Things hopefully gonna be looking good for the Hammers!!!!!!!!
Bill Gates rumour – heard the same thing on Friday with the exception of the sponsor. The Hammers fan who told me the rumour said the sponsor wouldnt be microsoft but would be the charity that Bill and his wife set up. . I laughed it off as being ridiculous. . is their real truth to it?????
Man United to sign Carlos Tevez permanently within 2 weeks time and the fee will be in the region of 25m pound not 32m as quoted previously. . United will make another signing in January and the player will be none other than Douglas Costa(I told you first a week ago). .
My mate's uncle's, sister's, brother's, girlfriend knows a guy who knows a guy and says "Costcutters" will buy Manchester United.
1)Bolton paid 5 million for him and consider him one of the best prospects to ever play at the Rbk. so for one, 5 million would be too low.
3)Gary Cahill is English! Arsene Wenger will have no interest in him therefore.
And to the comic who says there are no posh restaurants in Bolton. . have u not heard of McDonalds? We've got 3 of them! They could've met in any 3 of them.
The Kop should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.
constantly linking a player like Kuyt to Hamburg of all places.
The man is the lynch pin and yes he may not be flasy but that Liverpool Man City match showed that even if u have a Robinho if he doesn't keep on his marker, he is only half–good in the EPL.
He has been in superb form this season, and he tracks back! His tackling is also worthy of notice and he is very similar to Alonso but quicker.
Barca, Henry isnt really well liked by Pep or his coaching staff and is said to have become the new Mad Eto. So that begs the question. .
He will retire there and will join the coaching staff in coming years.
Now this is a crazy rumour but it is picking up some serious wind.
Robert De Niro to Oceans'14 OMG!!!
Liverpool will be having a big winter including both buying and selling.
Manchester united will sign Jao Moutinho next summer but sir alex ferguson won't be signing Tevez as he wants to give Manucho and Campbell a fair chance as back–up to Berba and rooney. Then expect Tevez to move to Arsenal to show Sir Alex what he's missing, Wenger is willing to pay the 28 million after seeing the quality and carachter that he has.
With Fabregas continuously stating that he wants to return to Spain one day, expect Wenger to attempt to lure Xabi Alonso to the Emirates as Fabregas is good mates with Alonso and he could keep Cesc happy at Arsenal. I have read that damn Alex Hleb is trying to persuade Fabregas to return to Barca, as they are close friends and want to reunite. However Hleb said that Fabregas repeatidly tells him that he is happy at Arsenal, so with the signing of Xabi Alonso, Fabregas could remain happy at Arsenal and we could really use an experienced midfielder with such class as Alonso. If this fails, Arsenal could undoubtabley succed in signing Yaya Toure.
After seeing arsenal falter early on in the season Wenger will sign players to apease his stars in january.
Arsenal will look to offload injury prone Tomas Rosicky as the Czech star has failed to make an impact under Arsene Wenger. Juventus are the most interested and are looking to swoop Rosicky for a cut price of £4m.
Phillepe Senderos will also depart by signing a permanent deal at AC Milan for £6m.
With the £10m funds from those transfers Arsene Wenger will look to sign PSV Eindhoven starlet Ibrahim Afellay for £7m on a 4 year deal.
Also joining will be Zapater from Real Zaragoza for £8m as an ideal partner for Cesc Fabregas.
Finally as a potential replacement for William Gallas, english yes english defender Gary Cahill will join for £5m with misfit Mikael Silvestre going the other way.
it's true arsene wenger is after Arda Turan the reason he didnt sign him before the deadline was the intervention of sir alex ferguson. when Turan found out that he was wanted by utd but that they couldnt sign him until january at the earlist, he said he wanted time 2 think about it and of course the askin price went up so arsenal were thwarted in there attempt 2 sign him. but don't rule out him moving 2 arsenal it could still go either way. also sir alex is interested in a young argie who goes by the name of Angel Di Maria which is interseting as he plays on the wing the same as Turan is it a straight choice between the 2 or are utd going 2 be losing a winger soon? well either way the only other addition 2 the squad will be a new goalkeeper most lkiely Ochoa or Kemeni but don't rule out it being sum1 else all together. my contact is a scout at united but he only scouts sum not all the targets, thus why info can change rather quickly.
To The Comical Genious Who Wrote This, You Made My Day. > "To the person who said that he saw Julio Cruz with Gary Megson is obviously lying, i can believe that they met, but a posh restuarant in Bolton? That i carnt believe"
Arsene Wenger Will Decide To Spend Some Of The Funds Available To Him By Luring Yaya Toure And Arda Turan To The Emirates. Their Combined Cost Will Be In The Region Of £23m. Yaya Has Fallen Down The Pecking Order At Barca And Wants To Be Playing First Team Football And Would Also Enjoy Being Re–United With His Older Brother Kolo. Arda Turan Is Looking To Improve And Wants To Make A Big Impression For Turkey And He Believes A Move To The Capital Would Help.
Kiki musampa to wrexham or accy rumours are rife for the 2 clubs!!
With WHUFC having 2 sell some of their players , its been known AW may give an offer 2 WHUFC 4 gk Robert Green in Jan 2 replace Alumnia . Due 2 Rosickeys injury problems AW may either sell or loan out Rosicky in Jan , then see AW use Wilshire , Ramsey more . Possble shock move 4 Spurs defender DAWSON by AW 2 replace Djourou who its heard may go out on loan in Jan .
Normally i post news about the North West clubs however my source has some news about the London clubs.
Poor West Ham (no pun intented) will really have 2 sell if no new owner is found. Expect Upson (7m)and Ashton (9m) to leave for Spurs, as well as Quashie (1m), Neill (2m), Mullins (2m), Etherington (3m), Cole (4m) and unfortunately for the Hammers . . Mark Noble (10m – ). Coming in will be Appiah (free,(who is now willing to lower his wages to secure a deal), Heskey (4 m), Nugent (loan), Duff (2.5m), Khizinashvili (1m), Johnny Evans (loan)and DeMerit (nominal fee). Sad times at the Hammers.
Arsene Wenger is still looking for a defensive midfielder and his top target is Man City's Michael Johnson. If Johnson does not get a place in Mark Hughes' team due to their daft spending, he will be looking to leave City and Wenger is willing to pay up2 £15m for the youngster.
Don't expect Ramos to be at Spurs much longer. Gus Poyet will take the helm and will ask Dennis Wise yes, Dennis Wise to be his number 2. He'll bring in Ashton and Upson from the Hammers. Wise will recommend some more English talent with versatile defender Wes Brown and Gareth Barry topping of his list.
To the person who said that Rangers have just annouced a £350 million pound deal to redevelop the surrounding areas around Ibrox,this is in fact true but what he didnt tell you is that Rangers are now actively seeking partners to finance the project.Always read the small print.
Free agent Kiki Musampa is in talks with Coca–Cola Football League Two side Accrington Stanley about a switch to the Fraser Eagle Stadium, this comes weeks after John Coleman confirmed that the club had been in talks with Jay Jay Okocha.
Arsenal have a deal in place for a South American Striker where the forward would move on loan to Salamanca to gain experiece.
Nigerian International John Obi Mikel is reportedly on Wengers list as well after it was heard Wenger pulled out of a deal for Mineiro and requested the free agent to Luiz Felipe Scolari.
If not mikel Arsenal could make a move for Wilson Palacios.
There is chances of Wenger getting Dutch International Ibrahim Afellay and Belgium International Dembele.
Pedro will return and fight for LM with Rosicky and Traore will stick LWB.
While Barazite will return and make an instant impact.
Arsenal are taking look at Brazilian trio?
Arsenal are on the verge of bringing Turkish winger Arda Turan to the club after his club and Arsenal came to terms on a �15.8million transfer.
The free–scoring right midfielder shined for Turkey in the Euro 2008 after 2 goals and 4 assists.
Arsene Wenger who is an admirer of the player said when asked about Turan "I am a huge fan of Arda[Turan]".
"He reminds me of Ronaldo or Overmars".
"He's a very versatile player and his abilities show he will be a greater player than he already is".
Wenger was later on that week asked if he is still in the market and he said "Well while there is January we are in no rush".
"There's only a few days left of the transfer window".
"There are many players who want to join, But I have 1 in mind".
"I've spoke to the press about him before".
when asked if it was Arshavin Wenger said "Well he's good player with loads of experience. But No its not him".
When asked about Turan "Well he is great too".
"But I don't want to get into too much details".
"There are negotiations and a deal should be finalized come the New Year."
Charlton Athletic has had a bid placed by an arabian billionare(cant remem. name) they were the ones that were linked to newcastle.They made the bid because thay can see potential but whether it is accepted is a different story.
"David Murray is actually the 113th richest man in Great Britain mate google it yourself and check it out on Wikipedia before you advise others!!!"


