards of offense after halftime, with Atlanta packing the box, tempting Weeden with easy RB/TE checkdowns, and preventing YAC to great effect.
Weeden cut a frustrated figure in a curiously defensive interview this week regarding his performance against Atlanta, claiming that his biggest strength is in fact “throwing to the boundaries” and “throwing downfield”. The Dallas gameplan last week suggests his coaches think otherwise, and based on Weeden’s 0-9 career mark they well be onto something. We fully expect the Saints to pack the box early and test Weeden’s ability to throw over the top on Sunday, particularly with returning all-pro CB Keenan Lewis set to shore up the secondary. We’ll see if Weeden’s actions on the field speak as loudly as his defiant words off it this week. If his 0-9 career record is anything to go by, they probably won’t.
3. The Saints defense should be at full strength for the first time in 2015
Friday’s update on Brees was not the only positive medical information emanating from Metairie. The final injury report contains welcome news regarding not one, not two, but three key defensive players who are yet to see action this year. All three of Jairus Byrd, Keenan Lewis, and Dannell Ellerbe have participated in practice all week, and all three are listed as “probable” to return for Sunday’s game.
Sean Payton has intimated that there may be a limited snap count for CB Keenan Lewis, but with Brandon Browner struggling mightily to play CB1 in this Rob Ryan scheme, the return of Lewis in any form will without doubt provide a significant upgrade on the outside for the Saints. LB Dannell Ellerbe will slot straight into the starting lineup alongside improving rookie Stephone Anthony and should instantly upgrade the Saints linebacking corps against a Cowboys offense heavily reliant on RB/TE production.
As for S Jairus Byrd? Who knows. If we have learnt anything over the past 12 months, it is to assume nothing with regard to Jairus and his health. His “probable” status suggests that he will “probably” play on Sunday. But we’ll believe it when we see it. With third-stringer Kenny Phillips currently playing as an emergency high-safety, his return would be extremely timely. And it might just offer us a rare opportunity to finally see a Saints defense at “full strength”. A sight about as rare as #31 himself.
3 REASONS WHY THE SAINTS WON’T DEFEAT THE DALLAS COWBOYS
1. The Cowboys famed offensive line
The Cowboys offensive line is notoriously strong. Never was this clearer than when the Saints travelled to Dallas last year, and got absolutely manhandled (both literally and figuratively) on route to their 38-17 drubbing. On that day, Romo was untouched on 29 of his 32 drop backs and Dallas gashed the Saints for 190 rushing yards on 35 carries.
Unless Brandon Weeden has a career day (and then some) on Sunday, it will almost certainly be the run blocking of the Dallas offensive line that paves the way on their quest for the W. The Cowboys O-Line have blocked for a respectable looking 4.1 YPC this season at 105 rushing yards per game. That’s a slight dropoff on 2014, where they went at 4.6 YPC for 147 yards per game. Both are highly impressive clips, however. The pass blocking of the Dallas O-Line has also been stellar so far this year – per PFF, no Dallas offensive lineman has been responsible for a sack in 2015.
If you delve beneath the bare stats, though, there has at times been inconsistency in the Cowboys offensive line play this year. Last week against the Falcons, for instance, RB Joseph Randle gained 85 yards on his first 3 carries. On his next 11 carries, he gained just 2 (yes, two) yards, as the O-Line struggle to open running lanes. The Cowboys’ line has also had issues with penalties. Cris Collinsworth euphemistically lauded the “vice like” physicality of the Dallas linemen against New Orleans last year, but that same “vice like” physicality has become the Cowboys’ own worst enemy at times this year. With officials clamping down, the O-Line alone has already been flagged for 7 holding penalties through week 3 (only Indy and Washington have more), with the number leaping to 16 if you also include pre-snap offensive penalties (also 3rd highest in the NFL).
Notwithstanding the inconsistent run blocking and penalties, this Cowboys O-Line still easily represents the strongest test the Saints D have faced in the trenches so far this year. And the Saints D-Line has hardly “lit it up” against the softer opposition it has battled so far – allowing 4.2 YPC through week 3. The Saints best be more prepared for the “vice like” physicality this year, or the Cowboys will find it easy to set the tempo again, much like in 2014.
2. Jason Witten is going to town on this Saints D
One of the most concerning takeaways from last week’s tough loss in Carolina was the Saints’ inability to defend Greg Olsen. The predominantly zone coverage was simple to exploit for Olsen, as he constantly found holes and seams for big chunks of yards on route to 8 grabs, 134 yards, and 2 TDs.
The Saints defense will be receive another stern examination this week, with talented veteran Jason Witten coming to town. Witten leads all TEs in receptions this year, with 21. He is highly likely to be Weeden’s preferred target. The Saints have had a week to prepare for Witten, so we expect Ryan to try something different to the “soft zone” that was shredded in Carolina. With Keenan Lewis returning outside, one potential option is to shift Brandon Browner into a “press man” assignment on Witten on obvious passing downs. Another is to match S Kenny Vaccaro on the Cowboys TE. Even rookie CB Damian Swann may be involved, after being just about the only defender to slow down Greg Olsen last week.
None of the options are guaranteed to slow down Witten, of course. And paying too much attention to Witten will equally leave other dangerous “between the numbers” receiving threats such as slot man Cole Beasley and the Cowboys’ trio of talented RBs open to exploit the soft zone over the middle. It’s a conundrum the Saints will face every time they take on a talented TE, and worryingly Ryan has never really found a consistent way to slow down opposing tight ends.
3. The Cowboys 3.6 YPC run defense will make the Saints one-dimensional
Other than the obvious (Brees playing hurt for the Bucs game, then missing the Panthers game), the other reason for the Saints struggles on the offensive side this year has been the lack of production in the running game. Through week 3, the Saints are only going at 3.2 YPC on the ground (29th in the NFL). To avoid becoming one-dimensional, the Saints simply must get more protection from their ground game.
Unfortunately, this week the Saints match up against one of the better run defenses in the league – at least statistically. So far this year, the Cowboys are holding opponents to a stingy 3.6 YPC on the ground, with talented OLB Sean Lee patrolling the field and swallowing running backs for fun. The raw numbers don’t look encouraging for the Saints.
It should be noted, though, that the 2015 numbers are somewhat skewed for Dallas by the absolute beatdown they put on Philadelphia in week 2. The Cowboys held the Eagles to 7 (yes, seven) yards on 17 carries that day. Of course, there is a chance that the Dallas front-7 repeats that feat this week. But disregarding that for a moment, both the Giants (4.1 YPC, 99 yards) and especially the Falcons (4.9 YPC, 158 yards) have had success running on this Dallas team. For the Saints offense to be fully firing, they will be hoping that the week 1 and 3 Cowboys defense shows up. If Sean Lee and the Dallas D can repeat their heroics from Philadelphia, it will be another frustrating day on the ground for New Orleans.
Saints Defense v Cowboys Offense – The BoiLa’s Take “Last week’s Dallas gameplan against Atlanta was tacit admission of Brandon Weeden’s limitations as a QB. We really do not expect Jason Garrett to rip up the playbook and ask Weeden to sling the Cowboys to a shootout victory this week. Weeden will be asked to do a similar job against the Saints weak pass-rush and “soft zone”. Where this game will really be won (or lost) by Dallas is in the running game, of course. The Cowboys absolutely dominated the Saints for 190 yards rushing last year. If the Saints allow the Cowboys O-Line to control the line of scrimmage again, it will ensure Weeden is kept in “and short” situations, allowing Dallas to (at the very least) set the tempo and ensure the game remains close. Conversely, if New Orleans pack the box and shutdown the Dallas running game (as Atlanta did so effectively last week), all eyes return to Weeden. With Keenan Lewis and Jairus Byrd returning to bolster the secondary, if the ball is in Weeden’s hands in “and long” situations, we very much like the Saints chances of winning on defense this week.”
Saints Offense v Cowboys Defense – The BoiLa’s Take “The key storyline this week is of course the return of Drew Brees, who is “full go” for Sunday. He desperately needs his offensive line to build upon their strong showing in Carolina last week, and avoid a repeat of the beating he took in the Dome in week 2. Against a shorthanded Cowboys pass rush, we like the O-Line’s chances of offering a clean pocket. That should open up the whole playbook for the Saints, and prevent the Cowboys from packing the box to stop the run. Indeed, if Brees can demonstrate his arm strength early, Mark Ingram may well finally have a chance to “breakout” – both the Giants and Falcons had good success on the ground against this Cowboys D when forcing them to respect the pass. Of course, if Brees is not “full go” for any reason, the Saints will find themselves battling a congested box as the matchup swings back in the Cowboys’ favor. All eyes will be on #9, as he seeks to make it 18-2 in his last 20 Superdome primetime games.”
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news The National Broadband Network Company today revealed it had successfully conducted early trials of the Fibre to the Node (FTTN) rollout model mandated by the Coalition Federal Government, with the trials delivering “raw” download speeds of 105Mbps over a distance of 100m from a local test ‘node’.
Under Labor’s previous NBN policy, some 93 percent of Australian premises were to have received fibre directly to the premise and the remainder satellite or wireless. Fibre to the Premises, as a technical model, allows very high upload speeds. Current retail NBN plans, for instance, allow upload speeds of 40Mbps on 100Mbps plans, while the long-term migration to gigabit speeds will allow upload speeds of 400Mbps.
However, NBN Co’s Strategic Review published in December last year changed the paradigm, with the company recommending (and the Coalition formally supporting last week) a vision in which up to a third of Australian premises will be served by the existing HFC cable networks of Telstra and Optus, with Fibre to the Node and Fibre to the Basement used in other areas not already covered by Labor’s FTTP approach. Satellite and wireless is to be used to cover some rural and regional areas as under Labor’s previous plan. This new model is known as the “Multi-Technology Mix” (MTM), or “the Coalition’s Broadband Network” (CBN).
NBN confirmed late last year that it was planning to conduct FTTN trials, as well as accompanying trials of Fibre to the Basement technology in apartment blocks. And in February it confirmed the trials had begun with real customers.
The Fibre to the Node build pilot was to be undertaken in two locations: Umina near Woy Woy on the NSW Central Coast and Epping in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. NBN Co was to construct two small scale Copper Serving Area Modules, erecting kerbside node cabinets which will connect fibre to spare copper pairs in the Telstra pillar. NBN Co stated that neither site had been earmarked to receive FTTP within the next 12 months under the previous rollout plan. Once active, NBN Co was to invite RSPs to participate in a Fibre to the Node end user trial. This limited term trial will test the delivery of high speed broadband via FTTN to up to 100 premises at each location.
In a new statement today, NBN Co said the first in-premises test by NBN Co of the FTTN technology had delivered raw download speeds of 105Mbps and upload speeds of 45 Mbps.
The technology trial was conducted recently by NBN Co engineers in Umina, near Woy Woy, on the NSW Central Coast.
Engineers installed a VDSL modem in a shopfront and then connected the existing copper telephone line to a node cabinet in the street. The node cabinet, which has been erected alongside a Telstra pillar around 100 metres from the shopfront, converts electrical signals transmitted over copper wires into pulses of light that can travel over optical fibres.
The company issued the following rider to its speed claims, however: “NBN Co provides services to its wholesale customers, telephone and internet service providers, and does not provide services directly to end users. This trial involved testing speeds over physical network layers rather than end user speeds. End user experience including the speeds actually achieved over the NBN depends on some factors outside our control like equipment quality, software, broadband plans and how the end user’s service provider designs its network.”
NBN Co chief executive officer, Bill Morrow, said in the company’s statement: “This is an important milestone in the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN). It demonstrates that existing technologies such as the copper network are capable of playing a vital role in delivering high speed broadband to Australians.”
NBN Co chief operating officer, Greg Adcock said: “As outlined at our analysts’ update today, this speed test is a result of the work by our engineers and construction crews to install a small number of node cabinets in Umina on the NSW Central Coast and Epping in Melbourne’s northern suburbs to pilot the construction and delivery of FTTN.”
“Once active, the next step will see NBN Co invite retail service providers to take part in a limited FTTN end user trial in these locations. The aim will be to test the delivery and end user experience of high speed broadband via FTTN to a small number of premises at each location.”
According to NBN Co, the results of the technology trial bolster the findings of the Strategic Review conducted by the company and published in December 2013. The Strategic Review determined that the NBN could be delivered sooner and more cost-effectively by incorporating existing capable telecommunications networks with an upgrade path – such as copper and hybrid fibre coaxial cable (HFC) – into the rollout.
The company is now planning a widescale commercial rollout of technologies including FTTN next year, following the renegotiation of NBN Co’s Definitive Agreements with Telstra.
However, the so-called “Multi-Technology Mix” option which NBN Co is pursuing continues to be unpopular with Australians in general, with most preferring Labor’s technically superior FTTP model. For example, in mid-February Shadow Minister for Communications Jason Clare presented to Federal Parliament the signatures of 272,000 Australians who want the new Coalition Government to build Labor’s all-fibre version of the National Broadband Network instead of the technically inferior version which is currently being proposed.
NBN Co’s own Strategic Review shows that the full FTTP model, if reworked to be more efficient, could be delivered for peak government funding of $54 billion by the end of calendar year 2023. The Coalition’s preferred MTM model could be delivered for $39 billion by the end of calendar year 2020. Both would deliver a modest investment return on the Government’s capital injections. However, commentators have pointed out that over the long term in which the infrastructure is expected to operate — between 50 and 100 years — the time and cost differences between the two plans is negligible, leaving Labor’s FTTP proposal as the more technically superior.
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Very good news that NBN Co has been able to achieve these very solid results in these tests. However, I will note that thus far we don’t have any data available about the quality and reliability of the copper run used in the tests. As has been noted many times previously, the quality of Telstra’s copper varies significantly between different areas and even between different streets.
I will also note that the speeds delivered by NBN Co here are not consistent with the experience in the UK, where BT’s Infinity service delivers speeds only up to 76Mbps. Given that the UK’s copper cable is widely considered to be in better condition than Australia’s, I am surprised at the results being shown here. I would also be curious to know whether the distance of 100m from the nearest node being used in these trials is considered a relatively normal distance in terms of a wider rollout of FTTN, and what distances comparable rollouts in other countries use from the node to the premises.
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I am currently working on a broader, more up-to-date article focusing on the information and techniques we see used to manipulate/deceive from many different sources with tips on how to spot falsehoods and assess the legitimacy of the information we are presented online. This will be universally applicable and will deal with more up-to-date topics.
In the interest of fairness, while I have had cause for concern on some of the information presented collectively in the past, I accept that each individual is an individual and each deserves to be judged on their own merits as they stand today and as they demonstrate going forward.
Since I wrote this article some 6+ months ago, Webb, Goodman & Negron have branched off and have been increasingly independent from each other.
The Webb of Deceit: Crowd-Sourced Confusion
By Adam Carter --- June 7th, 2017
George Webb has been playing many people for fools for a long time, I'm sorry to any who are offended by this but it is true and I can demonstrate it to you. - It is, in fact, part of the purpose of this article (to inform and explain, citing examples to support assertions made).
This is something I'd have reported on sooner but I actually avoided Webb's videos as I found them to be distracting, confusing & misleading. This wasn't because I was unfamiliar with the facts presented but because Webb tries to bamboozle his audience in a variety of ways, something that only became clear to me now that I've reviewed more of his videos.
I did try to consider a less sinister possibility at first, that Webb may have just been frantically covering many topics and being disorganized. This weekend, though, it was difficult to ignore the drama that unfolded (which for me, first started when I pointed out a "new" archive was just the old NGP-VAN files).
I soon found that I was dealing with a stubborn Webb follower insisting that technically implausible things were true. This was followed by another that had been led to believe there was a secret 'second' password for the archive that would expose other files (absolute bullshit, btw), then another who was convinced there were new encrypted files, then another and another.
I wondered what could be was causing this wave of misinformed souls. So many people that were clearly getting fed bullshit from somewhere. To try to clear things up for people, I tweeted:
Only mistake I made there was saying 600mb rather than 678.4mb but in the overall context and compared to the claims I was challenging, it's a forgiveable mistake.
I posted up links to the original torrent uploaded back in September of 2016 to the Pirate Bay and then proceeded to carry out a comparison on the 2 different sets of files once folders were extracted.
The only "new" files were lock files, there were 4 of them and each was 94 bytes in size. Going further I even said they were likely timestomped and inserted, they weren't in the original archive. - Sure enough, today, I discovered Webb trying to use these inserted files as evidence, I can't believe what a farce the whole George Webb thing is.
Defango vs George Webb & Jason Goodman
One of Webb's followers then asked me "what makes your information better than Webb's and Defango's?" So, I thought I'd better go and see what he had said. Fortunately, Defango had just posted up a video correcting the Webb/Goodman nonsense and was giving the same conclusions I just gave.
Defango seemed pretty cool, his observations were legitimate, so I thought I'd go check out what was said by Webb/Goodman and see if they misinterpreted or misquoted him. It was time to endure a full Webb video from start to finish.
My First Webb Video Watched All The Way Through
For the first time ever, I forced myself to watch a full Webb video, the first of several I would be watching over the weekend. I found a significant number of problems with claims being made within a couple of minutes of watching and the quality of the information being pushed out immediately concerned me.
UPDATE: My 3rd point above was actually invalid due to the presence of 2 executable files in the archive. These were "fs2comma.exe" and "comma2fs.exe". The original archive (from TPB), Webb's 1.03Gb version and another version hosted on mega.nz (542Mb) all contained the same versions, these are known versions that have existed since 2012 (possibly earlier)
So, no Pandemic infection but there were executable files.
Thank you to c.t.alhambra for bringing this to my attention.
Defango vs George Webb & Jason Goodman - Drama Escalates
As soon as I finished watching the video and compiled the list of flaws I had discovered, I went back on Twitter and soon realized drama was escalating, all because Defango had the audacity to tell the truth and contradict Webb/Goodman.
Minutes later, I'm watching videos of an emotionally unstable man yelling for Kim Dotcom and Defango to "show me the meta data!" and other equally angry and ambiguous demands. It was a ridiculous theatrical performance on Goodman's part and the worst thing, it was attention grabbing attempt to prop up disinformation.
Defango's response was understandable disbelief along with many on YouTube and not just limited to his subscribers. The drama continued and was followed by Jason yelling "Who Spoofed The Seth Rich Files?!" over files that were old NGP-VAN files with no demonstrable link to anything relevant to the Seth Rich murder. It was a step too far even for many of Webb's followers and subscribers.
I noticed on YouTube and Twitter something great was happening - people, finally, were questioning all the bullshit Webb had been feeding them for so long. The feigned outrage from Goodman and the demonstrable lies that both Goodman and Webb were pushing had backfired.
What If We Exclude Jason Goodman's Theatrical Performances?
On Monday, June 5th, 2016, I watched another Webb video, it resulted in me tweeting the following objections, these were all on comments Webb had made:
Cites unconfirmed "SVR report".
Makes numerous assertions on basis of SVR report being authentic.
Insists the NGP-VAN stuff linked Awan Bros to Seth (it doesn't).
I also noticed that Webb was bombarding people with unrelated facts about different people, events, dates, places, etc., he then speculated a lot about connections between them and would finish up encouraging his audience to 'figure it out' - which, of course, generated a lot of noisy speculation from which Webb could then promote the most plausible sounding distractions.
What if the Weekend Was Just A Crazy One-Off Due To Drinking?
Curious to know if this was an isolated incident, I checked back over older videos of Webb's. - Straight away I saw the same patterns occurring and after checking a few more, it became very clear to me: George Webb is a viral "partial hangout".
A "partial hangout" uses existing known/established facts mixed with misleading speculation, unsubstantiated claims and even outright lies so that it causes chaos and confusion. By employing his audience, this also meant the noise and chaos of the "partial hangout" was amplified by a devout audience that became increasingly invested in the apparent findings and conclusions of the crowd they were a part of, this helped the disinformation and misconceptions spread far and wide with many inherently feeling a need to defend it.
Even what they present as revelations (eg. having "Codename: KERPLUNK" tell us recently about the Harry Walker Agency) are usually old facts being recycled just to keep you believing in the sideshow.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I have seen more than enough now to be able to give a proper evaluation. Webb is giving you a chaotic mixture of disparate and often unrelated facts, partial facts, unsubstantiated claims and outright lies. He then speculates intensely and finally, he encourages his audience to debate on that speculation. By pretending to be obtuse, he can hide behind the crowd-sourced effort and blame his own audience for anything misleading.
Hopefully Webb and Goodman have both spewed enough demonstrable lies now that their audience(s) will see what a joke their investigation efforts are and no longer submit to the psychological abuse they've been subjected to. Hundreds of videos watched and the only unique revelations (facts not already established elsewhere) his subscribers and followers can cite are those based on conflations, speculation or that are demonstrably false. - This is the opposite of being informed and should be regarded as a clear warning sign about the integrity of Webb's investigation.
Defango exposed the deceit that Webb/Goodman have been peddling, he did this by simply telling the truth (as I can attest to and demonstrate easily, not that Defango can't prove it himself, I'm very sure he can).
Who To Trust?, What To Think?
The information war is real and we're already seeing causalties. It's getting ugly and it may get even more messed up very soon, possibly with fabricated evidence pushed to (or possibly generated by) intelligence agencies and subsequently reported by the mainstream press as being genuine (if it hasn't just happened already).
To try to help people evalutate information sources more effectively, I will be writing some articles soon about propaganda, deception and misdirection, detailing techniques used to fool us and some tips on how to identify manipulation disguised as impartial information. (I'll also be providing some links to independent media sources that I've grown to trust as there are some great people out there that care about giving legitimate information to their audiences, that are properly investigating things and whose work and efforts are far more worthy of attention than most of the crap the MSM churns out to it's gullible audiences) | positive |
Whiskeymarie: August 2010 Friday, August 27, 2010 Pieces of things that don't necessarily go together, much like most of my outfits. Random bits- much like the frozen , leftover morsels of dead squirrels that I keep in my freezer, just in case: I can't seem to type today without having to correct typos every other word, and simple speech seems to be a monumental task. I'm thinking I had a stroke in my sleep. Does that mean I can skip work today? I think my new class is scared of me- I'm totally OK with that. I can't remember when I washed my hair last, and I don't have time to do it before work. Maybe I'll shape it into a giant, puffy chef's hat or a honkey 'fro and call it a day. I already mentioned this on Facebook, but a few weeks ago when I was at the grocery store, what I thought was a bird whizzed by my head in the toilet paper aisle. When it turned around and flew by me again, I realized that it was a bat. While I was looking for an employee to notify of Dracula's arrival, the bat must have flown into the main checkout area. There was screaming, people running for cover, and cashiers trying to trap the bat with plastic grocery baskets. Total chaos. I seemed to be the only one who wasn't freaked out, so I checked out in the self-checkout and went on my merry way. I hope the bat was OK, but holy hell, that sure was entertaining to watch. There is a totally shitballs-crazy dude at the gym that I'm kind of obsessed with watching, just to see what cookoo thing he'll do next. Like, muttering nonstop, crazy eyes, obsessively moving very heavy equipment one inch that way then one inch the other, throwing newspaper pages around, and kind of "dancing" on the stairmaster. Last time I saw him, his antics cleared a mostly-full room in about 10 minutes. Except me- of course I couldn't stop watching. Also at the gym: a totally naked woman in the locker room decided to chat me up the other day. I'm too polite to say, "Um, could you at least put a towel on? Seriously lady, your glory days were over a long time ago and not looking at your gravity-challenged stuff is difficult, at best." I guess she liked my purse. Um...okay. I bought new, flat, knee-high black boots for fall that I'm in love with. I figured that I earned them with my astounding laziness and sloth this summer. Whatever- they were on sale. Summer is finally winding down, and the temperatures are finally dipping into "not as hot as Satan's bung after three hours of step aerobics" range. What does this mean, you may ask? Well, it means that I finally have enough energy to not only get off my ass, but to also "do things" and "leave the house". Also, my mood is considerably better and I no longer punch random people in the crotch from "heat rage". Not only will I maybe get some of those pesky restraining orders lifted, but I may actually stop by this here blog more than once a menses cycle. I know- promises, promises. Happy Friday, my little sweaty, nude vampire bats. Happy Friday. Posted by Whiskeymarie at 12:13 PM 23 comments: Labels: random nuggets of stuff that I pulled from my belly button, scary nudity, yet another stroke Friday, August 20, 2010 Like quicksand squishing in my toes, so are the days of my life. I probably should have mentioned at some point how I've been off from work since June 30th. I meant to tell you, but I was so busy...doing stuff that I kind of forgot. Well, that's not exactly true. I was doing stuff, but saying I was "busy" is pretty much a bold-faced lie, and I will forever swim in the shame river created from the spittle of the thousands of mouths yelling at me for being a big fat liar. No, my summer has been blissfully boring. The kind of boring that would make someone with things like "ambition" and "goals" and "drive" the special kind of crazy normally reserved for celebrities with paint huffing issues/schizophrenia. Sure, I gardened a bit, I constructed houses out of discarded boxes for the cats, I organized my underpants, and I found shaded patios around town where a pale, publicity-shy gal like myself could get eleventy cocktails with a friend or two and accidentally fall into the bushes without nary a flash from the paparazzi or an inappropriately-located sunburn. One would think that, given the vast amount of time that I had, that I would have been on the ball enough to do maybe one teeny, tiny bit of work in preparation for my triumphant return to work. This coming Monday. If you had thought that, I would be bitch-slapping you repeatedly right now for your astounding level of idiotness, you idiot. You should know me better than that by now, stupid. No, instead of "getting a jump on things" like most marginally mature adults on the planet, the most impressive work-related thing that I've accomplished in my 50 days off (so far) was to get the most wicked-awesome score on electronic Yahtzee EVER. 512, bitches! Five hundred-freaking twelve!! (Yes, I consider this work-related as numbers are involved, and everyone knows that numbers = work) Yeah...you'd probably be correct in assuming that, as I get older, my brain is slowly turning into a tapioca-like mass of gray goo. Yup. In a few years you will probably be able to suck it out through a straw stuck up my nostril. So now, as the final days of my Enchanted summer of nothing (patent pending) come to an end, of course NOW would be the time to be forced to sit through two days (13+ hours) of meetings under the guise of "In-service", thereby rendering my remaining few chances of being prepared impotent. I fucking hate In-service. Yesterday we were forced to sit through 4 hours of lectures, 3 powerpoint presentations, a goddamn MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER that I will need to devote a separate post to, such was the...wow. Just wow, one divisional meeting, and too many technological snafus to count. Today was worse, and that's all I can say about it until the PTSD subsides and the shitty coffee has left my veins. So...I guess that the basic point of this rather incoherent post is that I, like many a dipshit, have yet again procrastinated to the point that I am, indeed, quite fucked. And, no. I don't believe that I will ever learn from my mistakes. We all know by now that learning stuff is for losers. Now I'm going to go and git my cocktail on and write an outline for next week once I'm good and drunk. Lord knows that has worked for me every other semester. Have a moderately productive weekend (but don't strain yourself sweetie), my totally screwed little worker bees. Happy weekend! (Oh, and? I guess I'm on the Twitter/Twatter now. Look for @Whiskeymarie All the kids are doing it, you know.) (And I just realized that I've spewed out over 600 posts at this point. Holy shitballs, you people put up with a lot. Freaking saints, you are. -Yoda OUT.) Posted by Whiskeymarie at 8:01 PM 16 comments: Labels: again with the swearing, competetive ass-sitting, employmentification Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Home sweet goddamn unfinished home. Alright. No one is more aware than I am that there hasn't been an update on "Operation Fix this Fucking House" in, oh...seven years or so (give or take seven years). I'd like to say that we've spent this vast amount of time tweaking and polishing and such and such for our big final reveal where I could rub your noses in the fact that we made this old hag of a house our bitch, but yeah- not so much. I am still LeBitch of the Casa, and we still aren't done. Can I get a FFUUUUCCCKKKK?!?!? The funny (insert maniacal, shrill laughter here) thing is, the main reason we started the whole renovation/redecoration thingy is because of one room in particular: the "old" bathroom. I can't wait to show you pictures of this sorry excuse of a shitter in all of its flesh-tone tiles with diarrhea-brown trimmed glory, but that will have to wait for a (long) while, as this also happens to be the ONLY FREAKING ROOM WE HAVEN'T EVEN FREAKING STARTED YET. Yes, I still have the ugliest bathroom on the planet in my home. You will believe. Trust me. You will believe. But...that will have to wait for now. I'm close to being able to show you the dining room, but I have to wait for a day that isn't raining or 900% humidity so that I can finally paint a couple of things. Yes, two of those "things" are actually living pets, but hey- I like to color-coordinate. Yes, I can wait while you call the local ASPCA to report me... . . . . . Okay then. Moving on... I realized today that the living room has been pretty much done for a while now, I was just kind of thinking that I'd wait until it felt perfect, but then I remembered that "perfect" for me is a fluctuating thing, and with my ADD and OCD and TNT (Dy-no-mite!), well, I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and wave the white flag. It's as done as it's gonna be, and I may as well take a picture or two on the one day that there seems to be no dog puke or drool on at least 80% of the furniture, and since there aren't any pet hair tumbleweeds blowing through or embarrassing magazines left out (What? I read Juggs and Ferret Monthly for the articles! Really!)- then today is the day. First, you need to know what we started with, from the beginning. Once upon a time, a very, very broke couple bought a very, very old house because they loved it, and because it was cheap. Dirt cheap. Not being wise in the ways of minor things like "updated to code electrical stuff", "plumbing stuff", and ""what's that funny smell?" stuff, they were elated to find a home to call their own where they would never again have to be oppressed by the white walls of apartment living. Unfortunately, the lovely couple did not know that plaster walls come with a whole nutha' level of frustration when it comes to painting them, especially when the plaster walls were put in around 1906 and are particularly porous: Ugh. The charming couple also knew that there were pristine, original, honey-colored maple floors underneath the 40+ year old carpeting (Oh sweet Jeebus- the smell! Think: Old lady+cabbage+mildew+cabbage farts), but they had no idea of how much work it would take to unearth said floors. Turns out, the 40+ year-old red rubber foam underneath the nastyass carpeting had pretty much fused to the floor. Like cement. And, to complicate matters, the wood underneath was in such beautiful shape that the shockingly attractive couple didn't want to use any chemicals or metal scrapers that might have damaged the finish. Fourteen plastic scrapers, much alcohol and several breakdowns later, the astonishingly witty couple was done. Yes, it was as fun as you think it would be: As our beloved couple were still in their 20's when they painted/decorated, and since they were still no joke broke, they made the room "theirs" with a mishmash of hand-me-down furniture, thrift store booty, lots of gold paint, and one zebra-striped rug that they were given as a gift. You can't see it here, but for a long time they also had a disco ball hanging from the ceiling. Ahh...youth. This is an old picture, but as there doesn't seem to be any "whole room" shots of the old living room, this will at least give you an idea of the overall "theme" of the space. Think: Old Vegas meets IKEA meets your Grandma's parlor: And with that, our wonderfully eloquent and well-mannered couple rode off into the sunset. Well, they drove their VW to the convenience store for slurpees and nachos, anyways. The End. Well, the end of me writing in fairy-tale form, anyways. I can't keep up with shit like that. Again, moving on... Phase 2 of the living room project started with the purchase of a couch, and we built (read: I built) the rest of the room around it. This pic is the new couch, the new coffee table, the old paint job and curtains, and Rug #1 that was promptly returned, such was it's fugliness: Here we are, once again prepping the goddamn plaster walls for painting. Yeah, I'd like to say that we got all of this done really fast and only had to live in crack-den squalor for a day or two, but who am I kidding? It looked like this for over a week: And finally...it's done (for a few years anyways). I'm not really an "old Victorianesque house" sort of gal, so in changing things up, I wanted to modernize the overall look of the joint while still keeping the basic "bones" intact. I have beautiful wood floors and windows with simple, clean lines, and I really didn't want to mess with that. I like to think that I achieved my goal, for the most part. It's still "us", but the more grown-up version of "us", still with a sense of humor and a bit o'whimsy: The curtains are blue cotton velvet, which works well year-round. If they were darker I wouldn't think so, but the light color makes the fabric seem not so heavy. The rug is a shag I ordered online- I love the crap out of this rug, but I'm pretty sure that vacuuming it counts as hard-core cardio. I worked up a shocking amount of sweat last time I did it- like, sweaty underboob and all. Yes, I'm a tender, delicate flower- tell me something I don't know. This pic has one of the many IKEA items that we had to buy in it (the cabinet), being that we were on a miniscule budget and have all sorts of strange, useless spaces throughout the Casa that needed filling (that's what SHE said!). The lamp was from lamps.com, and it looks super duper neato when it's lit up: Yes, we still have the Sonny Chiba "Street Fighter" poster- I like to think of it as "timelessly elegant". The end table was a Craigslist find from a fabulously fabulous gay boy in Minneapolis. The lamp base was a vintage store find that I approached like a drunk, horny girl at closing time- I know I shouldn't take it home because it's kind of ugly, but I'm incapable of saying no to it in my state, and it does have a certain charm... The only art on the walls in this room (other than Sonny) is a grouping of three photos, all purchased through various peepos on the internets. The top one was from Sandy (who actually gave it to me when I jokingly said I wanted an 11x14 when I saw the picture on his blog. I guess I'm glad that my ill-timed and awkward sense of humor works to my advantage sometimes.) The middle one was purchased from someone off of this awesome MN website (thanks again for keeping it, Sornie!). And the bottom one was purchased through bloggess extrordinaire, Ms. Campbell at Jurgen Nation. I like how they all are kind of sort of dreamy, spooky landscapes. Close up of the coffee table, a solid slab of old marble, bought off Craigslist from a little old lady in St. Louis Park. The slab is seriously, no-joke heavy. I like how it brings a little bit of nature into a fairly crisp room: A closer look in the corner- you can see better here how I toned down from the old diamond pattern on the walls and painted subtle stripes instead: Closeup of the lamp, just because I love the texture. So, yeah. That's it for today's installment of "OFtFH": updated. Tune in six months from now when I can maybe, possibly, probably not show you yet another finished room. My prediction: by the time we finish the last room, we'll have to start all over again because 20 years will have passed and shit will be falling apart. Good times. We'll finish today off with a treat- an "amuse bouche after the fact", if you will. Cat on a stick. Yum. Happy whateverdaythisisimonvacationdammit, my plaster-covered shaggy rugs. Happy whatever. Posted by Whiskeymarie at 8:51 PM 25 comments: Labels: bitchification, eating the pets again, fugly love, shag rugs Newer Posts Older Posts Home Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) Me, me, ME! About me? 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The Movement for Credible Cycling (MPCC) association has announced it has excluded the Astana team after it broke the association’s rules and allowed Lars Boom to start the Tour de France despite tests revealing he had a low cortisol level. Related Articles LottoNL-Jumbo withdraws from MPCC
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The Astana team was already at the centre of a series of scandals after a number of riders failed anti-doping tests in 2014 and attempts this year by the UCI to revoke their WorldTour licence.
