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Lambeth 'Slavery' Suspects Aravindan Balakrishnan And Wife Chanda Were 'Radical Maoists'

The couple arrested in the Lambeth slavery case were part of a radical Maoist collective, it has been revealed, named by multiple sources as Comrade Aravindan Balakrishnan and his wife Chanda.

Known as Comrade Bala, he is believed to have set up the "Workers' Institute of Marxism–Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought" or "Brixton Institute", a Maoist order, which operated a bookshop and a meeting place out of a squat in south London.

In a 1978 thesis by Professor Steve Rayner described the group as “a tiny Maoist sect with about 25 members." They believed that 1970s Britain would be invaded and "liberated" by Chinese communist forces.

At the time, The Times diary occasionally included mocking reports of the group's activities.

A South London block of flats is being investigated in connection with the alleged slavery case

Rayner told the Evening Standard: “Most were foreign students who seemed to have difficulty adjusting to life in the UK.

"They refused to recognise the legitimacy of the state and maintained a hostile attitude towards the establishment and towards the rest of the far-left in Britain at that time.

Documents from National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of England from the 1970s, seen by The Huffington Post UK, detail how Balakrishnan was thrown out of the party.

"Not only did Aravindan Balakrishnan seek disunity, but he also tried to conspire to build a clique of people around ’his line’ and establish his centre whilst still claiming to be in the Party, continuously saying one thing to the Party comrades and preaching and practising another to younger comrades and comrades under his ’discipline’," the report from August 1st, 1974, reads.

In a letter sent to Balakrishnan, the committee suspended him from all posts, saying he should "desist from your splittism, retract your social fascist comments and give serious self-criticism to the Communist Party".

The letter ends "Death to revisionism and opportunism ! Death to splittism! Long live the proletarian socialist revolution! Long live the proletariat of Britain! Long live the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist)! Long live Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought!"

A note on the letter reveals that "to date Aravindan Balakrishnan has refused even to accept the National Executive statement on his position and the Central Committee’s letter to him, arrogantly saying he will not accept anything from a 'fascist Party'."

The police have revealed they are searching 13 addresses used by the "collective" across London, describing how the women felt they were kept prisoner by "invisible handcuffs" and had originally met because they shared a political ideology.

One of the three women, allegedly trapped in the Lambeth "slave" house, wrote 500 letters to a neighbour describing her torment, he told a newspaper.

The 30-year-old, who police believe spent her whole life in the "collective", was named Rosie, according to Marius Feneck, who lives two floors above.

She was allegedly held captive along with 57-year-old Irish woman and a 69-year-old Malaysian woman until they were rescued from the south London home.

The Irish woman is believed to have made the call to forced marriage charity Freedom, who she saw on a TV documentary, after the Malaysian woman suffered a stroke. It is alleged that her "captors" would not call for medical assistance.

In letters to her neighbour, the 30-year-old woman, who claims she was adopted, called the couple she was living with "evil and racist", according to letters seen by the Mail.

"I suffer unspeakable torment, yet every bit is worth it, to keep my beloved safe," she wrote.

Lambeth social services will face tough questions now about how much they knew of the secretive collective, and which departments had been in contact with members.

The couple have released on bail after being questioned over false imprisonment and immigration offences.


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‘Celebrity Big Brother’: Ray J Threatens To Sue Producers After Leaving House Over Toothache That Led To Him ‘Blacking Out’

It's all kicking off.

Ray J has threatened to sue ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ producers after he claims they failed to allow him to get treated for toothache.

The US star has left the Channel 5 reality show, but now wants to be allowed back into the ‘CBB’ house.

Following his departure from the show on Tuesday, Big Brother tweeted: “Ray J has left the Celebrity Big Brother House”

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The 35-year-old, who was reportedly paid £800K to appear on the show, says he wants to return to the Channel 5 series as he feels he “connected well with the British public”.

He told TMZ: “It got to the point where some of the housemates in the house felt like I was being ignored. We took petitions to say we’re not doing anymore tasks until Ray J’s tooth gets fixed.

“I’ve got a cracked tooth where I need a filling fixed. I’ve got a gum coming over my other tooth and I’m in a lot of pain. So after three and a half days with all this pain, they decided to take me out but I blacked out. I end up in the hospital.

“I’m ready to go back into the house and they won’t let me back in and I’m really hurt by it because I felt like I was doing well and connecting with the British public and it just sucks because I was having such a good time.”

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According to The Mirror, Ray J has since offered to tell all about his experience on the show - if the price is right.

A source close to the star reportedly told Mirror Online that he’ll talk for $65,000 (£53,400).

They said: “You need to come to the table with an offer. I can put him down for a tell all interview. He’ll tell you about the inappropriateness of the producers. It’s very juicy, it’s very meaty.”

We have contacted Channel 5 for comment.

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Rhubarb, Marzipan and Orange Blossom Strudel

Rhubarb fever has set in. It always does at G&G Towers come June. My rhubarb stems are fat and juicy, just waiting to be plucked and cooked. I've written quite enough about my love for rhubarb and how to grow it (here is the best summary, which also includes my all time favourite rhubarb and pork recipe) so I won't bore you again. Suffice to say - it's prolific, pretty, easy to grow and delicious, so get one.

Today I want to quench my rhubarb thirst, but also use up some leftovers. I have half a block of marzipan in the larder and half a box of filo pastry going begging. Also, I've been thinking about baklava a lot lately (it happens that way sometimes) so I feel a plan coming neatly together....

Rhubarb, Almond and Orange Blossom Strudel-Baklava

Bit of a Pro-Europe pud this one. Part Austrian strudel because the filling is rolled in filo. Part Turkish baklava because the filling has nuts in it and the whole lot is doused in honey after cooking. Still, I think we might need a few multicultural puddings over the next few days....

  • 3 stems of rhubarb
  • 3 tbsp orange blossom honey
  • 70g marzipan
  • 40g flaked almonds
  • 20g butter, melted and cooled slightly
  • 6 sheets filo

Pre-heat the oven to 180°C and line a baking sheet with silicone or non-stick parchment.

Chop the rhubarb into 1cm³ chunks and place in a small saucepan with 2tbsp of the honey. Cook the rhubarb and honey over a low heat until the rhubarb is just soft but still whole and the honey has dissolved.

Next, chop the marzipan into 1cm³ pieces and add to the saucepan together with 30g of flaked almonds. Stir gently to combine. If the marzipan starts to melt a little then so much the better. Remove from the heat and set aside.

Lay one whole sheet of filo on a clean tea towel and brush the top with melted butter. Lay a second sheet of filo on top of the buttered one and brush with butter again. Repeat until all the filo is used up. Spoon the rhubarb mixture along one end of the filo to make a fat sausage. Then use the tea towel to help you roll up the filo and enclose the mixture. Tuck the ends in, lift onto the baking tray and brush the outside with more melted butter.

Bake for around 25 minutes until golden brown. Remove from the oven and, whilst still warm, drizzle the remaining honey over the pastry and scatter over the rest of the almonds. Chop into messy, slices and serve warm.

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18/08/2014 11:20 BST | Updated 18/10/2014 06:59 BST

Why Once Is Never Enough

Do you remember your first time? I do. I must have been 16 and although the whole experience lasted for 175 minutes (Impressive? I thought so), for me it was all over far too quickly. I could easily have managed another 60 before Moe Greene finally got it in the eye.