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Festival that comes with and without strings attached
Published: 11:35 PM January 28, 2015 Updated: 2:41 PM October 10, 2020
Manipulate Festival at Norwich Puppet Theatre. Mr Carmen by Theatre AKHE. Photo: Vladimir Telegin. - Credit: Vladimir Telegin
A festival involving puppets — something for the kids then? Think again, Manipulate puts an adult spin on an art form traditionally aimed at children, bringing premieres and some of the world's best visual theatre artists to Norwich. SIMON PARKIN reports.
Manipulate Festival at Norwich Puppet Theatre. BUTTERFLYBY RAMESH MEYYAPPAN'S BUTTERFLY.Credit: Ross Gilmore. - Credit: Ross Giilmore
Norwich Puppet Theatre is once again about to host an international festival featuring puppetry and animation — however before you rush out to book tickets to take the kids, you may want to take a second look.
Productions include a wildly absurd Russian show in which a man meets his alter ego, which include nudity, a grief-stricken interpretation of Madame Butterfly and night featuring the macabre animated films.
It's a far cry from Thumbelina and Three Little Pigs then — but it aims to go a long way towards proving that puppetry is not just child's play.
The fourth Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival aims to build on the success of previous events with a programme of world class visual theatre, innovative puppetry and animation, which includes work by both acclaimed artists from around the world to local art students.
Manipulate Festival at Norwich Puppet Theatre. Kwaidan by Rouge28 Theatre. Photo: Monika Kita - Credit: Monika Kita
The five-day event, from January 31-February 7, which sees the theatre joining forces with Puppet Animation Scotland and the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, will include a packed programme that also features a gala awards evening and feature films and animated shorts.
If the previous three events are any guide it will pay to leave any preconceptions at the door and expect beauty, the surreal and the unexpected.
Joy Haynes, director of the theatre, said this year's programme includes lots of variety with something for everyone, and she especially urged people yet to visit the theatre to come along, try something new, and be inspired by puppetry.
'It should be a really exciting week of cutting edge, world-class theatre and film. We are keen to engage with adult audiences to show that puppet theatre has a lot to offer people of all ages. This is a festival for adults and the shows can be quite dark and exciting and explore some really interesting areas of the human existence.
'Discover new territories full of monstrous transformation and wordless eloquence that will unravel the deepest of human emotional experience — come and be prepared to laugh, cry and abandon disbelief.'
As ever, 2015's programme is a sumptuous mix of visual, puppet theatre and animation by ground-breaking international companies.
The festival programme features companies from as far afield as Russia, Austria, Belgium and the US, as well as across the UK, as well as featuring styles of puppetry and visual art from places like Japan.
The programme of events is as diverse as it is thought-provoking and creates a discourse regarding the future of puppetry and animation in the digital age.
Joy Haynes said: 'The evidence is that we in the UK have grown up to the fact that the medium can deliver work of the utmost sophistication and subtly, which is quite simply at the cutting edge of theatrical and visual invention today.
'Manipulate is a chance to discover new territories full of monstrous transformation and wordless eloquence that will unravel the deepest of human emotional experience.'
Manipulate kicks off with That's It, a show by Belgian company Sandman which asks: where does dreaming end and reality begin?
Rouge28 Theatre will present Kwaidan, a work-in-progress inspired by Japanese ghost stories and horror movies, while Animated Nightmares will see BAFTA-nominated animator Robert Morgan present a selection of films.
As with previous years, the festival's film programme includes a gala night (February 5, 7.30pm, £16, £14 cons) with the fabulously glamorous Clementine The Living Fashion Doll presenting the 'Golden Clemtine' awards with a programme of short films.
Clementine will be combining her filmed reportage and dazzling live stage numbers with powerful and challenging animated shorts from Ülo Pikkov, Thomas Hicks, Neil Kempsell, Claire Lamond, Robert Morgan, Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson.
There will also be a scratch performance of Mirth & Misery's Death Puppet Klezma Jam (February 6, 6.30pm, £5) featuring skeletal rhythms, rotten dances and bone jangling beats. The London puppet company, renowned for creating mad marionette shows, invite us to enter their world of putrified puppetry and witness their manipulation of the damned. Combining string and table-top puppetry with the Eastern European music of four-piece band Benny and the Cheesegrinder . Each character has a song and each song tells a story.
As well as performances and screenings, the festival will also include two already sold-out master classes aiming to encourage future generations of theatre makers, writer and actors to explore the possibilities of puppetry as a medium.
Belgian artist Agnès Limbos, who founded Compagnie Gare Centrale in 1984 and has created original performances based on Object Theatre which have been shown in over 25 countries, will be passing on expert advice on the world of the actor-manipulator.
Fabrizio Montecchi and Teatro Gioco Vita, who over the past 30 years have explored the medium of light and shadows in a series of award-winning productions, will be offering an opportunity to explore the techniques and languages of contemporary shadow theatre.
But it is not all aimed at adults. Children do get a look in this year with a special Little Tots Puppet Making event (February 4, 1pm, £10) aimed at toddlers who will be able to make their own new puppet under the guidance of the theatre's expert workshop team, which they can take home to continue the fun.
January 31, 7.30pm, £16 (£14 cons)
Dutch artist Sabine Molenaar, who founded Belgium-based company Sandman in 2012, gives a UK preimere to her first solo work after sold out and award-winning performances in Europe. This offbeat piece inspired by dreams is a refreshingly light show-going experience with no decrypting of deep and powerful themes required. Simply open your eyes and enjoy the strange world Molenaar brings to life. With each morphing movement the creature seduces us, the voyeurs, bringing us face to face with one great fear - that nothing is what it seems. Spiralling through the discomfort of non-control both creature and we face but one burning question: where does a dream end and hard reality begin?
February 2, 7.30pm, £9 (£7.50 cons)
A cinematic and atmospheric work-in-progress piece developed by Rouge28 Theatre, right, in collaboration with Norwich Puppet Theatre and Horse+Bamboo Theatre that is inspired by Japanese ghost stories and horror movies. It combines life-sized puppets, acting and video projections and tells the story of Haru, a young woman who comes back to her abandoned family house after many years of absence. Strange events happen as the house seems to be inhabited by spirits and ghosts from the past. As the action unfolds, the memory of a terrible event resurfaces.
Animated Nightmares
February 3, 7.30pm, £8
Leading BAFTA nominated animator Robert Morgan presents and talks about a programme of his films, together with a selection of international animation which has inspired and excited him. He will be sharing his strikingly singular and macabre vision of things that go much more than just bump in the night. As well as his own award-winning works Bobby Yeah, The Cat With Hands, The Separation and D For Deloused, he has also chosen a selection of international short films including Russian film Hen, His Wife, about a married man notices that his wife is, in fact, a hen; Czech film Meat Love; Nightmares #1_Unicorn, a fragmentary nightmare involving unicorns; and British director Dominic Hailstone's The Eel, a horror film about an Eel who gets fed up of being in his tank.
Mr Carmen
February 4, 7.30pm, £16 (£14 cons)
Founded in 1989, the Russian performance group Akhe grew out of the vibrant and wildly independent underground art scene in Moscow and St Petersburg. Quickly becoming a cult icon in Russia, the company started to tour internationally, rapidly gaining a reputation as celebrated masters of the avant-garde, known to push theatre to its very limits. In this piece an unlucky in love hero meets his alter ego in a place out of time. A desperate performance duel begins where theatrical truth and everyday reality collide head-on. As two larger than life characters fight for the answer to what is love to one's dying day?
Autumn Portraits
A series of five interlocking vignettes, this compelling solo puppet-and-mask performance, top right, presents the humorous and touching interplay of different puppet characters and their manipulator. Each of Eric Bass' intricate handcrafted rod puppets are characters in the autumn of their existence, examining their pasts and engaging with their former selves. Produced by American multi award-winning company Sandglass Theater, this production, which combines Eric's own superlative craft with traditional Japanese Bunraku methods of puppetry, has garnered great acclaim around the world.
A UK premiere of this striking adaptation of Madame Butterfly, below, explores themes of love and loss, and of hope and disappointment, in Ramesh Meyyappan's celebrated visually poetic and multi-disciplinary style. Complemented by Gavin Glover's expressive puppets this unique interpretation creates a lush, textured and innovative piece of visual theatre. Ramesh Meyyappan is theatre creator whose solo performances and collaborations have received great national and international acclaim. His production Snails & Ketchup was a particular high point of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival runs at Norwich Puppet Theatre from January 31-February 7, performance pass £65 (£55 student), 01603 629921, www.puppettheatre.co.ukFor full festival details www.manipulatefestival.org

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Q: How to interpret instantaneous velocity using limit? Mathematics is the language of physics therefore to understand physics is to understand its language. Based on definition of derivative the smaller the change of X of difference quotient the more it approach a certain value if it exist which we call the derivative. But what does it mean in physics? If derivative is the model use to describe instantaneous velocity then it means that the smaller you observe time interval experimentally, the ratio of distance over time approaches to a certain value. But why does it approach a certain value when we observe an object moves ? What causes it to approach a constant speed in smaller interval? and why call it the instantaneous velocity/speed? The concept of derivative only describe it but have no explanation.

