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Nigel Quinton
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Lib Dems will invest £56 million to protect school funding across Hertfordshire as local schools face serious cuts under Conservative plans
Nigel Quinton with copies of letters from three local Headteachers
The Liberal Democrats have announced they will invest £55.8 million more in schools and colleges in Hertfordshire over the next parliament.
The funding would reverse cuts to frontline school and college budgets, protect per pupil funding in real terms and ensure no school loses out from changes to funding arrangements.
£6.3 million of the £56 million funding would be spent on protecting the Pupil Premium, introduced by the Liberal Democrats to help the most disadvantaged children.
Nigel Quinton, LibDem Parliamentary Candidate in Welwyn Hatfield, said:
"In what is fast becoming a local and indeed national scandal, Headteachers across our area are being driven to write to parents alerting them to the state of school funding.
"We have seen letters from at least four of our local secondary schools pointing out that they simply won't be able to continue to offer the level of support for pupils that they would like. They report a 35-45% cut per pupil since 2012, despite costs rising due to unwanted changes in the courses for GCSE and A-levels forced on them by Mr Gove.
"Under the Conservatives, funding per pupil is set to see the biggest cuts in a generation, while billions of pounds are being spent on divisive plans to expand grammars and free schools.
"This extra £56M of funding in Hertfordshire would ensure no school and no child loses out."
Liberal Democrat Leader Tim Farron said:
"A landslide for the Conservatives would allow Theresa May to take parents across the country for granted and cut our schools to the bone.
"We will reverse crippling Conservative cuts to school budgets and invest to ensure every child has the opportunity to succeed.
"Vote for the Liberal Democrats and you can change Britain's future."
Posted on May 10, 2017 by gemma	in Education, Lib Dem Manifesto, Local Services, Uncategorized	| Leave a comment
Lib Dems to give £770 boost to 17,170 pensioners in Welwyn Hatfield
17,170 pensioners living in Welwyn Hatfield will receive at least an extra £772 per year under Liberal Democrat manifesto plans to protect the 'triple lock' for state pensions.
Thanks to the triple lock guarantee, secured by the Liberal Democrats when they were in government, the basic state pension has risen in each year by whichever is the higher of earnings, prices or a rate of 2.5%. However, the Conservatives have refused to guarantee whether the triple lock will continue, raising fears it could be scrapped.
The Liberal Democrats have committed today to keeping the triple lock, meaning the state pension would be worth at least £137.15 a week by 2021, up from £122.30 in 2017, or an extra £772 a year.
This would be paid for in part by restricting perks such as the winter fuel allowance so they are no longer paid to the wealthiest pensioners.
Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate Nigel Quinton said:
"Protecting the triple lock will mean an extra £772 a year by 2021 for the 17,170 people receiving the state pension in this constituency.
"The Liberal Democrats are making a clear commitment to older people in Welwyn Hatfield, unlike the Conservatives who have repeatedly refused to give this guarantee.
"The triple lock has succeeded in lifting thousands of pensioners out of poverty, but many are still struggling to get by.
"An important test of a civilised society is the way in which it cares for the elderly. This commitment will ensure older people are able to meet their basic needs and that their living standards will be protected, especially with prices set to rise in the coming years."
Posted on May 10, 2017 by gemma	in Finance and Economy, Uncategorized	| Tagged pension	| Leave a comment
Lib Dems penny for NHS would raise £126.6million extra for Hertfordshire
The Liberal Democrats have announced they would plug funding gaps for the NHS and social care by putting a penny on income tax, in their first major manifesto commitment of the election campaign.
The tax would raise an additional £126.6million for Hertforedshire, with £82million for the NHS and £44.6million for social care each year.
This is the party's flagship spending commitment and its first major policy announcement for the election. The Liberal Democrats manifesto will also set out a 'five-point recovery plan' for NHS and social care services in their manifesto.
At least 70% of Brits would happily pay an extra 1p in every pound if that money was guaranteed to go to the NHS, an ITV poll found last October (link).
Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Welwyn Hatfield Nigel Quinton said:
"Having attended today my first briefing as a new County Councillor it is clear just how much the additional funding for social care especially is needed. Right now in Hertfordshire we are seeing urgent operations being cancelled and the elderly being denied the care they need, and beds being blocked due to the lack of community and social care available.
"The Liberal Democrats are prepared to be honest with people and say that to secure the future of the NHS we will all, especially those who can afford it most, need to chip in a little more.
"A penny in the pound would allow us to invest in improving local NHS services and ensuring the elderly receive the care they deserve.
"This Conservative government has left our health and care services chronically underfunded – and while the crisis gets worse they just don't seem to care.
"We cannot continue asking the system to deliver more and more, without giving it the resources to do so."
Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson and former health minister Norman Lamb said:
"The NHS was once the envy of the world and this pledge is the first step in restoring it to where it should be.
"A penny in the pound to save the NHS is money well spent in our view.
"But simply providing more money on its own is not enough and that's why this is just the first step in our plan to protect health and care services in the long-term."
Posted on May 10, 2017 by gemma	in Health, Lib Dem Manifesto, Uncategorized	| Leave a comment
GREAT RESULT FOR WELWYN HATFIELD LIBDEMS
Elected Cllrs – Barbara, Paul, Nigel (L-R)
Another fantastic Election Day for Welwyn Hatfield Liberal Democrats saw them gain a third County seat, come within 50 votes of smashing the Conservative grip on Panshanger Ward in the By-Election, and beat Labour into third place overall, both in number of seats and in the popular vote.
The three happy candidates were Paul Zukowskyj in Hatfield South, who successfully defended the seat he first won in 2009, gaining over 50% of the votes; Nigel Quinton, who gained 48% of the votes taking over as County Councillor for Handside & Peartree from Malcolm Cowan; and Barbara Gibson, standing in her first ever election, who stormed through from third place to win Haldens from the Conservative incumbent by 98 votes with 37% of the votes.
Ayesha Rohale, who stood in the Panshanger By-Election came just 53 votes short of Conservative ex-WH Times editor Terry Mitchinson, with Labour a long way back in third.
Welwyn Hatfield now has three LibDem county councillors, three Conservative, and two Labour.
Speaking after the Count, they had this to say:
Nigel Quinton: "I'd just like to thank Malcolm for all the work he has put into being a County Councillor for the past 12 years. My majority of 818 votes is entirely down to his efforts on behalf of the people of Handside & Peartree and I just hope I can live up to his example."
Paul Zukowskyj: "I'm absolutely delighted to continue as the Councillor for Hatfield South, and I'm very humbled by the resounding endorsement residents have given me."
Barbara Gibson: "In Haldens Division, this election was about residents being fed up with not being listened to by their elected representatives. People are tired of monopoly-like behaviour and fake consultations that ignore their concerns. They sent a clear message that it's time for a change, and I'm looking forward to championing their issues."
Posted on May 5, 2017 by gemma	in Lib Dem Manifesto, Local Council, politics	| Tagged councillors, county council election, Lib dem win, winning	| Leave a comment
Labour fails to select candidate in Welwyn Hatfield with just weeks until election
Parliamentary candidate Nigel Quinton
Labour has failed to select a candidate in Welwyn Hatfield with the general election just weeks away. The news is revealed on Labour's own website, and has been called out by the Liberal Democrats, who say that it shows Labour has "given up", even in some of its former strongholds.
There are over 340 constituencies Labour has still not selected for in England, whereas in contrast the Liberal Democrats have selected 92% of their candidates in England. Labour has not selected a single candidate in any of the eleven Hertfordshire constituencies. They have even resorted as recently as last Friday to advertising via Twitter.
"It seems that Labour has simply given up on places like Welwyn Hatfield. On the doorstep their support is crumbling away and they are widely tipped to lose at least one if not both of their County seats in Welwyn Hatfield on May 4th."
Labour claimed to be prepared for a general election, but many of their approved candidates are simply refusing to run under Jeremy Corbyn's banner, and who can blame them? They see a leader who is ineffective and a party that is too divided to stand up for local people.
Says Nigel: "Every government needs to be held to account and the Liberal Democrats are rapidly emerging as the real voice of opposition to Mrs May's Hard Brexit, austerity government.
"If you want to ensure our country has a positive future, the Liberal Democrats are the only choice in Welwyn Hatfield."
Posted on April 24, 2017 by gemma	in Labour, Local Council, Local Issues, politics	| Leave a comment
Pressure from Lib Dems to increase Affordable Homes on Shredded Wheat site
Lib Dems vow to hold the Council and Spenhill to account on Phase 2
Cllr Malcolm Cowan and Nigel Quinton
Last Thursday, 30th April, Welwyn Hatfield Council gave approval to Spenhill (the property arm of Tesco) to develop the old Shredded Wheat site next to the train station. In many ways this is a cause for celebration – the scheme is for high quality urban architecture in a strategic position in the town centre that will provide 850 new homes and will extend the retail and evening economies into Peartree Ward. The developer will also fund £4M of highways work and £3.5M towards educational needs, mostly towards a new, larger, Peartree School, which we very much welcome.
However, in one very important respect the scheme is hopelessly deficient. Only 50 of the 850 homes (less than 6%) are to be affordable homes, despite the Council's own policy that at least 30% of homes in this development should be affordable. That it was as many as 50 is only because pressure in the past week from our comments in the press has forced the issue. Only in the eleventh hour, on the day before approval, was the number of affordable homes increased from 35 to 50.
The developer was allowed to get away with this by convincing the Council that the scheme was 'not viable' if affordable housing was included. The committee accepted the advice of officers on this point, despite it being pointed out that the advice from the Council's own advisors, Colliers International, was that the scheme was viable with or without affordable housing. In fact the scheme is forecast to generate profits of at least £86M, and probably a lot more.
Nigel Quinton, who is standing for election in the County Division that includes the site, and who spoke to the committee last night to stress the case for more affordable housing, had this to say:
"Whilst I very much want this development to go ahead, it absolutely has to include 30% affordable homes, and I am disappointed that the Council has given in on this point when the case on viability has not been made. The additional 15 affordable homes announced at the meeting are welcome, but are not enough.
"The silver lining, and one that the Council and committee are clearly clinging to, is that the scheme has two phases, the first is for 350 homes, the second for 500, and Spenhill still need final approval for the second. At that stage they have to demonstrate the lack of viability all over again. If they cannot, then we believe that they would have to make the affordable component up to the full 30% of the total.
"We intend to make sure Spenhill, and the Council, do not shun their responsibility to provide the affordable homes our town so desperately needs.
"There are other issues that we will continue to press the Council to address – the lack of communication with Network Rail about the rail bridge and the potential impact of the new restaurants and bars on the remainder of the Town Centre economy. Also, while we welcome the inclusion of some community and leisure facilities in the scheme it is some way short of the Swimming Pool we had campaigned for and which was included in the Planning Guidance and which the Town still lacks – this site has the capacity to deliver huge profits for the developer, and the Council should be ensuring a greater amount of benefit to the community."
Posted on April 20, 2017 by gemma	in Finance and Economy, Housing, Local Issues	| Leave a comment
Lib Dems: This is a chance for voters in Welwyn Hatfield to forge a better future for the country
Nigel and team campaigning in Handside
Voters in Welwyn Hatfield should vote for the Liberal Democrats to change the direction of the country and ensure Britain has a decent alternative to the Conservatives' Hard Brexit, the party's local candidate Nigel Quinton has said today.
The Prime Minister has called a snap General Election to be held on the 8th June, which was approved by Parliament today.
Liberal Democrat candidate Nigel Quinton commented:
"This election is a huge opportunity for voters in Welwyn Hatfield to change the direction of our country – and only the Liberal Democrats can offer a coherent and progressive alternative to the Conservatives' harsh policies on the NHS, on funding for schools, and on the environment.