Fact is, I loved The Godfather when I originally saw it. I loved The Godfather the second time I saw it. I loved The Godfather the third time I saw it. I loved The Godfather the fourth time I saw it...

The other evening I happened to watch The Godfather for the, oh, I don't know. I've now lost count of the number of times I've seen it. Needless to say, I loved it just as much as ever.

Those scenes which after 42 years really should have started to wither with familiarity simply didn't. Instead, they continued to fizz. Johnny Fontane singing I Have But One Heart at Connie's wedding. Sonny banging the bride's maid upstairs. Tom Hagen going to visit Jack Woltz in Hollywood. Michael killing Sollozzo and McCluskey. Vito dying in his garden. Kay revealing that rather than a miscarriage, she actually had an abortion. "An abortion Michael, just like our marriage is an abortion".

There are some movies, and Coppola's masterpiece is definitely one of them, where the enjoyment experienced doesn't seem to diminish, no matter the frequency with which they're shown.

You can watch them as many times as you wish and they remain fresh. From the opening titles to the closing credits, they draw you in with a vice like cinematic grip and refuse to let go, shaking every last ounce of emotion from your being until you sit there, hardly able to drag yourself away from the screen.

We all have our own list of films that could bear repeated viewing. Movies that if we were on our death bed, we'd want to see once more before departing for that great multiplex in the sky.

It has always struck me as strange how the condemned prisoner is allowed to eat the last meal of their choice. Wouldn't it be better, kinder, more compassionate and culturally more enriching to let them watch the last movie of their choice?

I have a feeling that we might be surprised by the selections: Bambi, Annie, Mary Poppins, the Little Mermaid and Bedknobs and Broomsticks. What, no Evil Dead, no Hostel, no Kill Bill, no 300 and no Angels with Dirty Faces where Rocky Sullivan goes to the electric chair a snivelling, crying coward?

Personally, if I found myself in a similarly unfortunate situation, I'd go for something such as Modern Times Forever, the Danish experimental film with a running time of 10 days. You'd be hard pressed to make any steak dinner last that long. With any luck, the executioner would get bored and go home, undoubtably to watch Reservoir Dogs.

Anyway, here, for what it's worth are my top 20 pictures that deserve to be watched again and again and again. It's constantly evolving and this time next year, it might be totally different. As with many comparable lists, The Swarm is nowhere to be seen, although from a purely ironic perspective, I was sorely tempted to include Piranha 3D.

At number 20, it's Casablanca. At number 19, it's Annie Hall. At number 18, it's Tootsie. While at number 17, it's Citizen Kane. And at number 16, it's North by Northwest.

Numbers 15 to 10 are as follows: Psycho, The Apartment, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, Giant - was Elizabeth Taylor ever more beguiling and James Dean more sadly mourned? - and The Italian Job. Michael Caine's performance surpassed in no small measure by those of Noel Coward, Benny Hill and Irene Handl as Miss Peach.

At number 9, it's Gene Kelly's and Stanley Donen's quintessential musical, Singing in the Rain. At number 8, it's All About Eve. At number 7, it's not as you might expect, Seven. It is, however, Sunset Boulevard, with perhaps one of the greatest opening scenes committed to celluloid

And at number 6, it's Withnail and I. Thanks to Bruce Robinson's fantastic script, how many of us have found ourselves in a tea shop demanding to be served the finest wines known to humanity? I know I have and I'm teetotal.

Can you guess the top five?

Well, at number 5, it's A New Leaf. Alas, you'll have a hard job finding this comic gem. But it is worth seeking out. Anything with Elaine May is, of course, a laugh out loud triumph and when she's coupled with Walter Matthau, the result is totally unmissable.

At number 4, it's The Godfather Part 11- proof if proof was needed that sometimes sequels can match the greatness of their originals.

And at number 3, it's Body Heat. Few will agree with this rather odd choice, but inspired by Double Indemnity, it has many memorable exchanges of dialogue between the characters played by Kathleen Turner and William Hurt.

Matty: My temperature runs a couple of degrees high, around a hundred. I don't mind. It's the engine or something.

Ned: Maybe you need a tune up.

Matty: Don't tell me. You have just the right tool.

At number 2, it's the aforementioned and already discussed, The Godfather.

Not surprisingly, at number 1, it's Some Like It Hot. If Billy Wilder had only made one film in his whole career, this would have more than enough. Its stars are no longer with us, but their performances live on; testament to the complete and utter genius of all involved.

At the end when Jerry takes off his wig and shouts out "I'm a man", Osgood responds, "Well, nobody's perfect".

Maybe not, but this movie's as near dammit to perfection as you're ever likely to get.


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Garlic and Sun-Dried Tomato Cornbread Muffins With Silky Mashed Potato Frosting and Bacon

Savoury cupcakes are an idea I've wanted to try for a long time. Something about the thought of combining bacon with cupcakes is culinarily arousing, but I never really liked those recipes that tried to turn bacon sweet. I've tried maple bacon ice cream, candied bacon, bacon donuts and lots more - but they never really did it for me.

So I decided to go down the totally savoury route. A treat that looks like a cupcake but tastes like a meal. After a bit of tweaking, this recipe has yielded some truly delicious results.

Cornbread always reminds me of proper Lumberjack-style places. American BBQ joints and stuff. So does the combination of potato, sour cream and chives. Everything about it just screams 'steakhouse'. You'd be mad not to try these - people go crazy for them!

Makes 12 savoury cupcakes

For the cornbread muffins

3/4 cup or 95g of cornmeal

1 1/4 cups or 155g of plain flour

1 tbsp baking powder

1/2 cup or 100g of sugar

1 tsp of salt

2 large eggs

2 tbsp or 40ml of honey

3/4 cup or 180ml of whole milk

1/2 cup or 117g of unsalted butter, melted and cooled

2/3 cup or 35g of sun-dried tomatoes, chopped

1 cup or 175g of sweetcorn

3 minced garlic cloves

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit or 180 degrees celsius. Line a muffin pan with paper liners ready to spoon your mix in later.

2. Mix together the cornmeal, flour, baking powder, sugar and salt and set it aside.

3. In a separate bowl, whisk the honey and the milk with your eggs. Add corn, garlic and chopped sun-dried tomato. Once mixed, put that and the melted butter into the dry ingredients and stir.

4. Mix until just incorporated and fill your cupcake liners to almost full. Bake for 17-20 minutes, or until the tops are golden brown. Cool the muffins for a few minutes in the pan before moving them to a wire rack.

For the frosting

2 medium sized potatoes (around 1 lb or 450g)

2 tbsp or 40ml of sour cream

1 small bunch of chives, chopped

1 tbsp or 20ml of whole milk

1/2 tbsp of butter

1. Peel and cube your potatoes and put them in a pan, filling up with water until they're just covered. Put the pan on a high heat and bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 20-25 minutes.

2. Strain the water off, leaving a little bit at the bottom. Lightly mash in the pan before transferring to a bowl and adding the rest of the ingredients.

3. Give it a really good mash and season with salt and pepper before piping onto your muffins.

For the garnish

4 rashers of thin-cut streaky bacon or pancetta

Fry the bacon until crisp and let cool on some kitchen paper. Soak up as much of the excess oil as possible before cutting each piece into three shards and garnishing.