A: First consider the case where the velocity is constant so the position time graph is linear. In this case, the slope of the line represents the velocity at all points because the velocity is constant.
Now consider the case where the velocity is some arbitrary function, $v(t)$. That means that $x(t)$ is no longer linear but is some arbitrary curve as well. If we take any two points on that curve and draw a straight line between them, the slope of that line is the average velocity over the time interval between the points but the velocity might change many times throughout the interval.
$$ v_{avg} = \frac{\Delta x}{\Delta t} $$
If we make the interval sufficiently small, ie we let $\Delta t \rightarrow 0$ then we converge to the value that we call the derivative. This is then the "average" velocity over an infinitesimal interval but since the interval is infinitesimally small and we have converged, it is the instantaneous value at that point. By definition, convergence means that we will not get a better value by making the infinitesimal interval "smaller".
We usually see this represented mathematically by the expression of the limit:
$$ \lim_{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{x(t + h) - x(t)}{h} $$
Which is the formal definition of the derivative, $\frac{dx}{dt} = v$.

A: Imagine a car going around a racetrack at varying speeds. The definition of velocity is the displacement of the object (denoted here by x) over the time taken for such a displacement to occur (denoted by t). It can therefore be expressed in the form x/t.
Now, if we were to take t as the time taken for the car to make a complete revolution around the racetrack, thereby ending at the exact same location as it started, x = 0. The velocity of the car when we take t to be as such is therefore 0. We can see that the velocity of the car (as we have defined it) depends on when this t is taken. Or, to be more precise, it depends on what the starting t is (denoted by t0), and how long of a time interval we are using to measure its displacement over that period (denoted by △t). The initial location of the car can then be denoted as x0, and the displacement of the car over the time period △t is denoted by △x. Looking at our definition of velocity earlier, we can then say that the velocity of the car v=△x/△t, for the time interval t0 to t0 + △t.
The limit that we're taking when we discuss instantaneous velocity, is to set △t such that it approaches zero. As mentioned before, for the car going around the racetrack, the velocity v that we calculate vary greatly depending on what our △t is, for a given t0. When △t is the lap time of the car, △x=0 and v=0. As we decrease △t to a very small number, △x becomes constrained to the immediate movement of the car at t0, since the acceleration and path taken by the car after t0 matter less and less. It therefore approaches this constant value, determined by the speed and bearing of the car at t0. Any second-order behaviour of the car (acceleration, bearing drift) will have a diminishing impact on △x as we decrease △t. This explains the tending-to-a-constant effect as △t is taken to the limit.
Finally, when △t is set at the limit (infinitesimal change in t), we denote it by dt, making △x=dx. The velocity can then be described as dx/dt, over a time period t0 to t0+dt. However, because t0 is "far greater" than dt, we normally just call it dx/dt at time t0. Alternatively, one can think of it as, for any dt where the difference in behaviour of the car between t0 and t0+dt is non-negligible, one can always take a smaller dt such that it becomes negligible. The reason for the quotation marks at "far greater" is because one can argue that t0 can be set arbitrarily to 0, making the comparison moot. That is technically true, I can't think of a waterproof way of stating it oth, perhaps a "any change in t0 for which we will be concerned about"...?
As to why dx/dt at time t0 is called the instantaneous velocity at time t0, dx/dt describes the velocity of the car, at the instant t0. :)

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First Wave of Opposition Hits Taiji Shores – Sea Shepherd News
By WebMaster - On Sep 3rd 2009 - in Business Press Release
/EIN News/ Tuesday, September 01, 2009 – Sea Shepherd News
First Wave of Opposition Hits Taiji Shores
Taiji slaughter In the wake of the controversial and highly acclaimed movie "The Cove," the first wave of opposition has arrived in Taiji, Japan on the opening day of the dolphin slaughter season.
Ric O'Barry, the star of "The Cove," successfully made it into Japan and to Taiji along with other Save Japan Dolphins staff and news crews from the U.S., Germany, and the U.K., and for the first time ever – three Japanese television crews.
The dirty little secret in the cove near Taiji is now an international scandal. The Australian sister city of Taiji, the Shire of Broome in Western Australia, recently suspended it's sister city status until the killing of thousands of dolphins is ended.
The police were waiting for Ric O'Barry and his crew when they arrived, and initially it was a tense scene but Ric made it very clear that the purpose of the visit was educational and that no laws would be broken. The police acted professionally but kept a close watch on the crew and the journalists.
No dolphins were rounded up by the fishermen. It is hoped that the presence of crew and the cameras will keep the fishermen from their annual killing spree.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society plans to send in a second wave of opposition later this fall to continue defending the dolphins.
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Report from Ric O'Barry (http://www.savejapandolphins.org/blog.html)
URGENT UPDATE FROM TAIJI
September 1, 2009: A Good Day for Dolphins
By Richard O'Barry, Director
Save Japan Dolphins Coalition
Today is September 1st, the first day of the dolphin slaughter season in Japan. But when I arrived today by bus from Kansai Airport with media representatives from all over the world, the notorious Cove from the movie was empty. There were no dolphin killers in sight.
So today is a very good day for dolphins!
I vowed to be back in Taiji when the dolphin killing began. I've often been here alone, or accompanied by a few environmentalists. Sometimes, I was able to talk a major media organization into sending someone.
But the people of Japan never learned about the dolphin slaughter, because none of the media in Japan (with the exception of the excellent Japan Times) have ever sent reporters to the killing Cove. Until today!
When I got off the bus at the Cove this afternoon, I was accompanied by my son Lincoln O'Barry's film crew, a crew from Associated Press, Der Spiegel (the largest magazine in Germany), and the London Independent.
No dolphins and no dolphin killers. We would not have had a story at all, except for the police who were there, waiting all day for us to appear. Nine policemen came to talk to us.
Now, I have said this repeatedly: Unlike the Cove fishermen, the police from this Prefecture have always acted professionally, courteously, and fairly. I have never been mistreated or threatened by the police here. I think they are a microcosm of the people of Japan – the very people I am trying to reach about the dolphins!
And as I was talking with the police, as the international journalists stood around listening, suddenly a camera crew arrived from Japan! And then another! And then still another!
You have to understand that this is SO IMPORTANT. These TV stations have REFUSED to cover the story in Taiji for years and years. NOW, for the first time, they have shown up, with cameras rolling. The head policeman talking with me even said, for the cameras, that the police are not there to support the dolphin killing fishermen. We shook hands, and they left.
As I said, it is a good day for the dolphins. And for me personally, as the police only wanted to talk with me, not arrest me!
"The Cove" movie led to the strong action by the city of Broome, Australia, in suspending the sister-city relationship with Taiji. So now, the Japanese media are sitting up and listening, for the first time.
And I'm telling them: "This tour is to show journalists the GOOD things about Taiji." You see, with "The Cove" movie out now, we don't have to show the BAD things about Taiji. Soon, the whole world will know about the Taiji dolphin slaughter. And all Japanese will soon know about the cover-up that has occurred by the government in refusing to stop mercury-contaminated dolphin meat from being sold to unsuspecting Japanese consumers and children.
But Taiji can change this image of shame, if they want to. I will be telling them that the town of Nantucket used to be the capitol of the whale killing industry in the US. Now, it uses its history of whaling combined with whale-watching to market tourism very successfully. Whales and dolphins are worth more dead than alive. Taiji can do this, too. But the killing has to stop.
Yes, today was a good day for dolphins. Tomorrow, I will take journalists with me around town to show them Taiji. Tomorrow, too, I predict will be a good day for dolphins. Every day that we are here and the fishermen KNOW we are here, will likely mean no boats going out to round up dolphins for the killing Cove.
And because of "The Cove" movie, the dolphin killers must now fear hidden cameras and microphones, even when they THINK we are not here.
And soon the world spotlight from "The Cove" will shine a very bright light on Taiji.
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May 28, 2013 Mad Hatter
THE ICC: THE AFRICAN UNION IS MUZZLING KENYA'S SOVEREIGNTY
Sticky Post By Mad Hatter On May 28, 2013 With No Comments
Sovereignty as a principle of international law denotes the right to exercise, to the exclusion of any other state, the functions of a sovereign, as explained in Island of Palmas Arbitration case. A sovereign here meaning the modified Austinian notion of he whose pronouncements are habitually respected. In modern times, this would refer to the institutions of law which exercise state authority on behalf of the people.
In Kenya, our collective social contract is codified in a constitution, passed overwhelmingly by the Kenyan people in 2010. In the Kenyan Constitution, the sovereign authority is delegated to, the Parliament and legislative assemblies in the counties, the national executive and executive structures in the county and the judiciary and independent tribunals, per Article 1 (3) of the Constitution of Kenya 2010.
