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Length: 102cm / 40". Width: 33cm / 13"
Antique Japanese *aizome of early 1900s. Hand loomed cotton. Very light and soft.
Hand dipped in natural / botanical indigo.
It was once part of a garment that has been taken apart for reuse. Selvedge on one edge only.
*Aizome, Japanese indigo cotton, is highly regarded and collected within Japan and across the world. 'Ai' (藍) means indigo and 'some' (染め) means dyeing. As a compound, 藍染め, is pronounced 'aizome' (ai-zo-me).
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Tracking numbers are provided for each package. FurugiStar accepts the tracking information to be true and correct. Any issues with tracking should be taken up with the postal service. Once the package leaves the US, USPS is no longer responsible and enquiries should be made via postal service in destination country.
Customs charges for international orders are the responsibility of the customer.
Customers are responsible for the cost of reshipping if items are returned to sender.
1. USPS First Class Package Services, 2-5 days.
2. USPS First Class International Package Service, delivery time varies.
Methods 1 and 2 are the most economical. It is reliable. Includes tracking information. There are rarely delays but it does happen. Insurance is not included. FurugiStar is not responsible for lost packages and will not refund.
USPS does not consider an item lost until it has been missing for more than 30 days.
3. USPS Priority Mail, 1-3 days.
4. USPS Priority Mail International, 6-10 days.
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Methods 3 to 6 include tracking and insurance up to $100.
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Furugistar will not cancel or refund items that have incurred customs charges and is not responsible for these fees should any apply. Customers outside the US are responsible for customs charges that may apply in destination country. There is a note in every listing in the store highlighting the possibility of customs charges outside the US.
Furugistar will not cancel or refund lost items. Customers concerned about losing an item should make contact to discuss postal service options. Customers are responsible for choosing the postal method at the time of purchase. Reimbursement can be arranged as an insurance claim.
FurugiStar gathers accurate information about the age and materials of items from experts, dealers and shop owners in Japan. Although expert advice and best judgement are always used, absolute guarantees / certification can not be given unless explicitly described in listings.
FurugiStar can guarantee items are all authentic Japanese collectibles and supplies bought directly from Japan.
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New York, New York – New iPhone App, Brownees 1.3, allows users unlimited access to free music by tapping YouTube's vast array of freely available music.
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Trump Judicial Pick Made 'Glaring Omission'
One of President Trump's nominee for a federal judgeship is taking flak from Democrats for failing to mention a potential conflict of interest—the fact that his wife, Ann Donaldson, is one of Trump's senior White House lawyers.
Brett Talley failed to mention in the Senate questionnaire for judicial nominees that his wife is chief of staff to the White House Counsel Donald McGahn, who has been helping Trump fill judicial positions, the New York Times reports. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, says Talley made a "glaring omission" by failing to mention his wife's position and the fact that she has been interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller, the AP reports.
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- Trump Intercedes on Basketball Players' Behalf
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Humboldt State's well-deserved reputation as a top school for forestry has been earned by dedicated professors like Han-Sup Han. His passion for forests stretches back to his youth in rural South Korea where he first became aware of how the forest touches so many aspects of our lives.
"Forestry has a tremendous impact on everything. Forests provide habitats for wildlife, produce clean water, offer recreation and help minimize the impact of global climate change by storing carbon, to list just a few," says Han.
His forestry teachers inspired him to seek more education and now he shares that inspiration with his students, both in the classroom and in the field.
"I was really impressed by my forestry teachers, not only for their knowledge, but for their impact on my attitudes about being a good student and a good person. It made me want to do the same for the younger generation," says Han.
Han's students are exposed to the latest forestry techniques through the department's many lab activities at HSU. While in his research he's helping foresters take a close look at fuels reduction thinning treatments—the sort of thing that can prevent forest fires like the devastating 2008 fire season in California that took more than $1 billion in state and federal resources to combat.
So far, the research is looking good. Thinning crowded forests can also provide the materials necessary to help us reduce our dependence on fossil fuel-based energy sources. Working with the federal government agencies and private landowners, Han and his students are identifying ways forests can make use of slash—broken branches, brushes and small-diameter trees that make up the residues left from logging and fuel reduction thinning treatments. Their research results indicate that slash can be cost-effectively collected and transported to local energy plants.
Today, many schools and hospitals across the American West are reducing their energy bills and generating heat from this forest-derived biomass. This benefits foresters, who for years were forced to simply waste forest residues, and the environment as demand for heating fuel is effectively met.
Whether the forest serves as a wildlife conservation area or is actively being managed, the real key to healthy forests is proper management and that, says Han, is where Humboldt State students can make a career while also making a difference.
From any type of forest management activities, there will always be some residues that are left and not effectively utilized. Han and his students are looking at ways to produce renewable energy from what's known as "slash." It's already at work in schools and hospitals throughout the American West.


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As the NHL lockout has progressed to the point where the full 82-game regular season is going to be axed and the two parties have seemingly reached a stalemate where the NHL won't entertain other offers, or negotiations, unless they are based on the 50-50 offer it made last week. We've heard how the NHLPA made three different proposals, but they were dismissed in 10 minutes. The mind boggles how it is so difficult to resolve this issue.
Let's face it no-one winning in this situation. Not the NHL, the owners, players, other team staff, fans or arena staff. Or wait… on second thought there might be one winner here and it's the KHL as Russian NHL stars are coming out saying that they will stay in the KHL if the owners won't honour existing contracts by rolling salaries back. If there is no new CBA signed today, the players will have lost 14.8% of their salary within 4 weeks of games cancelled, whereas if they had agreed to the NHL proposal they would have lost 12% of their salaries over a full season.
However, perhaps one of the biggest losers of the lockout is the Los Angeles Kings (and in the greater picture the west coast of NHL). When the Kings went on their incredible run on the way to the Stanley Cup, it raised the profile of hockey tremendously in the area and no doubt in West coast. Yes I know that Anaheim won the cup as the first California/West coast USA based team, but what harmed the potential PR out of Anaheim's win was that within half an hour after Scott Neidermeyer and co had hoisted the cup, Paris Hilton went to prison to serve her DUI charges , which stole the Ducks' thunder.
The Kings, however, had everything going their way throughout the playoffs. Witty Twitter commentary throughout the playoffs, great marketing around the finals and best of all a packed out arena. OK there were a few mishaps, when the local news station thought the Kings were a basketball team, but the way it was handled by the Kings media team was exemplary in the way it was turned into a positive. Again another tongue in the cheek media stunt pulled off.
There was a huge buzz about the Stanley Cup finals in Los Angeles. It was palpable through a TV Screen and through out-of-town media outlets. The Kings' profile was lifted in Europe as well. They had Anze Kopitar the only player from his native Slovenia to reach the NHL (so far) as well as getting loads of media attention from European media outlets. See the Kings are a team that you rarely don't see on the TV here in Europe, or have that much written about them in the mainstream media, that is unless you are a diehard Kings fan an you go out of your way to find the feeds and stories so you can follow your team.
The Stanley Cup did a lot to the Kings' profile and the lockout has undoubtedly put serious dents in the great work the team has done in the local area. The finals put hockey on the map in Los Angeles and now with the lockout dragging on, many of the newer fans to the team and the sport might forget all about the existence of the team again.
With international stars like David Beckham in the audience for most games and other celebrities getting into the game (of hockey), the lockout is really doing its best to mess up Los Angeles' chances to truly grow the sport/team to truly be one of the top sports teams in the area (out of Lakers, Dodgers and Clippers. Note I haven't included NFL here as the closest team to LA is in Oakland).
So with all that could have been done for hockey in Los Angeles, the Kings are probably one of the teams that will suffer the most out of the lockout. While the lockout may have caused some issues in terms of PR and marketing for the Kings organisation, I doubt the diehard fans will not have deserted the team. However, will we see some of the people who started to get into hockey during the playoffs cone be back? I'd say it all depends on the duration of the lockout. The longer it goes on the more the newer generation of fans will forget.