This blog first appeared on The Lumberjack Baker, and can be read here


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Polish Lawmakers Approve Controversial Holocaust Bill Despite International Criticism

The bill seeks to punish those who suggest that Poland was complicit in the Holocaust.

Poland is poised to enact a bill that would impose up to three years of jail time on anyone who uses phrases such as “Polish death camps” to refer to the Nazi concentration camps located in the country during the Holocaust.

The bill was approved by the Polish Senate on Thursday. President Andrzej Duda has 21 days to decide whether it should be signed into law.

The move seeks to punish those who suggest that Poland was complicit in the atrocities that Nazis wreaked on its soil during World War II. It has the backing of Poland’s ruling right-wing and nationalist Law and Justice party (PiS), according to Reuters.

A number of Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, B’nai B’rith International, and the American Jewish Committee, have urged Duda to veto the bill.

ADL’s National Director Jonathan Greenblatt said that “there’s no doubt Poland was a victim of the Nazis and their brutal occupation.” However, Greenblatt feared that silencing free speech about Poles’ involvement with the Holocaust would hurt survivors and their families.

“We understand and sympathize with Poland’s frustration at the use of the term ‘Polish Death Camps,’ but this law goes well beyond that issue,” Greenblatt said in a statement. “It raises the possibility that anyone offering Holocaust survivor testimony about actions by individual Poles could be charged with a crime. This is unacceptable and could silence the voices of survivors and their families.”

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The Nazi slogan "Arbeit macht frei" (Work sets you free) is pictured at the gates of the former concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, on Jan. 27, 2017.

Duda on Monday pushed back against international criticisms of the law. “We, [Poland] as a state, as a nation, have a right to defend ourselves from an evident slander, an evident falsification of historical truth, which, in this case, for us is a slap in the face,” he said according to The New York Times.

Both the Israeli and U.S. governments have expressed concerns over the bill. Emmanuel Nahshon, spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, said on Twitter that Israel views with “utmost gravity any attempt to challenge historical truth” about the Holocaust.

Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust remembrance center, said in a statement on Thursday that the term “Polish death camps” is erroneous, since the extermination camps were built and operated by Germans in Nazi-occupied Poland. But leaders at Yad Vashem believe Poland’s bill is “liable to blur historical truths.”

“The correct way to combat these historical misrepresentations is not by criminalizing these statements but by reinforcing educational activities,” the organization said. The Polish bill, it continued, “jeopardizes the free and open discussion of the part of the Polish people in the persecution of the Jews at the time.”

Before Germany invaded Poland during the war, the country was home to Europe’s largest Jewish population. As part of Adolf Hitler’s plan to exterminate the Jewish people, Nazis built and operated several concentration camps in Poland, including Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor.

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Polish politicians place candles during ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz II-Birkenau, near Oswiecim, Poland, on Jan. 27, 2018.

More than three million Polish Jews ― about 90 percent of the country’s Jewish population ― were murdered during the Holocaust. According to The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Nazi forces called upon Polish police and railroad personnel to help guard Jewish ghettos and deport people to death camps. Individual Poles also reportedly helped identify and hunt down Jewish families who were in hiding, or plundered Jewish property.

But thousands of Poles also chose to help Jewish families. Yad Vashem has recognized over 6,600 non-Jewish Poles with the distinction “Righteous Among the Nations” for risking their lives to save Jewish neighbors.

The Nazis’ ideology also deemed Poles as racially inferior, according to the USHMM. Nearly two million non-Jewish Polish civilians, including politicians, intellectuals, and Catholic priests, were killed by the Nazis, while millions of others were imprisoned or deported as forced laborers.

The USHMM expressed concern over Polish lawmakers’ plans to make it illegal to refer to the complicity of some Poles during the Nazi occupation.

“The law would chill a free and open dialogue addressing Poland’s history during the Holocaust, including in Polish schools and universities as well as in the media,” the museum said in a statement. “An accurate understanding of Holocaust history requires an unfettered exchange of ideas in classrooms and among the public.”

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Women's triple jump final

Women’s triple jump final
Laura Arcoleo

21 October 2000 – Anastasiya Ilyina of Russia jumped 14.24m to win the women’s triple jump world junior title here in Santiago ahead of compatriot Anna Pyatykh whose best mark of the day was 14.18m.

Pyatykh improved the personal best she had set in the qualifications with her first attempt to momentarily take the lead of the contest.

The world junior best performer of the year Anastasiya Ilyina responded with a second jump of 14.24m, which eventually proved to be sufficient to secure gold.

Dana Veldakova of Slovakia who improved her own national junior record twice in today’s final (13.69 on her first attempt and 13.92 with her third jump) won the bronze medal.

Zhou Yangxia a world youth champion in the long jump last year improved her personal best to 13.72 with her first jump of the competition but would eventually finish fifth edged also by a wind assisted leap of 13.74 by Cuban Mabel Gay.

Yesterday’s qualification round had shown that the women’s triple jump could have been a great competition with Ilyina jumping a world junior best of 14.52 while her compatriot Anna Pyatykh and China’s Zhou Yangxia had bettered their respective personal bests. Today’s chilly conditions unfortunately prevented the athletes from improving further.


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Government reform, unemployment taxes chug through Legislature

February 6, 2010

Business lobbyists returning to the Statehouse after the mid-session break will focus on shepherding two key issues—delaying a hike in unemployment insurance taxes and reforming local government.

Bills on those issues easily cleared their chambers of origin by the Feb. 3 deadline. However, representatives of the Indiana Manufacturers Association and Indiana Chamber of Commerce didn’t want to take success for granted, especially for bills that began in the GOP-dominated Senate and now are moving to the Democrat-controlled House.

Pat Kiely, president of the manufacturers association, said he’s already set up a meeting with House Speaker Pat Bauer to talk about unemployment taxes.

The Senate passed a bill that would delay for one year a planned 70-percent increase in the amount of unemployment taxes paid by employers. The bulk of the burden, an estimated $400 million, was expected to fall to manufacturers and the construction industry.

The House did not have its own version of the bill.

“It’s really in their hands,” Kiely said. “So far, they’ve been working with us. Conversations are cordial.”

After meeting with organized labor, Kiely was optimistic that House Democrats will look favorably on the bill.

“That’s who’s going to get hit by this,” he said. “It will have implications for their members and the companies they work for.”

The Indiana Chamber of Commerce joined the effort to delay the unemployment tax hike, while also pushing to eliminate township governments.

The chamber so far hasn’t gotten the sweeping township government reform its members hoped for, but President Kevin Brinegar was glad to see the issue getting traction in both the Senate and House.

“It’s not exactly in the shape we want it in, but we’re pleased,” he said.

The House bill would have voters in each township decide by referendum whether to keep township trustees and advisory boards.

The Senate bill would eliminate township boards and hand budgetary oversight to county councils. The chamber is asking members to back the Senate version.

The session is anything but an across-the-board win for business interests.

Despite disapproval from the chamber and the manufacturers association, both the House and Senate passed bills that bar employers from making policies against workers keeping firearms in their vehicles while parked on company property.

“The Second Amendment protects you from your government, not your employer—that’s what we tried to argue,” Kiely said.

Representatives from Eli Lilly and Co. and Cummins Inc. testified against the National Rifle Association-backed initiative, but to no avail.

The chamber expects a gun-rights bill to land on the governor’s desk and has begun urging members to voice their concerns to Gov. Mitch Daniels.

