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Update petisi: DUKUNGAN MENDESAK DIPERLUKAN UNTUK PENYELAMATAN ORANGUTAN DI KAWASAN EKOSISTEM LEUSER!
Dear Teman – teman pelindung hutan Aceh,
Saya menulis untuk berterima kasih atas bantuan Anda dalam kampanye penjagaan Kawasan Ekosistem Leuser dan meminta anda untuk mendukung petisi kami yang baru dan mendesak. Tolong tanda tangani dan sebarkan hari ini!
Tahun lalu Anda telah menciptakan gelombang protes publik terhadap pengrusakan hutan rawa gambut Tripa di Kawasan Ekosistem Leuser. Pada saat yang sama Indonesia dibanjiri dengan pesan positif dari para pendukung, ilmuwan dan ekonom di seluruh dunia bahwa Ekosistem Leuser layak pengakuan penuh sebagai Kasawan Warisan Dunia UNESCO Site (1) .
Berkat dukungan Anda, akhirnya kemenangan besar dapat dicapai. Pada bulan Januari, ketika salah satu perusahaan kelapa sawit illegal yang membakar hutan di Tripa dituntut dan didenda sampai dengan lebih dari US $ 30 juta. Ini adalah keputusan bersejarah di Indonesia dan menetapkan preseden penting bagi masa depan penegakan hukum untuk melindungi hutan-hutan di Indonesia (2).
Sayangnya preseden ini mungkin perlu diuji dalam waktu dekat. Parlemen Aceh baru – baru ini mengesahkan rencana tata ruang Aceh, yang sepenuhnya mengabaikan status perlindungan Kawasan Ekosistem Leuser, melanggar peraturan yang lebih tinggi dan membuka pintu untuk perkebunan kelapa sawit, pembalakan, pertambangan dan pembangunan jalan di dalam Kawasan Ekosistem Leuser. Jika pemerintah pusat Indonesia tidak menganulir rencana tata ruang ilegal ini maka kita akan menghadapi pertempuran di ranah hukum tidak hanya untuk hutan rawa gambut Tripa tetapi untuk seluruh 2,2 juta hektar Kawasan Ekosistem Leuser yang terletak di Aceh .
Jika Presiden SBY membiarkan rencana tata ruang ini disahkan begitu saja, hutan Kawasan Ekosistem Leuser yang megah dan kaya akan hancur dalam waktu singkat.
Tapi ada kesempatan untuk membalikkan keadaan sebelum kehancuran Kawasan Ekosistem Leuser semakin parah.
Kementrian dalam negeri Indonesia telah mengajukan evaluasi perda/qanun yang kuat dan menyeluruh, meminta pemerintahan Aceh untuk merevisi perda tata ruang dan memasukkan perlindungan Kawasan Ekosistem Leuser, sesuai amanah undang – undang. Di saat yang bersamaan, sekarang juga waktu pemilihan umum di Indonesia; Presiden SBY akan lebih memilih untuk meninggalkan warisan perlindungan lingkungan dan pembangunan berkelanjutan daripada dikenang sebagai presiden yang mengizinkan penghancuran hutan hujan tropis paling signifikan yang tersisa di Asia Tenggara.
Kami baru saja mendapat kabar bahwa Parlemen Aceh mengabaikan permintaan pemerintah pusat untuk merevisi perda tata ruang dan memilih untuk melanjutkan rencana konversi hutan besar-besaran. Oleh karena itu Presiden SBY harus segera membatalkan perda ini demi hukum, atau kita menghadapi ancaman kepunahan orangutan Sumatran, badak, gajah dan harimau selama-lamanya.
Jika cukup dari kita menunjukkan dukungan untuk membatalkan perda tata ruang Aceh yang ilegal secara hokum ini, perda tersebut tidak bisa disahkan begitu saja secara diam-diam.
Kami telah memiliki umpan balik positif pada petisi dari para pemangku kepentingan dan itu adalah bagian dari strategi yang lebih luas , tetapi untuk memastikan kita dapat mencapai tujuan kami untuk melindungi dan mengembalikan Ekosistem Leuser , kita benar-benar membutuhkan kemarahan global. Silakan masuk dan berbagi link secara luas . Saya terima kasih sebelumnya .
1 http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/12/27/your-letters-open-letter-aceh-governor.html
2 http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0109-aceh-tripa-court-decision.html
1. Sebarkan permohonan ini melalui setiap jaringan media sosial yang Anda miliki : http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/president-susilo-bambang-yudhoyono-cancel-aceh-s-illegal-spatial-plan
2. Tweet berita ini (tag Presiden Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono dan Menteri Dalam Negeri di Indonesia, Mr Gamawan Fauzi) dengan tag masing-masing : @presidenSBY , @GamawanFauzi
Beberapa tweet yang dapat digunakan :
Selamatkan tempat terakhir di bumi untuk orangutan Sumatera , badak , gajah dan harimau http://chn.ge/1gK1VOb @presidenSBY & @GamawanFauzi
Indonesia harus mengambil keputusan yang bijaksana terhadap Qanun RTRW Aceh http://chn.ge/1gK1VOb @presidenSBY & @GamawanFauzi
Mendorong Pemerintah Indonesia untuk membatalkan rencana tata ruang Aceh dan melindungi Leuser Ecosytem http://chn.ge/1gK1VOb @presidenSBY & @GamawanFauzi
Qanun RTRW Aceh melanggar peraturan Nasional. Menyerukan Pemerintah Pusat untuk melindungi Leuser ! http://chn.ge/1gK1VOb @SBYudhoyono & @GamawanFauzi
Peraturan telah diabaikan dan suara publik dilupakan. @presidenSBY & @GamawanFauzi tolong batalkan Qanun RTRW Aceh http://chn.ge/1gK1VOb
Selamatkan masyarakat Aceh dari banjir bandang. @ presidenSBY & @GamawanFauzi dapat membatalkan rencana tata ruang http://chn.ge/1gK1VOb
Batalkan Qanun RTRW Aceh atau orangutan sumatera & badak akan mengalami kepunahan http://chn.ge/1gK1VOb @presidenSBY & @GamawanFauzi
Kawasan Ekosistem Leuser melindungi masyarakat dari banjir yang mematikan. SBY, batalkan Qanun RTRW Aceh http://chn.ge/1gK1VOb @ presidenSBY , @ GamawanFauzi
Terima kasih yang tulus dan tak terhingga untuk semua dukungan Anda dalam mendorong perlindungan Kawasan Ekosistem Leuser #TheLastPlaceOnEarth
Petition updates: URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED TO SAVE THE ORANGUTANS OF THE LEUSER ECOSYSTEM!
Dear Friends of Aceh's Forests,
I'm writing to thank you for your continued help in safeguarding the Leuser Ecosystem and to ask you to support our new urgent petition. Please sign and share today!
Last year you helped create a wave of public protest against the destruction of the Tripa peat swamp forests in the Leuser Ecosystem. At the same time Indonesia was inundated with the positive message from supporters, scientists and economists all around the world that the Leuser Ecosystem deserves full recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site (1).
Thanks to your continued support, we finally saw a major win in January when one of the palm oil companies illegally burning Tripa was prosecuted and received fines and reparation costs of over US$30 million. This was a historic ruling in Indonesia and sets a crucial precedent for future legal battles to protect Indonesia's forests (2).