As said, this lockout is ridiculous, as the parties seem reluctant to actually get a deal done. Both say it is of utmost importance to get the season started, but there seems to be little, if any, urgency to actually get things under way. The longer the lockout goes on, the more it hurts the fans, the behind-the-scenes staff at teams, the league. The next blow to the NHL will be when they have to cancel the Winter Classic, 24/7 and the All star game, but on the positive, they only have to look in the mirror to find the culprit.


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Aqib Talib played well for the Patriots after they acquired him from the Buccaneers just before the trade deadline, but that doesn't mean he'll be in New England for long.
Comcast SportsNet's Mike Giardi reports that the Patriots have enough concerns about Talib's work ethic that they question whether they can trust him to stay motivated if they give him a multi-year deal with significant guaranteed money.
That's no surprise: Talib has great talent for the cornerback position, but he always been known as a player whose character red flags make coaches leery of him. Bill Belichick won't want to dedicate a lot of salary cap space to a player who isn't going to buy into the Patriot way.
However, if the Patriots won't offer Talib a big contract when he becomes a free agent next month, some other team probably will. Which means there's a real chance that the Patriots will have given up a fourth-round draft pick just for the right to rent Talib for half a season.


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Mayor Don Wesely was joined by Lincoln children today in announcing plans for the 16th annual Star City Holiday Parade, set for 11 a.m. Saturday, December 9 in downtown Lincoln. The theme for this year's parade is "KidSize -- 'cuz kids see things different!"
"The parade has always been about children, and this year, a special effort is being made to focus on what kids really like to see and do," said Mayor Wesely. "It will also give adults an opportunity to again look at the world through the eyes of a child."
Parade mascot Major Drummond was also on hand for today's news conference at the new Children's Museum, 1420 'P' Street. For the first time in its history, the parade will be judged entirely by children. Mayor Wesely introduced the six Lincoln children selected to judge through a random drawing earlier this week. They are Dillon Kortum (8), Meredith Lee (8), Zackery Niedt (9), Meghan Rihanek (11), Jessica Scanlon (12) and Shelby Urbanek (13). Two more children will be selected from Fairbury, this year's Star Community. The judges will be seated at a reviewing stand at 14th and 'O' Streets and will be assisted by a police officer, a firefighter, a nurse and a pilot.
Wesely and Parade Board Chair Gloria Aron of Union Bank and Trust presented the judges with the first 'Parade Pin Pals.' The pins feature the parade logo and date and come with coupons which can be redeemed at Lincoln businesses. US Bank provided the funding to make 5,000 pins available at no charge to area children.
Parade Pin Pals will be distributed Saturday, October 28 at the Lincoln Journal Star booth at the 'Boo at the Zoo' event at the Folsom Children's Zoo. ('Boo at the Zoo' runs from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, October 26 through Monday, October 30, but the Parade Pin Pals will be available Saturday only.)
Pins will also be available beginning Monday, October 30 during regular business hours at the Mayor's Office, 555 S. 10th Street; the Downtown Lincoln Association in the Atrium, 1200 'N' Street, Suite 101; the downtown US Bank office, 233 South 13th; and at local radio stations.
The parade has traditionally been held the first Saturday in December, but it was moved back one week this year to avoid conflicting with the Big 12 football championship game December 2. The date change allows UNL's Cornhusker Marching Band to make plans to perform in the parade.
The Executive Director of this year's parade is Julie Lattimer, who also directed the parade from 1988 through 1992. Beginning November 6, more information about the Star City Holiday Parade can be found by clicking on "events" on the Downtown Lincoln Association's web site.


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Thursday, November 29, 2007
Dell acquires SaaS platform Everdream
Dell is making an interesting move into services by acquiring an on-demand provider of desktop management services, Everdream.
Everdream's business is aimed at the SMB market, to provide services such as desktop asset management, software distribution, license compliance, antivirus management, backup, remote access, and remote support--all delivered on a hosted, on-demand platform. Everdream has taken a partner-approach. All of the services mentioned above are provided through partners, such as Symantec, Webex, Iron Mountain, and Microsoft. Everdream provides the SaaS (software as a service) platform that allows all of these partner-services to be provided on-demand.
The benefits are clear: small businesses are relieved from having to build and maintain an IT infrastructure and support organization internally. SMBs also are generally too small to outsource desktop support as traditionally provided--most service providers do not even consider a contract for less than 5,000 desktops. Everdream's services, on the other hand, could be set up for a handful of machines.
So why is Dell interested in Everdream? Clearly, acquisition of its SaaS platform moves Dell more strongly into the services business, where margins are higher than in shipping commodity desktops. Dell already offers significant professional services, but more along the lines of traditional outsourcing contracts. Everdream's business model is disruptive to that business and gives Dell a new way to compete with H-P, which has been beating Dell recently in desktop sales.
According to Hoovers, Everdream currently has less than 200 employees--still a small business itself. With the acquisition by Dell, expect this business to grow significantly. As a SaaS provider, it scales easily.
SaaS, in theory, is disruptive to traditional licensed software sales and traditional professional services. Although many companies have deployed SaaS solutions on limited basis, the model has still not taken over in a big way. If Dell is successful in taking Everdream to the next level, it may validate SaaS as an option for a greater number of businesses and really encourage greater adoption.
Dell's press release gives details on the Everdream acquisition.
Josh Greenbaum has an interesting piece outlining why he thinks Everdream's approach using partners is better than that of Salesforce.com.
Update, 10:21 a.m. Greenbaum and Dan Farber, both bloggers on ZDnet, are having now gotten into a bit of a debate about the relative merits of the platforms of Salesforce.com and Everdream. Read Farber's rebuttal to Greenbaum, and Greenbaum's response.
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Software on demand: attacking the cost structure of business systemsby Frank Scavo, 11/29/2007 08:12:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Sunday, November 25, 2007
Reading the fine print on ERP contracts
Josh Greenbaum has a good story on why it's important to read, question, and challenge the terms and conditions in ERP license agreements, or any vendor contract for that matter.
The case involves an IBM customer who, eight or nine years ago, signed a contract for PeopleSoft software running on an IBM mainframe. The problem? A clause in the contract stated that the mainframe computer had been discounted as part of the PeopleSoft deal and that if the customer ever moved PeopleSoft off the mainframe, IBM was entitled to raise maintenance fees on the mainframe.
Recently the customer decided to migrate the PeopleSoft application to Microsoft SQL Server. IBM responded by pointing out the migration clause in the long-forgotten contract.
Josh explains the impact:This tripling of the mainframe price tag effectively wiped out any possible savings for the database migration, not to mention good will and trust. You can imagine how happy this customer is with its long-term "partner." And how eager this customer is to do any more business with IBM.The takeaway is, read those contracts before signing them and don't just count on your corporate attorney to do the contract review. Many lawyers read technology contracts from a purely legal perspective and do not have the subject-matter knowledge to see the implications of what the vendor is asking for.
Furthermore, never accept that line that the vendor's salesperson is unable to get changes to terms and conditions because they are part of the vendor's "standard contract." In reviewing vendor contracts on behalf of clients, I've learned: everything is negotiable.
When you are committing your organization to a system and a relationship that may last ten years or more, you need to know what you are signing.
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High software maintenance fees and what to do about themby Frank Scavo, 11/25/2007 06:53:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
SAP considering sale of TomorrowNow
TomorrowNow, which offers third-party support for several of Oracle's products (PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards, and Siebel) has been under much scrutiny since Oracle sued SAP and TomorrowNow for massive theft of Oracle's intellectual property.
Back in July, as part of its response to the suit, SAP appointed former SAP Americas COO Mark White to oversee TN, with founder and CEO Andrew Nelson reporting to White. The news this week is that Andrew Nelson is leaving TomorrowNow altogether.
In a press release, SAP said that it is "considering several options for the future of the TomorrowNow business, including possible sale."
What's going on? It would appear that SAP is coming to the conclusion that acquisition of TomorrowNow was a mistake in the first place. Taking maintenance and support business away from Oracle, getting involved so closely with Oracle's customers, and handling Oracle's intellectual property--even if all done within the law--is simply too difficult for Oracle's main competitor to manage. Whatever benefits SAP might gain by facilitating customers' migration away from Oracle are probably not worth the difficulty in avoiding the potential legal risk.