Stakes were high this session for those who make a living on drink and gambling.

Indiana-based alcohol distributors hoped lawmakers would shore up their defense against Southern Wine & Spirits. The Miami-based wholesaler is trying to enter the market and has challenged an Indiana law that requires alcohol distributors to have their headquarters in the state. Senate Bill 244 reiterated that post-Prohibition-era residency requirement, but it failed to get a vote last week.

Keeping the state’s casinos competitive was a high priority for this session.

The Senate passed a bill that many members felt would do the job without expanding casinos’ geographical footprint, but that probably didn’t satisfy everyone, said Indiana Gaming Insight Publisher Ed Feigenbaum.

The Senate bill ignored a high-profile study committee’s recommendation to allow land-based casinos, which would pave the way for a new casino in northwestern Indiana, and possibly one near Fort Wayne.

Feigenbaum expects that issue to be revived in the House or possibly in conference committee, but he said it won’t be resolved easily.•

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HICKS: Here's hoping for taxes for all Americans in 2013

June 23, 2012

A number of readers have urged that I write about the federal tax increases and spending cuts scheduled to be implemented at the end of the year. This agreement, called sequestration, will end the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2002, increase corporate and capital-gains tax rates, eliminate some dependent deductions, and increase payroll taxes on workers.

Some call it Taxmaggedon, since it is either the largest or seventh-largest tax increase in American history, depending on whose numbers you believe. I haven’t run the numbers myself, so I will split the baby and call it the 3.5th-biggest tax increase in American history.

Unlike many, I believe that now is the time to go ahead with this tax increase. That’s not because I think it won’t tragically damage the economy and raise unemployment. It surely will. Rather, I believe we ought to raise taxes to finally end the soothing falsehoods that surround our tax policy—especially what are called the Bush tax cuts.

One brilliant aspect of the Bush tax cuts is that they are virtually impossible to repeal. The cost of this legislative stalemate, however, is endless demagoguery and a repeated demonstration of public innumeracy.

The facts make clear why this is so: The Bush tax cut reduced taxes for the “rich,” who, in this context, include all households and all non-corporate businesses making more than about $50,000 per year. More-wealthy households saw smaller-percentage tax cuts than less-wealthy households.

Perhaps some of these households and businesses used the extra money injudiciously by buying cars and refrigerators or hiring workers. It is hard to know for sure. But the tax cut wasn’t just for the jet-setting elite.

The Bush tax cuts also eliminated personal income taxes for those making less than $48,000 in a typical household or business. That is about 50 percent of all Americans, of whom about half were paying income taxes before. So the Bush tax cuts eliminated all income tax liability for about a quarter of Americans.

The simple arithmetic truth is that the Bush tax cuts made our income tax system more—not less—progressive. Not everyone can deal with this middle school math, so they need a demonstration.

I believe a large tax increase in December will have a much-needed clarifying effect on the role of tax policy.

Moreover, ending the Bush tax cuts will mean that about one in four American households that currently do not pay income taxes will start. These folks are fed a steady diet of untruths about the Bush tax cuts, and a large tax increase in December will starkly clarify tax policy in America for them. It will also let us get down to some serious government spending that has been so lacking of late.

Now, I don’t follow politics closely, so I don’t know which party these new taxpayers tend to support in elections. But I do have an idea whom they’ll favor by the end of January.•

Hicks is director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at cber@bsu.edu.

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New Marketers Survival Guide: Prologue Part 0.0.2

After scratching some more notes down on this subject and reading through my daily diet of web marketing articles – a suddenly realized I left out a key component (or is it?) to the New Marketers ever-evolving skill set. CREATIVITY. That's right, perhaps the creative instinct is taking a back seat to number crunching and metric-trend perdiction (which is about as creative as it sounds) but is that all New Marketing should be about?

There's a glaring different between these two opposing sides of the marketing brain. One, the creative side (being able to come up with the campaign – screw the strategy) and the analytical side (which waits for some one to START the trend, but then works feverishly to come up with the better strategy to implement or tap into said trend).

So what's the difference? To the bottom line (and thus to the business being marketed) probably not much. But the world of marketing really deserves both – CREATIVE and ANALYTICAL. A new marketer has to step out from conventional definitions of both. Creative deals with more than just pretty art. After all, how creative design-wise can you get with a Facebook page? Hmm. Your thumbnails?

Creative engagement is what it is about. Like when McDonald's froze their coffee inside huge blocks of ice and left them on street corners in some metropolitan city. Sure they could have given free coupons away, but a block of ice, placed outside of a traditional advertising context…that's creative engagement.

In short, I wanted to apologize for leaving that one essential skill off the New Marketers table. Because it's all about engagement…remember…and everyone remembers the person from the party who spoke the best, told the best jokes, and listened intently. So, sure you can show up to the party because you know you "have to" be there, but while you're there, you might as well stand out and be remembered.

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When a marketer begins an email campaign optimization initiative, they typically work with the messages, campaigns, and customers that are already in place. Building a customer-base and offers should be done independently of optimization activities; however, any market research that comes from optimization should be applied toward future customer-base or list building activities, or campaign creation activities. Optimization initiatives should only determine which existing campaign messages should be sent to which existing customers.

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Groups seek to protect Boise headwaters and imperiled plant from mine exploration

Citing harm to the rare, native plant Sacajawea’s bitterroot and uncertain impacts to water quality, three conservation groups filed their opening brief in court yesterday to stop the CuMo mineral exploration project from moving forward in the headwaters of the Boise River.

The brief was filed by public interest law firm Advocates for the West and the Western Mining Action Project on behalf of Boise-based Idaho Conservation League, Idaho Rivers United, and Golden Eagle Audubon Society.

The brief charges the U.S. Forest Service with failing to protect Sacajawea’s bitterroot and water quality when it approved the five-year mineral exploration project. As approved, mining company Idaho CuMo Corporation plans to build an extensive road network and drill up to 259 exploration holes deep underground in the Boise National Forest, including in Sacajawea’s bitterroot habitat.  The brief asks the U.S. District Court for Idaho to overturn the project approval

“Too many mining projects have placed plants, animals, and water sources at risk from lack of foresight and planning. The Forest Service needs to do a better job,” said Golden Eagle Audubon Society Program Leader Pam Conley.

Sacajawea’s bitterroot is designated “critically imperiled” because of its small population size and vulnerability to extinction.  The exploration site, 14 miles north of Idaho City, is home to the largest population of Sacajawea’s bitterroot in the world and is considered a stronghold for the species’ survival.

“Sacajawea’s bitterroot is already in a perilous situation due to previous drilling and a recent wildfire at the exploration site,” said Advocates for the West attorney Bryan Hurlbutt. “The Forest Service must make sure that building roads and constructing drill pads doesn’t push this rare plant closer to extinction.”

The exploration was first approved in 2011, but has been stopped since August 2012 after the court found that the Forest Service had failed to consider and protect against water quality impacts. Water at the project site eventually flows into the Boise River.

“The exploration site is dissected by numerous creeks and streams, some of which run by hazardous historic mining waste,” said IRU Conservation Director Kevin Lewis. “But the Forest Service signed off on exploration yet again without understanding how CuMo’s extensive underground drilling can alter water flows and cause contamination.”

