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What Bilbo's Journey Would Look Like Today
Hal Amen
What follows are speculative plot highlights from the The Hobbit, imagined if Bilbo had undertaken his "there and back again" adventure in AD 2014 instead of 2941 of the Third Age.
Bilbo Baggins, a seemingly ordinary yet, as we shall soon see, rather extraordinary little hobbit, lives at Bag End, a modestly proportioned, LEED-certified in-hill construction near the hamlet of Hobbiton. Ah, here he is now, his stocky frame hunched floorward as he removes a tray of organic carroway seed cakes — a personal favorite — from his natural-gas-fired oven…baking and eating being two activities any hobbit is fond of engaging in. Bilbo is comfortably middle class — well-off enough to hire a gardener to tend his vegetable patch, and to keep his home outfitted with the latest in Energy Star appliances, but lacking the wealth needed to relocate (as many of the hobbit 1% have done) to the walled community of Grey Havens out by the bay, with views over the Great Sea so fair one could almost claim to glimpse the towers of Numenor on the horizon. He works from a home office in his hobbit hole as an IT representative, assuring anxious hobbit customers that no, their computer isn't broken…have they tried restarting it? By night, he scans travel websites, dreaming of how he'll spend his two weeks of annual vacation, while overlooking the fact that he's never actually used his vacation time to travel, despite repeatedly and publicly claiming (as anyone who spends more than a few moments within earshot could attest), "I've always wanted to visit the Sea of Rhun. You know, they say it's the hidden gem of the Eastlands."
Instead, Bilbo enjoys learning about the various places and cultures of Middle Earth through his role as a Couchsurfing host, which, as a matter of fact, is how he winds up meeting a band of 13 raucous dwarves and one aged but clearly mischievous wizard named Gandalf. After their visit had been arranged online, he rather doubted whether the dwarves, in the end, would come to stay at Bag End, knowing as he did how their race prefers sleeping in caves and wouldn't be fond of the gluten-free / vegan pantry he very clearly advertised on his CS account page. But nonetheless, here they are knocking on the dual-paned smart-glass and reclaimed-river-ferry wood of his hobbit door. When the dwarves, upon entering, start in with an a cappella version of an old folk song, something concerning an ancient technique for manufacturing hammered goblets, the thought crosses Bilbo's mind that this may be some new species of flash-mob action, and his nose wrinkles.
But no, the dwarves are legitimately on the road, making their way back East to Lonely Mountain, where resides a powerful dragon named Smaug the Golden, who, for the last 200 years or so, in the common reckoning, has been hoarding the most valuable of all modern treasures: technology patents. He now has such a monopoly on the patent market that the ordinarily industrious dwarves are unable to put into production any of their ingenious and delicate round-cornered touchscreen tablets (mobile data plans sold separately) for fear of legal action, and the only solution, in their minds, is to take Smaug's patents by force. The dwarves tell Bilbo as much — while attempting clandestinely to deposit the hobbit's no-bake pipe-weed cookies under the rug. Though at first Bilbo doubts the veracity of their tale, a quick Google search confirms the existence of Smaug and the great patent law crisis of Middle Earth, which has been described as "a roadblock to innovation and all that is good on this earth" in the op-eds of the Angmar Times. "Dear me, what a villainous plight," mumbles the hobbit to himself, shuddering at the mere thought of dragons and armed conflict and trademark legalese. Imagine his shock, then, when the dwarves further reveal they've come to Bag End specifically to enlist him for their journey, convinced with dwarven fervor that the services of an IT expert will come in handy when confronting the dragon.
A high-pitched and somewhat unseemly argument ensues, with Bilbo steadfastly refusing the unexpected and, in his mind, overly forthright invitation. But Gandalf knows which button to push (he's already scanned Bilbo's browser history with a tap of his magic staff): "Bilbo, my boy, this may be the best chance you ever get in your short and rather inconsequential hobbit life to quit your job and travel the world." (Yes, the wizard actually has the ability to hyperlink his speech.) Remarkably, this does the trick, but when the dwarves hand Bilbo his plane ticket to Lake Town, eastern hub of Fire Drake Airlines and closest port of call to Lonely Mountain, he turns them down flat: "I want an 'authentic cultural experience.'
We go on foot, or I don't go." Gandalf sighs. Bilbo pulls from a closet and dusts off an 80-liter trekking pack, a never-used graduation gift from his mother (Belladonna Took, herself quite a renowned — or, from the perspective of the average Shire-dweller, infamous — wanderer, as seems to come naturally to most belonging to the Took lineage), double checks a few select webpages he's bookmarked for just such an unlikely occasion — 40 travel accessories that will prepare you for anything, How to pack food for the backcountry — and the next morning they're off. Before exiting the Shire's 4g network coverage, he composes a tweet: "Finally doing it! So excited, and ever so overjoyed to announce to my cousins, the Sackville-Bagginses: suck it. #halflingburn"
The journey gets off to a rocky start when Fili, scouting ahead, is so engrossed in a Spotify playlist that Kili recently shared with him — it has all his favorites: "Ode to Mountaintop Removal," "The Ballad of Thorin, Son of Thrain, Son of Thror," etc. — that he doesn't notice he's led his companions into a den of Luddite trolls (less sophisticated relatives of the patent trolls of the East, many of which were hired by Smaug in order to amass his patent collection, and promptly eaten on completion of their contracts). After a somewhat uncomfortable few hours where the dwarves are kept in sacks while the three trolls debate how to cook them — Asian fusion vs. "Mordor style" (blackened) — Gandalf is able to distract the trolls relatively easily with a series of YouTube videos depicting kittens playing with balls of elvish twine, until the sun comes up and they're turned to stone by its heavenly rays.
Following this embarrassing (for the dwarves) and trouser-soiling (for Bilbo) experience, the party is relieved to have the opportunity to spend time relaxing at Rivendell, the super-exclusive 7-star resort of the elves. Gandalf secures them a complimentary private suite by promising Elrond, property manager, favorable coverage in the next issue of Conde Naste. Bilbo, having never before seen the work of elvish masons, marvels at every detail of the hotel's high-end design features through the pale glow of his smartphone, snapping photos of intricate botanical reliefs, cozy fireplace nooks, and innovative lighting solutions for dark corners, assigning each a clever and logical filename, and wistfully daydreaming about how they will later be cataloged in his ever-growing "Remodel Inspiration" board on Pinterest, which he curates diligently and, some might say, obsessively. Balin, on the other hand, cleaving to a stubborn dwarven aesthetic, is unimpressed, and uses a desktop in the business center to leave an anonymous TripAdvisor review hinting that Rivendell just might have a bedbug problem, closing with, "It's no Moria."
