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Pandemic (2008)

Game Details
NamePandemic (2008)
Accessibility ReportMeeple Like Us
ComplexityMedium Light [2.42]
BGG Rank85 [7.62]
Player Count (recommended)2-4 (1-4)
Designer(s)Matt Leacock
Artist(s)Josh Cappel, Christian Hanisch, Régis Moulun, Chris Quilliams and Tom Thiel

TL;DR: It's great! You should probably try it if you can!

Stay back! I mean it – stay back or I’m going to fire this nail-gun right through your disgusting, plague-ridden head. You’re one of Them – you’re one of the Infected. I didn’t commandeer this Tesco Metro for nothing, sniffy – I’m going to ride this supermarket like a donkey, right through to the other side of this apocachooooo! Achooo! Achooo!

Well. Bugger.

Okay, I hear you buddy – doesn’t look like either of us are going to survive this pandemic. So let’s work together for the few hours we have left. You start. I’m just going to lie here and weep for a bit until these blue cubes stop hemorrhaging out of my backside.

Pandemic box

A little box of horrors

Pandemic is a very popular game of co-operative failure, in which each of the players takes on the role of heroic Centres for Disease Control personnel looking to avert a world-wide epidemic. It’s a Matt Leacock game, if that means anything to you – if you’ve played Forbidden Island or Forbidden Desert, you’ve already had what is essentially the ‘Diet Pandemic’ experience. If not, then you’re in for a bumpy ride – this is not a kind game. If Pandemic were a dog, it would be a violently aggressive bulldog trained by a bullying skin-head. If it were an episode of TV show, it would be the Red Wedding. If it were a person, it would be Russell Crowe. It’s going to hurt you, is what I’m saying.

Pandemic board

Oh, baby baby it’s a mad world

It is though a very nice-looking game, with lots of attention given to the thematic weight of the various components. The four-fold board is a world map (of sorts), with various urban centres marked out in vivid colours. It looks like our world, but it isn’t – at least, judging by the fact that everywhere that’s marked isn’t quite where you’d expect it to be. That’s a relief, anyway – we’re dealing with a world-wide plague, but at least it’s in a universe that’s only adjacent to our own. Having said that, we’re dealing with diseases that have already likely crossed species barriers – inter-dimensional ones are likely only a matter of time.

Yeah, I said ‘diseases’, because Pandemic doesn’t content itself with one impossible epidemic. It serves us up four of them, and we need to deal with all of them at the same time. So it’s a game of careful, cautious progress where we make use of the painstaking preciseness of the scientific method to slowly isolate diseases and then develop suitable vaccines and…

Disease cubes

I coughed these up this morning.

Actually, no. It’s more like riding a roller-coaster of despair directly into a hurricane of inevitable defeat while being slowly eviscerated by your own impossible sense of hubris. You don’t have time to screw around with the scientific method – you’ve got four fires, and you’ve only been given three buckets. And every turn, those fires are getting bigger and those buckets are getting rustier. At a certain point you realise that you’re not going to save the world, and the best you can do is find a safe vantage point from which you can watch it crumble. And then, if you’re lucky, pick through the slowly mouldering remains of society for a new flat-screen TV in the wreckage.

Many games introduce a failure state. As with diseases, one isn’t enough for Pandemic. It gives you three ways to fail, and each fail-state is punishingly difficult to avoid.

To begin with, look at the bottom right of the map – that’s the player deck. On each of their turns, a player will draw two cards from this (initially) substantial heap. If you run out of cards in the deck, you lose the game. Now look at the left hand side of the board. That’s the outbreak counter. When that progresses along to the skull and crossbones at the bottom, you’ve lost the game. That’s two of the ways you can lose. The first represents time running out, and the second represents the collapse of society’s infrastructure to such an extent that a cure couldn’t be produced and distributed even if it was to be found.

What’s the third way? We’re going to come back to that.

All players have four actions they can perform during each of their turns. Some of these actions are movements:

  1. Drive or ferry to an adjacent city
  2. Take a direct flight to a city by discarding a player card of the same name
  3. Charter a flight to any city by discarding a card that matches the city the player currently occupies
  4. Move from a city with a research station to another city with a research station.

Some offer more substantive opportunities to impact on the game state:

  1. If we have a card that matches our current city, we can discard it to build a research station.
  2. If we’re in a city that’s diseased, we can spend an action to cure some or all of the outbreaks of a specific disease.
  3. If we’re in a city that matches a card we own, and in the same city as another player, we can give them that card. Or we can take a card from them.
  4.  If we’re at a research station, we can discard five cards of the same colour to cure that disease.

It’s a lot to remember, so luckily we get a nice card that reminds us.

Each player in the game picks a role at the start, and this role gives them some special powers. The researcher for example can give anyone in their current city any card even if it doesn’t match the location. The dispatcher can move any player to any city provided it already has someone there. The operations expert can build research centres without spending a card, and so on. The roles are properly chosen at random, but most players ignore this because it can create some extremely difficult games. Some roles are definitely more powerful than others, especially in games with smaller player counts – a medic and a dispatcher can work wonders. A quarantine specialist and an operations expert, on the other hand, will have a tough road to hoe.

Pandemic roles

It’s basically like being in the Avengers. Except you spend more time knee-deep in vomit.

When we begin, we draw two cards representing cities and events. Mostly we get cities, each of which is colour coded. Cities represent tickets for direct flights and chartered flights, but they also represent possible cures – get enough of them into the hand of a single player and you can cure a disease. Curing all four of the diseases is the only way to win, so you absolutely need to do that. But, if there are too many outbreaks you will also lose the game, so you need to be making sure that no disease gets out of hand. So you absolutely need to do that as well. But, every time you draw a card from the player deck, you run the risk of receiving the dreaded ‘Epidemic’ card, which makes everything worse. So you absolutely have to do everything you can to prepare for that! There’s so much to take care of, and you don’t have time to take care of any of it to the extent needed.

We start off with a research centre in Atlanta, and all our little pawns go there too – so we get a nice little crowd huddling together before the hard rain falls. I like to think of them as sitting together in the lab, sipping coffee and making jokes, when a mobile phone rings. And then another. And then another. They all take the calls simultaneously, and then as they realise the extent of the problem they slide down fire poles into their Diseasemobile.

Atlanta pawns

Just another day at the office

Once we’ve got our roles and our cards, we begin setup of the board. We place the outbreak marker on zero – that’ll increase each time a disease gets out of control. We put our infection marker on two – that represents how many new incidences of infection we’ll get every turn. Then we seed the board. We draw three cards to represent our first major hot-spots – each of the cities we draw gets three disease cubes of the appropriate colour. We draw our first card, and it hits Atlanta. That’s okay! That’s good news, actually! Atlanta is a blue city, so it gets three blue cubes – three is the worst a disease can be. If we try to add more than three cubes to a city, it outbreaks. We’re going to see that later.

Atlanta cubes

It’s crazy out there, guys. I surfed to work on a river of diarrhea.

The second card we draw is Johannesburg, so that gets three yellow cubes. That’s not great – it’s awkward to get to, but at least it’s also isolated. If something goes wrong we can still contain the infection. Except we then draw our third card:

Lagos card

That’s not great

Well – that’s unfortunate:

Africa cubes

Africa may be a problem.

Just like that, Africa becomes a serious problem in our game. Two major infection hot-spots in such close proximity to each other are going to feature heavily in our plans, because we absolutely cannot allow the yellow disease to break out of our control.

We draw another three cards, and each of these get two cubes – we draw Hong Kong, Jakarta and Osaka. And now our game state looks like this:

Spreading cubes

This situation is getting grim.

Eastern Asia is now a dangerous area – red is pretty virulent there, but it’s not on the verge of outbreak. At least for now. It’s on the cusp, so we’re going to have to prioritise it. But we also need to prioritise Africa.

We then draw our final three cards, and each of those get one cube each. We draw Shanghai, Karachi and Manila. Our starting state then looks like this:

Starting state for game

This is how the world ends

It could easily have been worse, but it’s certainly not good. It’s entirely possible in Pandemic to lay out an almost unwinnable scenario right at the very start, but most of the time you’ll get something like this – some reasons to be cheerful, and many reasons to be worried. East Asia is now absolutely riddled with disease, with hundreds of thousands of people spewing red cubes out of both ends all the time. Africa has only two disease hot-spots – each of them is a humanitarian crisis just waiting to happen. But, Atlanta is a ray of hope, because our first player just so happens to be our medic:

Pills here!