It's too bad, because the nascent third-party support model has a lot to offer as an alternative to direct vendor support. It gives customers choices and puts the primary vendor on notice that it cannot take its maintenance and support business for granted. Unfortunately, SAP's misstep with TomorrowNow has been a setback for the model.
Update, Nov. 23. The Financial Times is reporting that Rimini Street may be interested in taking Tomorrownow off the hands of SAP. Rimini Street is the main competitor to Tomorrownow as a third-party support provider to Oracle clients. If a deal materializes, it would be full circle for Seth Ravin, CEO of Rimini Street. Seth was co-founder of Tomorrownow and was with the firm until it was sold to SAP.
Seth is quoted, "We are interested, but we are proceeding cautiously and need to analyse it first." He also declined to say whether he was talking to SAP about a deal.
Update, Nov. 27. Datamation has more on the possibility of Rimini Street taking Tomorrownow off the hands of SAP. It reports that Rimini Street's business has "quadrupled" since Oracle filed suit against SAP, according to Dave Rowe at Rimini Street.
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Oracle sues SAP and its TomorrowNow unitby Frank Scavo, 11/20/2007 06:36:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Sunday, November 18, 2007
ERP support staffing ratios
The cost of supporting an ERP system goes far beyond the vendor's maintenance fees. The largest part of ERP total cost of ownership is the cost of internal resources, such as applications folks, DBAs, business analysts, ERP administrative personnel, and help desk. Yet, there is remarkably little data available to benchmark these costs.
Therefore, over at Computer Economics, we've launched a new survey to determine typical staffing levels in various categories required for ongoing support of ERP systems.
If you complete the 10-minute survey, we'll send you a free summary of the results.
Take the survey now.by Frank Scavo, 11/18/2007 08:08:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
Layoffs coming at Epicor?
A reader informs me that employees at Epicor are "expecting a layoff at any time." Speculation is that layoffs will come in smaller territories, which would then be serviced from larger metropolitan offices. The reader's source is an insider at Epicor, and the reader--whom I know--has no ax to grind.
I should emphasize that there is no confirmation for a pending layoff at Epicor. However, it would not be surprising in light of the revenue shortfall that Epicor warned about in late October.
Update, Aug. 15, 2008: See the new post on Epicor layoffs.
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Monday, November 12, 2007
IBM buying Cognos
The last large independent vendor of business intelligence solutions is about to fall: Cognos has agreed to be acquired by IBM. The price values Cognos at nearly $5 billion. IBM's move follows similar moves by competitors earlier this year, when SAP's agreed to buy Business Objects for $7 billion and Oracle bought Hyperion for $3.3 billion.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning:...The head of IBM's software group, Steve Mills, said acquiring Cognos -- which already had a business partnership with IBM -- was not inspired by those previous deals. IBM has been on an acquisition tear in recent years to build out its software portfolio and improve the company's overall profit margins.Like Hyperion and Business Objects, Cognos is used by organizations with a variety of enterprise systems. In fact, many smaller ERP vendors have partnered with Cognos in the past to provide data warehouse and business intelligence functionality for their solutions. For example, QAD, Epicor, MAPICS (now part of Infor), and ROI (now part of Infor) both use Cognos as part of their total solution. Even SAP has a partnership with Cognos as part of its business warehouse offering.
"We never do acquisitions on defensive moves or based on what others are doing,'' Mr. Mills said.
From this perspective, IBM--which for the most part does not compete with business application software providers0--is a good home for Cognos. IBM is more of an infrastructure and tools provider for other software vendors. I would expect, therefore, that IBM would continue and even expand these partnerships.
[Updated Nov. 14 to correct list of ERP vendors partnering with Cognos.]
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Thursday, November 01, 2007
i2 forms committee for possible sellout
i2 announced today that it has formed a committee of independent directors to explore options for increasing shareholder value.
The market is reacting favorably to the news of i2's exploration of a possible sale. Share price is up over 5% from yesterday's close as of this writing. i2 also announced an increase in its Q3 earnings, which may have something to do with the market's reaction.
I would note however, that the earnings increase is from a 9% decline in expenses which more than offset a 7% decline in revenue--not a good sign for i2's business.
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Breathtaking Drone Footage Of Sudan's Forgotten Nubian Pyramids
Amazing drone footage released last month from National Geographic Engineer Alan Turchik shows the world some excellent shots of the Northern Sudan's 3000 year old pyramids.
Pyramids today remain a complete mystery to researchers, archaeologists, and scientists alike. Theories have have been put forth, but we still don't have a concrete notion of how they were built or by whom, or even what their purpose is. There are still several questions that remain unanswered, which is why many of them are considered to be some of the greatest ancient unsolved mysteries in human history.
One of the most fascinating things about the pyramids is the fact that they have been discovered all over the world. They range in size but are remarkably similar in construction, and are known to have been built by several ancient civilizations – in several different time periods – all of which were completely unaware of each other's existence. It's truly remarkable and mind-blowing when you think about it, isn't it?
Pyramids have not only been discovered on land, but underwater as well. Here is a great example of one that was found off the coast of Japan.
It's also noteworthy to mention that large quantities of liquid metal were recently found under one of the oldest pyramids in Mexico. You can read more about that story here.
Adding to the mystery is the extreme mathematical precision, longitude and latitude "coincidences," and astronomical significance of these structures, not to mention the sheer size and weight of the blocks used to build them. A great example is the incredible pyramid at Giza, you can read more about the mind-altering facts about that one in an article we published about a year ago, here.
Although thousands of years of wear and tear have occurred, these structures still stand in amazing condition. It's absolutely remarkable, and I think it's always interesting and worthwhile to gaze upon these unknown mysteries of our ancient past. Maybe one day we will find out what the truth really is behind this miraculous worldwide phenomenon.
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'Targeted Individuals' Activist Getting Stonewalled In Seeking Anti-'Organized Torture' Legislation
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Dr. Tomo Shibata, who has asked 9 California legislators to introduce a bill that specifically criminalizes 'Organized Covert Torture,' has uncovered evidence of undue influence from the perpetrators over the legislative process.
- Reflect On:
How can those of us within the awakening community take the efforts of Dr. Shibata and use them to help us all better understand the truth about 'Organized Covert Torture' in a way that we are empowered to put an end to it?
In a previous article, "New California Bill Proposal Aims To Protect 'Targeted Individuals'," I described how Dr. Tomo Shibata proposed a bill to members of the California legislature entitled 'The Organized Torture Act,' which seeks to criminalize many of the types of attacks that are clandestinely made on targeted individuals.
Now, it appears that Dr. Shibata is getting stonewalled by the California lawmakers she has approached to introduce the bill. And it is Dr. Shibata's belief that the very forces she is fighting against, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Fusion Center intelligence contractors in coordination with local law-enforcement officials, are influential in dissuading these politicians from introducing the bill.
What Is 'Organized Covert Torture'?
This article by Ramola D explains the genesis of Dr. Shibata's bill proposal and helps us better understand the attacks that 'targeted individuals' are facing:
This proposal was made, Dr. Shibata states, on the basis of complaints to human rights groups from high numbers of residents across California from various cities including San Diego, Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Palo Alto, and others, of "organized covert torture" whereby, in lieu of outright abduction, victims are kept under constant control of the covert torture organizations by organized stalking, sustained surreptitious monitoring, cyberstalking, and stealth physical assault and battery with radiation weaponry such as microwave/radar surveillance weapons. Different sources offer varying estimates, running into hundreds of thousands, of the numbers of organized covert torture victims often labeled "Targeted Individuals" within the USA and around the world.
It may be hard for some to believe that this phenomenon is real, let alone affecting hundreds of thousands, and possibly millions of individuals on the planet. But that is why this is such a diabolical process. It is designed to appear to outsiders as though it is not happening at all, while some of the tactics are not fully hidden from the victims themselves, when the desire is to inflict a sense of helplessness and paranoia upon the victim.
What is beyond doubt, for those who have researched into this matter, is that technology does indeed exist to remotely target individual people with invisible weapons that cause physical pain as well as debilitating mental and auditory stimulation (source).