Sovereignty is a sub-structural cardinal at the centre of international relations that every state, so legally recognized, should be respected and should not have its internal affairs and decisions interfered with by external interests. It would be naïve of anyone to say such a basic rule should be waived under any circumstances whatsoever.
Here, we must note that our Kenyan municipal institutions and we as a people have made decisions unique to our contexts and which could actually be inconceivable in other jurisdictions. Kenya's constitution for instance, allows criminal proceedings to be started or continued against a sitting President in instances where immunity against such a crime is prohibited by a treaty to which Kenya is part of.
This is the constitutional basis that obligates President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto to continue cooperating with the ICC on the cases against them before the court.
The African Union, meeting in the Addis Ababa to celebrate its jubilee, I must really wonder what they were celebrating, passed a resolution urging either termination of the ICC cases or that it be referred to either the Kenyan "reformed" judiciary or the African Court of Justice.
The discussion was emotive, with the ICC standing accused of being a neocolonial tool to "humiliate African leaders." My good friend Elliston Macharia quipped thereafter, he almost got convinced, but will when ICC goes for Jakaya Kikwete or Joyce Banda." Perhaps the few discernible faces of the African aspirations.
The African Union is justified to debate any issue affecting Kenya. We are a continent with a shared common destiny, a similar history and problems. But one indubitable thing is that the rate of social and economic progress in African countries is extremely at differing paces that it seems the continent's leadership is incapable of having any shared progressive position. They find root, common purpose and passion in retrogression, excusing their inability to deal with the rot and impunity in their countries by blaming external geopolitical interests.
Immunity against prosecution given to a sitting president has traditional been justified on the basis that it will bring disrepute to the institution of Presidency, who in all fairness is a states, first citizen.
Kenya's progressive view, espoused in our constitution, allows suspicion that a president has done a crime under national or international to be a basis of their impeachment, Article 145 (b) of our Constitution. This notion is inconceivable to some countries where Presidents are deities. In particular the sponsor of the debate, Uganda is incapable of ever imagining such a law in its instruments.
In all fairness, a man who will close down a media house because it is about to expose an alleged scheme to install his son as president is incapable of understanding why a Kenyan President would go to the ICC.
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It is however important to question the hypocrisy of Museveni as person when it comes to the ICC. On 12th July 2013, Moreno Ocampo visited Uganda and after a meeting the Ugandan government through its then minister of International Affairs Henry Okello issued a statement that Uganda was to arrest Sudanese President Omar El Bashir should he set foot in Uganda.
It is understood that this was a silent means of compelling Bashir to help in the arrest of the Northern Uganda warlord Joseph Kony believed to be hiding in Sudan then under the protection of Bashir. Indeed, even after ICC issued an arrest warrant against Kony, Museveni agreed in a cabinet resolution that if Kony was to agree to sign a peace accord, he would negotiate with the ICC to rescind the warrant. This is a bloated imagination of his influence, disregarding the fact that the ICC is a judicial process, perhaps operating differently from the patronized Ugandan judicial system.
The most chorused phrase in Addis Ababa was than Africa can solve her own problems, and that the ICC was a tool to humiliate African leaders.
First what informs universal jurisdiction on some things like Piracy and International Crimes is the knowledge that sometimes we Well let us look at the esteemed African leaders indicted by the ICC.
Omar El Bashir is accused of financing the Darfur conflict. Since the start of the conflict, it is estimated that close to 200,000-400,000 thousand people have lost their lives. Assuming that Bashir did not even participate in the conflict, what else can be a basis of illegitimacy of a government if such en masse atrocities are committed under a President's watch? Others indicted from Sudan include, Bahr Abu Garda, Abdallah Banda and Ali Kushayb.
From Uganda, they include Joseph Kony, Vincent Otti and Dominic Ongwen all leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army. These people are accused of using child soldiers, holding women as sex slaves, torture, rape and other gross violations, is their indictment a humiliation of the African leadership.
An argument against the ICC has been that all its indictees are from the African Continent. The Rome statute has 120 state parties, with 33 cou
ntries being from the continent of Africa. The others are Asia-pacific, Eastern Europe, Northern and Latin America and the Caribbean
For the period when the Kenya post election violence occurred 2007, Africa accounted for 88% of the world's conflict related deaths, followed by Asia pacific at 6% and Middle East 4%. If a continent accounts for 88% of conflict related deaths, why would it not account for 100% of persons indicted for international crimes?
This is absolutely possible regarding the fact that the ICC is a last resort mechanism that only becomes operational when local systems fail to take action.
What is even more important however, is for the African Union to know that the relationship between the ICC is not foreign. The ICC is a domestic court both under the Constitution of Kenya and the International Crimes Act No. 16 of 2008.
The Constitution passed by the Kenyan people in the direct exercise of their sovereign power to determine their own destiny. The Kenyan people, in their wisdom agreed in Article 2(5) and 2(6) of The Constitution of Kenya that all treaties ratified by Kenya will be part of our laws.
Our constitution, passed by ourselves, and not under the compulsion of neocolonial interests waived the immunity of our president for crimes under international law. Our local traditions as a Kenyan people disallow negotiations for settlement on crimes. This we enacted to ourselves through our sovereign legislature.
More importantly however, the African Union needs to understand the unique circumstances that led to the ICC process.
Kenya domesticated the Rome statute by an Act of Parliament in 2008 after the post election violence had occurred. Both the current President and his deputy had substantial influence in the August house. This domestication by law obligated the government to cooperate with the ICC; it makes it mandatory for the Kenyan government to enforce sentences issued by the ICC.
In the same 2008, the Kenyan parliament enacted a Truth Justice and Reconciliation Act to look into historical injustices and do a report which will be implemented. The TJRC Report, Volume 2A from page 511 makes damning allegations against President Kenyatta as regards the Kenya post election violence.
The report adopts the views of the Kenya National Human Rights commission the President may be linked to activities undertaken by the outlawed Mungiki sect during the period.
However, unlike other persons named, the report recommends that no other punitive process parallel to the ICC should be commenced against the President and the duo. This further reaffirms our sovereign commitment to the ICC process.
The African Union has no mandate whatsoever to purport to make a declaration that extensively usurps our local commitments. If this was urged by the executive, the Kenyan Executive was then attempting to use external pressures to circumvent our laws an act which is a constitutional nullity.
The African Union is interfering with our sovereignty; Our Parliament refused two attempts to set up local tribunals and opted for The Hague. As a matter of unquestionable fact, the Deputy President is on record having urged the ICC process to commence. If this case is fatally weak and founded on falsehoods, there can never be a more legitimate forum to ascertain that than a court of law.
The acts above were undertaken by a parliament in discharge of its constitutional mandate, a parliament that had balanced political preferences. Our Constitution which embodies our collective aspirations was passed by a free nation in celebration. We were aware, that we would suffer both the convenience and the inconvenience of that law.
As a people, Kenya must remain committed to the shared destiny of the African continent, but certainly, in the eyes of our laws, that quest does not involve collective support to impunity.
Sovereignty must remain what it is, that nations have a right to self determination, that acts of national institutions must be respected by our external allies. And that Museveni and Salva Kiir must stop believing that they can best interpret Kenya's predicaments than our Parliament.
The AU does not need to worry about the shame that will befall Kenya when our President appears before the ICC. Many of us do, but we are also aware that our laws must be respected both when they further our interests and when they bring relative discomfort. Our President has undertaken to respect Kenya's international obligations, and in his words, the ICC is a personal problem like many Kenyans have personal problems.
Why would a Union with Mali to deal with, Somalia to rebuild, Hunger to eradicate involve itself in the personal problems of three Kenyans?
But we all know what the AU's record as to the rule of law is. One only needs to see the support it has given to its own African Court of Justice. An institution conceived decades ago which barely has a functioning secretariat talks of the union of a people committed to the rule of law.
By the way, the President of South Sudan talked of a reformed Kenyan judiciary, we cannot be surprised. With South Sudan still reporting abductions, torture and unlawful detentions, a Supreme Court that delivers its verdict before National TV must be the hallmark of reforms.
But as a nation we still have our problems. We still have Justices being taken before the judicial Service Commission; we still have a Supreme Court that misquotes our own constitution; we still have files that disappear in our registries and many still believe we have many steps to undertake before we say we have a reformed judiciary.
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Lets we will see the history of ACCPAC Accounting Software in this article.
At earlier stages, ACCPAC software begins with easy business systems that do the basic accounting functions such as accounts payable, account receivable, order entry and general ledger. And this software also included the Word Processor and Spreadsheet Program like Microsoft Office products.
In 1985 American firm Computer Associates acquired the Easy Business System and then it was re-branded as ACCPAC Plus that provided CA's Accounting solutions for SMEs (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) By using this software modules business person handled the accounting functions and other operation such as inventory control, payroll and project job costing. But today's Sage 300 ERP modules can be customized as per your business needs.
