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Sabine Buri
Point of focus
HEKS/EPER strengthens civil society communities and promotes peaceful coexistence among them, supports them in gaining access to land and natural resources and helps them build up sustainable agricultural production and suitable markets. HEKS/EPER also strives to ensure that rural communities and their members enjoy equal rights and a secure livelihood.
Access to land and resources
Although small farms produce up to 80% of the food in developing countries, 75% of the malnourished are rural dwellers. Access to land and other natural resources like water, seed, forests or minerals spells survival for them. Yet access to land means not only food security and economic autonomy but also homeland and cultural identity. HEKS/EPER defends land rights for local rural dwellers and helps them resolve land conflicts amicably. Smallholders get help in managing their land productively, sustainably and profitably.
Basic services for all
Education, healthcare, social welfare and infrastructure such as electricity, water, waste disposal or roadways are among the services a State should provide for its citizens – affordably and of good enough quality. Regrettably this is hardly so in countries where HEKS/EPER operates. Minorities, the elderly and disabled or remote communities face great difficulty. HEKS/EPER supports the disadvantaged in accessing basic services, and fosters dialogue between people and authorities.
CASMED/Velentin Balan
Agriculture and market
HEKS/EPER operates mainly in rural areas where prosperity and quality of life for the poorest are closely tied to successful farming. Profitable farming is often hampered by depleted soil, poor transport routes or lack of knowhow. HEKS/EPER helps people farm profitably and ecologically by fomenting sustainable techniques and high product diversity, in anticipation of environmental risks and market changes. To ensure successful marketing, HEKS/EPER builds smallholders' knowledge of markets and strives for market systems where smallholders can survive and prosper. For this, HEKS/EPER mediates between producing, processing and subcontracting enterprises.
Andreas Schwaiger
Income and employment
Farming and small businesses are the basis of employment and income in rural areas. HEKS/EPER specifically promotes products and businesses beneficial to the local people. This requires good professional training and the acumen to run businesses successfully or to survive on the open job market. HEKS/EPER therefore works with authorities, business people and private sector to organize basic and advanced training. HEKS/EPER also promotes fair working conditions and wages.
Security and rights
Economic and social development is sustainable only when people can participate freely and actively. But civil and human rights are threatened in many places. People's scope for action is being drastically curtailed. People defending their rights and those of others face discrimination and risk their own lives. HEKS/EPER therefore empowers, networks and protects people and grassroots organizations that peacefully defend participation and rights. HEKS/EPER informs local people about their rights and encourages dialogue between population, government and business sector at local, national and international levels.
A properly functioning State is transparent and accountable. It ensures legal certainty, peace, human rights and participation and creates economic and social conditions that ensure citizen well-being. HEKS/EPER and its partner organizations strive to ensure that civil society is involved in economic and political processes – more specifically minorities and other communities on the fringes of society, as good governance fosters inclusion, stability and sustainability.
Discrimination harms not just the victims – but the whole society. Social or economic exclusion affects minorities, the disabled, the elderly, rural communities, young people and often women as well. Discrimination causes poverty and conflict. HEKS/EPER helps the disadvantaged claim their right to education participation and an income. In this, HEKS/EPER works not only with minorities but also the mainstream population and fosters dialogue among all stakeholders, as the community is strengthened by broadly supported solutions.
Annette Boutellier
Peace-building
Peace and stability are prerequisites for progress and prosperity. HEKS/EPER begins its peace work in everyday life. If conflicting parties can be shown common values, interests and prospects, the result is better mutual understanding, recognition, respect and cohesion. HEKS/EPER empowers individuals and groups that are committed to peaceful coexistence through youth camps, peace networks, advocacy, media work and exchange programmes.
Walter Imhof
Disasters, climate, environment
Natural disasters and environmental pollution are rising worldwide. Ever more people live in places regularly hit by storms, floods, droughts and earthquakes. Over-exploitation of farmland, waters or forests is leading to «permanent disasters» such as water shortage, desertification or erosion. Climate change, the plunder of natural resources, economic crises and armed conflicts are exacerbating poverty and hampering progress in poor and rural regions. To secure livelihoods long term, HEKS/EPER formulates strategies jointly with local populations so as to minimize risks and enhance resilience.
Corina Flühmann
Women comprise 70 per cent of the world's poor and are also more subject to discrimination and violence in everyday life. They are also more often the victims of war and natural disasters. Women have less of a voice and less access to land, credit, education and healthcare. Yet women are the bedrock of the family, society and economy. They work in households, in agriculture or in small businesses, often without pay. HEKS/EPER opts to work with men and women in its projects so as to tackle these injustices. In so doing it is also vital to question male role models. Breaking up unfair power distribution will benefit not just women but society as a whole. Gender equality is crucial if everyone in poorer countries is to benefit from sustainable development.
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Recruitment in Public Sector, Private Sector and 'Sons of the Soil' Claim!
The Indian firms practice not a single source of recruitment, but a host of sources of recruitment. These have been classified as within the organisation, "badli" or temporary workers, employment agencies, casual callers, applicants introduced by the existing employees in the organisation, advertisements and labour contractors.
In private sector organisations, procedures and methods in regard to recruitment were not formalized. As such, each private sector employer followed its own method.
As regards recruitment practices in the Government organisations, they follow, by and large, public recruitment policies viz., employment exchanges in recruiting lower-level semi-skilled jobs. Advertisements are used for filling the higher-level jobs. These are filled either through promotion from internal sources or through deputation from other organisations. Cadre build vacancies such as IAS, IFS, IPS etc., are filled through competitive examinations through advertisement.
In recent years, a controversy has arisen about claims of 'sons of the soil' for preference in recruitment. As per this claim, the vacancies of an organisation must be first offered to suitable hands hailing from the immediate vicinity of the organisation.
1. Young persons from families who surrendered their lands for establishing the organisation must be given first priority for employment with proper training, wherever required.
2. Second preference is given to suitable hands hailing from immediate vicinity of the organisation.
3. Selection committee be formed with a representative of state government for filling up vacancies of lower level jobs.
4. Middle and higher level appointments be supervised by the Public Service Commission.
5. State participation must be ensured in the Board of Directors.
6. Periodic return on status of employment be submitted to the central and state governments.
Table 6.2 bears out the recruitment practices followed in India.
What are the Different External Sources of Recruitment?


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Boko Haram destroys Nigerian military base; 107 troops MIA
Sunday night's attack came as a military intelligence officer confirmed that 107 soldiers remain missing
Boko Haram destroys Nigerian military base; 107 troops MIA Sunday night's attack came as a military intelligence officer confirmed that 107 soldiers remain missing Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/1HAij88
Associated Press Published 12:13 p.m. ET Nov. 30, 2015
Yola, Nigeria — Boko Haram destroyed a Nigerian military base as soldiers fled and only self-defense fighters prevented the insurgents from retaking a northeastern town, residents said Monday.
The civilian fighters held Gulak town after soldiers ran away Sunday night until the military sent reinforcements who fought off the extremists, former council chairman James Ularamu told The Associated Press.
The military base was burned down, said Ularamu.
Sunday night's attack came as a military intelligence officer confirmed that 107 soldiers remain missing nearly two weeks after a Nov. 19 battle. The attackers drove off with an army T-72 tank and dozens of new camouflage uniforms, according to the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak on the issue.
Nigeria's military has denied dozens of soldiers are missing.
Premium Times newspaper first reported the soldiers from the 157 Battalion, including their commanding officer, were missing in action along with the tank, three artillery guns and eight trucks including one carrying 60,000 rounds of ammunition.
The military has reported that it destroyed dozens of Boko Haram camps and freed more than 1,000 kidnap victims in recent weeks. But Boko Haram has stepped up the tempo and range of its attacks, with raids and suicide bombings in the past week in Niger, Cameroon and northern Nigeria.
Early Sunday the extremists kidnapped dozens of girls and set ablaze hundreds of buildings in Bam in Borno state, said resident Mallam Ali.
The setbacks come as Nigeria's government admitted it cannot crush by December the 6-year uprising that has killed some 20,000 people.
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[ # ] Mom will be saying goodbye in May
February 17th, 2021 under Chuck Lorre
Earlier today, CBS picked up their Monday comedies for another season. Now, they announced that Mom will not be back for a ninth one.
"For the past eight years, we've had the great honor to bring these wonderful characters to life, sharing their struggles and triumphs with millions of viewers every week," said executive producers Lorre, Gemma Baker and Nick Bakay. "From the beginning, we set out to tell stories about recovery from alcoholism and addiction that are rarely portrayed in a network comedy series. Whether it was the emotional reactions of the live audience on tape night inside Stage 20, or discussions at The White House regarding the opioid crisis, or the personal stories we continue to receive on social media, we take great pride in knowing Mom has positively impacted so many lives. We are forever grateful to our brilliant cast and guest stars, wonderful writers, and amazing crew for going on this journey with us."
