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Public health authorities in Utah confirmed that the death of a senior woman in late June is the first case of death in which the Zika virus played a role in the continental U.S. Authorities are not sure whether Zika, an underlying medical condition, or both killed the woman.
Reportedly the Utah woman had visited a Zika-affected country a few months ago and she tested positive for the disease. Health officials couldn't tell the exact cause of death. They said that the Zika virus "contributed" to the tragic outcome but they are not sure whether it was the only cause.
Salt Lake County health department's head Gary Edwards noted that the department learned about the death while they were sifting through death certificates. Authorities received confirmation that the woman was infected with Zika after she passed away.
Authorities declined to provide more details on the case due to health privacy issues.
Utah authorities have informed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the death. The first Zika-related case in the U.S. was a 70-year-old man from Puerto Rico who died in April. That patient was not killed by Zika but by a complication which led to internal bleeding.
Doctors said that the man developed a rare form of thrombocytopenia, which is an unusual immune response to the infection that lowers levels of the chemicals that help the blood clot.
Epidemiologists explained that Zika can be contracted through a mosquito bite. Only Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti can carry the disease, but Utah officials said that they haven't spotted any of the two species across the state. You can also get the virus through sexual intercourse.
Most people who carry the virus have no symptoms or display mild symptoms that can last up to a week. The virus however can trigger a rare nervous system disorder that can lead to paralysis and loss of muscle tone. But the greatest risks exist during pregnancy, when the virus can lead to fetal deformities.
In the U.S., no U.S. resident got the disease through local transmission. All cases, about 1,132, are people who traveled to Zika-affected areas. Zika infections were reported in all 50 states and District of Columbia.
State and federal authorities are preparing for the scenario when the virus becomes locally transmitted.
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There's a reason Travel & Leisure just named it the best city in the world. If you're looking for charm and southern hospitality, Charleston (the second-largest city in South Carolina) can't be beat. There's something about this food-focused and infinitely stylish town tucked beside an inlet of the Atlantic. Go for the awe-inspiring history and culture; stay because it feels like home.
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RAINBOW ROW
This cluster of 13 historic rowhouses on East Bay Street is tough to miss, thanks to the bright and colorful pastel hues. Make it the starting point for a stroll through the French Quarter and down the Charleston Harbor waterfront. (Camera required.)
Where to Stay: Planters Inn
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You'll instantly understand why this is one of the city's wedding hot spots. The waterfront park (also known as White Point Gardens) features pineapple-shaped fountains, a gorgeous gazebo and oaks so epic, you'll think you're in a Reese Witherspoon movie.
Where to Stay: The Spectator
Meet Charleston
Hunt for cool clothes, decor and more on this bustling street, located smack-dab in the middle of town. It's where you'll find both one-of-a-kind glass earrings and galleries filled with contemporary art.
Where to Stay: Zero George Street
So Many Cute Boutiques
Shop 'til you drop
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It makes sense that a town that's all about manners would have a shop stocked with pretty paper and thank-you notes galore. Expect to find Charleston-inspired art from mainstream brands (like Rifle Paper Co.), but also work from local artists, too.
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CANDLEFISH
Shop for hand-poured candles at this adorable Charleston store, known for its on-site fragrance library that features more than 100 different scents. Or you could embrace one of the city's oldest traditions and take a BYOB candle-making workshop. So fun!
Design lovers, take note: You'll find a meticulously curated selection of local and American-made home products (like a sculptural brass table lamp or hand-carved cutting board) on hand at this posh one-room boutique.
BLUE BICYCLE BOOKS
Yes, there's a blue bicycle that marks the entrance to this adorable shop. It's filled to the brim with an impressive selection of used, rare and best-selling books, which is why it's also a regular stop for high-profile authors on tour.
It's All About the Food (and Drinks and Sweets)
Pack your expandable pants
Call ahead to see if you can score a front porch seat when you make a reservation at this delectably southern spot. It's the best place to enjoy the Husk cheeseburger, one of James Beard Award-winning chef Sean Brock's finest creations.
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Inventive dishes--like the baked beeliner snapper and tomatoes--are easy to come by at FIG (short for Food Is Good) thanks to menus that are updated nightly based on availability of local meat and produce. Go for the cocktails; stay for the ambiance.
HOMINY GRILL
Prepare to eat (or be eaten) at this yummy brunch place downtown. Seriously, the Nasty Biscuit--a drool-worthy combo of fried chicken, cheddar cheese and sausage gravy--will knock you off your feet for the rest of the day. (You've been warned.)
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It's easy to cab it (or drive) out to Sullivan's Island, where you'll find this eatery, an homage to the Revolutionary War history of the area. The atmosphere is as good as the food--a selection of pizza, pasta, oysters and more.
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Part corner store, part café, this recently reimagined restaurant--brought to you by Bill Murray, a Charleston local--throws back to its original 1930s roots when it was an iconic neighborhood grocery and lunch counter. Expect vegetable-focused menus with a handful of southern favorites (like hush puppies and catfish) mixed in.
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Whatever you do, don't leave Charleston without tasting the grapefruit cupcake at this delicious bakery on the outskirts of town. There's a tiny backyard where you can sit outside and enjoy your sweets, but you'll probably want to grab a cookie or tart for the road.
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You'll find some of the best cocktails on the planet (like the Weekend at Fernie's…or Uncle Gerald's Martini) at this tiny tucked-away spot. Or you could leave it up to the bartender: Pick two words (say, fizzy and licorice) off a special menu and he'll whip up something just for you.
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So many pretty plantations and beaches
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There's a reason Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds picked this plantation for their wedding. It covers more than 738 acres of private land, including two evenly spaced rows of those signature low country oak trees that took over two centuries to grow.
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OK, so it's about an hour drive from Charleston, but once you get there, you'll feel like you've stumbled upon your own private beach treat filled with nature, golf and sand. Oh, and a luxe resort or two.
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In January, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Xi Jinping of China called his country a champion of free trade and globalisation. And at an international conference in Beijing in May, he laid out China's grand vision of promoting global integration by linking Asia, Europe and beyond through a new network of roads, railways and sea routes.
Sceptics have derided the notion that China, which has resisted dropping the many barriers that restrict the free flow of goods and capital across its borders, is suddenly all-in on globalisation. But this criticism misses the bigger picture.
This form of multilateralism is built on transactional principles very different from the type of global order that the US and other Western economies have championed, one built on trust and mutual cooperation. It will eschew values such as democracy, human rights and freedom of expression, which the US has long sought to promote around the world.
Beijing's strategy has two main prongs.
The first is to change the rules of the game from within, by expanding Chinese influence in existing international institutions.
China joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001, committing to opening its markets to foreign goods and investment in return for better access to markets worldwide for its own exports. China did indeed benefit, kicking its manufacturing machine into high gear and boosting its exports.
But the other side of the bargain - the opening of Chinese markets - was not fulfilled. Foreign exporters and investors still face many barriers in China. To sell goods there, foreign companies often have to sign up with local partners. Foreign businesses undertaking production in China also have to partner with local companies, requiring transfers of technological expertise and intellectual property. Foreign investment is still restricted in certain sectors, including financial services such as insurance.
Meanwhile, China has become the second-largest economy and one of the biggest traders in the world, allowing it to hold sway within the WTO. The country is now one of the prime users of the WTO dispute-settlement process, which it uses to protect its own interests and to aggressively counter trade actions brought against it by other countries.
With its rising economic clout, China has also been able to increase its voting shares at international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. At these organisations, the US and other advanced Western economies together still have the dominant voting power. So, China has been subtle in its approach, creating alliances with other emerging-market countries such as India and Russia to advance its priorities.
The second prong of China's strategy involves setting up its own international institutions. These put a multilateral sheen on projects in which Beijing controls the purse strings and also sets the rules of the game.
Moves such as the Belt and Road initiative - a plan to invest US$1 trillion (S$1.3 trillion) or more in transcontinental infrastructure - and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which started operations last year, allow Beijing to cloak its influence behind the facade of a large group of countries, all with ostensibly significant roles in running these institutions rather than a position that requires them to follow Beijing's commands.
When China wants to show off its raw economic power, it can put on quite a show. The Belt and Road conference held in Beijing in May drew nearly 30 national leaders from four continents, an array of former heads of state, and numerous leaders from major public and private financial organisations. The gathering will some day be remembered not for who attended or for how much money was put up, but rather as a display of the Chinese strategy to expand its geopolitical influence.
The professed multilateral nature of its initiatives allows Beijing to pull other countries more tightly into its fold. It becomes harder for countries that do not share China's values to stay on the sidelines. Many countries joining with China say they must do so to influence these new institutions from the inside rather than just complain about them from the outside. This was the justification when Britain, Germany and France signed up to become founding members of the AIIB, leaving the US fuming.
China has also been effective at pulling potential geopolitical rivals into its economic embrace. Countries such as India and Russia are competitors in many areas. But Beijing has corralled these and two other major emerging-market economies, Brazil and South Africa, into economic alliances.
In addressing concerns that the institutions it is setting up will lead to low standards of governance, transparency and efficiency, Beijing has declared that it will uphold, and even improve upon, the standards set by Western-led institutions.
Consider the governance structure of the IMF and World Bank. In both organisations, an 85 per cent supermajority is needed to approve major policy decisions. The US, with its voting share of about 16 per cent, in effect has veto power, which gives it outsized influence over decisions such as which projects and countries the institutions fund as well as the conditions attached to the funding.
The dominance of the Western economies and their world view, with the US seen as the economic hegemon and the paragon of free markets and democracy, meant that this arrangement once gave these organisations legitimacy and power. However, in recent years, with the declining economic power of the West and the rising clout of China and other emerging-market economies, this situation has in fact eroded the legitimacy of such institutions.
In contrast, at the AIIB, China has a 28 per cent voting share and no veto power. However, unlike at the IMF and the World Bank, approval of major policy decisions at the AIIB requires only majority support. It is hard to imagine the bank making any decision against China's wishes. Yet, on paper, this structure beats one in which the dominant country has unbridled veto power, a situation that now rankles other members of the IMF and the World Bank.
For its lending through the Asian infrastructure bank, China has indicated that it will choose only projects that meet the highest standards in terms of corporate governance, environmental impact and commercial integrity. Yet, unlike financing from the US or from Western-dominated aid and financial institutions, Chinese-led projects rarely come with obvious strings attached. With this approach, China avoids sensitive political issues that could irritate loan recipients. Beijing does not bring up uncomfortable subjects such as corruption, freedom of expression, democracy and human rights.
In December 2015, President Xi attended a meeting of African leaders in Johannesburg. He arrived bearing nearly US$60 billion in loans, loan write-offs and other forms of financing.
Then, to the delight of the leaders, including the many despots in attendance, he uttered words that were music to their ears: "China supports the settlement of African issues by Africans in the African way."
China's strategy amounts to a systematic displacing of a multilateral system that was built on high ideals and trust, mainly of the US but also of other advanced economies. Institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank were meant to improve national economies and global cooperation rather than propagate the power and influence of any particular country. While the US benefited from its outsized role in these institutions, the values that Washington espoused, such as free markets and democracy, were seen as benefiting economic and human welfare around the world.
China's vision of multilateralism will certainly serve China well, allowing it to expand its economic and geopolitical influence in a manner that will become ever harder to resist. Whether this will be good for the world remains to be seen.
Eswar Prasad is a professor of trade policy at Cornell University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Jonathan Eyal is away. His Global Affairs column resumes on Sept 25.