The medic is a superhero in Pandemic – he can clear all cubes of a single disease with a single action. All of our other heroes can only clear one per action. Not only that, but if a disease has been cured our medic can wipe the cubes off of the city just by passing through it. Games without a medic are obviously much more difficult. Making use of only one of his four actions, he cleans up Atlanta and then gets to decide where the next target will be. Obviously Africa is a problem but here we encounter an important element of Pandemic – logistics really matter. Your choices are limited by how easily you can travel around the map. At the beginning, our medic drew a London and a Paris card. He can travel to either of those by cashing it in, or if he was in either of those he could cash in the card to fly to anywhere else. He’s in Atlanta though and neither of those are options so he has to drive to adjacent cities. Lagos and Johannesburg are difficult to reach, so he drives to San Francisco (two actions):

San Francisco

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.

And then he takes the ferry to Manila on the other side of the map.

Landing in Manilla

The thriller in Manila

Having spent the four actions, it’s time to draw from the deck.

At the end of their turn, a player draws two cards from the player decks- here we get more cities and potential cures, and occasional event cards that can give us temporary relief from our problems. The medic draws Los Angeles and Ho Chi Minh City, and adds them to his deck. Each player can have a maximum of seven cards – they have to discard the rest. As I say, logistics matter and this card limit will be the bane of your existence when it comes time to co-ordinate cures. That’s a problem though for the future versions of us – the ones that will be so broken and battered by the things they’ve seen and the horrors they have experienced that they’ll laugh bitterly at our presumption in worrying about the logistics of curing.

Having drawn from the player deck, now we draw from the infection deck – each time, we’ll draw two cards and lay down a disease cube on each of the revealed cities. It’s two because that’s where our infection marker is at the moment – as time goes by, the number of cards might become three, or even four. First we draw Madrid, and then we draw Bogota. Nothing to worry about so far.

Play then moves on to our next player, the Operations Expert. He can build research centres as a simple action. That can be hugely powerful in opening up the world – anyone can fly from one research centre to another as an action. Shaving a few moves off of a round trip through the globe can be the difference between success and failure, so he heads off to East Asia to do that. Africa is just going to have to deal with its own problems for a while. We’ve already played the Johannesburg and Lagos cards, and there’s only one of each in the deck. We’re not going to have a problem there. At least for now. He cashes in his Manila card and flies there as a single action:

Spending a card to fly to Manilla

Hi neighbor!

He spends another two actions to get to Bangkok, and then builds a research centre:

Research centre

I call this one the Centre for inevitable Mass Death. We’re open for applications.

Now everyone can have easy access between Asia and North America. Let’s hope it’s enough, because next comes the pain. He draws two cards – Sydney and Seoul. Both are red, putting the team a few steps closer to a cure for at least one disease. Then, he draws from the infection deck. Still nothing too bad – cities are slowly becoming infected but we’re keeping ahead of it for now.

Scientist hard at work

Is that Beverley Crusher? I’m fine with that.

Our scientist can cure a disease with four cards instead of five, and she already has two blue in her possession. She flies from Atlanta to Bangkok, making use of the handy new research centre. She then moves to Hong Kong (second action) and spends two actions clearing red cubes from there. Hong Kong is now clean. It’s all going so well!

She draws her first player card, and it’s an epidemic!

Epidemic card

That’s as welcome as a fart in a space-suit

Now things are going to go very badly, and they’re going to keep getting worse. We’re now looking at the acceleration of armageddon – every turn things will get worse more quickly until we’re just trying to keep *anyone* alive.

The first thing we do when we draw an epidemic card is to increase the infection rate – it’s still two, but we don’t want to see that becoming three, and heaven save us if it becomes four. Then we encounter the beautiful clockwork apparatus at the heart of Pandemic’s dark engine. We take a card off the bottom of the infection deck, and put three disease cubes on it. Ouch. We then take all the cards on the infection discard pile, and we shuffle them. And then we PUT THEM ON THE TOP OF THE INFECTION DECK!

The new infection deck

This deck is just mayhem now.

Seriously, that’s just so clever it makes me all a quiver – it means that every time we draw from the infection deck now, we’re going to hit cities that have already been infected or treated. Any crisis that we left unresolved until this point has now become inevitable, because there’s going to be another infection at those cities, and soon. Instead of thinking ‘Johannesburg is in the discard pile, we’re fine’, we have to think ‘What are the odds that Johannesburg is going to come out again in the next flip’. It suddenly becomes unbearably tense – there’s a palpable aura of foreboding as you go to play the next infection card. Everyone holds their breath, hoping that they’re going to get off easy just this once.

We choose at the beginning of play how easy we want the game to be, and we do it by selecting how many epidemic cards are in the deck. Even one of them can wreck your day, but there are several of these all bobbing below the surface like plague-infected sharks. With the appropriate sense of dread, our scientist draws another player card (which can easily be another epidemic), and then begins the process of infection.

She turns over the first card, and it’s Johannesburg. What are the odds? Actually, they’re depressingly bad – three rounds in and we’ve drawn only fourteen infection cards. Four of them resulted in three cubes being placed on a city. That’s about a 28.5% chance you’ll draw one of those as the first card after this epidemic card was drawn. If you’re unlucky, you might get an epidemic card after only a handful of cards have been played, really putting the screws to a handful of unfortunate cities.

Johannesburg Outbreak

Give me hope, Joanna.

Three cubes is the maximum of any one colour we can place on a city. If we try to place more it outbreaks – and every single city adjacent to it gets a cube of the appropriate colour. It’s not so bad – Johannesburg is hard to reach, so it only infects Khartoum and Kinshasa. It also moves our outbreak marker on by one, and when that reaches the end we’ve lost.

Then our scientist draws the second card from the infection deck. It’s Lagos. That couldn’t be worse for us, because Lagos was the other three cube city in Africa. And now that one outbreaks too, increasing our outbreak counter by one and infecting all adjacent cities:

Lagos outbreak

I said ‘give me HOPE’, god damn it.

A bad situation has just gotten much, much worse, and any card we pull from the player deck from this point on could be another epidemic. We absolutely need to get a handle on this situation right now, but bear in mind that the next twelve cards from the infection deck will *all* be cities that have previously been infected. So how bad is it going to get?

It’s not all bad news in the player deck though – it sometimes gives us events, and these can be played at any time, at no action cost, offering substantial help. We can get government grants we can spend on instant research centres, or remove specific cards from the infection deck, or arrange one quiet night where the infection round isn’t carried out. There aren’t many of these, but each are precious resources – they need to be hoarded until they will do the most good, but not hoarded so long it’s too late for them to have a meaningful impact on the outcome of the game.

Research grant

If only they were that easy to get in real life.

We really need to get into Africa, so our scientist plays the Research Grant event and builds a centre in Kinshasa. It’s nowgotten a lot easier to get into that disease hotbed. Perhaps too little too late, but that’s the trajectory we always follow in this game. Everything we do is far too little, and delivered far too late.

The game follows that flow until we lose (which is extremely common) or manage to cure all four diseases by getting four or five cards into the right player’s hand and have them cash them in at a research centre. That doesn’t stop the disease spreading, but it does mean we’re part of the way towards winning – we win when we have four cures, we don’t have to get rid of all the disease cubes.

Curing red

Good news, I’ve cured red. Bad news is, the cure is humane euthanasia.

Once we’ve cured a disease, we move its marker up on the board to indicate that state of affairs. If we can cure all the disease cubes of a cured disease off of the board, it becomes eradicated and we can just ignore cards of that colour that would otherwise infect cities. It’s an almost impossibly appealing thought to ease the pressure by mopping up a few stray cubes of a cured disease, but remember – the world is burning and your crappy buckets aren’t getting any bigger. Don’t pin too many of your hopes on that – you’re unlikely to have the time to engage in that kind of aspirational epidemiology.

We play another few rounds, and things are just getting bleaker by the turn. Karachi outbreaks, infecting five cities around it – as a densely connected node, we really didn’t want that to happen:

Karachi outbreak

‘You’ll live. But we don’t recommend it’

The African situation gets worse, and Khartoum outbreaks, spreading a yellow disease cube into Cairo. We also really didn’t want that to happen. Yellow cubes can’t originate there, but once they spread into a city of a different colour it means you may need to battle two diseases at once every time you try to contain the situation.