Despite Elrond's generous offer of a digital copy of Middle Earth Trail Atlas (2014 Edition), Gandalf insists on employing Siri-based navigation via his new, unwieldily large (even for a wizard's pocket) iPhone 6, having been a stalwart devotee to the Apple cause since early in the Third Age. Consequently, soon after the party departs the Last Homely House, they find themselves lost on a high, deserted 4×4 road in the Misty Mountains (the route was abandoned many years earlier upon construction of the Luthien Tunnel, a wonder of modern elvish engineering). They take shelter from a sudden snowstorm in a cave, not realizing the cavity is actually a disguised entrance to a top-secret military technology development laboratory, run under the auspices of a cloak-and-dagger government agency, codenamed "Necromancer."
Immediately, security goblins equipped with night-vision and tasers set upon the party, subduing and transporting them to a holding area deep under the mountains. They later manage to escape, but Bilbo becomes separated and, after hours of aimless wandering, unwittingly stumbles upon the latest in computer-generative security systems, the Ghastly and Odious Long-Lived Underground Minion, or "Gollum," a technology so cunning it can only be unlocked through the answering of riddles. However, it so happens Bilbo is an especially talented riddler, and after running through a repertoire of some of Middle Earth's finest head-scratchers, defeats Gollum to obtain the most precious prototype in the entire facility: a golden ring that renders the wearer invisible. (It will later be suggested by multiple government watchdog agencies that the ring was forged using no small amount of black magic, an allegation that Necromancer and its political supporters have yet to confirm or deny.) Just before rejoining the dwarves on the eastern slopes of the Misty Mountains, Bilbo updates his FB status: "What has 10 hairy toes and kills at riddles? This hobbit."
Inexplicably still pulling from his iPhone, Gandalf passes the dwarves sketchy directions for the upcoming trek through Mirkwood National Forest before taking his leave of the little folk — he must catch a flight to Wizard-BEX '14, being held this year in Isengard, where he has been tapped to deliver the keynote: "10 Best Maiar WordPress Themes." Now wizard-less as well as map-less, the party quickly becomes disoriented in Mirkwood and spends days tramping in circles, hungry, thirsty, and demoralized. "What would Bear Grylls do?" wonders Thorin aloud in his gruff baritone. Bombur decides the answer is to drink from a river whose water has clearly been contaminated by runoff from a 'clean bitumen' plant upstream in Ered Mithrin. Needless to say, they are all in pretty rough shape when a scouting party of wood elves discovers them and takes them prisoner — all except Bilbo, who uses his cloaking technology to avoid detection.
Still invisible, Bilbo forces his weakened, stubby legs, capped by what at this point are mud-caked and fungally compromised hiking boots, to keep pace with the swift, light strides of the elves, at last following them through the stone gates of their woodland fortress. Many days pass, the dwarves held for ransom in the dungeon, Bilbo living incognito within the elvish halls, pilfering food to regain his strength, updating his resume, publishing a stream of wordy yet rather trite blog posts on the trials of travel abroad (it's around this time that friends and family back in the Shire begin to quietly block his Facebook updates), and devising a plan of escape. Said plan, when finally put into action, involves springing the dwarves from their cells and concealing them inside barrels of all-grain, craft-brewed, thrice-hopped elvish ale, which the elves regularly ship via raft down the Forest River to the shores of Long Lake and the bustling tourist bars of Lake Town (which, it turns out, are primarily frequented by the wood elves themselves, who, with their considerable old-money wealth, often sojourn to Lake Town to 'get away from it all').
And so it is that, a full month after their originally booked airfare would have delivered them there, Bilbo and the dwarves arrive at the settlement of Lake Town, gateway to Lonely Mountain. The hobbit is taken by a sudden spell of giddiness in realizing the geographical accuracy of these monikers: "I see, I see — the town is in fact constructed on a network of wooden piers above the waters of the lake, and the mountain stands tall yet isolated, utterly removed from any greater range…" "I realize you do not share my command of foreign languages, Bilbo," Thorin grandiosely interjects, "but these sites are more accurately called, in the old tongue, Esgaroth and Erebor, respectively." The next time Thorin logs into Snapchat, he notices, a scowl cutting a fissure across the igneous geology of his face, that Bilbo has deleted him from his friends list.
Though Bilbo may be in possession of extensive IT expertise, his skills fail him in the parsing of such obtuse and legalistic language.
Bilbo and the dwarves set out on their final trek, tracing the River Running to its source on the southerly slopes of Lonely Mountain, passing as they do charred expanses that once were lush meadows, a phenomenon of destruction cited by some as evidence of Smaug's ruthlessness, by others as inarguable proof of global warming. Entering via the front gate of the mountain hold seems far too risky, but fortunately Thorin, who spent his childhood here, holed up in his room playing Middle Earth's earliest first-person shooter games as his longbearded elders lamented the demise of dwarf culture, knows of a second, secret point of access, which leads directly into the great patent storeroom, and the lair of the dragon himself. The dwarf leader, in a moment of meta-existentialism upon considering that this story is called The Hobbit and not The Thirteen Dwarves, selects Bilbo for the role of reconnoiterer and, if the opportunity arises, burglar. Forever outnumbered 13-1 in the decision making process, the hobbit acquiesces.
Stale and formidably dark is the tight tunnel that conveys Bilbo to Smaug's chamber, where he notices with immense relief that the dragon lies in deep slumber. He avails himself of the opportunity to peruse the shelves and shelves of patents: "No. 109396-B – Concerning the display of commercial links rendered in verdana font within the text of an email;" "No. 45302-F – Concerning any app which, in the interpretation of the patent holder, denigrates, or attempts to denigrate, the reputation of the elves of the race of Avari, or any likenesses thereof…" Though Bilbo may be in possession of extensive IT expertise, his skills fail him in the parsing of such obtuse and legalistic language; it's as if the patents were written in the cursed tongue of the Dark Lord himself. Grasping at random, he pulls a single patent file, stuffs it haphazardly into his tunic pocket, and begins to make his way back to the tunnel entrance.