A journey that hit a bump in the road when Anna Faris told producers over the summer that she would not be returning to the show this season. I guess with her abandoning ship and the show getting more expensive to produce, CBS felt now was the right time for the show to reach its 12th step.
The series also stars Allison Janney. I am sure the actress, who won an Oscar, will be OK, since she will have more time to make movies.


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Photos: Ancient Woman Buried with Handmade Fishhooks
By Laura Geggel 2017-12-14T21:36:03Z
Time for Fishing
(Image credit: Photograph by Sofía Samper Carro; as featured in Antiquity)
About 11,500 years ago, a high-status woman was buried in a cave with handmade fishhooks fashioned out of seashells. These artifacts, unearthed on the Indonesian island of Alor, are the oldest fishhooks on record found in a human burial, a new study reports.
The discovery suggests that women participated in fishing activities thousands of years ago. It also shows that the culture likely valued fishhooks and viewed them as essential for the transition to the afterlife, said study lead researcher Sue O'Connor, a professor in the School of Culture, History and Language at Australian National University. [Read the full story about the ancient fishhooks]
Island find
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The archaeologists found the burial of the ancient woman in a rock shelter known as Tron Bon Lei, on the Indonesian island of Alor.
Skull and hook
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The skull, likely that of an adult woman, was discovered in the rock shelter. A fishhook and pierced bivalve shell were found near her jaw.
(Image credit: Putu Yuda (top); image from Samper Carro et al. 2016, reproduced with permission from Elsevier (bottom), as featured in Antiquity)
A view of the volcanic ridge (top) where Tron Bon Lei is located. The white arrow points to the rock shelter. A photo at the pit taken from the southern edge of the rock shelter is shown at the bottom of the image.
Four fishhooks
The four circular, rotating fishhooks (A, B, C and E) found within the burial. The discovery is the oldest burial with grave goods on an island in Southeast Asia on record.
J-shaped hook
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A J-shaped fishhook found in the Tron Bon Lei burial. The dotted lines show the probable shape of the shaft.
Pierced shell
Archaeologists found a pierced shell belonging to the bivalve Vasticardium flavum in the burial. The shell was worn and rounded along the top.
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Behavior: Where do young peregrines go when they leave home?
Question: Where do young peregrines go when they leave home? Do they migrate?
Answer: It depends on where they were born.
Peregrine falcons born in the Arctic do migrate on traditional north-south routes but those born in the middle latitudes, such as Pittsburgh, don't migrate in the classic sense.
Mid-latitude peregrines live where their food (birds) is plentiful all year so they don't have to go south to find it. Instead they just wander. It's this behavior that gave them their name. Peregrine means wanderer.
Juvenile peregrines wander the most. By the time they've been flying for about a month, they're able to hunt on their own. They still beg from their parents until six to ten weeks after fledging, but more often than not their parents ignore them. Soon the juveniles become independent and restless. Each young bird makes exploratory trips away from home and on one of those trips he just keeps going.
Scientists knew peregrines wandered but no one knew exactly where they went. The bands on nestlings helped determine their start and end points but where they went in the middle was a mystery. To answer this question the Pennsylvania Game Commission conducted a telemetry study, placing satellite transmitter backpacks on five juvenile peregrines from Harrisburg and Pittsburgh in 2002 and 2003. The backpacks transmitted date, time and location to a satellite, thus giving a momentary snapshot of the peregrines' locations. The Game Commission downloaded the data and plotted the birds' paths.
The results are quite intriguing. Here's an animated map showing the path of a juvenile male peregrine from Pittsburgh who was fitted with a telemetry device in the spring of 2002. As you can see, he wandered sometimes traveling 200 miles a day.
Immature peregrines wander until they're about two years old. Then they claim a nesting territory as their own and, if all goes well and there's food in the winter, they stay there the rest of their lives.
Where do they finally end up? See Pitt Alumni and Rochester's Beauty for some answers.
Thank you for the fascinating information Kate.


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Home › Recommendation › Films To Watch › Arrow Video's restoration of classic horror camp "Elvira: Mistress of the Dark" is worth the price of admission.
Arrow Video's restoration of classic horror camp "Elvira: Mistress of the Dark" is worth the price of admission.
As a kid with a profoundly accelerated imagination, there was no way I would ever watch something horror-related even though I frequently wanted to. Scoping out the VHS cover art while waiting in line at Kroger's or hitting my local video store, I'd wonder about the various horrific stories kept inside. Thing is, even time my curiosity got the better of me, I paid for it in spades. Even now, I possess a vague recollection of a late-night film I stumbled upon while camping out in the tv area of my grandparent's beach condo in which the killer took notice of the people watching at home and attempting to get us. Reading the words is evidence enough that the premise is ridiculous, but it hit me in my psyche and has never let go. Perhaps that's why I never checked out anything associated with premiere horror pin-up Elvira, the stage name for actor/writer/producer/singer Cassandra Peterson, as I presumed she was a new generation Vincent Price. (I may not have watched the genre, but I still kept tabs on the notables.) What I didn't realize at the time, but I do understand now, is that Elvira is less straight bone-chilling horror and more appreciator of low-rent horror. She advocates for the Ed Woods of the horror universe, is a beacon of sex positivity and feminism, and is all out supporter of cinema in all its forms. Perhaps that's why Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is so hilariously awesome, perhaps more-so than you'd expect, because Peterson so totally understands what it takes to make a "bad" movie that only her influence could make one near perfect.
After fighting off the unwanted advances of her new station owner, Elvira (Peterson) quits her late-night movie hosting gig and begins her move to Las Vegas where a job offer awaits for her to headline her own show. There's just one problem: the producers want her to pony-up a $50k investment before they'll greenlight it. Just as Elvira seems destined for failure, a message arrives letting her know that she's been invited to a will reading for Great-Aunt Morgana. As Elvira loads her car and heads to Fallwell, Massachusetts, she thinks she's headed toward a payday that'll change her life. What she doesn't know is how deadly right she is.
When Mistress of the Dark was released in 1988, it's difficult to image that anyone would think it would be getting the restoration treatment at any point thereafter. It is, by and large, a film made by and for a specific niche of cinema-lovers. But if one is to love cinema at its "highest," it's important to understand it at "lowest" too. For the people who make films like Return of the Killer Tomatoes, they love movies just as much as the people who make Parasite and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Each carry a significance within the halls of cinema history and it is obvious why Mistress remains a fan favorite: this film was made to honor those who love midnight movies, those misbegotten folks who revel in the macabre yet wish no Earthly-bound citizen any harm. For all of its low-grade appearances, that's what Mistress is, a loving homage to Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957), The Blob (1958), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and House II: The Second Story (1987). It's in the way that things happen: sometimes for no particular reason or just because the narrative demands it. It's in the way that the town of Fallwell seems comprised of tight-buttoned normies who wouldn't know a good time if it sat on their face. It's in the way that the hero of the story isn't simply Elvira, but the notions of agency and self-respect that come with her. All of this is packaged with the same foibles and self-awareness of the films Elvria promotes via her in-film and out-of-film personage. Because of her and the film's candor, we just go with it.
And why wouldn't we? From the opening moments of the film, Mistress of the Dark presents to the audience, not a high quality horror flick, but something from the Nuclear Age with over the top acting and an obvious low budget. This doesn't automatically mean that the film we're shown is bad, it just means that the standards for entertainment have changed. In a similar way, Mistress of the Dark rides the same line. Peterson as Elvira is perfect-pitch camp as nearly every line is loaded with mostly harmless sex jokes and innuendoes that don't so much wink at the camera (though Peterson herself does more than once) as execute a gentle, loving clam stamp upon its audience. Amazingly, Mistress of the Dark is loaded with subtext regarding consent and age-appropriateness, as well as respecting members of a differing community, all while still including hornball high schoolers, a subplot involving sexual repression, another subplot involving witchcraft, and even a romance. Yet each one is set-up so that they flow naturally to create small moments of character tension which culminate in an eruption of ridiculousness that'll have you howling with laughter by the end.
If you're not new to Mistress of the Dark, why would Arrow Video's release interest you? A few things come to mind.