"Many in this area may have voted to leave the EU (by just 1% more than the national average), but I'm not sure many of them voted for the extreme form of Brexit that Theresa May has imposed on us, and which Labour has backed. Whichever way you voted last June, if you want to protect our local economy by staying in the Single Market and ensure that the people have the final say, this is your chance.
"In the local elections on May 4th we expect to poll very well indeed and it will be clear that the Liberal Democrats are the clear challenger to the Conservatives here, while Jeremy Corbyn's hard Brexit supporting Labour party are in disarray.
"By the time we get to the General Election in seven weeks' time, I believe more and more will recognise that the Liberal Democrats are the real opposition to the Conservative Brexit Government and the only party fighting for a Britain that is open, tolerant and united."
Posted on April 19, 2017 by gemma	in Lib Dem Manifesto, Local Issues, Local Services, Planning, Uncategorized	| Leave a comment
HS2 – is it really too late to think again?
I'll start with a confession – since hearing it proposed at a LibDem conference fringe meeting back in 2008 or thereabouts I have been a fan of HS2 – or at least the concept that the UK needs a high speed rail network. So throughout the debates about routing and costs I have generally followed the advice of people I know who have researched this more deeply, and gone along with the 'consensus' that this is a 'good idea'.
However, I have never been persuaded that the specifications are appropriate, and have always been concerned that there was too much emphasis being put on speed rather than connectivity. I also believe that the costs should be challenged and that the timescale is too slow. Surely there was a better alternative?
Well this week I recieved an email from 'High Speed for All' – an organisation that (I have to admit) had not appeared on my radar previously. They have developed the alternative that might be the answer. It certainly grabbed my attention, and not just because it avoids the Chilterns' Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), but mostly because it talks about a High Speed Network, and not just a High Speed Line. And they have apparently researched it meticulously, mapping the entire new network at 1:25,000 (although they don't publish these) and calculating a significant cost saving over HS2/HS3 (although I would take any such estimates with a pinch of salt until audited).
You can follow the links here for more information. It certainly deserves consideration in my view and if elected I will be calling for this to be given greater priority.
Posted on May 2, 2015 by Nigel Quinton	in Environment, Finance and Economy, Transport	| Tagged Environment, HS2	| Leave a comment
Legal Experts Point up LibDem focus on Green Energy
City lawyers BLP Law have issued a briefing note on the energy policies of each of the parties. Here is what they say about the Liberal Democrat policies:
Liberal Democrats: 60% of electricity from renewable sources by 2030
They have really focused on winning "green" votes and their manifesto focuses very much on decarbonisation, emissions reduction and renewables.
They have created the "Green Magna Carta" – five new laws to fight climate change.
They are the only party (other than the Greens) who specifically refer to biomass, and they are also in favour of both onshore wind and nuclear power.
They refer to a £100 billion investment in low-carbon energy infrastructure by 2020 but there is no mention of how that sum will be raised or how energy will compete with their many other spending priorities.
It is a fair summary and shows just how committed we are to tackling climate change and developing a modern green economy in the UK. The answer to the last point comes mainly from the Green Investment Bank which has already delivered £6billion of new investment (both public and private) into green technology. Ed Davey's Energy Act has paved the way for significant private investment into this sector.
Posted on May 2, 2015 by Nigel Quinton	in Environment	| Tagged Energy, Environment, Green	| Leave a comment
Energy Bill Revolution gives LibDems five star rating
Energy Bill Revolution gives LibDems five stars for Energy policy
The Energy Bill Revolution is a pressure group set up to end fuel poverty. It is fair to say that have not been 100% supporters of the coalition. But when they look at the Party's manifestos, it is the LibDems and Greens that come out on top. (Both UKIP and the Tories score Zero Stars by the way. Null points. Nada.)
Here's what they say:
EBR Rating: 5 Stars
EBR Comment: The Liberal Democrats have committed to both an ambitious new policy framework to deliver whole house retrofits to low income households and a new infrastructure revenue stream to meet ambitious targets, backed by legislation. Strong targets, high standards and new investment. Full marks.
Liberal Democrat Pledges:
make energy efficiency a national infrastructure priority and use capital infrastructure funds to help finance the programme
insulate 10 million homes over the next 10 years and 4 million by 2020 with the targets enshrined in a Green Buildings Act
zero interest loans for the able to pay for energy efficiency retrofits
bring all low income homes up to a high standard of energy efficiency by 2027 (EPC Band C)
to bring all social and private rented housing up to a high standard of energy efficiency by 2027 (EPC Band C)
Posted on May 2, 2015 by Nigel Quinton	in Environment, Finance and Economy, Lib Dem Manifesto	| Tagged Energy, Environment, Green	| Leave a comment
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On the shore of Copenhagen sits the famous "Little Mermaid" sculpture, a nude woman based on a local ballerina – at least in the face; the body was based on the sculptor's wife. The sculpture was made in 1913 and has since suffered numerous indignities – it has been painted numerous times, been decapitated twice, had its arm sawed off, and been blown up. This hasn't stopped other sculptors from wanting to copy the famous mermaid.
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Much talk but no real dialogue happening on gun control
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Paul Helmke could see the mass shooting in Florida last weekend finally starting a national conversation surrounding gun control and reducing gun violence.
But that's also what he hoped would happen a year ago this month, when a man shot and killed nine people attending a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. It's a conversation Helmke was sure would happen in 2012, after a man shot and killed 20 children and six school staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
"I thought something would happen after Sandy Hook. If that doesn't get us to change, what will?" the Indiana University professor, former Republican mayor of Fort Wayne and former president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence told the attendees at his Friday morning Mini University lecture, "Isn't There Anything We Can Do About Gun Violence in the U.S.?"
"And what's our response as a country? We do nothing."
For decades, doing nothing in response to gun violence has been the primary strategy of politicians, lobbyists and lawmakers, Helmke said. And doing nothing means that nothing changes, even after mass shootings.
Helmke and the Mini University staff decided the topic of his lecture last fall. They didn't know that on the Sunday prior to the talk, 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando celebrating Latino night would be killed in what is now being called the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history.
"Sadly, it's pretty easy for me to expect it's going to be timely," Helmke said. "It's almost like we will do anything not to talk about guns."
Sometimes, the people who do talk about guns don't know anything about guns, said Matt Barthold, owner of Bloomington Home and Personal Security Store. Florida U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson told a reporter that the gunman responsible for the Orlando massacre had a firearm that could shoot "700 rounds in a minute."
The Sig Sauer MCX rifle and Glock 17 9mm pistol used in the Orlando massacre are semi-automatic firearms. A semi-automatic gun fires once per trigger pull "as fast as you can pull the trigger," Barthold said, until the firearm is out of ammunition. Even the most experienced shooter wouldn't be able to get off 700 rounds in a minute with a semi-automatic weapon, Barthold said.
But comments like Grayson's make the Marine Corps veteran wary of how gun violence is portrayed in the media and by gun control advocates with limited knowledge of firearms and firearm safety.
"I just wonder how much truth to everything there is," he said. "It's tough for those of us who have guns, who love guns, and try to be a gun owner and do the right thing."
People purchase guns for competitive sport, personal collections, hunting and protection, Barthold said. But a gun owner's reason for lawfully purchasing a gun shouldn't, and doesn't, matter, he said.
"They do it because it's their right," Barthold said. "It's your right to own firearms."
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The Second Amendment and subsequent Supreme Court cases have upheld United States citizens' right to own a firearm for personal protection and other lawful purposes. The Supreme Court and lower courts have also upheld states' and the nation's rights to restrict the types of guns and ammunition sold and the qualifications necessary to purchase or carry a gun. And there are additional measures people and their government representatives can take to see a reduction in firearms-related fatalities, Helmke said.
"The bottom line is, it's not going to happen unless people sit down and talk about it," he said. "Why can't we sit down with the NRA (National Rifle Association) and have that conversation?"
The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, which banned the manufacturing, sale and ownership of certain semiautomatic weapons but lapsed in 2004, are the most recent pieces of federal gun control legislation to be enacted, Helmke said. The Brady Campaign, which works to continue efforts to curtail gun violence, was started in the 1980s, after then-White House Press Secretary Jim Brady was shot and paralyzed during an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.
The "Brady bill," signed into law in 1993, required firearms retailers to run background checks on prospective gun purchasers. Those who were prohibited from purchasing a gun, which included people convicted of felonies or domestic abuse and those who were deemed mentally dangerous by a court, were tracked in a system gun sellers were required to check before selling anyone a firearm.
However, private sales by personal collectors do not require background checks, which Helmke said means about 40 percent of all gun sales are made without a background check. Should a person with a personal collection of 100 guns be able to sell those guns to a person without first examining their criminal history? Helmke asked the crowd.
But criminals, Barthold said, don't care about background checks. A person with bad intentions with access to knives or the ingredients to make explosives can also cause significant destruction.
"It's not the gun's fault," Barthold said. "It's the people behind it."
'A whole new class of guns'
It's impossible to test Barthold's and Helmke's hypotheses. Congress restricts the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from studying gun violence in a way that could advocate or promote gun control.
Apart from the Brady bill, Helmke can only cite two other times in American history when major firearm purchasing and use was federally restricted in any way. The first time was in the 1930s, when in response to a rise in gang violence, Congress enacted the National Firearms Act, authorizing the taxation of gun manufacturing and sales. NFA firearms had to be registered with the Secretary of the Treasury, and the possession of machine guns, firearms mufflers and silencers and sawed-off shotguns was made illegal.
"We haven't seen people robbing banks with machine guns since then," Helmke said.
The problem, Helmke said, is that the list of prohibited weapons hasn't been updated as technology has changed. The Sig Sauer MCX .223-caliber rifle used in the Orlando shooting has a magazine capacity of 30 rounds.
"Since the 1930s, guns have changed. Now, we have a whole new class of guns," Helmke said. "They're good for shooting a lot of people quickly."
Room for understanding
The second wave of firearms restrictions came in the 1960s in response to the assassinations of major public figures such as President John Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The Gun Control Act expanded the definitions of persons prohibited from buying a firearm to include fugitives from justice, anyone dishonorably discharged from the armed forces and drug addicts.
But states can be slow to send that information to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System monitored by the FBI. That's partly how the gunman who killed 32 people on Virginia Tech's campus in 2007 was able to purchase firearms despite being declared mentally dangerous by a judge.
As a gun shop owner, Barthold sees it as his responsibility not only to run background checks, but to use good judgment to determine if a customer could be purchasing a gun for someone else, or if they should research a different method of protection.
"You don't want someone out there to have a gun who shouldn't have it," he said. "I'm not going to sell a gun to someone I don't think should have one. It's my choice."
Helmke wonders why getting a driver's license or buying cold medicine with ingredients that can be used to make methamphetamine is harder than purchasing a gun. That's where staunch supporters of the Second Amendment and gun control advocates could come to an understanding.
Just as drivers are required to take classes and pass an exam, Barthold, who is also a marksmanship instructor, said he wishes those who apply for permits to carry a gun had to first receive training from proper instructors.
"There's no one simple answer," Helmke said. "Let's at least work on it. Let's take a step to make guns safer."