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Panelo 'not surprised' by 'poor' trust rating given to China in SWS survey
By: Daphne Galvez - Reporter / @DYGalvezINQ
INQUIRER.net / 10:23 AM November 20, 2018
Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Tuesday said he is no longer surprised by the "poor" trust rating given by Filipinos to China in the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey.
Panelo was reacting to the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey, which showed that Filipinos have given China a "poor" net trust rating while giving the U.S. a "very good" rating and a "moderate" rating for Japan, Malaysia and Israel.
"With respect to the SWS survey, I'm not surprised. After all, we've been used to dealing with the United States. In fact we've been described as toeing the line of U.S. policies," Panelo said in an interview over ABS CBN News Channel.
Panelo also said that the "poor" trust rating given to China was because Filipinos are "not aware of real geopolitics."
"Perhaps the FIlipinos by reason of criticism against the policy of the President are not aware of the real geopolitics of the region," the spokesman said.
China's net trust score of -16, or "poor," in September is 19 points higher than the -35, or "bad," recorded last June.
Panelo asserted that President Rodrigo Duterte is a "very cautious" diplomat that would rather "talk" with China about the dispute over the West Philippine Sea and the South China Sea.
"The President is a very cautious diplomat. He would not want to trigger any conflict in that area because if we do that then we stand to be a flaming collateral damage in case of conflict if not a raging inferno if we become the object of a strategic assault," Panelo said.
"So rather than provoke, he'd rather talk with them and get some trade relations that would benefit the country," he added.
The spokesman was also reacting to the SWS survey, which showed that 84 percent of Filipinos believe it was not right that the Philippines should simply allow Beijing build and fortify its military outposts in the disputed territories.
This is up by three points from the 81 percent in the SWS survey last June. /muf
READ: SWS: 84% of Filipinos oppose gov't inaction on China WPS 'intrusion'
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Manufacturing News / Asher's Chocolate Co.
Souderton, PA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/23/2019 -- Asher's Chocolate Co. announces the unveiling of a newly refreshed delivery fleet. Their fleet of delivery trucks have been re-wrapped with bright, fresh artwork to make every mouth water. You can now spot them making the rounds in the greater Philadelphia area.
Up until recently, Asher's delivery trucks were simple and plain, with minimal identification on them. The few that had artwork were outdated with old logos and worn graphics. "We realized that our trucks needed a bit of a refreshment, so we decided to have fun with it," commented Jeff Asher, President and CEO of Asher's.
Each of the trucks is adorned with different designs, displaying Asher's diverse product portfolio. The truck wraps, showcasing Asher's Snack Boxes, Coffee Bags, Individually-Wrapped Pieces, and of course their famous Gourmet Pretzels, are not only beautiful and eye-catching, but also make for a wonderful display of product and packaging alike.
"We wanted to show the world our wide array of offerings, and maybe also spark their appetite! We've even already gotten a few comments on how delicious our confections look," Jeff Asher further commented.
These new trucks wraps are unlike anything Asher's Chocolate Co. has done before, and they associate this debut with their ever-continuing efforts to support their branding and grow their exposure.


Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina. His name: Pope Francis I. First Jesuit elected pope!
Bad luck Obama! No American Pope tonight... well... Latin American... not USA!
Bergoglio for Pope is a welcome surprise. It defeated all the experts bets. A people's person and a total opposite of ultra-sophisticated fashionista Benedict XVI.
This man can't be Peter the Roman. Maybe that will be the next one. Also he looks like no illuminati guy.
He will no longer be able to ride public buses neither will he be able to cook for himself.
I hope he will be able to lead some serious reforms in the Vatican, cleaning up the pedophiles and banksters.
He could very well end up like John Paul I - the PTB could do a job on him... who knows?
I wish him the very best. He looks nice and a people's person. A welcome change from the one who occupied the seat before him.
Strange that this guy didn't ban contraceptives, from what I have heard he approved using them to protect infections.
Who truly knows where the guy is headed. We all know the history of Jesuits, a percent of them are definitely loyal, devoted, mindlessly following, some may even be so well dipped they would kill in the belief they are doing God's work.
Nothing new here is there, the Holy Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, heretics burned at the stake or simply tortured to death, look at our politics clergy, Billy the Graham for example, remember..
Religion is swell, no problem unless they want your mind, body and soul, corporate religions want your $$ and obedience.
Big time religion has been and allways will be a corrider leading to controll. No offense to any religion or belief meant by my statement.
Long ago I had a hallway house in South Boston, 36 guy capacity, vets, drunks, addicts, etc. A local rep of the Cardinal visited us and implored me and my partner to allow them to help, to have bingo, raffles etc. We didn't accept their aid, we told him this is Gods place nor ours ,he takes care of it, he believed us to be naive though he couldn't understand how we were the most successfull joint without taking money or getting in the game. We were NON profit, oddly enough each resident had food, a hot and cot, support. It was the best 7 years of my life, miracles on a daily basis seeing a broken human being getting on his feet, a true high..
The place name was the House of the Holy Spirit, most just called it the spirit house for short. They just couldn't get the picture if money wasn't in the frame.
Wow Chris, thanks for sharing--you're a real inspiration to me.
Not that I necessarily believe in the mumbo jumbo, but the literal translation of the phrase is Rock of Rome or Rome Rock as well as Peter the Roman.
Bergoglio is an Italian name. His parents were also Italians, I think.
white smoke, we have pope Francis who is a Jesuit. First time ever have they elected a Jesuit for a pope, I don't even know if that's allowed, since the Jesuits take an oath to be faithfull to the pope. How is that going to work? Also they have a sworn duty to the black pope, the Jesuit leader. So really now there is a white pope and black pope who are in charge, since the new pope takes orders from the black pope.
This is all just getting confusing.
He has labelled those fellow Church leaders who enjoy the trappings of high office as hypocrites, saying they forget that Jesus bathed lepers and ate with prostitutes.
He lived in a small flat heated by a simple stove in a down town block, cooking for himself, travelling on buses and regularly visiting the sprawling slums on the outskirts of Argentina's capital.
He is also a Vatican Outsider . . .
After all, the last time they dared to elect a Pope who would ask questions he "died"
The reach of P2 (Progadanda Due), into the Vatican is documented and should be understood by all forum members.
This man can't be Peter the Roman.
If he's the first Jesuit pope elected, and if the Jesuits take orders from the black pope, and Francis is the white pope. That means that Francis is merely the puppet pope, hence the black pope is the one calling the shots behind the scenes, thus is Peter the Roman.
He lived in a small flat heated by a simple stove in a down town block, cooking for himself, travelling on buses and regularly visiting the sprawling slums on the outskirts of Argentina's capital.
This Pope is a Pope for the people and the poor.
He is progressive and a modernist. When he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires he did not want Mass in Latin anywhere in his governorship. Those priests who said Mass in Latin were outcasted and sent to break-away Catholic groups. He is against everything old fashioned and traditionalist.
He hates to travel. He thinks it's a waste of money. We should not expect to see him travelling the world like Pope John Paul II. He also hates everything glitzy, all the gold vestments and show-off. During the conclave and after he was nominated Pope he wanted to travel by mini-bus and not an official Pope car. This morning he was taken in a black car but not on the official Pope vehicle the one with the registration SCV1 (Central Service Vatican).
He loves Argentinian football and tango music. He had a current membership card in his local football club as Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio with his picture as a cleric.
He is certainly an interesting man. He will get rid of some of the Curia and other hierarchy no doubt. He will pick his own people especially the Secretary of State. He will no longer be able to cook his own meals. Not sure if they will have the one person in charge of tasting the food before it is being served to him. That is also a part of the Papal protocol. They may have poisoned John Paul I's food. We don't know.
Pope Francis has only one lung. His other lung was taken out when he was young and they had hardly any antibiotics back in the days. He seems to be in decent health for now.
It could be a so-so short Papacy due to his age (76) but considering that Pope Emeritus Benny retired at 85 not being in any serious health condition this Pope could live until 90 or over. I bet he will not resign but nobody knows what the future holds.
No Peter Turkson, no Tarcisio Bertone.
Rome, Maryland, was the original name of a community within Prince George's County, Maryland, which would eventually become Washington, District of Columbia.
Specifically, Rome was the original community name of Capitol Hill, upon which the United States Capitol Building sits.
I asked a person I know who use to be a nun, and who also taught in a Catholic school about the St Malachy prophecy. She said it is not true.
Francis (Latin: Franciscus Ecclesiastical Latin: [franˈtʃiskus]; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936) is the 266th and current pope of the Catholic Church, elected on 13 March 2013. In that role he is both the leader of the Church and Sovereign of the Vatican City State.
A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was ordained as a priest in 1969. In 1998 he became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, and in 2001 a cardinal. Following the resignation of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, on 28 February 2013, the conclave elected Bergoglio, who chose the papal name Francis in honour of Saint Francis of Assisi. He is both the first Jesuit pope and the first pope from the Americas. He is also the first pope from outside Europe since Pope Gregory III in the 8th century.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born in Buenos Aires, one of the five children of Italian immigrants of Piedmontese origin, Mario José Bergoglio, a railway worker, and his wife Regina María Sivori, a housewife. In 1969, shortly after becoming a priest, Bergoglio had pulmonary problems which caused him to have a lung removed, but regained good health. He graduated from a technical secondary school as a chemical technician and then, at the age of 21, decided to become a priest.
Bergoglio entered the Society of Jesus on 11 March 1958 and studied to become a priest at the Jesuit seminary in Villa Devoto. In 1960, Bergoglio obtained a licentiate in philosophy from the Colegio Máximo San José in San Miguel; in 1964 and 1965, he taught literature and psychology at the Colegio de la Inmaculada, a high school in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and in 1966 he taught the same courses at the Colegio del Salvador in Buenos Aires.
In 1967, Bergoglio finished his theological studies and was ordained to the priesthood on 13 December 1969, by Archbishop Ramón José Castellano. He attended the Facultades de Filosofía y Teología de San Miguel (Philosophical and Theological Faculty of San Miguel), a seminary in San Miguel, Buenos Aires province. Bergoglio attained the position of novice master there and became professor of theology.
On contraceptives and gay marriage, he has, in the past, taken strict, conservative stances. And he once called abortion a "death sentence� for the unborn.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires who was elected Pope by the papal conclave on Wednesday, was intimately involved in Operation Condor's "Dirty War� in South America.
A product of Chile's DINA secret police and five other national security states in Latin America — Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – Operation Condor was an intelligence operation designed to monitor, assassinate and disappear leftist dissidents who threatened the bankster economic operation underway in South America.
Like an idiot , I was in Argentina in the summer of 1975 as a guest of a student at a Gaucho cattle ranch when we arrived at Buenos Aires the streets had military on every street corner with machine guns... What did I know ?
Between 1930 and 1973, Argentina suffered 30 military coups, with only a single president serving an entire term.
In September 1975, the highest level of the military approved a coup that overthrew the established Peron government.
During the next eight years, a military dictatorship characterized by government-based terrorism aimed primarily at students, young workers and intellectuals, was established. Censorship was rampant during this regime and all unions, political parties, and universities fell under military control.
At this time, General Jorge Rafael Videla stated that in order to guarantee the security of the state, all the necessary people will die. Suspected activists, their friends, and relatives were often abducted from their homes in the middle of the night and moved to government detention centers in which they were tortured and eventually killed.
These individuals who disappeared without a trace are referred to as the Disappeared. It is estimated that as many as 30,000 individuals disappeared over this time period. In March,1976, nine people disappeared for every two found murdered. People who protested these atrocities soon became one of the Disappeared or were murdered themselves.
Abducted women who were pregnant were kept captive in detention centers and military hospitals until the birth of their children, and then murdered shortly after delivery. Babies and young children of abducted individuals were also abducted, based on the assumption that subversives breed subversives. Abducted children were handed over to neighbors, given to orphanages or retained as war booty for childless couples who were part of the security forces. An estimated 220 children were abducted with their parents or born in captivity to abducted women.
On April 30, 1977, four mothers gathered at Plaza de Mayo to bring attention to their plight as they attempted to find their missing children. They were soon joined by the "Grandmothers," women who had given up hope of finding their own children, but believed that their grandchildren might have survived. In October, 1977, this group of women founded the Association of Abuelas (Grandmothers) of the Plaza de Mayo. In 1980, the Grandmothers found an article about identification by blood and asked several American scientists to help them create a grandparentage test.