But what's this? Bilbo, naturally curious as hobbits are (though they continuously attempt to deny it), can't help but survey the majestic bulk that is Smaug — the sword-like lances of his teeth, the cruel razors of his claws, the rich weight and seeming impenetrability of the scales covering his limbs, back, and underbelly…and there it is. A single missing scale on Smaug's left breast, a framed patch of skin as bare as it must have been at the dragon's birth. Bilbo, feeling this intel may be of some significant import to someone other than himself, quickly pulls out his phone and snaps a photo. But alas, he has neglected to switch the sound profile to "stealth," and the artificial shutter effect that emanates from the device reverberates with force around the stone chamber. Instantly the dragon awakens and, spying the thief and the purloined patent certificate, erupts in a fury of fire that singes the hobbit's backside as he flees for his life through the tunnel.
No sooner has Bilbo rejoined his companions and commenced in a somewhat comical stop-drop-and-roll, than an enraged Smaug bursts through the side of the mountain, spouting fire and rising with haste on the force of the gales whipped up by his muscular wings, which swiftly propel him in a straight path towards Lake Town — in his mind, the obvious point of origin of the dastardly patent thief. Smaug's transit is lightning-quick, but the 4g lte blanket network of Rhovanion is quicker. Bilbo pulls out his phone, opens his newly captured image file, and texts it, with a speed only well-practiced hobbit thumbs can achieve, to Bard, vocal Tea Party leader and resident gun nut of Lake Town. The message is received just as Smaug begins to rain fire on the wooden structures (truly an unfortunate construction decision, made specifically to give the tourist destination that 'quaint' feel) of the settlement. Bard, overjoyed at the opportunity to test out his newly purchased black-market Oliphaunt rifle in the field, grips the weapon with purposeful hands, takes aim at the miniscule target on the dragon's chest as he makes another destructive pass, inhales sharply, and fires. Following a roar so deafening it is reportedly heard echoing off the turrets of Minas Tirith, far to the south, Smaug plummets in a death shroud of fire and smoke into the waters of Long Lake, taking most of the town with him.
When at last Bilbo comes to, and sees that the battle is over, and that he has lost many friends, he quickly decides that he's had quite enough of travel for a while, thank you very much.
Back at the mountain, the hobbit and dwarves receive the news of Smaug's demise in near real time, thanks to the handful of Lake Town survivors with active Twitter accounts. Thorin and company are jubilant, running back into the mountain and literally frolicking (quite unseemly behavior for dwarves) among the millions and millions of patent sheets, but what they fail to consider is that, now unguarded, the patent cache is already being targeted for capture by forces other than their own. Within a day, the elves of Mirkwood (still aggravated by the escape of the dwarves, as well as the loss of their finest ale casks), the remaining residents of Lake Town (understandably incensed by the destruction of their home), and the goblins of the Misty Mountains (having discovered Bilbo's theft of their most precious prototype), among others, have converged on Lonely Mountain, making ready for war.
What results will come to be known as the Battle of Five Armies, in which the 'good' races (or, to certain revisionist Middle Earth historical scholars, those left standing to tell the tale) vanquish the 'evil,' though in the process losing many of their number, including Thorin, leader of the dwarves. Bilbo, unabashedly concluding that this is not his fight, cowers behind a boulder throughout the fray, periodically peering out over the carnage to observe and commentate for his livecast of the event, transmitted back to an eager audience in Hobbiton. Gazing into the front-facing camera on his tablet, he sums it up: "War is hell," just before a particularly voluminous spray of orc blood splatters across his face and he loses consciousness. (Years later, this three-word judgment will be used against Bilbo by several of his opponents in a Republican primary for the Shire mayoral race, discrediting him among the hardliners and chickenhawks of his party and costing him the nomination.)
When at last Bilbo comes to, and sees that the battle is over, and that he has lost many friends, he quickly decides that he's had quite enough of travel for a while, thank you very much. The remaining dwarves, now doling out patents to those who fought on their side, offer him as many as he can carry, though he settles for just two small sacks' full, confident the licensing fees these will bring him will ensure he never has to work another day in his life. Thus, he promptly books a one-way ticket back to Hobbiton — on Southwest, of course, where hobbit sacks always fly free — and within the day is safely ensconced at Bag End once more, content to go on baking carroway seed cakes and reading the travel tales of others…until the next band of Couchsurfers sweeps him up with an unanticipated proposal of true, hobbit-life-altering, adventure.
This post was originally published in December of 2012.
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At Llysfaen Primary School, History is used to stimulate the children's interest and understanding about the life of people who lived in the past.
We teach children a sense of chronology and through this, they develop a sense of identity and a cultural understanding based on their historical heritage. Thus, they learn to value their own and other people's cultures in modern multi-cultural Britain and by considering how people lived in the past, they are better able to make their own life choices today.
In our school, History makes a significant contribution to citizenship education by teaching about how Britain developed as a democratic society. We teach children to understand how events in the past have influenced our lives today; we also teach them to investigate these past events and, by so doing, to develop the skills of enquiry, analysis, interpretation and problem-solving.
We are in fact a Time Machine!
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See and hear the noisy animals at the zoo with this interactive board book that baby will love. Press the buttons and listen to the roaring lion and the chattering chimps. Make story time full of fun and laughter with this cute animal book for babies.
Babies and toddlers will love the vivid full colour illustrations throughout Baby's Very First Noisy Book Zoo. Images on the button panel match the fun animal pictures within the story, so your little one can learn to recognise which button to press to make the zoo animal noises. Meet a zebra, giraffe, monkey and more when baby visits the zoo.
The author, Fiona Watt, is a specialised children's author with over 70 titles through Usborne Books. Her Baby's Very First books help babies to learn with interactive, bright, and playful images and simple text to instil a love of reading with Mum and Dad.
Written by Fiona Watt and illustrated by Stella Baggott with music by Anthony Marks. 10 page board book. Hardcover dimensions 22 x 23 cm. Baby to 3+.
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Integrated some patches to support building with ghc 8.0.1, which was recently released.
The gnupg-options git configs were not always passed to gpg. Fixing this involved quite a lot of plumbing to get the options to the right functions, and consumed half of today.
Also did some design work on external special remote protocol to avoid backwards compatability problems when adding new protocol features.


You can now book your Mackerel, Reef or Deep Sea fishing trips for April and May!
Using a system called Bookeo you can even login via your facebook account if you want to. Payment is via the Paypal portal which you can use even if you don't have an account with them.
We are really hoping this will make choosing and booking your trip with us as simple as possible.
You'll receive a confirmation email which will also act as your ticket for your trip and if we have to change or alter anything about the trip you have booked we'll let you know on the email address you used.
