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A British Artist in Texas on the Big Brexit Hangover
by Richard Patterson June 26, 2016
(Richard Patterson, an English artist living in Dallas, wrote this the day after the Brexit vote count.)
"I don't know what you mean by 'glory,' " Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't—till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!' "
"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."
– from Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking Glass' (1872)
Tony Blair picked up on my point about the absurd demonizing of politicians, economists, and journalists as "experts," as if ordinary jobsworth cockney wankers down the pub somehow always know best. You can look to America for a precedent, and it started with the service industries. It's a the customer is always right attitude; it's the give-everyone-an-unpalatable-confusion-burger-in-a-gimmicky-bar-with-a-craft-beer-list, because that's where the demographic seems to be taking us. Because the "customer is always right."
Respect for knowledge, skill, advice, a credible viewpoint—all of this is giving way to the idea that the tosser at the pub who's five lagers up apparently knows best. It's part of the America Fuck Yeah! syndrome, only it has led to an official unraveling in Britain (shockingly) before it might unravel here in the U.S.
What strikes me is that the British are essentially a polite (and at times violent), tolerant and ultimately cautious country, but who have never had a modern European-style bloody revolution. For various reasons, the British have never had to "rise up," although it's not been without civil unrest. It has excelled, mostly, in resolving complex social and economic issues politically. However, regrettably, one aspect of Britain that we all know—the whining, the complaining, the sardonic and ironic pub pundit, the armchair critic pub bore—all of these people who have traditionally blown off steam down the boozer, all of these people with passive political angst and high opinion do not usually coalesce into a meaningful political force. Until you give them a referendum.
The referendum gave equal voice to every individual who wanted to use their vote, and the politicians and media made their best effort to explain the gravity of the issues in serial debate long before the vote, but in so doing the nation unleashed an emotional outpouring that may not have always addressed the issue at hand. How many voters became power drunk with entitlement after feeling for too long unheard? How many voters conflated old-school grievances and relocated them in the wrong ballot? It was like using a "reset Safari" button by mistake and erasing your entire history when you just meant to lose a couple of emails.
I think people have become used to "having a say"—Tweeting, Facebooking—sounding off privately, etc., and there never being any consequences. So I believe that many of the people who voted for Leave probably did so thinking that actually nothing would be affected. They simply wanted to vent, to get it off their chest. They had not truly considered the consequences. They may have secretly wanted to remain but to have the perverse pleasure of being able to later say Well I voted against this whole thing—this isn't what I wanted. That would have given them something else to truly complain about. But to their own surprise, their votes carried the day, and now they will see it all nose dive, and as it does, they'll blame whoever else they can—whichever new "expert" is at the helm—for screwing it up for a second time. It's a spiral of retrogression. As things get worse (but there are fewer immigrants to blame) then you pin it on something and someone else.
This of course sounds entirely patronizing, as though I think that people tend to be stupid, ignorant, irrational and so on, and that they don't say what they mean, or mean what they say. But unfortunately it would appear that a huge swathe of Britain has just proven this to be the case. Already there is evidence of voters saying, "I didn't realize this would be the outcome; if I could vote again, I'd reverse my vote." Certainly different people voted to Leave for different reasons (it wasn't just one demographic), and many who voted to Leave really meant it, but you look at English football supporters drunk in pubs in Marseilles, and you have to know that there is a supreme disconnect at times between a sentimental view of what they think they want England to be—"victorious, glorious" and so on— and the grimly sardonic understanding that their team will probably lose, because they generally do. It is the fundamental default setting of an aspect of the British psyche: the dour entertainment potential in getting your hopes up in order that they can be dashed, in order that you can get legless and then smash up the port and get yourself banged up in jail overnight. It is a form of sadomasochism that so many in Britain practice as entertainment. It manifests as a catharsis that is politically ugly and has traditionally invoked jingoism and nationalism (albeit with a degree of wit).
The columnist Marina Hyde referred to the "suitably nostalgic, sub-Pearl & Dean [an old-fashioned advertising group that did the promos in British cinemas of yore] production values… [which] depicted a place of Spitfires and the battle of Britain and the Queen's coronation." Britain for decades has ironically (and unironically) traded on its own memories, proudly and fondly, but sadly too, knowing much of it is past, redundant, from another time. Some of it is kept around as a theatrical sentiment to be sung at soccer matches, like a form of music hall. Even Blair's "Cool Brittannia" in the '90s was an attempt to reignite and repackage at least some of the vestige of this cultural identity into modern Britain. The opening ceremony of the London Olympics probably did it better and more succinctly.
And suddenly, recently, it has become all too real, as if half of the population think that the Spitfires and Lancaster bombers are a still a way of life. As John Oliver said last weekend, the bar for entry to even be considered "English" seems to be a monocled badger named Reginald who lives inside a shepherd's pie.
And now it has played out massively in the political arena, as if the whole thing is one giant European Cup tournament, and the perception of the way to win is to just get rid of all the other teams—a bit like the way America invented American football for itself. America always wins at American football, because no one else can be bothered to play it.
So, with Boris Johnson's encouragement, some of the British population might have invoked the pub-bore everyman approach to politics as a conflation of the 'keep it local' and the global populist contemporary condition. The notion that somehow Britain's culture will now be more distinct (again) is something of a mirage, because now every tosser in the entire western world (and beyond) uses the same iPhone, drinks craft beer at a bad bar with shipping-pallet tables, seems to be slightly overweight (despite all the almond milk), and doesn't know much about world events despite staring at screens all the way home on the train while never looking out of their own carriage window. The culture of populism has become ubiquitous in the sense that most everyone has become equally deluded by the narcissism of the manner in which they process information.
There will surely come a point soon where the medical profession and politicians alike will conclude that we have become meaningless information junkies to the point where any processed information has become the equivalent of junk food. Too much information without creative application, or accountable action, becomes a form of unhealthy bingeing and meaningless, directionless indulgence. You'd hope that anyone seen staring at a screen, surfing the internet and social media, is surely educating themselves. But really the information intake may be so garbled, and so undirected or misdirected, that the digestive system of our brains and political consciences have given up the ghost and have made us intellectually obese, unhealthy, and stupid.
I think Britain is the first modern country to have become punch drunk on information and assumed that if all information is equally questionable, then no information can be truly accurate, and so therefore sense, common sense, sensibility—none of these count for anything any more other than a kind of post-pub gut reaction to things. The same kind of gut reaction that comes in from the pub drunk late at night and says, "Fuck it, I'm gonna bust up the kitchen and rip off some cupboard doors and throw a chair through the window," and then wakes up the next morning and has to phone a guy to come in and fix it all at great expense.
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Annette Carlozzi June 26, 2016 - 12:05
Thx, Richard. Glad to hear your response to this shocking collision of values.
Commit to vote, people! It could so easily happen here.
Michael Corris June 26, 2016 - 12:09
Some random thought by a person who lived in the United Kingdom (that is: England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland) for nearly 20 years. During that time, I witnessed the rise of right wing parties like the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in England and the rebirth of the National Front in France. After the Balkan War of the mid-1990s and the admission into the EU of formerly communist Eastern European nations, nativism experienced a resurgence matched only by the nationalist zeal that swept through Europe after World War One. Like history itself, the issue of national sovereignty was complicated. To some of us living in Texas, this attitude might seem quaint, as familiar as we are with the pluses and minuses of globalization. But sometimes the media is good at making connections that might otherwise go unnoticed. Reading The Guardian in the days leading up to the glorious 23rd of June (the date of the Referendum), I was amused to read about the nativist Texan Daniel Miller and the campaign for an independent Texas. The Guardian liked the sound of "Texit" and it made for good copy-fodder and hilarious comparisons when placed side by side with the UK "Brexit" campaign. It was a good laugh; but about 16.5 million people in the UK are not laughing now, including my daughter, who was not old enough to vote but will suffer the consequences of this "know nothing" decision. It's fantasy to think that Texas could secede, but nativist sentiments given voice by populist groups and politicians continue to shred history and generate
Richard makes a good point about "information", which shouldn't be confused with knowledge or know-how. The kind of information I believe Richard is talking about may be defined as knowledge shorn of its context, its history, and its logic. This is the same oafish barroom logic being spouted by the pub-bores Richard describes so colorfully. We can point to the same sort of logic in our own backyards. A student of mine created recently a project around the Daughters of the Confederacy. She called them up and asked them about the Civil War. The reply was that the Civil War was about states' rights. Who could argue against states' rights? It's enshrined in the Constitution, is it not? Ah, but the phrase itself is pure "information": a mantra (or meme, if you prefer) floating in the blogosphere.
