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This short documentary is a good introduction to the notion of cellular death, but it's probably more suited for a progressive classroom environment than on your home DVD player.
Jean-François Brunet and Peter Friedman mix talking heads with lab visits and semi-non-sequitur archive footage to make their points. Or rather, to explain how cells work. We visit with researchers who know the life cycle and function of every single cell in a 1mm-long worm. We see video of a cell dying and evaporating. We hear about how cells have to work together to stay alive. And we see a choreographed number of kids and adults in a circle, playing with mock snowballs.
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Worried About Wi-Fi in Santa Fe
I would think that worries of tiered broadband pricing might be putting the kibosh on free public Wi-Fi, but there’s another culprit causing the City of Santa Fe to delay plans to install Wi-Fi in the local public libraries. In a clear case of the tyranny of the minority, a group of citizens has banded together to stop the proliferation of electromagnetic fields in the form of Wi-Fi signals. The leader of the effort, Arthur Firstenberg, says he and others suffer form electromagnetic hypersensitivity, or EHS, and city buildings are some of their last refuges in an increasingly wireless world.
I have a hard time with this one, partially because scientists have found that people do suffer from symptoms of EHS but have found no proof linking those symptoms to electromagnetic exposure. To deny the 150 people a month who have asked for Wi-Fi in the libraries for the sake of a few dozen people who think they are sick because of Wi-Fi signals is ridiculous. So maybe an enterprising entrepreneur can wander down to Santa Fe and do a bang up business selling Faraday helmets.
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Why Evangelical Leaders Love Pope Benedict XVI (And His Resignation)
Theologians and pastors felt kinship in his passion for theology and his stances on social issues.
Ruth Moon| February 13, 2013
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Why Evangelical Leaders Love Pope Benedict XVI (And His Resignation)
Pope Benedict XVI, who announced his resignation Monday after eight years as head of the Roman Catholic Church, will leave a legacy of strong theology, cooperation with evangelicals and a hardline conservative stance on social issues, evangelical leaders and observers say.
As pope, the German Joseph Ratzinger championed a "culture of life" on issues such as abortion, encouraged the "new evangelism" of the church, and issued the first papal tweet. Benedict, 85, cited age and deteriorating strength as reasons for his resignation.
Benedict stepped into a difficult role as an intellectual and administrator following John Paul II, the first "celebrity pope," said Carl Trueman, professor of church history at Westminster Theological Seminary.
"He was never going to be comfortable with the kind of media exposure his predecessor courted and relished," Trueman said. "Add to that the various pressing problems facing the Roman Catholic Church — the priest abuse scandal, the challenges of feminism, Islam, rising secularism — and he took the reins at a very trying time."
In some ways, Benedict's resignation, the first in nearly 600 years, sends the most important message of his papacy, said Chris Castaldo, a director at the Billy Graham Center and author of Holy Ground: Walking with Jesus as a Former Catholic. Vatican I emphasized the divine character of the papal office and made it seem distant from average people. This resignation highlights the leader's humanity, Castaldo said.
"He's expressing vulnerability in such a way that others will be able to identify with," he said. "There's a temptation for all of us — Protestants, ...
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War crimes court staff accused of spying released in Libya
Libya has released four staffers from the International Criminal Court who were detained after meeting with the imprisoned son of deposed strongman Moammar Kadafi, the court said Monday.
Australian attorney Melinda Taylor was accused of engaging in espionage during a visit with Seif Islam Kadafi over three weeks ago, in concert with her Lebanese interpreter Helene Assaf. The legal team was meeting with Kadafi, who faces charges of crimes against humanity, to discuss his defense.
Taylor was accused of passing papers to Kadafi, including a coded letter from a former aide, alarming Libyan authorities. Libyan media reported she was also carrying a pen camera. Two other court staffers, Alexander Khodakov and Esteban Peralta Losilla, stayed with Assaf and Taylor during their detention.
Court President Sang-Hyun Song, who was visiting Libya when the release was announced, thanked the Libyan authorities for letting them go. The four staffers are scheduled to return Monday to the Hague.
Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdel Aziz said their negotiations with the court would continue. "If the ICC wants to send another team, they will have to send one that respects Libyan sovereignty," Aziz was quoted by Reuters at a news conference Monday in the mountain town of Zintan.
Though the international court initially insisted the staffers had immunity while on an official mission, it later promised that the allegations would be “fully investigated” once the staffers were returned and said it “deeply regrets any events that may have given rise to concerns on the part of the Libyan authorities.”
“In carrying out its functions, the court has no intention of doing anything that would undermine the national security of Libya,” it said in a statement on June 22.
The case of Seif Islam Kadafi was already a point of contention between Libya and the international court. Libya has refused to extradite Kadafi, arguing that it should try him in its own courts. Trying Kadafi would be “a historical opportunity to eradicate the long-standing culture of impunity,” its attorneys said.
Outside experts are uneasy about the idea, fearing the trial could be woefully politicized or aggravate conflicts in the restive country. Human-rights groups have raised concerns about a lack of legal protections for Kadafi, held for months by a militia in remote Zintan.
The question of where Kadafi will be tried has yet to be settled. At the beginning of June, ICC judges ruled Libya did not have to turn Kadafi over to the court yet, awaiting another ruling on whether Libya is right in insisting he should be tried inside the country. The ICC is supposed to be a court of last resort.
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Britain's most senior Catholic leader, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, will now not take part in the conclave to chose a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, having been forced to resign early by allegations of "inappropriate conduct" made to the Vatican by several priests, both now retired and still serving.
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How Afro-Latino Communities are Reclaiming Their History
“In Puerto Rico we are fed negative history. In school, we are taught that Puerto Rico is an island with no natural resources. In history books, black people are only ever shown as slaves.”
This reflection, from an Afro-Puerto Rican woman in her early twenties who I met in Puerto Rico in early January, highlights a sad reality: the history of Black people is often hidden or overlooked in Latin American countries (just as it often is in the U.S.).
The truth, of course, is different. For one, the first Africans that arrived alongside Spaniards on the island were actually free, not slaves. Later, as the African slave trade developed, it boomed in Latin America, where it was about 15 times bigger than it was in the U.S. Today, about a quarter of Latin America’s population is of African descent.
The history and existence of Afro-Latino communities often comes as a surprise to the general public. The idea of a Spanish-speaking black person can go against our narrow understanding of race, geography, language, and history. Today, the stain of slavery in the Americas often manifests through the denial and/or negative portrayal of Afro roots in Latin American countries, which can result in poor life outcomes, a negative sense of identity, and, sometimes, internalized oppression.
This is one of the reasons that in January 2017 HIP, the Puerto Rico Community Foundation (PRCF), and A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities (ABFE) organized a two-day study trip to Puerto Rico for foundation professionals to talk about Afro-Latino communities. The population of Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, is nearly half of African descent. It was the ideal setting to learn about the challenges facing Afro-Latinos on the tiny island of 3.5 million people, and to discuss the opportunities for philanthropy to invest in improving the lives of this community bound by extreme marginalization.
Our group of funders on the study trip
On the second day of our trip, we visited three nonprofits in the community of Loíza, about 45 minutes outside of the Puerto Rican capital San Juan. Loíza is the heart of Afro culture on the island; 64 percent of its population is Black. Unfortunately, it is also one of the most vulnerable communities on the island, known for high levels of poverty, police brutality, and gang violence, especially among its young men and boys.
However, several incredible nonprofits are working to reverse these trends (and HIP and the PRCF are partnering to support some of these efforts). Corporacion Piñones Se Integra (COPI) is one of the nonprofits whose efforts are yielding success.
COPI is a Loíza nonprofit that promotes local culture and resources as a way to empower its residents. These activities facilitate reflection on definitions of culture and “blackness” to address the structural inequality faced by the community. By reclaiming and celebrating Loíza’s rich Afro roots, such as its traditional Bomba dance, COPI promotes pride and identity in the Loiza community.
Bomba dancers in Loiza
The difficulties facing Afro-Latino communities are complex, and there’s no easy one-shot answer for how philanthropy should provide the most effective support. But, as our recent trip brought to light, one powerful way is by supporting organizations that highlight and celebrate Afro roots and history among Latinxs. As our guest speaker Dr. Marta Moreno said, “If we don’t know how to talk about ourselves, we can’t improve ourselves.”
Afro-Latino communities face a unique set of prejudices and barriers to happy and healthy lives because they are rooted in two races that have been historically exploited and oppressed. Philanthropy has the ability to support efforts that most governments cannot: the reclaiming of Afro history and knowledge.
So let philanthropy be a progressive actor by finding ways to invest in efforts that seek to recover and celebrate marginalized identities. In this way, philanthropy can also promote and facilitate racial healing which, instead of denying painful histories like slavery, tries to reconcile that past.
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This wasn't my first Microsoft peripheral and it definitely won't be my last. The wireless adapter is great, not only does it have USB connection it also has a ps2 connection for the older Pcs. so it will work with nearly any computer. The instructions are really very simple just plug it in and let windows do the rest. It worked first time which it what I have come to expect form Microsoft peripherals, and clear and easy pictures in the instruction manual would eliminate and problems. The keyboard has a great feel and is great for typing over long periods of time. It's very comfortable it has loads of smart function buttons, you can control windows media player and even log off or load the calculator. The mouse has the same level of comfort and functionality it even scrolls sideways. The mouse is responsive and accurate its very light so it's ideal for any user.The pack consists of a keyboard and mouse and the receiver, which you plug into your computer. Just remember to buy the batteries they are AA and they last for ages. The software can be downloaded form Microsoft and enables you to monitor the battery status and program the functions. The range is pretty impressive you can type form several meters away. I know form experience with my company that Microsoft support is probably the best around, very quick and helpful.
Sorry about the length but i don't know what else to put. A great replacement for wires and i would defiantly recommend you go wireless. a great price for a great product
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Ellen Honig
ELLEN HONIG’S first professional acting job was at the age of nine years in “The King and I,” performed at The Westbury Music Fair on Long Island.She was a royal princess.She is a former student of The Professional Children’s School in New York City and graduated as a Theater and Speech major from Emerson College in 1968.
Ellen was enrolled in professional acting and dance classes from 1962 to1979.As a professional actress, she performed mostly in Summer Stock at Bellport LI, Millhall PA, and she acted in some children’s theater in New York City.She became Director of Development at Town School in 1979, where she also taught Creative Dramatics to the fourth through eighth grades.
Ellen began directing community theater in 1984.In 1993, she joined the Rhinebeck Theater Society (RTS) and became their president in 1994.She was president when The CENTER for Performing Arts put up the tent and RTS began performing there.She directed “Gypsy,” which was the first show in the new CENTER for Performing Arts building in 2000.
Ellen was a resident of Rhinebeck for 20 years and is currently living in Saugerties with her partner Ken.She raised two daughters in New York City and Chappaqua.Ellen has been a realtor for16 years and is affiliated with BHHS Hudson Valley, Rhinebeck, NY.
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When Ebook readers first started appearing, I would have bet money I would never like them, let alone get one. But I started finding free stuff on the internet and reading it, not to mention people sending me stuff(you know who you are), and I began to realize it wasn’t that egregious a task to read something off a screen. Make no mistake, a book in hand will always be my favorite. Hard to explain to non-readers, but something, perhaps that smell of paper/ink, makes the link to reading unbreakable in my mind.
However, and there’s always a however, things are starting to appear that I have an interest in that aren’t available on paper, at least for the moment, so I finally broke down and downloaded Amazon’s free Kindle application for PCs. It even came with a Stephen King short story, N, as a bonus.
I did that primarily because these two books I wanted and I can be an impatient soul when I want something. They are what spurred me on. I doubt that I will ever buy a Kindle, or any other type of reader, as, because of my health, I rarely leave home. No need for a device loaded with books as I am surrounded by the real thing in large numbers.
Now, the books.
KILLING TRAIL by Charles Allen Gramlich, he of the RAZORED ZEN blog, is a nice collection of short stories and a couple of pieces where he discussed influences on his writing. Most definitely worth the cost.
A POLICEMAN’S LOT by Gary M. Dobbs, THE TAINTED ARCHIVE is his domain, is a turn of the century tale combining elements of the West and crime stories in a novel set in Wales. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show is touring Great Britain and has set up outside Pontypridd. Inspector Frank Parade heads a two man force that has the extra burden of five hundred performers and eight hundred head of stock, never mind that the thousands pouring in for the shows, to deal with.
When the killings start up, throats slit, Parade chillingly finds connections to a sixteen year old series of unsolved killings. Has Jack the Ripper reemerged? His own unique interpretation of the killings can take place alongside the multiple theories propunded over the years.
I was quite pleased with both of these books and, because of that, I’ve made several more purchases. Will get to them in due course.
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The web is in the middle of a massive change from non-secure HTTP to the more secure HTTPS protocol. All web servers use one of these two protocols to get web pages from the server to your browser. HTTP has serious problems that make it vulnerable to eavesdropping and content hijacking. HTTPS fixes most of these problems. That’s why EFF, and many like-minded supporters, have been pushing for web sites to adopt HTTPS by default. As of 2016, about half of all web page visits use HTTPS. This is a big improvement over the past, but we still have work to do.
We’re calling on all web site owners to implement HTTPS by default, and we’re providing the tools to do it.
For many years, web site owners chose to only implement HTTPS for a small number of pages, like those that accepted passwords or credit card numbers. However, in recent years, the Internet security community has come to realize that all web pages need protection. Pages served over HTTP are vulnerable to eavesdropping, content injection, and cookie stealing, which can be used to take over your online accounts.
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Unfortunately, you can only use HTTPS on websites that support it, and there are still lots of sites that don’t. However, a lot of sites partially support HTTPS— they make HTTPS available but don’t send visitors to the HTTPS version by default.
EFF created and maintains a browser extension, HTTPS Everywhere, that has a list of many such sites, and will take you to their HTTPS version automatically. We recommend installing it in all your browsers to make you safer from eavesdropping and content injection on the sites it lists.
You can also check your favorite sites. When you visit them, does the URL bar at the top of your browser show “https://”? If not, you should contact the people who run those sites and demand HTTPS support. Feel free to link them here for a description of why it’s important.
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We’re encouraging everyone who runs a web site to offer HTTPS and redirect visitors to HTTPS by default. Offering HTTPS has gotten a lot cheaper in the last 10 years, and today it won’t slow down your site or make it use more server CPU. In fact, offering HTTPS makes it possible for sites to implement the modern HTTP/2 standard, which can dramatically speed up web browsing relative to HTTP.
Offering HTTPS requires getting a certificate from a certificate authority. It used to be expensive and complicated to get a certificate, but a new certificate authority, Let’s Encrypt, offers free certificates to the public using an API that enables easy automation. Let’s Encrypt is a joint project of EFF, Mozilla, and many other sponsors.
If you manage your web site entirely through a web interface, the easiest approach is for your hosting provider to integrate Let’s Encrypt support as a setting you can turn on. Many hosting providers already support Let’s Encrypt, and many more add support all the time.
If you have shell access on your hosting provider, you can use Certbot, a tool developed by EFF. Certbot can get you a free certificate from Let’s Encrypt. It can also automatically configure your Apache or Nginx server to correctly use that certificate.
What you can do as a hosting provider
We encourage all hosting providers and CDNs to offer HTTPS by default for their customers, at no additional cost versus their HTTP services. Many already have, like Cloudflare, OVH, WordPress.com, and SquareSpace. The Let’s Encrypt integration guide has additional details on how to best implement HTTPS by default. We look forward to seeing free, automatic HTTPS become the industry standard for web hosting.
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WASHINGTON, June 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Advertising can be an effective way to encourage parents to talk with their children about sex, according to a new study by researchers at The George Washington University and RTI International.
The study, published in the June issue of Journal of Adolescent Health, found that the "Parents Speak Up National Campaign," successfully encouraged parents to initiate conversations about sex with their children.
"The study adds a new dimension to the larger debate on abstinence education and intervention programs," said Doug Evans, Ph.D., director of public health communication and marketing at The George Washington University and the study's lead author. "We found that abstinence messaging delivered to parents through mass media is efficacious in promoting parenting-child communication about sex and thus may be an effective public health strategy."
The results showed that four weeks after exposure to the ad campaign, fathers initiated more conversations with their children than they had previously. And after six months, both fathers and mothers who were exposed to the campaign were more likely to specifically recommend to their children to wait to become sexually active.
"The pattern of initiation of conversations about sex at four weeks post-baseline and then recommendations to their child to wait at six months post-baseline among fathers" is significant, said Kevin Davis, M.A., a senior researcher at RTI and the study's co-author. "This suggests the campaign succeeded in communicating its 'call to action,' particularly among fathers."
The campaign, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, launched in June 2007 and uses primarily public service announcements as well as paid television, radio, print and outdoor announcements.
The study included nearly 1,500 parents of children 10 to 14 years old, selected from the Knowledge Networks, an online panel based on a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults. Participants were randomly assigned to experiment conditions, receiving exposure or no exposure to campaign ads and materials. All participants completed a baseline survey prior to exposure and then two follow-up surveys four weeks and six months later.
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Pakistan Tried to Trade CIA Contractor for 'Lady al Qaeda'
The government of Pakistan offered to trade a CIA contractor currently jailed in that country for a Pakistani neuroscientist suspected by U.S. intelligence to be an al Qaeda operative.
According to a senior American administration official and a Pakistani official involved in the negotiations to free CIA contractor Raymond Davis, the Pakistani government proposed trading Davis for Aafia Siddiqui, an MIT-educated Pakistani neuroscientist currently serving 86 years in federal prison for attempted murder.
The offer was immediately dismissed by the U.S. government. "The Pakistanis have raised it," the U.S. official said. "We are not going to pursue it."
The proposal is the latest in a series of efforts to break an impasse between Washington and Islamabad over Davis. The CIA contractor has been held by Pakistani authorities since late January for shooting and killing two men he says were following his car and tried to rob him.
Siddiqui was convicted of trying to shoot F.B.I. agents and military officers in an Afghanistan police station in 2008. Siddiqui had been arrested the day before after being found with a list of New York city landmarks and instructions on how to construct explosives.
In 2004, F.B.I. director Robert Mueller described Siddiqui as an "al Qaeda operative and facilitator." The F.B.I. had issued a global alert for Siddiqui and her first husband in 2003, for their suspected ties to al Qaeda. Siddiqui later remarried to an al Qaeda operative, who was the nephew of the 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Muhammed. The husband, Ammar al-Baluchi is currently being detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Siddiqui was never charged with any terrorism-related crimes, however. Shortly after the FBI alert, she and her children disappeared, only to surface in Afghanistan five years later. Siddiqui has claimed she was held in secret American prisons, including Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, during that time. American officials have consistently denied that she was ever in American custody.
Official: Raymond Davis Trade Offer Not Considered by White House
According to the Pakistani official, the Pakistan's government proposal called for Siddiqui to be transferred to Pakistan, where she would serve the remainder of her sentence in a Pakistani jail or under house arrest.
Siddiqui's case became a cause celebre in Pakistan last year when Pakistan's prime minister called for Siddiqui's exoneration and release.
Popular Pakistani sentiment held that Siddiqui, who also had a Ph.D. from Brandeis University, had been persecuted by the U.S. because she was an educated Islamist woman, someone who spurned the West despite her background.
According to the senior administration official and a Pakistani official, the U.S. government quickly made it clear to Pakistan that they would not entertain the possibility of trading Siddiqui for Davis.
The American official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record about the negotiation, said the offer was not being considered by the Obama White House.
The Pakistani official directly involved in the negotiations agreed, saying their Siddiqui proposal was a "non-starter" for the U.S. government.
Since the impasse began in the days after the January 27th shooting in Lahore, that ultimately led to the deaths of three Pakistani citizens, both sides have alternated between hard and soft approaches to end the diplomatic stand off.
U.S. and Pakistani officials told ABC News that early on, the White House threatened to close the three U.S. consulates and expel the Pakistani ambassador to the U.S. if Davis wasn't released. Pakistan's ambassador, Husain Haqqani, has denied that the White House made those threats.
The Associated Press reported last week that the Pakistani intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, has stopped speaking with the CIA over the Davis case and its perception that the Americans have been heavy-handed in their efforts to get Davis released. Citing a senior ISI official, the report described the relationship between the ISI and CIA as at the lowest point since 9/11. The U.S.-Pakistani relationship is considered crucial to ending the war in Afghanistan.
Pakistani Officials: It's a 'Matter of Time' Before Davis Is Released
On Friday, Davis refused to sign a charge sheet during a pre-trial hearing, telling the court he has been advised that he has diplomatic immunity.
But there is still hope for a resolution despite the apparent impasse. Pakistani officials in both Lahore and Islamabad have told ABC News that Davis' release is a "matter of time," and that the Pakistani government is waiting for the public furor over the case to wane before releasing the American.
One Pakistani official said that one likely outcome would be that the U.S. government would pay reparations to the victims' families, who under Pakistan law can pardon Davis if asked.
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I’m a huge fan of lemon drizzle cake, in particular my Mum’s lemon drizzle, it brings back happy memories from my childhood. So when I stumbled across a recipe for elderflower and pistachio I knew I had to give it a go. And this is the recipe I mentioned in my post elderflower cupcakes. I…… Continue reading Elderflower and Pistachio Drizzle Cake
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Sweden The Deal in Lund
After years of living stateside, Markus is ready to return to Europe with his new American wife, Cory. He's been accepted into the University of Lund in Sweden, and he doesn't want their first marital home to be a dorm room. These newlyweds will need to battle 40,000 other students in Lund's busy rental market. As she waits for her Swedish work visa, Cory is feeling the budgetary pressure, but she would still like their home to meet the size and standards to which she has grown accustomed to in the States. Agent Michael will have his work cut out for him when House Hunters International goes on a honeymoon in Lund, Sweden.
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The company will wait until January to start phasing out jobs.
Officials say they will try to help employees find other work.
Celanese currently employees about a thousand people.
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[Radford-Shooting]
Radford police today made another arrest for last weekend's shooting of three people.
Kerry Wayne McPherson, Junior of Blacksburg is charged with aggravated malicious wounding for Saturday's shooting on Lawrence Street.
A New York man also faces charges.
The injuries to the three victims were not life-threatening.
[Plane-Crash]
Federal investigators continue to gather information about Sunday's fatal plane crash in Patrick County.
Now they're preparing to remove the wreckage of the Hendrick Motorsports plane from the mountainside.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Patrick Co.;]
Investigators returned to Bull Mountain for a second day to document the crash site.
They recovered an instrument panel that could provide some useful information.
And they are now expecting an aircraft recovery team that will begin removing pieces of the plane so they can be taken to a Delaware facility for further analysis.
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[SOT 04:49:08]
[IN Q=We have to strike]
((BRIAN RAYNER/NTSB INVESTIGATOR: WE HAVE TO STRIKE A BALANCE BETWEEN FINDING EVERYTHING AS IS, AND GETTING AS MUCH EVIDENCE OUT AS YOU CAN BEFORE THE ENVIRONMENT TAKES OVER. WE HAVE WEATHER COMING THIS WAY, AND WE WANT TO GET SOME OF THESE ITEMS UP AND OUT AS QUICKLY AS WE CAN.))
[SUPER=01-Brian Rayner/NTSB Investigator;]
[RUNS=:16]
[OUT Q=and out as quickly as we can.]
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[VO-NAT]
Because the terrain is so challenging, Brian Rayner says the recovery team will probably use a helicopter to remove the plane from the mountainside.
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[Spencer-Airport]
[ANCHOR=Shannon]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=sba]
[TAPE#=04-41 TC23:50]
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[ENG#=2]
Days after the crash, some are questioning the safety of the Blue Ridge Airport.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Spencer]
But, Matt Broughton -who has been flying for nearly 20-years- says those claims are ridiculous.
Broughton says on a clear day you can see the landing strip, anchored by trees on each side and mountains on the horizon.
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[SOT@11:40:52.01]
[INQ=It's a safe airport...]
((MATT BROUGHTON, LAWYER/PILOT: IT'S A SAFE AIRPORT. IT'S A VERY REASONABLE APPROACH ASSUMING SOMETHING DOESN'T GO WRONG LIKE PILOT ERROR OR FAILURE OR SOMETHING.. IT'S SAFE.. THE ACCIDENT SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED...))
[SUPER=01-Matt Broughton/Attorney & Pilot]
[RUNS=:11]
[OUTQ=..should not have happened.]
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[VO-NAT]
Broughton and other pilots continue to ask why the crew was more than seven-miles away from the airport and if they were exercising the approved missed -approach procedure which is available for every pilot.
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[Flight-587]
[ANCHOR=Shan]
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[ENG#=3]
The crash of an American airlines jet just weeks after September 11th was caused by human error.
Federal investigators say the co-pilot of Flight 587 responded too aggressively to turbulence.
Bianca Solorzano reports.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=Less than two minutes...]
[SUPER=01-Robert Benzon/NTSB; :16]
[SUPER=01-Bianca Solorzano/CBS News; :50]
[SUPER=01-Matthew Fox/NTSB; 1:14]
[RUNS=1:40]
[OUT Q=CBS News, New York.]
((LESS THAN TWO MINUTES AFTER DEPARTURE, AMERICAN AIRLINES FLT. 587 WAS OUT OF CONTROL. IT'S TAIL SECTION HAD TORN OFF, SENDING THE PLANE INTO A DEADLY DIVE THAT ENDED IN A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD.
A RESULT... SAYS THE NTSB OF PILOT ERROR.
SOT: ROBERT BENZON, INVESTIGATOR-IN-CHARGE/NTSB
"SEVERAL TECHNICAL AND HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS COMBINED CONTRIBUTED TO THIS ACCIDENT."
WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARED, 265 PEOPLE PERISHED, FIVE OF THEM ON THE GROUND. THE CRASH WAS THE SECOND WORST AIR DISASTER IN U.S. HISTORY
nats...
AFTER THREE YEARS OF INVESTIGATION, GRIEVING FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS ARE FINALLY GETTING SOME ANSWERS. THE NTSB HAS PLACED THE BLAME SQUARELY ON THE ACTIONS OF THE CO-PILOT, WHO'S AGGRESSIVE USE - OF THE PLANES RUDDERS RIPPED THE TAIL FIN FROM IT'S ANCHORS.
SOLARZANO ON-CAMERA BIDGE:
THE NTSB SAYS AMERICAN'S TRAINING PROGRAM IMPROPERLY ENCOURAGES PILOTS TO RESPOND TO THIS TYPE OF EMERGENCY IN A DANGEROUS MANNER.
(NAT: NTSB MEETING)
AMERICAN AIRLINES SAYS THE MAKER OF THE PLANE...AIRBUS...DIDNT WARN ABOUT THE DAMAGE OF SHARP RUDDER MOVEMENTS UNTIL AFTER THE WRECK.
AIRBUS DISAGREES.
AND WHEN IT COMES TO AIRCRAFT FLAWS .. THE NTSB SAYS IT'S FINDINGS ARE CLEAR.
SOT: MATTHEW FOX/NTSB
"THERE WAS NO SIGN OF ANY MATERIAL DEGREDATION OR ANY OTHER FACTORS THAT COULD HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THIS ACCIDENT."
THE STAKE ARE HIGH FOR BOTH THE AIRLINE AND THE MANUFACTURER. THEY ARE AT ODDS OVER WHO WILL PAY THE LARGEST SHARE OF DAMAGES TO THE VICTIM'S FAMILIES.
THERE ARE 500 AIRPLANES WITH THE SAME RUDDER DESIGN AS FLT. 587 IN OPERATION AROUND THE WORLD. AMERICAN IS THE ONLY AIRLINE THAT USES THOSE PLANES TO CARRY PASSENGERS.))
[Abortion]
The Commonwealth today appealed a ruling that blocks a ban on so- called partial birth abortions.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Richmond;]
Both sides were heard in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The state solicitor general says he believes the case should go to trial.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT 11:15:30]
[IN Q=We had oral argument.]
((WILLIAM THRO/STATE SOLICITOR GENERAL: WE HAD ORAL ARGUMENT. WE WERE VERY PLEASED WITH THE COURTS QUESTIONS. THE COURTS SEEMED RECEPTIVE TO OUR ARGUMENTS, WE ARE CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC. OUR MAJOR ARGUMENT IS THAT THERE IS AN INSUFFICIENT RECORD TO DECLARE THIS STATUTE UNCONSTITUTIONAL.))
[SUPER=01-William Thro/VA Solicitor General;]
[RUNS=13]
[OUT Q=this statute unconstitutional]
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[ANCHOR=Shannon]
[SS=None]
Legislation banning the procedure went into effect in July of last year and was struck down eight months ago.
That after a federal judge ruled the ban violated privacy rights and failed to make an exception for the health of the woman.
A decision on today's appeal is expected within the next four months.
[Tease1]
[ANCHOR=Shannon]
[WRITER=dse]
[NEWSCAST=11p]
[SS=None]
[ENG#=APRISA]
What issues will Virginians base their votes on next week?
Results of the latest News 7 poll next.
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[VO-NAT]
Plus one of the Washington area snipers tries to avoid a death sentence.
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(MINI OPEN)
With just a week until the election, President Bush is holding his lead in Virginia.
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[VO-NAT]
The latest News Seven Mason-Dixon Poll puts the President's lead over Senator John Kerry at six points, the same margin as a month ago.
When voters were asked what one issue will most influence their vote next week, Homeland Security and Terrorism came out on top.
22 percent said Iraq.
20 percent said the economy and job creation.
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[Hastert]
First it was the Vice President who came to town stumping for him.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke Co.]
Today, the Speaker of the House spent a few minutes in Roanoke promoting Kevin Triplett's candidacy in the Ninth Congressional District.
Dennis Hastert says it's one of a dozen or so races across the country that could make a difference in Congress.
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[SOT 5:58:45]
[IN Q=You know this]
((REP. DENNIS HASTERT/U. S. HOUSE SPEAKER; YOU KNOW THIS IS AN IMPORTANT RACE FOR US. I RUN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EVERYDAY WITH ABOUT AN 11-VOTE MARGIN. IF WE CAN PICK UP SOMEBODY LIKE KEVIN TRIPLETT....))
[SUPER=01-Rep. Dennis Hastert/U. S. House Speaker]
[RUNS=:10]
[OUT Q=like Kevin Triplett]
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[VO-NAT]
...he figures: one more Republican in the House would make his job that much easier.
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[ANCHOR=Shannon]
[GRAPHIC=HOLD]
Hastert is in Texas tonight, appearing on behalf of another Republican.
He estimates he will have visited 200 Congressional Districts by election day.
[Malvo]
[ANCHOR=Shannon]
[NEWSCAST=11]
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[GRAPHIC=Lee Malvo]
[ENG#=3]
The youngest of the two D-C snipers reached a plea bargain with prosecutors today in connection with two of the 2002 shootings.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Spotsylvania Co.;]
Lee Boyd Malvo entered an *Alford Plea* which spared him the death penalty.
That means Malvo admits prosecutors have enough evidence to convict him in the crimes, but does not actually admit to committing them.
He'll will receive two consecutive life sentences for the murder of Kenneth Bridges and the attempted murder of Caroline Seawell.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT]
[IN Q=There is no appeal]
((WILLIAM NEELY/SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA PROSECUTOR; THERE IS NO APPEAL FROM THAT. IT REPRESENTS FINALITY FOR THE VICTIMS OF THIS CRIME. IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING FROM MR. MALVO'S DEFENSE COUNSEL THAT HE PLANS TO DROP HIS APPEALS IN HIS OTHER CASES AND TO SERVE HIS LIFE SENTENCES.))
[SUPER=01-William Neely/Spotsylvania Co. Prosecutor;]
[RUNS=15]
[OUT Q=his life sentences.]
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[VO-NAT]
Malvo was also convicted last year and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Linda Franklin, one of the 10 people killed over a three-week span of sniper slayings.
Malvo's accomplice, John Allen Muhammad, is on Virginia's death row for one of the murders.
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[WIPE WIPE WIPE]
[Peterson]
[ANCHOR=Shannon]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[WRITER=bda]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=]
[ENG#=4]
[WIPE WIPE WIPE]
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Redwood City, CA;]
Meanwhile, Scott Peterson's defense team has rested its case after only a week and a half.
The final testimony came from a Modesto police officer .
Analysts say there were no home-runs for the defense.
The attorney for prosecution witness Amber Fry, Peterson's former mistress, says the defense ran out of steam.
Peterson's family, however, says the defense did what it needed to do and that the truth will set Peterson free.
The prosecution will present rebuttal witnesses tomorrow.
Closing arguments are set for Monday.
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[Tobacco-Fire]
A piece of Southside history went up in flames earlier this morning.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
Just before two, the old Planter's Tobacco warehouse on Wilbourne Avenue caught fire.
These pictures show the intensity of the flames.
Firefighters spent several hours bringing the blaze under control.
[SUPER=03-South Boston; :12]
The building and its contents, including about twenty tons of tobacco, were destroyed ... and neighboring businesses suffered as well.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT 20:00:41]
[IN Q=Actually at one]
((MICK REED/SOUTH BOSTON POLICE CHIEF: ACTUALLY AT ONE POINT, THE FLAMES WERE SO INTENSE THAT YOU COULD SEE THE GLASS THERE WAS MELTED ACROSS THE STREET. AND WE HAVE SOME DAMAGE TO A LOT OF THE BUILDINGS THAT SURROUND THIS AREA.))
[SUPER=01-Mick Reed/South Boston Police Chief]
[RUNS=16]
[OUT Q=surround this area.]
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[VO-NAT]
State police and A-T-F agents are looking into the cause of the fire.
(------------)
[Cassini]
Scientists are about to get their closest look ever at Saturn's giant moon.
(------------)
[VO-NAT :27]
The international Cassini spacecraft was to pass within 745 miles of Titan some hours ago, but data just recently began beaming into
NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.
Titan is a kind of planet-wannabe, and the only moon with an atmosphere
Along with taking photos, Cassini will use its imaging radar to make topographical maps and determine whether Titan has a
liquid or solid surface.
In two months, a probe from Cassini will parachute into Titan's atmosphere, sending back pictures and data.
(------------)
[S-Extra]
Tech/Wake Forest men's soccer, Robby Gordon will start his own Nextel Cup team and Hokies and cavaliers,
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=04-Major League Baseball; :00]
But first our extra point. San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds has been selected The Sporting News' 2004 baseball player of the year. That's after hitting .362, setting a record with 232 walks and topping 700 career homers. The award was based on a vote by 552 players. The 40-year-old had 45 homers and drove in 101 runs this past season.
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[STRAIGHT TO BREAK]
[S-Soccer]
[ANCHOR=Steve]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=kco]
[TAPE#=SP-181]
[GRAPHIC=6126]
[ENG#=1]
We start with a little European football tonight. Virginia Tech hosted Wake Forest in ACC men's action.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Blacksburg]
The Hokies came into tonight's game with a 1-3-0 ACC record behind Wake Forest's record of 3-1-0.
Watch as Wake's Scott Sealy accepts the pass and tries to put one past Tech's goalie Chase Harrison. Harrison makes a great save again on a Sealy shot, turning the ball away.
[SUPER=34-Wake Forest/2/Virginia Tech/0;]
But, after a scoreless first half Wake's offensive couldn't be stoppped in the second. Wake Forest goes on to win 2 to nothing. Tech's last home game of the season will be Saturday against number one Virginia.
(------------)
[S-Robby]
Robby Gordon says he's leaving Richard Childress Racing at the end of the season with the intention of racing for his own Nextel Cup team in 2005.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=04-NASCAR; :00]
Gordon, who has run a part-time Busch Series schedule this year with his own team, says he's been putting the pieces in place for a Cup team for most of 2004. Gordon and Childress both say the parting is amicable. Going into Sunday's race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Gordon is 23rd in the season standings.
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[S-Hendrick]
[ANCHOR=steve]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=sma]
[TAPE#=SP-183 1:01:35]
[GRAPHIC=hendrick motor sports]
[ENG#=3]
Hendrick Motorsports will hold a candlelight service tomorrow in honor of the ten people who died Sunday when a team plane crashed. The public memorial service will be held at the Hendrick Motorsports complex.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Harrisburg, NC; :00]
NASCAR race fans have been leaving flowers and sitting outside the Hendrick Motorsports racing headquarters this week, obviously their faces indicate total disbelief. Many of the Nextel Cup drivers are experienced pilots with thousands of flight hours, like Rusty Wallace. Mark Martin lost his father in a plane crash. They were just a few of the many drivers who reacted with great sadness to this tragedy.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT]
[IN Q=]
[SUPER=01-Rusty Wallace/#2 Miller Lite Dodge Driver; :06]
[SUPER=01-Dale Jarrett/#88 UPS Ford Driver; :33]
[SUPER=01-Mark Martin/#6 Viagra Ford Driver; :40]
[RUNS=:47]
[OUT Q=........nices guys in the sport"]
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[S-UVA]
13th ranked Virginia is healing up during this bye week and the pass defense could use a shot in the arm as well.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Durham, NC/Saturday; :00]
Duke registered season highs in yards passing and in TD passes against the Wahoos. UVa's pass defense is rated seventh in the ACC and only two other teams are giving up more yards per catch on average.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT]
[IN Q=]
[SUPER=01-Jermaine Hardy/UVa Senior Safety; :00]
[SUPER=01-Phillip Brown/UVa Freshman Cornerback; :14]
[RUNS=:19]
[OUT Q=...amnesia as a defensive back"]
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[Henry-College]
[ANCHOR=Shannon]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=myr]
[TAPE#=04-37 TC47:48]
[GRAPHIC=None]
[ENG#=1]
A free ride to college -- and a degree in half the time.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Martinsville;]
That's the vision of former J-M-U president Ronald Carrier, who is leading an effort to build a new college in Henry County.
Carrier says the college would offer a two-year bachelor's program and free tuition for students, through scholarships and work.
He says it would also draw a majority of its students from Henry County.
(/////SOT////)
[SOT 1353]
[IN Q=it should help]
((RONALD CARRIER/FMR JMU PRESIDENT: IT SHOULD HELP THOSE WHO ARE NOT REPRESENTED IN HIGHER EDUCATION NOW, GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO HIGHER EDUCATION.))
[SUPER=01-Ronald Carrier/Former James Madison Univ. President;]
[RUNS=06]
[OUT Q=go to higher education (2ND REF)]
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=04-April;]
Organizers initially considered building the college on this donated land, but now appear to be leaning toward downtown Martinsville to help revitalize the area.
State officials began reviewing the plans this week.
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Two days before the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case that could have a devastating effect on working people's collective-bargaining rights, IBEW International President Lonnie R. Stephenson is encouraging members across the country to take part in a national "Working People's Day of Action."
U.S. House Democrats unveiled a sweeping plan Thursday to invest $1 trillion in the nation’s decaying infrastructure, creating 16 million new American jobs by tackling everything from rickety bridges and railways to safe water, renewable energy and high-speed internet access.
One of the largest transmission projects in North America is coming to an end, and when it does, it will have connected two Canadian provinces for the first time and employed approximately 3,500 IBEW members along the way.
The AFL-CIO and Mexico’s National Union of Workers formally complained to the Department of Labor that Mexico is violating the already low labor standards of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement.
Recruiting women into the trades is getting a little easier, Lisa Langevin has found over more than 15 years as an electrician. But getting them to stay is another story – even as construction is booming across British Columbia.
Congress is close to passing the largest retreat on labor rights since the implementation of the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, and several wavering Senate Democrats will cast critical votes deciding whether the anti-worker effort succeeds or fails.
West Frankfort, Ill., Local 702 Business Manager Steve Hughart learned recently that a 96-year-old widow of a retired IBEW member was having trouble accessing her late husband’s benefits. Business agent Jason Woolard didn’t just help her secure those benefits; he went to her home and spent several hours helping get her finances in order.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is down at least 40 workplace safety inspectors since early 2017, a troubling trend attributable to Donald Trump’s hiring freeze coupled with attrition. Budget cuts under consideration by the White House are likely to make matters even worse for worker safety.
The U.S. unemployment rate has remained in the low single digits for the past several years, a sign of a strengthening economy since the 2008 recession ran roughshod over millions of working Americans. But finding a solid middle-class job can still be a struggle for some, especially for someone who has spent time behind bars.
The National Labor Relations Board put its first Republican majority in years to quick use, issuing a flurry of decisions in a single week in early December that unraveled important pro-worker gains made over the last eight years.
When three major hurricanes tore through the Caribbean earlier this year, they caused historic levels of devastation. Harvey dumped on Houston. Irma shook up Florida and Puerto Rico. Then came Maria. For Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Local 728 member Phil St. Jean, it was the island of Dominica that he kept his eye on.
New York Local 3 member Lou Alvarez has seen devastation before, but nothing prepared him for what he saw when he arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico, leading the first group of IBEW volunteers to arrive after Hurricane Maria made landfall two weeks before.
Several IBEW families are among thousands who have lost their homes to deadly wildfires that devastated northern California in October and ignited near Los Angeles in early December, propelled by hurricane-strength winds.
Energy generation and power distribution – an $880 billion a year business -- has changed more in the last 20 years than in the preceding 100, and that change is likely to accelerate in the coming years.
In Iowa, it’s no longer enough to simply vote for union representation. Now, public workers – those working for the state, counties, cities and towns – are being forced to repeat the process every two or three years thanks to anti-union legislation that requires “recertification” votes in the year leading up to a new contract.
Business Manager Jason Tibbs said Regina, Saskatchewan, Local 2067 has had a non-adversarial relationship with the conservative provincial legislature for the last several years. The relationship with SaskPower, its largest employer, has been a good one.
In the United States, President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement, arguing that only a businessman like him can bring back manufacturing and restore jobs that long ago left for Mexico.
Labor activists in Illinois have a chance to bury one of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s top anti-union priorities this week, and they’re putting the full-court press on wavering Republican legislators to join them.
When Tanisha Smythe started at Time Warner Cable in New York a decade ago she was living in a shelter with her newborn son. Seven months after Smythe and nearly 1,800 other members of New York Local 3 went on strike, she is facing a return to one.
Brother Paul Feeney will soon be the newest member of the Massachusetts State Senate after the Boston Local 2222 member and Verizon central office technician handily defeated his two opponents in the Oct. 17 special election.
The small town of Jackson, N.J., just half an hour’s drive from the Jersey shore, is home to the state’s first transitional housing program for homeless female veterans thanks to the vision and generosity of a local couple driven to serve.
Union membership has traditionally provided working families improved health insurance coverage. A recently-released report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that might be truer ever, even in the face of rising costs.
Virginia voters head to the polls on Nov. 7 to choose a new governor and state Legislature, and IBEW members in the state have been working hard to convince their neighbors to cast their votes for working families.
Uncontrolled wildfires have spread across parts of northern California, killing at least 40 and leaving entire neighborhoods and communities in ruins. Among those who have lost their homes are at least 45 IBEW members and their families, who had to race away from walls of flames, some with only moments to spare.
Since Memphis, Tenn., Local 474 received its official apprenticeship charter in 1947, instructors have trained well over 1,000 apprentices. But it wasn’t until this year that they finally got a building of their own in which to do it.
The gender pay gap is shrinking, but it’s happening at a glacially slow pace. One place where it’s smaller than average though, is the unionized trades. And collaborations like that between Oregon Tradeswomen, a nonprofit that supports women in the trades, and Portland, Ore., Local 48 are bringing great career opportunities to more and more women.
Nearly two dozen IBEW wiremen and linemen are on their way to begin rebuilding Puerto Rico’s shattered electrical grid. Fifteen are going from New York Local 3 and 15 are going from Miami, Tampa, Atlanta and other locals.
Houston Local 66 Business Manager Gregory Lucero met with an apprentice recently whose home had been damaged by flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey and suggested he apply for help from the Texas AFL-CIO’s Worker Relief Find.
International President Lonnie R. Stephenson in September joined the Council on Competitiveness, a Washington-based nonprofit whose mission is advancing American prosperity and increasing the United States’ competitiveness in the global marketplace.
Boston Local 2222 member Paul Feeney won the Democratic primary on Sept. 19 in his special election bid for a seat in the Massachusetts State Senate. He’ll go on to face Republican Jacob Ventura and independent Joe Shortsleeve in the Oct. 17 general election.
The IBEW and working families in West Virginia suffered a setback on Sept. 15, when the state’s Supreme Court squashed an injunction that prohibited implementation of a right-to-work law and sent the case back to the circuit court level.
In Hurricane Irma’s wake, the largest power restoration force in U.S. history mobilized to repair and rebuild the Southeast, with line crews coming from as far away as Seattle, California and even parts of Canada to pitch in. With nearly 8 million out of power, approximately 60,000 line workers, tree-trimmers and support staff from 250 utilities converged on Florida, led by IBEW members, who made up an enormous share of the restoration army.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio made clear whose side they are on during a Sept. 18 rally: the 1,800 New York Local 3 members who have been on strike against Charter/Spectrum for six solid months. Both urged the company to return to the bargaining table and negotiate a contract that’s fair for working families.
As members of the House of Representatives scrambled on Sept. 6 to pass an appropriations bill to keep the government running, Rep. Steve King of Iowa and others tried repeatedly to attach amendments that would gut the Davis-Bacon Act, a long-standing law that assures construction workers a living wage.
In late 2012, Modesto, Calif., Local 684 needed to get bigger. Work was picking up, and in the years following the 2008 recession, the downturn in construction had seen membership slip from a historical average of around 300 to just 228. Then-business manager Billy Powell decided it was time to take action.
After 16 years of an anti-union Liberal Party in power, many British Columbia working families were ready for change and put their faith – and votes – with the New Democrats. And after a historically close election, labour is celebrating an NDP victory.
More than 10 million people are without power in the Sunshine State after Hurricane Irma churned its way up the length of the peninsula over the weekend, unleashing 140 mph winds, heavy rain and 10-foot storm surges in some coastal areas.
Hurricane Harvey has been wreaking havoc on southeast Texas ever since it landed on Friday, and it’s shattering records along the way. Wherever possible, IBEW members are helping with rescue efforts and to restore power to the 300,000-plus residents without it.
Donna Doherty has been a New York Local 3 member for 38 years. She’s worked for Charter/Spectrum and the companies that preceded it as the city’s cable television franchisee, serving as one of the first woman technicians on the job and advancing to foreman in the technical operations department.
Talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement began Aug. 16 in Washington, but the White House objectives, released in July, have critics griping that the “new” plan looks a lot like the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal that Donald Trump – and the IBEW – opposed last year
The second-generation Local 309 wireman, has taken his love for the past to the extreme, authoring a book about the remarkable story of his own grandfather’s fight through war-torn World War II Europe, and then recreating that journey for an upcoming documentary film.
The first grid-scale solar installation built by Tampa Electric Co. was supposed to be the opening chapter of the company’s green energy future. It all nearly fell apart because of one of the oldest stories there is: shoddy work by nonunion contractors.
In collaboration with the aboriginal community and the building trades, Vancouver, B.C., Local 213 led a pilot program to recruit and train aboriginal youth interested in pursuing a career as an electrician.
Mike Duncan isn’t the only contractor providing high-quality craftsmanship in New Brunswick, but he might be the only one who gets his crew together every Friday for a group photo for the company Instagram account.
About 310,000 people live in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, spread out over more than 16,000 square miles – making it geographically larger than nine states. Outside of driving for several hours through three other states, one could reach the rest of Michigan only by air or ferry until 1957, when the five-mile Mackinac Bridge was opened.
This year, Union Plus granted over $11,000 in
scholarships to family members of IBEW workers. The scholarships were
awarded to 11 recipients who attend or are planning to attend
university, college trade or technical school.
Last October, the Media Department told the story of Johnstown, Pa., Local 459 member Tom Whitehead, his wife Kari and daughter Emily, who was in remission from leukemia after undergoing a revolutionary treatment at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Fellow IBEW members rallied around the Whiteheads and supported them both financially and emotionally during a time of crisis.
As the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance celebrates a decade of connecting union members through conservation, its Brotherhood Outdoors TV series kicked off its ninth season with a new look when it returned to the Sportsman Channel in July.
If you’ve ever experienced a power outage – especially in the dead of winter or during a sweltering heatwave – and breathed a sigh of relief when the lights came back on, take a second this July 10 to thank a lineworker for making it happen.
North Carolina adopted its right-to-work law in 1947, the same year the Taft-Hartley Act, which empowered states to curb the sources of union funding, passed the U.S. Congress. No move to repeal it has gained any noticeable momentum since.
On June 6, the same anti-worker groups who brought a 2015 California union-busting case to the Supreme Court petitioned the justices to weigh in on an eerily similar case, this time out of Illinois. At issue – again – is whether public employees can be compelled to pay “fair share” fees to a union to cover the costs of collective bargaining and representation performed on their behalf.
While Senate Republicans work behind closed doors to deliver a version of an Obamacare repeal that can pass the upper chamber, retired Americans are pushing back on the House version, passed in May, that would prove devastating for older workers and retirees.
When the Oklahoma Sooners decided in 2015 it was time for a major upgrade to the Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, the university’s Board of Regents turned to the same IBEW contractor it’s used on the historic football structure for decades.
The IBEW apprenticeship program took center stage before the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee on Capitol Hill June 15, with a member telling lawmakers that IBEW training makes graduates immediately employable with journey-level skills that are valued anywhere.
Members of Chicago Local 134 gathered on Memorial Day this year, just as they have since 1935. It’s a different kind of Memorial Day gathering than anywhere else in the IBEW – or in the entire labor movement.
During the 2016 campaign, candidate Donald Trump promised a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending if elected. The news was met with cautious optimism by the construction industry, which stood to gain the most from a major spending spree by the federal government.
In Canada, young workers are three times more likely to be injured or killed in a workplace accident than their more experienced counterparts. That’s why an organization called My Safe Work goes into high schools to educate students on workplace safety—before they enter the job market.
Signals and communications workers at CN Railway in Canada ratified a new 5-year contact at the end of April, beating back company demands for concessions and ensuring stability for the more than 700 IBEW members through 2021.
In this month’s Electrical Worker, we shared the news of Wilmington, Del., Local 313 wireman Dave Amalfitano, who found a kidney donor in Chicago Local 9 apprentice Rob Vargas after the 28-year-old read an Electrical Worker story last August.