>Red World: Argentina: Neo-Peronist regime closely allied to Bolivarian Axis, military junta crushed communist insurgency in "Dirty War"
The Pope has been accused of failing to stand up to the brutal military junta that slaughtered tens of thousands of Argentines in its so-called Dirty War.
Critics say Jorge Mario Bergoglio did little to help those who disappeared when the country was under right-wing military rule – and too much to criticise the left-wing opponents of the generals.
He has even been accused of turning a blind eye to the rounding up and torturing of his own Jesuit priests, something he strongly denies.
The period became a by-word for brutality, with thousands of families suffering the disappearance of loved ones and the adoption by the armed forces of murder methods such as throwing detainees out of aeroplanes.
One form of torture for families was the kidnapping of babies of mothers murdered as enemies of the regime and their adoption by families approved by the military dictatorship. The bishops of Argentina, led by Bergoglio, published an apology in October last year in which they acknowledged that the church had not protected its faithful.
However the statement still blamed leftists as well as the junta for the killings.
The bishops appealed for information about where bodies had been buried or knew identities of stolen babies to come forward.
However the apology came too late for liberal and left critics.
They point to Bergoglio's refusal to give evidence in open court on the events of the 1970s until 2010, when his answers were considered evasive by some.
He is also accused of failing to prevent the torture of two of his own Jesuit priests, Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics, both supporters of left-wing liberations theology who were seized by the regime in 1976.
However supporters of Bergoglio say he took risks behind the scenes, including visiting the home of dictator Jorge Videla to say mass and appeal for mercy.
Secret Argentine documents record Operation Condor kidnappings and disappearances carried out by military intelligence Battalion 601.
Washington, D.C., March 23, 2006 - On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the military coup in Argentina, the National Security Archive posted a series of declassified U.S. documents and, for the first time, secret documents from Southern Cone intelligence agencies recording detailed evidence of massive atrocities committed by the military junta in Argentina.
The documents include a formerly secret transcript of Henry Kissinger's staff meeting during which he ordered immediate U.S. support for the new military regime, and Defense and State Department reports on the ensuing repression. The Archive has also obtained internal memoranda and cables from the infamous Argentina intelligence unit, Battalion 601, as well as the Chilean secret police agency, known as DINA, which was secretly collaborating with the military in Buenos Aires.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS: This is an original press photo. Inflation In Argentine: With the ever increasing high rate of inflation which is bringing in its wake more unemployment, shops in the fashionable Calle Florida, Buenos Aires, are forced to offer theit goods at greatly reduced prices, but they are still too high for these Argentine onlookers. Photo measures 10 x 6.75inches. Photo is dated 09-09-1975.
Argentina was hell on earth for many years. Henry K. luved it.
Sadistical Pyschopaths given a free reign, I may be off base but I heard somewhere the US Intell sent squads of experts in the art of torture to train ( teachers-advisors) , torture techy's.
Personelly, when these guys put on their silken robes, gold jewelry, sit on their gem imbeded throne and stick out their ring to get kissed I'm not impressed, in fact it disqusts me.
Corporate religions telling the folks how to live, wow, the more things look like their changing-they're not, it's back to the dark ages. In days of old there was a man who approached the holy bosses and said something along the lines, they were filled with shiiite.
Yup, they had him wacked out.
As Chile and Argentina finally seek justice for those who were tortured, raped, and "disappeared" under the right-wing dictatorships of the 70s, the declassification process in Washington is revealing the horrifying complicity of then U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger.
Will be posted on GCN shortly! Show in process!
the fact that he celebrated Hanukkah in a Jewish Temple, and participated in non-Christian worship, by itself constitutes a total knockout punch. It's a fact from which he and his supporters cannot recover no matter how hard they try. It proves to anyone with any bit of good will that he's not the pope, and exposes his malicious apostasy in gory detail.
It suks being a cynic, but I have to confess I am. I wish I could scream , holler and cheer for any guy the MSM proposed to be a true human being on a mission of honesty and honor.
I can't profile this guy, and frankly given the evidence I have sniffed around in find it impossible. My take , it's a wait and see. He has been received enormous attention as being a champion of the poor, humble, in short the perfect image of a pope.
Problem is I just don't swallow the headlines and propaganda, Yup I have a problem with corporate religions, not the parishioners.
In fact I have a problem, throughout my life I have seen mucks getting into positions of power deceiving and end up joining the elite club.
Unfortunately I have to wait and see. The publicity reminds me of Obamas campaign promises, promises,,MSM, no offense to those of this religion.
Well this link shares some interesting info about this new pope and quotes several Statesman back in the 1800's. It also tells about their secret societies, etc.
Nope, nothing significantly occultic there.
Someone also mentioned something occultic in the time the white smoke started and the time he appeared at the window? It was 7:06pm when the white smoke appeared and 75 mins later he appeared, 8:21pm local time.
What is the significance, if any?
Also, is there any connection to a (first time) Jesuit from S. America (first time) becoming pope right after Venezuela's leader, Chavez, dies?
Tom Horn wrote Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope is Here.
An email he wrote to Steve Quayle is below.
The 35th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus convened on 5 January 2008 and elected Fr. Adolfo Nicolás as the new Superior General on 19 January 2008. A month after, the Pope (Benedict) received members of the General Congregation and urged them to "to continue on the path of this mission in full fidelity to your original charism" and asked them to reflect so as "to rediscover the fullest meaning of your characteristic 'fourth vow' of obedience to the Successor of Peter." For this, he told them to "adhere totally to the Word of God and to the Magisterium's task of preserving the integral truth and unity of Catholic doctrine." This clear identity, according to the Pope, is important so that "many others may share in your ideals and join you effectively and enthusiastically." The Congregation responded with a formal declaration titled "With New Fervor and Dynamism, the Society of Jesus Responds to the Call of Benedict XVI", whereby they confirmed the Society's fidelity to the Pope.
As a Jesuit, Bergoglio makes the perfect Pope to fulfill our second book's Chardinian Jesuit predictions who argue in favor of a coming an alien savior.
I would worry more about what's happening in Cyprus -- bank runs that could spread to the whole Euro zone over the weekend than the new Pope being or not being Peter the Roman.
My thought is that he is not Peter the Roman. My idea is he is a decent man who wants to clean up the House (the Vatican) and sell a lot of property to profit the poor. The problem is that he very well might end like Pope John Paul I - with a very short pontificate. Francis Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires is a Hugo Chavez of Papacy -- it won't go well with the PTB. I would not be surprised if Emeritus Pope Benedict lives a longer life than his successor Francesco Jorge Bergoglio.
The Cyprus bank run fever could spread to Spain, Portugal, Italy and France in a flash.
People in Cyprus have reacted with shock to news of a one-off levy of up to 10% on savings as part of a 10bn-euro (£8.7bn; $13bn) bailout agreed in Brussels.
Savers could be seen queuing at cash machines amid resentment at the charge.
The deal reached with euro partners and the IMF marks a radical departure from previous international aid packages.
President Nicos Anastasiades defended it as a "painful" step, taken to avoid a disorderly bankruptcy.
The Cypriot leader, who was elected last month on a promise to tackle the country's debt crisis, will address the nation on Sunday.
The deposit levy - set at 9.9 per cent on bank deposits exceeding 100,000 euros and at 6.7 per cent on anything below that - will take force on Tuesday after a bank holiday on Monday.
"They call Sicily the island of the mafia. It's not Sicily, it's Cyprus. This is theft, pure and simple," said a pensioner.
"The Levy is a one-off measure."
Detailed picture - all Popes rings have Saint Peter on them.
They are the best team in the country. He was made a life member after he became Pope.
Tomorrow morning will be the new Pope's inaugural Mass in Saint Peter's square.
Some like US Vice-President Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Argentine President Cristina Kirchner -- none of them are known for friends of the poor -- will be showing off their faces at the Pope's inaugural ceremony.
Is this the U.S. V.P. Joseph Biden? Why did he look so uptight? This was a happy ceremony not a funeral.
I caught a few screen shots during the Pope's inaugural ceremony this morning. We never get to see Frau Merkel with husband. This time he was there. Now we know what he looks liike.
I want ya to know that i respect ya, like your posts and then some, you have been around the block and shoot strait.
matter, $$$$, ya know. Maby this guy is 100% on the level, I don't know, have doubts but can't hit the dime.
Its been said some Popes have gone to teach the Vatican the deal, and then discoivered the Vatican was teaching the. So who knows?
Ya, I like the hype, he sounds MSM cool, lets hang on and wait, or at least thats what I'm doing.
T assume that religions have never been involved with politics just doesn't get there for me. No offense.
They ain't make'n Popes like they used to.
Note: I'm starting to sense that the new Pope is, if nothing else, at least less bad than the last one was. Time will tell.
According to insider reports, the manager of this effort to elect an American pope was New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who focused on the effort to install Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley as the new pontiff. Italian newspaper accounts revealed that O'Malley's main advisor was the clergyman Terrence Donilon, the brother of Tom Donilon, the political operative who currently serves as the director of the National Security Council in the Obama White House. The danger was thus clear enough that, if O'Malley had prevailed, the next pope would get his inspiration from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