The MPCC made the decision at a board of directors meeting, claiming Astana did not respect its voluntary rules of conduct. The Astana team was temporarily suspended from the MPCC at the end of July but is now out of the voluntary association that say it “aims to promote the idea of a clean cycling, notably based on the concepts of transparency, accountability and mobilization of its members.”
The abnormally low cortisol levels in Boom’s test do not violate UCI or WADA rules, however, the MPCC’s article 9 requires that a rider sits out from racing for a minimum of eight days as a health precaution. Low cortisol levels can point to the use of cortisone or be due to other health problems and have been a serious problem in the past.
In recent months several teams have quit the MPCC over the enforcement of the cortisol and other rules, damaging the MPCC's credibility. The Bardiani-CSF team also ignored the cortisol rule before the Giro d'Italia and left the MPCC, while the LottoNL-Jumbo team respected the rule and stopped George Bennett from racing. It claimed that tests showed that Bennett was kept out of the Giro d'Italia unjustly and the MPCC's refusal to change the cortisol rules 'forced' the Dutch WorldTour team to leave.
Boom was tested on the morning of July 2, two days ahead of the Grand Depart, as part of the normal pre-race tests carried by the UCI. However, the test results came back after the manager’s meeting on Friday July 3, and according to the UCI’s rules, Astana were not permitted to swap out Boom for their reserve rider Alessandro Vanotti after the usual entry deadline. Instead of starting the Tour de France with only eight riders, Astana’s manager Alexander Vinokourov decided to go against the MPCC’s rules and start Boom, completing their nine-man team in support of Vincenzo Nibali.
Despite signing up to the MPCC, Vinokourov claimed that the Astana medical team believe a low cortisol level was not a danger to Boom’s health. Boom struggled through the opening stages of the Tour de France and quit the race before stage 10.
Astana directeur sportif Dmitriy Fofonov defended Astana’s actions in a MPCC hearing but the team was excluded after a vote by the MPCC Board of directors.
In further criticism of the Astana team, the MPCC board said it approves “the firm attitude of the UCI which has been strict in the application of its rules by excluding Vincenzo Nibali and his sporting director from the Vuelta”, suggesting that video footage should be used to discipline riders.
The MPCC also supported Androni-Sidermec manager Gianni Savio after he respected the MPCC rules and voluntarily suspended his team in August after two cases of doping in his team. The MPCC also said it supports the team’s move to sue the riders who have been found positive for doping.
The MPCC said its general meeting will be held on October 19 with the presence of its 106 current members. | positive |
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Luxomni was a small community between central and southwestern Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States, a mile east-northeast of Lilburn.[1] It was founded in 1891 around a rail depot for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad,[1] on the line to Lawrenceville, the county seat. The town has largely been absorbed into Lilburn and greater Gwinnett County, and is no longer part of the local vernacular.
The town's name came from the Latin, meaning "light [for] all."[1] It was suggested by a civil engineer who worked for the railroad.[1]
Luxomni had its own post office, a Masonic lodge, a general store, and a Baptist church.[2] Luxomni Baptist Church, founded in 1895, is still active today.[2]
The decaying ruins of the general store at one point could still be found standing near the corner of Luxomni Road and Arcado Road, next to the church (near the Railroad Crossing.)[citation needed] This has now been demolished. Just past the general store and church is an old building set back in a wooded area with a faded sign reading "Luxomni Sewing Club." Continuing down Luxomni Road will bring you back to Lawrenceville Highway (29).
Luxomni Road continues to be its primary identifier.
According to the USGS GNIS, Luxomni was centered at Coordinates: . | positive |
Steve Doocey: Another bombshell in the ongoing Clinton e-mail scandal. Newly released interviews from the FBI’s investigation into the former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server show that a number of boxes of printed e-mails of Mrs. Clinton’s have gone missing. This as we learn that a top official at the State Department put pressure on staffers to change e-mail classifications to keep them hidden . . . Clinton’s communications from the freedom of information requests. There were a lot of them.
Judge Andrew Napolitano: They’ve printed up a bunch of them, put them in bankers boxes and now two of the boxess are missing. Remember, when this was first discovered and she was ordered to return all her e-mails to the State Department, on her own, she decided to return the work-related ones. That’s problem number one.
Under the law, when you work for the government, all your e-mails belong to the government. The government decides which you get to keep as personal and it gets to keep. She reversed that. She didn’t actually return the e-mails. If you send an e-mail to me and you deleted it and say ‘Judge I need a copy of it,’ I would hit reply and send it back to you electronically — thereby giving you everything you gave me.
What Mrs. Clinton did was to make paper copies of the e-mails and deliver those to her lawyer to go to the State Department. The paper copies do not have on them all the underlying meta data – where they came from, when she received them, were they altered . . . all that stuff was kept from the government.
Now we find, not only did she keep that from the government but somewhere in this process, from her to her aides to her lawyers to the state department, to the FBI, two of the twelve boxes of paper e-mails are gone. | positive |
Unwrapping Ancient Egypt; Unwrapping Ancient Egypt; Unwrapping Ancient Egypt
The study and popular perception of Egyptian antiquities focuses too much on the unwrapping of mummies and the use of technologies such as scanning, according to an academic from the University of East Anglia.
In a new book published today, Egyptologist and former museum curator Dr Christina Riggs challenges the scientific and medical approach that has become commonplace. Unwrapping Ancient Egypt sheds light on both the past and contemporary practices of collecting, displaying and presenting ancient Egypt - and especially Egyptian mummies - in museums and the media."Egyptian mummies may pull crowds, but focusing on them only as bodies means we overlook what was arguably much more important from an ancient Egyptian point of view: their wrappings," said Dr Riggs, a senior lecturer in the School of Art History and World Art Studies at UEA.One issue Dr Riggs raises is the gulf between what wrappings and mummification meant in ancient Egypt, and the emphasis placed on analyzing the bodies today, as if scientific techniques are the only way to gain new insight on the past. In many museums that house Egyptian antiquities today, techniques such as endoscopy, CT scans, X-rays and facial reconstruction focus attention on the body beneath the original, careful arrangements of linen. In earlier times, mummies were also completely unwrapped and dissected."Research in the arts and humanities tries to understand the rich variety of social and cultural life over time - what makes us similar, for instance that all humans have bodies, but also what makes us different, because not every society thinks about the body in the same way," said Dr Riggs. "Applying medical research to Egyptian mummies focuses on their human-ness, as if a body tells us everything we need to know about a person, yet science is as much an interpretation as anything else. A body could be so much more, and what my research suggests is that wrapping techniques were absolutely essential to Egyptian mummification because the body was no longer human, but divine."Hundreds of metres of textiles - always made of linen - went into wrapping mummies. The textiles often came from clothing the deceased had worn in life, plus cloth donated by family members or the local temple. Dr Riggs said: "Wrapping a mummy was a religious ritual, similar to the rituals priests performed every day in the temple, to wrap and dress the statues of the gods. Looking at the parallels between these rites helps us understand that to the Egyptians, a mummy wasn't so much a dead body, as a sacred object. And it needed to stay wrapped up."Published by Bloomsbury , Unwrapping Ancient Egypt is the result of a five-year research project, partly funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It breaks new ground by looking at the significance of textile wrappings in ancient Egypt, and at how their unwrapping has shaped the way we think about the Egyptian past. Dr Riggs draws on museum collections, ancient Egyptian art and writing, and century-old archaeological reports which record wrapped-up objects, including mummies, that were almost always unwrapped straight away. Often the textiles were not even saved, because they were considered too fragile or not interesting enough.Dr Riggs points out that it is important to understand the long and in many ways controversial history of unwrapping and studying mummies. Academics and museums are only just starting to question how colonial-era assumptions, for instance about racial inequality, shaped research in Egyptology. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, medical doctors and archaeologists used ancient Egyptian mummies to help develop racial science. Many wanted to prove that the Egyptians were closer to Europeans than to African or Arab population groups, and although this approach is discredited today, it had a lasting impact."What I have found so surprising," said Dr Riggs, "is that we have been asking the same questions, for example about race and disease, for over 200 years. Reading a report from the 1820s or the 1920s, or websites and news articles today, I couldn't help but feel stuck in a rut, as if the only thing that had changed about research on Egyptian mummies was the technology we use, not the fundamental issues at stake."The first chapter of Unwrapping Ancient Egypt can be previewed online here | positive |
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This is my yeast trub in a 1-gallon jar. As you can see it was just about a half gallon's worth. I had boiled and cooled a little bit of water that I dumped into the primary to help allow the yeast to separate from the rest of the trub.
After 20 minutes (in this case) the yeast separates from the rest. The yeast is what remains floating on top in the water.
At left is what I poured off the top, the suspended yeast and water. I also had added some of the boiled and cooled water to the Mason jar before I poured the yeast into it. At right is the trub I left behind.
This is the yeast starting to settle in the Mason jar after 1 hour. I intended to wash it again but...
After 2 hours it looked like this. I thought this was adequately washed. It is pretty much all yeast left. Wyeast suggest washing it twice but that can be up to you.
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A nonprofit organization is seeking donations in the hope of saving lives, but they're not asking for money; they're looking for people willing to donate their poop, and they're willing to pay for it -- up to $13,000 a year.
The group, OpenBiome, wants the donations of poop for fecal microbiota transplantations, a procedure that can help people suffering from an aggressive intestinal bacteria called Clostridium difficile, which can cause extreme, debilitating gastrointestinal distress which can leave its victims housebound.
C. difficile, which can lead to colitis, persistent diarrhea and severe abdominal pain, strikes nearly 500,000 people in the United States every year and in some cases can be fatal, OpenBiome says.
Introducing healthy fecal matter -- easily done by endoscopy, capsules or through nasal tubes -- into the gut of someone suffering such a bacterial onslaught can kill off the C. difficile permanently, but finding donors has been difficult.
That led the founders of OpenBiome, based in Massachusetts, to establish the country's first nationwide poop bank, from which they've send around 2,000 rigorously screened, healthy frozen stool samples to some 200 treatment centers at clinics and hospitals around the U.S.
Donors supply their feces in person by visiting the OpenBiome headquarters in Medford, Mass.
And the group is willing to pay donors handsomely; $40 per sample, plus a $50 bonus for donors willing to contribute poop 5 days a week.
That's $250 a week, or over the course of a year, $13,000.
"We get most of our donors to come in three or four times a week, which is pretty awesome," says OpenBiome co-founder Mark Smith. "You're usually helping three or four patients out with each sample, and we keep track of that and let you know."
Prospective donors must between 18 and 50, have a body mass index less than 30 and be in very good health; only around 4 percent of would-be donors make the cut by passing an extensive medical questioning along with testing of their stool, OpenBiome says.
"It's harder to become a donor than it is to get into MIT," jokes Smith, who got his own PhD in microbiology there.
It may be easy money for donors, but that's not the only reason they're doing it, says OpenBiome co-founder Carolyn Edelstein.
"Everyone thinks it's great that they're making money doing such an easy thing," she says. "But they also love to hear us say, 'Look, your poop just helped this lady who's been sick for nine years go to her daughter's graduation.'"
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Sury Martín frowns at her worksheet. The top of the sheet reads “Fire,” and there are nine panels underneath, each one illustrating a different scene of a man discovering a house fire and trying to get help. Martín’s instructions are to explain to her partner in English what is happening in each panel, but it’s difficult to decipher the illustrations. The man looks upset, but where is he running? Why is he leaving his home? The teacher of this English class has strategically paired students together who don’t speak the same native tongue, and Martín, who speaks Spanish, and her Arabic-speaking partner struggle through the exercise, flipping over the sheet to an even more confusing scenario, a “prowler” entering the house.
But to 24-year-old Martín, struggling through confusing illustrations is worth it. “Me metí a aprender el inglés porque estoy en un país donde es necesario,” she says—she wants to learn English because she is in a country where it’s necessary. And more than anything, she wants to succeed.
Martín came to Oakland from Guatemala a year ago, and she is learning English through this class at Oakland International High School (OIHS). Every day, Monday through Thursday, Oakland International holds two sessions of English classes for Oakland parents. Her five-year-old son is enrolled at Global Family Elementary, a bilingual school within Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). She wants him to be bilingual; she doesn’t want him to lose Spanish. Martín has met other children, she says, who have focused so much on learning English that they forget their native language. And like her son, she’s going to school so that she can become bilingual, too.
Learning English has been difficult, and she wants more than anything to be able to platicar, or chat, and have long conversations with other people. She’s encountered people who think she’s conceited for not answering if she doesn’t respond when they speak to her in English. “Pero no,” she laughs, a little sadly. It’s not that; she just doesn’t understand what they’re saying. Her son will sometimes speak to her in English, and when Martín asks him to repeat it in Spanish, he tells her that she needs to practice.
But while Martín often feels isolated linguistically, Oakland is home to many other Spanish speakers. Her son’s teachers all speak to her in Spanish, and, since the student body of Global Family Elementary is 82 percent Latino, many other parents at the school do, too.
And the student body at OIHS, the high school in the Temescal district that hosts Martín’s classes, is even more diverse. One hundred percent of the students are English Language Learners and newcomers, or recently arrived immigrants. Approximately 32 countries are represented among the home countries of the student body, and about 30 different languages are spoken amongst all students. When they first enroll at OIHS, students must have been in the United States for no more than two years. For the last two years, enrollment for ninth- and tenth-graders at OIHS has been maxed out.
Paw Sei is also in Martín’s English class. Originally from Burma, she has been in Oakland for four years, and is the mother of seven students who attend district schools. “That’s why I’m so tired!” she laughs, after a meeting for Burmese parents at OIHS. A small boy in a green Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles t-shirt tugs at her sleeve while she speaks, saying “Let’s go!” over and over again. Sei speaks Karen, one of the languages spoken in Myanmar (alternatively known as Burma). She can say basic phrases in English, and helps her Karen-speaking friends in English class. But, unlike Martín, whenever she needs to talk to a teacher, she says, she needs an interpreter.
The meeting had been a chance for parents to hear about summer school opportunities, go over their students’ grades and transcripts, and play a team-building volleyball-type game. Throughout the whole presentation, Hsar Htoo, an Oakland parent hired part-time by the district-run refugee and asylee student assistance program, translates for the room of mothers and fathers. While most of the attendees speak Karen, two speak Burmese, which means that Htoo has to do a double translation.
Both Martín and Sei are part of a rapidly growing number of district parents who don’t natively speak English. According to OUSD’s fast facts website, during the 2014-2015 school year, 49.5 percent of students in the Oakland school district spoke a language other than English at home. Fifty native languages are spoken throughout the district. And while the district’s translation department, refugee and asylum program and community engagement specialists are racing to keep up, 50 languages is a lot on a limited budget.
Communicating with parents and families, though, can have life-long implications for students. Studies show that when parents are engaged in their children’s schools, their children are more likely to do better academically and are more likely to graduate from college or from another post-secondary institution. But parents who don’t speak English may not feel like they are able to participate in school activities or speak to teachers if a linguistic barrier exists, so translation services are crucial.
“I do think that the need for translation services is under-appreciated when you just look at the amount of resources that are put in,” says Jamie Lopez, who works at Garfield Elementary as a community schools manager. “Because there’s just not enough to really ensure that all families have language access.”
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While the city of Oakland has always been diverse, the number of newcomer families has recently increased dramatically, doubling in the last three years. “For ten years or so, up to a couple years ago—I think due to the recession—there was a real drop in new immigrant families,” says Nicole Knight, English Learner Executive Director of OUSD, who has been with the district for 17 years.
In 2013, though, Knight and her colleagues witnessed a reversal in this trend, as unaccompanied minors—children under the age of 18 who are separated from their parents and are seeking asylum in another country—and migrant families fled violence in Central America. Alameda County, which includes Oakland, received the second-highest number of unaccompanied minors in California, with Los Angeles taking in the most. Oakland is also a popular destination for migrant and refugee families: It is a sanctuary city, a place that helps to protect undocumented residents from deportation, and also is home to one of the four California offices of the International Rescue Committee, an international organization that helps refugees fleeing humanitarian crises.
“We are a little microcosm of the world, and these are global conflicts and global issues,” Knight says, adding that in recent years her department has seen more Yemeni students as well, fleeing the war in Yemen. “And then we have hundreds of other immigrants who are not necessarily here for refuge but are just with their families seeking academic opportunity.”
Because of these ever-changing ebbs and flows of migration patterns, the district has to evaluate need when hiring translators or community navigators. “Arabic is a big gap in the district,” says Nate Dunstan from the school district’s refugee and asylee program. The district employs one Arabic translator, but Dunstan says it’s not enough to meet their current need, especially for last-minute appointments or meetings.
Translation plays a crucial role in many different arenas within the school system, and schools have also been adapting their systems to accommodate parents. At Garfield Elementary, parent-teacher conferences are often a multi-person affair, with translators present for any meetings in which parents and teachers do not speak the same language. Jamie Lopez, managing director of Garfield Elementary’s partner organization, the East Bay Asian Youth Center (EBAYC), starts preparing the translation for parent-teacher meetings two weeks before they actually take place. She draws up a chart, listing the meeting times of every student for each the 25 teachers at Garfield. In a column to the right of students’ names, she writes the language spoken at home, and then in another adds the name of a translator available at that time. Spanish takes up a large portion of the boxes in the language column, but Vietnamese, Khmer, Karen and Cantonese are also there.
The translators at these meetings can be official district translators, faculty, staff or outside volunteers. Many of the volunteers are former after-school program staffers, who are invested in the school. “It’s a big, huge jigsaw puzzle trying to nail down the needs of the classrooms and the availability of the volunteers,” Lopez says, “and then trying to make sure it all fits the schedule.” When she can’t find an appropriate translator, a teacher will use Language Link, a phone interpreter service that translates languages for 62 cents per minute.
But technology can only do so much. Language Link is “great, it’s wonderful,” Lopez says. But it doesn’t allow for one-to-one meetings that can help forge a parent-teacher bond or make parents more comfortable with asking questions of the teacher. She wishes that they could have a full-time Spanish-speaking translator on staff. “I think folks think it’s easy, but it can be a full-time job just to do the translation coordination here,” she says.
As the newcomer population has increased, the demand for translation has too. And with the increasing demand, the translation services department has to add positions and professionals who speak new languages that have entered the district. Right now, the district has five positions for Spanish translators—two are currently vacant—two Chinese translators, one Vietnamese translator, one Arabic translator and one part-time Cambodian translator. When a parent who speaks another language needs translation, Angel Ho, the head of translation services, contracts to an outside company.
Ho, who is originally from Hong Kong, has been with the district for 20 years. She first came to translation services as a parent volunteer, and ended up as an employee. “I don’t want to say ‘by accident,’” she says with a laugh, “but I got involved with that. Because I’m an immigrant myself, I understand it’s challenging when they are not able to communicate with the school.”
She remembers when the district first began offering translation services, a little over 20 years ago. At the time, they had one Spanish and one Chinese translator. “Now you can see we’ve grown into having Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Arabic,” she says. “So I’m also collecting data to see how languages shift and what other languages we need.”
Sometimes, a student will be called upon to help out. “It gives them a sense of empowerment,” says Shahrzad Makaremi, the community outreach coordinator at Oakland International, who initially was hesitant to use students as translators. “It shows them that they do have skill sets. And that even though they’re learning English, this is something that they actually do, and can do.”
As a response to the increasing demand, in 2013, the OUSD school board officials updated the educational code regulating translation services provided in the district, “ensuring that, consistent with the law and to the fullest extent practicable, English learners and parents who speak languages other than English are provided translation and interpreting services, when necessary.” As the code reads now, if 15 percent or more of the students at a school primarily speak a particular language other than English, the school must translate all written notices that go home—flyers, permission slips—into that language. Additionally, any communication or documentation regarding one specific student must be translated into the language understood by the parent or guardian, no matter what percentage of families within the school’s community speak that language.
Translating all the official documents, from flyers to hefty education reports to meeting agendas can be a daunting task. Cintya Molina, who works with community and parent engagement at the district level, recalls recently putting together an update for the LCAP (Local Control and Accountability Plan) Advisory Committee. “Just to set up that document in lay language first and then translate it took me 23 hours,” she says. “That’s one report. So imagine in your job having to do every communication twice.”
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As with Garfield Elementary’s one-on-one conferences, group translation requires careful planning, too. For the past 20 years, translators from the official OUSD team have appeared at every school board meeting, which take place every other Wednesday night.
Four translators sit at the tables right by the front entrance; they are the second thing you see when you walk in, after the police officers. Four black trunks with the edges outlined in silver sit open in front of them. Inside the chests are dozens of audio devices neatly arranged in rows. When people need translation help, they stop by the table, pick up a device and secure it to an ear.
At this February 24 meeting, two charter schools are petitioning to renew their contracts with the district, and the families of students attending these charter schools always turn up en masse at school board meetings to show support for their schools. After spending two hours glancing at the door and cursorily scanning the audience for Spanish or Chinese-speaking parents in need of translation, the table finally has visitors. A flood of visitors.
The translation team springs into action, with Lesbhia Morones and David Yuen taking the first shift, stationing themselves discreetly by the main stage and speaking into little microphones as they translate what the school board members are saying into Spanish and Chinese. Cynthia Ovando and Angel Ho man the tables, greeting families, asking if they need equipment and handing out audio devices that are connected to the microphones in Morones and Yuen’s hands, transmitting the translation to the listeners’ ears. Each language has its own channel. Usually, Spanish translation is in much greater demand at these events, but today, Yuen and Ho are kept busy. American Indian Model Schools (AIMS) is one of the charter schools petitioning to renew their contract, and AIMS has a majority Chinese American population.
By 7:30, Morones’ lips are moving constantly, fluidly. The audio device allows her to employ “simultaneous translation,” in which she converts English to Spanish in real time, half a second after the original speaker. This method makes sense especially for large group meetings: to speak one at a time could make a meeting drag on too long. (In more individualized meetings, simultaneous translation can make the parent-teacher interaction much more conversational, as if they were speaking directly to one another.)
But Yuen only uses simultaneous translation for meetings like this school board meeting. He speaks in short bursts, waiting for the speaker to come to a pause before relaying an English statement in Chinese. “They don’t like to use the machine,” he says of the Chinese-speaking parents with whom he works. “They want to hear it one at a time,” a technique called “consecutive translation.”
In addition to school board meetings and the written translation they do under the district’s 2013 amendment, Morones, Ovando and Yuen will oftentimes translate for Individualized Education Plan (IEP) meetings, which are used to set specific goals for students in special education programs. These meetings are a crucial step for students to receive the help they need academically, and parents need to understand what is being said.
“Navigating your child through special education is challenging for any parent,” Ovando says. “And to work with their child and to have identified disabilities that range in severity—it’s difficult for English-speaking parents.” The documents used at IEP meetings are full of educational jargon, and for parents who don’t speak English, the difficulties are doubled.
At these meetings, linguistic translation may not be enough, and translators may have to step out from being behind-the-scenes. “It’s a hard position because you need the language of the institution translated, not just the words,” Molina says. “There’s a ‘parent ed’ component to being an interpreter.” Part of parent ed includes cultural translation, and requires a translator to understand a parent’s cultural background. “Learning how to speak to the parents and understanding what they will or won’t respond to is really important,” says Michelle González de Jesús, a social studies teacher at Fremont High School.
Translators have to discern parents’ particular needs, in terms of how much is understood about schools in the United States. “Sometimes you have parents that have very little experience with schools,” Morones says. “Some other parents have a lot of experience with school. It’s just such a big variation.”
Yuen finds it easier to translate for parents who don’t speak any English, because he doesn’t have to guess what they do or don’t understand, or worry about over-translating. “We try our best not to offend them,” he says. “But you have to be sure they understand some key elements that the teacher is saying.”
And different cultural groups have different linguistic needs. Back in 2008, for example, Oakland saw an influx of Nepalese migrants, due to political unrest in Nepal. But, says Dunstan of the district’s refugee and asylum department, many members of this community had learned English in refugee camps in Nepal, and didn’t need much in the way of translation. Among the Afghani immigrants in Oakland, Dari and Pashto are the two most commonly spoken languages. “But most of those families have a father that speaks fluent English, and he’s able to translate everything to do with the school,” Dunstan says.
But school board meetings are always important for translation. Though the translation team’s jaws may be exhausted after a six or seven-hour meeting, they are a vital link: allowing information to flow back and forth, and allowing all parents, regardless of their native language, to be involved in the decisions of the school district.
At the February meeting, by about 7:46 pm, Morones has already been on her feet and translating at the front of the room for half an hour. Ovando taps her colleague’s shoulder to relieve her. The parents outnumber the seats, and they line up along the side of the room, leaning against the beige padding that cushions the wall. At least one person in each row of chairs has an audio piece in his or her ear. Two or three or four children cluster close to their parents’ legs if they’re standing up, and sit alongside them if they’re seated. The school board members are now discussing charter school performance metrics, a conversation that does not seem to captivate the youngsters’ attention for very long, and soon they are roaming the aisles and giggling to one another. A boy of about two, hanging limply across his mother’s lap, snores in the fifth row.
A mother of a sixth grader from AIMS takes the stand, and she begins to speak in Spanish. The school board directors grab the audio devices in front of them as Morones switches to Spanish-to-English translation for the board. They nod their heads as the woman speaks to them through Morones’ voice.
The mother defends the AIMS charter schools, asking for the schools’ charter to be extended. “No hay una diferencia de clase social, tiene uniforme,” she says—there is no difference in social class, students wear uniforms. She speaks of how the school has helped her son, and says it will help him go to college. At the conclusion of her two-minute speaking period, school board president James Harris, putting down his audio piece, tells her, “Gracias.”
Morones says the district has changed a lot since she first began to work for OUSD. “The district is moving towards having the parent voice really, really heard,” she says. The challenge now, she says, is making sure that parents understand all the services available to them.
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But many parents, like Martín and her classmates at OIHS, one day want to be able to communicate independently of any translation services, both within schools and without.
On a Thursday morning at OIHS, a group of adult students furiously copies the sentences written on the board. The 10 women and one man in the room hail from Guatemala, Eritrea, Yemen, Cambodia and Burma, among others. But they are all here for a common purpose: to learn English in order to better navigate systems in the United States. To achieve citizenship and to go to college. To be able to speak with doctors and bus drivers and teachers. The 11:45 class is more advanced than the earlier section, the one Martín attends, and involves more conversation and writing. They recently wrote an essay in response to the question: “What was the scariest thing you ever did?” and the sentences on the board, taken from these essays, aren’t grammatically correct.
What’s wrong with this, the teacher asks the still-copying group, pointing at “I have a scary.” A woman in the front row tries to re-order the sentence, but she is stumped by the verb tense. “The question is in the past,” the teacher says, crossing out “have” and writing in “had.” Her pupils immediately put their pencils back to their papers, imitating their teacher. The teacher, who has told them they don’t need to copy all that she does, gives up trying to prevent their dutiful actions, and smiles as she waits for them to finish.
“I want to communicate with my children’s teachers, because they just speak English,” says a woman in the back row wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt. “And it’s too hard to communicate with the teacher, because when you have some problem or something to say, the teacher cannot understand you. This is why I am here.”
“I want to know what’s happening around me,” says a woman in the front row, who is originally from Yemen. “When I go to my doctor or an appointment, I want to know how I can talk with the people, to have a conversation.”
Parenting in another country can open a whole other set of difficulties unrelated to language. “Here, the children just want to eat hamburgers, pizza, junk food,” says the woman with the Mickey Mouse shirt. “I don’t like this kind of food, I like to cook my own food.” In Guatemala, she never ate junk food. And girls here, she adds, will spend all their time shopping or hanging out with friends.
“Let me ask you this,” says the teacher with a teasing grin. “In your country, did you do that?” A murmur of laughter ripples through the classroom, but the woman doesn’t back down. In her country, she lived in a smaller town, and it wasn’t dangerous. Here, she says, if her daughter goes over to a friend’s home, she doesn’t even know the friend’s parents.
Learning English, then, is one way she can navigate her adopted home by herself and be more involved in her children’s lives. “Now I can do more because I can understand more English,” she says. “When I finish this class, maybe I can be a volunteer here or in other schools”—helping out the teacher, or in the cafeteria perhaps. “For me it is important to be present in the life of the school and my children.” | positive |
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I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2017
NBC News on Thursday reported that U.S. intelligence found evidence of Russian officials celebrating Trump’s election.
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The NBC report cited “a senior U.S. intelligence official with direct knowledge” of the intel report that was delivered to President Obama on Thursday and is scheduled to be delivered to Trump on Friday.
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A declassified version of the report is expected to be released to the public on Friday.
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NBC’s story came after The Washington Post first reported details from the review.
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Presidential candidate Gary Johnson appeared at the Cannabis World Congress and Business Exposition in New York City on Thursday.
Johnson, the Libertarian Party's candidate, is the first U.S. Presidential candidate to give a special address at the CWCBE and the first to speak at a cannabis trade show. “In 1999, I was highest elected official to call for the legalization of marijuana. The bad news is - in 2016, I'm still the highest elected official to call for the legalization of marijuana,” said Johnson. “Although Bernie Sanders rolled out of bed , hit his head and is doing the same.” Sanders has said he would vote for legalization of recreational marijuana in order to reduce incarceration.
Johnson said that if he were elected President, he would immediately remove the schedule classification for marijuana altogether. Not just lower the class of the drug, but remove it as a classified drug completely. He added, “I predict that Obama will do that leaving office. He should have done it earlier.” Johnson pointed out that Obama has admitted he had smoked marijuana and never went to jail for it, while others have.
Johnson also brought up candidates Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton and their reluctance to admit the problems of incarceration. “When they aren't acknowledging this and they back away from legalizing it. It just slays me.”
Johnson was the Republican Governor of New Mexico from 1994-2003 and was considered a fiscally conservative governor. He went on to work with a marijuana company.
“I was the former CEO of Cannabis Sativa, a publicly traded company and as you all know, marijuana products directly compete with legal prescription drugs that statistically 100,000 people a year. There has not been one documented death due to marijuana,” said Johnson. “That should be choice.” The company's current CEO is former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel.
He also said that he believes that by legalizing recreational marijuana, it would lead to less overall substance abuse. Johnson also brought up the abilities of CBD to help epileptic patients to the receptive crowd.
“I think its an industry that's going to change the world dramatically,” he said. | positive |
In an otherwise dismal season there is one small bright spot for Purdue football. Cody Webster who, let's face it, has gotten plenty of practice with Purdue not even reaching the red zone for three straight games, was named as one of 10 semifinalists for the Ray Guy Award, given to the nation's best punter.
Purdue has had one Ray Guy Award winner before, as Travis Dorsch took it home in 2001. From the official release:
The candidates were evaluated on their overall statistics and contribution to the team. Particular emphasis was placed on the punter’s net average, percentage of total punts inside the 20-yard line and percentage of punts not returned. A national voting body of Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) coaches, sports information directors, national media and former Ray Guy Award winners will decide the three award finalists, who will be announced on November 25. Voters will then cast a second round of ballots to decide the winner. 2013 Ray Guy Award Semi-Finalists
Steven Clark (Sr.) - Auburn
Tom Hornsey (Sr.) – Memphis
Cameron Johnson (Fr.) – Ohio State
Drew Kaser (So.) – Texas A&M
Richie Leone (Sr.) – Houston
Cody Mandell (Sr.) – Alabama
Michael Palardy (Sr.) – Tennessee
Mike Sadler (Jr.) – Michigan State
Will Scott (Sr.) – Troy
Cody Webster (Sr.) – Purdue The presentation of the Ray Guy Award will be featured on The Home Depot College Football Awards live on Thursday, December 12 at 7:30 pm ET on ESPN. The show, hosted by ESPN’s Chris Fowler, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard will feature live presentation of nine player awards, along with the recipients of Disney’s Spirit Award, The Home Depot Coach of the Year Award, the NCFAA (National College Football Awards Association) Contributions to College Football Award, and student-athletes selected to the Walter Camp All-America Team.
Webster has punted 49 times for an average of 44.8 yards and 18 have been downed inside the 20. He has 13 punts over 50 yards and twice has booted one for 73 yards, including the punt in the season opener that was fumbled and led to Purdue's only touchdown.
Webster ranks 10th nationally in yards per punt. He could, in theory, win the award without even being named all-Big Ten, as Michigan State and Ohio State (as if the Buckeyes need a punter) also have candidates.