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Three uncapped players in Pakistan squad for Sri Lanka series; Javeria Khan dropped
Pakistan team in action during World Cup 2022 © Getty Images
Pakistan have announced their T20I and ODI squads for the upcoming home series against Sri Lanka. Two uncapped players leg-spinner Tuba Hassan and wicketkeeper-batter Gull Feroza - have been included in the 15-member T20I squad. In addition to that, uncapped batter Sadaf Shamas has also been included in the 15-member ODI side. Javeria Khan has been left out as Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) named the teams on Wednesday (May 18).
Both squads were finalised by the Pakistan chief selector Asmavia Iqbal in discussion with the head coach David Hemp and skipper Bismah Maroof. The players have been selected based on their outings in the pre-series camp that was organised at the Hanif Mohammad High Performance Centre in Karachi and Southend Club from May 9. Additionally, the fitness, form and past performances were also taken into consideration while selecting the squads.
Asmavia talked about the promise shown by all the three uncapped players and how it led to their inclusion in the squads.
"I want to wish the two squads the very best for the series, we have provided opportunities to Gull Feroza, Sadaf Shamas and Tuba Hassan on the basis of their future potential and skills. The three youngsters took part in the emerging camp last December and made an impression with their talent. I am pleased to see their progress and we all feel it is now the right time to give them exposure of international cricket," said Asmavia.
"We had sent Tuba as a reserve player in the recently concluded ODI World Cup, she continues to make good progress and since spin bowling has been a traditional strength of ours, I feel she can make a good contribution in our bowling strategy. Gull Feroza has also made good progress, she has an aggressive style of play and can provide us brisk starts in both T20Is and ODIs which are now a big requirement at the international stage. Sadaf besides her batting skills provides us a bowling option too with her medium pace skills."
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Kainat Imtiaz has been included in the T20I squad after the surgery and recovery from a thumb injury she sustained before the World Cup 2022. Left-arm spinner Sadia Iqbal also has made a return to the side (both squads) after proving her form and fitness.
Uncapped Gull Feroza, Tuba Hassan in T20I squad © Women's Crizone
"For the rest of the squad, we considered the players fitness, form and their performances in the preparation camp where we played a number of practice T20 and 50-over matches. I believe we have two formidable squads for both T20Is and ODIs, both squads have good depth and most certainly have the pedigree to beat the Sri Lankan team in what should be an exciting series," added Asmavia.
Pakistan ODI squad © Women's CricZone
The series is scheduled to kick-off from May 24 with the first of the three T20Is. The ODI series will start from June 1 and will be a part of the ICC Women's Championship.
First T20I – 24 May
Second T20I – 26 May
Third T20I – 28 May
First ODI – June 1
Second ODI – June 3
Third ODI – June 5
* All matches will be played at the Southend Club in Karachi
** T20Is will start at 2:00 PM local time, ODIs at 9:30 AM local time
#Kainat Imtiaz #Sri Lanka #Pakistan Cricket #Pakistan #Sri Lanka tour of Pakistan, 2022 #Asmavia Iqbal