Unfortunately this precedent may need to be relied upon sooner rather than later. The Aceh Parliament recently passed a spatial plan by-law that entirely ignores the protected status of the entire Leuser Ecosystem in order to open it up for palm oil, logging, mining and roads. If Indonesia's central government does not cancel this illegal spatial plan then we will be facing a legal battle not only for Tripa peat swamp forests but for the entire 2.2 million hectares of the Leuser Ecosystem that lies within Aceh.
If President SBY allows this spatial plan by-law to go through, the vast magnificent forests of the Leuser Ecosystem will be destroyed.
But there is a chance to turn things around before the fires are lit in the Leuser Ecosystem.
The Indonesian Ministry of Domestic affairs has submitted a strong evaluation of the by-law and asked Aceh to revise it so that it protects the Leuser Ecosystem. Now is also election time in Indonesia, and the current Indonesian president would prefer to leave a legacy of progress in environmental protection and sustainable development than to be remembered as the president who allowed the destruction of the most significant tropical rainforest remnant in Southeast Asia.
We've just learnt that the Aceh Parliament plans to ignore the central government's request for revisions and go ahead with the forest conversion. Therefore President SBY must cancel the by-law now otherwise we face the very real threat of losing Sumatran orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers for good.
If enough of us show our support for the cancellation of this illegal Aceh by-law, it cannot be allowed to just pass quietly through.
We have already had positive feedback on the petition from stakeholders and it is part of a much broader strategy, but to ensure we can achieve our goal to protect and restore the Leuser Ecosystem, we really need a global outrage. Please sign and share the link widely. I thank you in advance.
1 http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/12/27/your-letters-open-letter-aceh-governor.html
2 http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0109-aceh-tripa-court-decision.html
1. Share the petition through every social media network you have: http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/president-susilo-bambang-yudhoyono-cancel-aceh-s-illegal-spatial-plan
2. Tweet this news (tag Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Indonesia's Domestic Affairs Minister (Mr Gamawan Fauzi) with the respective tags: @presidenSBY, @GamawanFauzi
Some suggested tweets:
Save the last place on Earth for Sumatran orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers http://chn.ge/1gK1VOb @presidenSBY, @GamawanFauzi
Indonesia pls stand by wise decision on spatial plan for the sake of Aceh's forest http://chn.ge/1gK1VOb @presidenSBY, @GamawanFauzi
Encourage the Indonesian Govt to cancel Aceh's spatial plan and protect the Leuser Ecosytem http://chn.ge/1gK1VOb@presidenSBY, @GamawanFauzi
The spatial plan violates National Law. Call on Jakarta Central Govt to protect Leuser! http://chn.ge/1gK1VOb @SBYudhoyono, @GamawanFauzi
The law has been broken and Aceh's people ignored. SBY please reject Aceh's spatial plan http://chn.ge/1gK1VOb@presidenSBY, @GamawanFauzi
Save Aceh communities from flashfloods. The Jakarta Govt can stop the spatial plan http://chn.ge/1gK1VOb @presidenSBY, @GamawanFauzi
Cancel the Aceh spatial plan or Sumatran orangutans & rhinos will risk extinction http://chn.ge/1gK1VOb @presidenSBY, @GamawanFauzi
The Leuser Ecosystem protects Aceh's people from deadly floods. SBY, stop the spatial plan http://chn.ge/1gK1VOb@presidenSBY, @GamawanFauzi
Sincerest thanks again for all your support in the push to protect the Leuser Ecosystem! #TheLastPlaceOnEarth
Kind regards from Aceh,
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Palm Oil: The Other Kind of Oil Spill
News Watch, National Geographic
By Elissa Sursara
Max laid hidden beneath the charred remains of a palm oil tree. He was frightened, injured, and falling in and out of consciousness.
I clicked my tongue and inched closer, hoping to soothe him. He eyed me curiously, hugging tightly to the branches. All around, the Tanjung Puting National Park burned, accidentally set alight by plantation workers who had cleared the surrounding land to harvest the palm oil plant. Separated from his family, Max had fallen casualty to the plantation fire, sustaining burns to his face and body.
In a swift move, I threw Max onto my back and raced toward the rescue team a few hundred meters away. As the smoke filled my lungs and hit my face, I felt Max' grip become loose and his body become limp. Eventually his breathing stopped, and he died.
Like thousands of orangutans before him, Max was the victim of a different kind of oil spill: the trade in palm oil.
Palm oil monoculture is palming off orangutans in record numbers. Today, less than 70,000 orangutans exist in small wild pockets in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. Populations are patchy and both species of orangutan are considered endangered, with conversion of land for palm oil plantation believed to be the species' biggest threat.
Today, the controversial palm oil process is again at the forefront of environmental news, with Greenpeace staging international protests against a multinational consumer goods company for allegedly using palm oil tied to a supplier with links to tropical forest destruction.
Found in some 75 percent of everyday products, palm oil (sometimes known as vegetable oil) is the edible oil derived from the fleshy middle layer of the fruit of the oil palm. It acts as a cooking agent and is a popular household ingredient. As of 2010, it was the most widely used edible oil in the world, holding approximately 32 percent of the world's oil market. Palm oil is found in McDonalds, Cadbury chocolates, Ben and Jerry's ice cream, KFC and KFC packaging, Dove and Avon personal care products, Herbal Essence shampoo, Clinique cosmetics, Tim Tams, Kit-Kats and Malteasers, Ritz crackers, Colgate and Palmolive toothpaste, Mars Incorporated chocolates and in Mary Kay, Covergirl, Lancome, Sephora, and Urban Decay cosmetics.
Scientists predict the average consumer uses at least one palm oil product per day.
Approximately 66 percent of Indonesia's palm oil plantations and 87 percent of Malaysia's plantations involve some form of documented forest conversion, displacing orangutans and disorienting their ability to find food and seek shelter. Since plantations are often close to villages, lost orangutans sometimes encroach on human settlement. The results are often deadly.
In 2010, animal rights group International Animal Rescue recorded "unspeakable cruelty" toward orangutans in Peniraman, remote Borneo, after a female orangutan and her baby wandered nearby a plantation in search of food. Angry workers allegedly hurled stones and waved sticks at the mother before binding the pair with rope and forcing their heads under the water. The mother later died.
To resolve the palm oil problem, environmental organizations have proposed sustainable palm oil process like a "no deforestation" policy suggested by Greenpeace. The initiatives seek to effectively reduce the pressure on endangered orangutans and their habitats, inherently safeguarding their populations.
WWF has pointed out: "other big palm oil consumers such as Unilever, Ferrero, L'Oreal, Delhaize, Kellog and the world's biggest palm oil trader, Wilmar International, have all committed to no deforestation."
Consumer support is also important in the protection of orangutans from harmful palm oil operations, WWF said, which can be facilitated by "palming off" unsustainable palm oil product.
PRESS RELEASE : Aceh NGOs call on the European Union to urgently mediate as conflict escalates over Aceh Parliament's illegal land use plan
PRESS RELEASE – Aceh Forest Coalition
13/03/2014 – For immediate distribution
Aceh NGOs call on the European Union to urgently mediate as conflict escalates over Aceh Parliament's illegal land use plan
[JAKARTA] Deputy Chairman of the Aceh Parliament, Muhammad Tanwir Mahdi, has announced to local media that Aceh Parliament rejected the Ministry of Domestic Affairs' official evaluation of the Aceh spatial plan by-law (Qanun RTRWA) 2014-2034.
