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The Jayme Closs case: A chilling tale of murder, kidnapping and escape in rural America
2:47 PM EST, Sun January 20, 2019
Jake Patterson lasted only two days as a temp at the Saputo cheese factory in Almena, Wisconsin, a largely forgettable stint but for a brief stop behind a school bus while driving to work on a desolate stretch of US Highway 8.
The chance encounter provided his first glimpse of a green-eyed, strawberry-blond middle-school student who boarded the bus that October morning.
He didn't know her name. Nor did he know who lived in the nearby squat, ranch-style house with beige siding, set back from the rural Wisconsin road by a cluster of trees shedding golden leaves.
What he knew for certain, Patterson would tell investigators, was that she was "the girl he was going to take."
She was a 13-year-old named Jayme Closs. And the story of her parents' gruesome murders and her own kidnapping and escape after 87 days in captivity would soon grip the nation.
On the third visit, he would not leave alone
Behind the wheel of his old Ford Taurus, facing the taillights on the idling bus, Patterson's elaborate plot began to take shape.
When it was over, he would face two charges of intentional homicide, along with kidnapping and armed burglary counts. He is being held on $5 million bail and hasn't entered a plea.
Investigators said he provided chilling details of his crime in a lengthy confession, including his insistence he never would have been caught had he just "planned everything perfectly."
Still, by his own admission, Patterson "put quite a bit of thought" into every detail.
For one, he took his father's 12-gauge Mossberg shotgun, a fairly common weapon he believed would be hard to track. He grabbed half a dozen shotgun shells, then put on gloves and wiped them for prints. At Walmart, he picked up a black balaclava.
He shaved his face and head, so he'd leave no forensic evidence. At one point, he stole the plates from a parked car, then switched them with his own. He disconnected his car's dome light to help conceal his appearance. He cut a cord that could unlock the trunk from the inside.
Twice, Patterson drove to Jayme's home in Barron, a northwestern Wisconsin city of 3,300 residents about 90 miles east of Minneapolis. Cars in the driveway scared him away the first time. A night or two later, he aborted his plan after spotting lights and people in the house.
On October 15, though, he would not leave alone.
She knew her father was dead
He wore brown, steel-toed boots, a black jacket and jeans. The mask concealed his round, bespectacled face. Gloves covered his hands. The Taurus coasted into the Closs family driveway early that Monday morning with its headlights off.
Jayme was asleep in her bedroom when her dog, Molly, started barking. She got up, saw the car and rushed to wake her parents. Her father James, 56, headed for the front door.
Patterson shifted into park, stepped out quietly and walked to the redbrick entrance stairs. Fallen leaves surrounded decorative pumpkins and a pair of blue lawn chairs.
Jayme and her mother Denise, 46, took cover in the bathroom. They locked and barricaded the door with a cabinet drawer. Mother and daughter stepped into the tub and swung shut the shower curtain.
Behind white blinds at a window to the left of the front door, James Closs stood with a flashlight.
Get on the ground, Patterson hollered.
James Closs did not move. His flashlight illuminated the window.
Patterson climbed the brick stairs and opened the storm door. He pounded on the wooden door. Jayme's father looked at him through a small, wrought iron-encased window pane in the middle of the door.
Show me your badge, James Closs demanded, mistaking Patterson for a cop.
He stared through the glass, down the chrome-plated shotgun barrel. Patterson pulled the trigger.
The blast shook Jayme, who cowered in the tub. She knew her father was dead. Her mother dialed 911 on her cell phone.
He turned his head and squeezed the trigger
It was about 12:53 a.m. when the call came into the Barron County Dispatch Center, three miles from the Closs family home. No one spoke. Dispatchers heard screaming. One dispatcher returned the call and got Denise Closs' voicemail.
Outside, Patterson tried to break open the door. He ejected a spent shell and unloaded a blast toward the doorknob. He pushed the door open and stepped over James Closs' body.
A flashlight in hand, Patterson stalked the rooms. One door wouldn't budge. He checked the rest of the house: vacant. He returned to the bolted door. He couldn't kick it open. He rammed it with his shoulder, over and over. The drawer. It took 10 to 15 blows from the upper half of his 6-foot, 215-pound frame before it split in two.
He ripped down the shower curtain. Denise Closs clung to her daughter in what the intruder would describe as a "bear hug."
He handed Denise Closs duct tape and ordered her to cover her daughter's mouth. When she struggled, Patterson rested his weapon on the sink and did it himself. He also bound Jayme's wrists and ankles and helped her out of the tub.
He pointed the shotgun at her mother's head and squeezed the trigger as he turned his head away.
Patterson then grabbed the 5-foot, 100-pound teenager and nearly slipped on the bloodied floor on the way out. He dragged her across the yard and forced her into the trunk of the Taurus. In all, he spent four minutes at the house.
Three Barron County Sheriff's deputies were already on their way.
Patterson removed his mask. The shotgun laid next to him. He pressed the gas pedal. But only 20 seconds into his getaway, he was slowing for blinking lights and blaring sirens.
A deputy saw a Taurus yield to the passing squad cars. It wouldn't be the last time during Jayme's ordeal that law enforcement would encounter that car.
Patterson was ready for a gunfight, later telling investigators he "most likely would have shot at the police" if they'd stopped him.
In the trunk, Jayme heard the sirens. Then, they faded away.
At the Closs family home, deputies discovered the bodies around 1 a.m.; Jayme was gone. The deep drone of an Amber Alert soon buzzed cell phones across the state.
The door sign read: 'Patterson's Retreat'
For three months, police and volunteers across northern Wisconsin searched for her. Detectives chased thousands of tips. The FBI offered a $25,000 reward for information. Her parents' employer added another $25,000.
Jayme's photo circulated on posters. Strangers attended her parents' funeral. Neighbors gathered at events in her honor. Relatives appealed to the public for information about where she could possibly be.
"Jayme, we need you here with us to fill that hole we have in our hearts," her aunt, Jennifer Smith, said in a message released by relatives. "We all love you to the moon and back."
The whole time, Patterson was holding Jayme in a cluttered, single-family home near the tiny and heavily forested town of Gordon, population 650, just 70 miles north of where she lived. A sign atop the front door greets visitors to the beige and brown two-bedroom home, set on 2.6 secluded acres: "Patterson's Retreat," it reads.
In the basement fireplace, he'd burned her clothes, the duct tape and his gloves. He'd had Jayme change into his sister's pajamas. He was surprised to find no blood spatter on his boots or clothing.
Patterson forced Jayme to stay under his twin-size bed, shutting her in with bags, laundry bins and barbells when visitors arrived or he left the house. When his father came on Saturdays, he turned up the bedroom radio to muffle her movements.
He said he kept her in line by yelling and hitting the walls, especially the two times he noticed she had tried to get out from under the bed. He repeatedly warned that "bad things would happen to her if she tried" to come out.
During one outburst, Jayme said Patterson struck her "really hard" on her back. She sometimes stayed under the bed for as long as 12 hours, with no food, water or access to the bathroom.
She stepped into a cold, unfamiliar world
For a time, he kept the loaded shotgun outside the bedroom in the case the police came.
But two weeks after the kidnapping, he put the weapon away. Patterson later told detectives he believed "he had gotten away" with his crimes.
Perhaps it was this sense of confidence and accomplishment that led Patterson to apply for a nighttime warehouse job at a liquor distributor on the morning of January 10 — 87 days after Jayme's abduction.
"I'm an honest and hardworking guy," he wrote under the "Skills" heading on his resume. "Not much work experience but I show up to work and am a quick learner."
That morning, Patterson had told Jayme he was going out for a few hours. And Jayme made a decision: She'd be caged no longer. She shoved the bins and weights away from the bed. Then, she crawled out from the 2 feet that separated the mattress from the cold floor.
Freedom at her grasp, she unlocked the front door and stepped out into an unfamiliar, snowy landscape wearing only pajamas and her captor's sneakers on the wrong feet.
Jeanne Nutter was walking her dog near her driveway about 4 p.m. when she spotted a blond-haired girl, alone, without a coat or gloves in the January chill. Nutter doesn't usually visit her cabin in the winter. But on this day, she was there.
"Did she run away?" Nutter asked herself of the teenager. "Did somebody dump her off here?"
The girl came closer.
"I'm lost and I don't' know where I am and I need help," the teen said.
Nutter recognized her face. Maybe from flyers or the countless television news stories.
"I'm Jayme," said the girl, frightened but calm.
Nutter knew that name.
'This is Jayme Closs! Call 911 right now'
She held Jayme tightly as they walked to the nearest home.
Kristin Kasinskas heard pounding on her door. Her neighbor stood outside with a skinny girl with unkempt hair and oversized sneakers.
"This is Jayme Closs!" Nutter told her. "Call 911 right now."
Inside, fear crept over Nutter. What if the kidnapper came looking for Jayme?
"Get a weapon," she told Kasinskas.
The women dialed 911 as Kasinskas' husband stood guard at the front door with a gun.
"Douglas County 911," a dispatcher answered.
"Hi. I have a young lady at my house right now, and she has said her name is Jayme Closs," Kasinskas said.
"Have you seen her photo, ma'am?"