I never quite had as high hopes as many in regards to the 2014 Atlanta Falcons. If asked during the spring and summer, I would have stated that there was a much greater chance the Falcons would finish 6-10 than 10-6 this season. The team just always appeared to be too poorly constructed so that if one too many things went wrong, it would be another losing season for the Falcons.
Despite those internal thoughts, I bit my tongue and did the best I could to try and paint a more optimistic portrait about the upcoming season. After all, I've been accused of being overly negative a lot over the years and understanding that, nobody likes to read about doom and gloom. And I honestly felt that predicting the team to finish 8-8 this season was me being optimistic.
But right now, the negativity feels well warranted because the Falcons would be lucky to get to 6-10 by year's end based off how they are playing currently. Despite all my pre-season negativity, I never expected it to reach these lows. While losing games were to be expected, I at least expected the team to be a lot more competitive than they have been.
After watching the All-22 of Sunday's loss to the Baltimore Ravens, I'm having flashbacks to that four-game period last season between Weeks 8 and 11 where the Falcons were among the worst teams in the league. That was the lowest point of the Mike Smith Era. But I think one could have a really good debate whether the team that has played the past few games is actually worse.
In 2013, the Falcons got a late-season boost from the healthy return of Roddy White to the offense. I'm struggling to discern where that boost is going to come from this season. I'm not being negative for the sake of being negative. I wish I could come up with some legit reason to give you hope that the Falcons down the stretch are going to be a better football team than they are currently showing.
And speaking of White, he continues to struggle to separate from coverage. Both of his 20-yard catches basically came where he found a soft spot in the zone. The fact that ex-Falcons cornerback Dominique Franks had little issue blanketing him throughout the game is a sign that he's doing anything besides pulling his weight. I think the knee is a much, much, much more serious issue than the team has led on, but that's speculation on my part.
So I don't think there's much of any hope that there will be a late-season resurgence from White unless the Falcons bench rest him for several weeks to try and give that knee time to heal/recover. And without that, the Falcons will continue to be an offense with only one reliable receiver , who also happens to get doubled every play. I'm referring of course to Julio Jones for the uninitiated. That's no different than what the team was a year ago during that dark time in the middle of the season with Tony Gonzalez being that lone, frequently doubled option.
The lack of weapons coupled with some less than ideal play-design is why the Falcons passing game has suddenly become inept. The majority of plays it appears the Falcons receivers are asked to run x number of yards downfield and turn around and catch it. It makes the offense exceedingly easier to defend. But I feel as if I will have nine more weeks to parse out my complaints about Dirk Koetter, since last year told me he will do little to alleviate the problems at wide receiver.
So now I do believe that the Falcons, by default, will get a boost upon the healthy return of Harry Douglas. But at what point will that be? Who knows? He could return next week, or he could miss another month. Your guess is as good as mine.
And frankly, if the biggest hope this team has is Harry "Garbage Time" Douglas returning to the lineup to provide a spark for this offense, you see the predicament the team is in moving forward.
I have to talk about the poor protection and play from the offensive line, of course. It's a glaring issue for the team. I believe it has less to do with the absences of players like Joe Hawley and Lamar Holmes, and more to do with the fact that Jake Matthews, Justin Blalock and Gabe Carimi don't appear to be healthy. Losing Hawley is no minor issue, since his replacements in Peter Konz and now James Stone have performed poorly. I didn't think that the Falcons could possibly put a worse center on the field that Konz has been the past few games, but Stone might have changed that opinion.
The one positive for Stone over Konz that I can say is that at least the former is athletic enough to play in this blocking scheme. But that's about the only positive I can say based on his performance against the Ravens. There were a couple plays where Blalock had breakdowns due to his clear efforts to help Stone out. Stone missed assignments, whiffed on blocks, and got pancaked one too many times by linebackers like Daryl Smith and Albert McClellan that he outweighs by 40 or more pounds. It was clear that he was in over his head, and yet the Falcons have already named him the starter for next week against the Detroit Lions. It makes me wonder what has been occurring behind closed doors for the past several months that has soured the coaching staff so much on Harland Gunn. My theory is based on the team just simply being utterly clueless, but that would be me becoming overly negative again.
But going back to my earlier point about Matthews, Blalock and Carimi being injured, it's clearly been affecting their play. It's not hard to see when you look at the All-22. Matthews' return to full participation in practice this past week paid no dividends. He missed run-blocking assignments, particularly on the second level (i.e. when he was asked to move) and struggled to deal with Terrell Suggs' speed on the outside.
Blalock missed a few too many assignments although I'm not sure if the poor center play is more culpable there due to miscommunications with assignments when it comes to blitzes. But there were also times when he seemingly got overpowered, and I don't think that back injury is fully healed.
Carimi was never the world's best athlete, but he's also struggling to move. I'm not sure if it's the old knee problems or the more recent ankle ones that are currently affecting him more, but to no one's surprise, he was no match for Elvis Dumervil's edge speed. The most positive thing I can say is that, given my extremely low expectations going into that matchup this week, Carimi wasn't as bad as I expected.
Among the three, I probably have less concern with Blalock. But the statuses of Matthews and Carimi is a major cause for concern and another reason why I struggle to find hope. Do you "rest" them in that hopes that a week or two off will allow them to bounce back? What happens if you rest them, they return and then re-aggravate those injuries? I can only speculate, but that probably is a likelihood. Is 70 percent of Matthews/Carimi better than 100 percent of some combo of Ryan Schraeder, Cameron Bradfield or Jonathan Scott?
I don't know the answer to these questions, and it's just another reason why I struggle to find reasons for being optimistic.
Steven Jackson did not earn anything, but the blocking in front of him wasn't particularly great. Jackson was not an ideal matchup against the Ravens. His ability to break tackles and get yardage after contact does make him an effective runner, but his lack of lateral quickness and change of direction ability can be limiting against a defensive front like the Ravens possess. The best runs against their formidable front would have been misdirection plays like counters and the like and Jackson is not the ideal back for those types of plays, especially in comparison the Falcons' other backs. But there were so many runs where Jackson was about to hit the hole and go one-on-one against a defensive back (which is obviously to Jackson's advantage given his hard-running style), but because one of the Falcons offensive linemen whiffed on his assignment against a linebacker on the second level, the hole collapsed and Jackson was stuffed for minimal gains. Jackson only saw eight carries, but I'd estimate that all but one or two were poorly blocked.
I would be remiss if I didn't discuss Matt Ryan to a certain extent. I don't think he played particularly well. But I don't know how much of that is because of the poor protection and inability of his receivers to get open. I do think there were a couple of throws he made that were purely on him. He could have easily had two interceptions, that I simply think were bad throws on his part. And it was just another reminder of what occurred in 2013 during the middle part of the season where the offense went into the tank and his interception rate spiked.
Things looked better for the Falcons defense, mainly because they were able to create some turnovers and thus have some stops. Although in all three instances, I think they were more the fault of the Ravens making mistakes than the Falcons defenders necessarily making plays.
The most egregious Ravens error came on Robert Alford's first interception. It was just a poor throw and decision by Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco. Alford was covering Torrey Smith on a go route, but at no point during that play did Smith ever have a step on Alford. Flacco just simply decided he was going to take a deep shot coming out of the huddle, and even though Alford had blanketed Smith in coverage, Flacco threw it up anyway. That poor decision was coupled with the fact that Flacco did not make a great throw, as he threw inside instead of outside where Smith might have had a better chance to make a play on the ball.
However that throw contrasts with the last touchdown that Flacco threw, which was a perfect throw on a play where Smith did have a step on Alford. Alford got credited for a blown coverage, but there is no defense for a perfectly thrown pass.
Outside one other blown coverage that set up the Ravens field goal at the end of the first half, Alford played very wlel. So did Desmond Trufant, and both continue to be the two brightest spots on the defense. They are the lone two defenders that I can point to that have the talent to be high-level NFL players currently playing for the team. William Moore and Sean Weatherspoon also have that ability, but obviously both are injured and not playing.
Safety Kemal Ishmael did not have as good a game in coverage. Ishmael had two "almost" blown coverages in the second quarter. He left Trufant out to dry on a deep shot to Steve Smith with about seven minutes left in the first half. The Falcons were supposed to be in Cover-3, but Ishmael bit on the run-action in the backfield, and Smith was wide open down the center of the field. But Flacco overthrew him and that should have been a touchdown and it would have been 100 percent on Ishmael.
He made the exact same mistake later on that drive on that post to Torrey Smith, where Smith was tackled at the one-yard line. Ishmael bit hard on the run-action in the backfield and left the center of the field wide open for Smith to make the 20-yard grab. Thankfully, Trufant caught up to him before he could cross the goalline. Of course, Bernard Pierce scored on the very next play.
Ishmael is an excellent tackler and run defender, but his coverage skills leave a lot to be desired. While Moore is also limited in coverage, he doesn't make the sort of mentor errors that Ishmael is making. Ishmael is still young, but I'll need to see growth there before I'm personally ready to proclaim as anything more than an adequate reserve.
The best player on the defensive side of the ball was obviously Jonathan Massaquoi. He abused Ravens rookie left tackle James Hurst multiple times in the first half. Basically, Massaquoi used the same exact move to beat Hurst several times. That move consisted of the quick inside move off the snap. Hurst had no ability to adjust to it and off that move alone, Massaquoi collected two quarterback hits and a hurry. That doesn't include a hurry and a pressure that were nullified thanks to holding calls on Hurst. The Ravens would adjust in the second half, but Massaquoi was able to still collect a hurry on an outside speed rush versus Hurst. He had another hit working against right tackle Rickey Wagner, utilizing his motor to hit Flacco after he failed to pull the trigger on a third-down throw. He also had another hurry where he was unblocked as a blitzer off the edge.
It was overall an impressive day for Massaquoi, where he was effectively able to take advantage of weak competition for the second week in a row. I will be curious to see if he can play at this level if there is an uptick in competition in the coming weeks and months.
Kroy Biermann had impressive earnings, although both of his pressures came when he was working against backup rookie tight end Crockett Gilmore. Other than that, Biermann did nothing as a pass-rusher. But he continues to be a plus run-defender for the most part. There are still a couple of plays per game where he struggles to set the edge against the outside run, and many of his positive plays against the run come when he's working off the backside pursuit.
Paul Worrilow had a nice sack where he blitzed unblocked, although again, I think Flacco is partially to blame because he was late to recognize the blitz and wasn't even looking for his hot read when he saw Worrilow. Worrilow also was credited with the blown coverage on Owen Daniels' touchdown, as he was too deep in the end zone to defend the quick curl at the goalline. He also struggled to beat fullback Kyle Juszczyk in the hole on a couple of occasions, and the only time he did was with seven minutes remaining in the game, when the Ravens were running out the clock.
It goes back to previous observations I've had where Patrick DiMarco, a competent NFL fullback, struggles to win against opposing teams linebackers in the hole, and yet almost every opponent we face, their fullback shines against our linebackers. I just continue to believe that when you compare our linebacker play with that of other teams we've faced this year, there is a clear deficiency in terms of our talent. Clearly youth cannot be blamed too much, since I'm referring to players like Gerald Hodges, Anthony Barr and C.J. Mosley.
Worrilow has made only a few mental errors as far as I can tell this year, but the physical aspects of being the guy in the middle have consistently overwhelmed him. Unless his play drastically improves, I think if/when the Falcons get an opportunity this offseason, they should look to make a major upgrade at middle linebacker and move Worrilow back to being a reserve weak-side linebacker behind Weatherspoon, assuming the latter returns in 2015. That's where he began to shine at last season, and then his move to the middle had its ups and downs in the second half. But given his youth, a lot of those downs were forgiven. This year, that has turned into mostly downs. It's not to suggest that I've given up on Worrilow, but I don't think it's smart for the Falcons to count on him to be long-term option as a starter any longer. If he does continue to develop and improve down the road, then essentially that becomes a huge bonus. Given Spoon's durability issues, that still could come in handy.
Most of the plays Joplo Bartu made was when he was free to pursue to the ball. He continues to struggle at the point of attack and is essentially showing himself to only be effective when he's free of blockers and can chase. He got beat a few too many times in coverage as well, showing tight hips and poor awareness.
Dezmen Southward continues to be an effective gunner on punt coverage. If/when Drew Davis returns, it'll be interesting to see if the Falcons make a swap there. I don't think it's necessary, especially since Southward is arguably more valuable on defense than Davis is on offense, thus the Falcons can probably afford to deactivate Davis most weeks.
Massaquoi also worked in punt coverage in the role normally reserved for Prince Shembo (or Joplo Bartu when Shembo has started). If Massaquoi continues to emerge as a defensive standout, then I'd like to see Shembo, Bartu or Stansly Maponga take over his snaps on coverage units.