Good luck, Cody. Hopefully we can win SOMETHING this year in football. The Ray Guy winner at least get a shot at being drafted too, as Dorsch was. | positive |
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Dairy products: Smaller shipments to China, Asia Dairy replacement export outlook promising Demand from Japan supports hay exports U.S. ag trade surplus grows Other trade developments There’s plenty of dairy-related export news to digest as U.S. Foreign Ag Service (FAS) staff work through a backlog of numbers. Dave Natzke Editor / Progressive Dairy Email Dave Natzke Related Weekly Digest II: 2022 U.S. dairy export outlook surges over $9 billion Whey, lactose are ‘hot’ dairy exports Consumer report reveals potential outlook for dairy industry Dairy products: Smaller shipments to China, Asia U.S. dairy product exports slumped in November, falling below year-ago volume levels for the first time since October 2017. Fueled by smaller shipments to most of Asia, the declines affected almost all major product categories, according to market analysis from the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC). • Volume basis: Suppliers shipped 157,146 tons of milk powders, cheese, butterfat, whey products and lactose in November, down 12 percent from November 2017. In the first 11 months of 2018, overall export volume was up 12 percent. U.S. exports of nonfat dry milk/skim milk powder totaled 48,028 tons in November, a 13 percent decline versus the year before and the lowest volume in 10 months (daily-average basis). Shipments to Mexico remained good, but exports to Southeast Asia, Pakistan, the Middle East/North Africa and China were lower. With sharp declines in shipments to China, November whey product volumes were markedly lower. U.S. suppliers also saw lighter whey sales to South Korea, Japan, Canada and Southeast Asia. In the five months since retaliatory tariffs were put in place (July-November), U.S. whey exports to China were down 36 percent. Advertisement Cheese exports (26,491 tons) were 10 percent below November 2017, falling short in most major U.S. markets. • Value basis: November U.S. exports were worth about $442.2 million, 7 percent below the prior year. In the first 11 months of 2018, dairy exports totaled $5.16 billion, 3 percent more than the same period in 2017. • Total solids basis: USDEC’s report did not include an estimate of total solids as a percent of U.S. milk production. Things to read In a separate USDEC report (Read: Better balance expected for 2019), Alan Levitt and Marc Beck discuss the outlook for dairy product exports in 2019. There’s a dose of optimism, thanks to two factors. First, milk supply growth in the five major dairy-exporting countries has stalled. In November 2018, for the first time in almost two years, year-over-year milk production from the top five global milk suppliers (European Union [EU], U.S., New Zealand, Australia and Argentina) was negative and that trend was expected to continue in December. Second, the EU has finally eliminated intervention stocks of skim milk powder (SMP) that had been overhanging the market. In a USDEC Exporter blog, Pennsylvania dairy farmer Marilyn Hershey, head of the Dairy Management Inc. (DMI) board, explains the dairy checkoff's commitment to grow dairy exports, how it benefits farmers and what's happening to increase their return on investment. (Read: 7 things farmers need to know about their investment in exports.) Dairy replacement export outlook promising November 2018 U.S. dairy replacement heifer exports fell, but early signs point to a stronger year in 2019. November shipments were estimated at about 1,799 head, valued at nearly $2.63 million. In terms of volume and value, both were the lowest monthly totals since June. At 25,430 head, the 2018 year-to-date sales fell slightly behind the pace of 2017, but remain on track to be the second strongest in the past four years. Mexico was the leading destination for U.S. dairy replacement heifers in November at 1,504 head. The neighbor to the north, Canada, took the remaining 295 head. Gerardo Quaassdorff, T.K. Exports Inc., Boston, Virginia, said the export year is starting with a mix of promise and questions, but he expects a better year for U.S. exporters of both beef and dairy cattle. With reports of a stabilizing economy, Mexico looks to be prepared to buy more cattle from the U.S., he said. Elsewhere, regular buyers from Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey and other countries are putting together budgets and making inquiries. Among headwinds, delays in ratifying the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA) and the potential of rising interest rates create uncertainty, Quaassdorff said. U.S. dairy cattle exports to Pakistan and Kazakhstan are facing growing competition from lower-priced cattle from Australia. For Tony Clayton, Clayton Agri-Marketing Inc., Jefferson City, Missouri, the year is already starting strong. His company delivered 203 head of dairy heifers to Kuwait in early January – the first shipment into that country since the early 1990s. In addition, 1,625 dairy heifers were scheduled to depart the port of Olympia, Washington, about Feb. 12, headed for Vietnam. Buyers from Mexico are selecting cattle for shipment early this year he added. A health issue in another country is also creating openings for U.S. replacement heifers, Clayton said. The first case of bluetongue disease in almost a decade was discovered in Germany in early January, and many countries have now imposed import restrictions on German cattle. Other countries are also adding bluetongue testing requirements to import protocols. “This will drive the prices up for Danish cattle and they will not have the inventory to fill orders,” Clayton said. “The Russians and others who were importing cattle from Germany have turned their attention back to the U.S., and we’ve seen more inquiries over the past seven to 10 days.” Other questions entering the new year concern trade relations with China and Russia. In the latter case, Russia is the gateway for shipments to members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Some of those countries, such as Kazakhstan, have no seaports, and dairy and beef cattle arrive at a Russian port on the Black Sea and must then trucked to their final destinations. There’s one other issue on the horizon: Changes in U.S. dairy herd management practices increase the chances that short-bred dairy heifers may be carrying dairy-beef crossbred calves. Foreign buyers looking to get a bred heifer with hopes of also getting a dairy heifer calf may be more selective going forward. Demand from Japan supports hay exports U.S. alfalfa hay exports improved in November, despite continued downward pressure from China. Overall sales totaled 212,429 metric tons (MT), up nearly 15,000 MT from October and the eighth month sales topped 200,000 MT in 2018. Year-to-date alfalfa hay exports now total about 2.3 million MT, behind last year’s record-high pace, but ahead of 2016. Japan was the top destination for U.S. alfalfa hay in November, at 56,377 MT, the highest volume of alfalfa hay shipped there in at least five years. At 47,904 metric tons, alfalfa exports to China were up slightly from October, but still the second-lowest monthly total since January 2016. Shipments to the United Arab Emirates hit 43,850 MT, the highest total since December 2013. Sales to Saudi Arabia were also up compared to October. November 2018 exports of other hay also showed some improvement, with volumes the highest since November 2017. Pacing the increased sales were shipments to Japan, at 67,249 MT, the highest since April 2017. At 48,772 MT, sales to South Korea were the highest in 12 months. Despite the resurgence in November, exports of other hay through the first 11 months of the year are still the smallest for that period in more than a decade. U.S. ag trade surplus grows November 2018 U.S. agricultural exports were estimated at $12.2 billion, down slightly from October. Imports were valued at $10.3 billion, yielding a November 2018 trade surplus of $1.86 billion, the largest surplus since December 2017. Other trade developments • A study released by the USDEC projects new trade agreements between Japan and other countries will put U.S. dairy exports at a competitive disadvantage. Australia and New Zealand already have the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) in place with Japan. An agreement between Japan and the EU was effective on Feb. 1. The Japanese dairy market, the fourth largest export destination for U.S. dairy exports, is expected to continue to grow in years to come. With a level playing field, the U.S. could roughly double its market share, according to the study conducted by Tokyo-based Meros Consulting. Without a strong U.S.-Japan trade treaty, competitors will seize a cumulative $1.3 billion in dairy sales over the next decade that would otherwise have been supplied from the U.S., a toll that climbs to $5.4 billion once CPTPP and the Japan-EU agreements are fully implemented, according to NMPF President and CEO Jim Mulhern. • Differing bills introduced in Congress either expand or restrict presidential authority on U.S. trade. Two bills, the Bicameral Congressional Trade Authority Act and the Trade Security Act, make it necessary for the president to submit to Congress any plans to adjust imports in the interest of national security under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Citing Section 232, President Donald Trump imposed import tariffs on steel and aluminum, setting off the ongoing trade war and retaliatory tariffs negatively impacting agriculture. Dairy organizations, including the National Milk Producers Federation, USDEC and the American Dairy Coalition, have thrown their support behind the Trade Security Act. Another bill, the U.S. Reciprocal Trade Act, would give a president broad authority to raise tariffs unilaterally on specific products if it was determined foreign countries were employing higher import barriers than the U.S. • Agriculture leaders of Canada and Mexico will speak at the USDA’s 95th Agricultural Outlook Forum, Feb. 21-22, in Arlington, Virginia. Minister Lawrence MacAulay of Canada and Secretary Victor Villalobos Arambula of Mexico will join U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue for the forum’s keynote address, the first time the three ministers have spoken jointly at a public forum since the signing of the USMCA in November 2018. • Dairy and agricultural groups continue to pressure Congress to ratify the USMCA, which was signed last October. Even if it is ratified, import tariffs on steel and aluminum must be lifted to end the retaliatory tariffs. Dave Natzke Editor Progressive Dairyman Email Dave Natzke Related Weekly Digest II: 2022 U.S. dairy export outlook surges over $9 billion Whey, lactose are ‘hot’ dairy exports Consumer report reveals potential outlook for dairy industry Dave Natzke Editor / Progressive Dairy Email Dave Natzke TOPICS Progressive Dairy Dairy News BUYER'S GUIDE VISIT OUR BUYER’S GUIDE Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) is a national, farmer-owned dairy cooperative focusing on quality, innovation and the future of family dairies. While supporting and serving more than 11,500 family farm-owners, DFA manufactures nearly every form, fu... Dairy Management Inc. (DMI) is the national dairy checkoff funded by and working on behalf of America’s dairy farm families and importers to drive trust in and sales of U.S. dairy products and the people who produce them. 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Samantha Pajor “is a freelance journalist living in Chicago. She runs one of Tumblr’s most popular feminist blogs, I Write About Feminism.” She supported Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, which she celebrated as “a movement that centers the intersectionalities of economic equality, environmental stability, and social justice.” Not to put too fine a point on it, Samantha Pajor is an idiot, as she proved Tuesday.
Not content to spew this deranged nonsense on her Twitter account, Pajor then amplified her assertions on her feminist Tumblr blog:
The purpose of terrorism is to control others through fear.
We fight this by doing the opposite.
We empower people through compassion.
People who feel loved and accepted, people who are able to meet their basic human needs, do not become terrorists. They become healers.
This is why every small act of compassion, understanding, and respect for the dignity of others is so powerful, and why actions, small and large, that detract from compassion, understanding, and respect, are so dangerous. There’s no such thing as harmless bigotry.
This is a fight we can win.
We can win if we choose, every day, to do good. To heal. To fix. To speak. To love.
The terrorists who killed 36 people in Istanbul were devoted to ISIS, whose goal is to impose a global Islamic caliphate. These radical young fanatics were willing to die in a suicide attack to advance that cause.
Radical Islam will not be defeated by your pseudo-therapeutic psychobabble and pacifist “social justice” nonsense, Ms. Pajor. These vicious killers despise you and your “compassion, understanding, and respect.” The hateful ideology of radical Islam has no compassion for you, nor does any supporter of ISIS have any respect for feminists like you.
“The saddest thing I remember, during those terrible months, was this little girl, 12 years old. They raped her without mercy.”
— Amal, 18, who survived nearly a year in ISIS captivity
Islamic jihad is about raping girls and enslaving women, Ms. Pajor, and yet you dare speak of the “dignity” of these murderous monsters?
No, ma’am, we will not stop ISIS with “compassion, understanding, and respect.” We will stop them with high-velocity 5.56-mm fire, as well as .50-caliber rounds, JDAMs and other such weapons of war. ISIS will not be defeated by “intersectionalities of economic equality, environmental stability, and social justice,” but by the courage of heroic warriors like Charles Keating IV, Joshua Wheeler and Louis Cardin.
Navy SEAL Charles Keating, Army Sgt. Joshua Wheeler, Marine Sgt. Louis Cardin.
Obama administration officials have tried to avoid saying that there are combat troops in Iraq and Syria. But on [Memorial Day] Mr. Obama said three men “had given their lives in combat on our behalf.”
The service members, Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin, who was 27 years old, Petty Officer First Class Charles Keating IV, who was 31, and Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler, who was 39, had all served multiple tours in the Middle East. Mr. Wheeler in October became the first to die in combat in Iraq since 2011.
Last May, there were about 3,000 troops in Iraq and none in Syria. Now, about 5,000 U.S. troops are in Iraq and about 300 in Syria. About 10,000 troops serve in Afghanistan.
These brave men died to defend you, Ms. Pajor, from the unspeakable brutality Muslims inflict on women wherever sharia law is imposed.
Since she is running “one of Tumblr’s most popular feminist blogs,” doesn’t Samantha Pajor have an obligation to tell her readers the truth about what sharia and Islamic jihad mean for women? Ah, but Samantha Pajor is a Democrat, and Democrats don’t care about the truth.
WATCH: "Let's be clear: Islam is not our adversary," Hillary Clinton says during speech on national security.https://t.co/SsQ3Ux49Qm — NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) November 19, 2015
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SOME readers have been asking why Marine Le Pen did so well in the first round of voting on Sunday. Is it really because 18% of French people are anti-immigrant xenophobes, with a particular line in Islamophobia?
There is no doubt that, at times during this campaign, Ms Le Pen has sounded a note dangerously close to that of her father and predecessor as leader of the National Front, Jean-Marie. This was particularly true after Mohamed Merah shot dead seven people in and around Toulouse, after which she bellowed: “How many Mohamed Merahs in the boats, the aeroplanes, that arrive each day in France?”
But, in general, Ms Le Pen's success over the past year or so has been to shift the party away from her father's crude and nasty emphasis on immigration and anti-Semitism (with shades of neo-Nazism), towards more subtle concerns with what she calls "Islamification." She objects not to mosque-building, but to allowing Muslim prayers to take over the streets or to the spread of Salafism in France. She has called for immigration to be controlled, not stopped altogether.
At the same time, she has developed other themes in order to broaden her appeal. One pet favourite is the domination of “internationalist” thinking. Ms Le Pen is against open borders, open markets, open trade, and the euro. Such policies appeal in particular to industrial workers in large chunks of northern and eastern France who have been battered by job losses. Many come from families that traditionally voted Communist.
Another favourite theme of Ms Le Pen's is a sort of anti-establishment, anti-Paris, anti-elitism, which she manages to carry off with panache given that she was brought up in a giant mansion just outside the capital. By making her political base the northern ex-mining town of Hénin-Beaumont, she has remodelled herself as the workers' champion (see this report of mine).
Break down Sunday's voting geographically, and you find some striking results. Ms Le Pen came top in Hénin-Beaumont, with 35%, ahead of both François Hollande on 27% and Mr Sarkozy on 16%. She now plans to run for a parliamentary seat there in June's election, and I wouldn't be surprised if she wins her first National Assembly seat.
All this to say that it is too simplistic to see Ms Le Pen's score as a mere manifestation of French racism. Nor is it simply a protest against the system. People like her, and are not afraid to say so, in a way that few were about her father. Her electoral success reflects, rather, a mix of disappointment with Mr Sarkozy, despair at the level of joblessness, bewilderment in the face of globalisation, frustration at the impotence of Europe, and disillusion with the political class.
This is why I think it is wrong to assume, as some have, that Ms Le Pen's voters will swing automatically behind Mr Sarkozy in the May 6th run-off. The extra few percentage points she achieved on Sunday over her best previous opinion-poll result almost exactly corresponds to the few points that the far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon lost. These are voters cruising about on the fringes, fed up and not sure where to go next.
Hence the race now on to courting this vote. Mr Sarkozy has clearly decided to chase the far-right electorate. Yesterday he said that National Front voters should be “respected”, adding that their vote was a “vote of suffering, a vote of crisis.”
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Even Mr Hollande said that he could “understand” the anger of Ms Le Pen's voters, although not the way they cast their vote:
These are often workers who do not know what tomorrow will bring, pensioners who can't cope any more, farmers who fear for the survival of their farms, the young who ask themselves: where is our future?
A new poll, which once again points to a victory for Mr Hollande over Mr Sarkozy of 54% to 46%, hints at how the first-round vote will be split. While on the left 91% of Mr Mélenchon's votes will go to Mr Hollande, on the right only 47% of Ms Le Pen's will go to Mr Sarkozy; 27% of them will back Mr Hollande, and the rest don't know or will abstain. | positive |
UPDATE: Ethan Rediske died on Thursday, his family told News 13.
Eleven-year-old Ethan Rediske has been in hospice care for the past month and is likely nearing the last days of his life. Yet, it appears Florida school officials aren’t convinced he should be able to opt out of an upcoming standardized test.
Florida requires all students in the state to take a version of Florida’s Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). While a recent law allows some special education students facing exceptional circumstances to be exempt from these tests, getting approval isn’t easy.
Although Ethan, who was born with cerebral palsy and has severe brain damage, was already waived from taking these tests, his family is being required to go through "a multi-layered process" to prove he should still be exempt from the standardized testing, the Orlando Sentinel notes.
The Rediskes could ignore exemption requirements, but if they do not go through the proper channels, Ethan’s special education teacher, Jennifer Rose, will likely be penalized -- something the family does not want to happen. (As the report notes, in Florida, teacher evaluation scores and pay are tied to standardized test scores.)
“Jennifer is the greatest example of what a dedicated teacher should be,” Ethan's mother, Andrea, recently wrote in an e-mail to an Orange County School Board member, according to the Washington Post.
The email notes that although the teacher has communicated that Ethan is in hospice care, she has been required to fill out reports on his progress. "This madness has got to stop," the mom's message concludes.
Last year, before Florida passed a law allowing children in extraordinary circumstances to opt out of standardized testing, Ethan was required to take a version of the FCAT. At the time, his mother spoke out about the physical strain this was putting on her son.
“Each question can take up to 10 to 15 minutes just to do one question. So he’s spending hours in his wheelchair and he has severely compromised lungs,” Andrea told local outlet Bay News 9 at the time.
She also said the test’s questions weren’t relevant for her son.
“They’re asking him questions about the way a peach tastes, and he’s fed through a tube in his stomach, and he will never taste a peach. They ask him about shoes and staplers and alarm clocks and school buses. Ethan doesn’t interact with any of those things,” she told the outlet. | positive |
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Having qualifications in Financial Services offers a variety of benefits, and this option is fast becoming popular within the sector, with courses available covering everything from upcoming legislative changes to advances in technology. Flexible, easy to fit in with a working schedule, and most of all, useful, there’s no excuse for not making the most of what these qualifications have to offer, and incentivising your staff to do the same. Associate Consultant Shelley Hobson talks about how encouraging your staff to take industry qualifications can help boost your firm. What kinds of courses are there in the market, and which would you recommend? 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It’s also very easy to support your employees when it comes to continuing their professional development: indeed, CISI runs a Continuing Professional Development scheme, where senior executives can sign up and gain access- both for themselves and their staff- to a range of courses designed to update them on over 70 specific industry topics, covering topics like recently-passed major pieces of regulation and the effect they have on the market. As the courses can be done by everybody from starters to senior-level employees, everyone within your organisation can benefit from such training, even if they’ve been in the company for several years. Would you recommend continuing to take these courses over the course of your career? Of course. The most driven people will continue taking these qualifications throughout their working lives, at all stages of their career. Whilst it’s vital to encourage your employees to carry on studying and upskilling to boost morale and help them to improve their job performance, everybody in the organisation can benefit from these courses, even those in senior positions. Though they already have several years’ experience within the Financial Services market, they can also broaden their knowledge of a range of sectors relevant to them, especially as many senior roles will incorporate elements of both the financial advice-focused CISI courses, and the investment-focused CII courses. Continuing your studies in Financial Services can benefit both you and your staff. By providing the latest market insights and giving your staff a chance to learn and take on more responsibility, doing these courses can both improve employee satisfaction and increase their productivity. It’s never too late to start building on your experience, and these courses provide the perfect opportunity to do so. 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Some people are fans of the Green Bay Packers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Green Bay Packers. This 2016 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. And buy Drew’s new book here.
Your team: Green Bay Packers.
Your 2015 record: 10-6. Let’s get right to the ending…
God, it’s so beautiful. It’s almost as good as Brandon Bostick dropping the onside kick. Remember when he did that? And you blew the NFC title because of it? That was really cool and fun.
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Anyway, as a Vikings fan who just heard that Teddy Bridgewater died in practice today, the only time I am happy is when the Packers blow yet another season of having Aaron Rodgers at QB. Luckily for me, the Packers have become EXPERTS at this. This is team that completed three Hail Marys and was blessed with God knows how many phantom face mask calls going in their favor last season, all because God just loves his little dipshit Ned Flanders NFL franchise. And yet they STILL couldn’t get to the Super Bowl. It’s wonderful, isn’t it? I think so.
Your coach: BEAV!
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FUN FACT: The steam in that photo is coming from a fresh ham that Mike McCarthy tucked into his jacket. Anyway, the Packers needed two miracle throws at the end that divisional game to get within one point of the Cardinals. And did Mike McCarthy—riding a once-in-a-lifetime streak of miracles—go for two to win the game? NOPE. No, he sure didn’t. Like a fucking pud, he meekly kicked the PAT, and then Arizona won the game within half a second of overtime.
This is life under Beav. He will never be aggressive. He will never take risks that aren’t even statistically risky. He’ll just sleepwalk his way to a wasted playoff spot season after season. He fired himself as playcaller before last season and then, inevitably, rehired himself. Because if anyone is gonna drive this sorryass team into a ditch, it’s gonna be HIM. I love him. I want to adopt him and feed him table food.
And McCarthy must really be feeling his oats because he took a moment this offseason to reportedly vent his frustration at GM Ted Thompson, whose allergy to free agency is so severe that he makes the Steelers look like the fucking Boston Red Sox. Did Thompson listen to McCarthy and make an aggressive attempt to improve this roster? BAHAHAHAHA GOD NO. No, the Packers napped all offseason long. No one listens to Beav, even when he’s right.
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Your quarterback: Aaron Rodgers, who will retire with just one Super Bowl ring, and you can tell it’s already killing him. This is a man who reacts to questions about his height like Donald Trump discussing hand size, so he’s very sensitive when it comes to certain topics. Here we have one of the greatest players of all time (even I have to admit it), and he’s gonna leave the game with the Atlanta Braves’ resume. I bet he keeps a little McCarthy doll under his bed and does a Cartman voice for it while slamming it against the wall.
Once again, the Packers’ season depends on their ability to keep Rodgers clean, even as McCarthy steadfastly refuses to get the ball into the hands of Eddie “Is He Fat?” Lacy or Randall Cobb. I think Rodgers is so good that McCarthy can’t help but jack up the degree of difficulty, to see if his QB can win games with one hand tied behind his back and both ankles broken. “Oh wow, he did it. How about that?”
Also, Rodgers’ estranged brother “won” The Bachelorette this offseason. I asked my colleagues at Jezebel who watched that show to explain Jordan Rodgers to me. Here is what they said:
“Jordan Rodgers’ face is so narrow it looks like his head got caught in a vice. He also has freakishly short legs.”
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“His hair is too peppy and I don’t trust it.”
“His face is bad.”
“He’s also been accused (with proof) of cheating multiple times, and yet he and his family have somehow managed to spin Aaron as the bad guy.”
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Well then, I guess I can see how Aaron Rodgers can tolerate the Packers organization. He’s inherently used to being surrounded by terrible people.
What’s new that sucks: Oh please. This is Green Bay. Nothing changes here. JUST THE WAY PETER KING LIKES IT!
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Nothing warms my cold, black, big-city heart like a tweet like this. It’s one of those small traces of evidence that helps confirm what I always suspect: That a dewey-eyed, throwback of a place like Green Bay is just a disgusting fraud, a haven for sheltered racism and passive aggressive hostility all cloaked in supposed old-school values. DURRRRR WE DON’T LIKE NO FANCY TECHNOLOGY ROUND THESE PARTS DURRRRR…
Green Bay is just American Beauty but with fat people. Remember Cam Newton tearing down that Packers banner? Remember how the shithead Packers fan reacted to it? I do.
The fan, an army vet who is a Wisconsin native, said it ruined his day. “I was just shocked, shocked,” when Newton grabbed the banner out of Mike Dobs’s and his family’s hands, Dobs said on Sunday evening. “It went from a fun event to I was disgusted,” he said.
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Oh my God, these fucking cheese-drinking losers. This didn’t even happen in his team’s stadium. If that guy could have had Cam executed, he would have. Fuck your stupid Cheesehead sign.
Also, B.J. Raji took a year off from football. Because Green Bay sucks.
What has always sucked: Clay Matthews! Jordy Nelson! Yes, even with my personal nemesis John Kuhn gone to the Saints, Green Bay remains the White Folk Hero capital of the Midwest. It’s a fake town full of fake people that the NFL uses every week as a Gary Cooper movie set. It’s a town for people who wish they lived inside a snow globe. I hate it and hope it burns.
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As for the State of Wisconsin, it’s a just a bedroom community for people too girthy to fit into Chicago proper. It’s a place where the most exciting thing that can happen any given week is a stupid fish fry:
Wisconsin has the highest per-capita beer consumption of anywhere in the world but they don’t even have any decent beers. Ninety percent of tourist attractions in the state involve buildings erected by 19th century Germans who were exiled from the old country for robbing peasants, who then set up shop here to make pee-beer that Wisconsin people still quaff despite the advent of modern brewing technology. Fuck Wisconsin and fuck Paul Ryan.
Bostick dropped the kick. Dom Capers has bad hair.
What might not suck: I’ve said far too many nice things about your quarterback already. That’s all you get. I hope the Vikings “accidentally” close their new stadium doors on his foot.
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Let’s remember some Packers:
Tim Harris. I hated Tim Harris.
Dorsey Levens. God, I hated Dorsey Levens.
William Henderson. Him too.
Frank Winters. John Madden adored him. Fuck John Madden.
Bill Schroeder. Loser.
Hear it from Packers fans!
Ali:
Mike McCarthy.
Landon:
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Mike:
My family moved around a good bit when I was young so I never really had a ‘home’ team. By the time we settled down in Houston we’d lost the Oilers, and I liked Favre, so the Packers were my team. After 20 years of fandom, I finally got a chance to drive up to Lambeau for the Christmas Day game in 2011. I drive up, freezing my balls off. Got to Green Bay mid-morning and tried to small talk with the tailgaters until the gates opened. Pretty much the entire afternoon I just got shit for living in Texas because “those pussies don’t know snow” and “can’t grill worth shit.” Gates open, and I discovered that even the expensive seats in Lambeau still suck. 24 inches of shitty metal bench (if you’re lucky) squeezed in on all sides by people who took up a lot more space than they were allotted. The fans around me are all garbage, booing our own team when we get less than five yards a play, and offering every possible declension of the n-word at black players on both sides. James Jones had a decent run after catch in the second quarter and the woman next to me yells “Run, n****r, like there’s a bucket of fried chicken in the end zone.” Worst fucking fans I’ve ever seen. Worst sports experience of my life. I left at halftime and checked the ESPN recap the next morning so I could convincingly lie to my friends about what I saw. Told them it was great. I’ve never come clean until now.
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Ryan:
Ted Thompson thinks he’s clever in drafting guys way out of order, leaving athleticism on the board. He drafts Kyler Fackrell, who is older than most of our team already, has torn an ACL, and definitely wants to talk to you about Jesus. “Kyler Fackrell” is either a futuristic bounty hunter or the blood-spawn of country music and Coors Light. You guess which.
Keith:
They refuse to fire the stupid idiot walrus-lookin’ ass motherfucker of a coach despite the fact no one in the history of history has ever been worst with time management or common sense things.
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Grant:
The Packers possess the QB and the talent capable of winning a championship, yet every January this team is basically comprised of practice squad players and mid-season street free agent pick-ups. Seriously, the inability of this team to stay healthy is nothing short of unbelievable. Two years ago the Packers were one of the healthiest teams in the league and it required the most bizarre and epic collapse in NFL history to keep them out of the Super Bowl. But in almost every other season, by week Seven I find myself envying the health of the 1972 rugby union team after it crashed in the Andes Mountains.
Sam:
This moment, right now, before the preseason even begins, is as good as it gets for a Packer fan. Soak it the fuck in. Run all of those scenarios of the Packers winning the Super Bowl through your head before the season begins. Because like fucking clockwork, this team will win between 10 to 14 games, win a first, and maybe a second round playoff game, and then crumble like a dried-up scone the second they play a team that has a real head coach and any semblance of a defense. Go ahead, put the Panthers, Seahawks and Cardinals down on pieces of paper, put those pieces in a hat, and pull out a name. You’ve got a one in three shot that that’s the team that pulls the rug out from under us in the fourth quarter of the NFC championship. This, of course, will come after the Packers have built a comfortable lead in quarters 1-3, with a combination of smart defensive play calling and Aaron Rodgers being Aaron Rodgers. Then, as sure as the sun sets in the west, Andy Reid 2.0 and Dom Capers’ corpse will break out the 4th quarter playbook, which consists of only two plays: the prevent defense, and Eddie Lacy running up the middle. Add a dash of blown coverage, let it bake for 15 minutes, and presto, you’ve got yourself a Packers meltdown. Fuck this season already.
Chris:
I swear, if Mike McCarthy ever makes a correct 4th down call between the 50 and 30 yard line, it will be his first. He’s so conservative, Scott Walker wrote him in for the 2012 election.
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Bruce:
The running back is fat, the head coach can’t decide if he should call plays or not, and 80 percent of the fanbase hates the defensive coordinator. Oh, and the savior of the offense is a ninth-year wide receiver who’s coming off a torn ACL and is now on the wrong side of 30.
Jesse:
Dom “They Can Just RUN the Ball?” Capers still has a job.
Christian:
Can’t wait to hear from all the “OWNERS” this year! Every time some knob spouts off about being an owner, Vince Lombardi’s ghost takes a shit in the Hall of Fame.
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Kenneth:
X-Men: Apocalypse wasn’t even that good.
BJ:
I know very little about football strategy. The four-play playbook from the original Tecmo Bowl still confuses me. But with all the talent on our roster over the past decade, I’d have a minimum of at least three rings if I were the head coach over the span of Mike McCarthy’s career in Green Bay.
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Tyler:
The entire US Government could be overthrown and the top story on the local news would be about the 3rd string long snapper riding a kids bike to the practice field, followed by 29 minutes detailing each drill that was run at that practice. Last year when it was announced the Packers would be playing the Bears on Thanksgiving night, the reporting made it sound like the entire economy was going to crumble because everyone would be watching the game instead of buying $1 DVDs at Walmart. I don’t know how they manage to find news about the Packers every day of the year, but somehow they do.
Charlie:
The Packers have now lost seven playoff games under Mike McCarthy. FIVE of them were on the last play of the game.
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Rick:
I’m such an entitled asshole.
Cary:
I’ve witnessed the 12 year old nephew of a bar owner pouring shots down people’s throats after a fucking field goal during a blow out.
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Grant:
With each passing year that doesn’t end in a 19-0 record, this fanbase repeats its yearly trite demands: “The Packers are wasting Rodgers prime” (8 different teams/QBs have won a Super Bowl in Rodgers 8 seasons as a starter). “Ted Thompson needs to sign more free agents” (The 2015 Broncos are an exception to the rule, and for the most part you cannot buy a championship AND be contenders every year for a decade.) “Ted Thompson, Mike McCarthy and Dom Capers should be fired” (Thompson is a top 3 GM and McCarthy would be hired within SECONDS by any of the other 31 teams if he were to be fired.) I admit to being disappointed by each season that doesn’t end in a championship but for Christ sake, 90% of this fanbase thinks winning a championship is a science and that luck isnt involved just a little bit. We are the most spoiled fan base in the NFL and if karma does exist we will get 30 years of shit QB play once Rodgers retires.
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Justin:
Don Majkowski, Brett Favre, and Aaron Rodgers have started 79% of regular season games in my lifetime. Since 1992, Favre and Rodgers have started 98% of regular season games. Show me another team with that level of consistency. Yet Packers fans are the most ungrateful bunch of slobs in the league. Fuck Davante Adams straight to hell with a barbwire fiberglass dildo.
Sean:
Do you know how painful it is to have Aaron Rodgers as your QB when you have a mindless boob like Mike McCarthy as your head coach??? It’d be like owning a Ferrari with the speed capped out at 60mph. No matter how well Rodgers plays, no matter how many times we make the playoffs McCarthy will always be there to fuck it up against any team with a somewhat competent coach in the playoffs.
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Ron:
Packers fans are the worst. They think cheese curds are a vegetable.
Landon:
The Packers nearly killed one of the most beloved players in team history (Bart Starr) when they brought him out last year during a crappy, rainy night game to honor... Brett Favre. I think they were honoring Favre for finally staying retired long enough to qualify for the Hall of Fame or something. Anyway, someone thought that Starr needed to be there for unknown reasons, which is stupid since I guarantee Favre didn’t give a shit that Starr was there. Ultimately, the 81-year-old team icon got pneumonia from sitting in the cold and rain for too long. Seriously, who thought this was a good idea? Fans were harassing Eddie Lacy on Twitter last season by saying he was fat and needed to hit the treadmill. I couldn’t believe what I was reading: A Packers fan knows what a treadmill is? I had so much more to say about this whole mess, but it can be condensed into a much shorter summary: Brett Favre can eat shit.
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Stephen:
I was with watching the 2nd round of the playoffs with a friend who was a Arizona fan (go figure) when the Hail Rodgers (staring a petition to change it to that instead of Hail Mary) play happened. This dude was legit about to puke he was sick to stomach at what just happened. I was jumping like a school girl, and then my mind went straight to using this momentum by going for 2 and the win and cut these motherfuckers’ throats out. But nope good ol fat fuck McCarthy plays it safe just like he did in the NFC champ game the year before and we lose in OT like a bunch of dopes.
Dan:
Fuck you with a cheese head, Ted Thompson.
Aaron:
We’ll go 14-2 or 15-1 and Mike McCarthy will promptly fuck it up in the playoffs.
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Doug:
Aaron Rodgers was trying to hit a UFO with the football in Detroit last year and happened to have Richard Rodgers catch it.
Julie:
If one more Wisconsin-living lady describes Aaron Rodgers, Clay Matthews, or Jordy Nelson as “her boyfriend/husband,” I am going to kick a baby.
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David:
Jason Pierre Paul has better hands than Davante Adams.
Eric:
If Mike McCarthy is yelling at you to lose weight, you should honestly just retire.
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Zachary:
Dom Capers single-handedly fooled the league into thinking Colin Kaepernick was good.
Brendan:
Every postseason gets undone by a rash of injuries and Coach Fucky McFuckFace calling fade routes to John goddamm Kuhn (this actually happened last year). Meanwhile, the delusional ass fan base convinces themselves every year that things will be different even though their team is run by a guy who has all the freewheeling creative thinking of a houseplant. Seriously, look at this fucking guy. I bet more interesting conversations have been had with hitchBOT.
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Pete:
By far, our highlight of last season was beating a shit Lions team on a Hail Mary. I’ll attest to the general hick nature of our fans. I live and work in the heart of Packers Country, and a co-worker of mine who is her mid-50s and announced she is giving up on the dating pool for a while. Why you ask? She can’t seem to find a man her age with, as she puts it, “a full set of teeth.”
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Michael:
We’re wasting the best years of one of the most gifted quarterbacks the league has ever seen. We’re favored to win the Super Bowl practically every year, and somehow we always shit the bed, but not before our expectations of the season are reaching the crest. Fuck you Brandon Bostick. Double fuck Larry Fitzgerald (all due respect). And super fuck Jesus if he really is a Russell Wilson fan. Here’s to blowing another 4th quarter lead in the NFC Title Game.