Yellow on Cairo

It’s heeeeere

Manila outbreaks, spreading red cubes everywhere, including into Los Angeles, which was already dealing with its own problems:

Red in Los Angeles

‘Here’s my movie pitch – the red disease comes to Los Angeles! It’s like vomiting meets blackouts. By which I mean I need to go to the hospital’

And all the time, as we’re losing control of an escalating situation of spreading disease and intensification of infection, our player deck is gradually ebbing away until we’re only a couple of cards away from losing:

Three cards left

‘Okay we’ve got one more turn. We need to cure three diseases, contain the outbreak in Cairo, and see the new Star Wars movie. That’s gonna be tough’

But even if we weren’t, we’ve had so many outbreaks that we couldn’t hold out for much longer anyway.

And then there’s the third losing condition, the one I said we’d get back to. We lose when we run out of time, or when society breaks down into anarchy. We also lose if we run out of cubes of a particular colour:

One more yellow cube

We’ve reached peak yellow!

If we have to place two more yellow cubes during the course of play, we lose instantly. It’s not just a race against time, it’s a race against the rate of consumption.

You have to get used to losing in Pandemic. A lot. By the end of the game, you’re consoling yourself with the few things you actually accomplished, rather than celebrating an inspiring victory of mankind over microbes.

A map out of control

Oh well. Let’s all try better in our next lifetimes.

See, you never have enough time to do everything you need to do. You never have the resources to focus precisely on the key area of concern. You never have enough control over the spread of disease to be proactive. You never have enough of anything, and that’s what makes the game so tense and frantic and so thoroughly enjoyable. It’s a common design constraint of co-operative games that they have to be difficult, because there is no challenge offered by other players. Pandemic offers a challenge that is configurable, but almost certainly going to leave you bruised and bloodied the first half dozen or so times you play it. If it doesn’t, you’re almost certainly playing it wrong by ignoring some of the limitations on actions.

Mrs Meeple and I beat it first time out, because I had misread the rules and thought you drew infection cards only after every player had a turn. It went from being a game that was pretty easy to a game that was punishingly difficult, and I’ve been a fan ever since. We haven’t won it since then, although we’ve come frustrating close at times. For context, we’re still playing it on the easiest level.

Pandemic is an elegantly designed logic puzzle with many interlocking and moving parts. Everything about it is gloriously balanced to convince you that you’ve got a chance to contain this thing. That belief persists until you reach a pivot point and suddenly everything collapses over the course of two or maybe three turns. ‘I really think we’re going to do it this time’ is a thing I say often when playing Pandemic, and each time it’s the stupidest thing I’ve said all day. But, like any logic puzzle, there is an inevitable point when it suddenly opens up to you and it’s no longer challenging – the different difficulty levels give the game considerable longevity even beyond that point, but there are numerous power-strategies you can employ to tip the balance firmly back into your favour.

Pandemic is a simple game, but despite that it’s not a great *advocate* game. Pandemic is best when it’s being played by people that aren’t entirely sure what the best thing to do may be, and the more experience you are the harder it is to avoid essentially directing strategy as people look to you for advice. You can play Pandemic as a solo game if you like, which gives you a fair idea of how integral the input of other people is to overall success. There are some things you can do to avoid this, such as keeping hands hidden and sharing information only on request, but quarterbacking is a very real problem when playing Pandemic in groups of mixed experience levels. It’s very hard, even with the best intentions, not to simply tell people what the best strategy is especially when they are otherwise floundering around and feeling helpless or useless. The On the Brink expansion pack, I’m told, resolves these problems – but all we’re reviewing here is the base game and we have to call them as we see them.

More than its appeal as a beautifully designed game though, Pandemic absolutely oozes thematic appeal. As diseases begin to spread, there’s a palpable sense of menace in those glossy, coloured cubes. Before too long, you’ll be giving them little names of your own, creating your own converging apocalypse from many different threads. You’ll have zombies and bird flu battling it out with hemorrhagic fever for your attention. Strain your ears, and you’ll practically be able to hear the screams of the people you’ve left to die. Every single turn is heavy with portentous weight, lending a sobering sense of solemnity to even the turn of the cards.

It’s fast, it’s frantic and it’ll make a fool out of you and your friends if you let it. What more can you ask for in an evening’s gaming? It’s an easy four stars, and absolutely recommended.

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28th June 1997, The Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of The Moon spent its 1056th week on the US album chart. It was rumoured at the time that if the album was played while watching The Wizard of Oz movie, and started exactly when the MGM lion roared the third time during the movie's intro, very interesting connections could be made between the two. https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/…/pink-floyd-the-dark-side-…/

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There are many battle fronts when it comes to free speech and the lenses through which it is viewed can be as blinding as they are illuminating. (And I’m sick of losing the updates so I will publish this post then finish it.)

In the view of this website it is often seen in the shadow of the Family Court and its surrounding agencies. Up until now the underlying cause of our concern has often been the biased, blinded, and blood-minded defence of anything female by Feminists but presently we are seeing that battle widen into the ideological arena of identity politics – another issue to be addressed.

I note a recent post on the death of Craig Jackson (A perhaps not so well known campaigner, except to some here) which for some vague reason has been removed. That’s unfortunate but hopefully we can see a more fitting tribute to a man that played such a significant role in this issue in New Zealand put back there. (By the Ministry of Men’s Affairs A community group … and author of that post)

The conflict that evolved was driven by the Family Court and while the Court managed to largely contain that within it secrecy provisions and through the media profile of its Principal Judge this had to eventually reach our Parliament, and it’s been noted here before that judges were referring clients of the court to the select committee process in cases where they simply did not have jurisdiction.

By this stage select committees, particularly the Social Services Select Committee, and the Justice and Electoral Committee were dominated by Feminist politicians and submissions were being thrown in the bin. The committee secretaries in these cases would not respond with the usual letter of acknowledgement, and if contacted by the submitter would say, “All I can say is that I have been instructed (contracted) not to talk to you.”

But they would not say by whom they had been instructed: the Chairman of the Committee or the Attorney-General; remembering that Parliament is a court and that the Attorney-General is head of the bar … being the line at which submitters make their presentation to Parliament in much the same style as we are used to seeing in daily court cases.

This was a significant problem that had existed for some 15 – 20 years when Jackson dogmatically confronted Parliament and forced a back down in what was the unwarranted censorship of the male voice and of issues confronting men that Feminists felt empowered to squash, simply because they had those privileged positions.

I’m not sure if the article that I’ve copied in below, that appeared in the Sunday Star Times under the name of Steve Kilgallon was the only media at the time but this comment by Stephen Franks is worth noting;

Lawyer and former MP Stephen Franks said parliamentary committees usually “lean over backwards, even to hear nutters” but the justice committee had a “real tension” between hearing the information they needed and not allowing people to air vendettas or say something defamatory. “[But] in this case, quite frankly, they ought to want to know the horror stories if they are looking at a reform of a court procedure.”

(Franks is a former ACT List MP during the time of the Shared Parenting Campaign but now shows as an affiliate to the National Party. He unsuccessfully stood as a National candidate in the Wellington electorate in 2008 against Grant Robertson, after ACT failed to maintain its parliamentary position once they dropped below the 5% threshold.)

But how much more eloquently can you say, Parliament has been hijacked, it has failed, and is not doing its job, or fulfilling its democratic responsibility.

What is most important to note though, is that what got this across the line was Jackson’s unselfish dedication to someone else’s plight.

It would be easy to say more about that but I do not want to detract from the credit Jackson deserves for what was a monumental effort in attention to an issue to which so many people are blind to or choose to turn a blind-eye to.

Men’s rights campaigners claim they’ve been silenced by a government select committee reviewing controversial planned changes to the Family Court.

Wellington psychologist Craig Jackson said he was told to cut part of his submission or he wouldn’t be heard; another campaigner, Adam Cowie, appears to have been excluded entirely.

Jackson and Cowie are among 350 submitters on the bill, but Justice and Electoral Reform committee chairman Scott Simpson says he hasn’t gagged anyone, but has to tread a careful line when discussing custody battles.

