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Sri Lanka has launched a luxury train service connecting the country’s Tamil-dominated Jaffna district to the capital city Colombo with the help of a Line of Credit offered by India, in another significant landmark in bilateral ties.
The intercity rail service with all facilities was launched on Sunday for passengers travelling from Colombo’s Mount Lavinia suburb to Jaffna’s Kankesanthurai port suburb in the north, covering a distance of approximately 386 km.
India’s High Commission here termed it “another significant landmark in India-Sri Lanka ties”.
“Powering the railway infrastructure forward!! The train service launched today to the Northern Province highlights 2 key pillars of India’s development partnership with Sri Lanka – infrastructure development and country-wide focus,” it said on Twitter.
India had provided AC Diesel Multiple Units (AC DMUs) under the loan facility.
Sri Lanka’s Minister of Transport Pavithra Wanniarachchi, who undertook the inaugural ride, was welcomed by India’s Deputy High Commissioner Vinod K Jacob at the Colombo Fort Station during the inaugural ceremony.
“Hon’ble Minister @pavithrawannia1 inaugurated the AC Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) supplied by @RITESLimited under an Indian credit line & launched the train service from Mt.Lavinia to KKS. She undertook the inaugural ride & was welcomed at the #Colombo #Fort Station by Deputy High Commissioner,” the Indian mission said in a tweet.
“This train service will facilitate people-to-people exchange and will lay emphasis on mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries,” Jacob said.
The train service will criss-cross the island nation, connecting Colombo with Kankesanthurai on the northern tip of the Jaffna Peninsula, which has a Tamil-majority population.
Wanniarachchi thanked the Indian government for its continued support to Sri Lanka in tackling the ongoing pandemic.
The supply of air-conditioned diesel multiple units is just one of the many railway projects being undertaken by India in Sri Lanka, the Indian High Commission said, adding that there are also other ongoing projects, which include the supply of passenger coaches under an Indian Line of Credit.
India’s total development portfolio in Sri Lanka is over USD 3.5 billion, of which around USD 570 million are purely grant projects, the Indian mission said in a statement.
Modernisation of railways and creation of new railway infrastructure have been important sectors of focus under the Indian Government’s development portfolio in Sri Lanka, in line with the priority of the government and people of Sri Lanka, it added.
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A variety of manual techniques may be utilized, including Wolfe Kinetic Technique®, Feldenkrais Functional Integration®, myofasical release, soft tissue, joint and nerve mobilization, massage and manual traction.
This may include the use of exercise equipment: Gym balls, balance boards, a land treadmill, Cavaletti and weave poles, along with other forms of exercise equipment and are available to address the specific needs of each patient and to instruct owners in home exercise programs.
Wolfe Kinetic Technique®
Wolfe Kinetic Technique or WKT is a gentle manual neuromuscular re-education technique developed by Dr. Wolfe. This technique provides input to the dog’s nervous system to cause changes in movement patterns so that the dog can learn to move more normally and with less pain and chance of re-injury.
WKT is a very gentle manual technique that is performed with the intent of changing movement patterns in a way that spreads out the work load of the body when performing functional activities. It is focused on movement of the spine and how the spinal movements dictate and affect the movement patterns of the extremities. The patient’s movement is assisted manually in a way so as to achieve easier, less painful, and more normal functional movement.
GCFP – Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner
This training includes 800 to 1000 hours of class time over 4 years. Feldenkrais Method® training includes Awareness Through Movement® and Functional Integration®. Awareness Through Movement is a technique where a Feldenkrais practitioner takes a group of students through a sequence of movements verbally. The Functional Integration portion of the Feldenkrais Method involves guiding the student (or patient) through movements using tactile stimulation. Functional Integration is a form of tactile, kinesthetic communication. The practitioner (in this case, the Physical Therapist) uses gentle manual skills to communicate to the patient how he/she organizes his/her body movements and suggests how to move in more expanded, efficient, pain-free patterns. These lessons are individually constructed to improve functional activities such as walking, jumping, running, going up stairs, etc.
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DETROIT (AP) — Thousands of people wrongly accused of fraud when seeking unemployment benefits can seek financial relief from the state, the Michigan Supreme Court said Tuesday, breaking new ground when someone claims their constitutional rights have been violated by the government.
“The state is prohibited from violating the rights the Constitution guarantees. If it does so, it is liable for the harm it causes,” Justice Megan Cavanagh wrote in a 4-3 opinion.READ MORE: Jill Biden Tests Positive For COVID-19, Has 'Mild' Symptoms
The three dissenters were justices nominated by the Republican Party.
An automated computer system used during the administration of Gov. Rick Snyder was a disaster over a two-year period. People were accused of cheating to get jobless aid. They were forced to repay money, along with substantial penalties, before the Unemployment Insurance Agency finally acknowledged widespread errors affecting more than 40,000 people.
Although refunds were made, the state still is being sued by people who argue that their due-process rights — a right to be heard — were violated while they tried to untangle themselves from the mess.READ MORE: GM Recalls 484K Big SUVs To Fix Problem Third-Row Seat Belts
Some victims had to hire lawyers to fight false fraud findings. Others filed for bankruptcy, lost wages, suffered poor credit ratings or had trouble finding a job and housing.
The Supreme Court said it has the power to step in, especially when the Legislature hasn’t come up with a law that offers a remedy to people whose rights have been violated by the state.
“If our Constitution is to function, then the fundamental rights it guarantees must be enforceable. Our basic rights cannot be mere ethereal hopes if they are to serve as the bedrock of our government,” Cavanagh wrote.MORE NEWS: Boil-Water Alert Could Last 2 Weeks For Some In SE Michigan
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Mali declared late Monday that its security forces had foiled a coup attempt backed by an unknown Western country.
Colonel Assimi Goita led coups in 2020 and 2021 before becoming president, and the declaration was the latest in a series of upheavals in the West African country.
“These soldiers were supported by a Western state,” said government spokesperson Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga on state television.
He did not say which country it was. However, during Goita’s leadership, relations with erstwhile coloniser France have worsened substantially.
The French military began withdrawing its personnel after nine years of combating insurgents as a result of the collapse in relations.
The government condemned “with the utmost rigour this outrageous attack,” Maiga said.
“The substantial efforts to secure our country and return to a constitutional system that guarantees peace and stability have been hampered or even annihilated,” he continued.
Last Wednesday night, Maiga stated, security forces put down the coup attempt.
In order to catch accomplices, security was reinforced at checkpoints on the roadways exiting Bamako and at the country’s border, he added.
Foreign influence charges arose as Goita’s leadership was becoming increasingly isolated.
The administration had stated a day before that Mali would leave the G-5, a five-nation regional security force, and that it would permanently prohibit French media outlets Radio France International and France 24, two of the country’s most popular news outlets.
Authorities have accused RFI and France 24 of fabricating allegations about Malian soldiers abusing civilians.
Mali’s government also accused the French army of violating the country’s airspace and condemned the unauthorised use of surveillance drones, according to the government.
Those accusations came after France published footage purporting to show Russian mercenaries burying remains near an army base handed up to Malian soldiers by the French.
The toppling of Mali’s democratically elected president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, in August 2020 was strongly condemned by France and other countries.
Goita conducted a second coup nine months later, firing the country’s temporary civilian government and declaring himself president.
Despite agreeing to an 18-month transition back to civilian administration, the junta failed to hold elections by the February deadline.
The government announced last month that it would require two more years in power before holding a poll.
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Preparation of yarn by blending of etherified jute fibre with natural and synthetic fibre
Keywords:Etherification, blended yarns, Breaking Elongation, Modulli, Count Strength Product
Yarns were prepared by blending the etherified jute fibre in different combinations with cotton, rayon, polyester and silk waste. A blend of 50:50 for each fibre component was prepared with 50% of the etherified jute fibre respectively and 30 tex yarns from each blend were produced using the ring spinning fame. The physical properties of these yarns were determined with respect to the same numbered yarns of cotton. The 50% of the etherified jute fibre in the blends produced yarns having tenacities between 10.9 to 11.9 (g/tex) which are very much comparable to tenacity 11.5 (g/tex) of the same numbered cotton yarns. The breaking elongation 6.2 to 6.4%, moduli between 181 to 184 (g/tex) and count strength product 1605 to 1638 of the yarns from etherified jute & cotton and etherified jute and rayon in the ratio of 50:50 were almost similar to the respective properties 6.6 %, 171(g/tex) and 1694 of the same numbered cotton yarn. The breaking elongation of yarns from etherified jute and polyester and etherified jute and silk was much higher between 12.4 to 12.7% which were due to highly extensible polyester and silk fibres in the combination.
Ali, M., M. N. Islam, A. Jabber Miah and A.M. Sarwaruddin Chowdhury, Adapting the principle of neutral sulphite cooking for modification of textile quality of jute fibre, Indian Journal of Fibre and Textile Research., 2000,25(4): 298-302
Ali, M. Nawab and M. A. Mian, Studies on dying of sulphonated jute fibre, Bangladesh J. Jute and Fibre Res., 1995, 16: 25-28
Ali, M., M. N. Islam, A. Jabber Miah, M. Rabiul Awal, S. Fazal E -Karim and A.M. Sarwaruddin Chowdhury, Physico-Mechanical properties of fabrics prepared from blends of sulfonated jute fibre with natural and synthetic fibres, Indian Journal of Fibre and Textile Research., 2001,26(4):414-417
Islam, M. N., Mohammed Ali, A. Jabber Miah and A.M. Sarwaruddin Chowdhury, Studies on the fine spinning of jute into fine yarns: Blending of the chemically modified jute with cotton, The Bangladesh Journal of Scientific Research., 2000, 18(2): 217-221
Islam, M. N., Mohammad Ali, M. Kamal Uddin, Khalil Ahmed and A. M. Sarwar Chowdhury. Studies on the Physico-Mechanical Properties of the modified jute fibre by sulfonation method, Pakistan Journal Biological Science, 2006, 9(8): 1424-1429
Islam, M. N., Mohammad Ali, M. Kamal Uddin, Khalil Ahmed and A. M. Sarwaruddin Chowdhury Studies on the dyeing properties of fabrics sulphonated jute fibre with other fibres, Pakistan Journal Biological Science, 2006, 9(7): 1219-1224.
Rahman, A., A research article read in a seminar of Bangladesh Jute Research Institute. 1989.
Ali, M., M. N Islam, A. Jabber Miah, M. Rabiul Awal, S. Fazal E-Karim, and A.M. Sarwaruddin Chowdhury, Physico-mechanical properties of fabrics prepared from blends of sulfonated jute fibre with natural and synthetic fibres, Indian Journal of Fibre and Textile Research., 2001, 26(4): 414-417
Banerjee, S.K., A. Day, Bag, S.C. Sengupta, P. Sarker, D. NL. Textile chemical finishing of jute yarn and fabric. Courage., 1985, 32(3): 23
Mukherjee, A.C., A.K. Mukhopadhyah, A.S. Dutta and U. Mukhopadhyay, Liquid ammonia mercerization of jute part-11. Study of the effect of liquid ammonia on jute yarn and fabric, Text. Res.J. 1981, 51(9) 574-578
Ali, M., M. N. Islam, A. Jabber Miah and A. M. Sarwaruddin Chowdhury, Studies on the improvement of textile properties of jute and jute products, Bangladesh Journal of Scientific Research. 2001, 19(1) 11-16.
Elliot, B. Grover and D.S Hanby, A hand book of textile testing and quality control, 1960, 192
Meridth, R. J., The tensile behavior of raw cotton and other textile fibres, J. Text. Inst, 1945.
Grasso, M.M., and B.D. Hunn., Effect of Textile Properties of the Bidirectional Solar-optical properties of shading fabrics, Textile. Res. J. 1994, 62 (5): 247.
Anandjiwala, R.D., and G.A.V. Leaf, Large Scale Extension and Recovery of plain Woven Fabrics, Part1: Theoretical Textile Res. J., 1991,61(11): 619
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The mushroom, Anna Tsing argues, provides a rich metaphor for life in the anthropocene. For today’s show, we speak with Professor Tsing about her book The Mushroom at the End of the World, a study in capitalist destruction and collaborative survival through the lens of the highly-prized matsutake mushroom and its winding chain of commerce.
Anna Tsing is professor of anthropology at the University of California–Santa Cruz. From 2013 to 2018, she was a Niels Bohr Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, where she codirected Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA). She is the author of In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place (Princeton University Press, 1993), Friction: An Ethnography of Global Collection (Princeton University Press, 2004), and The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Princeton University Press, 2017).
Anna Tsing will be in Madison for an upcoming event sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison:
A Conversation with Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing
Thursday, April 18, 7:30 PM
Varsity Hall, Union South (1308 West Dayton)
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I couldn’t help but be struck by the photograph in the mainstream press last week in which an Iraqi soldier who had been taken captive was resting in the arms of two American GIs. The prisoner was drinking water from a canteen that had been given to him by his American captors.
My immediate reaction was: Now that’s what being an American soldier is all about: a decent respect for one’s adversary on the battlefield and proper treatment of one’s prisoners of war.
But I couldn’t help but think about what had to be the obvious reaction from officials in the Pentagon on seeing that photograph: “What in the hell do those American soldiers think they’re doing? Don’t they know that Iraqi soldiers are al-Qaeda terrorists who are attacking American troops and that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden planned September 11? Issue an immediate order to cork those canteens and instead to torture those Iraqi terrorists until they tell us everything they know about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. Or send them to Pakistan where our army general there can do the dirty work for us. Or send them all to our camp in Cuba, where what we do to prisoners is nobody else’s business.”
In the meantime, after Iraqi forces captured several American GIs over the weekend, President Bush declared, “I expect them to be treated humanely, just like we will treat any prisoners of theirs we capture humanely. If not, the people who mistreat the prisoners will be treated as war criminals.”
In the four years I spent at Virginia Military Institute and the eight years I spent in the Army Reserves as an infantry officer, I couldn’t help but notice the marked difference between West Point officers and VMI officers. At the risk of being somewhat judgmental, the West Pointers were, by and large, a lower-caliber type of officer than the VMI men. And I wasn’t the only one who noticed this: At infantry school at Ft. Benning, more than one NCO commented to me that he’d much rather serve under a VMI officer than a West Point officer.
Over the years, I’ve asked myself, Why the difference? I’ve concluded that it’s because the military academies, by and large, attract a different type of person from the one who goes to VMI. In order to get into the professional military academies, one needs the recommendation of a member of Congress. Thus, that type of selection process is inevitably going to have a skew that favors those individuals who come from families that curry favor with politicians.
Those who apply to VMI, on the other hand, are generally self-selected. They don’t need the recommendation of any politician to gain admission.
I think that’s why there has never been a schoolwide cheating scandal in the 160-year history of the Institute, unlike the history of the professional military academies. It’s also why there hasn’t been a serial raping scandal and cover-up at VMI, unlike the situation currently unfolding at the Air Force Academy.
When the U.S. government’s files are ultimately opened 30 years from now with respect to the torture of U.S. prisoners of war and criminal suspects in the government’s “war on terrorism,” I have absolutely no doubts that there will be no VMI officers in the chain of command in those acts of misconduct. I also have no doubts that that chain of command will be filled with officers from the academies.
The administration at all military schools, including VMI, attempt to inculcate in their cadets an unswerving obedience to orders. The difference between the professional academies and VMI, however, is that at the academies the attempt is successful. At VMI it is not.
Even though VMI has one of the most highly regulated and controlled military environments that anyone could ever imagine, there is a strange, spontaneous phenomenon that inevitably arises within every class and ends up operating as a countervailing force to the administration’s demand that cadets blindly follow and obey its rules, regulations, and orders. This tradition, which might even stretch back as far back as the Institute’s founding in 1839, creates and nurtures a deep internal sense of right and wrong — of morality — of conscience — of honor — within each VMI cadet.
Sometimes that internal standard of right conduct comes into collision with the military’s need for blind obedience to its rules, regulations, and orders. What distinguishes the VMI officer from the graduates of the academies is that VMI grads will inevitably place their conscience above orders, even if that means disobeying an unlawful or immoral order and even if it means the sacrifice of their military careers. Academy graduates, on the other hand, for whom achieving the rank of general is usually their foremost goal, will tend to blind obedience to orders, especially since that is likely to be the safest and surest means of achieving their goal.
Although it’s not often widely publicized, at various times in VMI’s history the conflict between conscience and obedience to orders has produced student rebellions — or “step-offs” as they were called when I was cadet — against the VMI administration.
For example, when I was a VMI cadet at the height of the Vietnam War, when many VMI graduates were losing their lives in another stupid, senseless U.S. government war, one of the administration’s tactical officers found some liquor in the room of a first-classman (senior), and he placed him on report, which meant immediate expulsion despite the fact that the cadet was close to graduation after spending four years at VMI.
Now, yes, the cadet had violated the rules and the tactical officer was in fact doing his job by enforcing the rules. But given all the circumstances, including the fact that the senior was very likely soon to find himself in a Vietnamese rice paddy fighting for “freedom,” the possession of a bottle of liquor was a violation that could easily have been “overlooked.”
That night, we gave that tactical officer what we called the “silent treatment.” As we marched past him toward the mess hall for dinner, we remained totally silent instead of singing our usual cadence songs. Then, when the officer entered the mess hall, no one said a word — you could hear a pin drop. When he sat down to eat his supper, every single cadet in the corps — more than 1,000 of us — arose in unison and silently walked out, preferring not to eat in the same room with a man of his caliber.
And when we returned to barracks, I’ll never forget the screaming, yelling, and door slamming from a thousand cadets, not to mention the loads of garbage and junk we all threw into the courtyards in protest.
Knowing that that tactical officer’s effectiveness at VMI had come to an end, the administration had him transferred away, which could not have helped the advancement of his military career.
One tragic consequence of the Pentagon’s new policy of torturing and mistreating prisoners is that such a policy will inevitably endanger the lives of U.S. soldiers in combat, including those fighting in Iraq, in two ways: It will operate as a disincentive for enemy soldiers to surrender; and it will provide a ready excuse by enemy forces to subject American POWs to the same torture and mistreatment.
That’s one reason why the U.S. government should immediately abandon its policy of torture and mistreatment of prisoners and open all its prisoner camps, including the one in Cuba, to public inspection. Another reason is that such misconduct is just plain wrong and immoral. We should never permit our nation or our nation’s troops to fall to the level of the war criminal.
Finally, once the president’s war is over and U.S. military rule takes over in Iraq, the president should do all he can to put both Iraqi prisoners of war and Iraqi women into the care and custody of VMI officers rather than West Point or Air Force Academy officers. It’s the least the president could for the Iraqi people in post-war, occupied Iraq.
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Stone culvert on state highway 58 near Santa Marguerita CA
In 1940-41, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built several stone-lined culverts for drainage on California state highway 58 – also known as Calf Canyon Road – east of the intersection with route 229, roughly 5-10 miles east of Santa Marguerita CA. These are unusually elegant drainage works, since most culverts do not have rock walls above ground and WPA stamps in the stones. They were effectively small bridges over gullies, where previously the road dipped and could be flooded in winter.
These culverts were part of a program of WPA road work all over San Luis Obispo County during the 1930s, as indicated by WPA “project cards” in the National Archives. WPA project cards are only indicative, however; they show which projects were planned, funded by the WPA and approved by President Franklin Roosevelt; they do not guarantee that the work was actually done, since the WPA usually proposed more projects than it could carry out.
In this case, the proof of the work is in the WPA date stamps on the stone work. The culverts and stone walls of seven of these drainage works survive today (2021). Some have walls on both sides of the road, others only on one side.
WPA date stamps at sites
Project originally submitted by Richard A Walker on April 9, 2021.
Additional contributions by Joan Greer.
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Other than holidays, there is no better time to kick back and relax. Everyone enjoys doing activities that allow them to spend their time doing things they enjoy. If you are a student or even a working person on vacation, there are a lot of things you can and should do to ensure that your vacation is productive. Continue reading to learn how to make the most of your vacation time.
Add an email signature two weeks before your trip that mentions your forthcoming vacation dates. People you’re communicating with will be aware that you’ll be unavailable. Determine a maximum of three trustworthy colleagues and instruct them on how to reply on your behalf. This is an excellent approach to delegating, minimizing micromanagement, and assisting others in growing while also allowing you to relax. Don’t limit yourself to a list of departments. Make a list of the real project or topic.
Some vacation activities, such as visiting a museum that is only open on Tuesdays, attending a park music every other Saturday, or stopping by your favorite ice cream shop that is only open on Thursdays, should be planned ahead of time so you don’t miss out. Allow yourself and your family plenty of time to explore, take another ride on that port ferry, slip in a mid-afternoon nap – or just hang about together giggling at the dreadful old movies on your hotel room’s antique TV. These unexpected events are frequently the ones that you will remember for years to come.
When you’re attempting to get a few hours of sleep in your hotel or on the plane, try to limit your use of electronics. Phone and tablet screens emit blue light, which can interrupt sleep. For your next trip, pack a comfortable eye mask and earplugs. Eye masks might help you sleep by blocking out light, while earplugs can help you block out loud noises. Calculate your destination’s local time. A few hours of sleep on the airline can help you stay alert at your destination if you arrive early in the morning. If you arrive late at night, try to stay awake on the plane so you can sleep when you arrive. Stay hydrated and eat nutritious foods. Travel disrupts our eating and drinking habits, so bring healthy snacks and plenty of water with you.
Art, creating, and writing (perhaps starting a travel blog) are examples of creative expressions that might help you cope with stress. Self-exploration of artistic efforts can aid in a better understanding of them. While on vacation, zone out and draw whatever comes to mind (dinosaurs eating tacos, for example) or whatever is in front of you. Perhaps silly, but you learned what colors you like, why things look better in specific places, and how to find the emotional gravity in photos as a result of this.
While returning late Sunday night can help you get the most out of your vacation time, it can make Monday morning feel even more rushed than usual. If you don’t like the rushed feeling, return on Saturday or early Sunday to check on anything important that happened while you were gone, grab groceries, and start the laundry. Allow yourself to relax by planning a low-key but enjoyable activity for Monday evening. After work, a quick drink with a friend gives you something to look forward to after a long day.
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Chefs and experienced home cooks know little secrets that give them an edge when they’re cooking. One of them is the use of a copper bowl. However, because copper bowls are naturally beautiful, and there are other uses for them as well. Choosing the perfect copper bowl means that you have an attractive decoration or a baking and cooking tool.
Sit back and learn how you can use a copper bowl, why you need it in the first place, and see which products are the best.
What Can You Do with a Copper Bowl?
Copper bowls are great if you’re mixing egg whites. Some people have a different kind of bowl for salads and other food items and use their copper bowls exclusively for egg whites.
And you’re not just imagining it. Science agrees that egg whites should be beaten using a copper bowl. This article explains that the copper ions in your bowl mix with the egg whites and help to stabilize the egg white. As a result, you can make it fluffier and less prone to be overbeaten.
Another great use for copper bowls is to use them to prepare or hold other types of food. For instance, you can use it to serve a salad. However, you should know that copper is very reactive to acid. A reaction with acid can discolor your bowls.
Another thing to consider is that too much copper can be bad for your body. Use copper bowls sparingly: use glass, steel, or ceramic bowls instead.
Copper bowls are inherently beautiful with their warm colors, shiny and smooth surface, and bowl shape. You can hang a copper bowl and instantly add some character to your kitchen.
Or you can buy several copper bowls and put them on a shelf as decorations. Not only do these copper bowls look nice, but they also serve as containers for smaller things.
By adding three or four holes to your copper bowl, plus chains or a piece of rope, you can turn these copper bowls into hanging planters.
Pendant Lighting Fixtures
You can also use these copper bowls as pendant lamps. The color and shape make an elegant lighting fixture while also adding a warm touch to your living space.
Depending on what you’re going to use your copper bowl for, you need to decide if you want a lacquered product or not. If you’re using your copper bowl to prepare food, choose one that isn’t lacquered. Lacquer can be unsafe for food.
If you’re thinking of using your copper bowl as a decoration or accent, get one that’s lacquered if you prefer it to have long-lasting shine. Also, if your copper bowl gets dented, you can push it back into place and then hammer it into form.
Now that you have a very good idea of what you can do with copper bowls, here are our recommendations for the best products that you can buy:
- Bona Fide Copper Hammered Mixing Bowl
- Cheftor Solid 100% Copper Ayurveda Health Classic Traditional Mixing Bowl
- Mauviel M’Passion Copper Bowl with Ring
- Old Dutch Solid Copper Beating Bowl
- Old Dutch Solid Copper Stone Hammered Bowls – Three-Piece Set
- Sertodo Copper Mixing Bowl
In choosing these products, we considered their sizes and included copper bowls of different sizes and capacities. Whether you’re looking for a big bowl for your baking needs or just a small one to use day today, you can find it all here. Another important aspect is whether these bowls are lacquered or not. A lacquered bowl is not suitable for preparing food.
We further considered the price, choosing only the bowls that provide value for money. There are no selections here that are needlessly expensive.
Mauviel M’Passion Copper Bowl with Ring
The Mauviel M’Passion Copper Bowl with Ring is for those serious home cooks that want to have the most stable egg whites. Get the highest peaks and fluffy egg whites.
The copper in the bowl reacts to the egg whites, so you don’t overbeat the eggs. Even if you don’t use a cream of tartar, you get the most volume. This bowl can hold 4.9 quarts (4.6 liters) and a diameter of 10.6 inches (26.9 centimeters). It comes with a brass ring that allows you to hang it up when not in use.
There are also two other sizes: eight and 12 inches (20.3 and 30.5 centimeters).
- Designed for beating egg whites
- Made in France
- Some buyers suspect that this product isn’t made with pure copper.
Old Dutch Solid Copper Stone Hammered Bowls – Three-Piece Set
The Old Dutch Solid Copper Stone Hammered Bowls come in a set of three bowls that are sized differently. You get bowls that are:
- 8.25 inches (21 centimeters) in diameter, 2.0-quart (1.9 liters) capacity
- 10.5 inches (25.4 centimeters) in diameter, 4.0-quart (3.8 liters) capacity
- 12 inches (30.5 centimeters) in diameter, 5.0-quart (4.7 liters) capacity
Each bowl has a flat bottom for more stability. Meanwhile, it has a stone-hammered finish that makes it look exquisite.
- Very low priced
- Comes in a set of three bowls
- Great for decorative use
- Some complaints talk about how the bowls were discolored after one use.
Bona Fide Copper Hammered Mixing Bowl
The Bona Fide Copper Hammered Mixing Bowl is made with pure copper that is hammered into shape. The bowl is coated with a food-safe lacquer that keeps tarnishing to a minimum. This copper bowl is great to use as a serving bowl, candy dish, salad bowl, and others.
This particular brand measures six inches (15.2 centimeters) in diameter. The manufacturer also offers a pure copper embossed bowl, and a pure copper embossed bowl with a base.
- Doesn’t tarnish easily
- Excellent looking copper bowl
- This is decorative and not good for beating eggs
- Not dishwasher safe
Cheftor Solid 100% Copper Ayurveda Health Classic Traditional Mixing Bowl
The Cheftor Solid 100% Copper Ayurveda Health Classic Traditional Mixing Bowl is made with pure copper. Without any lacquer applied, this bowl is perfect for mixing eggs. You can also use a copper bowl for mixing other ingredients. This copper bowl will not rust, so it’s long-lasting.
It measures 14 by 14 by 5.0 inches (36 by 36 by 12 centimeters) and can hold up to seven quarts (6.6 liters).
- Great for mixing egg whites and herbal medicine
- Big capacity
- You will need to wash this bowl by hand.
Sertodo Copper Mixing Bowl
The Sertodo Copper Mixing Bowl is yet another bowl made with pure copper, ideal for mixing and beating eggs and other baking ingredients. This bowl, however, has a stainless steel handle that makes it easy to handle and store. You can use the handle to hang the bowl.
The round bowl comes in three sizes:
- 8 inches (20.3 centimeters), with a capacity of two quarts (1.9 liters)
- 10 inches (25.4 centimeters), with a capacity of four quarts (3.8 liters)
- 12 inches (30.5 centimeters), with a capacity of six quarts (5.7 liters)
The bowl is made with copper that’s been hammered to form. It’s very shiny and beautiful.
- Handcrafted and beautiful bowl
- Three sizes to choose from
- Has a durable handle that you can use to easily hold the bowl
- Some buyers complained that the bowl they received had some discolored parts.
Old Dutch Solid Copper Beating Bowl
The Old Dutch Solid Copper Beating Bowl measures 12 by 12 by 5.0 inches (30.5 by 30.5 by 12.7 centimeters) and can hold up to five quarts (4.7 liters). It has a solid and smooth surface and has a protective coating that helps you avoid tarnishing your bowl. You can wash this protective coating off to make it suitable for beating egg whites.
It comes with a small brass ring that allows you to store it easily.
- The manufacturer is the largest wholesaler of copper kitchenware
- The protective coating is temporary, and you can use the bowl to beat eggs that are very light and fluffy
- Smooth bowl
- Some buyers report that they received a dented bowl.
Frequently Asked Questions
Question: How do you clean copper bowls?
Answer: For those who are thinking about decorating with copper bowls, you might want to let it tarnish. According to Architectural Digest, you should consider not polishing your copper bowls so that they can become patinated. The patina will give the bowl a look of aged copper. Plus, the patina makes your bowl more durable.
However, if you prefer to have your bowls sheeny and shiny or use them to prepare food, you should maintain copper bowls. And these copper bowls require more maintenance than stainless steel ones.
These beautiful bowls can be fussy, and their colors change if you don’t clean them properly. How do you clean copper bowls? Aside from that, how do you polish it?
Copper bowls should always be washed with soap and water first before you polish them. Don’t put it in the dishwasher.
Wipe diluted soap using a soft sponge. If there is dirt or discoloration, you might want to try elbow grease.
Getting Rid of the Tarnish
It’s natural for copper bowls to tarnish when they’re exposed to water and air. Polish your bowls once every six months.
You can use the following products:
- Wright’s Copper and Brass Cream Cleaner
- Evo Dyne Brass Cleaner
- Twinkle Brass & Copper Cleaning Kit
- Howard CB0008 Pine-Ola Copper and Brass Polish
- Flitz Brass and Copper Tarnish Remover
All of these products are gentle enough while effectively getting rid of the dullness of your copper bowls. However, you can clean copper bowls using household products such as:
- Lemon juice and baking soda: Mix these two ingredients and apply the paste to the surface of your copper bowl. Use a clean and soft cloth to buff the surface, going in a circular motion. Rinse and pat dry.
- Ketchup: Rub a layer of ketchup onto your copper bowl. Rinse and pat dry.
- Lemon and salt: Cut one lemon in half and put salt on the cut part. Rub the lemon and salt combo on the surface of the copper bowl. Rinse and pat dry.
- You should never use abrasive scrubs on copper bowls.
- Don’t put it in the dishwasher.
- Don’t heat your copper bowls.
- Repair dents and dings. You can push the dent to help restore the copper bowl to its original shape most of the time.
Question: How to remove lacquer from your copper bowl?
Answer: Some people make the mistake of buying copper bowls with lacquer. The lacquer prevents egg whites from interacting with the copper.
There are also times when the lacquer on an old copper bowl starts to peel. Further, lacquer is not food-safe. If you’re going to use your bowls to store food and drinks, you should strip off the lacquer.
The good news is that anybody can easily remove the lacquer from your copper bowl. To do this, you can boil water and add washing soda to it, to the ratio of one teaspoon of washing soda to every cup of water. Submerge your copper bowl in this boiling solution for more than 20 minutes.
The lacquer will soften and peel off the bowl. Take the bowl out of the boiling water and scrub under warm running water to remove the softened lacquer.
After all the lacquer has been removed, wash the bowl with soap and hot water. Dry and buff with a soft piece of cloth. Lastly, polish the copper bowl.
Other Ways to Remove Lacquer from Copper
Instead of boiling water and washing soda, you can use acetone, the same substance used to remove nail polish. Just rub the acetone on your copper bowl until the lacquer is gone.
Question: How do you put lacquer on copper?
Answer: If you are not going to use your copper bowls for food or water, you may consider putting lacquer on its surface. This will protect the bowl from tarnishing, make the bowl shine, and even prevent it from turning green.
Depending on the lacquer you use, you can dip the bowl into it, spray or brush it on. Then let it dry. Some of the products you can use:
And if you have tarnished bowls that you’d like to restore, you should first clean them and apply the lacquer. This video will show you how:
Answer: Yes, the butter will stay fresh even when left on a countertop for a few weeks because it has plenty of fat, salt, and water in it. Just like milk and cheese, it is very easy to spot spoiled butter. Its appearance will be dark compared to when it was first set out, it will smell odd, and it will taste sour.
Answer: This will depend on how you store it. If you leave your butter at room temperature (preferably below 70° Fahrenheit), it will last approximately three weeks. If you store your butter in a refrigerator, it should last for approximately three months. If you store your butter in a freezer, it will last for up to a year.
Answer: Yes, these two items are a bit different. While they both hold the butter in them and can keep the better fresh for many days, they work in different ways.
A butter dish simply holds butter inside it. It will have a lid to keep pests and dust out of the butter, and it will keep the butter fresh for a few days. A butter keeper, also known as a butter crock or a butter bell, holds butter and water in it. The water, when changed every two to three days, works to keep the butter fresh for up to 30 days, even when set on a countertop.
If you would like to try a butter keeper instead of a butter dish, try the Dowan Store’s French butter dish with a lid. This butter keeper is simple to use and great looking. It comes in three different colors and is safe to use in an oven and a microwave; plus, it can be placed in a dishwasher or a freezer. If you’re unsure if a butter keeper is for you, check out all the reviews for this one so that you make an informed decision. BTW, customers love this item.
Copper Bowls Are Worth It: Choose the Best One for Your Needs
Suppose you’re planning on using a copper bowl for mixing food or beating egg whites. In that case, you can’t go wrong with the Mauviel M’Passion Copper Bowl with Ring, the Cheftor Solid 100% Copper Ayurveda Health Classic Traditional Mixing Bowl, or the Sertodo Copper Mixing Bowl.
However, the Bona Fide Copper Hammered Mixing Bowl will be great. Meanwhile, the Old Dutch Solid Copper Stone Hammered Bowls – Three-Piece Set gives you three different sized bowls that you can line up on walls or different shelves for decoration.
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Did you know that STRESSED spelled backwards is DESSERTS? What do we do when we are stressed? We eat foods that may not be best for us. Then, when we gain weight, we want a quick fix “diet” to fit back into our “skinny clothes!” It is time to stop the insanity and learn a new truth about fad diets. Author of “Food Sanity,” Doctor of Naturopathy, David Friedman, DC, will share how food can contribute to our health and stress. He will teach us which diets can heal the body.
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Potential Parkinson's treatment delivers protein directly to the brain
It was just last month that we heard about a brain implant which dispenses a protein to stop seizures in epileptic rats. An unrelated British/Canadian study now suggests that a brain implant in humans, which delivers that same protein, could be used to treat and even reverse the effects of Parkinson's disease.
As part of the new research, a total of 41 test subjects – all of whom had Parkinson's – got a Convection Enhanced Delivery system installed in their brain. This involved utilizing robot-assisted neurosurgery to place four tubes within the organ. The open tip of each tube reached into a different area of the brain, in which the disease was causing dopamine cells to die.
All four tubes were also connected to a single skull-mounted external delivery port, protruding through the skin behind one ear.
In a subsequent double blind trial, all of the volunteers received infusions via that port, once every four weeks for nine months. And while half of the participants were unknowingly given a placebo, the other half got a growth-factor protein known as Glial Cell Line Derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF). Earlier research suggested that this protein could help regenerate dopamine brain cells.
PET scans subsequently revealed a 100-percent improvement in the treated areas of the GDNF group's brains – by contrast, there was no change in brain scans of the placebo group. Unfortunately, though, Parkinson's symptoms weren't reduced in any of the volunteers. This may have been due to a lag taking place between the occurrence of biological improvements, and the expected reduction in the severity of symptoms.
That said, all of the test subjects were then put on the GDNF for another nine months. After that treatment period was over, members of both groups showed a moderate to large improvement in symptoms. Additionally, there were few if any side effects, suggesting that the technique is safe.
Plans now call for a larger-scale study, in which higher doses of the protein will be administered.
"The spatial and relative magnitude of the improvement in the brain scans is beyond anything seen previously in trials of surgically delivered growth-factor treatments for Parkinson's," says principal investigator Dr. Alan L. Whone, of the University of Bristol. "This represents some of the most compelling evidence yet that we may have a means to possibly reawaken and restore the dopamine brain cells that are gradually destroyed in Parkinson's."
A paper on the research was recently published in the Journal of Parkinson's Disease.
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A DDoS Simulation is an effort to make a system or network device unavailable to its users by attempting to connect simultaneously to the victim machine using multiple hosts. It consists of the efforts to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet. Target sites include web servers such as banks, payment gateways, etc.
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Organizer 1: Adolfo Cuevas Teja, Federal Telecommunications Institute
Organizer 2: Juan Carlos Hernandez Wocker , Federal Telecommunications Institute
Organizer 3: Victor Manuel Martinez Vanegas, Federal Telecommunications Institute
Organizer 4: Ferrer Edna, Federal Telecommunications Institute
Speaker 1: Adolfo Cuevas Teja, Technical Community, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Speaker 2: Muhammad Shabbir, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
Speaker 3: Inmaculada Placencia Porrero, Intergovernmental Organization, Eastern European Group
Juan Carlos Hernandez Wocker , Technical Community, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Victor Manuel Martinez Vanegas, Technical Community, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Ferrer Edna, Technical Community, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Break-out Group Discussions - Round Tables - 90 Min
3) Accessibility & Policy for Social Inclusion How to empower people with disabilities and make the information and communication technologies accessible for all?
The aim of this workshop is to address different aspects of promoting that telecommunications and ICT services are accessible, as well as the challenges that still remain to achieve this access. Therefore, it seeks to address issues from the development of public policies to technical issues of devices functionality and the dissemination and training of people with disabilities, in order to strengthen a digital environment and that, through ICT, they can have favorable access for them to carry out their usual and future activities, autonomously, safely, freely and reliably.
GOAL 10: Reduced Inequalities
GOAL 17: Partnerships for the Goals
The rights of people with disabilities to access information and communication technologies (ICT) and telecommunications, as well as the obligation of governments to guarantee it, is internationally recognized by organizations such as the United Nations (UN) and the International Telecommunications Union(ITU) through various resolutions they have issued. However, there is still much to be done to ensure access for people with disabilities to telecommunications and ICT. Therefore, it is considered of great importance to carry out a workshop in how to tackle the challenges to allow accessibility of these services. This workshop aims to discuss, contribute ideas, as well as best practices and experiences on the following topics: - Public policies that promote access to telecommunications/ICT for people with disabilities. - Inclusive platforms - Accessibility guidelines. - Accessible formats. - Accessibility functionality in terminal devices. - Dissemination of information that allows them to know and enforce their rights, in addition to taking advantage of the use of ICT and telecommunications. - Challenges and recommendations to guarantee access for people with disabilities to telecommunications and ICT.
With this workshop, it is expected to identify and share experiences and best practices regarding public policies uses for empowered users with disabilities and make the information and communication technologies accessible for all. Additionally, as result of this workshop, in addition to promoting dialogue, it seeks to have a series of recommendations to promote the guarantee of Access to telecommunications and ICT services for people with disabilities.
a. Explain how the session organizers plan to facilitate and encourage interaction and participation during the session The session will consist in the following: • Welcome and opening comments by onsite moderator – 5 min. • One round of questions to speaker: 4 min max. to speaker - 20 min in total. • Lightening talks from existing Initiatives in each/all of the four “C’s” – 4 Minutes each speaker/strictly enforced by session Moderator. • Break out working sessions, with 1-2 experts for each group – this is the “participation segment” for the workshop and is intent to engage all participants in the room - 30 minutes. a. Each breakout will have one or more “experts” drawn from the lightening speakers and other experts, plus one rapporteur. b. Remote moderators will be assigned for each breakout, who will use chat to keep remote participants aware of the discussion in the small group and report on any comments and questions during the workout session. c. The breakout/working session segment is focus on developing concrete draft recommendations. • A final segment of the workshop will present the recommendations - 4 minutes per breakout group: total time - 20 minutes. • Moderated Q&A with the audience and online participants - 10 minutes. • Summarizing comments and closing remarks by session moderator – 5 minutes. Other Tools * b. The IGF provides access and support for remote participants through an Official Online Participation Platform will be also made available closer to the Annual Meeting. Are you planning to use other complementary tools/platforms to increase participation and interaction during the session?
Relevance to Internet Governance: The access is a priority topic in Internet governance, since it seeks to make the Internet accessible to all, that is, how universal accessibility can be reached with a feasible connectivity infrastructure, leaving aside social exclusions based on factors such as formation, language economy, gender inequality, disability, among others. Therefore, accessibility for people with disabilities is a highly relevant issue for inclusion and, consequently, for Internet governance, since multiple stakeholders are involved, from governments, academia, industry and civil society.
Relevance to Theme: This workshop will provide elements for the construction of strategies focused on promoting Internet access for people with disabilities, thereby making the Internet more inclusive and providing the opportunity for people with the ability to participate in the digital economy and be part of taking decision.
Usage of IGF Official Tool.
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A pitch for better use of mixed methods in impact evaluations
At the opening session of 3ie’s recent Measuring Results conference, Jyotsna Puri, Deputy Executive Director and Head of Evaluation at 3ie, said, “It takes a village to do an impact evaluation.” What she meant was that, for an impact evaluation to be successful and policy relevant, research teams need to be diverse and include a mix of disciplines, such as statisticians, anthropologists, economists, surveyors, enumerators and policy experts, as well as use the most appropriate mix of evaluation and research methods.
So the key questions are: how can the use of mixed methods and interdisciplinary approaches make impact evaluations more policy relevant? What extra dimensions get added to the standard ‘quantitative and econometric’ impact evaluation when we also add other elements from different methodologies and disciplines? The answer to this is nicely summed up by Rao and Woolcock who say that qualitative methods can be crucial to understanding the impact as opposed to simply measuring it. And understanding why certain ideas, when implemented a certain way work, while others don’t, is often what policymakers want to know.
At 3ie, our experience with managing impact evaluation grants has given us a better sense of how qualitative methods work as part of an impact evaluation. What seems clear is that in the quest for using mixed methods to produce high-quality impact evaluations, caution has to be exercised to ensure that qualitative methods do not play second fiddle to quantitative methods. Evaluators need to understand that the minor inclusion of qualitative methods through a few focus group discussions or in-depth interviews here and there, does not necessarily enhance the quality of the impact evaluation and nor does it justify calling the study a mixed methods evaluation. (A disappointing number of technical proposals that 3ie receives have this weakness.) Instead, qualitative methods should be systematically integrated with traditional quantitative methods at various points of an impact evaluation.
There are numerous ways this can be done. Qualitative methods can be immensely useful, for instance, in the development of quantitative survey instruments. By using qualitative methods, such as key informant interviews, focus group discussions and participatory rural appraisal, one can design surveys that take contextual issues into account and clarify the mechanisms through which the programme can be beneficial to those receiving it. A good example can be found in an ongoing 3ie-supported evaluation of a government programme that seeks to improve maternal and child care in rural Karnataka by providing free medical care to poor women in private health facilities. Results from qualitative analyses show that a range of factors, over and above the monetary aspects, play a crucial role in influencing the decision of the pregnant woman and her family on whether or not to seek care from private facilities. These include problems of physical access, such as the distance to the facility, lack of transportation and perceptions about the quality of care received. These insights have subsequently helped inform the survey instrument used in the impact evaluation.
Qualitative methods can also be helpful in the last stage of an impact evaluation, once the results of the impact evaluation have been generated. For example, a 3ie-supported impact evaluation of an intervention that aimed to increase the financial inclusion of people in rural Kenya found that, even after opening costs (information acquisition, account opening fees and administrative requirements) were taken care of, financial inclusion remained low. While 60 per cent of the people who were offered this opportunity opened accounts, the actual account use was much lower. Study authors conducted interviews to understand why the people selected to receive a subsidised account did not actively use it. They found out that a significant proportion of people did not trust the bank. They harboured fears related to issues of embezzlement, unreliable services and high transactions fees.
It is lamentable that although mixed methods are often seen as the way forward for conducting more meaningful impact evaluations, their use in impact evaluation is still very limited. For impact evaluations to be truly policy relevant, it is imperative that we use combinations of most appropriate methods and a range of expertise in order to uncover and understand why and how an intervention works. So yes, it does indeed take a village to do impact evaluations.
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These ideas dont just echo the rhetoric of antisemitic nazi propaganda, but in some cases are the same arguments of subversion, degradation of racial purity. Holocaust denial includes any of the following claims. Books that deny the genocide of jews in the holocaust during world war ii. Mel mermelstein survived auschwitz, then sued holocaust deniers in court fed up with the lies and antisemitism, a california businessman partnered with.
Denying the holocaust is a thorough exploration of the rise and development holocaust denial. Deniers promote conspiracy theories about jewishcontrolled governments and media by attempting to undermine a history of horrific suffering. The growing assault on truth and memory, it was up to lipstadt to justify her criticism. But since academia and mainstream media keep pushing it, and because a new edition has been announced for late 2016, a thorough exposure. Lipstadt named writer david irving as a holocaust denier, leading him to sue her unsuccessfully for.
While most commentators have dismissed the holocaust deniers as antisemitic neonazi thugs who do not deserve a response, historians michael shermer and alex grobman have immersed themselves in the minds and culture of these holocaust revisionists. The denial of the holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. The denial of the holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is. Day back outside the hall, the third mans fingers opening the book, finding the index. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content. Most of all, deniers focus on the extermination camp run by the. After seeing that i came to understand that lipstadt has a firm policy.
Sixteen european countries and israel have laws against holocaust denial, the denial of the systematic genocidal killing of approximately six million jews in europe by nazi germany in the 1930s and 1940s. In england, the burden of proof in libel cases rests on the defendant. Denying history takes a bold and indepth look at those who say the holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such claims. A flood of refugeesafter kristallnacht, some jews realized that violence against them was bound to increase. The inspirational author behind the major motion picture denial, starring rachel weisz.
Denial forms the denial of the holocaust and genocide take many forms, from simply ignoring obvious facts by manipulating the sources, through minimizing the dimensions of genocide, to trivializing and rationalizing genocide by analogy and claiming that it is an acceptable example of the kinds of things that happen in wartime. Of the countries that ban holocaust denial, some, such as austria, germany. Try one of the apps below to open or edit this item. Holocaust denial and distortion generally claim that the holocaust was invented or exaggerated by jews as part of a plot to advance jewish interests. The growing assault on truth and memory, in which she gives her perspective of the political background, motiva. Denying the holocaust top results of your surfing denying the holocaust start download portable document format pdf and ebooks electronic books free online rating news 20162017 is books that can provide inspiration, insight, knowledge to the reader. Many countries also have broader laws that criminalize genocide denial.
How to understand and confront holocaust denial united for. Feb 07, 2017 in this edition of the aidan project podcast, aidan is joined by documentary filmmaker, frances harper, alongside richard payne, to discuss holocaust denial. Holocaust denial, the denial of the systematic genocidal killing of approximately six million jews in europe by nazi germany in the 1930s and 1940s, is illegal in 16 european countries and israel. The holocaust is the term that generally describes the genocide of european jews during. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Lipstadt named writer david irving as a holocaust denier, leading him to sue her unsuccessfully for libel see irving v penguin books ltd. Holocaust denial and distortion are forms of antisemitism, prejudice against or hatred of jews. This chapter argues that bare holocaust denialthe denial of the gas chambers, the sixmillion figure, and the nazi policy of exterminationis, in those parts of europe with direct experience with nazi rule, a form of hate speech. Running a finger down until coming upon irving, david, 8, 14, 111, 161163, 170. Historians agree that during world war ii, the nazis did kill millions of people during the holocaust, including many people in concentration camps. Countering holocaust denial in the twentyfirst century.