"Yes. It is her. I 100% think it is her."
Nutter soon took the phone. She said Jayme didn't know where she was but had told them that a young man named Jake Patterson had killed her parents and kidnapped her. Nutter said he lived a few doors from her cabin.
"We're kind of scared because he might come," Nutter said.
But the dispatcher was still stuck at the start, asking, "And she said, 'I am Jayme Closs?"
"Yes," Kasinskas said. "She said, 'He killed my parents. I want to go home. Help me."
Catching on to the panic, the dispatcher assured the women authorities were on their way. "Ma'am, my deputy, she just wants you to lock the doors … and don't let the dogs out or anything. Just everybody stay inside until I can get deputies there."
"Are they close?" Nutter asked. "We're nervous."
Deputies pulled up to the house just before sunset, at 4:43 p.m. But even then, Nutter couldn't trust they were safe.
"We need to let them in, right?" she asked over the 911 line.
Near her secret prison, a startling admission
When Patterson got home, Jayme was gone. He searched the house, then went outside and noticed her footprints. He got back into the Taurus to hunt her down.
Just then, a deputy ferrying Jayme away from the Kasinskas' home spotted a red vehicle — a Kia or a Ford — approaching from the other direction. Jayme couldn't say whether it was her abductor. The deputy alerted her colleagues.
Patterson by now had restored the original plates to his car. A license plate check by police showed the vehicle was registered to someone with the surname Patterson. An officer saw a male driver alone in the car and followed it past the house they'd soon come to learn had been Jayme's secret prison.
Two sergeants stopped the Taurus. One ordered the driver to put his hands up, then opened the door.
Jake Patterson identified himself. He said he knew what this was about.
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Naga deal and Manipur: I told you so
The trickier aspect would be to integrate rebel leadership into the mainstream as there is a matter of saving face as well as the necessity of making peace worthwhile for fat cats—rebel and non-rebel alike. Photo: PTI
As it stands, Naga homelands in Manipur are with Manipur only on paper.
It was interesting to read a report in The Indian Express earlier this week which suggested a Naga peace deal was at hand, but assembly elections over 4 and 8 March in Manipur, which has large Naga homelands, had slowed the process. The report also suggested that a degree of autonomy in Naga homelands would be part of the deal that hopes to please all sides, including the majority Meitei people of Manipur, who are terribly sensitive about territorial integrity.
I've been telling you so for several months; that nothing would move till results arrive—on 11 March—because the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wants to electorally wrest Manipur from the Congress and its three-term, and incumbent chief minister, Okram Ibobi Singh, who has projected himself as saviour of the Meitei even as he presided over the desolation of Manipur. This has led to the conflation of politics and peacemaking.
Let me offer some perspective.
Four days after the government of India signed a so-called framework agreement for peace with National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah), or NSCN (I-M), the largest Naga rebel group, in the column Balancing the Naga accord (7 August 2015) I mapped contours of some solutions to one of South Asia's knottiest problems.
One aspect was of course mainstreaming rebels by absorbing some cadres into policing functions, or paramilitary functions such as an industrial security force, in the manner, say, that Nepal achieved with its former Maoist rebels.
The trickier aspect would be to integrate rebel leadership into the mainstream as there is a matter of saving face as well as the necessity of making peace worthwhile for fat cats—rebel and non-rebel alike.
For the Nagas this is a matter of some rigour. The Nagas comprise 16 major and numerous minor tribes—NSCN (I-M) is perceived as largely Tangkhul-led and Tangkhul-peopled, a tribe with its homeland in Manipur. Thuingaleng Muivah, the M in I-M and signatory to the "framework agreement"—is Tangkhul. So is Phungthing Shimrang, its army chief; as are several other leaders and numerous cadres. This makes it problematic for I-M in post-peace Nagaland, which has its own specific tribal homelands and entrenched political and economic patronage.
Besides, such integration, as I have earlier written, would require a Lalthanhawla-like figure. The Congress chief minister of Mizoram stepped aside in 1986 for Mizo rebel leader Laldenga and the cause of peace. We saw how it works over 19-22 February. Nagaland's chief minister T.R. Zeliang was compelled to resign after massive public unrest over urban-body elections. He made way for Shürhozelie Liezietsu—but Zeliang retained control over the all-important finance portfolio: as finance advisor with cabinet rank. They also temporarily thwarted another contender, arch-foe and former chief minister Neiphiu Rio.
Tangkhul rebel leadership and cadre are impelled to consolidate their hold in Manipur. This will be true even if I-M general secretary Muivah is offered a ceremonial role of an elder statesman among the Nagas, who also have contiguous homelands in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. Whatever Muivah's future role, his ambitious subordinates will require appeasing. The United Naga Council (UNC), the apex body of Naga tribes in Manipur, seen by many as an I-M proxy, has over the past three years escalated its demand for what it calls "Alternative Arrangement"—autonomy by another name. UNC alleges that Manipur's government, weighted by the Meitei, has discriminated against the non-Meitei. UNC wants administrative autonomy in Manipur's Naga homelands.
"A settlement with NSCN (I-M) cannot come about without adjustments in its pocket borough," I wrote. "There's been talk of giving the alternative arrangement wing with control over finance, administration and development, but to allow the government of Manipur to retain control over police functions." The precise formula is a matter of ongoing negotiations.
This will need to be balanced with calming sops to the Meitei and non-Naga tribal folk in Manipur—the Kuki-Chin people—and rebel groups who claim to speak for them. They have for long seen NSCN (I-M) as aggressors, instigators of territorial bloodletting.
As it stands, Naga homelands in Manipur are with Manipur only on paper. "While that paper territoriality is crucial to maintain equilibrium," I wrote in 2015, "actual ceding of administrative control would require balancing with massive development input in Manipur, and emotional sops such as scaling back the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, and acquiescing to an Inner Line Permit system that protects the rights and livelihoods of particularly the non-tribal, plains-residing Manipuri …"
We'll know soon enough.
Sudeep Chakravarti's books include Clear.Hold.Build: Hard Lessons of Business and Human Rights in India, Red Sun: Travels in Naxalite Country and Highway 39: Journeys through a Fractured Land. This column, which focuses on conflict situations and the convergence of businesses and human rights, runs on Thursdays.
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Memo to the Science Marchers: A SLIGHTLY SELF-AGGRANDIZING GOOD JOB.
I joined in on the Science March this weekend, the local variant, here in the Twin Cities, and learned some things both about protesting in general, and the Science March in particular.
First, kudos to anyone who attends an anti-Trump march ever, because by modern life standards, participating in protest and activism is a hassle. So the fact that five digits'-worth of people showed up here when you need a multi-hour commitment for 20 minutes of marching is straight up impressive.
This sounds facetious, but it's not. One of the great mysteries of mdern life is the amount of hassle associated with it, despite living in the future. People have a LOT of shit going on. The people at the various anti-Trump protest marches don't have the Tea Party luxury of being retired racists, for the most part. Doing this means not doing other shit. The size of that sacrifice varies, but for a lot of people it's non-trivial.
Generally speaking, the things you've heard about the tone of these marches are true. A friendly, normal, peaceful vibe. At one point a camera drone flew overhead during the pre-march muster, and nobody in the crowd threw rocks trying to strike down the devil machine, so clearly George Soros hires a higher quality of protester than Rick Santelli did.
I don't know about the other cities, but the Twin Cities Science March was nerdy as fuuuuuuuuuuck. There was an active competition for Most Obscurely Incomprehensible Protest Sign, with multiple winners. This is not a criticism per se - protest signs in the Trump era are in many cases just another way to be clever on social media, and that's fine - but man, if the march were any nerdier they'd have had to set up marathon-style inhaler stations every block or so.
A lot of the signs expressed the noble sentiment that "science isn't political", but of course science is political, because everything is political. And everything is political, and science is doubly political for the very reason people say it's NOT political. Science that defines objective fact is frequently at odds with the desire for money and power.
Science was, in many ways, one of the first referees of society to be actively undermined so that people could get away with evil shit. Long before Fox News was fouinded or the word "alternative facts" was coined, industries like tobacco produced their own alternative scientists and alternative science that obfuscated the true dangers of smoking for DECADES in the pursuit of profit and, in the case of tobacco-growing states, political power.
So, while the deliberate exploitation of bullshit in politics to create a permanent anti-intellectual underclass is a relatively recent development, and the election of members of that underclass to positions of power even more recent, science has been political for a VERY long time. The pro-science side is just coming around to taking up their half of the fight.