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February 2015 – Kathryn Nielson Skip to content Kathryn Nielson Life Through the Lens of Simplicity Menu About Faith Just Give Me Simple Money Month: February 2015 Faith · Uncategorized Let There Be Light! February 27, 2015 August 30, 2017 kathryn nielsonLeave a comment Two months after my son was born, we moved to Chicago so that my husband could attend graduate school. Bruce was working full-time on campus and going to grad school part-time. I was home full-time with a two-month old and a two-year old. Despite the fact that we knew this was what God had for us, it was still hard. We left the familiarity of Peoria and all of our friends for the big city which looked a whole lot different to us with two little kids than it did when we were just dating. I spent that first summer crying and being impatient with my two-year old. At one point, I remember Nick screaming as he often did for some unknown reason while at the same time my daughter needing me for something and not letting up until she got a response. The one she got was not the one she wanted judging from the look of hurt in her eyes. That was a wake-up call for me; a lesson in operating out of the darkness in my dealings with other people rather than out of the light that God shines into us if we will let Him. “Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness; He is gracious and full of compassion, and righteousness.” Psalm 112:4 When I first read Psalm 112, this is not the verse that stuck out to me. In fact, upon closer inspection, it appeared to contain two completely unrelated thoughts. What does light and darkness have to do with grace and compassion? And who is this verse talking about? As is usually the case, God did not leave me flailing around for too long before enlightening me, calling to mind examples from His Word and my life that explain what He’s trying to get across to me. In this case, I was immediately reminded of the story of Joseph. This verse could very easily be used to sum up the theme of his life. From the moment of his enslavement due to his brothers’ heinous actions against him, Joseph’s life became a living example of finding light in our darkness and allowing it to light the way in our relationships with other people. At the end of Joseph’s life, after his father Jacob had died, his brothers were concerned that Joseph would finally take his revenge on them for their sin against him. I’d like to take four verses at the end of Genesis 50 to make a case for Psalm 112:4. “Then his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, ‘Behold, we are your servants.’ Joseph said to them, ‘Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God? But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive. Now therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones.’ And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.’” (Genesis 50:18-21, NKJV). Here’s what the life of Joseph has taught me about Psalm 112:4. 1). “Am I in place of God?” By begging for Joseph’s forgiveness, his brothers had placed him on somewhat of a pedestal where he knew he didn’t belong. At some point in his life Joseph had to come to the realization that he wasn’t calling the shots, and the sooner the better. We can’t know when and how his conversations with God turned his heart to submission. Was it in the initial betrayal when he was cast into the pit? Or was it on the road as he was being hauled away into slavery? Maybe as he sat on the dirty prison floor among criminals when he wasn’t one, that he surrendered to the idea that he wasn’t charge. Whenever it was, he learned the lesson we all need to come to grips with-placement is everything and we are not at the of the table. 2). “God meant it for good.” Darkness doesn’t exist simply for the sake of darkness. Paul understood this when he said, “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose” in Romans 8:28. I can’t imagine being Joseph at the end of his life and reflecting on all he’d been through and having the rare opportunity of seeing the bigger picture. How different would his life have been and the life of his brothers had he chosen to wallow in his darkness, refuse to let the light in and seek revenge on those who’d wronged him? How would history have changed? Perspective is everything. 3). “I will provide for you.” There is a vast difference between the righteous and the unrighteous in how they behave toward other people, especially those who’ve wronged them. What separates the righteous from the unrighteous is from where they are living-out of a position of light or from a position of darkness. It is from a position of light that the upright mirror the life of Christ through their grace, compassion and righteousness. It’s amazing what a little light will do. Unless we’ve chosen to live off the grid, out in the middle of nowhere completely devoid of human interaction, we will deal with people every day. That’s what this life is about. How we do it depends on what we do with our darkness. Darkness comes in many different forms. Everything from the death of a loved one to difficult relationships, fear, depression, worry, illness, all of it and so much more casts shadows of darkness over our lives often to the point of rendering us paralyzed, unable to function at the level of life we’ve been called to. At the point of our deepest darkness, we have a choice to either sink further into it or to surrender ourselves completely to God and let Him shine His light in the dark corners. “And He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and he knelt down and prayed, saying, ‘Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from me; nevertheless not My will but Yours, be done.’” Luke 22:41, 42. “Now it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, ‘Father, in to your hands I commit My spirit.’ Having said this, He breathed His last.” (Luke 23:44-46, NKJV). Talk about darkness! The whole earth was shrouded in it. Jesus, the perfect Son of God, surrendered His will to the Father, gave up His Spirit and finished the work they had set out to do from the moment of the Fall. To the human eye, the crucifixion was a dark day, but the bigger picture would argue otherwise. To those of us who know Him personally, the light seeped in the moment He died and the veil was torn giving us unlimited access to Him culminating at His resurrection. Because of His willingness to die in the murky darkness of sin, He made a way for us to experience His light in our lives. His surrender granted us grace and compassion. This is what the righteous man is to mirror. The darkness often has a higher purpose, but not for the purpose of wallowing in it. We would do well to remember our place, surrender to it, and allow the light of God in so that our dealings with others will be marked by grace, compassion and righteousness. Uncategorized Let There Be Light! February 27, 2015 kathryn nielsonLeave a comment Two months after my son was born, we moved to Chicago so that my husband could attend graduate school. Bruce was working full-time on campus and going to grad school part-time. I was home full-time with a two-month old and a two-year old. Despite the fact that we knew this was what God had for us, it was still hard. We left the familiarity of Peoria and all of our friends for the big city which looked a whole lot different to us with two little kids than it did when we were just dating. I spent that first summer crying and being impatient with my two-year old. At one point, I remember Nick screaming as he often did for some unknown reason while at the same time my daughter needing me for something and not letting up until she got a response. The one she got was not the one she wanted judging from the look of hurt in her eyes. That was a wake-up call for me; a lesson in operating out of the darkness in my dealings with other people rather than out of the light that God shines into us if we will let Him. “Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness; He is gracious and full of compassion, and righteousness.” Psalm 112:4 When I first read Psalm 112, this is not the verse that stuck out to me. In fact, upon closer inspection, it appeared to contain two completely unrelated thoughts. What does light and darkness have to do with grace and compassion? And who is this verse talking about? As is usually the case, God did not leave me flailing around for too long before enlightening me, calling to mind examples from His Word and my life that explain what He’s trying to get across to me. In this case, I was immediately reminded of the story of Joseph. This verse could very easily be used to sum up the theme of his life. From the moment of his enslavement due to his brothers’ heinous actions against him, Joseph’s life became a living example of finding light in our darkness and allowing it to light the way in our relationships with other people. At the end of Joseph’s life, after his father Jacob had died, his brothers were concerned that Joseph would finally take his revenge on them for their sin against him. I’d like to take four verses at the end of Genesis 50 to make a case for Psalm 112:4. “Then his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, ‘Behold, we are your servants.’ Joseph said to them, ‘Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God? But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive. Now therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones.’ And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.’” (Genesis 50:18-21, NKJV). Here’s what the life of Joseph has taught me about Psalm 112:4. 1). “Am I in place of God?” By begging for Joseph’s forgiveness, his brothers had placed him on somewhat of a pedestal where he knew he didn’t belong. At some point in his life Joseph had to come to the realization that he wasn’t calling the shots, and the sooner the better. We can’t know when and how his conversations with God turned his heart to submission. Was it in the initial betrayal when he was cast into the pit? Or was it on the road as he was being hauled away into slavery? Maybe as he sat on the dirty prison floor among criminals when he wasn’t one, that he surrendered to the idea that he wasn’t charge. Whenever it was, he learned the lesson we all need to come to grips with-placement is everything and we are not at the of the table. 2). “God meant it for good.” Darkness doesn’t exist simply for the sake of darkness. Paul understood this when he said, “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose” in Romans 8:28. I can’t imagine being Joseph at the end of his life and reflecting on all he’d been through and having the rare opportunity of seeing the bigger picture. How different would his life have been and the life of his brothers had he chosen to wallow in his darkness, refuse to let the light in and seek revenge on those who’d wronged him? How would history have changed? Perspective is everything. 3). “I will provide for you.” There is a vast difference between the righteous and the unrighteous in how they behave toward other people, especially those who’ve wronged them. What separates the righteous from the unrighteous is from where they are living-out of a position of light or from a position of darkness. It is from a position of light that the upright mirror the life of Christ through their grace, compassion and righteousness. It’s amazing what a little light will do. Unless we’ve chosen to live off the grid, out in the middle of nowhere completely devoid of human interaction, we will deal with people every day. That’s what this life is about. How we do it depends on what we do with our darkness. Darkness comes in many different forms. Everything from the death of a loved one to difficult relationships, fear, depression, worry, illness, all of it and so much more casts shadows of darkness over our lives often to the point of rendering us paralyzed, unable to function at the level of life we’ve been called to. At the point of our deepest darkness, we have a choice to either sink further into it or to surrender ourselves completely to God and let Him shine His light in the dark corners. “And He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and he knelt down and prayed, saying, ‘Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from me; nevertheless not My will but Yours, be done.’” Luke 22:41, 42. “Now it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, ‘Father, in to your hands I commit My spirit.’ Having said this, He breathed His last.” (Luke 23:44-46, NKJV). Talk about darkness! The whole earth was shrouded in it. Jesus, the perfect Son of God, surrendered His will to the Father, gave up His Spirit and finished the work they had set out to do from the moment of the Fall. To the human eye, the crucifixion was a dark day, but the bigger picture would argue otherwise. To those of us who know Him personally, the light seeped in the moment He died and the veil was torn giving us unlimited access to Him culminating at His resurrection. Because of His willingness to die in the murky darkness of sin, He made a way for us to experience His light in our lives. His surrender granted us grace and compassion. This is what the righteous man is to mirror. The darkness often has a higher purpose, but not for the purpose of wallowing in it. We would do well to remember our place, surrender to it, and allow the light of God in so that our dealings with others will be marked by grace, compassion and righteousness. Uncategorized What Are You Leaving Behind? February 17, 2015 kathryn nielsonLeave a comment On a hot day in August 1950 in Arnolds Park, Iowa Billy Graham was scheduled to speak at a series of campground meetings. Due to sickness, he was unable to preach that day so an evangelist by the name of Leighton Ford stepped in and took his place. In typical Billy Graham fashion, the preaching was followed by an altar call for anyone who wanted to come forward to receive Christ as Savior. I don’t know how many people responded that day, but among those who did were two very special people, Fred and Marj Hintz, my grandparents. They were a young married couple with two little kids, both of whom they dragged to the front of the meeting with them while they prayed to receive Christ. One of those children was my mom. It was a costly choice as many of their friends and some family walked away from them, but legacy always outweighs cost. Fast forward to 2015 and their descendants include 5 children, 11 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great grandchild (I think). Incidentally, of the 16 great-grandchildren, two of them have been adopted from Africa extending the reach of Grandma and Grandpa’s obedience to an entirely different continent! Psalm 112:2, 3 (NKJV) “His descendants will be mighty on earth; The generation of the upright will be blessed; Wealth and riches will be in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.” My story is a good one, and I’m one fortunate person to have been born into a family whose grandparents and parents were obedient to Christ and answered his call on their lives. But this is not everyone’s story. How do we interpret these verses in light of our reality? How do we reconcile these verses with the reality of wayward kids, financial distress, or having no children at all despite the fact that we really do try to live a righteous life? Have we missed out on God’s blessings? Are we just simply not righteous enough? It’s important to remember that the study of God’s Word is to be done in context. This Psalm, obviously, is part of the Old Testament where spiritual blessing was often, though not always, demonstrated through financial blessing, long life, many children. In addition, as part of the Old Testament, it was written in the context of the Law. To apply this Psalm to our lives today we need to apply it in the context of the New Covenant and all that that entails. It is from this vantage point that we will find our answers. Jeremiah 31:31-34 (NKJV) “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah-‘not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them,’ says the Lord ‘but this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘know the Lord,’ for they all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.’” Everything changed when Jesus hit planet earth to bring a new covenant, the covenant of grace which replaced the Law that those of the Old Testament lived by. No longer were generations taught the Law and commanded to live by it. Instead, His kingdom was eternal, open to everyone, not just the Jew, and easily known by anyone who would desire it. To that end, He taught unceasingly what the life of a believer would look like. I mentioned earlier that Psalm 112 is one of 13 Psalms in this series of didactic Psalms that demonstrate two ways of life, that of the righteous and that of the unrighteous. Ironically the characteristics of the godly mirror the character traits of those in the Beatitudes, that is, meek, poor, needy, brokenhearted and the like. If His kingdom was spiritual in nature, then the blessings we can expect are often spiritual in nature. Maybe you’re the first person in your family to have a relationship with God. What an opportunity to set the foundation for those who come after you. Maybe you don’t have children, or have only one, or those you have are not following Christ. Does that mean you’re unrighteous, that God will withhold blessing from you? Hardly. What about those around you who have been encouraged, or who have made a different decision about something because you took the time to listen and point them to Christ? Or maybe just by watching your life someone else mustered the courage to take a different path, the right path. I sat at a funeral over the weekend of a woman whose life was an example of this. She had terminal cancer and lived with it for years in front of everyone. As a result of her relationship with Christ and the way she handled her disease people from all over the country who had never met her were touched by her life. Her identity was in Christ, not her cancer. She lived and parented strategically, always with her identity in Christ at the forefront of her mind dictating how she behaved. What are we talking about here? The Christian life is not about us. It’s about leaving a legacy in whatever way God has mapped out for you whether that’s through your children or friends, strangers we meet, whomever. The life of a Christian should mirror the stone that’s thrown into the water causing ripples to go beyond what the eye can see. That’s the wealth and riches we can count on, that we can store up for ourselves. Those who’ve come to Christ because of our testimony will spend eternity with us fulfilling the promise that our righteousness endures forever. I Timothy 6:17-19 (NKJV) “Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. 18 Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, 19 storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.” Uncategorized Heroes of the Faith February 11, 2015 kathryn nielson1 Comment The first time I met Elizabeth Grant I was sitting in her living room chatting with her about blogging. I’d heard so much about her from my husband who, at the time, had her daughter in his fifth grade Bible class. I’m not sure what I expected when we went over to deliver a meal to her and her family. I know what I didn’t expect was her smiling from ear to ear, taking me on a tour of her house, listening to her plans for the kitchen and basement, showing me the creative way she had come up with to help her son in a subject he was struggling with in school. She was amazing. I’ll never forget that day with her. As I followed her around her house she casually mentioned that the kids really wanted a cat to which she told them they could have one when she was dead. I was shocked. “You really say stuff like that?” I asked incredulously. “Of course,” she said. “This is reality.” It wasn’t long after that I started my blog and asked her to guest post for me on a series I was working on called “Raising World-Changers.” She fascinated me for many reasons, but it was her parenting in light of her reality that struck me the most. I figured if anyone had a clue as to how to raise kids that would one day change the world, I couldn’t do any better than to ask Elizabeth. The following is an excerpt of what she wrote that day. You can read her whole piece here. “There is truly no better parent than God the Father, my King, my Creator. My children are in good hands. They are safe. I trust, You Lord. You will watch over them and guide them and teach them. For however long they have me here on earth, please work through me. Use me. I don’t want to parent them…I want YOU to parent them. I can’t tell you the instant relief and peace that filled me from then on. Even now, I sort of find myself pushing my kids away from me and on to Christ. I remind them that I fail and I make mistakes and I may not always be there to listen to them. Even while I’m alive, I get too busy and too cranky sometimes. I want them to find all of their answers in the One who holds all the answers. I want them to know the certainty of Jesus Christ — beyond a shadow of a doubt.” As moms we want many things for our kids. We want the best life that they can have; we want safety and success for them; we want friendships for them; we want them to be proud of us and we want to leave them a legacy. Most of these things are beyond our control, but the legacy we leave for them is completely in our hands. Elizabeth would argue that she wasn’t anyone special. Maybe not, but neither were Abraham, Moses, Hannah, Ruth, Esther, Mary. My contention is had she lived as one of their contemporaries she would have either had a book written after her, or at the very least, been mentioned in Hebrews’ list of the faithful. Why? Because she didn’t fail? Because she was perfect? Because she never had a bad day? Because she never snapped at another human being? No. That was neither true of her nor of those in the pages of Scripture. What made her special is what makes anyone special worth mentioning, her faith. Elizabeth Grant had it figured out. She understood that life is a whisper, and you only get one shot at doing it to the glory of God. There are no do-overs. She gave more than lip service to her love for God, and in that way left a legacy for more than just her children. For those privileged to have met her or to have read her writings, she gave us a front row seat to her life and allowed God to use her as a teaching visual to encourage the rest of us in how to live our own lives. Elizabeth Grant, you will be missed more than you know, but you’re right. Your kids are loved even more by their Creator than by you. You taught them that. You have set them up well for this life. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your example on motherhood and faithfulness. To God be the glory! “What shall I render to the Lord For all His benefits toward me? I will take up the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows to the Lord now in the presence of all His people. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. O Lord, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have loosed my bonds. I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord” (Psalm 116:12-17, NKJV). Uncategorized Get Your Facts Straight February 10, 2015 kathryn nielson1 Comment One of my biggest hang-ups in the Christian life is the idea of legalism. I’ve mentioned before that the church I was born into and where I remained until my teenage years was a very strict, legalistic one. Women were encouraged to wear only dresses and no makeup, to be quiet in church and to submit to their husbands in such a way as to make them second-class citizens. When we finally left that church and went to the one that saw me through my teenage years and the one in which I would eventually get married, there was true freedom and finally joy. Over the years, I’ve had mixed emotions on church finding it stifling on the one hand with its rules and regulations and “loosey-goosey” on the other with its “everything is permissible” mentality taken to unbiblical extremes. The one thing I have tried to avoid more than anything else is appearing legalistic. Having grown up subjected to the pharisaic legalism of other Christians, I will do almost anything to not be one of those people. To that end, I’ve not always made the best choices. For instance, I don’t particularly believe that the occasional drink is wrong, but deep down I know it’s not for me. My reason for indulging is mainly for the purpose of not appearing legalistic and because “everything is permissible”. I recently read a fabulous article on what legalism is and what it is not. The writer argues that legalism is not the deed itself but rather the attitude in which it is done. With an attitude of legalism we perform certain actions with the intent of adding to what Jesus has already done for us on the cross because His work wasn’t quite enough. In other words, insisting that women wear skirts was one way the Christians from my childhood church used to add to God’s work on the cross implying that we are not holy by the redemptive work of Christ alone. What legalism is not, argues the author, is keeping God’s commands. How do we argue with John 15:14 “If you love Me, you will keep my commandments”? When I took a vow to remain true to my husband until death do us part, I vowed to behave a certain way based on that vow. How silly would it be of me to feel like I’m being legalistic by refusing to engage in certain behaviors that would go against that promise? Quite frankly, I don’t care if I look legalistic when it comes to my marriage. I made a promise, and my heart belongs to one man. In the same way, my full allegiance belongs to Christ and Christ only, and my life should be a testament to that not because I have anything more to prove or earn beyond what He has done for me, but because my desire is to live out my acceptance of His gift. So what does this have to do with this week’s verse? Psalm 112:1 “Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, Who delights greatly in His commandments.” When I read a verse like Psalm 112:1, I bristle a bit. The first sentence, “Praise the Lord” is fine. In fact, I spent all of last year praising God for something new every day and posting it on my blog’s Praise Project. I did this because I know that praising God is a vital part of keeping my attitude in check. I can even fear the Lord, that is, live my life with a healthy respect for Him. I understand that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. I’ve got that part down too. But then I read that we are blessed for delighting in God’s commandments, and the old fear of legalism rears its ugly head. Part of the problem with the Church is that we don’t have our facts straight. We use words we don’t know the meanings to and attempt to live our lives by incorrect standards. We think of terms like commandments as stifling to our freedom and reject them in favor of what we envision to be a footloose and fancy free existence only to find ourselves strangled by chains of our own making. If God’s commandments are so stifling then why is His Word filled with statements like these: Psalm 19:8 “The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.” Psalm 119:93 “I will never forget Your precepts, For by them You have given me life.” John 15:4 “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.” Statutes, precepts, commandments, they are all boundaries set up for us to live the most joy-filled life possible on this earth. The Christian faith is a faith with borders. God’s commandments are the borders in which we live in safety and joy, not because our works determine our salvation, but because our salvation determines our works. “If we love Him we keep His commands” (John 14:15, NKJV) We keep His commandments, not because we need to add to what He has done for us. His work was complete and always will be. We keep His commandments out of a love for Him. Psalm 112 is one of several Psalms known as a didactic Psalm which simply means it’s written to teach a lesson, in this case living a righteous life versus living an unrighteous life. In the NKJV the heading to this chapter is “The Blessed Estate of the Righteous”. We will either choose to live the life of a righteous person, or we will choose the unrighteous life. There’s really no in-between. Living a life that is pleasing to God is not legalistic, and Jesus wasn’t legalistic. In fact, in John 10:10 He said this, “ The thief does not come except to steal and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” (NKJV). An abundant life is a righteous life, and a righteous life involves praising God, fearing Him and keeping His commandments because we love Him and desire to keep ourselves from being polluted by the world (James 1:27). It is the lie of the enemy that causes us to believe that commandments are legalistic when, in fact, they are what bring us true freedom. If we want to live a life pleasing to God, we have to get our facts straight first. 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The US Air Force plans to deliver 1,000 laser-guided bomb kits to Pakistan this month to help Islamabad in its offensive against militants on the Afghan border, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
The Air Force is providing the kits after having delivered 1,000 MK-82 bombs last month to Pakistan’s military, Lieutenant Colonel Jeffry Glenn told AFP.
The US military assistance underscored Washington’s role in backing Pakistan’s months-long campaign against Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants.
The bombs come less than a week after Pakistan apparently defied multiple requests by American and Afghanistan officials to extradite Taliban leaders that it had recently detained.
The Pakistani air force was playing “a big part” in operations against the Islamic extremists, Air Force Secretary Michael Donley said.
“As they had ramped up operations, they’re looking for ways to get additional capability,” he told a gathering of defense reporters.
Pakistan’s air force chief had visited Washington last year and made additional requests for US military assistance, he said.
Donley said the Pentagon had arranged for “expedited” delivery of the MK-82 bombs, which weigh 500 pounds each.
The United States also was due to deliver 18 additional F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan in June, outfitted with sophisticated night-vision equipment, Glenn said.
Confirmation of the arms deal came as Pakistan on Tuesday revealed a vast Taliban and Al-Qaeda hideout dug into mountains near the Afghan border, captured in an offensive against militants.
Pakistan seized the complex in its latest offensive against militants in its semi-autonomous tribal belt, following US pressure on the country to eliminate Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked groups who attack Western troops in Afghanistan.
President Barack Obama’s administration has pledged stepped up military assistance and development aid to Pakistan, which Washington sees as a vital ally in the fight against Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
Defying US, Pakistan won’t extradite captured Taliban leaders
“The refusal of Pakistani intelligence to turn over Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and as many as six other top Taliban figures to the United States or the Afghan government has dealt a serious blow to the Barack Obama administration’s hopes for Pakistani cooperation in weakening the Taliban,” investigative journalist and historian Gareth Porter writes in an analysis published by IPS.
It has left little doubt in the minds of U.S. officials that the Pakistani military intends to keep physical custody of the Taliban detainees in order to exert influence on both the pace of peace negotiations in Afghanistan and the ultimate terms of a settlement. The Pakistani custody of Baradar and other Taliban leaders now appears to be more of a safe haven for the Afghan insurgents than a normal detention. At least some U.S. officials already accept the likelihood that the Pakistanis will allow the Taliban leaders to continue to maintain contact with other Taliban officials while in custody. …. That Pakistani refusal of access frustrated the CIA, which was eager to interrogate Baradar about details of the Taliban’s operations and finance. During those crucial two weeks, U.S. intelligence officials got no information that would lead them to the rest of the Taliban leadership. U.S. intelligence officials doubt that they can get the truth from Baradar as long he is in Pakistani military custody, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Porter notes that last “Friday, a provincial high court in Pakistan’s Punjab province delivered what appeared to be the final blow to the prospects for extradition of Baradar and four other Taliban leaders to Afghanistan. The court blocked any extradition by Pakistan of the Taliban leaders to any country until the issue of the detainees’ rights could be heard by the court.”
Military blogger Bill Roggio reports that “Lahore High Court has prohibited the Pakistani government from transferring Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Afghan Taliban’s second in command, and four other members of the Quetta Shura to foreign custody after receiving a petition from a lawyer with known links to the Taliban and al Qaeda.”
The petition was written by “Khalid Khawaja, a self-described humans rights activist with deep ties to the Taliban, al Qaeda, and a host of terrorist groups operating on Pakistani soil. Khawaja is a former Squadron Commander in the Pakistani Air Force who fought alongside al Qaeda and reportedly Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in the 1980s. He has also been linked to the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.”
“The Pakistani government could appeal the court decision, but officials in Islamabad told CBS News there are no plans for such an appeal at present,” Porter wrote for IPS.
Even before the court intervened in the issue, however, any hopes the Obama administration and the U.S. military might have had that Pakistan was prepared to sell out its former Taliban allies had already waned. The Times story on Wednesday quoted a “top American official” who had met with Pakistani Army chief Ashfaq Kayani “recently” – presumably Defence Secretary Robert Gates, who had met with Kayani Jan. 21 – who did not seem confident about the prospects of getting control of the Taliban leaders. The official said, “We’ll know soon whether this is cooperation, or a stonewall and kind of rope a dope.” The official was referring to a number of past episodes in which the Pakistani military was ostensibly supporting U.S. policy in Afghanistan while it continued to support the Taliban.
Editor’s note: Gareth Porter reported for RAW STORY in November of 2008 that “Documents linking Iran to nuclear weapons push may have been fabricated.” In 2006, RAW STORY carried a few reports by Bill Roggio during an embedment in Iraq.
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“I was curious,” says Zeynep Tufekci, explaining why she went to the Donald Trump rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Wednesday.
Tufekci is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, and is also a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
“I study social movements,” says Tufekci, “and often what you see and hear in media reports after the event, is different to how it feels on the ground. So I wanted to experience that.”
“I also wanted to talk to people and see why they were there,” she adds.
Tufekci is also an immigrant. From Turkey, a predominantly Muslim country. “His campaign might deport me, or not let me back in,” she says, and laughs. “So I thought I should get a sense of what’s going on.”
Tufekci says she was not made to feel uncomfortable or threatened in any way. “But I don’t have the words ‘immigrant from a majority Muslim country’ written on my forehead. I look like a white American. So … I could just blend in.”
The rally itself was very energetic, says the scholar, and his 12,000 supporters seemed very enthusiastic. “(Trump) was a very competent stage manager. Better than I expected, at this craft. ... He had command of the room and was in touch with the mood of the crowd.”
The constant interruptions by protesters seemed to Tufekci to be an integral part of the show.
Many of the people Tufekci spoke with expressed a sense of disenfranchisement; that no established politicians spoke for them or cared about them. “One of the first things I heard was that ‘nobody comes to Fayetteville.’ They thought that presidential campaigns just took them for granted.” Tufekci says her observation bears out research that indicates many of Trump’s supporters feel that they have no representation in government.
Jobs were also a key issue.
Tufekci says she has seen this phenomenon in many parts of the world. In right-wing response to these legitimate crises of representation and economic fears, she says, foreigners are often scapegoated. “It’s almost a text-book case of the rise of an authoritarian populist movement.”
She compares Trump to Russia’s Vladimir Putin, or Silvio Berlusconi of Italy.
However, Tufekci also noted a lack of organization at the rally, in terms of converting the enthusiasm of the crowd into a "turn-out the vote" machine.
“The rally made me think this is a strong movement, and that’s why it has potential in this country,” she says. “But the aftermath of the rally made me think, no, this is so dependent on one person’s charismatic connection with a crowd, there’s no organization behind it. So I don’t think he’s going to win the presidency.” | positive |
Scott, why does your graph not show currency relative to *money* ?
You say that when interest rates fall, currency holdings rise. To my mind “currency holdings rise” is the same as “we hold more of our money as cash”. To look at “holding more of our money as cash” the graph would have to show currency relative to M1 or some broader money.
I use currency to NGDP, because I’m interested in explaining changes in NGDP, not the broader aggregates.
"If you lower interest rates," Scott Sumner says, "people will choose to hold more cash." He provides this graph showing "the demand for currency (as a share of GDP) and T-bill yields":"Notice that the two variables tend to move inversely," he says. Sumner uses the graph as evidence of his claim that "If you lower interest rates, people will choose to hold more cash."I have to ask: More cash, compared to what? More cash, compared to the money people have in total, I think. If you lower interest rates, Sumner is saying, people will choose to holdas cash.The argument makes sense: People holding cash don't earn interest on it. If interest rates go down there is less incentive to hold money in an interest-bearing form, and more incentive to hold money as cash. If interest rates go up, there's more incentive to hold money in an interest-bearing form and less incentive to hold it as cash. This is his argument.But Sumner is carefulto say "hold moreas cash."If you wanted to show the relation on a graph, you'd want to show an interest rate. This, Sumner does. And you'd want to show the amount of cash people are holding, compared to money held in total. The ratio would show people's preference for holding money as cash. This, however, Sumner doesdo.Sumner's graph shows cash. The context variable is wrong. The graph does not show cash compared to money in total. The graph does not show what it must show to be relevant evidence.The lines on Sumner's graph seem to support his statement about holding more cash, because the lines move in the directions they should move if his statement is true. But the blue line does not show the ratio that his statement describes.Sumner's graph is not relevant evidence. pointed out the discrepancy on Sumner's blog:Sumner replied Of course he's interested in NGDP. The whole focus of his blog is NGDP targeting. That's fine. But it doesn't address the issue.The ratio of currency to NGDP says nothing about the preference for holding money as currency. The ratio of currency to NGDP is not evidence of the desire to hold money as cash. Sumner's graph is not evidence of his claim. And his response to my comment does not resolve the matter.Am I looking at this wrong? Or did Sumner try to bullshit me?// Edit, 11 Jan 2019, changed"More cash, compared to the money peoplein total, I think" to"More cash, compared to the money peoplein total, I think".Now that I know what "holding" money means. | positive |
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To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Dead Rising franchise, and the release of Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record on PS4, Xbox one and Steam we are taking a look at some of the characters who play a major role in the early games in the Dead Rising series with "Frank's Files".
This week we look at Dead Rising 2's Rebecca Chang.
Name: Rebecca Chang
Rebecca Chang Job: Television reporter for Channel 6 Action News
Television reporter for Channel 6 Action News First Appearance: Dead Rising 2 (2010)
Dead Rising 2 (2010) Appears In: Dead Rising 2 (2010), Dead Rising 2: Case West (2010), Dead Rising 2: Off the Record (2011)
Dead Rising 2 (2010), Dead Rising 2: Case West (2010), Dead Rising 2: Off the Record (2011) Abilities: Determined and motivated reporter with a nose for a good story who knows how to handle a gun. Brave in the face of a zombie outbreak.
Like Frank in the original Dead Rising Rebecca Chang sees the Fortune City zombie outbreak as her chance to promote her journalism career. Ambitious, Chang is in town to cover the controversy that surrounds the Terror Is Reality zombie killing event, she is excited to find what could be the scoop of a lifetime land in her lap when it becomes obvious that there’s more to this most recent outbreak than it first appears.
At first Rebecca’s coverage implicates Chuck Greene as having caused the zombie outbreak, suggesting that he is in league with C.U.R.E., however she quickly comes to believe that there is more to the story than it at first appears and joins with Chuck to get to the bottom of it. | positive |
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Women who want to use the abortion pill Mifegymiso can now take it farther along in their pregnancy, Health Canada said Tuesday in announcing changes to how the medication is prescribed and dispensed.
The federal department said the abortion pill can now be prescribed up to nine weeks into a pregnancy, rather than the previous limit of seven weeks.
As well, the drug that was initially known as RU-486 can be dispensed directly to patients by a pharmacist or a prescribing health professional. Prior to Health Canada's statement, there had been some confusion around who could prescribe and dispense the pill.
Mifegymiso is a combination product containing two medications, mifepristone and misoprostol, which are used in sequence to terminate a pregnancy.
Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, one of several organizations that has been calling for more accessible abortion in Canada, lauded the changes by Health Canada
"There is decades worth of evidence from use in over 60 countries proving how safe and effective this medication is, yet Mifegymiso is more regulated than controlled substances in Canada," Sandeep Prasad, executive director of Action Canada, said in a statement.
Prasad said Mifegymiso has the potential to significantly improve access to abortion, especially for women in rural and remote areas who are forced to travel hundreds, sometimes thousands of kilometres, to find an abortion provider.
"Abortion access shouldn't depend on your postal code or income bracket," he said. "It's the responsibility of all levels of government to address two-tiered access."
Approved in 2015
Health Canada said women will no longer be required to provide written consent to take Mifegymiso, nor will health professionals need to register with the drug's distributor, Celopharma, to prescribe or dispense it.
While medical professionals should have appropriate knowledge about the drug before prescribing it, the federal department said they will no longer be required to first complete a formal education program in its use.
However, one carry-over from the previous version of Health Canada's prescribing guidelines is the mandatory requirement that women have an ultrasound to ensure they don't have an ectopic pregnancy — one outside the uterus — and an assessment of the length of gestation.
Prasad said that could lead to serious delays in administering Mifegymiso, especially in regions where ultrasound services are limited, accessible only in hospitals or burdened by long waiting lists.
The Society of Obstetrician and Gynecologists of Canada has recommended the use of Mifegymiso as a safe alternative for early termination of a pregnancy when access to a surgical abortion is difficult.
Health Canada originally approved Mifegymiso in July 2015. The medication became available to Canadian women in January and its cost is now covered by several provinces. | positive |
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Total Recall Total Recall is a look back at the history of video games through their characters, franchises, developers and trends.
Rockstar North is a video game developer known and respected the world over as the creators and continued custodians of the core Grand Theft Auto series.
That's earned it a reputation as a specialist in the field of mature, cinematic video games. Games where drugs are dealt, prostitutes killed and people say fuck with a straight face.
So it's easy to see how people forget it's also the same studio that made Lemmings.
Rockstar North hasn't always been called Rockstar North. It was once an independent video game developer known as DMA design, which was founded in the Scottish city of Dundee in 1988. After releasing a couple of games for cult hero publisher Psygnosis, in 1990 the team designed a game called Lemmings. It starred stupid little creatures with green hair that you had to save from repeated and grisly doom.
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It would go on to sell over 20 million copies.
For the duration of the 1990's, Lemmings' success (and production line of sequels and spin-offs) allowed DMA the indulgence of experimenting with as many game genres as they could get their hands on. They released a racing game (Uniracers), a Space Hulk-esque tactical shooter (Hired Guns), a side-scrolling shooter (Walker), a platformer (Space Station Silicon Valley), a tank combat game (Wild Metal Country) and a weird 3D action game called Body Harvest.
Oh, and also a little something called Grand Theft Auto, along with every core console game in the series to date.
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So why is Rockstar North simply the house that GTA built, and not also the house built by some of the PC's best titles of the 90s, including one of the first great casual successes in the platform's history? There are two reasons.
One is simply the name change. After a succession of messy purchases, sales and transfers in the late 1990's, DMA ended up becoming a part of the newly-formed Rockstar Games, which in turn was owned by Take-Two Interactive, after which DMA's name was changed to Rockstar North, which it still uses today. So the DMA-to-Rockstar link isn't explicit if you don't know the history.
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Another is a key change in personnel. For a long time DMA was headed up by David Jones, one of the studio's founders and the man often given credit for the creation of both Lemmings and the Grand Theft Auto series. Yet just before the transition from DMA to Rockstar North, Jones left the company, and would go on to found Crackdown and APB developers Realtime Worlds (which has since gone bust).
While the people at the top changed as dramatically as the studio's name during that transition period (Jones replaced at the top by Sam & Dan Houser, who continue to head up not just Rockstar North but Rockstar Games as a whole), it's still the same studio. Many developers carried over during the shift, bridging the gap and ensuring the "DNA" of DMA remained intact.
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It wasn't a case of, as you see so often these days, a studio literally closing down and some of its former members relocating elsewhere. This was the same studio simply given a new name.
So next time you see somebody saying they hate Rockstar, that all they make is cinematic fluff, that all they do is bait tabloid newspapers with risquee content, remember: they also made Lemmings! Sort of.
Total Recall is a look back at the history of video games through their characters, franchises, developers and trends.
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Formula 1 is the pinnacle of Motorsports. It was watched by around 400 million people in the year 2016 & 2017 saw one of the best seasons since the introduction of 1.6 litre V6 hybrid engines. What made 2017 so fantastic is that unlike previous 3 years two top teams fought for the WC for most of the races. Those two teams are Mercedes & Ferrari in the name of Lewis Hamilton & Sebastian Vettel, a new Era in F1.