Nigel Farage, UKIP leader, in his "victory speech" the day after the Referendum, referred to June 23rd as UK Independence Day. Now, the UK would have its "rights" affirmed and restored. Aside from the fact that the UK is already a sovereign state, Farage continues to evoke the spectre of sovereignty. Not only is this political line wildly misleading, it's crypto-racism and, if we press a bit harder, crypto-fascism. I recall a conversation with a London cabbie—a pure Cockney, born and bred within the sound of the Bow Bells. He was a jovial fellow, as many London cabbies are; we talked politics frankly. He said he and his wife moved from the East End to the suburbs, and that the problem was immigration. But he stopped short of supporting Nigel Farage, because he was very familiar with UKIP's links to the old British National Front. Yet, there was no recourse, in his mind, to the problem. It seemed to be all or nothing, black and white. Just like the choices supplied to clients and consumers: "Leave", "Remain"; "Like", "Not Like".
The imbecile David Cameron gambled that the voters of the UK would "see" the benefits of the EU, without once considering the experience of this London cabbie. Cameron was also derelict in his duty to explain clearly how the UK's involvement in Europe highlighted its relative impoverishment against France and Germany. All he had was austerity, cuts in education, and the support of London's Financial elite. He's out, and good riddance. Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labor Party, is also facing a vote of no confidence, thanks to his pathetic performance as the key individual to educated Labor supporters to vote to "Remain". Boris Johnson, however, who is just beginning to realize the enormity of his mistake, and may yet be Prime Minister and leader of the Tories. But with a BIG HANGOVER.
It would be folly to suggest that the 17 million plus voters who checked the "Leave" box could be persuaded by a rational array of the pros and cons of EU membership, but I am saying that the complexity of the situation for the British was never fully investigated or explained, so that the large number of "undecided" voters were effectively left to their own devices. This is what comes of politicians treating the electorate like "clients".
Personally, the saddest outcome of all is that one particular politician — Labor MP Jo Cox — was brutally murdered on June 16th by a UK nativist crank. This guy made his own gun, thanks to literature sourced from a US-based neo-Nazi organization. When asked by the magistrate at the arraignment for his name in court, he replied: "Death to Traitors. Free Britain."
Janet Kutner June 26, 2016 - 13:24
You should circulate this articulate commentary as widely as you can and encourage your friends to do so as well. The danger of going with the flow is getting swept by a riptide. It's not a game of chance. The "me too" attitude can have dire Consequences.
kevint June 26, 2016 - 17:14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvdth7bOPWY
David June 28, 2016 - 11:31
I believe the Brexit vote was much, much more than the whimsical, thoughtless impulse you portrayed, and with which you slandered it. There seem to have been at least two, quite major, reasons for the vote outcome.
1. Britain's economy — for example, its fisheries, its farmers, and other manufacturing businesses — were frequently put to major economic losses by the Brussels bureaucrats of the EEU; that is, for example, Britain having "lost control of its own waters", with its fisheries then having incurred major economic losses due to the EEU. See the quite informative (and, actually, quite interesting) crowd-funded motion picture, "Brexit — the Movie". Vimeo (and Google/ YouTube, if it hasn't chosen to censor it) should find them for you. Those farmers, manufacturers and other businesspeople farmed or made things, sold them, and made money. EEU restrictions imposed by Brussels appear to have put many of them out of work, in their own country, and out of their own livelihoods.
2. Britain's culture and social fabric appear to have been undergoing significant change, and stress. One very recent example should illustrate: The order, by the new London Mayor, Mr. Sadiq Khan, that advertisements henceforth show women in a covered-up, "modest" state of attire, and not scantily-clad. Although the Brits do tolerate in their legal system more restrictions upon free speech than do the Yankees, an artist — or anyone else, British or American, who believes in free speech and creativity — ought to be offended by this imposition. In addition, I suspect that at least some British (and other) women find this imposition upon womens' free choice to be insultingly repressive.
Ultimately, the Brexit vote appears to have been an expression by Britons of a desire to get back control of their own economy and culture. As Mr. Nigel Farage, the British representative to the Brussels "Parliament", said just this morning (Tuesday, June 28), "…Upheavals in politics can actually be a pretty good thing…" And, as the current person holding the office of U.S. President has said, "Elections have consequences." Yes, indeed , they do.
And freedom, and self-determination, are priceless.
Michael Krone June 29, 2016 - 15:14
Thank you for your post. My reply to Mr. Patterson's article was "in moderation" earlier, but I suspect it may be in moderation for a long, long time. I have a suspicion that I was not "moderate" enough.
chuck parker July 1, 2016 - 05:50
Your grasp of those aspects of European reality that underlay the 'Leave' vote will ever remain beyond the public ken of the Establishment, which simply cannot conceive of the extent to which they've screwed over their own countrymen; in part, no doubt, because their allegiance is to the other members of that Establishment, rather than those same countrymen.
The current ascendance of Donald Trump isn't the first time that we've peacefully thrown the bums out on this side of the pond, you know. It's past time to once again tramp through the White House with our muddy boots, breaking the furniture as we go, as happened in Andy Jackson's day. When corruption has rooted itself within a society, it's best to tear those roots out, before it approaches Roman or Byzantine dimensions.
Perhaps the clearest proof that it IS past time to do so is the success of Hillary Clinton. This feckless nonentity, whose public career is an almost uninterrupted campaign of mendacity and petty avarice, should have been vomited out by a healthy electorate.
That her personal hero, the subject of her senior thesis at Radcliffe–when she had full access to the stacks at the affiliated Harvard University–was one of the two individuals most responsible for the success of the Eugenics Movement, Margaret Sanger, speaks volumes. Personally, I do not share my heroes with Adolf Hitler, who cited her work as the inspiration for his conception of the 'Final Solution', which he formulated first while in prison, when writing "Mein Kampf".
charissa terranova June 29, 2016 - 07:30
As with the US, it seems many here, people of all creeds, colors, and origins, have voted against their economic (and greater) interests. I spoke to a very nice Hungarian taxi driver in Cambridge who was a brexiteer. He did not seem to understand it was a vote against his own ability to be in the UK. News reports show interviews with Indian, Pakistani, African born Brits who voted brexit.
Billy Kirkland June 29, 2016 - 12:38
I want add my own thanks to you Richard!
(Small aside to Ms. Carlozzi, we must be careful who we encourage to vote, or it REALLY could happen here.)
Richard, you have bravely made clear that we progressives need to cease and desist with our well meant but flawed concern for, and pandering to, the working class. Clearly, these besotted pub crawlers are mostly all corrupt, both morally and intellectually. They ARE wankers, one and all, and they are endangering the progress of rational society. As Obama has noted, our own jobsworth tossers are nothing more than bitter clingers, holding progress hostage with their retrograde beliefs, superstitions and grievances. We must of course continue to be cognizant of the need to provide them with a decent, minimum standard of living, but we must dispense with the notion that they have a right to self-determination. As Ms. Terranova has so accurately pointed out, they can't be trusted to recognize and vote their own best interests. Uneducated men and women, who have little time or inclination to be well-versed on the issues, have no business having an equal voice with men and women who do have the education and the ability to discern the best path of action. Merchant/Ivory and Kazuo Ishiguro laid this bare with piercing, remarkable elegance…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tm3AT543YE&spfreload=10
James Traub, the wealthy heir to the Bloomingdale's chain, has written an article in Foreign Policy that tracks with the majority of sentiments here on Glasstire and is worth the read…
"…It is necessary to say that people are deluded and that the task of leadership is to un-delude them. Is that "elitist"? Maybe it is; maybe we have become so inclined to celebrate the authenticity of all personal conviction that it is now elitist to believe in reason, expertise, and the lessons of history…"
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/28/its-time-for-the-elites-to-rise-up-against-ignorant-masses-trump-2016-brexit/
Now, some right proper naughty geezers have also warned us time again about the problem of our uppity proles…
'The public must be put in its place…so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.' – Walter Lippmann, explaining in his book 'Public Opinion' (published in 1922) that controlling the minds of the masses is essential to the proper functioning of a modern democracy.
"In like manner, the scientific rulers will provide one kind of education for ordinary men and women, and another for those who are to become holders of scientific power. Ordinary men and women will be expected to be docile, industrious, punctual, thoughtless, and contented. Of these qualities, probably contentment will be considered the most important. In order to produce it, all the researches of psycho-analysis, behaviourism, and biochemistry will be brought into play…. All the boys and girls will learn from an early age to be what is called 'co-operative,' i.e., to do exactly what everybody is doing. Initiative will be discouraged in these children, and insubordination, without being punished, will be scientifically trained out of them..
Except for the one matter of loyalty to the World State and to their own order, members of the governing class will be encouraged to be adventurous and full of initiative….