To pose this danger in slightly different terms: Governor Martin O'Malley of Maryland is currently a quite serious candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. If Sean O'Malley were to become pope, the potential might then exist to have within a few years President O'Malley in Washington and Pope O'Malley in Rome. As the great Italian poet Dante argued 700 years ago in his Divine Comedy, it is essential for the spiritual and religious power of the papacy to be kept separate from the political and military power of the empire. The virtual absorption of the Vatican by Washington could well have spelled the final collapse of the Catholic Church.
On the day after his election, Francis went personally to the guesthouse where he had been staying in Via della Scrofa in downtown Rome to pay his bill and pick up his baggage. As part of this gesture of humility, he had no elaborate security and no disruptive motorcade, but rode in a single automobile of the papal gendarmes. Under Benedict XVI, the Vatican had appeared under siege, doubtless as a result of the pope's gullible acceptance of the Anglo-American phantom of a global war on terror. The Vatican remains haunted by the mysterious death of John Paul I in 1978, and by the 1981 attack carried out by Ali Agca, a co-worker of Frank Terpil of the CIA. But Francis is signaling that he is not afraid, and is not willing to hunker down behind the Vatican walls.
Another danger which has been avoided is the election of an oligarch camouflaged as a modernizer or reformer. This was the role sought by the late Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini of Milan, who did not live to see this year's conclave. This year's plausible oligarch-reformer might have been Cardinal Schonborn of Vienna, a representative of the feudal aristocracy of the Holy Roman Empire. And there were others seeking to play this role. Instead, Bergoglio brings with him the concerns of the global South, starting with the imperative of economic development and the eradication of poverty.
Bergoglio's track record in this regard is instructive. The Argentine military junta of 1976-1983 and the neoliberal economic policies it started wrecked the nation's economy during the 1990s. By the end of the military government, unemployment was at 18% officially, and there were bouts of hyperinflation at the end of the 1980s. Under the pro-IMF economics Minister Domingo Cavallo, Argentina established a fixed rate of exchange to the US dollar. The propertied classes indulged in massive tax evasion and sent flight capital to foreign banks. Taking power in the midst of this crisis, President de la Rua imposed seven rounds of brutal austerity, driving unemployment up to 20% in December 2001. When the IMF cut off further loans to Argentina, there was a panic run on the banks. Strikes and riots forced de la Rua to resign and flee on December 21, 2001.
The emblem of the Jesuits features an Atonist solar rays. IHS was originally the insignia for Bacchus, himself a derivation of Aryan Iesa or Esus., The Pope has, from the inception of the Roman Church, been referred to as Servus Servorurm Dei - "Servant of the Servants of God"
The Church of the Gesù (Italian: Chiesa del Gesù; Italian pronunciation: [ˈkjɛːza del dʒeˈzu]) is the mother church of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order also known as the Jesuits.
Officially named Chiesa del Santissimo Nome di Gesù all'Argentina (English: Church of the Most Holy Name of Jesus at the "Argentina"), its facade is "the first truly baroque façade", introducing the baroque style into architecture. The church served as model for innumerable Jesuit churches all over the world, especially in the Americas. The Church of the Gesù is located in the Piazza del Gesù in Rome.
In 1540, Saint Ignatius of Loyola needed a church to serve as the center of his newly founded Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), which the Farnese-family Pope Paul III formally recognized that year. One of the Society's members was the priest of a church called Our Lady of the Way, which the Pope designated as the Society's official church. Saint Ignatius, finding the church too small, began fund-raising to construct a church worthy of the "Name of Jesus." It took him 10 years to get the necessary permits before he could break ground.
But the original site wasn't ideal, so new plans were drawn up with Michelangelo being involved in the design. A second ground-breaking ceremony took place, but this time wealthy neighbors fought the construction which would affect their houses. The Pope's grandson, who was now Cardinal Farnese, agreed to fund the church and the final ground breaking took place in 1568, 18 years after the first. Unfortunately, St. Ignatius never lived to see the construction, but the church became his final resting place, making Il Gesù an important shrine for pilgrims to this day.
The greatest of these clerical orders by far was the Society of Jesus, founded in 1540 by the Spaniard Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556). Loyola, who had been a soldier, turned to religion after receiving a painful wound in battle. From the first the Jesuits were the soldiery of the Catholic church; their leader bore the title of general, and a military discipline was laid down in Loyola's Spiritual Exercises, which set the rules for the order.
The Jesuits have always been a center of controversy. To their hostile critics, the Jesuits have seemed unscrupulous soldiers of the pope, indulging in dirty fighting if such tactics seemed likely to bring victory. They have been accused of preaching and practicing the doctrine that the end justifies the means and also of pursuing worldly power and success. Yet historical record leaves no doubt of Jesuit success in bolstering the spiritual as well as the material credit of Catholicism.
Jesuits seemed to be everywhere, in Hungary, in Poland, in England, in Holland, trying to win back lands and peoples from the Protestants. They were winning new lands and peoples on the expanding frontiers of the West, in India, in China, in Japan, in North America. They were martyrs, preachers, teachers, social workers, counselors of statesmen.
While the Society of Jesus was the chief new instrument of the Catholic Reformation, an old instrument of the church was also employed—the Inquisition. This special ecclesiastical court in its papal form had been started in the thirteenth century to put down the Albigensian heresy, and in its Spanish form in the fifteenth century to bolster the efforts of the new Spanish monarchy to force religious uniformity on its subjects. Both papal and Spanish inquisitions were medieval courts that used medieval methods of torture, and both were employed against the Protestants in the sixteenth century.
The Jesuits were founded initially as The Company of Jesus on "Assumption Day" August 15, 1534, also being the traditional feast day for Lucifer since 70CE, in a secret ceremony in the crypt of the Chapel of St. Denis by Ignatius of Loyola (born �ñigo López de Loyola) and Francisco Xavier, Alfonso Salmeron, Diego Laínez, and Nicolás Bobadilla all from Spain, Peter Faber from Savoy in France, and Simão Rodrigues from Portugal.
The formation was approved by Francis Borja, of the infamous "Borja" also known as Borgia/Borga, Duke of Grandia, grandson of Pope Alexander VI and the patron of Ignatius of Loyola. Francis Borja was the principle financier and architect in the formalization of the Jesuits into the first dedicated military order of monks of the Catholic Church. He was also responsible for securing the Papal Bull Regimini militantis (September 27, 1540) from Borja family friend Alessandro Farnese Pope Paul III which first gave the Jesuits official status as an order.
Ignatius of Loyola first came to the attention of the young Duke of Grandia by 1529 after Ignatius was again arrested by the Inquisition for practicing extreme religious devotion. Borja saw potential in the extreme military based devotion being preached by Ignatius of Loyola and his desire to establish an order of military monks. It was the young Borja who saved the life of Ignatius from the Inquisition.
At the death of Ignatius in 1557, Francis Borja was expected to be the second Superior General. However, his ambitions were hampered firstly by arch-enemy Giovanni Pietro Carafa as Pope Paul IV (1555-1559). Carafa had been one of the greatest enemies of Borja Pope Alexander VI and immediately nominated Diego Laynez (James Lainez) as Superior General.
Pope Paul IV died in August of 1559 and was replaced by Giovanni Angelo de' Medici (Pope Pius IV). In both cases, Jesuit Superior General Diego Laynez aligned himself closely making him virtually untouchable.
However, after Pope Pius IV rounded up and tortured and murdered Benedetto Accolti and other members of Papal families in an alleged failed plot, Cardinal Borja made his move and Pius IV was poisoned to death on December 9, 1565. A few days later, Superior General Diego Laynez suffered the same fate and soon after Cardinal Francis Borja was unanimously elected the third Superior General.
By 2008, the Jesuit Order, especially in the United States was a shell of its former brilliance. Over populated by blissfully nihilistic, barely competent, arrogant and undisciplined recruits, the once dominant United States faction had slid to a terminal point of complete irrelevance. It was at this time that Peter Hans Kolvenbach chose to resign from the office of Superior General to become a "visitor" - a role focused on the revival of the spiritual dimension of the Order.
The election of Pope Francis on March 14th 2013, the traditional "Day of Blood" and ancient birthday of Mithra represents a further historic turning point for the Jesuits and the Catholic Church in a rejection of the insanity of nihilism and the potential implementation of promised reforms of Vatican II and focus on personal responsibility.
was a Grandee of Spain, a Spanish Jesuit, and third Superior General of the Society of Jesus. He was canonized on 20 June 1670 by Pope Clement X.
The Borja whilst wealthy and of position, had continued to lose face and influence within the Papal corridors of power, particularly since the infamous publishing of Dante Alighieri epic poem The Divine Comedy (1316) and the slandering of the Borja both as part of the eighth circle of Hell and notable members in it in serving Lucifer.
Arrested at night, tortured underground and upon confession, the accused was handed over to "the secular arm� to be burned. Over the centuries sixty-eight million perished amidst this horror according to one of our heroes, the late ex-Jesuit, Alberto Rivera.
To deceive the Nations it [The Inquisition] was formally abolished in 1834, but it continued in secrecy, and later openly, under other names.
In the Twentieth Century the Jesuits have conducted their Inquisition under the names of Nazism, Fascism, Communism and now Islamic Terrorism with their Inquisitors, Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco, Joseph Stalin and now Osama bin Laden.
Today the Black Pope orders his Holy Office of the Inquisition, renamed in 1965 "The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,� through his International Intelligence Community headed by the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
Ridpath's Universal History, John Clark Ridpath, (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1901) Vol. XIII, p. 297.
Pope meets with Pope (retired).
First time in History. There was no existing protocol for the two Popes meet-up. All was improvised.
The new Pope meets his predecessor Pope Benny for prayer, lunch and private talks.
Pope Benny welcomed Pope Francis after he landed in the helicopter. He welcomed him like an old friend or a brother.
The article said there was no array of guests invited for lunch. There was only the two Popes and their assisting Bishops. Old Pope Benny seems to have trouble walking, even with a cane.
The new Pope Francis looks in very good health despite living with only one lung.