Emery Generating Station in Clear Lake, Iowa, has been
recognized as one of the best power plants in the nation and it’s due in part to
the work of its employees, many of whom are members of Cedar Rapids Local 204.
Trains, trolleys and legendary sleeping cars rolled out of the Pullman Company’s Chicago factory for a century until it was shuttered in 1981. Its demise signified the end of railcar production in the United States.
When Fredericton, New Brunswick, Local 37 Business Manager Ross Galbraith learned NB Power had won Canada’s Best Health and Safety Culture award for 2016, he was happy for their achievement, but not especially surprised.
When the Davis-Bacon Act became law
in 1931, there was a belief that government should use its buying power to
enhance the welfare of working people. It was a way to ensure a good wage and
that those wages would go to the local economy. That point of view is slowly
losing sway as the race to the bottom continues in the construction industry.
It was 2009 and Tim Tsotsonis wanted to work as an electrician again after a nearly 22-year absence. And he wanted to help others as a way of saying thanks for the help his family received caring for son Alexander, who has cerebral palsy.
Continuing a new tradition, Boston Local 103 hosted more than 350 girls from eastern Massachusetts area high schools on March 2 for a conference and career fair to encourage their interest in the skilled trades.
Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan have a plan to overhaul the American health care system, but their proposal preys on the old, the sick, the poor and the middle class while rewarding the super-rich and drug companies with a $600 billion tax cut.
From 2008 to 2009 the U.S. economy collapsed into the steepest recession it had seen since the 1930s. The $8 trillion housing bubble burst, thanks to largely unregulated, reckless financial dealings by big banks and Wall Street. Nearly 9 million Americans lost their jobs, 7 million more lost their homes and more than $2.8 trillion in retirement savings flew out the window nearly overnight.
February was a devastating month for unions in Iowa. Following November election wins in the House and Senate, Republicans, already in control of the governor’s office, commanded the entirety of the state’s legislative process for the first time in two decades. And they wasted no time in coming after unions.
With new advocacy groups popping up all over the internet, members of Congress using Snapchat and worldwide marches starting on Facebook, it may seem old-fashioned to think that organizing lessons can be found in not just a book, but one about someone born at the beginning of the last century.
With winter comes snowstorms, and with normal snowstorms come power outages and emergency work for the tens of thousands of IBEW lineworkers. Even a few inches of snow and ice can knock out power for hundreds of thousands of people.
Leif Andersen heard fellow workers on a jobsite at the BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver last spring talk about their union failing to listen to their concerns and continually siding with management.
The IBEW has worked successfully with Jobs to Move America to ensure public transportation projects create good paying jobs for working families in the communities they serve. The next success story might be in New York.
The march by GOP-controlled states to take away rights from working families continues as newly emboldened representatives and governors – elected with sweeping majorities – make their first order of business to cut paychecks and limit the voices of workers.
America’s bridges, roads and tunnels are in a sorry state, desperately in need of major investment, but Republicans on Capitol Hill are trying to make sure union labor has no part in rebuilding the country’s infrastructure.
On Jan. 10, America’s first large-scale “clean coal” power station was declared operational, and IBEW members from Houston Local 66 are playing an integral part in making the groundbreaking technology work.
It was a normal January night like any other. Members of Boston Local 103 were doing routine maintenance on an above-ground part of Interstate 93. They had no idea they were about to turn into local heroes.
Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary routinely stole from his workers and fostered an unsafe work environment in pursuit of personal and shareholder profit, according to current and former employees who spoke on Capitol Hill Jan. 10.
For many, Sunday morning starts with a lazy cup of coffee, maybe the sports page or readying the kids for church. But twice a month for nearly a dozen members of Detroit Local 58, Sunday starts at the union hall with 120 pounds of raw chicken.
On their first session of the new year, House Republicans brought
back a rule
written three years before the invention of the lightbulb that
would allow Congress to target specific federal workers and programs.
Rail infrastructure between Washington and New York has been suffering for decades, falling victim to heavy traffic combined with a lack of investment. But federal regulators have a plan for sorely-needed upgrades that could shorten commutes and lead to IBEW jobs.
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Levees reinforced following Sandy, ahead of Nor'easter
Ahead of the expected Nor'easter, crews worked to prepare levees for high tides by putting one-ton sandbags in place.
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Shelter dogs caught cuddling are adopted after outpouring of support
Video: Two puppies have been melting hearts everywhere after a photo of them embracing while asleep went viral. The puppies are brothers, and are inseparable thanks to a unique bond they share. They now have a forever home.
Over the past week, an adorable photo of two dogs cuddling with each other went viral online, as the story of the siblings — one of whom was blind and the other who appointed himself his brother’s helper — touched hearts around the world.
Soon, Operation Ava, an animal rescue organization in Philadelphia, was barraged with phone calls from people as far away as South Africa and Australia, all asking if they could adopt eight month old pit bull mixes Jeffrey and Jermaine.
But one couple stood out from the rest—Jonathan Hochman and Veronica McKee, who live in nearby Springfield, PA.
Jeffrey and Jermaine will head to their new home with the couple on Monday.
Hochman and McKee, who already have a cat, had been thinking about getting dogs after a friend adopted a pup from Operation Ava. As soon as they saw Jeffrey and Jermaine’s picture, they say, it was love.
“I thought these are the cutest dogs I’ve ever seen,” McKee told TODAY. “They’re incredibly sweet, but they still have that sibling rivalry. There's this sharing thing. It’s pretty funny.”
Courtesy Shevaun Brannigan
Hochman, who was the first of the pair to meet the dogs in person, agrees. “I’ve never seen animals bond like this,” he says of the two dogs, who often walk together, with blind Jeffrey leaning on his brother Jermaine’s back for support.
One of the first tasks Hochman and McKee took on once their adoption was confirmed was taking Jeffrey to a veterinary ophthalmologist to find out if any of his sight could be restored. “[The vet] feels at this point the left eye is completely lost but the right eye does have vision he's able to see silhouettes and tracks and has some vision. Surgery is too risky at this point,” Hochman reports. However, Jeffrey still gets regular eye drops and has been diagnosed as seeing better at a distance than he does close up.
Operation Ava’s Director of Life Saving, Ray Little, originally told TODAY that whoever took the dogs in would need a lot of love and a lot of patience—and a big yard was a bonus. It seems like McKee and Hochman fit the bill. The dogs already love being cuddled by their new owners, and so far there hasn’t been any sibling rivalry with the family cat. But one thing is clear—on all sides, it was love at first sight.
“I have a feeling we're going to get as much out of it as they are,” says McKee.
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How to meet the right people
Yesterday I was driving back from Glasgow pondering a new business brainwave – more of that in due course – when I started to put together all the people I would need to speak to get this off the ground. I need to get to people in all the high places and then reflected on how I managed to get these people into my contacts list. When I started in business I would have given my right arm to be able to meet these decision makers and influencers so I thought some new businesses might like a word of suggestion to fast track them to the right people.
Join some local business groups such as the Women in Business, FSB, Association of……whatever, Insititute of……whatever and volunteer for committees. Committees are notoriously short of activists and if your business is newish you will probably have enough time to take part and help. And I guarantee that you will meet the right people a heck of a lot more quickly
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Histone deacetylase inhibitors
What are Histone deacetylase inhibitors?
Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors are a group of agents that inhibit the histone deactylase enzymes. During gene expression DNA coils and uncoils around histones. Histone acetylases, acetylate the lysine residues in core histones and histone deactylases remove the acetyl groups from the lysine residues. These actions are important in the regulation of gene expression.
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Required Premedical Coursework/competencies URL
How to Select Undergraduate Premed Coursework Premed students shouldn’t think of a heavy course load and competitive GPA as mutually exclusive.
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I do give credit where credit is due. He isnt a very skilled hockey player, has no finesse or style, but still manages to get points.
What I want to talk about is the feeling I get when I see his face or hear his voice. At all costs I do not look at the tv when I see him and will change the radio station if I hear him. I have never felt this way towards anyone before and likely not again.. but right now its a reality.
I know Darcy is very tough physically but he doesnt scare me. If a sanctioned bout could be created between he and I, I would pound his skull in until he lost consciousness, then piss on his face.
Darcy Tucker is a punk, I hate him, I hate him, I hate him,
there is no place for a guy like that on the leafs team. 10 years from now when looking back without yet still, a stanley cup win, maybe others will realize that what I am saying makes sense. theres no need for a darcy tucker type on the leafs bench.
thank you
"there is no place for a guy like that"?!? Huh? No place for a guy who leads his team in goal scoring, who hits, fights, plays his heart out game in and game out, who would give his left arm if it means his team would win a Cup? I'll tell you right now there's 29 other GMs in the league who would find a place for him on their team.
And for the people who imply that Tucker picks his spots when it comes to fighting, I think you're being pretty selective in your memory of his fights. Sure he beat up Eaves, but how many times has he fought guys far bigger and stronger than himself? I vividly remember him diving into the Ottawa bench to get at Neil and ending up fighting both him and Shane Hnidy at the same time. I remember him going toe to toe with Cam Janssen ( the same Cam Janssen who waxed Wade Belak a couple of weeks ago) after Janssen leveled Sundin. He'll stand up for his team mates any time against anyone.
And garbage goals? Since when is one-timing a hard pass into the net a "garbage" goal? If it's so simple why hasn't everyone else in the league started doing it?
Guest4712 ( )
Posted - 12/01/2006 : 15:14:38
Darcy Tucker is in my hockey pool and hes doing great! I dont know why everyone hates him sooo much, i know he did some dirty stuff, but overall hes a great player.
Guest6916 ( )
Posted - 12/01/2006 : 18:11:42
9681 - nice post - totally agree. The kid's got game and heart. Good for him
Guest7669 ( )
Posted - 12/02/2006 : 01:30:39
TtBeing a hockey fan , theres a probability that I may or may not possibly have an un-biased non opinion ,...........occassionally.............mostly..........but I hate this TYPE of fan who personifies the TYPE ....???????????????
Oh.............regarding Tuckers' wife's comments...................what they do in their bedroom...............stays in their bedroom !!! ('')
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hahahahah good one, that was freaking hilarious, you know that thing you did at at the end off your posting......Hilarious...... No no wait , what it was actual, was freakiing hilarious... Do you see how he tried to be funny with a joke, that was so blatently terrible. Nice attempt but the judges has come throw and you are a lost cause who thins he is smart and witty, sorry better luck next time
I do give credit where credit is due. He isnt a very skilled hockey player, has no finesse or style, but still manages to get points.
What I want to talk about is the feeling I get when I see his face or hear his voice. At all costs I do not look at the tv when I see him and will change the radio station if I hear him. I have never felt this way towards anyone before and likely not again.. but right now its a reality.
I know Darcy is very tough physically but he doesnt scare me. If a sanctioned bout could be created between he and I, I would pound his skull in until he lost consciousness, then piss on his face.
Darcy Tucker is a punk, I hate him, I hate him, I hate him,
there is no place for a guy like that on the leafs team. 10 years from now when looking back without yet still, a stanley cup win, maybe others will realize that what I am saying makes sense. theres no need for a darcy tucker type on the leafs bench.
thank you
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OH i KNOW i KNOW!!!! YOURSELF PROBABLY BEING THE WORLD'S TOUGHEST GUY...
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t[hahahahah good one, that was freaking hilarious, you know that thing you did at at the end off your posting......Hilarious...... No no wait , what it was actual, was freakiing hilarious... Do you see how he tried to be funny with a joke, that was so blatently terrible. Nice attempt but the judges has come throw and you are a lost cause who thins he is smart and witty, sorry better luck next time[/quote]
RE: The FREAKLING hilarious end OFF my posting........you're right!!!............I shouldn't THING I'm are smart like the judge who has come THROW. Therefore I'm sorry GUEST 7966 or 6769 or however the #'s spelled..................However.......Do you have a Darcy Tucker opinion??
Big tough guy, hey Tucker? Taking on Eaves, a guy that has never fough at any level....probably skated past the bench and chirped at Neil and McGratton after you did it too.
Just another reason to hate this idiot!
Go Sens
Did you see the cheap "elbow to the head shot" on Bruins' Marc Savard by this ANGELIC GREASEBAG PUKE,..EAVES??????? ....He's going to HAVE to learn to fight if he continues this back stabbing CRAP !!!!....Wonder why Tucker went after the spineless prick.
Who is this guest 7669. It sounds like he must be a tough guy to use such big words. It takes a really tough guy to make an anonyms threat. If there was such a bout i would definately like to see it. That might be the end for 7669.
Guest9641 ( )
Posted - 12/22/2006 : 10:13:36
Being born a Senators fan i have never liked the Toronto Maple Leafs. Up until this season I never had anything against Tucker. After i saw Tucker pull hero, and scrap out Eaves who has never fought an NHL fight, nevermind any fight I almost jumped outta my seat. For someone who spends most of his time chipping in garbage goals and down face first on the ice he can sure scrap out the young defenceless like Eaves. Tucker is a TOOL, straight up joke.
Guest6260 ( )
Posted - 12/29/2006 : 16:19:36
I've heard a lot about this Patrick Eaves thing and I thought I'd give a partial list of the guys Darcy Tucker has fought throughout his career to provide a little perspective. Here we go : Chris Neil, Rob Ray, Ed Jovonovski, Matthew Barnaby, Cam Janssen, Paul Laus, Todd Simpson, Kelly Buchberger, Dave Karpa, Sean O'Donnell, Scott Mellanby, Denny Lambert, Dale Hunter, Bill Guerin, Adam Mair, Mike Fisher and Steve Ott. As I said that's only a partial list. Any one of those players would have to be considered a pretty tough guy, so to try and make it sound as though Tucker's made a career of going after non fighters is a little misleading. And this "garbage goal" thing is getting pretty old; do Dave Andreychuck and Tim Kerr's 50 goal season not count because the majority of them came from three feet in front of the net? Give me a break. I'll tell you what, you give me a guy who scores 40 "garbage" goals and you take a guy who scores 15 on beautiful end to end rushes and we'll see who wins more games.
quote:Originally posted by spearbellyDid you see the cheap "elbow to the head shot" on Bruins' Marc Savard by this ANGELIC GREASEBAG PUKE,..EAVES??????? ....He's going to HAVE to learn to fight if he continues this back stabbing CRAP !!!!....Wonder why Tucker went after the spineless prick.
Hmmm, tell me how you REALLY feel..lol
If you have any evidence of this grasebag move (YouTube), I would love to see it....not playing ignorant, just didn't hear about it.
I won't put it in the same category as Tucker picking on a guy that doesn't fight, but he definitely got the elbow up. Heat of the moment: things happen...fights don't break out in the heat of the moment though...usually some pre-planning to go along with it
Go Sens
Guest4648 ( )
Posted - 01/14/2007 : 05:47:17
Oh yes I hate Darcy Tucker too. as long as he is a member of the leafs, to me they will remain low class. there is no place for tucker types on the leafs. they need to assemble more sundin types to get the job done and bring us a cup. as long as tucker types are there, the leafs remain a trashy team. and if 29 other gms out there watn him? TAKE HIM. Hi sbehaviour and antics rfemind me of the scum bag bullies from grade school who had no loving parents to rasie them. Tucker is scum. I HATE DARCY TUCKER
There are a few "pests" that I would hate even if they were on my team. Kasparitis(sp), Barnaby, and Tucker. I would be booing them regardless of who they played for. I can think if a dozen players that have the same skill and production or better than Tucker but they have class. Recchi, Dumont, Smyth, Bouchard, Stoll, Brunette, Rolston, Brindamour, Shannahan, Iginla, Marleau. Any of these guys are the same type of player as Tucker. Only better and more classy. Tucker is a bag of pucks and always will be. If he was to get traded to the Oilers, it might be enough for me to change my loyalty until he left town!
What possible similarity is there between Marleau and Tucker? Well they're both hockey players, but other than that I got nothing. That's down-playing Marleau big time. Here's what Marleau has that Tucker doesn't:
-Marleau is a leader, hence his captaincy-Marleau is one of the fastest skaters in the league-Marleau is a power-play quarterback, not a goalie-screener-Marleau produces consistently and is reliable, whoever is on the ice with him
There are a few "pests" that I would hate even if they were on my team. Kasparitis(sp), Barnaby, and Tucker. I would be booing them regardless of who they played for. I can think if a dozen players that have the same skill and production or better than Tucker but they have class. Recchi, Dumont, Smyth, Bouchard, Stoll, Brunette, Rolston, Brindamour, Shannahan, Iginla, Marleau. Any of these guys are the same type of player as Tucker. Only better and more classy. Tucker is a bag of pucks and always will be. If he was to get traded to the Oilers, it might be enough for me to change my loyalty until he left town!
Woah!!! I agree with you Babs, why would you put guys like Marleau, Iginla, Shanahan in this list of comparables? That's crazy. I understand the others only because they are hard working, scrappy type of players (and classier, like you said Beans) but to put these other 3 in there is not accurate. They have a tremendous amount of skill and finesse, as well as the hard working, scrappy component. Actually I wouldn't even consider Marleau scrappy. Nope, don't like your comparison list Beans.
Just because the players I noted do not skate around like animals and hit anything that moves(as Tucker does) does not make them scrappy. My point was they these guys are willing to mix it up as well as have the ability to produce on the the score sheet. Tucker does that as well, but does not do it with Class.
Are you saying the Iginla, Shanahan, and Marleau are not scrappy?? Perhaps we have a different definition of scrappy. To me, these guys are the definition of scrappy. Hard working, talented hockey players that are not afraid to hit, skate hard, and occasionally fight. Although I am not sure about Marleau's fighting ability, I know that Iginla and Shanahan are known to drop the gloves.
How do they not belong on a list of classy, talented, scrappy players??
Other than fighting, Marleau does fit your definition of scrappy. But to compare Tucker and Marleau in any similar way is pretty farfetched. Anything Tucker does (except fight) Marleau can do on a whole other level.
Bab's that's my point. They do play the same Style of play. However, Marleau is much better as well as much classier. I could say the same thing for Iginla, Smyth, Recchi, and the others I noted. That was my whole point.
Guest5796 ( )
Posted - 01/16/2007 : 09:05:48
Tucker's record speaks for itself. I can understand people not liking the style, but not all humans are born the same fortunately. He has a talent, and he uses it to make his living. Good on him.
Secondly - all this stuff about not liking him because he's a Leaf and he's east of the rockies etc etc . Get a life you complete losers.
Can't wait till he comes back from the DL so we can make fun of him some more. Geez, how did this topic die?
Oh yeah...cuz tucker broke a fingernail and took a mid-season vacation
Go SensCrosby is GodTucker is a douche
Guest4114 ( )
Posted - 03/13/2007 : 12:43:55
Darcy Tucker is one of the hardest working players in the league. If some of these 40 goal scorers had the heart tucker had the nhl would be a lot more exciting to watch. He leaves his heart on the ice every time he plays. Ya hes an agitator ya he dives sometimes to draw key penalties ill add but thats one of the things that makes him great to have on the team. This year he's also proved he can be a key player on the powerplay still being near the top of the league in power play goals. Oh and by the way tucker is NOT known for being a great figther. He will fight but only cause thats the way he knows what its like to sacrafice for the team. Can the same be said about the likes of some European all stars out there???
Wow, nice waste of space. How about reading the 4 pages of posts instead of asking dumb questions
Go SensCrosby is GodTucker is a douche
I've reed all 4 pages and just like Guest0961 I still wonder why poeple seem to hate the guy. He's doing his job, He's earning his money and team comes 1st what else do you want from a man.
Go leafs Go by the way
Guest4028 ( )
Posted - 03/24/2007 : 10:41:01
I am a Vancouver fan, definitely not a Leafs fan...but let me just get to my point. Toronto was 5th in the conference about a third of the way in to the season. This was when he was the leader on the team because Sundin had been out with injury. Tucker was playing on the first line and he was making things happen, posting over a point per game and proving he is an important asset to the team, especially on the PP. Mats Sundin comes back from injury, and look what happened. He took back over his role as the number 1 man in TO, and we saw where they ended up. 8 games later, after failing to win even 1 hockey game, they had fallen out of the playoffs. Amidst this span, Tucker was injured and since, TO has not been able to get themselves back into the playoffs. Tucker has been back for about 10 games now, and since then, TO has leaped back in a winning direction and now at least has a shot at making it in. I say keep Tucker, lose Sundin.
That's rediculous! Sundin is a much better player than Tucker. Sundin is such a life saver in games. He will set up line mates and win a game. Trade Steen, Stajan, McCabe, Kilger, Peca, Tucker or some other player for a mix of stray players. Form some chemistry and get someone to play with Wellwood. Ofcoarse, I'm dreaming. This will never happen with JFJ.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
For the first time in about a month, the Sox have the opportunity to go above .500. They have reached the .500 mark on a couple of occasions, but have never been able to crack the mediocre mark.
With the team on a bit of a hot streak, they have their best chance yet to get there. The mission is in Felix Doubront's left hand. Felix has already gotten us to one big checkpoint this season... he was able to secure the first win of the season. I have plenty of faith in this kid to pull out a win tonight.
But if he doesn't, it's ok. Because it's just one of those seasons, and we just have to accept it. All the luck in the world to you tonight, Felix. But no pressure.
Hell, we've seen that even if he pitches as badly as Dahmer (who again gave up five runs) the offense seems to be awake enough to back him up. I guess my main advice is try not to give up more than five runs, and we may be fine.
With the way this team is going, it's definitely going to be an interesting summer.
I don't know what's going on beyond the diamond, but the job of "Red Sox outfielder" has quickly become one of the most hazardous jobs in the market.
The latest addition to the quickly-growing list of injured outfielders is Cody Ross.... which really, truly sucks. I like Cody Ross, and he's been coming up with key hits for the team. Now he's out about eight weeks with a broken foot, and we are beyond replacements-for-replacement level players. We're at replacements-for-the-replacements-of-replacement level players. It's getting scary.
I know I've asked before, but can we please keep this team in bubble wrap when not in use? Seriously now! We've got three outfielders on the 60-day DL. Pretzels, Crawford, and Ryan Kalish may be back this season, but we'll see what happens. Neither Ellsbury or Crawford have even begun baseball activities as far as I know.
McDonald, Repko (remember him?) and Ross are only on the 15 day DL, but again, it remains to be seen what will happen.
Friday, May 11, 2012
If you've read this blog long enough, you'll know that my best friend and I have what we call the "Lackey Limit." It began last year after a string of incredibly terrible Mudpie starts. Basically, the Lackey Limit is a rule that states if John Lackey has given up 8 or more runs in 4 or fewer innings, we leave the park, go to Game On, and consume mass amounts of alcohol to destroy all memories of the game before they become permanent. Believe it or not, we left several of his starts last year for just that reason.
After the pretty horrific continuation of baseball this season, I've decided that the other pitchers all need similar rules. It's only fair, right? Assume that all of these rules end with "and then we go to Game On to get smashed."
The Beckett Break Point: Whichever comes first, four home runs or six runs in three innings or less.
The Lester Let-Down: If Jon Lester has thrown 90 pitches in two innings, it's not going to get better.
The Buchholz Booze Time: Any time Clay Buchholz steps on the mound.
The Doubront Departure: If Felix steps to the mound and has that look of abject horror on his face and then allows eight runs or more in four innings or less.
The Bard Back-Out: If Daniel has walked eight or more batters in any point of the game.
For the record, I want to sign Oswalt so we can have the Oswalt Opt-Out.
We could also have the Cook Cop-Out.
The Dice-K Dash Away.
You name the pitcher, I can make up a limit for how much of said pitcher I can take.
I'm ashamed of you, Red Sox Nation. I truly am. I sat in that wind-blown, cold park last night watching Beckett and the boys suck, just like the rest of you. I groaned every time he gave up a run. And I did plenty of booing...
Johnny Damon. I booed Johnny Damon and ONLY Johnny Damon. Because he is no longer on the Sox, and no longer allowed to be loved in Boston. (Love him if you want, but he's a lying traitor and I will never cheer for him again)
At a time where the team is struggling as bad as we've seen in a very long time, I assumed that the only people coming out to the park were there to actually support the team. I was wrong. When Beckett walked off the field to that chorus of boos, I was ashamed for my fellow fans. Ashamed.
Yeah, he sucked. Yes, there have been lots of reports about what a terrible soul-stealing cancer he is and how he is secretly plotting to take over the world or something like that. He's terrible. He needs to be traded a league in Antarctica far far from civilized people so his terrible attitude and love for beer and chicken can never torment anyone again, right? Whatever. You know what, if the Sox do end up trading Beckett and he goes on to pitch well for another team, I'm sure the same people who are booing him now will ask why we always get rid of our good players.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but what good does booing do? You get to tell the team you disapprove of their play, right? Awesome. So they're unhappy that they're playing poorly, and you're unhappy that they're playing poorly, and instead of trying to change, everyone will just wallow in the misery. Fine. Boo whoever you want. I'm still going to cheer for my team, and I'm still going to be ashamed of all you boo birds. Do me a favor and just don't come out to the park if you hate the team or individual players so much. You're making hard for the people like me who want to support them.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
I know I haven't had time to post a lot, but the tragedies that have happened in the sports world lately deserve at least a few words.
I was out shopping for new apartment stuff (like curtains... you don't realize how important curtains are until you don't have them) and a TV on in one of the stores was talking about the death of Carl Beane. I had to stop and ask the guy behind the register what happened. Car accident. I would find out later that it was a heart attack that caused the car accident. It's a terrible, tragic loss. Carl was too young to be lost.
I guess that's the nature of tragedy. It takes people who are too young whenever it pleases. It turns a routine drive home into a nightmare. It leaves wives without husbands, daughters without father, and grandchildren without a grandpa. It also leaves Fenway without a voice.
I'm going to the game tonight, if it doesn't get rained out. I know that they will do the right thing and have a moment of silence for Mr. Beane. The more appropriate action would be to leave the park in silence for the night. For me, and for so many others, Carl was the voice of that old park. His narration at the 100th anniversary brought tears to my eyes. It was so beautiful.
All I can hope is that tonight, they win for Carl. Even if they do, it just won't sound the same. Rest in peace, Carl Beane. Fenway will never sound the same without you.
Friday, May 4, 2012
I was sitting in my office when someone casually said from across the room, "Huh. Former Patriot Junior Seau found dead in his home." That shock, that moment of terror you feel when someone you know has been hurt or killed, flooded me. I walked over to my coworker's desk. "What?"
She read the headline again. "Who's Junior Seau?" She asked.
"He was one of my favorite football players." I responded, rushing back to my own desk so I could look up the information on my own. I didn't know Junior personally. I knew who he was on the football field, and I adored him. I frequently talk about how much I adore Tedy Bruschi, but if I had to pick a second favorite, it was Junior, hands down. So despite not knowing the man, I was struck by the news of his death. Even a few days later, just thinking that he's gone makes me sad. For so many, you connect to the players you watch week after week. You may never know the man, but you feel like you've gotten to know the player. You see the heart and determination that they lay out on the field in every game, and you connect. When tragedy befalls them, you feel it.... not nearly on the level that their loved ones do, but you feel it.
I didn't know if I was going to write anything about it. As more information came out, and the news of the death likely being caused by suicide arose, all I could think was that this could have been avoided if only Junior asked for help. I watched his mother weep on television, and my heart hurt for her. These were the tears of a woman who truly didn't know there was anything wrong with her son, a woman who would have done anything to help him had she known. But she didn't know. Junior, by all accounts, was a happy, friendly man who loved life. There were no signs. I keep reading the same thing. Everyone said there were no signs.
In 2010, when he drove over the cliff, it didn't register to me that it could have been intentional. Now I, surely along with everyone who knew him, wonders if he was trying to end his life that night. If someone that he knew and loved had recognized it as a cry for help instead of an accident, would he still be alive right now? Herein lies the problem with the more charismatic among us... they're so good at being charming that it's harder to see when there's a problem. No one can tell me Junior wasn't charismatic. I won't believe you.
So here I sat this morning, still thinking of what it took to push Junior to suicide, thinking that he should have just asked for help. I'm sure his family is thinking the same. I clicked through my blogroll, reading Sox updates when I came to an entry titled "Junior" on Cursed To First. Feel free to head over and read it. I'll wait.
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Back? Good. I don't think it can be said enough... there's no shame, no weakness in needing help. I urge people to be an open ear or a shoulder to cry on for the people that they love most. If you're having a hard time coping with something in your life, please find someone, anyone to talk to. It can only get better if you stick around to see it get better.
In a perfect world, no families would have to suffer through the pain and confusion that Junior's family is going through right now. But even in this severely imperfect world, there's plenty of help to be had. It doesn't make you any less of a woman or a man to ask for it. Rest in peace, number 55. Though far, far too soon, rest in peace.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
You have a ten run lead. You've cruised through six innings in front of your team's home town fans. Your offense is looking spectacular and everyone is feeling the good vibes despite the park being a brisk thirty seven degrees below zero (might be a slight exaggeration). You walk out to the mound for the seventh inning with a low pitch count. Realistically, you know you should be able to get the next three outs with minimal problems and then you can hand the game over to the bullpen.
But you're Clay Buchholz, so what you actually do is implode and try to give up that ten run lead.
It's amazing how Clay lost it so quickly. He was cruising... and then he was giving up five runs without being able to record that last out. Terrible. Clay is legitimately the only pitcher in the Sox starting rotation that has yet to record a quality start on the year. Yes, it's that bad. This isn't a case of bad luck, it's a case of sucking. In 29 innings, he's allowed 40 hits and 28 runs with 15 walks and 16 strikeouts. Ok, maybe it IS a bad start, but he's got options left and I can point him to the Pawtucket shuttle if need be.
Call me unfair. Go ahead, do it. I've never really liked Clay. He frustrates me, because he'll show a tiny glimmer of being good, and then he'll have a five-run inning where he just cannot get the last out. I never thought I'd say this for the season, but thank God for the bullpen. They made it scary, but they got the job done.
If it weren't for Papi and the rest of the offense, this could have been an ugly night. Two home runs for the Large Father. His offensive contributions for the night were a home run, a walk, another home run, and then a ground out in his last at-bat. I'll go ahead and also give credit to Calviles, Munchkin, Ronald, and Marlon Byrd, all who had multiple hit games last night. Actually, it's a little odd because the players who didn't have a multiple hit night didn't hit at all. Weird, I know.
An additional "boo, you suck" to Nick Punto for missing that popup. I guess anyone could have caught it, but no one did, and Punto got the error. It didn't end up causing any additional harm, but really Nick? Terrible. You're terrible.
Anyway, didn't get the pictures up this weekend. I won't be getting them up tonight either as I will be back at the ballpark for the second game in two nights. Maybe tomorrow... more likely, never. But it's the thought that counts, and I've thought about posting them a bunch of times.
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Bryan Adams: Wembley Live 1996 (Eagle Rock)
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Bryan AdamsWembley Live 1996(Eagle Rock)
Bryan Adams is one of those musicians that just seems to have been around forever. It’s hard to think back to a decade when he wasn’t making music and he’s managed to revive his career countless times, all the while still having one of karaoke’s most go-to songs (“Summer of 69”). His latest live record, ‘Wembley Live 1996’ holds more than a few hints at why he’s still touring today.
The two-disc is a great snapshot of his career, the good and the bad. Songs like “Cuts Like a Knife,” “Kids Wanna Rock” and “Somebody” have all held up remarkably well despite decades of music trends and fads that have all come and gone since those songs last charted. On the other hand, some of the tracks from his soundtrack years, like “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman” (“Don Juan DeMarco”) and “(Everything I Do) I Do it For You” (“Prince of Thieves”), haven’t aged well at all and come off a little too corny next to some of Adams’ bona fide rockers.
This London show was recorded at the end of Adams’ 18 Til I Die tour, so along with a slew of classics and solid covers (“I Fought the Law,”) it also hosts a number of songs from this album that likely (hopefully) never made a set list after this show, like the groan-worthy “I Wanna Be Your Underwear.” Aside from a few missteps, overall, it’s an impressive collection and his interaction with the crowd and their overwhelming approval is proof that decades into his career, Bryan Adams shouldn’t hang up the mic anytime soon.
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In State v. Lamar, 2011 WI 50 (June 29, 2011), the supreme court ruled (5-2) that defendant Charles Lamar was not entitled to postsentence credit for time served on concurrent sentences where one sentence was later vacated and reimposed consecutively to the other.
In a dissenting opinion, Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson (joined by Justice Ann Walsh Bradley) argued that the majority “allows a defendant’s confinement for the vacated sentence to be recast as ‘presentence time’ … a fiction that misrepresents the reason Lamar was in prison.”
To fully understand the sentencing situations in which this “narrow holding” may apply in the future, a description of the timeline of events is useful:
March 23, 2006: Lamar is arrested and jailed for allegedly beating his girlfriend and previously jumping bail on two occasions. He spends 177 days in jail prior to sentencing.
Sept. 15, 2006: After entering a plea agreement, the circuit court sentences Lamar to serve a concurrent term of 17 years (12 in prison) for aggravated battery as a habitual offender and two years (one in prison) for misdemeanor bail jumping. He gets 177 days presentence credit. A second count of bail jumping was dismissed under the plea agreement.
March 23, 2007: Lamar completes the one-year confinement term for bail jumping, but remains in custody on the aggravated battery sentence imposed concurrently. 189 days pass between the Sept. 15 sentencing date and March 23, the date his bail jumping prison term ended.
August 29, 2007: Asserting error at sentencing, Lamar successfully moves the court to withdraw his plea agreement as to the aggravated battery charge. With the plea agreement now vacated on that charge, the state reinstates the second count of bail jumping (dismissed in first plea agreement). Lamar remains in custody pending a new plea agreement.
Jan. 3, 2008: The circuit court reimposes a sentence for aggravated battery, this time for 15 years (10 years in prison). The court also imposes a nine-month prison term on the the second bail jumping count (dismissed in first plea agreement), to be served concurrently but consecutive to any other sentence.
Upon a postconviction motion for additional sentence credit, the circuit and appeals courts refused to grant Lamar 189 days of credit for time served between Sept. 15, the date of the first sentencing, and March 23, the date on which the concurrent sentence for bail jumping ended.
Not entitled to credit
Lamar argued that since he already served a portion of his concurrent sentence for aggravated battery between Sept. 15 and March 23 (189 days) before the sentence was vacated, credit should apply towards the subsequent sentence reimposed for aggravated battery.
But the supreme court majority disagreed, holding that “an offender is not entitled to additional sentence credit pursuant to [Wis. Stat. section 973.04] when (1) the vacated sentence was originally imposed concurrent to a separate sentence, (2) the separate sentence is not vacated, (3) the vacated sentence is reimposed consecutively to the non-vacated sentence, and (4) the time that the defendant requested was served in satisfaction of the sentence that was not vacated.”
Lamar asserted that Wis. Stat. section 973.04 controls exclusively. That provision states that “[w]hen a sentence is vacated and a new sentence is imposed upon the defendant for the same crime, the department shall credit the defendant with confinement previously served.”
“Lamar is not entitled to receive the 189 days of credit he is seeking because the sentences imposed on January 3, 2008, were ordered by the circuit court to be consecutive to the sentence previously imposed for misdemeanor bail jumping as a habitual offender,” Justice Gableman wrote for the majority.
The majority rejected Lamar’s claim that disallowing sentence credit violated his constitutional right to be free from multiple punishments for the same offense, a double jeopardy argument.
Dissent
The two dissenting justices, Chief Justice Abrahamson and Justice Bradley, argued that only section 973.04 applies to the disputed 189 days, and Lamar was entitled to sentence credit.
“The problem with the [majority’s] approach is that the 189 days in question were not days Lamar spent in custody awaiting for his new sentence [for aggravated battery],” wrote Chief Justice Abrahamson. “Those 189 days were spent serving time for [aggravated battery] concurrently with serving time for [bail jumping]. The majority’s recasting of the time Lamar served under a vacated sentence as ‘presentence time’ is a fiction that misrepresents the reason Lamar was in prison.”
In other words, the dissent asserted that when a concurrent sentence for multiple charges is imposed, the defendant should get sentence credit although one sentence is vacated and later reimposed.
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Like we said: snazzy. But we can't help but note that the Trojans are using Barkley's image and Barkley's slogan to sell tickets to see Barkley play, all without giving Barkley a single extra thing in return. So it goes in the NCAA. With any luck, Barkley will at least be able to score one of the T-shirts for himself.
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FIBA World Cup 2014
September 15, 2014 · 1:55 PM ET
MADRID — Serbia had looked really good in its previous three games, beating 5-0 Greece by 18, walloping 5-1 Brazil by 28, and putting up 90 points against a France defense that had just shut down Spain at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup.
But you don’t really know how good you are until you play against the best. And when Serbia faced the U.S. for the first time since the former was part of the larger Yugoslavia, it got crushed, 129-92, in Sunday’s gold medal game.
Serbia has a lot of young talent and a very good coach. It should be one of the best national teams in Europe for years to come. Though it won silver at 2009 Eurobasket and finished fourth at the 2010 World Championship, this run at the World Cup could be the start of something even bigger.
“This is a very, very big success for our country,” Miroslav Raduljica said. “We put a good, healthy foundation for something in the future.”
But the gap between one of the best national teams in Europe and the best national team in the world seems to be pretty wide, especially when you consider that LeBron James and Kevin Durant weren’t representing the U.S. this summer. The Americans have come a long way since the 2002 World Championship, having won four straight gold medals with a stable and sustainable system under USA managing director Jerry Colangelo and head coach Mike Krzyzewski.
So does any other nation have any hope of knocking off the Americans any time soon?
“I think we can lose our next game,” Krzyzewski said after extending the USA’s winning streak to 63 games (45 FIBA and FIBA Americas games, 18 exhibition games) on Sunday. “That’s the way we prepare, because we know how good everyone is. So I don’t see a gap. I just see good basketball, and then we’ve been able to win.”
For the USA’s opponents, it helps to know what you’re up against. And Serbia coach Sasha Djordjevic said Sunday that his team was at a disadvantage having never faced the speed, athleticism and talent of the best players in the world. Now, it has that experience.
“Each time we play against a team like that,” Djordjevic said, “we are growing up as a team. And we need this more often, because we have to understand how we have to bring up our level of athleticism, our level of defense, our level of passing, to achieve the level these USA players have. So this was a great, great night for us. A great game. We can learn a lot from this game.”
The U.S. is always going to have the talent. But a lot of other national teams, especially those from Europe that play together almost every year, have the edge when it comes to chemistry. And each time they play the Americans, they gain reps against the best. So, the next time we see this matchup, Serbia will be more prepared.
Here are a few more ramifications of what went down over the last 16 days in Spain.
A summer off
Along with the gold medal comes automatic qualification for the 2016 Olympics in Rio. So, for the fourth straight time (2009, 2011, 2013, 2015), the U.S. won’t need to send a team to the FIBA Americas tournament in the year between the Olympics and World Cup.
If they had lost on Sunday, they would have needed to qualify for the Olympics through the Americas. And it would have been interesting to see what kind of team Colangelo and Krzyzewski put together next summer in a tournament that has far less appeal than this one. But they won’t have to worry about that.
Things are going to change after 2016, however. And an Olympic gold in Rio will not earn instant qualification for the 32-team, 2019 World Cup. Instead, in a format change that was announced last year, there will be 16 teams from the Americas competing for seven spots in the World Cup via a qualification similar to that of the soccer World Cup, with some games taking place during the 2017-18 and 2018-19 NBA seasons. That, of course, will bring up even more questions about who will play for the U.S. and other nations with key players in the NBA. (more…)
September 15, 2014 · 1:04 PM ET
MADRID — It’s as American as apple pie, the deep-seeded need to be the best. For USA Basketball, gold has always been the goal.
It hasn’t always been as easy as it was Sunday, when the U.S. confirmed its international basketball dominance with a 129-92 win over Serbia in the gold medal game of the FIBA Basketball World Cup. There was a time, not that long ago, that the national program was in shambles. It turned ugliest when the U.S. hobbled to a dismal sixth-place finish at the 2002 World Championship in Indianapolis. That was the first time a team composed entirely of NBA stars lost in international competition.
The blueprint for rebuilding Team USA was designed shortly after, born out of a respect for the global game that replaced the sense of entitlement that many with the team carried.
USA Basketball managing director Jerry Colangelo and coach Mike Krzyzewski understood the gains the rest of the world made after the original Dream Team came here and dazzled the world at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
“When we started out nine years ago with Jerry and his staff, we had two goals,” Coach K said . “One was to try to win gold medals, 1A, and 1B was to win the respect of our country and the world and how it would be done. I think one of the reasons we won is because we do have that respect. We know how good everyone is. It’s beautiful basketball. We prepare like crazy and we learn from the international community.”
There were stumbles early, lessons to be learned from those stumbles and plenty of ground to be made up in terms of internal structure and a culture that had to be created. But USA Basketball is once again the gold standard. The best talent on the best teams at every level — U-19 and U-17 included — fly the USAB banner.
“I’m very pleased and excited and happy for where USA Basketball is today,” Colangelo said. “I can think back to 2005 when I was asked to take on that responsibility, and we had a game plan and now we’re seeing the fruition of that over the last decade. And it’s resulted in four gold medal championships, and it doesn’t get much better than that.”
Four cycles — World Cup/World Championships and Olympics alternating every two years — four straight gold medals and 45 straight wins later, it’s obvious that the master plan for USA Basketball’s championship infrastructure is firmly in place. (more…)
September 14, 2014 · 8:53 PM ET
MADRID — Maybe it’s LeBron James that will have to adjust more to playing off the ball this season, because Kyrie Irving is going to need it quite a bit.
Irving arrived at USA Basketball training camp in Las Vegas on July 28, looking sharper than any of the other 30 guys in the gym. While other guards may have offered the roster better passing or two-way play, Irving’s one-on-one skills were impossible to ignore.
“Coach called me about three times [before camp] and kept asking me if I was in shape,” Irving said. “So there was a little bit of pressure there. But coming in, being ready and throwing myself in there, whatever happens happens and living with the results.”
After Serbia built an early lead and Anthony Davis was sent to the bench with two fouls in the first four minutes, Irving went to work, scoring 15 points as the U.S. turned an eight-point deficit into a 14-point lead by the end of the first quarter.
Especially against slower defenders, Irving can always slice and dice his way to the rim. And he did that a couple of times in that first-quarter run.
But Irving is also a dangerous shooter off the dribble. When his jumper is falling, he’s basically impossible to guard. And it was falling, and falling, and falling on Sunday. Irving shot 6-for-6 from 3-point range, including 3-for-3 in that first quarter.
Before the game, there may have been questions about how well Irving could defend Serbia’s star point guard, Milos Teodosic. That didn’t really matter, because by the end of that first quarter, it was clear that Teodosic had no chance in trying to defend Irving.
“He made so many plays and kept the pressure on their guards to defend him,” Stephen Curry said of Irving. “He gave us what we needed, him and James [Harden] in the first half, to open up the game.”
When the U.S. is hitting its 3s, their opponent’s main defensive strategy basically goes out the window. That was the scenario in the gold medal game as, led by Irving, the Americans shot 11-for-16 from beyond the arc in the first half.
The U.S. didn’t stop at the break, scoring 38 points on 19 possessions in the third quarter, rolling to a 129-92 victory and an average margin of victory of 33 points in its nine World Cup games.
“They really kicked our butt tonight,” Djordjevic said.
The U.S. didn’t have Chris Paul, Deron Williams or Russell Westbrook at point guard. And Derrick Rose was shaking off the rust of not having played since November and Damian Lillard was left at home so the team could carry an extra big man.
None of that mattered, because Irving held it down at the one. When Rose took a few days off after the first exhibition game in mid-August, Irving took over the starting point guard spot and never gave USA coach Mike Krzyzewski a reason to go back to his original lineup.
“Playing with this team,” Irving said, “you have so many pieces to go to. It’s easy for me to take a back seat when Stephen Curry’s hot or James Harden is hot or AD is in the post and he’s killing another big man. It’s easy for me to do that.”
Irving may never be a true, makes-his-teammates-much-better point guard. But good luck staying in front of him. And good luck trying to defend him at all when his jumper is falling. Uncle Drew will be taking you to school today, kids.
“I’m doing whatever’s needed to win, playing with the best in the world,” Irving said. “I feel like that’s where I want to be and where I should be. Going back to Cleveland, I’m just going to have the same mind set, just being myself, working extremely hard every single day, and maintaining my confidence that has made me who I am and who I want to become.”
The Cavaliers have Kevin Love. They have the best player in the world. And now they have best player at the World Cup, who is only 22 years old.
September 14, 2014 · 5:21 PM ET
MADRID — After being asked about it for weeks,they can answer honestly and without the least bit of arrogance.
They are indeed unbeatable, the U.S. National Team, winners of 45 straight games in World Cup/World Championship and Olympic competition.
Yes, the best from the U.S. is way better than what anyone else can offer up on basketball’s global stage.
Those NBA players who sported red, white and blue on Sunday in the gold medal game of the FIBA World Cup backed it all up by decimating Serbia early and rolling to a 129-92 win and repeating as champs after winning the 2010 World Championship in Turkey.
Serbian pride was supposed to carry the day and make the final the biggest and best test for a team of U.S. stars who weren’t even considered the “B-Team.”
“Yes, yes, yes,” said outspoken U.S. forward Kenneth Faried, who made the five-man All-Tournament team, trying to be mindful of U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski‘s edict to respect the process and opponent. “I know what you are asking. So no, we are not ‘unbeatable.’ But we seemed to prove that theory in a different way tonight. We handled our business and got that gold medal.”
Serbian pride was no match for American hustle, muscle and raw athleticism that Kyrie Irving and the U.S. “C-Team” unleashed on the crowd at the Palacio de los Deportes. The U.S. lead was up to 31 at one point before halftime, a virtually insurmountable lead for a team of 12 NBA players against a Serbian crew that doesn’t boast a single player currently on an NBA roster.
“This is by far the biggest accomplishment in my life so far,” said Irving, who was a perfect 6-for-6 from beyond the 3-point line and flat-out spectacular against Serbian guard Milos Teodosic. “This feels amazing. It’s one of the greatest feelings I’ve ever felt. All the emotions haven’t come to me yet but I did this with a group of guys I can call my brothers for the rest of my life.”
With the win the U.S. captured its fifth title and this team put the U.S. in elite company, joining Brazil (1959 and ’63) and Yugoslavia (’98 and 2002) as the only nations to repeat as champs.
For weeks this U.S. team, devoid of superstars like LeBron James, Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony, not to mention Kevin Durant, Kevin Love and Paul George, heard about how vulnerable it was. Spain, and not the U.S. was being touted as the favorite early on.
What is basically an under-25 squad of U.S. stars silenced their critics with one dominant performance after another. Not all of them were as pretty as Sunday’s gold medal game, when Irving set the tone early by connecting on his first five shots and piling up 15 points by halftime. He was a perfect 4-for-4 from beyond the 3-point line, saving his best showing for the final game in Spain. He led the U.S. charge with a game-high 26 points and was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player. (more…)
September 14, 2014 · 2:37 PM ET
MADRID — After 16 days and 75 games, it’s time to bring the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup to a close with the gold medal game between the United States and Serbia (3 p.m. ET, ESPN 2).
The U.S. has suffocating defense and a 44-game winning streak on the line. Serbia has a potent offense and a three-game streak of pulling off upsets to go from 2-3 in group play to earning at least a silver medal.
The winner not only gets the gold, but also an automatic berth into the 2016 Rio Olympics.
September 13, 2014 · 7:18 PM ET
MADRID — Twelve NBA players against a team without a single player currently on a NBA roster is, at least on paper, a mismatch of epic proportions.
This was supposed to be epic in a different manner, the defending champion U.S. National Team facing the host nation, with a raucous crowd behind it, with a gold medal on the line.
It never happened, of course. France ended that global hoops lover’s dream when they upset the Spaniards in the quarterfinals.
It’s the U.S. and Serbia squaring off instead, two teams, according to the words that have been dancing around U.S. forward Kenneth Faried‘s head for weeks, that weren’t supposed to leave here with gold.
“This team is different,” Faried said of Serbia after practice on Saturday. “They made it to the championship round when others thought they couldn’t. We made it to the championship round when others thought we’d fall. We’re going to go out there and put it all on the floor just to win the gold.”
Faried and the U.S. fighting off the favorite’s tag now seems a bit preposterous, what with the way the U.S. National Team has mowed down the competition. They’ve won their eight games leading up to this point by an average of 32.5 points, a number skewed a bit by the 59-point blowout of Finland in their opener.
“I never knew we were a heavy favorite,” Faried said. “That surprises me because before, when we first started, everybody said we were going to lose and we’re not that good. So as far as being a heavy favorite, we just have to take that for what it is and go out there like we’re the underdogs still.”
Serbia is playing the underdog card as well.
“They underrated us from the beginning, as I heard,” Miroslav Raduljica said after his team’s win over France on Friday. “We showed everybody that we can compete and play basketball, in a good way.”
As part of Yugoslavia, Serbia has won five World Championships, including back-to-back titles in 1998 and 2002. So it’s appropriate that this is the opponent as the U.S. tries to win its fifth title and repeat as World Champion for the first time.
Here’s a breakdown of the biggest factors for both teams in this gold medal tussle:
A defensive stopper on Teodosic
This U.S. team didn’t have a designated perimeter defensive stopper when the roster was finalized but will no doubt need one with Serbia’s guards playing lights out the past three games.
Derrick Rose has been fantastic on the ball defensively and Klay Thompson has been arguably the best defender on the U.S. team. But they are both coming off the bench. That means the immediate pressure will be on starters Kyrie Irving, Steph Curry and James Harden to set the tone early on Serbian catalyst Milos Teodosic., who torched France in the semifinals.
“He’s the head of the snake, a great player,” Rudy Gay said of Teodosic. “We brought up a couple of things today, but we’re really going to have to prepare for him.”
Not one of the American starters on the perimeter would pass for a true defensive stopper, not even in this competition. Thompson, however, is ready and willing.
“Whoever the best perimeter player is, I love guarding them,” Thompson said. “I’ve guarded some of the best in the NBA, so that’s prepared me for now and you gotta know your opponent is going to score on you a couple of times. It’s just about containing them and making him work for it every time he touches the ball.”