We will get the rest of the summer timetable up as soon as possible!


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Former NBA Player to Divorce "Real Housewives of Atlanta" Star
On behalf of The Siemon Law Firm | June 4, 2010 April 8, 2021
On May 20, NBA-TV analyst and former NBA player Eric Snow filed for divorce from DeShawn Graves Snow, who appeared on the first season of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta." The Alpharetta couple has been married for twelve years.
The high-asset divorce was filed in Fulton County Superior Court. Eric Snow cited irreconcilable differences and has requested a joint child custody arrangement over the couple's three children, Eric, Darius and Jarren.
Eric Snow, who is the brother of linebacker Percy Snow, played for the Seattle SuperSonics, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Cleveland Cavaliers. He was released from the Cavaliers in 2009 due to a knee injury and joined NBA-TV. He is the founder of the Shoot for the Moon Foundation, the author of the book Leading High Performers, and winner of several sportsmanship and citizenship awards.
According to a recent report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution citing DeShawn Snow's website, Ms. Snow is seeking her Master of Divinity Degree at Regent University and is a minister at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia. She has been active on charity boards and run her own nonprofit focusing on building self-esteem in teen girls.
Ms. Snow appeared in 2008 and 2009 on the first season of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta," but was not brought back for the second season. According to the AJC article, she told Essence magazine that she was told she was "too human for a circus show" and would not fit in as the show ramped up the level of drama in subsequent seasons.
"Former NBA player and ex-'Real Housewives' star to divorce" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 20, 2010)
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This is great for guys who love the effects of the oil, but don't necessarily want the smells of the essential oils we place in other bottles.
Great for hunters, barbers oiling clients up all day, and guys who possibly want to simply use their favorite scented balm after placing on a basic, non-scented layer of our oil.
You can't go wrong. We thought about calling it "NWBS Naked"...but instead, we'll just call it "unscented". Enjoy!


Kidney disease awareness month happens every March, however, among other organs, it gets overlooked and disrespected. I'm here to stand up for an underdog. The kidneys.
The heart is an organ that gets so much love. Everybody knows about the Heart Walk and the American Heart Association. And some marketing genius even came up with a way to make heart disease awareness en vogue with the Red Dress Campaign. Even I bought a new red dress. It was cute. And yes, I get it, heart disease is important. One woman dies every 80 seconds from heart disease. Heart disease is the number one killer amongst men and women. So yes, the heart needs love.
But the kidneys need love, too. Don't forget about the beans.
And then there's breast cancer. She's a nasty little devastating disease. And she has all eyes on her during the entire month of October. The whole world turns pink. Breast cancer walk this, pink ribbon that, and I know. I get it. Breast cancer is a big deal. It is the number one cause of cancer among women. So I understand why breast cancer awareness is important.
But the kidneys are important, too. Don't forget about the beans.
Do you even know when Kidney Disease Awareness Month is?
It's in March. And do you even know what the kidney color is? It's orange. But nobody cares. Nobody cares about the kidney. But you should care because kidney disease actually kills more women than breast cancer does.
30 million Americans have kidney disease and one in three is at risk. The number one cause of kidney disease is diabetes. The number two cause is hypertension. And one person dies every two hours while waiting for a kidney transplant.
The point is, that even though the poor little kidneys get overlooked, today I want you to understand why you should not forget about the beans. So what are the beans? The kidneys, of course.
The kidneys are the two bean-shaped organs located in your lower backs. There in the flanks, where the love handles are. So all that good old "fatback" has a purpose, is to protect those kidneys.
The kidneys function to filter out blood. They get rid of excess waste, excess toxins, excess salt, excess water, and if the kidneys stop functioning properly, you develop Chronic Kidney Disease or CKD.
With CKD, you can get symptoms such as swelling of the ankles of feet. You can get shortness of breath fatigue. You can also develop anemia and bone disease.
So how do you know if you have kidney disease?
Well, even though I just mentioned a lot of symptoms, most people with CKD have no symptoms. Especially early on in the disease process. So it's important to go to your doctor and get screened.
One way is to make sure you're hydrated. Most people should drink two to three liters of water each day. Also, avoid medications that are toxic to the kidneys.
You should also maintain good blood pressure since hypertension is the number two cause of kidney failure. And maintain good blood sugar, since diabetes is the number one cause of kidney failure.
That being said, there are many diseases which can't be prevented. Diseases that are congenital, or that you're just genetically predisposed to.
Do you remember the childhood actor Gary Coleman? "What you talking about, Willis?" Gary Coleman actually had a genetic form of kidney disease, Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis. The basketball player, Alonzo Mourning, also developed this same disease.
And then there is Nick Cannon. You know Nick Cannon, Actor, Comedian, ex-husband of Mariah Carey. Well, he was very open because he suffered from lupus nephritis. It's an epigenetic form of kidney disease. When you have Lupus, your immune system, instead of fighting the bacteria, and the germs in outside world, your immune systems turns on you and attacks your kidneys. So Nick Cannon had lupus nephritis.
And that singer and actress Selena Gomez, the ex-girlfriend or current girlfriend of Justin Bieber, I don't know. I can't keep up. But Selena Gomez has Lupus Nephritis, as well. She developed kidney failure and she actually had a kidney transplant.
The list of illnesses that can cause kidney disease is longer than my arm. But the fact remains, that the top two causes of kidney disease are diabetes, number one, and hypertension, number two.
So even though kidney disease may not be popular or in vogue, and even though the kidney color orange may not be the new black, today I want you to be sure that you go to your doctor and get checked and make sure you don't have kidney disease.
Kidney disease awareness is serious, so whatever you do, don't forget about the beans.
What are your thoughts on kidney disease awareness? Let me know in the comments below.


NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Government said on Thursday it hoped to unlock gas and oil resources worth almost $40 billion by simplifying licensing rules and offering price incentives to recover gas from difficult offshore fields.
This will help boost gas output by at least 35 million cubic metres a day (mmscmd) for 15 years, equivalent to a total of 6.75 trillion cubic feet over that period, Pradhan said. India's current gas production is about 90 mmscmd.
The move will benefit companies like Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, the country's top explorer, and Gujarat State Petroleum Corp, a government-run firm in the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
India, which imports two-third of its oil needs, will also offer a common exploration licence for different hydrocarbons like oil, natural gas, shale oil and gas and coal bed methane, in order to more quickly tap its vast resources.