Lawyer and former MP Stephen Franks said parliamentary committees usually “lean over backwards, even to hear nutters” but the justice committee had a “real tension” between hearing the information they needed and not allowing people to air vendettas or say something defamatory. “[But] in this case, quite frankly, they ought to want to know the horror stories if they are looking at a reform of a court procedure.”

Cowie, who wrote a fictionalised account about his bitter custody dispute with his former wife, says he received no reply to his submission, despite indicating he wanted to make a personal appearance.

Jackson, whose submission quoted Cowie’s self-published Separated with Children, said he was told to excise any reference to Cowie or his submission would be refused.

“Adam’s case showed a complete failure of the system, that’s why they have tried to draw a curtain of silence around it because it is a damning indictment of the family courts,” Jackson said. “His case was a wonderful illustration of the complete failure of the system to do anything effective to protect children’s welfare, if nothing else.”

Jackson said he planned to use excerpts from Cowie’s book to illustrate his argument that reforms should recognise parental alienation of children as a psychological abuse sometimes perpetrated by women against men. But he says he was told to cut all reference to Cowie and that the committee wasn’t prepared to hear Cowie’s own submission: “It was an ultimatum.”

Jackson did produce a redacted version and says he was heard politely during a 10-minute appearance on Thursday.

The proposed changes to the Family Court have attracted an outcry from specialist lawyers and men’s and women’s groups alike.

Simpson, National MP for the Coromandel, said his committee had a duty to uphold natural justice and protect identities of children and former partners in individual cases.

Some submissions, he said, “were quite raw in their content, where people want to tell their personal story or history in court . . . we have to consider natural justice and protect the rights of those that are not present, because there are always two sides to every story”

12 Responses to “Crusade for Free Speech”

  1. Evan Myers says:

    This is where this government is taking us now. They are using the emotions of recent events to drag our democracy further into the dark ages.

    ‘Henry VIII powers’ allow the government to change an act of parliament, or even to repeal it, after it has been passed and without the need to go through parliament a second time. The clauses take their name from the 1539 Statute of Proclamations, which allowed Henry VIII to rule by royal proclamation, ie by decree.

  2. Downunder says:

    Perhaps these are different faces of the same problem.

    In the above case through the misuse of a select committee Parliament deceived the Crown.

    In respect of #1 cabinet is making a proclamation on behalf of the Crown without the authority of Parliament.

  3. Boonie says:

    Interesting situation here;

    Ms MacPherson had already twice declined to give the information to MPs when National MP Nick Smith had threatened to complain to the privileges committee if she didn’t meet the new deadline of today.

    Parliamentarians being inconsistent?

    On one hand they complain about not having accurate information from statistics New Zealand and on the other accepting and obstructing Family Court submissions to suit an institutional agenda.

  4. mama says:

    Elton John – Sorry seems to be the hardest word 1976 – YouTube

  5. Boonie says:

    I don’t see this as being productive … posting a song without your relative point of view.
    There is a feminist element amongst this which might be worth discussing.

    You don’t appreciate my point of view comes with the assumption that the point of view hasn’t been understood and the holder of that point of view feels entitled to an apology.

    Sorry, is not an answer to women who have decided on a life on entitlement rather than a life of education.

    I don’t like the feminist objective of controlling free speech for their own self interests.

  6. mama says:

    Boonie, sorry i should have been as clear as I could, as it was just an ‘Ode’ to free speech.

  7. Downunder says:

    Mama … ode to free speech?

    Elton is a great performer, musician … but we’d have to agree to disagree here.

    Sorry, is not a word in isolation. It’s hollow, nothing without emotional. Elton is no icon of free speech, and this ‘Ode’ is not poetry in motion, it’s just a story and probably one of his.

    When I first heard Roberta Flack singing “Killing me softly with his words” I heard those words but never knew the story behind that sincerity. She wrote that song after being in an audience listening to Don McLean sing.

    That’s the difference it wasn’t just the words it was the tone of voice, the emotion, the sincerity.

    An ode is a poem to music and it has to come with more than just words, it has to have the emotions with it.

    It’s a problem we have on the net in a similar way; we’re used to expressing our tone of voice in person, rather than in writing. It’s easy to take offense, get the wrong meaning, even in our local dialect, because we’re only talking, or arguing, or any number of things rather than an ode.

  8. mama says:

    I dont think it hollow to apologise to man for the encroachment of this weird period, to me it feels like a departing from so many things we grew up with in the seventies, however I agree it was not a match made in heaven and ode, but sometimes it only takes a few words to bring home a feeling,,and it is getting more and more absurd, it may have been inarticulate but this song did that for me today.

  9. Downunder says:

    What I left out of the post was the date stamp on the article; 10:58, Mar 10 2013

    About 15 years previous Jackson, as we would say in today’s language was ‘being bullied’ in his professional environment. As a psychologist, he has ‘their’ qualification.

    But he was also very politically aware. Back then he was talking about the parliamentary situation. That discussion (to use my words) he saw the situation as a fault line on which he could raise awareness. At the time the shared parenting campaign was in full swing through to around 2003.

    In the following 10 years Jackson would need to find a case that had the hall marks of family court failure along with a guy who was not only prepared to stand up and fight but looked like he could handle the pressure and go the distance.

    The regular cycle of the family court is a new system, protocols get put in place. A resistance builds up to the failures, the system falls over, there’s an inquiry and starts over again. Another round of select committee hearings would be inevitable.

    This is not something Jackson would have decided to support a couple of months before hand because someone was making a submission. This had been on his agenda for 10 – 15 years and the tension that Franks referred to would have been a cooperation between the Family Law cartel and Feminist MPs to shut him down.

    As a professional from within the environment he had the ammunition to get a representative case over the line.

    It’s hard to have a concept of how much work would have gone into this one event, and how much skill and determination is required to get past the opposition and make this a reportable event.

    He actually did it. He worked with his professional background, backed himself and against the odds he got there. I would bet my last dollar, that wasn’t the end of it. There would have been a bunch of seething bitches that extracted revenge … that got him back.

    Perhaps in the end he sacrificed his professional career because he was of an age where he could do that.

    This is how hard it actually is to create a window of reality in the media and even then the depth of that reality can be obscured because the reader has never been involved in a similar situation.

    This is the gap between public awareness and the feminist juggernaut.

  10. MurrayBacon says:

    #10 Beautifully put, thank you Downunder. These are important stories.

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140 series S-Class Saloons, 1991 - 1994

 In March 1991 the new S-Class generation (designated internally as the 140 series) made its debut at the Geneva Motor Show. The body design incorporated the typical traditional Mercedes-Benz stylistic elements, enabling it to fit in seamlessly with the visual appearance of the company's other passenger car models. As had already been the case with the SL models in the 129 series, the trademark radiator grill of the new S-Class was given a new stylistic interpretation while retaining the traditional basic shape. This variation on a classic theme was designated the 'integrated radiator' and with its much narrower chrome frame the radiator shell was organically integrated into the engine cover. For the first time, the Mercedes star was positioned not on top of the radiator grill, but slightly to the rear on the bonnet. The overall aim of the design concept of the new S-Class generation was to achieve a high degree of aerodynamic quality while at the same time ensuring maximum everyday practicality.

 As with the predecessor models of the 126 series and generations of Mercedes-Benz premium-class series before them, the standard version was accompanied by a long-wheelbase variant, in which the additional 100 millimetres once again served exclusively to increase legroom in the rear. In terms of the engines, four units were initially available on the domestic market, of which only the 5.0-litre V8 four-valve M 119 was an old and familiar friend. As with the 500 E, the engine used here was the Einheitsdeckmotor (standard-deck engine), whose fully electronic LH Jetronic injection system from Bosch was controlled via a hot-wire air mass sensor. The other three engines were newly developed. Like the 5.0-litre unit, the 4.2-litre four-valve V8 was based on the trusty 4.2-litre two-valve engine, and the six-cylinder in-line engine with 3.2-litre displacement was based on the 3.0-litre four-valve unit introduced two years earlier. An interesting detail to note here is that the model designation of the 3.2-litre and 4.2-litre models did not reflect exactly the displacement as had always been the case in the past. Instead, for the sake of consistency, the designations 300 SE/SEL and 400 SE/SEL were chosen.