“He’s been consistently excellent on the defensive end,” USA coach Mike Krzyzewski said about Thompson. “The fact that he’s tall, he’s been able to play, defensively, the two and the three. So he’s become our most versatile defender. And in the last two games, he’s given us such a huge offensive lift too. He’s had a terrific stay with us.”
If there’s a team that can stop the Serbia offense, this is it
With Teodosic starting games strong and Bogdan Bogdanovic finishing them strong, the Serbian offense has been unstoppable in its last three games. After ranking 11th in group play, it has improved to second in efficiency, behind only the U.S., through the semifinals.
In fact, the Serbian offense has been more efficient (123.5 points scored per 100 possessions) in the knockout rounds than the U.S. offense (118.6), even though Serbia has faced teams that were higher ranked defensively through group play. Greece, Brazil and France had ranked fifth, third and seventh defensively before the knockout rounds, while Mexico, Slovenia and Lithuania had ranked 19th, 16th and fourth.
“They have some great guards that are shooting well,” Curry said. “It just seems like they know where each other is, and they run their plays at a high level. Execution is very high and they keep attacking. So we have to stick to our game plan of taking away their first looks.”
In its three elimination games, Serbia has shot 26-for-57 from 3-point range. More important in regard to playing against the U.S. is that it has turned the ball over just 11.7 times per 100 possessions, down from 19.9 in group play. The U.S. has had the No. 1 defense in the tournament, but this will be a new test.
“With them, you’ve got to pick your poison,” Rose said. “If you play fast, they can get some long rebounds and head the other way. They have great shooters on their team. It’s going to be a challenge for us. We haven’t played a team like that in the tournament, and we’re willing to take that challenge.”
USA on the glass
In the knockout rounds, the U.S. has grabbed an incredible 41.5 percent of available offensive rebounds. For some perspective, the No. 1 offensive rebounding team in the NBA last season (Detroit) grabbed 31.4 percent of available offensive boards.
Serbia has been above-average, but not a great defensive rebounding team. So, even if the U.S. doesn’t shoot well from the perimeter, Faried (13 offensive rebounds in the last three games), Anthony Davis (nine) and DeMarcus Cousins (seven) will give their team second chances at scoring.
Home-court advantage?
No, the U.S. isn’t facing Spain in its nation’s capital. But it is playing at the Palacio de los Deportes for the first time, against an opponent that has played here three times already.
“They’ve been playing in this arena for a week now,” Curry said, “so they’re very comfortable here. This arena means success to them, so we’ve got to come in and take it from them.”
Respect your opponent
Krzyzewski preaches it relentlessly, respecting the opposition. The U.S. followed that approach to the gold medal game (for the most part). They avoided talking extensively about Spain or anyone else that wasn’t on the path to the final game.
But they are gushing about Serbia for a reason. This is the biggest and best team they’ll have faced during this run.
“I think Serbia is really as good as anybody in the tournament, and probably the hottest team, and they are playing a high level,” Coach K said. “They have stars on their team, and Teodosic is … I loved him when I saw him in the World Championship in 2010. Bogdanovic is a rising star. Their big guys are good. They are well coached, and they are strong. They can hurt you from many different positions, but they are just playing great basketball right now. Actually it’s beautiful to see. I hope I don’t see that beauty tomorrow night. They’ve been playing lights-out basketball.”
Serbia has nothing to lose
Serbia already surpassed expectations. For the U.S., nothing short of gold and a continuation of its 44-game winning streak will be accepted. This team does not want to have to qualify for the 2016 Olympics through the FIBA Americas tournament next summer (which it wouldn’t have to do if it wins Sunday). So all the pressure is on the Americans.
“It’s going to be a beautiful game for us,” Serbia center Raduljica said, “because we already got a medal. We are here to compete. Of course, nothing to lose, but we’re not going to lay down our weapons and we’re going to fight with our Serbian pride.”
Advanced chemistry
Serbia is working with chemistry that is years old while the U.S. is working on chemistry that is barely six weeks old.
Talent versus chemistry is always an interesting battle. Developing chemistry among this group has been the biggest challenge for the U.S. It’s not something that can be fast tracked. These are NBA stars playing out of position, in some cases, and certainly playing roles they are not used to.
Coach K admitted earlier this week that the one thing he wishes is that this team “knew each other a little better.”
Situational sloppiness during this competition has been more about this group’s unfamiliarity with each other than it has anything else. Those slow starts are proof that it takes time to develop the kind of intuitive flow some of these teams they have faced have been working on for years.
The U.S. is still searching for that one game when they put it all together, when all of their stars are clicking from the opening tip to final buzzer. Their ninth and final game of the World Cup is exactly when they need their chemistry to finally come together.
“No question, because this is the gold medal game,” Thompson said. “This is what we’ve worked for. We’re going to play as hard as we can for as long as we can and bring it back for our country.”
September 13, 2014 · 12:45 PM ET
MADRID — Serbia will have a decided advantage in terms of the numbers of fans they’ll have in the crowd for Sunday’s gold medal game here at the FIBA World Cup. The Serbian crowd was loud and large during its semifinal win over France and the Serbian players interact with them constantly throughout games.
“Serbian pride” is the one advantage big man Miroslav Raduljica claims his side will have against the U.S. National Team when they face off for gold.
Members of the U.S. National Team, which hasn’t played to a decidedly pro-U.S. crowd in this competition from Bilbao to Barcelona and now Madrid, would beg to differ.
National pride works on both sides, even though this particular group of U.S. players haven’t worked together for the years and years their Serbian counterparts have.
“We’re playing for something bigger than ourselves right now,” Kenneth Faried said after practice Saturday. “We’re playing for our country. putting on that USA jersey means more than anything. It’s like you’re playing for the Army, Navy, the Marines … guys who fight for you every day”
Dramatics aside, just earning a spot on the U.S. National Team speaks volumes, considering the number of potential candidates.
“There’s no question,” Klay Thompson said. “It’s a privilege to play for the U.S.A. There are so many talented players that it’s truly an honor to get chosen to play on the world stage for the U.S.A. I’ve had one other competition experience with (the National Team), but nothing compares to this. We’ve been working for this all summer. So we have great pride in what we’re doing out there.”
Getting a feel for the gym
The U.S. team had an extra day between its semifinal win (Thursday) and Serbia’s (Friday). But the U.S. had to travel about 400 miles from Barcelona to Madrid. And Saturday was their first exposure to the Palacio de los Deportes in Spain’s capital.
“It wasn’t really an extra day of rest,” USA head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “It was a travel day. That’s one thing about coming from Barcelona, we have to get a comfort level for this court quickly, where whoever we played would have had a week playing on this court and not travel.”
No excuses, though.
“That’s not going to decide the game,” Krzyzewski added. “The game will be decided on whether we can play defense well enough to stop their very potent offense and score against their very good defense.”
Rematch
Since the break up of Yugoslavia, the United States and Serbia have never played each other in a senior-level, international competition. But this is a rematch of the championship game of the 2007 U19 tournament, when Serbia, playing at home, avenged a preliminary-round loss and beat the U.S., 74-69, for gold. Two Serbian players from that team, Raduljica and Stefan Markovic, start for the senior team now. And Stephen Curry was on that U.S. junior team.
“That’s a bad feeling,” Curry remembered. “It was tough winning silver in that game, so hopefully we can be on the other side of it this time around.”
France wins bronze
Nicolas Batum led France with 27 points as they edged Lithuania 95-93 in the bronze medal game Saturday night. Boris Diaw gave France the lead for good with a nifty reverse with 1:27 to play.
Jonas Valanciunas paced Lithuania with 25 points and nine rebounds.
Playing through the pain
Rudy Gay will get the U.S. iron man award, no matter if they take home gold or silver. The Sacramento Kings forward suffered a bruised jaw, a chipped tooth and might need a root canal when he returns home.
That skirmish at the end of the semifinal win over Lithuania was the aftermath of a cheap shot Gay took in the third quarter from one of the Lavrinovich twins, Gay wasn’t sure which one of them it was.
Gay will, however, be ready to play in Sunday’s gold medal game but he’ll do so while dealing with considerable pain.
Future star
Some of the U.S. players were afraid to try pronouncing the names of their Serbian opponents, but there’s a clear respect for how well Serbia has been playing. In particular, these guys know how hot Milos Teodosic (20.0 points per game, 74.2 percent effective field-goal percentage) and Bogdan Bogdanovic (15.3, 80 percent) have been in the medal rounds.
When asked about Bogdanovic, who was drafted by the Phoenix Suns this year, but will play in Turkey for at least two years, Krzyzewski was effusive.
“I think he has NBA potential now,” Krzyzewski said. “He’s a very gifted player. He has great length for a guy who can shoot like that. I think he’s going to be an outstanding player in the NBA.”
September 12, 2014 · 8:37 PM ET
MADRID — As the United States prepares for the gold medal game of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup on Sunday, Milos Teodosic will be at the top of the scouting report, and not because No.4 is listed first on the Serbia roster.
Teodosic led Serbia to a 90-85 victory over France with 24 points on 9-for-12 shooting on Friday. He has quickly become “Medal Round Milos,” leading a team that went 2-3 in group play to an improbable trip to the final, where he will face the U.S. for the first time in his life.
Most NBA fans who have watched the 6-foot-5, 27-year-old Teodosic over the years have wished to see him bring his scoring and playmaking to the NBA. We’ll finally get a taste of what that may be like on Sunday.
Like his team, Teodosic had a slow start to the World Cup. After suffering an ankle injury, he had to sit out of practice until a week before the tournament began. He didn’t start Serbia’s first four games and scored a total of 19 points on 7-for-15 shooting in narrow losses to France and Brazil in Granada.
Then, he was put in the starting lineup, and as Serbia beat those same two teams in Madrid to reach the final, Teodosic scored a total of 47 points on 14-for-21 shooting, hitting eight of his 12 attempts from beyond the arc.
Teodosic came out firing from the start of Friday’s win, hitting a quick-trigger, catch-and-shoot jumper on the first possession of the game. He scored or assisted on 13 of Serbia’s first 18 points of the first quarter, and then on seven of their first nine of the second, helping them build a double-digit lead.
If the defense sagged, Teodosic stroked a jumper with a lightning-quick release. If it played him tight, he went to the rim. And if France double-teamed him on pick-and-rolls, he found the open man, whether he was under the basket or in the corner.
“You can’t let him free,” France forward Nicolas Batum said afterward. “He’s been doing damage in Europe for years and years now.”
Batum took on the Teodosic defensive assignment late, and France had some success defending him with length, which the U.S. will have more of. With Batum trailing, Rudy Gobert and his wingspan doubled on pick-and-rolls to get the ball out of Teodosic’s hands without giving him open passing lanes.
But at opened up things for Phoenix Suns draft pick Bogdan Bogdanovic, who scored 10 of his 13 points in the final period on a catch-and-shoot 3, a pair of drives and free throws. France made a furious comeback, cutting a 15-point deficit at the end of the third quarter down to two, hitting nine 3-pointers in the fourth.
They scored 39 points in the period, but the team that had shut down Spain just two days earlier couldn’t get enough stops against the Serbia offense. As France was making its run, Serbia still scored 10 times in a stretch of 11 possessions. Teodosic added to Bogdanovic’s fourth-quarter flurry with another pull-up 3 and two assists to Nenad Krstic.
The team that has defeated Greece, Brazil and France in the last six days is not the team that went 2-3 in Group A. Those three teams were all top-seven defenses through group play, and Serbia has shot 54 percent (46 percent from 3-point range, 61 percent effective field goal percentage) against them in Madrid.
Though Serbia doesn’t have a single player on an NBA roster, it will be the toughest test the U.S. has faced all tournament. And stopping Milos Teodosic will be priority No. 1.
“They are a great team,” Teodosic said, “but, for sure, we’re not going into the game to lose.”
September 12, 2014 · 4:40 PM ET
MADRID — Stephen Curry calls it the “USA vibe,” that flow NBA players get into during competition summers with USA Basketball.
Those are the summers of sacrifice, of committing yourself to a culture unlike the one you are used to in the NBA, where there are journeyman and role players scattered among stars, superstars and global icons throughout locker rooms around the league.
No one has to worry about those distinctions with USA Basketball. Curry and Mason Plumlee are equals here under the watchful of eye of Jerry Colangelo, USA Basketball’s managing director, and head coach Mike Kryzyewski.
If they’ve learned anything over the course of the past nine years it’s that a tiered system on the U.S. National Team doesn’t work. It can’t. Especially when guys like Curry’s Splash Brother from Golden State, Klay Thompson, plays the way he has during the FIBA World Cup.
Thompson, you could argue, has been the most consistent and best two-way player on the U.S. roster, not named Kenneth Faried or Anthony Davis. And he’s done it without starting a single game in the lead up to Sunday’s gold medal game.
“I thought Klay’s play in the first half was the biggest reason we were leading at halftime,” Coach K said after Thompson led the U.S. rout of Lithuania in Thursday’s semifinal with 14 points before the break and 16 for the game.
Thompson’s contributions off the U.S. bench, a role he probably hasn’t had to play at any point in his basketball career since before high school, if ever, could pay huge dividends when this tournament is over and he goes back to his role as one of the stars for the Warriors.
“You expose yourself to different stages of basketball,” Curry said of the benefits Thompson will gain from this medal run with the U.S. National Team. “It’s beneficial because you’re being called on to play a different role, to be a scorer off the bench and it’s just different. It adds a little bit of character and charisma to your game. And that should translate to even more success when we get back to Golden State.”
This has definitely been a character building summer for Thompson and other guys used to starting and the spotlight that comes with it in the NBA. He’s perhaps a better defender than anyone imagined. He’s stepped up to the challenge on defense night after night, while serving as the team’s most consistent scoring threat off the bench as well, averaging 12.8 points while shooting 66 percent on his 2-point shots and 41 percent from beyond the 3-point line.
We’ve gotten a glimpse of his game, the entire scope of his game, in ways we don’t normally get to see in the NBA.
“He’s been a lockdown defender for us, no doubt,” James Harden said. “Scoring is never going to be a problem for him. It’s not an issue for this team. So it says something when you see guys working hard on defense and trying to make an impact any way they can.”
That’s the spirit of the program, the one Colangelo and Coach K have tried to foster from the start. And the results have worked beautifully. The U.S, takes a 62-game win streak into Sunday’s gold medal game, having put together a flawless run in World Cup/World Championship/Olympic and international exhibition competition dating back to 2006.
They also boast a number of breakout stars from every cycle of international competition. This is where new All-Stars, MVPs and scoring champs play their trade every two years, sharpening their skills for the NBA by representing their country and strengthening its basketball tradition.
“The fact is the historical record of the guys who have participated with us shows they go back to their teams and that season immediately following their experience with us they have great results,” Colangelo said.
He cited the 2010 team that won gold at the World Championship in Turkey as the shining example of this experience is all about. That team produced the MVP (Derrick Rose), scoring champ (Kevin Durant) and three new All-Stars, not to mention a NBA champion in Tyson Chandler.
“They all had a great experience in Istanbul and great seasons that followed that journey,” Colangelo said. “We’ve been preaching this gospel, that this is a great experience, you learn to become a better player, in some ways, we think, by exposing them to this culture. They take that back to their teams and their teams are better for it. And the NBA is the ultimate beneficiary of it. So there’s 110 reasons why it’s good for the players to participate.”
Thompson could be one of those players whose next step is the one that launches him into that next level of stardom. He’ll have a new coach, Steve Kerr, and a new system. And that boulder sized chip on his shoulder after surviving a summer filled with trade rumors linked to Kevin Love, who was instead dealt to Cleveland.
Thompson is the one U.S. player who seemed perturbed from the very start that this U.S. team was being doubted and considered an underdog because bigger stars defected, declined to participate or were injured.
“I don’t care who you are, you never want to be counted out or disrespected,” Thompson said. “I never need any extra motivation. I’m always playing my hardest and to win. That will never change.”
That wasn’t the only surprising result in the quarterfinals in Madrid. After looking like the third best team in the tournament through its first six games, Brazil got hammered by Serbia 84-56. So instead of Spain-Brazil in the semis, we’ve got France-Serbia on Friday (4 p.m. ET, ESPN2).
France and Serbia finished third and fourth in Group A. But they’re both playing their best at the right time, and at least one of them will be winning a medal. Their first meeting went down to the wire, with France winning 74-73 thanks to a no-call on one end and a foul call on the other.
Serbia was upset about that finish. And they were upset about the way they lost in the semifinals of the last edition of this tournament. Up 82-81 on host Turkey with 4.3 seconds left, Serbia just needed a stop to advance to the final and guarantee itself a medal. They forced a loose ball, but Turkey point guard Kerem Tunceri picked it up and drove for a layup to win the game.
The issue? Replays showed that Tunceri’s foot was on the sideline when he first touched the ball. And that was just one of many calls that Serbia, who lost to Lithuania in the bronze medal game, was upset about. So they’re out for some revenge on Friday, in more ways than one.
The winner will face the U.S. for the gold medal on Sunday, and will be the toughest opponent the Americans have faced in the World Cup. The loser will face Lithuania for bronze. Here are five things to watch…
Offense vs. defense
Serbia had the World Cup’s fourth most efficient offense through the quarterfinals, having scorched Brazil’s defense (which had ranked third through the round of 16) in the second half on Wednesday. France comes in with the fourth best defense in the tournament, having shut down Spain’s No. 2 offense in the quarterfinals.
Both performances were impressive. The other end of the floor will matter too, but if France can slow down the Serbian offense, they’ll be in good shape.
Another (big) game for Milos?
Milos Teodosic is one of the most entertaining basketball players in the world. The 6-foot-5, 27-year-old combo guard was coming off the bench for Serbia in its first four games, but has started the last three. And he saved his best performance for the quarterfinals, dropping 23 points on Brazil, with 16 of those coming in what was a tight first half.
Teodosic will take some crazy shots, but they often go in. And if he’s hitting from the outside, Serbia’s pick-and-rolls become very difficult to defend and other things open up in their offense.
France’s young bigs
It’s difficult to say that France is “missing” Joakim Noah, because the Bulls’ center has only played in one tournament (2011 Eurobasket) for them. They are missing two centers from last year’s Eurobasket championship team: Alexis Ajinca and Johan Petro, as well as the Pacers’ Ian Mahinmi, who injured his shoulder before the World Cup began.
That left 22 year olds Joffrey Lauvergne and Rudy Gobert to man the center spot. The 6-foot-10 Lauvergne is a natural power forward who was a non-factor on last year’s team. Gobert wasn’t on the roster.
But the two young guys have held their own and played their best games against the Gasol brothers on Wednesday. For Gobert in particular, it was a breakout performance, as he outrebounded Pau and Marc 13-12.
Having played two years for Partizan Belgrade, Lauvergne has some extra motivation against this particular opponent. In the first meeting, he (19 points, six rebounds) went toe-to-toe with former Milwaukee Buck Miroslav Raduljica (21 and seven). And it was Lauvergne’s free throw after a foul call on Raduljica that won the game for France with 4.8 seconds left. It’s a fascinating matchup of quickness vs. size.
Batum vs. Bogdanovic
Teodosic’s move to the starting lineup sent Phoenix Suns draft pick Bogdan Bogdanovic to the bench. But the 22-year-old, who will be playing in Turkey this season, responded well. He scored 21 points in Serbia’s Round of 16 win over previously unbeaten Greece and has shot 12-for-20 (6-for-12 from 3-point range) in his two games in Madrid.
Bogdanovic is clearly shorter than his listed height of 6-foot-6 and French forward Nicolas Batum has a few inches on him. But Batum considers Bogdanovic a serious challenge.
“He’s one of the guys I hate to play against,” Batum said earlier this week. “I hate guarding him, because he can really score.”
Bjelica vs. Diaw
These two teams have two of the most skilled power forwards in the tournament, providing another fun matchup.
Serbian forward Nemanja Bjelica, whose draft rights are held by the Minnesota Timberwolves, is a tantalizing player. He’s 6-foot-10 with terrific all-around skills. He didn’t score a lot in the quarterfinals, but beat Brazil’s bigs off the dribble to create for others, dishing out five assists, while scoring eight points and grabbing eight boards.
Boris Diaw has the size and quickness to match up well with Bjelica. His passing skills are well known, and he was more aggressive against Spain on Wednesday, taking 12 shots and hitting three of his seven 3-pointers.
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Stewardship practices under the spotlight as SRDII deadline nears
With nine months until the implementation of the European Commission’s Directive on shareholder rights (‘SRD II’), Hermes EOS, Hermes Investment Management’s stewardship and engagement team, raises concerns that asset owners are underprepared to meet their obligations.
The enhanced Directive sets out to empower shareholders, enhance the efficiency of the chain of intermediaries and encourage long-term shareholder engagement, with the ultimate aim of contributing to the sustainability of publicly traded EU companies.
Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt, Head of Hermes EOS, said: “The investment industry has so far under-delivered on its stewardship responsibility and as such is ill-prepared to meet the obligations under this Directive let alone demonstrate effective engagement with investee companies. More concerning still is the limited discourse across member states on local transposition of the Directive into national law and its implementation. Last week the Implementing Acts were adopted and it is now truly in the hands of each member state to work out how they build the Directive into their own legislative and regulatory framework, so that they encourage the investment industry to raise its stewardship game. It is in the interests of any member state wishing to drive sustainable wealth creation to transpose robust measures into national law.”
By propelling the investment chain into action, the Directive seeks to address a market failure: prevalent short-termism in investing and ownership behaviours at the expense of long-term stewardship. Short-term shareholder actions and thinking have too often become embedded in the way companies are managed, to the detriment of long-term value creation, a broader set of stakeholders and, sometimes, the investors’ own clients. Critically, the Directive aims to enable more effective engagement between investors and companies while at the same time encouraging long-term thinking.
To be impactful on engagement, member state transposition must put the emphasis on how stewardship is conducted in practice rather than disclosing policies. This is more likely to drive positive behaviour change and awareness along the investment chain, taking stewardship practice to the next level.
Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt continues: “The Directive is a great step forward for enhanced shareholder rights and stewardship. From our experience, as much as a responsibility, stewardship is an opportunity to create further value for beneficiaries and investee companies, as well as benefits for the economy and society as a whole. The industry should embrace the Directive and take the lead. It has, along with its clients and ultimate beneficiaries, much to gain by doing so.”
Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt is an executive director and board member at EOS and as head of the organisation leads a multi-national team ensuring the sustainable success of the business. In this role, he is responsible for and oversees the global engagement programme and the quality of the service EOS provides to its clients around the world. Hans also leads some high-profile stewardship activities, including priority engagements with major companies in Germany and the UK, as well as interactions with key regulators and organisations. Prior to joining EOS, Hans worked with international law firm Ashurst. He is the author of numerous publications on corporate governance and law, responsible investment and stewardship. He is a member of the Corporate Governance Advisory Council of the Council of Institutional Investors and the Advisory Board of the Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose's Strategic Investor Initiative. Hans is a UK-qualified lawyer, holds degrees in Business Administration from universities in Germany and the UK, the ACCA qualification and a PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE). He continues to be involved in academia as a Corporate Governance Fellow at the LSE’s Financial Markets Group and a Teaching Fellow at University College London. Hans speaks French, German and Mandarin.
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-V.Vtai 65? tt. THE WEATHER Arizona: Unsettled Thursday, probably snow or rain iiorih iKriioii; Friday generally fair; not much change n temperature. COPPER PRICES Average month .Jan. .13465 Av. month Fb 12SC4 Average week 22-2-22. ..12725 Av. week Mar. 1 ....1251875 Av'g. week 3-S-'22 . .lJf.Ct:; Close week 3-8-'22 ...1262". '2 VOL. 26 NO. 64 B1SBEE, ARIZONA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1922 Price Five Cents COLORADO HEARIN' OUTLINED BY HOOVER sr?i a n - Z0 A ft jl ar , 0 4 4 4 ? t. i .1 Chicago IS WORST FIRE SHY OFFiGtALS If FIFTY YEARS - j bill to stimulate competition in bid rtCC ' l C 4. , Cr-Mrfk.'rirt. i for street paving. There waa no de-Official States Everything , bate on te mtjaaure Amendments Pointed to Incendiarism;' offered by the committee on state. Over $5,000,000 Loss RUINS STILL SMOKING Say Modern Methods Unable to Cope With Fires in High Buildings CHICAGO, Mar- 15. Investigation of the cause of the fire which destroy ed a solid block of thickly tenanted office buildings, caused a loss of more than $5;000,0u0. resulted in the death or one man and made 20,000 workers idle, was besun tonight by state, city and insurance officials. The manner in which the flames flared out in several places at the same moment, the extraordinary rapidity with which they spread until nothing but smouldeiing ruins waa left of the entire block bounded by South Canal, West Van Buren and South Clinton streets and West Jack son uouievaru, caused snirioy i - High, fire attorney, to announce that everything pointed to incendiarism.'! i UK in si siiii ami ui was mi ucu in at 12:50 a. m., but it was not until; four hours later that the fire was I brought under control. 11 MI . ..n.ll., n 1 . . . n .1 just across me sireet irom me, harred landscape of tottering walls; Just across the street from the c and twisted, smoking ruins which Qbenchain. charged with'the murder firemen expected to be working torj.of ner gweetheart, j. BeIton Kennedy.! the next three days, towered thmas-, aive skeleton of the "fireproof Bur-i Jtngton Building tonight." The walls - ..till n .1 I . . . . u i... i . - r aIa..:1 u muuu instil uui us ii mui im; over the ten of desolation Thei structiire housed the hend siructure nouseu tue neauquariers oi BJt. ?rCi! .. , ,:i. iv.i ..-i auu Ul l"" "'i (OonTinnoH on Pa ire Two WORKERS PLACE DEMANDS' BEFORE ME OPERATORS Miners Present 19 Demands, Including 20 Per Cent Increase in Wages NEW YORK. Mar. 15. Demands of ; the anthracite mine workers, includ-; ing one for a 20 per cent increase in . ,.. .i. own i ndwhen the wo k rs1 the nineteen demands, an adjourn-' wiAn wn V . . T-l until TViflOV nftlir. w " . . x, ------ - - noon. At that time, the operators: are expected to make a response. i meeting and no inkline came from ! i, .!, will make. It is understood they plan' to tell the union men that an In-' io ten me union men mai an in-, crease in wages at this time Is not in accord with the trend of the times. !Li"!rlLTrt,aAn the present cost of coal is too high ! trol over Burch and "no, men in tb aujournmeni. ine state so rar na sas. wouiu pieage me iour powers -.ance redempticn or tho 3s VVic- ,660.000 of securities, which the ex-and that the miners should share in i world to brine- him 1ir ,ninejused one peremptory challenge and : against secret treaties or understand-; tory notes, called for redemption on amJnier termed as undersirable. upon any deflation if lower prices are to j be granted to consumers. After the meeting, the operators rofused to make any comment on the demands. f icials the day following the killine 5TA-j;,r.'5;s minpm ThP union landui-a hnvnr I " wnere, have tRken no step in that' direction!: .im u. iirninie usrr irom me Up to the time of sustainine a Revere i """""J operators. The scale committee of shock, and then to lose all remem- tomorrow. Two alternate jurors pro-the coal diegtrs ia under Instructions brance of events immediately follow-i b4,y w111 be chosen, to "perfect arrangements providing ing. immeaiateiy follow-, The selection as juror today of Fred for a suspension" on April 1 in the Mrs. Obenrhatn -ki'D. Bepler. proprietor of a machine event that no satisfactory agreement has been reached. There were .?9 mine workers and 74 operators present in the "Butter-, fly rooms" on the roof of the Hotel PennSVlvanla Whn tho loinf rnnfnr. .. . ," v., -ni;i- nun iiiin-(i io orocr. wiuiam I.,. Conncl. Scranton. Pa., an individ- u'al operator and a member of the Anthracite Board of Conciliation, presided. President John I Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America, read the demands formulated at the Shamoken. Pa., convention, and made an explanatory 3tatement. While there was not much inter-mingline of miners and operators, a good feeling appeared to pro-ail. Davis Leaves For N. Y. WASHINGTON. Mar. 13. Secre- (Continued on Page Two Fire Believed Inc !s measure jcjiiuorseu; qaiaiy Bill in Senate; "Josh" Bill t PHOENIX, Ariz., Mar. 15. Thei , Henate committee of the whole today; recommended passage of tho Kimball county nnd city were all accepted. The bill probably will be up for final reading tomorrow. Senator Eddy's bill relative to col lection of irrigation district assess-, m'enta on state Lands within irriga tion districts . was decisively defeated In tho morning, but in the afternoon, on a motion to reconsider the meas ure, was passed, 13 to 6. In spite of unexpected opposition led by Senator Larson, a bll to amend LETTERS :r r r 1 C 'J i Defense Declares Evidence in I States Case Is Theories and Not of Facts' LOS ANGELES, Mar. 15. Defense argument9 occupied all Of today's sea . .v. t-iui f viaiaK-Tin, Ju(, R Rush 8eni0r counsei for nk..,i,ni. k. ,a a.i.ia. .i ho ni lh ftprnnnn RftSSi0n. He will clos e tomorrow. " ...... Mrs, Obenchaln wept when Rush, IiMer8 h ha,d tween her and Kennedy. Rush said, Kennedy lover 'her "as devotedly.! loyally, passionately and enduringly ; as she loved him." He state had not shown that held any malice toward Kennedy. Referring to Arthur C. Eurch, Mrs.; Qbenchain's co-defendant, the attor- ney said: "Madalynne Obenchaln looked on Burch in a sisterly sort . of way. Burch's mother, wife of a minister of the gospel, invited such a relation." ( Mrs. Obenchaln herself, hedeclar--ed, is a Christian woman of culture. education and refinement, and her let ters indicated, "nothing but purity, portraying the highest ideals and nob lest thought." j Mrs. Obenchaln came into court to-! day wearing a smile, as yesterday,! find intently watched her counsel and : .....r ma - , Ln inrv aa inn n mi in liar haho r vfv ucuig umuu j Rush, early in his argument, toldi the Jury thntthe case involved mi thnt KennPilv'B ith o and rpferrP,i tn th nrn.n.ij.': ri " " -7 ' "3 . .. " " , ' , , , ,f VI , , -! that the lestimonv show-nil thv i . , - i rk made in the uul luicrx. Referring to a rema state's argument that the ueiense ".h , lV. "I yUn?fl!: . . . lc-L"u " view the wIIbm. - Thoueh Rnrrh wan aMa.i o n ,it nfl , by the state 1,J iefied i ledvVe . -J the defe0nsee;ad0noet8con: Though R.,7rWn oM.i - . .. " A . . v . ". n " Touching upon Mrs. 'obenchain's Irs Obenrliain'a testimony that she had no hranoa f -n . . remem- son to have a clearPmemo?v of evnt to the "moat ffoin tlon I have ever heard in my life came through without a material va- riation in hr r...w Alfred F. MacDonald resumed his" am.i . . iSuuirui in ueiense of cnain by reviewing evidence which he (Continued on Pnx Two) LEGION MEETING O. H. Dowell, manager of the Copper Queen Branch. Phelps Dodge Corporation, will be the speaker tonight at the meeting of L. A. Engle Post, American Legion. The meeting will start at 7:30. Dowell's talk will follow the regular business meeting. AND IDALYIE CRYS ONCE IRE the constitution to permit co-opera-1 tive marketing was passed, 13 to C. ! The senate considered the Burton' bill to raise the governor's salary from $6500, to $12 000 a year. It was agreed to amend the bill so aa to pro - vide that members of the. legislature who vote for the increase would not ' be disqualified for candidacy for the: office of governor. The bill was per - mltted to retain its place on the cal- endar. When Senator Larson's inheritance tax bill was taken up. the author and, Senator Elliott enlivened the pro-! ceedings with a heated argument. El liott had reported that his work on other Important bills had nrevented ! him from deciding as chairman of thei Judiciary committee, a certain ques- tion relative to the Uar son bill. Sen-, ! ate employ a law; ! affairs of the judici "Inasmuch as near questions presented tee nave appeared in bills offered by the gentleman from Coconino (Lar- him a lawyer" retorted Mllott Two income tax Luis were Intro-! duced today one by Senator Claypool and the other by Representative Hays! b" ntrod. the house included measures by: n the Representative Galv to increase course of study in high schools by adding "the principles of public -u.a.s. , Representative .Cobbe. to amend a .?h". -'cs v.D.i...6 be married to go to the county seat "uie- . 1 u 8 requirement. works a hardship on poor peo- f,e- proposed that licenses bej Ismied by' any justice of the peace ! Jhe today of a "JBh Senator ... i.i. i .- u ii - WamMes of the act recite S tlrVhtelS of iirlaUton Wi! Jne enure nisiory ot irrigation irom the, ' h " " r?J T.,.V, 1:1 I warden. t-. , n , . v . rinal Jjelection Ot lurv in Arbuckle Trial Is Held Up by Defense CI xr ti, 1 ,frtiflrtrt A.i .?.Ai:.r "".fT"" iieys ior ine Biaie annuunceu ri o:wi o'clock this afternoon that they ac-: i l1" "i ol-iW8Coeh: '" mm cuiueuiau, uu a inausMUKiucr . charge in connection with the death of Miss Virginal Rappe film actress. llllU LL,lllC7Uld.U, VJ1A U, The jury contained three women. Final selection of the jury was held : Un by the defense counsel after a few ' minutes deliberation, when they ex- i tused one of the nine men on the jury. ; . . ..i" Another man was called I last p ace, bu JSll. "IL? Another man was called to be exam-1 but his exam-: oncluded at ; " , Selection of the lurv in both the oni o.nn .kn.ti.. i..i, iaai- iiii uuu ocwuu ximuvivic, 11 lais w w i ? week. the conclusion of the j :ryr,s,."S",s xr maD Df comnletion. It ws pxnected tonight that the jury would be com- shop, recalled a famous trial in San i Franc,8co 30 years ago, In which M. D Curt,s' alao known as "Sam'l of ; Posen". was tried for the alleged mur-! ?er ofa San Francisco policeman. ! H a ninlrnamo Cam'! TV.aan tia . yer to look after the. mans for a nroloiied fieht alnst V. ..V,"" 'Z. ' " n 1 . was egun nerc tais atiern.M..i at th waa intrnrHnn d AnSin senate had refused for the third time P". necause or wnat ne regarus as Milwaukee. He was employed m tne oi minions or norsepower, ana aua Was inirpaUCllOa Rna reaUing . . . . .. . ., thu'lmnnrtniu r.r hnmu me. . T . V thru n in ... l.n.,iiU.' oiu Hearing me name oi . lire -. . " n'iiiinm.t.'n -xr -t i,,aii rwi nf ih i.un v.n.a w. r,..w i.vv TT'Jiiv" VL'hn haa rlnndol tTio powers wuum u viuieii inio tousima- .. ... . . . " "" " " " - - ' --' I nnrnra unr n r nr nnrnm iTinm UI UI LUULHIIUIl of Mrs. Oben- Hls n,ckname' Sam'l f Posen." was . to continue to use funds received from struction work except for necessary i a senate amendment which provides bach the fact remained that he was portions of the taken from hU p,ay of that name HQU'dat'.on of assets up to $55,000,000. "repairs" Instead of for nescessary I that not more than 13 officers of the back' on his old lob cf driving a s tM-contended sun- wnich had brought him a fortune of Autnority to use such fund3 until next "minor repairs", as proposed by the j shipping board shall receive annual seeine motor car t 111111 ltll. lltt HI It'll!. I Mill Mil III III III j defense during three trials, the first , two resulting in a Jury disagreement and the third in acquittal. ; Bepler was a Juror iu the first trial of Curtis, and told the court that ho had carried a strong prejudice 1 against circumstancial evidence ever since. The charges against Arbuckle were supported, in his previous trials, mainly by circumstantial evidence. ' Bepler was accepted as a jvjror and there was some speculation as lo whether the prosecution had new and more direct evidence to offer. emd laryj B f" t IU - i mm ' i ! Abandon Plans for Prolonged , .. , r t- i i - right Again$t Ratification ! of Four-Power Treaty ! : 1 1 ; REFUSED AMENDMENT TaJr c ;A-rrrTi-' -.f ' ers 3ee in (acceptance ot Agreement Indication lhat i Pact Will Be Ratified ' -WASHINGTON. ltfar. 15. Oddoii - ents of the four-poker Pacific treaty 24 The agreement,' which was hailed b administration-Mudrr? as a ..-ertain indication that ratification is assured,! was proposed on; 'the senate f loor after a series of conferences among ;q -n ws It provides that no further reserva- Hons oi- amendments shall be voted on until next Tuesday, that speeches uu me i.cui BUttii iiumcu iu uuo hour, and those on reservations to 30 miuuiea ucBiiuuuB n euua - day. and that final vote shall be taken witnout fleDate as soon as tne senate convenes on the following Friday. Negotiatlona to brin the ratifica. tloXM to an end bleu! after the tion wnen - anv I'acmt; coniroversv i touches their -interests. An amend - r that purpose, in a form dif- aHcrhtiv fm th ,.ntfl,i & 5 L'te ?,n1tnr Pi.tm-n nprnit v-vAila ing with party lines. ! Little running debate developed ' over the amendment for the treaty generally, although late in the day, ; Senator Spencer, Republican. Mis- ! souri, a treaty supporter, stirred up a cross fire of discussion by assailing the "no alliance" reservation for the j : foreign relations committee. He da- j clared the treaty .did create "an alii-j ance ior conrerence, ana mat tne reservation constituted a "ridiculous i absurdity." In the course of the day. . " 1 . ill LU CUdLH LUU1V 11 UiLU 11 fill Hfl v ai 1 ' VT nn ,1 .., n rt. . rt t A I J a. I . L. 1 1.. - a : ary committee. 1 ratification and awkDted a unanimous ! .Lmirnrnta mid Bnth. 1. Ti Chef Are Broadcasted in . i "t of a series of h,:,:, cf the ihe.iy ! agreement limit debate ana ; rhrpiniorthaV deUy in "VctionV Effort to Locate Man TJI ratincation was urged ny senator"""s -4 ywrau cmi - Ransdell. Democrat, Louisiana, a , catea of indebtedness, dated March cnarge or "propaganda" in tavor oi the treaty was made by Senator Pitt - --- ---- man. and an attack on "Irish-Amer- lean mriuonces against tne rour-power pact" was made by Senator ' Democrat, Mississippi. Williams, ,,,, , wo new reserva-1 tl J 1. . T,"1 !"u wicicu iui iuici tuiisiueianuu. uuo of the reservations was put In by Sen-1 'rrtr6"" coci . u.muu minu nu ucu jji Mcuir by Senator Brandagee, Republican, Connecticut, in the foreign relations 'committee, but abandoned by him after a conference with President Harding. The other reservation was by Senator Shields. Democrat. Ten - nessee. and would daciare tne treaty meant no interference iu foreign Quarrels. The amendment offered by Senator Robinson. Democrat, Arkan-, (Continued on Pape Two) m Al House Turns Down Senate Amendment on vmi V.I IMS. V. 1 AlliWltUlll(.lli Ull Shipping Board's Use of Liquidation Funds o 7? to 19, the house refused today ' to agree to a senate amendment to the independent office appropriation ; bill, which would Dermlt the shiDDinE board during the coming fiscal year tn nntln... .... I.a JU V 1 WHS PTH II I Hi 1 I II H Itflll Til 111 :i K11 I- - r- ... .-t ply measurt passed a year ago but it has realized only a part of tht max- : Imum. and Chairman Lasxer had re- quested extension of the privilege. ; Concurrence was also refused in the ' senate amendment cuthorlzing pur- chase for $1,500,000 of land in Wash- ington to be used for an addition to the government printing office. : The house, however, ratified action of the conferees, who had reached a compromise which inserts in the bill the language, proposed by the senate limiting the use of army camps or can- j MEASURE EGISIOM WAITS mum ui LniiLii u ;om RULE j Speaker Has Power to Prevent Consideration, Declares Texas Representative SPECULATION RUNS RIFE ' ProPonents f Delay Suggest Conference of President and House Leaders WARTTTVflTnV Mar 15 Tlierfi developed today a difference of opln-1 i ion among Republican leaders in the ! .v v.-u .v, . Jf one group still favored consideration preferable. ! cision would await the return herej Saturday of Speaker Gillett who is, 1 wjth Pre8,den HardJ ""'J' s.g Pe;u'lh ; f5 "kVr.oT, , o the rules and paas the! blll. -moaa ,it,.iLi . , hart been informe'd by G"lllett before . tne speaker left Washington that he j had better not depend entirely upon . a suspension of rules as the proced-, ; ure fo;. getting the bill before the' , house. speaker has indicated that he might not entertain a motion for this pur- ; the Republican loader, said today it i wou" be, "ra'her n'' for tnf ; speaker to refuse to enterta n such ! ""'t the tnajority of tho house, t 'ef?ired consideration of the bill un - (Continued on rajce Twoi ; T of pef TqCIIA fif j AJaicai 1MUC UA ! A 1 f i f Tc 1 vtl 111 ILtllCo lo Ol7fr-lllHcrlilArI "OUUolI lUtrvl R,-intr PT ? ; M n l; -0.V6r;sub,- : ?t,01 f fce treaf"r-v s latest of- i foplnf 9 r . ''wulni 7u'iii " swre- ! ,aO' ,"on Preliminary reports, he i.i . t . , ... i"ie m i loiai suDscnpuons : ; t',, i" ! Y wnic l ror aoout zbw,ooo,- . .u . p.nnt"r-cfiu me closing 0f subscription tjoks for thn fnnr ... - " : i :r iy4 pe-cent treasury- notes dated icaav. winch wor.i nnproil nnlv in dt. change f? V Yj. ... . ,! said- : ao inac me r.riiai exenanges as?re- ; gate -.-.bout $600,000,000 and that there i has been unusuallv eood distribution of the now notes among investors ; throughout the country -try." Authority given federal reserve ; banks to purchase 4 Victory Loan , notes direct from holders up to an aggregate amount of 1100.000.000' or : these notes un to dtte. hr. wnnrtmi ansregate over $2,000,000. and ad - - nssici;i auuui uij, 000,000. ters to Camo Sherman. Ohio. and which restores to a clause striken out by the senate, providing that no part of the annronriatlon for vocational training shall be expended for con- .ln.ll. i. . r fl f 111 ,( AS Y fit lull nAu dfaniia n -v ...,...-x.. u " i uv ; limit Is placed on the numbar of for- ' mer service mtn who can be trained at I the Ohio camp. Another conference agreement ap-i proved by the house, appropriates ap-j proximately $40,000,000 for salaries; and expenses of the veterans' bureau, I as proposed by the senate, Instead of i $26,000,000 as proposed by the house. I as well as $160,000,000 for military i and naval compensation, as proposed j by the house instead of $145,000,000 ! and not exceeding $15,000,000 of any unexpended balance, as provided for IwS ITU . v i . v, .i v ..... . . v . j . w.. v 1 T J '.llilL, 17f I UI r Will 11 IIItn, Vlir?ll W a UIO- n t H V-i Ufl V tl f WUh Longer Skirts, Low Steps, Blinders For Men CHICAGO. Mar. 15. Longer skirts for women, lower steps for street cars, or blinders for men-Chicago must have one of the three in order to prevent a Bteady Increase in accidents. Alderman Leo Klein declared today in introducing an ordinance before the city council providing for lower street car steps. "The women wear such short skirts that when they start to climb up the high street car steps well, the nen can't seem to keep their eyes to the front and many accidents occur, particularly among the automobllists," explained Klein. The prtoposed ordinance was referred to a committee. Seek to Locate Discharged Chef In Brunen Case RIVERSIDE, N J., Mar. 15. Re newed efforts will be made to locate Oeorge Lamb Werner, a circus chef.; in connection with the killing of John T. Brunen. circus proprietor, shot to. death in his home Friday night, it jwas announced tonight by Prosecutor Jonathan Kelsey. The prosecutor sam e wished to question Werner, who had been employed by Brunen in me C00k tent of the "Mighty Doris and Ferrari Shows," to clear up certain D0ints He directed that a picture of , Wernpr Uaown as -Dntchy the Chef" i Werner waa said formerly to have conducted a bakery in New York and charged. .to the tenth generation. It U in our That was the outstanding phase of power to lay a foundation for rro- the senrch for Brunen's slayer today,' gress." after the publication last nW of " Governor Campbell of Arizona. In ' letter l runen had WTitten to his sis- Jaesche of Gary, household was framing" to "get him. and the an nouncement of County Detective E1-. lis Parker that the show man had shown him a list of names of persons! he believed were planning his death. ' Walter S. Keown, Camden attor-, ney, retained by Mrs. Brunen. today ' issued a statement denvine that the gnow man'8 widow knew the identityj - of the person. or pessons responsible j for the death, or anything of the kill-, j ing. He asserted also that the letter, written by Brunen to his sister had1 i been comosed in the heat of passion ' uri n vuuiudcu HI tne 1 1 " cl L ui XZ ;and j,ad no foundation in truth. Re- , pard,;ng the estate of the show man.1 the statement said, the reports con- . rerning his wealth were "ridiculous." i - " 14 Ke0wn s-id it consisted of nothing more tnnn halt Interest In the "Mighty Doris and Ferrari Shows." and approximately J1S.000 in cash.' j The onlv insurance Brunen had. he au.Y ..onM ..t:... i. ..i,.-. ucnuiru, n us u -.MU MKUIV III nil IV II . his wife was named as beneficiary. Ellis Parker, Burlington county de- os listed by the circus man and giv- en to him two months ago as those who were likely to seek his death i ' V TRUST ORDERED closed i RICHMOND. !nd. Mar. 15 The D'ckson Trust Company of this city was closed today on the order of Charles W. C-mr. state bank exam- iner nim irui n ..fnic ,..,.inr i Tr.ioa,. k hi , nm,oi.iun io. 1 ran v. had "unleaded" annrorimatelv me riunimny wuuoui me Knowieuge of its directorii. ooo ror vocational rehabilitation, as proposed by the senate, instead of $127,000,000 in the house provision. The house, by an overwhelming i vote, insisted on its disagreement to ' , . . 7 . . coin va... in ,vAim.a 0 111 niWl T'lirv . oaiaiirn iu cAt-nn Vl f 11 ,M'u. 1 vi- iginal house provision provided that not more than six officials should re- ceive salaries in excess of $11,000 and that none should be paid more than $25,000. In urging the house to stand on the original provision. Representative Mann. Republican, Illinois, declared that "we have no 'right to pay sal- arles- reaching to the mountain top." "A salary cf $25,000 is reasonably hieh. "he declared, "and we ought ; not pay it to any one in the govern- ment short of the president." SEEK EQUITABLE Division OF Ml BENEFITS 1 STATES AFFECTED Hoover Declares That Project Is Great National Asset; to Avoid Long Delays NO LIMIT TO GROWTH Bisbee Engineer Asserts That California and Arizona Should Co-Operate . PIICENIX. Ariz.. Mar. 15. Presentation of proposals for .'Xten'ivi M-' velopment of the Colorado ;iver and ; 'or equitable ditribution of theb--n-' eflts therefrom among the evn states of the Colorado river bpslii. ! bert Hoover. - : Representatives of V.-Izcn.i and Nc 7 'ue'r ai wie op"n" S(.rrttftrv nnvor nff ttt purpose of the hearing announced the commission plans to visit the Im- ; perial VaVlley on Sunday, and tow ! open the aring,mjn Los Ang!es in ses8on here UIlti, Kr;jav. .We are seekIn an eqUitabie di- vision of the waters of the Colorado and its tributaries, subject to..the ap- proval of congress, to prevent veverv one desiring to be heard will be given an owortunity to speak, al assets of America. It provides the nans to leclain, millicns of acres of (Continued on Tage Two) DIVA SEEKS T HADE CHAUFFEUR HUSBAND BACK , t , , ' r MUSDana W no Lett OOngSter fnllJ M,. I 'CI.:-, Could Not Live on 'Skim Milk and Applause SAN' FRANCISCO. Mar. 15. Mm?. Marearete Matrenauer. grand open rand opera . . V, 1 "nJTr- a 'J l" 'wr band. Floyd Clotzbach. Del Mrnte ""'r:"""?:":: iia u,j utxuuo-, Bai(l. life in the circles grand op : stars occupy involved living "on sk he opera occupy skim milk and applause." A San Francisco newspaper today will print a copy of the teleeram in which the diva made her appeal This message was sem io a irienu of v.ioizoacn wun a request iqsi her P'ea and the information on which It wa8 bh8eU ,aid brore the cnauf- feur-husband. JOPLIN. Mo.. Mar. 15 Shown a dispatch from San Francisco In which Floyd Glotzbach. her husband, is quoted as saying he sticks to his oric-inal statement that he was "through with the limelight," Mme. Margaret Matzenbaucr, grand opera star, to- , night still maintained an attitude of regarding the situations' ss a "joke." I She was much less talkative than last night, however.-when she talked freely with newspaper men. ' Referring to the latest dispatch a fanciful creation of a reporter." "The language is not my husband's" she stated. language wlrn tLt usebVcioti 'USUape S HOI tnai USed D OIOIZ She waa reminded that even If the . . PI I WnUt Oi Inflt Silt 4 OUH- tered "If he wants to drive -oine one else's Cir that's his bus'ness ani I haven't the slightest object tion." "No." she replied when aVd if a divorce had been suggested she sent a long telecram to her lawer in New York telling of her in- terview and asking his advice he refused to ilivulsc what her i.iwy - advised. She left tonicht for St Ixiuis. whre she will n:.r in .." cert with the St. Louis Symphonv Or- chestra. -.l , -WJ-.,- '