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Ten UCSB Baseball Players Selected in 2019 MLB Draft
Flame Thrower Chris Lincoln was the First UCSB Player Selected in the 2019 MLB Draft
UCSB Gauchos cheer on their teammates
By Victor Bryant
Wed Jun 05, 2019 | 7:44pm
Ten Gauchos realized their dreams of being selected in the 2019 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.
A groundbreaking season for the UCSB baseball team ended in disappointing fashion with consecutive losses at the Stanford Regional, but there is no question about the overall talent level of the team and that was confirmed over the course of the three-day draft.
UCSB had five players selected on the second day of the draft and set a program record with five players selected in the first eight rounds. With five more players drafted on Wednesday there were a total of ten Gauchos drafted over the three-day event.
UCSB closer Chris Lincoln was the first UCSB player drafted in the 5th round (143rd overall) by the San Diego Padres. Starting pitcher Ben Brecht was selected shortly thereafter in the 5th round (158th overall).
Lincoln was selected in the 13th round by the Toronto Blue Jays out of high school and improved his draft positioning immensely with an electric career at UCSB
Junior catcher Eric Yang, a finalist for the Buster Posey National Collegiate Catcher of the Year Award, was selected in the seventh round (204th overall). Junior outfielder Armani Smith was selected by the San Francisco Giants two picks later (206th overall). Smith was selected in the 35th round by the Cleveland Indians out of high school and exploded in his junior season with a .323 batting average and 11 home runs.
Tevin Mitchell was the final UCSB player selected on day two in round eight by the Miami Marlins (231st overall).
On day three, five more Gauchos were selected including, Jack Dashwood, Tommy Jew, Thomas Rowan, Shea Barry and Andrew Martinez.
Dashwood had an outstanding 2019 campaign with a 9-2 record and 2.48 ERA. The Los Angeles Angels selected him in the 12th round. Jew flashed speed and power in his junior campaign, finishing with 11 home runs and 20 stolen bases. The St. Louis Cardinals selected him in the 13th round.
The Miami Marlins selected Santa Ynez High product Thomas Rowan in the 20th round. Rowan slugged a team-high 13 home runs.
Relief pitcher Shea Barry was drafted in the 22nd round by the Houston Astros and infielder Andrew Martinez was selected in the 24th round by the Baltimore Orioles to round out a historic draft for UCSB.
https://www.independent.com/2019/06/05/ten-ucsb-baseball-players-selected-in-2019-mlb-draft/
Victor Bryant
Digital Sports Writer
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Dos Pueblos Girls' Basketball Completes Rare Sweep of Santa Barbara
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HIDDEN DEPTHS!
Band members will replace dancers and vice versa at the Toronto dates...
have teamed up with the TORONTO DANCE THEATRE for a run of five exclusive shows this week.
The band's frontman Joel Gibb has been working with the theatre's choreographer Christopher House to merge dance and live music for the shows, which will take place between January 21-25 at Toronto's Winchester St Theatre.
Band members are set to replace dancers, with the dancers then joining the band throughout the show, to create an ever-changing line-up for the gigs.
'The Hidden Cameras Play The CBC Sessions' is also set to be released on March 29 through Rough Trade as a strictly limited edition, six track ten-inch vinyl-only release.
A new single from Hidden Cameras is expected to be released in April, followed by an album in May.
For tickets to the exclusive five shows with the Toronto Dance Theatre click here.