The 6.0-litre V12 M 120 engine was an entirely new design. Not only was it the first twelve-cylinder Mercedes-Benz made for a production passenger car, but it was also the most powerful Mercedes-Benz car engine of its day, with a rated power output of 300 kW (408 hp). With a peak torque of 580 Newton metres, it reached the 500 Newton metres mark at 1600 rpm. As with the six-cylinder and the two V8 engines, the twelve-cylinder was also equipped with four-valve technology, variable intake camshaft and an electronic injection system with hot-wire air mass sensor. With all engines a high priority was placed on minimising exhaust emissions and reducing fuel consumption. The new fully electronic ignition system calculated the optimum ignition point from 300 ignition maps, tuned for each cylinder individually and to the knock limit in each case. The M 120 was the only twelve-cylinder engine in the world to feature this cylinder-selective anti-knock control. Without this it would not have been possible to achieve the high compression ratio of 10:1, necessary for optimum use of fuel.

The engine management and drive management were also completely new. All their control modules communicated with one another via a common data channel, meaning the control units could all be active at the same time. This was used for rapidly warming up the catalytic converters when cold-starting the engine, as well as for acceleration skid control and for the new engine friction torque control, which maintained handling stability during power-off situations on slippery road surfaces.

The V12 offered the world's largest catalytic converter unit for passenger cars. Its seven-litre volume avoided any excess fuel consumption on account of the catalytic converter and ensured a high degree of long-term stability. Thanks to an innovative concept involving a double-walled and triple-insulated exhaust manifold, as well as double-walled pipes, the ceramic catalytic converters – embedded in insulating expandable matting – reached the optimum operating temperature in a very short time.

As well as reducing exhaust emissions and making them less harmful, the new S-Class featured a number of other details that made it a pioneer for environmentally responsible automotive manufacturing. It heralded the age of the CFC-free car and set new standards in recycling. The plastic components used were not only recyclable and clearly identifiable, they were also to a large extent manufactured using regranulated plastics. In 1992, the S-Class was presented with the Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Not only did the developers of the new S-Class lower fuel consumption and improve environmental compatibility, they also raised comfort and safety to new levels of perfection. The meticulous design and coordination of the running gear played a particular role in this, alongside a number of other factors. A newly developed double wishbone front axle, with the main point of load application mounted on a subframe, provided front suspension – a system designed to isolate the body from audible and perceptible vibrations. Rear suspension was derived from the multi-link independent suspension of the other passenger car ranges, although radically revised in terms of wheel location and modified in line with the special requirements of the S-Class. To take account of the significantly greater longitudinal and transverse forces, the link geometry was also redesigned. Of particular interest was the crossed design of the upper links, which allowed axle space to be kept to a minimum in spite of the long control arms.

In terms of active safety the S-Class saloons in the 140 series were known for their exceptionally good straight-line stability even on uneven road surfaces, their low crosswind sensitivity, their precise and responsive steering, and the way that their handling was largely unaffected by the size of payload. The brake system for the eight and twelve-cylinder models was a fundamental innovation. By distributing more braking power to the rear wheels, it was possible to improve the fade resistance of the brake system and reduce wear to the front wheel brakes.

The reduction of tyre noise and vibrations transmitted to the passenger compartment, the minimisation of the pitching motion on moving off and braking, the reduction of the rolling motion on cornering or uneven road surfaces and the fact that jolts transmitted from the road had virtually no impact on the steering all contributed to the excellent ride comfort of the S-Class. A 'parameter steering' system with speed-sensitive steering moment was fitted as standard to the eight and twelve-cylinder variants, reducing the steering effort required by the driver at low speeds, for example when parking.

But it wasn't only ride comfort and active safety where progress was made. Passive safety also saw advances. Safety had already been taken to high standards in the predecessor model series, but here numerous measures achieved further improvements. The new body structure, for example, provided even more safety in all types of accidents. And a series of small design improvements designed to reduce hazards from potential impact points also gave added protection to other road users.

Central locking and electrically operated windows came as standard and ensured a high level of operating comfort. The first soundproofed glass windows to be fitted to a passenger car series also made a significant contribution to improving comfort and incorporated a range of safety and comfort features. The windows were less liable to fog or ice up or form condensation, they gave better heat insulation as well as soundproofing from external noise, they improved external air flow and they eliminated wind noise caused by window seals.

Two further design details – folding exterior mirrors and extendable guide rods to help with reversing – gave drivers additional assistance when manoeuvring in small spaces with poor visibility. The electrically operated exterior mirrors could be folded back to gain extra space when manoeuvring in tight situations by means of a centrally positioned switch on the centre console, the same switch serving also to angle the mirrors. The two extendable guide rods integrated into the rear wings – one on the left and one on the right – helped the driver to judge distances to obstacles when performing reversing manoeuvres. Two seconds after selecting reverse gear, the pneumatically operated 65-millimetre-long chrome rods automatically extended vertically, returning again eight seconds after a new gear had been selected.

At the Paris Motor Show in October 1992, the 300 SE 2.8 and 300 SD models were introduced, adding two cheaper and particularly economical variants to the S-Class range. The 300 SD attracted particular attention – a vehicle that had been exported to the USA since October 1991, but which was now the first diesel model in the S-Class to become available in Germany. The 300 SD was powered by a 3.5-litre six-cylinder engine with exhaust-gas turbocharger, a unit which was in principle the same as the one used in the predecessor model from the 126 series, but now in a revised version delivering 110 kW (150 hp). Like the 300 SE, the second new arrival, the 300 SE 2.8, offered a six-cylinder in-line unit with four-valve technology – also a member of the M 104 family of engines. The newly developed 2.8 litre variant was used from the same point in time in the 124 series as well, and was equipped with a microprocessor-controlled direct injection system in which the hot-wire air mass sensor had been replaced by a hot-film air flow sensor. In addition to the two new models, the eight and twelve-cylinder versions appeared in Paris with revised engines. All three units did away with mixture enrichment under full load, resulting in a minor loss of output but bringing benefits in terms of emissions.

In June 1993 the model designations were changed to come in line with other series in the passenger car range; the 'S' was now placed before the three-figure number, and suffixes such as 'E', 'D' and 'L' were omitted. The 500 SE, for example, became the S 500, and in accordance with the new system of nomenclature the 600 SEL was renamed the S 600 long. Ever since, the plate on the boot lid has documented only the class and engine displacement and not the body variant (normal or long-wheelbase version) – this was entirely apparent to anyone taking a closer look. The most significant changes came in redesignating the 4.2-litre and six-cylinder models. Instead of the figures used up to that point, which had been rounded off to full hundreds for consistency, the figures used corresponded to the actual displacement values. And so the 300 SE, for example, became the S 320 and the 300 SD was now known as the S 350 Turbodiesel. In addition to these purely superficial changes, the two 3.2-litre models also benefited from a number of technical improvements. The engine was replaced with a revised version that had been in service since October 1992 in the 124 series and now also featured a variable-resonance intake manifold and a direct injection system with hot-film air flow sensor. These improvements permitted an increase in torque and meant both maximum output and maximum torque could be achieved at lower engine speeds. Thanks also to an additional reduction in friction losses, fuel consumption was reduced by a total of 7.5 percent and overall performance marginally improved.

In keeping with tradition, the S-Class saloons were also available as armoured versions – with a choice of 5.0-litre V8 or 6.0-litre V12 engine. Production of both these special protection models began in February 1992, one year after main production start-up for the 140 series.

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Tesla To Release “Five Man London Jam” Live Album And Blu-Ray In March

Tesla will be paying homage to their 1990 live acoustic album “Five Man Acoustical Jam” with a new live release titled “Five Man London Jam.” The effort, which was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, England, will be released on March 27 and it will be available on Blu-ray, 2LP vinyl, CD, and digitally. You can stream a live version of “What You Give” below:

“Five Man London Jam” Track Listing:

01. “Cumin’ Atcha Live / Truckin'”
02. “Tied To The Tracks”
03. “We Can Work It Out”
04. “Signs”
05. “What You Give”
06. “California Summer Song”
07. “Forever Loving You”
08. “Miles Away”
09. “Paradise”
10. “Call It What You Want”
11. “Stir It Up”
12. “Into The Now”
13. “Love Song”

John 5 Working On New Live Album “Live Invasion”

During a recent interview with Sticks For Stones, John 5 (Rob Zombie, etc.) confirmed that he is working on a new live album titled “Live Invasion.” He said the following after being asked about his upcoming Australian shows:

“We are going to record the shows, because I’m working on a live record called ‘Live Invasion’. We’re going to do all the songs from ‘Invasion’ and record them, but you’re not going to hear just the songs from the latest album — you’ll hear a bunch of stuff. We do this really cool, long medley of, like, 60 riffs. It’s going to be a very special show, and people are going to be super-excited and really happy with how it turns out. We’re going to work really hard on it.”