“A number of problems have already arisen during this preliminary step of mine exploration at the site,” said Idaho Conservation League Public Lands Director John Robison. “Permitting a massive open pit mine , as CuMo says it hopes to do, is going to be far more complicated.”


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Does National Culture Have Any Impact on E-Government Usage?

Does National Culture Have Any Impact on E-Government Usage?

Mohammad I. Merhi (Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, USA)
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The motivation of this article was the lack of empirical evidence regarding the relationship between culture and actual usage of ICTs/e-government. By using Hofstede's cultural framework, this article explains the influence of national culture on e-government usage across countries controlled by socio-economic factors, specifically, GDP and literacy rate. Data was collected from reputable organizations such as World Bank databases and Hofstede's website. Ordinary least square and truncated regression are used to test the hypotheses presented in this article. Results indicate that nearly all Hofstede's cultural dimensions and e-government usage are significantly related. In particular, this article indicates that the usage of e-government is higher in nations that score low in power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism and masculinity.
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In the last decade the diffusion rate of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and specifically e-government, in public sector was remarkable. At the same time, the rates of e-government usage vary significantly across nations (UN, 2014). The existing e-government research has investigated many factors that affect e-government usage (e.g. Bertot, Jaeger, & Grimes, 2010; Weerakkody, El-Haddadeh, Al-Sobhi, Shareef, & Dwivedi, 2013). While it is true that each of these previous studies is significant in its way, it is noticed that the effect of national culture on e-government usage has yet to be thoroughly examined. The existing literature falls short when it comes to presenting a culturally-based interpretation of the differences in e-government usage rates across countries. The cultural factors are rooted in normative behavior of a society. Individuals generally act in a way that is aligned to the standards of behavior in a society (Deci & Ryan, 2000). This study, and apart from the generally considered economic and individual factors, investigates the effect of national cultural factors on the usage of e-governments in 49 countries.

E-government is a cost-effective and convenient means (Kumar, Mukerji, Butt, & Persaud 2007; Turban, King, Lee, Liang, & Turban, 2015) that helps public organizations to store, process, transmit and report essential information easily and in a short time. It has been argued that ICTs in governments would improve service delivery (Ngafeeson & Merhi, 2013; Zhao, Collier, & Deng, 2014), efficiency and effectiveness (Choudrie, Grey, & Nicholas, 2010; Merhi & Koong, 2016; Nath & Standing, 2010), interactivity (Leidner, 2010), decentralization, transparency (Merhi & Koong, 2013) and reduce corruption (Shim & Eom, 2008). Thus, it enables agencies and organizations to lower their operating costs, provide faster service to clients, and eliminate redundant IT development across departments and agencies (Goings, Young, & Hendry, 2003). Consequently, e-government became a necessity and not a choice for any country wishing to enter the twenty-first century as a competitive nation (Yang, Harris, & Whitfield, 2009).

Although it is true that e-government has many advantages that help both governments and citizens achieve efficiency and satisfaction, it is not clear whether citizens will use such services or not (Levy, Bagby, & Trauth, 2013). Evidence shows that the usage rates of e-government in governments differ significantly across countries with similar economic situations (UN, 2014). One possible explanation for this is, may be the meaning attributed to technologies differs among people depending on their socio-cultural attitudes (Erumban & de Jong, 2006; Steers, Meyer, & Sanchez-Runde, 2008). Hofstede (1984, 2001) has shown that differences in values and attitudes influence the way people interact and make use of their environment. Thus, within a specific society, these socio-cultural values might manipulate the perception of the citizens in a certain way that influence the usage decisions. In fact, different cultures react differently to new products and technological innovations (Gong, Li, & Stump, 2007) which made cultural differences to become an important issue in the evaluation of technologies (Al-Gahtani, Hubona, & Wang, 2007).

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A Farewell to Arms (1957)

This remake of a pre-Code classic adds amazing European locations, glorious Technicolor and entire armies on the move, yet doesn’t improve on the original. Producer David O. Selznick secured Rock Hudson to play opposite Jennifer Jones, but the chemistry is lacking. Why did the man spend twenty years trying to top Gone With the Wind?

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1957 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 152 min. / Street Date April 18, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Jennifer Jones, Rock Hudson, Vittorio De Sica, Mercedes McCambridge, Elaine Stritch.

Cinematography: Oswald Morris, Piero Portalupi

Production Designer: Alfred Junge

Art Direction: Mario Garbuglia

Film Editors: John M. Foley, Gerard J. Wilson

Original Music: Mario Nascimbene

Written by Ben Hecht from a play by Laurence Stallings from a novel by Ernest Hemingway

Produced by David O. Selznick

Directed by Charles Vidor

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Bud Spencer, Iconic Italian Film Star, Dead At Age 86

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Bud Spencer, the burly former Italian athlete who became an iconic film star in his native country, has died at age 86. Spencer, whose real name was Carlo Pedersoli, chose his stage name as a tribute to Budweiser beer, which he loved, and Spencer Tracy, his favorite film star. Although Spencer's film found some exposure in the American market, his greatest success was found in European comedy westerns that often co-starred his friend Terence Hill. Among the films that are best known to English-speaking audiences are "Ace High", "The Five Man Army", "They Call Me Trinity", "Trinity is Still My Name!", "Four Flies on Grey Velvet" and "A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die". Among the contemporary actors Spencer counted among his admirers was Russell Crowe. For more click here.
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Bud Spencer Dies: Italian Actor, Author & Olympic Swimmer Was 86

Bud Spencer Dies: Italian Actor, Author & Olympic Swimmer Was 86
Known for his work in Spaghetti Westerns and action-comedy films, Italian actor Bud Spencer died on Monday night in Rome. He was 86. Working primarily from the 1950s to the 1980s, Spencer was best known for his roles with longtime onscreen partner Terence Hill, and was also a professional swimmer. His official Twitter account announced the news to fans: With our deepest regrets, we have to tell you that Bud is flying to his next journey.Fam. Pedersoli pic.twitter.com/nHjEU…
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Bud Spencer, Italian Spaghetti Westerns Star, Dies at 86

Bud Spencer, Italian Spaghetti Westerns Star, Dies at 86
Rome — Bud Spencer, the burly Italian actor who starred in dozens of genre movies including many widely exported Spaghetti Westerns such as “Trinity is Still My Name,” which is among Italy’s all-time top grossing titles, has died. He was 86.

Spencer, whose real name was Carlo Pedersoli, passed away “peacefully” in Rome on Monday, his son Giuseppe Pedersoli said in a media statement that did not disclose the exact cause of death.

In the late 1960s, just as his acting career was starting to take off, Carlo Pedersoli changed his name to Bud Spencer as an homage to Budweiser beer and Spencer Tracy. He also reportedly thought it was ironic to call himself Bud despite his Herculean physique, which made him known to his fans as “the big friendly giant” of the screen.