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Alexandre José Maria kardinál dos Santos (18. března 1924 Zavala – 29. září 2021 Maputo) byl mosambický římskokatolický kněz, bývalý arcibiskup Maputa, františkán a kardinál.

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Studoval ve františkánských řádových školách v Portugalsku a Malawi. Vstoupil do řádu františkánů, v roce 1948 složil časné sliby, o tři roky později sliby věčné. Kněžské svěcení přijal 25. června 1953. Poté působil na františkánské misi v Inhambane w Mosambiku, byl rovněž rektorem nižšího semináře ve Vila Pery.
V prosinci 1974 byl jmenován arcibiskupem Maputa, biskupské svěcení mu udělil 9. března 1975 kardinál Agnelo Rossi, prefekt Kongregace pro evangelizaci národů. Při konzistoři v červnu 1988 ho papež Jan Pavel II. jmenoval kardinálem. Po dosažení kanonického věku rezignoval v únoru 2003 na funkci arcibiskupa.

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The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday suspended a 50-year-old policy to re-elect Curt Hagman as chairman for a second consecutive two-year term to maintain leadership during the pandemic.
The policy, in place since 1970, states that the office of chairman is to rotate every two years and forbids chairpersons from serving two terms in succession.
Dawn Rowe, third district supervisor, suggested the policy be waived because she said Mr. Hagman has done an exemplary job during COVID and it was not the time to change leadership.
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"I would be the next chairperson and I look forward to that honor someday, but I have not even had the opportunity to serve as vice chairperson yet," she said.
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Supervisor Paul Cook, who was elected in March and took office last month to represent the first district, said good leadership should not be changed in the middle of a crisis unless there is a very good reason.
Joe Baca, Jr., who was elected in November to represent the fifth district, said Mr. Hagman has done a great job and continuity was important during the pandemic.
Mr. Hagman, a Chino resident, former state assemblyman and former mayor of Chino Hills, thanked his colleagues for their vote of confidence.
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Happy Birthday, Your Madge
16/08/2018 by Milkybarnick 35 Comments
Yes, Madonna celebrates a big birthday today. Dunno what the general opinion of her music is on here, but I've always liked her (she was the first pop star I had on my wall at the age of 7 or so; I think I thought she was "pretty" which I guess when you're 7 is as far as it goes) and you can't deny she's had some excellent records.
Over on the Twitts there is a top 5 thing going on; I'm not suggesting we do that here (it's an interesting read, mind), but it's certainly worth some celebration.
Here's probably my favourite (from around the time I put the poster up). A fantastic record, with some fantastically unsubtle innuendo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52iW3lcpK5M
Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Eighties, madonna, megastar, pop
ganglesprocket says
Because my little sister loved Madonna so much, and played her so much, I ended up not bothering about her because her music was always just "there."
So when, a few months ago I actually bought and listened to the vinyl of Like A Prayer, I was quite taken aback. It's genuinely fabulous.
Here's a Madonna one I like a lot. I have no idea why her actual Bond theme ended up so crap when her Austen Powers theme is just BRILLIANT. Maybe she felt the pressure a bit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgeV23orVx0
She's 60 apparently! What exactly makes that a 'Big' birthday? It's not retiring age, it's not bus pass age. So far, the only thing I've learned is you can get a B&Q discount card. If I had a pound for every time someone asked me what I was doing for my birthday this year I would be able to retire! I just don't get what the big deal is. For a multimillionaire that can do pretty much what she wants, when she wants, presumably it makes even less difference.
Milkybarnick says
Ah, only because it has a 0 on the end of it. Those birthdays are so ingrained in our way of thinking they just get celebrated.
Gatz says
Well, it's the starting point of old age I suppose. Anyway, how about a favourite Madge number to cheer yourself up? I like @ganglesprocket's shout, but I admit to a soft spot for True Blue and Material Girl too.
In what way is it the starting point? I don't feel any older, than I did 10 years ago and I'm certainly not treated any differently by anyone. Surely everyone is different and will start feeling old at different times. Why pick a specific number? I guess I've never been one to mark my birthday so actually picking a specific one seems even odder.
No one said Happy 60th to you, did they, John?
Yep, even got a few cards. Always seems weird though that other people seem to care when I don't!
fortuneight says
You don't feel any older? Then that's a reason to celebrate. I'm not 60 yet but compared to how I felt at 50, night and fecking day.
In terms of the OP – I don't dance. I just don't. But when I hear "Into The Groove" I do.
Confessions On A Dancefloor is best listened to as the continuous mix it is, but Forbidden Love is a particular highlight.
https://youtu.be/arVxBCkQWXU
Mavis Diles says
It's an ace album!
If there's a better 15 minutes of pop than the last two tracks on the remix album 'You Can Dance', I'm yet to hear it.
H.P. Saucecraft says
You clearly haven't heard any five Monkees singles, then.
I have. They're great, of course, but it's all opinions, innit?
I suppose the reality is that 60 is a bigger deal for a female artist. At 60 Willie is just growing into his Mount Rushmore face, Leonard's voice is getting just deep and croaky enough.
Lady performer: U still here?
The DW/SFLH* is one of the great singles artists in pop history, and that is the dream job.
(*Number 1 in Spain. These are actual "H"s. )
See also Emmylou, Lucinda and Bonnie (Raitt) amongst many.
And Norma has just brought another one out, with her daughter for company.
Peggy Seeger, Shirley Collins, all it at.
Emmylou, Lucinda and Bonnie have never been as keen on flashing their nipples though. Nor being "provocative". So their age has never been a thing, the same way Mick Jagger´s age is a thing and Willie Nelson´s isn´t..
Shirley Collin´s Lodestar is a beautiful album, btw.
My opinion on Madonna´s music is that it´s better than her acting.
Still, happy birthday!
moseleymoles says
If anything under-rated. With a few bumps, important and relevant for 23 years. The greatest female popstar ever. Discuss. Hung Up was Number One in 41 countries! 41. Her stats are just ridiculous. And at her best, with a single, she's unbeatable.
ip33 says
Ray of Light is one of mankinds greatest achievements. If this was her only hit, she'd still be a legend.
https://youtu.be/x3ov9USxVxY
Madge, like Bjork, could be accused of seeing an underground trend and jumping on the bandwagon's hot producer. But when the results are this good, who cares? My fave as well.
60! I don't believe it! Loved her up to the mid 90s then gave up. Did see her live in 2005 for the only time and it was a great night.
This is a great song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzAO9A9GjgI
If you like to argue with a list (and who doesn't?) Jude Rogers, mainstay of Word in its earlier days, has ranked every Madonna single for the Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/16/every-one-of-madonnas-78-singles-ranked
bobness says
My three personal faves at 1, 2 and 4. Like a prayer is just about as perfect as pop gets.
Bless her, whatever "it" is, she hasn't just got it, she's made of it.
What I did wonder about was how many of those singles I couldn't hum if you put a gun to my head…
Well, if I can put it up for Sir Mick……….
http://www.covermesongs.com/2018/08/the-best-madonna-covers-ever.html
Blue Boy says
In 2000/2001 we played the Music album relentlessly – it was one of those records that I, Mrs BB and both our daughters were all more than happy to listen to. Haven't played it for a while, but will give it a spin – it was brilliant then and I hope it holds up now
https://youtu.be/FRLHro9EPD0
Black Type says
I don't think she's someone you can warm to, so I respect and admire her rather than 'love' her like I 'love' other artists, but the vast majority of her singles and a handful of her albums are simply peerless pop music. Her 60th is definitely a good reason to celebrate, considering that her two compadres in the 80s Triumvirate didn't make it.
You can widen that out to Pentumvirate, if there is such a word (there isn't). Whitney, George, Prince, Jacko. They've all gone.
PS top five:
Black Celebration says
I think she's great. She's produced some glorious pop music. A top 5 is hard to do and probably a smidge predictable but here we are:
1. Ray of Light – Played it repeatedly. An absolute belter.
2. Beautiful Stranger – So good, I initially assumed it was a cover of a classic 60s number that had passed me by.
3. Express Yourself – So good it was covered by Lady Gaga and called "Born this Way".
4. Deeper and Deeper – always had a soft spot for this one.
5. Open Your Heart – I had this single c/w Lucky Star. VFM!
I bet she's annoyed that Aretha died on her big day. Inconsiderate especially as they came from the same city.
The same day as Robert Johnson and Elvis Presley died.
The one bit of bad luck she's had in her life.
Sniffity says
That, and the premiere of Shanghai Surprise
Apart from her mother dying when she was 10 I guess.
Also not forgetting the rape in her early days in New York, of course.
Regarding her 'luck', I guess the harder she worked, the luckier she gor
Sorry. Just don't like her.
I feel you bro'
That moment in In Bed With Madonna/Truth Or Dare when they asked her who the true love of her life was and she said "Sean" I was gutted too..