Although my taste tends toward the baroque, occasionally something very simple and elegant grabs ahold of me and won't let go. I pay a lot of visits to Sarah Robinson's shop: La Chica de los Anillos, which Yahoo's Babelfish site translates from Spanish to The Girl of the Ring.
I'm struck by the quietude of these pieces, and yet my favorite ring (the one I want to be the girl of), pictured above, carries a lot of emotion. I don't want to try to attach a particular "story" to this object, but for me, there is one, evocative, poetic, beautiful, a little dark.
All of Robinson's reasonably-priced handcrafted rings are beautiful; above is another favorite. I love how the prongs are an emphasized design element, highlighting a concept of capture. The stone turned upside down is just a wonderful bit of humor, turning the idea of a diamond ring literally on its head. Rustic, organic, subversive, lovely.
Love the organic texture of her rings!
I love the simplicity of the pieces of this fantastic jeweller!


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Q: Design and code a task scheduler that can take unsynchronized or synchronized tasks This is an interview question, that means this could be done in a short time.
I thought to ask here because I cannot figure out what to do if I were asked.
"Design and code a task scheduler that can take unsynchronized or synchronized tasks"
Please use your imagination/assumption and share your thoughts and comments.

A: This question is deliberately vague, it's suppose to show how good you are at designing and solving problems, what kind of assumptions do you make, how you justify them, etc. There is no single, good answer. It's a matter of approaching the problem.
That being said here is my take:

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*My scheduler can take arbitrary Runnable or Callable<V>, I will implement ScheduledExecutorService because it seems to be a good abstraction for the problem. I am using as many standard classes as I can to make API portable and easy to use.

*By unsychronized and synchronized I understand: safe to run concurrently and those that require exclusive lock. I.e. the scheduler is not allowed to run two synchronized tasks at the same time.

*The distinction between synchronized and unsychronized tasks will be made using marker interface. Annotation is also fine, but harder to extract at runtime.

*I won't give you the full implementation, but it'll probably wrap some standard ScheduledExecutorService with an additional synchronization for synchronized tasks. I think ConcurrentMap<Class, Semaphore> would do. Before running tasks marked as synchronized I make sure no other synchronized task of the same time is running. I block and wait or reject (this can be configurable).

A: I would use an ExecutorService as it's built in and does most of the things you would want. It doesn't care if those tasks uses synchronized or not.