Before 1988, Infoworld magazine noticed the extensive collection of vertical market, another third-party program has been integrated with ACCPAC. These are called as Crystal service's reporting add-on. Today it is called Crystal Reports.
ACCPAC Plus is a multitasking system to do multiple tasks with the help of Windowing manager. Then the user can know about the flow of the system and able to switch between different modules as well.
Sage shut this section of Accpac's history when they retired the product in 2006, long after the DOS era finished.
Accpac touched base on Windows work areas in 1994, similarly as the OS was grabbing in prevalence. Not exclusively would the program be progressively natural to utilize, there'd now be much greater adaptability and space for further advancement.
In 1994 ACCPAC arrived on the Windows desktops and it is also more popular as OS in that period. And this software provides a lot of flexibility. And in 2001 Release of ACCPAC introduced another new multi-tiered system architecture with more functionalities such as extensive customizations on past plugin approach, accessible from everywhere and basic functions also accessible through web browsers.
British public-listed software company sage developed the accounting software and acquired the ACCPAC software which is used as financial management software for business sectors. Then Sage re-branded the ACCPAC as Sage ACCPAC ERP.
At 2012 ACCPAC brand also formally retired. Then Sage 300 ERP provides the SME's targeted solution. In 2016 Sage developed another accounting software that is 300c ( 300 clouds). By using the cloud-based accounting software you can able to retrieve your financial data from anywhere and anytime and it secured one for business. Now you can use Sage 300 on Microsoft Azure.
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The Development of Lawrence Krader's Thought
From Philosophy to Empirical Anthropology to Noetics
This posting presents the development of Krader's intellectual contributions over the course of his life.
We identify four periods of his development as follows:
His undergraduate years at the City College of New York and the University of Chicago in philosophy, the history of philosophy and mathematical logic.
His years as a student of anthropology and linguistics and as a researcher and teacher in these disciplines and his work in empirical anthropology in Central Asia.
His theoretical writings centered around his transcription of Karl Marx's ethnological notebooks and the various publications following the appearance of the notebooks.
His lifelong work on Noetics, published posthumously in 2010, in which, he revised his previous theoretical work in a way signified best by the German term Aufhebung. It will be argued here that his work on Noetics represents a significant departure from Krader's earlier evolutionism which has to be returned to the context of its origins in the wake of Darwin's paradigmatic work The Origin of Species in 1859.
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Fremont Market
The Fremont Market was located on the southwest corner at the intersection of Williams Avenue and Fremont Street from 1945 to the late 1960's. The market was an old fashioned butcher shop and the owner, John C. Sinner, was famous in the area for his German sausage. The market was commonly referred to as "Sinner's" by many in the Volga German community.
The back of the building where the Fremont Market would be located is shown in this 1937 photograph. The building is located beyond the Wonder Bread building (to the east) and the upstairs porch and railing are visible. Source: City of Portland Archive.
John C. Sinner was born on January 15, 1913 in Portland, Oregon, the son of John H. and Pauline Sinner. Pauline was born Paulina Margareta Repp. Pauline was the sister of grocery store owner and humanitarian, George Repp. Both the Repp and Sinner families emigrated from Norka, Russia. John H. Sinner worked as a carpenter building houses and later owned a grocery store on NE Grand Avenue in the 1920s. Given that he grew up around the grocery and meat market business and learned the trade, it was natural that John C. Sinner would some day open his own market
John C. Sinner. Photograph courtesy of Lisa Sinner Hetzler.
John married Frances Laverne Herder who was born on July 2, 1918.
In September 1943, John enlisted in the U.S. Army where he served honorably as a staff sergeant during World War II.
After the war ended in 1945, John sensed it was the right time to go into business for himself and he opened the Fremont Market.
In 2013, The Oregonian reported:
More than half a century ago, Sinner's sausage brought together a disparate neighborhood. In 1945, when he opened his Fremont Market there, the Albina area was home to a large population of Volga-Germans. By 1948, after the Vanport Flood, the neighborhood became the center of African American life.
The two groups came together at Fremont Market.
The store had high ceilings and large, white meat cases. Sawdust covered the wooden floors. Sinner sold beef and chicken, but the sausage was his specialty. He mixed beef and pork cuts by hand with the dry spice mix and used animal intestines as the casings. A friend smoked the sausages, and Sinner sold about 300 pounds a week.
By the late 1960's, the neighborhood was changing again. John Sinner lost his lease, and many of his neighbors did, too.
John died on August 31, 1993 and is buried at the Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Oregon. Frances Sinner died on November 27, 2009 and is buried with John.
The site of the former Fremont Market was redeveloped as a New Seasons Market in 2013. New Seasons is periodically making John Sinner's sausage for sale to the public.
Lisa Sinner Hetzler (daughter of John C. and Frances Sinner).
"New Seasons opens North Williams Avenue store with historic sausage." OregonLive.com, August 25, 2013.
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So Movember is upon us, are you taking part for the craic with your mates? Or do you have goals? Are you aiming for a Salvador Dali moustache?
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New Documentary Examines Hilma af Klint's Overlooked Influence as a Female Abstract Artist
By Sara Barnes on April 28, 2020
Photo: Zeitgeist Films
Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862 – 1944) was ahead of her time. In 1906, she began creating abstract art before there was a name for it. But as with many women in art history, her groundbreaking work is only now getting the recognition it deserves—alongside male artists who have long had the honor including Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Josef Albers. A new documentary titled Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint offers a "course correcting" that examines, among other things, her colorful, bold shapes on their giant canvases.
Director Halina Dryschka had the idea for Beyond the Visible after discovering Klint's work in 2013. On a "quite normal Sunday," she read a newspaper article that introduced her to Klint's paintings and later saw an awe-inspiring exhibition of her work in Berlin. "But why have they been kept from me for so long?," she recalled thinking. "I almost felt personally insulted when I read that this was a new discovery and the paintings have been hidden for decades. Could that be true? Paintings in this size are hard to hide. And who would be interested in marginalizing this artist's accomplishments? And why?"
It was then that Dryschka began researching Klint. What she discovered was a woman who made her own way. "A strong character and despite all restrictions," Dryschka says, "Klint explored the possibilities that go beyond the visible. She knew that she was doing something important not only for herself but for many people."
The documentary features interviews from Klint's relatives, historians, artists, critics, and more. In examining her life and the impact of her work, Dryschka offers a nuanced look at her legacy. "Klint's oeuvre goes even beyond art because she was looking for the whole picture of life. And with that, she comes close to the one question: What are we doing here?"
Stream Beyond the Visible by visiting the Zeitgeist Films website.
The Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint documentary gives a careful examination of the Swedish artist's ground-breaking paintings.
"Altarpiece No. 1" (1915), Altarpieces: Group X
"The Dove No. 2" (1914-1915), from Group IX
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Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met and Manager of My Modern Met Store. As an illustrator and writer living in Seattle, she chronicles illustration, embroidery, and beyond through her blog Brown Paper Bag and Instagram @brwnpaperbag. She wrote a book about embroidery artist Sarah K. Benning titled 'Embroidered Life' that was published by Chronicle Books in 2019. Sara is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She earned her BFA in Illustration in 2008 and MFA in Illustration Practice in 2013.
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By the time they slid out of the cooler and onto our front porch, the ice surrounding their slippery bodies was nearly melted.
"Six silver Steelhead. Fresh out of the Klamath River," announced my mother.
They were sterling, pewter, and black. Yellow-eyed and long as my legs.
My mother pulled out a buck horn knife and made a line, clean and silent across the soft belly. A drop of rich red splattered between her pink toenails. She shoved the knife in deeper. I heard the sound of thin bones snapping like taut strings, the steel point of the knife scraping along a fine backbone. Her fingers full of turquoise rings, yanked at things inside of the fish.
I was afraid of her. She wasn't predictable when she was drinking.
"Look at these," she said to me.
In her hand she held out three round fleshy balls. I winced. She pushed them closer to my face. They were like antique marbles, giant freshwater pearls—rare eggs with deep green and creamy swirls. They glistened in her palm.
"Aren't these amazing?" she said, squeezing my arm. I didn't want to touch them. And then I did. Fish guts. Soft, wobbly, and wet.
Perhaps now, so many seasons later, and her gone, I understand it better.
It was my mother who taught me beauty could exist in anything.
Melissa Cistaro's stories have been published in the New Ohio Review, Anderbo.com, Sparkle and Blink, and in the anthology CHERISHED: 21 Writers on Animals They Have Loved and Lost. Most recently her essay "The Undertow" was a semi-finalist in the Notes & Words national essay contest. She lives with her family in San Rafael California.
I love Melissa's work, though as I was reading this piece I was wondering where it was going. I got a shiver as I read the last line. Stab-me-in-the-heart beautiful!