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Bougainvillea Chapel
The Bougainvillea Chapel is a contemporary interpretation of the traditional chapel model, with transformed typological elements. The Chapel is a modern building that incorporates within its plan and tectonic form nostalgic memory of the historical architectural prototype. Historical associations are evoked by the grand spatial character, which imbues the building with dignity, light and mystery as well as a sense of romance. Quiet references to Christianity are also made through the incorporation of traditional icons such as the cross and basilica plan. The subtle expression of Christian tradition is out of respect for the diversity of customs of the guests to be accommodated here, who while not necessarily being Christian prefer the rites and rituals of a Christian wedding.
One of the principal features of the building are the vertical bougainvillea gardens on the long sidewalls. The integration of planting intentionally blurs distinctions between architecture and landscape architecture. RTA designed most of the elements of the Chapel and its environs from the door handles to the landscape garden and fountain.
Typological elements, carried through history as iconic devices which lend immediate functional and formal recognition to architecture, include in the case of a typical chapel such devices as bell tower, rose window, cross, vestibule, choir, nave and altar, usually organized around a cruciform plan. In the case of the Bougainvillea Chapel, the volume of the traditional tower is reflected in the morphology of the vestibule, with its soaring curved roof and ceiling. The typological cross and rose window are here reinterpreted by the tall curtain wall, and are evident in the shifted orientation of fretted glass which defines a crucifix within the grid steel frame. The choir is open to both vestibule and chapel, enjoying mountain and ocean views respectively. It also accommodates the musicians and organ, and the steel baluster on the chapel side takes its form from the pipes of an organ.
The nave is the chapel proper and is the main axis of the cruciform plan, the lateral axis comprising the bride's room and reception area. Another iconic cross image is suggested by the geometry of the ocean side curtain wall frame. The chapel is perched on the edge of a 20-meter cliff overlooking the lagoon of Tumon Bay, its reef and the Pacific Ocean beyond. A high ceiling and rigid axial focus exploit remarkable ocean views. Internally the axis is defined by the long sidewalls and ceiling, which terminate in a marble trimmed orifice at the ocean end of the building. Externally, the main axis of the building is reinforced by the unique exterior surface treatment of the main building volume, namely the living bougainvillea walls. Projecting out from this are smaller volumes containing ancillary functions, such as the reception and bride's room. These have a lower roofline so as not to compete with the main structure, and are painted white for contrast. The reception room door and window frame geometry also implies a cross.
Adjacent to a 21-story hotel tower, the chapel is highly visible from above. Accordingly, special care was taken in detailing and finishing the roof of the building. The roof surface is finished in dark green ceramic tiles, which curve dramatically down from the apex to a flat section over the nave. The chapel is connected to the hotel tower by a colonnade crowned with a transparent canopy, which allows approaching guests an upward view of the bougainvillea walls. The curvature of the canopy reflects the form of the chapel roof and is integrated with the existing structure of the hotel as well as the form of the front door.
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With baseball, basketball and hockey all in season, watch some of your favorite sports movies
Sports films getting better With baseball, basketball and hockey all in season, watch some of your favorite sports movies Check out this story on thenews-messenger.com: http://ohne.ws/2oBrwIZ
Craig Shoup, Reporter Published 8:45 a.m. ET April 5, 2017 | Updated 5:10 p.m. ET April 5, 2017
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Spring is in the air, summer is around the corner and faintly in the distance you can hear the sound of a baseball hitting a glove.
The sports movie genre is not a mainstay in the industry with less than a handful of sport-related movies released each year.
I think this may be the cause of the movie market itself, with sports being very popular in the country, yet not always when it comes to movies.
Many sports movies are inspirational, like "Rudy," the story of a walk-on for the storied Notre Dame football team who was undersized and outmanned, but kept on fighting to earn two plays on the field, and in more recent memory, "The Blind Side," which tells the story of Michael Oher's rise from the streets of Memphis to all-American college offensive lineman to the National Football League.
Sometimes those sports movies know just how to tug at your heart strings.
Other inspiring tales on the big screen include "42," the story of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier, or "Miracle," the story of perhaps the greatest upset in sports history when a group of amateur hockey players beat a Soviet Union team considered one of the best ever at the 1980 Olympic games at Lake Placid.
Many forget that was a semi-final game the Americans one. They later beat Finland for the gold medal.
I think the sports genre has gone in cycles, but over the past 15 years, most sports movies have skewed towards serious tones.
In the 1970s, '80s, and early '90s, movies were often about rag-tag groups of players, either past their prime or not talented enough to put on a professional uniform.
Movies that come to mind in this era include "Slap Shot," "Bull Durham," and "Major League."
I think the last 15 years have been great for the genre. It has turned from, hey, this is a sports movie, to this is a good or great movie that happens to be about sports.
We all know that any great movie, no matter the genre, tells a great story.
One of the best recent sports movies was "Moneyball," about baseball general manager Billy Beane and his unorthodox selection of players for the financially strapped Oakland Athletics of the early 2000s.
Brad Pitt starred as Beane, and the thing I like most about the movie is its take on the inner workings of a baseball team, including the interactions between the general manager and the team's manager, players and the owner who signs the checks.
"Draft Day," the 2014 movie about the Cleveland Browns, also that takes an inside look at the inner-workings of a professional team and its decision makers.
The movie is not as good as "Moneyball," as it gets bogged down by an unnecessary romantic story arch between the general manager and his salary cap manager, but it does a good job of showing how complex it is to put a professional sports team together, and the cat and mouse game between teams and their front offices.
This year one sports movie stands out, "Battle of the Sexes," the story of the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
Fresh off her Oscar win, Emma Stone plays King, and Steve Carell plays the hustler Riggs. The movie comes at an interesting time as women struggle to find a balance in a large pay gap with men.
Of all the sports in the world, boxing seems to translate the most on screen with dozens of movies using the sport as its launching pad.
Recent movies like "Hands of Stone" and "Bleed for This" came out last year, following the bio-pic format of past movies like "Raging Bull," "Ali," and the "Rocky" franchise.
1. "Raging Bull"
2. "Hoop Dreams"