India has also decided to extend the exploration licences of 28 discovered oil and gas fields, awarded mainly to ONGC and Oil India, without bidding.
The cabinet granted control of the western offshore Ratna and R-Series oil and gas fields to ONGC. The fields stopped production in 1996, when they were awarded to the Essar Group controlled by India's billionaire Ruia brothers.
"Resource worth 2.61 trillion rupees ($38.92 billion) will be brought to production as a result of today's decision," Pradhan said.


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Taxes Are Fair Now (Finally)
According to this new Gallup poll, more Americans think the taxes they have to pay are "about right" as opposed to being too low or too high. The...
According to this new Gallup poll, more Americans think the taxes they have to pay are "about right" as opposed to being too low or too high. The only other time since 1956 that a plurality of Americans actually endorsed tax levels was in 2003 after two rounds of Bush tax cuts.What the Gallup chart omits, though, is what the the tax levels actually were. Here's a chart of the actual changes in tax levels from 1960 to 2004.
It doesn't look to me like there's much of a correlation between what people think of tax fairness and the actual taxes they're paying. The late 1970s and early 1980s, for example, saw huge changes in taxes and very low changes in people's opinions about taxes. I think what these public opinion polls tell you is more the effect of political rhetoric about taxes. Lots of people thought taxes were too high in the Bush years, for example, when the administration was harping on about high taxes.For my part, I like the idea of a really strong public education system, think dynastic wealth isn't super fair, and don't buy into trickle-down theories, so I'd like taxes to be closer to 1960s levels.


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Q: Is 'place' functioning as an adverb or is the relative 'where' dropped in these sentences? 1)Of course it's always the last place you look. (no 'at')
2)This is the last place I want to go. (without 'to')
compare 3) with 2)

*This is the restaurant that we often go to on the weekends.
There is 'to' after 'go'.

So can 'place'function as an adverb especially when it's modified by some clauses? And regular nouns of place like 'restaurant' can't? Or is it that the relative 'where' often gets dropped after 'place'? It's sort of like a zero-relative-conjunctions situation here? like the day I graduated?

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This is an edited and expanded version of a private comment sent to Eric K. Ward, whose June essay went viral during the weekend of Aug. 11, 2017 (as events were unfolding in Charlottesville, VA and as initiated by a gathering of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, etc.).
Monetary science and healing for white supremacists, Jews, and other confused Americans:
Historical, intellectual, and social errors regarding money, banking, and government — OR — legitimate anger, misplaced hate?
Written in response to Skin in the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism (Political Research Associates, June 29, 2017)
by Eric K. Ward, Senior Fellow at Southern Poverty Law Center
For the record, I am not excusing anyone's racist, anti-semitic, misogynist words and actions or any other group-think hate. Nor is the title of this blogpost meant to be humorous. I am a Jew, a 66-year old woman, a lifelong activist, and I think it's time for some plain speech.
I am grateful to other Americans and non-Americans — especially women — who are drawing clear lines against intentional terror and over-privilege of all kinds. Since January 21, 2017, the folksong Which Side are you On? (Florence Reece) is the anthem that has been playing in my head. And after a lot of self-examination, I'm pretty sure that the side I'm on is called "Life on Earth for All" — or "Let me know when you want to sit down and talk — because even though I'm a woman, Jewish, fat, old, and a bicyclist, I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. I claim my home on Earth, my space on the road, and my seat at every decision-making table — including the one that designs our U.S. money and banking system."
The events in Charlottesville, along with a Chicago event coming up in September, have spurred me to write about our collective confusion about money and how 99% of us Americans have legitimate reasons to be very angry in 2017 — going back hundreds of years. There is a difference between legitimate anger and misplaced hatred. But I believe that there are three reasons that American white supremacists might be legitimately angry. Like most of us Americans, they have been brought up under (a) patriarchy, which promotes toxic masculinity and a toxic alpha male theory, (b) a highly manipulated and engineered money and banking system, privately controlled by overly rich people and would-be overly rich people of all kinds, and (c) a general mainstream culture that promotes spiritual paralysis and mental flatlining.
The amazing thing in 2017 is that people (especially Americans) have been waking up and questioning everything — including our individual roles in a toxic culture. What's been really exciting to me is that for the last two years I have started to see (thanks to many researchers and thinkers in many fields) some very simple and foundational errors that we've all been making about the nature of money, prices, "free" markets, business cycles, etc. After a lifetime of looking for the kinks in history — where did humans go wrong? where did the U.S. go wrong? — this one was a huge relief. And even though I had to go through some very difficult financial moments to get here, I can truly say, "Thank goodness. This might be be the way forward."
At this historical moment, most of us are in pain from a variety of confusions, buried under generations of human-created artifacts, beliefs, traditions, unexamined assumptions. In the hope of healing us all (including the Earth), here's how I'm connecting the dots.
Why do white supremacists think that they hate Jews?
One of the overt reasons that white supremacists say they hate Jews is because of Jews' long-time connection to business, especially the development of finance as business, and later finance as business as government. Of course, Jews were not the only religion or ethnic group to participate in that development (especially in the "West'). According to Stephen Zarlenga, author of the 700+ page 2002 book, The Lost Science of Money, the list of individuals and groups is long who developed our 21st century U.S. business-financial-government structures and theories. On a very quick scan, Zarlenga mentions: Jews, Muslims, Christians of all kinds (including but not limited to Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, Episcopalians), deists, and people from nearly every European nation (including but not limited to English, Dutch, Germans, Austrians, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Greeks, Italians).
But, inasmuch as the development of finance as business as government is the source of most of our current American confusion and stress, Jews have been an easy, knee-jerk target around which to spin ignorant tales and to project guilt-riddled blame.
The good news is that there are more and more scholars, independent researchers, journalists, and grassroots organizers who are literally "following" the money — back to the historical roots of money, the definitions of money, the theories of money, and the science of money. Along the way, they are uncovering all sorts of errors that have beset the fair use of money as a human construct. Combining the intellectual and social errors about money, intentional bad behavior by many different kinds of people over hundreds of years (especially leaders), and the legitimate anger of most 21st century Americans, I think we get a partial understanding of Charlottesville, VA in August 2017.