Working definition of holocaust denial and distortion the. Denial forms holocaust denial history auschwitzbirkenau. Holocaust denial is discourse and propaganda that deny the historical reality and the extent of the extermination of the jews by the nazis and their accomplices. Therefore, in the united states denying the holocaust or engaging in antisemitic hate speech is not illegal, except when there is an imminent threat of violence. Download pdf denying the holocaust free online new. Many other countries, particularly in europe where the holocaust occurred, have laws criminalizing holocaust denial and hate speech. Lipstadts book examines the evolution of holocaust denial from its immediate postwar origins to the rise of a modern denial movement, along with an examination of. A new book which does not deny the holocaust and the number of jews murdered in it has been published in egypt in recent days, israels leading newspaper yedioth ahronoth reported tuesday. Holocaust denial delegitimizes the suffering of jews, and exacerbates intergenerational traumas by denying holocaust history, and codifies antisemitic propaganda under the guise of academic research. Holocaust denial simple english wikipedia, the free.
The only thing missing is the importance of the internet in the spreading of the hate propaganda these days for the obvious reason, as the book was published before internet became mainstream and accessible to everyone. Lipstadts book examines the evolution of holocaust denial from its immediate postwar origins to the rise of a modern denial movement, along with an examination of the most famous and influential deniers and their claims. They agree that there is more proof in writing, pictures, and places about the holocaust than any other great killing of people. Deborah lipstadt, author of denying the holocaust, is appalled by the willingness of some students and the media to see holocaust denial as simply the other side. The growing assault on truth and memory deborah lipstadt. Lipstadt for years, those who claimed that the death of six million jews in nazi concentration camps was nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful zionist conspiracy, were treated as harmless cranks. Constitution would have protected irvings right to free speech, but austria, along with belgium, france, germany, israel, spain, poland, lithuania and switzerland all have laws against denying the holocaust. Holocaust denial and hate speech oxford scholarship. With her book denying the holocaust, deborah lipstadt tried to show the flawed methods and extremist motives of holocaust deniers, who, so the books description claims, have no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. The jews of the holocaust kristallnacht marked a major stepup in the nazi policy of jewish persecution. Sometimes, for example, where the holocaust is not explored fully as part of the school. Forty years ago, such notions were the province of.
May 11, 2019 lipstadt, but as another holocaust historian with a phd, i have to say that her statements are accurate. In this edition of the aidan project podcast, aidan is joined by documentary filmmaker, frances harper, alongside richard payne, to discuss holocaust denial. Holocaust deniers make one or more of the following false statements. A comparative analysis of holocaust denial in the internet age. Denying the source download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Many other countries, particularly in europe where the holocaust occurred, have laws criminalizing holocaust denial and hate. Holocaust denial and distortion united states holocaust. Holocaust denial is any attempt to negate the established facts of the nazi genocide of european jews. Addressing holocaust denial, distortion and trivialization osce. In this first fullscale history of holocaust denial, lipstadt shows how, despite tens of thousands of living witnesses.
Sponsored by emory universitys witness to the holocaust program and. Alan levy nazi hunter the wiesenthal file internet archive. Mel mermelstein survived auschwitz, then sued holocaust. Click download or read online button to get denying the source book now. In 1996, emory university professor deborah lipstadt found herself in a peculiar situation. Click download or read online button to denying the holocaust book pdf for free now. The united states constitution ensures freedom of speech.
Lipstadts book denying the holocaust is the most pitiful book ever written against revisionism. It was a quirk of the english legal system that allowed the battle to play out in court. Liptsadt is being used as a location for deniala film about the astonishing legal battle fought 20 years ago by deborah lipstadt, at the time a littleknown american academic who specialised in the holocaust. A timely analysis of the antisemitism and prejudice that fuels holocaust deniers, written by the inspirational author behind the major motion. My next encounter with the topic was seeing the denial movie about the lipstadtirving trial. Aug 04, 2019 denying the holocaust deborah lipstadt pdf by.
The book is partly a history of the denial movement and the denyimg or six men who got it going. Holocaust denial is the claim that the holocaust did not happen, or was not as bad as most people think it was. Lipstadt for defamation, to allow the public to take freely cognizance of the sentences and. But since academia and mainstream media keep pushing it, and because a new edition has been announced for late 2016, a thorough exposure of her incompetence and mendacity was overdue. The growing assault on truth and memory pdf for free, preface. Holocaust denial is the act of denying the nazi genocide of jews in the holocaust during world war ii. Of the countries that ban holocaust denial, some, such as austria, germany, hungary, and romania, were among the.
Nov 17, 2016 so, when irving filed a libel lawsuit against professor lipstadt and her british publisher for critical statements lipstadt wrote about him in her 1993 book denying the holocaust. Backed up with hundreds of references to thoroughly researched studies, the present book demonstrates. Yet there are those who insist that the death of six million jews in nazi concentration camps is nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful zionist conspiracy. Denying the holocaust download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Ebook denying the holocaust as pdf download portable. The author has certainly done her research and has tons of documentation supporting her alarm at the sheer size of the lipstadt shows that tens of thousands of witnesses of the holocaust are still alive and there is conclusive documentary evidence for it.
The holocaust denial materials are often quite slick, couched in scholarly dress, mixing kernels of truth with whopping lies, cleverly misquoting or quoting outofcontext bonafide scholars of the nazi era and holocaust all with the aim to portray the victims of atrocity as aggressive conspirators. Although he does not specifically write holocaust denial literature, david irving has been labeled by deborah lipstadt as one of the. A forceful analysis of attempts to deny the nazi holocaust. That nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas chambers for the genocidal mass. Ebook denying the holocaust as pdf download portable document. Download pdf denialholocausthistoryontrial free online.
I also noted that legislation had been passed by the eu, partially. Who are some of the key people who dispute what holocaust deniers say. American professor of jewish history and holocaust research, published a book entitled denying the holocaust. On 8 september 1985 british tv screened a film which shows grisly scenes from the nazi death camps. The growing assault on truth and memory is a 1993 book by the historian deborah lipstadt, in which the author discusses the holocaust denial movement. Irving, who deny that the holocaust ever happened or who question the scope of the tragedy. She and a team of lawyers would have to defend the truth about the holocaust against british historian and famed holocaust denier david irving. Denying the holocaust download denying the holocaust ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. Download pdf denying the holocaust free online new books.374 736 223 449 374 943 1394 1231 1472 359 111 1019 537 738 1355 760 1524 565 778 1604 535 1161 708 317 353 1018 980 1109 899 674 87 1458 390 1645 167 1383 398 620 363 381 790 984 1343 1147 310 105
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For many tourists, Australia is a dream country to visit. It has beautiful weather, diverse ecosystems, and some of the most unusual animals anywhere in the world. Tourists can enjoy visiting the big cities of Australia such as Sydney and Melbourne. There are also many beautiful beaches, landscapes, and nightlife. The people of Australia are also friendly and known to be welcoming to visitors! However, here are the top 10 best destinations for tourists.
10 The Sydney Opera House
The stadium Opera House is one of the most recognized structures in the city of Sydney, Australia. The building is an icon and it has identified Australia for many years. With the structure shaped like billowing sails or huge shells, it is a great attraction to visitors and locals.
The Sydney Opera House is one of the UNESCO world heritage sites in Australia due to its magnificent architecture. The place is amazing as it is also surrounded by waters and the famous Royal Botanic Gardens. A lot of performances take place at the Opera house as it has cinemas, concert halls, theaters, studios, and exhibition rooms.
9 Cradle Mountain
Cradle Mountain is yet another great attraction for tourists and is found in Tasmania- a world heritage site that is 5069 feet above sea level. Cradle Mountain is well known for its biodiversity of animals and plants, rock formations, and beautiful landscapes. In addition, it has the deepest freshwater lake in Australia, Lake St Clair.
Visitors can hike to the mountain through forest tracks enjoying great scenic views and amazing nature. Since the place has cool temperatures, it offers a room for relaxation away from the cities.
8 Daintree Rainforest
It is one of the most known forests in Australia. Daintree Rainforest is found in Queensland and it is on the list of world heritage sites in Australia. The forest is massive as it covers 1200 square kilometers. As a result, it is home to countless species of animals, plants, and insects.
It also holds the record for the oldest tropical lowland forests in the globe dating back 135 years. The abundance of nature in this forest is the greatest attraction as there is so much wildlife, rivers, valleys, waterfalls, and even good views of the beaches.
7 Cable Beach
Cable beach is a unique kind of beach found on the western side of Australia and it is a tourist attraction. It is a top attraction beach in Australia. The beach has beautiful white sands, offers the best views of the Indian Ocean’s blue waters, and is the best place for beautiful sunsets. In addition, it is known for Camel rides.
Around the beach, there are many hotels, and resorts, offer visitors enough services and places to relax.
6 The Great Barrier Reef
The great barrier reef is a great destination and a must-visit for tourists in Australia. The region has hundreds of islands and over 3000 reef systems. As a result, it is the most remarkable marine landmark in the country. The reef is located in Queensland and offers a vast amount of attractions.
The reef has many islands that a tourist will not get enough of to discover. There is a lot of marine life such as turtles and angelfish. There is plenty of seafood and activities such as scuba diving, snorkeling, swimming, sunbathing, skydiving and so much more. One can also explore the beautiful corals of the region.
5 Kakadu National Park
Australia is a country with plenty of wildlife. As a result, there are several national parks a visitor can tour and enjoy great natural features. One of them is Kakadu National Park which is located in the Northern Territory.
It is well known for its Yellow Waters Lagoon. In addition, the place is full of snake birds, jabirus, crocodiles, white egrets, goannas, jacanas, sea eagles, brolgas, and pelicans. For a person who enjoys animals, this is the best place to visit.
4 Kangaroo Island
It is an island that can be accessed by use of a ferry from the mainland and it is the third biggest island in Australia. A trip to this island comes with many goodies for guests. The main attractions are the white beaches to explore, swim and sunbathe. In addition, there is a lot of native wildlife on this beach as it also neighbors a national park.
One will enjoy hiking in magnificent rocks formed due to eroded granite over millions of years. Other marine activities include underwater scooters and swimming with turtles.
3 Enjoying The Great Ocean Road
This is for tourists who enjoy road trips and adventure. The great ocean road is a wonder in Australia and a heart-stopping road that covers 150 miles all along the continent's hemline. It is a road that leaves many people with lasting memories of the experience and sceneries they witness when they take it.
The road offers the best views of a variety of natural phenomena like limestone cliffs and pillars of rocks in the Southern Ocean region. It is a must-visit destination.
Although Uluru is located outside the cities, it is a destination worth visiting for tourists in Australia. It is a majestic sandstone monolith that is made of ochre-red dust of Central Australia. It is basically in the form of a huge rock. What is important about Uluru is that it is of great significance to the indigenous people of Australia.
It still remains an attraction for tourists and people can visit the place by road, hot air balloon, or helicopter.
1 Blue Mountains National Park
Blue Mountains National Park is found in New South Wales and it is a world heritage. It is a hiking paradise and a favorite for adventure enthusiasts. The mountain is known to cover over 664,000 acres of wilderness with various wild animals. There are waterfalls and great hiking trails.
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Too often classroom questioning becomes pedagogical ping-pong, resulting in predictable, back-and-forth exchanges between teachers and students. Use these questioning strategies and tools shared by teacher educator and former Kansas TOY Curtis Chandler to up your game.
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Good teachers ‘stir the pot’ to activate student background knowledge before a new lesson. But what if student understandings are flawed? Teacher educator Curtis Chandler has research-based tips to help detect and fix the faults. Plus some tech tools that can add fun to the process.
Few things are more frustrating for students (and their teachers) than having a concept or skill that has already been learned ‘leak’ out the brain and disappear. Curtis Chandler explains how those leaks happen and what teachers can do to counter them. Suggested apps and tools included!
When it comes giving students feedback, our approach can be formal or informal, low-tech or high-tech, writes teacher educator Curtis Chandler. The important thing is that we are constantly observing and offering guidance. As always, Curtis shares lots of practical tips.
Texting isn’t talking. With so much digital communication among students, Curtis Chandler wants to be sure they can also speak, listen and make eye contact with others, skills they need now and in the future. He has ideas and tools for bridging the communications gap.
Most students are excited to get back to school, but anticipate lots of rules and mundane tasks to begin the year. Why not hit the ground running? Teacher educator Curtis Chandler has ideas to create a good first impression with plenty of fun, challenge, and learning.
Reciprocal teaching (RT) helps students deepen their learning by teaching other students. Curtis Chandler shows how kiddos can tackle new texts and concepts by developing their ability to apply cognitive and metacognitive strategies. He includes helpful videos and online tools.
Once you settle into summer break and find yourself thinking back over the past year’s successes and struggles, why not explore some fresh tools for classroom management next fall? Teacher educator Curtis Chandler offers some good places to start.
During the barrage of mandatory assessments each spring, it can be tempting to “decide to do very little with our students” between tests, says Curtis Chandler. But why not make every minute count? Teachers can do just that with these engaging cross-curricular activities.
Barbara Blackburn strongly believes that if we are going to truly support students to higher levels, we must continually assess their learning and use that information to plan our future instruction. She offers eight formative assessment ideas that are easy to integrate.
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The Wareham General Merchandise Store
By Margaret Wareham Ware
"This is the story of the Fred A. Wareham General Merchandise Store in Arcadia established in 1910. My father and my mother Charity (Tillie) also owned and operated similar stores in Onoway and Diamondale, Michigan."
"Arcadia was a booming town with freight and passenger carrying trains arriving and leaving daily. After Wareham's store was well established the Onoway and Diamondale stores were sold to give attention to this new venture. Though Mother Wareham was a partner and worked in the store, several young women from local families clerked for them too. It was a dream store where one could buy a variety of needs under one roof.
"Merchandise for the store (except groceries) was purchased at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. Dad & Mom and my sister Helen and I rode on the train to Chicago to select what we thought would sell. In the 1920's Dad also sold pianos demonstrated by Carl Netzaw of Chicago.
"The store carried yard goods, buttons, thread, snaps, etc., as apparel was home-made. Some womens hats were sold too. A full line of dress and work shoes for all plus rubber boots or "artics" as they were called were carried. Red Goose brand shoes were a favorite with youngsters as a little red goose was embroidered on the cuff of each pair of shoes. A large iron "Red Goose" in the shoe department was an attraction for the children to ride on while waiting for a shoe fitting or for parents to shop. High buttoned ladies shoes were the style for women at the time. Wool fleece lined "long handled" underwear for the entire family with a feminine touch for women and girls was also carried. Waist cincher corsets and long silk stockings for women were featured. Woolen sweaters and heavy jackets sold well in our northern Michigan climate.
"A full line of toiletries, Palmolive soaps, and powders stocked the shelves. Evening in Paris and Lily of the Valley fragrances also came into being and sold in the 1920's.
"The grocery side of the store consisted of cracker barrels and shelving that housed canned goods. We even had corn flakes as the Kellogg cereal company was organized in 1906. Babe Ruth and Butterfinger candy bars were 5 cents, and candy raspberries and lemon drops were sold out of glass jars. Crackers, flour, cheeses, butter, lard, and cotta-suet were all sold in bulk and ladled out of wooden tubs and barrels. Butter and eggs came from farmers who exchanged them for merchandise from our store.
"Fresh oranges, lemons, and bananas were a real treat in season. Bananas were shipped in on big stems and hung from the ceiling. Tarantula spiders sometimes hitchhiked their way on the bananas so we had to watch for them. Vinegar and kerosene were housed in the back room and ladled out in cans and bottles.
"It should be mentioned that Dad Wareham was an environmentalist back then, because he discontinued selling smoking and chewing tobacco and snuff when he saw how young and old were becoming addicted to it.
"The large glass display windows were fun for my sister Helen and me to decorate as we grew up enough to help in our store. Some may remember the huge man-sized Wolverine mens work boots in the window. There were large openings sliced down in the boot to show how it was made."
"Our general store was built by the Maccabees, a benevolent insurance organization, which held their meetings on the second story. This floor was also used as a hall which served the community as a place for meetings, dances, and plays. Wareham's store below sold dry goods, clothing, groceries, and shoes. Across the street was Walt Keebaugh's garage, later owned by Al & Ray Johnson. Johnson Brothers sold International Harvester farm equipment, radios, and kitchen appliances. After one year in this location they moved to the corner of U.S. 31 and Road 600 in Bear Lake. Mr. Montes shoe repair was next to Keebaugh's. Next to and west of our store was a blacksmith shop owned by WIlliam D. Irwin who shoed horses and forged parts for farm equipment.
"When the Wareham General Merchandise Store closed, the contents and fixtures were sold at a general sale operated by Sam Sewell of Midland, Michigan in 1940. It closed a grand era as the top floor of this building was the social gathering place for operettas, musicals, chataquas, and minstral shows.
"The Arcadians who have been blessed with longevity and memory lived in the greatest of times and the best of community. We could worship and play and learn without fear. We were a close knit community. We had a great school, good teachers, and a library that helped us extend our education. It was a privilege to write this from memory, and I thank Elaine Iverson Hansen for the opportunity."
Margaret Wareham Ware is the daughter of Fred A. Wareham and Charity Wareham, the owners and operators of the Wareham Store.
The Wareham Store operated in Arcadia near the corner of M-22 and Lake Street from 1910 to 1940 selling dry goods, clothing, groceries, and shoes. The building's second story was used for meetings, dances, plays, and other community events.
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Wreaths are more than just decorations. If you’re driving through town during the Holiday Season, you may see a Christmas wreath on almost every front door. Most people don’t think of the rich history attached to these beautiful Christmas decorations.
The word wreath comes from the word “writhen” that was an old English word meaning “to writhe” or “to twist.” The art of hanging Christmas wreaths originated from the Romans who hung wreaths on their doors as a sign of victory and of their status in society. Women usually wore them as headdresses as a symbol of pride, and also donned them during special occasions such as weddings. Additionally, the victors of sporting events in ancient Greece were given laurel wreaths; This tradition still being used to this day during the Olympic games in which the medals are engraved with sprigs of laurel.
Christmas wreaths are made by twisting or bending evergreen branches into a large circle which are then decorated with pinecones and a red bow. The circle shape of the wreath is made to represent Christ’s eternal love, his strength, and the creation of new life. Evergreens are commonly used in the construction of the wreath due to their heartiness throughout harsh winters and that they denote strength as well as immortality. Christmas wreaths in the Catholic tradition had four candles – Three of purple, symbolizing penance, and expectation, and one of pink to represent the coming joy. The four Sundays preceding Christmas day are embodied by the four candles that were lit each Friday of Advent at dinner along with a prayer. Similarly to Catholic customs, traditional Pagan wreaths were also evergreen circles consisting of four candles. These candles represented the elements of Earth, wind, fire, and water. Their wreaths were typically used in rituals that would ensure the continuance of the circle of life.
Christmas wreaths are a beautiful decoration for your home or office that can really show off your true holiday cheer. Spread that holiday spirit and buy a Christmas wreath for yourself or someone you love!
– Gerry Wilson
Original Story At: http://www.wilsonevergreens.com/christmas-wreath-history/#sthash.LpdyH4E5.dpuf – Written By Gerry Wilson
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Metriorhynchids were a peculiar group of fully marine Mesozoic crocodylomorphs, some of which reached large body size and were probably apex predators. The estimation of their total body length in the past has proven problematic. Rigorous size estimation was provided using five complete metriorhynchid specimens, by means of regression equations derived from basicranial and femoral length against total body length. The use of the Alligator femoral regression equation as a proxy to estimate metriorhynchid total body length led to a slight underestimation, whereas cranial regression equations of extant genera resulted in an overestimation of body length. Therefore, the scaling of crania and femora to total body length of metriorhynchids is noticeably different from that of extant crocodylians, indicating that extant crocodylians are not ideal proxies for size reconstruction of extinct taxa that deviate from their semi-aquatic morphotype. The lack of a correlation between maximum, minimum, or the range of generic body lengths with species richness demonstrates that species diversification is driven by factors other than just variation in body size. Maximum likelihood modelling also found no evidence for directionality in body size evolution. However, niche partitioning in Metriorhynchidae is mediated not only by craniodental differentiation, as shown by previous studies, but also by body size variation.
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By Bloomberg News
With Donald Trump and Xi Jinping both focused on ramping up domestic support in the wake of the pandemic, the bottom is rapidly falling out of U.S.-China relations. And few in either Washington or Beijing seem in the mood to stop it.
U.S. lawmakers are pushing the president to hit China with sanctions or other measures for its increasing grip on Hong Kong and human-rights abuses toward minority Muslims in Xinjiang. China, meanwhile, has vowed to punch back at the U.S. while moving ahead with national security legislation over Hong Kong, which prompted Secretary of State Michael Pompeo to declare the city was no longer sufficiently autonomous.
And that’s just this week. Top leaders in the world’s biggest economies are sparring on everything from the coronavirus and 5G networks to Taiwan and academic research. Their warships are tailing each other in the South China Sea, their companies are facing obstacles to invest and their journalists have been targeted with tit-for-tat visa curbs.
The debate over whether the U.S. and China are in a Cold War will only intensify in the coming months as both leaders focus primarily on appealing to their own virus-weary citizens in a bid to retain power: Trump in the November election, and Xi during a Communist Party conclave in 2022 that effectively serves as a leadership contest.
“There is no off ramp for the moment for the U.S. and China, for the pretty obvious reason that neither is looking for one,” said Richard McGregor, a senior fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney and author of “The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers.” “The U.S. feels it is playing catch up in muscling up to Beijing, a debate that will only be sharpened in a presidential election year. And China under Xi is programmed not to take a backward step.”
Officials in both capitals occasionally still pay lip-service to cooperation. At a briefing in Beijing to conclude China’s annual legislative session, Premier Li Keqiang said both sides should cooperate and respect each other’s interests.
“We have all along rejected a Cold War mentality,” Li said. “Decoupling between the two economies will do neither side any good and will also be harmful to the world.”
Still, political pressures in Washington and Beijing are quickly making it unpopular to call for a detente.
Trump, who won the 2016 election on the back of a campaign strongly critical of China, has made ties with Beijing a focal point in 2020. He’s sought to blame the virus on Beijing, said he didn’t want to speak with Xi and claimed the U.S. would “save $500 billion” if it cut off ties with China.
Trump has also sought to paint former Vice President Joe Biden as soft on China, prompting the presumptive Democratic nominee to also ramp up the rhetoric against Beijing. The anti-China measures that have been voted on recently in the U.S. Congress have all enjoyed near unanimous bipartisan support.
Beijing’s leadership, under pressure since January for an initial slow response to the outbreak, has responded aggressively to any international criticism of its response, with foreign ministry officials and state media pushing alternate narratives alleging that the virus started in the U.S. Xi’s government has also irked the European Union with its heavy-handed pandemic response, and hit Australia on trade when it called for an independent investigation into the virus origins.
The rhetoric with the U.S. is becoming so heated among China’s hawks that some in Beijing are contemplating worst-case scenarios like nuclear war. Gao Zhikai, a former Chinese diplomat and interpreter for ex-Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, said “it will be suicidal to expect that any armed conflict between China and the United States will be contained in conventional sphere for long.”
“Getting along with each other is the only realistic and honorable option between China and the United States,” Gao said. “No one in Washington should be allowed to indulge in any fantasy that they can keep battering China and hold China to ground without consequences.”
The chances of outright military conflict between the two nuclear powers remains slim despite the heightened posturing. But threats of further visa restrictions and competing company blacklists undermining the few remaining bright spots in ties.
While talk of a U.S.-China Cold War ignores critical differences such as high levels of economic interdependence, the relationship is increasingly competitive in the military, economic, technological, institutional and even ideological realms, according to Charles Edel, a former State Department official and senior fellow at the University of Sydney’s United States Studies Centre.
“Competition is not the same confrontation -- nor is it a call to conflict,” Edel said. “Rather it is a reflection of the necessity of democratic nations to challenge the authoritarian model being promoted by China.”
Avenues for de-escalation are also increasingly sparse. With the exception of on-again, off-again trade discussions, there are no formal talks between Beijing on domains ranging from military-to-military relations to cybersecurity. Even beneath the surface, there are few signs of the kinds of backchannel contacts that have helped Beijing and Washington in the days going back to Henry Kissinger’s secret visit to Beijing in 1971.
‘We’ve Not Yet Seen the Bottom’
“There’s been no private communication and contact between the two sides. Where should we go from here?” said Zhu Feng, dean of the Institute of International Relations at Nanjing University. “This is a vicious cycle, pushing China-U.S. relations to the brink of losing control.”
Bonnie Glaser, who directs the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and has advised the U.S. government, said that Beijing has “written off the U.S.” and “they’re not listening anymore.”
“This is a worrisome time, especially as the U.S. goes into the presidential campaign in earnest over the next six months,” she said. “China’s just going to be a punching bag. So I think the relationship is going to deteriorate further and we’ve not yet seen the bottom.”
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In early 2012, the Galaxy FBO was originally conceived to be a structural steel, heavy gauge stud, and metal panel structure and skin. Due to cost, the E.E. Reed team worked with the design team, JGJ Architects, to redesign the entire scheme to a three-story, tilt-up structure and skin. The redesign took several months to accomplish but saved the developer nearly $500,000. The tilt-up scheme was embraced both from a functionality and durability standpoint as well as a more cost-effective solution.
The tilt-up scheme utilized extensive reveals and formliner to achieve the original look while improving overall quality. The FBO is attached to hangar one and the design team utilized 60-ft.-tall tilt panels to create two-hour rated separation between the hangar and the FBO. Executive offices are located overlooking the interior of the hangar to allow customers to get an inside look at the aircraft hangar. The tilt-up structure forms the frame for an extensive curtainwall overlooking the jet canopy.
Since the goal of the developer was to have a restaurant on the third level, the floor-to-floor heights went from a customary 13-ft. 6-in. to 21-ft. creating nearly 70-ft.-tall tilt-up panels. The height and weight of the panels themselves were such that very few cranes in the Houston area could pick and set the panels. Upon completion of the project, the developer was so pleased with the look, function, and result that they have elected to build future FBOs as tilt-up structures. The structure has garnered significant praise from the City of Conroe and the surrounding community.
Conroe, TX 77303
TILT-UP TODAY MAGAZINE / PROJECTS IN THE NEWS
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The most recent Valdai Report is more “practical” as justification for new approaches that many may think on first reading. It does not only provide a sharp critique of the current international order, but suggests a possible alternative future to it as well as some tools to make it happen. Valdai Report is – in spirit – a cry for a deep transformational change necessary for our own survival, writes Piotr Dutkiewicz, Co-Director of the Centre for Governance and Public Management, Carleton University, Ottawa.
The annual edition of the Valdai Club Report, published before the general meeting of the Valdai Club, usually catches the attention of experts and Russia watchers for at least two reasons. The first is that the Valdai Club’s perceived proximity to those in power in Russia usually provides some deeper insight into Russian politics’ inner circle’s thinking. The second is the quality of its co-authors that makes it a fascinating and engaging reading. This year’s Report entitled “History, To Be Continued: The Utopia of a Diverse World” is very much different from previous papers. It does not analyse the current global/regional issues that dominated international relations over the year since the last Report, but provides a colorful picture of what the ideal international order would look like in 2045, the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the UN.
2020 Valdai Report explains: “Why do we believe that the concept of utopia is newly relevant? The international agenda is clearly exhausted, beyond the normal ebb and fl ow of the development cycle. It is the loss of a meaningful and universally accepted frame of reference. We could try to patch up our crumbling reality by manipulating artificial concepts, defunct ideologies, and decayed institutions. But attempting to delay the inevitable would only make the eventual collapse even more dramatic.”
During the fictitious address of UN Secretary-General Ghan Twan Eng at the formal UN General Assembly meeting in Nairobi on September 23, 2045, he describes a frictionless world of international relations driven by respect for civilizational differences, justice, and respect for the less powerful players. This new world is represented by wise leaders who were able to see and act if the focus of politics “must be on a clear distinction between good and evil.” In this new world – which has learned all the lessons from past crises (including the Covid-19 pandemic) – an “unrestrained consumption has been replaced with the philosophy of conservation at the international level and in individual societies.” The struggle for power and influence by 2045 is being replaced by an effective search for the common good where “Even the super-powerful rivals which would have clashed for world domination in the past have to come to terms with each other. And today we have a civilised competition, the fruits of which are available to all other states as well.”
It seems to me that the authors of 2020 Valdai Report decided to jump bravely into describing a utopian future of the world international order for quite good reasons.
The reasons why it will be a popular and inspiring reading are – at least threefold.
The first is that we cannot continue to live in and reproduce the current socio-political-environmental-economic system without spiraling into deeper and more frequent crisis. Thus, introducing more radical changes and departing from the previous institutional and ideological setup in devising policies that are influencing global/regional/local well-being becomes a new all-embracing imperative. We seem to be in a situation where crisis represents a permanent feature of the contemporary socio-economic system, because that system is consistently legitimized via socially constructed fears, panic, and media manipulation.
Secondly, as Mike Davis suggests (Davis, 2013 ), “Utopia in the most profound sense is not the dream of paradise but the defence of the necessary against the realistic.” “Realism” instead of playing a useful but limited diagnostic function became the guide for policies thus blocking necessary transformations of the existing order that need to break with the vicious circles of poverty, inequality, domination, and hegemonic power.
Thirdly, Utopia can be also seen not entirely as a grand philosophical design but rather as a virtual structure of the alternative future and thus propose a concrete toolbox from which international community can select tools to create solutions for their communities that are culturally and socially specific.
In that sense, the current Valdai Report is more “practical” as justification for new approaches that many may think on first reading. It does not only provide a sharp critique of the current international order, but suggests a possible alternative future to it as well as some tools to make it happen. Valdai Report is – in spirit – a cry for a deep transformational change necessary for our own survival.
As always, general, all-embracing and future-oriented normative prescriptions of the ideal new world order like Valdai 2020 Report beg further clarifications, elaboration, and substantiation. By definition such texts will be always incomplete. This Report is no different. The most problematic one – from my perspective – is to blame pandemic for almost all current problems.
It – for instance – starts with a question related to Covid-19 pandemic: “Can the huge, global, diverse and interconnected world suddenly stop dead, paralysed by a collective fear?” What follows is an analysis of the key consequences of Covid-19. It seems to me that the “fear factor” that is a key for Report’s contributors to explain international and domestic politics has much deeper origins that authors of Valdai Report suggest. Rather than acting as an expedient but ad hoc political tool (related exclusively to Covid-19 pandemic) fear has become the de facto essence of politics. Fear now provides an impetus and reason for politics, replacing – in part – other sources of legitimisation of power. Zygmunt Bauman proposed that states (small and big) have a limited capacity to govern because we are in a state of “inter-regnum”, in which “the inherited means of having things done no longer work, yet the new and more adequate ways have not been invented, let alone deployed” (Bauman and Della Sala 2013 ). The condition of inter-regnum has resulted from the progressive separation and divorce of power (an ability to have things done) and politics (the ability to decide which things are to be done), and the resulting disparity between the task at hand and the tools available to the state or international community. The result is that we (a people) fear that the gap between the scope of tasks to make our life more secure/stable and the ability of institutions to deal with them is an abysmal and ever-widening gap. Thus, fear is no longer merely an expedient ad hoc political tool (used and more frequently misused during the Covid-19 pandemic), but rather has become the essence of politics. Fear – unfortunately for us/citizens seem to provide the main impetus and reason for politics (Covid or no Covid), replacing legitimating discourses around democracy, justice and the common good. So, fear may be a part and parcel of a “new normal”.
Another – it seems to me – under-elaborated theme in the Report is the issue of transformative agency. In between “now and then” someone has to act, do the job, transform and maintain renewed international order. The key element in making any transformational change is the identification of an agent/agency that will develop and carry out changes. In the Valdai Report this seems to happen due to Deux ex Machina. “Gratefully, – authors suggest – pivotal periods tend to produce new leaders with energy and vision, and the will to translate it into reality.” To me, the answer to how far we can transform the system lies in the results of the ongoing ferocious struggle between the two global elite factions represented by global financial capital and industrial capital. These two large, elite factions, with radically different goals, interests, social bases, and views on the future of global development are engaged in a clash for global power.
As we have suggested with Elena Chebankova (Chebankova, Dutkiewicz 2020 ) during the past five decades of the 20th century, the first party has been composed of the various factions of “liberal and later neo-liberal” elites that hold control over the flow of financial capital, portfolio investments, and information technologies. The second group has been represented by the conservative cohort of politicians backed by the industrial capital responsible for the production within the sectors of heavy industry, the military, agriculture, and resource extraction. Both parties have their representatives within the governments of states around the world and global political elites. During the first half of the twentieth century, industrial capital led globalization in alliance with the financial capital that provided monetary resources for the expansion. Both strands of the capital were successfully engaged in the global production and distribution of goods based on the classic principles of accumulation and industrial capitalism. This symbiosis of global and industrial capital has imposed global rules and regulations. At some point in time (around late 1960s), however, financial capital got tired of playing the role of the younger brother to the industrialists. By the end of the 1990s, financial capital began to participate in global processes as a separate group of actors, independent from industrial capital and guided by a simple drive towards wealth accumulation. Somewhere along the way, financial capital dispensed with the principles of liberal economics and, as aptly observed by Nitzan and Bichler (2013 ), merged capital and power.
The future of who will have real power to transform the system belongs to the winner of that fight.
Finally. It is unlikely that the current crisis, as many of its predecessors, is capable of a radical transformation of the world that will lead to 2045 harmonious world of Valdai report, because a radical change would be equal to building a just order on a new economic basis or sliding into the unashamedly totalitarian abyss.
As food for thought Valdai 2020 Report will be very welcomed by old and new readers for its fresh and witty approach to the future of international relations.
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The urban parking and the urban traffic systems are essential components of the overall urban transportation structure. The short- term interactions between these two systems can be highly significant and influential to their individual performance. The urban parking system, for example, can affect the searching-for-parking traffic, influencing not only overall travel speeds in the network (traffic performance), but also total driven distance (environmental conditions). In turn, the traffic performance can also affect the time drivers spend searching for parking, and ultimately, parking usage. In this study, we propose a methodology to model macroscopically such interactions and evaluate their effects on urban congestion. The model is built on a transition matrix describing how, over time, vehicles in an urban area transition from one parking-related state to another. With this model it is possible to estimate, based on the traffic and parking demand as well as the parking supply, the amount of vehicles searching for parking, the amount of vehicles driving on the network but not searching for parking, and the amount of vehicles parked at any given time. More importantly, it is also possible to estimate the total (or average) time spent and distance driven within each of these states. Based on that, the model can be used to design and evaluate different parking policies, to improve (or optimize) the performance of both systems. A simple numerical example is provided to show possible applications of this type. Parking policies such as increasing parking supply or shortening the maximum parking duration allowed (i.e., time controls) are tested, and their effects on traffic are estimated. The preliminary results show that time control policies can alleviate the parking-caused traffic issues without the need for providing additional parking facilities. Results also show that parking policies that intend to reduce traffic delay may, at the same time, increase the driven distance and cause negative externalities. Hence, caution must be exercised and multiple traffic metrics should be evaluated before selecting these policies. Overall, this paper shows how a parking-state-based transition matrix, despite its simplicity, can be used to efficiently evaluate the urban traffic and parking systems macroscopically. The proposed model can be used to estimate both, how parking availability can affect traffic performance (e.g., average time searching for parking, number of cars searching for parking); and how different traffic conditions (e.g., travel speed, density in the system) can affect drivers ability to find parking. Moreover, the proposed model can be used to study multiple strategies or scenarios for traffic operations and control, transportation planning, land use planning, or parking management and operations.
- macroscopic parking model
- parking-related traffic state
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Female, Person Number1043, b. 10 March 1855, d. 1895
|Relationships||1st cousin 3 times removed of John Michael Pinckney|
2nd great-granddaughter of Joseph Pinckney
Birth, Marriages and Death
|Birth*||10 Mar 1855||Elizabeth Pinckney was born on 10 Mar 1855 at 42 Spicer Street, Mile End New Town, Whitechapel, England, ; apr-may-jun 1c 345.1,2 |
|She was the daughter of John Pinckney and Martha Anne Banks. |
|Married Name||circa Aug 1881|| As of circa Aug 1881,her married name was Elizabeth Bass. |
|Marriage*||circa Aug 1881||Elizabeth Pinckney married William Bass circa Aug 1881 at Bethnal Green, England, ; jul-aug-sep 1c 326.3 |
|Death*||1895||Elizabeth Pinckney died in 1895; oct-nov-dec 3b 252. |
|Census1861*||7 Apr 1861||Elizabeth Pinckney appeared in the 1861 census at 42 Spicer Street, Whitechapel, England, ; RG 9 / 267.4 |
|Census1871*||2 Apr 1871||She appeared in the 1871 census at 7 Scott Street, Bethnal Green, England, ; RG 10 / 492.4 |
|Census1881*||3 Apr 1881||She appeared in the 1881 census at 17 Allars Road, Mile End Old Town, Middlesex, England, ; RG 11 / 480.4 |
|Census1891*||5 Apr 1891||She appeared in the 1891 census at 25 Allars Road, Mile End, England, ; RG 12 / 306.4 |
|Occupation*||3 Apr 1881||Elizabeth Pinckney was Fancy Trimming Maker on 3 Apr 1881. |
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[twitter]Extreme Cheapskates is a pretty wild tv show. I mean who tries to save money by avoiding toilet paper and using cloths instead? Really? What about asking people at restaurants if you can have their leftovers?
I’m all for saving money, but that’s stuff is just a little too extreme for me. That said, there is a way you can implement some Extreme Cheapskating tactics when it comes to Halloween.
If you bought your candy too early, and couldn’t keep your own hands out of the stash, tor you just don’t like buying candy to feed everyone else’s kids, there’s a way to be an extreme cheapskate for Halloween.
Here’s how you can have the neighbours stock your candy cupboard:
When our son was 2 and 3, he wouldn’t go out trick-or-treating for very long, and he wouldn’t eat the stuff he brought home (my kid doesn’t like candy, go figure). So we took his Halloween haul and immediately dumped it in the bucket by our door.
You could even be more hardcore by just sending the kids out early, have them do a good 30 minute route near your home and then dump off their stuff. That initial take goes into your bowl by the door to drop off to the trick-or-treaters that come and visit.
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AcanthamebiasisAn infection by Acanthamoeba spp, which is characterised by pustules, vasculitis, granulomatous amoebic encephalitis, and granulomas of skin. It is common in immunocompromised or immunosuppressed individuals, and may lead to death.
High-risk AIDS, alcohol abuse, diabetes, immunosuppression-transplantation-related, cancer—leukaemia, lymphoma—malnutrition
Management Chlorhexidine, propamidine, miconazole nitrate
Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
acanthamoeba infectionInfection, with various species of the genus Acanthamoeba . Acanthamoeba culbertsoni is a ubiquitous soil AMOEBA that may cause infection in people who have suffered facial injuries or who have DIABETES or LYMPHOMAS. Abscess-like masses occur in the skin, lungs, middle ear and even the brain. Infection of the CORNEA can also occur in contact lens wearers, usually from Acanthamoeba polyphaga . Acanthamoeba cysts are impervious to chlorine in concentrations up to 50 parts per million. They may therefore survive in domestic water supplies. Treatment is with AMPHOTERICIN-B.
Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005
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Sometimes, it doesn’t take much to communicate well. One of my earliest experiences as a palliative care doctor was at the bedside of a man with advanced cancer who was having trouble eating and keeping up his weight. A feeding tube was planned for the next day, but it wasn’t going to help. Although no one had voiced it, we knew the cancer was getting worse. A gentle acknowledgement of that fact allowed us to recognize that death was near, and a moment of shared grieving gave us time to rethink the “more is better” refrain we’re so used to. He decided to forgo the tube for a chance to go home, where he died some weeks later.
Although language is one of our most fundamental faculties, we can’t be sure of clear communication when we are ill: What do we have? What’s likely to come next? What are our options? How much time is left? As it turns out, research shows that we often conspire with our doctors to suppress emotionally troubling conversations. Recent research suggests that in the best case we might expect to see good, clear communication soon after a metastatic cancer diagnosis less than one-fifth of the time. In general, communication about end-of-life care in the United States seems to have gotten worse, instead of better, in recent years.
We need to be able to “see” communication between patients and providers in order to improve it. We’ve long relied on doctors’ notes in medical records to identify when doctors and patients discuss goals for care, and notes remain helpful because effective communication has to convey information to all kinds of different people — oncologists, nurses, general practitioners, hospitalists, palliative care specialists — over a long period of time. However, the ability to analyze and search text or even use speech analysis to characterize conversations with patients and families could prove newly useful in identifying and making sense of all this information.
We also need to encourage more communication, of higher quality. Medicare recently proposed paying doctors for end-of-life planning, including the lengthy and repeated conversations that sometimes entails. One of the biggest oversights in end-of-life care is the need to ask patients or their families if they have had helpful end-of-life conversations. Health-care systems that do measure this tend to find significant gaps in quality, and the much larger Medicare system shouldn’t let doctors off the hook. Payment might help, but simply creating more advance directives won’t foster better end-of-life care unless we ensure good, high-quality discussions.
While we need professionals who communicate well, there’s plenty of evidence that doctors need not be the only ones for the job. Nurses, social workers and spiritual advisers play critical professional roles, and lay advocates are another consideration. Dr. Manali Patel, an investigator at Stanford University, is testing the idea of using paid or volunteer workers to check in on and advocate for the sick, helping to bridge the community-to-professional gap. Most of what supports us in health or sickness depends on what happens outside the cloistered clinics and hospitals we visit. In all cases, teamwork is key to effectively using our currently thin professional resources.
Similarly, health-care systems need to make sure that the voices of patients and their families are heard. Many health-care systems are emphasizing “patient-reported outcomes” communications from patients about their own health, on their own terms. Just as important is the idea of giving patients and families a direct voice. Why aren’t they included when we deliberate budgets for hospital improvements? Does the C-suite hear the stories that patients and families tell at end of life?
Finally, we must have to be sure that our wishes are respected, no matter what they are. In “Wit,” Margaret Edson’s 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a poetry professor overcome both by her advancing ovarian cancer and her physicians’ intellectualization of the situation, the audience experiences profound distress when the character’s oncologist ignores her dying wish for comfort. The play serves as a powerful example that those who provide for our health should provide comfort and support when and where we need it.
Some states are creating electronic registries so that our preferences can be accessed anytime, anywhere they are needed, like when we visit an emergency department. Primary-care and specialist clinicians such as oncologists need some basic skills in promoting comfort, and health-care providers should offer palliative care and hospice when patients and families need or request more advanced support.
Almost all of us will eventually become caregivers or patients at the end of life, but we won’t overcome the challenges that ensue unless we acknowledge and forthrightly address the pain and fears that the end of life can bring. Policymakers, insurance payers and the wider public will all reach the same fate, and the journey isn’t always easy. Knowing that we’re all in this together, can we find the will to make honest words at the end of life more routine?
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Every tiara tells a story.
The story of a woman, a marriage, a family...and sometimes, an entire nation.
The history books are never going to tell you about most royal women or their tiaras. That’s why I’m here, to tell you about these amazing women with dreams, struggles, and passions we can still relate to today. I want you to meet Grand Duchess Hilda of Baden, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna, Queen Sophie of the Netherlands, and many more. I’ve fallen in love with their strength, passion, humor, patience, and even their bitchiness (Sophie, here’s looking at you). These stories will make you laugh, make you cry, and give you the courage to face the hardest days of your life.
If you love the sweeping drama of The Crown and the tipsy tales of Drunk History, you’re in the right place. I’m not a professional historian…just a writer who loves royalty, glitter, and whiskey. Join me as I dive headfirst into my obsession with royal women and their tiaras. We’ll do it all with a little snark, as much accuracy as possible, and a heart’s worth of compassion for these women.
The sparkle is real.
Three Royal Women Worth Meeting
Queen Alexandra of Great Britain came from a family of practical jokers. Doing cartwheels in a corset? Check. Squirting the husband and kids with soda water at Christmas? Check. Dressing her nephew in Queen Victoria’s old clothes to scare her beloved sister? Check. So not what you’d expect from one of the most graceful and elegant women of the 19th century. That’s what I love about her.
Archduchess Marie Henriette of Austria had an idyllic childhood in Hungary, where she rode horses and composed an opera named Wanda, all before the age of 17. Then she was married against her will to the future Leopold II of Belgium. The marriage was a disaster and she ended up leaving court a lonely, miserable woman. Not every princess gets a fairy-tale ending.
Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain loved horses and hated seeing them gored during bullfights. She couldn’t refuse to attend her country’s favorite spectator sport, so she took her brother’s advice and had binocular-like glasses made that blocked the bloody spectacle from view. The crowd wasn’t offended because they thought she was getting a closer look at the carnage. Problem solved.
On the Blog
A Tragic Princess
Princess Ka‘iulani of Hawai‘i’s story is one of hope and betrayal, of deception and revolution, of surfing and painting and dancing, and of incredible tenacity and bravery. If this story doesn’t make you feel something, you might need to check your pulse.
An Epic 3-Part Story
This was supposed to be a simple story about a tiara – a pretty hat made of diamonds. I didn’t expect it to take me to the darkest places of the 20th century. From war and betrayal to the Third Reich, Soviet prisons, and nuclear war, this story has it all – including a happy ending.
Hollywood vs. Royalty
What does it cost to blur the line between truth and fiction? A lot, as MGM found out. This is the story of a movie and a libel lawsuit - maybe the only one ever won with a murder confession. Find out what Princess Irina Yusupova did that had her lawyer calling her "an advocate’s dream."
A Life Well Lived
Her disastrous marriage ended in a scandal that erupted on two continents and forced Queen Victoria to lay the smackdown on her father-in-law. Her second act? Becoming a role model...and possibly the only person drunk at Elizabeth II’s coronation.
A Royal Scandal
Louise’s adventures as she searched for love and happiness made her world-famous...or maybe I should say “infamous.” Whether you think she was her own worst enemy or the victim of a misogynist culture, you’re absolutely right.
Big Stories I’m Working On
Princess Augusta of Brunswick
A teenager at the mercy of a brutal husband, she was alone and unprotected in the most decadent, sensual court in the world: that of Catherine the Great. But then something strange happened: Catherine took Augusta under her wing...and that’s when the real tragedy struck. Augusta didn’t make it out alive, and no one - not even Catherine the Great - could unravel the mystery of what had happened to her. Let’s see what we can uncover, shall we?
Grand Duchess Hilda of Baden
A shy princess without a country - that’s what Hilda of Nassau was, thanks to her father’s courageous but ill-advised stand against Prussia in the war of 1866. Hilda repaired wounds on both sides when she married the kaiser’s nephew, Fritz of Baden. Her future should have been golden, but a spotlight-stealing mother-in-law, infertility, and two world wars turned her life from one of ease to a study in grace under pressure.
Grand Duchess Elizaveta Mikhailovna
Lilli was the tsar’s niece, a gentle girl who had the world at her feet. Her proud, ambitious mother schemed for years to set up a marriage with the Duke of Nassau, thwarting Lilli’s cousin Grand Duchess Olga in the process. But unlike most arranged royal marriages, this was a love story. Lilli and Adolph were all set to have a fairy-tale ending...but no amount of money or true love can change destiny, and their happy ending just wasn’t in the cards.
Get Your Sparkle On
I made it just for you! Get a free PDF with the stories of four amazing tiaras: Princess Irina Alexandrovna’s Wedding Tiara, the Spanish Mellerio Shell Tiara, Queen Margherita of Italy’s Musy Tiara, and Grand Duchess Marie-Adélaïde of Luxembourg’s Tiara. And thanks to some amazing readers, this will soon also be available as an audiobook!
Who is responsible for this madness?
You may be thinking: “Really? Tiaras? The world is going to hell in a handbasket, and you want to spend your time writing about dead rich white people and a few hunks of carbon?”
Yes. Yes, I do, and I’ll tell you why.
The world today is a scary place. I am plumb fucking terrified about what we’re doing to ourselves and each other and our planet. If I let all that doubt and fear into my head, I mean really let it in, I’d go crazy. These women and their stories are my refuge.
I am not one of those people who have their shit together. I’m kind of a klutz. I am so socially awkward that my DNA should be weaponized and used to keep terrorist cells from ever communicating with each other again. I barely make a living at the only thing I’ve ever been good at. That’s why these women are so amazing to me.
Take Grand Duchess Hilda of Baden, for example.