3. "Million Dollar Baby"
4. "Field of Dreams"
5. "Moneyball"
6. "The Wrestler"
7. "Rocky"
8. "Hoosiers"
9. "*61"
10. "Jerry Maguire"
Just missed the cut: "Slap Shot," "Major League," "Little Big league," "Rudy," "A league of their Own" and "The Program."
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Students Self-Pace to A+ at D.C.'s LAYC Career Academy
by Michelle Peterson
by Michelle Peterson | Apr 09, 2014
Down the broad, sunny entryway of Washington D.C.'s LAYC Career Academy, IT instructor Abner Soto uses a morning break to make small talk in the hallway — and to promote the school's IT classes. "Hey, do you remember Jose Morales?" he asks one student. "He studied here, and now he's working in IT in the main building."
Down in his classroom, Soto introduces computer components to a group of skeptical new students. "We basically show them, 'This is the slide, this is the motherboard, this is the CPU, and this is the software on how you're going to build a computer,'" Soto said, describing his introduction to the school's IT program. Students dive right in, and after a week of putting parts together and taking them apart — sometimes under rigorous time trials — students in LAYC Career Academy's IT Pathway have taken the first step toward a career in information technology.
"They're like, 'Wow, in just one week I did that!' They're very excited," Soto said.
An Innovative Charter School
Parked just south of the Capital Beltway, the LAYC Career Academy is an innovative charter school serving Washington D.C.'s disconnected youth. They offer GED training for those who need it, college credits for high school graduates, and direct pathways to careers in health care and IT.
"We're kind of a bridge between high school and college, and also sort of a stopgap to prevent students who have dropped out repeatedly from doing it again," said LAYC Career Academy Principal Angela Stepancic, who has helmed the operation since day one. The LAYC Career Academy is a public charter school operating in D.C. and a CompTIA academic partner.
The goal of all their programs is to make the diverse and dynamic student body college- and career-ready, Stepancic said. Through CompTIA's academic partnership, students receive free training and testing vouchers so they can earn CompTIA A+ certification.
Abner Soto, a longtime instructor and until recently the career academy's sole IT teacher, helped build the CompTIA partnership and easily implemented the program, according to Stepancic.
"I really appreciate the individualization and the ease of access and use of the program," she said. "CompTIA has good benchmarks so students know what's expected and when, and it's broken down into manageable sections."
LAYC Career Academy sets high expectations for its students, and Soto said his IT students take it very seriously.
"It's a very expensive certification," Soto said. "They're thinking about their futures, and having the certification will give them lots of opportunities."
The program is self-paced, which offers much-needed flexibility for students who "sometimes have trouble with attendance thanks to the interesting distractions and responsibilities they have in their lives," according to Stepancic. The personalization also helps students who are coming from various backgrounds.
"We have students from all over the world. Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Africa," said Soto. "About 40 percent of them speak Spanish and the other 60 percent English." The CompTIA A+ training and testing is done in English and students must pass a reading test before taking Soto's A+ classes.
Students on the path to CompTIA A+ certification must first earn IC3 certification before taking on 100 hours of training and a 300-hour office internship.
"Normally we spend about three months teaching the IC3, and then about six or seven months for the A+," Soto said. "We also work with Cisco Academy on the IT Essentials: PC Hardware and Software, so when they jump into the A+ training, they have lots of experience with the material."
Jose Morales is one of LAYC Career Academy's early success stories. Though he worked evenings while he attended school, Morales sat for 14 tests and earned a variety of certifications — MOS, IC3, Microsoft Technology Association, Cisco Academy and CompTIA A+ — in just six months.
"To be honest, my goal wasn't to be in the IT field, it was to be a soccer player," Morales said. "For some reason, that didn't happen, but then I got involved in technology and liked it. To me, it's not like it's a job, it's more like a hobby."
The classes were difficult at first, but once he understood the basics he was happy to pile on information.
"The A+ is a challenging certification. … Sometimes I would get frustrated because didn't understand the topics of the certifications, but Abner is a good teacher, and he worked us through that process and we learned a lot," he said.
Soto likes to share Morales's story because it has a happy ending.
"He passed the IC3 certification and said, 'I need more.' So we moved him to MOS and he said, 'It's not helping, I need more.' Then he passed the CompTIA A+ certification and now he's working on the CompTIA Network+ certification," Soto said. "English is not his first language, but he was working amazingly hard and spending the extra time in the classroom."
Morales is now a junior IT tech at the Latin American Youth Center, a multicultural youth center that's been around for 40 years and spawned LAYC Career Academy in the fall of 2012.
"Now when I get up for work in the morning, I don't complain. I don't have to do something I don't like and each day brings something new," Morales said. "For me it's one of the greatest programs here in D.C."
Christopher Brito, another early graduate of the IT pathway and proud CompTIA A+ certification holder, agreed. "Opportunities like this don't come every day, and you've got to take them when they come," he said.
In one year, while his wife Tristan participated in military basic training, Brito earned his GED and several IT certifications: CompTIA A+, Cisco Academy and IC3 Computing, both DS3 and DS4, among them.
"If you get an opportunity like that, you should not let it go, especially with being A+ certified," Brito said over the phone from Killeen, Texas, where he's a certified computer technician for Best Buy's Geek Squad. "That gives you enough to be in a career that you can take and run with for life."
The LAYC Career Academy did more than offer him a career pathway; it changed his mentality about learning. "After I got to the career academy, I didn't want to leave school. I wanted to stay and keep learning about computers," he said. He started reading, researching things online and watching the news. "I couldn't stop. I still can't stop."
Thanks to motivation and mentoring from Soto, some older friends and his sister Estephany, who works at the youth center's main building, Brito completed his training, A+ certification and internship in 12 months.
"My whole life has changed because of the academy. I think there should be programs like that around the world, even in foreign countries. That, right there, is just a kick start to anybody's life," Brito said. "If you came from the bottom, this will shoot you right to the top."
He, too, plans to go into other forms of IT, though he's still considering his career options.
"That type of field is never-ending," he said. "Technology will never go away, it will never go to waste."
LAYC has had a good success rate with the program so far: 86 percent of the first group passed the exam and are now A+ certified.
"It's a very interesting program and I really trust the A+ certification," Soto said. "It is very powerful."
Michelle Peterson is the specialist, communications editor for CompTIA.