On those rare occasions, when a boy or girl who has passed the age at which it is usual to determine social status shows such marked ability as to seem the intellectual equal of the rulers, a difficult situation will arise, requiring serious consideration. If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may, after suitable tests, be promoted, but if he shows any regrettable solidarity with his previous associates, the rulers will reluctantly conclude that there is nothing to be done with him except to send him to the lethal chamber before his ill-disciplined intelligence has had time to spread revolt. This will be a painful duty to the rulers, but I think they will not shrink from performing it." — Bertrand Russell, "The Scientific Outlook", 1931
As Zbiggie has pointed out, we ignore these truths at our own peril…
"For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive… The resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien colonial or imperial domination… The worldwide yearning for human dignity is the central challenge inherent in the phenomenon of global political awakening… That awakening is socially massive and politically radicalizing… The nearly universal access to radio, television and increasingly the Internet is creating a community of shared perceptions and envy that can be galvanized and channeled by demagogic political or religious passions. These energies transcend sovereign borders and pose a challenge both to existing states as well as to the existing global hierarchy, on top of which America still perches…
The major world powers, new and old, also face a novel reality: while the lethality of their military might is greater than ever, their capacity to impose control over the politically awakened masses of the world is at a historic low. To put it bluntly: in earlier times, it was easier to control one million people than to physically kill one million people; today, it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people…" – Zbigniew Brzezinski, speaking at CFR Montreal — May 18, 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEHsUojUgzk&spfreload=10
Thankfully, it now seems that Brussels is not about to let a rabble of mugs have a bubble on them…RIGHT ON!!!…
"It appears The Brits may have dodged more than a bullet in their decision to leave The EU. The foreign ministers of France and Germany are reportedly due to reveal a blueprint to effectively do away with individual member states in what is being described as an "ultimatum." As The Express reports, the shockingly predictable final solution to Europe's Brexit-driven existential crisis is an apparently long-held plan to morph the continent's countries into one giant superstate. The radical proposals mean EU countries will lose the right to have their own army, criminal law, taxation system or central bank, with all those powers being transferred to Brussels…"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-27/eu-officials-unveil-ultimatum-blueprint-final-solution-european-super-state
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTC-xPTuPR8&spfreload=10
When the Elites have run things solely for their own narrow and selfish interests, going on at least forty years, it's past time that they sod off. Their expertise at self-dealing is no longer an asset to the Nation or its People.
It's interesting that you begin by invoking the name of Tony Blair, a degenerate war criminal, to bolster your "point" about "the absurd demonizing of politicians, economists, and journalists…as if the ordinary jobsworth cockney wankers down at the pub somehow always know best." Really?? Oh, please don't be too critical of our betters, the "experts", who guide and deliver the correct information meant for our own good. You proceed further with "a respect for knowledge, skill, advice, a credible viewpoint…giving way to the idea that the tosser at the pub who's five lagers up, apparently knows best." Then comes "the armchair critic pub bore", who, when gifted with a referendum, "became power drunk with entitlement after feeling for too long unheard." I know that these people exist, but your entire focus here seems to be a smear against 17 million Leave voters who don't agree with your idea of Britain's place in the universe. So where's the knowledgeable and creditable information here that might persuade these drunken, soccer-crazed, pub-crawling sots to reach a better understanding of the situation. Your characterization doesn't jibe with any of the Leave voters whom I have contact with. Before and immediately after the vote, came a bombardment of the epithets "RACISTS, XENOPHOBES!!" Propaganda designed for the purpose of divide and conquer is over the top. Now targeting "old white people" has been added, as the young and enlightened have taken to the streets, some carrying signs that "old people should die". What's up with this?? You had David Cameron and EU officialdom throwing out all the scary scenarios of the calamities that would befall Britain if the vote didn't go in favor of Remain (even to the extent of "ISIS gonna gitcha" if you vote Leave). How insane!! Talk about "wankers"! At least now, our worst fears are confirmed–Britain has been destroyed by racist, xenophobic, ignorant, soccer-crazed, elderly white, pub-crawling sots—we should have listened to those sane, kind, intelligent leaders of Remain in the name of "the greater good". Perhaps the Leave voters aren't as stupid and befuddled as you seem to suggest. I think the majority of them are concerned about the true nature of the EU as a consolidating force to form the Super State, undemocratic, no individual rights, basically a gargantuan police state I'm posting one of several articles on the latest developments with the EU. God knows, I hope I didn't choose the wrong information. You know how the Internet is. I hope you'll soon post another article explaining the virtues of the EU. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-27/eu-officials-unveil-ultimatum-blueprint-final-solution-european-super-state .
The comment, "ISIS gonna gitcha" if you vote Leave" should have read "if you vote Remain".
Sorry, actually the ISIS mention was correct as originally posted.
Michael Bise June 29, 2016 - 18:53
I'm with Hitch and Richard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p4uI1SVOmk
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2010/04/is_the_euro_doomed.html
In my previous post, I gave two specific examples to show reasons why I believe the Brexit vote was successful: History of negative effects of the EEU upon Britons' incomes and economy, and negative changes in British society and culture. (By the way: "Brexit-The Movie" can be found at https://vimeo.com/166378572 )
Since the publishing of my post, the subsequent posts (Incidentally, one which was dated two days prior to mine, but which first showed up after mine) did not contain any evidence, let alone not speaking to my examples. Instead, we were treated to insults including:
— ordinary jobsworth cockney wankers
— this "know nothing" decision
— oafish barroom logic
— it's crypto-racism and…crypto-fascism
— their retrograde beliefs
— "As Obama has noted, our own jobsworth tossers are nothing more than bitter clingers, holding progress hostage with their retrograde beliefs, superstitions and grievances"
All of those prove nothing — except the lack of an evidence-based argument. The examples I gave still stand.
In addition, the two very lengthy comments appearing since my prior post, both on the adverse side to my own comment, appear to demonstrate a well-known concept: If you've got an argument that has merit, it often doesn't take a whole lot of words to make it.
Christina Rees June 30, 2016 - 20:21
The comments under this op-ed have been published in the order they've been received.
Michael Krone July 1, 2016 - 11:51
David, please help me out here. I take it that you're referring to the posts of Mr. Kirkland and myself. I believe that you must have misread both our posts. Actually, I liked your post and thanked you for posting it. Why do you say that we "adversely" intruded on the points you were making?? You said, "I believe the Brexit vote was much, much more than the whimsical, thoughtless impulse you portrayed, and with which you slandered it. There seem to have been at least two, quite major, reasons for the vote outcome." Okay. "Thoughtless", yes. Whimsical", no–I found nothing "whimsical" about Mr. Patterson's article. Perhaps a few intermittent props to the British people and history, but I think it centered entirely on trashing 17 million Leave voters in the worst possible way. As far as your focus on "insults", I have no idea what you're thinking. The insults were in Mr. Patterson's article. That's what I was addressing. Since the comments text is in "mouse-type", perhaps the quotation marks were not that legible and were confusing the reading. I was only quoting descriptions used in the article. I don't claim to be a writer, but with that said, I don't think there should be that much confusion in my words and their gist. Besides, I don't think subsequent posts were required to amplify your two points. I said what I had on my mind whether it amplified your points or not. The ZeroHedge article I posted at the end, I think, would add some amplification about the control-freak extremist nature of the EU governing body. (not nice people-1984, Brave New World-type people)
As for Mr. Kirkland's comments–my take was an illustration of the mindsets of the ruling elites who view people as just part of their herd. Mr. Kirkland was not advocating their positions, but through a tongue-in-cheek, satirical manner, exposing their thoughts and attitudes about their elevated sense of entitlement. I really don't understand quite how you jumped to the conclusions you did. If you wish, I would urge you to reread those two articles in this light. I'm out of words for now–all the best to you.
https://www.facebook.com/twotcircus/videos/301191413558403/
joel sampson July 1, 2016 - 03:36
David and I must be the only non-liberals on this site. Not surprising. The Brexit vote will be good for England in the long run. You are not a country if you don't have control over your borders. It's the uber-rich and so called elite liberals that are complaining. The same thing is going to happen November in the U.S. — by a landslide.
Personally, I'm making money on it – I bought stock in evil U.K. and other European oil producers Monday. It's a good time to visit England and buy U.K. goods.
Michael Galbreth July 1, 2016 - 07:58
I share the frustrations of the writer if for nothing more than my hatred for the term "Brexit." It's a contracted language emoji for the illiterate. Kwik Sak.
Coincidentally, coinciding with the Brexit vote was the largely ignored death of Alvin Toffler, the formally famed writer of "Future Shock." http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/books/alvin-toffler-author-of-future-shock-dies-at-87.html The two events are related on many levels.
No man is an island. Once again, the forest is hiding in plain sight behind the trees.
Horace Jeffery Hodges July 3, 2016 - 14:33
"What strikes me is that the British are essentially a polite (and at times violent), tolerant and ultimately cautious country, but who have never had a modern European-style bloody revolution. "
Wasn't there some sort of civil disagreement in the 17th century, just a little thing in which a king's head got chopped off?
Jeffery Hodges