This form of torture and human experimentation has the most power when the general public does not believe in its existence. This is why the awakening community must stand behind victims and give their stories credence, as I outlined in a previous article 'Targeted Individuals Need The Awakening Community To Believe Their Stories.' And this may be one reason why Dr. Shibata is working tirelessly to get this bill proposal introduced in the California legislature, since just the introduction of the bill (let alone the passing of it into law) will bring it into the public domain and give this issue the legitimacy it desperately needs.
The Culprits
However, 'legitimacy' is the last thing that the perpetrators of organized covert torture want. This is why Dr. Shibata believes that these perpetrators are playing a direct role in overtly and covertly discouraging California State legislators from introducing 'The Organized Torture Act.'
In Dr. Shibata's email to me (which is the source of all the quotes from her in this article), she specifically points to local law enforcement in concert with Fusion Centers as the most visible culprits of 'Organized Covert Torture':
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Fusion Center intelligence contractors "empower frontline law enforcement…to understand local implications of national intelligence, thus enabling local officials to better protect their communities." (source)—the Fusion Center's rationale for the organized surveillance and covert torture operations of those who are wrongfully named as criminals and/or terrorists without any due process, as per Former FBI Special Agent Geral Sosbee's testimony.
Dr. Shibata believes that these intelligence contractors could "empower" police groups as a front organization to mind-control the California legislature:
The police have very strong lobbying groups at the California state legislature. The Fusion Center intelligence contractors could help police lobbying groups in becoming so "strong" in influencing the California legislature, by deploying the following technique: covertly manipulate those who exert the most influence on the target-legislators, who might introduce the bill to prohibit organized covert torture, in order to safeguard the excessive privileges of the police/intelligence contractors to torture targeted individuals.
And indeed, her experience dealing with legislators bears this out.
Stonewalled By Legislators
In total, Dr. Shibata has asked 9 California legislators to review the bill proposal and introduce it to the legislature. Any bill that amends the Penal Code is required to go through an 'analysis' by the Public Safety Committee Counsel. This analysis, according to Dr. Shibata, 'exerts considerable influence on the voting outcome of the members of the committee.' The committee majority approval is needed first before the bill is introduced to all members of the legislature for voting. So, although the proposed bill has not yet been introduced, the legislative director of Assembly Member Shirley Weber went ahead and asked the Assembly Public Safety Committee Counsel to issue a provisional analysis of the proposed bill, in order for Dr. Weber to find out the prospects for the proposed bill in the legislature. Dr. Shibata believes that the opinions of this counsel have resulted from the undue influence of police lobby groups that front the intelligence operations behind covert organized torture.
In communication with Dr. Weber's legislative director, Dr. Shibata was made aware that Weber's office received the following advice from Assembly Public Safety Committee Deputy Chief Counsel Sandy Uribe:
1. The acts of organized covert torture and organized stalking, which the proposed bill prohibits, are already proscribed by the current Penal Code. There is no need for an addition law.
2. The incident, where a civilian complained about his inner ears injured by the police's ongoing act of using an ultrasonic weapon at him, shot and killed a rookie female police officer in Davis, CA (20-minute driving distance from Sacramento) on January 10, 2019, would discourage the legislature from voting favorably on the proposed bill. The location of the incident is so close to the California capitol that this incident would considerably influence the voting results of the proposed bill.
Dr. Weber decided not to introduce the proposed bill upon receiving this advice. Yet, Dr. Shibata finds the advice highly questionable, and refuted it as follows:
Assembly Public Safety Committee Counsel Deputy Chief Uribe's above advice prejudicially interprets the proposed bill text and the recent police officer's murder incident in the light that is most protective of the excessive privileges of the police to torture targeted individuals. Please note that the police abuse discretion vested in them and elect not to enforce the existing laws against organized covert torture and organized stalking. The socio-legal context of the proposed legislation parallels that of the anti-domestic violence legislation, because the police abused their discretion vested in them and did not enforce the pre-existing law against battery in domestic relations, prior to the anti-domestic violence legislation. Just as many police officers themselves committed domestic violence at home back then, many police officers commit organized covert torture themselves today, along with the Fusion Center contractors and under the supervision of the FBI, as per Former FBI Special Agent Geral Sosbee's aforementioned testimony.
The anti-domestic violence legislation established the rule of law in domestic relations and drastically reduced the killings of husbands by the battered wives at home. The proposed bill will establish the rule of law surrounding organized covert torture and thus will substantially prevent the killings of the police officers by the civilian victims of organized cover torture by the police, as exemplified by the aforementioned Davis police shooter, who had a violent criminal record. Indeed, L.A. law enforcement officers fire electronic weapons remotely at prison inmates, which the ACLU describes as "tantamount to torture," according to CBS News. Therefore, the recent Davis police officer's lethal shooting incident only casts light on the urgent need for the rule of law surrounding organized covert torture, instead of discouraging the legislature from voting against the proposed bill.
Another legislator Dr. Shibata asked to introduce the bill was Ed Chau, the chair of the Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee, and a former judge and an engineer, who has successfully authored bills against the technological invasion of privacy and is already aware of one of the most sophisticated technologies used against targeted individuals, "synthetic telepathy," which is known to have been researched by the University of California at Irvine and funded by the Army (source). The task of preparing an internal report to Chau on the proposed bill was delegated to Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee Consultant/Attorney Nichole Rapier Rocha. In a phone conversation with Rocha, Dr. Shibata found out that Rocha had received unsolicited advice from Sandy Uribe similar to the advice she gave Dr. Weber's office, which led Dr. Shibata to ask the following question:
Why did super busy Sandy Uribe go out of her way to identify/trace which influential staffer at the legislature was still reviewing the bill proposal for potential recommendation and further to "warn" that influential staffer of the said "problems" of the bill proactively?
While Ed Chau has not yet decided whether to sponsor the bill, the following legislators have already declined: Assembly Member Reginald Jones-Sawyer, Senator Nancy Skinner, Senator Jim Beall, and Senator Chris Holden. Their refusal to take up the challenge, according to Dr. Shibata, is partly "due to their apathetic complicity in leaving thousands of victims, in California alone, continuously and indefinitely exposed to irreversibly maiming torture and slow-kill murder." But she also has seen telling signs of infiltration within legislators' committees and the possible influence of the pharmaceutical industry in discouraging these legislators from introducing the bill.
Aside from Assembly Member Ed Chau, those legislators who have yet to make a decision are Senator Steven Bradford and Senator Holly Mitchell. Whether or not the tremendous effort made by Dr. Tomo Shibata to get this bill introduced to the California legislature will come to fruition rests in their hands. Time is short, as the bill introduction deadline is February 22, 2019. If you would like to show your support for Dr. Shibata, please try to let your opinions be known to these three remaining California legislators or go to Dr. Shibata's GoFundMe Page.
The Takeaway
While her proposal to introduce legislation may not be accepted this time around, the time and effort that Dr. Shibata has put into this enterprise has still afforded us the opportunity to see a little more deeply into the mechanisms of control behind organized covert torture and the complicity between politics, law enforcement and intelligence that is needed to keep it in place. Her work is helping to bring the phenomena more into public awareness, and it is through growing awareness and our commitment to uncover the truth that we will one day end these kinds of operations.
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YouTube Will Stop Recommending Videos Of 9/11 'Conspiracy Theories' To Users
In Brief
- The Facts:
YouTube has decided to change its algorithm for recommending videos by excluding certain videos such as those they feel 'make blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11.'
- Reflect On:
Can we see through the deception and come to know the truth about mainstream media's efforts to promote a false narrative and create within us a disempowering perception about our world?
Heartwarming, isn't it? Social media giants like YouTube are willing to sacrifice advertising profits in order to ensure that their cherished viewers are deterred from seeing content that YouTube deems dangerous and potentially damaging to their viewers' mental and emotional health. They're doing this even though these viewers have demonstrated that they want to see this content. It's just like having a Big Brother around to help steer us onto the straight and narrow path, isn't it?
Examples the social media giant cited include videos "promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11."