The content of the Aceh spatial plan is highly controversial, and various sources have denounced it as legally invalid. "There are many unanswered legal issues that still surround the issuance of this spatial plan by-law", Kurniawan, SH, LLM. a legal expert from the University of Syiah Kuala of Banda Aceh, told a full press conference in Jakarta today. "The content of the proposed spatial planning law fails to recognize higher regulations, in particular 'The Law on Governing Aceh' (UU 11/2006) and the National Spatial Planning Law, both of which mandate the protection of the Leuser Ecosystem. The current spatial plan is technically invalid and must be revised to have any credibility", Kurniawan, concluded.
"We welcome the evaluation that has been conducted by the Ministry of Domestic Affairs and are disappointed that Aceh Parliament has rejected this opportunity to improve the content of the law", said Walhi Aceh (Friends of the Earth Indonesia) Chairman, Muhammad Nur. "In Aceh we suffer environmental and social problems because of the illegal land clearing from logging and palm oil that is already pushing our protected forests. The Aceh Parliament must recognize the environmental sensitivities of Aceh. Opening the protected forests causes flooding and landslides that create devastation for our people, which will only escalate with poor land use planning. We need a legally compliant spatial plan that includes the protection function of the Leuser Ecosystem. DPRA has failed to do this, and for this reason Walhi Aceh will be pushing a judicial review of the spatial plan on behalf of the community and environment of Aceh".
"Aceh has been very fortunate to have the support of the world for many years" Said Farwiza, Chairperson of Forest Nature and Environment Aceh. "From 1992 to 2004 Aceh Government worked together with the EU on environmental and social development. We cannot forget the generosity of the world after we suffered the great losses of the 2004 tsunami, for this, I, as an Acehnese woman, will be forever grateful to the people of the world. There was a bitter 30 year civil conflict which ended with the MoU Helsinki, thanks to international facilitation. Aceh made great gains to rebuild thanks to a strong commitment to working together with the central government and international community, however, but now many in Aceh feel as if we have been forgotten, all of the gains we made together are now at risk if we can not urgently work together to find a solution to the rising social and environmental conflict that is now taking place."
For further information please contact:
Kurniawan, SH, LLM
Legal Academic, University of Syiah Kuala of Banda Aceh
Muhammad Nur
Walhi (Friends of the Earth Indonesia) Aceh Chairman,
Aceh Lawmakers Reject Clarification of Interior Ministry
BANDA ACEH – Aceh Provincial Lawmakers and Government agreed to reject the evaluation result of the Interior Ministry on the Aceh's Law (Qanun) on Spatial Plan 2014-2034.
Deputy Chairman of the Aceh Parliament, Muhammad Tanwir Mahdi, explained that the rejection was not related to the content of the law, but because delay of the evaluation by the Ministry.
He stated that the law has been submitted to the Interior Minister on December 30, 2013. But the evaluation result was only received on February 20, 2014, although it was scheduled for January 15, 2014.
"It was over the evaluation period and now is in the clarification period," said Tanwir to Serambi on Sunday (8/3).
Since the result arrived late, the team member consisting of Aceh Lawmakers and Government considered the Central Government for indiscipline. "The Central Government must be on time and discipline. If the evaluation period is 15 days, then once the law is received, they need to evaluate immediately", he added.
Within the evaluation letter of the Law on Spatial Plan of Aceh, 8 general points in general and 27 detail points of evaluation was included. "We have received all those evaluation result from the Interior Minister, we will not change the content of the law and we just returned it back to the Minister for clarification," said Tanwir.
If the reply on clarification elapses the 15 days period, the Aceh Provincial Law on Spatial Plan 2014-2034 passed at the end of 2013 will be included in the Provincial Gazette. "Once it is in the Provincial Gazettem the law is valid to be applied," concluded Tanwir.
In precedent-setting case, palm oil company fined $30M for destroying orangutan forest
In precedent-setting case, palm oil company fined $30M for destroying orangutan forest
Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com
January 09, 2014
In a precedent-setting case, an Indonesian court has found a palm oil company guilty of violating environmental laws and ordered it to pay $30 million in fines and reparations for clearing an area of protected peat forest that is a stronghold for endangered orangutans in Indonesia's Aceh Province.
In a ruling handed down Wednesday, the Meulaboh district court concluded that PT Kallista Alam illegally cleared and burned forest within the the protected Tripa peat swamp in northwestern Sumatra. Senior Judge Rahmawati SH ordered the company to pay 114.3 billion rupiah ($9.4 million) in compensation and 251.7 billion rupiah ($20.6 million) to restore damaged areas.
The case was seen as a test of Indonesia's appetite for enforcing a nationwide moratorium on new plantation and logging concessions across millions of hectares of rainforests and peatlands. Kallista Alam's activities were particularly brazen, appearing to violate the moratorium, an earlier presidential decree on conversion of deep peat areas, and the sanctity of a high conservation value area known for its orangutan population. Kallista Alam also moved forward with forest clearing without securing proper permits or sign-off from some nearby communities.
Given the circumstances, the clearing sparked international outrage with more than 1.5 million people signing various online petitions calling for greater protection of Aceh's forests, including opposing a proposal to remove large blocks of tiger and orangutan habitat from protection. Eventually, campaigns by environmental groups pushed the senior officials in the central government and the Ministry of the Environment to call for investigations, bolstering the legal proceedings.
With the ruling, environmental campaigners now hope that the Indonesian government will step up efforts to protect forests, especially in the Leuser Ecosystem, of which Tripa is a part.
"This is a clear message to companies working in Aceh who think they can destroy protected forests and get away with it," said Muhammad Nur, Chairman of WALHI Aceh (Friends of the Earth Indonesia), which helped lead the campaign against Kallista Alam.
"The Judge's decision in this case clearly illustrates a move towards improved law enforcement against environmental offenders in the region," added Kamaruddin, a lawyer for communities in the Tripa area.
Although Kallista Alam is expected the appeal the decision, the company still faces additional civil and criminal cases. According to the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme, four other palm oil companies operating in Tripa run the risk of prosecution.
"Each faces the possibility of serious financial consequences as a result of their illegal clearance, burning and drainage of Tripa's unique peat swamp ecosystem," said the group in a statement. "Some of the company Directors and senior management also face the prospect of prison terms in cases against them for their actions on the ground."
While the developments in Aceh are headline-grabbing, there are still questions whether the judgements will be ultimately enforced. Courts have levied tens of billions of dollars in fines against logging, pulp and paper, mining, and palm oil companies in Sumatra in recent years, but only a tiny fraction of the penalties have ever been paid. Cases may be held up for years by appeals or quietly dropped. Prosecutors are shuffled between agencies, companies change names and laws shift.
Accordingly, Graham Usher of the PanEco Foundation says it is still too early to determine whether the Tripa case is a one-off or the emergence of a broader trend of better environmental law enforcement.
"The court's decision is indeed a huge victory, and represents one significant step in the right direction," Usher said in a statement. But I think many more such steps are needed before we will really see a change in the behavior of companies and officials."
Indonesia has among the highest deforestation rates in the world, with the country losing almost half of its forest cover since 1950. Over the past twenty years, deforestation has been increasingly driven by industrial activities, including conversion for oil palm and timber plantations, intensive logging, and mining.
Deforestation has left several of Indonesia's best-known animal species at risk of extinction, including tigers, rhinos, elephants, and orangutans, all of which live in Aceh. Forest loss has also increased social conflict in some areas, especially places with forest-dependent populations.
Palm oil company fined US$30m for clearing 1,000 hectares in Indonesia
Company ordered to pay US$30m for burning 1,000 hectares for palm oil plantation
An Indonesian court has ordered a palm oil company to pay almost US$30 million to the state for illegally clearing peatland in a "historic" ruling, government lawyers said yesterday.