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-V.Vtai 65? tt. THE WEATHER Arizona: Unsettled Thursday, probably snow or rain iiorih iKriioii; Friday generally fair; not much change n temperature. COPPER PRICES Average month .Jan. .13465 Av. month Fb 12SC4 Average week 22-2-22. ..12725 Av. week Mar. 1 ....1251875 Av'g. week 3-S-'22 . .lJf.Ct:; Close week 3-8-'22 ...1262". '2 VOL. 26 NO. 64 B1SBEE, ARIZONA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1922 Price Five Cents COLORADO HEARIN' OUTLINED BY HOOVER sr?i a n - Z0 A ft jl ar , 0 4 4 4 ? t. i .1 Chicago IS WORST FIRE SHY OFFiGtALS If FIFTY YEARS - j bill to stimulate competition in bid rtCC ' l C 4. , Cr-Mrfk.'rirt. i for street paving. There waa no de-Official States Everything , bate on te mtjaaure Amendments Pointed to Incendiarism;' offered by the committee on state. Over $5,000,000 Loss RUINS STILL SMOKING Say Modern Methods Unable to Cope With Fires in High Buildings CHICAGO, Mar- 15. Investigation of the cause of the fire which destroy ed a solid block of thickly tenanted office buildings, caused a loss of more than $5;000,0u0. resulted in the death or one man and made 20,000 workers idle, was besun tonight by state, city and insurance officials. The manner in which the flames flared out in several places at the same moment, the extraordinary rapidity with which they spread until nothing but smouldeiing ruins waa left of the entire block bounded by South Canal, West Van Buren and South Clinton streets and West Jack son uouievaru, caused snirioy i - High, fire attorney, to announce that everything pointed to incendiarism.'! i UK in si siiii ami ui was mi ucu in at 12:50 a. m., but it was not until; four hours later that the fire was I brought under control. 11 MI . ..n.ll., n 1 . . . n .1 just across me sireet irom me, harred landscape of tottering walls; Just across the street from the c and twisted, smoking ruins which Qbenchain. charged with'the murder firemen expected to be working torj.of ner gweetheart, j. BeIton Kennedy.! the next three days, towered thmas-, aive skeleton of the "fireproof Bur-i Jtngton Building tonight." The walls - ..till n .1 I . . . . u i... i . - r aIa..:1 u muuu instil uui us ii mui im; over the ten of desolation Thei structiire housed the hend siructure nouseu tue neauquariers oi BJt. ?rCi! .. , ,:i. iv.i ..-i auu Ul l"" "'i (OonTinnoH on Pa ire Two WORKERS PLACE DEMANDS' BEFORE ME OPERATORS Miners Present 19 Demands, Including 20 Per Cent Increase in Wages NEW YORK. Mar. 15. Demands of ; the anthracite mine workers, includ-; ing one for a 20 per cent increase in . ,.. .i. own i ndwhen the wo k rs1 the nineteen demands, an adjourn-' wiAn wn V . . T-l until TViflOV nftlir. w " . . x, ------ - - noon. At that time, the operators: are expected to make a response. i meeting and no inkline came from ! i, .!, will make. It is understood they plan' to tell the union men that an In-' io ten me union men mai an in-, crease in wages at this time Is not in accord with the trend of the times. !Li"!rlLTrt,aAn the present cost of coal is too high ! trol over Burch and "no, men in tb aujournmeni. ine state so rar na sas. wouiu pieage me iour powers -.ance redempticn or tho 3s VVic- ,660.000 of securities, which the ex-and that the miners should share in i world to brine- him 1ir ,ninejused one peremptory challenge and : against secret treaties or understand-; tory notes, called for redemption on amJnier termed as undersirable. upon any deflation if lower prices are to j be granted to consumers. After the meeting, the operators rofused to make any comment on the demands. f icials the day following the killine 5TA-j;,r.'5;s minpm ThP union landui-a hnvnr I " wnere, have tRken no step in that' direction!: .im u. iirninie usrr irom me Up to the time of sustainine a Revere i """""J operators. The scale committee of shock, and then to lose all remem- tomorrow. Two alternate jurors pro-the coal diegtrs ia under Instructions brance of events immediately follow-i b4,y w111 be chosen, to "perfect arrangements providing ing. immeaiateiy follow-, The selection as juror today of Fred for a suspension" on April 1 in the Mrs. Obenrhatn -ki'D. Bepler. proprietor of a machine event that no satisfactory agreement has been reached. There were .?9 mine workers and 74 operators present in the "Butter-, fly rooms" on the roof of the Hotel PennSVlvanla Whn tho loinf rnnfnr. .. . ," v., -ni;i- nun iiiin-(i io orocr. wiuiam I.,. Conncl. Scranton. Pa., an individ- u'al operator and a member of the Anthracite Board of Conciliation, presided. President John I Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America, read the demands formulated at the Shamoken. Pa., convention, and made an explanatory 3tatement. While there was not much inter-mingline of miners and operators, a good feeling appeared to pro-ail. Davis Leaves For N. Y. WASHINGTON. Mar. 13. Secre- (Continued on Page Two Fire Believed Inc !s measure jcjiiuorseu; qaiaiy Bill in Senate; "Josh" Bill t PHOENIX, Ariz., Mar. 15. Thei , Henate committee of the whole today; recommended passage of tho Kimball county nnd city were all accepted. The bill probably will be up for final reading tomorrow. Senator Eddy's bill relative to col lection of irrigation district assess-, m'enta on state Lands within irriga tion districts . was decisively defeated In tho morning, but in the afternoon, on a motion to reconsider the meas ure, was passed, 13 to 6. In spite of unexpected opposition led by Senator Larson, a bll to amend LETTERS :r r r 1 C 'J i Defense Declares Evidence in I States Case Is Theories and Not of Facts' LOS ANGELES, Mar. 15. Defense argument9 occupied all Of today's sea . .v. t-iui f viaiaK-Tin, Ju(, R Rush 8eni0r counsei for nk..,i,ni. k. ,a a.i.ia. .i ho ni lh ftprnnnn RftSSi0n. He will clos e tomorrow. " ...... Mrs, Obenchaln wept when Rush, IiMer8 h ha,d tween her and Kennedy. Rush said, Kennedy lover 'her "as devotedly.! loyally, passionately and enduringly ; as she loved him." He state had not shown that held any malice toward Kennedy. Referring to Arthur C. Eurch, Mrs.; Qbenchain's co-defendant, the attor- ney said: "Madalynne Obenchaln looked on Burch in a sisterly sort . of way. Burch's mother, wife of a minister of the gospel, invited such a relation." ( Mrs. Obenchaln herself, hedeclar--ed, is a Christian woman of culture. education and refinement, and her let ters indicated, "nothing but purity, portraying the highest ideals and nob lest thought." j Mrs. Obenchaln came into court to-! day wearing a smile, as yesterday,! find intently watched her counsel and : .....r ma - , Ln inrv aa inn n mi in liar haho r vfv ucuig umuu j Rush, early in his argument, toldi the Jury thntthe case involved mi thnt KennPilv'B ith o and rpferrP,i tn th nrn.n.ij.': ri " " -7 ' "3 . .. " " , ' , , , ,f VI , , -! that the lestimonv show-nil thv i . , - i rk made in the uul luicrx. Referring to a rema state's argument that the ueiense ".h , lV. "I yUn?fl!: . . . lc-L"u " view the wIIbm. - Thoueh Rnrrh wan aMa.i o n ,it nfl , by the state 1,J iefied i ledvVe . -J the defe0nsee;ad0noet8con: Though R.,7rWn oM.i - . .. " A . . v . ". n " Touching upon Mrs. 'obenchain's Irs Obenrliain'a testimony that she had no hranoa f -n . . remem- son to have a clearPmemo?v of evnt to the "moat ffoin tlon I have ever heard in my life came through without a material va- riation in hr r...w Alfred F. MacDonald resumed his" am.i . . iSuuirui in ueiense of cnain by reviewing evidence which he (Continued on Pnx Two) LEGION MEETING O. H. Dowell, manager of the Copper Queen Branch. Phelps Dodge Corporation, will be the speaker tonight at the meeting of L. A. Engle Post, American Legion. The meeting will start at 7:30. Dowell's talk will follow the regular business meeting. AND IDALYIE CRYS ONCE IRE the constitution to permit co-opera-1 tive marketing was passed, 13 to C. ! The senate considered the Burton' bill to raise the governor's salary from $6500, to $12 000 a year. It was agreed to amend the bill so aa to pro - vide that members of the. legislature who vote for the increase would not ' be disqualified for candidacy for the: office of governor. The bill was per - mltted to retain its place on the cal- endar. When Senator Larson's inheritance tax bill was taken up. the author and, Senator Elliott enlivened the pro-! ceedings with a heated argument. El liott had reported that his work on other Important bills had nrevented ! him from deciding as chairman of thei Judiciary committee, a certain ques- tion relative to the Uar son bill. Sen-, ! ate employ a law; ! affairs of the judici "Inasmuch as near questions presented tee nave appeared in bills offered by the gentleman from Coconino (Lar- him a lawyer" retorted Mllott Two income tax Luis were Intro-! duced today one by Senator Claypool and the other by Representative Hays! b" ntrod. the house included measures by: n the Representative Galv to increase course of study in high schools by adding "the principles of public -u.a.s. , Representative .Cobbe. to amend a .?h". -'cs v.D.i...6 be married to go to the county seat "uie- . 1 u 8 requirement. works a hardship on poor peo- f,e- proposed that licenses bej Ismied by' any justice of the peace ! Jhe today of a "JBh Senator ... i.i. i .- u ii - WamMes of the act recite S tlrVhtelS of iirlaUton Wi! Jne enure nisiory ot irrigation irom the, ' h " " r?J T.,.V, 1:1 I warden. t-. , n , . v . rinal Jjelection Ot lurv in Arbuckle Trial Is Held Up by Defense CI xr ti, 1 ,frtiflrtrt A.i .?.Ai:.r "".fT"" iieys ior ine Biaie annuunceu ri o:wi o'clock this afternoon that they ac-: i l1" "i ol-iW8Coeh: '" mm cuiueuiau, uu a inausMUKiucr . charge in connection with the death of Miss Virginal Rappe film actress. llllU LL,lllC7Uld.U, VJ1A U, The jury contained three women. Final selection of the jury was held : Un by the defense counsel after a few ' minutes deliberation, when they ex- i tused one of the nine men on the jury. ; . . ..i" Another man was called I last p ace, bu JSll. "IL? Another man was called to be exam-1 but his exam-: oncluded at ; " , Selection of the lurv in both the oni o.nn .kn.ti.. i..i, iaai- iiii uuu ocwuu ximuvivic, 11 lais w w i ? week. the conclusion of the j :ryr,s,."S",s xr maD Df comnletion. It ws pxnected tonight that the jury would be com- shop, recalled a famous trial in San i Franc,8co 30 years ago, In which M. D Curt,s' alao known as "Sam'l of ; Posen". was tried for the alleged mur-! ?er ofa San Francisco policeman. ! H a ninlrnamo Cam'! TV.aan tia . yer to look after the. mans for a nroloiied fieht alnst V. ..V,"" 'Z. ' " n 1 . was egun nerc tais atiern.M..i at th waa intrnrHnn d AnSin senate had refused for the third time P". necause or wnat ne regarus as Milwaukee. He was employed m tne oi minions or norsepower, ana aua Was inirpaUCllOa Rna reaUing . . . . .. . ., thu'lmnnrtniu r.r hnmu me. . T . V thru n in ... l.n.,iiU.' oiu Hearing me name oi . lire -. . " n'iiiinm.t.'n -xr -t i,,aii rwi nf ih i.un v.n.a w. r,..w i.vv TT'Jiiv" VL'hn haa rlnndol tTio powers wuum u viuieii inio tousima- .. ... . . . " "" " " " - - ' --' I nnrnra unr n r nr nnrnm iTinm UI UI LUULHIIUIl of Mrs. Oben- Hls n,ckname' Sam'l f Posen." was . to continue to use funds received from struction work except for necessary i a senate amendment which provides bach the fact remained that he was portions of the taken from hU p,ay of that name HQU'dat'.on of assets up to $55,000,000. "repairs" Instead of for nescessary I that not more than 13 officers of the back' on his old lob cf driving a s tM-contended sun- wnich had brought him a fortune of Autnority to use such fund3 until next "minor repairs", as proposed by the j shipping board shall receive annual seeine motor car t 111111 ltll. lltt HI It'll!. I Mill Mil III III III j defense during three trials, the first , two resulting in a Jury disagreement and the third in acquittal. ; Bepler was a Juror iu the first trial of Curtis, and told the court that ho had carried a strong prejudice 1 against circumstancial evidence ever since. The charges against Arbuckle were supported, in his previous trials, mainly by circumstantial evidence. ' Bepler was accepted as a jvjror and there was some speculation as lo whether the prosecution had new and more direct evidence to offer. emd laryj B f" t IU - i mm ' i ! Abandon Plans for Prolonged , .. , r t- i i - right Again$t Ratification ! of Four-Power Treaty ! : 1 1 ; REFUSED AMENDMENT TaJr c ;A-rrrTi-' -.f ' ers 3ee in (acceptance ot Agreement Indication lhat i Pact Will Be Ratified ' -WASHINGTON. ltfar. 15. Oddoii - ents of the four-poker Pacific treaty 24 The agreement,' which was hailed b administration-Mudrr? as a ..-ertain indication that ratification is assured,! was proposed on; 'the senate f loor after a series of conferences among ;q -n ws It provides that no further reserva- Hons oi- amendments shall be voted on until next Tuesday, that speeches uu me i.cui BUttii iiumcu iu uuo hour, and those on reservations to 30 miuuiea ucBiiuuuB n euua - day. and that final vote shall be taken witnout fleDate as soon as tne senate convenes on the following Friday. Negotiatlona to brin the ratifica. tloXM to an end bleu! after the tion wnen - anv I'acmt; coniroversv i touches their -interests. An amend - r that purpose, in a form dif- aHcrhtiv fm th ,.ntfl,i & 5 L'te ?,n1tnr Pi.tm-n nprnit v-vAila ing with party lines. ! Little running debate developed ' over the amendment for the treaty generally, although late in the day, ; Senator Spencer, Republican. Mis- ! souri, a treaty supporter, stirred up a cross fire of discussion by assailing the "no alliance" reservation for the j : foreign relations committee. He da- j clared the treaty .did create "an alii-j ance ior conrerence, ana mat tne reservation constituted a "ridiculous i absurdity." In the course of the day. . " 1 . ill LU CUdLH LUU1V 11 UiLU 11 fill Hfl v ai 1 ' VT nn ,1 .., n rt. . rt t A I J a. I . L. 1 1.. - a : ary committee. 1 ratification and awkDted a unanimous ! .Lmirnrnta mid Bnth. 1. Ti Chef Are Broadcasted in . i "t of a series of h,:,:, cf the ihe.iy ! agreement limit debate ana ; rhrpiniorthaV deUy in "VctionV Effort to Locate Man TJI ratincation was urged ny senator"""s -4 ywrau cmi - Ransdell. Democrat, Louisiana, a , catea of indebtedness, dated March cnarge or "propaganda" in tavor oi the treaty was made by Senator Pitt - --- ---- man. and an attack on "Irish-Amer- lean mriuonces against tne rour-power pact" was made by Senator ' Democrat, Mississippi. Williams, ,,,, , wo new reserva-1 tl J 1. . T,"1 !"u wicicu iui iuici tuiisiueianuu. uuo of the reservations was put In by Sen-1 'rrtr6"" coci . u.muu minu nu ucu jji Mcuir by Senator Brandagee, Republican, Connecticut, in the foreign relations 'committee, but abandoned by him after a conference with President Harding. The other reservation was by Senator Shields. Democrat. Ten - nessee. and would daciare tne treaty meant no interference iu foreign Quarrels. The amendment offered by Senator Robinson. Democrat, Arkan-, (Continued on Pape Two) m Al House Turns Down Senate Amendment on vmi V.I IMS. V. 1 AlliWltUlll(.lli Ull Shipping Board's Use of Liquidation Funds o 7? to 19, the house refused today ' to agree to a senate amendment to the independent office appropriation ; bill, which would Dermlt the shiDDinE board during the coming fiscal year tn nntln... .... I.a JU V 1 WHS PTH II I Hi 1 I II H Itflll Til 111 :i K11 I- - r- ... .-t ply measurt passed a year ago but it has realized only a part of tht max- : Imum. and Chairman Lasxer had re- quested extension of the privilege. ; Concurrence was also refused in the ' senate amendment cuthorlzing pur- chase for $1,500,000 of land in Wash- ington to be used for an addition to the government printing office. : The house, however, ratified action of the conferees, who had reached a compromise which inserts in the bill the language, proposed by the senate limiting the use of army camps or can- j MEASURE EGISIOM WAITS mum ui LniiLii u ;om RULE j Speaker Has Power to Prevent Consideration, Declares Texas Representative SPECULATION RUNS RIFE ' ProPonents f Delay Suggest Conference of President and House Leaders WARTTTVflTnV Mar 15 Tlierfi developed today a difference of opln-1 i ion among Republican leaders in the ! .v v.-u .v, . Jf one group still favored consideration preferable. ! cision would await the return herej Saturday of Speaker Gillett who is, 1 wjth Pre8,den HardJ ""'J' s.g Pe;u'lh ; f5 "kVr.oT, , o the rules and paas the! blll. -moaa ,it,.iLi . , hart been informe'd by G"lllett before . tne speaker left Washington that he j had better not depend entirely upon . a suspension of rules as the proced-, ; ure fo;. getting the bill before the' , house. speaker has indicated that he might not entertain a motion for this pur- ; the Republican loader, said today it i wou" be, "ra'her n'' for tnf ; speaker to refuse to enterta n such ! ""'t the tnajority of tho house, t 'ef?ired consideration of the bill un - (Continued on rajce Twoi ; T of pef TqCIIA fif j AJaicai 1MUC UA ! A 1 f i f Tc 1 vtl 111 ILtllCo lo Ol7fr-lllHcrlilArI "OUUolI lUtrvl R,-intr PT ? ; M n l; -0.V6r;sub,- : ?t,01 f fce treaf"r-v s latest of- i foplnf 9 r . ''wulni 7u'iii " swre- ! ,aO' ,"on Preliminary reports, he i.i . t . , ... i"ie m i loiai suDscnpuons : ; t',, i" ! Y wnic l ror aoout zbw,ooo,- . .u . p.nnt"r-cfiu me closing 0f subscription tjoks for thn fnnr ... - " : i :r iy4 pe-cent treasury- notes dated icaav. winch wor.i nnproil nnlv in dt. change f? V Yj. ... . ,! said- : ao inac me r.riiai exenanges as?re- ; gate -.-.bout $600,000,000 and that there i has been unusuallv eood distribution of the now notes among investors ; throughout the country -try." Authority given federal reserve ; banks to purchase 4 Victory Loan , notes direct from holders up to an aggregate amount of 1100.000.000' or : these notes un to dtte. hr. wnnrtmi ansregate over $2,000,000. and ad - - nssici;i auuui uij, 000,000. ters to Camo Sherman. Ohio. and which restores to a clause striken out by the senate, providing that no part of the annronriatlon for vocational training shall be expended for con- .ln.ll. i. . r fl f 111 ,( AS Y fit lull nAu dfaniia n -v ...,...-x.. u " i uv ; limit Is placed on the numbar of for- ' mer service mtn who can be trained at I the Ohio camp. Another conference agreement ap-i proved by the house, appropriates ap-j proximately $40,000,000 for salaries; and expenses of the veterans' bureau, I as proposed by the senate, Instead of i $26,000,000 as proposed by the house. I as well as $160,000,000 for military i and naval compensation, as proposed j by the house instead of $145,000,000 ! and not exceeding $15,000,000 of any unexpended balance, as provided for IwS ITU . v i . v, .i v ..... . . v . j . w.. v 1 T J '.llilL, 17f I UI r Will 11 IIItn, Vlir?ll W a UIO- n t H V-i Ufl V tl f WUh Longer Skirts, Low Steps, Blinders For Men CHICAGO. Mar. 15. Longer skirts for women, lower steps for street cars, or blinders for men-Chicago must have one of the three in order to prevent a Bteady Increase in accidents. Alderman Leo Klein declared today in introducing an ordinance before the city council providing for lower street car steps. "The women wear such short skirts that when they start to climb up the high street car steps well, the nen can't seem to keep their eyes to the front and many accidents occur, particularly among the automobllists," explained Klein. The prtoposed ordinance was referred to a committee. Seek to Locate Discharged Chef In Brunen Case RIVERSIDE, N J., Mar. 15. Re newed efforts will be made to locate Oeorge Lamb Werner, a circus chef.; in connection with the killing of John T. Brunen. circus proprietor, shot to. death in his home Friday night, it jwas announced tonight by Prosecutor Jonathan Kelsey. The prosecutor sam e wished to question Werner, who had been employed by Brunen in me C00k tent of the "Mighty Doris and Ferrari Shows," to clear up certain D0ints He directed that a picture of , Wernpr Uaown as -Dntchy the Chef" i Werner waa said formerly to have conducted a bakery in New York and charged. .to the tenth generation. It U in our That was the outstanding phase of power to lay a foundation for rro- the senrch for Brunen's slayer today,' gress." after the publication last nW of " Governor Campbell of Arizona. In ' letter l runen had WTitten to his sis- Jaesche of Gary, household was framing" to "get him. and the an nouncement of County Detective E1-. lis Parker that the show man had shown him a list of names of persons! he believed were planning his death. ' Walter S. Keown, Camden attor-, ney, retained by Mrs. Brunen. today ' issued a statement denvine that the gnow man'8 widow knew the identityj - of the person. or pessons responsible j for the death, or anything of the kill-, j ing. He asserted also that the letter, written by Brunen to his sister had1 i been comosed in the heat of passion ' uri n vuuiudcu HI tne 1 1 " cl L ui XZ ;and j,ad no foundation in truth. Re- , pard,;ng the estate of the show man.1 the statement said, the reports con- . rerning his wealth were "ridiculous." i - " 14 Ke0wn s-id it consisted of nothing more tnnn halt Interest In the "Mighty Doris and Ferrari Shows." and approximately J1S.000 in cash.' j The onlv insurance Brunen had. he au.Y ..onM ..t:... i. ..i,.-. ucnuiru, n us u -.MU MKUIV III nil IV II . his wife was named as beneficiary. Ellis Parker, Burlington county de- os listed by the circus man and giv- en to him two months ago as those who were likely to seek his death i ' V TRUST ORDERED closed i RICHMOND. !nd. Mar. 15 The D'ckson Trust Company of this city was closed today on the order of Charles W. C-mr. state bank exam- iner nim irui n ..fnic ,..,.inr i Tr.ioa,. k hi , nm,oi.iun io. 1 ran v. had "unleaded" annrorimatelv me riunimny wuuoui me Knowieuge of its directorii. ooo ror vocational rehabilitation, as proposed by the senate, instead of $127,000,000 in the house provision. The house, by an overwhelming i vote, insisted on its disagreement to ' , . . 7 . . coin va... in ,vAim.a 0 111 niWl T'lirv . oaiaiirn iu cAt-nn Vl f 11 ,M'u. 1 vi- iginal house provision provided that not more than six officials should re- ceive salaries in excess of $11,000 and that none should be paid more than $25,000. In urging the house to stand on the original provision. Representative Mann. Republican, Illinois, declared that "we have no 'right to pay sal- arles- reaching to the mountain top." "A salary cf $25,000 is reasonably hieh. "he declared, "and we ought ; not pay it to any one in the govern- ment short of the president." SEEK EQUITABLE Division OF Ml BENEFITS 1 STATES AFFECTED Hoover Declares That Project Is Great National Asset; to Avoid Long Delays NO LIMIT TO GROWTH Bisbee Engineer Asserts That California and Arizona Should Co-Operate . PIICENIX. Ariz.. Mar. 15. Presentation of proposals for .'Xten'ivi M-' velopment of the Colorado ;iver and ; 'or equitable ditribution of theb--n-' eflts therefrom among the evn states of the Colorado river bpslii. ! bert Hoover. - : Representatives of V.-Izcn.i and Nc 7 'ue'r ai wie op"n" S(.rrttftrv nnvor nff ttt purpose of the hearing announced the commission plans to visit the Im- ; perial VaVlley on Sunday, and tow ! open the aring,mjn Los Ang!es in ses8on here UIlti, Kr;jav. .We are seekIn an eqUitabie di- vision of the waters of the Colorado and its tributaries, subject to..the ap- proval of congress, to prevent veverv one desiring to be heard will be given an owortunity to speak, al assets of America. It provides the nans to leclain, millicns of acres of (Continued on Tage Two) DIVA SEEKS T HADE CHAUFFEUR HUSBAND BACK , t , , ' r MUSDana W no Lett OOngSter fnllJ M,. I 'CI.:-, Could Not Live on 'Skim Milk and Applause SAN' FRANCISCO. Mar. 15. Mm?. Marearete Matrenauer. grand open rand opera . . 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Memories of good, bad deeds can alter perception of brightness
March 9, 2012
(Medical Xpress) -- From sacred religious texts to books to movies, light and darkness have always symbolized good and evil.
But is it possible that abstract concepts such as good and evil can actually influence our perception of light and darkness in the environment around us?
According to University of Kansas business professor Promothesh Chatterjee, the answer is yes. In an upcoming article, Chatterjee reports that individuals who were asked to recall a time that they did a good deed judge their immediate surroundings to be brighter than individuals who were asked to recall an unethical deed from their past.
Additionally, Chatterjee finds that when offered a selection of random objects, individuals who recalled an unethical deed and therefore perceived the room to be darker preferred light-producing objects such as flashlights and candles, as opposed to non-light-producing objects likes crackers or apples.
We find that when individuals think about an abstract concept for example, a good deed it influences their perception of a concrete concept such as brightness, said Chatterjee, an assistant professor of marketing in the KU School of Business. Moreover, those individuals thinking about a bad deed demonstrate a preference for objects that will add light to the environment.
Chatterjees article, Is It Light or Dark? Recalling Moral Behavior Changes Perception of Brightness, will appear in the upcoming edition of Psychological Science. His co-authors are Pronobesh Banerjee from Winston-Salem State University and Jayati Sinha from the University of Arizona.
According to Chatterjee, previous researchers have found that individuals mentally link abstract concepts (like evil) to concrete concepts (like darkness). But Chatterjees findings go further by showing that these linkages go beyond mere linguistic coupling to actually influence an individuals perception of the physical world.
We already knew that evil makes people think of the dark, Chatterjee said. But our research is unique because we find that evil not only makes people think of the dark, but it makes people see, feel and perceive the environment to be darker. Thats a powerful finding.
How does Chatterjee explain the preference for light-inducing objects among those individuals primed with memories of unethical deeds?
Responses to moral transgression may be influenced by emotions such as guilt or shame, he said. Past research indicates that when people experience guilt, they are motivated to alleviate their prevailing negative feelings, but the instinctive response to shame is to escape or hide. Chatterjees results are in line with responses to the experience of guilt: Participants who recalled their own past unethical deeds, which might trigger guilt, preferred products that would make the room brighter that is, products that would reduce darkness and thereby reduce the negative feelings associated with darkness.
Chatterjees findings open some interesting avenues for future research. For example, can experiencing brightness in an environment increase ethical behavior? And given that light and dark appear to be linked to moral behavior, can ambient light affect the perception and evaluation of morally ambiguous behaviors?
Those are some fun and intriguing questions, Chatterjee said. How interesting it would be to discover that we can use light to influence peoples behavior or their perception of behaviors. That could have some incredible real-world applications.
(Medical Xpress) -- The brain is constantly changing as it perceives the outside world, processing and learning about everything it encounters. In a new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological ...
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It doesn't really in a significant way (as if I were an authority). Malcom Gladwell's book, "Blink" explores a lot of these areas. It's really compelling that we surround ourselves with positive people and thoughts. And that we should mentally prepare ourselves before we have any important meeting. Simply to be sure our mind is focused on positive thoughts and images.
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my daughter pretty much only likes songs from yo gabba gabba, the collected works of elizabeth mitchell (from ida, who has several albums of mellow folky kids music that are all pretty tolerable), and the kids album my wife and i recorded for her before she was born
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Google's Chrome grabs No. 3 browser spot from Safari
Google's Chrome overtook Apple's Safari to become the world's third-most popular browser just 16 months after its debut, a Web metrics company said Friday.
Internet Explorer (IE), meanwhile, lost almost a full percentage point in December, the latest slip in a decline that accelerated during the second half of 2009.
Chrome ended December with a share of 4.63%, according to California-based measurement firm Net Applications. Apple 's Safari, which dropped into fourth place for the first time, posted a share of 4.46%. The swap in positions came a month earlier than Computerworld 's December prediction, which had been based on a three-month gain-loss trend of the two browsers.
Chrome's December increase of 0.7 of a percentage point, the largest since Google launched the browser in September 2008, may have been partly fueled by the release three weeks ago of beta editions for Mac and Linux .
Although it fell to the No. 4 spot, Safari didn't stand still last month: It picked up 0.1 of a percentage point. Opera Software's flagship browser also gained ground in December, and accounted for 2.4% of all browsers used in the month, a record for the Norwegian-made program. However, Mozilla's Firefox lost 0.1 of a percentage point, finishing with 24.6%, delaying for at least another month the No. 2 browser's move past the 25% milestone.
As has been the trend for years, Microsoft 's IE again made the biggest move of any browser: It dropped 0.92 of a percentage point to 62.7%, a new low for the application that once held a share well north of 90%.
Even more troubling for Microsoft is IE's quickening decline. IE lost an average of 0.94 of a percentage point in each of the last six months of the year, nearly triple the 0.36 of a point average during the first six months. Notably, the slump came in the face of the availability of IE8, which went final last March, showing that -- at least so far -- Microsoft has been unable to stanch IE's losses.
Microsoft continues to make headway in its campaign to convince users to abandon the eight-year-old IE6 for IE8, however. When Net Applications accounts for IE8's "compatibility view" -- a feature that lets users display sites as rendered by the older, and often Web standard-incompatible IE6 and IE7 -- Microsoft's newest browser owned a 23.7% share, compared to IE6's 21% and IE7's 15.5% shares.
December marked the first time that IE8 was the most-used Microsoft browser. When the compatibility view data is included, IE8 accounts for 37.8% of Microsoft's total browser usage share. IE6, previously Microsoft's No. 1 edition, fell to the second spot with 33.5% of IE's total.
IE7's number fell farther than IE6's last month -- the former dropped 1.3 percentage points, the latter, 1.1 points -- additional proof that IE8 has stolen much of its share from the more modern IE7. Since IE8's March launch, IE6's share has declined 10.4 points, but IE7 has lost almost twice that, falling 19.6 percentage points in the same period.
The relentless decline of IE has been a boon to rivals, of course, which have collected new users at Microsoft's expense. The shares posted by Safari, Chrome and Opera were all records, for example.
Projecting IE's slide using Net Applications' data, Computerworld now estimates that the browser will fall under the 50% share mark as early as mid-May if the dramatic negative trend of the last three months holds true.
Like Microsoft, Mozilla did a good job last month converting users to its newest browser, Firefox 3.5. Fewer than 7% of all browser users ran Firefox 3.0 in December, for example, a decline of 1.2 point2, the largest dip since September 2009. The jump in Firefox 3.5 usage may be in reaction to the impending retirement of version 3.0 later this month, when Mozilla will stop serving up security updates for the older application.
Net Applications measures browser usage share by tracking the systems used to visit the 40,000 sites it monitors for clients, which results in a pool of about 160 million unique visitors per month.
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Meditation For Beginners
When most people imagine meditation, they picture a disciplined monk sitting with legs crossed by a pond or on top of a mountain, with a profound yet solemn look on their face. This is, in fact, one form of meditation. But it is certainly not the only way to meditate. If you’re a beginner at meditation it can seem rather confusing at first. There are many types of meditation, and it’s done for many reasons: as part of a religion, as a form of stress reduction/relaxation, or simply to feel more focused and balanced in body and mind. It’s difficult to know where to start. However, I’m going to take you through some of the basics in this article to help you begin. It will be the non-religious form of meditation I will describe here.
What is meditation? Essentially it’s a state of consciousness that you can learn to enter with practice, in which you are still awake and aware, but your thoughts and emotions are calmer. It should leave you feeling more serene, better able to cope with stress, and perhaps even happier. People have been meditating for at least 3000 years, and probably a lot longer. Meditation can be like an exercise program that you do regularly to remain healthy, or an ‘emergency’ method that you can use when stressed or angry, to regain balance. Whatever you’re using it for, if you’re a beginner, have patience with yourself as meditation can take a lot of self-discipline and practice to become good at.
Meditation usually works by re-focusing your attention away from your thoughts and on to something repetitive such as a word that you repeat, or your breathing. Oftentimes our minds can be like a room full of bells, of all shapes and sizes. If one bell starts to ring, it sets off another, which then sets off another, and so on. It’s the same with our thoughts, even when we are sitting quietly, doing nothing, our minds are constantly wandering from one thought to another, almost chaotically. You think of something, which may trigger an emotion or another thought, which then triggers another emotion or thought, and so on. Meditation aims to calm down this constant mental noise. Stopping all your mental ‘bells’ from ringing so loudly!
Of course, it’s impossible to completely stop having these random thoughts and emotions, so meditation aims to help you minimise them by becoming less attached and involved with them. The process can be compared to looking down a busy street. You watch, you see people walking, but you just watch the street as a whole and let the people pass right on by. This is exactly how you should treat your thoughts. You are aware of them, but you don't pay them any specific attention. You just let them happen.
Beginning meditation is pretty easy. Just follow these steps:
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Sit down somewhere quiet with no distractions. Get into a comfortable, upright posture, where you can be relaxed, but won’t fall asleep.
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Try to get your breathing into a slow and regular rhythm.
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Focus your attention on your breathing. Feel the air enter your nostrils and move down to your lungs, then out through your mouth. Don’t try to control it too much, just let your body take over and observe.
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Similarly, just passively observe your thoughts as they occur. Don’t be drawn into thinking or feeling emotions about them. Don’t think, just observe them appear and disappear. If you find yourself getting drawn into thinking about something, be patient with yourself, try to let go of the thought and refocus on your breathing.
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Try to keep going for at least ten minutes. Longer if possible, but don’t worry if you can’t keep going for longer when you are just beginning. It takes time to build up this skill. At the beginning, set an alarm for ten minutes, then you don’t even need to think about keeping track of the time.
As you progress from a beginner to a more experienced meditator, you’ll find it easier to enter into this state, and over time you should feel an increased sense of calm and well-being. Please email me with your experiences of learning to meditate!
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Five things I love: Heidi Klein
Heidi Klein has joined IndyVet Emergency and Specialty Hospital, formerly Indianapolis Veterinary and Emergency Center and Indianapolis Veterinary Referral as a veterinary ophthalmologist. She assists general practice veterinarians in treating animals for diseases such as glaucoma, cataracts, dry eye and much more. For the past seven years, the specialist has feasted her own eyes on vegan food.
1. Pogue's Run Grocer (2828 E. 10th St.). This cute little co-op grocery store has the best deli sandwiches. I love the Rambo sandwich, a vegan version of a Reuben, with warm homemade seitan, sauerkraut, vegan cheese and Thousand Island dressing. Its soups rotate and are always good.
2. Spice Nation (4225 Lafayette Road). Indian food buffets have always been a favorite of mine, and Spice Nation's all-vegetarian offerings are the best I've had. The selection is always plentiful and theme-based. Saturday night is southern Indian, and Thursday night is all vegan. Made-to-order potato-filled dosas are brought to your table along with bread. The staff is friendly and will help you navigate unfamiliar territory.
3. Duo's Food Truck and Kitchen (2960 N. Meridian St.). I never leave Duo's unsatisfied. It makes yummy, fresh and often local healthy food. The latest amazing dish was fried green tomato TLT (tofu, lettuce, and tomato) with decadent greens. You can finish it off with my favorite delicious dessert - the magic cookie bar.
4. Sesame Chinese (1413 W. 86th St.). I have been eating at this restaurant (previously known as Cheng Du) for more than 18 years, and it's not just nostalgia that brings me back. Even though the vegetarian Kung Pao chicken isn't on the menu, they will make vegetarian versions of any meat dish with tofu or wheat gluten. This place is incredibly fast, friendly and inexpensive, and I've never had a limp piece of broccoli there.
5. Broad Ripple Farmers Market (1115 Broad Ripple Ave.). I can't think of a better way to spend a Saturday morning than walking around the farmers market gathering local tomatoes, beets, kale, corn and other goods for the week's meals. Amelia's has tasty bread you can sample before picking a loaf to take home. I never leave without a creamy avocado frozen treat from Nicey's.
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Heidi Klein has joined IndyVet Emergency and Specialty Hospital, formerly Indianapolis Veterinary and Emergency Center and Indianapolis Veterinary Referral as a veterinary ophthalmologist.
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Josie da Bank
The festival lifestyle runs in the da Banks blood. Josie's husband, BBC Radio 1 DJ and Bestival founder Rob da Bank, proposed to Josie at Glastonbury in 2000. Before that they’d been to the festival every year since they’d met aged 18 at Goldsmiths in London, where she was studying fine art and textiles and he was studying French.
When Rob started his end of the weekend club night Sunday Best in 1995, it was natural that his art graduate girlfriend would help out by drawing peace signs interspersed by pictures of their mates on flyers and banners. And when he released his first compilation on Sunday Best Recordings she did the cover. A perfect marriage of music and art was formed.
The public lapped up Josie’s work and commissions for large canvases rolled in including one for singer Dido and her brother Rollo which told the story of their songs in Josie-style images. And when they took Sunday Best to Ibiza in 2002 her designs adorned beach umbrellas and deck chairs. In fact they proved to be so popular that they had to be chained down to stop them from being stolen.
Sunday Best was the breeding ground for Josie’s organisational skills. She made cakes, concocted cocktails, introduced fancy dress and created ice fountains. Spurred by the club’s success, she opened Cocomo in 2000 - one of the first hip bars in Shoreditch - designing the space and cocktail menu. So when the da Banks had the idea at Glastonbury 2003 to start a festival, it was obvious that Josie would produce the show.
Josie's illustrated hippie chic world of Bestival appears on everything from adverts to the website to hand-drawn Christmas gift cards and kids’ t-shirts. Her responsibilities as producer and creative director of Bestival run from mundane decisions about toilets and how to save money on ferries to devising fantastic areas to hang out on site. It’s Josie’s job to make the Bestival experience ingenious and she loves sourcing interesting places to stay like yurts, teepees, pod pads, beach huts and her own tents furnished with double beds and bed linen.
This glam camping aspect of Bestival prompted her to set up marquee company Bollywood Tents with her best friend Natasha Hill. The tents are sumptuous velvet affairs designed by Josie and embroidered and sequined in Jaipur, India.
The web chat is now closed but you can see the full transcript from it below.
The line up for Bestival 2011 includes The Cure, Bjork, Pendulum and Primal Scream. For a family-friendly version of Bestival, parents and their kids can buy tickets for Camp Bestival, running at the end of this month - for updates, follow @campbestival on Twitter.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — As Wednesday's game between the Orlando Magic and the Portland Trail Blazers approached, Dwight Howard spent part of his time in the Pacific Northwest on the campus of adidas' North America headquarters.
During his visit to the adidas campus, Howard and company officials talked about their plans for All-Star Weekend in Orlando on Feb. 24-26. Howard said there would be "some kind of big celebration in Orlando for all the fans down there."
"We're looking forward to having something crazy," Howard added later. "I can't tell you guys right now, but it's going to be fun."
Famous Blazer
Dave Twardzik, the Magic's assistant general manager, did not join the Magic on their road trip — he was in Ogden, Utah — but he still had a presence inside the Rose Garden on Wednesday.
Twardzik was a member of the 1976-77 Trail Blazers team that won the franchise's lone NBA title.
And his jersey number, 13, has been retired and hangs from the Rose Garden rafters.
The Blazers won their title during Stan Van Gundy's senior year of high school.
"I will admit that I was more focused on Bill Walton than I was on Dave at the time," Van Gundy joked. "I grew up in California. I was a huge UCLA fan, so obviously Walton was a hero.
"I remember the entire team. I remember how they played. I think that was one of the great teams, probably, in NBA history in terms of the way they played and moved the ball and played through Walton in the high post. I thought it was a great, great team to watch."
In addition to Twardzik and Walton, that team included Maurice Lucas, Lionel Hollins and Johnny Davis, who went on to become a Magic head coach.
Tough town
Howard and other Magic players said the Rose Garden is one of the toughest venues in the NBA for a visiting team.
"They always play good at home," Howard said.
"This is one of the toughest places to play. But it's also a fun place to play. I love how the fans are here. I have some great memories here even though we've been on the losing end coming up here. But it's always fun to play here for some reason."
Layups
• Magic small forward Quentin Richardson was not expected to play Wednesday. Richardson continues to be bothered by an injured left ankle and a skin problem on his foot from his attempt to treat the injury. Van Gundy said Richardson could return for Monday's game against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
• The Magic had not played on Monday or on Tuesday. The Blazers had played Tuesday night. Howard said he wasn't sure if the Magic's rest would be an advantage or a disadvantage.
• The first balloting update for the All-Star Game is scheduled to be released today.
• Van Gundy raved about the play of Blazers power forward LaMarcus Aldridge. Van Gundy said Aldridge is "one of the most underrated guys in the league" and deserves to be an All-Star. "You don't see many people affecting his shot very much," Van Gundy said. "You don't want to give him anything real easy. You don't want to give it to him open. You want to try to get into his space a little bit, and you want to do it without fouling him."
• Van Gundy is pleased by the effort of swingman Von Wafer, who scored 12 points in Sunday's win in Sacramento and is about to finish his first month as a member of the Magic. "He's probably our best guy on our roster at being able to create his own shot of the perimeter guys, and he's bringing us good energy," Van Gundy said. "He's still got a long ways to go defensively, but what I'm seeing is a guy who really wants to do it and is making a great effort to do it. So, yeah, we'd like to keep playing him."
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Respect
As an atheist, I end up in alot of religious debates. These can go any number of ways, usualy depending on how much alcohol has been consumed.
For the most part they are usually mild mannered musings on the nature of life, the universe and everything (sadly it isnt 42).
Other times they can be quite heated debates where I openly share my opinions on organised religion in all its forms.
One thing I do come up against on a regular basis is the concept of Respect.
You see for most of us raised in the western world, we are taught that we should respect someone's beliefs. That everyone has the right to believe in whatever or whomever he or she wishes.
And hey, it's a pretty good idea right?
As any atheist will no doubt tell you, we are a minority. Compared to the likes of the major religions with literally billions of followers. Which means that any atheist, brave enough to enter into a religous debate is probably going to be out numbered.
As a result we have to be very careful how we speak to people. Using the line 'I may not agree with your beliefs, but i do respect them' is something alot of us will have had to say.
But there-in lies my problem. I dont respect those religions.
I do believe in a persons right to have faith in anything they like. If someone decided to worship the cast of Friends as the holy 6, I would think they're probably fecking mental, but you work away and have fun!
Thing is, people have never really 'chosen' a religion to follow. They follow the religion of their parents, or the state, or thier friends. Organised religion is and always has been the worst case or peer pressure ever to exist. I mean sure, people leave a religion as I did, or choose a different one to stand out from the crowd. But in the scheme of things how offen does that really happen?
So my 'respecting' a choice they never really had to begin with is, in my mind, a moot point.
As for respecting the religion itself?
Well I would be here for a long long long time telling you whats wrong with that.
Suffice it to say, there is no religion, creed, faith, cult, club or organisation in existance today that is 'pure'. They are simply man made ways for us flawed human beings to cope with a world we do not understand.
As someone who had left these behind me I do not feel the 'gaping hole' in my soul that people talk so much about. To the contrary.
I feel free. And it is that freedom that I wish for every human alive. I can only hope that one day our simple race will let its mind grow beyond the boundaries of superstitions and embrace our lives for the magnificent things they are.
Until that day I will not respect any faith system that rejects free thinking.
This is not a rant, this not a teaching, this is my opinion. I dont ask you to agree with me, just keep an open mind.
I think you are placing yourself at a disadvantage by respecting their beliefs in the first place. That puts you in a position of accepting anti-intellectualism. As for being at a numbers disadvantage, there are 850 million atheists, agnostics, non-believers, and secularists world wide and growing. (http://atheistempire.com/reference/stats/main.html) . Things aren't as lonely out there as you think. Don't think you're the under dog, constantly having to prove yourself.... but rather the up and coming heavyweight champion of the world. Maintain your beliefs as an intellectual fortress and don't feel you have to give ground to people who choose only to arm themselves with cognitive dissonance, unreason, and personal opinions disguised as faith.
My mind has a height requirement, those under 10 commandments may not enter.
Individuals deserve a certain amount of respect, but ideas do not. An idea must be worthy of respect in order to receive it. If someone cannot handle an honest critique of his or her beliefs and ideas, then that person should keep those ideas to themselves and not get involved in debates to begin with.
Nice comment, Deb. Honestly I wouldn't care to have respect handed to my beliefs. The problem is that in our current society it is taboo to speak of the ills of religion while the bashing of secularism based on arguments from ignorance hardly seems to draw a red flag.
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From Trash to Treasure with Compost
Throughout the Gerson Kitchen Video Series I mention the term “compost”. Usually, I use it in regards to food scraps, or what some may call waste. If you’re on the Gerson Therapy, or someone who happens to cook or juice regularly, you likely find yourself getting rid of quite a bit of produce each week, whether it be the rough ends of produce items, pieces that have gone bad, coffee grounds, or lots and lots of juice pulp. But these scraps certainly deserve to be treated better than waste, as they have the potential to become part of the healthiest soil you have ever seen.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) estimates that “more food reaches landfills and incinerators than any other single material in our everyday trash, about 21 percent of the waste stream. Reducing food waste will help the United States address climate change, as 20 percent of total U.S. methane emissions come from landfills.” Food waste is a huge issue, now more than ever, and we have a big opportunity to help the problem, rather than contributing to it.
These scraps should be helping you heal by replenishing your soil rather then being added to a landfill somewhere. So what exactly is compost, and how does it help YOU? Webster’s dictionary defines compost, the noun, as “a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land”. In other words, compost is unused food and organic material broken down into fertile dirt. Compost is one of the most valuable resources we have because it not only contains essential nutrients that our plants need, but it allows soil to hold more moisture, in turn improving soil structure and preventing soil erosion.
So how do you actually turn your trash into treasure by composting? Follow these 6 easy steps!
Choose an Area
Pick a part of your yard, preferably on grass or soil, to designate as space for your compost. Make sure it’s not near anything combustible and that it’s not too close to the house (can attract bugs)
A compost tumbler
Choose a Container
Composting can be done:
Simply in an open pile. Place sticks and twigs at the bottom to define the pile and help air flow through the bottom of your compost pile (at least 3 x 3 ft.)
By purchasing a compost bin or tumbler from garden or hardware stores (even some big box hardware stores carry them)
By building your own. Drill a few holes in the bottom and sides of a plastic storage bin.
Use the Right Ratio
Compost piles need a certain ratio of carbon (“browns”) to nitrogen (“greens”) in order to heat up properly and attract the microorganisms that really supercharge the breakdown process. Typically this means 3 times as much “browns” as “greens”.
Combine “Browns” and “Greens”
Now that you have a designated space, a container, and your “browns” and “greens”, it’s time to stop tossing out produce and start saving them! We recommend a small tub or 5 gallon bucket to keep in your kitchen (you can get these online, at garden supply stores, nurseries, or hardware stores).
Once your indoor bucket is full of “greens”, take it outside and dump it into your compost bin/pile.
Then, simply cover with whatever “browns” you have around. It’s good practice to keep a separate pile of “browns” nearby for easy grabbing each time you dump your indoor bin.
Add 3 times more “brown” items than “green” items, and ensure that the “brown” is covering the “green”. This will help prevent major smalls and also helps to deter pests.
Check Your Compost
We recommend turning or flipping your compost pile at least once every two weeks in order to make sure oxygen regularly reaches each part of the compost pile. Second, it is recommended that compost piles be kept moist, which means occasionally watering your pile during dry stretches.This process can be continued indefinitely, but over time a second compost bin/pile may be needed. This will allow the first bin to sit and break down while you work on filling the second bin.
As the old adage goes, “compost happens”. Regardless of your level of mastery of composting technique, a pile of food scraps mixed with some “browns” will inevitably compost into good soil; it just takes time! Your compost should appear to be dark, crumbly, earthy smelling dirt, usually filled with lots of worms!
Plant seeds in finished compost and feed your current plants with the finished product by simply scattering handfuls of compost near the plant’s base. Give them a bit of water and sunlight, and soon you’ll be eating fruits and veggies grown in compost made from your (previously unwanted) food scraps – it’s pretty magical! Use this compost to amend areas of your yard lacking in fertility or nutrition.
As Dr. Gerson said in his book, A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases, “the soil must be regarded as our external metabolism”, and he continues by saying “the soil must be cared for properly and must not be depleted or poisoned”.
Caring for and improving the health of our soil not only will help give life to healthier, stronger plants, but in turn will lead to healthier, stronger people.
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The Hobbit Trilogy’s Dragon hitches a ride on Air New Zealand to LA premiere
The Hobbit Trilogy’s mythical Dragon Smaug has taken his maiden flight with Air New Zealand this morning, swooping into Los Angeles ahead of today’s global premiere of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures.
Air New Zealand, the official airline of Middle-earth, has transformed a Boeing 777-300 aircraft – emblazoning the 177 foot-long Dragon on both sides. The aircraft is the only place the film’s Smaug has ever been shown in his entirety. It touched down at Los Angeles airport this morning in time for the premiere of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second film in The Hobbit Trilogy, which will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood this evening.
The first film in The Hobbit Trilogy, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, teasingly featured just Smaug’s eye, leaving it to fans to imagine for themselves how the iconic Dragon might look in filmmaker Peter Jackson’s mind’s eye.
Air New Zealand Chief Executive Officer Christopher Luxon says the airline has been in discussions for some time around permission to feature Smaug on the ‘flying billboard’ ahead of the film’s official release. “For our partners to allow Air New Zealand to reveal their star exclusively to the world ahead of the movie premiere and theatrical release in ten days is a huge privilege. We worked with the digital effects company behind The Hobbit Trilogy, Weta Digital, and they designed the graphic for us especially for this purpose.”
This is the second 777-300 inspired by The Hobbit films in the Air New Zealand fleet. The first was unveiled last year to coincide with the launch of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and has been wowing fans around the world since. Both aircraft will operate on the Auckland-Los Angeles-London route.
Director of The Hobbit Trilogy, Sir Peter Jackson, says seeing his creation on such a massive scale touch down in Los Angeles is a proud moment. “Seeing Smaug fly off the big screen and into the skies is pretty exciting. The first Air New Zealand aircraft features various characters from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and it’s extremely impressive, but I think Smaug running the entire length of the aircraft is even more awe-inspiring. We’re proud to debut him here in New Zealand, where our team has worked so hard to bring him to life.”