This piece is chilling and exquisite, capturing in one perfect scene the complex knot of fear and love a child feels for a mother capable of intimidation and inspiration in equal measure.
Having lost my mom two years ago, I truly felt this piece. As Melissa's ending is real to many who received such profound insights from their mother.
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Choosing an acupuncturist can be overwhelming, especially if you've never had acupuncture before. It's important to ask some questions before you book an appointment for acupuncture treatment to make sure you're getting the right practitioner for you and your particular needs. The following are some questions to ask a prospective practitioner before you book your first appointment, to help you choose the right one.
Are you a licensed acupuncturist? What is your education in acupuncture?
This is an important first question to ask anyone before they perform acupuncture on you! All too frequently consumers are led to believe that any practitioner who is trained or certified to practice acupuncture is highly qualified in the art of diagnosis and treatment using the principles of Chinese Medicine. Don't hesitate to ask a prospective practitioner about their credentials and training.
Physicians are only required to have 50 hours of training in the technical use of acupuncture prior to using it as a treatment. This is considered "medical acupuncture".
Many chiropractors advertise that they offer acupuncture. It is important to know, however, they are only required to have 100 to 150 hours of unspecified training in acupuncture. They take a test sponsored by the local Chiropractic Board and pay a fee to become "certified". Chiropractors who perform acupuncture call themselves "Board Certified Acupuncturists". In addition, they are legally limited only to acupuncture treatments that augment chiropractic adjustments.
Licensed Acupuncturists (LAc) in Minnesota are required to have a minimum of 1,800 to 2,400 hours of education and clinical training. They must also be board certified with the NCCAOM, a national regulatory agency governing Oriental Medical education and credentials, and they are licensed by the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice.
Licensed Acupuncturists (LAc) practice internal Chinese medicine, which focuses on the underlying source of the problem rather than just treating symptoms. As a result, their treatments go beyond simple pain relief offered by most chiropractors and medical acupuncturists.
Most Licensed Acupuncturists must also have a Masters degree in either Acupuncture or Oriental Medicine. The distinction between the two is that a practitioner with a Masters in Acupuncture is trained primarily in acupuncture. A practitioner with a Masters in Oriental Medicine is trained both in acupuncture and diagnosis and treatment using traditional Chinese herbs.
Do you have a specialty? What is your experience and success with my particular condition?
Some acupuncturists treat any and all conditions. However, many specialize in treating certain conditions, such as muscle and joint pain, stress and anxiety, infertility, or women's conditions. It is important to ask whether a prospective practitioner has had some experience in treating your condition.
What kind of acupuncture do you practice?
Most people don't know that there are many different kinds of acupuncture, such as Traditional Chinese acupuncture, Ear acupuncture, Japanese style, Korean Hand acupuncture, cosmetic acupuncture, and scalp acupuncture. Some of these different kinds of acupuncture are more effective for specific conditions. For example, Ear acupuncture is especially successful for addictions, such as quitting smoking and weight loss, and scalp acupuncture might be more valuable for conditions affecting the nervous system. Be sure to ask what conditions are best helped by your practitioner's kind of acupuncture.
This is actually a trick question. No practitioner should answer this question on the phone before they have seen you, taken your health history and made a diagnosis. In fact, everyone heals at a different pace. Your condition may be resolved in one or two treatments, or it may take many more, especially if it is a long-term chronic condition.
Most health care plans currently don't pay for acupuncture treatments. As a result, many acupuncturists are fee for service providers. If you think your health insurance plan may cover acupuncture, check with them to be sure, and make sure the acupuncturist you ultimately choose will accept your insurance as payment.
If you have a health savings plan, acupuncture qualifies for reimbursement. Be sure to ask your acupuncturist for a receipt.
Lynn Jaffee is a licensed acupuncturist practicing in St. Louis Park, MN. For more information and articles, go to http://www.acupunctureinthepark.com.


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Daybreak has now been hit with layoffs [Confirmed]
Daybreak has now confirmed the layoffs, and we've got lots more information from our own sources – see below for updates and context.
Multiple game industry veterans are discussing layoffs at Daybreak today. H1Z1 UI Software Engineer Grat Crabtree says he was among those let go.
Laid off at Daybreak, who's hiring?
— Gratman ? (@gratman) April 26, 2018
Today was unfortunately my last day inside @DaybreakGames, so I'm officially open to new opportunities for community, social, esports, and more!
— J Goldberg (@OneLetter) April 26, 2018
I was unfortunately hit by the layoffs at Daybreak today. It was a great 6 years, and I'll always cherish the things I learned, the people I worked with, and the friendships I made.
Time to start looking for the next journey!
— Steve Melton (@SteveMelton) April 26, 2018
Getting lots of questions about the last year and why things ended up where they did. There may come a time to talk about that, but right now let's focus on helping these really great people find work ASAP. Considering starting up a new venture right here in SD. #startups
— Anthony Castoro (@CastoroGamer) April 26, 2018
It was an incredible time at SOE/Daybreak! So many great people within the company, and so many incredible, (cont) https://t.co/k7Hpa9jzvN
— Brad Wilcox (@thegreatmutato) April 26, 2018
Today was my last day at Daybreak.
For almost FIVE years, I've been surrounded by incredible talent. I'm proud of what we accomplished, and the friendships we formed.
Now to take a moment for me, before I figure out what's next ?
— Ry Schueller (@Roshen) April 26, 2018
The thing about one story ending is that it means it's time for a new one to begin. To all I had the pleasure of working at @DaybreakGames with the past (nearly) six years, thank you. You're tremendous talents, and I look forward to seeing/hearing what comes next for all of us. pic.twitter.com/RnwHemXSwE
— Colette Murphy (@ThatColette) April 26, 2018
Still others chimed in offering condolences (and jobs): Elizabeth Zelle, Tim Borrelli, David Bass, Ryan Elam, Doug Hill, Evan Berman, Mitch Dyer, Jen Bridges, Linda Carlson, and Javier Perez.
Feldon of EQWire reports anonymous sources quoting up to 100 people let go. (One of our sources believes it's closer to 70 – see below.)
Massively OP extends its deep sympathies to all the innocent developers and employees affected by the move. Former and current Daybreak employees can reach out to Massively OP on our tips page. We protect our sources.
Context so far
The layoffs come after two and a half days of bizarre Daybreak statements. On Tuesday, we covered the apparent fate of Daybreak's corporate overlords, chronicling the US government's asset freeze of Russian megacorp Renova on down the chain to its subsidiary Columbus Nova, which has for three years been the nominal owner of Daybreak since it parted ways with Sony and dropped the SOE name. But when reached for comment on the story, Daybreak informed the editors of Massively OP that our understanding of Daybreak's ownership was in error. Stunning the MMORPG community and beyond, the company spokesperson insisted it had "no affiliation with Columbus Nova" and that former Columbus Nova rep Jason Epstein "is and has always been the primary owner and executive chairman of Daybreak Game Company" since its founding in February of 2015. When pushed for clarification, Daybreak told us that the "distinction was never corrected in the past, so [it is] correcting that now."
Of course, the internet still has all of the original documents, press releases, privacy policies, and public statements issued by Daybreak, Columbus Nova, and then-President John Smedley back in 2015 and since then, all of which made abundantly clear that Columbus Nova had acquired the whole company, as a company, and that Epstein was not the sole owner. Subsequent research showed that what appear to be Daybreak reps have attempted to alter the company's Wikipedia page to reflect its new ownership claims since the government sanctions were announced, earning a block from the online encyclopedia's editors; a 2015 press release (now here) announcing Columbus Nova as the new owner and the 2015 privacy policy (now here) that had been hosted on Daybreak's web servers were also apparently memoryholed by the company.
Yesterday, Daybreak's Chief Publishing Officer and former Senior Vice President, Laura Naviaux, abruptly announced she'd left Daybreak.
This afternoon, Daybreak issued a post on its own forums addressing the fiasco and admitting to the deletion of documents; it reiterates claims it already made to Massively OP about who currently owns the company in that it's standing by the baffling claim that Epstein has always owned Daybreak, in spite of Epstein, Daybreak, and Columbus Nova all telling everyone differently in 2015 – it calls three years of press releases and privacy policies a "miscommunication." It further insists that unspecified "rumors" about the company's entanglements are false (again, Daybreak is apparently maintaining that under the claim that Columbus Nova was never Daybreak's owner, Columbus Nova's financial and political messes do not affect it). The company does not address the abrupt departure of its former VP/Chief Publishing Officer yesterday morning. It also does not explain why it represented to its customers and the media that Columbus Nova had acquired it for the last three years, nor why it waited until April 2018 to correct the record.
With thanks to Doug for the original tip!
Update #1
Daybreak has now confirmed the layoffs.