The Meulaboh district court on Sumatra island ruled on Wednesday that Indonesian company Kallista Alam had illegally burned vegetation on 1,000 hectares of peatland in Aceh province to clear it for a palm oil plantation.
In the civil case brought by the Ministry of Environment, the court ordered the company to pay 114.3 billion rupiah (HK$73 million) in losses to the state and 252 billion rupiah to rehabilitate the land it destroyed.
The forest was protected under several laws, including a presidential decree suspending new permits to log peatland and some other types of forests across the country.
Using fire to clear land is also illegal. The practice has sent choking haze across parts of Southeast Asia in recent years.
"This is a historic moment for law enforcement on environmental issues in Indonesia. We hope it will deter plantation companies from damaging the environment," the environment ministry's lawyer, Syafruddin, said.
The case was seen as a test of the moratorium on logging permits and of reform in the country's corrupt and mismanaged forestry sector, which has allowed destruction of habitats to plant palm oil and timber.
Environmental groups welcomed the decision, saying it was a sign of improved law enforcement and would set a precedent.
"This is a clear message to companies working in Aceh who think they can destroy protected forests and get away with it," Friends of the Earth Indonesia chairman Muhammad Nur said.
Indonesia, home to one of the world's largest expanses of tropical rainforest, is also the world's biggest palm oil producer.
The company's lawyer, Alfian Sarumaha, said Kallista Alam would likely appeal the ruling.


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Following up on my article on railbanking in Sunday's Sentinel, a couple of further points.
First, I don't think of railbanking as a failure. It has in fact succeeded in its primary purpose: to get more trails built. However its secondary purpose, the restoration of rail service to previously railbanked lines, has had little effect. Second, I need to correct a typo on my part. Out of 3,600 miles of trails in railbanked corridors, we have only 19 miles (that's one-half of one percent) that have obtained authority to revert to rail use. We still have zero miles that were railbanked, the tracks torn up, the railbed paved for a trail, and then tracks and rail service were restored.
The reality of railbanking remains that it is very unlikely, and in fact has never happened, that tearing up the tracks and paving over the railbed leads to rail restoration. History teaches that taking such a course is very likely an irreversible decision.
— Paul Schoellhamer, Watsonville
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Men in Florida Arrested on Suspicion of Timeshare Fraud
On Friday, the Delray Beach police with cooperation from Florida's Attorney General arrested two men for charges related to timeshare resale fraud. Officials are now demanding restitution for their crimes against their clients and the industry.
Attorney General Pam Bondi's office said, the men arrested were Nicholas Paul, the owner of Provident Choice LLC, and Gerald W. Clarke of William Clarke P.A.
These men and their subsequent companies had claimed that they were working with timeshare fraud victims to get their money back from fraudulent listing companies, but in-turn charged an up-front fee, just like the companies they claimed to be pursuing for their clients.
A Lake Worth timeshare resale company, the company in question, failed to solve consumer claims in a $110,000 settlement, state officials said. The Attorney General's office is now seeking more than $550,000 in restitution to consumers and a permanent injunction against TS Luxury Group Inc. and owner Mary Filocomo.
State officials said the company charged up-front timeshare listing fees based on false and misleading sales pitches to timeshare property owners that a willing buyer was waiting. Company officials could not be reached for comment.


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Pretty and elegant wedding cake, I like it!
And that Gordon train is AMAZING! You should be taking props for the rest of your life for that one
I'm so glad I'm not the only one! What kinds of cake are you having? Mine will be mud on the bottom, then my layer will be coconut raspberry, and I haven't decided on the top yet. Matcha would be fun, but not sure if the fiancee will roll with green cake at his wedding. I'm prefecting my raspberry coconut recipe at the mo, heaps of fun and heaps of saturated fats being shared around the office


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The Safest Time to Get Heart Surgery
If you're about to have cardiac surgery, a new study suggests you should opt for an afternoon appointment. It has been previously shown that heart health fluctuates over the day, with the risk of stroke or cardiac arrest being higher in the morning. This new research points to the body's clock, the circadian rhythm, being the possible culprit and explores if surgery is less risky later in the day.
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Virtual Reality to Improve Mental Health
As VR devices become an affordable reality, can they be used as treatment options to improve mental health? Initially funded by the DoD to treat PTSD, the technology is opening multiple new avenues; from the treatment of anxiety and fears, to teaching mindfulness and relaxation methods.
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The Opioid Epidemic
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A big congratulations to our Julie Flack!
Julie has been off for a couple of week's well-earned leave. She had a great cruise through the islands.
Imagine her surprise when she came back to work to discover that one of her Landlord clients had sent her a gift of not one, but 6 bottles of wine, just
to say "Thank You" for a job well done in finding an excellent tenant for their new property!
It's these gestures of gratitude that make this job of property management so enjoyable. It shows a real appreciation for everything that we do for our


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Tuesday was a successful day. We headed off to Bristol early at 7am from school and we're met by many of the people also taking part in the PruGOals programme. It was good to see everyone again, still as excited as at the digital launch. We took part in different stations during the day which consisted of nutrition and motivation tips. These were all extremely helpful. We all had the pleasure of meeting Dame Kelly Holmes before taking part in our training ride who was lovely. The ride was completed by us all successfully and it was an incredible experience to get a small taster of what the real event in London will be like.
On Tuesday 20th March we travelled down very early in the morning from school to M Shed in Bristol. We were going to complete our training ride with our PruGOals team!! We arrived on time and we were taken upstairs where the start to the day was imminent. We were broken off into groups and sent to different stations. Our first station was all about our goals for the ride. We re-evaluated the goals we set last time and decide on some new ones too. We then learned more about the fantastic route we would embark on whilst we did the Prudential ride London. It was all getting real now! After we had a quick break, we then moved on to our nutrition workshop. In this workshop we were informed about the best ways to keep our bodies in tip top shape so that we can complete the ride. This was very helpful and i already feel like it is helping. Lunch came after that which was great as all the food talk made almost everyone hungry. Lunch was finished and there was only one thing left to complete... our training ride! We had a short briefing and we made our way out into the car park of M shed and collected our bikes. Firstly we had to check our air, brakes, chain and direction on our bikes before we could begin. After a great hour and a bit we were all finished for the day and I felt like I had achieved an Olympic gold medal with all of the hard work I put in. Luckily we had a relaxed journey back home and a well earned chill out once we got back. What a day!


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Carrie Olivia Adams is a poet as much of the line as what's in-between them, and her newest book, Operating Theater, is no exception. A haunting drama of the liminality of the body, this dialogue-driven play-poem asks over and over one profound question: what is inside? Steeped in Victorian surgical manuals and medical X-rays, the voices here explore the tension between the mind and the body, between subject and other, asking how we can know, and from knowing, live together, in a house, or in a city.
I had a chance to ask Carrie a few questions about this book (and film her reading from a brief section). The book has just published with Noctuary Press and is available for purchase through Small Press Distribution and Amazon.
How is it that the past becomes invisible? After I leave the
You enter. And cannot see what I did there.
Forgetting is required.
Why aren't you more forgetfulness?[One]
There is no choosing to forget or to remember.
I've heard they are threads. A fabric. A textile.
Some space might wrap me in its thinly woven blanket.
It's still cold out there.
What if forgetting never starts?
The first thing people might notice about this work is its stage play format, the "Acts" and the dialogue between two characters. One thinks maybe of the witches of Macbeth or Beckett plays like Waiting for Godot or Endgame. Can you talk about your flirtations with the stage, particular the postmodern or post-apocalyptic stage? Have you thought about having this produced on the stage?