She survived two world wars, a revolution, an Allied bombing raid, AND a mother-in-law with a tendency to bogart the spotlight. She never got the only thing she ever wanted—a family, with children of her own. Through it all, she never complained. I complain all the freaking time. Clearly, I need some of what she’s got.
What kept her going when the world she knew collapsed around her? And who the hell stole her tiara? It wasn’t me, in case you were wondering.
Her niece, Crown Princess Antonia of Bavaria, wasn’t so lucky.
Antonia had to wait years to marry Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria because of what the German army had done to her country, Luxembourg, during World War I. She persevered and they lived happily ever after, right? Nope. She barely survived a Nazi prison hospital during World War II. The experience broke her, physically and mentally. Turns out that even a tiara can’t save you when Hitler has your number. Well, maybe it could if it was a fringe tiara and you turned it sideways and threw it really hard, like a ninja star. Where’s Mythbusters when you need them?
In all seriousness, I’ve learned more about patience, grace, and grit from these royal women than from any novel or self-help book I’ve ever read. We need more stories about real women who dealt with world wars, regime change, and technological innovation with aplomb.
Yes, I said aplomb.
If they did it, we can, too, right?
Plus, in a very selfish form of schadenfreude, remember this: no matter how bad your day was, most of these women went through something much worse. I worry about paying bills and whether I’ll ever be able to retire. I did not get shot in the arm while fleeing revolutionaries, like Princess Irene of Prussia. My family did not get sent to a concentration camp, like Princess Antonia’s. My husband doesn’t beat the crap out of me, like poor Princess Augusta of Brunswick. And no one threw me down a mineshaft like they did to poor Ella, Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna.
It’s good to keep perspective. It’s good to learn how to survive. History helps me do that. Maybe it can help you, too.
Plus, I really like diamonds.
If you like what you see, I do have a mailing list you can sign up for. I’m allergic to bullshit marketing tactics and I’m not selling anything yet, so I’ll just send you a twice-monthly email with a bunch of the most interesting stuff I’ve learned, including Grand Duchess Louise of Baden’s meatloaf recipe. It includes bacon, if that helps.
Why, Yes, I Am On Social Media
I also have a Patreon, if you’re interested in supporting the work I do. What’s in it for you?
- Two short stories I wrote about Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna (Ella) and Henriette, Duchesse d'Orléans.
- Patron-only posts: You get the scoop on what I’m writing next! Or if I’m super-intrigued by something unexpected during my research, you’ll be the first to know.
- Medium posts: I regularly post to Medium, which you need a subscription for in order to read more than 3 stories a month. But not if you’re a patron! You guys get everything I post to Medium, delivered straight to your inbox.
- Source Reports: I tell you what’s most interesting about a source I just used - from juicy gossip to unexpected tidbits of info.
- Post in Progress: Find out who’s featured in the next post! I’ll share my outline, as well as preliminary sources and notes.
- Deleted Scenes: See what got cut from a post. Sometimes it’s fascinating information that strayed too far off course...other times, it’s stuff I decided should get its own post later.
Check out the blog for fascinating stories about royal women and their tiaras. And don’t forget to join my mailing list to get Grand Duchess Louise of Baden’s meatloaf recipe! It’s finger-lickin’ good.
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[email protected] is managed by Croydon Community School, but is located at a different campus.
This campus is designed specifically to re-engage students who are aged 12-17, and refuse to attend their current educational setting. Students would normally have been out of school for an extended period of time to be considered eligible for enrolment.
The current capacity is for approximately 60 students across all four tiers.
It is important to note that [email protected] offers a school program not a short term course.
Students’ progress through the levels of the Victorian Curriculum and school attendance is considered to be very important.
[email protected] offers a four tiered intervention response to young people who are disengaged from education.
Students are placed according to their ability to manage themselves and the social demands of group situations.
Hours of attendance vary from a minimum of 3hrs a week, through to 15hrs a week as outlined below:
- 1:1 Classroom Setting (Minimum of 3hrs per week)
- Small Group Setting (Minimum of 8hrs per week over 4 days)
- Large Group Setting (Minimum of 15hrs per week over 5 days)
The four tiered structure allows for students to grow through stages of their re-engagement, from a 1:1 Classroom Setting, through to a transition into further education.
- Tier 1
Students participate in a completely individualised program of 1:1 sessions as appropriate and required. Most students at this tier participate at a minimum of three hours a week for an hour at a time. There is flexibility for us to adjust that to best meet the needs of the student. Not all students will commence on 1:1 as it will depend on an assessment of their personal and social capabilities (Victorian Curriculum) at the time of an initial meeting with the parents/carers and young person.
- Tier 2
Students participate in small group sessions for 2 hours four times per week. Student programs are individualised and pro-social skills and activities are built in. These sessions may involve local excursions, as well as trips further afield, depending upon student ability and interest.
- Tier 3
Students participate in an Advisory class of up to 10 students. They attend for three hours, five days per week.
- Tier 4
Students are transitioned to an appropriate education or training pathway. This may be another secondary school of their choice, an apprenticeship, workplace or other training, or to Croydon Community School (Croydon site). An approved RTO is required for students to transition to if they are under 17.
At [email protected], students will focus largely on improving their personal and social capabilities, as well as literacy and numeracy outcomes.
Students will also have the chance to deepen their learning and explore other subject areas through an Individual Learning Plan, on a topic of their choice, that is devised with the student’s learning team. More specifically, the programs we use to achieve these results are:
- Respectful Relationships (Personal and Social Capabilities)
- Direct Instruction – Maths Mastery Series (Numeracy)
- Direct Instruction – MacqLit and Corrective Reading (Literacy)
- Victorian Curriculum domains are covered / assessed through Individual Learning Plans
Note: [email protected] does not offer a Year 11 or Year 12 program.
As [email protected] is managed by Croydon Community School, voluntary school fees are set by the Croydon Community School School Council.
Fees are outlined in the enrolment pack.
Students are not required to have a uniform, but are required to wear covered shoulders and closed toed shoes whilst on campus. No offensive slogans or gang signs are to be worn either.
To refer a student to [email protected], call the school on (03) 9724 2900.
Demand for a place in the program can be high and the school uses a waiting list. Consideration is given to a young person’s personal circumstances when they are placed on the waiting list. For example, young people who are in Out of Home Care may be prioritised.
Workers of young people who are involved with Youth Justice / Corrections are encouraged to contact the Principal of the school in the first instance to ensure that their applications are also prioritised.
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Sushi menu template, Whoever owns a restaurant or a restaurant has many responsibilities which will need to be taken care of on a daily basis. Important decisions will need to be always made in relation to scheduling employees, what’s provided on the menu, cleaning the centre and stocking materials from the kitchen. Along with these important decisions, the owner also must make decisions in regards to the decor of this restaurant and the total ambiance. Decorating decisions typically incorporate the colours on the wall, just how dim the lighting is and the way to arrange the seating. 1 design detail which shouldn’t be overlooked when decorating the cafe or restaurant is the appearance of the cafe menu covers. This little detail is actually an important component to creating the right atmosphere in a restaurant or cafe.
You’ve probably already determined what kind of cuisine you’d like to offer. Now you must choose whether you want to have a rotating core of specialty dishes or even if you want the menu to offer consistency. Varying your menu signifies you’ll attract more adventuresome diners, while providing a few of the exact dishes on a consistent basis will keep the very same customers coming back to their favorites.
Prices may be a significant factor in the kind of clientele which you bring and also on repeat customers. Among the very best and most enjoyable techniques to create pricing decisions ahead of you start your restaurant up is always to do some market research by seeing your competitors. Inspect their menu, sample their food, and determine what works for them and you will find out more than you expect. You can examine their prices and determine what type of quality or value the offer clients for the cost.
There are a couple of formulas for pricing menu items that will help you determine what to charge. With the factoring method, one of the more prevalent approaches, you find out how much the dish prices to create and then triple that amount to allow for salary and other overhead. Or you may want to use the’Prime Cost Strategy’ where you include the cost of labor and meals and add a percentage to allow for gain. If labour and raw components price $6 you can add fifty per cent for gain and charge $9. Your prices will be based on what kind of pricing your degree of clientele could comfortably handle. Restaurants which cater to upscale clientele can charge more while casual and family dining establishments should keep their prices geared lower.
You might choose to create your grandmothers Xmas a feature of your menu however this might not be practical? Did she use special components or cook the sauce ? These kind of considerations need to go in the pricing and be taken into consideration when deciding what dishes you’ll have in your menu. You want to make the menu both functional and attractive. If you’re planning to get a dimly lit dining area you need to have the printing a bit bigger in your menu so people can see what they’re ordering. Will you have a special of the day you’ll need a add for or a particular dessert menu? These considerations can all impact printing costs. The key thing when planning a menu would be to have enough variety to be interesting although maybe not a lot of options the diners are confused. Putting it out in segments is quite suitable for the client and has been demonstrated to be a favourite format of the majority of diners.
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CABL Is Working to Improve Louisiana’s Public Schools
CABL PreK-12 Education Policy Priorities
For many years, CABL has been an active leader in Louisiana’s efforts to reform education and improve student outcomes. Though we still face many challenges, the good news is that our students are on the right trajectory.
Our high school graduation rates are at an all-time high, students are improving their performance on national assessments, and we are beginning to close the achievement gap for low-income students and students of color.
For CABL, the future of our state, its workforce, and overall quality of life are inextricably linked to education. We remain committed to working in this arena advocating policies based on our core values:
- High academic standards with appropriate rigor to ensure that Louisiana students are prepared for college or careers after high school.
- Quality state assessments that are aligned to our standards and realistically measure the performance of our students.
- An accountability system that is meaningful, transparent and focused on improving student outcomes.
- A variety of high-quality school options for parents that include charter schools, non-public school scholarships, course choice, dual enrollment, and opportunities to learn skills or take advanced courses in high school.
- Access to high-quality early learning experiences for pre-K students as well as children from birth to age three, with a particular focus on at-risk students.
- A strong Recovery School District to accelerate student progress through interventions for turning around low-performing schools.
- Improved school board governance with clear roles and responsibilities for district and school leaders to shield them from politics and inappropriate political meddling.
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Original Painted Chest from Sweden Dated 1837
Höjd : 47 cm
Längd : 90 cm
Bredd : 57 cm
Original painted chest from Sweden dated 1837. The chest also has painted initials KND where the D stands for Dotter, meaning daughter. At the time last names where not inherited but made up of the father first name and with the suffix -son for sons or -dotter for daughters. That means this chest was painted with a woman’s initials, most likely for a wedding.
The chest is from northern Sweden, made in pine and painted with the original paint. There are some traces of use, the lock is still present but the key is missing. The lid has a minor dry crack at the front – see picture. The interior has a so called lädicka which is a small compartment inside the chest. This chest has it on the left and it has small ink stains inside.
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“Our Prime Brokerage Web site was complicated but the didi redesign made it both simpler and clearer.
“And the paper-prototype design process we learned from didi saved us uncountable development hours, and reduced business-side frustration.”
—Perry Metviner, MD, Lehman Brothers Prime Brokerage Development
CEDM: the Cognitive Engineering Design Methodology
CEDM is the process we use to apply Cognitive Engineering to interface design, integrating decades of research guided by real-world projects.
We teach CEDM at three levels. An Introduction demonstrates examples of why we developed the methodology and why it delivers such dramatic results. Seven more sessions teach the operational details about exactly what we’re dealing with and how to do it well.
Overall it’s an updated, compressed version of the Columbia University Department of Computer Science COMS 6998-005 graduate seminar class.
That class was developed when W. Bradford Paley became Adjunct Associate Professor in 2003. He was appointed explicitly to teach this, his own interaction design methodology, so graduate students could acquire engineering depth perceived as missing in conventional user interface design processes.
Certification: Students are registered and a certificate confirms “[name] has attended a class in the Cognitive Engineering Design Methodology.” If a student excels by completing all sessions and turning in exercises that demonstrate they’ve mastered the material well enough to apply it to real-world projects their certificate will read “[name] has mastered the fundamentals of the Cognitive Engineering Design Methodology.” (Approximately one third of the Columbia students reach that level.)
Format: There is an introductory overview, three theory and four practice sessions, each 2.5 hours long. Professor Paley is available in common on-line “office hours” on consecutive days to be arranged as classes fill. Exercises must be delivered to didi within three days of each class. Certificates or additional one-on-one spot-retraining are returned within three weeks.
Staff: The class is always taught by Professor Paley, and he himself presents the classes and is available during online office hours. Here’s a short bio. Grading for certification may be done by colleagues with expertise in the methodology.
The Advanced Sessions
After the introduction’s end-to-end survey, three What sessions detail three different worlds an interface must bring together, and the modeling techniques we’ve developed to explicitly represent them. Session two details the CEDM model of mental processes; session three, the functioning of a candidate design; and session four, the schematic mapping between the two.
Finally, four How sessions detail and apply the practical aspects of building and transitioning between all five entities involved in generating a rigorous design: from the mind itself, through our three models, to the real-world deliverable. In these sessions Paley transfers both the design knowledge and the social/institutional practices that achieved innovative results over decades of collaboration with clients and development teams.Sessions Five–Eight: Synopses
Five: Extracting the Expert’s Mental Model
Attendees learn to work with domain experts, unambiguously capturing what’s in their minds as they do tasks. CEDM structured outlines rigorously break down expert workflows into goals, tasks, and steps; separately capturing task-related cognitive entities, contexts, states, and transitions.
Six: Paper & Pencil: The Ultimate Rapid Prototyping Tools
We teach how to use standard office supplies fluently, to facilitate conversations with experts that results in “Schematics” which capture everything necessary to accomplish a task, and can be verified to do so. Schematics often result in innovation since they reveal how tasks are organized inside the expert’s mind. They leave an interface’s final layout to an explicit cost/benefit budgeting stage.
Seven: Step→Affordance Maps; Information Layering, Managing Attention
Attendees learn to map each mental step in every task to the available affordances, creating a “Release Candidate.” This mapping provides a rational basis for what to prioritize or cut—or can quantitatively justify a bigger budget. The supplied CEDM Feature Evaluation Tool embodies economic techniques to approximate even hard-to-value features. This lets all stakeholders balance concrete, real-world, ongoing benefits (like time saved and reduced risk) against one-time development costs.
Eight: Paper Prototyping, 100:1 Savings Finding/Fixing Bugs
We teach how to test Release Candidates, completely and in realistic situations before spec-writing begins, by simulating the system with paper “screens.” This engages the actual mental task steps the expert does in the real world, unlike a PowerPoint walk-through. Students learn to identify exactly what’s wrong and often fix it in a single session—a hundred times faster, assuming design takes 1/10th the time spec-writing does, and specs take 1/10th the time of coding.
Five: Extracting the Expert’s Mental Model
Understanding the actual workflow—directly from the expert—provides the absolutely essential foundation for designing tools that effectively support people executing their tasks. This session steps through social aspects of working with domain experts: detailing the pre-meeting research that will engage experts, defining what should be accomplished in interviews, initiating and respectfully accomplishing on-site observation, and sharing how to get into the most effective tool-design process we’ve seen: an annotated, active apprenticeship.
Structured outlining techniques are taught; they capture the goals, tasks, steps, and cognitive states/transitions necessary for the creation of “schematics” (the methodology’s more rigorous alternative to wireframes) in the next session.
Six: Paper & Pencil: The Ultimate Rapid Prototyping Tools
It’s no easier to use paper and pencil effectively for interface design than it is to code; but fortunately the medium is familiar, and once learned it’s extremely expressive. We teach how to use standard office supplies (paper, pencil, eraser, tape, pens, highlighters) in a structured way to facilitate an “object conversation” with an expert—in which the expert is the one driving the creation of the interface.
Semantic drawing exercises train students in the graphical ability to sketch interfaces as a fluid part of the conversation with experts, bringing the expert directly into the development of schematics. Schematics are annotated images that capture everything necessary to accomplish a task. They are often innovative—even visionary—since they detail how each task is organized in the expert’s mind, where it almost never looks like today’s field-forms or spreadsheet-like grids. Schematics also approximate what task information and actions might look and feel like in the final system, capturing meaning-based physical mnemonics that let the next step shape affordances as maximally recognizable, distinguishable, and expressively able to carry the information needed for each task.
Seven: Step→Affordance Maps; Information Layering; Managing Attention
Schematics define all the functional parts of the interface, but don’t dictate its final configuration; that’s driven by mapping each mental step in the task to the available display/action affordances. This mapping also provides a rational basis for fitting within a development budget—or financially justifying a bigger budget: the one-time costs of more sophisticated development efforts can be directly compared with estimates of the benefits they cause in real-world business processes. Economic approximation techniques are taught; they allow stakeholder discussion about even hard-to-value costs (e.g., the cost of disappointing a customer with an incorrect transaction) in terms of time saved, risk minimized, or other metrics. A spreadsheet-based evaluation tool is provided and taught.
Renderings at this stage can be paper sketches, bitmaps,
or even working prototypes; they ensure that the UI correlate of each mental
step in a task is easy to find, recognize, and act upon. Perceptual
distinctions drive our attention in many different ways: drawing the eye to new
information; hiding expected, rarely needed labels and affordances in plain
sight; grouping objects; hierarchically segmenting windows into simple,
possibly re-usable modules; and clearly associating labels with what they label
without distracting. Cognitive science concepts such as pop-out search versus
sequential search, flagging functional distinctions with distinct “visual vocabularies,”
and rapid categorization/recognition of objects based on feature recognition
are discussed and tied to design.
Eight: Paper Prototyping
One of the most cost-saving parts of the methodology is the ability to test more completely, in more realistic situations, much earlier in the process as compared to most development processes. “Version 1.0s” are rarely fully usable, and coping mechanisms for the failure of early testing—such as a slowly staged roll-out and agile software development—have become institutionalized. PowerPoint walk-throughs are used to get business-side sign-offs, but in practice they don’t actually prevent releases that are missing key things needed to accomplish a task; this still happens because they don’t engage the actual intellectual mechanisms that are in play when a task is being accomplished.
Paper Prototypes combine renderings of every significant state of a system with the intelligent paper-shuffling of the system designer in front of an expert. The designer/tester stands in for the system and engages the actual task-completion mechanisms in the expert’s mind/behavior well before coding begins—even before specs are written. The process also exactly identifies what’s missing or wrong and fixes it in a single session—saving huge amounts of development effort, costs, and calendar time, and improving business/developer relations. Bug detection and correction can happen hundreds of times faster than we see in development processes that catch bugs after coding, assuming conservatively that designing takes 1/10th the time of full specification, and writing specs takes 1/10th the time of coding.
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KLAFS ABC of well-being
A laconium is a dry sweating room. As in a tepidarium, the heat radiates evenly from the stone walls, floors, seats and benches. However, the temperature is considerably higher than in a tepidarium, being held at around 60°. In a laconium, you slowly but surely begin to sweat most intensively. A laconium is a good alternative for anyone who finds a traditional sauna – where the temperature is generally 90°C or more – too hot. The level of humidity is between 15-20%.
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Data from: Ecological and environmental stability in offshore Southern California Marine Basins through the Holocene
Palmer, Hannah et al. (2022), Data from: Ecological and environmental stability in offshore Southern California Marine Basins through the Holocene , Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.6071/M3Q090
In the face of ongoing marine deoxygenation, understanding timescales and drivers of past oxygenation change is of critical importance. Marine sediment cores from tiered silled basins provide a natural laboratory to constrain timing and implications of oxygenation changes across multiple depths. Here, we reconstruct oxygenation and environmental change over time using benthic foraminiferal assemblages from sediment cores from three basins across the Southern California Borderlands: Tanner Basin (EW9504-09PC, 1194 m water depth), San Nicolas Basin (EW9504-08PC, 1442 m), and San Clemente Basin (EW9504-05PC ,1818 m). We utilize indicator taxa, community ecology, and an oxygenation transfer function to reconstruct past oxygenation, and directly compare reconstructed dissolved oxygen to modern measured dissolved oxygen. We generate new, higher resolution carbon and oxygen isotope records from planktic (Globigerina bulloides) and benthic foraminifera (Cibicides mckannai) from Tanner Basin. Geochemical and assemblage data indicate limited ecological and environmental change though time in each basin across the intervals studied. Early to mid-Holocene (11.0-4.7 ka) oxygenation below 1400 m (San Clemente and San Nicolas Basins) was relatively stable and reduced relative to modern. San Nicolas Basin experienced a multi-centennial oxygenation episode from 4.7-4.3 ka and oxygenation increased in Tanner Basin gradually from 1.7-0.8 ka. Yet across all three depths and time intervals studied, dissolved oxygen is consistently within a range of intermediate hypoxia (0.5-2.0 ml L-1 O2). Variance in reconstructed dissolved oxygen was similar to decadal variance in modern dissolved oxygen and reduced relative to Holocene-scale changes in shallower basins.
Full description of data is available in forthcoming publication.
We investigate three piston cores collected from the Southern California Borderlands on the Maurice Ewing Cruise 9504 in May - June 1995: EW 9504-09PC from Tanner Basin at 1194 m water depth, EW 9504-08PC from San Nicolas Basin at 1442 m water depth, and EW 9504-05 from San Clemente Basin at 1818 m water depth. All cores have 10.16 cm inner diameter. Cores were split on board the ship and were sampled at 2 cm intervals. All sample intervals used in this had an initial volume of 162.15 cm3. Sediments from the working half of the core were disaggregated in sodium hexametaphosphate washed over a 63 µm sieve (see Stott et al. 2000). Sediments were dried and stored in glass vials at the University of Southern California until they were processed for this study. EW 9504-09PC (Tanner Basin) was examined from 0-40 cm at 2 cm intervals; intervals below 40 cm were not available for analysis. EW 9504-08PC (San Nicolas Basin) was examined at 2 cm intervals from 0-22 cm and every 6 cm from 24-64 cm. EW 9504-05 (San Clemente Basin) was examined at 2 cm intervals from 30-52 cm; intervals from 0-30 cm in EW9504-05 did not have sufficient foraminifera for robust analysis and were thus excluded from analysis.
Radiocarbon based age models were developed for each core using a combination of previously published and newly generated planktic radiocarbon ages (Table S1, Figure S1). Five age dates within the Holocene (1 San Clemente, 1 Tanner, 2 San Nicolas) were previously measured (Stott et al., 2000). These AMS 14C ages were completed using bulk planktonic foraminifera (weight ~3-5 mg) analyzed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Stott et al., 2000). Three additional radiocarbon dates (1 San Clemente, 2 Tanner, 1 San Nicolas) from bulk planktic foraminifera were analyzed in this study. All samples for radiocarbon analysis were prepared by picking shell material from the >150 µm fraction, rinsing shells in methanol, sonicating in methanol for 5-10 seconds, and rinsing twice with deionized water. Shells were then dried in a 60OC drying oven. Radiocarbon analysis was completed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory using δ13C assumed values following the convention of Stuiver and Polach (1977). The reported age is given in radiocarbon years using the Libby half-life of 5568 years. Accelerator mass spectrometry ages were converted to calendar ages before present (BP) by calibration against the Marine20 curve using the open-source software “R” package Bchron (Haslett & Parnell, 2008; Heaton et al., 2020). Calibration included correction for reservoir ages for the Southern California Coast of 220.0 +/- 40.0 years (Ingram & Southon, 1996; Stuiver & Polach, 1977). Age/depth models for each core were generated using the Bayesian age-depth modeling functionality of Bchron.
Stable isotope analyses from planktic and benthic foraminifera from EW9504-09 (Tanner Basin) were conducted on Globigerina bulloides planktic foraminifera and Cibicides mckannai benthic foraminifera from 0-40 cm at 2 cm intervals. Samples were prepared by picking from the >150 µm size fraction (2-5 individual C. mckannai per interval, 15-25 G. bulloides per interval), rinsing in methanol, sonicating in methanol for 5-10 seconds, and rinsing twice with deionized water. Planktic foraminifera were analyzed for δ18O and δ13C at the UC Davis Stable Isotope Laboratory and benthic foraminifera were analyzed at the UC Santa Cruz Stable Isotope Laboratory.
Planktic carbon and oxygen isotope samples were analyzed using a GasBench II system interfaced with a Delta V Plus Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer at the UC Davis Stable Isotope Laboratory using standard UCD-SM92 (-1.94 for δ18O and 2.08‰ δ13C) (Ostermann 2000). Values for δ13C and δ18O are expressed in per mil (‰) relative to Vienna Pee Dee Belemnite, and values are corrected for changes in linearity and instrumental drift. Benthic carbon and oxygen isotope samples were analyzed at the UC Santa Cruz Stable Isotope Laboratory by acid digestion using an individual vial acid drop Themo Scientific Kiel IV carbonate device interfaced to Thermo Scientific MAT 253 dual-inlet isotope ratio mass spectrometer. All samples were measured with several replicates of the externally calibrated Carrera Marble in-house standard reference material 'CM12' and the NBS-18 limestone international standard reference material. Values for δ13C and δ18O are expressed in per mil (‰) relative to Vienna Pee Dee Belemnite, and values are corrected for changes in linearity and instrumental drift. Data were combined with previously published records of planktic oxygen isotopes and benthic oxygen and carbon isotopes from the same core examined here (EW9504-09) to increase replicates in the late Holocene and to extend the record through the entire Holocene (Stott et al., 2000). As such, isotope records reflect analyses from three different laboratories.
Samples were dry sieved over a 150 µm sieve and picked for benthic foraminiferal microfossils. Individual foraminifera were picked and identified from each interval to obtain >100 individuals per sample.
Morphometrics of benthic foraminifera, including length, width, and surface area were measured using ImageJ software. Length and width of each individual was measured to the longest and widest margins of the shell.
Ostracods (Arthropoda - Ostracoda) and urchin spines (Echinodermata) were picked from the 150 µm sediment fraction at all intervals examined.
Here, benthic foraminiferal assemblages are reported in raw values. All data in accompanying manuscript is discussed in relative abundance by dividing the number of individuals of a single species by the total number of foraminifera identified in that interval.
Radiocarbon ages, table isotope records, invertebrate assemblage, and morphometrics all follow standard conventions and should be readable as presented.
National Science Foundation, Award: OCE 1832812
University of California, Davis, Award: Dissertation Year Fellowship
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This photo of Boris Dewitte was taken on Taquile Island in Lake Titicaca, Peru
Image Courtesy of Boris Dewitte
Dr. Boris Dewitte
I'm a physical oceanographer interested in climate variability and especially the El Niño phenomenon. Other than the annual cyle of the seasons, El Niño is the largest pulsation of the climate. I'm interested in El Niño because it impacts many regions, at many different levels, surrounding the Pacific Ocean. My research has led me to interact with scientists from various areas, from atmospheric scientists to biologists.
After receiving my PhD from University of Toulouse in 1998, I was hired by IRD, the Institute for Research and Development. IRD is a national institute that promotes scientific activities and research in collaboration with the countries from the Southern Hemisphere. In this context, I have been working in Chile and New Caledonia. Today I'm working in Lima (Peru), collaborating with scientists at both IMARPE (Instituto del Mar del Peru) and IGP (Instituto Geofisico del Peru) who are involved in the VOCALS project. Through this I'm also participating in the scientific efforts to understand how the equatorial variability, and especially the El Niño, connects to the Peru-Chile coastal environment.
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Respecting and Celebrating Indigenous Cultures and Spaces in the U.S.: 'Let's Go Together' Season 2, Episode 25
The travel landscape may be changing, but our collective love of adventure will never waiver.
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We still believe in the power of experiencing new things and celebrating what makes us all unique. We're honoring that love of travel with new episodes of our podcast, Let's Go Together, which highlights how travel changes the way we see ourselves and the world.
In the first season, our pilot and adventurer host, Kellee Edwards, introduced listeners to diverse globe-trotters who showed us that travelers come in all shapes and sizes and from all walks of life. From the first Black woman to travel to every country on Earth to a man who trekked to Machu Picchu in a wheelchair, we met some incredible folks. And now, in our second season, we are back to introduce you to new people, new places, and new perspectives.
On this episode of Let's Go Together, Edwards sits down with Corinne Rice-Grey Cloud, an educator, activist, and journalist, to talk about her work in diversity and inclusion for indigenous voices as well as what to keep in mind when traveling to indigenous spaces.
"In the indigenous community, if we don't speak up, if we don't fight, we die. We become erased. Our voice is easily dismissed," Rice-Grey Cloud told Travel + Leisure. "I can't tell you how many times I will go into a workplace to talk about whatever issue I've been asked to speak on, and I have to start with, 'We are still here.' I have to start with, 'No, we're not all gone.' They like to say, 'Oh, we thought we killed you all,' and I've had someone say that to me before."
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And, perhaps most importantly, Rice-Grey Cloud noted, there are some locations that just aren't meant for travelers. "It's also important to remember what is sacred is sometimes not meant to be seen," she said.
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Three astrophysicists discuss preparations for three recently funded dark matter experiments, and the likelihood that one of them will strike gold.
The concept of a black hole was first contrived in by John Michell 1783. For a long time, many notable scientists, including Albert Einstein, believed black holes were merely theoretical. However, in the last century, astronomers have gathered a good deal of observational evidence for the existence of black holes.
The Big Bang marked the beginning of the universe's expansion from a singularity — a single point that was infinitely small, infinitely hot, and infinitely dense. Cosmologists have designated several distinct eras for the universe's evolution from the first moments after the Big Bang to a billion years later.
The universe began as a singularity that started expanding in the Big Bang. But the Big Bang was no regular explosion. Rather, space itself expanded, so there is no center of the entire universe. The observable universe, on the other hand, is a different story.
Astronomers determine the number of galaxies in the universe by counting up the number visible in a tiny portion of the sky, and then accounting for all the regions of the observable universe. A 2013 study estimates that there are 225 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
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By VANESSA GERA
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The presidents of Israel and Poland joined thousands of others Thursday for a Holocaust remembrance event at the former Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, hoping to put recent tensions behind them. Presidents Reuven Rivlin of Israel and Andrzej Duda of Poland lit candles, bowed their heads and pressed their hands on the Death Wall, a site at Auschwitz where inmates, chiefly Polish resistance fighters, were executed by Nazi German forces during World War II.
They then led thousands, including many young Jews from around the world, in the March of the Living, which takes place each year on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. The solemn march began at the main gate of Auschwitz and ended 3 kilometers (2 miles) away at Birkenau, where Jews from across Europe were transported by train and murdered in gas chambers. Duda said he and Rivlin were there to give testimony to the destruction of the Jewish people and warnabout where anti-Semitism, xenophobia and racism can lead.
“Our common presence here shows the world: Never again anti-Semitism, never again genocide, never again Holocaust,” Duda said during a joint news conference. Rivlin recalled how Poland was the cradle of Jewish culture before the Holocaust. But he also referred to
the “deep disagreement” his country has had with Poland over its passage earlier this year of a Holocaust speech law. The law criminalizes blaming Poland for crimes committed by Nazi German forces during their wartime occupation. The Polish government says its aim is to prevent Poland from unfairly being blamed for Germany’s crimes.
Israel fears the law’s true intent is to whitewash Polish sins by repressing discussion about those Poles who helped the Germans kill Jews. Duda, whose wife has a Jewish father, insisted the disputed law never aimed to “block testimony” about the Holocaust. “Just the opposite. We want to defend historical truth,” Duda said. “I as Polish president want to defend this truth with all my power, including those elements that are difficult for Poles.” The Jews of Europe and ethnic Poles were two of the groups who suffered most during the German
wartime occupation, with Jews targeted for total elimination and Poles considered a slave race.
Many Poles were killed, tortured or forced into slave labor. Yet many bitter feelings remain today between Jews and Poles, as Jews remember Polish anti-Semitism that in some cases turned deadly. Many Poles, meanwhile, feel the extent of Polish anti-Semitism is often exaggerated and that wartime Polish efforts to help Jews are being forgotten. Many bristle that their own tragedy is not as well known as that of the Jews. At Birkenau, the leaders paid tribute to the immense suffering that Germany inflicted both on Jews and Poles.
Rivlin noted that Poland barely survived as a nation and acknowledged the thousands of Poles who put their own lives at risk to help Jews, vowing that Israel would “honor them forever.”
But he also recalled how Jews were murdered during the war not only by Germans, but also by Lithuanians, Belgians and others, including Poles. Duda recalled Polish wartime heroes who struggled to save Jews and said Poland fulfills its duty to remember the Holocaust by preserving sites like Auschwitz.
Poland’s chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, said he was convinced the efforts by the two presidents moved their countries closer to reconciliation. He described them as “two friends working hard to resolve a serious and difficult problem.” Nazi Germany killed some 1.1 million people in the Auschwitz and Birkenau camps. The victims were mostly Jews, but also included Poles, Roma and Soviet POWs.
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Emergent philosophies are those newly formed philosophies which are at, or are on the cusp of serious recognition as philosophical schools and theories. This implies a temporal criterion; for example, at the point in time which Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus were sitting down to formulate and expound their philosophies, French existentialism could have been conceived of as being an emergent philosophy; it now, of course, is no such thing, it is recognised as a particular branch of existentialism. Since currently the preponderance of the emergent philosophies are or appear to be inspired by or related to developments in technology, we have elected to deal with them within this ambit rather than in the realm of pure philosophy.
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How University UMC is tackling the food insecurity crisis in Syracuse
Syracuse has the highest poverty rate in the country among cities with at least 100,000 residents, and almost half of all children in Syracuse are living in poverty. This makes food security essential in the city of Syracuse. Further complicating the need, the COVID-19 pandemic hit those already in poverty, the hardest.
In this environment, University UMC saw the need and enhanced their existing ministry to make an even greater difference. University UMC has had a food ministry, now known as The Food Center at 324 University Ave., for over 40 years. Prior to the pandemic, the church was feeding 50 families a week. Every Friday, they distributed whole grains, fresh produce, and meat (all provided by the Central NY Foodbank) to the city’s Southeast side residents.
Not long after the pandemic started, Grace Episcopal UMC, a church a block away from University UMC, merged its pantry with University’s pantry. Soon thereafter, Temple Concord, a nearby church that was closing, merged its food pantry with University’s. The volunteers from the other two churches became part of the food ministry at The Food Center at 324.
Barbara Slater and Shirley Edge were both volunteers at Grace Episcopal Church’s food pantry.
Speaking of the merger, Shirley said, “That was a hard decision because Grace has had a pantry since the early 70s.”
Barbara added, “When the pandemic happened, we merged with the Food Center here at University, so our volunteers came here, and we all work together….it also worked out better for our clients at McCarthy Manor (low income housing).”
Despite the New York workforce reduction executive order that was prompted by the pandemic, volunteers at food pantries were considered “essential workers.”
University’s food distribution moved from an indoor pickup to an outside drive-through and walk-through.
The pantry began serving 350 families a week at the height of the pandemic and this emergency food distribution became available to all residents in the city of Syracuse. The Food Center at 324 was designated as the USDA’s food pantry site for the City of Syracuse.
In recent months, the Food Center at 324 has been feeding about 200 families a week, also providing, diapers, hygiene needs, clothing, and pet food to those who need these items.
Galyn Murphy-Stanley, the Neighborhood Outreach and Food Center Coordinator said, “We were blessed to gain so many volunteers.”
On a recent Friday morning, Galyn spread her arms out wide to showcase the hundreds of boxes filled with goods like pasta, rice, nuts and dried fruit, cereal, and peanut butter, to be combined with fresh produce, dairy and meat before the clients arrive.
She said, “I have an army of over 200 volunteers that make this possible,”
Of those 200 volunteers, less than 10 are members of University UMC. The volunteer crew has grown mostly from word of mouth, but also, has grown with the help of students from nearby Syracuse University, Upstate Medical University, and SUNY ESF.
Lanny Freshman, an energetic man his 60s, greets volunteers and those picking up food, with a larger-than-life attitude and an infectious smile. He started volunteering with the Food Center about a year ago. He oversees the distribution of the food to the cars and walkers lining up in front of the church. Many students volunteer with Lanny.
Lanny said, “We get students pretty frequently. Volunteering is part of many programs at the universities. The kids volunteer and then tell their friends. People get a kick out of this; it’s fun! What’s cool is that these students are from all over the world. We have a young man from Peru, a number of students from China, and students from several different states. A lot of the students speak different languages and that helps with some of the customers who only speak limited English.”
Galyn explained, “Food is not the main story—yes the food is life-promoting, but this is more about these hungry individuals feeling welcome and safe.”
She continued, “What we need to recognize is that when people are feed well, it is emotionally and spiritually fulfilling, so they keep coming back.”
The Rev. Alicia Wood, the pastor at University UMC nodded her head in agreement with Galyn, “Instead of qualifying who gets the food, we are here to strip down barriers to food access. Some pantries require you to prove that you are poor, how sad is that? Our ministry is hospitable to anyone who needs the food.”
“We want people to feel God’s love and know that they can feel this love without even stepping into a church.” Rev. Wood continued.
University UMC has excelled at living out the vision of the Upper New York Conference, “to live the Gospel of Jesus Christ and be God’s love with our neighbors in all places.”
Through University’s food pantry, they have reached hundreds of families throughout Syracuse—women, men, and children who tell their stories to the volunteers.
Rev. Wood described this experience, “We are building relationships. This feels like a home to them. They feel comfortable telling us about their experiences, and we always take time for them; we always listen.”
Relationships are being built with the volunteers as well.
Galyn said, “We are like a family. I consider these people my siblings.”
With so many young people volunteering at University, eager to help resolve the inequity of food distribution that they are learning about at school, Rev. Wood hopes that one day, there will no longer be a need for the food pantry.
She said, “Our whole goal in this is to put ourselves out of business so that everyone is fed healthy food equitably.”
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Antibiotics save lives every day, but there is a downside to their ubiquity. High doses can kill healthy cells along with infection-causing bacteria, while also spurring the creation of "superbugs" that no longer respond to known antibiotics. Now, researchers may have found a natural way to cut down on antibiotic use without sacrificing health: a maple syrup extract that dramatically increases the potency of these medicines. The researchers presented their work on April 2 at the 253rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). ACS, the world's largest scientific society, is holding its annual meeting in San Francisco April 2-6. The meeting will feature more than 14,000 presentations on a wide range of science topics. "Native populations in Canada have long used maple syrup to fight infections," says Nathalie Tufenkji, Ph.D., of Canada’s McGill University. "I've always been interested in the science behind these folk medicines." The idea for the project really gelled when Dr. Tufenkji, who had been studying the antimicrobial effects of cranberry extracts, learned of the anti-cancer properties of a phenolic maple syrup extract. "That gave me the idea to check its antimicrobial activity," Dr. Tufenkji says. "So, I sent my postdoc to the store to buy some syrup." Using the same extraction approach as other researchers have in the past, Dr. Tufenkji's team at McGill University separated the sugar and water from the syrup's phenolic compounds, which contribute to maple syrup's signature golden hue. In an initial test, the team exposed several disease-causing bacterial strains to the extract, but they didn't see much of an effect. Rather than give up on maple syrup altogether, Dr.
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Steps for prehanging a salvaged door:
- Use a four-foot level to check if the existing floor is level. Make the bubble level and then measure the distance from the floor to the underside of the level. This will determine the long side of the jamb.
- Measure the height to the jamb header of any existing doors to ensure the new door matches.
- Use a miter saw to cut the jambs to length.
- Use a countersinking drill bit to predrill holes in the jamb pieces. Connect the jamb using 3” screws.
- Mark a ¼” reveal for the casing on the jamb with a pencil.
- Set the side casing on the line on the jamb and then attach with 8-penny finish nails.
- Allow the head casing to overhang the side casing by ¼” on each side and attach.
- Attach a temporary filler strip across the bottom of the jamb to hold it square when moved.
- Test fit the jamb assembly in the opening.
- Add wood shims to the door framing to make one side of the jamb plumb.
- Clamp the jamb flush with the drywall or plaster, then screw the jamb through the shims into the framing.
- Add shims to the other side of the jamb and attach in the same manner.
- Bring the door in and test it.
- Add shims behind the lock set.
- Cut the shims flush with the jamb.
- Add the casing to the other side of the door jamb.
The Door used for the install was original to the house and provided by the homeowner.
All of the tools, nails, and shims used can be found at the home center.
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White House Adviser: Cease-Fire Should Include Demilitarization Of Gaza
A top White House adviser says any cease-fire agreement between Israel and Palestinians must include the demilitarization of Gaza.
In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken said "that needs to be the end result."
"There has to be some way forward that does not involve Hamas having the ability to continue to rain down rockets on Israeli civilians," Blinken said.
Asked if this means the U.S. has endorsed Israel's demand that Hamas give up its weapons, Blinken said:
"One of the results, one would hope, of a cease-fire would be some form of demilitarization, so that again, this doesn't continue, doesn't repeat itself. This is what we've seen happen multiple times over the past few years, which is these rockets coming from Gaza, which Hamas controls, as well as more recently the tunneling to Israel with terrorists trying to infiltrate Israel. And no country can accept that. So that needs to be the end result of this process."
Of course, Hamas is unlikely to accept that demand and adding it as a condition to a cease-fire agreement may prolong the current conflict.
Aaron David Miller, a well-known Middle East analyst and vice president for new initiatives at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, wrote in Foreign Policy that the demilitarization of Gaza is "on the far end of the outcome spectrum."
"This would mean a cessation of hostilities far different than in previous rounds of fighting. It would require a fundamental change in Gaza's political situation brought about either by military or diplomatic means. ...
"It would also require someone to assume real responsibility for Gaza. A transformed and defanged Hamas is hard to imagine. But if Israel forcibly tried to dismantle Hamas as an organization, there would likely be massive casualties on both sides. And in these circumstances neither Egypt, let alone the Palestinian Authority, could ride into Gaza on the backs of Israeli tanks amid the carnage.
"Demilitarization is impossible without a diplomatic solution by which Hamas agrees to give up its weapons in exchange for a fundamental change in the economic and political conditions in Gaza, perhaps a kind of mini Marshall Plan."
Update at 1:04 p.m. ET. All Options On Table:
The AP reports that when Kerry was asked about Blinken's comments, he said, "All of the issues of Gaza would be on the table."
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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Biology | Life Sciences | Neuroscience and Neurobiology
Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder; it affects 1% of the population over the age of 65. The number of people with Parkinson's disease is set to rapidly increase due to changing demographics and there is an unmet clinical need for disease-modifying therapies. The pathological hallmarks of Parkinson's disease are the progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra and their axons which project to the striatum, and the aggregation of α-synuclein; these result in a range of debilitating motor and non-motor symptoms. The application of neurotrophic factors to protect and potentially regenerate the remaining dopaminergic neurons is a major area of research interest. However, this strategy has had limited success to date. Clinical trials of two well-known neurotrophic factors, glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor and neurturin, have reported limited efficacy in Parkinson's disease patients, despite these factors showing potent neurotrophic actions in animal studies. There is therefore a need to identify other neurotrophic factors that can protect against α-synuclein-induced degeneration of dopaminergic neurons. The bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) family is the largest subgroup of the transforming growth factor-β superfamily of proteins. BMPs are naturally secreted proteins that play crucial roles throughout the developing nervous system. Importantly, many BMPs have been shown to be potent neurotrophic factors for dopaminergic neurons. Here we discuss recent work showing that transcripts for the BMP receptors and BMP2 are co-expressed with several key markers of dopaminergic neurons in the human substantia nigra, and evidence for downregulation of BMP2 expression at distinct stages of Parkinson's disease. We also discuss studies that explored the effects of BMP2 treatment, in in vitro and in vivo models of Parkinson's disease. These studies found potent effects of BMP2 on dopaminergic neurites, which is important given that axon degeneration is increasingly recognized as a key early event in Parkinson's disease. Thus, the aim of this mini-review is to give an overview of the BMP family and the BMP-Smad signalling pathway, in addition to reviewing the available evidence demonstrating the potential of BMP2 for Parkinson's disease therapy.
Goulding SR, Sullivan AM, O'Keeffe GW, Collins LM. The potential of bone morphogenetic protein 2 as a neurotrophic factor for Parkinson's disease. Neural Regen Res 2020;15:1432-6
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Delirium Prevention in Patients From the Intensive Care Unit (DELA) (DELA)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.|
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03215745|
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified October 2017 by Universidad de Santander.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : July 12, 2017
Last Update Posted : October 27, 2017
|Condition or disease||Intervention/treatment||Phase|
|Hypoactive Delirium Hyperactive Delirium Delirium of Mixed Origin||Behavioral: Delirium prevention program||Not Applicable|
|Study Type :||Interventional (Clinical Trial)|
|Estimated Enrollment :||200 participants|
|Intervention Model:||Parallel Assignment|
|Masking:||Double (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)|
|Official Title:||Trial Randomized, Double-blind, Controlled of Delirium Prevention Program in Patients From the Intensive Care Unit Los Comuneros Hospital University of Bucaramanga, Colombia|
|Actual Study Start Date :||October 1, 2017|
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :||July 1, 2018|
|Estimated Study Completion Date :||December 1, 2018|
Experimental: Delirium prevention program
Delirium prevention program involved a non-pharmacologic preventive interventions that will be focused in: Delirium prevention program includes individualized non-pharmacological interventions such as multisensory stimulation, cognitive stimulation, activate the functional and family involvement.
Behavioral: Delirium prevention program
Delirium prevention program Placard with the names of the care team and the calendar days; cognitively stimulating activities three times a day. Pictures, radio, robe. Visual aids large print books, with daily reinforcement of use Maintain adequate lighting opening blinds and curtains during the day, and darken their environment at night. Dissipation wax and special techniques of communication, with daily reinforcement of these adaptations. Go to the patient by name and tone of voice appropriate. Always listen. Use simple and clear language, face-to-face. Avoid excessive familiarity and childish. Promote family involvement in self-care and caregivers and the reorientation of the patient, contact with extended family during the stay.
No Intervention: Control group
- Delirium [ Time Frame: Within the first 30 days after admission at ICW ]For the measurement of delirium will be with the instrument Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU) version in spanish.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT03215745
|Contact: Claudia C Torres, RN, MSc||57-7-6516500 ext [email protected]|
|Contact: Astrid N Páez, RN, MSc||57-7-6516500 ext [email protected]|
|Principal Investigator:||Claudia C Torres, RN, MSc||Universidad de Santander|
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Solar System Puzzle
207922Regular price $31.99
Race your friends around the world with this fun two-in-one game. First complete the 100-piece puzzle showing the countries of the world. Then use the game pieces and dice to travel to each continent. Includes an poster (34.3x22.4-inch) to help you memorize the facts. Great for teaching children about geography. For ages five and over.
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We have uncovered a highly complex system regulating HLA-C expression in NK cells. by mature NK cells. Polymorphism in a key Ets-binding site of the NK promoter has generated alleles that lack significant promoter activity, resulting in reduced HLA-C expression and increased functional activity. The NK-intrinsic regulation of thus represents a novel mechanism controlling the lytic activity of NK cells during development. Author summary It has been proposed that the human gene evolved in higher primates to serve as a ligand for the KIR family of inhibitory receptors for MHC class I that are expressed by natural killer (NK) cells and regulate their activity. NK cell potential is determined by the level of MHC class I on surrounding cells and on the NK cell itself. We have uncovered a highly complex system regulating HLA-C expression in NK cells. A NK-specific promoter produces a large array of differentially-spliced transcripts that vary in their ability to be translated into HLA-C protein. As NK cells differentiate and become more cytotoxic, the level of HLA-C expression increases, and this Rabbit Polyclonal to MKNK2 correlates with an increased abundance of translatable mRNAs. A subset of HLA-C alleles have a promoter polymorphism that abrogates its activity, resulting in NK cells that are unable to upregulate HLA-C levels, and consequently, possess increased functional activity. Overall, our findings provide insight into the mechanisms of NK cell development, as well as a method to identify individuals with high NK activity, that may provide superior outcomes in hematopoietic stem cell transfer. Introduction Natural Killer (NK) cells use two major receptor systems to detect alterations in the expression of MHC class I on potential target cells: the CD94:NKG2A receptor recognizing non-classical HLA-E, and the MHC Roscovitine (Seliciclib) class I receptors represented by Ly49 in the mouse and KIR in humans . The recognition of HLA-E by NKG2A is dependent on the presentation of the MHC class I leader peptide, and thus surveys cells for the presence or absence of MHC class I expression in general. In contrast, each Ly49 or KIR is specific for a subset of MHC class I molecules, providing a more precise detection of alterations in the expression of individual MHC class I genes. Several Roscovitine (Seliciclib) studies have demonstrated a switch from NKG2A expression to Ly49/KIR expression as NK cells mature [2C4]. The measurement of HLA expression levels by mass spectroscopy of peripheral blood lymphocytes revealed that HLA-A/B/C levels are at least 25 times higher than that of HLA-E , suggesting that the level of inhibitory signaling by MHC class I receptors may increase as NK cells mature and switch from NKG2A recognition of HLA-E to KIR-mediated HLA binding. The education of NK cells by MHC class Roscovitine (Seliciclib) Roscovitine (Seliciclib) I is currently an area of intensive research [6C8]. The interaction of inhibitory MHC class I receptors with their ligands has been shown to augment NK cell potential, leading to higher lytic activity and cytokine secretion. The dynamic nature of NK cell education has been revealed by transfer of NK cells Roscovitine (Seliciclib) into a novel MHC environment, leading to a change in their responsiveness [9C11]. A recent study of human NK cell education has indicated a role for NK cell-intrinsic expression of HLA in the tuning of NK cell activity, as silencing of HLA expression in primary NK cells reduced their function . The role of the human gene in NK cell education is of.