[via Blabbermouth]

The Dillinger Escape Plan Digitally Release 2000 Live Album “Live Infinity”

The Dillinger Escape Plan recently released a 20th anniversary edition of “Calculating Infinity,” along with a bonus live album titled “Live Infinity.“ The live record, which was recorded in October 2000, has since received a digital release and can be streamed below:

Blaze Bayley To Release “Live In Czech” Live Album And DVD

Blaze Bayley (ex-Iron Maiden) has announced that he will be releasing a new live album and DVD titled “Live In Czech.” The effort, which is currently set to be released on April 3, was filmed in the Czech Republic earlier this year as part of the singer’s “Tour Of The Eagle Spirit” run.

“Live In Czech” Track Listing:

01. “The Dark Side Of Black”
02. “A Thousand Years”
03. “Dark Energy 256”
04. “The World Is Turning The Wrong Way”
05. “Human”
06. “Together We Can Move The Sun”
07. “Solar Wind”
08. “Virus”
09. “Life Goes On”
10. “Fight Back”
11. “Silicon Messiah”
12. “The Day I Fell To Earth”
13. “Eagle Spirit”
14. “Calling You Home”
15. “Stare At The Sun”
16. “Man On The Edge”
17. “Futureal”
18. “The Clansman”

“Live In Czech” will be available on double CD and double DVD, along with a special behind-the-scenes film called “The Road To Brno.” An “ultimate” bundle featuring the two CDs and two DVDs, a USB memory stick containing an HD version of the concert and “The Road To Brno,” a patch, and a guitar pick will also be available. Pre-orders can be found at www.blazebayley.net.

Deep Purple To Release New Live Album “Live In Rome 2013” In December

Deep Purple have announced that they will be releasing a new live album titled “Live In Rome 2013” on December 6. The effort will be available as a numbered limited CD digipak, a limited colored 3LP set, and digitally. Pre-orders can be found HERE.

Track Listing:

CD 1:

01. “Intro”
02. “Fireball”
03. “Into The Fire”
04. “Hard Lovin’ Man”
05. “Vincent Price”
06. “Strange Kind Of Woman”
07. “Contact Lost”
08. “Guitar Solo”
09. “All The Time In The World”
10. “The Well-Dressed Guitar”
11. “The Mule”
12. “Bodyline”
13. “Lazy”

CD 2:

01. “Above And Beyond”
02. “No One Came”
03. “Key Solo”
04. “Perfect Strangers”
05. “Space Truckin'”
06. “Smoke On The Water”
07. “Hush”
08. “Bass Solo”
09. “Black Night”

Silverstein To Release “When Broken Is Easily Fixed” Live Album

Silverstein have announced that they will be releasing a new live album titled “LIVE: When Broken 15 Easily Fixed“ in digital outlets on November 18. CD and vinyl copies will follow in early December. The tracks on the effort were recorded during various stops on the band’s “When Broken Is Easily Fixed“ 15th anniversary tour.

“LIVE: When Broken 15 Easily Fixed” Track Listing:

01. “Smashed Into Pieces” (live in Anaheim, CA)
02. “Red Light Pledge” (live in Atlanta, GA)
03. “Giving Up” (live in Los Angeles, CA)
04. “November” (live in London, ON)
05. “Last Days Of Summer” (live in Atlanta, GA)
06. “Bleeds No More” (live in Orlando, FL)
07. “Hear Me Out” (live in Dallas, TX)
08. “The Weak And The Wounded” (live in Phoenix, AZ)
09. “Wish I Could Forget You” (live in Montreal, QC)
10. “When Broken Is Easily Fixed” (live in New Orleans, LA)

North American pre-orders can be found HERE and European pre-orders can be found HERE.

Stone Sour To Release New Live Album “Hello, You Bastards: Live In Reno” In December

Stone Sour have announced that they will be releasing a new live album titled “Hello, You Bastards: Live In Reno” on December 13. The effort was recorded during the band’s October 5, 2018 show at the Grand Sierra Theatre in Reno, NV. You can find a stream of “Absolute Zero” from the release, along with the cover art and track listing below:

Track Listing:

01. “YSIF”
02. “Taipei Person / Allah Tea”
03. “Do Me A Favor”
04. “Knievel Has Landed”
05. “Whiplash Pants”
06. “Absolute Zero”
07. “Bother”
08. “Tired”
09. “Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb & So Am I)”
10. “30/30-150”
11. “Get Inside”
12. “Reborn”
13. “Song #3”
14. “Through Glass”
15. “Made Of Scars”
16. “Fabuless”

Josh Rand commented:

“It’s with great pleasure that I get to announce the first ever official Stone Sour live record release. This is the Reno show in its entirety, just how it went down on October 5th, 2018. We’re extremely proud of the fact that it’s 100% live with absolutely no overdubs! It’s not perfect but neither are we. As a collector myself, I wanted this limited edition release to be very special. The vinyl is pressed on 180g, giving you the best audio quality possible, and is limited to 2500 copies worldwide. I hope you enjoy this as much as we did playing it.”

Pre-orders can be found HERE.


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Mezza Luna | Neptune Beach, FL

We are a neighborhood restaurant offering dinner six nights a week in three different spaces: our bar and lounge where we have a musical happy hour three nights a week and where children can make their own pizzas at our wood fired oven in the early part of the evening; our covered patio where guests can sit outdoors protected from the elements; our main dining room for those who like their evening meal to be a little bit more formal.

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Almost the end for Kenya’s northern white rhino

This is what extinction looks like.

No meteor from outer space, no unstoppable pandemic, no heroic, ultimately futile last stand. Instead poor sperm, weak knees and ovarian cysts mark the end of a lifeline cut short by human greed, ignorance and indifference.

With just five northern white rhinos left on earth, the animal’s end is inevitable.

Scientists and conservationists hope that advancements in genetics and in vitro fertilisation might allow for its test tube resurrection in the future, but before that the northern whites will die, one by one, over the next few years.

“We are down to five, so they are very close to extinction, perhaps in a few years,” said Jan Stejskal of the Dvur Kralove Zoo in Czech Republic which, thanks to acquisitions in the 1970s, owns all the remaining northern whites.

“I still believe there is a hope we will be able to save them. The best we can do now is harvest sperm and egg samples for future in vitro fertilisation, and wait until the time the techniques are developed enough to give us a good chance of reproduction,” said Stejskal.

Low mating possibilities
The last living male, named Sudan, is found on a 36 400-hectare reserve of savannah and woodlands in central Kenya, along with two of the remaining females. The other two females live alone in zoos in the Czech Republic and the United States. Two other males – Angalifu and Suni – died last year.

At 43, Sudan is elderly by rhino standards and vets say his sperm is low quality. Nola at San Diego Zoo is also beyond reproductive age while Nabire at Dvur Kralove Zoo is 31, but suffers from ovarian cysts. In Kenya, Najin (25), cannot mate because of her weak hind legs, while her daughter Fatu (14) is infertile.

The Ol Pejeta – a non-profit organisation situated in Kenya’s Laikipia county – rhinos were shipped from Dvur Kralove in 2009 in the hope that the natural environment would encourage breeding. That hope has faded.

“Were these free-ranging animals out in the wild they would breed just fine, but they were old animals, they came from a zoo and you don’t have a normal social situation,” said Dr Peter Morkel, a vet and rhino expert at conservation group Back to Africa.

“There were a number of matings and at one stage we were pretty sure Fatu was pregnant,” said Morkel. “I think we got pretty close.”

Fatu, the most recently born northern white rhino, will likely be the last.

‘They are going to die here’
“We are going to witness the demise of this species, that’s the reality of what we face. They are going to die here,” said Richard Vigne, Ol Pejeta’s chief executive.