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Anders Gunnar Vilhelm Forsbrand (* 1. dubna 1961 Filipstad) je švédský profesionální golfista, který soutěžil v European Tour.

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Forsbrand se narodil ve švédském Flilipstadu. S golfem začal v Uddeholmském golfovém klubu, malém klubu s devítijamkovým hřištěm ve Värmlandu. Později začal reprezentovat nedaleký a větší Karlstadský golfový club, který měl 18jamkové hřiště a lepší zázemí k tréninku. Jeho mladší bratr Vilhelm (* 1970) se také stal profesionálním golfistou a dvakrát zvítězil v Challenge Tour.

Anders Forsbrand vyhrál v roce 1977 ve věku 16 let neoficiální mistrovství švédské mládeže, Colgate Cup.

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I recently received a request from a potential client for an image of Atlas that they might want to use in their lobby. The customer was looking for something that would 'pop'. I had a few shots of the Atlas statue located in Rockefeller Center and I looked them over for one or more that might meet the client's requirements. The main problem I was having is that most of the shots I took were taken at night which limited the color palette available. When looking over my catalog, I came across this image taken earlier in 2012 that I thought might have possibilities.
The shot was taken with my 15mm fisheye and I liked the way the walls of the building curved in and seemed to wrap around the globe that was being held by Atlas. I also like the general symmetry of the shot, including the American flags on the top of the building. However the raw image had several problems. The first problem I wanted to address was the horizon. The two sides of the building did not line up, so I used the cropping tool in Lightroom to rotate the image so that they would line up. I did some further tweaking in Lightroom, including punching the clarity, playing with the overall exposure and adjusting the highlights, etc. My goal was to add a bit more punch to the image.
I was able to get pretty far in Lightroom, but I wanted to take it further. I proceeded to open the image in Photoshop and use a combination of several filters from onOne's Perfect Effects to punch up the reds and add some more detail to the stone work and statue. I also corrected a greenish color cast which I didn't like. I cloned out a security camera in the upper right and made a minor crop to improve the symmetry of the image.
I just love what can be done in Perfect Effects. You have really made this image pop, James!
I was amazed at what I was able to get out of this image. I do think it helped that I was starting with a very large raw file from the D800, but I do love the tools included with Perfect Effects.
It's funny how you come across cool things while searching for something else . .
I was doing a search for "stretcher frames ann arbor," because we just moved here and looking for a local retail source.
Your "Graffiti Alley" popped up in the google search, and I have spent the last half hour exploring your amazing photo images. I had to stop and comment here because this image is really stunning. I grew up in New York and still know it as one of the most photogenic places on earth! Love the fisheye effect.
Are your images available locally? Where can we see your work?
Thanks for stopping by and checking out my work. I definitely agree with you that New York is very photogenic, I'd like to visit more often! As far as where you can see my work, I don't have anything locally, but I do have a couple of online galleries at http://jameshowephotography.imagekind.com and http:fineart.jameshowephotography.com. I haven't been posting to my blog as often as I should, but I do post frequently to Google Plus at https://plus.google.com/114480451015846480694/posts. Always love to hear feedback!


There's also a very nice photo with the post.
Love the photos, but the story morals or humor or irony is completely lost on me.
I don't suppose there are many things in the world that suit everyone's taste. Glad you like the photos, though. For me they fit perfectly with her stories.
What I meant to say is I don't know whether, for example, the featured story is supposed to illustrate morals or humor or irony. I don't understand the intent- the story leaves me confused.


Armand's Victory Tap has been open for a little bit at 1416 S. Michigan for a little bit now and judging by the Yelp reviews, seems to be doing pretty well (4.5 stars).
Earlier this year, when chef Joe Farina left his stint as Rosebud's corporate chef, he got in touch with childhood friend Tony Gambino to pursue a long-held dream of working together. Gambino, who owns the Armand's Pizzeria chain of neighborhood pizza spots, wanted to expand and open a batch of full-service restaurants sporting the Armand's name. Thus, Armand's Victory Tap was born, combining Armand's pizza with Farina's Italian-American dishes. The first Victory Tap is now open in the City Tavern space that's been vacant for two years at 1416 S. Michigan Ave. in the South Loop.
Those familiar with Farina's dishes at Rosebud—his meatballs, chicken parmesan and classics like shrimp DeJonge—should be comfortable with the menu at Victory Tap. "We're using the same fresh ingredients," Farina said.
While the location does plenty of pizza carry-out and delivery business, the dine-in menu deemphasizes those pies. Instead there's a line of 10-inch appetizer pizzas, including several with olive oil bases. The offerings, like steak and seafood, are more upscale than what Armand's diners are accustomed to—some Armand's are tiny, only selling pizza slices. But Gambino and Farina haven't installed upscale prices. The crispy lemon chicken at $29 is the priciest item on the menu. There are also 18 beers and 25 wines by the glass.
For what it's worth, we don't get out as much as we use to. As a result, we've been all over the carry-out and delivery scene in the Sloop.
With that in mind, we've been very impressed with Asian Outpost's progress. As a reminder, this restaurant opened in 2014 at 1315 S. Wabash. We liked it back then, but it appears that they have evolved their menu.
What you'll find now is a wide variety of asian dishes. The one thing that we've really enjoyed are the Hawaiian inspired Poke bowls (specifically the Tuna Poke and Spicy Salmon Mango Poke). They're not cheap at $13.95, but they offer a ton of different ingredients and are pretty delicious.
There are other new and exciting dishes as well...we just haven't had the chance to try those yet.
The other thing we've enjoyed is walking into this place - as captured in the pic above. Not exactly sure what it is about it, but it just feels fresh when you're greeted by all this vegetation upon entry. We assume some of the spices under the grow lamps are being used in the dishes?
Anyway, if you haven't been to Asian Outpost in awhile we would suggest you giving it another try. We've been pleasantly surprised.
The developer of a 15-story South Loop apartment building scored a nearly $53 million construction loan to finance the project, jumping into a crowded rental market that's showing signs of softness.
A joint venture led by Chicago-based Russland Capital Group is building the 199-unit tower at 1411 S. Michigan Ave., a few blocks west of Soldier Field. The venture borrowed $52.7 million from Square Mile Capital Management, a New York investment firm, to finance the development, according to Colliers International, the brokerage that arranged the financing.
Russland Principal Jacob Bletnitsky is confident his project will succeed even though it will face competition from other new buildings. Amid strong job growth in the city, more people are moving downtown, and they're more interested in renting than buying, he said.
"I don't think we're going to have a problem filling the units," he said. "I think the rental market is going to stay hot for at least five years. But who knows? Nobody expected what happened eight or nine years ago," when the downtown condominium market crashed.
Now we're not major real estate developers, but a market staying hot for five years doesn't seem like a very long time for an rental building - especially since this project isn't slated to be done until spring 2018.
That being said, the fact that they have a deal in place with Rush hospital seems pretty stable.
Does that statement seem strange to anyone else?


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Emerald welcomes specialty glass company SCHOTT as new limited partner
Tuesday, June 14, 2022, Zurich, Switzerland
SCHOTT will join Emerald's industrial innovation fund as a limited partner
Partnership will spark corporate venture capital activity across SCHOTT's business units
Emerald Technology Ventures announced Tuesday that Germany's SCHOTT, a leading international technology group and the inventor of specialty glass, will join Emerald's industrial innovation fund as a limited partner. This deepens the pioneering venture capital firm's engagement in advanced materials, a sector in which it has helped several partners supercharge their innovation efforts.
SCHOTT, whose products play vital roles in fields ranging from drug containment and delivery solutions, to semiconductors, to consumer electronics, to home appliances, intends to leverage the Emerald partnership to seek out opportunities deeper within its supply chain, find new uses for existing technologies, branch into adjacent fields, upgrade materials processing applications and boost its digitization efforts. The partnership will spark corporate venture capital activity across SCHOTT's business units in a formalized, structured way, according to Dr. Matthias Mueller, Executive Vice President of R&D at SCHOTT.
The global specialty glass sector is expected to expand in the coming years. Alongside this growth comes heightened expectations for sustainability and reduced carbon dioxide emissions. Via the Emerald partnership, SCHOTT will also keep an eye on creative solutions to technological challenges, such as electrification or hydrogen adoption, with the goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2030.
"At SCHOTT, we intend to become the world's first climate neutral specialty glass manufacturer," says Mueller. "This is an ambitious goal and we do not have all the answers yet. We look forward to working with Emerald, whose diligence, professionalism and deep experience will help us explore new technologies."
"SCHOTT plays an important role in a pivotal slice of the industrial economy, and we are excited to connect it with startups that can help it boost its digitization efforts and uncover smart applications for glass," says Emerald Managing Partner Gina Domanig.
About Emerald Technology Ventures
Emerald is a globally recognized venture capital firm building a sustainable future at the crossroads of industry and technology. Founded in 2000, it is a pioneer in open innovation, providing multi-national corporations with rich deal flow and insight in the sectors and markets of tomorrow. Emerald has managed and advised assets of over €1 billion from its offices in Zurich, Toronto and Singapore. The firm is dedicated to tackling big challenges in climate change and sustainability via over 500 venture transactions and five third-party investment mandates, including loan guarantees to over 100 start-ups. www.emerald-ventures.com
CONTACT FOR EMERALD:
info@emerald-ventures.com
Pioneering – responsibly – together
These attributes characterize SCHOTT as a manufacturer of high-tech materials based on specialty glass. Founder Otto Schott is considered its inventor and became the pioneer of an entire industry.Always opening up new markets and applications with a pioneering spirit and passion – this is what has driven the #glasslovers at SCHOTT for more than 130 years. Represented in 34 countries, the company is a highly skilled partner for high-tech industries: Healthcare, Home Appliances & Living, Consumer Electronics, Semiconductors & Datacom, Optics, Industry & Energy, Automotive, Astronomy & Aerospace. In the fiscal year 2021, its 17,300 employees generated sales of 2.5 billion euros. SCHOTT AG is owned by the Carl Zeiss Foundation, one of the oldest foundations in Germany. It uses the Group's dividends to promote science. As a foundation company, SCHOTT has anchored responsibility for employees, society and the environment deeply in its DNA. The goal is to become a climate-neutral company by 2030.
For more information about this media release, please contact me.
Michael Matthias Müller
Head of Innovation PR & Storytelling