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Mixed Member Proportional (MMP)Electing local and regional MPs with proportional results
Mixed Member Proportional
How it Works
You will have two votes. One vote helps elect a local MP. The other vote helps elect regional MPs from your region.
Your vote for a regional candidate is also called the “party vote.” A vote for a regional candidate also counts as a vote for that party. The party vote determines what proportion of the seats each party should have in each region.
If voters for a party are entitled to elect a regional MP, it will be the party’s regional candidate who got the most votes across the region. These are also called “top up seats”.
Voting is simple. Put an X beside one Local MP and one Regional MP.
There are excellent videos on MMP on our youtube channel in the systems playlist. To get the basic idea of how the ballots are counted, we recommend this video:
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Underground InfrastructureView all Underground Infrastructure projects
Water, Wastewater Sewer and Land Drainage Systems
Tri-Core has a vast amount of experience in the installation of Water, Sewer and Land Drainage Systems. These Include include larger diameter concrete pipe installations of Land Drainage Systems as part of a significant initiative to eliminate “Combined Sewer” infrastructure. Other installations include Residential Developments, Commercial Developments, Land Drainage Outfalls and a significant amount of water and sewer renewals and repairs using a variety of pipe materials including Concrete, PVC, HDPE, CMP and Steel. Tri-core has the expertise and resources to complete installations using open cut or trenchless methods depending on project requirements.
Large Diameter Tunnel Boring and Pipe Jacking
Tri-Core is a recognized leading contractor in Tunnel Boring and Pipe Jacking. Our capabilities take projects from concept to completion in tunneling estimating, construction management and project execution. Working closely with our clients, and consulting engineers, Tri-Core provides design expertise for a multitude of tunneling works ranging from large land drainage projects in urban settings to remote locations in environmentally sensitive areas.
Tri-Core owns and operates a number of Guided Boring Machines (GBM) and Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM). The GBM systems offer customers millimeter installation accuracy for pipe diameter ranging from 100mm to 900mm with shots as long as 110m. The GBM systems are remotely operated. They provide the spoil removal process of the auger boring machine and the same level of accuracy as traditional micro-tunneling—all in one compact, multifaceted system. Our TBM systems are used to install pipes ranging in diameter from 1200mm to 2700mm with shots as long as 200m. The TBM system is controlled by an operator located at the rotating excavation head. The cutter head excavates the soil which is transported via conveyor and haul unit system for disposal in the launch shaft. Both systems have been used to install piping up to 15m below surface.
Gate Chamber / Large Valves
Tri-Core is very familiar with the planning and assembling of complex chambers for large scale sewer and water systems. Mechanical and electronically actuated valve systems are common on many of our jobs. Working closely with suppliers and following sequencing and specifications in their entirety has allowed us to maintain an excellent track record on mechanical installation.
Often when reviewing the design and installation process our team has provided input that has saved the project owner significant time and money prior to commencing work.
Drilled Caisson and Structurally Engineered Shoring Systems
We have developed industry-leading expertise with all types of geotechnical construction techniques used for temporary shoring systems. Some of our shoring systems have been developed as a result of the demand for structurally excavated shafts for the launching and retrieving of our GBM and TBM machines.
We have continuously looked to develop innovative and cost-effective techniques for installing structural shoring systems. One of our most successful installation methods includes the drilling of round shafts and installing engineered shoring. We currently drill shafts and install round shoring to 6m diameter and 15m deep. Tri-Core also installs structural shafts and cantilevered shoring walls using soldier piles, lagging and tie-backs.
Based on site specific conditions, our experts can help design and construct Engineered Shoring Systems that minimize disturbance to existing structures and allow construction to continue safely.
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City of Rochester
The City of Rochester has enacted stormwater ordinances in order to establish minimum stormwater management requirements and controls to protect and safeguard the general health, safety, and welfare of the public residing in the watersheds within the City of Rochester. Land development projects and associated increases in impervious cover alter the hydrologic response of local watersheds and increase stormwater runoff rates and volumes, flooding, stream channel erosion, and sediment transport and deposition. This stormwater runoff contributes to increased quantities of waterborne pollutants. Stormwater runoff, soil erosion and nonpoint source pollution can be controlled and minimized through the regulation of stormwater runoff from development sites.
Rochester is also a member of the Monroe County Stormwater Coalition. Established in 2000, the Monroe County Stormwater Coalition is composed of 29 municipal members. By working together, Coalition members are able to comply with the federal stormwater regulations and improve water quality in a cost-effective manner. At this time, the Coalition is funded through membership fees and grants. However, the Coalition is pursuing a long-term funding strategy.
The Coalition implements a wide range of projects and programs including public education, training for municipal employees and the land development community, demonstrations of practices that reduce polluted runoff from developed land, technical assistance with permits and erosion control, investigations of stormwater outfalls for indicators of illegal discharges, assessments of municipal facilities for opportunities to prevent pollution, and a Stormwater Master Plan for Monroe County to identify needed infrastructure.
Maintenance of Stormwater Management Facilities
The applicant or owner of the site must execute a maintenance easement agreement that shall be binding on all subsequent owners of land served by the stormwater management facility. The agreement shall provide for access to the facility at reasonable times for periodic inspection by the City of Rochester, or its contractor or agent, to ensure that the facility is maintained in proper working condition to meet design standards and any other provisions established by this Part and to, if necessary, implement emergency repairs to protect the health, safety and welfare of the public. The easement dimensions shall be as directed by the City of Rochester, and the easement agreement shall be recorded in the office of the County Clerk, with a copy provided to the City of Rochester.
Maintenance after construction.
The owner or operator of permanent stormwater management practices installed in accordance with this Part shall ensure they are operated and maintained to achieve the goals of this Part. Proper operation and maintenance also includes, as a minimum, the following:
(1) A preventive/corrective maintenance program for all critical facilities and systems of treatment and control (or related appurtenances) which are installed or used by the owner or operator to achieve the goals of this Part.
(2) Written procedures for operation and maintenance and training new maintenance personnel.
(3) Discharges from the stormwater management practices shall not exceed design criteria or cause or contribute to a water quality standard violation.
(1) The maintenance and proper operation of all privately owned stormwater management facilities, including nonstructural practices, shall be ensured through the creation of a formal and enforceable maintenance agreement that must be approved by the City of Rochester and recorded in the office of the County Clerk as a deed restriction on the property prior to final plan approval. This agreement will include any and all maintenance easements required to access and inspect the stormwater management practices and will outline the procedures and schedule to be followed to perform routine maintenance as necessary to ensure proper functioning of the stormwater management practice. In addition, the legally binding agreement shall identify the parties responsible for the proper maintenance of all stormwater treatment practices and include plans for periodic inspections by the owners, or their designated agent, to ensure proper performance of the facility. The maintenance agreement shall be consistent with the terms and conditions of the "Stormwater Control Facility Maintenance Agreement."
(2) The City of Rochester, in lieu of a maintenance agreement, may accept dedication of any existing or future stormwater management facility for maintenance, provided that such facility meets all the requirements of this Part and includes adequate and perpetual access and sufficient area, by easement or otherwise, for inspection and regular maintenance.
Requirements of maintenance agreements.
All stormwater management facilities must undergo, at the minimum, an annual inspection to document maintenance and repair needs to ensure compliance with the requirements of this Part and accomplishment of its purposes. These needs may include removal of silt, litter and other debris from all catch basins, inlets and drainage pipes, grass cutting and vegetation removal, and necessary replacement of landscape vegetation. Any maintenance needs found must be identified in writing, along with the schedule and methods to be employed to complete the maintenance. The maintenance repairs and restoration schedule are to be approved by the City of Rochester prior to commencing the work, and the City of Rochester shall inspect the facility upon completion of the work. The inspection and maintenance requirement may be increased by the City of Rochester as deemed necessary to ensure proper functioning of the stormwater management facility.
Records of installation and maintenance activities.
Parties responsible for the operation and maintenance of a stormwater management facility shall make records of the installation and of all maintenance and repairs and shall retain the records for at least five years. These records shall be made available to the City of Rochester during inspection of the facility and at other reasonable times upon request.
Maintenance guarantees for privately owned stormwater facilities.
Where stormwater management and erosion and sediment control facilities are to be operated and maintained by the applicant or by a corporation that owns or manages a commercial or industrial facility, the applicant, prior to construction, may be required to provide the City of Rochester with an irrevocable letter of credit from an approved financial institution or surety to ensure proper operation and maintenance of all stormwater management and erosion control facilities both during and after construction and until the City of Rochester acknowledges compliance with all details of approved site plan. If the applicant or landowner fails to properly operate and maintain stormwater management and erosion and sediment control facilities, the City of Rochester may draw upon the account to cover the costs of proper operation and maintenance, including engineering and inspection costs, until the City of Rochester acknowledges compliance with all details of approved site plan.
Inspection and right of entry
The City of Rochester or designated agent shall make inspections at any reasonable time for purposes of inspecting the construction of the stormwater management facilities. Inspections may include but are not limited to routine inspections; random inspections; inspections based upon complaints or other notice of possible violations; inspection of drainage basins or areas identified as higher-than-typical sources of sediment or other contaminants or pollutants; inspections of businesses or industries of a type which are more likely than the typical discharge to cause violations of state or federal water or sediment quality standards or the SPDES stormwater permit; and joint inspections with other agencies inspecting under environmental or safety laws. Inspections may include but are not limited to reviewing maintenance and repair records; sampling discharges, surface water, groundwater, and material or water in drainage control facilities; and evaluating the condition of drainage control facilities and other stormwater management practices. The applicant must notify the City of Rochester in advance before the commencement of construction. If any violations are found, the property owner shall be notified of the nature of the violation and the required corrective actions. No added work shall proceed until any violations are corrected and all work previously completed has received approval by the City of Rochester.
Furthermore, when any new drainage control facility is installed on private property, or when any new connection is made between private property and a public drainage control system, or combined sewer, the property owner shall grant to the City of Rochester the right to enter the property at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner for the purpose of inspection. This includes the right to enter a property when it has a reasonable basis to believe that a violation of this Part is occurring or has occurred and to enter when necessary for abatement of a public nuisance or correction of a violation of this Part.
City of Rochester Stormwater Ordinance
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Boone County Leadership’s mission is to build a strong community by bringing together a diverse group of emerging and existing leaders to enhance their leadership involvement, increase their community knowledge, and inspire their commitment to serve.
Boone County Leadership is a not-for-profit program that provides local training to expand community and philanthropic leadership. Operating out of United Way of Central Indiana’s Boone County headquarters, the program acquaints participants with the county’s economic, civic, governmental and social structure, preparing them to become better informed and involved citizens.
The first community leadership training program was formed in Philadelphia in 1959. Boone County’s first graduating class was in 1991.
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It's common among programmers to say "Garbage In, Garbage Out": your result is only as good as your data. The same could be said of economic models, except the problem is not so much the data, as the incompleteness of the models. Arnold Kling recounts an interesting encounter:
At the unpleasant session yesterday, I did learn something interesting from Doyne Farmer of the Santa Fe Institute, while he was ranting against the state of the art in macroeconomic models. He said that in 2006, the Fed simulated a 20 percent decline in home prices in its model, and the effect was minor.
That sounds highly plausible, of course. But it just adds to my frustration about the infamous Blinder-Zandi black-box simulations purporting to show that the economy would have been much worse without TARP. Such an exercise assumes that we have precise quantitative knowledge of the feedback between real and financial variables. But the exercise that Farmer referred to illustrates just how weak an assumption that is.
It's fine to say "Our best guess is that TARP and the stimulus did some good. But it's well to remember that our best guess really isn't very good. And putting an exact number on it--"3.1 million jobs created or saved!" creates a dangerous false precision, giving people the illusion that we have good knowledge in a very foggy area.
Indeed, it's worth reflecting on the fact that the simulation the Fed ran--and a million others run by regulators, bankers, and investors--probably made the bubble, and the resulting crash, much worse. People thought they knew something they didn't, and it made them complacent. I doubt the unanticipated results of the stimulus will be so devastating, but it's nonetheless important to guard against hubris.
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How to write a Research Paper – The Discussion Section
A research paper is an extended written essay that provides your own interpretation or general review or argument about the subject. In many ways, it’s an article of a shorter length or an account of a scientific study that you have read about and been interested in. When you write an article or research paper, you are using your knowledge of the subject or what you believe about it. Research papers can be enticed to dig deep and find every bit of information that is possible. This can result in overdoing it and could be counterproductive.
Instead, collect information and then analyze it. By using your logic with care and drawing logical conclusions from the evidence, you can make an extremely strong argument. There are many variables that can affect the strength and relevance of your argument. These aspects must be considered in your research papers in order to create the most effective and relevant argument.
The first step in doing this is to read and digest your research papers’ bibliography. Generally, you should only include references and citations that are relevant to your argument. If a specific aspect of your topic is not in your bibliography, it should definitely be included in your discussion section. Additionally, you should consult the APA (American Psychological Association’s) or MLA ( Minneapolis Manual of Style’s) format for citing the source of your work.
A research paper does not include the thesis statement. Therefore, it is important to determine whether you are writing either a piece of writing or a statement. If your research paper includes the thesis statement, it is more difficult to reference your sources due to the different requirements for citations. This is why it is essential that your statements of opinion are shorter and less descriptive than the thesis.
Research papers are extremely narrow in scope as we’ve already mentioned. It is a declaration of opinion and should only be supported by citations from those sources that are relevant to the argument being made. If this is the case it is important to keep in mind that the sources selected to support your thesis statement must also be scholarly and relevant to the argument you are attempting to prove or challenge. A research paper on ancient Greek history for instance, will require extensive research on the period to be able to provide sufficient evidence to support your argument; therefore, your sources must be scholarly and directly connected to your argument to be considered a legitimate source.
Thesis papers and research papers share many similarities. Both require extensive research and writing. Therefore, if you are trying to learn paperwritings.com/ how to write research papers, it is crucial that you’re willing to complete the work. This job can be difficult for different people and may be thought to be easy or challenging.
Your expertise area and the type of academic research you are involved in will determine what requirements you need to fulfill in order to write your research article. If you’re involved in academic research, you will most likely need to read through a wide range of literature. Then, you have to create an analysis that compares the information from each piece. Dissertations have similar requirements. Of course, the types of literature to be reviewed and the time it takes to be completed vary depending on the peer-reviewed journal which the research paper is submitted.
Research papers are a skill that requires extensive reading and writing. Your advisor will utilize the literature review to determine whether your argument and research paper are original and conform to university standards. Your grades could be affected if you do not meet the standards of your peer group.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was on CBS’ Face The Nation on Sunday, and during his interview, he was asked if the United States “is on the same trajectory as Italy,” which has struggled to handle the coronavirus pandemic.
“Not necessarily at all,” he said. “I mean, obviously, things are unpredictable, you can’t make any definitive statement, but if you look at the dynamics of the outbreak in Italy, we don’t know why they are suffering so terribly, but there’s a possibility, and many of us believe, that early on they did not shut out as well the input of infections that originated in China and came to different parts of the world. One of the things that we did very early and very aggressively, the president put the travel restriction coming from China to the United States and most recently from Europe to the United States because Europe is really the new China. Again I don’t know why this is happening there to such an extent, but it is conceivable that once you get so many of these spreads out they spread exponentially and you can never keep up with the tsunami.”
He notes the country adequately shut out the input of the virus from China early on. "You can never keep up with the tsunami," he says. pic.twitter.com/cGAZ00lYTt
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) March 22, 2020
President Trump imposed a travel ban with China on January 31, 2020. He was widely criticized for it. Joe Biden even accused Trump of “fearmongering” and “xenophobia” for the travel ban, but World Health Organization experts admitted in February that the travel ban saved lives in the United States. Dr. Fauci is now saying that the ban may prevent the United States from experiencing the same problems Italy has.
Matt Margolis is the author of Trumping Obama: How President Trump Saved Us From Barack Obama’s Legacy and the bestselling book The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama. You can follow Matt on Twitter @MattMargolis
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AMERICAN ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION
CONTACT: Ben Haimowitz (718-398-7642 or 917-903-9287)
Audit reviews aren't as effective as generally thought in correcting for preparers' personal biases about clients
Does it pay to be chummy with the outside auditor? The question is likely to occur to any corporate or business manager involved in financial reporting, and, indeed, some research suggests that outside auditors’ fondness or dislike forclient personnelthey work with doessignificantly sway theiraccounting judgments.It is generally believed, though, that accounting-firm reviewers who are aware of such feelings will guard against their influencing the conclusions of the final audit.
This is why a new scholarly paper on how reviewers respond to audit preparers’ affective biases comes as a surprise. The study in the current issue of the American Accounting Association journal The Accounting Review finds the result of bias awareness to be the reverse of what one might expect. Instead of causing reviewers to discount audit preparers' judgments, it leads them to rely on those conclusions more thanthey would do without such awareness.
In the words of the study, "Reviewers who are not informed about the preparer’s affect are not significantly influenced by the preparer’s judgment and arrive at judgments more consistent with the audit evidence. In contrast, reviewers who receive the same preparer judgment and workpaper evidence, but who are also informed of the preparer’s affect, are significantly influenced by the preparer’s judgment."
In other words, "despite their belief that affect biases the preparer's judgment, reviewers fail to mitigate this bias when reaching their own judgment."
"Failure to mitigate doesn't mean that reviewers simply adopt a preparer's recommendation," explains Vicky B. Hoffman, a professor of business administration at the University of Pittsburgh, who carried out the study with doctoral candidate Michele L. Frank. "It does mean letting a preparer's bias significantly impede a reviewer's own good judgment."
The new study has affinities with earlier research on the difficulty people experience when confronted with an adviser's conflict of interest or that jurors encounter when they are instructed to ignore information improperly introduced in the course of a trial. No earlier research, however, has probed whether professionals, such as auditors, fall prey to what is called the “ironic rebound effect” – that is, letting themselves be swayed by judgments of colleagues who acknowledge personal bias.
The authors, who were both auditors at Big-4 accounting firms before pursuing careers in academe, believe the issue to be of considerable practical importance, since, in the words of the study,“partners often visit audit staff on client engagements, taking them to lunch or interacting with them in other informal social settings. In these settings…it is not unusual for preparers with relatively strong personal feelings toward the clients’ personnel to discuss them with the rest of the audit team."
The paper's findings emerge from an online experiment involving 119 audit managers and senior managers from two Big-4 accounting firms who had an average of 9.37 years of experience. All participants are provided with the same background information, of about 500 words, on a manufacturer of electronic components whose primary competitor has developed a prototype of a product that may be technically superior to the focal company's version and is expected to sell for about 20% less. Subjects are asked to assume the role of an audit manager assigned to review inventory judgments made by a hypothetical senior auditor, the preparer.
In half the cases the preparer has reached a conclusion, very favorable to the client, that no writedown of inventory is required, while in the remaining cases a highly unfavorable writedown of $1.2 million has been recommended. Further, half the reviewers of the favorable recommendation are informed that the preparer mentioned having previously worked with the client’s controller at a different company and really liking him. And half the reviewers of the unfavorable conclusion are informed that the preparer had.an unhappy prior experience at another firm with the controller, whom he found arrogant, condescending, and extremely unpleasant. The remaining subjects, serving as control groups, receive no information at all about personal likes and dislikes.
The study's authors note that the background information presented to participants "indicated that client personnel were competent and that the audit firm had issued unqualified opinions in each of the last five years." Moreover, "by design the preparer's relationship with the controller was based on their interactions at a different company to avoid unintentionally providing participants in the affect conditions with additional information about the company's current audit situation." Further, post-experimental questioning of participants revealed that they "perceived client personnel to be relatively competent and audit risk to be relatively low."
Still, assurances of client competence notwithstanding, reviewers made widely variant judgments that were apparently influenced by whether the preparer liked or disliked the controller. Among the subjects who reviewed judgments favorable to the client (no writedown required), those who were informed that the controller was very pleasant urged an average writedown of $42,000, which was only about one third the $119,200 suggested by those who were told nothing of personal relationships. As for participants who reviewed judgments unfavorable to the client ($1.2 million writedown proposed), reviewers with no knowledge of personal likes or dislikes recommended an average of $183,103, while those whose preparer said the controller was extremely unpleasant called for almost double that, a whopping $357,333.
What accounts for these wide disparities? It is highly unlikely, the study reveals, that reviewers were naive about preparers' potential to be unduly influenced by their feelings toward clients: in a supplementary experiment involving 40 seasoned auditors, 38 said that there was at least some chance that preparers' personal feelings toward clients would lead them to make more favorable or unfavorable judgments than warranted, and 27 estimated that the chance of this was 50% or better.
Instead the authors seek a cause in the"ironic rebound effect." Psychological research, they explain, has found that when people attempt to ignore or minimize facts (in this study the preparer’s biased judgment), a subconscious monitoring process occurs to alert them when they are relying on this information. If there is uncertainty about how much to discount the facts, the monitoring process intensifies, keeping theawkward info prominent in working memory and thereby increasing its effect on judgments. Among settings where the effect has been studied are law courts, where it was found that jurors told to disregard a piece of evidence ironically attend to that evidence more than those who are not trying to ignore it.
The authors also surmise that in actual audits this effect on reviewers may be increased by“secondhand affective reactions, which are subconsciously positive toward client personnel that the preparer likes and negative toward those that the preparer dislikes."
As to how the ironic rebound effect can be countered, the authors are cautious, given the complexity of the psychological mechanisms involved. "Hopefully, future research can test how to improve the review process," Prof. Hoffman says. "Meanwhile, it may help to simply recognize that the process is not as effective as generally believed and that reviewers should recognize their susceptibility to being unduly swayed by preparer bias. A little alarm bell should go off when personal feelings about client personnel come to light, prompting reviewers to consider what judgment the preparer would likely have reached based on the evidence in the workpapers."
Entitled "How Audit Reviewers Respond to an Audit Preparer's Affective Bias: The Ironic Rebound Effect," the study is in the March/April issue of The Accounting Review, published every other month by the American Accounting Association, a worldwide organization devoted to excellence in accounting education, research, and practice. Other journals published by the AAA and its specialty sections include Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting Horizons, Issues in Accounting Education, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Journal of Information Systems, and The Journal of the American Taxation Association.
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City Glorious School is a close-knit educational community that promotes the academic and social development of all students in a safe, friendly environment. At City Glorious School, it is not only a responsibility to achieve high academics standards but also to foster a love of learning in our learners. It is our belief that its passion will carry our learners to success on whichever path they traverse. We look forward to developing our learners, who will question without inhibition, embrace challenges without reluctance and seek knowledge without fear.
We provide Hot/Cold RO pure water for drinking.
Indoor games like Carrom, Chess are very important for childs growth.
Projector based learning Pattern P.G. Classes to make them understand deeply.
Primary Medicine facility is very important in case of any emergency.
A fine arrangement for childrens nutrition.
Ventilated, big size classroom with sufficient natural light.
School is equiped with CCTV survalance camera for security purpose.
A cumpulsory additional activity in childrens leisure time to improve their skills.
Our vision is to develop strong and highly educated individual by giving them modern academic education based on CBSE pattern English Medium, which is articulate reflective, open to others' point of view, have the confidence to express themselves and discuss ideas and actively contribute towards their own and others development.
We encourage independence of thought, creativity, respect for others and a sense of responsibility for one’s own action..
We recognize that it is important to be able to set and achieve personal goals; plan, implement and evaluate decisions, develop self-esteem manage stress and cope with the change and conflict. These are essential self-management skills that underline a healthy and balanced lifestyle Through classroom interaction, sports, recreational and other activities, students imbibe and practice these skills.
Effective interpersonal skills are also essential for participation in a meaningful and fulfilling relationship in a family, school, and recreation work and community context. Interpersonal skill such as effective communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, co-operation, and leadership enable the student to act responsibly and contribute effectively in every sphere.What We Offer
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In the music program, students examine various samples of music from diverse cultures and periods of history. They have the opportunity to discover the music and history of other cultures by listening, singing, playing, discussing, and analyzing various genres of music. Students will also be introduced to a band instrument and will learn the fundamentals of playing that instrument while continuing their vocal work.
This program is structured to maximize rehearsal time and gives students the chance to be part of an ensemble. They listen to, collaborate on, perform, and play music with their peers. Each rehearsal follows a consistent procedure to guide students, including by setting up instruments and music stations, having daily rhythmic and tonal practice, and practicing major works of music.
World Languages – French and Spanish
Bonjour! Welcome to Middle School French language classes. Lessons focus on developing strong communication skills, namely, listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In addition to introducing vocabulary concepts and grammatical structures, the coursework will include an introduction to the geographical distribution of French-speaking cultures around the world. On the course, students complete a variety of internet-based language and culture projects that are closely linked to our curriculum and emphasize creativity and a real-world application of French.
¡Hola! The Spanish language program offers introductory courses where students will be immersed in the culture and language of Spanish-speaking people from around the world. Students will learn through communication activities tailored specifically to build students’ speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. They are also encouraged to sing, dance, act, converse and create, and are given the tools to express themselves, to initiate meaningful interactions with their classmates, and to establish a strong foundation to help them become effective communicators in Spanish.
Both courses focus on the five C’s of Foreign Language Education: students refine their Communication skills; gain different Cultural perspectives; Compare the French language and culture to their own; Connect world language skills to other subject areas; and see the language and cultural influence within their own Community.
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Procuring innovative climate change services
The new EU project PROTECT aims at levering innovation procurement to boost the performance of the Climate Services market to support urgent action for climate adaptation, mitigation and resilience. The project will allow public and private entities to build up and integrate their knowledge and skills in the areas of climate crisis, Earth-Observation data and innovation procurement, enabling public authorities in particular to shift to a proactive and innovative governance model, using state-of-the-art public procurement approaches to increase value for money and climate impact. It shall seek to unlock the access of SME providers across Europe to the markets and shape solutions that best fit the specific and systemic needs of public demand. The initial focus will be on five encompassing application domains: Utilities, Green communities, Circular and bio economy, Land use and Marine environment, Civil Security and Protection.
The project will source and assess existing and high-potential Climate Service solutions and technologies that use Earth-Obersvation data, especially space-based. It will engage with an extensive and varied community of procurers, capture the definition and aggregation of their needs and functional requirements for Climate Services, with the goal to explain, foster and support a ‘buying with impact’ approach and help them comply with climate regulations. Clearer, less fragmented public demand shall then guide and support R&D for future Climate Services actions.
PROTECT will thus prepare the operational ground for one or more joint, cross-border or coordinated Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) processes and identify immediate short-term actions so that Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPI) can be activated during the project or immediately after it ends. At the policy level, the project will provide decision-makers for procurement, climate, technology development and policy, at EU, national, regional, and local levels, with practical recommendations and guidelines to enable and encourage much stronger use of IP for climate action. As part of the consortium, Climate Alliance is responsible for the communication and dissemination of the results as well as the assessment of local needs.
Project funding period: June 2022 – May 2024
via the Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON) under grant agreement No 101060592
Want to learn more? Please contact Andreas Kress at a.kress(at)climatealliance.org.
- PROTECT Leaflet (pdf)
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Winner of the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel
In Middle East lore the Debba is a mythical Arab hyena that can turn into a man who lures Jewish children away from their families to teach them the language of the beasts. To the Arabs he is a heroic national symbol; to the Jews he is a terrorist. To David Starkman, “The Debba” is a controversial play, written by his father the war hero, and performed only once, in Haifa in 1946, causing a massive riot. By 1977, David is living in Canada, having renounced his Israeli citizenship and withdrawn from his family, haunted by persistent nightmares about his catastrophic turn as a military assassin for Israel. Upon learning of his father’s gruesome murder, he returns to his homeland for what he hopes will be the final time. Back in Israel, David discovers that his father’s will demands he stage the play within forty-five days of his death, and though he is reluctant to comply, the authorities’ evident relief at his refusal convinces him he must persevere. With his father’s legacy on the line, David is forced to reimmerse himself in a life he thought he’d escaped for good.The heart-stopping climax shows that nothing in Israel is as it appears, and not only are the sins of the fathers revisited upon the sons, but so are their virtues—and the latter are more terrible still. Disguised as a breathtaking thriller, Avner Mandelman’s novel reveals Israel’s double soul, its inherent paradoxes, and its taste for both art and violence. The riddle of the Debba—the myth, the play, and the novel— is nothing less than the tangled riddle of Israel itself.
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Last week, I wrote about an affluent suburban school district in California that was being sued by some Christian parents because yoga sessions were being scheduled as part of their physical education curriculum and they felt that this was a subtle way of indoctrinating their children with non-Christian religious teachings.
I said that as far as I could see they were likely going to lose because the school district’s policy did not seem, as least as far as the facts presented in newspaper articles were concerned, to violate the three prongs (purpose, effect, and entanglement) of the Lemon test and/or the endorsement test that are the measures normally used to see if a violation of the Establishment Clause has occurred.
And sure enough, that is just what happened. The judge in the case used the Lemon test and found that no violation had occurred.
In his opinion, San Diego Superior Court Judge John Meyer explained that although yoga is rooted in religion, it has a legitimate secular purpose in the district’s physical education program. He also said the practice, contrary to parents’ complaints, does not advance or inhibit religion.
Finally, Meyer said although he had some concerns about the K.P. Jois Foundation, an organization launched in 2011 that awarded the district a $533,720 grant to start the program, the district’s yoga curriculum does not create any kind of excessive government entanglement with religion. That’s because it is the schools — and not the foundation — that are ultimately responsible for supervising the yoga instructors, Meyer said.
Of course, the Christian parents see this ruling as another example of the rampant anti-Christian bias that pervades the US and are going to appeal in order to protect America from paganism and godlessness.
“It’s absolutely incredible, but it’s not surprising,” said Sian Welch, who pulled her daughter out of the yoga classes offered at Capri Elementary School in Encinitas. Welch said she believed the judge’s decision was at least partly influenced by the money involved in funding the program and by an anti-Christian bias.
“We will have a society very soon where Christians will be the weirdest people,” said Welch, though she said she has no plans to pull her daughter out of the school district. “They will just be touted as crazy.”
Well, Ms. Welch, that’s the risk you take when you believe in weird things.
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Housing prices have tumbled again on a monthly basis, and are now just 2.4 percent higher than they were at this time last year. It’s also taking longer for homes to sell, leading real estate analysts to believe that the market is cooling down.
That’s actually been a political goal, after years of ever-rising prices that have led to severe affordability problems for first-time buyers. It’s almost impossible for young adults to buy a home in Oslo or Norway’s other cities without assistance from parents or grandparents, even when they’re earning solid salaries.
Now a rising supply of new housing units on the market combined with a slight rise in interest rates and stricter capital requirements seem to be having an effect. The housing association OBOS that ranks among Norway’s largest residential developers reported a decline in prices in Oslo in October, down 2.8 percent from the month before. That surprised OBOS’ own economists after five straight months of price rises.
Prices were down 3.7 percent from September on a nationwide basis, and OBOS chief economist Sissel Monsvold called the declines “suprisingly large.” Prices have nonetheless risen 3.1 percent so far this year, but that’s far below the residential real estate appreciation of recent years.
‘Lots on offer’
“One reason can be that there’s a lot of housing on offer and buyers have a lot to choose from,” Monsvold stated in a press release from OBOS. “It can also be that four increases in interest rates are beginning to be noticed.”
On Tuesday the national real estate brokers’ association Eiendom Norge reported that prices sank 0.8 percent from September to October and were up just 2.4 percent over last October. The association’s numbers are based on sales reports from broker members, the Finn electronic real estate advertising platform and the organization Eiendomsverdi.
“Moderate price development continued in October,” noted the chief executive of Eiendom Norge, Christian Dreyer. “We expect that housing prices will fall over the next few months.” He noted, however, that declines are “normal” in the last quarter of the year.
Longer time on the market
A total of 9,184 housing units were sold in Norway last month, 1.7 percent more than in October 2018. Sales are up 3.4 percent since January but it’s taking longer to sell residential property. Eiendom Norge reported an average of 47 days on a nationwide basis. The fastest sales occurred in Oslo, at 25 days, while sales were slowest in Kristiansand and the country’s oil capital of Stavanger, at 72 days. That’s a big change from the hot real estate market when the oil industry was booming.
Hedda K Ulvness, chief executive of the Eie real estate brokerage in Oslo, told newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) that “the tempo is lower” and activity has declined. She also noted that it’s “normal” for prices to fall in the autumn.
“But now we’re seeing a shift in the market,” Ulvness said. She thinks prices may continue to decline.
“I don’t think we’ll see any dramatic price decline,” she told DN, “but I think prices will go down and that we’ll have a quiet end of the year.”
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Brittany Sims Will Not Leave Their Feelings at the Door
Brittany Sims of the Non-Binary Barista talks writing, neurodivergency, and humanizing customer interactions
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If I could sum up this interview with one quote, it would be: “Everything you do is better than what you didn’t do.”
That line was written by today’s guest, Brittany Sims, a barista and coffee writer who runs the Non-Binary Barista blog. Brittany uses their blog to talk about gender in the workplace, but also to discuss accessibility issues, neurodivergency, how to deal with trauma, and big feelings at work. Essentially, Brittany’s blog humanizes service workers, and shines a light on the real experiences people go through on the job.
Brittany is a person who tries things. They’ve been writing for almost two decades, spanning genres and platforms, including a recently published novel. In this interview, they demonstrate their willingness to explore and be vulnerable. They buck the traditional ways we view customer service—the “leave your feelings at the door” mentality—and talk about how interactions with customers can be authentic and true to the way both actors feel.
Change begins with having a conversation, picking a starting point, and being open to new ideas. Brittany has a talent for being present, acknowledging both the humanity of others around them and also within themselves. Here’s Brittany.
Ashley: I was hoping that you could start by telling me who you are, your pronouns, where you're based, and what you do in the coffee industry.
Brittany: My name is Brittany Sims. I use they/them pronouns. I am based in Williamsburg, Virginia, but I'm originally from California and I am a barista as well as a coffee writer.
Ashley: If you were in an elevator and you had to explain The Non-Binary Barista, how would you describe that project to someone?
Brittany: The Non-Binary Barista is a website that talks about workplace dynamics—gender, being disabled, and neurodivergent—and kind of being a marginalized individual working in the coffee industry. So I talk about a lot of things, as well as some random coffee experiments like stacking pour-over cones.
Ashley: That we're going to get into—which I'm really excited about. I'm going to ask you more questions about how many things you can stack on top of each other or how many filters you can put in something.
I was wondering what prompted you to first start the Non-Binary Barista?
Brittany: When I started the Non-Binary Barista, I had a lot of thoughts about just working in the coffee industry—about how I wanted it to look like, the support for baristas that I didn't feel like we had. It's kind of becoming a topic of conversation now, but it wasn't really at the time.
And at first, I was a little nervous. I had been blogging since 2008 with various projects and decided to write down different blog post ideas that I had and was like, “Let's see if I have even enough for a blog.” And I filled three pages in 20 minutes.
So it was like, “Okay, clearly I have a lot to say,” and I decided to make a blog. It was January of 2020, so pre-COVID, and then it became what it is now and was kind of my link to the coffee industry, both when I was working in coffee, as well as when I wasn't.
Ashley: I love that your blog is this reflection of what working in coffee has been like and what experiencing the coffee industry has been like during COVID, which I definitely want to talk a little bit more about as we move on. But another thing that you mentioned that I really liked was that you weren't sure if you had anything to write about, so you gave yourself an exercise to figure it out.
I think that that's probably one of the biggest hurdles—I write a lot too, and sometimes I'm like, “I don't have anything to write about,” but oftentimes I have to use an exercise or a technique to get my creative ideas going. I like that you mentioned it’s not just like, “Oh, I have an idea and I woke up and I'm going to write about this thing,” but there are exercises, there are ways that you approach writing to get that energy going.
Brittany: Yeah. It comes from almost two decades now of writing where I was just—I've definitely had blogs where I was like, “I'm going to do a cooking blog!” And then it was like, “Okay, I posted two recipes and I hate taking pictures of food. So this is a bad idea.”
So after many, many blogs that either took off and then had technical issues or didn't take off, I was like, “Okay, before I start this massive undertaking, I get really excited and then kind of drop it. Let's see if I have enough to actually do this.”
Ashley: You mentioned over two decades of writing. So have you always been someone who's wanted to write and capture experiences?
Brittany: Yes. I started writing when I was 10. I started off with really terrible fanfiction and then moved on to regular fiction. I have done poetry, I've done journalism. I went to college for writing. And now I mostly write articles and science fiction and fantasy novels.
Ashley: And you’re a published writer in that arena, which I also want to touch upon a little bit, but I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about how you first got into coffee?
Brittany: I had graduated from college. I was working in theater, but mostly internships, so I wasn't getting paid and I was trying to figure out, “Okay, how do I make money off of my writing, off of working in theater?” which I love.
A coffee shop near my house was hiring. I had gone there for a year, almost every day, and applied—I wanted to work there so bad that I even had a panic attack the night before hoping to get the job.
I'm a very nervous sort of person, but I got the job and originally it was just kind of this cool gig of working in a coffee shop while I figured out what to do with my life. While I was working there, I fell in love with the craft of making coffee. I fell in love with getting to know regulars because I worked there for two-and-a-half years. So I got to really form deep relationships with them.
Because of working there for that long, I also built really good relationships with my co-workers, with the owners, and really just fell in love with coffee shops as a whole.
Ashley: Something that I really love about your blog is that it feels like it talks to a lot of different people, but without alienating anybody. I think that if you're somebody who is a coffee shop owner, or a boss, or somebody who's in charge, you could go to your blog and be like, “Oh, these tips are for me to make a more welcoming space for my employees.”
But then you also talk to people who are directly affected by discriminatory practices or marginalization, or even just people not understanding what it means to be neurodivergent for example, or what it means to be non-binary.
I was wondering if that was always your intention, or did you start the Non-Binary Barista with a different sort of perspective on who you wanted to talk to? And then that perspective started maybe growing outward a little bit more?
Brittany: I always wanted the blog to be mostly a place for baristas, and for baristas to find support, but I also didn't want it to be this very insular, kind of baristas just talking about what everything should be like without actually having a step up.
I’ve had a lot of bosses that I worked for that were very open and honest about their business practices. I wanted to incorporate what I've learned from bosses. I also wanted to talk to bosses that I've had and be like, “Hey, here are resources, here are what baristas are saying. Here are actual things that you can fix,” but also like, “Hey baristas, here are ways that you can help yourself. Here are ways that your shop can be better. Let's have a conversation, not just between us, but also with owners, with management.”
So it's always been this conversation where I didn't necessarily want to exclude anyone by making it just this inner world of baristas. And that was it.
Ashley: Something that you do really well in your blog is that things are not prescriptive. Nothing is like, “You have to do things this way,” or “You have to do things that way,” but you invite conversation and you talk about frameworks of understanding and creating safety for people, as opposed to saying you have to do X, Y, and Z, which I think is incredibly helpful.
One thing that you wrote that I even wrote down was, “People don't know what they don't know.” Maybe you wrote some version of that, but if somebody doesn't know to ask somebody, like, “What do you need because you are neurodivergent?”—if there's no conversation, then there's no place to start.
Brittany: Yeah. I've worked at, I think, seven shops now, and they all run slightly similarly, but there are so many variances between them—I obviously knew there are so many ways that a shop could operate that I didn't want to be like, “Okay, this is exactly how you need to run your shop. This is exactly how you're going to make baristas happy. This is exactly how owners should be.”
I was like, “Some are going to run differently than others, and that's okay.” I just need [them to be] a safe space for baristas, however you make that. I want to open up conversations between baristas, between owners, between management. I wanted management to come from a standpoint of, “Okay, how do people learn? How do people function? How can we make this a safe space? How can we ask better questions?”
For baristas too—how can we ask better questions or start these conversations with our managers to make it a good space for everyone?
Ashley: How have your own experiences behind the bar informed the way that you approach your writing?
Brittany: My own experiences behind the bar? I kind of didn't think about that they informed my writing until I stopped working in coffee because of COVID, and I was like, “Oh, I'm just talking about past experiences. I'm just talking about what I've learned.”
Then I stopped working in coffee and it was like, “Oh, so much of what I do is just informed by day-to-day interactions, by little things that I noticed, by relating one instance from one shop to another instance at another shop.”
It was very much a struggle during my unemployment moment of COVID where it was just like, “I miss being on bar. I love being on bar.” That's kind of who I am. I love interactions with customers making coffee, and I need to get back on bar. (Laughs)
Ashley: I know what you mean. I feel like—I don’t know if I remember how to steam milk. I know I do, but I don't know. Maybe. Who knows?
You've also been a manager—at least you've been in charge of the space—and you've been the person who's in charge of a group of people around you, and you've been the person who's like, “I'm gonna make sure that you folks feel safe and welcome here.”
I wonder where did you learn that? Or what part of your personality identifies with this idea of taking almost an outside lens, taking in a bigger-picture overview of what's happening, and saying, “This is what we need to do,” or, “This is what I think we need to do to make sure people feel welcome here.”
Brittany: I've always been the mom friend of the group and that ties into every coffee shop that I've worked at. I've been one of the older people on staff, but I was a stage manager in theater for a while. I was managing everything—trying to take an outside lens of everything was literally my job.
I started working in coffee and after working in coffee for about two months, I became a shift lead and graduated up to supervisor barista. So it became my job to make a safe space for everyone. I wanted to always make sure that everyone was good. It was kind of my catchphrase that I'd be like, “Hey, you good? Hey, you need anything? You got it. Are we good?”
That informed a lot of where my blog comes from and how I interact in shops now is just making sure: Does everyone have what they need? Do I have what I need? Does everyone feel safe? Is everyone feeling heard? What can we do to make the shop better for everyone and make it a safer space?
Ashley: I do love that you're talking about this like it's so natural. Like it's obvious. I think that when we have these conversations, it's easy to think that these things are obvious, but I don't think that that's intuitive.
I don't think that a lot of people who ascend to a management position think their job is to take care of the staff. I think they think—I know that I did as a manager when I first started, I was like, “My job is to order stuff. My job is to increase sales. My job is to make my bosses happy.”
It's really refreshing to hear that instead, you stepped into that position and you were like, “Oh, my job is to care for the staff in a holistic way.”
Did that evolve for you? Or did that change for you over time? Or did you realize that maybe what you thought that meant was different over time?
Brittany: I think when I first started, I was very much like, “Okay, if I make sure everyone else is good, they'll like me.” That like, “Okay, if I take care of everyone, they'll be happy with me. They won't be mad at me.”
A lot of that stems from my own insecurities, my own symptoms of mental illnesses that I have. Then as I grew as a person, as I tried to better myself, I also realized that, no, that's part of management. That's part of me wanting to take care of people. If I take care of people, if I do my job as a manager and make sure that everyone feels good and feels safe, then the shop runs really well. Everyone is having a good time, including myself. And we all just have fun at work.
I think that most of the time, work should be fun, especially at coffee shops where, yes, customers can yell at you, but other times, there are days where we're all listening to fun music and making coffee and having conversations with regulars that we like. For the most part, that's the atmosphere that I want to create as a manager—is making sure that everyone has what they need and to do their job and do it well. And having the resources to do that.
Ashley: I love that you mentioned that a coffee shop job should be fun. I feel like people who are … I mean, I don't know why I'm veiling this—Augie's Coffee, and other union-busting coffee shops are like, “Well, if we have a unionized workforce, work won't be fun. We can't be like loosey-goosey, relaxy-waxy.” I'm like, “That's not true?”
It's interesting how that language has been co-opted by people who want to retain control. The idea is that, “I am the arbitrator of your experience. And when that’s lost, when you assume that control for me as a worker, suddenly it's not fun.” [And people like the management at Augie’s] threatened all these things. So I love that you mentioned that coffee jobs can be fun if people are well taken care of and their needs are considered.
Brittany: There are the people that do coffee just because it's a fun gig or because it's just a nice job to have. But for a lot of people who do love coffee and love making coffee and the industry itself, I think that a lot of us find our passion with this. And when you're doing what you're passionate about, you should be having fun and enjoying yourself.
I feel like when it becomes, “No, we're at work, you should only just be doing this head down and with your customer service smile on and nothing else,” that's not practical because you're a human being and you're doing something that you love. But also you're a human being with feelings and a life. You have to go home at the end of the day. If you are working at a job where owners are being like, “No, you can't have fun. You can't get paid a decent wage,” it's not going to be fun and you have to kind of go home and then come back the next day. It's just exhausting and a little bit depressing.
Ashley: It seems like this cycle that just feeds into itself—that you're at work and you can't be your authentic self or your boss is saying, “Leave your personal life at the door,” but then you're not getting paid enough. So then you go home and then that's depressing because maybe you're struggling to pay rent or you're struggling to figure out, “Where is money for this, this, and this going to come from?” And then it just keeps going.
And at no point it seems do a lot of employers realize their role in that cycle. I think that's one of the things that I really love about your blog. Like we were saying, it speaks not just to baristas, but it also speaks to managers and people who are in charge and gives them tactics to be like, “This is what you can do to help your staff feel like work is a good place for them to be.”
Brittany: I think there is a balance of like, I mean, you are in a professional environment, you are working in customer service, but then there are times, there have been days—I mean, I literally came into work the day after my marriage ended and I was not okay. That's not something you can leave at the door and just turn on your [customer service act]. It's like, okay, we need to make some adjustments here.
I think if you're a good business, if you have a good staff, if you’ve created a safe space that you can work around that, that you can have the kind of support for people to still do their jobs, but still feel like it's a safe space. They can communicate their needs and it works well still.
Ashley: Have you seen that in practice at all? Have you ever experienced a moment where—I guess I'll zoom outward a little bit—but have you ever felt there was a moment that you could be vulnerable about the feelings that you were having or the situation that you were in, where you felt like your staff or your bosses supported you?
Brittany: Yeah. Like that instance where I came in and I was just crying, I was supposed to be on cash [register] that day. My manager at the time who was just a gem of a human was like, “Okay, if you want to go back and work on dishes, we will try and handle the front as much as we can. And if we need you, we'll come get you.”
It was very much, “Okay, thank you for handling the front while I deal with this on my own.” In between some orders, one of my co-workers was like, “Hey, there's no one here. Do you need a hug?”
A couple of years ago, I was just having a really rough time. It was around Valentine's Day. My coworkers decided to buy me flowers from a pop-up that we had. They were like, “Hey, we know that you're having a rough time. And we all just wanted to make sure that you felt loved and that we value you as an employee.” And I was just like, “Okay, I'm going to go cry now.” I don't really cry in front of people, but I can't hold it back anymore. Thank you for loving me.
Ashley: I love that you mentioned the Valentine's Day story because you wrote an article about working on Valentine's Day and other holidays. I think that's what was really fun about digging into your blog. I was reading through a lot of the posts last night and this morning—it's not just about one thing, even though it's called the Non-Binary Barista. You talk about ableism. You talk about neurodivergency. You talk about the pain of working on a holiday that maybe you don't feel very good about.