As much as I've always enjoyed experimenting with form (I seem incapable of just writing a poem-poem, some self-contained thing of a handful of stanzas and lines), I think I've always also been fascinated by the idea of the theater, not the idea of performance, which I think is the concept de rigueur, but very much the construction and conception of the theater itself. I love going to plays, and one of my favorite theater groups is in Chicago, The Hypocrites, and they not only do original plays but unusual (often quirky) adaptions for famous works—they are best known for The Seven Sicknesses, which reproduced all seven Sophocles tragedies in one whirlwind performance. What I love is the willingness of the theater audience to go along and play along with shows like this.
With a play, unlike something produced for television or film, you often see more of the apparatus of the production immediately before you—you can see the hardware holding up the construction (sometimes even the paint cans tucked in the corner), the sets change, characters run through the wings, and we just welcome the movement. There is a suspension of disbelief that is completely unique to the form and the idea of the stage. The stage is a space in and on which we say: Here, come into this particular world. I envy this physical space and love the idea of writing a play and watching my words come to life in the mouths of strangers. And most of all, that an audience would then welcome them—I think people come to the theater so much more open than they do the page, especially the poetry page. Maybe I want all poems to be dialogues even if they are not; to find a correspondent, a twinned voice that might echo the cries we shout into the void, to empathize with and expand upon them. I actually keep thinking about writing an actual play; but I also think about opening a taco stand or being a detective.
Tell me something I don't know—
These clumsy hands
the scalpel
the way we cut
across the mattress, across
the platform—
The see saw
the push pull.
That's what it takes—
It's not just the plunge in
but the courage to pull it
out and start again.
If one of the words in the title is "Theater," then the other must be "Operating"—let's talk about science. Over the course of your books science has seemed to play a more and more prominent role. Could you talk about how science—science writing, the history of science—folds into the lyric mode? Perhaps both are forms of inquiry?
I realize I should have ended the first question not only with opening a taco stand or being a detective, but also being a scientist. I am someone who spends an inordinate amount of time thinking about careers I might have had (even though I am very happy being a publicist/editor/poet). But, I think I'm envious of everyone's expertise. The most dangerous thing a professor once said to me in college (and perhaps one of the most dangerous and influential statements ever uttered to these ears) was, "Milton was the last man who could know everything." And here I am, this young, curious, extremely earnest student, and I realize that the world of knowledge is now too large for me to even scrape some cells off its skin.
I love the idea that once upon a time people could be experts in multiple disciplines. I miss the idea of the generalist versus the specialist. I should say that right now I am answering these questions from a hotel in DC, where I am traveling for work as a book publicist, a job that requires me to have cocktail party knowledge of economics one moment, evolutionary science the next, or the history of southern grains and agriculture—you name it. And I love this—being able to dip my toes into all sorts of new knowledge. When I first started seriously incorporating science into my poems, I was working in the Journals Division at the University of Chicago Press, which at that time published the Astrophysical Journal. Trying to find ways to combine my work and poetry lives, I inevitably couldn't help but skim through the pages of the Astro journals squirreling away phrases or ideas that sounded interesting to me. It was a world I wished I could have known and understood, as it was later with mathematical theories and then anatomy and surgery. I think scientists and poets are both trying to do the same thing, which is why poetry has often looked to science in the last several decades (though I will admit that I came to science out of practicality–it was sitting on my desk already–and out of my general curiosity and only later came to realize I was participating in a tradition).
To state it simply, both poets and scientists are trying to find/make language to understand the world; taxonomy and poetry are siblings. Indeed, they are modes of inquiry, of ordering, structuring, and understanding. I, perhaps in part, gravitate towards the authority that science gives to ideas (a weight the lyric mode, which exists in worlds real and unreal, does not carry). I am attracted to logic, even the syntactic structure of proofs. And I like to find ways to balance my inclination toward intuition with reason.
If it must be seen with the naked eye, we are already too late.
Science is also a form of research: can you discuss your source texts (largely Victorian surgical texts), where you discovered them, what first piqued your interest about them, and how they helped lead to this project?
It was in fact very random. One day I was browsing in an antique store in Chicago, which specialized in industrial and professional antiques—like dentist chairs and stage lighting—and amid those large items were a few boxes of black and white slides, which I was drawn to open. Inside I discovered pictures of lungs and brains, diseased and dissected. They were meant for teaching the diagnosis of illnesses at different stages. I have a morbid streak, and I always had a thing for proving how tough I was with a scalpel in biology class, and I knew I could do something with these images, but I wasn't sure what. So, after I bought the slides, I started to dig around on Google Books for texts that were in the public domain (the practicality of being able to quote them an original driving factor). But the best feature of early medical books is that they are not as much written for experts. And the early language of science is based in metaphor, in description; they are not only approachable, but evocative. I knew that I had immediately found something I could work with.
I wanted to give my life back,
so I decided to cut it into pieces.
For you, a limb. For you, some marrow.
Is it easier to grasp?
At the same time this work suggests performance in physical space, and of course deals directly with issues of the body (you even go so far as to list the definitions of "body"), the characters feel powerfully disembodied, to exist in liminal space. I'm curious if this sense of haunting was your intention at the outset, or in any case how you came to associate this with surgery? The use of the X-rays as section breaks is particularly effective in helping establish this feel.
What immediately began to intrigue me when reading the source material was the focus on domestic space; they literally teach you how to make an operating room in a dining room, using a raincoat to cover the table. Before the modern hospital, often the most sterile environment was your own home. Once the idea of surgery and the actual theater of the operation became domestic in my mind, the liminality of the body came next. The body at home is the body in a relationship; it is the barrier between one and other; it is the egress the other is always trying to cross, not just in a physically intimate way, but in an empathetic way. The futile desire to know the other completely is unstoppable; but the metaphorical notion of surgery—of cutting open the other to peer inside—offers a solution. Yet, at the same time, what intrigued me when looking at the slides was that in their images the body, the most personal, individual piece, was unidentifiable. Would you know your lungs or your brain by looking at them in an X-ray? Would you say, "Oh look there, that wrinkle in the left lobe, that's so me?" Though I want to look inside you, the deeper inside you I look, the more anonymous you become.
You can cut open my mind
and see its figure traced there,
the patterns of those memories, a forest.
You can cut open my chest
and out of it
into those surgical lights
the seed will grow.
It's not as random as it might seem—
That a body becomes something to climb upon
That a body becomes something by which to date your life—
Something that you saw off, carve into, hack at
when you need to build a fire,
when you need to write it down,
when you need to remember.
Going along with that question—can you talk about the relationship between the mind and the body as it is articulated in this work? Do you view this as a dichotomy, or more like a hierarchy (we seem to arrive at the brain as a final destination)? What about memory and forgetting?
Descartes and I go way back; I think I've been kicking at the mind/body problem for as long as I can remember. Often, it's been about a desire to shed or lose the body. I think to some extent it's a gendered desire. It's this woman's body that gets between the world and the person. It's this body that causes, without invitation, conclusions to be drawn about its owner. The body dictates how the body's wearer is treated. So the speakers of many of my poems have often been trying to reject their own bodies, and yet, at the same time, the speakers are reliant on the body; it's tactile, concrete connection to the world and what's immediately real and present. There are no poems without the senses. For me, in the end, it's less about a hierarchy of the mind over the body, but a constant conflict. They are enemies and best friends; they are both the mediums for taking in and making sense. And they are both where the memories are stored.