First, there's the optional introduction from director James Signorelli, which you should not skip. It could be your first time or your millionth time watching Mistress of the Dark — don't jump past that option. It perfectly sets the tone for the feature film which follows. The film itself is a restoration of a 4K scan of original film elements, so while it doesn't look like it was made today, it certainly doesn't appear 32 years old where it counts. Elvira's character-specific wardrobe is hauntingly black, the colors used to paint her great-aunt's house are vibrant, and the dark scenes which encompass the end of the film offer zero cloud or distortion. Do keep in mind that this release from April 2020 in the U.S. is the same as the December 2018 U.K release from Arrow Video, so anything available in that edition is available here as well. That means audio commentaries from 2017, as well as the restored feature-length documentary Too Macabre – The Making of "Elvira: Mistress of the Dark", as well as "Recipe for Terror: The Creation of the Pot Monster" visual f/x exploration. There may not be much new here compared to the previous release, but that doesn't mean it's not worth the price of admission.
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark Special Features
Brand new restoration from a 4K scan of original film elements
Original uncompressed stereo 2.0 audio
Introduction to the film by director James Signorelli
2017 Audio Commentary with director James Signorelli, hosted by Fangoria editor emeritus Tony Timpone
2017 Audio Commentary with Patterson Lundquist, http://elviramistressofthedark.com/ webmaster and judge of US TV show The Search for the Next Elvira
Archival Audio Commentary with actors Cassandra Peterson, Edie McClurg and writer John Paragon
Too Macabre – The Making of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark – newly-revised 2018 version of this feature-length documentary on the making of the film, including interviews with various cast and crew and rare never-before-seen archival material
Recipe for Terror: The Creation of the Pot Monster – newly-revised 2018 version of this featurette on the concept and design of the pot monster, as well as the film's other SFX
Original storyboards
Extensive image galleries
Original US theatrical and teaser trailers
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sara Deck
Available on Blu-ray and digital via Arrow Video in the U.S. and U.K.
Final Score: 4.5 out of 5.
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In life, planning is good. But improvising can be way better and more fun in some situations. If you take cooking as a therapy, improvising your recipes once you've learned the basic techniques can be the most powerful happiness tool for cooks.
A couple of weeks ago, it was my mom's birthday. As a surprise, we invited her friends over and cooked a whole menu from scratch. As usual, most of the salty dishes were made by Jean and the sweets were made by yours truly. I decided to make a tart with toppings made out of ricotta and strawberries. It initially started with the idea to pour a strawberry coulis on top of fluffed up ricotta cheese. Jean then recommended I serve the coulis aside and simply top the tart with sliced strawberries. The feedback was quite good and people felt it was lighter than a traditional strawberry tart with crème pâtissière (i.e. custard).
This is not the last version of this tart but I'd like to share my first experiment today.
Refer to this recipe but remove the orange zest from the ingredients.
You can also get a ready to bake dough from the supermarket if you're not into making it yourself.
Make the coulis: heat the strawberries, sugar and lemon juice in a pan until the strawberries are reduced to small bits. With a mixer handle, crush the strawberry until you obtain a thick syrup. There's your easy coulis!
Serve the tart with the coulis on the side for those who wish to top their tart with it, and there you go! 🙂 Light, fluffy and delicious! My advice is to have it with a nice glass of Piccini Prosecco. You'll love it, I promise!
Any thoughts? I'd love to hear suggestions!
After the 6 lip-smaking party food recipes in under 10 minutes we made last month, we found that finger food is more than ideal for the holidays. Like I said last time, it's the most successful during these busy times. You can also go back to the post (here) to follow the 4 steps for successful and efficient kitchen work.
This time, it's all party food crostini recipes. For the bread, I love Bar Tartine's country bread, a nice Ciabatta OR for a really healthy (and yummy) choice, you can try Annette's Crostinis, The Caringly Low Carb brand launched not long ago and available at these outlets.
Pour sauce on top, garnish with coriander and enjoy!
Serve with a drizzle of honey!


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House Members Launch Investigation Into EPA Official's Continued Ties With Chinese Government-Controlled University
Andrew Kerr, Daily Caller
Members of the House Oversight Committee sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday demanding the agency provide records related to a political appointee's continued ties with a Chinese government-controlled university.
The Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported that EPA Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science Policy Dr. Christopher Frey, who was appointed by President Joe Biden in early February, disclosed in his ethics recusal statement that he had taken an unpaid leave of absence from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). The ex officio chancellor of the university, Carrie Lam, is also Beijing's hand-picked bureaucrat to serve as the chief executive of Hong Kong.
The watchdog group Protect the Public's Trust, which first obtained Frey's recusal statement, said the university is effectively an arm of the Chinese government and that "one can presume from the leave that [Frey] plans to return to his employment with the Chinese government upon completing his tenure at EPA."


This piece of Passover #TorahForTheResistance is part of a series written by young rabbis, rabbinical and religious students about Jewish resistance to Trump through faith, Judaism and spirituality. Our tradition teaches us this time of year that the more a person tells the story of our exodus from Egypt, the more praiseworthy is that person.
Choosing to become a rabbi was a decision I made with an incredible amount of consideration and care. I wish to bring my particular passions, skillsets and knowledge to bear on some of the most important justice issues within the Jewish community and beyond it.
Uploaded by The Jewish Theological Seminary on 2017-11-13.
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman received rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2018 and is, as far as she is aware, the first blind woman in the world to enter the rabbinate. While in rabbinical school, she served as the rabbinic intern at T'ruah: the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and as a chaplain at the New Jewish Home in Manhattan. She has taught extensively on the intersection between Judaism and Disability, and has been published widely including in Jewschool and RitualWell. She has taught at synagogues and organizations throughout North America, including the National Havurah Committee, Jewish Theological Seminary, Join for Justice, The Summer Institute on Theology and Disability, the Ruderman Foundation's Synagogue Inclusion Initiative and Adas Israel Congregation. She was named to the Jewish Week's 36 under 36 in 2017 and was a part of 70 Faces Media's Stories at 70 documentary project in 2018, in which her story was profiled in a short video documentary.


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"He seems fucking insane!"
Kerrang! 2002
Dave Grohl: he's Alec Empire's number one fan...
When did you first come across Alec?
"The first time I hear Alec Empire was in New York city when someone gave me a tape. I just thought it was the absolute demise of techno music. I just thought it was awesome; this band had done something with this music so radical that nothing afterward will survive. You can't get anymore fucking hardcore than this. Like, this is the biggest wall of noise I've heard in my life. And the subject matter was great too. He was talking about the police, TV, fuck you, violence and war. It was about destroying 2000 years of culture. It was astounding. Not to mention that a lot of it used Bad Brain samples as well. I couldn't argue with that could I?"
What are your impressions of him on a personal level?
"I've only hung out with him a few times. We were on a tour of Australia and they were on, he was...alluring and intimidating at the same time. Sometimes he seems so happy and outgoing; other times he seems just fuckin' insane. I don't know how to explain it. The couple of times that we've talked he's just seemed like this bizarre sort of General. Just really intense."
Do you have any plans to collaborate in the future?
"Well we've done a couple of things together, although I don't know if it'll ever be released or whether it will ever come out. He actually sang on a Probot track-I don't know what's going on with that album by the way-but he worked on one of the songs on that record with me. The song was called 'Tear it out'."
Why should a Foo Fighters fan listen to Alec Empire's music?
"Well just as Bad Brains' influenced me to play the drums and to start a punk rock band, it seems that they influenced Alec Empire to do the same thing. But he has a more technological take, his interpretation seems to be a little less literal."


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Fragmented disposals reduce tax
by Daniel Ruthven on June 20, 2017 No comments
Fragmented Disposals
Disposing of a chargeable asset such as shares or property, even when gifted, will in most cases attract a capital gains tax liability. This can be reduced by the application of the annual exemption amount, £11,300 in 2017/18, however careful planning may enable you to claim multiple years relief and exemptions against a fragmented disposal, reducing liabilities to nil.
Parents wish to gift a second property to their child. If the parents had ever occupied the property then the gain attributable to this period of occupation would be excluded, along with the final 18 months. Letting Relief, an exemption limited to £40,000 per person, would also be available covering the period the property was commercially let.
Fragmented Disposal:
If this property was gifted across in one transaction, then these reliefs would only apply once. However, if the gift was staggered, or fragmented as HMRC describe it, with a commercial reason, then the parents would have the option of applying not only a single years annual exemptions and lettings relief, but also relief for any subsequent years on each tranche.
There is anti avoidance to prevent abuse of these rules, however HMRC are in agreement with planning for commercially driven fragmented disposals, their CGT manual states:
"Taxpayers can arrange their affairs in such a way that they obtain the benefit of more than one annual exemption against the gain on a single asset….[officers] should remember that not every fragmented disposal is an avoidance device and [officers] may find that there were good commercial reasons for, say, the disposal of land in a number of tranches. Similarly, a gift may well be genuine even though there is an overall tax benefit."
HMRC go on to use a detailed example:
A simple example is the disposal of a single holding of land in two parts to the same purchaser. One part is sold under a contract made on or before 5 April; the other part is sold under a separate contract made on or after 6 April. When the sales are completed (often on the same day) the effect of TCGA92/S28 (time of disposal and acquisition) is to determine the dates of disposal as the dates on which the contracts were entered into, so that two annual exemptions are available.