“It is an indictment of what the human race is doing to planet earth and it’s not just happening to rhinos. It’s happening to all sorts of species, big and small, across the planet,” said Vigne, lamenting decades of inaction.

Scientists call the mass wiping out of species by humans the “Sixth Great Extinction” – the fifth being the one that killed off the dinosaurs 65-million years ago. The northern white rhino’s extinction is unusual only because it is such a large, recognisable animal.

“The northern white’s geographic range was central Africa and subject to war, strife and lawlessness, and that opened the door for poachers to kill them at will. People are absolutely to blame,” said Vigne.

Modern rhinos have plodded the earth for 26-million years. As recently as the mid-19th century there were over a million in Africa. The last northern whites disappeared from the wild a decade ago and will soon follow the western black rhino, declared extinct in 2011.

Assisted reproduction
Assisted reproduction may yet bring the northern white back but if they cannot be reintroduced into the wild then, some ask, what is the point?

“If they’re just to become museum specimens in zoos then it’s perhaps time to see them go,” said Dr Rob Brett, regional director for Africa at Fauna and Flora International.

Against all the evidence, park ranger Mohammed Doyo – who looks after Sudan, Najin and Fatu – clings to the forlorn hope that they will reproduce naturally.

When Doyo talks the rhinos listen, backing away from nervous visitors unsettled by the huge animals closeness, or returning to their pens to rest, or lumbering slowly towards their food.

“To lose such an animal will be like losing a child,” he said. A few feet away, Fatu munched her way through a four kilogram pile of carrots and bananas that Doyo had dumped on the ground.

To deter poachers the northern whites are escorted by armed wardens at night and their horns are trimmed back to uneven stumps.

The horns are worth more than $65 000 a kilo on the Asian black market, and sought after by consumers who are falsely convinced that the ground-up keratin – the same substance as human fingernails and toenails – contains powerful medicinal properties.

Ol Pejeta is also home to 19 southern white rhinos and 105 black rhinos which roam freely across a 700-acre enclosure.

Recently, at dawn one morning, a group of three southern white rhinos snuffled and grazed at the foot of a tree as, behind them, the sun rose above the jagged peaks of Mount Kenya.

They stood quietly for a while and then, realising they were being watched, trudged slowly into the distance. – AFP

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The Hilltopper

2016-2017 Staff

Audra O’Toole

My name is Audra O’Toole and I am the Hilltoppers Graphic Editor for 2018- 2019. I work with Mr. Consales on design, layout, images, and titles for the newspaper and I’m excited to be a member of the staff for my last year a...

Shalaka Madge

Shalaka Madge is a senior in the Academy. She has quite the flair for drama. She also loves to sing, play the guitar, and write. One of her favorite activities is cracking cheesy one-liners and making her friends laugh. She also...

Shefali Kumar

Shefali is a senior in the Academy for Math, Science, and Engineering. Apart from writing and editing articles for The Hilltopper, she is also involved in Model Congress and the Student Government. She is looking forward to a...

Mehk Sethi

Mehk is a senior in the Academy. She loves reading and writing.

Shreyas Agnihotri

Shreyas is a senior in the Academy. He loves to write. And read. He does not like fragments. He is very interested in politics and current events, and he is SGA Vice President.

Alexa Wyszkowski

Alexa Wyszkowski is a senior at Morris Hills High School. This is her third year on the Hilltopper staff. She writes articles, takes pictures and designs the newspaper. She is involved in many after school clubs and activiti...

Nicole Lin

Nicole is a junior in the Magnet Program. Her favorite hobbies include swimming, reading, and sketching.

Natalie Johnson

Natalie Johnson is a senior and is on the newspaper for her second year. She is writing and doing layout for the newspaper. Outside of school and in her free time enjoys drawing and takes martial arts classes. ...

Annie Lin

Annie Lin is a current freshman. She enjoys crocheting, music, and swimming.

Akhila Annadanam

Akhila is a junior in the Magnet program. Her hobbies include dancing and singing. As part of the Hilltopper staff, she hopes to highlight and inform people of some of the pressing and important issues of today.

Katherine Reardon

Katherine Reardon is a Freshman at Morris Hills High School and is in various clubs and activities. She is in Photography, Hilltopper, and Hope clubs. In Hilltopper, she takes photos to be printed on the school website and newsp...

Gaurav Sethi

Gaurav Sethi is a freshman in the Academy. He loves reading mystery novels and watching television shows. He is also part of Mock Trial and the Film Club. Gaurav is very excited for The Hilltopper this year....

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Spicy Habanero McChicken at McDonald’s

Spicy Habanero McChickenLocation: 30 Courtneypark Drive East, Mississauga
Website: https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca.html

You might recall that last year, McDonald’s released three progressively spicier McChicken sandwiches: jalapeno, habanero, and ghost pepper.  I was, sadly, out of town when this happened, otherwise you’d better believe I would have tried all three.

Spicy Habanero McChicken

Well, McDonald’s has done me (and you?) a favour by bringing back one of them — the middle one, habanero.  I wish I could have tried the ghost pepper version, but beggars can’t be choosers, I guess.

Spicy Habanero McChicken

Anyway, it’s nothing anyone should get too excited over; it’s just a standard McChicken with a creamy habanero sauce subbed in for the classic McChicken sauce.

Spicy Habanero McChicken

The sauce is pretty tasty, though.  It’s got a nice zippy flavour and a vague level of heat.

No, it’s not particularly spicy (I’d put it somewhere between mild and medium), but there’s definitely a noticeable tingle.  Between that and the slightly zestier flavour, I’d say it’s an upgrade over the standard McChicken sauce.

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Sunday, 17 January 2016

No Whores Please. This is the Church of Saint Mary Magdalene.

Sign outside the office of St Mary Magdalene's Episcopal Church,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Courtesy of my brother.

For their vision click here.

Friday, 8 January 2016

The Templars in Korea

The Knights Templar in Korea.
My book The Templars: History and Myth has now been published in South Korea by Cum Libro.  Interesting name for a publisher.

I love the cover.  Especially their legs and feet.

Legs and feet.

Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Orthodox Christmas

Unscrewing the lightbulbs
along Jermyn Street.
Though in London and elsewhere the Christmas lights are coming down, in many other countries Christmas has just arrived.

Orthodox Christianity goes by the Julian Calendar, introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BC, which runs thirteen days later than the Gregorian calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. And though Orthodox Christian countries use the Gregorian calendar for everyday purposes, their churches still use the Julian.

Therefore in the Orthodox Church today is Christmas Eve.  Tomorrow, 7 January, is Christmas Day.

Christmas in Red Square, Moscow.
There are fifteen countries which follow the Julian calendar for Christmas: Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (I wish they would drop their Macedonian pretensions and come up with some other name), Greece, Egypt, Eritrea and Ethiopia.  Also there is Israel whose Christians celebrate Christmas on 7 January if they are Orthodox, on 25 December if they look to the West, and on 18 January if they belong to the Armenian Church.

St Basil's Cathedral, Red Square, Moscow.
Russians celebrate Christmas with a big family meal on the Eve which often features twelve courses to represent the twelve apostles and includes fish, stuffed cabbages and beetroot soup.

On Christmas Day, 7 January, they go to church and then settle down for another Christmas dinner.

Worshippers attending midnight Christmas mass at a Coptic Church in Alexandria.
Egyptians belonging to the Coptic Orthodox Church observe advent with a fast during which they abstain from meats and other foods derived from animals.  But then after midnight mass on Christmas Eve they feast on meat, eggs and butter, and in particular they enjoy a special lamb soup.

On Christmas Day Egyptian Christians come together for parties and give one another sweet biscuits.

Father Serapamoun conducts Christmas midnight mass in Alexandria.

Monday, 4 January 2016

On the Eleventh Day of Christmas

Taking down the Christmas lights along Jermyn Street, London.
On the Eleventh Day of Christmas ... and the lights are already coming down in London's Jermyn Street.

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas there will be no Christmas at all.