Visual Effects Supervisor Eric Saindon of Weta Digital says designing a graphic which not only fits with Peter Jackson’s creative vision but also meets the various specifications required to fit on an aircraft was no mean feat.
“Capturing Smaug’s presence and the amazing detail in his design while accommodating the windows, doors and wing shape was quite a different experience for us,” said Saindon. “It was great to see Smaug brought to life, and he appears even larger in the film!”
As part of its global marketing campaign around The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the airline has also released a video entitled Just another day in Middle-earth, which features staff from across its business, with a magical Hobbit movie-inspired twist. The video has been viewed online 1.5 million times in less than two weeks.
Note the date on this article may be incorrect due to importing it from our old system.
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8 steps to adding a skill to your tool box
Learning new skills is important for advancing in the business world, but you should make sure you have chosen an attainable goal and you are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve it, experts say. "Many people implicitly believe that if you have to work hard at something, it means you lack ability. This is rubbish," Joseph Weintraub of Babson College says. You can determine how best to learn an ability by examining the techniques that have worked for you in the past, motivational psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson says.
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Smart Contracts in the International Legal Space
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Inthis article, we will consider the approaches of some states to the formation of a system of legal regulation of new technologies — smart contracts and blockchain technology. We would like to note that not all countries of the world have legislatively fixed these terms, and also not all countries of the world have defined the procedure for concluding smart contracts, resolved the issue of recognizing their legal force and the possibility of using such contracts as evidence in resolving court disputes.
In the article, we will pay special attention to the legal regulation of this problem in the legislation of Italy as a state, which was one of the first in the world to legally define smart contracts and distributed registry technology, as well as determine the procedure for concluding contracts.
The article indicates the directions in which the legislation on smart contracts and distributed registry technologies in different countries can be further developed, namely: amending the legislation on electronic commerce, on contracts, on information technologies, adoption of an independent regulatory legal act that regulated would be the given sphere of legal relations. At the same time, the most promising is the change in legislation on electronic commerce and contracts….
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Anyone who had hoped for a different result in May’s election will be highly disappointed, a disappointment compounded when Gove was appointed the new justice secretary. It says a lot about Cameron when he chooses someone who failed so miserably at education to head up Justice. Does that not show exactly how important he, Cameron, rates Justice.
I suppose with less than a month in post it would be unfair to judge the new Justice Secretary but one thing is for sure and that is that the relentless march to privatisation will go ever onward, despite the total failure of the privatisation of the probation service.
It’s hard to comment about nothing but so far thatis all thsat has come out of MoJ, a big fat void, I suppose it is a case of wait and see but meantime what rot is setting in?
The penal system cannot be left to fester what is needed is total radical reform from top to bottom looking at the system in its entirety not just piecemeal sections. Someone has to say what its purpose is and once that question is answered the Government of the day need to make it fit for purpose which it cetainly isn’t at present.
Dave Hardwick, Author of A LIFE OF SENTENCESavailable now from Olympia Publishers or Amazon.co.uk or all good book shops
I honestly believe that The Christian Community could play such an important part in prison reform. In my book A LIFE OF SENTENCES I tell how being involved with the Chaplaincy in Lincoln Prison helped me to find a new sense of peace and direction and come to a realisation of what had been driving me for a good many years.
There wasn’t a lot pf preaching other than the usual church services but there was great amount of unconditional love and acceptance and to someone who had a criminal past like my own it meant so very much and encouraged me to look at life with a far more open and unrestricted view.
The reality is that if we all applied true Christian principles to those we come to know as offenders both they and we will benefit greatly.
There is a great deal of misunderstanding in my view about what it means to be a good Christian and much of that is down to the doctrine of the church who for some reason seem to want to convince us that it is a restrictive club. It isn’t and whoever you are you are welcome on my Christian Community.
I have been let down many times by the church but that is about the weakness of the church, not of Christianity and faith.
We are constantly faced with endless statistics about the failings of the whole theatre of penal affairs but what does this constant airing of facts really mean? We all, apart from those with their heads totally in the clouds, know that there is a major crisis and that it is very quicklt getting worse yet nothing seems to be happening about it.
Clearly there is no political will to sort out the mess, this government’s will is elsewhere, namely the creation of profitable contracts for the companies supported by the Tories.
Before any actions can be taken there must be a total change in the mindset of those responsible. They must ask the question “Does prison in its present format work?” Very clearly this is a complex question and before it can be answered we first have to decide what prison is for, what are the aims and goals. There is in my submission just one area where prison does work and that is where it is used purely to detain those who are a genuine danger to the community and for whom there is no other answer. It has to be said though that this group form a very small, and I mean very small, percentage of the population.
Prison certainly doesn’t rehabilitate in any form, it doesn’t act as a deterrent except to very few first time offenders and it certainly doesn’t punish so in effect we have a very expensive system which achieves very, very little.
It is therefore essential that the future must be addressed by looking at the whole penal theatre and taking some very radical decisions based on reality and not using prisons as a political football and the cinderella of social services.
Change is desperately needed NOW!!!!
We all know how accurate Graylings statement that there is no crisis within the system is so it’s very hard to understand all the individual reports which appear in the media on an almost daily basis of violence, drugs abuse et al.
In fact the reality is that the crisis is being caused not by Grayling but by George Osborne with his swingeing cuts to the prisons budget along with everything else. Grayling simply is incapable of managing the prisons with these reduced fundings.
Plus of course where he should be spending time on managing the not fit for urpose system he in fact spends most of his time trying to develop contracts for G4S and Serco and companies like them thereby as ever putting profits before people. Obviously that is the Tory mantra which is why it is so important that they don’t succeed next May.
The prison system needs a radical overhaul top to bottom. Firstly ALL privatised establishments must be taken back into the puiblic domain. They don’t work and never will simply because their motivation is wrong, once again profits before people, that is just morally wrong and can never be justified.
Secondly there must be no more superprison complexes built. They have also been proven not to work, a prisoner is not a commodity to be stored in a warehouse. He/she is a person, an individual, a son or a daughter, a member of a family, whatever has caused them to be in custody cannot change that fact and to make any inroads into the prison population the problems of the individual must be addressed, not compartmented and forgotten.
Of course the greatest reduction in the prison population will need to be made outside of the system, making better assessments of what has caused the offending in the first place and doing something about it. Meantime for the sake of the whole of society we alll have to be more caring and at least try to show more understanding.
Yesterday I posted a blog about Nottingham Prison. The piece was a very short blog reacting to earlier reports of the Prisons Inspectorate published earlier in the day and necessarily was brief and to the point.
I would just like to expand a couple of the points I made.
Firstly I commented that staff need to be retrained to adopt new attitudes towards inmates. I need I think to make it clear that I wasn’t being critical of the staff per se, rather of the situation they find themselves in. Working, as they do in a highly charged and potentially dangerous environment it is natural that this reflects on their feelings and emotions, no matter how professional and dedicated they try to be self preservation and protection will be the overriding feature of their personalities. This is both natural and understandable.
The problems at Nottingham rest fairly and squarely with the National Offender Management Unit who have reduced staffing levels to such an extent that the prison just cannot function as it should and this leads to all kinds of problems.
Any prison is an isolated microcosm of the society in which it is based and Nottingham seems to suffer a lot from the gang culture in the city itself. That culture has permeated the prison population with the result that instead of consisting of individual inmates the prison is overrun with small but dangerous groups of guys replicating their gang loyalties from outside, clearly where there are insufficient security staff to manage this the problem simply increases.
Added to that there is the major problem of the drugs culture inside. The easiest place in the country to get hold of drugs is in a prison, that is a fact not fiction. Because of the tension in prison many previously clean guys become addicted to drugs in one form or another whilst serving a sentence. Demand builds up as a factor in everyday prison life and where there is demand there will always be those willing to supply. That leads, as in outside society to drug wars and to bullying with the most vulnerable soon falling to the bottom of the pile.
Nottingham is failing, is not fit for purpose and the only answer is to drastically increase staff levels to allow those dedicated and professional staff to regain control of the establishment so that it can once again become a positive and thriving part of the prisons estate. Once again this all illustrates that to succeed the authorities must put people before profits.
The population in Nottingham needs to be drastically reduced to allow the work it should be doing with offenders to be carried out in humane, clean and civilised premises.
A new report published this week paints a very dismal picture of Nottingham Prison claiming it is dangerous with many incidents of violence, staff assaults,hostage situations amongst other things.
None of this surprises me and it is a situation which can only get worse.
All the prisons I have experience of seem to have a community feel to them where there exists at least a minimal feeling that staff are interested. For some reason this has never existed at Nottingham, rather it is a very cold and bland community. It is far too fragmented to achieve anything. Certainly there can be no legitimate claim that there is any attempt at all to rehabilitate.
The main reason for that has always been that Nottingham is very much a transit prison where men arrive
from the courts to be allocated to where they will actually serve their sentence, there just isn’t time for any rehab work to take place.
Of course the staffing levels are a huge problem. Staff have been cut so far that it has now reached the stage where what few staff there are are hard pressed to maintain good order and discipline. It just can’t work and the prison department are kidding themselves if they think a new governor and management team will make any difference.
What is needed and the only thing which will have any effect at all is a huge improvment in staff levels and a radical in training in staff attitudes.
Tragic to read of yet another prison suicide, so un-necassary if only the courts would seek more information before committing vulnerable people to remand in custody.
I have a great deal of front line experience in dealing with suicides in prisons having for years served as a voluntary mentor for vulnerable prisoners both on an informal basis and formally, after training, as a Listener. I have also attended a conference on the subject whilst I was in custody so I do know what I am talking about.
Seemingly strong people can be broken down emotionally by the experience of custody, it doesn’t just affect the obviously vulnerable.
When a guy, or girl, is faced, as many remand prisoners are, with a situation which is alien and fearful to them they are already vulnerable but then add the uncertainty of what is facing them and they in most cases become an acute suicide risk. It only takes the feeling of otal isolation to tip them over the edge. Sadly there is no solution to this problem which is likely to get worse.
It certainly is totally inadequate to simply ask an inmate on reception if he has any record of self harm. Far more thorough assessment is necessary but of course a thorough assessment requires staff and the prisons are so short staffed at present that that will never happen.
When a suicide occurs it has a huge effect on the establsihment it has occurred in. The prison/YOI goes straight into lockdown causing even more tension throughout. The staff dealing with it on many occasions are deeply traumatised, and that is just inside the establishment.
The MoJ must put more effort into addressing the problem, it is very serios and tragic in evey respect and will not be helped by constantly reducing staff levels nor building giant superprisons which are little more than holding warehouses for offenders.
I actually describe what it is like to find a prisoner attempting to hang himself in my book A LIFE OF SENTENCES and believe me it is not a pleasant experience.
A LIFE OF SENTENCES available as a paperback from Amazon or Olympia Publishers.com or as an e book for Kindle also from Amazon
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Assistant principal Joseph Robertson, left, and principal Eric McDowell stand at the entrance of North Creek High, the new Northshore School District building scheduled to open in Sept. 2017. JOHN WILLIAM HOWARD/Bothell-Kemore Reporter
Welcome to North Creek High: Northshore’s gem opens to the public
The Bothell community will get an initial look at North Creek High, Northshore School District’s sparkling new high school on Monday, Nov. 21. The ribbon cutting and open house, scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m., will allow onlookers to tour the school and learn about some of the facility’s fascinating features.
Built to house 1,600 students as Northshore transitions to a four-year high school model, North Creek High alleviates overcrowding district-wide. North Creek will help to balance student numbers at the three existing high schools, and is the first new comprehensive high school in the district since Woodinville High was opened in 1983.
Joseph Robertson, the school’s assistant principal, said he’s seen community members peering in the windows of the school, eager for a peek inside.
“There have been a couple times where we’ve had student groups up here, looking at furniture,” he said. “Once they see the school, then they say, ‘Oh, I want to go to North Creek.’”
But the school is about much more than simply shuffling students and balancing class sizes.
North Creek is already a leader in green design and integrated technology, and comes as a major breath of fresh air to educational philosophy.
“We really wanted students and staff to see the whole building as an instructional classroom,” district deputy superintendent Carolyn O’Keeffe said. “That was huge for us. Collaboration really was a focal point. We know kids and staff learn best in teams, and that’s how they’re going to get jobs and work in the 21st century.”
Among the more striking features of the building’s design is a classroom essentially open to the hallway. The classrooms don’t really have doors, but rather a wall that folds away and allows the learning space to spill outward.
Small glass rooms dot the hallway, an area staff refers to as “collaboration cubes.” They look a little like glass elevators, but the cubes allow a group of students to work together in an isolated environment on special projects.
Students can even write on the glass walls — a feature common in many of the classrooms.
“The idea is that we’re trying to use architecture and design to change the nature of teaching and learning,” said Eric McDowell, the North Creek principal. “While the music rooms and the gym are amazing and cool, and the library is incredible and the cafeteria is incredibly beautiful, the who thing is about having a better experience with kids.”
The project was funded by a $177.5 million bond passed in 2014, which also helped to complete the final phase of Woodinville High School. Not only is the project finished ahead of schedule — completion was expected in summer of 2017 — but district officials say the contractor is likely to finish under budget
The school itself is visually striking. The building was designed to let in as much natural light as possible, with massive windows and little need for lights during the day.
The gym is large and bright, with a 14-foot LED screen on each of the four walls. The screens will be used as multipurpose scoreboards and during assembly presentations.
The glass-walled library dominates the east end of Building One, which houses the administrative offices, a clinic and classrooms. The library doesn’t have security gates and many books will be kept in the hallway, using an honor system to get books back from students.
Stopped in for a tour of North Creek HS today. This is the auditorium, which can be set up 4 different ways. pic.twitter.com/XSQB7awEvL
Among the unique art department features is a multipurpose theater, where the seats can be expanded or collapsed for different seating configurations. Technically, the theater is state-of-the-art.
The cafeteria, though, is at the heart of the awe-inspiring design features.
‘Home of the JAGUARS,’ the school’s mascot, is visible in massive letters through the glass walls of the commons. Lights hang at odd heights from the ceiling, and large wooden pillars — reclaimed when on-site trees were cut down during construction — still drip sap near the northern edge of the room.
A 19-foot LED screen hangs on the Western wall. McDowell and Robertson say they plan to use the screen during community meetings, business conferences and for student announcements, and that the LED system didn’t cost any more than a pull-down screen and projector.
Each classroom has an LED screen instead of a blackboard or smartboard, and utilizes LED lighting to cut down on energy costs. The school also harnesses several green energy sources, with solar panels on the roof and a geothermal heating and cooling system.
The campus also includes a multipurpose athletic field with a track, baseball and softball fields, tennis courts and a JV soccer field. Athletes will be among the first to use the North Creek campus, as future Jaguars can begin lifting in January and the North Creek weight room is expected to open before spring arrives. Practices for 2017 fall sports — including the inaugural North Creek football season — begins June 1.
North Creek will have freshmen, sophomores and juniors during its first academic year, pulling mainly from Skyview Junior High. The athletic teams will all compete at the varsity level, and are expected to join the Class 4A KingCo division along with the other Northshore School District programs.
A large wetland area dominates the land at the front of the North Creek campus, and will be a living lab for biology students. The campus is designed to allow the maximum amount of natural light and offers panoramic views of the surrounding natural areas from the two-story library at the school’s entrance. JOHN WILLIAM HOWARD/Bothell-Kenmore Reporter
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Chevrolet Performance is showing off the new LT4 crate engine in the most attractive way possible - under the hood of a classic 1970 Camaro RS. The concept vehicle was introduced at the 2015 SEMA Show, in Las Vegas.
As the supercharged 6.2L heart of the Corvette Z06, the LT4 is rated at 650 horsepower and 650 lb-ft of torque, making it the most powerful production-vehicle engine ever from General Motors. The new crate engine - offered in dry-sump and wet-sump versions - allows builders to use the high-tech performance engine in their hot rod projects.
To harness the power of the supercharged powertrain, the concept's chassis and suspension systems have been upgraded with an independent front suspension with coil-overs and a rack-and-pinion steering system, as well as a four-link rear suspension, also with coil-overs. It rides on a set of 19-inch polished aluminum wheels and stops with the assistance of Corvette Z06-based front and rear disc brake kits developed as upgrades for the Stingray.
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No big glitches reported at L.A. airports on Christmas Day
Traveling on Christmas Day turned out to be a good idea this year -- at least for passengers flying through Los Angeles area airports.
The rain took the day off locally and, airport officials said, weather on the East Coast wasn't bad enough to delay flights out of Los Angeles International or Ontario airports.
Delta Airlines had recommended that passengers planning to fly to or through its hub in Atlanta and five East Coast cities rebook because of bad weather in those cities. But Delta flights were taking off from LAX and Ontario without a hitch, said airports spokesman Harold Johnson.
An estimated 120,000 travelers were expected to pass through LAX on Christmas Day, a slight increase over last year, he said.
The busiest holiday travel days were expected to be Christmas Eve and Jan. 2, with flights those days almost 95% booked. During peak travel hours – 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.; 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. – airport officials suggest that travelers arrive two hours before domestic flights and three hours before international flights. They also recommend avoiding ticket counter lines by checking in online before heading to the airport.
Travelers also should be aware that some airlines changed terminals earlier this year. AirTran Airways and JetBlue, for instance, now operate from Terminal 3 at LAX.
Travelers can look for volunteer airport employees in red vests for assistance, and they can tune in to LAX AiRadio 530 AM for information on ground transportation transportation, parking, airline terminal locations and security. Broadcasts also are streamed at www.lawa.org/lax.
LAX also offers flight status, traffic and travel information at its Twitter page at www.twitter.com/LAX_Official and on its Facebook page at www.facebook.com/laxairport.
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Horoscope for Feb. 9-15
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
The time is now, Brave Aquarius. Be audacious about improving the big little things in your life. (That's not a typo. I did indeed use the term "big little things.") For example: Seek out or demand more engaging responsibilities. Bring your penetrating questions to sphinx-like authorities. Go in search of more useful riddles. Redesign the daily rhythm to better meet your unique needs. Refuse "necessary" boredom that's not truly necessary. Trust what actually works, not what's merely attractive. Does all that seem too bold and brazen for you to pull off? I assure you that it's not. You have more clout than you imagine. You also have a growing faith in your own power to make subtle fundamental shifts. (That's not a typo. I did indeed use the term "subtle fundamental shifts.")
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
"Love does not at first mean merging, surrendering and uniting with another person," wrote the poet Rilke, "for what would a union be of two people who are unclarified, unfinished and still incoherent?" That's an excellent meditation for you to entertain during the Valentine season, Pisces. You're in the right frame of mind to think about how you could change and educate yourself so as to get the most out of your intimate alliances. Love "is a high inducement for the individual to ripen," Rilke said, "to become something, to become a world for the sake of another person." (Thanks to Stephen Mitchell for much of this translation.)
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Your reputation is in a state of fermentation. Will this process ultimately produce the metaphorical equivalent of fine wine or else something more like pungent cheese? The answer to that question will depend on how much integrity you express as you wield your clout. Be as charismatic as you dare, yes, but always in service to the greater good rather than to self-aggrandizement. You can accomplish wonders if you are saucy and classy, but you'll spawn blunders if you're saucy and bossy.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Using a blend of warfare and diplomacy, Napoleon extended French control over much of Western Europe. In 1804, he decided to formalize his growing sovereignty with a coronation ceremony. He departed from tradition, however. For many centuries, French kings had been crowned by the Pope. But on this occasion, Napoleon took the imperial crown from Pope Pius VII and placed it on his own head. Historian David J. Markham writes that he "was simply symbolizing that he was becoming emperor based on his own merits and the will of the people, not because of some religious consecration." According to my reading of the astrological omens, Taurus, you have the right to perform a comparable gesture. Don't wait for some authority to crown you. Crown yourself.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
Have you heard the fable about the four blind men who come upon an elephant for the first time? The first man feels the tail and declares that the thing they've encountered must be a rope. The second touches one of the elephant's legs and says that they are in the presence of a tree. The third strokes the trunk and assumes it's a snake. Putting his hand on a tusk, the fourth man asserts that it's a spear. I predict that this fable will not apply to you in the coming weeks, Gemini. You won't focus on just one aspect of the whole and think it's the whole. Other people in your sphere might get fooled by shortsightedness, but you will see the big picture.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
For now, at least, your brain is your primary erogenous zone. I suspect it will be generating some of your sexiest thoughts ever. To be clear, not all of these erupting streams of bliss will directly involve the sweet, snaky mysteries of wrapping your physical body around another's. Some of the erotic pleasure will come in the form of epiphanies that awaken sleeping parts of your soul. Others might arrive as revelations that chase away months' worth of confusion. Still others could be creative breakthroughs that liberate you from a form of bondage you've wrongly accepted as necessary.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Human beings upload 300 hours of videos to YouTube every minute of every day. Among that swirling flow is a hefty amount of footage devoted exclusively to the amusing behavior of cats. Researchers estimate there are now more than two million clips of feline shenanigans. Despite the stiff competition, I suspect there's a much better chance than usual that your cat video will go viral if you upload it in the coming weeks. Why? In general, you Leos now have a sixth sense about how to get noticed. You know what you need to do to express yourself confidently and attract attention—not just in regards to your cats, but anything that's important to you.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
I know you haven't literally been wrestling and wrangling with a sweaty angel. But if I were going to tell a fairy tale about your life lately, I'd be tempted to say this: Your rumble with the sweaty angel is not finished. In fact, the best and holiest part is still to come. But right now you have cosmic permission to take a short break and rest a while. During the lull, ratchet up your determination to learn all you can from your friendly "struggle." Try to figure out what you've been missing about the true nature of the sweaty angel. Vow to become a stronger advocate for yourself and a more rigorous revealer of the wild truth.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Even if you're not an occult wizard or pagan priestess, I suspect you now have the power to conjure benevolent love spells. There's a caveat, however: They will only work if you cast them on yourself. Flinging them at other people would backfire. But if you do accept that limitation, you'll be able to invoke a big dose of romantic mojo from both your lower depths and your higher self. Inspiration will be abundantly available as you work to reinvigorate your approach to intimacy and togetherness.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Here's some advice from Scorpio writer Norman Rush: "The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading." It's understandable that a language specialist like Rush would make the final word of the previous sentence "reading." But you might choose a different word. And I invite you to do just that. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to devotedly carve out more time to do The Most Important Thing in Your Life.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Sixteenth-century Italian painter Titian was renowned for his brilliant use of color. He was also prolific, versatile and influential. In 2011, one of his paintings sold for $16.9 million. But one of his contemporaries, the incomparable Michelangelo, said that Titian could have been an even greater artist if he had ever mastered the art of drawing. It seems that Titian skipped a step in his early development. Is there any way that your path resembles Titian's, Sagittarius? Did you neglect to cultivate a basic skill that has subtly (or not so subtly) handicapped your growth ever since? If so, the coming weeks and months will be an excellent time to fix the glitch.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Our obsessive use of digital devices has diminished our power to focus. According to a study by Microsoft, the average human attention span has shrunk to eight seconds—one second less than that of a typical goldfish. I'm guessing, though, that you Capricorns will buck this trend in the coming weeks. Your ability to concentrate may be exceptional even by pre-internet standards. I hope you'll take opportunity of this fortunate anomaly to get a lot of important work and play done.
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Writers advocate official patronage of culture
ISLAMABAD: Writers and intellectuals here Thursday advocated official patronage of culture as democracy demands pro-people politics and said the intelligentsia and thinkers can awaken the people against injustices and lead society to the right direction.
Culture and art have always been the first target of the dictators to suppress voices of dissent and struggles against despotism and exploitative forces, they reminded the rulers speaking at a reception hosted for writers from Balochistan, Sindh and NWFP attending the Waris Shah national literary seminar at the Pakistan Academy of Letters.
PAL Chairman Fakhar Zaman in his presidential remarks at the seminar stressed the close proximity between culture and politics as well as the need for exchange of writersÂ’ delegations. “Inter-provincial tour is a journey of love and it will continue to promote national unity and literature,” he said.
The purpose of these tours is to promote the literature written in Pakistani languages which helps understand the literature of one another. “All provincial languages are national languages with equal esteem.”
PAL has launched several projects for the promotion of literature and inter-provincial tours are part of them, he said.
“Dictators, generals, hypocrites and drug mafia all are valued except writers and poets,” he regretted.
Dictators who ruled Pakistan for about 30 years neither tolerated dissent nor talked about culture. They rather destroyed or distorted all culture. Some writers received awards from them.
“If any writer wants to play a positive and significant role in the society he should return the awards,” he said. The hatred in Pakistan is a bane of dictatorship. “We should try to find out the solution of problems together and change this situation that has suffocated the society through dialogue and conversation.”
After these tours the committee will present suggestions which will be forwarded to Prime Minister and President who will have a dialogue with these writers who had raised their voice against the dictators.
The reception was attended by a delegation of 16 writers from Balochistan, NWFP and Sindh who have been visiting Bahawalpur, Faisalabad, Gujrat, Lahore and Multan in the Punjab, during their seven days tour.
The writers during their visit and after discussing several ideas with their counterparts in the Punjab province have prepared a plan of action which they would submit to the Academy of Letters chairman on Friday morning.
A number of guest writers spoke on the outcome of the visit during which they met common people as well as thinkers in Punjab. The writers and intellectual from Punjab they met are convinced that the small provinces were getting a raw deal.
The head of delegation Imdad Hussaini said that the new generation in Multan and Gujrat impressed him a lot. In a cultural show in Gujrat University the portrayal of vice and virtue was very impressive. He called for inclusion of young writers in these tours. The inter-provincial tours of writers will yield significant results. He read a poem in which a cloth spinner had taught him the virtue of joining things together and a labourer who had no home of his own but was building it for the other people.
Dr Fatima Hassan said she felt during the visit that the feminist movement she had worked for had permeated the thoughts of new generation. She described the tour very successful and exhorted on the exchange of ideas with women writers. She expressed her satisfaction over the fact that the new generation of writers was aware of the issues of women.
Sarwat Mohyuddin in her article on Waris Shah said that the situation for women has not changed much. She called upon the writers to highlight the sufferings and exploitation of women.
Dr Shah Mohammed Marri from Balochistan called upon the writers and intellectuals from Punjab to protect the weaker section of the smaller provinces. He said we cannot take on two jobs, of speaking to the discordant elements in their own provinces as well as engaging with the oppressing elements; the job must be left to Punjab intellectuals, he said.
Dr Marri highlighted the importance of literature in solving the conflicts and misunderstandings. He urged the writers and intellectuals of Punjab and Balochistan to think about each other. He blamed the exploitative forces for the current sorry state of affairs.
Prof Nasir Ali said many of the problems might be overcome after the frank discussions they had held both among themselves as well as with opinion leaders of the Punjab; because the people now had inkling of these problems.
Sehar Ansari said that the tour helped understand the writers of four provinces and reduced many bitter and tense feelings. He said that the tours of intellectuals and writers will bring about change.
In Altaf Ahmed Qureshi’s words, the writers have felt the futility of formulating national policies without inputs from intellectuals, writers and thinkers, and such policies if made without due consultation from the thinkers was bound to fail.
Mr Qureshi said that the members of the delegation have approved many suggestions in a committee which will be presented to PAL chairman.
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Ingram Publishing/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Concert and sports fans have long bridled at Ticketmaster's lock on the market with its fee-laden approach in a day and age when issuing a ticket can cost a concert attendee dearly.
Though concert attendance and earnings are up, Ticketmaster may be facing a formidable rival in the second-largest concert company, AEG.
As of Tuesday, Ticketmaster no longer has a grip on Minneapolis' major events venue, Target Center, which is the home of the NBA Timberwolves and WNBA Lynx.
AEG, a subsidiary of Anschutz Company in Denver, announced on Monday that it will be replacing Ticketmaster as the ticketing agency of the Target Center. AEG calls itself the nation's second-largest concert promotion and touring company and part owner of the Staples Center in Los Angeles, home of the NBA's Lakers and Clippers, WNBA's Sparks and NHL's Kings.
However, while AEG is providing tickets through its AXS online system for Target Center's future concerts and gatherings starting Tuesday, Ticketmaster is still ticketing Timberwolves and Lynx games.
Bryan Perez, AEG's president of digital, ticketing and media, said the Minnesota Timberwolves' 2012-2013 season was on sale to the public prior to AXS' announcement.
"Conversations about future seasons are taking place, but nothing has been confirmed at this time," he said.
The first question frequent concert-attendees in the Minneapolis area asked after they learned Ticketmaster was given the boot for non-sporting events was, "Will fees be lower?"
"In some instances fees will be lower and other instances fees will likely be in line with other ticketing companies," she said.
However, unlike Ticketmaster, AXS does not charge a delivery fee to customers who print their Target Center event tickets at home, which is most often criticized by consumers. Dveris said fans have been excited to learn that fee has been eliminated with AXS.
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune also points out that AXS fees are listed up front as a single fee.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Very "Reese" Peanut Butter Crunch filled Chocolate Balls
Quick and Tasty I didn't see them hand-in-hand before. I think deep-down I am snobbish when come to dessert, only attracted to complicated technique and fancy ingredients.
But I was so, so, so wrong. Well, it has taken me a few tasting to realize that.
First, one of our friends made Choco-Peanut-Rum Ball. They're done by crushing and mixing chocolate waffler, peanut and rum. "That" sound of it had horrified me. But once I tasted one, then went for another, and another... However, I was "still" skeptical with quick-n-tasty.
I love peanut butter, I love chocolate, I love "Reese"... I just luuuuuve quick-n-easy!!!
Recipe of Peanut Butter Crunch filled Chocolate Balls (yield 9 balls)
120 g dark chocolate
30 g + 20 g milk chocolate
11 or 12 pieces Digestive biscuits (if it doesn't available, those cookies for tea which don't have much sweetness nor butter flavor, and are high in fiber, may be suitable, but I haven't tested it)
2 heap spoonfuls of peanut butter
Step:
Finely chop 20 g of milk chocolate, then crush it together with the Digestive biscuits until very fine, combine with spoonfuls of peanut butter until they can come together. Taste. Shape balls to a size of small whole walnut.
Finely chop the dark chocolate and the 30 g of milk chocolate, melt them over double-boiler or very mild heat, keep stir until they melt.
Line a tray with a piece of plastic wrap or wax paper. Dip the balls into melted chocolate, then place them on the tray. Sent them to fridge for 30 minutes or until the coating sets. Enjoy!
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My place is good for couples and families (with kids). It is situated between the North and South coasts so a quick look out the window decides which way to go. Ideally positioned for walking the magnificent coastal path and near the surfing beaches of the north coast. It is in very easy reach of Helston, Falmouth and Truro. On the main bus route from Redruth to Falmouth so travel by bus, train or car is equally easy. Local amenities include a shop, pub and bakery.
A cosy and comfortable space to explore and unwind the UNESCO world heritage mine sites of west Cornwall as well as the beautiful coastline
Guests have complete use of the house and courtyard including BBQ and chiminea.
Meet guests on arrival and then leave them to chill in peace unless they require assistance
A quiet and welcoming village community makes this a charming place to live
On the main bus route from Redruth to Falmouth. Train links from Redruth to the rest of the county and beyond
Tony was very helpful and obliging. We arrived a few hours later than planned owing to dreadful traffic but he was still there to greet us and couldn't have been more welcoming. His house is comfortable, clean and well-equipped. We loved the cosy fire and the authentic feel of an old miner's cottage - original stone walls and windy stairs to the upstairs bedrooms, where we slept very soundly before going off to explore the glorious Cornish countryside and coast. Good value and very highly recommended.
DebraNovember 2016
Tony was great, very friendly and welcoming
Simon September 2016
Perfectly located central accommodation for exploring Cornwall. The cottage was well equipped and comfortable. Tony was an excellent host and went the extra mile to make us feel at home- including welcoming us with scones and clotted cream. I will definitely recommend this cottage and looking forward to coming back!
IlonkaSeptember 2016
Toni had left us a Cornish cream tea in the fridge.
BerylOctober 2016
Super, well equipped and clean cottage in a good location. Great host!
GinaOctober 2016
Tony was a great host and the house was exactly as described. I would be very happy to re-book. This was a business trip.
ChrisSeptember 2016
Great host and lovely house and location. Would definatly stay again X
EmmaSeptember 2016
A delightfully rustic cottage. Everything you need for a pleasant stay is there. Thanks Tony, for being a kind host, and for the cream tea!
VickiNovember 2016
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A beautifully appointed double en-suite room in our family home. You have your own entrance, patio and seating, shower room, and kitchenette with fridge, microwave, toaster and kettle. We respect your privacy and are hands off but friendly, approachable and always happy to help.
We are perfectly placed to explore Cornwall. Mins from the A30 and 5 min drive from the local beach, beautiful woods and golf course. Surfboards and wetsuits available to borrow.
Fluent French and Spanish spoken.
Really beautifully appointed. Egyptian cotton linen, 32" wall mounted TV, own shower room, own patio with table and chairs and own entrance.
Own entrance to self contained ensuite room.
Always someone around or contactable and very happy to help.
Overall a very pleasant experience. The hosts are very friendly and helpful. The room is very comfortable and the private entrance is ideally suited to those wanting their own space. It's also great value at the current price.
WaqasAugust 2016
We enjoyed our stay at the room at number 20 a lot! The room is cosy and arranged aesthetically, the family is obliging and so kind. Also the suggestions to discover the surrounding area like Illogan and Portreath by foot rounded our stay. We would love to come back soon!
ChristofOctober 2016
Fantastic house. I give 6 star. Definitely I'll go there next time.
GuojieAugust 2016
This is a wonderful place to stay. It has its own side entrance, a very comfortable bed, a good shower, as well as a fridge, microwave, TV and tea/coffee making facilities. It is, in essence, a self-contained flatlet. The communications with Anna were very good and Mike made me feel very welcome upon arrival. The broadband link worked well.There are some maps showing walking routes to Portreath and typed information about the area and where to find local places to eat etc. Aesthetically everything was very pleasing to the eye, clean and comfortable. Hanging out a few items of clothing on the washing line was fine. In short, everything (except the weather - I'd have liked to have sat in the garden more) was fantastic. I could not have wished for more and Mike and Anna were the perfect hosts - being available if I wanted to ask for anything, but otherwise leaving me in peace to do my own thing.
PhilipSeptember 2016
Lovely stay in Illogan, the room was excellent, facilites excellent, couldn't have asked for a better stay. I was asked if i could provide feedback to say what i felt could have been done better, i thought about this and in all honesty there is nothing i can recommend, i only stayed one night but i wished i was staying longer and would certianly stay again another time.
RichardAugust 2016
Anna and Mike are great! Our room was lovely, and we even had our own keys! We had our separate small "kitchen" with a coffee machine, milk and cereals ;) PS: Cherry on the cake
PaulAugust 2016
Anna and her husband Mike were wonderful! When we arrived we were greeted by Mike with an incredibly warm welcome which after a very long drive was lovely and much needed. They were very respectful of our space and once we'd been shown in, we were pretty much left to it unless we needed anything, in which case they were very helpful and accommodating. The room itself was very private with its own entrance and beautiful private bathroom. It was incredibly well stocked with bread, jam, butter, juice, milk and a good selection of cerials. Illogan, being reasonably central, was a perfect location for our trip as we wanted to drive out and explore Cornwall as a whole, and all of our chosen destinations (St Ives, Penzance, Lizard Point, Knightor Vinyard, Padstow, Newquay, Fowey and Eden Project) were within a hour's drive from the house. The room was exactly the place we wanted to return to after long days of driving, to kick back with a film and an enormous, fantastic portion of fish and chips from the local fish and chip shop 'Cousin Jack's'. We stopped off on the way back from somewhere in the car, but it seemed to be within a short walk from the room. Everything about a trip was exactly what we needed to get away from it all, from all the privacy we needed and wonderful room, to great pasty shop advice and friendly hosts. We would most definitely recommend this accommodation, and was great value for money. Can't fault it and can't wait to go back!
VictoriaSeptember 2016
Mike and Anna was friendly during the reservation process and communicated extremely well. They made me and my partner feel more than welcome from beginning to end. We felt we was given privacy yet our hosts was always just a call away to answer any questions or offer any help. The room was clean and the fridge, toaster, kettle and microwave was very useful for our long stay. The ensuite shower was great! Having our own parking space was very useful too. We really enjoyed our holiday in Cornwall and it was made better by spending it at Mike and Anna's room at number 20!!! Many thanks Mike and Anna.
KennethOctober 2016
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Close to the bustling town of Camborne, and within roughly half an hour drive of many others - eg. Helston, Penzance, Truro, Newquay, Falmouth, Penryn. The nearest beach at Portreath is about 10 minutes drive, lots more within 20 mins. 3 miles from Redruth & very close to Heartlands World Heritage SIte, The Pool Innovation Centre & Cornwall College.
Clean & comfortable detached Room in a family home,safe for females travelling alone - but guys are also welcome!
2 rooms available
Private room on ground floor of family house. Tea/Coffee facilities provided. TV. Shared bathroom/toilet. We have wifi so bring your laptop! Guests also welcome to use the kitchen.
I work part time so may or may not be around, but please do not be afraid to ask if you require anything or need any local information, happy to help.
Quiet area, house located at the end of a cul de sac.
Parking available on our driveway or outside the house. 15 minutes walk from train station. Local bus routes close by. Situated just off the A30 which is the main route in and out of Cornwall.
Towels will be provided.
New shower fitted 01.08.16, so please ignore negative reviews re the shower. The new one is awesome !
I was absolutely delighted with my stay at Sandy`s. The room and house was immaculate and exactly(and more) as it said on the tin. Clean, warm and very comfortable. There was even a kettle and tea/coffee in the room which was an unexpected surprise. Thank you.
AndrewApril 2016
The neighbourhood is safe and quiet and Sandy is such a lovely host. It was a very comfortable and clean place to stay. I visited a lot of Cornwall, places I had not seen before, from here, and it was always lovely to see Sandy at the end of a day's long walk or surf. I had a longer stay, of two weeks, and not did feel unhappy or uncomfortable. She even picked me up from Truro when I missed the bus! I think the best thing was Sandy leaves you to your own devises without any fuss, and is in touch with you very quickly if you need something. She is genuinely happy for you when you have enjoyed yourself. And her son is a kind person too. I would happily recommend her and her lovely home! Arhan xxx
ArhanSeptember 2016
Sandy was very welcoming and was great with showing me around her house and settling me in. My room was in a quite part of the house and was as described. Sandy was also able to securely store my bicycle which was great. My time at Sandy's house was generally pleasurable. I would recommend this house to people not allergic to cats.
NicolaOctober 2016
It was a very good place, thank you !
DamienJuly 2016
Sandy is a lovely woman, her house is spotlessly clean, room is small though more than adequate with decent bed, two comfy chairs, desk and wardrobe. Loved the coffee/tea making facilities in the bedroom and easy parking. Wifi works and Flossy the cat is a sweetheart. Oh, shower totally sucks though, with temp gauge straight in the middle, water fluctuates between blasting hot or quite cold with 20 second intervals to soap up and rinse, as it transitioning between the two extremes. Sandy did say she would be getting it fixed soon.
LoriJuly 2016
Sandy was welcoming and approachable and was kindly there to let me in. The room was as described, tidy, and sufficient for my needs. There was also a green area and park nearby which I made use of on my solitary run!
CynthiaJuly 2016
Sandy was hospitable and friendly. The description of the room was accurate in fact it was better than described. The location is residential and quiet.
JacquiMarch 2016
A very clean and quiet house. Had a great stay, very relaxed and peaceful. Thanks. Graham
GrahamJune 2016
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Cool, comfortable room with a TV, wifi, tea and coffee facilities and a beside table to store clothes and hanger behind the door. Next to a very quiet tranquil street in a coldisack. 15 minute walk into Redruth and 3 miles to the nearest beach. 20 mins away from Truro.
Beautiful room in very clean house! Mary is an amzing host and would definitely recommend her place to everyone! Thank you so much, Mary! Xx
JuliaAugust 2016
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Muyiwa
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Our fully-equipped, child-friendly comfortable cottage is 4 miles from fabulous golden beaches Gwithian and Godrevy. Ideal for beaching, surfing & exploring south cornwall, in a well-connected village with good local shops, and nearby attractions.
Our fully-equipped, child-friendly comfortable cottage is 4 miles from fabulous golden beaches Gwithian and Godrevy. Ideal for beaching, surfing & exploring south cornwall, in a well-connected village with good local shops, and nearby attractions.
A comfortable holiday base, ideal for beach and walking holidays. Sleeps 6, a double room and a family room that sleeps 4. Minimum stay 2 nights.
Baby & toddler kit available: high chair, baby bath, potties/seat, stair gate, plastic cutlery & crockery. Bring own linen and towels, kingsize sheet needed for double.
Guests have access to whole house, with a washing machine and garden with line for drying. Fully equipped kitchen & spatious dining room, bathroom with bath, shower and heated towel rail. The living room has TV and dvd player with a selection of films for all ages. There are books and children's toys and games for wet weather play.
One of your two hosts will be available by phone during your stay, Alison or Nigel. We share being on call. We have a guest book where previous guests have written down their experiences and useful tips. We invite all guests to contribute.
The village shop is open 7am-10pm, very handy for late arrivals. There's also a good butcher, fish and chips, pub, hairdresser open on Wednesdays, Methodist Chapel and a Tutu shop!
Fabulous Gwithian and Godrevy beaches are 4 miles away with golden sands, surf and dunes. Nearby Tehidy country park is great for children and has a golf course. The house is a good base for exploring Cornwall's coast path, and unique tin-mining past.
It's an easy drive to beaches and attractions. Quick access to A30 for St Ives, Lands End, Flambards Park, Trevarno Gardens, St Michael's mount, Gweek seal sanctuary, Eden Project, Heligan.
Car gives most flexibilty, there is on street parking. We are a 15-min walk from Camborne train station which is on the London-Penzance line. We've had guests do their entire holiday by train. It's a short bus ride or walk down to Camborne, which has regular services to St Ives, Falmouth and South Cornwall.
Guests have access to whole house, with a washing machine and garden with line for drying. Fully equipped kitchen & spatious dining room, bathroom with bath, shower and heated towel rail. The living room has TV and dvd player with a selection of films for all ages. There are books and children's toys and games for wet weather play.
One of your two hosts will be available by phone during your stay, Alison or Nigel. We share being on call. We have a guest book where previous guests have written down their experiences and useful tips. We invite all guests to contribute.
The village shop is open 7am-10pm, very handy for late arrivals. There's also a good butcher, fish and chips, pub, hairdresser open on Wednesdays, Methodist Chapel and a Tutu shop!
Fabulous Gwithian and Godrevy beaches are 4 miles away with golden sands, surf and dunes. Nearby Tehidy country park is great for children and has a golf course. The house is a good base for exploring Cornwall's coast path, and unique tin-mining past.
It's an easy drive to beaches and attractions. Quick access to A30 for St Ives, Lands End, Flambards Park, Trevarno Gardens, St Michael's mount, Gweek seal sanctuary, Eden Project, Heligan.
Car gives most flexibilty, there is on street parking. We are a 15-min walk from Camborne train station which is on the London-Penzance line. We've had guests do their entire holiday by train. It's a short bus ride or walk down to Camborne, which has regular services to St Ives, Falmouth and South Cornwall.
Great location for many of Cornwall's beautiful attractions. Good size with lots of sleeping space and a very homely feel. Thanks
SamSeptember 2015
The house was clean and very well located to explore around Cornwall. We enjoy our stay there.
Ísleifur ÁrniJuly 2014
Took some time to get the key to enter the house but a cozy and lovely place to stay in. Convenient location with superstores nearby and for driving to the coastal areas!
layengJune 2014
Lovely family friendly cottage located in a village that's 'not too far' from anywhere. It made for a great base and our four year old was happily entertained with toys and DVDs. A well presented home with instructions where required.
TrishAugust 2015
Short stay in Cornwall. Perfect location to explore the area...highly recommend Eden prosject and surfing! We was out most of the time, only used the house for sleeping. Linen and towels not provided, but we managed to bring it with us from Norway ....but would have been better if we didn't need to...
HildeJuly 2014
Really enjoyed our short stay at this great location in Camborne - so easy to get to the coast and resorts like St Ives and Portreath. The cottage is well equipped and reminded me of childhood holidays in Cornwall. Very good value for money and a great base for exploring the area.
SteveJanuary 2015
Great short stay - great communication with Nigel. House well equipped and very much as described. Located close driving distance to beaches and not too long drive to Lands End and St. Michael's Mount. Car a must but try to avoid parking at 'Rush hour' as road outside is narrow & can get busy. There is no wifi, but there was a BT hotspot I could connect to. Hope to come back to stay longer next time!
ColinFebruary 2015
Great wee home with everything a family could need. House is very comfortable and we were travelling with two children aged six and two who were over the moon to have plenty of toys to play with. The Brio train set was especially popular! Lot's of advice for local attractions in the house and plenty to do in and around the area. Hope to return to stay longer again in the future.
Really responsive and helpful. Got a little lost and struggled with the wifi. Helpful and friendly.
RuthNovember 2016
It's a very cute cottage, vary private. We got a very warm welcome from Tracey. She prepared us flowers, eggs, bread and butter so we can cook for our breakfast. Lovely! However, It was raining when I arrived so it was a little difficult to get to the room as my car(Nissan, SUV) was too big for her driveway. We have to park opposite-side of road from her place which 2 mins walking. Also there was NO wifi, but Tracey said it was because of the rain that sometimes wifi is not stable.
PattOctober 2016
Very friendly, lovely chalet
MichelleOctober 2016
It is good
MaloyNovember 2016
Secluded space, adequately kitted out. Welcome pack of bread and eggs on arrival. Good communication with Tracey prior to arrival and her sons were great at showing us around. Only downside was the beeping pedestrian crossing on the main road!
HilarySeptember 2016
It is really nice place, where you can spend great time. Tracey is very helpful, friendly and positive person. Recommend
ALEKSANDRAOctober 2016
Lovely little garden cottage, well equipped, with a thoughtful welcome pack of orange juice, fresh bread and butter for the morning. Tracey and her family were lovely and made us feel at home - even with the late night check in!
SimonOctober 2016
Tracey was very helpful. Property was comfortable, clean and cosy. A bargain!
JoelNovember 2016
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This listing is for our room with a double bed. We also have a room with two single beds under another listing.
These two separate listings have access to a shared shower room & shared toilet.
Off road parking.
This large family home dates back to the 1860's and was originally owned by the Basset family.
A lovely private walled garden.
Camborne is on the main line railway as well as being serviced by a bus station.
Our house is less than 5 minutes off the main road - A30
Camborne is centrally located for day trips around West Cornwall.
We will always welcome our guests and they can join us in the lounge / TV room. At breakfast time there is full access to the kitchen and dining room.
Weather permitting guests are welcome to enjoy the garden.
Camborne in its own right would not be regarded as a "tourist hot spot" although it has a very strong mining heritage and history. We are only 3 minutes walk to Camborne town centre (Weatherspoon's) and 4 minutes walk to the Train station.
We are ideally situated in terms of being able to explore beautiful West Cornwall and it's beaches and seaside villages:
North Coast (heading West):
Portreath 4 miles ( 11 minutes)
Godfrey / Gwithian Beach 6 miles ( 16 minutes)
Hayle 7 miles ( 13 minutes)
Lelant 9 miles ( 15 minutes)
St Ives 13 miles ( 23 minutes)
Sennen Cove 23 miles ( 41 minutes)
Lands End 24 miles ( 42 minutes)
North Coast (heading East):
Porthtowan 8 miles ( 15 minutes)
St Agnes 12 miles ( 17 minutes)
Perranporth 14 miles ( 22 minutes)
Holywell Bay 18 miles ( 27 minutes)
Crantock 19 miles ( 30 minutes)
Newquay 20 miles ( 29 minutes)
South Coast (heading West):
Falmouth 14 miles ( 32 minutes)
Coverack Cove 21 miles ( 38 minutes)
The Lizard 21 miles ( 39 minutes)
Porthleven 11 miles ( 20 minutes)
Marazion / St Michael's Mount 15 miles ( 23 minutes)
Penzance 16 miles ( 26 minutes)
Mousehole 19 miles ( 35 minutes)
Porthcurno 24 miles ( 44minutes)
Cornish Gardens of interest:
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Inland Towns of Interest:
Truro 14 miles ( 24 minutes)
A car will provide guests with the greatest opportunity to go on day trips and explore beautiful West Cornwall. We are only 1 mile (2 minutes) from the main road through Cornwall - A30.
Bus Station - 4 mins walk.
Train Station - 4 mins walk.
Taxis available.
- Our breakfast comprises of:
A good range of cereals.
Toast and croissant with jam or home made marmalade.
Tea / coffee.
Fruit juices.
Enjoy!
- Families with young children are welcome and we have a travel cot available if required.
I had a great stay at Angie's place... super comfy room and very friendly hosts
AlexOctober 2016
Angie and Chris were the perfect hosts to us both for our 2 night stay to attend a wedding locally .Most of our interactions just happened to be with Chris ,and he is a very helpful and informative host.The room was immaculate and quiet with a veiw of their lovely garden.The shower is amazing with thick luxurios towels supplied.We enjoyed continental breakfast both mornings with croissants heated by Chris and toast with Angies homemade marmalade .I couldnt reccomend staying at this gorgeous townhouse enough.Will be back.
SiriwimonSeptember 2016
Angie and Chris made us feel so welcome right from the start! They are both very kind and helpful, we got some pointers on where to go and their home was a great base to explore Cornwall from. Everything was very, very clean and comfortable and the shower could have been in a luxury spa. We even had breakfast in their lovely garden one sunny morning. Chris & Angie, thank you for all your help and welcoming us into your home! We will definitely be staying with you again when we come to Cornwall next summer!
FrederikeAugust 2016
We had a very pleasant stay in Camborne. The room was clean and the hosts very welcoming. Thank you!