In the above example, if the vendor and the purchaser agreed at the outset that the whole asset should be sold, and HMRC establish that there was a single contract, possibly oral, the date of the single contract will be the date of disposal, and the claim for fragmentation fails. It is worth reminding ourselves that a transaction in land must be in writing.
It is important to recognise that there may be very considerable practical difficulties for HMRC in establishing that a disposal was made under an oral contract pre-dating a written contract.
An unconditional contract requires an offer by the purchaser and acceptance by the vendor. An agreement subject to contract does not amount to an unconditional contract. Nor does an 'agreement to agree': for example, the vendor may sell part of the asset now and say he will enter an agreement to sell the rest later.
The intention to sell the second part does not amount to an unconditional contract. Furthermore, if the oral contract was followed by written contracts. It will be necessary to demonstrate that the sale took place in accordance with the oral rather than the written contracts. This involves arguing that the written contracts were no more than window-dressing and this will be possible only in very exceptional circumstances.
The final point to mention would be if the vendor grants, in respect of part of the asset, an option for sale exercisable in a later year, HMRC will not be successful in showing that there was an unconditional contract for the sale of the whole asset in the earlier year, as the option demonstrates right but not obligation to purchase.
If you would like a free consultation to discuss your situation and tax planning, contact us today. We have accountants in Canary Wharf, Essex and Manchester waiting to hear from you.
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Top 6 Online Associate in Art and Art History Degrees
Students in online art history associate degree programs gain unique perspectives on cultural anthropology, world religions, and Western culture while exploring artistic media such as photography and painting. An online art history degree prepares students for a variety of bachelor's and master's programs and for careers as museum and gallery curators, gallery managers, and conservators. As public interest in museums and cultural centers grows, the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that employment for curators, archivists, and other museum workers will increase 7% by 2024.
What Are The Best Online Associate in Art and Art History Programs?
Foothill College Los Altos Hills, CA
Foothill College serves more than 13,000 students from its 122-acre campus in Los Altos Hills, CA, as well as online. The college offers more than 75 associate degrees and professional programs to distance learners, including an online art history associate degree. Art history majors at Foothill College will complete 90 units in a combination of general education, core, support, and elective courses. Coursework is self-paced and is delivered asynchronously through the Canvas platform. The curriculum emphasizes a broad survey of all major periods of art history around the world, beginning with prehistoric art and early Christianity and concluding with modern art and post-impressionism. Additional course topics include cultural anthropology, fundamentals of drawing, and comparative world religions. Applicants must satisfy prerequisites in English and math. Students who plan to advance to a four-year program are strongly encouraged to study one to two years of a foreign language, depending on their specialty.
Allen County Community College Iola, KS
Allen County Community College students embrace technology; 25% of students attending the college's Iola Campus in Kansas incorporate at least one online learning course into their schedule each semester. Among ACCC's many online AS and AA degrees, the school offers an associate of arts with an emphasis in art that combines general education and visual arts coursework. Students may choose a track in either art or graphic design. The 64-credit program incorporates study in drawing, English composition, and social and behavioral science. Graduates of the program are eligible for transfer into bachelor-level arts degrees at seven institutions of higher learning across Kansas.
Front Range Community College Westminster, CO
With the majority of its students enrolled in continuing education programs, Front Range Community College boasts a robust selection of online programs for distance learners. The college offers 25 degrees, 13 certificates, and hundreds of courses online, including an online art history associate degree. Graduates who complete the program are guaranteed transfer at partnering schools in Colorado, where they can enter a four-year art history program as a junior. The degree requires 60 credit hours in foundational art history survey courses, studio arts, general education, and electives. The four-semester curriculum also requires intensive study of math, communications, arts and humanities, and science. Students who intend to continue on to a bachelor's degree after completing their online art history degree at FRCC must fulfill a foreign language prerequisite in their sophomore year.
Colorado Mountain College Glenwood Springs, CO
Comprised of an 11-campus system spanning 12,000 square miles in north-central Colorado, Colorado Mountain College serves more than 20,000 students each year through its comprehensive on-site and online programs. Among its more than 130 associate, bachelor's, and certificate programs, CMC offers an online art history associate degree designed for students who intend to transfer to a bachelor's in art, art history, or a related major. Coursework includes 60 transferable credits in general education, CMC requirements, and electives. The curriculum builds broad skills in communication, math, arts and humanities, and computer proficiency. Online coursework at CMC may include a combination of web-based and interactive video classes requiring asynchronous and synchronous participation.
Essex County College Newark, NJ
GRADUATION RATE 10% ONLINE ENROLLMENT 1% RETENTION RATE 56% DEFAULT RATE N/A%
Home to two campuses in Newark and West Essex, New Jersey, Essex County College has served a diverse, cross-cultural student body since its founding in 1966. Today, the college offers nearly 50 majors and more than 500 courses on campus and online. The school's online associate of arts in art prepares graduates to transfer into a bachelor's program in art, graphic design, interior decoration, advertising, museum studies, curating, or teaching. Students take an average of 16 credits per semester and can complete the degree in two years of full-time study. The curriculum requires the completion of 66 credits in general education and the fundamentals of art, drawing, and two- and three-dimensional design.
Cerro Coso Community College Ridgecrest, CA
Serving the Kern community college district in California, Cerro Coso Online offers 18 associate degrees, 17 certificates, and more than 160 courses to distance learners. The college's online art history degree is tailored for transfer students, providing a pathway to a bachelor's program at a school within the California State University system. Graduates of the online degree in art history are guaranteed acceptance into an affiliated CSU baccalaureate program in art history or a related field. Required courses include surveys of western art from prehistory to the middle ages, the Renaissance, and contemporary periods, as well as introductory drawing. Students may choose additional courses from topics including Asian art, design, sculpture, and painting. The art history online degree is comprised of 60 course credits and is typically completed in four semesters or two years.
How to Choose an Online Associate in Art & Art History Program
Identifying the criteria for your ideal online art history associate degree program will help you narrow your search. First, ensure that each school is accredited by a national or regional accrediting agency. Also consider tuition costs and financial aid options, such as federal aid and field-specific scholarships. The cost of tuition and fees are affected by the length of the program; accelerated programs take less time to complete and tend to cost less. Online associate degrees in art and art history typically have no on-campus requirements. However, in-state programs may offer lower tuition prices and state-funded scholarships.
Educational Paths for Associate in Art & Art History Degrees
Because most art and art history careers require a bachelor's degree, many graduates of online art history associate degree programs transfer into bachelor's programs. An associate degree in art and art history prepares students to pursue bachelor's degrees in art history and related majors, such as museum and curatorial studies and fine art and design. Below are a few bachelor's degrees that graduates of online art history associate degree programs commonly pursue.
Art history: A bachelor's degree in art history expands on introductory concepts covered in associate degree programs. Core coursework covers Renaissance art, contemporary art, and all major periods and movements in between. Some programs require a studio art component.
Museum and curatorial studies: A relatively new and increasingly popular major, museum and curatorial studies prepares students to form collections, arrange objects and develop displays, and impart cultural and artistic messages through exhibitions. As many curator positions require a master's degree, some schools offer dual bachelor's/master's programs.
Art and design: This major is available in BA and BFA degrees; the former includes both visual arts and liberal arts studies, while the latter focuses on studio art. BA programs also develop business and professional skills. BFA degrees encourage portfolio development and may include "benchmark" critiques or reviews.
Career Paths for Art & Art History Graduates
Graduates of online art history degree programs become museum curators, conservators, museum technicians, and gallery curators and managers. Below are common careers for professionals with an online art history associate degree.
Museum curators acquire and oversee the storage and exhibiting of museum collections. They may also develop a museum's research and educational programs. This position typically requires a master's degree.
Art Gallery Curator
These professionals curate and manage collections within a commercial art space, which is typically for-profit. Curators at some small institutions and art galleries need only a bachelor's degree.
Archivists preserve historical documents, photographs, maps, and sound recordings for museums and cultural organizations. Some specialize in a particular historical era. A master's degree is required for entry-level employment.
Museum Technician
Museum technicians, or registrars, oversee the safekeeping of artifacts and objects in a collection. They maintain documentation of insurance policies, risk management, and loan agreements. This position requires a bachelor's degree and sometimes a master's degree.
Conservators handle, preserve, and restore works of art, artifacts, and antiques. Most specialize in a particular material or medium and have knowledge of scientific methods of restoration. They typically hold a master's degree in conservation or a related field.