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Como Summer School on Music, Language, and Cognition (MLCS)

This past June I had the opportunity to attend the first inaugural Como Summer School on Music, Language, and Cognition (MLCS) held in Como, Italy. As someone working at the intersection of language/music perception—a growing field of research— this was an excellent opportunity to work closely with 32 other graduate and postdoctoral researchers from a range of international institutions, as well as hear 11 presentations by experts in these fields including: Ani Patel (Tufts University: neuroscience of language/music) , Ian Cross (Cambridge: musicology, musicality), Jessica Grahn (Western University: neuroscience of rhythm, therapeutic effects of music on Parkinson’s patients), Tecumseh Fitch (University of Vienna: biological foundations of music & language), Tom Fritz (Max Plank Institute: cross-cultural comparisons of music, biological effects of music on cognition and reward systems), and Alice Mado Proverbio (University of Milano-Bicocca: neuroscience of language/music).

In addition to faculty presentations and engaging group discussions, all students gave a short presentation of their own research. I was amazed at the range of subfields in which graduate students/postdocs were exploring language, music, or a combination of both.

For example, Sinead Rocha, a doctoral student at UCL, found that infants’ production of spontaneous rhythmic patterns may be related to the height and walking rate of their parents (based on their time in utero and being carried).

In looking at the intersection of language & music, Giuliana Genovese, a graduate student at the University of Milano-Bicocca, found that infants better learned new phonemic contrasts through song vs. through speech.

Overall, the experience was quite enriching — particularly in the close collaboration with graduate students and faculty from a diverse range of disciplines — and I look forward to seeing them again at future programs/conferences.

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Today in Michigan History

July 24, 1701

Detroit was founded.

Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and about one hundred soldiers and workers arrived after a six-week canoe trip from Montreal. The Frenchmen landed on a sandy beach at the foot of a thirty-foot bluff along the Detroit River. Here, Cadillac built a log fort that he named Ponchartrain du De Troit. Soon, the settlement’s name was shortened to Detroit.

Thank you Michigan History Magazine for this glimpse into our past.  See more at


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Free love horoscope sagittarius today

Open your eyes wide and, above all, make the best choice, otherwise you risk making mistakes in the couple life. The couples already formed will oscillate between the need for harmony and the desire for adventure. Due to the climate of this month, you will doubt your partner, although nothing can justify your attitude.

Love Horoscope: Sagittarius

You have every interest in fighting against this feeling because, on long-term, it can cause only painful, unnecessary and even catastrophic conflicts. Above all, love is about trust. With the blessings of stars, the couple life is going to be harmonious staring from the second part of However, avoid neglecting your partner — a sweet word, a small attention can make miracles. Instead, any lack of interest could cause unnecessary disagreements.

Think of how you could develop your social life because it can help you have a more objective idea of conjugal life and a more refined relationship with your partner. An already existent friendship can transform into a more profound and tender feeling, just as you like.

Sagittarius Love Horoscope: Get Your Daily Love Horoscope for Sagittarius Today

On the other hand, if you are already involved in a long-term relationship, during the last part of , you might enjoy multiple satisfactions, such as engagements, marriage or an unforgettable honeymoon. In January , you may face with some small family issues. Fortunately, your optimism and your lucid thinking can help you find a solution fast. In love, you have chances to live really beautiful moments and to see one of your dreams come true. But im keeping the secret of me my scars and my past Like 0.

Sagittarius Daily Love Horoscope for Today

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A close friend or family member may provide you comfort. Be cautious while putting your words. Today you are prone to be misunderstood.

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Work place will be stable. Work pressure at your work place is causing you to feel stressed. The stress is spoiling your health.

Today's Readings for You

You need to find a way to overcome the stress as you will feel pressure for quite some time. For an instant relaxation, consider an appointment with a massage parlor or enroll in a meditation workshop. Morning walk will be beneficial for you. For the last few days you have been preoccupied with your career and job issues.


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Astrology february 5 leo or leo

In reality it changes slightly in a four year period from one leap year to the next. If you were born on February 18thth, your sun may be on the very cusp the starting point of Pisces, or right by the end of Aquarius. If you were born on the 20thst of March, your sun might be at the very end of Pisces or at the cusp of Aries. You need to check with the Zodiac Sign Calculator see the link below or your exact horoscope, because on those dates it depends on what time of day you were born — and in what place. Now, If you were born on February 18thth at a time when your sun is at the very end of Aquarius, you probably have a mixture of Aquarius and Pisces in your character.

February 5th Birthday Horoscope 12222-2020

The strongest is not equal to the most typical, though. A Zodiac sign is its most typical at the part of it decan corresponding to its quality: cardinal, fixed or mutable. Each Zodiac sign belongs to one of the four elements fire, earth, air, and water. So, four elements and three qualities make twelve possible combinations — the twelve signs of the Zodiac. Pisces is the mutable water sign. That corresponds approximately to the dates March If you were born on March But the most important thing to decide is what sign you are.

So, If you were born on February 18thth or March 20thst, please check with the Zodiac Sign Calculator see the link below , or get your complete horoscope chart, to be sure of your star sign.

Leo 29-5 February 2018 "TAKING CARE OF YOUR OWN NEEDS" Weekly Horoscope

Click the header to get there. Here are all the twelve Zodiac signs and their dates of birth, i. For more about the dates for a specific Zodiac sign, please click the link. Sun sign dates: March 21 — April Aries Dates.

Mars enters Scorpio

English name: The Bull. Taurus Dates. English name: The Twins. Gemini Dates.

English name: The Crab. Cancer Dates. English name: The Lion. Sun sign dates: July 23 — August Leo Dates. English name: The Maiden or Virgin.

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Sun sign dates: August 23 — September Virgo Dates. English name: The Scales.

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Sun sign dates: September 23 — October Libra Dates. English name: The Scorpion.

VIRGO (August 23 - September 22)

Sun sign dates: October 23 — November To have a friend is a privilege. You get to see a side of that person others don't always see. To know someone intimately like that is something you shouldn't take lightly you probably don't. But remember if you're the sum total of the people you hang around with energetically speaking , don't you owe it to yourself to make wise choices in those relationships and in how you choose them? Of course you do!

Pisces Dates of Birth

When it comes to friendship and love, take actions that not only benefit yourself but also benefit others. Activities that are good for today's energy forecast intimate conversations, study, and making major purchasing decisions. Where your zodiac sign's house is positioned on the astrology zodiac wheel , and where the planets are positioned at that time, your energy and reaction to that placement may be different than someone else's. Zodiac signs who get a lucky boost of energy are Taurus, Virgo, Scorpio, and Pisces— Cancer has a double power day!

Set your intentions and release them into the world. You receive what you need.

Pisces Dates of Birth - Zodiac Sign Astrology

Divine timing is on your side. The strength you need will be there for you. Release doubt. Don't let worry take over your heart. A new beginning starts with each closing door. Sagittarius, t rust your intuition and listen to your heart even if the future seems uncertain. Aquarius, plan your ideas. Thoughts can come with clearer discernment with today's energy. Take advantage of the positive energy.


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MILCON Construction, LLC. an SBA Certified 8(a) Program Participant,  Small Disadvantaged Business, and HUBZone Small Business Concern Contractor, has been in business for four (4) years and through its principal stockholder has a vast wealth of experience in the Construction Industry. MILCON has performed as a Prime-Contractor and  Prime Sub-Contractor on several Multiple Award Task Order Contracts (MATOC), Single Award Task Order Contracts, (SATOC), Multiple Award Construction Contracts (MACC), Firm-fixed priced and Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) type Construction and Service contracts. Our management approach to quality construction services is designed to provide the customer with an exceptional product and total satisfaction.

Safety at MILCON Construction

At MILCON Construction, LLC, our highest priority is the safety of our employees. We know that all operations involving operating equipment can be hazardous, if conducted without respect for the environment and regard for safety. We are committed to promoting a safety culture through training, awareness, and mutual responsibility for the wellbeing of fellow workers.

Employee Safety

All employees must complete a safety awareness and recognition program during their new employee orientation. All employees must complete an OSHA 10HR and 30HR Construction Safety Certification and be certified by the American Red Cross (or equal) in First AID and CPR.  MILCON also conducts a position hazard analysis for each and every employee.

Project Safety

Our safety program is guided by the US Army Safety and Health Requirements Manual EM-385-1-1, which includes an Accident Prevention Program and Activity Hazards Analysis for every project. MILCON also provides a Site Safety and Health Officer on every work site at all times to perform safety and occupational health management, surveillance, inspections, and safety enforcement.

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