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We are thrilled to have Parker Watts guest blogging today. Thank you Parker for planning this event and we hope to see everyone out there!
Each day, almost 1.5 million Virginians face food insecurity or struggle to access fresh and healthy food. In a state with a $70 billion agricultural industry, an unbelievable number of people struggle to put healthy food on their plates. Living in a Food Desert is a film produced by Virginia State University's Jesse Vaughn that shines a light on Virginia's rising problem of food deserts and the movements being made to solve it.
On March 31st from 2-4 P.M. the Black History Museum will host a screening of Living in a Food Desert as well as a post screening discussion with Duron Chavis of Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens. An expert on food deserts, Chavis has seen all sides of the issue ranging from establishing the McDonough Community Garden to serving on the Richmond Food Policy Task Force. Recently named the Richmond Times Dispatch's Person of the Year, Chavis serves as the manager of the Lewis Ginter Urban Gardens Program working to incorporate social justice and community trust into his programs.
This event is a Capstone Project created by Parker Watts, a senior in the James River Center for Leadership and International Relations. She became interested in food deserts and food justice after working with the Community Food Collaborative to create a school garden at Lucille Brown Elementary School. Admission to this event will be free and includes admission to the museum. Please reserve your seat and learn how you can help address this issue.


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Ranking All Of Director Errol Morris's Movies
Best Movies, Classics, Director Filmography Rankings, Documentary, Drama, Filmography By First Name, Filmography By Last Name, First Name: E-F, History, Last Name: M-N, Movie Ranking, War
January 3, 2019 August 11, 2018 by AM Anderson
"What are Errol Morris's Best Movies?" We looked at all of Morris's directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Errol Morris and looked at their Rotten Tomato Critic, Rotten Tomato User, IMDB, and Letterboxd scores, ranking them against one another to see which movies came out on top. The movies are ranked in our list below based on which movies have the highest overall score between all 6 review sites in comparison with all of the other movies by the same director. The process is all very scientific with no flaws at all.
The full ranking chart is also included below the countdown on the bottom of the page.
Happy Viewing!
The Top Film's Of Errol Morris
25 ) Holland, Michigan
Review Website Ranks:
Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
Rotten Tomatoes Users: 14
IMDB User Review Score: 24
Letterboxd User Score: 21
A teacher starts an affair with her coworker and discovers her husband's dark secret life.
24 ) They Were There (2011)
What does it mean to be an IBMer? Every employee experiences the company in different ways, but the global impact IBM has made on business and society over the last 100 years gives us all a common framework. "They Were There" is told by first-hand witnesses—current and retired employees and clients—who were there when IBM helped to change the way world works.
23 ) The Dark Wind (1991)
An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation.
21 ) The Heist (2015)
Michael Jordan's retired North Carolina jersey is stolen.
21 ) Most Valuable Whatever (2015)
How much would you pay for Ty Cobb's dentures in an auction? Errol Morris's final short for ESPN Films takes a look at the stranger side of sports memorabilia collecting with perspective from three very, very dedicated fans.
20 ) El Wingador (2012)
The filmmaker Errol Morris explores the excessive eating habits of a five-time champion of the Philadelphia Wing Bowl.
19 ) Demon in the Freezer (2016)
Smallpox has inflicted untold suffering and death. So why are we keeping it around?
18 ) Being Mr. Met (2015)
In Errol Morris's fourth of six shorts for ESPN Films, we learn, through a former Mr. Met, what it's like to be a mascot — to be beloved, but voiceless — and what happens to one's identity when the time comes to take the suit off.
17 ) Survivors (2008)
Errol Morris gives voice to cancer survivors who beat the disease, and the loved ones of those who did not.
16 ) The Streaker (2015)
IMDB User Review Score: 8
Errol Morris introduces us to the world's most prolific streaker.
14 ) The Subterranean Stadium (2015)
Errol Morris takes us to a long-running basement electric football league.
14 ) Leymah Gbowee: The Dream (2014)
Through her activism to topple Liberia's dictator, Leymah Gbowee was able to restore her own faith in humanity. Part 1 of "Three Short Films About Peace."
13 ) The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (2017)
Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
A look at the life and work of legendary photographer Elsa Dorfman, whose subjects have included such friends as Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, and Jonathan Richman.
11 ) The Unknown Known (2013)
Letterboxd User Score: 9
Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003
11 ) The Umbrella Man (2011)
On the 48th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Errol Morris explores the story behind the one man seen standing under an open black umbrella at the site.
10 ) Tabloid (2010)
Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
A documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.
9 ) Wormwood (2017)
Directed by boundary-breaking filmmaker Morris, Wormwood, a Netflix original story told in 6 chapters, explores the limits of knowledge about the past and the lengths we'll go in our search for the truth. A twisting, evolving story of one man's 60-year quest to identify the circumstances of his father's mysterious death. Combining a virtuosic performance by Peter Sarsgaard with Morris' legendary interview style, Wormwood examines the case, bringing the viewer face-to-face with some of the United States' darkest secrets.
8 ) Standard Operating Procedure (2008)
Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.
7 ) Vernon, Florida (1981)
Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition of the word "Therefore," and the obsessive turkey hunter who speaks reverentially of the "gobblers" he likes to track down and kill.
6 ) Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
Hilarious, sad, absurd, eerie and beautiful, "FAST, CHEAP & OUT OF CONTROL" is a film like no other. Starting as a darkly funny contemplation of the Sisyphus-like nature of human striving, it ultimately becomes a profoundly moving meditation on the very nature of existence.
5 ) A Brief History of Time (1991)
A documentary film based on the life of scientist Steven Hawking. The film explores the intimate life of Steven Hawking through him, his friends and his family, as he goes through school, is diagnosed with a degenerative disease, and discovers revolutionary theories about time, black holes, and the origin of the universe. A visually interesting and at times funny film about a extraordinary life.
4 ) Gates of Heaven (1978)
A documentary about the men who run a pet cemetery, and the men and women who bury their pets.
3 ) Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. is a 1999 documentary film by Errol Morris about execution technician Fred A. Leuchter.
2 ) The Fog of War (2003)
Using archival footage, United States Cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the eighty-five-year-old Robert McNamara, 'The Fog of War' depicts his life, from working as a WWII Whiz Kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing the American Vietnam War, as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
1 ) The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Errol Morris's Best Movies
Errol Morris Review Website Filmography Rankings
Film RT Critic RT User IMDB Letterboxd Overal Rank
The Thin Blue Line (1988) 1 2 3 1 1
The Fog of War (2003) 4 1 1 2 2
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999) 1 3 4 3 3
Gates of Heaven (1978) 10 6 4 3 4
A Brief History of Time (1991) 6 5 8 7 5
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997) 8 4 10 6 6
Vernon, Florida (1981) 1 7 11 9 7
Standard Operating Procedure (2008) 12 8 4 7 8
Wormwood (2017) 8 12 13 3 9
Tabloid (2010) 7 9 13 9 10
The Unknown Known (2013) 11 10 13 9 11
The Umbrella Man (2011) 13 14 4 12 11
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (2017) 5 11 19 12 13
The Subterranean Stadium (2015) 13 14 11 12 14
Leymah Gbowee: The Dream (2014) 13 14 2 21 14
The Streaker (2015) 13 14 8 17 16
Survivors (2008) 13 14 17 12 17
Being Mr. Met (2015) 13 14 16 17 18
Demon in the Freezer (2016) 13 14 24 12 19
El Wingador (2012) 13 14 18 21 20
The Heist (2015) 13 14 21 19 21
Most Valuable Whatever (2015) 13 14 19 21 21
The Dark Wind (1991) 13 13 23 20 23
They Were There (2011) 13 14 22 21 24
Holland, Michigan 13 14 24 21 25
The Best Movies About Or Featuring Love Affairs
The Best Movie Love Triangles Of All-Time


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Lasiurus minor é uma espécie de morcego da família Vespertilionidae. Pode ser encontrada nas Bahamas, Hispaniola e Porto Rico.