PiotrAugust 2016
Chris and Angie were very welcoming and nice. We have a good time with them. Their house is very beautiful,the room is very clean and comfortable. Chris prepared delicious breakfast for us. We felt very good,they treeted us like friends. I will recommend to my friends.
jingAugust 2016
Our stay with Angie was wonderful. The house was perfect, and our room and bath were impeccable. Angie and Chris were wonderful hosts and we thoroughly enjoyed our time with them. The neighborhood is a perfect location for touring Cornwall and they gave us great tips on the best places to see. Our breakfast was delicious and there is a great pub near their home. Thanks so much for a wonderful experience! Pat and Jim
patSeptember 2016
Very warm welcome on arrival. Location perfect for the wedding we were attending. Didn't mind us arriving back late at night. We had a nice continental breakfast and chatted to Chris. House and garden are both very impressive. No problem parking as plenty of space on driveway.
benOctober 2016
Our experience was excellent and we would highly recommend staying here. Angie and Chris are very friendly and knowledgeable about Cornwall and they made us feel very welcome! The bathroom was spotless, the shower was big and the breakfast was lovely (especially the warm croissants!).
nickAugust 2016
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Large, private double room upstairs with picture window, tv in room and small en suite housing shower, toilet, sink etc. We are friendly hosts offering a good Cornish welcome. Off road parking for your car and garage for bikes. Hourly direct bus to St Ives and Penzance which stops across the road or 10 mins walk to main line train to these resorts and for shops and places to eat. Good continental breakfast offered. Good local knowledge of unusual places to visit.
Guests are welcome to join us for a chat in the living room, enjoy the garden and have use of the kitchen for tea/ coffee snacks etc.
New to our County?
We'll gladly share our extensive knowledge of those special, lesser known Cornish places so you can get the most out of your visit. Just let us know what your interests are.
Our home is ten minutes walk from Redruth centre. The station is on the main line. The buses will take you direct to St. Ives, Penzance, Falmouth and Truro.
The nearest beaches for our sunsets are Portreath, Porthtowan, Chapel Porth, St Agnes etc and about 10 mins in the car.
Ideal central location for exploring all of Mid and West Cornwall, with or without a car.
Your hosts' interests include, walking in Cornwall (Saints way and Coast to Coast of particular interest), Music, Painting, Art in the landscape, Motorbike touring in Europe and links with Brittany.
French spoken.
We had a really good stay at Simon's. He was a really nice host with his wife Robina. They made us feel right at home from the moment we arrived. They have excellent local knowledge, of places to see, local events and places to eat. The room was very clean and had plenty of space and an excellent view looking out towards St Ives. The bed was very comfortable which made for a good nights sleep. Breakfast was lovely with a nice selection of cereals, toast, juice tea and coffee, and they always offered more making sure you had a good sized breakfast. I would recommend staying here to anyone with the fantastic hosting and the localtion being reasonably central between a few towns and beaches making it a good base.
PhilAugust 2015
We had a great time at Simon's house. We felt like at home. Big ensuite room, quiet area. Simon and Robina are wonderful hosts, they gave us advise about where to go and places to visit in Cornwall. If we come to Cornwall again we will stay here.
VioJuly 2015
Simon & Robina are a wonderful and happy couple who looked after us very well from the time we met them and thanks for the lovely wine start :). The room was great and had a lovely breakfast from Robina :) Simon is very helpfull and with good sense of humor showing and telling us the good places near by to visit as we are quite new to cornwall. I love to visit again if i ever come to cornwall. Many Thanks Simon & Robina for looking after us very well hope to see you soon.
SamJuly 2016
A perfect stay. Despite our late arrival from a long journey, we got a really friendly welcome. The room was a great size - plenty of room for us and our young son - and the bed was super comfy. With all the peace and quiet it was a great night's rest! We were given all the information we needed and they really went out of their way to make us feel relaxed and welcome. Cracking breakfast the next morning too. Lovely to meet you - we'd definitely think about staying again if we were in the area.
We were unable to spend much time with Simon but he does make a lovely cup of tea. Robina was so friendly and helpful especially when we got lost finding the house and also by walking us down to a restaurant. A glass of wine on our return and big chats evening and while eating the super breakfast all added to a great experience.
MervynSeptember 2016
Robina was a wonderful host, made us feel very welcome and was so helpful with getting us on our way to the wedding we came down for. Robina made us bacon sandwiches and was so kind and welcoming. I would recommend it to anyone!
RebeccaSeptember 2016
Simon and Robina were the most perfect hosts! They really made us feel at home, in fact it felt like we were staying with an Aunt and Uncle of ours! Both were very helpful in recommending places to visit and eat and they both loved to sit and chat with us, which we were very happy to do too! They provided a very generous breakfast. The room was very spacious, nice little en suite and a comfortable night's sleep. We would definitely book with Simon and Robina again.
KiranAugust 2015
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17th Century Farmhouse with all modern features in the centre of heartlands pool easy access to leisure centre, super tesco, markets, morrisons,Audi,pubs all within walking distance go through back gate and walk till hearts content. North coast 10min
A beautiful garden with hot tub
Best breakfast in town cooked by a famous chef with 30years of experience in the hospitality trade
Internet /hot tub / Garden
Evening meal can be an option own space within the house to relax and watch smart tv
I love living here as you have it all the north coast is only 10minutes away lovely cafes and places to eat. South coast is 30 mins away, close to Falmouth
5 mins if A30,20mins from Truro.
Lots to do, Gyms in abundance dancing at social club, bands etc
Easy for work if you down on buisness
Train station in both Redruth and Camborne. Local buses close by
Rooms are available individual room price for couple £45 for single £25
I really enjoyed my one-night stay at Emma's place. The property is in a good location for general access to West Cornwall and is only a few minutes drive to some good beaches on the north coast. The room and house were clean and comfortable with good facilities including a TV and tea/coffee making facilities in the bedroom. Best of all, Emma was a great host who was very friendly and welcoming and made me feel at home. She also cooks a great full English breakfast on request. I would definitely recommend staying here.
JohnOctober 2016
Emma is a very nice person to meet and a great host. The house is being renovated and will be lovely. The bedroom is not too spacious but it is really nice to have your own bathroom. The highlight of our stay, even for our three year old daughter, was the delicious and abundant breakfast, prepared with love, all the details, and served in beautiful china… Emma is a splendid chef and it was an honor to taste her cuisine, fit for a queen.
RaffaeleOctober 2016
Emma was a great host we were in good contact about arrival times and meal requirements. I was made to feel at home immediately as Emma has such a lovely warm personality. I had meals at Emma's throughout my stay and they were delicious. The room was warm and comfortable for my requirements and I could come and go as I pleased. Also Emma was a great guide for me when looking around the area. All in all wonderful experience
BrianOctober 2016
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Close to the bustling town of Camborne, and within roughly half an hour drive of many others - eg. Helston, Penzance, Truro, Newquay, Falmouth, Penryn. The nearest beach at Portreath is about 10 minutes drive, lots more within 20 mins. 3 miles from Redruth & very close to Heartlands World Heritage SIte, The Pool Innovation Centre & Cornwall College.
Clean & comfortable detached Room in a family home,safe for females travelling alone - but guys are also welcome!
2 rooms available
Small single room. Wardrobe, tea/coffee, small TV, nice view.
Private room in family house. Tea/Coffee facilties provided. We have wifi so bring your laptop. Guests are welcome to use the kitchen but clean up after!
I work part time so may or may not be around, but please do not be afraid to ask if you require anything or need any local information, happy to help. If I'm not there ring or text me at any time and I'll get back to you as soon as I Can.
Parking available on our driveway or outside the house. 5 minutes drive from train station. Local bus routes close by. Within half an hour of many towns, Newquay, Redruth, Truro, Falmouth, Helston, Penzance etc. 10 minutes to nearest beach, but many within 20 minutes drive. Situated just off the A30 which is the main route in and out of Cornwall.
Towels will be provided.
I try to be as flexible as possible with checking in/out times, but Wednesday's are particularly difficult so i would ask for a check in after 5.30 please. After confirmation please let me know your approximate time of arrival so I can ensure someone will be there to greet you.
New shower fitted 01.08.16 so please ignore negative reviews re the shower. The new one is awesome!
Very comfortable and clean, served my purpose well.. Thank you
MervynNovember 2016
Clean and tidy house, very quiet in a location which is close to the town, Redruth and the A30. I would definitely use Sandy again.
rickyMay 2016
Sandy, although I couldn't meet you cause of my arrival and leaving time. I want to thank you for the service. fantastic bed and bathroom. Large kitchen and everything very clean. What else can I say :) thanks!!
JesusAugust 2016
Great room, clean and tidy. Sandy wasn't there but her son helped me to get in. Overall, a great experience, exactly what you need after a long day of hiking in Cornwall. Absolutely recommended.
AntonAugust 2016
Sandy was very welcoming. The accommodation was clean and comfortable with everything you would need for your stay.
AshleyOctober 2016
Sandy's place had everything I needed for a few nights in Cornwall. I didn't get to meet her, but her son let me in and was very friendly. The neighborhood is very quiet and the accommodations are very clean
John T.August 2016
I was made very welcome by Sandy, I was able to book last minute, it was so quiet considering other people were in the house as well
Graham July 2016
Sandy is friendly. The place is well situated to have different trip all around.
ChristianAugust 2016
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The house is perfect for anyone who wants to come down and see what Cornish life is all about! You can enjoy many of Cornwall's picturesque beaches as well as take a trip down one of the old mine shafts. At night you can sit around with the family around the fireplace or head out to one of the wonderful pubs in the area.
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Camborne, is twenty minutes from everywhere in South West Cornwall, which makes it a perfect place to stop and rest weary heads before heading off on adventures on the North, South or West coast. We have lots of parking on the street as well.
The room is a large double room, with a superking sized bed (this is not shown in the picture, as it is quite new), a wardrobe, chest of drawers, a bedside table and a television. You will have access to the whole house to use at your pleasure and it will be shared with myself (age 31) and another housemate Trina (24).
We are all very knowledgeable about Cornwall and are very active, we would be happy to chat to you about things to do and places to see if you want any tips :).
You will be able to use all the rooms in the house, apart from the other two bedrooms obviously, you can feel free to cook at home and use the front room if you want to lounge instead of being in your room. We are very friendly.
We have one parking spot in our back garden, but there is always ample parking space at the front of the house.
Very welcome indeed. Did not seem phased by the fact that we are elderly! Carried our case upstairs and made a cup of tea1
What an amazing experience! The house is so beautiful and all the people who live there are lovely. Camborne is an adorable city with very amiable people and Cornwall is definitely one of the most beautiful places I've ever been.
LedaAugust 2015
I and my wife stayed at Dave’s place for three nights during our trip to Cornwall. Dave was very prompt in responding to any queries during the whole of our trip and was very accommodating to all our requests. The house is gorgeous and the room is very functional, comfortable and clean. Camborne is a very nice city and an excellent base to explore Cornwall. Dave and his (SENSITIVE CONTENTS HIDDEN) are all very lovely. The group gave us tips for places to visit and eat, and things to do etc. We had a very cheerful and friendly welcome to the house accompanied with wine and chocolates! Since it was my birthday and our honeymoon, we were treated to even more chocolates in the room along with a beautiful wishing card. The card mentioned that there were ingredients in the kitchen for real Cornish cream tea and we were also guided how to make one in the perfect Cornish style (which was one of the things on my to-do list for our trip to Cornwall!). Overall, it was a wonderful experience. For us, it was home, miles away from home! Five stars – Highly recommended!
FarazAugust 2015
The hosts were very welcoming and friendly. Lovely house, nice garden and the bed was very comfy too
NadiaSeptember 2016
Dave and his girlfriend are great hosts, very nice & cozy house, warm welcome. Everything nice and tidy. I had really good time with my girlfriend in Cornwall also thanks to this accommodation. I would definitely recommend it!
JanJune 2016
I spent at Daves house 2 weeks in July. Dave and his girlfrend welcomed me nicely and were very hospitable for the whole time. The house is very clean, modern furbished and cozy. My room was big enough to take a good rest after my work, TV is also available in the room. The kitchen was fully equipped and I could use everything what I needed, including spices, souces etc. The location is fine, its near the city center, where you can find many restaurants and pubs. Daves passion is travelling, so travellers - you can look forward to share your experiences with him :). I would definitely recommend this accomodation to everyone, who want to spend some lovely time in beautiful Cornwall. I come definitely back again! :)
VladimirJuly 2016
We stayed in Dave's room for 3 nights during our trip around UK, the room is really comfortable and clean. Dave and his (SENSITIVE CONTENTS HIDDEN) are really nice people, they gave us a lot of information about Cornwall and, as it was our birthdays during the stay, they prepared a surprise for us with a real Cornish cream tea! Super stay, highly recommended
Federica & AndreaAugust 2015
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Located on our 350 organic farm , within world heritage site . Beautiful walks ,cycling and riding through the great flat lode. Modern with designer style within traditional granite building. Spacious Open plan living space with wood burner and central heating throughout .
If you have horses we can offer stabling and grazing priced according to requirements .Riding stables a mile away offering lessons and hacks .
Tranquil and away from it all
Beautiful garden to enjoy .
I am usually available 9-12 noon each day except Sunday's
Rural but close to all amenitys .
House is based in a huge farm. Inside the house is very clean and tidy. The house is quite large. Landlord came and see us but we are leaving for supermarket. Very nice place to stay. Is your are planning a trip in Cornwall, that's definitely the place should stay.
AndrewJuly 2016
Kim was there to greet us on arrival and made us feel very welcome. We had a very enjoyable stay in the delightful spacious converted barn, as depicted in the photos. Larger facility than expected. Layout was good and loved the decor, particularly the wooden floors and natural stonework.
SuzanneAugust 2016
Absolutely awesome stay. Spacious and comfortable. Very adorable farm animals. The farm is located reasonably close to the key attractions of Cornwall. Excellent for my kids who are growing up in the city. Highly recommended.
Kwan YeeJuly 2016
Had a wonderful stay at the accommodation. Everything we needed was provided and presented too a high standard. Kim was extremely helpful before and during our stay. scenery is stunning and lots of wildlife on your doorstep. wish we could have stated longer.
rachelAugust 2016
What a wonderfully quiet, peaceful location. The house is very spacious and welcoming. The beds are comfortable, and towels plenty. Kim was a wonderfully friendly and welcoming host, and although she wasn't there when we arrived, she had left the door unlocked and she asked us to make ourselves feel at home- which we did! Discovering the garden was a real treat for the boys, who also loved the chickens, dogs and tractor! We look forward to staying again in the future.
AliceAugust 2016
Wow ! My first impression .simply stunning. The cottage was lovely..Spacious .Well equipped and had exactly what we needed when we needed it .Would recommend to our friends However I would say it's not entirely suitable for smaller children.or lesser mobile people..Our daily visit from Gary the farm dog (alias Cody) became our favourite morning ritual.! Loved everything about our stay.Couldnt fault it .Except the lower floor bathroom.I felt we needed a brush to sweep the water down after a shower as the foor remained wet for a long time afterwards. Thankyou for a delightful stay and sharing your cottage and the visits from all the farm friends.Who we nicknamed hence the entry in the visitors book!
MartinJuly 2016
What a privilege to be the first to stay in this incredible place. Kim is the most gracious, warm and welcoming host you could hope for, she made us all feel really comfortable and welcome throughout, whenever we needed something she was there to help and was able to accommodate us at short notice after another booking fell through. The converted barn is spacious, cosy, clean and comfortable and very well equipped, with three bedrooms, two full bathrooms and a large open plan kitchen/diner & living area with wood burn stove. The lovely farm itself is like a sanctuary with fields to wander through, and animals running around. There are two friendly dogs, two tiny puppies, some chickens and horses. Our own puppy had a fantastic time exploring the whole space and playing with the other animals. In terms of location, its perfect. Just a short drive from places such as St Ives, St Michael's Mount we were ideally placed to visit everything. There is also an incredible restaurant in a castle on a hill that Kim recommended to us and you must visit this place if you're nearby. The food, ambience and location are unbeatable, and its very reasonably priced. My wife and I and my in-laws from the States loved staying here and we really cannot recommend this place highly enough. If we ever get to visit Cornwall again, I wouldn't consider staying anywhere else!
NeilJune 2016
Very peasant stay. Kim is person of hospitality. We definitely will recommend my friends!
yichangAugust 2016
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Our non smoking detached self contained cabin can be configured as a double or a twin and has a separate bathroom and kitchen. It is equipped with; Internet and Wifi, fridge, microwave, toaster, kettle, iron and hairdryer. Breakfast is complimentary with negotiable check in/departure times. The cabin is ideally located for the Truro/Falmouth/Penzance catchment and just 15 minutes drive from the North & South coast. Redruth train station is just 7 minutes away. The village has basic amenities.
Freda made us feel so welcome and nothing was too much trouble. The accommodation was perfect for our needs as we were moving our son into University accommodation less than 10 minutes away. The cabin had its own facilities so we could feel independent but it was lovely to interact with the family when they brought breakfasts over. Fresh scones on arrival was a big bonus too!
NiyatiSeptember 2016
Our stay was breif but I would highly recomended Freda's Cabin! The family are lovely and made us feel welcomed and the cabin was just perfect and was bigger than we expected.
We had a wonderful experience staying in Freda's cabin. It was so quiet, cheerful and clean. Everything we needed was there and more. Our hosts were very friendly and made us feel very welcome. The food was delicious. We would highly recommend staying here. The area is just so beautiful and the place is in a great location. Our only recommendation for guests would be to get detailed instructions on how to get there before arriving in the area. We got a bit lost and didn't have phone signal once we reached the area. Neighbors were kind enough to point us in the right direction.
Dana September 2016
What an absolutely wonderful stay! Freda and Tim are lovely, and made our stay even more special than it was otherwise. Great recommendations, and fab breakfasts - seeing a smiling caring face in the morning makes an amazing start to the day! Great location for Falmouth and St Ives, with all the amenities to make for a great easy break. Will be our first check for availability when next in the area.
mikaylaSeptember 2016
Freda's house is a gem , silent, peaceful, ideal for a city break. Great location to get around and reach the destinations more known . There is nothing to improve the house is gorgeous, the welcome is the best , the breakfast is delicious, and Freda is the added value, she did everything to make our stay unforgettable, and we would never have wanted to leave her house . I recommend this stay and l also hope to come back soon.
FrancescaAugust 2016
We loved Freda and Jim. Freda's wonderful welcoming smile made us feel we were in a special place. Fresh scones, clotted cream and jam on arrival. We were impressed with our choice for breakfasts too. The accommodation was beautifully clean, private and cosy. The bed so soft and big. We are so pleased we chose to book Freda's cabin.
MarleneSeptember 2016
Thank you so much for having me again! Everything was perfect and just the escape I need after work! Thanks for all your help!!
HarrisonOctober 2016
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A beautiful Cornish granite house centrally located, a great base to explore the stunning coastline & attractions Cornwall has to offer. Ten mins drive to Porthowan/Portreath beach & many other beaches, two mins from local shops etc...
Your very spacious room (5.2 x 3.6 mtrs) has a French feel to the style with a beautiful French antique bed & furniture. The mattress is very firm but comfortable. The atmosphere is bright, airy and very spacious. Tea and coffee, fresh milk are provided, along with homemade biscuits. A flat screen television, hair dryer and lots of helpful information on local attractions. A iron/board is available, just ask. A modern en-suite bathroom with shaver adapter, fresh quality towels and toiletries. I am a passionate foodie who loves to cook, dinner is available if desired by prior arrangement, please check out my evening menu. I have a vegan daughter and cook for her so special requirements can be catered for.
You are very welcome to relax in our open plan kitchen in the evenings at the table or cosy up on the sofa to relax and watch a bit of telly.
I have a wealth of knowledge of the region due to my days working as a hotel and restaurant inspector with the AA, I would be more than happy to recommend restaurants etc... I am a 54 year old lady with plenty of spirit but the days of partying are reserved for special occasions although I do enjoy a glass of wine most evenings to unwind and relax. I would describe myself as a well travelled, happy individual who always look at the positive in life and all the wonderful things this planet has to offer. I care deeply about the environment and the future of it. I welcome all nationalities, genders and faiths into my home and leave judgement where it deserves to stay, in a sealed box!! I ask of just one thing, kindly respect my home and please make it yours whilst staying with me.
Illogan is situated on the north coast, Porthreath and Porthowan are both around a ten min drive, Porthowan is a particular favorite of mine/locals and tourists, you often spot a famous celeb there too. Parking is generally good, a real surfers beach with the fabulous Blue Bar which is almost sat on the beach, great views and food served all day. I know it well as my daughter worked as a chef there. A superb place to unwind and completely chill, great for all the family. Lots of history in the surrounding area, old mines everywhere, we have one which is 2 mins a way which has been restored for the public to visit. A bit of history for you, Redruth and St Day was the richest Sq mile in the world years ago. Illogan maids (that's what women are called in Cornwall) were mention in the new Poldark series.
Plenty of buses (2 min walk) to get you around most of Cornwall. Train stations either direction, Redruth is around a five min taxi ride, Camborne around a ten min taxi ride.
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Lovely electic family home with good garden space and free parking. Can easily sleep 6+ with attic conversion. Logburner and space to cook & eat outdoors. Excellent central base for holiday in Cornwall. 5/10min drive to nearest beach
A perfect house for our stay in Cornwall. The photos don't do the house justice of how immaculate and beautiful it is. It was perfect for our base to travel around Cornwall. Definitely would recommend this place to others
JohannaOctober 2016
We had a lovely 2 nights staying in this house. It well accommodated our group and we loved the decor and large backyard. Would absolutely recommend this house to anyone looking for a base in Cornwall.
FranciscoAugust 2016
This is a lovely place, it exceeded our expectations and i highly recommend it! The hosts kept very good communication with me prior to arrival and made me feel at ease. The house was in great condition! *****
StavriaSeptember 2016
Beautiful family home and ideal location to visit Perranporth, Newquay, Truro and St Ives. Situated in Redruth, it's not the most dynamic town, but who needs that, when the house has a lovely garden to enjoy a wine or two after a day at the beach. Obviously a well loved house, and our kids loved the room to run around. Inga & Jack were a pleasure to deal with, the property lived up to our hopes. Totally recommended. Thanks guys!
MarkAugust 2016
The house is very beautiful.everyone love this house very much. The house very big and clean, it is convenient to the other place. Thank u
MENGSHENAugust 2016
Fantastic stay in a beautiful family home. So impressed with our first AirBnB experience!
MartinAugust 2016
The host canceled this reservation 13 days before arrival. This is an automated posting.
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Family bedroom with a double and single bed, open space kitchen/living area, on suite bathroom, wi-fi. ****OFF PEAK DISCOUNT AVAILABLE 7 NIGHTS FOR THE PRICE OF 5! ****
comfortable modern open space three bed apartment with patio area centrally located in the heart of Cornwall.
Keycode lock to the right of the front door code available on booking.
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Excellent location full of historical interest. Really nice apartment and Kevin is very pleasant and helpful. Cat lovers will enjoy visits from a friendly grey and white mog. Would definitely stay here again.
AnneApril 2016
We had a lovely time staying in this peaceful location. It was within easy travelling of many locations in Cornwall. Kevin was very helpful with sorting the WiFi code and otherwise we didn't really see him because we didn't need to. It was very clean and well organised. There is a lovely walk up to the top of Carn Brea and there is a great pub around the corner.
CatherineJuly 2016
Kevin was incredibly responsive with all manners of queries leading up to our stay. The property was clean and in very good order. We felt very at home in the property - it was quiet and relaxing. We had a very enjoyable stay.
JosephineAugust 2015
Great host. Accommodation was close to everything. Clean comfortable and Kevin couldn't do enough for us. I would highly recommend staying here. If we return this would be the place to be.
JoOctober 2015
We stayed 5 nights in this wonderful apartment. It was great to have the opportunity to stay in our "home away from home". We didn't miss anything. Kevin helped us with our questions and he showed us his cute young dog. Our son is still talking about this lovely puppy!
Sandra AndreasJuly 2016
Kevin was great at keeping in touch, extremely responsive to text messages beforehand and respectful of our space. We did have issues with the wifi not reaching inside the apartment, but Kevin was again responsive and did his best to try and fix it. The area is quiet, the neighbors are kind, the place is clean & bright & modern. The location is a great base for exploring all parts of Cornwall. All around, great place to stay for me & my parents & our little dog :)
MadhuOctober 2015
Just like the photos, nice and clean had everything but a shaver point so take an adapter. Apartment was well equipped, shower powerful, extra heating if you needed it - we didnt. Laundry room next door in case you want to wash or dry anything. Location was really quiet no shops so take your food, milk etc. Pub down the road did a lovely evening meal and they let dogs in. If you order a chinese take away leave plenty of time it took two hours for ours to arrive. Plenty of walks around the place and close to the sea.
sueSeptember 2016
Kevin was very responsive to queries in the lead up to our stay and extremely welcoming when we arrived. He showed us where everything was, let us know he was available if we needed anything, then left us to it. Exactly what you want from a host. The apartment was lovely, far better than expected. Everything was finished to a high standard and the self catering facilities allowed us to cook varied meals from scratch withough issue (this is frustratingly often not the case with self catering!) Lovely big bath and shower. Fantastic views from the patio of the Carn Brea monument! Only room for improvement would be WiFi coverage - I could only access this from outside on the patio. We would definitely stay again!
RyanJune 2016
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Nine Maidens is a spacious one bedroom barn conversion set on a working 25 acre small holding sheep farm. This superb holiday home is fantastically situated at the gateway to the Lizard peninsula with easy access to both coasts and numerous holiday attractions.
Set in the rolling countryside equidistant between Camborne, Falmouth and Helston this is a fantastic central position from which to discover Cornwall, glorious sandy beaches on the North and South Coast with numerous famous surfing breaks are close by. The stunning coastal path and almost all of Cornwalls fantastic tourist attractions are within easy reach. The vibrant port of Falmouth is a 15 minute drive with its plethora of shops, cafes, restaurants and bars.
This level spacious barn conversion boasts an open plan lounge / kitchen and diner and the beautifully appointed bedroom has a 5' king size four poster bed charming white furniture and double french doors that over look the orchard. The luxuriously appointed ensuite bathroom has a sizeable walk in shower along with WC and hand basin.
Accommodation
Ground floor: Enters into open plan lounge / kitchen / dining room with a wood burner, fully fitted kitchen area, doorway leading to master bedroom with a stunning king size, 5' four poster bed, also door leading to en suite shower room and WC
Exterior: There is a small sunny patio with parasol, furniture and a barbecue.
Facilities & Services
Heating is via radiators and oil central heating. The kitchen is fully fitted with a range of units. There is an electric oven and hob, a microwave, toaster, kettle, fridge / freezer. There is a separate washing machine and tumble dryer in the laundry room. The lounge area has a digital TV & DVD player, CD & Radio. There is free WiFi at the property. There is an iron and ironing board.
Miscellaneous
Electricity, heating, bed linen and towels are all included. Regrettably no smoking is allowed. There is off road parking in the courtyard for a car. STRICTLY NO BABIES OR CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN ARE ALLOWED AT THIS PROPERTY. Nine Maidens has a wood burner and an initial basket of wood is included. Any extra logs can be purchased from the farm, the log store is in the laundry room. There are also fresh free range eggs for sale and an additional freezer in case you need the extra space, please contact the owner for details.
General Booking Information
Arrival / Departure is normally a Saturday.
Short breaks are available as last minute bookings or during the off season.
£100 pre-authorised to your credit or debit card as a security deposit is required.
This is a wonderful property for a couple, cosy yet spacious, you are welcome to wander over the 25 acres of farmland!
Nine Maidens is located just 10 minutes drive from the famous Poldark Mine at Wendron!
Nearby, Helston was originally a thriving port, however as the river silted up over the years, this ceased to be. Where the river joins the sea, is now Cornwall's largest freshwater lake. The market town has a mixture of Georgian & Victorian architecture. On Coinagehall Street is the Blue Anchor, originally a rest house for monks, which became a tavern in the 15th century. This is possibly the oldest brewery in the country selling the strong local brew, Spingo.
Porthleven is approximate 3.5 miles southwest of Helston. This charming fishing harbour also has world class surf break.
A little further along the coast, towards Penzance is Praa Sands, which has a mile of sandy beach. Helston is the gateway to the Lizard Peninsula and to the Helford River, which has some beautiful villages, namely St Anthony in Meneage & Helford Village. North Helford covers the area from Maenporth to Helston and includes places such as Mawnan Smith, Helford Passage, Constantine & Gweek. The area has many delights such as Trebah and Glendurgan Gardens, The Seal Sanctuary at Gweek, Flambards, Poldark Mine, Goonhilly Earth and Satellite Station and The Ferry Boat Inn. With easy access to Falmouth, attractions such as The National Maritime Museum Falmouth, Rick Steins Fish and Chips on Discovery Quay, Pendennis Castle and even St Mawes Castle via a 20 minute foot ferry, are all within reach.
Daphne du Maurier wrote her only romantic novel Frenchmans Creek about the River Helford, and who can blame her, the views really are beautiful. Glendurgan Gardens run by the National Trust hold a 176 year old laurel maze and the 'Giants Stride' swing most popular with children. St Anthony-in-Meneage holds a lovely little church primarily of medieval architecture. Maenporth beach tucked away on the westerly edge of Falmouth Bay boast spectacular views, well worth a visit.
Redruth and Camborne, to the north, are at the centre of Cornwall's traditional industrial heritage. To celebrate this, a new free visitor attraction called "Heartlands Cornwall" has been recently completed just off the A30 in Pool (between Redruth and Camborne). This is the UK's first cultural playground and includes a huge adventure playground made out of timber, including the custom-made "giants trap" which lives up to the legend of Bolster, a local giant, who fell head over heels for a St Agnes maid. Art studios and galleries regularly display pieces by local and national artists. There are wild botanical gardens, world heritage site exhibitions, a visitor centre and regular markets with local produce.
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Godless thoughts from god's country
About the author of Nastik Deliberations
Arun N M is active both online and offline in promoting scientific temper and fighting religious nonsense and pseudoscience. He is an MD, specialised in Internal Medicine and works in Kerala , India. He is most of the time aware of his privileges as a straight male, cis, upper caste medical doctor.
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She started her fast unto death as a protest against the draconian Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) after troops of the Assam Rifles gunned down 10 civilians at Malom near Imphal airport on November 2, 2000.
The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act of 1958 (AFSPA) is considered to be one of the most draconian legislations that the Indian Parliament has ever passed. Under this Act, all security forces are given unrestricted and unaccounted power to carry out their operations, once an area is declared disturbed. Even a non-commissioned officer is granted the right to shoot to kill based on mere suspicion that it is necessary to do so in order to “maintain the public order”.
The AFSPA gives the armed forces wide powers to shoot, arrest and search, all in the name of “aiding civil power.” It was first applied to the North Eastern states of Assam and Manipur and was amended in 1972 to extend to all the seven states in the north- eastern region of India. They are Assam, Manipur, Tripura, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Nagaland, also known as the “seven sisters”. The enforcement of the AFSPA has resulted in innumerable incidents of arbitrary detention, torture, rape, and looting by security personnel. This legislation is sought to be justified by the Government of India, on the plea that it is required to stop the North East states from seceding from the Indian Union. The law gives troops sweeping powers to kill even on suspicion and have immunity from prosecution.
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River Steamer Nettie Quill, Mobile, Alabama; front of postcardBlack and white print of the river steamer, Nettie Quill, on Mobile Bay in Mobile, AL. Large steamboat cruising on the water loaded with bales of cotton. Two long smoke stacks extend upward. Ship was built 1886 primarily to transport cotton and passengers. Known as the "Queen of the Alabama". It sank in port in New Orleans in 1915. Undivided back postcard.Written on front: 'I wrote your Father a letter today and you yesterday. H. W. (?)'.
Black and white print of the river steamer, Nettie Quill, on Mobile Bay in Mobile, AL. Large steamboat cruising on the water loaded with bales of cotton. Two long smoke stacks extend upward. Ship was built 1886 primarily to transport cotton and passengers. Known as the "Queen of the Alabama". It sank in port in New Orleans in 1915. Undivided back postcard.
Black and white print of the river steamer, Nettie Quill, on Mobile Bay in Mobile, AL. Large steamboat cruising on the water loaded with bales of cotton. Two long smoke stacks extend upward. Ship was built 1886 primarily to transport cotton and passengers. Known as the "Queen of the Alabama". It sank in port in New Orleans in 1915. Undivided back postcard.
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Backstreet Boys singer AJ McLean defended Nick Carter when asked about the shocking rape allegation brought on by Melissa Schuman. Watch what he said here.
AJ McLean, 39, showed nothing but love for his “brother” Nick Carter, 37, on Dec. 4 when asked about the current rape allegation against him by Melissa Schuman, 33, of the former girl music group Dream. Nick’s fellow Backstreet Boy said he had nothing but support for Nick and thinks the accusation is bogus. SEE THE FULL VIDEO OF WHAT AJ SAID HERE. “I totally support my brother, man,” AJ said in the interview at LAX. “He is a gentleman and a scholar and a father and a dear friend. I completely support him.” AJ insisted that his groupmate just isn’t that kinda guy and it’s not in his nature to do something like that. The singers have known each other since Nick was 12-years-old so they have a long history together and it turns out all his fellow Backstreet Boys are behind him. “Granted they are not happy with the news that is out there but they are doing anything that Nick may need to help while he handles the accusations,” a source close to the band EXCLUISVELY told HollywoodLife.com. “They are not judging him or jumping to conclusions in any way because they are family and they have to stick with family and are choosing to be on his side as brothers and they are all respecting the process as privately as they possibly can. They are keeping a close eye on everything and legitimately hoping for the best.” See photos of AJ and Nick in the Backstreet Boys over the years here.
Though AJ was supporting Nick in the interview, he was careful not to victim shame. He also took the moment to stand up for the women who have been coming forward about sexual harassment within the entertainment industry. “I don’t want anyone to discredit the victims or anyone that’s been through such horrible situations in their life but I support my brother,” AJ continued. ” I think he is innocent and I love him.”
Melissa first revealed the rape allegation against Nick in her personal online blog on Nov. 2 and it made major headlines. She revealed that he not only allegedly raped her but also took her virginity in the process. Nick responded and denied the allegation in an official statement that said Melissa never expressed to him that anything they did together in the past was not consensual.
HollywoodLifers, what are your thoughts on AJ’s opinion about the rape allegation against Nick? Tell us here.
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California Tropical Landscape Plants
By Elton Dunn; Updated September 21, 2017
California has a diverse climate range, encompassing USDA Hardiness Zones 6 to 10. tropical flowers appeal to gardeners with a penchant for lush foliage and colorful blooms. The northeastern corner--east of Mount Shasta and north of Lake Tahoe--does not support tropical vegetation, but growers in all other parts of the state can enjoy tropical plants.
Canna Lily
Grown as much for its colorful variegated foliage as its blooms, canna lily (Canna x generalis) are related to the banana. While canna grows as an annual in many regions, this tropical plant grows perennially in zones 8 to 12, or all but the northeast mountainous regions of California. Canna is native to South and Central America. The plant's leaves are striped with yellow, green or purple. Its flowers can be red, yellow or orange. Canna lilies grow either in sun or part shade.
Birds of Paradise
Bird or paradise (Strelitzia reginae) is native to South Africa and grows in the southern and coastal areas of California in zones 9 to 11. The plant's orange and purple flowers resemble a bird's head, giving the plant its popular name. The plant has elongated, dark green leaves that can grow up to 8 inches. Sun promotes more flowering, while shade produces better foliage.
Vase Plant
Vase plant (Aechmea distichantha) belongs to the bromeliad family and is suitable for growing outdoors in zones 9 to 11. This plant enjoys bright indirect light and shouldn't be planted in direct sun. Vase plant's thin leaves can grow as much as 3 feet long. The plant develops a single flower stalk with many small pink, white or blue flowers.
Crepe Ginger
Reaching as much as 10 feet in height, crepe ginger (Costus speciosus) grows in zones 7 to 12, all parts of California except the far northeast. The plant prefers part sun but can grow in full sun if it is well irrigated. Crepe ginger has cat's-eye-shaped, waxy green foliage and crinkled white flowers that grow off red flower bracts. Native to Southeast Asia, crepe ginger has been naturalized in Hawaii and is considered invasive in many parts of the South Pacific.
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As falde said: biological viruses are not considered living.They are fragments of DNA, usually DNA and protiens- not single cell organisms. Viruses can not supstain life by definition without infection of living cells.
Just for the record also, viruses don't eat anything, they infect. They also don't reproduce, the cell they infect reproduces new infected cells.
Next thing you know people are going to start claiming that there sims are alive.
I have to agree with this one. Code is code. Biology is biology. I have not seen artificial intelligence yet, and computer virii are only as smart as the programmer doing the code. And if anybody is a programmer has seen pretty buggy virus code.
There is a lot of AI software out there. With the technology we have today it is fully possible to build a robot that can do everything an insect can do and even add some properties real insects does not have.
As insects are regarded alive perhaps this robots also should be called alive.
Now I will repeat myself: There are however no definition of what is life and what is not.
With the lack of definition there is no real answer of this topic.
“Next thing you know people are going to start claiming that there sims are alive.”
What arguments do you have supporting that? Remember that most reptiles and insects do act fully on instincts, totally without the ability to learn. Just as most characters in computer games. Worms have so simple nervous system that we can fully simulate them, is the simulation of a worm “brain” less alive than a real worm?
they only follow tasks given by the programmer, ive done robotics and computing, if u give robots sensors, it can only react to certain situations if uve allowed it to do so, if not it just halts the process, and waits for a human, tehy have no capacity to learn or evolve. this include virii, its true that klez evolved to include CIH, but thats only because the worm ran on an infected machine, and to CIH the worm was only another file to infect. its just luck that this happend.
a virus cannot choose its payload, it is told what to do and when to do it when the programmer chooses it to do so.
As said before, there is no universal definition for life, and people question if real world virii are alive, and if they are not then computer virii cannot be alive either...
Personally I wouldn't have a problem with Computer virii being considered "alive", or considered "virutal" life, to reflect the fact that they have very little actual space (though they do occupy a distinct space on a hard drive, so they do have some volume, if small).
If Virii are alive, how would this affect other primitive AI like Eliza or bots (like the Anti Chat bot that has been mistaken for a real person?).... true they are not the equals of you and I, but neither are cats/dogs/rats/frogs/etc., but we still think they are alive and intellegent....
Shouldn't this question be in Cosmos? This is a very philsophical discusion afterall...
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Replicants are like any technology, if there not a hazard, its not my problem....
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How to Approach Writing a Take Home Coding Challenge
While behavioral interviews will always have a place in evaluating soft skills, take-home coding challenges have become very popular components in technical interviews over the past decade. And even though there’s plenty of information available on how to do take home coding challenges, the method in which employers develop a challenge is sparse.
Because every role and company is unique, there’s no precise formula for constructing a take-home challenge, but these general tips will get you started.
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 250,000 in October, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.7 percent. Job gains occurred in health care, in manufacturing, in construction, and in transportation and warehousing.
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Located in the heart of downtown this 1212 sq ft one plus one bedroom/den executive style condo offers luxury location and view. Walk to the library, farmers market and numerous shops. Upon entering you are immediately taken with the gleaming maple floors leading you to the gourmet kitchen with granite countertops and loads of maple cabinets. Additional features of this unit include stainless steel appliances, cozy feature wall fireplace, large master bedroom with 4 piece ensuite, walk-in closet, additional 4 piece bath, spacious bedroom/den, main floor storage locker, central air conditioning, south facing balcony, newer appliances and 2 underground parking stalls. If you are looking for the convenience of downtown location this condo is for you!
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I don’t want to type much today. Here are my purple witch nails. I put loose glitter on the non-accent nails that make me think of mermaids. Usually I match my right and left hand, but in this case I only did a witch on my right. I love the purple color by Ulta, but I was having some trouble with the brush and also this color responds strangely to topcoats. Enjoy!
This is three coats of each color. Basically I put gold at the base of each nail, then went back around and put green in the middle of each nail, then painted blue on the tip of each nail. Rinse and repeat two more times. These do not have a top coat currently, although I may add one on to see how it looks and to make the polish hold up.
One of my friends all the way back from high school had her wedding reception this past weekend so I decided to do a simple white pearl manicure with heart accents to honor the festivities. I achieved the shimmery white by using one coat each of three different polishes listed below. The adorable gold hearts are from the stud set I previously spoke about from BornPrettyStore.com.
Halfway through the week I opted to refresh the manicure by painting different China Glaze polishes on each hand. The left hand got two coats of CG Seashell while the right hand got two coats of CG’s Holographic Not in This Galaxy. I love how Seashell looks; it is painted over the white so I’m not sure how that influenced the color, but it’s a “just right” color for me….and it’s very shiny.
The other CG polish has very fine holographic particles so it is quite subtle (not really noticeable indoors, sunlight really does the trick for this one). When inside, it looks more like a metallic polish, when outside you can see the full holo spectrum.
I have to say the consistency of both these polishes was great (not thick) and the brush was high quality and thin for accurate application. Even though it’s September I feel like I have February Valentine nails going this week!
Polishes Used:
Seche Vite Base Coat
Sally Hansen Satin Slipper (for the original white manicure)
Jesse’s Girl Firefly (for the original white manicure)
Ulta Diva (for the original white manicure)
China Glaze Seashell
China Glaze Holographic Not In This Galaxy
Poshe Top Coat
CONGRATULATIONS LIESA AND JOHN! I WISH YOU MANY YEARS OF JOY AND HAPPINESS…and beautiful nails 🙂
I did a different base color on each of my nails and then painted one and two coats of the holographic polish on top. I can’t decide how I like it more, because both styles are equally pretty. My thumb has a white base, pointer has gray, middle finger has black, ring finger has fuchsia and my pinky has no base, just the holo polish.
At one coat the base colors show through quite nicely; the black really makes the rainbow shimmer from the polish pop and the white really highlights the purple hue, but really every color I tried worked with this holographic polish. At two coats it is pretty opaque and only a bit of the base is even apparent. I didn’t try three coats, but I’m sure at three coats the bases would not show at all.
It’s a small bottle, but I’m sure it would still last and the brush was very flexible and soft, plus a good workable size. The polish itself is not thick, went on really smooth, and dried quickly. It also wasn’t very smelly, which is always a plus! I completely recommend this polish because I can’t stop staring at my nails!!
Polishes Used:
Seche Vite Base Coat
Sally Hansen White On Thumb + Holo
Sally Hansen Wet Cement Pointer + Holo
Sally Hansen Black Out Middle + Holo
Ulta Plum Perfect Ring Finger + Holo
Only Holographic Effect #9 on Pinky
Poshe Top Coat
Disclaimer: I received the holographic polish as a free promotion, however all opinions expressed are my own!
The stamping plate has 7 different little characters on it – bunny, kitty, teddy bear, chick, panda, giraffe and the seventh is what I like to call the “mystery animal”; I think it’s a sheep? My confusion lies in the fact that what would appear to be horns and ears look more like two sets of ears – I think it’s a cute character either way, but would love to hear your guesses!
I started out with a different color on each nail, all topped with the beautiful, glittery, pearlescent Ulta Diva (I love putting this over a bunch of different colored nails because it ties them all together and makes them look a little more pastel).
Each nail is also stamped with a different color, none of them are made specifically for stamping. I used a combination of thick quick-dry polishes and thinner shimmers to see how both turned out.
The thin outline images on the plate (the chick, bunny, kitty, panda and mystery animal sheep thing) seemed to work better with the thin nail polishes. When I tried to use the insta-dri polishes on the thin outline images they didn’t transfer well; I think this is because the lines are so fine that the thick polish dried almost instantly. The Insta-Dri polish worked great on the bear (which doesn’t have thin lines) and pretty well on the giraffe where there are big spaces for polish to fill.
On a side note I’m really happy that I picked up the Poshe Top Coat, it’s very similar to Seche Vite, but without the toulene. It didn’t smear the polish underneath, not much shrinkage and no chipping as of day 3. Much better than the Orly Top Coat I recently purchased!
If you get anything from their online store use the code EAG10 for a 10% discount.
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Home/World Media/ PM Modi urges US Defence industry to set up manufacturing base
PM Modi urges US Defence industry to set up manufacturing base
Ira Mccoy |Thursday, November 15, 2018
PM Modi urges US Defence industry to set up manufacturing base
The two also discussed enhancement in defence ties with India having acquired billions of dollars of USA defence platforms, equipment and weaponry in the past decade.
In contrast with Trump's preference for bilateral dealings and distrust of global institutions, the meetings in Singapore have championed a commitment to free trade and a multilateral approach to coping with myriad issues, from cybercrime and terrorism to maritime security and e-commerce. Modi also conveyed great appreciation that President Trump had organised a meeting in the White House on Tuesday to celebrate Diwali, the foreign secretary said.
Tackling criticism against the trade tariffs, Ms Campbell said Washington was seeking to make free trade fair.
On the margins of these summits, the prime minister would hold bilateral meetings with other leaders.
Pence said the objective of his trip to Asia this week was to make Trump's vision of his Indo-Pacific strategy a reality, including boosting private investments and infrastructure across the region, and strengthening the US' economic relations with countries based on free, fair and reciprocal trade.
The two leaders had "productive discussion on all aspects of global strategic partnership based on growing convergence of interests on regional and global issues" on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit here, Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Raveesh Kumar said.
Asian nations gave up hopes of completing a 16-nation trade bloc this year, with Chinese and Australian officials now looking to finalize the deal in 2019.China and the USA could find a solution to their trade differences that benefits both sides, Premier Li Keqiang said. "We expressed our readiness to import more oil and gas from the U.S. as a way of expanding our trade", he said.
With Butler in Sixers' mix, Fultz heading to bench
The T-Wolves have won their last two games, both without Butler, so who knows, maybe this deal will work out for them after all. I'm not the fastest guy. "Not too many things go through my mind when I'm out here between these lines".
"Prime Minister referred to his speech here in Singapore in June at the Shangri-La Dialogue in which he had outlined India's vision of the Indo-Pacific", Gokhale said.
China's claims in the South China Sea, through which some $3 trillion of shipborne trade passes each year, are contested by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.
"We have begun importing oil and gas from United States".
The defence sector was another area of cooperation between the two sides. "More than 1.2 billion biometric identities called Aadhaar were created in just a few years".
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence during a meeting with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, not seen, in Singapore, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018.
He said USA support includes work to counter terrorism and pressure North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons and a commitment "to uphold the freedom of the seas and skies where we stand shoulder to shoulder with you for freedom of navigation, and our determination to ensure that your nations are secure in your sovereign borders on land, at sea, and in the digital world".
"So there was some good understanding on the area of how we move forward in building cooperation on counter-terrorism and both countries recognised that this is a challenge which we will have to fight together and to fight along with the rest of the worldwide community", he said.
Iran executes 'Sultan of Coins' convicted of hoarding currency
Vahid Mazloumin and another member of his currency trading network received the death penalty for "spreading corruption on earth". He was reportedly arrested in July and later tried by a special court recently set up to adjudicate suspected financial crimes.
New physical activity guidelines for Americans released
In fact, only 26 percent of men, 19 percent of women and 20 percent of minors are getting the recommended amount of exercise . The new guidelines indicate that physical activity in older adults can reduce the risk of falls and injuries from falls.
Rays’ Blake Snell wins AL Cy Young award
A 25-year-old lefty, Snell had an across-the-board great season with a 21-5 record and 221 strikeouts and a 1.89 ERA . DeGrom got 29 first-place votes and 207 points from members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America .
Protests held over comments made at rape trial
An Irish MP held up a pair of knickers in parliament to highlight the "routine victim blaming" of rape and sexual assault victims. Meanwhile, a series of protests are to take place tomorrow over the barrister's controversial comments.
A British man dies of rabies after holidaying in Morocco
As the disease progresses, there may be hallucinations, respiratory failure and muscle spasms that make it hard to drink. More country specific information on rabies is available through the National Travel Health Network and Centre's website.
World Cup boosted to 16 teams for 2021
World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont said he felt the decision was worldwide recognition for the obsession for rugby in New Zealand. World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont said it nearly felt like the tournament was "coming home" in being awarded to New Zealand.
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Safety Security Officer - W Atlanta Downtown - (19097455)
Here's To Your Journey with W Hotels Boldly coloring outside the
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all, and hit repeat. We share our guests passions, providing
insider access to whats new and whats next. Moderation is not in
our vocabulary and we know that lust for life demands more, not
less. W guests soak it in and live each day with a mantra:
Detox.Retox.Repeat. If youre ready to create the energetic W scene
that is magnetic to everyday disruptors around the world, then we
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Downtown, located at 45 Ivan Allen Jr Blvd NW, Atlanta, Georgia,
30308 is currently hiring a Safety Security Officer.
Responsibilities include: Welcome to our family We welcome you to
be a member of our global, diverse Marriott family. Whether
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importance of making each guest feel as welcome and secure as
possible. Your protective nature and attention to details will play
an important role in our success. Here, your work is appreciated as
much as your individuality and you will be supported in all of your
efforts. The impact youll make Your watchful eye and protective
instinct goes far beyond basic. Because of you, our guests can come
and go freely without worry. Your dedication to safety provides the
guest the same sense of security as they feel in their own home.