Job Outlook and Salary for Graduates of Art & Art History Associate Programs
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment for archivists, curators, and other museum workers to increase 7% by 2024. As electronic records management becomes standard, archivists with technology experience will secure top jobs in the field. Growing interest in cultural institutions and in the synthesis of art, science, history, and technology will drive the demand for more curators, technicians, and conservators. Art and art history professionals with an advanced degree, specialized training, and work experience will have the best prospects for long-term employment.
Salary Growth by Experience for Graduates of Art & Art History Associate Degree Programs
Professionals with higher levels of education and more experience earn higher salaries. While the positions listed below offer starting salaries that are below the national average for humanities majors, professionals in each occupation earn more than the national average for workers with five to ten years of experience. Professionals trained in art and art history may earn up to three times their starting salary after 20 years in the industry.
To determine the best online associate in art and art history programs, we looked at the most important factors prospective students, mainly common predictors of future success and a school's commitment to online programs. This boils down to admissions rate, student loan default rate, retention rate, graduation rate, and the percent of students enrolled in online classes. All data points are taken from information provided by colleges and universities to the National Center for Education Statistics.
Each factor is weighted evenly in order to give an objective view and determine the 6 best online associate in art and art history degree programs. To calculate our rankings, we looked at a school's ranking when organized by a single factor, and then averaged each category's ranking to find an overall score: Admissions Rate (20%) + Default Rate (20%) + Retention Rate (20%) + Graduation Rate (20%) + Percent of Students Enrolled in Online Classes (20%) = Final score.


Feng Shui Basics – Feng Shui Elegance, Int'l.
FENG SHUI is an approach to INTERIOR DESIGN. Feng Shui is more than creating ambience & interior decorating; it addresses much more than just colors, shapes, and styles. The Feng Shui Bagua, a "tic-tack-toe-like template", is conceived as a reflection of Heaven & Earth harmony. If you would like to create sanctuary in your home or place of business, then you will find Feng Shui wisdom of interest.
Feng Shui focuses on "healthy chi flow", the idea that fresh air can comfortably meander throughout your home or property. Contemporary interior design and decorating have a lot to learn from this ancient Chinese approach to domestic or commercial environments, including architecture and landscapes. It includes sustainability, design, and interpersonal harmony. Creating a welcoming space per your sensibilities, with consideration for your visitors as well as other residents, is most logical for good relations and well-being.
Feng Shui is pronounced FUNG SCHWAY. It is the ancient Chinese 'art of placement' which can be used for interior design, architectural design, landscape design, room layouts, organizational design, color consulting, and more. The literal Feng Shui definition is 'wind on the water'. Like that song says, it can carry you home! The meaning of Feng Shui is much deeper. Using the five elements in Chinese medicine, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood, you will learn to create balance, which leads to harmony in your life.
Thousands of years ago, the early feng shui masters used what is now called, The Form School of Feng Shui to increase the success of their agricultural efforts, ie, where to plant crops. This led to where to place a home or shop to ensure the healthy of residents or guests. Pythagoras studied these formulas which the Chinese used, especially the Lo Shu square, which looks like a tic-tac-toe board. This Lo Shu square became another "school" of feng shui.
The Chinese believe in 3 Types of Luck: Karma, Luck from Heaven, Personal Luck, from doing something constructive, and Earth Luck, or Feng Shui, pronounced FUNG SCHWAY, which requires auspicious arrangements of landscapes, buildings, furniture and walkways. This idea is to create a beautiful environment which is inviting and conducive to focusing on the matters at hand. Use Feng Shui to help you stay organized, enjoy a better quality of Life, and properly welcome everyone who comes through your door.
Today there are more than 12 schools of thought. Teresa knows them all. Form, Lo Shu, Compass, Black Hat (BTB), Flying Stars, Four Pillars, Intuitive, Modern, Transcendental, Bagua, etc. Knowing all these schools is helpful since every location is a bit different, clients are different, and so this makes Teresa a great consultant because she is both so knowledgeable, as well as intuitive.
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Q: AWS EC2 ECS - How many tasks should I place on a single instance? At the moment, I have a single c4.large (3.75GB RAM, 2 vCPU) instance in my workers cluster, currently running 21 tasks for 16 services. These tasks range from image processing, to data transformation, most sending HTTP requests too. As you can see, the instance is quite well utilisated.

My question is, how do I know how many tasks to place on an instance? I am placing up to 8 tasks for a service, but I'm unsure as to whether this results in a speed increase, given they are using the same underlying instance. How do I find the optimal placement?
Should I put many chefs in my kitchen, or will just two get the food out to customers faster?

A: We typically run lots of smaller sized server in our clusters. Like 4-6 t2.small for our workers and place 6-7 tasks on each. The main reason for this is not to speed up processing but reduce the blast radius of servers going down.
We've seen it quite often for a server to simply fail an instance health check and AWS take it down. Having the workers spread out reduces the effect on the system.

A: I agree with the other people's 80% rule. But you never want a single host for any kind of critical applications. If that goes down you're screwed. I also think it's better to use larger sized servers because of their increase network performance. You should look into a host with enhanced networking, especially because you say you have a lot of HTTP work.
Another thing to consider is disk I/O. If you are piling too many tasks on a host and there is a failure, it's going to try to schedule those all somewhere else. I have had servers crash because of too many tasks being scheduled and burning through disk credits.

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Parks News: Disney World's Festival of the Lion King Is Getting a New Home
by Leap on August 2, 2013 1
It's time for the Frog Family's weekly roundup of Disney and Orlando theme park tidbits from the interwebs.
We love comments! Drop us a line below if you have something to share.
This week's highlights:
After much speculation and months of rumors that the Festival of the Lion King might be going away, Disney confirmed that the popular show isn't ending -- it's just moving to a new theater inside Disney's Animal Kingdom. The announcement follows the recent move of Mickey and Minnie out of Camp Minnie-Mickey to a new meet-and-greet location at Discovery Island. It is expected that these moves will make way for construction on a newly themed "Avatarland." We can't wait for more details!
Those of you who tuned in a few weeks ago will be happy to hear that a name has been chosen for the first Masai giraffe to be born at Disney's Animal Kingdom. The calf is called Mosi, which means first in Swahili.
Foodies, get ready! Aug. 13 is the day to make reservations for premium events at the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. While the festival is included with the regular price of admission, these events include parties and special tastings are an additional charge.
And speaking of tastings, the Disney Parks Blog has also revealed the menus for this year's festival. Mommy Frog, the big foodie in the Frog Family, is quite set on trying the Scottish Banoffee Tart with Bananas, Scottish Whisky Toffee, Walkers Shortbread Crumbles and Sweet Cream at the brand new Scotland kiosk. What are you most interested in tasting? Share in comments below!
Over at SeaWorld Orlando, Shark Encounter has been on the receiving end of some new additions and updated bites! Check out the "Shark Screen," where you can get your picture taken inside the mouth of a shark!
It was a monumental week for Universal Orlando, which already celebrated its one millionth "recruit" for Transformers The Ride: 3D, which opened in June.
If that's not enough, the newest area of Universal Studios, Springfield, is expected to be fully open very soon. The "Duff Gardens" waterfront and the newest attraction, Kang & Kodos' Twirl 'n' Hurl, will round out the Simpsons area, which features the namesake ride and Fast Food Boulevard.
We're a week away from the D23 Expo, dedicated to celebrating all things Disney, and the Disney Parks Blog has given us a look at some of the merchandise, including this limited-edition Dooney & Bourke. The conference is being held at the Anaheim Convention Center, conveniently located near the Disneyland Resort.
For those Cars Land fans, who might not be able to make it out to Disney California Adventure Park, there's a new mobile edition of the popular Cars Land Racers game. And for those of you lucky enough to play the game inside the park, you can earn special achievements. Sounds like a winner to me!
That's all for this week. Until next week, happy planning!
— Leap
Tags: Disney's Animal Kingdom, Transformers the Ride 3D, SeaWorld Orlando, Disneyland, D23 Expo
Aug 2, 2013 at 1:33 p.m. Tara8595 Says...
Goodness, I hope they call it Pandora and not Avatarland. Maybe a compromise... "Pandora, the Land of Avatar" But Avatarland?? No. Please. :-)


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Lyn Simmons previously unpublished interview, 2006; part 2 of 3
Lyn was Bill Finger's companion in the 1960s and his second wife from 1968 to 1971. She was unknown to the comics world before I discovered her.
I interviewed her for Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman and am now posting many of those previously unpublished interviews.
Part 1.
[first few words cut off but she was saying that she told her son Andrew] that you were going to give Bill the credit that he never got and deserved and Andy said that was great, 'cause Bill was wonderful to my children.
When did you and Bill marry?
We married quite late, actually. We were together for, I don't know, 13 years and then we married in 1968.
In Great Neck?