Referências
 SIMMONS, N. B. Order Chiroptera. In: WILSON, D. E.; REEDER, D. M. (Eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3. ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. v. 1, p. 312-529.
 RODRIGUEZ, A.; INCHÁUSTEGUI, S. 2008. Lasiurus minor. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Acessado em 18 de dezembro de 2008.

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Linen: Until the 18th and early 19th centuries, linen fabrics for bed and table linens and simple clothing were produced in homes as a secondary occupation. In addition to Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia, the Muehlviertel region of Austria was a major area of linen production, with centres in Freistadt and six other market guilds. After the abolition of the Continental system, flax spinning and linen weaving, which were still done by hand in the early 19th century, came under massive pressure of competition from cotton fabrics, in reaction to which Italian wholesalers built the first canvas factories in Austria: Vonwiller in Haslach in 1833 and Simonetta in Helfenberg in 1843. A mechanical flax-spinning mill was established in Lambach in 1852.
The production of bed and table linens and fine linen garments as a second occupation for farmers and as home weaving has been maintained to some extent in the Muehlviertel and Waldviertel regions until the present.
C. Halmdienst, Die Entwicklung der Leinenindustrie in Oberoesterreich, 1993.


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The Best Sales Pitch? Sell the Truth
By Jimmy Guterman
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As the editor of this blog for salespeople, I talk to salespeople every workday. While listening to them, I've learned something that many of them are surprised to hear when I pass it back to them.
What have I learned? That the best salespeople are the ones who tell the truth.
That's a notion at odds with what the culture says salespeople do: they are taught to do whatever it takes to close a sale, truth be damned. Alec Baldwin's character in Glengarry Glen Ross is iconic because it embodies the conventional wisdom and amps it up.
But Baldwin's scene in Glengarry Glen Ross, however memorable, misses a fundamental fact for most people who sell for a living: if they can't get behind a product or service and imagine why someone else would want to buy it (without resorting to intimidation), chances are they won't be able to sell it effectively. You can feel the struggle when you're in the presence of an unconvinced salesperson. When you're the person trying to make a sale and you haven't been able to find a way to believe that what you're selling will improve the life or the business of the person across the table, sometimes even the most visceral monetary motivation isn't enough.
This can get ridiculous. You don't have to be a child to sell children's clothing or a religious person to sell bibles. What you have to be able to do is imagine the good those products can do for someone else. One of the prototypical fictional salespeople of the moment is Mad Men's Don Draper, this week starting his sixth season of enticing people in his personal and professional lives to make purchases better left unbought.
But there is a moment early in the series that underlines the power that comes with having sales talk that you can believe in. Draper and his team are pitching the film company Kodak on a new product:
Yes, this is manipulative. But it's also presented as entirely honest. The story Draper is telling is his own story — that's his family in those slides — and his closeness to the material is what makes the quality of his pitch so high and its success inevitable.
Granted, that scene is fiction, where everything is less complicated than it is in real life. And few of the salespeople I'm learning from would suggest you put your own family into your pitch. But they are telling me that if you can't find a way to understand why others would want what you're selling, it's going to be a lot harder to sell it. Maybe they're selling me stories, but they've done the homework and have seen to it that what they have to say persuades me and feels real. And we've shown recently what happens when you don't do your homework.
So do let the truth get in the way of a good story. To make the sale, find the truth in your sales talk.
The Definitive Guide to Cold Calling (Backed By Research and Data)
Cold Calling, Sales, Sales Calls
Cold calling — more than any other tactic in a sales professional's toolkit, has a bad reputation. … one that it may deserve because of poor execution. In fact, cold calling is a powerful sales tactic that can be amazingly lucrative. But few sales professionals do it...
Follow-Up Emails: The Ultimate Guide (13 Proven Templates Inside)
Email Tips, Follow-Up Email, Sales
Closing a deal is hard. Closing consistently? That's even harder. Fortunately, there's an overlooked sales tactic that can dramatically improve your sales performance: the follow-up email. Following up is a secret weapon. Nearly half of sales reps don't follow up at...
25 Cold Calling Tips You Can Use to Get Meetings With Anyone
If you feel overwhelmed by cold calls, you're not alone. No two calls are the same, which makes the experience exciting and, at times, frightening. This is exactly why we've gathered 25 "super quick" cold calling tips to help you every step of the way. These tips...


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Too High and Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle's Topography
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Waterway: The Story of Seattle's Locks and Ship Canal
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Alfred Wallace's Petrified Wood Tombstone
Today, I learned about another great stone tombstone. It is a several-foot-tall piece of petrified wood that marks the grave of one of my heroes, Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace, who came up with his theory of natural selection while in a malarial haze, was buried at the Broadstone Cemetery in the town of Broadstone, about 100 miles southwest of London. He died on November 7, 1913, and despite some suggestions that he be buried next to Charles Darwin at Westminster Abbey, Wallace had a simple burial on November 10.
Three images of Wallace tombstone: From 1914, from 1999 (before restoration), from 2001 (after restoration). Oldest image is from James Marchant's book, Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Modern shots both by George Beccaloni from his web site devoted to Wallace. Copyright of 1999 and 2001 images owned by George Beccaloni
His grave marker consists of a block of Purbeck limestone, often incorrectly called a marble because of its abilty to take a high polish, on which stands the petrified wood. According to a web site devoted to Wallace, the tree could have come from the Isle of Portland, which Wallace visited in 1894 with the famed American paleobotanist Lester F. Ward. The petrified wood on Wallace's grave resembles a tree identified as Protocupressinoxylon purbeckensis, a conifer. These trees grew near a hypersaline lagoon in a Mediterranean-type climate of warm, wet winters, and hot, dry summers. The trees, many of which have been found upright, in situ, occur in the Great Dirt Bed of the Purbeck Formation. Deposition was around 146 million years ago.
In 1998, George Beccaloni, an entomologist at the Natural History Museum in London, visited Wallace's grave and was surprised to find it in horrible shape. A tree engulfed the site and made it nearly impossible to see the plaque that mentioned Wallace. In addition the tree's roots were pushing up the old marker. So in 1999, Beccaloni established the A. R. Wallace Memorial Fund to repair and restore Wallace's grave.
With funding provided by a number of sources, Wallace's site has now been restored and enhanced. The Fund added a granite block under the Purbeck limestone, to prevent further root encroachment, and placed a new plaque on the grave, which provides a few key details about Wallace's life, including his contribution to evolution by natural selection. It is suitable way to honor one of the greats of natural history.
Posted on August 25, 2009 March 20, 2015 Author David B. WilliamsCategories blog, Stories in Stone BlogTags alfred wallace, petrified wood, tombstone
4 thoughts on "Alfred Wallace's Petrified Wood Tombstone"
Callan Bentley says:
Totally cool! (also … slightly phallic?)
David B. Williams says:
Callan,
Thanks. I hoped no one would notice! Oh well.
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Tony Edger says:
It's a really amazing tombstone but, as one who likes Wallace in part for how self-effacing I think he was, it doesn't quite seem fitting.
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Ice Hockey Club Strikes Big in Win Against Yale
January 30, 2017 7:27 pm by NICK TISO
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The Ramapo Roadrunners posted an 8-5 win over the Yale Bulldogs in a gritty and physical matchup. Ramapo freshman Dan Demarco and Kyle DeBel both net hat tricks, scoring early in the game. Five of the 13 goals were scored in the first period alone, testing Ramapo goalie Keith Gay's skills and allowing him to make some key saves.
General Manager Arthur Chill was happy with the win; "Everyone came out fired up. Yale played sloppy early on and we gave them the chances; they weren't earning them."
The second period was slightly tighter than the first period, with only three goals scored total. The physical play continued and the penalties piled up but both defenses stepped up their game. After two periods they were headed to the third tied up at four apiece.
The third period is when the Roadrunners sealed the deal as they outscored the Bulldogs 5-1. DeBel scored two breakaway goals to get the period going, earning him the hat trick. DeBel was impressed with the high skill level from the younger members of the team.
"The freshmen have been huge for us all season and really stepped up in big spots tonight," DeBel said.
Freshmen Keith Doherty and Robert Spetz both had big smiles after they each recorded a goal which added to the three-point win.
Other hat trick earner, Demarco, netted two goals in the third period. Both him and DeBel have posted impressive statistics as freshmen, and contributed to the majority of Ramapo's goals. Junior defenseman Pat Callinan, who got the assist on Demarco's last goal, was impressed with both of his young teammates' scoring abilities as well.
"It's a good team win. No one stopped moving and everyone battled it out for all three periods," said Callinan.
Ramapo lost both hockey games last year to Yale, making this past Sunday's game the first time any Ramapo sports team has been able to beat a Yale team. Demarco was excited to be the team to do it, and is looking forward to the playoffs.
"Ever since the beginning of the season, we have always had our sights set on the playoffs, and it's big for our confidence to dig out wins in the the third," Demarco said.
Senior captain Anthony Carudo, who was unable to play due to a lower body injury, wished he could be out there playing but was glad the team was able to pull through with the win.
"I'm proud of the boys for playing from our net out all game long … it was a great team effort overall," Carudo said.
Carudo is hoping for a speedy recovery with the playoffs right around the corner.
The Roadrunners have two more away games before they battle it out in the playoffs. It looks to be an exciting run for a team that has only sustained one loss all season. Their combined talent and drive are definitely to be rivaled with.
ntiso@ramapo.edu
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Q: Popup windows being blocked if opened through mousedown event I want to open a popup window when someone clicks an area with the right mouse button.
I am using this at the moment:
$("#popup").bind('mousedown', function(e) {
    var w;
    if(e.which==3) {
        w=window.open('link','_blank','options');
    } else {
        return false;
    }
    if(w!=null){
        w.focus();
    }
    event.preventDefault();
});

When using it with firefox (haven't tested with other browsers though) the popup is being blocked. I have noticed that with the "click" event it doesn't work at all.
Is there any way to open a popup window when right clicking on something without it being blocked by a browser?