Now, we can talk about any of these examples cited above for wildly different reasons, but let's stick with the 9/11 theme. While there is no denying that it was a 'historic event,' what is implied by this phrase is that 9/11 has an established, well-proven historical account based on the government's explanation of what happened and supported by the 'official' report cobbled together by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). For YouTube, this report is seen as the authoritative 'last word' on what happened in New York City on September 11th, 2001.
I could spend pages detailing how many 9/11 'conspiracy' videos, like ones done by the Architects and Engineers For 9/11 Truth, are much more coherent, objective and evidence-based than the NIST report or mainstream media coverage on the subject. But no need, as this is fairly self-evident for anyone who has done a modicum of research into the subject.
What is important to note here is to read the phrase 'making blatantly false claims' as really meaning 'making claims that deviate from the official, controlled mainstream narrative.' In this regard, the takeover of social media companies by the global elite, as with the prior consolidation of traditional media companies, has been done mainly to try to continue to have a stronghold on how human beings interpret past events, in a way that advances their agenda.
Understanding 'Recommended' Videos
Now, to be specific, YouTube is not simply deleting videos they don't want on their platform (well, they've done that too, but that's another story). They are changing the process by which YouTube 'recommends' videos to users based on that viewer's preferences.
'Recommended' videos are those videos that YouTube makes available to the viewer alongside whatever video they are watching, using artificial intelligence to come up with a selection most likely to tempt viewers to continue watching after they are done with the video they are engaged with.
Guillaume Chaslot, a former Google engineer that helped build the artificial intelligence (AI) used to curate recommended videos, said the goal of YouTube's AI was to keep users on the site as long as possible in order to promote more advertisements. What's the 'problem' with this, according to YouTube? This algorithm encouraged some people with a penchant for 'Conspiracy Theory' (to use the famed psy-op label coined by the CIA) to go down a dangerous rabbit hole of misinformation, delusion and potential violence.
Andrew Mendrala, supervising attorney of Georgetown Law's Civil Rights Clinic warns that the previous YouTube algorithm is "an echo chamber. It's a feedback loop. It creates an insular community that is continually fed misinformation that reinforces their prejudices."
Chaslot agrees with this sentiment, saying that when a user was enticed by multiple conspiracy videos, the AI not only became biased by the content the hyper-engaged users were watching, it also kept track of the content that those users were engaging with in an attempt to reproduce that pattern with other users. In a thread of tweets he recently posted, Chaslot praised the change that actually prevents flagged videos from being included within the recommended selection. His comment about this change should give us pause:
"It's only the beginning of a more humane technology. Technology that empowers all of us, instead of deceiving the most vulnerable."
Humane? Censorship and controlling information have been couched in many terms recently, but to call this change 'humane' feels like the height of hypocrisy. It truly strains credulity to imagine that a corporation like YouTube actually cares about the 'most vulnerable' people in society.
Mainstream Rationalization
Let's call this most recent change in policy by a social media giant what it is: a small step in a subtle, ongoing effort to control the minds of people and reinforce mainstream perceptions rather than letting people sift through a variety of opinions and think for themselves.
There is little the public can do about the policy change itself because YouTube is a private company with legal rights to decide what is broadcast on their platform. But it is the rationalization that we hear in the mainstream for justifying this change that is hard to endure. YouTube claims that the change "strikes a balance between maintaining a platform for free speech and living up to our responsibility to users." Here's how a Guardian article frames the mainstream narrative on this particular subject:
YouTube, Facebook and other social media platforms have faced growing scrutiny in recent years for their role in hosting and amplifying political propaganda and abusive content that spark real-world consequences and can lead to violence.
In 2016, the conspiracy theory that became known as "Pizzagate" – a popular rightwing fake news story alleging that the Comet Ping Pong restaurant was linked to a child sex ring involving the Hillary Clinton campaign – motivated a gunman to fire a weapon inside the restaurant.
It's amazing how often this one stooge firing a weapon inside Comet Ping Pong–quite possibly a staged event–is pulled out in mainstream media to try to discredit any investigations into Pizzagate. This technique is used often to bring fear and ridicule upon people following alternative narratives in an attempt to sway the public back to the mainstream perception.
Mainstream Projection
Then the mainstream parades out people like Mendrala, who will make claims that providing viewers more of what they are interested in creates an 'echo chamber' and a 'feedback loop.' In reality, these comments are pure projection, as this is what mainstream media has been and is desperately trying to continue to be: an untouchable, self-perpetuating Ministry of Truth. As George Orwell wrote in his novel 1984:
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
Accordingly, we see how the mainstream media has been working in alliance with the social media giants to 'control the present' by incrementally removing certain content from view as we move forward, a slow and patient high-tech form of 'book burning.' In controlling the present, they then control the past–i.e. they get to say what events in the past mean, creating a controlled interpretation of the past that then informs us about who we are and what life is about. This then allows them to control the future, which enables the gradual acceleration of the program to enslave humanity.
The Takeaway
Our ability to see through the mainstream deception is going to be our greatest asset in averting the agenda of global elite enslavement. While they do have the power and the wealth, we have the numbers, and we have the truth on our side. If together we truly aspire to awaken to know the truth, it will set us free.
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The Dangers of 5G to Children's Health
Mobile and wireless technologies are a ubiquitous feature of modern life. Most U.S. adults own smartphones, a growing proportion are "smartphone-only" Internet users and over a fourth report being online "almost constantly." As for children, a 2014 survey of high-income nations reported that almost seven in ten children used a mobile phone, and two-thirds of those had a smartphone, usually by age 10. As described by Nielsen, it is now as common to see "a kid with a smartphone in their hand" as it was to see "a kid playing with a yo-yo in the years before the digital age."
The enthusiasm with which the public has embraced each new mobile and wireless technology—most of which have never undergone any appropriate safety testing or standards development—suggests that consumers rarely stop to consider the health implications of the infrastructure shoring up their ability to browse, stream and download anytime and "on the go." Consumers are not entirely to blame for their lack of awareness—it is not easy to disentangle the technologies' health risks in the face of the telecommunications industry's steady and calculated disinformation efforts and a captured Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that "follows the script of fabulously wealthy, bullying, billion-dollar beneficiaries of wireless."
…powerful 5g (fifth generation) networks and technology are about to subject everyone, on a continuous basis, to unprecedented forms and amounts of mandatory irradiation – without prior study of the potential health impact or any assurance of safety
Now, however, a global 5G "frenzy" is upon us and is coming into full force. The rollout of "blazing fast" 5G technology will "dramatically increase the number of transmitters sending signals to cellphones and a host of new Internet-enabled devices." The time is ripe for greater grassroots awareness of the undisclosed tradeoffs between convenience and 5G's potentially catastrophic health effects. Far from a simple "next-gen" upgrade, powerful 5G (fifth-generation) networks and technology are about to subject everyone, on a continuous basis, to unprecedented forms and amounts of what retired U.S. government physicist Dr. Ronald Powell calls "mandatory irradiation"—without "prior study of the potential health impact" or any assurance of safety. Considering that young people (with their smaller body mass and developing brains) are particularly vulnerable to radiation, the Environmental Health Trust has termed 5G "the next great unknown experiment on our children"—and the entire human population.
Early warnings
In fact, the "giant uncontrolled experiment" on children and adults has already begun, despite an urgent international appeal by tens of thousands of scientists, doctors, environmental organizations and citizens calling for a halt to 5G deployment. In 2018, telecom carriers in the U.S. and Europe began rolling out 5G technology in dozens of cities. Focusing (for now) on "dense urban and high-traffic areas" in the U.S., AT&T began positioning its 5G infrastructure in major cities in eight states, and Verizon started offering 5G home broadband service in "select neighborhoods" in a handful of cities.
…health problems such as insomnia, miscarriage, memory problems and other neurological issues, and there are widespread reports of annihilation of insect and bird populations
For the most part, health concerns have ranked as a tiny footnote in the midst of the massive hoopla about 5G's speed and capacity, although trade magazines admit that there may be "some objections" to 5G due to "concerns over potential health risks." In both Europe and the U.S., however, individuals living and working in proximity to newly installed 5G towers and antennas are telling a different story. Many have immediately started experiencing health problems such as insomnia, miscarriage, memory problems and other neurological issues, and there are widespread reports of annihilation of insect and bird populations.