Yes. Then I came out here because of my son and Bill and I got divorced. But we were on the phone all the time and I feel that had he lived, we would've gotten together again.
When did you move out there and get divorced?
I moved out in '71 and that's when I got divorced. He had a lot of problem about my moving out. I don't think you need to know about that.
After you divorced, did he move back into Manhattan?
[asked about the article Lyn's daughter Eve mentioned, she'll send]
Did you know [Bill's son] Freddie?
Yes I did. Freddie when he was little used to come out and visit in Roslyn. I had a house in Roslyn, Long Island. That's where Bill moved when we were married. He was a sort of disturbed young boy.
His wife, I never met her, but I understand she was obese. Bill was rather short and slim and she had a lot of gay friends. I think they may have influenced Fred quite a bit. Bill was pretty upset about that. Bill had faults. He was not too good on the alimony. He was not too good with his deadlines. But he was the kindest man in the world, really. It just beset (?) by his own certain weaknesses. When I first met him and he came out to the house with a whole bunch of comic books, my kids went crazy. He had the early, not the Batman, the ones before that that he was writing. I forget the publisher but the Green Lantern. Bill had first editions that he was selling very happily for five or ten dollars and feeling he was making quite a profit. They probably sell for a couple thousand now.
Some of them would sell for five figures, if they're in good condition.
They're very valuable. You know what else would go for a lot of money? Any memento from the Golden Age. So if Bill had any notes, I know that a lot of that stuff was thrown away, but all that stuff is highly collectible now.
Oh my god. I don't have any of that.
Do you happen to remember Fred's middle name?
His real name, his first name was Milton, and he hated that. He changed it to William. And everybody knew him by Bill.
Oh, you're talking about Bill?
Whose middle name?
Freddie's.
No, I don't know.
And Bill's real first name was Milton?
Yes, but don't put that in. He didn't like it. [she later gave permission]
So he was born as Milton William Finger?
No, he just changed it to William. I don't know whether William was his middle name or he just changed it to William.
As long as anyone knew him, he was Bill.
Did he have a middle name?
[said I'm hoping to find some of his Freddie's friends]
You haven't found out where he is?
Well, he's deceased. He passed away in the late '90s.
He died?
Yeah, he died.
Oh my lord. I knew nothing about him after I came out to California. … Was he married?
No, I believe he was gay and I heard he died of AIDS.
[asked if she might have any documents that would show Bill's middle name]
No. If he had one. I didn't have a middle name. I don't think Bill did. We didn't give middle names in those days. Maybe Freddie had one, I don't know.
Bill was not in WWII?
No, he wasn't.
Did he not get drafted?
I guess he didn't. He didn't get drafted. He had some problems, maybe some problems, I don't know what it was. He never talked about it. One thing I wanted to tell you about. Bill and I were on the phone a lot in the years before he died and I was out here. One day I called him and he didn't answer. I just had a feeling to call him late at night and there was no answer. I thought that's very strange because he's always in late at night. So next morning I phoned his friend Charlie who lived in the same building as Bill in New York. And I said take a look in at Bill, see if he's okay, 'cause I called last night, he wasn't there. So Charlie looked in and a little while later he called me back. He said oh my god, you must be psychic, Bill is dead. He had died in his sleep on the couch sometime that night. That was quite amazing and I cried quite a bit.
So Charlie was the one who found him?
Yes. They brought up the manager of the building. My son was having operations and this was his third one that was coming up and I couldn't go in for anything. He was very very sick, he almost died, so I had to stay with him. I don't know what happened. His wife called me before this happened.
You mean his ex-wife Portia?
His ex-wife called me and she said that…wait, I may be getting mixed up here. I am getting mixed up. This was before I moved out to California. She was very mean. She called me about how sick Bill—she went to see him, he was sick, he had had something with his heart. I said I didn't want to hear this, and so she said goodbye, and of course I visited him and he stayed with me when he recuperated, in Roslyn. He was alright but he had had a heart problem before.
You mean you came back from California to visit him?
No, this was before I left for California.
So you divorced and then you moved? You didn't move first?
No, I moved first. We were in the process of getting the divorce and then I got the papers out here.
Then after '71—
We were in touch all the time.
Did you see him after that?
He never came out to visit?
No. Well, he had a kind of reluctance to travel. He had a kind of anxiety about traveling.
I've been told that he didn't drive.
Yeah, he didn't drive.
I don't know. He just never got a license and he never drove. He never had a car.
How did he get around in the suburbs, like when he lived in Great Neck?
Well, he took the train into work, which was walking distance from where I lived. Then I drove him around, everywhere.
And it never came up why he didn't want to drive?
Well, no. (laughs) I think I did tell him to get driving lessons a couple times. And he said I will, I will, I will. And he didn't.
His reluctance to travel, what did you think—
Some anxiety about it.
You mean like getting on a plane?
Yeah. Leaving his familiar spaces.
Did you ever talk to him about his Batman work and what he thought of his fans? Did he know that he had fans?
No, he never thought of that at all. Not at all. He was very humble, very unassuming. He was just doing comics. He said "I'm a hack writer."
So he wasn't proud of his work?
Well, yes he was. He thought he did good work. But he said "I'm a hack writer."
Did he have aspirations that he was working toward?
No. Well, he may have. I don't remember that.
He was just content to continue writing comics and not try something else?
Yeah. Well, he and Charlie wrote a movie and they did some television scripts, so he did something more.
Did you read his work before he sent it to the publisher?
And you gave him suggestions?
What did he like to do for fun?
He loved theater, which we went to. Ballet we both loved. He loved classical movie and he had a very complicated [stereo] setup that I wasn't allowed to touch.
Was that in his workspace?
Yeah, and then it was up in my house. Actually, when he moved up, he didn't move to Roslyn. He stayed there quite a bit. But he moved up to my Great Neck apartment. I had sold the house in Roslyn in 1964. And I was in an apartment in Great Neck.
So he never lived in Roslyn? He just visited.
And then he moved to Great Neck—
When he moved from New York he moved to Great Neck.
Did you have wedding photos?
No, we got married by a justice of the peace in Great Neck. We had no photos at all. We weren't camera people. What he did for fun is we traveled, locally. We didn't go abroad. We went to the Hamptons, we went to Cape Cod, we went to Maine.
Always by car?
He never left the Northeast his whole life?
No, he never did. [I later found out that at least once he made it at least as far as Texas]
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Empyrean Energy hails 'very encouraging' results as China prospects..
Empyrean Energy hails 'very encouraging' results as China prospects receive estimate upgrades StockMarketWire.com - Oil and gas development company Empyrean Energy said Friday that it's Pearl River Mouth Basin asset, offshore China, had been estimated to contain 884m barrels of oil potential.
Independent audit petroleum advisory firm Gaffney, Cline & Associates had carried out the audit of the company's three prospects, Jade, Topaz and Pearl, estimating a oil potential of 884m barrels, up 9% from a previous estimate of 814m.
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White and blue lightning flowing towards the pupil. Successfully used in all sorts of setups, ranging from zombie to vampire and even aliens.
Freaky white and blue contact lenses featuring lightning patterns. ColourVue Crazy Lightning contact lenses are a great costume accessory that will go with many different themes, from alien to zombie ones. They can even be used in a vampire costume if your inspiration is the Underworld franchise. They are available only in zero power and will last a year giver proper care and maintenance.


It's December 2018! Where did the year go? Make the most of this last month of 2018 by joining instructors from The National Institute for Genealogical Studies for a virtual genealogy meeting. Everyone is welcome!
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The Linn County Historical Museum Advisory Commission is a citizen advisory commission consisting of 10 Linn County citizens representing various geographic areas of the County and volunteer museum support organizations. Museum Commissioners serve three-year terms.
The purpose of The Linn County Historical Museum Advisory Commission is to advise the Linn County Parks and Recreation Director on matters relating to the operation, maintenance, promotion and development of the Linn County Historical Museum and the Moyer House. The Linn County Board of County Commissioners establishes all major policies governing the Historical Museum and the Moyer House.
The Linn County Historical Museum Advisory Commission generally meets on the second Monday of each month at 4pm. The Commission meetings are held at the Linn County Historical Museum in Brownsville, Oregon.
Linn County Historical Museum Trust, Inc.
The Linn County Historical Museum Trust and the Linn County Parks and Recreation Department have created a "Heritage Courtyard" just outside the front entrance to the museum. The Heritage Courtyard celebrates families and individuals who came to the Willamette Valley by 1950. It contains a wall created from purchased bricks etched with the names of family, friends, or loved ones. Visitors are encouraged to use the courtyard as a gathering and resting space.
The wall will continue to expand as more Heritage Bricks are purchased. These bricks help fund ongoing preservation and improvement projects for the Museum and the Moyer House. To purchase a Heritage Brick click on the link below. Each brick will cost $100.00 and is tax deductible.