During my last 18 years as an F1 fan I have seen many great battles between drivers, but Hamilton & Vettel took things to a complete new level. Both stated their F1 career on the same year back in 2007 but both took complete different line & enjoy different types of flavor in the WC.
Lewis Hamilton made his debut back in 2007 Australian GP with the Mclaren-Mercedes team; he was always backed up by Mclaren & Mercedes since his karting days. On his debut he received his first podium & went on to fight for the WC on that season till the last race. He won his first WC in a dramatic last lap in 2008 & then for Mercedes he clinched 3 more titles in 2014, 2015 & 2017.
To me he is one of the most aggressive drivers on the grid, a great mentor of the late great Aryton Senna. I love his driving style & hands on heart all his 4 WC were won after some fascinating fight with his opponents specially his long time friend & rival Nico Roseberg. At the Italian GP of 2017 Hamilton secured his 69th pole position beating Michael Schumacher’s record of all time most pole position.
Sebastian Vettel on the other hand had a quiet debut, he got his first chance for BMW Sauber at the USA GP 2007 & he replaced an injured Robert Kubica. On his very opening lap he ran wide at turn 1 & finished 8th carrying one point home on that race.
Few races later he got a call from Torro Rosso for their drive but his biggest break came when he won his first race at Monza 2008 with Torro Rosso in torrential rain, a race which many resemble him with his mentor, Michael Schumacher.
Vettel won 4 WC with Red Bull- Renault in a row between 2010-2013. Two out of four times he fought tooth to nail with one of the great of our time Fernando Alonso & one of the greatest WC drive for him have to be the 2012 Brazilian Race. To me Vettel is more a tactical driver. Unlike Hamilton he tries his best to keep his private life away from the world hence is stays away from all types of social media.
So why am I talking about this two drivers! People who watched or know things about F1 knows that for most of the life F1 was all about one team one driver, very few times we had two of the giants fighting it out in the middle. We had in the late 80’s between Aryton Senna & Alain Prost & then in the late 90’s we had Schumacher vs Haikkinen.
F1 fans of our generation are lucky to have this two great WC to fight it out & both ageing 32 & 30 respectively we can expect them to continue racing until for another 5 years & win many more titles & not to mention some great battle between them. Both seem to be nailed at their teams for the next 2-3 years at least.
At the same time also watch out for these names: Max Vestappen, Daniel Riccardo, Fernando Alonso. F1 although lost some glitters over the past 4 seasons but I think the lost crown will be back & it will again start at Albert Park, Melbourne Australia on 26th March 2018. Till then enjoy the winter break.
Lewis Hamilton Statistics Sebastian Vettel 30 Age 30 Mercedes Team for 2018 Ferrari 208 Race Start 199 62 Wins 47 72 Poles 50 117 Podiums 99 38 Fastest Laps 33 08, 14, 15, 17 (4 times) World Championship 10,11,12,13 (4 times)
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Much has been said about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s penchant for silence in the face of grave provocation by Indians against Indians over these past two years.
Mohammed Akhlaq’s murder in Uttar Pradesh’s Dadri in September 2015 over rumours that he had eaten beef and the flogging in July 2016 of four tanners in Una, Gujarat, for skinning the carcass of a cow – leading to widespread protests across the state – have bookended the manner in which cow vigilantism has taken front and centre-stage. Despite this, the prime minister has stubbornly kept quiet.
When Akhlaq was killed, the BJP’s supporters clicked their tongues in concern but refused to say much – after all, the party had won 71 of Uttar Pradesh’s 80 Lok Sabha seats in 2014 despite the state’s 18.5% Muslim population.
Then, when Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula committed suicide in the University of Hyderabad in January 2016, the BJP leadership looked warily as Smriti Irani, who was then the Human Resources Minister, wagged her finger in the face of Dalit leader Mayawati during a Parliamentary debate – but took action only much later.
Only when Gujarat’s Dalits brought the fight to Ahmedabad – where a massive rally was held on Sunday – did the prime minister finally see the writing on the wall. Hardik Patel’s Patidar movement last year, demanding Other Backward Classes status for the community, had already started the fire in Modi’s home state. Now, with elections scheduled in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat next year – all of which have significant Dalit populations – Modi realised he could not afford to take the Dalit vote base for granted.
Worried leaders
Certainly, the sacking of Anandiben Patel as Gujarat chief minister earlier this week is a start. But the BJP’s 40 Dalit Members of Parliament, who are part of the 160-strong Forum for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes MPs want more. These Dalit politicians are now afraid that if the BJP doesn’t give them adequate status or representation within the party, they may be in danger of being ostracised by their own community.
“There is a new politicisation of Dalit-ness taking place, cutting across Dalit castes across the country,” said Surinder Jodhka, professor of Dalit Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. “This younger generation of Dalits, like Rohith Vemula or the young man who committed suicide protesting the Una incident, has grown up in the post-liberalisation period and do not subscribe to the politics of patronage. Something very different is going on and India should wake up and listen to these young men and women,”
Jodhka said he wasn’t surprised that Dalit politicians, especially in the BJP, were fearing for their positions as representatives of their community.
“When something new is taking place, when Dalits reject the politics of quotas that the Dalit elite has employed these last many decades, then these Dalit leaders will undoubtedly be scared of being marginalised by their own people,” Jodhka said.
It is this churning within the Dalit community that is having a big impact not only on politics in general, but on Dalit politics in particular. Dalit leaders like Udit Raj, who joined the BJP when the pro-Modi wave was gathering steam in the country on the eve of the 2014 elections and was elected on a party ticket from Delhi’s North-West constituency, are now concerned that the party is not protecting Dalits from its gau rakshaks, or self-styled cow protectors.
“The atrocities in Gujarat and elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh (where a Dalit couple was murdered for failure to repay a Rs 15 debt) and Telangana (from where a BJP legislator spoke up in favour of the flogging of youth in Una) will definitely have an impact on the coming Assembly elections,” Raj said on Sunday.
“If the upper caste people feel Dalits are citizens of this country, then they should stand up (against the attacks),” Raj, who is the chairman of the All India Confederation of Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe Organisations, had said after a conference of the body in Delhi. “If they don't feel so, then what moral right do they have to give slogans of nationalism?"
"These so-called protectors of the Hindu religion, the ‘gau rakshaks’ must answer if they consider lives of Dalits to be of less value than animals," he further said.
Precarious position
Off the record, Dalit BJP leaders point out that they are also concerned by certain decisions taken by the party. For example the Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan, which allocates funds for Dalit empowerment as part of the annual planned expenditure, had been slashed from Rs 50,000 crore to Rs 30,000 crore. Meanwhile, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015, had not been implemented with the required vigour after it was passed last year.
In fact, the dilemma of Dalit BJP MPs who have not come from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh stream – unlike Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Thawar Chand Gehlot – is growing rapidly. The RSS and BJP only give importance to those who have risen from within the ranks of the Sangh. For instance, barring Gehlot, all Dalit members in Modi's cabinet are junior ministers. As leaders from non-RSS backgrounds are passed over in favour of so-called RSS Dalits, they fear they will soon become the butt of derision within their community.
As the Dalit agitation gathers steam and throws up activists from the ground, they may well replace the more moderate leaders who had recently joined the BJP.
This fear of the double jeopardy is wracking several Dalit BJP leaders – afraid to speak out against the BJP, for fear of losing their recent standing in the party, and now afraid of becoming marginalised by their community.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has staked his claim to the political credit accruing from the ouster of Anandiben Patel, has already asked Raj why he won’t leave a party that doesn’t really care for him.
Gathering steam
The question now is: in what direction will the Dalit agitation snowball in the coming weeks? Dalit activists at the Ahmedabad rally last week insisted that their agitation was taking place “within the framework of the Constitution”, a reference to the path-breaking work carried out by Dalit leader BR Ambedkar.
But they also pointed out that if cases filed against Dalits during protests in Gujarat were not taken back, then the community would come out on the streets in even larger numbers.
Jodhka points out that the greater contradiction – between the BJP’s determined adoption of Ambedkar and the Dalit icon’s writings against the caste superstructure – will not be resolved so soon. Adding to this tension is the growing awareness among younger Dalits who will not stop asking questions, he said.
“We see this in JNU everyday, as Dalit students keep challenging accepted theologies,” he said. “They worship Ambedkar. They simply won’t take no for an answer.”
Jhodka spoke of the spate of suicide attempts by Dalits to protest the Una incident last month. “What is even more frightening is that some of these students, as we saw with Rohith Vemula and in Gujarat, consider suicide a form of protest,” he said. “Their personalised anger and anguish is being expressed very differently. And yes, the Dalit elite political class better watch out.” | positive |
Journalists follow Japanese Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada upon his arrival to meet Prime Minister Taro Aso at Aso's official residence in Tokyo Sunday just after a rocket was launched from North Korea.
Enlarge By Issei Kato, Reuters Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers react following North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket on Sunday that passed over Japan, the government in Tokyo said, defying calls from world leaders to scrap a plan that has caused international alarm. N. Korea defiantly launches rocket over Pacific SEOUL (AP) North Korea defiantly carried out a provocative rocket launch Sunday that the U.S., Japan and other nations suspect was a cover for a test of its long-range missile technology. Liftoff took place at 11:30 a.m. Sunday from the coastal Musudan-ri launch pad in northeastern North Korea, the South Korean and U.S. governments said. The multistage rocket hurtled toward the Pacific, reaching Japanese airspace within seven minutes, but no debris appeared to hit its territory, officials in Tokyo said. The U.N. Security Council approved an emergency session for Sunday afternoon in New York, following a request from Japan that came minutes after the launch. The South Koreans called it "reckless," the Americans "provocative," and Japan said it strongly protested the launch. The launch was a bold act of defiance against President Barack Obama, Japanese leader Taro Aso, Hu Jintao of China and others who pressed Pyongyang in the days leading up to liftoff to call off a launch they said would threaten peace and stability in Northeast Asia. South Korea's presidential Blue House said the launch poses a "serious threat" to stability on the Korean peninsula and that it would respond to the provocation "sternly and resolutely." President Lee Myung-bak ordered the military to remain on alert, the Blue House said. "We cannot contain our disappointment and regret over North Korea's reckless act," presidential spokesman Lee Dong-kwan told reporters Sunday. He said the launch of the long-range rocket "poses a serious threat to security on the Korean peninsula and the world." North Korea claims its aim is to send an experimental communications satellite into orbit in a peaceful bid to develop its space program. The U.S., South Korea, Japan and others suspect the launch is a guise for testing the regime's long-range missile technology — one step toward eventually mounting a nuclear weapon on a missile capable of reaching Alaska and beyond. They contend the launch violates a 2006 resolution barring the regime from ballistic missile activity. Obama said Friday the launch would be a "provocative" move with consequences. State Department spokesman Fred Lash said late Saturday in Washington that the U.S. will "take appropriate steps to let North Korea know that it cannot threaten the safety and security of other countries with impunity." He called the launch a clear violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1718, adopted five days after North Korea carried out a nuclear weapons test in 2006. Japan's U.N. mission has asked for a meeting of the 15-nation council Sunday, spokesman Yutaka Arima said. Mexico's mission to the United Nations set the meeting for 3 p.m. ET, spokesman Marco Morales said. Mexico holds the 15-nation council's presidency this month. U.N. diplomats already have begun discussing ways to affirm existing sanctions on North Korea against its nuclear program and long-range missile tests. In Japan, chief Cabinet spokesman Takeo Kawamura said it was not immediately clear if the rocket was mounted with a satellite as North Korea has claimed. North Korea calls its "space launch vehicle" Unha-2, but the rocket is better known to the outside world as the Taepodong-2, a long-range missile that can be mounted with a satellite or nuclear armament. "Even if a satellite was launched, we see this as a ballistic missile test and we think this matter should be taken to the United Nations Security Council," Kawamura said. "We are highly concerned by this matter." "We strongly protest this launch," he said. The first stage of the rocket dropped about 175 miles off the western coast of Akita into the waters between Japan and the Korean peninsula. The second stage was to land in the Pacific at a spot about 790 miles off Japan's northeastern coast, a Defense Ministry spokeswoman said in Tokyo. Japan said it would convene a security panel meeting later in the day to discuss what further measures can be taken. Kawamura said Japan would work closely with Washington and with the U.N. "Our primary concern is to confirm safety and gather information," Aso told a news conference at his Tokyo office Sunday. North Korea shocked Japan in 1998 when it launched a missile over Japan's main island. Japan has since spent billions of dollars on developing a missile shield with the United States and has launched a series of spy satellites primarily to watch developments in North Korea. Japan had threatened to shoot down any debris from the rocket if the launch went wrong, and positioned batteries of interceptor missiles on its coast and radar-equipped ships off its northern seas to monitor the launch. No attempt at interception was made since no debris fell onto its territory, a ministry spokeswoman said, speaking on condition of anonymity, citing department rules. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. Read more | positive |
Introducing Liquid`Zenio Text by Liquid`Nazgul Graphics by HawaiianPig LIQUID`NAZGUL:
If you weren't planning on watching Code A today, I suggest that you reconsider. We will be debuting a player that I have known and admired for a very long time. We are very proud to officially introduce the newest member of Liquid, Choi "Zenio" Jung Min.
oGs head coach TheWind approached me a few weeks ago and asked if I would be interested in Zenio for Liquid. Zenio had recently left oGs because he felt like he could play better outside of the team-house. Living in a house together with 15 guys sleeping in bunkbeds is not for everyone, and Zenio wanted to go back to a familiar environment from the beta, where he played from home and accumulated the most games played of anyone in the world. While oGs never questioned his motivation, they had to uphold their rule that players must live in the team-house. oGs parted ways with Zenio, but they wanted to help find a new home for him nonetheless.
Upon hearing about this opportunity from TheWind, I was immediately intrigued. Ever since Liquid began its partnership with oGs and I went to Korea to meet the players and coaches, I have liked Zenio a lot. Together with MC, Zenio has been one of the friendliest and most outgoing oGs members towards me and the Liquid players. He has some of the best English among pro-gamers, which is something I think everyone will notice soon. He was one of the core members that made oGs what it is today, possessing a combination of work ethic, skill and personality that allowed him to headline their Zerg lineup for over a year. Zenio himself had no interest in joining any other Korean team, but was excited about the opportunity to stay within oGs-TL. After many hours of talking with TheWind and Zenio we knew that signing Zenio was the right move.
Anyone who has spent a lot of time following the Korean scene and Code S in particular knows that Zenio is a player with highs and lows. When he plays up to his potential, he is on the same level as the best Zergs in the world. oGs and Liquid players have insisted for the longest time, and still believe that when Zenio's playing behind closed doors, he is one of the top three Zergs in Korea.
Zenio's winning record over players like MVP, Idra, and HerO is a testament to his exceptional talent. He has been a Code S player since the tournament began, and that has been while underachieving by all of his teammate's standards.
Of course, we cannot ignore the fact that he has a reputation for being a player who gets nervous on the big stage. However, we believe that you will see the real Zenio soon enough. He is still young, and getting rid of those stage jitters will take time and experience. Liquid can provide him with both. If you give him time and stay with him during the process, he will surely reward your patience and support with championships.
Zenio's incredible work ethic has made it very easy to work with him. There's an overwhelming amount of things a player has to take care of when transitioning from a Korean team to an international team like Liquid, and it can be very tiring and distracting. Countless computer programs have to be installed and learned, dozens of conversations need to be had with Liquid staff, paperwork needs to be done, Liquid's internal structure has to be familiarized – and half of the time you're doing all of this in a language you're not exactly 100% familiar with. Zenio has worked hard on making this transition go as smoothly as possible, and we are very impressed at how he has carried himself so far.
We look forward to what your skill, intensity, and determination will bring to Liquid. Welcome to the team, Liquid`Zenio.
oGsTheWind:
I was very sad to send away Zenio, who had been a member of our family, but rules are rules. However, I'm very thankful for this opportunity that allows him to return to our family, as a member of TeamLiquid.
Zenio is a player who will try hard and can get good results no matter where he goes. Especially now that he has joined TeamLiquid, I hope he can grow and become a player Liquid will be proud of. Jung Min, you rascal, we'll always love you!
I really look forward to what kind of controversy Zenio can cause next time we play EG...
Jokes aside, I'm really glad Zenio is joining the team for a lot of reasons. Back when me and TLO first arrived in Korea, Zenio was one of two players in oGs who actually spoke pretty good English alongside Hyperdub. Nowadays everyone has improved so much that I sometimes take it for granted to be able to converse, but back in those days it was really a great comfort to have him there.
Zenio has always been one of the most impressive players to watch in SC2. For instance, when one of his bases is about to be overrun, you can be sure that he will have transferred his drones away just in time, to mine at a new Hatchery that completes right as the drones arrive.
MVP has called him the best ZvT player in Korea, and while people who have only seen his most recent games might be surprised by this, nobody who has played him in practice is.
I really look forward to what kind of controversy Zenio can cause next time we play EG...Jokes aside, I'm really glad Zenio is joining the team for a lot of reasons. Back when me and TLO first arrived in Korea, Zenio was one of two players in oGs who actually spoke pretty good English alongside Hyperdub. Nowadays everyone has improved so much that I sometimes take it for granted to be able to converse, but back in those days it was really a great comfort to have him there.Zenio has always been one of the most impressive players to watch in SC2. For instance, when one of his bases is about to be overrun, you can be sure that he will have transferred his drones awayto mine at a new Hatchery that completes right as the drones arrive.MVP has called him the best ZvT player in Korea, and while people who have only seen his most recent games might be surprised by this, nobody who has played him in practice is.
Zenio is the hardest working player I've met. While I was in Korea I saw him play more than anyone else. The first thing I noticed about Zenio's play was that he would never, ever go into a fight unless he was sure he would win it. He had insane patience, and I was very impressed by it. I really liked watching him play, and sometimes it even hurt my own practice because I watched his games so much. He is very fast but also very precise which makes his multitasking great. It was very helpful for Ret and I to be able to talk to him about strategies.
During the weeks when I was in Korea, Zenio, MC, and Ensnare were the ones to beat during the daily ranking matches. They would always get top three. With Zenio joining the team I expect him to not only raise our skill level but also inspire everyone to work harder by example. I am looking forward to being able to discuss strategies and watch his replays again, and also meet him at future events.
Welcome to the team and good luck on your journey for code S!
Zenio is the hardest working player I've met. While I was in Korea I saw him play more than anyone else. The first thing I noticed about Zenio's play was that he would never, ever go into a fight unless he was sure he would win it. He had insane patience, and I was very impressed by it. I really liked watching him play, and sometimes it even hurt my own practice because I watched his games so much. He is very fast but also very precise which makes his multitasking great. It was very helpful for Ret and I to be able to talk to him about strategies.During the weeks when I was in Korea, Zenio, MC, and Ensnare were the ones to beat during the daily ranking matches. They would always get top three. With Zenio joining the team I expect him to not only raise our skill level but also inspire everyone to work harder by example. I am looking forward to being able to discuss strategies and watch his replays again, and also meet him at future events.Welcome to the team and good luck on your journey for code S!
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Zenio has been very busy in the past few weeks, not only preparing for his Code A match but also going through the transition to becoming a Liquid member. He will not be ready to begin streaming for 2 to 3 weeks. Even so, he found the time to talk to Team Liquid and let the fans know him better.
To begin, could you introduce yourself briefly? Tell us how you began playing games, and how you became a progamer.
Liquid`Zenio: Hi, I'm Choi Jung Min, 21 years old. I was practicing to become a Warcraft III pro-gamer, but when I heard Starcraft II was coming out I decided to play Starcraft: Brood War in preparation. I started playing SC II as soon as the closed beta came out. I remember that my first game was against a Blizzard Korea employee on the Korean ladder.
You were gaming with the goal of becoming a pro-gamer; were you fixed on playing RTS games? Did any other genres or games catch your interest?
Liquid`Zenio: It's not that RTS games were my goal, it's that I liked Starcraft and I was always watching OnGameNet during my school days, thinking that I would become a pro-gamer for sure.
You spent a lot of time at oGs before departing. How was your time there, and what led you to join Liquid?
Liquid`Zenio: oGs is always trying to improve their practice environment, and they have a really great environment where you can focus solely on gaming at the team house right now.
But asides from the great environment there, I was just uncomfortable living together with so many people, so I decided to play from home. Even though I left the team in the end, I think oGs is a really great team to be with from the way they still tried to connect me with Liquid afterward.
I decided on Liquid because I wanted to play abroad more frequently, and because they are a team that is partnered with oGs, and thus a team I've been friendly with for a long time.
What has your relationship with Liquid and its members been like so far? You lived in the same house, so who are some of the players you were particularly close with?
Liquid`Zenio: I lived with Dario, Jonathan, Jos, Hayder, and also Chris who is gone now. I was having trouble with life at the team-house, but I saw those guys and imagined how much harder it was for them coming from afar, so I tried to be friendly to them and help them out in some way.
The funniest thing I remember was that when Jos first came to the house, the first thing he did before introducing himself was to point at Hayder and call him “Chobo.”
I haven't met Tyler yet, but I'd really like to meet him.
You've been abroad once for the NASL Grand Finals. How do you think ESPORTS is different in Korea and out?
Liquid`Zenio: I think foreign players really enjoy the tournaments as a whole, and they have a fun time at parties after. The fans are more passionate, and I'd really like to go again.
There are a lot of big tournaments outside of Korea now, but is GSL still the number one goal for a Korean player like yourself?
Liquid`Zenio: Still, the GSL has the highest skill level, so I would still want a GSL championship the most...
Have you been keeping up with the foreign community? For instance, do you visit TL or watch foreign tournaments?
Liquid`Zenio: I've visited TeamLiquid since a long time ago to watch player streams. I always try to watch Zerg players.
Now there are two Korean players in Liquid, you and HerO. Furthermore, there are many other foreign teams cooperating with Korean teams and players as well. What do you think of this trend?
Liquid`Zenio: I think it's good because more Korean players can go abroad, and I'd like if more cooperation happened.
If you talk to oGs or Liquid players, they say you are a really amazing player. On the other hand, you have a reputation for not being able to show this skill on stage. How do you rate your skill, and what do you think about your reputation for being nervous on stage?
Liquid`Zenio: Honestly, I don't like ZvP that much in practice either. I'm trying really hard to get over that. I think I'm very good at ZvT and ZvZ, but when I play at the GSL stage my games just don't go the way they do in practice. So I have an image of being bad at broadcast games, but I think I can go far if I get over those problems, and I'm trying very hard to solve them.
You're starting off this GSL season from the Code A RO48. Are you confident about getting into Code S again?
Liquid`Zenio: Yes, I've gained confidence as I've practiced lately, and I'm fully confident that I can get into Code S and go even further.
There's a lot of talk about Proleague switching to Starcraft II next year and the Starcraft: Brood War players switching over. How do you feel about that possibility, as someone who's played Starcraft II since the beta?
Liquid`Zenio: I think that the present Starcraft II gamers are all very good, and that Starcraft 1 gamers will catch up very quickly as well. I hope that it becomes an opportunity for ESPORTS to grow and develop.
You have some history with IdrA, what do you think of him? He will be returning to Korea soon, would you like to play him?
Liquid`Zenio: I think you ask because of my ceremony last year... I don't think of him badly personally, and I think he's a fun player. It would be fun to play him again.
He's welcome to come back to Korea, and though I wouldn't mind it myself, he probably doesn't want to play me; I am 6-0 against him.
Any other foreigners you are interested in? Anyone who impressed you, or someone you'd like to play against?
Liquid`Zenio: I'd really like to play against Chris again, I lost in a sort of unsatisfying way to him in the last GSL. And then he imitated my ceremony... I want to get my revenge.
Let's talk about some things outside of Starcraft. What are your hobbies?
Liquid`Zenio: I raid once a week in World of Warcraft. Besides that, I like going biking.
Any kind of music you enjoy? Favorite bands?
Liquid`Zenio: No particular genre, just Korean girl-groups. 2NE1 in particular.
Favorite food?
Liquid`Zenio: Samgyeopsal
Your most respected sunbae [older colleague]?
Liquid`Zenio: Nada.
Now, the hardest question. A word for your fans... IN ENGLISH.
Liquid`Zenio: *shakes in fear*
'thanks for read my interview
i will try to show up on yours always epic games and funny ceremony'
Make sure to catch Liquid`Zenio's first appearance as a Liquid player at 04:10 EST, November 21th as he plays in the November Code A tournament Administrator | positive |
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Looking for Pattern Collapse X Collapse Posts Latest Activity Photos Search Page of 1 Filter Time All Time Today Last Week Last Month Show All Discussions only Photos only Videos only Links only Polls only Events only Filtered by: Clear All new posts Previous template Next mamo69 Senior Member Applique Angel Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 382 #1 Looking for Pattern August 30, 2016, 11:51 AM https://www.facebook.com/QuiltHaus/p...type=3&theater Love the quilt on left--your left Love how the squares are "turned" Hope link works Tags: None Altairss Senior Member Missouri Star Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 1310 #2 August 30, 2016, 12:14 PM Re: Looking for Pattern That can be made by tube quilting and then setting the blocks on point. To see how to do a tube quilt like this look at the original summer in the park quilt tutorial, you would just not use the white but all color. Pick your six strips these look like 2.1/2 strips lay them out in a pleasing row then sew into the two strip sets of three then the two sets are sewn together. Follow the summer in the park tutorial on how to sew them and cut them apart. Lay them out in a pleasing manner set on point. Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without. Comment Post Cancel snippet Senior Member Missouri Star Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 3666 #3 August 30, 2016, 11:27 PM Re: Looking for Pattern I've been to that store and have seen that quilt! It's really lovely and not too difficult to make as Altairss described. BLOCK Magazine patterns & tutorials spreadsheet for making triangles Comment Post Cancel Hulamoon Senior Member Missouri Star Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 23632 #4 August 31, 2016, 12:22 AM Re: Looking for Pattern Couldn't the squares be done by doing a string on foundation paper? 🌺 Lorie Comment Post Cancel Sylvia H Senior Member Missouri Star Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 4335 #5 August 31, 2016, 02:42 AM Re: Looking for Pattern Originally posted by Hulamoon View Post Couldn't the squares be done by doing a string on foundation paper? That was my first thought. But some of the squares are exact duplicates of others, which would be hard, but not impossible, to do with string quilting. If you don't mind having all the blocks different, that would definitely work. If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.- Zig Ziglar Comment Post Cancel Preeti Senior Member Missouri Star Join Date: Jan 2014 Posts: 2572 #6 August 31, 2016, 10:15 AM Re: Looking for Pattern I would totally use the Tube Method to make this quilt. Sew six 2.5" strips (along the length) together to form a tube. If you want to really replicate that look, stitch the three light colored strips together. Stitch the three dark colored strips together. And then place the dark strip set right sides with the light colored set and stitch on both sides to form the tube. Preeti http://sewpreetiquilts.blogspot.com/ Comment Post Cancel mamo69 Senior Member Applique Angel Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 382 #7 August 31, 2016, 10:43 AM Re: Looking for Pattern I am lucky to have Quilt Haus and Oak Leaf just a few miles from my home. Both stores have their own unique "warm fuzzies"! Comment Post Cancel CheyMom14 Senior Member Binding Belle Join Date: Sep 2015 Posts: 204 #8 August 31, 2016, 03:16 PM Re: Looking for Pattern Oooohh. I did this pattern years back. Totally screwed it up but its one of my husbands favorites. I'll look when I get home later. Wasn't a tube method. Comment Post Cancel mamo69 Senior Member Applique Angel Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 382 #9 August 31, 2016, 05:17 PM Re: Looking for Pattern Originally posted by CheyMom14 View Post Oooohh. I did this pattern years back. Totally screwed it up but its one of my husbands favorites. I'll look when I get home later. Wasn't a tube method. That would wonderful---Thank You Comment Post Cancel CheyMom14 Senior Member Binding Belle Join Date: Sep 2015 Posts: 204 #10 August 31, 2016, 05:30 PM Re: Looking for Pattern Originally posted by mamo69 View Post That would wonderful---Thank You Found it! It's called Transitions by Cozy Quilt Designs. No idea if it's still available. Comment Post Cancel Hulamoon Senior Member Missouri Star Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 23632 #11 August 31, 2016, 05:36 PM Re: Looking for Pattern Originally posted by CheyMom14 View Post Found it! It's called Transitions by Cozy Quilt Designs. No idea if it's still available. I love a good hunt Looks like a tube thingy. http://www.cozyquilt.com/Aspx/Produc...?productID=612 🌺 Lorie Comment Post Cancel Previous template Next English (US) Deutsch (Du) English (US) French Spanish Help Contact Us Privacy Go to top All Content Copyright Missouri Star Quilt Co LLC All times are GMT-6. This page was generated at 10:43 AM. Working... Yes No OK OK Cancel X | negative |
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Justice Department Charges 3 Men, Including Mafia Hitman, For the Murder of Boston Mobster Whitey Bulger – Lucky Hand Insider Saturday September 24th, 2022 Investing Economy World News Politics Editor’s Pick Loading... You are here: Home > Politics > Current Article Justice Department Charges 3 Men, Including Mafia Hitman, For the Murder of Boston Mobster Whitey Bulger By / August 18, 2022 / No Comments Print Email Whitey Bulger The Justice Department on Thursday announced 3 men, including a mafia hitman has been charged for the murder of Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger. AP reported: Three men, including a Mafia hitman, have been charged in the killing of notorious Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger in a West Virginia prison, the Justice Department said Thursday. The charges against Fotios “Freddy” Geas, Paul J. DeCologero and Sean McKinnon come nearly four years after Bulger’s killing, which raised questions about why the known “snitch” was placed in the general population instead of more protective housing. The men were charged with conspiracy to commit first degree murder. Legendary Boston mobster Whitey Bulger was killed in prison in October 2018. Geas faces a separate charge for murder by a federal inmate serving a life sentence, and McKinnon is charged separately with making false statements to a federal agent. Geas and DeCologero were identified as suspects shortly after Bulger’s death, according to law enforcement officials at the time, but they remained uncharged as the investigation dragged on for years. They were placed in solitary confinement throughout the probe, family members told The Boston Globe. 89-year-old James ‘Whitey’ Bulger was killed in prison by a ‘fellow inmate with mafia ties’ shortly after he was transferred to a West Virginia federal prison. Bulger was reportedly wheeled away from security cameras and beaten with a lock in a sock and also had his eyes gouged out. Sources told The Daily Mail that Whitey Bulger was about to out people in the FBI, specifically FBI officials of the informant program. The Whitey Bulger-Robert Mueller connection: MUELLER’S MINIONS HELPED MOBSTER WHITEY BULGER ELIMINATE MOB COMPETITORS, says Congressman Louie Gohmert In May, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) published a 48-page report called “Robert Mueller Unmasked” to expose the Special Counsel’s decades of corruption. In the extensive report, Gohmert covered Mueller’s shady past of helping mobster Whitey Bulger by eliminating mob competitors. The Boston Globe noted Robert Mueller’s connection with the Whitey Bulger case in an article entitled, “One Lingering Question for FBI Director Robert Mueller.” The Globe said this: “[Mike] Albano [former Parole Board Member who was threatened by two F.B.I. agents for considering parole for the men imprisoned for a crime they did not commit] was appalled that, later that same year, Mueller was appointed FBI director, because it was Mueller, first as an assistant US attorney then as the acting U.S. attorney in Boston, who wrote letters to the parole and pardons board throughout the 1980s opposing clemency for the four men framed by FBI lies. Of course, Mueller was also in that position while Whitey Bulger was helping the FBI cart off his criminal competitors even as he buried bodies in shallow graves along the Neponset…” Mueller put people in prison for crimes they did not commit: “Mueller was the head of the Criminal Division as Assistant U.S. Attorney, then as Acting U.S. Attorney. I could not find any explanation online by Mueller as to why he insisted on keeping the defendants in prison that FBI agents—in the pocket of Whitey Bulger—had framed for a murder they did not commit. Make no mistake: these were not honorable people he had incarcerated. But it was part of a pattern that eventually became quite clear that Mueller was more concerned with convicting and putting people in jail he disliked, even if they were innocent of the charges, than he was with ferreting out the truth,” Gohmert said. The post Justice Department Charges 3 Men, Including Mafia Hitman, For the Murder of Boston Mobster Whitey Bulger appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. 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Finally, an activity tracker for how many cocktails you chugged.
BACtrack Skyn is a non-invasive wearable that measures your blood alcohol content and sends data to an iOS device. The booze band won the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's Wearable Alcohol Biosensor Challenge, receiving $200,000.
This device wont kill the breathalyzer, though the Wearable Alcohol Biosensor Challenge's objective was to improve upon alcohol biosensor technology used in the criminal justice system, according to the National Institutes of Health. Currently, the device cannot provide real-time blood alcohol levels — it takes about 45 minutes, according to Reuters.
BACtrack Skyn is a working prototype that lets consumers quantify their alcohol consumption as they might their steps or their sleep, providing users and medical researchers with a recent history of their alcohol consumption.
How it works: The band is equipped with an electrochemical sensor which tracks the ethanol molecules that are released through your skin when you consume alcohol, according to the BACtrack website. The band then uses BACtrack's "proprietary algorithm" to convert the reading into an estimated BAC which is sent to your device.
It can be used as a gentle reminder to slow your roll — your phone can vibrate if your blood alcohol content is getting too high — or as a way to monitor sobriety — it can send a loved one a notification if you're blood alcohol content surpasses 0.00%, BACtrack notes. It can also ping your phone if you are close to surpassing the legal blood alcohol content to drive —.08% in all 50 states — to help curb drunk driving.
It can also be used for medical research. Rather than lean on your fuzzy memory as to how many drinks you consume on average a month, your doctor can simply tap into your wearable's data to get a clearer picture of how often you liquored up since your last visit.
"It can help doctors accurately measure a patient's drinking history, and not just depend on the most recent tests," head of the NIH's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Dr. George Koob told Reuters. "This can help a lot with the treatment."