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Omar Lizardo
Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame, a fellow at the Kroc Institute for Peace Studies, and a member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications
Title: Examining the link between different tie properties in ego networks
Abstract: Recent work in social network analysis has examined the theoretical implications of different ways of conceptualizing and measuring the notion of a "social tie." Scholars have noted that previous work has used a multiplicity of not necessarily consistent definitions of this crucial notion, including static similarities, collocations, or comemberships, culturally specified role relations, subjective interpersonal sentiments, communicative interactions, or flows of emotional support and exchange. In this talk, I introduce a novel data source, the NetHealth dataset, combining six ego-network survey panels collected over a two year period on a cohort of about 500 college students with unobtrusive behavioral data on electronic communication between each participant and every alter elicited in the name generator. I will examine the empirical linkages between sentiments (strong or weak emotional attachments), interaction frequencies, role-relations (status as friend, kin, acquaintance), socio-demographic similarities (homophily), and the provision of support and other exchange relations.
Elisa Bellotti
Sociology Programme Director
Bellotti, Elisa. "Scientific Networks." In Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology. Ed. Janeen Baxter. New York: Oxford University Press
Qualitative Methods and Visualizations in the Study of Friendship Networks, Sociological Research Online, 21, (2), 2016
Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis
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VC firm Forward Partners takes first steps towards listing on AIM
By Aisling Finn on Tuesday 13 July 2021
The VC firm marks the fourth fintech-related listing in as many months here in London.
Image source: Nic Brisbourne/Forward Partners
Finally, the promised fintech listing spree is here!
In the last few months, we've seen PensionBee and Wise list on the London Stock Exchange and LendInvest reignite its IPO dream, filing its paperwork to list on AIM. Now, it's the turn of VC firm Forward Partners.
The London-based firm has today submitted its application to begin trading its shares on AIM, with plans to raise £36.5m.
Forward Partners will also strike up a deal with PrimaryBid to give ordinary retail investors the chance to take part in its listing.
"It's fantastic to see the strong demand from both institutional and retail investors, who support our vision of democratising access to venture capital, and specifically high growth, UK based technology start-ups," Nic Brisbourne, CEO of Forward Partners, said.
When it lists, Forward Partners' portfolio will comprise of 46 equity investments in early-stage, high growth UK companies, including a number of fintechs like Zopa, CountingUp and Koyo Loans.
"Through our listing, which was oversubscribed, we can take a longer-term approach to building stronger businesses. That is essential to developing solutions to the world's problems and driving the UK's economic recovery post-pandemic."
Based on the price of its shares, Forward Partners has been valued at around £134.6m, of which BlackRock owns 70.4 per cent and senior management owning just 0.8 per cent.
Shares in Forward Partners are expected to begin trading at 8 am on 19 July 2021.