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Glenn Greenwald: '…it's just kind of time for me to do other things'
Posted on July 15, 2014 by wendyedavis | 13 Comments
Well, okay; we wish you all the best and all…
But whoa, Nellie: Heroes, clay feet, 'n billionaires: O, my!
I can't even count how many of Edward Snowden's revelations I wrote up while Kevin Gosztola was still covering Chelsea Manning's trial. They were great fun, and a number of folks tried hard to teach us what all the slides and terms meant, how the internet backbone worked, and…tra la la. All of those revelations were Before Intercept, or: BI, as well. One of the main questions I've had all along is what would 'transformational journalism' look like when it was funded not by any old billionaire, but Pierre Omidyar in particular. We can discuss that as you'd like, including his 'philanthropic' ventures, his PayPal's blockade of WikiLeaks, the PayPal 14, etc. his frequent visits to the White House, and what any of that has meant to the First Look news venture.
To start with, ten months after the leak about the venture, there is only one site that uses a funky WordPress software platform much like this one. Given the quarter of a billion dollars Pierre had put up, and that part of the venture was to be a for-profit high tech arm, it's sad and baffling to see it in its original state.
For ten months neither Jeremy Scahill nor Matt Taibbi have published a word there, although when I asked GG about it on a current thread, saying that their absence seemed akin to farmers with friends in high places being paid by the federal government to not grow certain crops, and that they both seemed quite busy Tweeting sports scores, he answered:
"Matt is in the process of building his magazine. It takes longer than one might think. It certainly took longer than I thought it was. But he's making good progress.
Jeremy is busy on several stories and I expect you'll hear from him before too long.
Daily blogging is much different than either trying to build a new, innovative media outlet from scratch or from doing hard-core investigative journalism. The latter two tasks take lots of time, effort and energy to do them right."
Heh; boy, howdy did Arianna get HuffPo World up jiggedy-quick once she announced its coming creation from Davos, dahlink, but then, she must have hired some good tech help, told them her vision, and bingo, baby! I believe it was merely four months ago that Pierre met with all the journalists, editors, et.al. in CA for a meeting about 'vision'….
When GG declined to name nation X of the five whose cell calls were under scrutiny and being recorded due to government's claim of danger to lives, WikilLeaks named 'Afghanistan' within several days, to no apparent consequence.
Now this from a hero of the realm who claims (and probably rightly so) that he has Eric Holder on speed dial, and Holder takes his calls. Fierce investigative journalism, indeed. A man who, along with hero of the realm, Edward Snowden, early on began establishing the contrast between 'good whistleblowers' and 'bad whistleblowers', i.e.: WikiLeaks, whom they claimed erroneously, dumped all of Chelsea Manning's surreptitiously acquired classified docs without checking with the federal government. No proof has ever been given that harm came to anyone due to their publication, as with Snowden's.
Yes, we waited for new revelations from GG, as the drip-drip turned non-existent for months, and the world was beginning to yawn, and in the US only bullshit 'fix' legislation was afoot, and only the NSA spying and snooping was addressed, in any event. No word on legislative or judicial remedies against the spies at DHS, the FBI, DEA, private corporate entities, police departments, or the total Panopticon we're not only surveilled by, but more citizens were discovered by FOIAed documents to have been deemed 'terrorists' by this nation's fascist government officials.
Sure, we tried to understand (and many championed) GG taking time to write a book, go on a lengthy book and teevee tour to tout it, then tout his movie deal/s, one of which was with the makers of 'Zero Dark Thirty' whom he had earlier lavishly excoriated as…something or other.
Some of grew irritated by the time some of interviews were published, wondering seriously what the hell was up, anyway. Take some excerpts from his interview with GQ, 'The Man Who Knew too Much', ha:
"I like to think of it as a fireworks show: You want to save your best for last. There's a story that from the beginning I thought would be our biggest, and I'm saving that. The last one is the one where the sky is all covered in spectacular multicolored hues. This will be the finale, a big missing piece. Snowden knows about it and is excited about it."
Fearless journalism, saving the most telling and egregious sins against our privacy for last.
Given the references he'd made to colors in the sky, etc., some speculated that he'd publish all the separate names who were under NSA spying around the 4th of July. He tweeted that it was coming early one morning, then by evening, said it would be delayed while they checked out some additional claims by the government. When at last it came, it concerned the naming of five distinguished Muslin Leaders of the 202 Muslims the documents showed were under NSA scrutiny. And those of his commentariat who wondered if this were the big finale, or if it would get the same traction as he'd claimed, were made to feel like bigots. Well, eye of the beholder and all of that. But then he finally did Tweet to the media that this wasn't the Biggie:
Dear Media: No, this story is not the "finale". There are many other stories that will be reported – here & elsewhere – from the archive.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 9, 2014
Was the Biggie withheld temporarily due to governmental compliance, or was this the Fireworks? We'll never know, I reckon.
Just after the publication of that revelation, GG did an interview with Wired magazine's Kim Zetter, excerpts of which follow:
"Zetter: You have characterised this story as the finale in your coverage, the pinnacle of your reporting on this topic. Does this and the other stories now constitute the whole iceberg? (With the understanding that of course you don't possess everything about the government's surveillance in your cache of documents.) But is this the peak now?
GG: When I talked about my finale I just sort of meant…basically I've been doing this for a year now so it's just kind of time for me to do other things. I'm sure there are stories in there that I passed by because I didn't recognise the significance of it and neither did the other journalists working on it that people who have a different set of understandings about things would. I already have a few stories written that are going to come after this one, so this isn't my last one. But I do think there are some really big stories left to tell that would probably be very related to what Ron Wyden was saying… . But we have a snippet of what the NSA did. We don't have anything close to everything that the NSA did. And it's possible — in fact I think it's highly probable — that there are things Ron Wyden knows about and was referring to that, for whatever reason, just aren't in the documents that we have, or we haven't found them."
Wot? He's tired of this stuff? After snippets? And did he just pass the torch to Ron Weyden?
Can it get worse? Yes, it can, at least by my lights, and measured by the smoke that came out of my ears; being coy while claiming not to be:
Zetter: There has been a lot of speculation about the possible existence of a second leaker, ever since Jake Appelbaum, a developer for The Tor Project, and Der Spiegel published the so-called ANT catalogue of NSA surveillance tools and didn't attribute the document to Snowden. Then last week Jake published a second story in Germany about surveillance of people who use privacy tools, based on what appears to be leaked source code from an NSA datamining tool. That story also wasn't sourced to Snowden. You've said you think there's a second leaker.
GG: It's hard for me because I actually know what's in the archive and I don't want to just come out and say: this is in the archive, this isn't in the archive. But the thing I thought was most notable about that Der Spiegel article Jake did is that they don't say a single thing about what the source was for those documents, and every single other time Der Spiegel has reported on Snowden documents they say specifically: this came from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. And they were just completely coy and silent on the sourcing for those catalogues. I think that should have been a red flag for a lot of people, in addition to the fact that it wasn't any of the normal journalists who did that reporting. Everyone knows who got the documents, like me and Laura [Poitras] and Bart [Gellman at the Washington Post].
And then later:
Zetter: So you still hold strong to this idea that there probably is a second source.
GG: It's hard for me because I know for certain but I don't want to be coy and be like well there may be and there may not be but I can't say for certain because I don't want to talk about what's in the archive or not in the archive for the rest of my life… . It's hard to me to say for certain because there are so many documents."
The guessing games began: 'who else has Snowden's NSA files?' And how many have yet to be explored by folks who might see more significance than GG and the others? Well, Cryptome will, to 'avert a July war'! (But not really), arrghingly enough.
Yes, we know that the good Edward Snowden said that all he'd ever wanted was 'a conversation', and that once one began, he'd declared his mission accomplished. But a couple things of interest popped up recently from him, one attributed to him, correctly or not, by GG via NPR: 'We've Erred on the Side of Caution':
"So clearly, I believe — and actually Edward Snowden was vehement about the fact — that not all of this information should be published, that some of this is kept secret legitimately, that the NSA has the right and the duty even to spy on al-Qaida and other groups that are genuinely threatening to the United States."
More distinction between them and WikiLeaks? Or just reflexive statist jingosim?
But via Geronimo, this Tweet, you decide:
Guess what? #Snowden thinks US support of Israel is the "least worst" option. Hear that, Gaza? http://t.co/n9Rw6Fh02M pic.twitter.com/C9b0SzFlhf
— Geronimo (@JbJabroni10) July 14, 2014
Funny thing was, apparently the Guardian scrubbed the two paragraphs after publication, and made no mention of it. Yeah, I'm done with it all. I've been advised by some that it makes me somewhat akin to pooh, but that's okay; I just think: Winnie-the-Pooh.