For those who don't care about their average alcohol consumption, strapping on the Big Brother of booze monitoring may seem like a waste of wrist space. For those into the quantifiable lifestyle, "limited quantities" of the BACtrack Skyn will be available at the end of the year. | positive |
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The fight for 15 | mathbabe mathbabe Exploring and venting about quantitative issues Home About HCSSiM 2012 Cool math books Contact Home > economics > The fight for 15 The fight for 15 September 16, 2015 Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe Whenever I hear an argument about the possibility of raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour, it sounds like this. Person A, who is for it, makes the case that it’s too difficult to live on minimum wage earnings, and it doesn’t make sense for someone working full time to struggle so much to feed their kids. Person B, who’s against it, says that 15 is too high, that too many employers will be unwilling to pay for unskilled workers at that rate, and they will replace such people with machines instead of doing so. Essentially, they argue the bad will outweigh the good. Full disclosure: I am often Person A. I once figured out that if you take someone’s hourly wage in dollars, and you multiply by 2, then you get their yearly wages in thousands of dollars. That means an income of $100K per year is $50 per hour. That means an income of the current New York minimum wage, $8.75 per hour, is a measly $17.5K per year, which would be absolutely crazy to try to live on, according to my reckoning. In other words, I think about what I could theoretically live on, if I had a minimum wage job, and I have extreme sympathy for people who try to. Let’s get back to Person B’s argument. It’s weird because it sounds like Person B is arguing for the sake of the poor, but they’re ignoring the vital question of what is a living wage. Let me give you an analogy. You have a sick population, and they all need 3 pills per day to stay well. The pills are expensive, though, and so the people in charge of pill distribution give most people 2 pills per day. They argue that, if they gave out 3 pills per day to everyone, some people would have no pills. For the sake of those theoretical people, then, they give out only 2, and everyone remains sick. In other words, for the sake of holding on to crappy jobs that pay below living wages, and where the employees need food stamps to survive, we don’t raise the bar so they can actually sustain someone in a basic way. It’s almost like we’re desperate to hold on to them because otherwise our unemployment rate would be higher. I say, figure out what a living wage is, and raise the minimum wage to that level. I actually don’t know what the magic number should be, exactly. Is 15 big enough? Maybe it is, in some places, but maybe in others it’s actually smaller. It doesn’t have to be the same throughout the country. But for as long as we live in a country where the model is that a job is supposed to support you, we should make sure it actually does. Share this: Twitter Facebook Email Print Reddit Like this: Like Loading... Related Categories: economics Comments (37) Michael E September 16, 2015 at 7:37 am Living wage calculator: http://livingwage.mit.edu/ LikeLike Josh September 16, 2015 at 7:39 am I strongly disagree that the analogy was valid. Let’s say 30,000$ is a “living wage” for people in Nebraska. Then, if the analogy is to hold, it would be much better, if the average poor nebraskan was making 25000$ a year, to take 5000$ from one poor nebraskan and hand it over to the other. This doesn’t make sense to me. Pills have discrete jumps in happiness so that the third marginal pill is the most important. Cash, generally, seems to go in the opposite direction (the more you have, the less you need). LikeLike wgersen September 16, 2015 at 7:58 am This is the clearest explanation and justification I’ve read on this issue. It’s too bad that politicians running for national office and advocate for fairer wages have to stick with one number (e.g. $15) that fits on a bumper sticker and into a meme. LikeLike DJ September 16, 2015 at 8:12 am The analogy is also invalid for a different (but surprising) reason. In the analogy, there aren’t enough pills for everyone to have enough. But I argue that there is plenty of money available to raise wages for poor people: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/14/upshot/wall-street-bonuses-vs-total-earnings-of-full-time-minimum-wage-workers.html LikeLike David Backus September 16, 2015 at 8:13 am The argument of most economists is that if you want to give someone a decent standard of living, you’re better off doing it through the Earned Income Tax Credit. That’s the complete version of Person B. It’s not an argument about goals, it’s an argument about how to get there. LikeLike DJ September 16, 2015 at 8:16 am The problem with the EITC is that it fails to account for human psychology. Giving poor people a big lump sum once a year is not a great way to lift them out of poverty, because people in general (not just poor people) are terrible at managing money. Ironically, the government fully understands this phenomenon when it comes to tax payments (which is why we have tax withholding), so it’s not like this is a new or controversial observation. LikeLike Zathras September 16, 2015 at 8:35 am DJ, this is an important point, but it is also only an argument against how the EITC is administered, rather than against the general idea of the EITC. The EITC could be done as an adder to every paycheck, instead of an annual lump sum. LikeLike DJ September 16, 2015 at 9:31 am I agree it could be done, but it is more complicated than the current system of withholding. The problem is that the tax code is progressive: taxes don’t scale linearly with income. So if you have someone working multiple low-income jobs (which is VERY common), the system needs to be able to coordinate multiple income sources, or else the EITC payments will be too high, resulting in a huge tax bill upon filing (which is a much worse problem than the problem we’re trying to solve). LikeLike Auros September 18, 2015 at 6:11 am There was an attempt to transition the EITC to be included in the employer withholdings system, with employers filing to get credit against the withheld income taxes they would otherwise owe to the IRS (and I think quarterly refund checks if they ended up actually owed money, b/c they employed many EITC qualified people and few people with positive income tax rates). This was called the Advance EITC. It unfortunately died for lack of support from the political and business classes. http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-07-1110 There’s no reason you couldn’t completely standardize this — make a negative rate part of the standard structure of income taxes, and always just calculate it as part of the employer-handled withholdings process. LikeLike Auros September 18, 2015 at 6:13 am AEITC was discontinued at the end of 2010, as noted here: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/a-wealth-of-knowledge/understanding-the-earned-income-tax-credit/ LikeLike Scott September 16, 2015 at 8:40 am We often look at minimum wage as being too small for family size x. Cost of living varies by geographic area, so poverty dollar levels should reflect that. As DJ says, EITC as lump sum doesn’t work for psy reasons. We work too much. So, to me, ideal would be to peg minimum wage to just over regional poverty level for one, allow EITC payments to spread across each paycheck (opposite of tax withholding so wouldn’t be technically hard to put in place) so those EITC payments get earner up to just over poverty level for family size, and decrease the work week by one hour a year for 16-20 years (adjusting up wages and EITC payments each year to maintain levels). Of course, pipe dream. LikeLike Shecky R September 16, 2015 at 8:41 am just a couple of points: 1) Correct me if I’m wrong, but seems like most places (with a couple exceptions) I see actually adopting a mandatory $15 minimum are phasing it in over YEARS, so it’s not as if businesses suddenly find themselves opening up some upcoming Monday with everyone suddenly jumping to $15/hr. 2) When businesses wail that there products/services will become uncompetitive if they have to pay employees $15/hr. they seem to be disingenuously failing to acknowledge that their competitors also suffer the very SAME plight. It’s true that if all cooks/waiters/waitresses/busboys/dishwashers make a $15 minimum the price of eating out will go up and there may be fewer customers initially (although now those very workers will have more funds for eating out themselves!), but people do adapt — my eating-out habits and frequency have changed a lot in last 4-5 yrs. with rising food costs, but few of the restaurants in my neighborhood have gone out-of-business. LikeLike Scott September 16, 2015 at 8:45 am Another piece we don’t talk about much is the increases to the labor participation rate that comes with minimum wage increases (see Card and Krueger’s original studies in 90’s). Over time this leads to whiter labor pushing out the less white. We need a solution to this, and I don’t know what it is. LikeLike Peter September 16, 2015 at 9:33 am Options A and B, are nothing more than the wealth distribution problem of our world (1% and 99% concerns). The same question is also related to taxes, where the issue is not really if we will have more or less taxes, but how the taxes will be distributed based on each taxpayer’s income and wealth. LikeLike Josh S September 16, 2015 at 10:09 am I agree with the goal. I think a basic income guarantee makes more sense. There is another practical problem (raised in some other comments) which is that the right wage (or income) for NYC is very different than for Nebraska or upstate NY. There is no perfect way to address this but national minimum should probably be set relative to a measure of what is required by locality. I am concerned that EITC just makes is easier for predatory employers to pay miniscule wages and take advantage of government subsidy. LikeLike Trevor H September 16, 2015 at 10:35 am I’m more of a Person B. I think where A loses me is in explaining why exactly that every job that is offered must have adequate value to sustain an individual or family. Not everyone that wants to work is trying to run an independent household. I don’t understand the need to establish such a threshold that outlaws the hiring and provision of lower value work. I also don’t understand what’s so special about an employment relationship that imbues so much parental type of responsibility on the employer. Besides that, as discussed above, a few simple tweaks to EITC will more efficiently achieve Person A’s aims without the unemployment risk of a too-high minimum wage. I’d be perfectly happy to see EITC expanded and improved. Kudos on your note that a $15/hr wage is probably not universally appropriate either. Puerto Rico and Mississippi already have plenty of economic problems. LikeLike Neel Krishnaswami September 16, 2015 at 11:16 am First, the EITC is very small: the maximum benefit for a couple without children is less than 500 dollars. For a full-time worker, that’s a wage subsidy of 25 cents an hour. It’s not nothing, but it’s not much, either. But suppose we did expand it. Then we’d run into the problem (common to means-tested benefits in general) that we’d create very high effective marginal rates of taxation. In combination with Medicaid and TANF, the EITC can already sometimes get marginal taxation rates of *greater* than 100% — earning a dollar more can reduce benefits by more than a dollar. Increasing the size of the benefit would make a benefits trap even sharper. If you want to avoid labor market distortions, then you need to make benefits unconditional. But expanding SNAP, Medicare, Section 8, and childcare into free, universal, non-means-tested benefits kind of puts you to the left of even Bernie Sanders. LikeLike Trevor H September 16, 2015 at 12:38 pm Neel – excellent point about marginal tax rates and indeed my first-best policy is more akin to a guaranteed national income that scraps existing alphabet soup of aid programs. But I didn’t expect that expanding EITC or raising minimum wages would have different impacts on a recipient’s marginal tax rate. Maybe I just don’t know enough about the mechanisms by which those phase-outs are computed. LikeLike ScentOfViolets September 17, 2015 at 10:38 am Do you have any figures about proportion of those trying to live off the minimum as opposed to merely wanting some pin money? Otherwise you’re arguing that even one person who just wants a little extra cash is reason enough not to raise the minimum wage. LikeLike Kevin September 16, 2015 at 10:46 am Why must every job pay a living wage? Why can’t some jobs pay other things, like the ability to acquire skills, develop a professional reputation, or build a network, which are simply other forms of payment which might be valuable to people starting their careers? Or they may provide flexibility to people who value that? Why should we make these jobs pay a living wage and thus make them unattractive for an employer to provide? The point of internships and minimum wage jobs isn’t to feed your family off them. They are to be temporary jobs. They are stepping stones to something better and won’t be as long as they pay a living wage. Doing so turns them into permanent positions. The real issue is that this economy isn’t creating enough “move up” jobs for people who want them. Spending 20 years making French fries because you can feed your family from your wages isn’t something we should think of as moving forward as a country. LikeLike Dan C. September 17, 2015 at 12:44 am “The point of internships and minimum wage jobs isn’t to feed your family off them. They are to be temporary jobs. They are stepping stones to something better and won’t be as long as they pay a living wage.” Totally false. FDR in 1933, on introducing the minimum wage law: “No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of a decent living.” More here: http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/f-d-r-makes-the-case-for-the-minimum-wage/ LikeLike Kevin September 18, 2015 at 2:22 pm Well if FDR said it in 1933 that makes it so. Seriously though, even FDR had s qualifier “depends for its existence”. Even FDR recognized that not all work must be compensated at that level. LikeLike EMB September 16, 2015 at 11:25 am Raising the EITC without also raising the minimum wage would likely further increase the share of the EITC going to low-wage employers. On the other hand, if you also raise the minimum wage up to the point where Person B’s concerns are barely starting to actually happen (maybe this is only $12 rather than $15 in some areas of the country, though studies of actual minimum wage increases show basically no sign at all of this effect), then more of the EITC increase will go to the workers. But the perfect is the enemy of the good: it’s important to keep in mind political realities. Assuming that in the fairly short term, an EITC increase is off the table and the only politically viable options are no change to help low-wage workers and a minimum wage increase, then a “Person B” who claims to be against a minimum wage increase but in favor of an EITC increase is really in favor of no change to help low-wage workers. See this editorial for more on this: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/02/opinion/krugman-better-pay-now.html LikeLike Trevor H September 16, 2015 at 12:47 pm I’m one who advocated exactly that above, I don’t agree with your characterization for a couple reasons. First, I think raising the minimum wage to $15/hr would be a net harm to the working poor. It’s complicated, primarily because the impact is asymmetric. Unemployment does much greater harm than just the loss of income. So opposing that policy and preferring another, even if unfeasible to enact, is not opposing change to help low wage workers. Second, as a citizen, I think it’s my responsibility and right to advocate the policies I think are actually best. An elected legislator, on the other hand, does need to content with political realities and not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. When I vote I can take those concerns into account if the legislator didn’t achieve my preferred policy. LikeLike EMB September 16, 2015 at 7:46 pm I’m certainly not saying people shouldn’t strongly advocate the best solutions (including things like a guaranteed basic income which would, in my opinion, be far better), I’m just saying that it’s useful to also offer your measured support to the solutions that are best given political constraints. I don’t think that a $15/hour minimum wage would be a net harm to the working poor, but I’m aware that $15 is a high enough number that there isn’t very strong evidence to support that assertion. On the other hand, the evidence that an increase to, say, $10/hour wouldn’t have any significant negative influence on employment is pretty overwhelming. So suppose that any of the other related changes were impossible but you had the power to do whatever you wanted with the federal minimum wage. What would you do? (Note that the answer isn’t necessarily just a number. For example, I might advocate gradually raising the minimum wage to $12/hour over the next four years, with subsequent gradual increases up to $15/hour tied to employment data.) LikeLike Trevor H September 17, 2015 at 11:47 am Well, since you asked… I’d abolish the national minimum wage for at least two reasons. First – There’s no single wage that will be both meaningful in high cost areas like New York City and not dreadfully harmful to poor areas like Mississippi and Puerto Rico. You can tune it by cost of living adjustments or whatever, but at that point, why bother with a national policy at all? There’s still bound to be mistakes, just let cities and states handle it. Second – I think minimum wages are a terrible mechanism for helping the working poor. Some problems have been highlighted in mine and other comments – not every low-wage worker is poor, so it’s an inefficient means of distribution. There are unemployment risks which are particularly harmful to young, unskilled workers – if you look at youth employment since the minimum wage was raised 40% during the 2008 recession, the numbers are pretty ugly compared to adult employment figures. But more fundamentally, if you want to help low-wage workers, then you should vote your own tax money to go to them through mechanisms like EITC or a guaranteed income instead of treating employers like oppressors of working people that must be hamstrung at every opportunity. That mentality is a recipe for economic stagnation. LikeLike Robert Daland September 16, 2015 at 7:51 pm The argument that I have heard from my friends in the restaurant business is that a flat minimum wage would drive many businesses out of business. For example, the margin on low-cost restaurants like McDonald’s is very thin, and those restaurants rely on an absolutely stunning volume of sales in order to make a profit. If labor costs are 30%, and then you suddenly get a doubling of the minimum wage (which would be the result of a $15 minimum wage in my home state), labor costs would now consume 60% of total expenses. Assuming the *same* sales volume, prices would have to close to double in order to maintain the same profitability. Now let me ask you this. Suppose you were getting a Big Mac Meal Deal before for $6, and now it is $10. Are you going to continue buying them with the same frequency, or is your frequency going to drop? The latter, obviously. Because it is a universal law of pricing that if the price increases, your willingness to pay decreases for anything that is not absolutely necessary for survival. It is not guaranteed for every business that there will be a new equilibrium at $15 such that the business can maintain profitability. A viable equilibrium (at $15 minimum wage) is far more likely in urban environments like New York, where a substantial proportion of customers *are* willing to pay $10 for a Big Mac Meal Deal. In my home state, a $15 minimum wage is very likely to drive many businesses to close. The pay rate for the newly unemployed is now $0/hr instead of $7.50/hr. It is hard to call this a net benefit for the poor. Incidentally, it is already possible to live on $15k in my home state, though not with the kind of lifestyle that most people would call comfortable. In short, it is possible to believe that wages should be set so that a 40-hr working week should be sufficient to support oneself and one’s contribution to a family, and yet oppose a $15 minimum wage on the grounds that it would be a net penalty for the poor. The first-order correction is to adjust the minimum wage on an area-by-area basis to adjust for the actual cost of living. It is hardly obvious that this will guarantee sustainable equilibria either, but it can’t be worse for unemployment than raising the minimum wage to $15 across the board. Would it be interesting to work these numbers out with a real restaurant? My brother might or might not be able to give me access to the balance sheet for a typical unit of a fast food restaurant in a low minimum-wage state. LikeLike Steven Cecchini September 17, 2015 at 5:45 am I think MIT did a poor job on its living wage calculator. http://www.basiceconomicsecurity.org/best/ LikeLike Steven Cecchini September 17, 2015 at 6:16 am Increased unemployment (or reduced work hours) should be the measure of the success of the economy. Freedom – in “The land of the Free” is not being enslaved by bills and debt. It is being free of them. High unemployment is the opportunity to pursue arts and music and hobbies and math problems. Bill Gates had the ability to sit in his garage and do whatever he chose. LikeLike AQ September 17, 2015 at 9:25 am I don’t understand why this is even an issue. If an employer doesn’t pay a living wage then the society pays it instead through food stamps, housing allowances, crime, death, etc. All that just so someone else can have more wealth and POWER. When society pays the costs then society is saying that this company is more important better than this company and they are picking the ‘winners.’ By that scenario Wal-Mart, Target and many other companies which have low wage workers which society pays for must be the society’s most important companies. If not, then why do we supplement their workers? Why do we give them special tax deals for property taxes, utilities, etc.? You look at what’s spent for some of the anti-worker lobbying efforts and when you figure out of the costs of that effort vs. the cost of what workers were asking for (or the implementation safety measures or environmental standards) and you come to realize that the money aspect is such a small piece of the puzzle. If it’s not about the money then what is it about? I suspect it’s about control and keeping one’s power and place in the world. That MIT calculator is ridiculous. Why in the world would one ever calculate a living wage based on a single person? That’s a huge built-in bias that says a lot about our society’s values. LikeLike AQ September 17, 2015 at 10:07 am PS. On that MIT calculator: There is also a built-in assumption that the living wage is based on 40 hours of work. With the stories we hear about service jobs and not knowing how many hours one might have from week to week, What’s the probability that $15 an hour is a living wage for even a single person if they aren’t guaranteed 40 hours a week and what does their living situation look like? Do they have a car in New York vs. California? Is there public transportation available when they need to go to work? How many roommates do they have to have? If they can’t get 40 hours of work at one job then how many jobs do they have? etc. With the $15 an hour wage, is it possible that they still qualify for food stamps? medicade? housing allowances? if they get hurt on the job how likely is it that they will get workers compensation? disability? do they have the money to hire an attorney? do they have the money for major medical expenses? Is it really a living wage or is it merely an existence wage? LikeLike jreed75 September 17, 2015 at 4:37 pm I once argued strongly in favour of person B, but I have shifted my view over time to the perspective of person A. Here is how I see it: – it’s ok for part time jobs to pay low wages because often those positions are filled by teenagers and retirees looking for a little extra scratch, – the premise of a crappy minimum wage full-time job is that the person must do it to feed him/herself and family – if that person cannot be paid a living wage by the owner then I don’t think that service or product is needed in the economy – just like low interest rates, low wages keep crappy businesses, in business. Higher interest rates and higher wages mean only good businesses survive (yes, I hope that higher wages would kill most fast food businesses as that capital could be allocated to something far far better), – I don’t like seeing mothers/fathers having to take TWO crappy full-time jobs because that just harms children. I would rather the government pay welfare because a better parent will likely produce a happier, healthier, and better kid. Some people just don’t have the ability to improve themselves, so we have to stop thinking that welfare is ALWAYS bad. We need better balance between returns to CAPITAL and wages paid to PEOPLE. Lately capital has been aggressively taking a larger chunk of the economy than it ought to. For the record, I strongly believe in free markets and I am especially concerned about liberty and the loss of it. Normally such a person would object to minimum wages. I like that certain parts of the US are experimenting with such wage policies and in this day in age I hope we have the data science to really examine cause and effect. LikeLike noneya September 17, 2015 at 6:08 pm I don’t get the Person A/B characterizations. Raising minimum wage will have the completely predictable effect of less jobs. People who keep their jobs after the increase will benefit from it, and people who’ll lose their jobs will suffer from it. Additionally, some products that exist only because of cheaper labor, will disappear, presumably to the detriment of everyone. Now given the above (facts/strong expectations?) – I’d like to see what exactly these Person A/B positions are. How exactly does Person A think we as a society are supposed to deal with the increase unemployment (or maybe we don’t deal with it) and decreased output? Shouldn’t Person B argue for decreasing the minimum wage to zero? LikeLike DJ September 18, 2015 at 10:31 am It’s really not clear that raising the minimum wage results in fewer jobs. Studies on this question are inconclusive. The proposed mechanism is that raising wages puts more money into the hands of consumers, money that otherwise would have represented corporate profits stagnating in an offshore tax haven. While farfetched, the idea is at least as plausible as, say, supply-side economics. In any case there are a bunch of less controversial labor regulations (no slavery, no child labor) which we accept even at some economic cost. LikeLike AQ September 18, 2015 at 7:03 am How come when we talk about wages when never talk about what wages are simply too much? Is any human being worth $1 Million dollars are hour to society? LikeLike CM September 18, 2015 at 8:38 am From an outsider’s perspective, I believe that an increase in (or even the existence of) minimum wage is only a temporary solution, because prices will adjust eventually and the problem will present itself again. I think a better solution would be providing universal, free (or heavily subsidized) and better public services. If one takes out the costs for education and healthcare (those cash outflows that people have little or no control on), and factors in an adequate provision of public housing and transport, then the job market can be left free to adjust itself with less worry. LikeLike Peter September 18, 2015 at 9:12 am One important considerations is that wages return back to the economy in full. Corporal profits, based on low wages, usually do not, they end up in some tax paradise. LikeLike No trackbacks yet. Comments are closed. Data science job blurbs Aunt Pythia’s advice RSS feed Google Youdao Xian Guo Zhua Xia My Yahoo! newsgator Bloglines iNezha New book! Top Posts & Pages Cool math books About Why is math research important? 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NEW YORK – “Reclaim the history of May Day for the working class!” That was the message of the April 8 organization and mobilization meeting for the May Day March and Rally that will take place May 1 in Manhattan’s Foley Square. Dozens of union locals, including SEIU 32 BJ and 1199, the United Federation of Teachers, Transport Workers Union Local 100, and peace and community groups have already endorsed it.
The demands are clear: an economic policy in the interest of the working class majority, the right to unionize and bargain collectively for all workers, full rights for immigrant workers, and jobs for all. All of this is part of the proposed platform for the May Day March and Rally.
The date is fitting for a rally that will highlight the needs of working people and immigrants. In 1884, the U.S. labor movement set May 1, 1886, as the day on which the eight-hour workday was to become standard. On that date, workers across the country – around half a million – went out on a general strike to demand the change in working hours. Rallies took place across the country, on that and following days.
On May 4, 1886, a rally in Chicago’s Haymarket Square which united native-born and immigrant workers was disrupted by a bomb thrown by provocateurs, probably from the police. Police used this as an excuse to riot, killing at least a dozen people. They arrested the main rally organizers, and eight of them were put on trial for murder, though there was never any evidence presented that they were guilty of anything other than fighting for workers’ rights. Four of those tried were executed; one committed suicide in his jail cell.
Since then, in commemoration of the rally, its martyrs, and the fight for the eight-hour day, May 1 has in most countries been declared a holiday celebrating the working class and honoring its struggles.
Kevin Lynch of RWDSU/UFCW Local 338 solidified the sentiment of all who attended the 2010 May Day rally organizing meeting. His message was: We know how we lost the day – the Cold War and McCarthyism robbed the working people of this country of our rich heritage, which goes back to the fight for the eight-hour workday in May of 1886.
Councilman Robert Jackson and several other City Council members attended along with liaisons from State Assembly members Tom Duane and Rory Lancman. The City Council is helping to mobilize for the event.
The unions are raising the funds for what promises to be a major rally: the UFT, for example, put $5,000 into the mix.
Labor and immigrant rights organizations are key players, but the organizing committee is courting, and receiving a warm reception from, local grassroots organizations. A clergy member who helped mobilize the March for America rally asked how his church could help. Veterans for Peace Chapter 34 has endorsed the event, and will be represented at the march and rally carrying a Vets for Peace flag. According to a representative of the vets, “this is the beginning of a great and momentous movement.”
“Aside from a great kick-off,” said the Vets for Peace representative, “it is always a great opportunity to reconnect and meet new people in the movement. After all, it’s about coalition-building for a better community and world.”
Dan Margolis contributed to this article.
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The events of our childhood can help influence the trajectories of the rest of our lives. The economic status of a family, as well as factors like a child's IQ, have been correlated with various forms of adult welfare, from health to financial stability. But factors like these tend to be difficult to change; why do some people overcome a difficult background, and how might we enable more people to do so? That's the question asked by a research team that has followed over 1,000 children from birth until they were 32, and the results are pretty straightforward: teach the kids a bit of self-control.
The kids in question were born in Dunedin, New Zealand, and enrolled in the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study; 32 years later, a full 96 percent of the initial cohort were still checking in. Along the way, the children, their parents, teachers, and friends reported in on their physical and mental status. Professionals also performed medical and psychiatric evaluations, giving a remarkably complete perspective on the children's development. Hundreds of papers have been produced using the data in the last decade alone.
The latest study focuses on self-control, which seems to be a major interest of the authors. "The need to delay gratification, control impulses, and modulate emotional expression," they note, "is the earliest and most ubiquitous demand that societies place on their children." That sort of self-control remains a major factor throughout adulthood, as we expect individuals to pay their debts, avoid substance abuse, and so forth. And, as the authors also note, there are some indications that self-control can change during an individual's lifetime, and may possibly be learned.
So, they used a battery of tests and surveys—from the children, their parents, their teachers—to generate a composite self-control score for the children at two-year intervals, from ages 3 through 11. They then correlated this score with a variety of measures in adulthood, including general measures of health, substance abuse, financial well-being, and criminal activity. In addition to testing for a direct correlation, they ran a statistical model that controlled for the impact of IQ and the socio-economic status of the child's parents.
Recurrent depression was just about the only thing that didn't correlate with childhood self-control. A health index that covered everything from periodontal disease to STDs showed that low self-control correlated with adult health problems; it also correlated with substance abuse issues. Kids with low self-control were more likely to end up raising kids as single parents, had lower savings, and less put away into retirement or home ownership. Finally, a scan of all the police records in Australia and New Zealand showed that criminal convictions also correlated with low childhood self-control. In some cases, IQ and socio-economic status had more profound effects, but the impact of self-control persisted after these were (ahem) controlled for.
(One amusing aside here is that a lack of childhood self-control didn't seem to make the kids any less likely to still be enrolled in the study at age 32. So, one potential confounding factor didn't seem to play a role in the results, but that seems like a somewhat odd result in itself.)
To strengthen the case for a potential causal relationship, the authors divided up the data in two different ways. They split the total population into fifths based on how much self-control they exhibited as children, and found that the degree of self control also predicted the results of the measures of adult well-being. That is, kids in the middle range of scores tended to have intermediate levels of adult health. They also identified individuals who, over the course of their childhood, had improved their self-control as they transitioned to adulthood. In these cases, the adult outcomes improved as well.
To provide a somewhat stronger control for environmental influences, the researchers also looked at a twin study that had performed a self control test at five, and had data on the individuals when they had reached 12 years old. Already, the kids with less self control were displaying antisocial behaviors, performing poorly at school, and more likely to have started smoking. The authors term these last two "traps," where the lack of self-control early helps lock the kids into habits that will damage their future health and prosperity.
The only obvious weakness of the study is its use of composite scores for some of the correlations. So, although a lot of the health measures are very objective—you don't "sort of" get an STD—the composite health scores lump the STDs in with heart disease and gum disease to create a single value. That runs the risk of accentuating the correlation by pooling a few values that aren't independent. For example, periodontal problems are often associated with heart disease. It also may gloss over some important differences in health risks; STDs, for example, would seem to be a classic self-control issue. But, overall, the work looks pretty solid.
What might set people a bit on edge, however, is the fact that the authors take their work and use it to make policy suggestions. Since it's cheaper to have a healthy, productive member of society, they suggest, governments might consider developing programs that help develop self-control in children as investments in a country's future. In addition, they suggest social programs like retirement savings be made opt-out, since those without self-control would be less likely to bother to skip them, and more likely to need them in their later years. These sorts of policy recommendations aren't typically mixed in with most research papers, which tend to focus on arguing for the direct conclusions from the work.
PNAS, 2011. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1010076108 (About DOIs). | positive |
US President Donald Trump has reportedly told advisers he might temporarily put aside a plan to reach an agreement with Russia on how to deal with Daesh terrorists and other national security issues.
Trump and his aides have made the decision following the recent provocations by Russia, including the deployment of a cruise missile which, according to the White House, violated a Cold War-era arms control treaty, administration officials and Western diplomats told the Associated Press on Saturday.
Some cabinet members, including Defense Secretary James Mattis and new national security adviser H.R. McMaster, and European allies have put Trump under pressure not to compromise with Russia.
According to an administration official, McMaster has described Russia as a country that seeks to reverse the current world order.
Trump has reportedly sent a letter to Eastern European leaders, who are concerned about possible border disputes with Russia, stressing Washington’s commitment to their security.
Trump is said to have considered a comprehensive agreement with Russia that could include cooperation in countering Daesh, nuclear arms control and Moscow’s role in Ukraine.
However, the Trump administration has changed its tone over the past few days, indicating that it may not be an appropriate time for such a deal, as the FBI is probing Trump’s campaign associates for their possible links to Russia and congressional committees are conducting inquiries into the alleged Russian meddling in the US 2016 election.
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Trump has been under pressure for his possible ties with Russia, as he has taken an unusually friendly position towards Moscow and repeatedly called for stronger relations particularly in fighting terrorism.
The US president has rejected having any connections or financial ties with Russia and stressed that he has not been aware of any contacts between his campaign advisers and Russia during the 2016 campaign, a period in which the US intelligence apparatus assumes Russia was interfering in the election in favor of Trump.
Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak (File photo)
On Saturday, former acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John McLaughlin rejected recent mainstream media claims that the Russian envoy to Washington, Sergey Kislyak, is a spy and warned against a new Cold War with Moscow.
McLaughlin warned against recent revelations that Attorney General Jeff Sessions held talks with the Russian diplomat when he was a senator and adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign before his election into office in November 2016.
Kislyak has emerged as the centerpiece of a controversy which has so far led to forced resignation of the Trump administration’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, less than a month after the new president was sworn into office.
Sessions is the second senior administration official caught in the controversy of meeting with Kislyak as lawmakers from the rival Democratic Party, which suffered heavy electoral defeats in the November elections, demand the attorney general’s resignation for failing to reveal his contacts with Kislyak prior to Trump’s inauguration.
Meanwhile, Russia's Foreign Ministry strongly denied allegations that its envoy to Washington is engaged in spying activities with spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, slamming the press rumors about Kislyak as “media vandalism.” | positive |
On Monday, House Republicans introduced the “manager’s amendment,” a set of changes to the GOP health care plan, the American Health Care Act (AHCA). The tweaks—which, among other things, repeal a prescription drug tax and a medical devices excise tax—are designed to help win over Congress members who have objected to portions of the original plan. But one aspect of the amendment is raising fresh alarm in some quarters: A clause that would affect new mothers who receive Medicaid.
Under the new provision, states can choose to rescind Medicaid coverage to unemployed mothers who don’t find work within 60 days after giving birth. This provision is modeled after Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), a state-run program that provides financial aid to qualifying poor families—and includes similar work requirements, a spokesperson for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which worked on the new AHCA bill, told Fortune.
“The provisions that give states the option to institute policies encouraging individuals enrolled in the Medicaid program to begin looking for work are based on the successful, bipartisan welfare reform efforts under President Bill Clinton,” said the spokesperson.
States can choose to exempt new mothers from the from the work requirements if they also have a child who is disabled or under six years of age. States also have the option to expand that 60-day window if they choose.
According to Alina Salganicoff, the vice president and director of women’s policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, the amendment would put “women in difficult position of finding work soon after delivery and needing to find childcare, or staying home and being uninsured.”
Nearly 28% of those on Medicaid say they can’t find work because they’re too busy taking care of a home or family, and about eight in ten Medicaid recipients are part of a family with at least one working member. “Most low-income people who aren’t working is because they have other responsibilities,” said Usha Ranji, the associate director of women’s health policy at the Kaiser Foundation.
Critics of the AHCA have claimed it only benefits wealthy Americans, pointing to proposals to either do away with or cut back on services that many lower-income women (and others) rely on—such as defunding Planned Parenthood or rolling back the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. | positive |
Robert Todd Schlopy (born June 17, 1961) is a motion picture cameraman and former American football placekicker.
Born in Bradford, Pennsylvania and raised in Buffalo, NY, Schlopy attended Orchard Park High School in Orchard Park, New York. He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines from 1981 to 1984 where he was a two-time Academic All-Big Ten placekicker. [1]
As a Western New York native, Schlopy, a barefoot placekicker, signed a contract with the Buffalo Bills in 1985. In 1986 he signed with the Seattle Seahawks where he had an outstanding pre-season but failed to unseat incumbent Norm Johnson. A highly sought-after free agent, Schlopy again signed with Buffalo in 1987 feeling that was his best opportunity to win a job. The Bills were under new head coach Marv Levy and new quarterback Jim Kelly. After a spectacular pre-season Schlopy, didn't get the opportunity to attempt any field goals in the regular season and was released. He was called upon several weeks later during the 1987 NFL Players Strike to fill in as placekicker for the Buffalo Bills, while Scott Norwood took part in the strike.[2] Schlopy attempted no field goals in his first two games, made one extra point and another extra point blocked. Schlopy played a crucial role in the Bills' win against the New York Giants, kicking two field goals for a 6–3 victory, the second coming with 19 seconds remaining in overtime. In doing so Schlopy became one of 3 barefoot kickers in NFL history to win a regular season game in overtime. Schlopy's professional football career ended after that game when the strike ended and Norwood returned.
Schlopy became a cameraman on feature films beginning in 1989. He joined the IASTE local 600 Camera Guild in 1996.[3][3] His credits include Revenant (first assistant camera, 2015), Iron Man 3 (first assistant camera second unit, 2013), Transformers (first assistant camera, 2007), Air Force One (first assistant camera,1997), Seabiscuit (first assistant camera, 2003), Academy award winning Crash (first assistant camera, 2004), Swordfish (first assistant camera, 2001), Bad Times at the El Royale (first assistant camera, 2018), A Bad Moms Christmas (first assistant camera, 2017) Ride Along and Ride Along 2, (first assistant camera 2014 and 2016), Primary Colors (first assistant Steadicam 1998) Starship Troopers (first assistant Steadicam, 1997), Wanted (first assistant camera, 2008), The Rookie (first assistant camera, 2002) Red Dawn (first assistant camera, 2011), Jonah Hex (first assistant camera, 2010), High School (first assistant camera, 2010), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (first assistant camera, 2009), Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (first assistant camera, 2008), Herbie: Fully Loaded (first assistant camera, 2005), Shallow Hal (first assistant camera, 2001), and Ski Patrol (second assistant camera, 1990) .[4] [4]
His son, Alex Schlopy, is a freeskier who won a gold medal at the 2011 Winter X Games in the big air contest.[3] His cousin, Erik Schlopy, is a former alpine skier who competed at three editions of the Olympics; through Erik, the Schlopys are related by marriage to swimmer and media personality Summer Sanders.[5] | positive |
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman made sure his owners would enjoy their summer this year.