You also talk about trauma and how trauma isn't linear, which I really want to break down a lot more, but let's talk a little bit about the diversity of the articles that you write. At what point did you realize that you wanted to talk about more ideas, and did you ever feel limited at all? Were you ever like, “Well, I called it this, I have to run with this?”
Brittany: Yeah. Very much so. When I first started out, I was like, “Okay, I can veer away and talk about neurodivergency or talk about ableism, but I have to talk about gender mostly.” As I evolved, especially now that I moved to Virginia—moving across the country is a lot, but it was more a lot than I thought. So I’ve been taking a break and trying to rebuild and work on this new life that I have for myself. But it was like, “Okay, I'm the Non-Binary Barista. And I deal with being non-binary, but I also deal with ableism and neurodivergency and how that affects my work in coffee and I don't always have to talk about gender.”
I want to talk about being a marginalized person in coffee, because I felt like when I first started in coffee, I didn't have these resources. I would've loved to read an article about how to get through Valentine's Day or how ADHD affects your work as a barista—I would've loved to read those articles when I first started out.
Ashley: I love that you have so many different articles because there are so many different situations that we can be thrown into where we maybe don't have all the tools or know what to do.
What your blog I think does really well is say, “I don't necessarily have the answers, but I know that this could be an issue. So let's at least talk about it.” I actually just did an interview with somebody else for a different podcast project that I do. They mentioned that while they were on bar, while it was really busy, they were allowed to listen to headphones. A customer mentioned to their boss, “Oh, that person's wearing headphones. That seems unprofessional.”
The boss was like, “That's my best barista. If this person needs headphones to focus and get their job done, then that's fine with me.” That was just a way for them to cope with the busy-ness of the coffee shop. That was the first time I had ever read something like that or ever heard something like that. What your blog does really well is give these practical situations that maybe not a lot of people are equipped to deal with, but at least it gives people a starting point to start talking about it.
Brittany: I've only worked in the coffee industry for four years. I know I don't have all the answers, but I want to at least start these conversations and let people know that these are issues that baristas deal with. I want owners to know that they can start this dialogue. I want baristas to know that they can have these conversations with their manager and they're not going to get fired for proposing an idea.
Ashley: Yeah, totally. I think one of the things—since we were just talking about that before—one of the things that doesn't get talked a lot about, and I think I've really only read it on your blog, is neurodivergency within the coffee sector, and specifically behind the bar. I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about some of the articles that you've written on the topic and why this was important to you.
Brittany: Yeah. So over the last couple of years, I have been realizing that I have ADHD and I also have Borderline Personality Disorder. That comes with anxiety and depression. So that makes for a very interesting cocktail when I am in very stressful situations, but also informs just how I go about my life.
I remember having conversations with other baristas about ADHD in general, as I was realizing that I had it. The conversation, because it was usually with coffee people, was like, “Oh, well, it helps having ADHD when I'm working on shift because of this,” or, “Oh, it's really overwhelming when all the noise is going around and I get ADHD overwhelmed and I don't know what to do.”
It became this passion of mine. Like, “Okay, let's talk about neurodivergency in coffee because this affects a lot of baristas. It affects a lot of the baristas that I know personally, which means that there are many other baristas that I don't know that this will also hit home for.”
Ashley: Especially because there's such an expectation of how customer service interactions are supposed to go—they're supposed to be like this. They're supposed to be like that. You're supposed to do everything that customer asks you to do, et cetera, et cetera. But what you're writing highlights is that it's really easy to make accommodations that are not that hard to implement.
Brittany: Exactly. Sometimes, there are accommodations that can be met and people just don't know that those accommodations are necessary.
I have ear dampener headphones or ear plugs that I wear that I can still hear customers. I can still hear my coworkers, but it just dampens the sound. It makes all of my shifts so much easier for me. And most people don't know that those are a thing. I didn't know those were a thing until a couple of months ago.
Other times where my ADHD hyper-focus will kick in and I'll be working on bar and I literally can't hear customers talking to me because my brain just filters them out. I've had it where maybe a boss just doesn't understand that that's what's going on. They're like, “Hey, I really didn't appreciate that customer interaction just now. We need to fix it.”
And I was like, “What customer interaction?” So just starting that conversation of, “Hey, these accommodations are very necessary, but maybe you don't know that they're needed until we can talk about this.”
Ashley: Right. Like we were saying, you're not going to have the answers to everything, but the onus is on the people in charge to at least make it so that you can bring up an issue. Or that there is safety in a situation where you're like, “Hey, I'm feeling this. Is it okay for me to talk about it?”
Like you were saying, if you don't feel safe enough to even bring it up it often falls on the person who's affected—the barista, the person at the bottom of the workplace situation—to either bring up a situation that might feel potentially unsafe to them or to be quiet. Then their performance is reflected on poorly because that manager hasn't made the space to hear them out.
Brittany: Yeah. I’d also like to mention: What I may need as far as accommodations are not necessarily what the barista next to me will need as far as accommodations. So that's why I usually on my blog, I'm like, “Hey, start this conversation. Let's talk about this. Let's ask your baristas what they need, if they need anything.”
Ashley: Right. And that just opens up your toolkit too, right? You just get so many other tools that you can approach a situation with. And instead of feeling like, “Hey, I didn't like that customer interaction,” maybe your response is like, “Hey, look, I noticed this—is there something that I can do for you to help you in this situation?” Or even just saying, “I noticed this, let's talk about it.”
One thing that I think you talk about that doesn't get talked about enough in coffee is the idea of leaving your feelings at the door, especially in customer service interactions where part of the experience is your personality. You are almost an offering in a way. You're talking to people, you're talking to customers about their days, their lives. I think it’s virtually impossible to leave your feelings at the door. I was wondering—what does that evoke for you? What prompted you to write about this topic?
Brittany: I think it's something that I just think about a lot because I am very much an internal person. I can very much have customer service conversations very easily, but I will go and internalize everything that happens.
I just internalize a lot, but I think that my personality should come through in my job because I'm at my job for 40+ hours a week. I think customers are going to see me, and not just see me as just another employee at a shop they go to. If they see my fun glasses—I've had customers compliment me on my nerdy T-shirts or whatever—but my personality comes through and they're going to see me four to five times a week.
They sometimes see me more than their friends because they have to make an appointment to see their friends. They come into my shop all the time. I very much have to be comfortable with myself because I'm very much in a person-facing job, and so I'm perceived a lot.
Ashley: Right. You even mentioned a specific time where you weren't feeling very good during the 2018 Brett Kavanaugh trial. And before we started recording—I do this every time, where I mention [something we talked about] before we started recording, and it doesn't matter because people weren't listening because we didn't record it—but before we started recording, I mentioned the 2016 election and how tough that was for the staff that I was working with at the coffee shop I was at.
I think something that I want to pull apart a little bit, and I wanted to see what you think of this, is that being your authentic self and being upfront with how you feel is not mutually exclusive from providing good service. I think that's where that conflation happens, where people are like, “If you don't check your feelings at the door, then you're going to provide a bad customer service experience.” I think what you are writing is almost implying the opposite.
Brittany: Yeah. I very much agree that there is this notion that in customer service, you have to be happy all the time and therefore customers will be happy all the time because they'll match your energy. Sometimes customers come in and they are unhappy. Sometimes they're unhappy in a way that you can't really handle.
But other times there are ways … I've had people come in and one of them was thinking about dumping her boyfriend because they just weren't working. And so she was not okay. It was one of those situations, with me coming up and being like, “Hi, what can I get started for you?” would not help in that situation. Instead, it's like, “Hey, I noticed while I was taking your order that you were a little down, is everything okay?” And you start that conversation.
You start these relationships. Or during the 2016 election, I wasn't working in coffee at the time, but there was definitely this relationship between me and my customers, where I was like, “We're both not okay.” We recognize this and we can bond with each other about that. We're not okay.
Around the same time that COVID was starting to shut things down, me and my co-workers were like, “We're having the same conversations [over and over] about COVID and how nervous we are.” After a while, some of the customers started to notice that we were tired, even though we tried not to show it. We started this little game where it was like, “Hey, tell me something non-COVID related about your life while I make your latte.” And they would do it.
They were like, “Oh, I just got a new dog, or whatever.”
They were like, “Wow, you must have these same conversations all the time.”
And we were like, “Yeah, but you know, it is a part of life, but we’ve got to make it fun for all of us and do what we can to make the best of it.” I think that you can have the energy that you have without making it affect how you relate to people.
Ashley: Absolutely. I think it's like you were mentioning with the person who was about to dump their boyfriend, meeting them with this high level of energy—which I would say most bosses would define as good customer service—was not appropriate in that situation. So how do we think about service as a circular, holistic experience between you and the customer?
Because you're part of it too. You're 50% of it. So how do you bring yourself into a situation that feels organic and true and real, but still provide good service? Like I said, those are not mutually exclusive things. As I read your blog, that's what I think more and more about. We're trained to think, “Oh, always put a smile on and the customer's always right.” It's like, no, that's bad. That's not good. That's not sustainable.
Brittany: I think what gets lost in the customer service mentality is that not only is the customer human and they're allowed to kind of get angry or sad or whatever, but we're human too. And we are at a job. We can still maintain that professional integrity and that professional standard, but we're also human. There are going to be days when we're not feeling it.
I've definitely had customers be like, “Hey, how's it going, Britt?” And I'm like, “You know, I'm not really having such a good day, but I'm here at work and making lattes,” and usually customers pick up on that and it's not necessarily a downer like, “Oh, well I'm not going to tip them because they were having a bad day.”
Instead, they're like, “Oh, I'm so sorry to hear about that. I hope it gets better. Thanks for my latte.” Even just seeing each other at that point and being seen like that—it's okay, you're human. We can both have bad days, and it’s really validating and it makes it so that I'm not just putting on this mask all the time.
Ashley: This is the part of the interview where I'm going to ask you some meta questions and they might be weird, but whatever, let's go for it.
So I write a lot too. And I often think about why I write—what the point of writing is for me. I read this quote once by Anaïs Nin, who wrote a lot of erotica. I'm not 100% sure if it's from her, but I think one time she wrote, “I write not to capture something, but I write not to forget it.” [Ashley note: The quote is, “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”]
The idea is that I'm not writing to generate new stuff. I'm writing to remember what's happening to me. I wonder as you're writing, what kind of thoughts come into your mind? What are you thinking about as you're sitting down and writing down an article or a story idea, or even the sci-fi/fantasy writing that you do—those are not the same. I know that I made a faux pas there. But how do you feel writing generates your soul? I think for me writing is all about remembering.
Brittany: I went to a writing workshop for a poet named Arielle Estoria and she actually summed it up really well. How she feels about writing is she writes down everything on the page to help heal herself and to put everything that she's feeling down on a page and sort through it in her own mind. And then she gives it to people. She shares her writing to heal, to help other people heal. Once it's released, it's not hers anymore.
Her healing has already been done in the act of writing. And ever since I heard that, I'm like, “Yes, that is exactly how I feel,” because there were so many times where, whether it's writing that I'm going to publish, writing that I'm working on, or just writing [because] I don't know how to process this situation, I'm going to write down all of my feelings that like, I need to just write it out.
I express myself so much better in writing than I do talking to people. Or like when I internalize it, it can all kind of get jumbled and lost. But when I write it down, it just makes so much more sense. It's exactly what I'm feeling. And I just feel better. It's a sigh of relief once I write it that then when I'm sharing it, I still have that insecurity that I think all writers have of like, “Oh, will people like it?” But at that point, it doesn't really feel like mine anymore. It's like, “Okay, I wrote it. I had all the feelings about it then, and now it's for other people.”
Ashley: I love that. I'm going to have to look up that author that you mentioned.
Something else that you do a lot on your blog is that you interview people a fair amount. I was wondering how you approach not getting information from people, but how do you approach an interview where you're trying to find out something new or different from somebody—maybe something that they've never said out loud, or something that they didn't even know that they thought until they said it out loud? Have you ever had moments like that?
Brittany: I, for the most part, I have taken journalism classes and I've kind of learned how to interview people. I really hate “how to interview people,” how you're taught in college or how you're taught through journalism, and I think some of the best interviews come from just having an honest conversation.
As I dove into the coffee industry, I realized that there were so many fascinating people that I was just like, “I want to be their friend. I want to talk to them. I want to find out what makes them tick.” And so at the beginning of the Black Lives Matter protests last year—I wasn't working in coffee, but I still wanted to connect with other coffee people. I realized there were people that were combining their love of coffee with their activism, and so it was just like, “Hey, I want to interview you. But I also just want to talk to you. What are you doing? How are you as a person combining these loves, because I just find that amazing?”
I just think that the best revelations come from talking to other people and having conversations and letting them talk, say who they are.
Ashley: There's something very generative about you—which is not a word that I think one could use as an adjective, but I'm going to go with it. I actually wrote this quote down from one of your articles. You wrote “Everything you do is better than what you didn't do.”
That seems to be true in a lot of the work that you do. You seem to be the type of person, again—this is where I get meta and try to analyze people—but it seems you're a person who tries things and you're like, “Let me just try and see what happens.”
And I admire that so much because it's so easy to get in your own way, but there's not a lot of risks sometimes. Like, “I'm going to make a cooking blog. And I only do two blog posts, and then I don't do it again, like so what?”
Brittany: Yeah. I have all these ideas that I'm going to go for it. I'm going to do it. Because I'm so excited about it. Sometimes they just don't work and I'm like, “Okay, that didn't work out, but it's fine because I have this other idea, right?” So I always have more and more ideas.
I've learned very quickly that it's okay, the worst that can happen is that it didn't work out. I have this other thing: Sometimes I worry that I'll run out of ideas, especially with my fiction writing, but then a month or so goes by. And I'm like, “Oh, but what about this? I could write a story about this. I could write an article about this.”
Ashley: One really wonderful thing that I love about your blog is that you'll have these very serious, very important blog posts. And then in the middle, you'll have these amazing brew recipes, but then you also have these fun, ridiculous experiments. How many pour overs can you stack on top of each other and still make coffee?
I was wondering if you have any fun experiments in the offing, anything you're coming up with soon?
Brittany: I'm actually working on a little coffee booklet where like, okay, so you're making coffee in the morning. You're tired. You don't really look at your grinder and you grind it on the wrong setting. I feel like so many people are like, “Oh, well crap. I just ground for a French press when I was trying to make espresso,” that I'm trying to make a booklet where it describes how to make coffee with different brewers on the wrong grind settings so you don't waste coffee.
I've been brewing V60s with French press ground coffee. And it's really interesting to have multiple filters or controlled channeling or really low temperatures or really high temperatures, because it really messes with your brain. Because in the coffee industry, we talk about like, “Okay, you have your three pours, you have your 30-second bloom. This is the grind setting for this brewer.”
But what if we could own it—like, we couldn't change the grind size and we still had to brew coffee? How do you make a somewhat decent cup of coffee? So you don't waste it?
Ashley: I love that. I can't wait until that comes out. Before we close out, is there anything that you would want people to know about you?
Brittany: You can find me on Instagram where I typically talk about not only just coffee and my love for coffee, but I talk a lot about my own issues with mental health, with being disabled. That's kind of how I live my life.
I'm also incredibly nerdy, so it doesn't really come up a lot on Instagram or in my coffee relationships. But when people actually meet me in person, they're like, “Oh wow, you love Dr. Who and Lord Of The Rings and Star Wars and all of these nerdy things. Wow. You’re a huge nerd.”
I'm like, “Yes.”
Ashley: I also love that you mentioned your fun glasses because they are very fun. I was wondering if you could describe them to our listeners.
Brittany: I have two main pairs of glasses that I wear. One is pentagon-shaped and they have little jester hands that hold the glasses frames in place. They have pearls for nose pads. Then I have another pair that are basically the Bi-Pride flag. The edges are purple, the inside are pink and where my nose goes is blue. They're very sparkly and fun. I love expressing myself through really fun glasses.
Ashley: That's delightful. Well, Brittany, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with me. I really appreciate it.
Brittany: Yeah. Thank you for having me.
This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.
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Foster City officials are facing severe backlash after approving a plan to kill geese that have overrun the city's parks and lagoon. Officials believe around 380 geese are causing sanitary issues in the Peninsula city, with the worst area appearing to be Marlin Park. The population has been steadily growing, with about 180 geese counted in 2020. The main problem is the goose droppings contaminating waterways with elevated amounts of bacteria, which affects other birds sharing the water. The goose droppings are also considered a public nuisance to humans and pets.
Foster City approved a plan last week to kill at least 100 geese while also using a variety of non-lethal alternatives to drive them away or limit their reproduction. Local activists are upset at the decision, especially because of the method proposed to carry out the deadly force. According to the SF Chronicle, “a private company would use ‘spinal dislocation’ as a method to cull the geese. This method includes pulling the neck to sever the spine.”
At a city council meeting this week, the animal rights group In Defense of Animals issued a symbolic ‘gander slander’ citation to city leaders, claiming that the lethal method won’t control the population. “Foster City’s decision to break the necks of up to 100 geese is despicable, and it won’t work. New geese will be attracted to plentiful resources in the area, and the killing cycle will start all over again. Nonlethal goose stewardship practices are available now, but the Council of Foster City chose to kill innocent animals instead,” the group said in a statement obtained by the Mercury News.
The Chronicle reports that Foster City has already tried to get rid of the geese through “dog hazing, strobe lights, egg addling, fence barriers, and goose deterrents.” This follows on some similar humane methods for handling geese that are being undertaken in Santa Clara, as Hoodline earlier reported.
Officials now plan on exploring other non-lethal possibilities and landscape modifications while they get the permits needed to use lethal methods from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Many residents of the city are hoping that lethal techniques will be avoided. "They have to control that in a different way, not by killing the geese. They are as much part of the environment and earth as we are. I'm very angry about this decision," Foster City resident Kallol Das told ABC 7.
There’s no word yet when this would all start. Foster City still must find a contractor to carry out the depredation plan for the geese. Once they find a contractor, they must be approved by the City Council for the plan to move forward.
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The deep and mystical allure of fishing has been with me since I can remember. I’ve loved the mere presence of the ocean — I could stare at for hours, and be nurtured by it, and calmed by it. And as I watch it form the sore, or a balcony, or a bridge, I’m always tantalized by the possibility that at any moment I might see something — a dolphin surfacing, a pelican diving, baitfish chopping up the surface as something larger chases them beneath the surface. It’s calming and exciting at the same time — and never boring. My one constant dream since early childhood is to one day live “on the water”, with a daily view of all of the beauty and changeability and abundance that the sea represents for me.
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Here is my sincere description of what’s in it, based on actually reading it, carefully, from start to finish.
VOLUME I: RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE AND THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN
Russian Interference was “sweeping and systematic”
First, and most importantly, “The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.” There were two components — the social media campaign and the hacking-and-release campaign. The Russian campaign began in 2014 as an effort to simply fan the flames of polarization and discord, but over time evolved into support of Trump.
The FBI Investigation into Russian interference and involvement with the Trump began with a report from a foreign government, not the Steele Dossier.
The investigation into the Trump campaign began in July 2016 based on a report from a “foreign government” about a meeting in May 2016 in which Trump campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos told Professor George Mifsud that the Russian government had Hillary Clinton’s emails. This was before anyone in the US Government had seen the so-called “Steele Dossier.” The report states: “Papadopoulos had suggested to a representative of that foreign government that the Trump Campaign had received indications from the Russian government that it could assist the Campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. That information prompted the FBI on July 31, 2016, to open an investigation into whether individuals associated with the Trump Campaign were coordinating with the Russian government in its interference activities.”
The Trump Campaign had many links to the Russians.
The report documents over 100 meetings between Trump campaign officials and the Russians. That’s about 100 more than would be “normal” in any other campaign. That said, the context of this campaign was different — i.e. Trump was a businessman who had long ties to Russia, so some degree of contact might be understandable. But the number of meetings with Russians, and the number of people in Trump’s orbit who had meetings with Russians, and the degree to which those people tried to hide the meetings, was extraordinary.
The Russian Government and the Trump Campaign had the same goal — defeat Hillary Clinton and get Donald Trump elected.
The many meetings between Trump campaign personalities and Russian government represented took place within the context of shared objectives (to help Trump defeat Hillary) and a belief that Russia could help the Trump campaign achieve his objective. Russian help was appreciated and desired.
For the collusive Actions of the Trump Campaign to be chargeable as conspiracy, a “high bar” must be cleared.
The report reminds that “collusion” is not a crime — and thus the crimes that they were looking at were conspiracy, campaign finance violations, failure to register as a foreign agent, and lying to cover up unsavory contacts. The report makes the point that in all cases, the “bar” was high because of the way the laws are written. In particular the “scienter” element was a problem — scienter meaning prosecution would have to show that the actions were “knowing and willful.” There was concern that in many cases the individual in question did not know the law, and many of the laws require knowledge in order for intent to be proven — and without establishing intent, the prosecution would fail. For campaign finance violations, there was concern about the “thing of value” dimension to what was being offered — would it prove substantial enough to hold up in court as a felony? In all cases, Mueller was guided by Justice Department prosecution standards that require he have a “high probability” of success.
The Inquiry Was Hampered by Deceitful Behavior by Many Trump Campaign Individuals
The inquiry did the best it could, but was faced with repeated efforts by Trump and Trump allies to obfuscate and frustrate the investigation. In addition to lying (some of which resulted in prosecutions and some did not), individuals: “deleted relevant communications or communicated during the relevant period using applications that feature encryption or that do not provide for long-term retention of data or communications records. In such cases , the Office was not able to corroborate witness statements through comparison to contemporaneous communications or fully question witnesses about statements that appeared inconsistent with other known facts. Accordingly, while this report embodies factual and legal determinations that the Office believes to be accurate and complete to the greatest extent possible, given these identified gaps, the Office cannot rule out the possibility that the unavailable information would shed additional light on (or cast in a new light) the events described in the report.” All of that amounts to a big asterisk, that the investigation may not have gotten to the actual bottom of the situation.
In sum, Trump Campaign Officials cooperated with Russia toward a shared goal, but did not “coordinate or conspire” sufficiently to meet the standards used by DOJ in deciding to prosecute.
The report details the many contacts, the shared objectives, the deceitful behavior toward investigators, but in the end concludes that the high standard the DOJ uses for making prosecution decisions, no prosecution would have the high probability of success that the DOJ requires, and so no charges were brought. A key consideration was the need to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the charged individual “knowingly and willfully” violated a law about which they were knowledgable and aware. Mueller made he judgment that successful prosecution was, in essence, a 50-50 proposiion, and DOJ standards require a 90% probability of success. Hence, although the report documented a wide range of deceitful, inappropriate behavior, no charges were brought.
VOLUME II: INVESTIGATING OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE BY PRESIDENT TRUMP
Mueller accepted the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel position that a sitting President cannot be charged.
At the very beginning of this part of the report, Mueller says he is an employee of the DOJ and the DOJ has taken the position in a memo from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) that a sitting president cannot be charged. Therefore the investigation of obstruction will NOT attempt to determine yes/no, prosecute or not, but rather will conduct ” a thorough factual investigation in order to preserve the evidence when memories were fresh and documentary materials were available.” He explains that while the OLC memo precludes prosecution, it does not preclude investigation, and further, once out of office a President can be charged. So the purpose of the investigation is to find the facts, report them, and save evidence so that options such as impeachment or indicting after Trump is out of office, are preserved.
Mueller expects Congress to review the report and make its own decision about impeachment proceedings.
In various ways, the report signals that it is intended to support “constitutional processes for addressing presidential misconduct” — which refers to impeachment. It repeatedly makes clear that Congress is expected to review the findings and if further action is appropriate, it is up to Congress to take it. At no point does the report indicate any expectation that the attorney general will make such determination. “Constitutional processes” and “separation of powers” and “checks and balances” are referred to repeatedly — all pointing in the direction of Congress holding the power to make a decision about further action.
If the investigation had exonerated the President, it would say so. It doesn’t.
In one of the most widely quoted portions of the report, it makes clear that if the fact-finding had exonerated the President, the report would so state. It doesn’t. The full passage is: “if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice , we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards , however , we are unable to reach that judgment. The evidence we obtained about the President ‘s actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
Presidential conduct is examined in detail and analyzed against the “elements” of “Obstruction of Justice.”
To prove a crime occurred, the “elements” of that crime must be shown. So in each of the ten categories of presidential conduct that were examined for evidence of Obstruction, the conduct was first presented factually, then was analyzed in light of he elements of obstruction. Keep in mind — it was stated at the outset that no conclusion would be drawn. Rather the “format” of the report was to find the facts, then compare those facts to the elements of obstruction, then leave it up to Congress.
The report examines ten categories of action by Trump that raise concerns of obstruction.
The examples examined included basically all the things we’ve been hearing about in the media for two years — trying to get Comey to go easy on Flynn, firing Comey, trying to get McGahn to fire Mueller, etc. It also includes some we hadn’t heard about — notably an effort to get Corey Lewandowski, who was no longer part of the administration, to carry a message to Jeff Sessions to get Sessions to unrecuse himself and then redirect the Mueller investigation to only investigate future acts of Russian interference.
In each and every case, at the end of the presentation of facts, the report analyzes those facts as to whether or no they meet the “elements” of obstruction. In virtually every case, the analysis shows how those elements of obstruction have been met. The report states: “Three basic elements are common to most of the relevant obstruction statutes: ( 1) an obstructive act; (2) a nexus between the obstructive act and an official proceeding; and (3) a corrupt intent.” In most cases, the three elements are met to a great degree.
The report analyzes the argument, put forward by the President’s lawyers, that firing Comey (or anyone) cannot be obstruction.
The report also notes and acknowledges the defense argument that when the President takes a legal act such as firing someone under his authority, he is exercising “Article II” authority as President, and exercising such authority cannot be, according to the President’s lawyers, an act of obstruction. The report acnkowledges that this is an argument, and takes a long and detailed look at it. It finds that if the firing is done for corrupt purposes, then it can be obstruction, but acknowledges that this would be an area of contention in legal proceeding. but notes: “The obstruction statutes thus would restrict presidential action only by prohibiting the President from acting to obstruct official proceedings for the improper purpose of protecting his own interests.”
The President tried to obstruct, but was frustrated when subordinates refused his orders.
The report cites example after example of the President trying to obstruct the investigation by ordering subordinates to take obstructive actions-but the subordinates refused. McGahn refused to fire Mueller; Lewandowski failed to take the message to Sessions; Reince Priebus, Hope Hicks, all refused orders that were obstructive.
The Final conclusion of the obstruction section clearly does not exonerate the President.
The final paragraph of the report is: ” Because we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment, we did not draw ultimate conclusions about the President ‘ s conduct. The evidence we obtained about the President’s actions and intent presents difficult issues that would need to be resolved if we were making a traditional prosecutorial judgment. At the same time , if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.
MY COMMENTS ON THE REPORT
Balance, Probity, and Sober Analysis
First of all, it was a pleasure to read something as carefully and thoroughly researched, investigated, and analyzed as this. It is hard to believe that a rational person could actually read the report and not conclude that it was undertaken fairly, without a partisan bias. Already we know that partisans, starting with the President himself, are claiming otherwise–but the report itself is an example of balance, probity, and sober analysis.
The report exposes the shallowness of much of the “legal analysis” we get on television.
One thing the report exposes is the shallowness of most of the “legal analysis” we are subjected to on cable news and elsewhere. The depth and quality of the legal analysis of, for example, what it would take to achieve a conviction for conspiracy with the Russians, is significantly more detailed and nuanced than what we were getting from the pundits. The same is true for the analysis of obstruction. This analysis — particularly in the “collusion” area — among other things illuminates the inadequacies of current laws in an age of social media and instantaneous global communication. A key takeaway is that bad behavior occurred on the part of Americans that contributed to the compromise of our electoral process — but the laws as written are not adequate to curtail this behavior.
The report exposes Attorney General Barr as a political operative.
No rational person could read the entire report and conclude that Attorney General Barr’s four page letter, or his press conference recitation, were a fair presentation of the contents of the report. He clearly assumed the role of partisan political operative. That’s really indisputable at this point. He directly lied about what the report found about obstruction, claiming that Mueller was unable to reach a conclusion because the facts left him unable to do so, when it is clearly and unequivocally stated in the report that he never even attempted to reach a conclusion, but rather limited what he did based up on the OLC memo. Barr knew this and his misrepresentation is nothing short of breathtaking. It’s as if he didn’t care that people were going to read the report and see, clearly, that he had lied — because he knew that what he said would be what was reported on Fox News, etc, and it was what the President wanted, and that was what mattered. That is the calculation of a political operative.
How much can one man lie?
I am left wondering how much one man can lie and get away with it. The report exposes Trump’s deceitful nature on virtually every level imaginable. Whether it is responding to a question “did you insruct McGahn to fire Mueller” with “fake news”, or surreptitiously choosing a then private citizen (Lewandowski) to carry backchannel messages to Sessios, Trump systematically is shown to engage in blatant lying. This of course is not news …. it has been “in the news” throughout his Presidency. But seeing it on the pages of this authoritative, investigative report is sobering, and leaves me wondering how anyone could actually read this and come away from it with a positive impression of the President.
What About Impeachment?
There is no doubt whatsoever that the report provides a “road map” for impeachment. It’s all there. The question is — is the evidence so compelling that impeachment must be undertaken as a moral imperative in order to protect the office of the presidency and the integrity of our institutions, even if undertaking impeachment is ultimately politically damaging? Or, alternatively, does the report leave us in a gray area where yes, impeachment is justified, but it is not absolutely required, and the political calculation that a failed impeachment bid by the dems will hurt their chances in 2020 should be a major consideration.
I’m still mulling this. Principles are important, and those who today, like Elizabeth Warren, are claiming impeachment is a must as a matter of principle, have a point. But so too do those, like Nancy Pelosi, who say it’s not worth it, and the election is just around he corner, keep your eye on the ball, dems.
At this point, I come down slightly on the side of Pelosi, and I mean slightly — as in 52-48 or thereabouts. It wouldn’t take much to move me to the other side of this divide. What shades me on the side of “move on” is that I fear the damage done by this President to the country is so great, and will be so much greater if he gets four more years, that the strategic imperative is to end Trump’s era in office, and the more the focus is on the election that is fast upon us, the more likely a dem win in 2020. If instead the national focus is on the psychodrama of impeachment, I fear it will erode dem prospects in the election. And winning the election in 2020 is the overarching imperative, at least for me.
America’s official involvement in the Philippines began in 1898 when Commoodore (soon to be Admiral) Dewey sailed the Asiatic squadron from Hong Kong and defeated the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. With the help of Filipino revolutionaries who fully expected to be granted independence, , the Americans succeeded in ousting Spain — but after doing that, rather than give the country its freedom, America took the Philippines as a colony. The Philippine-American War ensued, followed by fifty years of American colonial rule of the Philippines.
For me, it is difficult to find any American “heroes” emerging from this. But there is one: James H. Blount.
Blout had a unique perspective. He fought against Spain in Cuba in 1898 , then was transferred to the Philppines where he saw combat as an Army officer from 1899-1901. He was one of five American Army officers who were asked by Governor Taft to resign their commissions in order that they may accept civil position in America’s colonial administration in the Philippines. He was appointed a judge, eventually trying cases through Mindanao and the Visayas. He became intimately acquainted with the Philippines, and came to believe that the Filipinos were deprived unjustly of the liberty that had already won. He returned to the US in 1905 and became a leading voice in Anti-Imperialist Circles, giving speeches and lectures and writing articles all of which were focused on calling attention to the injustice of America’s policy toward the Philippines, culminating in 1913 with the publication of “The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912”.
His introduction to his book says it all–and in a way, articulates not only what he set out to do with his book:
This book is an attempt, by one whose intimate acquaintance with two remotely separated peoples will be denied in no quarter, to interpret each to the other. . . .The task here undertaken is to make audible to a great free nation the voice of a weaker subject people who passionatelyy and rightly long also to be free, but whose longings have been systematically denied. . . . sometimes ignorantly, sometimes viciously, and always cruelly, on the wholly erroneous idea that where the end is benevelot, it justifies the means, regardless of the means necessary to the end.
“Occupation” begins at what is arguably the beginning of America’s adventure in the Philippines — with American Ambassador Spencer Pratt in Singapore in April 1898 at the time of the outbreak of war between America and Spain. Meticulously researched and vividly re-created, Blount recounts how Pratt approached Philippine leader Emilio Aguinaldo, then exiled in Singapore, and engineered for Aguinaldo to go to Hong Kong and present himself as an ally to Admiral James Dewey, who was then preparing to sail to Manila to confront the Spanish fleet. Blount is unequivocal in stating that Pratt absolutely did promise Philppine independence to Aguinaldo, doing so without authority and with the result that soon thereafter, Pratt was separated from the consular service and forced to retire.
Blount then traces Aguinaldo’s dealings with three crucial Americans: Dewey, and Generals Andersen, Merrit, and Otis. Out of these four relationships comes the most reasonable and balanced account I have ever read of just how it happened that America granted independence to Cuba but not the Philippines — yet gave Filipinos the clear impression that independence would indeed be forthcoming. My Filipino friends who think much about such things tend to simply believe that Dewey “lied through his teeth” to Aguinaldo, to gain the latter’s cooperation. Blount’s beat by beat explanation, coming from someone who is sympathetic to Filipino aspirations but also a good researcher and one who is aware of “the way things are” in the US Government — manages a compelling explanation for just how Dewey came to mislead Aguinaldo which has the ring of truth and reality.
One of the first points which Blount reminds us of is that Aguinaldo never met with Dewey in Hong Kong — he arrived the say after Dewey sailed, and came across from Hong Kong to the Philippines on the Mccullough, arranged by Pratt’s counterpart in Hong Kong, Consul Wildman, who like Pratt clearly led Aguinaldo to believe that Philppine independence was in the offing , as evidenced in a letter he wrote to Dewey in which he wrote:
Do not forget that the United States undertook this war for the sole purpose of relieving Cubans from the cruelties under which they were suffering, and not for the love of conquest of the hope of gain. They are actuated by precisely the same feelings for Filipinos.
General Andersen, one of the other interlocutors who would be implicated in misleading Aguinaldo, was quoted in 1900 in the Chicago Record as saying:
Every American citizen who came in contact with the Filipinos at the outset of the Spanish-American War, or any time within a few months after hostilities began, probably told those that he talked with that we intended to free them from Spanish oppression. The general expression was, “We intend to whip the Spaniards and set you free.”
One of the interesting aspects of Blount’s account is the degree to which it shed’s light on the state of Dewey’s likely knowledge, or lack of knowledge, about America’s ultimate policy toward the Philippines during the period between May 1, 1898, when he defeated the Spanish Armada in Manila Bay, and June 30th, when American ground forces finally arrived, bringing with them not only their military capacity but also news of the evolving view of the Philippines as seen by an America who had wandered into the Spanish American conflict without much thought about the Philippines–most of the focus being on Cuba.
As recently as December 1897 President McKinley had gone on record stating that war with Spain would never be fought with “forcible annexation” in mind: “That by our code of morality would be criminal.” And indeed the Teller Amendment, necessary to gain the vot in Congress necessary to authorize the war, explicitly stated that American could not take Cuba as a colony, but would instead grant independence. The Americans first present n the Philippines seem to have assumed that the Teller Amendment and statements of the “criminality” of forced annexation would apply — and thus freedom would be granted to the Philippines, same as Cuba.
Blount doesn’t give Dewey a “pass” on having contributed to the deception – rather he just provides the kind of intelligent context necessary to make the whole sorry episode understandable to anyone who cares to try and imagine how it actually went down.
Chapter after chapter, with great verve and not a little caustic wit, Blount recounts each of the beats of America’s historic involvement in the Philippines. He buttresses his own observations with extended quotations from the subsequent congressional testimony of Dewey and others, and puts a microsope onto the performance of a series of American military leaders, and then governors general, in the Philippines.
In the end, Blount throws his backing to the Mcall Resolution, which was then a proposal popular among anti-imperialists for an early grant of independence to the Philippines, coupled with guarantees that the Philippines would be “neutral” in a manner analagous to Switzerland (this to counter the argument that if America left, another great Power would move in and take over).
The McCall Resolution read:
declaring the purpose of the United States to recognize the independence of the Filipino people as soon as a stable government can be established, and requesting the President to open negotiations for the neutralization of the PHilippine Islands.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America: in Congress assembled:
That in accordance with the prinicples upon which this overnment is founded and which were again asseterd by it at the outbreak of the war with Spain, the United States delares that hte Filipino people of right ought to be free and independent.and announces its purpose to recognize their independene as soon as a stable government, republican in form, can be established by them and thereupon to transfer to such goeverment all its rigths in the Philippine Island s upon terms which shall be reasonable and just, and to leave soverignty and ctonrol of their country to the Fililpino people.
Resolved, That the Preisdent of the United States be, and he hereby is, requested to open negotiations with such foreign Powers as in his opinon would be parties to the compact for the neutralization fo the PHilippine Islands by international agreement.
That was 1913. In the end, it was 1946 before the Philippines would be released from the ‘claws of the eagle’ — but it is worth remembering that there were good Americans like Blount who “got it” long before the American government finally “let go” ….. they are worth remembering, as Blount is, for taking a stand that was less than popular, but which was right and consistent with the veryp rinciples on which America had been founded, and which its leaders seemed to forget.
It’s a great book and it’s free.
One headline reads: Trump’s Travel Ban Off to a Disturbing Start. Another: Refugees Detained, Legal Residents Blocked, as Trump’s Order is Implemented. As the reports come in of chaos around the world as legitimate visitors to the US, including students, scientists, green card holders, and vetted and approved immigrants, are barred from entry, — I just feel sick. When the “ban all Muslims” idea came up during the primaries, I spoke up. Now I have to speak up again. Because this us just the Muslim ban with window dressing to make is arguably (and probably not really) constitutional.
When this country was founded, those who decided to risk their lives did so not for a plot of land, not out of spite, they did it for certain ideals that became the moral foundation of what would become the United States of America. Ever since then, imperfect as the country often is, the United States of America (I am saying the long name for a reason) has stood for certain values. One of those values is tolerance of all religions. Another is that we are welcoming to immigrants and visitors. We proudly display the Statue of Liberty as if that is a value we believe in — not just the word “liberty” but the values on the inscription, you know, the whole “huddled masses yearning to be free” thing. America, warts and all, is a beacon.
Well, it’s one thing to have warts. It’s another to be consumed by cancer. This is cancer. It is eating away at the fabric of our nation, at our soul, at our conscience, at our core self. There is no indication whatsoever that this Executive Order is needed. Immigrants from these and other countries are not attacking us. America has not suffered an attack from visitors since 9/11, sixteen years ago. Our existing procedures are protecting us, so why this? If you’re an American living on American soil, you are more likely to be attacked by, as someone said, a “shark who won the lottery,” than by a terrorist from abroad.
And even if you can somehow twist the argument and say that this is somehow making us safer — at what damned price? Is being completely, totally, 1000% safe the only value that matters? What about being honorable? What about being just? What about sticking to the principles that have guided this nation for 200 years? Will you abandon all that … why…because you’re scared? The idea that nothing matters except being safe, and abandoning our principles in order to advance an agenda of eliminating even a demonstrably tiny (as in next to zero) risk, is utterly shameful.
For us to have elected someone this cowardly, this xenophobic — and for this sickening policy to actually have support, I feel nothing but shame and anger. Is this who we are, America? Really? Do we not realize that this is not defending us against terrorism, it’s attacking ourselves by attacking our values. Do we not realize that this policy is endangering our diplomats, endangering our military, endangering Americans abroad, far more than any imagined sense of security it is achieving at home.
Grow a pair, America.
UPDATE: There are demonstrations at many airports around the US; there are lawsuits being filed; there is what appears to be a powerful and growing surge of protest against this. That, at least, give me heart. That is America, not this cowardly policy.
Betty White through the years, in videos. Happy 95th!
Yesterday a former CIA colleague who rose to a very senior position at CIA and has spent forty years watching the Kremlin, the KGB, and the FSB reached out to me. He’s been reading what I and my Facebook “commentariat” have been saying of late, and felt compelled to offer some thoughts on the controversy that is bubbling over Russian hacking, the election of Trump, and the reality of what Putin is attempting to accomplish. He emphasized these are non-partisan thoughts,and I believe him. I don’t know what his politics are, but I’m confident his concerns transcend partisan thinking. He’s a genuinely patriotic American who devoted his life to service. He asked not to be named because he doesn’t normally engage in public discussion – but he has some important thoughts to share.
The Russian Hack is Nothing New
His first point: Let’s not lose sight of the fact that even if Russia hacked the election and influenced it, this is not the first time Russia or Russian intelligence has dipped deeply into US internal affairs and stirred the pot. It is well established that the KGB “Service A”, who were responsible for “active measures” ranging from disinformation all the way up to the occasional assassination, attempted to influence the civil rights movement in the United States, and the anti-Vietnam protest movement. Martin Luther King himself was a target, and when he frustrated the KGB by refusing to identify his movement with the international struggle against American imperialism, and instead identified it with the fulfillment of the American dream, they tried discredit him and replace him with someone more to their liking. (For details on Service A’s efforts with civil rights and Vietnam, I suggest you read The Sword and the Shield by Christopher Andrew and Vasil Mitrokhin, a KGB defector.)
What are Putin’s Objectives?
Consistently, the goal of Russian intelligence has been twofold: Internally, in America, it seeks to destabilize American society and governmental institutions, thereby making it more difficult to govern at home. A divided nation consumed with domestic unrest is less willing to pursue anti-Russian policies, whether during the Cold War or now. Further, and perhaps more importantly, a divided, struggling America cannot be perceived abroad as a “shining example of democracy” — a disrupted, chaotic America exposed America in the eyes of the world as a “fake democracy” which is in fact an unjust, hypocritical society and state not fit to “lead the free world”. Whether during Cold War times or today, Russian interests are helped when America stumbles and looks bad.
The Russian Election Hack Seen in Context
If you keep in mind the foregoing, it’s easy to see the Russian election hack in context. The intelligence community got it more or less right when it stated the goals were two-fold: first, to undermine American confidence in our democratic electoral process and; second, to undermine Clinton. But my friend makes an important distinction on this second point, and I think he’s right. He emphasizes that the Russians weren’t choosing sides so much as they were pursuing a plan to undermine either candidate when they became President:
The Russians certainly assumed Clinton was going to win the election, as did all other pundits in the U.S. from which the Russians were collecting intelligence. And while I have no doubt there was personal animosity between Putin and Clinton, the disinformation campaign had far greater goals than to address a personal grievance. They sought (and seek) to undermine the legitimacy of the U.S. President. They want to make it hard for the President, whoever it is, to govern; they want the President to have to govern a contentious, divided America; they want the world to see America as in chaos, and American democracy as in crisis, even illegitimate.
Treating Trump as Illegitimate Plays Into Putin’s Hands
For starters America must understand and acknowledge the competition that is being waged by Putin; the game that is being played; his objectives and his methods. He is actively working against stability in America and against American leadership in the world. This is not a partisan observation; it is objective fact. To be in denial about this is dangerous. We must understand what was one, and how. We must take appropriate action against Putin and further establish our defenses in the event of future action, which surely will occur.
But here’s the even more important point — the big takeaway from my old colleague: We can’t view our democracy or the results of the election as something other than legitimate. Russians have been probing our democracy and attempting to influence it for many years, and this election hack needs to be seen in that context. It’s yet another effort, the latest in a long line going back to the early years of the Cold War, and neither this hack nor any of the previous efforts can or should be seen as de-legitimizing American democracy. He writes:
The latest Russian initiative will only be successful if we allow it to be successful. . . .What can be done to resolve this issue and what do we do in the meantime? What we should not do is to characterize Trump’s victory as “illegitimate” due to Russian interference. Even as patriotic and heroic American like Congressman Lewis is unintentionally damaging America by doing this. By claiming Trump is illegitimate, he is fulfilling the objectives of the Russian disinformation campaign by undermining our electoral process, undermining the office and the person of the U.S. President, and delivering up to Russia just what Putin wants–a fractious, chaotic, dysfunctional vision of American democracy. Yes, the Russians influence the election, but does that make the President illegitimate? No. Would Congressman Lewis or the others calling Trump illegitimate characterize the civil rights movement as “illegitimate” because the KGB was in there mucking around with it? Or the Vietnam anti-war movement? I think not. Yes, there was Russian influence, but no, this did not render illegitimate those movements, nor should it render illegitimate the Trump Presidency. The Soviets/Russians have been involved in these types of activities for a long time and their actions should not automatically discredit their targets. . . . .The current path of political divisiveness, vitriol and hate are playing directly into Putin’s hands. Russia certainly initiated this latest round, but we should not enable their further success by behaving precisely the way they are trying to make us behave.
My Take on His Take
I think he’s gotten at something very important that I’ve been struggling to articulate. Because of the hyper-partisan nature of our current political culture, it seems that we have largely fallen into two warring camps on the issue of the Russian hack: Americans on the left claim it’s real, it happened, and because of it they push the agenda that Trump is not a legitimate President. And because it’s seen as a blatant attempt by the left not to address a genuine security concern, but rather to attack and delegitimize Trump as President, Americans on the right refuse to accept that it happened. And meanwhile we descend further into partisan chaos, which was the objective of Putin’s hack anyway.
Somehow we need to arrive at a place where we as a nation accept with clear-headed rationality that yes, Putin and Russia hacked and influenced the election — but this does NOT delegitimize the election of Trump any more than the KGB’s efforts to influence the civil rights or anti-war movements delegitimized those movements. Our democracy isn’t perfect; foreign influence can’t be completely rooted out; but we need to move forward with confidence in our institutions while learning from what happened and being more vigilant in the future.
Another old CIA colleague, not the one who wrote me yesterday, used to refer to our work “back in the day” with a wry, self-deprecating expression. At the end of the workday he would say: “Another day spent puttying the windows of democracy.” What just happened in the election suggests that a draft of cold Russian air got through the window, and some puttying indeed needs to be done — but the window is intact, and to suggest it’s broken hands Putin a victory he doesn’t deserve.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Russian influence operation against the American elections. I’ve read and reread the declassified report, and I’ve thought about it from the perspective of both an American observer in 2017 and the perspective of a former Cold War era intelligence officer. I’ve tried to digest all the inputs and come to some conclusions. This is my Sunday morning effort to articulate them.
What Putin Doesn’t Want
Putin is not a friend of the “American led liberal democratic world order.” He is not supportive of American interests as we have defined them since WWII. Fareed Zakaria traces Putin’s desire to disrupt this to the Arab spring, which seemed to presage a wave of democratic upheaval and caused him to feel threatened. I would trace it to at least the end of the Cold War and his perception that America took aggressive advantage by expanding NATO into the former Soviet sphere of influence, which he perceived a very threatening move. There are more reasons, but the bottom line is that Putin does not want a world order in which America and the Western democracies dominate and threaten to export and expand their “liberal democratic” world order. He is against that, and we should be aware of that as a starting point for interacting with him.
What Putin Does Want
In 2013 the chief of staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, wrote about responding to the Arab Spring and other democratic revolutions which were threats because when these revolutions happen, “a perfectly thriving state can, in a matter of months and even days, be transformed into an arena of fierce armed conflict, become a victim of foreign intervention, and sink into a web of chaos, humanitarian catastrophe, and civil war.” His article put forward the argument that Russia must develop the full arsenal of tools to discourage “Arab Spring” type democratically inspired uprisings — tools that ranged from special operations to information operations. Putin agreed with this assessment and continues to see it to be in Russia’s interests to keep future “Arab Spring” type democratic uprisings from happening. He prefers populism, nationalism, rather than a unified US led liberal democratic front.
As Molly McKee writes, what Putin wants is ” what the Kremlin calls a “multi-vector” foreign policy, undermining the strength of Western institutions by coalescing alternate — ideally temporary and limited — centers of power. Rather than a stable world order undergirded by the U.S. and its allies, the goal is an unstable new world order of “all against all.” The Kremlin has tried to accelerate this process by both inflaming crises that overwhelm the Western response (for example, the migration crisis in Europe, and the war in eastern Ukraine) and by showing superiority in ‘solving’ crises the West could not (for example, bombing Syria into submission, regardless of the cost, to show Russia can impose stability in the Middle East when the West cannot).” The important thing here is to understand that Putin is not our friend–he is at a minimum a proponent of a revised world order that takes America down several notches and ends the era of domination the US and NATO. This doesn’t make him an implacable enemy …. but neither is he what Trump seems to see him as — a “bro” just waiting to be shown a little respect, and he’ll be our pal. It’s more complicated than that.