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ASH Wednesday (part 2)
I didn't finish writing about the UK government's 'new' tobacco strategy last week (the strategy being to do whatever ASH say despite their appalling record of failure and broken promises).
Reading the government's Tobacco Control Plan 2011, the first thing that struck me was that it was identical in style and content to the numerous public health papers that came out in the Labour years. Now, obviously I didn't expect Andrew Lansley to write the thing himself but, seriously, it was indistinguishable. I would hazard a guess that the whole thing was the creation of ASH, Cancer Research and other "stake-holders" in collaboration with the same people from the Department of Health who were instrumental in dictating policy to the previous lot. And we know from the Dark Market e-mails how closely these groups like to work together.
The headline news is that the ludicrous display ban is to be brought in as planned and the bat-shit crazy plain packaging plan will probably follow. Why both should be required is a mystery. Common sense dictates that they both do the same job of shielding evil colours and fonts from the eyes of naive young consumers. Bring in one and you don't need the other. Still, ASH are "delighted".
Plain packaging is not yet a done deal. There is to be a public consultation. Perhaps it's started already, who would know? It's not as if they advertise these consultations to the public, but you can be sure those in the club are always kept well informed. We know how this process will work. The fake charities and the quangos will collect names by e-mail using state funds and the voices of private citizens will be expunged from the record. Like this guy said:
"It will come as no surprise to us if the Department of Health has funded organisations that provide the responses to consultations that the Government is looking for. The public are understandably cynical about the way Labour consults the public—it's time we had a Government that treats the public and their views with the respect they deserve."
Those are the words of Andrew Lansley, speaking about the consultation for the display ban while he was in opposition. The same Andrew Lansley who has just given the green light to the display ban and has authorised another pretend consultation on a measure that even the Labour party seemed unsure about. Funny old game, politics, isn't it?
What is the evidence that any of this will further the government's arbitrary goal of reducing smoking prevalence to 18.5% by 2015? There is almost nothing to go on. ASH's "evidence" that plain-packaging had public support was such a pathetic concoction of wishful thinking that even they seemed embarrassed by it and resorted to getting Martin Dockrell to launch it on a left-wing blog. Every media outlet, including the BBC, ignored their what-if survey.
A few countries have tried the display ban but there has been no effect on the smoking rate. Evidence from Canada and Ireland suggests that it has increased both smuggling and youth smoking. No one's tried plain packaging.
But evidence just doesn't come into it. It's about being a world leader at the lowest possible cost and that's something that's always attracted politicians to tobacco control. It's cheap and you can look like a tough guy for a day. We'll try anything now. England has been sprung into the position of having Californians pointing and laughing at us for a change. How very embarrassing. We are now the test bunnies for moral entrepreneurs everywhere. We are in the do-anything business. It's as if the anti-smoking lobby is throwing anything and everything out there before they start being judged on results.
And time is running out. Even in their line of work, you cannot keep making promises and failing to deliver indefinitely. This, from the BBC's report on the plans:
A fifth of adults smoke - a figure which has remained steady in recent years after decades of rapid falls.
Every other report made a similar point but failed to grasp its significance. Before 2007, Britain had almost nothing in the way of anti-smoking legislation. There were no graphic warnings on packs. You could smoke at 16. You could smoke in a pub, in an office, in a nightclub—pretty much anywhere so long as the owner of those private premises agreed. Taxes went up every year and there were no cigarette advertisements, but that was about it. And then everything changed. The whole professional anti-smoking blueprint was unleashed like a flood. It was never out of the news.
And what happened? Smoking rates suddenly stopped falling after dropping for many years. For the first time since they were behind the bike sheds, smokers weren't just people who smoked. They were an identifiable community. The government was turning the act of lighting a cigarette into an act of defiance once more.
If you inclined to such theorizing, you might go even further and say that, in its small way, smoking is becoming—and with these new policies will become more so—a political act. It's certainly a more effective political act than voting these days. As this policy document makes crystal clear, voting changes nothing when it comes to public health legislation. Nothing could make this more apparent than the fact that both Tories and Lib Dems opposed the display ban in opposition and then pushed it through in power.
Public health rolls on regardless of which government is in charge. If you want to see what legislation will come about this decade you only have to look at the list of what legislation they want to come about (12 Steps to Better Public Health).
Does it not seem perverse and strange that all three parties are behind measures which are widely derided by the public? The most common response I've encountered to both the display ban and plain packaging is a tut, a shake of the head and perhaps a swear-word. Even the BBC's coverage could not disguise the fact that most of the population thinks these schemes fall somewhere between stupid, pointless and loopy. How can it be that the majority of people who think these ideas are barmy have to vote for minority parties if they want to voice their democratic disapproval? Has something not gone badly awry in the political class when this happens, and happens so often?
Yay-sayers are quick to point out that none of this prevents people buying cigarettes. It will be a major cost and inconvenience to shop-keepers, of course, and that is deplorable, but the consumer goes untouched. This is true. In a way, we should be thankful that the anti-tobacco industry has found a way of attracting derision without penalising smokers more directly.
But this misses the point. Regardless of who is being directly penalised here, I don't want a government that treats its people with such contempt that they think we cannot see some cigarettes without wanting to buy them. I don't want to live in a country where a product consumed by millions of ordinary people is sold in Soviet grey behind curtains and boards with a nudge and a whisper. Nor do I want to live in a country where those same millions are denormalised by people who are anything but normal themselves.
It is an absolute racing certainty that the temperance movement will demand graphic warnings and plain packaging on alcohol in the fullness of time. It would be not just inconsistent but hypocritical to do otherwise, and surely we no longer have to demonstrate that the slippery slope exists.
The most plausible reason for Lansley's headlong into anti-tobacco extremism—as hinted at elsewhere—is his desire to throw the neo-prohibitionists a bone in the area of smoking while disappointing them in the area of drinking. In the last few days, he'll have noticed that such a policy doesn't work. The neo-pros' attempts to undermine the government on drinking will have shown him that they always bite the hand that feeds it. This should be a lesson learned for the coalition. No matter they do, the prohibitionist beast will keep howling. You might as well starve it instead.
UPDATE: Somewhat related from Prime Minister's Questions today:
For me, the significant moment was Mr Cameron's response when Mr Miliband reminded him that the British Medical Association has criticised Coalition health plans.
The PM's response was agressive, a full-frontal attack on the BMA as just another trade union opposing public sector reform.
The BMA opposed foundation hospitals, longer GP opening hours and every others significant reform of recent years, Mr Cameron said.
Mr Miliband couldn't resist backing the BMA because he instinctively sides with the sectional interests of organised labour, the PM said:
"Just as he has to back every other trade union, he comes here and reads a BMA press release."
The attack on the BMA reflects ministers' private anger at the doctors. Aware of the public standing of the medical profession and the central role GPs will take in a reformed NHS, Coalition criticism of the BMA has so far been muted. Does Mr Cameron's flash of anger signal a new willingness to take on the doctors?
Labels: neo-prohibitionists, plain packaging
Re your Update.
The BMA applied for a licence extension to allow drinking till 1AM at their Headquarters in London.
But it seems that their neighbours weren't too happy with the "binge drinking", "frolicking on scaffolding" and "urinating"in public,that BMA members were getting up to.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-517802/Row-doctors-leaders-apply-late-licence-days-calling-action-binge-drinking.html
Mick McCann said...
Bit of an aside but as a smoker I'd love to see it illegal to sell fags.
For us long term addicts, prescriptions from chemists.
And why would no government do it? The tax income is huge.
Heard a stat that the average smoker, over their life time, pays for their medical treatment around 600 times. So it's annoying when I hear talk of smokers NHS treatment being limited. Our tax is a good percentage of the entire NHS spend.
Prescription cost is £7.40 per item.
However if the sell them in boxes of 200's i'll gladly go along with that !
Christopher, about the BMA... you're probably aware of this- it is after all Google's first video result for Vivienne Nathanson but interesting watching if not-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOhWItI-PXU
Around 2:50 she starts gloating about how "public health" campaigns get them into ministers' offices to bargain for pay and conditions for doctors. To quote-
"...and if we're in the room talking about public health then they are obliged also to talk about doctors' contracts..."
westcoast2 said...
The same approach was taken by Nadine Dorries when interviewed by Iain Dale on LBC (Tues 15th March).
So it seems this maybe the on-going Coalition line. Wonder where the Lansley stands on this?
Angry Exile said...
No one's tried plain packaging.
Apart from criminals of course. And it doesn't seem to stop them selling their products.
Pat Nurse MA said...
Lighting up is a definite act of defiance for sure - smoking is a very political issue for sure. I will be in prison before the next decade is out for sure. When depends on when the car ban and home ban come in. I will not stop smoking in either. My political conscience means I won't pay the fines that will be imposed. Non payment of fines means jail. The future terrifies me.
WitteringsfromWitney said...
Excellent critique and comment CS, as always!
Well said and well written.
As a matter of interest the BMA were against the creation of the NHS when it was first mooted.
I believe that trans fats occur naturally in cows milk so will they ban that too under their 12 point plan?
"I don't want to live in a country where a product consumed by millions of ordinary people is sold in Soviet grey behind curtains and boards with a nudge and a whisper."
I can just about remember a TW3 sketch from the 60's in which Willie Rushton (I think) first went into a corner shop and whipered very discreetly "A packet of 20 cigarettes, please." The offending items were passed furtively to him, he paid and left the shop.
His next stop was the chemists's, where he requested (in a loud voice) "A packet of condoms, please!"
Oh how the audience laughed.
Harm maximisation
Meddlesome Ratbags
Urgh, California
Think of the (very small) children!
Idiotic statistics
Laughing at you, not with you, Stan
Fish. Barrel. Gun.
United Nations on standby as temperance groups "wa...
Not bad science, but awful logic
Is that a slippery slope I see before me?
David Nutt shows his true colours
Plain stupidity
Victim of happiness
Consultation time again
Passive smoking and breast cancer
Ireland's illicit tobacco trade