Thanks to another run of prosperity after the NHL settled its labour problems 18 months ago, Bettman was able to tell the owners there will be a little extra in their piggy banks for the coming season. Each of the 30 teams will get an unexpected $5-million (all currency U.S.) thanks to the success of the league's Stadium Series and the first payment by Rogers Communications Inc., on its $5.2-billion, 12-year broadcast deal. That is a total of $150-million in cheques mailed out this summer.
The Stadium Series was the four outdoor games played last season in addition to the existing Winter Classic and Heritage Classic. They were added for a revenue boost following the 2012-13 lockout and paid off nicely for the NHL despite fears the league was flirting with killing the golden goose.
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Prosperity is always relative in the NHL, so for a club such as the Toronto Maple Leafs the $5-million is not going to set off any parties. But for clubs such as the Arizona Coyotes and Florida Panthers (who are still trying to talk Broward County into an annual subsidy of $5.7-million) it is a great bonus at a time of year when the cash flow is pretty thin.
Actually, bonus is probably not the best way to put this.
The collective agreement calls for the owners and players to split all hockey-related revenue (HRR) 50-50 so every penny has to be counted. Long gone are the days the league office could quietly slip some money under the table to an owner with a case of the shorts. This money will probably be considered an advance on the shared league revenue for the coming season. The NHL likes to stay on the conservative side when it is estimating league revenue (which was about $3.6-billion in 2013-14), so the $5-million represents a change in projection of the 2014-15 HRR.
By the time the bean counters from both the NHL and the NHL Players' Association gather in the summer of 2015 to determine the final HRR count for the 2014-15 season, that $150-million paid out this summer will be accounted for. And it should also play into a nice jump in the salary cap from $69-million to something around $75-million for 2015-16.
The Coyotes made another nice little score this week when they signed a new arena naming-rights contract with Gila River Casinos, which is owned by the Gila River Indian Community. The deal is for nine years and will pay the Coyotes around $3.5-million per year, which is a significant hike from the previous contract with Jobing.com. Once the deal is approved by Glendale City council, the rink will be called Gila River Arena.
While the NHL is enjoying the benefits of the new Canadian television deal, the same cannot be said for the people writing those big cheques. The word out of Rogers Communications Inc., is that the board of directors has everyone below them sweating to wring every cent of revenue out of the NHL broadcast rights on every platform the company owns or controls.
There is much fear the company overpaid for the deal, as the Rogers-BCE Inc., consortium did several years ago for the Olympic rights and wasn't able to turn a profit. Cost-cutting is the management mantra, which led to a steady stream of layoffs and firings.
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The trouble for Rogers is that it only has two ways to earn revenue on the package – selling advertising and attracting new subscribers for its networks that will carry the games. It is possible the company could ask the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for permission to raise its cable fees but people in the industry do not believe the CRTC would agree.
So the heat is on Rogers' advertising sales staff and viewers can expect to see all of the best games outside of Saturday night on the Sportsnet and City networks in order to entice people to sign up. | positive |
Domain Names » Iowa Lawyer Home Content RSS Log in Iowa Lawyer Iowa Lawyer Search for: Home ABOUT CONTACT FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM PRIVACY POLICY TWITTER YOUTUBE Posts Tagged ‘Domain Names’ Iowa Expungement 101 April 20th, 2022 Under Iowa law, you can expunge, or erase, three types of criminal records: 1. Possession of Alcohol Under the Legal Age (PAULA), which are also referred to as Minor In Possession convictions (i.e., M.I.P.), may be erased in accordance with Iowa Code 123.47, as long as 2 years have actually passed from the time of conviction and you received no new citations (not including simple moving vehicle offenses) during the course of the same two year time span. In most cases, it is high school students and university undergraduates that receive such convictions and need to get them expunged before they send resumes for jobs, summer internships, higher education, or professional degrees. In today’s competitive market, even a minor misdemeanor record might be a serious hindrance. 2. Public Intoxication– which describes drinking alcohol in public, being intoxicated in the open, or merely pretending to be intoxicated in public– could be removed pursuant to Iowa Statute 123.46 as long as 2 years have passed since the judgment of conviction and you received no other criminal convictions (not taking into account minor motor vehicle infractions) throughout that same 2 year time (these are the exact same conditions for removing a PAULA in Iowa ). You may receive a public intoxication citation regardless of age. Consequently, many adults who may have plead guilty to a public intoxication charge while tailgating or at a wedding party, for instance, wisely do what’s necessary to expunge the record before it impacts their employment, credit rating, or even references. 3. Deferred Judgments are a form of judicial leniency that can apply to a broad range of criminal violations that are generally minor in nature. In the usual deferred judgment situation, a charged individual pleads guilty to the citation, but the judge defers, or waits before entering, the guilty plea and orders probation instead. Granted that all the conditions of probation are properly performed, then the record can be sealed off from the public record. The Iowa Expungement Process: The process for expunging Iowa criminal records is reasonably simple, and can be summarized in three basic steps. First, is the drafting of a legal document called the petition, or application to the judge, seeking expungement. The petition needs to contain the relevant facts along with the proper Iowa code sections regarding your case. Second, after the petition or application has been properly drafted, it must be filed with the correct courthouse (each of Iowa’s ninety-nine counties has its own court building) and served to the appropriate prosecuting attorney’s address. Finally, if you complete the correct filings and satisfy the expungement prerequisites, the judge rules on your petition and will frequently grant the expungement with no a hearing by docketing an order necessitating that the court clerk and necessary state agencies expunge or seal the case history. You have a right to either handle your own expungement or hire a lawyer. The decision is up to you. Commonly, the more intricate the legal matter, the more you require a lawyer. Fortunately, expungements in Iowa are often relatively simple, in other words, if you meet the requirements for expungement under Iowa code, the judge must grant your petition. All you need to get the expungement is to file the correct legal filings with clerk of court and send them to the correct parties. With the right resources, many people are able to successfully file their own expungements in Iowa at a fraction of the cost of hiring an attorney. 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Rosberg: Webber was tougher team mate than Schumacher
Feb.23 (GMM) Nico Rosberg has named Australian Mark Webber as his toughest teammate in Formula 1 so far, despite the German currently being in the same team as seven times Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher.
Rosberg made his grand prix debut as Webber’s team mate at Williams in 2006, moving four seasons later to Mercedes.
While at Williams, Rosberg also raced as teammate to Alex Wurz and Kazuki Nakajima.
Rosberg’s Mercedes move in 2010 coincided with Schumacher’s return to formula one, at the same Brackley based team, where they have been teammates ever since.
When asked by Sport Bild who his toughest teammate has been, he answered: “Mark Webber in 2006, then Michael.”
And he hopes he will be in front of his famous current teammate yet again in 2012, particularly with Mercedes hoping its new W03 is a race winner.
“To be the first German to win in the new Silver Arrow would be an absolute dream for me,” said Rosberg, whose father Keke won the title in 1982. | positive |
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UPDATE: Bond Set At $2 Million For Man Charged In Chillicothe Murder
A $2 million bond was set for Donnie Couchenour Jr., 27, by a Ross County judge on Wednesday morning. Couchenour has been charged in the murder of a woman found hanging from a fence near North Brownell Street in Chillicothe on Tuesday morning.
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Chillicothe police arrested a man accused of murdering a woman found hanging from a fence.
A neighbor discovered her body Tuesday morning.
Police said she was found hanging from a fence near Hardin Drive and North Brownell Street in Chillicothe.
27-year-old Donnie Couchenour Jr. was arrested around 6:15 p.m. Tuesday without incident. He was taken to the Ross County Jail on one count of murder.
Chillicothe police have been investigating the murder since 8:30 a.m. They received a call that an I.D. had been found on the ground at a dead end on North Rose Street. The 911 caller said he found shoes, a cell phone, and an I.D.
Neighbors who spotted the body said the woman was hanging by her hand and it looked like she was beaten.
"Her hand was up there like she had been either placed on the fence or smashed into the fence somehow. Her sleeve had gotten caught up there or something, but she had no shoes, nothing. And where I could see you couldn't tell if it was male or female, or what it was. It was just that bad," said witness Sasha Taylor.
Couchenour is being held without bond. Police have not released the victim's identity, but said they do not believe this death is connected to the deaths and disappearances of six other women in Ross County.
Investigators said the victim is not one of the missing women and the murder is not related to any current, open investigation at this time.
Chillicothe police say an autopsy will be performed on the victim Wednesday.
Mothers of Missing Ross County Women Pleading For Answers
Meanwhile, the families of those other women stood at the Chillicothe Police Department Tuesday evening to release balloons into the sky for their missing or dead children. They're asking for support and answers about what is happening in their community.
Even though the sound of police sirens drowned out the prayer, the hope that came from a vigil overpowered the noise.
"Someone knows something. There has to be a break somewhere. It's just been too long," Yvonne Boggs, the mother of missing Charlotte Trego, said.
The mothers want to remind the Chillicothe community there are still two women missing their town, and they are still pleading for answers.
"They need to come out and support us. We need that. We need to know that they care," Diana Willett said.
Both Yvonne Boggs and Diana Willett still hold onto hope their daughters are alive. Charlotte Trego and Wanda Lemons have been missing for more than year.
"It's an everyday struggle, and the longer it is the harder it is. It's getting to the point where I can't hardly handle it," Willett said.
Willett found out about the woman found dead Tuesday morning on the internet. She thought it was her daughter, Wanda.
"It just goes right through you. Is that my baby? Is that my girl," Willett said.
"It just seems strange if you sit back and look at when this started. One come up missing, one come up dead. And that's how it's been," Boggs said.
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Mid Week Match-Up: Find A Cheap SUV For M - DailyTurismo Menu DT-Gear How To Buy A Used Car Submissions About Us Signup for DT Email Log In Register August 30, 2019 Mid Week Match-Up: Find A Cheap SUV For M DailyTurismo Uncategorized CR-V, Honda, Mid Week Match-Up 9 Welcome back to another episode of DT’s favorite game of musical thrones…known better as “Mid Week Match-Up” which is a strange name for a game on Friday, but we aren’t here to talk about that. We are here to talk about DT’s friend, who for the sake of anonymity will be called M. M isn’t a secret agent, but he does need a car that has a few special needs. First it must be cheap…like $4,000ish out the door. Next, it needs to be newish and safe — since this will be the car that M’s wife will get her US driver’s license and learn to drive…so it does need to be automatic and at least 4 seats. Let’s recap– $4k, auto, safe, newish, oh…and located in SoCal, near Long Beach if possible…and it needs to be something that doesn’t trigger the insurance agents to see green (new driver…so no Land Rovers or Lexus LS430s). I’m going to suggest this 2002 Honda CR-V offered for $3,800 in Downey, CA via craigslist. It offers the right level of decent miles, ease of driving, and low cost to be a contender. What do you recommend for agent M? Comments below. Shark Nose Classic: 1984 BMW 635CSi Diesel Powered: 1980 Chevrolet Corvette Matt Cramer says: August 30, 2019 at 1:41 pm My father taught me how to drive on a stick shift 1981 Datsun 210 that made 50 hp when new, and I'm not sure how many of those ponies were present and accounted for by the time I drove it. He did so on the theory that if I could drive that, I could drive anything. This Peugeot Diesel swapped Suzuki Sidekick would be the same idea in SUV form. OK, this probably isn't the best approach unless you also want to be able to teach the misses to be able to fix anything. But I'm of the opinion that a teach a new driver car needs to be a stick shift. So how about this Toyota 4Runner? Manual transmission and still very competent at rock crawling and other SUV applications. You'd need to talk him just a little bit down on price. Log in to Reply Kaibeezy says: August 30, 2019 at 3:34 pm Life is far too nasty, brutish and short to drive a new, cheap, automa… zzZZZ… wha?! Oh, dozed right off there. The first car that came up on LBCL was this dy-no-mite custom Eldo! $14K, but it's only money, YOLO, FOMO and so forth. [image src=" images.craigslist.org/00T0T_j72pn9uZpWi_600x450.jpg" width="500px"/] [image src=" images.craigslist.org/00H0H_lsvZiU78EeF_600x450.jpg" width="500px"/] Log in to Reply Peter says: August 30, 2019 at 5:22 pm That is very special. I wonder if the concrete block under the front wheel will hurt the 14k ask. Log in to Reply Brad says: August 30, 2019 at 4:57 pm Will be hard-pressed to be the CRV for simplicity, reliability, and price. But if you wanted to move a touch up market, here's a 116k mile Highlander for $4200: losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/ctd/d/van-nuys-2003-toyota-highlander-116k/6949374408.html Log in to Reply Anonymous says: August 30, 2019 at 5:19 pm Low insurance rates, lots of room, try this 2004 Buick Century Custom right in their own backyard for a cool $3,000.00. losangeles.craigslist.org/lgb/cto/d/whittier-04-buick-century-custom-low/6966923942.html Log in to Reply JB1025 says: August 30, 2019 at 5:25 pm Well hard to go wrong with a Toyota Rav4 or the Honda Crv But under the radar a Suzuki SX-4 wagon is worth a look newer then the other 2 price is 4k or less also. Log in to Reply kidrod says: August 30, 2019 at 7:52 pm VehiCROSS!! Newish? Eh. Safe? Yes. Reliable? Yes-ish. Will link if I can find one locally. Log in to Reply Kaibeezy says: August 30, 2019 at 7:53 pm Yeah, not only the concrete block, the hood ornament is snapped off. Log in to Reply Today Job Circular BD says: September 7, 2019 at 9:29 am That is extremely uncommon. I wonder if the solid square under the front wheel will hurt the 14k inquire. 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Submissions:2019/Wikimedia and the Sustainable Development Goals — what next? - WikiConference North America Submissions:2019/Wikimedia and the Sustainable Development Goals — what next? From WikiConference North America Revision as of 07:22, 11 October 2019 by SuperHamster (talk | contribs) (Allocated time for lightning talk) (diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) Jump to navigation Jump to search Liv Inger Somby speaking at Wikimania 2019 on indigenous languages, with cubes representing the Sustainable Development Goals on stage This submission has been designated as a lightning talk at WikiConference North America 2019. Etherpad Title: Wikimedia and the Sustainable Development Goals — what next? Theme: Reliability of Information + Relationship Building & Support + Inclusion and Diversity + Editor Recruitment & Retention + Tech & Tools + Harassment Civility & Safety + Other Type of session: Round Table Abstract: Wikimania 2019 had the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as their theme. In this session, we want to explore avenues for further engagement between the Wikimedia and Sustainable Development communities, with special emphasis on underserved communities, topics, languages etc. within the Wikimedia ecosystem Wikimedia-related activities in or relevant to North America Academic Peer Review option: No Author name: Daniel Mietchen E-mail address: daniel.mietchen virginia.edu Wikimedia username: Daniel Mietchen Affiliated organization(s): WikiCite; University of Virginia Estimated time: 45 min Preferred room size: 20-30 Special requests: Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?: Yes, e.g. at Wikimania 2017 and 2018 If your submission is not accepted, would you be open to presenting your topic in another part of the program? (e.g. lightning talk or unconference session) Yes Retrieved from "https://wikiconference.org/index.php?title=Submissions:2019/Wikimedia_and_the_Sustainable_Development_Goals_—_what_next%3F&oldid=14512" Categories: Submissions/2019 Submissions/2019/Lightning Talks Submissions/2019/Reliability Submissions/2019/Inclusion & Diversity Submissions/2019/Relationship Building & Support Submissions/2019/Editor Recruitment & Retention Submissions/2019/Tech & Tools Submissions/2019/Harassment, Civility, & Safety Navigation menu Personal tools English Create account Log in Namespaces Submissions Discussion Variants Views Read View form View source View history More Search WCNA 2022 Event page Schedule Safe space policy Merch Store Contact Organizers Unconference Lightning talks WCNA 2021 Event page Schedule Safe space policy Merch Store Contact Organizers Unconference Lightning talks Past and partners Past events Learn about WikiCred Brand Tools What links here Related changes Special pages Printable version Permanent link Page information Page values This page was last edited on 1 December 2019, at 18:35. Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike unless otherwise noted. Privacy policy About WikiConference North America Disclaimers | negative |
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Hard moneylenders, despite their non-traditional status, continue to be organized moneylenders and are typically in a way licensed to loan money. Private lenders are simply what their name suggests, private. They may be a buddy, member of the family, business affiliate, or possibly only a professional referral. In almost any situation, their role like a provider of funding is just while you concur together. Hard moneylenders normally have lending criteria. Their loans have defined durations, rates of interest, and upfront points, which are known in front of you loan ever being issued. Actually, these criteria are frequently accustomed to differentiate and choose hard moneylenders, when investors are searching for available alternatives. Private money is a lot more flexible on all the points pointed out above. They have no preset criteria and also the loans you’re employed by helping cover their them are nearly always the purpose of methods you negotiate them for the loan. 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Shukri Hussein was only 23 when he first bought some land, with a friend, to start a farm at Praventsi, a village close to Novi Pazar, in north-east Bulgaria. Ten years later the biology graduate heads a 110-hectare organic farm with a workforce of 35.
He was pleased with what he had achieved and had no intention of letting anyone spoil his dream. At the beginning of January he joined thousands of others to protest against plans to explore the huge shale-gas reserves in his region. Their efforts were crowned with success. In June last year the Bulgarian government had granted a permit to the US firm Chevron to prospect across 4,400 sq km around Novi Pazar.
But in January parliament withdraw the permit issued to Chevron, and also decided to ban exploration of shale-gas reserves using the controversial hydraulic-fracturing (fracking) technique.
MPs cited as a precedent a French ban enacted last July, as Bulgaria became only the second state to ban the procedure.
The government had hoped that the new energy source would reduce the nation's almost complete dependence on imported Russian gas, supplied by Gazprom. Bulgarian shale-gas reserves are estimated to amount to at least 300bn cubic metres, according to the economy and energy ministry.
"To begin with everyone was really enthusiastic," says Hussein. "We thought we'd get rich overnight. But when I realised the hazards this technology entails I was very concerned. I've worked hard for the past 10 years to build up the farm. If they start drilling for shale gas I'll lose everything."
Bulgaria's reserves are several thousands of metres deep. Injecting water, sand and chemicals under high pressure to fracture the bedrock and release the gas involves a serious risk of groundwater contamination.
The risk is particularly serious in the Novi Pazar area, due to its particular geology. But looking further afield, fracking could affect the whole of the north-eastern Dobrudja region. "We were promised lots of jobs and other miracles," says Vessko Dimov, a dental surgeon from Novi Pazar who launched the anti-fracking protest movement. "But when we woke up to the hazards involved we decided to oppose the project."A petition collected 15,000 signatures in a month and, much to the protesters' surprise, several councils in the area decided to oppose fracking.
The campaign spread to Veliki Preslaz, a small town about 40km southeast of Novi Pazar. This historic stronghold is a tourist attraction and feared that trade might suffer.
From 893 to 972 the town was the Bulgarian empire's second capital and the ruins of the old citadel are testimony to its past splendour. "The travel trade is vital for our town," says the leader of the local council Aleksandar Gorchev, elected three months ago. "Shale-gas exploitation is a real danger for us. Everyone would be OK if this technology did not pose any problems, but that's not the case."
In mid-January the anti-fracking demonstrations spread to the capital Sofia and a dozen other towns across Bulgaria. "I have to admit that at first, I didn't believe we could do it," says Hussein. "It's a big victory for us. In Dubai, they spend a fortune to make the desert inhabitable, whereas here in Europe we have everything we need. We don't want to turn it into a desert."
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BB Creations: Thursday Movie Picks-Horror Comedy BB Creations Thursday, October 21, 2021 Thursday Movie Picks-Horror Comedy I am writing this way ahead which feels really strange. It might mean I am organized. I should be recuperating in bed now, watching movies, reading and looking at my blog :) So the theme this week has a ton of films one can choose from. Wandering Through The Stars came up with another great theme and it will be fun to see what everyone else will choose. Here are my 3... 1. THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES-1946 This is one of my favourite Abbott & Costello films because it is not the usual film these 2 make. Lou Costello is a ghost along with a young pretty ghost who were wrongly accused during the American revolution and were shot for it. The home is bought by a young man who brings his fiancee, her aunt and his psychiatrist, Bud Abbott, to this estate. They soon realize the place is haunted and what they need to do to help the spirits leave this earthly domain. I guess the 2 leads had some falling out which is one of the reasons it led to this famous comedic duo to not be "friends" in the movie and have all these comedic bits not show up as they did in all their other films. It is entertaining and quite fun to sit back and enjoy. 2. THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN-1966 This stars Don Knotts (from the Andy Griffith Show) when he was quite big back in the 1960s who made quite a few films during this timen almost always as some bumbling oaf. I watched this a lot when I was a kid and just re-watched it about a year ago. There are some great character actors in this film with so many having been on Bewitched (like Dick Sargent who played the 2nd Darren in Bewitched). I love the music in this movie along with the eeriness of the home and that organ music! Poor Don is a typesetter for the local newspaper who dreams of hitting it big. Everyone is scared of this one home but scaredy-cat Knotts boasts that he will have no problem staying at the home. This man gets scared seeing dust! He enters the home and no sooner that he pays out his sleeping bag, he hears that organ music, finds a hidden door and shears in a woman's painting that is dripping blood. He runs from the home and tells everyone what he sees but no one believes him except for this one good looking girl who, somehow, has the hots for Don. It is fun and makes you wish they would make more silly movies like this. 3. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN-1974 I love Mel Brooks who made this classic film starring Gene Wilder as the nutty Frankenstein who inherits his granddaddy's castle. We meet Madeline Kahn as his fiancee, Marty Feldman as Igor (who steals every scene), Terry Garr as the lovely assistant, Cloris Leachman as Frau Blucher, Kenneth Mars as Inspector Kemp and Peter Boyle as the Monster. This is ideal casting with a great director who loves all the old Hollywood Frankenstein films and must have watched them several times since you can see where Brooks was inspired by. I just watched the first 3 Frankenstein films and started to laugh with the last one because of the Inspector. Cloris Leachman is brilliant as the housekeepr who must have watched Una O'Connor in The Bride of Frankenstein to get some mannerisms down pat. Mel Brooks found the old set and equipment from the original 1931 film and re-used them here, plus he filmed it in black and white which is perfect. Of course Frankenstein builds a monster and the town is ready with pitchforks but just sit back and watch this and have a good laugh. Sorry for any spelling and grammatical errors. I haven't the time to fix it. What films would you choose? Posted by Birgit at 10/21/2021 24 comments: Denise October 21, 2021 at 6:09 AM I am not sure if I have seen your choices in their entirety. My first thought was Abbott and Costello and I had a theme within a theme: A and C Meet Frankenstein; Meet the Invisible Man; Meet the Mummy - which I loved. Hope you are feeling well today. And hubby too. ReplyDelete Replies Birgit October 22, 2021 at 4:42 PM A theme within a theme! I do love A & C including the monster ones. I am slowly getting better. Delete Replies Reply Reply Shady Del Knight October 21, 2021 at 6:49 AM Hi, Birgit! Your encouraging words yesterday came as a welcome relief, dear friend, and I hope you are continuing to get that lingering pain under control and feeling more like yourself every day. I was exposed to the comedy films of Abbott & Costello at an early age. Lou always made me laugh, a genuinely funny fellow. I'm surprised I never saw their atypical film release The Time of Their Lives. It looks like one of their best. From 1953 through 1958, I watched Marjorie Reynolds in the main cast role of Wm. Bendix's wife Peg on TV's The Life of Riley. Regarding the headless ghost woman coming down the stairs - "I call bullcrap!" (I love to borrow that quote) - I'm pretty sure that scene relied on special effects! Don Knotts was another truly funny man, even more so to me than Lou Costello. I watched and enjoyed his Mr. Chicken movie. As I'm sure you know, Barney Fife's Mayberry girlfriend Thelma Lou, actress Betty Lynn, died five days ago at the age of 95. I admire Terry Garr and Cloris Leachman but, overall, I am not a huge fan of the Mel Brooks style of comedy or other actors in his troupe. When I laugh at his gags, it's not with the same spontaneity, surprise and delight I experience when watching the pathetic, underdog, born loser characters portrayed by Lou Costello and Don Knotts. I would list the Three Stooges' shorts We Want Our Mummy (1939), Spook Louder (1943), Shivering Sherlocks (1948), Mummy's Dummies (1948), The Ghost Talks (1949) and Spooks (1953) along with the other fun-scary features made by Abbott & Costello in which they "Meet" Frankenstein, Boris, Jekyll & Hyde, Invisible Man, the Mummy and other creatures of the night. Hope you are feeling better by the hour, dear friend BB. Enjoy the rest of your week and weekend! ReplyDelete Replies Birgit October 22, 2021 at 5:09 PM I mean to write something very soon. I am feeling better but still pain from the operation. This will last a bit longer than the norm because of my connective tissue disorder. My brother is not a fan of Mel Brooks either. I love him, obviously. I hope you get to see this A & C film but I thought headless girl was real...lol. I do love their other horror comedy flicks too and the 3 Stooges. Delete Replies Reply Reply Alex J. Cavanaugh October 21, 2021 at 7:33 AM Young Frankenstein! Excellent choice. My second favorite Mel Brooks movie. Actually, the first thing that came to mind was Ghostbusters. ReplyDelete Replies Birgit October 22, 2021 at 5:09 PM Yes and I too, love Blazing Saddles Ghostbusters is a great pick and so funny. Delete Replies Reply Reply dutchess October 21, 2021 at 8:34 AM Hi Birgit…just hoping your recovery is going well and you are not in too much pain….take care and go slowly…..xxx ReplyDelete Replies Birgit October 22, 2021 at 5:10 PM I am resting a lot and am slowly getting better. Delete Replies Reply Reply Bleubeard and Elizabeth October 21, 2021 at 9:27 AM I hope by now you are feeling much better and the pain meds have taken the pain away. I have never even heard of the first two, but what else is new, right? However, I hope you are lying down comfortably, because I have actually seen the Mel Brooks movie Young Frankenstein. I saw it on Turner Movie Classics and I loved it. It was beautifully done, as with all Mel Brooks movies. Thanks for the synopses, dear. They are always great. ReplyDelete Replies Birgit October 22, 2021 at 5:12 PM Still taking pain meds but I take longer to heal. I'm glad you saw my last pick which is very funny. Delete Replies Reply Reply Debbie D. October 21, 2021 at 10:40 AM Hi Birgit, I hope your recovery is going well! I haven't seen your first choice, but know the other two. Mel Brooks' comedies are such classics! ☺ My favourite funny horror film is Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) ReplyDelete Replies Birgit October 22, 2021 at 5:13 PM I have to look up your pick. It sounds familiar but I don't think I saw it. I am on the mend Delete Replies Reply Reply cuilliesocks October 21, 2021 at 12:13 PM Hi Birgit I hope you are recovering well, and not in any pain. Young Frankenstein was and still is absolutely brilliant, I laughed till I cried, first time I saw it, I still find it hilarious, take care, Kate xx ReplyDelete Replies Birgit October 22, 2021 at 5:15 PM Pain is still there but not as severe as last week. I'm glad you love my last pick which is so funny. Delete Replies Reply Reply Arlee Bird October 21, 2021 at 12:37 PM You've got some really good picks. I would also go with any of the Abbott and Costello meet whatever horror character films. Loved those as a kid and still enjoy seeing them. Also I might go with the original Ghostbusters. Arlee Bird Tossing It Out ReplyDelete Replies Birgit October 22, 2021 at 5:16 PM Yeah, I could have done a whole bunch of A & C films with Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolfman, etc... Ghostbusters is excellent Delete Replies Reply Reply joel65913 October 21, 2021 at 2:07 PM Hi Birgit! Hope you are mending well! Make sure to get plenty of rest, look forward to you being well enough to get back to commenting. Also hope the hubby is coming along smoothly too! The Time of Their Lives is my very favorite A&C film!!! But I've used it before. It is an unusual one in their filmography, apparently they were so estranged when it was being made they didn't speak at all unless it was on camera. They patched up their differences to a certain extent but their relationship remained rocky until Lou's death. As unfortunate as that is this is a sweet cheery comedy with both guys seemingly rejuvenated by their new scene partners. The supporting cast is also a great one (I LOVE Binnie Barnes!!) though Lynn Baggett who is the romantic female lead for John Shelton had a tragic personal life ending in her suicide at 36. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken!! What an eclectic group of films Don Knotts made. I prefer The Incredible Mr. Limpet to this but it's an enjoyable ball of fluff with Don fussing and fluttering like crazy. Though it's not one of Mel Brooks' films that I revisit often Young Frankenstein is so clever with each role cast to perfection. Not being one for modern horror I reached back like you and was at first tempted like Denise to do a set of the A&C horror comedies but it's been a long time since I've seen them so I moved on, but I did include one of the fellas pictures along with two others from the same period. Hold That Ghost (1941)-Inheriting a mobster’s dilapidated country tavern rumored to contain hidden treasure through an odd set of circumstances Chuck Murray and Ferdie Jones (Abbott & Costello) find themselves trapped there on a dark and stormy night. Along with some other stranded travelers the boys live through a night of wacky shenanigans including a ghost, hidden doors and a couple of vanishing detectives while looking for the loot. One of A&C’s better films, you even get a couple of musical numbers by The Andrews Sisters. You’ll Find Out (1940)-Heiress Janis Bellacrest (Helen Parrish) books Kay Kyser (Kay Kyser) and his big band “The Kollege of Musical Knowledge” including singer Ginny Simms and Ish Kabibble to play her 21st birthday party at her country mansion. When an intense storm blows in the band finds themselves stuck along with Janis, her eccentric Aunt Margo (Alma Kruger) and trio of questionable “friends” professor Fenniger (Peter Lorre), Prince Soliano (Bela Lugosi) and Judge Mainwaring (Boris Karloff) as things go bump in the night. A trifle overlong but a chance to see three horror giants playing for laughs. The Ghost Breakers (1940)-Inheriting a distant relative’s supposedly haunted castle of an isolated island off the Cuban coast young Mary Carter (Paulette Goddard) decides to take possession despite a stranger’s (Anthony Quinn) warning to stay away. Setting sail Mary finds radio announcer Larry Lawrence (Bob Hope), on the lam because he thinks he’s bumped off a gangster’s henchman, stowed away in her trunk. Amid pratfalls and wisecracks Mary & Larry team up to get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that curse the spooky estate. ReplyDelete Replies Birgit October 22, 2021 at 5:27 PM I am slowly on the mend but it takes me a while. Hubby is doing really well which is great. I am glad you love my A & C pick because I love this one maybe because they were not like their usual selves. Yes, Knotts was great as the fish and is better than this one but just love this one. Funny that you also picked the other A & C film I almost went with which is a fun one too. I also was so close in picking The Bob Hope film which is funny and I love Paulette Goddard. I have not seen your middle pick, I don't think so but I might have whenni was little. I need to see it. Delete Replies Reply Reply Liz A. October 21, 2021 at 10:58 PM I have never seen Young Frankenstein. I know, a travesty. One of these days... I did see The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. Years ago. I was a kid, I'm sure. Those movies played on weekends on our channel 5. I don't remember much about it, though. ReplyDelete Replies Birgit October 22, 2021 at 5:28 PM One day you will see Young Frankenstein unless you don't like Mel Brooks. We have Silver Screen Classics so The Don Knotts film was on again and I rewatched it. Delete Replies Reply Reply Dan October 22, 2021 at 4:31 AM Young Frankenstein - it just never gets old. While I'm not Mel Brooks' biggest fan, Gene Wilder never fails to delight me and here he's as good as ever. ReplyDelete Replies Birgit October 22, 2021 at 5:29 PM Gene is great in this and I love it when he asks them to open the door. Delete Replies Reply Reply Hilary Melton-Butcher October 22, 2021 at 5:40 AM Hi Birgit - I do hope you're feeling easier ... take care - I haven't seen any of these - I hope I'll get to see them. Cheers and all the very best - Hilary ReplyDelete Replies Birgit October 22, 2021 at 5:30 PM I am slowly feeling better but still it will take time. I am better from last week for sure. Delete Replies Reply Reply Add comment Load more... 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Introducing Guild Wars 2's new profession: the revenant When Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet announced its first expansion to the popular MMO last month, it revealed a few key pieces to get fans excited. One of those was a new class (or "profession," in Guild Wars 2 terminology): the revenant. This initial reveal came with limited details. ArenaNet announced that one of Guild Wars 2's main characters, Rytlock Brimstone, would be the first revenant in the game, and that the class would channel powers of heroes from the game world's past, but that was about it. Now ArenaNet has shared a ton more details to Polygon, including new mechanics the revenant will employ, the weapons they'll carry into battle and the identities of some of the well-known Guild Wars 1 heroes they'll be channeling.
Professions and Mechanics As ArenaNet first set out to design Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, it went through a long process of figuring out what new profession should be added to the game. "We talked a lot about where we'd been going with Guild Wars 2's professions," says ArenaNet game design lead Jon Peters. "We were moving further and further away from Guild Wars 1. We looked at our whole set of eight professions and tried to figure out what archetype was missing. It took us back into our past. We started looking backward at the first game." Peters means that very literally in a sense. The revenant is not only inspired by professions in the first Guild Wars mechanically, but it's also narratively built around the idea of channeling powers of historic figures in the game world, many of whom will be characters who played a part in the first game. "We looked at our whole set of eight professions and tried to figure out what archetype was missing. It took us back into our past." Peters describes the revenant's ability to channel different legends as "sort of like a weapon for the right half of your skill bar." For the benefit of those who haven't played Guild Wars 2 before, the skill bar generally only ever shows ten skills at once — five weapon skills on the left half and five skills on the right side that can be rotated through. Those right-side skills include a single healing skill, several utility skills and an extra-powerful elite skill. While most classes in Guild Wars 2 can swap out a weapon at any point, thereby changing the makeup of the left side of their skill bar, revenant will be able to swap between two equipped legends. As with other healing, utility and elite skills, new legends will be unlocked via skill points. This will make for a complex class, but one that has some incredible strategic options at its disposal. For example, Peters says the revenant will be able to use its currently-selected healing skill, then swap to its other equipped legend and use that legend's healing skill immediately. Situations like this will provide a different dynamic from other classes. "Legends were designed as packages of skills for very specific playstyles," says ArenaNet game designer Roy Cronacher. "One legend might be focused being tanky, while another is focused around conditions. The idea is that you bring this package of skills that has a themed playstyle. You make that choice of whether you want to be an offensive-style character or do you want to use conditions or do you want to be a tank or do you want to do support. By having two legends equipped, it allows you to mix and match these playstyles and build a hybrid role." The idea of legends as a special package for the player extends beyond skills and into the user interface itself. Cronacher says that each legend will morph the UI to its own color set and style. The idea is that this will push the sensation that a player is channeling this ancient power even when they're not using a legend's skills.