Born in Naples in 1929, Spencer first gained a measure of fame as an athlete, becoming the first
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Opening Doors with Michele De Angelis

At age twenty-two Michele De Angelis was hired as assistant director on the Italian slasher epic Massacre, which led to work as an assistant director, production manager, executive producer and screenwriter for Lucio Fulci, Ruggero Deodato, Bud Spencer, Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava and many others. Michele eventually worked as a consultant and executive producer, creating DVD featurettes and documentaries for companies like Universal Pictures Home Video, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Blue Underground and more.>> - Shade Rupe
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Opening Doors with Michele De Angelis

At age twenty-two Michele De Angelis was hired as assistant director on the Italian slasher epic Massacre, which led to work as an assistant director, production manager, executive producer and screenwriter for Lucio Fulci, Ruggero Deodato, Bud Spencer, Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava and many others. Michele eventually worked as a consultant and executive producer, creating DVD featurettes and documentaries for companies like Universal Pictures Home Video, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Blue Underground and more.>> - Shade Rupe
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St. Louisan Todd Armstrong Starred in Jason And The Argonauts in 1963

The St. Louis Globe-Democrat is a monthly newspaper run by Steve DeBellis, a well know St. Louis historian, and it’s the largest one-man newspaper in the world. The concept of The Globe is that there is an old historic headline, then all the articles in that issue are written as though it’s the year that the headline is from. It’s an unusual concept but the paper is now in its 27th successful year! Steve and I collaborated in 2011 on an all-Vincent Price issue of The Globe and I have been writing a regular monthly movie-related column since. Our working alliance is simple: Steve tells me a year and I pick a movie from that year and write about it. Last month Steve threw me the year 1963. Since I was hosting a Ray Harryhausen tribute event at the St. Louis International Film Festival and was eager to
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Wamg Interview: Actor/Director Jon Gries on Another Man’S Gun

Veteran character actor Jon Gries is best known for his gut-busting portrayal of Uncle Rico, he of the orange van and dashed dreams of high school football glory, in the 2004 cult gem Napoleon Dynamite. Jon Gries is also recognizable as Roger Linus on Lost, but the actor has been kicking around in Hollywood for decades, ever since he appeared in 1969 at age 11 opposite Charlton Heston in Will Penny, a western directed by his father Tom Gries. Some of Jon’s other films include Monster Squad (1978), Get Shorty (1995), and Taken (2008). Jon is also an accomplished musician, having composed songs for the films Twin Falls Idaho (1999) and The Big Empty (2003). In 2010, after directing several music videos, Jon tried his hand at directing a feature and the result was the acclaimed redneck road comedy Pickin’ & Grinning’.

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Now Jon has teamed up with writer Derek Walker for Another Man’S Gun,
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Handsome star of spaghetti westerns including A Pistol for Ringo

When the spaghetti western was born in the early 1960s, some of the Italian lead actors disguised their names under American-sounding ones (though nobody was fooled). Among those competing successfully with bona fide Yanks such as Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef were Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti), Bud Spencer (Carlo Pedersoli) and Montgomery Wood, a temporary pseudonym taken by Giuliano Gemma, who has died in a car accident aged 75.

The strikingly handsome Gemma was one of the brightest stars of the once deprecated, now revered, genre. After five years in sword-and-sandal epics (also known as peplum films), usually supporting muscle men, Gemma made a name for himself (even if, initially, it wasn't his own) in two westerns directed by Duccio Tessari: A Pistol for Ringo (1965) and The Return of Ringo (1965). Their big box-office success granted Gemma stardom and
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You've been Djangoed! Ten Spaghetti Cowboys that shaped the genre

Keeping up with his career plan of paying homage to every film genre going, Quentin Tarantino has moved onto the spaghetti western with Django Unchained (2012). It’s not a remake of the pasta classic Django (1966), or indeed a spaghetti western, but it has clearly taken its inspiration from those violent Italian productions that swamped the late sixties.

Hollywood may have dominated the field since the beginning of motion pictures but European westerns are not exactly new; the earliest known one was filmed in 1910. Sixties German cinema made good use of Kay May’s western heroes Shatterhand and Winnetou, and the British produced The Savage Guns (1961), Hannie Caulder (1971), A Town Called Bastard (1971), Catlow (1971), Chato’s Land (1972) and Eagle’s Wing (1979). When the genre showed signs of flagging in the mid-sixties, a clever Italian director named Sergio Leone took it upon himself to reinvent the western – spaghetti style!

What made the spaghettis
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Highlights Of Issue #24 (September, 2012):

Major celebration of The Poseidon Adventure's 40th anniversary with articles by David Savage, Tom Lisanti, James Radford and Chris Poggiali. Includes many rare photos, international movie posters and interviews with Carol Lynley and Mort Kunstler, the legendary artist who created the movie poster. Kunstler also provides his original sketches for the ad campaign, reproduced in this issue for the first time.  40th anniversary tribute to Deliverance. John Exshaw visits director John Boorman at his home in Ireland for exclusive interview about working with author James Dickey on the landmark film. Gary Giblin takes an in-depth look at another classic film celebrating its 40th anniversary: Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy, complete with rare stills from sequences that the Master cut from the final version of the movie. Matthew R. Bradley looks at one of the screen's legendary baddies, James Bond nemesis Blofeld in both literature and cinema.
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Farley Granger: a life in clips

We look back at Farley Granger's movie career, from the two masterpieces he made with Alfred Hitchcock to Luchino Visconti's operatic melodrama Senso

Spotted doing a cockney accent in a play while still at high school, Farley Granger was signed to a seven-year deal by MGM in 1943 and soon put to work alongside Anne Baxter and Dana Andrews in The North Star, a pro-Soviet war film about the sufferings of a Ukrainian village under the Nazi yoke.

With a script by blacklistee Lillian Hellman, The North Star – later reissued under the title Armored Attack! – was cited by the House Committee on Un-American Activities as a prime example of Hollywood communist propaganda.

After one more film – The Purple Heart (1944) – and a spell in the navy where he discovered his bisexuality, Granger found himself cast in what would become his breakthrough film, They Live by Night. Shot in 1947, Nicholas Ray
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Donatellos to fete Guerra, Spencer, Hill

Donatellos to fete Guerra, Spencer, Hill
Rome -- The David di Donatello awards will present a special career award to screenwriter Tonino Guerra, organizers said Friday, with lifetime achievement awards going to Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, two of the most recognizable Italian figures from the famed Spaghetti Western genre.

Guerra, who will turn 90 on Tuesday, was nominated for three Oscars between 1965 and 1973. He worked with many of the great directors of the Italy's so-called Golden Age of film including Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Francesco Rosi, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, and Luchino Visconti.

Spencer, 80, and Hill, 71, combined to appear in nearly 200 films, often side by side. Their credits include many of the best known Spaghetti Western films and Italian B-movie titles in careers spanning from the 1950s until the 1990s. Spencer and Hill are the stage names for Carlo Pedersoli and Mario Girotti, respectively,

The Donatello awards, Italy's most prestigious film honors, will take place May
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Tvs: Ernesto Diaz Espinoza Salutes The Films Of Bud Spencer And Terence Hill

[For This edition of the Twitch Video Salute we turn to Ernesto Diaz Espinoza, the writer and director of Chilean martial arts films Kiltro, Mirage Man and the upcoming Mandrill. Despite being a mere three days away from his wedding - congratulations! - Ernesto weighs in today with a look at the films of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.]

Today I want to share with you the trailers for a group of films that taught me what a fight scene was, the “Bud Spencer and Terence Hill” movies. Don’t let the names fool you, these were Italian films starring these two Italian actors who did a whole series of pictures together, all of them action-comedies playing two guys that for some reason (always a different reason) team up together and fought bad guys. The Spencer / Hill films were pretty popular in Chile when I was growing up, I would watch them when they aired on public television in the early 80s on a series called Afternoons Of Cinema.