Memory is a difficult and important idea for me. I have long prided myself on having a very, very good memory (though I fear it's starting to slip in middle age), but it's not a visual memory. I do not have a visual mind; I cannot hold pictures; I remember by impressions, by intuition—my memories are grounded in emotion. Which is understandably hard for me to explain or to make someone else understand—that I can remember a place or a face even if I can't see it in my mind's eye. For me, my memory exemplifies that conflict between the physical (the eye) and the intellectual (the mind's eye).
She came home and another window was broken.
She came home one step faster than yesterday. To say
that the threshold is creeping towards the sidewalk—
The foundation has threshed the threshold.
They kept walking in circles on one soft spot on the floor.
"Do you feel how it sinks here, here?"
She mistook an earthquake for the roof collapsing, sliding off
under the weight of the snow.
She can't keep the outside from coming in—
The blizzard that built an avalanche in the anteroom. The
ants that colonized the window sill.
To say that she riddled and had been riddled and felt the
riddling wither and winter.
There is so much here that is concerned with space, especially interiority, that when we get to "A Willing Hostage"—it is startling. The poet seems to step outside of her subject, to speak more personally. We feel as if the preceding sections have taken place inside of her, and yet this new section also feels enclosed, that she is captive. Can you talk about this layering and, especially, how you feel this section communicates with the other sections (for instance, it feels as though you wrote this section either first or last—this material feels separate)?
Each of the acts was envisioned to mirror a stage in the operating process. There is first a dialogue about the decision to undertake the operation; then there is the operating room itself with the preparations and materials for the work; and then there is the dream-like state of the patient under ether. The fourth act, "A Willing Hostage," is indeed outside the patient, who is discussed in third person. Though I don't argue for any particular reading of my work, for me it is perhaps best understood as the surgeon looking upon the patient. I was actually in DC on another work trip, and I was at a speakeasy-style bar called The Gibson, where I saw a drink on the menu called "A Willing Hostage," which I couldn't help but order (I have a history with drink and poem names). This consensual hostage-taking immediately struck me as a perfect description of the etherized patient in an operation, so I immediately jotted it down in my tiny notebook in the dim light. If I recall, I wrote the sections approximately in the order in which they appear; though I often take so many notes and piece them together like patchwork over a long time. I am so undisciplined that the process for me is always a slow stitching together, and I lose track of what came where and when. But, I think you're right that it is separate in some way, with the hope to convey literally another perspective, even another stage set.
How lungs can look like wings.
We make cautious, careful arrangements.
Come into this chamber of blood.
Leave a chamber of water.
In the final section, "Post-Op," we must believe that a transformation has taken place, images of the city more fully infiltrating the liminal space of the two speakers, images of wings (escape), and of course the startling closing line, whose water/blood dichotomy flirts with Christian symbolism. Can you illuminate this transformation, or discuss your thinking in the structure of this text and what you borrow from the tradition—for instance, the archetype of descending into the earth and returning to the surface.
You're an optimistic reader; or at least I read the word "transformation" with an optimistic tone. Which I absolutely welcome. But for me, I think there's a desperation, a sadness, a helplessness (crying on the subway), a futility, which circles back to the original desire for operation—one driven out of a impulse for empathy, compassion for an other, the desire to know an other. To live in a city is to be constantly surrounded by a humanity I want desperately to understand, to listen to, to help. Add to the list of careers I think of for myself—humanitarian, aid worker. I struggle with the value of putting words on paper/screen compared to putting rice in a bowl and putting it someone's hungry hands. To be born, to be alive in the world, is to be in a chamber of a blood, and it makes the blood-pumping chambers of my heart hurt—to find a way to connect, to offer something that might be of need. I want to believe that poems can do this.
Carrie Olivia Adams lives in Chicago, where she is a book publicist for the University of Chicago Press, the poetry editor for Black Ocean, and a biscuit maker and whiskey drinker. She is the author of Operating Theater (Noctuary Press, 2015), Forty-One Jane Doe's (book and companion DVD, Ahsahta, 2013) and Intervening Absence (Ahsahta, 2009) as well as the chapbooks Overture in the Key of F (above/ground press 2013) and A Useless Window (Black Ocean, 2006).


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Monday, 14 December 2009
Running With The Fash Pack.....Paris Fashion Week SS 2010
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Oh wow, I really want that dress! It fits her perfectly and is one of those pieces you could wear for years because it's so unique. - JoAnn, Sidewalk ChalkReplyDelete
I admire others style quite often (as I'm always thinking of the next great bargain-y steal of a deal) but when I saw this dress on this perfect woman, I literally gasped.ReplyDelete
I don't think I've ever envied another's style moreso than I do with this chic lady... The hair, the ruby red lips AND the perfect frock? Stunning.
~Bargain Bex ("BB")
I love this look - the short hair, the red lipstick and the amazing dress. Your posts from fashion week really make me miss Paris.ReplyDelete
- ellenitza
oooh her dress is great for a party!ReplyDelete
All your pictures are getting better and better Vanessa.ReplyDelete
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Fantastic dress! Fantastic streetstyle!! So happy I happened upon your blog!ReplyDelete
Sidewalk Chalk, BB: Exactly- she is one of those girls who looks great in everything she wears....not necessarily because it is the latest runway trend but because she puts her own stamp on things- like the red lipstick and short hair and little cream patent flatties here...ReplyDelete
Ellenitza- ha ha! It makes me miss Paris too!!
xoliquoricexo and Lilee: Perfect for Christmas parties and on into spring 2010!
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In the restroom of the plane Margaret and I flew on recently was the simple sign that read, "As a courtesy to the next passenger may we suggest that you use your paper towel to wipe off the wash basin."
One of the things that may discourage some of us is the lack of proper manners and common courtesy used today, even among other Christians.
Often missionaries will return to their home country, pastors to their church from overseas ministry, people to their own family after a conference, soldiers from the war, only to find that there is little or no interest from their family, Christian friends and home church. Very few, if any, will ask questions aside from "how are you?" and before you can answer, will be off to do something else or simply not listen for your answer.
Yes, this is rude, offensive and hurtful. We live in a very selfish world with most of us only interested in our little world and not in others.
When the shoe is on the other foot, let's be sure we reach out to others, ask questions and show a real interest "for Christ sake" in others. I have been around missionaries, pastors, mission pastors, friends, and family who do not even talk. Their interest is mainly in themselves. This is not right, so how do we respond? The Word of God teaches that we are not to be easily offended but to be kind, loving, compassionate and humble, to reach out to others with compassionate care, to show common courtesy, respect and manners whether they do or not.
Is this matter important? Paul the Apostle seemed to think so as he (by the Holy Spirit) spent so much time writing a lot about common (but important) courtesies to others (Romans 12 and Philippians 2).
Perhaps God would use us to help our society, and even our Christian friends and family, to reach out to others with the grace of our Lord Jesus for His glory!


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Statue: Milton statue - Hammersmith
Site: Hammersmith Library (3 memorials)
W6, Shepherds Bush Road, Hammersmith Carnegie Library
Milton sitting on the left; Shakespeare on the right; Carnegie's cartouche is inside the porch, above the door.
Erected in 1905, Carnegie Legacy confirms that, as for the Islington Library, the architect was Henry Hare and the sculptor was Schenck.
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Should you trust a startup?
If you run a business that's active online, or are involved in digital marketing in any way, chances are you've done business with a startup before.
No big deal, right? After all, today's hot startup could be tomorrow's Apple or Google, and even if it isn't, there's no denying that startups are a driving force behind innovation.
But should you always trust a startup? Are there times when joining forces with one is a bad idea?