Legend: Jalis Ironhammer, king of the dwarves If you only just got into Guild Wars via its sequel, you'd be forgiven for missing that dwarves exist in Tyria. The classic fantasy race is near-extinct and generally well-hidden at the time the sequel takes place. But in the first game, which takes place several hundred years earlier, dwarves are a big deal, and they're led by Jalis Ironhammer. "We brought a lot of the lore from Guild Wars 1, connecting it back to the past," Cronacher says. "Some Guild Wars 2 players may not have heard of this stuff or seen it before, but it will excite a lot of our long-term fans who have been playing our games for a while." When a revenant calls on the power of Jalis, they'll be transforming into what Cronacher calls a "dwarf brawler kind of playstyle." They'll be a tank in the massively multiplayer sense of being able to take a lot of damage, but they'll also be incredibly aggressive. "We brought a lot of the lore from Guild Wars 1, connecting it back to the past." This ability to do damage is best seen in the Vengeful Hammers skill. When a revenant activates this skill, a bunch of hammers will float around the character, damaging any enemies who get close. "They actually work like projectiles in the game," Peters says, praising the new tech ArenaNet created specifically for skills like this. "They can collide with stuff. All the stuff we can do with an arrow, we can now do with something that spins around you." Cronacher says they'll be using that technique for other new skills moving forward, presumably including skills on older classes. Likewise, Vengeful Hammers represents a new type of skill for Guild Wars 2, something ArenaNet is calling "upkeep abilities." "It's a skill that you can toggle to keep on as long as you want, as long as you have enough energy to upkeep it," Cronacher explains. He compares it to maintained abilities in the first Guild Wars, something that had no equivalent in the more recent game until now. Cronacher describes one of Jalis' utility skills. Revenants using this legend will be able to call down a rune from the sky that damages and weakens enemies as it descends. Once it actually hits the ground, it will push enemies away in order to form a safe space for allies. He also reveals Jalis' elite skill: Rite of the Great Dwarf. Long-time players may recognize the significance of that skill name from original Guild Wars expansion Eye of the North. When activated, the revenant will turn themselves and their party members into stone, presumably boosting defense and power.
Legend: Mallyx, demon overlord "Not all the legend characters are humanoid," Cronacher warns before introducing the second character that can be channeled: Mallyx the Unyielding, a demonic powerhouse that players actually fought in the first Guild Wars. "This ties in to bring Rytlock back as the first revenant," Peters says. "He has a very ‘whatever it takes' attitude. If he can get powers from Mallyx, he will use them. He'll do whatever he needs to in order to be more powerful. Revenants are a little bit darker in that way." Peters stops short of calling revenants actually evil — "we don't do that for player professions" — but compares them to playing as a necromancer. He says revenants will be more of an anti-hero profession. In gameplay terms, Mallyx will be focused on condition manipulation, which is something ArenaNet hasn't tried in Guild Wars 2. Conditions are what might be known as "debuffs" in other MMOs — any status effect that is detrimental to a player character. Examples range from bleeding, which does damage over time, to crippled, which decreases movement speed. Normally these are things you wouldn't want on your character. However, a revenant channeling Mallyx will actually thrive on them. "You want to keep conditions on yourself, because they empower the skills on your bar," Cronacher says. "Each skill puts a condition on yourself, and it's all about managing how many conditions you can have on yourself while keeping yourself heathy and alive." Mallyx-equipped revenants will have to do a careful balancing act, but it can pay off. Mallyx's elite skill, titled Embrace the Darkness, will actually push all of the character's current conditions off onto nearby enemies. Meanwhile, the character will actually transform into a more demonic pose, gaining Mallyx's strength more directly. Peters also mentions a Mallyx skill called Unyielding Anguish. When used, players will be able to target an area on the ground. Then they'll leap at that area, displacing all enemies from it. It's another example of how ArenaNet is trying to provide more options for moving enemies around in Heart of Thorns, and it's also another nod to the past. "Unyielding Anguish was actually the name of one of Mallyx's skills when you fought him in Guild Wars 1," Peters says. "And it had a similar effect!"
Introducing the energy system Along with swapping between legends, the revenant profession will employ a second new mechanic that distances it from any other profession currently in the game: energy. In yet another callback to the first Guild Wars, all of the revenant's skills — both weapon and legend skills — will use a portion of the character's energy bar. While other classes only need to wait for a cooldown to reuse skills, revenants will need to wait for their energy bar to refill over time. But here's where things get extra-complicated: When a revenant swaps to a different legend in battle, it will reset their energy bar to around half full. This means you could completely drain your energy on one legend, swap to a secondary legend and be good to keep fighting. "Energy is basically the representation of power for your current legend," Cronacher says. "You have this push and pull of gaining power with the legend that allows you to perform these powerful attacks. As you expend them, you lose connection with the legend, so you can't use those powers until you regain that energy." This also explains the aforementioned upkeep skills, like Jalis' Vengeful Hammers. Turning on an upkeep skill will cause players to steadily drain their energy, but the skill will remain active until the energy is gone completely. "You make the choice to toggle it on, and while it's up it lowers your base energy regeneration," Cronacher says. "If your base regen is five energy per second and a skill costs seven in upkeep, it'll put you to negative two energy per second. So you're actually losing energy over time while the skill is active. You have the choice of leaving it active and running out of energy, or you can toggle into a new legend at any time. It offers a lot of freedom to players." Currently ArenaNet plans for each of the revenant's legends to have at least one upkeep skill.
Wielding more traditional weapons Despite the revenant's deep well of power from summoning legends, they will use regular weapons as well. While ArenaNet hasn't settled on every weapon type that will be available to the new profession, it revealed three to Polygon: the hammer, mace and axe. Of course, even with traditional weapons, the revenant seems to be all about overcoming expectations. In the case of the hammer — normally a heavy, slow weapon — revenants will actually use it as a ranged weapon.
The hammer will focus on cascade attacks such as Coalescence of Ruin. When used, the revenant will slam the ground with their hammer, creating a series of cracks that extend out from their position. As the attack spreads out from its starting position, it will do more and more damage to any enemies in the way. "That skill specifically does more damage the further out it goes," Cronacher says. "The hammer is really all about keeping people at range and edging out your range so that your character can maximize their damage." That focus on range is also seen in Field of Mists, an upkeep skill that's exclusive to hammer-wielding revenants. When active, this skill will place a wall in front of the character that blocks incoming projectiles and moves with them. On the mace side, Cronacher points to Manifest Toxin, the third part of the revenant's auto-attack with this weapon type. While the first two mace auto-attacks will bash at an enemy as expected, Manifest Toxin will check if additional enemies are behind the one being attacked. If so, it will chain the third and most powerful hit to those subsequent enemies. According to Cronacher, this is pushing another new element of Heart of Thorns, which is playing with enemy placement. In this case, revenants will specifically benefit from getting enemies lined up for directional attacks. But how can they accomplish that? The axe's Temporal Rift skill provides one method. With this powerful ability, a revenant will cut a tear in the fabric of the world and into the Mists, the alternate dimension from which this profession draws its powers. A few moments after that rift has been created, it will implode, pulling enemies into it. Cronacher says this is the perfect way to get enemies positioned into a line in order to maximize the impact of other attacks. However, it won't help with the aforementioned mace skill; since revenants can swap legends at any time, they will not be able to swap between two weapon types on the fly. | positive |
Team Works To Identify Birds Hit By Planes
Carla Dove Talks About A Sample That Stumped Them
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Carla Dove and her team at the feather-identification lab at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, study snarge — that's the bird goo that is wiped off an aircraft after it hits a bird.
If any bird remains are found on the US Airways jet that crashed Thursday in the Hudson River in New York City, it will be sent to Dove's lab in Washington. The lab gets about 4,000 such samples each year.
"Every day we get bird strikes in the mail and we have a whole team here and we have a couple of tools in our toolbox here to help us do bird IDs," Dove tells NPR's Melissa Block.
Feathers from bird strikes can yield a lot of information about the birds, Dove says.
"Feathers are very resilient and even if the whole bird is ingested in the engine, and there's just some little pieces of down ... we can often look at the microscopic characters in there that will give us an idea of what group of birds we're dealing with," she says.
Knowing which birds planes hit is an important tool in aviation safety, Dove says.
"If you think about pest management, and that's really what this is, it's like a safety issue," she says. "You can't really do anything about the problem until you know what the species that's causing the problem is."
She says once you determine what bird is involved in strikes, steps can be taken to keep the birds and the airplanes from colliding.
"We like to think we're trying to help improve aviation safety, but we're also helping save birds by trying to identify what's causing the problem," Dove says. | positive |
Al-Fayed funded Diana movie alleges Prince Phillip is a 'Fred West-style psychopath' and labels Royal Family 'gangsters in tiaras'
The Royal Family masterminded the car crash that caused Princess Diana’s death as a ‘warning’ to make her toe the line, a controversial new film premiered at Cannes yesterday claims.
The director, Keith Allen, said the House of Windsor had ‘got away with murder’ because no one had been held to account over the accident.
In the film, entitled Unlawful Killing, Prince Phillip is branded a 'Fred West-style psychopath' who 'orchestrated the murder' of Diana.
The Queen is dismissed as a 'gangster in a tiara'.
Controversial: Keith Allen's new movie Unlawful Killing looks into Princess Diana's death and brands Prince Phillip a 'Fred West-style psychopath'
Allen, who is trying to sell the film around the world, was bankrolled by
Mohamed Al-Fayed, whose son Dodi also died in the car crash, to make the movie.
He invested £2.5 million to back the production after it was turned down by every broadcaster in the UK.
It will not be shown in UK cinemas because of strict laws on libel and contempt, but Allen believes the movie will make money in America.
'The crash was supposed to be a warning': Diana died in 1997
Allen said: ‘I think Diana was in a position to rock a lot of boats. I think [the accident] was supposed to be a warning.
‘I believe there was a chance that she could have survived the accident. But I think the situation may have gone too far.'
In the film, the inquest in to her death is presented as a cover-up in which different arms of the British establishment - including the police, the Courts, and the Royal Family - as well as the French coroner and government had a hand.
Unlawful Killing opens with a details of a letter penned by Diana to her Butler, in which she claims that Prince Charles is planning to have her murdered in a car accident.
The production stated the 36-year-old could have been saved had she been taken to hospital quickly - and that the inquest failed to properly investigate why she wasn’t.
The film shows the graphic black and white close-up of Diana taken moments after the Mercedes carrying the couple crashed in a Paris underpass, for a few seconds.
The image, in which her blonde hair and features clearly visible, has never been publicly seen in this UK.
Allen said: ‘The photo is not used in the film for the purpose of shock. It is included as evidence, because it shows clearly that, although Diana had been injured in the crash, she was alert and very much alive. I repeat: it is not a picture of a dying woman.’
The film features Al-Fayed accusing the Royal Family of being racist.
Allen, who authors the documentary, suggests in it that the Establishment was unhappy with Diana’s relationship with Dodi, because he was a Muslim.
It also claims that her role in the anti-landmine campaign put her at risk from those in the arms industry, and those in power who had links to it.
'Gangsters in tiaras': The hugely controversial documentary makes some outrageous claims about the Royal Family's involvement in the accident
Psychologist Oliver James is interviewed about his behaviour for the film - and despite having never treated the Duke of Edinburgh, he claims he displays classic ‘psychopath’ behaviour, likening him to a 'Fred West'.
In another bizarre sequence the House of Windsor is compared to the mafia, and Allen describes one picture of the Queen, Princess Margaret and Princess Anne all dressed in black as ‘gangsters in tiaras’.
The controversial premiere was met with ridicule from critics with many questioning how editorially independent the film could be when it was funded by Al-Fayed.
Writer Martyn Gregory, who penned Diana: The Last Days the last days, branded the the film ‘ludicrous’ and claimed that Allen had simply made a vehicle for Al-Fayed’s rants.
Crash: The wreck of the car in which Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed died in Paris
Critic Richard Friedman compared the ideas put forward in the film as like Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory.
He said: ‘It is misleading not to let the audience know that Al-Fayed is funding this film.’
Unlawful Killing features interviews with Piers Morgan, Lauren Booth, and Tony Benn.
Allen enlisted the help of freelance journalist Richard Wiseman, who went undercover to monitor how the press covered the tribunal.
However the only insight he gained was that the BBC’s Royal Correspondent Nicholas Witchell fell asleep during some of it.
Publicity: Allen and writer Paul Sparks attended the photocall in Cannes yesterday, but Mohamed Al-Fayed was absent
The comedian said that he made the film to highlight the failings in the way he believed the death of Diana was investigated.
News of his documentary had been met with disgust with many close to Diana.
Close friend Rosa Monckton said: ‘The fact people are trying to make money – which is all that they are doing now – out of her death is quite frankly ... words fail me.’
A spokesman for St James’s Palace declined to comment.
Al-Fayed did not turn up for the screening amid rumours he was upset about the inclusion of the controversial crash picture.
His spokesman said he was 'delighted with the film' but it is understood that the tycoon had lobbied for the image to be taken out.
In 2008, after a six-month inquest, a jury concluded Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed were unlawfully killed as a direct result of grossly negligent driving by drunk chauffeur Henri Paul, who also died in the crash.
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Brooklynguy's Wine and Food Blog: Domaine de L'Arlot skip to main | skip to sidebar Monday, January 05, 2009 Domaine de L'Arlot I asked Peter Liem where Domaine de L'Arlot stands in the pantheon of Burgundy and he said "People who really know and love Burgundy love Domaine de L'Arlot." He didn't mean that you must be a vastly experienced Burgundy lover in order to appreciate them. They're lovely wines and anyone would enjoy them. I think he meant that the wines are often overlooked amidst the many huge names in Burgundy, but are never overlooked by those who have extensive experience, the cognoscenti, if you will. Southern wing of the Domaine, where we stayed. Although Domaine de L'Arlot owns vines in Romanée St. Vivant, the exalted Grand Cru, and also in 1er Cru Les Suchots in Vosne-Romanée, it is probably best known for wines from two relatively large 1er Cru vineyards, both monopoles of the Domaine, both located near the southern end of the vineyards of Nuits St. Georges. The vineyard Clos de L'Arlot borders Mugnier's Clos de la Maréchale to the south, and is known for red fruited wines of elegance and finesse. The Domaine also makes a 1er Cru white wine from this site, a rarity in the Côte de Nuits. Wines from Clos des Fôrets bear some of the muscular and savage character of its more famous neighbor to the north, Les Saint-Georges. From the living room window, the Clos de L'Arlot under gray skies. Vineyard and winery work is rather old school at Domaine de L'Arlot, which is a good thing. Vineyards are plowed and harvested by hand, and whole clusters are used in fermentation. Since 2003 Domaine de L'Arlot has been practicing biodynamic throughout the entire estate. As you might expect, these are wines of freshness and purity, with an elegant lightness of color that belies the depth and complexity within. I could share more background information, but I would basically be quoting from these two fantastic online sources: Bill Nanson's piece from Burgundy Report in August of 2005 does a great job of detailing the history of the Domaine and also vividly portrays the unique vineyard that bears the name of the Domaine, the Clos de L'Arlot. Peter Liem's piece also provides great contextual information, and describes the recent tasting he attended in which he sampled wines dating back to the creation of the Domaine in 1987. Peter Liem worked harvest at Domaine de L'Arlot in 1998 and has remained friendly with the staff ever since. It is because of this friendship that Peter stays at the Domaine when he visits Burgundy, and it is because of this friendship that Olivier Leriche extended to me the generous offer of staying there as well. Domaine de L'Arlot is in Prémeaux-Prissey, a village I have never heard of until just now. All the while I thought we were staying in Nuits St. Georges. To my foreigner's eyes, the villages in France can really blend into one another... So, in early December I stayed at Domaine de L'Arlot while visiting Burgundy. My accommodations were pretty sick - a large and beautiful room with an attached bathroom that is larger than my bedroom in Brooklyn. I'm talking two sinks, a heater, several windows, a bidet, all class and grace. And of course, no toilet. The toilet is in the water closet in private hallway outside of the bedroom. Bathroom alone: $1.25 Million in New York City. We tasted the 2007's in barrel, many of the 2005's and 2006's in bottle. Here are some notes from our tasting: 2007 Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Clos de L'Arlot - tastes nothing like any other NSG wine I've had. All silky red fruit and flowers, gentle, good acidity, lots of finesse. Very pretty. 2007 Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Clos des Fôrets Saint Georges - meaty animal wildness, dark fruit, big tannic presence, rich fruit, juicy and dense. Should be brawny and beautiful in maybe 8 years. 2007 Grand Cru Romanée St. Vivant - nose of dark spices, maybe cloves, a bit animale. Intense dark fruit in the mouth, firm tannins, but the overall effect is suave and gentle. This wine is still quite closed, but there is evident depth and complexity here hiding in the shadows. 2006 Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Clos de L'Arlot - meaty sauvage character on the nose this time, with floral dark fruit. Light and elegant in the mouth, but powerful, tannins are silky. Unusual for Clos de L'Arlot maybe, but a beauty. 2005 Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Clos de L'Arlot - vibrant red fruit on the nose with savory brown sugar notes. Ripe fruit on the palate, ripe, ripe, ripe, but good acidity keeps it in check. Nice length, strong tannins, this wine has class. I'd love to taste it again in 15 years. 2005 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Suchots - gorgeous nose, elegant floral perfume with deep red fruit and earth tones. Tight in the mouth but generous fruit, a great mix of pwer and finesse. This is a real beauty. 2006 Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Clos de L'Arlot Blanc - delicate layers of white flowers at the core, tangy citrus and minerals. Just lovely. Some pear in there too. Very precise and cut with firm tannins and a zesty bright finish. Very impressive indeed. After our tasting and a brief rest, we enjoyed a delicious dinner prepared by wine maker Olivier Leriche's wife Florence, and attended by none other than Jean-Pierre de Smet, the original wine maker at L'Arlot. Olivier Leriche and his lovely wife Florence in their kitchen. That's Tista in the background. Dinner was a beautiful fillet of beef roasted in the kitchen fireplace and served essentially raw. There was also a nice green salad, purée of winter squash, roast potatoes, and a lovely fruit tart. It was the end of a long day that included a huge lunch and a lot of wine. This did not exactly enhance my ability to speak and comprehend the French language, but I enjoyed trying to decipher the various conversations nonetheless. We drank some pretty good wines at the dinner, by the way. Fallen heroes - they shall not be forgotten. Thank you again, Oliver and Florence, for your generous hospitality, and for an experience that I will never forget. Posted by Brooklynguy Labels: Burgundy, Burgundy Trip 08, Domaine de L'Arlot 8 comments: Do Bianchi said... I feel compelled to confess publicly how envious I am of this experience! 1/05/2009 8:53 AM Edward said... Neil, I'm amazingly jealous. . . it is highly likely that my only (but very positive) experience of De L'Arlot will be limited to the liquid. Your words and the hospitality you enjoyed seem to match the grace of the wines I have savoured. 1/06/2009 1:49 AM David McDuff said... Triple up on that jealousy, Neil. Great report. Is it safe to assume that the Clos de l'Arlot Blanc is Chardonnay? I ask only because I know of at least one other producer in Prémeaux-Prissey who makes a 1er Cru white from Pinot Blanc. 1/06/2009 12:14 PM Anonymous said... has there been a style change? i remember tasting l'Arlot in the early 90's and finding them nice but clunky (no finesse). perhaps it was the vintage, or perhaps i didn't have a clue. i do know some folks who were always effusive about their wines. 1/06/2009 11:17 PM Brooklynguy said... gentlemen, scholars all - thanks for those kind words, and i'm sure that by jealous you simply mean that you would enjoy such an experience too. and you have had and shall have experiences like this one again... McD - not safe to assume, no. I believe that there is Pinot Blanc in the wine. I read somewhere that it is Pinot Gris but i have to assume that was an error. Hi Mark - there was a style change that is generally considered to originate in about 1987 when Jean-Pierre de Smet took over. I don't know about since the early '90s, I'm sorry to say. The wines now are anything but clunky, that i can tell you. 1/07/2009 8:52 PM Anonymous said... BG, good to hear, and congrats on the new rug rat! 1/08/2009 10:01 PM Anonymous said... I DESPERATELY need the help of someone who's an expert at locating extremely hard to find wines. I've been trying to get my hands on one of the best wines I've EVER tasted: Domaine de Val Frais Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvée Prestige (any year is fine) since April, 2008 when I had a bottle at Aquavit restaurant in NYC. I have tried every Google search and winery but without solution. I'm looking to purchase a case or two so the person who can help me find it, I will reward them with 2 FREE BOTTLES...and I trust you won't be disappointed! To aid your search, please visit http://www.chateauneuf.dk/en/cdpen117.htm (the label on the bottom is the one I'm looking for) and e-mail me at jwilliams@ccgglaw.com with any assistance you can provide. Thanks! 1/09/2009 5:51 PM Anonymous said... j williams easy solution: talk to aquavit and ask where they got theirs from. they should know the distributor. please donate my 2 bottles to a charity auction 1/09/2009 11:49 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Brooklynguy's Wine and Food Blog Drinking, eating, enjoying in Brooklyn. I Just Wrote About: More on objectivity and wine. Writing again, even if it's just some tasting notes. Benoît Lahaye's Champagnes. Search This Blog About Me Brooklynguy View my complete profile Benoît Lahaye Champagnes Tastings An Evening with Benoît Lahaye's Champagnes. Alzinger from the 1980's and 1990's. Poulsard, when not drinking Overnoy or Ganevat. A few wines by Château Pichon-Lalande. Recently released Equipo Navazos wines over dinner at The Spotted Pig. Macharnudo Alto - Exploring the terroir stamp of a vineyard in Jerez. Bernhard Ott's wines from the Wagram. A Jacky Truchot dinner. 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Hundreds of women brick-kiln workers from India's Punjab state have come together in a rare gathering to demand equal pay and better accommodation, as the country's often invisible women laborers become increasingly vocal in their fight for rights.
More than a thousand workers, most belonging to India's so-called lower castes and tribes, met in the city of Bathinda last week in perhaps the first such gathering in the country.
"The women workers in brick kilns are invisible -- they are not recognized as workers, they don't get paid for their work, and they have no rights or benefits," said Gangambika Sekhar, an advocate with Volunteers for Social Justice, that organized the event.
"We wanted to send a message to the government: 'you say there are no women workers in the state's brick kilns. Well, here they are'," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Unknown number of workers
There are no official figures for the number of people employed to cut, shape and bake clay-fired bricks, mostly by hand, in tens of thousands of brick kilns in India.
According to the Center for Science and Environment, at least 10 million people work in these kilns.
Exploitation of workers, many of them poor migrants from other states, is common as brickmaking is largely unregulated, experts say. Most of the workers are illiterate, paid a pittance, and held in debt bondage.
The wealthy state of Punjab is home to more than 600,000 workers in brick kilns, by some estimates. About half are women, who are not included in the kiln's records and are not paid a separate wage from their husbands.
Many of the women workers are sexually abused, and conditions for pregnant women are particularly bad, as they do not have access to medical facilities, and are forced to work well into their pregnancy, activists say.
"Women are enslaved by the patriarchal system, they are enslaved by the caste system, and they are enslaved by the minimum wage, which is such a pittance that they are forced to live in abject conditions," said Manjit Singh, a retired professor of sociology at Panjab University.
Better conditions
A signature campaign was launched last week in Bathinda to appeal to President Pranab Mukherjee for better conditions for the state's women brick-kiln workers. Activists are also trying to organize the women into unions, similar to efforts in Maharashtra state.
There are signs that women workers elsewhere are heeding the call to unionise and fight for their rights.
Last week, protests in the southern states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu by garment workers, mostly women, forced the government to scrap a controversial proposal to change the rule on pension withdrawals.
"Women workers – from teachers to textile workers and daily-wage workers – are so desperate, they are demanding their rights," Singh said.
"They are learning the benefits of a collective voice, and of coming out on the streets and protesting, rather than doing so within the confines of their workplace. We will see more of this," he said. | positive |
Over the past five years, law enforcement agencies in Vermont have invested more than $1 million in technology that gathers millions of data points every year about the whereabouts of vehicles across the state.
The Automated Plate Recognition Systems, or ALPRs, use high-speed cameras mounted on police cruisers that take photos of passing cars and relay them to an in-car computer for analysis. The technology keeps track of every license plate the cruiser passes and checks each against a “hot list” of vehicles, all in real time.
Yet even with the millions of scans, the system has not led to many arrests or breakthroughs in major criminal investigations, and it hasn’t led to an increase in the number of tickets written for the offenses the technology is capable of detecting.
Law enforcement officials say the ALPRs help keep the public safe and enhance their traffic enforcement abilities. But civil liberties advocates worry that collecting data on the location of thousands of people who aren’t suspected of wrongdoing is a violation of Vermonters’ rights.
“The license plate readers fit into a bigger picture of surveillance that emerged in Vermont in the first 10 years of the new century,” says Allen Gilbert, the executive director of the Vermont office of the American Civil Liberties Union. “A citizen’s right to privacy is violated whenever a government records movements of individuals who are not subjects of an investigation.”
In the 18 months leading up to Jan. 1, 2013, the 61 license plate readers operating in the state at the time did a lot of recording. A VPR study of public information from local, state and federal law enforcement showed that during that time period, police across the state logged 7.9 million license plates and stored them in a central, statewide database along with the time and location they were scanned.
Gilbert says these individual reads can add up to a larger violation of privacy.
“After a while, a whole series of bits of information about us can paint a pretty detailed picture of where we’ve been,” Gilbert says.
While piecing together such information is technically possible for police in Vermont, the technology has done relatively little to help police in the state locate criminal suspects, solve crimes or even enforce motor vehicle law.
Despite the financial investment in the systems, they were helpful in solving fewer than five crimes in 2013. The number of tickets written for driving with a suspended license and driving with an expired registration (two violations that ALPRs can detect) hasn’t gone up since the technology was introduced in mid-2009.
‘Just Another Tool’
The city of Winooski has one vehicle equipped with an ALPR unit, purchased about two years ago with federal Homeland Security funds. Sergeant Michael Cram is frequently the one behind the wheel of the 2012 Ford Explorer equipped with the technology.
Cram says the unit is helpful to the city’s efforts in traffic enforcement, but it’s not the magic bullet.
“This is just another tool,” he said, patting the Panasonic Toughbook mounted on his dashboard. “When I’m out here doing motor vehicle work, I don’t rely just on this. I take my 22 years of experience in spotting violations coupled with this – this helps – but I still do it the same way.”
In the 18 months leading up to Jan. 1, 2013, the 61 license plate readers operating in Vermont logged 7.9 million license plates and stored them in a central, statewide database along with the time and location they were scanned.
Cram’s methods haven’t changed dramatically since before the ALPR came into the picture, and the technology is mostly helpful in showing him what to look at.
He waits on Main Street in Winooski, just uphill from the city’s heavily-used traffic circle. It’s mid-morning and the rush hour congestion is gone, but cars and business trucks keep the street busy enough.
Less than two and a half minutes after he pulls over, the Toughbook has beeped 21 times, each beep remarkably similar to the sound of a grocery store barcode scanner and with a similar purpose: Each signifies a new license plate scan, to be logged for the next 18 months in the state’s database.
After about five minutes, a jeep drives by and triggers a different sound – like a fog horn being played over tiny speakers. The screen, which usually flashes green with every completed scan, lights up red. The jeep is on the hot list, according to the computer, because the man it’s registered to has a suspended driver’s license. Cram pulls his cruiser into gear and follows, but doesn’t turn his lights on.
“It’s not like this thing just beeps and whistles at you and you chase people down,” he says. “We have work we have to do along with it.”
He calls in the plate number on his radio and asks the dispatcher to verify the information his computer is giving him. If it seems redundant, that’s because it is. Cram says he and other officers in his department go to great lengths to avoid stopping someone without probable cause. Under case law interpreting the U.S. Constitution, pulling over a driver is considered a detention. Cram follows the Jeep for a few blocks, watching for infractions while he waits for the dispatcher, but the driver doesn’t make any mistakes.
When the dispatcher comes back on, he says the man that the vehicle is registered to does have a valid license. Cram stops his cruiser and the Jeep drives away.
“So that, right there, is why we check with the live database,” Cram says. The ALPR unit said the driver was suspended, but the DMV’s live database –which the dispatcher has access to, but the in-car computers don’t – said otherwise. And the database overrules the ALPR systems – which are updated twice a day – when there’s a disagreement.
“So I didn’t seize him, you know under the Fourth Amendment, and retard his passage to wherever he wants to go based on erroneous information,” Cram says. “And that’s the key right there. This thing can beep and whistle at you all day long, but if you don’t take those few extra steps and follow the law, then you don’t need to be out here.”
This caution, and the fact that alerts from the units are often in error, may explain why the number of tickets issued for suspended licenses and expired registrations hasn’t gone up since ALPRs were introduced. Because officers aren’t required to indicate whether a ticket was issued because of an ALPR alert, there’s no way to know exactly how much the technology helps.
Throughout the morning, this happens two more times: The computer screen flashes red, Cram pulls out and follows a car, but the dispatcher ultimately tells him that there’s no probable cause for a stop – that the computer is wrong. One alert is correct, and after the dispatcher confirms the information, Cram makes a stop for a vehicle with an expired registration. The driver says money’s tight, and she’ll register it when she gets her next paycheck. He tells her to bring proof of registration to the station the following week, and doesn't write her a ticket.
Despite the $25,000 tool, Cram says the majority of the Winooski Police Department’s traffic stops are still done the old-fashioned way, with officers stopping drivers for infractions like rolling through a stop sign or failing to yield at a crosswalk.
Still, Cram says the federally-funded ALPR is a valuable tool, even though he doesn’t think the city would have put up $25,000 of its own money to buy one.
“We have found it handy for enforcing motor vehicle law within the city of Winooski,” he says. “That’s not the only thing we do, but we are a very urban community with a lot of walking people and a lot of motor vehicles, so when you get those together it’s important that we enforce the motor vehicle laws.”
Success Stories?
While Cram says ALPRs are good for traffic enforcement, they also serve as an investigative tool. Indeed, the statute regulating them says they’re “intended to provide access to law enforcement reports of stolen vehicles and wanted persons and to further other legitimate law enforcement purposes.”
Officers can request historical data for a given time and area to see which cars were near a place of interest in a case. They can also submit a license plate to the database for addition to the hot list, so that if a given vehicle gets spotted by an ALPR, the officer in that cruiser is alerted.
That’s what happened last October, when Cram got a report of a stolen vehicle. He had the plate added to the hot list, and the ALPR unit on a cruiser in St. Albans scanned it. So with the help of the ALPR, the case was solved.
Those success stories are rare, and the people who maintain the statewide database don’t know them.
The Vermont Intelligence Center, which operates under the control of the state police, is responsible for storing data about every license plate scan in the state and for maintaining the “hot list” of cars that trigger alerts when an ALPR reads them. The list includes vehicles associated with criminal investigations, such as a stolen car, as well as the more minor violations like expired registrations.
Under the state law governing the use of ALPRs, the center is also the final check against abuse of the system. Every request sent to VIC as part of an investigation is vetted, and if a staffer finds the request does not serve a legitimate law enforcement purpose they are not allowed to complete the request.
Once those requirements are met and the data is sent, though, VIC is done with the request. There is no requirement that the requesting officer or agency report back with the results of their investigation, and VIC only needs to keep track of where the data goes, not how effective it is.
Despite the financial investment in automatic license plate readers - more than $1 million - the systems were helpful in solving fewer than five crimes in 2013.
Ron LaFond, a civilian analyst at VIC, says the center will lobby lawmakers to establish reporting requirements that will require agencies to follow up with the results of a request, making “success stories” easier to find in one place.
Current state law does require VIC to report annually to lawmakers about the ALPR system. Information from January’s report combined with records from police agencies across the state show that VIC misreported numbers on the use of the system to lawmakers and that – Cram’s case included – ALPRs and the data they generate have been helpful in just three criminal investigations.
In 2013, law enforcement officials in Vermont asked for help from the state’s ALPR system 105 times for a variety of reasons from searches for missing persons to smuggling investigations. That number includes requests to add plates to the hot list as well as requests for historical searches of the database.
Of those 105 requests for help, VIC gave out information only 16 times. (They told lawmakers 40 because they included responses for which no data was available). Of those 16 releases of information, only three helped investigators solve their case. A fourth was a U.S. Border Patrol case that officials refuse to comment on because the case hasn’t gone to court, making it impossible to know if the ALPR data was helpful.
In total in 2013, the license plate readers have helped officers locate two stolen cars and have verified a victim’s story in a case of internal fraud at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Reader Program Expanding
When VIC reported to lawmakers in January that ALPRs had gathered 7,921,182 plate reads over the previous 18 months, they were working with 61 active license plate readers (two had been purchased but not yet installed). At that point, federal Homeland Security grants had paid in full or part for all but 10 of the units, and the total cost for the 63 was $956,585, according to state data.
Since then, law enforcement agencies seem to have doubled down on the technology. Information released by VIC in September shows that there are now 116 ALPRs operating in the state, and none of the 53 apparently purchased since January were paid for with Homeland Security funds. (The VIC shows Winooski as having two units, which is in conflict with information from Cram.)
Vermont State Police spokeswoman Stephanie Dasaro said in an email, “the newly acquired ALPRs would have been funded either by local department budgets or through other grant sources.”
To Allen Gilbert at the ACLU, the data shows a state over-investing in a technology that shows few results despite serious implications for Vermonters’ constitutional rights.
“This is a very expensive form of investigation,” he says. “I think it would be hard for anybody doing a cost-benefit analysis to think that this was the way that police resources should be allocated. It just doesn’t make any sense.”
Whatever the price tag for license plate readers, Gilbert says his concerns stem from the social cost of the technology.
“We have to ask,” he says, “‘should government be collecting this amount of information about people who are not suspected of having committed a crime?’”
Tim Ashe, a state senator representing Chittenden County, introduced the legislation that currently governs ALPRs. He says the historical data may be useful to law enforcement in the future, such as during an missing persons investigation. Indeed, he said that was the main argument police used when pushing for longer retention times.
"Law enforcement, to their credit, believed that these license plate readers would be most likely to benefit Vermonters in cases of missing children," he said. Ashe says historical data could be used to check for suspect vehicles in the area of a kidnapping, for example, even if the victim wasn't reported missing for days.
That value, he says, needs to be balanced against the privacy considerations that got him involved with the issue in the first place. Armed with years of information about ALPR use in Vermont, lawmakers will take up the issue again next year, when the current law expires. At that point, lawmakers could change ALPR regulation entirely, and have the option to do anything from total deregulation to banning the devices. Ashe thinks the state can find the right middle ground between public safety and privacy.
"Any intrusion into our private lives is worrisome," Ashe says, "but I believe if we can contain the utilization for appropriate purposes, we can probably strike the right balance that we don't have to eliminate these things all together." | positive |