These films were all about the fight scenes. I don´t remember any plot at all, just funny fight scenes that made me laugh with my buddies with really simple humor. Always with happy and naive soundtracks, these two guys
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Venice Film Festival: John Exshaw Reports -Day One

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Arrived in Venice, to be greeted by Terence Hill. Not in person, you understand, with brass band and Bud Spencer on trombone, but, turning on the TV in my hotel room, there was Terence, beaming blandly. . . . This seemed auspicious, not only because I’m here to cover the Spaghetti Western retrospective at this year’s Venice Film Festival, which includes two Terence Hill movies, but also because Terence is, apparently, as revealed by some remarkably tedious and unproductive research prior to this trip, Venice’s greatest gift to cinema. Indeed, it seems he is Venice’s only gift to cinema – or at any rate, the only one with any serious claim to international recognition. Which seems odd, somehow, given La Serenissima’s high profile in the film world due to the Festival, to say nothing of its appearance as a location in literally hundreds of movies, but there it is.
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On Monday, the Rey Fire burned along Indian Creek as shifting winds kept it out of the Mono watershed. The view here is from the Indian Creek trailhead looking toward the fire as it is poised to cross over and head uphill toward the Mono drainage.

Ray Ford

On Monday, the Rey Fire burned along Indian Creek as shifting winds kept it out of the Mono watershed. The view here is from the Indian Creek trailhead looking toward the fire as it is poised to cross over and head uphill toward the Mono drainage.

Update on Five Days of the Rey Fire

Wind Brings Surprising Twists and Continuing Drama

On Monday it was anybody’s guess which way the Rey Fire would head. During the first few days of the fire, now marking its fifth day, Rey expanded to the northwest, in the process blackening close to 10,000 acres of Rancho San Fernando Rey, before burnout operations succeeded in containing that part of the fire. Over the past two days, the fire took a 180-degree turn and is now spreading east and north, with the potential to pose a direct threat to South Coast communities and to char large portions of the Dick Smith Wilderness. The wilderness area holds major portions of the watersheds to the north of Lake Cachuma.

From the news releases posted by Los Padres Forest officials, it is difficult to get a clear picture of what has burned or what might in the coming days. Yes, the fire is now burning into the Dick Smith Wilderness and for the most part away from the coast. That is good news. The bad is that continued drought, incredibly dry brush, and temperatures that again soared into the 90s yesterday have created the potential for the Rey Fire to expand much further to the interior and toward Highway 33 than one would have thought possible just two days ago.

The wind has played a major factor in determining where the fire will go and what opportunities firefighters will have to contain it. On Saturday night, when the wind shifted to the east, bringing the fire swiftly down onto the Upper Oso Campground area, it effectively helped secure the west side of the fire. But at the same time it opened the door for the fire to jump Oso Canyon and head east — a situation that could ultimately lead it over the Santa Ynez Mountains and down into Montecito or Santa Barbara.

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Location markers are superimposed over a photo taken early Monday, August 22, overlooking Gibraltar Dam and Camuesa Ridge. Mono Creek, which lies about four miles from Santa Barbara as the crow flies, is to the right, with Indian Creek to its left. Both drain down to Gibraltar Reservoir.

A Push to the East

By mid-morning on Sunday, it was clear that the fire would brush past the White Fire scar and continue east. By noon a massive front had built, with flames centered just north of the ridges that line the river canyon, stretching from Oso to the Red Rock area. By 1 p.m. that front continued to push east down Camuesa Canyon, and the fire was in danger of crossing the Santa Ynez River near the upper end of Gibraltar Reservoir where Camuesa Creek merges with the river. From that point, the fire would have been within reach of the northern slopes of the mountains that separate the valley from the coast, a long, steep escarpment that has not burned in recorded fire history.

Just after 1 p.m., however, a northeast wind began to pick up, keeping the fire well away from the river. The wind did three major things: It kept the flames from reaching the Camuesa Ridge and allowing the fire to enter the river drainage; it stopped the eastward progress of the fire just short of Camuesa Peak; and it provided needed time for the aerial assault to lay down enough retardant to protect the river corridor.

Monday Blowout

At the incident center at Live Oak Camp on Sunday night, firefighters were told the major focus for Monday would be holding the fire from crossing Mono Creek. By this time the fire was active from the Camuesa Ridge area north beyond a series of cliffs known as the Chalk Bluffs to an area just east of Little Pine Mountain. By sunset the fire was burning down into Buckhorn Canyon and heading directly toward Indian Creek. The Mono drainage lies just beyond Indian Creek, and it was questionable whether it would be possible to meet that goal.

By Ray Ford

Rey Fire, August 22, 8 a.m.: lots of smoke and little fire.

At 8 a.m. Monday morning, driving along the crest of East Camino Cielo, lots of smoke could be seen hanging in the maze of backcountry canyons, but only two small areas showed active fire and small plumes. One of those was on the east side of Camuesa Peak at a point where the creek makes a sharp turn and intersects the Santa Ynez River; the other was further to the interior in Buckhorn Canyon. Both seemed fairly benign. Things actually seemed pretty calm.

By 9 a.m. most of the smoke in the Camuesa drainage was gone, but the plume in Buckhorn Canyon was starting to build as the temperatures climbed into the 80s. By 10 a.m. the fire there had morphed into a major column of fire and smoke. Fortunately the canyon winds were blowing west, checking its progress somewhat. By this time the aerial attack had begun with thousands of gallons of retardant laid across the east side of the column. For the moment, between the retardant and wind, the fire column was held in place.

By Ray Ford

Rey Fire, August 22, 9 a.m.: Column begins to build in Buckhorn.

From the Ground

Down in the Camuesa drainage, from a viewpoint along Camuesa Road looking directly up to Camuesa Peak and north over the ridge toward Buckhorn Canyon, the devastation was evident. Sunday’s fire burned so hot that sections of Camuesa Canyon were down to mineral soil. The wind that had checked the fire the night before had also helped stop it just a quarter of a mile from the point where it would have burned to the river; if it had reached that point, the city would have been in peril. With a number of hot spots still sending smoke into the sky and occasionally flaring up, that potential still existed.

By Ray Ford

DC-10 lays down retardant from Camuesa Road to Indian Canyon.

To the north, the column continued to burn, growing larger by the minute. The aerial drops continued, and the wind direction provided additional help. But then, about 1:45 p.m., the wind shifted, and the fire began to move. A cool breeze began to build, gusting 10-15 mph, an eastern wind that turned the column of smoke toward Indian Canyon. With the fire becoming more active, it was time to retreat back to the safety of a high promontory overlooking lower Mono Creek near the Debris Dam. A quick stop by the trailhead into Indian Canyon provided the first direct look at the front edge of the fire as it approached the canyon just after 4 p.m.

By 5 p.m. the front had expanded to a width of more than a half-mile. Spot fires began to appear across Indian Creek and burned up toward the ridgeline separating Indian from the Mono drainage. Then the front crossed and within minutes the fire climbed the 1,200-foot ridge, with flames easily over a hundred feet in height. Questions about how difficult it will be to contain the fire here began to surface.

By Ray Ford

East edge of Rey Fire crosses Indian Creek and goes to the top of the ridge that leads down to Mono Creek. Flames 100-150 feet high can be seen down in the canyon.