How Putin is Trying to Achieve His Goals
Putin sees the achievement of his objectives not as something that can be negotiated or bargained — he sees it at minimum as a stern contest between nations, and arguably he sees it as a multidimensional non-linear war in which the war machine includes everything — military is part of it, but also all the other tools are in play — technology, cyber attacks, overt information operation, , diplomatic efforts, economic efforts, cultural — all of this must be orchestrated toward the strategic objective. Perhaps it’s good to think of this as “political warfare” — meaning combat which stops short of armed conflict but uses everything else in the arsenal to try to achieve the desired outcomes for the Kremlin. As McKew writes, oftentimes the goal can be as simple as replacing “Western-style democratic regimes with illiberal, populist, or nationalist ones.”
Against this background, the US election was a golden opportunity to undermine the whole concept of western democracy and show it not as a shining example of the way things should be — but instead, to highlight it as not really democratic, as hypocritical, as a sham, etc. And so the Kremlin undertook a full range of “political warfare” operations in support of the first objective, undermining the whole liberal democracy paradigm. Given this first objective, it can be argued that it did not originate as a partisan effort against Hillary — it was designed to chip away at America’s standing as the leading liberal democracy; to cast doubt on the legitimacy of American democracy; to diminish America in the eyes of the world; and to undermine American citizen’s own confidence in their core institutions. Trump unwittingly helped this effort with his claims, when he was behind in the polls, that the election was “rigged”, and his open call, joking or not, for the Kremlin to steal more emails. All of this chipped away at American trust in our institutions, and so was consistent with Kremlin objectives.
Now …. keep in mind that part of the Kremlin policy is to pursue “illiberal, populist, or nationalist” outcomes in elections in the west, rather than the perpetuation of “Western-style democratic regimes.” Hillary was clearly the option in our election who would perpetuate western style democratic regimes and the “US led liberal democratic world order”. Putin didn’t want this. Trump was “illiberal, populist, nationalist.” Trump thus fit the mold of the kind of populist leader that the Kremlin wants to see come to power in as many places as possible. It is strategically consistent for the Kremlin to prefer Trump — and it took actions that supported that, not as some sort of wild-ass decision to take sides in the US election, but rather as an extension and a continuation of its strategic approach to the whole situation in the world.
So actions were taken that attacked our democracy in general, and which secondarily supported Trump vs Clinton.
Many of those actions fell within the acceptable spectrum of international give and take between nations. After all, a US election affects every nation on earth. Every nation, every citizen on earth, has reason and right to voice an opinion. So some of Russia’s efforts were “business as usual.” Russia’s development of its RT Network as a powerful internet mouthpiece is “within the rules” of acceptable international norms of behavior. So to are the use of all the overtly pro-Russian bloggers and talking heads, pushing a line that the Kremlin wants pushed.
But the effort included some actions that are perceived by most American leaders, including Republicans, as having “crossed the line” from acceptable international propaganda efforts to unacceptable hostile actions that reached deeply into internal US processes — a “hidden hand” seeking to achieve a partisan outcome in the US election. This category of actions that “crossed the line” of acceptability includes the publication by the Kremlin via its ally Wikileaks of the Podesta emails; the creation and promulgation of “fake news” using advanced social media techniques to cause the fake news to go viral; the use of an army of undeclared paid “trolls”, frequently posing as Americans, to amplify the impact of fake news and to further the strategic messaging objectives. All of these are similar to techniques used during the Cold War — but they are made infinitely more effective and powerful by the technology of social media, and so in 2017, the Russian efforts had a far greater impact than similar efforts in the Cold War did. And it is because the actions a) crossed a perceived line, and b) resulted in literally billions of individual “impressions” being made on the minds of voters, that it became such a big deal in the minds of so many. It was not only blatant “poltiical warfare” that break the norms of accepted behavior — it was damned effective in the the first election in US history where more news “impressions” were made via social media than via traditional media. And so you have, today, everyone from Obama to McCain and Lindsey Graham railing against this crossing of the line, while Trump either denies it happened, or simply accepts it as the new normal.
Is this state of “political warfare” where all of these actions are pursued the new normal? Should it be? Or should a sovereign nation like the US say no, this goes too far, and if you are going to do this, then we will retaliate? Many feel that it does go too far, that retaliation is appropriate and necessary. Some, and apparently Trump falls into this category, don’t see it as anything other than the new normal, to be accepted as part of the landscape.
What Does It Mean?
As a nation, we need to clearly understand the nature of the aggressive contest, if not a fullscale war, that is happening here. Does Trump fully understand it? Does Trump understand that Putin seeks a re-structuring of the world order that is very much against the world order that America and the western allies have been trying to develop since World War II. He is against the idea that western style democracy with America as the leading example of it, is “the answer” for nations across the globe.
Does Trump even favor the perpetuation of that “American led liberal democratic world order” that we have been working to build since WWII — or is he against it? His “America first” populism, his denigration of NATO and the UN, all of this suggests that he’s not really in favor it. But is this a truly carefully thought out position? Does he understand what will be lost if we let this slip away? Is it a position that Americans who voted for Trump truly want? Trump framed it as “America first” but what if that means abandoning the post WWII global structure in which America is first among a functioning coalition of western democracies? Is Trump ready to jettison that entire structure in favor if … what?
I worry that Trump has not thought deeply about any of this. I worry that he doesn’t fully understand the forces that are in play, or what the stakes are. At a minimum, I want Trump to grapple with and understand what Russia and Putin are actually trying to accomplish, and to arrive a true understanding of the competition, the contest, the “political war” that is happening. I don’t think he’s there yet.
Is that too much to ask?
Therapy exercise for the day:
Dear President Trump,
Since the travel ban was enacted last week, protests have erupted and the polarization of America has accelerated. Like many, I’ve been engaged in social media dialogue and debate about this, and in the course of that debate I’ve learned that there is a fundamental concept that seems to matter deeply to “our side” — and is lost on “your side.”
I want to try and explain it.
You say that the ban is to protect Americans and I accept that you’re sincere in that even though an argument (with which I agree) can be made that it has created a net loss in security by putting our Embassy staffers, our military, and our intelligence personnel at greater risk and by stimulating further recruitment of Isis.
But that’s not my point in writing you.
My point is this: The Radical Islamic Terrorists whom you seek to protect us from are attacking our society in two ways, and you are only considering one. The aspect of their attack that you are considering is the physical one — terrorists attack America and some of our citizens are injured or killed. You seem to believe that any measure that impedes such attacks and protects Americans from physical danger is worthwhile and justified.
But there is a second danger from the opposition and you are ignoring that. That second danger is not the physical attack — it is the attack on our values, our identity, and our way of life, and these are all things we must protect as vigorously as we protect our physical safety. Your calculus is that they only win when they launch a physical attack, and if such attack is thwarted they lose. But they also win even when they don’t successfully attack, if by their threat they cause us to abandon our principles, our core values, and our way of life. These are sacred and they must be protected just as vigorously as our physical well being is protected.
Will you protect these values?
A core value of America is that we are a country who is open, welcoming, hospitable to people of all races and especially all religions. There have been setbacks in the past when we faltered, but the greater arc of history can be seen evolving from the origins of America in flight from religious persecution, through the safeguards in the constitution, to the continued renewal of our country by wave after wave of immigrants who infuse a unique energy, entrepreneurism, and optimism into our culture. All of this makes America unique. We believe these values must be cherished and protected just as vigorously as our physical safety is protected.
When a security threat presents itself, we believe that your duty is not simply to enact any and every action that could possibly make us physically safer. We believe that your duty is to weigh both the physical threat, and the threat to our identity, values, and way of life. When you look at the threat as two-pronged, and you seek to protect both our lives and our way of life, the focus shifts.
We see the ban you have implemented as an overreaction to a threat that is already well managed with existing structures and procedures. We see it as an irrational and emotional reaction that fans our weakest instincts and only incrementally adds to our physical safety. Yet the cost of this incremental increase in physical safety is great; the cost is that it degrades us morally and damages the core values and fabric of our society in ways that far outweigh any slight improvement in our physical security.
Mr. President, America is more than a place, more than a community, even more than a nation — it is a unique repository of hopes, dreams, and ideals that were articulated by our founders and have been carried forward for two hundred years. You have been elected to be the keeper of that flame. Your desire to protect us physically is a good thing; but you must balance that desire to keep us safe with an equal desire to protect our way of life and our values and keep them safe too. We Americans are not cowards. We are willing to accept some risk to protect our way of life, especially when a leader steps forward an illuminates what is at stake, and why our physical well being is not all that is at risk.
I realize there is very little hope my words will reach you, but I had to try. It is in our American DNA for the country to be courageous, not timid. Inspire us and enable that courage to be shown, don’t stifle it by playing to our weakest nature.
Let us be patriots.
Michael Sellers and all who feel the same way.
For Americans of a certain age, December 7, 1941, will forever be, as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt labeled it — “a day that will live in infamy”. It was on that day, at 7:48 am, that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, in the process decimating the U.S. Pacific fleet and precipitating America’s entry into World War II. The attack on Pearl Harbor is rightly remembered as a devastating moment in American history. But forgotten in the retelling of Pearl Harbor is that the Japanese attack on that day was not limited to Hawaii. The Philippines — America’s only colony (also a forgotten fact)– also came under attack by the Japanese and the American air base at Clark Field was decimated. The story of the attack on the Philippines deserves to be remembered alongside Pearl Harbor.
The American Colony of the Philippines
In 1898 America declared war on Spain over human rights issues relating to Spain’s mistreatment of the inhabitants of Cuba, a Spanish colony on America’s doorstep. Cuban expatriots in the US fanned anti-Spanish fervor to the point that in America of 1898, sympathy for Cuban insurgents ran high — particularly so after the Spanish military commander Valeriano Weyler y Niclau instituted reconcentrado — the use of concentration camps — whereby Cuba’s rural population was forced into garrison towns. A series of events in 1898 — particularly the mysterious explosion and sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor — brought the calls for war to a crescendo.
Meanwhile, Spain held another colony, the Philippines, half a world away where many of the same policies were in effect, and where insurgents had been battling Spain for control of the islands for years.
America went to war with Spain and fought the war on two fronts — in Cuba, and in the Philippines. Commodore (soon to be Admiral) James Dewey and the American Asiatic Squadron defeated the Spanish Fleet in the Battle of Manila Bay, and at the successful conclusion of the brief war America gave Cuba its freedom, but took the Philippines as a colony. Philippine insurrectionists who had made common cause with America against Spain objected but to no avail. In February 1899 war broke out between the US and the Phililppines — a war that started as a conventional affair, and quickly devolved into a Vietnam-style insurgency. In 1901 the US declared military victory and began a period of civilian rule.
Douglas MacArthur and the Philippines
In 1903, the young Lt. Douglas MacArthur was ordered to the Philippines along with the 3rd Engineer Battalion. MacArthur was sent to Iloilo, and went on to conduct surveys in Tacloban City, Calbayog, and Cebu. The Philippines charmed MacArthur, who wrote, they “fastened me with a grip that never relaxed.”
MacArthur returned to the Philippines in October 1922, to assume command of the Military District of Manila. MacArthur’s friendships with Filipinos like Manuel Quezon offended some Americans who found MacArthur inadequately colonial in his behavior. In June 1923, MacArthur assumed command of the 23rd Infantry Brigade of the Philippine Division. In 1925, at the age of 44, he was promoted, becoming the Army’s youngest major general and returned to the US where in 1927 he assumed command of the Philippine Department and in subsequent years spent considerable time in the Philippines as part of his duties.
In 1935, as the Philippines achieved semi-independence, Philippine President Manuel Quezon called upon MacArthur to supervise the creation of a Philippine Army. MacArthur then took on a dual assignment as Field Marshal in command of the Philippine Army and as the Military Advisor to the Commonwealth Governmet of the Philippines. In 1937 MacArthur retired from the Army but remained in the Philippines. He ceased to represent the U.S. as military adviser to the government, but remained as Quezon’s adviser in a civilian capacity.
News of The Attack on Pearl Harbor Reaches the Philippines
On 26 July 1941 as war with Japan loomed, Roosevelt federalized the Philippine Army and recalled MacArthur, who had made his home in the Philippines, to active duty in the U.S. Army as a major general, appointing him as commander of the U.S. Army Forces in the Far East(USAFFE) — a joint American-Filipino force. MacArthur was in command of this force when the attack on Pearl Harbor came.
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor at 7:48am Hawaii time, which was 2:18 AM on the 8th in Manila. A Navy radioman in Manila heard news of the attack within 5 minutes after it began and passed it on to the officer of the day, who telephoned Admiral Hart in his hotel room at the Manila hotel at 3:00 AM.
An hour and a half later General George C. Marshall, USA Chief of Staff, sent a radiogram to MacArthur which was given to MacArthur at 5:30 AM. It stated: “hostilities between Japan and the United States … have commenced…. ”
At Clark Field, Base commanders received prompt notification and all units were placed on combat alert.” An Army history states “By breakfast, the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor had reached all ranks. The men had for so long accepted the fact that war with Japan might come that the event itself was an anticlimax. There was no cheering and no demonstration, but “a grim, thoughtful silence.”
The Japanese Attack
In spite of the activity noted above which began at 3:00 AM, at 11 in the morning all of the aircraft at Clark Air Base were on the ground. Military historians have long debated precisely what happened, and how it came to be that MacArthur’s air force was caught on the ground. But the reality is — the attack came, and the air assets at Clark Field were decimated.
At 11:27 A.M. radar in Iba, Zambales, on the west coast of Luzon, picked up a flight of aircraft over the Gulf of Lingayen north of Iba Point. The sighting was reported to Nichols Field (Villamor Air Base today). By 11:37, the report was teletyped to the 24th PG Headquarters at Clark Field. While this initial report is clear — what followed is not, and the trail of exactly who knew what, and when, is unclear.
It is certain, however that no American aircraft intercepted any Japanese aircraft.
Defeat in the Philippines
By the time the Japanese left an hour later, half the B-17s and one-third of the P-40s were destroyed, and two of the four P-40-equipped pursuit squadrons were eliminated as combat units.
On December 10, two days later, the Japanese bombed and strafed Nichols and Del Carmen Fields, leaving those bases in shambles and destroying about half the remaining P-40s and all but five P-35As.
So, only three days into the war, the Japanese had eliminated U.S. airpower in the Philippines.
Without a functioning air force, US and Phililppine troops defended against Japan, but ultimately the defense was unsuccessful. On April 9, 1942, the combined US and Philippine forces surrendered.
MacArthur escaped to Australia where he would be credited with masterminding the eventual defeat of the Japanese in the Pacific.
As Michael Gough writes: “The surrender of the Philippine Islands marked the largest surrender of U.S. troops and the largest loss of U.S. territory in history. It extended the reach of the Japanese Empire 1,000 miles into the Pacific, and the Naval Base at Cavite, near Manila, the excellent harbors on Manila Bay, and the American airfields were valuable additions to Japanese naval and military strength.”
But of course, the defeat at the beginning of the war was far from the whole story . . . .
As I watched the final night of the Republican convention, I experienced a weird emotional ride. First there was Ivanka Trump, undeniably intelligent, poised, articulate — and apparently compassionate, thoughtful, and “aware”. She did a spectacular job introducing Donald Trump — so spectacular that I was thoroughly softened up and open-minded to Trump as he took the stage. I would never vote for him, but maybe, just maybe, I could accept him without enormous angst. Ivanka pushed me that far.
Then Trump took the stage and ten minutes later I was feeling a sense of overwhelming despair that this man could rise to such a position in our country. I believe he will never become President, but he might, and if he does . . . But even if he never becomes President, the fact that he has secured the nomination of one of our two major parties is already beyond comprehension.
Fortunately for me — there is a voice out there that has articulated what I’m feeling, and it’s not a democratic voice. It belongs to Chris Ladd, lifelong active Republican party member, who blogs at GOPLifer.com. Ladd has just submitted his resignation letter to the Republican Party. You can read the entire letter here.
Meanwhile, here is the section of the letter that articulates precisely what I feel when I contemplate the Trump candidacy.
There is something darkly profound going on in America political life and discourse. The rise of Donald Trump is, I’m beginning to think, more than a political shift. It’s a deeper cultural and psychological shift that is the logical outcome of the polarization and gridlock that has gripped our democracy ever since the emergence of the Tea Party and quite possibly sooner than that. The truth is, there had to be payback from the people to those who govern when they let themselves get so mired in partisan polarities that they just stopped doing their damned jobs in any reasonable and productive way. Think about all those polls showing 10% approval rating for Congress. Trump is perceived as a kick-ass antitote to the foolish, selfish, stupidity that has resulted in what is widely perceived to be dysfunctional democracy. Trump is perceived as the anti-politics solution to Washington’s failure to deliver satisfaction to anyone, left or right.
Robert Reich has put a finger on it when he writes:
Anti-politics pits Washington insiders, corporate executives, bankers, and media moguls against a growing number of people who think the game is rigged against them. There’s no center, only hostility and suspicion. Americans who feel like they’re being screwed are attracted to an authoritarian bully – a strongman who will kick ass. The former reality TV star who repeatedly told contestants they were “fired!” appears tough and confrontational enough to take on powerful vested interests.
What’s going on is not so much political as it is psychological. People are so disgusted with the failure of political discourse and hence with politicians, that they are willing to overlook Trump’s many obvious flaws and just roll the dice and take a chance that he’ll get in there and kick enough ass to break up the gridlock and get things moving again. They’re willing to sacrifice some of their political ideology in favor of “let’s turn this guy loose and shake things up.”
The scariest part is not that this is just a unique phenemonon. Writing about democracy two thousand years ago, Plato (who was not a fan of democracy) foresaw the emergence of a demogogic strong man as the inevitable outcome of late stage democracy.
Reich point out that Trump’s recent rise in the polls from a 50-39 defict to a dead heat with Hillary Clinton in less than two weeks has happened at a time when “Trump has been the object of even more unfavorable press than he was before – about his treatment of women, his propensity to lie, his bizarre policy proposals. Before this came months of news coverage of his bigotry, megalomania, narcissism, xenophobia, refusals to condemn violence at his rallies, refusals to distance himself from white supremacists, and more lies.” Yet in spite of all of that — look what’s happening?
What will be the outcome in November?
I will say this.
Anyone attempting to project what will happen needs to be studying psychographics as much as demographics.
If you’re a democrat, the situation is not helped by the fact that the dem candidate is the ultimate insider, a poster icon of the entitled elite. She is the perfect foil for Trump. And he knows how to get the most out of Hillary as an opponent–how to use her to stoke the sense that the system is rigged, that it’s all about the elite and not about me.
Will America finally, at the eleventh hour, sober up and make a sober choice? Or will will the nation collectively cash in its 401k, buy a Harley, and take off into a brave and frightening new reality with Trump?
Dems be forewarned. Don’t think for a minute that he can’t win, because he can. America is just that pissed off, just that filled with rage.
Take a deep breath and get ready for the very real possibility of President Trump.
My all-time favorite movie is in the game for the 2016 election. Can’t stand Trump. Hate Hillary? Vote for President Merkin Muffley, played by my namesake, Peter Sellers . . . .who was Merkin Muffley. Where do I begin? Well, we’re talking about Dr. Strangelove (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) . . .
Well, I guess I should start with the trailer for anyone who isn’t familiar with this work of genius by Stanley Kubrick.
Here’s the short trailer — and remember this is 1964. Do you remember what 1964 trailers were like? Guarantee you – -they weren’t like this. Completely innovative.
And the second version is a fan remaster in HD which is beyoootiful.
Now then, Dmitri….
Now then, Dmitri, YOU know…how…we’ve alllways talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb. The bomb, Dmitri. The hydrogen bomb. Well now, what happened is…uh, one of our base commanders, he had a sort of…well, he went a little funny in the head. You know. Just a little…funny. And…uh, he went and did a silly thing! Well, I’ll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes…to attack your country. President Merkin Muffley
Who’s More Sorry?
Don’t say that you’re more sorry than I am, because I’m capable of being just as sorry as you are Dimitri. President Merkin Muffley.
Ten to twenty million killed, tops!
“Mr. President, I’m not saying we won’t get our hair mussed. I do say, no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops! Depending on the breaks.” General Buck Turgidson.
Survival Kit Contents
Survival kit contents check: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days’ concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, vitamin pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Sheet, a fella’ could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff. Major King Kong
Review by Simon Miraudo (a particularly perceptive review)
Stanley Kubrick‘s blistering Cold War satire Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb opened on January 29, 1964, simultaneously screening in New York, London, and Toronto. Despite there being no evidence to prove as much, I have a sneaking suspicion the usually-reasonable Canadian audiences enjoyed it most. In the States, at least, it was accused by some of being Soviet propaganda. There were also those who thought its premise was implausible at best and actively evil at worst. For Kubrick, who had previously unleashed Lolita on the world, and within the decade would begin work on A Clockwork Orange, this backlash probably seemed quaint. Strangelove was as close as he got to making ‘a lark’ – why was everyone freaking out?
Concerning a Yankee air force general going rogue and inciting a nuclear apocalypse while the President and his incompetent advisers fret about, basically achieving nothing, the flick is hardly an “Oo-rah!” celebration of American excellence. Based on Peter George’s novel Red Alert – as loosely as something can be while still being classified as an ‘adaptation’ – Kubrick’s grand farce stars Peter Sellers, offering up three gargantuan comic performances for the price of one: the diplomatic-to-a-fault President Merkin Muffley; the flustered RAF captain Lionel Mandrake, forced to negotiate with the crazed, nuke-firing Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden); and, of course, Dr. Strangelove, the wheelchair-bound ex-Nazi consultant to the President with a not-so-secret lust for nuclear winters.
Actually there are Endless Memorable Quotes
President Merkin Muffley: Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel… that Coca-Cola machine. I want you to shoot the lock off it. There may be some change in there.
Colonel “Bat” Guano: That’s private property.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel! Can you possibly imagine what is going to happen to you, your frame, outlook, way of life, and everything, when they learn that you have obstructed a telephone call to the President of the United States? Can you imagine? Shoot it off! Shoot! With a gun! That’s what the bullets are for, you twit!
Colonel “Bat” Guano: Okay. I’m gonna get your money for ya. But if you don’t get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what’s gonna happen to you?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: What?
Colonel “Bat” Guano: You’re gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.
General “Buck” Turgidson: Sir, you can’t let him in here. He’ll see everything. He’ll see the big board!
[the President calls the Soviet Premier]
President Merkin Muffley: [to Kissoff] Hello?… Uh… Hello D- uh hello Dmitri? Listen uh uh I can’t hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little?… Oh-ho, that’s much better… yeah… huh… yes… Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri… Clear and plain and coming through fine… I’m coming through fine, too, eh?… Good, then… well, then, as you say, we’re both coming through fine… Good… Well, it’s good that you’re fine and… and I’m fine… I agree with you, it’s great to be fine… a-ha-ha-ha-ha… Now then, Dmitri, you know how we’ve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the Bomb… The *Bomb*, Dmitri… The *hydrogen* bomb!… Well now, what happened is… ahm… one of our base commanders, he had a sort of… well, he went a little funny in the head… you know… just a little… funny. And, ah… he went and did a silly thing… Well, I’ll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes… to attack your country… Ah… Well, let me finish, Dmitri… Let me finish, Dmitri… Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?… Can you *imagine* how I feel about it, Dmitri?… Why do you think I’m calling you? Just to say hello?… *Of course* I like to speak to you!… *Of course* I like to say hello!… Not now, but anytime, Dmitri. I’m just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened… It’s a *friendly* call. Of course it’s a friendly call… Listen, if it wasn’t friendly… you probably wouldn’t have even got it… They will *not* reach their targets for at least another hour… I am… I am positive, Dmitri… Listen, I’ve been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick… Well, I’ll tell you. We’d like to give your air staff a complete run-down on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes… Yes! I mean i-i-i-if we’re unable to recall the planes, then… I’d say that, ah… well, ah… we’re just gonna have to help you destroy them, Dmitri… I know they’re our boys… All right, well listen now. Who should we call?… *Who* should we call, Dmitri? The… wha-whe, the People… you, sorry, you faded away there… The People’s Central Air Defense Headquarters… Where is that, Dmitri?… In Omsk… Right… Yes… Oh, you’ll call them first, will you?… Uh-huh… Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dmitri?… Whe-ah, what? I see, just ask for Omsk information… Ah-ah-eh-uhm-hm… I’m sorry, too, Dmitri… I’m very sorry… *All right*, you’re sorrier than I am, but I am as sorry as well… I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri! Don’t say that you’re more sorry than I am, because I’m capable of being just as sorry as you are… So we’re both sorry, all right?… All right.
Major T. J. “King” Kong: Survival kit contents check. In them you’ll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days’ concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella’ could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No, I don’t think I do, sir, no.
General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
General Jack D. Ripper: Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
General “Buck” Turgidson: Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!
[first title card]
Title Card: It is the stated position of the U.S. Air Force that their safeguards would prevent the occurrence of such events as are depicted in this film. Furthermore, it should be noted that none of the characters portrayed in this film are meant to represent any real persons living or dead.
[Strangelove’s plan for post-nuclear war survival involves living underground with a 10:1 female-to-male ratio]
General “Buck” Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn’t that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious… service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.
General “Buck” Turgidson: Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.
Major T. J. “King” Kong: Well, boys, we got three engines out, we got more holes in us than a horse trader’s mule, the radio is gone and we’re leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower why we’d need sleigh bells on this thing… but we got one little budge on them Rooskies. At this height why they might harpoon us but they dang sure ain’t gonna spot us on no radar screen!
Major T. J. “King” Kong: Well, boys, I reckon this is it – nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies. Now look, boys, I ain’t much of a hand at makin’ speeches, but I got a pretty fair idea that something doggone important is goin’ on back there. And I got a fair idea the kinda personal emotions that some of you fellas may be thinkin’. Heck, I reckon you wouldn’t even be human bein’s if you didn’t have some pretty strong personal feelin’s about nuclear combat. I want you to remember one thing, the folks back home is a-countin’ on you and by golly, we ain’t about to let ’em down. I tell you something else, if this thing turns out to be half as important as I figure it just might be, I’d say that you’re all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when this thing’s over with. That goes for ever’ last one of you regardless of your race, color or your creed. Now let’s get this thing on the hump – we got some flyin’ to do.
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk… ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children’s ice cream.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: [very nervous] Lord, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I… no, no. I don’t, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard-core Commie works.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Uh, Jack, Jack, listen… tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first… become… well, develop this theory?
General Jack D. Ripper: [somewhat embarassed] Well, I, uh… I… I… first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.
General Jack D. Ripper: Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue… a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I… I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.
General Jack D. Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh… women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh… I do not avoid women, Mandrake.
General Jack D. Ripper: But I… I do deny them my essence.
General “Buck” Turgidson: General Ripper called Strategic Air Command headquarters shortly after he issued the go code. I have a portion of the transcript of that conversation if you’d like me to to read it.
President Merkin Muffley: Read it!
General “Buck” Turgidson: Ahem… The Duty Officer asked General Ripper to confirm the fact that he *had* issued the go code, and he said, uh, “Yes gentlemen, they are on their way in, and no one can bring them back. For the sake of our country, and our way of life, I suggest you get the rest of SAC in after them. Otherwise, we will be totally destroyed by Red retaliation. Uh, my boys will give you the best kind of start, 1400 megatons worth, and you sure as hell won’t stop them now, uhuh. Uh, so let’s get going, there’s no other choice. God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural… fluids. God bless you all” and he hung up.
General “Buck” Turgidson: Uh, we’re, still trying to figure out the meaning of that last phrase, sir.
President Merkin Muffley: There’s nothing to figure out, General Turgidson. This man is obviously a psychotic.
General “Buck” Turgidson: We-he-ell, uh, I’d like to hold off judgement on a thing like that, sir, until all the facts are in.
President Merkin Muffley: General Turgidson! When you instituted the human reliability tests, you *assured* me there was *no* possibility of such a thing *ever* occurring!
General “Buck” Turgidson: Well, I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
[after learning of the Doomsday Machine]
President Merkin Muffley: But this is absolute madness, Ambassador! Why should you *build* such a thing?
Ambassador de Sadesky: There were those of us who fought against it, but in the end we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. At the same time our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. Our doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we had been spending on defense in a single year. The deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap.
President Merkin Muffley: This is preposterous. I’ve never approved of anything like that.
Ambassador de Sadesky: Our source was the New York Times.
General Jack D. Ripper: Were you ever a prisoner of war?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Well… yes I was, matter of fact, Jack. I was.
General Jack D. Ripper: Did they torture you?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Uh, yes they did. I was tortured by the Japanese. Jack, if you must know; not a pretty story.
General Jack D. Ripper: Well, what happened?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Oh, well, I don’t know, Jack, difficult to think of under these conditions; but, well… what happened was they got me on the old Rangoon-Ichinawa railway. I was laying train lines for the bloody Japanese puff-puff’s.
General Jack D. Ripper: No, I mean when they tortured you. Did you talk?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Ah, oh, no… well, I don’t think they wanted me to talk really. I don’t think they wanted me to say anything. It was just their way of having a bit of fun, the swines. Strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras.
President Merkin Muffley: You mean people could actually stay down there for a hundred years?
Dr. Strangelove: It would not be difficult, Mein Führer. Nuclear reactors could – heh, I’m sorry, Mr. President – nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely.
General “Buck” Turgidson: Hmm… Strangelove? What kind of a name is that? That ain’t no Kraut name is it, Stainesey?
Mr. Staines: He changed it when he became a citizen. Used to be Merkwürdigliebe.
[the German word for “Strangelove”]
General “Buck” Turgidson: Well, a Kraut by any other name, uh Stainesey?
General “Buck” Turgidson: Is that the Russian ambassador you’re talking about?
President Merkin Muffley: Yes it is, General.
General “Buck” Turgidson: A-A-Am I to understand the *Russian* ambassador is to be admitted entrance to th-the War Room?
President Merkin Muffley: That is correct, he is here on my orders.
General “Buck” Turgidson: I… I don’t know exactly how to put this, sir, but are you aware of what a serious breach of security that would be? I mean, he’ll see everything, he’ll… he’ll see the Big Board!
[Strangelove admits that he investigated making such a machine]
Dr. Strangelove: Based on the findings of the report, my conclusion was that this idea was not a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious.
General “Buck” Turgidson: Mr. President, if I may speak freely, the Russkie talks big, but frankly, we think he’s short of know how. I mean, you just can’t expect a bunch of ignorant peons to understand a machine like some of our boys. And that’s not meant as an insult, Mr. Ambassador, I mean, you take your average Russkie, we all know how much guts he’s got. Hell, lookit all them Nazis killed off and they still wouldn’t quit.
Sign: Peace is our Profession.
Miss Scott: It’s 3 o’clock in the morning!
General “Buck” Turgidson: Weh-heh-heh-ll, the Air Force never sleeps.
Miss Scott: Buck, honey, I’m not sleepy either…
General “Buck” Turgidson: I know how it is, baby. Tell you what you do: you just start your countdown, and old Bucky’ll be back here before you can say “Blast off!”
General “Buck” Turgidson: Mr. President, about, uh, 35 minutes ago, General Jack Ripper, the commanding general of, uh, Burpelson Air Force Base, issued an order to the 34 B-52’s of his Wing, which were airborne at the time as part of a special exercise we were holding called Operation Drop-Kick. Now, it appears that the order called for the planes to, uh, attack their targets inside Russia. The, uh, planes are fully armed with nuclear weapons with an average load of, um, 40 megatons each. Now, the central display of Russia will indicate the position of the planes. The triangles are their primary targets; the squares are their secondary targets. The aircraft will begin penetrating Russian radar cover within, uh, 25 minutes.
President Merkin Muffley: General Turgidson, I find this very difficult to understand. I was under the impression that I was the only one in authority to order the use of nuclear weapons.
General “Buck” Turgidson: That’s right, sir, you are the only person authorized to do so. And although I, uh, hate to judge before all the facts are in, it’s beginning to look like, uh, General Ripper exceeded his authority.
General “Buck” Turgidson: If the pilot’s good, see, I mean if he’s reeeally sharp, he can barrel that baby in so low… oh you oughta see it sometime. It’s a sight. A big plane like a ’52… varrrooom! Its jet exhaust… frying chickens in the barnyard!
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Do I look all rancid and clotted? You look at me, Jack. Eh? Look, eh? And I drink a lot of water, you know. I’m what you might call a water man, Jack – that’s what I am. And I can swear to you, my boy, swear to you, that there’s nothing wrong with my bodily fluids. Not a thing, Jackie.
President Merkin Muffley: And why haven’t you radioed the plans countermanding the go-code?
General “Buck” Turgidson: Well, I’m afraid we’re unable to communicate with any of the aircraft.
President Merkin Muffley: Why?
General “Buck” Turgidson: As you may recall, sir, one of the provisions of Plan ‘R’ provides that once the go-code is received, the normal SSB Radios in the aircraft are switched into a special coded device which I believe is designated as CRM-114. Now, in order to prevent the enemy from issuing fake or confusing orders, CRM-114 is designed not to receive at all – unless the message is preceded by the correct three-letter recall code group prefix.
President Merkin Muffley: Then do you mean to tell me, General Turgidson, that you will be unable to recall the aircraft?
General “Buck” Turgidson: That’s about the size of it. However, we are plowing through every possible three-letter combination of the code. But since there are 17,000 permutations… it’s going to take us about two-and-a-half days to transmit them all.
President Merkin Muffley: How soon did you say our planes will be entering Russian radar cover?
General “Buck” Turgidson: About 18 minutes from now, sir.
Major T. J. “King” Kong: Goldie, how many times have I told you guys that I don’t want no horsing around on the airplane?
Major T. J. “King” Kong: Well, I’ve been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that’s the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today’s codes?
General Jack D. Ripper: Your Commie has no regard for human life, not even his own. And for this reason, men, I want to impress upon you the need for extreme watchfulness. The enemy may come individually, or he may come in strength. He may even come in the uniform of our own troops. But however he comes, we must stop him. We must not allow him to gain entrance to this base. Now, I’m going to give you THREE SIMPLE rules: First, trust NO one, whatever his uniform or rank, unless he is known to you personally; Second, anyone or anything that approaches within 200 yards of the perimeter is to be FIRED UPON; Third, if in doubt, shoot first then ask questions afterward. I would sooner accept a few casualties through accidents rather losing the entire base and its personnel through carelessness. Any variation of these rules must come from me personally. Any variation on these rules must come from me personally. Now, men, in conclusion, I would like to say that, in the two years it has been my privilege to be your commanding officer, I have always expected the best from you, and you have never given me anything less than that. Today, the nation is counting on us. We’re not going to let them down. Good luck to you all.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Erm, what about the planes, sir? Surely we must issue the recall code immediately.
General Jack D. Ripper: Group Captain, the planes are not gonna be recalled. My attack orders have been issued, and the orders stand.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Well, if you’ll excuse me saying so, sir, that would be, to my way of thinking, rather… well, rather an odd way of looking at it. You see, if a Russian attack was in progress, we would certainly not be hearing civilian broadcast.
General Jack D. Ripper: Are you certain of that, Mandrake?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Oh, I’m absolutely positive about it.
General Jack D. Ripper: And what if it is true?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Well, I’m afraid I’m still not with you, sir, because, I mean, if a Russian attack was not in progress, then your use of Plan R – in fact, your order to the entire Wing… Oh. I would say, sir, that there were something dreadfully wrong somewhere.
General Jack D. Ripper: Now why don’t you just take it easy, Group Captain, and please make me a drink of grain alcohol and rainwater, and help yourself to whatever you’d like.
[Mandrake snaps to attention and salutes]
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: General Ripper, Sir, as an officer in Her Majesty’s Air Force, it is my clear duty, under the present circumstances, to issue the recall code, upon my own authority, and bring back the Wing. If you’ll excuse me, sir.
[He finds the doors locked]
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I’m afraid, sir, I must ask you for the key, and the recall code. Have you got them handy, sir?
[Turgidson advocates a further nuclear attack to prevent a Soviet response to Ripper’s attack]
General “Buck” Turgidson: Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now, truth is not always a pleasant thing. But it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless *distinguishable*, postwar environments: one where you got twenty million people killed, and the other where you got a hundred and fifty million people killed.
President Merkin Muffley: You’re talking about mass murder, General, not war!
General “Buck” Turgidson: Mr. President, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.
Major T. J. “King” Kong: Stay on the bomb run, boys! I’m gonna get them doors open if it harelips ever’body on Bear Creek!
[General Turgenson’s phone rings in the war room]
General “Buck” Turgidson: Hello…
General “Buck” Turgidson: I told you never to call me here, don’t you know where I am?… Well look, baby, I c-, I *can’t* talk to you now… my president needs me!… Of *course* Bucky’d rather be there with you!… Of *course* it isn’t only physical!… I deeply respect you as a human being… Some day I’m gonna make you *Mrs* Buck Turgidson!… Oh, listen uh, you go back to sleep hon, and Bucky’ll be back there just as soon as he can… All right… listen, sug, don’t forget to say your prayers!
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: [trying to pay for his phone call] Just one second, operator.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: They won’t accept the call. Have you got 55 cents?
Colonel “Bat” Guano: What, you don’t think I’d go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do you?
Ambassador de Sadesky: No, sir! It is not a thing a sane man would do. The doomsday machine is designed to to trigger itself automatically
President Merkin Muffley: But surely you can disarm it somehow
Ambassador de Sadesky: No, it is designed to explode if any attempt is ever made to untrigger it
General “Buck” Turgidson: It’s an obvious Commie trick, Mr. President. We are wasting valuable time! Look at the big board, they’re getting ready to clobber us!
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel! Colonel, I must know what you think has been going on here!
Colonel “Bat” Guano: You wanna know what I think?
Colonel “Bat” Guano: I think you’re some kind of deviated prevert. I think General Ripper found out about your preversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts. Now MOVE!
[discussing the Doomsday machine]
President Merkin Muffley: How is it possible for this thing to be triggered automatically and at the same time impossible to untrigger?
Dr. Strangelove: Mr. President, it is not only possible, it is essential. That is the whole idea of this machine, you know. Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy… the FEAR to attack. And so, because of the automated and irrevocable decision-making process which rules out human meddling, the Doomsday machine is terrifying and simple to understand… and completely credible and convincing.
General Jack D. Ripper: The base is being put on Condition Red. I want this flashed to all sections immediately.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Condition Red, sir, yes, jolly good idea. That keeps the men on their toes.
General Jack D. Ripper: Group Captain, I’m afraid this is not an exercise.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Not an exercise, sir?
General Jack D. Ripper: I shouldn’t tell you this, Mandrake, but you’re a good officer and you’ve a right to know. It looks like we’re in a shooting war.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Oh, hell. Are the Russians involved, sir?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: If you don’t put that gun away and stop this stupid nonsense, the court of Enquiry on this’ll give you such a pranging, you’ll be lucky if you end up wearing the uniform of a bloody toilet attendant.
Narrator: For more than a year, ominous rumors had been privately circulating among high-level Western leaders that the Soviet Union had been at work on what was darkly hinted to be the ultimate weapon: a doomsday device. Intelligence sources traced the site of the top secret Russian project to the perpetually fog-shrouded wasteland below the Arctic peaks of the Zhokhov Islands. What they were building or why it should be located in such a remote and desolate place no one could say.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Is it that bad, sir?
General Jack D. Ripper: Looks like it’s pretty hairy.
Ever since it became clear that Rodrigo Duterte was likely to win the Presidency in the PHilippines, I’ve been having a two track reactions. One one track, I’m excited to see someone who is definitely not “more of the same” take the reins in the rambunctious Philippines, and hopeful that intractable problems may actually seem less intractable with a forceful, dynamic leader at the helm. But on the other track is concern that democratic freedoms are about to be seriously eroded, or worse.
So I read the following with a certain sigh of relief:
“Maybe, when I sit as president, I will be asking, but I am not going to prosecute,” Duterte said. “I am not up to it, actually, going after political enemies,” he added.
The tough-talking mayor said that if the public wants to know about any transactions in government, he will order transparency. Duterte also assured the media that he can receive criticisms and won’t go after them. “Wala naman akong ginagawa sa kanila e so bakit sila magreklamo sa akin,” Duterte said when praised for handling the Mindanao media, which Soho raised as an example.
Very glad to hear this.
I have to confess, I’m struggling to figure out how I feel about the new President Elect of the Philippines, Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte. Western Media is calling him the “Trump of Asia” but that comparison only applies to his outspoken and sometimes outrageous statements. But the similarites end there. Duterte is a lawyer, a prosecutor, and for 23 years has served as the mayor of Davao, a tough town in the toughest part of a tough country. In terms of personal style — there is no comparison. Trump lives in billionaire splendor — and Duterte by all accounts lives humbly; Trump is brash and crude–while Duterte is that too — but increasingly I’m beginning to believe he’s also tough and shrewd. I worry whether he may have the capacity to to destroy Philippine democracy — yet I thrill at the thought he might finally give the long-suffering non-elite regular people of the Philippines the leader they deserve.
In short, I’m confused.
I decided to start maintaining what amounts to a file of interesting things that I come across regarding Duterte. This is the first installment of that file. It will include anything I find interesting — good, bad, neutral. I’m just going to shake the tree and see what falls out.
Communist Party of the Philippines Founder Joma Sison Was His Mentor
Anyone who was around in the 70’s and 80’s knows that Jose Mari Sison founded the Communist Party of the Philippines –and before that, Sison was a professor at Lyceum in Manila where one of his students in the lates sixties was Rodrigo Duterte. Sison now lives in exile in Utrecht in the Netherlands. He gave an interview to Khaleej Times in which has a message for foreign journalists which was this: You’re off base with the Trump comparisons, and what you may well have with Duterte is not the Trump of Asia — it could be the Hugo Chavez of Asia. Sison said:
“As a student, he was modest and laid back but he learned much. I am very proud to have a part in his political moulding against imperialism and the local oligarchs. . . . I hope that he will actually serve the Filipino people in their fight for national liberation, democracy, social justice, development. . . . . (Duterte) was my student in Political Thought at the Lyceum of the Philippines in the late 1960s. He became a member of the Kabataang Makabayan (patriotic Filipino youth group) . . . . Duterte became a landslide winner because he responded to the people’s clamour for change and became their voice to protest against the Aquino regime, its corruption and criminality, especially the widespread drug trade.
He has put the word out: Simple Vehicles for Cabinet Members, No Fancy Cars
PDI is reporting that Bong Go, Duterte’s executive assistant, said the presidential race front-runner scoffs at luxurious vehicles. He said Duterte uses a pickup, while his staff only have AUVs. “Si Mayor talaga, since first term, hindi talaga pumapayag sa luxurious vehicles,” (The may really, since his first term, did not permit luxurious vehicles.”) Go said. He is certain that Duterte will continue in this style and require his cabinet members to follow suit.
Duterte Wept When Visiting His Mother’s Grave After His Election
Human Rights Watch Calls Him the Death Squad Mayor
Here’s what HRW has to say:
According to the New York Times:
Luzviminda Ilagan, a congressional representative for Gabriela, one of the most active women’s rights groups in the country, would seem a natural enemy of a man who boasts of being a womanizer and has joked about wanting to rape a missionary. But Ms. Ilagan, who was once a city counselor in Davao City, has a more nuanced view of Mr. Duterte.
“His colorful language can be disconcerting,” she said. “But his actions can be contradictory to his statements. He might appear to be insensitive to women, but during his time as mayor he supported policies on behalf of women and programs for children.”
Under Mr. Duterte, Davao City developed a “gender and development code” that tried to equalize opportunities for women in government. The program has won multiple awards and has been cited by the national government as an example for other cities. Mr. Duterte also helped set up a crisis center for female victims of violence.
The same NY Times article quotes Jess Saplala and Benny Gopes, Davao businessmen who have known Duterte for more than a decade.
“His jokes are his connection to the common man,” Mr. Gopez said. “He knows what he is doing. He is a lawyer. He graduated from one of the top law schools. He passed the bar. He is a very intelligent fellow.”
Mr. Saplala, who became friends with Mr. Duterte after hearing him sing those Sinatra songs years ago, said many of the mayor’s most contentious statements came from an opinion of criminals he developed while working as a prosecutor in Davao, one of the most violent cities in the country at the time.
“He will never humiliate people,” Mr. Saplala said. “He is softhearted.”
He added: “But he changes when he starts talking about criminals. He gets very hard. He has a deep personal hatred for criminals.”
Duterte to Visit Pope, Apologize for “Putang Ina” Comment
According to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte is planning to visit the Vatican to make a personal apology to the pope for calling him a “son of a whore”, the politician’s spokesman said on Thursday. “The mayor repeatedly said he wants to visit the Vatican, win or lose, not only to pay homage to the pope but he really needs to explain to the pope and ask for forgiveness,” Peter Lavina told reporters in the southern city of Davao.
He Does Appear to Have Plan
And here it is:
CRIMES & DRUGS
-Suppress drugs & crimes within 3 to 6 months.
-Increase police salaries to P75,000 to P100,000 within 3 years.
-Installations of CCTV in all thoroughfares.
-Revival of the Special Courts to serious crime.
-Unite the country by healing of deeply-ingrained differences and shifting to Federal forms of government.
-Passage of the “Freedom of Information Act” and “Anti-Dummy Law”
-Lifting of the Bank Secrecy Law
-CCTV in all government offices
-Industrialize and build factories
-Build a Philippine Steel Mill
-Build a “business Island” with ideal business atmosphere for foreign investors
-Limit 5 signatures for business permits (30 to 60 days)
-Maintain “Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program” or 4Ps
-1 Billion “Small Capital Fund” outside Metro Manila
-Establish tourism, agricultural, and industrial hubs to create jobs in countryside.
-Lower Cost of Food
-Get rid of middle man loan sharks
-Build food terminals with advanced facilities in their provinces.
-Build Mindanao railway system
-Free irrigation and subsidized fertilizers and seeds for farmers.
-Ban mining firms with records of exploitation
-Study renewable energy
OFW and WORKERS
-Improve labor conditions for Filipino workers
-No income tax for workers with P20,000 and below.
-No more contractualization.
-Gradual increase of salary for all other jobs/workers
-Back for OFW remittance
-Bring home OFWs in case of abuse.
-Tracking for protection of Filipinos abroad
EDUCATION and HEALTH
-Double the salary of teachers
-Build adequate classrooms and double the shifts
-Teach values and Filipino Pride
-Require all hospitals to treat very poor patients using government programs like Phil Health reserved funds and Department of Health budget
-Add more carriages to train lines
-Build fast lane linking airports and seaports to Metro Manila
-Decongest Metro Manila
-Develop Clark Airport and Batangas Seaport to ease traffic congestion
-Pursue arbitration case
DISASTER & CLIMATE CHANGE
That’s enough for this installment.
More to come.
At latest count 24 states, including one with a democratic governor, have declared they will not host Syrian refugees. Why? Because one of the terrorists who attacked this past weekend in Paris apparently posed as a Syrian refugee. Am I the only one who just feels sickened at the lack of compassion and lack of spine that this movement betrays? Is this really who America has become?
At most, there would be 10,000 and each and every one of them would be vetted thoroughly by Homeland Security, as has been the case with the two thousand or so that are already here. Most are families with children who have suffered immesurably as a result of the Syrian conflict — a conflict that is destroying these people’s lives. So there is next to zero REAL THREAT.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said Monday, “Defeating ISIS involves projecting American ideals to the world. Governors who reject those fleeing war and persecution abandon our ideals and instead project our fears to the world.”
But here we are: blind, foolish, cowering, cringing, cowardly fear.
In Paris, what are they doing? They’re gong back to where it happened and defiantly sitting in outdoor cafes, and going about their business.
Meanwhile our states are closing their borders to the people who need America most.
I am saddened, disappointed, and if this doesn’t turn around, I will be ashamed. This fearful, xenophobic, spineless America is not the country I love and which I served. I can’t help but feel that the meanspirited and xenophobic debate that has been central to the Presidential campaign is partly to blame for this. But only partly. A contributing factor.