"Daybreak confirms we are realigning our workforce to better position our company for the future," a Daybreak spokesperson said in an email to Massively OP. "Because of this, we have had to make an extremely difficult decision to part ways with some of our employees across various disciplines at the studio. We are doing everything we can to take care of each affected individual by providing them appropriate transition assistance. Daybreak remains focused on publishing and developing large-scale online games and will continue to service our existing and long-standing games and franchises."
A Daybreak spokesperson has confirmed to me that the layoffs were not isolated to one studio (as speculation is currently running). According to the spokesperson, all of Daybreak's studios were affected, but none of the games will be – that includes H1Z1, whose PC development and recently announced PS4 port is still scheduled to continue.
MMORPG.com says it has a source claiming that Daybreak is currently in acquisition talks with a number of studios, including Ashes of Creation company Intrepid Studios. We have reached out to Intrepid for confirmation.
In speaking on background with our own sources this afternoon, we are given to understand the number of people laid off was around 70, not 100 as earlier suggested. At least one source believes the layoffs are completely unrelated to the ongoing Columbus Nova shenanigans and instead are a direct result of H1Z1's poor performance, having been planned for a while, which does make a certain amount of sense (we've been tracking H1Z1's downward trajectory for months now).
Massively OP has been informed by a trusted source that Daybreak's claims that it was owned by Jason Epstein, not Columbus Nova, for the last three years are actually true, if confusing as hell. If this is accurate, it's completely possible that Daybreak is being honest about the Russian sanctions being irrelevant (which is what we were originally asking them to rebut on Tuesday when they instead dropped the "Columbus Nova who?" bomb). It is not currently clear why Daybreak waited so long to correct its statements, why it isn't being forthcoming about the exact nature of what it knew and when, why it created unnecessary suspicion by deleting the historical record, or why it picked this exact moment to drop layoffs, knowing how it would look.
Intrepid Studios boss Steven Sharif has declined to comment on whether or not Intrepid is in acquisition talks with Daybreak. "It has long been my personal policy not to comment on rumors," he told Massively OP. "Even if we were in talks with Daybreak for an acquisition, we would not be able to comment. Additionally, I saw the news of recent layoffs at Daybreak today and would like to extend my condolences to those affected. Daybreak (SOE) has an incredible history of creating some of the most cherished franchises that are near and dear to our hearts, and the people laid off today are some of the most talented developers in the industry. Intrepid Studios wishes them the best in their future ventures and I know they will go on to accomplish great things."
Last update of Thursday: MOP's Justin and I have put together a special edition of the Massively OP Podcast this evening to recap everything we know and try to make sense of it all.
Update #8 (4/27)
A few more updates and tips came in overnight.
The PlanetSide 2 team says on Reddit that it has been unaffected by the layoffs.
We've been told that most or all of the Just Survive team was let go and the game is unlikely to see updates in the future – this apparently per developers on Discord. (Thanks, Sean!)
A credible source familiar with the situation told us that the Player Studio program – that's the program that pays players to design gear that goes into Daybreak's games – may be in jeopardy as the one and only employee overseeing the project was among those let go yesterday. Apparently, Player Studio designers have not yet been informed as to the status of their assets, future paychecks, and participation going forward.
Ars Technica has picked up the story from us now and has gotten fresh statements from Daybreak (it sounds like the same Daybreak spokesperson we've been speaking with). The spokesperson claims that Jason Epstein was an "ownership partner of Columbus Nova" when he purchased Daybreak in 2015 "through his wholly-owned LLC, Inception Acquisitions" – a company our commenters have been theorizing about over the last few days – which "[led] his purchase to be conflated" (yes, it uses the passive there) with Columbus Nova's ownership. They didn't think it would be a "big deal" since he owned both groups as the primary owner.
"What they should have said was 'Jason Epstein, owner of Harmonix, purchased Daybreak,' [or] "Partners of Columbus Nova purchase Daybreak," the spokesperson reportedly said. Epstein, the company claims, has since left Columbus Nova and they just never got around to repairing the record until now (it "[fell] through the cracks"). This more or less comports with what we've been told by other inside sources (as above) but certainly appears to stand in contradiction to the Tuesday claim that Daybreak never had any affiliation with Columbus Nova.
More interestingly, this spokesperson now claims that Renova Group also doesn't own Columbus Nova, that while CN did "[manage] some accounts" for Renova, those accounts weren't "tied to Russia." It is not clear why Daybreak and Columbus Nova didn't correct the record on that, given the three years of "widespread reporting" it acknowledges went on (and it never bothered to correct).
Apparently that is changing, as given this new claim – that Renova doesn't own CN – Daybreak has politely suggested we change our original title, which refers to other sources' claims that Renova owned CN and both were subject to sanctions. At this point, given the constant changes in story, we believe the burden is on CN to prove its ownership one way or another. After all, as @Nobody-Special tweeted, Renova's own website claimed that it owned Columbus Nova up until February of this year; that wasn't just something the press have been making up over the last three years.
Here is the cached page describing Columubs Nova on the Renova Group's website. https://t.co/Du8iHAaSlG
— Nobody-Special (@Nobody_Speciale) April 27, 2018
It is not currently clear when if ever that stopped being the case, but again, it contradicts the Daybreak spokesperson's claim that CN merely managed some accounts for the Russian company.
Get caught up on the whole Daybreak/Columbus Nova ordeal:
Daybreak says it has 'no affiliation' with Columbus Nova, the company it said bought it in 2015
Daybreak update: Chief Publishing Officer Laura Naviaux has left the company
Leaderboard: Does the Daybreak fiasco affect whether you play its MMOs?
Massively OP Podcast Episode 167: Daybreaking news
EverQuesting: Columbus Nova or not, Daybreak is tying its own noose
The Daily Grind: Do you buy the Daybreak-owns-Standing Stone Games rumor?
Daybreak: Here's where the EverQuest franchise, DCUO, PlanetSide 2, H1Z1, and Just Survive stand
Daybreak update: Renova boss questioned over Columbus Nova's alleged payment to Michael Cohen
Massively OP's 2018 Awards: Biggest MMO Story of 2018
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Bango on Laurelin
Good to know that when I bought lotro points last year I was laundering Putin's dirty money. Glad I stopped doing that.
wrong company. lotro is not a daybreak games. sure they use them for payment but money doesn't go to daybreak (well most of it don't)
Seems you're a bit behind the curve….
http://www.containsmoderateperil.com/blog/2018/4/26/lotro-and-daybreak-game-company
ModeratePeril not known for being anything other than producing reasoned and well-researched material.
But you carry on kidding yourself.
VentyRed
Time for the memes…
Edene
Cause a kerfluffle
Daybreak PR in action… (sorry for leaving out the Oxford comma)
'member?
Its a great shame to see the great and incomparable Everquest Franchise, the strongest IP of the genre i love most, in the hands of such dishonest people, clearly full of lies and dirty secrets. Hope someone decent may purchase EQ franchise from the likes of Daybreak and CN someday.
Kevin McCaughey
Millions of small transactions for buying virtual goods and currency is an ideal medium for laundering money. I think this is exactly what the Russians bought it for. The cost of running the studio is almost incidental when compared with the vast sums of Lottro and EQ currency that are laundered through every day, day after day. The shell company scam also allows the transfer of money all the way to Russia, complete with a wall of obfuscation that even a trained forensic accountant will have trouble making their way through (IF they were able to get the European Parent companies ledgers, which lie out of regime, as do the even further afield shell companies in the Bahamas etc.)
Jack Pipsam
R.I.P Just Survive if that's true, although it's still in Steam Early Access.
I wonder if they'll scramble together some kind of finishing update just so they can say they launched it.
The more I have dug into this and the more I find and I am fairly sure they will be able to on paper say CN doesn't own DB and Renova doesn't own CN. But that doesn't mean there wasn't a flow of money from one to the other.
They have been called investment vehicles.
I didn't post the 2015 public tax records from Texas but they do show Inception Acquisition as the owner and also still list Smed as president. So it has been the same owner since the sale. Which DB has now said Inception Acquisition is owned by Epstein.
Inception Acquisition…
BUT… the money chain will dry up and they won't have any money above what they are making to pay the staff. Hence the firings. They are getting it down to a level of payroll they can afford.
I agree with you. I am likewise not convinced that will satisfy the feds, and it sure as heck doesn't satisfy me, as all three entities have been lying and misrepresenting themselves to the public for at over three years.
Nathan Aldana
Yeah. at best theyre being truthful but that scenario leads to questions of why blatantly misrepresent who owns you for literally years and what benefits does that give you that you shoudnt have had
Yup, I have them – that's why I had suggested (on Twitter) that you look at them and you'll notice what's going on. My well-placed source shared a lot of other details that aren't yet public, and said not to disclose. But what I have been told and shown, are what guide my comments that they are ALL lying.
It's almost as if these people don't know how paper trails work. If they get themselves investigated – which I am 100% certain that they will after the June deadline, as that's part of compliance with the sanctions – an investigator is going to look at ALL these public statements they're making. And if compared to docs and the reality they don't match, a lot of people are going to be in a lot of trouble.