What youll do Patrol all areas of the property and assist guests
with room access Monitor security feeds and conduct daily physical
hazard inspections Respond to accidents and assist guests/employees
during emergency situations Defuse guest disturbances and escort
individuals from the property if necessary Conduct investigations,
gather evidence, and facilitate interviews with relevant parties
Complete required shift reports and maintain confidentiality of all
loss prevention documents Perks you deserve Well support you in and
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and development opportunities Encouraging management Wellbeing
programs Discounts on hotel rooms, gift shop items, food and
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communication skills A history of thriving in stressful situations
A team-first attitude A gift for paying attention to the smallest
details Exercise good judgment and maintain a professional
demeanorThis role requires compliance with quality assurance
expectations and standards. You may be required to stand, sit, or
walk for an extended period of time. Move, lift, carry, push, pull,
and place objects weighing less than or equal to 50 pounds without
assistance and assist with moving objects weighing in excess of 75
pounds. Enter and locate work-related information using computers
and/or point of sale systems. Perform other reasonable job duties
as requested by Supervisors. Youre welcomed here Our highest
priority is making you feel as welcome as our guests. We want you
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Appeal by special leave from the Judgment and Order, dated 9-9-1963 of the Allahabad High Court in Civil Writ Petition No. 1885 of 1962-
Excerpt:trust and societies constitutional validity articles 19 (1), 19 (4), 19 (5) and 32 of constitution of india and section 5 of societies registration act, 1860 validity of hindi sammelan act questioned right to form association implies that persons forming association must have right to continue to be associated with only those whom they voluntarily admit in association law which takes away membership of those who voluntarily joined it will be ultra vires law that takes away right of members to keep others out is also bad right guaranteed under article 19 (1) (c) not confined merely to initial stage of forming association right to continue association with membership either chosen by framers or regulated by rules made by association hindi sammelan act which sought to curb rights of.....v. bhargava, j.1. this writ petition and the appeal challenge the validity of the hindi sahitya sammelan act no. 13 of 1962 (hereinafter referred to as 'the act'). the facts leading up to the passing of this enactment are that, in the year 1910, some eminent educationists assembled at banaras and founded an association for the development of hindi and its propagation throughout the country. this association was named as the hindi sahitya sammelan. on the 8th january, 1914, it was registered as a society under the societies registration act no. 21 of 1860, with head office at allahabad, under the name of hindi sahitya sammelan. the rules and bye-laws of the society laid down the objects of this association and the manner of its working. it had three classes of members, viz., special.....
Judgment:
V. Bhargava, J.
1. This writ petition and the appeal challenge the validity of the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan Act No. 13 of 1962 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act'). The facts leading up to the passing of this enactment are that, in the year 1910, some eminent educationists assembled at Banaras and founded an Association for the development of Hindi and its propagation throughout the country. This Association was named as the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan. On the 8th January, 1914, it was registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act No. 21 of 1860, with Head Office at Allahabad, under the name of Hindi Sahitya Sammelan. The rules and bye-laws of the Society laid down the objects of this Association and the manner of its working. It had three classes of members, viz., special members (Vishisht Sadasya), permanent members (Sthayi Sadasya), and ordinary members (Sadharan Sadasya). Under the bye-laws, apart from the original members constituting the Society, further members could be admitted under these three classifications on being elected by the working committee of the Society. Under the Rules and bye-laws of the Society, other bodies could be constituted for carrying on activities of the Society. These included a Governing Body, a Working Committee, a Hindi University Council, Literary Council (Sahitya Samiti), Library Committee, Parchar Samiti and Rashtriaya Bhasha Prachar Samiti. Through the agencies of these various Committees, the Society carried on the work of development and propagation of Hindi, of spreading the use of Devnagri script', of holding examinations, and of conferring Degrees for proficiency in Hindi. The Society owned landed properties and buildings at Allahabad as well as at some other places such as Wardha, and was holding considerable funds for carrying on its activities. The Society worked very successfully for a number of years. It appears that in the year 1950, some differences arose between the members of the Society, and attempt was made to alter the Constitution of the Society. While one section wanted the alterations, another section was opposed to it. This resulted in litigation. Three different suits were instituted in the civil Courts at Allahabad in this connection and injunctions were sought by one party against the other. Ultimately, the Court appointed a Receiver.
2. In view of these circumstances, the U.P. Legislature passed an Act known as the U.P. Hindi Sahitya Sammelan Act No. 36 of 1956, under which a statutory body was created under the name of Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, and the word 'Sammelan' was defined as referring to the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan constituted under the Act. Under that Act. Under that Act, the management and properties of the original Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, which was a registered Society, were to be taken over by the new statutory Sammelan. That Act was, however, declared void by the Allahabad High Court on the ground that that Act had made the original Sammelan cease to exist and had provided for the Constitution of a new Sammelan under its terms in which the members of the original Sammelan had no say, so that that Act infringed the right of the members of the original Sammelan of forming an association guaranteed by Article 19(1)(c) of the Constitution. It was further held that that Act was not saved under Article 19(4) of the Constitution. Thereafter, the present Act, now challenged, in this writ petition and the appeal, was. passed by Parliament under Entry 63 of List I of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution. The Act itself, in Section 2, contained the necessary declaration to give legislative competence to Parliament under that Entry.
3. The Act first contained in Section 2 a declaration in the following words :
Whereas the objects of the institution known as the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan which has its head office at Allahabad are such as to make the institution one of national importance, it is hereby declared that the institution known as the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan is an institution of national importance.
4. Having declared this institution as an institution of national importance, the Act proceeded to define 'Sammelan' as meaning the institution known as the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan incorporated under this Act, while the word 'Society' was defined to mean 'the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan which has its head office at Allahabad and is registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.' under Section 4(1) of the Act, the Sammelan was constituted which was to consist of the first members of the Sammelan and all persons who may hereafter become members thereof in accordance with the rules made in that behalf. This statutory Sammelan was constituted as a body corporate by the name of the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, and Under Sub-section (2) of Section 4, it was to have perpetual succession and a common seal with power, subject to the provision of the Act, to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to contract and to sue and be sued by that name. The Head Office of the Sammelan was to be at Allahabad. Under Sub-section(4) of Section 4, the first members of the Sammelan were to consist of persons who, immediately before the appointed day.-
(a) were special members (Vishisht Sadasya) of the Society;
(b)(were life members (Sthayi Sadasya) of the Society.
(c) had been Presidents of the Society; or
(d) were awarded the Mangla Prasad Paritpshik by the Society.
5. This Sub-section (4) of Section 4 was amended retrospectively with effect from the date that the Act came into force by the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan (Amendment) Act No. I of 1963, and the first members of the Sammelan were, under this amendment, declared to be-
(a) all persons who, immediately before the appointed day, were members of the Society;
(b) all persons who, before that day, had been Presidents of the Society; and
(c) all persons who, before that day, were awarded the Mangla Prasad Paritoshik by the Society.
6. It is not necessary to give in detail the other provisions of the Act, except that it may be mentioned that the Act provided for vesting of all property, movable or immovable, or belonging to the Society in the Sammelan, transferring all rights and Liabilities of the Society to the Sammelan, converting reference to the Society in any law to the Sammelan, and other similar necessary provisions. The Act itself did not make any provision for the future membership of the Sammelan; but, under Section 12(1)(a), the first Governing Body of the Sammelan was directed to make rules in respect of matters relating to membership, including qualifications and disqualifications for membership of the Sammelan. The first Governing Body was to be constituted under Section 8 and was to consist of a Chairman, a Secretary and 13 other members. This Governing Body was to be constituted by a notification in the Official Gazette by the Central Government. The thirteen members were to be chosen as follows:
(i) one member to represent the Ministry of the Central Government dealing with education;
(ii) one member to represent the Ministry of the Central Government dealing with finance;
(iii) not more than three members from among the former Presidents of the Society; and
(iv) the remaining number from among persons who are, in the opinion of the Central Government, eminent in the field of Hindi language or Hindi literature.
7. It was this first Governing Body which was to make rules on all matters relating to membership of the Sammelan under Section 12(1)(a) of the Act. These rules were not have effect until they were approved by the Central Government and were published by the first Governing Body in such manner as the Central Government may, by order, direct. A copy of the rules was also to be laid before each House of Parliament. Counsel for respondent No. 1 placed before us a copy of the rules which, according to him, have been made by the first Governing Body with the approval of the Government and have been published as re-quired. The Rules come into force on 1st of February, 1971. The petition under Article 32, and the petition under Art, 226, out of which the civil appeal arises, were both moved much earlier and long before these Rules were framed. These petitions challenged the validity of the Act, without taking into account the actual Rules framed, mainly on the ground that he Act had interfered with the right of the petitioners to form association under Article 19(1)(c) of the Constitution and was not protected by Article 19(4).In the petition before the Allahabad High Court, the Court held that, since all the members of the Society had also become members of the Sammelan under the Act, there was no infringement of the right to form association, so that the Act could not be declared invalid on that ground. The writ petition in this Court has been filed by only one member of the Society, while the petition in the High Court and the appeal against the judgment of the High Court, which is before us, were filed by the original Hindi Sahitya Sammelan as one party and 72 members of that Sammelan joining as other petitioning parties. In the civil appeal, thus, the grievance that the Act has infringed the fundamental right has been put forward both by the Society itself as well as by 72 of its members, including members of the Working Committee and the Governing Body of the Society. They have all come up to this Court against the decision of the High Court in this appeal by special leave.
8. In the counter-affidavits filed on behalf of the respondents in the writ petition before the High Court as well as in the writ petition in this Court, the position taken up was that the Act, in fact, does not deprive the Society and its members of any rights which they had under the Constitution of the Society and did not interfere with their right of association inasmuch as all the members of the Society have been included as members of the Sammelan under the Act. The High Court, in fact, dismissed the writ petition on accepting this submission put forward on behalf of the respondents. In the arguments before us, learned Counsel for respondent No. 1, however, took up a different position and urged that the Act keeps the Society in-tact as it was, while a new Sapmelan is constituted under the Act for the purpose of managing the institution which has been declared as an institution of national importance. He put this aspect of the case in the forefront, but, in the alternative, he also argued die case on the basis of the position taken up in the counter-affidavits in the High Court and in this Court as mentioned above. We consider it convenient to first deal with the case as was specifically put forward in the counter-affidavits. In these counter-affidavits, the position taken up is that, having declared the old Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, which was a Society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, as an institution of national importance, Parliament has proceeded to legislate in respect of it under Entry 63 of List I of the Seventh Schedule in order that its administration may not suffer as a result of the quarrels that were going on inter-se between the members of the Society. It was for this purpose that a first Governing Body was constituted to take over the management temporarily. The Act was designed to reconstitute the Sammelan in such manner that it could work successfully and without difficulties and, in making provision for this purpose, all members of the old Society were included as members of the Sammelan, so that their right of forming association may not be taken away from them. The Society was never dissolved; instead of the Society remaining a body registered under the Societies Registration Act, it was converted into a statutory Sammelan under the Act.
9. It, however, appears on examination of the provisions of the Act that the Sammelan under the Act is composed not only of persons, who were members of the Society, but of others who have been given the right to be members of the Sammelan without the consent of the pre-existing members. Under Section 4(4) itself, as retrospectively amended in 1963, apart from persons, who were members of the Society, others, who have been made members of the Sammelan, are all persons who, before that day, had been Presidents of the Society and all persons who, before that day, were awarded the Mangla Prasad Paritoshik by the Society. These members have been added without any option being available to the existing members of the Society to elect or refuse to elect them as members which was the right they possessed under the Constitution of the Society itself. Further, under Section 12(1)(a), very wide powers were given to the first Governing Body to make rules in respect of matters relating to membership, including qualifications and disqualifications for membership of the Sammelan. Under this power, the rules framed could make provision for admission of persons as members whom the original members of the Society may never have liked to admit in their Society. The number of such new members could even be so large as to leave the original members in a small minority with the result that those members could become totally ineffective in the Society. Even in the Rules actually framed, there is provision for admission of members under various classes. In addition to the persons mentioned in Section 4(4) of the Act, Rule 6 provides for membership of persons who may become Sabhapatis of the Sammelan for any annual session subsequent to the Act coming into force, and persons who may be awarded Mangala Prasad Paritoshik subsequent to the Act coming into force. Under Rules 7, 8, and 9, new Vishisht Sadasyas, Sthayi Sadasyas, and Sadharan Sadasyas can be admitted to the membership of the Sammelan on payment of Rs. 1,000/-or Rs. 300/-, as the case may be. This admission to membership, according to the Rules, will be made by the new Karya Samiti to be elected under the Rules and not by the Working Committee of the original members of the Association. Further, under Section 7(2) of the Act, the Governing Body of the new Sammelan is to consist of such number of persons, not exceeding 55, as the Central Government may from time to time determine; and out of these, a number not exceeding 7 are to be nominated by the Central Government from among educationists of repute and eminent Hindi scholars. These 7 nominees are to be chosen by the Central Government and on becoming members of the Governing Body, under Rule 11 they become members of the Sammelan. Under Rule 10, educational institutions can also be admitted as Sanstha Sadasyas of the Sammelan by the new Karya Samiti and, thereupon, a representative of each of such institution has a right to participate in the proceedings of the Sammelan, exercising all the rights of a member. It will, thus, be seen that the Sammelan, which has come into existence under the Act, is not identical with the Sammelan which was registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act. 1860. Certain persons have been added as members by the Act and by the Rules. Admission of future members is no longer at the choice of the original members who had formed the Association. Persons, in whose admission as members the members of the Society had no hand, can become members and get the right of associating with them in the Sammelan, without the original members haying any right to object. This is clear interference with the right to form an association which had been exercised by the members of the Society by forming the Society with its Constitution, under which they were members and future members could only come in as a result of their choice by being elected by their Working Committee. We are unable to agree with the High Court that the new Sammelan, as constituted under the Act, is identical with the Society and that all the rights of forming an association, which were being exercised by members of the Society, have been kept in-tact under the Act.
10. It was argued that the right guaranteed by Article 19(1)(c) is only to form an association and, consequently, any regulation of the affairs of the Association, after it has been formed, will not amount to a breach of that right. It is true that it has been held by this Court that, after an Association has been formed and the right under Article 19(1)(c) has been exercised by the members forming it, they have no right to claim that its activities must also be permitted to be carried on in the manner they desire. Those cases are, however, inapplicable to the present case. The Act does not merely regulate the administration of the affairs of the Society, what it does is to alter the composition of the Society itself as we have indicated above. The result of this change in composition is that the members, who voluntarily formed the Association, are now compelled to act in that Association with; other members who have been imposed as members by the Act; and in whose admission to membership they had no say. Such alteration in the composition of the Association itself clearly interferes with the right to continue to function as members of the Association which was voluntarily formed by the, original founders. The right to form an association, in our opinion, necessarily implies that the persons forming the Association have also the right to continue to be associated with only those whom they voluntarily admit in the Association. Any law, by which members are introduced in the voluntary Association without any option being given to the members to keep them out, or any law which takes away the membership of those who have voluntarily joined it, will be a law violating the right to form an association. If we were to accept the submission that the right guaranteed by Article 19(1)(c) is confined to the initial stage of forming an Association and does not protect the right to continue the Association with the membership either chosen by the founders or regulated by rules made by the Association itself, the right would be meaningless because, as soon as an Association is formed, a law may be passed interfering with its composition, so that the Association formed may not be able to function at all. The right can be effective only if it is held to include within it the right to continue the Association with its composition as voluntarily agreed upon by the persons forming the Association. This aspect was recognised by this Court though not in plain words, in the case of O.K. Ghosh and Anr. v. E.X. Joseph [1963] Su 3 S.C.R. 789. The Court, in that case, was considering the validity of Rule 4(B) of the Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1955, which laid down that:
No Government servant shall join or continue to be a member of any Service Association of Government servants:
(a) which has not, within a period of six months from its formation, obtained the recognition of the Government under the Rules prescribed in that behalf; or
(b) recognition in respect of which has been refused or withdrawn by the Government under the said Rules.
This Court held:
It is not disputed that the fundamental rights guaranteed by Article 19 can be claimed by Government servants. Article 33 which confers power on the Parliament to modify the rights in their application to the Armed Forces, clearly brings out the fact that all citizens, including Government servants, are entitled to claim the rights guaranteed by Article 19. Thus, the validity of the impugned rule has to be judged on the basis that the respondent and his co-employees are entitled to form Associations or Unions. It is clear that Rule 4-B imposes a restriction on this right. It virtually compels a Government servant to withdraw his membership of the Service Association of Government Servants as soon as recognition accorded to the said Association is withdrawn or if, after the Association is formed, no recognition is accorded to it within six months. In other words, the right to form an Association is conditioned by the existence of the recognition of the said Association by the Government. If the Association obtains the recognition and continues to enjoy it, Government servants can become members of the said Association; if the Association does not secure recognition from the Government or recognition granted to it is withdrawn, Government servants must cease to be the members of the said Association. That is the plain effect of the impugned rule.
The Court in the above passage, thus, accepted the principle that the Government servants, who may have formed an Association, could not be compelled to resign from it by imposition of a condition of recognition of this Association by the Government and that if the Government servants are required to cease to be members that would be a violation of the right under Article 19 (1)(c). The Court, of course, in that rase, further proceeded to examine whether such a restriction on the right could be justified under Article 19 (4) or not. That case, thus, supports our view that the right to form an Association includes the right to its continuance and any law altering the composition of the Association compulsorily will be a breach of the right to form the Association.
11. this Court had also proceeded on the same basis in the case of State of Madras v. V.G. Rowi : 1952CriLJ966 . Though this aspect was not clearly brought out in the judgment, the point, which came up for consideration, was decided on the basis that persons forming an Association had a right under Art-19(1)(c) to, see that the composition of the Association continues as voluntarily agreed to by them. That decision was given in an appeal from a judgment of the High Court of Madras reported-in V.G. Row v. The State of Madras : AIR1951Mad147 . In the High Court, this principle was clearly formulated by Rajamannar, C.J., in the following words:
The word 'form' therefore, must refer not only to the initial commencement of the association, but also to the continuance of the association as such.
The Act, insofar as it interferes with the composition of the Society in constituting the Sammelan, therefore, violates the right of the original members of the Society to form an association guaranteed under Article 19(1)(c).
12. Article 19(4), on the face of it, cannot be called in aid to claim validity for the Act. Under Article 19(4), reasonable restrictions can be imposed only in the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, or in the interests of public order or morality. It has not been contended on behalf of the respondent, nor could it be contended that this alteration of the Constitution of the Society in the manner laid down by the Act was in the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, or in the interests of public order or morality. Not being protected under Article 19(4), it must be held that the provision contained in the Act for reconstituting the Society into the Sammelan is void. Once that section is declared void, the whole Act becomes ineffective inasmuch as the formation of the new Sammelan is the very basis for all the other provisions contained in the Act.
13. In view of this position emerging in the course of arguments, Mr. B. Sen put forward an entirely different and alternative case before us which we have mentioned earlier. The position he took up was that the Act nowhere specifically lays down that the Society shall stand dissolved, while it does constitute a new Sammelan. According to him, therefore, it should be inferred that, while the Society still continues to exist in its original form, the law has brought into existence a new Sammelan to which all the functions, properties, etc. of the Society have passed under the Act. There are three reasons why this alternative submission cannot be accepted as ensuring the validity of the Act. The first is that the specific case taken by the respondents has been that the Act reconstitutes the Society and does not create a separate and independent body in the form of a new Sammelan. Secondly, even if it be accepted that a new Sammelan has been constituted by the Act, the question wilt arise of the legislative competence of Parliament to pass such a law. Constitution of Societies is under List II of the Seventh Schedule. Parliament purported to exercise legislative power under Entry 63 of List I on the basis of a declaration that the. Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, Allahabad was an institution of national importance. The institution that was declared was the Society itself. It was not a case where the Society could be distinguished from some other institution which might have been declared as an institution of national importance There can, of course, be cases where a Society may be running a college, a school or some other like institution, in which case Parliament may declare that particular institution as of national importance, without declaring the Society as such In the present case, what Section 2 of the Act did was to declare the Society itself as an institution of national importance and, consequently, Parliament became competent to legislate in respect of the Society. On the interpretation now sought to be put forward, the Act keeps that Society in-tact, but deprives it of all its functions and properties and transfers them to a newly constituted body, viz., the Sammelan, as defined under the Act. This Sammelan is itself a body corporate, and that Sammelan has never been declared as an institution of national importance. The only institution that was declared as of national importance was the Society which, of course, earlier, carried the same name as the new Sammelan. Parliament was, therefore, not competent to legislate in respect of this newly constituted Sammelan which, at no stage, had been declared as an institution of national importance. The third reason why this submission must be rejected is that, if we were to hold that Parliament passed this Act so as to transfer all the properties and assets of the Society to the Sam-melan, the Act would contravene Article 19(1)(f) of the Constitution. On this interpretation, what the Act purports to do is to take away all the properties of the Society, leaving the Society as an existing body, and give them to the new Sammelan. This Sammelan is a new, separate and distinct legal entity from the Society. The Society is, thus, deprived of all its properties by the Act. Such a law depriving the Society of its properties altogether cannot be held to be a reasonable restriction in the public interest on the right of the Society to hold the property. The property, under Section 5 of the Societies Registration Act, 1860, vested in the Governing Body of the Society. The members of the Governing Body, therefore had the right to hold the property u'nder Article 19(1)(f) and they having been deprived of that property have rightly approached the Courts for redress of their grievance.
14. In this connection counsel for the respondents relied on decision, of this Court in The Board of Trustees, Ayurvedic and Unani Tibia College, Delhi v. The State of Delhi and Anr. [1962] Sul. S.C.R. 156 where the Board of Trustees of the Ayurvedic and Unani Tibbia College, Delhi was dissolved by the Tibbia College Act, 1952, and the property, which had vested in the Board of Trustees, passed to the newly constituted Board under the impugned Act. The Court held that there was no violation of the fundamental rights guaranteed by Article 19(1)(f) or Article 31 That decision, however, proceeded on the basis that the property of the original Society registered under the Societies Registration Act had vested in the Board of Trustees which had been dissolved and the property, thereafter, did not vest in the members of the Society in view of the provisions of the Act of 1860. In these circumstances, it was held that no one could complain that his right to property under Article 31 or his right to hold the property under Article 19(1)(f) had been violated by the impugned Act. In the present case, the applicability of Article 19(1)(f) is being considered by us on the assumption that the old Society still exists as it was and, yet all its properties have been transferred to the Sammelan. If the Society still exists, so does its Governing Body in whom the property of the Society vested. The Act, thus, deprives the members of the Governing Body of the property which still continued to vest in them in spite of the passing of the Act. This total deprivation of property, instead of regulating the management of the affairs of the Society or its properties, cannot clearly be justified as a reasonable restriction in public interest. It is true that, at the time when the Act was passed, litigation was going on between the members of the Society, and the affairs of the Society were probably in a mess. The remedy, however, could not lie in depriving the Society of its property altogether. Reasonable restrictions-could have been imposed so as to ensure the proper preservation of the property of the Society and its proper management. If the law is passed not merely for ensuring proper management and administration of the property, but for totally depriving the persons, in whom the property vested, of their right to hold the property, the law cannot be justified as a reasonable restriction under Article 19(5). Consequently, even on this alternative position taken up by counsel for the respondents, the Act cannot be held to be valid.
15. As a result, the petition and the appeal are both allowed with costs. The Act is declared to be invalid, so that there will be restraint on the concerned bodies, including the Union Government, from taking or continuing any action under the Act. There will be one hearing fee.
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View from Elsje Pint Lighthouse, Vanier Park.
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Comments on: 10/11 Parent Company Plans to Purchase KNOPhttp://www.northplattepost.com/2013/11/22/knop/
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Mon, 25 Nov 2013 18:34:00 +0000http://www.northplattepost.com/?p=57968#comment-152994hopefully they will do a better job on interveiwing and selecting more qualified individuals to present news casts and sports casts. who takes Joe Swift seriously. He is an embarrasment. The new guy in the mornings cant even READ the news cast correctly. Come on we should be able to attract better news casters. Rachel Kilmer is oustanding so she won’t be here long, no where to move up too.
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Sun, 24 Nov 2013 14:34:00 +0000http://www.northplattepost.com/?p=57968#comment-152976Will all our news, weather and sports folks get to keep their jobs? Its my favorite station, because they cover what is important to us, around North Platte.
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Fri, 22 Nov 2013 23:28:00 +0000http://www.northplattepost.com/?p=57968#comment-152953So will it stay an NBC affiliate, or become CBS? We need both in this area.
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The NomineesThe Casuarina Cove (Tanjong Rhu) by Junfeng Boocontre – jour by Christoph Girardet and Matthias MüllerA Horse Is Not A Metaphor by Barbara Hammer
The b>TEDDY for Best Short Film
endowed with 3,000- €, donated by the Teddy Foundation
goes to
A HORSE IS NOT A METAPHOR
by Barbara Hammer
Jury statement:
The Teddy Award fort he best short film goes to Barbara Hammer`s A Horse Is Not A Metaphor. An intimate visual essay about her journey to survive ovarian cancer - the film continues her ongoing investigation of the body and sexuality as well as the transformational possibilities of hope and healing within us all.
Der Teddy für den besten Kurzfilm geht an Barbara Hammers A Horse Is Not A Metaphor. Ein sehr intimes visuelles Essay über ihren Weg, den Eierstock-Krebs zu überleben. Der Film setzt ihre anhaltende Beschäftigung mit dem Körper und der Sexualität fort und verdeutlicht, welche Veränderungen Hoffnung und Heilung in uns allen bewirken können.
The TEDDY Foundation awards JOHN HURT with the TEDDY for Best Acting Performance for his outstanding acting performance in An Englishman In New York. / Für seine außergewöhnliche schauspielerische Leistung in "An Englishman In New York".
The NomineesCity Of Borders by Yun SuhFig Trees by John GreysonQueer Sarajevo Festival 2008 by Masa Hilcisin, Cazim Dervisevic
The TEDDY for the Best Documentary Film
endowed with 3,000- €, donated by elledorado e.V. goes to
FIG TREES by John Greyson
Jury statement:
With his familiar cheeky style, Greyson’s operatic tour de force smashes conventional barriers of form and genre to reinvent the documentary. Integrating personal histories with an indictment of governments and pharmaceutical companies, Fig Trees colorfully expands the conversation about AIDS and AIDS activism from local struggles to global collaboration.
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On the Startup tab, right-click each enabled startup item and select Disable.
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Click Start and type msconfig in the search box.
Press Enter.
On the General tab, select Normal startup.
Click OK.
Click Yes when asked to restart your computer.
Clean boot in Windows XP
To perform a clean boot in Windows XP:
Click Start > Run, type msconfig and then click OK.
On the General tab, choose Selective Startup.
Clear the following check boxes:
Process SYSTEM.INI file
Process WIN.INI file
Load Startup items
Click the Services tab.
Select the Hide All Microsoft services check box (at the bottom).
Click Disable all.
Click OK.
Click Restart.
After completing your troubleshooting, restore your system by doing the following:
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Thank God for Our Bibles
While Scripture comes in many flavors today, we can still trust these translations to give us God's Word.
J. I. Packer| October 27, 1997
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1997This article is part of CT's digital archives. Subscribers have access to all current and past issues, dating back to 1956.
In one respect, today's English-reading believers are the most privileged Christians of all time. Available to us are more vernacular versions of Holy Scripture than any generation before us had, and all the mainline ones are good. (I am not considering here such renderings as the Jehovah's Witnesses' New World Version. ) It is important, however, to grasp that they are good in different ways, according to how each seeks to impact its targeted readership. The goal is still Luther's and Tyndale's goal, that ordinary people might clearly understand the Word of God, but it is pursued by different routes.
Versions is an umbrella word that covers all the products of the two main translation methods currently in use. Some versions opt for grammatical equivalence, that is, a word-for-word and clause-for-clause correspondence with the original as far as possible. The risk here is stiffness of style, unnatural English, and consequent obscurity. Other versions aim at dynamic equivalence, that is, a rendering that conveys the substance and force of the original, though at the cost of periodic paraphrase. The risk here is a woolly superficiality that keeps readers from deep and exact understanding. The ideal would be an equivalence that was fully literal and fully dynamic too, but that is not always possible, because the usage of pre-Christian Hebrew and first-century Greek does not always match that of modern English. So tradeoffs are inescapable in the translation process, and here the versions fan out into three main types.
Some prefer verbal equivalence, even if awkward, over punchy vividness in places where you cannot have both. Examples of this are the New King James Version (NKJV) and the New American Standard ...
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Check out First Blood's 'Silence Is Betrayal'
I'm not a huge Hardcore listener, but occasionally a hardcore band stands out enough to make me listen to the whole album. First Blood is one of those bands.
The album is chock full of breakdowns, and heavy riffs, but that's to be found on any ol' hardcore bands album. What makes First Blood Standout more is their vocalist for me. His voice is in your face and powerful. It's got this weird mechanical feel too which I'm not sure how to explain entirely. The lyrics are hugely political. Which may be a turn off to a lot of people. In a sticking it to the man way. There a constant news audio clips about war and a song pretty much dedicated to the mystery behind 9/11. Hardcore is built on a screw the man and be outspoken on your views attitude which these guys definitely get across in this album.
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Saturday, June 03, 2017
“For millions of years, Earth was fertile and
rich. Then pollution and waste began to take their toll. Civilization fell into
ruin. This is the world of the 25th Century. Only a handful of scientists
remain, men who have vowed to re-build what has been destroyed. This is their
achievement: Ark II, a mobile storehouse of scientific knowledge manned by a
highly trained crew of young people. Their mission: to bring the hope of a new
future to mankind.”
-Voice-over narration for Ark II
(1976)
Since it is summer-time and I am working on a book, I am going to re-post my retrospective of the post-apocalyptic Filmation series Ark II for the next few weeks. I'll blog a fresh series in the fall!
Ark IIaired on Saturday mornings beginning
September 11, 1976 and ran for fifteen 22-minute episodes. Like many science
fiction TV efforts of the time, it was rather determinedly a “civilization of the week” program; meaning that each
week, the diverse protagonists traveled (usually by a ground vehicle; sometimes
on foot…) to a new and strange civilization.
Basically, it wasStar Trek all
over again, only without the U.S.S. Enterprise and outer space as useful
backdrops. With some variation, the
format was seen in The Starlost (1973), Planet of the Apes (1974), Logan’s Run (1977) The Fantastic Journey (1977)and in the 1980s programOtherworld,to name a few examples. Star
Trek creator Gene Roddenberry himself had attempted to take the civilization
of the week formula to new heights withGenesis IIandPlanet Earth,
two made-for-tv movie/backdoor series pilots from the early 1970s.
Although it aired during America’s optimistic bicentennial year,Ark IIwas set in the new Dark Ages of 25th
century, and focused on a large, impressive, high-tech tank-like vehicle, the
Ark II, which traversed the wasteland in order to aid the survivors of an
environmental disaster. In a hold-over from the popular youth movement of the
late 1960s and early 1970s, Ark II’s crew is described in each
week’s opening narration as a “highly
trained crew of young people.”
Specifically, the crew ofArk
IIconsisted of the
bearded Captain Jonah (Terry Lester), scientist Ruth (Jean Marie Hon), and
young scholar Samuel (Jose Flores). In a
weird, unspoken acknowledgment of Planet of the Apes’ continuing
popularity, these young humans also traveled with a talking chimpanzee named Adam
who could play chess and drive the Ark in a pinch.
You may have noticed that all the crew names listed above arise
from Judaism, and thus carry resonances beyond the obvious. In the Hebrew Bible, Jonah was a “truth
seeker,” which is a term you might use for the stalwart captain of Ark II. Ruth was the name for a “companion,” in the
same text, and Samuel was a man on the cusp of two eras, the last Hebrew judge
and the first prophet. Similarly, on Ark
II, the young Samuel is a child of the Dark Age who will also live in
the period of the New Enlightenment, or recovery. As for the ape, he is named
for Adam, the first human male.
The name “ark,” of course, calls up imagery of Noah’s Ark, the
craft that repopulated the Earth after a disaster, the Great Flood.
The first episode ofArk IIis
called “The Flies.” Written by Martin Roth and directed by Ted Post, it finds
Captain Jonah recording his log entry numbered 1444. The Ark is patrolling
Sector 83, Area 12, investigating a gang called “The Flies”that is responsible for “serious infringements on the rights of the others.”
The assignment: bring “discipline” and “reason” into their lives. The name “The Flies” conjures images of
William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies (1954), which also
concerned a society of children.
Unfortunately for Jonah, the Flies --an interracial gang of youngsters -- are entirely loyal to their leader, a rapscallion named Fagan and a
scoundrel played by the one-and-only Jonathan Harris, Lost in Space’s Dr. Smith.
Fagan is named after Charles Dickens’ famous Oliver Twist character Fagin,
a “receiver of stolen goods” and man
who encourages a life of crime in children, turning them into thieves. In Ark
II’s “The Flies,” Fagin and his group of thieves discover ancient poison
gas canisters, ones that are still functional.
After capturing Jonah, Fagan takes the poison gas cylinders (and
a gas mask to protect himself), and heads to the HQ of a local warlord Brack
(Malachi Throne), who lives in the “the Village of the Lords,”
actually the Ape City set from the live-actionPlanet of the ApesTV series and films. Fagan believes he
has found “the ultimate weapon,” and attempts to wrest control of
the warlords from Brack. Brack beats Fagan at his own game, however, and
captures the Flies, forcing Fagan to forfeit his leadership
Ruth, Samuel and Adam save Jonah and free Fagon and the Flies from
warlord subjugation. They also retrieve
and dismantle all the dangerous gas canisters without ever resorting to
violence. Instead, they neutralize the gas and change it into Nitrous Oxide
(laughing gas).
Finally, the episode ends with a moral statement from Jonah: “weapons man creates to use against others can easily be turned
against himself.”
Although the series is now over forty years old, the look and
production design ofArk II remains admirable. The main cast, for instance, wears
skin-tight and attractive space-age uniforms with computerized belts and cuffs
(replete with wrist communicators). One can see how this design influenced
laterStar Trekoutings,
including The Motion Picture (1979).
Also the exterior, post-apocalyptic set design is kind of interesting: a
mix of the Old West, Vikings, and the aforementionedPlanet of the Apes.
Interestingly, Ark II presages the barbarity and chaos ofThe Road Warrior (1981) on a TV budget and within TV
restrictions.
The Ark II itself, built by the Brubaker Group, remains a
remarkable piece of hardware, a life-size, operational vehicle. It looks
thoroughly convincing….especially in motion. In the series, this high tech truck
is equipped with a protective force field.
The Ark II also billets a smaller exploratory vehicle, the fast-moving
roamer.
I find it fascinating that Ted Post directed this premiere
episode of Ark II. A veteran director of
The
Twilight Zone and Boris Karloff’s Thriller, his movie career had taken
off in the early 1970s with Beneath the Planet of the Apes
(1970) and the Dirty Harry sequel, Magnum Force (1973). Given this impressive CV, it’s odd that, by
1976, Post was helming Saturday morning television. He does a good job handling the actors and
action in “The Flies,” and of introducing all of the various tech, from the Ark
itself, to the roamer, to Jonah’s rocket pack (which looks identical to one
used on Lost in Space years earlier.)
The
evil wizard plans to keep the pet until the denizens of Lidsville pay him all their
back-taxes. Mark (Butch Patrick) decides it is time to fight Hoo-Doo with some
old artillery, and war threatens to come to the world of hats.
Just
as the rebellion of Good Hats heats up, Hoo-Doo’s nice brother, Bruce (Charles
Nelson Reilly) unexpectedly shows up. He’s the white sheep of the family for
his decency and generosity, and is horrified at his brother’s behavior. He returns
Little Ben to the Good Hats, and decides to do good for Lidsville.
This
decision does not sit well with Hoo-Doo.
Charles
Nelson Reilly makes the most of a juicy (ad silly) double role in “Oh, Brother,”
playing Hoo-Doo’s twin sibling, Bruce as well as the evil wizard. Bruce is the opposite of Hoo-Doo in every
way, counseling peace and love, and suggesting that everyone in Lidsville
should treat each other like…brothers.
Bruce
goes further than that, however. He also demands that the Bad Hats return all
of Ho-Doo’s illegally collected money.
Before the half-hour is over, Bruce has even overseen a musical number,
noting that peace has come to Lidsville.
When
Hoo-Doo returns from a visit to the Imperial Wizard, he is shocked to see that
his brother has destroyed his fortune. Bruce informs him that by giving up the
money Hoo-Doo could finally be liked. But to Hoo-Doo this is anathema. Hoo-Doo
doesn’t “want to be liked.” Instead, he
wants to be “rich.” Or, as he notes,
specifically, “rich and mean.”
This
episode, “Oh, Brother,” works well in part because it again puts CNR front and
center, but also because it doesn’t obsess on the gimmick of getting Mark home
to the “real world,” only to see hopes quashed at the end of the installment.
Friday, June 02, 2017
From Kubrick’s 2001:
A Space Odyssey until George Lucas’s Star Wars (1977)
the space film genre -- in film and on television -- evidenced
a deep belief in man’s capacity to tame the solar system, and offered a
realistic rather than glamorous portrayal of man himself.
In other words, man’s technology had improved to the point where (near)
space could be conquered, but humanity itself remained as venal, as grasping, as
competitive, and as conflicted as ever.
Another film from the same milieu is Journey
to the Far Side of the Sun(British title:Doppelganger). This science fiction film was a perennial on
WABC Channel 7’s 4:30 pm movie in the New York market during the mid-to-late
1970's, and as such, represented an early obsession both for me and my older
sister.
To this day, you can likely ask my sister about that
strange science fiction movie from the 1970's in which a man removes his eyeball
in a red-lit darkroom, or another man pile-drives his wheelchair into a mirror,
and get a visceral response from her about the imagery.
Beyond those personal memories, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun arises
from the impressive stable of British producers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, and
seems a perfect representation of their brand in its glory days.
And what does that brand entail, precisely?
It's a simple three-part formula, really.
The gadgetry and miniatures.
First, the typical Anderson production boasts high-tech
gadgetry galore, created with an eye towards scientific accuracy, and with
elaborate, state-of-the-art costumes, sets, props, and miniatures.
Near future man on the cusp of space exploration.
Secondly, said production showcases a narrative focus on
the near future "space age,” when man is not yet so “evolved” that he is
unrecognizable as man. In the Anderson
canon, stories often occur just as turn-of-the-century man is taking his first
footsteps into the solar system at large.
The advantage of this setting is its appeal to the young. I’m a perfect example, I suppose. I was captivated by Journey to the Far Side of the
Sun and Space: 1999 at a young age, and believed that such futures were
possible -- nay probable -- in my life time.
The Mystery.
And finally, the perfect Anderson production highlights, a
macabre, deeply disturbing "twist" that exposes the nature of the
universe as something beyond modern man’s capacity to conceive or conquer. In space, we are confronted with a realm where
there are no easy answers, no pat solutions.
For example, in UFO (1970), we learn that aliens are
harvesting our organs. In Space: 1999 (1975 – 1977), the moon
is blasted out of Earth’s orbit and sent careening into a universe of monsters
and mysticism that 20th century man is psychologically and
technologically unprepared to encounter.
Personally, the Anderson creative formula represents one of
my favorite types of storytelling, andJourney
to the Far Side of the Sunis
a potent, crisply-edited declaration of all the ingredients I tallied
above. It is a sharp -- and often
unsettling -- mix of2001:
A Space Odyssey(1968), the
James Bond films of the Connery era and even a little bit ofPlanet of the Apes(1968) tossed in for good
measure.
The explicit premise of Journey to the Far Side of the
Sun is that there exists beyond the sun a “mirror” world. It is a heretofore-hidden planet and a
reverse “copy” of Earth.
As the movie explains, all the matter here on our Earth has
been “duplicated” there on that planet, but in reversed fashion, much like you’d
see while gazing into the mirror.
Accordingly, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun supports its theme by
featuring a number of compositions involving mirrors or other reflective
surface. I find this visual approach
quite intelligent, and the leitmotif of mirrors forecasts a brilliant line of
dialogue spoken inSolaris (1972) a few years later: “We don’t need other worlds, we need a mirror.”
In Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, an
American astronaut, Glen Ross (Roy Thinnes), and the men and women of a
European version of NASA called EUROSEC discover that very mirror, and in the
end knowledge of that mirror (and that world) drives at least one man, Jason
Webb (Patrick Wymark) insane.
What remains delightful about this fact is that the movie
leaves the exact reasons for Webb’s insanity open to interpretation, as we
shall see.
Beyond the creepy idea of a world identical to ours, but in
reverse, Journey to The Far Side of the Sunimpresses due to a few other key factors.
First, the film climaxes with an unrelentingly grim final
act, and an uncompromising, bleak finale.
You can’t make the claim the movie lacks the courage of its
convictions. There is no ameliorating
Hollywood bullshit to make serviceable the possibility of a happy ending (see: Oblivion
[2013]) here.
And secondly, the film’s Anderson-esque approach to space
travel -- basically that it’s a dangerous
and expensive enterprise -- makes the whole film feel incredibly grounded,
and therefore incredibly believable. One
of the film’s main protagonists, the aforementioned Webb, is downright
Machiavellian in his manner of getting things done. He’s on the side of the angels, but his
methods aren’t exactly…nice.
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun remains a dazzling head-trip from an era (and team) that
believed space travel was inevitable, but one that proves --- because of the
meticulous nature of the production -- both compelling and scarily believable,
even in 2014.
“You wouldn’t want
anyone else to get there first, would you?”
Journey To The Far Side of the Sundramatizes the story of
EUROSEC, a European space agency run by the hard-driving Jason Webb (Wymark), a
man determined to launch a space mission to examine a new planet discovered in
the solar system, one that we can't observe from Earth.
The recently launched Sun Probe snapped images of the alien
world using its"cine
camera"and brought
back to Earth the"first
photographic evidence"of
the heretofore undetected planet. This discovery is vetted in a sequence that
forecasts today's video-conferencing capability, with Webb making an address
and visual presentation to EUROSEC members across the globe.
Because a space flight to the new planet will cost a billion dollars, America and
NASA are brought in to share the cost of the journey. An American astronaut and the first man on
Mars, Colonel Glen Ross (Thinnes) will command the mission. At home, however, Ross is facing more
earthbound problems. He has not been able to conceive a child with his sexy but
harsh wife -- the daughter of an ambitious American politician -- who tells him
his sterility is due to his work in space.
“You went up there
a man, but you came back less than a man,”
she snipes.
Going along with Glen on the mission is John Kane (Ian
Hendry), a British astrophysicist who has never been to space before. Together,
these men train for the arduous six week mission and the film follows every
detail of the process. From there, the audience is treated to sweeping shots of
colossal rockets on launch pads (courtesy of special effects wizard Derek
Medding), pans across vast mission control centers, and intense close-ups of
space-suited astronauts ready to commence the mission.
When Ross and Kane reach the distant planet, their lander
crashes on the surface and Kane suffers devastating life-threatening injuries. But
Ross awakes to find himself on Earth…or a duplicate of Earth where everything –
including the writing -- is reversed.
After several interrogations by EUROSEC, Ross is able to
convince the alternate version of Jason Webb of the truth: he completed his
mission successfully, and now he stands on an alien world. Just as another Ross – originating from this world -- is now talking to a
“mirror image” or doppelganger of Webb on Glen’s Earth.
Webb and Ross devise a plan to get him home, but a
miscalculation involving the polarity of electricity scuttles the mission,
killing Ross and nearly destroying EUROSEC in the process.
Years or perhaps decades later, later a defeated Webb -- an
old, very sick man -- gazes in a mirror at a rest home, and reaches out
longingly for the mirror image there…
“How much is it going to cost us this time?”
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun is dominated, oddly enough, by discussions of money. Jason
Webb is the head of EUROSEC, and a man who finds himself a beggar, asking for
money to further man’s scientific frontiers.
French, German, and American members of EUROSEC are not
impressed by his proposal to land men on the distant, newly discovered planet,
and tell him so.
“How much is it going
to cost us this time?” asks one character.
“A realistic
estimate?” queries another.
“Such a sum is out
of the question!” declares a third council
member, when talk of a billion dollars is bandied about.
The point here I suppose is, well, when was the last time
the Emperor asked Darth Vader how much it would cost to build another Death
Star?
That’s not a dig at Star Wars so much as an
acknowledgment that many popular space or science fiction franchises simply
ignore matters of money or the economy because their creators assume that such
talks are boring, or out of place in science fiction drama.
I would argue a different tact: discussions of space travel
economics tend to make futuristic productions seem more realistic, and that’s
an important task when you consider that -- nestled at the far side of the sun
-- there exists a mirror planet housing duplicates of every single one of
us.
It helps us to accept the unbelievable, in other words, if
we know the rest of the story is, actually, grounded in recognizable reality.
When he must solicit funding from the Americans for his
mission, Webb must also compromise and accept an American commanding officer
for the task. He is willing to make this
accommodation because he understands the importance of the space flight. Again,
what is being showcased quite explicitly in Journey to the Far Side of the
Sun is the horse-trading of politics.
It’s not romantic and it isn’t pretty, but again, it’s true to who we
are as a species.
Some of Webb’s compromises are much more distasteful,
however, and that’s a realistic touch too.
For instance, Webb knows there is a security leak at
EUROSEC and, at least tacitly, allows information about the new planet to be
leaked to Europe’s enemies (presumably The Soviet Union or Red China…) so as to
get the Americans on his side for the mission.
He has the spy (Herbert Lom) killed, but not before the leak occurs.
Because now he can taunt the Americans with being
second-best. “You wouldn’t want anyone
else to get there first, would you?”
Mission
accomplished. The only thing that could get us to Mars
tomorrow is the knowledge that Putin is trying to get there today.
This idea of space travel as a political and expensive game
also plays out inSpace: 1999episodes such as "Dragon's
Domain" and in severalUFOepisodes, wherein Commander
Straker (Ed Bishop) must go before the unimpressed faces of bureaucracy to
request more funds for SHADO.
Again, I view such discussion of politics and money as a necessary
bow to reality and accuracy, and inJourney
to the Far Side of the Sun, Webb is able to afford to build the
Phoenix -- the rocket bound for the alien world -- only because he knows how to
play the political money game better than anyone else does.
In Moon Zero Two, we saw how big money
was “civilizing” the moon and squashing personal freedom. Here we see how money is a necessary evil if
space is to be explored. It’s the other
fuel source that powers our rockets, our moon bases, and so on.
Outside this acknowledgment of reality in a genre that is often given to wild flights
of fancy, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun is resolutely
creepy because it subtly asks vital questions regarding its unusual
“doppelganger” premise.
What if there were two versions of you? What if everyone
here on Earth had an exact duplicate there, on the other world?
Would the existence of that duplicate take away from our
own senses of individuality and identity?
Would society collapse?
Could we still claim that Earth is the center of the
universe (and center of God's universe), if just across the solar system
existed a second Earth, exact in every way?
The climax of the film involves an elderly Jason Webb -- wheelchair bound and debilitated by heart disease -- pondering, no
doubt, the very questions I ask above. He spies his reflection -- his double --
in a wall-sized mirror and reaches out for it.
His “other self” is just out of reach, and he begins racing for it...an
attempt to touch the unknown, to understand the self, to bring together two
opposites.
So has Jason gone mad because he can’t truly encounter his
other self?
Or is he insane because he now possesses knowledge of that other
self’s existence, and information that, therefore, he is no longer the singular
creation he believed himself to be?
Or finally, is the reflection in the mirror simply a
notation, a deadly reminder, that he lost his greatest game? He never got back to that planet. He never succeeded.
When Jason reaches out so desperately, is he trying to
strangle the memory of his greatest failure? Or accomplish by touch that which
rockets could not: intimate interface with the other world?
I love that Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
literally boasts a smashing ending, but also one open to many
interpretations.
The leitmotif of doubling or reflections builds splendidly
to this emotional pay-off. Throughout
the film, we see reflections in ponds, and even the imaginary “other” Ross as
he delivers his theory of doppelgangers to Jason.
In the end, Jason is near death, and he must reckon with
the knowledge that the universe is far more bizarre than he could have
imagined. His final act is one of
exploration failed. And that’s a mirror
image of the Phoenix’s failure. In the end, the mirror is shattered, and
contact with the other planet is not made.
Certainly, there will be those among us who gaze atJourney at the Far Side of the
Sunand
decry the deliberate, methodical pace (a trait it shares in common with
Kubrick'sSpace
Odyssey).
In our day and age, we've become accustomed to shock
cutting, myriad close-ups, and the whiz-bang pace of blockbuster films. By
contrast, this film is perhaps a relic of an earlier, less adrenaline-addicted
age.
To enhance its sense of reality, Journey to the Far Side of the
Sun literally wallows in the details and minutiae (but also the
beauty...) of space travel. It attempts to methodically and precisely capture
the details of the endeavor, from its accurate depiction of weightlessness to
the impact of G-forces on the fragile human body. I'm afraid this is the kind
of thing that movies today just don't have the time for anymore. CGI monstrosities
and vistas have made us forget about the wonders of our own age: rocket launches,
weightlessness, or the view of Earth from space.
Even the opening credits of Journey to the Far Side of the
Sun seem to boast this love of technology. We are treated to multitudinous shots of
spinning tape reels, the digits on computer punch cards, whirring teletype
machines, and other touches that don’t exactly seem “romantic.” And yet there is a real beauty to them too as
they are presented in montage form alongside Barry Gray’s soaring
sound-track. In the early 1970s, Robert
Wise adopted a similar approach with the credits of The Andromeda Strain,
making them a brand of computerized art-form.
One can sense the same idea at work here: Our technology is our doorway
to other worlds, other experiences, and it is, in a way, quite beautiful.
That idea of beauty, of course, is countered, in the film’s
finale, when man makes a mistake with his technology, and disaster
blossoms. But still, there are moments in
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun that veritably promise a golden age
of space travel and space technology. These moments still have the capacity to
inspire.
I’ll be writing more about this idea in the weeks ahead,
but I’ve always believed it was a bum rap that Anderson programs and films got
tagged with the description of “wooden.”
On the contrary, the characters and the presentation of the characters in Journey to the Far Side of the
Sun are realistic, and multi-dimensional. There’s an administrator who is fighting for the
side of good, but does bad to get the job done.
There’s an astronaut who gets hosannas from the world, but only raw
hatred from his wife at home. There’s a
EUROSEC security chief who is a beautiful female, and yet doesn’t feel the need
to be butch or bullying, or even domineering. Instead, she is gentle and kind. Every one of these characters shows the
inherent contradictions and surprises that humanity is capable of.
There’s a perfect scene here, too, that expresses this
notion.
It occurs right before the Phoenix lifts off. The scene is set in Mission Control at
EUROSEC, and all the sounds of computers and intercoms go silent for a moment,
replaced with the solitary pulse of a
human heart-beat.
This sudden, unexpected,
living beat reminds the viewer that we -- the human race -- are at the
center of all this technology. Humanity
is what makes space exploration possible.
We may make mistakes, we may miscalculate, but our heart-beat is at the very
center of things, making all accomplishments possible.
Thursday, June 01, 2017
On the coast, Virdon (Ron Harper), Burke (James Naughton), and Galen (Roddy McDowall) stop to rescue a man strapped to a raft in the sea.
As the humans note, someone put him "on the outgoing tide...deliberately!"