Let’s do a checklist.
Xenophobia. Oh yeah.
I’m pretty sure somebody here or on FB will come at me and blame it on Obama. Give me a break. Even if you blame Obama for the Paris attacks, which is ridiculous but some one will do it — you can’t possibly, conceivably blame him for the mentality that led 24 governors (maybe more now) to do this.
America’s Finest Hour?
Yeah, right. Speak up, people. Don’t let this define us.
And by the way — by doing this, we are telling ISIS: You know what, you’re right. We are exactly who you think we are.
And this is NOT a partisan issue. Witness the fact that although most of the governors are Republican, some are Democrats — and listen to what Shep Smith, a conservative commentator on Fox News, just wrote about this.
“Our shining city on a hill is vulnerable. We’ve always known that. If we change it to accommodate the savages, have they won? And what then would be left to protect? We profess to stand as an example for all the world. Our unique experiment in freedom, tolerance, openness, and equality is our gift to societies and peoples everywhere. Come, join us. Enjoy a chance at the American dream. Today, we mourn, but we cannot allow ourselves to become like those who want to destroy us. We cannot resort to the tactics of the barbarians. We must fight for what we believe in and who we are, guard our freedoms faithfully for the generations to follow. And we must not let the rhetoric of potential and political extremists among us lead us to self-destruction. When there’s panic, we show resolve. When there’s calm for extremism, we resist. We are America. We must lead.”
The headline in the Philippine Daily Inquirer read: ‘Yaya Dub’ misguided in support for ‘lumad,’ says military exec. The article then goes on to quote Brigadier General Joey Kakilala, who is the commander of the Civil Relations Office of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, as saying of Mendoza and others: “‘Yung social media support naman. Hindi alam nina Aiza Seguerra, Maine Mendoza, hindi nila alam ‘yung real story. Kung malaman siguro they would have reservations,” said Kakilala, who is a commander of the Civil Relations Office of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
So what is the “real story”?
General Kakilala did not offer any explanation — nor did the Inquirer author press him for any specifics.
As most anyone knows who’s been following the story of the Lumads, the AFP’s so-called “real story” is basically a time warped rendering of early 1980’s martial law mentality projected forward into 2015, where those who oppose the AFP and strive for social justice are labeled communist sympathizers if not actual communists. But that was 35 years ago. Today, really, that’s the line? Meanwhile — this is more than a struggle for control of ancestral lands. Last Sept. 1, Emerito Samarca, the director of Alternative Learning Center for Agricultural and Livelihood Development (Alcadev), and Lumad leaders Dionel Campos and Bello Sinzo were killed by suspected paramilitary groups in Sitio Han-ayan in Lianga, Surigao Del Sur. Samarca was found dead in a classroom, hogtied, stabbed and with his throat slit . Social media sentiment exploded when photos of the killing in a lumad school circulated online.
Meanwhile Maine Mendoza, who is a smart young woman, and others including, as the general notes, Aiza Seguerra but also none other than Wally Bayola, Maine’s stablemate on Eat Bulaga, are standing with the Lumads, and no, they are not “misguided” or “misled”. They get it. A protest on twitter using the hashtag #LumadDinAko has sprung up; Maine Mendoza’s brother in law is leading support from AlDub Nation; and updates flow at @aldubforlumad on twitter.
Most compelling of all is a letter written by Lisa Dino-Seguerra and published on Facebook.
Dear Brigadier General Joey Kakilala,
How funny for you to easily accuse my husband of being misled in our stand against the oppression of our LUMAD brothers and sisters without supporting it with any reason. You say “…hindi nila alam ‘yung real story. Kung malaman siguro they would have reservations”. You were given the floor in the article to tell us the real story and yet you did not disclose your side.
You say that the Manilakbayan LUMADS are appealing to our emotions…
Oh yes they are…and we are moved. Try going to Liwasang Bonifacio and you will see the ALCADEV students who are raring to go back to their schools and study again; the tribal leaders who feel so powerless because they can no longer look after their own people;the fathers who cannot go back to their farms and feed their families;the mothers who had to leave their children in the evacuation centres, travel to Manila with heavy hearts in the hope that they can go back there with ANSWERS.
In fact, they, too, were trying to appeal to YOUR emotions sir.
For the longest time, the Lumads have remained in their communities hoping that if you see how peacefully they live, your military troops will leave them alone. They opened their homes to you,fed you, because they believed all of you when you said the military will protect them. They did not need your presence, they were ok on their own, but your men insisted, so they relented.
But what did your MEN do?
Your military men used the schools as camping grounds, disrupted classes, harassed the teachers, interrogated the students and forced them to admit that their parents are Rebels. I talked to these students and they are all afraid of you.You even accused ALCADEV as being used as a front to indoctrinate lumad children with the communist ideology of the NPA. Wow. Wasn’t it just a year ago that the school received a National Literacy Award from DepEd? Now, more than 80 schools are under attack and depriving these children with the opportunity to learn. Oh, and sir, just yesterday, a teachers’ cottage of ALCADEV was torched down along with books, school supplies, a sewing machine, rice stocks, the school generator, audio-visual equipment and other materials. Yeah, talk about being misled.
Oh sir, don’t even get me started on the killings. Last night, I met Ate Yosie, wife of tatay Emok, the executive director of ALCADEV who was hogtied, stabbed and his throat slit in the room of the school by your Magahat-Bagani paramilitary group. The military has been openly accusing the school of poisoning the minds of the lumads and double as “training” centers for rebel recruits. Regardless if this is true or not, does this give you all the right to KILL him? I cannot imagine the pain she is going through right now as well as the students of ALCADEV who are grieving because of the loss of their mentor. And what about Michelle Campos? Daughter of Dionel Campos, a Manobo leader who was shot in the head in broad daylight in front of the whole community by your people.I talked to Michelle personally as well the residents of the community and they told me the story of how your men kicked the doors of their houses and forced all of them to gather together by the basketball court to witness the execution of Dionel Campos and Datu Bello Sinzo. Your men told all the residents to stop supporting the NPA or else they will all suffer the same fate. You, the supposedly protectors of our FREEDOM!!! I must admit though sir Brigadier General, it was quite genius of you to choose a paramilitary group composed of lumads who no longer live in their communities to kill their own kin. In that way, you can wash your hands and claim it as “tribal war”. For a moment, we were a bit “misled”. Tsk tsk tsk. Almost but not quite.
In short, contrary to what you want to spread in the media na pati kami ngayon ay MANGMANG—- “misled”, “misguided” ,ginagamit at nabubuyo….I tell you this.
WE STAND WITH THE LUMADS.
WE stand with the 700 of them right now who travelled for days to get to Manila to air out their sentiments as well the more than 3,000 others who were forced to evacuate their homes because of military operations. These people have first hand experience of all the atrocities done by your military men and their paramilitary counterparts. Marami sa mga Ata Monobong nakausap namin ay lider ng kani-kanilang organisasyon. Hindi man nakakapagtagalog ang iba, pero hindi na sila mangmang sa mga nangyayaring kaguluhan. Alam nila ang kaibahan ng rebelde sa militar.They have been empowered by the people na naniniwala sa pinaglalaban nila at sa mga paaralang nagsisilbing liwanag para magkaroon sila ng kaalaman. Now they are being robbed off of that opportunity. So please, dont tell us that we are misled and misguided. HINDI KAMI MANGMANG. We believe in their cause. We empathize with their plight…kaisa kami sa pakikipaglaban nila sa kanilang karapatan at naniniwala kami sa kanila. Ang gusto nila ay katahimikan at kapayapaan at bumalik sa kanilang lupang tinubuan.
So ask you now sir….WHAT IS THE REAL STORY?What is your story?
For a serious look at the Lumad situation, I recommend Inday Espina-Varona’s excellent in-depth blog post.
I intend to look more deeply into this, and will have more to say about it in coming days and weeks. I believe that engagement in matters such as this by #AlDub Nation and the #AlDub team represent a very positive manifestation of what I would call the “Spirit of AlDub” — and I hope that efforts to shine a light on this issue will continue.
On the eve of the second anniversary of super typhoon Haiyan’s devastation of the central Philippines, thousands of survivors walked along a highway in Tacloban City from Leyte and Samar provinces. Many carried placards protesting the pace of reconstruction efforts.
“It will be the second year anniversary of Yolanda (Haiyan), but many of them have not yet been given permanent housing. We think the government has been spending heavily on this project, but the housing and basic services that they should have given these folks after Yolanda have not yet been built or provided,” said Alicia Murphy of Urban Poor Associates, an NGO which advocates for the survivors’ right to adequate care and housing.
A year after Yolanda’s devastation, President Benigno Aquino III approved a $3.74 billion six-year master plan to rebuild housing, social services, and public infrastructure. Per figures of the National Housing Authority, 205,000 new houses are needed to accommodate the families in Leyte alone (never mind Samar) that have been displaced by Yolanda. Yet to date, only 17,000 units have been completed by the government. Budget officials said that an additional $700 million is needed for the other 103,000 housing units.
Struck by the slow pace of rehousing, United Nations special rapporteur Chaloka Beyani said after a visit in July that he was concerned about financial constraints on finding durable solutions and providing basic services for survivors.
How cool is this? Thanks to Bing Credo for posting this video of the last 2 mins of the game between Philippines and China in the FIBA Asia U16 tournament. Phils. down by 5. Credo drives and dishes off to Pagsanjan at the 3pt area… Boom! Phils. now just down by 1. Stopped China on their offensive… Phils. on the attack! Belangel passes to Credo at the 3pt area… BOOM! Phils now up by 1… Phils again stops China’s offensive by Tibayan’s tap and eventual steal by Mamuyac… Mamuyac rushes down to drive to the basket and dishes off to Tibayan to finish the layup… Again Phils. stops China’s offensive… Credo deffensively rebounds the ball and off to Belangel… to Mamuyac to Tibayan and back to Belangel then a foul on Belangel. Inbound to Credo, dribbles the ball, pass to Belangel. Credo provides screen for Belangel to shoot eh 3pts to seal the deal… and the rest was HISTORY! 🙂
Remember the imbroglio two years ago during the immediate aftermath of Haiyan/Yolanda, when Korina Sanchez called out Anderson Cooper of CNN, claiming his reporting was biased and disrespectful? The hero of that moment was Geraldine Uy Wong, who was in Tacloban, saw what was happening, and wrote a passionate post on Facebook, addressing it to Anderson Cooper and confirming that what he was reporting was accurate. See this link to refresh your memory. Geraldine’s example of heartfelt citizen journalism was one of the most important moments of the immediate aftermath of the typhoon that decimated the central Philppines — especially Leyte and our home province of Samar.
[[Don’t forget to share on Facebook and forward this post to Anderson Cooper on Twitter at @andersoncooper and @AC360.]]
I’ve gotten to know Geraldine and I am absolutely certain that she is not someone who in any way sought attention or celebrity status — but she had the heart and spirit to speak out. Since then, she has continued to be a voice for sanity, compassion, and resilience — and now, with the two year anniversary of Haiyan (Yolanda) upon us, she has drafted a compelling message to Anderson Cooper and published it on her facebook page. So now the next step is — how to make sure Anderson Cooper sees it. I and others are going to work on that. But everyone can help by sharing it. It’s picking up views and shares on facebook, and as I write today, updating the post about twelve hours after I put it up, it’s approaching 1000 shares here as well. Please get the word out.
One additional thought: As I see it, the value of Anderson Cooper coming to the Philippines has nothing to do with him being an American. The value is that he’s a journalist who, if you don’t know, played a key role in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina devastated that city and exposed the inadequacies of the government’s response. He went there during the storm, and he went back — “keeping them honest” as he says. The going back part was really important — as it would be important in the Philippines after Yolanda. It’s a human story, and a human tragedy — and it’s still going on. His vlaue is that he is a credible, compassionate journalist who if he comes will shine an unblinking light on a situation, speak truth to power, just as Geraldine has done, and help raise global awareness that two years on, the situation has not been resolved and people are still suffering.
First of all — here is the first part of the text of Geraldine’s message:
Dear Anderson Cooper:
It’s been 2 years so I wanted to say hello. Of course, you know this is more than just that. But this time, I will TRY to be brief and sweet. Please come back and visit us. There is no better time than now. First of all, APEC will be held here in the Philippines – CNN and everyone will be here to cover. I’m sure you have the clout to ask your bosses to send you over to rub shoulders with Obama, Putin, and our very own PNoy. And while you’re here you might want to take a side trip to visit Tacloban. You said so yourself, remember? You promised those people back then that you will come back one day and check on them. I have gone back to Tacloban myself since that time. Glad to report that thay have their smiles back on now, only because they are one of the most resilient people in the world, right? Sad to tell you though, that most of them still live in crappy bunk houses and transitional shelters. Those that were able to move into real honest-to-goodness decent housing were sponsored by the UN, NGO’s, religious groups, and private citizen donors. As I write this, only 572 permanent houses have been built by our beloved government out of the 14,000 that they promised. Where did all the international donations go? The ones whose figures ran to unending zeroes in dollar currency that we ordinary citizens could not even calculate, read, nor fathom how global humanity could have poured such expressions of love and sympathy to us? We don’t know, you tell us Anderson. We have come to the point of exhaustion when it comes to asking and finding out the truth. Finding out and exposing the truth – CNN and Anderson Cooper ace those skills so you are practically our only hope for now. Last time you spoke on our behalf, the whole world listened, our government chafed in embarrassment, Korina Sanchez bristled, and even I had to reach out to you to say my piece. Just look at it this way, if you come back and do your thing, you will be completing a big part of the jigsaw puzzle of your life, knowing that you have fulfilled a destiny that the universe has assigned to you. There – I just had to get that off my chest.
So now I come to the part why I really had to write you. Again. You see lately, we have been getting screwed up by a bunch of aliens assigned at the international airport here in Manila. I’m not sure if you have ever passed by our airport because the last time, you might have flown in and out through CNN’s private aircraft and landed straight in Tacloban. But yes, we are having those extra-terrestrial invasion problems right now. It is a festering source of national irritation that has smoldered in our hearts for the past weeks now and it is threatening to implode right in our faces. Travelers coming in and out of the country have been caught with bullets inside their luggage or hand-carried bags. Just one bullet – no gun. Every person who got caught has had to undergo the harrowing experience of being escorted to a room, interrogated by a bunch of master aliens, and having to decide which of the 2 options – succumbing to extortion or missing their flights and being detained – would be the lesser of the two evils. A greater majority would shell out money in quiet indignation just so as not to mess up their travel plans and their entire lives altogether. After all, this is small money compared to the hassle of hiring a lawyer, appearing in court, languishing in jail, etc. – you know how it works. I don’t blame them; I know I would do the same thing and just blast away at them on my facebook wall later on. But the others who ‘didn’t know any better’, those that either refused to pay up, or were too naive to think that arguing to defend their innocence will put them in good stead – they are now detained and facing a case. The saddest part here is that most of the victims are the Filipino OFW’s, translated as Overseas Filipino Workers, the members of the Filipino diaspora who are spread out all over the world in tens of millions as we speak. They leave the country and go out to work and slave away literally with their blood, sweat, and tears, and send money back home to their families. I have spoken with a lot of them in my travels, and their stories are so heart-wrenching both in terms of the courage they bear and the sheer magnitude of the sacrifice that they do. It makes my blood boil just to even write this. Makes me want to ask the syndicate – why don’t you take on me instead? So I can call on my friends both on the left and on the right, hah! One of those currently detained for the past two weeks and counting is Nanay Gloria, Nanay being the respectful term for an elderly woman, meaning ‘Mother’. She is a Filipina domestic worker who has been working as an OFW for the past 30 years now, the past 13 years of which she has served as a domestic helper for a family in Hong Kong. She came home for a vacation and on her way back to this same employer, was victimized by this syndicate, and since then has been the poster girl for this evil twist of fate that has befallen our country. And it is not enough that these aliens, oh for God’s sakes, let’s just call them Filipino airport personnel, just victimize our own people – after all, we Filipinos have somehow mastered the art of taking up our own. But they have had the audacity to victimize even the tourists and foreign travelers too! You have one of your own on record here, an American missionary at that! This is going to hurt like hell for our tourism, our economy, and God knows what else.
So please come back Anderson, I beg of you.
And here is the link to the rest of it on Facebook. As long as you’re logged in to FB — you can read it all there.
Now the next issue — how to get this to Anderson Cooper’s actual attention.
Working on it.
Don’t forget to share on Facebook and forward this post to Anderson Cooper on Twitter at @andersoncooper and @AC360.
For me there was never any doubt — Maine Mendoza fascinated me as a self-made internet star whose dubsmash genius includes not only what she does in front of the camera — but what she does with the camera as well. I was fascinated by all the characters; by her fearless willingness to present herself in a non-sexy, non-attractive way — something you don’t often see in someone who has beauty-queen good looks to begin with. I am intrigued by the intelligence she displays in putting together the dubsmash pieces.
That’s not to say I’m not also intrigued by what and the Eat Bulaga brain trust have done with Yaya Dub.
But enough about what I think. Google Philippines has tweeted out some stats that show that AlDub Nation is, like me, more intrigued with Maine Mendoza than Yaya Dub … or at least there are more searches for Maine than Yaya…..check it out:
— Google Philippines (@GooglePH) October 29, 2015
As is not unusual, I’m the last one to the party. I don’t follow the Binibining Pilipinas situation all that closely …. In fact, other than “Major Major”, I’m not sure I’ve ever notice or been aware of anything any contestants said. But today I’ve been genuinely moved by a speech by any of the Binibining Filipinas winners–Janicel Lubino, Bb. Filipinas International, who gave her speech in the competition in Japan a few hours ago and she has caught my full attention with her heartfelt sincerity. Here is here speech — check it out.
Here wikipedia page says “From her beginnings as a kasambahay (lit. housemaid) alongside with her mother, Lubina was spotted by a make-up artist who later became her handler to join beauty pageants.”
Here she is being interviewed by Boy Abunda….she’s from Palawan.
And here’s a good story from PhilStar: Janical Lubina, a Cinderella Story
Dear Secretary of Transportation Joseph Abaya
I am taking this opportunity to reach out to you because as someone married to a Filipina who travels back and forth to Manila frequently, I am truly concerned by what seems to be your failure to grasp the dynamics of what is going on in the minds of the traveling public with regard to the laglag bala scandal Based on the many reports emanating from your press conference, your core positon seems to be that the whole matter has been blown out of proportion as less than .004% of passengers have been caught with ammunition in their bags, so walang actual problema. You cited the annual figures for the past four years: 1,394 cases so far in 2015; 1,813 in 2014; 2,184 in 2013; 1,214 cases in 2012. Your point, apparently, was that there has not been a radical increase so the the surge in reporting on this is not warranted. You also broke down the cases since September 15, showing that some passengers acknowledged owning the bullets; some carried them as anting-anting amulets; and some carried them as souvenirs from firing ranges. Only two, you said, were suspect laglag bala. Your bottom line: ” We cannot simply demonize the people to whom we entrust our safety,”
It is difficult to read your comments without concluding that you and the government you represent fail to grasp that this has become an international media story that is instilling widespread fear; is costing the Philippines much needed tourism revenue; it is hurting NAIA porters who are losing half their income; and is inflicting real damage on the aready battered reputation of the Philippines as a crime-ridden destination. It is doing all this first because such scams exist and are being reported in the global media; and second because the scam is seemingly allowed to exist by a government who is not only insensitive, but enables the scam by prosecuting victims of the scam even when common sense says they are no threat to anyone. The international media is starting to get hold of the story — (Greta Van Susteren on Fox News just did a story on it as I’m writing this) and the image of the Philippines as a lawless environment with disinterested government leadership is being promulgated. It’s so damaging — and unnecessarily so if you would just deal with it forthrightly.
It seems that you and your colleagues simply don’t grasp or don’t care to grasp the deeper meaning of the problem, which is the deep sense of helplessness and pervasive fear that a scam like this, if allowed to continue, creates in travelers. I’m reminded of the 80s’ when the infamous Wakaoji kidnapping sent the entire Japanese expat community into a panic and decimated Japanese travel to the Philppines, costing millions of dollars and damaging the country’s reputation internationally. To follow the analogy — your presentation today was as if back then, a Philippine government official had stood up and said to Japan — you are blowing this out of proportion. Only .004% of foreigners in the Philppines have been kidnapped. Just as that statistic, while true, would not have helped back then — it doesn’t help now either. Even one kidnapping is too many; and even one traveler being extorted is too many. Worse — and this is the really, really bad part — if the victim refuses to be extorted, the government seems intent on letting the victim go to prison. There seems to be no sense of duty to protect the travelers from these predators — or to sort out real criminals from victims of a scam. The point is that people trust the government to protect them and the government in its official utterances needs to convey that they understand this.
Respectfully — if you had said what needs to be said, after your presser we would be reading headlines like: “Philippine officials vow to protect travelers; will ramp up efforts againt laglag bala.” Or: “Multi-level strategy vs. laglag bala proposed” Instead — the dominant takeaway from the presscon is that the government blames the media for blowing it out of proportion.
What the public needs to hear is something along these lines:
- Genuine commitment by the government to work on shutting down the laglag bala scheme.
- Commitment by the government to look at each case in its totality and not prosecute unless there is compelling reason to believe there was an actual intended threat. This is the “common sense” part of it. Such a commitment would in itself act as a disincentive to those carrying out laglag bala.
- Commitment by the administration to seek legal reforms that further diminish the likelihood that laglag bala can be successfully employed.
This is offered respectfully and in the hope that it might be read by someone who can have an impact on the situation before even greater damage is done.
I just came across a blog post entitled “Why Men Go Gaga Over Maine Mendoza”from a blogger who goes by Vilo Velky in a blog called The Omelette Station. Now I’m obviously not the first to discover this post — there are 180 comments there from various #AlDub fans, so that gives you an idea. There are some good thoughts in the post. I’m going to highlight two of them, then provide a link.
Let’s start with this:
It was when she became Yaya Dub that we immediately sensed the raw honesty of Maine’s personality in the character. Her real emotions shined through. She is not there for the financial benefits of fame but for the realization of an ultimate dream. Her expressions are very revealing- the first time she saw Alden was looking, her eyes sparkled and grew big, she dropped her guard down and revealed the sweetest smile, the purest face a thousand ships would launch for. A few times her jaw dropped and she fell into a convulsive, very animated excitement. When she got the flowers and chocolate the first time, when she was handed the teddy bear and when she saw Alden kiss her standee, she was unable to hold back her thrill! She can’t get as real as that.
Just to refresh memories (not needed, I know) … here is that segment.
And about Alden:
And we want him to feel the way we feel, to champion the standards and principles of how real men fall in love- anything less and he becomes the bad guy… We become very protective….It is not as much as trying to win her heart from somebody else, but trying to make her feel that if that guy is not that into you, we are here. We get filled with so much emotions that we feel like the knights of old, willing to become violent to protect our one true love! But as soon as we realize that Alden is beginning to show real interest, we back off and cannot but feel happy for Maine. We get back into enjoying the show, confident and very proud that our representative is willing to do everything to get the girl of his dreams, embodying our ideals and intentions the way we expect him to.
There’s more, and it’s worth reading the whole post. Thanks for the good thoughts!
Filipino Muslims are up in arms over Muslim garb worn by Joey De Leon and Tito Sotto in Eat Bulaga’s Halloween broadcast. The two hosts wore a thawb, an ankle-length garment with long sleeves usually worn by Muslims. The local government of the Autonomous Region in Muslm Mindanao (ARMM) took offense to the costumes. ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman said that the costumes “equated the Muslim garb as a costume to be feared, in the way that zombies and ghouls are to be feared.” Hataman demanded that Eat Bulaga issue an apology. “This display betrays an insensitivity by these hosts, as they equated the Muslim garb as a costume to be feared, in the way that zombies and ghouls are to be feared,” Hataman said in the statement.
“What Eat Bulaga did in its Halloween Special was a mockery of and an affront to the image of the Muslim, apparently in the name of entertainment.”
“On behalf of the Filipino Moro people, we demand that producers and hosts of the noontime show issue a public apology,” Hataman said.
I have three thoughts.
First, it’s definitely insensitive and inappropriate and at a minimum Eat Bulaga should apologize.
Second, Governor Hataman exaggerates when he says that this equates Muslim garb as a costume to be feared, the way zombies and ghouls are to be feared. Governor Hataman seems to be unaware that while some Halloweed costumes are ghoulish — plenty of others are not. People dress up for Halloween as Superheroes, doctors, policemen, sports figures, movie stars, pirates, ninja turtles, and a near infiniite list of other characters that are not ghoulish or fearsome. So while it was inappropriate and deserving of criticism — it is not fair to say it turns the costume into something fearsome. The manner in which Tito and Joey posed in the costume also reinforces this fact — it is not depicted as fearsome. To interpret it that way is to overthink it. Here are samples — just google “superhero Halloween costumes” or “doctor halloween costumes” and you’ll see hundreds of these. Not all Halloween costumes are fearsome.
Third — I think Eat Bulaga should consider going beyond a simple apology. I think they should channel some of the creativity and values-oriented writing that has gone into AlDub, into this situation, and come up with a way to turn this into more of a “teachable moment” — in the process displaying and encouraging Filipino values of respect and tolerance. I’m not sure exactly what this would be — and the writers and producers would have to be very careful to not misfire and just make matters worse. But some gesture is needed. One possibility would be to send a delegation from the show to Mindanao to meet respectfully with the Governor and deliver the apology while in the process filming a segment for the show that promotes awareness of Philippine Muslim issues and traditions. How about send the AlDub tandem (with Lola Nidora chaperoning, of course) on the mission?
Think it through, EB Producers and writers. Turn this into something positive. You can do it if you try.
In one of the better intentational articles about the #AlDub phenomenon in the Philippines, the Singapore Straits Times headlines “Old Style Love Story has Modern Philippines in a Tizzy.” . The high point of the article includes some excellent observations:
Sociologists and marketers are now poring over this pop culture phenomenon to find out what makes it tick.
Experts say AlDub has been a huge success because it resonates with Filipinos pining for a return to old-fashioned values as a counter-balance to the crass culture that has become pervasive online.
The loose plot is based on the now anachronistic Filipino tradition of “pamanhikan” – a long, supervised courtship – and all the virtues that go with it: Respect for elders, loyalty, fidelity and a well-earned reward for hard work.
Beyond the storyline, the two lead stars appeal to millions because they come off as believable bearers of the values their show represents, unlike many other celebrities, who are regarded as caricatures of excess and superficiality.
“They are redefining what it means to be a celebrity: Not snobbish, but kinder, more approachable, more sincere, and morally upright citizens,” said TV writer Elmer Gatchalian.
I think “believable bearers of the values the show represents” is right on target. There is a confluence of the show’s values and what Maine and Alden seem to actually be. The fact that Maine rose up through social media outside the Philippine star machine adds to that impression. And Wally Bayola’s Lola Nidora is the perfect foil and driving force for it.
The more I think about it, the more I think that Wally and Lola Nidora may be the key to keeping this phenomenon on track. I wonder how much of what Lola Nidora does is coming from Wally, and how much from the Eat Bulaga writers? In other words, who is truly the author of Lola Nidora? My impression is that the writers provide an outline, suggestions, major plot points, but Wally adlibs a lot of it. We’ll see. Meantime — congrats on more international recognition.
Jerrold Tarog’s epic historical film Heneral Luna, which will represent the Philippines in the Academy Awards Best Foreign Film Category, has been reviewed in the New York Times by Ken Jaworski. The review is mixed but ultimately favorable. Here it is:
I’m only a little embarrassed at liking “Heneral Luna,” an audaciously manipulative movie that’s more involving than it should be. But really, when a film works this hard to rouse you, there’s no shame in just giving in.
A patriotic biopic that veers toward propaganda, “Heneral Luna” is about Antonio Luna, who in the late 1800s led the Philippine Revolutionary Army during the Philippine-American War. Early in the story he’s given command of the military. (“General Luna, it’s up to you now. This war is in your hands.”) Cue the sweeping orchestral music.
Battles are waged, speeches are made and foreign enemies soon become the least of Luna’s problems: Bureaucrats, cowards and other homegrown spoilsports continually try to sabotage his unconventional plans. “General Luna, you may be a military genius, but you do not understand politics,” one of those skeptics whines.
And here’s the trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_T1ykhy3Fg
I haven’t seen the film yet — but I’m thrilled that someone backed and produced such a movie — and that it appears to have been a box office success. I truly hope this encourages more well-made historical movies in the Philippines. Luna is a great subject for such a movie. Back in the 90s when I was making movies in the Philippines, I considered trying to develop a film about him but decided not to because the material felt too dark. Jerrold Tarog is right to pin the movie to the statement: “Brothers, we have an enemy bigger than the Americans — ourselves” as that concept is embedded in Luna’s story, particularly considering the way he died. But … it resonates from Filipino to Filipino — coming from an American filmmaker it doesn’t feel right
The latest international media outlet to pick up the story the Philippine #AlDub phenomenon is Bloomberg News. As international coverage goes, this is NOT the most exciting coverage I’ve seen. (That would be an understatement.) But the mere fact of its existence is another indicator that the Philippine phenomenon is rising to the level of something that is getting international attention.
Here’s the video —
Meanwhile Inquirer has a nice summary article about all the international coverage of AlDub —
Kudos to Fil-American artists Jeff Huntington for his beautiful Jose Rizal collage. Ironically — the best place to view this particular piece is on a eToday, a Russian website, where he is identified as a “45-year-old contemporary artist with a special recognizable style. Jeff loves Italian food and comfortable shoes …” You can see his other work on the Russian, which is also collage based and is very interesting.
He’s also been recognized by the U.S. Embassy in Manila, who have showcased this piece of art as well in the Art in Embassies program and on their Facebook Page.
And his personal website: http://jeffhuntington.com/
UPDATE: Here’s another great place to view Jeff art: http://www.stylenochaser.com/article/in-flux-and-ever-evolving-with-jeff-huntington
As some of you know, I served at the U.S. Embassy in Manila from 1986-1989. Have to say I’m tickled to see the Embassy getting into the act and joining in the #AlDub fun. They posted this video of staffers doing pabebe waves and have gotten 210,000 shares on FB.
Good for them. A little lightness of spirit helps everyone, kahit na ang mga Amerikano sa Embassy!
I’ve been searching for some cogent entertainment industry analysis of the AlDub phenomenon and in a Eureka moment, I’ve found it. It’s an article by Veronica Uy, senior editor of Interaksyon — and it’s an article that is built upon two interviews, one with advertising executive Vincent Pozon, and one with former GMA writer Elmer Gatchalian. This is really good stuff — I want to comment on some of the key points, but you should read the whole article which is available here.
The headline is: How #AlDub is a game-changer in Philippine television, advertising, social media …. (and by the way — it’s got 7k FB shares so I’m not the first to discover it.)
The Dif Between Real Chemistry and Manufactured Kilig
Gatchalian nails the fact that the audience can tell the difference between manufactured kilig and something real. “AlDub is a hit because I think they [Alden and Yaya Dub] are the complete antithesis of manufactured stars and love teams. Their unexpected and innately potent chemistry is a breath of fresh air in local showbiz that is so used to manufacturing kilig.
Riding on the Social Media Quality of “Fresh” and “Bold”
This is the part I especially like. Traditional broadasters have a long time harnessing the “freshness” and “boldness” of social media. It almost always feels clunky when TV networks try to behave like social media. But EB got it right in this one.
Riding on traditional media, both the segment and the show have tapped into the social media principles of freshness and boldness, and the enduring qualities of authenticity and expectation.
“The whole thing was born when the whole world watched a girl blush on television,” said [ad executive] Pozon.
“Eat Bulaga” saw the audience reaction and ran away with it building on this first blush with standard teleserye plots, which Gatchalian listed as: ampon (foundling), long-lost daughter, diary, hostage-taking, lola as kontrabida (villain), against-all-odds love story of Yaya and Alden, etc.
I think that’s really at the heart of the genius — they saw the social media moment, which they created with the split-screen matchup at just the right moment….lightning struck with Maine’s reaction to Alden….but then they carefully employed themes and plots that gave storytelling structure to the situation. It’s that combination of social media reality and thoughtful, values based structure that has caused it to become, as Donald Trump would say, “huge“….
Eclipsing The Competition
“Aldub’s persistent and pervasive relevance has the tendency to make all other celebs, love teams, and TV shows irrelevant…Niluluma niya ang lahat ng mga love team, artista at TV show sa ngayon. So producers of TV content have to really up the ante in terms of innovative storytelling and content production,” said Gatchalian.
And that’s really the point — this is “innovative storytelling and content production” — and the weird part is that the 1% intelligentsia in the Philippines who accuse it of “shallow” are themselves mababaw because they’re the ones who dont’ get the difference between manufactured kilig and this. They mistake the innovation and creativity of AlDub for the manufactured kilig they deplore — in the process exposing their own lack of insight.
Special Space – Between Scripted and Reality
Here’s how Uy winds up the article:
AlDub occupies the still-undefined space in television and pop culture, balancing reality and make-believe, giving respectful distance to whatever relationship is developing between Maine and Alden (if any), between reality and make-believe, between romantic-comedy and suspense-drama. “Somebody in there (‘Eat Bulaga’) is thinking, ‘We’re not going with what worked in the past, we’re not going with experience or what is world-class. We’re going to keep a respectful distance and watch this blossom and we will water and take care of it,’” said Pozon. “I am sure there is a tug-o-war between scriptwriting it and giving it space,” he added. The timing was also perfect. “They are the love team of this millennial and social media-obsessed generation. And I think ‘Eat Bulaga’ has found an enduring brand with AlDub — and they were found by a new audience too,” said Gatchalian.
I think that explains it perfectly– keep a respectful distance and water and take care of it — and see what blossoms. That’s a very different attitude than would be the case in a fully scripted situation, and it reflects the supercharge nature of this situation in which elements of reality and fantasy are blended.
Big kudos again to Veronica Uy for this article, and thanks to Elmer Gatchalian and Vincent Puzon for their insights. Brilliant stuff.
Pleae, go read the whole thing: How #AlDub is a game-changer in Philippine television, advertising, social media by Veronica Uy on InterAksyon
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Above is the Year of the Spy Book Trailer — for my upcoming non-fiction book about espionage upheavals on the streets of Moscow in 1985.
Below is a “trailer” showcasing the writing and video services I provide to clients.
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I don’t do a lot of public speaking. I do not debate. But I have conversations every day on Facebook. People from all over the world ask questions about all sorts of topics. Here’s a glimpse of how I attempt to speak kindly to everyone. Even if what we say can be rather hard for a non-Christian to hear, we can be kind in the way we present the truth, while being bold for the gospel.
Ephesians 4:31-32: Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
With that in mind, take a look at just one question from a Catholic we’ll call Val.
Val: Do you believe that a Catholic can be saved?
David: A person can be saved who believes in the shed blood of the Son of God, the Lord Jesus with nothing else added. If he or she is in a building full of people who do not believe, that person is still saved. But if a person believes Catholic doctrine and relies on the sacraments and rituals to “becoming saved,” as written in Catholicism’s Catechism or dogma or canons and decrees, that person is not saved.
If a person has been in that system and then comes to simple faith in the shed blood of the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, that person has been saved out of whatever his or her religion, whether Catholicism, Mormonism, JW, etc. The next thing to do when the Lord opens the door is to leave and grow in faith.
Revelation 18:4: And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
2 Corinthians 6:16-18: And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, ...
Val: But what if that person is unaware?
David: Unaware of what? People are not accidentally saved. It is very intentional.
Val: What if there is a sincere person who was raised a Catholic?
David: Sincerity doesn’t save a person. If a person sincerely seeks God, the Lord can lead him to the gospel. But it is the only way to be saved.
Acts 4:12: Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
John 14:6: Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Corinthians 3:11: For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
God heard Cornelius and led him to the means to hear the gospel and be saved in Acts 10:4-6.
See also: 2 John 9, Matthew 1:21, John 3:36, 1 John 5:11-12.
Val: You give so much thought to even such random questions that I ask.
David: I never want to be flippant.
Val: You provide detailed scripture verses and stuff when most would not.
David: I’m not aware of what others would do. I can only answer for myself.
God bless you all! - David
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In celebration of July 4th, our friends at the Carnegie Corporation are launching their annual Great Immigrants campaign, honoring the foreign-born, naturalized citizens who “enrich the fabric of American culture and strengthen our democracy through their lives, their work, and their example.”
This year’s campaign spotlights a group of 38 honorees, hailing from 29 different countries, who have made exemplary contributions to numerous fields. Counted among them were some familiar names: Guatemalan-born Teddy Cruz, who received the 2018 Vilcek Prize in Architecture; Polish-born Martyna Majok, whose play, queens, was produced at Lincoln Center Theater with support from the Vilcek Foundation; and Nigerian-born Yvonne Orji, who we interviewed in our 2015 newsletter highlighting immigrants in television.
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The Carnegie Corporation will announce all 38 honorees in a full-page ad in the New York Times on Independence Day. In the meantime, you can read about them on their website.
Congratulations to Teddy, Martyna, and Yvonne! We salute you and all the other Great Immigrants of America.
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Donald Trump's extensive, international business holdings mean he will have to make decisions as leader of the US that also affect his businesses. Here's a look at some of his potential conflicts of interest.
The Trump Organization is an umbrella company for Donald Trump's hundreds of investments in real estate, brands and other businesses.
As head of the executive branch and a business owner, he has the ability to influence both US policy and government agencies to benefit his bottom line.
Presidents are not subject to the same conflict of interest rules as other government employees, but previous commanders-in-chief have placed their investments into a blind trust to prevent any question of corruption.
Ahead of the inauguration, Mr Trump placed his business holdings in a revocable trust managed by his two adult sons, Eric and Donald Jr. But while this removes him from the day-to-day decision making of his business, the president still retains a long-term interest in making sure his companies are doing well.
Ethics experts have urged Mr Trump to liquidate his business holdings so that he can avoid any appearance of a conflict, as the public nature of most of his businesses means it impossible to prevent him from knowing how government policies will affect his bottom line.
- Read more here about how the Trump Organization's business works and what it means for the presidency.
Below is a list of known conflicts of interest for Mr Trump, both foreign and domestic. Because his business is private, the full extent of his holdings - and the potential for conflicts - is not known.
American conflicts of interest
Trump International Hotel
The Trump Organization leases the Old Post Office Building from US government's General Services Administration (GSA) for the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC.Trump as president is both "landlord and tenant" of this building, says Steven Schooner, who along with Daniel Gordon, has called on Trump to end the lease.
The 60-year lease will likely involve renegotiations - and the person responsible for setting the rent prices would ultimately report to the head of the GSA, a Trump appointee.In addition, the lease bars any federal employee, including elected officials, from benefitting from contracts with the government.
But in a March letter, the GSA said it had determined Mr Trump was in "full compliance" with the lease because his interests in the hotel had been placed in a revocable trust, which he would see no personal benefit from during his term in office.
The letter was written by the GSA employee who had done the initial negotiations over the building.
The letter has not stopped criticism.
"Donald Trump still owns the hotel, still will benefit from payments and still has a vested interest in its success," Noah Bookbinder, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, told CNN. Bookbinder's organisation sued Mr Trump shortly after he was sworn in over foreign conflicts of interests.
Meanwhile, the hotel has already been pitched to foreign diplomats as a place to stay while in Washington, raising concerns that foreign governments could see booking expensive rooms at the Trump International as a way to gain favour with the Trump administration.
40 Wall Street
The Trump Organization owns the right to lease the space in this office building in Manhattan - and makes money from the rent paid to the building.
According to Bloomberg News, there are five ongoing federal investigations into current or former tenants of 40 Wall Street, mostly for securities fraud.
Those investigations are headed up by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Mr Trump's appointee to head the SEC, Jay Clayton, has been criticised for his ties to Wall Street firms by Democrats during his confirmation hearings.
Dakota Access Pipeline
Sioux tribes and allies had protesting for months to prevent the Dakota Access pipeline from being built under water supplies near the Standing Rock reservation.
Trump had a partial investment - somewhere between $500,000 and $1m - in the parent company of the firm building Dakota Access pipeline, Energy Transfers Partners.
Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks says Mr Trump has sold his stock in Energy Transfer Partners. But another one of Trump's stock holdings, Phillips 66, owns a 25% share in the project.
It's unclear if the president has also sold his stock in Phillips 66, as his last financial disclosure was in May 2016.
On 24 January, Mr Trump signed an executive order paving the way for final construction of the pipeline. ETP began work in early February and oil is expected to flow by early April. The pipeline remains the subject of a lawsuit by the Cheyenne River Sioux.
One of Trump's major lenders on his real estate projects is Deutsche Bank.
The bank is currently in negotiations with the US justice department to settle a case involving misleading buyers when it sold mortgage bonds backed by risky loans.
Update: Deutsche Bank settled the mortgage bonds case for $7.2bn in late December 2016.
The president has another job title beyond "commander-in-chief": executive producer. He will continue to have a "big stake" in The Celebrity Apprentice, which airs on NBC, linking Mr Trump's business interests with the network.
NBC and its parent company, Comcast, is regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Mr Trump's pick for the chairman, Ajit Pai, will be need to be reconfirmed by the Senate this year, in order to continue on at the commission.
National Labor Relations Board
On 3 November, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that Trump International Hotel Las Vegas - which Trump co-owns - broke the law by refusing to negotiate with a hotel workers' union.
The hotel appealed the case to a higher court. But three other labour disputes involving the Las Vegas hotel are currently before the board, as well as several others involving the Trump Organization.
NLRB is facing an unprecedented situation on how to rule on disputes that will affect the president's business. Mr Trump has named current board member Philip Miscimarra as acting chair and will be able to appoint two new members to vacant spots.
During the campaign, Trump's airplane company, TAG Air, billed the Secret Service for flying on Trump's Boeing 757 while protecting the candidate. It is standard for Secret Service to pay their own way on private aircraft, and during the campaign, this was tracked by the Federal Election Commission through campaign finance reports.
While Mr Trump flies on Air Force One and other US aircraft as president, if Trump or Pence family members are assigned protective detail and decide to fly on Trump planes, the Secret Service would need to reimburse TAG Air - and ultimately Mr Trump - for the flights.
In addition, Secret Service will reportedly pay the Trump Organization for the space they use in Trump Tower while protecting Melania and Barron Trump as they stay in New York for part of 2017. The Washington Post has reported the Secret Service has requested $27m extra for the overall protective detail in New York.
Secret Service has also paid to protect Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr, as members of the president's family - even as they travel to take care of business for the Trump Organization.
Jason Miller, the transition team's spokesman, has said the president sold all his stocks in June 2016, a month after the required financial disclosure, but the campaign did not furnish proof nor provide an updated list of Mr Trump's investments.
Since his election, Mr Trump has singled out specific companies for criticism on Twitter, causing price swings on the stock market. If Mr Trump still owns these stocks, he could make money off of selling and buying before and after such tweets.
According to Trump's financial disclosure, as of mid-2016, he had investments in or owned companies in at least 20 countries. Unlike his domestic business, Mr Trump could run afoul of a clause in the US constitution by continuing to profit from these deals.
The emoluments clause specifically prevents anyone who holds a US "office of trust or profit" from accepting gifts, payments or any benefit from a foreign nation.
Even routine business benefits like tax breaks could violate the emoluments clause.
One former White House ethics lawyer has argued Mr Trump would be violation of the constitution "on day one".
In addition to emoluments, Mr Trump's foreign policy decisions could be called into question in any country in which the Trump Organization does business, especially when his policies would benefit the firm's holdings overseas.Here are some of Mr Trump's larger business deals that intersect with US foreign policy.
BBC Monitoring contributed to this report
An Argentine broadcaster reported that Mr Trump allegedly asked President Mauricio Macri for his support to build an office tower in Buenos Aires while on call during Mr Trump's transition period.
Mr Macri's office and the Trump campaign have denied the report.
However, several days later, the Buenos Aires firm building the tower announced construction of the project was going ahead after years of delays.
A waterfront property in Rio de Janeiro, branded with the Trump name through a licensing deal, is the subject of a federal inquiry after two small Brazilian pension funds invested heavily in the unfinished project, with allegations of bribery.
Update: The Trump Organization has reportedly cancelled their licensing deal with the developers in Rio. Trump lawyer Alan Garten told the AP in December this and a few other cancellations were "normal housekeeping" and not part of a strategy to reduce potential conflicts of interests.
The Trump Organization has licensing deals with two hotel towers in Canada - one in Toronto and one in Vancouver.
The Vancouver building is now open, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by the Trump sons, but the Toronto tower is up for auction after the developer went bankrupt and was put into receivership by a Canadian judge in November.
The Bank of China is one of China's largest banks and also majority state-owned. It holds the title on a $950m loan for a New York Building in which Trump is a part owner. Mr Trump has previously labelled China a currency manipulator.
Another largely government-owned Chinese bank - the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China - has space in Trump Tower, paying rent to the Trump Organization.
The Trump Organization has also previously attempted to open a series of hotels in the country, and Trump Hotels chief executive Eric Danziger told a Hong Kong media outlet in October they wanted to open 20 to 30 hotels in the country in 2017.
Meanwhile, Trump's son-in-law and now senior adviser, Jared Kushner, was negotiating a deal with China's Anbang Insurance Group to redevelop 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City before backing out of talks in late March.
Mr Kushner has been given a senior role inside the White House. His lawyer told the New York Times he "would recuse from particular matters that would have a direct and predictable effect on his remaining financial interests" without giving specifics.
Ivanka Trump, who has her own non-paying position at the White House, has advised her father on a broad number of policy areas, including high-profile foreign policy meetings.
On the same day she sat next to Chinese President at a dinner at Mar-a-Lago, the Chinese government approved three new trademarks for Ms Trump's firm to sell items in China.
While Ms Trump has moved her firm to a trust and said she will not partake in decisions could led to conflicts, ethics experts are concerned with the broadening scope of both her business, which bears her name, and her advisory role at the White House.
Despite a promise to do "no new deals" while Mr Trump is in office, the Trump Organization is testing that definition in the Dominican Republic.
The firm with developers of a beachfront planned community but the project stalled, and Trump sued in 2012 for unpaid licencing fees.
After a settlement of that lawsuit, the developments did not use the Trump name or discuss any involvement with the Trump Organization.
But in February, owners made a show of announcing Eric Trump had toured the project, saying "we are excited to be working with the Trump Organization in the future phases of the project".
A Trump Organization lawyer has described the deal as "never dead" and said discussions were "very preliminary" but some investors were surprised to find the firm was still technically involved in the project.
The Trump Organization cancelled a licensing deal to build a condo tower in the resort town of Batumi, Georgia, shortly after Mr Trump won the election.
The deal had been originally inked in 2011 but stalled amid slow growth in the country.
One of the business partners involved in the deal told Forbes the firm had expressly told him the reason the deal was cancelled was concerns over the Emoluments Clause, despite a Trump lawyer's earlier statement the cancellation was "not part of a strategy to reduce potential conflicts of interests".
Trump has a licensing deal for buildings in Mumbai and Pune.
One of his deals is with the Lodha Group, whose founder, Mangal Lodha, is also a vice-president in the ruling government party, BJP.
Shortly after Mr Trump won the presidency, some of his Indian business partners flew to the US to congratulate Mr Trump, who took time out of transition meetings to discuss "US-India relations".
Two building projects with Trump licensing and management deals have not begun construction in earnest but the Trump Organization continues to be part of the venture.
Mr Trump's partner on the resort projects is Hary Tanoesoedibjo, who ran for vice-president and is well-connected politically in Indonesia. Mr Hary is forming a political party in anticipation of the 2019 elections, the New York Times reports.
In addition, one of Trump's advisers, Carl Icahn, is a major shareholder of Freeport, which is looking to extend a mining contract with the Indonesia government.
Ivanka Trump sat in with a meeting with her father and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Ms Trump's own firm is currently finalising a licensing deal with Japanese clothing company Sanei International, although she has now stepped down from the firm as well as the Trump Organization.
The firm's largest shareholder is the Japanese government through the Development Bank of Japan. Ms Trump's company says the deal has been in the works for a while, and the terms were agreed before the election.