A: No, this is not possible.
You can see right here that in Mozilla middle and right mousebutton clicks are prevented from propagating click events. And you can see here that only click get 'trusted' and that mouseup and mousedown do not.
Chrome acts in a similar fashion, but does allow middle mousebutton to propagate click events, and they are trusted (popups originating from event won't be blocked). They will however open windows out of focus (you will stay on the current page)
I would suggest using Shift key detection on a normal click handler instead.

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Forget to include a payment due date? FIFA states that the hiring party must pay the contractor within 30 days of the project end date.
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OK, so I posted this thought out loud several hours back, then due to the utter dreadfulness that was Celebrity Dance on Ice or something like that – Miss D's mum's visiting so our TV is currently committing crimes against humanity – I was spurred on to actually do something about it and after a failed attempt with the rather pretty Upstart Blogger Modicus theme – I couldn't get it to display post images on the main page, probably mine and not the theme's fault – I found The Morning After theme, which is what you're seeing right now.
I'll be tinkering here and there over the next couple of days so if you notice anything that disturbs your usual DN experience, give me a shout so I can figure out how to unbreak it.
Every time there's a WordPress rev, I start to ponder updating the site with a new template. It's not that I don't love the Drunkey Love theme we're currently sporting, but as things stand my coding skills leave rather a lot to be desired and Drunkey Love hasn't been updated since late 2006 which means much like a kid forgotten by the school bus, the tail lights are moving further and further into the distance leaving us stranded by the roadside.
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NautaDutilh advises BenevolentAI on €1.5 billion de-SPAC
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NautaDutilh advised BenevolentAI, a UK based leading clinical-stage AI drug discovery company on its definitive agreement for a business combination with Odyssey Acquisition S.A. (Odyssey), a Euronext Amsterdam-listed SPAC (special purpose acquisition company).
It is the biggest acquisition by a European SPAC to date, and one of Amsterdam's biggest biotech listings. The terms of the combination value BenevolentAI at a pre-money valuation of €1.1 billion and a post-money valuation of €1.5 billion, prior to any redemptions.
Net transaction proceeds are expected to be up to €390 million. The funds will be used to accelerate BenevolentAI's development, scale-up its clinical pipeline, continue investment in its technology platform, consolidate its leadership position in AI-enabled drug discovery, and deliver multiple value inflection points in the near future.
Our cross-border team, led by Stefan Wissing, consisted of Antonia Netiv, Josée Weydert, Aline Nassoy, Meliha Dacic, Romain Sabatier, Sabrina Legerstee and Felix Seuntjens.
'BenevolentAI has more than 20 programmes in its portfolio, and this de-SPAC deal means it now has the capital to scale its pipeline, among other things. It is great that we, together with Latham & Watkins, were able to contribute to this result. A real team effort', says Stefan. 'In a fast-moving transaction, we were able to truly add value by providing seamless service on both Dutch and Luxembourg corporate and capital markets aspects of the deal.'
NautaDutilh worked alongside Latham & Watkins London. Odyssey was represented by Skadden in London, Elvinger Hoss & Prussen in Luxembourg and Stibbe in the Netherlands.
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Frances Maxine Sterling was born October 14, 1931 in Corsicana, Texas to Edward and Georgia (Bridges) Carey. She passed away January 24, 2019. She was 87 years of age.
Frances leaves behind to cherish her memory three devoted sons, Frank W. Sterling, Jessie M. Sterling, and Rodney D. Sterling; two beautiful daughters, Carla Sue Boehle and Janice K. Beason; grandchildren, Connie Boehle, Cindy Langley, Chuck Boehle, Amanda Sterling, Cody Beason, Jenny Crank, Nicole Sterling, Jason Sterling, Brandon Sterling, and Matthew Sterling; 13 great grandchildren; numerous other extended family and dear friends.
Frances will be remembered for her great skill as a cook.
A graveside service for Frances will be held at 2:00 pm, Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at Laurel Oaks Memorial Park in Garden of Easter Hill. Rev. Jerry Brown will officiate. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 - 8:00 pm, Monday evening, January 28, 2019. Laurel Oaks Funeral Home & Memorial Park is located at 12649 Lake June Road, Mesquite, Texas 75180 and is in charge of the arrangements. Please call 972-288-4663 for more information.


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Climate Change and the Ecosystem
Categories Climate Change, Teach Biodiversity
What is climate change?
Climate change is the change in rainfall and temperature patterns across the globe. Climate has always changed and will continue to change. So what's all this fuss about? There are two things to note here:
The frequency and magnitude of this change has increased rapidly in recent time, which makes it harder to cope with.
This change in rainfall and temperature patterns across the globe can be attributed to human actions not natural phenomenon.
The term most people are familiar with is Global Warming, which is the increase in average temperatures in earth's atmosphere. The two major factors that contribute to global warming are burning of fossil fuels and emissions of green house gases like carbon dioxide and methane. Lately, both factors have been on the rise. This short video by sky news accurately explains what would happen to the world if the temperatures rose by only 2-degree Celsius.
According to Statista.com, Earth's surface temperature in 2013 was 0.37 degrees warmer than the 20th century average. Melting of polar ice caps and the subsequent increase in seal levels has been a direct result of global warming. NASA presents, with a series of graphs, how the world temperature has been changing for the past 150 years.
An Ecosystem is consists of all living organisms including plants and animals that interact with each other and their surrounding environment. Climate change has a serious and irreversible impact on ecosystems.
Species on earth have been gradually adapting to changes in climate for millions of years. Recent changes in climate are not gradual, they are occurring rapidly which calls for species to adapt at a much larger and faster scale. Most of the species that fail to do so will be headed for extinction in the near future. Experts say that one-fourth of the Earth's species could be headed for extinction by 2050 due to climate change.
Oceans are a system of plants and animals that exchange gases with the atmosphere. Warming of water has led to destruction of life and habitat, which are temperature sensitive. There has also been a rise in the PH level (acidity) of the oceans due to increasing global temperatures. Acidic oceans cause the corals to expel the algae from their tissues rendering them colorless. This can lead to coral mortality. Coastal erosion, UV radiation and Marine pollution are also responsible for destruction of coral reefs. Organizations like Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Environment Canada and Parks Canada have been working towards the protection of fishes and marine habitats and to reduce pollution of these ecosystems.
Parasites and Diseases
Changes in weather and temperature can result in the spread of parasites and diseases to non-native areas. For example, the outbreak of Mountain pine beetles in the forest's of British Columbia. The Mountain pine beetle has attacked Lodgepole Pine trees and are now adapted to Jack Pine in the Boreal forests. This outbreak is in part due to climate change and forest management practices. Climate change has resulted in mild winters and hot summers which has increased the severity of the outbreak. This has resulted in the death of trees and $30 billion lost in forest products
Every species has their own native habitat where the temperature and weather conditions are perfect for their survival. For example, Polar Bear live in the Polar Regions with low temperatures and abundant snow/ice. Increasing temperatures and melting ice lead to the destruction of their habitat. Coastal species that live in low-lying coastal areas and wetlands are losing their habitats to increasing sea level.
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In previous versions the Implement Interface intention was always on top and I have 'Option-Enter Enter' in my fingers when I want to implement an interface.
Is this worth filing a bug report for?
Intentions are alphabetically sorted now.
Uh, oh. That already annoyed me too.
Why would you want to make the most dedicated Idea users (those that use Idea a lot and got used to keyboard shortcuts) angry?
An order that is determined by logical reasons / most often used features makes much more sense.
Big step backward in useability for me.
I wondered why I was suddenly doing the wrong thing on a regular basis. Were they sorted in any way previously? I think moving to a predictable presentation is probably a good thing, even if it means a bit of short term pain. But ideally I'd like the list sorted by frequency of use.
Yes, I'd noticed exactly the same thing myself. I'd agree that sorting by frequency of use sounds like a much better course of action.
unpredictably until the gathered data has stabilized.
I do agree that a predictable intention order is a good thing, but it has be a useful order too.
I'd agree on the fixing things which aren't broken though. I know that the EAPs are the perfect place to try out new ideas and that change isn't always a bad thing, but in the last few builds there seem to have been lots of little changes under the hood which really impact day-to-day efficiency (undo-granualarity, intention re-ordering, local history not functionally usable). They aren't being mentioned in the change-lists, unless I'm being a bit blind, which makes it harder to give constructive feedback since I'm personally not sure whether they are bugs or a re-working of existing functionality.
1) The list always was sorted - just not alphabetically.
2) It's not really faster, too: If you already scanned the same list fifty times then get a different order (sorted alphabetically) on the 51th time then you will take much longer to find the same item again ... or as happened to me and seemingly others as well you simply select the wrong item and are baffled about the results.
3) After you get used to a certain order, the ease and quickness of selection depends on an average minimum way to travel down the list - so obviously it makes sense to have most common used items first rather then those whose english names start with certain letters. "most common" should of course be decided statically (so that there's a risk of not being absolutely accurate for your specific usage patterns) rather than statistically, so that the order does not change.
How it was sorted? By relevance?
BTW, what about preselecting the most often used entry?
>> 1) The list always was sorted - just not alphabetically.
I still think an order "by relevance" would be neater, but I guess that's much too much work considering all the plugins, peoples' different wishes concerning the order and the relatively small business value. Probably there are many more important things to do.
Well, the things were broken for a while.
started to appear in random order.
>> by frequency of use sounds like a much better course of action.
be a useful order too.
refactoring, while "Implement Interface" seems to be every-day work.
I guess "relevance" is impossible, esp. because of pluggable intentions.
IMHO alphabetic order is the best deterministic approach.
list, and those with a negative weight sent to the bottom?
relevant" intentions were usually implemented before other, maybe less relevant intentions.
the quick fix. I used to be able to do a quick alt+enter, down, enter.
(Sascha's bug report http://www.jetbrains.net/jira/browse/IDEA-11735 ).
other intentions) and alphabet second.
>> Well, the things were broken for a while.
>> started to appear in random order.
>> up in predictable way.
>> simple, intuitive and stable ?
Cool, thanks! I am really looking forward to the next build.