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The Chemours plant, responsible for discharging GenX and other fluorinated compounds into the Cape Fear River for at least 30 years, reportedly suspended its operations before Hurricane Florence hit, according to state environmental regulators.
The facility hugs the Cape Fear River near the Cumberland-Bladen county line. North of the plant in Fayetteville, the river is currently at 40.59 feet, according to the National Weather Service, 5 feet above flood state.
The river is expected to reach 62.3 feet by Tuesday, which would exceed peak levels during Hurricane Matthew — 58 feet. the record is 68 feet.
Concerns about further degradation of the river and nearby private drinking water wells focus on the heavily contaminated soils and groundwater at the plant site. Rain and flooding could wash the compounds into the river and onto neighboring properties.
DEQ spokeswoman Bridget Munger said if conditions are safe enough for travel tomorrow, staff from the Division of Water Resources will conduct a site visit and restart sampling the discharge. The sampling equipment was turned off ahead of the storm, Munger said, to avoid damaging or losing the equipment.
However, considering that the river is forecast to rise for at least the next day, the site inspection could be delayed.


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After being fired by Disney earlier this year, the man behind the "Guardians of the Galaxy" franchise has jumped from Disney-owned Marvel to the DC Universe.
Warner Bros and DC have hired James Gunn to write the second film of "Suicide Squad," and he could find himself in the director's chair, Deadline reported.
He was fired in July after old, controversial tweets came to light during the height of the #MeToo movement.
The tweets included comments that he at the time considered provocative, on topics of rape and pedophillia, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Many in the cast of the hit "Guardians of the Galaxy" films wrote an open letter to to Disney asking the company to reinstate Gunn. But Disney CEO Bob Iger, despite outcry from fans too said "I haven't second-guessed their decision."
"Suicide Squad" focuses on the villains of the DC Universe, including, Harley Quinn, the Joker, Deadshot and Killer Croc.
DC and Warner Bros. say Gunn's script won't be a sequel to the original film, but rather a new take on the anti-hero team, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
As for the next "Guardians of the Galaxy" movie, no one has officially been tapped to direct it, but some industry watchers says the director of "Thor: Ragnarok," Taika Waititi, could be on a short list, Deadline reported.
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William Shakespeare
Sonnet Cxlviii
Poem by William Shakespeare
O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight!
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love's eye is not so true as all men's 'No.'
How can it? O, how can Love's eye be true,
That is so vex'd with watching and with tears?
No marvel then, though I mistake my view;
The sun itself sees not till heaven clears.
O cunning Love! with tears thou keep'st me blind,
Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find.
Comments about Sonnet Cxlviii by William Shakespeare
Fabrizio Frosini (1/9/2016 1:26:00 PM)
A somewhat disturbing sonnet which forms one of the group of four (147-50) in which the poet sees his love as a sort of raging fever, a madness in his blood, and he endeavours to come to terms with his own perplexity.(Report)Reply
Fabrizio Frosini (1/9/2016 1:26:00 PM)
There are probably hidden threads of reference in this group of poems which now can no longer be uncovered. The foulness with which he manages to end each of the four sonnets (blackness, foulness, defect, unworthiness) probably refers to her perceived unfaithfulness, but may also have implications of sexual voracity and/or disease, the French malady as it was called, a name which covered various sexually transmitted diseases, but more often referred to syphilis and its devastating effects. The sonnet may also be read as if it were part of a sequence complaining of a beloved mistress's disdain, but given the content of some of the surrounding sonnets, (e.g.142,151,152) it seems more probable that there are other hidden and more sinister meanings.
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Mako & DLR Step Into The Metalheadz Arena With Their Fantastic OneMind Collaboration
Posted by Adam on 26th November 2016
These two producers have been growing in ability and stature over the past 5 years or so and it's great to see something as fruitful as the OneMind venture. Metalheadz will be releasing an album's worth of material across 3 EP's, the first of which is EP1.
Side one begins with the skitty rattlesnake Skin Dem. True to much of the Headz output of late, it's a throwback to a cultured sound given new life through crisp production and nimble arrangement. It's got the punch of Jonny L's 'See Red' with a collection of samples that will drag you straight back to Sundays at Blue Note.
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Early Evolution featuring Ulterior Motive is a sparse affair which takes about 2 minutes to get going, but it's worth waiting for. Industrial and mechanical, this track lurches and stumbles through itself until a welcomed atmospheric break in the middle. I'm a big fan of Ulterior Motive and it's good to see a coherent 4 producer track fortified with enough growl to leave a Rottweiler reeling.
Flip over and the B side kicks off with 2 On Each Side. Basically, don't even attempt to listen to this without ample speakers or you'll miss half the tune…! It's a low end workout in the most traditional and uncompromising way. The sounds all have room to breathe, not battling for the front and while it's probably not going to be the most eventful track you'll own in 2016, it's sturdy.
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Closing the EP is Expliciticity ft Om Unit. If I described the last track as uncompromising, this most certainly picks up where it left off (least of all the track name, still trying to say it right!). Early Metalheadz releases were a golden era of sound for me personally. You could hear so many influences in the tunes and they really were like listening to jazz records. This collab is a lot like that, it's fully thugged out but has a proper sense of depth and belonging to the swirling Headz logo on the vinyl's centre.
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Imagine this: a 2.4-tonne SUV that can match a Porsche 911 to 100km/h. Well, a Mercedes-Benz ML 63 AMG will blast its way to 100km/h in 4.8 seconds and top out at 250km/h, limited by electronic interference.
That's the same as a BMW M3 and a Porsche 911. It'll show a clean pair of heels to the best from HSV and FPV, not to mention a Subaru WRX STi or a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo. It's quite incredible to think that this so-called family-friendly vehicle is really a wicked wolf in disguise.
So why? Why not? The ML 63 AMG is the pinnacle of the ML Class range, one which sits third on the sales charts behind the BMW X5 and the Land Rover Discovery. The 2012 facelift model should renew interest in the brand with all the improvements, particularly the fantastic new instrument panel and dashboard.
The embarrassment it can cause at the traffic light grand prix is humiliating. Goodbye HSV GTS, Falcon GT-P, STi and Evo. You pay for the privilege, a whopping $190K, but the joy of dragging off sports coupes and high-performance V8 sedans is priceless.It is expensive but consider this. The same engine in an E Class AMG sedan is $62,000 more and in the CLS, $80,000 extra.
Standard equipment includes parking sensors and rear camera, satellite-navigation, traction control, acceleration skid control, hill start assistance, anti-lock braking system (ABS), radar cruise control, start/stop function, automatic electric parking brake and Electronic Stability Program (ESP). Airbags include full-length windowbags, drive's knee bag, front and rear side bags.
There's also automatic climate control airconditioning, AMG door sills in stainless steel, AMG floor mats, AMG sports pedals in brushed stainless steel with rubber studs, a premium sound system with Bluetooth and USB interface, a tyre pressure monitoring system, headlamp cleaners, an electric sliding glass roof, heated front seats for driver and front passenger, blind-spot alert system and a lane-keeping system.
Amazingly, Benz says the ML 63 AMG is not only an autobahn stormer, but is relatively fuel efficient too. It says it uses 11.8 litres of fuel per 100km, undercutting the previous model by an impressive 28 per cent.
Unfortunately I was unable to get anywhere near that. I started about 23 litres/100km and managed to bring that down to 18.1 litres over a 280km drive which included a spirited run up the Gillies Range, across Springmount Rd to Dimbulah and the Bourke Development Rd to Dimbulah and back to Cairns.