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Q: Javascript checkbox issue I have some issues with the checkbox code i have build.
I am launching a function on change then i use a if statement, but even if the if statement is doing its job it will still launch the function as many times as i clicked it.
So we have a IF statement, and if i select it 10 times it will give me 5 alerts
Ive try'd the one() function, but it is not a solution.
checkbox = $("#checkbox").attr('value');
$('#del').prop('disabled', true);
$("#checkbox").change(function () {
    if (this.checked) {

        $('#del').prop('disabled', false);
        $("#del").one("click", function () {
            var id = checkbox;
            alert("Checkbox selected & clicked del");

        }); //end del click
    } //end if
    else {
        $('#del').prop('disabled', true);
    } //end if
}); //end checkbox click

A: Your code

var checkbox = $("#checkbox").attr('value');
$('#del').prop('disabled', true);
$("#checkbox").change(function () {
    if (this.checked) {
        $(function () {
            $('#del').prop('disabled', false);
            $("#del").one("click", function () {
                var id = checkbox;
                console.log("Checkbox selected & clicked del");
            }); //end inside function.
        }); //end del clickdel click
    } //end if
    else {
        $('#del').prop('disabled', true);
    } //end if
}); //end checkbox click
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="checkbox" id="checkbox">Checkbox
<button id="del">Delete</button>

Code suggested by @tushar

var checkbox = $("#checkbox").attr('value');
$('#del').prop('disabled', true);
$("#checkbox").change(function() {
  $('#del').prop('disabled', !this.checked);
});

$("#del").one("click", function() {
  console.log("Checkbox selected & clicked del");
}); //end inside function.
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="checkbox" id="checkbox">Checkbox
<button id="del">Delete</button>

If you notice, I have moved, click binding outside if. This is because, when ever condition was true a new event was binded and hence multiple alerts were fired.

A: You can use unbind function like following
var checkbox = $("#checkbox").attr('value');
$('#del').prop('disabled', true);
$("#checkbox").change(function () {
if (this.checked) {
    $('#del').prop('disabled', false);
    $("#del").unbind('click');   //unbind click event
    $("#del").click(function () {
        var id = checkbox;
        alert("Checkbox selected & clicked del");

    }); //end del click
} //end if
else {
    $('#del').prop('disabled', true);
} //end if
});

A: So you need somwething like this:
checkbox = $("#checkbox").attr('value');
$('#del').prop('disabled', true);