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if demand shifts in by the same amount as supply shifts out, market price will ______ and equilibrium quantity will ______.
If demand shifts in by the same amount as supply shifts out, market price will decrease and equilibrium quantity will not change.
A demand decrease results from a change in any of the five demand determinants. A supply increase results from a change in any of the five supply determinants. By itself, a demand decrease results in a decrease in equilibrium quantity and a decrease in equilibrium price. By itself a supply increase results in An increase in equilibrium quantity and a decrease in equilibrium price. A simultaneous decrease in demand and increase in supply unquestionably generates a decrease in the price. However, the change in the quantity is indeterminant. It might decrease or increase depending on the magnitude of the demand and supply changes.
5. Explain income affect and substitution affect.
6. What is the difference between multiplier and accelerator?
7. As an economy's capital stock increases, what happens to the economy?


Some grants are worth more than the dollar value of the grant. And the extras can be pretty important. All large foundations consider the sustainable of your organization as a factor in whether or not they provide support. But some foundations are building in programs to develop their grantees' sustainability. These "extras" can be worth a lot to your organization and frequently they are available to even small nonprofits who never could have afforded these extra services on their own. Here are a few examples.
Kellogg Foundation - Ensuring that its grantees survive is the goal of a new partnership the foundation created with a $9.3 million grant. The grant brings together the Fieldstone Alliance and the Nonprofit Finance Fund in a partnership whose aim is to help Kellogg's more than 800 grantees improve their performance, effectiveness and financial sustainability. Fieldstone Alliance helps nonprofits fine-tune their organizational planning and management structures. The Nonprofit Finance Fund provides groups with financial analysis and access to capital – an investment bank of sorts for the nonprofit sector.
Geraldine Dodge Foundation - Offers an ongoing series of workshops on important topics to its grantees. Nationally recognized experts are brought in to conduct the workshops.
Bank of America - The BOA Neighborhood Builders Awards for $100000 in selected designated cities across the country also include a year longprofessionall leadership development program for the nonprofit's leaders.
Look for those extras that your major funders may provide and hop on board! Sometimes the extras are available to staff, board members and even your consultants!


Startups today have changed the way we look at the world. Where once the idea of being successful or having a good fortune meant counting all your possessions, today the world has moved on over the idea of owning all together. People no longer want to buy things to keep it with them; instead they want to rent it from a pool of options or hire it for a particular period. The whole idea is - what's mine is yours, but of course, for a fee.
Be it cars, home, hotels, or even clothes, you can rent out basically everything and technology is what made this possible. The transaction costs are much lower now, making sharing assets easier and cheaper than ever. You can own a Swift, but how about renting a Mercedes for a day?
Speaking about this 'collective consumption', a trend that has taken over and is definitely here to stay, Chandni Jafri, CEO of Mumbai Angels, recently talked to Entrepreneur India at our Annual Convention 2016 and believes that for this economy to sustain, the consumer and marketer has to go together.
How will the sharing economy fare in India?
There was this insipient trend of the knowledge economy emerging from a sharing economy. So we've seen how numerous businesses sprang up, because of this economy, like Uber or Lyft. The minute you move into learning economy, the businesses that spring-up are going to be radically different. It means two things. First, different kinds of businesses are going to emerge because of the way the economy is going to operate, and second, the consumer and the marketer are going to learn with each other and create that experience together. They are going to co-create and co-learn. Hence, you will see different kinds of businesses, which are going to be allowing that proposition, down to emerge in the future.
This is the big difference that is going to happen. This means that companies or even existing marketers have to be dynamic about the way they deal with their customers. So the customer is going to add a lot of learning to your whole product proposition.
How do we reach equilibrium between the consumer and the marketer?
See the balance has to come through the use of technology, so it has to be a two way process. If we were thinking before that we can passively use technology to reach out to the customer and mine data out of them, that's not the way it's going to be. It's going to be a two way process. The consumer is going to give you as much data points. Now, this will allow you to sort of map his/her habits and they also are creating their own firewalls now. So, it's not that the digital footprint is available to you to do whatever you want to do as marketer; the digital footprint is dynamically controlled by the consumer. The consumer is deciding who they want to be. Every day I wake up and think who I want to be today and I have the flexibility to create my identity because I can create an online identity and that creates my real time identity. So that's how dynamic the whole process of creation of customer is going to be and the marketer will have to map into the consumer mind and become integrated it into the emotional, value and ethical system of a consumer. Try asking what do I believe in? What is valuable to me? Do I believe that I want to give back to the society? Things have to be mapped to that granularity. Otherwise you will see a consumer shifting identities and you would never know whom you're talking to.
As investors, what are you plans for this sharing industry?
As angel investors, we have our ears to the ground, because we are constantly speaking to thousands of entrepreneurs who are dreamers, innovators, idea creators, problem solvers and so on. These people are trend-setters and trend is coming from them, and not from my understanding of what I see of that projection. So as angel investor, by default we capture those trends and invest in those trends. So we plan to invest in those businesses which are businesses of the future. We have to invest in businesses which are relevant now and also five or ten years down the line and they have to be sustainable in the next three years. So for us the trends are emerging from the ground and we have to invest in those trends, both through capital and skills. That's when you have this learning experience nd you get a chance to study the customer.


Restaurants spend too much on décor and not enough on food?
Restaurant business is tough. Everyone knows it. It is probably difficult to have money for both. Many owners likely have to compromise on one and sadly so often it was food.
Why it is a bad choice?
First of all, you are spending up front a big block of money for a potential profitable business. Please read about the failure rate of any restaurant. Spending on food is gradual and may not be necessary.
Secondly, with fancier décor people probably expect better services and large menus.
Yet - YOU STILL CAN NOT PLEASE EVERYONE.
Thirdly, "word of mouth" marketing nowadays is more important than ever since we are in the social media age. If you ever noticed, People's reviews are more likely focused on food rather than anything else. Surely sometime you see some remarks on services and décor and it is usually either neutral or bad. Why? maybe how we want to be treated is quiet subjective. Maybe some people just want to be left alone. But good food, we seem to have relatively similar ideas, don't we? Salty, greasy, burnt are probably no no for everyone!
Lastly, Food will be essentially what drives customers back to your place again and again since they saw your décor already. The cost of attracting existing customers is only a fraction comparing to new customers. You know what I mean if you track marketing cost closely.
I do agree that food quality is most important AS LONG as decor is not downright bad (simple, even old is OK, dirty isn't, in my opinion).
I also agree that a new restaurant might be better-off by starting to concentrate on the food quality than decor, but once established I think it can be good to improve decor if the food doesn't have to suffer.
I don't see how "Spending on food (...) may not be necessary", what are you thinking?
I think some restaurants may, in fact, be more about the experience/decor than about the food and people may know that when they go in... look at the jungle-themed chain(s).
Without being a critic, I enjoy both food AND service in some places, like Benihana, Japanese Village and other such themed restaurants.
Nowadays it is trendy to have the best presentation in restaurants.
Nothing wrong with it. But when my butter has to be "introduced", it is just too much.
In the end still good quality food and reasonable price sell.


Another reason to be thankful winter is over and there's some sunshine in your life: low levels of vitamin D could increase your risk of prostate cancer and the spread of the disease, a new Northwestern University study reports.
Researchers looked at vitamin D levels in the blood from 667 men between the ages of 40 and 79 with abnormal PSA or digital rectal exams of their prostate before undergoing their first biopsy. They found that severe deficiency of a measure of vitamin D—25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OH D)—was associated with later-stage, more-aggressive prostate cancer.
Vitamin D has been shown to slow the growth of prostate tumor cells in animal models of prostate cancer, says study author Adam B. Murphy, M.D. The vitamin also regulates the growth of new blood vessels, which is important for keeping cells in your body healthy, he says.
One possibility is that African-Americans have more melanin in their skin, which blocks sun UV rays and prevents the creation of vitamin D, says Murphy. So depending on where you live, the color of your skin, and the weather, counting on the sun—your body's main source of vitamin D absorption—might not cut it.
To make sure you avoid vitamin D deficiency—and protect your prostate at the same time—eat vitamin D-rich foods including salmon, tuna, portobello mushrooms, fortified milk, juice, and cereal, suggests Murphy. The National Institutes of Health recommends adults get 600 IU of vitamin D per day. Supplements are safe, says Murphy, but consult with your physician before beginning any supplementation regimen.


HomePro is the most trusted home inspection company in the Athens area. So how did we get here?
HomePro Home Inspections was started by Mark Lotane as a single-inspector company in 1989. The Athens home inspection industry was new at that time, and many existing homes were not being inspected. Thus, HomePro established Athens home inspection procedures and created relationships with real estate agents throughout the Athens area. Our home inspectors have lived in the Athens area for many years and have 30 years of unique knowledge and experience. Beyond examining for the standard structural and operational functions of a home, our home inspectors are trained to notice problem areas that involve moisture. Georgia has a high humidity climate and with constant moisture in the air for most of the year, Athens homes are more susceptible to water leakages, moisture damage and mold.
Furthermore, our team of home inspectors have special training in radon testing. With such experience, HomePro home inspectors are well respected and referred within the real estate industry. By the mid-1990s, HomePro started performing commercial inspections and established an inspection procedure for these structures as well. HomePro's business continued to grow through recommendations from real estate agents and referrals from past customers. Early in the formation of the company, HomePro became active in the local American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI). Additionally, HomePro inspectors are International Code Council (ICC) certified and Mark is a level 1 thermographer – trained to use InfraRed technology to find problems in homes.
In these challenging times, HomePro continues to be a dynamic company continually seeking to provide these important services to the real estate market.