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The Artoons
Titian's visual poetry – or how to repaint an Emperor.
Jakob Seissenegger, Titian
At the Royal Academy at the moment there is a magnificent exhibition of King Charles the First's art collection. The undisputed star here is Anthony Van Dyck. As esteemed as he is, on the evidence of this show I would say that he is still underrated. The 3 massive equestrian portraits in the same room, brought together for the first time ever, are all knockouts and alone are worth the price of admission. Seeing all these Van Dyck's together brought home to me how well Van Dyck had learned the compositional lessons of Titian. It is this that I'd like to talk about, because there is a painting in this show that offers an unparalleled insight into Titian's decision making process.
On the evidence of this exhibition, Charles I owned at least a couple of Titians. One of these, his 1533 portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, is unusually revealing about Titian's thought process because it is a copy, or, more accurately, a reinterpretation of another man's portrait. The new version pleased the emperor so much that he immediately made Titian his official portraitist. By comparing it with the earlier one by Jakob Seisenegger, we get to see Titian's original subject matter before he sets to work with his unrivalled ability to create visual harmony. It provides a unique insight, as we get to see exactly what changes he has made, and infer why he made them.
Most obvious when comparing the two is that Titian has simplified the work. He has darkened passages and made it more atmospheric; passages completely and precisely delineated in the Seisenegger now drift off into shadow. On a straightforwardly narrative level, Titian has made Charles taller, and he now completely dominates the space of the canvas. Instead of droopy eyelids he has a more intense, intelligent gaze. Flattery of this sort is to be expected. Although a brilliant ruler, Charles V was not the prettiest; he suffered from his Hapsburg family's enormous lower jaw, to the point where he could not close his mouth. But flattery is not why this is the better picture.
In terms of colour, Titian has simplified the whole work into a harmony of copper and silvery grey, and has massively downgraded the bright green curtain. The sliver of curtain that remains is still green but has been bronzed with the addition of the (overall) brown. As basic colour theory tells us, cool colours recede and warm colours come forward, so Titian makes sure that the brightest warm colours are Charles' exposed skin, his hands and face. He is very careful not to let anything outshine them. In comparison Seissenegger has made some marble tiles on the floor the hottest element. The effect is to drain the blood from Charles' flesh.
But the most powerful tool in Titian's picture construction armoury is his control of light and dark. In the top part of Titian's picture there is nothing remotely as bright as Charles' face, whereas in the Seissenegger Charles' visage competes for attention with a big white feather, several bright folds of curtain, and a lit section of wall. Your eye is a sucker for powerful tonal contrasts and tends to be drawn to the places where those contrasts are highest – where the lightest lights meet the darkest darks. Titian was supremely aware of this and took immense care in fashioning the borderlines between light and dark into clear, pleasing shapes. Lines are either made very straight or smoothed into unfussy curves. Just one example – compare the two faces, specifically the line along the top where the light of the forehead meets the dark of the cap and hairline. Seisenegger's bumpy ride from left to right is transformed by Titian into a clean arc. Titian tidies up like this all the time, which makes for a more pleasurable viewing experience.
But creating clear shapes is only half the story. Titian makes sure that these shapes are placed in clear relationships with one another – the edges of shapes either rhyme with each other (parallel), or flow into each other (align). You may not notice these relationships but, because they are there, you feel a strange sense of "rightness" to the picture.
An obvious straight line, in both pictures, is the edge of Charles' silver coat on the (viewers') left. Titian decides to make full structural use of it by extending the straight line all the way to the top of the picture. He invents a highlight in the curtain above Charles' shoulder that aligns with the coat edge; but what to do about the arm that juts out in between? To continue the line he shades the part of the sleeve just above the coat edge, and then, when the line hits the puffy shoulder, he cleverly darkens the pattern on the material, which allows the straight line of the cloak to continue through this silver balloon and on into the curtain. I love the ingenious ways Titian deals with awkward, messy reality in an effort to structure his pictures. It would be easier for him if he were an abstract painter. Once you realise what he is doing it becomes a delight to see how he does it.
This line rhymes with (is parallel to) the straight line which flows up from the top of the thigh and along the edge the black fur coat. Note how Titian moves this fur edge further across Charles' torso so it ends under his chin, pointing straight to his face. These lines also rhyme with other long straight lines – the outside edge of Charles' rear lower leg, as well as the dog's front leg.
The other shoulder is shaded right down so that only the shape of the arm glows. The angle of this arm, resting on the dog, has been widened so that it is now symmetrical with the other arm. The inner edge of the arm is in direct alignment with the dog's rear leg, and now rhymes with the dog's chest and the inner edge of the other arm and shoulder (now much straightened). The outer edge of the arm continues down the body of the cleverly shaded dog, all the way down the vertical leg and into its toes. Charles' doublet (his close-fitting padded jacket) has been shaded right down. Seisenegger paints the doublet as a bright, tan, tilted rectangle; Titian transforms it into a triangle, with Charles' head at its apex.
Note how Titian lines up, in a way Seisenegger doesn't quite manage, the slivers of exposed shirt on the torso with the codpiece (no longer a large conch but a white line), and aligns that stripe with the inside edge of Charles' rear leg. The whole line points straight toward his face. Titian is a master at turning bitty unrelated elements into long structural elements.
Part of the point of any portrait of a monarch is to project power. In the Titian, a lot of the structural elements point towards Charles' face, as if it was at the apex of a pyramid. In fairness, Seisenegger seems to attempt this too. Sword, dog, man's leg all point towards Charles' face, but there are too many competing elements that diffuse this. Titian is much clearer and more ruthless.
You would think that Titian would be tempted to keep the straight edge of the sword blade but he obscures it to the point of invisibility. I think he does this for two reasons. One, as we see in the Seisenegger, it leaves a small and pointlessly distracting triangle of dark between it and the dog's leg, and two, it interferes with a beautiful harmony Titian has created at the bottom of the picture.
Titian has reconfigured the legs into a particularly beautiful passage. He aligns the feet along the bottom edge. The floor has been darkened to near invisibility, as has the much shrunken curtain, so that virtually the only elements we see are the shining, silvery legs of man and dog. The thigh of Charles' load-bearing leg has been darkened considerably, giving more prominence to the beautiful mirroring of the angled shapes of Charles' bent leg with the chest and leg of the dog. The pinching of shadow at the man's knees aligns with the angle at which the dog's chest meets its leg. Titian helps this along by painting 3 curved creases on Charles' rear knee, which, not coincidentally, echo the multiple curves above it on Charles' thigh. There are so many lovely touches here. Of the four legs the two inner ones are parallel, the two outer ones parallel. Look at the man's and dog's facing feet – every change in direction along these facing contours mirrors each other beautifully. But most importantly Titian cuts off a good chunk of the right of the canvas. No longer does the line of the dogs stomach pointlessly lead out of the picture. Gone also is the light patch on the wall, which takes the focus away from Charles for no good reason. Arising from the this now new bottom corner both legs of the dog flow straight up into the glowing arm of Charles above. Indeed, Titian must have looked in disbelief at the black band Seisenegger painted on the floor. Titian would never put in a powerful tonal contrast like that unless it served some structural purpose.
These are just some of the big structural decisions. But Titian pays just as much attention to harmonising elements on the micro level. The whole waist section is full of disparate elements which Titian attempts to put into a harmonious relationship. He changes the dog's face by squaring it off into a whitened block (compare where nose meets face in the two paintings). He raises the hand and handle to the same level of the dog's face, thereby creating a kind of mirroring along the vertical axis line of the codpiece. All the angles and straight lines here either rhyme with or mirror each other– sword with the cords on the other side of hips, the shaft and top of the handle that emerges from the hand with the squared off contours of the dog's head and neck. He obscures the distracting shape of the dog's ears by shading the back of the it's head into a flowing curve. This dark band now rhymes with the belt and collar above and below it. Titian's harmonising zeal is everywhere apparent. Compare the yellow horizontal straps along Charles' thighs in both paintings. Titian basically lines them up so that those on one leg flow easily into those on the other. The hanging cords of the belt are made into less distracting and prominent entities by being painted the same coppery brown as the doublet (his close-fitting padded jacket), as has the now-shrunken necklace above. In short, Titian keeps the detail but tries to find a way that they no longer draw bitty attention to themselves.
There are too many harmonic details to list; Titian's unflinching attention to creating relationships becomes more obvious the more you look. It is something he clearly enjoyed doing and was perhaps more sensitive to these things than any other painter. He ties elements together like words in a poem. His best paintings (and as much as I like it, I don't think this is one of them) are miracles of this.
Posted on November 6, 2017 January 7, 2018
The 2017 Observer New Review / Jonathan Cape Graphic Novels / Comica London Graphic Short Story Prize
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Here's my entry into the succinctly titled Observer New Review / Jonathan Cape Graphic Novels / Comica London Graphic Short Story Prize for 2017. Very pleasingly, it was chosen as a finalist. It's called Start Up.
I saw a tweet a little while back from one of the judges, reminding me of the prize's existence and to get cracking. Being of a servile disposition, I duly obeyed and in the hectic timeframe this was the result. Luckily for me, my friend, the illustrator Sorcha Edward agreed to collaborate with a whole bunch of photoshop skills I could never hope to possess.
This may seem a controversial subject for a graphic novel but I'd like to think my treatment is both highly sympathetic and entirely inaccurate. Although I am not a believer in divinity, I think it's quite clear this guy had a lot of good ideas and was a force for good. Basically, a top bloke. The institutions that built up around and after him is an entirely different story upon which I offer no comment. Anyway, I don't think Jesus had anything against happiness so if this thing makes you laugh or smile then perhaps a closer look at your one way ticket to hell might prove it's actually a return.
Posted on July 27, 2017 August 31, 2017
Jasper Johns – genius
What's the difference between a painting of a flag on a piece of canvas and an actual flag? Unbelievably, this was a question Schopenhauer and Nietzsche had never asked themselves.
Jasper Johns' "Flag". Encaustic, oil and collage on fabric mounted on plywood, 1954-55.
But it's an interesting conundrum which was introduced into Western Art when Jasper Johns actually painted one. And he was being serious! This was at a time when almost the only art considered serious was Abstraction. Painting a flag also meant that the artist had lost the freedom to choose his colours or composition. So you can see that lots of interesting problems were raised, which the critics absolutely loved. So much so that the Museum of Modern Art in New York bought three of them from Jasper's very first show in 1958. Not bad. But first he had to solve the problem above.
If you find your sense of humour flagging I've written a whole book that's certain to drag you down even further
English – Penguin Random House
French – Flammarion
What do we do now? Art after the Russian Revolution
Abstraction, Alexander Rodchenko, Constructivism, Kazimir Malevich, Russian Revolution, Socialist Realism, Suprematism, Varvara Stepanova, Wassily Kandinsky
I made this cartoon in response to the recent exhibition at the Royal Academy here in London – Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932
The spiel below is lifted from the RA website…
Renowned artists including Kandinsky, Malevich, Chagall and Rodchenko were among those to live through the fateful events of 1917, which ended centuries of Tsarist rule and shook Russian society to its foundations.
Amidst the tumult, the arts thrived as debates swirled over what form a new "people's" art should take. But the optimism was not to last: by the end of 1932, Stalin's brutal suppression had drawn the curtain down on creative freedom.
Taking inspiration from a remarkable exhibition shown in Russia just before Stalin's clampdown, we will mark the historic centenary by focusing on the 15-year period between 1917 and 1932 when possibilities initially seemed limitless and Russian art flourished across every medium.
This far-ranging exhibition will – for the first time – survey the entire artistic landscape of post-Revolutionary Russia, encompassing Kandinsky's boldly innovative compositions, the dynamic abstractions of Malevich and the Suprematists, and the emergence of Socialist Realism, which would come to define Communist art as the only style accepted by the regime.
Stalin was a massive jerk (I wrote that bit).
Got a revolting sense of humour? Here's the book for you…
Interview with me in the Dulwich Diverter
Click "Continue reading" then click on these blue words – Dulwich Diverter. See what I'm up to on pages 22 and 23.
Koons puppy
I didn't realise how lousy the birds and the bees metaphor is until I drew this. It's rubbish.
More like this in my book Peter Duggan's Artoons. It's full of lousy stuff.
Raft of Medusa
Art is full of friction like this. My book shines a light on these sordid chapters in art history. The mainstream press deliberately and wilfully ignores the real story. They want you to believe it's all about pretty pictures!
Lovely review in L'Echo
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Here's a lovely review of my book (in French translation by Flammarion) which appeared in the Belgian newspaper L'Echo on the 15th of August 2016.
Wonky English translation below…
The Bonfire of the Vanities revisited
Peter Duggan, Australian cartoonist for the Guardian, likes to confuse readers with cartoons in the form of tributes. Those selected in this album published in black and white by Flammarion trace the history of art with irony and cynicism. Nobody is spared, the masters are ridiculed for the delight of connoisseurs. We laugh, but who cares. From prehistory to the year 4000, a period when museum visitors take offense at the presence of these incomplete ancient statues, Peter Duggan, a connoisseur of the art world, offers a true art history, in a kind of conspiratorial game with his readers, who must have a minimum of knowledge to fully understand the drawings. It's an hilarious reading, but also informative.
The cartoon which is ironic about the talent of Jackson Pollock is simply hilarious. A delight. He tells us that "his first ceiling commission was also the last." Also very funny is the take of the cartoonist on cultural sponsorship, a statue of David with the head of the McDonald's clown, a burger and fries in the hands. The excesses of consumerism pushed to the extreme.
Drawings may offend, that's intentional. Like the British queen lying naked on a sofa in a lascivious pose. This portrait, presented as a work of Lucian Freud, is denied by Buckingham Palace. Shocking!
If most of the drawings are about artists or art-making, somewhat diverted, others use the subject matter of a legendary artwork as a starting point for a joke. And here, we feel that the author is really fun. As in the portrait of Jesus and his apostles who discover the extendable table invented by Leonardo da Vinci for the last supper. Nice find also is the one where Venus de Milo is in charge of sign language on television.
No doubt that after having enjoyed the humour of Peter Duggan, you will not have the same view of art during your next museum visit or exhibition. If this is the case, the aim of the author will have achieved its goal.
Philippe Degouy
I would like to say I set a new world record but I haven't. It's because I got distracted writing this book.
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera – so much drive.
For more arty expeditions, see my book.
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Babak joined BMJ in 2021. With over 30 years in the business, he has gained vast experience in the property and construction industry with significant experience in retail, offices and residential. He has led many successful projects from inception to completion including 200 Broomielaw and One Waterloo Street, Glasgow. He has led masterplan designs for 'Elements Edinburgh', a 76acre mixed-use development at Edinburgh Airport for Crosswind Development and contributed to strategic designs for the regeneration of Middlesbrough town centre, assisting their bid for Future High Street Fund.
Babak also produced the original building design concepts and masterplan for TECA, a world-class exhibition, conference and hotel facility in Aberdeen that provides a 15,000 seated arena, extensive covered exhibition halls and a four-star 200-bed hotel. The scheme is located on the 130-acre former Rowett Research Institute site, adjacent to Aberdeen International Airport.
Babak believes in collaboration and encouraging talent to flourish. Working with clients and colleagues, he demonstrates an analytical approach, communicating ideas both visually and verbally.
He has served on committees for Glasgow City Council's urban design panel for Glasgow Institute of Architects, BCSC Scotland and Junior Chamber of Commerce and has been closely involved with several Charities including SPIFOX, Hearts and Minds and Clown Doctors.
Babak is ambitious, diverse, dynamic and can think out of the box. He has advised clients on sustainable, innovative development for a number of high-profile projects and recently produced forward thinking post pandemic design guidance for a new Extra Care home provider's use across England.
A self-confessed petrol head and gadget man, Babak has a fascination for technology, automotive and product design.
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Air Transat announces its winter schedule including New Orleans
Air Transat has announced the new features of its flight program for winter 2019–2020, effective November 1, and is continuing to develop its service to the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America, Florida and Louisiana, offering over 30 Sun destinations as well as several European regions. In addition, the carrier will add new Airbus A321neoLR aircraft to its operations this winter.
Even more new routes and destinations
This winter, the airline will introduce new destinations and routes out of several regions of the country. Air Transat will now be the only airline to offer a direct flight from Montreal to New Orleans, Louisiana, with two direct flights per week beginning in November.
In the West, Air Transat will refocus a significant portion of its operations on Vancouver, becoming the only carrier to serve Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood, Florida (two direct flights a week). In addition, the airline will offer new flights to San José and Liberia, Costa Rica (two flights a week), and reintroduce a direct flight to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
In Ontario, the carrier will increase its presence, including a new direct flight to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, from London. A new direct flight to Santa Clara, Cuba, from Hamilton will also be added, as well as an additional direct flight to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, for a total of two direct flights a week.
More flights to Florida and sustained frequency to the Dominican Republic and Mexico
Air Transat will be investing in Florida, with a focus on Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood. Daily direct flights will now be offered from Montreal during peak season as well as an increased frequency from Quebec City (five direct flights a week).
Air Transat will enhance its program with an additional direct flight to Puerto Plata out of Montreal (five direct flights weekly). Punta Cana will also benefit from an additional direct flight out of Hamilton (two direct flights a week), in addition to existing daily direct flights out of Montreal and Toronto.
To Mexico, Air Transat will be offering an additional direct flight to Puerto Vallarta out of Calgary, for a total of four direct flights a week, in addition to its daily direct flights to Cancun/Riviera Maya from Montreal and Toronto.
Winter in Europe
Beginning in winter 2019–2020, Air Transat will fly year-round to Madrid and Malaga, Spain, out of Montreal (two direct flights a week, respectively) as well as out of Toronto and Vancouver through connecting flights in addition to its daily direct flight from Montreal to Paris, France.
Out of Toronto, the airline will offer its two weekly direct flights to Glasgow and Manchester, United Kingdom, year-round and will extend the flight season until mid-January for Barcelona, Spain (two flights a week), and Rome, Italy (two direct flights a week), in addition to offering daily flights to London, United Kingdom.
Domestic and connecting flights for more options
Air Transat's domestic flights program, which connects several of Canada's major cities, will offer a wider choice of transatlantic destinations through connecting flights and will also give Canadians a chance to discover their own vast country. The carrier will continue its daily flights between Montreal and Toronto, in addition to its seven direct flights a week between Vancouver and Toronto and its three weekly direct flights between Montreal and Vancouver.
Top Copyright Photo (all others by the airline): Air Transat Airbus A321-211 C-GEZN (msn 4103) YUL (Gilbert Hechema). Image: 946579.
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It's report card time for the President of the Philippines!
President's Aquino's third SONA will be delivered on July 23 and once again, the nation can anticipate a number of things.
Here are some expectations on Twitter. Most of the expectations are fulfilling " his promises and getting the #RHBill passed, and the #FOI too". There are calls for moving on from Former President Gloria Arroyo since she has cases filed against her.
Please share your thoughts on twitter by tagging me @momblogger. I will share it tomorrow JUly 23 at DZIQ 990 or livestream http://dziq.am at 3:00 PM as panelist for live SONA coverage.