Charlottesville, VA – August 2017
Here are three short paragraphs that make direct reference to this current historical moment (August 2017), even though the book's author is recently deceased (April 2017):
From The Lost Science of Money: The Mythology of Money — the Story of Power (American Monetary Institute, 2002)
by Stephen Zarlenga
p, 260 Writing about England in the 1200s, Zarlenga first quotes another researcher, James Parkes (The Jew in the Medieval Community) and then adds his own commentary (and his own italics):
" 'The main responsibility not merely for Jewish usury, but for all medieval usury, must lie with the intellectual leaders of the age, who made no proper provision for a universal want.' (Parkes)
"At the bottom of this failure — then and now — was the error in their concept of money: viewing it as a commodity, failing to recognize the legal nature of money, and to act upon that knowledge and set up honest money systems based in law. Even today one anticipated side effect of healthy monetary reform would be a meaningful reduction in the still continuing tension between Jewish and non Jewish communities.
"If one now finds it important to determine on which side the greater blame lay, in fairness one would have to weigh who had the greater understanding of money and of the results of usury (especially if that knowledge was being obscured), with who had greater freedom of choice."
The Nature of Money: Common errors in banking, economics, and law unpacked
The key errors that have been made by different people at different times (going back hundreds of years) and that the money scientists are now unpacking are:
1. Erroneous belief in money as a natural commodity (gold, silver, grain, etc.) vs. money as an abstract social and legal construct — a relationship or a commons.
2. The commercial banking and investment industry has usurped the public power to create and control the money supply, primarily through fractional reserve lending, usury, and macro usury (interest on fractional reserve loans).
3. In order to create money (out of thin air), commercial banks need to "lend" to big, capital intensive projects — such as war, such as big construction projects (pipelines, factory farms, prisons), etc.
4. The Nobel prize for economics is not part of the original Nobel legacy. The Nobel prize for economics was itself created to provide a smokescreen for more-and-more privatized control of finance-as-government.
5. Many economists are part of the confusion in that they work primarily in theory, the abstract, and the mathematical — without actually measuring their work against short- or long-term reality. Mainstream training of economists (as well as public schools K-12) includes very little education about the history and science of money (currency).
6. Over-use of land and other natural resources (water, air, mining, etc.) is directly caused by usury, fractional reserve lending, and other financial mechanisms. Collectively, humans produce more than we need in order to pay back illegal and immoral debts.
7. The Federal Reserve system is not a public institution.
It's not completely clear how much of our American confusion has to do with us
— getting snookered or brainwashed
— being spiritually paralyzed or asleep
— trying to make public decisions without the community of half of the adult population (women)
— trying to make public decisions without the community of most of the other half of the adult population (men who are not in the 1%)
— making some other avoidable error
But it is 100% clear to me, at the age of 66 in 2017, that getting clear on the science of money is one of the most effective mental health treatments there is — for any 21st century American. There are good reasons to be existentially angry in 2017 — for 99% of us. Let's refocus the hatred into undoing one of the deepest and most collective causes of that anger — the current disfunctional, very undemocratic, immoral, and illegal U.S. money and banking system.
Here are some hyper-current resources to continue the healing process.
RESOURCES FOR MONETARY SCIENCE & HEALING
1. BOOK. Stephen Zarlenga's book, The Lost Science of Money. is 700+ pages and a pretty deep read, given our collective confusion about money and banking and our general American disinterest in history. But it's also highly informative and entertaining. I definitely recommend it.
2. CONFERENCE. 13th annual American Monetary Institute conference
Sept. 14-17, 2017, downtown Chicago
This is the organization that Stephen Zarlenga co-founded and led as the primary visionary for 21st century monetary and banking reform. This is the first AMI conference since the 2016 presidential election and the organizers are feeling the need to get their learning and proposals out to a larger public. The conference will:
— Discuss a variety of monetary reforms, primarily the NEED Act (a bailout for the people and infrastructure plus restructure of the Federal Reserve system, introduced into Congress by Dennis Kucinich in 2012)
— Celebrate and memorialize the author of The Lost Science of Money (Stephen Zarlenga), who died earlier this year (April 24, 2017, in his Chicago-area home).
— Feature international speakers on many aspects of money, banking, and democracy
3. VIDEO. The New Abolitionism: Monetary Reform, Democracy, and the Future of Human Rights
Rev. Delman Coates is a Black Baptist pastor at a megachurch in Clinton, Maryland who got sensitized to discrepancies in our financial and banking systems through the 2008 foreclosure crisis. He is now becoming an advocate for monetary reform. He believes that had Martin Luther King, Jr. lived he would have honed in even more deeply on structural money reform (he mentions Dr. King's call for a "bank-in" in Memphis).
Rev. Coates's presentation (August 4, 2017) was one of a number of sessions on "Money and Democracy" at the Democracy Convention in Minneapolis. He is planning events on banking and money in October 2017 and April 2018.
4. ORGANIZATION. Life after Hate
A Chicago-based organization that helps people in hate groups disengage and heal. The organization recently lost some funding when the Trump Department of Homeland Security removed the group from the Countering Violent Extremism program approved by the Obama administration. So far as I know, they have not been using monetary reform as a healing technique, but I have made the suggestion. Whether they decide to add this to their toolkit, they are an organization worth knowing about:
See the August 17, 2017 Democracy Now! segment:
Life After Hate: Trump Admin Stops Funding Former neo-Nazis who Now Fight White Supremacy
Or donate to Life after Hate here: Donate.
5. OTHER. There are many other resources — books, articles, podcasts, videos, organizations — as well as legislation and projects, especially at the state and local levels. I will be adding details in future posts.
Update March 11, 2018: The title of this blogpost has been updated from the original title ("Monetary science and healing for white supremacists and other confused Americans"). The current title — "Monetary science and healing for white supremacists, Jews, and other confused Americans" — is more accurate and more healing — I hope.
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'At Any Cost' China's Army Vows to Prevent Taiwan Split
China's army will take action "at any cost" to foil attempts to separate the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, the country's defense minister said on Thursday.
Beijing has been infuriated by recent U.S. sanctions on its military, one of a growing number of flashpoints in ties with Washington that include a bitter trade war, Taiwan and China's increasingly muscular military posture in the South China Sea.
On Monday, the United States sent two warships through the Taiwan Strait in the second such operation this year and the latest in a series of gestures made by the White House in support of democratic Taiwan.
"The Taiwan issue is related to China's sovereignty and territorial integrity and touches upon China's core interests," Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe said at the opening of the Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, which China styles as its answer to the annual Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in Singapore.
"On this issue, it is extremely dangerous to repeatedly challenge China's bottom line. If someone tries to separate out Taiwan (from China), China's army will take the necessary actions at any cost."