Philippines' newest trade envoy to the United States is the same man who is building Trump Tower Manila. Like many of Trump's branding projects, Mr Trump does not own the building himself, but licenses his name to the building in return for regular payments.
Trump family members have previously promoted the project, including a promotional video.
The trade envoy/business partner reportedly flew to US to hold a private meeting with Mr Trump after the election.
During the course of the campaign, Trump created eight business ventures tied to a potential real estate deal in Saudi Arabia.
Mr Trump told Fox News earlier this year, he "would want to protect Saudi Arabia. But Saudi Arabia is going to have to help us economically".
Update: A Trump Organization lawyer has told the AP the eight firms have been dissolved or shut and that there is "no deal" in Saudi Arabia. However, the firm could easily re-establish business ties there.
In September, a woman claiming to be an envoy for the Trump Organization discussed potential real estate developments in Taiwan with the mayor of Taoyuan.
The Trump Organization has denied any plans for expansion there and said there were no "authorised visits" to discuss business in the country. The Taoyan mayor's office said the woman had "authorisation documents" but did not specify what kind, the New York Times reported.
A month after his election, Trump called the president of Taiwan directly, breaking decades of existing US foreign policy. It still unclear if the woman is connected with the Trump Organization
In 2008, Trump entered a licensing partnership with Turkish conglomerate Dogan Holdings, who were planning to build two residential and business towers in Istanbul's business district.
Relations between Dogan Holdings and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan have turned sour since the towers opened in 2012.
The Dogan family, also own a paper critical of Mr Erdogan.
An earlier story from Newsweek argues the poisoned relationship between Mr Erdogan and the Dogans means Mr Trump would have a direct conflict between his business interests and his relationship with a US ally.
Turkey's importance in the fight against IS and the Syrian civil war makes the stakes much higher.
UK golf courses
Mr Trump owns two golf courses in Scotland and has recently asked Nigel Farage to oppose wind farms, not because he believed they were bad for the UK or contradicted US energy goals, but because a wind project would potentially lower the value of one of his golf courses.
"He did not say he hated wind farms as a concept; he just did not like them spoiling the views," Andy Wigmore, the Leave.EU communications director at the meeting told the New York Times and the Express.
The golf courses could also be affected as part of Brexit negotiations or a second Scottish independence referendum.
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This morning, Rand Paul tweeted, “If you think you’ve got a case of the Mondays now, wait til you see how much the Democrats are trying to raise your taxes.” The senator is right that taxpayers are in for a rude start to the week—because progressives in Congress are coming for their wallets. The House Ways and Means Committee, led by Rep. Richard Neal, just unveiled a multi-trillion-dollar tax hike proposal.
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These are just the highlights among the many tax increases and changes included in the sweeping proposal. Now, I know what you might be thinking: Corporate tax, capital gains, high income, estate tax… how does any of that affect me? Don’t those all just impact Big Business and rich people?
This impulse is understandable but misguided. While the government may formally levy many of these taxes on businesses or the wealthy, the ultimate economic impact of the tax hikes will be borne by everyone.
It’s a mistake to think about who the tax is formally levied against on paper, when what really matters is who actually ends up bearing the cost. For example, a sales tax is often technically levied on the store, but in reality, customers pay for it via higher prices every time they make a purchase. In a similar way, corporate tax hikes ultimately lead to lower wages for workers and higher prices for consumers.
And while increasing the capital gains tax seems like it would only hurt Wall Street, the truth is more complicated. As Cato Institute economist Chris Edwards previously told FEE, it would reduce the financial capital available for countless small businesses and start-ups, resulting in fewer opportunities for entrepreneurs and fewer options for consumers.
“Taxing the rich” and “taxing Big Business” might make for good sloganeering. But political rhetoric and economic reality are two different things. Almost all of the various proposed tax increases would, in one way or another, have adverse economic consequences that would ultimately fall on all of us to varying degrees.
Yes, the progressives in Congress pushing these plans for multi-trillion-dollar tax hikes claim that average Americans won’t be negatively impacted. But make no mistake: You’ll feel it in your wallet if these plans come to fruition—regardless of which tax bracket you fall in.
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Banff National Park represents the creme de la creme of the Rocky Mountains. The first national park in Canada and the third in the world, Banff was established in 1885 as a park reserve around the Cave and Basin mineral hot springs (now a historic national site), two years after the completion of Canada’s first transcontinental railroad. The Canadian Pacific Railway immediately recognized the potential for tourism in the area and began constructing a series of elegant hotels along its main line, attracting people from all over the world. In 1984, Banff National Park, in addition to its neighboring sister parks (Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho National Parks and Mount Robson, Mount Assiniboine and Hamber provincial parks) were designated as a world heritage site collectively as the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks.
If you ever get the opportunity to visit the area, it will become readily apparent why it was valued so quickly. Banff National Park is like a giant canvas splattered with multiple shades of blues, greens, warm and cool neutral tones – white, sandy, cream and granite gray shades – towering up and all around you in the form of mountains, lakes, rivers and glaciers.
How many shades of green can you spot in these pictures?
As you drive along one of the highways leading into the park, the landscape appears artificial as if you’ve stepped into a famous painting by Monet. Mountain peaks tower softly against a bright blue background, while clouds float lazily between the peaks. Wildlife bridges traverse the highway to allow animals to cross safely.
If a storm happens to roll through, the hazy clouds filled with rain linger, sandwiched between the densely packed glacier-covered mountains, until the rain finally falls and a mist rises from the valley.
Although some of the worst flooding Alberta has ever seen recently affected the area, the region’s beauty is still breathtaking, rivaling the Swiss Alps. The town of Banff, itself, could surely neighbor ideal pastoral places such as Interlaken or Lucerne, Switzerland and not stand out of place. The town also has comparable architectural features that are reminiscent of the charming character of Swiss villages with its mountain streets lined with chalets, nestled within the soaring mountains.
Canmore, Alberta, located south of the town of Banff, just outside of the national park, is equally beautiful.
The town of Banff sits within the national park, so even if you decide to simply stroll around town for a day, you’re supposed to purchase a park pass. But of course, we didn’t go to Banff just to shop and roam the streets. While exploring the national park and the surrounding towns, there is a plethora of hiking and biking trails, scenic drives, gondola rides and hot springs to choose from. There’s also a good chance you’ll come across assorted wildlife chomping on the hillsides.
This one appropriately titled “Two Butts.”
Some of the most popular and easily accessible attractions within the park are Lake Louise, Moraine Lake, the Icefields Parkway, Bow Valley and the Upper Hot Springs (located in the town of Banff). As always, since we only had a few days to explore, we tried to make the most of the short time we had.
So first off we drove through Bow Valley…
(The rivers in the park consist of a foggy bluish green color, similar to candied milk if there was such a thing.)
…Eventually ending up at Lake Louise. When we first arrived at the lake, a storm was brewing.
As we walked in the rain along a trail leading to the end of the lake, the famous Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise Resort sat huddled amidst the dark clouds.
But as we continued to walk, the sky started to clear and a new scene unfolded.
Once we made it to the end of the lake, the sky completely lifted except for some white puffy clouds. Due to the flooding in the region, the water leading into the turquoise blue lake was muddied but provided an interesting contrast in color.
And of course, I’m always on the lookout for wildflowers.
Our next stop was Lake Moraine; a short drive back down the road. Lake Moraine was an even brighter shade of green. We raced up a short path to the top of a mound of rock overlooking the lake just as the rain caught up to us again.
After running back to the car, we headed for the Icefields Parkway and sunnier skies. First up was Crowfoot Glacier and Bow Lake…
Then Bow Summit and Peyto Lake.
On the way back to town, we stopped off at Herbert Lake just as the light was reflecting perfectly off the water. Many of the lakes in the national park act a pane of mirrored glass revealing nature’s reflection.
As always, it’s hard to come to the end of a perfect day, but it was particularly difficult to leave all the beauty behind. Banff and the surrounding national parks, that make up the Canadian Rockies, are just about as good as its gets when it comes to seeking out mountain terrain. Places like Banff, with it’s surreal natural landscapes, are likely where the expression “Did I die and go to heaven?” originated. But of course the answer is no. It’s just Canada. 🙂
Thoughts on Food – Places we tried and can vouch for:
- Wild Flour Bakery (211 Bear St #101 Banff, AB T1L 1B4, Canada) – Healthy food option – organic breakfast and lunch selections.
- Chateau Deli inside the Fairmont Chateau at Lake Louise – European style deli – great for a snack or a quick bite to eat – try one of their croissants!
- Summit Café (1001 Cougar Creek Drive Canmore, AB T1W 1E1, Canada) – Yummy breakfast choices and sandwiches.
- Wild Bill’s Legendary Saloon (201 Banff Ave Banff, AB T1L 1C4, Canada) – BBQ – Line-dancing on Thursday nights!
- Maple Leaf (137 Banff Ave Banff, AB T1L 1B6, Canada) – Excellent food but spendy – steak, seafood and local game.
- Tasty Treats:
- Banff Sweet Shoppe (#12 201 Banff Ave. AB T1L 1B3) – Fudge, fudge and more fudge!
Also, consider staying in Canmore (only 15-20 minutes south) instead of the town of Banff for cheaper hotel rates!
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Borax is a great way to get your clothes clean and fresh without using harsh chemicals. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to use borax in laundry and some of the benefits of doing so. We’ll also provide tips on how to soak clothes in borax for the best results.
What Is Borax?
First, a little bit of chemistry! Borax is a compound of boric acid and sodium. Boric acid is a white, powdery substance that is found in many rocks and minerals. Sodium is a metal that is found in the Earth’s crust. When these two substances are combined, they form a crystalline solid that is white or colorless.
Borax has a wide variety of uses. It’s commonly used as a cleaning agent or as a pesticide. It’s also used in some industrial processes, such as in the production of glass and ceramics.
How to Use Borax When Doing Laundry
Borax is a natural laundry detergent booster and can be used in many different ways to get your clothes clean and smelling fresh. You can add borax to your regular detergent or use it as a pre-soak for heavily soiled items.
To use borax in your laundry machine, simply add ½ cup to your wash cycle along with your regular detergent. Then, run your clothes through a regular cycle.
If clothing is heavily soaked, soak it in a solution of a tablespoon of borax per gallon of warm water for at least 30 minutes before washing.
Be sure to check the care labels on your clothes before using borax as it can sometimes cause fading. If you’re looking for an all-natural way to get your laundry clean and smelling fresh, give borax a try!
Benefits of Using Borax for Laundry
There are many benefits to using borax in laundry. In addition to being effective in boosting the cleaning power of laundry detergent, borax is very affordable and can be found in most stores. So let’s see how it can help you keep your clothing fresh and clean.
Maintains a Stable pH
Borax is a great addition to any cleaning solution because it raises the pH of laundry water to around 8. Furthermore, it maintains this slightly alkaline pH value, which is perfect for cleaning.
This means that your cleaning solution will be more effective. Therefore, your clothes will be cleaner and brighter, and they’ll smell fresher, too.
Softens Hard Water
If you have hard water, using borax for your laundry can help to soften it. This will make your clothes feel softer and cleaner, and can also help to extend the lifespan of your washing machine. You can add borax to your laundry routine by mixing it with your regular detergent, or by using a pre-mixed solution.
Removes Soap Residue
If your laundry is coming out clean but with a soapy residue, it’s time to add borax to your laundry routine. This natural laundry detergent booster will remove soap residue and leave your clothes clean and fresh. Just add half a cup of borax to your next load of laundry and wash as usual. You’ll see a noticeable difference in the cleanliness of your laundry.
Kills Bacteria and Fungi
As a natural disinfectant, borax can help to kill bacteria and fungi. So if you want to keep your clothes looking and smelling their best, then using borax is the way to go.
Makes White Clothes Whiter
One of the most effective ways to brighten white clothes is to use borax. When used in laundry, borax can help remove stains and whiten your white clothes.
Keeps Nasty Odors at Bay
If you’re looking for a way to neutralize laundry odors, try using borax. This natural ingredient is effective at removing mildew and musty smells from your washing machine.
You can also use it to eliminate ammonia odors from baby clothes. Therefore, adding borax to your laundry is an effective way to keep your laundry smelling fresh.
In case you’re dealing with the smell of cigarette smoke, we’ve compiled all the useful tips on removing this unpleasant smell from your clothing, so feel free to check them out.
Borax is effective at removing even the most stubborn stains. To use borax to remove stains, simply add one tablespoon of borax per gallon of warm water and soak your clothes for about 30 minutes before washing.
This can help loosen dirt and break down tough stains like grass, grease, and soy sauce stains. Borax is safe to use on most fabrics, but it’s always a good idea to test it on an inconspicuous area first to be sure.
Is Borax Safe?
When used as directed, borax isn’t considered to be a health hazard. However, there are some potential health risks associated with its use.
When swallowed, borax can cause gastrointestinal irritation and vomiting. Inhaling dust from products containing borax can also irritate the lungs. Prolonged exposure to borax powder can cause respiratory problems, skin rashes, and eye irritation.
Furthermore, people with preexisting respiratory conditions such as asthma or emphysema may be more susceptible to the effects of borax dust. So it’s important to be careful when handling or using products containing borax.
Also, always keep borax out of reach of children and pets.
If you are going to use borax in laundry, there are a few things to keep in mind. First, be sure to read the label on the borax product carefully and follow the directions. Second, borax is a powerful cleaning agent so you may want to start with a small amount and increase it if needed. Finally, always rinse your clothes thoroughly after washing to remove any residue.
By following these simple tips, your clothes will be cleaner and brighter than ever before. So whether you want to use borax to whiten clothes, remove stains, or eliminate a musty smell, give it a try and see for yourself how borax can help to keep your clothes clean and fresh.
Thanks for reading!
Can you mix borax and bleach?
Borax and bleach don’t react together, so you can safely use them without having any toxic fumes. However, they might be too harsh for some types of fabrics, so always check their labels first.
Can you mix vinegar and borax?
Borax and vinegar may be mixed since they won’t produce any dangerous reaction products. However, you will not create an effective cleaning product this way. Since borax is a base and vinegar is an acid, they’ll neutralize one another.
Does borax bleach clothes?
Borax does not actually bleach clothes. However, it can help to brighten and whiten them when used in conjunction with other detergents.
Is borax safe for baby laundry?
Yes, borax is safe to use in baby laundry. In fact, it can be quite beneficial. Borax can help to brighten and whiten baby clothes. It can also help to remove stubborn odors from soiled garments or diapers.
However, you should always consult your pediatrician before using any new product on your baby’s laundry. You should also make sure to follow the manufacturer’s instructions carefully.
Can you soak clothes in borax overnight?
Yes, you can soak clothes in borax overnight. Soaking your clothes in borax is a great way to pre-treat any stains before washing them. Simply soak the stained item in a solution of one tablespoon of borax per gallon of water for 30 minutes, then wash as usual.
Can I use borax in every load of laundry?
Yes, you can use borax in every load of laundry. Just add half a cup of borax to each load along with your regular detergent and run the cycle as usual. For more tips and tricks on how to use borax in laundry, check out our full article above.
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CHECK OUT THIS STIMULANT FREE WEIGHT LOSS SUPPLEMENT
Obesity Is a Bit of a Buzz Word in Modern Societies
Obesity is the condition that occurs when a person eats more energy than they use. When we consume more energy than we burn, our body stores the excess as fat.Fat, Big, Humongous
Fat, big, humongous, huge, it goes by different terms but it basically refers to one and the same thing Obesity. What is obesity? OK, we know this term has been around for quite a significant period of time for everyone not to know what it is.Diet, Support, And More: How to Prepare for Weight Loss Surgery
Weight loss surgery may be an effective way to gain back your active life. Before undergoing this procedure, learn about how to prepare for it.Is Your Work Environment Making You Fat?
Scientists have found yet another way we get fat and overweight – as if there weren’t enough already. It seems that if we are exposed to environmental light for long enough (the kind we get in the modern offices, work spaces and homes) it can trigger our bodies into becoming less efficient at burning energy, with the inevitable result of storing more fat.Top Home Remedies for Obesity
We live in the world of abnormalities; here Obesity can be termed as a disease. Obesity & overweight that eventually turns into an obsession can be a great hindrance in the way of enjoying life. Even people are dying by suffering from this illness. It enhances the chance that heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure might affect you. However, the good news is it can be procurable. Naturally, people will always go for easy solutions to avoid complex surgeries & bitter medicines. Let’s have a glimpse on some home remedies for this concerning problem –Obesity: Silently Fuels Complicated and High-Risk Diseases
Many people have huge concerns regarding obesity, particularly a cosmetic or lifestyle, but, really – the actual concern should have to be the health problems it makes an individual prone to. In a nutshell – being obese means you are most likely to have complicated health problems. Therefore, take obesity as a very serious health concern, otherwise your life would be at stake.Is Obesity Surgery The Solution To Your Weight Woes?
Now a major public health crisis in America, obesity is one of the nation’s leading killers. Far more effective than dieting or even exercise, obesity surgery offers a permanent solution to the battle of the bulge.Three Types Of Obesity Surgery
Are you considering obesity surgery? Read about the three most popular weight-loss procedures in this article.Tips To Prevent Obesity
Obesity is no laughing matter, and can cause serious health problems including heart disease, diabetes, and depression. However, there are some simple tips to prevent obesity.Lifestyle Changes to Overcome Obesity
Obesity has reached epic proportions world over. It is a condition wherein your calorie intake is way higher than the number of calories you burn, and is often caused by factors such as a sedentary lifestyle, poor eating habits and lack of sleep, among others.Why Obesity Is NOT the Problem
It’s no secret; for the past several decades we have been bombarded with many studies indicating that obesity is the biggest health epidemic we deal with in America. We have also been told that obesity greatly increases the risk for degenerative diseases like heart failure, diabetes, and cancer. THIS IS NOT ENTIRELY TRUE! When these studies were released, the only factors they looked at were weight and Body Mass Index (BMI). People are easily enamored with these figures but in reality, they do not tell you very much.We Are A Society Which Likes Apportion Blame, Who Do You Blame For the State Of Your Health?
In our society when things go wrong we always look for someone else to blame. This tendency is also becoming increasingly apparent when it comes to obesity and health. We blame the Government, the education system, the food industry. The question is, will this approach ever get us anywhere? Maybe it is time to stand on our own two feet and take responsibility for ourselves!What to Know When Considering Bariatric Surgery
Bariatric surgery is a big decision, but in many cases, it helps people lose weight and reduce or reverse weight-related health risks. There are a few indicators to help you determine if you are a candidate for surgery, and if you are, when you should consider scheduling a procedure.Three Things You Need to Know Before Bariatric Surgery
Bariatric surgery or weight loss surgery can impact your life in a number of ways. Before you decide if this procedure is right for you, it’s important to know the facts.Kill Belly Fat: The Enzyme Method
Enzymes are an important piece of the nutritional puzzle. They break down our food and turn it into energy, vitamins, and nutrients. This article examines the importance of enzymes in reducing debilitating, unsightly belly fat.
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What's Going Wrong With Your Hard-Boiled Eggs
Hard-boiled eggs are an easy snack, a good source of protien, and delicious on a salad. They're also fairly easy to make, but just like all things that are fairly easy to make, it doesn't mean they come out perfectly every time. In fact, there are some common mistakes to avoid while making hard-boiled eggs. Here's what might have tripped you up in the past and how to correct it the next time you're making a batch of boiled eggs.
Your Pot Is Too Small
You want to make sure the pot isn't terribly crowded. A pot that's too small means that the eggs might cook unevenly—any bit of an egg that's sticking out of the water isn't going to cook at the same rate as the rest of the egg. A more crowded pot also means there's more chance of the eggs cracking.
You Forgot to Add a Little Vinegar
When you bring a pot of water up to boil for eggs, it's a good idea to add a little vinegar to the water as you put the eggs in. You could put eggs and cold water into a pot, then bring it to a boil—a method that minimizes cracking. The vinegar changes the PH of the water, which encourages the egg white to stick togther. That's particularly helpful if your egg shells do crack while boiling them—the vinegar will minimize the amount of eggs that leaks out.
Your Eggs Have a Grey or Green Ring
If you've ever cracked open a hard-boiled egg to find a greenish or greyish hue on the inside, there are two reasons for that. One, you probably overcooked your eggs. Two, you probably forgot to plunge your eggs into cold water after they're done cooking. Ideally, once your eggs are cooked as much as you want, you scoop them from the pot and place them in an ice water bath. That stops them from cooking any further. You can also place the pot in your sink under running cold water to cool them down quickly.
Your Eggs Are Too Fresh
Very fresh eggs are difficult to peel once you've hard-boiled them. Save those farmer's market eggs for another dish. Slightly older eggs will give you a better result for this application.
You're Peeling Them Too Soon
If you want the egg to separate easily from the whites, you'll want to let them cool down a bit. Not only does that spare your fingers from the hot egg, it allows the egg to separate from the shell, making it easier to remove the shell.
Your Eggs Have a Flat Top
You know when you peel an egg and it turns out less than perfectly egg-shaped? That has to do, again, with the temperature differential between the egg and the water. You can use the method of adding cold eggs to cold water and bringing them to a boil, or you can also leave your eggs out of the refrigerator a bit to come closer to room temperature. That should prevent the flat top from forming—though it will taste just as delicious.
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Nagpur: Social media is crazy and the abundance of viral memes, making any sense or sometimes absolutely nothing speaks it why. Since last night, you must have noticed a strange hashtag, dominating the top trends of Twitter– #JCBKiKhudayi. For most of us, it took a significant amount of time, to figure out what the tag even meant and why netizens are sharing pictures of bulldozers, making memes of it.
After digging onto the #JCBKiKhudayi memes a little more, it was understood the trend came from the fact that many people, especially Indians are watching videos of JCB excavator digging up the dirt, which increased the number of views to more than a million on YouTube. Now, joining the #JCBKiKhudayi meme world, Nagpur City Police has come up with its unique “Judicious and Cautious use of Brakes” message, urging the citizens to drive safe. Funny JCB Ki Khudai Memes Flood Twitter but Why Is #JCBKiKhudayi Video Going Viral and Trending in India?
Police departments in India have very well mastered to use social media meme culture to deliver their important and cautious message to the public. Seeing #JCBKiKhudayi meme going viral, it came in as no surprise to us, to see Nagpur City police putting their apt humour on point. It very well, used JCB abbreviation, to share their important drive safe memo. ‘Layega to Kohli Hi’, ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 Funny and Encouraging Memes Take Over the Internet Before Start of CWC in England.
— NagpurCityPolice (@NagpurPolice) May 27, 2019
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School bags for all
The Christina Swart-Opperman Aids Orphan Foundation Trust recently launched the School Bag Project to contribute to the education of orphans and vulnerable children. Each learner’s School Bag includes a school jersey, lunch box, water bottle, stationary, socks and school shoes .The Trust asked companies to help with the project by donating funds or some of the items that must go into the School Bag. The target for this year is to give 300 orphans and vulnerable children each his or her own School Bag. NamPower responded first and donated 100 school bags and 100 water bottles.
The Olof Palme Primary School, a current project of the Trust, will be the beneficiary of these school bags and water bottles. “NamPower is happy to be able to contribute to this worthwhile initiative by the Trust. We know that our donation will greatly impact the status of the beneficiaries of the project”, said Ms Tangeni Kambangula (left), Manager: Marketing and Corporate Communications at Nampower. Here she is with Dr Christina Swart-Opperman, Founder of the Christina Swart-Opperman Aids Orphan Foundation Trust at the handing over of the bags and water bottles. (Photograph by Mandisa Rasmeni)
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The new devices are good for people who spend more time on the Google cloud. Getting the Google services such as Gmail, YouTube, Google docs, Google drive, and the rest will be easier with these devices. The issue of speed nowadays is very important in the marketing of any mobile or computer device. Google has realized this and is continuously working on having the fastest hardware that they can offer.
However, the Chromebook and the Chrome box are not up to scratch yet. They cannot support a number of software such as Skype, Photoshop iTunes among others. This really limits the user in terms of what they can do. Even if the speed improves, without being compatible with useful software, it becomes non appealing to the consumers.
Google on the other hand, appreciates that the new Chrome OS-driven devices are not for everybody, but for a certain targeted niche that realizes the advantages of them. In fact Google did not advertise the first generation Chromebooks, opting for consumers to find them by themselves. They have however decided to market the new devices and try to put across the advantages to the consumers. Google and partners such as Samsung are working on connecting the Android phones with the Chromebooks. This will make sure that Android lovers will be more comfortable with the Chrome run devices rather than the Windows or Mac machine.
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Library Workshop: Marriage, Divorce and Bigamy with Christine Hills
A members-only event, led by Christine Hills.
In the past, given the chance, most people would have got married rather than ‘live in sin’.
Understanding the marriage law in England and Wales over the last 400 years when the Church held sway and divorce was impossible for the majority of the population, will enable you to understand why your ancestors behaved as they did.
Through discussion of examples, we will devise search strategies for missing marriages or even discover why your ancestor married the same person twice.
Numbers are restricted to enable all participants to ask questions, share knowledge and engage with other members.
Please reserve a place with [email protected] including the event, title and date together with your name and membership number. Workshop leaders freely give their time, but a donation towards the Society's contribution to the library running costs is appreciated. A donation box will be available on the day.
This is a face to face meeting at the library, which the Society has sole use of on Wednesdays.
Kent County Library, 80 Summerhouse Drive, Joydens Wood, Bexley, Kent, DA5 2EE
Parking in nearby roads.
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Attached is a picture of 3 Railroad bridges over Union Road in Cheekatowga, New York. All three were built at the same time of the Department of Public Works, State of New York. The railroads are the Erie, the Lackawanna, and the Lehigh Valley Railroads. Does anyone know what year these bridges were built?
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EXPORTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA- ISSUE OF FOREIGN END USER CERTIFICATE
END USER CERTIFICATE
An End User Certificate (EUC) is a clear written undertaking of an importer or buyer in a foreign country, that any item purchased from South Africa and exported by South Africa to that foreign country, is for its sole use. Furthermore, the importer has to certify that the item is not destined for transfer or re-export to any other party or State in its original form, without the prior written consent of South Africa. Such consent will have to be obtained from the relevant South African Authority in terms of:
the Armaments Development and Production Act, 1968 (Act 57 of 1968);
the Regulation of Foreign Military Assistance Act, 1998 (Act 15 of 1998);
the Arms and Ammunition Act, 1969 (Act 75 of 1969);
the Teargas Act, 1964 (Act 16 of 1964);
the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Act, 1993 (Act 87 of 1993); and
the Nuclear Energy Act, 1999 (Act 46 of 1999).
The EUC must be an original document. Please note that no copies of EUC's will be accepted nor used for processing export applications.
The EUC must correlate with the subsequent order for the item covering the specific transaction including any Annexures to the order for the item. It must at all times bear witness of:
- the issuing authority;
- the place and date of issue;
- a reference number;
- the signature and name, as well as the title and position of such signatory; and
- must include an official Government stamp or seal.
In the EUC, the foreign buyer or importer has to declare that any item purchased will not be transferred or resold without the prior consent of the relevant South African Authority and will not be used for the development or use of any item of mass destruction.
It is at all times the responsibility of the seller in South Africa to obtain the EUC from the buyer in the foreign country. Such an EUC must be a verified and authenticated document.
Authentication of an EUC is the verification that the document is legal in that
- (a)the signature, title and position of the signatory (see Question 2), and
- (b)where appropriate, the identity and seal it bears are all authentic.
In the foreign buyers or importers country, the signature on the EUC and the details of the EUC are first verified by the foreign country's State Authority
The EUC is then authenticated. The relevant signature on the EUC (and Annexures, where applicable) is authenticated by the South African Mission in the foreign country or by the foreign country's Mission in South Africa. The final authentication of the EUC document is performed by the Department of Foreign Affairs' Consular and Agency Section, in Pretoria
Authentication of an EUC document is needed when the foreign buyer's or importers country is not a State Party to The Hague Convention of 5 October 1961: Abolishing the Requirement of Legislation for Foreign Public Documents". In this case, the legally appointed State Authority in the buyer's or importer's country is required to verify the EUC, after which the EUC has to be authenticated.
The South African Authority is: The Department of Foreign Affairs' (DFA=s) Consular and Agency Services in Pretoria.
The contact details of DFA's Consular and Agency Services in Pretoria are:
Room EG20 , Eikendal
1234 Church Street
Telephone: (012) 351-1231
Telefax: (012) 351-1916
Authentication of an EUC is not needed in all cases where the foreign buyer's or importer's country is a State Party to The Hague Convention of 5 October 1961: AAbolishing the Requirement of Legislation for Foreign Public Documents" (see Question 9). When the foreign buyer's or importer=s country is a State Party to The Hague Convention of 1961, the legally appointed State Authority in the buyer's or importer's country is required to certify EUC's with the prescribed Apostile Stamp of The Hague Convention of 5 October 1961.
According to The Hague Convention of 5 October 1961, EUC's from the importing country bearing the Apostile Stamp, must be accepted by the exporting country as authentic.
EUC's bearing the Apostile stamp need not be authenticated by either
the importer's foreign Mission in South Africa;
the importing country's local delegated authority
South African foreign missions; or
the DFA's Consular and Agency Services.
The following countries are State Parties to The Hague Convention of 5 October 1961:
Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Malawi, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Namibia, New Zealand, Niue, Norway, Panama, Portugal, Russian Federation, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, San Marino, Serbia and Montenegro, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, St Vincent & Grenadines, Surinam, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America, Venezuela and Yugoslavia.
The following routes could be applicable to have an EUC authenticated in cases where countries are not State Parties to The Hague Convention of 5 October 1961:
Route 1: Industry should have the South African Mission accredited in the foreign buyer=s or importer's country authenticate the verified EUC after which DFA's Consular and Agency Services in Pretoria will certify the South African Mission's authentication of the EUC.
This is the preferred route for a South African exporter to follow.
Route 2: The foreign buyer=s or importer's local foreign Embassy/High Commission in South Africa could be approached to verify the EUC after which the EUC will be authenticated by DFA's Consular and Agency Services in Pretoria. Note 1
A South African exporter should please note that this is not the preferred route to follow in cases where South Africa is represented in the foreign importer=s country, whereby Route 1 should be utilized.
Route 3: In cases where South Africa does not have physical representation in a foreign buyer=s or importer's country, and the foreign buyer=s or importer's country is not represented in South Africa, industry may utilize the Foreign Embassy/High Commission in South Africa that is accredited to the relevant country. Note 2
The procedure is similar to that in Route 2.
The DFA's Consular and Agency Services keeps specimen copies of the signatures of Heads of Foreign Missions in South Africa. Should the Head of Mission not be available or the post is vacant, specimen copies of the second in charge have to be forwarded to the DFA's Consular and Agency Services to be placed on their records.
This process is performed by way of a Note Verbale which is forwarded to the relevant Embassy/High Commission by the DFA, requesting the full names, designation and signature of the Head of Mission or second-in-charge. The requested information is then sent to the DFA=s Consular and Agency Services by way of a Note Verbale from the relevant Embassy/High Commission.
This means that the whole process is lengthy and can take 2 to 3 weeks to be finalized.
After the importer's local Embassy/High Commission has verified the EUC, DFA's Consular and Agency Services then authenticates the signature of the Transferred Official charged with such responsibility, which appears on the EUC.
Note 2: Industry may be aware that there are other legal means to authenticate documentation in South Africa. Due to the nature of the goods and technology indicated in the above-mentioned Acts, the procedure to authenticate EUC's as described above should be followed, the cost of which will be minimal to industry.
(Convention de La Haye du 5 octobre 1961)
This public document has been signed by____________________
acting in the capacity of____________________________________
bears the seal/stamp of__________________________________
NON TRANSFER/END USE CERTIFICATE
To be presented to the National Conventional Arms Control Committee and the South African Non-Proliferation Council acting in their capacity as the national authority on conventional arms/ non-proliferation control, in terms of the Armaments Production & Development Act (Act 57 of 1968) and the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Act, 1993 (Act No 87 of 1993) and
It is hereby certified that the item(s) listed in the attached schedule(s) will be installed at/delivered to:
(Full details of place/institution):
For the exclusive use by (full details of place/institution):
And will be used solely for the purpose(s) of (detailed application):
The item(s) will be used for purpose(s) stated and will not be modified or replicated without the prior written consent of the South African Government Representative(s).
The CONSIGNEE/BUYER grants access and permission to South African Government Representative(s) to visit the stated facilities so as to verify the END USER and END USE of and compliance with the above stated stipulations.
The CONSIGNEE/BUYER hereby confirms that the item(s) will not be used in the development, production, stockpiling, maintenance or transit of any nuclear, chemical or biological weapon or delivery system intended to deliver such weapons.
Neither the item(s) nor derivatives will be transferred to any other party without the prior written consent of the South African Government Representative(s).
The CONSIGNEE/BUYER undertakes not to alienate, resell or dispose of in any manner any of the item(s) as purchased/obtained from the CONSIGNOR/SELLER or CO-MANUFACTURER without the prior written consent of the South African Government Representative.
THUS DONE AND SIGNED BY THE CONSIGNEE/BUYER ON THIS (DAY) OF (MONTH) OF AT (PLACE).
SIGNATURE FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE END USER
OF THE GOVERNMENT OF
THE CONSIGNEE'S/BUYER'S COUNTRY AUTHENTICATION ISSUED BY SA GOVERNMENT
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Advancing your learning is constantly a good expenditure
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Each from these instances is actually interesting folks that normally are ruled out technologically intelligent. Nonetheless, the appropriate Undergraduate degree online program will definitely give you the training to combine your innovative agree the current modern technologies.
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In Japan there is a tradition of folding 1000 paper cranes to make a wish. The little girl dies before she is able to fold all 1000 cranes. I was particularly touched by that scene, and went into the studio.
I first recorded ‘Hiroshima Sky Is Always Blue,’ and realized that it was too long to be in a play. ‘Never mind,’ I thought. ‘I should just keep recording when I’m inspired.’
”I’m Dying’ was the second piece I recorded.
‘Kurushi’ was the third.
Kurushi, in Japanese, means something like ‘tormented,’ ‘pained’ and ‘suffocating.’ In fact, it’s a very Japanese word, and there is no exact translation in English.
When I was recording ‘Kurushi,’ I felt that the little girl was me. Then at one point I heard myself saying ‘Mommy. Mommy, I’m in pain.’ I couldn’t believe it. I’m still calling for my mother? Where did that come from? Then I remembered my son, Sean, crying ‘Mommy’ in the middle of the night when he was in pain. Probably that’s what we all do. But I haven’t called out to my mother for the longest time. In my mind’s eye, I saw a large projection of my mother’s face on a backdrop, while I, as a little girl, kept folding the paper crane. Mother was a projection. That’s why I gave up calling out to her. I thought. In the dark booth of the studio, I felt my soul-antenna reaching for her and touching only emptiness. It was sad, but it also made my head clear. I felt alright.
Then songs flooded into my head, and I kept writing and recording. The memory of being a young child in Japan during the second World War came back to me. I remember being called an American spy by other kids for not singing the Japanese National Anthem fast enough (it’s a slow song, but they suspected that I didn’t know the Anthem too well since I lived in the United States before the war). I remember the severe bombing in Tokyo, hiding in an air-raid shelter listening to the sound of the bombs coming closer and then going away, and feeling that my mother and I lived another day.
I remember when something that seemed like a piece of a B-52’s fuselage fell in our garden with the words ‘piss on you’ scribbled on it. I remember how Count T., my uncle and a Princeton graduate, laughingly said to my mother that he would not translate such a word in the presence of a lady. I remember sneaking into my father’s library and looking in the dictionary to find the word ‘piss,’ without success.
I remember being evacuated to the country; the food shortage, and starving; going to the next village to find rice for my brother and sister; being stoned by the village kids who hated people from the city; getting anaemic and being diagnosed as having pleurisy; being abused by a doctor, and having my appendix taken out without proper anaesthetics because of the shortage of medicine.
I remember how I cried at the end of the war, how bombed out Tokyo looked when I returned from the country on the back of a truck, and what we went through daily reading about the people in Hiroshima. The ones who died of burns went quickly. The ones who died of leukaemia went through a slow and agonizing death. We lived through their death.
Then I realized that there was a striking similarity in what I went through then and what I am going through now. The city is a warzone. And I now have many friends around me who are facing slow death from AIDS. They are suffering low white blood cell counts exactly as the Hiroshima victims were. I am living amongst my suffering friends, listening to them talk about their fear of death, sometimes jokingly, and other times in anger. I live through their nightmares, not daring to voice my own.
The making of the album served as a purging of my anger, pain and fear. I hope it will for you, too.
The story is a fictional retelling of the life of Sadako Sasaki at the time of the atomic bombing by the USA, Sadako was 2 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945 near her home n Hiroshima, Japan. She was at home when the explosion occurred, about one mile from Ground Zero. In November 1954 at age 12 she was diagnosed with leukemia from the radiation. (Her mother referred to it as “an atom bomb disease”). She was hospitalized on February 21, 1955 with one year to live.
Sadako’s friend told her to fold origami paper cranes in hope of making 1,000. She was inspired by the Japanese legend that one who created 1,000 origami cranes would be granted a wish. Her wish was simply to live. In the story, she managed to fold only 644 cranes before she died on 25 October 1955. Her friends and family helped finish her dream by folding the rest of the cranes, which were buried with Sadako.
However, the claim in the book that Sadako died before completing the 1000 cranes is not backed up by her surviving family members. According to her family, Sadako not only exceeded 644 cranes, she exceeded her goal and died having folded approximately 1,400 paper cranes. Her family donated Sadako’s cranes at places of importance around the world: in NYC at the 9-11 memorial, at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, at Museum Of Tolerance on May 26 2016 and Japanese American National Museum.
After her death, Sadako’s friends raised funds to build a memorial to her and all children who had died from the effects of the atomic bomb. In 1958, a statue of Sadako holding a golden crane was unveiled in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Hiroshima Peace Park.
At the foot of the statue is a plaque that reads: “This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace on Earth.” Every year on Obon Day, which is a holiday in Japan to remember the departed spirits of one’s ancestors, thousands of people leave paper cranes near the statue. A paper crane database is online for contributors to leave a message of peace.
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The West End’s non-musical roots
Today the West End has become synonymous around the world with musical theatre. However, this was not always the case. Its flagship theatres were once the only two venues in which you could watch non-musical stage shows in London.
Until the modifying of the Theatre Licensing Act in 1843, non-musical theatre was heavily restricted by the UK government. The vast majority of companies were forced under law to stick to productions where there could be no dialogue except to music, helping strengthen the tradition of dancing, pantomime, and musical plays that we see today.
It seems unthinkable now but the two flagship venues of West End theatre at the time provided the only alternatives to musicals. Both Drury Lane and Covent Garden (or as it is now, The Royal Opera House) were granted special license to put on what was then known as “legitimate” theatre, i.e. spoken word. This helped the government to maintain tight censorship over non-musical material, which could often be highly politicised, and the law was not officially fully repealed in writing until 1968.
It’s an interesting quirk in the evolution of West End theatre that often gets overlooked in its history, but the area did for a time at least, represent a very different style of performance.
And now as we see musical theatre beginning to evolve again into a more social and political artform (as the widespread popularity of Hamilton, which finally went on sale in the West End this week, demonstrates) we can see the performances of the West end beginning to adapt again. It’s a beautiful home for the cream of global theatre and an area of London that Winterson’s is proud to be based in!
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<Strelitzia reginae, commonly known as the crane flower or bird of paradise, is a species of flowering plant. An evergreen perennial, it is widely cultivated for its dramatic flowers. In temperate areas it is a popular houseplant.>
The popular Birds-of-Paradise plant bears a unique flower that resembles a brightly colored bird in flight, giving it the common name, Bird of Paradise. The Birds-of-Paradise flowers make the plant an exceptionally attractive landscape plant.
Flowering Season: With sufficient light, usually warmer months.
Plant Structure: Large fronds growing from center node.
Size: ~1.5 – 2m high, 1 – 1.5m Wide
Misc Extra: Strong roots, ensure planted in a large pot if not in the ground, roots can damage walls and pots when plant is mature.
Conditions: low-maintenance, fairly tolerant of soil conditions and needs little water once established, full sun to semi-shade, regular feeding with a controlled release fertiliser and compos
Planting ideas and uses: feature, garden, ornamental, tubs and containers
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Cathepsin D inhibitors as potential therapeutics for breast cancer treatment against triple-negative and triple-positive breast cancers
Yogeeswari Perumal1, 2,
1Department of Pharmacy, Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani-Hyderabad campus, Shameerpet, R.R. District, Hyderabad-500078, Telangana, India; 2Co-Founder, Yogee’s Bioinnovations Private Limited, Room No. 5, Technology Business Incubator, Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani-Hyderabad campus, Shameerpet, R.R. District, Hyderabad-500078, Telangana, India
Breast cancer is the MOST COMMON CANCER in women all over India and accounts for 25% to 31% of all cancers in women globally. Approximately 15% of all breast cancers are diagnosed as triple negative breast cancer (TNBC)- an aggressive subtype. Currently TNBC has no treatment option except chemotherapy and surgery.
In our recent study, we have identified a therapeutic target, a lysosomal protease expressed not only in ER/PR positive, HER negative cell lines, but also in triple negative breast cancer cell lines. Drug candidates were designed and developed as a Cathepsin D (CatD) enzyme inhibitors, and were checked for anti-cancer activity and their role in inhibiting angiogenesis. Current status of research on Cathepsin D is vigorous to develop more specific and potent drug molecules in treating breast cancers in women. In spite of many other drug molecules and therapies available in the field of breast cancer and Oncology, latest clinical findings depict the need to develop targeted inhibition of genes/mediators involved in the downstream regulation of tumor progression and metastasis. On the other hand, the tumor cells are gaining resistance to drug molecules and taking another pathway in tumor progression. This is quite challenging to explore the new strategies involved for effective treatment of cancer.
The invented compounds (YS-1 and YS-12) from our laboratory have shown significant inhibitory activity towards CatD and also in reducing the growth of a panel breast cancer cells which included ER/PR positive with HER negative cell lines and triple negative breast cancer cell lines. Patent process has been initiated as these chemical compounds were novel. Further the candidate drugs exhibited antiangiogenic properties tested in-vivo in a zebra fish model.
Credits: None available.
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Views: 5 Author: Site Editor Publish Time: 2022-07-07 Origin: Site
The feet are often subjected to tremendous pressure and impact. The pressure can lead to many illnesses such as foot disorders, foot pain, and even back pain. It would help if you could keep your feet comfortable to prevent pain and absorb shock. Insoles are an invaluable tool to help keep your feet healthy. However, we always overlook the importance of the use of insoles. Here are the reasons why you need insoles and the importance of insoles. Share by profession custom insole manufacturer Foamwell.
1. Reduce the risk of sports injuries
Insoles are perfect for improving the comfort of your shoes. The good cushioning effect of insoles can reduce the impact on joints and muscles and reduce the pain during sports.
It is effortless to get injured while playing sports if you are an athlete with flat feet. This is because fast and flexible movements can lead to repeated stress on the feet in the most popular sports like basketball or soccer. This is why it is highly recommended that you check your foot posture if you are an athlete. In addition to injuries, flat arches have the potential to ruin your shape and affect your performance.
But athletic insoles not only help support proper foot movement but can also redistribute pressure on the bottom of the foot. But athletic insoles can keep the painful area free from any excess pressure.
2. Relieve foot pain
Many results have found that insoles can relieve pain. Wearing uncomfortable shoes with little to no support is one of the leading causes of foot pain. Using insoles can help realign the bones and joints of the foot, ankle, and lower extremity to reduce arch pain and foot fatigue. This is another function that a good insole can bring to you.
3. Simple and affordable
Insoles represent the simplest solution to support flat arches throughout the day, especially compared to other expensive options. While surgery may be required in extreme cases, you can conveniently manage your flat arches early on with insoles.
In addition, insoles help protect your feet from painful conditions that may interfere with your ability to walk normally.
You do not have to incur recurring medical expenses and services to treat foot disorders or lower extremity pain by simply placing the insoles in your shoes. In this way, your insoles are economical in the long run. 4.
4. Insoles help your whole body
Insoles do not only help your feet. Our bones and body are all connected. The entire muscle chain, tendons, and ligaments work together when we move. Just like a machine, when one cog doesn't work correctly, it can cause problems elsewhere. Therefore, insoles can help relieve some body pain caused by foot problems.
5. Helps your shoes last longer
Another benefit of foam insoles is financial. Using insoles can reduce the wear and tear on your shoes. You can save some money since you don't have to replace them as often.
There are many types of insoles on the market. Only well-built insoles will give you better results in the long run. Suppose you are interested in customizd insoles, welcome to contact us. In that case, we have various types, styles, and functions of insoles for you to choose from. We also have a professional design team to advise you and customize the insoles that best meet your requirements.
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This Lesson Plan: Communicating With Body Language lesson plan also includes:
- Graphic & Image
- Join to access all included materials
The Olmec were an ancient people native to Mexico who lived from 1000-500 BC. Young artists examine the Olmec piece Seated Figure to analyze the use of body language to communicate a tone or feeling. They then use clay or play-dough to create their own expressive sculpture. Background information and images are included.
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Science Olympiad is nationwide competition. Students compete in 23 events that include earth science, biology, chemistry, physics,
and engineering. Science Olympiad is designed to increase a student’s interest in STEM fields and provide recognition for outstanding
achievement in team events. Students compete in Science Olympiad with the top teams advancing from State to National levels. The IASO tournament will run 25 events with 23 creating your final team score.
September 6th - schedule release of the 2023 rules
IASO is now a registered 501(c)3 and our TIN is 86-1840110.
If you need an updated copy of our W-9 please contact us at
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Perhaps They’ll Tax the Uhaul Trucks on Their Way Out of State
The Long Island Railroad increased fares by 10% last week. Yes, a 10% increase in fares at a time when prices are falling around the nation and some are worried about deflation. And a 10% price hike when ridership plummeted from what it was just one year ago (quiz time to my econ students, what should happen to prices when demand falls substantially?).
One of my brothers lives a good ways out in Long Island (just over into Suffolk County). He already spends $3,600 per year to ride the subway into Manhattan. A few things worth noting:
- His fares will increase by $400 per year.
- It already takes him nearly 2 hours to get to his office to do this.
- With the internet of other technology, he already works some days from home – soon enough it might be many days per week – what happens to the LIRR revenues then?
- It is not unimaginable that more and more offices will locate ON Long Island rather than in the city.
- And the kicker, for a system that has 280,000 passengers PER DAY, I am told (need help finding the data here) that the rider fares cover only 50% of the costs of the railroad operation – the rest comes from subsidies – including diverting tolls from already paid off New York Bridges and Tunnels to keep the unions railroad afloat. If passenger rail cannot work in a place like New York, it is a hole bigger than any you could imagine just about anywhere else. Can’t wait for all of that light-rail construction around the U.S, who is going to pay for that? Oh wait, I should just shut up and do my patriotic duty to continue shoveling earnings into the hole to benefit a few hole diggers.
A post on bus service and public transportation is brewing. By the way, I’d remind readers that many of the “rich” folks that have been getting “richer” since the early 1980s also happen to live in costly places like Long Island. Their “real” standard of living is vastly overstated by looking only at income measures.
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RSS (Latest In Depth web feed) Nature Features
What's happening in April
With the onset of autumn, many Australian plants are slowing their growth. But rainforests are still a hive of activity, with many native plants bearing fruit as the temperatures cool.
More April events
The common Indian myna bird is fast becoming Australia's number one feral enemy! In autumn, mynas start to aggregate in large flocks - providing the perfect opportunity to trial a new trap that could finally provide a way to remove these clever and aggressive pests.
Australian freshwater turtles squirt foul smells, suck up water through their bottoms and live happily in raw sewerage. Meet a true Aussie survivor known as the 'stinker'.
Every March and April, the grey headed flying fox gets in the mood for love.
Right now, in the wilds of Tasmania, the Tassie Devil is getting down and dirty. Tasmanian Devils are in the middle of their mating season. Their young will gestate through autumn and winter and emerge from the pouch next spring.
At the end of autumn, a tree in the middle of the Tasmanian bush does something unusual. It changes colour to red, orange and gold. Local people call it the "turning of the fagus" and it's a spectacular reminder of Australia's Gondwanan heritage.
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