The company says the AMG 5.5-litre V8 5 engine with a maximum power output of 386kW and a peak torque of 700Nm, represents an increase of 11kW and 70Nm over the previous model. If you must, an optional AMG performance package boosts the V8 engine's power output to 410kW and its maximum torque to 760Nm.
Power is transmitted to all four permanently driven wheels by an AMG Speedshift Plus seven-speed transmission featuring three modes and an automatic double-declutching function for downshifting. The radiator grille with louvres painted in high-gloss black and the large Mercedes star is a large cooling air intake.
The ML 63 AMG is an intimidating-looking beast, particularly from its brutal front, lowered suspension, large alloys and dark grey paintwork of the test vehicle.
Together with the two outer air intakes, the central radiator grille provides for an effective flow of air to the water, engine oil, charge-air and transmission oil coolers. Fitted at the bottom of the AMG front apron is a trim strip in matt silver chrome, which lends the front a wider appearance with the surrounds of the daytime running lamps in the side cooling air intakes.
The interior has electrically adjustable AMG sports seats with great lateral support as well as the four-spoke AMG performance steering wheel. Aluminium trim and the piano-lacquer retractable cover in the centre console highlight the interior's flair. The standard leather upholstery includes contrasting double topstitching and AMG badges in the backrests of the front seats and the outer rear seats.
The beast is docile around town and is easy to drive and park, a surprise package on the school run.
Tickle the accelerator, there's a split second pause and then it will raise its head and storm down the road with astonishing force. The noise is incredible, this is thunder down under. There's a launch system which enables you to hold the vehicle with the brake while burying the accelerator to the floor.
After lifting off the brake the SUV takes off like a creature possessed, arriving at 100km/h in less than 5 seconds. It's quite a feat. The gear lever is a simple wand to the right of the steering column with just drive, reverse and park.
Paddle shifts behind the wheel allow manual changes. In the centre console are settings to allow manual changes, Economy mode and Sport drive, and also Comfort settings, Sport and Sport Plus. The latter enhances the gear changes and the engine's performance for ultimate go.
Around town and on the open road Comfort is best to absorb our mediocre road surfaces. Sport sharpens everything and Sport Plus even more to make tackling uphill winding stretches like the Gillies a lot more fun and secure.
Despite its weight and its tall body the ML 63 AMG can be quite a tidy handler, with little body roll, good steering responses and great brakes. Often the stability control light flashed on and off up the Gillies but there was no noticeable interference from the electronic nanny.
The automatic downshifting and engine blipping is marvellous. It was a fine drive across the twisty and undulating sections of the Springmount Rd from Walkamin to the Dimbulah turn off. It stormed from corner to corner with aplomb and even on second rate country roads it traversed with dignity and tidiness unbecoming of a big SUV.
It cruises on the open road with relative quietness with just the large door mirrors causing wind rush but engine and road noise was subdued. Overtaking is a joy. Smash the loud pedal and the ML 63 AMG gets past slower vehicles briskly and safely.
For the journey down the Kuranda Range I engaged the radar setting which kept me a safe distance from the vehicle in front. At no time down the range did I use the brakes at all. I just steered and the big Benz did everything else.
The ML 63 AMG is an astonishing vehicle. It combines storming performance with the practicality of a 4WD five-door SUV with plenty of room for the youngsters and mum. Dad will be able to indulge his need for some Porsche 911 get up and go while still being able to provide regular transport for mum on the school, sport and supermarket runs. Economy is never going to be one of its strong points but it gives the family man the option of a sporty drive with all the requirements for the youngsters and mum. It's a no-brainer really.
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Body: five-door luxury SUV
Warranty: three years/100,000km
Price: $189,713 drive away
Engine: 5.5-litre twin turbo V8, 386kW/700Nm
Transmission: 7-speed automatic, AWD
Performance: 0-100km/h in 4.8 seconds, top speed 250km/h (limited)
Thirst: 11.8L/100km, petrol (18.1L on test), 93 litres, CO2 276g/km
Dimensions: length 4804mm, width 1926mm, height 1796mm, wheelbase 2915mm, weight: 2345kg
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Engine: 4.2-litre 8-cylinder, 250kW/800Nm
Transmission: 8-speed auto, AWD
Thirst: 9.2L/100km, CO2 242g/km
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Engine: 3-litre 6-cylinder, 225kW/600Nm
Transmission: 8-speed auto, 4X4 constant
Thirst: 7.5L/100km, CO2 198g/km
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your attitude towards the code you writeby zetetes (Pilgrim)
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Fellow monks,
I'm working on a perl-project in close teamwork with a colleague. We're students and doing this project for a company. I'm coding perl since maybe 3, 4 years, he's just started (he's more on the PHP-side of life).
before this project i never worked this close with anyone on a programming project, and if so, always with elderly, calm people. It seems to me, my colleague has a completely different attitude towards scripting and coding.
i do believe, coding means to work with problems all day. To try to solve problems. this means to me: if i do not like those problems, it's not a good thing for me and the work i do.
he, on the other side, is often sitting next to me, cursing, getting agressive towards perl, his hardware, me and the world in general. As if the code he writes is infringing him personally. To me it looks as if he wanted to have solved every problem before it even occurs to him.
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I had thought about and worked on four possible Cherry Hill stories before that:
- FRIENDLY FIRE--about Laura Grace Chandler meeting Samantha Smith, an abused foster child
- CONSUMING FIRE--about the prosecution of Samantha's abusers and a growing relationship between Laura Grace and Mack Singer
- LINE OF FIRE--about Laura Grace's new family and the discovery of Mack's unknown son, a young Marine
- HEART FIRE--about Samantha's children and the aging of her mother
- "Well, she's pretty enough and has the Chandler coloring," her silver hair didn't shift as she turned back to me, "but you know she's not a real Chandler, Laura Grace."
- The embossed ivory invitation was from the one address I'd hoped never to see again, and the initials on the flap--HCC--made my stomach clench.
- Over the years her eyes had faded to ice blue and now they looked on my child with chilling disapproval.
- Her perfume was the same--a mix of rose and gardenia--but with a subtle addition I could only identify as old lady skin.
- I had never faced her without Tom at my side, but now that my knight was gone, I was on my own, and I was Samantha's only shield.
Here's a taste of what I've discovered:
- "While the extravagant charity of the Cherry and Chandler families is well known, Thomas, we do not practice it with our marriage vows."
- "My vows are charity only if you use the Biblical definition of the word—love. But that wasn't what you were referring to, was it, Mother?"
- The warmth of the flame consuming the pine limbs spread up his arms and the tension wiring his shoulders taut eased, a sharp contrast to the cold tone Mother had used to voice her displeasure of him and his plans.
- She was still spare and elegant, and so was the room.


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July 10 (UPI) -- The Game of Thrones spinoff will begin filming in the fall.
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Game of Thrones is based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series, and will return for an eighth and final season on HBO in 2019. HBO ordered a pilot for a prequel series in June.
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MICHAEL VAN GERWEN says that this weekend's Dutch Darts Masters is the perfect tournament for him to make his return to the oche.
The world number one took August off to spend time with his wife, Daphne, and their newborn daughter, Zoë – but will return to defend his title in his homeland on Saturday.
"I'm really looking forward to competing again," said World Champion Van Gerwen.
"It has been a brilliant month with my family and now I have even more motivation to win for them.
"It's perfect for me that my first tournament back is here in Holland and I am determined to win this event again."
The Dutch Darts Masters is this year's ninth PDC European Tour event and will take place in Maastricht for the first time.