China-Taiwan relations have deteriorated since the island's President Tsai Ing-wen, of the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party, swept to power in 2016.
Beijing, which has never renounced the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control, has also viewed U.S. overtures toward the island with alarm, such as a new de facto embassy there and passage of a law to encourage visits by U.S. officials.
China's military ties with the United States are important and sensitive, Wei said, adding that China will never give up an inch of its territory.
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Beijing opposed displays of strength and provocation in the South China Sea by "nations from outside the region" carried out under the pretence of protecting freedom of flight and navigation, he added.
The world's two largest economies needed to deepen high-level ties so as to navigate tension and rein in the risk of inadvertent conflict, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told his Chinese counterpart last week.
Mattis saw firsthand last month how mounting Sino-U.S. friction can undermine military contacts, when Beijing upended plans for him to meet Wei in October.
China has been angered by the U.S. sanctions on its military for buying weapons from Russia, and by what Beijing sees as stepped-up U.S. support for democratic Taiwan, which it claims as sacred territory.
China has also expressed concern after U.S. President Donald Trump said Washington would withdraw from a landmark Cold War-era treaty that eliminated nuclear missiles from Europe because Russia was violating the pact.
China is not a party to that treaty, but Trump has also suggested Beijing's military strength played a role in his decision, which China has described as "completely wrong".
– Reuters
US Navy Ships Sail Through Taiwan Strait For Third Time In 2018
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Denmark's Iceage are real road warriors this year in support of new LP Beyondless, and they'll be back in the U.S. this weekend for Detroit's music-and-car festival, Motor City Muscle, and their tour with Black Lips and Surfbort happens in November. They've added more shows to their world tour since our last post, and you can head here for their full schedule. They've also just released a video for "Under the Sun" and you can watch that below.
Having just wrapped up a tour with Radiohead, Thom Yorke will head out on a solo tour this fall with collaborators Nigel Godrich and Tarik Barri plus opener Oliver Coates joining him.
A very solid indie rock double header, Wavves and Beach Fossils will be on tour this fall with Kevin Krauter (Hoops) in tow.
Cloud Nothings have announced a new album, released the noisy, abrasive lead single, and announced a tour, including a run with The Courtneys.
Grungy indie rockers Manchester Orchestra and folky pop punks The Front Bottoms are going on a co-headlining tour. A BrooklynVegan presale for the two Brooklyn shows starts Thursday.
NYC's shoegazey alt-rockers Longwave are working on their first album in a decade. Meanwhile they're on a Midwest/Southwest tour this fall with Blue October and when that wraps up they'll play a hometown headline show at Bowery Ballroom on November 17 with The Shelia Divine. All tour dates/tickets are here.
Alt-rock vets Echo & The Bunnymen are reinterpreting some of their most beloved songs on a new studio album and will be touring it at select North American dates this fall. We've got a BrooklynVegan presale for the NYC show.
Electro-funk duo Chromeo released their fifth album, Head Over Heels, this summer which you can check out here. Their tour starts August 24 in Denver and runs through October 6 in Portland, OR. Dates also include a NYC stop at Brooklyn Steel on October 1. Get the lowdown on all dates and tickets here.
Illuminati Hotties (the project of LA-based indie rocker Sarah Tudzin) have gotten some buzz this year for their new album Kiss Yr Frenemies (out now on Tiny Engines), and they're going on a lengthy fall tour, including some just-announced East Coast headlining shows. All dates (including Brooklyn's Baby's All Right on 10/5) here.
Electronic musicians Giraffage and Ryan Hemsworth are going on tour together this fall, hitting Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Toronto, Chicago, Montreal, Brooklyn, Cambridge, DC, Austin, Atlanta, LA, and many other cities. All dates and tickets here.
The Hold Steady have expanded their tour, including the announcement of their third annual "Massive Nights" holiday run in Brooklyn.
(Sandy) Alex G is hitting the road for a November run with Half Waif and a Brooklyn one-off in December with the reunited Duster and Girlpool's Harmony Tividad. A BrooklynVegan presale for that show is underway now.
Reunited '90s alt/indie band Letters to Cleo will be on short East Coast tour this fall with American Hi Fi playing NYC's Bowery Ballroom on 11/13, Philly's Underground Arts on 11/14 and two nights at Boston's Paradise Rock Club on 11/16 & 11/17. Tickets for those shows go on sale Friday, August 17.
Broad City's Abbi Jacobson is going on a book tour for her upcoming I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuf.


Fish and Chips. A classic British dish, perhaps the king of classics, much loved by young and old UK wide – it's part of our national identity. Battered cod or haddock with chunky chips and mushy peas. What could be better on a Friday after a long week at work?
Cod and haddock are favoured in the UK for their availability and the delicate flavour of both fish, meaning they can be enjoyed by young and old or those who prefer lighter tasting fish.
Given the apparent obsession the UK has with these two species, why don't we utilise other fish? Why are cod and haddock so popular when our own seas contain so many different types of fish?
The UK waters offer a plethora of different fish species which are abundant in number and every bit as tasty as cod and haddock, yet vastly underutilised.
The fish that's caught in Peterhead, Scotland, such as hake or coley (saithe), are great examples of sustainable species which are available almost all year round and are much cheaper than cod or haddock and can offer a different spin on traditional fish and chips.
Consumers are led, to a certain extent, by the offerings of fish and chip shops. We can only buy what they sell, and if it is not available then how can we buy it? Whilst the demand or interest in other species could be there, it requires a change of buying habits and a change of menus across the fish and chip sector to promote and sell other types of fish. More sustainable fish and alternative flavours.
How do we change people's perception and demand?
This is the age-old question; how do we make people want to buy what we have to sell? In a word; marketing!
It's 2018 and all of us have access to social media whether it be for personal or business use. It's one of the best marketing tools ever created if used correctly. You can market your business, product or anything else to thousands of potential consumers, whether it be via an image, video or text post. The options to reach out to people are limitless and doesn't have to cost the Earth.
It's not easy to change buying habits as people can be afraid to try new things, they want what they've always wanted or won't take the risk to pay out for something they're not sure they'd like – but it is possible.
How can we market different fish?
Marketing a different dish for your menu can be daunting. Will it sell? Will people like it?
Adding value to a dish is a creative task, one designed to make people purchase and consume it. Would that take the form of an image or a well written description on your menu?
An example Marrfish have created is "Trio Fish & Chips".