Though RS and JS are no longer there, they were there from the very beginning and were instrumental in the deal making process. So I can't even imagine what those guys are thinking as they read all this stuff.
Lots of shady stuff going on beneath the sheets in this industry that the public is completely unaware of, and that's the way it has always been.
It's unfortunate for the consumers.
Goes without saying, that this is going to blow up in their faces.
syberghost
Two words for why this won't work:
Forensic accounting.
Jesus, these additional updates.
This sure is getting to be a fucking wild story. Thanks for helping break it, MOP, glad to see big sites properly crediting you for doing much of the initial digging on it.
This sure is interesting/entertaining/worrying. This many story changes within a weak is absolutely not normal in any way and definitely undermines the credibility of anything they say. This is kinda a shitshow to watch unfold.
Kayweg
Next thing you know they were never sold or acquired by anyone, "Daybreak games" was just a figment of our imagination, and they really are still just SOE.
Probably somewhere around update #15.
If this is indeed incompetence rather than malicious intent, then how they managed to even run a company in the first place is a complete mystery to me.
I don't buy it, a slab of concrete is more likely to fly than that story.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pax59g/everquest-developer-denies-its-owned-by-russian-company-sanctioned-by-the-us
Neiloch
Daybreak has good reason to distance itself from Columbus Nova. "You have to cut all ties," William Courtney, a Russian diplomacy expert and adjunct senior fellow with the RAND Corporation, told me over the phone. "You can't have any dealings with [sanctioned companies]whatsoever…if they want to continue to do business in the United States."
And this is why literally any official statement from any company involved about this situation needs to be treated with heavy skepticism if not ignored outright.
What would you lie about to keep from being destroyed?
But wait a minute.
If there is no affiliation between DBG and CN, then how did our source within DBG get a hold of secret documents showing the (non)relationship between Renova Group and CN??
Bryan Correll
Sigh. This whole thing is such a shit-storm that I can't make jokes about it. Because I can't think of anything more absurd than reality.
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Former Israel Ambassador Yoram Ettinger.
Ettinger said the Obama administration's "Palestine Firster" mentality was what doomed the nine months of peace talks that collapsed this week between the internationally recognized Jewish state and a group Ettinger insists still be referred to as the PLO, with all of the connotations those initials recall of its long terrorist roots, and showing how far the world is from in its "mistaken conventional wisdom" of a 'Palestinian Authority' prepared to govern responsibly beside Israel.
He pointed to the common misunderstanding of the role of the United Nations, where Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has already launched his next battle, but Ettinger was confident that the powerful, though under-appreciated, role of the U.S. Congress in foreign affairs would allow Israel's position to prevail.
That begs the question: If history shows that war predated the "occupation," how could the "occupation" be the cause of the war?
"And the same thing with the 'settlements,'" Ettinger said.
Rather than looking toward history or understanding how religion impacts decision making in the Middle East, because those concepts are too complicated to paint a simple picture, Ettinger said the U.S. sees every question through the lens of secular nationalism that can be swayed with the capitalist's carrot of throwing money at the problem. In this case, Kerry offered $4 billion of aid to the PA to reach a deal.
The other tack the U.S. took in the peace talks was to insist on "Palestinian human rights," with the notion of any group of people being able to choose their destiny through free, frequent and fair elections. But in that case, asked Ettinger, how could Kerry invite Abbas to the table, when he was elected for a four-year term, 10 years ago? Rather than nine months of fruitless negotiations, wouldn't Kerry's time have been better spent pursuing "Palestinian human rights" by demanding those people, too, have the chance to choose their destiny through a democratic election?
In Ettinger's view, rather than face any of the underlying issues, the U.S. approach was to focus on multi-lateral and multi-national ways of solving problems, ultimately accepting the world view of the UN, where Israel's enemies imagine that the Jewish state is the world's leading tyranny against human rights.
"And you wonder, why is the supposed architect of foreign policy dealing with imagination rather than reality?
When the U.S. declines to act against Syria for completely abrogating the human rights of Syrians, even after two generations of brutal dictatorships, Ettinger wanted to know why Kerry "imagines" that what's happening in Israel is somehow more urgent than the hundreds of thousands of Arabs dying in various levels of civil war across the Middle East.
As he thought of the appropriate analogy to express his exasperation with the U.S. Secretary of State, Ettinger, dressed in a suit and black snakeskin cowboy boots, admitted his fondness for Texans and their sensibilities.
"This is Kerry's 12th or the 13th visit to Ramallah and Jerusalem," Ettinger said, throwing up his hands, baffled.
Rather than focus on the external forces that Israel cannot change, Ettinger's approach is to focus on the areas where Israel, and Israelis, can make a difference, constructively, and independently of the "whims" of the world powers.
Retired from the foreign ministry for two decades, Ettinger, a former journalist, publisher and communications expert, now runs a foundation, 'Second Thought,' which provides lectures and material to help re-write myths about the Middle East with fresh thinking, aiming to replace the "conventional wisdom" with knowledge based on fact and history. There are two areas, specifically, where his expertise is adding tremendous value to the debate.
The first, which is the topic of his current lecture tour at Jewish organizations across the U.S. this month, is the truth behind the so-called demographic threat. Using real Israeli census data, rather than just conventional wisdom, Ettinger debunks the "myth" that Jews could become a minority within Israel.
In fact, Ettinger's research contends that not only do the real numbers show the opposite is happening, but that all the anecdotes used to support the "conventional wisdom" are also wrong. In his presentation, Ettinger says that those "Yuppy Jews" in secular Tel Aviv now, and for more than a decade, have taken on their patriotic duty to bear more children than ever before. Meanwhile, the supposedly sky high Arab birth rate has fallen far behind, as young Arabs grapple with the common woes of entering the middle class, not bearing children.
His hard numbers (see below) have made many Israel supporters "sleep easy," as one said, Ettinger recites many anecdotes of his own personal meetings with young Arabs he "interviews" in gas stations and cafes as he travels around Israel. Members of his audience at a presentation this week were surprised to learn that rather than spurning formal education, many live in towns with near-full high school participation, attend community colleges (mostly, the men) and universities (usually, the women, the better students in the Arab world) and how they repeat the tropes familiar in today's America, where "maybe one child, maybe two, but definitely after my education, after I get a good job, buy a house, much later in life," Ettinger said he is told frequently by Arabs today.
Ettinger's other specialty is interpreting U.S. policy towards Israel. Rather than exclusively believing that what's being said by the Executive Branch will come to pass in the Middle East, he looks towards Congress, in light of his experience on Capitol Hill, where he returns on each trip to stay current with the contacts he built when stationed at the Israeli Embassy, as an Ambassador whose portfolio was, simply, all of Congress. In some ways, Ettinger's role was to be a one-man Israel lobby.
It is with a great understanding of how the U.S. Congress functions that he feels the "PLO's" fallback position of haranguing the UN into validating its claims against Israel will certainly backfire.
"The American President cannot ignore Congress," Ettinger said. "Congress usually is reluctant to get involved in foreign policy and national security decisions unless it's a consensus issue, unless it's a common denominator issue, unless it's an issue which benefits from the support of vast majority of the population," he said. In other words, Congress's support of Israel is strong. In fact, all but one member of Congress voted to enhance the U.S.-Israel relationship, not work to minimize or destroy it.
"It's time, I believe, for Israel and its supporters to realize that Congress is not a backseat driver when it comes to foreign or national security policy," he said.
But he also points to the power of the "false threat" as a weakness within Israel, and shared by Jews worldwide, who focus on so many "negative myths," because it is that negativity, rather than the positivity of individual action, that limits the Jewish community's collective strength. Just as Tel Aviv yuppies can "unilaterally" decide to have more children, as they have done, it is incumbent upon each Jew to "unilaterally" choose to do that which he can, on his own, to help the Jewish state when others speak against Israel, he said.
As Ettinger said to one eager questioner at another Manhattan event this week, "Never mind the mistake of waiting for great powers to come to our rescue, never mind what others could do, what can you do? You, yourself? How can you, on your own, contribute here? Only when each Jew does what is in his power will the Jewish people move forward," he exhorted to a crowd unaccustomed to such direct calls for personal action.
Ettinger's endorsement of individualism, personal responsibility, and an independent spirit draw inspiration from his time in Texas.
"And I said, well, here it is," as he grabbed at his lapel pin, today the AIPAC-style Israel and American flag pin.
But to extend the analogy, what about the people on the other side of that thousand-mile security fence that protects that border, too? What does Israel share with Texas and its relations with the Mexicans?
"Once they grow lips, this hawk will gladly and enthusiastically become a dove," former Israeli Ambassador Yoram Ettinger told The Algemeiner on Thursday.
Former Israeli Ambassador Yoram Ettinger's Comparative Analysis of Birth Rates in Israel.