In response to complaints from fire fighters subjected to 5G antennas, the International Association of Fire Fighters has gone on record as opposing "the use of fire stations as base stations for towers and/or antennas for the conduction of cell phone transmissions until a study with the highest scientific merit and integrity…is conducted and it is proven that such sitings are not hazardous to the health of our members."
A United Nations whistleblower recently drew attention to 5G's dramatic impact on health in a widely circulated series of comments about 5G's "seemingly overnight" rollout in Vienna, Austria. Describing 5G as a "silent war," she commented:
"…Children are the most vulnerable to 5G depredation because of their little bodies. Friends and acquaintances and their children in Vienna are already reporting the classic symptoms of EMR [electromagnetic radiation] poisoning: nosebleeds, headaches, eye pains, chest pains, nausea, fatigue, vomiting, tinnitus, dizziness, flu-like symptoms, and cardiac pain. They also report a tight band around the head; pressure on the top of the head; short, stabbing pains around the body; and buzzing internal organs."
Above and below
One of the novel dangers introduced by 5G technology is its reliance on high-frequency millimeter waves (MMWs), a bountiful and not previously commercialized portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. While 5G's enthusiasts are quick to promise support for literally billions of devices, there is one catch—the shorter millimeter wavelengths cannot travel as far as the lower frequencies used for earlier generations of mobile technology. Thus, while there were about 300,000 wireless antennas on U.S. cell towers and buildings as of 2016 (a doubling since 2002), 5G will require "exponentially more"—millions of small cell towers every 500 feet "on every street corner."
…Even in the home environment, 5G technology (will) blast through walls and cribs, making a mockery of the notion that 'your home is your castle in which you are supposed to be safe
Organizations concerned about the health hazards of wireless radiation note that "Right now, you don't have to live next to a cell tower….but once they have these [5G] cell antennas everywhere, you won't be able to [move away]." Unfortunately, the "nowhere to hide" aspects of 5G are even more serious, because ground-based 5G systems will be supplemented by satellite-based systems. In March, 2018, the FCC approved the initial launch of over 4,400 low-Earth-orbit 5G communication satellites, to be followed by thousands more over the next two years—with the eventual result being 11 times more satellites orbiting the Earth than currently. The satellites will send "tightly focused beams of intense microwave radiation at each specific 5G device that is on the Earth," while each device then sends "a beam of radiation back to the satellite."
In practical terms, this means that in crowded locations such as airports, individuals' bodies "will be penetrated by numerous beams of radiation as they walk or as other people walk around them with their 5G smartphones." But even in the home environment, "5G technology [will] blast through walls and cribs," making a mockery of "the notion that 'your home is your castle' in which you are supposed to be safe."
More than skin-deep
Scientists, doctors and experts from around the world have issued repeated warnings about 5G's risks, drawing on published research on MMWs as well as thousands of studies showing the harms caused by other mobile and wireless technologies.
In this context, industry and government claims that 5G technology is safe are completely disingenuous. In fact, the health effects of MMWs are already quite familiar to the U.S. military and defense agencies around the world. The U.S. has at its disposal non-lethal crowd control weapon systems (euphemistically named Active Denial Systems) that use millimeter waves to penetrate the skin of targeted individuals, "instantly producing an intolerable heating sensation that causes them to flee." In research commissioned by the U.S. Army "to find out why people ran away when the beam touched them," they discovered that targets "feel like [their] body is on fire." Researchers also have warned that "the same parts of the human skin that allow us to sweat also respond to 5G radiation much like an antenna that can receive signals."
Moratorium urgently needed
When the FCC endorsed the transition to 5G in 2016, then-Chairman Tom Wheeler (a former telecom industry lobbyist) vowed "to allow new [5G] technologies and innovations to evolve and flourish without needlessly prescriptive regulations." Thus, even though 5G represented a radical shift in technology, the FCC proposed no further safety studies, instead continuing to rely on its "outdated, excessively permissive, and thus widely criticized, radiation-exposure guidelines that…are based primarily on a 30-year-old analysis…many years before the emergence of most of the digital wireless technology in use today." A recent government study by the National Toxicology Program—which determined that cell phone radiation causes cancer—deemed the three-decade-old guidelines "unprotective."
…children who began using either cordless or mobile phones regularly before age 20 had more than a fourfold increased brain tumour risk.
5G poses risks to all life on the planet—people, animals, insects and plants. However, it is clear that fetuses and children are among the most vulnerable members of the human population. Even prior to 5G, Swedish researchers concluded that "children are indeed more susceptible to the effects of EMF exposure at microwave frequencies" and reported that children who began using "either cordless or mobile phones regularly before age 20" had more than a fourfold increased brain tumor risk. Describing brain cancer as "the proverbial 'tip of the iceberg,'" the researchers also observed that "no other environmental carcinogen has produced evidence of an increased risk in just one decade."
The UN whistleblower states, "People's first reaction to the idea that 5G may be an existential threat to all life on Earth is usually disbelief and/or cognitive dissonance. Once they examine the facts, however, their second reaction is often terror. We need to transcend this in order to see 5G as an opportunity to empower ourselves, take responsibility and take action." Some of the actions that people have taken include signing the International Appeal; learning about the multiple reasons to be concerned about 5G radiation and telling others; talking to legislators about why rushing legislation that streamlines the deployment of 5G small cells is a bad idea (and also raising the awareness of legislators and state utility commissions about the risks of smart meters); and changing their relationship to their devices, including using wired rather than wireless Internet connections (or turning off WiFi routers at night) and adopting other simple steps.
5G promises to create an even "denser soup of electrosmog," with incalculable health effects. In fact, any sane person who examines the evidence must concur with the authors and over 40,000 signatories of the International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space, who agree that the rush to blanket the planet with 5G "constitutes an experiment on humanity and the environment that is defined as a crime under international law."
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One of the S&P 500's big losers for Monday February 08 was Harley-Davidson Inc (HOG). The company's stock fell 5.08% to $38.89 on volume of 2.17 million shares.
The stock opened the day at 40.25 and traded between a low of $38.50 and a high of $40.72. The stock finished the day down $2.08 per share. Harley-Davidson Inc has an average daily volume of 3.64 million and a total float of 191.86 million shares. The 50-day SMA for Harley-Davidson Inc is $44.04 and its 200-day SMA is $51.73. The high for the stock over the last 52 weeks is $65.20 and the low is $36.36.
Harley-Davidson Inc produces and sells heavyweight motorcycles, as well as offers motorcycle parts, accessories, and related services. It operates in two segments, Motorcycles and Related Products, and Financial Services.
Harley-Davidson Inc is centered in Milwaukee, WI, and has 5,900 employees. Today's trading day leaves the company with a market cap of $7.46 billion. The company has a P/S ratio of n/a, P/B ratio of 2.92, and a 14.8.
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Opera. The ecstatic final scene of Salome usually leaves both the audience and the singer breathless. Steaming with decadence and lust, this 20th century opera by Strauss never ceases to provoke.
Premiere 10 September 2011.
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Ever since its very first performance in Dresden in 1905, Richard Strauss' Salome has been encompassed by an aura of scandalous success. The young Salome is rejected by John the Baptist and demands his head on a plate from her stepfather Herod as a reward for her dancing. The ecstatic final scene is breathtaking for both the public and the singer.
With Oscar Wilde's fin de siècle text, exuding decadence and lust, must always explored what shocks audiences of the time. Has Herod raised a woman to be so monstrous that he must eventually take her life? Or on the other hand, is John a means of escape for Salome, who, in her teenage angst, wishes to flee from the depraved world in which she is held captive? This production is more concerned with the latter and in the final scene; a glimmer of hope and an escape from the claustrophobia are actually suggested.
We are very proud to be able to present one of the world's most renowned opera directors, Peter Konwitschny, in this joint production with De Nederlanse Opera. GöteborgsOperan's Annalena Persson sings the title role as she did when the production was playing in Amsterdam. She has previously performed the same role in many opera houses across Europe. The illustrious Johannes Leiacker has created not only the scenery but also the costumes and Patrik Ringborg returns as the conductor. He will open up the large and colourful orchestral movement which, unusually, is played in Strauss' original style which demands a very large opera house and an orchestra of almost 90 musicians.