Planning for Tomorrow

From the overlook, the Division P crew huddled in an effort to plan out tomorrow’s operation. The containment line had now shifted. The goal now: the ridge east of Mono Creek where dozers were cutting an eight-blade-wide line along the edge of the Hildreth Jeepway in the effort to check the fire there.

The focus was also on holding along the Santa Ynez River and making improvements so that crews would be able to burn out from the river if needed. With virtually no water in Gibraltar Reservoir and steep cliffs from the dam up river, the firefighters were struggling to find a way to anchor off the river. Along with the difficult terrain, sensitive species, such as a bird called the least Bell’s vireo, in the drainage added to the problems facing them.

By Ray Ford

Smoke rises from fire in Camuesa Canyon, totally burned out, viewed from Cameusa Road.

Further to the Interior

At 7 p.m., the front that had crossed Indian Creek a few hours earlier had died down. Beyond, several miles up Indian Creek and in the vicinity of the point where Buckhorn Canyon enters the bottom edge of the Dick Smith Wilderness, another major column was building. On the drive out from the upper Santa Ynez River area that evening, major fire activity was evident that will surely take the fire much deeper into the wilderness area. Just across the mouth of Buckhorn Canyon is the Pie Canyon Jeepway, a steep, winding roadway that leads several miles over to the Ogilvy Ranch area.

Depending on wind direction, on Tuesday the fire could head into Mono Creek in multiple locations as well as burning even deeper into upper Indian Creek. There, the fire will be entering into the 2007 Zaca Fire scar. It is not clear if this will stop the fire or not. Monday, with hours of aerial assault on the front edge of the fire that pushed across Indian Creek, one firefighter said that it “walked right over the retardant as if it was never there.”

Along with the explosive potential for the Rey Fire to expand even further east and into the wilderness, there are currently no resources available to work the northern part of the fire. Even if those resources became available, it is questionable how successful they might be given the difficult terrain; there are few spots from which to hold the line when the fire burns like it has the past two days.

Press Conference Tuesday

Fire officials — including Bob Baird, Los Padres National Forest Supervisor; Chief Eric Peterson, Santa Barbara County Fire; and CalFire officials — will be holding a press conference at the Vista Point along Highway 154 to discuss fire update, major considerations, and forest restrictions and closures. Many questions need to be asked and answered; among the issues are resources, contingencies, and weather patterns.

updated 5:07 p.m., 8/25

Incident: Rey Fire
8/18, 2:59 p.m.

31,505 acres

Ranch buildings threatened

One minor injury

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Published: 01 Feb 2018

Lucy-EdgarWhat was your earliest dream job?
Working on a scuba diving boat.

What was your first job in recruitment and how did you come into it?
With Hays Accountancy Personnel, as they were called back then. I came back from travelling and was unemployed, and did a temporary job with them in Stirling. I wandered into Hays, told them what I had done when I had been travelling – such as working on a cattle station and working on a dive boat – and they said ‘do you fancy trying out recruitment?’ So I just fell right into the industry.

Who is your role model – in life or in recruitment?
Cyclist Mark Beaumont, who holds the record for getting round the world on a bike, because of the way he achieves his goals.

What do you love most about your current role?
When I have managed to exceed expectations… with the quality of the candidate and speed of response to the clients or if someone comes to see me that’s just been made redundant and I get them another role very quickly.

What’s your top job to fill at the moment?
A change accountant for a distillery.

What would you consider to be the most brilliant moment of your career?
When I hit £500k in a year in 2009 because not many people do that. I was really pleased with myself when this whole finance team of qualified accountants had been made redundant from one of the banks and I placed every single one of them.

Laugh or cry, what did your most memorable candidate make you want to do and why?
Cry – I placed a candidate with a real rough and ready factory environment and within the first hour of him being there he introduced a swear tin for everyone to put a pound in when they swore because he didn’t agree with all the swearing at the company. I was mortified.

What is your signature dish?
Beef stew.

What’s the best or worst interview question you’ve ever heard?
Best – what keeps you awake at night with your current role? That’s because it shows a candidate’s values so you can read quite a lot into that.

What would you regard as your theme tune?
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds by The Beatles.

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There are challenges to gratitude like narcissism, materialism and over-scheduling. Therefore, it is important to mindfully and consistently practice gratitude, much like meditation. You can practice gratitude by finding ways to verbalize, write it down, or share through social media; gratitude works best when it is shared.

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ESR 30:171-186 (2016)  -  DOI:

Can you hear me here? Managing acoustic habitat in US waters

Leila T. Hatch1,*, Charles M. Wahle2, Jason Gedamke3, Jolie Harrison4, Benjamin Laws4, Sue E. Moore5, John H. Stadler6, Sofie M. Van Parijs7

1Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, 175 Edward Foster Road, Scituate, MA 02066, USA
2National Marine Protected Areas Center, NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, 99 Pacific Street, Suite 100-F, Monterey, CA 93940, USA
3Office of Science and Technology, NOAA Fisheries, 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA
4Office of Protected Resources, NOAA Fisheries, 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA
5Office of Science and Technology, NOAA Fisheries, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
6Oregon-Washington Coastal Area Office, West Coast Region, NOAA Fisheries, 510 Desmond Dr SE, Lacey, WA 98503, USA
7Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, 166 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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ABSTRACT: Many marine animals have evolved over millions of years to rely on sound as a fundamental component of their habitat. Over the last century, increasing noise from human activities has significantly affected the quality of underwater acoustic habitats. These changes can lead to reduced ability to detect and interpret environmental cues used to perform critical life functions (e.g. select mates, find food, maintain group structure and relationships, avoid predators, navigate). The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as the US federal agency with primary responsibility for protecting marine animals and their habitats, is developing an agency-wide strategy that emphasizes the ocean spaces that these animals need, and the importance of acoustic conditions in those places. This strategy seeks to reach beyond initial goals of reducing acute impacts due to noise (protecting hearing and reducing physical harm) to better account for the importance of underwater sound in marine ecosystems. This paper outlines science needs associated with acoustic habitat characterization and the assessment of noise impacts on habitats, which provide information critical to NOAA’s prioritization of future place-based research and management. NOAA’s spatial management tools are examined relative to acoustic habitat protection goals, which seek to match the ecological scales over which noise is impacting marine wildlife, including endangered species. Recommended actions are identified to address these broad spatial and long temporal scales, including international work on quieting technologies, registries of accumulated noisy events, and an enhanced role for NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuaries in science, management, and outreach associated with acoustic habitat protection.

KEY WORDS: Habitat · Marine · Acoustic · Protected areas · Soundscape

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The B.C. Liberal government should have released its full 2014 report on the deteriorating financial situation at the Insurance Corporation of B.C., even if they didn’t act on all the recommendations, Attorney General David Eby says.

The key recommendation that was removed from an Ernst and Young analysis of rising insurance costs was placing a cap on minor injury and pain and suffering awards from car accidents. With ICBC facing a potential $1.3 billion loss this year, Eby announced the province is implementing those changes in 2019.

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The former B.C. Liberal government commissioned the report as ICBC costs began soaring, restricting the province’s long-standing practice of taking a dividend from its operation and putting upward pressure on rates.

Rising accident rates and an 80 per cent increase in injury claim costs in the past seven years forced the government to act, putting a $5,500 limit on payouts for pain and suffering, and setting up a claim resolution tribunal to settle minor injury disputes without going to court.

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