From Alexa O'Brien's 'Emails & new warrants raise questions about investigators' conduct in Manning & WikiLeaks criminal probe,' July 12, 2014, this video among the many recently discovered to have been on Chelsea Manning's youtube channel. "…an emotive animation created by Joaquin Baldwin about a voodoo doll who "must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death. In the video the voodoo doll sacrifices itself to save the life of its fellows." Beyond heart piercing, given…everything. Thank you, Chelsea; you did us all a great service.
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13 responses to "Glenn Greenwald: '…it's just kind of time for me to do other things'"
juliania2 | July 16, 2014 at 11:20 am | Reply
Perhaps for the sake of the planet we should already have had an oligarchy in this country consisting of all the great mechanisms connected to transportation by horsepower, the original horsepower, that is. Those worthy merchants would have prevented any furtherance of industry connected with steam, connected with coal, connected with ravaging the earth for fossil fuels, and everything would have stayed safely underground until the next cataclysmic supervolcano or wandering meteorite came along to keep us in awe of nature.
We would have had exceptionally well bred horses, exceptionally well made carriages, fields of exceptional grain, and the world would love us because we were best at providing all of these things, thanks principally to a location providentially situated between sea and shining sea. We would sail in our beautiful sailing ships across pure oceans teeming with fish, and our children's children would inherit the land.
We would not fly, no, we would not fly, but we'd remain on earth looking outward into a glowing sky pregnant with possibilities for the mind's imagining. There would be tycoons, and they would have weapons, most probably, good for limited dominations of one kind or another. No trains though, so the land's superhighways would be fashioned to be kind to the horses' hooves, not much more than a part of the landscape – no offensive skin of asphalt suffocating the soil.
The Greenwalds and Omidyars would still be with us, shrunk to human proportions instead of being giants of the superscreen – and there would be no superscreens!
I think we would all be in a far far better place. Maybe, just maybe, that place will come. Forward to the back place!
wendyedavis | July 16, 2014 at 12:06 pm | Reply
no more larger than life folks, no more superscreens is spot on, juliania, and the forward to the black place reminds me, of course, of kurt vonnegut's billy pilgrim and 'war in reverse'. bless yer heart.
and i hope like hell others who have the documents *will* publish them. does sarah harrison? does it matter, since there are so many other acronym agencies who compose the Panopticon? but to be so tired now…
wendye, it's good to be reminded of all the hard work you and others have done exploring and explaining those first revelations of the deceptive, organized, intrusive, stupidly glitzy, ballyhooed, downright idiotic patterns of cartoon spyware as they dribbled out slowly (so us retards wouldn't lose the thread – wow, see next time how the hero escapes from those shrinking walls and ceiling coming down!). In retrospect that lone voice calling this an insult to our intelligence (his name begins with A, that's all I've got) was correct.
It still resounds as part of the worldchanging event ongoing and a good thing in spite of all the imperfections. Motives may have been impure, but we'll take it, and we know that earnest folk communicated and became community through even this flawed process.
The latter wasn't what you did – far from it, the best silk purses come amazingly from sow's ears if the heart makes the effort, so feet of clay? OK, bring on the next one and we'll work him over – we're getting good at this!
In other words, thanks, wendye, for all you have done. Even if the internet disappeared tomorrow, we have been restored to our critical thinking mode, the world and all.
wendyedavis | July 17, 2014 at 4:01 pm | Reply
welcome, but i loved doing what i did, but never had one inkling that it would all fizzle out as it has. and i can't honor gg whatsoever for being too tired of it all now, and 'wanting to do other things' when only the snippets have been published. yes, the rest of the world sees now just how 'exceptional' this empire is, but there is bound to see so much more, even though he says 'he doesn't know or recognize the importance'. phooey. they might have been crowd-sourced, it's not as though plenty of great journalists weren't available. to help. but…edward snowden got his conversation, bless his heart.
but for instance, where are all the snowden documents on israel or ukraine? would those have helped to avert these 'wars' that are happening now? ethnic cleansings, both, imo. where are more on the deep state ngo's who are helping the empire's 'democracy project' everywhere?
maybe we'll see more files, depending on who else really does have them, or maybe…
but oh, woe to russia, who's being blamed already for the maylasian passenger plane having been shot down from the sky over eastern ukraine. yes, indeed: ambassador geoffrey pyatt, the nasty soul, just retweeted this:
President Poroshenko ordered investigation of terrorist attack on #MH17 We seek urgent assistance of ICAO&US National Transport Safety Board
— Pavlo Klimkin (@PavloKlimkin) July 17, 2014
Bruce | July 18, 2014 at 12:30 pm | Reply
LOOK! DUCKS (Wyden, Appelbaum, et al)!! GiGi's bin Bushed!!! And to make it worth his while, $old OUT to Omidyar … meh.
it's tough not to see it that way, although so many fans, including gg, swear it's not so. 'total editorial freedom'. and damn, gg never looked into pierre's business dealings, including his paypal blockade of wikileaks,then the punishment of the Paypal 14 hackers (they still haven't raised enough to escape jail time, as far as i know).
but gosh, look how many gg/intercept fans were just too ready to inoculate pierre's investment in democracy projects. (sadly, i couldn't get back to the thread in time to respond to much of it.) but i have dug into NED, USAID, chéPasa did into the very covert Center UA…and it ain't purdy, but i never posted it as soooo depressing, if totally illuminating.
http://my.firedoglake.com/jpsottile/2014/02/28/things-are-getting-weird-at-first-look-media/
or ukraine:
http://my.firedoglake.com/jpsottile/2014/03/22/u-s-corporate-foreign-policy-alliance-in-ukraine/
and now gg is tired of it all, wants to do something else. and we get stuck with TOR (doesn't work too well, even at the intercept), and the freedumb act and more covert legislation. meh.
ha; so glad you asked, bruce. :)
oh, and did i forget to say that gg believe that citizens united was decided well (at salon.com)? that was educational as hell for me. hmmmm.
Bruce | July 18, 2014 at 1:44 pm | Reply
HST: "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro"! The Nuland Ukrainians (Nukrains) are pros, spawned fascist, fully-formed; while 0's minions are still incubating semi-fascists (halfascists works better, but insufficiently sporty), not yet being vicious enough to commit genocide; except by proxy (via Zionazis and lower Svobodans).
wendyedavis | July 19, 2014 at 8:33 am | Reply
the twitter pics featuring yats and comely blondes sporting wolfhead logo were quite explicative, bruce. i'm not comfortable with the term 'zionazis', but maybe it's because i'm not sure what it means. but it's more clear than ever that this nation's corporate/military insane foreign policy, whether formal or haphazard reactive, is wreaking some ugly results for people around the planet.
'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' is a crap de facto policy, and my gawd, my mind leaps to the cia having essentially created al qaeda in afghanistan to fight the russkies. look how well that's turned out. and kerry has his big foot helping create 'a great team of rulers' there now…or something. my stars.
Bruce | July 19, 2014 at 9:26 am | Reply
Hmmm … we have our Vaterland PNACis (Bushs, 0, Nuland, et al); their actual Yatsi-Nazis on the Ukraine Lebensraum front; and then those excess-of-evil USraelis, committing escalating war crimes on the Megiddo front:
http://www.sott.net/article/282222-Israel-bombs-el-Wafa-hospital-to-rubble-as-staff-evacuates-all-patients
How does this differ from the Warsaw ghetto and the holocaust, except in reverse? Howzabout a Palestine partition-in-reverse, Vonnegut replay?
oh, i'd thought you meant 'zionazis' in terms of ukraine; now i see. i couldn't make the link. will read your link later, i need to do a bit in the garden right now. but explain 'meggido'? egregious bombing, just evil.
Bruce | July 19, 2014 at 10:25 am | Reply
"1984" featured war in Eurasia on the Malabar front; but our real-life Li'l Br0bama's moving on ALL fronts, including EastAsia, simultaneously, bound for Armageddon; predicted to commence in Megiddo, Israel! (Hence, my epitomizing it as the precipitant of WWIII: it was supposed to be a joke, but it, like 1984, is being actually effected; Because Obama – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-sdO6pwVHQ ).
wendyedavis | July 19, 2014 at 11:45 am | Reply
lol! can i use it? but o.m.g. i'd forgotten millenialist's christian(ist?) eschatology by way of revelations. oh, my. mog and magog… so sorry i'm such a crone with swiss cheese for brains, and the joke…fell flat. funny thing is, i just got a phone call from a dem asking who i'd vote for in the fall. didn't have enough time to edjicate her, sadly…. senate just unanimously voted to support israel's moves against gazan palestinians, for instance. cowardly assholes.
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