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Q: Opengl normal to vectors I have quite a lot of triangles with coordinates such as below. I want to get the normals of each vertex so I can use it for calculating light.
I have the code for a cube normals and understand that but don't really know how to go about converting(calculating) these to normals. I would just like some direction on where to go from here.
//TRIANGLE 1
    0.0f, -0.774f, 0.49f,     //6
    0.0f, -1.0f, 0.51f,     //7
   0.156f, -0.982f, 0.47f,     //8

A: Calculating normals can be done using the Vector Cross Product. You take two vectors, and the cross product gives you a normal vector.
The two vectors can be obtained by taking the coordinates of your triangle, and subtracting one vertex coordinate from the other two vertices.
That is:
vec0 = vert2 - vert0
vec1 = vert1 - vert0
Which vertices you should subtract from one another depends on which direction the normal should point.
See the wikipedia article on how to compute the cross product. At the bottom of the section you'll see a matrix which shows how to calculate each component of the normal vector.


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Q: MySQL query performance tuning I'm trying to run a query over a table with around a 1 million records.
The structure of the table with its indexes is:
CREATE TABLE `table` (
    `Id` int(11) NOT NULL,
    `Name` varchar(510) DEFAULT NULL,
    `Latitude` float NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
    `Longitude` float NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
    PRIMARY KEY (`Latitude`,`Longitude`,`Id`),
    KEY `IX_Latitude_Longitude` (`Latitude`,`Longitude`),
    KEY `IX_Latitude` (`Latitude`),
    KEY `IX_Longitude` (`Longitude`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

I'm running the following query:
SELECT m.Id, m.Name, sqrt(69.1 * (m.Latitude - :latitude) * 69.1 * (m.Latitude - :latitude) +
                     53.0 * (m.longitude - :longitude) * 53.0 * (m.longitude - :longitude)) as Distance,
m.Latitude as Latitude, m.Longitude as Longitude
FROM table m
WHERE sqrt(69.1 * (m.Latitude - :latitude) * 69.1 * (m.Latitude - :latitude)
      + 53.0 * (m.longitude - :longitude) * 53.0 * (m.longitude - :longitude)) < :radius
ORDER BY  sqrt(69.1 * (m.Latitude - :latitude) * 69.1 * (m.Latitude - :latitude) +
          53.0 * (m.longitude - :longitude) * 53.0 * (m.longitude - :longitude)) desc
LIMIT 0, 100

That suppose to return all the records in a specific radius (distance calculation information: http://www.meridianworlddata.com/Distance-Calculation.asp)
BUT the query takes a lot of time...
Here is the explain plan that I get:
id|select_type |table|type|possible_keys|key   |key_len|ref   |rows   |Extra
1 |SIMPLE      |m    |ALL |{null}       |{null}|{null} |{null}|1264001|Using where; Using filesort

What am I doing wrong?
Which index do I need to add in order to cause the query to use it instead of table scan?
Do I need to change the table structure?

A: You're using functions inside your WHERE clause, so it will always result in a table scan. The database has no way to index against the result of a function. I think your best option is to come up with some way to limit the results before trying to evaluate the distance algorithm.
For instance, for a given location, you can know the minimum and maximum possible latitude that can fall within your set distance, so filter by that first. A degree of latitude is ~69 miles, so if your search radius is 50 miles, it would never be possible for anything more than 0.725 degrees of latitude away to fall within 50 miles of your location. Since this is just a numeric comparison WHERE m.latitude > (:latitude - 0.725) AND m.latitude < (:latitude + 0.725), not a call to a function, the database will be able to use your indexes to evaluate it.
Longitude is more complicated, since the distance for each degree varies depending on how far north/south the location happens to be, but depending on how much work you want to put into it, you could do the same with longitude as well.


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