March saw quite a glut of rides take place, all of them seeming to be pretty successful. We also delivered our Women on Wheels rides on behalf of TfGM, hope they will be impressed with the numbers. Twenty nine of you took part in the short taster ride, with further nineteen taking part in the longer ride from Pennington to Haigh Hall. In addition to these we did Mill to White Coppice, Sale Water Park and Plan B along with five Tuesday excursions from Trencherfield making a grand total of 173 riders taking part, that may take some beating in April.


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Sao Paulo: Lax regulations, chronic short staffing and a law that muffled the voices of environmentalists on mining licenses made the devastating collapse of a dam in southeastern Brazil all but destined to happen, experts and legislators say.
The failure of the dam holding back iron ore mining waste on January 25 unleashed an avalanche of mud that buried buildings and contaminated water downstream. At least 115 people have died, and 248 people remain missing.
But one of the cruelest parts of the tragedy in Brumadinho is that it has happened before: In 2015, mining dams burst in nearby Mariana in what is considered Brazil's worst environmental disaster.
What's more, it could happen again, as many Brazilian states and the federal government move to ease regulation in the name of economic development.


The Commission on African American Affairs was created in Washington State law in 1992 under RCW 43.113. We are in the Executive Branch of state government and report directly to the Governor. The Commission has a nine-member, volunteer board of Commissioners appointed by the Governor. He also selects the chair of our board, while the board elects the vice-chair. Board members may choose to chair subcommittees and/or advisory roundtables. All of our board members serve at the Governor's pleasure.
The Commission also has two paid staff, an Executive Director and Executive Assistant.
Board member biographies are linked at the left of this page.


Give Black Cloud (Prod By The Neptunes) a listen - it's a new offering from Keri Hilson. It was dropped on Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011. Keri Hilson's musical situation is improving with every new release, and Black Cloud (Prod By The Neptunes) will most definitely help the cause. It's a fine addition to the growing body of work Keri Hilson has been developing since stepping foot in the game. We're looking forward to what Keri Hilson has in store.
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Q: Order of elements $\gamma$ and $1-\gamma$ in $\mathbb{F}_q$ I'd like to find if possible the orders possible for $1-\gamma$ given a $\gamma\in\mathbb{F}_q$ of given order $\mathcal{o}$ (where $q=p^f$).
Which is clear is that these order have the same degree (degree: minimal $f$ such that $\mathcal{o}\mid p^f-1$ ie the degree of the minimal polynomial of $\gamma$ ie the minimal $f$ such that $\gamma$ is in $\mathbb{F}_{p^f}$).
More precisely if $\mu$ is the minimal polynomial of $\gamma$ on $\mathbb{F}_p$  the minimal polynomial of $1-\gamma$ is $\mu(1-X)$. So it only depends of the conjugacy class of $\gamma$ (that can be seen with Frobenius too).
For example with $\gamma\in\mathbb{F}_9\setminus\mathbb{F}_3$:

*

*the $\gamma$ of order 8 with minimal polynomial $\Phi_{8,1}=\mu=X^2-X-1$ have $1-\gamma$ of same order because $\mu(1-X)=\mu(X)$;

*the $\gamma$ of order 8 with minimal polynomial $\Phi_{8,2}=\mu=X^2+X-1$ have $1-\gamma$ of order 4 because $\mu(1-X)=X^2+1=\Phi_4(X)$;

*the $\gamma$ of order 4 with minimal polynomial $\Phi_4=X^2+1$ have $1-\gamma$ of order 8 because for involutive reasons $\Phi_4(1-X)=\Phi_{8,2}(X)$.

As we see here there is more generally an action of the affine transformation (and even of $\operatorname{Gl}_2(\mathbb{F}_q)$) on the conjugacy class of $\mathbb{F}_q$ elements which respect the degree.
I have seen on the net studies of the impact on the order of $\gamma\mapsto\gamma+1/\gamma$ (order of related elements) but I can't find anything on the impact of $\gamma\mapsto1-\gamma$.

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We're about to find out during May's art fairs and auctions in New York.
Until January, the stock market was on an almost-unbroken bull run for nine years. Now that run appears to be ending and prominent members of the financial community are warning about the possibility of a significant correction, leaving people in the art world wrestling with whether this will affect their sales.
A decade ago, during the last financial crisis, the art market responded to the stock market with a lag of about seven months. Bear Stearns collapsed in March 2008, but the May auctions in New York that year set records. Sotheby's held its largest sale ever; over the course of two weeks, $1.56 billion worth of art changed hands.
By the time the November auctions rolled around, Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy, the stock and bond markets had plummeted, and the art market had imploded.
A third of the lots at Sotheby's Impressionist and modern art evening sale went unsold. Christie's evening sale in the same category fared even worse, with 44 percent of its lots going unsold; its total, $146.7 million, was nearly $100 million below the auction's low estimate of $240.7 million.
The question now is: Should collectors, dealers, auction houses, curators, and everyone else who relies on the art market's continued success, be worried?
The market's bull run has been sputtering just as New York is poised for record-setting art fairs (Frieze, Tefaf New York) and auctions, which include the week-long, possibly billion-dollar Rockefeller sale starting at Christie's on May 8 and Sotheby's May 14 Impressionist and modern art sale, in which a painting by Modigliani is carrying an estimate of $150 million.
"In my experience, when the market goes up and down, up and down, that's good for art," says Christophe Van de Weghe, a New York dealer who will be exhibiting at Tefaf New York next week. "Over the last 30 years, volatility has been very good for us dealers, because that's when people want to buy a hard asset." Art, like gold, ostensibly represents a financial safe haven during turbulent times.
Indeed, Van de Weghe says, it's a double-plus: One group of collectors leaves the market in order to realize gains, has cash sitting around, and then puts it back into art.
An additional group, specifically hedge fund managers (many of them Van de Weghe clients) will spend even more on art, "because they tell me that they make more money when there's volatility in the market," he says.
The art that Van de Weghe is bringing to Tefaf reflects that optimism: His booth will have a 1961 painting by Cy Twombly that he expects to fetch from $4 million to $5 million; a 60-inch by 60-inch painting by Keith Haring for $3.5 million; and, among other works, two paintings by Pablo Picasso, estimated, respectively, at $4.5 million and $2.85 million.
Other observers have a less positive take.
Art could be considered a liquid investment only if sellers were willing to get 60 percent to 70 percent of what they had paid retail, Edelman says.
Other dealers such as Marc Payot, a partner and vice president of Hauser and Wirth, occupy something of a comfortable middle ground in which one man's credit crunch is another's opportunity.
Payot points to the very moment that the art market crashed in 2008-2009. "It was a panic," he says, "but then it turned out to be a fantastic year for us, because of the opportunities for access to works." Anyone still in the position to buy was able to jump at the material that others needed to sell (or at least thought they did).


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Trucks Are Defective Without Side Underride Guards
The City of Boston has just passed a first in the nation ordinance that vehicles over 10,000 pounds must be equipped with "side guards" to prevent pedestrians and cyclists from falling under the truck's wheels in the event of a crash. Convex mirrors, cross-over mirrors, and blind-spot awareness decals are also included in the program's measures in an effort to prevent crashes. The law applies only to city-contracted trucks.
The National Transportation Safety Board recommended that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration adopt the same protocol, but it has yet to do so. In Europe side guard protection on trucks has been mandatory for years (since 1994). The initiative, the NTSB noted, wouldn't just protect bicyclists: people in cars would also reduce the risk of their vehicle sliding under tractor trailers, which can cause serious injury or death. The board reported in April that "large truck side impacts comprised 15 percent of fatal two-vehicle collisions between large trucks and passenger vehicles during 2011."
Here's a news report of a fatal crash in Pennsylvania on Nov. 1, 2014:
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