Batter three small portions of fish, one which is well known and two new species as a taster menu to allow people to try something new. A mix of cod, coley and hake or haddock, coley and smoked hake, or any combination of light tasting fish. You could mix it up even more and add a stronger tasting fish into the mix such as battered rainbow trout – that's thinking outside the box right there!
As a nation we are prompted everyday to re-use and recycle plastics and other items with multiple uses. Having said that it makes sense to make the most of the fish in our local waters, stop importing so much other fish and use species that are vastly more sustainable and every bit as tasty as the traditional species of fish we use for fish and chips.
Reinvigorate fish and chips for 2018 and beyond.


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Ceilidh Bar.
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64 Clyde Place corner of 1 West Street, Glasgow. G5 8AQ. Demolished.
The Ceilidh Bar. 1975.
Clyde Place in the South Side of the City had eight public houses at the beginning of the 1900s.
The last pub on this short street was the Ceilidh Bar owned by James McWilliam. Mr James McWilliam was in partnership with John McWilliam and traded under the title of J & J McWilliam. The firm acquired a licence for 64 Clyde Place in 1877.
James and John already had premises at 3a – 5 Stirling Street now known as the Strathdie Bar and Wardrop's Court, 38 Queen Street, Glasgow.
James McWilliam the senior partner of the firm was living at 32 Grafton Square before moving to better accommodation at 300 St Vincent Street. John was living at Fairfield, in Paisley.
Read more on Andrew McWilliam another member of the family. Click here.
James was a prominent member in the Scottish Licensed Trade and the Scottish Licensed Trade Defence Association since 1865. He was elected Director from 1870-1890 and became President. James sadly passed away in 1901.
His funeral processed to Central Station and conveyed by the 10-25 train to Wemyss Bay thence to Campbletown. His remains were interred in the Kilkivan Churchyard. He was missed by various members in the Scottish Licensed Trade.
After Mr McWilliam's death the premises were taken over by the trustees and Alexander McWilliam became the licensee. A few years later the pub was sold to William Urquart another well known publican in the city.
William Urquart also ran a pub at 148 Nelson Street at the corner of West Street not far from the Ceilidh Bar. William paid an annul rent of £76 10/- (shillings).
Other licensees were Patrick Lavelle and Robert Martin.
The pub was demolished shortly after the above photograph was taken.
In 1875 these premises were occupies by the London Clothing Company.
In 1870 McAllister & Co., wholesale and retail grocer occupied the site.
Do you remember this old Pub? If so please leave a comment.
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We hope everyone has a very happy and safe New Year! At this time of year we meet up with friends and family (Usually in the pub!) to celebrate the year gone by and the prospects of what is to come in the future!
An interesting article that was sent into the National Guardian in January 1939, by a publican, asks if playing darts in the pub is illegal. Have a read here


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Two Delta aviators, bonded by marriage and their love of flight, dreamed that one day they would have the opportunity to fly together. A few weeks before Valentine's Day, Captain Kelly S. and First Officer Susan S., finally made that dream a reality, and flew together for the first time ...
Feb. 13, 2019, 12:26 p.m.
Propel Program to provide flight training financial assistance for students and employees
Delta recently launched the Delta Propel Pilot Career Path Program to identify, select and develop the next generation of pilots. The Propel program is designed to provide participants with the support they need to overcome the traditional barriers to becoming a Delta pilot — with one major barrier being the ...
Oct. 25, 2018, 11 a.m.
What it takes to be a Delta Air Lines pilot
Delta's premier global network and nationally recognized culture make it one of the most sought-after airlines to work for, which means the best pilots in the world fly Delta's fleet. Through its Propel Pilot Career Path Program, Delta is identifying, selecting and developing the next generation of pilots by supporting ...
Like fathers, like sons: Retiring Delta captain carries legacy of four generations of pilots
From father to son, a love for flight has passed down for four generations of Captain Kevin Oliver's family, starting at the dawn of commercial aviation. A third-generation pilot, Kevin completed his last flight Wednesday from Paris to Los Angeles on a Boeing 777 as he retired after 32 years ...
Aug. 16, 2018, 11:36 a.m.
How a pilot got her wings, time and again
Aviation has been in Toni Wysong's blood for generations. She was the granddaughter of a World War II Royal Air Force pilot, and like him, she dreamed of her own aviation career. But during a time when there were very few female pilots, Wysong would have to pave her own ...
March 21, 2017, 11:20 a.m.
Two African-American women pilots make history
Two Delta A320/319 pilots made history over the weekend, flying Delta's first mainline flight with two African-American female pilots in the flight deck. Atlanta-based First Officer Dawn Cook (right) learned that Detroit-based Captain Stephanie Johnson (left), Delta's first African-American female captain, would be flying out of Detroit last Sunday and ...
March 1, 2017, 2:53 p.m.
Delta statement on ALPA tentative agreement
Delta is pleased with today's result. The new pilot agreement contains an industry-leading package of pay, benefits and work rules and recognizes the many contributions of Delta pilots to the airline's operational and financial success.
Dec. 1, 2016, 10:46 a.m.
Like father, like daughter: Family co-pilots flight for first time
It's a rare feat few have accomplished in the commercial airline industry. Parents and children behind the controls of the same aircraft. But it happened on Wednesday at Delta's headquarters. Atlanta-based pilots Capt. Wendell Nissing and his daughter, First Officer Tara Keough, are now one of a handful of Delta ...
Groundbreaking app helps Delta pilots avoid turbulence
It's a phenomenon that's been plaguing pilots since the Wright brothers took their first flight above the sand dunes at Kitty Hawk. According to NASA's Weather Accident Prevention Project, turbulence costs airlines approximately $100 million every year. It also makes customers and crews uncomfortable, and in rare cases, can even ...
New pilot certification program available through Delta
An Airline Transport Certificate is an absolute must for non-commercial aviators looking to begin a career at an airline, most often at a regional carrier. Now, these pilots can obtain it by using top-notch Delta facilities and flight instructors. A change in federal requirements for Airline Transport Pilot certification took ...
July 22, 2016, 12:43 p.m.
Business as usual for customers while off-duty pilots conduct informational picketing Friday
Off-duty Delta pilots are expected to conduct informational picketing at eight large U.S. airports Friday morning as contract negotiations continue between Delta and the Air Line Pilots Association. There is no impact to Delta's operation, customers or other employees during the informational demonstrations that ALPA has announced for the one ...
June 23, 2016, 11:56 a.m.
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