Watch pictures from the performance.
Decadence and opera
Do you think that you're above the laws of nature?
Do you think that artificial is more valuable than natural?
Do you feel more at home in your own dream world than in reality?
Are your erotic fantasies more important than genuine sensuality?
If you've answered yes to the above you are what was called 'decadent' at the end of the 19th century.
The above quotes are from the Norwegian book Decadence (Dekadanse) by literature professor Per Buvik. According to Buvik, 19th century decadence mainly centred on sex and art, and a large part of the book is dedicated to various interpretations of Salome - from the Bible, art, poetry, drama and opera. From the very start, the chapter on Salome take you into the world of opera, via another opera super star, Carmen, whom Buvik calls 'the Romantic prototype of a femme fatale'.
The first book on Salome and decadence to turn up on my desk was an unusually small and soft one, with a gold cover and purple paper - the catalogue from the exhibition Decadence (Dekadens) at the Dunker Cultural Centre in Helsingborg. It was sent to the Göteborg Opera as carefully as you would treat a veritable Princess and the Pea: in three envelopes, each inside the other. The first two were padded and the third consisted of gold wrapping.
The starting point for the catalogue is the 18th-century series of images called The Rake's Progress by William Hogarth, which we recently published as part of the programme for the Stravinsky opera with the same name - the story about a young man who inherits a large amount of money, and then chooses the easy way out and ends up in hell…
According to Buvik's analysis of the Oscar Wilde play on which the libretto of the Strauss opera is based: "Oscar Wilde portrays Salome as a young virgin who is in the throes of lust for the very first time, and the person she desires is none other than John the baptist. (...) The portrayal of Salome and her wild desires is hard to stomach even for people today, because a more intensive expression of ecstatic-erotic desire is difficult to imagine." Wild desires and excesses will also be portrayed on stage in this production of Salome.
The story is about a woman in a secluded, exotic, decadent environment. But what is decadence to us today? The question usually triggers long and interesting discussions. Yet as the discussion goes on it often becomes more and more confusing... What was decadent in the past, may be seen as 'natural' today, so who knows what shame is any more? Somehow it feels as if the term is not all that relevant, or as if it belongs to another era.
Or is it maybe the other way around? The word decadence, like the French décadence it comes from, means decline, weakening or 'falling apart' and it was that interpretation of the word that the forward-looking philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) used when he stated that civilisation was inherently decadent. According to Nietzsche all modern people are therefore more or less decadent.
Decadence without the 'de' makes cadence, after the Latin cadere (to fall). It's a musical term which can mean two things - of which one is a solo sequence of virtuoso character, i.e. when the singer or musician is freely improvising, as we recently heard as part of the many operas of the baroque opera Alcina.
Such cadences represent a delightful combination of indulgence and feeling. This is also how Salome was portrayed in the poem Atta Troll by Heinrich Heine – as the "incarnation of female sensuality." The poem has a playful, slightly ironic tone and the destructive part is toned down, yet the poem is the predecessor of the Oscar Wilde play about Salome, which Strauss more or less directly based his opera on. What happened on the way? That's a part of the story to be told later. Until then, please enjoy this excerpt from Heine's poem (and we won't call you decadent).
Astrid Pernille Hartmann, programme editor
Love me too and be my love!
Fling that gory block-head far
With its trencher. Sweeter dishes
I shall give thee to enjoy.
(Heinrich Heine)
Watch an interview with director Peter Konwitschny.
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David Rose
One of the busiest composer-conductors in Hollywood history, David Rose wrote such famous instrumentals as "Holiday for Strings" and "The Stripper" but also had an active career in radio, films and ultimately television, where he won four Emmy awards as a composer and music director.
Born in London and raised in Chicago, Rose began playing piano for bandleader Ted Fio Rito when he was just 16; by the early 1930s he was leading the house orchestra at Chicago's WGN and by 1940 had moved to California for his own radio show "California Melodies." He met comedian Red Skelton during their wartime Army service and Rose became Skelton's music director first on radio, then for the entire 20-year run of Skelton's television variety show. He also won his first Emmy as musical director for AN EVENING WITH FRED ASTAIRE (1958).
Rose earned two Oscar nominations, for his score for THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATE (1944) and the song "So in Love" from WONDER MAN (1945). He scored such film classics including OPERATION PETTICOAT (1959) and HOMBRE (1967), but it was in television where he really made his mark, scoring over 300 episodes of BONANZA (1959-73, winning an Emmy), more than 200 of LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE (1974-83, two more Emmys) and more than 100 of HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN (1984-89). Along the way there were themes for other series including THE HIGH CHAPARRAL, BRACKEN'S WORLD, HIGHWAY PATROL, SEA HUNT and FATHER MURPHY. He died in 1990.
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Kiva borrowers, their bikes, and their loan officer, Carol, are ready to roll in Kenya.
How did you get to work this morning? How will you get home tonight? How will you travel to see your family and friends this weekend? What was your answer? Most of us probably answer with a combination of car, plane, subway, train, bus, bicycle, or on foot. I'm sure there are a few interesting commutes involving horse rides and boats, but most of us come and go on a somewhat predetermined schedule on... Continue Reading >>


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Distinguishing researchers with an ORCID
I'm an author on five science papers, see if you can find them. I'll give you a head start: here's a link to all the researchers called B Thompson (and variations thereof) that I could find in Pubmed.
Any luck? Of the 1775 (and rising) results, you can discount many (I wasn't doing research in the 1930's), but without knowing my area of expertise or affiliated university you could spend all day looking. To make matters more difficult, my papers are spread over several years.
I'll show you the answer. Here are my papers collated on my ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) profile, a free, not-for-profit service to help researchers distinguish their work from others with similar names, and help funders link researcher output to funding.
In addition to helping to distinguish one B Thompson from another, ORCID will ultimately help to speed up one of the major time-sinks that preventing scientists from getting on with their experiments: paperwork.
Every grant applied for, every manuscript submitted to a journal, every internal report compiled takes time to complete. Much of the information needed – employment history, publication record and the like – is easy for a researcher to collate, but time consuming (and tedious) to fill in.
This is where the ORCID comes in. A number of major publishers and funders including Nature Publishing Group, F1000,Elsevier the Wellcome Trust and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) are integrating the ORCID into their workflow, so that data can be 'pulled' and 'pushed' between systems to speed up the paper/grant submission process.
ORCID isn't just to help researchers fill in their forms more efficiently; it's also designed to help funders track researcher's progress and whether our grants are producing high quality science. ORCID will help us link the researchers we support to the things they've produced and remove name ambiguity, which can make the selection of peer reviewers and experts difficult.
So far, over 60,000 individuals have signed up for ORCID, which has been recommended as the research identifier solution by JISC, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, Research Councils UK and the Association of Research Managers and Administrators. Privacy is important of course so, like your Facebook profile, you can tailor your ORCID to display as much information as you'd like. Initially the information that you can add will be restricted to your academic institution and publications, but as more organisations and databases integrate with ORCID, you'll be able add grants, patents and datasets as well.
You can sign up for an ORCID here.


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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Ginger Lemon Girl Featured in The Roanoke Times
I am thrilled today to be a featured story in the Extra Section of The Roanoke Times today in an interview with Lindsey Nair, Food Writer.
Lindsey asked me a bunch of questions about why I wrote the cookbook, how I started the blog, and how I became interested in cooking and writing. I really enjoyed answering Lindsey's questions and I'm really excited because I grew up in the Roanoke area, so to be featured in the local paper there is a true honor.
Not only does Lindsey share a fun interview with me about the book, but she shares two of my favorite recipes in "The Everything Gluten-Free Slow Cooker Cookbook" and you a sneak preview of some additional projects I'm currently working on that are due out late summer and early fall 2013!
Please head over to the Roanoke Times today and read Lindsey's story today! And meanwhile, don't forget to order a copy of "The Everything Gluten-Free Slow Cooker Cookbook" if you haven't already!