$("#checkbox").change(function(){ // this will enable/disable del button
    if(this.checked){
      $('#del').prop('disabled', false);
    } else {
      $(this).prop('disabled', true);
    }
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OLAFUR ELIASSON AT THE TATE
The Icelandic-Danish artist will fill the gallery with fog for his latest immersive exhibition.
Olafur Eliasson (b.1967) Din blinde passager (Your blind passenger) 2010 Fluorescent lamps, monofrequency lamps, fog machine, ventilator, wood, aluminium, steel, fabric, plastic sheet Dimensions variable Installation view at ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, 2010 Photo: Thilo Frank / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Scandinavian artist Olafur Eliasson will grace the Tate Modern with an immersive, fog-filled installation this summer. It will be Eliasson's largest solo exhibition ever, with over 30 works on display, as well as the artist's first major UK exhibition.
With Eliasson's Weather Project exhibition in the Tate's Turbine Hall fifteen years ago drawing huge crowds, and the installation soon becoming one of the most popular in the history of the gallery, the excitement for July's exhibition is tangible.
The highlight for many will Your Blind Passenger, a 45-meter long corridor of fog that first displayed at Arken Museum in Copenhagen almost a decade ago. With the tunnel providing limited visibility, "very quickly you realise, and I mean this quite literally, that you are not completely blind after all, you have a lot of other senses which start to kick in", Eliasson explained to the Guardian. "It shows that the relativity of our senses is much higher than we think, we have it in our capacity to recalibrate or at least stop being numb." Other stand-out works include 1993's rainbow mist phenomenon, Beauty, 1994's Moss Wall – made up of Icelandic moss — and the 2014 sculpture Stardust Particle.
The Tate Modern will exhibit over 30 works from almost three decades of Eliasson's works in Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life. The exhibition will run from 11 July 2019 to 5 January 2020.
(LEFT) Olafur Eliasson (b.1967) Your spiral view 2002 Stainless steel, mirror, steel 3200 x 3200 x 8000 mm Installation view at Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 2002 Photographer: Jens Ziehe Boros Collection, Berlin © 2002 Olafur Eliasson
(RIGHT) Olafur Eliasson (b.1967) Moss wall 1994 Reindeer moss, wood, wire Dimensions variable Installation view: Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, 2016 Photo: Hyunsoo Kim Courtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles © 1994 Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson (b.1967) Your spiral view 2002 Stainless steel, mirror, steel 3200 x 3200 x 8000 mm Installation view at Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 2002 Photographer: Jens Ziehe Boros Collection, Berlin © 2002 Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson (b.1967) Moss wall 1994 Reindeer moss, wood, wire Dimensions variable Installation view: Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, 2016 Photo: Hyunsoo Kim Courtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles © 1994 Olafur Eliasson
(LEFT) Olafur Eliasson (b.1967) Beauty 1993 Spotlight, water, nozzles, wood, hose, pump Dimensions variable Installation view at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2015 Photo: Anders Sune Berg Courtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles © 1993 Olafur Eliasson
(RIGHT) Olafur Eliasson (b.1967) Big Bang Fountain 2014 Water, strobe light, pump, nozzle, stainless steel, wood, foam, plastic, control unit, dye 1650 x 1600x 1600 mmInstallation view at Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 Photo: Anders Sune BergCourtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York/Los Angeles © 2014 Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson (b.1967) Beauty 1993 Spotlight, water, nozzles, wood, hose, pump Dimensions variable Installation view at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2015 Photo: Anders Sune Berg Courtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles © 1993 Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson (b.1967) Big Bang Fountain 2014 Water, strobe light, pump, nozzle, stainless steel, wood, foam, plastic, control unit, dye 1650 x 1600x 1600 mmInstallation view at Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 Photo: Anders Sune BergCourtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York/Los Angeles © 2014 Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson (b.1967) Cold wind sphere 2012 Stainless steel, coloured glass (dark blue, blue and light grey), mirror, colour-effect filter glass (blue), bulb ø 1700 mm Photo: Jens Ziehe Centre Pompidou, Paris © 2012 Olafur Eliasson
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They are there ? called out in Islam's holiest book. They are the djinn. Among the Muslim devout, there can be no question that these beings are among God's creation, right alongside humans and angels. The djinn are genies, jinn, jnun. The term means ?the hidden.? And, indeed, these mythological figures have been hidden in human consciousness since ancient, pre-Islamic times, revealing themselves through stories and superstition, but also through fervent belief.
While there are countless stories about djinn, most famously those in The Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights), existence of the djinn became legitimized with the words passed to the Prophet Mohammed. One particular passage from the Koran, Sura 72, called the Al-Jinn, is addressed entirely to djinn. The Koran reveals dictates for living and behavior of both djinn and humans.
Western lore interprets the existence of djinn primarily as Middle Eastern fable. Yet, some aspect of the djinn has been incorporated into European and American tales of fairies and evil spirits. Most cultures describe their own pantheon of spirits that bear startling similarities to the three types of djinn: marid are wicked and malicious spirits, like devils and demons; ifrit are strong and powerful spirits that are not necessarily evil; ghuls are lesser phantoms who can fly, much like ghosts and ghouls.
GIVEN FREE WILL
Shaitan is the best known and most feared of the marid. He was once known as Iblis, a djinn who was obedient to God. But, when commanded by God to bow to Adam, he refused and was cast out of Paradise. He was called Shaitan. This sequence may sound familiar to followers of the Bible as the story of Satan, a fallen angel. Yet, Muslims believe that angels, beings of supreme goodness and purity, are incapable of disobedience. It was the djinn who, possessing free will like humans, chose to defy God.
According to the Koran, God created humans from the clay of the earth, angels from celestial light, and the djinn from the smokeless fire. It is stated in one verse that djinn are older than humans: ?We created the djinn before, from the fire of hot wind.? [15:26-27]
The djinn are subject to the same laws of creation as man. And when they sin, they are cursed; considered to be followers of Iblis. However, not all djinn are evil. There are those among the djinn who are intelligent, even reverent. Like humans, djinn are born, marry, bear children, and interact in the world. Granting wishes is not among the purported capabilities of the djinn, however; this characteristic has been mythologized.
Like humans, djinn die. The Koran is in agreement with the Bible when it is stated that ?all upon the earth perishes.? However, the lifespan of djinn is exceptionally longer than that of humans. When they have revealed themselves, djinn are described as being similar to the human form, and not necessarily blue and bald. If they choose, they can mingle unnoticed among men.
HOLY PROTECTION AGAINST DJINN
Djinn who do evil are equivalent to demons of Christian lore. A summoned djinni can be mischievous and even malevolent. They are generally disruptive and intolerant of humans. And while they can wreak havoc in a household and even possess a human being, there are specific instructions for fending off their influence.
Muslims say the Arabic phrase, ?A'oo Thu Billahi min Ash Shaitan Arrajim? (meaning: O God, I seek refuge in You, from Shaitan the rejected) as a protection against djinn and when beginning recitation of the Koran. Different Surahs from the Quran ? such as Surah Falaq, Surah Naas and Surah Baqarrah (especially Ayat al-Qursi in Baqarrah) ? are specifically intended to prepare the prayerful to be safe from supernatural harm. Additional protection comes from reciting four ?Quls?, an Arabic word that means ?say?, known as Surah Falaq, Surah Naas, Surah Ikhlaas, and Surah Kafiroon. Other measures include reading at least 50 ayats (verses) of the Koran to protect against djinn.
DWELLING PLACES OF DJINN
As a community, the djinn can be massless, occupying what would seem to be small physical spaces. Yet, they can also expand and assume a physical dimension, travel the world in a flash, or inhabit animals, like cats, dogs, snakes, and scorpions. For the most part, they are invisible to humans. Many Muslims will avoid abandoned houses or areas, believing they attract habitation of the djinn.
Supposed remnants of djinn civilizations litter the world's archaeological digs. From the forgotten city of Ubar in the Rub al Khali, a trackless expanse of desert in southern Arabia, to the mystical and long-abandoned stronghold of Meda'in Saleh in northeastern Saudi Arabia, and its sister city, Petra, in southern Iraq. Across Afghanistan, Iran, and Egypt, ruins of ancient sites are still believed by many to harbor realms of the djinn. It is in Ubar that the primordial dwelling place of the djinn purportedly originated ? a city once known as Irem of the Pillars and which has carried forward in time as the unseen djinn kingdom of Jinnistan.
Whether djinn truly exist ultimately is a matter of personal belief. Millions of people in the world today are aware of djinn as creatures of myth; of those, easily thousands accept the presence of djinn as real, unseen wards of a parallel realm.
There are many misconceptions about Islam or Mohammedism as it should rightly be called. Western self-hatred; politically correct fascism; and an anti-Western educational and media establishment ascribe incorrect labels to the Mohammedan cult. Mohammedism is not a religion, it is not modern, and its main book the Koran, is overtly racist and supremacist. Time to ban it.
Why ban the Koran? The media and the insufferable Marxist-Feminist-anti Christian-post modern alliance refrain that it is a holy book. That is the work of God or at least a representation thereof. The Koran is equated in this distorted world view with the Bible. The cult of Mohammed, much like the leadership cults of Hitler, Lenin and Stalin, is thereby conflated, rather incredibly, with Christianity. The Koran and the Arab cult of Mohammed have nothing in common with the Bible or Christianity.
Christianity and the Bible have some key elements missing in the Mohammed cult and the Koran. The Golden Rule � do unto others as you would have done unto you � does not exist in the Koran. Neither does the division of church and state; tolerance of others; or the litany of ethical and behavioral concerns which make up most of the Bible.
If one does not believe that, than read the Koran. Did you ever wonder why the Koran can only be recited in Arabic? This would be akin to mandating that all Catholics must read their bible in the original Latin. Is this not a form of Arab imperialist intolerance?
The Koran leads inevitably to forms of fascistic governance � fascist in its rightly denoted terminology, not in the useless and incorrect sense it is used by the leftists and marxists in todays world.
Fascism is an extreme left wing concept which melds church and state into a cult; elevates the cult leader above the rest; partakes in excessive communalism and supremacism; and engages in jihadic war, endless propaganda, and Orwellian double talk to further its political goals. A fascist cult is at its root a political ideology and this is precisely what Mohammedism is. Fascism has nothing in common with, nor any relation to 'right wing' conservative concepts embedded in free trade; small government; and military power.
Fascism is an extremist communalist philosophy.
If we add in slavery; a genetic hatred of Jews and Christians; misogyny; pre modern cultist practices; ritualisation; and endless repetition of the cult's story line as found in the Koran, then yes you have a pretty nice formulation of a fascism.
Welcome to Mohammedism.
And this is the key element that most miss, when discussing the Arab cult. Mohammedism demands obedience to the cult's ideals. Islam meaning submission demands the prostration of the person to the Arab moon deity ali-ilah and the recognition that no free will exists since Allah determines all. Allah is the one or the thing, which will decide your fate. Submit, ask for his or its love, and hope for the best.
If this is not a cult than what is it?
Let's assume for now, that rational people will view Islam as the Mohammed cult � a stretch of the imagination to be certain. Would such a rational person than allow this cult to flood her or her's country in immigrants waves? Would the cult's text calling non-Muslims slaves, pigs and apes be allowed for study in that society? Would that society embrace Saudi money to support sundry 'churches', associations and lobby groups to infiltrate the host society?
Even today Mein Kampf is a best seller in the Arab world. Hitler and Nazism are still worshipped and supported across the Muslim world. Arabs and Muslims were allied with Hitler and the Communists for most of the last century. Arab and Muslims have engaged in an unrelenting jihadic war against non-Muslims for 1385 years. Would a sane society, infused supposedly with modern education, scientific tools and a high degree of rationality, willingly allow the subversion of its culture and state by such a cult?
If so why?
As already noted Islam is really Mohammedism � a cult, not a religion, missing as it were a vital element called the Golden Rule. Westerners rather stupidly seem to accept the Muslim's claims that the Koran and Islam are to be equated with the Bible and Christianity. This is about as dumb a conflation as stating that Hitlerism and Mein Kampf should be equated with Judaism and the Torah.
Since the West is, largely outside the US, a post-modern, post-Christian society, faith is deemed to be irrational and unseemly. But such a sentiment is only applied to Christians, not Mohammedans. For the average post modern secularist this peculiar hypocrisy is frightening � denigrate Christianity the basis of civilisation, but support and protect Mohammedism a cult which has butchered 300 millions since 622 A.D, including about 500.000 since 9-11.
Absurd.
The heart of the Arab imperial program is the fascist plan contained in the Koran � the Mein Kampf of Mohammed. Mosques, groups, schools and Mohemmadan practices all revolve around this book of gibberish and nonsense. It is one long diatribe against the kuffar or infidel and one long polemic demanding Muslim domination. Even Muslim 'thinkers' and 'philosophers' know this. These propagandists, including some of Mohammedism's most important writers, use the Koran as the premise for their hate of Western society and their insistence for Jihadic war:
-Ibn Khaldun [philosopher 8th century]: "All religious laws and practices and everything that the masses are expected to do requires group feeling. Only with the help of group feeling can a claim be successfully pressed,….Group feeling is necessary to the Muslim community. Its existence enables (the community) to fulfill what God expects of it."
-A.K.Brohi [Pakistani Muslim jurist 20th century]: "The individual if necessary has to be sacrificed in order that that the life of the organism be saved. Collectivity has a special sanctity attached to it in Islam....Freedom is Slavery.'
-Qutb [20th century Muslim and co-founder of the Muslim brotherhood]: 'The unbelievers were of three kinds: adversaries in war, people with treaties, and Dhimmies. The people with treaties eventually became Muslims, so there were only two kinds left: people at war and Dhimmies.'
Many, in fact thousands of quotes from Muslim 'thinkers' can be used, all of them utilizing Koranic doctrine and infallible Muslim supremacism to urge intolerance and a fascistic organisation of temporal affairs.
What is truly fantastical is that the Koran, with an almost unlimited number of passages crying out racism; Jew and Christian hatred, demanding submission and exhorting the killing of 'others' is not declared by the busy little minds of various Human Rights Commissions, a hate document. If I were to publish for instance, an anti-Gay commentary I would be sued. If I produce a leaflet denying the Holocaust or the rape of Nanking, I would likewise, and rightly be sued. But the Muslims can declaim hatred, advocate the killing of Jews and others, and fulminate weekly in their mosques against the West and nothing happens.
Human rights commissions should be investigating the Koran and Mohammedan mosques for hate speech, not bothering writers and websites who are publishing viewpoints.
This is perhaps the most ridiculous and pernicious aspect of multi-cult post modern stupidity. Mohammedans are free to spew their hate bile and animus towards any and all kuffars, but the kuffar is unable to express his or her considered viewpoint and criticize the Mohammed cult.
Insanity.
Why should the Koran be banned?
I will give you five reasons why this cult document should be banned:
1.It is a fascistic set of commands outlining Muslim aggression against the world. Its program is no different than that set out in Mein Kampf.
2.It is misogynistic and promotes female slavery.
3.It is racist.
4.It is supremacist and distorts young impressionable Muslim minds.
5.It has been used as the basis of war for 1385 years, and is directly responsible for the deaths of 300 million people. It is the guide for Arab imperialism.
It is in short the handbook for our enemies. By banning the Koran we can also open up the Mosques for inspection; understand their finances; regulate their programs of 'praying' and limit immigration. The tides would turn in favor of civilsiation.
It is all well and good to criticize and laugh at Christianity. Ha ha. Ho Ho. The small minds of the world might want to criticize, analyse and become sickened by the Koran. It is a document which demands a pre-modern view of the world, the destruction of civilisation; and the enslavement of women and kuffars. Maybe the little multi-cult minds and human rights councils can get busy with this threat instead of obsessing about polar bears; Guantanamo Bay; and Bushitler.
Who after all are the real fascists?
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The Forgotten Dead
Author: Ken Small, Mark Rogerson
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This book describes Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the American D-Day landings on Utah Beach in Normandy. The training exercise occurred on the Devon and Dorset coasts of England around the village of Slapton Sands on April 27, 1944. Almost 1000 American soldiers and sailors died during the exercise, which was later covered up by officials embarrassed by the fiasco.
This book describes the effort of author Ken Small to uncover the truth about the deaths of the soldiers and sailors and to ensure their sacrifice would never be forgotten. First published in 1988, the book has been updated and re-published in 2018.
Chapter 1 The Forgotten Dead
Describes the impact on the residents of Slapton Village both before and after the training exercise.
Chapter 2 Exercise Tiger
Describes the actions of the convoy of LST's taking part in the invasion exercise, and the damages incurred by German E-boats. Lack of communication and inadequate escorts for the invading LSTs led to the loss of many American Naval and Army personnel.
Chapter 3 Attack!
Personal accounts of survivors from the LSTs are used to create a detailed picture of what it was like when the German E-boats attacked.
Chapter 4 A Slow, Cold Death
Personal accounts are again used in this chapter to describe the efforts of survivors of sinking LSTs after they abandoned the ships.
Chapter 5 A Question of Blame
This chapter describes the follow-up investigation into the errors made during the exercise, and those responsible, that led to the loss of life during the practice invasion.
Chapter 6 Early Days
This chapter is a detailed autobiography of the author, Ken Small. This section also describes Small's developing curiosity about the stories of the military exercises. It also describes when he found an abandoned Sherman tank at the bottom of the bay and decided to use it to make a memorial to those who died during Exercise Tiger.
Chapter 7 How to Buy A Tank
Small describes the bureaucracy encountered during his attempts to purchase the abandoned tank.
Chapter 8 The Recovery Begins
This section describes the salvage efforts to bring the submerged tank close to the beach.
Chapter 9 Ashore at Last
The tank is winched on shore and placed on a plinth to form the memorial for those that died during Exercise Tiger.
Chapter 10 The Memorial Service
A memorial service was held on November 15, 1987, and this chapter describes Small's efforts to organize the memorial service.
Chapter 11 Relatives and Friends
Describes several gatherings in the U.S. of relatives, friends, and survivors after the memorial.
Chapter 12 The Missing Graves
Small discusses the uncertainties about where the dead from Exercise Tiger are buried, and whether they received a proper burial.
Chapter 13 The Next Crusade
Small describes the personal toll he has taken as a result of his commitment to the Exercise Tiger tank and memorial.
The last sections of the book include stories from survivors, both Allied & German, with their personal descriptions of the events surrounding Exercise Tiger. A list of the known dead is also included.
The book is a non-fiction historical novel rather than a reference for modelers but is a good read for those interested in WWII or Exercise Tiger in particular. Most of the book is about the personal efforts of Ken Small to recognize the disastrous exercise and the memorial he championed.
Thanks to Ken Small for his persistent efforts to document Exercise Tiger, and thanks to Osprey for providing the review copy to IPMS.
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