The unfortunate human's name is Gahto (John McLiam), and he has run afoul of the local ape culture, which depends on fishing for its economic growth.
The humans in the community are fishermen who live a life of servitude, and fear the "Gods of the Sea," (sharks). They also wear "bands" of enforcement around their wrists, showing their status as slaves.
Before long, Virdon and Burke are captured and taken to the fishing village. They claim to be expert fisherman, but to prove themselves to the apes must survive a trial in the water...swimming beneath a sheet of fire. The astronauts both survive, and soon begin to share with the humans more advanced fishing methods, including the use of nets...
Unfortunately, "Tomorrow's Tide" is another veritable time-waster in the Planet of the Apes TV catalog. The episode features no sense of mythology whatsoever, about the world's history or even about Burke and Virdon's attempts to return home.
Instead, the episode focuses on the twin narrative obsessions of the series at this point, which are, in order, tricking the local ape government officials (so as to make them look foolish), and bringing 20th century know-how to the primitive human and ape cultures.
Again, it is rich that this series champions 20th century humanity, given that it was that brand of humanity that, essentially, destroyed the world, and thus gave the future to simian-kind.
"Tomorrow's Tide" is distinguished by some lovely location footage. The shots set at sea are impressive, especially in long shot. There's also a lot of swimming in the episode, and much effective stunt-work.
Beyond those virtues, however, the episode is largely devoid of interest or surprise. Roscoe Lee Brown and Jay Robinson play guest-starring apes, and do good work in their roles but there are no larger issues around the narrative to react to, or to analyze here.
As I pointed out in my previous episode reviews, Planet of the Apes: The TV Series rarely focuses on matters of mythology; like the hunt to find a computer to play Virdon's computer disc. The series also rarely if ever focuses on the history of this "upside down" world, making audiences aware of how the apes established dominion over the Earth.
Even the issue of racism, which is the series' bread-and-butter is not addressed very thoughtfully here (as it is, for instance, in the brilliant episode "The Deception.")
I remember reading a long time ago, that Charlton Heston intentionally reduced his participation in the franchise because he feared that it would eventually just become, in his words, adventures with monkeys.
The TV series, at this point, features no real drive or urgency, and the story features no forward momentum. It is, for lack of a better word, adventures with monkeys. There are captures, and rescues galore, but no real depth.
On
a return voyage to Earth in a space capsule, astronaut Colonel Neil Stryker
(Glen Corbett) and his two astronaut cohorts experience terrible turbulence. While
still in space, they black out.
Stryker
awakes -- apparently on Earth -- the only survivor of the space mission. He
finds himself locked in an unfamiliar hospital, however, while tended to by friendly
Dr. Revere (Tim O’Connor), a man he has never met. Stryker grows suspicious over
time, as his quarantine in the hospital goes on.
Soon,
he engineers an escape from the facility, and learns that he is actually on a
different planet all-together: Terra. The planet seems very much like Earth, down
to the make of certain cars and fashion sensibilities, but it possesses three
moons.
Also,
Terra is in the grips of a totalitarian state.
About
thirty-five years earlier, a political philosophy called “The Perfect Order”
came into effect on Terra, dedicated to “harmony” and “peace.” Unfortunately,
it is the harmony and peace of an overbearing state government, one of a huge
bureaucracy and constant surveillance of its people.
After
his escape, Stryker is pursued by Benedict (Cameron Mitchell) and other agents
of the state, who fear that one man outside the Perfect Order can do “a lot of damage” to Terra’s harmonious way
of life.
Stryker
befriends a physician, Dr. Batina Cook (Sharon Acker), who takes him to a
dissident and professor (Lew Ayres). Together they plan to get Stryker aboard a
rocket, so he can return home to Earth.
Unfortunately,
Benedict and his goons are closing in, jeopardizing Stryker’s escape from
Terra. He misses his launch window, sees his allies killed, and realizes that
his immediate future is on this alien world in which he is a stranger.
The
Stranger
(1973) is a fascinating and largely-compelling TV-movie of the early seventies,
directed by Lee H. Katzin, who helmed the first episode of Space: 1999 (1975-1977), “Breakaway,”
in roughly the same time period.
Much
like Gerry Anderson’s Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969),
this American tele-film focuses on a kind of parallel Earth, here called
Terra. Terra and Earth can’t see one
another, because they exist in the same orbit, on opposite sides of Sol. But
both planets have developed human civilization. Both planets have developed
automobiles, and, at this juncture, early 1970’s fashions.
The
most intriguing aspect of The Stranger is undoubtedly the social
commentary. The TV-movie was produced during the Cold War, in the era of Détente,
and so it is not difficult to picture “Terra” as a globalist Soviet Union. The
ruling government is a giant, overwhelming bureaucracy, and the teleplay, by
Gerald Sanford, name checks “The Department of Medical Assistance,” “The Department
of Communications,” and “The Department of Protection” specifically. There is a
bureau or agency, it seems, for every aspect of life. This world has some elements in common with
the more right-wing, fascist world of The Last Child (1971). Both TV-movies depict overbearing government
(whether left or right wing), suppressing the individual liberty of citizens.
Significantly,
the world of Terra has no war, no starvation, and “perfect order,” but the cost
is high. Every citizen has an official profile on record, for instance, that
the government can access at any time.
The ruling “Inner Council” also runs a “protective surveillance” program
which sounds a lot like our warrant-less spying program. Enemies of the state, meanwhile, are remanded
to the sinister “Ward E,” where they are tortured and brainwashed into
supporting the “The Perfect Order.” In the course of this TV-movie, Batina is
tortured and brainwashed, and made an agent of the state via the coercive
techniques of Ward E. The TV movie also
depicts the agents of the state, like Benedict, as gray-suited, evil
bureaucrats.
One
of the most effective scenes in “The Stranger” witnesses a desperate Stryker
hide out in a book-store, in hopes of finding out about the history of Terra.
The owner of the book shop gives him a text that he claims “goes back to the beginning.” Stryker finds out that it actually only goes
back 35 years; to the inauguration of “The
Perfect Order.” All previous history
has been erased from record, so it can no longer provide ideas for dissidents
or would-be insurrectionists. This is a
touch that George Orwell would be proud of.
There is no history other than the approved history of the State.
Terra’s
quasi-Soviet state has also outlawed religion, and one creepy scene suggests that
the television sets – which look just like ours -- watch the citizenry, instead
of vice-versa.
In
all, The
Stranger does much with very little, at least in terms of social
commentary. On the surface, the society of Terra looks exactly like our
own. Scratch that surface a little,
however, and the world is, indeed, positively Orwellian.
This
TV-movie was intended as a pilot for a series, but one that never materialized.
The
Stranger is enjoyable as a stand-alone 90 minutes, but it may be just
as well that it never became a weekly program. The TV-movie gets in all the relevant
social commentary about totalitarian states (and communism, perhaps), but seems
to be building towards a less noble end: a mindless format that apes the
once-popular The Fugitive (1963-1967).
As
you may recall, that “man-on-the-run” series had a lone hero being chased by
law enforcement and a hapless pursuer, while he tried to prove his innocence. Countless
series have followed this format. The Stranger appears to have been headed
in the same direction, alas. At the end
of the TV movie, Stryker is stranded on Terra, a hapless pursuer, Benedict, hot
on his heels. Our protagonist’s goal is to find a way off the planet and return
home to Earth. Ostensibly, along the
way, he will interact with many Terrans, just as the Richard Kimball, or David
Banner, for that matter, interacted with people of all stripes while on-the-run.
I
suppose what might have distinguished The Stranger is the fact that
Stryker is on an alien world, running for his life in a totalitarian
state. That fact alone would have made
the stories less common-place, or run-of-the-mill. The tendency towards soap opera dilemmas might
have been diminished.
And
yet, the opposite might have been true.
If the program had gone to series, it may have simply mindlessly
transplanted the restrictive Fugitive TV formula to an alternate
world.
A
fascinating glimpse and what might have made a unique series in the early 1970’s
The
Stranger is a remarkable artifact, today, of the Détente era.
About John
award-winning author of 27 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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"Hands down, John Kenneth Muir is one of the finest critics and writers working today. His deep analysis of contemporary American culture is always illuminating and insightful. John's film writing and criticism is outstanding and a great place to start for any budding writer, but one should also examine his work on comic books, TV, and music. His weighty catalog of books and essays combined with his significant blog production places him at the top of pop culture writers. Johns work is essential in understanding the centrality of culture in modern society." - Professor Bob Batchelor, cultural historian and Executive Director of the James Pedas Communication Center at Thiel College (2014).
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016
On the latest episode of the reality show "Love And Hip Hop
Atlanta" 52-year-old aspiring rapper, Momma Dee, started
getting intimate with her husband Ernest. VH-1 included said
scene that provoked a variety of reactions on Twitter.com,
as it featured Momma Dee rubbing and licking Ernest's
nipples. It was too much. Most were in shock this scene was
on television.
Momma Dee's tweets on Twitter in response to criticism on
the site over her sex scene on "Love And Hip Hop Atlanta"
Some people on Twitter made jokes about the scene, while
others complained stating the couple is "too old" to be
engaging in such graphic conduct on television. Momma Dee
was hurt and upset by public reaction on social networking
and fired off a series of tweets in response to what she
read. The main item she posted on Twitter stated, "Me and my
husband was not trying to have sex people...its reality
television! Y'all don't see no shower rods! Sex is better
after 50 anyways."
A sampling of public reaction on Twitter
If people want to have sex at 50, 60 or even age 90, that's
their business. However, the scene featuring Momma Dee and
Ernest was inappropriate for viewing on VH-1 and at a
respectable hour. Many young people watching the show were
shocked to see them engaging in foreplay. Momma Dee is a
lovely woman and Ernest is a nice looking man, but they need
to use discretion next time and not agree to that type of
graphic scene.
Side Bar: Do you guys remember when Momma Dee's
dentures flew out. She'd make a decent comedic actress
(LOL).
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The Latest: Maryland judge becomes 2nd to block travel ban
The Latest on rulings to block the Trump administration’s travel ban hours before it was set to take effect: (all times local):
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A judge in Maryland has become the second federal judge in the country to block the Trump administration’s latest travel ban hours before it was set to take full effect.
U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang granted a nationwide preliminary injunction late Tuesday, after U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson in Hawaii blocked the revised ban. The ban sought to place travel restrictions on citizens of eight countries.
The new restrictions had been slated to go into effect Wednesday.
Watson’s ruling said the new ban fails to show that nationality alone makes a person a greater security risk to the U.S.
Chuang’s ruling said the administration had “not shown that national security cannot be maintained without an unprecedented eight-country travel ban.”
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A U.S. judge in Hawaii says President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban suffers from the same problems as a previous version.
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson granted the state of Hawaii’s request to temporarily block the Trump administration from enforcing the policy, which was scheduled to take full effect Wednesday. His ruling says the latest version discriminates based on nationality.
The White House calls Tuesday’s decision “dangerously flawed.” The Justice Department says it will appeal.
The restrictions were to apply to citizens of Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria and Yemen — as well as some Venezuelan government officials and their families.
It was the third set of travel restrictions issued by the president to be thwarted, in whole or in part, by the courts.
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The Los Angeles City Council has passed a resolution affirming LA's commitment to the Clean Air Act.
"Los Angeles supports the Clean Air Act, and we want to see this landmark environmental law used to tackle greenhouse gas pollution," said Councilman Paul Koretz. "Our city has been a leader in the fight against climate change, and we're proud to back federal efforts to reduce global warming hazards."
The vote stems from a campaign for Clean Air Cities, a project of the Center for Biological Diversity. Rose Braz directs the project. Municipalities that take a pledge to support the campaign each do so in their own way, says Braz. LA's resolution as proposed mentioned that "coal-fired power plants are the largest source of unregulated mercury pollution in the country, and mercury pollution threatens the health of between one in six and one in twelve women in Los Angeles."
"L.A.'s leaders recognize that climate change will cause serious harm to California's environment and public health, and they support a key solution in the Clean Air Act," she said. "Cities around the country, from Seattle to Pittsburgh - and now Los Angeles - are sending an urgent message to our president and other national leaders: To avert a climate catastrophe, we need to act now."
The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power obtains almost 40 percent of its energy from coal-fired power. At his second inaugural, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa vowed to eliminate coal from the city's energy mix by the year 2020. Current leaders at the DWP say they plan to eliminate the use of coal by the year 2027.
The LA City Council delayed action on another resolution opposing increased activity at the Alton Coal mine in Utah. The mine's operators are hoping to expand onto land adjacent Bryce Canyon National Park. Alton sells coal to the Intermountain Power Project, a power plant that is managed in part by the DWP to deliver power to Los Angeles.
Members of the Sierra Club campaign L.A. Beyond Coal turned out to support the resolution, as did the Natural Resources Defense Council.
In voting unanimously for a resolution supporting the Clean Air Act, the city council has stepped into a national political debate in which environmentalists and climate activists are pitted against opponents to the existence of the Environmental Protection Agency, conservatives who believe federal clean air laws should not apply to climate-changing gases, and lawmakers who downplay human inputs to a warming climate.
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14 Classic Poems To Reread For National Poetry Month, Because You Know It's Your Favorite Month Of The Year
This April, poets and poetry lovers everywhere will join together in cracking open their favorite notebooks and anthologies in celebration of the 20th anniversary of National Poetry Month — a yearly, month-long appreciation of poetry and the amazing writers who compose it. In honor of the month of festivities, I’ve compiled some of my favorite classic poems to reread for National Poetry Month, just for you. Hopefully, they are (or will become!) a few of your favorites as well.
In the two decades since the Academy of American Poets inaugurated National Poetry Month, in 1996, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world, complete with public readings, activities for students, and a calendar of daily ways to celebrate poetry all month long (my personal favorite is Poem In Your Pocket Day — which, in my life, is sometimes every day.) The celebration even has its own hashtag (like you’re surprised) so be sure to head over to Twitter during the month of April to mark all your National Poetry Month tweets with #npm16, and learn what poetic tweeters all over the world are doing as well.
1. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
2. Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
A free bird leapson the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current endsand dips his wingin the orange sun raysand dares to claim the sky.But a bird that stalksdown his narrow cagecan seldom see throughhis bars of ragehis wings are clipped and his feet are tiedso he opens his throat to sing.The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.The free bird thinks of another breezeand the trade winds soft through the sighing treesand the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawnand he names the sky his ownBut a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.
3. “Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words -And never stops - at all -And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -And sore must be the storm -That could abash the little BirdThat kept so many warm -I’ve heard it in the chillest land -And on the strangest Sea -Yet - never - in Extremity,It asked a crumb - of me.
4. Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath
Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries, Blackberries on either side, though on the right mainly,A blackberry alley, going down in hooks, and a seaSomewhere at the end of it, heaving. BlackberriesBig as the ball of my thumb, and dumb as eyesEbon in the hedges, fatWith blue-red juices. These they squander on my fingers.I had not asked for such a blood sisterhood; they must love me.They accommodate themselves to my milk bottle, flattening their sides.Overhead go the choughs in black, cacophonous flocks—Bits of burnt paper wheeling in a blown sky.Theirs is the only voice, protesting, protesting.I do not think the sea will appear at all.The high, green meadows are glowing, as if lit from within.I come to one bush of berries so ripe it is a bush of flies,Hanging their bluegreen bellies and their wing panes in a Chinese screen.The honey-feast of the berries has stunned them; they believe in heaven. One more hook, and the berries and bushes end.The only thing to come now is the sea.From between two hills a sudden wind funnels at me, Slapping its phantom laundry in my face.These hills are too green and sweet to have tasted salt.I follow the sheep path between them. A last hook brings me To the hills’ northern face, and the face is orange rock That looks out on nothing, nothing but a great space Of white and pewter lights, and a din like silversmiths Beating and beating at an intractable metal.
5. Song of Myself(1) by Walt Whitman
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,Hoping to cease not till death.Creeds and schools in abeyance,Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,Nature without check with original energy.
6. Annabel Lee be Edgar Allan Poe
It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may knowBy the name of Annabel Lee;And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.I was a child and she was a child,In this kingdom by the sea,But we loved with a love that was more than love—I and my Annabel Lee—With a love that the wingèd seraphs of HeavenCoveted her and me.And this was the reason that, long ago,In this kingdom by the sea,A wind blew out of a cloud, chillingMy beautiful Annabel Lee;So that her highborn kinsmen cameAnd bore her away from me,To shut her up in a sepulchreIn this kingdom by the sea.The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,Went envying her and me—Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,In this kingdom by the sea)That the wind came out of the cloud by night,Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.But our love it was stronger by far than the loveOf those who were older than we—Of many far wiser than we—And neither the angels in Heaven aboveNor the demons down under the seaCan ever dissever my soul from the soulOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreamsOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyesOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the sideOf my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,In her sepulchre there by the sea—In her tomb by the sounding sea.
7. [i carry your heart with me (i carry it in)] by e. e. cummings
i carry your heart with me (i carry it inmy heart) i am never without it (anywherei go you go, my dear; and whatever is doneby only me is your doing, my darling)i fearno fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i wantno world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meantand whatever a sun will always sing is youhere is the deepest secret nobody knows(here is the root of the root and the bud of the budand the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which growshigher than soul can hope or mind can hide)and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars aparti carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)”
8. The Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Alfred Tennyson
Half a league, half a league,Half a league onward,All in the valley of DeathRode the six hundred.“Forward, the Light Brigade!Charge for the guns!” he said.Into the valley of DeathRode the six hundred.“Forward, the Light Brigade!”Was there a man dismayed?Not though the soldier knewSomeone had blundered.Theirs not to make reply,Theirs not to reason why,Theirs but to do and die.Into the valley of DeathRode the six hundred.Cannon to right of them,Cannon to left of them,Cannon in front of themVolleyed and thundered;Stormed at with shot and shell,Boldly they rode and well,Into the jaws of Death,Into the mouth of hellRode the six hundred.Flashed all their sabres bare,Flashed as they turned in airSabring the gunners there,Charging an army, whileAll the world wondered.Plunged in the battery-smokeRight through the line they broke;Cossack and RussianReeled from the sabre strokeShattered and sundered.Then they rode back, but notNot the six hundred.Cannon to right of them,Cannon to left of them,Cannon behind themVolleyed and thundered;Stormed at with shot and shell,While horse and hero fell.They that had fought so wellCame through the jaws of Death,Back from the mouth of hell,All that was left of them,Left of six hundred.When can their glory fade?O the wild charge they made!All the world wondered.Honour the charge they made!Honour the Light Brigade,Noble six hundred!
9. Howl (excerpt) by Allen Ginsberg
For Carl SolomonI saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,starving hysterical naked,dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn lookingfor an angry fix,angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenlyconnection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smokingin the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floatingacross the tops of cities contemplating jazz,who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and sawMohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofsilluminated,who passed through universities with radiant cool eyeshallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among thescholars of war,who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishingobscene odes on the windows of the skull,who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning theirmoney in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror throughthe wall…
10. Harlem by Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore—And then run?Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar over—like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sagslike a heavy load.Or does it explode?
11. “I think I should have loved you presently” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
I think I should have loved you presently,And given in earnest words I flung in jest;And lifted honest eyes for you to see,And caught your hand against my cheek and breast;And all my pretty follies flung asideThat won you to me, and beneath your gaze,Naked of reticence and shorn of pride,Spread like a chart my little wicked ways.I, that had been to you, had you remained,But one more waking from a recurrent dream,Cherish no less the certain stakes I gained,And walk your memory’s halls, austere, supreme,A ghost in marble of a girl you knewWho would have loved you in a day or two.
12. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.The waves beside them danced; but theyOut-did the sparkling waves in glee:A poet could not but be gay,In such a jocund company:I gazed—and gazed—but little thoughtWhat wealth the show to me had brought:For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.
13. Hyperion (excerpt) by John Keats
Deep in the shady sadness of a valeFar sunken from the healthy breath of morn,Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star,Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone,Still as the silence round about his lair;Forest on forest hung about his headLike cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there,Not so much life as on a summer's dayRobs not one light seed from the feather'd grass,But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.A stream went voiceless by, still deadened moreBy reason of his fallen divinitySpreading a shade: the Naiad 'mid her reedsPress'd her cold finger closer to her lips.
14. What Kind of Times Are These by Adrienne Rich
There's a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphilland the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadowsnear a meeting-house abandoned by the persecutedwho disappeared into those shadows.I've walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don't be fooledthis isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,its own ways of making people disappear.I won't tell you where the place is, the dark mesh of the woodsmeeting the unmarked strip of light—ghost-ridden crossroads, leafmold paradise:I know already who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear.And I won't tell you where it is, so why do I tell youanything? Because you still listen, because in times like theseto have you listen at all, it's necessaryto talk about trees.
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This rifle was sent back to Weatherby because the barrel is so far out of alignment that the Nightforce scope had to be cranked all the way to one side to bring the bore in alignment with the scope .
Weatherby said that this is " within specifications " and declined to do anything about it . If you put a straight edge down each side of the action and measure over to the center of the bbl there is more than .125 dif in only 12 inches forward of the receiver .
However , Weatherby says that this is within specs . So , This rifle is up for sale . I will take a mere 900.00 us for this "warranted by the factory " rifle that costs a bunch more if you go buy one ( unsuspecting , trusting soul )
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6 Common Causes of Fires in the Home
9/18/2015
More than 360,000 house fires happen each year, resulting in about $6-8 billion dollars in damage. Luckily, most house fires are highly preventable. Below are six of the most common causes of house fires, and our top tips to help keep your family safe:
Cooking. This is the #1 cause of house fires, and most of them start with the range as opposed to the oven, an open heat source (and frying) being rife with hazards.
Never throw water on a grease fire – smother it with a pan or lid.
Smoke detectors and a fire extinguisher in the home are a must.
Never walk away and leave food to cook on a stovetop unattended.
Children. Curious minds and matches do not mix! Research shows that children are accidentally responsible for an average of 7,100 home fires per year.
Children under the age of six are the most likely to find trouble with matches and lighters – teach your children the importance of fire safety at an early age.
Make sure all matches are lighters are stored well out of reach.
Candles. They provide a lovely ambiance and fragrance, but they are also an obvious fire hazard.
Keep candles away from flammable materials.
Never leave one burning unattended, and always blow them out before leaving a room or going to sleep.
Make sure candles are in secure holders.Elegant tapers are a nice accent, but they are much more unstable than the solid glass-jar variety.
Christmas Trees. A dry tree and electrical lights provide ample fuel make the holidays a prime season for fires. Live trees are a popular choice, but they are also among the most flammable.
Keep your live tree watered
Resist the temptation to keep them once the needles become dry and brittle.
Never leave tree lights plugged in while you are sleeping or away—32 percent of tree fires are a direct result of electrical failure.
Appliances. Dryers and washing machines are surprising house fire culprits.
Clean your lint screen after each use, and never use your dryer without it.
Do not overload your washing machine—your clothes won’t get any cleaner if they are all jammed together, anyway.
And make sure the dryer vent on the outside of the house is unobstructed.
Smoking. The good news is, the number of fires caused by smoking has decreased significantly over the past decade, along with the number of smokers in the US. There is still a significant risk of fire associated with smoking, especially for the elderly.
Always take cigarette smoking outside.
Never smoke in bed.
Use wide, sturdy ashtrays to hold butts and ashes.
Fire is a scary prospect, but by using a few preventative measures, you can lower your risk considerably. To ensure your home is protected from the unexpected, contact a Farm Bureau agent.
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Photographer Chris Higgins shows us what it takes.
I think we’ve all seen those amazing caving photo images and looked at them in awe, but just what does it take to get those shots? A few months ago I came across a photo by Chris Higgins that was a top five winner in a JOBY, Lowepro, & Outex joint contest. It started me thinking about all the difficulties capturing just such a shot might entail. So after a few emails back and forth I was off to Tennessee with Joey Hiller (JOBY Web Designer). Assuming you’ve watched the video I’ll be elaborating a bit more below about what you don’t see, all the gear, and Joey will chime in with his perspective.
Never again! -Zach
“Never again” we’re the first words out of my mouth as we emerged from the cave. I’ll straight up say it right now; I had an amazing time but hundreds of feet underground, completely covered in mud, and mostly in complete darkness wasn’t for me. This is odd as I’m drawn to extreme activities but I’m also a clean freak. All I know is this was one of the rare times I thought I’d gotten myself in over my head and I’ve literally crawled out under the wing of a small plane mid flight to get a shot.
BEHIND THE SCENES:
The video is made up of a combination of two days of caving but for the sake of storytelling we combined them into one. The first day we were in the cave 12 hours and it was almost all rappelling. We came out of the cave at about 1:30am and were freezing after climbing up the waterfall. We then had to ride in the back of Chris’s jeep for an hour just to sleep on the ground in a cow pasture. You can probably already guess; I didn’t sleep. The second day we entered a second cave and were in the cave 8 hours. Day two was almost all crawling on our stomach. It was 2000+ feet in and 2000+ feet out. At 4 hours into it on the second day I called it; we had the footage we needed and I wanted to take a shower and crash in a hotel bed.
TRAINING: Joey has experience outdoor climbing and he is comfortable around ropes. I have a lot of structure/ building exterior climbing and rappelling experience but using a different rappel device. Our training with Chris literally was 5-10 minutes each where we both had tried to go up and switch over from the ascenders to the descenders (rappel device). I messed this up both times which resulted in the descender opening. If I had an issue while climbing back up the rope and needed to make a change over to the descender I would have to do it right. On Joey’s ascent before me he had an issue with his crawl (the ascender close to your chest that holds you in place) and almost had to make a change over. The crawl was slipping and not grabbing the rope securely. After he finished his ascent he lowered his harness and gear down for me to use. I had to use it for my ascent; so you can see why I was a bit nervous.
GEAR: As you can see in the closing shot we took a lot of gear into the cave with us. Most of it was ropes but I’ll list out everything we used to film it and what Chris brought.
“There was really nothing that could’ve prepared me for this trip. The conditions in a cave are truly some of the hardest I’ve dealt with. It all became obvious when we first entered the cave. With camera rubbing against the rocks and a 150 foot rope around my shoulder pinning me in place, I stopped feeling the jet-lag and the reality of what we were doing really set in.
To get quality video in the cave I shot with the Black Magic Cinema Camera which has a native ISO of 800 and generally performs beautifully in low light. I paired it with the Panasonic Lumix 14mm f/2.5, which isn’t the fastest lens of all time, but has a nice field of view and has the added benefit of being only a $300 replacement if destroyed.” – Joey
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Baramulla To Soon Get Its First Govt Medical College
Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir will soon get its first Government Medical College and allied facilities.
The new medical college will not only benefit medical students of Baramulla, Kupwara and Bandipora districts of North Kashmir but also provide better medical facilities to the people of the region.
The construction of the college, which started a few years ago, is currently in full swing. Once ready, it is set to cater to around 1.70 lakh population of North Kashmir.
The college will comprise an academic block and a residential block.
The Union government has approved the construction of medical colleges in five districts of Jammu and Kashmir, namely Anantnag, Baramulla, Kathua, Rajouri and Doda.
Dr Javed Choudhary, principal of the college, said: “Staff recruitment will be done at different levels. We will, hopefully, start the first batch of 100 MBBS students from June this year, as soon as we get the permission letter. Students will be selected on the basis of a Common Entrance Test.”
Abdul Razzak, a local resident, said, “The medical college will benefit young practitioners of Baramulla, Bandipura and Kupwara. At present students from this area have to go to Srinagar to complete their training.”
A medical student, Said Yawar Bashir, said excitedly that the college will be a great boon to the region. “It will not only boost the health infrastructure of the district but will also provide jobs to medical practitioners,” he said.
The construction of the college is being carried out by Jammu Kashmir Project Construction Corporation (JKPCC). – Business Standard
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“As a young country born out of civil war, South Sudan has inherited a legacy of over 50 years of violence and instability. While Aweil is in a relatively stable region, the health system remains under established – meaning many people face challenges to access medical care.
Since 2008, MSF has been supporting a hospital in the region to provide emergency obstetric and newborn care, paediatric emergency care and in-hospital management of severe acute illnesses.
The team has recently taken full responsibility for paediatric surgery in Aweil, providing care for children with burns, fractures and abscesses, as well as laparotomies (surgery involving the abdomen) and amputations. Once they have received surgery and recovered from the severe stage of their injury or illness, most children are stable enough to run and play around the front of the surgical ward. Play is an important part of their recovery, allowing them to regain their physical strength. Our physiotherapist also provides essential rehabilitative care for these patients.
“The mother had no one to support her, and her baby was severely sick – yet she found it within herself to smile throughout the day. I felt we had no choice but to fight for this little life.”
Recently, we treated a baby who required high-risk surgery to save her life. We initially thought the baby had meningitis, but it then became apparent the problem was with her intestines. The conversation with the mother was difficult; without the surgery, the baby would not survive, but she would also have a slim chance of making it through the operation. The mother had travelled far to reach us and had no one to support her, and her baby was severely sick – yet she found it within herself to smile throughout the day. I felt we had no choice but to fight for this little life.
Although our operating theatre isn’t equipped for such a tiny 1.6 kg body, the operation went well. We found the cause of the problem: a significant narrowing of a section of the small intestine. When we delivered the baby to the neonatal ward in the evening, the whole team was on board to provide care. She is now stable, but the recovery process is still hazardous, with the risk of infection and other complications.
Comprehensive and lifesaving care
The hospital is always busy. In January, we saw 2,355 emergency room consultations, 894 inpatient admissions, 146 neonatal admissions, 584 deliveries and 326 surgeries – and that’s not even during the peak malaria season. Sometimes, the hospital gets so overwhelmed that patients must sleep on mattresses on the floor.
This is the only facility providing comprehensive paediatric care in the region. The most common conditions we treat in children are malaria, lower respiratory tract infections, gastroenteritis and meningitis. Like in Australia, we face seasonal variations of diseases. We prepare for these outbreaks through increased surveillance of suspected cases, re-training our health staff and working closely with the World Health Organization and other regional partners to share resources and information.
“In a low-resource setting like this, we don’t have incubators or CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) machines. But we do have low-flow oxygen, antibiotics and kangaroo mother care: all lifesaving tools.”
I visit our neonatal ward every morning, where we can care for up to 40 babies. These tiny patients are commonly affected by neonatal sepsis (severe infection), respiratory distress syndrome and skin infections. In a low-resource setting like this, we don’t have incubators or CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) machines. But we do have low-flow oxygen, antibiotics and kangaroo mother care, a technique of newborn care where babies are held skin-to-skin with the parent: all lifesaving tools.
Long distances by foot or motorbike
Worldwide, most children depend on their families, particularly their mothers, to reach care. Therefore, the challenges for children are mostly a reflection of the challenges that women face – and in Aweil, these barriers are huge.
When children become sick, women often require permission from their husbands to go to the hospital. As women are usually one of several wives to one husband, their husbands may be in another village, meaning women put their sick children on their back, travel to find their husband, receive permission and then try to reach the hospital before it’s too late. Roads connecting villages are often in a terrible condition, so women must travel long distances by foot or motorbike, sometimes for days.
Many women have a low level of literacy and an even lower level of health literacy. I realised that mothers in my ward were unable to follow hospital feeding times for their babies because they did not know how to read the time. We also do health education to inform women on the importance of antenatal care, like good hygiene practices.
The most rewarding part of my role in Aweil has been training other staff. Our South Sudanese staff are very articulate and keen to learn, and I enjoy encouraging them to build their skills. Most of my training is done bedside, during the ward rounds, and we hold education sessions for nurses and clinical officers at least once a week.
I am missing home, my clothes are wearing thin, the temperature is soaring into the 40s, and there are an overwhelming number of days when we cannot do everything we want to do – when we cannot keep all our patients alive. Despite this, I am so grateful to be doing this work.”
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The basic concept of a (pistonless) rotary engine avoids the reciprocating motion of the piston with its inherent vibration+ and rotational-speed-related mechanical stress+. the Wankel engine is the only successful pistonless rotary engine, but many similar concepts have been proposed and are under various stages of development. Examples of rotary engines include:
Pistonless rotary engine+ A pistonless rotary engine is an internal combustion engine that does not use pistons in the way a reciprocating engine does, but instead uses one or more rotors, sometimes called rotary pistons.
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The train between Berlin and Kristiansand takes 29h 1m. The train runs, on average, once a week from Berlin to Kristiansand. The journey time may be longer on weekends and holidays; use the search form on this page to search for a specific travel date.
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Trains run once a week between Berlin Hbf and Kristiansand.
The service departs Berlin Hbf at 11:00 in the morning, which arrives into Kristiansand at 16:01.
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About Me
Friday, May 28, 2010
Mack?
Mack may not want to take credit for this bus, but that is where the Mack Bros. started in the early 1900s. Regrettably I can give no firm information on this product.
It has Mack emblems , but the Kenworth grille (with a Mack sticker on it) is really a spare tire bracket. The engine is aft of amidships, if those side grilles are any indication. The sheet metal "caboose" on the rear hints at some prior use, but I can't begin to imagine what that was.
Picture taken at my favourite intersection, Queen and Morris, in Halifax, NS, early June 2001.
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Medium : Water Color Markers on illustration Board;Size 2’ x 4’;Year completed : 1991;This illustration is part of a collection of artwork I did while in the military entitled, “The Army Years”,;I served in the Army National Guard for 5 years, and the regular Army for 4 years.;One of the main reason...
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Nearly 100 Arrested and Over 700 Rally for the Dream Act
Washington, D.C. - Today, the National Day of Action for the Dream Act brought together hundreds of progressive allies from the healthcare, labor, and women’s rights movement to join immigrant youth in the fight for the Dream Act.
The group, included speakers and leaders from the Women’s March, the Center for Popular Democracy, Good Jobs Nation, FIRM/Center for Community Change, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Church World Service, Make the Road CT, NJ, NY and PA, CASA, and United We Dream. Participants traveled from all corners of the country.
Ana María Archila, co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy said:
“The fight for the Dream Act is a fight for the soul of this nation. It is a profound moral question to the country: who are we? Are we a nation that rips families apart and expelling children from the place they call home? Or are we a nation that affirms that we belong together, and that we will take care of each other.
“Today, women leaders, health care activists, workers, faith leaders and immigrant families are standing united to reject Trump’s White Nationalist vision for country, and call on Congress to solve the crisis that Trump created for when he ended DACA, upending the lives of 800,000 immigrant youth.”
“I moved to D.C. from my home in North Carolina to dedicate myself fully to get Congress to pass the Dream Act. During today’s action , it was clear just how powerful our movement and our community is when hundreds mobilized to fight alongside immigrant youth. I feel empowered to continue to fight even when Congress fails to protect immigrant young people. We will continue to make our presence seen and heard because our lives are on the line and we cannot keep waiting.”
Monica Camacho, a member of CASA who would qualify for the Dream Act said:
"Punting the DACA decision down the road is a failure of leadership in Congress. We know that the majority of Americans and members of Congress supports a clean DREAM Act NOW, not in a year. For young undocumented people like myself, this is a nightmare. It's hard to plan for college, for building your family and your career with so much uncertainty. Our lives are on hold so we need a solution right now."
Sara Mora, an organizer for Make the Road New Jersey and potential Dream Act beneficiary said:
"Just yesterday, faith and community leaders sat in Rep. Lance's district office in Westfield, New Jersey and refused to leave until Lance publicly committed to a clean Dream Act. Clean means Trump’s current immigration framework is a nonstarter. Clean means fighting back against plans that will gut our family immigration system. While Trump continues to move the goal post, we need leadership to hold the line and vote with Dreamers and our families" said
Linda Sarsour, National Co-Chair of the Women’s March said:
“To my undocumented brothers and sisters, I want you to know, you are not alone. You tell us where to be, and we will be there. Today, we are here with you to deliver a message to Republicans and Democrats in Congress: we, people of color, are not bargaining chips. This is not a poker game. These are people's lives. People who deserve to be here. We're not asking for favors, we asking for what we deserve!“My vote in November is for undocumented people. For Black people. For poor people. For marginalized people and we will primary every Democrat that did not have spine to stand against the Trump Administration.”
CPD Impact
Nov 2016: During 2016, the Federal Reserve made an historic shift in how it makes the most important economic decisions in the country. For the first time they are taking into account low-income communities of color. For the past 100 years the Fed has been dominated by white, male, corporate executives who have cared little about building an economy that works for everyone.
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Month: October 2016
And I am prouder than a two-year-old with a purple hippopotamus potty chair!! Things have been back to (fairly) normal for several days now. So, I am going to officially declare myself OVER, and I mean really over, Clostridium Difficile. It’s been six yucky months. I hope I never, ever make another blog post about poop.
On a less happy note. I still have not gotten any books. We left Wisconsin to come here to be close to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, ready to promote the books to anyone who might sell them. Hugo House Publishers have let me down again. No books in April. Still no books in October. I have missed the prime year to sell a book about a national park, with 2016 being the 100th anniversary of the national parks. But, I guess Big Creek will still be there next year.
We have given up and plan to head south on Tuesday. They’ll probably call to say the books are ready to ship on Thursday.
I have not posted a blog for weeks. I haven’t stayed up late reading other people’s blogs. I haven’t been practicing my singing for the Razzle-Dazzle Review at the yacht club in January every night. I haven’t even taken many pictures! I have been sleeping better. A little vacation is good once in a while.
We have decided to start looking at real estate here in east Tennessee. We love the countryside here, with the rolling hills and views of mountains. We have looked at a number of houses but, I haven’t like anything I can afford yet. We’ll look again next spring and see what is on the market then.
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I have never been fond of bombs. But, Andy and I are both interested in science. And, a tour of east Tennessee would not be complete without a visit to Oak Ridge.
I really did not know much about the Manhattan project, just had a few fuzzy facts in the back of my head. It surprised me how awed I was by the enormity and difficulty of the effort. And, I am newly troubled by the moral issues of killing so many innocent civilians. Yet, in the context of the time in history, I can see why that seemed to be the best, and maybe only, option at the time.
We took a bus tour to the laboratory. I have to say, the tour guide was excellent. He was a retired chemist who had worked at the lab for thirty-seven years. His explanation was so clear that I almost thought I understood the process for a few minutes there. There were two short (and very old) films in the museum before we got on the bus. It showed all the big names involved: Fermi, Oppenheimer, Szilard, Wigner,Einstein, and Roosevelt. The German scientists knew that Hitler was working on building a bomb. Szilard, Wigner, and Einstein drafted a letter to President Roosevelt. Roosevelt then provided some funding for research but, the big effort did not start until after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
Then, with a massive effort. The Tennessee valley was chosen for the site, the residents ejected, and a large secret town was built in two years. They didn’t know for sure how to enrich uranium so they built three facilities based on the three methods they thought most likely to succeed. A town to house the 75,000 workers and their families was built along with the research facilities.
The first success came in the X-10 graphite reactor when they were able to produce small quantities of plutonium. That building is now a national historic site. I grabbed this picture from the website. Those men are dummies. I don’t mean stupid, I mean they are statues.
X-10 Graphite Reactor
The Y12 plant used Calutrons (from California University Cyclotron) developed by Ernest Lawrence. A Calutron is a mass spectrometer that separated the isotopes of uranium. It no longer exists. It provided much of the uranium used in the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. It was interesting that they hired only high-school educated girls to operate the calutrons. The girls didn’t know what they were doing. They simply operated the controls as they had been taught.
It was a sobering and fascinating day. They performed an amazing scientific and technical task for an awful purpose. They met the goal of ending the war and saving many American and Japanese lives, if the war had continued, at the cost of two cities worth of Japanese civilians; Hiroshima (150,000) and Nagasaki (75,000).
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Keys friends, Fred and Diane Colvard, were camped nearby and we visited them at Anchor Down RV Park. It was fun to visit them while we were both “on the road”. While we were there, a neighboring couple stopped by to chat. They said they were in the area for the Tennessee Homecoming. I had never heard of it, but I’m so glad I looked it up and we went.
It is three full days of bluegrass music on four stages at the Museum of Appalachiain Norris, Tennessee. I had never heard of that either. We had already missed several performers by the time set up our chairs in front of the main stage. However, my attention was drawn to the cane squeezing going on right behind the audience area. I have seen these sorghum presses but, never one being used. OK, I was excited.
Here is another picture for my animal butt collection. It does show the whole scene, though. The mule is hooked up to the log that sits atop the press, or mill. The poor mule does the hard work, going round and round all day turning the press. They did have two mules taking turns. The pile of sorghum canes is on the right and the pile on the left is the cane after the juice has been squeezed out.
Sorghum Press
Here is a closer look at the man feeding the canes into the press. The juice drips down into the bucket hanging under the press.
Feeding Sorghum Cane into Press
It took two men to do the job. One of them had to periodically pat the mule on the rump to get him moving again. I looked it up because I didn’t know what to call the machine and found a nice article in Mother Earth News.
Then, I sat down to enjoy the music. This is the Stewart Family.
The Stewart Family
Uncle Shuffelo & His Haint Hollow Hootenanny were great. The woman on the left was playing the washboard and dancing her heart out. The boy in the blue-checkered shirt was playing spoons.
Uncle Shuffelo & His Haint Hollow Hootenanny
They were followed by the Ransom Notes. They are Amanda, Michael, and Amelia Ransom.
The Ransom Notes
I had to look this up to confirm what I thought I heard him say about his steel guitar. It is called a resonator guitar. He is Johnny Bellar, a well known and awarded resonator guitar player.
I took a bathroom break and, while headed to the port-a-potties, took, a picture of the crowd. This is only a small portion of it.
Dale Ann Bradley is a five-time International Bluegrass Music Association “Female Vocalist of the Year.
Dale Ann Bradley
Bill and the Belles from Johnson City, Tennessee was a stand-out group of the day. They played oldies. I mean real oldies. Like 1920s. Maybe some even a bit older. Their specialty is early country and popular music. Listen to the song on their website for an example.
Bill and the Belles
Leroy Troy was so mesmerizing that I didn’t even take a picture of him. A comedian and banjo player, his “Grandfather’s Clock” was delightful. I found it on YouTube. While you are there, you may as well listen to his hilarious “Ghost Chickens in the Sky“.
We took a lunch break and missed several performers. Flat Lonesome was playing when we got back to our seats. The three around the center microphone are siblings. They won three awards at the International Bluegrass Music Association last month. Best Song, Best Album, and Best Group. I’d say they took the awards by storm.
Flatt Lonesome
Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper were up next. I realized that Michael Cleveland was blind when one of the band members led him onto the stage and up to his microphone. He was a child prodigy and has been playing the fiddle on the big stage since he was an early teen. He has been named Fiddler of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association TEN TIMES!!
Michael Cleveland and FlamekeeperMichael Cleveland
As I was listening to him play, I thought, “Surely, he has made a pact with the devil”. Watch and listen to him playing Orange Blossom Special and see if you don’t agree.
The last performance we saw was Larry Cordle and Lonesome Standard Time. Larry Cordle has written songs for many of country music’s big stars. He formed Lonesome Standard time to get back to the real country music: bluegrass. Here they are playing Murder on Music Row.
Larry Cordle and Lonesome Standard Time
We left the main stage to walk around and look at what else was happening on the museum grounds. Lots of things were going on. There were three other stages with bands playing but, I wanted to see what the museum has.
Blacksmiith Shop
There were numerous old cabins, including one that belonged to Mark Twain’s parents. (Not this one)
The large display building has every tool and craft imaginable from the old days.
I enjoyed watching the sheep herding demonstration. The two sheep dogs obeyed the shepherd’s commands instantly. He was able to get them to separate or collect the sheep with just a few commands.
Sheepherding DemonstrationLog Cabin Church Interior
They were boiling down the juice from the sorghum to make sorghum molasses and were selling jars of it.
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At the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Samsung Electronics, continued to raise the industry bar for plasma TVs with its extended plasma TV line-up of 16 new models across six product series.
Samsung's 2011 ultra-slim plasma TVs add a touch of sophistication and style to any home. All new plasma TVs also offer Samsung's breakthrough Plasma+1 design, which features a new narrow bezel design that adds 1-inch of viewable screen size over last year's products for a greater viewing area without increasing the outside dimensions of the set.
The TVs also offer richer connected entertainment options through one of the most comprehensive offering of apps and connected devices, so that people get the most out of their entertainment experience. Select models will offer Samsung's new Smart Hub, which includes:
- Search all, which makes it easier to search for desired content on your TV and other DLNA-certified connected media storage devices, networked PC and mobile devices, and Internet and video-on-demand services.- Your video, which delivers recommendations based on a user's viewing history.- Web browser, which offers full web browsing right from your TV.- Samsung apps, the world's first HDTV-based application store, which offers a range of paid and free apps that help people connect to their various passions – whether in sports, entertainment, information, games or social networking.
The latest TV lineup will be on display at Samsung's booth #12006 in the Central Hall at the International CES, which will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC), January 6-9, 2011. The Samsung Plasma D6500 series TVs, a CES 2011 Innovations Design and Engineering Award winner, will also be on display in the Grand Lobby at the LVCC.
Samsung's Plasma D8000 series is a full HD plasma TV that is designed to deliver our best viewing experience in 2D and 3D. The D8000 series features a dark metallic bezel combined with Samsung's ToC border for an understated cool elegance associated with luxury items. More importantly, the thinner bezel makes possible the added inch in screen size without an increase in the overall size of the TV.
The Plasma D8000 series features Samsung's Real Black Filter technology, which reduces the onscreen glare to produce darker blacks and sharper images. The plasma panel has also been redesigned to deliver outstanding black luminance. The TV also includes Samsung's proprietary Crystal full HD engine with Cinema Smooth technology that delivers smoother motion effects when watching their favorite Blu-ray discs. These features combine to give the D8000 series a dynamic contrast ratio of 3,000,000:1, and pristine depth and dimension to onscreen images.
The Plasma D8000 series is also compatible with Samsung's 3D active glasses and multi-display Touch Control. This remote can be a second portable TV, offers a Qwerty keyboard for easy text input during web browsing and acts as a universal remote control for your onscreen content. With built-in Wi-Fi, viewers have access to Smart Hub to view and search for content on Samsung Apps or on DLNA-certified devices.
Samsung's ultra-slim Plasma D6500 series is a 1080p 3D TV that offers a range of features that makes it an outstanding all-round choice for those looking to enhance their TV experience.
The Plasma D6500 series offers a dichotomy in design texture, between cold, black metal and warm, smooth glass. The cabinet consists of a brushed metallic black frame and the translucent mold that encases the frame and uses Samsung's ToC technology to create a luxurious finish. The same pattern is reflected in the silver stand, where a reinforced glass neck is attached to a black matte metal base. With the narrow bezel, Samsung TVs can fit into viewing spaces previously reserved for smaller screen sizes, so for example, a 51-inch TV can fit into a spot previously occupied by a 50-inch screen.
With Samsung's built-in 3D processing technology, viewers can easily up-convert 2D content and render it in high-definition 3D for a richer, more immersive entertainment experience. Its powerful system-on-chip not only renders standard 2D content into 3D entertainment in real-time, but also offers video-enhancing tools that produce sharp, color-rich and smooth pictures. The Plasma D6500 series connects seamlessly to Samsung's 3D active glasses, thereby eliminating problems such as interference and strict line-of-sight requirements, so that viewers can enjoy a more stable image and greater flexibility to watch the television from practically any viewing angle.
With built-in Wi-Fi, viewers can also stream content to the Plasma D6500 series from other DLNA-certified devices using Samsung AllShare, as well as access to a broad range of apps via Samsung Apps.
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Still Star-Crossed: Season 1
Following the death of her cousin Juliet, Rosaline Capulet finds herself in the middle of a political play to try and save Verona. Romeo’s death thrusts his cousin Benvolio Montague into a position of responsibility, as he becomes the sole heir to the Montague name and must abide by a sinister plan to solidify his family’s prominence. A newly crowned Prince Escalus is determined to end the bloodshed between the Montagues and Capulets, but his only solution forces him to decide between following his heart and protecting his kingdom. Eager to help her brother rule Verona, Princess Isabella finds herself drawn to the throne, but quickly realizes that obtaining power as a woman will require succumbing to a twisted scheme. The sparring families aren’t the only ones affected by Romeo and Juliet’s tragic fate. The keeper of Verona’s darkest confessions, Friar Lawrence, feels a deep responsibility for their deaths, along with the Capulet’s lifelong caretaker, the Nurse. She holds many secrets of her own, including the fact that she is tending to Count Paris, who was supposed to wed Juliet, but was left for dead after a brutal fight with Romeo.
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Will a 'Day Without A Woman' have an impact?
The 'strike' on International Women's Day is all about human rights.
On Jan. 21, millions of protesters from around the world marched together in support of women's rights, gender rights, immigrant rights and other issues.
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In January, women from around the world joined together in what became the largest single-day inauguration demonstration in American history. According to one estimate, more than 3.7 million people — that's 1 in every 100 Americans — participated in one of the demonstrations that took place in more than 500 cities throughout the U.S. Participants marched for reproductive rights, immigration reform, environmental issues, LGBTQ rights and equal pay.
After the march, many women were left wondering how they could keep the spirit of the movement alive beyond that single day. On March 8, women will join together again, but this time it will be to demonstrate their role in the global economy — by removing themselves from it entirely.
Dubbed "A Day Without A Woman," it's no coincidence that the women's strike is being held on the same day as International Women's Day. Strike organizers are asking women to skip work (if they can do so without losing their jobs), avoid shopping (except at small, local businesses) and leave the household chores and childcare to the men. Strikers and anyone else wishing to show solidarity with the cause are encouraged to wear red for the day.
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From the Women's March website:
When millions of us stood together in January, we saw clearly that our army of love greatly outnumbers that of fear, greed and hatred. Let's raise our voices together again, to say that women’s rights are human rights, regardless of a woman’s race, ethnicity, religion, immigration status, sexual identity, gender expression, economic status, age or disability.
This isn't the first time that women have gone on strike to demonstrate their role in the global economy. In 1975, 90 percent of the women in Iceland went on strike, refusing to do work — paid or unpaid. The result? Just five years later, Iceland elected its first female president, Vigdis Finnbogadottir. With that election, Finnbogadottir also became the first democratically elected female leader of any country in the world. Finnbogadottir held the office of Iceland's president for the next 16 years.
Want to participate or see how it goes? Follow the Women's March organizers on Instagram and Twitter to get involved.
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