Special thanks to Sarah Neilsen, author and photographer of Celiac in the City for sharing her photograph of the Hot Chicken Buffalo Bites for the story, and to Kat of Kat's Food Blog for the picture of Roast Chicken with Lemon and Artichokes! You ladies ROCK!
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Congratulations Carrie! Great article. Looking forward to you new books!ReplyDelete
Congrats Carrie!! So happy to see your book getting some well-deserved attention :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 7, 2013 at 8:42 AM
Great write-up Carrie. Love that picture of you. Good work with the book and the interview in that paper. Know your family is proud of you to.ReplyDelete
Wow! What an honor, and how nice to be on the front page (sorta, but close enough). That is really, really cool!ReplyDelete
how awesome!I stumbled on your blog looking for hemp shakes. I went to Hollins, so it's always fun to find a Roanoke connection in the blogosphere!ReplyDelete
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Public Comment
New: Islamic Council Denounces Boston Attacks
Northern California Islamic Council (NCIC), an umbrella organization that aims to provide a united Muslim voice to the Northern California community, is in shock and disbelief by the bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon, that killed at least 3 people and left scores injured.
Our heartfelt prayers are with the families of victims of the blasts and the police officer that was killed in line of duty. We pray for the speedy recovery of the injured of this horrific incident. We are also thankful to the law enforcement authorities for their tireless efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice for committing this horrendous and cowardly act of violence.
NCIC Chairman, Dr.Hatem Bazian, said, "We are outraged at the dreadful and senseless attacks, we share the pain, grief and shock with our fellow Americans, and we urge all to be calm and resilient in this time of crisis." He categorically added, "These acts of violence and terror have no place in Islam, which condemns such acts - in strongest possible terms - that takes lives of innocent people or causes pain and suffering."


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By Shawn Langlois
Good morning.
What if someone, other than Manti Te'o, told you that, on top of last week's big equity inflow, more than $200 billion is about to be poured into the U.S. stock market? You just might put those sell orders on hold.
More on why that's a possibility below.
For now, it's bank earnings, specifically the disappointing kind from heavyweights Bank of America and Citigroup, that rule the day after split reactions from investors on results from Goldman and J.P. Morgan a day earlier.
In the tech sector, Intel's quarterly numbers after the bell might provide some distraction from the constant din surrounding Facebook and Apple.
Key market gauges: Futures on the Dow /quotes/zigman/9049316 YMH3 and the S&P /quotes/zigman/8751039 ESH3 are shrugging off the bank declines early and focusing on some upbeat news on the economic front. European stocks /quotes/zigman/2380150 XX:SXXP are also moving broadly higher, except for a lackluster showing on the DAX /quotes/zigman/2380246 DX:DAX . Read Europe markets.
From The Trading Deck, check out: Will Germany 'tank' Europe?
Oil futures /quotes/zigman/2291766 CLG3 danced around $94 a barrel; apparently there's just too much of that stuff in the U.S. these days. Read Futures Movers.
The economy: Housing starts rose to 954,000 in December from 861,000 in November, trouncing economist expectations, while U.S. weekly jobless claims fell to 335,000, their lowest level since January 2008.
Earnings: A full slate of quarterly results, most notably from the finance sector, will shape trade in the early going. The biggies include Bank of America /quotes/zigman/190927 /quotes/nls/bac BAC , Citigroup /quotes/zigman/5065548 /quotes/nls/c C and BlackRock /quotes/zigman/249424 /quotes/nls/blk BLK . After the close, Intel /quotes/zigman/20392 /quotes/nls/intc INTC and Amex /quotes/zigman/217470 /quotes/nls/axp AXP report. Read: Big earnings on Thursday.
Here's why we're seeing weakness in shares of Bank of America and strength in BlackRock ahead of the bell. Citigroup is taking it the hardest, down more than 3% premarket on its results. Read Indications for the latest stock moves.
Watch for movement in financial ETFs like the SPDR S&P Bank ETF /quotes/zigman/478226 /quotes/nls/kbe KBE and the SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF /quotes/zigman/478050 /quotes/nls/kre KRE . More from The Tell blog.
The buzz: Sentiment has been all over the graph on Facebook /quotes/zigman/9962609 /quotes/nls/fb FB , and Wall Street gave the peanut gallery another reason to spout off this morning as Goldman Sachs endorsed the social network by raising its price target to $38 from $35.
Cisco /quotes/zigman/20039 /quotes/nls/csco CSCO shares were caught on the wrong side of an analyst note. The stock is off almost 2% premarket after J.P. Morgan cut its rating to underweight from neutral. Read about whether Cisco can sustain its dividend yield.
It's going from bad to worse for Boeing /quotes/zigman/220026 /quotes/nls/ba BA . The stock took a 3.4% hit yesterday and is moving even deeper into the red this morning on word that the FAA has temporarily grounded ALL Dreamliners. While analysts tore into the company on Wednesday, RBC Capital on Thursday said the grounding should be short-lived, and the brokerage stood by its outperform rating.
Other top trending tickers include Rio Tinto /quotes/zigman/182541 /quotes/nls/rio RIO , Sony /quotes/zigman/197524 /quotes/nls/sne SNE , UnitedHealth /quotes/zigman/258846 /quotes/nls/unh UNH and EBay /quotes/zigman/76117 /quotes/nls/ebay EBAY , which is on the move higher after some upbeat results after yesterday's close.
Shares of mining company Rio Tinto are losing ground in the U.K. and are poised to open lower in the U.S. market on word of the CEO's departure.
Elsewhere, K-Swiss /quotes/zigman/74470 /quotes/nls/ksws KSWS — which I fondly recall putting right next to some Sperry Topsiders on my eighth-grade shoe rack — saw its stock tack on nearly half its value thanks to a buyout from E.Land.
The chart of the day: Last week's massive flow into equities stole the headlines. Investors hailed it as confirmation that this bull has legs. That the cult of equity isn't dead. Well, that shift is nothing compared to what we might see if pension funds rebalance their portfolios into stocks. Here's a chart (h/t Macronomics) that shows where their allocation stood at the end of 2011, which was about 42% in equities, a 10-year low. Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts say a 10% move toward stocks could lead to whopping fund flows of $228 billion.
The call of the day: Tesla /quotes/zigman/118681 /quotes/nls/tsla TSLA caused a stir at the Detroit auto show this week, showing off it's all-electric concept crossover. Traders, however, don't seem to be all that impressed. They are placing big bets on an imminent stock slump, according to Schaeffer's Investment Research, with more than three times its average put volume piling up on Tuesday. In fact, this trend has been taking place for a couple of weeks. Keep an eye on it.
Random reads: The "George Glass/first pick for the NY Jets" quips have been flying all night on Twitter about this insane Manti Te'o fake girlfriend story. But, as SNL's Seth Meyers points out, "let's all try and remember that a person who never existed is dead." If the Deadspin report is true, here's our hero duping a dying child.
The weird gets weirder with this Notre Dame presser.
Back to the real world. Here's the latest on the hostages in Algeria.
The Noahpinion blog calls out Zero Hedge and goldbugs. This should end well.
Finally, Apple /quotes/zigman/68270 /quotes/nls/aapl AAPL may not be making up any imaginary girlfriends, but this guy says it has gone from "trustworthy monolith to dying empire." Read why the iPhone maker needs to find its Sammy Hagar before it's too late.
And if the Red Rocker isn't available, Apple fans had better hope for "something awesome in the not-too-distant future," according to MarketWatch's Therese Poletti.
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Reviewed by Madison E. (age 10)
This book is really good and it is scary. I believe that this book should have won the Newbery Award it is so good. It is not like any other book I have read because all the rest of the scary story books are not really that scary. The thing that makes it unique is the stories in it are alot longer than other collections I have read. My favorite part was when this guy was following a woman and he had never seen her face. One night he followed her the whole way home and knocked on the door. He kept going to her house and asking her to go out to eat with him. She kept saying "No my parents are sick". If you want to know what happens you'll have to read it.
More Bones is the best book I have ever read because I love how it made me scared. Anyone who likes scary stories will love it. I strongly recommend you read this book. It will chill your bones!!!!