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Love White Russians? Try these VEGAN White Russian Cupcakes and surprise your friends at your next party.
On Friday we had company over. I was really blessed to have Ryan offer to make dinner because it is a treat. I mostly hog the kitchen and do not give him opportunity to try out dishes he has been wanting to make. He usually likes to cook Italian, so he set his eyes on making lasagna. No arguments there, right? I was only in charge of making dessert, which were the cupcakes I will be sharing with you later.
After Ryan spent nearly the whole Friday cooking and preparing for the lasagna, I thought I wold leave him alone at home so he could work on his dissertation research and more. I left home at 9:30am and came back home at 6pm! I cannot believe I was out all day and pretty much busy running errands.
What all did I get done? I got a haircut; found some baby stuff at garage sales; developed some photos; had brunch with a newspaper gal; went to the library; shopping; vacuumed and washed my car; bought MI strawberries; craft shopping; and comforter washing.
Whew! I had so much energy but I knew by the time I was finished I knew Ryan would be ready to leave the house. Luckily I did not have to do too much when I got home because we decided to go out for dinner and a movie, all on leftover gift card money. I like when we have a nice surprise like that!
Dinner was at a local pub where I enjoyed a non-alcoholic beer, since I missed Germany already, and the fresh air of eating outdoors. Has anyone seen Super 8? Man, was it super loud in the theater. I screamed several times and I really thought I scared my little baby too!
Sunday was, of course, a day of rest and worshiping with our friends at church and then enjoying a picnic with them afterwards. What a way to spend a weekend right?
So back to the dessert I made Friday. Anyone ever enjoyed a White Russian before? It is an alcoholic beverage consisting of Kahlua, vodka, and half & half over some ice. It actually is a nice drink and one of Ryan's favorite cocktails, but who is talking about my drinking ?
Yes, maybe I miss a cocktail or two, but I am glad to withhold because I am having a beautiful healthy baby!!Well, anyway, who said I could not have it in dessert form? Yeah, no one said I could not!
I have to say that this is probably the best cupcake icing I have ever eaten. It really was the only thing I wanted to eat, even though there was cake underneath that icing. Make this recipe! It is so delicious! Midwest Vegan adds some instant espresso powder to the icing so I agreed with her and added it to my recipe too! Thanks girl!! Have it with some coffee or if you feel adventurous, have a cupcake with an actual White Russian.
The original recipe at Baked Perfection is not vegan so feel free to refer to that recipe. My recipe is all vegan and hard to believe. Make it….make it….you have to make it!
In a separate bowl or in a stand mixer, beat together the sugar and margarine until combined.
Add flax "eggs", one at a time.
Then add the vanilla, Vodka, and Kahlua.
Gradually add the flour mixture in three additions, alternating with the coconut milk in two additions, ending with the flour mixture.
Bake 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of a cupcakes comes out clean.
While the cupcakes are still warm, brush the tops with the remaining 1/8 cup Kahlua.
Remove from pan and cool completely on a wire rack before frosting.
Beat margarine until creamy and then add salt.
Add Kahlua 1 tablespoon at a time until you reach desired consistency.
Lastly add the espresso granules and combine well.
Ice each cupcake and sprinkle with chocolate shavings and decorate with coffee beans.


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Top stories from The Straits Times on Wednesday, Jan 17
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Good morning! Here are our top stories to kickstart your Wednesday, Jan 17.
VIDEO: Increase in reports of popped tiles, about 700 cases in first half of January alone: HDB
Half the tiles in Woodlands resident Lewis Sua's living room have popped and cracked. The tiles in his flat began popping on Jan 14, 2018.PHOTO: LEWIS SUA
The Housing Board said this is "consistent with the experience of previous years" where there tends to be a higher number of feedback on the dislodgement of tiles during the colder months.
VIDEO: Careful planning needed to reap full benefits of JB-Singapore RTS Link
While the 4km Rapid Transit Link is expected to be a boon for Singaporeans and Malaysians now caught in traffic snarls along the Causeway, there are a few wrinkles that need to be ironed out for it to reach its full potential.
VIDEO: Burst water pipe causes partial closure of MCE on Tuesday night
Water from what is believed to be a burst water pipe cascading down inside the MCE tunnel, on Jan 16, 2018.PHOTO: TELEGRAM/SG NO.1 ALL IN 1 SHARING / UPDATES
A section of the eastbound Marina Coastal Expressway tunnel between the Central Boulevard Exit and the Marina Boulevard entrance was closed for about two hours before reopening at 11.25pm.
Generation Grit: She put herself through school after dad walked out on family
After Miss Angel Ng's father walked out on her family, the 21-year-old worked part-time as a waitress to put herself through polytechnic. To keep herself going, she finds motivational quotes to encourage herself. PHOTO: DON WONG FOR THE STRAITS TIMES
After Miss Angel Ng's father walked out on her family, she worked part-time as a waitress to put herself through polytechnic. Denying herself leisure time or a treat became routine.
Singaporeans beginning to buy less ringgit as currency strengthens
Malaysia's stronger trade performance and higher oil prices have helped lift the currency after a prolonged period of decline.ST PHOTO: FELINE LIM
The ringgit was trading at RM2.99 to the Singdollar on Tuesday after 14 months of being comfortably above RM3, with money changers reporting slower sales of the currency.
Ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon subpoenaed in Russia probe
Bannon arrives at a House Intelligence Committee closed-door meeting, on Jan 16, 2018 in Washington.PHOTO: AFP
The US President's former chief strategist has been subpoenaed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify before a grand jury in a probe into alleged ties between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
The rising global tide against bribery
ST ILLUSTRATION: MIEL
Companies that bribe do so at greater peril than before, as laws and enforcement agencies go global, and a new wave of anti-corruption activists actively expose such practices.
Rainy weather may have extended the year-end flu season
The recent cold weather could have allowed viruses to survive longer, said a doctor.PHOTO: ST FILE
Polyclinics saw an average of 3,158 patients with acute respiratory infections every day in the first week of January - higher than the 2,836 patients seen in the same period last year.
Death and renewal for iconic Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon's iconic columbarium features slabs of niches which have been laid out in a palm shape or stacked around in various levels of a pagoda that has since become the neighbourhood's landmark.ST PHOTO: BENJAMIN SEETOR
My Turf, a fortnightly series that shares untold stories of Singapore's neighbourhoods, takes a look at Mount Vernon Sanctuary, which will soon be redeveloped.
VIDEO: Say hello to smart gadgets
Ubtech robots including the First Order "Stormtrooper" (left) and the Amazon Alexa voice assistant enabled "lynx" (centre) at CES 2018 in Las Vegas.PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Voice-controlled gear take centre stage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, along with bigger, smarter TVs and wearable medical devices.